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VOLUME I.
THE WIRE-GRASS REPORTEfi
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HARRIS & HARRIS.
Itwison L. Harris,’ I Cmahi.es ,J. Harris,
Milledgeville, Ga. | TlioimiHville,
■arch 31 w ts
Rabt. S. Bin'll A William illrLeiidou,
A;TO RX FA'S AT LAW’
k THOM ASI /I. I. f'Etl It CIA
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B Alt lIR A HN'VWr,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
TroupriUe, Lowndes Cos., (It.
sept 1", W ts
SAUFKIi B. SPKXCS-iK.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,’
THOM ASM 1,1,K, GEORGIA.
WILL give his entire attention to the practice qf j
Law, in the Counties of tlie Southern Circuit. —
Office on the second floor of D. & K. McLean's*
Wrick building. CjaniJt'ov
E. C. UKAN,
AT TAW,
XJfgtU'JJLI, E. O EORGIA.
WILL pra qtiee in the counties of the Southern Cir
ait,and the counties of Dooly, Worth ami Dough
erty of tiie Macon, and Coffee, Clinch and Ware
•f the Brunswick Circuits.
Flat Crock, Ga.,Oct. 7. ts
J. 11. LIVI iUH
Attnrnn am! Counsellor at Law,
AND SOLICITOR IN (’IIAXCEUY,
- 7Ho mas i'll l ft, Et>n<; /A.
WILL practlee IfiS..profyssioiv ittAtbcsq'vmrts of
Both-wetern Georgia, imd sjiectallv in the-yi'muf.ies
•f Lowndes, Thomas, Decatur and I taker.
deed—ts •
Dr WMLBI. HA I L.
TENDERS his Profegsiijind services to the citizens |
of Thomasville and vicinity—Residence, the house
farmer!) oeeupied tiy A. 11. Hansell —Office, next
door below. [apr22]
Hr. SADI KL K. WI MJARV
HAVING in ThiwwiKvillt* irNpccttully ten
d*r hi# prot\>B*ional fierVic**H to the ot
ThomaKville and vicinity. He may be found at till
Office of l>r. S. S. Adam*. fuetlßny *
(lie form Practice.)
P. S. BOWHK, 11.
OFFERS his services to the citizens ot
Thaniasville and vicinity. Calls, at all hours
promptly attended to. ( feli3tf
Dm. Il.lt. A K. O. AKAOiJ).
©-SMYiISYS;, -
THOM A S Vll. LE; GE 0 R GIA.
WE have purchased the Residence
Mink of Dr. R. J. Bruce where one of us
tHLif iniyuwafi lie found. Tooth Pow
der* and Wash, always on hand. [i.uiyl.'>-tt—
Carriage. Buggies and Wagons,
MANI'FACT!'ItF.I) TO OKDEH, BY
JOSEPH TOOKE, SOA A CO.,
AT THE HOUSTON CARRIAGE FACTORY,
Houston County, Georgia.
ef-aii work fully guaranteed.
jnnetktoy ] ISAAC WINTER, Agent.
€. U.
LICENSED AUCTIONEER.
THOMASITU.i:, GEORGIA. -
WILL SELL on every Saturday, and on the first
Tuesday in every month, GOODS of every de
aeripLion, entrusted to Mill for sale.
jmly 22 7 oy
€. W. IIVRIMN ~
General Commission Merckanf.
Foot of Monk Street Brunswick , Cu:
d*2 w t f
Adams House.
THIS establishment is now jiern a- ■ ’
nently opened for the aeeomiuoda xtapjCf
ttna of the public. Every convenience mi Cl*
has Wen proyided tor boarders and trim- i
liant customers; and t\ie prnprietor Gut
ter* himself that he is now able to give the utmost’
satisfaction. * (iODHQLD, Proprietor,
s Thwmasville, Oh., March 24, 1557. ts
Land Office.
HAVING opened an Office in Thomasville, Ga.,
we w* bny jjtSAijAthcrn.GiahrgiJH at *
ro*sonnbh< pniece, or sell i.aipla tor the livelier* on
OAinmissibn. We will also report the value of Lands
•wned by persona at.a distance for n fair eonipeusa
fsi BURCH & Mi LF.NDoN,
Root. S. Burch;’ > V Tliwninsvim-, Ga. a
Wg. MijiUXlfiix. S Mny 2(i, 18541. dm
Bank Agency.
THE subscriber lias been appointed Agent for tho
Bank of Savannah at this place, and is prepar
ml. to discount Bills of Exchange. Drafts, Ac.;
and has for sale Checks on New York. -/
July 22) . EDWARD REMINGTON.
V! OK It I* ntei\i:rt,
Frofessor of music will give private lessons tihtlie
citizens of Thomasvillo aud vicinity upon the Piano,
Melndenn, Guitar. Flute, Violin, .md Violon’cello.—•
Ha may he foHttd at Ilctcher Institute from !> a. m. to
A. Pianos tuned., ‘ ■, • (oct2ooy
Original \ht\xv.
Written for the Wire-Grass Reporter.
DARK HOURS. ~
BY MARY E. BRYAN.
TEe hlgfiris wild ; slowly the waning moon
Glides, Wan and spectral, through encircling dfouds,
Like a pale ghost ‘mid churchyard shadows dim.
Darkness and yloiini walk hand in baud ; —them’s
death yes.'-
In the wild shrieking of. the Autumn wind
That comes down from the hills,strewing deadiesves
As trophies in its path,—death in the faint,
” Jsweet breath of dying (lowers,—sorrow in
The voices of the music haunted Pines ;
Nature, that ere while lay, lulled in the dream
Os Indian Summer, smiling in her sleep,-
Has wakened now, tpid conscious of her doom
Mantles her brow iifsliadows.
Deeper gloom
Broods o’er my spirit, where the raven wings
a Of cold despair fold darkly , closely ‘round,
Shutting out Joy’s sweet sunlight. On my heart,
I'lie wail of that remorseless wind falls like
The voice of fate I sit alone, —alone
With my despair, and more, yet more than all,
Mocked liy a radiant vision, a bright dream
\Veari.ngJjp|.i_eA sunlight in its Sy rcneyea
...Asig j. .]•’<■ t.yigl*) -V ghirimis-bcmv
Whatmnekery! what Litter cruelty !
To hold tin- Tantalus cup of bliss to lips
That never more can taste it, mid to sing
Os hope and joy and love to a crushed heart,
Wheiu hope lias pi'i isiied.mill w’liere love,long since,
Hits wept itself away.
A light step breaks —i,--,....;.... gi
('lion my nnisings and a little hand
1* placed -half Timidly in mine; its touch
Is soft ns angel's kisses on the brow
Os sleeping infancy. I turn to meet
Childhood’s soft eves—Full of sweet tenderness
Yet liuniTd w itli the tears now fain to (all
Because my cheek is wet—raised pleadingly
To mine. The little lip is quivering now ~
With sympathetic sorrow and a cloud ‘.gisuV-
Rests on the fair y oung brow. I w ind HIT arm
Around form, and press my lips,
My burning lips, upon that sinless brow *’
A in! put bark simthingly tile damp, brow it lts*ks,
While the fair head droops low upon my breast,
The blue veiued lids close like the petals w hite
Os lillips, folding at the shut of day.
The April griefs of childhood now are all
Forgotten, tortile letliean wings ot sleep,
The calm, untroubled sleep of infancy
Are folded round the heart. Dreaui on, dream on
Unconscious sleeper! better twere for thee
If this sweet slumber knew no wakening
On earth.'""My'child !• My child ! w ould God we
both
Were sleeping underneath the flowers, no more
To waken to life's cold.realities.
Thou art my own, jny only one. This pulso
Hath caught its tiny stroke from mine, these eyes
Are mine in their dark lustfe, and tin- heart
Now tin obbing close to mine, beats with w arm love
For me. Tbo fate that has denied me much
Gave tliri to me. while 1 was yet almost
A child im y earsand thou hast stirred a fount
Deepest a. and holiest.
—v Would my love eoulfl be
Like a protecting .F.gis—round thee throw n.
To w ard off the dark ills and griefs flint lie
In waiting for thee on thy future path,
it may not bo. Sorrow and time shall set
Their signet on that fair, unshadowed brow
And sin, it may be, dim the clear, pure light
Os those unclouded eyes. Oh! were it not
Far (letter ttien. tolie, with waxen hands
Folded like lilt)’ bulls on a slid breast, ‘■*
Safe from the fear fraught future —in the sleep
That knows no troubled dreams—the sleep of death ?~
Oh ’tvvould be sweet to lie ‘neat h .riie bike arch
Os sunny skies, with Willow branches green
Falling around our quiet resting place,
Where-birds should raise, and in the w ind stirred
houghs
Sing their wild melodies, or bend to drink
The dew from tin- pale blossoms on our grove.
Arid the soft stars should look through the green pall
Ami summer winds tread lightly tlioo.gl, the leaves,
.But never human toot, or humuu voice
Should break upon the lio]} solitude.
Thoinasvifle: •.
A NOVEL WAY TO PREVENT A RUN.
*n
Tliere was a Git of a run on one of our
(i'ai)ks last'.week, in the small bill line. Pas
sing by, and noticing tlie crowd, Dr. G
called to one of the officers of tbo bank and
asked, “Do you want to stop that run ?”
The officer said be didn’t care any tiling
about it, but added, “ what do you propose 1”
“Go dowu to Charles street, get a nigger,
label him small pox. and Set him in the door
way-of your bank, and if the crowd don't
.disperse, charge the damages to me,’’ said
the doctor. The bank man. was satisfied
that this would be a remedy,— Pipayune.
‘*- EARLY RISING. . : -
I would on the curtains of your
beds ftttd walls of yous chamber :—“ If you
f dgrtiot rise early you can -make progress ju
nothing. If you do not set n'part your hours
of reading, your days will slip fhrough your
unprofitable, and unenjoyed by your
” se l f ,V.— Chatham.
•l f- NOT OF THAT FAMILY. , -’ V,
A man whose appearance indicated that
lie was staggering front the excessive weight
of a brick in his hat, being asked if he was a
“ Son of Temperance,” replied, “Hick-no
no relation —not even an. bic-acquaintance.”
\
; EARLY ATTACHMENT.
The attachments of youth rarely fipeu into
tbo warm and enduring love of maturity,—
Like early springjiuds, they are nipped by
the frogts of experience, or fade into dim re
collections of their transient beauty.
Wise men mingle innocent mirth with their
cares, as a hope either to forget or overcome
them : but to resoft to intoxication for the
ease of one’s mind, is to euro melancholy
with madness^
, * A B *■ --. •” ■ i
THOMASVILLE, GEORGI A, Js'OVE.VI HI'IR 24, 185 T.
NEARLY A HORN TOO MUCH.
Mr. J. Stanley Smith, editor of the Au
burn (N. Y.) American, girfes the following
amusing account of his chatte by, and escape
from, a savage bull, during a recent visit to
a farm in the neighborhood of Auburn, to
witness the trial of mowers.; .1 —* ... -.
The bull was one of them. He was
“ monarch” jpf all he could eat, chase or
gore. Being deeply interested in the .apple
field, we wandered out of the field in which
the mowing was going on, into friend Shot
well’s orchard, i’ut and handsome blooded
cows were lying about, chewing their cuds,
and utterly indifferent as to what was going
on.- We wandered from tree to tree, in the
orchard, and while critically examining
some very tine looking fruit, were suddenly
and rather unpleasantly startled from our
train of thought by the bellowing of Mr.
Taunts, whose majesty had been reclining,
and of whose august presence we were mi
aware. He elevated his tail, tnnde the oaxtli
fly with his “ awful paws,” and having thus
manifested his hostility, and given tone to
bis idea that we were an interloper, made a
plunge. A moment’s view of our antago
nist .was just about enough. Ilis eyes flash
ed fire. He rose like a “ Bull of Bashan.”
Wedidnot AiaUfaucy the—stylo of-bis
-burns.—They w ere straight as .needles,.and
about as sharp. He exlnbiftHwit unmistaka
ble desire to employ them upon us. .-.
Knowing that it was expected of us to re
port the test going on in another field, We
remembered the prior aad pressing interests
of our friends, and setup a” smart run. So
did Mr. Bull! We scampered. *” lie scam
pered. He “ made better time” than tve
could “ bottormout.”
He,gained on us rapidly. Wo could al
most feel bis hot bread) on the back of our
neck. It was neck or nothing. Rail fence
twenty rods off. Bull within” five rods.—
Tight race ! No bets. Bull in high spirits!
Gave up for a “ goner.” Nd such tiling.—
Friendly apple tree, with low branches!—
Olutched two of them, and lifted our pre
cious body into the tree! Taurus arrived
just as we cleared the ground. Pawed and
roared awfully—Taurus did. We attempted
to reason with him. No sort of use. He
was obstinate anil hard of heart. -Evidently
a great scamp. We eyed him, he eyed us.
good sight for. both of us. Being in tli’c
newspaper line, we are in favor of the earli
est publication of important news, but we
confess that the Bul-let-in contemplated on
this occasion shocked our sense of “propriety.
Arid the fact that we were treed,
mil- antipathy to practicing the popular feat
of taking-the “ bull by the horns.” In this
case it would assuredly have been “ a horn
too tnuch.” So, ,
Mr. Editor lie
„ Did climb flic tree,”
The bull to see. -
-Gnr enemy pawed around the tree, hel
lowjedafterthe manner of “ Boanerges, the
soil of Thunder,” glared at us, nnd'TinaJly
turned and wandered off t ) the tlistance of
about thVre trees. Thinking all was right,
we slid down heroically and “ put” for the
crazy old rail fence. The distance front free
to bull and from tree to fence, was just about
an dv’en thing. But our assailant saw the
movement, atid once again the chase was. a
hot one. But this time we distanced the
“ horned critter,” and scaling the fence land
ed in a field of rye, at about the same mo
ment that our pursuer's horns struck the top
rails of the fence, and sent them flying.—
Separated by the fence, we read the scoun
drel a lecture which we hope he will remem
ber to his last moments. We made all due
allowance in his case for the hubbub of flip
mowing and reaping affair, but nevertheless
concluded that lie was a great scamp.
“AM I BOUND TO TAKE COFFINS.”
2 Mr. G— —, a veteran lawyer of Syracuse,
used to tell a story of a c’ient. an impetuous
old farmer, by the name of Merrick, who had
a difficulty’ with a cabinet maker. As was
usual in such cases,the matter excited a great
deal of interest among the neighbors}- who
severally allied themselves with one or the
other of the contending parties. At length,
however, to the mutual disappointment of the
allies, the principals offered a compromise,by
which Merrick was to take, in full of all de
mands, the cabinet maker’s note for forty
dollars, at six moots, “ payable in cabinet
tpare ”
Lawyer G was called upon to draft
the neccsstr.ry papers to cous.urnate the set
tlement, which, having been duly’ executed
and delivered, the client was apprised that
the matter was fully’ and amicably arranged.
G saw no more of the parties until about
six mouths after, when one morning, just as
lie was opening his office, oßl'Merrick rode
furiously up, dismounted, and rushed in, de
fiantly exclaiming : “I- say, Squire, am I
bound to take coffins ?”
It seems, on tpe note'falling due, tfte ob
stiuate cabinet .yiaker had refused to pay
him id any otheryvay.— Ohce Branch,
PRETTY AMERICAN COMPLIMENT]
“Your English ladies are very handsome,”
said a polite young American gentleman to
Mr. I’unch.—•“ Your American girls are’ex
quisitely lovely.” returned Mr. Punch, scor
ning to be out done in courtesy.—“Ay, girls
that is true : bnt they fall off as they count
years. So* you see your women carry off
the palm, and what’s more, it’s a palm that
will bear a date.”—“ Bless ’em all,” said Mr,
Punch, piously. ‘-‘Let’s liquor.”
Some sow years ago Mr. Kidwelf was
preaching to a large audience in a wild part of
Illinois, and anounced for bis text: “In my
Father’s house are many mansions.” He had
scarcely read-the words, when an old coou
stood upatid said:
4* “I toil you, folks, that’s a lie! I know his
father well. He fives fifteen miles from Lex
ington, in old Kentuck, in an old log cabin,
and there ain’t but otao room in the honse.”
*'■’ s— —‘—r jo
The weakest spot in any man is where Tig
thiuks himseff the wisest.
WANT OF CONFIDENCE
There is a capital anecdote from Hunt’s
Merchant’s Magazine of 1839 :
Want of U<npidb.\cb. —A little French
man loaned a merchant five thousand dollars
when times were good. He called at the
couatiug-honse-A-few-day* since, i a state of
agitation not easily described.
“How do you do?” inquired the merchant.
“Sick—very sick.” replied the monsieur.
“What is the matter?”
times is de matter.”
“Dc limes ?—what disease is that ?”
“De tualadie what brakes all de merchants
ver much.”
“Alt—the times, eh 7 —well, they arc bad,
very,had, sure enough? but how do they aflT
ecf yon ?”
“Vy, monsieur, I loose de confidence.’, *
“Ip whom?’,
“In every boddy.”
“Not in me I hope ?”
“Pardoiinez inoi, monsieur; but I do not
know who to trust at present, when all de
merchants break several times, all.to pieces.,’
“Then I presume you want your money
“Oui, monsier, I starve for want of l'ar
gent.” ’ . . *■
_ “Han’t yon do without it
“No, monsicar, l uutst have-him.”’
“You must, j
“(ini jjnoiisietir r "said little dimit
turning pale with apprehension for the safe
ty of his money . 7 .
“AatLytJti cant do without it ;’,
“No monsieur, not von other little moment
lougare.” • ‘ ‘’
The merchant reached his bank book—
drew a check- on the good old Commercial
■for the amount, ami handed it to his visitor.
“Vat is dis monsieur?”
“A check for five4housnnJ dollars, with
the interest.”
“Is it bon?” said the little Frenchman
with amazement.”
“Certainly.”
“Have you del'argent in the bank*?” 1
“Yes.
“And is it perfaitement convenient to pay
de sum ?”
“Undoubtedly. What astonishes you ?”
“Vy, dat you have got him in dees times.
“Oh yes, and I have plenty more. 1 owe
nothing that I cannot pay at a moments no
tice.”
The Frenchman was perplexed.
“Monsieur, yott shall do me one leetle fa
vor, eli ?”
“With all my heart.”
“VeH, monsieur, you shall keep dc Var
gent for me some leetle year longer.”
“Why, I thought yon wanted it.”
“Tout au contraire. I no vant de l'argent,
I vant de grand confidence. Supose you* no
got de money, den 1 vant him ver much—su
pose you got him, den I no vant him, don I‘
no vant him at all. You* eomprehemez eh?”
After some 1 urtlitir conference the little
Frenchman prevailed upon the merchant to
retain the money .and left the counting-house
• with a fight heart, and a countenance very
different from the one he wore when he en
tered. Ilis confidence was restored, and al
though he did not stand in need of the mon
ey ,hc wished to know that his property was
in safe hands. ...
This little sketch has a moral, if the read
, er has sagacity enough to find^it.
OUTRAGES BY EUROPEANS
A Cnlcuttta correspondent of the London
Daily News says that Europeans in the'dif
ferent parts of the country have {tab all dis
cipline at defiance, nijd committed great atro
cities. At Dinaporca party of the Queen's
10 th broke out at .night anil bayneted in
their beds eleven Sepoys—a portion of those
who had remained faithful to their salt—and
two women; there is no doubt they would
have murdered the whole of them, but the
shreiks and groans of their victims raisad
.on ahum, and the butchery .was stopped.
An inquiry into the matter has ended very
unsatisfactorily Iq, a general order, 1 Gen.
Outram'has declared it certain that tjie mur
derers were of the 10th ; but the evidence as
to the art uni parties was so unsatisfactory
that no one has been This is not
all: Gen. Wilson, commanding* before Del
hi. had intimated his knowledge of many
murders, having been committed-upon camp
followers and other innocent persons by men
belonging to his force, and his full determin
ation to “carry out the sentence of any court
martial that may come before him. At
Mhow, a party of European artillerymen
had plundered the treasury, and committed
other atrocities, of which we havs not the de
tails. All this is very bad and, will not be
put a stop to until some signal examples are”
made. The executions that have taken
place in various parts of the country have
been so indiscriminate that the Governor-
General in Council has issned a minute put
ting a check upon them, and prescribing a
certain course of proceeding.
LEAVES’
No manure is so well worth saving in
October and November as the %iuw falling
leaves of the saason. According to Payne,
theycontain nearly three times as mnch ni
trogen as ordinary barn yard manure; and
every gardener who has strewn mid covered
them hi his trenches late in the fall or-in De
cember, must have noticed the next season
how black and moist the soil is that adheres
to the thrifty young beets he pulls. No vege
table substance yeilds its woody’ fibre and
becomes soluble quicker than leaves, nud
from this very cause they are soCsi dried up
scattered to the winds and wasted'if not now
gathered and trenched ,tnp or cornposted, be
fore the advent of severe.winter.
a writer iu tiro Historical Magazine thinks
that Congress should pass an act fixing a
uniform mode for emblazoning the American
flag. He counted nine different modes of ar
ranging the.stars on the last fourth of July-,
says that the same question might be
askeij now that was asked twenty years ago,
i* what is the American —*
MARRIED A NEGRO—TIRED OF THE BARGAIN.
A correspondent, understood to beJG, W.
Williams, Esq., of writing to the
Southern Christinnjzidvocate.respccting Can
ada, says:
“ We saw here (at Toronto) what I never
expected to witness rm the . American tbrtiu
ent—a white lady (?) married to aflat nose,
unadulterated black negro. The woman was
about 25 years old and rather good looking.
The negro 40,and as ugly a darkey as you e vor
saw. An Anglo African, six months old,
was the result of the happy union! I asked
her wliy sho married a negro. The reply
was that site was not the first white woman
iti Canada who bad married a colored man—,
that it was a common occurrence. Uptm fath
er inquiry, I learned that intermarriage be
tween the whites and blacks seldom occurred.
The Canadians are getting hartily sick of the
hordes of “ fugitive slaves,” the abolitionists
from the United States have run over there,
and the government is taking active mensnres.
to get rid of their negro population. How
to dispose of them is a grave question. The
free State.- have shut their doors agffiflst them
The truth is, the African, is like cotton, rice
nnd sugar, will not flourish North of Mason
and Dixon’s lino. The-nogroes look like a
poor cast-off, forsaken race; and the severe
winters*are sending many of them to rm mt-”
der-ground roa'drxvhmVirioy’ wIII femitm till
the last day. When I snw so many wretch
ed negroes without homes, and excluded
from their churches,railroads, omnibuses, etc.,
I thought of our Methodist ChurcVeg in
Charleston, with tlieiF six thousand happy’
colored members, and of our noble Mission
aries, who jeopard their lives in traveluh
through the rice swamps, exposing the™
selves to the deadly miasma, topre.ach Christ,
and him crucified, to the slave. How differ
ent from the Abolitionist, who do all in their
power to seduce slaves from their comforta
ble homes, and then abandon them to want
and misery. This is Abolition consistency !
“ Blheding Kansas” has been a rich theme
for these underground tbcives, and scores of
honest hearted men and women have been
** hied” to feather the pockets of these swind
ling impostors.”
THE DUTCHMAN AND THE PANIC.
Everybody remembers the “ money panic”
they had at San Francisco some years since
—and the story “J( ha Phoenix” used to tel
of tits effects—individually illustrated. Be
fore the fright, a frugal old Dutchman, by
dint of hard labor, had accumulated some
8500, which he cautiously deposited in one
of the banking houses for safe keeping
Rumor soon came to bis ears that they were
not very safe—some said that they had
“ broke;.” Noxt morning, he tremblingly
,drew his balance and put the shining gold in
-liis pocket. He breathed decidedly freer,
but here was a dilemma. What should he
do with it? He did n’ot dare to keep it in
his shanty—and as for carrying it about with
him it was too precious heavy. So, after a
sleepless night or two—in constantapprehen
siou of burglars—he deposited it in another
“ banking office. Another day—the panic
increased—there was run on his hank—he
pushed in—drew his gold—and felt easier
once more. Another anxious day and night
for his “ monish,” nnd again it was deposited
in a safe bank. This time he felt safer than
ever before, and went quietely to his work.
But the panic reached that hank, and anxious
depositors besieged the doors. Mynheer
heard the news, nnd put post-haste, book in
hand, for the scene ot action—jammed in
with the crowd—drew his gold, new and
bright—put it safe in his corduroys—and was
happy once more—but here wastlie dilemma
again where t > put if. He had gone pretty
much the rounds of the batiks, and having
had such narrow escapes, cduldn’t any more,
fie sat down on a curb-stone.nnd soliloquized
thus : “ I put mine monish in von bank, ven
he preak ; I put him in de edev batik, ven
lie preak too, I draw him out; I can no
keep him home; I put him in dis bank, naw
dis (one preak ; vat tc tnyvil shall I do ?
I take him homo and sow him up in my
frow’s petticoat, and if she prakes I crake's
her head *-7
HABITS OF A HAN OF BUSINESS
Let every man who pretends to be a busi
ness man read and adopt the followiog as his
daily routine of habits; -
A sacred regard to the principles ofjustice
forms the basis of every transaction, and rbg
nlates the conduct of the upright rttan of busi
ness. He is strict in keeping his engage
ments ; doej nothing carelessly, or in a hur
ry , employs nobody to uo what he cab easi
ly do himself; keeps every thing in its proper
place; leaves nothing undone which circum
stances permitted him so do ; keeps bis de
signs ana business from the view of others";-
is prompt and does not overtrade for Ins capi
ta! ; prefers short credits to long ones, ntfd
cash to credit transactions, at all times when
they can be advantageously made either in
buying or scHing, and small profits with little
risk, to the chance of better gains with more
hazzard. He is clear and explicit in all bar-' 1
gains ; leaves nothing to th©/ memory which
lie can nud ought to commit to writing;
keeps copies of ah important letters which he
he sends away, and has every letter,invoice,
See., belonging twins business, titled, classed
and put away. He never suffers his desk t&
beconfusedhy many papers lying upou.it;
is always at tho bead of his business, well
knowing that if he leaves it,, it will leave
him j holds it as a maxims, that lie whose
credit is suspected is not safe to ,bo trusted
and is constantly examining his books,’ and
sees through all his affairs as far as care and
attention! enable him; balances regularly at
stated times,,and then make* out and consti
tuents, both at home and abroad ; is economi
cal in bis expenditures, always living within
his income ; keeps a memorandum book with
a pencil iff bis pocket, in which he notes
every little particular relative to appointments,
addresses and pettjp cash matters ; is cautious
how fie becomes security for any person, and
is generous only tthen urged by motives of
humanity. — Worth and Wry/th.
NUMBER 11.
TBI man, bibb.
Wlto can fail to recognise the revolution
which has for twenty years past been eo?n">
on in the Southern mind f Who does not see
that this revolution, working slowly.timidly,
and partially at first, is fast becomming a
mightylnd tfinrongh-gofng fact 1 Twenty
years ngo, the South was in a state of mental
thraldom receiving her sentiments, on almost
every subject, from minds foreign to her in
terests—foreign to her whole environment—
and echoing back those sentiments ai though
they were the self-evolvod deliverance of
her inmost soul. Twenty years ago the
Sontli pleed guilty to the charge of inferiority,
social and material. She looked npon her
self ns a victim of a coarse more blighting
than that of Kchntna, and from which she ear
nestly, but almost despairingly prayed for
deliverance. To her jauudiced vision, every
surrounding object wore the sickly hut of
predestined and inevitable decay, and while
■ \ nnkeo prosperity, Yankee polish Yankee
thought, Yankee freedom, bounded the hori
zon of her most ambjtious aspirations, and
furnished all her bright models. Twenty
years ago, the highest education was thought
to be that furnished by Yale and Cambridge
and thousands of Southern youth and maid
ens-wwe annually sent to receive the finish
-tog? touch at NotMnj institutions oflearning.
But a revolution has begun. The South is
every where rousing from unquestioning re
repose, and is fast tnrniug from her slavish
worship of the guilded Idols. Her very soul
is stirred, and begins to put the might of gi
gantic energies. Recoiling from her misplaced
confidence, and seeing every wlierp that her
(heart has |oved falsehood nnd been deceived
by the flimsiest show, she is fast coming to
assert her manhood and independence. 81m
finds that Northern society is rushing fast to
socialism, iufidelity and a crushing wreck Os
every conservative institution; that labor
and capital are there fighting a war of exter
mination ; that the humanizing c hecks of chi v
alry and religion have lost all power; that
man and women, white and black, rich and
poor, Christian and infidel, are mixed in k ter
rible tnele”, from which no one can emerge
untainted. Bhe finds that the institution of
slavery, hitherto deemed the direct corse of
any laud, lias preserve, d her from the doom
of her envied compeer, and that, what waa
everywhere esteemed her fatal curse, is, in
■ fact, her highest blessing and her brightest
glory.
Thiq sioglo revolution has called forth her
highest talent. This talent is asserting its
mastery in every conflict. Troths IteretofUre
overlooked are now dragged from their obliv
ion of infamy, and madetodn fierce battle for
the cause of humanity; The foundations of
long received and blindly reverod principle)!
are being examined and-dttmoliabed with icon
oclastic boldness, and Divine Troth manfully
| vindicated from the implied aspersions of half
hearted believers, no less than from the fero
cious assault of avowed atheists. Slavery is
begun to be seen as a God-ordained institu
tion, which properly regulated, lends esssn
. tial help in moulding the highest type of the
; white as well as the black man, and no teas
than of the woman ; shielding the government
. from the cyls of a bald Democracy ) society
from those communism, and the church from
J that modified faith which leads inevitably to
( the abandonment of all faith. This institu
tion, so long reviled as the nursing mother of
| lust and cruelty, is now seen to promote the
purest love of woman nnd the tenderest hn
i inanity—the most delicate chivalry, thd most
| dauntless courage.
THE HUM HESS CHEATED.
There is in the lower part of this county,
as wo arc informed by a gentleman who is
always willing to verify his narrations Wv
affidavit, a lazy, trifling sort of fellow, wle
sleeps all day and sits up or walks about all
night never doing a and leaving
bis old mother to provide for bis wants by
Iter own labor. A neighbor, one day, under
took to bring Tom “to taw” for his laziness,
especially his day sleeping.
) “ Tor,” says'ho, “ what the deuce do you
mean by your mean lazy conduct ? Why on
earth do you stay tip all the night, which, was
designed for sleep, and sleep alt the day,
which was intended (or work f” . “
Tom scratched his head and twisted and
screwed awhile and then replied, ns if the ar
gument werq annihilatory: “ Why, look
here, down in these swamps I’m ohleeged to
do that way to fool the tnitketers'/" .Mont
gomery Mail.
A writer front New York says : ...
The most remarkable “ feature of the
times” is the absolute suspension of parties,
balls, and all sorts of social entertainments
involving expenses. The fashionable world
seems to be as decidedly in a state of asphyx
ia ns the financial. Even the really rich are
afraid of an ostentation of extravagance,
while the newspapers are daily groaning with
tho melancholy statistics of discharged la
borers, and threatened famine! Economy
is the popular topic of the day, and pcraonol
and domestic “ retrenchment” the all absorb
ing study <f all classes. Tho effect of Ibis
universal curtailment, except in cases of ab
solute necessity, is iu itself, a serious calami
ty, While every body, for instance, is fall
ing back on their last year’s wardrobe, tai
lors most fail and seamstresses suffer.
* . * - * • • . *
Tho costliness of the present trfyl* of dress
is one of the strongest objections. Ladies
who used to dress handsomely on 150 of 200
dollars a year, now find that sum insufficient
for their dresses alone. The trimmings of
the present stylo are nwritv Expensive than
the material of the gown. A few years back
richly worked silk buttons were considered
sufficiently handsome for the richest silk;
nOw the plaiucr materials must be docoi-ated
with jeweled buttons. .Our jewclersNlispla/
a variety of buttons, destined as ornaments
for the corsage, sleeves aud skirt of dreasos,
enamels of all styles, precious stones set in
gold mountings, wrought and plain gold, Ac.
Most men employ their first yem* yo nit so
mflke their lastmisferablc * ‘