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UNIVERSITY OF
VOL.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, SEPTEMB
SERIES, VOL. 5G.
S*fl.W XTOTICE3.
It. LITTLE,
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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Carnesvillc, 6a.
J 8. DOHTCII,
•S * ATTORNEY AT law,
Carnesvillc, 6a.
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JACKSON & THOMAS)
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
Asa M. Jacksos. L. W. Thomas.
SIGHTS OFSEVENTY-SIX.
The Gettysburg Gobliu.
THE FAMOUS PAINTING AESTHETICAL
LY CIUTICIZED A WELL FOUGHT
TEES—BLOOD AND GORE—
THE DISPUTED QUES
TION SETTLED
AT LAST.
in appearance than are the Federals.
Their hair and beards are a little
unkempt and matted, but they resem
ble our boys for all that, and have
the real rebel,dare-devil, kill-me-quick
look in their eyes. Besides we musn’t
FIELD—PROMIHFWT •> , *°<
io ■w«-i»'n- rnmumfl Iioon on t.liri ni'irali for rinva
sixty or sevepty-five men assembled
at the depo»arir|ed with the old
muzzle-loadinl muskets that were
used during tie late unpleasantness.
A train was t^idered by the manage
ment of the Port Royal Railroad, and
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ri I>. IIILL,
* ATTORNEY
at law,
Athens, Go.
Prompt nttenUou given to aU business and
the some respcctlully solicited. janll-ly
13 HAHHOW,
dope
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
Office in John H. Newton’s new building.
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A-yORNEY AT LAW,
WatkSnsviHe, Ga.
Office in former Ordinary's Office,
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P.
G. THOMPSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
For
and
Offioe over Berry’s Store, Athens, Ga.
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IIARHAI.HON,
DBANK
attorney at law,
/' Cleveland, Gin
Will practice in tlio counties of White, Union,
Lumpkin, Towns, and Fanning, and the bu-
l vrtJc Conrt at Atlanta. Will give special at-.
lentiou to *H Claims enuatei to bit care.
7 aug-111875-41-tf.
JOHN W. OWEN
ATTORNEY AT
LAW,
Toeoo City, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties of tiro West-
trn Circuit, llart uud Madron ot the Northern
Cirouit. Will give special attenion to all claims
■> .-entrusted to his care. oct20-1875-ly.
Lamar Cobb. Howell Cobb.
A II. COBB,
ATTOBXKVS AT
LAW,
Athens, Ga.
Office in DeujWce Building,
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A. M
rax. W. EHWlJfl
attorney at la it,
Athens, Ga.
Office on Broad Street, between Center & Nich
olson and Orr & Co., np-stiurs.
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^ M. COCliitAN.
ATTORWEV LAW„
Gainesville, Ga.
Real Estate and Gencrul Land Agent for the
purchase and salo of Mineral and Farming
Lands in Hall, and the other counties of North
east Georgia. Mineral ores tested and titles to
property investigated. Special attention given
f From our special Correspondent. J
Philadelphia, Sept. 21,1876.
Escaping from the labyrinths oY
the Main Building, we pushed our
way into the Art Gallery and pressed
on through acres of Murillas, Titiens
and Reubenses direct to the great
national painting—'The Battle of
Gettysburg. We ” constitutes your
correspondent and Davis. Davis is
a West Virginian, a hot rebel still,
and is a rather dangerous companion
to a peaceable man, on account of
the recklessness of his remarks. But
no one seems to take umbrage at
what be says—they swallow patient
ly everything, like an allopath taking
pills.
We had heard so many conflicting
accounts in regard to this painting,
that we determined to settle fully in
our own minds, by a critical exami
nation, the true state of the case. The
conclusion arrived at was that the
painting is not unfair, and doesn’t
do injustice to the South, as we have
been lead to believe by some, who
assert /that the Sot hemers are depict
ed aaffhorde of barbarous cut-tbroats
and ragged ruffians, demoralized and
disordered, flying in terror and dis
may before the serried phalanxes' of
blue-coats. This is altogether untrue.
Let ns only examine the matter criti
cally:
In the first place, the picture is
painted by a Northern man—a man
who from his familfarity with locali
ties and personages probably witness
ed the fight itself, or at any rate has
made it a careful study. Very good.
Now this artist doubtless takes ’great
pride Jn the armies and soldiery of trouble
the North ami glories in their achieve
ments. Their doughty deeds and
accomplishments subtend to his own
exaltation, in a certain measure.
Meade won Gettysburg only after a
long and stubborn fight, lasting
I through Jtwo days'; this history at*
I tests. Would it then be creditable
to the soldiery, the artist so esteems
men 'Sad been on thd inarch for days j of action, bnt in the-meantime, the
and must necessarily have looked a | Superintendent having received a tel-
little worn out and haggard, while egram saying that no further assist-
the yankees who had remained corns j ance was needed, refused to allow the
paratively stationary for some time, train to leave. The men, however,
they wasaAbindpIfc leave for the field cool and bracing breezes of Autumn,
bad no excuse for notlooking fresh and
strong. In the foreground a Con
federate soldier has his back tamed
to the enemy, his arms ont-stretched,
and his countenance distorted as if
in fear. This figure, which is life-size
and very prominent, has probably
given rise to much of the exaggerated
outcry which we hear in regard to
the unfairness of the painting. Bnt
the babblers didn’t inspect sufficient
ly close. Had they so done, they
wonld have perceived two ghastly
shell wounds in the breast, showing
that the contraction of intence agony
and not fear, distorts the rebel’s fea
tures.
Per contra, a dead Federal, also
occupying a prominent place in the
picture, bears a wound in the back
near the shoulder-blades. This in
itself may not be of much significance,
but, as Frank Clark says, “it all de
pends upon a man’s raising.’’ We
of the South were not taught to turn
our backs, and if the yanks were,
why we’ve no right to complain, es
pecially jvheu they own it thus pub
licly.
It is but fair to dose this brief
analysis by repeating that no injus
tice is done the South in the painting.
The artist lias presented us with a
pieture. ,, true to nature and fact in
every detail. It is but right to make
this avowal, as we must give even
the devil his dues! Sut.
CAROLINA CANARDS.
S’BLOOD I AGO, 3’BLOOD!
ON THE l*ORT ROYAL RAIL
ROAD INCARNATE FIENDS JUST
REVENGE WILD RUMORS TIIE
“TIGERS’’ TO THE RESCUE—NOT SO
MUCH “WOLF” AFTER ALL—BLUE
COAT’S ON TIIE GROUND.
to the purchase and sale of city property.
may2—Cm J. N. DORSEY. Attorn
m
WINN,
-WITH-
(Ties & M,
I From our regular correspondent.]
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 20, ’76.
Last Monday morning the wildest
rumors circulated in all quarters of
O’.ir cit y in regard to a serious affray
and glories in,'to win a battle hierely which wits said to have occurred in
“ by the skill of their teeth ” over n
horde of ragganndfiiis and ruffians
determined to go; and, placing one
of their number on the engine, started
the train; but after running about a
quarter of a mile, it came to a stand'
still, because of the inability of the
wonld-be engineer to manage the
locomotive. Sober counsel having
by this time prevailed, they allowed
the train to be brought back to the
city, add quietly dispersed.
The trouble seems to have been as
follows/: About a week ago, a Mrs.
Harleyi living near' Jackson Station,
on the Port Royal Railroad, some fifi
teen miles from Augusta, was brutally
attacked by two negro ruffians; her
husband being absent in the field, and
no one with her but her little son, the
scoundrels came very near succeeding
in their devilish intent, and would
have done so, had not the woman, in
her desperation, snatched from the
wall a double-barrel shot-gun, seeing
which, her assailants, supposing the
weapon to be loaded, incontinently
fled front the house. The country
was ablaije with excitement, and
bands'.iff armed ipen searched in all
quarters for the fiends incarnate.
They succeeded, in overhauling one
of them, who received the punish'
ment he so richly merited; the other
could not be found until last Satur
day. Hearing that he was with a
large body of negroes, near Jackson,
who resolutely swore that ho should
not be arrested, a negro Magistrate
issued a warrant for his arrest, and
placing it in the bands of a Constable,
ordered him to execute it. The Con
stable knowing the belligerent atti
tude of the blacks, summoned a large
posse, and proceeding to the place,
demanded the immediate surrender
of the crimiual to the majesty of the
law. This, they not only refused to
do, bnt fired upon the Constable and
his posse, who immediately returned
the volley, wounding several of the
rioters. Not being strong enough,
however, to overcome them, it was
agreed tlmt both parties should dis-
perse ahd go home, winch the whites
proceeded .to do, as many of them
white citizens; the latter, however,
fully appreciate the situation; and
seem equally as determined to avoid
any collision, as they ardto carry the
election this fall, p*
Summer has at last left us to the
wnicIT
the fearfully period of heat through
which we have passed.
Yellow Fever still raging in Savan
nah ; Augusta has come nobly to her
aid—onr citizens having contributed
fifteen hundred dollars in money be'
sides nnmorous donations of useful
articles; our City Council has also
appropriated fifty dollare per day, a>
long as the scourge continues to exist
in the bosom of our noble old “Forest
City.”
On Tuesday, some fifty Federal
soldiers were ordered to the scene of
disturbance in Carolina. Their offi
cers assured the whites, that they
would see that tlie negroes committed
no further excesses. Upon this as
surance, the whites disbanded and
returned to their homes’, from which
some of them had been absent four
and five days.
Not much of interest here at pres*
ent. Trade has not yet revived from
the dullness of Summer, and conse
quently, the town is in “ statu quo.”
Clinch.
least, we have that genial and high-
toned gertleraan, Capt J. E^Ritch,
to urge the merits of the Georgian.
One time-honored face we miss from
our bar. For the first -time in many
years, the venerable Col. Gabriel
Nash, of: Madison, fails* to reach our
sre elcmiD^plltcfiH -after Court. CourtiRjyjij^jjiQj] a! tended
irfllllv nnrlnil nf lioof — ^..1 1 ?vi i«T «
HART COUNTY COLUMN.
News Hots lVoni our Regular
Correspondent, o
The
SUPERIOR COURT.
Fall term of the Superior
Court for this county convened on
Monday last. His Honor, E. H.
Pottle, presiding with his character
istic ability, and the Solicitor-General,
Samuel Lumpkin, at his post to
guard the interests of the State.
•i -
Collet Factor* anil Urncrrl Commission Scrclianls,
* *. invsulftah, Ga.
fcigsittg, ftes, Rope and otlwr supplies far-
.nished. Also, liberal cash advances made on
-consignments for sale or shipment to Liverpool
nr Nortl>crii norts. tray SO-1875-tl
or Nortln-rn ports
jjt H. lMUnlzy.
(Successor to C. 11. Pliinizy & Oo.)
COTTOXT rVACTOH,
Augusta,* Ga.
Liberal advances made on consignments.
june6-4m
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Boat anil Shoe Manufaelurer,
' COLLEGE AVENUE,
NEXT DOOR TO tllE POST OFFICE,
On hand/Uopers roi
• cxis-Ties, i
for making Low Quartet,,
Congress, Alexla-Tiea, andPiinw Alberts. Re
pairing promptly executed. Send ten dollars,
ncr mall or express and you shall receive a first
*— v iaas pair of boots. yuno 80 1876-85-tf.
W SCHAEFER,
COTTOXT
s
Tocoa City, Go.
Highest cash .
for Winehip’s Gins
price odd for cotton. Agent
ms and Press. oc20-1875-tf
without discipline and inferior in
number to their “ serried ranks?”
By ft simple reductio ad ub&ur&llm
we See that it would not he politic in
the artist to underntc, t&dervalue or
misrepresent, in 'lifts gross manner
alleged, the inch v wl\o faced, fought
end fell back grimly before these
serried Tanks ” of blue.
So much fur the philosophy. Nqw
For the facts:'
Tim painting is about 20x14 ft.,
and occupies the entire end of a
gallery. The figures in the iinme.
diate foregrounds are as large, or
a little larger, than fife, and gradually
decrease in perspective up the can
vass. The Confederates, attacking,
ure on tlie right; the Federal, re-
paling, on the left. Rather more
prominence is given the latter than the
former, but this is justifiable egotism,
as the painting was exedtited for
yankees by a yankec. The groand
is ploughed with shells and grape—
the air is filled with both. Broken
weapons and implements of war,
with corpses of men and horses, strew
the earth and are mingled in inextri
cable confusion. -The Southern
troops are not rnofd ragged and tom
South Carolina, about tw'euty miles
'front AilgUsta, near the Fort Royal
Railroad. At an early hour, a | bad loft their families uhprotected;
mounted man rode into the Market
place, his hat riddled with bullets';
lie was wild with excitements Krill
stated that he was the only hhifyivor
of a company of twenty-iix men, who
had been ambushed by ‘the negroes.
Tlie citizens were much excited, and
a large number, well armed,' boarded
the morning passenger train on ’tlie
Port Royal Railroad and proceeded
to the scene of action. About two
hours after, the train came thundering
back to the city with the news that
the 6:30 freight train had been
wrecked in consequence of the track
li.iving been torn up by tlie negroes.
On account of the wires having been
cut, it was impossible, for some time,
to get any authentic information;
courier after courier continued to
arrive, urgently appealing for imme
diate assistance. A telegram having
been received by the Colonel of onr
battalion, from Gov. Smith, forbid
ding tbe carrying of any of tbe State
arms across the border, we were de*-
prived of the use of our most effective
weapons; but the cxeitement was
too great to admit of any obstacle,
and consequently, at 12 nu» about
but finding that the negroes were
deceiving them, they again assembled,
aud both parties remained facing
each other for some time. Some 6f
the band of white men had, however,
gotten too far to be recalled, wlieh
the treachery of the blacks had been
discovered, and one of these parries
The local bar, consisting of F. B.
Hodges, John H. Skelton, C. W.
Seidell and A. G. McCurry, Esqs., in
attendance, and the following visit'
ing members of the bar: From
Lexington, Col. James D. Matthews;
Eelberton, Col. Robert Hester, Col.
E. P. Edwards, Capt. J. S. Barnett,
J. P. Shannon, John T. Osborn,
and Joseph N. Worley.
After organization aud an elaborate
charge from his Honor to the Grand
Jury, the Common Law Docket w
taken up and various cases in w’
no defenses were filed, were dir
of. On Monday afternoon, 4
of E. II. Carter vs. Micajah
which is an action on t’ Johnson,
slander, was taken up. / ne case for
and J. II. Skelton, Esr - 6 * McCurry
plantiff, and F. B. Y < S ” ^Presenting
Matthews, Esqs
AfteV A long r
deffl oFtestir
if&dntiff ar
Whercupo n, the/defense moved for a
I contnui w hieh was granted. The
rich
-posed
-he case
iodges and J. D.
for the defense.
-Kirmish and a good
Jony in the case, the
aended her declaration;
was ambushed aud fired into by %bc i neXt case taken up was the case of
black scoundrels, \vith no effec^t, save l Jiam Myers vs. John W. Scales,
that some of them had'severalbullets » being a bill in equity for specific
to pass through their hats; hence,
the origin of the wild rumors, whica,
for some time, were so freely circula
ted. Some of them fairly exceeding
in magnitude the famous story of the
“Three Black Crows.” The whites
in Carolina, seek no such issue as the
blacks In their mad fanaticism seem
determined to force upon them. Ex
istence across the river Las almost
become intolerable) on account of the
system of terroism inaugurated by
the negroes,Who,'urged on-by their
crafty leaders, are seeking a quarrel •
as tbe Radical horde of thieves who
have so ruthlessly plundered our
sister State ’ since the war know fall
well that their only hope of victory
lies in their ability to exasperate the
performance. After long and ex
haustive trial, consuming the ent ire
day, the Jury rendered a verdict for
plaintiff. On Wednesday morning, the
case of James F. White vs. Larkin
Clark, an action in the case for dam
ages for a horse claimed to have been
killed by defendant’s mules—verdict
for plaintiff foi one hundred and fifty-
odd dollars. The State Docket was
then taken up, and is now being dis
posed of Wo observe the “ fourth
estate” is well represented at our
Court this week. Capt. J. F. Mnrphy
is here in behalf of the Angnsta Con-.
8titutionalist, Capt. J. T. McCarty in
the interest of the Gazette, Col. J.
H. Christy is here to speak a word
for the Watchman, and last, but not
Southern Georgia is scourged with
the Yellow fever, and naiddlo and
Northern Georgia are infested wi b
independent candidates. Verily, we
are an afflicted people.
business moving along with dispatch,
and will probably close Saturday
evening. Two negroes, Tom Turner
and William Jones, plead guilty to
the offense of burglary, and were
sentenced to the penitentiary for
eight years.
Since writing the above, the fol
lowing cases have been disposed of:
Shirley vs. Caldwell, ejectment con-
tinned for the term. The State vs.
Basil Bowers, charged with oppro
brious words— verdict of not guilty.
The State vs. Basil Bowers, obscene
language-verdict of guilty, and sen'
tenced to pay a fine of two hundred
dollars. State vs. Thomas S. Bray,
opprobrious words—verdict of not
guilty. We are having genial show
ers this evening, which are badly
needed, as we have been dry for
some time. Court will last the en
tire week, and.the probabilities are,
the Dockets will not be cleared.
FLECTION.
The people of this county should
remember, and not let it escape their
minds, that on the 4th day of next
month, they will be called upon to
discharge one of their most impor
tant as well as sacred duties. They
are Ur agflin determine, by their suf
frages, who will represent them in
the next Legislature. As the elect’ -
draws near, it behooves all good on
true men, all who appreciat- .and
and honest government, a 1 ’ J good
joice at the present pror -i who re-
ored position of our ov .d and hon-
sympathize with tlio /n State, and
are bound land and je States which
clanking chains foot beneath the
thralldoin, it b of au oppressive
stand firm and ehooves all such to*
contest on t' - united in the coming
party. In ae side of the Democratic
man of * view of this fact, the Chair
ing on -‘he Party has called a meet-
may next Saleday, that the people
assemble together and become
akened aud fully aroused as to
neir grave duties in this important
political crisis. Let this meeting te
a grand rally of all the good people
of this county! Let it be a grand
reveille of the democratic masses!
Oil the very brink of the battle, let
us marshal our hosts, buckle on our
armors, and march with a solid and
unbroken phalanx against the oppo
sition, aud the rich guerdon of suc
cess will crown onr efforts. This is
a year, it wonld seem, propitious for a
universal triumph of honesty over
roguery, of good and honest gov
ernment over corruption and public
spoliation. All over the land, the
people are arousing from their lethar
gies and making one grand effort to
hurl from power a corrupt party that
is bringing the Government to dis
grace and ruin. Our own State, by
a united uprising of the people, has
been freed from flic vile crew that
were, steering it ipto the whirlpool of
destruction. Let all the people, then,
of this'eounty, who \ysh to stili fur
ther advance Georgia in grandeur
and prosperity, who wish to retain,
secure for themselves, and hand down
to their posterity the blessings of
liberty and good government, aid in
the matter by electing, and that over
whelmingly, the nominee of tlio Dem
ocratic party in the coming election.
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