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THE ATLANTA BUN
PERSONAL.
We had a very plea.-ant call yester
day from Mr. Melville E. Stone,
traveling correspondent of the
Chicago Inter-Ocean. Mr. Stone is
sojourning at the Kimball House,
and will remain in the city for several
days. He purposes locating in At
lanta if he succeeds in arranging
proper business connections.
WRONG POLICY.
The Springfield (Mass.) Kepubli
can, of recent date, had a pertinent
homily on the thesis that the Ameri
can people are too busy attending to
their private affairs to do their duty
in relation to great public interests.
This is a fact that should be impress
ed upon every American mind. It is
this indifference to public interests
that nas given such loose reins to lead
ing partisan politicians, and allowed
them to carry the affairs of govern
ment to such a deplorable condition
of immorality and corruption, tend
ing as it does, to centralism and op
press ion.
This is a wrong policy on the part
of tbo masses, who should never for
gel tl mt “eternal \ igilance is i he price
of liberty.” If the people d. not rule
themselves, they will find rulers of
the most oppressive character.
.STA TEMEXT.
It is possible that the wording o
our article of yesterday, correcting
the report gone abroad that Mr. Ste
phens had retired from The Sux,
may be construed to do injustice to
our neighbor, the Herald. We did
not intend to convey the meaning
that it was the intention of the Her
ald, in publishingthe article to which
we alluded, to injure The Sun; but
other papers in the State have given
a construction to it that would do
The Sun an injury if uncorrected.
We should have said, too, that any
clrange in the proprietorship of The
Sun would be published at the
proper time. We shall publish, in a
few days, when arrangements of a
private nature are consummated, a
change in the proprietorship of The
Sun; but not in its editorial man
agement.
We wish it distinctly understood
that Mr. Stephens has not retired
from The Sun, nor has he any in
tention whatever of doing so.
TUB LATE COMMODORE MAURY.
We submit to our readers to-day a
most appropriate, as well as touching
tribute to the memory of the dis
tinguished American whose name is
at the head of this article. The fame
of Commodore Maury is world-wide;
hut it is particularly dear to all whose
sympathies were enlisted on the Con
federate side in the late war between
the States. In that contest he aban
doned high position with all its hon
ors and emoluments and cast his lot
and fortunes with those of the people
of Virginia, his native State.
The tribute to which we allude will
be -found below, and is from the pen
of one of Virginia’s most gifted
daughters. a. h. 8.
THROUGH THE PAS8.
[Just before his death, Commodore
Matthew F. Maury expressed the wish
which, almost in his very words, is
here given:]
L
—“Horn*. bear me home, at last,"—be laid,
••Ana lay tne where my dead are lying;
Bat not while iltiei are avenpread.
And mourniul wintry wlnda are aigliing.
II.
"Wait till the royal inarch of Spring
Carpets the m >ontain laatneaa over,—
TUI chattering bird! are on the wing.
And tuning bee a are in the clover.
III.
“Wait till the laurel burst! ita buda,
Aud creeping ivy filuga ita gracee
About the lichen’d rocks.—and floods
of sunshine fill the shady place*.
nr.
“Then—when the sky, the air, the grass.—
Sweet Nature all, la glad and tender,—
Then bear me through the Goshen-Pass,*
Amid its flush of klay-day splendor.”
V.
—So will we beer him 1—Human heart
To Nature's own drew never nearer;
And never stooped she to Impart
Her loie to one who held it dearer.
YL
The stars bed secrets for him: R—■
Revealed the depths their waves were screening:
The winds gave up their masteries,
The tidal flows oonfeased their meaning.
vn.
Of Oc .van-paths, the tangled claw
He taught the nations to unravel;
And showed the track, where safely through.
The lightning-footed thought might travel.
VHL
And yet. unspoiled by all the (tore
Of Nature’s grander revelations.
Who bowed more lovingly before
The lowliest of her fair creations ?
XX.
No sage cf all the ages pest.
Ambertd !n Plutarch’i liniplfl story.
Upon his living age a*, oest
A radiance touent with truer glory.
X.
His noble living, for the ends
Goo set him,—(doty underlying
Seen thought, word. aetion.>—naUfct
In lustre, save his nobler dying. 1
XX.
■ A? thing* he eberiahed, sweet end a
our gorget ua Mountain-Pese,
** hear him in his sunset splendor 1
_ NUsoaist J.
on
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principles r& roucr. | spirit or the Georgia press.
Col. Donald M. Hood, retiring from i Referring to the fact that the Re-
the editorial control of the Rome publican General Committee of New
*A magnificent mountain gorge
tween Lexington, Vsl, (where Com-
Bulletin, says: “We have occupied
politically what i3 known in this
country as State Rights principles.
In the*Presidential election we sup
ported Mr. Greeley, not upon the
platform of principles upon which
his party placed him, but as the only
chance to defeat the Republican party.
If we had made the nomination at
Baltimore, we should have placed lie-
fore the people a straight Democrat,
upon the old and reliable platform
which has lei the party to victory so
often, as we would prefer defeat upon
an honest expression of principle, to
success under false colors. W e acted
with our party, and not upon our
own convictions. ’
We mako the foregoing quotation
as a fair expression of the motives
that prompted thousands of Demo
crats in the late Presidential cam
paign, and to call especial attention
to that clause where Col. Hood ex
presses a preference for “ defeat upon
an honest expression of principle, to
success under false colors.” That is
precisely our position. It is the cor
rectness of the principles of Jefferso
nian Democracy that makes us what
we are in politics.
We are not Democrats by the mere
force of party shackles. When the
Democracy of the country desert the
true principles of free government, as
we believe they never will, we shall
be no longer Democrats. It is the
principles of a party that claim our
fealty, and not the mere organization
itself. It is the fact that the great
principles of true Democracy are
those of free government that we ad
here to them, and to the party be
cause it holds to these principles as
the tenets of its faith.
No party can expect to succeed
long, if ever, by an abandonment of
principle for policy. When Henry
Clay said that he had rather be right
than to be President, he evinced the
proper spirit of the true man. No
other spirit can appreciate the bless
ings of freedom. The politics of a
man are worthless when he comes to
make up his mind that he prefers
policy or expediency to principle.
Without the maintenance of princi
ple, success is worse than failure; it
is morally criminal.
It is the hope of every true Demo
crat that the party will always look
more to its integrity than to mere
partisan success.
LYRICS. BY "PEARL RIVERS
We have received from the pub
lishers, Messrs. J. B. Lippincott &
Co., Philadelphia, a neatly printed
and prettily bound little volume
of poems, of 131 pages, written by
“Pearl Rivers.” The authoress is
well known to the literary readers of
the day, and she has won considerable
popularity. She is now the wife of
Mr. J. M. Holbrook who was con
nected with the New Orleans Pica
yune. We wish this handsome little
book a wide circulation, among the
ladies especially.
The Savannah Republican is
discussing “woman as she is and as
she used to be two centuries ago,”
and the editor says: “Thus ever is it
between truth unadorned and the
same truth embroidered in verse.”
We have always admired truth un
adorned more than its embroidery.
A New Haute to the West.
The Maoon Telegraph and Messen
ger ofyesterday says : “The new route to
the West, which has been recently dis
covered, is being made available by the
merchants of Macon. Mayor Huff re
ceived yesterday one hundred hogsheads
of bacon, which came over this route in
qnite as quick time as has been made
lately over the old line. Though the
shipment faaversed a greater length of
communication—coming via Hunting
don, West Virginia, Richmond, Dan-
viljc, Columbia, and Augusta—arriving
here over the Maoon and Augusta road,
it made good time, at the same rate of
freight that it would have cost to oome
by way of Louisville, Nashville and At
lanta.
Tka Wheat larket.
The price of wheat, ranging from
$1 80 to $2 20, has nad the effect to
lighten the graineries throughout Floyd,
Chattooga and Polk ooonties. We have
noticed quite a number of wagons loaded
with this grain, and a large quantity of
it has been choioe white wheat. Farm
ers tell ns there is plenty more where this
came from. Who says that our people
•re not prosperous when the farmers, the
•onroe of all wealth and prosperity, are
able to pay their debts and have their
oom cribs, graineries, barns and gin
houses full of tiie products of the soiL—
Roms Courier.
TkiMvhCattemtaUTA
From January 1st, 1871, to January
1st, 1872, Montgomery sent to Savan
nah and New York, via Columbus 5,975
bales of ootton; Selma, 8,188; New Or
leans 206; Mobile 4,748. The total
amount of through ootton reoaived by
the Western Hoad from September 1st,
1671, to September 1st 1872, was 37,670,
and by the M. A G. road 1,182—total 89,-
852. The total, since Sept 1st, to date
is 38,550; 80.760 by Western raad, and
2,790 by M. CL B. B.—Columbus Sun.
York has passed resolutions condemn
ing the President’s Louisiana policy,
the Macon Telegraph says: “ This is
not because New York Republican
ism, so-called, is scandalized at the
deliberate usurpation and outrage
upon free government. But the fact
is Loujaana is ruined for trade.” The
McDume Journal comments upon
the subject as follows :
Possibly this was a strorg motive in
fluencing the committee in tlie adoption
of this resolution, because the old aud
trite maxim, “touch a Yankee’s pocket
aud you touch his soul,” is as true to-day
as it was years ago. But we are inclined
to the opinion that other and more im
portant considerations, looking to the
fnture stability and continuance of the
Radical party in power had about as
much if not mote to do in shaping their
decision. No man of sense will for a
moment attribute this action of the Gen
erai Committee lo promptings of patriot
ism; but the wisest ot thur politicians
see and knew that in future elections the
Radical party, loaded down, as it is, with
ihe Credit Mobilier swindle and its dis
graceful whitewashing in Congress; the
wide spread thiev. ry, 3couudrelism and
corruption, so prevalent as to render it
almost universal, amoDg the oflhv-hold-
eis from the Vice President down, to
gether with this high-handed outrage iu
Louisiana, which is the crowning infamy
of the whole, cennot hope for success,
even with the powerful assistance of the
patronage and treasury of the Govcrn-
meut. In fact, discontented mutterings
aud ominous warnings of early and cer-
lain disaster to their p*’ w «re coming in
from many quarters. 4 .* f>e indications
of dissolution should strengthen and en
courage he remnant of hope and t^Tiot-
i«m m too hearts of our countrymen to
redoubt- their efforts to reorganize nnd
purify i e Democratic party, aud pre
pare for tue comrng struggle.
The News, discussing the short
ness of the tenure of office under
Republican rule, especially as it re
gards the custom-house at Savannah,
says;
There have been more removals and
appointments in tbe custom-house and
postoffice in this city within Grant’s four
ye<rs, than there was previously during
as many Presidential terms. Public
offices are Dot now regarded as having
been created for the service of the coun
try, bnt for the individual benefit of the
incnmbent8. Hence the everlasting, dis
gusting scramble for tbe spoils of office
among the o j rpetbag adventurers and
recreant scalawags who constitute the
office-holdeis of the Radical party at the
South.
Of the new loan of $1,200,000 au
thorized by the Nutting bill, the Sa
vannah Advertiser says:
Upon the success of this loan, then,
depends the issue whether the people of
Georgia are both able and willing to re
store and sustain the credit of the State,
or whether the Governor will bo com
pelled to go elsewhere for the three mil
lions of dollars which must be raised
within the next three months in order to
keep up Georgia’s credit in the money
markets of the. world.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, on the
same subject, says: “If they are
successfully floated, and we believe
they will he, we need fear nothing.
The credit of the State will be higher
than it ever was before; Clews and
his allies can work us no harm, and
our citizens will be burdened with no
increased and onerous taxation.”
The Dalton Citizen thinks that
the President’s inaugural is a tolera
bly fair document, both as to its
grammatical diction and the prom
ises made as to his future adminis
tration. Says the editor:
We earnestly Lope that his four years’
reign may be marked by reason and
justice toward the South; but we must
confess that we have but little confidence
that such will be the case, for his pre
vious administration was one of decep
tion.
The Griffin News is in favor of
selling the State Road, and says with
the proceeds of the sale we could re
duce our debt to a mere nominal
amount, and be independent of the
money sharks and go on our way re
joicing. The News gives the follow
ing as an additional reason for its
position:
As long as the present lease stands, it
will be a bone of contention, as envious
opponents of the lessees will annoy the
Legislature with efforts to break it up.
In the bands of a private company it can
be managed more successfully, prove of
more profit to such an organization and
to the interests of the State.
The Newnan Herald still wrestles
with the giant question of the day as
follows: “The ball has been set in
motion and the people will keep it
rolling until not only will the advo
cates of the ‘ Snead Compromise ’
be silenced, but the bondholders
themselves convinced that the people
of Georgia cannot be dragooned into
paying invalid claims by threats of
refusing to loan money on legal obli
gations of the State.”
The Marietta Journal, discussing
the departure of the Federal Govern
ment from its ancient landmarks,
says: “There is but one practical
issue between rulers aud people, aud
it is not as to whether the Constitu
tion of the founders of the Republic
shall be restored, but whether tyranny
shall be defeated and the liberties we
yet have be preserved.”
Letter fraat Judge Reese.
WAsantaTos, Qa , 7th March 1873.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: In your
daily of the 5th instant, I DOtice an ar
ticle taken from tbe Atlanta Herald, of
the 1st iust, headed with the refined
motto “ titop a Lie,” to which it is Drap
er, perhaps necessary, I should make a
reply. In yonr editorial yoa refer to
the article, and characterize it “ as hav
ing an authentativenesa aud posi'iveness
about its statements which give to them
the appearance of being delivered ex ca
thedra, ” by which I am led to believe
that yon think tne article was inspired
by Governor Smi’h. I cannot so con
sider it, and think, so far as the articles
concern me, it was intended to rest 6olely
upon the authority and positiveness of
the Herald'8 editor. You will notice by
carefully examining the article that the ed
itor simply says Gov. $mith pronounced
my statement at the time an unmitigated
falsehood; not tnat he heard this pro
nouncement of bis Excellency; not that
he has, or had his authority for so stat ing.
In other parts of this editorial, speaking
of a certain promise made by Mr. Speaker
Smith, in the event he was elected Gov
ernor, to reward a distinguished gentle
man if he would retire from the contest
for Governor with a place on the Supreme
Bench, the writer says, “this we are au
thorized to pronounce utterly »alse!” In
another part he refers, to his oven kno rl-
e:tye, of Governor Smith’s s'attment. I
remained in Atlanta several days after
making the speech in which I charged
that Governor Smith had promised the
same office to others, and heard nothing
of his denial, and what is more rcmurii-
able is, that “this denial at the time
was never known to the public un
til brought forth by the editor of the
Herald. For one, at least, I would like
to have known where and to whom the
denial was made. If made by the Gov
ernor to his friends in private conversa
tion, I should have nothing to do with it.
The only event in which I could prop
erly notice it would be if it was made in
sue 1 a manner as to put me upon expla
nation. Though this is, as I believe,
the correct view of the case, I am willing
to concede that this statement was made
by Governor Smith, and intended to put
me upon an explanation of my charge.
So putting the case, we stand in this
wise: I charged that ho had promised
this office of Supreme Court Judge to
others than his appointee, Judge Trippe,
and he pronounced the statement “an
unmitiga ed falsehood;” that is a false
hood, without any circnmstances of ex
tenuation, without a shade of truth
mixed with it, and with nothing ever
said or done by him to warrant my
charge. My grounds for making the
charge were these : Judge David Irwin,
an applicant for this office, an old and
eminent citizen, whose character for
truth, [no one knowing him will ques
tion, said to me, just three days before
the nomination of Judge Trippe, that
“if the Governor did not send in his
name for this place he would break his
promise os to him.” General Toombs
informed me just eight days before
the appointment was made, “that he
knew from Governor Johnson’s own
lips that npon his application to the
Governor for the place of Supreme
Court Judge, that Governor Smith re
plied to him, patting his hand on his
own breast, “No man oonld vie with
him (Governor Johnson) in his (Gover
nor Smith’s) estimation.” Judge Mont
gomery informed me several days after
the present term ot tbe Supreme
Coart began and several weeks be
fore the nomination of Judge Trippe,
“That upon the special request of
Governor Smith, he took his seat
on the Bench, the Governor accom
panying this request with each remarks
as caused him to believe that he weald
be continued in office.” So much,Messrs.
Editors, for the grounds upon which I
put my charge. The circumstances un
der which my remarks were made, were
tbe following, which .will show that I
acted in good faith with no desire to
have a rupture with Governor Smith:
The Governor sent in as his appointee
for Supreme Court Judge the name of
Judge Trippe, requiring my action as a
Senator on this appointment. As I was
put in the Senate by the noble people of
the District which I represent, not to
register edicts and to do the bidding ot
any Governor, but to express my views
freely and manfully without regard to
personal consequences or personal friend
ships, I expressed my dissent from the
nomination, not believing that Judge
Trippe was the best man for the place
at the Governor’s disposal. I knew then
that Judge Irwin, who had been twice a
Judge of the Superior Court, Logan E.
Bleckley, Governor Johnson and Judge
Montgomery, all desired the place, and
(as I believed) deserved it in preference
to Judge Trippe, the Governor’s ap
pointee.
My position was not, as has been
charged, that the Senate had the right
to reject Judge Trippe, if he was as well
qualified as others, because he was not
its favorite. It was this: That Judge
Trippe, as compared with the class of
men applying, and perhaps others not
applying, was not a proper appointment.
Comparing Judgo Trippe with many
otheis, perhaps mo6t of the lawyers of
the Stats, Le would have been a fit ap
pointment. An appointment fit to have
been made at another time.
In the debate on this nomination I
made the charges which the Governor’s
friends are so much excited over, not, as
they allege, for the purpose of showing
that Gov. Smith had told liet, qr had
been guilty of fraudulent practices npon
gentlemen, but to satisfy Senators that
Gov. Smith was a fickle, change
able disposition, whose nomina
tions were not entitled to the
great respect usually given to tbe ap
pointments of executives. And here I
will say, whatever editors or their cor
respondents may say to the contrary, that
a majority of the members of the Gen
eral Assembly, in my opinion, and a ma
jority of the intelligent men who visited
Atlanta daring the late session, will say
(hat fickleness is one of the unfortunate
infirmities of the Governor.
I did not intend, Messrs. Editors, to
reply to tbe charges made by the “bosh-
whackers,” who make false accusations
against me behind assumed names, but
in deference to the views of others will
briefly notioe them also. To tbe accusa
tions made by these creatures that I log
rolled or combined with anybody, Sena
tors or outsiders, to defeat the nomina
tion of Judge Bioe or Judge Tnppe, or
any candidate for Secretary of State, I
reply by stating that they are wholly mo-
true. 1 never had a word in my life with
Senator Estes about defeating Judge
Bice. I never solicited any Senator, ex
cept by open argument in the Benat* to
vote against Judge Trippe, and not one
will say so.
To those Senators who voluntarily
came to me and toM me that they would
vote with me against this nomination,
but who did not, I said that I was glad to
hear it, and hopedjthat they would Btaud
firm. It is true, as stated by “ Muscogee,’
that I went to vlov. Smith on the vety
day Judge Bice’s name was sent to the
Senate (an hour perhaps before it was
sent) and told him openly, without anv
rertrictiou or injunction of secrecy, and
as a Senator, that “I withdrew what I
had once said to him in favor of Col.
Johu B. Estes,” a candidate for Judge
of the Superior Courts of the Western
Circuit; to which he replied, “That this
withdrawal was unnecessary, as he had
settled that matter, and should send in
at oace the name of Judge Rice.” If
anything can be made out of this re
mark, made to the Governor, let it be
done. I am satisfied that Col. John B.
Estes, the very man I am accused of be
traying, would justify my course.
Yours, respectfully,
W. M. Reese.
CHAT WITH STATE PAPERS.
— Coweta Superior Court is in session
this w?ek.
— The Columbnsjice works bavo re
sumed operations.
— Turkeys and guineas are what Col
umbus thieves prey for.
— JacKson, of the Columbus Enquirer,
mornns the loss of local items.
—Bee culture is receiving considera
ble attention in tho vicinity o! Marietta.
—The March Term of Cobb Superior
Court convenes next Monday.
—Dalton has a population of 2,200, as
certained by a recent city census.
—D. Barwald is to be tbe postmister
at Americas.
—The cars on the Cherokee Rai’road
are making daily trips to Itockmari again.
—Gardening is the order of the day in
Cartersville.
— The Coweta county Commissioners
have resolved to have the highways put.
iD good condition without delay.
— Hon. J. S. B'gby, Congressman
from the 4th District, bps returned home
“ fat and saucy. ”
— Birde, of the Newnan Dispatch, is
the adored President of a brass band,
and is capable of doing his own blowing.
— A dog fight in Gainesville, the other
day, settled tbe mooted question of the
number of loafers in that town.
—Mr. Thos, J. Flint, for many years
a merchant of Macon, died in Tyler,
Texas, on Mondty, the 3d day of March.
Whitman has been presented with
a mess of Irish potatoes of this year’s
growth.
—The Journal is glad to observe eo
many influential and wealthy men seek
ing homes in Marietta.
—Rockmarb has been incorporated as
a city,„and has elected her Mayor and
Board of Aldermen, for 1873.
—A Columbus man is the contented
aud happy proprietor of seventeen dogs,
twelve ducks and eight geese, himself
making nine of the latter.
—Henry Piles, a negro man, living
near Rome, has deserted his wife and
chiluren and eloped with a white girl
about fourteen years old.
—Mr. H. F. Willink, Sr., an aged
citizen of Savannah has been judged an
imbeoile and a guardian appointed to
take charge of him and his property.
—Bro. Smith, of the Cartersville Ex
press, is a wonder-lv\ maD. His local
items are considerably duBhed with his
wonders as to what will happen next.
—The spiritual welfare of Cartersville
is undoubted, with fifteen bar-ioomsin
full blast. There’s a field for the L O.
of G. T.
—Whitmau beseechesthe Dalton brass
band to wake up and toot their horns.
The members of the band would doubt
less prefer to put their horns under their
vests.
— From the ColnmDus Sun of Thurs
day: Already Columbus has received
more cotton than for tbe whole of the
corresponding week last year; and we
have yet two days to report before the
cotton week closes.
—The Grand Jnry of Green county
has failed to find true bills against Wi
ley Baugh and Sam Alfriend, colored,
charged with the murder of Miss Rich
ards. George Oopelan, col, has been
tried and feund guilty.
—Hon. A. P. Sturtevant, proprietor of
the Sturtevant Hotel, New York, and
owner of large woolen mills in Norwich,
Connecticut, and J. WaJace Ainger.
Eeq. t traveling agent of the Eclectic
Magazine, are in Savannah.
—The Cartersville Express wonders in
silent mood this sort of a query: “Dolly
Yardens were all the go last, wonder
what will be the agony this.” If the edi
tor is skilled in female oharacter, he
ought to know that that is very uncer
tain.
—About forty Swedes, men, women
and children, disembarked from the
Southward bound train on the Western
A Atlantic Railroad, at Cartersville on
Saturday morniDg last. Their destina
tion was tbe Bartow Iron works near that
town. •
—The Courier congratulates t!ie citi
zens of Rome that the Georgia Baptist
State Convention, a large and respecta
ble body, embracing some ot the first
talent in the Sonth, will hold its next
annual meeting with the Baptist Chnrch
of this eity, commencing April 25th.
—The Citizen says there is a lone
grave on one of the highest points of
Rot Ay Faoe, three miles above Dalton—
the grave of a Confederate soldier. On
the head-board is the following inscrip
tion: “George Dismay, Company K.,
4th Kentucky Infantry. C. S. A. Kill
ed at Rocky Face, May 9th, 1864.”
—Messrs. Charles Green, Son A Co.,
cleared from Savannah on Wednesday
the schooner Ella Brown for Humacao,
Porto Rico, with a cargo consisting of
114,246 feet lnmber valued at $2,469 36;
12 barrels tar valued at $48; 6 barrels
spirits turpentine valued at $173 53, and
two barrels roedn valued at $7 96. Total
value of cargo $2,698 85.
New York Letter.
From our Special Correspondent, j
Naw \ oek, February 22,1373
Leaving Angusta, Ga., on the
of the 20'h, we found rain a
Colfax carries the Presiden
tial certificate of his honesty out
somehow or other the certificate
don’t relieve him of the odium of
Credit Mobilier swindle.
Bishop McHvaine, of Ohio,
died yesterday at Florence, Italy.
Corning
overhead, under foot, and conOnualb
pouring down—to increaso the already
swollen streams. However, the river at
Augusta was falling some, as also was the
Congaree at Columbia, S. C., bat farther
east iu tho Carohnas the streams wire
gradually rising, and the swamps of the
Wateree and Pedee were more like a sea
tlmu the overflow of rivers, the water
covering the land to the extent of from
three to eight miles. Mules and horse-
were seen on small islands, where thev
had taken refuge from the moi tore of
the surroundings, aud seemed to be p a -
lie.-, tly but anxiously waiting, as Noah of
old, for tue waters to subside.
The fall of rain was as great as tha
freshet of Jmy a year ugo, but the road
and bridges by this route had not been
injured in the least, and trains had been
running regular aud making a? good time
as usual. Much credit is due the man
agers of this line—the Atlantic Coast-
tor their energy and skill in keeping the
route opeD, and no delay of trains, sure
connections, and such ample accommo
dation for travelers.
The sleeping cars on ali night trains
are, indeed, a luxury. Eating houses
are very good ; but in this thero
is chance for iioprovemenr, as no one
will deny that the way to get a good ex
pression of a person’s mind is through
his stomach.
Oti reaching Weldon, the Emory House
satisfies your craving appetite, and after
an ample breakfast, you have the choice
of either tho Bay Lino or by Richmond
and Petersburg. The latter route it was
our good lortune to take, and it moved
us very comfortably to Quantico, where
we took tho boat connecting with this
line, aud in fact belonging to the same
company; and after such a dinner—“no
pen can paint nor artist’s brush depict,”—
wj reach Washington by gaslight, just in
time for the through New York express.
The city of Washington, is without
question, much heard of, and much
talked of. and its wajs and workings,
much felt. Its Credit Mobilier and
other swindles too numerous; bat to
pleaso the eye, a person should see it
tram a distance, or coming up the Po
tomac, all lit up for festive or business
occasions—the Capitol a perfect blaze of
light. In such condition it is pleasant to
took upon, and about the only way to be
appreciated and endorsed. We reached
New York on the morning of the 22d,
having mode the time from Augusta.
Georgia, in 46 hours.
Business throughout the city generally
uspended iu honor of Washington’s
birthday. Many organizations ont in
marching trim, and with bands of music,
and firm tread, seemed to enjoy the oc
casion wonderfully.
The day extremely cold, and the streets
a perfect glare ot ice; horses falling;
busses and carriages sliding from one side
to the other; men on foot, slipping up,
others slipping down; 6mall newsboys
with frozen ears and feet; large size beg
gars imploring something to wear and
eat.
Monday morning we again look for the
general bnzz of business in the great city.
Many Southern merchants are now here,
and others arriving by every train to pro
cure their spring goods. We think there
is plenty for all, and at prices very much
reduced from last year’s rates.
But whatever you do in New York,
don’t forget the “ Atlantic Coast Line."
D.
How Db. Jones Treats Ozoena, the
Most Disagreeable of Aim Diseases (in
the Nose.) Extract of a letter from
Mrs. S. E. Lumpkin, of Lexington, Ga.,
one of the most intelligent and respeot-
able ladies in the State, after her niece
had been nnder Dr. Jones’ treatment
five days:
Dr. Jones: Dear Sir—I write to tell
you of the progress your prescription is
making in my neice. She is getting on
finely, and says her head feels clearer and
better than she ever remembers to have
known it. The disagreeable smell has
entirely left her nose. Her father seems
more than delighted with your treatment
We follow your directions perfectly,
whioh is easily done.
I am, most respectfully,
Mbs. S. E. Lumpkin.
Lexington, Ga., February 19. j&j
Dr. Jones has been persuaded to ex
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until the 21st.
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