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VOLUME XLVI.]
MILLED GE VILLE, GEORGIA, JULY 4, 1870.
Union Recorder,
IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY
In Milledgefille, Ga.,
BY
]3oUGHTON, jBARNES JA.OORE,
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8. W. BOVOHTON, Editor.
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EASTERN ARKANSAS.
How things wag on there—Tlje “PucU
diijgs/’ &c.
Messrs. Editors:—As I intima
ted in my first paper I now proceed
to complete my brief description of
Eastern Arkansas :
From Croley’s Ridge to the White
river the average distance is 30 miles,
with scarcely a hill 10 feet high from
the Missouri line to the mouth of
the Arkansas river, 150 miles away.
kkn iiKc:oKi>KK’' were consolidated AuRnst i farms are small and well culti-
l«t, 1872, the Union being in its Forty Third . ... . .
1 vated, many at this season remind
ing a traveler of the description, of
the Eden of old. North of the Mem
phis & Little Rock railroad the white
population predominates, while south
of it the colored race are in excess
generally. But I learn that for the
past two years good feeling and har
mony have generally prevailed be
tween the two races ; there being no
serious outbreaks of any kind.—
Since the inauguration of the Gar
land government the reign of the
bowie-knife and pistol has passed
away, and citizens are forbidden by
law under heavy penalty from carry
ing weapons, either concealed or uns
concealed. The blacks and whites
each have their churches and schools
which are largely and regularly at
tended. The social condition of the
colored population, in point of in
telligence and modesty, especially
with the youDg, is in the main im
proving.
It is not uncommon to see color
ed men who have snug little farms
of forty or eighty acres, all paid for,
and supplied with every comfort,
while their children can read and
write, dress well, and are well be
haved.
The system of farming out here
is much like our manner in Georgia.
Most fanners prefer to contract with
laborers “on shares.” The farmer
furnishes land and team and feeds
the team. The'laborer feeds him
self and works for half the corn and
cotton. For at least four months in
each year the average darkey does
not hit a lick. As I stated before,
this section is settled by emigrants
from other States. But few of the
old original population remain. All
feeling of a sectional character ap*
peais to be forgotten in the general
desire for an honest and economical
government, and the development of
our common country.
Since the iron heel of a corrupt
carpet-bag despotism has ceased to
crush the people, the question is sel
dom or never asked, “where is he
from ?” or “what are his politics ?”
but rather, “Is he a business man ?”
or “is he a good citizen ?” These
questions being answered affirmative
ly, the stranger will find as many or
more sympathizers than perhaps any
where else in the Union; for all
seem truly and earnestly desirous of
seeing this country settle up with a
good, industrious population, no
matter whence they may come. The
farmers out here live mostly in log
houses and have plenty for the “in
ner man.” Like among the moun
tains of Virginia, even here, a man
is often surprised in the table corn*,
forts the old log but bad led him to
expect. Often behind the bacon and
beans lurk a big “pudding” with
oodlings of “sauce." Ah ! Messrs.
Editors, it is even so, and if you
wont tell the young ladies, this
scribe has been often guilty of back
ing his cart to the pudding dish
more than once. But we don’t
stand on parlor etiquette out here,
even when meeting the young dam
sels. The average Arkansas boy
knows no such thing as an “intro
duction,” and if a man wants a good
time, they say “he must pitch in.”
“Are the girls pretty ?” methinks
I hear some young Baldwin whisker-
let enquire. Now you be quiet, my
boy, and if Bro. Moore will let me,
I’ll give you a full answer in my next.
Very truly,
J. W. Frayser.
White Hall, Ark., Jnne 19, 187(5.
NUMBER 50.
8 Months for $1.00.
Stirring times are near at hand.
The Campaigns of the coming Fall
will bo the liveliest for many years ;
and everybody should have a good
newspaper. In order to enable eve
rybody to afford it, we will send
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this date till tlio 1st of January 1877
for ONE DOLLAR.
Subscribe at ONCE, and get
benefit of the Campaign Rates.
the
An Atlanta correspondent of the
Chronicle & Sentinel gives the follow
ing account of the election of dele,
gates to the Democratic Convention
from Fulton county:
The Jarqes aijd Colquitt Figljt.
The telegraph has already inform
ed your readers of the contest here on
Saturday last, between the fri’ends of
James and Colquitt to secure the Ful
ton county delegation to the State
Convention. It was claimed by both
of the candidates that they were citi
zens of Atlanta, Gen. Colquitt living
on the suburbs because he was not a
rich man like James. In fact, every
trick and device and influence known
to electioneering were resorted to by
both sides, whose free carriages and
free whisky brought every “bummer”
and “dead beat*’ to the polls. The
lame, halt, blind and sick were gath
ered up, while “Col.*’ Nash, from the
chain gang, and a hundred drunken
men, who had to be helped up to
the ballot box, were also among the
repulsive features of the occasion.
It is to be hoped that the “Gate
City" will not soon see two such
days as closed the last week. Hun
dreds of prominent and respectable
voters staid at home and declared
themselves fully convinced that ex-
Governor Johnson must be called
into the field to save the State from
political corruption and a greedy
swarm of otllce seekers. •
-We
this
able
him
IIkrschel V. Joiixsox.-
present elsewhere the reply of
distinguished gentleman and
statesman to the letter asking
to allow his friends to use his name
before the next Gubernatorial nomi
nating convention. We wish every
man iu North Georgia to read it.
It shows the disinterested patriotism
of the man. We do know that it
would be a sacrifice for Judge John
son to accept the office of Governor
and it is for that very reason we in
sist upon his taking it.. Sacrifice
is the religion of patriotism. All
earnest patriots are willing to make j
it, and we want none but patri- j
ots at the head of our administra- j
tion.—Rome Courier.
The knowledge of the fact that
Gov. Johnson is willing to accept
the nomination is likely to produce a
great change in the political status,
as there arc thousands of his old sup
porters, and yet as many thousand of
those who oucg opposed him, that
would be deeply gratified to see him
once more the Chief Magistrate of
the State. lie has done the State
good service in the past, lias been
often tried, and never found wanting
and we shall not be surprised if the
people of Georgia should insist on
trying him again.—Thomasville En-
terprize.
“SWEEPING.
If wo allude to the frequent state
ments of the celebrated German-
Englislnvoman, Miss Caroline Her-
schel as they appear in her Diary,
about ber frequent “sweepings,” our
readers will doubtless be inclined to
suppose that she was a housekeeper
of the most exemplary pattern, and
held in detestation all “dirt" that
good brooms could remove,
Dear lovable pattern of house-
keeperly perfection, you are mistak
en ! Miss Evans (who was), in one
of the loftiest flights of her star
gazing heroine in Mucaria causes
that astronomic prodigy of the story
to “sweep” the heavenly expanse (not
a floor) with a telescope (not a broom)
in a scientific fit of the first magni
tude! The said Evans had been
reading, possibly, the Diary of the
History repeats itself. The Con
stitutionalist, of January 24th, 1853,
says of Herschel V. Johnson: “The
whole political life of Judge Johnson
I has been devoted to the Democratic
j cause, and he has manfully fonght its
i battles in every field where its prin-
i ciples Lave been in issue.” That was
! said in 1853—the same can as truly
i be said in 187G.
A letter from “our life time suberi-
ber” at Lumber City, Telfair county,
says crops in this section were never
better. He thinks A. H. Colquitt is
the man for Governor, and adds,
“urge upon every county that they
require their candidates to be pledged
to bring the Capital back to Milledge-
ville the legitimate Capital of the
State.”
Governor Johnson’s reply is char
acteristic of the man, and while he
distinctly states that lie docs not want
the office and will not consent to be
come a candidate for it, he intimates
that, as a Georgian, he is ready to do
any patriotic work the people may
. . . require of him. This is all the peo-
greatest female astronomer the world j pj e w;in ^ j n our opinion, it will
has ever produced, Miss Caroline j |j e an eas y matter for them to decide,
Herschel, sister of the great Sir j w ] ieu they meet in Convention on the
William Herschel, and an important | second of August, who they prefer
contributor to astronomical discove- ' for tlicir next Governor. Candidates
ry herself. In her diary, she often ' f or the position had better be prepar-
speaks of “sweeping” the heavens | e j f or disappointment—Quitman
with her mighty telescope in quest of Reporter,
further observations among the stars.
The lives of Sir William Herschel
and his assisting sister Caroline, are
remarkable in the annals of science.
The mighty results they achieved
are well known to the world. We
find in the last number of Littell’s
Living Age. (published by Littell &
Gay, 17 Bromfield St., Boston,) a
very interesting account of their il
lustrious career. Also, articles on
various other subjects, of great mer
it such as always characterize the
“Living Age."
Herschel V. Johnson has consent
ed to serve the people as Governor,
if they wish it. Remembor that,
in selecting delegates to the Convens
tion.
A gentleman from Warren informs
us that that county is largely in
favor of Johnson. The meeting to
elect delegates will be held on the
15th.
The Bayonet in the South.
The President Reviving the Hopes of
the Louisiana Usurpers.
Washington, June 19.—Gov. Kel
logg, Marshal Packard, and cx-Gov.
Hahn, frcsli from Cincinnati, called
on the President to-day to talk over
the political situation in Louisiana.
Grant expressed in an emphatic
manner his disgust at Warmoth’s
return to the Republican party, and
said it was the only thing he regret
ted. As to law and order in Louis-
aua he said that it might as well be
S roeluimed now that in the Southern
tates, during the campaign, there
should be protection for very citizen
and if the army was not largo enough
lie did not doubt the loyal States
would furnish a quota of volunteers
for that purpose. The tenor of his con
versation convinced his visitors that
it was the determination of the Pres
ident to have a Republican successor.
The State Democratic Convention
will assemble in Atlanta Wednesday,
August 2d. Let the People speak!
Fo the Union St Eecorder.
TljE EARTH JJND THE HEAVENS.
CONCLUDED.
That the fixed stars are suns, is
reasonably inferred, becanse the most
powerful telescopes have no power
over them—while they magnify the
planets and their satellites, or moons
of our solar system. This proves
that they shine by their own and not
by borrowed light. They are evi
dently suns, the centres of other
systems of planetary worlds. The
wonderful immensity of space is
seen at a glance in the fact that the
nearest fixed star to our sun is put
at not less than 20,000,000,000,000
(twenty trillions) of miles, by any
astronomer, while some place it at
twice, and even three times that dis
tance. If the next one is as far
from that, what must be the bound*
less extent of space and what the
countless myriads of worlds, when we
remember that the fixed stars, which
are visible to the naked eye, and are
seen by the aid of telescopes, amount
to countless millions and that these
are but drops in the bucket compar
ed with the number at greater dis*
tances whoso lights cannot be seen
by the aid of any human invention.
Not a single planet of our system,
can be seen from the nearest fixed
star, not even Jupiter, though near
ly thirteen hundred times as large
as our earth. Oar sun, to the inhab
itants of those distant worlds, is all of
our system that they can see and it
appears as one of the fixed stars to
them.
If the mind were strong enough
to penetrate the abysmal depths, or
insurmountable heights of space; if
it could travel upon angel wings in
to these fathomless regions, what
immense tracks of void, what inter
minable Zaharas of darkness, it would
pass through, to get to the end of
God’s thrones of light, poised by
his omnipotence, in space, at incon
ceivable distances apart. To the
end! Is there any end to those
worlds ? Is not the universe as
boundless in extent, as the Eternal
Spirit is in power ?
Some astronomers assert the opin
ion that the nebulous clusters con
sist of the light of remote fixed
stars, or suns. Herschel thought
that their light had been progress-*
ing to us 48,000 years at a velocity
of a million of miles in five seconds.
This would seem to be conjecture
only, for the idea places distance be
yond all human calculation. But
enough is known to overwhelm the
boldest intellect in any effort to con
ceive of space equal to the necessi
ties of existing suns.
Some of the fixed stars are hun
dreds of times larger than our sun,
and if that be true, as it undoubted
ly must be, bow can the mind con
ceive of the space requisite for the
orbits of their planets, hundreds of
times larger than Jupiter, or Saturn.
How wondrous our own system,
with its magnificent sun and planets,
among whose orbits several hundred
fiery comets, with luminous trains
more than than a hundred millions
of miles in length, are pursuing
their eccentric course at a rate of a
million of miles per hour. That of
1680, according to Sir Isaac Newton
approached within 50,000 miles of
the sun, at which distance it moved
with a velocity of 800,000 per hour,
and if affected like solid bodies, by
the snn, must have been 2,000 times
hotter, than iron at a red heat. Such
phenomena startles us with wonder,
but what is not lost to our observa
tion and conception in a system,
whose sun is hundreds of times
larger than ours. The atmospheric,
aerial and electrical phenomena of
this earth, its volcanic terrors and
oceanic wastes are nothing in com**
parieon with what it seems would
occur in systems controled by this
bulk of light and heat, of suns, so
many times larger than that which
shines upon us. There, raging
floods and tempests, furious whirl
winds and tornadoes, thundering vol
canic eruptions, oceanic storms and
violent electrical phenomena, would
probably occur in a sublimity of
furious floods, raging winds, hot
lightnings, and heaving oceanic bil
lows, hundreds of times more terrific
than those of earth, unless the dis«
tances of planets are hundreds or
thousands of times greater from
those blazing suns than in this solar
system. What wonders are shut off
from our vision in those far distant
depths and heights! Man cannot
fathom them. Were his thoughts to
travel with the rapidity of lightning
for millions of centuries, they could
not reach the centre of the great
deep (if it has a centre) in which the
Eternal Mysteriarch has placed his
miraculous oibs of light as evidence
to all intelligences of his omnipo--
tent attributes. No blind Chance or
imagined Nature could work these
wonders. They could not open
those azure vaults of heaven and
throng them with suns and sattelites,
moons and comets, going their
rounds with unerring speed and
mathematical precision in sublime
and perpetual harmony. Jehovah
was the author of this grand ma»
chinery of worlds. He created the
central lights and the subsidiary
spheres. No guards are necessary
to prevent collisions, for all was done
and perfected by His almighty wis
dom and power.
OUR RADIX LETTER.
The Bryant Testimonial—Demora
lized Depositions—Comer Stone
Relics—The New Fire Annihilator
—The Flight of Business—A Lazy
Town—Amusement—The Gospel
Tent—Matters at Philadelphia—
The Show at its Height—Russian
Wonders—A Blaze of Jewels—
Bonanza Nuggets.
[Aro/n Our Own Correspondent.J
New York, June 23, 1876.
To the Editor of the Union &
Recorder.
A very graceful act, as well as a
popular and appropriate one was the
formal acknowledgement of the gen
ius of a poet and the high worth of
a man at Chickering hall on the eve
ning of the 20th. Great men most
usually bo content with the hope of
a posthumous ripening of their fame
and the uncertainty of even that is
too often the bitterness of souls to
whom fame of right belongs. The
life of Mr. Wm. Cullen Bryant pres
ents a beautiful exception to this un
just rule. Length of years has been
given him to behold the fruition of
his labors and his hopes, and his
sheaf though full and golden has not
been garnered before he saw the
sheaves of his brethen bow down to
it in voluntary and gladly rendered
homage.
On the evening above indicated an
elegant silver vase was presented to
the venerable poet with becoming
ceremony and speech. The presenta
tion was made by the club of which
Mr. Bryant is president, but the
funds with which it was purchased
were contributed from all over the
country, and the testimonial is thus
a national one. The vase itself is an
exquisite specimen of the silvers
smith’s art, richly covered with ap
propriate subjects drawn from Mr.
Bryaift’s works, its crowning em
bellishment being a fine medallion
head of the recipient. This master
piece of American silveremithy was
designed and executed in this city,
at a cost of §5,000. It will be displayed
at the Centennial.
Another presentation of the week,
hardly so pleasant to the donees,
however, was that of bank books at
the counter of the Dry Dock Savings
bank, by depositors who had got
panic stricken over some floating
rumor and started a “rnn” at once.
But the bank is one of the strongest
in the country, and after paying out
a stream of cash to the amount of
nearly §400,000, convinced the ma
jority of its customers that every
thing is all right.
Although a run is usually rather
an unpleasant episode in the life of
a bank, I presume the officers will
bear the present one with equanimity,
inasmuch as the premature with
drawal of funds saves them the pay
ment of interest thereon to the a-
mount of about §5,000, which would
have been due July 1st
The unreasonable action of de
positors in this instance only shows
how the wretched record of wild cat
savings banks in this city for the
past year has scared the unfortunate
laboring classes among which all
such institutions find their custo
mers, and the fraudulent ones their
dupes.
An old Methodist Church in Greene
street has jnst been tom down to
make way for business structures,
and on breaking open its comer
stone a pewter box was found, in
which were contained copies of the
prominent newspapers of the day,
the very names of which are strange
to the new generation. Beside the
journalistic relics were numerous
others, including the builders’ esti
mate, an account of the comer stone
laying, and about one dollar in small
coins which in their tight resting
place had preserved their brightness
through nearly half a century of im
prisonment.
One of the most important events
of the week was the public exhibi
tion of the new Connelly Fire Ex
tinguisher by the Atlantic Fire An
nihilator Co, of this city, the effi
ciency of which borders so closely on
the miraculous that the system is al
ready the subject of universal and en
tirely favorable comment, the press
being unanimous in pronouncing it
an enormous advance in applied
science. A tank of crude Petroleum,
thirty feet long, was lighted and in
a moment rolled up huge masses of
flame and smoke, looking like the
mouth of the bottomless pit itself.
The extinguishing apparatus was
turned upon this lake of fire and in
stantly—in a fraction of the time it
takes yon to read this sentence—
every vestige of flame was quenched
and the black masses of smoke moun
ted sullenly upward and disappeared
over the city. Then a pile of 400
resin barrels, covered with Petro
leum, and another pile of lumber,
similarily treated, were lighted, and
when they became two raging vol
canoes whose fierce heat dirove the
watching multitude to precipitate
retreat, a signal was given to the
hose men and in three minutes the
volcanoes were extinct and the crowd
in a state of frantic applause. These
tests are edmitted to be the most
trying ones to which any system
could be subjected, for Petroleum
has, heretofore been considered well
nigh unquenchable, water alone only
spreading it and adding to its diss
tructiveness. The principle of the
Connelly-Hastings system, as this is
called, is the application of pure car
bonic acid gas, commingled with
water under high pressure. The use
of the gas mentioned for this pur
pose is not new, bat the method of
employment in this system is totally
so, and places the street engines*
constructed under it, and the station
ary apparatus for the protection of
factories, lumberyards, oil tanks and
public and private buildings gener
ally, as far ahead of all previous
“Chemical Extinguishers,” as the
railroad is ahead of the old stage
coach. The street engines contain
ing, as they do, both the extinguish
ing material and force enough in the
compressed gas to throw it in a pow
erful stream, are independent of
steam or reservoirs, and each one is
thus a complete village fire depart
ment in itself. They mast, certainly,
effect not only a complete revolution
in the manner of treating conflagra
tions in the rural districts bat an en
ormous diminution of the yearly fire
losses of the conntry.
Business has left town—probably
gone off to get under a tree some
where and fan itself. And ita a well
i known fact that when the cat’s away
the mice will play. So with ns to
kill time and keep cool are the two
great objects in life now. People
who have to stay in town feel that
its very little use working. Even
the hand cart proprietor who sits
dozing under the shade of a wall or
awning, is disposed to be querulous
if waked up on business grounds.
The shining half dollar, which a few
weeks ago would have brightened
him up like a shower bath now ex
cites at most a feeble interest Even
the match peddlers go for me so
languidly as to be comparatively in
offensive, and the youthful vendor
of “strawberries! ” whose well de
veloped langs were wont in cooler
weather to disturb my morning nap
is so much a victim of summer lazi
ness as not to fetch a single howl
more than is necessary to quiet a
very easy going consicence.
Strange to say, amusements rise
superior to the general prostration.
Jerome Park has closed its success
ful races this week amid the applanse
of swelling thousands. The heroic
“Polo” Club continue to risk noses
and shins for a chance to knock the
chunk of hard wood which forms the
centre of attraction in this aristo
cratic game, the excursion boats
swarm with humanity, and the
theatres perspire jubilantly. “The
Mighty Dollar” is no less mighty
than at first, horseshoeing Joe Mur
phy makes the “Kerry Gow” accept
able to big audiences, the Yokes con
tinue to captivate eyes, ears and
hearts, and “Pique” gathers glory as
it passes its 20th performance and
goes on into the short supplementary
season which its popularity com
pels.
On the occasion of this bi-centen
nial every lady in the honse received
a solid silver ticket as a memento,
while the programmes of the evening
were printed on satin, a display of
liberality on which Mr. Daly may
well “pique” himself.
The present is the second week of
the “Gospel Tent” services, a sort of
continuation of the Moody and
Sankey meetings. The tent is pitch
ed on a vacant lot in 6th avenue, and
is well filled daily and nightly. The
speakers represent a higher class of
intellect than that of the revivalists,
but as yet have not worked up any
great enthusiasm. Perhaps people
think it is hot enough above ground
just now without turning their at
tention to the higher thermometer of
a future state.
Philadelphia, June 24.
The Centennial may be said to
have reached its meridian. In so
complete an undertaking it is natural
that a few details should still remain
imperfect—such will probably be the
case throughout its existence, but
they are too slight to mar the effect;
which is now complete. The ma»
terials are all there and in their
places, the machinery, literal and
figurative, runs without hitch, or
impediment, the Bummer sun has not
yet had time to scorch the green
lawns, nor the wear and tear of the
visiting thousands to deface the pros
pect. The “corroding tooth” of dust
and weather has not as yet fairly
commenced its attack upon the
beauty of banners and buildings, and
the delicate treasures within. Every
thing is fresh and delightful and
note is the time to go.
Nothing among the recent arrivals
of foreign goods has excited such
wonder and admiration as the hand
work of Russia. Politically we have
heard much of this country, and
have long known it in a general way
as great and progressive, but I think
Americans generally have had a vague
idea that Russia had hardly yet got
up into the line of modern civiliza
tion, at least in arts and manufac
tures. The present show, however,
will thoroughly disabuse of such
notions such of our people as ex
amine these specimens of her work-
I cannot, of course, more than allude
to this department, but before leav
ing the subject must say a word a-
bout the Russian gold and silver
work, which is the most striking of
all their display. The richness of
this work is hardly less astonishing
than its exquisite delicacy. Vases,
candelabra, services of beaten metal
and other rare and quaint articles of
nse and ornament make up a collec
tion worthy of Aladdin’s palace.
Perhaps the finest work in it all is
that shown on some cake baskets
which look like fine woven osier sud
denly turned to gold. Carelessly
thrown over these are fringed nap
kins of wrought silver so delicately
perfect as look precisely like snowy
linen. The English and American
artificers in-the precious metals have
heretofore supposed themselves to
lead the world, but I think the Rus
sian exhibit of this year will cause
them to take a more modest posi
tion.
The Exposition is rich in jewelers’
displays other than that just men
tioned, and the showing of precious
stones is simply dazzing. Diamonds,
pearls, emeralds, rabies and all the
rest of them blaze and glitter on their
velvet beds in regal profusion. In a
single small case I noted one dia
mond necklace marked §25,000, an-
other at §17,000, and two pairs of
solitaire eai rings valued at §7,000
and §7,500 respectively, besides
many other jewels of less importance.
When a man gets the blues from
meditating on hard times it will do
him good to spend an hoar in this
section of the Main Building. Then
in the Mexican department there is
that pretty little chunk of silver
weighing something over two tons,
and worth §72,000. This is almost
always surrounded by an admiring
circle, the individuals of which well
illustrate the uniform working of
average minds. I suppose no man,
woman or child has yet approached
this big bonanza without giving it a
few taps to hear it ring and then
making some jocose remark about
“carrying it off in yonr vest pocket,”
an observation which never fails to
amuse the maker. Almost as inter
esting a sight as the foregoing is the
collection of fac similies of the great
gold nuggets of Australia. These
are made of plaster, covered with
gold leaf and are such perfect imita
tions as to cause the beholders eyes
to start until he learns their true
character. The originals of these
half dozen tantilizers weighed any
where from fifty to one hundred
pounds and represented a value of—
well, never mind what they were
worth. We can’t any of ns, get hold
of it, and the whole snbjeet is sheer
aggravation to a poor man like.
Radix.
WHITTEN FOB THE UNION i RECORDER
CONSTANCY.
BY HENTZ HEM ANS.
CHAPTER L
A piercing cry attracted the atten
tion of Edwin Villars, who had been
sporting with his gun and was leis
urely walking along a pathway in
the woods, which led to the public
road not far from his father’s honse.
It was evidently a female cry of ag
ony and terror. Running with all
his might to the point whence it
came, his flesh crawled with dread
when he ascertained that Bertha
Florence, who was standing near
some rocks at a little distance from a
spring, had just been bitten by a
rattle-snake, upon the forefinger of
her right hand. Her brother Albert,
a youth of nineteen years, two years
her senior, had already killed the
large and venomous serpent.
Three years older and more ex
perienced than Albert, be tightly
banded her wrist, with a cord which
he cut from bis hunting-pouch, in
structed Albert to hasten to the
house for some brandy and send im
mediately for a doctor. He then
courageously applied his lips to the
bleeding wound, and continued to
draw the poison until Albert return
ed with the brandy, followed by
Bertha’s father and mother who were
almost breathless with terror.
Bertha was seated upon a bench
near the spring, reclniing against its
back. Her father gave her a wine
glass full of the brandy while Edwin
continued the application of his lips.
Stopping to eject the poison from
his month, and hastily instructing
Mr. Florence to give her more bran-,
dy, be continued the suction process
for half an hour. Stopping, again,
he ordered more brandy and drew
the poison for fifteen minutes long
er. Daring the whole time Mrs.
Florence sat by and sustained her
daughter, who now really needed
support from the effect of the spir
its.
“The pain ! how is that now?” en
quired Edwin with tender solicit
tude.
“It has ceased entirely,” answer
ed Bertha. “Intense at first, it con
stantly diminished and for some min
utes, I have not felt it at all. I can
not express my gratitude, Mr. Vil-
lars, for your extraordinary kind
ness.”
“Thank God ! my darling, thank
you Mr. Yillars!” said Mrs. Florence.
“What would have become of my
child but for you. To forget your
timely'services, even at the risk of
your life, would be the most unpar
donable disregard of the weightiest
obligations. I shall never cease to
thank and love you for your kind
ness.”
Bertha was conveyed to the house
and placed in bed. When the phy
sician came an hour afterwards, she
was soundly asleep. After examin
ing the wound, feeling of her pulse,
and critically inspecting her arm,
features, and skin he assured her pa
rents that all danger was over. More
than two hours had passed since the
serpent had bit her. “Not a tint,”
said he, “has changed. Her nerves
are not in the slightest degree un
strung. There is no change of feature.
Her breathing is undisturbed, and
he sleep is natural. If the poison
had affected her these conditions
would have been impossible.”
He complimented Edwin upon his
medical skill, and then administered
a potion which he said would de
stroy any possible virus that might
still lurk in her blood.
Congratulating Bertha, her parents,
and brother, upon her fortunate es
cape from so great a danger, he bid
them good night and retired.
Edwin, who had remained at Mr.
Florence’s dining all this time, retir
ed with him. Mr. Florence had or
dered his carriage to convey Edwin
home as it was fully au hour since
night had set in.
“A beautiful girl she is,” said Dr.
Arnold to Edwin, as they emerged
from a labyrinth of shrubbery and
flowers between the house and the
gate.
“When a man risks what you
have done,” said the doctor to Ed
win,” “there must exist more than an
ordinary motive. But I must not
probe too deep. It was bravely and
gallantly done. That single deed en
titles yon to a diploma. The young
beauty would fall into your arms for
the asking. She’s jnst seventeen.
I was present at her birth and
have watched her, as I do all
my children, (as I call those whose
first cries I heard,) and for beauty,
sense and accomplishments, I set her
down in the front rank. You rnnst
excuse an old professor for his free
speech.”
“Certainly, Doctor, you have said
nothing of the lady inconsistent
with my own thoughts, and opinions,
and I thank you for your compli
ments to myself.”
“All right” said the Doctor. “I
thought as much. If a man sucks a
rattlesnake’s poison from his own
finger I can see the meaning of it
at once. Life is sweet. Bat when
he draws it from a young lady’s, not
of consanguineous blood to save her
life at the risk of his own, suspicion
springs into the mind. If there was
uncertainty, the act, and your words,
have wrought conviction. That, my
yonng friend, is yonr road, and this is
mine. In bidding yon good night
let me wish yon the sweetest dreams,
in which ruby lips will be substitute
ed for a tapering rose tinted finger.”
“The hoar will not admit of it,”
answered Edwin “nor am I in any
mood for dispntacity. I leave the
the argument with you. Good night
Doctor. For your kind wish I
warmly thank you.”
Edwin Yillars did not fail to call
on Bertha the next day. She was
his patient in the critical hoar of
danger, and it was his dnty to look
after the state of her health. Her
rosy cheeks relieved all of his fears.
The smiles in her eyes and face ex
hibited her gratification at his visit.
She would have been pleased to
see him if he had not saved her life.
She could not fail to admire his high
born looks, tinctured, slightly, with
what the French call hauteur, but
which, in her presence, melted into
proud admiration and homage. This
at once secured her respect and
gratified her pride- With women
there is a great deal of takingness
I about such a man, especially when
* he is set off with a striking face, Jua-
trous eyes, and a person moulded in I —T-
manly bearing. ' u i position are lost. Yonr alliance
The frightful occurrence, jnst re- ^ an ^b' would lower yon
lated, brought them in closer prox an< * onr ^ouse in the estimation of
* ** ’*' ’ ' *' * people in our station of life. Place
anW° a ^ es * re between yourself
imity and introduced ideas into the
minds of each, previously unenter
tained.
Her eye*, in hi*, were fair and soft;
“A* star-beams among; twilight trees *’
As the fruit* are ripened, by the sun’s warm
rays.
So was his love, by the light of her sunny eyes.
It was not long before ho anu
Bertha agreed to link their desti
nies in one
CHAPTER H.
Fortune is proverbially fickle. The
title to the place, on which Mr. Flor
ence lived, had been for some time
in litigation. Assured by bis coun
sel that his title was perfect, his
mind was comparatively undisturb
ed. The decree, which made the
property another’s, was a crushing
stroke of fortune. This, with other
unexpected claims, swept from his
grasp four-fifths of his estate. He
retreated upon a small place which
he purchased for a moderate sum.
His pride and that of his family,
were necessarily humbled, but while
they felt the reverse and were met
coldly, and neglected, by falseheart
ed friends, they were not cast down
frem the dignity and elevation of
thought and sentiment which charac
terized them in prosperity. Depriv
ed of wealth they stood upon the sol
id foundation ol principle.
When Dr. Arnold called to see
them the second day after their re
moval to their plainer home, he was
amazed at their serenity and cheer
fulness. Mr. Florence was repairing
some portion of the dwelling, Mrs.
Florence was washing the windows,
and Bertha was engaged at some
similar work in an adjoining room
singing sweeter than a nightingale.
Nor was.the song a lamenting chant,
but a life-giving and cheerful melo
dy such as she usually played and
sang in her gayest moods. Albert
was engaged in hanging an old barn
door.
The good Doctor remained with
them but a short time and when
he left they took leave of him
with the same cheerful smiles with
which they had always received him
in better times.
Painters white-washers, carpen
ters and others, were soon there to
help, and in two or three days the
place looked as if some sorcerer had
enchanted it.
There was more reason for Ber
tha’s gay singing than Dr. Arnold
was aware of. Edwin Villars had
been there before him and he and
Bertha had chatted over the mat
ter of their serious reverse. He had
been absent for a week and Mr. Flor
ence, in his anxiety to begin improve
ments at bis new home, had moved
earlier than he expected.
At an early period in their con
verse Bertha observed:
“I propose, Mr. Yillars, to absolve
you from your vow—”
“Stop, Bertha! Pardon me for in
terrupting you. Your words pain
me. Have you become tired of me
so soon ?”
“No, no, but, this dreadful
change—”
“Only makes you dearer to me than
before,” said Edwin interrupting her
again. May I call you ‘dearest’ as I
did when our joyous promises were
made ?”
“Yes, Edwin, you may call me
dearest.”
“Then, dearest, never speak again
of absolving me from my vow, or
breaking yours, unless you wish to
make me miserable. I would not
give that rosy finger, from which I
sacked the poison, or, the joy I
felt, and still feel, from kissing your
dainty lips, for a thousand times the
worth of all the property your fath
er has lost. It is you I want and
not a cent of gold. I will love thee
more, with this plainer house to
shelter you, than I did when that
splendid mansion was your home. I
will love thee more, resting in a plain
conch here, than if you slept in a
marble palace, upon a stead, with
posts of solid silver, and under a
canopy of ivory inlaid with damask
silk, with a cloth of gold to cover
your lithe limbs, your white arms,
and all the rest. Take this Bertha,
and ask no questions. You belong
to me and I to you, as much so, in
spirit, as if God and a cloud of wit
nesses had been present at our mar
riage. That I trust will, ere long,
crown our happiness.”
His eyes meeting hers were full
of light-rays of love, truth, and con
stancy, commingled in a radiant fo-
cns. That which he handed her was
fall and weighty. There was a men
tal hesitation. But her soul was
charmed. She could not break the
spell and dared not to refuse. Her
own heart condemned the thought.
Edwin kissed ber and retired
c your release with
wantn" t'hc s um you would
place it at once, in
^ • i i °^.*. ^°u can disregard my
will nn t* * ^° U <i °’ * revise my
will and your name will be exclud-
Edwin deeply colored while his
father was still uttering these hate
ful words. Filial regard restrained
an expression of his thoughts in
full, fle answered:
“Pore, educated and accomplish
ed, Bertha Florence is the peer of
any woman that I know. I will
marry her if disinherison, poverty
and exile, from your house, shall bo
my legacy. Would you curse mo
with remorse ? Would you have
me offer gold to Bertha and endure
her scorn, drive her perhaps to self
destruction, and enfold my bosom
with ceaseless agony. You know
nothing of that high souled girl. I
would as soon attempt to bribe an
angel to forsake her God as to offer
her gold to release me from my
bands. It would be better to desert
her coldly, inhumanly, infamously.”
Saying this he took his hat and
retired to his room. Col. Yillars
was deeply impressed. He saw that
Edwin had inherited his own pluck.
Stepping to his door and gently
opening it he found his son busily
engaged in packing a portmanteau.
There was nothing defiant in his
looks. A deep thoughtfulness over
spread his face which had become
paler than usual. The violent storm
of feeling which his father’s harsh
words excited, had subsided and
he was the picture of a calm
but determined man reposing in the
pride of a lofty sentiment and pur
pose which threats could no more
shake than a gentle breeze the mas.
sive mansion in which he had been
reared.
As Edwin turned a glance at his
father, the latter gently closed the
door and retired to his study. Each
had his meditations. Edwin, thought
Col. Villars, has ever been faithful,
filial, dutiful and reverent. Some
powerful influence is at work in his
heart. A youthful dream of love
and passion, has created a tem
porary paradise in his soul with Ber*
tha Florence enthroned as the queen
of idolatry. Would that he could
have gotten off months ago, as ho
desired and I intended he should, to
see the glories of the old world. He
lacks travel and I must persuade him
to go. My letters, with my ac
quaintances abroad, will give him a
reception in the higher circles, even
at courts, and there, beauty, chivaK
ry and pomp, will gild his path and
draw off his thoughts from this
poor but beautifnl girl. My wealth
is boundless and I can place extrava
gant sums in his hands. I will test
him with proffers that would turn
any young man’s head. Chained to
this spot, I see there can be no hope
of change, but when he shall wander
in storied lands, and explore tho
glories and wonders that will hail
his sight in England and France, in
Italy and Spain, and mingle with
with the beautiful and great, and
linger amidst the monuments of
deeds that time will never efface
from memory, his aspirations will be
elevated to higher thoughts and
more ambitious aims. This is
the plan and 1 must induce him
to go without a moment’s unne
cessary delay. - Such were the
ideas that thronged his father’s mind
and such his plan to draw off Edwin
from the girl that he loved.
(Concluded next week.')
SENSIBLE.
CHAPTER III.
“No! Edwin, I say, irreversibly
>!”
“Father I have promised twice.
She relies upon my word, I must be
faithful.”
“You must not marry Bertha, nor
shall you.”
“With all respect, my father. I
must aver my fixed resolve to ful
fill my pledge.”
“You are determined, then to ad
here to your foolish promises to mar
ry Bertha Florence !”
“Yes sir. I will adhere to it as
the earth to the orbit in which it
moves.”
“Edwin, never before have yon
confronted me with such audacity*”
“And father, never before have
yon interposed such unreasonable
opposition to a measure which involv
ed my happiness and honor. How
often have you asserted that, with
out liberty, man becomes a subject,
and drags out his life under a
tyrant’s uncertain smile, or frown,
and yet you would, now in a matter
of sentiment, deprive me of the lib
erty of choice. Were I to yield, be
sides the sacrifice of honor, I would
become the slave of your caprice.
With your views, your former,
silence is past my comprehension. I
practiced no concealment, sought
no stolen interviews with Bertha,
but called upon her openly, and in
your presence, spoke of my visits,
praised her mental gifts, her guile
less innocence.”
“Edwin there is a change. Pover
ty is pilotless, Mr. Florence, stript
of his property, occupies a small in
significant honse on a patch of poor
lnrwl not much larger than one of
bis former fields. His influence and
The Columbus Enquirer has a
good deal of hard sense about it.
In speaking of a Constitutional Con
vention, it remarks:
“It is very probable that the ques
tion of holding a Constitutional Con
vention will be a prominent one bos
fore the next representative assem
bly of the Democratic Party of
Georgia, which meets on August 2d.
During the short time the Radicals
ruled Georgia, they made a constitu
tion, moved the seat of government
and largely increased the powers of
the officers of the State. Their ob
ject in so doing was to perpetuate
their own power. In this they were
deceived, for the people over
threw them by the power of the bal
lot, and the combined influence of in
telligence and wealth over ignorance
and poverty. Now, we believe a
large majority of the citizens of
Georgia desire to return to the form
er regime, and the old policy of tho
Democrats. If a bad man were elec
ted Governor, and the present pat
ronage remain in his possession, we
would have at once an oligarchy es
tablished in the State. Such a con
tingency may arise. Fortunately,
since the expulsion of Bullock and
his party we have had a Governor
who is wise, honest and just. There
is no probability that all who may
fill the chair will be comparably so,
and hence it is the part of freemen
to limit the one man power.”
The parity of the ballot in Atlan
ta will be a theme for future histo
rians. On Saturday the different
bar-rooms hung out eloquent pla
cards inviting the passing voters to
walk in, present James or Colquitt
tickets and wet their weary whistles.
A nice place, truly, for the Legisla
ture to assemble at—Sav. Mews.
Mr. Carl Schurz says of Gov.
Hayes that he was not born to be a
leader, but, on the contrary, requires
one. This is a sound analysis of
the man, and Hayes has already
found his leader. It is old Simon
Cameron, the Winnebago chief.
Hayes and Wheeler are both sala
ry grabbers.
The Michigander who returned
from the Black Hills the other day
couldn’t tell which was paying the
most—grave-digging or gold-digging.
For his part he dug out.
McDuffie county elected Johnson
delegates by a vote of two to one in
a poll of over 300.
Batts county is troubled T>y a
deficit in her tax collector’s accoantf
of over two thousand dollars.