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Jlaiiuota gitsittcss (Kurds. W- 33- VAIL, WITH 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. J. .9. StROWVSI, ißdit. 1!40 Broad st., Augusta, Ga. SCHNEIDER, dkalkrin WINES, LIQUORS AMD CIGARS AUGUSTA, GA. Agent for Fr. Schloifer & Co.’s San Francisco CALIFORNIA BRANDY. mOO Hi r. h?EQ H 0 T T E HftVvi PAf.NE. | E. R. SC IT N EIDER, ! Augusta, Georgia. J. J. PEARCE, BUTLER & SO., COTTON FACTORS,! WMEHP Mill! MKll'-HANTS, No. 4 JACKSON STREET, AUGUST A, GA. STORE an I sell Dot ton anil, "other Produco. Make liberal cash ndvnnces on produce in stot'e, and furnhil) on time aU kinds ot l’ uitn - 'm®M (glbcrion gustutss Cavils. UQHT CARBIASES & BUSIES. UiSili J. F. A.T'TTj'JD, (i ! yARUIiUi E 1 tT Ax\ UFACT’ K UT O X, RKOiUiii.i. BEST WORKMEN ! BEST WORK ! LOWEST BRICES! Good Buggios, warranted, - $125 to 3160 Common Buggies - SIOO. REPAIRING AND BEACKSMITITTNG. Work done in this lino in the very best style. The Host Harness My 2 2-1 v T. JI. SWIFT. MACK ARNOLD SWIFT & ARNOLD, (Successors to T. M. Swift.) dealers in DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCKERY. BOOTS AND SHOES, HARDWARE, &c., Public Square, ERiH'ER.TOIII! GA H.K.CAfRDNER, ELBERTON, GA., DEALER IN 111 HUS. SlflCllUL IIAROWARE, OROCKERY, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS Notions, &0- 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.