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Volume LII. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15,1871. Number 32 1
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Ordinary’s.— Citation! ior letters
ot »i! Qinistration, guardianship, Ac. $ 3 00
Homestead uotice 2 00
Application tor distn'n from adm’n.. 5 00
Application for diam’u of guard’n.... 3 50
A lieationfor leave to sell Laud.... 5 00
N itice to .Debtors aud Creditors.... 3 00
Sales «f Land, per square of ten Hoes 5 00
Sa . >f personal per sq., ten days.... I 50
Si-rijf*—Each levy often lines,.... 'i 50
M.in.'Ajf* sale* of Irn fine* or less.. 5 00
T.u Collector’s sales, (‘A months.... 5 00
f . rA^--Foreclosure of mortgage aud
other monthly’s, per square .... I 00
Estray notices, thirty days 3 00
Sales of Land, by Administrators, Execn-
torsor (iuarjians, are required, by law to
be held on the first Tuesday iu the month,
between the hours of ten in the forenoon
au 1 three iu the afternoon, at the Court
house iu the county in which the property
s situated.
Notice ot these sales must be published 40
days previous to the day of sale.
Notice for the sale of personal property
must be published 10 days previous to sale
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Notice to debtors and creditors, 40 day
Notice that application will be made of
:h - Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land,
4 weeks.
Citations for letters of Administration,
‘iuarJiauahip, Ac., must be published 30
iays—for dismiss on from Administration,
nonthlysix months, tor dismission from guar-
iunsiiip. 40 days.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgages mast
m published monthly for four months—for
•.tablish.ng lost papers, for the fall space of
t-te months—tor compelling titles from Ex-
itors or Administrators, where bond has
seen given by the deceased, the full space
of three mouths.
Application for Homestead to be published
twice in the space of ten consecutive days.
Herring’s
Champion Safes!
their
TRILSPIIS IS THE LATE LARGE FIRE !
THEY NEVER FAIL '
BELL & HULL’S LETTER.
Savannah, Ga., February 24,1871.
Messrs. Herring, Farrel & Sherman, 251
Broadway,New York:
^ Gents.—The large and destructive fire of
February22nd, consumed the building occn
pied by na. We were using one of your Her
ring’s Patent Champion Safes, made sixteen
years ago. It contained Seven Hundred Dol
lars in money, our books and valuable papers.
We were unable to get the -eafe open until
eighteen hours after the fire. We found the
contents in excellent condition; the only injury
was the binding of the books, drawn by the
steam. This test of the fire proof quality of
your safes was a severe one, as all can testify
who saw the fire. The amount of combusti
ble materials of the building itself, added to tbe
cotton and other goods stored in it, made as
hot a fire as often occurs.
Respectfully yours;
BELL & HULL.
W. M. DAVIDSON’S LETTER.
Savannah, Ga., February 24, 1871.
Messrs. Herring, Farrel Sf Sherman, 251
Broadway, New York:
Gents.—I had one of your Herring’s Patent
Champion Safes in the fire ef Wednesday
night. February 22d. It remained in the ru ns
thirty-six hours before it could be opened. My
stock of goods (being a wholesale liquor mer
chant) made a very hot fire, thoroughly testing
the quality of the safe. It contained some
money, my books and papers two gold watches
two silver goblets, and other valuables All of
them are preserved in tine order. The enters
of the books are drawn by’ the steam. It was
a genuine test, and your Champion Safe has
done me excellent service. The fire was one
of the hottest that ever took place in this city.
Truly yours,
VV. M. DAVIDSON,
JOHN VOGT & CO.,
IMPORTERS OF
French China, Belgian and Bohemian Glassware, Lava wart
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CLOT HIN€
MARSHAL NEY.
THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO FOUGHT
JUNE IS, 1S15.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Ate respectfully solicited for the erection of a
■OKGXBNT
TO THE
Confederate Dead of Georgia,
And those Soldiers from other Confederate
States who were killed or died in this State.
THE MONUMENT TO COST $50,000.
The Corner Stone it is proposed shall be
laid on the 4th of July, or so soon thereafter as
the receipts will permit.
For every Five Dollars subscribed, there will
be given a’certificato of Life Membership to
the Monumental Association. This certificate
ivi.i entitle the owner thereof to an equal inter
<»t in the following property, to be distributed
a, soon as requisite number of shares are sold,
to-wit:
First Nine Hundred and One
Acres of Laud in Lincoln
county, Georgia, on which are
the well-known Magruder
Gold and Copper Mines, val
ued at $150,000
And to Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Four
Sh ires in One Hundred Thousand Dollars of
HERRING'S PATENT CHAMPION SAFES
The most Reliable Protection from Fire
Now Known.
HERRING'S NEW
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Tools Extant,
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HERRING, FARREL <fc SHERMAN, New
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PERSE A THOMAS. Agents.
SAVANNAH, GA.
r May 9, 1871. 18 3m.
We invite the Pultlic along the NEW LINE ol RAILROAD through
BALDWIN and HANCOCK Counties, lo call and examine our new
SPRING STOCK OF
Readymade Clothing,
AND
Gents* Furnishing Goods.
We keep the best of every thing in our line, ar.<i will be sure to please
you if you will give us a trial.
R March
1871.
WINSHIP & CxlLLAYVAY, Macon, Ga
II ly.
Planters Take Notice.
BACOJ. BACOA.
1ST o w is T li e Time to Buy I
BURDICK BROTHERS
Will Sell you 1IACON, for CAStI or on TIME as low as any House in
MIDDLE GEORGIA.
Corn. Corn. Corn.
We are prepared to fill all orders for CORN, and cannot be undersold,
guarantee satisfaction. Send your orders to
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$100,000
The value of the separate interest to which
the holder of each Certificate will be entitled,
will be determined by the Commissioners, who
will announce to the public the manner, the
time aud place of distribution.
The following gentlemen have consented to
nc: as Commissioners, and will either by a
Committee from their own body, or by Specia
Trusties, appointed by themselves, receive and
Pike proper charge of the money for the Mon
ument, as well as the Rea! Estate and the U.
•S. Currency offered as inducements for sub
scription, and will determine upon the plan for
the Monument, the insciption thereon, the site
therefor, select an orator for the occasion, and
regulate the ceremonies to be observed when
he corner-stone is laid to-wit:
Generals L. McLaws, A. K. Wright, M. A.
Stovall, W. M. Gardner, Goode Bryan, Colo-
"nels C. Snead, Win. P. Crawford, Majors
Jos. 11. Cituimmg, George T. Jackson, Joseph
Uanahl, I. P. Girardey, lion. U. H. May, Adam
Johnston, Jonathan M. Miller, W. II. Good
rich. J, D. Butt, Henry Moore, Dr. W.E. Dear-
The Agents in the respective counties will
retain the money received for the sale Ol
Tickets until the subscription Books are clos
ed. In order that the several amounts may
he returned to the Shareholders, in case the
tiumiiiT of subscriptions w’ill not w r arrant any
further procedure the Agents will report to
this office weekly, the result of their sales.
When sufficient number of the shares arc
sold, the Agents will receive notice. Tuey
will then forw ard to this office the amounts
received.
L A A. H. McLAWS, Gen. Ag’ts.
No. 3 Old P. O. Range, McIntosh sts.
Augusta, Ga
W.O.D. ROBERTS, Agent at Spana, Ga.
L W HUNT A CO., Agents Milledgeville
Georgia.
tptn May, 2. 1671. «tn.
T M AR KWALTER’S
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PERUVIAN or CHINCHONA
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PURE RYE WHISKEY, and
AROMATIC AND TONIC
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Try it.
Broad 81., Augusta, Ga.
marble monuments, tomb
STONES AC., AC.
Marble Mantels and Furniture-Marble of ell
kiiida Furnished lo Order. All work for the
Cuiutry carefully boxed for shipment.
pM’oh 12’70 ly, * Feb 1, 711/
DOWIE.MOISE & DAVIS.
Proprietors and Wholesale Druggists,
CHARLESTON. S. C.
For sale by L. W. HUNT A CO., Milledge-
ville, Ga.
For sale by A. H. BIRDSONG A CO.
Sparta, Ga.
par July 29 1871. p el r 30 4t.
Georgia
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I S NOT AN EXPERIMENT, but has been
tested by some of our best planters, and
has proved to be an Excellent Press. Plan
ters, send for onr circular and price list, as the
price is from $20 to $35 less than any other
reliable Press.
We refer to Col. T. M. Turner, Sparta, Ga.,
who knows the merits of our Presses.
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IMPORTERS and MARUFACTURES or
PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS,
p Much 11, 6J tim. K March 14, 10 6m.
Crockett’s Iron Works,
4th Street, Macon, Georgia.
Builds and Repairs all Sorts of Machinery.
Makes Gin Gear from 7 Feet to 13 Feet,
Sugar Mills from 12 to 18 Inches.
IRON RAILING,
Both. Wrought Cast, to Suit, all Blaces.
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Farmers are Referred to Certificates.
MACON, GA., December 16th, 1870.
E■ Crockett, Esq.,—Dear Sir: Your letter received. The HORSE POWER that I bought
of you is doing as well as I can wish. The principle is a good one, and so easily adapted to
any Gin-House. Mine has, so far, proved sufficiently strong enough for the work to be done.
I am running a forty-five saw Gin, with feeder attachment, with two males, with perfect ease.
Respectfully, Ac , A. T. HOLT.
COOL SPRING. GA , October 5th, 1870.
Mr. E. Crockett, Macon :—Mr. Daniels has fitted up your POWER satisfactorily. For neat-
nesss and convenience, as well as adaptability for driving machinery for farm purposes, cannot
be excelled ; in this it has superiorities over the old wooden or mixed gearing.
I use four mules, and I think I could gin out 1500 pounds lint Cotton per day on a forty-saw Gin.
Respectfully yours, J. R. COMBS.
GRIFFIN. December 6te, 1870.
E. Crockett, Esq., Macon, Ga.,—Dear Sir : I am well pleased with the HORSEPOWER
you sold me. I think it is the best I have seen. Very respectfully,
8. KENDRICK, Superintendent Savannah, G. A N. A. R. R.
ALSO TO Capt. A. J. White, President M A W. R. R. ; McHollis, Monroe Coun
ty; Jas. Leith, I’ulaski County ; Dr. Reilly, Houston County ; W. W. West, Harris County;
Johnson A Dunlap, Macon, Ga ; Sims, Spalding County ; Alexander, Hillsboro ;
Dr. Hardeman, Jones County ; Edmond Damns. Jones County. Aug. 5, 3in. rpn
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Block. Macon, Ga.
Re’c. Feb. 14,1071 tf.
After the hundred days prepara
tion Napoleon advanced to the Low
Countries, to meet the allies, again
banded together for his overthrow.
He attacked Blucher at Ligny, and
defeated him,—and so hard pressed
was this veteran that he was over
thrown, and lay entangled under his
horse in the darkness, while the
French cavalry passed twice over
his body, without observing him ; he
then extricated himself and joining
his troupo leireuted 10 YVayres.—
Ney had been less successful at
Quatre Bras in his attack on Wel
lington, but he had retired in good
order, and effected a junction with
Napoleon, and (he two together
moved down on Waterloo where the
duke had taken up his position—en
tirely separate from the Ptussian
army.
To understand the field of battle
imagine two slightly elevated semi
circular ridges or rather slopes, a
half mile apart, curving gently for
ward, somewhat in the form ol a
parenthesis, ( ) and you have the po
sition of the two armies. On the
summit of one of these slopes
was drawn up the French army,
and on the oilier that of the English
and allies. The night of the 17dtof
June was dark and stormy—the
the rain fell in torrents and the taro
armies lay down in the tall tye
drenched with rain, to wait tbe
morning that was to decide tbe fate
of Europe and of Napoleon. From
the ball-room at Brussels many En
glish officers had been summoned
in haste to the field, and shivering
and coltl were compelled lo pass the
night in mud and rain, in their ele
gant attire. The artillery had cut
up the ground, so that ihe mud was
ankle-deep, while the tall rye lay
crushed and matted beneath the feet
of the soldiers. The morning of the
18th opened with a drizzling rain,
and the two armies benurned with
cold and soatdng wet, rose from their
damp beds to the contest. Eighty
thousand French soldiers were seer*
moving in close, massive columns on
the crest of the height, as they took
up their several positions for the
day. After all was completed,
Bonaparte rode along the lines in
the highest spirits, confident of suc
cess, and exclaimed, ‘now to break-
last,’ galloped away, while ihe shout
“rice la Empereur/” that rolled after
him shook the field on which they
siood, and fell with ominious tones
on the allied army. Two hundred
and sixty two canon lined the ridge
like a wall of death, ready to open
the fire on their enemy. At eleven
o’clock the signal of attack was given,
and the columns moved in beautiful
order down the slope. Welling
ton’s lines occupied two miles in ex
tent, with the right resting on the
Chateau Hougomont, which from the
defense it furnished wa3 equal to a re
doubt. The centre was protected
by a farm-house, La Haye Sainte,
while the left stretched out into the
open field. First Jerome Bonaparte
led a column of six thousand men
down on Hougomont, who in the
face of a most destructive fire pushed
up to the very walls of the chateau,
and thrust their bayonets through
the door. But the Coldstream
Guards held the courtyard with in
vincible obstinacy, and he was com
pelled at length lo retire, after leav
ing 1400 men in a little orchard be
side the walls, where it does not
seetu so many men could be laid.
In a short time the battle became
general along the whole line and he
roic deeds were performed on every
rod of the contested field. The
heavy French cavalry came thun
dering down on the steady English
squares, that had already been wast
ed by the heavy artillery, and strove
with almost superhuman energy to
break them. Driven to desperation
by their repeatedly foiled attempts,
they at length stopped their horses
and cooly walked them round and
round squares, and whenever a man
tell, dashed in vain valor. Whole
ranks went down like smitten grass
before the headlong charges of cav
alry and infantry. In the center
the conflict at length became awful,
for there the crisis of the battle was
fixed. Wellington stood under a
tree while the houghs were crashing
with (he canon shot overhead, arid
nearly his whole guard smitten down
by his side, anxiously watching the
progress of the fight. His brave
squares, torn into fragments by
bombs and ricochet shot, still re
fused to yield one foot of ground.
Napoleon rode through the ranks,
cheering on the exhausted columns
ol infantry and cavalry, that rent
the heavens with the shout of “ Vice
r Empereur/” and dashed with un
paralleled recklessness on the baj’o-
nets ol the English.
The hero of Wagram, and Boro
zdina, and Austerliiz, and Marengo,
and Jena, enraged at the stubborn
obstinacy of the British, rode over
the field, and was still sure of vic
tory. Wellington, seeing that he
could not much longer sustain the
desperate charge of the French bat
talions, wiped the sweat from his
anxious forehead and exclaimed
'•Oh that Blutcher or night would
come!” Thus from eleven until
four did the battle rage with san
guinary ferocity, and still around the
centre it grew more awlul every
moment. The mangled cavalry
staggered up to the exhausted Brit
ish squares, which, though dimin
ished and hleedinu in every part,
seemed rooted to the ground they
stood upon. The heroic R/cton had
fallen at the head of his brigade,
while his sword was flashing over
his head. Ponsonby had gone down
on the hard-fought field, and terror
and slaughter were on every side ;
still the charge of French cavalry
on the centre was terrific. Disre
garding the close and murderous fire
of the British batteries, they rode
steadily forward till they came to the
bayonet’s point, and then firmly
turned their horses heads against the
barrier hut in vain—pierced through,
and broken, they were rolled hack
over the field, but rallied again and
again to the charge, and prodigies of
valor were wrought, and heroes fell
at every discharge. The rent and
trodden field ran blood, yet through
the deep mud the determined foe-
men pressed on : while out ot the
smoke of every volley arose from
the French lines the shout of “Five
l’ Empereur /”
CHARGE OF THE OLD GUARD.
At length a dark object was seen
to emerge from the distant wood,
and soon an army of 30,000 men
deployed into the field, and began
lo march straight for the scene of
conflict. Blucher and his Prussians
had come up hut no Grouchy, who
had been left to hold them in check
followed after. In a moment Napo
leon saw that he could not sustain
the attack of so many freih troops,
if once allowed to form a junction
with the allied forces and so he de
termined to stake his fate on o»e
bold cast, and endeavored to pierce
the allied centre with a grand ci’arge
of the Old Guard—and thus throw
ing himself between the two armies,
fight them separately. For this pur
pose the Imperial Guard was called
up, which had remained inactive
during the whole day, and divided
into immense columns which were
to meet at the British centre. That
under Reille no sooner entered the
fire than it disappeared like mist.
The other was placed under Ney,
the “bravest of the brave,” and the
order to advance given. Napoleon
accompanied them part way down
the slope, and halting for a moment
in a hoilw addressed them in his
fiety, impetuous manner. He told
them the battle rested with them,
and that he relied on their valor.
“Vice V Empereur/” answered him
with a shout that was heard all over
the field of battle.
He then left them to Ney, who
ordered the charge. Bonaparie has
been blamed for not heading this
charge himself, but he knew he could
not carry that Guard so far, nor hold
them so long before the artillery, as
Ney. The moral power the latter
carried with him, Irom the reputa
tion he had gained of being the
“bravest of the brave,” was worth a
whole division. Whenever a col
umn saw him at their head, they
knew that it was to be victory or
annihilation. With the exception of
Macdonald, I do not know a general
in the two armies who could hold
his soldiers so long in the very face
of destruction as he.
The whole Continental struggle
exhibited no sublitner spectacle than
this last effort of Napoleon lo save
his sinking empire. Europe had
been put upon llto plains of Water
loo to be battled foi. The greatest
military energy and skill the world
possessed had been tasked to the ut
most during the day. Thrones were
tottering on the ensanguined field,
and the shadows of fugitive kings
flitted through ihe smoke of battle.
Bonaparte’s star trembled in ihe ze
nith—now blazing out in its ancient
splendor, now suddenly paling be
fore his eyes. At length when the
Prussians appeared on the field, he
resolved to stake Europe on one bold
throw. He committed himself to
France and Ney, and saw his em
pire rest on a single charge. The
intense anxiety \\ ilh which he watch
ed the advance of that column, and
the terrible suspense he suffered
when the smoke of battle wrapped
it from sight and the utter despair of
his great heart when the cur. am lift
ed over a fuguive army, and the
despairing shriek rung on every side,
“la garde recule," “la garde recule,”
make us for the moment forgi-t all
the carnage in sympathy with his
distress.
Ney felt the pressure of the im
mense responsibility on his brave
heart, and resolved not to prove un
worthy of the great trust committed
to his care. Nothing could be more
imposing than the movement of that
grand column to the assault. That
guard had never yet recoiled before
a human foe, and the allied forces
beheld with awe its turn and terrible
advance to the final charge. For a
moment the batteries stopped plav-
ingand the firing ceased along the
British lines, as without the beating
of a drum, or the blast of a bugle, to
cheer their steady courage, they
moved in dead silence over the plain.
The next moment the arlillery open
ed. and the head of that gallant ool
umn seemed to sink into the earth.
Rank after rank went down, yet
they neither stopped nor faltered
Dissolving spuadrons, and whole
battalions disappearing one after an
other in the destructive fire, affected
not their steady courage. The ranks
closed up as before, and each tread-
ng over his fallen comrade, pressed
firmly on. The horse which Ney
rode fell under him, and he had
scarcely mounted another before it
also sank to the earth. Again and
again did that unflinching man feel
his steed sink down, ’lill Jive had
been shot under him. Then, with
his uniform riddled wilh bullets, and
his face singed nnd blackened with
powder, he marched on foot with
prawn sabre at the head of his men.
In vain did the artillery hurl its storm
of fire and lead into tbat living mass.
ITp to iho vory (Xl ULlIl O * ||V/J prw m a q/j
aud driving the artillerymen from
their own pieces, pushed on through
the English lines. But at that mo
ment a tile of soldiers who had lain
flat on the ground, behind a low
ridge of earth, suddenly rose and
poured a volley in their faces. An
other and another followed, ’till one
broad sheet ot flame rolled on their
bosoms, and in such a fierce ar.d
unexpected flow, that hut. at: cour
age could not withstand it. They
reeled, shook, staggered back, then
turned and fled. Ney was borne
back in the refluent tide, and burned
over the field. But lor the crowd of
fugitives that forced him on, he would
have stood alone, and fallen in his
footsteps. As it was, he disdained
to fly. Though the whole army was
flying, he formed his men into two
immense squares, and endeavored
to stem the terrific current, and
would have done so had it not been
for the thirty thousand fresh Prus
sians that pressed on his exhausted
ranks. For a long time these squares
stood and let the artillery plow
through them. But the fate of Na
poleon was writ, and though Ney
doubtless did what no other man in
the army could have done, the de
cree could not be reversed. The
star that had blazed so brightly over
the world, went down in blood, and
the “bravest of the brave” had fought
his last battle. It was worthy his
great name, and the charge of the
Old Guard at Waterloo, with him at
their head, will be pointed to by re
motest generations with a shudder.
Chignons are Doomed !—At a
certain fashionable wedding the
other day, it was noticed that some
of the belles came “in their own
hair,” done up in a braid behind the
ears, or twined gracefully around
the head. Good-bye, horrible old
monstrosity! The chignon, like
many good things, has been abused.
It was an invention, originally, for
those who had thin or no hair, and was
a small make-believe braid. Then
it grew with the imagination of
shopmen, and became a bag of horse
hair, with a rivulet of human hair
running over it.
Bald-Headed New York Editors.
The, following curious lot of per
sonalty is from the Troy Budget: It
is a curious fact that nearly all the
leading editors of New York City
are bald-headed. I have prepared
the following statement, giving the
name, paper and cause of .baldness,
with a great deal of care, and you
can rely on its correctness
James G. Bennett, Herald—Exs
cessive worship of the Herald.
Horace Grecly, Tribune—wear
ing his white hat to much.
Joe. Howard, Star—M. T. Jugg
ler.
Manton Marble, World, High
toned Democracy.
Charles A. Dana, Sun—Intense
rays of the Sun.
Brick Pomeroy, Democrat—Ear
ly piety and over-work.
Wm. C. Bryant, Post —Old Age.
Geo. W. Jones, Times—General
aggravation.
Wm. C. Prince, Journal of Com
merce—Too much gunny bags.
The other metropolitan editors, so
far as I know, have their hair on
their heads where the wool ought to
grow.
After announcing the marriage of Mr.
John Dog to Mies Sallie Day, a social
country editor remarked that in the
above marriage there was nothing re
markable, as it was only fulfilling the
old adage, that “every dog has his day.”