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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XLill.J MILLED GEYILLE, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 30, 1872. NUMBER 14. the anion t£ Rentier, IN <y [g PCBLISHED WEEKLY M1LLEDGEV1LLE. GA., BOUGHTON, BARGES & MOORE, £t $2 in Advance, or $3 at ead of the year. S. W. BOUGHTON, Editor. THE “FEDERAL UNION” and the “SOCTIl- KKN RECORDER” were consolidated August 1st, 1872, the Union being in it* Forty-Third Volume and the Recorder in it’s Fifty-Third Volume. ADVERTISING. Transient.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for firstinsertion, and seventy-five cents for each aubso qnchi continuance. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies.Obit- uaries exceeding sixlineB, Nominations for office,Com munications or Editorial notices for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriff's Sales, per l.vy of ton lines, or lees,....$2 50 “ Mortgage fi fa sales, per square 5 00 Citations for Letters of Administration,..----.- 3 00 '* “ Guardianship,.......... 3 00 Application for dismission from Administration, 3 00 “ *• “ •* Guardianship, 3 00 '* 41 leave to sell Laud 5 00 “ for Homesteads....... 1 75 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00 bales of Land, Ac., per square, 5 00 “ perishable property, 10 days, per square,.. 1 50 EelrayNotic.es, 30 days, 3 00 Foreclosure of Mortgage, per sq., each time,.... 1 0O Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,, 1 75 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land, Ac., by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required bylaw to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the- hours of 1 in the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court House iu the County in which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga sette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given iniike manner 10 days provious to Rale dev. Notices io tne debtors and creditors of an estate must also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court ol Ordinary for leave to sell Land, Ac., must be publish ed for two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, tii\. mu*t be published 30 days—for dismission from Administration, monthly three months—fordismisaion from Guardianship, 40 days. Rnles for foreclosnreof Mortgage must be publish ed monthly for four months—for establishing lost pa pers tor the fall space of three months—for compell ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where bond has been given by thedeooased.tho full spaceof three months. Pubiications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unlessotherwise ordered Book and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT TISI* OFFICE. For the Gnion & Recorder. Letter from Colquitt Oonaty. Agents for Federal Union in Nctv Yorli City GEO. P. ROWELL A CO., No. 4U Park Row. S. M. PETTINGILL A CO., 37 Park Row. nr Mr.ssns. GRirriN A Hoffman, Newspaper Advertising Agents. No. 4 South 8t., Baltimore, Md., are <i(t!y authorized to contract for advertisements nt our lover! rales. Advertisers in that City are request ed to leave their favors with this house.” The following verses wore written by a brilliant young daughter of a distinguished writer of tha South.land—a daughter of the author of “nry Rcees.” “Seldom—very seldom—do poetical contribu tions fall to the country press that deserve any thing better than the hopeless obscurity of the waste basket. The following line*, however, were coined in the mint of the Moses, and we ac cord them the homage of oar editorial pen. They are from the pen of a yonng lady who lives in an atmosphere of poetry and sentiment, which, it is easy to sec, she has freely inhaled ’’—i'P. Is. From the Independent. The Old Cost of Gray- Moultrie, Ga., Oct. 22nd, 1872. Editors Union i\ Recorder:—In your issue of the 16th inst., we see a letter from Colquitt without name or date, written by an old subsersber of yours. It vve are to take his word for it, and we have no reason to doubt him; for although he signed no name, yet we know him, or at least believe we do, we are certain of one thing, toe knnic as well who it is as we know any thing we don't know, but our business is not with him in particular, although he seems to be a little “sore-headed” towards “Old Settler,” whom he desig nates “Old Trout,” and says he will inform him (old settler) “that he has written concerning matters that he knew but little about.” Now proba bly this may be so but we will inform our old friend, who by the way is an old settler too, that we think not. We may not have been so well posted as we could wish, for we don’t know everything, still we think we wrote the truth, mostly at least, as much so as the “common run” of “newspaper occasiona's” are apt to do. We will finish out the statement of our election which our friend incog, failed" to do. He told you of our vote for Governor, at which we all feel proud, more than three and a half for Smith, to Walker one, but he did not tell you (what you would have known long since from “Old Settler” if some one had not thought proper to “filch” his pack ages from the mails or otherwise cause them to be mislaid, (that we had two SSarriage aud Divorce. The alarming facility with which divorces a vinculo matrimonii can be obtained in nearly all the States of the American Union, and re-marriage of the divorced parties is * allowed, is beginning to attract the attention of publicists and moralists. It is begin ning to be well considered that every thing that weakens the force and per manency of the marriage vow weak ens, pari passu, the public morals. It is amazing to consider how the teachings of history are disregarded in this era of so-called enlightenment. Moderns—especially Americans—flat ter themselves that they know much of the history of ancient Greece and Rome. Why not profit by the knowl edge ? In this respect, as well as in others, we are rushing forward in the fata! footsteps of those renowned re publics. In them divorces were sel dom granted, at first, and private mor als were comparatively pure. At a later period, divorces became easy of procurement, and corruption of morals public and private was a con comitant. No matter which was the cause, and which the effect. Each lent a helping hand to the other. We are on the same swift down-grade. See the last number (October) of the Southern Magazine, published in Balti more for an article on this subject. W. G. M. Chauvinisms of the Preach. In the “Atlantic Monthly" for Octo ber appears a most readible article on French character, and particularly on that peculiar characteristic which it denominates Chauvinisme. This word is not found in the older or smaller dictionaries of tho French language. It is really a slang word. But it comes good democrats in the field running lor j nse to express without circumlo- Representative and no Republican at i culion that peculiar national vanitv all, and that consequently our citizens ] “which differs from the vanity of other [•copies, not so much in kind as in depth aud extent." Since the downfall knew that they would be represented BY BI.ONPIXE. It lies there alone ; it is rn.ty and faded, With r. patch on the elbow, a hole in the side,* But we think of the brave boy who wore it and ever Lock on it with pleasure and touch it with pride. A history clings to it; over and over, XV* see a proud ycuth hurried off to tho fray. With his form like the oak, and his eye like tbe eagle’s, How gallant he rode in the ranks of "the Gray!” It is rough, it is worn, it is tattered in places, But I love it tho more for tho story it bears, A story of courage in struggle with sorrows— And a heart that bore bravely its burden of cares. It is ragged and rusty, but ah ! it was shining, In tbe silkiest sheen when he wore it away, And his smile was as bright as the glad summer morning When he sprang to his place in the ranks of “the Gray.” There's a rip in the sleeve, and the collar is tar nishid, The buttons all gona with their glitter and gold, ’Tis a thing of the past and we reverently lay it Away with the treasures and relics of old. As the gifts of a love, solemn, sweet and unspo ken Are rheerished as leavee from a long vanished day, We will keep the old jacket for sake of the loved one. Who rode in the van in the ranks of "the Gray. ' Shot through with a bullet—right here in the shoulder, And down there the pocket is splintered and •oiled, Ah more—see the lining is stained and discolored! Yes— blood-drops the texture have stiffened and spoiled. It came wbrn he rode at the head of tho column, Charging down in the battle one deadliest day When squadrons of foemen were broken asunder. And Victory rode with the ranks of‘the Gray.” Its memory is sweetness and Borrow commingled, To me it is precious—more precious than gold, In the rents and the shot holes a volume is writ- ton, In the stains on the lining is agony told. That was ten years ago, when iu life’s sunny morning, He rode with his comrades down into the fray. And the old coat he wore and the good sword he wielded, Weie ail that came back from the ranks of “the . Gray.” And it lies there alone; I will reverence it over. The patch in the elbow, the hole in the side. For a gallauter heart never breathed than the lov ed one Who wore it in honor and soldierly pride. Let me brush off tbe dust from its tatters and tarnish, Let me fold it cp closely and lay it away, It is ail that is left of the loved and the lest one Who fought for the Bight in the ranks of “the Gray.” Some one having asked Mrs. Stan ton if she thought girls could stand the hard study of a college course, got this reply : ‘ I would like to see you take thirteen hundred voung men and lace them up, and hang ten to twenty pounds’ weight of clothes on their waists, perch them up on three-inch heels, cover their heads with ripples, chignons, rats and mice, and stick ten thousand hair-pins into their scalps ; if they can stand all this, they will stand a little Latin and Greek.”— Whereupon Every Saturday remarks that “When one wants to haves par ticularly neat thing said about women, the most judicious way is to get a wo man to say it.” The Grant organs raised a howl be cause a majority of the popular vote in North Carolina, on their side, elected only three of eight Congressmen. But in Indiana, a majority of the popular voteelects only three (possibly four) ol thirteen Congressmen, and all the Grant organs call it a glorious victory the next Legislature by a good man, no matter which was elected, but nevertheless this did not keep tbe majority of the citizens from exercis ing the “privilege of freemen,” and casting a vote for one or the other. The candidates were Henry Gay, and John Tucker both good and true men, sound in Domocratic principles, as we veriiy believe. Tucker was elec ted and will no doubt do all he can for the benefit of his county and his na tive State at large. And Gay would have done the same if he bad been elected. Colquitt will not in our opinion give half the vote for Greeley iu the Pres idential election, that Smith received, for more than half the Democrats are for O’Connor and Adams. Grant will get about the same vote that Walker received i.e. fifty votes, for that is the strength of the Radical party in the county and they are all “Grantites” the last one of them, and like Horace Greeley about as well as “a dog loves hickory,” which in our opinion is not very well although we may be mistak en. (?) Our candidate for Representative from this the Second Congressional District, Gen. G. J. Wright will speak at Moultrie, on the 26th instant; he is an able, eloquent man and a suitable person for the times. We think the Democrats very lucky in their selec tion of Gen. Wright; we believe he can carry the District against Whiteley the Radical candidate by a large ma jority. Although the Radicals have long held sway in parts of our District we believe their power is broken and their force demoralized, not for the time being only but for eternity, (a long time is'nt it ?) Now this is our opinion but we may be mistaken, (?'?) We are proud that our friend and self agree on some points, and that we do not entirely differ on others; he says: “I wish we could do as well for President as we did for Governor.” So do we, but if we were to elect Gree ley, would we have such a man for President as we have elected for Gov ernor. We think we know we would not but still we may be mistaken. ('? ? ?) And again our sentiments are ex pressed by our friend concerning the Capital. We do sincerely hope that our Legislature elect, when assembled will make effort, yea, strenuous effort to bring the State capital back to Mil- ledgeville, then we think we could or.ee more have good and wholesome laws enacted. Or so it seems to us and we think wc. are not mistaken in this. The weather still dry but pleasantly cool; we have not had a rain here to lay the dust in about six weeks, and the streams are drying up; the Oc- locknee river has just about ceased to run, and fish, vast quantities of fish have our fi3h-loring citizens tak en from their native element during this fall. We have heard it said, or seen it stated some where that “a fish diet was a great strengtbener of the brain,” or something to that effect; if so Colquitt or the citizens at least may boast of having theirs well braced. We had a fine little frost on the morning of the 15th inst., which nipped potato vines, “scorched” cotton leaves and make all tender vegetation have a brown appearance; we do not know whether the appearance called brown and the B. G. Brown are in any way related, if so a great influence is being exerted in our section mysteriously for him. We have at the present a fine sing ing school, going on in Moultrie, and another a short distance north of the town, and one but a few miles south; from all appearance, the people are be coming very much interested in vocal music, and at no distant day we will be prepared to make all this “pine wood” country resound with delight ful strains of music. Or at least this is our opinion but we may be mistaken for everything is not known by An “Old Settler.” of France in 1870-1 from her proud estate of being the foremost military power on earth to that of a second power, no abatement of this puerile vanity is perceivable. It has become perhaps a little more sjnte/ul when the military grandeur of France is ques tioned, but in other respects it is the same superlative incredulity in regard to the possibility of rivalry from any] earthly quarter which could beset up i with French authors, orators, artists. | statesmen, soldiers, &c., &c. What a happy organization amid misfortunes ! The Atlantic Monthly is published by Osgood & Co., Boston, at $4 per annum. W. G. M. The wood would fall before being seen, and what made the mystery still more mysterious, the room into which the wood was falling had all its doors and windows closed. This was in the front room. Soon after dark they stopped falling and was succeeded by brickbats which fell at short intervals throughout the night in every room in the house. Mr. Surrency, his wife, two grown daugh ters, Mr. Roberts a clerk, and a Bap tist minister by the name of Blitch were present, and with the exception of the minister who got upon his horse and left, they all remained awake the whole night. Notwithstanding the windows and doors were tightly closed and no opening left in any por tion of the house, these brickbats con tinued to fall, but although sometimes just missing not one struck any per son. Bottles and Glass take a Hand. Soon after the bricks commenced falling, bottles, vases, and glassware generally commenced jumping from their usual places, failing and break ing. Mr. Surrency seeing the destruc tion going on directed a negro man to take four bottles containing kerosene oil out of the house and place them in yard. No sooner had ha set them down when one flew back, fell in the middle of the room, scattering the oil in every direction. The w hole family saw this. It seemed to come down from the ceiling overhead, and indeed everything else failing did so perpen dicular—that is to say carne straight down from above. These strango antics continued with scarcely one minutes’interruption un til daylight Saturday morning, when they ceased, leaving the house nearly bankrupt in crockery and glassware the room. Later in the day another ear of corn fell in another room, strik ing near Mrs. Burns, a northern lady, who at the time had an infant in her arms. Soon after this whilst Mr. D. M. MeGaullev, Allen Walls, Robert H Presstall, C. C. Eason, John M. Walls, J. W. Roberts and Darnel Carter of that neighborhood, and Campbel', Lindenstruth and Mason, were staud- ing in the front room, a chamber glass was smashed into fifty pieces in the centre of tho room. They were at the time intently watching everything visible in the room, but cone saw this until after the vessel was broken. The Excitement—Extra Train. So rapidly had the news spread, and so great was the excitement, tbe Ma con and Brunswick Railroad dispatch ed an extra train on Sunday. It ar rived at Surrency about three o’clock in the afternoon, with seventy-five people on board. But the ghosts, spirits, or whatever else they might be called, did not choose to give them any manifesta tions, and the train left in about an hour, taking most of them back. A few remained, however, determined to see into the matter. There were at least three or four hundred persons on the grounds during Sunday, and up to the time our reporter left fully five hundred had visited the place. Other signs and (Vonders. While all these things were going on in the house, the kitchen depart ment was by no means idle. Butch er knives, pots, skillets and crockery ware were falling around loose to the terror and horror of the cook. Another mysterious thing occurred on the first or second day. Little piles of sagar totally unlike aDythiDg SUMMONS’ and a largo quantity of brickbats and *! , U1 “ u 8 nr 1,01 hilWs nfvvnnd nrnnriJ fh.-> flnr.r j of the kind then nsrd by the family From (he Macon Enterprise. She Appling County SSystery. Ghost*, Hobgoblins and Unseen Spirit* to tho Front.— Crockery, Tottery, Glassware aud Butcher Knives Ears of Corn, Smoothing Irons and Hooks Jumping Around the Floor.—The Old Family Clock and Red- Hot Brickbat*.—Five hundred People on the Ground.—Foil and Complete Particulars. On Saturday afternoon it will be re membered we published a brief para graph stating that strange and super natural manifestations had taken place at a house at No. 6, Macon and Brunswick Railroad. Passengers coming up on the train were greatly excited about it and rep resented that great excitement pre vailed in that immediate neighborhood as indeed as far distant as the reports had reached. Determined to find out the exact facts in regard to the matter, we detailed a special reporter to the scene of operations and will now lay before our readers the Full Particulars as detailed to us by him. Taking the Brunswick train Satur day night, iu company with Mr. Ma son and Mr. Campbell of Macon, who were also going down for the same purpose, our reporter Mr. Peter Lin- denstruth, arrived at the point of des tination a little after 4 o’clock, Sunday morning. No. 6—Or Surrency. Getting off the train they found no one in the little place as yet up, but going to the house of Mr. A. P. Sur rency, they were admitted to a vacant room the fire in which had nearly died out. We may as well remark here that the town, or Depot, of Surrency con sists only of a station-house, one or two places of business and the resi dence of the gentleman from which it takes its name. It is situated in Ap pling county, 126 miles from Macon and about 60 from Brunswick. Mr. Surrency is a gentleman well-to-do in the world and is universally regarded as one of the most honorable citizens of the county, and it would seem that his house would be the iast one ghosts would select in which to play mis chief. The First Brick. Mr. Lindenstruth finding the fire nearly out went to the wood pile to get something to make it up. While returning he heard a heavy thud upon the floor of another room, aa if some thing heavy had fallen. Thinking some member of the family had arisen, he paid no more attention to it. But subsequent events convinced him that that was the first brick thrown by the ghosts or whatever agency is at work on the premises, as no member of the family had as yet got up. What Mr. Surrency Says: Soon after daylight Mr. Surrency came into the room, aud after giving his guests a hearty welcome, proceed ed to tell from the beginning what had taken place up’to that time. On Friday evening, a short while before dark, the family were greatly- alarmed by sticks of wood flying into the house and falling about the floor from directions they could tell noth ing about, aud without any human agency tuey could see or find out. billets ofwood around the floor. That afternoon, or on Saturday, 10th, they commenced again pretty much in the same manner and doing about what had taken place the night previously. The family, which had now been join ed by many neighbors, watched every nook and corner of the house, to de tect, and if possible to unravel the mystery. But so quickly would pitch ers, tumblers, books and other articles jump from their positions and dash to the floor the eye could not follow, and broken fragments were the first things seen, except in one instance, and that was a pau of water and some books; they were seen to start. Chairs, shoes and clothing, were tumbled about the house, as if the hand of a veritable witch or unseen devil was present. But the greatest myste ry and most inexplicable incident of this day was the escape of a lot of or dinary clothes hooks from a locked bu reau drawer. They also fell on the floor, the drawer remaining tightly closed, as usual. Nothing else of special note occurred to-day. All got quiet at 8J o’clock Saturday night. The Operations of Sunday. As stated above our special reporter arrived before daybreak and heard the story of Mr. Surrency as above related. So soon as he got through with it he stepped up to the Old Family Clock, and was about relating how rapidly the hands had traveled around the dial when the ghosts were about, on the previous day. All eyes were turned to it and much to their astonishment the hands commenced running around at the rate of about five hours a min ute. It was a 30 hour weight clock, and after seeing it run at this rate for a short while, our reporter who is a watchmaker by profession employed at the store of Mr. J. H. Otto on Fourth street, determined to at least solve this mystery as it was directly in his line. He stopped the clock, carefully examined the machinery and found it not ooly in perfect order but nothing whatever unusual inside or out. He could not for the life of him see the slightest thing wrong about it. The Magnet Theory. It has been suggested that there may be a large magnet about or under the house, but magnets do not attract wooden substances and besides, while the clock was running at its rapid rate Mr. L. had his watch in his pocket, which kept on in its usual way and was not in the least affected. He set the clock right, when it continued to keep correct time up to the time ho left. A red hot. Brickbat. Nothing else unusual occurred until 17 minutes before 12 o’clock, when the performances re-opened by a pair of scissors jumping from the tab ! e to the floor. At that time Mr. Linden struth was sitting in a chair when,with out the slightest premonition a large brickbat fell with great force right be side him breaking in two. He imme diately picked up a piece ol it and handed it to Mason and both found it hot. Then taking up the other piece he tried two or three times to break it by throwing it on the floor, but failed. He then laid this second half on the sill of a window in the room intending to bring it home. Resuming his seat near the front stoop, he was again startled by the piece he had placed on the window falling at his feet and once more breaking into two pieces. He did not pick it up again. At 12 o’clock, a smoothing iron jump ed from the fireplace aboutsix feet into the room. It was replaced and again jumped out. He noticed that the iron was also hot but this may have been heated at the fire. A Shower of Corn. At about this time dinner was an nounced, when the family and many guests walked out to the table. Soou after being seated an ear of corn, ap parently from the ceiling overhead, fell between Mr. James Campbell, of Macon, and Mrs. Surrency; striking the floor with great force it broke in two, scattering tbe grains all around were found upon the floors of the resi j dence. In one of these a few pins and a steel pen were found. There were various other incidents of this totally incomprehensible mystery related to and seea by our reporter, but enough have already been given. What is It ? No one who has as yet visited the place can give any rational theory as to the agency which produces these strange sights. Mr. Surrency is a plain, old fashioned Georgia gentle man and is greatly annoyed and dis gusted with the whole proceedings. He peremptorily refused auy compen sation from any one of the two or three hundred persons who have eaten at his table. If they are produced by magnets, they must be of a different kind from any ever known. We must leave the question to some one else for solution. At the time our Macon party left people wero coming in from all direc tions, 3nd we presume the excitement continued to-day unabated. At Evening Time. REGULATOR sr Tliis unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to con tain a single parlielo of .Mercury, or any injurious mineral substance, but is VEGETABLE. For FORTY YEARS it has proved its great value in all diseases ot the Liver, Bowels and Kidneys. Thousands of the rood aud great in ail parts of the country vouch for its wonderfal and peculi.r power in purifying the Blood, Jtiinulsting the to-pid Liver and Bowels, and impairing new Life and Vigor to the whole system. SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR is acknowledged to have no equal as a LXV233. aeZSICISTT. It enntnina four elements, never united in the same hnppy proportion in any ether preparation, viz: a j'entio Cathartic, a wonderful Tonic, an unex ceptionabie Alterative mfd a certain Corrective of all impurities of the body. Such a »iirnal sacee^s hae at tended it 1 use, that it i.** new regarded as the Great 'Unfailing Specific for Liver Complaint n:,d the painful offspring thereof, it: DYSPEPSI A CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Bilious attacks, SICK HEVD.YOHK Colic. Depres sion of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH, Heart Buru, Sic. Regulate the Liver an 1 prevent csiLi.3 atjd rsv-aa. Simmons’ Stiver aegnlator Is manufactured only by 3. H. ZEIMY A CO., MACON, GA., and PHILADELPHIA. Price SI 00 per packa ; > ; sent by mail, postage paid $1 25. Piepa-ed ready for ti«a in bottles, £1 59. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. rTT.nw.ise of ail Counterfeits and Imitations. Sept 17, 1872. 8 Sm c. H WRIGHT «L SOM OFFER FOR SALE AT XjOW HATEJS, 5.000 yards Heavy Sagging. 5 Toes of Arrow Ties. 15.000 lbs. of Floor, all grades. 20.000 lbs. Sacon Sides. 1.000 lbs. Leaf Lard. SUGAR AND COFFEE. One Car Load Liverpool Salt to arrive. A LARGE LOT OF HOLLOW WAKE. flunt 4 Robinson Axes. SEED RYE AND BARLEY. Cholco Goshen Batter in ft 2-2 packages. lbs. 1FL T. A. Caraker, Agent. HAS REMOVED HIS Store The old nest swings on the leafless tree, The rad son gets in the west; I think that like two brown birds ar. we, Left last in the empty nest. All the young ones are afar and away, Each sings with his chosen mate ; Twilight is closings onr lightsome day, Though the crimson dash lasts late. ’Tis a trembling step comes down tbe path Yon coaid erst so lighty tread ; Changed is onr thought of the grave old earth That is keeping in trust onr dead. It i Soft cheeks, that are sunken now, I love the gray in yonr faded hair, The lines on yonr thoughtful brow. The past grows a book to nnderetand, The fntnre has gifts to bring. As I sit by tho fire and hold yonr hand, And finger the worn gold ring. My own true wife ! who is dearer now For all that the years resign— For the timid love, for the spoken vow, For the home that was yonre and mine : For hopes we shared, and for tears we shed, For comfort in days o'er cast; For the trust that we held to meet our dead When the shades of life are past. Griefs that are ever left ns a gift, They lit us a lamp of light: Soon shall God’s sunshine clear through the lift, Aud there shall be no more night. Close to my side, dear wife that I love, With your thin hand fast in mine ; So will we wait for the light above, Till the morning star shall shine. Industrious Voting.—One party of twenty-five men, living in the eighth ward of New York, drove around the city of Philadelphia in an omnibus drawn by four horses, and voted at forty-five different polls, and wound up the day’s sport by putting in a sec ond ballot at the poll where they be gan operations. The opinion which Forney’s Press, as a Grant organ, entertains of the New York Times as a Grant organ, is indi cated in the following paragraph from the former : The New York Times in the cam paign now happily almost over, has earned for itself a reputation for infa my only surpassed by that of tho men in Pennsylvania whom, in its slavish subserveucy, it has lauded to the skies. It is the Dalgetty of the American press, and, as such, its paid-for slanders can be passed by, but its brutality, its ignorance aud lack of patriotism, honor and decency, constitute it a mean crit ic of even the most ordinary Americans. Grocery and ProTbion to his new Brick Br.ilding Opposita tho Hotel, Where he w;il be pleased to see hi* old friends and customoi*. and the pubho generally, and where with renewed exertions and sup-rior advantage*, he will offer greater inducement* to purchasers. ^IIc ha* a full assortment of goods of all kinds in his line, AT LOW 73.ZOSS, He, however, ppvci* eperialHttention to nnoh lor-ding nrtices a* CORN, BACON. FLOUR, 8UGAR,COF FEE, DOMESTICS, SHOES, See. Also Having and Tie*, to which he invites the attention of Planters. T. A. CAB.AK23B, Agent. Millodgeville, Ga., Oct. let, 1872, 10 tf 1,000 lbs. CaiiFassed Hams, 3 73.UP A SID SCOLA33Z1S. Soaps and Caudles, All as good as the best and a* cheap as the oheap- c. H. WRIGHT & SON. Milledjfeville, Sept 17, 187:2. 8 tf Just Returned from Hew fork. CAL 1 AXD PURCHASE OR INSPECT Finest Stock of Watches, Jewelry, Watch Chains, Diamonds, Solid Sliver Ware. Clocks, Grins, Fistols, or any other Good* usually kept in First-Class Jewelry Stores, and yon will find G. T. WIEDEYMAff Always ready and willing to show, and wait on his friends and customer* as politely as ever, at his old stand oppteite tho Hotel. Millodgeville, October 1st. 1872. N. B.—All work, particularly fine Watohes, care- fully repaired. 10 tt or Job Work neatly executed at this office. Bargains! Bargains!! Bargains!!! AT THE ISACON STORE! ITaving just returned from the New York Markets, we have just received a good and well selected stock, consisting of Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Great Inducements is offered in Hats, Boots Which wo are now offering at New York prices. Dress Goods, Notions, Bteachings, Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, It will pay to call and exam!ne]before baying I. HE UMAX & and in fact everything belonging to the Dry Goods business. Look for the Sign MACON STORE. Milledgevillo, Sept 24, 1872. CO. 7 3m Til PLACE TO BUY! SEYMOUR, TIYSLEY & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS, • MAOON, OQOHQIA. W E RECEIVE NEW GOODS DAILY. WE BUY FROM FIRST CLASS HANDS. Ca*h lor our Good*. We are satisfied with small profits, want more business aud can’t afford to lo*e any we have already, WE PAY We guarantee goods as represented. We Try onr prices—Try onr Goods. M£ AW BUSUCISS. Remember when you Come to Macon don’t fail Cali on Mscon. Sept 19, 1872. SEYMOUR, TINSLEY & CO. 7 3m Eich Fall Dry Goods! JAMES A. GRAY & CO., /DS & 106 ‘Broad Sheet, Augusta, Ga. BEG to inform their friends and the public, that they are now receiving ONE OE THE LARGEST AND MOST ELEGANT STOCK OF STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS, which jthey have ever had the pleasure of exhibiting iu Georgia. With an Experience of twenty-eight years catering for the t<idte of Geor gians, and with ample menus to mnk.i ail our purchases for cash—and splondid room and light .to show our Stock, (having four floors forty onn feet by <«ne hundred and twonty-live) we leel perfectly satiatiod in saying to our friends, that we will ^umontee all *, r ood* leaving our house to be of tbe best quaiity at the pree: and. further, that we wtii guarantee our prices as Cheap a? any firs*.-class house ia New York. We respectfully invite an examination of our GOODS AND PRICES. _ JAMES A. GUAY & CO., IngiMla, Ga. P. S.—Mr. Ringland will take pleasure in sending Sample® and filling Orders for his friends in Baldwin County. Sept. ii4,1872. 9 2m. JA3II5S G. BAILIE & BROTHER, 205 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga., Rpsnectfully ask yonr attention to a full line of the following goods, which will be sold as low as in any other house : CARPET DR PART.VI ENT. CURTAIN DEPARTMENT.OROCKK V DEPARTMENT EXTR1 SPECIAL NOTICE. BEWARE OF COONTERFM SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP has been counterfeited, and the counterfeiter brought to grief. SMITH’S TOXVXC STRUT. The genuine article most have Dr. Joh. Bull’s private stamp on each bottle. Dr John Buil only has the right to manufacture and sell the original John J. Smith’s Tonic Syrup, of Louisville, Ky. Examine well the label on each bottle. If my private stamp i* not on each bottle, do not purchase, or you will be deceived. See my column advertisement, and my ahow card. I will prosecute any one infringing on my right. Tho genuine Smith Tonic Syrnp can only be prepared by myself. The public's servant, Dr. JOHN BULL. Louidville, May 28, 1872. 44 3m English Velvet Carpe's, Curtain Materials, English Brussels Carpets, Cornices and Bands, Three I’ly and Ingrain Carpets, Lace Curtains, Venetian Carpets, vluslin Curtains, Cheap Carpets, Window Shades, all size*, Floor Oilcloths, Hair Cloths, all widths, Table Oil Clotns, Wall Papers Stair Carpets and Rods, and Borders, Mattings, Druggets and Door Mats. Beautiful Chromo.. Carpels, Oil Cloths and Cu/tains made and laid at short notice. Sept. 24.1872. 9 6m. Choice Family Groceries, received weekly, Dufljeld Hams, English Crackers, Dyspeptic*’ Food. Basket* of all kinds, Wood Ware, Brooms and Brushes, Plantation Supplies' JLMMItOP <fc CO., Dry Goods, Notions, Bools, Shoes, Hals and Carpet^ 139 nml 141 Congre** Street, ) nnd IS nhitnker Street, J SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. CAHPBTS. ROLLS English Tapistry Brussels. .US Rolls Three Ply. 70 Rolls Ingtaius, from 75 cte up. 9S Rolls English Body Brussels. Woven Crumb Cloths, Seamless. Rolls English and American Oil Cloths. The Largest and Best Selected Stock of IssmlsMmg im life© 8©mt&. W Reps, Lact-3, Cornices, Damasks, Cretonnes, Ac. All the above at New York Prices, and Goods made nr N. B. Scud widths and length* of Windows, and we ll Cloth*. in the beet New York Style*, guarantee a fit: also plans for Carpets and Oil [Oot 16,1872. 13 41