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Newspaper Page Textmult VOLUME XLY.] MILLED SEVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 6, 1875. JIUMBER J7. THE S n i o n 4 !S 110 r b t r, 13 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., BY Boughton, Barnes & Moore, At $<2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year S. N. BOV GUT ON, 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 lines for first inser tion, and seventy-five cents for each subsequent continuance. Liberal discount on these rates will be allowed on advertise ments running three mouths, or longer. Tributes of Respect, Resolutions by Societies, Obituaries ex ceeding six liues, Nominations for office and Communications for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. levy of ten lines, or less, $2 square, 5 00 i of Adiuiuibtratio rdianship Application for Dismissk Citations for Lette; X . '* Guardianship, •« 44 L**ave to sell Land, 44 for Homesteads, Ifotiea to Debtors aud Creditors, Sales of Lau% Ate-., p<r square, 44 perishable property, 10 days, per square, ■ Notiees. 30 days — ire, Mich tim Raieclosurn of 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 0S 5 00 2 0o 3 00 5 00 1 75 3 00 1 00 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Gu Sales of Land, Ac., by Administrators, Executors dlaus, are required by law to be held on tin* first Tuesday in the month, between the Hours oi 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the af- ernoon, at tin* Court House hi the county in which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette 30 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for tin* sale of personal property must be giveu in like mariner fo day e previous to sale day. Notice to the debtor, and creditors of an estate must bo pub- ** Notic^tiiat application will bo madeto the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, 4tc., must be published for one month. Citations for letters ot Aduiiui.trution, Guardianship, Ac., ■mst be publish *d 30 days— lor dismission from Administration monthly three mouths—for dismission from Guardianship 40 *Au"les for foreclosure of Mortgage must bepublisned monthly for four mouths—for establishing lost papers for the full spare of three mouths—-for compelling titles from Executors or Admin istrators, where bond bus bceu giveu by the deceased, the full ■ pace of threw mouths. ^ Publications will always b<* continued according to these the legal requirements, uuleas otherwise ordered. Beok and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. Ue.ij. W. Barrow. Ui.nrt W Barrow, BARROW & BARROW LAWYERS: Ofllce la Br*«i A Barrow B.iMlu, Vo Siaira. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. I hop. my friends will give the n ew firm the same cordial support aud favor they have shown to i Ja5-1875-24-ly BENJ. W. BARROW ME9XCAL CARD. DRS# HILL & HARRIS, Office on Wayne street, 2 doors South of Post Office. Milledgeville, done 2, 1874. 43 tf PITTSBURG ACADEMY. Baldwin County, Ga. I OCATEI) just 8 miles west of Milledgeville, in J community proverbial for health aud retinement This School burins its SPRING TERM, February 3rd. Tuition low. Board by week or month at $8 <e $10, in the neighborhood. Church and Sunday School con venient. For further information apply to JNO. VV. FRAYSER, Teacher, or J. M. D. Wibb, Secretary, &c , Milledgeville, Ga. Jan. 30. 1875. 28 3m. SANFORD & FURMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. Office at the State House. April 6, 1874 . 37 ly Land For Sale. 'T'tHE LOT adjeining Oliver White. Cobb and 1. Jenkins, lying in Baldwin county, near the line of Jones, containing about 227 acres, the greater portion in woods. No improvements—a fine rich body ot origi nal growth, oak, hickory and dogwood—well water ed: Two or three hundred acres adjoining, that has been in cultivation, can.be purchased if desired. SAMUEL G. WHITE. Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 29,1874. 23 tf. BALDWIN COUNTY Baldwin Sheriff's Sale. W ILL be sold at the legal place for bolding Sher iffs Sales, in Baldwin County, before the Ma sonic Hall, in the city otMilledgeville, on the first Tues day in APRIL next, within (lie legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit: One light bay horse Mule named Jerry, about 0 or 7 years old, levied on as the property of Elder Rivers, to satisfy a Superior Court ti fa is favor ot Perry & Denton vs. Levi Thomas_and Elder Rivers. Proper ty pointed out by Plaintiff's Attorneys. OBADIAH ARNOLD, Sheriff. Jan. 30, 1875. 28 tds. Baldwin SherilPs Sale. W ILL be sold at the legal place of holding public sales, in the city of Milledgeville, county of Baldwin, before the Masonic Hall, on the first Tues day in APRIL next, within the usual hours of sale, the following property, to-wit: One-half undivided fee simple interest and one-half undivided interest during the life of Lizzie Willis, of Island in Oconee river formerly owned by. John Ilaas and Dan Caraker. Sold as the property of Hamilton Brown to satiety a mortgage fi fa, \V. Cl. Lanterman Hamilton Brown and said property. Property pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney. March l,187o.—32 tds] O. ARNOLD, Sh'ff. ShfriirSale. O tf THE FIRST TUESDAY IN APLIL next, 1 will sell between legal hours, at the usual place of ■ala, in the city of Milledgeville, Baldwin county, the fallowing property of A. H. Reid, Dentist, by virtue of a mortgage fi fain favor of D. H. Reid, J. 8. Reid, J. G. Datus and J. H. Ethridge vs. A. H-Reid, to-wit: One sett of Dental instruments, one dental chair, one show case, two strips carpet, one roll matting, ono rug, two awnings; levied on by J. B. Wail, .Sheriff, on Kith January last, and one dental cabinet, one rug, one table and one sett window shades, levied on by me, on 30th January, last. JOHN M. EDWARDS, Deputy Sheriff. February 8,1875 29 tds. S. S. PECK, Machinist and Millwri Furnishes to Order STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, Circular Saw, Grist anc Flour Mills, Also, the Celebrated Leffell Double Turbine Water Wheel, Hydraulic Rams, Pipes, Pumps, and General Machinery. All made of best Material, at Manufactar er’s Piices. TOOXHSBODO, a A. No. 15, Central H. K. Oct. 20. 1874. 13 ly. Baldwia Sheriff*’s Sale—Postponed. W ILL be sold at the legal place for holding public sales, before the Masonic. Hall, in tiie city of ■lillodgeville, county of Baldwin, within the legal hoars of sale, on the first Tuesday in APRIL next, th« following property, to-wit: A certain house in the city of Milledgeville. known M><he A. M. E. Church, ami one acre of land on which •aid house is situated. Sold to satisfy a ti fa in favor of Warreu Breedlove vs Trustees of said Church. Levy made by J. A. Kemp, and returned to me. O. ARNOLD, Sheriff. March 2, 1875. 33 tds Baldwin Sheriff’s Sale. W ILL be sold at the legal place for holding public Bales, in front of the Masonic Hall, in the city of Mi ledgeville, county of Baldwin, on the First IMesday in APRIL next, within the usual hours of tale, the following property, to-wit: One lot consistiug of an eighth of an acre, more or Iras, in square number sixty in the city of Milledge- vills. having a north front of forty feet on Hancock •troet and running back to tire lots of Weidenman aud Mrs. Camilla MeCombon the south, bounded east Iky lot of Pleasant Taylor. Levied on as the property set Thomas Brown to satisfy a fi fa in favor of Wil- gau Barnes. Assignee. Property pointed out by jPIaiutiff. Affidavit of illegality overruled and ti fa briWed to proceed under old levy. O. ARNOLD, Sh’ff. March 4, 1875. 33 tds Also at the same time anti place : Fifteen acres of land, more or less, being part of lot No 218 in the 5th District of originally Wilkinson now Baldwin county, adjoining lands of Col. DuBig- 0OO. Carmauny and others. Levied on as the property of T. J. Lingonld to satisfy a fi fa fur State and county tax for the year 1871. Levy made by T. H. Potter, Con stable,and returned to me, February 22d, 1875. JOHN M. EDWARDS, Deputy Sheriff. March 9th, 1875, 33 tds. N«liee lo Debtors aud Creditors. A LL PERSONS due the estate of R. C. Callaway, deceased, are requested to come up and settle with me at once, aud those having claims against said ••tate will present them in terms of Law. W. J. BRAKE, Adm’r. March ath, 1875. 33 (it. NOTICE. A XjL' PERSONS due the firm of U. C. Callaway, requested to come up and settle with me at OBOeerth.0 notes and accounts will be put in the hands of an officer for collection. L. N. CALLAWAY, Surviving Partner. March 8th, .1875. 33 3t* To all Wtiom it way Concern. GEORGIA, Baldwin County. Court of Ordinary, February Term, 1875. __ THEREAS. W. T. Conn, Administrator de \\ .amis non, on the Estate of Charlotte S. Dagget, decease. h hae Sled hU petition to be discharged train aaid admit ietTat * 011 - therefore, to cite and ndmouish all par- «•• interested to show cause ou or by.the first Men s' 4 " ‘ whythesaid W.T.Couu,adininistra- fa/a. aforesaid, sh ouMnotbe ^charged as prayed f ’ r Witne«s P mvoffi'dal - this February 1st. 1875, K3m J DANIh.'- B. SANFORD, Ordinary. To all Whom it «ay Concern. GEORGIA, Baldwin County. Court ufOrdinary February Tcrm - 1875 ' W HEREAS, E. S. Brnndagfc '• Eiecotor on the Estate of Jesse Brundage dece. >sed, lias tiled his petition to be discharged from said EA e ™tontnv. These are, therefore, to cite aud adm, “ 0 s i, .FF tie. interested, to show cause on or by th dey In May 1875, whv-the said L b. Brunda,T e > far as aforesaid, should not.be discharged as tor in his petition. Witness my official signaL«e mis February the 1st, 1875. 28 3mf] DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary. ^ Rale Nisi to Foreclose Mortgage of Land—February Term, 1875. Parry & Denton vs. J. S. & Fannie Tindal. I T APPEARING to the Court by petition of Plain tiffs, that Defendants are indebted to them In the e*m of oue hundred and fifty dollars besides interest and that Defendants executed to them a inorlgage deed of a certain tract of one tiundred aud five acres land therein described, situated in Baldwin county, aud that Defendants now reside in the State of Ala- abams: Bo it ordered that Defendants do pay into Court said sum of one hundred and fifty dollars be- ■ides interest thereon, from October 1st, 1873, and •••to of this proceeding, or show cause to the contrary, •lie their equity of redemption of said land to be for ever barred and foreclosed. It is further ordered that aarvice of this rule be made on Defendants by publi- •ation in the “Union St Recorder” and “Every Satur day” once a month for lour months, before the next term of this Conrt. CRAWFORD & WILLIAMSON, PI m At’ya. A true extract from the minutes of liaMwin Supe rior Court. WALTER PAINE. Clerk, ifftrch If 1875; 32 m4in. GEORGE PACE & CO., Manufacturer* of PATENT PORTABLE CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, ALSO STATI0HA27 £ POSTA3L2 8TE.1.U ENGINES, No. 5 N.Schroeder st- BALTIMORE, . Grist Mills, Letters Turbine Water Wheels, Wood Working Machinery of all kinds, aud Ma chinists' Sundries. RCVU FOR CATALOG FES. Jan. 19, 1875. 261y MACON CARDS. C. BURKE, House and Sign Painter, AND DEALER IN PAINTS, OIL, GLASS, Ac., Colors, Dry and in Oil. Mixed Paints of all shades. 32 Third Street, MACON, GA. Feb. 15, 1874. 30 3m. DAVIS SMITH, DEALER IN SADDLES 5 HARNESS CARRIAGE MATERIAL, 8boe Findings, Leather of^ ail kinds, Children’s Carriages, 109 Cherry Street, WAGON, GA. January 26th, 1875. 27 3m Established Over 30 Tears Ago. MIX & KIRTLAND, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Hoots, Shoes and Hats. Morocco, French and Amoriran Calf Skins, Leather Findings, &c., &c. All orders promptly aud carefully filled at Cotton Avenue & 66 3rd Street, MACON, OA. MIX & KIRTLAND. January 26th, 1875. 27 3m. JK. So JTOHNSffON, Has received for Fall and Winter Trade, 1874-5, Watches, Jewelry, Silver Ware, FANCY GOODS, FINE CUTLERY, Musical Instruments, Strings, &c., &c. Sole Agent for the Celebrated DIAMOND PEBBLE SPECTACLES, IFE-GLASSES, k Particolnr Attention given to Repairs on Fine aud Difficult Watches. JEWELRY, Ac, REPAIRED, and ENGRAVING. IleaTy and Medium 14, 18 and 22 Karat Plain Gold Rings and Badges made to order and Eugraved at Short Notice. Corner mulberry 4k Second Streets, MACON, GEORGIA. (OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE.) Nor, 10,1874. 1« *7- OS1T A WOMAN. Only a woman, shrivelled and old ! The play of the winds and the prey of cold ! Cheeks that are shrunken. Eyes that are sunken. Lips that were never o'erbotd ; Only a woman, foreaken and poor, Asking an alms at the bronze church door. Hark to the organ! roll upon roll The waves of its music go over her soul! Silks rustle past her, Thicker and faster; Tbe great bell ceases its toll. Fain wonld sne enter, but not for the poor Swingeth wide open the bronze church door. Only a woman—waiting alone, Icily cold on an ice-cold throne. What do they care for her? Mumbling a prayer for her, Giving nut bread but a stone. Under old laces their haughty hearts beat, Mocking the woes ot their kin iu the street. Only a woman! In the old days Hope carolled to her her happiest lays ; Somebody missed tier, Somebody kissed her, Somebody crowned her with praise ; Somebody faced up the battles of life, Strong for her sake, who was mother or wife. dy li Light on his heart where the death shadows are; Somebody waits for iter, Opening the gates lor her, Giving delight for despair. Only a woman—nevermore poor— Dead in the snow at the bronze church door! Hester A. Benedict. A model Lawyer. A GOLD MOUNTAIN. Father Pismets Indian Story Re vived. Interesting letter of General /Sheridan on the Black Hills Country—l'rolxt- bility that there is a Good JJeal of Humbug in the Matter. Chicago, March 26, 1875.—Lieutenant General Sheridan has written the follow ing highly interesting letter concerning the Black Hills country. It sets forth what has been done and what the gov- not changed to gold. I will also send an expedition down Wind river, through the Owl Creek mountains, from Fort Starn- bangh via Fort Brown to the mouth of Wheeler’s Little Oame on Finchbaek. The question of Pinchback’6 admission, as Senator from the State of Louisiana the Bighorn, and will bring it hack 1 wei *t over from March to December, in through the parks about the head waters i this wise. A sort of a juggle had been of Powder river, visited by Captain Mills and his command last summer. These parks are, for beanty, fully equal to those described so graphically by General Cns- tar as existing in the Black Hills of Cheynne. I may also say from my own knowl edge, that the valleys of the Big and Little Fopoagie, Little Wind river and Main Wind riv-er can scarcely be excelled ernment proposes to do in the matter, j n b eau ty au j fertility, while the student “Squire Johnson” was a model lawyer, as the following anecdote will evince: Mr. Jones once rushed into the Squire's office in a great passion.—“That infernal scoundrel of a cobbler, Smith, has sued me, Mr. Johnson—sued me for five dol lars I owe him for a pair of boots !” Then you owe him the five dol lars]” “To be sure I do ; but he has gone and sued me—sued me!” “Then why don’t you pay him, if you owe him ?” “Because he’s sued mo; and when a man does that, I’ll never pay him till it Costs him more than he gets. I want yon to make it cost him all you can.” “But it will cost you something, too.” “I don’t care for that; what do you charge to begin with ?” Ten dollars; and more if there is much extra trouble.” All right! There’s the X. Now go ahead!” No sooner was the client gone, than Squire Johnson stepped across to his neighbor Smith, and offered to pay the bill, on condition that the suit be with drawn. The shoemaker gladly acceded —all ha wanted was his pay. The law yer retained the other five for his fee, and as the case was not “tfoublesome,” made no further demands upon his cli ent. Ten days after Jones comes to how his case is getting along, “All right,” said the lawyer.—“You won’t have any tronble about that, put it to Smith so strongly that he was glad to withdraw the suit altogether.” “Capital?” cried the exulting Jones. You’ve done it up brown. You shall have all my business.” and immediately concerns all who contem plate going into that country for gold: Headquarters Mil. Div. or the Mo., Chicago, March 25, 1875. j General W. T. Sherman, Headquarters of the Array, St. Louis, Mo.: In reply to your question, “Yl'hat do yon know of the Black Hills?' I respect fully submit the following remarks: My first knowledge of the Black Hills was derived from an interview with the late Father Dismet, a noted Catholic mission ary, whom I met many years ago on the Columbia river, in Oregon, from whom I heal’d the Indian romance of mountains of gold in the Black Hills, and his expla nation of that extraordinary and delusive story to Indians, frontiersmen and ex plorers. The Black Hills country is much more extensive than that particular locality brought to the notice of the pub lie by the recent explorations of General Custar, and gets its name from the black, scrubby character of timber which grows on the sides and tops of the mountains the whole of and hills. It comprises the country bounded on the east by Ion- ... .. . , „ - ,, - -- - the south bv the ascertaining their value. So far as the of nature will find there the most ex traordinary upheavals of the earth's crust probably to be found on this con tinent. I am of the opinion that this country is gold-bearing, but of the abundance there can only be conjecture at the present. I feel quite confident of our ability to prevent intended trespasses on the rights of the Indians, and the cavalry and in fantry in the department of Dakota are being moved at the present time to the most available points to carry out my directions of September 3d of last year. Were it not for these precautions on the part of the government there might be a repetition of the California gold beach and gold lake humbugs, with still greater suffering, as many persons now crazy to go to the Black Hills never think of how they are to exist after they get there, or how they could return in case of failure. If they will wait for further information from the government, which now seems to be desirous of making concessions to meet those new interests, there will be no one more willing than mvself to aid in gitude 102 degrees, on LANIER HOUSE. B. lll’B, Proprietor. Mulberry Street, * Macon, Georgia. The above named notel has been recently refur nialied and fitted np for the accommodation of Iran eient aa well &b permaneut Boarders. Persons will find it to their interest to stop at this House, aB its central location makes it a very desirable place for merchants aud families coining to thecity for business, or for a sojourn ot pleasure. An ELEGANT SAM PLE ROOM has been fitted np for the special use ot commercial travelers. The table always supplied with all the luxuries ol the season, from first markets, and can be surpassed by none in the South. Omnibus to convey passengers to and from the Hotel and all trains, free of chargo; B. DUB, Proprietor. April 18. 1872. Tlie Isaacs House Cherry Street, - Macon, Gt. H AVING some of the finest rooms in the city. With meals at the tables D’IIote-$2 00 Der day, or 50 ct«. to 75cts. for room, and meals to order. Lower rates by the week, and every effort made to give comfort and satisfaction to guests. E. ISAACS, Proprietor Feb. 8, 1875. 39 ly HEW BLACKSMITH SHOP. THE under signed has put up a B lack-1 smith Shop on the corner of UaDcock and Wilkinson streets, opposite tlie old Court House Square, where he is prepared to do ALL KIND OF WORK IN IRON in the best manner. attention given to farm and plantation work aoHeited. IV. N. IBOmWBU. I, Jane 8. 1874. 45 U ^gpeelali NATIONAL HOTEL. (Nearly opposite Union Depot,) MAOOX. GA. Board — — — SB For Bay. Nov. 10,18741 T. H. HARRIS, Manager. 21 ly. Call aai See R. S. SPALDING, WITH Jas. Wilde Jr. & Co., 482 Braalway, New lark. <9aa<s>ooBasy«a March 3,1874, K3». Chicago Tribuce. CiESAR’S WIFE. The Truth of History. Says a correspondent in yesterdays’ Tribune, “Mr. Swisshelm may have been an eyo-witness to innumerable instances of the kissing she mentions; but, let us hope she kept herself, like Oiesar’s wife, above reproach.” We have got tired of this quotation, as it misleads the reader. Crcsar’s wife was not above reproach or suspicion, as it is generally written. The innumerable multitude who put into everything they write the fine old crusty remark about Ciesar’s wife being above suspicion will please take notice that she was not above suspicion, and that Caesar divorced himself from her on that ground. Calphuraia, the wife in ques tion, was misled, or, to state it plainer, seduced, by Clodius. Caesar declined to prosecute the latter for political reasons and the criminal was therefore acquitted after a sham trial. His wife he promptly flung away, but ho wonld not jeopardize his power with his own party just then by demanding the punishment of him who had debauch ed her. Clodius belonged to Caesar’s pol itical party, and was very influential with the common people, though hated by the patricians. The intrusion of the lecherous demagogue into the household of the great triumvir, and the seduction of his wife, became notorious in Rome. A word spoken by the injured husband would have insured his condemnation and death, but Caesar would not speak. He contented himself by procuring a divorce from his false wife, who denied the proof of her guilt, and by declaring that Caesar’s wife must not even be suspec ted,” or by another translation that Caesar's wife ought to be above suspi cion;” but she was not She has figured a model of purity and virtue long enough. Persons in search of such a model will please take some other wo man. Sad History of a Family who Emi grated to Texas. Richard Wilkinson, for a while a citi zen of Pulaski county, took the train at MoRae, on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, about the 24th of last Decem ber destined for Texas. Mr. Wilkinson’s family, consisting of a wife and seven children, went with him. When they reached New Orleans Mrs. Wilkinson be came sick, and as they had but a small amount of money, it was arranged that she should be taken to the city hospital, and her oldest son Noah, loft to wait up on her, while her husband and the six other children should go on to Texas to prepare a home. Mrs. Wilkinson soon died, and in a few days her son followed her to the grave. By this time Mr Wil kinson had reached Houston, Texas, and was also taken sick, and being in reduced circumstances, he, too, was compelled to go to the hospital in that city. Soon af terwards the news reached him by letter that his wife and son had died in New Orleans. He lingered but a few days longer, and death ended his troubles on earth and his body found a grave on Texas soil. Little Abe, aged three years, and next to the youngest child, also took sick and died about the same time. Thus by the hand of death were five little or phans left in a strange country at the mercy of strangers; but there were kind people there who gave them assistance. Mr. S- M. Miller, the general ticket agent at Houston gave them tickets for a portion of the way, and wrote them a kind letter to other railroad officials detailing their sufferings and misfortunes. A Mr. E. E. Sumner, of Lincolnton, North Car olina, came with them from Texas to Opelika, Ala., and rendered them valua ble aid along the route. Passengers fl inr» gave them assistance in small con tributions of money, and by all such kind favors they were enabled to reach Haw kinsville one day last week. They have a sister, Mrs- Saluda Mitchell, living in this county, and the children have sought her house for a home. The Httle babe, a boy about eighteen months old, was left with a gentleman in Texas. The children report that their father, mother sad two brothers all died of “black tongue fever."—Havtki n $ eille Dispatch, Sweetwater and Laramie rivers, on the west by the Big Horn and Wind rivers, and on the north by the Yellowstone river. This is really the country of the Black Hills, but embraced in it are sev eral localities called Black Hills; for in stance, the Black Hills of the Laramie, the Black Hills of Powder river, and the Black Hills of the Cheyenne river, the latter being the locality in which General Custar made his reconnoisance last sum mer, and about which there is so much speculation at the present time, and with in the bounds of which it is supposed by a large number of peoftle is to bo found Father Dismet’s mountain of gold. His story was, that while living with the Sioux Indians he was shown by them nuggets of gold, which they informed him had been obtained at different points in the Black Hills, supposed to be from the beds of the Big Horn, Rosebud and Powder rivers, and from branches of Tongue river, and on his representing that such yellow metal was of great value, they told him they knew where there was a mountain of it. Subsequent investiga tion, however, proved that the Indian mountain of gold was nothing more than a formation of yellow mica, such as may be found in a number of places iu the above described country. I had scarcely given the story a thought after this, until about three years ago, when I happened to be in New York, and it was then brought to my recollection by a promi nent gentleman, who asked m-a where Father Dismet could bo found, and insist ed that some one should be sent at. once to get from him the secret of thA. gold mountain, which would pay the national debt., etc. After I had informed/him that it was an old and exploded story, his ardor cooled, and excitement about the mountain of gold again subsided. It so happened, however, that the Black Hills country was embraced in my military command, and two years ago it became apparent to me that a military post in the Black Hills of the Cheyenne would soon become necessary for the proper protection of the settlements in Nebraska from raids of Sioux warriors, who always before they commenced depredating on the frontier, secured a safe place for the ir families and villages in the locality men tioned. Believing that these Indians would never mako war on our settle ments as long as we could threaten their families and villages in this remote local ity, abounding in game and alljthat goes to make Indian life comfortable, and with this purely military object in view, an order was given for the Custar recon- noissance. The discovery of particles of gold by washing, near Harney’s Peak, on the western slope of tho Black Hills of the Cheyenne followed and brought to the surface Father Dismet's story for the third time. The Black Hills of Cheyenne described by General Custar are situated between the north and south forks of that river, one of which is known as Belle Fourehe, and the other, South Bank, and although I have the utmost confidence in the state ment of General Custar and General For sythe, of my staff, that gold was found near Harney’s Peak, I may safely say there has not been any fair test yet made to determine its existence in large quali ties. There is not a t err it try in the West where gold does not exist, but in many of them tho quantity is limited to the color, which is as much as has yet been obtained near Harney's Peak. Geo logical specimens brought back by the Custar expedition are not favorable indi cations of the existence of gold in great quantity. Still it may bo there, but as the treaty of 1869, duly ratified, virtually deeds this portion of the Black Hills to the Sioux Indians, there is no alternative but. to keep’out tresspassers. But go back to the Father Dismit information. There is not much doubt of the correctness of his statement that gold exists in large quantities in tho Black Hills, but much troops are concerned, I will promise their activity in the present emergency, and a conscientious performance of duty. Should tho points from which miners start be so remote as to mako it impossible for our scanty force to watch them, we can occupy the two or three graps in tho Black nills, and effectually exclude tres passers. Very respectfully, P. H. Sheridan, Lioutenant-Gencral Commanding. llorlin Correspondence of tlie N. Y. Tribune ] Very Hard Times] in Germany. Tlie general cry of dullness in trade is swelled not a little by the voice of Ger many. If wages have been reduced 20 per cent, in America, they have been re duced 40 per cent, here; if there aro hun dreds of unemployed men in New York, there are thousands in Berlin. Last win ter ibis city had difficulty in finding street laborers at two thalers per day; this winter an indefinite number can be had at 20 silbergroshon, or one-third the price. If the great manufactories in America make wholesale reductions wages, those of Germany make wholesale discharges of hands. Hardly a week passes in which the International Ga zette the new American paper here, does not report such events. The reason is that it is simply impos sible, at any rate of wages, to sustain a large production: and tbe concerns find it easier, therefore, to close their works There is in short almost 'an litter pros tration of business. The Motional Zie tuny this morning makes a frank confes sion of the. fact It admits the distress ing condition of trade in general, and es pecially of the drug in the labor market: and draws, on the whole, a picture which would not encourage many emigrants to return hither in search of fortune. The National Zietung confirms tho fact, which was indeed clear to all but to pa triotic eyes, that the extraordinary busi ness prosperity that followed tho war was unnatural a ml could not endure. There were many reasons why tbe po riod after the close of hostilities should have been marked by an abundance of money and an abundance of labor. The indemnity was passing into the country, and was increased, owing to the univer sal delusion about the future of Germany, by large investments of English capital. There wa3 plenty of employment, even in repairing the effects of the war—I mean in restoring the railways which the war had severely tried, and in enlarging fortifications. Of course the abundance of capital gave rise to a reckless prodigality in all sorts of private enterprises. New railways were undertaken, great manufacturing companies established to rival Krupp, and shipyards to compete with the Lairds were organized. Above all, new and costly houses sprung up in all parts of Berlin and iu almost every other city. The most popular form of investment was in stock companies and tho multiplica tion of them in 1871 and 1872 was marvel ous. Money was plenty, wages were high, and hod carriers drank champagne at their daily work. But this did not last. First the stock companies began to totter, and at length there was a gen eral crash. Then wages began to fall, while the necessities of life wero station- Tbe fortresses were completed, and gotten up, by which the Hon. Mr. Wheel er, M. C. of this State of New York, had been virtually intrusted with the sole decision of the conundrum—who were elected to the lower House of the Leg- islsture of Louisiana? Of course Mr. Wheeler had no more legal right to solve this conundrum than any other New Y'ork gentleman, and the very reference of it to a New Yorker, was and is an unmitigated and unparalleled outrage. What does he—living in our Franklin County—away up by Canada, where the snow does not melt off the ground till Angnst, and begins falling again in September—what does he know of or how can he decide, last November’s election in the Pelican State? What bus iness has he with it; any how? “Who made him such a Judge in Israel?” Who authorized the elect of Franklin County, New York, to decide Louisiana’s contes ted elections? Well, there is, as yet, very reasonable doubt how the Honora ble Mr. Wheeler will decide. There is probably nobody bnt Mr. President Grant who exactly knows how he will decide, and President Grant probably only knows that he will decide according to the offices and patronage given and to be given to the Member from Frank lin County, in the State of New York. So that the whole Louisiana issue now turns upon how President Grant is go ing to treat the Hon. Mr. Wheeler of Franklin County, State of New York. And if President Grant treats the Hon orable Mr. Wheeler well, why it will be so much the better for Brother-in law Casey, who wants to sit in the Senate in the same seat which Pinchback also cov ets. If not, then not. The adjournment of the Pinchback case till December means this—and this, only; if Casey be chosen Senator by tho Louisiana Leg islature, as packed by Wheeler, before December, then Casey will be admitted to the Senate, and Pinchback sent home. But, if Casey cannot be elected by the Wheeler Legislature, and a democrat be elected, instead, then Pinchback will get his seat in the Senate, next December, and Wheeler will be nowhere, and be dis carded at tbe White House. The simple fact, is, that Wheeler, of Franklin Coun ty, New York, a very gentlemanly Re publican, holds the cards—very good ones, just now. Seeing a good chance for the future he has bid for the chance. If he can put Grant's brother-in-law Casey, into the Senate, well and good: if not, wo shall hear no more of Wheel- er. Where the Civil Eights Aet will he Obnoxious. thousands of workmen thrown upon the market. People began to leave Berlin on account of the high prices until the evil spread and distributed itself throughout tho country. The stock com panies went to pieces one after another in all the chief cities, until that sort of organization became another name for everything unstable and treacherous. The new palaces of Berlin stood unoc cupied, and fewer new ones were of courso begun. Iu short, a complete transformation has taken place, and in spite of tho five milliards it is to-day very difficult to raise money, and still more further west than the Black Ilills of! GifHcult to realize it on investments. Cheyenne. I have seen nuggets from the Big Horn and Tongue rivers, and many specimens from near Fort Stambaugh, in the upper Wind-river country, where min ing has failed from want of water for al luvial washing, and from the hostilities of the Indians, and I have good reason to believe—in fact it is quito certain that gold exists in tho Owl-creek mountains, in the lower Wind river, and in the head waters of Powder river and the Rosebud. All these locations being under the gen eral meaning of the Black Hills, and out side the Sherman Augur, and Terry trea ty of 1869, except so far as the privilege to hunt game. It has been my intention to communi cate much information this coming sum mer to the government on the above de scribed country, and as the Indians have no absolute right to the soil there may be but little difficulty in extinguishing their hunting privileges, I purpose, if you do not object, to open up the Yel lowstone river by sending General George A. Forsythe and Colonel Grant, of my staff, up the Yellowstone to the mouth of the Big Horn, as soon as the ice breaks which will give the lowest tide-water, having already secured a steamboat to make this exploration. H General Fors sythe is successful, I will send General Cnstar with a command from Fort Lin coln acress the mouth of Powder river, thence np on the sonth bank of the Yel lowstone, crossing Powder river, Tongue river, Rosebud, and on to the mouth of the Big Horn. This country is as yet entirely unexplored, and the expedition may develop a very valuable aunferous section, and make the Father Dismet story to some extent true, bnt I am of the belief that the mountain of mica has Now it will help no emigrant’s fortune to return to Germany, even if he escapes im pressment into the military service. The New York Herald says “for the last ten years tho North has been hold ing out the olive branch to the South." Exactly, if negro suffrage, while disfran chisement, carpet-bag, scallawag aud ne gro oppression and robbery, bayonet rule, and civil rights, come under that head: and against whose infamies tho Herald has many times righteously thundered. Did the North hold out the olive branch, Mr. Herald, when its President drove tho Democrats out of the Louisiana Leg islature at the point of the bayonet and or ganized that body in th9 interests of the Radical party ? You are on record to the contrary. A Democratic member of tho XLITId Congress gave notice during the last ses sion that one of the first tasks of the in coming Democratic House of Represen tatives would be a thorough investiga tion of tho Department of Justice. There is reason to believe that such an over hauling will result in the* discovery of even more mismanagement, extravagance and partisan use of Government machine ry than the Democrats in search of po litical capital suspect A deferred report of the Committee on the expenditures of the Department of Justice takes a step in this direction. From this report it ap pears that there have been gross abases of authority by Federal judicial officers in North Carolina and the Western Dis trict of Arkansas. What will be said then when an investigation on this sub ject touches Louisiana, South Carolina and Alabama? From tbe New York Sun. Don’t Blame Grant. Tho President showed his hand bold ly during the late session of Congress, first in a special message menacing the overthrow of the existing government in Arkansas, and secondly, in personally urging the passage of the force bill, by which he might suspend the writ of habeas corpus at pleasure and manacle thejSouthem States. The monstrous threat in regard to Arkansas, which was prompted by Boss Shepherd and the kitchen Cabinet, pro voked a storm of popular indignation, and some of the best Republicans united with their opponents in sustaining the report of the committee against the die tation of the President A peaceable State was thus saved from Executive out rage. But for the determined opposition to the bayonet bill and the pressure of the closing days of the session, that infamous scheme would have been driven through the Senate. The parliamentary rules of that body and the spirit of the minority to exhaust every right under them alone saved the country from a most alarming enormity. A change of eleven votes would have defeated this scandalous scheme in the House of Representatives, as appears by the final record, To prevent defection on the one hand and to secure support on the other, the President went to the Capitol while it was pending, and made personal appeals to members supposed to be doubtful. It was openly charged at the time that promises of office were freely given in order to carry the bill. The appointments made by the Presi dent since the adjournment of Congress justify the belief that a bargain was made for votes on the bayonet bill. Thirteen ex-members who supported it vehemently, including the author of the infamy, have been rewarded with high honors. In addition to these the President has gone out of his way to distinguish with favor and office the men who conspired to restore to power the corrupt crew that plundered Arkansas, and carpetsbaggers, whose only vocation after having robbed the Southern people was to calumniate them in Congress. Decision on the Hew Civil Eights law. Several prominent lawyers at the Uni ted States Sepreme Court to-day review ed tho various decisions that have been made by United States Judges and Uni ted States Commissioners upon the new Civil Rights bill. Their unanimous judgment was that with the exception of the jury clause, if the decisions already rendered should be sustained on appeal there is nothing left in the bill. The jury clause, pending the debate in Con gress, was conceded to be in a legal sense the weakest feature in the bill. The decisions thus far rendered declared that the law cannot affect the rights of States to control inns, theatres, common car riers, billiard halls, eating saloons and barber shops. Outrage* Postponed. The New York Sun of Saturday con tains the following dispatch: Washington, March 26.—No accounts of outrages at the South have been re ceived by tho Department of Justice or any other branch of the Government for some time, and it is now believed that nothing further will be heard of them un til the beginning of the political cam paign in Pennsylvania and Ohio next fall. It is possible, then, that the outrage mill will be put in operation for political ef fect. Atlanta Full of notabilities. Atlanta, Ga., March 30.—Senators Cameron, Chandler, Morton, Anthony, Patterson and Tom Scott and party, bound for Mexico, reached here this afr temoon, and leave to-night. Ex-Gorem- or Joseph E. Brown and others from At lanta go with them. Eighty Indiana edi tors also arrived to-day, and are quarter ed at the Kimball House, John W. Garrett, of Baltimore* is expected here to-morrow. The Civil Rights enactment is produc ing its legitimate results in the North and West, and especially in those dis tricts which have sent forth the greatest number of recruits to the army of free-* dom in the South. Although intended to irritate and inflame and humiliate tha Southern people, it has not occasioned the slightest discomposure among them. The black race have been their play-fel lows and companions from infancy. When children, they have rolled over each other on the parlor hearth-rug, and played un*» der tho shade-trees on the front lawn, and grown up to hunt and fish together, and are not likely, to be annoyed now that law" has been passed to force them into a com panionship Tor which they have not the least repugnance. Tho people of the East and North and Northwest, who have no sympathies with the colored race, and never have had any, and have used them only for political ends, but who really hate and loathe them personally and socially, aro the only individuals whose equanimity is likely to be disturb ed by sitting with them in the dress cir cle of the theatres, or eating alongside them at fashionable restaurants, or occu pying adjoining chairs in barber shops or adjoining bedrooms in hotels with them. The ultra carpet bag apostles, when they originated this sage measure of civil rights for the humiliation of tho white Southerners, never shot wider of the mark ui all their political party aims. They only humiliated the Northern whites, who had always looked upon their colored fellow-citizens as rivals, and who invariably treated them as s: cial inferiors and intruders, and whoso sensibilities are now shocked at the thought of shar ing their civil rights with them. Tho Northern negro has a similar antipathy to the Northern white man, whom he is loth to admit to a social equality with him; while tho Southern negro, in conses quence of the peculiar relations which have subsisted between himself and the dominant white race of the Sonth, has a respect and even an affection for the lat ter which will prevent him for generations to come from aspiring to the privileges with which the Civil Rights bill endows him. If, indeed, any conflict of races should ever grow out of the enforcement of tho Civil Rights act, it will be wholly confined to tho States north of Mason’s and Dixon’s line: or if it extend to any portion of the Sonth, it will not include any bnt whites and blacks of Northern nativity—JY. Y. Tribune. The Senate’s Whitewashing Deso lation- The New York Sun, commenting on the quibbling caucus resolution adopted by the Radical majority of the Senate, for the purpose of whitewashing ^Grant, says: “It will be said that this resolution does not distinctly recognize in terms the Kellogg usurpation as the legal govern ment of Louisiana. Technically it does admit of a double interpretation, and that is one of the strongest objections to the proposition, because it is a part of the systematic deception, trickery, and lying which have been practised from first to last on this subject. Here is a great question involving the peace and pros perity of a State of the Union, the equal in jights under the Constitution to any other. Instead of meeting it squarely and honestly, a special committee of tha majority was engaged for days in concoc ting a verbal fraud through which differ ences of opinion might bo seemingly reconciled, and a party vote of approba tion be given to the President, in tha teeth of the honest sentiment of tha States represented by these Senators. They finally succeeded in framing a resolution which is a quibble and 'a false hood.” Well, the resolution has been adoptod by a strict party vote, and what does it amount to but this: That a servilo Sen ate, in obedience to the command of tha usurper, have approved his action in maintaining a State government in Louis iana established by him at tho point of the bayonet, which they had repudiated as revolutionary and illegal, and which they dared not recognize as legal or con stitutional. In other words, Grant’s servile partizans in the Senate, while they condemn the crime against Louisiana, applaud the perpetrator. To use a fig ure once used by the Hon. Wm. C. Pres ton, of South Carolina, on tho floor of the Senate, in reference to a similar, though not half so flagrant an outrage upon law and decency, they have proved themselves to be of that class of patriots who, while they hate the sin hug the sin ner—who, while they apply the salve to the outer wound, leave the maggot revel ing in the rottenness of corruption. The Rome Commercial tells this story of petty envy: Two colored women went to church in this city a few nights ago, and one was dressed finer than the other. The finer dressed one took a seat in front of the one of plainer dress, and daring the service the latter took a pair of scissors from her pocket and slyly out the dress of the other in a dozen or more places, so as to render it useless for wear in the future. Who says the race is not improving in morals? The New York "World seems to tako a blue view of business prospects in that city. According to that paper tho season is the dullest ever known there, surpass ing that of last spring, which followed immediately upon the panic, and was thought to be as bad as it possibly could be. The dullness does not seem to ba confined to any special section of tho city or to any particular business. It is a general business stagnation, a sort of after-wave of tho panic of '73. There aro about one-third more buildings now open to rent than there were a year or a year and a half ago; and the temporary rentals are in many cases at a reduction of be tween thirty and forty per cent. In case the Ohio Republicans nomi nate ex-Senator Wade for Governor there is likely to be a pretty high-toned can vass in that State. The Cincinnati En quirer gives this elegant sample of tho ammunition it will fight with if tho con test lies between tho two old veterans: “By all means bring out Wade. He would afford a good contrast to Gov. Al len. The latter is a gentleman. Wado is a blackguard. Gov. Allen is a states man. Wade has the smallest medium of sense that it is possible for a man to have who has filled any public prominent position. Gov. Allen has a history to look back upon of which the people aro proud. Wade a history of which they are ashamed. Allen has educational cul ture and refinement. Wade is an igno rant bigot, without knowledge and with- out brains. Allen was one of the ablest of our Senators from Ohio. Wade was one of the feeblest, and his greatest repu tation was secured through demolishing the King’s English.” The thirdtermscheme has found a vigor ous opponent in that leading Radical paper the 'Cincinnati Gazette. That journal, closes a long editorial, refating the ar guments of the advocates of the project, in this way: “In this way all sound reason is on the side of the popular tra dition, and of the line of honored preces dents which make two terms the limit of a President’s lawful ambition. All the arguments that have been advanced to show that it is irrational only prove it inflexibly founded in reason. No Presi dent could set himself against it without liability to the charge of presumption, and no political party could ran athwart it without sacrificing its prospects ot success.

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Union and recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1872-1886, April 06, 1875, Image 1