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. . .uiwia *iiwR 1 --M QT,T> SfSKn&r YQR WL TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: —— SE COPY, One Year * 2 OO ! IVE COPIES, One Year, 8 7B , EN COPIES, One Year, 10 OO j 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 • 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 . v i.l'. anntM. aieh tim tile Niai's. per square. each time... 100 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»