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DARIEN, GEORGIA, |
SATIRDiY MORNING, SEPT. sih, 1574,
FOR CONGRESS—FIRST DISTRICT: j
Hon, Julian Hartridge,
OF SAVANNAH.
THE BLACKSHEAR CONGRESSIONAL
CONVENTION-
The Congressional Convention of
the First District, which met at!
Blackshear, on Wednesday, the 2<l !
day of Seotcmber, was called to j
order by Capt. Joseph Camp, of
Emanuel, and upon motion of Cos!.
Mershon, of Glynn, Walter A. Way,
of Mclntosh, and Geo. O. Wamock,
of Burke, were made Secretaries.
It has never been our good pleasure
oefore of seeing such a high and re
spectable body of men as were the
delegates of the Convention, who
were composed principally, if not
exclusively of the leading business
men of the district, and wo have
never seen such harmony and good
feeling, prevail in any body of such
a magnitude as that which character-
ized the whole action and proceed
ings of the conve ition. There was
no wrangling or speech making, but
they quietly went to work and the
result shows for itself—the nomina
tion of the Hon. Julian Hartridge, of
Savannah, on the seventh ballot.
As an evidence of tho good feelin
and harmony and entire satisfaction
of the whole convention at the result,
Col. Sweat, of Clinch, one of tho warm
estand strongest supporter of Col. Juo
C. Nichols of Pierce, the next highest
candidate, btfore the convention
moved that the nomination be made
unanimous, and even Col. Nichols him
self, who was present on tho ground, j
expressed perfect satisfaction, and
further pledge! his support to the j
nominee.
We must congratulate tho people |
of tho District upon tho judicious I
choice made by their delegates in con
vention; a stronger, better and more
influential man could not not have!
been found in the District—one who j
can and will represent so satisfaction- j
ly the people, and who will do sol
much for the success and triumph of j
the Democratic party.
THE HON. JULIAN HARTRIDGE,
Well have the Democratic Conven
tion, which met on the 3d of Septem
ber at Blackshear, discharged their
duty by the nomination of tlie dis
tinguished gentleman, whose name
heads this article, as the candidate of
the party for Congress.
Mr. Hartridge belongs to one of
those good old Georgia families which
years ago took root in the soil of his
native State, and have continued to
flourish with each succeeding genera
tion. lint in addition to such claims
as birth and residence and family as
sociation might give his great intel
lect and the ability with which he
has tilled every position of public
trust to which he has been heretofore
called, afford the best assurances to
the people that the days of Charlton
and Berrien are about to return to
the First Congressional District of
Georgia. All of the gentlemen
names appeared before the conven
tion were men worthy of high con
sideration, and we feel assured that
both they and their friends will feel
reconciled to be placed temporarily in
abeyance to oda, who, on all sides, is
conceeded to be the first man in the
district. Let us unite upon him with
all all our vigor and strength, in
order that, we may hear his eloquent
voice raised in the balls of Congress,
in behalf o? his beloved South, to
which be has heretofore devoted the
best energies and talents of his glo
rious manhood.
Our Georgia exchanges certainly
have the base ball mauia. Lvery pa
per we pick up is full of base ball
items.
Another Kerosene accident: tins
time in Atlanta, and a poor little girl
was the victim.
A rural statician reports that
more people are talked to death by
peddlers of lightning rods than are
kilted by lightniug- Quite likely
AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA.
We have received the Atlanta Newts
of the 30th ult., and pronounce it the
biggest paper we ever saw issued in
Georgia. Abram? certainly is the most
enterprising newspaper man in the
South. We like him and hope that
he and his paper may live a thousand !
years. He deserves success for he is I
a hard worker.
Hon. J. C. Freeman, the Radical )
candidate for Congress from the
Fifth District, has withrawn from
the contest. Hu : ays he don't like the
abuse that is bei g heapfi 1 up m him
by the press and people. Let him
alone and lethim rest in peace.
Judge Lochrane lias been solicited
to take Lis place, but positively re
fuses. The Judge says ho is a Dem
ocrat, and himself and Gen. Hancock
are on the same political platform.
Bully for Lochrane.
And no./comes the Atlanta Consli
tutiun in an eight page dress. There
is no use talking, Ab r ams makes things
lively in Atlanta, and when ho start?
anything somebody is bound to fol
low suit.
John Gorman is recreating at Ca-'
toosa Springs. He still loves the
girls. Well, who don’t ?
Griffin was the scene of another
murder last week. Will this sort of
business never come to an end ?
A".lanta is making grand prepara
tions for the next Georgia State Fair.
If we can get stumps enough we want
to bo on hand.
The colored people of Griffin are
organizing for murder. This is the
f-aits of carpetbaggery and scalawag
gery.
Ham, formerly of the Eastman
Times, is now city editor of the Ma
con Star. Success to friend Ham in
his new field.
Several colored men of Southwest
ern Georgia have taken tho stump
against Civil Rights. That’s right
colored men.
I The Savannah Neitn: in its report of
the Radical Convention which met iu
' that city recently, puts \V. H. Rainey
of Glynn, down ns a colored num.
Now, we know Bill Rainey, "and al
ways took him to be a/.Ymle man.
Atlanta has quite u number of aspi
rants for the diff’ernt offices to be filled
next month. She wants to lend some
of her neighbors a few “suitable per
sons.”
A Georgia editor wants to know
“how to tell a mad dog. We don't
know what he wants to tell him, but
the safest way would be to communi
cate with the dog in writing. Send
the letter from a gun in the sbaue of
wadding, followed by small shot, to
see if he gets it.
The Secretary of State is busily
engage 1 sending to the Ordinaries of
the respective counties of the Slide,
election blanks for members of the
General Assembly. Election to be
held on the lirst Wednesday in Oc
tober.
Governor Smith has commissioned
Dr. Thomas P. Janes* of Peufleld,
Greene county, as Commissioner of
Agriculture. The Senate of the next
General Assembly consenting, his term
of office will extend four years.
Complaints are made on every side
for want of rain m Coflee county, and
indeed it is Very discouraging to see
the beautiful prospect of a month ago
going to ruin on account of the
drouth. Cotton riev potatoes, and
caue, seem to be thir greatest suffer--
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ers. Coffee county is suffering from’
the drouth, as much so as AppliDg,
and it is a sail task to have to chroni
cle this sad fact. Still, it is to be
hoped that before we are utterly
ruined, Providence will gladden the
earth with another of those substan
tial rains.
It is pleasing, says the Griffin News,
to turn from the great cess-pool of
politics and take a look at our mate
rial interests, which are to be so
largely represented iu the State fair
at Atlanta this fall. Atlanta never
does anything on the “alt shell,” and
it is working hard to have everything
in first-class order, and it will suc
ceed. We look for this great state
exhibition to be the finest known iu
Georgia since tho war. Our people
have taken mon interest in their
i'gncultural pursuits this year than
heretofore, they will have Tull cribs,
an ! larders, fat stock and money iu
their pockets, and every body will go
who can get uff Every department
will be usually full, and we expect and
earnestly wish to see the largest
crowd ever assembled in Georgia *
Atlanta never was crowded and will
have ample room for as many as j
may attend.
HERE AND THERE.
San Francisco women have estab
lished a gymnasium. They take one
evening each week to count the dead.
A supposed case of hydrophobia in
Jersey City turned out to be delerium
tremens. 1 hut’s the way with me mart
of the disorders that Jersey flesh is
heir to.
Th# bull-pup which Alexis took with
. him from England, is to have in trod u
! ced the finest breed of flees ever seen
in Russia.
Macon, Miss., is willing to make af
fidavit that an African bride, within
its limits, is nursing her first-born
babe at the age of sixty.
Lot’s wifev/ould not have looked back
but a woman with anew dress passed
her and she wanted to see if the back
breadth was ruffled.
A Chicago pork-packer whose pew
rent was raised to $25, exclaimed,
“Great Caesar ’. here is a nice state o-f af
fairs—the Gospel going up and pork
going down. What’s to becouwp**" - |
A Concord despatch of Au;?
says: “Henry Ward Beechr. j
, through this city on the Iran,* >
morning, for the White Moimtsffus.' |
Query—ls he going there to be white
washed? Are not Abana and Phar
par (Brook-Liu) Better than all the
waters of Israel.
Jones complained o-f a bad odor
about the post-office, and Brown
i thought it might be from the “dead
letters.”
What is more pleasant than to lis
ten to a young man who can’t sing
but thinks he can. He gets red in
the face, ro’ls hie, eyes like tops, and
when the last tone is dying out he
comes in on the home stretch, with n
screech that Would do honor to a Mo
doc. We know of a young man in a
certain choir who is always a head of
time. The other Sunday the leader
was just on the point of giving the
signal, when this gent gave a. yell that
raised the hair on every-person’s head
- even on that of tho bald-headed.
Toe black-flies collected on the
- track of an eastern railroad in such
; numbers, the other day, that they
j stopped a train of cars, acting like
■ gicase, and sand had to be applied be
fore the cars could go on.
\\ lieu the celebrated 1 reach chem
ist, Oraffi i, was on one occasion a wit
ness at a trial lor poisoning, he was
asked by the President if lie could
state the quantity of arsenic requisite
to lull a fly. “Certainly) Mr. Presi
jdont,” replied the expert, but I must
know before-hand the age of the fly,
its sex, its temperament, its condition,
and habit of body, whether married
■or single, widow or maiden-, widower
or bachelor.
A Philanthropist suggests that it
would lower the price of small coffins,:
to muzzle the boys during green auJj
pie season.
No, Sir; you are wrong. The fills
of St. Anthony were not named after
Susan B. An'bony. They uro sup*
posed to be MO years old, while sltfc
isn't a day over 200*~ I*-luxit
Press.
The Chicago jP isne4 special Wash*
ington Correspowdevrt telegraphs, ::**
dor date of the. insf. the toll w
ing first-class political rumor- %.
“The statement is made by a pn*.*-
inent Bepublican that Ilea. E. B,
\\ ashburn, Amerieau Mini* ;
is, will be the nomirsce of .
lican party for the >J
! and that President Gk. A
Lis influence to this enl ,
this v!eft that Grant .. Sx- i
burn the port folio of Trß ' -Jr*
Department, and it was la
thought it would injure his' eh an vs
for the nomination that Was hi jr.
■ declined the offer. The same author
ity asserts that there is a perfect ,tn
derstandii gbetween Grant and Wuih
burn on this question.
In a letter to the Augusta Conditu
tiona id, trom the Warm Springs, N.
C , the following paragraph occurs:
“Among the most notable visitors,
I will first mention, with arewrential
bow, the widow of the immortal Stone
wall Jackson, who reached Lure, in
company with her little daughter
(eleven years old.) a few days since.
Modest and unaffected in her man
ners, of a sweet, intelligent, and ani
mated face, she moves through life as
though unconscious Of her share of
the glory of her husband’s name.
Mrs. Jackson is quite young—l should
say between tweuty-five and thirty—
of medium height,’ beautiful face. She
lives now at Charlotte, in thi State.”
A YEAR IN TEXAS.
TYLER, TEXAS, TO SHREVEPORT, LA.
NUMBER EIGHT.
Tyler is the most thriving inland
town in Northern Texas. It is loca
ted in the hill country, and Nature
has done much to adorn both tin
town aud surrounding country. Well
does it deserve the name of “Fores;
City,' so completely is it buried by a
forest of majestic oaks. Through the
town, course several snuili streams,
crossed by rustic bridges. The busi
ness houses, nearly all, front on the
public square, in the centr of which
almost hidden from view by the up
per verdure, is the Court House. It is
a large, plain structure, very chaste
and elegant in design. There are
several large and well conducted
schools in the town, also an Academy.
The surrounding country is rapid
ly filling up with foreign emigrants.
The soil is said to be productive, easi
ly tillecUmd Well adapted to the cul
ol fruits aud cereals. The
is either “rapid” rolling prai
timber laud. Tyler is rich in
>f the past, and is noted for
romantic scenery and the refiueH
culture of its people.
We tarried sevel-al Weeks iu the de
lightful little town, then proceeded
by stage to Longview, a little “slab
board” railroad town. Wo put up at
a villainous hotel, and alter supper,
(a filthy, unpalatable miss) we retiled
to our rooms—not to sleep—but to
tight the “landlord’s hosts” —leitneir
lectuhtrlous, in V;o nutless legions,
swarmed not by tire beds, tmt by the
walls. At early dawn, without break
fast, we take our places behind tin
irou horse aud soon leave tile shabby
little town far belli fid!;*
At Marshall, our destination, w<
were agreeably surprised by finding
large and elegant hotel sumptuously
furnished, and the fare was excellent.
To us, the vegetables were indeed, u
treat. In our wanderings we had fre
quently remarked and Wondered at
the scarcity of the most common
kinds. Beef and corn bread, bacon
and greens had been our diet for sev
eral months. The Texans eat mon
meat than the people of any 'Othei
State; they seldom, if ever, indulge it
pastry, and vegetables are looked up
on at wholly unfit for them, to par
take of.
Marshall, iu ante bullion days was
n.n aristocratic little town. To-day it
is ifCted for the refinement and high
toned culture of its people. Its col
leges are among the most, noted in tin
State. Art aud ornamental branches
are by far superior to those of any
othei place of learning in the State.
Many of the buildings are handsome,
some even-, elegant. The streets ur.
bordered With shade trees and present,
u beautiful appearance. Of rll towns
iu Northern Texas, Marshall is the
most picturesque.
(Once again, and for the last linn.
we take our places in the stage, eu
-1 route for Jefferson, eighteen ti des dis
j taut. We enjoyed the short ride very
much, as our rou e lay over hills and
f through Valleys, through forests hoary
with age, and over emerald plains.
We entered Jefferson near the Lour o
j sun set, and obtained comfortable
'accommodations at the St. Chari ss.
: (formerly the Haywood House.) On
! the following morning we sallied forth,
! “sight-seeing. Winding our ways
toward the wharves, where, though
1 O
| & ut of season, large quantities of cot
; ton continued tube shipped. Jeffer
|t'Bon is the great cotton port of North
! era Texas; it is estimated that twenty
J million dollars worth is annually t.V
--! ported. It is the head of navigation
and has direct lines of steamers to
New Orleans, Cincinnati and St.
Louis.
Never did the white floating pal
aces seem half so majestic, - the rude
lays of the boatmen so sweet, the la
bor of the enjines so musical, or the
deep sonorous tones of the bells so
grand, as when on that morning, we
viewed the scene. From infancy we
had all been accustomed to the sights,
but a year’s absence—a year in the
interior, had made it all new—vet not
new—the past seemed like a dream,
in which we recalled a home and
friends, and memories of loved ones
roaming in distant lands or sleeping
in the garlanded'tombs, came vividly
before us. Long we lingered, each
busy with the memories of the past.
We tarried several hours on the
wharves, and then, in silence, we re
turned to the hotel, each too basv
with their own thoughts, for conversa
tion. In the evening we again saun
tered forth, strolled along the main
streets, and lastly, visited the 1 “camp
us,” where, during an I after the war.
the Federal forces were stationed;
many of the In tie white houses are
yet standing, most of them occupied
by negroes. In the vicinity of the
old camp ground is the stockade,
wherein many an unfortunate citizen
was confined and died. Sad, indeed,
were the tales told by the aged sur
vivors; their utter destitution aud
want of clothing, as well ax of food,
which their families, were not allowed
to send them, and the insults aud in
dignities that yaukee ingenuity or
Puritanical hatred could invt nt.
Leaving the sloping hill side, where
are the campus and proper place of
torture, we ventured to the city. Jet'
ferson is a rapidly growing city, and
contains a number of elegant build
ings; the people are energetic and in
dustrious; on the whole, a prosperous
and contented people. While tu J.
we encountered anew miserie in the
form of Throughout the entire
State we mid seen numerous ant hills,
over some of vTwcb were a \vaon
* O
load of earth thrown up. They are
the farmers greatest enemies; they
will aback a garden and in t few days
remove all Vegetation: Several times
we have seen them saip a tree of its
foliage in 48 hours : their sting or bite
is said to be painful and sometimes
produces death. But ia J. there is a
small, red ant that not only destroys
vegetation, but do thing, paper, goods
and everything else that comes in its
wav. Ia some portions of the city
they are so numerous that the people
are obliged to keep th ir beds, chests
of clothing etc., standing in plates of
water. On retiring at night, if we
should leave onr garments where they
could get at them, they, in the morn
ing, Would be eaten full of small
holes.
Another great pehf We bud several
encouuti red was the “stfiigiug
Scorpion, Lne woods seemed in pla
ces to be liberally alive Willi them;
tl.e peop e, in handling fire-wood, aie
frequently stung.
Many times during onr wanderings
iu various parts of the L me Sim
■State we were overtaken by what i.-
terurod a ‘‘Norther. Sonm-iim. son
a clear, calm day in mid bummer a
perfect gale of vVitid, tCuld and fre< z
ing, would sweep over the hind, re
ducing the heat to the chilly' U-mptr
atnrc of mid winter. These are cn lei
‘Mry northers.” Again, in sultry
weather, we have noticed dark clouds
rnp d!y .approaching from the North,
herah.iug a wiitortber; soon the
cold storm would Lieuk over us, and
mu id the wind tempest the icy rain
would e’ome down iu torrents. The
northers are seldom o! there than it
tow hours durance, and more frequent
m the winter mouths. The farmers’
ciops are generally destroyed, and
laagc unmoors of cattle perish yearly
iu them.
ihe north) rs, long drouths; ami
| rainy seasons renders agricultural
| pursuits very uncertain. Many times
we were told by old Texans that if
I they made two good crops iu five
| years they were doing well-. True, as
| the majority of tourists assert, the
I lands in many portions of the State
| are extiemely fertile. But owing to
| the many draw-b icks and the uueer
| taint} - ot raising crops, as well as !
| the herding cuttle [wherethey die of
cold, and starvation or are stolen]
make the State the least desirable ol
any in the South. The rude; semi
j civilized way of the people cannot
but be distasteful to the refined citi
zens of the older States, To the for
eigner it is, doubtless, a desirable
home. They, as a 2’ule, are of the
lower class and accustomed to rough
ing it; by their industry and frugality
they soon become well to do cit
izens; they, as a rule, are well pleased
with their new homes. The people
from the “old States”' frequently al
lude to their former homes iu the old j
State with a melancholly tenderness
that years of absence cannot destroy.
It is my firm belief that could they
have foreseen the future, they would
never have left the old States.
After a thirteen month’s tour in the
State, according to my estimation,
those who contemplate emigrating,
both old and young, are infinitely bet
ter off in the old States than they can
possibly be in the famed Eldorado
that distance has painted in such bril
liant colors.
We embarked on tlie palatite steam*
ship Tidal Wave, bound for New Or
leans. It was a beautiful evening j n
May, and all nature seemed rejoicing
as our noble steamer left her moor
ings and moved majestically out into
the cm lent of Cypress Bavou. TVith
a feeling of sadness that was not grief
with a joyousness that was not giee,
we exchanged our last farewell, and
bid adieu to Texas, —perhaps forever.
Slowly the receding city faded from
view', and Night lowered her canopy
of pearly gray twilight over the scene.
Down the narrow winding stream,
through the dark and gloomy forests
of stately cypresses, then out into
Caddo lake wo moved, From the
hurrican deck we were shown the di
viding line, blazed on the tiees- in the
lake. “Once again in Louisiana” vve
an exclaimed, as vve crossed the bouii*
daiy, and amid such scei.ery' as is
seldom seen either in the 'Oid World
or the New. Above the heavens were
brilliancy illuminated, and the bosom
of the ’ake was like a sea of silvery
fire over which the rod glare of jPq
steamer’s furnaces shot tLeir fitful
flashes. From the tall smoke stacks
above issued dense volumes of smoke
that in the rear of the steamboat luum
over the Waters like a funeral pall
But the most wi ini,.nocturnal sight
was (he lifeless trees, bare and white,
like gran skeletons lifting their naked
arms heavenward as if in mute agony.
Again they were broken and ladenwith
moss, seemingly bowed down in sub
mission to the stein decress of a Ae
kntless fate. At intervals the odor of
spring fitnvers would fill the air and
delight the senses with their perfume.
Again the "ailing ery T of some bird
disturbed by our approach would drift
back to us. For hours we gaged oh
th exchanging 'Scene, so sad iy
ii g to us-; so fascinating was its un
earthly’ richness that it was long past
the hour of midnight before wo retired,
'Alien we awoke in the morning the
stearner was “at rest” at Shreveport)
La. [The end.] \y. J. W.
Kfi-'ISCT OF THE VICKSBURS Elec
tions. — Oi nefat Adams-, of Vicksburg,
icports In at the restUt of the ch-v
•ion in that city has had great effect.
The white people ni the exposed sec
iioti fill si for in t heir homes, and the
colored people seem more inclined to
accord equal lights to the whites
'viit-n- the colored happen to have it
majority'. 1 his is undoubtedly an
echo fn ii) the vuy highest quart.rs.
Representative men here state tfiat
where the colored people are in the
minority there is no trouble, and that
where the blacks predominate the
whiles are very patient of aggres
sions, to which the blacks are urged
by bad white mem
The Milwaukee Sentinel relates
that while a pinmioant preacher of
that city was recently making a pas
toral visit the lady bmngl f. out a
number of engraving* she" had just
purchased. Hie 'ctilitibrs pastor iiew
through the front, door, and sent his
boy around for Lis hat afterward.
£}=->“ Hero is a Japanese receipt for
keeping limit fresh iu hot weather :
“Place it in a clean porcelain bowl,
and pour very hot water over it so as
to cover it. Then pour oil upon thu
.water. The air is thus quite excluded
anil the meat preserved.”
8®““ An old New Orleans colored
woman, who complained sadly of her
constantly increasing poverty, was
asked to what she attributed her dif
ficulties. She replied with a sigh:
“Too much ntegro in ds Legislatur.”
The “TimeS” thinks the old Woman
struck it exactly.
The majority for Clerk
of the Court of Appeals iu Kentucky
is nearly 70,000.
NOTICE.
CONSIGNEES of the STR. CARRIE will please
take notice that on and after July 2d, 1874. all
good* MUST EE RECEIPTED on the wharf, aDd
all goods stored will be at the risk of the owners or
consigeea.
J. 11. -MITH,
JanetW-tf. Captain Str ’ Carrie '
NOTICE.
t A a<^yer lj will hereafter be published in
the Darien Timber Gazette.
rr ~ CARR, Marshal of Darien.
Darien, Ga., July 4th, 1874.
J. B, L. BAKER. M. D.
iXFi'ERS his professional services to the public.
w Special attention given to diseases
OF CHILDREN.
Buis presented first of each month,
July 11-ly.
I). B. WIN G ,
MEASURER AND INSPECTOR
—OF—
Timber and Lumber,
Respectfully solicits patron
age-
DARIEN ; - - - GA,
May-S-6m, ‘ *
