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WEDNESDAY, - OCTOBER 24,1877.
KATE.
“Who hath not felt with rapture smitten frame.
The power of grace, the magic of a name.”
[ Campbell.
Of ladies' name* the hard mn*t choose hut one,
Of whose supernal charms to prate—
“ My pretty Jane ” or “Black Eyed Susan,”
To me there's none eo sweet as Kate.
Burns. Moore or Byron never vary.
When they their love delights relate.
In singing to the praise of Mary.
But they had never seen my Kate.
The Bard of Avon, more judicious,
Did never one as peerless rate :
But gave to oach a puff delicion-.
From Rosalind to queenly Kate.
On this important question mnsing,
My reveries wore resolved by fate.
Which interposed to save my choosing,
And let mo have a glimpse of Kate.
1 came, I saw. hut I was conquered,
So more a rover from that date,
slv bark of life was surely anchored,
I thought of nothing else hut Kate.
THE FNATTAINABI.E.
In a dungeon of stone am I walled aronnd.
With fetters of iron my li >.hn are bound:
Vainly I sesk for a ray of light.
But mv eyes are wrapp'd in the pall of night.
Fain would I soar to the realms of day.
And plant my feet on the starry way;
Fain would I pierce to the central throne,
And make my plaint to the Great Unknown.
Fain would I fathom the g!o my past,
Aud scatter the shadows the ages cast;
To the utmost bemuds of the Future fly,
And know the decrees of destiny.
1 would probe the recesses of Nature s hearty
The breast of the universe rend apart;
I would take my stand on the highest star,
And scan the horizon near and far.
On the gates of Heaven I’d warfare wage,
And U'Sin its battlements spend my rage;
Norover Id rest from my eager strife,
Till I knew the meaning of human life.
Till I knew ttau meaning of human woo,
The whence we mine, the where we go;
Till I learned the riddle whose answer lies
Enwrapped in eternal mysteries.
Alas! lam here—l know no more;
Alas 1 I am hound—l may not soar;
Alas f I am blind—l cannot see;
Ami Ihe riddle of life is unread by me.
All ' swrelv my spirit shall somotime know
The tilings which it vainly seeks for now;
Ah 1 surely this heart shall sometime bide
in peace, and its yearnings he satisfied.
,/. Albert Wilton.
AUTUMN.
[ For the Chronicle awl Constitutionalist
Where are the flowers, the beautiful flowers,
That bloomed i Hammer’s bright golden
hours ?
•I hat smiled when wooed by the blue sky
above,
And blushed when the butterfly whispered his
love ?
In their grassy tombs thoygare swdetiy sleep
ing.
While o’er them sadly, “The trees are woep
ing
Their leafy tears.” and mournfully sighing,
For the grass and aged year now dying.
Where are the sweet woodland poets ? They
Have flown on swift, panting wings away,
And now in seared and withered bowers,
Had melancholy darkly lowers.
In tho brown mantled woods, deep solilnde
reigns
For the warblers have hashed tlioir musical
strains,
And there, misty Autumn stands silent aud
lone,
Iteconnting tho days, and the hopes that are
flown.
Ilis deep furrowed brow speaks sorrow and
gloom,
And on his thin cheek, no bright roses bloom,
For the impress of time lias stamped itself
thern.
And in his sad eye, there lingers a tear.
Yet he to *ho heart, brings joy and gladness,
Tlio’ his withered face, ho o’orcast with sad
ness.
For with rich, precious gifts, ho doth industry
bless.
And crown patient soil with a wreath of suc
cess 8. A. T.
“Boseland,” October 6tli, 1876.
A I’OMT-NUBTIAI. ODE.
We need to walk together in the twilight,
He whispering tender words so sweet and low,
As down tlio green lanes when the dew was
falling,
An>l through the woodlands where the birds
were calling,
Wo wandered in those hours so long ago.
But now no more we walk in purple gloaming
A down tho lanes my love and I—ah me ;
The time lias past for such romantic roaming—
Ho holds the baby while I’m getting tea.
YVe used to sit—with lamp turned low—to
gether.
And talk of love and its divine effects,
When nights were long and wintry was the
weather ;
Far nobler lio than knight with knightly
feather,
And I to him the loveliost of my sex.
Now, oft when wintry winds howl round the
gable,
Immersed in smoko ho pores o’or gold and
stoeks,
Tlio fact ignored that just across the table
Tho loveliest of her sex sits darning socks.
Oft when arrayed to suit my liero’s fancy,
l tripped to meet him at his welcome call,
He looked unutterable tliiugH— his dark eye
glowing
in fond approval at my outward showing
IliH taste in laces, dresses, jewels—all!
Now if perchance we leave the house together.
When friends invito or prima donna sings.
Ho scans my robos (bought new for tho oc
casion)
And foots tho hills-and looks unutterable
things !
O by gone days ! when sovonteon and single.
He called n>s angel as he pressed my hand !
O present time u herein that self-same fellow
To that same angel -grown a trifle yollow—
Calls out, “ Matilda, do yon understand !”
Ah, yes! 1 undent and—one thing for certain,
I,ovs after marriage is a beauteous myth,
Which they who once have passed behind the
eurtain
Turn up their noses at—disenchanted with !
| For the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
At UIITICK MAV.
Old tree, the wind sweeps through your
branches now.
The same as oft in happier days, so long gone
by;
Ah ! hew many times since then have I long
od to die.
And rid mo of this weariness of heart and
brow!
Once (he music of your laughing leaven,
Was felt ot Hope's melodious voice,
She whispered to my throbbing heart “re
joice t*
Oh ! is ii ever rtijss, that Hope deceives ?
Aleut every waking V.om her happy dreams
lievoal her false, prove *jl her promisings are
vain ?
Must each glad hour, sueceodeu bji its pain,
Prove life itself, not what it seems ?
Ah no rosos now. hath Hope for me,
Each hud has long since fait* l from mv grasp,
And left hut thorns, within mv eager clasp,
To sting nd vex me, with their wcvekprv.
In K.'iring or Summer time, or Autumn hours.
Ho fui'l of love, in days agent,
1 came i'ot here alone.
i think el one more fair than all the flowers.
Yet like eomd gentle flower, she seemed tome,
That dreamed not of its own sweet loveliness,
lint only bloouioj to love and bless;
Twere meet to one so heavenly.
Twas in the golden Summer weather.
The shade was deep, u&ufi your branches,
tree.
And vour houghs were glad with tu* wild birds’
‘ glee.
When wo roamed here last together;
The star flowers bloomed beneath our feet;
She wore a spray ’mid her wavy hair.
But I thought of the two. herself most fair,
Of all the flowers liersolf most sweet,
.Eyes like blue forget-me-nots, sweet eyes 1
Artiees. truthful looks!
I miss thy geutle looks,
Hpeakmg less of earth, than of tho skies.
Ah ! never again ou a Summer's day
Shall we roam hers together, love.
For tho winds that rove through the leafy
grove.
Mourn sad o’er thy grave, fair Mortice May.
Adieu, old tree, 'tis a last farewell;
1 canuct boar at your grassy feel
Again to hear of the past so sweet,
The story is sad, so sail you tell!
“Farewell!” “farewell ’ ’ low breathes yonr
branches, tree,
“Farewell!" soft winds repeal to listening
flowers.
And from the past, the golden hours.
Whisper back their sail farewell to me.
W inter a. nl Spring and Summer and Fall,
Will c me .again, with their gifts, old tree,
But tliev nov.'r can bring again unto me.
One sweet gift, that was dearer than all.
[Bertelle.
Lewis Myers, a ®u}nty treasurer, was
found lied'ami ysstgoi in his ottiee in
Wupakoneta, Ohio, one morning. The safe
liad been opened. and fiT.OOo in public
moiiev taken. Mvers ,s;iid he had been
seized bv four masked mdians. who threw
a blanket over his head, ami, with a gag in
his mouth, converted him in their arms to
his office. where they i ompelled him by
torture to open the safe, after which they
earned oIT the money. This story was be
lieved by the villagers, who had such
implicit confidence in the honesty or Myers
that a hint of his complicity called out
! brants of violence. Tlie commissioners im
mediately offered a reward of for the
robbers and the money, to which Myers
suliscijueutly added $3,000. A clear headed
detective took hold of the ease, and a re
sult of his work is the arrest of Myers as the
ihief.
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Ht'untor 'lurion.
IsihaHAPol.is, October 13.—Morton
was remove*! from Richmond to this city
to-night without any unfavorable result.
Hon. Miles W. Lewis and Mr. W. H.
Branch are suggested for the House
rom Greene ewunty.
Hon. A. D. Cuidler is fvromwantly
spoken of as Senator /rom tha 3*d—
Hall, Jackson and Banks .
If we remember aright die aiojivention
did not endorse t iie opinions ot the
“ablest and most conscientious gentle
aitm” o< the lata Convention, relative to
Atlanta's fulfilling her past obligations.
From two eonjoiued paragraphs of
wetetday’s Savannah jSfeuui we are led
to believe that nine hundred males “are
standiug around, the door of the office of
the State Fair management, and the last
one of them wants to be a clerk, gate
keeper policeman or ticket seller."
THE CROPS IN GEORGIA.
HE PORT OF THE STATE COMMIS
SIONER OF AGRICULTURE FOB
THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER.
Cero.
Correspondents were requested, in the ■
current questions of this mouth, to make !
comparisons with the yield of 1876. In
consolidating the reports from the seve
ral counties it was evident that many of
them compared the prospective yield of
the present crops with an average yield.
It is, however, also quite evident that
the estimates of the yield of the corn
crop are higher than those of last month,
and tho deficiency, consequently, not so
great as was feared. But a small por- ,
tion of the crop has been gathered, and
it will require another month to secure
satisfactory estimates.
Colton.
The same remarks as to errors of com-;
parson are applicable also to the cotton
crop, with this exception : that thepros
pect seems not so good as one month
ago. The probable yield tor the State
may be set down at 75 per cent, of an
average crop. A small majority of the j
correspondents report the picking as well
advanced as last year. The equinoctial :
storm which occurred from 18th to 20th !
of the month was quite disastrous in its ,
effects upon the open cotton, especially j
in Southwestern Georgia. One corres- j
pon lent in Stewart county reports a very J
destructive fall of hail daring the last j
week in September, utterly destroying j
the cottoD, peas and remaining fruit !
throughout the section visited by the j
phenomenon. j
A larger proportion than usual of the j
cotton this season will bo stained and
otherwise injured, and, of course, brings
a corresponding low price. The rust has
injnred the yield 11 per cent, in the;
State, the loss falling ohiefly on East, i
Southwest and Middle Georgia, in the j
order named. Caterpillars have appeared
only in a few counties in Southwfstj
Georgia, the probable injury amounting j
in this section to about 3 per cent, of!
the crop; in the State at large 1 per cent, j
Sugar Cane—The recent rains, about ’
the 20th of September and later, will i
prove greatly beneficial to the cane crop, ;
and with a late frost a moderate yield ;
will he assured. In some connties, how
ever, the crop i* reported as ruined.
Horghura—This is the only crop that j
is reported above an average. The yield
generally has been very fine.
The several varieties which go under
the general name of sorghum seem pe
culiarly independent of seasons and lo
cations, and subject to no casualties,
disease or insects. It is one of the most
valnable plants that has been introduced
into the country in the last fifty years.
It grows well acid produces remunera
tive crops on very ordinary soil—does
still better on rich—is very easy of culti
vation, requires inexpensive machinery,
and the syrup properly made is a valu
able and healthful food. The prejudices
that long prevailed against its cultiva
tion aud tho use of the syrup are fast
giving wap,
field I*. as- Are generally inferior,
though the yield is very good in North
Georgia and East Georgia. The drouth
of July and Angust almoßt entirely cut
off the early crop.
Ground Peas and Chufas —These im
portant hog crops have shared in the
general injury from drouth—chufas to a
less extent. This crop, like sorghum,
seems almost independent of soil, and
season— growing luxuriantly on ordinary
lauds, even through a protracted drouth,
and producing a large yield of fat-pro
ducing food for hogs. As it is destined
to occupy a piogjinent place among the
stock food crops ol th.q South, a few
hints as to the method of ewlteke jrill be
appropriate. Any ordinary soil will
anawer—light soil perhaps best. Pre
pare nti (or cotton, in iow beds 21 to 3
feet apart, aiid plant from Ist April to
15th May, one to two tuber? in a place,
i8 to 24 inches distant, and cultivate
shallow in most convenient way. They
are very easily cultivated, and wheD
fairlv started are an overmateb for ordi
nary grass. For saving seed a plat of
gronud, free from gravel, should be se
lected. One peck will plant an acre.
Hweet Potato**—There has been no
manifest improvement in this crop since
Jest report, ft is believed jt£tat the re
cent general rains will make & great
change by frost, if IB fatter does not
occur earlier than nsual.
Turnips— The acreage in turnips is
reoorted at 102 compared to last year,
but owing to dry weather in August, anil
until 20th September, the stand has
been very imperfect. With a mild Fall
a fair crop may bo retlljsinl from the
sowings in latter part of the month.
Small it rain—Wbrt.
The indications are that the area to
be devoted to wheat will be 17, com
pared to the acreage of last year.
There is a wide-spread determination
on tho part of farmers to become less
dependent ou the Northwest and upon
intermediate merchants for supplies of
floor. Even iu Southeast Georgia one
correspondent reports a prospective in
crease in the crop this Fall at 2§o per
cent!, This determination is due, in
large manner, to the extraordinary suc
cess of the crop last season.
It is, to a great degree, an impulse,
but happily iu tho right direction.
Mu oh has already been published on
this subject in former reports, and per
haps it is not wtgessary to repeat muoh
of what has been jvritten. Farmers
who are determined to s*wn*>e/l will have
perfected their plans, secured seed, UP* l
prepared fertilizers ere this report yill
reach many of them, and are only wait
ing for the seed time to arrive. Let
every step in the preparation of tho soil,
tho manures, the selection of seed, and
the sowing, be as nearly porfoot as pos
sible. Sow no more than can be sown
according to the requirements whioh
have been taught by experience and by
precept ic be necessary to success. A
farmer who shall merely seratoh in a
half bushel or three s of inferior
seed to the acre, on thin laud
with cornstalks, grass and weeds, using,
perhaps, the worn-out plows from the
last Summer's plowing, has no right to
expect a good yieid qf aood wheat—no
right to complain H fcjroygjence does
not atuile noon his slipshod eMoti*. pr
perform a miracle for his special benefit.
The farm®* who .has not secured his
seed wheat should d<? yitbout delay.
Early ripening red wheats fif* R)°f k
reliable. Early Bed May, Ely Purple
Straw (Red), Full#, MVWgu*, Ute re ’
oommeuded. Tappahanuock (white)
does well in Middle aud Worth Georgia.
Sow on ootton land if possible. Prepare
the ground by deep plowing, and sow
the Wda and fertilizers, and barrow or
plow iu smovtlfly with a small plow. It
will pay to mil the nd after covering
the aped.
Oats.
The indications point to on increase
of 10 per cent, in the acreage in oats.
Every farmer should so order his plans
that he may be independent of the corn
merchants next Summer, and the readi
est and most practical resource to that
end is found in the oat crop now to be
planted. It is not too late yet to sow
Fall oats, if not already done. A few
correspondents say that some farmers
hesitate to sow largely on account of the
extensive leas from Winter killing the
past Winter. Those should bear in mind
that owing to dry weather last Septem
ber and October, they were late in se
curing stands, and the freezes of Winter,
which were very early, severe and re
pea ted, caught the plants in a young
and growing condition.
One correspondent in Early county in
oidentallv remarks that "the oat crop
had saved them for three years past,”
Farmers should not be deterred from
sowing by these considerations, but on
the contrary, in consideration of the
short crop of corn now ready to harvest,
aud the demands for nest year’s food
supplies, the oat crop should be the
special care of farmer. If the
proper seed are sown alike right time,
aud in the right time, the risk oi failure
involving scarcely more thau loss of
seed—is too small to weigh in the scales
against the great advantage and benefits
of an slmuiant crop of osts aey t Jnne. ;
The preseat season is for
sowing. There is no reason to expect
an unusually severe W intar. Our wants
will be urgent next season. Then sow ;
oats, and so largely and well, and sow j
tiCtr. These special considerations are
urged why fanners should seed down a
broad area to oats this Fall; but back of
these, and independent of them, is the
proposition that oats constitute a cheap
er aud better food than corn fig wors
stock, eapesisdly in Sommer; in a series
of years they are ©ore reliable in yield,
aisj the loss’ of a crop from Winter kill
ing involves less loss of labor than a
failure of the corn crop.
These two crops, porn and oats, whose
seeding time are pbogt six months
apart, Slav easily be make to supple
ment each other. If the corn crop should
fail, the failure u apparent in August,
giving ample time to prepare and sow
an increased area in oats to supply the
deficiency. So, likewise, in the Spring, (
a failure of the oat crop, from any ordi
nary cause, will be manifeat before the
season for planting com shall have past,
and thus they may dovetail into each
other moat harmoniously. A super
abundant crop of either or both has not
in this section in many years,
and would wove no drag in the market,
but a great bleaaus* to our people.
Cobert Flournoy writes: '*l pan yith
confidence recommend Tekthina as th t
lest and surest medicine I ever used
for Jeethiftg children and the Bowel
disorders of aur Southern country.”
Fretting, tossing, wakefal children
relieved by Tekthina (.Teething Pow
ders).
HO! FOR THE WEST.
A LETTER FROM HON. GEO. D.
TILLMAN.
Woodlawx, S. C., October 8, 1877.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
The deep interest which I feel in the
build ing of the Angnata and Knoxville
Railroad and its branches prompts me
to write this letter.
Angnata most either acquire better
communication with the West or quit
business as a general market. In short,
the whole States of North and South
Carolina and the eastern half of Georgia,
including, of coarse, all the cities and
towns in the territory named, are vitally
concerned in opening short, direct,
rival and oheap railway connections
with the West. For the want of such
connections to participate in Western
trade—the wide country I have men
tioned—all its cities, all its railroads,
except the Georgia Road, and nearly
all its population are langnishing.
The great balk of the inhabitants of
the two Carolinas and of eastern Geor
gia are engaged in the cnltnre of ootton,
rice and tobacco, to the general neglect
of food crops and farm stock. Perhaps
two-thirds of the horses and males used
in the territory specified, as well as
most of the food consumed in said ter
ritory, by both man and beast, are
brought in from the West, either around
by Chattanooga and Atlanta, or as re
gards us, still fnrtber aronnd by Balti
more, Richmond or Norfolk. This is
nearly as bad as haring to go all around
three sides of a house to get in at
the door. The railroads that thus
come around the mountains to bring
us this freight, having a complete mo
nopoly move it only where they please,
as they please and charge what they
please. This is the reason why the
Georgia Railroad has always paid such a
large dividend on ite stock until it got
involved by speculating. This is the
reason why the Georgia Road has such
a large surplus reserve fund accumu
lated, and has such unlimited credit as
to be able to buy or lease other roads at
pleasure. This is the reason why the
the State Road from Atlanta to Chatta
nooga is such an easy mine of incal
culable wealth, that, after defraying all
its current expenses and providing for
needed repairs, it can likewise pay the
State an annual rental of three hundred
thousand dollars, and still leave a two
horse wagon load of gold to be divided
every year among Governor Joe Brown
and his honest 00-lessees, in
cluding the pure Simon Cameron. This
is the reason why the Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St. Louis Railroad is so
prosperous. This is tho reason why the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the
most wealthy railway corporation in the
world, until it grew ambitious and went
to gambling, and until the recent com
pletion of railway connection between
Chattanooga and Richmond and Norfolk
deprived the Baltimore and Ohio of
much of its Southern freight. This is
the reason why the roads from Chatta
nooga to Riohmond and Norfolk are so
flourishing.
This theory must be sound else why
are the railroads so thriving that pass
aronnd to our right by Baltimore, Rioh
mond and Norfolk and to onr left by
Chattanooga and Atlanta to bring us
Western freights, while opr local rail
roads are for the most part straggling
hard to keep out of the sheriff’s hands,
leaving out of view even the hope of
dividends.
The monopoly of conducting Western
excharges for the Carolinas and for
Eastern Georgia is furtherwore the
secret of Chattanooga and Atlanta’s
marvelous growth. It also explains the
gigantio expansion of Baltimore city
from the day that North and South Caro
linian" and Georgians almost qnit rais
ing food crops and live stock, to engage
principally in tne culture of tobacco,
cotton and rice. It likewise affords a
solution of Richmond’s abounding
thrift and Norfolk’s rapid strides in
wealth, population and power during
the few yeijfi) that have elapsed since
those two cjtjes biioatpe intimately con
nected with the West by rail.
What more eloquent argument to
prove the overpowering necessity for
more Western connections than the fact
that Atlanta, now the largest city in
Georgia, was a cross road tavern called
atarthasville a little while ago, and that
fast becoming a great city,
was bflty ip Indian trading post yester
day— white Savannah Charles
ton-old pitjeg tjdl,‘
barely holding her‘own by manufactur
ing and other places aotually retrograd
ing.
Atlanta, Chattanooga, Norfolk, Rich
mond and Baltimore have competing
oonnepUqns yyith the West to bring them
food and farm fo x the South,
and to parry flapk manufactures aad
tropical fruits and products if) return to
pay for that food Ofid stock—thus levy
ing a double profit in conducting the
exohange—first on the Southern man
and then on the Western man, particu
larly on the former, because he, poor
thriftless devil, is utterly helpless from
hving to bny his food and plow ani
mats to ftlHti pptton. Of course our cot
ton pianos in ftfffl flMtjjra are mostly to
blame themselves /or fyeir cy* impov
erishment,for the decay of our cftfe&'apd
for the prostra/jof) of opr railroads, be
cause the planters will et}}( ci)lti?afe all
cotton from ohoioe, not from necessity.
What has been done by man oan be
done again, and any middle-aged person
roared in Eastern Georgia or Western
Carolina can distinctly recall the times
when every other farm house in the
epuruyy that trades with Augusta had
eithej: something fa) or a home raised
horse or mule $6 self)'and when most of
ti)o?e farm bouses haa money to joap pt
seven pep cent. N ow almost every farm
house iu Georgia aj)4 Carolina has some
thing to eat aud must of its f a W ani ‘
mals to buy, and is eager to borrow all
the money to be had at twenty per cent.
If cur planters will oonttnne the mad
! folly of baying food and farm stock
\ from the West, instead of growing them
at home like their fathers, they miißt
i either secure more railroad commnnica
j tions with tpe West, so as get food and
stock cheaper' T or probate ior universal
[ bankruptcy. > r
As now provided with transportation
to from the West, the cities of Au
gusta, fyayaptflfi). Charleston, Columbia,
Wilmington, et<?. /‘ ppctf jfpp import
either tea, coffed, sugar, syrup, dye
gtngfs, tropical fruits, silks, or anything
elsp’ frotq g waymer climate or from
abroad Urti) a Py fjqnp ftf soiling to the
Western p.eople. Tne mountains must
ho penetrated in a fight line from onr
oities to let them partake of tho fonn
tains of prosperity whioh are flowing
from ns and from the Western people
to the oities nearest ns that have com
peting railway connections with the
West.
The most profitable commerce is that
which conducts the exchange of surplus
products between climates, dif
ferent soils and peoples of different
pursuits. Usually the most laorative
trade is tfeat bet Veep a warmer and a
oolder olimate emoting & tribute from
the prod note of both. In the history of
the world whatever nation has controlled
the exchanges between cold Europe and
warm Southern Asia, especially India,
has reared the golden harvest of trade.
England now enjoys it, Holland pro
ceeded her, then the Hanse Towns,
next Venice and so on back it can uu
mistakeably be traced to Tyre. No city
oan profit much by confining its com
munications and trade to the same oli
mate.
It is s maxim of all the enterprising
cities of the Mississippi yalley tp shun
Eastern and Western railway connec
tions—hot to extend and improve all
Northern and Southern routes of trans
portation whether by land of fry water.
The reason for this is obvious. St.
Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati say as
long as they were dependant for trans
portation on railroads to the Eastern
and Western seaports, they were mere
hewers of woods and drawers of water
for those roads and the seaports to
which they ran; simple gatherers of
Western products to sell or deliver the
same to the seaport merahauts upon the
latter’s own terms and upon the rail
road’s own rates of freight —simple re
ceivers of goods imported, so mannfac
tured by the seaport merchants and
sent in return payment .on tfie railroad,
whieh goods were charged at sliateyer
price the merchant thought fit and at
whatever rate of freight the monopolis
ing railroad company fixed.
San Francisco and the Atlantic ports
nsed their ships to send abroad for for
eign goods and to the Sonth for tropical
products to forward to the West in pay
ment fojr what they had purchased there,
’the Western cities not do this for
themselves by tedtods, circuitous, ex
pensive and dangerous'river navigation;
nor oomd they profitably send off west
ern products by this sort of river transit
alone, nor yet by an )£ast And West rad
ioed that had a monopoly, ifenoe these
Western mtiifie speedly crew tired of be
ing only depots for tjje seaports, and
Western merchants Rebelled against be
ing only agents for seaport principals.
Accordingly North and South railroads
became the ory in the Mississippi yal
ley. St. Lonis is building railroads in
every direction—North, Northeast, and
Northwest, Sonth, Southeast and South
west, especially to the South. She is
away down in Texas with her railroads,
at Galveston, and nearly to the Bio
Grande,getting ready to cross into Mex
ico, to penetrate Central America and
reach various Spanish American sea
ports on both the Facifio and the Atlan
tic. The city of Cincinnati has spent
many millions dollars taxes, and has
contracted an enormous municipal
debt te extend her railway system
South, and Chicago is not only
spending almost every dollar she can
command to send her iron horses Sonth
generally, but she is especially casting
an anxious eye toward Augnsta and Fort
Royal.
In contrast, onr cities in Georgia and
Carolina, as a rule, have extended their
railway systems so as to get more cotton
bales alone, without trying to procure
cheap food and farm stock with which
mostly to pay for those cotton bales, or
to procure cheap tropical products and
manufactured articles with which to pay
for the food and stock bought in the
West. Atlanta, Norfolk, Richmond
and Baltimore are all nearer to the West
than onr cities are, and hence ont cities
can never rationally hope to hold any
profitable commerce with the Mississip
pi Valley until Rabun Gap and Cumber
land Gap shall have been pierced,
Asa preof how unwise it is for any
city to confine its interior communica
tion to one climate and to the purchase
and handling of only one or two staple
articles, without straining every energy
to procure cheaply what is mostly want
ed in retnrn for those one or two staple
articles we have only to look at Savan
nah. That unfortunate city, besides
spending large sums collected by taxa
tion and by voluntary subscription
of its merchants and capitalists, has
also contracted a municipal debt
of about four million dollars—all
to bnild and control railroads intended
simply to attract more cotton bales, i
Now she is hopelessly bankrupt. Had
she spent half that money iu construct
ing a railroad right up the valley of her
own splendid river, through Rabun Gap,
and on to the West, she would not be
wailing in desolation over dishonored
credit, broken cotton factors and ruined
cotton planters, who are either on the
way to the poor house or thinking about
going thither. Bnt Charleston, with
her rice and cotton faotors, as well as
with her planter patrons, is but little
better off. Augusta would stand in the
same category if it were not for her
growing manufactures.
Every city and village of Eastern
Georgia and of South and North Caro
lina—every merchant of each of those
oities and villages—every railroad and
every man, woman and child in the re
gion mentioned should combine and
press a railroad through both Rabun
and Cumberland Gaps. Augusta has
more capital than any Eastern city that
is deeply concerned, and if she shall fail
to spend it liberally now in assisting up
per Carolina to reach Knoxville, Cincin
nati and Chicago, she would deserve
her fate if she should hereafter de
oline. Her capitalists and mer
chants now have the opportunity
to throw off the swaddling clothes
in which their city has hitherto been
kept by the Georgia Railroad, that for
its own aggrandisement defeated the
construction of a railroad from Green
ville by Greenwood to Augusta over
thirty years ago. If these capitalists
and merchants shall longer decline to
seize this opportunity let them and their
newspaper press forever ceaso to carp
and complain of Atlanta’s growth lest it
be thought of them what Boabdil’s
heroic mother remarked to him for cry
ing as he was leaving his Kingdom of
Gienada to its conqueror:
“You do well to weep like a woman
for what you could not defend like a
man.”
So with Augnst.a ; let her either unite
with Eastern Georgia aud Western Caro
lina to strike out boldly for the com
mercial mown of Georgia, or in graceful
humility henceforth yield to Atlanta the
rank of Queen City of the Empire State
and of the Atlantic Cotton States. Au
gusta can indeed become an august city,
as she was intended by the hand of na
ture, if she could only find a De Witt
Clinton among her sous. Estes has
prepared the way for making her a
Lowell, and in gratitude therefor his
bust, obtained at the city’s expense,
shall adorn the City Hall in a few
years. The living marble that
ought to face the Estes bust in the
city’s fufurp grpat hall should
contain the lineaments of the man who
shall carry the city's trade through
Rabun Gap and Cumberland Gap un
tramigellecj by ruinous tribute in mo
nopoly ffeigUt. Shalj tl)at Uust resemble
Whpeless or JoVu M. Clark, shall it
represent Henry Moore or Henry Frank
lin, or who else? Time will tell. Who
ever the coming man may be, he must
keep his mind’s eye steadily fixed be
yond the Blue Ridge Mountains and
not accustom his vision to be bound
ed by the Carolina bank of a railroad
bridge. That sort of picayune thinking
and talking should cease at once if Au
gijstu •jypfxld. aspire to the high destiny
that awaits her by being Hue to herself.
As long as our cotton planters shall
persist in cultivating nearly all cotton to
the exclusion of food crops and live
stock nothing oan benefit them so much
—benefit our merchants so much, our
oities so muoh, o|jr ruilroails so much as
two di'rept ’ cqbneetiong wjth fjio \yest.
That the planters will, to a &reat extent,
adhere to their all potton policy for long
seems inevitablo. Binoe the war a freed
man thinks he is in honor bound either
to knock out the eye of a fine colt, or to
kill it. Hogs and the nation’s
wards cannot inhabit the same
plantation in peace. Sheep and the
freedman’s dogs cannot walk the same
range, without the sheep always being
in fhe way. Tfm child's Man in the
Moon ts - continuously lilting up (at
beef eutfje ajl oyer the South to appease
his never satisfied hunger. Yet now
that we have a white man’s government
once more we might by sleepless vigi
lence and rigidly enforcing the law re
turn to successful stock raising as of yore
if our people would.
Since the discovery of both never
failing rust proof oats and a never failing
rqst prfiof whef)t,there should likewise be
no diffieuljiy inp/ortumug abundant home
grown' f6od‘fof‘maiF'afit!‘beast. u ’ffiese
rust proof graips—tho one tfie best food
fqr tgftU—tfie qtfter tfie best food for
stoeg tfiat pat) bp aye bptb
Winter crops, that grow at a season of
tho year when we usually have plenty of
rain. They therefore need only to be
sowed early always to succeed. The oat
is not only the easiest produced and the
healthiest stock feed in the world but
■ when dry will keep indefinitely, as it is
the ou)v uultva).eq gram matures
in tfie eotfhD 1 States,-ifhiefi fio weavil' or
other inseots ever attaoks. Onr red
hills will prouu:C aa man J babels
of rust proof wheat to the acre as they
will yield of corn. On many large plan
tations pf the yefi laud? > n no
corn is grown at all pxcppt a rosstjng ear
patch, or a w®ti spot that will neither
briDg cotton nor small grain, 'lhe
negroes on these plapes use wheat bread
the year around—having corn bread only
as a luxury, while the poor white man,
who is a large cotton planter, ean af
ford to eat only a little flour. Yet with
all these incomparable advantages—
with cows peas, ground peas, sweet pota
toes, chufas, upland rice, vetch and
other nutricions crops that they cannot
cultivate iu tho West, onr cotton
planters will probably never permanent
ly retnrn to the ways of their fathers in
riming plenfy farm gtopk and food at
home.
Ootton culture is a species of gambling,
an oooupatton of which the whole human
family is fond. Ootton is truly a noble
plant, if not a royal one, and consider
ing the vicissitudes of its cnltnre, as
well as the fluctuations in its price, cot
ton planting has much of tho stimula
ting excitement that drinking or gaming
engenders. Now and then at longer or
shorter intervals it plays seesaw iu price
—a high rise or low fall for the planter.
It is the glorious uncertainty as to
when this periodical high rise and flush
times in money ipatters spall occur that
renders cotton planting so alluring and
deoeptive. Every one hoping for the
rise will plant nothing but cotton to
have a pig crop ou hand for the high
priepg.
Most of our people, taught by safi ex
perience, are returning to the ways of
their fathers in respect to producing
stock and food. Bat in a little while
from short crop, increased demand, bet
ter government, or from some other
cause, coiton shall spring to fifteen or
more cents per pound, and then fare
well, a long farewell, to all strong
resolutions for raising home sup
plies. Habit is second nature
— example is contagious. When in
Rome 6ne will do like the Romans.
For upwards of thirty years—that is
from the day since the Georgia State
Hoad from Chattanooga to Atlanta and
the Baltimore Ohio Road commenc
ed bringing us food and stock frqm the
West, our planters have been betting on
all cotton crops. As the blind craving
for a big cotton crop has become
chronic, what right have we to expect
any lasting amendment in the future
when there has been none in the past ?
Therefore, since our planters must nec
essarily resort to the West for food and
horse power to a large extent, would it
not be better for the planters, better or
the merchants, better for tne cities of
the Carolinas and Eastern Georgia and
: better for our lopal railroads if we had
two or three more railway connections
with the West ?
The Augusta and Knoxville Road,
rightly built, oan furnish three more di
rect, short and cheap routes to the Weat.
A trank up the Savannah Valley by
Dorn’a Mine and Anderson Court Bouse
to Knoxville would constitute route
number one. A branoh road from Dorn s
Mine by Greenwood and Lanrens to
Spartanburg number two. Another
branoh road from Clayton, in Georgia,
by Mnrphy, in North Carolina, to Chat
tanooga number three, and still another
branch road from Dorn’s Mine by Pet
ersburg and Elberton to Tuccoa City
would be a respectable fourth rival of
the Georgia Road.
Many other parties are combining to
bnild the connection from Spartanburg
to the West by the French Broad route.
But Augusta must rely chiefly upon her
self and the help she can get along the
lines to reach Knoxville, Chattanooga,
Tuccoa City and Spartanburg. The
route from Clayton to Chattanooga is
said to be remarkably favorable for a
railroad, and the route from Anderson
to Knoxville is also now well known not
to be very difficult. Two millions of
money belonging to the State of Sonth
Carolina —one million belonging to the
city of Charleston and a little upwards
of an hundred thousand dollars of pri
vate capital—has been knavishly or
foolishly spent on what was called the
Bine Ridge Railroad between Anderson
and Knoxville. Alter this large sum of
money had been squandered, mostly in
useless grading and tunneling, perhaps
in pnt up jobs by a corrupt ring, it was
suddenly discovered that a far better
and cheaper route can be found to Knox
ville than the one on which all this
money has been spent. The old Bine
Ridge Railroad Corporation is bankrupt,
dissolved and dead. Whenever the rail
road from Anderson to Knoxville shall
be bnilt, it will not be done on the line
of the costly Blue Ridge folly. If more
private capital had been embarked, a
very different result would have been
reached.
This triple rival road to the three
gates in the mountains that open to the
West would constitute a railway system
worthy of Augusta, and if completed, in
connection with her manufactures,
would shortly make her a city indeed.
A railroad from Augusta to Chattanooga
by the most direct route up the Savan
nah Yalley—only the chord of an. arc
compared with the route by Atlanta,
would cause wailing and gnashing of
teeth in Joe Brown and chaste Came
ron’s monopoly ; it would also remove
Atlanta to Augusta and vastly mend the
manners of the Georgia Railroad offi
cials.
Abundant cheap convict labor can
doubtless be had to do most of the work
suggested in each of the four States
through which sone part of
the road and its branches would
run. I should like to go into cer
tain details of relative instances between
Western cities and Augusta, and be
tween those cities and the Northern and
Southern Atlantic seaports. I shonld
also wish to make some financial calcu
lations based on facts and encouraging
data iu my possession about the proba
ble cost of most of the Augusta and
Knoxville Road and its branches, but
this writing is already too long.
Therefore I will only add it might re
quire ten years or even a quarter of a
century to build this Augusta and Knox
ville Road and branches, but what is that
period of time in the life of a city ? This
road and its branches at least proposes a
railway policy for the city, and why
should not Augnsta have a fixed railway
policy as well as St. Louis, Cincinnati
or any other city ? If instead of having
no plan, or only a happy go lucky plan
of transportation, Augnsta had proposed
a wise railway policy, she would never
have pnt a half a million dollars of city
funds in the Macon and Augusta Rail
road which was intended only as a feed
er of the Georgia Road, and was bnilt
by order of the Georgia Road. To use
a slang phrase, Augusta must either
cease to be governed by one railroad or
she shall forever remain a one-horse
town. G. D. Tillman.
WAKENED TO DIE.
A I’nrisiiui illanHter iaiiillolined—Sickening
Scene ol* Terror*
Pabis, September 14.—Pierre Jean
Welker, the odious assassiu of a little
girl iu the Rue Nationale—she was
eight, and he strangled her with her
skipping rope, outraged her dead body
anil went to sleep, using her corpse as
his pillow—has been guillotined. The
warrant designated as the hour “ about
5:30, a. m ,” aud somewhat after mid
night the machine arrived and was
noiselessly set tip with wooden screws,
only about one hundred and fifty per
sons being attracted to the scene be
sides the military and police. One of
them was a woman. It was 4:40 when
M. Roch had everything in working
order and tried tho fall of the axe; then
he and his assistants, .Taoob. the chief
of the detective service, and the Abbe
Crozes, who has accompanied so many
scores of murderers to the gnillotine,
and whose hack, No. 148, is as
much a part of the procession as M.
Roch’s van, entered the prison. Welker
was a fearful coward, who had wept and
moaned and torn his hair when sentence
was passed and when he was placed in
the condemned cell, but he believed the
merciful falsehood that forty days must
elapse before the carrying out of sen
tence, which jail attendants always tell
to confiding prisoners; and thinking he
had still some time left to him, and
also having faith that his petition /or
mercy would be heard, he had gotten
oyer his tofrqr, qte /reply and slept
soundly. Bo soundly was he sleeping
this morniDg that neither the opening
of his cell door nor the light of the lan
terns disturbed him. Jacob shook him
by the shoulder, and the clerk said
loudly, “Wake up, Welker, yonr peti
tion has been rejected; you must pre
pare to die.” A horrible sound, half
tho cry of a wild beast, half a
death-rattle, issued from the mis
erable man’s throat, and he fell
back qn his bed, Übnyqlsiyfiiy bi/ifig the
coverlet. “I/ave you any thing to say ?
Do you want some brandy ?” asked
Jaoob; but Welker did not hear him,
and lay racked by convulsive shudders.
He was lifted out of bed and made a
vain effort to draw on his trousers, but
he could not stand aud tumbled again
upon his couch. The veins of his fore
head aud temples stood out like knotted
cordage, his eyes were filmy, and hjs jaw
had fallen and a cold sweat was jpourfng
doM fas' &sßy face. The Abbe’Crozes
spoke fo liim earnestly; Rod) asked,
“Do J lifirt"you?” as ’fip i)is
hanfis, huf WplttoV wo answer,
heard nothing, was as one dead. In
deed the attendants were urged to make
haste or he would die of fright in thei*
hand.. . Two of them h/) t 0 carry him
on t “ltd ms arms around their necks,
his head hanging on the right she.v.Jde):,
and hie Iqga tiaifitm uu fhe stones'De
hihd 'tfiefir. The priest' walked back
wards before him to shut out the sight
of the machine of death, but the merci
ful precaution was needless. Welker knew
nothing. His body fell upon the planks
like a bag of sand, and a moment later
the axe fell. Owing to the difficulty o/
placipg tfie'inart body iu position, the axe
shored away the head diagonally; taking
off a port of the shoulder, and leaving a
piece of the jaw attached to the other.
So large was tfie murderer's skull that
it got jamiqod in the bucket it) which it
fell, and could qnly be shaken out by
pounding on the inverted vessel. It
was 4:48 when the officers entered the
prison to take out tlieir man; it was 5:06
when the axe fell—the time occupied
being three minutes less than was taken
in the case of Billior. Roch thinks that
with all circumstances favoring him he
can reduce the time to twelve minutes
that is to say, there will bo for the
criminal an interval of less thaq ten
minutes between sleep and death. But
how many ages of mental agony in those
ten minutes.
TIIE GEORtUA SENATOR*!!!!*.
[Montgomery Adoertiser.]
Just at this time the composition of
the United States Senate is a matter of
great importance to the South, and our
people are naturally taking considera
ble interest in the election ci members
to fill the terms which are about to ex
pire.
The interest committed to the Senate,
and the great power to be exercised for
good or evil, which it wields in tho mat
ter of appointments, make Senators
practically representatives not of par
ticular States,' hnt‘ qiTsdt the &£ates; and
this is especially so as regards the
South. We therefore feel, we trust, a
not unpardonable interest in the ap
proaching Senatorial elections, and
may, without an impntation of med
dling with what does not concern ns,
express approval or disapproval of the
stewardship of the Senators from sister
Southern States whose terms are about
to expire.
We see by onr Georgia exchanges that
the Legislature soon to be elected will
choose a successor to Senator Gordon.
It is the happy fortune of that grand old
Commonwealth to have many sods who
would grace the fjnited States Senate.
Without any cjjsparugeuieat to them;
however, we may express the opinion
that Gordon is his own fittest successor.
When Georgia was iu the slough of
reconstruction it was Gordon who set
np the standard of Georgia manhood
and bore it triumphantly in that memor
able campaign. It is well known now
that he was elected Governor of Geor
gia, although the reconstruction man
agers returned Bnllock.
It was Gordon who illustrated the
valor of Georgians and Alabamians, too,
on every battle field in Virginia, and
plncked fresh lanrels for Georgia by an
heroic and brilliant career, which ranked
him litfle
It wi)s (Jordon jh tfie (Jnited States
Senate who gave tope and temper to tbe
dangerous debate on Louisiana, when
the braggart Sheridan recommended
putting her people to death as banditti,
by sentence of military conrts. How
and what would have been the end, in
the hot fever of those days, if Gordon
had not deftly seised the helm, is be
yond mortal ken. It is bnt scant trnth
to say that bnt for the direction his
voice mainly gave to that memorable
debate with Morton, Edmunds and Lo
gan, and the influence which his ex
ample and character enabled him to
wield over the enraged Louisianians,
that era of returning reason in the
North which gave ns the House of Rep
resentativos would have been postponed
to some distant future day.
It was Oordon wbo went with Hamp
ton when Sooth Carolina was passing
through the storm in a death struggle
for deliverance. It was Gordon who,
when the victory was won and Federal
soldiers, under Grant’s orders, sought
to wrest victory from the people of
South Carolina, went to Columbia to
protest against the usurpation and to
give the world the facts. His charac
ter stamped his utterances with truth,
and those who were doing the dirty work
of Chamberlain well knew that the
North, and the people of the North
would believe him, and when their ini
quities were known indignation would
raise a storm among the Northern
masses which would shatter the bastard
government which Grant sought to in
augurate in South Carolina. True,
Gordon was but one man, and without
power to arrest the despotism which
then had its heel on South Carolina; but
what he witnessed there, when laid be
fore another Executive, hastened the
day of her deliverance.
Such has been the respect which his
high character and pure life had in
spired that the bitterest enemies of the
South have uot attempted to oppose his
legitimate influence as Senator in any
thing except in strictly party matters,
and thus it is that Gordon, without
abating one jot or little of his manhood,
has been able to procuro more substan
tial benefits for the people of his State
than any Senator from the South.
Such a Senator deserves endorsement
from the people of his State, and we
doubt not Gordon will receive it.
MARK TWAIN’S MILITARY RECORD—
HIS LATEST EFFUSION.
[Speech at the Putnam Phalanx Banquet,]
I wouldn’t have missed this for a
great deal. I did not assemble at the
hotel parlors to-day to be received by
the committee as a mere civilian guest.
No. I assembled at the headquarters of
the Putnam Phalanx and insisted upon
my right to be guarded to this place as
one of the military guests. For I, too,
aoi a soldier. I am inured to war. I
have a military history. I have been
through a stirring 6ampaign, and there
is not even a mention of it in any his
tory of the United States or of the
Southern Confederacy. To such lengths
can the envy and the malignity of the
historian go. I will unbosom myself
here, where I cannot but find sympathy.
I will tell you about it, and appeal
through yon to justice. In early Sum
mer days of the war I stepped out of
Hannibal, Mo., by nigbt with a friend,
and joined a detachment of the rebel
General Tom Harris’ army (I find my
self in a great majority here). Up a
gorge behind an old barn in Kalla coun
ty Colonel Rail swore us in. He made
us swear to uphold the flag and Consti
tution of the United States, and to de
stroy any other military organization
that we caught doing tho same
thing. [Great laughter]. In other
words, we were to repel invasion.
Well, you see, this mixed us.—
We could not really tell which side we
were on; but we weut into camp and
left it to the God of battles, which was
the custom in that day. I was made
second Lieutenant and chief mogul of a
company of eleven men, who didn’t
know anything about war—or anything.
We had no Captain. My friend, who
was nineteen years old, six feet high,
three feet wide, and some distance
through, aud just out of the iufant
school, was made orderly sergeant. His
name was Ben Tupper, and be had a
hard time. When he was mounted and
on tho march he used to go to sleep,
and his horse would turn around and
bite his leg, and theu he would cry and
curse and want to go home. The other
men pestered him a good deal, too.
When they were dismounted they said
they couldn’t march in double file with
him, beoause lijs feet took up so much
room. One night, when we were around
tho camp-fire, a fellow on the outside of
the circle, in the cold, said, “Ben Tup
per, put down that newspaper; it casts
a shadow like a blanket.” Ben said, “I
ain’t got any newspaper.” Then that
other fellow said, “Oh, I see, it’s your
ear |” We all slept in a corn-crib on the
corn, and the rats were very thick. Ben
Tupper had been oarefully aud rigidly
reared, and when ho was ready for bed
he would start to pray, and a rat would
bite him on the heel, and theu he would
sit up and swear all night and keep
everybody awake. He was town bred,
and did not seem to have any correct
idea of military discipline. If I com
manded him to shut up he would say,
“Who was your nigger last year?” One
evening I ordered him to lido out on
picket duty about thrpe uiiles to be
ginning of a prairie. Said he, “What,
in the night 1 and them blamed pinion
soldiprs likely tp fie prowling around
there any tippe ?’•’ So ho would not go.
Next morning I ordered him again.
Said he, “In the rain?” He didn’t go
again. Next day I ordered him on
picket duty cnce more. This time he
looked hnrt. Said he “What! on Sun
day ? You must be a durned fool!”
Picketing was impracticable, so I
dropped it from my military system.
We had a good enough time tfcore at
that barn, barring the yqg, find the
rats, and tiro mid things.
W e lived ou both parties impartiality,
and both parties hated qa Impartially.
But one day wo heard that the invader
was approaohing, so we had to pack
up and move. luside of twenty
four hours the invader was com
ing again; so we moved again. And
next day he was after us once m
We didn’t like it bq we
moved ratbag than make 'trouble.—
I T'iua wont on ittr'k iyeek cm? ten days,
dnd'wS saw considerable, sqenejfv. Then
Hen Tapper tost He says :
“ W&T ts pp.i what it is cracked up to
be. I’m going home if I can't ever get
a ehanee to sit down a minute. Why
do these people keep us ahumpinc
around so? Eiame their skim’, do they
this is an excursion ?” of
the other town-boys began to. grumble.
They that there was an in-
GujpQieiioy o! umbrellas, and then they
complained that the Worcestershire
sauce was out. There was mutiny and
dissatisfaction all around, and, of course,
here came the enemy pestering us again,
two hours—more than two hours—be
fore breakfast, and nobody tooted to
turn out at that This was a little
too rpuch. whole command felt in
sulted. I detached ope of my aids, and
sent him to the brigadier, and asked him
to assign us to a district where there
wasn't sq much bother going on. The
history of our company was laid be
fore him, but, instead of being touch
ed by it, what did he do ? He sent
back an indignant message. He said :
“You have had a dozen chances inside
of two weeks to capture the enemy, and
he is still at large. [I knew that.] Stay
where you are this time or I will court
martial and hang the whole of you.” I
submitted the brntal message to my
battalio ; and asked their adv]cc. Said
the orclaily seygeafit ;* Tpjn Ranis
wants {[ip -enemy let him come here and
get hint, f haven't got any use for my
share. Who's Tom Harris, any way,
that's putting on so many frills ? Why,
I knew him when he wasn’t anything but
a durned telegraph operator. Gentle
men, you can do as you choose. As for
me, I’ve got enough of this sashaying
rouud so as you can’t get a to
pray, because the ad required
for cussin’. So my' war-paint.
You hear me.. The whole regiment said:
“That's tfie talk for ua, ” So then and
there on the spot my brigade disband
ed itself and tramped off home, with
me at the tail end of it. We
were the first men who went into the
service in Missouri, aud we were the
first who went out of it
gentlemen iy hwiofy of the part
j wpied my aiyisiofi took in the great re
bellipn, and such is the military record
of its oommander-in-ohuf. And this is
the first time that the deeds of those
eleven warriors have been brought offi
cially to the notiee of humanity. Treas
ure these things in your hearts, and so
shall the detected and truculent histo
rians of this land be brought to shame
and confusion. I ask yoq all your
glasses and drink with me to the revered
memory of the orderly sergeant and
those other neglected and forgotten
heroes—my footsore and travel-stained
paladins, who were first in war, first in
peaoe, and were not idle durimj the in
terval that lav between. ‘
THE EPISCOPALIANS.
N* Change Telerated In the Hymnal—The
Matrimonial Rubric.
Boston, October 17.—The committee
on prayer book presented reports con
sidering it inexpedient to consider a
special collect or prayer to be used at
special thanksgiving and in time of
danger and adversity, and that it was
inexpedient to embody canon 12, title 2,
as a rubric to precede the
of matrimony,' as such action would be
inconsistent with church legislation.
The reports were adopted,
A Pcil,uUe Yet Important Matter.
Bev. E. M. Peck and others were re
commended, as trustees on the part of
the Convention, on the Board of Theo
logy. Rev. Dr. Rudder, of Pennsyl
vania, presented a resolution whioh he
said be regarded as touching on a most
delicate subject, but yet one of vital im
portance to the church. The resolution
asked the appointment of three bishops,
three presbyters and three laymen, to
consider the functions of rectors, war
dens and vestrymen ih control and in
the administration of their parishes,
and the rights and authority of each,
and to report to the next Convention as
to the best methods of msking the prin
ciples governing them effective. Adopt
ed.
THE CEOKIUA CAMPAIGN.
No candidates in Dougherty.
Gen. Toombs has returned home.
The Washington Gazette sticks to At
lanta.
Oglethorpe held her primary election
yesterday.
Burke county Demooracy ruminates
on the 6th.
Mclntosh thinks she will allow a
scrub race.
Something’s breaking loose in Geor
gia, sure enough.
Franklin and Hart both claim the
Secatorship from the 31st.
A. C. McLennan is the latest Senato
rial entry in the Fifteenth.
Tattnal and Mclntosh are locking
horns over their Seuatorship.
The Craw/ordville Democrat wants
the Capitol permanently located.
The Jefferson News and Farmer
stands square-toed for Miledgeville.
Avery stale trick that, trying to lug
Macon into a three cornered capital
fight.
The colored voters of Sumter county
met yesterday to discuss the uew Con
stitution.
Judge Head, of Haralson county, of
the late Convention, will be sent to the
Legislature.
T. M. Harkuess, of Butts, announces
himself for re-election to the Senate
from the 26th.
The Hon. J. M. Tison is mentioned as
a proper man for the Senate from tho
Giyun Distriot.
Messrs. J. H. Shannon and T. A.
Little are candidates for the House from
Franklin county.
The Jefferson county News thinks
that the present representatives will
probably be returned.
Hon. George R. Black, of Soriven,
will be returned, it is said, to the Sen
ate from the Seventeenth.
Col. R. C. Humber, in response to a
printed petition, consents to run for the
Legislature in Putnam county.
Morgan claims the Senator from the
28tli, and offers to meet Jasper and Put
nam in Convention November 2d.
Col. M. L. Morshon, of Brunswick,
will probably be the Democratic candi
date for Senator in the Fourth Distriot.
The constituents of Congressman
Smith, at Albany, serenaded him tho
night before his departure for Washing
ten.
Hon. F. C. Furman and Colonel J. B.
Estes had a capital tilt at Franklin
Court, the other day, over the removal
question.
The Monroe Advertiser challenges the
advocates of Milledgeville to point out
any corruption iu Georgia Legislatures
since 1871.
Hons, T. M. Harkuess and S. F. Smith,
of Butts, announce themselves as candi
dates, the former for the Senate and the
latter as Representative.
The Darien Gazette feels assured that
Gordon is too firmly fixed in the hearts
of a‘l true Georgians for puerile and
malicious efforts to injure him.
Governor Colquitt lias commissioned
George B. Marby, Esq., as Judgo of the
County Court of Glynn county. He is
the youngest Judge in the State.
Taliaferro county holds a primary
election November Ist. Messrs. John
T. Chapman and C. T. Lucas are farther
mentioned as candidates for tho House.
In a letter to tho Barnesville Gazette
Judge Ilall approver of the greater part
of the uew l oustitntiou, and expresses
the hope that it will be unanimously rat
ified.
Hon. E. P. Howell, we are glad to
learn, will probably be returned from
the Thirty-fifth. He has been one of
the most useful legislators of the Upper
House.
Hons, C. W. Dußose, for Senator,
Geo. F. Pierce, Jr., and Seaborn Reese,
for Representatives, is a ticket pasted
this week in the Sparta Times and
Planter,
Calvin George, Esq , Dr. L. G. An
derson and Colonel John G. M. Henry,
Sr., of Morgan county, are mentioned,
the two first for the House and the last
for the Senate.
The Constitution now hath it that
Senators Hill and Gordon will jointly
recommend either Mayors Angii r, of At
lanta. or Huff, of Macon, for the Geor
gia Marskalship.
It now appears that Colonel H. D.
Capers, of Brunswick, forged a letter to
the Atlanta Constitution advocating the
claim of Milledgeville over the signa
ture of Hon. M. L. Mershon.
A Jefferson darkey on being told that
the Republican party in Georgia was
dead, replied; “I bear dat, but taint
so—we only got anudder name for it—
dey calls it Independent now.”
Atlanta gets frightened 'when Hon.
Farish Furman yolls up his sleeves.
Furman carries chain lightning around
his wrists and elbow joints. Such men
are dangerous to the City of Gates.
Major Joseph B, Onmraiug is evident
ly the Gumming Senator from the
E ghteenth District. The zealous advo
cacy given him by bis fellow-citizeus is
eminently well deserved.— Atlanta Con
stitution.
R. B. Artson, former legislator from
Charleston, ha ypeh Wasted for brib
ery.
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VEOETINE
Purifies the Blood, Renovates and
Invigorates the Whole System
ITS MEDICINAL. PRQp:£RTj®jS ARE
illeraiifc, Tgij. &tat and Diuretic.
VitOETiSK is maJa exclusively from the
ju,ices of ya.efufiy selected barks, roets and
ht*rha. nd so strongly concentrated, that it
will effectually eradicate from the system
every taint of Scrofula, Scrofulous Hu
mor, Tumors, Cancer-, Cancerous Hu
mor, Erysipelas, Salt Rheum, Syphi
litic Diseases, Canker, Faiptsess at
the Stomach, and ail qisji,a@u that arise
from impure blood. Uv'mtiea, Inttamma
tory Chronic Rheumatism, Nen-
Valuta, Gout amt Spinal Complaints,
jean only be effectually cured through the
blood.
For Ulcers aud Eruptive Diseases < f
the Skin, Pustules, Pimples, Blotches,
Bolls, Tetter, Scald-head aud Hing
worrn, Veoetine has never failed ip, eijject'a
permanent cure.
For Pains, ip Back. Kidney Com
plaints, Dropsy, Female Weakness,
jpeqcoriljtoca, arising from internal ulcers,
■ non, and uterine diseases aud General De
bility, Veoetine acis directly upon the
causes of these complaints, ft invigorates
and strengthens the whole system, acts upon
tfio Becrefiye organs, allays infl .mmation,
OUres ulceration and regulates the bowels.
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual
OoatlveuesH, Palpitation of the Heart,
Headache, Piles, Nervousne s aud
General Prostration of the Nervous
System, uo medicine has riven such perfect
satisfaction as the Veoetine. It purifies the
blood,cleanses all of the organs,and pot sesses
a controlling power over the nervous system.
The romarksble cures effected by Veoetinu
have induced many physicians and anotheca .
ries whom wo know to prescribe Vi's fiaa it in
their own families.
In fact, V*wrapt hast remedy yet
discovered for i ahoye diseases, aud is the
cnlytaliaple BLOOD PUKIFIKIt yet plac
ed b.efo,rc the public,
Prepared by
H. It STEVENS, BOSTON* MASS.
WHAT IS VEOETINE?
It is a compound extracted frefo, barks, roots
and herbs. It is Nature’* hymedy. It is per
fectly harmless ftqoi any ba,J effect upon the
si stem. is pourisfiipg aud strengthening.
It ivls upon the bloo J. It quiets the nervous
night,. It is a great panacea for our aged
fathers aud mothers, for it gives them
strength, quiets their nerves and ’gives them
Nature’s sweet sleep, as has been proved by
many an aged person. It is the great Blood
Purifi&r. It is a soothing remedy for our child
ren. It has relieved an l cured thousands. It
is very pleasant to take; every child likes it.
It relieves and cares all diseases originating
from iSP.U<o bjoprt. Try the Vigehne. Give
it a fuff trial for your complaints; then you
wifi say to your friend, neighbor and acquain
tance ; "Try it; it has cured me.”
Veoetine for the complaints for which it is
recommended, is having a larger sale through
out the United States than any other one med
icine. Why ? Vegetine will cure these
Complaints.
CANNO.T EXCELLED.
OhASnESTowN, Mats., March 19, 1869.
Mb. H. R. Stevens :
Deab Sik— This is to certify that I have used
your “Blood Preparation” in my family for
several years, and think that, for Scrofula or
Cankerous Humors, or Rheumatic Affections*
it cannot be excelled; and, as a blood purifier
and Spring medicine, it is the best thing I
have ever used: and I have nsed almost every
thing. I can cheerfully recommend it to any
pne in need of such a medicine.
Yours respectfully, MRS. A. A. DINSMORE,
19 Russell street.
GIVES HEALTH, STRENGTH AND
APPETITE.
My daughter has received great benefit from
the use of the Veoetine. Her declining health
was a source of great anxiety to all of her
friends. A few hottlee of the Veoetine re
stored her health, strength aud appetite.
N. H. TILDEIL
Insurance and Rajl ©stale Agent,
£Jo. iA Spar* Building, Boston, Mass.
Prepared by
H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS.
Vegetiae is Sold by all Druggists.
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4% Salary.
nil Sinfl Staple *o j*l *. Nopeddlio*
Xlxllll
Hr Wmm m 0 h<mm> aw, Cincinnati, o.
£%* yew. Agents wanted everywhere. Bn*
vL 1% 1111 ineaa strictly legltimate.Partlculare free
yOfaVv U Address J.Worth a Cos., St. Louis, Mo.
KV/ieOLD PLATED WATCHES. Cheapest
*in the known world. Sample Watch Free to
%Jf\jAgtnt4. Address, A. Covltxb &Cos. t Chicago.
Bryant'S “New Improved" Reese*#
IIsIaIcHBV Patent Adjustable Steacil Letters at*
taking the place of all others. They dir
formed into Solid Plates' or used as
Single Letters. REDUCED ur Pxich.
[Trad* Mark.l Everybody wilt bdy them. Ofa be seat
by mail. Inks and Brushes aha everything in Stencil stock.
Sole manufacturer of the wondoiW "BLONBIN GYRO*
SCOPE." god 50 other Agents’ fast selling articles. 4 ‘ Fortune
Chart," etc. Gyrsodopes mailed for *5 cts. Sample Chart, 25 cts.
Send postal card for full particulars. N. B.—l have arrange
meets made and can furnish promptly any article wanted by
agents or consumers, of American or Foreign make.
O, G. EKYANT, Sole Mfir. xoa Washington-st, Chicago.
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Now Advertisements.
W. S. ROYAT,
HAS REMOVED TO THE COMMODIOUS STORE KNOWN AS
THE AUGUSTA SHOE HOUSE,
5333 BROAD STREET,
Opposite Masonic Hall,
AND NEARLY OPPOSITE CENTRAL AND GLOBE HOTELS.
BOOTS and SHOES in all quali
ties always on hand. PRICES
LOW FOR CASH. Please call
and see my stock. Will use every
exertion to give satisfaction in
quality and price.
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Win. H. Tutt & Remsen,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
PURE DRUGS, MEDICINES,
PERFUMERY, SOAPS, FAN! Y AND TOILET ARTICLES, ETO.
ALSO. Pare WHITE LEAD, LINSEED OILS. READY MIXED PAINTS, COLORS, TUR
PENTINE, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, French and American WINDOW GLASS, PUTTY,
KEROSINF, OIL, etc., etc., which we offer to the trade at low prices.
We make a speoialty of
LANDRETH’S GARDEN SEEDS.
261 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
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GRAND OPENING.
MILLINERY
AND
- LACE GOODS.
51 Uases Straw and Felt Hats.
100 Oar toils French and American Flowers.
50 Cartons Plumes and Feathers.
1,000 Pieces Gros Grain Ribbons, all Shades.
1,000 Pieces l\lew Hamburg Embroideries, 3c. to 75c.
100 Dozen Silk Ties and Handkerchiefs.
20 Pieces Tie and Scarf Laces, in all Shades.
A Complete Stock of Torchon Linen Laces.
Hat Ornaments, Celluloid Jewelry, Plated and Jet Jewelry,
And all the Novelties of the Season,
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
VI J. 11. TRUMP’S,
NO. 220 BROAD UTHKHTU.
MYERS & MARCUS,
*
m and 288 BROAft STREET, AUGUST A, i.,
—WHOLESALE DEALERS IN—
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes,
Hats, Trunks, Etc.
PRICES AS LOW AH IN NEW YORK OR PHILADELPHIA,
A Large and Varied Stock on Hand.
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NEW PROCESS FLOUR.
CRESCENT MILLS,
GA.
J. F. & L. J. MILLER, Proprietors.
OUR FANCY FAMILY FLOUR MADE BY NEW PROCESS HAH NO
EQUAL. mh4—il&wly
HEADQUARTERS
For First Class aMMiraaMe Dry Goods
In opening (he Fall Heason, we take pleasure in placing before our
friends and the public generally the most complete stock of Dry Goods,
ever displayed lu the Southern States, consisting in part of a
Magnificent line of Black Silks*
All the new shades in Colored Silks—various grades.
The most decided novelties iu Colored Dress Goods.
Blaek Woods of every description.
Hosiery, Notions, Corsets, Ties, (doves, Linens,
Damasks, Cassimeres, Flannels, &c.
Our Cloaks-to arrive—will fie equal to any ever exhibited in
New York, London or Paris.
To summarize: We offer a stock of Fail Dry Roods which, in
every department for variety, elegance and cheapness, stands un
rivalled.
.... JAMES A. CRAY & CO.
“HOLD THE FORT.”
The Fall and Winter Campaign
HAS COMMENCED AT THE
Augusta Dry Goods Store.
L. RICHARDS,
THE CAPTAIN of FIRST CLASS DRY GOODS, has returned from the Northern markets
with REINFORCEMENTS of the largest and finest stock of FIRST CLASS DRY GOODS
he has ever had the pleasure of commanding.
Dress Parade and Inspection Daily, Sundays excepted.
A cordial invitation is extended to all. Every Department is now complete and well
FORTIFIED witli the mast CHOICE GOODS of the season at the LOWEST PRICES.
DRESS GOODS—A beautiful line unsurpassed, newest shades and designs, from 10 cents
to the finest; Colored Ca-dimerea, new shades, from 25c. and upwards, Black Cashmeres, tho
best make, from s()c. to f 1 50: Black Alpacas, the finest lustre aud best blacks, from 25c. and
upwards; Black and Colored Silks, all prices. All immense stock of Kentucky Jeans, from 10c.
and upwards: Cassimeres, tweeds, Linseys, all pricos.
Ladies, Gents and Children’s Undervests aiilTDrawers. A beautiful line Ladies’ now style
Cloaks, all prices. Blankets, both white and colored, a large assortment, cheaper than ever
known. Bed Spreads, Quilts and Comforts, at prices unprecedented. A great variety of No
tions, Fancy Goods, Ladies’ Neck Ties, Collars and Cuffs, Ribbons, Silk and Linen Handker
chiefs, Corsets, Gloves and Hosiery, all at bottom prices. Kid Gloves at 50, 75, sl. $1 60 to JrZ
&pair. A beautiful assortment of Calicoes at 4,5, 6to Bc. Bleached Shirtings and Sheetings
at the lowest prices, Domestic Goods at factory prices by tho piece. Goods of every descrip
tion usnally kept in a First Class Dry Goods House, suited to the wants of the people, both it
price and quality.
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAlL.—Merchants will find it to their interest to examine this
stock before purchasing. Orders filled with care and promptness.
Samples sent on application. I will pay Express chargee on all orders for goods at retail
amounting to TEN DOLLARS and aver, the money accompanying the order, or goods sent C. O.
D. Try me. Respectfully submitted.
L. RICHARDS,
sep9o-tf 209* BROAD STREET. AUGUSTA. GA.. NEARLY OPPOSITE CENTRAL,MOTE’
FALL AND WINTER GOODS
AT
The Fredericksburg Store
O-
Bltacheti asfi Brown Uottons, 4 1-2, 5, 6,7, 8, 9 andjlOc.
Calicoes at 4, 5 aud 6 l*4c.
Percales, Yard Wide, 6 1-4, 6 and 10c.
Dress Goods, 6 1-4,8,10 and 12 l-2c.
Black Alpacas, 15, 20, and 25c.
Black Cashmeres, 35, 40,45, 50 aud 60c.
Black Silk, 65, 75, 85 and $L
Large Shawls, 50. 75 and sl.
Cloth Cloaks, $2 50, $3, $4 25.
Gents* Underrest, 25c.
10 1-4 Bed Blankets, $2, $2 50 and dfc.
The above are the prices of some q( Cheap Goods, antf to whioh we are daily adding
hundreds of other articles at such low prices as was never heard of before, and in addition we
are receiving one of the Stocks of First Class Goods ever seen in the market. Such as
Fine Dress Goods, Fine Wpaks, Fine Silks, Handsome Embroideries, Trimmings, Fringes,
Handkerchiefs, OcJUip and Cults, Neck Ties, Hoisarv, Gloves, Gents' Famishing Goods,Towel
ings, Tah,\e Damask, Domestics, Blankets, Fianneis, Ac , Ac.
Onr Buyer is now ip New York,and is watching every turn of the market,and every steamer
and railroad train comes loaded with the Goods for the Old and Reliable Fredericksburg Store,
comer by the Planters" Hotel. Every day you will find something new, and we invite all to give
our stock an inspection.
V. Richards & Bro.
P. S.—We send Samples to our friends at a distance, and pay expressage as heretofore.
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