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Volume LIU.
MILLEDG-EVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1872.
Number. 27.
THE
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r..’A. HABBISON, & OEMS-
as, $2.00 Per Annum in Advance
REAL FACTS
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CITY GOVERNMENT.
jlavor— Samuel Walker,
jjoapi Of Aldermen—F B Mapp, E Trice,
1A Caraker, Jacob Caraker, J U McComb,
lieary Temple. . •
Clerk and Treasurer—Peter Fair.
Marshal—.1 B Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle.
Deptny Marshal and Street Overseer—Peter
jfr-ston—F Beeland.
Ci;y Surveyor—0 T Bayne.
City Auctioneer—S J Kidd.
Finance Committee—T A Caraker, Temples.
5! ipp-
Street Committee—J Caraker, Trice, Me-
i.uin'1.
Laud Committee—McComb, J
trice.
Cemetery Committee—Tempi
Caraker,
Mapp, T A
laraker.
Board u onts 1st and 3d Wednesda nightsy
a each month.
FIFTY PER CENT LESS
THAN THE GOODS CAN BE IMPORTED,
And Just What Every Lady Wants-
W,
COUNTY OFFICERS.
:re M R Beil, Ordinary, ofliee in Masonic
Hall.
i* L Fair, Cler
;onie Hall.
Obadiah Arnold, f.
c Hall.
0 P Bonner, Deputy
country.
Josias Marshall, Rec’r
I’ost Ofliee.
L X Callaway, Tax Collector,
Sup’r Court, office in Ma
riff, office in the Mason
Sheriff, lives in the
Tax Returns—at
offiee at bis
H Temples, County Treasury,office at liis
tore.
Isaac Cushing, Coroner, res on Wilksonjst,
John Gentry, Constable, res on Wayne st
near the Factory.
MA SOX 1C
Benevolent Lodge, No. 3, F A M, meets
tXt and second Saturday nights of each month
at Masonic Hall- j C SHEA, W, M,
li D Case,secretary.
Temple Chapter meets the second and
ti'urth Saturday nights in each month.
S U WHITE, II # P #
G D Case, secretary.
Miiledgeville Lodge of Perfection, A A S E
mei-ts every Monday night,.
SAMUEL G WHITE. S* IV G* M*
Geo D Case,Exc Grand ifc’ec’y.
n the
every
I. O. G. T.
Miiledgeville Lodge, No 115, meets
Senate Chamber at the State House on
Friday evening at 7 o’clock.
C P Crawford, W C T
II P Lane, SCCrctury.
C"1J Water Templars meet at the Slate
House every Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Cli t’RCII DIRECTORY.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Service 1 st and 3d Sundays in each month,
at 1! o'clock a m and? p m.
Sabbath school at 9.1 o’clock a m. S N
Bougliteu.supt. Rev D E Butler, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH
Hours of service on Sunday: 11 o’ clock, a
m. and 7 pm.
Sunday school 3 o’clock p m—W E Frank-
land, superintendent.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7
p r.i. Rev A J Jarrell, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN C1IURCH
Services every Sabbath (except the second
in each month) at II a m and 7 p m.
Sabbath school at li 1-2 a in T T W indsor
superintendent.
Prayer meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock
P in.
Rev C Yv Lane, Pastor.
The Episcopal Church has no Tastor at
present
r.g powerful invigorating
gfSgSi
These jnttoiA > ro 1 jsuivtly n.v;uusJ.L in.
Ls-mh
They purify the system, and will cuio
Remittent aim
THE,e
PROPER®
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PLAINT
LADDER '
ARECOOBTORTOE'WENTADDRGANIZATION.
THEY WILL RESTORE-YOUTHFUL VIGOR
1«RECU
. Intermittent Fevers,
and are a preventive of Chills and Fever.
All yield to their powerful efficacy.
to the wasted frame, and correct all 4
m
aBaaaJK
AVill save days of suffering to the sick, and
n3iEl?si%S^teE3g<.>iiMa
The grand Panacea for ail the ills of life.
m
Tie Mart
BfTTERSi
E have this day received by overland
Express, a Job Lot ot
S3,475 Yards
REAL FRENCH EDGINGS
AND
IlsTSEPtTIlSrO-S I
In JACONETS, NAINSOOK, and SWISS
which will he offerod in pieces of 6, 9 or more
yards and sold for CASH at the most amaz
ingly low and tempting prices.
We wish the public to he assured that when
we advertise
BAROAINS
We have enough cf them to last more than one
day, and wish every lady in Louisville and
surrounding country, when they visit Augusta,
to examine these goods for themselves.
MULLARKY BROS.
Aprtl20 3m.
CHICAGO.
O NE hundred and forty Anns have testified
to the preservation of their Books, Papers
and Valuables in the terrible
CHICAGO FIRES.
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FIRE ■—
Fa warded the Prize Medals at the Wordl’
Air in London.
At the Exhibition Universelle in Paris, and
The World’s Fair in New York.
Also, winner of the wager of
o.ooo Francs
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MILLER, BISPELL & BURRUM, Whole
sale Agents, and Wholesale Grocers and Cora-
Mission Merchants. 177 BroaH Street, AU
GUST A, GA. C. IT. Wright & Son. Agents
Miiledgeville, Ga. Campbell &. English,
Agents Macon, Ga.
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Awarded at the Paris Exhibition to the
Best Safe in the World!!
Herring's New Patent
Champion Bankers’ Safes!
Patent high and low steel-welded, combined
with Patent Franklinite. Proof against the
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hinged tongue and groved door and patent
rubber-packed flange. Proof against wedges,
nitro glycerine and gunpowder.
Maufactured only by
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^FARREL. EERR NG & CO., Philadelphia.
HERRING &‘CO.. Chicago.
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WRIGHT, SCIIMIDT & CO„ Agents, At
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JOHNS. WRIGHT, Agent, Augusta.Ga.
PURSE & THOMAS, Age; ts, Savannah,
Ga. r may 7 tf.
f.Wunrn Prorri.tor. E. K. McDonald * Co., nroirgi.tianl
wen. Ag’ts, San Fraaciaeo. CaL, and 32 and 3 4 Commerce St, N.Y.
MILLIONS Bear Testimony to their
Wonderful Curative Effects.
They are not a vile Fnncy Drink, made of Poor
Bom, Whiskey, Proof Spirits nnd Refuse Li
on ors doctored, spiced and sweetened to please the taste,
called “Tonics,” “Appetizers,” “Restorers,” Sic., that
lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin, but are a true
Medicine,made from the Native Roots and Herbs’of Cali
fornia, free from all Alcoholic Stimulnnts.
They are the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and
A LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE, a perfect Reno
vator and Invigorator of the System, carrying off all
iwisonous matter and restoring the blood to a healthy con
dition. No person can take these Bitters according ,to
directions and remain long unwell,provided their bones
are! not destroyed by mineral poison or other means,
and the vital organs wasted beyond the point of repair.
They are a Gentle Purgative as well as "a
Tonic, possessing, also, the peculiar merit of acting as
a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inflammation
of the Liver, and all the Visceral Organs.
FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, in yonng!or
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the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters have no equal.
For Inflammatory and Chronic Rhcnma-
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ious, Remittent and Intermittent JFevers,
Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and
Hlndder, these Bitters have been most successful.
Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood,
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gestive Organs.
DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Headache,
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Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste
in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart,
Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the regions of the
kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the
offsprings of Dyspepsia.
They invigorate the Stomach and stimulate the torpid
Liver and Bowels, which render them of unequalled effi
cacy in cleansing the blood of all impurities, and impart
ing new life and vigor to the whole system.
FOR SKIN DISEASES, Eruptions. Tetter. Sail
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buncles, Ring-Worms, Scald Head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas,
Itch.Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Dig.
eases of the Skin, of whatevernanic or nature, are literally
dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by
the use oi these Bitters. One bottle in snch cases will
convince the most incredulous of their curative effects.
Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its im
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sluggish in the veins: cleanse it when it is foul, and
your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure,
and the health of the system will follow.
Pin, Tape, find other Worms, lurking in the
system of so many thousands, are effectually destroyed
and removed. Says a distinguished physiologist, there
is scarcely an individual upon the face of the earth
hose body 1b exempt from the presence of worms. II
is not upon the healthy elements of the body^t^s*
w.orzas. frAVr 'orreii these living monsters of disease. Jio
System of Medicine, no vermifuges, no anthelmintics,
will free the system from worms like these Bitters.
I. WALKER, Proprietor. R. H. MCDONALD A- CO-
De-ggists and Gen. Agents, San Francisco, California,
and 32 and 34 Commerce Street, New York.
-c-rSOLD BY ALL UllUUUlsxa is® ncaituc.
Another “All Quiet-”
Recent discussion as to the author
ship of the famous song, “AIL Quiet
on the Poioraac,” seems to have in
spired another poem of equal or
greater merit, which is copied from
the Richmond Dispatch:
All quiet along’the Potomac to-night,
No sound save the voice of the river,
Which ever seems wailing a sorrowful dirge
For hopes that have perished forever.
And still as I listen, those low mournful notes
Are by fancy all framed into story;
And I hear a lament for those heroes and
braves
Whose names are enshrouded in glory;
Who once trod these shores in the pride of their
might,
And swore that the foeman should never
Pollute, by his presence, our beautiful South,
And our flag should float proudly forever !
But those forms are now still, and o’er their
low graves .
The loved ones are silently weeping,
While the “stars up above, with their glitter
ing eyes,
Still keep guard where those heroes are sleep
ing.”
There’s another voice in the dark river’s
flow.
Tho’ so low I must bend as I listen,
And the ripples meanwhile seem a shower of
tears,
As iu the bright moonlight they glisten.
It speaks of a nation whose hopeiare all fled,
Whose glory’s forever departed,
Whose garlands of fame are withered and dead.
Whose people are now brokenhearted.
It whispers of laurels all faded and tore—
Of banners all gory and tattered—
Of armies that proudly defended onrown,
But whose hosts are now vanquished and
scattered!
Hark ! another sweet voice—’tis the gentle
night wind,
Through the forest leaves'softly ’tis sighing;
But it speaks to the heart of glories uudimn-
ed,
Of blight hopes forever undying.
For it says, “Anchor net to this perishing
earth”
The chains which as soon may be riven,
Hut remember, while mourning the sorrows of
life.
There is happiness, freedom, in Heaven !
Those heroes now tread tho shores of that
stream
Which flows through the city of God,
Their brows are encircled with heavenly light,
Tlioir garments washed white in Christ’s
blood.
NATURE’S
weapons
All quiet along the Potomac to-night,
No sound save the rush of the river,
And the beautiful voice of the gentle night
wma,
As the forest leaves tremble and quiver.
Free from the Poisonous and
Health-destroying Drugs us
ed in others Hair prepara
tions.
No SUGAR OF LEAD—No
LITHARGE-No NITRATE
OF SILVER, and is entirely
Transparent and clear as crystal, it will not
soil the finest fabric—perfectly SAFE, CLEAN
and EFFICIEN T—desideralums LON G
SOUGHT FOR AND FOUND AT LAST !
It restores and prevents the Hair from be
coming Gray, imparls a soft, glossy appear
ance, removes Uai»druff, is cool and refreshing
to the head, checks the Hair from falling off,
and restores it to a great extent when prema
turely lost, prevents Headaches, cuies all hu
mors, cutaneous eruptions, and unnatural Heat.
ASA DRESSING FOR TIIE HAIR IT IS
THE BEST ARTICLE LV THE MARKET.
DR. G. SMITH, Patentee, Groton Junction,
Mass., Prepared only by PROCTOR BROTH
ERS, Gloucester, Mass. The Genuine is put
up in a pannel bottle, made expressiy for it
with the name of the article blown in the glass.
Ask your Druggist for Nature’s Ilair restora
tive, and take no other.
For sale in Miiledgeville by L. W. HUNT
&co.
In Sparta, by A. H. BIRDSONG & CO.
p July 2 lv- K Feh2S ’71 Sy.
Railroad Time Table-
Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
ARRIVE
5 2r> p nr
6 50 a m
9 25 p m
700 pm
7 45 a m
Macon..
LEAVE
8 20 a m
7 45 p iu
Brunswick.. 545 a m
Jacksonville, Fla—7 00am
Savannah 7 00 pm
645 p m
10 30 a m
BROWN’S HOTEL,
Opposite Depot, MACON GA.
W. F. BROWN & CO., prop’rs
(Successors to E. E. Brown'A Son J )
W F. Drown.
Geo. C. Brown
Oliver, Douglass & Co.
42 THIRD STREET,
MACON GA.
SOLE AGENTS OF THE
Steward and Great Benefactor
COOKING STOVE,
Cotton Plant Improved
1ROX WITCH.
And various other patterns of Cooking Stoves,
all guaranteed.
POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY, Knob
and Pad Locks, Schovil and Shovel pattern
Hoes Wood and Willow Ware, Steam Pipe
and Fittings, Wholesale Manufacturer of TIN
WARE. Full line of House Furnishing Goods.
OLIVER, DOUGLASS & Co-,
apri!9rptf.
(Macon & Hawkinsville (i 45 a m
Macon 3 05 pm
Central Railroad.
LEAVE ARRIVE
Macon. 8 00am 451pm
6 20 p m 5 15am
Savannah 7 15am 615pm
7 00 p m 5 30 a m
Train from Gordon to Miiledgeville and Ea-
tonton connects with down night train from
Macon and up day train from.Savatmah.
Southwestern Railroad.
Eufaula...
4 35 p m
8 50 p m
5 00 a m
.. 7 45 am
458pm
5 10pm
1000 a m
Railroad.
LEAVE
ARRIVE
.. 5 25 a m
6 12 p m
8 15pm
4 10am
11 00 a m
8 05 p m
4 45 a m
Una Railroad.
LEAVE
ARRIVE
7 40 a m 3 30 p m
6 00 p m 5 40am
3U*am 4 25 p m
3 30 p m 7 06 a m
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
LEAVE ARRIVE
... 10 30 pm 142 a m
6 00 a m 1 32 p in
2 45 p in 10 00 a m
- .. K20»rn 616 am
Ckattanoo 0 a. 530am pi 21m
Augusta --
Charleston
Atlanta..—
From the Savannah R publican.
Hon. B. H. Hill -Justice to our Pub
lic Men.
However it may be suppressed
for a time by passion, prejudice,
jealousy, or ignorance, there is an
ultimate sense of justice inlhe hearts
of the people that will eventually
assert itself and rebuke tht wrong
doer. In the case of the gentleman
whose name head3 this article, it has
been tardy, but it will be none the
less sure in its coming. The man*
ner in which this distinguished citi
zen of Georgia has been treated by
a portion ot the press and a few ot
the leaders of the people—the reck
less aspersions ot his motives and
character—the misrepresentations of
his acts and opinions—the fierce
and exterminating fury with which
it has been sought to destroy his in
fluence and keep him down—such
an exhibition, we say, of malice, in
justice, uncharitableness, and lack
of State pride, is anything but cred
itable to either our heads or hearts
as a people. Georgia should foster
and cherish all her great men. Their
intellects, their achievements, their
triumphs go to make up her own
glory as a State. It is not the part
ot a mother to reject and decry even
an erring son. To turn her back
upon one whose genius has illustrat
ed her name, and is a star in her
crown, is both unnatural and cruel.
It is time this war upon Mr. Hill
had ceased. It is both unjust and
senseless. A tew great men, whom
we honor with the rest, and who
have collided intellectually with him
in the past, perhaps to their own
disadvantage, have no right to per
petuate their own prejudices, much
less to infuse them into the minds
of trusting followers. There should
be some end of strife. There is
such a thing as forgiveness, even of
injuries, and it is a god-like attri
bute. And there is no better lime
to commence the work of harmony
than now. We are in the midst of
a storm, fierce and fearful. Geor
gians are all in the same ship, and
we have reached a point of common
danger where all should be harmo
ny with the crew. There is, too,
perhaps, less to divide us than at
any previous epoch of our history,
and never before could we, with so
little sacrifice, burj the dead past
and come together as a band of
brothers.
As regards the political career of
Mr. Hill, all should now be satisfied.
Time has vindicated it. He oppos-
ed|secession, and the whole world
is now convinced that it was a ter
rible mistake. The South plunged
into war without his agency and
against his remonstrance, he nobly
laid aside his individual opinions
and stood by her, among the firmest
of her sons, until her flag went down
and darkness closed in over her tra
gic career. Her people subdued,
prostrate and heartless under a mil
itary despotism, with bayonets brist
ling at every door, and Federal
prisons gaping wide for all who
dared dispute the conqueror’s will —
where was he then! Of all the pub •
lie men of our Slate—we make no
exception—he was the only one that
had the courage and the patriotism
to press through the threatening
hosts of the despot, denounce their
outrages and wrongs to their very
teeth, and proclaim to his prostrate
countrymen that they had rights and
must use and defend them. And if
our people have Yisen fnm their
•tale of hopelessness and despair, if
they have been re inspired with a
love of liberty and the energy to pre
serve it, they are this day, more
than to any other living man, indebt
ed to Benjamin H. Hill. We stale
but facts, fresh in the memory of
all, and all will testify to their truth.
At a still later day, after fruitless
struggles at the ballot-box with the
unequal numbers and the fierce ha
tred and prejudice of the North, Mr.
Hill counselled with leading Demo
crats of that section who had breast
ed the storm in our behalf, and
agreed upon the only resort that
could possibly reatore the Demo
cratic party to power, and put an
end to Radical usurpation and op
pression. Upon proclamation of the
result to the Southern people, it was
denounced as a “new departure,”
and Mr. Hill summarily read out of
the Democratic party and into the
ranks of the enemy. A howl went
up from his enemies in every part of
the State, and there was no word in
the vocabulary of invective too bit
ter to be hurled 4 against him. Yet,
firm in the truth, he quailed not, but
stood manfully by his doctrine. And
what is the result to-day ? The very
policy so denounced is embodied,
letter and spirit, in the Cincinnati
platform, and is now accepted as
and honorable, and the only
hope ol reform, by the Democratic
party in every State of the Union!
And in three days from this time it
will receive the unanimous endorse-
dsecrc oi *** to ® — —
■embled ! Is not this a complete vin
dication of Mr. Hill? Does it not
show that instead of deserting his
party and section, he only looked
further ahead than the men who de
cried him, and eighteen months ago
stood on a platform which they have
matched up to and occupy to-day ?
Never did man more signally tri
umph. All may not approve every
plank in that plaltorm—neither did
he, for he accepted it under the ne
cessities of the case as essential to
victory and the best to be had, as
does the whole South to-day. If Mr.
Hill is for Greeley, he but re-echoes
the sentiment of every leading Dem
ocrat in the land, with a few isolated
exceptions, from Maine to Texas.
In view of all these facts, we say
it is time to make friends with Mr.
Hill. The politicians should ceaie
to persecute him and poison the
minds of the people against him with
out a cause. In the coming strug
gle, which is for no lets a prize than
liberty and the life of the Republic,
we shall need his great intellect, his
brave heart, and clarion voice. Then
let all animosities and jealousies
cease, and Georgians, as one united
brotherhood, fight shoulder to shoul
der in the great battle for deliver
ance and liberty.
And now, just one word to our
brethren of the press. We have
groat pnwpr for j?ood and evil in our
hands, and a corresponding respon
sibility for its proper use. To vin
dicate the right, to condem the
wrong, and to do strict justioe to all,
are among the highest obligations of
the profession. Peace, and not war,
should be our aim. The editor’s
sanctum is sacred to truth, and pas
sion and prejudice should find no
admission there. We scorn injus
tice and unfairness in others—let us
keep'our own skirts clear of the
stain. We denounce the law of hale
that perverts the popular sense of
the North—let us not follow their
bad example by the unnatural in
auguration of it at home. But the
other day, when the most outspoken
friend of Mr. Greeley—the Augusta
Constitutionalist—claimed for Messrs.
Toombs and Stephens the rights of
brotherhood and the respect of all
Georgians for their great endow
ments and sincerity of purpose, we
rejoiced to see that nearly every lead
ing press of the State,though differing
from them in opinion, gave a hearty
response to the sentiment. Let it
be so toward all, Mr. Hill with the
rest. The press will do itself honor
and lay a graceful offering upon the
altar of Georgia, the elements of
whose fame are the records of her
sons.
tFrom the Savannah News,
B. E HILL.
Our neighbor of the Republican
seems to be very anxious to see Mr.
B. H. Hill reinstated in his old place
in the affections of the people, and
to this end a column and more in its
issue of yesterday is devoted to a
defence of the political course of that
gentleman. We can appreciate the
magnanimity that induces our neigh
bor to lake up the cudgels for a pol
itician who, in a casual sort of way,
has demonstrated his ability to de
fend himself as far as he cared to be
defended, and whose many shining
virtues do not include an excess of
modesty ; but we cannot appreciate
a defence that meets only a few of
the objections urged against Mr. Hill.
It is well known that Mr. Hill’s
‘new departure’ movement was not
the cause of his great unpopularity
in Georgia—although his advocacy
of that policy was a little surprising
to those who had read his ‘Notes on
the Situation,’ and who had listened
to his eloquent efforts on the stump
in 1S68. His fierce campaign a-
gainst the reconstruction measures
and bayonet rule is well remember
ed. For eloquent invective, bitter
denunciation and fiery argument, it
stands unprecedented in our politi
cal history ; and the wind that Mr.
Hill then sowed culminated in the
whirlwind that swept him out of the
affections of the people in 1S70.
The charges against Mr. Hill
which he has never answered—
which he has never attempted to an
swer—are these : In 1S6S he advis
ed the social ostracism of scalawags
and carpet-baggers, and advised
Southern women who were so un
fortunate as to have scalawags for
husbands to fly from the disgiace of
their embraces at once. He advised
children to ostracise their fathers,
and so on, and so forth. In 1S70 he
was wining and dining with Bullock
and with other Radicals who had
plundered our people and slandered
the good name of Georgia.
In a speech iu Forsyth, in 1863,
Mr. Hill, in response to a query
from one of his audience, *what
about Joe Brown ?"* raised his hands
i.-i y nnf ] upon the
floor, and subsequently, in the course
of the same speech, he said that
Brown’s name should never pass his
o f t> r o ,' IflJt i o'A i Ah’?, i le r
has never wavered for one moment
in his persistent scalawagism.
The editor of the Philadelphia
Press, who is behind the scenes and
ought to know, says that the name
ot Cameron is the synonim of cor
ruption. And yet this man Came
ron is a copartner of Mr. Hill. These
are the points that Mr. Hill’s de
fenders should touch upon. If he
desires the people of Georgia to look
upon him with the respect and con
fidence which were on«e his due, he
should make these things clear.
Thus far, however, neither he nor
his friends have made a satisfactory
defense.
Mr. Hill is the intellectual peer of
any in this land, but in his present
position he is playing the role sim
ply of a most eloquent demagogue,
a most brilliant sophist. Some bright
sunshiny day, let us hope, Mr. Hill
will descend into the pool of repent
ance and wash himself clear of the
stains that now rest upon hi^oliti*
cal garments, and shake himself free
of those unhappy connections that
are now a reproach to his good name.
We clip the following paragraph
horn the Cincinnati Enquirer of the
3rd instant:
A young New York journalist is
about to formally introduce canoe
trave ing to the United States, and
to undertake a voyage that will ex
ceed anything hereiofore attempted
by canoeists. The Dolly Varden
canoe was built, to order, in May,
1S72, by Waters, Balch & Co., of
1 ro\, N. Y., for Julius Chambers,
o! New York city. She is of 1-10
tons burden ; weight of boat, *6
pounds; rigging, 10 1-4; baggage,
16 3 4; and galley, 4£ pounds.
U eight of crew 128£ pounds. The
hull is of paper, with cedar deck.
•She is rigged to carry a sprit-sail,
jib and mizzen, and fitted with am
ple accommodations for cooking and
sleeping on board. The Dolly Var
den is the pioneer cruising canoe in
nmerica. fcslie left New York on
May 21st, and St. Paul on the 29th,
for Lake Itasca, where she will de
scend the Mississippi to New Or
leans.
Aiming High.—A correspondent
says he is most pleased with the
Advocate, because “its aims are
high.” Yes! We do aim to incul
cate that the business of farming is
not only not inferior to none; but
tiiat it is beyond question superior to
all. Lawyers, Doctors, Ministers
and Merchants have so long decried
the baseness of the farmer that they
might place themselves on the top
round of the social ladder that they
have really begun to think that their ’
scholastic qualification is superior to
the good hard sense which the farm
er digsout of the ground with hit
corn and potatoes. And what is
even worse; the farmers themselves
have submitted to the mc.nualions
and acquiesced in the conviction,un
til they are in doubt as to whether
they are entitled to any credit for
feeding the world, and clothing the
world, and for furnishing the best
scholars, the best lawyers, the best
preachers, the best merchants from
the pure invigorating, moral atmos
phere of the farm house.
And while we “aim high” we
F r °P nc “ fo P r *»sent ran reasoning in
a practical common sense, matter of
fact style so that he who runs may
read. _
Of all the hotels in the world the
very oddest is a lonely one in Cali
fornia, on the road between San
Jose and Santa Cruz. Imagine ten
immense trees standing a few feet
apart and hollow inside; these are
the hotel, neat, breezy, and roman
tic. The largest tree is sixty-five
feet around, and contains a sitting-
room and that bureau of Bacchus
wherefrom is dispensed the thing
that biteth and stingeth. All about
this tree is a garden of flowers and
evergreens. The drawing room is
a bower made of redwood, ever
greens and madrona branches. For
bed-chambers there are nine great
hollow trees, white-washed or pa
pered, and having doors cut to fit
tlie shape of the holes. Literature
finds a place in a leaning stump,
dubbed “the library.” If it were
not for that same haunt of Bachus,
it is certain that the guests ot this
forest establishment would feel like
nothing so much as dryads.
Gen. Jubal Early on Office Seeking.
Gen Jubal A. Early has written
a letter declining the use of his name
for Congress in the Lynchburg Va.
district. He says:
“If ever there was a time when
truth in the words of the
poet who has said ‘the post ot nonor
is a private station,’ that time is
now, and it is none the less so be
cause of the trials attending that sta
tion in our impoverished land, while
office, especially under the United
States, is generally attended with
large emoluments. The great bane
of our country at this time is the
wild hunt after office, and 1 shall
certainly not add to that evil by my
personal example.”
The New York Tribune has an
elaborate artiele showing the death
rate in seventeen leading cities of
America and Europe, in 1870. in
New York it was 23.8 to the 1,000;
Philadelphia, 22.72; Brooklyn, 24;
St. Louis, 21.3; Chicago, 24.5; Bal
timore, 25.65; Boston, 24.33; Cin
cinnati, 18.39; New Orleans, 27.53;
San Francisco, 21.57; Montreal,
31.5; London, 24; Bombay, 19.2;
Vibnna, 29.8; Liverpool 311; Man
chester, 27.S; Edinburg, 26.3. Ac
cording to this statement Bombay is
the healthiest city of the lot, and
Cincinnati next. Montreal is the
sickliest. New Orleans was heal
thier than New York in 1870, The
average mortality of all is about
24.92.
Alaska.—Secretary Seward’*
Arctic speculation is going to turn
out well, after all. Alaska, in addi
tion to its fur$ and fisheries, is dis
closing great mineral wealth. Gold
and silver quartz have been discov
ered on Indian river, which runs
through the suberb of Sitka, and
gentlemen who have had some ex
perience in mining, believe the coun
try to be ricn in me picviuu? mctali.
Amber has also been found there.
Indians from the interior who visit
Sitka frequently bring specimens
of amber, but they are entire
ly ignorant of its value, They also
have ornaments of gold and silver
which they have manufactured in
their rude fashion from the native
minerals. Large quantities of ivo
ry have been found in Alaska. A
trader says that millions of pounds
of it can be picked up on the shores
of the lakes ot the Aleutian peninsu
la. Most wonderful of all, it is said
that the climate is growing warmer
since the country has been annexed
to the United Slates.—Exchange.
To relieve from the terrible effects
of running a nail in the foot of a per
son or horse, lake peach leaves, bruise
them, apply to the wound, confine
with a bandage and the cure is as if
by magic. Renew the application
twice a day, if necessary; but one
application usually does the work.
This has cured both man and beast
in a few hours when they were ap
parently on the point of having the
lock-jaw. This recipe, remembered
and practiced, will save many val
uable lives.