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1JV JOHN IX. CHRISTY.
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VOLUME XXII.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1875.
NUMBER 10.
THE SOUTHERN WATCHMAN
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ffleet gliscrilaim.
OX THE DOOR-STEP.
We were silting on tho door-stop—
I remember it so well;
.She was half in shadows bidden
Save where the moohght fell.
Ami the dear head resting.
With its wavy, soft brown hair,
Made moro tbau over lovely
The face I thought so fair.
1 know we talked but little.
Ami at last, beneath tho stono,
We heard the cricket cbirpiug
So clearly all alone.
Till my heart mustered courage
To tell her thou and there,
How for her sweet sake truly
'Twould aii things do and dare.
Then came the soft shy answer,
As her shining eyes drobped low ;
•• Mv heart is mine no longer ;
'Twas yielded long ago !”
And even as she doomed me
To misery and pain,
The soft cheeks filled with dimples,
Gathering o’er and o'er again.
How well I now remember
That, turning fast away,
1 would not heed the whisper
That softly bade me stay.
Till, at the !-nv gate turning,
Her face once raoro to see,
i saw the tear drops shining
In the eyes that followed me.
Ah ! then, with b.;art fast heating,
To her side I turned again.
" Oh, tell me, Madge, my darling.
Has my lore been all in vatu T
Yon do not love another f
Your words wero only play f
l.ook up and answor truly —
Madge,.must I go away T”
Again the dimples gathered,
E'en while the moon's pure light
lietruyed the tears still shining.
Like dew drops soft and bright,
“ My heart was mine no longer ;
I have given it, 'tis true ;
Why could you not have waited !
Because—ah ! 1 meant you!”
ed the senior or that firm by requesting them
to draw up a new will, leaving all his effects,
real and personal, to the Seamen's Charitable
Fund, and striking out tho name of bis daugh
ter Josephine from that important document
altogether.
* But my dear sir, it is impossible to execute
tho provisions of such a document,’ replied
the bland and smi’ing Mr. Hunt. • Such a
will would be illegal, and consequently worth-
JOSIE’S WEDDING GIFT.
CHAPTER I.
And so 1 am to understand that you posi
tively refuse to ,givo up that youeg fortune
hunter, Murmaduke Marly V
* 1 do positively refuse.’
‘ Even after the bankruptcy which has re
duced him to beggary, you still wish to fulfil
juur engagement f
‘ Most certainly.*
• Then hear me’—and Captain Wycherly—
a retired naval officer in tho United States
service—dashed his stout cane upon the floor
»itb an emphasis that made the glasses and
decanters jingle—‘ and mark what 1 say ! If
you persist iu such obstinate disobedience to
my wishes, by Jove I'll disinherit you. The
day that you become bis wife will find him
homeless and penuiless. Aud yon may both
sweep the crossings for a liviug, for all I care,
for 1 11 never help you to a penny.
Josie's cheeks burned scarlet.
' Aud 1 say,' sbo retorted, her blue eyes all
atlamo with honest indignation, ’ that uo con
sideration of broad acres, of bank-stock, or
even ths commands of a father’—hero she
choked down a risiDg sob—‘ can tempt Josie
"ycherly to breuk her word.'
' l'hiuk,’ said her father, ‘of me homes
where grim Want sits day after day beside the
hcarth-stotio, where children with pinched
features aud hollow eyes hog vainly for
the food which is denied them ; and yet you
deliberately, choose such a fate as this 1’
Josie’s heart quailed a little, for, like all
refined women, she loved the ease aud luxury
which wealth could purchase, and which she
»1! her life had eojoyed. But she loved Mar-
uaduke aud her ow n honor more.
' e plighted our troth with youthful con-
®* Qt and approval,’ she argued. * If ho has
““fortunate, it is plainly my duty to
ding to and comfort him. I have given my ea-
cred promise, and shall keep it.’
And her father, recognizing the Wycherly
«ustinacy, kuew that further remonstrance
*“ usoless - But being by nature despotic,
sn d expect ng to receive at borne tbe same
implicit obedience he bad exacted on board a
man-of-war. be raved and swore and scolded
continually at being balked In bis plans
t at poor Jotiie was glad to yield ’o her lover's
•“’■caties; and became bis wife, to escape
Persecution at home.
So onemorniog they quietly walked to the
•Rarest church, and in the presence of a few
rienda, to whom they had confided tbe cir
cumstances, Josie Wycherly wu. by a few
rief sentences, transformed into Mr*. Marly,
carcely had the bridal party left the church
* ® D lLe y w ere confronted by Capt. Wyeher-
J. his atom cane coming down emphatically
stevery atep, his eyes blazing with wrath.
So you have been batching yo .tr mutiny
nder my very roof, and have outfitted tbe
e a man at last!’ he oxolaimed, glaring upon
e trembling bride, who stood surrounded
>' her fear-stricken friends. * Hope yon’ll
od smooth sailing with your pretty oraft.'
J°ung man; for by the heathen gods, yoa’U
color of old Mark Wyoherly’s
I’ll disinherit the ungrateful girl
Everyday!’
‘Confound it!’ said tbe irate old sea-dog ;
* do you mean to tell mo that a man cannot
sail his own craft In any waters he chooses ?’
And after several stormy interrnptions, the
lawyer at last mado it clear to his wrathful
client that, in order to be legal, the will must
contain the name of Miss Josephine as lega
tee, be the sum ever so small.
* Very well, since it must -be so,’ replied
Captain Wycherly; and he bent his shaggy
bead to tbe reading of the document that
conveyed railroad shares, bank stock, and
farming lands, amounting in all to a half mil
lion of dollars, to tho aforesaid charitable,
fund, and left to bis daughter, ‘ Mrs. Joseph
ine Marly, the sum of two dollars, to buy a
stool of repentance, whereupon she could sit
and reflect upon the ingratitudo of her con
duct to an indulgent father !’
‘ And you may add,' said the old man, with
a grim smile, ‘ the Wycherly homestead to
her portion also.’
Tho Wycherly homestead t’ repeated Mr.
Hunt. ‘ I cannot say that I ever heard of it
before.'
Ha 1 ha! ’ roared Captain Wycherly, who
relished a joke now and then. ‘ I dare say
you never did—ha ! ha! Ten acros in all, and
tho most barren unproductive soil conceivable
—covered with rocks and stones, and water
ed by the blackest, dirtiest stream that ever
ran, with a fow gnarled and moss-grown ap
ple trees, shading a log hut in their midst-
such is the birthplace of all the dead and gone
Wvcherly’s for generations past—a magnifi
cent place—ha ! ha! Or, stay ; instead of
putting in tho will, suppose you make out a
deed of tho place, and present it to Mrs. Jo
sephine Marly as a wedding gift from her af
fectionate father, on condition that she and
her husband spend the honeymoon there. I've
heard that my gentleman was -something of
an amateur artist, and he cannot fail to ad
mire tho scenery.’
And with this parting joke tbe Captain
went his way.
So that evening Mrs. Josie Marley, sitting
by her husband's side, in their lodgings, was
surprised with a package of paper from tbe
otRea of Hunt Ac Ketchum, setting forth the
abovo conditions, and indorsing tbe deed to
the Wycherly homestead.
‘ Wo will go, won’t we, dear ’Duke !' whis
pered Josie, her red lips quivering, and a tear
or two glittering ou the silken brow lashes
that shaded her sweet blue eyes. ‘ I thiok
we'd better go, dear; not for the land, which
it appears is worthless enough; but it is
papa's request, and, perhaps—it's the last
that be may ever make !’ and here she broke
down in a tempest of sobs aud tears.
For though she had willfully disobeyed
him, yot, next to her husband, Josie loved the
stern, tyrannical old man whom she called
father.
CHAPTER II.
Captain Wycherly was ill. Servants went
to and fro through tbe elegant rooms, trying
in vain to satisfy the capricious whims of the
childish old man, who, now that his fit of pas
sion was over, longed daily and hourly for the
presence of bis child—bis darling Josie. But
his stubborn pride was not yet hnmbled to
seek her; and so tho weary days went by,
and he beard no tidings of his daughter, whose
face he had not seon since the morning of her
wedding day.
At last, when golden dandelions and deli
cate anemones began to wtite tbe sweet prom
ises of spring all over field and wood, infusing
a warmer tint into the golden snnsbine. Cap
tain Wycherly could sit at his chamber win
dow and look out on familiar scenes.
‘ What house is that f ’ he asked of John,
the servant, pointing to an elegant brown
stono mansion, of palatial dimensions, which
occupied tbe place formerly dedicated to a
row of cottages.
* That, sir f ’ said the garrulous John ; why,
that’s the new house built by a foreign gen
tleman, who took a fancy to the place, sir—
and paid a good/ round sum for it, too. Why,
they say there's no end to his money ; and
be has a title besides—lord orduke something,
sir, whatever it may be. Perhaps you’ve seem
’em, sir t’
And John, who regarded his master as a
sort of traveled paragoD, to whom nothing
foreign wonld be at all nnfamiliar, from the
royal doke to a Bengal tiger, looked up for a
reply,
* Yes, John, I’ve seen ’em ; and I can’t say
they look much different from other people,
except a trifle uglier, perhaps.'
Ob, sir, not any better than other people;
and she—the ‘ duchess,* I mean—sending you
all tho nice wino when you was ill! Yes, and
the nosegays, and—’
* Stop, John ; what do you mean P
* Why, sir, when they first came, the lady
beard that you were ill, and she sent over a
bottle of rare wine, with her compliments;
and every day since then she has sent a ser
vant to make inquiries about yon, sir; and
always a bouquet of choice flowers foryonr
sick-room—not that you ever noticed ’em, sir,
more than if they had been chips, sir,'said
John, with some disgust; and so I told the
man that brought 'em, but they came evory
day just tbe same.*
* And wby,’ said his gruff master, touched
more than be would have chosen to confess
by those attentions from a stranger—* wby
sbonld this foreign lady do all tbis for a
rough old man like me f’
* Perhaps this will tell you, sir,’ and John
drew from bis pocket s dainty little note.
* It came tbis morning.’
Captafb Wycherly opened it, and read as
follows:
“DearSir—I hear that yon are a lonely
old qjan, without kith or kin to cheer yoor sol
itude. Though in all this wild world there ie
no one to call me daughter, yet I remember
done for you what I wonld wish another to do
lor him, if ho was ill and lonely like yourself.
I hope that you will allow me to call some
time to cheer and amuse you.
Your Neighbor.
* Heaven bless her!’ said tbe old man, with
tears in his stern eyes; tbe rugged lines in his
face softening as be read—" Heaven bless her
for her kindness to a lonely old man. John’—
But John had disappeared. A moment after
and he opened the door, and called out in a
stage whisper: * Oh, master, she’s coming-
in a silk fit for an empress, and with jewels
shining in her hair. Oh, master”—
But this rhapsody was cut short by the en
trance of the lady herself, who, with her sil
ken robes trailing on the floor, crossed the
room, and stood by tbe captain’s chair.
• Madame,’—be began, but stopped in con
fusion.
Was it a dream, or was it Josie who stood
before him, her arms around his neck, her
cheek pressed to his, and amid sobs and bro
ken exclamations, telling him again and agam
her joy at this meetiDg f It was too much.
The Captain’s resentment melted away, dis
solved in the tears which fell upon tbe face of
his darling as bo pressed her in a close em
brace.
But what does tbis mean !’ he said at last,
when he made her sit opposite, where he
coaid gladden his eyes with the sight of her
fresh, sweet face. • Where did these come
from, Josie 1’ And be touched the glittering
jewels that shone amid her sonny braids.
Why, don't you know, father f Is it pos
sible yon have Dot beard f When you gave
your Josie the Wycherly homestead, you gave
the richest of your possessions, though you,
nor none of ns knew it then. Yes,’ she con
tinued, not noticing her father’s questioning
look, ‘ tbe black and elnggish stream that
watered the Wycherly farm developed a source
of wealth richer than all tbe gold placers of
California. Oar petroleum oil-wells have en
riched us beyond our wildest dreams: and to
day, Duke and I count onr wealth by hun
dreds of thousands. Bat we do not forget,’
she added, with a mischievous smile, ‘ that
we owe it all to yon, dear father.’
Perhaps no protestation, couched in the
most eloquent terms, would have shown the
chaoge in Captain Wycherly as did the simple
sentence he uttered in reply.
‘ Confess myself beaten,’ be said; ’and I
thank Heaven for it. Henceforth one roof
shall shelter us, and we will never be parted
again until the old man launches his craft for
tbe last great voyage.'
office of Hunt <5c Ketchum, and astonish-
THE DREAM.
I sit in my chair by tbe blazing fire,
And doze away my life,
As I dream of a little wife;
On my shoulders I feel a pressure sweet,
And arms like tbe snow—O whiter,
About my neck in a warm clasp meet,
And the flames flash brighter and brighter.
And ringlets of gold pour over my face,
As my head to her bosom's pillow
Sinks down in a cloud of perfamed lace,
That heaves like foam on the billow;
And I hear her warm heart’s quiok’ning beat,
And her eyes grow bright asHre,
As my lips are covored with kisses sweet,
And the flames leap higher and higher.
A soft cheek nestles close to my own,
And the sweet smiles o'er it chase;
Like sun-drops on a calm lake thrown,
Her dimples the’atniles efface.
A lute like laugh, and her swelling breast
Heaves joyous—high and higher;
How happy my lot, and how sweet my rest,
With a wife iu front of the fire!
And I drink her beauty into my heart,-
And tbe love-light of her eyes;
With a crash the red brands fall apart—
My wife up the ehimney flies.
Thus oft in my chair by the blazing fire,
I doze away my life,
And ttie mocking flames laugh higher and
higher
At my dream of love and a wife.
Wayside Gatherings.
linen; 1,200quilts,86by 89: 6 dozen bath
blankets, 4 feet by 7; 20,000 yards of linen
sheeting; 1,300dozen Turkish towels; 5,000
yards of crash towels: 25 dozen tray cloths;
1,800 linen pillow shams; 1,000 yards of Can
ton flannel; 900 Nottingham lace curtains;
250 pieces of fine plnsh; 100 pieces of fine satin;
15 bales of ticking. Among the articles of
furnitnreare mentioned 1,000large easy chairs,
1,000 ladies’ easy-ebairs, 600 rocking-chairs,
and 350 sofas. More than 75,000 yards of car
peting will be reqnired to cover the rooms.
The hotel will be opened about the 1st of Sep
tember.
A Brass-Tipped Agent.
He drove bis team close up to the fenco, got
down and rapped on tbe door. The widow
Gilkens opened it, when be said : * Mrs. Gil-
kens, I am cognizant of the circumstances by
which yon are at present surrounded, left as
you are to trudge down the journey of life
through a cold and heartless world—no longer
sustained and encouraged by tbe noble one to
whom you gave tbe treasures of your heart's
affection, and bowed down by tbe manifold
cares and responsibilities incidental to the
reariog of eight small children on forty acres
of sub-carboniferous limestone land; yet, Mrs.
Gilkens, yon are aware that the season is now
approaching when dark, dismal, dangerous
clouds at frequent intervals span tbe canopy
of heaven ; and when zigzag streaks of elec
tricity dart promiscuously hither and thither,
rendering this habitation unsafe for yonrself
and those dear little oneB; hence, therefore,
let me sell yon a copper wire, silver tipped
and highly magnetic lightning rod.’
Tbe woman staggered back a few paces and
jelled: * Narcis, unfasten old Cronch 1’ In
another instant a savage bulldog came dart-
iDg around the corner of tbe house, with
bristles np, thirsting for gore. Tbe dog had
already mangled a machine agent and a pat
ent soap man, and was held in great esteem
by tbe better class of citizens for his courage
and service; bnt when his eye met tbe hard,
perpetrating gaze of Mr. Parsons, his chops
fell, and he slunk off and hid in the enrrant
bashes. Then tbe man said: * My dear lady,
yon seem to be a little excited. Now, if you
will allow me to explain the probable inesti
mable”—
* Dern ye, I know something that will start
ye,' said Mrs. Gilkens, as she reached under
some bed clothing and brought forth a horse
pistol; but, owing to the shattered condition
of her nerves, her aim was unsteady, and the
charge of buckshot missed, save where a few
scattered ones struck hie cheek and bounced
off. A bard, metallic smile spread over bis
conntenanee as he leaned bis shoulder against
the door frame, and again commenced: * My
dear madame, such spasmodic manifestations
of yonr disinclination to make a judicious in
vestment of a few paltry dollars”—
•Hi—eo!' shrieked the widow, and col
lapsed into a kind of jerking swoon, and be
fore she had recovered a highly magnetic
lightuing rod decorated hey bumble domicile,
and Parsons had the blank note filled ont all
ready for her signature.
And be meant to be as good os his word; u «
jw he walke.I straight from the church to the when I enjoyed the fond protection of one
a
most indulgent of fathers. I have only
..Somebody wrote to tbe oditor of a coun
try newspaper, to ask him how he wonld
' break an ox f The editor answered as foil ws:
* If only/nne ox, a good way woaid be to
hoist him, by means ot a long chain attached
to his tail, to the top of a pole forty feet from
the ground. Then descend on his back a five
ton pile driver, and. if that don’t break him,
start a country newspaper and trust people
for subscription. One of the two will do it,
sure.’
An affecting sight—barrels in tiers.
. .The sun says with a lisp, * I thaw it.’
..Something that ought to be put down—
carpets.
. Othogrammia,’ is what they call tbe rage
for spelling matches.
..Ma, whenwa griddle cake inhabited V
• Wby, my dear, when there is a little Indian
in it.’
..It appears that coining copper is not pro
fitable. The government has not mado half
a cent since 1857.
..Don’t imagine that yon were born to re
form the world. Yon can not split a mountain
with a tooth pick.’
..Mark Twain denies that his * Gilded Age’
was a failure. He says it gave a poor, worthy
bookbinder a job.
..Don’t locate your grandfather “in the
front rank” in the Concord and Lexington
fight. That was the one that retreated.
..The latest addition to the umbrella is a
pane of glass, inserted in tbe front breadth,
through which the holder can see his way.
- - A bashful compositor refused to accept a
situation in an office where girls wore employ
ed, saying that he never set up with a girl in
his life.
. .The greatest feat in eating ever recorded
is told of a man who commenced by bolting a
door, after which be threw up a window, and
swallowed a whole story.
..A man is said to be absent-minded when
be thinks be has left bis watch at home and
takes it out of his pocket to see if he has time
to return and get it.
..A certain Western editor, who was pre
sented with a box of collars in pay for an ad
vertisement, is waiting in daily expectation
that some one will present him with a shirt.
..A crusty bachelor’s objections to ladies
with beautiful teeth is, that nine out of ten of
them would langb at a funeral.
..A Pennsylvania man and his wife lived
two weeks on bread and whiskey. She ate
tho bread and he drank the whiskey.
. - Spring brings joy to the heart of a west
ern editor, who sings: • Soon the dusky squaw
will be seen straining maple sugar through her
winter stockings.’
. -One swallow does not make a spring, but
one crooked pin on a chair does.
..Christianity means sixteen ounces to the
ponnd, three feet to the yard, a just weight
and just measure. It means honesty in all
dealing, purity in all conversation, a charity
as broad as tbe race, unflinching iutegrety,
sympathy, humanity to man. With these
there can be no compromise.
. .If properly gathered and preserved, beans
will retain vitality 2 years; cabbage, 4; car
rot 3; sweet corn, 2; enenmbere, 10; lettuce,
3; melon, 10; onion, 1; parsnip, 1; peas, 2;
radish, 3; squash, 10; tomato, 7; turnips, 4.
..When a woman is care laden and heavy-
hearted, nothing shakes the megrims ont of
her quicker than for a couple of ladies to stop
in front of the house long enongh for her to
examine tbe trimmings on their bonnets.
..Then yon won’t lend me that dime novel,
eb t* inquired one boy of another in the post
office on Saturday. ‘ No I won’t.* * All right
then; next time our chimney burns you shan’t
come into tbe yard and holler.’
.-The Louisville Courier- Journal, in reply
to the pathetic question of a woman, * How
shall I keep my bosband at home iu the even
ing f” eays it can be done easily enough by
opeuiog a first class beer garden id' the back
yard. - ”
—* How would yon feel, my dear, if we were
to meet a wolf T’ asked an old lady of her lit
tle grandchild, with whom she was walking
along a lonely country road. * Ob, grandmam
ma, I should be so frightened,* was the reply.
' Bat I sbonld stand la front of you and pro
tect yon,’ said the old lady. • Would you,
grannie V cried the child, clapping her hands
with delight. ■ That would be so nice. While
the wolf was eating you I would have time to
run away.’
Natural Philosophy.
There is a good deal of philosophy about the
words of the cool, reflective individual, who
smokes and talks to his better half in the an
nexed. The girl is generally educated on nov
els, and her first disappointment comes on the
quiet indifference of the husband after the
honeymoon. * You love me do longer,’ said a
bride of a few mouths, to her better-half, in
gown and slippers. ‘ Why do you say that,
Pussf’ he asked, quietly removing a cigar
from his lips. ‘ You do not caress me nor call
me pet names; you no longer seek so anxious
ly for my company,’ was the tearful answer.
1 My dear,’ continued the aggravating wretch.
‘ did you ever notice a man running after a
car t How he does ran—over stones, through
mud, regardless of everything, till he reaches
the car, and he seizes hold and swings on.
Then he quietly seats himself and reads his
paper.’ * And what does that mean t’ * Ad
illustration, my dear. Tbe car is as important
to the man after he gets in as when be is chas
ing it, but tbe manifestation is no longer called
for. I would have shot any one who put him
self in my way when in pursuit of you, as I
would now shoot any one who would come be
tween us, bnt as a proof of my love, you insist
upon me running after the car. Learn to
smoke, my dear, and be a philosopher. The
two combined clear tbe brain, quiet the nerves,
open the pores and improve the digestion.’
..Everyduty brings its peculiar delight,
every denial its appropriate compensation,
every thonght its recompense, every love its
elysinm, every cross its erown-, pay goes with
performance as effect with cause. Meanness
overreaches itself; vice vitiates whoever in
dulges In it; tho wicked wrong their own
souls; generosity greatens; virtue exalts;
charity transfigures, and holiness is the es
sence of angelhood. God does not require os
to live on credit; he pays ns what we earn
as we earn it, good or evil, heavan or hell, ac-
eordin to onr choice.—Charles Midway.
. .‘Ob, my dear wife,' said John Henry, as
he paid tbe milliner's bilL
, .The sale of a Connecticut paper Is chron
icled as the transfer of a pair of scissors and
s ome bad will.
A Great HoteL
The great ‘ Palace Hotel’ ot San Francisco
is approaching completion, and promises to be
the pride of tbe city. The details of the
building show its extent and perfectness. All
the outer rooms have bay windows, every
room has a Are place and a clothes closet, and
to every two rooms there is a bath and toilet
room. This makes a total of 348 bay windows
and 377 bath rooms. The total number of
rooms in the hotel above the garden floor is
755. To reach these rooms there will be four
elevators leading to the upper story, and a
fifth for the transportation of baggage. Tbe
hotel la entirely fire-proof, bat to gnard
against possible danger there are four artesian
wells, and a reservoir with a capacity of 675,-
000 gallons. A supply of21,600 feet of hese
connects with a fire apparatus upon each floor.
Mark Twain on Chambermaids.
Against all chambermaids, of whatever age
or nationality, I lauech the enrse of bacbelor-
dom. They pat boots into inaccessible places.
They chiefly enjoy depositing them as far un
der the bed as the wall permits. They always
put tbe match box in some other place. They
hunt up a new place for it every day, and
put a bottle or some other perishable glass
where the box stood before. Tbis will disgust
yon. They like that. No matter where you
pat anything, they won't let it stay there.
They will move it the very first chance they
get. And keep always comiDg to make up
your bed before yon get up. They don't come
any more till the next day.
EF" A light-draft steamboat was once run
ning on tho Illinois river, in very low water.
The cry * man overboard' brought all hands to
the rescue; bnt to their emprise the nnincky
man, whom they were abont to save from a
watery grave,'appeared standing erect in about
two feet of mud and water, and he shouted to
them wrathfully, ‘ Go on with yonr darned old
steamboat, I’ll walk on after you!’
like ours, long and uninterrupted usage can
safely be disregarded. The power of the veto
on the part of the Crown exists in England,
bnt it has not been exercised since 1691. And
yet it is a power which Mr. Justice Blackstono
says ‘is a most important and, indeed, indis
pensable part of tbe royal prerogative.’ It
may- with truth be said that now, when it has
been so long disused, that its exercise by tbo
Crown wonld produco a fearful ferment in the
Kingdom. Snob, in that law-abiding country,
is tho conclusive force and effect of neage.
Tbe idea of the President that the safety of
the country may- demand the re-election of a
President for a third term, in my opinion, is
an idle conceit, having no other support but
the most egregious vanity. Of this vanity he
himself seems to partake, since he says that he
‘ would not accept a nomination if it were ten
dered, unless it should come uDder snob cir
cumstances as to make it an imperative duty,’
Who is to judge whether the duty to accept is
an imperativaone t It can only be the man
himself. Maybe not well conclude that
nomination by a Convention is conclusive as
to the duty t 'f he safety of the country he
may really think requires his continuance in
office, and that his own opinion upon the
point, if be has one, is established by the ac
tion of the Convention, and by this process of
reasoning he may be re-elected for as many
terms as life is spared him. I think it may,
with perfect justice, be said that if the Con
vention which framed the Constitution bad an
ticipated the enormous extent of tbe official
patronage which in time wonld necessarily be
vested in the President, that they wonld have
limited the official term to six or eight yoars
and have rendered the incumbent ineligible.
The question which is now agitating tbe
public mind is whether President Grant shall
be elected to a third term. Does his letter
solve it f It may bo so practically, because I
believe that be will not be rcoominated or if
be is that he will hardly receive the vote of a
si ngle State. The voice of Pennsylvania, as
spoken by her recent convention, which has
forced the President to write the letter, is,
judging by all tbe signs of the times, concur
red in by an immense majority of tho Repub
lican party in every State in the Union. The
President, indeed, so far as he is personally
concerned, seems to regard it as a mere mat
ter of dollars and cents, and it may perhaps
be legitimately inferred that if the salary
which he now receives should bo secured to
him as a retiring pension he would gladly
leave tho office at the eud of his present term
and return to that homo ‘ where the balance
of his days might be spent in peace and tbe
enjoyment of domestic quiet,’ and without
any apprehension that the peace and safety
of the country are not as safe in the bands of
his successors as they had been in his own,
and this belief I have no doubt tho public
will fully share.
I remain, with regard, your obedient ser
vant. Rkyerdy Johnson.
Some idea of tho elaborate fittings of the hotel # |.
may be obtained from the fSaowing items from jThat a Constitutional prohibition does cot
. THE THIRD TERM QUESTION.
Hon. Reverdy Johnson’s Criticism of the Pre
sident’s Letter.
The New York Herald ot Saturday, publishes
the annexed letter from Hon. Reverdy John
son, addressed to the editor of that paper:
Baltimore, Md., Jane 2d, 1875.
My Dear Sir—One of yonr correspondents
informs me that yon wish me to eay to yon
what I think of the President’s letter of last
Saturday, the 29th nit., known as the ‘ third
term letter.’ This I proceed to do. There
are several matters contained in the letter that
have no direct and a very slight indirect bear
ing npon the question. What sacrifices, if any.
the President may have made in accepting tbe
first nomination, or his second, have nothing
to do with the election for a third term. And
whatever abase he may have been subjected to
daring tbe time that he haa held the Presi
dency, is equally irrelevant. Although it is no
donbt true that his conduct has been subject
ed, in some instances, to harsh and nnjnst
criticism, yet, as he admits, ‘ in the light of
subsequent events,’ his conduct on sotno oo
casions, ‘ was subject to fair criticism,’ he has
not always been unjustly dealt with. What
those occasions were, he omits to say. Were
they in his recommendation for tbe passage of
the force bill and the suspension of tbe habeas
corpus, bis approval of the conduct of the mil
itary at New Orleans, in expelling a portion of
the Legislature of that State, and in the yet
more flagrant wrong, if one more flagrant conld
be committed, in tbe recommendation made to
Congress in his message relative to Arkansas,
a recommendation in principle absolutely de
structive of the right of tho people of every
State to change their Constitution f Bnt these
wrongs are not pertinent at all to the general
question of the election of a President for a
third term, except as they bear upon his fitness
for that office.
What the President says is this, that there
is nothing in the Constitution to prohibit it,
and that it can only come before tbe people by
a proposition to amend the Constitution. The
precedents, no matter bow long established,
and no matter what may have been the char
acter of the men by whom they were establish
ed, as patriots and as statesmen of unsurpassed
ability, and no matter how universal has been
their sanction by the people, these precedents
should, in the President’s view, have no influ
ence npon the people now or hereafter npon
the determination of him who may have occu
pied the office for two terms. For he telle ns
that ‘ it may happen in the fnlnre history of
the country (and this may be the case daring
tbe balance of his present term) that to change
an Executive because be has been eight years
in office, will prove nnfortnnate, if not disas
trous.’ It is certainly true that tbe people are
at liberty to elect to a third term; bnt until
the time of Gen. Grant, not only did no one of
bis predecessors, who had held the office for
two terms, give the most distant bint that he
wished or wonld accept the office again, bnt,
as far as I am advised, no individnal citizen or
journalist ever proposed or suggested it.
tbe linen and upholstery bill: 1,35 dozen table
napkins: 1,500 yards of fine linen: 120 fine
damask tablecloths: 15,000 yards of pillow
exist, is no proof that the usage of prohibition
is not and sbonld not be considered as conclu
sive. It is idle to say that in a Government
and had a few thousand dollars of specie in a
valise. But neither supposition would be
true. I had recently joined the wagon train,
and was about to leave it when captur
ed; my only baggage was a valise, which
was packed on a male, and it contained no
specie. The few thousand dollars of specie
were in a pair of saddle-bags, belonging to
Secretary Ragan. Whether that money ever
reached the United States Treasury, Mr.
Reagan, from whom it was taken, may be able
to learn after ho shall have assumed his func
tions as a Representative in tbe United States
Congress.
Should the course of tbe commanding gen
eral of the army, in attempting at this late
day, to resuscitate a defunct slander against
the President of the late Confederacy, and to
which slander not even suborned witnesses
could give the semblance of troth, bo taken as
the exponent of the feeling of tbe army, that
arm of tho General Government would seem
to be ill-suited to the task, of late so largely
assigned to it, of preserving civil order, and
of restoring harmony among tbe people of
the United States. For pnblio considerations
it is *o bn hoped that tbe ineradicable malig
nity of Snerman may be an exception to the
prevailing sentiments of tbe United States
army.
Again thanking you for yonr friendly con
sideration, I am very truly yours,
Jefferson Davis.
From tbo St. Loaia Times.
DAVIS ON SHERMAN.
The Ex-Confederate President’s Notions About
the General of the Army and his Book.
Memphis, Tenx., May 27,1875.
Col. IF. F. Mellen: Dear Sir—Please ac
cept my thanks for your kind letter of tbe
19th instant, and the accompanying copy of a
St. Louis paper containing an extract from the
forthcoming work of General W. T. Sherman.
My absence delayed the receipt of yonr letter
and this reply to it.
The malice that seeks to revive the nefari
ously concocted and long since exploded slan
der which connected my name with the assas
sination of President Lincoln is quite in char
acter with the man who so conducted his in
vasion of the South as to render ‘ Sherman’s
hammers’ the synonym of pillage, arson, cru
elty to tbe helpless, and murder of non-com
batants, and who closed his career of arson
with a false accnsation against Gen. Hempton
in regard to the burning of Colombia. S. C.
But tbe question arises, why did Gen. Sher
man, at tbe date of his reported conversation
with Gen. J. E. Johnston, suppose me.capable
of complicity in the assassination of President
Lincoln t
Gen. Sherman never was personally ac-
qsainted with me; and from those who knew
me, either in the United States army or in
civil life, surely learned nothing to justify each
suspicion. In tbe conduct of the war between
the States, despite of many baseless accusa
tions, we can proudly point to a record which
shows a strict adherence to the usages of war
between civilized nations. On what, then,
did tbe suspicion of Gen. Sherman rest f Was
it not that, proceeding on tbe rale of judging
others by one’s self, ascribed to me tbe mnr-
derons and malicious traits of his own nature f
He reports a conversation with President
Lincoln, from whioh is to be inferred a desire
to have authority for departing from theconrae
which, as a soldier, be most have known was
usual and proper towards prisoners of war.
Did be hope to get inatructions for the slaugh
ter of the Confederacy's President and Cabinet
officers, as set forth in the orders of Col. Dahl-
gren, when bd made his raid against Rich
mond 1 If the good-natured characteristic re
ply of President Lincoln taught him that mur
der was not the approved measure,, it Beems
to have failed to inspire him with tbe gener
osity and charity which are ever found in noble
minds, or with the chivalry which ever adorns
tbe character of tbe trne soldier and gentleman
Among the articles of surrender of Gen. J.
,E. Johnston, there was one prohibiting mili
tary expeditions in the country east of the
Chattahoochee river. That was the best con
sideration obtained for tbe surrender of arm
ies, arms, munitions, and manufactories in
that section, and it was in violation of that
article tbat tbe brigades of cavalry, by wbicb
I was captured, was scouring tbe country and
freely taking from the unprotected people the
little wbicb was left to them for their future
subsistence. From tbe statement of Geo.
Sherman we learn tbat a story bad been told,
to the effect tbat I was carrying in wagons
millions of specie to the Sontb, and therefore,
we are left to conolnde was made that expedi
tion in violation of tbe agreement efsnrren
der. Though tho story of the millions of spe
cie is now admitted by Gen. Sherman to have
been a fiction, the admission is made in such
erms as would lead the reader to suppose I
bad been traveling with wagon transportation,
professional attb business Curbs.
LAUAR COBB. | A. 3. RRWIB. | HOWELL COM,AD.
fTOBB, ERWIN * COBB,
Ky ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
.4 THE NS, GEORGIA.
Office in tbo Deupree Building. Deo21
A A. EDGE,
-LA., BOOT, SHOE AND HARNESS MAKER,
Watkibkville, Ga.
"R F. WOFFORD, Attorney at law,
J_>. HOMER, GA.
Will exeouta promptly all business en trotted to hit
care. Collecting claims a specialty. apllltf
D ANKRUPTCY.—Samuel P. Thurmond,
-L) Attornoy-at-Law. Athena, Gft.
Office on Broad 9treet,ov*r the ttore of Barry A Son,
Will giro special attention to case* in Bankruptcy. Al
io, to the oolleotion of nil claims entrusted to hif cure.
TARS. BRAWNER & YOUNG,
J.J CARNESVILLE, GA.
Having auociated in the practice of Medicine end
Snrgery, tender their professional service, to their
friends and the public generally. ffiO' Office nearly
opposite the court boose. apl21—tf
TT'MORY SI*EER,
JLli LAWYER, ATHENS, GA.
As Solicitor General of Western Circuit, will attend
the Courts of Clarke, Walton. Gwinnett, Hall, Benke,
Jackson, Habersham, Franklin, Rabun and White,
and give attention to collecting and other claima in
those conntiea. March IS, 187'.
TT'DWARD R. HARDEN,
■ ill (Late Judge U. S. Courts Nebraska end Utah,
and now Judge of Brooke County Court)
Attorney at Law,
july23 ly Quitman, Brooks County, Ga.
tOHR «. KSTKS. HAOISOH BILL.
TT'STES St BELL, Attorneys at Law,
Jjj GAINESVILLE, GA.
WILL practico in the conntiea composing tho
Western Circuit, and Dawaon and Forayth countiai
of the Bine Ridge Circuit. They will alao practico in
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and in the United State!
Coart at Atlanta. mayl4
TpLOYD St SILMAN,
Jj ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
* Will practise in the eonntiea of Walton And Jnokaon,
■OBH J. rLOTD, J. B. SILIIAB.
Covington, Ga. marl Jefferaon, Ga.
T F. O’KELLEY’S
«J . PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,
Over Williams’ Shoe atore, Broad etreet, Athens,
Georgia. sep3.
T H. HUGGINS,
Ll • holosalo and Retail Dealer iu
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac.
Feb 16 Broad Stroat, Athens, Ga.
T0HN H. CHRISTY,
J Plain and Fancy BOOK AND JOB PRINTER,
Broad St., Athena, Ga.
Office oorner Broad and Wall street!, over the (tore
James D. Pittard. tf
TAMES R. LYLE,
•J Attobbet xt Law,
Dec22 WA TKINSVILLE, GA.
TOHN M. MATTHEWS.
•J Attorney at Law,
DanielaviiIe,Ga.
PrompUttention will be given to Any business en-
fusted to hla eare. Marehli.
TAMES L. LONG, M. D.
O SURGEON, ACCOUCHEUR A PHYSICIAN,
(Office at Ur. Tkotnas Skeats’ Store,)
Good Hopo District, Walton county, Ga.
Offers hii professional aervieea to theoitiiens of the
surrounding country. aug27
T7~ ELIAS, Attorney at Law,
_l\_. franklin, n. c.
Practices in ell tbe Court! of Western North Caro
lina, and in tbe Poderal Courts. Claims collected in
ell parts of tho State. aplS—ly
T IVERT, Feed and Sale Stable,
-LJ ATHENS, GA.
OAinr Jt REAVES, Proprietors.
i^.Wlll he found at their old etand, rear Frank
lin House bnilding, Thomaa (treat. Kaep always
on hand-good Turn-outs and carafal drivers.
Stock wall eared for when entrneted to onr care.
Stock on hand for eale at all times. ? deo25— tt
TV/T w. riden,
_1VJL. ATTORNEY AT LAW,
U. 8. Claim Agent and Notary Public,
Gaihbsyillb, Ga.
tf* Office on Wileon etreet, below King A Bro’s.
February 19, 1873.
C. PEEPLES. B. P. BOWBLL.
"PEEPLES* HOWELL,
JL ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
20 and 22, Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga.i
PRACTICE in the State and Federal Coarts, and
L attend regularly all the Conrta in Atlanta, includ
ing the Supreme Court of the State, and will antme
eases npon brief, for absent parties, on reasonable
term*.
They also practice in the Courts of the counties con
tiguous oraeoeaeibletoAtlantaby Railroad. sepll
T> B. ADAIR, D. D. S.
JL U. Gaisesvilli, Ga. (TnVIHBk
Office.southeast corn.r Public Square.
-p S. ADAMS, M. D.,
JLV. Sobosos, Aoconcasna asd Phtsiciax.
Office at residence, Mountain District,. Walton coun
ty, Georgia—offers bis professional services to the
citiaens of the snrronoding country. sugJS—ly
Q C. DOBBS,
U. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS, GR0CCRIB8, Ae.
Feb9 No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
m
SPOOL SILK!
is specially adauted f<
ing Machines.
I F'
'or aele, wholesale and retail, by the SINGER
IANUFACTURING COMPANY,
juiyl—ly G. H..IIOPE, Agent, Athens, Ga.
P. G. THOMPSON,
attorney at law,
k-BI ATHENS, GA.
/“OFFICE over Barry’s store. Special attention gin
U to oriminal practice. For reference, apply to E:
Gov. Thomas H. Watts and Hou. David Clop ton,
gomery, Alabama.