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VOL. I—NO. 6. THE SOUTHERN WITNESS, is rruusHEn kvery Saturday, In Monroe, Ga. By G. A. NUNNAI.LV, Editor. Subscription—Two Dollars a Year, Strictly In Advance. GLENN & DUNLAP, A T TOKNEYS A T LA JY, Monroe, Walton Cos., Ga. Will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to their care. Sa.m'l C. Dcxi.Ap, Monroe, Ga. (1-52) J. X. Glknx, Lawrenceville, Ga. JOHN ARNOLD, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR £ B p<si> '§/%/ j MONROE,- GEORGIA. Will Practice in the Superior Courts in the Counties of Walton, Clarke, Morgan, Newton, Gwinnet and Jackson. Also in the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the District Court of the United States for the Xorthern District of Geprgia. (1-52.)* M. H. THOMA&, M. I> RESIDENT ARTIST, Monroe, s : : : Georgia. TENDERS his services in the Practice of DENTISTRY in all The Most Improved branches of the Science Teeth Extracted Without pain, by tlie Nitrous Oxide Gas. Rayimr graduated in Medicine, and practicccnhe same ten years, and Dentistry live ygars, he claims a judge mont more mature than.a mere novice. He is a citizen of Monroe, and feels re sponsible for all the,work he does. All work done at Wie rates of regular re spectable Dentists, and will take care of his patients during tlieirTfcay with him, free of charge. He refers to those foT whom lie lias work ed, in Walton, Clarke, Newton, Oglethorpe, Jackson,Morgan and Gwinnet. “These are his je-ft els.” ; . rs • 1-ts. CANNON HOUSE, In R. M. Clark's Building, (up stairs,) En trance on Whitehall Street and on Broad .. Atlanta, Georgia. - f BY MRS. M. t. CANNON,., \ Late ofjNrurcaiifT#. G. W. GARRETT. J. W. GARRETT* G. W. GARRETT & BRO., MERCHANTS AND GROCERS, Social Circle, Ga. Thankful for past patronage, would re spectfully solicit a continuance of the same. Short Profits and Quick Sales is their mot to. Clocks, Watches, and Jewelry repaired and guarantees given to work. ST.’CLOUD HOTEL. MONROE, GA. J. N. SMITH & CO., Proprietors. Having taken charge of the above House, and newly furnished it, we are prepared to accommodate the traveling public and reg ular Boarders in GOOD STYLE And upon Accommodating Terms. 1-tl WAYNE, MITCHELL, BECK & CO., Would respectfully inform their old cus tomers, and the public generally, that they are still carrying on the Carriage Making, lllacksmithing and Carpenter Work, in all their branches, at theeir Old Stand, Mon roe, Georgia. 1-ts. JAS. I. SHEPARD, Opposite the Printing Office, MONROE, GEORGIA. DEALER IX Foreign and Domestic Wines and LIQUOB.B, Cigars, Leaf Tobacco, Confectioneries, &c. Has just received a Superior Old Fashioned Corn Whiskey. A faesli supply of Bavari an Bitters, &e., &c. janls-tf. ■JOIN FELKER. MONROE, GEORGIA. DEALER IX E>RY OOOISS C L O T lIING, Boots, Shoes, Hats and Caps, HARDWARE AND CUTLERY, Fancy Articles and Small Wares. I am prepared to sell CHEAP FOR CASH, or will take every kind of produce in exchange, at the highest market prices. The people of MONROE and surround ing country are respectfully invited to call and examine our stock. janls-tf. Wanted.—A first class peg Workman. None but a good one need applv. Wages liberal. (2-ts.) W.T. KIMBRO. S. J. RICHARDSON, RUTLEDGE, GEORGIA Just Opened a Splendid Stock of DRY GOODS FAMILY G roceries, &c., Ate., Which will be sold At Low Prices to Each and All Who may Favor him with a Call! iL Speciality! C O T TON Shipped. Money advanced by Factors. 7-ts * *. A. & ,i. W. L. SMITH, w DEALERS IX. * STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS, Groceries, Provisions, Hardware, IIOLLOW-WAKE, STOVES, Stove Fixtures, Iron and Steel, Carriage and Buggy Materials, Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye-Stuffs, Lamps and Fixtures, Window Glass, Putty, Var nishes, Brushes, Tobacco, Snuff, i&e. Also, Agents for California Bitters, and for Phoenix Manipulated andPatapsco Gu anos, and Baugh’s Raw Bone Phosphate. LAWSON IrtW.SE, RUTLEDGE, Gfts-QIIGIA. Board per day, - - - $1.50 MRS. S. H. LAWSON, Proprietress. E. T. WHITE. 5 J. ii. I.YKES. AlaOtima Street, Atlanta, Georgia. WHITE & LYKES, pfto’pRIETORS. G. 11. Sneed, Clerfc. Baggage carried to ancy%>nt tlie Depot free of charge. JOHNSON MA L E"'* ANT FJC MALE Andrew J. BukiiuSs, A.AI." Principal. Rev. Thos. H. Burkcss, - - Assistant. % Miss Bkttie Tuck, \ - Prim. Dep. Mrs. Dr. Galmjway, - - Ins.in Music. ’*• t This locateand in l'ton county, Ga., in tliiHnidst of a sober, thrifty and enterprising population.. In it is taught whatever is necessary* to ■ pr£ pare for admission into any class liit’ollegfT In addition to*tlie ordinauy mode oTdnstruc tion, the Black Board is used Ibiyducidat ing the syntactical and etymoWaft-al.nor tions of tliert .Tlriguages* as welMig for dei.n onstrating and Geometric prob lems. Fitteeiryears' experience as IrtHtrA tor clearly Wiivinees the Principal of the great utility rims resulting to tile student, who, under the uslnfl plan of instruction, not unfrdqhently t-oAinits whole vojmnes to memory, without being .'fide to fieflufce therefrom a single practical conclusion of lesson ; Hence a saving of time and money. The government is mild, butffccided. Tliff Academic Year is divided fcTo two Sessions of twenty weeks each. „ 'sfirst oneiispn Wednesday, Jan.fi2Hrf dSo thauioim session, and nO MQmcuon made Vkjofflihpaaes of protracted sickness. CR\UGES—£er Session of 20 Weeks. Orthography, Reading, Penmanship, $12.50 Arithmetic, English Grammar, Are., 10.50 Latin, Greek, Higher Mathematics, &c. 22.50 Board can lie had in good families at sls per month, everything included, except lights. Tuition fees due at close of each session. References. —Faculty of Richmond Col lege, Va.; Faculty of Irving College, Tenn.; Faculty of Mercer University, Ga. For further particulars, address ANDREW J. BURRUSS, (1-ts.) Monroe, Walton Cos., Ga. TEN THOUSAND Subscribers wanted to Rough Rice’s Rut ledge Reporter. _ The only Comic Illus trated Paper in the South. It pleases eve rybody— MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN It gives all the Fun,Fact and Philosophy that i&going on the country. There has been any amount of side-splitting, suspen der-bursting, and button-flying; but no one lias been KILLED By tlie terrible excitement it lias created. It gives all.the mvsterie.s and miseries of the principle eWOTrof Georgia, and espec ially those 0 IN RUTLEDGE ’ The REPORTER gives the portraits of all important characters, the proceedings of all public and private meetings held BY THE KU-IvLUX Graballs and Scopholites; and is sent to any part of the habitable globe, and to Washington city FOR ONE DOLLAR a year. George W. Williams,) T. L. Langston. Cnarleston, S. C. S Benj. li. Crane. Williams, Langston & Crane, COM MIS SIO N MEIt 0 H ANTS, wholesale dealers in GROCERIES and PRODUCE, 14 Alabama Street, Atlanta, Georgia. We keep as large stock Bacon, Bulk meat, Flonr, Grain,&., as any house in our city and will sell goods as low. Williams, Birme & Cos., Commission Mer chants, 65 Beaver st, and 20 Exchange place N.Y. Geo. W. Williams & Cos., W holesale Grocers, Commission Merchants, Bankers, Charleston, S^C. MRS. D. B. LANE, RUTLEDGE, • - - GEORGIA DEALER IX LADIES DRESS GOODS, Fancy Goods, Bonnets, Hats, Shoes, Hosie ry, Ribbons, Trimmings, and Notions, Shawls, Cloaks, &c., &c., &c. Respectfully invites the Ladies to and examine her stock. 1-13 DON’T FORGET When You Go to Madison, TO CALL ON MU S TIN, AND GET SOMETHING GOOD TO Eat tfc Drinlu! OYSTERS AND SICll! MONRQJU.GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1870* •< * Blue Sky Somewhere. It was tlie remark of a child, consol ijig himself for the loss of a promised" pleasure op ti ; , rainy afternoon, that there«ras’“blue sky somewhere.” And the saflpliire heavens, flooded with sunshine, on the next day made Iris faith a verity. The leSsoiGls folk you, and for all of us, reader; audjave need it quite as much as the boy wife sat looking out of the window upon a leaden sky and fast-falling raiiyflfcd trying to find comfort in the tliwght that, far above the cloud and stortn, the sun was shin ing in his undimmed splendor. “Into each life s6me rain must fall,” says the poet-teacher; and in the days that come “dark and dreary,” wc are apt to feel, in spite of experience and reason, tflat the brightness has passed from our lives forever. But it is not so. Like travelers we rise, now upon mountajj^ height and now descend in to deeply Shaded valleys; passthrough open savannas, cjpwn upon which the golden sunbcams'tivM; and anon arc buried in delink forests, that seem j stretching the interminable vistas to j the very end of our journey. Wc encounter all aspects of the Heavens; have our mornings, our noondays, our evenings, and our nights with only the” stars for guidance; our wild, contend ing storms, and our sunny, tranquil atmospheres. Has it not been so with you, reader? And yet, when the sun goes hides his face in mant ling eWifcfc*; Joes not you r heart grow faint, and your faith in “blue sky somewhere” become feeble as the rays of an expiring lamp? The very chil dren are out teachers! Between our inner and ow outer worlds there something more than simple analogy; the relation hears the higher one of correspondence, even to minutest things; so that nature-, with all its infinite varieties of aspects and changes, representing interior aspects and changes, becomes our instructor. Our true poets rise into a perception of this, and give us lessons of wisdom that sink deeply into the heart, and become to us as lights in dim places, strength in weariness, and confidence in last results when the mind is trem bling in doubt and fear. Not mere words in rhythmic order are the poet’s when he savs: “Bo still, sail heart! and cease repining: Behind tlie clouds is the sun still shilling; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.” “If I could only believe that the clouds would pass away—that sunny daris would.eome again—l might weep less,” the language of one who sat in the darkness of sorrow and dis appointing?!:, as a friend and consoler offered her the poet's lesson, that -she might take into her heart. “But I can see flo rift in the clouds; no line o& light along the dark horizon; no abate ment of the fast-falling rain.” “We arc sure that tlie rain will cease; that behind the clouds the sun is shining. We have the fullest confi dence in returning sunbeams; and why? Because we know that clouds are merely earthly exhalations; that they do not rise high in the heavens— that they can never reach the sun, whose beams shine ever on with undi minished splendor, and have power to disperse the densest vapors that ever drew their curtains before his his ra diant face. Now the world of mind, like the world of nature, has its sun, as the poet has so beautifully intimat ed. Thought sees by its light, and the heart is refreshed and beautified with flowers and verdure by its warmth. But at times this sun is hid den by clouds, and there are shadows in the mind and rain upon the heart. The days are dark and dreary. Why? Whence are these clouds? Let visible things -become our teachers.” The countenance of the listener grew attentive, and the friend went on: “They go up from the natural earth as clouds go up from the earth of our minds; and even while we sit in sorrow for tlie beams that have faded from our paths, the sun is dissolving these clouds in rain for refreshment and fruitfulness. Our hearts arc watered in the days of norrow, that they may bear good fruit when the sunshine comes again.” “If it ever comes.” The despondent soul could not look beyond the clouds. “Have you heard of Airs. Klford’s trouble?” asked the friend. “No.” There was a quick flash of intersst in the mournful face. “What of her?” “Her husband is dead.” “Oh no!” The lady clasped her hands in sudden surprise and pain at this intelligence. “The news came yesterday. He died on tlitf Pacific coast.” “Captain El ford?” “Yes.” “Oh dear! that is trouble And he has left her poor, without doubt.” “I fear as much.” “Have you seen her?” “Yes, I called this morning.” “How is she?” “Entirely prostrated liy the blowri#' “Poor Margaret!” The tone of sympathy was genuine. “I must go | to her in this I.-must fry to : speak some word of comfort.” >r , “She needs all the support*’her i friends can give. It is her hour of ! darknass, and she i3 sorrowing as one i witlnfM hope. The sun has withdrawn jthimSjfcJphind thick clouds, which are | pouring down heavy rain upon her ; life. Yes, go to her by all means, and ! tell her that, though her sky is dark to-day, and filled with cloud and storm, that the sun of God’s love is still shin ing as brightly as ever, and will, in the good time of Ilim who is all-merciful, send down his beams upon her heart again.” - It was an old and dear Qgjpd who had passed under of and the doubtingwWJiWmjfirulMpWpf already half-forgetting MPr T?IHjUM| lyns pondering over words of coroola tion. . “God is really nearer to us in afflic tion,” she said, ns she sat holding the nerveless had of Airs. Elford, “than at any other time, though He may seem farthest of; for His infinite, divine pity is moved with the tcndcrest compas sion fertile griefs of His children.— Though his may seem hidden from us, it is not the less a smiling face.” A sob and a long tremulous sigh were the only answer. “Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.” Yet no response came. The words of the comforter seemed as if spoken to shut ears. Not so, however. They entered, and like seed when first cast into ground, gave no life-sign of .their presence. But memory held them for tip: time of fructification. t Anti now it happened to the despon dant and grieving one, who had refus ed to he comforted, yet tried to speak in consolation to another heart, that /ight seemed to come around her. She did not see the sun, uor even a rift in clouds with azure in the far distance, lint it was not so dark iu the cham bers of her soul. The pressure on her spirit that seemed at one time as if it would close her life in suffocation, was not so great. She could breathe deep er, and with even a sense of relief and satisfaction. “Aly poor friend!” she said, many times, as she thought of Airs. Elford. And her desire to bring relief to an other heart grew stronger, her own consciousness of suffering diminished. Iu the magnitude of another’s sorrow hers seemed to grow less. Almost daily she visited her afflicted friend, into whose sad face a little light would come on appearance; and though it faded instantly, the sign of pleasure at seeing a welcome counten ance was too palpable for any mistake as to its origin. She had realty been helped and comforted, though she knew it not; and the face of the com sorter was therefore welcome. When next her own friendly visitor called, she was not sitting in idleness, brooding over the irrevocable past; | but really forget ful of the past in pres ent thought, of home duties with which her hands were busy. “How is it with you to-day?" said J the friend, as she took her hand. "But I need scarcely ask, for the cheerful tone of your countenance tells me that light is breaking through the clouds.” been too busy to tjirink dark <ii>ughfs this morning, *the an swer; and even as this^ pi%%aid tlie lipsVwhich had arched witSf feeble smile fell back into a sadder outline. “And if you keep on path duty the weight thabls bearing yoff 1 down will grow less flffdenjjome. But how is Airs. Elford not seen her for some time.” “More cheerful, receiving) | letter, stating that her had the most careful daffog hia illness, and that he iflr to the value of s9*she^«K)? left destitute.* TlJe clouds, showing ar ele<Wslue them. Let us way? a*]ia ojJ when tSd rainji*lay6 c5®T lian<J#fanand fIS-ns the wiorld of Lifting, and of to morrow's sunphine.” * x * ft — *; •• •’ m '■ , • A Noble Revenge. - - s*" Tka coffin was a plain one miserable piir* one. No top, no liniug'of rose-white- sarin • for the pale brow, no smooth riband%£bout the coarse shroud. The hair was 4Rid decently back, no crimplcd cap, be* neath the chain. The sufffirer el poverty smiled in her had found rest and health. “ I want to see my sobbed a poor child, as the city undertaker screwed down the top. You can’t—get out of the way. boy; why don’t take the brat?” ‘•Only let me her one minute,” N?i ied ffie helpless orphan, clutching side box, and as he gazajJ into fn rnUTnujdn il 11 in 1 ncs child j ish bloom Oh 1 it was pit ‘ ifnl to hear him cry “only once, let me see my mother, only once!” : Quickly and brutally the hard hearted monster struck the boy away so that lie reeled with the brow. For a mo raent the boy stood panting with grief and rage, his blue eyes flashed, his lips sprang apart; a fire glittered through his tears, as he raised his puny arm, and with a most unchildish accent screamed “ When I’m a mau, I’ll kill you for that.” There is a coflln and a heap of earth between the mother and the forsaken child, and a monument, stronger than granite built iu his bony heart to the memorysof a heartless deed. • * «• * * * Theeourt house was crowded to suf focation; “Docs any oue appear as this man’s counsel?” asked the Judge. There was a silence when he finished until with his lips tightly pressed to gether. a look of strange intelligence, blended with quite a haughty reserve upon his handsome features, a young man stopped forward with firm tread and kindling eye, to plead for the er ring and friendless. He was a stran ger, but from his first sentence there was silence. The splendor of his genius entranced and convinced. The man who could not find a friend was acquitted. “ Alay God bless you, sir, I cannot.’’ “I want no thanks,” replied the stran ger, with icy coldness. I—l believe you are unknown to me ?” “ Alan. I will refresh your memory. Twenty years ago, you struck a bro ken hearted boy away from his mother's coffin. I was t hat poor miserable boy.” The man turned livid. Practising Deception. Rev. Henry Ware Beecher says: “There is a large class of deceptions which arc pleaded and extenuated, such as telling lies to children and tell ang lies to sick persons. 1 set myself againstthe whole of this miserable tribe of wickedness. A lie told to a child a monstrous thing. I abhor it. Andwret lies are told to the children as thick $8 cloves are stuck in hams when dressed for a public occasion. Your eh,ld is sick, and you bring him a potation and say, • It is good, my dear, it is good, ’ when it is as ’bitter $2 A YEAR. * its gall. You are mt only a liar but a fool. The child learns after a little time, not only that the medic ine is not "god, but that the truth is not to be You not only give the child in odiwSs dose of medicines but you *give him a more odious dose of morals. You inoculate him with the spirit of tire beginning. I think we i ean not be too careful to speak tho jfcfGth, and above all to the childeen. Attache sick I do not delieve it nee- to tell them all the truth. But R doctor is not justified in lying to his • "latients. It is easy for him to sav to the person whose case he has nnder taken: ‘ You must have confidence in ‘me.’ But, if he says anything let him ' say the truth. It may excite the uatient or it.qjay not; but if the excita bUity is a-Wason of not telling the then it is reason of silence—it is ■ nt>t a reason for deception. I think that such persons are oftentimes injur qfl by being deceived. I think there, is a great deal of cruelty practiced* i toward sick people in this way, And ! I think it is a .shame to let sick people i go blindfolded down to death, and drSp f off without a single word, for fear that fhey will be injured if the truth is tbld : them. I think if a person is going to die, lie? "has ri"ht to know it, I do j not, therefore, belifve in telling liCs to folks.” Ax Illustration.—ln a lec i lure room talk on God's ways of apsw , eriug our prayers and dealing witn us, j Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said: *, Once a cat of mine had her kittras. We wepj; and looked at them, and she was disturbed to think we knew where ! they were. Determined to convey them ,to a safe place she came back, took a little kitten in her mouth, and after sev en or eight inouthing3 got the right hold, and away she went. If that kitten thought anything, it thought that to be grabbed that way was hard. When God’s providence takes us in the teeth, we think it is a dragon: but he is taking ! us into safe places: and when we arc laid down carfully, who says that the teeth met or that the skins was broken? God has entrusted man with the raw material. Ug> world, and and gives it to i»<ißto finish. Man originated nothing, but continues and ; developes all nights. SpeeclP is fur nished him and he invents writing.— The ocean, fresh from God's hand puty continents asunder; man makes it qjiy the broadest of highways. The earth is delivered to him rough and often sterile. 11c smooths and renders it pro ductive. He grafts the wild stock. And in the plan of salvation, the suffer ings of believers finish and perfect the ' passion of our Lord. Little faults become great, and even monstrous iu our eyes, in proportion* as the pure light of God increases in « us; just as the sun, in rising, reveals the true dimension of objects which . were dimly and confusedly discerned i during the night. | Christ never designed his church to be a bushel for the hiding of tho light, j but a candlestick from which each light is to send forth its rays. Man is like a watch: If evening and morning he is not wound up with pray and circumspection, he is unprofitable A man can go along w ithout adver tising, and so can a wagon, without greasing, but it goes hard. The Impeachment of Governor Reed, of Florida, has .been defeated in the Legislature of the State, which has, by decisive vote, sustained his administra tion. A word of kindness is seldom spok en in vain. It is a seed which, even when dropped by chance, springs up a flower. The Young Men’s Christian Associa tion of Indianapolis during the las fourmontbs received 1,946 applications for assistance, and expended $ 1,021 for all charitidA' purposes.