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Newspaper Page Textuion VOLUME XLVI«] MILLED6E VILLE, 6KOR6IA, JULY II, 1870. Union <$• Recorder, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY In MilledgeTille, La., BY ^OUGHTON, j3Al\NES ^ ^OORE, At $2 in AJrance, or $3 at end of the Year. A PHYSICIAN’S PRAYER. |, if. BOUQBZON, Editor. The “FEDERAL UNION’’ and the ‘'SOUTH EUN RECORDER’' w-re couaolidateil Aueuft Lt 1K7J. the Union being In its Forty-Third Obitua- Nomiualiona lor "ffirc and idtial benefit, charged a. trail- Ut, 187u*,tlie Union being In its l-orty Volume and the Recorder in it’s Fifty-Third Volume. ADVERTISING. Tsaxsiskt.—One Dollar per aqnare of ten linn for flr.t Insertion, and •event,-five cent! loi eaeh .utnequent continuance. . Liberal diieouut on tbeae rates will be allowed on edvertiaeuieuta running three mouths, or longer. Tributes Ot Respect, Resolutions by S - * ries exceeding C^otmnuuicRt ioua «ifni wdvertUing. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Shorin'. Sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, *2 SO •• Mortgage ti la sales, per square, 5 TO Citations tor Letters ol Administration “ " Guardianship 3 A d mill i strut loti, 3 W Guardianship, •• 3 <HJ • ** beavt* to noil Laud, •*> W •• for liooH’itetdi, 2 00 Nutii4> to Debtor* uud Creditor*, d 00 Sal*** of Laud, Ac., per square *• perishable property, 10 day*, per aquarc,. Katray Notice*, 3*» day* ••••*•• jfor-losurw of Mortgtge, per *quare, eacu time SKETCH Of'TljE DE^OCR^TIC CJ&NDI-* m, « , ~—, . . I DATE. The Son of Sirach intimates to j physicians that they should seek the Governor Tilden was born at New divino blessings on their prescrip- Lebanon, in the county of Columbia tions. A correspondent of the South- and state of New York, in the year cm Churchman says : “The follow- ! 1814—the year which ruined the foil ing prayer was found among the pa- tunes of the great Napoleon. Young pers of tho late Dr C. F. Couch, of | Tilden entered college in Lis eigh- Petersbmg; and it is so good a one teentb year. He had not been long for physicians that I ask the favor at y a i e College before his health of an insertion in your valuable pa- ! g ave wa y, an j obliged him to leave, per. Perhaps some others of the ; After some rest he was enabled to faculty may gain a blessings on their resume his studies, and in 1834 en- practice by using it: ‘Oh thou NUMBfix ApplicAtiou fur Di*ini«»»on from great Bestower of health and com fort ! grant thy blessing upon the professional duties in which this day I may engage. Give me judgment to discover disease, and skill to treat it; and crown with thy favor the means that may be devised for re covcrv ; for with thine assistance the humblest instrument may suc ceed, as without it the ablest must prove unavailing. Save me from all sordid motives, and endow me with a spirit of pity and liberality toward the poor, and of tenderness and sym- tered the University of New York, where he completed his academic ed ucation. He then entered the law office of the late John \V. Edmunds, in the city of New York, where he en joyed peculiar facilities for tho pros ecution of his favorite studies of law and politics. Upon his admission to the bar, Mr. Tilden opened an office in Pine street, in the city of New York. In •1844, in anticipation and preparation for the election which resulted in making James K. Polk President and Silas Wright Governor of the I 75 I 3 00 * 1 CO pathy toward all. and that I may ens state of New York, Mr. Tilden, in LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. fcdlMof Laud, he.., by Admiulatratora, Executors < be held tho situated. Notice ol public gazette Jo day* Guardian*, are required by law Tuesday lu the month, between the hour* of 10 forcuoou uud 3 lu the afernoou, at the Court He he county in which the property ‘ * * M ‘ the*# tale* mudt be given previous to the day of *aie. Notie,** for the *ale of personal property niu*t be given in like manner 10 day* previous to *ale day. Notlee to the debtor* and creditor* of on estate niuat be published 40 day*. . . Holier that app’ie*tlon will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Laud, Ac., mu.t he pubh*hed for one month. _ Citation* for letter* of Administration, Ouardianahip, Ate , muit b«* publi*li«d 30 day*—lor di*in : .**i'»n from Ad- •luiiiialrati.m monthly three mouth*—for dismUsion from •U uardianship -10 day*. . „ , Rule* for foreclosuro of M« zvue mint be publiancd uiiouthly for four mouth*- -for establishing lo*t pupei - for r he full space *t three months—for eompelliug title* from Kxei-utor* or Admiui.tratoi where bond ha* been giv* «m by the d*x ea*ed, the lull *paee*J Publientiou* will alwayi gleae the legal requirement outinued Book and Job Work of all Kinds ter into the various feelings by which they are respectively tried ; may weep with those that weep and rejoice with those that rejoice. And sanctify their sonls as well as heal their bodies. Let faith and pa tience, and every Christian virtue they aro called upon to exercise, have their perfect work, so that iu the gracious dealings of thy Spirit aud thy providence they may find in jouraed. In both the end, whatever that end may be, ) j£ r . Tilden was a that it has been good for them to have been afflicted. Grant this, O Heavenly Father! for the love of that adorable Redeemer who while on earth went about doing good, and now ever liveth to make intercession in heaven. Amen.’ ” connection with John L, O’Sullivan, ! founded the newspaper called the Daily News. In the Fall of 1845 i he was sent to tho Assembly from I the city of New York, and while a member of that body was elected to the convention for the remodelling j of the constitution of the State, I which was to commence its sessions few weeks after the Legislature ad- of these bodies conspicuous au thority, and left a permanent im-> pression upon tho legislation of the year, aud especially upon all the new constitutional provisions affect ing the finances of tho Stato aud the management cf its svstem of canals. vented the necessity of any further increase of military force. To Sec*, retary Chase and his friends Mr. Tilden insisted that the war ought to be earned on under a system of sound finance, which ho did not doubt the people would cheerfully sustain if the Government would have tho courage to propose it. At a later period of the war he was invi ted by the Government at Washing ton to give his advice as to the best methods for its further conduct. Ho said to the Secretary of War: “Yon have no right to expect a great military genius to come to your assistance. They only appear once in two or threo centuries. You will pi obably have to depend upon the average military talent of the country. Under such circumstances your only course is to avail yourself of your numerical strength and your superior military resources resulting from your greater progress in indus trial arts and your greater producing capacities. You must have reserves and concentrate your forces on de* cisive points, and overwhelm your adversaries by disproportionate num bers and reserves.’’ His advice was not taken, but he had tho satisfaction, within a year after it was given, of hearing the Secretary of War acknowledge its wisdom and lament his inability to secure its adoption. With the peace came to Mr. Tilden the most impor tant political labor of his life. With the assistance of Charles O’Conor, who followed tho members of that baud of conspirators with all his usual vigor and adroitness until it was not only broken up, but its lead ing members scattered to the four quarters of tho globe, ho assailed and overthrew the combined Repub lican and Democratic Ring which DEATH OF GEM. REYNOLDS. PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED at thin ori'iiT. FOR THE 8 Mouths lor $1.00. Stirring times aro near at hand. The Campaigns of the coming Fall will be tho liveliest for many years ; And everybody should have a good newspaper. In order to cnablo eve rybody to afford it, we will send THE UNION it REORDER from this date till the 1st of January 1877 for ONE DOLLAR. Subscribe at ONCE, and get the benefit of the Campaign Rates. We copy the following touching and beautiful poem from the Con stitutionalist of the 1st instant. It is from the pen of a gifted lady of Augusta. THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. j Do it Now.—Don’t live a single i ! hour of your life without doing ex- i I aetly what is to he done in it, and j j going straight through it from begin ning to end. Work, play, study, what ever it is—take hold at once, and fin ish it up squarely and cleanly; and then attend to the next thing, with out letting any moments drop out between. It is wonderful to sec liow many hours prompt people contrive to make of a day; it is as if they picked up the moments that the dawdlers lost. And if ever you find yourself where you have so many things pressing you that you hardly know how to begin, take hold of the very first one that comes to hand, and you will find the rest all fall into tile and follow after like a com- , pany of well-drilled soldiers, and | though work way he hard to meet j when it charges in a squad, it is j easily vanquished if you can bring j ! it into line. You may have often ! seen the anecdote of the man who ! ! was asked how he accomplished so j j much in his life. “My father taught j j me,” was tho reply, “when. I had j anything to do, to go and do it."— Tho defeat of Mr. Wright in the ! ruled aud mined New York. This Fall of 184(5, and the coolness which : “ring” had its origin in an act pass had grown up between the friends of i ot ;i by the Legislature of the Stato of President Polk and the friends of the late President Yan Buren result ed fortunately for Mr. Tilden, if not for the country, in withdrawing his attention fiom politics and concen trating it upon his profession. He inherited no fortune, but depended upon his own exertions for a liveli hood. Thus far his labor for the State, or in his profession had not been lucrative, and despite bis strong tastes and pre-eminent qualifications for political life, he was able to dis cern at that early period tho impor tance in this country, at least, of a pecuniary independence for the sue- 1 cessful prosecution of a political ca^ reer. With an assiduity and a con centration of energy which have characterized all the transactions of his life, Mr, Tilden now gavo himself up to liis profession. It was not many years before he became as well known at the bar as he had before been known as a politician. His business developed rapidly, and though he continued to take more or less interest in political matters, they were not allowed after 1857 to There is the secret—the magic word j interfere with his professional du- 1 SGI -1816. ties, anil mine L rife Each pel iml lias it. meinotlef lo-duT. As Centennial aol.lieia nattier, ami march along tli air way 1 greet them as they journey, hut the tear is iu HIT «y Ib'or the sold tiera who once gathered, anJ hut to die ! 1 seethe same dark uniform our gallant Clinch oim'o wore; l)o you wonder that the tears fall fust, for those who coma uo more? That the uiu-ic starts an echo that slumbers hut to wake in tieaits that have endured, but were too strong to break! ! Gen. Colquitt's organs have noth- j j ing to say against any of the candid- | iites for Governor except Governor \ j Johnson. One has discovered that j ft i twenty years ago he was not in favor ! | of putting white men on the chain I gang. Another one says that lie is i “aristocratic,”is “sixty-six yoarsold,” | and “shows many signs of dotage.” | There never was a plainer, or less Since the year 1855 it is safe to say that more than half of tho great railway corporations north of the Ohio and between the Hudson and Missouri rivers have been at some time his clients. The general mis** fortunes which overtook many of these roads between 1855 and 1860 called for some comprehensive plan for relief. It was here that his legal attainments, his unsurpassed skill pretentious citizen ; lie is sixty-three I “ a financier, his unlimited capacity i , , . ,, ** . i fAi* /innonnfi’ofo/i LoLav nia oadofonf _ The tree, hang rich in foliage, in our deep Rum mer green, ’Neath which the dear ones gathered, just (n these now are seen ; Young laces full of promise, young iiearls with high hopes tilled— Alas for many loved ones—whose hearts have loug been stilled ! The same sweet homes arc open, each door-way j still is there, _ j lUut ah how few who went away, climb up the j well known stair, And many a knee was shattered, and many an j arm laid bare — And many a mother's weary form sits by au ! empty chair. years old (just tho same age as the Democratic nominee for President, ,Samuel J. Tilden), and if the gentle men who think he “shows many j signs of dotage” will tackle him with I tongue or pen, on the stump or at j the bar, they will be as much aston- I ished as if they had mistaken a mule’s ; hoof for a baby’s fist.—Chronicle & j Sentinel. for concentrated labor, his constant! ly increasing weight of character and personal influence found full activi- New York in 1857, in connection with the charter of that year, which provided that but six persons should be voted for by each elector and twelve chosen. In other words, the nominees of tho Republican and Democratic party caucuses should be elected. At tho succeeding ses sion of the Legislature their term of offico was extended to six years. This gave a Board of Supervisors, consisting of six Republicans and six Democrats, to change a majority of which it was necessary to have control of the primary meetings of the great national and Stato parties for years in succession—a Berios of coincidences which rarely happens in a generation. Early in September ho issued a letter to seventy-six thousand Dem ocrats, reviewing the situation and calling upon them “to take a knife and cut tho cancer out by the roots.” But before the meeting of the con vention an event happened which could not havo been foreseen, but which was pregnant with the most important consequences. To the eternal honor of the Democratic party of the city and State, oa the issne thus made up by Mr. Tilden they gavo him their cordial and irre sistible support. The result was overwhelming, and not only changed the city representation in the legisla tive bodies of the State, but, in its moral effect, crushed tho “ring.” Mr. Tilden was one of the delegates chosen to represent tho city in the next Legislature. In deference to the views of his principal coadjutors, Mr. Tilden devoted the six weeks’ in terval between his election and the meeting of the Legislature to the prosecution of its investigation in ty, and resulted in the reorganiza- j the city departments and in prepar Mr. Hayes, in his simple talk to tho people of Fremont, was frank to acknowledge that he “very well tion of the larger portion of the great, net work of railways, by which tho rights of all parties were equita bly protected, wasting litigation avoided, and a condition of great depression and despondency in rail way property replaced by an unex ampled prosperity. Till the war came, Governor Til den made every effort to avert tho rebellion. When his efforts, com ing the vast mass of accurate infor mation which was tho basis of near- All our citizens no doubt remem ber Gen. A W. Reynolds, or “Old Gauley,” as he was familiarly called. It will be recollected (that he was commandant of this post daring a considerable portion of the “late un pleasantness." It is also known to m*n^ of onr citizens that he has held a high position in the army of Egypt for several years past—Athens Watchman. We copy the following account of his death from the Rome Cornier, tho proprietor of which (Capt. M. Dwinoll) is now traveling in the East. The letter from which this is extracted is dated “Alexandria, Egypt* May 27, 1876,” and is as foK lows: “The death of Gen. A. W. Rey nolds yesterday was eo sadden as to painfully shock all who knew him. I sent my card up to his quarters ears ly in tho morning. He came to the hotel about 9 and after a short con versation invited me to ride up to his palace with him. He called a car riage and in about ten minntes we were there. We took a stroll through the garden and remained there per haps two hours, then rode back to the hotel. He seemed to be in ex cellent spirits and very glad to meet an American, especially one who knew so many of his comrades in the Confederate army. He declined an invitation to lunch with me be cause ho said he was a little unwell and wanted a peculiar soup that he got at a private house near by; but insisted that I should ride with him again at 4 P. M., to seo Pompey’s Pillar and the public gardens, and he left me at 12£ o’clock. At 4 o'clock I went to the pub lie room to see if Gen. Reynolds had arrived and just then a messen ger announced that he was dead. Judge V. C. Barringer of North Carolina, but now a counsellor in tho International Court of Appeals in this place, coming up just then, wo went immediately to the house of Mrs. Stevens where he had lunched and there found his lifeless body. The lady said he had eaten more than usual, and feeling sleepy, de sired a place to lie down. Before going to his room he directed that he should be called at 3| o’clock as he had an engagement at 4. At the time appointed the lady knocked on his door and getting no response looked in, and, to her great aston ishment thero he lay dead npon the bed. Everything indicated that he had died in a sweet sleep. In a very short time Dr. Mackie, an English surgeon and physician arrived. He said life was extinct and he could do nothing. I am told that he after wards made a post mortem examina tion and found an auricle of the heart completely closed with a spon gy substance. The Consular Agent was immediately informed and took charge of the body and of his effects. He was buried to-day at 3 P. M. with military honors, some fifty or sixty gentlemen, mostly Americans and Englishmen, beside a number of Egyptian officers, and eight or ten ladies wero at the burial. The Epis copal burial service was read by an English clergyman, Rev. Mr. Davis. The American flag over the Consu late has been at half-mast to-day on account of his death. At the time of his death Gen. Rey nolds was Adjutant-General of the Egyptian Army of the Coast, a po sition which I am told he has held under the Khedive, some five or six years. I have been somewhat min ute in giving the particulars of this very sad death, because most of the General’s particular American friends belonging to the Army of Egypt, are OUR RADIX LETTER. Tho Forbidden Subject—Extraordis nary State of Things—Prince Oscar—Overflowing Patriotism— Youthful Spartans—Matters at Philadelphia—A Centennial Re- miniscence—Uncle Sam Kicking in His Old Cradle—Russia and Tunis—A Curious Antiquity— Flags, Bells and “America.” w-H ? t l y ^ crtain that ft was not. With the thermometer hangin- round the Centennial figure Thomas Jefferson never could have stopped fanning himself and drinking lemo nade long enough to evolvo the De claration from his inner .conscious ness; nor could tho devoted band | whose autographs appear in that 1 connection have worked themselves up to the pitch of reckless patriotism From the Terre TIaufe Express NEWSPAPER THAT CAx SUPPORT HAYES. ^ 0 desire to deal in perfect cax- dor with our readers. For about twenty years the - . — Express was a steadfast supporter ot the Republi can party. \\ e are fully impressed now with the greatness of the party’i nicfiirw nrtil tt-i4-K ai. _ . * * ly all the judicial proofs that have i now in Abysinia and probably many ltul tli<> maidens wreathed their garlands, and the mothers breathed a prayer, A till the fathers bade them “God speed' to vic tory everywhere, Or girded their own armor, to battle by a son, Aud fall togef her side by side belore a field was won. knew that it was not on account of i bined with those of other prominent 1 am thankful (hat at Moultrie foes have met os friends once more, For -after all our Father's bouse has but one i open door; And 1 know that souls ot heroes who closed in j w 1j 0 u'ill trouble Passed up the way together, to overlasting life his ability or talents,” etc., that he had been selected—but that “thero were accidents and contingencies that caused the result." His head was level there; ho was not the choice of the party, but their best conveni ence, under all tho circumstances. Tho loaders dare not trust oach oth er, and so they centered upon a man none of them, if they will leave him with his pipe. witli its marks Hut I sought the old war 15i Lie. of other days, Aud Sumter with its battle cry, rose up in fitful blaxe; And a breeze from Pensacola, came like music sad and low; A requiem for our firs’ young boy, who met the deadly blow ! Ob bow they gathered afterwards to slumber side by side, From battle field, or weary couch, where many a brave one died, To rest on their own hillside i or 'neulli the city shade; The Bristow Reception.—Tho Courier-Journal of the 5th says: Col. Bristow returned to Louisville Mon day, and that evening large num bers of his friends and neighbors, Democrats and Republicans alike, gave him an informal reception in tho parlors of tho Galt House.— Among the many who called on the ex secretary aud expressed their pleasure on grasping his hand, were numer- LouMles boat merchants, 1 am thankful that the nation is joining hand in band— Where brother’s hearts were severed, by war's fierce, fiery brand. But forgive me—oh, forgive me ! as the legions march away— That my heat l it buried rvt r with our bout “irku sleep in gray '" 11. C. B. Augusta, Ga , June ‘Jlltli, 187t> Another Suicide.—Another young lady has died by her own hands— Miss Annie Wells, of Dalton, who shot herself through the temple with a pistol last Thursday. She left letters assuring her friends that no one but herself was to blame for the rash act—that site simply sought rest aud peace. She must have been par tially demented. We cannot believe that a beautiful young lady would take her own life whilerin Iter light mind. What a sad affair ! judges, lawyers, physicians, trades men, newspaper representatives, and others. All made known their ap proval of the course pursued by Col. Bristow while in tho Cabinet, and expressed their gratification at see ing him and shaking hands, in the highest terms. A special from Albany says it is reported that Governor Tilden is to resign the Governorship and allow Dorshcimcr to become acting Gov ernor, to conciliate discontented Democrats in New York. Death of Gen. Lefferts.—New ark, X. J., July 3.—Gen. Marshall Lefferts died instantly of heart dis case on board the train this morning while on route to Philadelphia in command of the veterans of the Sev enth Regiment. His death occurred patriots, had proved abortive, his convictions of duty were perfectly decided and clear. They wero to maintain the integrity of our territo ry, and the supremacy of the con stitutional authorities. He had been educated in tho school of Jackson, and had been a diligent student of the lessons taught by tho nullifica** tion controversy of 1833. He had studied carefully and profoundly the relation of the Federal and State Government, and of the citizens of those Governments. He had thus early formed perfectly clear and set tled opinions, about which his mind never vacillated. During the winter of 1860-61 he attended a meeting of the leading men of both parties in the city of New York, to consider what measures were necessary and practicable to avert an armed colli sion between what were then term ed the free and the slave States. To the North he urged reconciliation and forbearance, appreciating, as he did, more clearly than most of those around him the fearful and disas trous consequences of a civil war, whatever might prove its ultimate result. To the South he urged a de ference to the will of the majority and a respect for the provisions of the Federal Constitution, within which they would be sure of ade quate protection for themselves and for their property; but he warned them that ontside of the Constitu tion they could expect protection for neither. When the war did come Mr. Tilden associated himself with and was the private adviser of Mr. Dean Richmond, then at the head of j the Democratic party of that State, < and who was accustomed on all im- j portant questions to visit Mr. Tilden ; in his retirement and seek his coun sel. At a meeting held at the house just as the train was coming into. of General Dix, just after the first Peter Cooper expressed surprise ! Newark. The whole command turn- ca]1 of Fl . csid ’ a t Lincoln for 75,000 at the nomination of J mien, lie is , ed back and are at the depot where ' tu.. nwcnni nn /i not satisfied with the financial action j the body awaits the train from New | paSpatedTn the ffSnsio^wlficb .. . , , was 600,1 . 01 “ | took place. He then and there ex«* Broadway to fall out of line, and it — of either the Cincinnati or St. Louis j York. The General conventions, and says he can't with- j draw, but will enter the contest as a 1 candidate of the Independent party . for tho Presidency. was remarked when lie took the cars at Jersey City that lie looked like death. William D. Kelley, the Republican leader of the Pennsylvania soft money inflationists, lias endorsed the Cincin nati platform, and lias again been put up as a candidate for Congress. Tho Jewish ministers of New York are about to issue a protest against expensive funerals. Other ministers would do well to follow their examplo. There is no sense in pressed the opinion that they were on the eve of a great war, and main tained that instead of 75,000 troops Mr. Lincoln should have called out at least 500,000, half for immediate ser vice and the other half to be put in camps of instruction and trained for impending exigencies. Unhappily that generation had seen so little of war and had such limited means of .7 TT7*r~~ ! Sk’SEiSs.*«• If you would be happy do not try to be miserable. Better a light purse tliau a heavy Conscience. with which too many funerals nowa days are characterized. Yale graduates one hundred and twenty-four this year. which tho war spirit, once lighted, will spread among a people, that it was not competent to appreciate the wisdom of this advico, which, if adopted, would probably have pre- siuco been employed successfuly in bringing the members of the “ring" to justice or driving them into exile. Mr. Tilden gave his chief atten tion during the session of the Legis lature to the promotion of those ob jects for which he consented to go there, the reform of the juuiciary and the impeachment of the crea tures who had acquired the control of it under the Tweed dynaRty. Mr. Tilden had thus by his bold acts made himself prominent in the work of reform, and recognized as the man to lead it in the State. Prominent friends of reform urged him to ac cept tho nomination for Governor. They said he could bo nominated without difficulty and elected tri umphantly, and in his triumph the great canse of administrative reform would receive an impulse which would propagate it not only over the whole State, but over the Union.- Mr. Tilden ultimately consented to take the nomination for Gov ernor. He was nominated and elected, and whatever lessons or eloquence could be expressed in big majorities were not wanting to lend their eclat to his triumph. Mr. Tilden’s plural ity over John A. Dix, tho Republi can candidate, was 53,315. Mr. Dix had been elected two years previ ously by a plurality of 53,451. Mr. Tilden is now in the sixty-third year of his age. He is five feet ten inches in height, and he has what physiolo gists call the purely nervous temper ament, with its usaal accompaniment of spare figure, blue eyes and fair complexion. His hair, originally chesnut, is now partially silvered with age. At the Utica Convention resolutions were passed presenting his name as a candidate for the Pres idency, and requesting the delegates to vote as a unit- of his home friends may not get this information from any other source. From tho Nation. ‘•THE 'REBELS' DID IT ALL.” Young Men's Christian Associa tions are an important anxilliary to church work in different parts of the world. Thero are 200 in England and Wales, 103 in Germany, 63 in Scotland, 30 in France, 39 in Switz erland, 5 in Australia and 3 in New Zealand. In the United Statee and the British Provinces, in North America there are over 1,000. It is an American institution. They are beginning to organize them in China, Japan and Honolnln. In Sweeden, after thirty years of continuous service, the teacher is pensioned by the Government, re ceiving for the remainder of his life three-fourths of his former salary; so the evening of the life whoso day has been passed in labor for the public welfare may be without care, and the old man can look iHfho&t dread to the termination of his profession al usefulness.—[Cleveland Plain Dealer. Col. D. E. Butler, editor-in-Chief of the Index and Baptist, made a short .call on us one day last week. The Colonel is one of the few men in whom religion, good business qual ities, affability, stem integrity and good hnmor, are so happily blends ed, that ho is on first sight the peo ple’s man. Whenever wo see him, we feel just like it is a privilege that will be met more than half way, to go right up to him and say anything agd everything that comes in the way. If he didn’t hold so many po sitions of honor already, he would make a splendid horse to have tied out on the 2d of August We are not so sure, but he would anyhow.— Greensboro Herald. The Rev. Henry Ward Bceclicr has been engaged by a Boston lecture bureau to lecture eighty nights dur ing the coming season for $40,000. The California whiskey rascals re joice over Bristow’s retirement and —unite on Hayes. [Irom Oar Own Correspondent.J New York, June 30, 1876. To the Editor of the Union A Recorder. Had I known what was in store for us in the immediate future, I should have postponed my last week’s remarks on temperature to the pres ent time. Though the subject can ir Jly be said to be exhausted (as we necessary to make them run their i am * the grandeur of its necks into King George's noose by j achievements. W e should be glad putting their names tc that incendi- . , a , in ~e old lines, and fight ary document, unless, indeed, they "‘t* 1 those with whom w°hav e stood were so hot and miserable as to be | Moulder to shoulder through the political conflicts of the past But perfectly willing to die. While then we, their degenerate sons, are “weep ing at every pore" we are somewhat inclined to envy our venerable pre decessors their meterological condi tion until we reflect that they at that time had never so much as thought of a grand Exposition, and then we all are), a variety-loving public will at once realize that we have got de hardly tolerate repeated recurrences to one topic even though it be an all absorbing one; and I am thus de barred from telling you what a time cidedly the best of it, What the severity of the recent temperature has done to pull down the average attendance at the Fair- we are having in the embraces of old m ount grounds has been just about Sol, whose excessive familarity is ‘ ' * breeding universal contempt amohg tho tribes of Manhattan Many comic things occur at a nom inating convention, but probably nothing so comic occurred at Cincin nati as the uproarious applause which greeted Senator Logan’s an- nouncemont that the late exposures of corruptions at Washington were the commencement of a “revolution” by the ex rebels, consisting in “the assassination of the private character of every leading Republican in the land.” We notice that Mr. Blaine was disposed to take tho same view of the matter in his defense in the House of Representatives, and seem ed to maintain that the presence of “two rebel generals,” on the sub committee had some mysterious con nection with the existence of his own letters to Mr. Fisher and with his operations in Little Rock and Fort Smith and Northern Pacific Btock and bonds. Now, all this may be most excellent fooling, but it is still fooling. The people of the United States may be occasionally simple minded, but they are not idiots, and it would take an enormous amount of eloquence to persuade them that it was the “rebels" who got Mr. 'Blaine into his railroad operations, or Mr. Belknap into his post trader business, or Mr. Robeson into bis Cattell relations, or Babcock into his whisky dealings or safe burglaries, or got up the Sanborn business, or put McDonald in office, or hired Jayne. The “rebels” must laugh consnmedly when they hear that they are at the bottom of the various “investments” of onr leading states men. Were it not for that, I could tell you how the air flames and the asphalt pavements turn to mere bogs into which the feet of pedestrains sink at every step; how the street vendors of cheap drinkables are trying to decide wheth er they will invest their growing wealth in brown stone fronts or United States bonds; how fat men waddle around in linen coats that look as though their owners had just come out from under the town pump, and collars that betray utter discour agement in every crease; how suffer ing citizens with dripping but deter mined countenances go round hunt ing for “Old Prob.” with shot guns; how the thermometers are bursting on every hand like the popping of myriad champagne corks; how cheer fully and promptly people will give the whole sidewalk to any small dog who acts as though he were warm and in a hurry; how every case of “drunk” at the police court pleads sunstroke, etc., etc. All this and much more of a like valuable and interesting char acter I could tell you if I felt at liber ty to bring np the weathor question again, bat that, of coarse, is not to be thought of, and I turn to other matters. But right here another difficulty presents itself. “Other matters” I find to be a good deal liko—pardon the simile—like the Irishman’s flea, who, when he put his finger on him wasn’t there. Never was their a scan tier crop of local events within the memory of your correspondent. What with the heat apd tho second great political convention most peo ple have steadily refused to do more than fan themselves and watch devel opments. The exceptions have been few and those mostly of a festival character. The Swedish crown prince Oscar who is here on a tour of Centennial and general exploration was in town for a few days this week and was the recipient of a glorious serenade by the various Scandinavian musical societies of the city, whose singing was as much of a pleasure as it was au honor. The Nation Board of Trade, which is now holding here its annual ses sion, was on the evening ;of the 29th tendered a complimentary’ banquet at Delmonico’s. The roll of guests included many of the most prominent names in the business and political circles of the country, and there were as many good things said as there were goods things eaten. In its deliberations this year the Board has laid out for discussion twenty four of the various weighty questions now before the country, but thus far have disposed of a few only. Their express ed views on the silver question are strongly opposed to making it legal tender in any large sums. On the evening upon which the result of the St. Louis Convention was made known we were treated to a foretaste of next Tuesday by the class who either were politically pleased or had won bets on the nomi nation. Cannon boomed, and rock ets, crackers, torpedoes and the like made night hideous with their noise. A large proportion of our population are so brimful of “celebrate’’ this Centennial year that they break out easily, and having got started on Wednesday evening will doubtless keep it up for a straight week. The preparations for the celebra tion of our 100th birthday are on a large scale, considering that pnblic interest will centre more particularly on Philadelphia. Although there is a sort of corner in pyrotechnics thie season, with higher prices than nsoal, the sales aro tremendous. In fire crackers especially, tho rising gener ation rale the roost, and in spite of all remonstrances on the part of their elders on grounds of danger and an noyance, the boys stand as firm in defending their rights and liberties as did their forefathers in the canse which gave rise to this annnal rack-1 et. Many is the Paterfamilias I’ve seen within the last day or two traversing the streets with suspicious looking bundles in his hands, the contents of which he evidently re garded with mingled fear and dis gust, but as evidently standing in greater awe of the youthful wrath to come should he venture to return home empty handed. I doubt whether the oldest inhabi tant has ever seen the flag fever rage as violently as at present— Never before did the stars and stripes attain so wide a circulation. In all sizes and materials from paper to silk and from three inches to thir ty feet the national emblem sticks out of pockets, and door ways, and windows, and waves over coal carts and dizzy flagstaff’s alike. Nor is the fervor of this all-embracing patri otism satisfied with displaying our own banner only; and this to me is the eurions part of it. J ust why the presenteof all times should be selec ted to make a miscellaneous display of banting is a conundrum which is too many for me, but the popular impression is that a flag is a flag, no matter what it represents or wheth er it means anything at all, and that consequently the more flag the more patriotism. The result is a rather heterogeneous but withal gorgeous display, and I presame it answers every purpose. Philadelphia, July 1. I don’t believe it was met by the large increase of visitors attracted by the grand preparations which have been made for the coming anniversary. The hotels contain al ready about ten thousand guests, or ‘over two thirds of their total capaci ty. Everything points to a big time on Monday and Tuesday. Money seems to be no object in getting ready: everybody is going in for a big time and all will throw them selves into it in a feverish, energetic, hard working and thus truly Ameri can manner. If New York is covered with flags, Philadelphia is made of them. The city looks a fair repre sentative of good John Bunyan’s “Vanity Fair. ’ From end to end it is solid with bunting, everything to which a piece of cloth could in any way be fastened, being covered with Uncle Sam s or somebody else’s colors; the same liberal variety being observed here as in New York. As this letter will probably not reach your readers until after the great festival I will not occupy your spaco with the published municipal and private programmes of the day. Their character can as well be imag ined as described. At the Exhibition grounds the daily proceedings go on as nsual, the bristling attractions of the place continuing to bewitch and bewilder old and new comers alike. Last week I spoke of some of the beauties of tho Russian metal work. Only a little less admirable is the display of malachite and lapis lazuli, of which thero is a rich and beautiful exhibit, including mantles, tables, clocks, vases, caskets, and a great variety of mantle ornaments. The fabrics ot silver and gold thread, heavily embroidered with green leaves and vines in silk, surpass anything of the kind exhibited by the Oriental nations that excel in this sort of work. With regard to these latter articles, I do not praise them from a merely male and conse- i quently unintelligent we cannot do so. Tho Cincinnati convention has committed the Re publican party to a financial policy that has already greatly injured the country, and which promises a clis max of ruin. Mr. Ruterford B. Hayes' of Ohio has taken occasion to say, within the last three weeks, to a representative of the Cincinnati Com mercial, that he is not in favor of the repeal of tho resumption law, un less the act repealing it should pro vide for more prompt resumption than the present law. He is com mitted, as unequivocally as a man can be, to the policy of forced ret sumption. The Express cannot sup port Mr. Hayes, nor any candidate, from the highest to the lowest, who is committed to the hard-money fi nancial policy. We have not enter ed for a fair weather fight; we have no principles to compromise, or yield, or give away. We may be left in a small minority, or left alone, but we shall continue to battle a- gainst the unjust, unnecessary and iniquitous attempt to bankrupt the country in the interest of the credi tor class. The crack of the party lash has lost all terror to this news paper. If our patrons expect party servitude from us they will be disap pointed. We shall publish the news with fair comment upon passing events, and we shall continue to try to educate the people up to the point of revolt against the gold- barons. The genoralship'of the pol iticians may keep the first and high est issue in tho background in this campaign, and the people may be rallied with zeal in the great crusade for office, but the money battle will come up again and must be fought. The same specious pleas and coward ly counsel that sought to keep the slavery question out of politics are used now, and they will prove again unavailing. Want, starvation and the sheriff are at work, and in the end they will beat the trimmers, the compromisers and the politicians. There will be naturally some curi osity among our readers to know if the Express has any design of sup* porting the Democratic party. We have not. There is no doubt that tho St. Louis convention will adopt a platform as objectionable to green back men as the Cincinnati platform. It may even be more objectionable. If the greenback Democrats should withdraw from the St Louis con vention, and nominate William Al ien, or any other representative Standing near the cases containing ! e^nb^k man we shall co-operate them I think-1 heard a trifle more i Wlth tlie “' 1!do not ’ we eha11 oA-ing and oA-ing over them from su PP or t Peter Coo P er - the fair sex than over anything else in the place. Backed up by these expressions of feminine approbation, therefore, I can boldly assert the superiority of the cloths in ques tion. The Tunisian Section also con tains some beautiful work in heavy gold embroidery upon • green and crimson velvet, in the forms of sad dle-cloths, cushions, table covers, slippers, etc., filigree jewelry, jewel- hflted daggers, inlaid weapons, cloth of gold and silver, curiously carved and painted furniture, and a variety of garments and utensils, all glitter ing with a barbaric profusion of color and ornament. Here, too, is shown a large piece of mosaic taken from the floor of tho Temple of Diana in the ruins of Carthage. It represents a lion seizing his prey, and is for sale for §5,000, gold. Considering JOSH BILLINGS ON WISDOty. Go slow, young man ; if you tap both ends of your cider barrel at once, and draw out the bong hole be sides, your cider ain’t going to last long. I had much rather be told that a man is virtuous and honest than to hear that his father is a member of Congress, or even that his grand father fit in the revolushun. Men sometimes hev doubts about their religion, and even honesty, but I never met one who doubted his shrewdness. Lazy men and black ants aro &1* ways looking for a job. You kan’t hire a man to be honest; if you doo, he will want his wages raised every mornin’. There is a great deal ov religion in the antiquity of "this piece as well this world that is like a life preserv- as its intrinsic merit, the price is far 1 er—only put on at the moment ov from exorbitant; and considering ! extreem danger, and tha half tho the scarcity of such objects in our finest museums this mosiac ought not to be allowed to leave the coun try. Three times each day—at sunrise, noon and sunset—are the grounds enlivened by the music of tho chime of bells in the northwestern tower of Machinery Hall. Those are the time put on the hind part beforo. Stick and hang, young man; it is the last six inches in a race that al ways wins the munny. if you want tu find ont just how mean and dishonest yu hev bin, git a nominashun and run for sum oftis. Those who are tew proud to in regular hours, but the bells are also i kwire what things kost when tha bi heard at other times according to it arc the first to find fault when tha thi* a oeotnry ago thi» time* fetal liis 8on«- the inclination of the ringer. These bells, thirteen in number, one for each of the original states, weigh in the aggregate 21,000 pounds, their individual “heft” ranging from 350 to 3,600 pounds. On the Fourth this noble chime with “America” on its iron tongues, will join the great new Independence bell in those tri umphant paens which will roll sky ward from the whole United States. None need to be urged to lend their voices and “God Bless our Native Land” from the months and hearts of our forty millions will surge up to Heaven laden with deeper mean ing and truer fervor than ever before since the glorious old anthem was written. So mought it be. Next week I shall write from within the second century of our national exist ence. Radix. cum to pay for it. A letter from Constantinople, written before the accession to the throne of the present saltan, gives the following interesting particulars about the Turkish imperial family: “Of all tho princes and princesses, only the sons of Abdul Medjid, brother and predecessor of Abdnl Aziz, live in the palace. The others re side in splendid habitations on the Bosphorus. The heir to the tlironet, Murad Effendi, the eldest of these sons of Abdul Mejid, who has about £11,000 sterling per annum, and his brothers, live in strict seclusion. They see the saltan only once a year, at the festival of Bai-. ram. They appeal* neither in pub lic ceremonies nor at the receptions of foreign sovereigns or embassa dors. None of them possesses any rank or title. These young men, however, are distinguished by real excellencies. Murad Effendi reads and writes French; ho is studious, the people round him praiee the sagacity of his mind and the good ness of his heart The homilating position of these princes is the more striking by comparison with the as hot a* honors showered by the saltan on The persecution of the Chinese in the States of the Pacific coast still continues. Blood has been shed and bouses burnt to tho ground, and all on account of color and race. Violent disturbances have taken place, and a regular crusade against these people is being preached. Of course no Government troops are hurried to the scene of disturbance—no iron clad fleet is threatening with its guna the city of San Francisco—and the howl of the philanthropist is not heard in the land. In fact, nobody careB for the Chinaman, as nobody cares for the Indian. Because these races manifest no interest in party poltics, and do not own that precious piece of merchandise—a vote. Don’t Hurry Girls.—One of the crying evils of these times is tho ten dency and disposition of girls to get through girlhood hurriedly and get into young-ladyhood, without wait ing to enjoy the beautiful season of girlhood.—Speaking on this point Bishop Moms says: “Wait patiently my children, through the whole limit of your girlhood. Go not after wo manhood; let it come to you. Keep out of public view. Cultivate retire ment and modesty. The cares and responsibilities of life will como soon enough. When they como, you will meet them, I trust, as true women should. Bnt oh! be not so unwise aa to throw away your girlhood. Rob not yourself of this beautiful season, which, wisely spent, will brighten all your future life.” Tho “Griffin Guards” have been organized with S. W. Mangbam Cap tain. An Early county negro died in few hours after being bitten by rattlesnake. A yonng husband handed his wife a dozen buttons, the other day and asked her to pnt a shirt to them. Thf brute!

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Union and recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1872-1886, July 11, 1876, Image 1