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— H CtVKLTOX es CO. —— i—— -'I.a 4 ■ *7,iu\ ft * £~j>* m mm i - ?T ; Sira —i mijl-, .-t,—__ ’ 1 ' .1 : 11 ' i- i -IU DEVOTED TO OWR? POLITICAL, EDUCATIONAL, AGRICULTURAL, AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS. -.r : ——Sggaiteci c - ■ ....=1= « * 7 7 * V> -'■•ijo;..' ' • JuSO^*“2* ,|f c v» ii Two DoUajre ^f aniiufiCin Mtaiice. vor> 4. XO.47 ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1876. .. • - -.w • • • M ,! .' / r ■* r . , » —— 1 a:; im xo ,£7 $;' 777 tS ! ; ;: /7:/77 ' old series, yol. 55. . , linn ; *m —. ..:irffafci.aa -— p Mens dScaigiiui. 1 VKL.TON & CO., Proprietors: SUBSCRIPTION: tc l£ COPV, -JpY, ® n ® * U 3 V*Y. Six Month* Three Months, 4 200 .. 1 oo BO ii.vTI OF advertising. .. aents will be HWertcd at ONE ‘' V.J r - m vro for the iirat loseruoa, and :vW Si’*V*Wi*re for each cnnt.nunm*,- 1 7 -mie«».?*«*> .eomh For longer Jft a hlKT.il defluctuw Will he mule. A SiTIn “ S, ‘" arC cats a line. \ Kit vl AD\ r KRTlSEMSNTS: ,! - r , ■ - **M t"' . r l”.- 1 rsot \ JJ IK) Administrator, 5 00 Guardian .—.. 5 1*5 5 «*0 .. 5 00 tt 50 er an...- 1 50 .... 8 00 F. B. PHINIZY, (Successor to C. H. l'hiuijy & .Co. • C0T2 0JY FAC2 Oli; Augusta, Georgia. I.iherul Advances made ou Consignments. inne«i.4m. NOTICE! r«UIE BUSINESS HERETOFORE CARRIED ON A under the name ana style of C. II. l*liini*y & Co., will expire by limitation on the 31st day of’August next. Either partner will sign the linn name in iiqni- nation. , C. II. PHINIZY. F. 15. PHINIZY. ti .sr.ocjfiAilfafr IT N retiriug from tlic Cotton Commission Business. 1 1 take pleasure in reUinum* thanks to my friends who hnve patroninsd ao liberally the firm of VJ. H. l*iiini*y tte Co., and to oak from them a continuance of tiui same to my late paitner, Mr. F. B. Phinizy, whom I heartily Tecommena as worthy of t their confidence. Ills ex perience in ample, ami hi* facilities* fortim uiunu^ement of the Cotton business unsurpassed. junc3.lt. : ‘0. 4 H. ; PHINIZY. imEUSlTY OF GE0UGIA.V aft.x.TJM3sri sociOHrr'sr. The/ Permanent Homestead: 1! lO. .ton Hiotel, Z3ol*o» GSoorg:leu Situated f»6 utiles oil tke'Atlanta, Bichmond and Air Line Knilrond from Atlanta, and within one mile of the . >1 lire... - — ^ W j junction of the .North East Railroad of Go. The Pr 5 00 j prietor is now prepared to serve all who call upon hi: 1 00 2 25 i 1 50 I r f** : legal rales corrected Countv. by him with meals at the following rates: Single meal 50c. | Per week $0.00 Per day fci.ii> l Per nioiitl),#20.ot> f juhis.ly. ’* S. II. HUGHES. :in333 and Professional Cards. If. R. LITTLE, ~ It to v ney at L a n>, caune-ville, ga. S. DORTCH Alior a e y al Law, I’ARSESVILLE, GA. Au ksdn. L. W. Thomas. JACKS OS A THOMAS, |>* ttornoys at Law, Athens, Georgia. ;.:-:i.tf _ f j jJ r. IK HIL L , non.yet sir law, ATHENS, GEORGIA, niion given to all business and the same dieted. janll-ly. VO PE BARROW, riO/LYET A2 LA W, ATHENS, GA. Ivin Mr. J. 11. New ton's new ouildiug. K. SCHAEFER, r 0 T T O JV II U Y E 11, T* 5% —DEALER IN— \iutricw aad Imparted patches, Clacks, Jcnelrv, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, SA-vasisal Xxxa-fcx-aaaoxx-fco- Gvmo, Fiwtela, 33-fcs. WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY REPAIRED IN A NEAT, WORKMANLIKE MANNER, And warranted to give entire satisfaction. Ornamental ami Plain LcUtr Eng Hieing a Specialty. QQLLS92 AV2X92, cm dear fren 3oak Start Corner. A7S2US, GA. *" feb.lBtf. * ‘ ' wun, SHOE college: avenue, Next Door to Post Office. am Pr i ntt \ l’n toccoa errv, «a. paid for Cotton. Con- Kejmir- E. A. WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL Cl I MAKER AND JEWELLER, K:n.:'> Drugstore, Broad Street, Athens, Gn. ir in a superior manner and warranted to .ion. Jam8.lS75.tL_ It. E 7 HR AS HER, l / 0 /2JYET A2 LA w, WATKINSVILLE, GA. O N hand, Uppers for making Low Quarto grew, Alcxis-Tt<**, and Prinoc-itAlherts. ing promptly executed. **"*'' — Send ten dollars, per mall or express and you shall re ceive a first class pair of hoots. Juno 80,1375. S5-tf. Great Reduction in Prices I Hor the next tliirty days. Brackets, Wall Pockets, and all kinds of Ornamental Wood Work, will be sold a; GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Now is the time to tnako your houses beautiful at low figures. Greav bargalna given in everything at 26-tf BURKE’S Bookstore. CASH FOR WOOL, —OR— CLOTH FOR WOOL. t i'-r:,ier Ordinary’s Office. jan25.1876.1 y A. G. MeCUllRY, ATT OTHTETT AT I.iVW, HARTWELL, GEORGIA, civ, »trirt iwrsonal utlenUon to all business, cn- 11" liis rare. A ug.4.1»75.1y. REMOVAL! 1. SALE, LEJY2JS2, Mi >Y liD to t’.ie ollieo lately oecopicd by Dr. J. -•tl jis guaranteed in both Worlrnnd Prise*. i’. G. THOMPSON, l / ^ ■ ttoruey at JLt a w, >:i juid to criminal practice. For refer- > i 1 Ks. Gov. T. H. Watto and Hon. David "Ttsr »:nory Ala, Otficb over Barry’s Store. '**• ’ Feb, 8.1675.tf. Til A XK IIARRALSOS, LTfOUXEr AT LAW, CLEVELAND, GA. • s'c* iu the conutlet of White, Uuion^ Luua- ' im 1 Funning, nud the Supreme Court nt ^ ‘*1 give sjH'ciai attention to all 'claims eii- UL i*4 r, \ Ang. 11 JOHN IF. 0 WES, ■ ttornoy at Law. TACO A C1TV, OA. ^ :k\'m all the counties of the Western Cir- ' md MadijM.n of the Northern Circuit. Will kl attenion to all claims entrusted to his care. K-Uy. ,R Howell Cobb. L. & II. COBB, \llornejrs at Lair, Athens, Ga. '>" Deuj.rec Building. W'Uy. aLex. 8. ERWIN, Attorney at Lan\ Athens, Ga. Street, between Center & ' ' es an *l Ori & Co., up stairs. AND IALE STABLE. TLuj'jies and Horses for Hire. TEp MS REASONABLE. , i ^i 1 >, Washington. Wilks. Co., Ga. m~a. wise, . -With- f®VEIt, STUBBS & CO Cotton. Kactors, -And- f :ra ‘ Commission Merchants, Savannah, Ga. fv r Cy Ropr and olher supplies furnished. I u ' 1 I'L'ancvs made on conaignmcnW for | '•!*« to Liverpool or NortUrn port*. M»y SO.1875.tf., i, ’®sli Meats. | J ( HEAD & w. F. HOOD, Esiure* ^ ctso * T A ”» Ooox** Gnacn. ^li ssf’ i l V TT °N, PORK, AND 8AU8AGE, foiulisT, fiansage). Onr Solicitor is < of Aih^*' JV’dy to anpply the want* of th« l * r ‘wro give u* your onler* and wo 1 prior* p*id for Bo»ve*, Sheep, 1R7S ; 1 - t - J. J..HEAD & cb.\ • Tlic Athens Manufacturing Coinrmnv are now making n 1 much larger variety of Woolen Goods than ever before, : ami propose to Exchange them for Wool, believing it to he more to the interest of the Planter to Exchange the Wool for Cloth, rather than have it Card ed and Spun at home. Cull for Samples and Terms ot Exchange. R. L. BLOOMFIELD, Agent. May 19,1S75—29-tf. “DiTjOIXN G-E li DIN e7 Late of Mississippi, H aving decided to make Athens iiis future home, now tenders his professional services ... - ... * s * -*-*-**— oitice on ' /. Address of Judge James Jackson. Mr. President and Gentlemen, AUumni of t/ie University of Georgia—Ladies and JGefylemint ; i -r X’ ^ Some sixty years ago a young American visited England. His eye rested with rap ture upon its beautiful scenery; his imagina tion revelled in its rich local associations, his heart loved its delightful domestic life. That which he sn n, admired and loved, he trans ferred Lx, paper and print, nud the Sketch- laSjdr <jr AVashinglon Imnsp was enrolled a*mdng the’ classics ‘of ttie English toiigue. When a youth at this old seat of learning, I read that book, and ray own taste echoed the beauties which the author’s gr-ni ig had evoked from the Fatherland. One scene impressed me most vividly; it was stereotyp ed upon my brain ; it is in my mind’s eye now: a thing of beauty in boyhood, it has been to me a joy forever. It is a Christmas scene beneath the rooftree of an ancient English family. All the children of the blood have reassembled around the hospita ble hearthstgne. Age in,its serenity, child hood in it* glee, vigorous man and graceful graceful womgn. all sire there—all at home again. Pleasant is the reunion. Sweet though sad are the memories awakened by familiar objects around them. The groves and lawns and walks, the old gnarled cak and clinging vine, the limpid'and ever prat tling brook, the church, the church yard, the monumental stone with itJmemento of births aud deaths, all awaken “ the memory of joys that are passed, pleasant yet mournful to the soul.” The paintings adorning the walls recall forgotten scenes of family suffering or of family triumph. The portraits of long lines of ancestors, looking down from those walls, rekindle, as from the ashes of the dead, the dormant fires of family pride and ancestral glory! Thus, gentlemen, English home-life shoots its roots deep into English soil; evergreen is the foliage, perennial the blossom ; and Eng lish heart-strings, like so many fibrous roots, ramify and intertwine every clodjot English soil, tying the hearts of that mighty ]>eople to their native land with ligaments stronger than Victoria’s throne, or the omnipotence of Parliament, or the pillars of that venera ble Constitution which for centuries have withstood the storms of foreign battle and the whirlwinds of civil war. The elevation of the landed interests of England, the assur ance of title to the soil, the certainty of des cent from father to son, the superior social status of the owner of the free, land represen tation inParliamer —these tend to concentrate heart and purse upon local scenery aud asso ciation ; these enable Art to pour rich coffers and fresh boauiies year after year into Na ture’s open lap; these constitute that Alad din’s lamp, which British genius—good, hard, common sense—has so long wielded over the islaud, converting it all iuto a beautiful gar den, wherein eloquence and poeLy, heroism and industry, philosophy aud the fine arts, the higher education and our pure religion, hava so long sat and sung, awl walked and talked, and preached and printed, and where in stiff they sit and sing, and walk and talk and preach and print to-day. One result is to tho citizen* of Athens and its vicinity. CtxVrox f t., in uuiLtHXG qf J6uk H. Ntwnw’s, inhere he may bo found from 8 o’clock a. m. to f> p. if., when not nrofeasifoally engaged. Can bo found at night at residence of the late Mrs. Goldings. march28.ly. N - i i v r Miss C. Potts, .Fashionable Di'essnaajcer *0 K <Otct UniverMty Bunk.)- lr\ Broad Street, - - - Alliens. Would respectfully inform the Ladies end her friends generally, of Athens urtil vicinity, that she is now pre- pared to do Dress making in the Neatest and most FASHIONABLE STYLES. With her experience in *tb« bwoineee, she fowls* wore ot giving satisfaction. May 14,187*' 28-ti. GENERAL TICKET AGENCY, RAILROAD TICKETS >r sal*, by *11 route*, owl to nil principal jpfi A in UNITED STATES. Buy yonr Ticket* before leaving Athens, and get* all information from n Capt. \VM. WILLIAMS, A"cnt Southern Express Co., Athens, Ga. May 18, ’75 - s - tf - that imperishable monument of British glory—English literature. The influence of local association upon the mind is wonder ful. The power of the union of that abstract something called thought—incorporeal, in tangible, invisible itself—with local objects which nnty be handled and seen cannot' be overestimated. It has been felt in evefy country where literature has flourished. Indeed it seems to be its life-blood—its very heart sending out the rich, red current which sives it color, form, grace, beauty—stop this flow of blood in the veins of literature, and yon not only deprive her of her glowing complexion, but you amnsculate her flesh, dry up her muscles aud sinews, make rigid and angular her round proportions and flexible grace of motion, and leave her noth ing but a naked skeleton of hard dry boues! Noah' which God set in \he^dfmXD ImL signet ring of Jehovah that never more would He desolate the earth with a deluge. The wild flowers whose fragrance sweetened the inaccessible glens of r the iROunton/sfdes of Helicon and Parnassus expanded their beautiful petals to catch the dewy nectar for the repast of the Muses and the Graces— food sweeter even than honey gathered by the bees from the blossoms of Hymettus; and not a flower blown where aerial Nymph could alight, was “ born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air j ’’‘'strik ing analogy again to the Bible truth, that God has made nothing useless and without purpose, but His all-seeing eye is everyw here and He everywhere openeth His hand and feedeth every living thing! Thus, gentlemen, the entire surtax of the earth, mouutaiu agd valley, fountaitvand flow er, Helicon, Parnassus, Olympics, Pelion and Ossa, the sweet vale of-Tefnpc, the springs of Aganippe and Hippocrene, the Castalian fount, the very Acropolis of Athens, where Neptune’s trident, like Moses’ rod, brought water, from the rock, and Minerva’s touch rootisl the full leaved olive to shade the fount.; the over-hanging heavens with morning hues and twilight glory and thundering cloud aud bow of peace; the caverns and glens beneath with flowers and fern ami mossy leaf—r 1—all—were used by the ancient classical writers as warp, into which the web of thought wns woven jnl .order to present it visible,, attractive,- bcautr*' ful to the eye; thought imaginative super stitious, false if you please, but nevertheless beautiful, elevating, humanizing, immortal; and these rich carpets spread over earth, and these magnificent curtains suspended from sky and rnouutain and hill top, where thought is interwoven with everlasting scenery by immortal mind, constitute to this day that charm which more than all the glory of her arms rende.s Greece hallow ed ground, and still attracts the traveler to the fair fields of the soft Campania! Tiiat oldest and grandest of all books—the Holy Bible—gentlemen, furnishes abundant evidence of the same truth—the adaptability of local scenery and association to the pre sentation and striking adornment of even inspired thought. Nor should it suprise us that such is the fact. AH high nud grand thought cast metaphor from it is a.s sub stance does shadow. The substance of all holy thought is in Heaven ; we can only see it here through the glass darkly, to be seen at all, it must be reflected from earthly mir rors; it must incarnate itself in earthly similitudes or remain unuttered ami un heard by man. Hence the Bible abounds in metaphor, and is a book of poetry. Destin ed for the use of all men and to be coeval with the earth its holy thought is one grand picture set in the universal frame of nature and garlanded with flowers from every clime. Therefore St. John’s vision at Patmos abounds in similtudes and “ pure rivers of water, clear as crystal, golden streets and pearly gates, the throne, and “ a rainbow round about the throne,like unto an emerald,” the “ sea of glass-like unto crystal ” and er& tho voice of harpers harping with their harps,” are but faint descriptions; dim and shadowy reflections, of the glories of the Apocalyptic vision. In that wonderful poem, the Book of Job, the whole range of physical nature, animate and inanimate, from behemoth and leviathan to the snow flake and dew drop is exhausted to present to man the wonderful dealings of God, the Omnipotent ruler, with Satan the power ful adversary and tempter of man, and Job the patient child of affliction. The Psalms ot David draw from local scenery much of their captivating imagery. A shepherd lad tending his father’s flock", he ibecame famil iar with jrastoral life. Elevated to the throne, his heart beat full of gratitude to God, and thus he made that heart beat felt in every tongue, by nil the generations ot men : “ The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, He leadetli me beside the still waters—yea, though I walk through the valley of "the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.” Looking upon the mountains which sur rounded Jerusalem, and estimating their raan seuses the essence and spirituality and grity of the Di,vine Nature, nu<l Ilis in- nitely merciful," tender, forgiving, paternal dealings with the children of men. Indeed, gentlemen, God has always symbolized Hint- selfin physical forms when He would nppoar to man, for the obvious reason that, man could not otherwise comprehend God. The five senses are the only natural avenues leading to the mindto reach it, ideas, con ceptions of all sorts must pass f through one ' Oh^ gentlciucn, borne with its Surroutad- ings and associations, whether that home be palace'ov t coinage, is'ever jthe nursery of reonius-Atbp 1J( >st where the young bird a<s quires,, at ptice tlig streugtli.to fly aud th'ff plumage to sustain and adorn - 'its flight. The patriotic, heart of Thomas' Moore, tying its strings around the relics of Irish liberty and feeding bis genius wi^h the as sociations they awakened, has rendered Tara’s liajls ( more immortal ‘all the of these senses; and the eye is not only the 1 kings wh'o.eVpq'weiit tolhittfe from Tara’s ipostbeautiful, but .the most instructive of —'-”'- the senses—therefore, when the centre and sourc^ of all mind wouljf reach the.minds He ha* created, He has usually selected jhe eye as the medium of approach. * Thus, Jacob mir the ladder and the as cending and. descending angels ; Moses staw. the burning bush; all Israel edw , the,pillar of cloud and of fire, aud Sinai’s smoking and fiery top; and again, at Salomon’s beautiful dedication of the temple, all Israel saw the whole house illuminated with the glory-cloud of the Divine Presence and Ajv, proval; and again, on Carmel’s heig|it, in answer to Elijah’s prayer,..all Israel saw “ the fire fall from Heaven, and consume the burnt offering, and the v:bod and the stones and the dust, aud lick . up the water round about in the trench;’’ and later yet in the fullness of time, Peter and James and John sate the body of Jesus transfigured aud glo rified with Moses and Elijah; and after wards all the Apostles and others saw the ascension of Jesus to (he skies, and the sub sequent descent of the Holy Ghost sitting upon them as cloven tongues, like as of fire; and Paul sate, at noon day, the glory of a light that blinded him—a light above the exceeding brightness of the sun. Gen tleman, revelation tells us that this earth shall be wrapt in flames and pass away, and a new heaven aud earth shall appear ; but I believe that new earth will he but the old earth passed through fire to her purification —rejuvenated and Edcnized again.—Sinai and Ncbo and Carmel and Zion and Jordan and Jerusalem and Nazareth and Bethlehem and Bethany aud. Gethsemane and Calvary must lie immortal! The foot steps of Jehovah have immortalized tho soil. Eternal thought has been interwoven by Omnipotence with all this scenery, and its glory must he perennial. However this may be, one thing is certain, the fact that God clothes inspired thought, with local scenes and surroundings, gives the sanction of almighty wisdom to the influ ence of local sceuery and association upon the human soul; and demonstrates beyond cavil the power of physical forms to impress and glorify human thought. If wo turn from classical and Biblical literature to the writers who have made the deepest impres sion upon the literature of England, v.e i shall find local aud physical associations equally powerful in moulding the intellect and beatifying its productions. Shakespeare crystalized thought into every form of mate rial beauty, strung it with coral and pearls, set it in diamonds and embalmed it in flow- Milton had looked sofntcutly and lov ingly upon Nature, that upon the broad retina of-his memory, ns upon some grand mirror, universal grandeur and loveliness were so indelibly reflected, that when blind to all outward glory he had hut to look w ith in, and a world of glory there emparadised bis thoughts. Bunyan’s Pilgrims’ Progress walls - . the wafers of the Boyne touched by liis'sorrowing pen shall forever flow, with the iiiijrruuripg ramrih that tlie demon dis card js tjie .direct :\iict yilest fbe of any rswio fightmg for frgediOm; ajid. Avoca T s Vile, ‘ c where the bright, waters meet',” shall al- wAys" tjypify the, delightful reunion!} of friendship and love. Indeed, from tlic mo ment Moore lifted Erin’s dusty Harp from the shelf where he found its neglected wires, and attuned them to song, to the lime lie restored it there, garlanded with gtorv—patriotism, borne, Ireland, was the theme and inspiration of his verse: 44 Pear Harp of my country, farewell to thy numbers, This bright wreath of sob# is the lft*t we shall twiue; Go sleep with the sunshine of tame ou thy slumbers, ’Till awaked by some hand less unworthy than mine! It ihe pulse of the patriot, soldier or lover, d ". • r . JIave throbbed at our lay, ’iis thy ffiorv alone, I was but as the wind passing heedlessly over, Aud all the wild sweetness I waked was thine own.” Thus, gentlemen, I might multiply ex amples to show- the influence of local asso ciation upon literature and to exhibit tho manner tti which settled, fixed,' home life intensifies tins influence, and develops and ripens literary talent. Let tlieso examples suffice. Logic sustains what experience attests; . Popular literature, that which moves the hearts of the peopla and stirs those hearts with answering echoes, must itself bo the offspring of heart as well as mind; and the producing heart and mind must have time to take root in tho soil, anrl grow upon the food its scenery, attach ments and memories so abundantly supply. Indeed, true Art is but the close imitation of Nature. The more deeply and thor oughly Nature is loved and learned, the more excellent Art becomes. Thai instru ment makes music sweetest which approxi mates nearest to ‘- the human voice divine.” Tlie statue Ircirthes, tlic canvass speaks, only, when Art deceives the eye with the very similitude, the perfect likeness of Nature. As with music, sculpture and painting, so with the art of writing—par ticularly with fictitious writing—it approx imates perfection as it approaches Nature, personifying men as they are aud describing scqijcry as it exists. Shakspeare wrote, “The world's a stage and men and women actors;” Shakspeafe’s art was to make the stage a real world, and actors real men and women. Scott, Bulwcr, Dickens, all make fiction appear tact, and show that Ihe best creations of human genius are but the most accurate copies of natural scenery, character and manners. There is but one creative Mind; the' others are mere creatures and copyists, and that created mind is greatest’ that copies closest Nature, the work of the creating,M’md. But, gentlemen, tlie permanent home stead, and tho consequent elevation of the landed interest and attractions of home-life, teud surely and irresistibly to elevate, rt- arewdtmiTralhnng^orvilwaryoyerwbelmuig- lyso;* lit demolishes the homestead and scatters the j Tamiry» -When:''"shall we re cover from it’s appalling effects ? The legislator, at tho .Capital of tlte State or of theJiationpxperieuces tlic sinking influence oflh'6 tres'cflferbf'tlie elevating associations of home. If it’s absence docs not destroy, it tends to stunt tlie' trow'th of piety in the soul; and’ifHhdtoirtmpotenceof grace does not permit it to kill id! religion, despite that omnipotence, ! speak ptrongly bnt reverent ly, it too often makes it but ap ill-shaped and uncomely dwarf t The stranger abroad suffers too id his moral life because the res-' traiuts 1 oMiomw do not: surround; him. When abroad,.men will frequent, place? and do deeds which, if frequented and done at home, would mantle the face with shame. ConsCihncC itself srcirs ’©■'loose the strong est ties which bind it to virtue, when it cuts the striugs that tie it to the homestead. . Now, gentlemen, lot that home be tlie sanie which ancestors had owned, and oc cupied continuously before—let church and church-yard, door-sill and hearth-stone be the same—all a .onndhis mansion, let the occupant see ancestral foot-prints, and then impregnable to vice and crime-—so far as any piaeo this side of Heaven can be—shall be such a home. * Lifo there shall be life with the dead and with posterity—with the virtuous past to be transmitted, untarnished to the future—happy if the possessor feel that ancestry and posterity, all linked with the common come, smile approval, but O, how miserable if they weep in sorrow or scowl with scorn! Patriotism and piety, gentlemen, arc twin sisters twin daughters of the hallowed and the hallowing associations of ho nc. The captive children of Isfael could not sing the Lord’s soiig in a<.straffge land ; silently and sadly their harps bung upon the willows by the waters .of Babylon. Even Christ’s; human soul wrapped Us affections closely around the land of his earthly fathers, and tlie great heart of Jesus agonized not only for the souls of liis countrymen but over tlie ruins of his country. “ And when he was come near, lie beheld the city and wept over it saying. If thou had’st known, even thou, at least iu this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace; but now they arc hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, .hat thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass tlieo round and keep thee in on every side, and • shall lay tlieo even with tlie ground and thy children witiiin thee, and shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knowest not the time of thy visitation.” “ O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killctli the prophets and stonest them that are sont unto *hee; how often would I have gather ed thy children together as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, but ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.’’ Though John Wesley’s parish was the world, his heart grappled England with undying tenacity: and neither obloquy nor persecution could drive him from tho communion of her National Church I Patriotic fervor as well as Chris tian zeal fired the prayer of John Knox when he cried : “Lord give me Scotland or I die!” Root the heart, gentlemen, deep into the soil, tie it there by the myriad is one picturesque allegory—a long vine of! The pioneer, ever restless and energetic, is metaphor full of branches and thorns aud j eV er as rough—rarely cultivated and re- flowers—an actual, visible journey from g ne d. 'The hustle and activity of his life earth to heaven—a flight, leaving all be- ; leave no time for contemplation of the hind, from the wrath to come—a race, drop-1 mu.-cs or fellowship with the graces. His ping every burden and laying aside every j very surroundings preclude . their close ap weight, to the Celestial City, ’’ *” ’ ■’ ’ fine and polish society. Ordinarily, the Huic tendrils of home-life, and then shall ,Tder the country, the better its society. ! L ’ S outgrowth be taste, refinement, patriot- — ■ - - - ism, piety. Nor is this all—conservatism is another of its certain fruits. A fixed landed interest, 1 a settled home, is of the es- "I!" * ™ii“g <*.«*• ■C.L ;„^r inmress the minds ad- the hero poet-sung:” riioy that trust in the R? R» SAULTER, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF visible in order to impress tlie minds ad dressed; and whilst all language is the garb thought wears, yet the more strikingly and tastefully it is dressed, the more powerfully anil lastingly does ‘it impress the receiving mind. _ »-■> The ancients were familiar with this prin ciple of mental philosophy and acted upon its knowledge, arraying and adorning their thoughts in drapery woven from the visible all around them. Indeed, if you take from tlie glowing numbers of Homer ami Virgil, of Hesiod and Horace, this beautiful drapery and sparkling jewelry, dry narrative or dull criticism in numbers will alone remain— sound may still be there, but sound monoto nous and dreary as the continuous sighing of the winds through the pine forests of South etti Georgia. Glace with me a moment, gentlemen, at WINES, WHISKIES and LAGER BEER,; smne 0 f the pictures of these great painters mv 1’ifi.MH Sr .«. ..r il,I,f . wntnripa liivp planned since ALE, GIN, CIGARS, &., CALL AT SAULTERS EXCHANGE, Jackson Striet, ATiir.v*, Georgia. Oct. 8—d-tf. Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, Ath.©ja.s, Georgia, • GANN & REAVES PROPRIETORS WiB Bo found *t their old stand, rear Franklin Houec building, Thomas street. Keep slwavs on haml good Tnmont* *nd careful driver*. Mock we.l rior when entrusted to onr cure, block on hand for side »t all time*. _ deeUtf ’ Planters’ Hotel, Augusta, (Ja. xx- ov.icu, ..... -ewlv Furnished dnring the Summer of 1875, is now opened, with Increased food'- ties for the accommodation of the travelling public, feht-ly B. lVCUWTFIELD, Proprietor. ■ I . t ; — 1 r—T7 “ , MEDICAL X01ICE. At the solicitation of m»ny of my former patron*, l resume the [Practice of JVEedicine arasfs; js&urJtssssszz “ ‘™‘~- 1VM. KING, M. D Jane 1«,1875—SSily. - fat 1 ' COCHRAN, i a-a.., ^ given to the purchase and **le of 'ilA '•!<) A'A *11 ft PRICES WAT DOWN! AdELss g. fcjstr ,TS SELLING MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS l ot prices lower than ever before i Hsta trlm(neu with fcibbons end flower* «t *1.00’, CblplUt* «t *i.5« PomcU II»ta it 75c; No: IS Mid 1« Ribbon. »‘ *0«>d .85 et*.;. A beautiful line of N*oktU», RuoUngn, SJlks, call and be convinced at her store on Broad St, bitween Dra. Longs & Billups and Smith’s Drug Stores. nmya.tin. MpixVjjAMMM of thought; centuries have elapsed since the brush was applied to the canvas, yet the hues have not faded, the colors are still fresh. —Those streaks of light which beautify the morn and herald the rising day were to these painters of thought but the touches of tlie rosy fingered Aurora, the daughter of the Morn, and when the people gazed upon the morning sky they fancied that their beau tiful goddess, with rose tipped fingers was was painting the early day. Those broad belts of pale light which encircles the heavens at night were streams of milk spilt from the overflowing breasts of the queen of heaven as she ‘nursed the infant god, and poets, philosophers and astronomers, all bow be fore tlie majesty of ancient genius, and still bail that light as the Milky Way. The lava and ashes which the fiery mouths of JEtna and Vesuvius disgorged from time to time were but the refuse of metal and cinders from those ^cavern shops wherein Vulcan was forging the armbr of the gods. I Echo, sweetest and saddest of all the nym phs, and fairest daughter of earth and air, pines away to a shadow—because her love of the beautiful Narcissus was unrequited, withdrew herself forever from animate gaze, and made the banks and glens of the sin uous Cephissus vocal with plaintive respon ses to every voice of man or beast or bird that broke the silence of her retreat! The cloud-capped Olympus was the Council Chamber where the Uods held high debate for the tifeal of outn; the (Ronds which cap the rainbow wKSshftrehed 3ho«:Ccloiids and touched the earth was the highway for the descent of Iris with l’ligniossage ol peace to man—striking■ analogjKto the audience chamber of the Almightj\with .Loses ou the mm “ Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but nbideth for ever. As tlie mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people from henceforth, even forever.” Driven to the wilderness by Saul’s persecutions, be watched the wild deer hasting thirsty to the water, and thus his^adoring song took shape from the figure in his eye: “ As the hart panteth after the water-brook, so panteth iny soul after Thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God? Observing the dew on the heights of Hermon, and each re freshed flower and blade of grass as they lifted their reviving forms to praise the skies in unity and peace, he embalmed the senti ment of Christian fraternity in the fall of the dew-drop and the response of the flowers: “ Behold how good and how pleasant it U for brethren to dwell together in unity! —As the dew of Hermon aud the dew that descended upon tho mountains of Zion ; for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even lite for evermore.” Isaiah’s prophetic eye rested on familiar objects around him—on Bethlehem’s quiet village, Calvarys unostentatious mound, Jerusalem's magnificent temple—as his mind unfolded the successive scenes of that sublime drama which was realized and acted iu the humble birth, the long-suffering life, the lamb-like death, the majestic resurrection and ascen sion and the eternal reign, of the glorious King of the new Jerusalem and it’s glorified inhabitants! Indeed, gentlemen, when on Sinai’s awful summit, God revealed to Moses the creation of the Heavens and Earth with all moving beings and trees and ilants and lightflbd water, it is now thought >y the most eminent divines, that lie caused the successive stages of the creation, tike a magnificent panorama, to pass before the eyes of that grandest of inen^ and Moses transferred to the Book of Gehfesis the out lines of the pictures which he saw l And when Christ, that promised prophet like un to Moses, came from. Heaven apd .spake on earth as never man Ipake, God wa^'not only incarnated in him -bodily, but he iuwarnated divine thought in the visible aud tangible all around him: and thaJpcamate God ew|ced from the light of the candle and the* my on the hill, from the salt and its savor, from the fig tree, the vine and its branches, the lilies at his feet, the flying fowl above him, the MtirauwlKZU; thronged avenue and the straight and nar row path, the lofty mountain and the gor geous temple, from nature and nature and art blended in local scenery all over the holy land, from these Christ drew the thread and 1 " MM The graveyard ot a quiet village, long fa miliar to Gray, inspired the most elegant and touching elegy in the English tongue. Gold smith’s recollection of tlie home-life of his father, and tlie scenes of his pastoral visitations inspired in his soul the most striking description of the ministrations of u pure pastor among his flock in all the range of literature. See the good nian iwPtfio' poet- paints him at work for Heaven: “ And ns a bird caeli fond endeaqncnt tries To tempt it’s new fledged offspring to the skies, He tried eacii art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.” Lord Bvron, traveling everywhere and ob serving all things and drawing from all sources to fill the great reservoir of his mind from Ocean and Alps and the beautiful sence of all conservatism. A Conservative in political opinion is one tvho opposes all vc.y u lww(i .^u o.o,. , ™ sl b «? trie< } schemes, lest in a wild hunt proaeh. All men are chamelions; they will ^ ter imaginary blessings and Utopian absorb and reflect tlie line of surrounding dreams, presort, practical good be endanger- obiccts. Constant association with the wil- Ma . n ls , ev ® r so,hs ^-, Ho . who has most clem ess' and the wild beasts and separation | ir J t 1 crc ‘ st ln . e t0 anc * V nin ? v ' from the arts of civilized life, not,only tend | a ^ c . * m ' * conservative, be- to clothe the body with the rough texture ! cai isc_it is htsi interest so to be. There is and rugged skins of the wilderness, but meaning, striking significance in tlic legal they tend too to impart to the soul, the synonym for land; real estate—real pro- •v-i -i -r-i x. perty—ns much as to say, “there is nothing cloud-like or evanescent here, no trick or sham; this is solid property. It embraces the earth—all that which is affixed to it, mind, the manners, much of the same rough and rugged nature. Savage life is always the growth of tjie wilderness : civilization hews down the forest; and fields and gar dens smile upon men, and men smile back in response- The little flower pot in the cottage window is the never failing sign that within dwells some soul, if not yet in the bloom of culture and refinement, iu the possession of the germ at least that aspires —from Ocean and Alps and tlie beautiful to unfold all delicate sensibilities within it- Rhine and the relics -ot Roman -grandeur ge ]f. Now, as symmetry and taste inter, crumbling beneath the weight of centuries-r. tw j nc tlioir graceful tendrils with from that reservoir wherein was everythin, terrible or lovely in nature, grand or beauti- ; ful in art—fro?# A mind thitai-fnUTofr all things, Byron drew vivid and varied hues with which to paint his teeming thought aud matchless verso ; yet when at the zenith of his fame, when fawned upon and flattered by adoring multitudes, he could not tear from his heart the ivy-clad home of his an cestors, but gave vent to his impassioned yeaminga for the long neglected ivy and de serted brook in strains of melancholy and al most despairing melody. 44 Tl»o’ wit may flask from fluent lip» and mirth dis tract tho breast, ’ Through midnight hours that yield no more their former hope of rc*4, , ^ .,7 ^ ***'.'» ’Tis but os ivy leave* around the ruined fcurraftmath, All greon and wildly fresh without, but grey and worn beneath.” * / 44 Oh could I feel os l have felt, or he what I have been, Or weep as once i could have wept o’er many a van ished scene, As springs in deserts found, seem sweet, nil brackish though they be, So ’midst the withered,w«istc,ofJifl?,thbse tearsvrpuld tWtowe*” .7, Sill Sir Walter Scott from mountain and lake, valley and’rill, and mist and cloud— iu contact aud communion with which his genius grew into wonder-working powers —drew such copious clouds of illustration and poured them back upon his native land in showers so frequent and refreshing, that Scotland still sparkles with tho lustre and teems with tho flower and fruit of that mighty genius which converted her bleak hills and blue ponds into the classic ground of modem Europe. What traveler visiting Loch Katrine cau ever dissociate its wild beauties from the lace amitbnn of Ellen Douglass as she tripped lightly along banka or rowed her aliallop as lightly over its waters: “ A foot more liglit, a step more true. Ne’er from the heath flower dashed the dew, E’en the slight harebell raised its heed Elastic from her »iry tread— Her kindness and her worth to spy Yon need bnt gun on Ellen’s eye; Not Katrine in her mirror bine , Gave back the shaggy bunks more tree,' Than every freeborn glance confessed The gnilsleu movements of her breast.” That great countryman of Scott, Robert Bunts, from a simple hawthorn bush within whose shade he sat with Highland Mary— from the bonnie banks of Ayr—from the cotter’s humble home, where Saturday night the good man led in family pray.etv evoked the most inspiring strains of ahaty whose echoes shall murmur forever tyith the rustle of the hawthorn leaf; the ripple of Ayr’s water; ' :thd the breeze that tans and garden and cascade and flower, by an invisible but energising 'mesmerism, char acter, conversation, manners, home life, social life imbibe kiudrod symmetry and grace. But how shall you thus fructify and beautify the soil, and thereby beautify the face, of society ? By assuring as far as you can by law the title to the possessor and his deseendents, is the plain and irre sistible answer: Because the possessor, having such a title descendible to his heirs, will be stimulated by love of self, family, posterity, to expend his incomes upon the inheritance, to build upoii it solidly for gen erations to come, to enrich the soil and adorn the homestead nnd surroundings; and this outward and visible adornment shall operate inwardly upon the home cir cle, the kindred aud the neighborhood, and impart amenity and grace and polish to the entire society around. Nor is this all, gentlemen. What is pa triotism hut love of country, and what is country but that portion of the earth’s sur face where God has set our homes? Our country, if ,but the aggregation of all our homes; tlieso homes adhere to the soil, aud as we enrich that soil and beautify these homes, we enrich the country aud beautify its face; and with the spire of every new church .and the erection of seats of learning aud solid -and beautiful additions to home, and linking all neighborhoods to each other by nets of railway, and multiplying manu facturing wheels,, a?/ attached to the soil, our, hearts shall • swell with more of pride and lo ve ,for the land of our fathers, patriot ism become a passion, and in the whole Hod-given univorse. therc wiU.be noplace like home. Truthfully*,;then, as-well aa proudly, may we all repeat the patriotic verse of ihp English ppet: i; -..jMi-.q “ There is a tend, of every land the pride. Beloved hy Heaven, o’er all the vrorld beaid*, . .Where brighter anna dispense aerpner light. s.v t* • And teildririnoona emparedise tfcenight ; n ,-' lii every chine, tho magnet the sow, *.'1:;-’ Touched by remembrance, trembles to that Bole; For in this laud of Heaven’* peculiar grace, i , The heritage of natures noblest race, - -■ 1 Thtte in a spot of oartb tnpftfnalyi bjafl'i) ■ ’ > ^S^tef-undF Art tixm a man !-S-p*tr'K*Mo4k a»odiul; O 1 tbou shall find, howe’er tby footsteps main; [•.,!(] That land % cvuntry, and that spot thyhomtl" -Noristhis all—morals an<Frtligion, ttfll feel the ; raesm<iri?m «t' all < thj* solid, Jmk> movable wcaftli of, beauty, and expand too under ft’s sway- The associations of home are essential to good .morals. For want qf such associations, the soldier and the sailor inseparable from it.” If a man have that property, and especially if it be inalienable, so that he cannot sell and move its prooeeds away when the State is in danger, be is shuvnp to take care of it—he must bo con servative of it, and being so, ho will oppose all that endangers its safety. Hence ho will look long before lie leaps into the air. He will act and vole to save, preserve, con-* serve that which' is, and must continue-to be, his own and Ills children’s. Gentlemen, that which is most needed now among us is conservative principle, and its restoration to power. I speak in no party sense. The thought is too high for the atmosphere of party. It soars above the miasma of party corruptions. It is a sound plank—heart of oak—too navrow, perhaps, for the populace to stand upon, or the demngogne to advocate; and therefore not fit, it may be, lor any party platform. Outside of all party relations, let us con template the subject for a moment. In the early history of our country our fathers saw a wilderness he ore them, they were pioneers and made governments for pio* neers. Yet even at that time caro was taken to preserve as well as to advance; and the fathers saw that the element of preservation—of conservation—was in the immovable land; and hence in their funda mental law they fixed the landed interest of the country. By the early constitutions of Georgia no man could be Governor of the State unless lie owned five hundred acre* of her soil; and in other States, the quali fication of land owner extended to Sena tors or Representatives, or both, and to the voters for one or the other branch or both branches of the Legislature. This was the policy when we were pioneers; it would seem that we should bo more conservative now; yet what are'the facts ? New States have been admitted into the Union so hurriedly; the Western wilds have been subdued so rapidly; land has become so abundant and so cheap; the constitutions bt the new States have ignor ed all ’conservative checks so completely that the old States have caught the con tagion and the entire safeguard of checks and balances has been swept from onr poli tical system. I know; no State which hasa conservative balance wheel left in its Con stitution. All law making power i&'ini the indiscriminate mass of the people. Gov ernors. Senators, Representatives are. all elected by the same constituency. Hence the State Senates are riot more conservative than the Houses, and the Governor some times less conservative than either. The Federal Constitution may. be better in this respeqt only,' that the Senators are chosen by the State Legislatures, but as these-in both branches are chosen by all the people, without regard to any fixed.interest in tho States, a true, conservative, steady balance wheel 1 lias no place j in that Constitution,