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supekTor~coukt calendar,
FALL. TEH M, 185^.
AUGIST. i qgrOBER CONTINUED.
Ist Monday, Floyd Tuesday t p iko
Lump!,in after, )
■M Monday, Clarke Wediies-t Kabun
Dawson d’y after, )
3d Monday, Forsyth !2d Monday, Charlton
Meriwether Fannin
Wnltou Habersham
4th Mond'y. Baldwin Hancock
Chattoho’chc Harris
Glascock Laurens
Heard Miller
Jackson Kc riven
Monroe 3d Monday, Burke
Paulding Camden
Schley Frankly*
Taliaferro Hnralson
SEPTENBER. Henry
Ist Monday, Appling Jones
Chattooga Murray
Cherokee Oglethorpe
Columbia Pulaski
* Coweta Stewart
Crawford Union!
Madison Worth
Marion Thursday 1 M *
Mitchell after, j Montgomery
Morgan Frid’y aft’r, Wilcox
Webster 4th Mond’y,Decatur
M 4 Monday, Butts - Dekalb
a Cass Houston
Coffee Irwin
Elbert Jasper
Fayette Lincoln
Oroeue I’olk
Gwinnett Tattnall
Pickens Towns
Snmfor Whitfield
Washington Tlmrsd’y ( T , f •
Krid yaft'r, Pierce after, )
3d Mouday, Cobb [Frid’y aft’r, Bulloch
Hall Mondfy “ Effingham
Hart , NOVEMBER.
Macon I st Monday, Berrien
Newton Milton
Putnam Randolph
Talbot Richmond
Terrell ‘■ Upson
Wart< 2d Monday, Baker
4th Mond'y, Campbell Bibb
; Clay Catoosa . ;
Clinch Mnscogce
Emanuel 3d Monday, Spalding
Lee ¥ Troup
Twiggs Ith Mond’y,Calhoun
White Walker
Wilke* Thursd’yl
OCTOBER. after, ‘J Mclntosh
Ist Monday, Carroll Mon. aftt!r, Dougherty
Dooly “ “ Liberty •
* Early ‘ “ “ Colquitt
FuLon “ V
Gilmer DECEMBER,
(fimiuo l6t Mondfly, DRde *;■
Taylor . Jefferson
Warren Tbotiiaa
‘ ■(.l Wilkinson , 3il Mouday, Lowndes
„ £am (garbs. t (flippy
James c. Rossf ‘
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.
je 23 w ’ ts
HARRIS At HARRIS,
. ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Iverson L- Harris, I Charles J. Harris,
. Milledgeville, Ga.,|- Thomasville, G.
, march 31 w • • ts
R. S. BURCH & WM. McEENDON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.
BAKE IS & nilWllT,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Troupville, Lowndes Cos., Ga.
Sept 15 w „ ts
EUGENE E. HINES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA,
Office over McLean's store. (jan26
JOHN M. DYSON,
ATTORNEY ATLAW,
OFFICE next door to Dr. Bruce’*, Thomasville,
Georgia. jaus-ly.
G. 11. DAfyIEUL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Office, corner of Bull and Bay Streets. .
: jau 12 w ; ly
JOHN B. MILLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
. MILL TOWN, BERRIEN CO., GA.
WILL practice in all the Comities of the Brunswick
Circuit, and Berrien and Lowndes Counties of
the Southern Circuit. mnyl2oy
™ JOHN C. NICIIOEES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WARESBOROUGII, WARE CO., GA.
WILL practice iit all the counties oY the Bruns
wick circuit, and Lowndes and Berrien of the
Southern K mnr3loy
GEORGE B. WILLIAMSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WARESBOROUGH, GA.
WILL PRACTICE iu the following Counties if the
Brunswick .Circuit: Appling, Coffee. Pierce, Ware
Clinch, and:'Chnrlton. mar3ltf
SAMUJEL B. SPENCER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.
WILL give his entire attention to the prnstice of
Law, ill the Counties of th Southern Circuit.—
Office pn the seeoui floor of D. & E. McLean's
brick building. (jan2ooy
E. C. MORGAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
NASHVILLE, GEORGIA.
I WILL practice iq the counties of the Snutbefn Cir
cuit,and the counties of Dooly, Worth and Dough
erty of the Mtfeon, and Coffee, Clinch aud Ware
* of tlie Brunswick Circuits.
’ Flat Creek, Ga., Oct. 7. ts
RICE A MERSIION,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MAGNOLIA, CLI'NCH CO., GA.
* ATTEND to afl business entrusted to their -care, in
the following counties, to-w it: Clinch, Ware, Ap
pling, Coffee, CharijtourLowndcs and Berrien,Geor
■ gia. Also, in the counties of Hamilton, Columbia,
‘ ami Jefferson, in Florida.
DAVID F. RICE. I IIENUY M. MKRSHON,
| jan 5 w 6m
JAMES M. FOLSOM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MAGNOLIA. CLINCH CO., GA.
1 WILL practice,in all the.cdur& of the Brunswick
Circuit mid in the comts of Lowudes and Berrien
’ of the Southern Cirenitv’
„ e t Jmlge A. E. Cochran, Brunswick Ct.
; K,,f - rpnceß \ Judge Peter E. Love, Southern Ct.
jan 5 Jp w ly
1 ‘ill ■———
illcbitnl €arbs..
i It. J. BRUCE, In. 11. EATON.*
Drs. lIIMJCK & EATOI¥,
* HAVING formed a co-partnership, tender their
Professional Services to the citizens of Thoinas
villo and vicinity. , ie23-tf
DpT XV. H. HAL Vi,
HAS disposed of hie interest in the “Wire-Grass
Reporter’’ to Judge Love, and Will devote himself
exclusively to his profession.
He may be found at all times, when not profession
ally eligaged, at his Office opposite East, side
Presbyterian Clnircl. je9tf
(Reform Tracticc.)
r. P. S.BOWER,
OFFER his professional services to the citizens
of Thomasville aud vicinity. Calls at all hours
promptly attended to. fel)2oy
Dr. SAlVftflEfi R. WILIJAHS,
HAVING located in Thomasville, reapectfujly ten
ders his professidifnl services to the citizens of
Thomasville and vicinity. , lie may be found at the
Office <*f Dr. 8. S. Adams. [octl3oy
HR. E. O. AR:\OLH
WILL continue the practice of
tistry in Thomasville and vicinity —(rrfflSlSjjE
Any order left at the Post Office or at
his Ofliceduring his absence from tow n will receive
attention at the earliest opportunity. [jaiis-Jy
New Drug Store.
xRS. BOWER & ELLIS HAVE
f opened a Drug Store at the stand formerly oc
ied by Palmer & Bro., opposite E. Keumigton’s,
mid are prepared to furnish
Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery, Inks, Fancy Soaps, &c.
Upon fair terms to those who nmy favor them with
a call. To thefroßeforui friends they wdiild say, that
they have on hand a fresh anijLxeliable assortment of
Hotauic Medicines.
And will lie glad to supply them with such articles
as they may need. nia)2(Wiy
Notice to Everybody.
> ‘ Dli* A. W. ALTON’S
CELEBRATED SOUTHERN
LINIMBIffT,
IS A CERTAIN REMEDY for Strains, Sprains,
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Cramp, Nervou* Head-
Ache, Sore Throat. Stiff Neck, Tooth-Acfie, Pain in
the Head, Scalds and Bums, or any thing like erffp
tionson the flesh.
Also, for all diseases to which horses arc subject.
Dr. Allen’s All-llculing Ointment,
IS a certain cure for Ring-worms, Scratches iu
. lioyscs, Creese Heel, Thrush, Collar aud Saddle
kJtflS : and all flesh wound*.
Manufactured by Dr. A. W. ALLEN, Columbus*
Georgia. f” ,
For sale in Thomasi-illo, by Bainn A Shjff; in
Monti cello, by PiJiner &. Bro., aud in Troupville, by
T. W. Ellis. AJJ. ALLEN,
nOV 2I \vjoff~__ ly ‘
’ Hides, JJtJeK Hides. ‘ *
k)AAA HIDES WANTED, for which Eight
Mvy vJs'Ceiit* in Trade will he j>aid, hy
maySwfe* REMINGTON.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1858.
COjptG DOWN THE DAISIES MEADOW.
HY i. H. M’KAUCHTON.
Cinning down the daisied meadow
One bright morn iu May,
Tripping, dancing, met I smiling,
Katy on my way;
Tripping, dancing, met I smiling,
Katy on try way,
Cowing down the daisied meadow
Oiie bright morn iu May !
Like the lilfy, lowly bending,
Blooming by the dell,
Katy blushing, spoke or whispered:
“I’leasaut morning—wellf’’
Lite since that has been elysium—
Mine began that day!
Coming down tim daisied meadow
One bright morn iu May !
Like the rose-hud in the gloaming,
When begemmed with dew,
Were her lips a sweet vermilllon,
Blushing with love's hue;
Then she bad a little bouuet
(Sadly in the way !) ■
Coming down the daisied meadow
That bright mOru iu May !
* . r\.. yit ‘
Life, for me, bad. then beginning,
Water then was wine;
Katy—with her lips vcrmillion! —
She has since been ininoT
Then I learned why lads and lasses
Early loved'to stray,
Coming down the daisied meadow
Some bright morn in May f
A PLEA FOB KISSING.
The iountaius mingle with the river,
The rivers with the oceAn:
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet commotion:
Nothing on the earth is single,
All things by a law divine
In one another’sTieing mingle,
Why not I with thine f
See the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No loaf or flower would be forgiven,
If'it disdained to kiss its brothers
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
Aud the moonbeams kiss the sea ;
But what are. all these kissiugs worth,
If thou hiss not me 1
From the Temperance Crusader.
We cilract from a private letter the fol
lowing account of
A VISIT TO MOUNT VEBNON.
After remaining in Washington nine days,
I took a beautiful boat, which at this
makes the trip to Mount Vernon twice a
week, for the purpose of seeing the hallowed
f spot where sleeps all tliakremains of George
Washington. The day was a pleasant one,
i and served by its brightness to enhance the
natural beauty of the river scenery. Fish
ermen with long nets dotted the water, and
anchored coal-ships were lazily rockin'* in
the gentle breeze. -The day being caltnrvis
. itors soon crowded tbo boat, and none, 1 dare
say, ever enjoyed a more agreeable ride tlian
! this one of near twenty miles on tho bosom
of the broad Potomac. As we wore nearing
- Mount Vernon, the bell began its* slow loll
ing, and turning to the wharf, we could see,
aliAost obscured by green trees, though stand
ing on a high bank of the river, the old whito
[ house where, retired from public service, liv
. cd and died “ the father of .his country,”
, The boat stops at an old wharf which,
with -some repair,, Ljoks as though it had
stood half a century. On leaving tho boat,
- wc were directed along a narrow, winding
track which has been cut and laid’with
planks. These, however, are fast decaying,
t making the walk to the tomb (which is up a
, considerable ascent, and a distance of more
than one hundred yards) rugged and fatiguing.
Near the termination of this pathway, we
stood before the tomb of Washington. Nev
. er had I known the feeling of patriotic in
spiration till stopped so ucar the humbly-en
tombed dust of America’s great son. The
history of a revolution rises up before you,
the struggles of a nation to avoid oppression
r and of a republic in infancy for independence,
all recur to your mind as you stand on that
consecrated spot, liut my object is to de
scribe.
’ The tomb is built of common brick, and
above the entrance is a single squaro piece.of
. granite, in which is cut, “ Washington
■ Family.” The shutters-codsist of two iron
gates, which arc kept locked, but whose up
right pieces arc sufficiently wide apart to ad
mit the enquiring gaze of the curious. Up
, on*the stone which covers tho sarcophagus
i is chiseled the simple name, “Washing
ton and on your loft, covered with equal
, simplicity, are the remains of Mrs. Wash
. ingfon.
f There is an absence of everything like
! pomp or magnificence connected with the
tomb. No tall pyramid or “ proudly waving
banner” directs the passing traveler to it;
but he who visits Mount Vernon will find
that Washington sleeps in almost the very
simplicities of nature. Small trees bend
over his dust, and tall briars growing in tho
enclosure, lift their heads above its walls.
Leaving this spot and going in tiie direc
tion of the house, I*mct a servant who sold
walking-canes to those who wished sncli me
morials of Mount Yernon. He gave me di
rection to tho old vault, and after going some
distance along an over-grown path, found it
. almost fij|pd with fallen 1 oaves<md the crum
bling of its stones.
Following tiie same rudo pathway, my
next nearest object was a neat little buil
ding close to the river,’ (but altnfcgra hun
dred feet abovo it,) which I fouud had nice
ly arranged seats, aud well situated for ma
king observations on the river.. It certainly
looked inviting, nqd I thought tliat its old
owner might have hero spent some of his
happiest moments iu that retirement iu wlpcli
his own; volition placed , him. Beneath this
building* is a pit for keeping ice.
I next went to the mansion itself, and. Be
ing the usual day for visitors, tho rooms that
were most convenient •were of ready* access.
On entering,the hall, the first object which
strikes your attention is a larger curious
looking key, which was presented to Wash
ington by Ei Fayette. This is “The key of
tho|hp>tl6)jan,d from its assocmtkms^s^Bn-
The rooms nppcareJTneat, and ctlntaib a
number of pictures, the general design of
which are events of the revolution. We were
shown the camp booh ol the General, which
A I-’ ■ ■'■• ■’ *’
contains, on one pfljge, amounts received from
U. 8. Congress, and on the other, their cred
it. There is commanding iu tho ap
pearance of the house, but it is characterised
by an refinement and loveliness more
satisfactory in its naturo than if of more
stately appearance.
Therein plainly observable, even now, in
its neglected state { a pleasing quietude per
vading tho enthe jplae6:'“GrisM grow# with
wild luxuriance, and uncultivated flowers
spot the yard, while tho over-grown walks
and tho continual hum of the wild bee all
serve to remind you of the forsaken condi
tion of Mount Vernon. Washington sleeps
in humble retirement. The bird sines its
sweet song above him, and the waves break
gently on the shore beneath him, while the
soft tread and almost hushod voice of tho
pilgrim, ns ho comes to stand beside his dust,
scarce servo to break tho stillness which sur
rounds his tomb. H.
From Harper’s New Monthly.
LAGER SEEK VS. ABSENT SPIRITS.
The officers of one of the Arctic expedi
tions report having seen an Esquimaux child
leave its mother’s breast to smoko a pipe.—-
Ilad ho been a Belgian baby lie would nave
taken a hearty swig of swipe* before he
commenced his fumigation. I often see chil
dren tugging at tho beer-pot tboy are scarce
ly able to handle; and boys of a dozen years
habitually visit the saloons to drink. Ob
Sunday and fete-day nights all ages and
conditions flock to the saloons to hear gay
music and drench themselves with lager. I
have seen of a Sunday night more than a
thousand persons in one saloon, well-dressed
ladies and gentlemen, gossiping, drinking,
and smoking for hours in an atmosphere
thicker than a Jersey fog. Indeed, so uni
versal is this beer-drinking practice that tlioy
seem not to know that any thing else might
serve as a bovefago.
One day in Antwerp I asked if they had
good water thore. A sitting
near me, with lngcr-pot in hand, promptly
answered, “Oh yes, excellent water, all tho
Englishmen that come hero bring such gray,
dirty shirts, out once or twice washing here
brings then as white as milk.” A stevedore
clo<c by. seeing by my countenance that my
question was not fully answered, undertook
to net the matter right by saying, “Oh yes,
wc have first rate water, only that some times
hi winter it gets so hard on top that the ves
nelulSin’t go at all, then cornea tight times
for all us commercial people.” The landlady
(who is also cook and barmaid,) corrected
the ignorant, uncivil persons —“it was not
the river-water, nor the sea water that the
gentleman was inquiring after at nil, but it
i wa§ the well-water that he wished to know
i about,” and proceeded to inform the gentle
man that it was the very nicest water in .the
; known world, aud made the nicest soap
(just by adding a little beef, and cabbage,
and turnips mid potatoes, and a few such lit
tle things) that ever a gentleman partook of.
’ But the gentleman himself corrected and
startled the whole company (as much as so
heavy a company could be startled,) by ask
ing, •• Was it good to drink?” Kach heavy
head swung slowly upon its heavy shoulders,
each heavy eye was aimed directly at the
quicrist’s face and stretched wide open with
stark astonishment. At such a crisis only
the landlord had worth to offer. “That im
portant ahd heaviest individual of them all
—he who seldom deigned to make long
speeches —whose placid nature was, seldom
ruffled—-who deemed it pious to drink and
smoke, and who devoutly followed the path
of duty—he who, saturated like a sponge,
swelled from the topmost bristle to the tips
of his toes with honest lager—he whoso favor
I had assiduously coiirffcd atid whoso resplen
dent face had bpgun to beam benignly o’er
my foreign faults—now turned upon me
looks of pity aud contempt; and, stretching
the doubled chin full half an inch abovo his
massive ciicst, in his sharpest tones demand
ed, “To what ?” then feeling that ho had
full well resented the serious insult to bis
profession and his country, he slowlv turned
upon his broad, flat heels, elevated Ids pon
derous elbow, a connecting spring turned up
bis face, his jaw dropped down, his eye roll
ed up, a short faint gurgle, a long-drawn
sigh, and he glanced serenely through the
bottom of a large glass tumbler. But I nev
er regained the great man’s esteem, nor do
I, to ibis day, know whether the wntdr of
Belgium is fit to drink. 4. ‘■iu..*,’
Notwithstanding their constant guzzling, 1
was ten days among Belgian drinkers before
I saw a man so drunk that he could not walk
erect and treat one ho met—
which proves it, though an unseemly prac
tice, yet a safer ono than drinking whisky
Kince Noah left the ark and the sons of
Noah raised up new cities, each new-formed
nation has found some'new stimulant; hut
no one among the list of findings at onco
so wholesome, cheap, and harmless as Bel-,
gian beer,* and 1 Jook upon its iptrodqction
into the United States as an important refor
matory movement* Temperance, total ab
stinence, W ashingtonian, and other reforms
havg had their day and arc forgotten, and
the current year secs more destruc
tion than any former ono has done. Tjfesc
villainous mixtures that are labeled Brandy,
l‘or, Champagne, etc., that flow into every
street mid alluy of our cities, village
and cross-rtmd of our country, are rspidly
tolling upon our national health,temper, and
reputation. Our ambitious men are changed
by, -fiery l poisons to rcoklcss adventurers,
those of medium virtue to rabid criminals,
and we arc coming to brooked upon as a
nation f desperadoes. One of. the first sal
utations 1 receive from nearly evefy person
with whoml become acquainted is, “You
have a great many murderstmd incendiaries
in Atnerica.” ,-jjl answer that of course we
have, while receiving hundreds per dav 96
the vilest outcasts of ail Uvtrqpe; hut feel
aUthc
and am anxious that the introduction of weak
malt liquors and the increased growth of
light wiues should quench that fire which is
burning out the best young blood of our<
country. The almost universal robust health
that l meet is a powerful advocate in favor
* 0f - *.:% ,# t--% slßr’
of this least of many evils. ~For person, of!
adult* in five are in some way diseased. Os j
course the constant in-door life of females;
the worst of all kitchens, and the infernal
quackery that reigns triumphant tl.oro, have
much to do with that degeneracy; bnt the
effect of our national tipple is not Hkely to
turn owi; sirghr oSoi p%vfirr tr.kt tTfrpts
continues to increase in quautity and deadly
power as it has done for ten years last pat
“ I WEBE A MAN.”
Don’t I wish that I were a man! Woiidn’t
I set the beaver hatted population an exam
ple of brilliaut perfection. Wouldn’t I
make myself generally agreeable among all
the ladies, and talk to ’em as it they bad
souls above bonnets! What a glorious msn
I should make.
I wouldn’t stand on the hotel stepe and
puff clouds of villainous tobacco smoke into
the eyes of all tho-pretty girls that go past,
nor spit on the pavement to spoil their little
shoes and injure their tempera.
I wouldn’t set my huge heels down on the
trains of their silken dresses, to tear ’em
half off, and I think, I'm not quito sure,
but I think —l’d knock down the first brute
who dared complain of the circumferroneo of
their garaenfs.
And when they come into a car or omni
bus, I wouldn't stick my nose into a newspa
per, or look abstractly out of the window, or
get up grumbling. “Always tho way with
women !.” Not a bit of it! I’d spring like
a patent India rubber, and if tbo old batch
olor on tho right hand side, and the spruce
clerk on the left hand side, didn’t compress
themselves into tho least possible space tol
make room for the crinolines, I'd know the
reason why!
And then when I got married (for to what
end was I created, if not to pay the millin
er's bills of some blessed little hit of woman
hood !) wouldn’t I make a model husband.—
I)o you snpposo I would bother her sweet’
life out of her, hy grumbling because a paltry
button had dropped off a shirt” collar, or a
string off a dickey ? Do you think I’d ex
plodo like a campheue lamp every time 1
found a rip in my glove or mako a fool of
myself by stooping to any such littleness.
I wouldn’t consult the almanac every
time she bought anew bonnet, to see just
how many weeks she had worn tbo old oue;
and I wouldn’t snarl like a cross tiger-cat
whenever the coffee happened to be cold of
the heafateak raw, just as if I wanted her to
abase herself in dust and ashes; and burn up
her rosy little face beforo the kitchen fir#
while I sat with my hods on the table read
ing the paper, in the next room. I
use profane language when she asked mo to
buttou up her sweet gaiter boots, or fasten
her gloves, or eves to carry her parcels
down Broadway, on a rainy day—which last
I consider to bo an infallible test of patience
aud meeknes^**”
I would’nt gorge myself with wine, and
• oysters, and segars at a fashionable down
town restaurant, while my wife dined at home
on cold mutton, and then look as black; as
an overcharged thaudercloud, when tho gro
cer’s “little bill” came in. I wouldn't spend
a small fortune in diamond shirt-studs, ex
travagant broadcloth and fancy canes, and
then mutter about “ hard times,” when she
ventured to ask me for half a dollar to hay
check for the baby’s apron?
And I rather think I’d go shopping with
her, too, when she hinted to that effect, in
stead of inventing excuses about Smith,
Brown, or the club—aye, and pay her biHs,
too, without screwing up my mouth like I
had tho cramp in my face. Arid If she look
ed iuto a shop whitlow and admired a thirty
dollar collar, I’d walk straight in and buy it
for berrinstcAd of feigning to be absorbed in
the signs opposite, and “ forgetting to hear”
what she said. #
When I came home at niglit I wouldn’t
make a bear of myself, behind the evenin'*
paper, arid answer savagely, when she timid
ly ask what I was reading, “ women can't
understand politics.” No, indeed ! 1 would
read her all the anecdotes, ptay with the
children, pull the pussy’s ears and tell her
how becoming her new silk was. That’s the
way to keep the women good natnred, take
my word for it, and what prettier sight is
there in all the world than a good humored
woman I Mind, I don't ask the incorrigible
old bachelors;. first, because it isn't any of
their business, and second, because thpy are
not judges of the article. But put the ques
tion to any sensible fellow between the ngc*
of eighteen and twenty-eight, and sea what
bo'll say. *
I’d make n point of always asking my
wife's advice before I went to vote, and do
ing just as she said about it—then I'd he
sure to be always right. And if any bachel
or friend of mine had tho impudence to ask
mo to an oyster supper, without including my
wife in the invitation, do yoq suppose I’d go ?
Astc my mother-in-law about that.
I wouldn’t- go to evoning parties, -and
flirt desperately with other ladies, and talk
about “ my’ poor, dear wife, whoso ill health.
prccJudj|d her enjoy moot of Society,” when
I knew very well she was sitting alone at
homo with tho-cat, and crying her cyfJb olt
over one of* my ragged old coats.*
Good gracious ‘ what a wide field for im
provement there is among tho benighted sons
of Adam. It puts mb completely out of
breath to thiuk of half the reforms I’d make.
Ob! il l were only a man! mu*.
What a beautiful virtno is benevolence!
I t is a precious tie existing jian and
man, as children of one conrinonjjmbor—a tie
whally unrtflcCtod bytliffereiiee singe, station,
kindred, or com,try, uud Over ■ which the
artificial diituictloiiß of vain world tiavo
little power. A
Ma, said a little girl to her mother, “do
the men want to get married as much as tho
women 1”
“ Pshaw ! what are yon talking about 7”
*‘ Why, m, the women who come here
arc always talking Abo# getting married—
the men don’t do so.” ,m, * ‘
Bt
VOHUME I-NUMBER 40.
HO TO SE "
In the first pi**, if you went to be mi*
erable, be fouwh. Think all the -at
yourself and your own things. Don’t can
any body else. Have* no feeling for
but rather, if you sen a smiling face, be jeai
ous Jeßt another si,ouUi enjoy what you have
not. £nvy every in
any respect than yourself; think unkind
ly of them and speak slightingly of ibem.
constantly afraid lest someone should
encroach upon your rights; bo; watchful
ngaittM it, and if any one comes new.
your things, snap at him like a mad dog.
Contend earnestly for everything that to
•yottr own, although it may not he worth e
pin; for your “right#*’ are just aa much
concerned aa if it were a pound of gold.
Never yield a point, he very sand tire, and
take everything that is said to you in playful
ness in the most serious manner.
Warning to tub IntbmpkiTatr.—
Charles Lamb toils bis sad experience, as •
warning to young men, in the flowing lao-
K “1 ho waters have gono ever me. But opt
of the black depths, could I hut he beard, I
would cry put to all those who hive id *
foot in the perilous flood. Couhl lb cy oath,
to whom thelavorof the first wine is deli
cious os the opening scenes of life, or the en
tering upon some newly discovered paradise,
look into my desolation and be madn to-uu
shall feel himsslf going down a precipice
with open eyes And a passire will; to see
his destruction, and have no power to Hop it,
flinLyct foel it all the way emanating from
himself; to see all goodllneai.emptied out of
him, and yet not able to forget a time when
it was otherwise;'’i6 heaf aboui tbh pticHo
spectacle of his own ruin; could ho see my
fevered eye, feverish with the. last night’s
repetition of the foily f could be but i
body of the death out of which 1 cry honrly
with feebler outcry to be delivered; it were
enough to make him dash the sparkling bev
erage to the earth, in all the pride of Its mant
linS
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Lcttbh prom Swf LgVixoooo^—Thift
well known Correspondent of the Nashville
Union, send* the following good one to that
paper v
Jim H-r tells a good yarn about one at
our “ shell bark lawyers. His client Was
up on two email charges, “ frivolous char
ges,” a* shell bark designated them, (fogging
a note of hand aud stealing a horse.) On
their looks, so he prepared an affidavit for
continuance, setting forth the absence in Ala
bama, of a principal witness. He read it in
a whisper to the shaking his
shclHnited
enough to be heard throughout the room.—
“What! torgoa note an steal a boas, an
can’t swar to a lie! D —n rich a squea
mish stcmick es that!. I’m done with all
sieh infernal fools.” And he left the cotisci
-0,,U|.u,‘„..1,'.i,fe1c.
A EiiiirSit-Co>,’ilß'M.-Th n
docs not shine fur a few trees and flowers,
but for the whole world’s joy. The lonely
pine on the mountain top waves Its sombre
bongbs.and cries, “Thou art myjwn.’’
And the little meadow violet lifts its cup
of blue, and whispers with its perfumed
breath. “ Thou art my sun.”
Afid the grain in a thousand fields rustles
in the wind, and makes answer, “Thou art
tny sun.” -
So God sits in heaven, not for a favored
few, but for of life; aud there
is no creature so poor or so low that be may
not look tip with child-like confidence and
say, “ My Father, thou art mine.’’
,r -.i 11 - - - ‘
How to Curb a Cold.— An exchange
gives the following recipe:
An excellent remedy for a cough caused
by a cold is as follows; Take a half gist
of sharp Vinegar, place in it an egg without
being broken, allow it to remain forty-cighl
hours, when it will be found that the shell
has been completely dissolved by the acid ;
then break up the egglnthe vinegar, ‘add •
half pint of honey, which being mixed will
be ready for use. Take a spoonful several
times a day. It it said that itaevetba# felt
ed to produce relief.
“ When a stranger treats mo with want of
respect,” said a pbilosophic poor man, “ I
comfort myself with the reflection that it fe
not myself ho slights, but my old and shab
by coat and hat, which to say the truth have
no particular claim to admiration. So if my
bat and coat choose to fret about it, let (bens,
but it is nothing to me.” :* - •*% |g| |
“ Becarefiul howyou drink, or you will wash
the color from your cheeks,’'-Said a gentteffian
at a fashionable party, as he •banded a glasTof
water to a !ady. • „
” There is no danger of yeittt etrCr taking
water enough to remove the color from your
face,” was the good-natured retort.”
a person who was fit cdrtrt
for tho purpose of .Aito.dftßlWwFiSefefeesa of
ajloctor’s bill, wasfasked by the lawyer
whelheji -thefloctor did not make several
J visits after the patient was out of danger I”
“ No,” replied the witness. “ I considered the
patient in danger as long aa the doctor erifeht
neil his visitH”
■ •■■■■!. .'* iMjgix, . ..
Hysterics. —D.-. Mars says the best curb
for hysterics is to discharge the isCrkenf girl,
in his opinion there is nothing like “ flyißg
around” to keep the ncrVous system Itfeto
becoming unstrung, home wotnen think
they want a physician when thby only Bead
the scrubbing brush.
A gentleman having been askfedjWt hisre
turn from a pArty, if he had #Kfcn anything of
♦raring b> worked dresses,’ Jit