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Number 49.
EDITORIAL GLIMPSES.
Nearly every one favors the build
ing of a new court house in Augusta.
Gov. McDaniel has made a model
officer, and will retire with a brilliant
record. His next promotion will he
to the United States Senate.’’—Athens
Banner.
Rev. Dr. Hawthorne has accepted
an invitation to deliver the annual
address before the literary societies of
the State University at tlie approach
ing commencement.
Further efforts have been made by
Mr. \V. S. Roberts’ Attorneys to pre
vent his being turned Over to the New
York authorities. The case was ar
gued before the Governor who with
held his decision.
England and Russia appear to have
agreed upon teims of settlement of
the Afghan boundary question. This
assures peace and the preservation of
hundreds of thousands of lives as well
as vast sums of money.
The sweet girl graduates, to bo, are
now in a happy flutter of excitement
in view of commencement, and many
a poor fellow’s heart will palpitate
alarmingly until tlie white dresses
are put away and the dear creatures
begin to help mamma in household
duties.
of
Executions.—We notice reports
ten or more hangings which have oc
curred in the last few days: nearly till
were colored people. Freedom seems
to have greatly increased crime among
this class of tlie people. One dozen
colored persons die on tlie gallows,
now, to one in the times of slavery.
The Course of Political Events.
For the Courier-Jonrnai.
The Board of visitors to the State
University, were much pleased with
the progress made hv the students in
Political Economy, Moral Science and
Mental Philosophy, as well ns all the
other branches taught at that Insti
tution. A dispatch of tlie 5tli, says:
“Prof. Wilcox came before the hoard
this morning with some very interest
ing statements about the French
classes and their proficiency. This
was done at tlie request of the hoard.
Of the graduating classs 9 or one-tliird
are French students and they average
up well in this language. The course
takes three years and the student
who improves the course will have a
fine basis for a mastery of French.
Professor Barrow, of the Engineer
ing class, also, came up to present the
facts in regard to his department to
the board at its request. There are
some 35 students in Engineering in
the University, and two of these will
graduate in this department in the
senior class. Prof. Barrow speaks
very highly of these two vonng men
as being very proficient in this matter.
The check given to railroad building
in tlie State has had a tendency to
stop the practical study of railroad en
gineering. The senior year is espec
ially devoted to railroad construction.
The Professor has a chart of eighteen
miles of the Athens and Western rail
road surveyed by the juniors."
Mr. Charles 55. McCord of Augusta,
and Mr. C. S. Neal of Kirkwood, re
ported for duty on the 5tli. Both had
been unavoidably detained. Tlie other
members of the Board were (Jol. J. W.
Avery, the chairman of the Board.
J. B. Jones, of Burke. J. it. S. Davis,
of Newnan, Edward Hunter, of Louis
ville, Georgia, and Rev. W. J. Scott,
cf Atlanta. It is a very efficient Board
who give a strict attention to tlieir
duties.
We have endeavored, on various oc
casions. to impress upon tlie people
the dangerous changes which have oc
curred in public sentiment and action,
in the political progress of our coun
try. Every man of intelligence has
seen liow the radical, or Republican
party of the United States, has sought
to overthrow the sentiments and doc
trines of the founders of our free in
stitutions. The readers of history
turn, even yet. to the classic lands of
Ancient Italy and Greece, for models
of patriotism, for portraitures of all
that is grand, powerful and magnifi
cent in government, in arts and arms.
In moral greatness some of their vir
tuous citizens furnish examples which
in no age. and among no people, have
been surpassed; but at no time did
those commonwealths possess the safe
guards which our ancestors threw
around human rights and individual
liberty. It would he easy to show
this if we deemed it necessary. In
neither was there the wisdom, the
free thought, the political science, to
guard the rights of the great masses
of tiie people, which were left to us
as the legacies of our fathers. The
war between the States placed our
people precisely in tlie condition the
people of Republican Greece and
Rome were placed in. They were left
to the whims and caprices of a ceil
traiized government with no checks
upon tlie majority. In a republican
government the majority may he as
despotic as in a monarchy, or despo
tism. We had checks upon tlie arbi
trary actions of a majority. ami they
were swept away by the majority in
our so-called confederation of States.
The Republican party have distinctly
avowed that our people, though liv
ing under departments, called States,
are centralized into one great and
solid mass, subject to the xvill of the
majority. In the original eonfedera
tii >n the States were free and sover
eign, and possessed the right to ob
ject to measures which deprived them
of tlieir independent sovereignty.
What we would be glad to see would
he the effort, at least, to firing about
a repentance on the part of those who
have been trying to destroy tiie origi
nal compact. In deciding what form
of government is best adapted to £
people, we must examine into tlieii
manners, customs, religion, intelli
gence. circumstances and geographi
cal situation. A wide ocean separated
us from tlie old world. We were in a
situation to he perfectly free to give
to our people perfect security in the
divisions of labor, and to all the peo
ple of the sovereign and independent
States, a grand and harmonious con
federation and unity. We were in
situation to have a confederation of
sovereign States united by common
sympathies and aims which tlie out
side world could not control or sub
due. It was a bulwark of man's lib
erties built upon the great cardinal
principles of justice. Unity and fra
ternity. offering a happy home and
refuge from usurpation and tyranny.
It is of vast importance, now. that
the public mind of this country should
be seriously turned to the considera
tion and settlement of constitutional
questions. It is of far greater impor
tance than the tariff question. One
involves money, the other the great
question of human freedom. We hold
back thoughts steeped in-blood and
revolutions. We may yet refer to
these. Will the Democrats perform
tlieir duty? As yet they are silent.
They will awake some day when it
lie too late. The sun anti the stars
will, we fear, shine upon a land of
blood.
Suicide.
MMMweet Hgiires, at
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Milleiigevilie. Ga., May 12. ’85, 43 ly j
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The mi ml of the Christian ", nil phi
lanthropist, indeed, of the better por
tion of mankind of fill classes and
pursuits, is horrified by the daily re
cital, in the press of the country, of
this growing evil. Some say. the in
crease in the number of suicides is fic
titious, in a great measure, and that
the multiplication of the press, the
increase of population, the intro
duction of new religionists with
new ideas and practices, calculated to
excite and debase rather than instruct
the mind and improve the heart the
rapidity with which news is now
transmitted by means of the telegraph
and telephone* and the spread of rail
roads, are sufficient reasons to ac
count for the apparent growth of
this monstrous crime of self-murder.
This is mere speculation. It was a
very rare occurrence, in Georgia, at
least, to read or hear of a suicide, be
fore the late war. The loss of proper
ty, of relatives and friends, and the
general demoralization that always
follows in the wake of war, are some
of many other reasons that might he
assigned for this cowardly and unnat
ural “taking off.” There is some
thing radically wrong in the social
mould. Rev. Sam. Jones is doing his
best to expose and denounce the jires-
ent looseness of morals in our midst.
Modern societv must have excitement.
The gay and g'iddy find it in pleasures
of at least questionable propriety—
those who have suffered by reverses
of fortunce have not, in many instan
ces, the patience to toil for existence
and the courage to combat the “sea
of waves” that threatens to engulf
them, and resort to the deadly drug
or the benumbing howl to drown
thought and feeling—they cease to he
masters of themselves, and therefore
of their influence and usefulness. One
thing is certain—the evil is here in
frightful proportions—wise statesmen
and good men must unite to confront
it, and at least endeavor to mitigate
its destructiveness. Misfortune and
misery will strangle many a noble in
tellect and kind and benevolent na
ture before the suicidal evil can he
abated. Man's revolt against the
laws, of his Maker, and his disobedi
ence of the laws of nature, will never
cease. This tendency must he resist
ed, however hopeless the task at pres
ent may seem to be.
While on this subject, we beg to in
troduce the following truthful
thoughts, eloquently expressed, from
the pen of one of tlie finest writers of
the day:
“There is nothing so awful to my
mind as an unprepared, perhaps un
thought of, rush from time to eterni
ty! He is a favored man to whom is
permitted, as the last hours of life are
tlrawing to a close, to take a calm and
deliberate view of his few and faulty
days. With penitence and grief lie
deplores his many failings and short
comings; but with humble hope and
faith he directs the eye of his mind
to an approaching hereafter. He sur
veys society; notes down the changes
which have taken place during his
lengthened career; perceives how
those things which he took to be evils
were vast aud real benefits, and ad
mires that providential course which
has led not only him but others
through difficulties and dangers
which appeared to be overwhelming.
He has time allowed to him to review
the history of his country, the march
of the world, the progress of truth,
the defeat of error, the changes
brought about by apparently insig
nificant causes, and the littleness of
events which himself and his contem
poraries had magnified into matters
of vast behest. He completes the
records of his life; seeks not to magni
fy his own doings, but to point out
the wise and beneficent ordinations
of Providence; and after commending
his country and his family, man at
large, and liis friends and enemies to
the merev of Heaven, sinks quietly to
rest beneath the horizon of this
world only to rise with glory and
splendor in another and better neinis-
5
Washington Letter,
From Our Regular Correspondent
pliere.
Legal blanks tor sale at this office.
Crime costs the people of Georgia
vasts sums of money, every year. Ev
erything that tends to the prevention
of crime is in the interest of economy—
to say nothing of the happiness and
well-being of society.—Albany News
Washington. June 8th, 1885.
The tug of war still comes on and
goes on between the administration
and tlie office seekers. Tlie tugging
is to a great extent among the office
seekers, that is they tug against each
other: but the President has to bear
the brunt and suffer the wear and
tear. He is, no doubt, becoming very
weary of the delegations that pursue
him relative to comparatively unim
portant offices. Perhaps no minor of
fice lias made greater demands upon
his time anti patience than the
Charleston, South Carolina, collector-
ship. The rival delegations have been
persistent in their claims upon his at
tention. He told them last week that
they must agree to settle this matter
between themselves, and that if they
did not do so soon, he would be com
pelled to settle it in a way that would
not suit any of the contending fac
tions.
Tlie work of turning out the idle,
the incompetent, and the otherwise
offensive partisans goes on slowly', but
surely. The term "offensive parti
san" is in the mouth of every one here,
and it is in danger of being not only
abused but misunderstood. It should
l»e known that these discharged em
ployes were not cast out merely lie-
cause they were zealous republicans,
hut because tlieir zeal in politics
wholly interfered with their duties as
Government employes. They are
those who have been drawing pay
from the public treasury but perform
ing no public service, because tlieir
time lias been entirely taken up with
partisan work. While they were
doubtless very important factors in
the republican organization, collect
ing campaign money, falsifying sta
tistics, “skilled in the art of making
the worse appear the better part" up
on the stump, and through tlie press,
they were the vampires of our politi
cal system, sucking its blood, and lull
ing it with lies. Many of them have
discharged and many more will be
discharged. No matter who their “in
fluence" and hacking may be, the time
lias come for them to go into scanda
lous retirement, and they will go.
It is not alone in the discharge of
idle anil worthless partisans*that this
administration is making itself mem
orable. There are other and perhaps
more important reforms going on.
These reforms tire not palpable and
visible to the unskilled eye of the pub
lic at large, but tlieir cumulated
weight avill lie seen in the reports of
Cabinet Offices when Congress assem
bles next fall, in the message of the
President, and especially in the great
ly reduced appropriations that will
be asked for the public service for the
next fiscal year.
It is well known that frauds upon
the revenue have long been practised
by impostors in connivance with cus
tom-house officials, yo great had this
evil become a few years ago that it
was found necessary for Congress to
appropriate $100,000 to aid in the de
tection and exposure of these frauds.
But even this fund, designed as it was
for the prevention of evasions and ir
regularities, was soon perverted to as
fraudulent uses as those which it was
appropriated to correct; and it is a
matter of notorious history that the
greater part of this hundred thousand
dollars a year went into the hands of
a disreputable gang of political bum
mers in New York, Philadelphia, and
other cities as a reward for their par
tisan services. Here was one attempt
ed reform, but the misfortune of it
was. like that of most Republican re
forms, that it was a backward rather
than a forward step.
Such is hut one of many greater
rascalities in the custom service which
Secretary Manning, as a practical
business man, set to work to eliminate
upon his taking charge of the Treas
ury Department: and how lie has
succeeded is best told in the language
of u prominent Republican of this city
to a correspondent of the New York
Herald;
“I have occasion, by the nature of
my work, to know what is being done
in the Treasury and by tlie Administra
tion in the way of reforming long
standing and very grave abuses: and
1 say to you that, in the important
matters which I am necessarily familiar
with, this Democratic Administration
lias done more in three months than
has been done in fifteen years be
fore.”
THE DOCTOR’S GHOST STORY.
BY .T. S. WILSON.
I know you arc not going to believe
my story when I tell it to you. No
body ever did—because it is so unreal:
you know some people only shake
their heads and smile when they hear
it, the same as if I were trying to im
pose upon their credulity,* while oth
ers set me down as the victim of too
keen an imagination. It makes but
little difference to me what they say
or think—the story is true for all that*.
I am an old man now—nearly seventy
years having come and gone since *1
first saw the light—and, with one foot
in the grave, 1 am sure I would not
tell a willful falsehood: and. in spite
of the trouble I have had. my mind is
as strong to-day as it was fifty years
ago. and. in that respect. I was never
considered weak. However. I will re
late the story.
1 loved Amy Merlin from the first.
Not only for her pretty brown eyes,
wavy, golden liair and trim little fig
ure, but for her amiable disposition
and kind heart. You might look the
world over from one end to tlie other
and never find a girl to compare with
Amy, either in point of beauty or
sweetness of disposition.
Amy loved me. too; she not only
said so, hut her every action clearly
showed it; and everybody in the town
said 1 was remarkably fortunate—be
ing but a poor young* doctor—to win
the love of such* a girl, who could have
had her pick from the best in the land,
as her father was the wealthiest man
in all the country around. 1 fully ap
preciated my good fortune, and was
happy accordingly. But my happi
ness was not to be of long duration,
and the course of the love that had
run so smooth was destined to become
exceeding rough.
About this time Ralph Clayton, a
wealthy merchant of high standing,
met and lost his heart to Amy, and be
came a constant visitor at her home.
Whilst 1 was assured of Amy's love
and esteem, I was positive that her
father held quite a different opinion
of me, and he soon made it evident
that my attentions to his daughter
were distasteful to him. He always
welcomed Clayton warmly and be
stowed upon him every attention,
while I was treated with freezing po
liteness. Ah, money is a wonderful
power.
Clayton was a pompous man, some
half dozen years my senior, and on ac
count of my inferior financial position
in the world he always treated me
with considerable condescension. One
day as we returned together from a
visit to the Merlin mansion he said To
me:
“Conway, I think Amy Merlin one
of the nicest girls I ever met. She
would make a model wife, and I am
going to marry her. What do you
think of it?”
"Why,” I replied, while the hot
blood rushed to my face, “I think she
will never be your wife, because she
loves and is engaged to me.”
“Oh, that is nothing,’’'he coolly an
swered; “her father approves of me,
and, it is very plain, desires me for a
son-in-law: but you he doesn’t like at
ail. Amy is a very obedient and duti
ful girl, anil I do not think the old
man will have any trouble at all in
gaining her consent to marry me."
"But,” said I, “would you marry a
woman who does not love you. and
whose heart is another's?"
“Tliat,” replied he, “is a small mat
ter. Love doesn't amount to much
where there is plenty of filthy lucre. 1
could learn her, I think, to esteem
me in time.”
I had always disliked the man, now
1 fairly despised him, and it was with
a mighty effort that I restrained my
self from knocking him down.
Amy had always been in the habit
of meeting me, when I called, under a
a spreading maple tree some distance
from the house. So the next day af
ter my conversation with Clayton. 1
went to see her and she met me at the
usual place. Alter a few common
place remarks, I told her what Ralph
Clayton had said to me.
“Oh, Paul!” she exclaimed, “I fer
vently pray that my father will not
desire me to marry that man; for,
Paul. I do not love him—I cannot love
him: but if my father bids me marry
him I dare not disobey. But let us
pray tliat he will not make any such
request—for 1 love you, Paul—only
you—and I believe I should die if we
were separated.
While I did not exactly like the way
she replied, I could not find the heart
to be angry' with her, for I really be
lieve she loved me; so I folded her in
my arms and warmly kissed her and
assured her of my trust in her. I re
turned to the village feeling everyway
but bouyant, and passed a restless,
sleepless night.
\ few days after that 1 received a
note from old Mr. Merlin, also one
from Amy. The old man. in a few
words, informed me that his daughter
was soon to marry Ralph Clayton,
and bade me discontinue my atten
tions to her. Amy wrote a tearful lit
tle note, returning the ring 1 had giv
en her, and saying she loved only me;
but duty and obedience to her father
compelled her to renounce me and
marry Mr. Clayton; that she thought
it best never to see me again, and
closed by beseeching me to forgive
her.
Neither of them stated when the
marriage was to take place, and 1 took
no particular pains to find out. That
njgiit 1 boarded a train bound for a
distant town, where I intended to lo
cate. and strive to forget the heartless
girl—as I then thought her—who had
treated me so cruelly.
1 did well in my new home, and,
though the wound in my heart was
past healing, it was not so sore as at
first; time in a measure, had deadened
tlie pain. A year and more had gone
by. and in all this time I had never
had any tidings of Amy. I scanned
the papers closely, but I never saw
any account of the marriage. I
thought all this very strange, but
could not doubt that t lie marriage had
been consummated. After a time I
ceased to look at the papers altogeth
er. and devoted myself strictly to my
profession.
One night, as I sat alone in my of
fice. wrapt in thoughts of the past, a
boy entered unannounced and handed
me* a telegram. I lost no time in read
ing it, and found it to be from old Mr.
Merlin and contained these words:
“Amy is very ill and desires to see
you. Come immediately.”
1 did not stop to think over this
strange message. I only knew my
darling—mine in spite of tlie past—
was ill—probably dying—and wished
to see me. 1 never once thought of
her being another man s wife. I
would go to her, of course. All the
bitterness I had felt toward the poor
little girl left me. and the love for her
that 1 had partially smothered surged
over and through me with renewed
vigor. , .
Mv preparations were hastily made,
and the next train that left the town
carried me a passenger abroad. My
Suspense was, indeed, terrible. Time
never dragged his length along so
slowlv. It was early morning when 1
started on mv journey, and the dark
ness of night was settling over the
world when 1 reached my destination.
No one was at the station to meet me.
and .without losing the time to hire a
vehicle, I started out to walk to the
Merlin mansion across the fields as 1
used to do of yore. It was no great
distance, aud the walk would do me
good. My way would take me by
the old trysting tree where Amy had
met me so often in the happy days of
the long ago.
My mind was busy as I walked over
the old familiar pathway. I thought
of the girl, now probably lying within
;h, who had wandered
the pale of death,
over these very fields, elinging trust
ingly to my arm and uttering vows
of eternal love for me. I thought too,
of the man who hail come between
us with bis accursed gold and parted
us forever, well-nigh wrecking my
life, and breaking the heart of poor
! little Amy. All this and much more
j surged through my brain as I hurried
| rapidly onward.
1 was now near the old trysting
tree, and in the fast gathering twi
light I saw a sight that sent the blood
rushing through my veins like a cur
rent of fire. Leabing against the
trunk of the tree, clad in a dress of
spotless white, I saw the outline of a
fragile female form. It was Amy—
there could he no doubt of that: I
knew the graceful figure too well;
arid the attitude was just the same as
she used to assume when she waited
for me in that spot long ago. Yes, it
was Amy: she was not so ill then, as
they had thought her; she had recov
ered. and had come out to meet and
surprise me. These were my thoughts
as 1 rushed on to greet her. There
never was such joy as mine. It was
so grear that 1 often wonder it did not
kill me then and there.
I was now close to her, but she nev
er moved. Uttering many endearing
words. 1 seized her hands, which were
clasped before her. and attempted to
draw her to me. The hands were so
cold—oh. so stony cold—and the great
brown eyes had such a strange ex-
pression, and the face was so worn
and white, that 1 released her hastily
and recoiled several feet. “My God!”
was my inward ejaculation, "can my
darling have gone mad? Has her ill
ness dethroned her reason ?”
Suddenly she turned, and fixing her
groat star-lit eyes upon me, slowly
said:
"Paul, your Amy is dead ; you came
too late. 1 died for love of you. Forget
me never, oh, my darling. Farewell 1
Farewell!'’ And. noiselessly approach
ing me, she pressed her icy lips to
mine and disappeared. Overcome
with horror 1 fell fainting to the
ground.
When I recovered I found myself
in bed at the residence of the old vil
lage doctor, under whom 1 had first
studied. He told me that I had been
found under the old maple tree in a
death-like swoon; that three weeks
had elapsed since then, and I had been
suffering from a severe brain-fever,
and in all that time I had talked of
nothing else but Amy, spirits, and hu
man cruelty. When 1 grew stronger,
he said:
“Old fellow, you have hail a tough
pull. They came very near killing
you as they did Amy, poor girl. She
ilied just one hour before we found
you. She was calling for you all the
time during her illness anil died with
your name on her lips."
TOMLINSON FORT M. D.
From the Atlanta Metlieal A Sunrieal Journal,
June. 1885.
Many years have passed and gone
since then. All the actors in this sto
ry. except myself, have been called
before the judgment bar of God, and
1 am waiting by the wayside, with
bowed head anil-anxious heart, for
tlie summons to come to me to join
my angel Amy on that bright eternal
shore, where sorrow, trouble and sep
aration are unknown.
Bardstown, Ky., 1885.
PAINE INSTITUTE.
What is the Paine Institute?
It is a school established by the
authority of the General Conference
of tlie Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, for the training of preachers
and teachers in, the Colored Metho
dist Episcopal Church in America.
Where is it located?
In Augusta, Georgia.
Who is in charge of it?
Rev. Geo. Wms. Walker, of the
Soutli Carolina Conference, assisted
by Rev. W. C. Davis, of the South
Georgia Conference, and Miss Salie
Davis.
How many pupils in the school?
Between eighty and ninety.
What are the monthly expenses?
About four-hundred dollars.
How are the expenses met?
By the voluntary contributions of
our people.
Through whom are these funds
collected?
By the Commissioner, and members
of the General Board from each An
nual Conference.
Who is on the Board from <
Conference?
Through whom is the money dis
bursed.
Through the Local Board at Augus
ta. Georgia.
Is the school in need of funds at
this time?
It is in very great need.
What is the Colored Methodist Epis
copal Church in America?
It embraces all tlie colored mem
bers of our Church that refused to
leave us after the war.
How many members are in this
Church?
About one hundred and fifty-five
thousand.
Are they in great need of help?
They greatly need a more intelligent
ministry.
To whom does this Church naturally
look for help?
To the Methodist Episcopal Church.
South.
Why?
Because we set them up as a Church.
Why don't we send white ministers
ami teachers among them?
Because we think it is better to
train preachers and teachers of their
own race to preach to them and teach
their children.
Please hand your contributions to
the undersigned if he calls on you,
or to C. G. Goodrich, Jr., of Augusta,
Ga.
W. C. Dunlap, Commissioner.
Metal Poison.
I am a coppersmith by trade, and
during a series of years my arms (be
ing bare when at work) have absorbed
a wonderful amount of metal poison.
Having a scrofulous tendency from
my youth, the small particles of cop
per anil brass would get into the sores,
and by this process the poison was
conveyed into my blood till my whole
svstem became infected. I was treat
eil with the old remedies of mercurv
cl
ami iodide potassium. Sallivation fol
lowed, my teeth are all loose in my
head, my digestive organs deranged,
and 1 have been helpless in bed for
over a year with mercurial rheuma
tism. My joints were all swollen, and
I lost the use of my arms and legs, and
became helpless as an infant.
My sufferings became so intense
that ir was impossible for me to rest.
The doctors advised me to go to the
eiry hospital for treatment. This 1
could not bear. A friend, who has
proved a friend indeed, urged me to
try Swift's Specific, believing it would
cure me. Others discouraged me but
I secured a few bottles, and have now
taken two iloz. bottles. The firsteffect
of the medicine was to bring the poison
to the surface, ami I broke out all over
in running sores. They soon disap-
peared. anil my skin cleared off. My
knees, which had become twice their
natural size, have resumed tlieir usual
size, and are supple as of vore. My
arms and bands are all right again,
and 1 can use them without pain. The
entire disease has left all parts of the
body save two ulcers on my wrists,
which are healing rapidly. 1 am weak
from long confinement, but 1 have the
use of all my limbs. This medicine is
bringing me out of the greatest trial
of mv life, and 1 cannot find words suf
ficient to express my appreciation of
its virtues, and the gratitude 1 feel
that 1 ever heard of if.
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Jan. 9, 1885.
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Our picture gallery is ornamented
this month with the likeness of one
of the most distinguished and success
ful physicians who has ever lived in
the State of Georgia.
Dr. Tomlinson Fort was of English
ancestry. His father, Hon. Arthur
Fort, came to Georgia when a young
man, before the revolutionary war,
and was an active participant in the
stirring scenes of that eventful period.
As a member of the Committee of
Safety : as a soldier in the field against
British. Tories anil Indians: as a
member of the Legislature, he gave to
tlip patriots' cause and to his country
the benefit of his clear intellect, his
true heart and his strong arm.
He married a Mrs. Whitehead ^nee
Tomlinson\ of Burke county, and
reared a numerous family of children,
the fourth of whom, named after his
mother's family. Tomlinson, is the
subject of this sketch.
Dr. Fort was born in 1787, precisely
coeval with the constitution of the
United States. After the then usual
period of apprentisage or private pu
pilage. he repaired to Philadelphia
and prepared himself for graduation
in tiie University of Pennsylvania,
under the tuition of Rush, Physic, and
their confreres, who then illustrated
that renowned institution.
Returning to Georgia, he settled in
Milledgeville, the capital of the State,
where he spent his entire professional
life. His success came early, and
knew no diminution. His dignified
manners and his absolute integrity
inspired confidence and respect, and a
peculiar magnetism drew to him the
strong, personal attachment of all
with whom lie came in contact. His
reputation was not long confined to
the town or county of his residence,
but extended widely over the State,
anil few, if tiny, of the physicians of
the State have ever gained so large a
clientage or such honorable distinc
tion. Dr. Fort brought to bear in his
practice a well-balanced mind, a large
stock of common sense, keenness of
observation, and a power of analysis,
which enabled him to judge truly of
popular superstitions, reckless asser
tions of authors, and to reject, when
lie deemed them erroneous, the dog
mas even of his favorite teacher, Dr.
Rush. To the revolution in the prac
tice of physic which occurred during
his life, which delivered us from the
ravages of mercury and salivation,
from the dangerous, indiscriminate
use of the lancet, and from the horri
ble torture of days of fever without
the solace of a single drop of cold wa
ter, Dr. Fort contributed his full
share.
He was not a voluminous contribu
tor to the periodical, professional lit
erature of the period, but late in life
he published a volume of some seven
hundred pages, which die modestly
called a “Dissertation on’ the Practice
of Medicine.” This book he iledieated
to the physicians of the State of Geor
gia, its a grateful acknowledgement
of the kindness, respect and confi
dence which he had experienced at
the hands of every one of them with
whom he had the honor of becoming
acquainted. This work, he says, “is,
in its nature, ephemeral.” Its author
does not claim for it a place among
the standard works of the day, but
some of Tlie more important diseases
are treated at considerable length and
with great ability. It exhibits
throughout, the care, candor, acumen,
originality and courage of conviction
of its author. No physician can read it
without instruction, or finish its pe
rusal without tlie highest respect for
his moral as wel: as professional char
acteristics. As a book for the guid
ance of families, v here good medical
advice is not attainable, it is held in
high esteem.
’Dr. Fort's popularity and influence
in the city of bis residence were over
whelming. The first case of small-pox
that ever occurred there was under
his care. He gave to it the conscien
tious attention he deemed requisite,
but the alarm in the community was
so great that neither nurse nor shelter
could be procured, and the doctor
furnished one and became the other.
The alarmed citizens, in a town meet
ing, resolved to compel him, by vio
lence. if necessary, to desist from his
attentions. He quietly placed a load
ed gun at Ills door and notified them
that he would permit no one to inter
rupt the discharge of his professional
duties. When the danger was pass
ed. the fickle mob again met and pass
ed a resolution of thanks, compli
menting him on his courage and fidel
ity.
The sufferer was a son of Governor
Clarke, whose family presented the
doctor with a magnificent service of
silver-plate as a token of gratitude.
Laborious in his profession, as he
was for many years, he was not un
mindful of aiiyjjof the duties of citizen
ship. In the* war of 1813. he raised
and commanded a company, and re
ceived in battle a wound in the knee,
which gave him great suffering during
the remainder of his life.
He represented Baldwin county
eight years in the halls of legislation,
and the State two years in the Con
gress of the L T nited States.
A sketch of his political character
and standing, kindly furnished by his
distinguished and venerable friend,
the Hon. Junius Ilillyer, is subjoined
Of liis life in Washington, his then
young wife writes as follows: “Two
years after our marriage my husband
was sent to Congress. 1 went with
him. taking our only child, Julia, go
ing in our own carriage.
Those two years in Washington
were bright ones and are vividly re
membered. 1 met many agreeable
and cultivated people, boarded with
the Bigelows of Boston, and Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Everett. He was a
charming man, and she a very nice,
though not remarkable person.* I met,
of course, the be) t people in the land;
dined more than once at the Presi
dent’s (Adams;, and saw a great deal
of society. I met Henry Clay, with
liis bright blue eye ami eloquent
tongue, and Mrs. < 'lay, a good but
plain woman, whom lie had married
in obscurity and afterwards outgrown.
Also Webster, who. with his great
head and solemn ways, was not a fa
vorite with women. But the greatest
of all to me was my own and my hus
band's friend. John C. Calhoun. Such
a brilliant eye anil such fascinating
manners I have never seen since.
1 saw the inauguration of President
Jackson. His progress up the avenue
on horseback was simple, ye. digni
fied. - ’
At the close of his term in Congress,
Dr. Fort retired from active political
life: the wants of a growing family
and the expenses of a profuse anil
generous hospitality demanded the
resources of his large professional in
come. iinil he sacrificed a most brill
iant public career upon the altar of
domestic and social obligation.
Dr. Fort, in 1824. married Miss Mar
tha Fannin, one of the most admired
anil accomplished belles of the elegant
society which at that time existed in
Middle Georgia. The Fannin family,
already distinguished in Ireland be
fore their emigration to the colonies,
has representatives in nearly every
State from Canada to Texas, the men
always noted for patriotism and per
sonal valor, the women for intelligence
and personal beauty. The Georgia
Fannins showed the ancestral traits,
and none more notably than the fair
representative who. at twenty years
old. bound in indissoluble chains the
grave, sedate, quaker.-like bachelor of
thirty seven. As the readers of the
Journal are not ladies, it is useless to
describe the quiet wedding or the bri
dal dress. The characteristic fact,
however, is noted that the busy doc
tor forgot to order his swallow-tail
coat of blue broadcloth and large brass
buttons, until almost too late to don
it before the ceremony. The marriage
was a happy one. Their home was
established in Milledgeville, where
they lived until tlie date of his death,
17tl*i May, 1859.
During all that period he was at the
summit of professional reputation, of
standing ami political influ-
social
ence.
Dr. Fort left three sons and several
daughters The eldest son. Dr. George
lort, iheil shortly after his father.
Lol. lomlinson Fort, a lawyer, and
lately mayor of that city, lives in
Chattanooga, unmarried. *Col. John
r ort married to the accomplished sis
ter of the Hon. W. D. Ellis, of this
cit\, li\ es near Macon and is engaged
in agricultural pursuits. Two of the
daughters died and one is unmarried.
The youngest is the wife of Julius
Brown, Esq., a most prominent law
yer. and an influential anil wealthy
citizen of the city of Atlanta.
SKKTCII OF OR. FORT 3Y JUDOR JUNIUS
HILLYER.
Dr. Miller:
Dear Sir—My knowledge of Dr.
Tomlinson Fort commenced in 1828.
I saw him in Milledgeville during tlie
session of the Legislature in the fall
of that year. In person he was tall,
straight, symmetrical, and a form in
dicating endurance, health, and a
sound constitution. He had a sedate
but cheerful, friendly expression that
inspired liis associates with respect
and kind feeling towards him. And I
do aoi believe that his feelings were
ever wounded by liis most bitter polit
ical opponents or by any of liis per
sonal associates. When 1 first knew
him he was in the prime of manhood,
perhaps between thirty-live and forty
years of age. He was uu active,
working member of the old Clarke
party, and was personally known by
every prominent man in the State, for
the men of both parties sought and
valued liis acquaintance. Dr. Fort
was not numbered among the great
orators of his day. I have often heard
him speak in public. He rarely spoke
over half an hour, anil always kept
close to the questions under consider
ation, and without any flourishes of
rhetoric or effort at tlie beautiful, he
gave his views in a plain, straightfor
ward, earnest manner, which com
manded the attention of his hearers,
while everything he said was under
stood clearly, and it was no labor to
listen to him and follow liis line of
thought. Such a speaker must neces
sarily command attention and wield
au influence. Dr. Fort, as a party
man, was a strong, important leader.
He held the most extreme partisan
views: he held, and always -openly
avowed, the gooil old Jackson demo
cratic doctrine, that "to the victors
belong the spoils." Ills party motto
was, "turn them out; put the govern
ment in the hands of the Democrats.”
As a partisan lie was pre-eminently a
Bourbon Democrat, lie never learn
ed any new principles and he never
changed his old ones. He was a man
of the people; he lived with the peo
ple; he guided tlieir political ideas anil
moulded their judgments. In his par
ty he preferred a position in the
ranks-of a private. He rareiv sought
office. 1 am sure lie could have at
tained any office in tiie gift of the
people if he hail desireil it.
Here we have a man who began
life in the midst of the angry strife of
the Federal anil Republican parties,
participated actively in all the stir
ring scenes of tlie last war with - Eng
land. The strife over the United
States bank: tlie inauguration of the
tariff policy: the bitter personal strife
between the Clarke and Crawford
parties and the Clarke and Troup
parties; our controversies about the
Indians and Indian lands; our angry
strife about nullification and the Un
ion; General Jackson's war on the
United States bank; the sub-treasury;
the war with Mexico and the acquisi
tion of Texas; the slavery question
and the compromise of 1850, stirring
and moving the people through all
these long years down to the time of
his death, a period of half a century-
all these scenes he witnessed. He
mingled with the actors. He partici
pated in the discussion of all these
momentous questions with much crim
ination and recrimination, with many
a duel and many a fight, and wide
spread hatred and life-long animosity,
yet from it all he came forth in his
old age out of this fiery orueal with
out the smell of fire on liis garments—
universally beloved by all men of all
parties. The reason is plain—he was
wise, he was good, he was just, anil he
was polite.
Twelve years we were together on
the Board of Trustees of the State
University, and every year for nearly
thirty years. 1 saw him in Miiledge-
ville, and often in other places, so I
can say 1 knew him well. And I
know liis character, what his acquain-
ances say of him—of his private life,
all can be said in one short line : He
stood through his long life above re
proach.
Through al! the length and breadth
of the State Dr. Fort was, in the judg
ment of all who knew him, in the
first tank of his profession. More
than one generation must pass away
before, in Baldwin county, his skill,
his patience and his kindness to the
poor will be forgotten.
Respectfully,
Junius Hi'llyer.
Decatur, May 9th. 1885.
Working One's Way.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, although a
man of large wealth, thorough culture
and liigh character, was once a poor
boy, and he still believes that it is bet
ter* to have a birthright of honest la
bor than to be the petted child of rich
parents. In a recent address to a
graduating class, he uses this language
on the subject: “You shoilld be grate
ful to a kind Providence for fathers
who have not burdened you with
riches. The poorest father is the
richest one. By bequeathing the ne
cessity to work, the poor man leaves
a richer heritage to liis son than the
millionaire can possibly give his. Pov
erty at the beginning of life is a posi
tive blessing. 1 hope, gentlemen, I
can congratulate you ail upon your
good fortune in this respect, for the
happy consequence is, that it has been
necessary for you to make a choice of
a profession and earnestly to follow it
as a means of honorable livelihood.
And herein you become not only man
ly and self-reliant, considered as per
sons, but useful and active members
of society, and worthy citizens of the
commonwealth.'’
The Jury, headed by Henry A
Brahe, foreman, in the inquisition
taken on the 0th of June before L. A.
Picquet, Coroner for Richmond
county, upon the body of Prince Har
ris, rendered the following verdict:
Now. we, the jury, do find from the
evidence before us," that the deceased
came to his death, by a hurt from a
fall from the top of the Court House
in the City of Augusta, and in cur
•opinion, it was caused by his own
carelessness.
Witness our hands and seals, June
6th, 1885. _
Then followed the names of tlie
Jury which we omit. The finding of
the "Jury was approved by Coroner
Picquet.
______ I'or the Unltm A UecoMer.
Literary reminiscences.
LACON.
One of the most remarkable men
who ever lived was Rev. Caleb Colton,
author of “Lacon.” His short, sen
tentious sentenceshave become aphor
isms as widely known as the English
language, but few who have read his
sharp sayings have any idea of what
manner of man he was. His inner
life, and his personal peculiarities, arc
but little known even .to those who
most admire the wisdom and force of
his writings. The writer proposes,
briefly, to bring out a few of his sing
ularities, and will adopt his style. He
was learned, but conceited—generous,
but avaricious, a moralist, yet a
gamester: so great a coward that lie
■was afraid of ghosts, hut bravely tied
up his own bleeding arm when wound
ed by an accidental discharge of his
gun w hile hunting—a man who preach-
“Christ and Him crucified,’’ vet
l ■ ^ , ’ vet
this same man committed suicide! lie
was temperate, yet said on one occa
sion, “I care not what 1 eat; but I
must have good wine for sauce.” His
great sin was a love of play for monev.
He loved gambling, but fie wouldn’t
keep company with gamblers. He
bet at the table for excitement and an
avaricious temper. If he won, lie
held his winnings tight. He once
said, “avarice is a passion full of par
adox," then was Colton a paradox. He
loved wine, but he seldom drank
when alone. Hedid his own cooking,
in a miserably furnished room, anil
two hard boiled eggs often constitu
ted a meal. His room is thus ilescrib
ed by a visitor. “Sitting and bed
room were combined. Before tlie
bed a green curtain was drawn. In
the middle of the outer space stood a
table strewed with books, fragments
of paper, pens worn to stumps, here
’ -hi
neck-handkercliief, there a pair of
gloves: a coffee-pot and cup and a
dirty candlestick were also on tlie ta
ble; linen, clean, as w.tl as soiled,
hung out of the same drawer: a coat,
hung on one chair, a pair of French
boots on another. In this corner was
a fishing-rod, in that a double-barrell
ed gun; in fact, the whole, to coin a
won! w as a perfect confusatorv. "
His great work, Lacon. was written
on the backs of letters and scraps of
paper of every species nearest at hand.
He was very negligent of dress,
though the neatest of writers. It is
related of him. on one occasion, he
was to preach, and the King of Han
over was there. Colton appeared in
the pulpit in grey trousers. On din
ing out next day, with some distin
guished people, a friend said, “Well,
Colton, did you get a rap on your
knuckles for vour want of regiment
als?” “Oh, no,” said he, “1 hardly ex
pected such a thing to my face, it
would hardly be good manners,”
“But if it had happened?”
“I would have told the duke tliat the
value of religious truth did not depend
on Hie color of a man's breeches.”
He kept his cigars in the church, in
a dark place under the pulpit, be
cause, he said, it had the exact degree
of dampness they required, for which
place wrapping them in a cabbage
leaf was a had substitute. He w;is a
Materialist in his creed. When asked
if it was so, he replied, “It is not al
ways wise for a man to disclose his
opinions.” To save himself a painful
operation, he terminated liis own ex
istence. N.
AT LIBERTY HALI..
The previously announced pro
gramme for the interment ot the liodv
of Mr. Stephens, was carried out Wed
nesday at Crawforilville. The remains
of tlie illustrious dead were brought
from Atlanta in a special car that
reached Crawforilville about 3 p. in.
vesterdav, bringing with it the follow
ing as pall bearers, escorts and atten
dants:
W. O. Mitchell, J. N. Chapman, Dr.
R. J. Reed, P. J. Verzey, W. O. Hold
en, H. D. Smith, J. W. Holmes, F. C.
Bristow, of Crawforilville; Gov. Mc
Daniel, Secretary of State Barnett,
Comptroller General Wright, Adjutant
General Stephens, Commissioner of
Agriculture Hardeman, Ass’t. Com
missioner Redding, United States Sen
ators Brown and Colquitt, Ex-Gover
nor Boynton, W. H. Harrison, Sec
retary Executive Department; Cap
tain H. Jackson, A. C. Grier, Atlanta,
nephew of Mr. Stephens; Captain and
Mrs. Ed Cox and Steve Cox, Atlanta;
John W. Nelms, U. S. Marshal of Geor
gia; Judge Samuel Lumpkin, Lexing
ton; M. P. Reese, Washington; J. W.
Renfroe, D. N. Speer, R. A. Anderson,
Supt, W. A A. Railroad; E. A. Brown
and Josiah Carter, the latter repre
senting the Constitution.
At Madison, Judge H. W. Baldwin
joined the party; at Social Circle.
Mr. Mobley; at Greensboro, Messrs.
Knowles, Young and others.
They were met at the depot in
Crawfordville by a large number of
citizens and by the Richmond .Acade
my Cadets.
It was the intention of those in
charge to have the remains laid in the
parlyr of Liberty Hall while addresses
were delivered from the front portico
to tlie audience, for whom seats had
been placed in the grounds, but the
aspect of the weather caused a change
in this part of the programme, and
the ceremonies preceding the inter
ment took place in the meeting house
of the Baptist Church, which could
hold only the smaller portion of the
multitude assembled. The casket
with the remains was placed in front
of the pulpit, and after prayer by the
Rev. Mr. Edens, the resident pastor,
eloquent and appropriate addresses
wer$; delivered by the Hon. George T.
Barnes, President of the Stephens’
Monument Association, Capt. Henry
Jackson, of Atlanta, and Gov. Mc
Daniel. L’nited States Senators Brown
and Colquitt and ex-Governor Boyn
ton occupied seats oil the speaker’s
stand. At the conclusion of the ad
dresses, the procession reformed and
marched behind the remains to the
grave, which had been prepared in
the yard of Liberty Hall for the recep
tion* of the inanimate dust of him
whose living presence had made that
place one of the most historic spots
in America. There, in the soil lie bad
trod so often, by the trees in whose
shade he had resteil in life, his body
was consigned to its last earthly rest
ing place, covered with garlands of
flowers and evergreens by woman s
loving hands.—Augusta News.
The Crawford ville Democrat says:
Adjutant General John A. Stephen
executed a deed to the Stephens
orial Association to the Liberty Hah
property yesterday. Tlie property s
now paid for and the associate
proceed to raise funds to erect a monu
ment to the memory of Mr. Steph
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