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<t nc gufia lUtata <r rfcsa=ssgsgeg A. nvl. a. HUSSELiL, Editor <& Proprietor, llucmi "V'iMtii. Mtu*iou Cos.. CJri. Circulates in tle Most Solvent and Reliable I’ortion of Ilie State. Terms of Advertisin'! the same an ilioso cutiili iahud by tlio Cress Association ol Georgia tor tho Country /*reus. )UUr fnr arc duo on tho fleet appear alien of tlio Hilvrrtiscment, or when proßonted, ex cept wir’n otherwise contracted lor. jMfagssiamtf ®uvdss. pi. Or. Simmons, attorney at law, amkkicus. oisohgia- March 10-1 yr. ______ B. B. Slitton& 'V. B. Hinton, ATTOUXEI'S AT Ijaw, BUENA VISTA. GA- Will practice in the Courts of this Statee nnil the District and Circuit Courts ot th. United States. mcli.si-Jy, j t. c. K.err, attorney AT LAW, IHHSNA V IST A, CJrGOHOIA- March 10, 187(1-1 yr- M- M- IBIJTT, attouney at law, BtlßSl VISTA, GA. DR. E. T. WIATHIS, Buena Vista, On -. Calls left at my office or residence promptly attended. IKiC -' My '"pTl. M- D- , BUENA VISTA, GA. ®i'3S“Cnlls timy be left at my resi lience at all hours of the day or ii&ht.-©a Octohi-r Bth,- 1875.—1 v . Hold Advertisements. JIAEKISAM. HOUSE,') ATLANTA, CA. • JAS. U. OWENS, : ; l’royrietor, Immediately at the Passenger Depot. 1) VItTIES and Families wishing a cool and comfortable Hotel for Uie summer should suu) at flic “Markham. y.w- Special rates by the week and month. PEA BODY HOUSE, CORNER of LOCUST and NIN I'll STS., Pllil-ADBI-PHIA Convenient tu all places ut amusement and ear lines ii tin- eity. No changes lo and from the' Ceutanni nil urounds. Col. Watson, jn-opin-tor ol the HtKnv Housß.Cinclnnatti for tho past twenty years, and has nnvlv furnished and fitted it throughout. He will keep a strictly lii st-elass house, ami Ims aecommo datiou for sou guests. Terms, only *:) per day. Col. Watson is a native of VirgiiiM, and ptolubly the only Hotel Proprietor iu Phlladolplna from tlio South. .mm-e-lm BARLOW HOUSE, amekicijs, oa. WILEY JONES, Proprietor. HEW B&ftiiE HOTEL Siluat.il in tbc center if ik Business part of ikcilv The proprietor flat ters himself, from an expo rienee of U years, that he can aud will give c-ut isfaction to all guests. HATES £F BOARD. Board per clay $ "9^ Nii'gle meal *^9 J)ay Z?oard per month 20 00 ] >.ty Board per month with lodging 2o 00 Tnusieut board, per month, ■ • • • • Persons engaging board by the month and boarding less than a month will be charged the weekly rates. No deduction for lost time less than a week. Terms strictly cads. March lO.lvr J. B JofeSE\, Clerk. ssahm-h ataf33.. 140 & 14 '2 Eboad Street, COLUMBUS, GEORGIa MHS- S- K- WOLD KID O IS, PROPRIETRESS Board per day, - - $2,00 Single Meal - ,' r, d Lodging. - - - - --IQ. Brown’s Ho tel. Ol>polt I'nssott/rr Vi/iol, SIACON, GEORGIA. This first-class and well known Hotel has been JWntirciy Renovated itiul Refitted, in the most elegant style, aud is prepared with every facility to accommodate its old friends and the public irouerally. It is b centrally located, aud Immediately Opposite tk General Passenger Depot This Hotel presents unusual advantages to viators lo tho city. , ... TUe rooms are constructed and fitted up with a view to the comfort of the guests, and the table Isul wa vb supplied with every delicacy of the season J E. K. UKOYv’N & KON, flopt-24-lyr Proprietors. 11. L. French. **• Eas * N ' FRENCH HOUSE, Public Squu.ru, Americas, Georgia. §~ French & Eason, Proprietor McAfee HOuso Snmhville, Georgia. SgyMcals on the arrival of all trains Fare as good as the season affords. Price, 50 cents a meal. THE BUENA ViSTA AfIGUS A. 2£. C. BUSSELL, Proprietor. VOLUME I. Cammmwatianjs. WUITTKN roil THIS dukna VISTA ARGUS. Turbos forllie Li^islittnic. Mr. 'Editor : As you suggested iu your paper of lust week, the time is n*-ar at hand when the people will be called upon tv select a suitable pa, son to repre sent them in the House. The mo mentous question now is, who shall it be ? I, iu common with a large portion of my fellow-citizens, have a preference, whose claims I beg leave to disc ss through your interesting columns. Mr. Joe Tarbox, presumably of Redbono, is a gentleman of fine com mon sense, splendid natural talents and honest and bold in his convic tions, stooping neither to the Juger naiit of education nor to tlio tyrant of fashionable etiquette. He is a la borer in the field and a countryman —an honest sou of the soil, who breathes the pure air of heaven and earns his food by honorable toil. He is a member of no Church, but swears freely, drinks deep and a ‘ hail fellow well met;” he will therefore not be opposed by the Methodists because be is a Baptist, or by the Baptists because he is a Methodist —but all Church members can conscientiously enlist under his banner, with a holy, Christian assurance that no denomi nation can claim him for its o-v n. He docs not seek flic office, which is claimed bv some to be the"paramount reason he should have it. He is op posed to Free Schools and schools of all sorts, looking upon them all as oppressive impositions, established tor the benefit of the few at the ex pense of the many. Ho is opposed to the county court, not so much on the ground of expense as ol tee fact that it circumscribes Ids liberty. He is opposed to the local option whisky act, because it excludes from the county one of his necessities. He believes that the use of whisky and br.bery in elections is perfectly.legit imate. Ho does not object to hug ging his colored brethren on election days to secure votes. As to his qualifications ? I have mentioned them. 11 is mind and tal ents are in their crude, ‘rough dia mond’ state, it must be admitted, but that is rather 14 his favor than other wise. Polish a mind with education and polite culture until it glitters, and its possessor straightway wants an office or affects to be a leader in politics. The sentiment now is for mind and genius in their crudest state. My candidate can read and write, and, I suppose, is a good far mer, which are now the only qualifi cations required of a candidate —the people do not insist so much on his reading and writing as they do upon his being a farmer. These I consider sufficient grounds for insisting upon the claims of Mr. Joseph Tarbox to the suffrages of an industrious farm ing people, who are emphatically tired of seeing the offices filled and the government run, by lawyers and other professional men about towns and cities. E Pluribus Unl'.m. A venerable English divine, who had bean dining out the night be fore, went into a barber shop one morning to be shaved, .lie saw that the barber had been getting more drink than was good for him, for it made liis hand shake very much, and, naturally indignant, he began to give him a little moral advice, bv saying: “Bad thing, drink!” "“Yes,” said the barber, “it makes the skin much tender er.” -A. DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSP APER. BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., JULY 28, 1876, The llcMi‘l. ok Napoleon. The very interesting series of arti cles entitled “Napoleon at St, Hele na,’’ by one of tho Emperor’s attend ants, which have been appearing in The St. Janie's Magazine, have now come to an end with the death of the Emperor. Francis Stewart, the nar rator, give a curious account of a scene which took place at the funeral of A’a poleon. “I had in my hand his heart, which he desired Marshal Bctrand to have embalmed, placed in a silver vase, and sent to his son, Napoleon 11. The lie-art was unusually large and very fat; and bclorc it was sold ered up all the French servants, by their own request saw —it, some of them kissed it, and falling on their knees, offered up a prayer. 1, wish ing to do as they did, foil on my knees too, which seem to gratify them, but of course, as I did not un derstand what they were praying for, I said no prayer, neither had I suffi cient ‘stomach’ to kiss the heart, al though Napoleon had been a kind master and a benevolent friend to me. Sir Tbos. Reade and Sir -Hudson Lowe having seen me on my knees, the latter said when I came 011*5 ‘So, Mr. Stewart, you have been praying too; I did not know ydu were a Bap tist-.’ Sir Thomas Reade said, with g sneer, ‘Have you been nay ing to the j devil to take his heart as well as his | body T ‘No, sir,’ 1 replied; ‘[hero j will be no occasion for any praying to'the devil to take your body and heart, because he has had Them ev ery since I knew you !’ ” Such con duct on the part of officials toward a dead enemy certainly well merited the sharp reply of Stewart, and seems to justify the intense fcel ingagainst the guardians of Napoleon which is experienced by Frenchmen. The story is a most extraordinary one, and deserves investigation—Exam iner. New York Post Gen. Custer, George A. Custer was a native of Ohio, and was a cadet at West Point from 1857 to 1801, entering the United States army immediately upon his graduation and receiving a commission as second Lieutenant in tlie Second Cavalry corps. In that position he engaged in the Manassas campaign, and served in the first bat tle of Bull Run. In Julyq 1862, lie was made a first Lieutenant in the Fifth Cavalry, and during the Mary land ci mgaign he served as Aide-de- Camp to Gen. McClellan, awl took part in all the great battles of that campaign, including South Moun tain and Autietain. In the summer of 1863 be was made a Brigadier General of volunteers, and he did good work in the battle of Getty burgh and iu the various skirmishes in the pursuit of the enemy to War renton, Va. He was breveted a Ma jor in the regular army on the day of the Getty burg battle. In the campaign of 1863 lie was constantly on duty, except for a week or so when he was ill, and in 1861 lie obtained a promotion in the reg ular army, receiving his commission as Captain on the Bth of May, and on the 11th, after the battle of Yellow Tavern, being breveted Lieutenant Colonel. For gallant services at the battle of Winchester, on the 19th of September, 1864, he was breveted Colonel, and a month afterwards he was breveted Major General of vol unteers. On the 13t.h of March, 18- 60, he was breveted Major General in the regular army, and„duriug the succeeding month ho was made a full Major General of volunteers, Since the war General Custer has served as chief of cavalry in the Bepar'ment of Texas and as commander 011 the Western frontier. Gen. Custers career was a remark able one. lie entered tho army as a mere b->y, and at the close of the rebel lion had participated in most of its battles and had become renowned as one of tho bravest soldiers in the United States, In the present In dian campaign lie was serving mere ly as a Colonel in command of a reg iment of cavalry. Gen. Castor re cently contributed some interesting articles to tho Galaxy magazine of this city about his experience as an Indian lighter, and another scries of articles on military topics by him is now in course of publication m the same magazine. Ho was too promi- uent a man and too brave an officer not to have enemies, nnd it was as serted only a little while ago that he eagerly left his post on tho frontier, aym important moment to come to •Washington as a witness against Belknap —an assertion which is easi ly: disproved, as a dispatch has been made public in which the Genera! asked to be excused from testifying in person, tho very reason that his presence was necessary in Dakota. Titcrc arc persons who freely express their opinion that the evidence widen Gen. Custer gave against Belknap |was tho cause of his appointment to a subord nato position in the present campaign. - O The Slaughter ot Custer’s Com ■uaiid. APPEARANCE OF THE BATTLE EIELI). A party was sent on Custer's trail m look for traces of hi t command. They found awaiting them a sight ii t to appal the stoutest heart. At a point about three miles down the right bank of the stream Custer had evidently attempted to ford and at tack the villages. From tho ford the trail was found to lead back up to the blugs and to 1 lie northward, as if the the troops had berni repulsed and compelled to retreat, and at. the same time had been cut off from ie gaining the forces under R no. The bluffs along the right bank come sharply down to the water and are interspersed by numerous ravines. All a’ong the steeps and ridges, and in the ravines, lying as they had fought, line behind line, showing where defensive positions had been successively taken up and held tilt none were left to fight for, huddled in a narrow compass, horse and men were piled promiscuosly. At the highest point lay Custer surrounded by a chosen band. Here were Ids two brothers aud Ins nephew. Cols. Yate and Cooke andCapt. Smith, all lying in a Circle of a few yards. Their horses beside them. Here, be hind Yates’ company; the last stand had been made, and here, one after another, these last survivors of Cus ter's five companies had-successively thrown themselves across the path of the advancing enemy and had been annihilated. Not a man lias escaped to tell the tale, but it was insciibed on the suffice of the bar ren hills in language more eloquent than words. Custer was surrounded on every side by Indians, aud the horses fell as they fought, on the skirmish line or line of battle. Custer was among the las who fell, but when his cheer ing voice was no longer heard, the Indians made easy work of the re mainder. The bodies of all save the newspaper correspondents were strip ped and most of them horribly muti lated. Custer was shot through the head. The troops cured for the wounded and buried the dead and re turned to their base for supplies aud instructions from the General of the army. Col. Smith arrived at Bis marck last night with thiny-five of the wounded. The Indians lost heav ily in the battle. The Crow scout Annual Subscription, $2,0 NUMBER 43. stirvivod by biding in a ravine. 7/e beli ves tho Indians lost more than Iho whites. The village numbered 1,800 lodges, and it is thought there were 4000 warriors. Gen. Custer was directed by Gen. Terry to tin 1 and feel of the Indians but not to light unless Terry arrived with in fantry, ami with Gibbon’s column. T -o Herald’s correspondent Kellogg is kil.ed. [From tho M*con Teltgr.ijUi am] Messenger] C'oi. Hai-Aeiuaik Kclircs, Macon, July 13, 18TC. Editor 'Telegraph and Messenger : —lt is evident from the returns of primary meetings in different coun ties that I am not the choice of a ma jority of the citizens ot Georgia for Executive honors. Recognizing this fact, thong- 1 other counties yet to act would add to my list of sup porters, it would not change tho re sult:. It would therefore be fully in me to continue longer in the canvass, thereby injuring my friends and cre ating, unnecessarily, further divis ion in the Democratic party. Believ ing, as I do, that the will of tho ma jority should govern, I cannot con- sent to remain longer in au attitude of seeming opposition to that will, relying upon a contingency that might happen under the operation of two-thirds rule, to thwart it, and thereby place in position someone who is not the choice of tiie people. 1 cannot be a party to any arrange ment, for it is against my sense of justice and of right, and, therefore, retire from the canvass bowing sub missively to the verdict of the peop le. Iu so doing I would not intimate to those friends, who have been so lecteu, in my interest, how they should act in the premises, for I am well aware that their intelligence and patriotism will guide them iu that line of conduct, which will result in good to the party and benefit to the peoi)|i/.%1n retiring,.afiow 1110 to say to those counties who have honored me as their choice. I mean all that language can convey, when I say I heartily thank you for your gener ous confidence. To the press I re turn my grateful acknowledgments; -to some for their disinterested sup port, to others fur the manly cour teous and kind opposition they have given ine. True, a very small num ber have by their personal allusions ! and unkind insinuations injured me, j but in so doing they have not elevat ed die character of their journals or grown in the esteem of a fair mind ed public. To those friends, who for months gave me encouraging assur ances of confidence and support, then abandoned me and joined my oppo nents. I will only say I freely forgive you, knowing as I do, that human nature cannot withstand the bland ishments of position and the allure ments of office. To the Democratic party 1 would speak one word. Let not envies or jealousies cuter your ranks and divide your forces. The contest we are about to enter will re quire united efforts to ensure a victo ry. In the past I have labored zeal ously for harmony in your ranks, knowing it was essential to success.' For that harmony l would sacrifice personal ambition to day-—preferring party success to personal elevation at the expense of that party. 1 shall therefore not cease my efforts iu that direction iu the future, but, as a private in tho ranks will still be found ever willing to strike “with might and m an” for Democratic uni ty and victory. Respeeifutly, Thos. Hardeman, Jit. 'l'Ue Travel of Plants. Alexander brought rice from Per sia to the Mediterranean, the Arabs carried it to Egypt, tho J/oors to Spain, the Spaniards to America. Lucnllus brought the cherry tree •‘which lake its name from Cerasus, the city of Pontus, where he found it, to Rome as a trophy of his Mitlirida-- tic campaign, and 120 years later, or in A. 1)., 46, is Pliny tolls its, it was carried to England.' Caesar is said to have given barley to both Germa ny and Britain. According to Strabo wheat cauic originally from the banks of tho In dus, but it had reached the Mediter ranean before the dawn of authentic I <?lu SUCMI Vi.stit 3LVORS I- 1 ... ... - Every Friday. jnATKS OP" SUBSCRIPTION! IXCLCDINO POSTAuE. One Year 00 Six Moiidis l no Three Months 15 Always in Advance. Coiuiti v Produce taken it lieu Mucrilws ran i t Pay fasli Dost Advertising Medium in this Section of Cloorgia. j history. Both bailey and wheat j came to tho now world with i's cou | querors und colonists and tlio maizo j which they found hero soon went to Europe in exchange. It was Known in E’nglaud in less than fi t.y years alter the di.-covery of {America; it was introduced to the Mediterranean countries by wav off: pain nt the end of the sixteenth century .'and the Ve netians soon carried it to tlm Levant-. I.* ii.. c-iuM iiji um ahuHIUC Lfl Hungary, and gradually spread east ward fo China. The sugar cane which with its sweet product, was known to the Greeks and Romans only as a curi seems to have been cultivated in In dia and China from the earliest times. Its introduction into Europe was one of the rc-ults of the Crusaders, and thence it was transplanted to Madei ra, and early in tho sixteenth centu - ry from that Island to the West In dies. The original home of “King Cotton” was probably in Persia or India, though it is also mentioned in the early annals of Egypt, and had spread throughout Africa in very an cient times, I he potato was found in Peru and Chili by the first explorers of these countries, who soon carried it to Spain. It is said to have reached Burgundy in 1560, and Italy about the same time. It appears to have been brought from Virginia to Ire- laud by Hawkins, a slave trader, in 1565; and to England in 1585, by Drake, who presented some tubers to Gerard, who planted them in his gar den in London, and described the plant in Ins herbal; and it was also introduced by Raleigh at about the same date. But it was slow to at tract attention, and it was not until a century later that it began to be much cultivated. In 1663 the 11 oval S’ claty published rules for its cul ture, and from that time it 'fapldty gained favor. w The Dutch carried it to the Capo of Good Hope in 1800, and thence it made its way to India. Tlicßridal Ciiaiatie:'. lie was tall and awkward, but both were a nervous aspect of ex ceeding great joy . They entered a hotel in Chicago, and after ho bad registered bis name “and la dy,” lie said to tho clerk : “See here, mister, me and un wife have just been spliced and I am going to show Amanda Chica go, if it takes a mule a day. Now give us one of them rooms like tho temple of Solomon, you know.” The clerk called a bell boy, and said : “Show tin's gentleman to the bri dal chamber.” At thi direction the tall rustic became instantly excited. “Not by durned sight! You shinehaired, biled shirt, dollar breast pined, grinning monkey, ye can’t play that on mo ! If lam from the country, ye don’t catch me aud my wife sleeping in your old harness room.” And lie left the hotel. Atlanta Sunday Telegram : Mr. Davis Kellem, one of our most belov ed and trust worthy citizens, hdu died on last Friday, and who will be buried to-day by the Knights Tem plars, is reported to have made a most wonderful revelation concern ing his cousin’s untimely death, dur ing his recent sickness. Our inform ant says that lie, in company with several other lriends,- were sitting at the bedside of the sick man, when lie suddenly rOused himself from an in sensible stale and in a very excited manner admonished some invisible persons to bo quick or the mules would kick his cousin Tube to death, and then in dispair lie fell back on the bed saying, “It is too late they have killed him." His friends at the time did not know what to make of his strange behavior, but two days later they received a letter from Ilawkinsville stating that his cousin, Mr. Tube Kellem, had been kicked to death by Ins mules at about the time that he had spokcu of the mat ter here m Atlanta. Dr. Amos Fox, Mr. Henry Banks, and other reliable, gentlemen of this city were present .at the time and testify to the authen ticity of the occuirenco.