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Newspaper Page Textgariett@imkt<Saftte RICHARD W. GRI'BB, Editor & Proprl’r. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION $2 50. DARIEN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORMVG, JI LT ‘2sth, 1874. WHO SHOULD RULE ? The Americau government was made for the people, and not the peo ple for the government, or as mate rial on which to experiment a Repub lic. In other words, the people made the government and are the govern ment. But within our political mem ory there seems to have been going on a transition to the reverse. Office-! holders who administer the govern ment are simply servants like those of our households —chosen for supposed j qualifications, hired and paid for their services. The President, the Chief- j Justice, the Governor, the Congress- j man, etc., asida from the dignity of the position, is in the same relation to the people as one’s cook, coach man and bootblack are to one’s family. They are servants expected to do their duty in the station to which they have been called, and they are liberally paid for acting honestly for the interests of their employer's. They seem to recognize tt is fact at the ap proach of elections. Candidates are nominated by “wire pulling.” They enter on the canvass by a study of the peculiarities of their constituents. They “treat” this man aud flatter auother; kiss the bahies of this one, and impress tho “Madame Gray Mare” of that one; they appeal in private to to this man’s prejudice and promise another any personal favor or office, and sometimes degrade their manhood by asking, through agents, to bribe the poor voter. They are all things to all men that they may gain some votes. They are elected. What then ? They seem to forget thev have con stituents; their falsehoods and prom ises are liko a dream of the night. Having the position, they are on a pe destal that overawes most of their constituents and gives them an influ ence that generally insures renomina tion. They are not set aside by tho people whoso scryunte they should be and so feel, but by political aspirants of their own nature and class. The “wire-workers” mako and destroy our demi-gods. Tho people have the privilege of voting for tho party nom nee. Before this election, the man will eat any kind of humble pie, how ever distasteful. After the election the elector will eat the humble pie in order to secure the presence of the “Honorable So and So” at his dinner table. He who went begging votes, now condescends to drink the champagne and eat the turtle provided by his former master, but present boot-lick. The man toad ies to the people for power, and the people toady to him haviug the pow er. They imagine him to be the pow er, forgetting that they are the power, and he but the instrument. These assertions are fully sustained not only by the developments of the power of such men ns the Arkansas Senators and South Carolina Legislators, but is evident to any one who will thought fully study an election and its effects on the electors and elected. It may be human nature, but then tlm people should be the more vigilant as to their informities. The power of the gov ernment is virtually in the people, ac tually assumed by office-holders ns in themselves. This is tho question of the day: “Ctesarism or the Repub lic?” Shall the servants rule their j employers ? Shall they act without i responsibility? Is the United States another Liberty Hall of the paternal midshipman’s easy type? It is about | time that all officers from the Presi- ' dent to post-boy, knowing that prin- ! cipals are responsible for the acts of ! their agents, acknowledged with devo- 1 ted attention to duty and integrity of conduct, that as the agents of the people, they must fulfill the trust committed to them. The miscarriages of the government are the blunders of qualified employes, and such blun ders are worse than crimes. The voice oi the honest liberty-loving peo ple of the country—of a Washington should be exemplified in the lives and acts of those to whom they commit their interests and destines, £§T* Theodore Tilton has written another letter about Beecher. There is now no doubt left as to the guilt of Henry Ward Beecher. AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA, Friend Ham, of the Eastman Times, intends making the local depart ment of that paper “red hot.” Ham is a brick and is well qualified to do exactly what he says. Success to him and his paper. The Thomasville Enterprise, asks “does advertising pay ?” Why, of course it does. Thomasville seems to be in the hands of robbers, from what the En terprise says. Col. Calhoun, editor of the Colum bus Enquirer, wrote an article recent ly on “Southern Chivarly.” Some of the people of Columbus didn’t like the article and advised Calhoun to get up and git. Surely he has a “hard road to travel.” During the protracted meeting at Quitman forty-one names were added to the Methodist church. Ex-Ju Ige W. M. Sessions, of Black shear, is the latest addition to the list of Congressional candidates from this District. Col. Robt. A. Alston, of the Atlanta Herald, is announced as candidate for Congress from his district. The Col. would make an excellent Congressman. Somebody in Brunswick has been watching a peach that measured niue and a quarter inches in circumfer ence. An individual signing hinwelf “Tax P ayer,” writes a letter to the Finance Committee of Brunswick telling them the name of the man who forged the city money. The getleman who is ac cused of tlio outrage is a highly re spectable citizen of Brunswick, and one who we feel confident, is as in nocent as a man can be, of the charge. Brunswick camo very near having a fire last week. That little engine was not needed, however. Bob Toombs and Aleck Stephens have ceased quarreling and have made friends and are happy. Hon. Benj. H. Hill says he wNI not electioneer for the Congressional nom ination but will make the race if put in nomination. We do hope he will be elected for we have always been anxious to see the smartest man in America in Congress. With Hill, Gordon and Norwood in Congress, Georgia need not fear. “Democrat,” in the Savannah News, strongly urges the claims of Col. John C. Nicholls, for Congress from this District. We hope our next Congress man will try and get. Darien a daily mail. Some of Congressman Freeman’s colored friends have been taking meat out of his store-house without his con sent. The next State Fair proposes to be the grandest ever held. We hope it will be. Bounties county had a homicide a few days since. Nathan Roberts was the victim and Keel was the man who dealt the heavy blow. Marietta was visited by quite a se vere storm recently. There is only seven candidates for Congress in the Seventh District. The farmers of Wayne county are complaining of considerable damage done to their corn crops by a white worm, between one and two inches in length, with a small black head. The crops are very good where this worm has failed to put in an appearance. There is another man in Southwes tern Georgia who positively refuses to run for Congress. The trial of George M. Bull, who is charged with the murder of W. D. Mitchell, of Twiggs county, was com menced in the Bibb Superior Court on Monday. Dr. E. H. Myers has tendered his resignation as President c? the Wes leyan Female College, of Macon. The resignation has been accepted and Prof. W. C. Bass elected to fill the vacancy thus created. It is claimed by the friends of Prof. B. that he is competent to discharge the (futies of the office in a very satisfactory man ner. Mr. H. I. Kimball has published a long letter defending himself agai st the attacks of a Georgia paper. Peaches sell in Augusta at two dol lars per bushel. The Savannah News learns that the j prospects for the coming rice crop ! are most encouraging. Augusta cotton receipts of the sea son up to Friday night footed up 198,355 bales against 177.179 bales to the sam6 date of last year. OUR BRUNSWICK LETTER. K.%Tilar Correspondence of The Timber Gazi.tte. Brunswick, July 20th, 1874. Editor Gazette : Our silent, dreamy city for the past few weeks has been remarkably quiet. Many of the people have gone to the summer resorts. A few went North, some to Florida, some to the mou - tains and others to the Islands. — Though no place is more healthy than the Ocean Queen the people feel that they need a change and a few week’s recreation The several places of re sort on Cumberland Island are filled with gay company from Macon, Atlan ta and other inland cities. An excursion party from Hawkins ville arrived in Brunswick on Monday of last week. The Silver Cornet Band met the party at the depot- and eacor ted them to the Davidson House. The Hawkinsville Cornet Band accompan ied the excursionists. The dulcet strains of the two bands alternately playing, filled the air with harmonious strains ’till past the hour of midnight. Duri ig the next day the two bands discoursed sweet m a,sic, the floods of melody hovel ing over the city, min 4- ling with the songs of the mocking bird. Sometimes liquid-like, the wa ter harmonized, then rising to a temp est, or falling to a cadence so low,, as to be heard only a furlong away. In the evening the merry and jubiilant party left on board the str. Lizzie Ba ker, en route for Cumberland Island. The Hawkinsville Band perfum ed at great disadvantage, as several mem- bers were unable to accompany the party. Thoy candidly admitted ,hat the Cornet Band of Brunswick were the most skilled performers, an I high ly complimented their leader. The Brunswick Band ought to be ashamed of beating their visitors so badly, tlio’ in other ways they tendered them every hospitality the kindest fore thought coal 1 suggest. The long-looked for pleasin' boo May Flower, has arrived and is pre pared to convey parties to t.he Islands and other places of interest. The well-known sloop, Clay-B b, during the past few weeks has onv v ed a number of pleasure pa; tic-to and from the islands. Too much can not be said in favor of this p pular bot, and of the ceaseless and untiring energy of the captains in promoting tne comfort and convenience of the pleasure-seeker. The lumber trade for several weeks past has been improving, and it is rumored that ail the mills will socn be in operation. Watermelons of the largest size and in the greatest abundance 11 >od the market. The prices are low and cuf fee is happy. Mr. J. S. Marlin has peaches in his garden that are nearly si in h s in circumferance; four of them weigh more than a pound. Our handsome young frit n 1 over the way, “Knight of the Mortar and Postal,” is disconsolate and will not be comforted. His sweetheart has left the city. The good ladies of St. Marks’ (Epis copal) Church gave an entertainment at the resilience of Colonel Schlatter, on Wednesday evening last. Tin* guests were delighfully entertained, and a fair sum placed to the credit >d the ladies’ society. The wooden-ponies and hand-organ have again made ilnir appearance, much to the delight of the children who love to “swing around the circle.” More anon. WARRINGTON. GORLON ON LAMAR, Senator John B. Gordon in a recent interview with an Atlanta Herald re porter, paid the following compliment to Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, the di.stin guished member of Congress from the State of Mississippi: “By all o lds the most povcrfull and effective speech made in the House since the war, ami probably as remarkable an efibri ns was ever made upon the floor, was Mr. Lamar’s speech on Loots - mi. I never saw snch a scene as tin H n.s presented during its delivery. T tore was not a member in his seat —every member was on his feet, straining to catch every wo’d that fel IV Li mar’s lip-s. II" captured tin Hons* ami galleries, and carried tueni wi h him. L was as absolute a triumph as I ever saw. Lam r was overwhelms with congratulations. Garfield, o! Ohio, wrote him a four page letter, in which he told him that he had read his speech carefully twice, and that it was to him ns a revelation from the South; that it give turn an entirely new view of things.” A YEAR IN TEXAS. NUMBER TWO. HOUSTON THE GARDEN CITY. The banks of Buffalo bayou are bordered with vines twining over lux uriant vegetation, encircling the trees and trailing in the waters, tempest tossed, by the waves of the passing steamer. Beyond are broad Savannas, purple prairies, daisied knolls and ‘washes’ with their wealth of cluster ing caunas, all brilliant with the al most tropical splendor of our South ern clime. But when midsummer has come, that season of the year when the tourist seldom or never vis its the ‘Lone Star State,’ tlien all will have changed. D yuth, that demon of the tropics, will have seared the Savannahs, scorched the prairie, and withered the daisy kuolls. The whole country will then have the appearance oi fin almost barren land, the burnt surface relieved only by the d.uk 'roen of the forests. The country is so level that at Hous ton there is six inches tide—distant from Galveston Bay Eighty miles Tb • bayou is so narrow that, steamers can scarcely pass one another. At H mston a large basin litis been exca v.ate 1 wherein they turn rouui. Houston, the ‘Garden City’, is the most beauiful town in the State. It is located on an elevated plateau, di vided into squares by broad streets, many of which are bordered with 1 inlsome stores, elegant dwellings, ‘and beautiful flower gardens. Among its public buildings tha masonic t-em ph is perhaps the mist conspicuous. It is four stories high. The thre- up per stories are used by the masons; the halls are elegantly adorned in sliicco and fresco painting. The Hutchins House is perhaps the most elegant hotel in the State. It is a plain, substantial brick edifice, con t oniug ample accommodations for upwards of sixjhundrod guests. Among the private residences, none are more beautiful than “the Castle,” the resi lence oi Henry Perkins. The man sion is two octagon buildings sur rounded by piazzas. The grounds are handsomely laid out, spacious, tud adorned with more than one hun dred varieties of roses, some of which are tre< s measnri sixteen inches in circumference, a great variety of ever greens and the choicest of Texas for est trees. Ihe numerous walks are bordered wi h bloom-bearing shrubs cut into symmetrical shapes; the air is redolent with the constant fragance of the myriads of flowers. The beau ty and splendor of Nature’s silent world is made vocal both night ana day by the songs of the mocking-bird, frequently mingling with rich strains of music wafted from the halls of the mansion. Within the castle there is an elegance in such perfect keeping with the surroundings that it manifest most clearly the refined culture that Iweils thereiu. O one of tne corners of Main street aud Texas avenue is a large framed building with broad old fashioned gal leries’ (piazzas) along the front, a net quaint dormor windows peering out of the roof. With pardonable pride the Houstonians will tell the visitor that the ancient edifice is the old State House of the Republic as well as the legislative halls of the S ate for a num b<*r of years after her admittance into the Union The building is now met amorphosed into a hotel aud glories in the appelation of “Tne Old Capi tol.” The churches of Houston are nearly all substantial brick structures. Tne P. E. church and Roman Catho lic cathedral are superb. The soil is rich black loam, and is considered most fer.ile. During the winter sea sons the streets are, at most, impass able, the heavy rains churns the light soil to a creamy pabte, which in some seasons remains so for months at a t ime. In the old cemetery on the out skirts of the city sleep a number of i lie South’s most eminent men: States men from Georgia and South Caroli na; one of Alabama’s and two of Mis sissippi's former Governors; several heroes of the French province, Lou isiana, and men who distinguished fhemse’ves at the decisive battle of Sun Jacinto; one of Crockett’s heroic band, who fell at the “A’amo massa | ere;” Gen. Magruder, and other he roes of the late struggle have laid down in the “long sleep’ neath the magnolia’s of the old burying ground. Houston, like all Texas towns, is overrun with young men skeeking employment. During our so-journ in the ex-Capitol, we met a number of yong meu acting in the capacity of tr in boys, who informed us that they bad been well-to-do in the oider States. Four young men were dining-room servants in the old Capitol, others had become brakesmen on the Cen tral railroad. Few, very few of the large number, who yearly go to the new Eldorado, better their condition. To men of means, Texas, like the ma jority of Southern States, offer great inducements, but those depending on others for employment are infinitely better off in the older States. The planters’ risks are greater, owing to the drouths aud ‘northers,’ of which I shall write again. In merchandising, the competition is as great as in any other State. In Houston there is cot ton and woollen mills, brass and iron founderhs, car and machine shops, several steam cotton pr> sm sand ‘beef packers The society is refined, highly culti vated, and as stylish as in any east ern city; the people energetic, and not thriftless, as has been said. Hous ton is the gia-at railroad centre, and is now attracting the. attention of the whole State; its rapidly increasing population betokens a prosperous ru ture for the people of the Garden City. Tie Texas State Fair which is an nually belli at Houston is considered the city’s crowning glory. For three successive years - 1 have attended the Fairs, (1871 ’72 and ’73) and each year no e 1 great, improvements in the material and industrial progress of the Suit 0, Madam 8., one of our party, informed Mrs. P. of H. that the ornamental work was as chaste aud elegant as that exhibited sit the Fairs in New Orleans. Mens. B. was de lighted with the rdock and declared that betti r (L misiana excepted) could not be found in the States, The la dies seemed to be as much interested in the turf as the gentlemen; many at tended the races daily, and wo ,1 be come as excite I a the jockey- of the sterner sex. It is estimated that from 40,000 to 50,000 vi-itors yearly attend the Fairs, many c ni ug from distant States. 11 se i , le it ! with the prosp Tity a: and ie-spita. y >t the Tex ans. V ,1 W. [0 'N IT DARIENMARKET -BY— OH AS, O. FULTON, Dealer in MEAT*. VEI-Tr.-\B!.ES, ETC. attention given to all ORDERS..®* Havinar had two years experience in rhe 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. •ras-ii .C[np TO ‘Nfliuva ■jeqiun] pue japy. —JO— y HHHasvar! ism m D. B. WING, MEASURER AND INSPECTOR —OF— Timber and lumber. Respectfully solicits patron age- DARIEN, - - -’ GA. May-2-fim, Mclntosh Sheriff Sale. WILL bo pold. op <bo first Tuesday in Seprember " next, before DeL Tine's warehouse, used as a Court House, between the legal hours of sale, the ■ following property, levied on as the property of M. j Mahoney, by virtue of a mortgage fi. fa . in favor of John Hagan, to-wit: lfis empty bott’es; 9 bottles of liquors; 8 bar bot’les; 4 bar tumblers; 52 wine glass es; 14 bottles of bi ter?; 2 gallons of lemon syrup; 5 wet measures; 2 tunnels; 10 m. sherry wine; 5 gal. peach brandy; fi gal whiskey; 5 gal. port wine; 11 gal brandy: 10 gal black-berry brandy;_2o ga 1 sherry wine; 35 gal of rum; 20 gal of gin; 20 gal ginger brandy; 43 gal of blackberry brandy; 42 gal blackberry brandy: 40 gal • f whisky; 25 gal Kerosene oil; 7 lamps; 12 Imp -hades; 1 iron safe; 1 refrigerator; 42 gal of whisky. Terms of sale cash. JAME-R BENNETT. Sheriff, M. C. NOTICE. STREET HANDS for the city of Darien, you are h"rebv ordered to report for Stn-et rinty" on the second Mnndiiv in .August. 1874. at the old Court; House in said city, at 7a. m. Come equipped with hoes, rakes, and shovels or spades. By order of R. L. MORRIS. . | Chr'm Street and Lane Com. ] July 18—Sw. Attention The Whole of leas • \ A.&R. STRAIN, DARIEN, CA., Keep constantl} r on hand, MS' READY-MAHE CLITUIE. AND Furnishing Goods, DRY GOODS, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Crockery, Wood and Willow ware, Hardware, A fine assortment of Table and Puck et Cntlerv, Tin-Ware, Nails, Par ker’s Improved Blind Hinges, Glass- ware, Foot-tuhs, Brooms, Brushes, Buckets, Wash Tubs, Wash Boards, Wash Baskets, Flower-Pots, Sauce pans, It p ■, Hollow ware, K* IOS n< O', locks Ac ,at A- & R. STRAIN'S NEW STORE, COR: BROAD AND JACKSON STS.,. Saddles, Bridles, Spurs, Harness, Carpet Bags, Trunks, Phobia lias, Grindstones, and Axle Grease, at Corner Br a I and Jacksons Si reels. TP s. just, received a fresh o of GROCERIES, CIGARS, TOBACCO &C. Nuts, Candies, Spit* s. T a:, Coffee. Sugars and Syrups, B em Flour, Corn Oats, Meal, Grist, and Northern and Eastern Hay, Lime, Salt. ALSO, A fine stock of CIGARS always on hand. Discount by the dollar’s worth <>r box. The attention of UMBER CUT TERR. FARMERS, and all in need of any of the above articles, are especially called to their new st >ck, All will do well to CALL and examine their well-selected stock before purchas ing elsewhere. This store is un*der the immedi ate supervision of Robert Strain, junior partner, assisted by the genial and pleasant D. WEBSTER DAVIS. Terms—SJRICTLY CASH. We defy competition, believing that with our tr*vantages w'e can afford to sell GOODS as LOW as any dealer in Sont ern Georgia. We DELIVER all goods purchased by citizens in town or those on the Ridge, free of charge. TRY US. A. & R. STRAIN. May 2-ly.