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VOL XL.—NO. I3--NEVV SERIES. VOL. 4. NO.£
ATHENS, GA. NOVEMBER 25, J870.
Miscellaneous.
meeting favoring the erections of a
monument to Gen. Lee, and a commit
tee of seventy-five was appointed to re
ceive contributions for the purpose.
Farm Miscellany.
Southern Interests.
CLOTfflfNClAT COST! lf
By W. lk H. White.
TtAVISO determined Hb
JJL dg.se out ay remaining Hock of i
READYMADECLOTHING
I now oB%r, With tin Aw exceptions, tbs Attn,
stock at ...
SEW TOBK ItMt, OR U8R.
Many article* will bs offered far LX83 Tit Ay
HALF THE 0 RIO IK A L COST. -
The stork contains many dealrabl# goods, and
wlU b« olfared as above, hot OM.V fOKUftL ,*4i
The stock consists of an assortmant of
Spring, Summer & F iliriotliiug,
for Men and Bojrs.
Thesoberriber takes this seceoloa toms to his
friends andt be public generally, that he still non-
rcausHES wkkklt,
BY a A. ATKINSON,
AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM,
STRICTLY IS ADYASCK.
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Seventy-five Cents f.ir each iah»qant nsertlnn,
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lib-rucmtracta will be made.
Business Directory.
I„ A H. COBB,
A TTORNEYSAT LAW,
Alheus, Georgia. Office orer K. M. .'Smith
A Co’s Drug More.
ALEX.. S. EH WIN,
A TTOKNEY AT LAW
A- Y..1
.Athens, Georgia.
M. VAN ESTES,
A ttorney at law,
Hewer, Bank, County, Us.
I». G. CANDLER,
A ttorney at law,
Hamer, Ranks County. Ga. Will practice
la the counties of Banka, Jackson, Hall, Haber
sham and Franklin.
WHAT JEFFERSON DAVIS SAID AT THE
DEE MEETING IS RICHMOND LAST
WEEK.
A large meeting of Confederate of
ficer* aud soldiers was held in Rich
mond on Thursday evening as a token
of respect to the memory of the late
General ft. E. Lee. A permanent Lee
Association was formed, with the fol
lowing officers: President, Jefferson
JJavis; Vice Presidents, Major Gener
al Titzhugh Lee, Major General John
li. Gordon, Major General Edward
Johnson, Major General I. R. Triuible,
Brigadier General W. B. Tal.aferro,
quire what would be his rank in the)
service of the Confederacy, went to
Western Virginia under the belief that
he was still an officer of the State. He
came back carrying the heavy weight
of defeat, and unappreciated by the
people whom he served, for they could
not know, as I knew, that if his plans
and orders had been carried out, the re
sult would have been victory rather
than retreat. You did not know, fori
would not have known it had he not
breathed it in my ear only at my earn
est request, and begging that nothing
I»e said about .it. The clamor which
then arose followed him when he went
to South Carolina, so that it became
necessary on his going to South Caro
lina to write a letter to the Governor of
Brigadier General WiLiain N. l'eiidle-
ten ; Major Genera William Smith, ! that State - te,,in S him what manner of
Brigadier General H. A. Wise and man ,,e wn? - Yet - through all this.
PITTMAN & HINTON,
^TTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Jackson county, (it.
SAMUEL P. THURMOND,
A ttorneyatlaw,
Athens, (1>. Office on Broun street, orer
Barry A Son's Store, Will give special attention
te eases In Bankruptcy. Aim, to the collection of
all claims entrusted to his care.
ALBERT L. MITCHELL,
A ttorneyatlaw,
Athens, Os. Office In Deupree’s Hall build
ing. WlU practice la Clark and the adjoining coun-
J. J. A J. r. ALEXANDER.
TYEALERS IN HARDWARE,
-I—-' Iron Steel, Nalls, Carriage Material, Mialui
mplementa, Ac., White udl.t,, Atlanta.
ATTi. * COCHRAN j -
R eal estate agent,
UilnesrUle. Oa. WlU give careful atten
tion to the
PURCHASE AMD SALE OF MINERAL AND FARM-
ISO LANDS.
roils v-yvas, a
job* shown, f
BONES, BROWN
1. S. BOSKS.
& CO.,
Rational uotel,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Cor. Whitehall St and A. It. It.
E. B. POND, Proprietor.
CJorii iShellers
Agriculturaftmplements.
W E ARE AGENTS FOR THE
following standard Machines:
Uret er ltra|M-r and Monrr s
Hall. Moore * Buckhard'a Tower A Thresher :
llntin ten ho Machine Fo’a
F ,ae t Ilia and Seear Evaporators :
We also hare a Tin Shop in the rear of the store,
where we keep ail kinds of Tin, sheet Iron nmt
Copper w.rk. We also keep a good stock of ’I in
Ware on hand, not " the best in lieorgla," but
none better than ours, and at low prices.
W. most cordially return our sincere thanks to
our friends and customers in Athens and the coun
try, and hope, by strict attention to business, to
merit a continuance of their custom.
All commands Bom the country strictly attend-
ad to. Wo will bo happy to see all at our atund
Ne. 6, Broad street, Athene, Ha.
81M.MEV A NEWTON.
NEW CLOTHING STOltE
HKMO_ K!>
CORNER BROAD STREET AND
COLLEGE AVENUE.
Uoiliiiin anil Fiirdi'liiiia
t-v which they invite public attention.
Sru olau c.iller conuecte-l with t.i
uonL drier* filled *t *.Wi
GROVERJe BAKER
SEWING MACH 1XES! !
rKO.'Or.NtXB THE UKM t\ I >K.
B Y ALL WHO HAVE TRIED
them. These machines, with ah the
IMPROVEMENTS
ANI>
ATTACHMENTS.
prices, frel.lit
BANK HU OFFICE.
stay ha had, at manufacturer's
added,at the
Wagon Yard in Athens.
r |NifjESUBSCRI’BER HAS
J, safe, eomfortable and commodious Wagon
Yard on Riser stmt, near the Upper Bridge,
whan Corn, Fodder, and all other necessary ap-
pllaaaaa, can be purchased oa reaaoaable terms.—
Thum mmlassla Tim hlgheas market prtoa paid
for county prod
olmaao found
Lumber! Lumber!!
WE have at the Steam Saw Mill,
TV near the upper bridge, at Athene,
t00,000 FEET OF PINE LUMBER
m hand, a .portion «T which to seasoned, and are
nsthWegli manufacture.
W9gmj»*>ag*te4otl*oroaalecct;u»Ucw Many
Miatln AOieS.or at the Athens Depot, at the
UlrmiprioeA Atom Laths, Farrowing, Strips, and
a quantity of rough lumber, suitable for out houses
nadchaaa tenets J. E. PITTMAN A CO.
, Afl orders will isoslTe prompt attention If
J. Jt. Pittman, R. J or J i
with CeL J. U. lluggiaa. No.
-■reiys-w ^
: F. Wilson, or
Notice.
To UteaUMM of Franklin and adjoin
lag Counties.
S M V. GURLEY,
tJRGEON DENTIST,
Has^receurij^tecatod at Caroesville for ths
purpose or practicing am profession. Parsons desir
ing work In his line will glee him a call. Teeth
assrfflsrfffflsa'ssr"" •’-*
Fuller's Store.
. orer A. D.
Ho*. II, 1«0-Cai
Notice.
YXTE HAVE THIS DAY SOLD
K JonetTwho will oooduct that bualneas et his for-
mtretad. Thankful (or the patronage bestowed
stand. Thankful for the patronage bestowed
■ aa la that Una, wo respectfully ask a continu
ance of the same to our eucetesaor.
This tranaforhas enabled ns to make room fora
Latgeand Weil Selected Stock
HARDWARE!
•(•Bkta^tewakfcwataeltetheaUaaUoaafthe
t RILBH, MfKEKKON A CO.
AVING PURCHASED THE
tor*© and Well selected
»d Well
Stock of
msi m
WPWd to mecet all d<
Athcn,,*0-tober7S, ItTP. *
of public
IN 8.
Olliers.
The great speech of the occasion wo*
that of Air. David. The Richmond
Dispatch says: “ As Air. Da via arose
to walk to the stand every person in
the house sprang to his feet, and there
followed such a storm of applause ns
seemed to shake the very loundntion
of the building, while cheer upon cheer
was echoed froui the throats of veterans
saluting one whom they delighted to
honor.”
REMARKS OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Mr. Davis said: Robert E. Lee
was my associate and friend in the Mil
itary Academy, and we were friends
until the hour of his death. We were
associates and friends when he was a
soldier and I a Congressman, and as
sociates and friends when he led the
armies of the Confederacy and I presid
ed in its Cabinet. We passed through
many sad scenes together, but I cannot
remember that there was ever aught
but perfect harmony between us. If
ever there was diiferenc of opinion it
was dissipated by discussion, and har
mony was the result. I repeat, we
never disagreed ; and I may odd that I
never in myliiesaw in him the slightest
tendency to self-seeking. It was not
his to make a record; it was not his to
shift blame to other shoulders; but it
was his with his eye fixed upon the
welfare of his country, never faltering,
to follow the line of duty to the end.
His was the heart that braved every
difficulty; his was the mind that
wrought victory out of defeat.
“WANT OF DASII."
He has been charged with a “want of
dash." I wish to say that I never knew
Lee to falter to attempt anything ever
man could dare. An attempt has also
been made to throw a cloud upon his
character, because he left the army of
the United States to join in the struggle
for the lilierty of his State. Without
trenching at all upon politic*, I deem it
my duty •<* ray one word in reference
to li.eclnr.re, Virginia horn, descend-
{■ ' -Vo-h n fa-niiy ilhistrousin Virginia’*
n : -a’*, given hy Virginia t > the service
if *i :< . c.n\> ' 'es, he M'pro ented
i,,-: in t . • i i an AoiAjWj at We-t
I'oiv.. H- ,v*i in,, educated by the
Federal Go> ernm* n’, l.u: hy Virginal.
f,.r she paid her full s!ia.,: for tile Mip-
p.irt of that institution, anti was en
titled to demand in'return the services
of her sons. Entering the army o the
United States, he represented Virginia
there also, and nobly. On many a hard
fought field Lee was con-picnot s. bat
tling for his native State as much a
for the Union. Ho came front Mexico
crowned with honors, covered by bre
vets, and recognized, young as he was,
is oue of the ablest ol lti» country’*
soldiers.
LEE OFFERED COMMAND OF THE CUBAN
ARMY.
And to prove that he was estimated
then as such, let me tell you that, wheu
Lee was a captain of engineers station
ed in Baltimore, the Cuban Junta in
New York selected him to be then-
leader in the struggle for the independ
ence of their native country. They
were anxious to secure his services, and
offered biro every temptation that am
bition could desire. He thought the
matter over, and, I remember, come to
Washington toconsult me as to what
he should do, and when I began to dis
cuss the complications which might
arise from his acceptance of the trust
he gently rebuked me, saying that this
was not the line upon which he wished
my advice; the simple question was
“whether it was right or not.” He had
been educated by the United States,
and felt it wrong to accept a place in
the army of a foreign power. Such was
his extreme delicacy, such was the nice
tense of honor of the gallant gentle-
mnn whose death we deplore. But
when Virginia withdrew—the State to
which he owed his first and last allegi
ance—the same nice sense of honor led
Kim to draw his sword and throw it in
the scale for good or for evil. Pardon
me for this brief defence of my illus
trious friend.
BI3 MILITARY RECORD,
When Virginia joined the Confed
eracy Robert Lee, the highest officer in
the little army of Virginia, came
to Richmond, and notjgausing to in
wit h a magnanimity rarely equalled,
he stood in silence, without defending
himself or allowing others to defend
him, for he was unwilling to offend any
one who was wearing a sword and strik
ing blows for the Confederacy.
The speaker referred also to the cir
cumstances attending General Lee’s
crossing the Potomac and the march
into Pennsylvania. He (Mr. Davis)
assumed the responsibility for that
movement. The enemy had long been
concentrating their force, and it was
evident if they continued their steady
progress the Confederacy would be
overwhelmed. Our only hope was to
drive them to the defence of their own
capital, wc being enabled in the mean
time to reinforce our shattered arnty.
How well General Lee carried out that
dangerous experiment need not be told.
Richmond was relieved, the Confedera
cy was relieved, and time was obtained
if other things had favored, to reinforce
the army. But. said Mr. Davis, I shall
not attempt to review the military ca
reer of our fallen chieftain. Of the
man, how shall I speak ?
HE WAS MY FRIEND,
and in that word is included all that I
could say of any man. His moral
qualities rose to the height of his genius;
self-denying—always intent upon the
one idea of duty—self-controlled to an
extent that many thought him cold.
His feelings were really warm, and his
heart melted freely at the sight of a
wounded soldier, or the story of the
*ufTerings of the widow and orphan.
During the war hewasever conscious of
the inequality of the means at his con
trol; but it was never his to complain
or utter a doubt—it wn3 always his to
do. When, in the last campaign, he
was beleaguered at Petersburg, and
painfully aware of the straits to which
wc were reduced, he said: “With nty
army in the mountains of Virginia,
could car.y on this war for twenty years
oitger.” His men exhausted, and his
•uppl'ies failing, lie was unable tocairy
out his plans. An untoward event
•aused him to anticipate the movement,
and the Army of Northern Virginia
was overwhelmed. But in the surren
der lie anticipated conditions that have
.tot been fulfilled—he expected his army
. o be re-pcctcd, and his paroled soldiers
.i lie allowed the enjoyments of life
and pnqierty. Whether these condi
tions i ave been fulfilled, let others say.
Here ho now
At a recent dinner in this city, at
which no ladies were present, a man,
in responding to the toast, “ Woman,”
dwelt almost solely on the frailty of
the sex, claming that the best among
them were little better than the worst,
the chief difference being in their sur
roundings. '**
At the conclusion of the speech,
gentlemen present rose’tb his fret, ani
said:
I trust the gentleman, in the ap
plication of his remarks, refers, to his
own mother and sisters, not to ours. ”
The effects of this most just and
timely rebuke was overwhelming ; the
mal gner of women was covered with
confusion and shame.
This incident serves an excellent is always a necessity, which, being at-
purpose in prefacing a few words cn j tainable, cannot be dispensed with, ex-
this subject. cept by the sacrifice of an enjoyment
Of all the evils prevalent among more to be preferred than the saving
men, we know of none more blighting t of money, or effort requisite t j its at-
ing, and shelter, and out of the desire
to appease this hunger, has sprung all
civifiration. The production and the
use bf fcrticles decorated by art, the re
finements of cookery, the ornaments of
pert* and residence by which taste is
cultivated and gratified, are among the
mest conspicuous of the external marks
of civil ration.
The moral necessity for these things
is thf result of this natural craving.
The redest savage manifests in some
rough way the existence of this taste,
the cultivation of which starts liim at
Avhar’ 4rism on the road toward
Civilization.
The world's work now consists main-
j ly in the supply of the necessities of
taste. The proposition may at first
seem startling, but its truth will be
come apparent upon a comparison of
the personal effects and requirements
of savages, with those of civilized peo
ple. We say necessities of taste. That
i:i its moral effects than the tendency
to speak slightingly of the virtue of
women. Nor is there anything in which
youug men arc so thoroughly mistaken
ns in the low estimate they form of the
integrity of women—not of their own
mothers and sisters, tlmnk God, but of
others, who they forget, are somebody
else’s mo Iters and sisters.
Plain words should be spoken on this
point, for the evil is a general one, and
deep-rooted. If young men are some
times thrown into the society of thought
less or even lewd women, they have no
mare right to measure all other women
by what they see of these than they
would have to estimate the character
of honest and respectable citizens by
the developements of crime in our po
lice courts.
Let young men remember that their
chief happiness in life depends upon
their faith in woman. No worldly
wisdom, no misanthropic philosophy,
no generalization can cover or weaken
this fundamental truth. It stands like
the record of God himself—for it is
tainment. For such an object there is
as positive a force, compelling man to
attempt its procurement as hunger
or thirst. It presses men on into the
hard struggle for the acquisition of
wealth, that through wealth, they may
secure the gratification of their tastes.
Not one man in a thousand *reks money
for money’s own sake. Misers are
nioriiid outgrowths—exceptions which
only establish this general rule.
And this mental and physical appe
tite, for all the appetites are mental as
well as physical, is more permauentlv
satisfied by enjoyment than any other.
It has often been asserted in deroga
tion of the grosser appetites and pas
sions, that it is impossible ever to at
tain their full and permanent satisfac
tion; but instead of this being any
reason why any natural and healthy
appetite should be held in contempt, it
is to be regarded as a benificcnt pro-
vis'on for the perpetuation of enjoy
ment. Did we once cease to desire,
we should cease to enjoy. All enjoy
ment is the temporary fulfillment of
We take the following from an ad
dress delivered at the Texas State Fair
in May last, at Houston, by Hon. John
H. Reagan, which is as applicable to
the wants and interests of other South
ern States as to Texas:
“ Out of the posression of slaves, in
large numbers, grew our system of
large plantations. That system, wheth
er good or bad, yielding to the inexor
able lqgic of events, has passed away.
And many of the reasons and practices
under which it was conducted have
ceased to be of practical utility. It
passed away amid the throes of revo
lution, the roar of artillery, and the
tread of armies, which shook this great
continent, and arrested the attention
and excited the interest of the civilized
world. It passed away when, by the
exhaustion and ravages of war, we were
greatly impoverished; and, by the cas
ualties of which a large portion of the
most intelligent, enterprising and effi
cient of our men had perished. This
occasion permits no more than upon
their graves to drop a silent, a sincere
and an affectionate tear, springing from
hearts in which the memory of their
virtues and their services are sacredly
aud forever enshrined. Our .orrner
industrial system passed away when all
the griefs which spring from defeat,
overthrow, and subjugation iu war,
were on us; when our great losses in
men were fresh in our memories; when
poverty is grinding us to the earth ;
when the wail of widows and the cry of
orphans were borne on every breeze;
when our hearts were sick—our souls
wearied. This was five years ago. An
industrial system, new to our people,
had to be substituted for one which had
been handed down to them from gene
ration to generation, under the protec
tion of their State constitution und
laws, and of the constitution and laws
of the United States.
agricultural and horticutural imple
ments and labor-saving machines were
employed.
These industries call for a higher de
gree of skill titan has heretofore been
applied to them; and our best interests
require that they should be so diversi
fied that we may no longer raise cotton
and send it off to purchase corn, and
flour, and oats, aud potatoes, and bacon,
and pork, and lard, as we now do. It
may not surprise you less than it did
me to learn, on the authority of the
Galveston News, usually well informed
and reliable on such subjects, that we
imported, for home.use, probably over
two and a half millions of dollars worth
of these articles last year; and the
nothing less than this-and should put Assire. Absolute content is neither
an everlasting seal upon lips that are
wont to speak slightingly of women.
Packards Monthly.
The World’s Work—Its Moral Necessity.
SLEETS IN THE LAND HE LOVED
m) well, aud that loud is not Virginia
only, tor they do injustice to Lee, who
lieiieve he fought only for Virginia. He
“ In the sweat of thy brow shalt
thou eat thy bread,” was a curse pro
nounced upon mankind for the original
sin, if wc are to accept the common or
thodox interpretation of the mystic
history of Adam’s fall. We have,
however, says the Seientifi- America::,
a modern saying, no less true, but the
sentiment of which somewhat conflicts
with the popular idea that the sentence
of work was designed to be a curse, the
import of which is, that the devil em
ploys the idle. The evil of idleness is,
however, a trite subject, which we do
not mean to discuss.
The present age is emphatically the
working age. In no other period re
corded in the history of man, was there
ever any approach to the amount of
work now in progress. Not only is
mankind throughout the entire civilized
world exerting all its powers of mind
and muscle in work, but the stored up
brute forces of nature are harnessed to
the chariot of progress to an extent
! never before known. That there is a
desirable nor attainable. Iu all this
we see clearly indicated, the moral ne
cessity of work. Could every luxury
now enjoyed by the most wealthy aud
refined, be placed, without any exertion
on the part of the recipient, within the
reach of every man, woman, and child
on the face of the globe, they would
still yearn for more, and work to get it
The Health Habits of Young Men.
. r . . ... TAILORING BUtlNES r *
amount of such imports arc probably; Ineladln* Cutting, u heretofore, in the wre
greater this year. If this were the re-: BEST AND LATEST STVI^K.,,
suit of misfortune we should deserve i ?P*®**? attention gi*en to cutting, ftf thou wh«
sympathy, but, when it was sprung
purely from the want of the exercise
of judgment, and from folly, little less
than criminal, we deserve reproach.
And, while diversifying our crops,
we should cultivate less laud to the
hand, fence it better, manure it more,
drain, and especially under-drain, it
better, give more attention to the proper
rotation of crops, rest our land more
frequently, plow deeper in preparing
for planting, use the sub-soil plow more,
and use, as I think, harrows, cultiva
tors, and sweeps, after crops are plant
ed, or at least after the roots of the
plants have begun to run. In other
words, and I speak from practical ex
perience and personal observation, our
laud ought to be broke in deep, and
thoroughly pulverized, before planting,
that they ma) the better retain the
moisture furnished by the spring rains,
through the dry season, to which we
are sometimes exposed, in the latter
part of May and in June and July.
Special a „ - ,
Ub to bare their cTotblng made oanMi . ;f Mirru
t All are aulldted to call and aeo Ifthtr rnnti'.t
bA poll W.ll. U. WHITE. 1
ue.'su et-c July 1 — 'Ztu.
1870.
PASSENGERS DESIRING TO YIS1T
ANY OFTIIK I '
Northern, ttonthrru, Eas'era,-
Western Cities, 11
Should itudjr weU the attraction!offered hy U.-,-, ,.
Western &
Fruit Trees.
was ready to go anywhere, on any ser-1 , . _
* , • . . J . moral necessity for just the state of
vice lor the good of his country, aud .. . • , • . - j
b , , . I tilings which exists, is easily demon-
his heart was us broad us the hfteen
States struggling for the principles that
our forefathers fought for in the Devo
lution of 1776. He is sleeping in the
same soil with the thousands who
fought under the same flag, but first
offered up their lives. Here the living
are assembled to honor his memory,
and there the skeleton sentinels keep
watch over his grave. This citizen!
this soldier! this great General! this
true patriot! left behind him the
crowning glory of a true Christian.
His Christianity ennobled him iu life,
and affords us grouuds for the belief
that lie is happy beyond the grave.
But, while we mourn the loss of the
great and the true, drop we also tears
of sympathy with her who was his help
meet—the noblewoman who, while her
husband was in the field leading the
army of the Confederacy, though an
invalid herself, passed the time in
KNITTING SOCKS
for the marching soldiers! A woman
fit to be the mother of heroes—and he
roes are dcsoendad from her. Mourning
with her, we can only offer the consola
tion of a Christian. Our loss is not his,
but he noweqjoys the rewards of a well-
spent and a never-wavering trust in a
risen Saviour. This day we unite our
words of sorrow with those ol the good
and great thoughout Christendom, for
his feme is gone over the water—his
deeds will be remembered; and when
the monument we build shall have
crumbled into dost, his virtues will still
live, a high model for the imitation cf
generations yet unborn.
Resolutions were adopted fay
the
strable.
Tbe moral necessity for work is per
haps roost strongly indicated by the
fact, that notwithstanding man strug
gles by his inventions to shift the bur
den upon the brute forces still the
world’s work grows and accumulates.
Mau constructs labor-saving machines,
which, while they lessen the labor re
quired to produce individual articles,
always increase the aggregate demand
lor its class, in a far greater ratio than
the labor on each article is diminished,
and so the aggregate work of the world
is swelled by each mechanical improve
ment. The efforts of mankind to eman
cipate the race from the necessity of
labor, are, therefore, or at least have
been as yet utterly futile. The most
that lias been accomplished, has been
to remove some of the heavier and
more disgusting features of labor, and
redeem toil in some measure from its
original severity.
That such efforts will continue futile
in spite of the predictions of optimists
who dream of a time to come, when at
least the toil of man shall become alto
gether directory and supervisory in
character, is in our opinion a fact hosed
upon the very nature of man.
To desire to appropriate to personal
use anything which renders life more
luxurious dr desirable, will always pre
vent men from contending themselves
with the minimum of labor neoessary
to merely afford comfortable subsist,
ence. There is !a mankind a hunger
for other and higher enjoyments than
are found in the simple satisfaction of
the desire for simple food, drink, doth-
A very curious and interesting table
might be made by a thoughtful physi
ologist and hygienist, showing each per
son where his strength goes; and I am
not sure that a young man could do
better service for himself than to seek
the counsel of some wise physiologist,
tell him frankly all his habits, and have
such a table prepared, uot only to guard
him against excess, hut to show him his
weak places, aud poiut out where he
will be most likely to fail. Some of
these tables would, no doubt, read very
much os follows:
Spent in digesting a big dinner, which
the body did not need, sufficient force
to raise thirty tuns of matter one foot.
Spent iu getting rid of several drinks
of wine and brandy, force sufficient to
raiso twenty tuns one foot high.
Spent in smoking six cigars, force
sufficient to raise ten tuus one foot high
Spent in keeping awake all night at
a spree, foroe sufficient to raise twenty
tuna one foot high.
Spent in breathing had air force suf
ficient to raise fifteen tuns one foot high.
Spent in cheating a neighbor out of
$30 in a business transaction force suf
ficient to raise fifteeu tuns one foot high.
Spent in reading worthless books and
newspapers force sufficient to raise five
tuns one foot high.
Spent in hesitation, doubt, and un
certainty, foroe sufficient to raise five
tuns one foot high.
Total—120 tuns one foot high.
Left for practical and useful labor
only enough to raise fitty-five tuus one
foot high, or to do less than one third
of a day’s work.
Sometimes there would be a draft on
the original capital of considerable force,
so there would not bo enough to keep
the body warm, or the food well diges
ted, or the muscles plump and full, or
the hearing acute, or the eyes keen and
bright, or the bruin thougtitful and ac
tive.
Very often a single debauch would
use up the entire available power of the i
whole sy&tem fur a whole week or a f
month.
Theieis no end to the multitudinous
ways in which we not only spend our
working capital, but draw ou the orig-
iual stock, that ought never to he
touched, and the result is imperfect
lives, rickety bodies, no ability to trans
mit to our children good health and
long life, much physical suffering and
premature decay, with all the ends of
of life unaccomplished. How sad is all
this 1 How terrible to be borniuto this
world and leave it without adding some
thing to its wealth, its virtue, and its
progress.—Hmld of Health.
It might well have been supposed
they would yield, in despair, under such
trials and such changes. But they have
triumphed over these; over their accu
mulated misfortunes; over the weak
ness of human nature itself. They
have accommodated themselves to the
new condition of things; and are stead
ily building up a new industrial system,
in harmony with their new condition,
and wants and necessities. And in this
they have, it seems to me, exhibited a
moral courage, an energy of will, a he
roism ot fortitude, not surpassed in the
annals of mankind. And from the
contemplation of this we may well judge
as to the probable success of their fu
ture, under the blessings of peace and
legitimate civil government, u these
shall be accorded to us, in the develop
ment of the great agricultural and other
material interests of the State. But if
we are to have an arbitrary and re
morseless State government of the bay
onet, with a system of hired State police
aud subsidized spies sttperadded, God
‘only can know the sorrows, the trials,
the griefs, the burden of taxation, and
the depths of poverty which still await
us.
I must now point out some of the errors
oi the old system which should be avoid
ed in the new, snd call attention to
some of the means which should be
employed to secure our future success.
Oue of the cardinal vices of the for
mer system was our too exclusive at
tention to the production of a few staple
articles; indeed, it may be said, in
this State, the single article of cotton,
aud the want of sufficient attention to
the production of the provision and for
age crops, and to the products of the
orchard, die garden and the dairy.—
Another was the devotion of so much
time, labor and capital to the purchase
of land and slaves, and to the produc
tion of cotton, os to leave, substantially,
no capital with which to build railroads,
improve our navigable waters, build up
manufacturing establishments, and en
courage aud employ mechanical skill;
or with which to build and furnish
comfortable dwellings and out-houses;
and for the improvement and orna
menting of grounds. And hy so neg
lecting these improvements, as with
many, if not the most of our people, to
a huge extent, to exclude the idea of
home comforts and pleasures, and to
produce a feeling of restlessness and
discontent, which may account fur the
very small proportion of our people
who felt themselves permanently set
tled. Another of its great vices was
the almost universal attempt by formers
and planters to cultivate larger areas of
land than they were able to cultivate
successfully; which resulted iu depriv
ing the pursuit of agriculture of most
of its pleasures, in greatly lessening its
profits, in the premature exhaustion of
the soil, for want of proper cultivation,
manuring and drainage; and, in so ex
clusively occupying their time as to pre
vent the necessary attention to build
ings, enclosures, to gardens, orchards,
etc. Another of its vices consisted in
We have ever believed that our peo
ple must experiment in fruit seedlings,
as our Northern neighbors do, to get
fruits suited to our climate and soil.
The practice of purchasing fruitplants
raised thousands of miles from us, in a
totally different latitude, is not a good
one.
In confirmation of this view, we find
in the Nashville Union a report of a
Tennessee Agricultural Society, giving
the result of twelve months experi
ments and researches. The following
are the conclusions:
1. The greater the distance of trans
porting fruit trees North and South,
from their native home, the more they
are injured.
2. As a general rule, transported
trees are longer coming to full bearing;
they never bear so abundantly nor do
they live so long as natives.
3. Peaches, plums, cherries, pears
and grapes, suffer loss from a change of
climate than apples; but European
grapes will not prosper at all in the
vineyards ot the m-*st parts of the
United States.
4. Summer and fall apples suffer
less by a change of climate than winter
apples.
5. A change of dimnte but one hun
dred miles north or south will seriously
injure winter apples, especially in their
keeping qualities, and two or three hun
dred miles of change of climate will
cause the fruit nit stly to fell off before
it matures, and all will rot before the
next spring.
6. The best foreign varieties of ap
ples may be acclimated here by graft
ing them three or four times in our tut-
sive seedling stocks, and then they will
do well here.
the celebrated 1’awajer route of the South.
mol
Only Route from Atlanta"
RUNNING A DOUBLE
DAILY THROUGH TRAIN.
Prereuting tbe poMlbUity of a delay of Twenty-
Four Hour* Incident to Hnea runuiaff ■'<
but one dally train.
f«ia
to Pasieuger Equipment ct thin Rond it eapniwU
> that of any road in tha South.
Io ijiliUop to tbi
LUXURIOUS COACHES, T
Of the Road, there tre attached to all nteht teniae, *
tbe (hr-fhmed
PULLMAN SLEEPERS,
Which fnraiah accommodations equal te a drat-
clan hoteL .,,vj
There are os sale at reduced rate*, for tha aum-
ticket! to -•-'-.I
Greenbrier Whites
Whits Salphsr Sari ays.
Xont|amU£|WhlU Sulpkar Sprisf*,
lied ford Alan*.
Moat rale Sprlaya,
Beraheba Springs.
Xataral II rider, of Virginia,
Lookout iMatala.
Niagara Falls
Hot 8prists oT Arkansas
And all other resorts
In the United States.
YokaJiowa, Japan,
Hioga, Japan,
Hong Kong, China,
Shanghai, China,
Nagaski, China.
STEAMERS LEAVE SAN FRANCISCO
FOB
CHINA AND JAPAN,
On tits First Day of Each Mnntl‘.
n,Tickets can be purchased la alt the Principe!
cities. Baggage cheeked to destination. MdhaudM
free. Ask for Tickets rla
W. & A. Railway.
“Golden Syrup, "“Sugar Drips,"
etc—A Humbug Exposed.—John
H. Pope; Druggist of New Orleans,
writes to the Times.
My attention has been directed to a
substance sold largely by dealers, under
the name of sugar drips, and afterwards
retailed as golden syrup, which, upon
investigation, appears to be a triumph
of science over nature, since it contains
no sugar at all, but b produced by the
destructive action of sulphuric acid (oil
of vitriol) upon starch. As some pre
fer giving their young ones syrup made
from sugar-cane, the old-fashioned way,
I will state a method for distinguishing
the difference: Dissolve a tcaspoonfu!
of the “golden syrup" in a wine glass
of rain water; then add a few grains
of tannic acid, when it will turn
black as ink if the article is spurious.
If not convenient to procure tannin,
make a cup of strong tea (which con
tains tannin), and add a teaspoonful of
the “golden syrup” and a fair qualify
ot ink will appear. I would suggest the
name of brazen syrup to dutraguish
the vitriol from that of sugarcane.
Fried Chickens.—Annie Lee, in
the Germantown Telegraph, gives the
following: Cut up the chickens and
lay them in cold water to extract the
blood. Wipe them dry, season with
pepper and salt and dredge them with
Hour. Fry in lard to a rich brown;
take them out and keep them near the
fire; skim the gravy carefully in which
the chickens ltavo been fried, mix with
it hull' a pint of cream, season with
the too limited extent to which improved j mace, pepper, 8. i snd parsley.
n. w. WRENN,
General Paoenger and Ticket Agent.
A. L. HARRIS, *
Master Transportation and Soperriaur. li
FOSTER BLODGETT, [
Superintendent.
L. M. HARRIS, ’
Southern FSasaaow Agent.
LONGS & BILLUPS,
BROAD ST., ATHENS, GEO.,
DEALERS IN
DRUGS AND MEDICINE
CHEMICALS,
DYE-STUFFS.
PAINTS.
OILS,
CLASS,
PUTTY,
STATIONERY ;
PFBPC1ERY. UQCOKS BITTKttS.
A ND EYERYUHING usually
Xi- ttsuaUy kept la a Ftnt Class Drag Store.
Particular attention has boen pant la ths (election
ofaur stock, to the parity aud reliability of oat
■■stock, to lbs parity ■
goods, and tsmlliaa aadphyaldaai am assured that
orders will be filled with promptness and fidelity
Our
STOCK OF FANCY GOODS
is large and aUnctlea, embracing a gnat variety
PERFUMERY,
TOILET ARTICLES,
BRUSHES,
COMBS, AC!.
Halm bold’s and Ayer's Preparations, Hurley’s
Worm Gandy and Sa-aanarUls. Drake's^
Plantation Bitten. Homrin-sCrimean
Bitters, Hoofiand's Us
and many other
popular preparations
Bitten,
Ilona at.
FRESH GARDEN SKKDH
of ths most approved varieties oa hand and for
sale In any quantity dnired. Also Or
ST. LOUIS LEAD,
Wamuted strictly pure—tbe beat In the market.
Horn. Hojr. Ml rattle Pewdm.
Invaluable for all diseases of stoak.
.WANTED an ac-
$900 • Utk man. In each coun
ts In the States, to travel and take orders hr sam
ple, for Tea, Coffee, and 8plce*. To suitable men
we will giro a salary of SWO to 11000a year, shore
traveling and other expenses, and a reasonable
commiielon on sates.
Immediate applications arc solicited from pro
parties. References exchanged. Apply te, or a..
dress Immediately,
July 29—It
J. PACKER k 00..
MMpentelKg^
ss* Bowery, NW Yoftr,
A WATCH FREE for everybody,
sure. Business light and bonerahte. Me elfo
iterpriee. No humbug
v, i8-«r—
t W J!25l5!Ste&£&-
HO* fVft.
