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Darien fainter fuirttc. VOL. I—NO. 17. gaum Simfcct <Sa*ftte, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY RICHARD W. GRUBB. office in phillip’s building. Subscription Rates, in Advance. For one year s2.so—Foi six months.. $1.50 Club Rates: Five copies, each one year 2 00 Ten “ or over, each one year 150 . i Advertising Rates ; PER SQUARE, 10 lines space, first, insertion. .$1 50 “ Each subsequent insertion 100 j-g-* Special Rates to Yearly and Laige Advertisers. Advertisements from responsible parties will be published until ordered out, when the time is not specified on the copy, and payment exacted accord. i ngly. Communications for individual benefit, or of a ~ rsonal character, charged as advertisements. Marriages, and Obituary notices not exceeding ar hues, solicited for free publication. When ex j(ling that, space, charged as advertisements, nils for advertisements due upon presentation the first insertion, but a spirit of commercial City will be practiced toward reguiar patrons, o avoid any misunderstanding, the above rules I, be adhered to without deviation, il letters and communications should be address- Richard W. Grubb, DARIEN, GA. CITY DIRECTORY. County Officers. County Commissioners —T. P. Pease, Chairman, ,T. P Gilson, .Tames Walker. Janus I.acklison, It. L. Morris, L. Mclntosh, Thomas Gignilliat. Clerk 11. C. C — Dr. S. Kenan. Clerk Superior Court— lsaac M. Aiken. Ordinary —Lewis Jackson. Sheriff—' Tames R. Bennett, Deputy Sheriff— Alonzo Guyton. Receive* Tax Returns— Madison Thomas. Tax Collectors. W. Wilson. Covnty Treasurer— E. P. Champney. The Commissioners meet first Wednesday in each month. Municipal Officers. Ex- Off. Mayor— T. P. Pease. Ex-Off Aldernun—.hi*, f. Gilson. James Walker, Janv-s I.acklison, R. L. Morris, L. Mclntosh, Ttios. Gignilliat. Clerk and Treasurer—hr. P. Kenan. City Marshal— Robert E. Carr. Harbor Master— H. Steadwell. Inspector General —E. S. Barclay. Police Court every morning at 12 o’clock. U. S. Officers. Collector of Customs Brunswick District —John T. Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick. Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darien— Thomas Wheeler. Boarding Master Port of Darien—Cha*. 11. Town send. U. S. Mails. Postmaster —I). W. Davis. The mail leaves Darien every Wednesday and Sat urday at! o'clock A. M., for Mclntosh No. 3, A. & G. R. It., malting close connections with mails going North and South. The mail arrives from Mclntosh. No. 3, A. & G. It. R... every Tnesdav and Friday evenings at 8 o’clk Mails close every Wednesday and Saturday at 8% o'clock. Religious. There are religious services at the Methodist E. Church every Sabbath evening at 3 and 8 o’clock— Rev. K. M. Lockwood, Pastor. Religious services at the Episcopal Chuch every Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Rev. R. F. Clute, Pastor. Religions services every Sabbath at 11 A. M., 3 P. M. and 7 P. M., at the colored BaptistCbutch— Rev. R. Miflin, Pastor. Religious services every Sabbath at 11 A. M., and 3 P. M., at the Methodist Church (colored) —Rev. S. Brown, Pastor. Masonic. Live Oak Lodge No. 137 meets first Wednesday in each month at their Hall near the Magnolia House. E.;P. Champney, W. M. A. E. Carr, Secretary. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. GENE'L SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, ) ATLANTIC AND GULF RAILROAD. > savannah, October 11 1873. ) ON AND AFTER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1873, Passenger Trains on this road will run as follows: EXPRESS PASSENGER. Leave Savannah daily at 4:30 P. M. Arrive at Jesnp daily at 8:15 P, M. Arrive at Bainbridge daily at 8:15 A. M. Arrive at Albany daily at 9:40 A. M. Arrive at Live Oak daily at 3:55 A. M. Arrive at Jacksonvile daily at 10:12 A. M. Lrrive at Tallahassee daily at 10:55 A. M. Leave Tallahassee daily at 2:20 P- M. Leave Jacksonville daily at 2;40 P. M. Leave Live Oak daily at 9:05 P. M. Leave Albany daily at 3:40 P. M. Leave Bainbridge daily at 4:30 I*. M. Leave Jesup daily at 5:00 A. M. Arrive at Savannah daily at B'2o A. M. Sleeping Car runs through to Jacksonville. Passengers for Brunswick take this Train, arriving at Brunswick daily at 10:30 P M. Arrive at Brunswick daily at 10:30 P. M. Aeave Brunswick 2:30 A. M. Arrive at Savannah 8:20 A. M. Passengers from Macon by M. and B. 8:00 A. M., train connect at Jesup with train for Elorida, Pas sengers from Florida connect at Jcßiip with train arriving in Macon at 4:30 P. M. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN. (EASTERN DIVISION.) Leave Savannah (Monday. Wednesday and Friday) at 6:50 A. M. Arrive at Jesup (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) at. 12:30 P. M. Arrive at l,awton .Monday, Wednesday and Friday) at 7,30 P. M. Leave Lawton (Tuesday, Thnrsday and Sat urday at 5:40 A. M. Leave Jesup (Tuesday, Thursday and Satur day) at 12:40 P. M. Arrive"at Savannah (Tuesday, Thnrsday and Saturday) at 5:45 P. M. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN. (WESTERN DIVISION.) Leave Lawton (Sunday excepted) 7:25 A. M. Arrive at Valdosta. 0:33 A.M. Arrive at Quitman. *• 10:54 A. M. Arrive at Thomasville •' 2:40 P.M. Arrive at Albany, “ 7:00 P. M. Leave Albany, “ 6:15 A. M, Leave Thomasville, “ 2:10 P. M. Leave Quitman, “ 4:15 P. M. Leave Valdosta, “ 6:38 P. M. Arrive at Lawton, “ 8:05 P.M. Connecting at AlbanyVvitli Night Train on South western Railroad, leaving Albany Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday and arriving at Albanv Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Trains on Brunswick and Albany Railroad leave Junction (No. 0, A. and G. R. R.) for Albany on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 11;00 A. M., and arrive from Albany Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 2:49 P. M. Mail Steamer leaves Bainbaidge for Apalachicola every Thursdav. at 8 A. M H. S. HAINES, Genl. Supt. SAVE YOUR. MONEY! TIMES ARE HARO!! IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT EVERY’ ONE SHOULD THE PLACE WHERE THEY CAN GET The Most For Their Money, A. & R. STRAIN, OLD STORE, CORNER BROAD AND SCREVEN STS., "> , r ~ DARIEN, GA,, Would respectfully invite the attention of their friends and residents of Darien and adjoining counties, to their large and well se lected stock of General Merchandise, CONSISTING OF DRY GOODS. CLOTHING, HATS and CAPS, BOOTS and SHOES, GROCERIES, BACON, FLOUR, CORN, MEAL, OATS, HAY, LIME, HAIR, &c., CROCKERY. STOVES, GLASS-WARE Tin-Ware, Table and Pocket Cutlery, Farming Implements, &c., Particular attention given to the supply of vessels. Captains of vessels are especially invited to examine our large and complete stock of SHIP CHANDLERY, before purchasing elsewhere, which we are selling at prices that will compare favorably with any city in the South. GOODS DELIVERED in the CITY and on the RIDGE, FREE of CHARGE. GIVE US A CALL. A. & R. STRAIN. May 2—lf. DARIEN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15,1874. PAPER STATIONARY AND PAPER BAGS. b lIETWELL & NICHOLS, 126 BAY STREET. SAVANNAH, GA. April 26—lm. DR. L. HEINS, BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, Cures all diseases, Scrofula, Can cers, Dyspepsia, Piles. Con sumption, Coujrli and all diseases of tlit- lungs, and Fever. AR persons suftering from any of the above dis eases will do well to cull on Dr. L. HEINS, and be cured. All vegetable medicines, and protected by patent- April 26—ly. WALTER A. WAY, A T TORNE Y AND Counsellor at Law, AND REAL ESTATE AGENT, DARIEN, GA. WILL practice in the Snperior Courts of the coun ties of Mclntosh. Camden, Glynn, Wayne, Ap pling, Tattnall, Liberty and Bryan. Also in the Federal Courts in cases of Bankruptcy, &c. Particular attention given to the collection of claims, and the examination of Land Titles. April 26 i). t. im \.\, BANKER & BROKER, Brunswick, Ga. BUY’S AND SELLS EXCHANGE ON New York, Savannah, Boston, and Philadelphia, at lowest market rates. Buys and sehs Gold and Silver and Commercial Paper. Interest allowed on special deposits. Collections promptly attended to, and business so licited. April 25-ly. THE SIN. WEEKLY, SEMI-WEEKLY, AND DAILY. THE WEEKLY SUN is too widely known to re qu re any extended recommendation; but the rea s< ns which have already given it seventy thousand subscribers, and which will we hope give it many thousands more, are briefly as follows: It is a first-rate newspaper. All the news ot the dav will be found in it, condensed when unimpor tant. at full length when of moment, and alwys pre sented in a clear, intelligible and interesting man ner. It is a first-rate family paper, full of entertaining and instructive reading of every kind, but contain ing nothing that can offend the most delicate and scrupulous taste. It is a first-rate story paper. The best taler, and romances of current literature are carefully selected and legibly printed in its pages. It is a first rate agricultural paper. The most fresh and instructive articles on agricultural topics regu larly appear in this department. It is an independent political paper, belonging to no party and wearing no collar. It fig ts for nrinci ple. and for the election of the best men to office. It especially devotes its energies to the exposure of the great corruptions that, now weaken and disgrace onr country, and threaten to undermine republican institutions altogether. It has no fear of knaves, and asks no favors from their supporters. It reports the fashions for the ladies and the mar kets for the men. especially the cattle-markets, to which it pays pays particular attention. Finally, it 1? the cheapest paper published. One dollar a year will secure it for any subscriber. Tt i not necessarv to get up a club in order to have TnE WEEKLY SUN at this rate. Any one who sends a single dollar will get the paper for a year. We have no travelling agents. THE WEEKLY SUN.—Eight pages, fiftv-six col umns. Only $1 00 a year. No discounts from this rate. THE SEMI-WEEKLY’ SUN.—Same size as the Daily Sun. $2 (loayear. A discount of2oper cent. to club* of 10 or over. THE DAILY SUN. —A large four page newspaper of twenty-eight columns. Daily circulation over 120.000. All the news for 2 cents. Subscription price 50 cents a month, or $6.00 a year. To elubs of 10 or over, a discount of 20 per cent. Address, "THE SUN,” New York City. Game Chickens. AT. PUTNAM, has at his stable in this place. • the pure black Sumatra Game Chickens, and offers to sell Eags to any one wishing to raise from. They are the best chickens for this climate, and are better than other breeds for laying eggs. Call and take a look at them. M. L. MERS HON ATTORNEY AT LAW, BRUNSWICK,- ----- GA. TXT ILL practice in nil the Cour's of the Brunswick ” Circuit and Mclntosh in the Eastern Circuit. Darien and Brunswick made aspecialty. May-22-ly. MACON & BRUNSWCIK RAIL ROAD. Change of Schedule. Superintendent’s Office, M. & B. R. R. t | Macon, Ga., April 25, 1874. f ON and after Monday, April 27, 1874, trains on this road will run as follows : DOWN DAT PASSENGER TRAIN (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.) Leave Macon .... 8:30 A * Arrive at Jessup .... 6:45 p m Leave Jessup .... 8.00 p m Arrive at Brunswick ... 10.30 p m UP DAY PASSENGER TRAIN (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.) Leaee Brunswick - - - 2.15 m a Arrive at Jesup ... 4.45 am Leave Jesup ... 6 16 a m Arrive at Macon ... 5.00 pm HAWKINSVILLE ACCOMODATION (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED) Leave Macon - - - -3 30pm Arrive at Hawkinsville .- - - 7.00 pm Leave Hawkinsville ... 7.15 A M Arrive at Macon - - 11.30 am The down day passenger and express traiu makes close connection with trains of Atlantic and Gulf railroad at Jesup for Florida, and up day train con nects at Jesup for Savannah, and at Macon for points North, Ea6t and West. JAS. W. ROBERTSON, Ajr2-8-tf General Superintendent. For the Gazette.] To A. and L. Only a Drive a trifle slight— Just eager minds, a few moments blent, Two souls lit with kindly light, One thrill across two pulses sent. Strangers, so few bright, short days past 1 Strangers to-morrow, as before ? Ah no 1 wher’er their fates he cast, Their love will hold forevermore. How short a Drive, of two can change the mind, Can arouse them, from their gloom. Change their lives to be inclined, And bid their souls, blush and bloom. Perhaps they have touched their brow, with a fervid sign, With honor proud as crowned King's; Two souls in one, pleased to find, Are now sacred in all things. They know what others but guess. And keep the joy, they snatched on tYo Drive of that 'lay; But memory guards their one caress. For them—them only—them for aye. When son!? have united in words that meet They part not sullen, sad and cold; Still clings an influence subtly and sweet, One Drive that fusses dross to gold. Count not that short Drive loss or lavish waste, The little words you carelessly spent; Gleams yonr thoughts, your only taote. Must joys delay ’till matrimony is sent. Safe in your hearts, the jewel of your Drht lives. Relic and tpye—your suns ol happiness. Near together or afar, they’l keep their prize, Their first Drive— perchance their, lasting bliss. SANTIAGO. Written for the Gazette ] ARE WE CANNIBALS ? Dean Stanley has written these re markable words: “The whole subject of the brute creatiori'is'To me, one of such painful mystery that I dare not approach it.” Butler in his “Analo gy,” declares that it is not necessarily implied in the assertion of the natu ral immortality of brutes, “that they must arrive at great attainments, and become rational and moral agents; even this would be no difficulty, since we know not what latent powers and opacities they may be endowed with. There was once, prior to experience, as great presumption against human creatures as there is against the brute creatures, arriving at that degree of understanding which we have in ma ture age; for we can trace up our own existence to the same original as theirs. And we find it to be a gener al law of nature, that creatures en dued with capacities of virtue and re ligion, should be placed in a condition of being in which they are altogether without the use of them for a consid erable length of their duration, as in infancy and childhood; and great part of the human species go out of the present world before they come to the exercise of these capacities in any degree at all.” We have read of the deification of certain animals, and the sacred em balming of others by the ancient Egyptians; of the religious protection of some brutes by the East Indians of the present age; of the doctrine of Metempsychosis, taught from time immemorial, and yet believed by some. Without further reference we may conclude that wise men of all genera tions have regarded the immortality of the brute creation as a mystery, — probable, but indefinable. On reflec tion it would seem as if Darwin bor rowed h’S idea of a development of the human species from Butler, tho’ the latter, if alive, would doubtless write anew analogy disproving the Darwinian theory. The good prelate intended no such inference. So much for the serious part of our communi cation. There is also a sub-serious part. If it be probable that brutes are im mortal, that we also change success ively, after the several deaths, into different animals, as the believers in the transmigration of the soul insist, should we not be cautious how we in dulge in our propensities for animil food ? Some writers have asserted that we have existed in a former world, and how many before that they know not, even as the Brahmins teach that immortality is a succession of existences in the different stars. We may have been brutes in the prior world, beeu fattened, killed and eaten as to the body, while our brute-souls were flying off to this earth to be born in the flesh as human. Hence, after this life, on another planet, we may be fisli or birds, and the fish hook or fowling-piece may be the in strument* of our oapiure, death and consumption, while our fish or bird spirits speed to another sphere to un dergo a like use and change, and so on without end. In proof of this theory it has been asserted that we often have an indefinite recollection of per sons and things and animals for which we have no possible proof that we have at any time seen them since our birth Circumstances forbid any such conclusion. But, the impression is so strong that the only explana(ioi) is that we have met with tlie same in a former state of existence. It may have been in this world. It is not uncommou for a child of the present generation to be a living likeness to the portrait of an ancestor dead lor centuries past. May not the child be the ancestor re-produced ? Brutes of ten have “sneaking countenances.” The fables iu the ‘‘Arabian Nights,” that human beings were changed into brutes by magical art, may have had some foundation in truth. He who studies Lavator will find much corres pondence between the brute and hu man countenance. The development of the affections is more evident in the horse and dog than in many 'men. Why do we eat food ? Is it because: , 1. It is an acquired taste from for mer states of existence, when, as car nivorous animals, we devoured others ? or 2, Because we as animals in the last world were eaten by the animals of this world, who were then human; and we do it, instinctively, for re venge ? or 3. Because we expect to be animals on the next earth, and eat the present animals, so that we shall be even with them when they in turn as humans devour us? But here we should consider that we may be eating some relation or friend; our grandfather’s grandmoth er, the Witch of Endor, or the “Ghost of Bauquo. To think that in sipping our soup we are p>artaking of the very essence of Socrates or Cleopatra; that our mutton-chops are the remains of Demosthenes or Cicero; that our steaks are from the muscular thighs of Goliath of Gath or the sons of Auak ! We shudder when we read of the horrors of cannibalism. Few clergy care to be served up as boiled, fried, roasted, stewed or on the half-shell, by some savage chief whom he would convert. Yet the savage teaches us our true nature. We prefer the hu man to the brute condition. Why is not a human broil to be preferred to that of an inferior animal. “It is a matter of taste,” says the savage, “in my refinement I prefer man, in your mere sensuosness, you seek the most inferior of brutes. You will eat bulls, goats, hogs and the like, but never as pire to the lion, elephant or hippopot amus. These certainly are the objects of our food. Do we eat them because they were our euemies in the past, who, as the aristocracy of that period oppressed us the mere saus-culwttes. Or as our former ancestors, do we in stinctively, eat them in order to des troy our plebian pedigree ? But in what ever light we review the subject, the question returns, “Are we Canuibals?” In preparing animal food are butchers guilty of murder; iu eating it are we accessory ? Not only cannibals but also murder ers ! Horrible dicta ! Let us reform at once and become vegetarians. Though “corn has ears and the pota to, eyes,” it does not follow that they are immortal. The nectar of Olympus was the juice of the melon; the b'ess ings of Ceres were light-bread and hominy, and old mother Gea supplied the wine-grape and general dessert. Animal food causes fever. Fever is the decay of the eaten departed within us. It is their revenge in onr sickness. It is their death song of victory as it proclaims that we are mortals, hastening to a similar fate. QUERIST. fifcyEartliquakes are on the steady increase. According to the best au thorities there were in the fourth cen tury, 21; in the fifth, 25; in the sixth 31; in the seventh, 10; in the eighth, 11; iu the ninth, 3G; in the tenth, 17 in the eleventh, 51; in the twelfth, 68; in the thirteenth, 55; iu the fourteenth 58; in the fifteenth, 41; in the six teenth, 110; in the seventeenth, 680; iu the nineteenth, 925. BigF A Pennsylvanian bet six thou sand dollars that lie could eat fifty quarts of peanuts in twenty-five hours. He got away with forty, and then death got away with him. ©a?" According to the Milwaukee : News, a young lady asked a booksel ler’s clerk if he had “Eestus.” “No,” was the answer, “but I’m afraid aboil is coming on the back of my neck.” S£g“One Saratoga hotel uses 2,000 toothpicks a day. $2.50 A YEAR That Detroit Judge Again. ‘Margaret Graham why is this thus?* asked his Honor, as an aged woman stood at the bar. ‘I couldn’t help it, sir,” she sadly said, folding her hands and dropping her eyes. ‘I see gray haibs, Wrinkles of age, and signs that you are slowly drifting to the grave,’ he continued; ‘and yet von get drunk and hurrah for Gen eral Jackson, and rouse the neighbors from their beds.’ ‘Please, sir, it was a small drunk,” she explained. ‘And yet yon have been here before, and I have let mercy overpower jus tice. I am ashamed, Margaret, to think that in this nineteenth century of civilization a woman forty-four years old shouldf be brought here charged witlKdrunkeuness. ‘l’ll do better, sir.’ ‘lJkipeso Margaret; I hope you wjii'dash the cup from you, and take a solemn vow never to drink anything stronger than river water after this?’ T will sir.’ ‘And though the bloom of youth may not return to your faded cheek, you will feel young again in spirit, and life will seem to you like a grand picnic at Belle Isle, with frosted cake piled up ten feet high. One further remark, and I am done— I shall send you up for ninety days.’ She desired to appeal to a higher court, but. Bijab led her away, and told her that her friends could get her out on a writ of “kaverous corpus” any time they wanted to. A sweet voice singing, broke the si lence of the court. It was a female voice, and in low sad tones it saiig a plaintive melody: ‘ ’Tis the voice of the broken heart ed Jane Mooney,’ said Bijah, and he went in and led her out. ‘Miss Mooney is it true that you were overcome by the spiritual influ ences of fermented liquors acting up on your nervous system ?’ inquired his Honor. It wasn’t, she said. It was true that she had just got up from the sup per table and was going around the corner to see about anew dress, when an officer captured her aud made the base charge. The officer had his say to the effect that Miss Mooney was as drunk as a Boston Alderman at a clam bake, but he acknowledged that it was her first offense, and that perhaps she could have reached home if left alone. ‘I shall suspend sentence this time,’ said his Honor, ‘but don’t think for a moment, Miss Mooney, that you have bluffed tliis court. The doubt is iu your favor, and thus I let you go; re peat the offense, and the equinoxial gales of autumn won’t have a chance to min any bonnets for you.’ ‘They won’t eh,’ she sneered, eleva ting her eyebrows and breathing hard; but Bijah whispered to her that it was dangerous to trifle with justice and that she had better rush madly to ward the pure air of liberty. As the door Opened there was a sound of shuffling feet on the flag stones, and a voice sang:— “Oh ! sister, what did mother say. When she went down to Pnt-in-Bayf She told me always to be "(rood. And never, never ran away.” “Was that you, James William ?” asked his Honor, as the prisoner came ouf. “It was—do your worst, oh ! cruel executioner!” cried James. “Aud you were drunk?” “Drunk I was; and now drive the poisoned dagger deep into this aching breast!” * “And you haven’t fully recovered yet!” James stood back, and waving his long right arm to and fro, he said: “They come around me here and say, My days of life are o’er; That I shall mour.t my noble steed And lead my band no more. They come, and—” “I want to know whether yon are guilty or not guilty,” broke iu the Judge. “If I had me brave retainers here I should sav “no;” I am thy victim, and I answer that I were drunk. Drunk ! Aye ! the fumes of that accursed wine still floats through me weary brain, and I see strange sights before my eyes! ’ “You don’t see anything that looks like the House of Correction do you ?” asked the Court. “I see a bastile crowded with inno cent victims, who cry out to me for re-ven-ge I” answered James. “Well, in about an hour you’ll hear someone crying out ‘mush I’ to you, for I’m going to give you a month in that bastile.” “The fates do mock me now, but I shall trample on them yet; and listeD, ye know the call, Bijah; I shall yet, spit upon the sod which covers thee I” “Don’t threaten me, or I’ll have yon arrested for arson !” said Bijah, as he 'ed the prisoner away; and he return ed with a very red face and said he’d give fifty dollars to catch anyone spit ting on his grave.