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LOCAL.
ffgr- At the request of the author
of “ The Old Men of Merriwather, 1 ’
we announce to our readers that ho
wore of those sketches will be pub
lished, in Tile Georgia Weekly,
jj@“ Our regards are publicly ex
pressed to Col. UKxiiY Mangham for
his Welcome present of a fine mess of
fresh and savory fish. - May he never
be u hooked in.” - -
g@“ All ye who do love good smo*
king go-call ye upon Mr. It. D. Adair.
His are cigars worth all kinds of puf
fing—so 'tis said in this office and ev
erywhere else.
Our press of job work has
compelled us to apologize to our pat
rons in that line, for apparent delay
in filling order.s We have now en
gaged additional force, and are pre
pared to execute all orders with dis
patch. Wo take this occasion to
thank our patrons.
Thieves!
Our domicile was feloniously entered
on Sunday night last, and robbed of
about SSO worth of apparel, apper
taining principally to our chick-a
biddies and better-half. Our editorial
boots weae “toted.”' May the rascal
that stole them go barefooted over a
briar patch for sixteen thousand
years!
MERRIWETHER VOLUNTEERS.
Twice during last week we had the
pleasure to see the Merriwether Vol
unteers on parade—once under the
command of Col. C. W. llowrad, and
once under that of Capt. W. Ector—
botli candidates for the office of Major
General of the 9th Division.
T he appearance and drilling of the
Volunteers were excellent, and spoke
well indeed for the material of the
xorp* and the energy of its officers.
We understand that the ladies of
Greenville are about to present a su
perb banner to the Company, and at
the proper time will take great pleas
ure in giving the names of the fair
and patriotic donors to the public.
We refer, in this connection, to the
special notice of the Company in this
issue—by which it will be seen that
the Merriwether Volunteers, - armed
and equipped, will parade on Tuesday
next, Sale Day.
Let every man in the county be
present, for the parade has an impor
tant object for immediate considera
tion.
Guns.—The invention of guns is
indisputably German, and was pro
duced in this manner:
One Barthoe Swartis, a friar, in ma
king chemical experiments, mixed salt
petre and other ingredients, and
set them upon a fire in a crucible; but
a spark getting into it, the pot immedi
ately broke with great noise and vio
lence.; which event surprised him at
first, but he repeated his experiment,
and finding the effect constant, set
himself to work to improve it; for
which purpose he caused an iron pipe
to be made with a small hole to ignite
at, and putting in some of his ingredi
ents, together with some small stones,
set fire to it, and found it answered
his expectations in penetrating every
thing before it. This happened about
the year 133-3, and was soon improved
to the making of great ordinance, &c.
llcw to" Make Money.—Let the
the business of everybody else alone,
and attend to your own; don’t buy
what you don’t want; use every hour
to advantage, and study to make your
leisure hour useful; think twice be
fore you throw away a shilling, re
member you will have .another to make
for it ; find recreation in looking over
your business ; buy low, sell fair, and
■ take care of the profits; look over
your books regularly, and if you find
an error trace it out; should a stroke
of misfortune come upon you in trade,
retrench, work harder, but never fly
track ; control difficulties with
unflinching perseverance, and they
will disappear at last; though you
should fail in the .struggle you will be
honored; but shrink from the task,
and you will be despised.
Set a pitcher of water in a room,
and in a few hours it will have ab
sorbed nearly all the respired and per
spired gases in the room, the air of
which will have become purer, but the
water utterly filthy. The colder the
water is, the greater its capacity to
contain these gases. At ordinarp
temperatures-, a -pint of- carbonic acid
gas and several pints of ammonia,
This capacity is nearly doubled by re
ducing the water to the temperature
of that of ice, Ilencp kept in
the room awhile is always unf}t for
For the same ppaßon. the water in a
pump-stock should all be pumped out
in the morning before any is used.
Impur? water is more injurious tq the
health than impure air,
A drayman in St. Louis has become
totally blind in consequence of over
exertion and lifting. _
The Confederate Loan.
Secretary Memminger has publish
ed in the Montgomery Advertiser a
circular in which the rare opportunity
is offered of investing money in the
credit of the Confederate States, to
the amount of five million dollars, at
the present remunerative legal rate,
for the period of five or ten yeurs, the
interest payable semi-annually.
The stocks are made to ramge from
a thousand to fifty dollars, so as to
come within the reach of every man’s
purse, and thus give all alike the
chance to share the benefits and bur
thens of the Government. The secu
rities are the safest on earth, being
nothing less than the corporate faith
of the Cotifederate States and the ma
terial wealth of the cotton bale, which
must ever be a necessity to the rest
of the world, and an unfailing source
of revenue to these States.
Every wise farmer and capitalist
will at once see the immense advan
tage of placing money in the vaults of
the Cotton Confederacy. This bank
will never breuk or suspend. The
loan is a matter in which patriotism
and pocket are most happily blended,
and we commend it to the earliest at
tention of our people.
Complimentary View of the
South. —The New York Times draws
a parallel between the people ruled by
Lincoln and those under the govern
ment of Davis. The latter it charac
terizes as follows i
The remorseless census, to begin
with, tells us that more than two of
the four millions over whom Jeff. Da
vis rules are negroes, who are denied
even the first lights of wen, to say no
thing of the immunities of gentlemen.
Os the remaining white fraction, the
travelled world is all too familiar with
the sneaking phiz and shuffling shanks
of the Cat olina clay-eater, the death's
head e.nd bow-legs of the Georgia
corn-cracker, the brutish look of the
Florida minorcan, and the piratical
visage of the Gulf Ruffians, who arc
now the ruling class there, ever to
write them down as genteel above all
who dwell in America. Neither will
the towering gentility of the few
thousands who constitute the rampant
plantbcracv, be conceded by mankind
generally; while the shopkeeper man
down there lias much the characteris
tics of that style the world over. And
still less will it be conceded that the
negro overseers, negro traders, negro
auctioneers, or the other white odds
and ends of a negro community, are
entitled to rank foremost of the gen
tlemen of the world.— Degustibus,frc.
They who talk of re-eonstructing
the Union by biiriging back the sece
ded States, know nothing of the sen
timents and temper of the people
therein. They feel that they have
liberated themselves from a despotism
worse than absolute. They feel that
they can conduct their Government on
more economical principles, with fewer
burdens and greater blessings than
those of any other Government in the
world. They feel that they are ho
mogeneous in sentiment and in institu
tions, and that, their Constitution is
but carrying out the spirit of the Con
stitution of the United States, as it
catne from the bands of its founders,
instead of being monst-ously perver
ted to suit the consolidating ideas of
Lincoln, who cannot see the difference
between a county and a State of equal
population and territory, and who, re
pudiating the decisions of the Su
preme Court, refers all constitutional
controversies to t'-e arbitrament of a
numercial majority. Those who be
lieve that the people of the Confede
rate States are now longing for the
Black Republican domination, had
better travel in those States arid
learn tlieir-dsrror. —Nasiville Union.
Hawks. —A great observer of na
ture, and a clever sportsmany told me
that hawks have their regular beat,
and frequent daily the same line of
country, soaring irlong for miles and
miles in quest of’prey. So strongly
impressed was he with this idea, that
he always marked the time and place
when he saw a hawk on the hunt, and
sure enough the next day would find
my friend at the spot, waiting in am
bush, gun in hand, and consulting his
watch, as confidently as if he were ex
pecting a friend by the most punctual
of railways. He assured me that he
always found the hawk true to his time
by half an hour or so, and seldom va
rying his line of flight more than a
hundred yards.— ‘‘ Buckland's Curi
osities of Natural History.”
Curious SupfcHSTrrroN.—Those
who are familiar with cottage life in
the rural districts, will often have no
ticed a kingfisher suspended by the
point of the beak from the beams of
the ceiling, and if they have asked the
object of the custom, will learn that
the bird always turns his breast to
wards the quarter from which the wind
is blowing; Some writers, in mention
ing this custom, have said Ahat the
bird is so suspended as to point with
its beak towards the wind ; but in ev
ery case where I have seen this curious
wind-vane, it has been hung by the
very extremity of the beak, so as to
rotate freely in every direction. The
bird is not stuffed, but various species
are placed in its interior, after the vis
cera have been removed, and the body
is thon dried by exposure to the sun.
Never take morning bitters. Morn
ing sweets, from the lips of a pretty
little -wife jest before leaving the
bouse, are eaooh better.
TH E' G E t Y
Washington Affairs.
Washington, March 22.—Among
the confirmations to-day by the Sen
ate were Tboinas Corwin, of Ohio, as
Minister to Mexico.
The nominations of Joshua R. Gol
dings as Consul General to the Brit
ish Provinces, and Mr. Dunnell, of
Maine, as Consul to Vera Cruz, Mex
ico, were made to the Senate.—
Among some fifty* confirmations and
nominations sent in there are only two
from the border States.
The rumors of the non-evacuation
of Fort Sumter it is said have been put
forth for political effect. It is posi
tively certain that that Fort will be
abandoned speedily. It is equally
certain that Fort Pickens will not be
re inforced. All the signs are favor
able to a peaceful solution of the
present national difficulties.
United States Congress.
Washington, March 22.—1n the
Senate to day Mr. Douglas' resolution
was up for consideration.
Mr. Bayard concluded his spkech,
in the course of which he favored the
recognition of the independence and'
sovereignty of the Confederate States,
and also urged* that a treaty should
be immediately made with them.
Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, opposed
the adoption of Mr. Douglas’s resolu
tion. lie doubted that the War De
partment could answer the call, and
if it could he thought it would not be
judicious at this time to do so. He
said it was the fixed purpose of the
Administration to maintain the au
thority of the United States, (and not
the authority of this or that section,)
by peaceful means, if peaceful means
will suffice. He admonished Senators,
if another resolution be thrust upon
us, that we shall take especial care
that the future historian will not be
compelled to record, that the friends
of the Union were the semblance of
the Cowboys of the Revolution.
The Senate went into Executive
session.
Exciting Times in Texas.
New Orleans, March 22. News
has been received here announcing
that the Texas Convention had pass
ed an ordinance declaring that the
Gubernatorial chair now filled by
Gen. Houston is vacant, and also that
of the Secretary of State on account
of his refusal to appear before the
Convention and take the'oath of of
fice. Mr. Clark (the Lieut. Gover
nor) was to assume the Governor’s
functions at once, and the Secretary
of State was calletf onto handover
the seal offhis office and all his official
receipts.
The Legislature met on the Bth
instant. • - ,-V
It is not khown what course Gov.
Houston will pursue.
Another Federal Resignation.
Washington, March 22. — Alfred
M. Barbour, the Superintendent of
Harper’s Ferry Armory, sent in his
resignation to the War Department to
day.
Capture of a United States Vessel.
Mobile, March 21.—The sloop Is
abella, Capt. Jones, laden with pro
visions for the United States fleet oft’
Pensacola, was seized last night.
Trial of the Georgia Gun.—
We hail the pleasure yesterday morn
ing of witnessing the trial or the 24
pound howitzer, justcompleted by Mr.
A. N. Miller. The tests to which it
was submitted, were a double charge
of powder atid a solid shot. At the
first fire the shot penetrated a solid
bank of mud. 1G feet in thickness,
and passed some 300 yards the other
side. At the? second fire, the mud was
protected by a plank measuring in the
aggregate 12 inches in thickness, the
shot passed through the whole of
tbetp,.and was stopped by a brace.—
Thesfe.tests were entirely satisfactory,
■ and the gun will be received by the
government. It is quite a triumph
for Mr. Miller, that his first effort
should be such a decided success. We
learn that he will proceed at once to
the manufacture of pieces of larger
calibre,, and he is erecting anew fur
nace for the special purpose. The
iron used is from Uome, Georgia, and
is pronounced more tenacious of fibre
than that obtained from any part of
the world.
In passing through Mr. Miller’s
shop, we observed a large quantity of
shot and shell of every size, from a
six pounder to a 10 inch Columbiijd,-
made for the State of South Carolina.
—Savannah Republican.
The Crow Witnesses.—Luther
tells a story of a certain German,
who, in bis travels, fell among thieves ;
and they being about to cut Iris throat,
the poor man espied a flight of crows,
and cried out, “Oh, crows! I take
you for my witnesses and revengers
of my death. ’ About two or three
days after, these thieves, drinking tO‘
gether in an inn, a company of crows
came and alighted upon the top of
the house. At this the thieves began
to laugh; and said one of them :
“Look I yonder are they who must !
avenge his death whom we lately 1
slew.” The tapster, overhearing this, i
declared it to the magistrate, who
caused them to be apprehended; and,
in c'nsequence of the contradictory
statements and evasive answers, urged
them *o far that they confessed the
truth, and received their deserved
punishment.
The Chartered United grafts Vessels.
Washington, Mami 22.—-The four
chattered vessels iha* recently clear
ed from New York with sealed
orders, therefore nothka 6 but specula-j
tiott in regard to then destination.—
The vessels took no troops but abun
dant army supplies. ,
Markets. ...... 4
IMarch. f 22.—Sales of cot
ton to-day’B,soobales. Middlings at
.11 cejrta. Sales of the week
10,790 bales. Receipts of the week
6,405 bales, against 10,000 bales.—
Decrease at this port 235,290 bales.
Exports of the week 22,830 bales.—
Stock 03,0d0 bales. Freights on cot
ton to Liverpool $d —to Havre lc.—
Sterling Exchange 106@10G§. Ex
change on New York ± per cent,
pren ium.
.New Orleans, March 22.—Sales
of cotton to-day 9,000 bales. Mid
dlings at 12<a;12J cents. Sales of the
week 59,090 bales. Receipts 27,500
bales, against 57,500 bales. Exports
of the week 102,000 bales. Total
exports 1,571,500 halos. Decrease at
this port 292,000 bales. All ports
715,000 bales. Stock 244,600 bales.
■Freightron cotton {©.Liverpool 7-16d.
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SPECIAL NOTICES. |
CASH, in all cases, will bp required for Job
Work, Transient Advertisements, and Spe
cial Notices.
WANTED!
AN ,Anprenlice to '*ie Printing business. In
quire at this office.
f ATTENTION!
Merriwether Volunteers!
YOU are hereby ordered to appear on
Saturday next, at 10 o’clock, tor drill.
Th r re wilt also be a special Parade
•n Tuesday next, pril 2d. Everys
member of the company id expected to
/be present, armed and equipped.
By order, #
-tuOtfxs A REEVE*, O. S.
GreenvMe, March 26 th } 1861.
FIVE JDOLLARS REWARD! I
TITII!■ REA3 my dwelling was feloniously>
Tt entered.on Sunday night, the 24th inst.,
and robbed of sundry articles of apparel, the
above reward will be given to any one who will ;
point out And convict tbe thief. The stolen ar
ticles were principally children's c'othing.
WM. H. I ECK.
Mr. Editor,
Please announced the name of CAPT. W.
ECTOfc, of Merriwettr r CouDty, as a candidate
for Major General of the 9tb Division, G. M.,
Election 3d'April next. Counties composing,
the Division are Merriwether, Troup, Heard,
Coweta, Campbell, and Carroll.
IV'OTICE.— The Friends of JOHN L.
-LN STRUZIE H propose him as a suitable,
candidate for Captain of Militia, 669tb Dlstiict
G. * J4(l i** 3* of April.
""H are authorised to announce
Col C. W. HOWARD as a candi
date fur Major General for tl e 9th Division, G.
M. Election on the 3d of Apr 1, I SGI.
NOTICE.
Executors, Administrators and Guardians are'
required by Iftw to give an Hccount of their
“ actings and •doings’’ to the Ordinary; once in?
dach and ti'try year.
As there afe several representatives of estate* *
in this County who have wholly neglected their,
duty n this particular, and as the*Ordinary isjl
justly held responsible fur such neglect, he takes!
this method of informing them that a rule will
be issued against ever}- one who fails hereafter
to comply with this provision of the law.
Returns must be made by the first Monday in;
July, unless, by order of Court, a longer lime
i* given, juid’no such order can be granted ex
cept f«ergo«sd *»nd sufficient reasons. §
F. KENDALL, Ordinary Jf. C.
N. 15. —It is no jrttrt of tbe Ordinary's business
to make out returns, ami as for keeping accounts,
the fees accrue in such small amounts that it is
alino-t.a waste of paper to say nothing more.
I’. S.—Respects of the Clerk of the Superior
Court totbe lath r part of N, B.—Sheriff ditto.
2-1 m
* NOTICE.
As mapy of the furraer patrons of the Green
ville Masonic Female. College have heretofore
complained of the difficulty of finding board for
their children, ibe Pr< sident of the College res
pectfully gives notice that he hns rented the
large and commodious building known as
Campbell's Hotel, and is fully prepared to board
pupil* at as low a rate as can be obtained any*|
wbefe.
All entrusted to his care will be faithfully at-|
find all the comforts and advan-f
*tßges'of a home. WM. IfESiRY PfSfigJC.
Special Orders No. 3.
Head Quarters, G. if., )
Miilt.lgeville, J*n. 28th. f
1 A vavafigy h«s occurred in the Command
ofAhe 9th Division. G. M., consisting of the '
esunties of Merriwether, Troup, Heard, Cow-j
' eta, Carnpliell and Carroll by the death of M»j. S
Gen. Thos. C. I'.vans commanding said Divi-i
sion.
2. In conformity iflfii (hr \ct of the T,rgis-1
laturc, to provide fur the election of Gem-rail
Officers of this State, the Colonel* of Keg linen is, |
and Offici rs commanding BaUa'kuis iu I he conn -J
ties where there are no Re.-imntt* Wiilrfn sijdl
Division, will give twenty days notice, by ad-1
vertisee ent in each Captain's District, and atl
the pl-ice of holding Company Musters w ithin!
their respective commands, that an election willl
he held on the third day of April n'X', at the!
place or places established by law for holding!
-lections of members of the General Assemhlv.l
under I he superintendence of one or more JudgesS
of the JtiferiorCourts. or Justice of the Pence 1
togedtofkwtti’ t *° con * rti?su,n *< { military Offi-'y
cers, or Two freeholders of the county in wlftchl
the election is held.
3. The e uperiutendendents of the elections
will make out a return of the votes received!
(and in counties wheie there are several places!
of holding the election, will count out and con-1
soli'late the votes ) and forward the same tothel
Governor agr-eahly to the laws regulating the!
returns of the member* of the General Aasem-9
Vy.
Bv order of the Cammnnder-in Chief:
HENRY C. WAYNE.' * I
2-ly Adjutant, General.' \
Country Fm^ice.
C \SU p*£fcr Cbjckrts, Turkeys, Dock*,/
Butter and alths office of this paper.
gupista fliupttj,,
ISSUED EVERY EVENING, IN
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
C euUiiu the latest N«wi, and from itt great cir
culation, is an excellent medium for advertised.
Daily, per annum, $* 00
“ “ month, so
Weekly, par annum
B. J 9. ATKINSON,
♦ • »" <Editor anjl proprietor.
DAVID ELLIS,
Dealer iu Staple and Fancy
CROCKERY k HARDWARE,
Southern', comer of the Square,
GREENVILLE, GA.,
KEEPS constantly on bund a large and care
fully selected a took of Goodi suited to the
want* of the county, an examination of which
he most respectfully solicits from bis lady cus>
turners friends and tbs public generally.
tyTerms liberal and adapted to the time*.
_ l-ljr ,
' GROCERIES & HARDWARE.
HUGH E. MALONE
TANARUS) l areeifiilly solicits the custom of bis old and
A-V new patrons ul his Well known stand at the
Tost Office.
Sugar, Coffee, Syrup, Tobacco, Cigars, Boot*
4t Shoes, Guns, Iron Ware, Powder, Shot,
Lead, Soap, Oils, Candles, White Lead,
' and the usual assortment of vari
eties of a first class country
store. He bas also a
splendid assortment
OFGARRETSOS'S LONG ISLAND
The cheapest ard the best, when we consider
the quality and quantity in every paper.
As he pays cash for his goods bo is obliged
to a-k tbe same of his patrons.
»-iy-
DR. A. G. FLOYD,
RESIDENT DENTIST.
GRKESVII.I.E, GA.
Teeth set on plate from one to a full set. Pat
ronage respectfully solicited.
[y All Work Warranted.
DRS. ANTHONY & TERRELL,
Practitioners of Medicine,
DEALERS IN
DRUGS,
MEDICINES,
PAINTS,
OILS,
DYE STUFFS,
&c. kc.
I l-ly Greenville, Ga.
1 Doctor ¥.O. Daimelly,
I PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
GREENVILLE, GEO.,
1 Returns bis thanks to the citizens of MerrU
■ wether for tbeir past confidence and support,
I and desires to state that nil the energies of his
I life are devoted to his profession.
He is continually corresponding with the
I “ Giants of Medicine”—has an extensive Libra-
I fly —fl complete Case of Surgical Instruments,
[ with all the most approved Appliances for re-
I lieving deformities, Ac., and tenders to his triends
I attd the public generally the benefits of all the
vast improvements in Medical and Surgical Sci
ence.
Call at bis Residence. l-ljr
DR. J. R. HARRISS
GREENVILLE, GA.,
Practitioner in Medicines,
Wholesale k Retail Dealer la
Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Fine Toile' Soaps,
Feiliimefy. Furry Toilet Articles, Glass,
Putty. Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dya*“
Siutf*. Fine Brandy's, Wines, Ker
osine Oil,Tobacco, Cigars,<kc.
All of which 1 will sell extremely low for
CASH or approved credit. The cash ispreferred.
Farmers' and Physicians’ ord-rs ooliciied.
A fr>sh supply of Garden Seed just received.
l-ly.
WM. S. LAWSON,
Wholesale and Retail dealer in
eRY ©secs,
CROCKERY,
HARDWARE & VARIETIES,
•B~> ESFECTFULLY solicits the custom of tb«
people of'Merriwether county at bis store
iu Greenville; where lie will always be found
ready li s,ll upon tbe most accommodating
terms,
Silks, Satins, Brnaioloths, Homespuns, Domes*
tics coarse, fine and siij erfine Stuffs, Ho
siery, Osnaburgs, Yarns, Shirt Bosoms
in.very styl.—plain andfaney—Magic
Buffle, Ribbons, Straw-goods, Hard
ware, Axes, Hoes. Locks,
Cutlery, Crockery,
Wooden ware,
Boos and Shoes,
Harness, Books, Stationery,
Perfumes and Fancy Articles —in
short everything from a3i4 centPiaco
to a SI,OOO bill of goods. Those who can
not tie pleased elsewhere will not be disappoint
ed in him ; therefore, visit him first, and go on
your way rejoicing. l"k T
§eok §rlUr xn* StitUntr,
UKU.bU IN
Sheet Music k Musical Instruments
Generally,
LAGRANGE, GA.
I RESPECTFULLY invite the Citixen3 of
Merriwether and the a 'joining counties to my
large and well assorted stock of College,
School, Medical and Miscellaneous Books, «b<*
Princw's, Maeon aid Hamlin I *, and Foster*
Harmoneon* and Melodtons. Together wtU
I Boardma”, Gray A Cos *, aud Newman a justly
I celebrated Piano Forte*.
I Melorteon* from 45 to >SO dolloxa. Pianos
I from 175 to 500. Alwaya on band, *ll th.
I new music for the Piano. Sheet sanavcmmle..
I free of expenae. Material* for <lll, Grecian and
I ° P X?l"ord/* , th f ankfuUy rateivedaAd promptly
I atttndod ». R.K. RICHARD*
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