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BY T. L. GANTT. OGLETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY NIORNINC. I3Y GANTT, StjfcRCRIPTIOJf. ONE YEAR .T. ... 92.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 50 CLUB RATES. FIVE COPIES or less than 10, each... 1.73 TEN COPIES or more, Terms—Cash in advance. No paper sent until money received. All papers stopped at expiration of time, unless renewed. ADVERTISING RATES. The following table shows our lowest east? rates for advertising. No deviation will be made from them in any case. Parties can readily tell what their advertisement will cost them before it is inserted. We connt our space by the inch. 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Sheriff Sales, per levy, 10 lines $5 00 Executors’, Admini-ftrators’ and Guardi an's Sales, per square 7 00 Each additional square 5 00 Notice to Debtors anti Creditors, 30 days, 4 00 Notice of Leave to sell, 30 days 3 00 Letters of Administration, 30 days 4 00 Letters of Dismission, 3 m0nth5....... 5 00 Letters of Guardianship, 30 days 4 00 Letters of Dis. Guardianship, 40 days.... 3 75 Homestead Notices, 2 in5erti0n5............. 2 00 Rule Nisi’ijper square, each insertion... 1 00 nil IIIUM - _ GEORGIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE The following is the schedule on the Geor gia Railroad, with time of arrival at and de parture from every station on the Athens Branch:" UP DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at 8:45 a. m. Arrive at Union Point 12:27 p. m. Leavs Uqion Pomt ... 12:52 p. m. Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. ra. yOWN DAY FASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a. m. Arrive at Union Point 11:32 a. m. Leave Union Point ...11:33 a. m. Arrive at Augusta 3:80 p. in. UP NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Arrive at Atlanta 6:25 a. m, Remains one minute at Union Point. ATHENS BRANCH TRAIN. DAY TRAIN. Time Stations. Arrive. Depart, bet. sta’s. A. M. Athens .....?.. 8 45 25 Wintersvilie 9 10 9 15 30 Crawford 9 45 9 50 25 Antioch. 10 15 10 18 15 Maxey’s 10 33 10 35 15 Woodville 10 50 10 55 20 Union Pt>int.... r .. 11 15 '-.grp SBAll*r Union Point...P. M. 100 20 Woodville 1 20 1 25 15 Maxey’s .1 ;... 140 145 15 Antioch 2 00 2 05 25 Crawford. 2 30 2 35 30 Wintersvilie 3 05 3 10 25 Athena. 3 85 NIGHT TRAIN— Down, Athens . a. m. 10 00 25 Wintersvilielo 25 10 30 30 Crawford 11 00 11 05 25 Antioch 11 30 11 32 15 Maxey’s 11 47 11 49 15 Woodville 12 04 12 10 25 Union Point 12 35 a. m. Up Night Train. Union Point 3 55 25 Woodville... 4 20 4 24 15 Maxey’s 4 39 4 41 15 Antioch 4 56 4 58 25 Crawford 5 23 5 27 30 Wintersvilie , 5 57 6 02 28 Athens. 6 30 BUSINESS CARDS, E. A. WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER And Jeweller i At Dr. King’s Drug 5t0re.,.,,..,,--Athens, Ga. YOONG MEN WHO WISH A THOROUGH PREPA RATION for Business, will find supe rior advantages at ' Mooie’s Southern Business University, -Atlanta, Ga. The largest and best Practical Business (School in the South. Students can enter at any time. oct3o-ly B. F. MOORE, Prw’t. ®l)e (Dglctl)orpc <£cl)o. HISTORICAL SKETCHES. - ■ ■ 1 - o ■ ■ ■ Governor George Mathews. o BY ALBERT WINTER. Specially Prepared for the Oglethorpe Echo. NUMBER VI. As I stated in my last sketch, I pro pose now to give short biographical sketches of the early settlers of the Goose Pond or Broad river settlement. I will commence with GOVERNOR MATHEWS, who, besides being the first settler, was the most prominent of the many promi nent men who settled there in 1784, the year after the great struggle ended. John Mathews, the father of the sub ject of this sketch, was born in Ireland, but emigrated to Virginia and settled in Augusta county, in the western part of the State, in 1737. This part of Virgin ia was then on the extreme western limit of civilization, and the settlers were accustomed to conflicts with the Indians almost incessantly. The sava ges in this part of the colonies were un der the immediate influence of the French settlers then scattered along at regular intervals from the Great Lakes of the North to the French settlements at New Orleans. It was a part of the great plan to recover French Dominion in North America—to connect the settle ments at Quebec and those in the ex treme South, in what is now the State of Louisiana, by a line of forts and settle ments. It is a remarkable fact in the early settlement of this country that the French always had the good will of the natives, and were consequently free from the great misfortunes that followed their enmity. On the contrary, the English colonies, from the time they landed on the shores of the New World, were engaged in deadly war with the natives, and very many of them fell under the scalping knife of the savages. The cause of this is apparent at a glance to those who are acquainted with the plans of the two countries in regard to the Indians. The French never dispossessed the aborigines of their lands without giving at least a semblance of pay, and besides they treat ed them with that kindness and oonrtesy characteristic of the Frenchmen wher ever he is found. On the contrary, the English colonists seemed to regard the unfortunate sav ages as legitimate prey, whom to rob, murder and plunder was doing God ser vice. As the direct result of this inhu man policy, there was constant and deep sealed enmity between the two, and a struggle protracted and bloody which called and could end only in the exter mination of the Indians. From an early age George Mathews was inured to these conflicts, and devel oped a courage which marked him as a future soldier. In 1761, a family that lived near his father was murdered by the Indians. Young Mathews, in company with sev eral other young men, heard the firing, and supposing that some of their neigh bors were engaged in a shooting-match, which were then very common, rode over to join them. When they rode into the yard, what was their surprise to see the dead bodies of their friends scattered around, horribly mutilated. As soon as they found their mistake they wheeled their horses to fly. The savages poured a volley into them as they retreated, and a shot passed so near the head of young Mathews that it cut off the cue at the back of his head. The impetuous Math ews, roused by the murder of his friends and stimulated by the narrow escape he bad himself made, soon gathered a party to go in pursuit. Placing himself at the head of the pursuers, he soon overtook the murderers, and gave them a severe punishment, killing nine. At the great battle fought at Point Pleasant, on the Kenawah, in 1774, Mathews commanded a company, and by his bravery and management contrib uted no little to the complete victory gained by the colonists. After the con flict had been raging all day, with no decided result, Mathews, together with two other Captains—Shelby and Stuart— separated their commands from the main body of the army, and entering the bed of a creek which was very low, they suc ceeded in gaining a position in the rear of the Indians. Not expecting an at tack from that quarter, and totally un prepared for it, the Indians soon broke in confusion and were pursued across the Ohio. When the war of the Revolution broke out the knowledge that had been gained CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1875. by Captain Mathews in the conflicts with the savages served him a good pur pose, and, indeed, most of the officers who figured conspicuously in that great struggle learning their profession of arms on the frontier, Washington himself hav ing served with great gallantry and success against the savages. Mathews was, in 1775, appointed Lieutenant Colo nel of the Ninth Regiment of Virginia troops, which regiment was soon after placed, by order of Congress, on the Continental establishment. The regi ment was ordered to service on the Chesapeake Bay, under command of Gen. Andrew Lewis, and remained for two years under the poisonous influences of the malaria arising from the swamps on the shores of the bay, and the hardy mountaineers, accustomed to the bracing atmosphere of West Virginia, died rap idly from the effects of confinement and impure water. But when the contest began in good earnest, and it was evident that it had become a life and death struggle between the mother country and the recreant col onists, Washington, who knew the value of Mathews’ courage and experience, or dered him to join the main army, a short time before the battleof Brandy wine was fought. At this battle Colonel Mathews did good service, his regiment having broken the centre of the British line, but being unsupported, he had to fall back. At the battle of Germantown be again pushed the British forces opposed to him back, and had caplured them, when his command became enveloped in the dense fog, which lost the Americans the day. In the confusion that followed he was attacked, his troops repulsed, himself knocked down and a bayonet driven through his body. He was made a pris oner and carried to New York. Colonel Mathews was confined in the British prison ships in New York, and must have suffered greatly, for he ap pealed to the Continental Congress for protection against the cruelties of liis enemies, Jefferson, at that time Gover nor of Virginia, interested himself in the matter, and besides writing to the com mander of the British army in regard thereto, he also wrote to Mathews, con soling him for his sufferingsand referring to the time when he would be free from such persecution. I make the following extract from Mr. Jefferson’s letter to Col. Mathews; ■'* We know that the ardent spirit of hatred to tyranny, which has brought you to your present situation, will enable you to bear up against it with that firmness which has distinguished you as a soldier, and will enable vou to look forward with pleas ure to the day when events shall take place, against which the wounded spirits of your ene mies will find no comfort, even from reflec tions on the most refined of the cruelties with which they have glutted themselves. Col. Mathews was not enchanged until near the close of the war. He then join ed the army in the South, under the command of General Greene, as Colonel of the Third Virginia Regiment. It was while he was with the Southern army that he bought the Goose Pond tract, the title to which was in dispute, As soon as the war ended, he removed with his family to his purchase, and through his persuasions, many of his friends soon after left the old Dominion and settled in his immediate neighborhood. The fame of his exploits with the In • dians and his meritorious services during the time that tried men’s souls, made him soon after this settlement in Geor gia one of her most prominent citizens. He was elected Governor of the State, which office he held for two years, and by his stern devotion to duty made him self feared by the Indians, who were then very troublesome on the northern borders of the State. It was during his administration that the celebrated battle of Jack’s Creek, in Walton county, was fought. The Indians were totally de feated. When the first Congress of the United States, under the present Constitution, assembled, Mathews was a member. It was during his service in Congress that he gave the celebrated evidence of the strength of his memory. An important public document was lost, the contents of which he could repeat from memory verbatim , He was elected Governor of the State again in 1794. And now I approach a period in the life of this remarkable man when the lessons of his earlier years seem to have been forgotton. He gave his support to measures which have re ceived the unqualified reproval of of all good men, since that day. I refer to the celebrated Ya*oo Fraud, as it was called, an act which was passed by the General Assembly of the State, granting all of the present States of Alabama and Mississippi to a company of speculators, for the insignificant sum of five hundred thousand dollars. Ask your neighbor to take the Echo. DEVILTRIES. A man of marked features—the small pox convalescent. Bugby is at work on a patent to pre vent sounds from being drowned. A Danbury boarder writes for a rec ipe for removing dandruff from butter. _ About the happiest time in a young girl s existence is when her lover rings her hand. Why are the days in summer longer than the days in winter?—Because it is hotter in summer, and heat expands. Shacknasty Jim, Steamboat Frank and Scarfaced Charlev are in Brooklyn, but they haven’t testified yet. A California man pounded his wife, was fined S9O, and he sold her silk dress to pay the fine. The flowers feel so outraged at the treatment of spring that they are carry ing pistils. Respect for royalty seems to be de clining in England when an English pa per will coolly refer to“ Bill the Third.” A red-headed, unprincipled woman has been selling the colored people of Boston a lotion warranted to make them white. A Troy man has invented a shirt bos om which won’t rumple. It is probably made of cast iron, however, and he’ll have to invent his customers. A Colorado tombstone remarks : Be was young, He was fair, But the lujuns Raised his hair. “Guess your eyes are bad,” replied a Green Bay traveler when told that his collar was soiled ; “ why, bless you, mis ter, I haven’t worn that collar but two weeks.” This conundrum is respectfully sub mitted to the best speller : If S-i-o-u-x spells su, and e-y-e spells i, s-i-g-h-c-d spells side, why doesn’t s-i-o-u-x e-y-e s-i-g-h-d spell suicide ? A gentleman who has a scolding wife, in answer to an inquiry after her health, said she was pretty well, only subject at times to a “breaking out in the mouth.” The man who can keep from using ugly words when his suspender buttons burst off, or when his corns arc stepped upon in an omnibus, is elected for heaven, sure. Observe a young father trying to ap pease a bawling baby, and you’ll witness enough ingenuity in ten minutes to make you think that man ought to be an in ventor, A little boy asked a lady friend of his mother’s who made her teeth. She replied, “God.” “ Well,” remarked the young hopeful, “ Dr. Freeman made mother’s, and they beat yours by a. d—d sight.” Aunt Bella (who has just read aloud ‘ The Burial of'Sir John Moore”) —“Now, then, which of the verses do you like best?” Jack, with alacrity—“O ! I know —‘Few and short where the prayers wesaid.’ ” She used to keep bits of broken china and crockery piled up in a convenient corner of the closet, and, when asked her reason for preserving such domestic lum ber, she shot a lurid glance at her hus band, and merely remarked: “He knows what them’s for.” A pretty girl attended a ball out West, recently, decked off in short dress and pants. The other ladies were shock ed. She quietly remarked that if they should pull up their dresses about the neck, as they ought to be, their skirts would be as short as hers. A man in digging a load of sand from a sand bank in Seneca Falls was buried to his shoulders by an avalanche of the treacherous earth. When discovered by his friends he had bleen planted about three hours, and was beginning to grow —discouraged. A physician once defended himself from railleries by saying: “I defy any person whom I ever attended to accuse me of ignorance or neglect.” “ That you may do safely,” replied an auditor, “ for you know, doctor, dead men tell no tales.” “Fellow Trabklers,” said a colored preacher, “ ef I hed been eatin’ dried apples for a week, and den took to drink in’ for a monf, I couldn’t feel more swelled up dan I am dis minit wid pride and vanity, at seem’ such full ’tendance har dis evenin’.” He didn’t tell the young man not to come around any more; he didn’t bid his daughter reject his suit ; he didn’t sit up at night with a shot-gun, or let the fire go out in the front parlor. No, no; he knew a plan worth two of those : he hung out a small-pox flag every evening at dusk, and that did the business effec tually. Bill Smikes came home mellow' the other night, and when his wife asked him w'hat ailed him he said he had been.to the spelling-school and had (hie) got foul of hip-pip—poppo—poppo—hip popity—(hip-pop —hip) pity hop—himus —nippimus—hip hip— hip hippity mns—hipopymus—or some such (hie) confounded word, aud it had given him one of his ‘‘spells,” An editor out West, who thought the wages demanded by compositors was an imposition, discharged his hands, and intends doing his own type-setting in the future. He says: owiNG To the eXhoitbiTwit IFegEs dEmANdeD pY priiqeßs wE ho.\e Con cluded To do oL r o IFn tYpa sEtring iN Tqe fuTnjje.:; auD aLTAeuGH wE never Tqe Business tee dO &ot see vsy gßerr mynTery i* t *£e aR'. A Haunted House in Ancient Athens. It may perhaps interest our readers to be reminded how theghost story question was regarded by Pliny the younger, the most elegant writer under the Roman Empire, and the intimate friend of the historian Tacitus, the deepest man of his day. Here is a letter from Pliny to his friend: “ What think you of the following story ? Has it not more of the frightful about, and not less of the miraculous ? I will tell it as it was told to me: “ There was a large and roomy house at Athens, and one that had a bad name and proved fatal to in-dwellers. In the dead of night the sound like the grating of iron, or to a more attentive ear, the clank of chains, used to echo through it —first from a distance, then from quite close at hand. Presently a spectral old man used to present himself, lean and squalid, with long beard and shaggy hair, and fetters on his hands, which he kept shaking. “ This occasioned nights of distress and horror to the inmates, whose sleep was banished by fear, and the result was illness, and as the illness grew to its height, death ; for by day, though the phantom had departed, its image would remain impressed upon, the eycs v and apprehension stayed when its cause was gone. The house was, therefore, quitted, and abandoned to desolation,. its un earthly occupant being allowed sole possession. Still an advertisement was kept up, in case any one unaware of the serious drawback might wish to rent or purchase it. Then a philosopher named Athenodorus came to Athens and read the bill. On hearing the price the cheapness raised his suspicions, and on making inquiries, he was told the story, which only rendered him more than ever anxious to hire the house. As evening closed in, he ordered a bed to bo made up lor himself in a front room and called for writing materials and a light; then dismissed his atten dants into the interior, and applied him self, mind and eye and hand, to the task of writing,, that his brain might not be left free to conjure up the apparitions he had been told of, and torment him with idle fears. At first silence reigned supreme about him, as it did everywhere else.. Then there was a clash of iron and a shuffling of chains. So far, how ever, from lifting his eyes or laying aside his pen, he redoubled attention to his work, and stopped his ears. The noice increased and advanced nearer, until it seemed first at the door and then in the chamber. He turned his head and saw a figure which lie recognized as the one described to him. It was stand ing beckoning with its finger, as if sum moning him. He answered by a wave of the hand to wait a little, and resumed his writing. It proceeded to rattle the chains over his head. Then looking behind him again, and seeing it signaling as before, without delay, he took up the candle and followed it. The ghost walked slowly, as if encumbered by its chains, but after turning into the court-yard it vgnishad suddenly and left its companion alone. Finding himself thus, he plucked some weeds and mark ed the spot. The next day he went be-. fore the magistrates and advised them to order the place dug up. A skeleton was found entangled in a mass of chains, the body itself, frpm lying long in the ground, having rotted away and left the hones bare and moldered, in the fetters. These were collected and publicly buried, and the ghost having been duly laid, the house was haunted no more.” A Little Old-Time S'ory About Grant. A late number of the Chimney Corner contains a striking likeness of Hon. Erastus Wells, one of the most popular gentleman in the Lower House of Con gress. The sketch of his career also given, shows how successfully Mr. Wells fought his way up from a stage and om nibus driver to his present high position, he being also one of the most wealthy and influential residents of the “Future Great City.” This seems, by the way, not an inap propriate place to refer to a little inci dent in Mr. Wells’early career in St. Louis, in which the present Chief Mag istrate of this nation figured conspicuous ly. More-than twenty years ago, one terrible cold and stormy night in Janua ry, Mr, Wells was driving his stage home from Carandolet(near which burg Farmer Grant lived,) to St. Louis, a distance of seven miles. On the road Mr, W, met a horse and country wagon proceeding leisurely along without a driver, He next discovered lying on the roadside the debris of what appeared as a small stock of groceries, Further on he espied what afterwards proved to be a good siaed, old-fashioned brown jug ; the"eork was out and there was the very best evi dence that the aforesaid jug had very recently contained some whiskey. The last object further on, and only a short distance from that point, Mr. Wells dis covered was the body of a man lying off the side of the road, Jumping from his stage he found the owner of the wagon reposing comfortably in a snow-bank, “ slightly under the weather ” front hav ingimbibed too freely of the contents of his brown jug, Mr. Wells, thinking that the ma might perish if left there all night, took him on his stage, picked up the things along the road, and landed the farmer and traps safely at home some miles distant. This is no imaginary sketch. The individual thus taken care of is now the President of the United States, and the incident aptly illustrates the marvellous changes that occur in the career of men who rise to eminence in this country. Grant never forgot this act of kindness on the part of Wells, aud to-day the latter, although a Dem ocrat, has more influence with the Ex ecutive than all the balance of the Mis souri delegation in Congress combined. VOL. I—NO. 32. TEEASUBE AND. QQBWNS. A Man Discovers Gold and Silver a Cava —He Attempts to Help Himself and i Frightened Off by Horrible Specters Fearful Noises. [From the Meade County (Ky.) Mirror.] A story reaches us from the neighbor hood of Painsville, in this county, that sounds decidedly Munchausenish, the truth of whieh we cannot vouch f >r, but give as we received it. One day last week, while a man, whose name we are unable to learn, was enga ged in ctuting staves* about two mile* from Pair—ill e* a rabbit sprung out of a brush pile,, and the mau, with visions of rabbit-hash looming up before his mind, hurled his hatchet with great force in the direction of the coiton-Jtaih Miaaing its aim, the hatchet disappeared down a hole in the ground aahert distance oft to* which the man proceeded, but finding he could see his weapon lying about six feet below, proceeded, to lower himself for the purpose of recovering it. Arri ving at the bottom he observed a room like a cave about ten feet square, which was dimly lighted by the sunlight with out. Casting his eyes about him, he dis covered a pile of Indian tomahawks. Toward these he advanced for the pur pose of examination.. While doing so he discovered two earthen vessels almost within his reach, w hich he saw was filled,, one with silver, the other with gold coin. Paralyzed for the moment at the discov ery of such vast riches, he stood and stared in blank astonishment. For a moment only did he stand thus, but ad vancing with a panther-like leap, he was about to receive his prey, when there arose a succession of such shrieks, yells and noises that he paused, and glancing up he saw gazing upon him eight or ten things, resembling men who had once lived, but now' nothing remained but their bones. It is useless to say that the stave-cutter lost no time in getting out of the cave, without even obtaining one piece of the precious metal to bear him out in his story. It appears thatdie is a truthful man, and h.s story is believed by quite a number, who are organising themselves for the purpose of making au examination and testing the truth of his story. Reader, you haye it as w’e re ceived it; believe or not, as you plea e.. We await further development. The Influence of Newspapers. A school teacher, w'ho has beep enga ged for a longtime in his profession, and witnessed the influence of a newspaper upon the minds of a family and chil dren, writes as follows: I have fouud it to be a universal fad,, without exception, that those scholars of both sexes, and of aU ages, who have ac cess to newspapers at home, when com pared to those w'ho have not, are : 1. Better readers, excellent in pronun ciation, and consequently read more un derstaudingly. 2. They are better spellers, and de fine words with ease ana accuracy. 3. They obtain practical knowledge of geography in almost half the time it re quires of others, as the newspapers have made them acquainted with the looaiiuu of the important places of nations, their government and doings ou the globe. 4. They are better grammarians for having become so familiar with every variety of styles in the newspapers, from the commonplace advertisement to the finished and classical oration of th-j statesman, they more readily compre hend the meaning of the text, amt constantly analyze it constructions wlti\ accuracy. 5. They write better compositions, uring better language, containing more thoughts, more clearly and more correct-- ly expressed. 6. Those young men who have for years been readers of newspapers arc a l , ways taking the lead in debating s >cie ties, exhibiting a more extensive know ledge, a greater variety of subjects.. and expressing their views with greatet influence, clearness and correctness. The Printer’s Estate.—The prin ter's dollars—w'here are they? A dollar Ueie, and a dollar there, scattered all over the whole country, miles and miles apart — how r shall they be gathered to gether ? The paper maker, the building owner, the grocer, the tailor, and all assistance to him in carrying on his business, have their demands, hardly ever so small as a single dollar, But the mites from here and there must be diligently gathered and patiently, qr the wherewith to dis charge the liabilities will never become sufficiently bulky. We imagine the printer wUlbave ta get an address to his widely scattered something like the fol lowing : u Dollars, halves, quarters, dimes, and manner of fractions into which ye un divided, collect yourselves and corn* home? Ye are wanted 1 Combinations of all sorts of men that help the printer to become a proprietor,gather such force -, and demand, with such good reasons, your appearance at his counter that nothing short of a sight of yon will ap pease them. Collect yourselves, for val uable as you are iu the aggregate siagie, you will never pay the cost of gathering Come in here in single file, that tin. printer may form you into a battalion, and send you forth again to Uafctta for him, and vindicate feehle credit!” Reader, are you sure you haven’t u couple or more of the printer 1 * sticking about your clothes f I The largest catch of fish made at one haul was at Alexandria, Va., Saturday morning. It was made atFreeatooe Point, by Jacob Faunce, who caught 4,000 shad and 19,000 herrings at one haul of the seine—a most profitable business at ent quotations. A game of cards in Milton county caused a colored boy to kill a white 1? years of age.