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VOLUME XLIV.J
M I L LEDGE YILLE, GEORGIA, JANUARY 28, 1874.
NUMBER 27.
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RAMZE.
This plant, somewhat a novelty in the
New World, has been m use from remote
antiquity in China, India, and Japan,
wherq.it is the basis of home fabrics and
an object of foreign trade. The inner
bark of the stems or branches is the por
tion of the ramie in use.
The ramie is a valuable textile plant
with much of the lustre and brilliancy of
piUr in its fibre, and is used as a substi-
tnte for 6ilk in manufacturing Japan silk,
grass cloth, Canton goods, Nankin linen,
and a large variety of dry goods.
It was introduced in Louisiana in 1867.
It requires rich and elevated soils. It is a
perennial growth of great productiveness,
and is best grown from tlie roots or cut
tings planted in January or February.—
These are placed in furrows five or six
inches apart. The roots are laid length
wise, and pulverized earth being thrown
over them, they experience an early growth
in Spring. When the shoots are a foot
high they are hilled up like potatoes and
left to mature. The period of ripeness for
cutting is indicated by the brownish hue
of the lower stems.
Until within the past few months, great
difficulty was found in utilizing the plant
for the w&nt of machinery for separating
the fine textile part of the bark from its
green coating. This cannot be acco
plishedby rotting as in jute, flax, hemp and
other plants. An improved decorticating
machine has obviated the difficulty, and
the crude ramie staple of American growth
and manufacture is now worth 20 to 25
cents per pound.
The generic name of botanists for the
ramie is “ Urtica.” There are two species,
Urtica si via. and Urtica utilis, whichlatter
is the ramie of commerce, and it is far
more productive and of better quality for
textile purposes than the nivea. It is
destined to occupy a still higher place in
the manufacturing world, and can be
grown in California, the Gulf States and
Mexico. M. F. F.
John Wesley and Adam Clark
The reflecting mind, sweeping over the
vast influence Methodism has gained at
the present time, its great numbers and
the great good it has wrought through
out the world, is led to revert in astonish
ment to the power of one man’s genius.
As early as 1720 began those prayer
meetings at Oxford of which Jolm and
Charles Wesley were participants; and
it was left for these two to expand the
society to almost limitless proportions.
To the bold, fearless, active nature of
John Wesley, Methodism owes its perpet
uation through the storm of ridicule, per
secution and scorn which for many years
of its early existence assailed it.
With a divinely inspired eloquence which
held his audience breathless with interest
gnd emotion, he united a daring resolu
tion to oppose oppression; an abounding
Jusmility and sympathy by the side of
the sad and poor; a hopeful cheerfulness
In eickness and in health, and an unfail
jng aelf-denial for the good of others. He
nould be no other than a successful Re
former. * ,, , .
With Whitfield, Wesley addressed mul
under the whirling stars that
■bine
“Like a swarm of golden bees,”
haviffg the bare earth their only altar.
After ten years Wesley leased the Old
Foundry at Moorfields in the suburbs of
London and established a comfortable
shatter for his large congregation where
the rich and the poor served God, to
ggftnr on equal terms. In addition, a
sfriapfT»aa.ry, free school, alms house and
ether institutions for the poor, were pie-
Mted in and around the Old Foundry.
For forty years W esley pursued his la
borer preaching each day two sermons,
sometimes as many as five. He lived
always upon sixty pounds sterling (about
$800) per annum, and desired no more.
Me gave away in charity during a life of
poverty 30.000 pounds sterling—150,000
dollars!
r forty-eight years, Wesley laid the
_ -stone of City Road Chapel
the Old Foundry, and continued his
rs faithfuUlv, asking nothing in re-
__ until at the great age of eiglity-six
h* passed away quietly to an inheritance
Corruptible. He was buried in City
Boad Chapel grave yard.
The most eminent of Wesley s followers
mo Adam Clarke, the son of Irish par-
qC. With the fewest advantages,
mastered Greek and Latin, and the
MMties of the various Hebrew forms
•f Arabic, Persic, Syrian and Chaldean—
many modern languages, He was
l to have acquired theseas he rode on
bsok, book in hand, from place to
preaching the gospel to the poor.
Us became a great scholar, and held
important and honorable positions
fa lbs world of letters.
sr* >,1 *" n P anecdote is told of a swim
took when a lad into the Irish Sea
the back of a mare. Onward he
i into the ocean until swamped in the
The mare returned to the shore
the boy to his fate, but a kind
rolled him back, where he was pick
#4 Bp and reserved to become the second
Cnder of Methodism. A long and in-
tatrtisg article, well illustrated, entitled
oQtf Boad Chapel” appears in Harper’s
JjEimSUy tor February- M. F- f.
.SPEECH
OF
HON. ROBERT TOOMBS,
In the Hall of Representatives.
Wednesday Evening, )
Atlanta, Ga., January 19, 1874. j
Fellow-Citizens—I accepted the invita
tion of a considerable number of citizens
to address you, not without reluctance,
a painful reluctance, considering the mag
nitude of the question under considera
tion, and my inadequacy to do it full jus
tice. It is no temporary question to be
decided by passion, nor prejudice, nor lo
cal interests, but to consider what shall
be the organic law of a great people, of
ourselves, our families and our posterity.
And I would on this occasion feebly
imitate tlie example of tliat great Athen
ian orator, who, in addressing an Assem
bly of his countrymen, first prayd to the
gods of his country that lie might utter
no words but the truth, and nothing to
the injury of liis country. I would ap
peal to the living God, the God of my
country, to give me that aid and thus di
rect me on this important occasion.
Tlie question before you now is, shall
you call a Convention of tlie people ? or
rather allow the people to call a Conven
tion of themselves ,|to consider in this
great era in man’s history what shall be
the organic law of the land ?
It is a very singular question. It strikes
me with amazement that the representa
tives of the people, or any portion of the
people, should let their local interests and
little prejudices of to-day interfere with
the question. After more than ten years
of turmoil, trouble, revolution, slavery,
robbery, plunder, how can you best pro
tect society against a recurrence of these
evils ? How can you best carry out the
great fundamental principles upon which
society was organized ? That there should
be one upon the face of the earth, to neg
ative this, amazes me. But there are
some who do, and I have no reproaches
for them. I know tliat some have their
local interests, and some their fears. Even
the brave have fears, and the country is
never in greater danger than from the
fears of the brave.
What is the question wo are to consid-
? Foreseeing the evils of the country
upon us, when the people of the North
got control of this Government, you sep
arated from them, and you never struck a
better blow. You struck wisely and well.
You struck bravely and have nothing to
regret but failure and the dead. Though
your liberties were lost, the liberties of
mankind went down with you, and I have
no regrets but those. I would rather
have fought and lost than not to have
fought at all [applause] at least with the
protest of a brave people against wrong,
injury and slavery.
Government is a mere civil machine,
that would have no existence but for one
thing. It was the wickedness of the human
race that gave it birth. If every man was
just ; if every man was temperate, you
would have no magistrates, no laws. If
they were as God made them, every man
like the original pair—Adam and Eve—
what would we want with a government ?
What is government for ? It has but one
legitimate purpose. Seeing the difficul
ties that beset mankind, the weak op
pressed by the strong, and the danger
and trouble of the strong defending them
selves, society says: “We will unite to
put down wrong and wrong-doers,” and
that is its fundamental principle. All
governments rest on it. Then when you
made the government what was it for T—
When human society said: “It is better,
wiser, cheaper, to organize to put down
wrong, to put down evil-doers, thieves,
men who prey upon society,” what do
they say? They say we will do that by
combination. cannot be done easi
ly, well, wisely done by the individual
Man shall not be a law to himself.”—
That is the object of society—simply to
make government as cheap as you can ;
make laws as just as you can; add one
single object io the others, to prevent one
mnn from hurting another, and then turn
him loose to work outhis own salvation in
this world and the next. But all the
thieves say, “ W e will use this machinery
to make our individual gain ; to adminis
ter to my own wants." And where one
gets more than his share, wrong is done
to all—the whole suffers. The way faring
man, though a fool, can see that. I need
not call names or individual instances.—
Every law that intends to put money in
one man’s pocket, taken out of society, is
a fraud, a -wrong—every one. I don’t
care whether you do it by legislation, by
kings, by commons, or by fools, white er
black, it is all the same. Whenever you
pass laws to build up society, to make it
grand, it is a plunder of the million to
benefit the bad, the wicked, and the vile.
That is not the object of government. It
is not intended to make anybody rich. It
is said the true object of Government is
to give the greatest happiness to the
greatest number of people. That is not
so ; but is to give the greatest amount of
security to everybody, from the peasant
to the prince—if we had princes—and they
say we have princes. The papers said we
had a great many of them, and the Atlan
ta papers said the “ railroad princes” met
here the other day. at the Kimball House
Yes, we have princes all over our land,
from the Penobscot to the Rio Grande,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific; commis
sioned by Government, for what ? To
plunder the people. That s what the
princes were for—to buy you. They
bought Congress. They say they are
strong enough with those great compa
nies to buy Congress, and they boast
generally tliat our people down here are
the cheapest purchase thev made. If
gentlemen will sell themselves, I want
them to ask more for themselves.—
“Laughter.] And that is one of the rea
sons I want a Convention. I want more
Senators and more Representatives, so
that they will have more to pay and bring
more money into the country, so at least
the money will get among the people.—
"Laughter.]
I am almost ashamed to quote the de
claration of independence in this age of
progress. These old principles that start
ed from the Greeks and Romans, from the
wise wnm and the good. It was the light
of Heaven, and with Revelation it poured
itself over the whole earth. We know
what gold is. What is it in its last analy
sis ? It is the sweat of the poor. And
these combinations and contrivances to
privide monopolies—what is their object ?
It is to rob the poor of its last drop of
blood and sweat.
And therefore government, and after
long experience in the public councils I
speak, has protection for its object, and
whenever it departs from these simple
principles, it is revolutionary against the
people. Protect the weak against the
strong—and then stop and let him alone.
It is not to develop resources; to rob one
man for another, to make cold princes,
merchant princes, railroad princes, and
ymir princes—none of these things. Bat
the great mass of the people must be pro
tected. Here is a man with his little patch
lying beside the rivulet, a man and his
wife and their children. We owe it to God to
protect them against all combinations.—
You are here—I regret to say that I have
not seen the same thing exactly—to pro
tect individual interests of all the people
of Georgia.
Well, fellow citizen* our conventions
are different from what they formerly
were. We have advanced. The Bible
says men are all born bad, and they gen
erally grow worse. That is the Scripture,
and it is our experience, which shows the
proof of these things. So the object of
government is to protect the bad from the
growing worse people—to keep them from
robbing other people. In modern times
when our ancestors met at Runnymeade,
they did not make the question of the
capital their object. They did not care
whether the capital was at Runnymeade,
at Ludgate, at London, or at Rogue
Town, or anywhere else. They met on
the field, with the sword at their side, and
they demanded that right should be done.
That’s the capital. All places are right
to the brave and true. They did not
make these little contemptible questions
when they came to demand that old, old
29th section of Magna Charts—“No man
shall be arrested, imprisoned or deprived
of his life, liberty or property except by
the judgment of his peers and the law
of the land.” That was the charter. We
do not have to go to Atlanta, to Milledge-
ville, to Lickspittle, or to Devil's Half
Acre to do it. But they met upon the
plains, with God’s sky above them, and
the sword upon their side, and wrenched
it from the tyrant. [Applause.] I am
to-day pleading wliat was pleaded for you
by the great, the good, the wise, with
swords upon their sides, and their lives
in their hand in 1215. One half of them
could not sign their own names. Their
people had tho right to make their own
organic law.
I ask you if what is ruled here every
•lay as the Constitution of Georgia is your
own organic law ? Did you make it 1 Did
not the free people of this State vote
against it f Ami was not the power that
foisted it upon us condemned by a ma
jority of the constitutional voters through
out the United States ? It was the result
of measures passed by fraud, and the
bench was deprived from testing their con
stitutionality. You know its truth, and
every man who says it is otherwise is a
liar. [Great applause.]
Then I say Georgia has no constitution.
We have a de facto government. We ac
quiesce from necessity to the sword and
the bayonet. And therefore it is no govern
ment of ours longer than one can stand
it. I never expected to see the day when
any respectable man in Georgia would re
fuse to make his own organic law, and
adopt the law of niggers, vagabonds,
thieves, and Yankees. We have almost
got to the state of corruption that the
Romans did under the Empire, They
went through the form and sham of gov
emment, even when the Emperors came
in and took away the people’s liberty.—
They went through the sham every day.
They still elected their Consuls. Poor
people! Fear ? Who can man fear, except
to do wrong ? That is the only fear for
freemen. Fear God and fear to do wrong!
You are going to die anyhow, if your life
is insured! You are hke me. You will
die in four or five years. Fear to do
wrong for so short an enjoyment.
And this constitution—they knew the
majority would go against it. They
counted on it. They shut out every man
in Georgia from voting, even down to the
Justice of the Peace that had been hon
ored and trusted by his people; for they
thought that * * * baseness enough
in the people of Georgia * * * even
to vote to put in their negroes to silence
us, and to make the fundamental law for
the great and prosperous State of Georgia
the work of the thieving hirelings of for
eign bondholders. Then what did they
do with the votes ? They counted them
as they pleased, and burnt up the ballots,
and you have never seen them up to this
day. They had Hulbert there. Some
body said, “ The right man in the right
place,” and so he was. [Laughter.] And
then they burnt the ballots. Why put out
their tracks 1 No honest man puts out
his tracks behind him. Nobody destroys
his tracks but the knave and the thief.—
They got the government put upon you
by military power and by excluding your
people.
You came here, and I asked you to
come. I am one of the people, and I have
a right to vote, and I thank God, and I
trust it may stand forever. I am proud
of the distinction, and I wish to be the
only msvn in the South of whom they can
say, “Here is a man who so faithfully
served his country that it’s enemy deems
him unworthy to take pari in his govern
ment. [Applause.] Of course they are
right. I Avas their enemy and I am their
enemy then, now and forever. [Applause.]
Well, I am humbly asking my fellow
citizens to do what these despots allow us
to do—accept the situation. Pretty hard
case, too. But they say, “You can make
your Constitution.” Let us take what they
give us.
And, gentlemen, to one thing I am go
ing to call your attention to-night. They
are doing it all over the North. As socie
ty advances in this great age, corporations
grow up. They have been known for
thousands of years. At first they were
small, mostly eleemosynary, even in the
Roman Empire. But noAV they are like
frogs in Egypt, and there is not a single
foot of land in Georgia not covered by a
corporation ; not one. This fellow shall
have a strip for forty miles, another for
forty, another for twenty. This fellow
shall have a railroad, and that fellow a
railroad, and the moment they can get
enough in the pool to pay for printing
some bonds, they come up and rob the
treasury. [Laughter.] You can get a
railroad anywhere. They have a railroad
down at my friend Nicholls
They have covered everything with a
corporation. Okefenokee Swamp is cov
ered with a corporation. The lofty tops
of the Blue Ridge, pointing to Heaven
with their hoary heads, are covered by a
corporation. They set off somebody to
start operations, get their State aid bonds
and come back to the Treasurer of Geor
gia to have them paid.
At the North their system always was
to plunder everybody. That was the foun
dation of Puritan civilization—to rob eve-
rybody they could, and to keep them off
as long as they could. The very moment
the honest men quit Congress, what was
left went to robbing the people. They
chartered their lines—this one to the Pa-
cific ocean, And then another line, and
then connecting lines. They went to rob
bing everything. They even robbed the old
women’s chickens and eggs, and they went
into the soap gourd and stole “grease,
Now, corporations are very valuable
things, when not abbused. • So fire is a good
friend, but when not controlled it is ter
rible. There is no good thing but can be
abused. That’s the way God Almighty
has given His good gifts to man. I have
no doubt it is Avise. The fault is in man.
Nothing he ever made but was for the
nandeur, protection, beneficence to man
kind, if they were wise and good enough
to ub© K as H© gay© it to th©m: [AP
plause.]
Times change though. Science has
moved on. Well, that’s a good thing—
I am in favor of science, what little I have
heard of it I like good progress, if you
don’t go too fast, or in the wrong direc
tion—go after other people’s money. I
do.not like this modem improvement,
that after men have been in Congress a
month or two they can go to work and
alrin their old friends. I am in favor of
using science for the benefit of mankind
to aid labor, the first price of all things.
[Applause]
Then, fellow-citizens, you have got to
this point; we want a Convention. I want
it in the first place because by tlie immu
table law of God, by tlie Declaration of
Independence, by that outgoing from the
heart of every true man. I have a right
to make my constitution, and so have you.
This is not my government: I never made
it. In 1868 the people of Georgia, by a
majority of 45,000, said these reconstruc
tion acts under which these laws were
passed were revolutionary, wrong. vile—
were usurpations. Forty-five thousand
majority of the people of Georgia, which
included everybody tliat had a right to
the franchise under your laws. But go to
the North ; nearly three millions of peo
ple have said that the authority that call
ed into existence the present Constitution
of Georgia was null and void. Therefore,
it is not onr Constitution, TV e have to
accept the situation. I acquiesce too. I
accept the government de facto. I accept
it till I can do better, and now I can do
better. There are good tilings in the
Constitution. Yes, yes, there are good
things in it. All that is good in it is not
new, and all that is new is bad. Tkegood
part is taken from the past, tlie bad part
is taken from these devils who made it.
Noay I want to the keep all good and leave
out all the bad. I Avant tlie people of the
State to get together, the honest folks,
notAvithstanding it may cost 25 cts. to do
it. Some people, especially about Atlan
ta, are like Niobe—all tears, talking about
cost—it will cost millions of dollars ! I
will tell you the history of constitutions.
The one in 1835 cost 815,#00, TV c Avent
to work, we met then to change our Con
stitution, to change government, and
the change did not cost $15 apiece to the
members. It was done in four days, and
the whole cost §15,000. But these are
facts, not lies. I recollect it was raised
by an old gentleman of Georgia, in Mil
ledgeville. He was in the habit of talking
A'ery liberally about things, and he said
that “ a lie is not only as good as the
truth, but a good deal better. “ Truth,
he said, “ Avas stubborn and often very
inconvenient.” “But a lie,” said lie, "you
can just bring it to where you please—it
fits anywhere.” [Laughter.] These gen
tlemen say “Millions ! You are going to
be ruined!” and cry and sigh over it. TV hy
this people are worth enough to hold an
honest Convention. They are sighing
over the expense. Why you have got to
day 700,000 Avliite men in Georgia. If it
cost $700,000 it would be only one dollar
apiece. Is that your idea of liberty ? Do
they not have liberty enough to give one
dollar for it ’ Are these the ideas of lib
erty of the press of Georgia who oppose
this Convention ? Are these your lights
and leaders ? The time Avas when the
freemen of this country, would pledge
life, liberty, blood, fortune, all to inscribe
upon then - banners “we are a free people!
[Applause.] How'many of your brave
men whom you pretend to honor, I
haA'e seen fall upon the battle field, in or
der that the glorious cause of independ
encemight live forever. [Applause.] loo
expensive to be free ! Too expensive to
investigate a nigger Constitution! Ah
you will find time doing this, though !—
The fundamental opposition to it is bond
bolder. The Legislature has declared
certain of his bonds null and A'oid. Put
that in the Constitution so that they can
never expect their payment. They are
here now, in your lobbies—they seduce
your members—they are buying them up
in order for them to pay the $800,000 of
fraudulent bonds, tlie legacy that Bullock
and Kimball left. Why the very interest
on these bonds, at seA-en per cent, is
enough to hold a Convention every six
months for the balance of time! I Avant
the people Jo get together and declare
them null and void—to put an end to this
corruption and robbery, and let them say
that these foreign forged bonds shall
never be paid! [Applause.] That is
worth all the money it would cost to hold
a Convention—that one line. Make the
capital where you will. True men do not
care Avhere the capital is. They make remark
about the people of Atlanta. There are
true men here and Avell tried ; men that
have stood the storm under temptations
above any other people in Georgia. [Ap
plause.] There are no more noble people
upon earth. But you men of Atlanta; you
have cause to cry out, “ Save us from our
friends !” [Laughter.] That's the cry of
the bondholders. They say they do not
want a Convention, because they do not
want the capital moved, but it is really be
cause they are afraid for tlieir forged
bonds.
Why, look at that miserable thing you
call a Constitution. It commits you to
all the lies of tlie revolution against you.
It says our allegiance is first due to the
Federal Government before it is to your
own State. Do you believe that ? TThen
you can wrench this from the Constitution
do it. Do you believe that your liberties
are at the feet of the Yankees and niggers ?
If you do, then stand by the dirty thing.
But the people do not believe it, and I
say, “ Tear it out!” That's worth a Con
vention. And I will pledge myself to day
that I can hold convention of the people
of tie State for less money than the print
ing bill of the last Legislature. I will
rafse money upon my personal rccogniz
ance—three hundred thousand dollars;
enough to pay the expenses, and yet I
have not a single shilling. And the print
ers and newspaper men—what do they
say f “Let us all unite. We will plunder
you—first, we will fill the world with
printer’s ink—smear it all over. We give
you light, but don’t let the people come
together. This people are troublesome.
TVhat do you Avant with them—from the
branches and the creeks, in their shirt
sleeves ?” Some of them do not Avant any
investigation. My children are gone—
the last one—to the grave, and I know
not whether I shall rejoice or Aveep at their
fate. The cause of sorrow to my heart
may be for their benefit, rather than to
survive among such a people. Then I
say, if you intend to protect yourselves
from these fools and slaves, bondholders,
incorporations and robbers, meet and say
fViis debt is unconstitutional and void,
and shall never be paid. And there put
into it, in letters of gold, let it be inscribed
that the credit of the State shall never be
pledged except for public defense. [Ap
plause.] Put that there, to get rid of
your lobby, to get rid of the other temp
tations to seduce and betray Was it in
the Constitution of 1799 ? No! When
they tried the principle, from the day
Oglethorpe landed at Yamacraw—they
call it Savannah now—up to the day we
pulled doAvn that glorious flag of inde
pendence, the State of Georgia never en
dorsed a bond for any human being upon
the face of the earth, and she was ac
knowledged to be the most prosperous,
the happiest, freest people the Avorld ever
saw. The Legislature agreed to give
State aid. They said you could go to
the North and get capital. Capital doesn’t
go from home.
[Concluded next week.]
Cnrions Gardens of Antiquity.
By Julia Thayer.
The world’s first great achioYement in
land scape gardening was during the
regin of Nebuchadnezzar and Avas on so
rast and magnificent a scale that the Hang
ing Gardens of Babylon have passed into
history as one of the Seven Wonders of
the World. They were devised and con
structed for the gratification of Amytis.
AA-ife of Nebuchadnezzar, who. home sick
and Aveary Avith the contemplation of tne
flat, uninteresting Babylonian plain, con
tinually pined for the wild mountainous
beauty of her Median home.
These gardens—more properly termed
elevated than “hanging"—were construc
ted in this wise:
A huge artificial mountain of earth avus
raised to the height of 400 feet, every side
of Avliich Avas terraced,at regular distances,
and connected by stairways. These ter
races Avere supported by arches,which rose
one above another until they overlooked
the famous Avails of Babylon. Tv ithin
these arches were grand and spacious a-
partments, where extensive views were
commanded of the surrounding country.
In order to give a firm foundation to the
soil, and to confine its moisture, the up
per arches were first covered with a pave
ment of stone, then followed a layer of
reeds mixed Avith bitumen, another of
cemented bricks, and OA'er the whole a
sheeting of lead, upon which a consider
able depth of rich soil Avas laid.
The upper terrace contained an immense
reservoir, the water of which was obtain
cd from the Euphrates, by means of hy
draulic engines, and could be distributed
wherever needed.
In time sightly lulls arose, dim forests
of stately trees invited seclusion, rivers
FURNITURE! FURNITURE ! !
AVE ON
i.-ting of
-\7\7\ cfc J. CAH.AK.EH.>
HAND a large assortment of FINE AND COMMON FURNITURE, oon-
lb
H
Beautiful Bed-Room Setts, Bureaus, Mirrors, Tables, Chairs,
Bedsteads and Hatlraasea ef all sines and ^nalities.
Repairing of Furniture and Upholstering Done to Order on short notice.
Window-Shades and Fixtures, Corner and Wall Brackets, &c.
WILLOW CASKETS, CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES. Large lot of Children’s Toys, such as Doll Car
riages, Express Wagons, Ac. .
BUGGY HARNESS for sale. Also, all kinds of Material for Carriage Makers and Repairers. Ready-made
Wagon and Buggy Wheels always on hand.
Doors, Sash and Blinds, and Fixtures for Blinds.
jkjp 3 We guarantee Low Prices and Good Work. Give us a call.
St nr ini
Cases
All styles of Metallic and Wood Burial Cases and Caskets always on hand.
Orders for cases will receive prompt attention at all hours—day or nhrht ^ ^ CARAKER.
MilledgevtUe, Ga., Sept. 2,1S73. C 6m
B. P. WALKER.
(Lute of S. T. fc ti. P AValkt
J. II. DOBBS,
(Lat»* of Wise, Dobbs 4. Co.)
DOBBS,
TO-
Cliina
GO
Buy Your
TO IACOS
AND
Furniture and Carpets
THOMAS WOOD, Next to Lanier House.
THE LOWEST PRICES EVER KNOWN 1
METAL CASES AND CASKETS, WOOD COFFINS OF ALL KINDS,
At prices that defy competition. Night calls answered at the Lanier House.
THOMAS WOOD, Macon, Ga.
Oct 14,1873.
12 6m.
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, CURTAINS.
Fall Trade 1873.
.1 A II li S ll. BAILIE & BROTHER,
20o 2>road Street, SL UG IT$Tj1 , GSL.,
Are now offering tlie Largest Stock of CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, SHADES and CURTAINS ever offered
by any House South, and at the lowest prices. Goods all new. Pretty and Cheap. Be sure to call and look
at the new and beautiful array of Patterns at
JAMBS G. BAILIE 6l
ALKER &
SUCCESSORS
'Wises Dobbs & Co.)
IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Crockery and Glass Ware, Silver Plated Ware,
POCKET AND TABLE CVTLEKT,
rushed foiming oTer roclj beds; sirvoyjcoal om, iso'coilBlKiTioK^lOEi” KEB0SE!,E
cascades rippled and fountains gieamett. Ve wonld call the atten tion of Merchants to our immense and varied stock of the above Goods, feeling
velvet masses of verdure teeming with the j tUat we cangive t .„tire satisfaction in regard to quality and price. Our retail Department is also complete.
SSS Walker & Dobbs, MACON, GA.
the senses with their intoxicating incense:, October it, 1873, 12 6m -
while crowning this magical creation, the j —w
royal residence of the King stood in the
midst like a palace of enchantment.
Whether or not Amytis was sufficiently
appreciative of this mammoth achievement
for her sake, is left to conjectm-e, bnt we
shall try to think she was thoroughly sat
isfied and sighed for nothing more.
But there have been other curious gar
dens. which many of my young readers
may never have heard quite so much a-
bout.
In every zone are found floating islands.
They' are formed by turf masses which,
being detached from the land, are held
together by grasses, weeds and tangled
roots, and drift hither and thither the sport
of every passing breeze, continually ad
ding to tlieir accumulatiods.
These islands form into groups, and
are in time covered with plants shrubs,
trees, and, not unfrequently, even animal
life. To this novel means of transporta
tion is often attributed the otherwise un
accountable introduction of certain species
of large animals found upon many of th
South Pacific islands.
During the fourteenth century’, the
Aztecs, a tribe ot native Mexicans, for the
want of sufficient land, invented floating
gardens, or cliinampas, upon which were
cultivated nearly all the flowers and vege
tables that supplied the ancient city of
Mexico, formerly called Tenochtitlan.
The original idea of this invention is
apposed to have been suggested to the
Aztecs by observing the floating islands
of Lake Chaleo. Certain it is, their own
artificial islands were constructed
nearly after the same manner as art can im
itate nature. Large pieces of turf were join
ed by reeds, rushes, knotty and intertwin
ing roots, and then covered with a sedi
ment taken from the bottom of the lake.
These raft like islands, often firm enough
to hold a hut, were soon converted into
rich gardens, several of which were gener
ally under the charge and cultivation of
one Indian, who towed or propelled them
about at pleasure, by means of a Ion,
pole adapted to that purpose.
These gardens were often two or three
hundred feet in length, about twenty in
breadth, and had a depth of soil sufficient
to nourish trees. They were separated
from each other by narrow dikes, and
usually ornamented with a beautiful
border of flowers, or a hedge of rose trees.
We can imagine that as they lay on the
gleaming bosom of the lake, the effect
was not unlike that of emeralds set about
with jewels of pearl, ruby sapphire and
topaz.
Few traces, if any, now remain of these
once remarkable ehinampas of Mexico.
The awful prophesy of Isaiah has been
fulfilled concerning the overthrow and
utter annihilation of Babylon, in whose
oblivion the famous Hanging Gardens lie
buried. Not a vestige marks the place
where they once stood.
Choice Family Groceries and Plantation Supplies.
and at low prices at
First Class Goods!
JAMBS G. BAILIE A
Oct. 21, 1873.
SKOTBBKi
133m.
mm JaJki
B. JOHNSTON, <IR.,
Successor to Tlios. U. Conner,
Keeps on hand the latest and most fashionable styles of
11,1 TS, HATS, HATS, HATS,
Gents Furnishing Goods! Gents Furnishing Goods!
CRAVATS, SCARFS, BOWS, FURS, TRUNKS, VALISES, SATCHELS,
Baskets, Umbrellas, Canes, &c., &c., &c.
When you come to Macon please give me a call. Orders promptly and satisfactorily filled.
Nov. 19, 1873.
Cotton Avenue, next to Mix A Kirtland,
MACON, GA.
17 3m.
REM O V A I.
Macon, Georgi
a
H AVE this day removed to t heir new store, corner Cotton Avenue aud Cherry St.,
' ^ •—‘ ->*■
The Constitution says: In the mouth
of October last a merchant from a county
town came to tliis city and purchased
about twelve hundred dollars worth of
goods from Messrs. Kiser & Co., Dodd
& Co., Buroaghs & Wing, Kimbro &Co„
and other wholesale houses in our eity
and in December thereafter commenced
proceedings in bankruptcy. He filed his
petition, schedule, etc., the assignee was
appointed, and all his assets claimed by
the bankrupt, under our very generous(f)
exemption laws. This seems to be a
very fashionable game, lately, and our
merchants arc tired of it. So they con
cluded, rather than throw away then-
goods in this way, and be cheated out
right, they would begin now on these
bankrupts. They employed Peoples A
Howell as counsel and, on investigation
were informed that this bankrupt had
eommited two or three penal offences in
his slick little game and they went for
the heathen Chinee in good earnest. They
arrested him for violating the 44th section
of the bankrupt act, cheating and swind- _ ,
ling and the like, brought him here putfGeorgia-fcr cash or on t.me-conmst.ng m part of
him in jail, and lo and behold ho emptied
his assets in a way that made them happy.
He settled, a sadder but wiser man,
cursing the man that advised him to go
in bankruptcy.
We hone this will be a lesson to others.
The bankrupt law is for the protection of
honest debtors, not dishonest ones; and
our merchants are determined to track
such of their customers, as seek it to act
dishonest in the future.
(Bowdre Sc Anderson’s
old stand) where they will be pleased to see their old friends and customers "and the public generally. Tba
Street Cars from " Brown House” and Passenger Depot pass in TEN STEPS of our door every thirty min
utes during the day. __ __
Bacon, Bacon, Bacon.
75 HALF CASKS CLEAR BIB SIDES. 25 whole casks CLEAR RIB SIDES.
In -tore and to arrive, ou consignment, and sale at lowest market rates by
JOKES & BAXTER
October 29, 1873. 14 3m
JOHJVSOJY Sf SMITH\
OIiHSAIiH
Nos. 74, 76, 78, MULBERRY STREET,
Under (he Masonic Temple and Opposite the Lanier Howe,
MACON, GA,,
O FFER TO THE PEOPLE OF BALDWIN and surrounding counties, one of tbo largest, best «e ttted.
and cheapest Stocks of GROCERIES, LIQUORS and PLANTATION SUPPLIES ever brought to
Bishop Hall said: “I would rather
suffer a thousand wrongs than offer
one. I have always found that to
strive with a superior is injurious;
with an equal doubtful; with an in
ferior sordid and base; with any, full
of unquietness.”
Louis Kossuth, revolutionary Gov
ernor of Hungary in 1849, and now
old and poor, gires lessons in German,
[English and Hungarian in Turin.
As Massachusetts men have so frequent
ly described the women of Utah, it may
be interesting to know what a Utah man
thinks of the women of Massachusetts.
A Mormon says that the women of the
Bay State are of two classes. The first
are those brought up and educated to
live without work—the forward ones who
have nothing to do but to embellish their
persons. They are only a little lower than
the angels, but unfortunately they are
all married. The second class are the
spinsters or factory girls. They are all
in single blessedness. They have dark
hair, a high and retiring forehead, sunken
eyes, a small thunder-cloud beneath each
lower eyelid, and a thin and pointed nose.
They are compelled to labor long in
badly-ventilated factories, with the 1 con
stant smell of rancid grease,' and to
breathe unhealthy dust. The men are
described as a little shrewder and more
narrow-minded than those of the West.
Robert Parham, Jr., tax collector of
Putnam county, is dead.
50,000 / l Lard, Tierces, Kegs &c.,
300 bbls. Whiskies, best to cheapest,
300 bxs. Tobacco, all grades,
500
00,000 lbs. C. R. Bacon,
Long C. Sides,
50,000
50,000
Bacon Shoulders,
Cigars, Cheroots to Partagas,
25 cases, Smoking Tobacco,
100 gross Pipes,
100,000 yards Bagging, all kinds,
25.000 lbs. Arrow Ties,
50.000 “ Flour, all grades,
75.000 lbs. Sugar, ‘A’ ‘extra C’ & C,
150 bbls. Syrup and Molasses,
§75 Tierces Choice Hams,
100 boxes, Candles,
300 boxes, Bar and Toilet Soaps,
750 Bushels Oats,
Starch, Candy, Nuts, Oysters, Crackers, Cheese, Ac. te.
.. . * ' 7 in*7
Sept. 30,1873.
I0 3g».
Land and Money.
IVHE familiM and heirs of Tolnnteers in the War of
* TEX as INDEPENDENCE (A. D. 1835-6) will
learn something to their advantage by communicat
mg with
YV, A.’ UrADOO, MilleigevIHe, Georgia.
Many GEORGIANS were in that War, under com
mand of Gen. Sam Hooaton and others. Would be
pleaded to communicate with heirs of James Clark,
Robt. M. Darnell, and any other members of Chptain
Bulloch a Company, or others, de«3123 lm
OAK Ti
Begins a new volume January 1. This ie a> old es
tablished standard Farwcra paper, devoted to ag
riculture and it, intereeU. Special attention is paid—
besides that given to the stable crops, artiMal nut
home-made manures,, fee-.—to live Stock, Vkuift
Growing, the Dairy, dte. Some of the ablest of Amer*
can agrientnrist write for it. It is Practical, Satotaa-
tial. Reliable, )ljpa year. To c’nbs of five or i
' “ liberal *
only >1 each. Very liberal and hand
for dabs. Last three numbers of ’73 free to all
names received before Deo. 31- Specimen A
free. Agents wanted everywhere.
SAUL. SANDS tc SON, PahfLfce
213t Baltimore,
