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VOLUME XLV.]
■ IL L EDGE TILLS, GEORGIA, MARCn 2.1,1875.
> UMBER 15.
nian &
the I MACON CARDS.
£ e c o r b t r ,| xiie Isaacs House
Cherry Street, - Macei, Ga.
H AVING some of the finest rooms in the city. With
meals at the tables D’Hote—$2 00 per day, or
memo tu me louies u note— uu per
50 cts. to 75 cts. for room, and meals to order. Lower
rates by the week, and every effort made to give
comfort and satisfaction to guests.
_ . _ ISAACS, Proprietor.
Feb. 8, 1875. 3g jy
NATIONAL
HOTEL
(Nearly opposite Union Depot,)
MACOX, GA.
Board - - - %% Per Day.
T. n. HARRIS, Manager.
Nov. 10, 1874. ’ 21 ly.
IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IN MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.,
BY
Boughton, Barnes & Moore,
At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year
S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor.
THE “FEDERAL UNION” and the “SOUTH
ERN RECORDER” were consolidated August 1st
1872, the Union being in its Forty-Third Volume and
the Recorder in it’s Fifty-Third Volume.
ADVERTISING.
Transient.—One Dollar per square of ten line* for fir«t Inser
tion, and »eveilty-five cents for eacii subsequent continuance.
Liberal discount on these rated will bo allowed on advertise-
uts running three mouths, or longer.
Tributes of Respect, Resolutions by Societies, Obituaries ex
ceeding six lines. Nominations for office Kid Communications
for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Sheriff's Sales, per Wy of ten lines, or less, (2 SO
“ Mortgage n la sales, p^r square, 5 00
Ortat ions for Letters of Administration, 3 00
44 44 “ Guardianship, 3 00
Application for Dismission from * Administration, 3 00
“ 44 Guardianship, 3 00
Leave to sell Land, S 00
* 4 for Homesteud*,
Notice to Debtors and Creditors,
8 ““ t n I faroUioecominijto thecity'for busmeea,
Bstra, Notice., 3o days.. 3 no I “ r t ,or a "oiourn of pleasure. An ELEGANT 8AM
if eraolosuro of Mortgage, pr*r square, each time 1 00 I PLE ROOM has been fitted up for the 8peoial U86 Ol
commercial travelers.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. JJ 16 1 ^waye supplied with all the Imuries of
, . , , , , . , . . _ I the season, from first markets, and can be surnassed
Sales of Land, Ate., by Administrators, Executors or Gu»r- k : ^ v
dians, Rre required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the 1 D J non ® 11 lI * e
month, between the nours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 m the af-I UmniDUS to CODVey passengers to and from the
ornoou, at the Court House in the county in which the property I Hotel and all trains, free of charge
B. DUB, Proprietor.
LANIER HOUSE.
B. DUB, Proprietor.
Mulberry Street, - Macon, Georgia
The above named Hotel has been recently refur
3 on nished and filled up for the accommodation of tran
.son M enta s well as permanent Boarders. Persons will
2 no find it to their interest to stop at this House, as its
? nn I centra ' l <lCa li“^. makes it a very desirable place for
r Du
Is situated. Noli'
gazette 30 days p
of these sales must be given in a public
ious to the day of sale.
Notices for the sale of personal property must bo gl
liko manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notice to tho debtors and creditors of an estate must be pub
lished 40 days.
Netice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary
for leave to sell Laud, itc., must be published for one month.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, Ate.,
must be publish *d 30 days- for dismission from Administration
monthly three mouths—for dismission from Guardianship 40
days.
Rales for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly
April 18, 1872.
6m
US. S. JTOHlfSffOH,
Has received for Fall and Winter Trade, 1874-5,
Watches, Jewelry, Silver Ware
FANCY GOODS, FINE CUTLERY,
p^^!L\ u V!fi^rrZ l L±m^. f orTdL'in.'| MusicaI Instruments, Strings, Ac., Ac.
Istrators, where bond lias been given by the deceased, the full
• pace of three mouths.
Publications will always be continued according to these
tba legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered.
Sole Agent for the Celebrated
Book and Job Work, of all kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT THIS OFFICE.
BALDWIN COUNTY.
1,4c.
Particular Attention given to Repairs on Fine and
Difficult Watches.
JEWELRY, Arc , REPAIRED, and ENGRAVING.
Heavy and Medium 14, 18 and 22 Karat Plain Gold
Rings and Badges made to order and Engraved at
Baldwin Sheriff's Sale.
W ILL be sold at the legal place for holding Sher
iff’s Sales, in Baldwin County, before the Ma-
•eoio Hall, in the city otMilledgeville, on the first Tues
day in APRIL next, within tlie legal hours of sale, the
following property, to-wit:
One light bay horse Mule named Jerry, about 6 or 7
yearn old, levied ou as the pr< party of Elder Rivers,
to eatiafy a Superior Court ti fa in favor of Perry A.
Denton V3. Levi Thomas and Elder Rivers. Proper
ty pointed out by Plaintiff's Attorneys.
OBADIAII ARNOLD, Sheriff.
Jan. 30, 1875. 28tds.
Baldwin Sheriff’s Sale.
yyiLL be sold at the legal place of holding public
Corner Mulberry 6l Second Streets,
M4C0N, GEORGIA.
(OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE.)
Nov, 10, 1874. 16 ly
county of|
Tui
sales, in the city of Milledgevil!
Baldwin, before the Masonic Hall, on the first
dev in APRIL next, within
following property, to-wit:
One-half undivided fee simple interest and one-half
aodivided interest during the life if Lizzie Willis, of
leland in Oconee river formerly owned by John Haas
and Dan Caraker. Sold as the property of Hamilton
Brawn to satisfy a mortgage fi fa, W. G. Lanterman
we. Hamilton Brown and said property. Property
painted out by plaintiff’s attorney.
March 1,1875.—32 Ids] O. ARNOLD, Sh’ff.
Sheriff’s Sale.
O N THE FIRST TUESDAY IN APLIL next, 1
will (ell between legal hours, at the usual place of I
wale, ia the city of Milledgeville, Baldwin county, the
Hallowing property of A. H. Reid, Dentist, by virtue
<ef a mortgage fi fain favor of D. II. Reid, J. S. Reid,
J. Q. Davis and J. II. Ethridge vs. A. II- Reid, to-wit:
©Be •ett of Dental instruments, one dental chair, one
cose, two strips carpet, one roll matting, one rug,
two awnings; levied ou by J. B. Wall, Sheriff, on ltith
January last, aud one dental cabinet, one rug, one
table and one sett window shades, levied on by me, on
Mtb January, last.
JOHN II. EDWARDS, Deputy Sheriff.
February 8,1875 29 tds.
ryEverv Saturday copy.
To all Whom it may Concern
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, February Term, 1875.
W HEREAS. W. T. Coun, Administrator de
bonis non, on the Estate of Charlotte S. Dagget,
deceased, has filed hid petition to be discharged from I gf jJJ glides
•aid administration.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all
tiea interested, to show cause on or by the first ,
day in May 1875, why the said W.T.Conu, administra
tor aa aforesaid, should not be discharged as prayed
far in his petition.
Witness my official signature this February 1st, 1875,
SS3mJ DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
To all Whom it may Concerns
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary February Term, 1875.
W HEREAS, E. S. Bruudage, Executor on the I
Estate of Jesse Bruudage deceased, has filed his I
petition to be discharged from said Executorship.
These are, theiefore. to cite and admonish all psr-
Mto interested, to show cause on or by the first Mon-
Am.j b May 1875, why.the said E. S Bruudage, Execu
tor ee aforesaid, should not.be discharged as prayed
far in bis petition. Witness my official signature this
February the 1st, 1875.
*• 3m.] DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary,
DAVIS SMITH,
DEALER IN
SADDLESsHARNESS
CARRIAGE MATERIAL,
Shoe Findings, Leather of all kinds, Children's
Carriages,
103 Cherry Street, MACON, GA.
January 26th, 1875. 27 3m
Established Over 30 Years Ago,
MIX & KIRTLAND,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Boots, Shoes and Bats,
Morocco, French and American Calf
Skins, Leather Findings, &c., &c.
All orders promptly and carefully filled at
3 Cotton Arenne & 66 3rd Street,
MACOX, GA.
MIX & KIRTLAND.
January 26th, 1875. 27 3n
For Union St Recorder. I ly feelings toward them, but earnestly
Intemperance- J desire for their own good and for the ben
Intemperance proves the existence of j «fit of the whites, that the negroes be as
C. BURKE,
House and Sign Painter,
AND DEALER IN
PAINTS, OIL, GLASS, Ac,
Colors, Dry and in Oil. Mixed Paints
Feb. 15, 1874.
32 Third Street,
MACON, GA.
30 3m.
Rale Nisi to Foreclose Mortgage
•f Land—February Term, 1875.
Perry fit. Denton vs. J. S. fit. Fannie Tindal.
I T APPEARING to the Court by petition of Plain
tiffs, that Defendants are indebted to them in the
ton of one hundred and fifty dollars besides interest
and that Defendants executed to them a mortgage
deed of a certain tract of one hundred and five acres
ef load therein described, situated in Baldwin county,
and that Defendants now reside in the State of Ala-
Abcma: Be it ordered that Defendants do pay into
<V*rt .aid sum of one hundred and fifty dollars be-
interest thereon, from October 1st, 1873, aDd
of this proceeding, or show cause to the contrary,
i tbeir equity of redemption of said land to be for
eve barred and
1 foreclosed. It is further ordered that
.aerviae of this rule be made on Defendants by publi-
the “Union fic Recorder” and “Every Satur
day” onoe a mouth for tour mouths, before the next
harm of this Court.
CRAWFORD Sc WILLIAMSON, Pl ffs. At ys.
X true extract from the minutes of Baldwin Supe-
gter Court. WALTER PAINE, Clerk.
March 1, 1875. 32 m4m.
BlM. W. Barrow.
Henry W Barrow,
BARROW & BARROW,
XjAWvmiSj
•flei is Brown Sc Barrow Building, Up
Stairs,
Will practice in the 6tate and Federal Courts,
I hop# my frieiids will give the new firm the same
<gardialiopport and favor they have shown to me.
JaM875-24-ly JSEXJ. W. BARROW.
T"A
Laid For Sale*
LOT adjoining Oliver White. Cobb and
Jeakint, lying in Baldwin county, near the line of
Jeaae, containing about 227 acres, the greater portion
ia weodi. No improvements—a fine rich body of origi
nal growth, oak, hickory and dogwood—well water
ed: Two or three hundred acres adjoining, that ha»
boea ia cultivation, canibe purchased if desired.
SAMUEL G. WHITE.
Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 29,1874 . 23|tf.
Especially designed for the use of the Medical Pro
fesiion and the Family, possessing those intrinsic
medicinal properties which belong to an Old and Pure
Gin. Indispensable to Females. Good for Kidney.
Complaints. A delicious tonic. Put up in case, con
taining one dozen bottles each, and sold by ail drug
gists and grocers, fizc. A. M. Bininger fit Co., estab-
ished 1778, No. 15 Beaver st., N. Y. ap!2 74 ly
WASHINGTON BALL
TOBACCO at WHOLESALE.
fewest Market Rates Guaranteed.
pffifflf? wp rmmpw
Cheap for Cash.
J. P. SWEANY.
BANKRUPT-RELIEF.
S (JBE SAFETY for distressed Debtors, and their
expoeed families is to be found nowhere but in the
ggltoJ States Bankrupt Court. Why live in hopeleee
b.»H.C~ 7 The law invites you to be free, and .tart
Mb again with hope; at least to save a home forever,
ier year families.
Attorney
HBfedfOTiUe, March 25,1874. % *7
IZCAXi CARD.
—:o:—
MRS. HALL A HARRIS,
Office on Wayne street,
2 doom Sonth of Poet Ofioe.
.Jane 2,1874,
to
3<Ji *s & T7oc'l57-
GEORGE PACE & CO.,
Manufacturers of
PATENT PORTABLE CIRCULAR
SAW MILLS,
ALSO STATIfiSAS? i F32TABLS
STEAM ENGINES,
No. 5 N. Schroede r st.
BALTIMORE, l
Grist Mills, Leffel’s Turbine Water Wheels.
Wood Working Machinery of all kinds, and Uv
chinist.' Sundries.
BENI* FOR CATALOGUES.
Jan. 19, 1875. 26 ly
Temperance, like a counterfeit bill, does
the pure coin. It is no local affair, but
striking at the very heart and life’s blood
of society and the nation has proven and
is proving the pest o? the continent and
source of all woe, crime and death. Do
not think me enthusiastic when I say
that to a man of temperate habits to
travel over our State and nation—it
seems to him that the whole glorious na
tion is fast becoming a great consolida
ted or unificatedjjGrog Shop, the patron
izing of which will be kept up by the in
troduction of the rising generation and
that by their fathers. While I write,
think of it, the echo of young voices on
the streets of our unfortunate cities giv
ing expression to the debasing effect of
whiskey, not only on the brain, but on
the moral constitution, that has been so
tenderly cherished by a devoted mother,
and only turned out to learn to walk
alone, aDd gather strength and mind and
brightness, from all the Divine Maker has
seen proper to strew along the path for
example and teaching. Would not those
fathers cringe for our country’s hope, if
told—to their sons tee look f Shall it
always be so? Thank Heaven for the
assurance that we have, that it shall not!
The great political revolutions that have
swept and are sweeping our continent,
are but the portending drops, telling of
the Binful condition into which we have
fallen, and the coming reformation glori
ous reformation ! Yes it is coming—like
all the glorious fulfillments of promise
of our changeless Master, and if you, and
I» and all, are true to our pledge, we will
hasten it on. While it is true, He is not
dependant on us, or all men combined,
yet we are required to co-operate with
Him. I believe the only salvation to our
generation on the subject is to fall into
the unfaltering ranks of the “King of
Kings.” While points of high honor
may be reached, yet they may not be ac
cording to the true character of its de
signer. Let us then come out with
broad and studied conviction. We fear
so long as tho powers of our country are
at the mercy of diviners, who will allow a
debased wretch of the city debauches by
the hundred to only to pay a little tax
and then deal out damnation by retail!
The Captain who stands at the helm of
the Ship of State will not only fail to
send this prayed for reformation, but
will blight it with mildew and number it
among the past. All national pursuits
and designs disconnected with those de«-.
signs of God, who at first started on foot
the lofty principle upon which this whole
temperance fabrick stands—their failure
and fall “is only a question of time.”
The Church of Christ is an example of
all institutions built upon the founda
tions which no man can lay. Although
the enemies may gain the works—their
shouts saddening the hearts of all her
advocates. Yet this is no more than the
way the establishment of the Church was
treated, they fled deserted and doubted—
yet the glorious reform has gone on, the
heart-rended wife and mother may give
up in dispair, but she can not stay the
damning traffic. JSee her with the faith of
Mary kneeling beside the path that leads
to her little home, asking the Lord to
spare her deluded son, and husband, and
you will perceive the source of all the help
to both national and individual helpless
ness. Yes here is the sphere in which
woman can render herself inestimable to
even the u l'emperance reform.” We
need prayer for the inebriate, for the in
temperate and guidance through all the
future; we know not the trials of the fu
ture, we are sure the prospects are
gloomy enough to justify us in expecting
many defeats and failures. Some are
struggling by the way and dying, but
that is only characteristic of all powerful
reformations, “they move slow.” Power
is like the Nile—slow and grand, hearing
and purifying itself by depositing all that
offends on the shores to rot and pass
away. May this grand Temperance Power
extend it’s fostering arms until all the
blighted hearth-stones of our whole land
shall smile again and these awful crimes
of our day caused by intemperance, shall
only be related to the bright, hopeful cir
cles of childhood to only show, not what
we are, but what we have been.
W. Lane.
signed some territory where they can
live to themselves. We suggest not the
plan nor the place, but we earnestly wish
that they may remove from amongst ub
and form a colony of their own, where
they may indulge themselves in idleness,
and where they may enjoy all the rights
and privileges desired by their most ar
dent admirers.
They retard thrift, independence and
civilization and we earnestly hope that
before a long while there may be only a
few left in the Southern country. We
can prosper without them and should be
rid of them. But while they remain with
us we would have them treated with
kindness and justice. None of our good
citizens desire the least abridgment of
their liberties.—Monroe Advertiser.
From the New York Times—Republican
How the Civil Rights Bill Mav be
Worked.
If any keeper of a restauraunt or inn in
this city or any other city refuses to take
colored men into his house, he must pay
the colored man five hundred dollars, or
he may be fined five hundred dollars and
imprisoned for one year. If A wishes to
injure B, both being engaged in the same
business, he has only to employ five or
six negroes to go to B’s house and de-,
mand a dinner, bed-rooms, or some other
accommodation. If Bconqilies he probably
loses his white customers Seven or
eight negroes seated every evening in
Mr. Delmonico’s rooms would not tend
to attract general custom, although curi-,
osity might at first draw a crowd outs
side to stare through the windows. That
kind of business, however, does not pay
the restaurant keeper. But suppose that
B refuses the accommodation in question?
In that case, A proceeds to inform against
him, and B is liable to the penalties
above stated. How few restaurant keep
ers could afford to be fined five hundred
dollars a day, perhaps multiplied by six
or eight times over, or to run the risk of
being sent to prison for from thirty days
to twelve months for each offense^ommit
ted. Yet that is what Congress and the
President have just made the law —j>ace
the Supreme Court.
The Republican Platform for 1376.
BINZNGSR'S
OLD LONDON DOCK GIN.
S. s. PECK,
Machinist and Millwright,
Furniebee to Order
STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS,
Circular Saw, Grist and
Flour Mills,
Also, the Celebrated Leffell Double
Turbine Water Wheel. Hydraulic Bams,
Pipes, Pumps, and General Machinery.
All made of best Material, at Manufactur
er’s Prices.
TOOBESBORO, GA.
13 I j.
N«. IS, Ceafral K.
Oct. 20, 1874.
NEW BLACKSMITH SHOP.
THE under
signed baa put
tip a Black
smith Shop on
ths corner of _
Hancock and Wilkinson
streets, opposite the old
Court House Square,
where he is prepared to
do ALL KIND OF
WORK IN IKON in
the best manner.
Special attention given to farm and plantation work
Patronage aolicited.
S. M. CROMWELL
Milledgeville, Jane 2, 1874. 45 it
4Hi
PITTSBURG ACADEMY,
Baldwin Conaty, da#
L OCATED jost 8 miles west of Milledgeville, in a
com inanity proverbial for health and refinement
ThU School begins its SPRING TERM, February 3rd.
Tuition low. Board by week or moath at $8 a $10,
i| the neighborhood. Church and Sunday School ooa-
veaieat. For farther information apply to
JNO. W. FRAYSER, Teacher,
or J. M. D. Vm, Secretary, Ac ,
Milledgeville, Ga.
Jac. 90,1875. 288m.
From the Monroe Advertiser.
Colonizing the Negro.
There are numerous reasons why the
white and colored races cannot inhabit
the same country and live together in
peace and prosperity. The Bepublican
party claim to have freed the negro, be
stowed upon him all the rights he enjoys
and therefore claim his vote and friend
ship. As all the whites of the South,
with now and then an individual excep
tion, are Democrats, this effort on the
part of the radicals arrays the negro
against his white fellow citizens. This
hostility in politics is likely to continue
as long as the radicals have control of
the government We thus have the
southern section of the country filled
with two races whose interests are not
identical, whose tastes are widely differs
ent and who are constantly subject to
discord and strife. Can the country be
prosperous when such a state of affairs
exist ?
Again, the negro is notoriously im
provident and idle. He labors only from
necessity and when an opportunity pre
sents itself of stealing, he never fails to
take advantage of it. The negroes con
sume more than they produce, and are
therefore, a tax on the whites. A white
man who employs negro laborers to work
bis lands will find at the end of the year
that the products of their labor will not
pay the expense of food, clothes and
wages. This is true, with few exceptions,
aud makes it absolutely certain, that the
man who hires negro labor on his farm
and has no other business will eventually
become bankrupt.
Again, this people are so immoral and
so prone to commit crime that the trial
and punishment of offenders is the heavi
est tax the people have to bear. In
Monroe county the jail is constantly fill
ed with negroes awaiting trial and the
jail and court expenses of these offend
ers against the law has become a burden
some tax on the people.
Another serious inconvenience arising
from the presence of negroes in the coun
try, is that oar people, long accustomed
to depend upon them to .do the work,
imagine that they are not called upon to
labor. The result of this is that our
white people, to a great extent, are a non
laboring, non-prodocing people. If the
negroes were removed the whites would
depend upon themselves, and wonld be
more energetic, would labor more advans
tageously, would bring more skill and
science mto their business, and would
(he« become independent and prosper
ous. The large domain of fields should
be divided into small farms, and upon
these hmw white laborers should settle.
Possessing a climate and soil equal to
any on the globe, we need only the right
spirit among our people to succeed.
The negro is even a source of trouble.
Already our far seeing men are predict
ing war within two yean’ time; and if
the South should be dragged into anoth
er war it is easy to foretell with whom
the negro would side.
Wo say then that the negro is a curse
to aia We have none other than biend-
The Republican party as represented
by an enormous majority in both houses
of the Forty-third Congress, and illus
trated in the acts of its last session,
points with pride to its past record, and
rejoices in the following declaration of
its present principles:
I. Third term now, and Presidency for
life hereafter.
II. Government by the bayonet, sus
pension of habeas corpus at discretion,
and drumhead courts martial, aro the
true elements of political strength.
III. Specie payments in 1879 without
coin.
IV. Civil rights mean tho white man
has no right which the black man is
bound to respect.
Y. More taxes, more debt, and more
expenditures the true road to permanent
prosperity.
VT. Subsidies, special tariffs, Credit
Mobilier, Texan-Pacific, back pay grabs,
railroad grants, and all sorts of monopo
lies blaze the pathway of Republican leg
islation.
VII. Nepotism is obedience to scriptur
al authority, and a blessing to the reign
ing family.
YtU. Negro supremacy in the South
to advance Christian civilization.
IX. Opposition legislatures ought to
be suppressed by Federal troops as dan
gerous to Grantism.
X. Returning boards are more potent
than elections, and should be appointed
by the President.
XL The people have no right to com
plain when the Administration is con
tent.
XTT. A large standing army and pow
erful appropriations for the navy are in
dispensable to a republic, and to hosts
of magnificent officers seeking com
mands.
XT IT, Opponents of the third term,
critics of the President, champions of the
Constitution, economists, and the toiling
masses who grumble because they are
poor, must be classed as banditti, and
punished accordingly.
XTV. Centralized government is nation
al strength, and State Government
should be abolished except as dependen
cies.
XV. Present salaries are insufficient to
maintain the dignity of office, and ought
to be doubled immediately, with back
pay at the pleasure of the official.
XVI. Carpet-baggers and office-holders
are abused patriots who have suffered
for their country, and merit its grateful
recognition.
XVII. Investigations by Congress in
tended to expose corruption and jobbery,
and to damage the Republican party,
cannot be too sternly condemned for
trenching on private rights.
XVTTT The President is tho recogni
zed head of the Government, to whom
Congress and the courts owe obedience.
XIX. The newspaper press is a nui
sance. A censor to restrain carping ut
terances and a severer law to condemn
offending editors, are demended forth
with.
XX. Rings are solf-sacrificing organi
zations, intended to promote the public
welfare, to shape legislation wisely, to
stimulate enterprise, to aid commerce, to
build railroads, and to place appropria
tions whore they will do most good.
XXI. A constitutional amendment is
recommended making Long Branch the
summor capital of the nation, with liberal
allowances for the President and his
household during Gen. Grant’s life.—
N. Y. Sun.
There is a patch of land in the stormy
Irish Sea called the Isle of Man, about
which many traveled and untravelled
Americans know scarcely more than its
name. On a sunny day the highlands of
Ulster, in Ireland, and of Galloway, in
Scotland, are visible from its western
shore, and from the summit of Snaefell
mountain busy little England is seen fret
ting in the golden haze far across the
sea. It is not much greater than Staten
Island in area, and an ambitions Califor
nian might look upon it as a fair-sized
ranch. But, small as it is—a mere speck
on the map. of Great Britain—it has a
government of its own, with a House of
Parliament, a people infused with noble
blood, and a thrilling and eventful histos
ry. Hawthorne found it out while he
was consul at Liverpool, and has praised
it in tho delicious prose of his “English
Note-BooksScott gathered material
for “Peveril of the Peak” from its roman
tic scenery and legends, and Wordsworth
commemorated a visit to it in a sonnet.
But it is not in these few literary asso
ciations that its chief interest lies. The
history of its varied fortunes and the an
cestry of its superstitious people have a
peculiar interest dating, as they do, from
the thrilling age when the Norsemen
were mighty in the west
In its greatest length the island mea
sures about thirty-three miles, and in
its greatest breadth about thirteen. Its
circumference is seventy-five miles, exclu
ding the sinuosities of the bays; and it
contains a superficial area of about one
hundred and thirty thousand acres and
two hundred and three square miles. Eni*
joying the benefits of the Gulf Stream,
the climate is singularly mild and genial,
and there are few other places in the
world where the difference between win
ter and summer is so slight. The mean
temperature of summer is usually about
5G.I7 deg.; of autumn 46.79 deg.; of win
ter 45.90 deg.; of spring 44.70 deg.
There is plenty of rain but very little
snow or frost. Fuchsias grow to the
height of ten to twelve feet out of doors,
and are found a mass of crimson bios
soms in the poorest gardens. As to the
healthfulness of the climate, yon should
see the native girls, rosy-cheeked, plump,
active and gleeful, and the men, who are
as stalwart, muscular and handsome a
race as ever breathed sea air.
For the most part the coast is rocky
and wild, hoar with the foam of the tur
bulent sea that surrounds it, and indeed
with capacious harbors and innumerable
creeks; but in the north the land sinks
into a low pasturage, and meets the wa
ter on the glistening pebbles of a smooth
beach. The interior includes nearly every
kind of natural scenery—heather-clad
balsamic hills, plains as richly cultivated
as the downs of Surrey, wide reaches of
luickly gorse as drear as Yorkshire
moors, and tho prettiest of cascades. The
enchantment of northern lands dwells in
its subdued light and on its mist crowned
heights. * * * » 1
The vikings are fishermen now, and
all the great treasure steamers from Liv
erpool sail into the west without
thought or wish of evil toward them.
Sleepy villages are perched on the cliffs
where once the beacon fires of the wreck
ers allured many _ a goodly ship to her
doom.
In the bays where tho pirates hid them
selves fly the white sails of pleasure
boats. So great are the changes wrought
by time that even the spell of mist work
ed .by the wizard king has been broken,
and the summer has its share of cloudless
days. The invaders are not Romans,
Piets, Socts or Scandinavians, but ag
gressive tourists bearing knapsacks in
stead of eagles, and walking-sticks
instead of javeling. These confront you
in nearly every part of the. island, and
the primitive character of the natives is
fast changing under the influence of the
town manners which the visitors bring
with them. Many of the superstitions
have been laughed away, and hospitality
has acquired a fair monoy value. I do
not mean to say that there are no more
generous hearts and simple minds in
Mona. An old fisherman’s wife enter
tained me with flour bread, salt fish and
tea, in her hut at Creg-y-neesh, and thrust
me out of the only door in tho house
when the meal was ended becanso I offer
ed her a shilling. There are not a few
folks, too, who yet have a steadfast faith
in mermaids and fairies.
WASHINGTON NBWS.
Scsalor Cbrisfianey'• Speech.
The Isle of BCan. How He Took his Pie.
From Harper'e Weekly.]
The recent decease of the most emi-1
? f N i W J° rk ’ PT ha P e , sin . ce Washington, March 12,-The event of
DeWitt Clinton, lends a melancholy in- to-day at the Capitol is the speech of Sen-
terest to the following incident, which oc- atorChristiancy on the Pinchbak case.
curved during the earher years of my ac- Twenty years service on the bench havs
quamtance with hun: Ug almost unfited the Judge for oral dis-
At the tune of which I am speaking Ussion, he had prepared what he had to
Mr. Havemeyer had been Mayor, but gay and read it from a printed slip. His
was so no longer. He held, however, manner was constrained and neiVous to
many important private trusts, and was U painful degree, but though the speech
a recognized power in our commercial, lacked all oratorical accessories, it had a
metropolis. marked effect Every man in the cham-
One evening we chanced to be strolling ber gave him tho closest attention As
up Broadway together, on our way to he began to speak Senators listened
our respective homes, and as we were with curiosity, but as he progressed this
chatting along we met a gentleman well feeling was changed to a deeper interest
known to us both, who had long been in in which every listener seemed to share,
some respects an object of sympathy to Both in its matter and in the manner of
his friends. He was about of the same its delivery, the speech differed from the
age as Mr. Havemeyer, had enjoyed in ordinary debates of the Senate It was
lus youth the advantages of a refined m0 re like a judicial opinion. As Christi-
home, good schools, an established social Uncy ceased speaking, Logan leaned over
position, powerful connections and every his desk and said to Boutwell “that man
apparent guarantee of worldly prosperity has gone over to the Democrats. ” “No ’’
and success. replied Boutwell, “he had gone over bet.
His life, however, had not kept the fore.”
promise of his youth. He had not been The early retirement of Minister
prosperous at all Though leading, to Schenck from public life is considered
all appearance, an exemplary life, and by his friends no longer advisable to keep
seemingly indisposed to vicious associ- secret, and not later than May he will re-
ations of every sorL and domestic in his sign the position ho now holds and return
habits, his life had been, humanly speak- to the United States. Financial em-
jng, as great a failure as the Mayor s had barrassment more than all else has contri-
been a success. He had tried many kinds bated to his determination never again to
of business, but had not succeeded in hold any public office whatever. In a
any. He was always needy, and had letter to a personal friend in Washington
pretty much exhausted the liberality and he says that, with the greatest economy,
patience of friends who were disposed to it has been impossible for him to make
assist him, so that his visits were rather both ends meet, and to secure enough to
avoided, and no one was proud of his ac- enable him to eke out tho remainder of
quamtance His dress was careless and his official life he was compelled to sell
wom to the verge of shabbiness. He some property in Hlinois. In the letter
had a general look of belonging to no detailing his misfortunes Gen. Schenck
one and of nobody belonging to him. plainly says: “I am beginning to loathe
I will call him please, Mr. X. all efforts to serve my country or the
X—and I, said the Mayor, “used public. They bring no compensating re-
*o be school-mates. We used to carry ward for peace and comfort sacrificed.”
our dinners with us to school, which was It i s also well known that the family of
some distance from our respective homes. Secretary Fish will leave Washington in
It was my habit to begin my dinner with a short time for Europe, and the only in-
my cold meat and bread, and when that dication of Secretary Fish succeeding
was finished I ate my pie or cake, or Mr. Schenck is tho report that tho Secr£
whatever delicacy my mother might have tary has agreed to take the lease of Mr
put into my basket; while X , I observ- Schenck’s house. There is not, so far as
ed, always began with his pie or cake, can be learned from high official sources,
and finished with his cold meat. I re- the slightest displeasure or dissatisfaction
member one day asking him why he ate with Mr. Schenck, and those who know
his pie first. him best say he has held the position un-
Because, I prefer to eat the good der protest and at a personal sacrifice,
things, he replied, “when I am most Who will be his successor has not been
hungry, for then I can enjoy them most, announced.
When I have eaten all my meat, the pie I
would not taste half so good. The Bloody Shirt—Here is a speci-
“But," said I, “you spoil your appetite men of the circulars sent out by the Re-
for your cold meat, which you would en- publicans of New Hampshire:
joy when hungry, and after which yon See to it, that the party which dares
i\°ula enjoy your pie, also. I to insult you and heap dishonor on the
“Neither my reasons nor my example graves of your sons who died in battle
convinced him. As he made his bed he by bringing here the rebel Generals,
is lying on it. In his youth he ate his Gordon and Lamar, who still swear by
pie and had his sweet things; now, in his the lost cause, to instruct you concerning
old age, he is worrying down his‘hard your political duties. Behave in a man-
tack,’as you see. Had he learned a lit- ner which will effectually prevent a re*,
tie self-denial when he was young, he petition of the insult. Come on all, in
would not have been called upon for so your might, and strike down the per-
much in his old age. He started lifeljured, Bourbon-yearning dynasty, and
with every advantage apparently over once more raise over our beloved State
me. His parents were rich, mine corns the standard of an honest govem-
paratively poor. He was sent to college I ment.
and educated for a liberal profession. 11 To which tirade the New York Ex-
was obliged to leave school early and I press replies.
earn my living. If he had taken advan- Lamar and Gordon are about the last
tage of his youth and strength to do men in the South or the Union who
what it was then comparatively easy to ought to be picked out in this way, but
do, if he had denied himself the luxuries where Radicals have their way and their
of idleness and extravagance then, he say there is little hope of peace or of eor-
would now have leisure, wealth and con- dial good will between the sections,
sideration, instead of being beholden to Still the old prejudices rankle, and it
his friends more than half the time for may be good policy to avoid all causes
money to purchase his dinner with. He I of irritation,
ate all his pie when he was young; he
must snstain old age upon what is left That Fire—A Washington special to
in Ins basket. | the Chicago Times reports a fourth at-
Don’t Scare Worth a Cent!
The Senate of the old North State has
passed the Convention bill by a large
majority, and it is said it will also be
passed by the House. It seems, there
fore, that the “tar-heels" are not much
scared at Grant’s menace in his Arkansas
message.
How to Account fob It.—Nearly every
county is claiming that it had admirable
representatives in the Legislature of
Georgia at its late session, but that they
could do nothing against the incompe
tent or improvident ones from other
counties, and thus the session was pro
fitless and expensive. Tho fact that the
session was a profitless one is not de
nied, and the only trouble is upon whom
to shift the responsibility. In our judg
ment the fault was in having too many
representatives. It may be true as a
general maxim that “in the multitude of
counsellors there is wisdom;" but when
the multitude becomes so great as to
“darken counsel” and confuse wisdom, a
Legislative body suffers from too much
of a good thing. We suggest that this
is just what is the matter with the Geor
gia Legislature. Let the number of Sen
ators be reduced to three or four from
each Congressional District, and the num
ber of Representatives to not more than
one hundred, and more useful work
would be done at one-half the present ex-
peoae.—Columbus ]$nyuirer.
A New Enterprise.
For me nothing is more interesting
than to see a man in thefirst intense strain
of a new enterprise; it may be a new cider
mill; it may be a new newspaper. It is a
great crisis in that man’s life. He lives
thirty days in one. Old, trite proverbs
take on new and startling meanings. He
looks upon all men and all things in a
strange new light. He judges all men
and all things with regard to the aceom
plisliment of his one, supreme design.
During a certain time the stars in their
courses fight for him; then the very uni verse
changes its direction and pushes with all
its weight against his tottering walls; an
other change and a thousand accidents
are in his favor. He does not know till
years afterward with what concentration
he labored in those days of beginning.
Ho smiles at himself, and tells pleasant
stories of his make-shifts and absorption;
and now when he sees another and young
er person starting his cider mill with
tho old outworn enthusiasm, he looks on
with tho same half sympathetic, half
cynical interest with which an old mar
ried couple contemplate two young peo
pie who have just fallen in love.—Scrib
ner s for December.
The Cassia.
There is some difficulty attending the
explanation of the sprig of cassia, aud in
assigning the true reason why it was in
troduced into the system of Freemasonry
Some say that it originated in the Jew
ish custom of planting a branch of acacia
vera (gum arabic plant) on the grave of
a departed relative ; others in the custom
of mourners bearing a branch of it in
their hands at funerals. The cassia is
not indigenous to the soil of Palestine,
and is only mentioned in scripture as a
fragrant herb or spice, the bark being
used in ungents, and sometimes employ
ed for embalming; and therefore if the
legend referred to the branch of a real
tree, it could be neither cassia or acacia;
and this has given rise to an opinion that
the branch or sprig is analogous to that
alluded to by Virgil in his description of
the mysteries, and consequently was the
olive. Others again doubt whether our
acacia has any reference to a tree or shrub
at all, but means the texture and color of
the Masonic apron which those brethren
wore which were deputied by Solomon to
search for , and simply refers to
their innocence. If this conjecture be
correct, they add, it corroborates the ac
curacy of the legend, which Bays, “They
took a sprig of cassia in their hand (with
them).” I am rather inclined to think
that the choice of cassia, which is a
species of laurel, was founded on some
mysterious reference which it was sup
posed to possess, either mythological or
symbolical
Samuel W. Allen, of Nevada, is believ
ed to be the greatest herdsman in the
world. His ranche is eighty miles long,
and he owps 225,000 head of cattle.
This story made a profound impression tempt to set the Navy Department on
upon me. Though it is twenty years fi re , the incendiary selecting the room
since I heard it, it seems to me, whenev-1 adjoining that where the accounts with
f I see any of my fellow creatures in- J ay Cooke, McCulloch & Co. were kept,
dulging any taste or appetite in a disor- which would show the truth of state-
derly way, I immediately think what an ments concerning Robeson’s loan of
advantage it wonld be to them to learn $1,000,000 to that house to save it from
while lads to control themselves, and to bankruptcy. The records in the latter
take their duties and pleasures of life in were tossed about the floor and damaged
their proper order. | with water by the firemen, so that many
of them were rendered illegible.
Revival or Cotton Manufactures.— 1
There are indications of some revival of IA Democratic Majority in the Pop
business among cotton manufactures in I n j ar Vote.
New England, and iron manufactures in I m, , * n '
Pennsylvania and elsewhere, with antid- N ® W
pations of improving prospects as the 1^^® ® n „ N . atl ® nal . '*****>
Total Democratic majority - - -
| Third district—Repabiicaa majority •
Democratic majority ia the State
In the choice of Governor and
47*
154
6*6
73
553
season advances. There are many works, Imajority,
however, still idle, owing mainly to strikes I
to prevent increase of operations an^I de- ISidSZSfcSSSSA’oMjMity -
crease of wages. One draw back in’some 1
quarters, too, is owing to want of coal
caused by coal miners’ strikes, while the
freshets and ice in some sections are pre
venting a resumption of work. The wol-1 i n the choice of Governor and Legis-
len nulls in-the North are not very ac- More, State and loeal issues enter, but
tive. There is much encouragement, nev-1 the selection of Congressmen, like that of
ertheless, in the prospect that as the sea-1 a President, involves national questions,
son advances, and travel and commumca-1 on these the New Hampshire Dela
tion become regular, with an adjustment I ocracy score a gain of one member and •
of the strikes so that workingmen, with I dear majority in the State,
a return to fall employment, can havej
the means to purchase more freely the
necessaries of life, a, substantial reviv
al of all industries may be establish
ed.
The Religious Contest*
Germany responded to the Pope’s allo
cution yesterday by opening debate on a
new ecclesiastical bill defining the rela-
A school in Vermont is presided o ver t i ons between Church and State. We do
by a cross-eyed teacher. A few days ago I no t know the provisions of the bill, but,
he called out: “That boy that I am look-1 0 f course, it is designed to hold the Cath-
ing at will step will step out on the floor. 1 0 jj c clergy of the empire to a supreme
Immediately twenty-seven lads walked I responsibility to the government. The
out in front of the astonished pada-* I quarrel is rapidly increasing in point and
gogue. I vehemence, and may probably involve all
Europe in the miseries of a religious war
Mrs. Andy Johnson, who is an invalid I before it is over,
will hardly go to Washington, but re-1 Nay, more than tins. It may well be
main at her homa in Grenville to which feared that the controversy will cross the
she is much attached. Mrs. Patterson, ^ean and seek to provoke similar scenes
the eldest and best beloved of the ex- of disorder and miseiy on American soil.
President's children, will represent her U* wiU not be long before|the^e peo-
mother in the national capital The only pie whose high morality became inflamed
son of Mr. Johnson is engaged in busi- to the point of civil war by slaveiy-who
I habitually seek m the power of govem-
ness near G • | men j. a reme dy for all alleged heresies in
. , ... - - • - - .doctrine or wrongs in society, and who
Miss Atkinson, who committed I are now insisting upon introducing the
Madison last week, was * member of the shorter Catechil f m £ to the Constitution
Episcopal Church, attended »w™es the of the United states—we sav, it will not
preceding Sabbath, and was commended , t ,
preceding
by the rector for the heartiness of her re
sponses. She was about 18, After shoot
ing herself she refused all medical as
sistance, saying she preferred to die.
be long before they will want political
campaigns and constitutional amend
ments against Papal Infallibility and
primary allegiance to the Church.
It is true our constitution guarantees
Charles Lamb once said of ofle ol hi.l pe 1 ,ct toleration U is tn>.
critics: “The more I think of him the *“ J*™ 00 mch 85 constructive or
, Xr' . ... „ m, - - i I verbal treason, and it is equally true that
less I think of him. This is not unlikal., , , • ^ i . . ,
te, , 7 . ,, w ,, . ... . I the doctrine of “a higher law is m al-
Jf Tuppe?L a poetl^hfwL aLed ^ most exact corre^ondence with the stig-
a poet, was the reply. | by ^ Roman b Cat holics. But
“no-popery” slogan is a promissory war-
Wm. Cullen Bryant has made more cry> j t w m no t be long before it cros-
money than any poet that ever lived. It
has not been however of the product of
his muse along, but in conjunction with
his newspaper. He is estimated to be
worth from $400,000 to $600,000.
Gen. Frank P. Bhur is said to be sink
ing rapidly with no hope of recove
ry-
A few days ago, on the road leading
to Mr. F. C. Rawlings, and near a deep
gully, the ground to the extent of about
one-lialf acre, sunk to the depth of two
feet below the surface. It was not a cave
in, but an absolute settling of the earth,
extending acrosa the road for some dis
tances It is $ remarkable occurrence.
Sandersville Herald.
ses the ocean from England and from
Germany, particularly it the Continent
of Europe is to be deluged with blood
and frenzied with the terrible excitement
and animosity of an actual war on this
question. Let the people mark thu
men who introduce the firebrand here.—
Telegraph ds Messenger.
A Montana editor bemoans the calami.
ties of 1874 in the following tonchiag
strum: “First, that Beecher business}
then the grasshoppers, then the Demo
cratic victories, and now an increase tax
on whiskey. What is this poor country
coming to!”
Female oath generally ia
ffmr