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IiEAI & CASSEL.S,
Wholesale and retail dealers in
Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods
209 Broad st., lat stand of H. F. Russel & Cos.
AUGUSTA, GA.
J. HUEFHI iTcoT
Wholesale an retail dealers in
English White Granite & C. C. Ware
ALSO,
Semi-China, French China, Glassware, &c.
No 244 Broad Street,
AUOtjSTA, GA.
T. MARKWALTER,
MARBLE WORKS,
liRO AI) STREET,
Near Lower Market,
AUGUSTA, GA.
THE AUGUSTA
Gilding, Looking-glass,Picture Frame
factory.
Old Picture Frames to fool: Lqual to
j\tw■ Old Paint!raj:a CarrfHUj denned,
Lined and Varnished.
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1!40 Broad st., Augusta, Ga.
SCHNEIDER,
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WINES, LIQUORS AMD CIGARS
AUGUSTA, GA.
Agent for Fr. Schloifer & Co.’s San Francisco
CALIFORNIA BRANDY.
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Augusta, Georgia.
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No. 4 JACKSON STREET,
AUGUST A, GA.
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Good Buggios, warranted, - $125 to 3160
Common Buggies - SIOO.
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SWIFT & ARNOLD,
(Successors to T. M. Swift.)
dealers in
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GROCERIES, CROCKERY. BOOTS AND
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ELBKRTONFEMALE
Mediate Institute
THE exercises of this institute will be resum
ed on Monday, August 18th, 1873.
JJ@“Fall term, four months. Tuition, $2.50,
$3.50, and $5 per month, according to class —
payable half in advance
Mrs. ITkster will continue in charge of the
Musical Department.
Board iu the best families can be obtained at
from $lO to sls per month.
For further information address the Principal
H. P. SIMS.
REMOVAL OF HARNESS SHOP.
P. J. SHANNON
ANNOUNCES that he has removed his work
shop to his residence, where lie is prepared
to execute all work entrusted to him.
THE GAZETTE.
New Series.
GREAT EAILEOAD MEETING IN HART
WELL.
Habtwell, Ga., August 6, 1873.
From all indications at present exist
ing in this country, extending from Pe
tersburg, Ga., ta Wallialla, S. C., it is a
certain fact that people are at last deter
mined to have a railroad, and at a rail
road meeting held here yesterday the
greatest enthusiasm prevailed—there be
ing a tremendous crowd of people here
of all sexes, ages and colors, representing
the whole country from Petersburg to
Wallialla, on both sides of the Savannah
river.
This matter is of vital importance to
the people of Augusta, who are deeply
interested in the building of this road,
and who can afford to help us materially
in the same when the proper time comes.
We think we have heard the assurance
expressed through the Chronicle and
j Sentinel that whenever we show to your
j people that we are in earnest and deter
j mined to build a railroad, Augusta will
j give a subscription of $500,000. We are
| now in earnest and mean, by the united
efforts of the whole valley of the Savan
nah river, to build this road as soon as
possible, and w r e think it is not amiss
now to prepare the people of Augusta
for that event, so they can make the nec
essary preparations towards coming to
our assistance. The people of the valley
of the Sava an all river mean to build this
road by the assistance of Augusta and
the guaranteed State aid if necessary,
and, also, if the grand combination of
railroads from Chicago to the sea will
give assistance. This is still further
proof of the building of this railroad.
The meeting was held in the town of
Hartwell.
On motion, which was unanimously
carried, F. B. Hodges was requested to
act as President and C. W. Seidel, Sec
■ fe
to enroll their
names, which was done, as follows:
Delegates from Elbert county—Hon.
E. M. Bucher, H. Black, A. R. Rucker,
D. R. Blackwell, G. A. Ward, Girard Al
len, H. H. Mann, W. Ransey.
Delegates from Kart county—Dr. L.
Turner, Samuel C. Fisher, Hon. Win. F.
Bowers, F. B. Hodges, A. S. Turner, R.
E. Sadler, Jno. G. McCurry.
Delegate from Oconee county, S. C.
—H. W. Pieper.
Delegates from Anderson county —
Col. F. E. Harrison, J. G. Gilmer, Esq.,
Dr. AY. L. Broyles, L. O. Williford, E.
P. Earle, R. A. Reed, Wm. Harbin, J.
M. Simpson, Maj. G. AY. Merritt, D.
Hatton.
Delegates from Abbeville county, S. C.
—Maj. H. 11. Harper, Alonzo Bowman,
AV. A. T. Oliver, J. C. Speer, Jiunes Car
olyle, G. R. McCauley, AV. J. Baskins, H.
Tenant.
Col. F. E. Harrison made a report of
the survey, as furnished him by the
corps of engineers who recently survey
ed the loute from AValhalla, S. C., to
Petersburg, Ga., as follows :
“Owing to the short time that the en
gineers have had since the completion of
the survey, they have not-had time to
make out their estimates, profiles, Ac.,
but which they will have completed in a
few days. I have however, received es
timates from them hurriedly made, from
which I have compiled the figures that
are given below. I accompanied the en
gineers over a good portion of the sur
vey, and will briefly relate my experience
of the same.
\Vg found the route a very favorable
one, being adapted by nature to all the
requirements of a railroad. We com
menced our survey .at Walhaila, S. C.,
which is situated on the Blue Ridge Rail
road, and which sixteen years ago was a
barren wilderness, but is now a town of
some two . thousand inhabitants. The
settlers are of German extraction, who
have shown by their improvements the
great energy and perseverance of that
race. They were very hard to be induced
to unite with us, having been fraudentiy
dealt with by the Air-Line Railroad Com
pany, but after proving to them the ad
vantages to be derived from this; pro
posed route, they were induced to unite
with us; which they have done cordially
and substantially, by proposing to gi\v,
us a county subscription of $150,000,
and a town subscription of $50,000, pro
vided we make Walhaila a terminus of
the proposed railroad. From Walhaila
we came down the country, striking a
beautiful ridge all the way to Anderson-
ELISEMTON, GEORGIA, AUGUST 20, 1073.
ville, S. C.. showing a route that could
be built with comparatively little work,
from which place ,we proceeded to Pe
tersburg, Ga., under the most favorable
auspices all the way for the construction
of a railroad.
We found the best feeling manifested
by all persons on both sides of the river,
which was amply proved by the liberali
ty and cordiality shown us by every one,
also by men assuring us all along the
route that they would subscribe liberally
and to the extent of {heir abilities to
wards the same.
From estimates received from engi
neers, the distance from Wallialla to An
dersonville is 28 miles.
From Andersonvillc to Peters
burg is 42 miles.
From Petersburg to Augusta
by former survey is 47 miles.
From Wallialla to Augusta is 117 miles.
This is a shorter line to Augusta and
Charleston than any other in the coun
try built or proposed.
The distance from Wallialla,
at present, to Charleston is 295 miles.
By the proposed route is... 230 miles.
Showing a saving of (35 miles. I
Which is much less by way of Port Roy
al.
From estimate of engineers, it is also
shown that $16,000 per mile will build
this railroad, making the total cost of
117 miles $1,800,000 —which is compara
tively cheap to other railroads.
The following resolutions were pro
posed :
Wheheas, The citizens of Oconee. An
derson and Abbeville counties, in South
Carolina, and of Hart and Elbert coun
ties, in Georgia, having organized and
had a survey made for a railroad from
Wallialla, S. C., to Petersburg, Ga., there
to unite with a survey made by the Au
gusta and Hartwell Railroad Company:
from Augusta to that point, and the re 4
port of the engineers having established,
the fact that the shortest, cheapest and
most advantagous route for a railroad!
from Augusta, Ga., to Clayton, Ga., is
up the valley of the Savannah river to iJJs*
imad .fhtayr.. |f t;._
Blue 11 idge Railrtmu
now nearly graded to Clayton; there
fore,
Resolved, Ist. That we, the delegates
from several organizations in the several
counties above named, do now form an
Association, for the purpose of soliciting
subscription of stock for building a rail
road uniting Walhaila, S. C., with Augus
ta, Ga.
Resolved, 2. That this Association ap
point delegates to attend tlie next meet
ing of stockholders of the Augusta and
Hartwell Railroad, to be held at Lincoln
ton, Ga., the 12th instant., to lay before
them the report of this survey, profiles,
&c., and ask that 'they adopt the line
along the Savannah river to Anderson
ville as the route of the Augusta and
Hartwell Railroad.
Resolved, 3d. That should this route
along the valley of the Savannah river
be adopted by the Augusta and Hart
well Railroad Company, this Association
pledge themselves to raise their full pro
portion of stock by subscription to place
this railroad on a firm basis and insure
its speedy completion.
Resolved, 4th. That the stockholders
of the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad
be and they are hereby respectfully re
quested, if they accept the above propo
sition, that they elect one director, in
the said company, from each of the coun
ties represented in this Association.
Resolved, sth. That it is the opinion
of this Association that the books for
subscription of stock in the company be
opened immediately in all the counties
along the proposed route -of this road,
and as soon as $ in stock is sub
scribed, that the road should be located
and work commenced on the entire line
at the earliest practicable time.
After the reading of the resolutions,
speeches were made by Gen. Harrison,
of South Carolina; Hon. E. M. Rucker,
of Elbert, and by Hon. AYm. F. Bowers,
of Hart county, all demonstrating forci
bly the entire practicability of this route
as well as the competency of this country
to build the same, who were heard with
gratification and enthusiasm. Yote was
taken on the foregoing resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted by a rising
vote.
On motion, the following delegates
were ordered to represent this meeting
in the meeting to be held at Lincolnton,
on the 12th instant: Col. F. E. Harri
son, of Anderson, S. C.; E. B. Earle,
Esq., Oconee, S. C. ; Major H. H. Harp
er, Abbeville, S. C.; F. B. Hodges,. Esq.,
Hart, Ga.; Hon. E. M. Rucker, Elbert,
Ga.
An invitation was cordially extended
to all present and all interested to a bar
becue, to be held in the interests of this
railroad at Townville, Oconee county, S.
C., on the 12th inst.
On motion, ordered that the Secretary
send copies of these proceedings in full
to Walhaila, Anderson and Athens news
papers ; also, to Chronicle and Sentinel,
of Augusta, Ga., the Elberton Gazette
and the Chicago Times, all of which are
respectfully requested to publish the
same.
Adjourned to first Tuesday in Septem
ber next.
A circuit court—the longest way home
from singing school.
THE TATE OF THEODOSIA BUEE.
In your edition of Tuesday, says a
correspondent of the Daily Graphic, you
have an article concerning the daughter
of Aaron Burr. She wes, indeed, the
good angel of that misguided man, and
to James Parton we owe our knowledge
oi her sweet and lovely character. There
is a mystery connected with her disap
pearance, and, as you say, “ the vessel
never reached its destination; was nev
er? heard from after leaving Charleston
lisabor.”
Y, ith your permission, I will tell you
what I know of the matter, What I
ara about to relate may be traditionary
in a degree, but still may possess a pe
culiar Interest to the reader.
It#’ understood, at the time, that
thjfe qpuse of Theodosia’s coming north
to Lpr . father was because of the diffei
oncoei.between herself and husband re
; gav'lijag Burr. Theodosia defended her
faf;he|”i| actions, while Governor Alston
denounced them. This was the cause of
a separation. Theodosia embarked in a
vessel for New York, in the care of a
m Gru y, a wealthy gentleman of South
(';. • tin She took two of her child
re’ 'ritli her, also a large quantity of fam
ily Ijftftte. Tidings of her departure
New York, and her arrival was
K looked for by the lonely old
j, alas! she never came. The
father gave her up as dead,
he vessel foundered at sea, or
pened, they never knew. At
my great grandfather, Philip
risited Burr. As he entered
Burr met him, and, grasping
said: “ Mr. Freneau, I know
H&J you came for; I have received no
I am desolate!” Ashe spoke,
M|tefo*s’gushed from his eyes, and he
.'Spggjsijifcf a child. Freneau tried to re-
but to no effect; the eonvic-
Touehed by the grief of the
Avie,l father, Freneau afterwards sent
hip? a poem, entitled “ Theodosia in the
Mojning Star,” which was published in
one of the early editions of his poems.
Deprived of the only being who loved
him, friendless and alone, tlie old man
gradually sank, until death ended his
grief.
Now comes the mysterious part of the
sad story. I cannot vouch for the truth
of it, as I have been unable to procure
anything of a documentary nature bear
ing upon the subject.
Many years ago, a notorious pirate
named Gibbs was captured, brought to
this port, and condemned to be hung
and gibbeted. On his condemnation he
made a confession, and among other
crimes confessed to having captured the
vessel which contained Theodosia Alston.
He said that he received information that
a vessel intended leaving Charleston hav
ing on board property of great value.
He resolved to lay in wait for her; he
<lid so, and captured the vessel, with all
on board. In the struggle for the pos
session of the ship many of the crew
and officers were killed. Gibbs resolved
to put the survivors to death as the saf
est wa,y of disposing of them. Mrs. Al
ston begged for the lives of herself and
children; she offered him all the wealth
she possessed, and promised to.secure
him from harm. She kneeled to him and
entreated him in the most beseeching
tones, but the pirate was inexorable. He
said that if he saved them he must save
the rest, and that he could not do.
Henow forced them all to “walk
the plank.” The turn af the two little
boys came, and, as they disappeared in
the sea, the mother firmly and proudly
stepped off the board to follow them.
Whether this is the time story of the
fate of Theodosia, I do not know. If
there is a copy of Gibbs’ confession in
existence, this incident would very likely
be mentioned. If true, it was well that
Bun - was spared the additional pain of
learning the mode of his daughter’s
death. I give it for what it is worth.
Respectfully, yours,
C. Townsend Habeis.
Two sparks from London once came
upon a decent-looking shepherd in Ar
gylshire, and accosted him “ You have a
very fine view here, you can see a great
way,”
“Yu aye, yu aye, a ferry great way.”
“Ah! you can see America here, I sup
pose?”
“Farrar than that."
“How is that?”
“Gu jist wait tule the mist gang away,
and you’ll see the mime.’'
Vol. 11.-NTo. 17.
WHY TEE EED SEA IS CALLED EED.
A question that lias puzzled scholars
found a solution some time since in the
observations of an American submarine
diver. Smith’s “ Bible Dictionary ” dis
cusses learnedly the name of the Red
Sea, written “ e erutha salassa” in the
Septuagint. The Dictionary similises
that tlie name was derived from the
red western mountains, red coral zoo
phytes, etc., and appears to give little
weight to the real and natural reason
which came under our American’s no
tice. On one occasion the diver ob-
seived, while under sea, that the curious
wavering shadows’ which cross the lus
trous, golden floor, like Frauenhofer’s
lines on the spectrum, began to change
and lose themselves. A purple glory
of intermingled colors darkened tlie vio
let curtains of the sea chambers, red
dening all glints and tinges with an an
gry fire. Instead of the lustrous, golden
firmament, tlie thallassphere darkened to
crimson and opal. The walls grew pur
ple, the floor as red as blood; the deep
itself was purpled with the venous line
of deoxidized life currents.
The view on the surface was even more
magnificent. The sea at first assumed
the light tawny or yellowish red of sher
ry wine. Anon, this wine color grew in
stinct with richer radiance; as far as eye
could see, and flashing in the crystallyne
splendor of the Arabian sun, was a glo
rious sea of rose. The dusky red sand
stone hills, with a border of white sand
and green and flowered foliage, like an
elaborately wrought cup of Bohemian
glass enameled with brilliant flowers,
held the sparkling liquid petals of that
rosy sea. The surface, on examination,
proved to be covered with a thin brick
dust layer of infusoria slightly tinged
with orange. Placed in a white glass
bottle, this changed into a deep violet,
but nggnj* mtumgk
was of that magnificent and brilliant
rose-color. It was anew and pleasing
example of the lustrous, ever-varying
beauty of the ocean world. It was
caused by diatemacese, minute algas,
wliich, under the microscope, revealed
delicate threads gathered in tiny bundles,
and containing rings, like blood disks,
of that curious coloring matter in tiny
tubes.
This miracle of beauty is not without
its analogies in other seas. The medusa;
of the Arctic seas, an allied existence,
people the ultramarine blue of the cold,
pu?e sea with the vivid patches of living
green thirty miles in diameter. These
minute organisms are doubly curious
from their power of astonishing produc
tion and the strange electric fire they
display. Minute as these microscopic
creatures are, every motion and flash is
the result of volition, and not a mere
chemic or mechanic phosphorescence.
The “Photocar is” light a flashing cirrus,
on being irritated, in brilliant kindling
sparks, increasing in intensity until the
whole organism is illuminated. The liv
ing fire washes over its back, and pencils
in greenish yellow light its microscopic
outline. Nor do these creatures lack a
beauty of their own. Their minute
shields of pure translucent silex are elab
orately wrought in microscopic symbols
of mimic heraldry. They are the chivalry
of the deep, the tiny knights with lance
and cuirass, and oval bossy shiel 1 carved
in quaint conceits and ornamental fash
ion. Nor must we despise them when
we reflect upon their power of accretion.
The “ Gallionellse,” invisible to the na
ked eye, can, of their heraldic shields
and flinty armor, make two cubic feet of
Bilin polishing slate in four days. By
straining sea water, a web of greenish
cloth of gold, illuminated by their play
of self-generated electric light, has been
collected. Humboldt and Ehrenberg
speak of their voracity, their power of
discharging electricity at will, and their
sporting about, exhibiting an intelligent
enjoyment of the life God has given to
them. Man and his works perish, but
the monuments of the infusoria are the
flinty ribs of the sea, the giant bones of
huge continents, heaped into mountain
ranges over which the granite and por
phyry have set their stony seal forever.
Man thrives in his little zone; the pop
ulous infusoria crowd every nook of
earth from the remote, poles to the burn
ing equatorial belt.
Rector—going his rounds—“An un
commonly fine pig, Mr. Dibbles, I de
clare!”
Contemplative villager—“Ah, yes, sir;
if we was only, all of us, as lit to die as
him, sir!”
For tlie Chronicle and Sentinel.]
DOT LETTER YON PILL AEP.
Mister Edditur : I vos bin read dot
letter von Pill Arp, und I tink dot it
makes noting out. I got noting to do
mit Soosan Antny, or any oder Soosan,
vot I know mineself about; und Pill he
can fader all der vimmens and marry all
der chiltren vot he like; dot makes no
difference out off his vifes don’t care. In
dot case I don’t care mineself. But ven
he wants to make der “furriner” wait
| und behave himself ten years before he
shall vote, den I say by mineself wouldn’t
it boa g'oot ting off all dem natif fellers
vot voted mit der barty dot “let der
black babboons vote in der rebel States”
vos made to wait also, und behave dem
selves twenty years? I vasn’t slim art
like Pill to make mineself understand
everything vot I says unit everybody, but
I vos got dat idear in my lied, und I
tink “vot vas sauce mit der goose ort to
be sauce mit der gainder.” Dot vos vot
I tink.
Now Pill, he was putty shmart, und
lie says sometings goot vonce in awhile;
but it vas a bat ting for a man to be too
funny all der dimes. All dem funny
mans blays out after a vliile, und Pill he
better vas look himself out about dot.
Now it vas a true ting, I beleefs, dot,
“misery loves company,” und I never haf
saw a merried man but vants to hev ef
erybody merried shoost like himself, so
dot he can get sympady in some oder
blace besides der shpelling pook. I
don’t got der milk of human kindness in
my shirt bosom for efery man vot gots
himself into droubles; und ven Pill
sighs to dink dot lie can no more go to
bed mit his boots oil, can no more hang
his ofercoat on der gas bipe, I don’t got
no sympady at all for dot man. He
ought to recomember vot der boet hef
said:
“A man vot vas married, bis lot must bevail,
He’s shoost like one little dog, tied to a tin kit
tle’s tail,”
or someding like dat—vicli is all drue.
So I say to der old baitckelors: don’t
let Pill Arp skear you von your peaceful
und happy lives. Keep quiet, liav a
goot conscience, don’t drink too much
lager bier—not more den ten quarts a
clay enny how—und you will be more
happy den if you hed dwenty fraus. Dats
so, by cbeminy!
But after all dat, I akree mit my friend
Wtitkere Shoo*
likene snpeTTs it, Because I vant to hev
it right. Dat is dis: “Take it altogeth
er, it looks to me like the time has mighty
nigh cum when tlie men have got to ad
mit that a woman is just as good as a
man, if not better in most everything
that requires more sense than muscel,”
Yah, by sliinks ! if wo must shudge by
my frient Pill, und some oder fellers, I
shall tink so too.
I hope Pill vont be- too hard' on der
furriners und der old bachelors. Becoa
he vas a purty good feller if he would on
ly behaif himself and shtudy his spelling
book a little more besser dan he vas now
before. Yours, diuly,
Yacob Dunderiied,
AIR NAVIGATION.
A friend of Donaldson, the balloonist,
received a letter from him, of which the
following is a copy:
“ I have just returned from Troy, N.
Y., with a paper canoe, fourteen feet long,
and weighing fifty-three pounds and a
half, which I am to take with me on the
coming balloon trip across the ocean. In
case the air-ship fails to carry the four of
us constituting the crew, three people
will take the life-boat, and I am to stick to
tlie balloon as long as it remains in the
air, and if it fails to retain its buoyant
power, I shall then cut loose with my.
canoe the instant the balloon strikes
water. Should this be the last resort,
I can then bid the rigging of the air-ship
farewell, and paddle my own canoe to
wards, the European shore.”
APRIOAN PROVERBS.
The Rev. John Gottlieb Auer, D. D.,
lately consecrated as missionary bishop
of Cape Palmas, Africa, and parts adja
cent, gives in the June number of the
Spirits of Missions some forty-two G’De
bo proverbs, to show that the Africans,
even in their heathenish degradation,
have a rich supply of common sense, and
ideas similar to those of more civilized
nations. From these we quote : “Stop
ping [hindering] another, thou stoppest
thyself.” “The ox says, given leaves do
not satisfy.” “Pull tlie child out of the
water before you punish it.” “The snail
said, ‘I should tell it, but I have no foot
for running.’ ” [“lt is not safe to tell a
secret if you cannot run away."] “The
monkey ate with two hands and fell from
the tree.” “Tlie [big-headed] fish says :
‘Your head must grow before you ascend
the river,’ ” —i. e., “You need sense before
you travel.” “Broken tilings last long.”
“If nothing troubles you, you are un
born.”
♦
To make a tall man short—borrow five
dollars of him.