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Newspaper Page Textu mmt anil VOLUME XLV.] MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 27, 1875 N U SB ER 40. Union 4* Recorder, IS FUBLISHEH WEEKLY Ih MilledgcTillc, Ga., ^OUQHTON, ^AF^NES Sj JAOOR.E At $2 in Adrance, or $3 at end of ihs Fear. Application for Diiurrissio 5 00 3 00 5 00 1 75 3 00 1 00 U. XT. BOUGHT oar, Editor. Th. ‘'FEDERAL UNION” and the “SOUTH ERN RECORDER’' were consolidated August 1st, 18T2, the Union being in its Forty-Third Volume and the Recorder in it’s Fifty-Third Volute. ADVERTISING. T&avsikxt.—One Dollar per square <-f ten lines for Rnrt insertion, and seventy-five cuts for each subeequout eontin nance. Liberal discount on thecc rates will be allowed on advertisement, runuiug three mouths, or longer. Tributes ol Respect, Resolution* by Societies, Obitua ries exceeding jnx linen. Nominations for office and Communications for individual benefit, charged he tnui- •ieut advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. RberiflTs Sales, per levy of ten lines, or lefts,.... $2 50 ** Mortgage fi ta sale?, per square, 5 00 Citations for Letters of Administration, 3 00 Guardianship, 3 00 from Administration, 3 00 “ GuurdiaiisLip,.. 3 00 11 *’ Leave to sell Laud * 4 for Homesteads, Noticf« to Debtors and Creditors, Rales of Land. See., per .quare •* perishable property, 10 day*, per square,.. Estray Notices, 3<> days Foreclosure of Mortgage, |»er square, each time LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Bales of Laud, Ac., by Administrators. Executors or Ooariians, are required by law to be held on the first Taeoday in the mouth, between tie* hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the afernoou, at the Court House in the county in which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must he given in a public gazette 30 days previous to the day of sale. Notice for the sale of personal property must be given in like manner 10 days previous to salt-day. Notice to the debtors and creditors of an estate must be nablished 40 days. Notice that application will be* made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Lend, «k.c., must be published for one month. Citation* for letters of Administration, Guardianship, An., most be publish *d 30 days—for dismission iron. Ad ministration monthly three mouths—for dismission from Guardianship 40 days. Roles for foreclosure of Mortgage must bo publisflod monthly for four month*—for establishing lost papers for the ftill space oi three mouths—for compelling title* from KxMutors or Administrators, where bond bus been giv en by the deceased, the full spat\- of thrtv mouths. Publications will always be continued according to Uuma tho legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. Book and Job Work of all Hinds PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT VllIII-OPFIfB. From the Atlanta Herald. State Notes f om a Roaming Correspondent. At Aristocratic Euionton—Judge W. A. Reid—Ancient and Holy Milledgeville—Snijie Hunt ing in Her Swamps. Athe: is, Ga, April 18, 1875. From Eatonton to Athens. The man who takes that trip, and takes it leisurely, sees a big slice of the best country, and a host of the best men that one may find between this and Guinea. eatonton’s quiet precincts. One cannot help but bo charmed with Eatonton’s soft and peaceful quiet—its cool and silent groves; its splendid palace homes, and its hos pitable people. For Lim who has wearied of the strife and turmoil of the world, no mere delicious retreat can be found. One of the most beautiful places in the city is owned by Judge W. A Reid, who was, as the quondam head of the Telegraph & Messenger, one of the most skillfull and success ful of Georgia journalists. Judge Reid is now Judge of the Putnam County Court, and is arranging a real Kentucky stock and grass farm. them better, and make a man eat them more heartily than any man living. Yours, etc., Jellabt. [From the Augnsta Constitolionnlist.] Victims of Misplaced Confidence. The Atlanta Herald frankly con fesses that Mr.] Blaine has disap pointed the hopes based upon him by Mr. Lamar and other reformers of that class of politicians. Why any special hopes should have been entertained by true Democrats, in that direction, we have never yet been able to perceive. Blaine’s as pirations lead him into a quasi an tagonism to Grant, but, so far as the cardinal vices of ultra Radicalism are concerned, he sticks to them with the tenacity of death, and any alliance with him must be purchased with treachery to principle. How very widely Mr. Lamar and the Herald misconceived Mr. Blaine the Connec- | ! ticut canvass and the speech he de- ! livered at that time plainly demon- ! strated. He has been equally explic- j it since. Returning from tbe Nutmeg , State, the ex-Speaker was received by the Union Club at New York, I and, between the sherry and cam paigne, made a speech which must be gall and wormwood to those who have dreamed of making him a pos sible ally or oven a nominee on a so- called Democratic platform. Mr. Blaine is reported to have said that the “future of the party would de pend on the’ Republicans of that State. He could not find any per sons who were willing to say that the State of New York was given over to the Democracy. They could not believe that a State*whose great preeminence overshadowed all the others was given over to tho cause that laid down its traitorous arms at Appomattox. If this were so he would not know what to look for-* ward to. While he did not think, and never had thought, that a new re-, bcllion'was contemplated, or the re enslavement of the negroes desired, ho believed that they would have to fight their moral and political battles over again.” Mark here, even Mr. Blaine admits that the legitimate results'of the war, tho abolition of slavery and surrender of soceesion as a remedy for wrongs in government, are acknowledged by tho South. But he goes a bow-shot further, and insists upon the illegiti mate consequences of the Legisla tive war since 1856, and contends that the Republican party shall make that the grand issue of 1876. W’hat answer tho country will give, if allowed to do so, to that challenge, let Connecticut answer. But what su preme folly would it bo for the Dem ocracy to plant themselves essential ly on Blaine’s platform, and simply make the contest for the next Presir dency a mere struggle for spoils and not principles? W’e have had evis dence enough lately that such an in tention is hatching in certain quar ters, and if not prevented at once will swell into proportions which may well cause alarm for the country and its salvation. Even the New York Express, one of the most conservative of journals, disgusted with Blaine and his audacity, says : “The war ended in April, 1865. If ■‘So Greene is the true Radical He was the representative of the dy namics of the Republican war party. Connecticut, in putting him to a po litical death, but gives expression to feelings in entire sympathy with the national aversion to the only policy which can prolong the existence of the Republican party. The nation itself cannot exist long under such policy, and the people begin to see this. Harmony and equality amongst the States must be re-established. Peace and order amongst the people must be restored and as an inevitable corrollary of this the war party must die. Its fate is sealed.” The effort, then, of Blaine and the so-called Liberal Republicans is to consecrate the infamy of reconstruc tion and galvanize the Republican corpse. The masses of the Union have had enough of that corpse and want it put out of the way. Why Southern men should seek affiliations in that quarter and help a galvaniz ■ ing process, which the majority of voters are averse to, is, in our opin ion, an act of madness and folly. If the Democratic party could possibly get into power on Blaine's platform, it would be relatively a Republican victory and by no means a triumph of constitutional principles. Col. A. T. aScXntrye. His Reasons for Turning Over His Back Pay Into the State Treas ury—fiis Letter to Treas urer Jones. Thomasville, Feb. 17,1875. Hon. John Jones, Treasurer of the State of Georgia : Dear Sib :—The 42d congress of the United States at the close of its last session, passed a law which was approved by the president, raising the salaries of the president, judges of the supreme court and members of congress, with an allowance of $5,000.00 to each member of that congress over and above the then salary, subject to a deduction of the mileage and other extras allowed the members; the letter, however, of Official Notice. CENTENNIAL MEDALS. In order to enable the public to distinguish Centennial Medals issued from the United States Mint by or der of Congress, the United States Centennial Board of Finance have found it necessary to issue the fol lowing: U. S. Centennial Board of Finance,'! Philadelphia, March 24, 1875. j It being deemed essential “that medals with appropriate devices, em blems and inscriptions commemora tive of the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence” should be officially issued, the Con gress of tbe United States, by Spe cial Act approved June 16, 1874, directed the same to “be prepared the law being properly denominated i at the Mint for the Centennial Board back pay.” j of Finance, subject to the provisions As a member of that congress, I ! of the fifty-second section of the j i • . ii _ ° ^ a -i The Ex-Speaker on the Third Term. Hfljhas struck the secret of success in j Georgia farming, and with his clover j _ patches, grassy meadows and blood- Grant or Blaine party want an ed stock, will soon demonstrate that I overhauling of the books which have cotton, if it is king, has a very prom ising heir presumptive. Judge Reid married Miss Nisbet, daughter of Judge E. A. Nisbet, a pure Georgia patriot. It is said tbat Mrs. Reid has written one or two books which, a competent critic assured your cor respondent, were full of merit and destined to win distinction for tho fair authoress whenever they are published. Col. T. G. Lawson, one of the made history not only of the war, but of the ten years since the cur tain fell at Appomattox, they 'can be gratified.” It is this very effort of leading Re publicans of both wings of the party to justify tho villainy of reconstruc tion that has caused such a signal defeat in all sections of this country. Seeing and feeling this, how can men who claim to have superior sagacity ask the Democratic party of the Cleverest hearted and best lawyers in Union to let Blaine’s programme re the State, and a man beloved by all who know him, and one whoso kind ness has started many a young fol low up life’s ladder, resides here and is doing a large practice. TE ANCIENT AND YE HOLY CITY. I eannot help loving Milledgeville. It is a town that every Georgian should revero. Its honest, simple, straightforward way wins me every time I go there, and as I sit in the old McCombs hotel, and think about the days that are gpne, I am disposed to fear that we made a mistake when OUr law-makers were removed from its precincts to smart and brag Atlan ta. It has gained ground, however, aharply since the capitol was remov ed, and is now one of the most ener getic towns in the State. It is the entrepot of thousands of prosperous farmers that till the lauds that lie along the Oconee—lands that need but to be tickled with a rake to laugh with a harvest. Milledgeville is the favorite stop ping place for drummers, who can knock off for a day or two and take a little sport It affords the very best facilities for hunting and fishing. White Lake, six miles away, and the far-famed Black Lake, twelve miles from town, just on the edge of Wilkinson county, LITERALLY SWABM WITH DELICIOUS FISH. The woods abound with deer, wildcat, squirrels and opossums; the old fields hide frequent coveys of patridges, and tho swamps arc enliv ened with millions of snipe. Happy is the “tourist” who, in congenial oompany, can steal one day from his route and spend it in sporting a- ronnd Milledgeville. As some evi dence of the abundance of snipe— by the way, the daintiest game-bird that we have—I may mention that, a day or two since, Mr. Henry Fon taine, the Southern representative of Proctor &, Gamble, and Mr. M. H. ICoOomb, killed sixty-one in less than two hours. The manner in which Mr. McComb had them roast ed and served in his hospitable homo would have done credit to Delmoni- eo. The headquarters of all these bloods is the MeComb Hotel, by Maj. Corbin Crutchfield, is a Virginian, in the truest of the word, blue-blooded, opsued-handed, big-hearted. He is % relative of that distinguished Vir- ceive a mild acceptance ? It is the fashion to say that Greene, the fel low who fired a hundred guns at Norwich, was the intolerable burden the Radicals had to carry, and there fore insured the overthrow of the party in Connecticut; but the truth of the matter is that the patriotic ele ment of this country are sick unto death of the whole concern, and make precious little distinctions be tween the men who made the infa mous laws of reconstruction and those who vigorously execute them. On this point the Richmond Dis patch wisely and truly says : “In reflecting upon this Connec ticut affair, has this Mr. Greene made himself more of an ass than have Messrs. Blaine and Ferry, and others who sought victory by opposing the third term, giving Grant the cold shoulder, and urging the abandon ment of oppressive measures to wards the South ? These gentles men are of tho same party. Their doubts and their equivocating be» tween the two great parties—their disapprobation of extreme Federal measures towards the South—and their honorable conduct in aiding the exposure of the nefarious system of filing the Northern heart against the South by manufactured scandals and accounts of outrages, inflicted a damage upon the Republican party that could not be repaired. North ern rancor towards the South was the very breath of the Republican party, and as that was moderated by these startling exposures of the Rad ical frauds and outrages upon the South, the Republican party has de clined in power, and its prospects have grown darker. These meders ate Republicans, in confessing the rottenness of the Republican fruit and attempting to save the better part, have cut away until it is all gone. Connecticut plainly shows to the Liberalists that they not only cannot save the Republican party, but that if they endeavor still to save it and “reconstruct” its broken parts, they, too, will share its fate and be lost “We repeat that we are not sure that Greene is so great an “ass” af ter all. The Republican party is a war party. It was built upon sec tional hate and strife. It was born of force. The men who lead it were elected at a time of violence, and Commodore Maury, and his i their sentiments and policies were for manyjyears the Speak- • of the House of Delegates in tliat He is a scholarly gentleman, graduated under Jackson, traveled in Europe for several re. He fought with Hampton , Stuart through the war, and is poar zesting off a spell, doing some and fishing. He can catch tin a shorter tun$ sod cook engendered by the passions of the period. The very genius of the party is hostility; its life is force. It must continue to exist through Grant, and Sheridan, and Morton, and Conkling, or it must die. Blaine, and Ferry, and the like, and the New York Times, are the philanthropists that undertake to civilize the Indian. They wiU only bury him. “Gath” interviewed ex-Speaker Blaine in New York a few days since, and sends to the Pittsburg Dispatch Mr. Blaine's views on various public matters, and among others he dis courses as follows on the third term question: “But you know that Grant’s faction is bound to ruin him. Of course he will be beaten by the people, but how can you prevent his nomination when it is sure that he can come to con vention with the whole South at his back?” “I am not so sure about that,” Baid Mr. Blaine. “Office-holders serve from no great motives of honor or personal loyalty. They can be relied upon as long as they are sure of victory with you, but will desert if they foresee disaster. That was Frank Pierce's mistake in the last year of his administration. He depended upon his office-holders for a re-nomination, and they ascertained his weakness and rbandoned him in the last. Men like Packard, of Louis iana, are not going to support Grant for a third term when they see there is no luck in it. I don’t believe he can carry the convention under any ordinary circumstances.” “But you don’t deny that the third term is really an issue and an intention. “Oh! not at all,” cried Blaine, ‘that has been plain enough for some time. Horace Porter, Babcock, Shepherd, and others, have doubt less encouraged the idea with the President Still, at times, I have had my doubts as to whether he passionately harbored the purpose. It is printed all over the country that because I did not support but rather defeated the President’s poli cy on the force bill and the Arkansas [ settlement the President hated me. j There is not a word of truth in this. 1 He has been as good natured and cordial with me since Congress ad journed as ever in his life.” “Why couldn’t Grant” said I, “have relieved his party of an op pressive doubt by saying to some body who could print it that he dis carded the insinuation of a third term?” “Oh? Try to make Grant do any thing and he will go the other way. You can’t drive him.” “What you say, Mr. Blaine, re minds me that Henry Wilson has expressed himself determinedly a- gainst a third nomination, and still General Grant invited him to go around traveling with him.” “Certainly! The President does not seem to be wioked at all on the subject. Wilson is outspoken and candid, and you know he is a candi date himBelf. Did you ever see such a restless man? Last summer he came to Saratoga. This is just the place for you, Wilson, I said; take it cool now. You have too much flesh, and these waters will reduce you. Ah! answered Wilson; I am delighted; I shall stay here a month. The next night but one he was on his way to Boston.” “But Grant is a man of a strange ly composite ability?” “He iB," said the ex-Speaker, “an extraordinary man His silence is a great power. The silent man al- ways has the odds with him. He bets on the field as long ss he is si lent. As soon as he opens his month he has named his horse. There’s Schuyler Colfax. He wrote to me saying that he meant to decline a re- election to the Vice Presidency, and desiring me to be his successor. He came to Boston soon afterward, and we had an interview, which now seems to have been almost pro phetic. It was at* the St. James Hotel, and ho avowed his intention to decline in advanoe. Said I, ‘Col fax, there is one thing always easily done in this country; to get out of office. You can decline next winter as easily as now, and in the mean time your mind may change.” No. He must decline, and he did. In a few months he was using every ener gy for a renomination, but it was too late.” Here is an interesting third term item. The Washington correspon dent of the Springfield Republican writes: “A friend of mine, a saga cious politican, had a long talk with Judge Davis, of the Supreme Court, a day or two since, and in the course of the conversation that clear headed man expressed the opinion that General Grant not only wished ‘a third term,’ but that he would get the nomination next year from his party. This shows that it cannot be the ‘mere moon-shine’ of some Re publican papers, for Judge Davis is a keen observer, and this is his de liberate judgment,” a judgment which Grant would, perhaps, have preferred that he should withhold until after the fall elections. What is betterlhan a promising young man ? A paying one. Question for actors—can an actor be said to work when he plays T In what ship has the greatest number of people been wrecked ?— Courtship. The home dido—walking around with the baby 4 voted against the measure. Owing to the latter provision of the law and the late term of the session when the bill became a law, the officer au thorized to settle with the members was not prepared to do so when the congress expired on the 4th of March, 1873. In common with other mem bers I left with that officer an au thority to forward the amount when ascertained what might appear to be due. Several weeks thereafter I re ceived three thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars and eighty cents, ($3,930 SO.) After the law was pass ed, and before I left the authority to forward the money, I considered the question of receiving this money carefully, and I did not doubt my legal right to draw and use the mo ney. Looking to the history of Georgia since the war, especially the history of reconstruction, I could not see that there was any moral ob ligation resting on me to leave the fund in the federal treasury, for I could but believe and feel that the federal government was responsible for all losses incurred by the state, arising out of the maladministration of the state government by Gov. Bnlloock and his ' Sssociates. Look ing to the fact that the casting of this fund upon me in opposition to my vote, was one of the incidents of tho office which I was then filling, I felt that it might be possible that the moral right of the people of Georgia to this fund was better than my own. I determined to draw the money and dispose of it as I now do. But before the fund reached me the clamor against those who receiv ed, as well as those who voted for the “back pay,” became so great that I determined to hold it until the clamor should subside. Now, that the clamor has subsided, I do with it as I originally intended, and en close to you the $3,930 80 to be de posited in the State treasury, and disposed of as the law-making pow er may direct. I have but one re gret about this matter, and that is that I did not have the authority at the time, by tho sanction of a law, to draw from the federal treasury enough money to pay the entire debt of the state of Georgia. Respectfully, A. T. McIntyre. The Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar tells a very good story of which he is himself the hero. It will be remem bered that, during the John Young Brown discussion in the House last session, Mr. Lamar was on the point of Baying something very wicked, but he suddenly checked himself, and merely threw out a dark intimation of his angry thought. The subject was afterwards revived at a dinner party, and Mr. Lamar was asked to repeat the terrible speech that he was going to fulminate and didn’t. This is the way he satisfied the dinner party, according to his own report: You will remember, I said to them, that once upon a time a friend met Mr. Thackeray, and said to him: “Mr. Thackeray, the book Vanity Fair closes leaving Becky Sharp half hidden behind a door, with a long, keen knife gleaming in her hands, and her eyes aflame with jealousy and passion, bent upon a man sit ting with his back turned to her, writing at a desk. Now, I want to know what did Becky Sharp do? “My dear fellow,’’ says Thackeray, tapping him on the shoulder, “that is exactly what I have always wanted to know my self.”- You can very well imagine that I was not troubled with any more requests to rehearse my unborn speech. Billings. Mpn are apt to think they are not appreshiated in this world, but the trubble is, we mark our goods so high that we^kant dispoee ov them. If you hav ennv doubts about the propriety ov a thing, yu may be pret ty certain that the doubt iz right The man who hain’t never been cheated don’t kno so much now as he will sum day. We all ov us expekt to be fondly remembered after we are ded and gone, but we go into our graves like a shower ov rain into the buzzom ov the oshun, forgotten. Modesty and diffidence are often konfounded, knt one is the conshi- ousness of virtew, and the other iz the conshiousness ov ignoranse. Human beings are natral slovens, bom so. Yu hav got to hold a young one to wash hiz face, and when yu want to comb hiz hair yu hav got to ran him down. Napoleon was, one day, searching for a book in the library at Malmai- son, and at last discovered it on a shelf somewhat above his reach.— Marshal Monoey, who was present— one of the tallest men in the army —stepped forward saying: “Permit me, sir ; I am higher than your ma jesty.” “You are longer, marshal,” Baid the emperor, with a frown. “Why do you use paint?" asked a violinist of his daughter. “For the same reason that you use rosin, pa pa.” “How is that?” “Why, to help me draw my beau.” The man who doeen’t hang out his shingle and advertise dies and leaves no sign. Those who rise to eminence sud denly are very apt to come back by the next train. The spelling mania is raging.— Parties of four in the cars tun two seats facing each other and spell. A doughmcetic difficulty heavy itwat Coinage Act of 1873, upon the pay ment of a sum not less than the cost thereof, and all the provisions, whether penal or otherwise, of said Coinage Act against the counterfeit ing or imitation of coins of the Un ted States shall apply to the medals struck and issued under the provis ions of this act.” These Medals, having been prepared and issued, are now being sold by the Centen nial Board of Finance and its agents, and the profits arising therefrom strictly applied in aid qf the prepara tion for the celebration of the anni versary which the medals commemo rate. They are the only medals re lating to the great events of 1876 officially issued, and may be readily distinguished from any of the tokens styled Centennial medals and issued by private parties for their individu al profit, from the fact that in ad dition to the design and other word ing, the larger medals have stamped upon them, “Act of Congress, June, 1874,” and the others, “By authority of the Congress of the United States.” Theso official medals are of four kinds—small gilt at $1; large bronze at $2; coinJsilver at $3; large gilt at $5; or all enclosed in one case at $11. Cautionary notice is hereby given that the Centennial Board of I inance intends to avail itself of the English Money Loaned Out The wild mania for borrowing money that has raged throughout the whole civilized world during the last ten or fifteen years has resulted very disastrously to the English people. England is the home of en ormous wealth, the fruit of centuries of patient and intelligent toil, aided by a system of machinery far vaster and more productive than any other country on the globe possesses. The English people are credited with be ing very cautions in the use of their money; but the facts prove that they are not so; they have been as rash in loaning, as other people have been in borrowing. The French loan their earnings and so do the Germans, to a certain extent; but the English invest theirs. They regard it as a violation of the laws of multi plication to keep money idle when it might be made to earn an interest; they are therefore in the habit of in vesting in foreign loans—scattering it to the four corners of the earth invested in government and railway bonds, content to let it remain dis tributed if they can only draw the annual interest with regularity. But they have made some wretched mis takes of late years; their investments in South and Central America and in the bonds of our own Southern States and Railroads have proved most unfortunate. It is estimated that there are now held in England, $1,200,000 bonds that are either worthless or expected to become so. Some of them were bought at low rates, but the bulk of them repre sents an immense amount of British geld scattered over the globe that neither comes back, nor sends back returns in the shape of interest. It is no wonder the English are com plaining bitterly of tho spirit of re pudiation that prevails in the world, and upbraiding themselves for their folly in loaning their money on worthless securities. It used to be John Boll’s habit, when a small state owed money to his people which was not paid, to send a fleet to bombard the debtor state’s seaports, or to threaten them with bombardment unless the money was paid within three days. But this rugged process has gone out of fashion, and the protection and privilege granted by English people are sorrowfully com- the acts of Congress above mention ed, and that the highly penal pro visions for publishing, counterfeiting or imitating the authorized official medals will be strictly enforced a- gainst all infringement and violation. John Welsh, President Centennial Bd of Fin. Frederick Fraley, Secretary - The Suez Canal. The Suez Canal is a singular il lustration of what may be called the irony of diplomacy. The canal was a French scheme. For many years its construction was opposed by Lord Palmerston, partly on the ground that it could never be built. and partly for political reasons. His Lordship contended that the privi leges originally conceded to the French company were so extensive as to authorize the establishment on Egyptian soil of a strong French colony, commanding a position of military importance. When his tra ditional dislike for France, and that terror of French influence which exs isted in the minds of all statesmen who had had dealings with the First Napoleon, Lord Palmerston feared that what seemed to be simply mercantile scheme was in truth a French plot for blocking England's path to India. But the canal was spoilt, mainly by the genius of M. de Lesseps and the enterprise and statesmanship of the late Emperor Napoleon and the present Khedive of Egypt. Its practical effect has been to strengthen English com merce, and over seventy per cent., of the ships passing through carry the English flag. Some changes have been made in the uses for which the canal was intended. M. de Les seps did not suppose it would be used by any but sailing vessels, but steamers have been built suited to it. There are now fleets of steamers of compound engines capable of gos ing long distances with little fuel The projectors anticipated that the annual tonnage between Europe and the East would be six million tons. It, however, has only reached two millions, but is growing.—N. Y. Herald. A Reminiscence of the Provision al Congress.—Under this head we quote the following from the Atlan ta Constitution’. Among tho most active members of the above named famous body were R. B. Rhett, of South Carolina, and C. M. Conrad, of Louisiana- They seemed, however, to be antipo des upon any and every point raised in discussion; so much so that if Rhett had moved a resolution that the sun was in mid-heaven at 12 o’clock m., Conrad would have spent an hour in arguing that it was an entire mistake. One morning upon assembling the chaplain was absent, and Mr. Speaker Cobb found great difficulty in procuring some suitable person to open the sitting with pray er. Alexander B. Clitherall, there upon, got off the following capital hit: No chap[aia is on band to-day, And Cobb is filled with care. For want of some one used to pray. Soon as he takes the chair He calls on to perform, Who smilingly refuses— ’Tis not the mission, at this time, The gallant Colonel chooses. Hob Dixon, then, tho Georgia clerk. Fun sparkling in hie eyes, When thus the prayer did shirk, Proposed this compromise: ‘ The poet left vacant by thepiieit Just call on Rhett to fill, For if the Lord don't answer him I'm sure that Conrad will!" Death of an Eccentric Character. Col. George W- Gayle, formerly a prominent lawyer of Selma, Ala., died in that city a few days since. He was very eccentric, and in 1864 inserted in the Cakaba Gazette an advertisement offering $1,000,000 for the assassination of President Lincoln, though he was not worth as many cents. After the war Gayle was arrested and confined about one year in Fortress Monroe. He was, however, mainly through the inter cession of his wife, by President Johnson released. Daring his con finement in Fortress Monroe he be came partially paralyzed in his lower limbs, from winch be never recovers «L ing to the conclusion that a greater part of their money loaned out is gone forever.—St. Louis Republi can. Exciting Scene—A Scare in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The Rev. Mr. Talmage had a con gregation last evening that crowded the spacious tabernacle and extended to the sidewalk. Hundreds were turned away, and many more were content with standing room only. The preacher gave one of his impas sioned discourses on the dangers of a seafaring life, and the peril every one in the congregation was menaced with, himself included, of becoming a castaway. The immense audience were now and again stilled with the vigorous appeals familiar to taber nacle ears. During one of these, in which the preacher, with upraised hand and voice husky with emotion, had declared that he claimed every one in the house for God, and with out a moment’s delay to raise a cry for mercy, show a signal of distress, in five minutes it might be too late, in four minutes it might be too late, in three minutes it might be, in two minutes—yea, in one minute—there was a great hush ; the silence became oppressive. Suddenly from the western Bide of the church came a sharp, cracking noise as of the breaking oi timbers. A moment more and a clamorous confusion arose, through which came cries of “The gallery’s giving way !” “Get out! get out!” followed by a frantic rush for the doors by the most excitable. Clothes were tom and minor incidents of discomfort ensued, but no one was seriously in** jured. The preacher endeavored to draw a moral from the alarm, but it was not listened to. The doxology was started by a gentleman and continu ed by the organ and cornet, the au dience pouring out of tho doors des pite the efforts of the ushers. It was announced that in consequence of this alarm, occasioned by the needless interference of one of the audience with a window, the closing of which by an unskillful hand had nearly caused a calamity, the trustees had determined upon hereafter hand ing such persons over to the police. —New York Herald. A Southern Grass. Bermuda grass was introduced in to Greene county about fifty years ago, by Mr. Ezekiel Park, who pro cured it near Petersburg, Va., whith er it was brought from the island of Bermuda. For several years it was considered a great curse upon the planting interest of the county, but the developments of the last few years have exploded this notion, and it is now regarded as a real blessing in disguise. While it is an inveter ate enemy to the growth of corn and cotton, as a grazing and hay-grass it has no superior, if, indeed, an equal in the whole catalogue of grasses. A single acre in this county, well set in this grass yielded the enormous amount of ten thousand pounds of cored hay from a single catting.— Greensboro (Ga.) Herald. Healthfulness of Apples.—A raw mellow Apple is digested in an hour and a half, while boiled cabbages re quire five hours. The most health ful dessert that can be placed on the table is a baked apple. If eaten fre« quently at breakfast, with coarse bread and butter, without meat or flesh of any kind, it has an admirable effect on the general system, often removing constipation, correcting acidities, and cooling off febrile con ditions more effectually than the most approved medicines. If fami lies could be induced to substitute apples—sound and ripe—for pies, cakes and sweetmeats, with which their children are too frequently stuffed, ^here would be a diminution in the sum total of doctor's bills, in a single year, sufficient to lay in a stock of this delicious fruit for the whole season’s use. Spring is on hand. Lettuce have peas. It take* a pretty smart man to teQ mheobeiMhi|>py. The Young Man who was “Shook.” “What I want to know,” said a white-headed young man of twenty, as he stood before the sergeant in charge of the Central station yester day, “what I came here for, was to get some advice. " “Proceed,” said the sergeant. “Yon know Nancy Thompson, don’t yon?” “Never heard of her.” “Well, she's a widder, over forty years old, and I’ve been boarding there.” “Yes?” “And we were engaged to be mar»» ried.” “Whew!” whistled the officer. “I don’t blame yon,” continued the yonng man, iD a broken voice. “I'm only twenty and she’s forty, bnt a man can’t always tell when he’s going to make a fool of himself.” “And yon fell in love?” “I did that, and as soon as we get through talking Tm going out to hire some one to kick mo over to Canada and back! Yes, sir, fell dead in love—loved a woman of over for ty” “And what followed?” “What followed ? Why, what al iens follows? I’m human, same’s anybody else, iPad when I love I love like a locomotive on a down grade. What do yon think I did in just six weeks by the watch? Went to the theatre sixteen times, out sleighing twelve times, had three parties, went to three lectures and took her out to eat oysters ten or eleven times. Fact, sir—cost me dura near $200.” “But it was all for love,” replied the sergeant. “I thought so, and what else did I do? Bought her a forty-dollar watch, a ten-dollar bracelet, a five-doilar ring, a seven-dollar set of jewelry, a new dress piece drew $500 from tho red I had—and used it all upon her!” “And then!” “She portended to love back, and smiled and smiled and looked heaps of love at me. She’d lean on my arm, talk about Cupid and git off poetry by the rod, and it was plainly understood that we were to be mar ried in June. Oh, but she knew her biz, and she slid around me as the Bengal tiger does around a lamb.” “Did she break the engagement?” “Last night” said the yonng man, swallowing the lamp in his throat, “she told me that she’d been trifling with me all along. She said she was engaged to another man, and she could never be more than a sister to me! I tell you, sergeant, yon could have knocked me down with a straw! I braced up after a while and called her ahypocrite, when she called mo a whiteheaded idiot, and the boarders threw me out of doors. Five hundred dollars gone and I’m a wrecked man.—Detroit Free Press. VINEGAR BITTERS No Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not de stroyed by mineral prison or other means, and vital orpins wi-sted beyond repair. Grateful Thousands proclaim Yin*. gab Bitters tbe most wonderful Invigor- ant that ever sustained the sinking system. Bilious, Remittent, and Inter mittent Fevers, which are so prevalent in the valleys of our great rivers through out the United States, especially those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkansas, Bad, Colorado, Brazos. Itio Grande, Pearl, Ala bama, Mobile, Savannah, Roanoke, James, and many others, with their vast tribu taries, throughout our entire country dur ing the Summer and Autumn, and remark ably so during seasons of unusual boat and dryness, are invorial ily accompanied by ex tensive derangements of the stomach and liver, and other abdominal viscera. In their treatment, a purgative, exerting a powerful influence upon these various organs, i* essentially necessary. There is no cathar tic for the purpose equal toDn. J. Wadkbb’S Vinegar Bitters, as they will speedily re move the dark-colored viscid matter with which the bowels are loaded, at the sums time stimulating the secretions of the liver, and generally restoring the healthy functions of the digestive organs. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Head ache,Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tight ness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Erncto- and gave her a five dollar gold- 1 tions of the Stomach, Bad Taste in th* with a hole in it. Yes, sir, I Mouth, Bilious Attacks Palpitation of th« thn bank—every Heart ’ Inflammation_of the Lungs, Pam in the region of the Kidneys, and a hun dred other painful symptoms, are tho off springs of Dyspepsia. One l>ottle trill prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. Scrofula, or King's Evil, White Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, 1 Swelled Neck, Goitre, Scrofulous Inflammations, Indolent Inflammations, Mercurial Aff-lo tions, Old Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, etc., etc. In these, as in all other constitutional Diseases, Walkeb’s Vinegar Bitters have shown their great carative powers in tho most obstinate and intractable cases. For Inflammatory ami Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of th* Blood, Liver, Kidneys, and Bladder, theso Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases uoa caused by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Diseases.—Persons co in Paints and Minerals, such a* The War to go On. “As long-ago as last July we pre dicted a well defined political strug gle, in which the Republican party as the Republican party would hoist again the flag of the Union and bear it against Democracy carry ing the soiled colors of the Confed eracy ; that the lines would be cleanly drawn ; that those who were not with ns would be against ns. Every field of the initial campaign so far has verified this prediction.— Philadelphia Press, 9th. Forewarned, forearmed. The Press, which is said to have enlis ted under the third term banner, de velops in the foregoing the pro gramme of the next Presidential election, and of all the intervening contests. It is superfluous to say that each a plan of the fight will make it a warm one. It not only involves the most atrocious misrep resentation of the feelings and aims of the Democracy, but the raking up of the coals and ashes of all the fires and feuds of the century past, and the running of the Attorney General’s outrage mill to its fullest capacity. We shall see what comes of it The plan has notably failed once, and we believe will fail again. A worn out election hobby has never yet been reintroduced with effect; and it will be particularly untimely during the centennial year of the Republic. Philadelphia will stand in a remarkable attitude—sounding from one corner of her month paeans over a great, united and happy na tionality, and begging the people to come up to the centennial celebra tion of its glories; bnt oat of the other corner denouncing a large majority of the white voters of the United States as false to the govern ment and seeking its overthrow. Forney’s Press, which is a leading organ of the Centennial Exposi tion, will be one of the chief trum peters in these doable, discordant and simultaneous blasts. He has got to persuade the sovereign peo ple that this happy country mnst assemble en masse in the City of Brotherly Love there to rejoice over the triumphs of civilization and free government, and he has at the same time to show that Grant's Third Term organization embodies all the loyalty and patriotism left in it. He must insist that the Southern States ahull come up and rejoice with sister Pennsylvania, bnt at the same time that sister Pennsylvania knows them to be rebels and traitors at heart— “carrying the soiled colors of the Confederate” and seeking to pros trate “the flag of the Union.” Let brother Forney explain at length and circumstantially how he is going to cany out this | doable programme daring the great Centennial year of the Republic. It will be a novel performance.—Telegraph db Messen ger. The Postoffice Mr. H. S. Glover, the new post master, took charge of the office yes terday. Mr. A. E. Seifert is assis tant postmaster and money order clerk. Mr. S. held the same position when Bond was postmaster. L. A. Hanse remains as mail clerk. A son of Mr. Glover is delivery clerk. Per kins, colored, remains in the office, and another colored man, whose name we did not learn, goes in. Fitz patrick, Deveanx and Eugene Belch er are left upon the cold charities of the world, to obtain a support as best they can.—Tel. & m lumbers, Typesetters, Gold-beaters, and Miners, as they advance in life, are sub ject to paralysis of the Bowels. To guard against this, take a dose of Walker’s Vinegar Bitters occasionally. 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Union and recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1872-1886, April 27, 1875, Image 1