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My gluee* are mining, the paper mislaid,
Bat nobod v’* imd them. 1 md afraid; '
For thirabfe and aoiaaora l'ri looked high and low,
Tho’ nobody'* had tlietn, I Yery well know; I “
And my carpet, thi* morning ao bright and to
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i feet.
Ia covered with tneka ot nobody’
“Who waked up the babyT” nurse wondering
cries; /n-t i i \\'f \ A/, i ,1
“Nobody 1" Miss Bessie quite archly replica,
Appealit to Grace, who lilt* ahyly her ; \
Rates of Advertising:
Transient advartlnemenU, of onesquare or more 3! 00
r wjuare for the Brat insertion, and &o cent* for each sub-
transient except
Nurse looks very doubt ul, but says nothin*? more,
Tho* she thinks that she heard some one slamming
the door.
“Who has seen my new gra.uihtrf’ , 'Xach‘ cranny
aud nook,
5^ow for a few brief notes while taking policies he M been engaged in tomiag
ft <£■ A<****&**•*.<* «r>n g
«BPt .... - i. heart B—raaoMmabeaweSadying Turkey,
In. die openuife of
_ , , yet learnea ms qonch
„ In Italy, the vear has been one ofu
the year, there was trouble in Louisiana,
whftittSUi Sfeeridan'hedferineebra tlfte TTodrtMe? ■ TWehfefete*f fib new trouble
control of affaire, and the Pacific Mail subs, .about the Pope, who has kept himself close*
sidy was under investigation in CojjgreF* J *- •*-- v-.:-:— .u- rru—
.. . was under investigation in 1
|ueut insertion
u«. All atlvertisemeau considered
lurr *:>ecUl contracts sre made.
Ten lines or 100 words make one tqnsre.
•«T Literal contracts made with yearly advertisers,
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
tatlon of Administration or Guardianship $4 00
[•plication lor Dismission Administrator or Guardian 5 00
pnUcaUon far Leave to .Sell Lands 4 Of
,ivico to Debuirs and OrBdltor».^.«.w 0 00
l. a of Lsni, *e.. psr tiara 500
>;«» Perishable Property, 10 days, persq 1 50
stray Notices, SO days — 500
tcritf''ales,|Hir square 2 50
Collector's Sales, per Miusre 5 00
iH-loMire Mortgage, per square, each time 1 00
motion Not lets lin advance) ...— 2 00
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business and Professional Cards.
COBB, ERWIN & COBB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ATI1EXS, GA.
< > flier. in tho Denprec Building.
if. R. LITTLE,
Attorney at h a ir,
CAItXESYILLK, GA.
' ./. S. DORTCH,
Attorney at hairy
CAK.SKSVIU-E. GA.
A. G. MeCURRY,
.1 TT O It .VIE f .f T M. *1 If-,
HAliTS'JTU GEORGIA.
net jcr^onal nttenti* n to nil budnesa en-
<*?<•. Aug. 4—40—ly.
Am M. Jackson.
JACKSON A
L. W. Thomas.
THOMAS,
Attorneys at .Law,
Athene, Georgia.
l.'.DKAxr. John Milleuoe.
L0CHRANE A MILLEDGE,
Attorneys at Law,
Atlanta, Georgia
' 'Sre No. 2' 3 l‘ryor street, opp. Kimball llon«c.
. NoukW'
Who an.wcM
The veriesi ac ipegraee
> had it!—that sly little elf- - L “ '
I for h:df the misdeed, that ara done,
a ipegrace beneath the bright .on.' 1 -
From barefooted beggar to king on the throne;
Ill* equal for mischief, ah! never was knbwu:
Though we never can track him, ha alwaya U nigh,
Still putting uis Huger in every one’, pie.
In gnat things and small, the ver.lict’e the same,
Whatever thf damage, nobody, toupnnel
DON’T TAKE IT TO HEART.
subsequently, Francis Kfernon vay fleeted l/Wfsjfpw
Senator; ex-Fresident Andrew Johnson of German’
There’s many r trouble,
VN ouid break like a bubble,
And Into the waters of Lethe depart,
Did not wc rehearse it,
Aud tenderly nurse it,
And give it a permanent place in the kcart.
ny a sc
Would vanish to morrow,
Were we not unwilling to furnish the wings:
89 sadly intruding * 3Ha *
It hatches out'
And quietly brooding,
t ull sorts of liomble thin
mgs.
How welcome the seeming
Of looks that are beaming,
Whether one’s wealthy or whether one’s poor;
Eyes brigiit as a berry,
Cheeks red as a cheerr,
The groan. nd the curse and the heartache can cure,
(who; afterward died) look his fecal is tttri
Senate; aud,Geoige & W-ihiaukyAttoroey-
General, was compelled to go out of Grant'.
Cabinet: The Canal frauds hare been utjj
dcr investigation in this State during the
whole year. ,'9>e£bnaher trial,. wbidb uisS
begun with the year, lasted though .its,
first half, and will apparently soon 1
be rcu media various otheri shapes,
two iinost. important .political features of
the year were the inflation campaign, and
the assemblage this month of a Democratic
j House of Representatives. The exposure
of huge whiskey frauds in the West has
been a notable iucidciit.
The question of a third term for Grant
has been prominently before the country;
and neit er his own unsatisfactory letter on
the subject, nor the recent vote of the
House against it, has pu’ it out of right
G rant and his friends have brought forward
Anti-Catholicism as a political issue, and
there is every , indication that it will be a
l questions,
5 views
. byear-has
been one of unusual .-internal quietude,
though • litter^ tM VWnna Government,
Ahich has been compelled to keep close
watch over *————- ®■
Resolved to be merry
All worry to fetry
Across the lomea waters that bid ns forget,
Anil no longer fearful,
lint happy and cheerful,
We feel life hu much that's worth living for yet.
—Ttfuley't Magazine.
LEADING EVEN IS OF 1S7S~THR0L'GH0LT
THE WORLD.
Mivi v H w~ ' #**lananwawwso- vmd
subject of party'division iu next yew's earn list war is I;
vass. About twenty loading politicians of
both parties are pipe laying for the next
Presidential nomination.
The preparations for the Centennial Ex
hibition in Philadelphia have been in pro
gress during the year. The American rifle
team Ivcat their competitors at the match
in Ire'and in June. Bo» Tweed escaped
from custody a few weeks ago. The
Hunker Hill celebration took place in June.
There have been unnumbered exposures of
corruption all through the year, hi the va
rious departments of Giant’s Administra
tion ; but only a few of the Rings have yet
been dragged to light. Tammany was de
feated at the November election, in this
city, but the Deinocr. tic ticket was success-
JOIIN IF. OWEN,
Attorney at Law.
A Year of Comparative Peace.
The past year has not been si nafised by
any extraordinary events or changesjn the
history of the world. But for a few disturb
ances here and there, we might say that the | ful in the State. There were heavy sum-
whole human race has lived in peace through i mer floods in some of the Western States,
i ho year. The patriotic Cubans have con- j The Bank of California exploded in August,
tinued their contest for republicanism and | There were w orkingmens’ strikes in Penn-
freedom. The chronic Spanish civil w ar ! sylvania, Massachusetts and elsewhere. The
between the Carlists and the Alfourists has | Western Iudi ns have kept uousually quiet
been carried on in a desultory way, but of I during the year. The town of InUiauoia,
late there has been a lull in it. T c Herzc- in Texas, was destroyed bjr a hurricane in
goviuians, in Eur0|>eau Turkey, have begun September. Vice-President Henry Wdlson
a rebellion against the Turkish rulers, and died in November.
a number of pe.ty actions have taken place j The Moody and Sankey revivalists began
with varying results, but the struggle does 1 their Brooklyn operations in October,
0 ..I i .u ..a ’on.u v 1 ...j
not seem to possess the elements of military
success lor them; and the questions at issue w ent at once to Philadelphia, where they
toocoa errv, ga.
\V:1; preeUvo iu nil the counties* of the Western Cir-
\ Hart uiul Mmli-ton of the Northern Circuit. Will
vt apodal attenion to all claim* entrusted to his care.
arc in the way, of settlement by negotiation.
The martial fegypt ans, who haVe been led
by their territorial ambition.into liosiiiities
with several neighboring countries, have
I pushed tbeir conquests toward the equator,
I\ G. THOMPSON, | have seized Darloor, adjacent to their wes-
. . § i torn line, and have invaded Abysninia, but
.\. t to r II © J- at ijH w, ! the latter count ry lias offered such resi-tauce
.’. attention, paid to criminal practice. For refer- U,, l | lt ,, r adxam-c, that they are preparing
•rtf'll, Mmt pom en. Ala, Office over Barry’s Store, ‘or the Withdrawal ot their cXl^GitlOii.
■•-.viia. *_ Wka—«t_ j l'he Rua ians have, within a lew mo .ths
past, resumed operations in TurKesian,
| where they have lought several baitles,atnl
| met with one serious reverse, but the final
result of the campaign lias been favorable
. . -t • j -1 i»i „ T I.U
closed them on the 20ih of November, and
have been engaged ever siuce. Among the
religious incidents of the year was the ele*
vatton of Archbtshe|fe. i McCla|ricey, to the
rank .of Cardinal of ute Roman Catholic
Church.
ot tiermany visited the Kit]
skwfet lv
archs conferred ’ about
they have not
at
alW'
(NrafTorkSoa.] ,
nrvr-rt* w«A.' -i-m . w , , iMUlJflW DJ
the way of Augusta, toward Virginia, has
been pronounced by competent military
men to lia|fii <> seri£ ,bad ’ strategy, and this
critkSam is aboat the <mly one of the many,
called forth by his “Memoirs” which 8her>
man has answered of taken sorely to heart.
In his speech to the 8ociety of the Army of
the Tennessee, at Des Moines, as revised for
the Decemher number of the Galaxy, Gen.
Sherman reiterates that this movement was
“happy in its conception”and “glorious in
its results,” and that;it wa| a blow V in the
right direction” at ‘‘the “righttime.” I|r
order that the qoestipp at. istt^apd hisex-
bac haj^uure than k» share of tTOuble’oyer
the Turkish question. Austria » more di
rectly interested in the Sultan’s fate than
any other power, Russia not excepted.
Russia has given os little matenid for lu
brication, beyond the ’terns incidentally'meu
tioued in our survey. We get no news from
there of Governmental crises, or of exciting
popular elections, or of piojected policies, or
of religious struggles.
Looking at Spain, we see that the young
king has maintained bis place, that the re
action against the qbxngea made during the
Republic haft lwLWPHiww.U tins Car-
bord-r, 'phut tion of it maybe 1
vernraent
•w BEX. HILL ON T1IE MTL’.UiOX.
What the Commoner ot the Ninth has to Say.
. Noticing on the registry of the Planter^
Hotel, in neat chimgraphy, the entry, “B.
H. Hill, Athens, Ga.,” we sent up hi card to
the gen tie matt thus' registered. Receiving
ah invitation ’to walk up stairs, we fonnd the
honorable gentleman in the ladies’ parlor,
and after a few moments spent is general
conversation, of his own accord, Mr. Hill
commenced to review the situation of affaire
at the National Capitol. He said that of all
the public men in Washington, Senators
Thurman and Bayard were the only ones
who rose to the level of statesmen. The
Democracy in the House ot Representatives
were thoroughly united, and would not be
driven into any foolish actions by the despera
tion of the. Republicans, who already see that
h as follows:
is contr-.llrd as ever by military politians,
and that no provision ’has been made for
eiiling to., tier a-ain the Cortes, dispersed
by the soldier who overthrew the Q|SteUr
republic. ?4* a Hit!I J • V
All the hiouth American Stales have kept
the peace with each other during the year,
feud the Emperor of Brazil will soon enjoy
t)te pleasure ot paying us a visit > v
' The great Asiatic empires are apart from
u- in thought aud motion. China heeds us
not, nor the ‘ Indies, nor Persia. As for
Africa—wha» of it?
So much for the lands of the worlds, and
as for its waters, they, too. have had their
vicissitudes. On the Atlantic, and on our
Pacific eoast, we have had a number of ship
wrecks, with appalling consequences..
The mill-wriglits have expeqted the end
of the world this year, as they have, done for
so many years; but the old machine is yet
wagging the same as e.ver. — Nine York Sun.
A SOU YEN. R *»F THE PAST.
The University of Georgia “In Embryo.’’
A Copy—Facsimile.
[From the «»
GEORGIA.
By His Honor DAVID EMANUEL,
President of the Senate, and Commander-in-
chief of the Army and Navy of this State,
and of the Militia thereof.
A PROCLAMATION.
It has been a year in which, from first to | XT?"HERE AS, dn. and by an aqt, iufitled,
last, wo have heard widespread complaints | VV "An act' to repeal’ xa tfedfetSnoe,
JOHN T. OSRORN,
Attorney at Law.
ELBERT0N, GA.
jffacticc in the eountiea of the Northern Circuit,
>, franklin and Haberaluun ot the Western
lit; will give »pecUl attention to all claims entrust-
dtocare. .> y Jan. 10, 1875—ly.
FRANK HARRALSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLKVELAXD, GA.
» practice in tho counties of "White, Union,
. Town-
ii. Lnm-
n-*, an ! Fanning, and the Supreme Court at
Will give *ncci;il attention to all claim* en-
< J to hi* ewe, * Aog. n lar&T-ti—tf.
& SCHAEFER,
COTTON BUYER,
T0CC04 CITT, OA.
I liijliw! Cash l’rice paid fur Cotton. Agent for Win
* • ■- fiins and l’rea.,. oetSOvti.
E.
A. WILLIAMSON,
PRACTICAL
MATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER,
I'hr K'ng > Drag Store, Broad Street, Athena, Go.
1 a-irk done in a auperior manner and warranted to
* >»ti,fiction. Jan. *—tf.
ofh ird times; but, nevertheless, the bust- pttssedat Augusta the twenty-sixth of Jans
ness iittcre-ts pf tlie country have been get-! uary, one thousand seven hundred aud
ting placed Upon a sounder basis than they i eighty-six, so far as res|>ects the fixing
had previously stood upon. The iminigra-1 the seat of the University of the State, and
lion tiom Europe during the year has been an act lor the the more full and complete
much less than it has been for many years establishment <d a public seat of learning in
MISS C. POTTS,
'n-shionabl© Dressmaker
(Over Unirenity Bank.)
Broad Street, - - Athene, i
\ rc*pecifully inform the Ladies and her ttfenda j
of Athena and vicinity, that ahe ia now pro- t
to do Drca* making in the Neatest aud moat |
FASHIONABLE STYLES.
fi-h her experience in the hnaineaa, ahe feel* anre of
ratiafactiop. May 14, lS75—Sd-tf.
A. A. WINS,
—-Witli—
(HOOVER, STUBBS & CO,
Cotton, factors,
-And-
ieneral Commission Merchants,
Savannah, Ga.
* ol,lcr * n PP'*** forniahed.
' r riUmwM ,n ®“ 00 <*>n»ifnnn«ata for
' “'Pmant to Liverpool or NortLtm
> porta.
May 80-tf.
) L lVERY AND ULE STABLE
Ruggits and Horses for Hire.
TERMS REASONABLE.
to their arms, and the Khanote Jkhokaud
lias been virtu .lly annexed to their posses
sions in that quarter. We have heard but
little of. the conquests of Yakopb Khan in
Western Cliiuaj; but that restless adveniu-
ret has at least maintained liis power and
kept bis Chinese—enemies at bay. The
British have just had some slight trouble in
that part of Asia which constitutes the
Malay peninsula; but recent dispatches an
nounce the complete success off their small
military force there. Tho Liberian Repub
lic, on the west eoast of Africa, has been
waging war on the savages among its pop
ulation and near its borders, but it loots as
though the Government would have to
patch up a peace without victory. Tlie
war of the Hollanders against Acheen,
which was beguu three years ago, has not
been formally terminated; but the army
and navy of Holland have not refrained
iiom operations during the year. The
Russians have annexed to their dominions
the island of Saglialieu, wjiich formerly be
longed to the Ja]Ktnese, but this has been
done by peaceful negotiations. The British
have added the heejee Islands to their
Australian possessions; but this also was
accomplished by treaty with the natives,
without resort to war.
The eight or ten petty wars we nave
enumerated in the different parts ot the
rye at globe, among various families of the
mman race, have made only a slight dis
turbance in the peaceful history of the year.
All the great powers of the world have
kept the peace with each other. The sac
rifices of mankind on the altar of Moloch,
have not numbered many thousands, all
told.
WAB AVERTED
There were several threatened ware
averted dui ing the year. Tiie British Gov
ernment had a misunderstaiidi- g with
China, which very nearly plunged her into
war with that popnlous empire a few months
ago, but fortunately the outbreak of hostil
ities has been prevented through the me
naces of diplomacy, which iuduced the
Chinese to accede to the British demands.
There have also been troubles of a war-like
past. The reports to date show that it i-
but a trifle over 100,000, which is one-th rd
below that of last year, and two-thirds be
low .hat of 1872.
R,f S{ ,7J nTD,EA *>’ Washington. Wilko, Co., Go.
medical notice.
^MolidUlion of many of my forms r patrons, I
THE YXAB IN GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.
In Great Britain, the year was unevent
ful until the Sues Canal purchase a few
weeks ago. This is the most aftnte and
far reaching piece of st tesmanship in recent
British ni-torv. By it, Disraeli has at one
confirmed British power and his own hold
upon power. The Tory party* beaded by
Disraeli, are disincline,! to continue iu the
policy of domestic change or ref rra which
was the main characteristic of Gladstone’s
administration; but. nevertheless, they
have made no attempt to reverse any of
the important measures whl-h were passed
before they got control of tin- Government,
On the shipping question, Di raeli backed
down before the demonstrations of Plimsoll
and on the fugitive slave question, he backed
down before the outcry of the an i shivery ,wji
party. >Tbe t wont picturesque: incident uf de
Disraeli’s Premiership, next to the Suez
Canal affair, is tho East Indian Tour oi the
Prince ot Wales, which is drawing to a
close. Glads: one still continues his literari-
war upon “Vaticanism.” Disraeli has pi
loted the Government safely through tne
various fore gn manoeuvres and complica-
cations that we have already mentioned,
aud his supporters claim tlist it is his pur
pose to establish a strong foreign policy
which wi.l res ore England to her former
position in the world at arge.
Iu France, t l ie year has been one of re
markable political progress on the Repub
lican side. The Republicans are in a mi
nority iu tiie Assembly; but the republic
has been strengthened by almost every step
the Assembly lias taken. The measures
that the Monarchists hare passed in their
own interests have turned out to be advan
tageous for the Republicans. A majority
of the members of the uew Senate which
the Assembly had to elect arc Republicans,
and it is not improbable that a majority ol
the other members, to be otherwise elected,
will be of the same political faith. The Re
publicans have just failed in their effort to
raise the state of siege in those departments
in which it still exi ts, and the severe _’on-
j. 1.-J .A.
this State, £0 tar as respects the appoint ment
ot Trustees; pissed at Savannah the twenty-
seventh of January, one thousand seven hun
dred and eiabty-five; and to appoint a board
Trustees, and to define the board of Visitors,
and to fix on a permanent seat for the Uni
vertity, passed the fifth day of December,
in the year eighteen hundred.” It is enact
ed, that Abraham Baldwin. Hugh Lawson,
Benjamin Teiiaterro, Joseph Clay Jr., James
• T a ’kson, James TwigRs, John Clarke, (o
Wilkes) the llfiveieud Robert M. Cunning
ham. John Milledge, J«siah Tart nail Jr.,
Ferdinand O’Neal, John .Steward and James
M’Neal. shall eomposetheBoard of Trustees;
whose duty it shall be to carry this institu
tion completely into effectAmi it is fur
ther enacted “That the Governor, the
Judges ot the Superior Courts, President
of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, and the Senators Irmn the
diflerent counties, (except the comities in
mere nave uiovucvu nwuui^ vs » , .. * , . u ,
aspect between Great Britain and Bunnah; test over the scrwftn * hste resulted ad-
and the Duke of Cambridge said a fonnight T ® r *®V ll ? em - ffi er ?, ia n ®5 l f? s ^ 0,ll ?8
ago that the Queen’s relation with the of the authority of Prestdenl McMahon by
fall?* 0 ? of Medicine
L of 1 py especial attention to the di»-
Itttu:,, 4!ld Clii)drm, and the Chronic Diaeaaea
fesu.nr. WM. KING, M. D
. ‘‘’•X—33-ly.
BLa VK <t- GARDNER,
eutetg
*«rTk«a to the dtlaena of Athi
General Jobbers,
Burmese potentate were still critical, but,
as both parties seem willing to negotiate
and as British power is very muc* feared
iu Burmali, it may be expected that a set
tlement will lm brought aUmt. In Europe
there has apparently been danger within
the last halt year that tin- complications
over tlie Tnrkish question might result ta a
great war, involving the leading European
p^ n ptry. Location, two doom eaat of
onnoaite Mr. L J. !*mnldn v a
March Si 1875—ly.
powers.
The stale-men of Russia, Germany and
Austria have been deeply engaged iu con
ferences concerning, not only Horzegovuna,
bnt upon tlie general ‘ condition of the
Turkish empire. They have bad to take
many things into account; and they have
doubtless found it difficult to reach a cou-
T- A. SALE,
u ** ^ rmc* m
cq Teeth warranted to olTfl aallstao-
•»« Singer
Sicca of br *.Co_
*RY8ICIAN,
8. M. Offlca, Clayton
authority
any party. The Lnptiroists have made no
show of their royal candidate daring the
year, and thery have been no Orieanist in
trigues to-notice. The small kikot of Bonk-
p:irtists iu the Assembly are ceasesalejy ac
tivc, but thy see they must wait for their op
portunity in the luture. Thiers and Gam-
bett have continued in their ptoea as Re
publican leaders. There are many signs
that the present Assembly will suon pro
vide for its own dissolution, audjitq sDeedy
election of a new Assembly, after which
both Houses will assemble as the
tower of an organized constif
ic.
IN THE RX8T OF EUR9PH'
In Germany—well, Bismarck Is Germany.
clarion satis&o orv to aU the parties in con- B* fcas made no great new movements tin*
elusion satnuat ory w^ .1 ycar . n e ha, not checked tke action of
ference, aud to other
but a« the peace has feo
over this bothersome Turkudj Ulriness,- the.
ou:break of.war over it may perhaps be in
definitely postponed.
We suppose we must put-among the
averted ware of the year that war of Grant
and Robeson with Spun, which recently
created such a stir in our navy- We like
wise feel happy that the troubles on the
Mexican frontier are hot beyond thq man
agement of pacific statesmanship.
of Representatives, for the time beiuR. shall
reside) shall form a Board d Visitors,
whose duty it shall be to superintend and
regulate the literature of thife*. state, and In
particular of the public seat of learning.” '
And whereas the General assembly passed
a joint resolution authorizing and empower
ing the Goyettr t0' issue his (Wabiamatiinv
requiring the members of the Senatus Aea
demieus of the University of Georgia to con
vene at Louisville between the terms of the
Superior Courts, to take under tbeir consid
eration and ,adopt such measures as may
best promote the objects oi that institution;
and that Body, at their conventional assem
blage during the filling ofthe last Legiria
ture, having fixed upon Josiah Meigs, Esq.,
then Professor of Yale College, in the State
Connecticut, as Presiding Professor of the
University of the 8tate of Georgia, who,
gratefully attentive to the call, has arrived,
with his family, among us, and personally
notified the Executive thereof, sod of hia
desire to commence on the duties allotted
him. '
I have therefore thought fit to issue this
my pnMlamation, requiring the attendance
a- well o: tho Memlxreof tiie said Board of
Visitors as oi the Members of the Board of
Tfebsteee af tWUniverrity of this State, *
the Stmtehouse in Louisville, an Monday
the fifteenth day of Jane next, then and
there to form the Senatus Aeadeeaeus, and
to proceed on tbs important duties of the
institution accordingly. ...
M^emitagfcriMr MiV.wMHfte
great seal of this State, at the
Statehouse in Louisville, the
ninth day of April, in the year
of oar Lord eighteen hundred
and one, and of American In
dependence the twenty-fifth.
DAVID EMANUEL.
By the President and Commander-in-chief,
> -Thomas Johnson, Deputy Secretary
of the State.
GOD S^yE-T^E STATE.
K;a. Ji E Taft™
troin the fejbpw ^ T . ni ,
*• Some persons have seen fit to criticise
the route pursued in oiir “ march to the sea.”
They My we should have marched by way
<>f Augusta instead of Milledgeville. The
men who say this now did not say it then.
When a tiling has been done, it is easy
enough to say it might have been done bet
ter some other way. I was there on the
spot, possessed of as much of the actual con
dition of affairs in our front as any one else.
On me clearly devolved the selection of the
route of “ march,” and I have no hesitation
iu saying that it was “ fortunate” we did not
go by way of Augusta. The reasons then
were kuown to many if not all of you, that
we should feign qn Macon to the right and
Augusta to the left, compelling the enemy to
divide his force for their defense while we
pas«ed between. Wo could not theu afford
to lie in siege before Augusta even for a
week, because the necessity for tood cora-
jielled 08 to move through new fields daily,
•lor was Augusta of sufficient value to delay
the great object an hour. t
* * I would:not change the record if I
could, and am perfectly content to leave
time and the futon to pass judgment on the
wisdom or folly of the choice of routes.^
It will be remembered that shortly after
the capture of Atlanta, Grant suggested that
8herman should move.; on Augusta, while
Cauby should send a force to capture Savan
nah ; that Sherman opposed the plan as one
fraught with danger to hi array, and that
that further discussion of it was broken up
by an offensive movement of Hood’s army
against the railroad between Atlanta ana
Chattanooga. 8herman divided his army
and followed Hood by a circuitous aud rapid
march to Gaylesville, in the northeastern
corner of Alabama, where, surmising that
in Savannah, Rood would invade Tennessee, and despairng
of overtaking him, he gave up the chase and
then resolved to “ march to the sea." It
will be further remembered that Hood took
with him the only organized force in the
Confederacy worthy of the name of an army,
except Lee’s army, then confronting Grant
in Virginia, and tliat when Sherman deci
ded to “ march to the sea” there was abso
lutely nobody to resist him except ji handful
of militia. This latter statement rests as
much upon the authority of the “ Memoirs”
as upon other histories of the period, and
may therefore be taken for granted. Now,
let the reader take any good map and find
upon it Nashville, Atlanta, Augusta. Savan
nah and Peterburg, aud the railways con
necting them. -, A gluuce will show that Au-
g usta is an important railway station, and
that an army marching from Atlanta io
join Grant ia Virginia would have to travel
a shorter distance by several hundred miles
in passing through Augusta than in going
through qr by Savannah, and would cross all
the strefems in the former case nearer tbeir
headjhfm in tbe lauet, , u >
In other words, aa- Hood had gone to the
irthweatwardtibe had moved on an eccen
trie line leaving Sherman the privilege of
using an interior or shorter line for the pur-
tnse of uniting his army with Grant’s.
Nd he avail himself of this opportuar ? No,
indeed; hut ha “feigned" on Macon, defen
ded by a small force of militia; captured
Milledgeville, defended by nobody ; gave
Augusta, also undefended, a- wide birth,
and marched dtreotly tor Savannah, which
place bo besieged, but did not Capture until
itauvt w* mu Kepllbli**
cans, and his directions were implicity follow
ed under auy and all circumstances. The
outlook for the Democracy was a promising
one, but he thought that the true policy
would not attempt to correct the raistukes
of the Republican |>arty, but to indicate what
would be done by the Democracy if placed in
power in 1876. He then entered into a very
full explanation about the probable action of
the Democracy in dealing with the financial
questions, and measures shaped to bring
around retrenchment in carrying on the
Government At least $30,000,000 a year,
yes- $50,000,000, could be saved, by cutting
down expenses, and the Committee of Ways
and Means, of which be was a member,
would take hold of the subject in the most
determined way. He spoke of the chairman
of the committee, Mr. Morrison, of Illinois,
in the highest terms, and said he was a gen
tleman in every way fitted to carry on the
duties of his very important position with
acceptability to the Democratic party.’ ■
Leaving National politics, he spoke of the
case of ex-Treasurer Jones, and said he had
been retained by the bondsmen of Col. Jones.
He defended the ex-Treasurer very warinlv,
and said there was not a more honest man in
the State of Georgia. No doubt the State
had been swindled out of the sura of $170,-
000, but it was through no fault of Col.
•Jones.—Augusta Constitutionalist.
WORK OF THE StilSWOto.*^'
if I i>? V r /*
ForOnrLadj Friends.f
A Wife Who Followed IxsraucnONH.
A Detroiter of .libf rat education (says tho
Free Press) has been greatly annoyed 1^
cause his wife and other wpmeri are not
better posted on history and other mfettere
connected )witi tho growth or welfare of
the country. The other day, he,carried
home a big history and handed it to his
spouse with the remarkThere, Mary,
1 want you to commence at pbge i, and see
if you aon’t learn something.” . Sho agfeed
to become ihi? pupil, ana when he came
home to supper he fouodiher reading away,
hair down, slippers on, all the'fires out but
one, and no sign of supper. • 5iR Whj% how’s
this?’?K. :yww ’hlefcff”
“ but ^ can tell you about the firat dispov*
cry of Florida.”
A young clergyman, whose reputation for
veracity was none of the best, ventured to
differ from an old doctor of divinity Kk to
the propriety of whipping children. “ Why,”
said he, “ the only time rny father whipped
me was for telling the truth.” “Well,”
retorted the doctor, “it cured you of it,
didn’t it.” , . , ,
If you know your friend, is at all sensitive f
on any topic, bo careful not to allude to it,
“ You mean elastics,” replied a Broadway
clerk to an old lady who asked for garters.
'•‘I suppose some high-nosed people call
’em ’lnsticks,” she said, “ but when I git too
stuck up to a^k for garters, I’ll not box my '
Susan’s ears for sayipg hose when she- !
means stockings.” She got her garters.
LOUD BYRON—I'llK PRINCE OF POETS.
N. Y. Telegram.
11
The Rev. Mr. Shipman, of Norwich, says ,
-™' It-J -A- . k l i-:illxLH i
. . , „ -I . .. n, . It war abuOfeenodibyHideoand his hetfero*
object of this “fdnVom Macon to the right
the laws relative Xo tiie.chi
’thi
N the
have De means of preventing the
of the laws of 1878 for tfae regulatiun of
eduction, ecclesiastical authority and
church property, and tbe Fop* he had to
rest satisfied with luapreviqne remonstran
ces against them We recently had new
evidence showing how folly Bismarck con
trols Genpan legislation, ana tho various
and Augusta to the left" (the latter was not
made), he teUs.ua in the pesMuines speech,
was fur the purpose of “ compelling the ene
my to divide his forces tor.their defense;”
but will,'saj military man believe far one
moiueut thatit was at all necessary lor a
veteran army of 62,000. infantry and 5,000
cavalry to manoeuvre in such manner as to
divide'a hastily improvised array of a few
thousand militia? Tue-proporitioo is absurd,
and needs only to be stated to cause even
the. merest tyro in military matters to smile.
Tbe next and only other: reason given by
Sherman for not moving on - Auguste is that
heouuld not then afford to,lie in siege, be*
fore that, place for even s< week, because the
necessity for food compelled him to move
through new fields daily. »\The answer to
this is obvious. It has never been urged
that Augusta was a point of any strategic
importance, exc-pt for its araenal, or that it
shapld be permanently occupied. It was
simply a station on the direct route toward
Virginia. Therefore, even if the enemy had
had an army tor its defense, it would not
have been necessary to lay siege to it, only
to crocs tbe river (Savannah) either above
below it, and thus compel its evacna>
a i. When it is said that tbe neighboring
ntry was foil of fora products, that tbe
city was covered by nothing heavier then a
line of : rifle trenches, and defended by a few
tiwMnd militia at most, it will bo seen that
tbe question 0( supplies was settled, and that
att talk about a siege is tbe emptiest pedan
try. It really Deeds no argument to show
that 8hermah could have taken this place,
withevery thing in it, without an hour’aaetay,
and,without de,loving anything stronger
than a skirmish line; but even if he bad
found it too strong for assault, be could have
marched by it, breaking np the railroads
leading into it, and leaving the forces of the
garrison hopelessly isolated from the other
tomes of the Confederacy. It is not to be
'Sketch by Emrlio Castelar, tbe Distinguished
Spanish Scholar and Statesman.
Ilis remarkable face; the beauty of his
Grecian head; his spacious forehead; his
arched eyebrows; the depth of his eyes,
which in repose assumed the pure blue of
the heavens, but which any emotion deepen
ed to back, like an ocean of changing
thoughts; the perfect line of his lips, sculp
tured as if to vibrate eternal harmony; his
aquiline nose; his beard, divided with in
comparable grace; bis Olympic gestures; his
majestig attitude; his stateliness, tempered by
softness; the genius flashing from bis fea
tures ; his pale and delicate complexion,
resembliug the color of antique marble, gild
ed by the suns ot centuries; all his being, all . - ,
hi. ,£»««. .LH * «ut, h» 6biK«ug B Tte 4 ^burdens borrnu
perfect vase, the Creator did not desigu that “
it should remain empty, but be filled with
immortal fragrance.
The following epitome of Byron’s charac
ter is very eloquent:
He believed that to live was to feel every
thing, to experience everything; to pass
through the different gradations of the
warmth of universal life; to plunge heavis
ly into the depths of the ocean, like the
fishes; to scale the snowy peaks, like the
eagles; to roll among the dry leaves of au
tumn ; to trample ou the snows of winter;
to languish under the burning sun of sum
mer; to hover, like the'butterfly, among t the
spring flowers; to be a pilgrim, wandering
continually from the Alhambra to the Vat
ican, from the Vatican to the Parthenon,
from the Parthenon to the Pyramids; to be
the orator who wrestles in the tribune, and
tbe brawler who fights in the streets; to be
the aristocrat, tbe noble who rejoices in the
remembranoe of his blazoning*, and in the
pride of his long descent, and the Democrat,
the man of the people, who protests against
all tyrannies and demands complete liberty;
to be by turns a cenobite and an epi
cure; chaste and voluptuous; skeptical and
believing; a criminal and an apostle; an
enemy of humanity and a philanthropist; an
angel and a demon, as if his spirit embraced
all things and all ideas; as if bis being was
tno abstract of all life, his personality the
protagonist of the grand scene of the uni
verse, of the great tragedy of history. No
people ever hated a man as the British peo
ple bated Byron; and yet no race was ever
more faithfully represented in its characteris
tic qualities, and above all in its haughty in
dividuality, than the English people were
represented by Byron.
that he was onco called to marry a ntan
who was to be united to his fourth wi’.A 11 *^
As he a< preached the aonple he said, as ni
usual, “ Pieaso rise.” .The man fidgeted. .,
about on his chair, and finally remarked,
' We’ve usually sot.”
A western poetess says “ the world t<5-
volves around a baby.” ,f i • » e/H
Zachariah,” said Mrs. Chandler, ftwhat
smell is that?” “Cloves.” “But that j..
other smell?” “ Allspice.” , “But isn’t .
there another?” Yes—apples.” “Ana
just one more ?” “ Cider, my dekr” “Well,
Zachariah,” said she, “if you’d only drink : "
a lit le brandy now, you’d make a good -
mince pie.” . ■ . ’ . .
“Benjamin,” shouted Mrs. Toodtes to
her husband who was going out of the gate,
“bring me up five cents’ worth ’ofshuff
when you conic.” ‘.’Snuff? Mrs. Toodlcs,
snuff?” he ejaculated, ns he. paused with, tm
bis hand on the latch; “ No, no,
Toodles, the times are too hard-to admit of
such extravagance; you must tickle yotfr
nose. w;ith a straw when you want'- feta*!' 1 '
sneeze?”—Fulton Times..
If we look upon life as a gift of days, only >
one to be used and improved at a time, all; »
“There is one thing about wind,” ’remark
ed a young lady to us yesterday, "It 1 blows
dust in the eyes of the men who stands on
the street corners.”—Columbus Engwrer. •. .am'
“The excuse of the third man,” said Mr. 1
Moody, illustrating the parable of the guests
who were backward in coming' forward,
“was more absurd tjian any—‘1 have mar- •,
ried a wife, and therefore I connot come.’
Now, why didn’t he take his wife along with.,
him.” - . ’ > ! »*««-»« PH
■ »I--. - >Ji !:jJ neat
Hew Year’s Calls. ! : ui ir-iliitno'
There are calls of all kind,s about tbe first >..
oftheyefer. You may call upon yowfatea^ . ,
and yonr friends may call on you. But how
shall the calling be ? Chrononbotonthologos
says in one his heric moments“Go, • call few
a coach and let a coach be called, aud let I
caller be the man who calleth, and ip Jj
f tiuril
a/vi
•The hoy at the bead of the elan will
state what were the dark ages of foe world.”
Boy bosi&eit,. ^N«t. Master Briggs, can
ron tell me what the dark ages were?” “I
r~i von tell me wnaLthedara ages were: -t
P7 e ores they were the agra before spectacles
“y W invited.”. “Goto your seats."
• • Some day in tha distant. future the little
nigger in'the barber shop who silently holds
out his hand for ten cents for stocking *
rosn’s nnee with his brush broom will be
laid away to test, and catnip planted to hide
thtfspoL-^2MMttFiwlVM?‘-‘ '
supposed, however that they would have
waited tong enough for this, for it is,almost
certain that they would have evacuated the
dace and fallen back toward Virginia, or
dispersed to tbeir homes. The very moment
8herman had passed beyond Auguste, Sa
vannah would have been abandoned, exactly
as Charleston was abandoned subsequently.
He would have saved all the time spent be
tween Milledgeville and 8avannah and at
the latter place— soraethirg over two months
—and could have formed a junction with
Grant by tbe date when he actually started
northward. He would have met nothing on
bis way ^ut .militfitoqpdt as a consequence,
the war would have ended several months
Hum toon itdWL x
Cl A Rood Example.
Savannah has had a sensation in the
shape of an assault upon Solicitor-General
Lamar by a band of the Russells. Accord
ing to the statement made by CoL Lamar,
in open court, he was assailed Tuesday af
ter leaving the court-room by six oi the
Russells and the seventh nun named
SheftaU. One of tho Russells struck him
in the face, using at toe same time abusive
language, while the others stood by with
their hands Upon thei. pistols to prevent
resistance. When court met next day, CoL
Lamar called the attention of the Judge to
the manner in which he bad beeu treated.
Judge Tompkins instructed the Grand
Jury as to their dnty in the premises, and
fell the parties were presented for riot.
Subsequently, Col. Lamar also had them
Ut under bond to keep the peace. It is to
« hoped that, if convictea, they will re
ceive the full penalty oi toe law. We can
not too much commend Col. Lamar for the
mahqer in which he has acted. His ad
dress to toe court was the utteranoe of a
noble man. He has set an example which
must be potent for good. Instead of pun-
a’ling lawlessness by a violation of law;
instead of avenging his awn wrongs, be
has appealed to the laws of bis country for
redrew. Those who know him stall, know
that no braver nor bolder man liTes,
and. they will not misconstrue his conduct.
The young men of toe State, especially
those in official positions, will do well to
learn from bis course in this matter that an
appeal to toe law is not necessarily a sacri
fice of honor.—Chron. and Sent*
/. 7*
Dean Swift and the Weaver.—In a
* reel of Leicester, one day, Dean Swift was
accosted by a drunken weaver, who, stagger
ing against him, said : “I hsve been spin
ning it out* "Tes* M»d toe dean, “and
now you are reeling it home.”
calling let him nothing call but “C&l&f
Coach 1 Coach 1” Here is railing which wtlP r ’ , ‘
be exclusively used to-dey, when all the bin
Youth of New York proposed to rail upon : , irr
all the Beauty. This general demand for
cabs and coaches' makra e happy "New Year’s
Day for those whose calling Is to keep' HRO
riages for the public good* No young geo- u « ;■
tleman with a largo fominine acquaintance
can aspect to make all his calls as a pedes- ^4,
trian, and as the' Brutninagen tailors sail*?,,
when they took George Frederick Cooko
home from the theatre,’ so may we say of the
typical buck, “Confound tbetexpensel .fi
lets have him in a coach.” To-day is the
day for extravagance in every phase of life:
end it is also the day to resolve that we shall
never be guilty of such fol(y for the rest ofi
toe whole year.
But about New Year’s-oeUs. -If yonr
friend calls upon , you for friendship end
good fellowship, it is a delightfol compliment
and beginning of the year J But suppose he
calls upon you for a loan ? NewYear’sthea^ ' 1
becomes a day of glpom, a-d«y .o$ wiktii) < > *<
something akin to a day. for. fasting; md '.-vw
swearing. This is unhappily very often the
case. By n singular combination of fortun
ate and inauspicious fates the first day of the ’ *•’-*'
year is chosen aa the anniversary for the L
calls of the festive revelers and of dons. nr -
Everybody who calls does hot call for a glass
of wine. The most punctual visitors are
those who call for their little bill. We have
always thought this was a bad -arrangement,
one which is decidedly, inconvenient td * nil
large number of worthy, yet somewhat in*- „i!l
pecunious citizens. Why should not pay
day be the 29th of February or any othra “
suitable anniversary ?_ But, U it Jv people 4
have tbeir good and evil inextricably, conns- .,.
ed, and New Year’s Day, like all 'toe other'
days in toe year, must' have its share of
sorrow and joy. We connot advise Manletirf) 1
where to call, except upon their friends. .
They need not call upon Mayor Wickham,
for he will not be in his ofifab/ tf tWW~’ ' ,ir ”
into a row they should not calico pot! Ufa 6 '? **<i-
police, for they might come, and then be As V>
sure to arrest the wrong-mam—They should
not call loo often upon tbs ruby wine^ K y/
they wiih lo.call upon the.Hkrmd they will ,
find us always “at’home” to the public.
Finally, if they wkh to malm rails which' ■’ *
Heaven will hear, let them call upon toe * VW
poor, whom we have always with us, bn|
who never need our assistance more than in „; .
thisbrillfant'mid-'winter festival, whichpW-**® ,n ^‘
tmsts so strangely -with their pinched sUfriiY irm
faring lives.—N, Y. Herald. li*H hnhrO -dlbe*
afawi-il
London Funds
holding ihe ke^
Disraeli in-
of the period,” received about as
y “calls" on Saturday as any of tbe
‘irK-rs"* |
. L Asir. sad looking at'Tthe ufT
Sphinx which is winking at him. Caption j \ nii
—“Mosqin T^ttol” it i-,.-...um’uftsa
*. r - Ml (id vd jnewt
The small boy who put a bunch of fire- atesfe
crackers in the stove hasn’t been able to sit
down yet. He complains that the old man’s
handsiare “mity hard.’’ ;c 1»
