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RECORDER
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Federal Union’
BILLED GEVIZiLE, GA
Wednesday, April 15, 13741.
Augusta Presbytery.
Our city was favored last week by the
presence of the Augusta Presbytery. A
large number of ministers and Deacons
were in attenance. The business pro
ceedings of the body were transacted at
the Presbyterian Church in day-time
(Sunday excepted.) and sermons were
preached in the evening at the several
houses of worship in the city. The Min
isters in charge of other congregations
generously tendered their houses of won
ship to the rise of members of the Pres-
bvteiy diu'ing the session; and from eve
ry pulpit in the city have fallen upon
serious and crowded audiences, eloquent
and effective sermons from these minis
ters of Christian labor. The services on
Sunday last at the various churches were
uncommonly impressive, and we trust
they leave good fruits on the heart and
conduct of the crowds of hearers, lie
arc sure we speak the sentiments of our
whole community when we tender to
these zealous and able divines the heart
felt thanks of our entire community for
their presence and their labors.
The Presbytery prior to its adjourn-
merit, passgd unanimously a Resolution
tendering to the citizens of Milledgeville,
through Rev. G. T. Goetcliius, the resi
dent pastor, thanks for the generous hos
pitality of which they were tire recipients
and also to the Railroad officials
courtesies extended to them.
for
Democracy to the Zlcscue.
For many long and dark days and
months, and even years the country has
been governed by a set of men calling
themselves Republicans, but who are in
reality plunderers. In the name of the
Republican party, they carried on a sys
tem of fraud, corruption and public plun
der, until they outraged public decency
and excited universal disgust. The peo
ple have borne with them long and pa
tiently until they can endure their vil-
lanies no longer and they are now every
where arousing and combining against
them. The Democrats who had become
discouraged have at last arisen in their
might, and have determined to drive
these unfaithful stewards from power and
bring the theives to punishment. The
overwhelming Democratic victories in
Ohio, New Hampshire and Connecticut,
show that the days of these plunderers
are numbered and that the people intend
to dismiss their unprofitable servants and
restore honest men to power.
vsTc Told You So.
The Atlanta Commonwealth says he
has discovered a rich mine of official ras
c.olity in the management of the State
Road, the reports of committees, &c., &c.,
and as he has the records, he threatens to
expose the whole concern. He further
says the rascality not only extends
through all of Bullock's administration,
but also to many who have figured large
ly since. "We told you so. Let the exposure
come.
The South Carolina Case.
Our readers are well aware that a del
egation of tax'-payers of South Carolina
is visitiDg Washington City with the view
of inducing the U. S. Government to re
lieve them from oppressive taxation.
The Government of the State of South
Carolina is in the hands of such a horde
of carpet-baggers and scalawags as never
before united to plunder and oppress any
people. The newly enfranchised negroes
are ignorant and reckless, and are the
suppliant tools of the artful knaves who
control their votes by fomenting a hos
tile combination against all tbc best in
terests of their former owners and all
respectable conservative white citizens.
The State Treasury has been subjected to
unprecedented plundering by this robber
band who have been able to shelter them
selves, under the forms (but not the
spirit) of “republican government.”
These knaves and their deluded or vicious
supporters, constitute the controlling ma
jority in every popular election. The
bulk of the property of tlio State is in
the hands of the Conservative minority:
and it is the purpose of the governing
majority (as is evinced by their continued
action, and by the actual state of affairs)
from TCilledgeville to Jacksonville,
Florida.
Having occasion to visit Jacksonville,
Florida last week, we decided to go by
the way of the Macon & Brunswick R. R.
to Jesup, and by the Atlantic & Gulf
Road to Live Oak, and by the Jackson
ville A Tallahassee Rail Road to Jack
sonville. This route from Macon is most
ly through a pine region, where agricul
ture is not carried oxr to any great extent;
the principal business for making money
seems to be the getting out and carrying
to market large quantities of yellow pine
lumber, and the gathering ami distillery
of turpentine; so that throughout all of
this region the people depend principally
upon their pine forests for their wealth.
Com and cotton are cultivated in small
quantities and stock raising is carried on
to a considerable extent. The patches of
com and cotton on the road were small
and backward. The best looking we saw
on the route was between Milledgeville
and Macon.
Jacksonville is a city of some nine or
ten thousand inhabitants, and is a place
of great business, and is increasing rapid
ly every year in population, wealth and
business. The great influx of travelers
who come to Florida every winter for
health and amusement must continue to
be a source of wealth to all this section
of Florida, and this stream of wealth is
increasing rapidly with each year. Besides
being the gate through which this im
mense stream of travel and wealth enters
Florida, Jacksonville has a vast trade in
lumber, semitropical fruit, call}' vegeta
bias, Ac., Ac., which cannot fail to make
it place of considerable importance in a
few years. It already has three first
class hotels—the Grand National, the
St. James and the Metropolitan. The
Grand National is most conveniently sit
uated, close by the railroad depot and
the steamboat landing. We stopped at
the Grand National and found everything
very agreeable. The house is kept by
Mr. G. McGinly, once the keeper of the
Screven House in Savannah. Besides
these three prominent hotels there are
several on a small scale, and all are well
patronized during the traveling season.
Among the important buildings now go
ing up in Jaeksonville is a splendid Epis
copal church—the comer stone of which
as laid some time back with imposing
ceremonies. Jacksonville is considered
healthy the year round by the inhabitants.
lire river St. Johns is a large and beau
tiful stream, rising some three or four
hundred miles in the interior of the Pe
ninsular and miming north affords beau
tiful steamboat navigation • for several
hundred miles among the many beautiful
lakes of Florida.
From Tocoi, a landing place on the
St. John, a horse railroad lias been eon
structed to St. Augustine, so that now a
trip from Jacksonville to the ancient city
of St. Augustine is attended with but
little trouble or expense, and is of every
day occurrence. On the banks of the St.
•Jolms, are to be seen the beautiful orange
groves that have already made Florida so
attractive ; here also grows the banana,
the pine apple and many other tropical
fruits. These together with countless
varieties of fish and wild game are well
calculated to make Florida a favorite place
of resort in winter and spring for those
seeking health and amusement. This de
lightful country needs only a good gov
ernment to make one of the most flour
ishing and prosperous States in the Un
ion.
Very ZVIuch Excited
The New York papers are excited over
the vote in the Senate, increasing the
currency. They say it was brought about
by a combination of the South and West
as they are debtors to the North and
East, and wish to dilute the currency be
fore paying their debts. The Herald
threatens secession and war if this thing
is presisted in. The Western papers bid
them defiance and warns them they have
got to take this bill or submit to free
banking.
Bald Mountain.
The latest information from the would-
be volcano iu North Carolina is rather
discouraging to the friends of volcanoes
in the I nited States. That venerable
peak is rapidly resuming his wonted cpiiet;
compunctions among the recent prayerful
inhabitants of its slopes have subsided ;
tillage of the quaking soil has been re
sumed. and one of the fanners who was
among the most frightened and repent
ant a few weeks since was heard a few
days ago to relieve himself of seme su
perlative anger at a mule that kicked out
of the traces and refused to pull the
plough, by some unseemly profanity such
as his neighbors had often heard him use
before old Baldy’s disturbance. We still
favor the Volcano, and believe it would be
a useful institution anywhere in the Uni
ted States—particularly in Atlanta.—
Alas! Alas ! Wo can no longer exclaim,
Vive Volcanoes !
BBSS
Letter from the Saalwicti Islands charge to be $3<‘ffi *ajzL.- I never bc%
' fo.ve was charged lii^l'e U ' !7 f four, or at
Rev Dr. Irvine-
Among the numerous divines in attend
ance at the Augusta Presbytery in our
city, none more completely won the hearts
of our people than Rev. Dr. Irvine of
Augusta. We had the groat pleasure of
hearing him in the Methodist church, on
Sunday forenoon and on Sunday even
ing at the Presbyterian chinch. His dis
courses were eloquent in the true sense
to create by lavish expenditure of the j ,^ 10 word, and were thoroughly awak-
ivnl.uv fronenre sncl 1 necessity for enor- ening in their character. The torpid Chris
tian and the impenitent sinner were alike
Election of King—Over'whelming Ma
jority—Queen Emma Ungallantiy De
feated—Foreign Recognition of the
King—Salutatory Salvos—The Inau
guration—The Royal Proclamation—
Read in English and Hiwaiian—Gen
eral rejoicing—Prorogation of General
Assembly—His Majesty’s Speech—
Rousing Cheers—Torchlight Proces
sion at night—Discord dead.
Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. 7
Feb. 20, 1874- j
Dear Union A Recorder :
I continue my account of affairs in this
Kingdom of Islands transpiring since my
last letter informing you of the death of
Kiug Lunalilo, and the ordering of a gen
eral election of a successor to the throne.
On Thursday, the 12th of February,
1874, the Nobles and Representatives of
this Kingdom being convened in Legis*
lative Assembly, elected the Prince Kal
akaua to be King of the Hawaiian Islands
The electoral college was composed of
forty five votes, and the King elect re
ceived thirty-nine,—six being cast for the
opposing candidate. Her Majesty Queen
Dowager Emma Kalelenalani. This over
whelming majority fully indicates tlie
popularity of His Majesty among the
Hawaiian people; and this fact is more
especially shown by the vote of Represen
tatives’of the people, 28 in number, who,
as it is well understood, voted with only
one exception for His Majesty.
On the day following the election of
the King, the Representatives of the lead
ing treaty powers, the United states.
Great Britain and France, recognized the
legal accession of His Majesty to the
Thrane; and the Royal Standard at Iolani
Palace was saluted by salvos from the
British and American batteries in port,
and from the guns on Punchbowl.
The Installation of His Majesty took
place on the same day at the Kalama Man
sion. adjoining Iolani Palace. The oath
to support the Constitution of the King
dom was administered by Judge Hart
well, in the presence of all the Foreign
Representatives, prominent members of
the Government, and of many influential
citizens. This was immediately followed
b y .
The ProclamatiQn of His Majesty s ac
cession, which was read by the Governor
of Oahu in English, and by one of his
aides iu Hawaian, at the Court House and
other points in the city. The announce
ment of the full establishment of King
Kalakaua upon the Throne, was received
with general satisfaction by all the re
spectable and influential people of Hono
lulu with hardly an exception. All tlie
well to do and industrious natives, as well
as the wealthy and influential foreigners,
seemed to rejoice in the accession of the
King.
On Saturday, the 14th instant,
The Prorogation of the Legislative
Assembly took place. His Majesty, ac
companied by H. R. H. Prince Lelei-
ohoku, arrived in the Legislative Hull at
noon. His Majesty’s personal appearance
and firm and self possessed bearing im
pressed all observers with the feeling that
he was worthy of his position. The ar
ray of Government officials, of foreign re
presentatives, and of naval officers in re
splendent uniforms, was very imposing,—
perhaps our domestic portion a little too
much so, considering the smallness and
the present condition of our little state,
and also in view of the bruised and ban
daged Representatives of the people there
assembled, who might not have suffered
as they did on a preceding day. had wc
only had a little real force, instead of all
this parade. His Majesty read his speech
to the Assembly in a firm, clear voice: and
as he passed out of the hall three cheers
for His Majesty were proposed, which
were responded to with a will. Rousing
cheers also greeted his Majesty on leaving
the building, and it was evident that
those who opposed the election of the
King were but a small and worthless fac
tion of this city and vicinity. This be
came all the more apparent on the occa
sion *of a Torch-Light procession on Sat
urday night last, to celebrate His Majesty’s
accession- It wasn oe of the finest night
parades we have seen in this town. Ber--
ger with his fine Band made the calm,
night air sweet and joyous with exhilara
ting music, and the long line of fire, un
dulating along the avenues of the town,
made deeper and richer the surrounding
darkness. Lanterns were swung out, the
loyal hotel lit up its tower, and with
peace and quiet in every nook and corner
contrary to the timid supposition of some
and the wish of otheiR. the city every
where accepted gladly the welcome fact
that Kalakaua was King!
J. Baldwin.
the rate of four dollars per d^y, at any
house in any place. I settle b the bill
promptly, and made iny escape; and went
in search of a hotel where I would be
dealt with as in other sections of the
State. On inquiry I was soon directed,
by many passers by to the European Ho
tel, as a splendid house in every particular.
I soon was there, and here I take occasion
to say that from the time I entered the
door until I left I had the best of fare
aryl the kindest attention for the • low
price of $1.50 per day. The house is
well constructed, with large, comfortable
rooms, well furnished. The servants who
are mostly white are of the best training
and experience—ever at their posts, work
ing for the comfort of the guests. In
short, the European Hotel of Savannah
is complete, as far as I could see, in every
particular. "When yon go to Savannah
stop at this house, and you will have good
fare, and charged as though they wanted
you to return again The Proprietor,
Mr. Bresnan, is certainly an experienced
“inn-keeper.” He is a gentlemm of many
pleasant words and capable of making
friends anywhere- I shall long remember
my pleasant stay at this house, and hope
that ere long I may have cause to return.
Very truly yours, N. O.
Georgia Sews.
public treasure such necessity for enor
mous taxation that the property-holders
cannot pay it. Thus property would be sold
for taxes, and at nominal prices, pass into
the hands of these plundering leaders.
The committee seeks in vain for re
dress from the head of the Federal Gov
ernment. President Grant's friends and
supporters are eating the plums out of
the pudding, and they must not be dis
turbed. Tlie newspaper which is the
month piece of the administration tolls
the members of the Tax Payers’committee
that neither Congress nor the President
will do anything for them; that in a de
mocracy, the majority must rule; and that
if they would obtain controlling influ
ence in public affairs in South Carolina,
they must go home and join the majority
party—in other Avoids, turn Radical plun
derers and robbers themselves! And
tills is “Republicanism” according to
Radicalism!
The fourth section of the fifth article
of tlie Federal Constitution guarantees
to each State a “Republican form of gov
ernment.” “Form” without the sub
stance 1 No, the universal construction
of all parties is that the form includes
the substance. So the Radical party lias
construed the Federal power in divers
instances where the results of popular
elections in the Southern States have
been unsatisfactory to their party. But
they “blew hot,” then : “cold,” now, to
adopt the idea of the fable of /Esop.
In the meantime the tide of political
revolution is sweeping ou with accelera
force. The recent elections in Con-
taught that invaluable introspection
which reveals the enormities of our sins
to ourselves—the first great step towards
repentance. YY'e congratulate our people
on our good fortune in having him among
us, and our sister city of Augusta on be
ing favored witli his regular labors.
Tlie name of this Reverend gentleman
(Irvine) is. we believe, of Scotch origin;
and the literature of the English lan
gunge is illustrated by the works of sev
eral authors who bore it. Among these
wc recall Rev. Alexander Irvine, author
of a work on Scottish Emigration which
was noticed by tlie great English Wit,
Rev. Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh
Review: Christopher Irvine, author of
several learned works; and the two Doe
tors Irvine (father and son) each the
author of valuable works on scientific
subjects.
The earnest good wishes of Milledge
ville accompany Dr. Irvine's return to
Augusta.
ting
necticut and in every other region where
popular elections have been held of late,
display such rigor in the great Demo
cratic party as shows that millions of
people are looking away from the Radi
cal idols which have well nigli led the
Republic to rain, and are determinined
to return at the next Presidential election,
to the purer and better rale of the
Democracy. Then plunderers and thieves
will fly from South Carolina as they did
from Georgia in the fall of ] 871, and good
government will be seen there again.
We are indebted to our distinguished
and worthy Representative in Congress
for a series of documents giving a
thorough insight into the Radical process
of stilling South Carolina’s demand for
redress and protection against the intol-
erable grievances now heaped upon her.
He has our thanks for his kindness, the
more hearty from the circumstance of the
jkbuence of the Franking privilege.
Washington telegram to Atlanta Con
stitution, 8th: Commissioner Douglass
to day addressed a letter to Henry P.
Farrow, United States District Attorney,
which concluded as follows: “I am not
aware of any other authorization to you
than those contained in my communica
tions of 16th and 27th of February last,
which related to illicit distillers only.”
After referring to the card published by
Farrow, the Commissioner proceeds to
say: “My intention was to authorize you
to hold in abeyance the fines and im
prisonment denounced against illicit
distillers, but not to sell any spirits that
had not paid tax, nor to relieve dealers in
spirits from all or any of the liabilities
imposed upon them by law. Your offers
go so far as to relieve every regular au
thorized distiller from any frauds they
may have committed in the production,
removal, or sale of distilled spirits, and to
excuse all dealers in spirits from the
payment of taxes witliheld, special or
otherwise. You will, I trust, see to it
that such erroneous impressions may be
at once publicly contradicted, and *16 g
office advised thereof.”
“Their Name is Legion,” may be ap
plied to those who die annually of Con
sumption, although science has of late
years sensibly diminished their number.
It is gratifying to know that the general
use of Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cher-
lendT largely instrumental in attaining th<«
[communicated.]
Messrs. Editors Union & Recorder :
After my short interview with you at
your office on the 6th inst., I started for
Macon via M. & A. R. R., hoping to con>
nect with M. & B. train for the lower
country, but on arriving at Macon, I
learned there would be no train in that
direction until early next morning ; so I
proceeded to the popular Brown House,
to take lodging for the night. As always
I was well cared for in every particular
during the night aud till train time next
morning. When train time arrived, the
conductor announced “all aboard,” the
engineer blew his whistle, and we were
soon traveling at a fast rate in the direc
tion of Brunswick. I soon made the ac
quaintance of a number of gentlemen from
different sections of the State, several of
whom gave me money to pay for sub
scriptions to the “Union A Recorder,’’
which I will turn over to you with their
names in time to furnish each with a copy
of your next issue. But we continued to
travel, and early in the afternoon we ar
rived at No. 8£, where a gentleman
came on board, who, by his pleasant coun
tenance and gentlemanly manners, attrac
ted my attention. You will doubtless be
agreeably surprised when I tell you who
it was. It was Mr. Lott. You remember
that he formerly lived iu the town of
Sodom, and on leaving that place, before
its destruction, his wife looked back and
was turned to a pillar of salt. But Mr.
Lott is married again, and I think has
several children. He is one of the most
pleasant and agreeable gentlemen that I
ever became acquainted with. But I
must not forget to tell you that he sub
scribed for your paper too. His given
name is Daniel and he lives in Coffee
county. Direct his paper “to No. 84 M.
A B R. R., that being his post office.—
Mr. Lott was a good man when he lived
in Sodom, and I can see no change in
that respect yet.
At the same station, another very aged
gentleman came on board, and in conver
sation with him he told me that he had
been reading your paper for more than
40 years. He told me to ask you to stop
his paper when his subscription expired—
that he might tty the experiment to see
whether or not he could live without it,
and when he became stupefied doing
without its effects he would write you to
continue to send. He is quite an aged
gentleman, and his eyes seemed very
much impaired, which is his only reason
for discontinuing your paper.
About night I arrived at Jesup, where
I took tea, and connected with the
A A G. train going to Savannah. At
lOJ o'clock at night we arrived there,
where I got aboard a hack bearing the
name of the “Pulaski House,” and soon I
was at the Pulaski House—walked in,
registered, paid 75 cts. for a few moments
ride on the hack, which was just 25 cents
more than I ever was charged in any city
hack in Georgia, or out of it. The re
mainder of the night was spent in sleep.
I arose early next morning, eat an ordin
ary breakfast, and on remembering that
I was dealt with pretty heavily for
a few moments’ rideonthePulaski House
hack the over night, I thought it best to
inquire how my finances would be handled
at the hotel-wad on inquiry found their
Bulloch county is quite orderly. The
Hinesville Gazette says: “The grand
jury finished their labors in one day,
having lmt two cases brought before them
in both of which they found true bills.
This is a fact which speaks well for the
peace and good order of Bulloch county.
The two cases referred to were both tried,
and resulted in the condemnation of both
parties. One-was sent to the penitentiary
for five years, the other for ten. They
were both negroes.
University Orators.—Augusta, it seems,
is peculiarly honored in the selection of
orators for the two societies at Athens at
the approaching commencement, Mr
Chas. Z. McCord having been chosen
orator of the Demostlienians and Mr
’Win. H. Fleming orator of the Phi-Kap
pas. both of tlie first named city.
The Crops.—One of the editors of the
Macon Telegraph, who was in Atlanta on
the day of the Direct Trade meeting,
writes: “We were at some pains to learn
from -the Patrons what was the present
agricultural outlook in Georgia. They
were all agreed as to the immense
increase, amounting to over one hundred
per cent, in the corn and other grain
crops, and represent wheat and oats to
be unusually flourishing and forward
Of guano, the falling off will be fully fifty
per cent, of the quantity used the past
year. This undoubtedly portends
short cotton crop, aside from the vast
diminution hi the acreage of the staple.
O11 Tuesday morning Mr. AY. Eugene
Mitchell, of Albany, was married to Miss
Isabel Tift, daughter of Hon. Nelson
Tift. The affair was very brilliant.
The session of the Georgia Medical
Association at Thomasville was a success
ful one. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year,
Dr. Dessausure Ford, of Augusta.
President.
Dr. R. L. Itoddey. of Forsyth, First
Y’ice President.
Dr. J esse Boring, of Atlanta, Second
Alee President.
Dr. J. T. Johnson, of Atlanta, Secre
tary.
Dr. O’Daniel, of Twiggs county, Trea
surer.
They are revising their police force in
Atlanta. The chief has been suspended,
and several of the men have been dis
charged for seduction and other little
irregularities.
It turns out that Colonel Victor Hugo
Sturm, of Louisville, who was recently
married to Airs. Eppie Bowdre Castlen
of Macon, is not the person he represents
himself to be. His real wife publishes a
card in a Tennesseo paper, in which she
puts in a prior lien on his affections. She
says the Colonel is in no way related to
Hugo, the French novelist, but is tbc
son of an honest German, living near
Cincinnati. Neither is he a Colonel, the
only position he held in the army being
that of post sutler at Cumberland Gap.
AYliy women will persist in marrying ad
venturers is one of those mysteries that
will never be explained on this earth.
Atlanta Commonwealth: Since our es
tablishment in the capital, we have been
quietly looking into the workings of the
State machinery, and the result of our
investigation is not so pleasant as a
disinterested lover of his State avould
wish. In the matter of the State Road
frauds and the committees and agents
appointed to develop and adjust them,
we have been painfully struck with the
venality of the exploiters and the corrupt
ness of the officials. No darker chapter
of roguery ever stained the records of a
State than that which details the villiany
of the Bullock regime. And alas, for the
honor of our State and the interest of
the Commonwealth, the record does not
close with the higera of Bullock, but its
shame and its crimes cling like a leprosy
to many who are left behind, some of
whom are loudmouthed patriots, canting
Democrats, and honored with trustworthy
positions. YYe have the records, and we
intend to fearlessly expose the frauds—
let the odium rest upon whom it may.
It is a black chapter, but the interest of
the State demands that it be written.
It is only by a vigilant watch over one's
servants that tlie household interests are
protected, and it is by a rigid scrutiny of
public officers that men are held to a
faithful discharge of their duties. It shall
be our aim to do justice to all, but no
man’s position, nor his Democracy, can
shield him.
Georgia Items,—The Albany News cor
respondent at Macon records the failure
of Charles Roundtree, a noted planter of
Houston county. His liabilites are $60,
000. and the cause of his collapse was all
cotton and no corn. The same correspon
dent records that a new daily paper will
be started in Macon very soon, and that
the people’s voice is well nigh unanimous
for it.
General McLaws has been confirmed as
Collector of Revenue for the Second Dis
trict of Georgia.
Two hundred and seventeen persons in
Muscogee county have taken the benefit
of the homestead law of 1868.
The State Grange of Alabama, which
was recently in session at Montgomery,
adopted resolutions looking to a co-opera-
ton with the Georgia Grange, in the mat
ter of direct trade with Europe, aud the
plan proposed for immigration, which, it
is behoved will result in success.
Bishop Pierce, of the M. E. Church
South, recently stated authoritatively
that Emory College, Georgia, would soon
have an endowment of half a million of
dollars from a source which he did not
feel at liberty to reveal.
A correspondent says the planters of
Montgomery are pushing ahead with their
fanning operations. The eat crop in
Montgomery and adjacent counties is the
finest ever seen in that section. Com is
small, but looking well. A few planters
are planting no cotton at all
Decadence or New Orleans.—One of
the oldest merchants in New Orleans, in
a recent letter to a correspondent in Bos
ton, says the population of New Orleans
has fallen off in two years, thirty thou
sand, and there are no less than six thou
sand houses and stores at present un
occupied. Fifteen years ago New Orleans
was at the acme of its wealth, prosperity
and commercial importance, second only
to New York and Boston. Its river and
ocean tonnage in port, loading and dis
charging, was seldom less thm one hun
dred and fifty thousand tons, and in the
busiest season of the year double that
amount
_ Milwaukee 8.—Independent lie
publican elected Mayor by 700 majority.
The license ticket generally carried in the
smaller towns.
Cincinnati, April 8.-*—The Democratic
majority in Cincinnati will be about 5,000
ilia vote of about 28,000.
Hartford, April 8.—The revised an 1
complete returns of yesterday’s election
give a total vote of 91.671, of which Harri
son, Republican, received 40,042; Inger-
soll, Democrat, 46,784; Smith, Prohibi
tion, 4,826; scattering, 19. Ingersoll’s
plurality, 6,742; and majority over all,
1,897.
Cleveland, April 8.—The Democrats
gain three in the Council. The Republi
can loss since 1S72 is 7,898.
Kansas City, April 8.—The Democrats
were successful in the election here yes
terday.
St. Joseph, April 8.—A Democratic
ticket has been elected here. This city
has, since the negro population began
voting, given a Republican majority eve
ry election until yesterday.
A Model Farm and Farmer-
Under this head, the Columbus Sun and
Enquirer, of Wednesday, has some inter
esting information concerning the farm
ing operations of Mr. W. L. Ingram, of
Russell county, Ala. Air. Ingram works
fouu’liands—himself and three sons—on
land that has been in cultivation forty
years. His crop for the present year
will be, small grain 100 acres, com 30
acres and cotton 30 acres, besides a liber
al acreage in peas, potatoes, etc. He has
good orchards of fine fruit trees, all in a
thrifty condition and well cared for.
The growing wheat crop, one variety—
the “blue stem”—is now waist high on an
average, and all bearded out, This wheat
is very early and weighs sixty five pounds
to the bushel. The past year he has
made from his horse and cow lots as
much or more splendid manure than he
can haul out and apply to his crops. The
rye is now headed out, and in many
places five feet high. This he has been
cutting, curing and feeding to his horses
for three weeks. He says they eat it with
greater relish than any feed given them.
The oat crop is very fine, a great portion
being over knee high. All these crops
arc on old land, without any fertilizer.
His barn is a large and substantial one, 1
with excellent stablos attached to well
protect all his horses. He has now eight
colts under two year’s old, all sired by his
own horse. The shelters for his cattle,
with troughs to feed in, are large, sub
stantial and comfortable. Horses, cat*
tie and hogs in good condition. He has
sold since the war horses of his own
breeding and raising to tlie amount of
$1,850. besides supplying all the demands
of hit farm for stock. There has been
no year since the war that he has not
sold to his neighbors as much as three
thousand pounds of pork, and some
years much more, or in which he has not
had corn, peas, potatoes, rye, wheat, or
oats one, aud sometimes all to spare to
his neighbors, and at- moderate prices.
A\ e forgot to mention that he has pulled
down and rebuilt during the past winter
more than two miles of old fencing, bev
sides repairing a good deal.
A \ exatious Question of Etiquette.—
A\ asliington April 5.—The question of
priority of claim for social precedence is
again bothering officials and society peo
ple in M asliington. It seems never to
have been absolutely settled whether the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
should call upon the Y'ice President of
the United States and Speaker of the
House first, or whether those high offi
cials should make the first call upon the
Chief Justice. Custom seems to have
almost settled this vexatious question of
etiquette in favor of the Y'ice President
and Speaker, but this is Judd to be wrong,
since even though the Chief Justice is
appointed by the President and confirmed
by the Senate, when once confirmed he
becomes the grand conservative element
and head of the nation, before whom the
President himself may be arraigned in
case of impeachment. A similar conten
tion exists regarding the priority of claim
for precedence of Senators and Represen
tatives of long service.
Cotton Seed and Cotton Planting.
In Cotton culture it is the worst of bad
management to plant inferior seed be
cause it would cost something to buy the
best; but, as we have repeatedly urged,
every planter should by continual selec
tion and high cultivation, make his own
seed, and take pride in having the best.
Begin with the Dickson seed, or any bet
ter sort, if there be any better; and im
prove upon that till you have something
as much better than the Dickson as the
Dickson is better than the common. YYe
are accustomed to boast of the perfection
to which cotton culture has been brought
in this country, and with some reason,
but there is still room for improvement—
something to learn by those not too -wise
in their own conceit to accept new truths.
Only general rules for the culture of any
crop can be given, when they are to be
applied to various conditions of soil, clB
mate and season. Experience must de
termine the exceptions and good judg
ment guide the planter at every step.—
(Rural Carolinian.
An Atlanta letter says: The demand for
guano in ^.tlanta this season is only one
third as great as last, and it is believed
that only about one half the amount sold
last year will be disposed of this year.
The demand last year was far greater than
the supply.) Yet it has been observed that
the demand is much greater in all that
section of the State north of Atlanta; and
while the cotton crop will doubtless fall
short in other sections, there is little
doubt that it will increase in North Geor
gia. Last year Atlanta sold about ten
thousand tons of fertilizers; this year it
is estimated that five thousand tons will
be sold, and next year dealers here con
fidently predict that they will sell twenty
thousand tons. Their experience leads
them to this belief. A reduced crop will
bring an increased price, and a consequent
universal determination to plant cotton.
The ten thousand tons of fertilizers sold
into this city last year cost about $600,000.
From these data it is reasonable to esti
mate that Georgia pays annually about
four millions of dollars for this article of
commerce, only about $300,000 of which
are allowed to remain in Georgia.
The distilleries of the country last year
produced over sixty-eight millions of gal
lons of spirits. There were four hundred
and forty-five of them, in which about
$70,000,000 capital was invested, 70,000
men employed, and nearly twenty millions
of bushels of grain consumed, four fifths
being corn. The spirits produced yield
ed nearly $50,000,000 tax to the Treasury,
Illinois is the chief producer, and the
"Western States distilled more than five-
sevenths of all the spirits made.
Cotton Crops.—The cotton crop of
1870-71 was 4,347,066 bales, and sold for
$306,376,982. The cotton crop of 1871-
72 was 2,974,350 bales, which sold for
$327,178,010—more than $20,000,000 in
excess of the big crop of the preceding
year.
The remnant of Captain Jack’s gallant
band of Modocs is quietly pursuing the
arts of peace. Scar-faced Charley and
Bogus Charley are in command; Steams
boat Frank is learning to read, and the
rest of the tribe are smoking, drinking,
hunting and Cultivating the ground. Cap
tain Jack’s widow still blackens her face
and lives in retirement. The squaws do
not ‘‘accept the situation” as readily as
the males.
There is not so agonizing a feeling in
the whole catalogue of human suffering
as the first conviction that the heart of
the being whom we most tenderly love is
estranged from us.
A Georgia Girl Leaves Hoifie and Comes
to Nashville with a Young Man who
Ought to be Her Husband, but is not
From the Nashville Union, 314 n’.t.J
Saturday night the following dispatch,
dated at Chattanooga, was received by
Capt. Yater: ,
“Arrest and notify the sheriff of Chat
tooga county, Ga., H. L. T. Ovesby, five
feet, six inches, weight 140, dark skm,
blue eyes, black hair and mustache, wore
dark red velvet coat, black cuffs and col
lar, broad brimmed liat, with girl 17 years
old, five feet five inches, dark skin, light
hail - , blue eyes. Left Chattooga county
Friday morning.
[Signed] _ “YY T . Hix.”
Yesterday morning officer Jack Heald
noticed a young man dressed as above de
scribed, enter Judge Dulings office, and
at once arrested him. He claimed that
he was married to the girl referred to in
the telegram, and said he was going to
take out license to give a slightof-hand
performance in the city. He claimed he
was married about a month ago, and that
the girl's maiden name was Lizzie Gib-
.son : that he had an aunt living in Edge-
field. that he and his wife went to her
house upon reaching Nashville Saturday,
and the latter was there yet.
At the request of Ovesby, Capt. Yater
went over to Edgefield yesterday after
noon, in order to get his watch and his
money—thirty-five dollars in all. The
girl had been informed of Ovesby’s arrest,
at which time she exhibited anxiety and
exclaimed:
“I wish I could see my father once
more!”
At the time of Capt. Y’ater’s visit I10
was accompanied by a reporter for this
paper. The two were shown into a par
lor of a house on a back street in Edge-
field, and the girl entered the room soon
after. She was dressed plainly but neat
ly. and had beautiful brown hair, which
fell about her shoulders, pleasing features,
bright blue eyes, and was evidently of an
innocent, confiding nature.
"Will you please tell me your name,
Aliss ?” asked the captain, as the young
lady sat down.
“Lizzie Cox,” was the reply.
“How long have you known this gen
tleman you fire traveling with ?"
“Well, I haven't known him very long.”
“Ar e you a married woman
“Yes.”
“To whom are you married ?”
“To Air. Ovesby.”
“When ffeve you married ?”
“About a month ago.”
“Where ?”
“I don’t know the name of the station. '
“YYI10 married you .’’’
“Well, I don’t know the name of the
preacher, either.”
“Have you been to your father’s house
since you were married ?”
“No.”
nWell," said tlie Captain, “Y'ou must
excuse me for asking these questions, but
I ask them for your good and perhaps I
can be of some assistance to you. Your
husband—or the man you call your hus
band, has been arrested, as you already
know. I received an order to arrest him,
by telegraph. He has told his story about
this matter, and it differs from yours
somewhat, and now .”
“Did he tell yon we were married?”
raked the girl, earnestly.
“I’m questioning you, and not yon me,
responded Capt. later, “Answer this one
question:’’
“are you married or not?”
The girl hesitated. Her fingers nerv
ously clasped and unclasped as her hands
lay idly in her lap. No one spoke, and j
the sound of a clock, with its monotonous
“tic-tac, '“tic tae,” could be heard in an
adjoining room: Who can tell thethoughts
which filled that unfortunate gill’s mind
during these few seconds? Far from home
with no one to counsel her, the man who
had taken her from her parents under ar
rest, and she called upon to answer a
question, which, if answered in the af
firmative, would proclaim her shame, and
if answered in the negative, might drive
from her one who had announced himself
a friend, and if he were turned against
her, where should she look for help?
At last she turned to the officer, and
with flaming cheeks and eyes filled with
tears, replied:
“I’ll tell you the truth: YYe are not
married. He came to our house, near
Subligna, Friday morning just before day.
He promised to marry me just as soon as
we crossed the line iuto Tennessee. He
said he’d get a license and marry me. Aly
parents didn’t know I was going. I ran
away from home. YYe went in a buggy as
far as Rome, Ga., and there we took the
cars at about 7 or 8 o’clock Friday even
ing. He sold the horse at Rome and left
the buggy with a man. He couldn't sell
the buggy. We got to Chattanooga about
3 o’clock Saturday morning, and we staid
at a hotel together until the next train
came along. We occupied the same room.
He wanted me to, and said he’d marry me
just as soon as he could get a license.
We came to this house Saturday evening
and have been here ever since, living as
man and wife. I asked him last night a-
bout the license, and he said he’d attend
to it to-dav.”
Nearly all diseases originate from li.-igexior. ani
Torpidity of the Liver, and relief is a!-,.- ,y s anxio«*| T
sought after. If the l,irer is Kegulaicl hi i s a /.
tion, health is almost invariably.secured. Want of ac-
tion in the Liver causes Headache, Constipation
Jaundice, l’ainin the Shoulders, Cough, Chills, Dijzj.
ness. Sour Stomach, bad taste in tl,e mouth,bilious
attacks, palpitation of the heart, depression of spirit*
or the blues, and a hundred other symptoms forwhicli
Mininiona’ l.ivor Begnlnior is the best reinprji
that has ever been discovered It acts iniMiy,
tually. and being a simple vegetable conipoaud, ca„
do no injury iu any quantities that it. may he taken. It
is harmless in every way; it has been used lor
years, and hundreds of the good and great f, ; , m ^
parts of the country will vouch tor its being
aud best.
‘ pnrest
LIVER REGULATOR, DO
:sdiu
rid.
to the
Is harmless,
Is no drastic violent medicine,
la sure to cure if taken regularly,
Is no intoxicating beverage,
Is a faultless family medicine.
Is the cheapest medicine in the w
Is given with safety and the hap]
most delicate iofant,
Docs Dot interfere with business,
Does uot disarrange the system.
Takes the place of Quinine and I!i
kind,
Contaius the simplest and best rem • li.■ .
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
Dec. 17, 1873. nj ,
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SESSHU
The Longest Jury Sitting on Record
—Extra Compensation.—The jury in the
Tielibome case were, with one exception,
all men engaged in commercial pursuits
demanding their personal supervision, and
they complain that their long withdrawal
from their business has seriously dama
ged them. At an early stage of the trial,
when no one expected it to be prolonged
to the unprecedented length of time it
has engaged the attention of the court,
they applied for an allowance of two
guineas a day. but as they were engaged
in the case for over a period of ten
months, they petitioned the Lords Com
missioners of the Treasury to allow them
such remuneration as will in someway
compensate them for the pecuniary losses
they sustained in their long service. The
Lords Commissioners instructed their
solicitor to pay each juryman three hun
dred guineas, that being, in their opinion,
an amount which, concidering Jffie uh-
precedented length of the trial (Hid me
remuneration usually accorded to pity-
men, would constitute a reasonable «om-
pensation.
Nailer. — A collossal Equestrian Stature of General
Scott, ordered by the Gove-mnent of the United
States, to adorn the City of Washington, is buttons of
the many artistic works which have appeared from
the foundry of Robert Wood Sc Co., of Philadelphia.
Messrs. Wood it Co. will have on view, in the Centen
nial Exhibition, a complete collection of their produc
tions, both in Bronze Art and everything pertaining
to Ornamental Iron Work-
158, 158, 160 and
SAVA N X A II, G 1 .
j
i ritHE PROPRIETOR HAVING COMPLETED
j L the necessary additions and improvements can
new offer to his guests all the comforts to he obtained
at other Hotels at less than
I
! Half the Expense !
ON THE
European JPian
Has been nihleii, where guests can at ail hours or.ltr
whatever can be obtained in the Market.
Rooms With Board,
$1 50 per day.
DETERMINED TO BE OUTDONE 15Y NONE,
alllask is atrial, confident that complete satisfaction
will be given.
JOHN BRESNAN, Propr.
April 14, 1174. 33 Jy
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Theatres, Concert and Lecture
Halls,
AND A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF ORNA
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Estimates and designs sent on application, stating the
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Joy to the World ! Woman is Free!—Among
the many modern discoveries looking to the happiness
and amelioration of the human race, none is entitled
to higher consideration than the renowned remedy—
I)r. J. Bradfield’s Female Regulator. Woman’s Best
Friend. By it woman is emancipated from number
less ills peculiar to her sex. Before its magic power
all irregularities of the womb vanish. It cures sup
pression of the menses. It removes uterine 'obstruc
tions. It cures constipation and strengthens the sys
tem. It braces the nerves and purifies the biood. It
never fails, as thousands of women will testify. It
cures whites. This valuable medicine is prepared aud
sold by L- H. Bradfield, DruggLt, Atlanta, Ga.
Price «I 50 per bottle. All respectable drug men
keep it.
* Tuskegee, Ai.a., 1808.
Mr. L. II. Bradfield—Sir: Please forward ns,
immediately, another supply of Bkadfield’s Fe
male Regulator. We fiud it to be all that is claim
ed for it, and we have witnessed the most decided and
happy effects produced by it.
Very respectfully,
Hunter Sc Alexander,
We the undersigned Druggists, lake pleasure in
commending to the trade, Dr. J. BradfieLD's Fe
male Regulator—believing it to be a good and re
liable remedy for the diseases for which he recom
mends it.
W. A. Landsell. Atlanta, Ga.
Pemhekton, Wilson, Taylor & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Red WINE & Fox, Atlanta, Ga.
W. C. Lawshk. Atlanta, Ga.
W. Root & Son, Marietta, Ga.
STATE OF GEORGIA-Troup County.
This is to certify that I have examined the recipe of
DR. J. BRADFIELD, of this county, and as a medi
cal man pronounce it to be a combination of medi-
cin.es of great merit in the treatment of all the dis
eases of females for which he recommends it. Tdis
December 21, 1868.
WM. P. BEASELEY, M. D.
For sale in Milledgeville by
JOHN M. CLARK and B. It. HERTY, Drnggi-fs.
May 14, 1873. . 42 ly
Sorrow shows ns the truth, as the dark-
ham of night brings out the stem-
Snstain the Sinking System-
The flashes of excitement produced by the stimulants
of ordinary use, are followed by a reaction that is al
ways more or less injurious. Just as the darkness,
illuminated for a moment by the lightning’s glare be
comes apparently blacker than ever after the Hash is
over, so the mental gloom and physical debility that
vanish temporarily under the influence of a dram, re
turn with a ten-fold intensity when the first transient
effect ceases. Yet physicians habitually prescribe the
liquors of commerce for patients suffering from bodily
weakness and mental despondency. The true remedy
in sneb cases is a pure stimulant medicated with the
finest tonics and alteratives which the vegetable king
dom affords, and Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is the
only preparation at present known which meets the
emergency. The effect of this popular restorative is
continuous. Each dose taken invigorates the vital en
ergies aud the brain, and its prolonged use will un
questionably cure any case of debility, hypochondria,
or mental torpidity that does not arise lrom organic
i beyond the reach of medicine. It is in the
strictest sense of the word, an invigorating and regu
latiug cordial. If the nerves are tremulous and re
laxed, it relieves them ; if the bowels are constipated,
it relieves them; if the liver is torpid, it promotes ac
tivity in that organ; if the mind is gloomy, it clears
away the clouds ; if the appetite is poor and digestion
a slow and painful operation, it creates arelish for food
and enabks the-stomach to convert it into healthful
aliment. Moreover, it is a specific for a large number
of ailments,' some of which are particularly prevalent
in the damp and chilly weather which we so often ex
perience in mid winter. Among these may be men
tioned rheumetiam, chills and fever and all the mdrbid
oendHione of the digestive and secretive organs snper-
iadaosd by sodden changes of temperature and ihe
ie^kuclnvf the season. M tm
Lo West Through St. Louis.
T ro all who are reeking now homes in, or are about
totnko atrip to Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New
Mexico, Nebraska Oregon or California, we recom
mend a cheap safe, quick and direct route by way
of St. Louis, over the ’Missouri Pacific Through Line.
It is equipped with fine Day Condos, Buck’s Reclin
ing Chair Cars, Pullman's Palace Sleepers, ihe tamous
Miller Safety Platform and the celebrated Westing-
i house Air Brake, aud runs its trains from St. Louis
to principal points iu the West without change. We
believe that the Missouri Pacific Through Line has the
bosttrack of any road west of the Mississippi River,
and with its superior equipment and unrivaled coin
forts for passengers, has become the great popular
tlioroughfare between the East and the West. Trains
from the North, South and East connect at St. Louis
witli trains of the Missouri Pacific. Tlie Texas con
nection of this road is now completed, and passengers
are offered a first-class all-rail route from St. Louis to
Texas, either over the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ii.
R., viaSedalia, or over tlie Atlantic & Pacific If, R.,
via Vinita. For maps, time tabh s, information as to
rates, routes, etc., address E. A. FORD, Geneial Pas
senger Agent, SL Louis. Mo. Questions will be cheer
fully and promptly answered.
Cheap Farms for Sale.—Easy Term*.
The Atlantic and Pacific R. R. Company oft'ers 1.-
200,100 acres of land in Central and Southwest .Missou
ri at from $3 to $12 per acre, on seven years time, with
free transportation from St. Louis to all purchasers.—
Climate, soil, timber,mineral wealth, schools,churches
and law-abiding society iuvite emigrant-- from al! points
to this land of fruits and flowers. For paiticulars,
address A TUCK, Laud Commissioner, St. Loirs,
Mo. jan lti, 74 2fi ly
The number of native ministers in
India has largely increased since 1861.
In that year there were 319 mission sta
tions and ninety-seven native ministers.
In 1871 there were 423 stations and 226
native ministers. . During this period
the number of foreign missionaries had
risen from 478 to 486.
Among Mr. Sumner’s valued treasures
is the Bible used by Bunyan when he
wrote “Pilgrim’s Progress,” containing
the autograph of Bunyan, while the
margin is full of notes, also in his hand
writing.
An impecunious bachelor sighs that
there is so much truth in the statement
of the fashion writers that there is “no
change in gentlemen's pantaloons, this
season.”
Young marrying old men, shotild
always remember to have it stipulated iu
the contract that a respectable life insur
ance shall be a part of the bargain fi r
what is there so consoling to a yourg
widow in her weeds, or makes ns so etl e-
rially beautiful, as a few thousand