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UNIVERSITY OF VOL. ATHENS, GEORGIA, SEPTEMB SERIES, VOL. 5G. S*fl.W XTOTICE3. It. LITTLE, * ATTORNEY AT LAW, aplS-1878-tf Carnesvillc, 6a. J 8. DOHTCII, •S * ATTORNEY AT law, Carnesvillc, 6a. »pl8-1873-tf 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 decl6-1874-tf 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. jau4-ly jj £. TIIKiSIIElL A-yORNEY AT LAW, WatkSnsviHe, Ga. Office in former Ordinary's Office, j an25-1876-ly P. G. THOMPSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, For and Offioe over Berry’s Store, Athens, Ga. feb3-1875-tf 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, fcb22-1876-ly A. M rax. W. EHWlJfl attorney at la it, Athens, Ga. Office on Broad Street, between Center & Nich olson and Orr & Co., np-stiurs. fcb22-187tl-ly ^ 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 ' *>. W 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. V \ A <*■- „■ %