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Newspaper Page Textflaricn f imkv tefttr SO 11KCHARD \\. GRIRB, Editor Jfc IVoprl’r. ANNUA I. S mscnil’TlON . DAIREN, GEORGIA, SVTORD.IT MORNING, .11 LY llfh, 1814. THE FORTUNES OF ST, LOUIS. A private letter to the senior editor of the Macon Telegraph pens these glowing periods upon the condition and prospects of the great city of the Northwest: Tins is now a great city, and it is growing more rapidly than any other large city in the world. Since Janu ary Ist there have been issued over 3,500 building permits, a* appears in detail in one of our late papers, for houses estimated to cost over ten mil lion dollars. These houses are gen erally built for the occupancy of the owners, or are leased before the foun dations are laid. Our population now numbers nb >ut 500,000, and this is now the recog nized metropolis of the Mississippi valley, and is “the future great city of the world.” The United States are now building here a Gust in-house and post office, covering an entire block, which will be the finest build ing of the kind in this country. The Merchants’ Exchange, now in process of erection, will, when completed, be without a rival. We have a number public parks, one of which, over 1400 a res, is the largest on the continent, except one park at Philadelphia We have now the largest and most com plete cattlo yards in the world, and another, of even larger dimensions, is nbont being built. Wo are about es tablishing the finest system of ware houses to be found in any city. Our fair grounds, covering 80 acres, are unsurpassed. American city has a Botanical Garrten so magnificent as that presented to St. Louis by Henry Shaw. The public schools arc as good, if not better than those of any other community, and richly endowed. There are more tank railroads center ing at St. Louis than at any city in ti e world. The finest bridge in the world has just been completed to span the Mississippi river, and form the con necting link between the railroad sys tems of the East and Meet. Supple mental to the bridge is a railroad tun nel, over a mile under the city, to a grafld Union depot, by far the targets in the world. St. Louis was shown by the census report of 1870 to have been the third manufacturing city in America, and will, before many years, be tlio first. No city in the world is surrounded by so iargo a country, which must be tributary to it, so rich in mineral and agricultural resources. None has an extent of inland navigation to be com pared to it. The entire Mississippi river, north and south —the Illinois and Ohio on the east, and the Missou ri and its tributaries on the west. Our railroad system, now nearly complete, with its unrivaled water lines, will make it the distributing point of the immense region of which it is the centre, capable of sustaining a population as large- as all Europe. Statistics prove that our death rate is less than that of any other largo city. Is it then unreasonable to say that St. Louis is "The future great city of the ivorld ?” THREE GOOD REASONS- Three good reasons why the colored people of Georgia shouldvote the rad ical ticket: Ist. Because the radical party prom ised them “forty acres of land each and a mule” to vote that ticket. Se cured their votes and then forgot all about the “forty acres and the mule. 2d, Because Bullock and his radi cal legislature stole the school fund, $600,000, which had been set apart for the education of the children of the State and equally urith the whites, those of the colored race. 3d. Because the Radicals persuaded them to invest their hard earnings for many years past, in what they called the Freedmens Savings Bank, and now it appears that the Rads, with Fred Douglas President of the Bank at their head, have purloined the funds, and the colored people will lose a large portion and perhaps all of their money. Colored citizens can you afford tolose such valuable friends? If not, vote for them by all means at the next election. But if you can, just say once ami for all, “Farewell brother Crawford”! and don’t he cn tight again in that camp meeting. AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA. A iiegro man bit a piece out of the jaw of Mr. McCallie, of Macon, on Tuesday night. The negro man is supposed to have been crazy. The corn crops along the line of the Macon and BriUlfwick Itiilroal are in excellent condition. The cotton prospects of Southwes tern Georgia is in a flourishing condi tion. . Hon. Alexander H. Stephens nn nouce his determination not to lie a candidate for re-eleetiou to Congress on account of failing health. If lie j does not improve during the summer he will resign his seat in the present Congress in time for his unexpired term to be filled at the same time that the election shall lie held for a mem ber to represent the Augusta district in the’ next Congress. Mr. Stephens is so feeble from an attack of rheuma tism as not bo able to be out of doors but twice in six weeks. Wo have seen Iho first copy of the Atlanta Daily News, and unhesitating ly pronounce it the handsomest prin ted paper in the St ite. A. St. Clair Abrams is the Managing Editor, and John F. Fitzpatrick, Business Mana ger. Wo wish the new enterprise abundant success. * Savannah was visited by quite a se vere storm on Friday night. It said that Harris prayed like a good fellow when the News office commenced to shake. W o were informed a few days since that Frank Evans, of the Alapaha Forester, had done gone and got mar ried. If the report is true, we heartily congratulate our friend. 11. I. Kimball has returned to At lanta in fine health and spirits. Mr. Kimball is undecided as to whether he will make Georgia his home or not. Griffin is somewhat troubled about her currency. Brunswick can sympa thise with Griffin. The Savannah News copies our ar ticle on tho “Savannah Convocation” without giving any credit. A young man giving his reasons for favoring the new Laundry Association about to be started in Griffin, says: It’s awfully annoying to have some other fellow’s clothes left in one’s room by tho washerwoman. Satur day we put on another fellow’s shirt, and could not wear it. Although it was ruffled around the top, and tucked at the bottom, the sleeves wore too short to put cuffs on, and there was no place for a collar. The colored people of Macon loose $52,000 by the recent failure of the Freedman’s Savings Bank. The new hotel being built at Jesup wiD bo finished about the first of Sep tember. Wm. S. Blain, Esq., will run if whop completed. The Catholics of Macon gave a big basket pic-nie 18 miles from Macon, on the M. & B. Railroad, on Thursday last. It was the grandest pic-nic of the day. The proceeds were for the benefit of Pio Nono College, now in process of erection in Macon. t A Heard county man gives the fol lowing cure for bore felon: He had one one on his thumb from which he suffered intensely two or three days. Taking a hen’s egg he broke off one end but his thumb was swollen so he could not get it in the shell, whereupon he pourep the contents of the shell in a match box and inserted the aching member therein. Tn fifteen minutes he experienced great relief, ami at the end of two days the felon began to discharge and get well, his thumb remaining in the egg until it com menced discharging. The remedy is simple and worth a trial. Frank G. Sneed, son of Col. James R. Sneed, of Atlanta, committed sui cide a few days since. Savannah, it is said, is extremely dull at present. Savannah negroes are out of pocket just $35,000 by investing in Frederick Douglas’ Savings’ Bank. The temperance cause is still flour ishing in Brunswick. A stranger committed suicide in St ! Marys a tew days since. Brunswick is to have a colored mili | tary company. . The Central Railroad is now selling I half-fare tickets. The democrats of Georgia have | commenced calling conventions for the purpose of nominating congress- OUR BRUNSWICK LETTER. Regular Correspondence of Tiie Thibet. Gazette. Brunswick, July Gtb, 1874. Editor Gazette : On Wednesday last, our quiet com | munity was startled by the announce ment that a large number of the city currency bills had been stolen, the signatures of the Mayor and Treas urer forged thereon, and the bills then put in circulation. The discovery was made by T. F. Smith, (editor of tlie Appeal,) who had in his possession some nine thousand dollars worth of the city's scrip. This sum being more , than the Finance Committee had is sued, he, upon investigation, learned that a number of 1 lie City Council blanks were missing. Mr. Smith im mediately notified the merchants of the forgery. His loss by the counter feit currency is-about two thousand seven hundred dollars. The Finance Committee have made arrangements to redeem the genuine bills. The Barbecue on Thursday last was a grand success, —netting the Baptist Society more than they anticipated nn In' Hie peculiar financial pressure. Plea urc parties, almost nightly, may bo si en gliding up and down the Bay; their songs, mingling with the light music of the guitar, ripples over the waters till lat; i.i the “dreamy hours.” Bishop Haven, the Massachusetts carp t-bag representative of the North ern M. E. Church, honored our city by a visit. Here, as elsewhere, he de graded himself to the level of African us. While on the train, the creature (I can:.o' say gentleman for I firmly bi live lie has lost his identity as such among men) with the impertinence characteristic to his class, addressed a lady whom ha had learned was a resident of 8., making inquiries about the hotels, etc. When at the depot he introduced his daughter to the “go umcn of do poplar culiar.” Mrs. C., the lady referred to, anticipated the act, smmised (and rightly too) that he was not a white man, refused to and ride from the depot in the same buss, till the driver assured her that he was not a colored man. Tito next dav, Sunday, July 28th, Mrs. C. learned that her companion da vogage was-,the distingue Bishop Haven—-the idolized pet of the negro—the object of dis gust to tho high toned people of his race, the creature who.would not only degrade himself, but the whole white race to the level of the negro. On Sunday he rode out with his new found friends, and he and his daugh ter took “pot liquor” with a sable brother. The Bishop preached in the African M. E. Church, his daughter at tend-.eg services, with, and sitting b. tween two of the colore 1 sisters. I do not blame tho negroes for en deavoring to better their condition, nor the whites for trying to elevate ■ m, but mu it i .ipb , tie dly denounce tin- deyr,av -i slimy civ dares, who arc neither black nor white, and who are not satisfied with their own degrada tion, but would debase the whole race frpin which they are apostates. By so doing, would the sacrifice elevate the negro? Truly, we live in an en lightened age ! A few days ago I visited the vege table garden of Messrs. Dußignous & Beck; though not posted in agricul tural pursuits, nor blessed with an itching ear to become a full fledged granger, yet I can bear witness to the fact that the garden bears ample tes timony of superabundant prolificness. I was shown anew vegetable, .i itro duced by the firm; ii is called “Kohl Rabbi” or Turnip Cabbage, and is well liked by all who have partaken of it. On one of the beds were cucumbers, varying from one and a half to three feet in length. On a bed near by another variety, not so long, that measures from twelve to eighteen in ches in circumference. In another part of the garden the workmen are preparing the soil to plant the third crop of Irish potatoes. The firm are confident that they can produce from two to four crops in a year, off the same ground, having already gathered from two to three crops this season. Space will not permit me to detail the great variety of beans, melons, tomatoes and other vegetables now growing luxuriantly in their garden. I feel confident in asserting that all lovers of “garden sass” will find their supply abundant and fresh. Saturday last, an, excursion party from your town, visited this city. We were made aware of the event by the , unmerciful pounding of dium , the major domo of the day flourishing a sword, preceded the drum pounders, who moved through the main thor oughfares of the ‘Ocean Queen.’ The musicians were followed by men, wo men and children scattered promiscu ously from sidewalk to sidewalk. Now, Mr. Editor, we poor whites were not quite overpowered by the thunder of your colored people, nor transported to the realms of bliss by the martial music of five drums and one fife, nei ther do we envy yonr Band. The ex cursion party were kindly received by the colored people of the city, and seemed well pleased with their visit. This, by the way, recalls to mind a notice which appeared in your paper several weeks ago, stating that a par ty from your place would soon visit (lie Venice of America. I think I may say, in behalf of the people, that when your party visits the ‘city of the sea’ they may be assured of a warm wel come. WARRINGTON. For the Gazette.] SCENES IN SAN FRANCISCO. Pan Francisco, the metropolis of the Pacific coast, is perhaps the most beautiful city in the Union. Its huge hotels, magnificent churches, elegant stores and palatial residences are famed throughout the land. Its pop ulation is about one fourth that of the entire State, and is composed of the two extremes, neither any rich or re markably poor’people. In the city there is thirty thousand of the ‘hea then ehinee’, whose sole aim seems to be, to save a 4 w hundred dollars, on which to return to the Flowery Land and live at ease. Asa rule, they are industrious, filthy in their habits, and unscrupulous about appropriating other men’s goods. The women are never employed as domestics; they are bought and so and as slaves for the dens of infamy, all being prostitutes. The males live by themselves, do their own cooking, washing aud mending; many take in washing, and it is amu sing to see them sprinkle clothiug; they take the water in their mouths and squirt it on 1 lie garment in a way that is rapid as well as more even than out method of ‘dampening.’ In company with an officer of the 1 w, I visited a “Chinee town.” We entered one of their sleeping apartments, in which were about two hundred of the “almond-eyed race - ” Around the walls of the room were berths very much like those on an ocean steamer, rising one above another to the eeil- ing. Their beds are the soft side of a board, with a brick for a pillow. Some had email pieces of matting on which they lay, on the floor. The room was redolent with the fumes of opium, and other sickly odors. Within this one apartment, five hundred celestials sleep. Leaving the den, we occasion ally obtained glimpses of groups of chinamen squatting around a fire, boil ing their rice and chattering in that peculiar gibberish—perhaps talking about their far away homes in the Flowery Kingdom—or about an un fortunate brother, caught pilfering by the wicked “Amelican man.” We visited the Chinese theatre and wit nessed a portion of the play. The acting was done by one celestial, assisted by many supes, who lay around on the Gage eating and drinking, and occa sionally crying out “ki Li,” then a ‘ki ki i” here and a ‘ki ki ki’ there, then a general chorous of ki-i-i- ki, ki, hi all over the lions;. The jarring sound is enough to unnerve the strongest. The Joss houses are a great novelty; in our visit to one we were conducted to an upper story, where for the first time, I beheld the God of the Celes tials. The hideous grinning idol was decked with orange, vermillion, blue and gold and silver ornaments and all the paraphernalia likely to impress ■the heathen. The close, fetish odor of the joss sticks burning before His Royal High ness was almost unendurable. After a confession at the feet of the heathen Deity, the 'pig tail’ is freed to roam among the hen-roosts and dog-ken nels, with the understanding that he is to bring the resident priest a fat roaster or a poodle dog in good or der, and that no penalty ensues, un less the meddlesome Atnelicau man insists John Chinaman taking quarters in the city prison. A num ber of the better class have large stores and carry on au extensive trade with New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia and other Eastern cities. Iu appear ance, they differ very much from tie ordinary pig tail, as much perhaps as the polished gentlemen of the city and the rude frontiersmen. The ce lestials have a very poor opinion of the “Amelican man,” as they call us; and it is a brave Chinaman that will trust himself to our tender mercies. This is the main reason why they will not leave the Pacific coast only in large gangs. The Bank of California is a great wonder to the visitor. The pigs of silver lay around loose as though they, were some base metal. Mr. Brown, the gentlemanly cashier, informed me that the deposits were enormous. To my inquiry “Do you ever pay out a million in coin per day?” He replied “that some days a million was but a drop in the basket.” Ail the stock hollers are immensely wealthy; one Mr. William Sharon has an income of more than one hundred thousand a month, (the month of November last bis income was nearly two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,) derived from rich silver mines. Greenbacks are not current; all business is con ducted on a gold basis. The view from the Cliff House is very beautiful, a prominent object be ing- the seal rocks, at all seasons cov ered with sea lions. Several South ern families who have resided in the “Gate city” since the devastation of the South, say “that here it is always winter.” The climate is colder and much more even the year round than ours in the South, and it is not uncom mon to see ladies on the street, and perhaps walking together, the one at tired in heavy winter apparel, with furs etc., the other in summer goods, with lace shawl and fun. Woodworth’s gardens are the most beautiful I have ever been in. The meuageiie is superior to those of Eas tern cities; the picture galleries con tain many exquisite views, both of the State aud Territories; the flower gar dens is truly magnificent. The wealth of the nabobs (rich peo ple) is fabulous; many hav private stables with parlors attached that are more elegantly furnished than those of the New England aristocrat. In some, the feed troughs are made of mahogany, and the number of horses enough to stock a large public stable. The saloons are gorgeous beyond de scription, :iot tho gaudy, tinsel frip pery, meageily spread out as is so common in New York and other east ern cities, but that of almost bound less wealth bestowed liberally upon substantial worth, that is pleasing to the eye, and which surpases even the far famed cafes an 1 solons of New Or leans. The Pacific Club rooms are superb ly furnished, and the society that gathers in their festive halls is among the most elevated in the city. The Art Association is in a most prosperous condition. B. P. Avery, in a letter recently published, stated “that S in Francisco had done more for art culture than either of the two older cities” (New York and Boston.) A valuable gift of casts was presented to the Association by tho administrat ion of M. Thiers, in recognition of the generous sympath evinced for the French Republic by the citizens of San Francisco. Twenty-five years ago the ‘Gate City’ was a village of three hundred inhabitants. To day it is a city, and in proportion to its population con tains more wealth than any* city in the States. It is surrounded by fertile lands, picturesque scenery, and it is rich in frowning heights and verdant hills. San Francisco controls the trade of the State and neighboring territories, and it is thought by many, that the day is not far distant, when the ‘Gol den City 7 ’ will rot only rival the me tropolis of the East in wealth, but in population and affluence. &UT" The Mobile Register urgeS the people of the South to be true to the nobility of their blood, and declares that “The class of men that is more guiltily responsible than any other for the prolonged suffering of the Southern States under the insolence, corruption, and degradation of alien and negro rule, is the scalawag class; that is to say, the class of natives who, with all their natural, educational, and social instincts impelling them to de votion and fidelity to their wronged soil, people and homes, have severed those sacred ties, and sold out lion-' orable birthrights for money and office.” Hon. Marshal Jewell, of Connecti cut, lias been appointed Postmaster General. DARIEN MARKET —BY— CHAS. O. PULTON Dealer in MEATS. VEEETAULES, ETC. attention given to all ORDERS.^ Having bad two years experience in the business I feel satisfied that I can GIVE SATISFACTION. My thanks to the public for past PATRONAGE, and hope for a continuance of the same. C O FULTON. May—2-ly. DISSOLUTION. T TI , E FI , RM 1 ? F MORRIS & WALKER is this day J dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. R. L MOR RIS assuming all contracts for lumber and timber and .s alone authorized to settle the aftairs of the RfCIIARD L. MORRIS _ . „ T R. K. WALKER, ’, Darien. Ga., June 11th, 1874. June 13—lm. ~ MAGNOLIA HOUSE I! DARIEN, : : GEORGIA. AT ANY additions have been made in this house during the past month, and the Proprietor<aken pleasure in saying to his old PATRONS AND FRIENDS and to all who desire FIRST-CLASS accommoda tions, 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— in’oo Board •• per day £OO Meals each 75 Lodgings • 75 A. E. CARR, Proprietor, M. CONWAY, Clerk. O. HOPKI NS, ~ MEASURER AND INSPECTOR OF Timber and Lumber. Respectfully solicits Patronage. Dahien-. - - - Georgia. May-2 dm. ~WWL SHENCK, BOOT & SHOE MAHER, DARIEN, GEORGIA. IS NOW pi-enar: and to do any sort of work in the Boot ami Shoe line. Ouftom-mndeboOtefurnish <d at reasonable prices. Shop al B. Pfeiffer’*, oppo site Magnolia House. May 30— Ae. gk fekgurson! m. and., Physician, Surgeon, Accoueier. BRUNSPICK, GEORGIA. May 30— I). B. WIN G , MEASURER AND INSPECTOR —OF— Timber and Lumber, Respectfully solicits patron age- DARIEN, - - - GA. May-2-fim, Allamaha House, M. MAIIO NE Y, Agent. DARIEN, GEORGIA. KEEP constantly on band the choicest Wines, Whiskies, Cigars, <fcc. kc. FREE LUNCH served every day at eleven o’clock. Give me a call. June-20 ly. BURR WINTON, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, BRUNSWICK, GA. PLANS and Specification? furnished on short no * tice. Will contract to erect Buildings in every style. A'so superintend Buildings at reasonable prices. AII orders left with the firm ot Atwoods & Avery, Darien, Ga., will be attended to with cis patch. Jtilv 4 tf. “CROCKERY^ China, Glassware, House and Furnishing Goods, KEROSIKE LAMPS, &C„ FOR SALE IN Original Packages or Packed to Orders. E. D, SMYTHE, Congress and St. Jtdian Streets, Savannah, - - - Georgia Slav 16—3 m. WILLIAM HONE, DEALER IN Wines, Liquors and Cigars, • 73 St. Julian & 161 Congress Streets; Savannah, Ga. May 16—6 m. notice; VI7 E HEREBY give notice, claims againßt \ > ns roust he presented for settlement, in the FIRST WEEK of the month following, that on which the bills are contracted, or payment will be debarred. This notice also applies to all claims against the •toamtng “Starlight,” of Darien. EFFING, BELLAS CO, Darien, Ga., June Ist, 1874. Jnn 61m