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VOLUME ILVI.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 27, 1876.
NUMBER 49,
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No. 2.
11T VIVIAN SPRIGHTLY. ^
The two Courtships of Captain
Oliver Oldham.
CHAPTER VII.
A FINALS CON3PIRITOR, MOCKING EX
PECTATION AND LEADING HER VICTIM
TO GRIEF.
Ned Canter made his appearance
at Captain Oldham’s on the follow
ing day precisely at meridian. Cap
tain Oldham was arrayed as describ
ed in the last chapter. Ned preceded
him to guard against intrusive eyes,
fastened his horse securely after ho
dismounted at Mrs. Dasher’s gate,
saw him riDg the door bell and then
retired.
Miss Dasher had witnessed these
preliminaries and instructed a ser
vant to invito him into the parlor.
Fortunately Mrs. Dasher was spend
ing the day with a lady friend. She
soon made her appearance wearing
a glittering gossamer robe, so light
that it floated gracefully in almost a
windless day. At the first sight of
her the Captain’s heart fluttered, and
he felt a whirl in his head. She flash
ed upon him like a pile of rainbows
and his mind was bewildered as if
the innermost glories of heaven had
suddenly opened to his view. It is
generally supposed that a man has a
soul somewhere in his body. At
that moment it was not so with him.
All that was in it, good and devo
tional, had glided to her, apparently,
never to return. As she entered the
room he arose to meot her. She ex
tended her hand and with a smile
like an angel’s, expressed her pleas
ure at seeing him.
<>Why, Captain Qldham,” said she j
(‘have yon not called before ! Mother |
is not at home to-day. She would j
have been delighted to see you. You
are looking so well and youthful. Bo
seated Captain. Here is a sofa, there
is a delightful arm-chair. Which will
yon prefer ?”
Tho Captain seemed to be tongue-
tied, or to have lost the power of-
speech for a time. He gazed, smil
ing and bowing, without saying a
word until Miss Dasher asked tho
question :
t‘Which will yoq prefer 1”
At last he said “your preference
will be mine.”
“Then" said she “be Seated on tho
sofa, and I will sit by you. You
have been in the city, recently, I
presume!”
“Yes Madam.”
“What is the news of interest
there t”
“Nothing worth relating that I
know of madam.”
“You have seen it stated, I pre-
pqme. that an Italian Troupe is ex
pected to visit the city tho approach
ing fall I”
“No madam, I was not aware of it
I eaq't see what our government
wants with Italian troqps. There i6
a company of United States troops
qt Arsenal, and as far as I can
see, there is but little uso for them
there.”
“Oh! Captain, you misunderstand
me. I mean a troupe of Italian sing-
ers.”
“Oh! Ah! Yes, my hearing is not
—yes madam, I did misunderstand
you.”
“I thought so, Captain, I thought
that so accomplished a musician as
you are, would take great delight in
hearing them. I was greatly indebt
ed to you for the delightful serenade
with which you complimented me a
few nights since.”
The Captain had lost his compo
ears at the first sight of Miss Dash
er. He began now to wilt with heat
and surprise. Great drops of per
spiration fell from his face, and to
make the matter worse, one thing
was wanting. He had forgot to take
a pocket hankerchief with him. Miss
Dasher seeing that he wiped off the
perspiration with his white kids, ob
served :
“Perhaps Captain, you forgot your
hankerchief.”
“Yes madam, you are right and
the weather is dreadful hot”
“She left tho room and in a mo
ment returned with an elegant em
broidered one which she handed
him. He looked at it a moment as
if doubting the propriety of using
it, for, in addition to the elegance of
the material the “Balm of a thousand
flowers” seemed to ascend from it to
his olfactory nerves. Seeing him
hesitate, Miss Dasher sweetly ob
served :
“Do Captain use it freely. Inad-
vertances like this will occasionally
happen to any of us.”
“I thank you madam,” he replied.
“I stand much in need of it and will
do so.”
“I was just speaking Captain of
your complimentary serenade. Un
til yon played under my windows, I
did not know you had so accomplish
ed yourself in tho divine art of music.
You played parts of the several ope
ras. Which do you most admire,
Lecretia Borgia, tho Barber of Seville
or Lucia De’Lammermoor ?”
By this time the Captain was get
ting as hot as cayenne. The per
spiration was exuding from every
pore.
“Madam,” said he, “there must be
some mistake in this matter. I know
nothing of mnsic or the things you
allude to.”
“Oh, Captain, how cunning some of
you men are. But you cannot deceive
me. I saw you with my own eyes,
and I have better proof even than
that. The note which you sent me
by my servant that night, will tell
on you. I have read it over a dozen
times. Now, yon must confess. You
are disposed to be a gay deceiver, I
perceive.”
“Madam, yon confound me. I
tell you there is a mistake some
where. A note! I never sent you a
note.”
At this moment a servant brought
in on a waiter some glasses of lemo
nade.
“Do Captain, let me hand you a
glass. It will refresh you. It is
iced which will make its refrigerent
qualities more effective.” Becoming
desperate he was ready for anything,
especially, whatever would disminish
his intolerable heat Between that
and nervous excitement, his hand
trembled as he took the glass and it
fell to the floor, broke into frag
ments, and scattered the lemonade
over the rich brussels.
“Madam,” said he, after looking
intently upon the broken glass, and
wasted lemonade:
“I am overcome with embarrass
ment. Music which I never played,
and a note which I never wrote, with
the hot weather and these tight
clothes and boots, have nearly dis
tracted me.”
“Oh Captain you are playing some
trick upon me. If not, this is a very
small matter, Captain, absolutely
nothing. I have seen whole waiters
turned over with cake, syllabub,
plates and everything else at once-
Bo not disturbed by so trifling an
occurrence. Take another glass.
Lot mo hand it to you. The servant
will soon remove the broken pieces
and sponge the carpet.”
Much composed by her kind re
marks, he took tho glass from hfer
hand with a firm grip, and drank its
contents.
“Nice, very nice madam," said he.
After this remark, Miss Dasher con«>
tinued:
“I owe it to myself as well as to
you, Captain, to explain in full what
I have referred to.”
She then gave him a detailed acs
count of tho serenade, and explained
how her servant, from curiosity, had
eyed him from the comer of tho
house and obtained the note.
“Yon could not think for a mo
ment, Captain, that I made up this
statement. Here is the note you
can read it for yourself.”
Again the Captain was at a loss.
It had not occurod to him that he
would need his spectacles on a court
ing visit, and thoy were left at home.
Then Miss Dasher read the note at
his request. His situation was the
more perplexing as ho conld not ex
amine the handwriting.
“Madam,” said he, “that note con
tains my sentiments, but I did not
write it.”
“Captain,” said Miss Dasher, “do
not deceive me. Fear nothing, it is
very flattoring. I was not, and am
not offended at its reception.”
“Miss Dasher, I am, or rather was,
in the church and hope you are or
soon will be. I must be candid, this
! note was not written by me."
Miss Dasher looked deeply ses
rious, clasped her hands together
and said: “I regret, Captain, to
hear you say so. I thought you
wrote it, I wish you had written it.”
This she uttered in tones so melt
ing that the Captain melted some
too, and remarked: “Dear madam,
I must stick to the truth, I did not
write the note, but I will adopt it.
You may consider it mine.”
“Ah! Captain, I am so glad to
hear you say that, I will keep it then
for your sake.”
The Captain gave evident signs of
much elation at this remark.
“Now Captain,” continued Miss
Dasher, “yon must adopt the mnsic
too. The note and music are con
nected together in my mind, and my
j feelings will be only partially grati
fied, unless you do. Resides, Cap
tain, you can not say they did not
emenate from yourself. You wear,
at home, a large black beaver do yon
not 1”
“Yes madam.”
“A large grey colored summer*
cloth frock coat!”
“Yes madam-”
“A pair of pantaloons of the same
color ?”
“Yes madam.”
“Yon sometimes walk with a large
yellow cane ?”
“Yes madam.”
“The geutleman who serenaded
me was accompanied by a large white
dog who staid by hi u until he left.
Have you such a dog f”
“Yes madam.”
“Then Captain, it was you, or some
one very much like you-”
“But the music madam ! I never
play."
“Have you Captain a yellow flute
at yonr house.”
Reddening, the Captain answered :
“Yes madam.”
“Did you never play at all ?”
•‘Yes madarii, I blowed a little
when I was a youngster. It has been
several years since I played any.”
“Captain do yon ever walk in your
sleep?"
“Not that I know of madam.”
“Yon have heard though of people
who did walk in their sleep, and
could do things, even, that they
conld not when awake ?”
“Yes madam I have heard of them."
“You are tho man Captain. You
wrote the note and serenaded me in
yonr sleep. I have described your
hat, your clothes, your flute, your
cane and your dog. How could I
have done so unless you were there.
I saw all wifi* my own eyes.”
“Madam this is a singular case.
It puzzles me. I will modify my de
nial. If I serenaded you and wrote
the note, I was not conscious of it,
but under the circumstances, I will
not deny having done it. I adopt
all. You may consider all as having
been done by me. It was my love
for you that made me do it God be
praised! for making me do it in my
sleep, for it was done better than if
I had been awake.”
“Thank you, thank you, Captain,’’
said Miss Dasher, “I shall remember
your compliment and kind words
and cherish them highly.”
The Captain was so elated that he
was about to come right out and pop
the question, but he was checked by
remembering that it was put down
in Ned Canter’s programme, that he
must call two'or three times before he
did that. At any rate he thought
now was the time to take leave uns
der flying colors. He had proposed
to go at an earlier period, but yield
ed to Miss Dasher’s pressing invis
tation to stay longer. His tight new
boots had given additional tender
ness to his feet and ho arose with
some difficulty. While standing, pre
paratory to making his adieu, Miss
Dasher dropped her fan. With true
gallantry he stooped to pick it up
with a graceful and hasty bend of
his exquisite figure, when pop went
a burst of the tight alpacca which en
closed it. This was too much for
one of Miss Dasher’s lively tempera
ment, and unable to control herself
as she had so handsomely done up
to that time, she gave way to a
temporary fit of laughter. To at
tempt a description of Captain Old
ham’s appearance at that critical mo
ment would enfeeble the caricature
which he presented of a man strick
en down from the highest point of
triumph and hope to the lowest of
mortification and despair.
“Dang that infernal tailor,” said
he, “a cheat, a swindler, a rascallion.”
Miss Dasher’s laughter was only
momentary. Her real sympathy was
excited for the old Captain, for she
saw plainly the melancholy light of
his eye amidst his impotent rage,
while tho perspiration fell in great
drops from his face. He was better
aware than she was of the immense
rent which had been made, and when
she begged him to be more compos
ed and seated again, he answered :
“No madam, it is time to go now,"
and hastily bidding her good-bye be
retreated as fast as his tight boots
would permit, while Miss Dasher’s
mischievous eyes were peeping from
behind a drawn damask curtain and
could not help seeing a wide white
streak through the rent in his tights,
which the captain, as he hobbled off,
was vainly trying to hide with his
narrow coat tail. He was glad that
Canter was no where in sight, and
rode home vowing to go armed to
town and seek vengeance on the in
nocent tailor who had closely com
plied with instructions in making up
the alpacca. As he turned out of
sight Miss Dasher, true to her nature,
fell upon a sofa and liked to have
died laughing.
CHAPTER Till.
THE DENOUEMENT,—THOUGHTS 0T BLOOD
HOW THE VICTIMS HEALED THEIR
WOUNDS.
The Captain armed to the teeth
wont to tuo town on the following
day. It so happened that he and
tho widow Bloomer met in the same
dry goods store. They met in a
friendly way and while standing
near each other they heard one lady
say to another: “The parties you en
quired of, were Miss Dasher and Mr.
Canter. It is currently reported
that they will make a match- Indeed,
it will be a suitable one, for Ned, as
he is generally called, is the greatest
trickster in all this section and Miss
Dasher is equally as frolicsome. I
heard to-day they now have a prank
on hand which involves Captain Old
ham and the widow Bloomer. I am
unacquainted with either of them,
but believe from all accounts, that
they are excellent country people:—
Ned has persuaded Captain Oldham
to make his addresses to a fashiona
ble young lady of twenty. Some say
it is shameful in him to play off such
a trick upon as good a citizen as the
old Captain and Mrs. Bloomer.”
A glance at the widow and Captain
\yould haye sho\yn how flushed their
cheeks were, especially the old Cap
tain’s. Bidding the widow good day,
the Captain made straight for the
iron grey and turned bis head home
wards.
“Sold! yes, badly sold!” said he
to himself, as he moved slowly on.
I have been fooled, wronged and in*
suited. I have made a d stop!
don’t finish that ungodly word—I
have made a fool of myself.”
The more he thought of it the
worse the case looked. His eyes were
opened. “And it’s all out now!
The whole world xyill jenow it before
it stops.” The entire scene with Miss
Dasher stood out like a horrid phan
tasmagoria and yet it was real. “I
shall be a butt of ridicule the bal
ance of my life. This matter can’t
stop here- Blood must ho spilt.—
Hell or Heaven, must open its doors
for somebody.
As time mitigates grief so it does
passion. The first thing the Captain
did, as soon as he reached home was
to seek spiritual consolation; and he
felt that this was not the time for a
mere taste. Nothing short of a brim
mer would do, and the brimmer be
took. Having done so he took down
a rusty sword and inspected his old
fashioned pistol and another whose
lock was defective and flint gone; but
this inspection was of short dura
tion, for the brimmers followed so
swiftly, that Ned Canter, Miss Dash
er, and all things elese, were soon
lost sight of until morning. He fi
nally concluded the next day that to
shed blood would make the matter
worse.
His thoughts turned again to the
widow. She was no deceitful flirt!
There was no deception in her ! She
could not be made a fool of by a
young man as he had been by a
heartless girl. He locked up his
fancy suit, and kept the key in his
pocket; at first he thought of com-*
mitting it to the flames, but as it
had cost him a pretty round snm he
sold it to a traveling peddler at half
price, throwing in the bursted al
pacca.
The widow received him kindly,
when he called. She was disposed
to leniency for she felt as well as he
did, the pressure of a ludicrous fol
ly. Her two children received him
joyously, for the widow’s silver wait
er could not hold all the nuts, cakes
and candy, that he empted from his
capacious pockets.
Before he left, the widow kindly
consented to change her name to
that of Mrs. Oliver Oldham. For
fear of an accident the Captain in
sisted upon only a week’s delay.
At the end of that time they were
married. The Captain re-entered
the church and was too fond of his
wife to drink as he had sometimes
done to excess. He was never
known to be out of temper unless
Ned Canter’s, or Miss Dasher’s name
was mentioned, and in his happiness
he would tell his loving wife, that he
would not exchange her for a world
full of Serena Dasher’s.
f or the Union &. Recorder.
TfjE EARTH J*ND THE HEAVENS.
CONTINUED.
Let us now point our telescope to
the great planet, Saturn, whose vast
orbit is next to, and outside of that
of the still greater Jupiter, the god
of the Satellites. Before placing
our eyes to the glasses, we see him
looking like a small star, with a pale
but steady light. The planets nev
er twinkle like other stars. There
is good reason why he looks so
small, for he is 900,000,000 of miles
from the snn, the source of his light
and heat. The telescope developes
at once the beauty and magnificence
of this planet, which is 1,000 times
aB largo as the Earth. Its moons,
and two splendid luminous rings,
called by astronomers a double ring,
which is 21,000 miles from the sur
face of the planet, 27,000 miles in
breadth, with a space between the
rings of 8,000 miles. The rotation
of this double ring requires 10 hours
and 80 minutes, while that of the
planet is completed in 10 hours and
eighteeu minutes. The length, of
its orbit, that is its path around the
sud, is five billions seven hundred
and sixty millions of miles which it
completes in 29 of our years and
169 days.
Next comes Uranus, the 3rd in
size, 1,800 millions of miles from tho
sun, 19 times larger than the earth,
and attended by 6 moons, or satel
lites, which, with the planet, revolve
around the sun in 8-1 years and nine
days.
Lastly comes Neptune at a still
greater distance from the central
orb.
Tho vastness of our solar system
is seen in the fact, that while the
nearest planet, Mercury is only 35
millions of miles, Uranus is 1,800
millions, and Neptune still at an im
mensely greater distance from the
controlling central power.
The great Sun is situated in a fo
cus common to all tho elliptical or
bits of the planets. It is a million
of times larger than the Earth,
and exceeds the bulk of all the plan
ets together, 800 times. The Earth,
when compared with tho sun, is as
a grain of sand, and the latter,
itself, compared with the universe,
is but a small point in Infinite
space.
The fixed stars, seen by the naked
eye, amount to about 2000, but Doc
tor Herschel discovered 50,000 in
only six degrees of the Galaxy, or
Milky way. Doubtless they amount
to thousands of millions. The most
enlightened philosophers believethem
to be suns, the centres of other sys
tems of worlds. We have seen how
all of the planets of our system re*
volve around the sun. As before
stated it is situated in a focus com
mon to their orbits- It stands
poised in the heavens upon nothing.
There are no props for it, or the
planets, save that of mutual at
traction. Capernicus describes at
traction as an appetite or appetence,
which the Creator impressed on all
parts of matter ! Kepler describes
it as a corporeal and mutual affec
tion tending to union, and Newton
as an original power which restores
lost motion. Be all this as it may,
the attracting and diverging forces,
or the centripetal and centrifugal
forces, so act upon each other as to
hold fast the great Sun in the centre,
and keep the planets in their orbits
with unerring and mathematical pre
cision. What the Sul is, is a mat
ter of do moment. It may be a
great orb of fire, as some suppose, or
an opako body surrounded with lum
inous, or fiery clouds. Perhaps on
flu's point the truth will never be
known; but its bulk and density, are
sufficient to support the views of
all three of the philosophers to
whom we have referred. There is
the “attraction of matter," the
“union,” of Kepler, and Newton’s
“original power’’ if not to restore
lost, at least to perpetuate motion.
S.
(Concluded next week.)
A gentleman writing from Ogle-
thrope county the Chronid e<b Sen
tinel says: “Hon. H- V. Johnson
is decidedly the choice of Oglethope
county. Nine out of ten of her citi
zens want him. His letter settled
the hash. An overwhelming victory
awaits him in this section, thank
God.”
Hon. B. D. Hamilton, who is a
candidate for the nomination of Sena
tor from tho Rome District, public
ly announces his platform. He favors
a Constitutional Convention, the
removal of the capital to Milledge-
ville, abolition of the government
bureaux, an economical administra
tion and tho reduction of taxation.
“Pall down the blinds.” The Io
wa Legislature has passed a law pro
hibiting the use of blinds and screens
in liquor saloons.
OUR RADIX LETTER.
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—How New York Entertains Her
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—Radix on the Duty of Americans
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Journal in the World—Some
Weighty Matters—The Big Bell.
\_from Our Own Correspondent.J
New York, June 16,1876.
To the Editor of the Union &
Recorder.
The exodus from the metropolis
mentioned in my last continnes and
will continue for some time yet, but
still the city does not seem to thin
out perceptibly. For one thing New
York is too large to show the absence
of the comparatively few thousand
who can afford the regular summer
hegira and for another the places of
those thus temporarily gone is filled,
also temporarily, by the large num
ber of strangers which are brought
hither by Centennial and other at
tractions. The amount of summer
travel to this city this year would be
surprising in view of the universal
hard times, were it not for the ex
traordinary low rates that prevail up
on all the trunk lines. The redac
tions recently made did not, it is
needless to say, originate in the dis
interested benevolence of the various
corporations, but are merely a part
of their annual illustration of the old
saying about biting one's own nose
off to spite one’s neighbor. The re
sult is loss to the railroads, but it’s
an ill wind that blows nobody good,
and the compensating advantage in
this case is that the public can now
travel about as cheaply as they can
live at home. One can go from hero
to Niagara Falls and back for $9,
while the fare to Chicago is §13, to
the Mississippi §21, to the Missouri
§29, and to the Pacific §125. Furth
er reductions are perhaps yet in store.
Now is the time, therefore, for your
readers to visit their distant friends
or relatives, and take in New York
and the Exposition at the same
lime.
The regular summer dullness of
trade is upon ns and is very general.
The depression of the whole past
year has been such, however, that this
dullness does not present the usual
contrast to the proceeding months
There are some Centennial buyers,
that is people who are killing two
birds with one stone—seeing the
sights and arranging for new stocks
of goods, but this number is not large
yet- It will increase as tho season
advances.
Now that trade is taking a holiday
our population divides its attention
between politics and the various sum
mer sports, politics being ahead at
this writing. All during the session
of the Cincinnati convention every
body was crazy for news, and
wherever one saw a tightly packed,
block mass of humanity along the
sidewalk he was safe in saying that
it was not a street fight nor an arrest,
but a bulletin board. Some of the
evening papers taking advantage of
the popular thirst for knowledge is
sued sundry small extras, full of
flaming head lings and sold at an
exorbitant price. These were eager
ly bought up only to provoke pro
fanity on the part of the buyer by
blandly informing him that there was
“No Balloting Yet” but that great
things were momentarily expected.
Amusements are numerous and
various. Besides the usual -amount
of theatrical attractions there are
Jockey Club raoes, more yacht sailing,
the inevitable base ball, a first class
billiard tournament and the inter
esting preparation for the inter
collegiate regatta next month. Offen
bach and Aimee are progressing with
their short and successful season of
opera bouffe at Booth’s. Gilmore’s
Garden presents varied attractions.
Besides the fine military band head
ed by the redoubtable Gilmore him
self there are the two famous cor-
netists, whose melodious fireworks
are so highly appreciated by the
Gotbamities that the return of the
artists to their native heath after their
season in Philadelphia was made the
subject of a perfect ovation on the
opening night. Beside all this the gar
den is just now running in opposition
to “Horticultural Hall,” presenting a
beautiful array of fruits, flowers and
plants which draw large crowds.
This coming week we are going to
laugh and be delighted at the Yokes
family who re-open the Union
Square.
Mr. Christian K. Ross of Phila
delphia,-the hapless father of the lost
Charlie, is in the city, still pursuing
the weary and almost hopeless search
on some clew which has leached him
from Brooklyn. The parental devo
tion which this case has developed is
touching in its strength and the per
sistency of its hope. The sympathies
of the whole country are powerfully
with Mr. Ross, and great would be
the rejoicing should his heroic efforts
eventually be crowned with the suc
cess that has attended a similar
search in this city, where a Mrs.
Karl, whose little son was kidnapped
over two months since. After weeks
of agonizing but fruitless inquiry she
at last encountered the boy |pd his
captor at Philadelphia and placed the
latter in the hands of the law.
Philadelphia, June 17.
The weather, though still warm,
has been vastly more comfortable
this week than last, we having had
several days when oopstant clouds
restrained the ardor of the sun and
occasional showers diffused a delight
ful coolness. There has thus been
much greater enjoyment in explor
ing the exhaustless wealth of the Ex
position, which enjoyment is being
shared hy larger crowds of delighted
visitors. I speak of crowds at the
Centennial grounds only when think
ing of the aggregate number present,
for so vast are its premises and so
evenly distributed its attractions that
even on the day of opening, when
the attendance was many times the
present daily average, the whole vast
assemblage moved easily and freely
through the place with no jostling
and little inconvenience. That is
one great beauty of this wonderful
place, so broad is the expanse and so
endless the variety of objects that
delight and instruct that when mind
and eye become jaded by long at
tention to any one class of subjects,
entire change of scene and interest
may be hod over and over again.
The interest of the Exposition is not
monopolized by that group of won
der palaces, the Main Building and
Machinery, Memorial, Agricultural
and Horticultural Halls, which are
the most prominent objects of the
whole enclosure and the ones which
the world Centennial naturally calls
first to mind. Every inch of ground
from the shady little dell first travers
ed as one enters from the Reading
railway station, where the sun scarce
ly penetrates the luxuriant foliage
and where rich bird notes and the
trickling of water are often the only
sounds heard among its cool shad
ows, over to the grassy slope at the
opposite limit where white tents and
pacing sentries suggest widely differ
ent thoughts—all is fascinating va
riety. There is hardly a nationality,
an age, a temperament, or a mood
among men that - cannot here find
something to harmonize with its own
condition and delight its taste, and
it seems to me that any man in this
country who has it in his power to
enjoy the expansion of mind and the
increase of knowledge which the
study of his microcosm—this con
densation of the great world—
affords, is guilty of a crime toward
himself.
The small buildings that dot the
grounds in all directions form a
feature of hardly less attractiveness
than the grand structures above
mentioned. The different State
edifices, with their varied architec
ture, the structures of private enter
prise, the foreign school models,
the traditional log cabin and New
England kitchen, with others too
numerons to mention alone require
a week of the Bight seer’s time to
give them thorough attention. Many
of these were tardy in building, bat
every detail may now be pronounced
finished. The Newspaper Pavilion
since its completion has been es
pecially popular, not only among the
journalists for whose headquarters
it was intended, but with all visitors.
Some of the time stained journals
of the last century, with numerous
specimens of Confederate papers,
printed on wrapping and even on
wall paper are viewed by admiring
thousands.
Another interesting publication at
the pavilion, and one that serves as
a sort of index to the whole, is
Rowell & Co's Centennial book, giv
ing all imaginable newspaper statis
tics and sketches of the most popu
lar journals of the country; giving
their histories and entertaining ac*
counts of their inside workings. One
of these latter articles has for its sub
ject the New York Ledger, and is
especially interesting as relative to
the moet largely circulated journal in
the world, and one which has had a
unique history. Probably but a very
small proportion of the millions who
have read this unrivalled family paper
during the past twenty years are
aware that it was born into the
world a dry, business-like commer
cial journal, but such is the fact, as
its name indicates; and if history is
to be relied on, a very feeble and
weak-kneed publication it was until
Robert Bonner took it in hand, chang
ed its character and, to use his own
expression, “set himself to the task
of making it the best and best known
family paper in America.” He might
as well have said “in the world,” for
hardly two years had passed before
he had accomplished his object and
a good deal more, without, however,
causing him to abate one jot of his
efforts toward improvement. His
whole course has been characterized
by an insatiable but legitimate and
perfectly controlled ambition. For
years after the paper had begun to
pay handsomely its profits were con
stantly expended npon its own ims
provement, and thus Mr. Bonner’s
invariable rule became firmly es
tablished that everything which the
Ledger wants or which will in any
degree increase its attractiveness or
usefulness it must have. Nothing
is too costly for it; nothing too diffi
cult of attainment. The result is as
every observer knows, that this paper
has had for two decades tho largest
and most brilliant corps of contribu
tors ever attached to any journal.
The New York Ledger to-day is bet
ter than ever before; for the far-see-
ing judgment that could devise a
plan in an almost untried field, which
should successfully withstand the
test of time and carry a great paper
to such prosperity, is still there, rein-
foroed by enormous experience and
prestige. Mr. Bonner still gives to
his business minute attention, and
as he, although a veteran publisher,
is but little past middle life, the
Ledger will doubtless remain for
years to eome as in its past history,
imitated on every hand yet without
serious competition.
Exhibits are still arriving. The
biggest things in lately are the great
81 ton Rodman gun from England,
which vicious looking monster now
frowns upon all who enter Machinery
Hall, and a fat boy from the West
somewhere who came here this week
bound to see the Exposition, but to
his considerable annoyance found
the tables turned and Exposition
bound to soc him. Wherever young
obesity happened to be there was a
dense crowd gathered 60 that he
could hardly move in any direction.
This excess of attention on the pub
lic’s part is not very surprising con
sidering that onr juvenile Lambert is
14 years old and weighs close onto
500 pounds. Still another weighty
addition to Philadelphia’s dignity
is the big bell which has just arrived
for tho tower of Independence Hall
and been safely housed within the
building after outting away a couple
of feet from the sides of the main
doorway to admit its vast bulk. This
grand production of the founder’s
art weighs about 23,000 lbs and is
said to be of beautiful tone, bnt it
will not be allowed to be sounded
until noon ofthe 4th of Jnly when it
will first ring out this noble succes
sor of the old independence bell
which, one century before, was over
powered by the mighty message of
Freedom and burst in the telling of
it
Radix.
A very narrow aperture—The
crack of a whip.
A wag in “what he knows about
farming, gives a very good plan to
removo widows’ weeds. He says a
good-looking man has only to say
Wilt thou ? and they wilt.
The Gainesville Southron will sup
port the nominee of the State ^ Con
vention, but its personal choice is
Herschel Y. Johnson.
Executive Officers.
We visited, on business, the differ
ent departments of our State Govern
ment in the capitol at Atlanta recent
ly, and found the incumbents of the
various departmental offices at their
posts, busily engaged in attending
to their various duties.
The senior officer of the corps is
the venerable Secretary of State,
Hon. N. C. Barrett- He is an aged,
vigorous and well preserved gentle
men, and fills his office with that dig
nity and promptness only acquired
by long experience. His long resi
dence at Milledgeville as Secretary
of State under various administra.*
tions, has acquainted him with num
bers of our people, and identified
him with our section of the State,
and although he did not say so, we
thought we detected, during a half
hour’s chat, a desire to see Milledge
ville re-invested with her honors.
The ashes of an affectionate brother,
who was a citizen of Wilkinson, re
pose in the Irwinton cemetery. He
informed us that he fled with some
of the State’s property in his custody
before the vandal army of Sherman,
and travelled over a portion of Lau
rens and Montgomery counties, seek
ing a place of safety for the State’s
properly, and after the passage of
Sherman he returned to Milledge
ville via Laurens Hill, Cool Springs
and Irwinton. The day before he
reached Irwinton he passed the night
with the late Mr. Frank Rozar, and
the next morning mounted his horse
and resumed his journey. He had
not proceeded far before he met two
gentlemen, one of whom was the late
Col. John Smith. They were look
ing for stragglers from Sherman’s
army and stopped him. The man
who accompanied Col. Smith was
armed with a rifle, and appeared
surly and indisposed to accept any
proofs of identity that Col. Barnett
could offer, and wanted to arrest him
and carry him to some military per
sonage at a distance, but was pre
vented by Col. Smith, who examin
ed his papers and allowed him to
proceed on his journey. Col. Bar-,
nett has spent the greater portion
of his life in the public service, and
will no doubt retain his present
position until unfitted by age and
infirmity for transacting official busi
ness, which incapacity will be many
years hence we hope.
[■Southerner tfe Appeal.
TWO-THIRD RULE.
The Atlanta Constitution s last de
parture from Democratic usages is a
proposition to abolish the two.thirds
rule. This journal asks, “is it not
the strangling chord of the political
Thud, and has it not always been
the means of chocking oft the better
men among those offered for the
confidence and suffrage of tho par
ty?” To this interrogation we ans
wer, nay. On the contrary, it has
been the means of procuring the
best, most competent and wisest
men to rule over the people. It
puts a damper jon the progress of
those political wire-pullers who go to
conventions “cut and dried,” with
their pegs all set to nominate a cer
tain man, upon the contemptible the
ory of “I tickle you and you tickle
me.”
The first national convention that
ever assembled in the United States
adopted this rule, and since that
time, May, 1832, it has been in vogue
and Democrats have most strictly ad
hered to it. It was adopted in the bet
ter days of the party—when honor and
not rascality was at a premium, and
when such men as Calhoun, Jackson,
Van Boren and others led the party.
Their wisdom suggested and the
people adopted it. It is one of the
oldest usages of the party, time hon
ored and sacred, and in the name of
the party, in the name of fair play
and in the name of the memory of the
authors, we protest against its abol
ishment. if the usages, customs
and formalities of the party don’t
suit the Constitution, and we don’t
think they do, let him quietly with
draw, and, “cast in his lot” with
that party whose code of regulations
are more in accord with his views—
the radical party—and cease his silly
attacks upon one which his good
will nor his ill-will can in no way af
fect. The people want the two-thirds
rule to lemain; they spoke it into ex
istence, and if it is ever spoken out,
they and not the “eleven able” edi
tors of the Constitution will do it.—■
Cedar Town Express.
IjOW GIRLS ARE l^DE PRETTY.
The Hindoo girls are graceful and
exquisitely formed. From their ear
liest childhood they are accustomed
to carry burdens on their heads. The
water for famih - use is always brought
by the girls in earthen jars, carefully
poised in this way. This exercise is
said to strengthen the muscles in the
hack, while the chest is thrown for
ward. No crooked backs arc seen in
Hindoostan. Dr. Henry Spry, one
of the company’s medical officers,
says that, “this exercise of carrying
small vessels of water on the head
might be advantageously introduced
into our boarding schools and private
families. The young lady ought to
be taught to carry the jar, as the Hin
doo women do, without ever touching
it with her hands.” The same prac
tice of carrying water leads to precise
ly tho same results in the south of
Spain, and in the south of Italy as in
India. A. Neapolitan female peasant
will carry on her head a vessel full of
water to the very brim over a rough
road and not spill a drop of it, and
the acquisition of this art or knack
gives her the same erect and clastic
gait and the same expanded chest
and well formed back and shoulders.
—[Home & School, Louisville (Ky.),
for May.
The Atlanta Commonwealth says:
“Some thieves broke into an estab
lishment a short time ago and their
cry was : “Remove tho Capital.
True, Commonwealth. Compara
tively a short time ago, the Bullock-
Blodgctt-Kimball gang broke into
the State establishment and remov
ed its capital as well as its Capital.
The former could not, wo presume,
bo recovered even by process of law,
but the latter wc desire to see re
turned to Milledgeville. Whatever
may be your opinion in regard to
this matter, Commonwealth, you
owe it to your rcaders-to justice and
to fairness—to advocate a plan where
by the people may be allowed to say
whether they desire the Capital to
remain in Atlanta.— Saw News.
1 UNWRITTEN BISTORT.
Alexander Ij. Stephens Replies to Thurlow
Weed.
Liberty Hall,
Crawfordville, Ga., Jana,9,1876.
To the Editor of the N. Y. Her
ald:
I have noticed, in a late iasoa ot
yonr paper, an article by Hon. Thor-
low Weed, entitled “An Unwritten
Chapter of History,” in which Mr.
Weed gives a “narrative of how. the
Herald's influence was obtained for
President Lincoln’s administration."
After relating the incidents which
preceded his arrival at Mr. Bennett’s
mansion on the Heights, the follow
ing sentences occur:
“We then walked for half an hoar
around the grounds, when a servant
came and announced dinner. The
dinner was a frugal one, dozing
which, nntil the fruit was served, we
held general conversation. I then
frankly informed him of the objeet
of my visit, closing with the remark
that Mr. Lincoln deemed it more
important to secure the Herald*
support than to obtain a victory in
the field. Mn* Bennett replied that
the abolitionists, aided by Whig
members of Congress, had provoked
a war, of the danger of which he
had been warning the conn try for
years, and that now, when they
were reaping what they had sown,
they had no right to call npon him
to help them oat of a difficulty
that they had deliberately brought
upon themselves.
“I listened withont interruptiof#
for ten minutes to a bitter denuncia
tion of Greely, Garrison, Seward*
Sumner, Giddings, Phillips, and my
self, as having, by irritating and ex*
asperating the South, brought th»
war upon the country. I then, in
reply, without denying or attempt
ing to explain any of his posi
tions, stated the whole ques
tion from our standpoint. I
informed him of facts and circom*
stances withiu my own knowledge
showing conclusively the deliberate
design of severing the Union to pre
vent California from coming into
the Union as a free State. I gave
him the then unknown particulars of
au interview of Messrs. Toombs.
Stephens and Clingman, members of
Congress from Georgia and North
Carolina, with General Taylor.
The object of that interview was to
induce General Taylor, a southern
man and slave-holder to veto the
bill permitting California to enter the
Union as a free State. It was a
stormy interview, with threats of
disunion on one hand and hanging
on the other. The facts were com
municated to Senator Hamlin, of
Maine, and myself within ten mi%
utes after the interview closed.”
1 put the last part of this extract
in italics. It is the only matter in
this “chapter of history” that I wish
at this time to notice and
the only no rice I wish to take
of it is to assure Mr. Weed
and all your readers that no snch
interview of Messrs- Toombs, Cling
man and myself took place with Gen
eral Taylor. How he and Mr. Hamlin
conld have been informed within
ten minutes after of the particulars
of the interview which never occur
red, I do not know; but I do know
I never asked General Taylor to ve
to any bill whatever during his ad
ministration. I know also, and the
the records show it, that bill permit
ting California to enter the Union as
a free State did not pass Congress
until after General Taylor’s death.
I do, moreover, know that I and my
colleague, Mr. Toombs, favored the
admission of California as a free
State under her then constitution
during the whole of that stormy ses
sion. This the records will also
show. We never raised an objec
tion to the admision of California on
account of her anti-slavery Constitu
tion. In ono of the stormiest de*
bates I ever heard in the House of
Representatives my colleague, Mr.
Toombs said:—“We do not opposa
California on account of the anti*
slavery clauso in her Constitutions
It was her right, and I am not pro*
pared to say that she acted unwisely
in its exercise; that is her business. ’
What he and I maintained was that
the same rights which the free peo
ple of. California had exercised for
themselves in forming their Constiv
tation should be equally secured to
the free people of other Territories of
the United States when they came
to form their Constitutions.
How far this portion of Mr. Weed's
narrative may have influenced the
course of the Herald toward Mr.
Lincoln's administration I know not,
but I do most solemly protest
against its being received as a cor
rect item in the history of this coun
try. Alexander H. Stephens.
herorkTendurance.
An instance of remarkable self*
control and presence of mind nnder
sadden and intense suffering recently
occurred in Belgium. Two work
men were employed at Ville-sur-
Ourthe, in fastening a lightning con
ductor, at the top of a steeple, sev
enty feet from the ground. One
man stood at work upon the shoul
ders of the other, and a sudden gnst
of wind caused him to spill some
molten lead which he was using. It
fell upon the hand and arm of the
other, and he had the nerve to stand
still while the hot metaL burned into
his flesh. The slightest movement
might have thrown the man on his
shoulders to the ground. The hero
who saved this life deserves to be
recorded, and we print his name be
low, that if there be any emigrant in
America who recognizes it he may
be proud of his countryman. To
face danger deliberately for the safe
ty of to other is high courage. Bat to
do this while suffering from the in*
tense pain, when phyical nature in
stinctively flinches, shows a degree
of fortitude as well as courage which
well deserves to be called heroic.
The name of this man of nerve is M.
A. Karis.
The question is, how can the
“skies be bright” for the Radical
ticket when everything is BO
Hayes(y) ?
The surplus of wheat of Califor
nia for shipment this season is esti
mated at seven hundred and fifty
thousand tons, which exceeds by
two hundred thousand tons the sur«
pin* of (he crop of 1875.