The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-11-28

did not want" she said, +" TO lese all her nice
clothes and wear feathers like ben ,: It
would be well for II. G. to initiate this infant,
ana content himself with bis role Of anima5 i'm
plume; not, indeed, that his taste il the TOILET
has ever reached much popular commGnda
ton, but because for a hen which, oat Of
eighty-nine eggs, lays sixty bad ones, the
yeriest dunghil cock might we'll refuge to
crow.
SLEDoE HAMMER PREACHING aosl
popular Of English preachers is the celebrated
Dr. Sturgeon celebrated because Of the
Lomey and forcibe way he has Of approach
ing the understanding Of lis congreg stion.
The following passage occurred in one of his
recent discourses
A certain tyrant sent for one Of bis subjects,
and said to him: "What is your employ
mrnt?" He said: ~ am q blacksmith"
" Go home and make me a chain of srch
length" He went home; it occupied him
several months and he had no wages all the
time he was makingit. Then he brought it
to the monarch, and he said d" CD mike it
twice as long" He brought it up agait.., and
the monarch said, Go make it longer 'tiII."
Each time he brought it, there was nothing
but the command to make il longer still. And
when he brought it up at last, the mo:larch
said, " Take it and bind him hand an, foot
with it, and cast him in furnace of fire.
These were The wages for making the chain.
Here is meditation for you tonight, ye SER
wants Of the devil. Your master, the devil is
telling YOU to make a chain Some havQ been
fifty years welding the links Of the chain go
make il longer" Next Sabbath morning you
will open that shop Of yours and put aiolhcr
link ; next Sabbath, you will be DRUNK, and
put another link next Monday, you will do
a dishonest action and SO you Will keep on
making fresh links to this chain andl when
you have lived twenty years more the devil
viii say, More links on still" And then,
al last 1t will be, Take him and bn:l him
hand and foot and cast him into fur.ace Of
fire." There is a subject for your medication.
I do not think ii will be sweet but if God
makes it profitable, i, will do YOU good You
must have strong medicine sometimes, when
the disease is Bad. God apply it u your
hearts.
WHEREABOUTS OF GEORGIA PoLIrIc, JAMS
Writes the Augusta correspondent Of TIE Gin
cinnati Enquirer;
Gov. jenkins is acceptabIy filing tie posi-
tioa to which he was unanimously ELECTED, and
is busy providing ways and means-sio easy
matter-for the care of the poor and Disabled.
Many Of Dur people would starve butfor the
State aid. Mr.. james Johnson is yet in Colum-
bus, but it is thought will soon remove to Sa-
vannah, where he has been offered the collec-
torship Of the port. This gentleman; it will
be remembered, was the provisional governor
of Georgia in the early days Of thas recon
struclon Chat II now seems must bu begun
again de noro Mr. Johnson is lawyer OF
eminent ability and has never been prominent
in politics on account Of 4 disagreement in sen
tment with the vast majority Of the pjople on
national topics, Mr., Joshua Hill, also lead
inc Union man, i quietly attending 10 the
practice Of law, and was in the superior court
now in session here, during the preset week.
MI Ben Hill is now resident at LasGrange,
and likewise deep in the law. A the downfall
of the Confcderacy he was counsel IN great
cotton case here, one involving somesmiiIions
Of dollars and is said to have received for his
able services an honorarium of about $780,,
OOO Alexander Fl. Stephens is at home at
Charlottesville and devoted to law and litera-
ture. Il is understood that he may Eome day
give the world history Of the late great civil
war, and meantime may have issued, ~ d lead
ING Ii,tcratcur Of this State, some biography OF
himself Mr.. Hcrschel V. johnson. Mr.. Ste
phens colleague as United States senator
elect, is At The bar in this city, ans equally
aloof from politics and devoted to Liz profess
sion. Howell Cobb is busy with ls5 clients.
CLAYTON formerly assistant sccretaIg Of the
Confederate States Treasury, is occl39ied as a
banberaDd fnancierin his city, Eztorernor
Brown at the bar at Atlanta; Robt.V Toombs
in foreign parts, and the balance Of tUose once
occupying high places are now pursuing
among us the even tenor Of their ways, re-
building broken fortunes and sharlg in IN
complaining patience the common lot.of US all.
NAPOLEON CoULDN'F SnoKE-GapoIcon,
could scale the Alps, but, alack-asday, he
couldn't smoke:
In Egypt he pretended to smob=a-as he
held out bis possible conversion to IsE4nism-
to please the Egyptians By adopting Iheir Gus
toms. But he never could light his I:ipe him
self. Il was his Mameluke Roustan'3 duty to
set il going. If his master letit 90 c2It again,
charcoal and matches were not ruinausly ex-
pensyc.
Afterwards, when the Persian ambassador
presented him with a very handsome pipe, he
ordered his valet De chambre, Constant 10 fill
and light it. The fire being appGeQ to the
mouth of the bowl, all that remained was to
make the tobacco catch but in life way in
which his majesty set about it, M smoke
would have appeared from that lime tiEl dooms-
day. He simply closed and opened: his lips,
without drawing the least in The worI5.
" What the deuce !" lie exclaimed at last
There is no setting light to IL"
Constant diflidently yentured to4 observe
that the emperor did not proceed etactly in
tie usual way, and showed him re right
mode Of going to work but The inals scholar
still returned to his bad imitation OF Enc act Of
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