THE WIRE-GRASS REPORTER. PETER e. LOVE and william il, hall, e, )ltors . VOLUME I. THE WIRE-GRAM IMPORTER. ‘^PUBuMeiT'l^^ BY IjO^£!bXlAliZi. ’ rCTF.B K.'I.QVE, | ‘WII.I.IAM H. HAI.U TERMS: The Wire-Grass Reporter is published Wet 1/ at Two Dollars per annum, in adnunce. All order* for the Reporter, to receive attention must be accompanied with the money. Subscribers wishing the direction of their paper changed, will notify us from what office it is to be’ transferred. The foregoing terms will be strictljs observed. Advertisements conspicuously inserted atOne Dollar for the first, and Fft.y Cents (breach subse quent, insertion. Those sent without a specification •f the number of insertions, will be published unfij ordered out, and charged accordingly. Rales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hoar* of ten in the forenoon and three in the r.f'ter uoofl, at the Court house in the county In which the property is situate. Noticrit of these sales must be given in a public gazette forty DAYS previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Property, must be given at least TEN DAYS previous to the day of sale. Notice, to,.Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be days. Notice that will be made to the Court for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration, must be published thirty days —for Dismission from Adminis tration, viouthtyfor sir months —for Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. RULF.B for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub lished monthly for four months— for establishing lost papers, for the full space of three months —for compel ling titles from Executors nr AiUninistrators, where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always he continued according to these requirements, unless otherwise ordered. All business in the line of Printing will meet with prompt attention at the Reporter Office. figtWggßHggg'gMPP ‘-W--■ggg! (■Law Finn.) HARRIS & HARRIS. Ivrrson L. Harris, tCnxnr.Hs .L Harris, Milledgeville, Ga. [ Thwinasvillef Oa. ■arch :tl w ts Rsht, S. Birch A William TOP Lend on, • ATTORNEYS AT’LAW, TUOXtASPILI. t, CEOKGtA. oetlt 19 whv 7 BAKER & BE.WET, ATT ORNEYS A T LAW, Troup cilia , Lowndes Cos., Ga. sept If* w ts ’ ! NATOL T EL B. SPENCER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, T HOM A8 VI U;K, (IKOIU i 14* t, “ WUifi jpri* I*i out-ire attention-the prnetice of Isatr, in th<* CoimticK of tlw Santiimi Circuit.— Office on Hie seen ml floor of D. A K. McLean’# br’n'k bnifritiitf. , ’ (jaji2ooy E.T. lIOHOAIf, ATTORNEY AT LAW, kasiinr.r.r, af.ougta. practice in flu* eiqQiitfe* of the Southern ( ’ if cnit.nnd the counties of Pooty, \Yortji Mini l)onip s ertr of the Mn<*n. and Coffoc, Cirncli ami Ware of the Hnmswioh Cirruits. j. 11. Is 1 WBAlfiis, , Atiorwr mid Counsellor ;if Law. ANI) SOLICTI'OR IX CHANCERY, 7 liny in/ geoiui/A. _ WILL practice liis profrssbsi in tin’ T'oiirts of South-western (ieorgia. and specially in the jinflintivs *f Lowndim, Thonias, 1 lecatur -rot! Baker, dec!)—tf Dr. WB. 11. B lUo TF.N'DERSjiis Professional scrvtccK to the citizens ot and vieiiiitv—Residence, the house formerly occupied by A. 11. Hansel) —Office, next door below. [apr^it] (Itfform Practice.) /’ I*. BOWfiR, Kff. R., - OVFEBH-li is J’l-ofessional services to the. citizens ot ITioniasville and. vicinity. tCjffls at ’all hours promptly attended to. ’ ‘ (feblltf Dm. H. B. All. OAK AOL , rassmaMiF ©skupiisys, THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA. (QBBESItt WE have purchased the Residence of Dr. ft. J. Bruce where one of us alwa>i*w7? . f,,und ’ Tmdh Pw der# and Wnfth, ni\**t* on haW. ■ -a-——Vw2L- t-arnagcs. Biuruips an*. . MAHI'YACTt'IIKtI TO OIIUF.R, BY - IloMftlnn ! i” 1 tV*All work fully guaranteed. \’ M , rv;up'*uJj*+. Junegdoy] f ISAAC WV**yc, Agent. €. . Ri bUI DstA, LICENSED AUCTIONEER. THO AT AS V ILL E, (l EOUiIIA.. WILL SELL on every Saturday, ami on the first Tuesday in every month, GOODS of every de scription, entrusted to him for sale. l"ly. _7 oy_ C. 18. HARRIS, General Commission Merchant, Foot of Monk Street Brunswick, Ga. der2 ■ ‘ w ts Adams House. THIS establishment it now perms nently opened for the accnininoda saaßjih tion of the public. Every convenience jjjilL hns beeiUprovMed for boarders amLtran- HliS *ient customers; ami the proprietor flat tors himself that be U now able to gire the utmost satisfaction. GODHOLD, Proprietor. Thoinssville, Ga„ March 24, 1857. ts Land Office. HAVING opened nn Office in Thomaevillp, Ga., we will buy any Lands in Southern Georgia, at reasonable prices, or sell Lauds for-4j)e owners on commission. We will also report the value !’ Lands owned by persons at a distance for a fair compensa te. BURCH fk McLENDON, , Robt. 8. Bi itrn, ) Thoniasviile, Ga. Wm. MrLrwiKiN. j May 26, dm Bank Agency. ’ TIIE Subscriber has been appointed Acent for tha Bank us Savannah at this place, and is prepar ed to discount Bills of Exchange, Drafts, Ac.;, and has for sale Checks mi New York. julyaa) EDWARD REMINGTON. KowAy Itlnsls* I’lMhtng, dice. HAVING just received s new ami elegant >A| assortment of Pants, Vests, Dress and la Frock Coats, Shirts, Ac., A., Ac., all of the ■■ latest fashions; together with Cloths, Cashmeres, Vestings, A e., the undersigned is prepared to furnish all who wish to purchase snch articles, ns low as the market will afford. Garment* cot and made to order. Call and see for vonrsclves. , JOHN P. ARNOLD, Merchant Taylor. Thomnsvillc. Nov-27, 1?55. ts __ ± SHret •. For the Wire-Grass Reporter. MVK AND LOVE'S MALADIES. BY MARY BRYAN: They tell us, that Love is a deathless thing, Os bis immortality Poets sing And they wreathe with Amaranth flowers Lis wing, But do you believe it; —say 1 This Love, that it cradled in smiles and tears, That it full of jealousy, full of fears, That it.born in an hour; —can it live for years. Still loss endure for aye ? The lights that dance in the Northern sky, The meteor, wheeling bis swift car by, The lightning whose fiery atrows fly, * They arc all too bright to laat. And thus—alas, for the dreams of romance ! * > *ai<y| la the love that's Waked by a smile, or glance It gleams for a while, the gaze to entrance, ..Then, only lives in the Past. This beautiful boy—half sly, half bold, With hyacinth ringlets, dropped with gold Ah ! well did they paint—those Artists of old — “ Voung love among the roses” He is jiist as fragile and fair as they, Born, like them, to gladden a summer day, And just so soon will he pass away, Ab the flowers w here he reposes. For coldness proves worse than our wire-grass “ chills,” And frowns are certainly terrible ilia And ev'u a continuance of smiles oft kills, For sweets, you know, will cloy. Then, still more to be feared, ia —poverty — A fatal maladny,—for do you see, Baked beans and bacon can never agree With so delicate a boy. His food—if the Poets tell us true— Is the red lips sweet, ambrosial dew, Or a bow l of moonlight, soft and pure Then, Oh! what a change ia there, When the “angel,” dressed in a soiled,chintz gown, Flies through the kitchen with seowknnd frown, So intent to see the potatoes are brow n, That she heeded not her taugled hair. Aye, your bards may si egos “ Love in a cot,” And say he can brighten the humblest lot And deck with beauty the Towliest spot, But, believe me, it will not hold, For your milk maid's elbows are always red, And your chimney smokes and leaks over bend, And, spite of the views ‘round your •’ rustic shed,” Love ill catch his death of cold. * . - £nme bard—(than tiis brother Poets more hold) \\ hujiyed in tlic Roman age of Gold, Has the future death of Eros foretold, ‘And the world’s attendant woo ; And I thought, that wheu Love died in my breast, That the Sun would veil his golden crest And the flowers droop in n death like rest, Did it prove so ?—no, Oh ! no. For the stars looked down as tenderly And the rose still blushed and bloomed for me, And my own fair Spirit of Poesy . VIM not her glorious eyes. Nay, rather, —freed from Love’s silkofi band — She strikes Iter lyre with a bolder baud, A'iid she seems, with her brow of proud command, Like l.'rauia of-the sX.ies. Tkomusrille, Ga. LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Let us love one another! not long may we stay, In this bleak world of mourning, some droop while ’tisday; Others fade in their noon, and few linger till eve : Oh ! there breaks not a heart but leaves someone to grieve; \ - j And the fondest, the purest, the truest that met, llnve still found the need to forgive and forget! Then, ah! though the hopes that we nourished do. cay, - ! 1- Let us love one another as long as we stay. There are hearts like the ivy, tho’ all be decayed, That it seemed to clasp fondly in the sunlight and shade, - - ~ No leaves droop™ ssdness, still gaily they spread ‘ L'odimtned ’midst the blighted, the lonely and deai; But the mislt to clings to the oak, not in part, Rot with leaves closely round it—the root in its - u ”‘ -“2; j iVTT. . i^v.riAnnn. Jpoor-’ , .Here too. Power’s Statue I |yit h * ,> T i ..p—.v, , lovo one another, midst the sorrows the wotst : Unaltered and food as we loved at first; Tho’ the false wing of pleasure may change aud for ’ sake, 7 Aud the bright urn of wealth into particles bleak, There are some sweet affections that gold cannot buy, That clings but still closer when sorrows draw uigb. And remain with us yet, tho’ all else pass away , Thu* let’s love one another as long as we stay. <smniuin§a%ruift. ■. ‘■ ... - ■ i A Wife’s Prayer. ~ , If there is anything that comes nearer to the imploration of Ruth, and Naomi than the subjoined, we have -not seen it: Lord bless and preserve that dear per son whom tbou hast chosen to be my husband, let his life be long and blessed, comfortable and boly j and let me also be come a great blessing and comfort to kjm, a sharer in all his sorrows, a meet help id all the accidents and changes in tho t world ; make me aimable forever in his eyes and for ever dear to him. I)nite his heart to me in the dearest love and holiness, and mine to him in all sweetness, charity and compla cency. Keep me from all nngentlrfness, all discontent and unreasonableness of pas sion And humor, and make me humble and obedient, useful And observant, that we may delight iu each other according to Thy bless ed word ; and both of us may rejoice in Tbee, having for otir portion the love and service of God toressta.” i, /•. r Flavors arc tlie alphabet of angels, wbqß. with they write ou hill* and plains my*4ri ous truths. ; Nature makes us poor only whw Bwe want necessaries, but custom gives tMfc > M„ e of poverty to the want of snperfiuiti Bs Just ani fear Not; £ct atl tfje €fnbe tfjon be sjg Courttrg’B, tljj ©ob‘ anb CrtHb’a. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, OOTOEBER 6, ±B&f. The Lodge's Private Clo Mt. The Lode rs I. O. O. F. t at Wooiltown determined to have their lodge room done up clean and nice, and it was unanimously re solved tiiat Mrs. K. should be employed to do the job. Alter the meeting adjourned the guardian, who knew the inquisitive character of Mrs. K., procured a billy-goat and placed him in a eloset that was kept as a reservoir for the secret things. He then informed the lady of the wishes of the lodge, and requested her to coma early next morning, as he would then be at leisure to show her what was and what was not to be done. Morning came, and with it came madame K„ with her broom, brushes, tubs, pails, &c., prepared and armed for the job, and found the guardian waiting for her. ; ‘Now Madame,’ said he, ‘ I’ll tell you what we want done, and how we came to employ you. The brothers said it was difficult ~h get any body to do the job and npt be med dling with the secrets in that little closet; we have lost the key and cannot fiud it to lock the door. I* assured them that you could be depended on.’ ‘ Depended on!’ replied she, ‘I guess I can. My poor, dear, dead and gone hus band, who belonged to the free masons, or anti masons, Idou’t know which, used to tell me all the secrets of the concern, and when he showed me all the marks of the gridiron made when he was initiated, and.told me how they fixed poor Morgan, I never told a living soul, to this day. If nobody troubles j onr cloeqt to find out your secrets t.ll 1 do, they’ll lay there till they rot, they will.’ ‘ I thought so,’ said the guardian, * and now I want yen to commence in that corner, and give the whole room a decent cleaning, and I have pledged my word and honor for the fi delity of your promise; and now don’t go in to that closet.’ And then he left the lady to herself. No sooner had she heard the sound of his foot on the last step of the stairs, then she exclaimed: 1 Don’t go into that closet 1’ I’ll warrant there’s a gridiron, or soTe other nonsense, just like the anti masons for all the world. I’ll be bound. I will just take a peep, and no body will be any wiser, as l an keep it to nfyseif.’ Suiting the action to the word, she stepped lightly to the forbidden closet—turned the buttou—which was no sooiipr done, than bah, went the billy-goat with a spring to re gain his liberty, which came near upsetting her ladyship. Both started for the door, but it Was filled with implements for lionse cleaning, and all were swept clear from their position, down to tbe bottom of the stairs. ’1 he noise and confusion occasioned by such unceremonious coming down stairs, drew half the town to witness Mrs. K’s ef forts to get from under the huge pilp of pailfl tubs, and the street. Who should bo first on the spot but the rascally door-keeper, who. afteT l eicaslngtiic goat, which was a cripple for life, and uplift ing the rubbish that hound the good woman to the earth, anxiously inquiring, if she had beeit taking the degrees. 1 ‘ Taking the degrees!’ cjnculated the <fld lady. ‘lt you call falling from the tap to the hottoffi of the stairs, scared to death, ta king the degrees, I have them; and (if you frighten folks as you have me, and hurt them to hoot, I’ll warrant they’ll make as much noise as I did about it.’ • I hope you did not open the closet, Mad am V • Open the closet! Eve eat of the %H>id den apple 1 If you want a woman thing, tell her not to, and she’ll do it certain. I could ARM stand lho temptation, Tho se cret was tivere And I wautUd to know it; so I opened the door and out popfiMfethe tarual critter right into my face. 1 thoijght I was a goner and I broke for the stairsVith Satan butting me at every jump. I fell over the tub and got down stairs just about as you found us here, all in a heap.’ ‘ But, inadam,’ said the door keeper, * you are now ia possession of the great secret of “the order t and you must go up and be initia ted, sworn, and then go in the regular way.’ ‘ Regular way !’ exclaimed the old lady, ‘ and do you suppose I am going near the tarnal place again, and ride that are critter with., -i a bridle or lady’s saddle! No, nev-i O’ -f uon t want notlfin to do with the man that ndes it. I’d look nice perched ap on a billy-goat, wouldn’t l? No, never! I’ll never go near it again, nor your hall nuther jf 1 can prevent it no lady shall ever join tbe odd fellows. Why, I’d sooner be a free mason, and be broiled on a gridiron as long as fire could bo kept under it, and pulled from garret to cellar with a halter, sh a pair of old breeches and slippers, just as my poor dead husband was. He lived over it, but I never could outlive such another ride as I took to-day.’ Edinboro’. In the ancient part of the town are the original Parliament buildings ; the cellar in which the treaty of anion with England was executed ; the house where Knox, tlie Re former, resided—over tbe door of which are the words: - , r Lfe. God. above, al. and. your, ueichbor. as/ your, self.” Alsa, tho Canongate Jail: Hoiyrood Pal ace (the abode of Queen Mary and others of ancient royalty;) the Martyr’s Monument, Ac., Ac.; •, : ‘ W* The breweries are also a gri>a.t. Edinburg, and imujeate quatitles llaf M 6 **6 here manufaeturedfc Wffiakey'ls al AjUavy product, „ -V A little of which, now and tkeo, Is relished by the wisest men. In fact there are few alcoholic beverages bettor than a glass of Muir’s ale or a hot whiskey akin. Like all other good things, however, they must be taken in moderation. Ladies, prepare for extreme change ‘ in your habits; for a Paris corespondent of the New York Courier says the ladies are com-< ing out without boops, bustle, wattdiug, ot anything e’se, Tka Css ot Tobacco and Cotfoo Among the French ifthus described by tlie Paris correspondent of the N. O. Piraynne : We are f-Tgiiiing here to be seriously alarmed at tlie number and quality of the victims tobacco and coffee are making among us: But, you know our nature, the alarm will last a few weeks, and then e cigar and coffe-bowl will be as popular as ever, until we Are called upon to hear to Pere la Chaise some new and illustrious victim of one or the other poison Coffee especially attacks the heart, which swells under the Oriental excite ment. __Tobacco mines the'**silver cord*’un til It is broken. Everybody smokes now. The boy at school—tho lad at college—the medical student- the law Student—thenrtisan —the artist—the clerk—the mercharit—tbe old man<— smoke when they work and when they are idle —over their newspaper and over their coffee—at billiards and in conversation —while drinking while bathing—while walk ing <md on horseback. Cigars are tbe first thing brought after breakfast—they appear in the midst of the most fragrant desert—they are dismissed only tlie moment before the extinguisher puts out tbe cendle. Forty years ago few persons, besides old men, smoked, and rarely smoked above one pipe full, and that after dinner : Now everybcKiy smokes ten, fifteen and twenty cigars a day. The Consequences upon the Nerves. Are indescribable—you must have seen a confirmed smoker deprived of his cigars for some time to form any idea of this hideous state, the delirium tremens of the smoker. ‘The 11 visions” seen by Louis Napoleon, (about which so much was said ajyear or two ago,) do really at timesxmrry him beyond the verge of sanity ; they are attributable to noth ing in the world but the fifteen, cigars he smokes every day. Thirty years agothe disease of the spinal marrow, which is now so common, was comparatively unknown : all the doctors agree to attribute it to smoking tobacco. “ Tobacco,” says one of most emin ent medical men, “ is an acrid narcotic poison ; if taken into the stomach even in a small quantity, it produces effects which rapidly becomes mortal. The poisons which pro duce an impression upon the nervous System, have a sort of elective .preference for tblir’or that point of the nervous system. Tobacco prefers the spinal narrow, on which it acts as -a stupefier.” He goes on to insist that it product s paraplegia or paralysis of the lower members. Eugene Sue fell a Bictim To excessive indulgence of his passions, of coffee and tobacco. He died the 3d of August at Annecy, in Savoy, at the age ot fifty-five years. He was exiled from France after the events of the 2d December, 1851, and lie has made Annecy his home nearly ever since then, al though he visited Ireland for a short time,, ijiud spent some time in Holland, of which Hi was very fond for, he had a great many Dutch' tastes, especially their passion for flowers and pnroalinn. Ha was vnry-ftowl of horses, silver plate, and everything con nected wkli the luxury of the table and linen. Eminent Meuricc designed and made his plate, which cost an incredible sum of money, and his porcelain service consisted invariably of Saxony or old Sevres, He had a servant uamed Laurent, solely to clean the silver plate; this servant had never read a hook id iiis life, and when questioned abont Eugene Sue’s talents, be would rolll up his eyes and say : O Lor ! O nothing but cover nice white paper with ink. Is that a way for a mail to live 7” Sue was exceedingly timid in society, his voice was weak and his whole nppenrancfl was very awkward. He never went into society, but lived’ with” a “ref - friends, MM. Victor SkeoMcherTTr udili, Goubaux, Earnest Le gouve, Delbrgets, and Pleyel. He worked, ou an average, ten hours every day, in a small library on the third floor of his house, which looked upon a garden in the Dutch style, filled with porcelain and flowers, both of wbieb were the finest and costliest that could be obtained. His writing was extrem ely fine, aud bis lines Very elose together ; it seems to me rather illegible, but that coin plaint is not inadelhere His house was crowd ed with works of art and curiosities of all sorts, which were placed upon buffets, as in a curiosity shop, lie. wore about six pair of straw colored gloves a day, finest linen, patent leather shoes and embroidered ailk stockings, and he was always delicately per fumed, In private, he was a sort of “ Ra belais in his easy chair,” delighting in those coarse humorous stories for which the jocund cure of Meudou was fiimous and which Sue told admirably. He was remarkable for his faculty of concentration, and for the rapidity that rare faculty gives ; in a few hours be would write his day’s feuilleton, and tnrp his attention to other objects of study.— Mysjcras de Parir,” -and “Le Juff Errant,” ami “ Mathile,” continue to be at popular (i. e., saleable) as they were when they ap peared. A book publisher told me yester day tb at the cheap edition of the “Mysteres de Paris,” issued last months, would put into Sue’s pocket 860,000. What loses French literature hat recently sustained ! de Musset, de Beranger, aud Sue in a few days of each othex! ‘ ‘ A connoisseur in art-— The Boston Herald is responsible for the’folJowing ;■—“ A down-easter strayed into tho square in front of the City Hall, lately, and planted his brogans firmel v in front of tbe bronze statue of Franklin, the philosopher with great ap parent interest. “ What ole feller’s likeness Jf that V’ asked he of a by-stander—“ That, sir, is a statue of Benjamin Franklin.”— “ Statew of Franklin, eh ! Wall, I’ve read all about him. Putty good old feller, in his way Never fit much in tlie revelushnn, but was great on sot-aodderin the French. But I say, yoeu 1 how darned yaller he was /” * V- 1- - iftviivvwf..f.. , , •, , An bonest man is believed without an oath, for bis reputation sweats for him. Memory is the cabiuet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council chamber of thought. Neatucky “ria The renown wblbh Kentucky riflemen have obtained for precision and skill in hand ling the rifle has become world-wide, and excited the attention and wonder of the’war riors of other nations. In battle they Lave stood as cod and collected; although the first time in action, aa the oldest veterans in Eu rope, pouring in their deadly fire with uner ring aim. “ I shot that officer,” exclaimed a rifleman ss he saw an officer fall at New Orleans. “ l shot him in the right eye,” replied tbe other rifleman. “ And I shot him in the left eye,” was the response. 0 . After the battle, it was found that an offi cer had been shot ia both eyes. The uner ring precision can only be obtained by long practice and thggMk drilling. At tho first settlement of the State they were compelled to be constantly under arms, as it were, to guard against the wild Indian’s murderous tomahawk. As the father, so the child grew up, taught in tbe earliest infancy possible to poise the rifle and direct its aim. As amunition was not always convenient to be bad, tbe father would dole out to his son a certain number of entridgesfor his rifle, for each of which be was to bring home souse sort of game, or get a taste ot hickory for every missiDgshot. Many years ago I was conversing with my father on the wonderful skill of tho Kentuck ians, when be related the following anecdote. I was out in the wilds of Kentucky some years before tlie war, on a suryeying expe dition, and had an opportunity of studying the character of the earliest settlers for A considerable length of time. It became nec essary for me to stop a few days at a log tav ern, and to wile away the time I took my rifle and explored the woods for game, of which there was an abudance. Tbe land lord, had a little son, about ten years of age, who accompanied me with his xifle, and al ways had extremely good luck® On one oc casion the fates seemed adverse to him, for perceiving a squirrel on a very high branch of a tree, he up with his rifle and blazed away, and down came tbe squirrel. The look of dismay with which he vlewd the game, 1 shall never forget. Dropping the butt of the rifle dff the ground lie burst into tears.— In tbe utmost surprise, I inquired what gfcfi matter was. 11c answered— “ Dady’ll lick me 1 ” “ Lick you ! what for ?*’ “ because-I didn't hit hiin In the head.” I soothed him all I conld, but the’ day’s pleasure was over. Ort returning to the tav ern I interceded for him all in my power to save him from the hickory, but it was of no use; the application must ber made, if only for example. “ No, no, stranger ; if I let him off,l break a standing rule of our State. I was never let off. what was good for mo is good for him. He must sliopt right, or put up u ith what he gets.” The hickory was applTeth liut no bones were broken. Such training as that, which was universal in those parts, tells the secret of Kentucky rifle-shooting. Have a Purpose. Sir K. Buiwer Lytton, in his recent ad dress on the occasion of his installation ns Lord Rector of Glasgow University, endeav ored to impress upon the minds of the stu dents tiie value of a definite purpose inlife in the following admirable language,: “ Hat ing once chosen that call which then becomes your main object so life, cling to it firmly — bring to bear upon it all your ener gies, all the information you are elsewhere variously collecting. aII men are not horn with genius, but every man can acquire pur pose, itls this back hone and marrow ofgcuius —nay, I can scarcely distinguish one from the other. For what is genius 1 Is it not an impassioned predilection for some definite art or study to which the mind converges all its energies, each thought or image that is suggested by nature or learning, solitude or converse, being habitually and iuVoluntarily added to those ideas which are ever return ing to the same central point, so that the mind is not less busily applying when it seems to be the most relcived application. That is genius, and that is purpose—the one makes the great artist or poet, the other, the great man of action. And with purpose comes the grand secret of worldly success, which some men call earnestness. If I were asked, from my experience of life, to say what at tribute most impressed the minds of others, or most commanded fortune, I should “say “ earnestness.” The earnest man wing way for himself, and earnestness and truth together. Never af fect to he other than you me—either richer orwisci. Never he ashamed to say, “I do apt know.” Men will then believe you when you say “I do know.” Never he ashamed to say . whether as applied to time or money, '* 1 cannot afford the guinea you ask me to throw away.” once established yourself and your mode of as what they really are, and your foot on solid ground, whether for the sudden spring over the preci- S‘ce. From these maxims let me deduce an her —learn to gay “No” with decision; “Yes” with caution—“No with decision when ever it resists temptation; “Ye* with caution whenever it implies a promise. A promise once given is a bond inviolable. A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that wc can implicity r4ly upon him. I have frequently seen in life a person prefered to a long list of appli cants, for some important charge which lifts him at once into a station of fortune, merely because he has bis reputation, and wlten he says he knows a thing he knows it and when be says he will do a thing he will do H. Mua* gentlemen over these maxims; you will find it easy enough to practice tltem, for when you have added them, together the au total looks very much life,©—a Scotchman.” There hare been many definitions of a gentleman, but the prettiest and moat poetic is that given by a lady. “ A gentleman is a human being combining a woman's tender new with a man’s courage.” * 4 Term* :—TWO DOLLARS TEf ANNUJI ADVANCE. NCMlffl R 4. tipnwl to limit* tin* following flifllniiMi * standing do ye Bee.” “Hould on Murphy ! hould on! wait . bit; now tell me how could all the pork get out or the barrel and hive tfaf|rhm *S ” Well,rat,” said Murphy, that’s what I’d like to know myself, do ye see, there’s the -mystery “Otir OfiMffifi A correspondent of the Journal of Com merce tells a very good story of a Georgian and his wife, who, awe somewhere op in Maine attended, with an tdd fhffr&NlsSSWlit “ Sue,” a characteristic lecture by one of those “ luminous men” who witkmitssvcr having seen a slave, ever having trod South ern soil, or known from personal observe-. Bon. the true condition of things on a single Southern plantation, have, by some means, imbibed so mueh light in relation 4 fo “ South ern institutions.” The lecture ended, and all wqnt home. Not a word was said in the family of our Southrons. Presently •• Sue,” in a tone of earnest inquiry, said: “Missus was that Ottr Georgia that man bilked so much about to-night ?” “Certainly It was,” replied the lady, “ there is no other Georg,a in this coun try ” At this “Sac,” with head thrown buck, rniuTl^Nvr 3 eXCl f H ‘ cJ ’ “ 00011 him some monstrous lies for old as I am, I never heard nothing like all that in our Geo rgia ; not at all, missus !”’ An Unfortunate Text. The biographer of Theodore A.'d’Aulignc, mention* that in 1623 he married the widow of Cte*ar Uulbini He seventy one. She was sixteen years yougcr. The marriage was performed during the course of the usual service on Sunday, The minister preached from the text, Fntlicr, Fw. u them, for they know not what they do. This irritated d’Aubigne beyond measure,ami lie complained to the Senate of Geneva, who forced the minister to apologize - . In doing so. he protested that he had no intention of offending, and that the words complained of belonged to the portion of Scripture which he had been occupied on successive Sundays in expounding. lawl Inscription. -■ There is an inscription on a tombstone at La Points, Lake Superior, which reads as folow*; “John Smith, accidently shot as a mark of affection bv his brotbef.” This, says the North Californian, remind* us of one on a tombstone near San Diego, which runs as follows; “Tim yere is Bacrcd to the memory of William Henry Skrnkeu, wbo cam to bis deth by being shot with e Colts revolver—one of the old kind, mounted and of such is the kingdom of beav* en.” “■> ■: 1 Hard Cask.— lt is said that--there is a man in the eastern section of the city who Ha* become so honery by drinking that the ‘ml I-frogs have taken notice of it. Tti sto ry goes that be, a short time einee, visited the country a few miles from the city, and that upon his going near a pond of wa ter, the frogs set up tlie following!**** Old G. drunk,” “No he amt’”* “ Ye* he is,” “Not quite,” “Not quite,” “Drunk enough,” said another. G. was heard to say that he did not think that be had become so d—low that the frogs would tell him of it, A distinguished Georgia lawyer says that in his younger day* be taught a boyssehool; and requiring the pupile ter write composi tions, he sometime* received some of a very peculiar port, of which the following is a seasons, spring summer, autiun, and winter. They are all plesant. Some people may like spring best; but as for me, give rnulib erty or give me death. 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