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QTfiiowneand £mfmel. 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. - 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. -v *- i **’ , *“*^ ■ 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. oct3-wlm 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. oct4-wly 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. octl3-(iVw 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. octl4-d&wtf 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. sepSO-suweAwiy 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. sep22-tf