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'WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.”
VOLUME XXY.
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 16. 1871.
NEW SERIES-NO 41
■^'f'ippHcation
J •g i r 1 }iifl!bip» - y' , *‘’i‘** 4 I
lotion to sell land *
Ig^Debi^nnd cK—•• J j
.Vires, II days *
IK’! ... -I Mortgage, per square, - 4 I
V^tcrl-iiE bis wif e, ( in advance) 10 i
[Sarpold & Hillyer,
IRE OFFERING A LARGE
Ami Beautiful Stock of
MADE CLOTHING,
jr.is or by the Single Garment, at prices that
must suit the closest buyers.
Ilirts and Drawers.
1B j Sting Shirt is as cssensial to a man’s
L, alg oml fitting coat. We have arrgngo-
JJ, With one of the best manufactures in N.
17i will lake your measure, order your Shirts
liete order, and guarantee satisfaction. .We
^*in iV*ck a large assortment of White Shirts,
ib Cilice Shirts, Lisle thread and Gauze
tin Shirts , _ „
iifilinon ll’d'k’fs. Ties and Bows; Gent’s
i'lkRid ami British i Hose; Gent’s Collars,
mind Suspenders; Gent’s Hu ;custon, mado
m .Gib SHOES.
IlIATS, HATS!
■ilirgeSt»>ck of Cloths Caasimers and Linen?,
for Pants or Suits.
I;ire Agents for
PRINCETON MANUFACTURING CO.,
Athena, Ga.,
| i« Tell is for the
GEORGIA MANUFACTURING CO..
Athens, Ga.
*e Mill.*mako Shirting, Sheeting, Osnabergs,
:<j. Plain?, and Cotton Yarns, which wo
nates a* good as any other make in the
t Al! of which we sell by the PACKAGE,
lilbiufaeturers prices.
1IAUPOID & HlIiLYEK.
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AMOS THE TINKER.
This blae fingered humbug, magnified
into importance lay the miserable carpet-
bag and scallawag conceit, is beginning to
settle to his proper depth—the very bottom
of the dirtiest of political cesspools, and
the Administration is beginning—imbe
cile as it is— to see that what it took for
statesmanship, was indeed bnt political
charlatanism.
The following dispatch, which we clip
from the Atlanta and Nashville Agency,
presents the case of oar illustrious Attor
ney General:
Cincinnati, Jnne7.—The Commercials
Washington special dispatches say there ap
pears to bo something wrong in the Attor
ney General’s office. It is very certain that
much fault is being found with the con
duct of Mr. Akerman, not only by private
citizens having business with his office, but
by Mr. Akerman’s associates in the cabi
net, arising out of that officer’s habits of
delay and procrastination.
It is said that he materially retards the
business of the government by constantly
delaying action in important cases referred
to him and that, in some instances, large
sums have been lost because te would not
act, preferring to consigD the papers to
pigeon holes, and thus avoid the responsi
bility of action.
The fact is Akerman is incompetent,
and all the Cabinet officers arc convinced
of it. It is said that some have appealed
to the Government, and represented that
the AttO'ney Ganeral is a harden which
tho President could no longer afford to car
ry-
It is also reported that the Solicitor
Genera) of the Department and one of the
Assistant Attorney Generals are also great
ly dissatisfied with the manner in which
business is conducted, and will soon resign,
unless there is a change.
Many of those who aro best informed
regarding the administration of affairs, be
lieve Akerman’s official life is short, that
the President is beginning to see that he is
without strength, os a politician, and with
out strength in public affairs, and incapa
ble of administering his high office, and
that as soon as a snccessor can be decided
upon, he will be invited oat.
Note.—This is pretty hard on the only
cabinet officer tho South has supplied since
the war, but as Mr. Akerman is a Georgian
from Yermont, he must not be put down as
a sample of the average Southern states
manship.—Eel. At. Sun.
I finer & Grass Seed Gatherer,
PAUL DISMUKES,
and Manufacturer,
GALLATIN, TENN.
I raorOSE In sell the State and County Bight
Machine, or Single Machine. It is sim-
yisita construction, drawn by two Horses,
luiii'i gather tho seed of Eight Acres per day
|florer, Blue Grass, Herds Grass or Barley.
I -is Grass will yield from 4 to 8 bushels per
^ Clover will yield from 2 to 4 bushels per
Machine docs not injure the Clover or
^ingathering. J
7its use wo will be oxporters instead of im-
‘‘•/cs of Stieds.
•iiionly necessary to see tho Machine, to
| it will bo all that is proposed for it to
seen that tho firm of PAUL DIS-
Co., Gallatin, Tenn. oi addressed by
•IfACL DISMOKES,
Gallatin, Ten:
Dear Sir,—We
~ Tt seen your Clover and Grass Seed Gatherer
Kl «kia the field, and we prononnoa it the
•^Machine over invented to keep Money at
^e are iatisGed that it will gather from seven
* 5l got acres per day, and take them clean
^ to* leaves of the Clover.
R G. Gillispie, I. TV. Harris,
E. T. Bush,
Jno. F. Gillispie.
I. N. Guthrio,
R. W. Bennett,
I. N. Newkirk,
2>r. B. W. Hall,
A. C. Franklin,
T. H. Arnold,
J. C. Vertroes,
Jas. Guthrie,
B. F. Jameson,
Thos. Flanncgan,
Wm. Bake, of Penn.
T. Boyers,
Balie Peyton.
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line
u 1MU1Q iejrwu. •
PAU f- Dismckhs:—Dear Sir,—1 takepleas-
•a stating that one of your Seed Gatherers
i v , on m >’ Clover field last fall (one day)
1 received one third of seed gathered,
“ay POTtum I sowed 40 acres, and Lad
.eft to sow 15 or 20 acres more. They
■ f come up and as good a stand as I ever saw.
r.n Vor k cver d° n e on nay farm paid me half as
t R. G. GILLISPIE.
patent right of the States of Georgia and
•SSn f ° r sal ° M. Dwikell, Room, Ga.
ufr' 1 , f above Machines for sale by Ayer &
Donald, Rome, Ga.
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GROCERIES,
Provisions, Confectioneries,
tobacco, snuff,
Scrp ’ gigars, pipes, notions, etc.
thi, °““r 10 Uio citizens of Eomo and Vicinity
u mouth, a full line and
^ell Selected Stock
A7o liavo a large varioty
Genuine
meerschaum PIPES, &c.
^ w , iU bo CHEAP FOB CASH
- ongo ( or country produco.
n.„ „ J - D- & J. B. CARVER.
^°““Ga.,Aprl5’TI w .
henry a, smith
j, nKAtBB IB
^°°ks Sc Stationery,
1 Jheet ]Music, Paper Hang-
Engravings. Picture
C &ts ^^ n “ inTMOd *“ Ur8# np -
March 28tw-wly.
Pebkins, Esq. -Buste’d.—One Per
kins, Esq.,—he particular and put it a lit
tle p—perkins, Esq., haviDg been by the
unfortunate upheaval of the filth and dregs
of society, incident upon the disjointednes3
of the times, elevated to the Foremanship
of a United States District Grand Jury
was so ignorant of the duties of such a po
sition as to carry in the place all the
petty spite and lying instincts of his pri
vate walks; and because he foully slandered
the people upon whose good character he
sat the Selma Times & Messenger gave him
a sensible reprimand, which so ruffled his
unusual dignity as to he construed into a
contempt of Court.
The editor of the Times was straightway
overhauled and brought to the bar, before
Judge Busteed at Montgomery, Ala., who
after hearing the cause decided that perkins
Esq., was no part of his Court; or if so,he
was too contemptible to be treated with
contempt, and so dismissed the suit. And
this is why we head our artiole perkins esq.
Buste’d.
The French government is provisional;
but is efficient, and law and order reigns
within its jurisdiction. Theirs favors a
republic. M. Picard has been apppointed
Governor of the Bank of France. Rotun-
de has been appointed Proeureur General.
Jules Frvre will propably be appointed
Minister to Washington.
Paris is regaining her former appearance
of life and gayety at a rapid rale.—The
process of reonscitaticn is active all over
the city. The Parisians are securing their
old habitations. The places of amusement,
one by one, are being gradually . reopened
to tho public, and meet with abundant pat-
ionage and success.—Several of the princi
pal theatres are in operation, and their gay
interiors hear no token of the grand drama
of death which has been enacted without.
The cafes and saloons generally are doing
a thriving bnsincss.
The buildings which have been destroy
ed by fire and shell arc so scattered as not
to be particularly observable to the gener
al view. Externally Paris presents the
appearance of having been but little affec
ted by the terrible fiery ordeals to which
sho has been subjected.
The Tennessee Agriculturalist of June
3rd came to hand fall of practical informa
tion for the farmer, tho gardoer and the
stock raiser. It is » live paper edited by
practical men who are well qualified for the
position they ocupy. It is a sixteen paged
weekly published at McMinnville, Tenn.
52, per annum. Send and get it; it will be
a gold investment.
The Sequel to the Alabama Devjsu-
opement.—In the United States District
Court, in.Montgomery, Ala., on the 7th,
Judge Busteed placed the Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad id bankruptcy. The
application was made by W. A. C. J ones, a
citizen of the State of Alabama, and a cred
itor of the Road to the amount of $15,000,
The people of Alabama are interested in
tho road, tp tho amount of. over $10,000,-
000. So much for yankee enterprise and
carpetbag devclopemont.
' A • ►—’— j“!
New Obleans.—This fair Southern
city—the commercial metropolis of Dixie,
is finder water, and presents a scene of dis-
tress and destruction hardly ever before
seen. The waters are reported to be re-
ciuding, but the .-damage already done is
immense. It-will-vendor- the city almoet
uninhabitable daring the summer and fall.
The House of Representatives of New
Hampshire organized on the 7th by elect
ing a Democratic Speaker—Wm. A. Grove
—which ensures a Democratic - Governor
and U. 8. Senator.
A REQUEST.
Will our exchanges in Cherokee Geor
gia and Alabama copy the proceedings of
the Directors of tho Agricultural Fair As
sociation of Cherokee Ga. and Ala, as
published in our Tri-Weekly of the Sth
and Weekly of the 9 th. In behalf of those
gentlemen who have been selected to write
Essays, we would respectfully request any
citizen living in the locality designated
above, who is in possession of any informa
tion or dates that would be of interest to
any of them in writing their Essays, to
please communicate the fact to them at
once. For instance, if any one has discov
ered any minerals, seud specimens, stating
locality, and giving all the information in
their possession relative to the same, to Rev.
G. W. Howard, Ed. Plantation, Atlanta,
Ga. If any one has, or knows of any wa
ter power, communicate the faot to Maj. J.
T. Burns, Rome Ga., together with all per-
tinor t facts relating to the same, that may
be of benefit to him; and so on to the end
of tho chapter.
Below we give the postoffice address of
each.
B* reference to our Tri-Weekly of the Sth
and Weekly of the Dih, you will see the
subjects each arc requested to write upon.
1. lion. Thos. B. Cooper, Centro Ala
bama.
Gen. Eugene Lellarny, Rome, Ga.
2. Col. J. C. Fair, Calhoun, Georgia.
3. Hon. Mark A. Cooper, Cartersville,
Ga.
4. Rev. C. W. Howard, editor Planta
tion, Atlanta, Ga.
5. Capt. J. M. Elliott, Rome, Georgia.
C. Maj. Chas. Rattary, Cornwall, Ala
bama.
7. P. Yandevendcr, Prior’s Station, Ga.,
8. Col. Abner Johnson, Cartersville, Go.
9. Bcnj. E. Greer, Dalton, Ga.
10. Col. Jno. W. Lapslcy, Shelby
Springs, Ala.
11. Samuel Noble, Rome, Ga.
12. W. S. McElvane, Elyton, Ala.
13. Capt. Alver, Briar Field, Ala.
14. Hon. M. II. Cruikshanks, Talladega
Ala.
15. Samuel Noble, Borne, Ga.
10. Jno. W. Noble, Rome, Ga.
17. Dr. II. M. Anderson, Rome, Ga.
18. 4. P. Allgcod, Trion Factory, Geor
gia.
19. Jno. H. Dent, Cave Springs, Geor-
a.
20. C. I. Grave, Rome, Ga.; W. n. Fit-
ten, Adairsville, Ga., and Uobt. Dougher
ty, Cedar Grove, Ga.
21. Dr. Berckman, Rome, Ga.; O. T.
Shcllman, Stylesboro, Ga.
22. Dr. J. H. Nowlin, Rome, Ga.
23. Gen. Geo. S. Black, Rome, Ga.
24. J. B. Sullivan, Dr. W. A. Carswell,
Rome, Ga.
25. Col. A. A. Jones, Rome, Ga.
26. Col. W. S. Cothran, Rome, Ga.
27. Capt. C. O, Stillwell, Rome, Ga.
28. Maj. Jno. T. Burns, Rome, Ga.
20. Col. J. A. Stewart, Rome, Ga.
30. Dr. H. V. M. Miller, Atlanta, Ga
The Ala. & Chat. R. R., will have a pay
day on the 15th inst. We hope our friends
over in Dade will then remit us the price
of several copies of the best paper in
North Georgia, and their own official or-
gac.
Tiie funeral of M. D’Arboy, Arch Bish
op of Paris, who was murdered by the
Commune, was impressively grand. It was
conducted in the Cathedral Noire Dame,
and assisted in by a large number of eccle
siastical magnates. A magnificent Cata
falque upheld the remains ol the Arch-
Bishop, which were reposing in a coffin
covered with a black velvet embroider, and
enriched with a silver cross. The other
drapings of the church were appropriate
and grand. A relict of the barbarism of
the Commune, left purposely in their midst
was the burnt and blackened chair of the
Arch-Bishop.
The War Department ha3 decided not
to make any changed in the Department
Commanders until fall.
From our own Correspondent.
DADE COUNTY ITERS.
Mr. Wash Adkins had a fine bell stolen
from off his cow. In the successful search
for it he unearthed a flour barrel full, bor
rowed from his ncighbo’s slock and secre.
ted by John Stanton. Stanton pleads klep
tomania.
Col. J. W. Canton, machincst, skillfully
disjointed, at the second joint, tne right
thumb of Frank Cox. The young man
had canght his hand in the rnnniog gear
of a threning machine with which ho was
unwittingly playing.
Farmers are harvesting with a vim.
Showers and“rounds” alternate. The yield
is far superior to the expectations of the
most hopeful.
Unknown, midnight, and graceless assas
sins, probably unpaid employees, have, of
late, not unfrequently, attempted to throw
offof the track the night express on the
Ala. & Chat. R. R. Four parties at Eu
reka Coal Banks were arraigned on this
ohaige; but the testimony was insufficient
to more than morally convict them, and
they were discharged. One thousand dol
lars in gold.
Some rnffians, several months since, in
vaded the premiss of Mr. Tom. Kennedy,
in the North end of the county, dnring his
temporary absence, making divers, dire-
fecl threats, and otherwise assaulting his
family, which Kennedy, opportunely ap-
•pearing, checked with his revolver. One
of the"ruffians was killed, another restric
ted to his bed for a considerable time, and
the survivors or their lawless comrades,
shortly alterwards sought revenge. They
again invaded Kennedy’s house and shot
him and a daughter.
!. Two of the devils, Adams and McHone,
upon a mandamus from Bul'ock, after a
fierce but gallant resistance, in which the
former wa3 wounded, were arrested near
'Jasper Tenn, in which State they have all
along resided, taken to Trenton, and in de-
fault of bail, sont to Ringgold, and quarter
ed there until the next term of Dade Su
perior Court. Bad womeq and worse whis
key, are alone the cause.
Here is a rare'chance for Bullock to dis
play his liberality, and his hatred to tho Ku-
Klox. The assassins are. in jail. Proclaim
a “Five Thousand”, as in Chattooga. Com
mercial affairs are dull. Sheri* fees aro
small and infrequent. Give U3 a proc. ad.
and a reward.
STATE NEWS.
Papers throughout the State are general
their complaints of too much rain. From
everywhere we hear of rains and floods.
The Mayor’s Court iu Macon is a prolific
source of revenue—its assets of fines aver
aging sixty-three dollars p.r day.
Hon. G. S. Obcar has been unanimously
elected President of the youcg and ener
getic Fire Company, No. 5, of Mscod.
The typos of Augusta celebrated the
completion of Mr. Edward Lovey’s (son of
Judge Levey) apprenticeship, by partakin
of a rich dinner, given by Judge -Levey,
in honor of the event. It is recorded by
the Constitutionalist as a very happy af
fair.
The Savannah News thus notices the
death of Mr. T. S. Nickerson of Savan
nah :
The thousands of friends and acquaint
tances of Mr. T. S. Nickerson, the popular
host of the Screven House in this city,
will regret to hear of his death, which took
place at the Plankinton nouse, iu Milwau
kee, Wisconsin, whither he had gone in
what proved to he a vaiu search for health,
no left Savannah on the 12th of May, was
taken seriously ill on the 25th and died tho
Cth of June.
Mr. Nickerson was born in Massachu
setts. In 1843 he went to Charleston to
take charge of tho Charleston Hotel. In
1847 or ’48, he was connected with the
Pulaski House, iu this city, and in 1843
had control of the Mills House, in Charles
ton. In 1SG3 he managed the Nickerson
House, iu Columbia, Suuth Carolina, and
in 1S6G was in charge of the Planter’s Ho
tel in Augusta. He took charge of the
Screven House, in this city abont three
years ago, and conducted it in the most
successful manner. At the time of his
death he was about 49 years of age.
Mr. Niekerson was among tho best
known and most popular landlords in the
country. His manner was genial and hear
ty, and ho was kind, considerate and chari
table.
Tho Screven House is appropriately
draped in mourning.
The Chattooga Advertiser says of the
wheat crop in Chattooga county : ■
A worthy farmer of this county informs
us that his fields, as well as these of his
neighbors’ are almost a total loss. He says
the rust had a vital hold upon the stalk
before the June rains set in; after the late
rains the stalks seemed to be rotten, thus
causing the wheat to fall and become mat
ted, so much so that cradleing was an im
possibility.
Many others speak of the same disastous
result to their crops, and it is feared that
hardly a two-third supply will be realized.
On Friday afternoon last a difficulty oc
curred at Davis’ store, in Wilkinson county
near the Baldwin line, between Messrs.
Wm. Davis and Daniel H. Tucker on one
side, and Robert and Jack Parker, broth
ers, on the other. Robert Parker was kitt
ed; Wm. Davis was shot three times, two
of the balls passing through his body, in
flicting mortal wounds, it is thought, but
lie is still living; D. H. Tucker was shot in
four places, in the face, shoulder and arm,
and is seriously wounded. Dr. Hcrty,who
is attending him, is hopeful of his recove
ry. Jack Parker is thought to be only
slightly wounded.
The fire department of Atlanta cost $G-
500 last year.
After Sunday next the schedule on the
Georgia Railroad will bo changed, the
night passenger train leaving at 5.15 p. m.
The Savannah News reports thieves and
burgiars active in that city.
The same paper reports tho following :
Francis Bennett, a colored girl, who has
been under medical treatment since Jaly
25th, 1870, for injuries received iu an at
tempt to commit a rape upon her person,
by one Isaiah Blocker, a colored school
teacher, died on the 30th of May last.
The case of Blocker was to have come
up for trial this week.
The Atlanta Sun gives the following
items :
Midnight thieves are coming in vogue
again.
A gentleman from Arabia Felix adorned
our streets yesterday.
A wood hauler had his leg broken in
McDonough on Tuesday afternoon.
In many parts of the city tho streets are
next to impassable.
Civil business continues to occupy the
attention of our local magnates. Criminal
offenses are slow in coming in.
Dizzling rains and sultry weather con-
tiLues to oppress ns. A beautiful rainbow
spanned the heavens yesterday cvenieg
about sun set.
ALABAMA NEWS.
The Talladega Beporter says :
“During the thunderstorm on Wednes
day evening last, the lightning struck a ne
gro man named John -Winhourn (formerly
a servant of John A. Winhourn, Esq.,)
killing him instantly.
It seems that John was going from the
saw mill to his house, a few hundred yards
distant, earring a pine torch in his hand.—
The lightning seems to have been attracted
by tho torch, as it struck him in front,
splitting the rim of his hat and running
down his body.
Ho was alone at the time. His body was
fonnd next morning near his house. John,
was a boy of excellent character, had built
him a house and was accumulating proper
ty-
Of the weather and crops in Talladega
the same paper says :
“Crops of every kind aro suffering se
verely in consequence of tho weather.—
Wheat is being harvested under many dis
advantages. . The oats are in many places
entirely rained by the rust. The late oats
are an entire, failure. Corn is suffering for
work. It has been impossible to plow the
bottom landB, or in many casc3 over the
red uplands. Cotton is iu bad condition,
and in a fair way to be choked by grass.
The people of Talladega are moving in
the right direction iu the matter of the Sa
vannah and Memphis Railroad.'' It is in
deed a grand enterprise, and one that Tal
ladega ought to secure by all possible means
The route by Talladega is the legitimate
one, and we doubt not that it will be adop
ted.
In speaking of the mineral develope-
ments to be fnado by the Talladega ronte,
the Rifcorter says :
“This route, moreover, touches the St.
Clair Coal Fields, known as the Coosa Coal
Fields, the - best ooal for manufacturing
purposes that has been discovered in tfyo,
South. It is also the nearest coal that can'
be reached from Savannah or Brunswick by
any Road. This tine would be across a se
ries of fertile and productive valleys that
could always furnish a largo amount of'lo
cal business.”
The Selma Times reports the health of
Gov. Lindsey as feeble, but fears no seriocs
results.
The same paper says the weather in Sel
ma yesterday was, excessively warm; and
this affords us an opportunity to recommend
the pure and fresh -airs of our mountain
city to onr smothering friends down in Al
abama. Our city presents attractions that
will make a pleasant summer resort for the
health and pleasure seekers of South Ala
bama and Georgia.
The Montgomery Advertiser says:
“Three marriage license were issned yes
terday to white parties by the Probate
Judge, notwithstanding the fact that it was
the hottest day of the year."
The health of Senator Goldthweat is im
proving, and he has so far recovered as to
permit him to travel He has left Mont
gomcry for some watering place, where we
hope he will soon recover.
Of two rising Alabamians, tho Mont
gomery Advertiser says:
-We were pleased to meet in onr sane-
tnm yesterday the distinguished Represen
tatives of the people of the eonutiesofDale
and Talladega, Messrs. Carmichael and
Bradford, par nubile fratum in all enter
prises calculated to benefit and build np
Alabama.” ->
Wo endorse the compliment to Col. Taul.
Bradford. Talladega may justly bo proud
of him.
B. W. Mattison and others offer a reward
of $200 for the arrest of the incendiary, who
fired the Silver Ban Academy in Calhonn
county, on the night of the 1st inst.
In a personal rencounter between Thos.
T. McAdams and Geo. M Kline, in Talla
dega on the 7th, the latter was shot and
instantly killed. We have not beard the
particulars, but the affair is truly deplora
ble, as wo knew Mr. McAdams to be a qui
et and orderly gentleman.
Pryor’s Station, June 6th, 18G1.
Mr. M. Dwinell,
Dear Sir—What is to become
of ns farmers? It rains all the time—
nearly. All are in the grass, and crops are
looking generally very poorly, in my end
of the county, (Polk) and lost night or just
before 4 day this morning there fell one of
of the most destructive rains I have ever
witnessed in my life. I dont know as yet
the extent ol it, hut if general, such an
other freshet has not been seen in this up-
country for many years. The waters are,
higher by odds, than I have ever seen them
since I have lived in the conety.
Most of my cotton crop ia looking well.
I thought to send you some cotton plants,
hat my farm is pretty well inundated. I
saw one form (or square) yesterday which
is earlier, by four days, than last year. If
the raia will stop off, I may yet gain the
victory over grass and weeds, bnt if it holds
on much longer, 1 am gone up the spout,
certain.
Very respectfully,
N. J. Tu JILIN.
OUR NOVEL.
GHAP. VIII.
Wc clip the following dispatches from
the Atlanta Snn :
Washington, June 8.—The ku klux
committee to-day examined witnesses from
Mississippi, Alabama and Sonth Carolina,
from whom it appears that there is a per
fect quiet in the third collection district of
Mississippi, being ia the centre ot that
State, though generally thrmgh most of
the counties in Mississippi the ku klux
have appeared and committed outrages. In
Eastern Alabama a colored preacher was
killed and a school teacher driven off.
In Chester, in South Alabama, there has
been recent outrages by disguised men.
Grant is displeased with ex-Senator War
ner (carpet-bagger in Alabama) because he
declines the Governorship of New Mexico,
and Warner is displeased because he failed
to receive the cottectorship of Mobile.
Grant has transferred Gov. Partridge of
Arizona to the ministership of Venezuela;
and the minister of Mexico from that poet
to Arizona, and paid the prioe of two for
eign ministers to provide a place for War
ner.
The negro strike here, which became so
formidable, has nearly subsided A big
riot was threatened, and the new Territo
rial District was vciy much frightened.
Chicago, June 8.—Jacob Webber,
while oat with aj yonng lady rowing, on
an excursion, the boat was capsized and
both were drowned.
Boston, June 8-—The works of the
Boston Stamping and Manufacturing Com
pany, at Cambridge, was partly destroyed
by me last night.
Loss $20,000.
i . t 1- r
The seven-year looust have-appeared in
great numbers in llliaois.
Another death has resulted from the
use of the hypnotic . chloral. Lyman L
Fnlton died from an overdose of it in St.
Lonis on the 8th inst. It is a dangerons
medicine, and we warn onr readers against
it. _
The ku klux committee is still at work
in Washington. Parsons of Alabama was
to have been examined yesterday. Oar
mild-eyed and pink-nosed representive,
with his Chattooga and Atlanta associates,
will soon go on, and then wo will have a
pretty story.
Politicians who have got into bad
odor, need only apply to Darby’s Prophy-
lactic Fluid for help. It will disinfect their
political record if anything can. '
junel0tw3t-wlt.
Vegetables of every variety are quite
plenty upmarket Fish and poultry are al
so in abandonee—the latter too high for
thotightnoss of tho times
EMMA.
IContinual]
Mrs. Eostaoo did not answer immediate
ly, but after a moment, she arose and said,
“I trust, Hiram, that yoa may al*ay bq
equal to every difficulty you may encoun
ter. A bold, brave heart is all you. need
to carry; that and a consciousness of right”
she added,-by way of giving A moral force
to her proposition. . . ' - : !
“And the consciousness of right will in
spire courage,” he quickly answered. “So
if I have the latter, I may feel encouraged
by the strength of the first.” . _ -w}
“True; and now I mast leave the bonor
of entertaining yon with Emma,” replied
Mrs. Eustace, as she arose in response to a
summons to her household duties; for tho
Southern matron, however aristocratic, nev
er considered her duties beneath the digni
ty of her station.
Hiram uneasily excused her, and when
left alone with Emma, he- felt, a return ,af-
the embarrassing constraint that had be
fore oppressed him.
Emma felt no snch constraint, and with-'
out noticing it in him, she. playfully asked,
“What tangled web of-legal perplexities
arc your thoughts so industriously weaving
Mr. Lavender ?”
Hiram looked up with a puzzled air—
“Really,” he answered, “ifjyou are Phy
siognomist enough to tell that my thoughts
were indeed busy, I most ask you to divine
the nature of tho work, for 1 myself can
not tell that I was thinking at all.”
“Not thinking at all. Your brows were
as bnsiiy knitting as ever were dame O’
Shauteis.”
“Not with gathering wrath’,” he smil
ingly said, and thep'added, “one’s thoughts
sometimes play truant, and wander off its
far beyond one’s ken or control as a moth
er’s spoilt child when released from her
guardian eye.”
“And yours were wandering censor-free,
and yon knew not whither they went or
what they said,” asked Emma, in’ a half
laughing tone.
“It is hardly fair, Miss Emma, to thus
reproach my politeness by appealing to my
candor,” he replied with a quiet smile.
“No;” she laughed, “I can hardly flatter
myself that it would he a breach of.'polite;
cess to suffer your thoughts to wonder out
to fairer scenes than our halls can pre
sent.”
“And yet,” he replied, “My thoughts
had not wandered .out in Search of fairer
scenes. You know one as often looks for
trouble as for pleasure, and. though we
hear of multitudinous castles being built
in the air, there are in troth quite, as ma
ny prisons—or at least, every eaitle has
its dungeon.”
“That is a very pretty song-picture we
have—Biggin castles in the air,” replied
Emma, with a slight diversion,
“Indeed, I have not seen it,” answered
Hiram.
“Oh, it b new, or at least new to me—I
have just received it.’-
“Let me bear it,” asked Hiram.
Emma frankly complied, and as her rush
voice presented the picture of the happy
child, dreaming by the ash, Hiram thought
that it was in truth a very pretty song-
picture.
“Heads are turned, hearts are broken—
biggin castles in the air,’ 1 and as the melo
dy of her echos died in the halls, Emma
added,
“So yon sec that you are right, and cas
tle building, after all, is not unalloyed with
trouble.”
“Yes, heads are turned and hearts are
broken, bnilding castles in the air,” Hiram
answered.
“Which do yon most admire, Campbell’s
Pleasures of Hope, or Roger’s Pleasures of
Memory,” asked Emma, with a careless ex
pression.
“The sentiment or style ?’’ asked Hi
ram. ... .
‘Oh, the sentiment, of coarse, quickly'
answered Emma.” “The style of both b
faultless.”
So far as the sentiment of the two
touches my heart, I am free to confess that
in Rogers I find a readier sympathy.' It is
so pleasant to turn one's thoughts Laek to
the past and live over the aeenes. that glad
dened the childbh heart. Even my own
life, Miss Emma, which . lias not been
one of inherent fortune, has much in it that
is pleasant- -mnch that is worth living over
again, and I sometimes think that if the fn-
lure can only bring.to me a measure of peace
and and of pleasure approximating to the
pleasure of the past—that I will not com-,
plain that my life has .been a ETe 'fif re
gret;’’ *v ~ i •«•••>--*;
“And it b in the pleating memory of the
past that yon should find an enconngement
and promise for the future,” replied the
lady.
“Yes it is so, and thb I take to be the
teachings of Roger’s philosophy. He wooes
os hack to the past, that in its golden mem
ories we may see reflected silvery hopes for
the future.” _ j ’
“I am little skilled. Li the science of so
cial philosophy,” said Emma, alter a slight
pause; “But 1 have observed that those who
cling most fondly to the memoriea of the
past, are usually .most hopeful of ihe fu
ture.”
Hiram’s eye rested fora moment upon
the face of the radiant girl—a pleating ex
pression lit np their glance, as he said,
“I find it so myself—my~ brightest hopes
of the future are inspired' by the memory
of the past.”
“My own memories have not been alto
gether pleasant,” said Emma, with a droop
ing voice, as if she was hardly noncioua .of
the utterance.
Hiram started with a slight aqiprisq. a '
*’And yet for.your future, Miss Emma,
I ooo see .naught but rosy, hours,” he .an
swered, as if.to;.withdraw her,;tiieqg$ta
grets,” she quickly ahswcred, as if recalled
to her p-oper self. “They come, you know,
now and then, just as lights and shadows
M upon tho day, and if the past has not
been all that my heart would have had it
to be, I have yet a bright faith in the fu-
tntfe 1 -
“Yes,” replied Hiram, “Life b fall of
hrightprombes to all; and you, Emma,:have
.more than is the common lot of humanity
to make you glad.” .
Emma looked up with an expression of;
gladness.
“I have no great cause fo be ungrateful
with my 16t, w she Hntf, after a mom mt’s re
flection, “And yet nright promises are not
always realized.”'
‘tNo, I know that,” answered .Hiram,
“Bat it b still pleasant to indulge them;:
and when the indulgence, docs not so far
mblead one as to beget vain regrets, I can
see no impropriety in enjoying them.”
“There aro some who may safely cherish'
a hope,” replied Emma, 1 Those to whom
a disappointment wjli bring no serions sor
row; bnt there are others again to whom
snch a pleasure would bring a curse—such
as these should never trust thoir wishes.”
“Tennyson Bays :
' “Tia betler Ifa haVeioTtcl aad los*. •
Than nover to havnlorcd at all.” .
said Hiram.
“And in hfa case it was, since the great
loss of his Jove was the great gain of hb
imperishable feme,” replied Emma, “But
to others—to the gentle sbter who loved as
Tennyson may have never loved, I opine
that it was for different, and the love that
crushed her heart had better never been
raised.”
Hiram remained in thonghtfol silence
for a moment before he answered.
“Yes, we can airfind a. philosophy toapply
to other’s woes, bnt when the sorrow touch
es our own-hearts, all human consolation b
vain.- In hb Memoriam Tennyson found
an utterance for hb sorrow for the law of a
friend; bnt, as yon say, the grief of hb sis
ter, whose heart bowed beneath the sudden
loss of her lovcr, required a higher conso
lation to soothe its anguish.”
“And hopes thus withered were better
not blown,” urged Emma, with a decided
emphasis; And yet, she continued, “When
one b not deceivcd. and. the object b all
that the fancy pictured it,anl only the'hand
of God canght it from onr grasp, it u not
so terrible to yield it up, as it would te to
realize- when too late, that the hopes we
cherished were delusive lies, and- the idol
of one’s affections a stony image.”
Emma bad not arose from the njano, and
Hiram stood leaning hb elbo&pBPthe in
strument. Hb eyes were bent upon the np-
tnrned face of the girl, and as he canght
the soul expression that beamed from its
glowing beauty, hb heartbecame strangely,
almost painfully foil.
Emma’s glance also trembled with a mys
terious emotion, and in that moment all
that was good and pore and sacred in their
souls, was caught in one delicious embiaee,
and without robing a hind, or moving a
lip, Hiram felt and Emma felf, that what
ever of joy or whatever of sorrow the fu
ture held iu store for them, must spring
from the nndefinablc monitions of that uao-
ftom the vagueness, of their despondency, ever
“My life has been misjudged,'! she g(ju- |jy|
tinned in the Eamo drooping tone, and my
nature wholly misunderstood.” ]PC i l
Hiram scarcely knew what to say. He
too felt that the girl before him was not the
girl he had judged Emma Eustace to be—
and yet she was too, not as hb reason had
told him she vras, but as a little something
—a still, small voice—had alway whbpered
in hb secret heart that she was.- That Ht-.
tie something—that still, small voieu—was
stirring now—was softly, sweetly whisper
ing in hb soul, and what it whispered was
delicious melody to him; but ho drank it in
silence, and Emma continued, tv i -h’.
“It is a keen injustice to suffer from a
misapprehension of onr position.”
“Yes it b,” gravely answered Hiram;
“and for that reason we should never judge
harshly; but you must not let such dark
ened fancies trouble you, Mbs Emma—
time always vindicates the truth, and if tho
sheen of your past is clouded by the unap
preciative shadows, it will be for the fature
to roll them away, and your life will be all
the fairer because of them
“Ob, I am not given to melacoholly rq-
“You speak, Emma,” Hiram softly an-
swered, “As if you wanted faith in the sin
cerity of love and feared to worship least
yonr idol prove a whited sepulchre.”
“No; hardly that; snob' b the nature of
our passions that we can love, and do love
madlyand blindly; bnt I was speaking of
the crushing sorrow that was doomed to
overtake sheh 'a love, and I hold that for
snch a love it were belter not to love at
ML” '■
Emma spoke thb with a quiet voice.
“A love,” she continued, with an impul
sive energy, “Worthy the sacred name,
should carry with it all we know of parity
of faith and of joy—should embody in its
emotions all that we hope for, and sneh a
love becomes too much a part of our life to
be rudely, snapped.? . I
| Hiram canght these words with a strange
rapture. Hb heart was no longer his own.
The still,small voioe, that h&dso often stirr
ed its secret depths, must find an utterance
and he leaned hb head forward towards
the girl.
“Emma,” he said, scarcely knowing that
he spoke at all, “Emma, were I to throw such
a love at yonr feet—a love npon which
trembler my fete—into which b breathed
the purest, holiest thoughts of my- nature
—the sweetest hopes of. my life, and the
most sacred de votion of my soul, would you
despise it T'
■Emma arose—her Very being trembling
with its strange and almost wild de'ight.—
The sympathetic chords of their beings had
been touched and attuned before he spoke,
and it needed not hb words to tell her that
it was hero to bless or despise. A day be
fore such au utterance falling from the
llips of Hiram would have shocked her—
an hour before she would have repelled it
with seoin, but now she knew her heart
[better. That which it had needed to soothe
[its uneasy ntterings, had been found. The
llovn, the strong, pore love of Hiram lav
ender .was worth all of life to her, and
now that it had been laid at her feet; had
been planed in her keeping, she could not
deqrise the offering, nor decline the trust.
With a true woman's frankness,’ sho placed
her hand in hb and only said,
■ U I woold not despite it?
The beautiful band was rabed to hb lips
“Then, it is yours, Emma—yours al
way,” he answered, with a heart almost too
fall for utterance.
I They stoott side by side for • moment,
Hiram tenderly toying with her fingers. At
■“Let us wattfon the balcony.”
He drew her arm within hb own, and
lied her forth into the bright tnoohlqghi:—
Never before had the heavens shown so
brightly to them; never before had. the
balmy air been so redolent with its de-
*ime; ho such joy upon earth had
gladdened their hear’s. : - ■
I At length Emma said,
“Hiram, thb b all unexpected:”
Thb was said in a low, sweet voice—a
voice that melted into the securest recesses
of hb soul. It was a frank utterance, and
yet it was not expressive of regret She only
spoke what we til have felt at the sudden
and oftentimes surprising developcment of
onr hidden emotions. ; .=.
“Yes, Emma,” he answered, in a tone
equally as frank, “It was undreamed of by
me—1 never knew before that I loved you,
I have tiway felt strangely different to
wards yon, bnt if I could have analyzed
tho feeling, I should have called it aver
sion, rather than love; but now I see it all;
I understand it all.”
And Emma understood it all, for the
same feelings had swayed her own heart.
“How little we know of our cwn selves”
she said, after a moment’s musical silence;
music thrilling their souls, but silence fal
ling npon their ears.
“Yes, and what a heaven of joy is often
near ns when we can see nothing but
gloomy doubts," replied Hiram.
Ob, fond, foolish hearts; how natnral
was it for them to see nothin
tho sweet promise of their i
How natural was it that in the
ngjoy they a
the presence of the wily serpent that lay
coiled beneath its loveliest flowers. *
“It was indeed a sweet surprise,” an
swered Emma; “And now niram, do you
understand me T’ she asked with an ab
rupt earnestness.
“Yes, Emma, as I never understood you
before,” be answered, taming hb loving
glance fall npon her, “And how I under
stand yoa the trust I have reposed in your
keeping must tell you.
“And may God help me to keep it sacred
and inviolate,” she replied, with a solemn
drooping of her head and oi her voice.
Again the harmony of their sotis was
undisturbed by words, and the two happy
beings walked tho balcony in sienee— the
woman blessing her God forlhb, the
“Host gift of his Provideaoo.”
And imploring hb grace to bold her loy
al to it; while he, the man, was content to
stake the all of his life npon the integrity
of her faith and the purity of her love,
“And now tell me of your plans and
of yonr hopes, Hiram,” Emma at length
asked.
“My plans are embodied in the earnest
prosccncion of myprofession,” he answered.
“And my hopes, Emma, all cluster around
yon."
Emma felt a thrill of pride, mingled
with the sweet joys of the moment. It may
not have hardly been worthy of the purer
thoughts that already enthnsed her being,
bnt Emma was hat haman, and the human
heart b proud, as well as laving. She felt
a strong faith in the fntnre of Hiram. Tho
man that had told her he loved her, was
the man destined to make hb mark among
men, and it was a pardonable pride that
flashed her joy at the thought that sho w .s
to share hb triumphs.
“Bow long will you remain at Harvard?”
she ashed with a slight uneasiness.
“That depends npon my industry,” he
answered. “I hope by a dilligcnt prosecu
tion of my studies, to complete my course
iu two years; at any rate, I shall master it
thoroogbly before I retain” he added with
hb characteristic business emphasis,
“Two years b a long time,” said Emma,
with a rather awkward expression.
Hiram smiled for the expression was not
(pleating to hb own weaker thoughts.’
“Yes," he replied, “It seems a long time,
but the struetnre of my profession must be
securely founded. Two years may seem a
great while to me now, bat all my after
years depend npon them, and I must cheer
fully make the sacrifice.”
"And your mother,” again spoke Emma,
“3ho will be lonely withont you.”
“Yes," tenderly replied Hiram, “for her
sake I am loth to go, but” he added,, after
a slight pause, “Mother has a brave heart,
and she herself, insists upon my going. I
must ask you, Emma, to cheer her loneli
ness with as much of your society as you
can spare.”
“Oh I can readily promise that. Mr°.
Lavender b one of the few whom I have
always felt glad to be with," quickly an
swered Emma.
“She has tiways loved you,” Hiram rc-
died witha serious earnestness, “for she,
Sanaa, has tiways understood you.”
A qnick flush mounted to her face, as
she answered.
“I was too well versed in human charac
ter not to well know that.’'
“And there b another I would like for
you to see more cl when I am gone, for I
know that yon will like her,” said Hiram,
half forgetful of the very short intimacy
that had been establbhed between him and
hb companion.
“Who ?” asked Emma, with a slight cu
riosity,
“Viola?”
It was a musical name, and yet it struck
discordantly upon Emma’s soul; she was too
true, however, to herself to betray any dis
quietude, and she answered,
“I know bnt little of Viola, and woold
be glad to cultivate a better acquaintance.”
“She b a sweet girl,” answered Hiram,
with a frankness that at once touched and
disarmed the rebellions pride of Emma.
“A perfect child in nature, she is til tome
that a sbter could be."
The brightness of Emma’s new bom joy
burst forth as radiant as ever.
“And as snch, I am sore I ean love her”
she answered with a smile that Hiram un
derstood, and thanked her lor.
“You are indeed kind, Emma,” he said,
in a tone that told how mnch he felt.
“And between yon and Viola,” he con-
tinned, “I feel snre that my mother will
not miss her absent boy.” *
Emma felt “Not as I shall mbs him,”
but she spoke it- not, and bad she have
spoken it, she might'with equal truth have
added, “And not ai Viola will. miss him.”
At thb moment Mrs. Eustace ’ appeared
r the balcony to rejoin them. A puz-
. yet slightly pleased expression lit qp
her face, as she met the two walking arm
in arm. Hiram with' a quiet grace reached
forth his disengaged arm, and she readily
accepted it, aad the three again resumed
their promenade.
No word from the happy lovers told the
mother of the thrilling joy that filled their
hearts, and yet, with a mother’s keen per
ception, she soon discovered that a new life
had opened to Emma. Nor eamo the rev
elation with one single regret, for in Hi
ram Lavender’s keeping she was willing to
trust the destiny of her daughter
The Atlanta Snn puts Bard's personals
to shame. If, after sueh a capital fake off,
Bard persists in disgracing the Capital of
Georgia with hb indecent personals, he has
indeed the brass of the devil.
Reese, a notorious desperado, who-killed
gentleman named Edwards, ia Crawford-
ville sometime ago, has been sentenced to
be hung On the 4th day of August. We
hope that Bullock will let the law take its
The Czar of Russia b in Berlin, hob
nobbing with the Emperor William.
Thb birds are profuse in their grateful
songs, and the bright evening sun called
quite a gush of melody from their musical
throats.
SomethtoE Abont Yourself.
Supposing yonr age to be fifteen or there
abouts I can figure your age to a dot. You
have 160 bones and 600 muscles; you blood
weighs about 26 pounds; your heart b five
inches in length and three inehes in diam-
eter; it beats seventy times per minute, 3,-
300 times; per hoar, 100,000 per day, 36,-
722,200 per year. At each beat a little
over two ounces of blood are thrown out of
it.; and each day it receives aad dbeharges
about seven tons of that wonderful fluid.
Your longs will contain one gallon of air,
aaff-ybu inhale-24,000 gallons per day.
The aggregate sorfeee of the air cetts of
yonr lungs, supposing them to he spread
out, exceeds 20,000 square inches. The
weight of yonr brain b threo pounds; when
yon are a mail it will weigh abont eight
ounces more. Yonr nerves exceed 10,000-
000 in number.
Your skin is composed of three layers,
and varies from one-fourth to one-eighth in
thickness. Tho area of your skin is about
1,700 square inches, and you are subjected
to an atmospheric pressure of fifteen pounds
to the square inch. Each square inch of
your skin contains 3,500 sweating tubes or
perspiratory pores, each of which may be
likened to a small drain-tile one-fourth of
an inch long, making an aggregate length
of the entire surface of your body, 201,166
feet, or a tile ditch for darining the body,
which b almost forty miles long.