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A. M. C. RUSSELL, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. 11. Bates and Buies for Legal Adve.t tising. SI we riff oftcli levy.*.'. %t 4*flQ Mortgage fi fa sales, each levy 7.00 Tax Collector’s Hales, each levy 4.00 Citation Tor Tetters of Admlnistraflon and Gua/mawmip........ t ... ' 4.00 Application for (liHinlasionfrom Administration Guardianship and Executorship 7.00 Application for leave JO sell land lor oue-sq’r.. 5.00 Noticerfo debtors amr creditors 400 hand sales, Ist square, $4, each additional... 3.00 Sales of perishable property, per square 2.50 T>t ray notice. 00 days 7.00 Notice to perfect service 7.00 lUilcH ni si to foreclose mortgages per sq’r.... 3.50 Patios to establish lost papers, per square.... 3.50 Kules compelling \ 3.50 Nulrs to perfect services'it/ cases 10.00 Application for Homestead 2.00 All U gal Advertisements must ba paid for in ad- J&es of land. &c. w by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required by law to be held oil the l irst Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten iiYthe forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court House in the county in which tlio property is bituat'd. Notices of these sales must be given in a public ga zette in r the couhty where the land lies, if there l>e anv, and if there is no paper published in the county licit iii the nearest gazette, or the one having the argent general circulation in said county, 40 days previous to the day of sal**. Notices for the &al <5 of personal' property must he, given in like manner ten days previous to sale day. Notice to the-debtors of creditors and an estate unlst also be published 40 days. ’Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for Leave to Sell land, Ac., must be publish ed once a, week for 4 weeks. Citations for Letters of Administration, Guardian ship, etef, must bo published 30 days—for Dismission fioni Administration, Guardianship and A’xecutorsiiip 40 days. tfules of Foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish ed monthly tt>r four mouths—for establishing lost papers for trie full space of three months—for com pelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, the lull space of three months. Application for Homestead must be published twice. Publications will always be continued according to thee, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or dered. L. ■>. milium tv . ii. lliiKoii, a'I'TOUNGYS at law, ETJENA VISTA, GA- Will practiceiu tlie Courts of this Statee and the District and Circuit Courts of th. United States. mch3l-ly, J. Xj. O. KerrT ATTORNEY AT LAW, I >ll EN A VISTA, GEOROIA. IMureli lit. IS7H-1 jr- JE7M. Jf ATTORNEY AT LAW, ItUEVA VISTA, GA. “S'. L.TViSDO.fi, Ji. fi>. BCKJJA VISTA, GA. J6®~Calls may be left at my rest ileuee at a hours of the day or jiisrlit-i-Yti’ DR. £. T. MATHIS, iillCllH \ istll, Ijrli (.lullsleft at my office or residence promptly attended. D< c24-iy SIMMONS & SIMMONS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AMKItICUS. GEORGIA. IN.;ucii Jo 1 vi. pDIdCNOTICE. Dr. S. W, Woodruff will promptly attend all calls in bis profession. Day or night. He also continues to treat with his usual success, nil kinds of Chronic diseases of long standing. Femalf diseases will receive bis special attention—his remedies are mainly t.ken front the-Vegetable kingdom, but in bis treatment of diseases, he selects from both Veuetafde and-’Mineral, as may be most clear ly indicated. Dr. Woodruff does not profess 1o be able to cure all cases but will certainly lie candid in his opinion in every case t hat may apply" u> him and exert himself to the utmost of his skill to cure nil who may place themselves under his treatment,. Dr. Woodruff'can be found all hours of the day at his store, and at night at his residence Jiorth East corner public square, unless ab sent on professional business 11UBSCH HOUSi!, (public square,) AMERICUS, GA. JS. EASON, - - Prop ritor. First Class accanilaudations, Two Dollars per Day tyNo efforts -will bo spared to make the “Fkench House” the popular hotel of Amer ious. The best fare that the market affords, polite and attentive servants and comfortable sleeping accommodations will always be found at this House. It is conveniently situ ated to the business portion of the city, the pod office and the depot. ' BROWN S HOTEL, ESTABLISHED 1856, Opposite fusseaigerDepot* Jttftcon, Ga Throe Dollars Per Day. Meals 75 Cents, - - - IjOilyinys 75 Cents. This Popular Hotel, E. E. Brown & Proprietors, after a trial of twenty years, is still opened to tho public, with all the modern im provements and increased facilities for the ac commodation of the Traveling public The proprietors respectfully return their grate ful thanks for the very liberal patronage extend ed the House for Twenty Ycaus, and assuro their many friends that they will use their best endeavors for the future to give the same satis faction that they havo in tho past. Every attention given to Indies and fain I it* . BtIKN-A. .ViefcA, MARION (WUNTY. GA, APRIL 35-1877. ifnetrij. WITTBH TOR THE BUENA VISTA ARGUS. The Fair Unknown; A LOCAL ROMAUNT. BY PHILO MAIZE. CANTO ONE. I 001. ltnssell, (please excusetlie pseudo-title,) Herewith you will find a desultory trifle, Indicted to kill ■ ennui —a simple story, All scarred by tangents, but mainly amatory, ’Tis thrown on your mercy, who’ro the kind est creature Iliat e’er dabbled in ink or soiled a good na ture, By writing of politics and other bad evils. For good of the State and pAnishing uncivils. Touch lightly my rhymes with your critical scalpel, For my poem’s been seen by Sir Randolph Battle, George Munro,’Putnam Stevens and minister Merit, Who think it might pass, if of faults I would clear it. I I. I sing—why not? Didn’t Homer, Horace, and Tuppcr, Byron, Mongomery, Longfellow and Cowper, iShakspeare, Moore, Tennyson, Chatterton and Bryant, Sing themselves poetically hoarse—and I can’t ? I’m told Tom Rogers, when younger lisped lo measure, Hal Miller has written the like at his leisure, And Edwards, of Tazewell, indited a sonnet, When hardly eighteen, to his lady-love’s bonnet. So I’ll sing myself, like Lowe at the melodeon. Though my voice is cracked and my harp an accordion. I sing loves and a maiden, armed with her | graces, j And different topics in various phases. I II Her hair was like hone}', and liuo in its tresses. As skeins of spun silk or a spider’s frail meshes. Her beaming eyes twinkled and sparkled like Stella’s, The goddess of stars, or like Fannie’s or Bella’s, Or brightest of Marion’s blue-eyed fair daughters, And blue as the depths of mid ocean’s pure waters. Though their witchery’s mischief toman-kind that view ’em, We see the pure beam of her spirit shine through ’em, Her genius and talents, her temper’s rare soveetness, And heaven-breathed nature in ull its com pleteness . Now since I’ve seen ’em, to Pleasanton’s as serted Flue-light catholicon I’ve been converted. IV. I lovo blue eyes! In my early adolescence My soul grew purer in their ruagicai presence And since I’m older, of their beauty I’m filler— i The longer I view them, I lovo them the s.ronger, They are love’s strong castle, affection’s cit adel, And windows of souls that are puro and affa ble. The black eyes have pierced mo, like an In dian arrow, And conquered mo too, —but I’d escape on the morrow. But not so tlio blue eyes—they capture by stealing, Like day-break impalpable —their pow’r oon cealing, Till the in n-ning’s ablaze and tho sun new risen—- Our souls all enamored and our hearts in prison. V. Oh! glittering black eyes! so resistlossly charming! Your conquest and carnage are truly U inn ing ! The ravishing blue eyes melt hearts like a DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. shower— A* the mild sunshine’s their permeating powef. But yours is tbo cyclone, tho continent sweeping With power omnipotent, pilingjind heaping Four prostrated victims by thousands in valleys Of love and sentiment, Oh ! Katie’s, and Salley’s Lucretia’s, and Minnie's and Data's and Willie’s The greensward of love ia now strewn with your captives. Though fitted for conquests and conquering only, Without you this would boa desert most lonely. m VI. Complexion ! Why bless you, tho whitest white lily That blows in the the borders of Marion so hilly, Couldn’t bleach to her whiteness in summers a hundred ! Don’t doubt it, dear sir, or you’ll think it has thundered, And lightened and struck you, for 1 won't be doubted In a town like this, where Howell Ifollis has spouted And Edgar, and Franklin and David can rattle. Unquestioned their stories of six gallon cat tle—- Bnt by Prudencia I’m cautioned emphatical, Not to threaten the Russell alphabetical, VII. His sanguinous whiskers show fierce mood gener’ly. Mentioning red heard reminds me of Ken nedy. He’s itching for war and craving a cap taincy— The first ho can t get, the last—he lacks competency. To be a good captain needs talents for cursing, Which he’ll ne'er possess without years of good nursing. Sweet peace has been given us by a Democ racy, Wl'o’d rather be slaves to a vile oli-ocraey, Controlled by tho oligarchs, W jlls, Hayes and Bradley. Impersonations of gaunt Fraud, Lies and Pcrj’ry, Thau conquer a peace and have liberty righted, Which a Grand High Commission of Fraud has blighted. VIII. Columbia! Alas! from thy heights to thy valleys. No freeman is found who to liberty rallies. No bosom is filled with heroic defiance. When freedom’s menaced by a hell-bred alliance, No uprising of heroes is seen in thy borders, When a graceless usurper promulgates his orders. But a nation of cowards, in their deprave- ment, Bernl a docile neck to the yolk of enslave ment. And the proud independence that inspired our sires, Is known but in memory's unquenchable fi res, The instincts of manhood’s nobility's driven From the land, whose chains a Washington had riven. I X. When millions permit a vile usurpation ; When Perjury installs a chief o’er a nation ; When apathy deadens the instincts most simple; When patriotism dies in the hearts of the people ; Whon the flames have been quenched on. lib erty’s alters; When truth is disgraced and pure honesty falters; When Hatred is crowned and governs the hated; Farewell to hopes of a land thus degraded. Debased is her prestige, revolting her story— Enslaved are her children —departed her glory, ‘•And the siar spangled banner forever shall wave,” O’er the land of the cow’rd and the home of the slave. JL x. Ravolution’ry fathers! Heroes of Heroes! Asleep in your sepulchers! Othos and z Nor os Have manacled tho land and leveled the j, ‘ alters, Baptized with your blood and your lachry mal waters. Gone is that bravery and pure patriotism, Which shivered the shackles of Britain's d.:s potism— Gr,:.. like the sunset’s glorious refulgence- When succumbs the last ray to night's black, insurgents. Ihe bold independence that nerved you to action, Is extinguished under the gross stupefaction Of mammon and greed, that possesses th; creatures, Who claim you as fathers, but have not your natures. XI. Xo more do the legends of brave men’s de votion Arouse in the people, one spark of emotion For iYeedow or Country. No more the ap pealing Of justice awakens an impulse of feeling. Forgutten’s Valley Forge, Bunker Hill, Bennington 1 Unheeded the memory of Ciay, Washington! The principles are dead our fathers defended, Tho empire’s risen, the Republic is ended, And devotees of Freedom see her fair pinions Transport her to purer and nobler dominions. But politics, avaunt! Let’s back to my beauty. Ami leave .the lachrymose for pleasanter duty. XII. In : Jfcqva'ly cheeks- so lovely and tender, ThutuMi Veitost brute would love and .defend her, Were the lutes of the rose, from its faintest blushes To the deep carcation of red blood when it gushes; Her lips, quite as crimson, were iieachy and pouting.— A man couldn’t kiss them for his life without shouting. (I might just as well, while I’m writing, put this in, You couldn’t look on them without thinking of kissin’.) And in each of her cheeks there rested a dim ple, As roguish as could be—but • nary” a pimple. Her skin was transparen tas that of a baby. (The comparison’s f lain—l learn you’re a daddy.) XIII. Beneath the thin veil of her soft epidermis, Appear the blue courses of her veins at their service. The vermillion blushes, reflecting her feelings, Oscillating like waves to wind in its reelings, I could see coming and tremulously going, With her variable thoughts; now mild and now glowing, Like the transitory flashes, in climes hyemal, ; Of the grand and brilliant Borealis Auroral, ‘Tis this bright rubescunce delightfully mov ing. That takes the soul captive and sets the heart loving. But sallow hue changeless gives one the emetics; Why I advise Lewis "Webb to the use of cos metics. XIV. Her teeth were white as white china, or a fox’s, And regular as buttons done up in red boxes, And so cunningly even, all fell behind hers, And sound as a dollar from fiont teeth A© grinders. Her neck—alabaster was putty, beside if. Her breast —being modest her boddice diet hide it. But, hidden as undoubtedly ’twas in this in stance, Two palpitating knaps disclosed its existence. And her waist tapered down to the belt—of course it Was the smallest tint e’er felt arm or tight corset. So lovely her waist that, when viewed by the glances Of Richard E. Butt, his arm curved to his fancies. XV. The poets have ever from th’ remotest cent’ry’ Described the ankles iu their beauty’s ia vent’ry, But I must decline in this poem to draw ’em My gir Ind doubt had ankles, hut I ne’er saw ’em. So modest she was and so long were her dresses, I scarcely saw her toes mark this, my (fear misses. She wore number ones. Should you doubt my word on A matter like this, go and ask Rube Jordan, J Who sold her the gaiters, and knocked elf a dollar, j For her beauty.—Bnt his pericardium’s ‘•boiler;” For his chest may move and his arteries quiver But his corculum is gone and that forever. XVI. I Her form was so perfect, so nearly ideal, I She seemed not of eartfihut of regions aerial Like leaflets air wafted or wavelets on ocean, Meandered her footstep, and glided each motion, So willowy graceful, bowitcbingly pretty, Twas most like to thine, bright, modestly shy Netty. Her voice, eoliau in sweetness immortal, | Resembled the music that escapes the gold portal ! Of Heaven, when angels, in infinite charity, Descend to raise mortals from earth's gross parity. To environ the simile within our town’s pres ence, Twas Gussie's and Carrie’s refined to one essence. XVII. How light her body 1 oiten had wondered, Till I weighed her at Hamp’s She drew a plain hundred. She questioned the figures, in ripples of laughter. Weighed she net a hundred I’m a fool here after, But then she wore her talma, her gloves, her bonnet, j The confections Rol erfs gave her, my worst | sonnet, j Breast pins, ear-rings, finger-rings, a lov e letter, That Lord McCcrkle sent. He thought that would get her, j But he's mistaken—as probably I may be, | For none can presage the whims of a young j lady. | But win I or lose f, this comfort’s collected, ! -Toe Rogers proposed and was promptly re jected. XVIII. I said her avoirdupois was gross one hundred' Including the diff’rent items just now numbered, But sans ct celeras, she is not so weighty, For I think her net weight is not over eighty. (But Kerr and I may differ as to the latter, Being both great men in brains and fat y matter.) I am so particular in this one item, Because I have reasons, and I will indite ’em— Yes! I have reasons, logical and rational, Comprehensive, direct, genera! and personal 1 Enough to convert a hungry Patagonian, Or change the settled views of Epps Cicero nian. [CONTINUED.] Death of Bill Arp. The Fort Worth (Texas) Daily Democrat has the following telling o* the death of this noted personage : •‘Bill Arp, late of Georgia, the man who furn slied the witticisms and odd sayings, which Charles H. Smith prepared and published some years ago, was accidentally kill near this place (Decatur, Tex.,) on March sth. He fell from a wagon loaded with corn the wheels passing over his neck killing him instantly. When he left home in the morning be told his family he would never again be i permitted to enter the house alive; j and strange to say, he was within fifty yards of the house, on his return when the sad accident occurred which terminated so fatally. He was a remarkable man, perfectly illiterate but replete with original ideas and witty sayings, ho rarely ever spoke i without saying something pithy.’ Annual Subscription 33200 HE WANTED ADVICE. An exemplary minister of tbo Gos pel Avas busy at his sprnion the other evening, when a caller came to dis turb hila. It was a stranger, arid lie said his name was Dolsocker. II a extended his hand for a shake, sat down as if in his own house, and presently began : ‘I call and to sea if you would give mo a little spiritual advice.’ ‘Certainly I will, and bo glad to,’ | was the reply. ‘Are you a profes sor?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then you are thinking of turning your feet into good paths I hope V "Well —perhaps,’ was the hesitat ing reply. ‘Don’t you want to be a Christian?’ asked the good man. ‘l’ll tell you how it is” said tho stranger, after quite a lengthy inter val. ‘l’ve got a ticket in a lottery, and I wanted to ask you if you thought it would stand any better chance of striking the big prize if I was sort o’ good, than it would if I kept on being sort o’ bad.’ The clergyman didn’t labor with Mr. Dolsocker very long. A Blue Dress Cure. A .young man in Dqbuquo, lowa, went on /Saturday week to a country dance and did not return to his homo until the church bells were ringing i tbo next morning.—His father told him he must go to meeting, and ho went. Before the minister had fin ished the opening pray the young reveler was sound asleep arid dream ing oi the dance. An old lady who sat next to him tcuebed his hand to arouse him,, w lip re upon be seized her wrist and shouted . ‘‘All join bands and circle to the left. Swing tbe girl with the blue dress on.” Wants to be an Editor. A young man writes to the Graph ic that lie wants to be an editor, to which the Graphic editor replies: “Canst thou draw up the leviathan with the hook thou lettest down ? Canst thou hook up great ideas from the depths ol" thine intellect., and clean, scale and fry them at five min utes notice? Canst thou write an i editorial to fit a three-quarter column of the paper which shall be ill length twenty-two inches, of the fine senti ment four inches from the beginning, and niiif) inches of humor in the mid-, die, and an. outburst.of maxim and precept, nine and three quarter inches long ?” Id the time of the Rebellion of 174 j, Duke Hamilton was extolling Scotland to George 11, to such a length that tho King could no longer hear it. “My Lord,” said his tnsiesty, “I only wish it was a hundred thousand miles oil, aud that you was kiug of it,” A religious old lady, when asked her opinion of the organ of a church, the first time she had seen or heard one, said; “It's a vera bonny kist fu’ o‘ whis tles; but, oh, sirs, it‘s au awfu‘ way o‘ spending the Sabbath-day !” Few things are impracticable in them selves; aud it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success. — Bochefohcavlt. A locomotive engineer, who was discharged lor some cause last week, gave vejit to his spite by saying that it was about time ho left tho company anyhow for the sake of his life, ‘there was nothing left of tho track but two streaks of rust aud the right of way.’ 2G