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ATHENS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEB’Y 3, 1875.
NUMBER 44.
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ATTORNEYS AC LAW,
- ATllKSS, UEOHOIA
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>E AND HARNESS MAKER,
\V ATKINSV11.LE, Ga.
Tt’V.—Samuel I*. Thurmond,
Atiiirircy-at-Lnw. Athens, G
I .ertl.nrcr the .tar, ../ Harry A Son
,1 .ittont»'.nt«,'esestn Bankruptcy. A
FALL ANDWiNTEli STOCK OF
Millinery
and fancy goods.
MRS. T. A. ADAMS
A NNOUNCES to the public that she is now receir-
a~\ in£ a lar^o «n<l varied stock of Ladies'Bonnets,
Hats Laces, Ribbons. Trimminps, Ac., which she is
rinjrat low prices. Call, examine and be convinced,
rr door to Bank of the University. Athens. sep."0
Select Ipscellang*
E. A. WILLIAMSON,
Practical Watchmaker and Jeweler.
V T Dr. King’s Drug Store, Broad Street, will exe
cute all work entrusted to him in the best style
ind at reasonable prices.
Terms positively CASH. f e b4
New Finn and New Goods.
GRIFFETH & CRANE
A RE now opening at the old stand of Lampkin &
Crane, No.9 Broad Street, a tine stock of
STAPLE BUY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
PROVISIONS OF ALL KINDS,
Hats, Shoes, Crockery,
TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY,
In fact,every thine usually kept in a first-class Van
■ prepc
tore — whi
prices, or oxchang
We rospoctfully
and the public generally.
Fob]
ell at the lowest cash
itry Produce.
i patronage of our friends
GRIFFETII A CRANE.
ollc
-VviUMi *fc 0KK,
j \Y ' ih’ and Retail Dealers.
and CO.M M ISS10N M EItC HANT
Dupree Hall Broad St, Athen
t r •paro l to store Cotton at 25 cents u<
, ivance cash when desired. Oct28.
On
-11 S: CLASSICAL SCHOOL,
it. Wray and Lumpkin sts ,
;„ --3bi ' LEE M. LYLE. Pi
Minin' mt:ku,
1. \WYE 11. ATHENS. GA.
rn Circuit, will attoni
Iwit,nett. Hall, Ranks
I to collecting
M a
HHWAKII U. HARDEN,
Lj , Litedadge U. S. Courts Nebraska and Utah,
and now Judge of Brooks County Court)
Attorney at Law,
/.'rook; Co,
BKI
rpSTKS Si KELL, Attorneys at Law.
\j (3 A IN ESVII.I.E. OA.
jC-WILL I rafticr in tho enuntica compnninp the
iiittt. Circuit, and Diiwaon and Forsyth counties
r the Blue Kidge Circuit. They will al-«, practico in
aropreiaeC..urtuf Georgia, anil in the UnitudStatos
part at Atlanta. nayld
TTLoYD S1LMAN.
J A1
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
of Wniton at.d .lacksor
j. II. SILV A>
.TofTorsoi, G».
F. 0'KKLl.KY’S
, PHOTOGRAPH OALLERV,
rcr William*’Shoo store, Broad street, Athens
r C :„ sep.L
II. lIl’IililN'S,
. '...ioralu and Retail Dealer in
:V GOODS. liltOCEiUES. HARDWARE. Ac.
VMS Rroad Street, Alhoni Ga.
'Ills 11. niULsTY,
Plain, and Fancy BOOK AND JOB PRINTER,
Rr.,ad St., Atheis, Oa.
id and Wall streets, over he store
Jllc-It. I
junss
rd.
tf
LYLE,
Aitornky at Law,
WATK/XSVILiE, OA.
T"HN M. MATTHEWS.
D ATTOIt.NF.Y AT LAW,
Duniolsviilf On
kttentiou will be given to any buiaicsa en-
:•.» hi' carp. M.rehld.
TAMES 1.. lAlNil, M, I).
* SPROKON. ACCOUCHEUR .t PIHSICIAN
[Ojlce at Mr. Tl,,,,.,at ShcatN/orrj
tlvod Hope District, Walton county, la
''■-etp his professional services to the cititns of the
nt .aa,ling country. aug27
ELIAS, Attorney at Law,
* FRANK LI N{N. C.
in nil the Courts of Western Nirth Caro
an 1 in the Ki d'*ral Courts. Claim* collected i
•i-*n* of the State. 4l«—lj
[ D tiltY, Feed and Sale Stable,
ATHENS, OA.
OA \ .V *1 UK A r" S\ I'roprirtor*
i lll.e ft.und at their old stand, r«|r Frank
•- lh-j-it building, Thomas street. Kfp alway
,a . : °'l K l, od Turu-nuts and careful drivef.
>t caro q f or w j, on entrusted to
'■ »ck on ban«l for sale at all tiuios.
K.
c f-
i dr care.
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No. 617 St. Charles Strest, St. Loaii, Vo.,
~ ct!nu«* to treat all cases of obstacle* to marriage, blooj
r slckDesa which resells front
. with unparalleled success,
i t* chartered by the State of Mis-
4 has beeo eitablishod to securo
•afe, certain and reliable relief. Being a graduate of
several medical colleges, aad having iha experience of a
,n . hi * ■pvclaftlca he baa perfected
e cases. His patients
Impurities, eTfry ajjjapjj, t
was founded and |
Bail .
express everywhere, no
wna failed, call cr wn!o. From the great ccn-
b.-r of application ho is enabled to keep his charges
*«». 3G pag?*, eAvIcr full aymptoma, for two stamp*.
MARRIAGE GUIDE,
"*»-*. a popular book which should be read br erery-
>o married r** f . cr persons oontemplatlng mar-
.n ar.c.t »« da without It. It contain* -.ho cream of
na tils subject. th.» results of Dr. W. e
thoughts from late works
•ealcd. po ‘
• rj) P»*e«. i
b-nly. So
rljg\eao J
medical liter-
L a« expcrle:»-o: a!*c
lu Europe aud Amcri
he n;
to the
i.f l’i
i.*e should ho
pools, at the
FACT THING CO.
julyl—ly
ing Machine, is "CLARK’S
y that made for and bea
Manufacturing Co. A n
IBcient. T-tT* Price, 75c.
ee of tho SINGER MANU-
G. H. HOPE, Agent,
ishop’s Corner, Athens, G
Wilson Yard in Athens.
T HE subscriberhns fitted up and opened a safe,con
fortahle and commodious Wagon Yard, on Rivet
street^in the neighborhood of the Upper Bridge, whert
CORN. FODDER, and all other necessary supplies
bo purchased on reasonable terms. Charges moderate.
The highest market price paid for Country Produce,
• ! Bank bills revived in exchange for Goods.
»uly7 tf WTLFV F. HOOT)
THE 8REAT REMEDY
FOR-
Bns, Scalis, Corns, Foison Oat, Stisis
of hi'fcts anil Cutaneous Inflammations Generally,
DISCOVERED BY MRS. L. E. BUSH,
JVG TAVERN, WALTON CO., GA.,
U r AS entered against tho World, at tho late State
Fair at Macon, and is daily effecting THE MOST
WONDERFUL CURES,
pensahie household neces
without it !
If, after trial, a family is willing to live without thi
preparation lor Ten Dollars, agents are auth
refund tho money.
FOB SALE,
In Athens—At Dr Win King’s Drug Store and at
tho Store of Judge J D Pittard.
In Watkinsvillo—At tlio Store of Booth A Durham.
In Monroe—At Dr Galloway’s Drug Store.
At Princeton—By Mr Russell.
Address all orders to WILEY II. BUSH,
no'-19 Jug Tavern, Walton co., Ga.
ilye
nd ha
ily. N,
ilDEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW]
U.S. Claim Agent and NotaryPublie
OaineViu-e. Ga.
V"03i,.o hi Wilson street, below Kin; A Bro’s.
,kr “»ry 1-J, ls7».
••EPIE,. Kf. HOWELL.
•KS i HOW ELL,
ATTCPNEVS AT LAY.
TV? a Ur Q,h ^ House, Atbita. Ga.
1 ' in the State and Federal Courts, and
xtttnd regularly all the Courts in Atllita, includ
es He aapremo Court of the State, an<i will argue
!tr a| U ^° n for absent parties, onroaionablo
I ien^ l vr - ,cth ' 0 In tho Courts of tho puntics con-
I o^oracpessible to Atlanta by Railrgd. sepll
ANTI-PYR0TIC,
OR,
Gri'eat Fir^e-Killei*.
NO HUMBUG!
CERTAIN,SURE. RELIABLE.
B Y a roeont discovery, wc arc enabled to offer th<
public a safe, certain and sure cure for
Burns, Scalds, Scald-Ilt-ad, Stings by Insects,
Tetter, Kins Worm, Piles, Sore Eyes
and Old Sores ot long standing.
This preparation bus been thoroughly tested-
hurns always insures almost instant relief—has never
failed in a single instance.
We have in our possession numbers of certificates
showing tho WONDERFUL CURKS effected l*y th
preparation, which never fails.
Eyery Family shonM have a Bottle of it
READY EOR USE!
No one knows hew soon a member of the family may
need It.
It is a Georgia production and perfectly free from
mineral poison.
; &^For*alcU Athens at tho Drug Stores of Dr. R.
M. Smith A Co. and Dr. Wm. King, Jr.
Orders should be addressed to
JAURETT A MULKEY,
Aug3 Walton's FoTd, Ga.
FRESH OYSTEBS ilTO FISH.
1 AVILL serve fine, fresh fish and oysters, at all
hours, at my restaurant on Jackson street, and will
keep a good supply for sale. Every thing neat and
lean. FRANCIS LOUIS, (Democrat,)
NovlS—3t. Proprietor.
I Pavilion hotel,
Ih; . , CHAICLESlOS, S. C.
'tint. ASS Hotel is situate! in the vor
1...L business part of tbecityand all who
L t, 1will ti,,; every convenience all luxury that
H ,? roplire d. Hoard, per day, $3.0t|
Il^*, ai0S . ‘^"P 1 - Airs. L. II. lUTTERFIELn
! tf PltprictretB.
1 s - ADAMS, M. D.,
Al
I W5e.„
of the
ACCOCCHKUH ANIl »HY8ICIAJI
^ rfeideu cet MuuQtuio Distrid, Walton coun-
,,r tfiii—offers his professional services to the
^rounding country. aug2fi—ly
newton,
dealers i
Junev Forei Kn and Domestic HARDWARE,
lL I: - ADAIR, D.D. S.
HI
No. Ii,Broad stieet, Athens, Ga.
Gaisksville, GA
^ !0 etiea*t corner Public Squr*
D0RI1S,
Wholesale and Retail Deaisr in
U# K » oc 7 DRY GOODS, GI0CERIES, k<
No. 12 Broad Street Athens, Ga.
P l AIN’ and Fancy Job Prim
At the Southern Witchmnn Office.
I P^ POOL SILK!
u «f.c,uL BES T * a * CHEAPESTl\ Gst that man
‘ l be Singer Munufactiring Company,
V*'kU, 7 ,,!,t * <1 r ° rua <>«° .Lind. ofS.w-
^I'Katt!inIv.’ 0 * ,ul «1»H. bytha 8INGI
I i»l»ll, CTURI M COMPANY.. T
<L H. HOPE, Agant, frhaoa. Oa.
ATHENS
MARBLE IND GRANITE YARD.
A. R. Robertson
D EALER in Monuments, Hoad Stoncs.CradlcTomhs,
Marbleand Granite Box Tombs. Also, Vases and
Marble Taps for Furniture. Persons desiring work of
this kind will do well to examine my designs before
purchasing olscwbere. p$r Prices moderato.
Work shop adjoining old cemetery. july22—ly
WE CAN MAKE IIOME HAPPY.
Though wc may not change tho cottage
For a mansion tall and grand.
Or exchange a littlo grass plat
For a boundless stretch of land—
Yot there’s something brighter, dearer.
Than the wealth we'd thus command.
Though we have no means to purchase
Costly pictures rich and rare—
Though wo have no silken hangings
For tho walls so cold and bare—
Wo can hang them o'er with garlands,
For flowers bloom everywhere.
We can always make home cheerful,
If tho right course we begiu ;
Wo can make Us inmates happy.
And their trupst blessings win ;
It will make the small room brighter,
It will let the sunshine in.
We can gather round the fireside
When the evening hours aro long;
We can blend onr hearts ami voices
In a happy, social song;
We can guide some erring brother.
Lead him from tho path of wrong.
We may fill our homes with music.
And with sunshine brimming o’er,
If against all dark intruders
We will (irmly close the door—
Yet. should ovil shadows enter.
We must lovo each other more.
There aro treasures for tbs lowly
Which tho grandest fail to find ;
There is a chain of sweet affection
Binding friends of kindred mind—
We may reap the choicest blessings
From the poorest lot assigned.
The Relic's of Pharaohs Times.
About three years ago, ivheu the East Ge
m-fee (X. Y'.) Conference was held at Elmira,
tlie basement of Iledding Church was used
for a gcncarl committee room. .4s I was
standing there a young friend whom I will
call Wilkins carno along, and reaching out
his hand, deposited iu mine a circular piece
of red enameled substance, about tho width
and twice tho thickness of a silver dollar,
smiled, and Wilkins remarked ; “I am going
to fool some of these old hcad^, see if I don’t
I am going to seo if they aro as innocent as
they pretend. I’ll bet sorno of them know a
confounded sight more than they aro willing
to toll, anyhow. You just watch mo!”
lie began to turn over and scrutinizing the
red disc until a reverend brother approached
him with considerable curiosity dcpictod on
his countenance.
*• What have you got there?” asked tho
reverend. •
” Oh,” said Wilkins," that is a relic of tho
times of Pharaoh ; a sort of charm called a
check.”
“ But where did you get it T”
•• Oh, one of my brothers who was oiT in
the East hunting the tiger camo hack thro’
Egypt and brought this with him.’’
“ Indeed; that is very curious. Wonder
what they used them for ? How red aud
smooth it is ! Very curious indeed."
“ Yes,” dryly remarked Wilkins, it is not
often we aro favored with the sight of such a
relic.”
“ Here, Brother Brown and tho clergy-
mat. motioned to another revorend who stood
near him.
“ Here is one of tho Egyptian relics ; some
sort of a charm, you know.”
“ A w hat ? It’s some kind of money, most
likely. Who knows hut that the children of
Israel were paid in sucli as this for making
brick for the pyramids. It’s made of ivory,
ain’t it ?”
Other brethren came up, and tho “ relic of
the times of Pharaoh” circulated freely, ere
ating a great deal of interest. Somo of the
clergymen suggested that it was some orna
ment for a woman, most likely.” Otheis
thought it must have been nsed for money,
and others that it was a charm used by tho
mummy-making people. Brother T said :
“ I wish I could have that to use in my
Sunday-school class next Sunday. The les
son is on Joseph down in Egypt; and any
thing like that creates such an interest in the
Bible class, you know.”
“Yes,” said another, “I have a piece of
brick from tho Tower of Babel, and you ought
to seo tho little ones examine it, just as if the
Tower was right there.”
By this time a good number of the preach
ers had examined the abject, when brother
B came up and spying the red disc scorn
ed a little taken back by it.
What do you say it is. Brother B ?
chimed in half a dozen voices.
That! don’t you know what that is t” said
Brother B , with a smile of incredulity on
his face.
No. Brother B ; isn’t it a charm of
some kind t"
That a charm ! No, that is a faro check,
such as gamblers use.”
That it certainly was, and the brethren
were immediately in anxious search for young
Wilkius, who bad just passed out. The “re
lic of the times of Pharaoh," was not exhibit
ed in Sunday-school, and tho preachers went
about asking themselves how Brother B
knew that the red thing was a “ faro check."
HORSES & MULES.
T HE undorxigmsd liavo established, in addition to
tboir Lively, a regular
SALE STABLE,
And will, from this date, keep on hand, at all times,
a full supply <»f
HORSES & MULES.
Those in want‘S Stock can be supplied at
^Reasonable Figures.
^nllVov*’!-"' GANN A REAVES.
Brackets! Brackets!
B RACKETS, Wall Pockets, Book-Shelves, Clock-
Shelves,Toilet-Cases. Match-Safes, Hanging Bas
kets, Ac the largest and handsomest assortment ever
brought to Atheue. For sale at
nov25
BURKE’S BOOK STORE.
I WRR KLY WITNE88, giving News,
i’ 2 : 11 ’ Ple, «« and Llva Editorials, at
k '***»» It tk'. Eo,u «* P» id . has reached 71,000 circa-1 That will do yon good to look
I “"omri. Seid lor Oreo sample copy. 1 place. nov4-*t SA
IF YOU WANT TO SEE
Fine Mules,
’“Si
[From the Atlanta Herald.]
The Wonders of the Great Singer Sewing Ma
chine Company.
New York, Dec. 29,1874.
Dear Herald :—I have seen nothing in my
observation of interesting matters to surpass
tho great manufacturing establishment of the
Singer Sewing Machine Company.
But a few years ago the first sowing ma
chine was made. In tho short period since
then the sewing mndhino has become a uni
versal institution of the civilized world, its
manufacture a leading business, its sale a
mighty branch of trade, and its use a neces
sity of the age.
THE SEWING MACHINE IS A BENEFACTOR OF
HUMANITY.
and the women owe it a deathless gratitude
The swift marvels of its deft mechanism are
such an improvement upon the slow toils of
band-sewing that ono wonders bow the world
did so long withont it. No invention has met
so great a want or fulfilled so useful a mission
as this. It has gone into every household in
the Christian world with its time and labor-
saving ministration. Wherever civilized peo
ple live, the merry hum of the industrious ma
chine is beard making music with the cheerful
click of its shining needle, and saving the
health and hours of the sweet queens of the
home circles.
The fiDest inventive intellect of the ago have
exhausted their power iu bringing the maching
Sh
to the highest point of simple utility. Million^
of sagacious capital have devoted their goldon
potescy to the creation aud use of these kind
savers of feminine labor. Thousands of in
dustrious men and women haro helped to build
up tho business and drawn support from it.
To get an idea of the colossal magnitude of
this grand branch of manufacture and trsdo,
one must see the operations of a great com
pany, like the powerful corporation known as
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Without drawing any invidious comparisons,
it is simple truth to say that this is oue of the
largo, successful, prosperous and controlling
Sewing Machine institutions of tho world. In
fact, my information is that it is surpassed by
none.
THE SINGER MACHINE
has do superior. It combines all tho most
modern improvements, and has a popularity
commensurate witii its undoubted merit.
Its peculiar features are, simplicity, durabil
itv, certainty of correct action, not liable to
get out of order, easily understood, and as
much noiselessness and lightness of running as
is pos.sihle iu a machine.
SINGER.
Mr. Isaac M. Singer, the inventor of this
machine, is still living He was horn in the
United States, October 11 th. in the year 1311,
and is, therefore, G3 years of ago. He first in
vented his machine in 1850. He was poor,
and had a long and bard struggle in building
his great invention to success. Tho history of
his labors would form an interesting chapter
of heroic manhood, and prescut an instructive
lesson to the young. His resolution, integrity
and toils, were finally rewarded. IIo has lived
to see the fruit of his ingenuity, tho architect
of a supreme success, and tho creatorof a vast
fortune for his old age. For the. last nine
years Mr. Singer has been in England with his
family. He has taken during that time very
littlo activo part in the ruauagement of his
great enterprise. Ilo has amassed millions,
and is building a splendid mansion at a cost
of half a million, on tho coast of Torquay, in
Great Britain. Among the attractions of this
imperial residence is a private theatre. Ho
lias a wife anti children to help him enjoy the
harvest of his labor.
THE SINGER COMPANY.
Somo eloven years ago, in 13G3, the business
of this enterprise was organized into an in
corporated company, and has sinco then heou
thus managed. Its present officers aro Mr.
Insleo A. Hopper, President, and Mr. George
Ross McKenzie, Vice- President.
Its management has been both solid and
brilliant. Its businoss has steadily grown, and
is increasing every year. Its stock amounts to
ton millions of dollars, upon which it pays fino
dividends regularly.
Mr. Hopper, the able, courteous and re
spected President of the company, is still a
young man. Under his vigorous and capable
administration the company has made a steady,
onward progress. He has amaesed a fortune,
as well as made a character. He has just com
pleted an elegant 8100,000 residence in New
Jersey.
Mr. McKenzie, tho Vice-President, has taken
a deep interest iu tho manufacturing depart
ment of the company, and to his intelligent
skill and patient industry are due, in a very
largo degree, the superior excellence that
marks this meritorious machine. Perhaps tho
pet achievement of Mr. McKenzie is the Eliza-
bothport works, to which ho has given special
attention.
HEADQUARTERS.
The headquarters of the company is a hand
some fivo-story building, in tho finest stylo of
modern architecture, on Union Square. Tho
rooms are royally furnished. Tho ompioyces
are polito and attentive. Tho establishment
shows order and management throughout.
ITS FACTORIES.
The company owns a vast deal of valuablo
property. It has five large sets of works. It
has immense manufactories of tho machine in
Scotland and in Elizabethport, New Jersey.
It has at South Bend, Indiana, a large factory
where it makes the black walnut machino
boxes.
It has a factory in Newark, Now Jersey
where it manufactures on a large scale tbo siik
twist used for the machine. At these factories
there is an aggregate of 5,000 hands employed
and the weekly pay-roll is not undor $50,000
This property is worth at least $2,(100,000.
Besides this, tho company owns largo prop
erty in the city of New York, which it formerly
used for manufacturing, hut which it was com
polled to give up to seek larger accommoda
tinns for its rapidly growing business. The
company has changed its manufacturing works
no loss than three times in tho last fifteen
years, thus showing its remarkable growth
THE ELIZABETHPORT WORKS.
Its largest works are at Elizabethport, New
Jersey, on tho New Jersey Central Railroad
about twelve miles from New York. These
works are new, having been only in uso one
year, and were built especially by the company
with reference to its wants and increasing
business. The buildings are of brick, with
iron frame work. They cost nearly two mil
lions of dollars, and cover five .acres of ground
A trip through these colossal works will en
tertaiu and instruct any one. They aro as
complete as any establishment in the world
They are managed with the samo admirable
system that marks tbo home oflico.
Theso works aro a grand specimen of diver
sified and skilled industry. They aro a com
plex aggregation of every high mechanical
creation. Everything belonging to or con
nected with a sowing machine is made here.
Over 2,200 workmen are employed at thistimo
in these works, making a pay-roll of $25,000 a
week. There is every class of mechanical
labor employed, from tho iron foundryman to
the wood carpenter, and from tho kcen-eyod
and nimble-fingered constructor of delicate
steel tools to the artist cf ornato mosaic tra
cery.
Thore aro about 120 parts to every sewing
machine. And ovory part passes through at
least two special hands. It takos at least 250
workmen to mako ono machine, each work
man devoting himself to a specialty. Tho
time necessary to turn out a completo ma
chine is about ono month.
The delighted dame who sits serenely at her
simple sewiug machino in her cosy room, and
makes its obedient powers vassal to her com
fort little thinks of the immense and diversi
fied labor it takos to construct the desirable
thing. If8he could transfer her gaze to the
busy scene of the machine’s manufacture, and
contrast the useful little dainty sowing auto-
maton with the vast and noisy instrumentality
of its construction, its mountainous piles of
material, its myriads of earnest workmen, and
its labyrinth and clatter of endless machinery,
she would place a higher value upon the nro
duct of so much thought, skill, toil, and cap
ital.
We cannot, iu the brief spaco of a nowspa
per letter, minutely describe tho process of
making all the parts of a Singer Sewing Ma
chine. Wood and iron aro the principal ele
ments of a machine. The iron predominates.
This factory uses the enormoas sum of 9,000
toos of crude iron a year. There are 200
bauds who do nothing but make the sand
moulds in which the frame pioces of the ma
chines are cast Each separate piece has to
have its own special mould made out of dirt
brought down thG Hudson river, beyond Al
bany. The buildings in which those nice
mouldings are cast is 550 feot in length, and
100 feet wide. Tho foundry is 600 feet long
and 100 feet wide.
The cabinet shop, where the wood of the
machine is polished off—the work being done
in Indiana and shipped here roughly finished,
is 200 feet long, and 100 feet wide.
The carpenter shop, where all tbo boxes arp
made in which the machines are shipped, is
200 feet long and 100 feet wide. It has a pla
ning machino. Tho company uses two mil
lion feet of lumber yearly.
Tbo main building is SCO feot long, and 230
feet wide, and is four stories high. It has
two oils 175x100 feot. It tcoms with machin
ery of every description, and for all purposes.
The hugo house is one bewildering wilderness
of whizzing wheels and noisy, curious, cranky
automata, that fuss, and screak, and turn out
littlo bright atoms of a complete machine.
The machinery of theso works cost a quarter
of a million of dollars. There are miles upon
miles of belting, and myriads of bumming
wheels. It takes 700 horse power of engines
to run tho grim legions of machinery demons ;
and tho engines consumo 6,000 tons of coal
yearly—a goodly bulk of tho ebony fuel.
Ono or two of the upper rooms are devoted to
putting together the machines and testing
them, and finally the bright shining approved
concern is boxed and ready for its industri
ous mission into the big world.
Theso great works, with their 2,200 toiling
artizans, aro turning out
800 PEREECT MACHINES
every day, 4,600 every week, and 250,000 a
year. In Glasgow, Scotland, at its large
works there, the company turns out 2,000
more every week. This makes a grand aggre
gate of 350,000 machines made yearly by this
great company, worth ovor throe millions of
dollars, giving employment directly to a large
army of employees representing families of
300,000 people. A grand showing !
The works aro undor tho charge of an able
superintendent, Mr. Miller. Tho company
has its tfivn engine and cars, fivo miles of its
own railroad track in its grounds, and a stoam
propeller to ply between New York and Eliza
bethport. Through all the troublous pecuni
ary times it paid itsvast army of laborers
with absoluto punctuality every Saturday
night.
STOCK AND MATERIAL.
To show tho vastness of this business it is
only necessary to statothatit takes constantly
rt least two and a half millions of dollars of
crude material at tho various factories to run
them.
Add to this tho stock of machines at the dif-
rent agencies, the buildings, office furniture,
horses, wagons and other property, aud tho
amount of personal property runs to the in
credible stun of $20,000,000. Tho stock of
material alone at tho Chicago agency amounts
to two millions of dollars.
No better illustration could be given of the
extraordinary growth of tho business of this
company than tho statement of tho fact that
in twelve yoars the weekly production of ma
chines has increased from 400 to 7000—or
nearly twenty fold— beiug over 150 per cent,
yearly. No better testimony could ha given
than this to merit of machino or ability of
raassgement.
The company has branch business houses
in at! the leading cities of America and Eu
rope, and so me 1,500 sub-agcncies under them
and employs in theso agoncios the large num
ber of 5,0(i0 persons.
THE GEORGIA AGENCY.
The State of Georgia is under tho general
management of Mr. Vosburgh, whoso head
quarters are at Savannah. Ho is assisted by
Mr. G. W. Leonard, who has charge of Atlan-
Theso gentlemen aro possessed of high
moral character and fino business capacity,
and stand doservodly well with tho manage
ment hero. In all the qualities that go to
mako up a perfectly sound, prosperous and
progressive business, this company stands the
peer of any. It is simple truth to make this
statement.
In conclusion, let me say that this great en
terprise is a grander monument to its founder
than any marblo spire. I. 'V. A.
The Athens oflico is under the charge of
Capt. G. II. Hopo.
IIOW LITTLE WE KNOW!
How little we know of each other.
Wo pass through the journey of life,
With its struggles, its fears and temptations,
Its heart-breaking cares and its striie!
Wo can only soo things on tho surface,
For few peoplo glory in sin,
And an unruffled faco is no index
To tho tumult that ragc3 within.
How little wo know of each other!
The man who to-day passes by
Blessed with fortune and honor and titles,
And holding his proud head on high,
May carry a dread socrot with hint
Which makes his bosom a hell,
And he sooner or later a felon,
May writho in the prisoner’s cell.
How littlo wo know of each other ?
That woman of fashion, who sneers
At the poor girl betrayed and abandoned.
And left to her sighs aud hor tears,
May ero tho sun rises to-morrow.
Have tho mask rudely torn from her face,
And sink from the hoight of her glory
To tho dark shades of shame and disgrace
How littlo wo know of each other !
To ourselves too little wo know !
We aro all weak when undor temptation,
All subject to error and woo.
Thon let blessed charity rale us.
Let us put away envy andspito—
For tho skeleton grim in our closet
May some day he brought to fight.
From tbo Augusta Constitutionalist.
BEX. HILL’S SPEECH.
An Eloquent and Forcible Address Ruined by an
Egotistical Conclusion.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 20th, 1874.
Hon. B. H. Hill delivered an address of two
hours, upon the political situation. Tho hall
and galleries of the House of Representatives
wore filled to overflowing. Governor Smith
was called on to preside. On taking the chair
he said : “ I will not introduce the speaker
to you to-night. The Hon. B. H. Hill will nd-
dress you "
Mr. Hill said bo felt tho compliment of the
call to address the people at this time; it was
not only complimentary, but it expressed a
confidence in him of which ho was proud.
Confldonco was the only favor he bad ever
askod of the people. I am, said he, and ever
havo boon entitied to it, but I have not always
had it—nay, when I have been most entitled
to it, it has been most denied mo.
I have not been surprised at tho events which
havo startled the country; I will be agreeably
surprised if those which wo have already wit
nessed aro not repeated npon tho country on
a large scale.
The great duty of averting tho threatened
evil, is not with the people of tho Sonth, but
of the N orth. It is there that the contest must
be solved. Their virtue and intelligence must
be subjected to a severe test.
And tho onlightenment of tho Northern peo
ple must be iu tbo councils of the nation. There
the oppressors and the oppressed must look
each other in the face, eye to eye. The great
est difficulty in saving a people from impend
ing loss of liberty is to awaken them to a con
sciousness of the danger. All the people who
are destroyed, have their destruction come
upon them by a refusal to see the danger.
The word which, has been most ottered for
mauy years has been least understood by the
American people. That word is conveyd when
I ask, “ Who is a rebel ?” In Germany or En
gland the word has a well defined significa
tion, whioh is wholly inappropriate in this
country. There the government is represent
ed or embodied in the King—in those who ex
ecute tho laws; but in this esuntry those who
executo the laws aro not sovereign.
Who is a rebel, a real rebel ? In the Con
vention of 1787, it was determined that every
officer should take an oath to support the
Constitution. Why not swear to support the
Union or Government, or Liberty ? All these
were proposed in the Convention, and were
discussed, but not adopted. Various sugges
tions were made—one that no oath at all bo
administered to officers; that if the Govern
ment were administered by good men, no oath
was necessary, and if by had men, no oath
would hind them.
11 was finally agreed that every officer should
swear to support tho Constitution. Why?
Because, when wo keep and maintain that,
wo maintain the Union, and the Government,
and tho blessings of liborty aad domestic tran
quility and every good which good government
can afford.
They then provided that this Constitution
and the laws made in pursuance thereof should
ho tho supremo law of tho land—the king—
tho sovereign ! Who thon is a patriot? He,
aud ho only, who is faithful to tho Constitu
tion. Who is a rebol ? He, and ho only who
not faithful to that sacred charter of Liberty.
There wore two parties in that convention-
one having tho extremo idea of a strong cen
tralized government; tho other that of a loose
government, having all tho power of the States.
Tho constitution which was adoptod was tho
result of a compromise hotween theso two ex
treme ideas. The advocates of a centralized
government were from New England. They
then claimed, and havo ever since claimed,
tho right to meddle with other people’s busi
ness. The real enemies of tho constitution
have been developed from that school, and
live produced a laego share of fanatics of tbo
world. They havo sought power for the pur
pose of using it to centralize the govertnont
They attacked slavery in tho South, makinj.
it a question of conscience, and attacked it
through tho Federal Government; while our
people defended it only with the rights guar
anteed to us by tho Constitution, and Stood
firmly by that alone. The centralists were
overwhelmingly defeated.
Those enemies of tho Constitution tried to
djtain power by the agitation of this question
ho Missouri compromise issue of 1820,
the acquisition of territory acquired from ilex
ieo, tbo Kansas discussions, etc. Their object
iu trying to got power has always boon to
destroy .tho Constitution.
When wo seceded, wo loft the Government
in tho bands of our enemies, and wo left our
friends in the North, also in their bands. Then
those who had previously denounced tho Union
raised tiro cry that tho Union must ho preserv
cd. These things gave thorn a great advan
tage over us. They went to war with us and
said it was to “enforce tho law!” They waged
war against these States—not because we had
violated tho Constitution, for iu all our history
tho South had been distinguished by a devo
tion to it. No Southern State or statesmen
ever violated it. Tho Southern States left
the Union because tho Northern States had
been unfaithful to tho Constitution.
Our friends at tho North wore compelled to
fight us or ho chargod with fighting against
tho Union, and they chose to fight us; and in
doing so, they fought the only people who ov
er wore ready to shed blood in defenso of the
Constitution. They thought that when we
were conquered and tho war was ended, the
Constitution and tho Union would be restored
and preserved.
But when tho enemies of tho Constitution
saw that wo would fail they brought forward
tho proposition that slavery must bo destroy
ed. They said it was slavery which was tho
causo of tho war, and it must he abolished.
This demand was hardly agreed to and car
ried out in good faith by the Southern States,
before tho country was startled with tho de
mand that these States must be reconstructed.
They were asked where Congress obtained the
power to reconstruct tho South. Tho answer
was that it was from tho fact that tho Govern
ment was tho corqueror in the contest with
us—that tho result of the war conferred the
power. Then why did they not cease to take
an oath to support the Constitution, and take
ono to support the Conqueror?
Well, reconstruction took place, but it furth
er bad terms attached to it, which were that
the negroes must be enfranchised, and made
the ignorant rulers over the disfranchised in
telligence of the country. If the Northern
fanatics (not tho Northern people— for they
havo been deluded more than we) inaugurated
the war to save the Union, why were they not
satisfied when they bad saved it? No; the
cause, tho real qnderlying cause, was that they
were dissatisfied with the Constitution, and they
still are ! They mean to have a strong gov
eminent—one that is centralized—and they
have not the manliness to say so. They have
made war on us, destroyed our property, over
thrown our State government, usurped power,
plundered and oppressed us, and loaded us
and our children for half a century with debt
through their issuo of bonds, but still they are
not satisfied!
And some people profess now to be startled
at recent occurrences! Reconstruction is over,
but oppression is not. Interference with our
affairs and reserved rights is just as active and
bigoted as ever, and increasing in impudence
and rascality.
There is lately much sympathy for Louis!
ana. Every body expresses it, and she do
serves it; hut do yon suppose her oppressors
have anything against her and her people?
No! Every stab which the assassin sends in
to the heart of Louisiana, is but practicing
for operations upon a much larger scale—but
establishing a precedent. Every blow is aim
ed at every State in the Union, and at the
Constitution of the country. ‘
In 1872 there was an election in Louisiana,
at which the anti-Radical party was elected
by 10,000 majority, and the enemies of the
Constitution determined that this election
should not stand. They set it aside, under
color of law. These Radicals practico some
shrewd features. They commit all their crimes
under color of law, though they manufacture
the law and the color, too, to order, and for
a purpose. Every usurper in the world has
had this pretext for his unlawful acta of ty
ranny and outrage.
[Here Mr. Hill went into a long history of
the Louisiana troubles—giving his views there
of, with which the people of Georgia who
read newspapers are familiar. Ho then con-
tinned.J
Did they disperse the Loaisiana Legislature
to save the Union? Why does the Govern
ment at Washington still think it necossary
to interfere with and control tho State Legis
lature ? It is to continue themselves in pow
er, that they may complete tho work of de
stroying the Constitution and subverting the
Liberty of the people It is not out of hatred
to Louisiana. It is aimed at you, and at the
rights of the people of the Union, it is a blow
at the States and at the Constitution.
Mr. Hill’s denunciation of Sheridan’s ban
dit dispatch, and the President for defending
and apologizing for it, were scathing and se
vere ; and he declared that th* party in pow
er would not stop at the overthrow of Louisi
ana ; they would not stop till tho Constitu
tion was destroyed, unless tho people of tho
entire country, by their popular voico, should
froivD it down overwhelmingly.
Even now. a special committee of Congress
has been appointed to inquire what further
legislation is necessary—not for Louisiana—
but for the Southern States ! And this com
mittee is now discussing tbo moasuro of un
reconstructing reconstruction, and reconstruct
ing usovor again. It shows their animus—
thoir object and aim; that they never went
to war with us for tho purpose of abolishing
slavery or perpotmting tho Union, but solely
for the purposo of destroying tho Constitu
tion, and for this purpose they aro detorrain-.
ed to retain their power at ail hazards.
I am glad to seo that some leading Republi
cans in the country aro crying out against this
blow at Louisiana, and declaring it to ho one
at all the States. It gives me hopes that they
are now seeing, that tho party which they have
nursed is the real rebel against tho Constitu
tion of the country.
Secession was a terrihio mistake, hut it was
not a crime. It violated no oath to support tho
Constitution. It trampled upon no individu
al rights ; invaded tio State, dispersed no
Legislature, and invaded no sacred homo
with desolation. But Radicalism—Central
ism—Coercion—was not a mistako; it was an
intentional crime.
It has trampled upon ten thousaud oaths.
It has defended tbo Union as a fact hut de
stroyed it as a principle. They have obtain
ed power and sworn to support the Constitu
tion, and are using the power to subvort, over
throw and destroy tho Constitution They
havo burned cities, throttled Legislatures,
destroyed States, and chained Liberty to tho
car of despotism. I arraign Radicalism as
the only Rebel against tho Constitution,
against Liberty, every principle of Justico
and every blessing on this earth.
Will the Northern peoplo see it ? I believe
they can—at least I havo some hopes of it.
The great battlo, of whether constitutional
liberty shall continue in this country or not,
will be fought in 1876. Can it he successful at
tbo ballot-box ? I warn you that a popular
vote will not secure to tho Constitution a vic
tory, unless it shall bo so overwhelming as to
amount to a popular revolution. If you de
feat Radicalism in ’76 by only one or two, or
threo, four or five States, they will use the
Samo means to retain their power in the Gen
eral Government which they are now using in
Louisiana. They will tako the power, and
keep it! I want tho minds of tho American
peoplo to be directed to tho great question,
Who in American history is a rebel ?”
And the appeal to tho ballot-box will fail
unless the people of the whole country shall
rally and sweep rebellion from tho offices of
the country by the breath of their indigna
tion. Nothing else can save us.
But if the appeal to tho ballot-box fail,
what then ? Shall we have war or despotism ?
Shall we have blood or Empire ? Those are
momentous questions. 1 tell you, we shall
never have peace till Radicalism is crushed,
destroyed and mado infamous forever. I
pray God that war may not como, but if it
does come, let it come ! We of the South
will rally to the defenso of tho Constitution
under the old flag ! It always was ours. We
were always truo and faithful to it and tho
principles it was intended to represent, while
those who made war on us never wore.
Let the roll call commence at Bunker Hill
and then at Concord and Saratoga and Bran
dywine ; and when it crosses the Potomac,
let it bo heard at Manasa9 and Cbanceliors-
ville and at the Wilderness and Chickamauga
and Shiloh. Metbinks that almost tho very
dead wifi leap up and answer to tho call.
This is but a faint outlino of Mr. Hill’s
speech thus far, which was indeed powerful,
making a deep impression and eliciting fre
quent applause. Right here be could have
stopped, but he went oa to defend his past
course, especially to defend his advocacy of
Greeley for President, as well as for his letter
of December 1870, intimating that there was
some very important secret history behind,
which could not yot be told, but that the time
would como when it could be, in saving Geor
gia in 1871 from the fate which has befallen
Louisiana, that some bad accused him of tak
ing the credit to himself; be would not say
how that was, but bis slanderers bad no band
in averting the terrible evils from us aud se
curing good government for the past several
years. This personal allusion and vindica
tion somewhat marred the effect of what he
had already said, and was regretted by most
of the persons in the ball. Hampton.
A Beautiful Thought.
God knows what keys in the human soul to
touch, in order to draw out its sweeter and
more perfect harmonies. They may bo the
minor strains of sadness and sorrow; they may
be the loftier notes of joy and gladness. God
knows where the melodies of our nature are,
and what discipline will bring them forth.
Some with plaintive tongues miiat walk in low
ly vales of life’s weary way; others in loftier
hymns sing of nothing but joys, as they tread
the mountain tops of life; bat they all unite
without discord or jar as the ascending an
them of loving and believing hearts finds its
way into the chorus of tfie redeemed in heaven.
Freebooters—Men who are ready to kick for
nothing.
