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The Calhoun Times. Volume X. THE CALHOUN TIMES. OFFICE OVER / hTStthUR'S. RAILROAD BTREET. Terms of Subscription. „ v«« r : : : $2.00 OM Y e&r * . T nr Six Months : : : t • lzo Kates of Advertising. LMoja 1 year, Jrr TKoo |iO)s si£oo $25.00 l". .. 8.00 12.00 25.00 40.00 [column 10.00 18.00 35.00 45.00 1 •• I 18.00 30.00 50.00 75.00 j « I 30.00 50.00 75.00 140,00 \\\ subscriptions are payable strictly in advance; and at the expiration of the time for which payment is made, unless pre ▼iounly renowcd, the name of the subrcriber will be stricken from our books. For each square of ten lines or less, for the Irst insertion, sl, and for each subsequent insertion, fifty cent*. Ten lines of solid Brerier, or its equivalent In space, make a cash, before or on demand after the first insertion. Advertisements under the head of “ Special Notices,” twenty cents per line for first in hfition, and ten cents each sebsequent inser tion. ... All communications on matters ot public istfrest will meet with prompt attention, and concise letters on general subjects are re spectfully solicited from all parts of the country. | BAILBQAPB. Woten .v Atlantic, meiiT rASssNOBR tbaix—outward. Lesv* Atlanta p> “* Arrive at Oalhoun H-21 a. m. Irriva at Chattanooga a. u. DAT PABHB.NGEU TKAIN —OUTWARD. I,ear* Atlanta -8 15 A M Arriva at Calhoun l-J p » “• Arrive! at Chattanooga 5.50 P. m. ACCOMOD TION TRAIN —OUTWARD. Leav# Atlanta 530 P. n. Arrive at Dalton ; 3.30 p. m. NIGHT PABSKNUKR TRAIN—INWARD. ],„»?• Chattanooga 7.50 P. M. Arrive at Calhoun 11.21 p - “• Arrive at Atlanta 4 00 a. it. [PAS.SRNGBR TRAIN—INWARD. Leave Chattanooea 5.30 A. m. Arrive at Calhoun 044 a. m Arrive at Atlanta 3.00 p. m. ACCOMODATION TRAIN INWARD. l.eave Dalton 200 p M Arrive at Atlanta 11 tX) a. m. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. W. 8. JOHNSON, Attorney At Law, a A LIIO UN, (IE OR Gl A. Hy- Office in Southeast corner of the Ceurt House. Aug 11 1 If C. TAIN. JOS. m’CONNKLL. # fain and McConnell, Attorneys at Law, aal no un, ; geor gia. pf Office in the Court House. Aug 11 1 ts R. M. TAUVEIC Attornoyat Law, CALHOUN , GEORGIA. jHojp Office in the Court House. Aug 11 1 ts w. jTlJantrell, Attorney At Law. Oalhoun, Georgia. WILL l’ractico in tho Cherokee Circuit, in U. S. District Court, Northern Di.s triet of Georgia, (at Atlanta): and in the Su preme Court of the State of Georgia. E. .1. KIKER, Attorney at I*aw y CALHOUN, GEORGIA. (Rtf '* at the Old Stand of Cantrell Kiker. J 117 ILL practice in all the Courts of the M Cherokee Circuit; Supreme Court of Georgia, anil the United States! District Court *t \tlanta, Ga. augl9’7oly Bov. A. Martin, ATTORNEY AT LA W, PA II LON EG A, ... GEO. Lot 10 1870 ts drTw. j. reevesT Sun/eon ct* Physician, CALHOUN, ... GEORGIA, A! AY be found at his office, in the Brick J 1 Store of Boaz, Barrett & Cos., day or night—when not professionally engaged. jnn26’7ltf RUFE WALDO THORNTON. DEVTIST, PI.IIOUN, Gj O.IGIA. THANKFUL for patronage, solicits 1 a coutinuance of the same. Office at Residence. sepls DR. D.C.HUNT, I’liysician and Druggist, CALHOUN, GA. Management! calhodnlotel. E. R. SASSEEN, [Formerly of Atlanta, Ga.~\ m FULLY announces to the travel -1 iftg public, that lie has refurnished"and , tei ‘ l ‘ lc above hotel, aud is now ready to _ !l ‘iuodatc all who may stop with him. .l tes mot^erate 5 and table furnished with iest the market affords, t alhoun, Ga., August 19th, 1870—ts Hr TINSLEY. • watch-maker AND JEWELER, ILHOIN, ; ■ : : GEORGIA. A “J riocks, Watches end Jewelry a«g?9-0 r tf epaired aud granted, pay o/; UNl '’ T & Son, Home, Ga., will always try highest market price for Conn- ROME ADVERTISEMENTS. “Homo Again.” J. C. RAWLJNS, Prop’r. CHOICE - HOTEL BROAD ST., ROME, GA. Passengers tuken to and from the Dep<U Free of Charge. oct6’7otf TE N N ESS EE HOU SE, ROME, GEORGIA, J. A. STANSBURY, Proprietor. fpHE above llote is located wiibin Twenty I Steps of the Railroad Piatlorm Baggage handled free of Charge. o t 8 70tf AI.IIERT G. T’ITnKR. HENRY H. SMITH. PITNER & SMITH, Wholesale and Retail Grocers & Commission Merchants AS'l> DEALERS IN PURE KENTUCKY WHISKIES, &c. No 25, Corner Broad & Howard sts., ROME, - - GEORGIA. 0ct0,1870-ly COLCLOUGH. ’ HARKINS 6 GLOVER, Home, G-n., \LL the attention of dealers to the fact yj that they have just received the largest stoek of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, &c., ever offered in the Cherokee country, and can furnish them at exactly New York prices. Call and be convinced. sept22’7o-ly Bones, Brown & Cos., I J. &S. Bones & Cos., Augusta, Ga. ltoine, Ga. Established 1825. j Established 1869. J. &S. BONES & CO. HOME,:GA. IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Dealers IN HARDWARE, CUTLEftY, QUMS, &C. WILL offer for sale, the coiningjseason : 3ao Tons Swedes Iron, , . 77> 'Tons “Jenlcs” Plow Steel, A LARGE LOT OF Imported Cutlery and Files, Together with a full assortment of GEN ERAL HARDWARE. WB are Agents for It. HOE & CO’S. Pat ent Inserted Tooth Circular Saws; Machine Belting, Orange Rifle Powder, and Rome Iron Manufacturing Co’s. Merchant Bar Iron and Nails. All of above to compete with any House South. nov!7’7o-4m W. T. ARCHER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in lllllflll | Mattresses, Looking-Glasses,&c. All of which lam offering at extremely low p'ices. 82 Whitehall st„ : ATLANTA, GA. novl7’7o-3m j. H. CAVAN, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Fine Wines, Liquors & Cigars, No. 11 Granite Block, Broad Street, - ATLANTA, GA. AGENT FOR THE SALE OF TIIE Celebrated Cincinnati LAGER BEER and ALE sept 29 For the State of Georgia. 3m G. TT. & A. W. FORCE, SIGN OF TIIE BIG IRON BOOT, YV HITE HALL STREET, : ; : ATLANTA, Ga. 1)00TS, Shoes and Trunks, a complete Stock J and new Goods arriving daily! Gents’ Boots and Shoes, of the best makes. Ladies’ Shoes of ail kinds. Bovs, Misses and Children’s Shoes of every grade and make. YVe nr.- prepared to offer inducements to Wholesale Trade. Bept2-,70-ly BETTERTON, FORD & Cos., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BRIDIES, WHISKIES, Wines, Tobaccos, Cigars, &c., No. 209 . MARKET ST., No. 209. CHATTANOOGA, TENN. oct 13,1870-1 y (ESTABLISHED IN 1855.) J.O.MATHEWSON, PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANT AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. sept 22 1870 ly Established in 1850. T. R. RIPLEY, Removed to Peachtree Street, ATLANTA , GEOBGIA. Wholesale Dealer in CROCKERY & GLASSWARES, WILL duplicate any Bills bought in any Market, to the amount of One Hun-* dred Dollars, and upwards, adding Freight. P. S. All Goods guaranteed as represented from ttii* Heu«*. Aug 10 ly CALHOUN, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1871. MISCELLANY. The Express Messenger’s Story. A NARRATIVE OF RAILROAD LIFE. When my mate asked of me last Christmas Eve permission to remain with his family at the eastern end of our route, and not to make the tedious forty hours journey towards the Blue waters of the Pacific, on which I was about to start, I had too much heart to refuse him. lie—Joe Neil was his name — had a young bride and a younger babe, and it was hard to separate them.— True, our orders from the company were that both of us should always jointly make, the trip, fur we we*e carrying large quantities of greenbacks and na tional notes for the payment of the Pa cific Railroad contractors ; and 6f course there was no lack of robbers who were waiting every chance to clean out our trunks, and perhaps clean we poor mes sengers out of existence. Shortly before an express car had been entered on our line, and Bill. Hughes, the messenger, beaten almost to death, and his valuable charge taken j and it was to guard against such future surprises that a mate had been given me ; but Joe pleaded so hard to stay at home, and explained to me so clearly a little plan of his own, whereby I could make the trip in safety alone, that I gave in to his request, and hastened with him to set our little plan in motion. Joe’s brother, Ned, the engineer, was to run his engine for the first one hun dred miles of my journey, and he was to help in the plan. l"ou see Ned was courting a younger sister of Joe’s wife, and so it all being almost in the family, he was willing to do a good deal to give Joe his Christinas at home. First we went to the Railroad Superintendent, and got his permission to take my thro’ express car out of the train and substi tute therefor a grain car. My car was one of those kind with a passage outside, and and >ors in each end besides those at the sides. This made it easier of attack, should robbers get on the train, as the multi tude of doors required a stricter guard against surprise,with an increase of dan ger. The grain car had only two side doors, which lucked from without, but had two litte grated windows for ventilators, one at each end, with wooden shutters on tl(jp inside to close them up tightly.— Ned was to lock me in, and to hand the key to tho. next engineer that caniQ on, with some private instructions. Well, at 7 o’clock on Chtistmas Eve the train was ready to start. Our ex press superintendent was down to see us oft’, and noticed the changed car, but supposing the other to be out of repair said nothing. He watched me place the valuable packages I had received in my safe and iron chest, and then spring ing into the car warned both Joe and myself to be very careful as he had news that mischief was intended before long. Joe was helping me in the ca”, so as to appear before the Superintendent to be going with me. Ned came and locked us in, Jeo first kissing his wife, who was on the platform, goodbye, and pre tending—lucky fellow —that he was so sorry he was going away at Christmas. As soon as the door was shut and lock ed, Joe went through that on the other side, first, thanking me again for be friending him, and then 1 heard him lock the other door with the Ned had sent to him by his fireman. We were off in a few moments, and I had time to look around and arrange my traps to make the trip as comfortable as possible. There was no receiving or handing out of packages to be done till the next morning, when the new engin eer would open my door. Ned would leave us about midnight, and till then when he would look in upon me. I might make myself as happy or as miserable as I chose. In less than an hour after leaving I had slung a hammock I carried with me, and had turned in. The shutter over the forward ventilator—my car was next to the engine—l had closed down and fastened with a wedge, to keep the wind from blowing it open. The rear ventil ator I left open, the little six by six hole guarded by three iron bars, giving me ventilation. Near this I had slung my hammock, and then with my revolver in a box near my hand, and with the bell rope running just over my head, I sure ly was in safety and so I dropped to sleep. How long I slept I could not tell be fore I awakened with a start as some thing passed over my mouth. It seem ed like a mouse or rat, but it left an overwhelming smell, a close suffocating feeling, and before I could open my eyes to see clearly, or could come to my sens es, I was again asleep. Again I awoke, this time completely, but with a fearful weight of oppression over my eyes.— My head ached, and I strove to place my hand upon it. My hand would not obey my wish ; I must be paralyzed ; it seems as if I was yet dreaming •, I had no power over head or limb. Another effort I would make to shake off this deadly feeling, but as I strove to turn in my hammock, or to lift myself, some thing cold touched my forehead with a refreshing coolness, and a gruff voice bids me lie quiet. I trace his arm down towards my head, and see that it is a revolver, which is touching my forehead. In a half asleep, half foolish manner, I glance at the deadly instru ment, and wonder what it cost, and whether it will shoot straight aud into my brain should it be fired. The effects some drug are still working upon me, and as I come more to life, as it were, I recognized the fumes of chloroform- Two other black-visaged men are bus ily sorting out my valuables, and are throwing all dangerous bonds and papers into the corner of the car, while they are placing in bags the currency and notes. The man watching me speaks and says: “No. 1, he is come too." No. 1 comes close and looks at me. he also is black visaged, made so, I now see, by a crape veil or mask. Without speaking, he returns to his work of sorting the money. Having nothing else to do, I look more closely at myself. Small, thin cords, which cut deeply into my flesh, are tied around my wrists aud ankles while others tie me tightly to the hammock. I must, in deed have been far gone in sleep, and deeply drugged, to have allowed this. — The robber evidently mearime no harm, but how can I face the company after this robbery ? How account for the ab scenceofJoe, without bringing about his immediate dismissal ? As for my self, it will be the old story. The pa pers will say I was a willing confeder ate, and submitted to being tied and robbed. I shall be imprisoned, perhaps for life. My poor wife and children will be worse than fatherless. No, 1, who is hard at work yet with his companion, opening the bundles and sorting out their contents, here for the first time speaks. “We’re nearing the hog tunnel. No. 2," he says, in a light lisping voice. Even in my half stupor I know that voice. If it is whom I think it is, his left arm is slightly crooked, the palm of the hand turning nearly outwards. As he moves into the light of the solitary lamp to glance at some bonds, I plainly see the turned hand. “Bill Lane," I call, “won’t you free my hands ? this cord hurts me." With a horrible oath he springs forward : “You’ve sealed your doom." he says : “you must die now," I plead for life, for he has cast aside the crape and I see the devil in his eye. Bill used to be on our run as messenger, but a robbery oc curred of which he was suspected of as sisting in, or at least of allowing himself to be robbed, and was discharged. But I plead in vain. The conspira tors confer among themselves for a few moments, and then my hammock is un hooked and thrown upon the floor and I am rolled up in it, and into an incridiblj small space. The bundle is then tied up tightly, and one of the robbers tries its weight. lam slight of form, and he can easily lift the living bundle up, and throw it oil his shoulder. How can they get me from the car ? How they got in is yet a mystery to me. The doors are locked ou the outside, and could not be broken open from the outside with the train at full speed. As I lie upon the the floor, nearly suffocated and in fear ful pain from my cramped position and the tightness of the ropes, Bill hisses in my ear, “We are going to throw you over the Rocky Run." Even death in the form of being cast a living bundle from tho cars into the the waters of the Run,which we cross in a short time at an immense height, is preferable to the agony I am enduring. I think I prayed with all my soul then, i have prayed before going into battle, when expecting to bo wrecked at sea, and at other times when my life was in danger, but I never prayed before I think, with all my soul Then, there was a chance of escape, now r , there was none. My senses quickened with the agony of the moments, and w’ere won derfully acute, or else I was already in delirium. I thought I heard voices at the forward ventilator. I thought I heard him say, “Watch close and shoot if there is danger." Os course it was fancy, for the train was going at full speed and Ned must be at his post on the engine. Next I heard cautious footsteps on the roof of my car, probably, if anybody, it was a brakesman going over the car to the engine for his lunch can, which was there keeping hot. I lay still, praying a few moments longer, then more foot steps are plainly heaad on the roof.— This time I w T as sure there was tw T o or three persons. All of a sudden the bell rope rattled as if energetically pull ed ; the engine whsstled brakes, brakes, and I felt every brake on the train was being put down to a purpose. The robbers consulted for a moment and then one raid, “Its nothing; they are stopping for a hot journal perhaps.” Bill sprung to me and pressing his re volver hard against my body hissed.— “If they call for you say all right." Be fore I could reply, a rasping noise was heard, followed by the report of a pistol, and the fall of some heavy body across my already overtaxed frame. I fainted. When I came too Ned was chalking my hands, and half a dozen men were rubbing my swolen and chafed limbs, while brandy was being placed on my lips. Ned was almost histerieal when I came too, but the crasiest of all was lit tle Jaek' the wood-passer of the engine, who kept shouting, “I shot him, I shot him,” till someone knocked him down to make him quiet. Then it all came out. The robbers had been concealed on the rear of my car, and had watched me through the grating. On my going to sleep, a slen der stick, with a sponge soaked in chlo- I ro form at one end. had been placed un der my nose, rousing me for a moment but to send me into a deeper sleep.— Then with a fine saw a portion of the end of the car had been removed through which they crept, and then closed it be hind them. Ned after awhile thought he would have a look at me, so crawling over hi§ engine he essayed to open the ventilatcM shutter and peep through.— Finding it fast, he looked through the bell-rope hole, which happened to be a large one. and taking in matters at a glance, he had called little Jack to him, and handing bis revolver had given the command I heard. Then crossing the ear he had obtained the services of the conductor, brakesmen and some williug passengers, and having surrounded as far as they could a fast-moving ear, he had pulled the bell and so signalled the fireman to stop. When Jack saw Bill point his revolver at me he thought he was going to shOot me, so forcing the ventilating shutter open he brought him down with a well.aimed bullet, killing him instantly. We took the other two to a town on our route where justice was done them. They got thirty years free board. As for Joe the axpress folks were vex ed at first, but as I had suffered so much and pleaded so hard for both him aud myself, we kept our old places and still do. Christmas day I spent in bed and also a few days afterwards getting well, but they brought my wife and children to me and we didn’t fare so badly after all. Lafayette’s Remarkable Fac ulty of Remembrance. It was often remarked of General La fayette when he was on his tour through the United States, in 1824. that he pos sessed, in a very extraordinary degree, the faculty of recognizing his old com panions in arms, whom he had not seen for more than fifty years. He could call by name as well the private in the ranks as the highest officers in the line. The following incident is related by a correspondent of the Richmond Whig, to whom it was told in the year 1832, by the late Judge Brooks, of the court of appeals of Virginia, who had been a captain in the war of the revolution : While Lafayette was in Richmond, a guest of Virginia, an obscure individual living in Person county, North Carolina, who was known in the revolution army as Sergeant Hood, who belonged to the company commanded by Captain Brooks, and who, on account of his singular dar ing and uniform good conduct, was a pet of his officers, visited the capital for the purpose of greeting his old com manding general Judge Brooks said that on walking across the capital square one morning, he met an old man who inquired of him if he could direct him to the quarters of Lafayette, adding that he had fought under him when he was a youth, and had come one hundred and fifty miles to see him. Before the judge had time to respond, the stranger said to him, “Is not this Captain Brooks to whom I aui talking ?” On receiving an affirmative answer, he said, “You do not appear to recoo-Bize me. T am Se:g erru c Hood, who belonged to your company during the revolutionary war." The judge told me that he was immediately filled with the most pleasant recollections of the sergeant’s many deeds of valor per formed under his own inspection, that he gave him a cordial grasp, aad went with him to Lafayette’s room. On entering, and before a word was spoken by any one class, the marquis; who was in a remote part of the room, eagerly approached the strange old man, and exclaiming “Sergeant Hood," fell on his neck and wept tears of joy. He recognized this humble private in an in stant, and recounted some of his deeds of daring to the astonished company. That he should have recognized any of his brother officers after a separation of more than half a century, during which time they must have undergone the usual change wrought in one’s appear ance by old age, while his own eyes must have grown dim, was a matter < f no little surprise, but that he should have hailed an humble private in the ranks by name, excited the astonishment of all who were present. The jude re marked that it was one of the most agree able and joyful reunions in which he ever participated. A few days since an aged woman, who lives in the vicinity of Fifth and Diamond streets, in hunting over a box of nick-nacks, which accumulate in ev ery household, chanced to find an old and dirt-begrimed breastpin, which al most a score of years ago, her father had given to her. It had some stones in it, which she thought of no particu lar value. She carried it to a jeweler for repairs. After scrutinizing it, he asked her if she knew its value. “Well." she replied, “there may be about £5 worth of gold in itwhereupon he off ered her £BOO cash down for it. This staggered her. She then learned that the stones, of which there was ten, were each two-carrot diamonds of the finest description ; five of them having a pe culiar bluish tint that gives them a great value. Upon taking the pin into a large Chestnut street establishment, she was offered 52.000 cash for it, and another offer was 8350 for each of the tinted stones. Words cannot describe the joy of this aged lady, whose circumstances were far from comfortable, when she discovered the worth of this ornament, which! for years had beed shuffled about in a box of rubbish. [ Cincinnati Gazette. Little Walter Draper is a very good boy, according to all the rules laid down for good little boys. Last Sunday he asked permission of his mother to go to the pond on the common which his mother refused, on the ground of its be ing the sabbath. Good little boys some times cry a little, and Walter began blubbering. “Why, Walter." cried his mother, “I am astonished ! The idea of you wishing to go to the pond on the Lord’s holy Sabbath to go skating with a lot of bad little boys!" “800 hoo!" blubbers Walter, "I did not want to go skating with ’em Ma. I only wanted to go and see the bad little boys get drowned for going a skating on a Sunday —boo hoo 1” After Cats. —The Adventures of Mr. Oliver in Pursuit of Vengeance. The fact that Mr. Oliver lived in a uniform row of houses in the fourteenth ward, was the reason why he was so un fortunate. One moonlight night last week, the noise made by tho cats on the roof was simply awful. Mr. Oliver lay in bed trjing in vain to get to sleep, grinding his teeth with rage, until, at last, the uproar overhead became unen durable. Mr. Oliver crept out of bed softly, so that his wife would not be awakened. He put on his slippers, seized a boot with each hand, and, clad in the snowy robes of night, he opened the trap door and emerged upon the roof. Thero were thirty or forty eats ont there, holding a kind of a general synod in the cool of the evening, enjoying the bra cing air and singing glees. As Mr. Ol iver approached, the cats moved over to the next roof. Mr. Oliver advanced and flung a boot at them. They then adjourned suddenly to the next resi dence. Mr. Oliver projected another boot, and went over after the first one. In this manner the synod retreated and Mr. Oliver advanced until the last row of twenty houses was reached, when the eats arranged themselves in a line along the parapet, ruffled up their fur, curved their spines and spat furiously at Oliver. That bold warrior gathered up his boots and determined to retreat. He walked over a dozen houses and descended through a trap-disor. He went down stairs to his bed room, and opened the door. There was a man in the room in the act <sf walking up aud down with a baby. Before Oliver had recovered from his amazement, the man flung the baby on the bed, and seizing a revolver began firing rapidly at Mr, Oliver. It then dawned upon Oliver that he had come down the wrong trap door. He proceed ed up stairs again suddenly, the man with the revolver practicing at him in a painful manner. "When Oliver reached the door he shut the trap quickly and stood upon it. The man fired through the boards twice, autf then hooked the door upon the inside. A moment after, Oliver heard him springing a watch man's rattle from the front window. As soon as the neighbors knew that there was a man on the roof, they all flew up the stairs and fastened their trap doors, and 31 rs. Oliver fastened hers, with the firm conviction that some predatory vil lian had entered while she slept and stole her Oliver. When lie tried the doof it was fust, and 31rs. Oliver was screaming so fiercely that he could not maUe himself «U. time th-; street was filled with policemen, all of whom were blazing away at Oliver with their revolvers, while the young men in the houses across the street kept up a steady fire with their pistols, shot-guns and miscellaneous missiles. Oliver, with every advantage of forming an opinion, said that Gettysburg was a mere skirm ish to it. He hid behind the chimney and lay up against the bricks to keep himself warm, while the policemen sta tioned themselves all around the square' to capture him when he would slide down one of the water spouts. . But Ol iver did not slide. He sat out on the roof all night, with the bitter air circu lating through his too trifling garments, listening to the yowling cats and the oc casional shouts from the picket line be low, and thinking of the old Jews who used to pray I'rom their housetops, and wondering if 3lusselmen were ever shot at or bothered with cats aud policemen when they practiced their evening de votions on their roofs. And then he wandered how it would do to take off his night-shirt and wave it over the edge as a flag of truce ! He concluded not to, because of the danger of a bullet from some misguided policemen not familiar with tire rules of war. When daylight came, the neighbors rallied iu a crowd, armed with all kinds of weap ons from howitzers down, aud mounted to the roof. Oliver was taken down and put to bed, and lie now has more influenza for a man of his size than any other man of the Fourteenth Ward. — He says he is going to move as soon as he gets well—he is going to move iu a house that is next door to nobody, a house that stands in the middle of a prairie of some kiud, and he intends to stencil his name in white on the trap door. — Rhiladr/j.h ifi Dispatch. Neglect of God’s oraele3. Dr. Deems says it is a sin to neglect any part of God s oracles. If the Bible be the word of God, if it contains the ••mind of the spirit,” then to neglect any portion manifests a disrespect for the authority of God, which must seriously weaken any mans moral constitution. In the instructions which a subject receives from a king the royal authority is as much in every part as it is iu any part. To select portions for study aud obedience is to be disobedient, ardt is the settingup of cur individual or pri vate judgement against the wisdom and the will of the infiuite Heavenly Father. It furthermore argues a want of love for truth. This love for truth it is iu dispensible to cultivate. It is really more important than a nervous careful ness to be exact in all our statements and accurate in the use of words. Firmness. —“ Bub, is your sht rat home V’ “Yes, but she won’t see you to nUht." “Why?" “Cause she said she was going to have one good mess of oniomi, if she never got another beau.” Memory is the only paradise we are sure of always preserving. Even our first parents could net be driven cut of Nnmlier 25. A Romance of the East* • • —- line a Beautiful White Girl Ucame the Slave of i ico Blnelc H (anen , anti the Wife of Count Bcnaletti. Muhlbach, in her letters from Kgypt, tells a very romantic story about the wife of Count Benedatti, the French* Minister of Plenipotentiary at the Prus sian court before the outbreak of tho present war. Avery rich Greek merchant, resident in Alexandria, bad two black wives, whom ho loved dearly, and for whoso service he provided a* large retinue of beautiful girls. One of his wives, ono day. chanced to see a charming white girl, and was so pleased with her that she coaxed berhusband into buying her. Ihe beautiful slave became a confi dential servant and companion to her~ negro mistresses, add conducted herself toward them in such a sagacious manner that she became indispensable to them. She sang to them, and gossiped and frolicked so gracefully, that banished completely, woo their af fection, and through them also, the af fection of her master, the venerable Greek merchant. Put, unfortunately, the black wives suddenly fell sick one day, and before nightfall they were dead. Their dis ease w’ks known to nobody, and they were hastily buried. The beautiful young slave, who had not left their side tor a moment during the short, hours of their illness, seemed inconsolable. She did her best, however, to assuage the grief of the ancient merchant, and in this w ay so endeared herself to hint that he adopted her as his child and heir, since he was just a little too old to marry her. In course of time, the venerable sage rejoined his swarthy wives in the other world, and the fortunate nymph came into possession of his millions.— At this stage of her existence*Count Benedctti, was then only a penniless attache to the French consulate in Al exandria, offered her his hand and heart, and having married her, with the aid of her wealth cut for himself a road to fame. In this way, she who was once a slave to slaves, became a star in the cir cles of’ the French world of fashion. The Protestant Cow. Paddy Murphy and his wife Bridget, after many years of hard labor in ditch ing and washing, had accumulated a sufficiency to purchase a cow, (of course they had pigs.) which they did at the first opportunity. As it was bought of a Protestant neHib< r, Pat stepped on War nay name at me nouse of the priest, to procure a bottle of holy water with which to exercise the false faith out of her. “Isn’t she a foine creature?’ asked Pat of the admiring Bridget. “Just hold her till I fix the shed.” To save the precious fluid from harm, he took it into the house and set it up in a cupboard until he had “fixed” things. Then lie returned and brought the bottle back, and while Bridget was holding the rope, proceeded to pour it upon her back. But poor Pat had made a slight mis take. Standing within the same closet was a bottle of aquafortist, that had been procured for a far different purpose, and, as it dropped upon the back of the poor cow, and the hair began to smoke and the flesh to burn, she exhibited a decided appearance of restlessness. “Pour on more Paddy,” shouted Bridget, as she tugged stoutly at the rope “I’ll give her enough now,” quoth Pat, and lie emptied the bottle. Up went the heels of the cow', down went her head, over went Bridget and half a dozen of the “childers,” and away dashed the infuriated bovine down the street, to the terror of all mothers, and the delight of the dogs. Poor Pat stood for a moment breath less with astonishment, and then, clap ping his hands upon his hips, looked sorrowfully after the retreating cow, and exclaimed: “Be jabbers, Bridget, but isn’t the Protestant sthroug in her—the baste?” Talleyrand’s Death Bed. For nearly half a century, this veter an diplomat acted a prominent part in the affairs of Europe. As the prime minister or embassador of the directory, the consulate, the empire, and the mon archy of Louis Phillippie, he negotiated the important treaties which determined the boundaries of empires and the fate of kingdoms, aod formed plans which made Napoleon an Emperor, and the Emperor of an exile. Such a man’s views of an eventful life of fourscore years, furnishes instructive lessons to men who are wasting the energies of be ing on political ambition or worldly ag grandizement. Just before his death a paper was found on his table, on which he had w ritten by the light of a lamp, such lines as these: -Behold eighty-tliree years passed away. What cares! What agitation! What anxieties ! What ill-will! What sad complications ! And all without re sults. except great fatigue of mind and body, and a profound sentiment of dis couragement with regard to the future, and disgust with regard to the past!" Contrast with this the exclamation of -Paul the Aged," as he was about clos ing his earthly career: ‘*l have fought a good fight; I have kept the faith ; and henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day.” A death bed is the triumph chariot of the useful Christian, however hum ble ; it is the executioner’s cart of the worldly unbeliever, however exalted. — »» Js@P*Subscribe for the Calhoun Timea.