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Newspaper Page TextVflftVME XLIH»] M I L L EDGE VI LLE, GEORGIA, MARCO 26, 1873. NUMBER 39$ T U E & iW c o r b t r l\ n i o n 13 PUBLISHED WEEKLY j\ milledge\ ille, ga., BOUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE, $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year, S. iV. BOUGIITON, Editor. UP yj;DEUAI. UNION" and the “SOUTH KE COiiDEK ” were consolidated August 1st, tl '‘ ,A e fni.-u being iu its Kc-rty.ThirdTolume and ! h e Recorder in if. Fifty-Third Volume. Resolutions by Societies,Obit x - ceding sii lines, Nominations for office,Com ■ editorial notices for individual benefit AO YEliTlSIXG. ViIl NT ._One Hollar per square of ten lines for lKi ' ,, ,n and seventy-live centsfjr each sabse first insertion, a* onent continuance. jribntes of respect, ssries exi B nnications or charged as transient ad\ ertieing- LEGAL ADVERTISING. ff, s gales, per levy of ten lines, or less,....|2 50 s „ Mortgage li fa sales, per square 3 00 Citations for Letters of Administration 3 00 1/1 44 Guardiauship, 3 00 * stinn fur dismitftiiou from A dmi mat ration, 3 00 Application r .. .. Guardianship, 3 00 t. “ leave to sell Land, 5 00 .i for Homesteads, 175 Notice to Debtors amt Creditors, 3 00 s ,-s otLaud, Jcc., per square 6 00 perishable property, 10 days, per square,.. 150 i'.ir»vNotices,-it, days, 3 00 it Mm tguge, per sq-, each time, 160 for lloiiic-oleado, (two weeks,).... 1 75 Foreclosure 1 Applications LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land. Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the find Tuesday iutlie month, between the hours of 16 lc the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court u onse m the County in which the property is sitaated. 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 E ireD in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. Notices to the 'debtors and creditors of an estate must also bo published 40 days. Notice tiiat application wiil be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Laud, &c., must be publish ed lor two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, Ac, must be published 30 days—for dismission from Administration, monthly three months—for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rales for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish ed monthly for four months—for establishing lost pa pers tor the full space of three months—for compell ing titles from Executors or Administrators, wiicre bond lias been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unlessotlierwise ordered Book and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AXD NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. * Agents for Federal Union in New York City GEO. P. ROWELL & CO., No. 40 Park Row. S. M. PETTINGILL &. CO., 37 Park Row. rr-M essks. Griffin & Hoffman, Newspaper Advertising Agents. No. 4 South St., ISaltimore, Md., are duly authorized to contract for advertisements at our liiu-at rates. Advertisers in that City are request ed to leave their favors with this bouse.” lied ( lover Seed and Orchard Grass, For sale by 33. 3.. KSRTY, Agent best WHITE ROCK POTASH and BLUE STONE, Copperas, &c. For sale by B. a. KSaSir, Agent. INHALING SYSTEM. DR. JONES is nsvr practicing at thr Kimball Honac, Atlanta, Ga.. where he will remain nntil April 15th. T iIIE above cut represents DR. JONES’ new meth- od of curing diseases of the Lungs and Throat, Asthma, UroBohstis, Traeheti*, Layrirgetis, Consump tion, Enlarged Tonsils, Pleuritic, breaking up Conges tion of the Lung's and Liver, and effecting cures of the Respiratory Organs with certainty and ease, that cannot bo reached by any other method. Ilia remedies are reduced to warm aprav—are speci fic in their nature; .they reach the whole diseased sur face at every breath; they are carried directly into the blood without having to go through the pYocoss of di gestion; only certain prepared remedies can be used by this system. A few so called family doctors are experimenting with the Iubaler and their Caustics, Iodines and other relics of barbarism peculiar to that practice—the re sult is, they ar* destroying the reputation of the only system that will cure Throat Diseases. Only certain mild remedies can be tuken into the Lungs and they are not kept by druggists nor known to the general profession. DR. J. A. JONES Letters oa Prevalent Diseases that Affect the American Nation. SYMPTOMS of CHRONIC CATARRH. BY. DR. J. A. JONES. lit. Of the head—heavy, dull, aching over the eyes, sometimrs extending back through different part, of the head, and causing a weight or heat, of coldness ob top of the head, snapping and cracking noise in the ears, dullness of hearing—olten the secretion collects in middle ear, closing up the eustachinn tubes, produc ing deafness—the lining membrane being the same from the head through the wholo alimentary canal, and down into the lungs, it has but to extend itself to affect the whole system. It becomes virulent in the nose sometimes, causing a tenderness, or producing offensive breath, discharges of yellowish matter and scabs the shape of the nostrils, or if the partition bone is only affected, then the Ischars are fist, and when they discharge, which is generally alter exertion, the nose is open, the patient breathes more easily and the head feels more clear—the heaviness over the eyes and across the forehead is seldom entirely gone, but it is aggravated by every fresh cold. The offensive smell for which the nnfortuuato chews many kinds of drugs to neutralize or destroy, and thereby be enabled to go into society without boiug a positive nuisance, which persons of both sexes are, on account of this barbarous and offensive disease called OZOENA, which has now assumed a Tertiary form of cancer, destroying every thing but the outside skin, letting the nose sink in, ex tending to the throat, destroying the voice, etc., when ths disease is called Laryngitis, Trachetis, Bronchitis, etc. SIMMONS' REGULATOR For over FORTY YEARS this PURELY VEGETABLE LIVER MEDICINE lias proved to be the GREAT UNFAILING SPECIFIC for LIVER COMPLAINT and it. painful offspring, DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Bilious attacks, SICK HEADACHE. Colic, Depression of Spirits, SOCK STOMACH, Heartburn, CHILLS AND FEVER, See., Sec. After year, of careful experiments, to meet a great and urgent den and, we now produce from our origi nal Genuine Ponder. THE PREPARED a Liquid form of SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULA TOR, containing all its wonderful and valuable pro perties, and offer it in CNE DOLLAR BOTTLES. The Powders (piice as before.) SLOOper package Sent by mail, j .04 C7C ACTION! Buy no Powders or PREPARED SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR unless in our engraved wrapper, with Trade mark, Stamp and Signature un broken. None other is genuine. TIRED MOTHERS*. A little elbow leans npon your knee. Your tired knee that haB so much to bear; A child’s dear eyes are looking lovingly From underneath a thatch of tangled iia Pei haps you do not heed the velvet touch Of warm, moist fingers, folding yours so tight; You do not prize this blessing overmuch. You are almost too tired to pray to-night. But it is blessedness! A year ago I did not see it as I do to-day; We are so dull and thankless—and too slow To eatcb the sunshine till it slips away. And now it seems surpassing strange to me. That, while I wore the badge of mollierliood, I did Bot hiss more oft ami tenderly The little oLild that brought me only gx>d. And if, some night when you sit down to rest, You miss this elbow from your t red knee— Tbi« restless, cur ing hend from off your breast. This lisping tonrue that chatters constantly; Iff'omyonr own the dimpled hands had slipped, And ne’er would nestle in your palm again; It the white feet into their grave had tripped, I could not blame you for your hearUche then! J. H. ZEILIN Sk CO., MACON, GA., aud PHILADELPHIA. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Sept 17, 1872. 8 6m W. H. HALL. MEDICAL D OCTORS HALL St HARRIS have associated themselves for the Practice of Medicine. Officc the one formerly occupied by Judge I. L. Harris as a Law Office. rp- Calls may bo left at their office day or night. Hiilodgevillo, Au* 20, 1872. 4 3m Laiidreth's Warranted Garden Seeds B R For sale by. HEK.T1T, A< cnt. Lamps, Chimneys, aud all fixturt Burners, Wicks For sale by B. XL. XX32B.T7, Agent- A Choice Lot of Cigars Just received at Tlie Lire Orim Store, 3. K. HEB.'rsr, Agent. The l.ire Orug nm! Roali Store is the place to buy Drugs, j&Ecdicinss, Paints. Oils, Varnishes, School and XHEisccllaneous Books, Papers, Envelopes, Pens, Inks, 6ic., Ac. Milledgeville, Ga., Nov. 2Gth, 1872. 18 tf. City Auctioneer. M U. JOSEPH STALKY is the Licensed CITY AUCTIONEER, and all persons having any thing to he sold at Auction will apply to him. Mi, ledge vile, Feb 11, 1873. 29 3m School History, BY ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS. AGENTS W ANTED TERMS LIBERAL. Apply to Jan 8. 1873. E. J. 17 HAI.E & SON, Murray Street, N. Y. 24 3in NOTICE. 4 MEETING of the Central Georgia District Ag- -7V rieultural and Mechanics Fair Company of the county of Baldwin will be held at the Court House, on Tuesday the first day of April 1873, at 12 o’clock M , f t the purpose of a dual settlement, and dissolution ot said Company. On or before that day all unpaid 6tock niu-t be paid over to the Treasurer, Mr. E. J. White, or suit will be the result, at next Court. A. 1. BUTTS, President. L. Carrington, Secretary. N. B.—Parties having claims against said Company will render the same to the Treasurer in accordance with law. Milledgeville, Ga., March 11.1873. 33 3t. Only $25 Tbw is a SHUTTLE 1* LED. and makes the both hides. It in a ntandard First-Class Machine, and the only k>w priced “Lock Stitch’' Machine in the United ui? • * c ,U{lCl due received *the Diploma at the x , l )'. r °. ^ ie tw ° t’arolmas,’' in the city of Charlotte, waimwIE 1 aud the above machine is walkamed for five years. A Machine for Nothing! Any person making up a club for 5 Machines will ArS o 1 le s ' I * :i " u< ' 89 commission. I l ,V- • ,ED — Sup i-rior inducements given. 1 eral deuunions made to Ministers of the Gospel. e ? , 8,anl P for circulars and samples of sewing. Address Rev. C. H. BERN1IE1M, Geu’l- Agent, Loncord N. C. * Dec. 3, 1872 19 ly SYMPTOMS OF THE THROAT. A collection of tenacious slimy secretion falling down into the throat and thrown out—tickling, rasp ing. hoarseness and scraping to keep open the wiud pipe; d fficult breathing, oppression und soreness un der the breast bone; tenderness in the left side; rheu matic pains between the shoulders; stiff neck on taking cold; palpitation of the heart; torpid liver; sometimes yeliow complexion; general dull aud heavy feeling; extreme shortness of breath; soreness of stom ach pit; bloated sensation; belching of wiud; yawning, gaping,keeping mouth open to breathe; distress, sleep less nights; worse when lying down, and it tow termi nates either in Consnmption of the Lungs, or follows the mucous membrane through the whole alimentary and nrinal canal, causing Dyspepsia, Costiveuess Piles, Inflamation of the Bladder, trouble in the Urina ry Organs, (and in wemen, nearly the whole train of female diseases,) and general Consumption, emacia tion, complete prostration, etc; with all ot which, and many other symtoms, called by twenty different names, the sufferer may oxist for a while. Dr. Jones cures this dangerous and insidious disease by the jEtien System—using specific medicines known only to him self, applied to the diseased surface, iu the form of spray. 11a relieves the sufferer in a few minutes, and supplies the patient with all that is required to finish the cure at home. OZOBSTA, in Offensive Disease io the Nose. Which eats away the partition bone, destroys the sense of Bmell,produces green or yellowish scabs, the shape of the nostrils—sometimes flat, often tainted with blood and matter; causes weight and dull aching ever the eyes, headache, loss of memory, giddiness, etc. This disease is often caused by neglected colds, by suppressed skiu diseases, Scrofula, Scarlet Fever, Psoriasis, Syphilis, aud other contagions diseases, and is itself contagions. It often extends to the tln oat, producing Hoarseness, Bronchitis and CONSUMP TION. It is a Tertiary form of Cancer, DESTROY ING the NOSE and THROAT when too long neglect ed. DR. JONES is the ONLY Physician in the United States who thoroughly understands curing this dangerous and offensive disease. He destroys the offensive smell in FIVE MINUTES, and relieves the sufferoi in every way AT ONCE, and CURES the disease in a short time. For this disease Dr- Jones has special instruments with which to apply his spe cific remedies to the spot. Nasal Dorches and catarrh remedies generally drive this disease to the lungs more quickly. Letter No. 3. By DR. J« A# *J0NES, of London. The City of San Biego. SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH. Prevalent in America and Europe. 1. Of Tint Head.—Tingling, itching, with a sepge of dryneee and obstruction of tlie nose, sneezing run ning of a watery secretion, as it progresses, ths secre tion becomes mucous, entire obstruction of one or both nostrils, hawking, tickling of the throat, cough ing, etc. 2. Catarrh of the Chest prevails as an epi demic sometimes, and is called influenza: with or with- ont fever, and many of the symptoms just mentioned; there is oppression acioss the breast, rawness aud burning ot the throat, first day, afterward a copious secretion of mucous, which may become opaque or frothy, difficulty of breathing, pain in the head, and dull teelings, a sense of soreness, oxteudiug under the breast bone to the stomach pit, the fits of coughing may occasion vomiting, oppression, prostration; as the disease progresses, the sputa becomes ropy and viscid. This disease is called the Grippe by some. Catarrhal Inflammation of the eyes arises from colds, causes ob struction of the ear passages, watery eyes, fistula, lachryinalis, dimness of vision, etc. SUPPRESSED CATARRH may produce inflma- roation of the lungs, brain or eyes, or give rise to rheumatism, nervous disorders, weeping, moauing, tremors and convulsions, drowsiness, chilliness, start ing,twitching, palpatation of the heart, etc. When the frontal sinuses above the eyes, posterior aud anterior nasal passages, become clogged up, and even the an trum or cavity of the cheek bone becomes filled. or partly, it often proauoes a pressure on the nerves that supply these parts, aud paius like the most excrutia tiug neuralgia is the result. The disease follows ths mucous membrane through the eustacliian tubes to all parts of the same membrane ot the ear, causiug hyper trophy of the drunq, interferes with the functions of the landsof Wharton, which secrete the wax; a dryness “Horae Shuttle'' Sewing Machines, nly $25- follow., hardness of hearing, roaring, buzzmg, singing, i MACHINE,has the UNDERl 1 whistling, cracking, the ringing of the bells, aud simi le “LOCK STITCH,” alike on lar noises, which vary, and which are simple effects. G U A i\ 0 8. PUCE NIX GUANO. Wilcoi, Gibbs k Co's. Manipulated Guano. \cV‘ H9e colebrt-ed guanos imported and prepared by "-‘.Gibbs 1,0 Lo.. Savannah, Ga., and Cliarlei- mni ’ are ^ ur 8a * e f” r cash, or on credit on accom- 1 “ting terms, payable in cotton, by IV. J. HKAKE, Agrwt., Milledgeville, Ga; Special attention is called to the use of the Phoenix nano composted with Cotton Seed Send or apply , a “ OT ? lor circulars giving testimonials from plan- l8 «-prices, terms, Sec. Feb. 25,1873. sift. and when the cause is temoved, the effects cease: this hardness of bearing increases with each cold. Dr. Jenes has made old standiog diseae-s of every name a speciality all his life. He is well prepared, and performs all the more difficult and delicate opera tions in surgery, especially ot the eye, ear and nose. He is a graduate of the best medical colleges iu Europe and America, and his diplomas proving the same are suspended in his office. g^Letters containing one dollar will be answered. Dr. Jones’ fees vary from $40 to $2000. His terms are cash. His fees are considered very low tor the great amonnt of good he does. I have had Bronchitis and Catarrh for twenty-five years. Dr. Jones cured me. J. H. MILTON, Macon, Ga. Astonishing cure of Diabetes Uy Dr. Jones. For three years I was afflicted with Diabetes. I was given up to die by the principal Doctors of the Sontn. Dr Joaee cured me in two weeks. R.W. WHITE, I live on Houston Road, Macon. I saw Mr. White before and after Dr. J ones cured him, and see him nearly every day since; and certify to the truth of this wonderful cure by Dr. Jones. E.E. BROWN, Proprietor Brown House, Macon, Ga. How Dr. Jones cares Ozoena. My ten has had Ozoecafor years, cansing misery in the nose and hand. We tried everything we could hear of— including family Doctors—all done no good. Dr. Jones, in a few minutes relieved all his misery, and he is rapidly getting well. I live on Troupe street, Macon. WM. DICKENSON. Dr. Jones, bya skillfnl operation, straightened the eywofMr. Ira Smith, of Macon, and many others. Fob. XI, 187?. » 2m. About the Climate—San Diego as a Healthy Seaport. What is the character of the cli mate?” IIow does it affect pulmonary diseases? What is the highest and lowest rage of temperature? are among the leading questions asked. It is universally conceded than San Diego possesses a climate equaled by few places in the world and surpass ed by none. For evenness of temper ature it has no rival. The annual re port of the Signal Service Observer, Mr. J. B. Wells, stationed here for the year ending October the 31st, 1S72, shews the mean temperature of Janu ary to be 46.45 degrees above zero; March, £0.74; May, 59.12; June, 00.30, July, 63.25; and August, 65.16 th% mean temperature for the twelve months beginning November 1st, 1S71, and ending October 31st, 1872, being 55.11 degrees. The mean tem perature at 1.55 p. m. for the year was 67.23. The maximum yearly mean temperature only reached 78.25 de grees, and the minimum yearly mean temperature 45.05 degrees, making the extreme range for the year 33.20 degrees. During the entire year, at no time did the mercury descend lower than six degrees above the freezing point, while during the hotest day it only rose to 70 degrees. The atmos phere is pure, dry and invigorating. It rejoices in comparative immunity from the dense ocean fogs so prevalent on the coast f rtber north. The tropi cal rays of the summer’s sun are tem pered by the cool and refreshing sea- breezes, and the winters are mild and pleasant. For those suffering from asthma and pulmonary diseases it is the best health resort known. The increased number of invalids constant ly srtking it for that purpose and find ing in it relief, testify to that fact. Size and Population of the City—Pub lic Buildings—Business Establish ments—State of Society. "What is the size and population of your city, what businesses are repre sented and what is the state of socie ty? are questions invariably asked. • It is scarcely four years since San Diego w r as established, but during that brief period it has grown to be a city of a population of about three thou sand, and is increasing daily. It con tains many fine public buildings and private residences. The former are chiefly built of brick. It contains the finest hotel in Southern California, oc cupying an entire block; one of the handsomest court houses in the State; four church edifices, built and owned by the Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist and Presbyterian congregations; three temporary public school buildings, soon to be replaced by permanent structures upon the property owned by the Public School Department; a handsome bank building, owned and occupied by the Bank of San Diego, besides numerous other buildings of equal importance either built or under way. The assessed valuation of taxa ble property, according to the last as sessment roll, was $1,500,000. The buildings now being erected and those to be commenced within a few days represent an aggregate value of at least $100,000. The business of the city is repre sented by 2 commission houses, 20 general merchandise stores, 1 whole sale liquor store, 2 milinery stores, 7 hotels, 3 fancy goods stores, 2 saddle ry stores, 3 drygoods stores, 3 lumber yards, 2 furniture stores, 4 drug stores, 2 tinware stores, 2 book stores, 5 liv ery stables, 2 fruit stores, 1 bank, 23 saloons, 1 boot and shoe store, 1 sash, door and bedding furnisher, 2 Chinese stores, 2 jewelers stores, 4 restaurants, 2 breweries, and 1 foundry. The society of San Diego is regard ed as being decidedly select, constitu ted chiefly of the better classes of the Eastern States, bringing with them and cherishing all the refinement sur rounding the best society on the Atlan tic seaboard. This excellent state of society finds expression in the almost total absence of crime; in the liberal support given to religious institutions, and iu the elegant mansions erected and being built in all directions. I wonder so that mothers ever fret. At little children clinging to their gown; Or that the foot prints, when the days are wet, Are ever black enough to make them frown. If I could find a little muddy boot. Or cap, or jaoket, on my chamber floor; If I could kisa a rosy, restless foot, And hear its patter in my home once more; If I could mend a broken curt to-day, To morrow make a kite to reach the sky— There is no woman in God’s world could say She was more blissfully content than I. But. ah! the dainty pillow next my own Is never rumpled by a shining head; My singing birdling from its nest is flown— The little boy I used to kiss is dead ! him. A grcat.statesman—never. He looks upon the Government as a ma chine to be run in bis personal inter est. upon its patronage as something to be dispensed to bis friends and family in return for services rendered in put ting down the rebellion.” Fashion Notes. The Way the Girl of the Period Look in Her Spring Clothes. WALL DTBEET SECHKTfl. WONDERFUL CAREER OF A MILLIONAIRE FINANCIER. Thr Rerrrwi aid Ssrttwn sf lira Preai- i.ac sf the Psclir nail Steasaahip c.a Tea nilliaea Hade ia Three Year.- Will Andy Johnson Interviewed. Andy Johnson is in Nashville, and is anxious to go to the United States Senate. Of course, he watches with great interest the health of Parson Brownlow. A few days since he was I. L. Harris, interviewed by a correspondent of the C~3 A. Tt T*h_ Louisville Courier Journal. We give the portion which refers to Grant, which is as follows: It soon became manifest that we had found in his ex-Excellency a subject who was determined not to reveal his object, so at a single effort we landed him, flat-footed, on tl at broad plat form, the Union, the Constitution and the enforcement of the laws, and found him truly orthodox. He is as great a stickler for the Constitution as Alex ander H. Stephens himself, and on my intimating as much he dropped his pleasant black eye on the carpet and didn’t pick it up for several seconds. Indeed, politics are—as Mr. Johnson says—getting so confoundly mixed that a man with a record must be cave ful how he treads, taking note into what company he falls. “The sooner we get back on the Constitution,” urged Mr. Johnson, “the better for the country. Why should we not all—all the enemies of Radicalism—go to work at once and unite on a sound political basis? Why should we be less concerned in this re gard than were the fathers? We must save ourselves before it is too late.” He thinks the Republic is “going to the devil at railroad speed.” His judgment of President Grant and his policy was doubtless formed after ma ture deliberation, and he delivered it, apparently, rather in sorrow than in anger, for I am willing to believe his assurance that there was no malice in it. “GRANT IS A LITTLE FELLOW,” Added Mr. Johnson, with a pleasant twinkle of the eye, “against whom no one could harbor malice. He is espe cially a small man—small of stature, of brain, of morals. I doubt if he ever read the Constitution of the United States in his life—he has certainly never read the commentators thereon. His idea of government is exclusively personal, and of a low order at that; it was conceived in the field and mod eled upon army rules and regulations He says to his couriers, do this or that, and they obey; beyond this char acter of‘government’ he knows noth ing.” “But you will agree that Grant is a great captain?” Not a bit of it would he. His opin ion of Grant's generalship is only equalled in contempt by that of his statesmaa8hip. He had the men, Mr. Johnson continued, and followed the army, not as its leader, but as an acci dent. What fight did he ever win? Ask of Belmont, Shiloh, Vicksburg. He took the latter place after expend ing millions of dollars and thousands of lives, boguing about m the swamps and burrowing like a craw-fish. He finally stumbled on the right plan, be cause there was nothing else left to be done. Good luck seldom deserted him; he is a creature of luck from first to last. He happened in always to reap the harvest that others merited. If McClellan had been let alone the war w*uld have euded two years be fore it did. He has not even the poor merit of personal courage. Where did he ever expose his person? Where display any strategy? It wa3 simply a question of brute force with him. A pendulum of ten pounds weight will drive one of five. He was carried through by great armies. He marched against a foe greatly inferior in num bers; invading a country especially vulnerable—of scant resources—block aded, cut off from both the sympathy and assistance of Europe. “Do you really believe he would de clare himself Dictator if the opportu nity should offer?” “I haven’t the least doubt of it. I I don’t suppose he ‘knows it by that name,’ but the idea is the same. He loves power both lor its own s ke and for the recompense it brings. His avarice is boundless. He cares noth ing what becomes of the people, so he gratifies his own ambition and the love of lucre. With Caesar’s or Napo leon’s ambition, he lacks their great ness of soul. See the former at the battle of Pharsalia, and Napoleon at Lodi, where they rush to the front and encourage their soldiers with short, sharp, pithy phrases that have passed into history.” My adjutant: “I pro pose to move on your works at once.” “I shall fight it out on this line i£^t takes all Summer.” But his ex-Ex cellency simply remarked “Rawlins,” and went on: “Grant could not pos sibly be a great captain, nor a great anything elae. There is too little of Mrs. Mary E. Burnham, the New York correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, who is the handiest wo man with her pen we know of in the profession, sends that paper the fol lowing in a late letter: Little, heavy, chunky-handled um brellas will be carried instead of para sols; oxidised silver will be stuck on in all practicable places; Hamburg and costlier embroideries will supersede ruffles and puff’s on all white dresses and underwear. Gloves with six but tons and seven crowd the importer’s counters. I therefore unhesitatingly predict they will, in time, push aside such minor items as sleeves and waists. We shall require very little more than a pair of gloves and a trained skirt to clothe us comfortably. Then a lan guid expression of face is to be fash ionable, and the eyes will be worn very much closed. This, with the high comb all on the bias, and the hair arranged a la scramble, has an after dinner effect perfectly indescribable, but rather nice; and classed, in my mind, among such adventurous.spirits as Columbus and DeSoto, will ever remain the nameless heroine who wore a chip hat last Sunday, together with a pale gray silk and rose-colored rib bons. I clung to a friendly hydrant for support. Thought I, what have the Man h winds sent us now? In she came, in a “sit up Sarah Ann and show your breastpin” style. The gray silk ballooning out, the white chip hat bearing a climbing rose with tendrils enough to go over a front door. The wind had the whole garniture stiff and straight in the air above her, the Dol man sleeves were like two immense wings each side her, and numberless buds of rose color finished the flyaway picture. The Last Hours of Commodore Ma-ury.—A correspondent of the Al bany Evening Journal furnishes to that journal a letter from one who was with Commodore Maury in his last hours, and who testifies in a tender and interesting manner to the happy death of that great man. We quote : The la3t two days of Matthew H. Maury’s life were grand—a complete triumph. In perfect possession of his faculties to the last. I wish all the world could have seen that death. It was such a triumphant one. We sang hymns around his dying bed, and after the last one Friday evening—it was “Christ is risen”—he put out both hands and said, slowly aud distinctly : The peace of God which passeth all understanding be with you all—all.” He blessed every one separately, and prayed ever so fervently, and iu the most beautiful language* He said he would be in a moribund condition for several days. Twice Friday we were all summoned : he would look around, and if all were not in the range of his sight he would call out the names of those he missed. Gazing earnestly into the face of each, he said something appropriate and affectionate, always winding up with “You see how God has answered my prayer, I know you everyone.” He said, “I shall retain my senses to the end. God has grant ed me that as a token of my accept ance. I have set my house in order. My prayers have all been answered. My children are gathered around my bed, and now Lord, what wait I for?” He then repeated a prayer of elev en petitions, which he wanted each of bis children and grandchildren to use every day. He had composed it for himself almost forty years ago, the night after his leg was broken, and he had repeated it every night since, not missing one; and then he prayed : “Oh Lord, touch my lips with hallowed fire, like Isaiah’s of old, that I may testify to thy love and mercy to me, who am but a little child in all save wickedness.” He requested that when the physicans pronounced him dying he should be informed of it. As the supreme hour drew near, he turned to his sou and asked him in the language of the ruling passion, “Do I seem to drag my anchors?” The answer, ‘They are sure and steadfast,” gave him great comfort. Just before he expired he said distinctly,/‘Lord receive my soul,” and lifting up both hands towards heav en, like a child who wants to be taken up calling on the name of his father. So he passed away at twenty minutes to one o’clock, Saturday morning. He left a request that his funeral should not take place until the spring, and then he wished his poor body to be taken through the Goshen Pass when the rhododendrons and the laurels are in bloom, and asked us to pluck their blossoms as we passed, and shower them over his bier as we bore him to his final resting place in Fredericks burg or Richmond* An extraordinary occurrence has taken place. A member of the New Jersey Legislature has not only refus ed a bribe, but be has punched the man in eye who offered it to him. As times go, this was a supreme piece of rudeness. It was bad enough to re ject the bribe, but, then, to punch the tellow for doing what most legislators would have thanked him cordially for doing—that is, giving him an oppor tunity for making “a little something” —was adding injury to the insult of refusal. “ What is the use,” says Swin- burne, “of being inaccessible?”—Cou rier Journal. Mr. Alden B. Stockwell, the Presi dent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, over whose affairs rumor has been very busy in the money mart and club houses during the past few days, or since the company’s stock be gan to depreciate, is one of the most prominent speculators in Wall street. Although comparatively unknown outside of financial circles he is a cen tral figure among the millionaires on ’Change. Within the short space of three years he has presented an exam ple of pecuniary success far exceeding the expectations of the most sanguine worshippers of Mammon. From or dinary means he has risen to be the possessor of fabulous wealth, and to share with J. Gould and Henry N. Smith the reputation of being the most wealthy among the active opera tors on the street. His deeds of mone tary daring have been numerous and noteworthy, and have been conducted ou a scale of greater magnitude than those of the veterans on the stock market, like Commodore Vanderbilt and Uncle Daniel Drew, ever dreamed of undertaking. WHO IS STOCKWELL ? Mr. Stockwell is of humble parent age, his father being at one time in the livery stable business in Cleve land, Ohio, where the great steamship manager was born. He is about thir ty-five years of age. The turning point in his career, which had previ ously been quiet and uneventful, oc curred in 1865, while he was acting as purser on one of the Potomac river boats. On one of the vessel’s trips down the river from Washington, the late Elias Howe, of Connecticut, the dis tinguished inventor of the sewing ma chine, was a passenger, with his elder daughter in his company. Young Stockwell was very attentive and con siderate of the comfort of Mr. and Miss Howe, and extended more than the customary courtesies to them. The acquaintance which was then formed between the purser and the Howes was renewed in the following year in Paris where the father and daughter went for their health. The future millionaire was quick to journey after them to the French capital, after col lecting all the money at his command to enable him to travel in style. On his arrival there he laid siege to the affections of the young lady, and was not long in obtaining her consent to their marriage. Mr. Howe’s sanction was secured, and they were wedded with much eclat. They tarried amid the gayeties of Paris tor a short time after their nuptials, and then returned to this country. ROMANCE AND MONEY. Subsequently, Mr. Howe’s second daughter was introduced to Mr. Stock- well’s brother, Colonel Levi B. Stock- well, and before many months a new match had been formed. Mr. Howe died in 1849, and left all bis vast property to his two daughters. Soon after this event, Mr. Stockwell threw himself into the arena of the bulls and bears. At first he confined himself to small investments, but gradually launched into heavier and more colossal opera tions. Pacific Mail was his favorite stock, and under his manipulation it commenced advancing rapidly in value. He purchased share after share, and made it an active stock. His ambi tion bad led him to become a director in the company. After getting him self elected a director be aspired to the presidency of the corporation, to which he also got himself chosen. Once in the coveted seat, he began to consider how he could keep himself there without being obliged to carry the stock of the company. A solu tion was presented in the Panama railway. LARGE OPERATIONS. The stock of this road was selling very low, and Mr. Stock well seized on it as the instrument which was to keep him in control of the Pacific Mail. He knew that the steamship company was powerless without the railway by which its passengers and freight were carried across the isthmus, and that the possession of its stock would ena ble him to unload himself of Pacific Mail, and at the same time prevent his removal from the Presidency. He therefore sold short of Pacific Mail, which Henry N. Smith began buying in, in the hope of creating a corner. The stock dropped several per cent., and after Smith had secured the most of it he contracted with Mr. Stock- well to sell it back at ninety in three months. Before the contract could be fulfilled the Northwestern gale swept over Wall street, and unexpectedly stranded Smith, who was just as eager to get the Pacific Mail off bis bands as he was previously anxious to carry it. Speculators say that he beseeched Stockwell with tears in his eyes to take it back, and that it cost him a bonus of $500,000 before he could be released from the contract. grandeur. Even the fenders around the grates in the drawing room are of gold. Mr. Stockton lost his wife about a year ago, and it is now reported in fashionable quarters that he is engaged to a well known New York belle.— N. Y. Sun. THE FORTUNE which Mr. Stockwell has amassed from his different speculations has been vari ously estimated at from eight to ten million dollars. How much of this he has lost in the recent fluctuations in Pacific Mail is yet unknown. In personal appearance Mr. Stock- well is medium sized, aud possesses a penetrating blue eye. He wears a moustache and flowing English side whiskers of red color. He is very quick and decided in his manner. His house on Madison avenue, corner of Thirty-ninth street is one of the most elegant and costly io the city. It ia furnished iu a style of the greatest “Home, Sweet Borne.” America as yet has produced no song writer. No one has ever done for her what Burns did for Scotland, Moore for Ireland, and Beranger for France. Not even the popular enthu siasm which shook the nation to its centre during the late civil war could give birth at the North to any finer inspiration than “John Brown’s Soul,” and “Rally Round the Flag, Boys.” In “Maryland, my Maryland,” we re cognize a spark of the same divine fire which flashes forth in the “Marsel- laise” and “Scott’s wha ha wi’ Wallace bled.” The country, therefore, owes no ordinary debt of gratitude to John Howard Payne; who, if he did not write enough to entitle him to a re cognized place among the authors of this class, has at least given us one song which is already beyond the reach of chance or change—a house hold word sacred and secure. If fame is to be estimated by widespread pop ularity, we had rather be .the author of “Home, Sweet Home,” than all the verses of all the poets our land has knovn from its earliest age to the present hour. There is little in the ballad when we subject it to critical analysis, and yet this simplicity is the precious gem which has snatched it from forgetfulness and blended the fa miliar lines with the holiest associa tions of the fireside. How curious that this humble daisy, this “wee, mod est, crimson-tipped flower” should grow and blossom into fair renown when so many monarchs of the forest lie prone in the dust, unnoticed and unknown. The more important facts of Payne’s life require but brief mention. He was born in New York, Juue 9, 1792, and at an early age manifested decided literary talent. When only thirteen years of of age he conducted a small periodical called the Thespian Mirror, which attracted the attention of a gen tleman named Seaman, who generous ly offered to defray the expenses of his education at Union College. Pecuniary difficulties which involv ed his father forced him to leave this institution before the completion of his studies, and, in order to support his impoverished family, Payne went up on the stage, making his debut at the Park Theatre, New York, February 24,1809, in the character of “Young Norvel.” His success was so unmistak able that he continued his new pro fession, performing in the principal eastern cities, and in 1813 went to England, where he received a cordial welcome, and became a great popular favorite. He remained abroad for nearly twenty years, leading a Bohe mian life, and figuring alternately as an actor, playwright and manager, gaining some reputation, but little money. “Home, Sweet Home,” was penned in a garret of the Palais Royal, Paris, when poor Payne was so utterly desti tute and friendless that he knew not where the next day’s dinner was com ing from. It appeared originally in a dimin utive opera called ‘Ciari, the Maid of Milan.” The opera is seldom seen or heard of now, but the song grows nearer and dearer to us as the years roll away, for “it is not of an age, but for all time.” More than once the un fortunate author, walking the lonely streets of London or Paris, amid the storm and darkness, hungry, houseless and penniless, saw the cheerful light gleaming through the windows of hap py homes, and heard the music of his own song drifting out upon the gloomy night to mock the wanderer’s heart with visions of comfort and of joy, whose blessed reality was forever de nied to him. “Home, Sweet Home,” was written by a homeless man. In 1832 Payne returned to this coun try, and after pursuing literary avo cations with indifferent success for a few years, was finally appointed Con sul at Tunis, where he died, June 5th, 1852. One passage in his ill-starred career tinges it with a hue of melan choly romance, and perhaps explains the secret of his restless, erratic char acter. Maria Mayo, afterwards Mrs. Gener al Scott, was a queenly beauty in her youthful days, whose charms of person, and of miod made her the acknowledg ed belle of that venerable state whose soil has been no less prolific of fascina ting women than of gallant men. The legend prevails in Richmond that Payne met Miss Mayo, and fell madiy in love with her. The homage of a poet could hardly be other than flatter ing, even to one whose shrine was worshipped by scores of richer devo tees, and possibly he mistook the smiles she gave him for the evidence of reciprocated passion; and be this as it may, the same old, old story was en acted. He staked his happiness, his peace, on woman’s love, and—lost. Thenceforth life had no attractions for him, and he sought an exile to the barren shores of Africa, as a welcome relief from the bitter disappointment which had crushed out hope and am bition here. The sands of.the desert have long since covered the grave of John Howard Payne, and the place where, “after life’s fitful fever, he sleeps well,” is unknown, but “Home, Sweet Home,” is a monument which will carry bis name and fame to remot est posterity, and stand firm when effigies of marble and ot bronze shall have sunk into ^distinguishable de cay. ——-— The Talbotcouuty darkies have or- . gauized a society for the liberation of the oegroei oa the islaad of Cuba.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Union and recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1872-1886, March 26, 1873, Image 1