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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XLIV«] T II E M I L L EDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 12, 1873. NUMBER 16. glnion & gecorbtr, IN 18 Fl’ULlSHED WEEKLY MILLEDGEVILLE GA., IJoughtox, Barnes &, Moore, At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor. T1IE “FEDERAL UNION ’ and the “SOUTH j£RN RECORDER ” were consolidated August 1st is;-.’, the Union being in its Forty-Tliird Volume and the Recorder in it's Fifty-Third Volume. ADVERTISING. Transient.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for first iuse tioii, anti seventy-five rents for each subsequent <x>ntiuuauee. Liberal discount on these rates will be ullowed ou advertise meats running three mouths, or longer. Tributes <>1 Respect, Resolutions by Societies/ Obituaries ex reeding six lines, Nominations for office and Communication for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriff's Sales, per levy of ten lines, or less,....’ $2 50 Mortgage fi fa sales, per square, 5 00 Citations lor Letters of Administration, aim .. *• “ Guardianship, d 00 \pi>li'\iti<>n for Dismission from Administration, 3 00 “ “ “ Guardianship, 3 00 • • “ Leave to sell Laud, “ for Homesteads, 1 75 S,.tire to Debtors ami Creditors, a 00 Stti.-a of Land, Ate., per square . 5 00 •• perishable property, 10 days, per square, 1 75 Kstray Notices, 3o days 3 00 Koiee’losurc ol Mortgage, per square, each time, 1 00 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land, &.«*., by Administrators, Executors or Guar- diaii*. are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the tii, between the Hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the af- t.-fiusm, at the Court House in the county in which the property Notice of these sales must be given in a public vs previous to the day of sale. r the »ale of personal property must be given in ik** manner 10 days previous to sale day. Notice to the debtors and creditors of an estate must be pub- inked 4“ days. Soli,-.- that aoplieatiou will be made to the Court of Ordinary ( ,r leave tu sell Laud, Alc., must be published for one month. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, &<•., uuat i>e published M days- for dismission from Administration uthly three mouths—for dismission from Guardianship 40 FALL J1ND Milli •'civ, WINTER Dress Goods, Fancy Goods, AND i. situ it,lies for foreclosure of Mortgage must be puMisned monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers tor the full space of three mouths—for compelling titles liom Executors or Admin* i.trMtor**, where bond bus been given by the deceased, the full Bjm.-e of three mouths. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. Book aud Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. TO THE WEST! TO THE WEST! Before making your arrangements to follow the advice of the “thousands who have already gone,” it would be well to consid er what has been done to make the journey to your “Homes in the West” us pleasant and us free from danger us human skill an-1 loresight can accomplish. B) •• msolidution and construction a road has been put into operation on the shortest possible line from Nashville, Te t» St. Louis, •the future great City of the world.” This fine, tin* St. Louis A Southeastern Railway, lia», durum the past year, earned an enviable reputation by its smooth truck, prompt time, sure connections, and the magnifi ed:, e ut its passenger equipment. Its trains are made up of uewaud commodious day cars, provided with the celebrated Miller coupler and platform, and the Westiughouse air-brake It ir positively tin* only line running Pullman Palace Drawing Room sleeping Curs through without change from Nashville t« S; L"uis. No other line pretends to olter such advantages, either in distance, time, or equipment. Why, then, journey by circuitous routes? Do not be induced to purchase tickets to St Louis or the West by any other line, remembering that The “St. I.uuis & Southeastern” is the shortest, cheapest, quickest, best and only line under one management from Nashville to St. Louis, and is fiom 60 to 200 the shortest to St. Louis, Kansas City. Omaha, Denver, California, Texas, and all western points. It is also the “Chica go dborte.t Line,” via Evansville. You can secure the cheapest rates for yourselves and your moveables 011 application, in person or by letter, to Charles McCabe, Southern Passenger Agent, near College street Depot, AH the Novelties of the Season. THE SITU, TO PAV IN TEH.HO.U MRS. P. A. L INDRUM s R Bssi!^ &c. SeUct*iw’t, b ? nn ?ts, hats, feathers, ribbons, ever brought Vo this^narket 1 °c l a *jd prettiest Stylos, and for beauty and richne** *>urpA*s anything :ion FEATHERS, wl.ici. she can sel'^^stonLllr^”LOW PRICES. 0 8 ° mB 1,ttnd!H>me real and imitV DB.SS; GOODS. hnT'Merinos'Em nresicwi, andexami " e }> er Ores* Goods, consisting of Silks, British Lustre, Sateens, Pop- the celebrated Redin^ote *** peia of ali aliades colors. Also, Camels’Ilair Good?, suitable for LARGE STOCK OF Ladies, Misses and Children’s Shoes and Hosiery, Hair Work of all Kinds, A General Assortment of Toilet Articles, Toys by the Million aud Jewelry of all Kinds. PINS, NEEDLES and SEWING COTTON of all kinds. THOMPSON’S GLOVE-FITTING CORSETS, AND THE WORLD-RENOWNED SEAMLESS GLOVES Sash Ribbons at low She has the Agency of the Celebrated ’] all kinds from 5 cents up. Her opening wi prices, Queen Bess Ruffiinr, Old Ladies Caps, Ac a can supply ludies with patterns of Milledgerille, Ga., Oct. S, 187:1, . _ Old Ladies Caps, 'Domestic paper pattei iid, and can supply ladies with ill take place in a lew days of which notice will be given. S> R E S S MCA SI wo, Still done in the beat Styles. II 3m Nashville, Teuu., or to the No trouble to ant May 1, 1873. undersigned. W. B. DAVENPORT, General Ticket Agent Nt. Louis, ‘stions. Beyond the Mississippi! Thousands have already gone, and thousands more are turning their eyes towards new homes in the fertile West To those going to Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Oregon or Cali fornia, we recommend a cheap, safe, quick and direct route, ria St. Louis, over the Missouri Pacific Rail road, which runs its fine Day Coaches and Pullman Sleepers from St. Louis to' principal points in the West.without change. We believe that the Missouri Pacific Railroad lias the best tiack aud the finest aud safest equipment of any line west of the Mississippi, and its connections with roads further West are prompt and reliabie. The Texas connection of this road is now completed, and passengers ate offered a first class all rail route from St. Louis to Texas, either over the Missouri, Kansas &. Texas R. It. ria Sedalia, or over tho Atlantic aud Pacific It. R. via Vinita. For maps, time tables, information as to rated, routes. Ac., we refer our readers to E. A Ford. General’ Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Questions will be cheerfully and promptly answered. Emigration Turning. I lirnp Farina in South-west .Missouri. The Atlantic aud Pacific Railroad Company offers I,2110,000 acres of land in Central and Southwest Missouri, at from f3 to $12 per acre, on seven years time, with free transportation from St. Louis to all purchasers. Climate, soil, timber, mineral wealth, schoo's.churches and law-abiding society invite emi grants from all points to this land of fruits and flowers. .For particulars address, A. Tuck, Land Commissioner, St. Louis. A Hew Store! T A HE undersigned lias opened a new store Next to Otto Miller A Co., where he has a complete stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots & Shoes, HATS, Tor l.ndies nn<l Gentlemen, SADDLERY, CROCKERY, etc , And respectfully invites the citizens of Baldwin ami adjacent counties to call and examine his stock. He comes to locate among you and will endeavor to merit your patrouage by strict and polite attention to busi ness and low prices, lie feels confident that his stock, in quality aud prices, is equal to any in the State; but seeing is believing—so come and see for youreeives. FELIX RUSSAK. MilledgeviUe, Oct. 11, 1873. 12 It F. HAUG'S Hoot and Shoe Store. T HE undersigned is receiving his Fall and Winter Stock of BOOTS and SHOES. Nearly his entire Stock was made to order and lie • guarantees satisfac tion in quality aud price. He Las a line lot of Ladies, Misses, and Children’s Shoes which not only look well but will wear well. ■|i His Stock of Gentleman's Boots and Shoesflj Tp^are of Superior quality and cannot fail to B to give satisfaction. He is prepared to makefj Boots to order and do all kinds of repairing; andM if Shoes or Boots sold by him tip, lie mends tliemW without charge, ly-lfyou wish the worth of your money give him a C<lU F. HAUG Mil'edgeville. Ga.,Sept. 30th, 18*3. lu -Jin MACON CARDS. DAVIS SMITH DEALER IS SADDLES and HARNESS, CARRIAGE MATERIAL, Shoe Findings, Leather of all kinds, Children’s Carriages. 103 CHERRY STREET, MACON GA. August 25,1873. 5 3m E. 7. JOHNSTON, Dealer in WATCHES. JEWELRY, SILVER WARE, FANCY GOODS Fine Cutlery, Musical Instruments, Strings, Ate., kc. Sole Agent for the Celebrated DIAMOND PEBBLE SPECTACLES, EYE-GLASSES, Ac Particular Attention given to Repairs on Fine and Difficult Watcbee. JEWELRY, &c., REPAIRED, aud ENGRAVING 9° nier Mulberry 4c. Second Streets, MACON GEORGIA. April, 30,1873. 10 IT- LANIER HOUSE. b. I'm, Mulberry Street, Fr»spri«-lor. - Macon, Georgia. n T le above named Hotel has been recently refur , au< * fitted up for the accommodation of trap find ■?*. w , bU . aB permanent Boarders. Persons will c.J i. “* eir 'aterest to stop at- this House, as its tnerJi* ™ ca *' on makes it a very desirable place for cnants and families coming to thecity for Business, PL? SATW? °* Pleasure. An ELEGANT SAM tiv - “ . . “As been fitted np for the specialJWft the South'- oat that sfiot-bag IKS ol silver to THE NEW YORK STORE Is Opening a Large Stock of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, C ONSISTING of line JAPAN*:**: wil.iiw, HI K l( INI O KM, A Is I* .%€■€.' AS, And a complete asaort meat ot lsAI>IK9 coolH. Also, a complete stork of SHAWL** aud CLOAKS of every variety. Also, ALL DOMESTIC GOODS AT FACTORY PRICES. My Boot and Shoe Department Is supplied with III! kinds and qualitesof BOOTS and SHOES, which I will sell at VERY LOW PRICES. SHADY MEADS CLOTHING A SPECIALITY. I can fit a boy from three years ofa«*e to a man a thousand years old. My prices will be FAR CHEAPER than ever before. As money is scarce and I am overstocked with Goods, a little mney will to buy a Rood deal. Give me a call before ourchasing elsewhere, as I will take pleasure in showing goods. Come and see tor your self that I can sell «joods as cheap as they can be sold by anybody this side of New York. 113-Look for the “NEW MilledgeviUe, Sept 15, 1873. H. ADLER. YORK STORE” on Wayne Street.. 8 3m The Cheap Grocery aud Provision STORE! -:0: of IF YOU WANT TO SAVE .MONEY BUY YOUR GROCERIES AND K PROVISIONS AT THE CHEAP STORE, WE ARE DETERMINED TO SELL LOW. Don’t Stop until you find the Right Store, on Wayne Street North Masonic Ball. PLANTERS TARE NOTICE! Family Groceries, Provisions, and Supplies of all Kinds, AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICES. On hand aud to arrive the following articles : 2.00U0 lbs C R-Bides, 5,OKI lbs Shoulders, 500 lbs choice Pig hams, 1,000 lbs Leaf Lsrd, at Low Figures. Flour all grades, Corn, Bran and Fine Feed for Stock. Seed Oats, Sugars all kinds. Coffee cheap, Goshen Butter, and Cream Cheese, Pic Nics, Cracknells, Snapells, Kentucky Butter, Lemon Crackers, and other varieties. Mackerel in barrels aud kits. Morgan Sims and other Soaps. Potash, Candles, Kerosene Oil, Soda, Copperas, Powder aud Shot. Cotton Cards, Chewing aud Smoking Tobacco, Pickles aud Oysters, Sift ers, Buckets, Brooms, Choice Segars. Come and see us and save your money. Quick saies and small profits is our motto. GRBSN and DRY BIDX2S Wanted, for which highest price will be paid. Having secured the services of Mr. C- B. MUX DAY, who will be always on baud to meet his oldens- tomers and attend to the wants of new ones, we hope to be ub'o to give satisfaction to all, aud merit a liberal patronage. SAMUEL EVANS & CO. 1G till Jan 8, 74 <*• MilledgeviUe, Nov 8, 1873. FURNITURE FURNITURE 1! W. cto OAB.AIS.Ert, H AVE ON HAND a large assortment of FINE AND COMMON FURNITURE, con sisting of BeautiAil Bed-Room Setts, Bureaus, Mirrors, Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads aud ftlaltrusset (y Repairing of Furniture and Upholsterin Window-Shades and Fixtures, of nil sizes and qualities. Done to Order on short notice. ft? Corner and Wall Brackets, &c. WILLOW BASKETS, CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES, Largo lot of Children’s Toys, such as Doll Car riages, Express Wagons, &.C. BUGGY HARNESS for sale. Also, all kinds of Material for Carriage Makers and Repairers. Ready-made Wagon aud Buggy Wheels always on hand. Doors, Sash and Blinds, and Fixtures for Blinds. We guarantee Low Prices and Good Work. Give us a call. IS iir in t Cases All styles of Metallic and Wood Burial Cases and Caskets always on hand. ly Orders for case'' will receive prompt attention at all hours—day or night. W. & J. CARAKER. MilledgeviUe, Ga., Sept. 2, 1873. 6 6m ' B. P. WALKER, (Late ot S. T. fc B. P. Walk,- J. II. DOBBS, (Late of Witfo, Dobbs fit Co.) WALKER <fc DOBBS, SUCCESSORS TO Wise, Dobbs & Co., IMPORTERS AMD WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Crockery and Glass Ware, Silver Plated Ware, rOCHHT AND TABLE CUTLERY, r.rrai Air i AMPS WICKS,BURNERS. CHIMNEYS, CHANDELIERS, GAS AND KEROSENE COALUiL., ‘"j.jxtuRES, PORTER’S PLANTATION AND COMBINATION IIOES. r»*We would call the attention of Merchants to our immeuse and varied slock of tho above Goods, feeling thatwe cangive entire satisfaction in regard to quality and price. Our retail Department is also complete. Walker So Dobbs, MACow, g a. October 14, 1873, J 12 6m. GO TO MACON AND Buy Your Furniture and Carpets • OF THOMAS WOOD, Next to Lanier House. THE LOWEST PRICES EVER KNOWN METAL CASES AND CASKETS, WOOD COFFINS OF ALL KINDS, At prices that defy competition. Night calls answered at the Lanier House. THOMAS WOOD, Oct. 14,1873. aeon, Cla. 12 6m. CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, CURTAINS. . Fall Trade 18 73, JAMES <3. IS A I L l E -A-JlB O T The Be.a Devil at Heme. In Chittenden, Vt., is a family of Eddya—Horatio, William and two sis ters—who are startling the people around by their spirit manifestations. J. C. Williams, of Danby, recently visited the family, and with others made a circle of sixteen arouud a ta ble, on which was a violin, guitar, tambourine and bells. Nothing was discovered to show deception. The doors leading into the circle-room were sealed, and Horatio Eddy, who sat for the circle, was tied and seated beside the table. The light was ex tinguished, and the musical instru ments began to play, sometimes five or six at once. On lighting the lamp the medium was still tied. The light was again put out, and at once the medium’s coat was taken off, and when the lamp was relighted the garment was found thrown over the head of one of theVisitors. At another time a pan of water was placed on the table, and while the instruments were play ed by unseen hands, found bottom up and not a drop spilled. A gentleman in turning it back spilled half the water. Afterwards a duel was fought between two spirits claiming to be those of Geo. Dix and Robert Kidd, the pirate. The swords could be heard clashing, and soon a heavy body fell, jarring the house, followed by groans and voices. This within three leet of where the spectators sat. An old gentleman who had come many miles to communicate with the spirit of dis daughter, sat in the medi um’s lap, and the spirit purporting to be his daughter, came and pat ted him on the cheek, the spats be ing heard distinctly, by all present calling him “papa,” and conversing in audible tones with him. The dark circle existed but a short time, and at the conclusion the cord which bound the medium’s arms was untied by some power, and come whizzing through the room a distance of fifteen feet, and thrown around the neck of Mr Hilliard. Next was held the light circle, for which Wm. Eddy sat tied in the dark bedroom, 6x12 feet, and a blanket tacked up to the door, while the audi ence sat in the circle room, which was lighted. To preserve harmony in the circles, singing was engaged in, in which all joined. Soon after the cur tain was pushed back the spirit of an Indian woman, Honto, as she is call ed, was recognized by those present, she was dressed as an Indian woman. The next spirit purported to be that of Wm. White, late editor of the Dan ner oj Light, dressed in a suit of broad cloth, with white vest, and his fea tures could be plainly seen. The next was the spirit of a young lady, dressed in white, and recognized by her friends present. And then the spirit of a little child, which no one recognized. less than six different forms and dif ferently dressed were presented. This for Vermont, which is not per mitted to monopolize all the good things, and so near St. Paul we have an account of SPIRITS IN THE BACKWOODS. On section 36 in St., Croix Co., lives a family named Lynch, troubled by having their clothes cut up, dishes broken, &c., all in broad daylight. I stayed there Wednesday night. All was quiet until half past seven a. m., when things such as rolling pins, eggs, tin plates, and earthern cups, began to get up of their own accord and shoot around the room. One piece hit a little girl, two years old, hurting her badly. Mr. Lynch offers three thousand dollars to have it explained. They have had some two thousand dollars worth of property destroyed. Hundreds of persons have seen these things, including the editor of the Dane county News and the River Falls paper. Nothing is disturbed on Sun day. The family Bible went into a kettle of boiling water and was spoil ed. Broad axes and augars get irp with no one near them and fly around. This is no myth, but a sad reality. So says the correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer. The natural and healthy condition of man is one in which he works for what he receives. Those who con tribute nothing to the general stock ought to take nothing from it. The accumulation of capital in private hands is creating, in continually en larging numbers, a class of persons who have abundant means to spend on themselves, while they have noth ing to do in return. A man makes a fortune, as it is called; he leaves it to his children, who find themselves to have inherited the services of an ar my of genii, potent as those of Alad din’s lamp, to minister to their pleas ures. Fools spend their share on in dulgence. Indnlgenceis usually syn onymous with vice; and as long as their purses hold out they do mischief to every one who comes near them. This kind of thing, happily, does not often last long. The money is scon gone, and there is an end of it. But the majority have sense enough to avoid ruining themselves by extravagance. They live on their incomes, ladies es pecially, and, having their time to themselves, and being spared the necessity of exertion, are considered as exceptionally happy—yet happy they cannot be. Satisfaction of mind is allotted by Providence only to indus try; and not being obliged to be indus trious they lose the capacity for it. En joyments pall on them. Having al lowed the period oflife to pass unused when occupations can be successfully learned, they are unable to take their places afterward on the beaten road oflife. They stray into fancy employ ments; they become dabblers in pol- tics, dabblers in literature and science. Nothing succeeds with then sufficiently to put them on good terns with them selves, and then, men and women alike and particularly the better sort of them, being without wholesome oc- Froun the New York Sun. Orant’s Great Financial Enterprise Vanl and Virginia. Gen. Grant’s scheme of establishing a National Post Office Bank, if it does not advance his somewhat doubtful reputation for wisdom, goes far to strengthen his fame as a man of stupid and stolid courage. It is, without ex ception, the most audacious proposi tion that any ruler holding power by popular favor ever ventured to fling into the faces of a free people. Its impudence is unparalleled. Think of it for a moment. There is to be set up at Washington a great bank, with branches, as many if need be as there are post offices in these States. The central bank will of course be under the direction of the Post Office and Treasury Departments, and these de partments will continue to be, as they are now, under the control of the Pres ident. The branches will be managed by postmasters; and this army of heaven-sent financiers will get their earthly commissions from the President too. The official machinery being thus very simple and summarily estab lished, the raouey tq set it in motion is to be obtained by vesting in the new Post Office Bank the right to pay four per cent, interest on deposits, and by denying to all other banks in the coun try the right to receive deposits on interest at all. The immense capital now held by long-established solvent and perfectly reliable banking corporations on which hundreds of thousands of contented depositors receive their regular divi dends, and of which the principal is secured beyond the possibility of loss, will thus, by one far-reaching and gi gantic sweep of the Congressional rake be made to tumble into the coffers of the new bank. Poor people must have interest on their savings, and peo ple who are not poor want interest on their loose money, whether it be sav ings or stealings—and if it is only at Grant’s big national shop that interest can be had, thither capital will go. It is clear, therefore, that the new bank will be as bountifully supplied at the veryoutstart with money as with offi cers, and will owe both of these essen tials to lively financiering to the pa ternal Government at Washington. But in order to pay interest it will be necessary to discount paper, and this is the part of the plan which is doubt less nearest to the heart of its illustri ous projector. The lending of the enormous sums which will be practi cally under his control will invest him with power the like of which is held by no ruler on earth. Not only will he be able through his servile subor dinates, who owe their official lives to the breath of his nostrils, to create financial earthquakes whenever he pleases, and quiet them after his rela tions and retainers shall have filled their pockets with nuggets raked from the debris ; not only will he be able to punish political enemies in the remot est corners of the land, as well as in its great commercial centres, by re fusing them accommodations which they could get without his leave but for this illegal absorption of capital by the Government; not only will he be able to reward toadies and political bummers by honoring their rotten notes, but he will be able likewise, by the enginery of this monstrous scheme to hold his office to the end of his days, and perhaps to assure it, after he is gone, to Fred or to some chosen ob ject of his testamentary affection The President’s power is to-day far too vast and irresponsible. But what he has already is as nothing compared to the accession to it after which he grasps. The control of tens of thou sands of officeholders, with the lending of hundreds of millions of dollars add ed to it, will make him strong beyond the power of any political combina tion that can be formed to drive him out of office. The old United States Bank, much as it was dreaded as a power in politics, and odious as it be came in its efforts to maintain itself as such, was a mere corner pawn shop compared with this monstrous monop oly devised by Grant. He proposes in plain terms by the help of Congress to compel the whole people of the country to lend their savings to the Government, and when the Govern ment has got these in its clutches, he will himself undertake the pleasing responsibility of lending the money over again to whomsoever he likes or whomsoever likes him. The decree which John Law got out of the Regent of France when the Mississippi Bubble was about to burst, making it a criminal offence to be found in possession of bard money, was little worse than this latest conception of the financial genius of the White House. Indeed, an act of Congress which leaves people no choice other than that of allowing their money to rust or of de positing it with the Government at four per cent, is simply an instrument of shameless robbery. It flinches from them exactly the difference between four per cent, and the higher interest which savings banks and trust compa nies might be williug to pay them if they were permitted. When a Govern ment whose business it is to protect the rights of its citizens betakes itself to plundering them in this fashion, it looks as if a change of rulers would, to say the least, not be a rash thing. We have little fear, however, to say the truth, that this notable scheme will ever be put into practice; and if we have any fear on the subject, it is for its projector and his allies. The French of Law’s day, habituated as they were to despotism, made their country too hot to hold him when they found him out; and it remains to be seen whether Law’s experiments can be safely repeated in the nineteenth century and among a free people.— Patience has been exemplified, time out of mind, by the figure of the camel whostood up under bis monstrous over load until a last straw sufficed to break It was during the French occupation ofMauritius that the terrible shipwreck took place which furnished Bernardin de St. Pierre with the motive for his beautiful and touching love story “Paul and Virginia,” the scene of which is laid in this island. In 1744 drought and plague of locusts'had oc casioned a terrible scarcity in Mauriti us, then called the Isle of France, and the following year the St. Geran was sent out from the mother country, richly ladeu with provisions, to the relief of the starving colonists. About four o’clock one fine afternoon Round Island was sighted from the ship, and the captain, M. De la Marre, wished to profit by a fine moonlight night to en ter what is now known as Tombeau Bay, or the Bay of Tombs, but was persuaded to lie outside until morning Ignorant of the coast, the officer al lowed the ship to drift during the night upon a dangerous reef about a league from land. The sea always runs high there, and the St. Geran was driven with great violence among breakers. Every effort was made to lower the boats, but some were erushed by the falling masts, and others were swept away by the waves. In a short time the keel was broken in two, and the ship became a total wreck. At the captain’s request, the chaplain pro nounced a general benediction and ab solution, and the “ Ave Maria Stella’ was sung. Then ensued a scene of in describable confusion. Numbers of the flung themselves into the sea, grasping planks, oars, yards ; but the heavy waves tore them from their frail supports, and nearly all perished. A brave sailor named Caret made great efforts to save the captain, whom he implored to take off his clothing ; but M. De la Marre, who displayed in this catastrophe much greater personal^ courage and piety than seamanship, re fused to do so, on the ground that it did not become the dignity of his po sition to land without his uniform.— Caret at length succeeded in placing his captain on a plank, and by swim ming alongside endeavored to get him safely to land. Encountering a raft on which some of the crew had sought refuge, the captain thought he would be safer with them. He left the plank and succeeded in reaching the larger support. Caret pluDged to avoid col lision, and on coming to the surface again was horror struck to find that the raft with all on board had been in gulled. On board the St. Geran were two lovers—Mile. Mallet and M. De Pera- mon, who were to be united in mar riage on reaching the island. The young man, as anxious and agitated as the girl was calm and resigned, when the others left, was making sort of a raft on which to save her who was dearer than his own life. On his knees he implored her to descend with him on the frail but sole hope of safety, and to insure a greater certainty he begged her to take off the heavier part of her garments. This she steadily re fused to do. When he found his most earnest solicitations vain, and all hope of saving her lost, though she entreated him to leave her, he quietly took from a pocket-book a tress of her hair, kiss ed it and placed it on his heart. With his arm around her to shield her as far he could to the last, he calmly From the New York World. Boatwell’a Blundering-. “ We are passing—at least all the great States of the Atlantic coast are passing—through a great National cri sis. To-day I feel this lesson of the crisis speak so as to suggest some of the causes that lie at the foundation of the present condition of things. We have now a currency of some $700,- 000,000, and it is not possible for any one to say whether that volume of cur rency is in excess or not. Thf "o are those that demand contractions as the only remedy for the evil and th-. only means towards a resumption of sp« cie payment, and again there are those that demand extension as necessary to relieve the country from financia' pres sure.’’—BoulwcWs Lecture. A man who has been Secretary of ohe Treasury for four years and then con fesses that be does not know, and worse than that, that nobody can know, whether $700,000,000 of currency are too mu<-h or too little—what can be done with him, except to counsel him to retire to Groton and meditate ? The problem is not such a bard one. The currency is limited to seven hun dred millions, and at certain seasons of the year, when there is a pressing de mand for large amounts of it from the West and the South at once and an un usual demand in the North and East, the sum is too small. The limit is reached. With a partial and irredeem able, and beyond our borders unex changeable, currency like ours, any limit would be too narrow in extraor dinary times, unless it were set so wide beyond the margin of our usual needs as to keep the whole trade of the country adrift in the Hood of it in ordinary times. If our currency were the common currency of all the world it would expand and contract with our needs. When there was more de mand for money in New York than ia Paris and London and Berlin r v-, would flow hither without legislation to lure it. We should then, to use the French phrase, have our hands in ev erybody’s pockets. But what is mon ey iu Paris and London and Berlin is only merchandise in New York, and our currency cannot be legislated into adjusting itself to our wants as the currency of the world adjusts itself without legislation to meet the world’s wants. The inference is that any re stricted national and irredeemable cur rency is, particularly for a nation that doubles its population every thirty years, a bad and dangerous currency, and all our flnaneial effort and device and knowledge ought to be bent to wards making our counters good the world over, towards translating our transactions into the universal language of finance; in other words, towards returning to specie payment. To ex pand our present currency by setting paper to beget paper is simply to put more fat in the tire. Bad Book Seeping. The New York Sun says there is his back. And, although experience has shown that it is impossible for our cupations, Md to accommodate as bur a fool the telegraphs and savings toady not intended to be- “ hidden under I. . * \ J ■ ■ in ■> qw ItUH OT 1 ™ — — * awaited the terrible catastrophe at her side. Nor had they long to wait, for they were soon washed from the deck. Their bodies were picked up the next day, clasped in the close embrace in which they awaited death. This touching incident formed the ground-work of the beautiful story over which so many tears have fallen. Mauritius was then but little known, and St. Pierre’s pictures of its life and scenery were all drawn from imagina tion ; but the story has invested the far-off island with an atmosphere of romance. Two structures at Pample- mousses known as the tombs of Paul and Virginia* are still shown to visi tors—two dilapidated piles of brick, still portraying traces of whitewash ou their crumbling sides. When visited by Mr. Pike, who had been asked by a young lady to gather for her some flowers from the tombs, he found the surrounding grounds converted into an impassible swamp by recent rains.— Romance is evidently at a discount in Mauritius.—Harper's Magazine for Oc tober. The Modern Newspaper.—News papers are getting to be much more than mere transcripts of the news and gossip of the day. They are pioneers in learned exploration ; they are lore- most in geographical and historical dis covery ; they are the teachers of social science. They are no longer satisfied with disseminating the knowledge la boriously collected by savans, by trav elers, by experimenters in natural phil osophy. They must pursue their own investigations, and send their agents into all the half explored fields of sci ence and adventure. The reporter of to-day is theadventurer who penetrates the desert and jungle; the scholar who searches for relics of the forgotten past; the courier who bears the news of vic tory to courts and congresses across a wilderness and through hostile armies; the detective who pries into public abuses and discovers hidden wrongs; the pioneer who throws new countries open to the world ; the philanthropist who unbars the door of the torture chambers; the chemist who detects adulteration in the spice-box ; tbe in spector who seizes false weights and measures; tbe auditor who exposes a public theft in the public treasury.— Journalism busies itself now with ev erything that affects the public wel fare. It trenebes upon tbe province once sacred to the scholar and the man of science, and has made itself tbe staudard-bearer of modern civilization. Thirty-six millions of dollars is the annual value of tbe oyster trade of the city of New York. now and has been for a long time very serious misgiving as to tbe state of the Treasury Department at Washington. This anxiety attaches particnlarlv to the public debt in its various forms. It is well known that the books of the loan office contain erasures, interlinea tions, and other marks of manipulation which show a purpose well calculated to excite the gravest suspicion. That many of tbe public balances have been forced for effect, and cannot; possibly be reconciled with tbe ac counts of the checking offices, is siio notorious to those in any way familiar with the operations of this department. Every attempt at thorough inves tigation by tbe minority in Congress has been habitually resisted by two interests: First, the majority who feared the effect of any exposure, aid secondly, the bondholders, who dread ed'the possibility of a panic. Hence resolutions of inquiry intended to re lieve tbe public mind on this impor tant subject were either voted down absolutely by tbe Republican majority or not answered by the Secretary of the Treasury. Until Mr. Boutwell introduced the partisan practice of parading purcha ses of bonds, so as to create a notion of fictitious prosperity and a senti ment favorable to the Administration, all official statements of the public debt were made by the Register of the Treasury, who may be called the book keeper of the Government, into whose bands tbe accounts finally pass for every branch of the public service. This innovation led to tbe disclo sure in tbe annual reports of large dis crepancies between the Secretary and the Register of the Treasury in their respective statements of the amount of tbe public debt, which bad before the advent of Grantism agreed in eve ry respect and to a cent from tbe foun dation of tbe Government. And by way of illustration the San shows a discrepancy in these repo.*ts of the public debt in 1869 of $167,- 001,475, and in 1870 of $94,313,828; 'while in Register Allison’s general and special reports for the same ye ;rs the Register disagrees with himself ia the estimate of the debt to the amount of $193,763,562 75—a small amount as compared with the “dem’d total,’* it is true, but still would be a comfor table provision for old age to any pru dent man. The Sun says: Congress cannot pass over an in vestigation of this matter. It is due to the public credit that the exact truth should be known to tbe bond holders at home and abroad, that they may feel secure in their investments^ and to the Treasury Department that it should be purged if there has been collusion and corruption in office. No committee could perform this duty thoroughly, and it must be dis charged if begun without the aid of the beat experts. It is a work of great labor and will require much time. Therefore the movement should be made promptly, so that the investiga- fuin wonM •!•*+ 4L. —. * — - nau we asm?.. . - . - 35 im ■mri “ y L..: — Opem£fs«i ^h^SPo^K STORE,” Statem’i

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Union and recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1872-1886, November 12, 1873, Image 1