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DARIEN, GEORGIA,
SATIKDAY MOIIMXG. JI'XE ‘27lh, 1874.
OH. CONSISTENCY, THOU ART A JEWEL !
The consistency of the Radicul par
ty in Congress has had of late anoth
er examplification in the defeat of the
Bill to admit New Mexico as a State,
almost simultaneously with the pas
sage by the Senate, of the Civil Rights
15.1i. That “nasty” Journal of Civili
zation, Harper's Weekly, with custom
ary subservience to radical duplicity,
devotes a column of commendation
and praise to the act of its party
friends in defeat ng the hill to admit
the territory. But who outside of the
radical party would have ventured to
predict the reason assigned by these
political saints for their action. “Tell
it not in Gath—repeat it not in Aska
lou.” And yet we are informed by
the radical orator of the occasion that
New Mexico ought not to be admitted
ns a State because five sixths of the
population cannot read or write, and
many are unable to speak the Eng
lish language. lie thinks it danger
ous that such elements of ignorance
should be admitted to a share in the
government, and his party by their
vote in Congress endorse his views.
They are identically tho same men,
who, six years ago, enfranchised four
millions of negroes, not one in a hnn-
dred of whom, could read or write,
or speak the English language cor
rectly, who htld down the white pop
ulation of ten Southern States at the
point ef the bayonet, not that this
negro element might participate in the
State governments, but that it might
obtain absolute control of them, who,
in the face of financial ruin and polit
ical disgrac3 wrought by their iniqui
tous policy, have ever since the per
petration of the first great wrong,
maintained by brute force illegal, ig
norant, corrupt and besotted govern
ments over the States of South Caro
lina, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi,
and Arkansas, and who are now seek
ing to crown these past infamies by
the passage of the Civil Rights Bill.
These are the men who now consider
it dangerous to admit to the privil
ege of a State government one or two
hundred thousand citizens composed
in part, of hardy trappers, traders
and hunters of pure Anglo-Saxon
and in part of the Anglo Span
ish population —tho descendants of
the old Castilian stock. Of course
tho fact that the people of New Mex
ico are conservative has no adverse
influence with these pure and lovely
Congressional Pecksniffs.
Hawkinsville Dispatch says
four negroes who left that place in
November, 1872, for Liberia, returned
last Monday night, completely cured
by their experience of life in that Af
rican Republic. It adds that old Joe
Burch s wife, tlie enthusiastic negress
who, a short while before she left for
Liberia, jumped up and slapped her
hands together, and thanked her God
tout she was going where there was
no poor white trash, is now very anx
ious to get back, and has sent letters
here begging the white people to help
her return. She is now working for
two dollars a month.
li®- The London correspndent of
the New York Graphic says the opin
ion prevails in that country that Miss
Nelly Grant “has made a misalliance
and placed herself at a great disad
vantage. As Miss Grant, the daugh
ter of the American President, she
was welcomed here by the swells and
received by tbe Qeen; but as Mrs. Sa
toris, the wife of an English civil en
gi/iecr, she is nobod'-. I scarcely
know whether she can even be pre
sented at Court.”
Dt-g-Hon. Joseph T. Titcomb was
nominated for Governor of Maine, by
the Democrats, on Tuesday.
President has nominated
ex-Postmaster Dennison, Henry T. B.
Blow and A. G. Cuttle, provisional
commissioners to govern the District
of Columbia. They were confirmed
by the Senate.
rant’s pay perquisites for the
four years of his present term amount
iu round numbers to $462,000; tbo6e
of Lincoln during bis four years to
$194,000.
AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA.
The bauquet and excursion given by
Messrs. Clarke, Hemphill, and Finch,
proprietors of the Atlanta Constitution,
to the Georgia Press, was. as we pre
dicted, a magnificent affair. There
were over forty editors present and
they had a jolly good time. Long
life to the Constitution.
There is a lady in Macon who wishes
to purchase “a few mourning postage
stamps.” P. O. Department will take
notice.
James C. Freeman, the present in
cumbent, iiaa been renominated for
Congress from the Griffin District, by
the Republicans. Lochrane bad to
succumb as Freeman was bis father
in-law.
Gorman was not present at the At
tlanta Constitution banquet. That is
strange, indeed. We never heard of
John failing to be on hand before.
Something must he the matter.
The Griffin News says, “Attention
Military!” Oh, don’t say that, you
make us think about war again.
The editor of the Hinesville Gazette
has been chawing on a gollard stock
eleven feet two inches long. That is
a lengthy one, certain.
How these Georgia weeklies can
copy Harris’ witicisms from the Sa
vannah Nexus without credit, is some
thing that has been bothering us for
a long time. That won’t d <S, gentle
men; it is entire'y too thin to use
Harris’ wit as your own.
The Quitman Repox'ter and the Inde
pendent are handling one E. E. Wade,
a radical, “with gloves off.”
There was shipped over the line of
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad
during tho year ending May 31st,
31,100,300 feet of manufactured yel
low pine lumber.
Brunswick is to have a graud bar
becue on Thursday next, to be given
by tho Baptists of that city. From
all accounts, we are inclined to the
belief that it will be a grand and suc
cessful affair. Those Baptists ladies
know how to handle a barbecue.
Rev. Mr. Boone has been called to
the Episcopal Church, at Brunswick.
Hon. Thos. W. J. Hill, a prominent
Atlanta lawyer, died recently.
Atlanta will soon have water works
and then she will be happy.
The different Granges of Southwes
tern Georgia, held a big meeting in
Albany last, week Hon. Torn Harde
man did the speaking for the occa
sion.
Atlanta is anxious to have a two
hundred and fifty thousand dollar cus
tom house.
We hope when the democrats of
this District nominate a candidate for
Congress be will be a man that will
look after tho interests of his District
and not fool his time away like some
we know of.
The Stnto Agricultural Convention
meets at Stone Mountain on tho 11th
oi August.
The Atlanta Herald has had a fuss
with tho Union printers.
Dick Whiteley is plotting for a re
election to Congress from the 2d Dis
trict. Dick had better prepare to be
lifted out of his boots in the coming
campaign.
Hon. Benj. H. Hill has written his
fourth and last letter. He handles
Aleck Stephens pretty roughly.
Rome was talking about having a
duel last week but an Atlanta editor
stepped in and quieted things.
The young ladies, who are pupils of
Franklin Academy, have adopted the
calico system, and will wear these
dresses at the approaching examina
tion.
A lady in Atlanta thinks that be
cause she kept a horse from running
aw r ay she can also manage her hus
band. We agree with an acquain
tance of ours who said, “these women
folks are curious insects.”
At the coming State Fair, will be
offered by the Howe Sewing Machine
Company, “a valuable sewing machine
as a premium for the finest specimen
baby under one year old.” If we
were a baby we would certainly be on
hand at the next Fair, and would
bring that machine home with us
when we came. But we ain't nary ’a
baby.
The cotton caterpillar has appeared
on the plantation of Jas. D. Willis, o*f
Early county. Willis found one web
bed up ready to produce the second
crop.
OUR BRUNSWICK LETTER.
Kcgnlar Correspondence of The Timber Gazette.
Brunswick, June 22d, 1874.
Editor Gazette :
Thinking perhaps a comentary of
what I hear and see, with a synopsis
of facts and figures would not come
altogether amiss, and might possibly
ease the editorial brain by quieting
that never ceasing croak of the “devil”
(editorially speaking) “for copy,” with
this for a preface I begin.
Brunswick is dull, though not to
the extent of utter prostration as is
reported in many cities. The young
people taking advantage of the lull in
trade are enjoying themselves exceed
ingly ; soirees, suppers and excursion
parties are the order of the day.
The Masons of this place will cele
brate St. John’s day, Wednesday next,
by a street procession and appropriate
discourse in the Baptist Church.
On Friday night last an attempt
was made to burn the residence of
Judge James Houston, by firing the
dwelling under tho rear piaza. The
flames were discovered in time to save
the mansion and neighboring houses.
I regret to state that the inhuman
wretch, or wretches so deserving of
the most severe penalty the laws can
inflict, are unknown.
The lumber trade though dull, is in
creasing. Two now firms have come
into existenco during the past few
weeks.
Haywood’s ice-ca.tt goes merrily
along tho streets distributing its chil
ly contents among those w T ho require
something to keep them cool.
The old and well-known grocery
house of J. S. Marlin, lias changed
hands; it is now known asMcConn &
Marlin. The new firm cannot but
succeed, for the steady young propri
etors’ merits have been tested by sev
eral years clerkship, during which
they have won the good-will and con
fidcuce of the community.
The firm of D. & J. Lesser continues
to be one of the most popular dry
goods’ houses in the city. One of the
brothers having recently returned
from the North, their stock is as com
plete, and judging by the number of
customers, as cheap as any in Bruns
wick.
The Episcopal Church is almost
completed. On yesterday, services for
the third time were held in the new ed
ifice, which, by the way, is one of the
most beautiful buildings of the kind
iu Southern Georgia, and reflects
great credit on the small congregation
by whom it was erected.
The City Fathers are having a num
ber of cisterns dug along the principal
streets,—making precautionary meas
ures against fires.
Mr. J. S. Marlin has one of those
inexhaustable gardens of which we
are told but seldom test. The well
kept table of the Marlin House is
graced with a large variety of vegeta
bles. Visitors to the city who are for
tunate enough to secure entertain
ment at this house will coroborate the
assertion we have made.
The commodious stem-tug Godfrey
Ivcebler, of Fernandina, have made
arrangements to ply at this port.
The United Friends of Temperance
gave a supper on Tuesday night of last
week. Several prominent citizens who,
for yea's, have been faithful subjects
of Baclms, have renounced alegiance
to bis realm, and united with the Or
der. Though not thorough total ab
steminous or much given to cold wa
ter, we cannot but congratulate the
prosperous society.
And now Mr. Editor, if it so please
you I will close, fearing our few brief
“dots” will have ceased to interest
your many readers.
warrtngton:
BgyThe life of an old maid: “A
desert, a blank, an unwritten page to
the careless, the thoughtless, the un
observant mind. But to the initiated
eye which faithfully scans its past, its
present, and its future experience,
may it not prove a world of strong
affection, conflicting duties, nnxious
cares, and busy memories, whose only
register is hidden in the human
heart!”
esg-Senator Ferry is not a candi
date for re-election as United States
Senator from Connecticntt. Else he
never would have said that “women
have no more right to vote than a
horse.” •
B*ay*Mis, Jewett, a Vermont Post*
master’s wife, has been detected in
robbing the mails. Most women
would have been satisfied with read
ing the letters.
[Written for The Timber Gaeette.]
,: ALL SAINT’S DAY” IN NEW ORLEANS.
Reader, have you ever visited the
churches and cemeteries of the Lou
isianian Capital on the day of “AH
1 Saints”? If not, in imagination ac
company me to the old >St. Louis Ca
thedral. The hour is early, yet we
find many wending their ways towards
places of worship; for both Protestant
and Baptist keep the day. We go in
the ancient edifice by the main en
trance which still leaves traces of
its Moorish origin though remodeled
several times. A scene of imposing
and solemn grandeur is presented;
the quaint obi fashioned Spanish alter
is brilliant with the flame of many
tapers that cast a soft, mellow light
over the passing ceremony. His High
ness the Archbishop, attired in glit
tering robes, georgeous beyond des
cription; the preists in vestments of
orange and gold; tbe alcobytes attired
in pink, white orange and silve"; the
stately tread measured time of
the heraldive staff who arrayed in
dark green uniform, black chapaiv,
with snowy plume moves slowly up
and down the aisles, and before the
high alter; the multitude bowed down
on the marble floor, and the brilliant
and sombre rays from the stained
glass window lingers lovingly among
them, while over and above all the
grand symphonious strains of the
organ and choir fills the cordiors and
vaulted nave, an l mingles with the
prayers and incense that ascends
heavenward from the high alter.
In Christ Church (Episcopal) the
oldest protestnnfc sooiely in tb6 city,
another congregation Iras assembled,
and in the simplicity and purity of
their beautiful and poetic faith raise
their voices in the victorious jubilate
Deo and the triumphant song praise
and humble petitions of the Te Deum
Laudamus filling the spacio ’s edifice
with solemn soul-thrilling music and
touching prayer. A brief discourse
by the aged rector —tbe benediction
and all is over. We go forth with a
feeling of sadness if not grief, for
well we know that many who have
worshiped hero to day shall have gone
from among us ere the cycle of days
brings the returning festival, and
that some who now go to the tombs
of their loved ones, shall sleep with
them when the memorial blooms are
again strewn, — flowers “plucked from
earth, transplanted in heaven.”
It may not be ambs here to state
that, from strewing flowers on “All
Saints” day originated that of decora
ting the soldiers graves, and that iu
the cities of New Orleans and Mobile
even before the struggle for the rights
and maintenance of the principles of
the people ceased, a day, aside from
‘All Saints’was selected. The costume
originated among tho Southern peo
ple and is not “borrowed from the
North” as has been asserted by some,
who would forbid us paying the me
morial tribute to the honored dead
who fell in the “lost cause.” .
As we move along towards the cit
ies of tho dead, let us precede the
reader by a brief description of the
places of sepulcher. The grounds are
surrounded by high walls, and from
ten to twelve feet thick. The inner
sides of the walls are pierced with
cells in regular rows and from six to
eight rows are above another. With
in these narrow Gomes sleep many
thousands; a marble tablet with in
scription generally in French is placed
in the w.ill before each tomb. With
in the enclosure the grounds are laid
out in streets with tombs rising close
ly together on each side; the streets
vary in width from a few feet to forty
aud even sixty feet. The tombs are
built of brick, of purple concrete, of
grey granite, and of polished black
and gleaming white marble. The
rich and poor sleep side by side; the
one iu the elaborately carved marble
sepulcher, the other in the plain, un
pretentious tomb. It is customary to
inter the dead in the evening, and in
the twilight hour, sable procession
may be seen moving towards the
abode of the dead; frequently the fu
neral cartege is preceded by' a Band
that discourses the “funeral dirge” at
the gates of the cemetery (if Roman
viatholic;) the priests attended by al
colytes with the usual symbols, chant
a requiura as the foot procession
moves to the place of interment, for
vehicles never enter the still abode of
the dead Greenwood and Firemans’
cemeteries excepted.) When the cask
et is placed within the tomb and the
service completed, th 9 friends and
relatives place bouquets on the coffin
and around it—tis their last gift to tbe
dead. Jhe gloom of night is fast fall
ing as the mourners retire, and the
clang of the bell at the lodge warns
them that the gates are about to be
locked for the night.
As we near the cemeteries on “All
Saints” day, we m et many coming
and going; the gates are thrown wide
open and from the arch above hang
black velvet curtains fringed and
spangled with silver and gracefully
louped hack at the sides. The streets
are garlanded with flowers, and the
tombs are decorated with wreaths,
crosses and anchors, bearing tender
mottoes, and made of gold and silver
gilt, of beads and of immortelles. The
statuary that surmounts many tombs
is wreated with flowers, or twined
with crape; other tombs are strewn
with flowers or festooned with black.
The Society tombs are covered with a
canopy of velvet, fringed and studed
with silver ever which trail the crape
twined flags of their several nativities.
Among the dead move the Jiving—as
it were a handful compared with the
eight generations that sleep around
them. A silence almost painful per
vades the atmosphere; the low mur
mur of voices is like the whispering
of loved ones‘gone, who return, and
drawing the shroud of time from over
our buried hopes, warning ns that we
too, must leave ail and lie clown in
the long sleep. Occasionally we pass
a moul lering sepulcher, so old that
its inhabitants are forgot 1 en; but the
stranger festoons its time-stained
walls, which proclaims in silent,
mournful eloquence—‘ Dust thou art,
to dust slmlt thou return.” The sa
cred abode of the dead at all 'times
solemn, is on this day iudesc-i ibabh
so, tor the people are among their
dead, and kneeling in silent prayer
before the tombs of their departed.
Here a v.i lowed mother and helpless
children bowed down while, she, their
only protector, breathes forth her si
ient petitions. There the gray-haired
parents, side by side bow in submis
sion before the tomb of their trans
planted jewels; well they know that
before many “All Saints” days roll by
that they shall be united.
When the light of day is fading,
tapers are lighted and placed upon
and arround the tombs in countless
numbers, and if possible, rendering
tile vigils of the night nr re solemn
than ike da\. The noiseless surge of
the people arid the kneeling figures on
all sides cannot but impress and ele
vate the thoughts of the most casual
observer. The elective hells thro.igh
> out the city chime the hour of mid
night, and another “AH Saints” day is
added to the past. We leave the pre
cincts of the dead with a tread that is
light—for the very ground is conse
crated by prayer.
W.
NO MORE DROWNING.
Anew invention has just been tried
iu Paris which is pronounced to ren
der drowning a thing of the past. It
consists in the employment of a pneu
matic India rubber tube, rolled around
the body with a sufficient number of
folds to contain the necessary amount
of air. This tube is placed concealed
in a double envelope forming a shirt.
It terminates by a mouthpiece which
shuts with the a : d of a sifnple copper
button. The operation is simple in
j the extreme, and the swimmer or im
mersed person has enough air for a
whole day. When the apparatus be
comes too diminished in volume, is
easy tu expand it again by the princi
pal tube in deep water without any
effort or difficulty. The trial was
witnessed the other day at the Henry
1 the Fourth Baths, when the inventor,
M. Gosselin, showed its properties.
He stood upright, the hands raised
above the bead, when the water did
not come above the shoulders; he then
floated on his back with arms crossed.
The apparatus can be worn under the
clothes like a flannel waistcoat. It
extends from the neck to the knees,
fastened in front by a row of buttons.
It is composed of a double flannel, in
tbe midst of which an India-rubber
tube circulates, starting from tbe top
of tbe chest, ascending tbe leftside of
the neck, and following the central
line of tbe back. There it divides into
branches, encircling the I highs ns far
as tbe knees. From the central-part
of the principal tube twelve to fifteen
lesser tubes diverge to make the round
of tbe body, and meet in front where
the row of buttons is. This improve
ment of the life-belt is said to be cer
tain to supercede all existing appli
ances in Laching sc imining or savffig
life from shipwreck.
NOTICE,
VITE HEREBY give notice, that all claims against
t* ns roust be presented for settlement, fn
FIRST WEEK of the month following, that on
which the hills are contracted, or payment will ho
debarred. This notice also applies to all claims
against the St.eamtug “Starlight,” of Darien. 8
EPPINO, BELLAS &CO
Darien, Ga., June Ist, 1874.
Jun S-lm.
C. L. GILBERT & CO.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
GROCERIES,
Vegetables. Fruits, Confection
ery, Etc., Etc.,
Nos. 163 & 165 Bay Street, (Cor. Barnard )
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
May 16 lm.
CROCKERY,
China, Glassware, House and
Furnishing Goods,
KEROSIIE LAMPS, 11..
FOR SALE IN
Original Packages or Packed to
Orders.
E. D, SMYTHE,
Congress and St. Julian Streets,
Savannah, - - - Georgia.
May 16—3 m.
W. Robert Gigniliiat,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DARIEN, GA*
PROMPT ATTEN’I loN given toall legal business
in the Eastern and BrOnwick Circuits, and In
the United States Courts at Savannah.
April 25 —lv.
W A, BURNEY,
PLASTERER £ BRICKLAYER.
Is prepared to do plain and
ornamen ta 1 pi ast eri ng.
BRICK WORK
—AND
House painting in every style at
short notice.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
WILLIAM HONE,
DEALER IN
Wines, Liquors and Cigars,
73 St. Julian it 154 Congress Street*;
Savannah, Gu.
Slay 16—Gm.
~ WM. M. YOUNG,
WATCHMAKER
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
May—2-t f,
MAGNOLIA HOUSE!!
DARIEN, : GEORGIA.
XT ANY additions hai-o been made in this honae
-t'C during the past month, and the Proprietor taken
pleasure in eajing to his old
PATRONS AND FRIENDS
and to all who desire FIRST-CLASS aceommotla
tlons, that he is ready to satisfy them at the follow
ing rates :
Board and lodging per month $30,00
Table Board • “ 25.00
Board and lodging “ week— 10,00
Board “ “ per day 2,00
Meals eacl\ 75
J .edgings “ 75
A. E. CARR, Proprietor,
M. CONWAY, Clerk.
~ a H OPKINS,
MEASURER AND INSPECTOR
OF
Timber and Lumber.
Respectfully solicits Patronage.
Darien. - - - Georgia.
May-2 6m.
WILLIAM E. HOYT,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
DARIEN, GA.
April 25—tf. ,
MACON & BRUNSWICK
RAIL ROAD.
Change of Schedule.
Superintendent’s Oppice, M. A B R. R., I
Macon, Ga„ Apnl 25, 1874. f
OX anti after Monday, April 27, 1874, trains on this
road will run as follows :
DOWN DAT PASSENGER TRAIN .(SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.)
Leave Macon - - * * A M
Arrive at Jessup - M
Leave Jessup p 31
Arrive at Brunswick - - • 10.30 p M
UP DAT PASSENGER TRAIN (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED)
Leaee Brunswick ... 8.15 m A
Arrive at Jesnp - - -4-4 o A M
Leave Jesnp • - ' 6.16 A M
Arrive at Macon ... 6.00 P M
HAWKISSVUXE ACCOMODATION (SUNDATS EXCEPTED)
Leave Macon - • 380 PM
Arrive at Hawkinsviile - - - 7.00 p m
Leave Hawkinsville ... 7.15 am
Arrive at Macon - - 1130 am
The down day passenger and express train makes
clese connection with trains of Atlantic and Gulf
rallroed at Jesnp for Floiida, and no day train con
nects at Jesnp for Savannah, and at Macon for points
North, Ba6t and West.
.7AS W. ROBERTSON,
AprS-S tf General Superintendent,,
