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HV JOHN H. CHRISTY. DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS, AGRICULTURE, EDUCATION AND GENERAL PROGRESS. $3.00 pex* Annum, in advance. VOLUME XXII. ATHENS, GEORGIA,—WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1875. NUMBER 8. THE SOUTHERN WATCHMAN ri HUSHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. .,rr.ru'r of BewtA and IfnllStreets, (upstairs.) TERMS. TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, I N VARIABLY IN ADVANCE. ADVERTISING. Vlrertiaemsot, will beinserted at ONE DOLLAR isii FIFTY CENTS per square for the firstinser- ;V B „.i SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS per square for l,,,i,V.iniiauanee, for any time under one month. For periods,* liberal dednotion will be made. u V \ liberal I eduction on year); adrertiiementa. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheri'’i Mien, per levy of 10 linee. $500 m irtstga ealee, M daya._. 5.00 jile«, 40 1»VS by Administrator).,Executor;, or .laarlinr-s «. ~ 0.50 Citation* of Administration or Guardianship...... 4.00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors- 5.00 jjjl,, N i-i. per tonare, each insertion 1.50 hears to sell Heal Estate 4.00 oiutbafor limission of Admiuietrator 5.00 .< « " Guardian 5.25 To ncertain tho number of cqnaros in an adrertise- aont or .bituarj, count the words—-one hundred being e«iual to ten lines. AllfTaetions are counted at fall .quires. f clrct |gisf*Ua«i». NUAT HAS THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA DONE FOR THE STATE I After giving a history of the donation of fortv thousand acres of land to ibo University bv iho State of Georgia, out of which grows thr annual payment of eight thousand dollars from tho State Treasury, Chancellor Tucker, in his admirable address delivered beforo the Legislature, proceeds to inquire what the Uni versity lias done for the State. From this portion of his address we make the following citnicis, which, we feel sure, will be read with interest: Let us now see what the University has done tor tho State, it may bo assumed on general principles that it has done what any other in stitution of learning has done for the State or community in which it is located. It has dif fused abroad to a certain extent the benefits and blessings of education. Exactly what all these benefits and blessings are, and exactly lmw valuable they are it is impossible to say. They are so far-reaching and so penetrating: they so twist t beta selves around every fibre of society; they so diffuse their influence through I,earl. mind, soul and body, public and private, that nothing short of omniscience could say that they aro worth just so much, and neither more nor less. There is, indeed, a certain pe cuniary value in education, just as there is in any article of merchandise, but even this, it is impossible precisely to - estimate; how much less can we estimate those moral, mental and social benefits of which money is not tho measure! But this we can do; we can see that there is a huge difference between civil ization and barbarism; and we can see that if a civilized people were to lose tbeir education they would relapse into barbarism, or some thing like it; and that if a barbarous people were educated, they would become civilized. W.-can see that whore learning is cultivated, and it is learuiug of high order of which I speak, the people have most of the elements of happiness, prosperity, power and greatness: and we see these elements nowhere else. It is easy to see the difference between England or Germany, and the Ottoman Empire; and easy to see almost as great a difference, taking the mass of the people into the account, be tween England dr Germany, and Russia, whose teeming millions are almost half Savage. It is Udiiceahle, too, ibat these millions of the Rus sian Empire are controlled and governed and mastered by the educated few. The glory of the Empire is the work of an oligarchy. The poirer is monopolized by cnltivated mind; the millions are but serfs. Legally free, they are menially bound. Iguorance is slavery. What would Germany be without its Insti tutions of learning ? They have been there, many of them, for centnries doing their quiet, hut suro and potent work. Extract from Ger man mind, and character and progress, all that learning has done for that people, and leave nothing but tbe ignorant boor of ton centuries »ro, or tbe savage of twenty centnries, and what would be their position beforo the world this day T When Ciesar fought them, though they were as brave a race as tbe suu ever shone upon, they fell before the power of civilized Rome When they, in turn, fought the French three years ago, that valiant Gallic race, tbe peer of any on earth In military prowess—succumbed before tbe power of a people, among whom education is universal and learning common. Thus history repeated itself. It was not the Roman sword that conquered tho Alleroan ni, it was Roman culture. Again, it was not 'ho Gorman armies that conquered France, It was the German universities. They were the oiwsa cautarum. Salt has ever been; so it will over be. Cultivated mind involves gen- *i*l excellence and general superiority. It holds tbe sceptre of power; power over mind; power over matter, over tbe elements, over tbe face, over the world. What would Great Britain be without the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and London, and Edinburgh, and Dublin f A thousand years ago the foundations of the Uni versny of Oxford were laid by Alfred the Great. 1'or ten centuries its influence has ran tbroagh all English literature, and art, and science, and society. We feel it here this day. Every °u* of us has been indirectly its pupil. Hern in Georgia, four thousand miles from tbe spot •here that corner-stone was laid, and a thou *and years after the band that laid It, has gone to dust, we find that we are not what we would have been, but for that act of far seeing ragac- 'ty- Then, King Alfred laid the foundation of England's future greatness. Thero he built an altar consecrate to learning; and be kindled °n it a fire, whose light has shot down through succeeding centnries. The Intelligence that warns on me from the ,e>os that look on mo 10 day, is bat the refleeted or rather the trans mitted light of that ancient centre of learning, jn that act, perhaps tbe greatest in King At- f*d's glorious reign, bo said, “ Let there be wL” a “d there was light, and there it light. The University of Georgia has done, and is doing for ua, exaotly what other institutions oflike character have done and are doing for wbers. Like causes produce like effects.— 1 he time has never been and can never be, "hen an institution of learning can fail to be * source of refinement, improvement, elovatlon and power. So long as mind is superior to matter, just so long will its enltare lead to tho increase of all substantial good. True, the University of Georgia is not the P*er of the long established and thoroughly universities of Europe, nor is it poe- » . i l ? M ,n *®y short time It should be; nor >« to it desirable. If Inferior ts them in many aspect*, or even in all, it is nevertheless bet- *, udapted to oar wants. It is tbe outgrowth w our own necessities, and its expansion will ootne with the demand for it. If I had the power tbiaday, to plnck up tho University of *oorRia by the roots and transfer it to the Capital, and to reeeivo in return for •jtue University of Berlin, 1 would not make {?« exchange. Our own University is better, g”' **» « I* better for us. Somo centuries we shall be prepared for such instil u- ** thoae of the old world, and by that *® shall havo them. Our true policy is .,?™ ,ID hate then- - venerable seminaries which t f rntgrnwth of rpot i :''l<'a. bur rn*hcr to develop our own; and not to expect from oars iwbat is produced by them, but to be satisfied with such results as are possible in the present state of American society. But, has tbe University of Georgia done all that was possible ? Certainly it has not done us much aa it would have done with larger means. In 1801, tbe only College edifice was a frame building of only one room, and the Faculty consisted of tbe President and one tutor; and in 1804, tbe first commencement was held nnder a tree. For many years the means were very small, and even now they are very small, compared with those of many oth er institutions, even in onr own country. Bnt, without having the means of proof for so vague a proposition, I havo no hesitation in express ing my belief, that tbe Uoiverslty of Georgia bas done, and is doing, all that could reason ably be ei pected of it. 1 do not believe that another institution can be found, of the samo age, and under the same circumstances, that has accomplished more of all that a College ought to accomplish. It may be interesting to look at results some-1 what in detail. We have tent out into tbe world abont thirteen hundred graduates, overy one of them vastly more a man than be would have been but for our instructions; and every one of these educated men bas been himself an educator. Each one, however hnmble, has bad fils in fluence, and tbo.influence of an educated man is greater and better than the influence of that samo man would have been without education. Take away from Georgia tho influence of these thirteen hundred educated men, and tho State would not be wbat it is by. many degrees. Of these thirteen hundred, more than one hundred have been preachers oftbA “glorious Gospel of tbe blessed God.” About one to every twelvo or thirteen of the whole number bas been before tbe people every week, edu cating the masses mentally, morally, religious ly. Twentv-six of onr graduates have been members of the Congress of the United States; and many a time bas tbe National Capitol trembled from corner stone to dome, under thunders of cloqnenco which were but tho de tonation of electric energy generated in the minds of our youth at the University of Geor gia. One in every fifty of our whole number, bas represented us in tbe National Connells. Nino of onr graduates have been Judges of the Supreme Court, in this and in other States Thus one in overy ono hundred and thirty has attained to the highest possible judicial hon ors io the State. Thirty of them have been Judges in the Superior Coart, or one in every forty-three. Forty-one of them have been presidents or professors in Colleges, or one in every thirty one. About two buudred of them ■(estimated) have been members of tbe Legis lature of Georgia, or ono to overy 6ix or soven. Four have been Governors, or one to every! three hundred and twenty five, and two have] been Bishops, or ono to overy six hundred and fifty. In short, we have furnished to tho Stato, for the last sixty or seventy years, a large pro portion of all its leading men. I have men tioned only the few who have attained to pub lic distinction. These.all put togethcr.amouot, ■number, to about four hundred. But be-] sides these, there are nearly nine hundred oth ere, many of whom, if they have not boon sol distinguished, may have been quite as useful. Hundreds of them bavo been teachers, and although they may have lived and died in comparative obscurity, yct. in tht> patient toil and drudgory of tho school-room, they may have done more to bless the world than others! whose names are written high on the seroll of] fame. Many of them have been enlightened cultivators of the soil, and if their names have not becomo prominent, it is becauso the nature of thoir business is private, and not public. I doubt not, that many of thou whom names are unknown, are tbe peers of thou who are brat known; and whether they are or not, they have been useful men, and, as a class, have been among the best of our citizens. Of professors of tho healing art wo can boast not a few, some of whom havo achieved a rep utation that will reach posterity. The first! man in the world who discovered* the use of] anaesthetics in surgory, was one of our alumni, Dr. Crawford W. Long, of Athens. | I have spoken only of tbe graduatesTbatl lit most be remembered that there have been many others, I cannot say how many, for the early records aro lost, but I shall perhaps not exaggerate If I say more than three thou sand, who received fair education with us. but who failed to graduate. These, too, we claim as our sons; hundreds of these have held prominent positions in ehnroh and in state. I hazard but little in saying that al most every ono has made his mark on tho commnnity io which he lived ; and I know II hazard nothing in saying, that everyone of them left us with more power than he had when ho came. Thus, in seventy years, we have furnished tho Stato with an army or per haps five thousand educated men. t Wbat would tbe Stato. what could the State, havo done without them? Suppose that daring these seven decades there had been no such institututiou in tbe State, either at Athens or elsewhere, what wonld havo been our condi tion » Wo should have beon behind every other State in the Union, and all that makes neoplo worthy of respect. We should havo been behind every people on the civilized globe, of equal population, territory and wealth. Wo should havo been sneered at, scoffed at, jeered at. a hissing and a by-word to all man kind. What is it that has kept ns from this disgrace t Wbat is it that makes us what we aro ! So far as we aro good, and so far as wo have or enjoy anything that is good, wo owe it largely to mental cultivation. Whence did this cultivation come ? Chiefly from our in stitutions of learning. And whence did these institutions come? Largely from the Univer sity of Georgia—in a sense, the mother of tf^etn all. And whence did the University of Geor gia come f From thirty five thousand acres of wild land! Was there ever such a stupendous income from so small an outlay t Five thou sand educated men, tho produce of thirty-five thousand ncrcs of wild land, not worth threo cents an acre! What a glorions harvest! And if these acres had produced but one man and that man had been Alexander H. Steph ens or John B. Gordon, that ono would have been worth tho whole tract, and immensely more, even at its present price, and with all its yearly incrcaso from tho beginning until now. It is said that many yonng men have been ruined at tho University. It is not said how many havo been ruined at home, and who. perhaps might have been saved if they had been but under the fostering care of the University of the State. But it may be well to look among these ruins, and take account of the damage that bas been done at this no- table place. There i3 where Stophens was ruined; and Gordon, too. was mined at this nlaco There is where William C. Dawron was ruined, and there is where Eugenius A. Nisbet was ruined, and there is where Iverson L. Harris was ruined, and there is where Hugh A Haralson was rained, and there is whero Judge John J. Floyd was ruioed, and his classmate. Judgo Junius Hillyer, was ruined at the same time and place. There is where Bishop George F. Pierce was rainod, with bis distinguished classmates, Dr. Nathaniel Ma con Crawford. Dr. Shaler G.HiHyer. and Bish op Thomas F. Scott, and Dr. John F. Wad dell Chancellor or the University of Mississip- ni ’ These flvo classmates. Pierce. Crawford, Hillver. Scott and Waddell, were all slain at one fell swoop or tbe arch destroyer. They were all ruined at the University in the class of 1829 Ebonezer Starnea met his fate at the same place, and so did Henry L. Benning both Judges of the Supremo Court. Howell Cobb and Herschol V. Johnson, both Gover nors of Georgia, were classmates, aud both foil together, and at the same time and place fell Judge Augustin Reese. Francis 8. Bartow and Jnnitu A. Wingfield were classmates and mot tbe same doom. Judge James Jackson and Jodge David A. Yason, and Dqvid W. Lewis, for fourteen years a member of this body, and Governor John Gill Shorter, of Al abama, were classmates and met a common catastrophe. Professor Shelton P. Sanford, William Hope Hall, Isaiah Taeker Irwin, once the Speaker of this Hooge, and Professor John LeConte, of national reputation, and Rev. Dr. Benjamin M. Palmer, of New Or leans, were classmates, and the splendid gal axy all went down together. Alas! for tbe class of 1838! His Honor of the Supreme Court, Judge Robert P. Trippe, and His Honor Judge Al exander Speer, were io the same class and met together the rain which is so common at the University. This was tbe class of 1839. Professor Joseph LeConte and Thomas R. R. Cobb, fell together. Dr. Felton and General | And a vision fell solemn and sweet, Garlington were in the next class. Jabez L. Bringing gleams of* morning-lit land; M. Curry, Judge E. H. Pottle, and Judge Lin- I saw tbe whit ' LEONA. Competent literary critics have pronounced the following' poem unsurpassed by any other production of its class in our language. It is perfect in rhyme, beautiful ia figure and ex pression, and we know onr readers will thank os for its production.—Ed. Const. Leona, the honr draws nigh. The hour we’re waited so long, For the angel to open a door through the sky, That my spirit may break from Us prison and try Its voice in an infinite rang. Just now, as the slumbers of Came o’er me with peace-girteg breath, Tbe certain half lifted, revealed to my sight Those windows whioh.look on the kingdom — a,—of light. That borders the river of death'. too Stephens, were >n the next; and Peter W. Alexander, Henry H. Jones, and last, but not least—I say last, bat no*, least—Benjamin H. Hill, were in tbe next! Just look over the list—and tbe list might be indefinitely enlarg ed, for I have named only a few as specimens of tbe many—and see wbat we have done ! To say nothing of others, some twenty mem bers of this body, with Speaker O. A. Bacon at their head, might be added to tbe catalogue of the slain. Bat, pleasantly aside, all the men whom I have named are men of natural parts, and would, doubtless, have been men of mark, even without collegiate education ; bat not one of them would have been himself os now known to the world, withoat the direc tion given to bis mind and tbe power develop ed at tbe University of Georgia It is a fair rale, to judge of the tree by its fruits, and by this rale we are willing to stand or fail. Of conrso the thousands of students who have been in attendance at our balls have not all been saints. Many of them doubtless were vicious before they came, and so contin ued. Some may have become vicious while they were with us; bnt shall that be attribut ed to the influence of the place, or the institu tion. Attribute it rather to the depravity of human nature. Take all who have ever Ween with us, good and bad, and we shall be only too happy to compare them, as a class, with any other students, or with any equal number of those who have never been students. In regard to the students now in attendance at the University, I take pleasure in saying that since my connection with the institution, if there has been a solitary case of intoxica tion. or a solitary case of open vice of any kind, it lias not come to my knowledge. There have been some ebullitions of youthful feel ing and yonthful folly; bnt daring tbe present collegiate year not a solitary student has been expelled or suspended, and not a solitary one has been arraigned before the faculty for mis conduct. I have had occasion to administer reproof, bnt in no instance have I thought proper to pnt a student on trial before my col eagues. Withio the last few years the disci pline of the University has changed character entirely, and bas been greatly improved. I hope it may be still farther improved ; bat I shall endeavor to accomplish this end, not by violent and heroic measures, but by a govern ment whieh shall mingle kindness with firm ness and justice; by convincing the students that while I am tbeir sympathizing friend, re garding myself «n loco parentis. I shall yet face such emergencies of office as may arise, how ever painful to myself or to others, with calm, inflexible determination. I am persoaded that any body of yonng men can be controlled, as a class, by any fairly judicious nnd manly administration, which treats them with re spect doe to gentlemen, and which combines gentleness and patience with nerve. To this ideal It shall be my aim to conform. Great progress bas been made of late years ia the art of college government, and while, ae on- der all other governments, disorders will oc cur, yet an executive officer of moderate abili ty, who keeps abreast of the times, must achieve a degree of success which, a genera tion ago, wonld have been thought to be im possible. We have with us two hundred and eighty noble yonng men. The number of new eta- dents at the opening of the term was larger, I think, than ever beforo io the history of the institution. Tbe number, of former students who returned was not so large as frequently before. Such has been tbe tendency for rav- al years, and it is likely to oontinne; the rea ran of which, I think, is simply this: that in these days of poverty, many are anxious to remain long enough to graduate, they stay with ns a year and do not return. If the students now with os are fairly rep resented by those who have preceded them, and I aw in general no reason why they should not be. then, being guided by tbe proportion of distinguished men already referred to, we may suppose that we have with us now at the University of Georgia nineteen young preach ers, four incipient congressmen, one or two youthful lodges of the supreme court, five ju voline judges of the superior court, five embryo college presidents, or professors, thirty-five legislators, possibly one bishop, and probably one or two Governors, and one hundred and fifty leading citizens. Profoundly impressed with the obligations of offieo ami, when I re member that so precious a charge is commit ted to my care, and that I am responsible to my country and to my God, for the •• wisdom, jnstiee and moderation” of my official conduct. Bnt my joy'is this, that groat responsibility is offset by glorions opportunity. The rewards of success in such a work as this are enough to satisfy the highest demands of tbe human heart. saw the white shore whieh the pale waters beat. And I heard the low tail as they broke at their feet ' Who walked on the beantiful strand. And I wondered why spirits could cling To their clay with a straggle and sigh. When. life's purple Autumn is better than Spring, And tbe soul flies away like a sparrow to sing In a climate where leaves tever die. Leona, come close to my bed. And lay your dear bead on my brow; The same touch that thrilled me in days that are fled. And raised the lost roses of youth from the dead. Can brighten the brief moments now. We have lived from the cold world apart, And vour trust was too generous and true For their bate to o’erthrow; when the slan derer's dart. Was rankling deep in my desolate heart, was dearer than ever to yon. thank the Great Father for this, That onr love is not lavished in vain i Each germ in tbe fatnre will blossom to bliss. And tbe forms that we love and the lips that we kiss. Never shrink at the shadow of pain. By the light of this faith am I taught That my labor is only began; In the strength of this hope hare I straggled and fonght With the legions of wrong, till my armor has caught Tbe gleam of Eternity’s snn. Leona, look forth and behold. From headland, from hillside, and deep, Tbe day-king enrrenders his banners of gold: Tbe twilight advances tbroagh woodland and wold. And the dews are beginning to weep. Tbe moon's silver hair lies nnenried Down the broad-breasted mountains away; The ennset'e red glory again shall be fnrled On the walls of the West, o’er the plains of tbe world. shall rise In a limitless day. O ! come not in tears to my tomb, Nor plant with frail flowers the sod; There is rest among roses too sweet for its gloom. And life where the lilies eternally bloom Id the balm-breathing gardens of God. Wayside Gatherings. to t Yet deeply those memories burn Which bind me to you and to earth, And I sometimes have thought that my being would yearn In the bowers of Us beautiful home, to re turn And visit the home of its birth. ’Twould even be pleasant to stay. And walk by yonr side to the last; But ths land-breeze of heaven is beginning to play— Life-shadows are meeting Eternity's day, And its tumult is bushed in the past. Leona, good bye; ehonld the grief That is gathering now, ever be Too dark for yonr faith, yon will long for re lief. And remember, the jonrney, though lone some, is brief. Over lowland and river to me. G. Clark. ..Between two evils choose neither. ..The end of everything—the letter g. ..Canyon spell consent in three lettersf y-e-s. ..Even the laziest boy can sometimes catch a whipping. How mneb does a fool weigh generally A simple ton. ..The only suits that last longer than yon want are law suits. As twice eleven are twenty-two, how can twice ten be twenty, too t ..The Kansas grasshoppers speak very highly of the spring's cabbages. ..A piano affords a young lady a good chance to show her fingering and her Unger- ring. ..What is the difference between a belle and a burglar ? The belle carries false locks, and the burglar false keys. • I am bound to have my rights,' as the man said to the shoemaker who had sold him a pair of boots, both lefts. ..When Agassiz wa3 pressed to deliver a lecture for pay. ho replied: * I cannot afford to waste my time for money.' ' Lnv is sed tu be blind, but I know lots of phellows ia luv who can see twice as much in their gals as I kan.—Josh Billings. ..A gentleman observing the sign of “ Cas well” upon a business establishment, remark ed that it would be ' as tcell without the C.’— Mail ..'Is tbia Adam’s House?' asked a stran ger of a Bostonian. ‘ Yes,’ was tbe reply, HATTIE HYDE. I am Hattie Hyde, an old maid, at least not a yonng one. and I intend to remain so. But I came very near getting married last spring, and I will tell yon how it happened. I am thirty-five, and not absolutely ugly— at least, when I look io the glass, I we reflected there a good fresh complexion, sparkling ha zel eyes, and an abundance of brown hair. I might have married two or three times, only I wasn’t really in love. But when Clarence Raymond came down to spend the vacation with his aant— Mrs Richford—I mast confess to a little womanly flatter around tbe heart, for he was tali and handsome, and, in short, just the hero of ro mance that I bad always dreamed about. • Hattie,’ said Mrs. Richford—we were quite confidential friends, and called one another Hattie and Paraelia, and borrowed each other’s books, and all sorts of things; • Hattie, I think Clarence rather fancies you.' * Do youf sa!d I. feeling the tell-tale biash es coming into my face, and my heart bogao to thump beneath the pretty lace tuckers Vaienoiennes and pink ribbon that I bad taken to wearing every day. ' I am certain of it,’ said Mrs. Richford; and how nice it will be to have you for a cousin, ‘Yes.’ It was very nice to be engaged. He gave me a lovely cameo ring, choicer aud more antique than any diamond conld have been. > It had been his mother's ring, he said, and he repeated the most delicious poetry and vow ed that it expressed the very sentiments of bis heart. And we bad wanderings in tbe cool, fern scented woods, and I began to wonder wheth er I should be married in white satiu or dove-colored traveling-drew, and pink ribbons in my hat. One evening, just after Clarence had re turned to his QDavoidahle engagement in the city, old Uncle Elnathan came to visit me. Uncle Elnathan was one of those persons whom we are apt to ask, ' Why were they ov er created f He wa3 a venerable old gentleman, with long silver hair, that foil over the collar of his bottle-green coat, and cloth gaiters that resistahly reminded one of a black pussy cat and he took snuff and talked through his nose ' Harriet,’ said Uncle Elnathan, • Is this true!’ * Is what true, ancle 1' Harriet! Harriet! I thought yon had better sense.’ It’s only five years, uncle,’ said I, pouting, and I suppose I have a right to get engaged without sending to yon for a permit.' ‘ Harriet, this is not a subject to be flippant about,’ said Uncle Elnathan, * You may de pend upon it, that this young man is a mere fortune hnnter. Yon have property, Harriet, and he has fonnd it out.’ ‘ Uncle!’ I cried, starting up, ‘ I will not listen tamely to snob aspersions upon the char acter of one who—’ ' Well, my dear, yon needn’t get excited,’ said the intolerable old gentleman, tapping Z- . f.hia hand upon the lid of his silver snuff-box. * Yon are not a child, Harriet, nor yet a sen timental school girl. Let’s talk the matter calmly over.’ ‘ I decline to discuss it, sir,' was my digni fied reply. ' My mind is made np and no amount of meddliDg interference can indace me alter it.’ * But aren't yon just a little pert towards yonr old Uncle, Hattief’ So my Uncle went away, silver hair, snuff box, pussy gaiters, and all, and I sat down to make a memorandum of tbe things I should require for my wedding outfit. For I bad re solved to make an eapeoial journey to London that business Ah, tbe delight of revelling over connters full of choice, filmy laces, billows of bridal silk, oceans of tulle! it brought the color to my cheek only to think of it. And besides, was it not necessary that Clar- enco’s wife should have all that custom re quired f I didn't care for myself so much, but I was determined not to disgrace Clarence. So one radiant September day, when the sky was as blue as blue ribbon, and the very leaves hung motionless in the yellow atmos phere, like ships at anchor on a sea of gold, I took the early train from C , with a purse full of money, buttoned in an nnder pocket of my polonaise. I bad read all sorts of horrid stories abont piok pockets, and didn't mean to part with my bank notes except for valae received. I felt a little fluttered at first, and scarcely ventured to look around me, for it seemed that everybody must know that I was going to Lon don to bny my wedding outfit. If I attempt to tell you anything abont the adventures of that day I know I Shall not succeed. Women conld perhaps understand how I felt in that fairy land of those great circles of fashion that exist only in London—glittering halls where the poor sewing girl or tbe labor er’s wife are treated with as muoh consider ation and respect as the millionaire’s lady or the yonng damsel who can’t get on a glove for the diamond ring on her finger. I bought tbe wedding dress, white rep silk and a veil of tnlle, suspended from a garland of orange blossoms, and I selected a bine silk, and. a peach colored silk, and a maroon silk, and dear me! what is the nse of cataloging them ail ? Other girls have been brides elect before me, and they all know just how it all was. And as for those who haven’t just let them wait until their tarn comes. And then as the snn began to deoline on its western way, I felt excessively and nnroman- ticaily hungry. Is there a nice ladies’ dining-room near heret’ I asked. One of the shopmen went with me to tbe door to point ont a glittering establishment, with its windows frill of hot house fruits, and morsels of paces and delicately tinted cakes, Dear me 1 London is tbe piace to feel one’s insignificance. I do not think that I, Hattie Hyde, ever felt so small in the whole course of my life as I did walking over the floor of M. Rechamier's Pari sian restaurant, with a waiter running on be fore to point ont a marble table sparkling with cut-glasa'andeilver, and another following on behind carrying my travelling-bag and para sol ; while an elegant Frenchman, curled and perfumed, stood in the middle of the door bowing as if be were nnder eternal obligations to me for as much as coming into his estab lishment. I sat down, feeling mnch as If I were an im postor, venturing meekly to look around little after tbe waiter bad eimered away. Then, for tbe first time, I noticed a superb ly-dressed young lady one or two tables be yond, in a lovely hat with a long, lilac willow plnme, and hair like a shower of gold. ‘ Ob, how pretty she is,' thought I. * How proud her lover most be of her.' I leaned tbe least bit forward, to see the yonng man in question. Good heaven! It was Clarence. And as I eat staring, completely concealed from bis view by the golden hair and the lilac willow plume, I could hear his light peculiar laugh. * You wouldn’t have me yourself Kate,’ said he; ’you only havo yourself to blame for it.’ * That’s no reason you should throw your self away,’ pouted tho lady. ‘She’s a desperate old maid,’ said Clarence, * as old as tbe hills aud twice as antiquated. But she’s got tbe money. A man in my posi tion has got to look ont for your money, you know, Kate. Would you like to see her pho tograph 1’ And then tbe two heads were close together for an instant, and the young lady's rippling laugh mingled with Clarence’s mellow tones. ‘ The idea of carrying such a thing next to your heart 1’ she said. It does seem rather outrageous, don’t it t' said he. ‘ But when we are married all that sort of thing will be over. I'll see that she finds her level.’ Yes, when ! thought I, now thoroughly dis enchanted. * , i : Aud I got up and hurriod out of the restau rant, stumbling over a tray, a dish of oysters and a cup of coffee. * I—I’ve changed my mind,’ said I, flinging a sovereign toward him. 1 Never mind those oysters.’ I took tho next train to C , and wroto a scathing note to Clarauce the same evening. Do you want to know what was in it? ‘ Our engagement is at an end. H. H.' ' F. S.—The next time you examine ladies' photographs in a crowded restaurant, it might be well to examine yonr neighbors.’ Clarence bad some sense alter all. He never came near me with useless apol ogies. I gave the wedding dress to little Dorothy Miller, who was to be marrried in October, and coaldn't afford a trousseau. I suppose I shall wear oat the blue and the peach color aud tbe maroon in time. Oh, I forgot to state that Mrs. Richford was very angry. It seems that Clarence had promised to pay her a hundred pounds that he bad borrowed of her when he got bold oftuy money. And I am thankfnl from tbe bottom of my heart that I still remain Hattie Hyde. — The New Kotor. THAT INVENTION WHICH IS TO REVOLUTION IZE THE WORLD. Recently a Chicago Tribune contained a Washington dispatch that a caveat for a novel invention—a new motive power—had been filed in the Patent Office. The invention claims, says the dispatch, that this motor will supercede coal and wood for all purposes ex cept warmth and cooking, and that it will revolutionize the present system of motive power. Tbe inventor’s name is Keely. He first dis covered the principle be bas developed in his motor while attempting to make a power sav ing water wheel; and a few years ago applied the power, which is produced from water with out fire or chemicals, to machinery—to run ning stationary engines. He first experiment ed upon a little engine that would stand upon the palm pf a man's hand. When the power was let on, tho engine moved. The weight of tbe inventor who stood upon a board laid from the rang of a chair to tbe engine In a way to test its power, conld not stop it. It moved tbe board and its burden np and let it down with great ease. To test tbe power that bad been obtained, Mr. Keely then made a cylinder of drawn copper, encased this in wrought iron, and placed around both steel bands close together—a powerful cylinder. Tbe power was tamed on. and the cylinder was torn to pieces in an instant. Then a three-horse power engine was built, and finally a fifteen-horse. These engines have been run in Philadelphia every day for a year without tbe use of coal or wood, without the use of fire, and without the use of chemicals, at a cost of not one cent. Tbe fifteen-horse power engine bas been run twenty-three consecutive hours with power manufactured iu less than five minutes. These facts we learned troma gen- tiemau interested in tbe invention, who has seen the eugines'&lmost every day, and who could not possibly have any object in telling falsehoods in reference to this wonderful dis covery. Tbe dispatch to which wo have alluded says that the scientific exports who have ex amined it state that tbe invention is entirely practicable, and will he patented." If it is practical (and that it is we have not the shad ow of a doubt,) wbat a revolution the inven tion will work iu the world! It will super sede the use of steam, and will solve the prob lem of cheap transportation. Locomotives can ran from Cairo to Chicago without stop ping for either coal or water. The smoke stacks of steamboats will disappear, their boil ers be taken oat, and tbe great expense of fuel saved to them. Tbe great danger of fire and explosion will be removed from rivers, and tbeir snrfaoes will fairly swarm with all kinds of water crafts propelled by tbe Keely motor, for it can he used as well on a barge as on a greater bail. Tbe power is obtained from water. By a mechanical contrivance Mr. Keely changes water from an nnelastio fluid into an elastic fluid which can be called by no better name than cold steam. In other words, Mr. Keely obtains from water without using fire or chem icais the power now obtained from water by fire, and called steam. It is indeed a wonder ful invention, and, as we bave raid before, is destined to work a great revolution in tbe world, a greater revolution than that made either by tbe cotton gin, the steam engine, or tbe telegraph. And, in tbe language of Col Sellers, “ there's millions in it.”—Cairo Bulle tin. are deteriorating, that onr skilled workmen are foreigners, while onr corner loafers are na tive boro; that in oaf senate chamber we have no Clay, nor Webster, nor Cass, nor Cal houn, nor Benton, hut in their stead a class of men who are wondronsly dwarfed by tbe con trast they present with snch intellectual gi ants. - ■ -■ : v We suggest no remedy—we know of none— but with the fact existing that Jackson and Clay and Cass and Fillmore, and Lincoln and Johnson, were children of poverty, brought np to labor almost from their earliest child hood, suffering all the privations of tho poor est, it becomes us as a people so to regulate Mjo physical occupations of the young that we may be able to raise a class of men who are fit to rale the state and perpetuate its liberties. is high time that wo should get rid of some of our theories, and bo more practical; that we ra mould society that labor will bo regard- honorable, practically, not theoretically, and they who give tone to society shall honor the laborer and discountenance the drone; that a man’s best passport will be his moral worth and bis willingness to labor, and that he who will not labor shall hot eat.—Gazette it Bulletin. - - Said an ambitions Philadelphia wife to her slow-going husband, the other day: • Why can’t yon distinguish yourself in some way ? Better be a great defaulter than nothing.' L4KA* COBB. I A. S. SRWIR. | HOWELL COBB,SB. P10BB, ERWIN & COBB, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, A THE US, QEORQIA. Olfico in ths Deopieo Buildicg. DseSl A A. EDGE, . BOOT, 8Q0E AND HARNESS MAKER, Watkirsvillb, Ga. B P. WOFFORD, Attorney at law, . HOMER, GA. Will ozeouto promptly all business entrusted to bis care. Collecting claims a specialty. aplZltf 3ANKRUPTCY.—Samuel P. Thurmond, -J Attorncy-at-Law. Athens, Ga. Office on Broad ttroct,over the store oj Barry A Son, Will give special attentionto osses in Bankruptcy’. Al- . to the coUeetion of all elalme entrusted to hiseara. ThRS. BRAWNER & YOUNG, 1J CARNBSVILLE, Having associated in the praetiee of Medicine and Snrgery, tender tbeir professional services to their friends and the public generally. JSf Office nearly opposite the eonrt house. aplSl—tf EHMORY SPEER, Oj LAWYER, ATHENS, GA. As Solicitor General of Western Circuit, will attend tbe Courts of Clarke, Walton, Gwinnett, Hall, Banks, faokson, Habersham, Franklin, Rnbnn and White, md give attention to oolleoting and other olaimt in those eonntioa. March 19,187S. IOBH 1. ESTES. WABISOS BILL. T'STES & BELL^Attorneys at Law, CJ GAINESVILLE, GA. ^ja-WILL praetiee in the counties composing the Western Cirenit, and Dawson and Forsyth eonntiee of the Bine Ridge Cirenit. They will also praetiee in the Supreme Court of Georgia, and in tbe United States Court at Atlanta. may 14 T IVERY, Feed and Sale Stable, JLj ATHENS, GA. M W. RIDEN, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, February 19,-1873. Of * it’s Adam’s House until you get to to the j 1 All this fol-de-rol about your being engag- roof, then it’s eaves,’ ' ed to a man ten years youuger than yourself. An Evil of the Period. In olden times it was not thought degrading to work with the bands. The child of tbe man of wealth was compelled to do a moder ate amount of physical labor, in consequence of which, when he arrived at manhood's tate, he was a man physically as well as in tellectu&lly; for tbe idea of a well developed brain la a feeble and effeminate corporal or ganization is a kind of paradox—a sound mind requires a sound body. In early days boys were taught trades; now they aspire to pro fessions, simply because they are regarded as nonreputable, and poor brain work is a better passport to good society than skilled mechan ical labor. We are peculiarly a people of theories. Theoretically we honor the sons of toil; we speak in glorifying tones of the sunburnt brow and the bard hand of the laborer; we becomo eloquent when we tell of the mountains being redneed, the valleys elevated, the torrents spanned, the forest levelled and tbe wilder ness made musical with tho anthems of labor. But practically we igDore the laborer’s right to recoguitiou—and wo receive into our social circle tbe doctor without patients, tbe lawyer without clients, and tbe dead-beat with noth ing to recommend him except his utter aver sion to everything like honest labor. We ven ture tbe assertion that in al! communities, with rare exceptions, if a man should require the services of twenty professional men ho could get thorn in twenty minutes; if he need that many skilled mechanics he would be at some trouble to find thorn. The average young man to-day detests labor, ho believes in fast horses aud gold watches, but is not willing to put forth any effort to at tain them. He is waiting for something to “ turn up” instead of turning np something, and the man of to-day is as much like the man of forty years ago as a pigmy is to a giant. It is no pleasant thing to witness the decay of rYFFICEover lurry'-. «i v-J to criminal practice. GA. EDWARD R. HARDEN, 1 (L»t» Judge U. 8. Courts Nebraska and Utah, and now Jndge of Brooks County Court) Attorney at Law, july23 ly Quitman, Brooks County, Ga. TT'LOYD k GILMAN, Jj ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Will practioe in tbo counties of Walton and Jackson, OHXJ.FLOrn, J. B. S1LUAK. Covington, Ga. tnar4 Jefferson, Ga. J F. O’KELLEY’S . PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, Over Williams’ Shoe store, Broad street, Athens, Georgia. «ep8. T H. HUGGINS, ‘J • hole,ate and Rilat’. Dealer in DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, do. Feblt Broad Street, A then,, Ga. TOHN H. CHRISTY, J Plain and Pane; BOOK AND JOB PRINTBB, Broad St., Atheni, Ga. Offioe corner Broad and Wall street,, over the,tore fames D. Pittard. tf R. LYLE, Attoeeet at Law, WATKINSriLLK, GA. TOHN M. MATTHEWS. ti Attoeeet at Law, Daniel,viilo,Ga. Prompt Attention will be given to any bn,lne„ on- rusted to hi, eare. Marohl4. TAMES L. LONG, M. D. eJ sum SURGEON, ACCOUCHEUR k PHYSICIAN, (Office at Ur. Tkomao Skcats’ Store,) Good Hope District, Walton county, Ga. Offers his professional service, to tbe oitlxen, of tbe .orrounding country. ang37 K ELIAS, Attorney at Law, . FRANKLIN, N. < Praetiee, in ail the Court, of Western North Caro lina, and iu tbo Federal Courts. Claims collected ia ell part* of tho State. apld—ly OAN2T A BRAVES, Proprietors. ^FS-Will be found at tbeir old stand, rear Frank lin House building, Thomas street. Keep always on band good Turn-onts and careful drivers. Stock wall eared for when entrusted to our eare. Stock on band for sale at all times. dec25—tt U. S. Claim Agent and Notary Pnblie, Gainesville, Ga. BO" Office on Wilson street, below King k Bro’s. •f efcra " r VBBPLBS. E. F. DOWELL. "DEEPLES k HOWELL, JL ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 20and 22, Kimball House, Atlanta. Ga.' P RACTICE in the State end Federal Courts, and attend regularly all tbeConrts in Atlanta, includ ing the Supreme Court of the State, and will argue eases upon brief, for absent parties, on reasonable terms. They also praetiee in the Courtsof tbe counties con tiguous orneeessibleto Atlantaby Railroad, sepll R B. ADAIR, D.D.S. • Gainesville, Ga. Office, southeast corner Public Square. R S. ADAMS, • Surgeon, Ac trcDEDB AND PHYSICIAN. Office st residence. Mountain District, Walton coun ty, Georgia—offers hi, professional services to the citisene of the surrounding country. au(;28—ly S C. DOBBS, • Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, 4c. ■ No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga. Feb9 Of course, like all women’s letters, the best men, iu all tho attributes of mauhood, but tho tt of it was ia the postscript: ' fact stares us in the face that we, as a people SPOOL SILK! G ET THE BEST and CHEAPEST! Git thatmsn. ufaetured by the Singer Manufacturing Company, which is specially adapted for use on all kinds of Sew ing Machines. . . . For snle, wholesale and retail, by the SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY. j„lyl_lj * G. H. H OPE, Agent, Athena, Ga. P. G. THOMPSON, A TTORNEY AT LA W, ATHENS, OA. store. Special attention f _ rnin&l practice. For reference, apply t Gov. Thomas H. Watts and Hon. David Clopton, Mont gomery, Alabama. fabS