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VOLUME XLiil.J T II E (Ll ni o n tv it 1t o r b t r is PCBL1SHED WEEKLY is MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., BY BOLTiHTOJf, BARNES & MOORE, (Corner ot Hancock and Wilkinson Streets,) At $2 ia Advance, or $3 at end of ihe year. S..N. SOUGHTOn, Editor. THE “FEDEUAL UMON” ai.d the “SOUTH EK.N JvEClHtDElt” were consolidated August 1st, 187 2. tiie Union being in i:« Forty-Third Volume and the Recorder in it's h itty-Third Volume. ADVERTISING. T? A.NSIENT.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for fiivi insertion, and seventy-hve cents for each subse queue continuance. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit uaries exceeding six lines, Nominations for ofiict. Com munications or Editorial notices lur individual beneUL, charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriff’s Sales, per Uvy of ten nueo, or less, $2 bu 44 Mortgage li fa sales, per square, b UO Citations for Letters of Adunnistiaiit*n, 3 00 “ “ Oua»dianship, 3 bb Application for dismission from Administration, 3 011 “ Guardian.-ship, 3 On “ “ leave to sell Land, b u». 4 ‘ for Homesteads, 17o Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 Oti j Sales ot Land, A^c., per square b Ub “ perishable property, 10 days, per square,., lob Estray Notices, 30 days, 3 Ob Foreclosure ot Aim fgage, per aq., each time, 1 00 Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks.).... J 7b LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales ol Land, &c., by Adininistiators, Executors or ctuardiatifi, are required bylaw to be held on the iii.1 Tuesday intlie inontb, between the hours of 1< «ii trie? lo .oon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court JL - County in which the property is situated **t these sales must be given in a public ga le 4 previous* to the day ol sale. A-. u : r iin* sale el personal property must be i\ --.i .r in.e ..miner id days previous to sale day. io he <iebt«*i s and creditors of an estate iU.-il si . o : •: ptihiisht d 10 days. ii plicaiim. will be made to the Court ot »:•. .-.iv to •• a ve to sell Land, tec., must be publish - a ot v tministration.Guardianship, heil 30 ibiys—for dismission from ■ 1 hl\ tlisee months—for dismission »ut>! &<•., n Admiumi i a'loL. in from Guuiuiai.siii; Rules tortured ed moult:!} tor t'ou pets tor tne lui! sp • 1 Vlortgage must be publisli- ■iths—for estahlisliiiig lost pa- of three mouths—for compell ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, the full spaceot three months. Publication.-will always be continued according to these, thelegairequirt-inei ts unlessotuerwise ordered Book and Job Work, oh all kinds, PiJO.Ul’TLY A VI> NEATLY EXECUTED A S’ THIS Agents for Federal HJiiion in IJcw York City GEO. P. HOWELL At CO.. No. 40 Park Row. S. M. PETTING ILL At CO . 37 Park Row. CF*Mkssks. Oi’ims & Hoffman. Newtpnper j>ers responded in opposition. Mr. Anderson rejoined when he concluded. 'Mr. Griffin, ol Rockdale, moved to lay the proviso on the table, which mo tion prevailed by a vote of 16 to 14. On motion the original report was adopted unanimously. Messrs. Anderson of Bibb and Ca pers of Xevvtou conducted Mr. Ward to the Chair. On motion of Judge Anderson it was Resolved, That each county be entitled to twice as many votes as it has Representatives in the Legislature, and the county of Rockdale to two votes. Mr. Best of Bibb, moved that the Convention proceed to nominate a can didate for Congress. Mr. Gray of Jones, nominated J. II. Blounr, <>f Bibb. Mr. Capers of Newton, nominated G< ii. Thomas of Newton. Mr. Hudson nominated W. A. Reid of Putnam. Mr. .Swanson of Jasper, nominated Mr. Nutting of Bibb. On first baiiut—Mr. Blount received I tf 7-1:1, Nutting 6^, Thomas S'n, Reid 2. Second and third ballots with tlie same results. On the fourth ballot—Nutting 4£, Reid 4, Blount 12 7-12, Thomas Sjj. On fifth ballot—Thomas 9 4-12. Nutting 2 5-12, Reed 2 8-12, Blount 14 7 12. On sixth ballot—Blount 14, Nut ting 5 4-12, Reed 2, Thomas S 8-12. On seventh ballot—Nutting 4, Reid 2, Thomas 10 8-12, Blount 15 4-12. On eighth ballot—Nutting 4, Reid 2, Thomas 1 S 12, B ount 13 4-12. Ninth ballot—Thomas S S-12, Blount 15 4-12, Nutting 4, Reid 2. Tenth Ballot—Thomas 8 3-11, Forty-Fourth ballot—Bacon 4, Reid 2, Blount 14, Thomas 4 Walker 6. Forty-fifth ballot—Blount 14, Ba con 4, Reid 2, Walker 10. Forty-sixth ballot—Blount 12, Ba con 2, Reid 2, Thomas S, Walker 6. Forty-seventh ballot—Blount 16, Bacon 2, Reid 2, Thomas 4, Walker 2, i great highways over which the Cana Grieve 4. Jdian French go up to the Yankee I A Sketch of Pleasure Travel in the KigTit. “BVsb me! th s is pleasant, Riding ou a rail.*’—S ize. At Essex Junction we took the train at twenty minutes past eight, in the evening. Essex Junction is on the NABOB’4 VII4IT TO MAV YOU It. 15Y MARK TWAIN. Forty-eighth ballot—Blount 12§, Bacon jj, Reid 4j. Thomas 8, Walker 2, Grieve 2. Forty-ninth ballot—Blount IS, Ba con 2, Reid 2, Thomas 6, Walker 2. On the Fiftieth ballot Col. James paradise, Boston and vicinity. The train was long. There was but one sleeping car, and that was very un comfortably full. There were six sleepless ears, and they were also uii comfortably full—full of grown peo- H. Blount of Bibb county, received pits with babies to fill all the chinks, the requisite two-thirds vote, as fol- j It was hot. The car windows were lows : | raised to let in smoke and cinders. That Fiftieth ballot—Blount 20, Reid 4, was some relief. Ten hours solid ride Thomas 6. was to be enjoyed as best we might. On motion of Col. H- D. Capers the We summoned our philosophy and nomination was made unauimous. settled ourselves into a seat, in a Mr. Jamison, of Bibb, moved to ap- “melting mood.” We sat with stoic point a committee to notify Col. J. H. uprightness, resolved to conquer, or, Blount of his nomina'tion'and request 'like Macbeth, to murder sleep. When his acceptance. The Chairman ap- we thought it was midnight, we took pointed Messrs. Jamison, Barrow, and an indifferent look at our watch. It Capers, as that committee. j was fifteen minutes past ten. We Col. Jno. Rivers moved an Exec- stopped talking. Half an hour after utive committee of one from each we stopped thinking, or at least our county be appointed by the Chair at thoughts were not practicable. Then his leisure, which motion prevailed. common sense forsook us entirely. The On motion of Judge Anderson of muscles of the neck refused to keep Bibb, the thanks of the Convention the head upright and it became down- were tendered to the President and right. We were not asleep. We could Se rotary. feel the clatter, smell the smoke, fiear On motion the papers in the Dis- the babies cry, and their mothers jab- trict were requested to publish the bering at them in unknown tongues. you, ladies and gents; go it just asj Georgians Abroad. long as you please—it shan’t cost you The Louisville Courier-Journal, of a c *l n ! , , . the 13th inst., speaks iu handsome / a L l j i « • i.i • i • i i ilit* two comrades got out, and Col. I terms, as follows, of our Opnrfvia (As told by himself, in his new book T .,,. L . ° ’ u . our Borgia entitled “ Rouffhin.r Tt ” now in nress r- . . statesmen who spoke in that city on entitled Koughmg It, now iu press. | “ J Imm y, it’s the sociablest place 11 Wednesday last: ever saw. Ihe Chinaman waltzed in j We thank the gallant and gifted It is a sample of the good things cou tained therein.) as comfortable as anybody. If we In Nevada there used to be. current 8taid a whUe j rec k 0 „ we’d hr the story of the adventure of two of her nabobs, which mnv or may not I give it for what it have occurred, is worth: Colonel Jim had seen somewhat of the world, and knew more or less of its ways; but Colonel Jack was from the back settlements of the States: had led a life of arduous toil, and had never seen a city. These two, blessed with sudden ! had some niggers* By George, we’ll have to barricade our doors to-night, or some of these ducks will be trying to sleep with us.” Genera! Gorden, of Georgia, for the way in which he disposed, in his speech last Wednesday, of the piti ful attempt of the stay-at-home Bour bons to disaff’ect former Confederate soldiers on account of the clause in the Liberal-Democratic platform re ferring in terms of compliment to the Union soldiers. Said Gen. Gordon : “Something has been said about the plank in the platform about doing honor to the Federal soldiers. I, To Be Too Sensitive.—Here is a short article we find floating around on the unknown seas of journalism that many men should paste in their hats and ladies in their bonnets, if room two, blessed witli sudden j can be found “ on the little duck of a, .. . . „ . wealth, projected a visit to New York : tiling.” These people, liable to quick among , othe ™ ' n . th «South, have been Colonel Jack to see the sights, and ! emotions, with sense but not reason, I autl ^ * vv 1 1 1 10 eorgu y some of Colonel Jim to guard his unsophistica- showing their nature in their counted- * ^ m r< ''- = 1 ° U rleII( 8 * " l °, if my tion from misfortune. They reached Unco. and olten marring repose and “'T “ 0t friendship by unwarranted suspicion, '*?, n T du ' m / ,he . . Tll< 7 , ii t l say my blood must have curd ed in my are found m all our cities. Let them “ after consenting to support a proceedings of the Convention. With three cheers for Col. Blount the Convention adjourned sme die. B. F. WARD, President. L. Carrington, Secretary. Our head would droop. Some femi nine heads fell on masculine shoulders. That seemed comfortable. Our im practicable, drowsy thoughts consid ered how pleasant it would be to have a feminine head to—to rest on some body’s shoulder. One great mascu- Sngratitude. ~ „ .... Shakespeare, who knew* nothing of line head rested on a feeble feminine Blount 13 26-33 Nuttine 2 8-12 Reid i ra '* w, D 8 aru ^ telegraphs, cotton-gins shoulder. The shoulder did not object, «lo int^^dd,JNuttin 0 ^t> j ,*ei L md corn . she i Ier8 , had never the pleas- but it fatigued us to witness it. We The following communication was ure even ° f a personal acquaintance rested ours on the arm of the seat. It received; w'ltu Doily \ ardeu or Victoria ood- made us ache. It was too much for so San Francisco in the night and sailed in the morning. Arrived in New York Colonel Jack said : I’ve heard tell of carriages all my life, and now I mean to have a ride in one ; I don’t care what it costs. Come along. They stepped on the sidewalk and Colonel Jim called a stylish barouche. But Colonel Jack said : No, sir! none of your Cheap John turnouts for me. I’m here to have a good time, and money ain’t any object. read and profit by this m, - , . candidate standing upon that platform, 1 here are some people, yes many aa , , b „ » b l att | e fiel j F s of Vlr .’ i i c* n trura mnuiiHT tnr u nrlitki I . 1 * people, always looking out for slights. ginia, where my comrades lay buried. I mean to have the noblest rig that’s I going. Now, here comes the very (fit of indigestion makes them see im- trick. Stop that yaller one with the \ pertinence in every one tiiey come in pictures on it—don’t fret—I’ll stand > contact with. Innocent persons, who all the expenses myself. never dreamed of giving offence, are So Colonel Jim stopped an empty j astonished to find some unfortunate omnibus and they got in. Said Col-[word or momentary taciturnity mis taken for an insult. To say the least Tney cannot carry on the daily niter- i v. T i „ ., • . , , , ., . . . , 3 , Now I have got this to say about that: course or the family without some of- r . . •' . ■ . ,■ ■ i • . j an . I am ready to honor any man who bat- lence is designated. They meet «» ,| es in a,,/eauae from a re,. 8 e of duty, acquaintance on the street who hap- L,,, rM ,f t , le NorUl stlo „| d f e pens to be preoccupied with business, , , .. . 1 , I, .. 1 . , • 1 , . . - ’ to the very clouds their monumental they attribute bis abstraction .n some b |„ cks of - ?ra „ iw t0 their brave g „ M . „,o le personal of themselves, and take ; an j , J| aiin tbot th(J hi umbrage accordingly. They lav on •!„ ,i .. . . °, 1 others the fact of thedr irritability. A F tr ‘hute they pay J . to tile brave men whn he <1 the... onel Jack “Ain’t it gay, though ? Oh ! no, I reckon not. Cushions, windows and pictures till you can’t rest. What the habit is unfortunate. It is far wiser to take the more charitable view of our fellow-feelings, and not to sup to the brave men who held them in check for four years. I utter a senti ment to-day which I would gladly ut ter in Faneuil Hall, Boston, and my speech I know would find an echo in the heart of Hancock and all true men who fought on the other side.” Gordon gave expression to the sen timent of every true ex-Coufederate soldier. AdvertLii.# A^nfs are duly authorized our lowest rates. Adv ed !<» leave their f.tvo No 1 out h .St . it tact for ad \ iers in that Ui it Ii t hit* tioil<e ;!tiim>r<\ Md.. t t*c im-iits at are request- Sixth loiigrossiona! District. X>emocratic Iffominatin^ Convention. Milledgeville, Ga., ) ■Srpt. 19, 1872. ) On motion of Col. C. B. Wooten, Capt. C. P. Crawford, of Baldwin county, was made temporary Chair man. On motion of J. Hudson, L. Carring ton was made temporary Secretary. On motion of Judge Clifford An derson the roll of counties was called, State Lunatic Asylum, ) Sept. 19th, 1872 ) Dr. Tbos. F. Green, Superintendent &c M respectfully invites the officers and members of the Congressional Convention to visit the Asylum, at such hour as may suit their conve nience. All necessary conveyances will be furnished upon notice at the Miliegeville Hotel. On motion of Anderson of Bibb the Convention returned thanks to Dr. Green for his invitation and the Secre tary was instructed to inform him lhat his invitation would be accepted if practicable. Convention adjourned to 2i P. M* hull, and who probably parted his little comfort. We then tried the ex- iiair in the middle ; in spite of these periment so often tried with poor suc- disadvantages, always held a level cess, namely, of folding ourselves up, head on human nature. He knew and like a pocket rule, to lit the limited could describe that crooked and inex- j dimensions of a car seat. The posi- plicable thing as well, if not better, tion did not suit. We tried the church than any man. Although his powers , repose method—bowing the Imad in were taxed to their extreme capacity, the sleepy devout attitude upon the yet he was able to grasp the rainbow I brass edge of the seat back in front, elements of female character ami | We couldn’t sleep. We were not in mould them in the beautiful creations church. A Sunday afternoon sermon of a Juliet, Portia, Ophelia and Corde- with theeame temperature, and naught lia. This magnificent, universal ge- when the f< delegates were found to be present. From Baldwin—P. M. Compton, C. P. Craw ord, Benj. Barrow, A. I. Butts, R. H. Harper, L. N. Callaway, John Wall, *S. G. White. Frank Mapp, Ii. A. McComb, T. II. Latimer. ll / l/i ni son—G. W. Bishop, R. J. Cochran. Butts— B F. Ward. Bibb—Clifford Anderson. R. W Ja mison, C. B. Wooten, W R. Phillips, 1< 1-2, AFTERNOON SESSION. Convention met at 2i o’clock. Mr. Nutting’s name was withdrawn. Eleventh ballot—Blount 6 4-12, Thomas 9 8-12, Reid 4. Twelfth Ballot—Blount 16 Thomas 11 1-2, Reid 2. Thirteenth ballot—Blount 15 Thomas 13 1-2, Reid 1. Fourteenth Ballot—Blount 15 1-2, Reid 2, Thomas 13 1-2. Fifteenth ballot—Blount 14, Reid 2, Thomas 14. Sixteenth ballot—Blount 14, Reid 2, Thomas 14. Seventeen ballot—Blount 14, Reid 2, i houias 14. Eighteenth ballot—Blount 17-J, Thomas I2i. H. P. Prescott, C. J. Harris, Mat. j Nineteenth ballot Blount 17i, Thornton, J» A. Shiver, Arch. J. Smith, Thorna^ 10], Reid 2. W. H. Ross, Geo. T. Cuerry, E. F. j Mr. McDaniel of Walton, proposed D. A. Walker of the name of Col. Walton. Twentieth ballot—Blount 16, Reid 2, I'homas 0, Walker 6. Tw-uty-first ballot—Blount 17i, Best. Jasper—Thomas C. Smith. J. L. Maddox, James Hendersoi, F. M. Swanson, F. Walker, L. A. Lane, J. W. Preston. Tie tags— D. M. Hughes, J. D. My- ! Reid 2, Thomas Si, Walker 2 rick, Win. L. Solomon. Putnam—John R. Hudson, S. B. Marshall. K. D. Little, John S. Reid, J. M Bullard, Jr., R. C. Humber, J. H. Adams, i). T. Singleton. Rockdale.—A. C. McCalla, J. Griffin. Jones.—J. M. Gray, T. O. Bowen, T. J. Wooltork, J. R. Childs, F. S. Jonnsjn Jr., Geo. W. .Mann* IV,d on.— Henry D. McDaniel. Newton.—H. D. Gapers, J. T. Ilen- d> is »(!. A. B. Si,ns, W. B. Griffin. Laurens —. J. M. Stubbs, David Ware, Jon n; Rivers. nius tells us that a thankless child bears a tooth sharper than a serpent, and ingratitude is more to be hated than lying, thieving, drunkenness, or any other vice which inhabits our frail blood. Ingratitude is as common as it is horrible. How few have honest thanks for their daily bread. We are all children of a common parent, and yet we are thankless and thoughtless, and seldom lift our eyes with our hearts in gratitude to the author of our life and every blessing. How oblivious are we of the benefits conferred by the elements of air, food, fire and water ? Withdraw from us either of these never but a snore from the next pew to fill the pauses, would have been more somniferous. We changed position, assumed the cork-screw attitude, the head gently reclining on the edge of our own seat-back. Soon was confi dent in our jumbled reason that we must straighten or perish. Consider ed a moment which alternative to take. Decided to straighten once more. Sat unit upright, determined not to sleep. Fell asleep just in time to receive a punch from considerate conductor. Ticket in hat, and hat under next car seat. Was then diverted from our strug gle with sleep, by witnessing a strug would the boys say if they could see pose a slight is intended unless the ns cutting a swell like this in New neglect is open and direct. After all, York? By George! I wish they too, life takes its hues in a great degree could see us.” j from the color of our mind. It we Then he put his head out of the are frank and generous, the world window, and shouted to the driver: j treats us kindly. If, on tilt* contrary, •Say, Johnny, this suits me—suits we are suspicious, men learn to he cold yours truly, you bet you! I want j and cautious to us. Let a person get this shebang all day. I’m on it, old the reputation of being touchy, and man ! Let ’em out! Make ’em go. everybody is under more or less con- We’ll make it all right to you, sonny !” straint, and in this way the chance of The driver passed his hand through j an imaginary offence is vastly increas- the straphole and tapped for his fare— I ed. it was before the gongs came into! common use. Coionel Jack took the The Great Lakes.—The following hand and shook it cordially. He said : statistics iu regard to the five great You twig me, old pard ! All | lakes in North America are not general- right between gents. Smell of that ly known: and see how you like it.” L ike Superior is the largest body of And he put a twenty dollar gold I fresh water in the world. Its greatest piece iuto the driver’s hand. After a | length is 355 miles, its greatest I i' uli, 7‘" l, s ,l,e NtiumiHtii^uiVn.r^i.i Uver ami moment the driver said he could not breadth lbO miles, and its area is given wimie^em.‘"suimons’^l 1 ver^regulator make change. j as 32,000 square miles. Its average 13 ackuo '*’ le ' l ‘ ?, ‘ d to l,ave e< i' Jal ^ a Bother the change? Ride out. depth is variously given at 688 and MEDICI2JJTE. 1 - - J 6 ■ It contain* lour iu«licdl elom^nU. uever united in This unrivalled Medicine i.i warranted not to con tain a single particle ot Mercury, or any injurious mineral asub'tance, but is PUa.2I.ir VEGETABLE. For fc'OKTY \ KARS it has proved its great value in all diseases ot the Liver, Bowels and Kidneys. Thousands ot* the jood aud great in all parts of the ountry vouch^tor its wonderful uud pecuh .r power in But it in your pocket. Then to Colonel Jim, with a sound ing slap on the thigh : “Aint it style though? Hanged if 1,000 feet. It is 600 feet above the I the same happy proportion in aiiy othe^'^epara’i!^ u ‘Vel of the Sea 2“ fept lliodicr Hi-,n VtZ: - a Latlmrtic, h wonderful Tonic, an line* ' . . . ,.7 U 1 , S ,, i er than cepUonableAlte.Bl.v s and a certain Corrective of all Lake Michigan, and 50 feet higher than | "npumies of tiie nouy. sucii huc^s ha* at tended it* use, that i; is now regarded as the 1 I Gb’eat Unfailing Specific long, I tor Liver Complaint and the painful offspring thereof lo wit : HVSPi'HNt \ Cn\f<i'fn*TiA vT 7.... * I don’t hire this thing every day for a | Lake Michigan is 320 miies week.” 10> miles in the widest, and the mean I '"' wit: dvspepsicovsTiFATiONGjaVindiee,’ The omnibus stopped and a young depth of it is 900 feet. In its greatest | sionof sp^’soUR 8roMACH. l H^ B Bn™! , 5^ gle to wake up, in which our neigh- j 8®^ hi. Colonel Jack started tor | length it is longer than Lake Superior, fully appreciated essentials to existence I bor was engaged. Neighbor was a \ a moment, then nudged Colonel Jun J being 390 utiles. It has an area ot g . c -KIIiIi3 AW’D FEVER, aud happiness, and we soon perish. Canadian family from Montreal.. Mr. whh his elbow. 23,000 square miles. ,mm ons ^ u re ®^ u ^° r We have friends ami a country whose and Mrs. Canadian and six little* Can- j “ Don’t say a word,” he whispered, j The greatest length of Lake Huron j. u. zkilin& co., privilege it is to be loved, and a God | adians oldest, five years, youngest, T<et her ride if she want’s to. Gra- is 200 miles ; the greatest width 100 macon, ga., and Philadelphia. to he adored. We have the sun by adapted to maternal diet, of which he cious, there’s room enough.” miles, the mean depth 600 feet, and ' ‘ 1 ’ - The young lady got out her porte-j ihe area 20,000 square miles. monnuie, and handed her fare to Col- Lake Erie’s greatest length is 250 onel Jack. miles, its width 50 miles, the mean “ What’s this for ?” lie said. depth o! its waters S4 feet, making it “ Give it to the driver, please.” ! by far iIm most shallow of all the five Take back your money, madame. \ lakes, and it has a superficial area of day and the moon and the heavens j partook freely. It was two o’clock in by night, fretted with golden fire, to the morning. They slept. The father thank and admire. Our eyes catch in- j woke—a faithful sentinel of the sleep- spiration from the blue mountains, | jug brood. The immediate task be- the rolling ocean and the lightning’s fore him was, to transfer his wife, two Hash; our ears music from the wins- carpet bags, a bundle, a basket, an periug winds, the thunder’s roar and umbrella, two tin pails, a jug, one SOLD 15Y ALL DRUGGISTS. rV*Bewawe ufail Counterfeits aud Imitations Sept 17, IS72. s We can’t allow it. l'ou are welcome the cataract’s dash; our sense of smell very pretty little dog, one yellow dog, I t0 a r ^ e h ere as [ On o as } ou please, is gratified by the breath of roses and with tail and ears trimmed for fight- violets, and our taste by the tenants juir, and those six sleeping infants, and products of earth, sea and air. j with five very broad-brimmed straw We find sermons in stones, booKa in hats, from that car to the station, for Mr. P. M. Compton announced the running brooks, and philosophy in the which the engine had already whistled, name ol Col. Miller Grieve of Baid- everlasting hills. With hearts to feel; He roused the mother by a pinch, and but the shebang is chartered; shan’t let you pay a cent.’ about 6,000 square miles. The greatest length of Lake Ontario is ISO miles, the greatest breadth 65 miles, the mean depth 260 feet, and win. Twenty-second ballot—Grieve 5, Blount 151, Thomas 5£, Walker 2, II. ! Reid Vi. Twenty-third b Hot—Blount 16, Grieve 4, Reid 4, Thomas 4, Walker •> Twenty-fourth ballot—Blount 16, Grieve 2, Reid 2, Thomas 8, Walker 2. Twenty-fifth ballot—Blount 14, Grieve 2, Reid 2, Thomas 10, Walker On iiiui'ou ul Judge Anderson the Twenty-sixth ballot—Blount 16, Chai. appointed Messrs. Anderson of Bibb. Latimer of Baldwin, lliituber ot Putman, Rivers of Laurens, Johnston of Jones, Smith of Jasper, Capers ol Newton, Griffin of Rockdale, Cochran ot Wilkinson. Hughes ot Twiggs, Mc Daniel ot Walton and Ward of Butts, a committee of one from e ch county, on permanent organization to nominate permanent officers, report rules &c. Ross of Bibb, moved to invite repre sentatives ol the Press to seats on the floor. Unanimously adopted. Tne committee on organization re tired, and upon returning reported : The committee appointed to recom mend officers for the permanent organ ization ot this Convention, and rules fur its government, beg leave to make the following report: They unanimously recommend for President Major B. *F. Ward, of Butts county ; and for Secretary, L. Carring ton, oi B dd win county. The committee recommend that the Convention adopt the ruies of the House of Representatives of the Gen- Grieve2, Reid 2, Thomas 8, Walker o Twenty-seventh ballot—Blount 16, Grieve 2, Reid 4, Thomas 6, Walker o Twenty-eighth ballot—Blount 14, Grieve 2, Reid 6, Thomas 6, Walker • > Twenty-ninth ballot—Blount 16, Grieve 4, Reid 2, Thomas 6, Walker 2. Thirtieth ballot—Blount 16, Grieve 2, Reid 2, Thomas S, Walker 2. Mr. Compton withdrew the name of Col. Miller Grieve. Thirty-first ballot—Blount 14, Reid 3, Thomas 11, Walker 2. Thirty-second ballot—Blount 16, Reid 12, Walker 2. Thirty-third ballot Blount IS, Reid 6, Walker 2, Thomas 4. Thirty-fourth ballot—Blount IS, Reid 2, Thomas 6, Walker 4. Thirty-fifth ballot—Bluuut IS, Reid 2, Thomas 8. Walker 2. Thirty-sixth ballot—Blount IS, Reid 2, Thomas 3, Walker 2. Thirty-seventh ballot—Blount IS, with mental faculties ot infinite poiv- s j ie confined her attention, very prop er, and hopes, and inspirations which erly, to the nurseling. He shook the tell us we live beyond the grave, rare- others, coaxed them, pinched them, in ly, in sincerity and in truth, do we turn. He profered doughnuts to their make any grateful returns. five little mouths, but it did not rouse We are not only fearfully and won- them, which proves that the dougb- derlully made, but become soon uu- nut has little power over the sleep of gratefully educated in thought and innocence. He frantically slapped his ■heart, ihe sick only value health; hands, vehemently‘ShooShoo’d’them, the captive, liberty; the poor, wealth; p ut they were not chickens, and set the the stranger, home aud friends; aud dogs barking, but the little flock slept the poor lunatic the inestimable joy sweetly on. The train Was at the sta- of a sound mind in a sound body. turn. Desperate means must be re- He was a true philosopher who sorted to. He seized the jug, which could dance and sing with only one had been his constant friend thus far— The girl shrank into a corner be- j the area 9,000 square miles, wildered. An old lady with a basket j The length of all the lakes is more climbed in aud proffered her faie. j than l,50o miles* “Excuse me,” said Colonel Jack. — —— “ You are perfectly welcome here, madame hut we can’t allow you to pay. Set right down there, mum, and don’t you feel the least oneasy. Make yourself as free as if you were in your own turnout.” Within two miuutes three gentle men, two fat women and a couple of children entered. “ Come right along, friends,” said Colonel Jack ; “don’t mind us. This is a free blow-out.” Then he whb- pered to Colonel Jim,” “ New York ain’t no sociable place, I don’t reckon, Old Ships.—There is a ship now sailing from Holland, built in 1598, when the Prince of Orange was fight ing Phillip II., of Spain, then at the zenith ot li is power. Sue was sailing to the Indies when the Hollanders or ganized themselves into the “Beggars of the Sea,” and as privateersmen earned a reputation which astonished the world. This Dutch siiip i3 called the ‘Commissaries des Konig von der Heine.” She passed the Cape of Good Hope, October, 1^64, from Batavia for Holland, then 294 years old. A few numbers back iu the Boston Dailv Ad- whole shirt to his back, but he was a greater, (one that even the laughing Democritus would envy) who, sune- rior to fate, could carry a merry aud grateful heart under dirt and rags. so andol course would not desert him in his it ain’t no name for it. He resisted every effort to pass fares vertiser is a notice that the whale- extremity—and a stream of something I driver, and made everybody ship Rousseau (another of Stephen (the very odor ol w h i ch aroused many j cord lal ly welcome. Ihe situation: D ira* u s ships, b u 111 at Ph 11 ade I ph ia 1 sleepers) soon gurgled in their five little faces. They awoke with violent eral Assembly ot Georgia for its gov- j Beni 4, Iliomas 4, \Yalker 4. eminent as far as applicable. They also recomiueud that two- thirds of the votes cast be necessary to a nomination. Judge Clifford Anderson moved as an amendment to this report the fol lowing : Provided, that it after twen ty ballotings, no candidate lias a two thirds vote, thereafter, the person hav ing a majority of votes shall he declar ed the unauimous nominee of this Con vention. Judge Anderson’s proviso being sec- ondel by’ Mr. Rivers, Judge A. spoke qc length in support of it. Mr. Ca- Thirty-eighth ballot—Blount IS, Reid 2, Walker 9, Thomas 1. Thirty-ninth ballot—Blount IS, Thomas 8, Reid 2, Walker 2. Mr. B. W. Barrow, of Baldwin, an nounced the name of Hon. A. O. Ba con of Bibb. Fortieth ballot—Bacon 9, Blount 12, Reid 2, Thomas 5, Walker 2. Forty-first—Bacon 10, Blount 12, Reid 2, Thomas 4, Walker 2. Forty-second ballot—Bacon S, Reid 2, Blount 12, Thomas 4, Walker 4. Forty-third ballot—Bacon 4, Blount 16, Reid 2, Thomas 6, Walker 2. We would go a thousand miles to symptoms of strangulation. The hap- touch that man’s hand, however bloody {) y moment was seized upon for flight, the chasm. Such a man is richer than Everything was safely landed but the tiie king ol Lydia, wiser than Solo- ju^ which, having been drained of mon and more powerful than Napo- ; itsSubstance, was deserted. But “the leon, Caesar or Alexander united. He scent of the roses would hang round has rightfully conquered, not only the jt still,” which led to its prompt adop- world, but one mighter—himself. tion by a leilovv passenger, who press- . ,, ~r ***• *7“ I ed it affectionately to his lips. This A Gray Eagle Pinion—Thomas , a9t tran8action | ed us to reflection, ’.mon of Montgomery county, said to anJ the b 80m e unaccountable be one hundred and eighteen years ot ; ces ilU() sleep from which no din age, and a soldier of the T irst Revolu- j [ ior ache coul j 4 ke us more, until non, arrived here yesterday for the thfl conductor > a punch weilt round purpose ot drawing his pension. He j once lllore ._/^W Gazette. came in a wagon, accompanied by j two sons and two daughters, the j Col. Thomas Hardeman, in Lifsad- youngest of his children being sev- 'dress at Marietta, some time since, per- euty-five years of age. Mr. Pinion, j petrated the following : his advanced age beiug considered, ex-; “Mechanics are taught in practical hibits remarkable traces of physical lessons, lor a young man’s arm is sim- and mental vigor. He gets about p|y cog-wheel that turns the whole with almost as much activity as either | delicate machinery of the dance. The ol his children, and speaks of events mechanism of celestial planets has of recent and ancient occurrence with j been solved and subordinated to the a wonderful degree of animation and j demands of fashionable folly, fora accuiacy. He distinctly remembers modern belle, arrayed in the require- tlie battle of Stony Point, and is still meets ol “the style,” appears through able to give a vivid description of that J the telescope of a searcher after truth, engagement, and other events of Rev- ; to have encircled herself with the rings olutionary memory. Mr. Pinion has . of Saturn and enlarged her dimensions not drawn any portion of his pension with the satelites of Jupiter. Natural money since the commencement ot the j Philosoply has simplified her lessons, late war, and says he thinks theie is a \ (or the sympathetic leaning of lovers, “right smart coming to him just about lone to the other, is properly attribu- now.”—Nashville Union and American, I ted to the irresista'ble laws of attrac- Sept. IX. Uion and gravitation,” dawned on the people, and they pock eted their money and delivered then; selves up to covert enjoyment of the episode. Half a dozen more passeu- gers entered. Oh, there is plenty of room, said Colonel Jack. Walk right in and make yourselves at home. A blow out ain’t worth anything as a blow out, unless a body has company. Then in a whisper to Colouel Jim. But ain’t these New Yorkers friendly ? And ain’t they cool about it too ? Icebergs ain’t anywhere. I reckon they’d tackle a hearse, if it wasgoin’ their way. More passengers got in ; more yet, and still more. Both seats were filled and a file of meu were standing up holding on to the cleats overhead. Parties with baskets and bundles were climbing up on the roof. Half-sup pressed laughter rippled up fiom all sides. “ Well, for clean, cool, out-and out cheek if this don’t bang anything that ever I saw, I’m au Injun,” whispered Col. Jack. A Chinaman crowded in his way. “I weaken,” said Colonel Jack. “ Hold ou, driver! Keep your seats, ladies and gents. Just make your selves free—everything is paid for. 1301) was then undergoing repairs at New Beiiioid. ller planking is being removed, the first time for seventy years. The live oak timbers under neath are reported to be as sound as they were the day they were first put together. During the meeting of the Emper ors at Berlin a grand military parade took place Saturday in which the thiee Emperors. William, Alexander and Franz Josef, headed their respect ive regiments named for them. The eldest sou of the Crown Prince, Fred erick William, wore the order of St. Andrew, which was conferred on him Saturday morning by tfie Czar. The parade was witnessed by an immense concourse. Satuaday evening a Court dinner was given at the Imperial pal ace. Emperor William gave a toast, “Our guests.” The Emperor of Aus tria proposed the health of the German Emperor and his family. The Czar’s toast was; “The valiant German Ar my.” ihe festivities of the day termi nated with a monster torch-light pro cession, and the playing of the Prus sian tatoo by 1124 musicians selected from the bands of all the German Reg iments. The entire city was brill iantly illuminated. The Czar has made Driver, rustle these folks around as Princes Fredrick Charles and Fred- long as they’ve a mind to go—friends of ours you know. Take them every where, aud it you want more money come to the St. Nicholas, aud we’ll make it all right, pleasant journey to erick Henry Albeit field marshals ol the Russian army. Pay strict attention to the laws gov erning health, aud save Doctors’ bills. Baldwin Sheriff' Sale. Y^7'I6I J ^ before the Court Houae door, in the city lit .Vliiled^evilie, ou the first Tuesday in OCTOBER next, tvit.iiu the legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit : One fire proot bri"k Ware house on Lot No 1, square 35, and one bri?k gin bouse on lot No I, square •p, both in Milledgeville. Sold to s-itisly a mortgage li fs of the Southern lusuruiioe aud Trust Co, vs Jolm Jones. Pr >pei ty pointed out by plaintiff s attorney. O. ARNOLD, Sheriff. J>ept 18, 2. h t d ISAAC T. HEARD A CD., C9TT0.V FI IT.I US, AUGUSTA, - GEOS.3IA. GENERAL AGENTS FOR GulletEs Improved aud Light Draft COTTON GIN. a-s fee. saw. pnESE GINS were sold the past season for the A nist time, til y are made under .Mr GoLl.kTr’e personal supervision, at his work, in Lmisiaua w io uever allows one to be sent from his works u’ntii’it nas been lnliy tested, aud male to gin perfec.ly iu every respect, inis made of testing is very impor tant to the purchaser, as be does not ruu the risk of receiving and setting up a Gin to find it. on trial to be impeded. lue■ IMPROVED GIN differs mVerially from the btee Bru li Gin fonnerly sold by us, iu as much as the steel brusu nas three brushes, while the New Giu has but one. We guarantee every Gin to be of very light draft, to thoroughly e.enu tne seed, and make a superior sain! p:e Besides, it is simp e in Us uonstruol on, easily adjusted and gin - very last. We respectfully reier io all those who have used the Imp.oved Gin the past Winter. Planters wishing Gins wul consult their own inter ests hy either w, iuug to us for our Circular wan Cer tificates, or calliug at our ottiee and examinin', for themselves betore purchasing elsewhere. We will take baek every Giu wnich does network well wneu taniy tested,uud pay all expenses incurred by the purcluiAer. Address ISAAC T. HEARD & CO., . , , Cotton Factors, Augusta, Ga July Ih, 1872. * :tin NOTICE. \ kL persons are hereby uoiifi^d uot to employ ^Harues, Junior, (colored) as he is uudef contract witu me lor the pre^eut year. „ ta . J. A. P. BOBSOX. Baldwin Co. Sept 10, 1872. 7 4t CRIMSON u,o\ til, Red Clover, Saplin Clover, White Clover, Alsika Clover, .Mammoth Clover, LUCERNE,Luiutoru,Tad Meadow Oat GRASS, Orchard Grass, Timothy Gross, Red Top or Herd’s Grass, Blue Grass, Mixed Lawu Grass, Rye Grass, Sweet Scented Verual Grass, Seed Rye, Seed Barley, Seen Oats, Seed Wheat, Agricul- tuittl Imp.eiuents, Guano, Live Stock, Macniuery, dec. Send for my Grass Seed Circular giving brief des'erip- tion, bow to plant, Ate. MARK W. JOHNSON, , G. Box 230, Atlanta, Ga. J“b23, , ;lin NTOTIC^. * T HE BOOKS AND ACCOUNTS OF A. BISCII- OF are now in the hands of Sanford At Furman, Attorneys-ot-Law, aud all who are indebted to said Bisoliot will please call at their otfice over Stetson’s old stand and settle. SANFORD & FURMAN, Receivers appointed by the Coart. Sept 10,1872, 7 mn