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LOW PRICES!
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goi’ds, we mean business when we say
we intend to sell them cheap for cash.
Our stock is now complete, and we would
respect fully ask our friends and the public
generally to call and examine our goods
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times.
DRY GOODS.
Calico.., Bleaching, Shirting and Sheeting,
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BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO.
'I HE MONEYLESS MAN.
Is there no secret place on the face of the
earth,
Where charity dwelleth, where virtue hath
birth ?
Where bosoms i i mercy and kindness will
heave,
And the poor and the wretched shall “ ask
and receive ? ”
Is there no place on earth where a knock
from the poor
Will bring a kind angel to open the door?
Ah, search the wide world whenever you
can,
I’ll' re is no open door for a moneyless man.
Go, look in yon hall, where the chand Tier’s
light
Drives off with its splendor the darkness of
night!
Where ti e rich hanging velvet, in shadowy
fold,
Sweeps gracefully down with its trimming
of gold,
And the mirrors of silver take up and re
new,
I.i Jong-lighted vistas the wildering view—
Go there, in your patches, and find, if you
can,
A welcoming smile for a moneyless man!
Go, look in yon church of the c'oud-reach
ing sp’re,
Which gives back to the sun his same look
of red lire;
Where the arches and columns are gorgeous
within,
And the walls seem as pure as a soul with
out sin;
Go down the long aisles—see the rich and
the great,
In the pomp and the pride of their worldly
estate
Walk down in your patches, and find, if
you can,
B ho opens a pew to a moneyless man !
Go, look, to yon judge in his dark'flowing
gown,
With the scales wherein law weigheth
equity down,
Where he frowns on the weak aud smiles
on the strong,
And punishes right, while he justifies
wrong;
Wh re jurors their lips on the Bible have
laid,
To render a verdict they’ve already made—
Go there, in the court-room, and find, if
you can,
Any law for the cause of a moneyless man!
Go, look in the banks, where Mammon has
told
His hundreds and thousands of silver and
gold;
Where, safe from the hands of the starving
aud poor,
Lies pile upon pile of the glittering ore ;
Walk up to the counter—ah, there you
may stay,
Till your limbs grow old and your hair
turns gray,
And you’ll find at the banks no one of the
clan
With money to lend to a moneyless man !
Then go to your hovel; no raven has fed
The wife wiio has suffered too L ng for her
i read;
Kneel (town by her pallet, and kiss the
death frost.
From the lips of the angel your pov -rtv
lost; o -1 .
'hen turn in your agony upward to Go!,
Ami bliss, while it smites you, the chasten
ing rod;
And you’ll find at the end of your life’s
little span,
There’s a welcome above for a moneyless
man'
PURSE PRIDE.
A toss of the head, or turning up of the
nose ilia's no one any sp rial harm, whi’e
it seems to do those who indulge in such
childlike expressions of emotions, a deal
of good. So who car. sis the proud and
lofty, the spite fid and disdainful, or the
showy and shallow headed signify their
innocent disapprobation in that way? Nice
people never do such tilings. The nicer a
ja rson is the less inclined is he or she to
look down iqwn anybody, even the hum
blest and most ignorant.
The least creature serves some purpose
in the world. It happens occasionally that
people who appear tac most important and
imagine themselves indispensihle to the
chosen few nice and most favored lieinsrs,
are of far less account than those they look
down upon.
A small amount of money, with laig?
debts added to a short allowance of br ins,
in a little while constitutes a most super
cilious creature of one, who as a poor
woman might have been agreeable and
obliging.
Good fortune is so trying to the mind
that few can withstand its ruinous efiecta.
Money spoils so many pleasant people tha !
it is almost a pity that everybody are not
purse poor.
Any one who estimates character inde.
pendent of its surrounding, is sorry for the
feeble efforts of snobbish jieople who set
themselves above real merit merely on ac
count of money.
However the starched skirts of self ap
pointed nice people will be drawn aside
to avoid touching the garments of thoee
not happening to have studied good man
ners and moral excellence from the same
ehau-ehism; and there is no help for it,
until everybody strives as hard for com
mon si use as they do for money. —Elin
i Orlu.
Gkskn Old Agb. - Bohrer says; “I know
not a more beautiful spectacle in the world
than an old man who has gone with honor
through all its storms and ccmqutsta, and
who retains to the last the fresh new of the
feeling that adorned his youth. This is
the true green old age: this makes ih
southern winter of declining years, in which
the sunlight warms,though the hearts have
gone are ever welcome to the sympathy
.unitis, while wisdom guide*. There «this
distinction between respect and veneration:
the latter has always in it sometlung of
love.”
There is no aubjcct existing, within the
nmgv and grasp of tbe human intellect, be
lt the m"st subtle and various, be It high
as the heavens above, or as deep as the
earth Ix-nealli. llure is no secret of crea
tion into which the science of En.-i-inasonty
do«* *M>t enter; in pursuit of wisdom,
knowF -Ire ami vlrtw Ba G. Koh rts.
THE PANIC—ITS CAUSE AND
CURE.
[Our Southwest Georgia Correspondent.]
We live in eventful times, and
the up-heavings of business
“brings strange things to our ears,”
and yet it is but the legitimate
fruit of tlie present system of fi
nance. It demonstrates what
every sensible man must have
seen, that the present system of
finance is a huge imposture,
without any basis on which to rest
and only was current because of
a purely imaginary value. The
“Panic” spreads like a wild de
lirium and suspends business'witk
the “magic ot a wand.” Is it not a
“monstrosity” that fie suspension
(failure is the right word) of Jay-
Cooke should shake to the centre
the entire commerce and business
of this country? Is there a parallel
to it? and is it not time that the
American people should crush at
a blow the bloated system of an
unredeemable paper currency?
All sensible men will answer aflir
matively and no more opportune
time will occur to strangle the
mon ter. The cotton crop is stil]
in the hands of planters, and they
can control the question if they
will. But passing strange, less
unamimity exists among planters
than any other class.
Much alarm was felt at first in
this section of the State, but that
alarm has to a great extent sub
sided, and reasoning people begin
to see the truth as it is. The “pan
ic” will ultimate in good, both in
showing the real value of the pre
sent currency and the rotteness
of such huge impositions as the
house of Jay Cooke & Co., and
others like them. In this mael
stroom all such vast swindlers
ought to go and pass from public
gaze in ignominy and in execra
tion.
What is to be the final result is
difficult to determine. The pre
sent probability is that things,
like a rotten craft, will right itself
■ip, and the cotton crop will pass
to the manufacturers under the
prestige of the present currency
with a full knowledge of its worth
lessness. Among the vast evils en
tailed upon the country by the
results of the war is (his irredeem
able currency, and its legitimate
sequence, placing the cum new of
the country in the hands of a few
“jockeys” in Wall Street. How
far Government officials are com
plicated in these swindles, time
done will disclose. That the Gov
ernment is largely rcponsible can
not be questioned.
The supremely ridiculous idea
of quoting gold as worth so much,
would be amusing, if it were not
so serious. None but a Yankee
would ever have thought of ma
king “Greenbacks” a standard of
value, and qilotinggold at market
value, when the truth is apparent
to every* one that gold has a fixed
value, and “Greenbacks” no value
at all, except as they can be con
verted into gold. “Greenbacks”
to-day is 12 per cent, discount and
not gold 12 per cent premium, and
so the factitious values attached
to every tiling abundently illus
trates. Under “Yankee” rule, bus
iness in nearly all its relations as
well as the currency, is a huge fic
tion. Rail Roads are built on
paper, and in fact without capital,
and immense fortunes realized,
if there was any- real value in pa
per, and the projectors and engi
liters become princes in apparent
wealth, but it is all a fiction, like
Jay Cooke & Co, And this same
spirit enters every’ branch of trade
and many business men expand
and expand, and when the blad
der bursts. nothing but empty air
results. Social life is terribly con
taminated by this same spirit, and
most people of this day, especial
ly in towns and cities, live a life
of fiction. Fine dress, equipage
and d splay, works like a cancer
and mus: d'no remedy be applied'
end in utter ruin to all pure mor
ality, virtue, and unmixed integ
rity. Again of the remedy.
More Anon.
Far Western papers, as a rule
spare neither age nor sex when a
joke is wanted. For instance a
Carson City journal says: “Our
county clerk can boast of a wife
with the biggest ieet and the lon
gest nose of any female in the ter
i tory.”
According to latest definitions,
a bachelor is a man who has lost
the opportunity of making a wo
man miserable.
NORCROSS, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1873.
BEE PASTURAGE.
[From the Southern Cultivator.]
Unless there is an abundance of
honey-producing plants, it is im
possible for the best arranged
apiary to bring its owner any
profit. Bee forage is found, more
or less, in all parts of our coun
try; but while this is true, there
is no doubt but that some neigh
borhoods are much better adap
ted to bee culture than others.
In our Southern country most of
the honey comes from the re
sources of our forests, swamps and
hedges. And for years to come
we will have to look to (he pas
trage growing in ’ these localities
for our yield.
Among the uncultivated trees,
shrubs aftd plants whose blooms
seem to be particularly- rich in
honey, I will name the poplar,
black-gum, bay-tree, persimmon,
sour wood, holly, sparkle-berry,
bntton-bush, sumac, golden rod,
catnip, astors, and many others
that yield no doubt morerer less
honey. The alder blooms in Feb
ruary and yields pollen but no
honey. Most of the above bloom
during the last of Apil, May- and
June in our latitude. The button
bush, which grows in low places
along water-courses, flowers in
July, and yields some honey. It
usually- remains in bloom for
about one week. Sumac comes
in August, and lasts for several
weeks—it is rich in a dark colored
honey. The golden rod and the
asters bloom in September and are
good honey plants. From these
alone in favorable seasons bees
often gather enough fortheir win
ter supplies. Catnip I regard as
one of our best honey plants. It
commences to flower in spring
and continues till frost. It will
thrive and grow- well along fences,
hedges, etc., and might be planted
to advantage in all waste placer
that cannot be cultivated in any
thing else.
The magnolia, varnish tree, and
privet alibi'd gc*Jd i&sstuhige.—
These are at the same time line
ornamental trees. In planting
tre<es along our lawns and in our
yards it is advisable to have an eye
to utility as well as beauty.
I have experimented with
Rocky Mountain bee-plant, migo
nette, borage, sweet alyssum and
many others highly recommended
and I am satisfied that it will nev
er pay in this country to cultivate
plants exclusively for the honey-.
The above plants will not grow in
grass. The ground must be kept
worked, and this labor will cost
more than the honey they yield
will be worth.
Our various fruit trees give the
bees their earliest honey forage
in the spring. In some seasons
bees will work briskly- on straw
bery blooms. The raspberry (par
ticularly’ the red variety,) and the
blackberry are usually- rich in
honey. Mustard, white cloven
buck-wheat, corn and some oth
ers yield honey. White clover,
should be cultivated wherever it
will thrive, and I believe it will
grow in most any land that is not
too poor and sandy. Bees collect
pollen and probably some honey
from corn-tassels—particularly of
the white flint variety. Buck
wheat is a good honey-plant, but
as the secretion of honey in this
plant is so much influenced by
atmospheric conditions, it often
fails. Bees often gather pollen
from the cotton-bloom, but I do
not think they get any honey.
In this lattide our spring honey
harvest is all over by the last of
June, and then we have none of
any account until the tall flowers
come in September. In order to
keep up the working force of our
colonies, it would be very desira
ble to have some forage to fill up
this great vacancy. There is great
room here for the bee-keepers to
observe and to experiment.
Because we see a bee on a flow
er does not prove that it is gath
ering any honey. In seasons of
scanty, bees may be seen work
ing vigorously on certain flowers,
while the amount of stores in the
hive is growing less every day.
It is very difficult to determine
the worth of a plant for honey
when there are only a few of the
plants within range of the bees.—
When there are enough plants to
aflnrd constant employment for
the bees, and approximate esti
mate of the yield may be deter
mined by placing the hive on a
pair of scales, and noticing the
dailv increase or lo>.-. Cf course
due allowance must always be
made forbad days.
The number of stocks of bees
that can be profitably kept in a
neighbo hood must always be
governed by the honey resources
of the locality. Hence it will be
folly for a bee-keeper to think of
multiplying his colonies in a poor
section to the extent of one who
Lves where there is an abundance
of pasture. Tiie nearer the apia
ry is located to the pasture, the
better. It is supposed that the
range of a bee lor forage does not
usually extend over two miles. The
Italians will go much farther than
the blacks. Some say they have
known them to go four miles. But
this is travelling' too far to lay up
much surplus honey. With strong
colonies, and properly constructed
movable comb hives well man
aged, we can generally secure
large yields of honey, if there is
any in the flowers to gather.
J. P. 11. BROWN.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 1873.
The Clayton Courier says : “The
present process of destroying the
caterpillar is playing sad havoc
with the bird family. The birds,
we learn, are dying by the whole
sale from eating the dead worms
poisoned by Paris green.
“This is a great mi. l -fortune, as
we believe more damage will ac
crue in the long rin to the farm
ing interest by thus dest oying
the birds than by letting the
worms eat the cotton.”
Railway Speed. —The London
Engineer states that the highest
rate of speed in the world, is at
tained on the Great Western
Railroad. The average is fifty
miles per hour, and sometimes
seventy. It is said to be impos
sible to attain a speed of one hun
dred miles an hour.
A young gentleman, having
called in his physician,said : ■'■Now
sir, I want no trilling; I wish you
to strike at the cause of my dis
ease.” “It shall be done,’’ replied
the doctor, and, lifting his cane, he
smashed tlie decanter of wine
upon the table.
“Many Christians” <ays Beech
er, are like cheslnu.s—very pleas
ant nuts, but enclosed in yerv
prickly burrs, which need various
dealings of nature, and her grip
of froU, before the kernel is dis
closed.”
——• .
One of-Josh Billings’ maxims ;
Rise early, work hard and Jatt,
live on what you can't sell, give
nothing away, and if you don't die
rich, and go to the devil, you may
sue me for damages.”
A small child being asked by
her Sunday school teacher,“What
did the Israelites do after they
crossed the Red Sea,” answered,
“I don’t know, ma'm but I guess
they- dried themselves.”
A widow said to her daughter:
“When you are of m;> age, it will
be time enough to dream of a hus
band.” “Yes, mama,” replied the
thoughtless girl, “for a second
one.” The mother fainted.
Horace Greeley says: In noth
ing else do sensible, moral, intel
ligent men act so irrationally as
when they persist in the habi
tual use of alchoholic liquors.
Fcr the draining of lands—Drink
whiskey, and spend all your time
in the saloons. This will drain
you of all your lands in a short
time.
The only man who ever had any
reputation for honesty in a Utah
town is now in jail for stealing a
drove of cattle.
Ohl that men should put an
enemy in theii mouths to steal
oway their brains.— -Sfiakc)sp>ai'e.
There are thousands hacking at
the bending branches of evil to
one whois striking at the root.
If you visit a sweet girl, and if
yon are won and she is won, you
shall both be one.
With the d’s;>l< y now rvqui r ed for first
class funerals, jieople are beginning to un- i
derstanil what are the terrors of death.—
Danbury News.
The manutacture of papei' from the she ith
of the hop stalk, after the removal of the I
outer skin,is to 1 e introduced in England on j
an extensive scale.
In America, worth makes tlie man. In
Franre. worth makes the woman.
Donnals n made a ball con ascension from ■.
N w Y - k iflt.
VOL. 1.-N0- 17.
THE GERMAN EXODUS.
[From the Atlanta Constitution, Oct. 16.]
Germany is in trouble, more especially
Prussia. Every year about fifty thousand
strong, healthy and industrious men, to
gether with their families, leave the Yater
land to seek a homestead of their own in
America. Su h a drain of hands, capital
and soldiers begin to be seriously felt, and
the government is trying to check the tide.
Prussia alone has lost five hundred thou
sand strong and industrious men, and the
total amount of German emigration up to
1872 is placed at 2,500,000 by the Bureau
of Statistics at Washington. No wonder
Prince Bismark begins to look»seriotis about
this matter, for the loss of men is already
felt in some of the recruiting districts.
The rigid military system of Germany has
led to grand results, but some of our Ger
man friends prefer reading about them in
America to w.tnessing them as participants
n.t home.
A commission is now investigating the
subject; and in the meanwhile the half
fare tickets for emigrants have been abol
ished on the government lailroads. The
cable recently informed us that all emigra
tion agents had been driven out of the
country.
But all these things will not stop the
great torrent of emigration. Every family
in Germmy has a relative or friend in the
I nited States, with whom friendly rela
tions are kept up, and letters exchang<d.
Large and comforta le steamships sail
every day during the summer season from
G.rman ports, offering excellent accommo
dations at low rates. It is a firm b 'lief of
all classes that a second war with France
is unavoidable. They see that the work on
the new fortifications is conducted with a
vigor which is astomslimg. The prices of
meat, I read, dry goods and 'most oilier
articles of consumption are advancing fas
ter than the wages of labor. All these
tilings aie steadily swe'ling the current
which rolls in from all parts of the empire
to the sea-ports, and from there to a new
and happier land. The government is
naturally perplexed. And well it may be,
for tin re is no remedy that can Slay the
glorious tide. '
THEY SAY SO.
As a rule, whoever habitually uses the
phrase “They sav so,’’ deserves to be mis
trusted. It is quite certain to be the pre
face to something injurious, which Ins
either a slender basis or none at all. No
one uses it who has a gebd or commendable
tiling to relate of another, and it is gener
ally a prelude to some scandalous or im rue
story. If is a hypocritical phrase, for it
pretends to believe the tale which it would
have another D(lime. And it is cowardly—
more cowardly than a lie—though that is
as ■ owardly as anything can well be ; for a
lie is a stab, and it makes no pretence to b
otherwise; but “they say so” is a stab
which feiirns that is not a stab. A down
right lie tells that which is contrary to the
‘ruth, !mt “tli y say so 1 does this and
more; it fals ly alleges the testimony of a
public rumor which it invents in support
of a falsehood to which it gives currency.
It insinuates a slanderous or evil report,
and mppement it with evidence which
itself had fabricated to make its falsehood
bear the color of tiiith. It is safe to act
up n the principle that whenever it is used
to the discredit of another, “they say so”
is half a liar.—Christian Intelligencer.
Mk. Tunis Vax I’ell has now in his pos
session a much-worn document containing
the weight of some of the revolutionary
worthies. It is dated West Point, August
19,11’83.
General Washington weighed 209 lbs.
General Lincoti weighed 224 lbs.
General Knox weighed 280 lbs.
Colonel tl -nry Ja -kson weigh -d 238 lbs.
Lieut. Colonel Huntington weighed 232
lbs.
Lieut. Cn’on- I Cobb weighed 182 lbs.
Lieut. Colonel Hump! rys weighed 221
11ml
Lieut. Colonel Huntington (?) weighed
132 lbs.
Lieut. Colonel Creation weighed 166 lbs
Colonel Swift weighed 219 lbs.
Colom 1 Michael Jackson weighed 252 lbs.
Average weight 214 lbs
It will bes -en by the above list that these
old patriots “held their own” notwithstand
ing the iiard times they were seven years
in getting through.
Bad f >r tits Bak.—The patrons of hus
bandly have adopted one practice, as a
rule of their order, worthy of immitation
by the unn-gencratc, which is, never to go
to law, aud have all disputes settled by ar
bitration. This is emin’-ntly wise, and has
many advantages. First, the case comes
on without delay, and each man telling bis
story a jury of picked neiglibor-i and mu
tual friends decide what is right. Law
suit* arise in most eases in misunderstand
ing*, not in wilfulness. Only think of
dilii. allies being settled in this way, and
th dismay of lawyers and constables, and
sheriffs.
A prof, ssor of physiology in explaining
to a class of female students the theorv ac
cording to which the laxly is renewed every
seven years, said, “Thus, Miss 8., in
seven years, you will, in reality, be no long
er Miss B.” “I realy hope I shan't,” de
murly responded, the young lady, casting
down her eyes.
The Minnesota D-jniocratic Convention ,
iioiuinated the farm? s’ state ticket and i
adopted a platfonn in favor of a “revenue •
tariff.”
Ex-Presid nt Fillmore is in favor of a ?
presidential term of six years and a pension ■
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At Norcross, Georgia,
BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO.
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TERMS:
One copy one year J 2 00
One copy six months 1 00
One copy three months 50
To clubs of five one year 8 50
To clubs of ten one year 15 00
To Ministers of the gospel half price.
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THE ADVANCE
Is designed to promote all the great
interests of our readers especially, and ot
our country and race generally.
To do that we promise to give them each
week the most important news, both
Foreign and Domestic; the Market lte»
ports and Atlanta Prices Current ; the
Legal Sales of Gwinnett and a few other
counties,etc., ami such Literary,Scientific,
Eduoationul, Political, Agricultural and
Religious reading malter as we may from
time to time think most interesting and
p roll'able.
In Politics the ADVANCE will be
independent; but, it will not be partisan,
nor do injustice to any party, oi irtd’-
vidual, knowingly. And, as we hon
estly believe, that the first and chief care
of all Christians should be to defend our
holy religion against the wiles of Satan—
his hosts and their arms, we will discharge
this sacred duty, as best we can, under
the guidance of Him who is able to direct
and keep us in the way of truth.
NVe will also studiously avoid giving
cause ol otlense to any professed Christian
on account of difference of opinion, and
will not, through this medium, attempt to
build up any one blanch of the Church
more than others, nor to injure any one ot
them.
OUR PLATFORM.
We believe that there is a per
sonal God —who created and over
rules all things—that Jesus Christ
is His Son and our Savior, and that
the Holy Ghost is Ilis messenger
and our instructor.
That the Bible wars written by
inspiration of God—is true—and
the only safe foundation for
Christian faith and practice.
That the sou) is immortal—that
there wil! be a resurrection of the
dead and fina l judgment, and that
the punishment of the Unre
deemed will be eternal.
And will insist, that all who
tigrec in these fundamental propo
sitions,and seek salvation through
Christ, constitute his Church, and
should all unite and co-operate
with Him, and each other, in the
sacred work of redemption, as an
affectionate family of brothers
and sisters.
Jambs P. Simmons,
J. U. Vincent.
John Beats.