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PROFESSIONAL CARDS. sIIANNOJr&WOKLEYr ATT *AT I,AW, ELBERTON, CA. W- 111 practice in the courts of. the Northern Circuit and Franklin county attention given to collections. J. S. BARNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BLBHB7GN, GA. JOIIA T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBEKTON, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS and Supreme Court. Prompt attention to th collection of claims. nevl7,ly I„. J. EARTRELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ATLANTA, GA, PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES Clß cuit and District Courts at Atlanta, and Supreme and Superior Courts of the State. ELRERTON BUSINESS CARDS REAL ESTATE AGENTS ii.ni:itio\ ga. WILL attend to the business of effecting sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS. I(©T” Applications should be made to T. J. BOWMAN. Sepl 5-tf LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES. J. F. AULD E IpAJN UFACT’ 11 ELRERTON, GEORGIA. WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST PRICES! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, AND AN EXPERIENCE OF 27 YEARS, He hop*s by honest and fair dealing to compete any other manufactory. Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O R EPAIRING AND BLACKSMITIIING. Work done in this line in t very best style. The Best Harness TERMS CASH. My 22-1 v J. M. UAREipj), MpNßflt uA -'■•■.•A A ’ ; - I the real live Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store, ELDER TON, GEORGIA. TC'Cal 1 and See Him. TUB ELRERTON DRUG STORE H. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor. Has always on hand a full line of Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines Makes a specialty of STATIONERY A kd PERFUMERY Anew assortment of WRITING PAPER k ENVELOPES Plain and frney- just received, including a sup ply ot LEGAL CAP. C I GAUS AND TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on hand. IN A. F. NOIJLKTT, mmmi mason, ELRERTON, GA. Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK anywhere in Elbert and Hart counties. [je!6-6m CENTRAL HOTEL MRS. W. M THOMAS, PROPRIETRESS, AUGUSTA GA w. H. ROBERTS, CARPENTER & BUILDER EiBBRTOSf; Gft. 11l AYR LOCATED IN' ELBERTON WHERE I will be prepared to do all work in my line as cbeap as any good workman can afford. Con tracts respectfully solicited. iShop on the west side of and near the j ail. Coffins Made to Order. F. W. JACOBS, HOUSE & SIGN PAINTER Glazier and Grainer, ELBERTON, GA. Orders Solicited. Satisfaction Guaranteed. PEASE’S PALACE DINING ROOMS, ATLtISTA, GKORGIA. The Champion Dining Saloon of tlie South EVERYBODY IS INVITED TO CALL. THE GAZETTE. ISTew Series. WHY LINCOLN WAS ASSASSINATED. * Among the chosen friends says Pome roy’s Democrat, of John Wilkes Booth’s boyhood was a dashing, chivalrous young man named John Y Beal, whose home was in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley not far from Winchester. Damon and Pythias were not more attached to to each other than were Booth and Beal. Beal was Southern in his sympathies, and planned raids on Northern cities, and at last was captured at or near Buf falo; tried for piracy on the Northern lakes, and sentenced to be hanged on Bedloe’s Island. One afternoon, in the city of Wash ington, while Beal was under sentence of death, there alighted from the car riage two men, who walked into the room occupied by Washington McLean, of Cincinnati, who was at the time in Washington in the interest of his busi ness. These men who called were Sena tor Hale of New Hampshire and John Wilkes Booth. Booth was exceedingly anxious to save the life of Beal, his chum and confidential personal friend. He had interested Mr. Hale in his be half. They importuned McLean to go with them to the President, as a Democrat— as a frien 1 of Booth—as a man who had much influence with Mr. Lincoln, and to vouch with Mr. Hale for any promises Booth might make in return -for this great favor to him. After a protracted interview, McLean accompanied Hale and Booth in a carriage to the residence of John W. Forney, who was then in bed, the hour being late. Forney was awakened from his sleep and told the object of Lis call. His sympathies were enlisted, as'he was always ready to serve his friends. It was an hour or more past midnight when® Hale, Forney, McLean and Booth were driven to the White House. The guard, at the request of Forney, admit ted the carriage to tho grounds. Mr. Lincoln was called from his sleep and there in the dead of night, he sat and listened to tho prayers of Booth and the endorsements of those who came with him to ask the favor of Executive clem ency. This interview lasted till 4in the morning. It was one of tears, prayers and petitions. There was not a dry eye in'the I'Uom as Loot li knelt at the feet of Lincoln, clasped his knees with his hands, and begged him to spare the life of one man—a personal friend who in serving the ones he loved, had come to the door of death. Booth told all. Ho told how, long before, in a fit of passion to do some bold deed, he had joined in a conspiracy to abduct the president and to hold him as a hostage for the release of certain military prisoners who were Booth s friends, and wh°, it was thought, were to be shot. He told of the meetings they held at the house of Mrs. Surratt, and all of the plans had fallen to the ground long before. He offered his services at any time and in any place or capacity, free of cost and fearless of con sequences. The eminent gentlemen who were there with him joined in the re quest that the prayer of Booth be grant ed, and that his friend Beal should be pardoned. At last President Lincoln, with tears streaming down bis face, took Booth by the hands, bade him rise and stand like a man, and gave him Lis promise that Beal should be pardoned. He asked the party to depart that he might gain rest for the work of tho morrow, and said that the official document that they ask ed for should be forwarded at once to tho United States Marshal, Robert Mur ray, in New York, and through him to the officers charged with the execution of Beal. After brfeakfast Lincoln informed Sew ard, Secretary of State, what he had done or promised to do. Seward said that it must not be: that public senti ment in the North demanded that Beal should be huug. He declared that to pardon Beal would discourage enlist ments, lengthen the war, and insult the sentiment that called for biood. He chided Lincoln for making such promis es without asking the advice of his Cabi net, or advising with himself, Seward, on State policy. As the argument grew contentious, Seward declared that if the conduct of war was to be trifled with by appeals of humanity he should go out of the Cabinet and use bis influence against the President, and should charge him with being in sympathy with the South. Lincoln yielded and Beal was executed. The reaction on Lincoln's nervous system was such that for days he was far from well. The effect on Booth was terrible. He raved like a madman, and in bis frenzy swore that Lincoln and Seward should both pay for the grief and agony he had been put to. From the death of Beal, Booth brooded vengeance for that which he considered a personal affront. His rage took in Seward, and he engaged Harold, Atserodt, and others to avenge Beal s death by killing Seward, while he, Booth, wreaked human vengeance on the President. At last came the hour. Booth killed Lincoln. His friends and the relatives or avengers of Beal tried their best to kill Seward, and when they left him stabbed, bleeding, and limp as a cloth, as be rolled over behind the bed where on they found him, they supposed their work was completely done. Our story is told. We have given i the truth of history, and told < xactly | why Abraham Lincoln, the humane Pres- I ident of the United States, was killed. ESTABLISHED 1859. ELIIKRTOX, GEORGIA, MAT 24, 1876. LETTER PROM GEN. BEAUREGARD. We presume the following letter from Gen. Beuregard will satisfy all military critics as to the possibility of capturing Washington City just after the battle of Manasas, July, 1861: New Orleans, March 7, 1876. Dear Sir : I avail myself of the first opportune moment to answer your let ter of the 17th ult., inquiring of me, as in command at the time, why the pur suit of the federals immediately after i their rout at the battle of Manasas, Julr 21, 1861, was suddenly checked and the Confederate troops recalled toward Ma nasas. I will first state that, though wit.. General Joseph E. Johnston’s consent I exercised the command during the bat tle, at its close, after I had ordered all the the field in pursuit, I went personally to the Lewis House and re linquished that command to him. I then started at a gallop to take immedi ate charge of the pursuit on the Centre villfl turnpike, but was soon • overtaken by a courier from Manassas,- with a note addressed to me by Col. T. G. Rhett, of General Johnston’s staff, who had been left there in the morning to forward that General’s troops as they might ar rive by rail from Winchester. Colonel Rhett thereby informed me that a strong body of Federal troops had crossed the Bull Run at Union Mills Ford, on our right, and was advancing on Manassas, our depot of supplies, which had been necessarily left very weakly guarded. I hurried back to the Lewis House to cor; municate this important dispatch t General Johnston, and both of usjbelievin the information to be authentic, I un dertook to repair to the threatened quar ter with Ewell’s and Holmes’ brigades, at that moment near the Lewis House, where they had just arrived, too late to take part in the action. With these troops I engaged to attack the enemy vigorously before he could effect a lodg ment on our side of Bull Run, but asked to be reinforced as soon as practicable by such troops as might be spared from the Centreville pursuit. . Having reached the near vicinity of'- Union Milk ford without meeting any enemy, I ascertained to mv surprise, that the reported hostile passage was a false alarm growing out of some move aitutrj of win a,- t* u civwj e ' v 'j i--- - eral D. R. Jones’ brigade), who had been thrown across the run in the morn ing, pursuant to my offensive plan of op erations for the day, and upon their re turn now to the south bank of the run were mistaken through their similarity of uniform for the federals. 1 returned to intercept the march of the two bri gades who were greatly jaded by their long march and countermarch during that hot July day, I directed them to halt and bivouac where they were. Hear ing that President Davis and General Johnston had gone to Manassas, I re turned and found them between half past nine and ten o’clock at my head quarters. This will explain to you why the par tial -‘retrograde movement,” to which you refer, was made, and why no sus tained vigorous pursuit of McDowell’s army was made that evening. Any pursuit of the federals next day toward their rallying point at and around Long Bridge, over the Potomac, could have led to no possible military advantage, protected as that position was by a stream of field works. No movement upon Washington by that route could have been possible, for even if there had been no such works the bridge, a mile in length, was command ed by federal ships of war, and a few pieces of artillery, or the destruction of a small part of the bridge, could have made its passage impracticable. Our only proper operation was to pass the Potomac above, into Maryland, at or about Edwards’ ferry, and march upon the rear of Washington. With the hope of undertaking such a movement I had caused a reconnoissance of the country (south of the Potomac) in that quarter to be made in the month of June, but the necessary transportation, even for the ammunition essential to such a j movement, had not been provided for my forces, notwithstanding my applica tion for it during more than a month be forehand, nor was there 24 hours food at Manassas for the troops brought togeth er for that battle. G. T. Beauregard. Hon. J. C. Ferris, Nashville, Tenn. Strong application was recently made to the President and the Attorney-Gen eral for the pardon of a large number of illicit distillers in the South, particu larly in Georgia, but acting upon the views of the iwvenue officials, thus far no pardons have been granted. The appli cations seemed to be for a wholesale pardon of these priseners, the cases be ing those of comparatively slight offen ses, and the petitions set forth that they had been already sufficiently punished. The applications not having been favor ably acted upon, renewed petitions have been presented; giving specific cases in which the clemency of the Govern ment is invoked. There are quite a number of them now before the Attor ney General- - “What are you in jail for ?” asked a prison visitor of a negro. “For bor’win money, sail!” “Why, they don’t put men in jail for borrowing money.” “Yes! But you see, I had to knock de man down tree or four times afore he’d lend it to me 1” THE BEST WOMAN THAT EVER LIVED. We have doubts about the following story which comes to us from the inte rior •, but the author is responsible for what he says, and his name can be tb tained upon application at this office : Last winter two of my neighbors, Mr. Miller and Mr. Grant, lost their wives upon the same day, r.nd both of the funerals took place three days afterwards, the interments being made at the ceme tery about the same hour. As the two funeral parties were coining out of the burying ground Miller met Grant, and clasping each other's hand they indulged in a sympathetic squeeze, and the follow ing conversation ensued : Milller—l’am sorry for you. It’s an unspeakble loss, isn’t it Grant—Awful! She was the best wo man that ever lived. Miller—She was indeed. I never met her equal. She was a good wife to me. Grant—l was refurring to my wife. There couldn’t be two best, you know. Miller—Yes, I know. I know well enough that your wife couldn’t hold a candle to mine. Grant —She couldn't hey? Couldn't hold a candle ? Why, she could dance all around Mrs. Miller every day m the week, including Sundays, and not half try! She was an unmitigated angel, take her any way you would. Miller—Ob, she was, was she? Well, I don’t want to l e personal, but if I owned a cross-eyed angel with red hair and no teeth, anil as bony as an omnibus horse, I'd kill her if she didn't die of her own accord. Dance! How could a woman dance that had feet like candle boxes and lame at that ? Grant—Better be cross eyed than wear the kind of a red nose that your wife flourished around this community. I bet it'll burn a hole through the coffin lid. And yon pretend you’re sorry she's gone. But you can’t impose on mo ! I knew you’re so glad you can hardly hold in. She was the chuckle headedest woman that ever disgraced a graveyard ; that’s what she was. Miller— If you abuse my wife I’ll knock you down. Grant—l’d like to sec you try it. Then the two disconsolated widowers engaged in a hand-to hand combat, and after tussling awhile in the snow the £V. i- • r .i-0.-. .bjj.wiu jUioU as Miller was about to insist upon his wife’s virtues by biting off Mr. Grant’s nose. When they got home Mr. Grant tiod crane upon all his window shutters to show how deeply he mourned, and as Mr. Miller knew that his grief for Mrs. Miller was deeper, lie not only decorated his shutters, but be fixed five yards of black bombazine on the bell-pull and dressed his whole family in mourning. Then Grant determined that his duty to the departed was not to let himself be beaten by a man who couldn't feel any genuine sorrow, so he sewed a black flag on bis lightning rod and festooned the front of his house with black alpaca. Then Miller became excited, and he expressed his sense of bereavment by painting his dwelling black and by put ting up a monument to Mrs. Miller in his front yard. Grant thereupon stained his yellow horse with lampblack, tied crape to his cow’s horn, daubed his dog with ink, and began to wipe his nose on a black handkerchief As soon as Miller saw these proceedings he spread a layer of charcoal all over his front yard ; he assumed a black shirt; ha corked the faces of his family when they went to church, and he hired a colored man to stand on his steps and cry for- twelve hours every day. Just as Graut was about to see this and go it one better he encountered Miss Lang, a young lady from the city, and in a couple of weeks they were engaged. Then he began to take in the evidence of his grief, and this made Miller so mad that he went around and proposed to Miss Jones, an old maid, who never had an offer before. She accepted him on the spot, and they were married the day before Grant's wedding, which so disgusted him that he would have given up Lang if she hadn’t threatened him with a suit for j breach of promise. There is peace be tween the two families, but when Mrs. Miller gets on the rampage sometimes Mr. Miller mourns for his first wife more than ever. Hating. —Hate no one. It is not worth while. Your life is not long enough to make it pay to cherish ill will or hard thoughts toward any one. What if this man has cheated you, or that wo man played you false I What if this friend has forsaken you in time of need, or that one having won your utmost con fidence, your warmest love, has concluded that he prefers to consider and treat, you as a stranger 1 Let it J all pass What difference will it make to you in a few years, when you go to the undiscov ered country 1 A few more smiles, a few more pleasures, much pain, a little lon ger harrying and worry through the world, some hasty greeting and abrupt farewell, and our play will be “played out,” the injured will be led away and ere long forgotten. Is it worthy to hate each other 1 There seems to be little doubt of the truth of the statement that Messrs. H. W. Grady and W. H. Moore intend a speedy revival of the Atlanta Herald. [Chronicle & Sentinel. No surer sign is wanting that the South means to rule this country with an unsparing hand than that the major ity in Congress no longer whittle pine wood, but eat peanuts. —[N. Y. Herald. Yol. Y.-No. 4. THE WHEAT CROP IN THE SOUTH. The editor of the Union Springs Her ald gives the following as a mode of preparing and cultivating wheat, which will insure it from rust and secure a large yield : June is the month in which to begin your preparatory work for next crop of wheat. Select a high, well drained piece of land, however thin it may be, in pref erence to low land. Lay off in rows 12 inches apart, with a shovel plow, fol lowing in each shovel furrow with a subsoil plow, or a scooter 14 inches long, made of iron or steel l£x2£ inches, not wider or your horse will not be able to pull it, if put in the ground as it should go. If the land be thin put in sufficient manure to give the peas a good start, before running tlie scooter furrow. In these furrows drill from 1 to 2 pecks -of speckled peas per acre, and close these by splitting out the middles with one shovel furrow, followed by the subsoil or scooter plow. Boro two boles with a 6 quarter auger into a 4x4 inch scantling into which insert two small hickory poles, which when fastened to the liames, will serve as shafts and traces. With this implement you can ‘knock off five rows simultaneously. When the peas shall have attained a growth of about eight inches it would be of benefit to run one furrow, with a small shovel between the rows. During the month of August, while the peas are in bloom, turn the vine un der, covering them entirely with soil if possible. To accomplish this, twist two heavy chains together, to be used as a drag ; fasten the two ends to the single tree, thus forming a bow, which should at the nearest point be at least two or three inches in front of the turning plow. This drag will hold down the vines, enabling the plowman to cover them up. In October, between the Bth and 15th sow broadcast 30 bushels of cotton seed on each acre. Turn under with a two horse plow, following in each furrow with your scooter or subsoil plow. Sow broadcast bushels of good seed wheat and then sow broadcast one sack (4 bushels) of chloride of sodium (common salt) to each acre ; cover by dragging a harrow or very heavy brush over tho land. _ xibpaiu “cou uio lUi lows : Take a tub, fill half full with water, and dissolve salt in the water until a freshly laid egg will float, showing a space the size of a nicklo above the wa ter, then stir and skim off all the wheat that rises to the top. Continue to stir as long as any wheat will rise to the surface. Feed the skum to your stock. As soon as tho defective wheat has been thus removed take out the sound wheat, and repeat tho operation until all the wheat designed for sowing has been in brine. In January scatter broadcast one bar rel per acre of land plaster over the growing wheat. If these directions are followed you may confidently expect to reap, next spring 20 bushels per acre of as good wheat as can be imported. As the re sult of the year’s operations you will have S4O for each acre treated as above directed, and your land which is now poor, will then be rich. Repeat this process the second, third and fourth years, omitting tho cotton seed, and after the second year use only two bushels of salt—and 40 bushels of wheat per acre will be the result for the fourth crop. For tho fifth year five times as many bushels of corn per acre as can now be raised on tho land ; and for the sixth and seventh years, from one to two bales of cotton weighing 500 pounds each, barring Providential inter ference. ON THE BATTLE FIELD. A recent writer truly’ says : I believe no two good soldiers will widely disagree as to their sensations during a battle. I take it to be a piece of bravado in any man to assert that he bad no fears during the progress of a long and severe engagement. A battle is a veritable hell upon earth ; not to be in serious appre hension while it lasts, is to be either drunk, crazy or insensible. The highest type of bravery is that of the man who realizes the full extent of the peril, but sticks resolutely to his duty. It was my experience, and that of all those about me, repeated a dozen times, that shell firing is not ordinarily near so demoral izing as that of musketry. It is not of ten that shells are thrown so that their fragments scatter deatb)and wounds, and their loud humming overhead does not cause that nervous tingling which al ways follows the sharp zip of) a riff? bul let. The peculiar cutting of the air made b'y half a dozen of these at once is apt to give the soldier the idea that the whole air is filled with them, and that .he is certain to be struck by one of them. True —The Savannah News has this, In these times it behoves everybody to keep their money in circulation at home, and there is no more certsin way of doing so than by giving your work to your own tradespeople and mechanics. The money you spend with them is quickly and " thorougly redistributed.” The merchants, the dry goods and shoe deal er, the grocer, the house owner, and all classes get a share of it. If your work and money go to the North and West, (we moan in small orders, such as you can havo filled as well at home,) you never have a cent of it returned to you in trade. WHO WAS THE BAD BOY. Little Annie was dressed, and stand ing in front of the house waiting for mother to go out to ride. A tidy boy, dressed in coarse clothes, was passing, when the little girl said to him : “Come here, boy, and sake hands wi’ me. I dot a boy dus’ like you nam ed. Bobby.” The boy laughed, shook hands with her and said: “I've got a little girl just like yon, on ]y she hasn’t got any little cloak with pussy fur on it.” Here a lady came out of the door and said: “Annie, you must not talk with bad boys on the street. I hope you haven’t taken anything from her? Go right along, and never stop here again, boy !” That evening the lady was called down to speak with a boy in the hall. He was very neatly dressed, and stood with his cap in his hand. It was the enemy of the morning. “I came to tell you that lam uot a bad boy,” he said. “I go to Sunday school, and help my mother all I can, I never tell lies, nor quarrel, nor say bad words ; and I don’t like for a lady to call me names, and ask mo if I have stolen her little girl’s clothes off of her. No, ma’am, I don t love to bo charged with stealing.” “I’m very glad you are so good,” said tho lady, laughing at tho boy s earn estness. “Here’s a quarter of a dollar for you.” “I don't won’t that," said Bob, hold ing his head very high. “My father works in a foundry, and has lots of mon ey. You’ve got a boy bigger than I, haven’t you ?” “Yes; why?” “Does ho know the ten Comm and ments ?” “I’m afraid not, very well,” she an swered. “Can ho say the Sermon on the Mount, and tho twenty third Psalm, and tho golden rule?” “I am very much afraid he cannot, said the lady, laughing at the boy’s bravery. “Doeseu’t he ride on his pony on Sundays instead of going to chinch?’ he continued. “I am rather afraid ho does, but ho ought not to," said the lady, blushing a little. ti “Mother don’t know I came here,” said the bright littlo rogue, “but I just thought I would come around and see what kind of folks you were, and—and I guess mother would rather your boy would not come round our doors, be cause sho don’t like Mamie to talk to bad boys in tho Btreet. Good bye.” And the little boy was gone. [Watchman. Roscoo Conkling can’t be President of his enemies an old story about John C. Calhoun, to the eft'ect that when ho was a candidate for the Presidency he was induced to visit an old negro woman who had a local reputation as a prophet. After examining the lines of his hands she said, “Massa Calhoun, you nor no other man whose name begins with a 0. can be President of the United States. It is also recalled that the failure of Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Crawford. Mr. Clay, and Mr. Cass, have confirmed this prediction. This seems ominous to Sir. Conkling. He might begin bis name with a K or a D, but it is doubtful if his prospects would be benefited thereby. <£♦ The custom of appointing young law yers to defend pauper criminals received a backset the other day in our district court. His Honor, Judge Noonan, had appointed two young lawyers to defend an old and experienced hoi’B6 thief. Al ter inspecting his counsel for some tiino in silence, the prisoner arose in his placo and addressed the bench . “Air them to defend me ?” “Yes, sir,” said his honor. “Both of them ?” inquired the prison er. “Yes, both of them,” responded the judge. “Then I plead guilty,” and the poor devil took his seat and sighed heavily. [San Antonia Herald. The unanimous re-election of Mr. S. K. Johnson as Superintendent of the Georgia Railroad is one of the greatest compliments ever paid a young man in this country. It is safe to say that Mr. Johnson is eminently worthy of the hon or conferred upon him, and we predict that his career will bo more than a jus tification of the confidence reposed in his energy, talonts[and accomplishments. [Constitutionalist. Courtesy —That is a word of fino im port, second only to honor in tho idea of a thorough gentleman. It is anima ted by a gentle and kindly spirit, which, ns it comes from the heart, bo it always goes to the heart. It is the outward form of a spirit—the flower and aroma that spring from those twin roots. When these are united there is a com plete courtesy—one of the most gracious and winning things that delight human eyes and charm human hearts. Dr. Tucker, Chancellor of tho Stato University, in a letter written to some gentlemen solving tho Augusta problem, illustrates that “wo livo in the 18th and not the 19th century.” by a process of reasoning wherein eating partridges is the unknown quantity. Of two hundred and nineteen millions of dollars of gold and silver annually produced, nine tenths are exported to the East to pay for tea, coffee, spices, sugar, silk, tin, dyestufts and other Ori ental products consumed by Europe and America. An old Scotch lady gave a pointed re ply to a minister who knew that he had offended her, and expressed suprise that she should attend so regularly to hear him preach. She said : “My quarrel is \vi you mor. It is not ’wi tho Gospel.