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gfamttSEiin&ertorttc - 1 ••—■•■ : —■ -•—■ - -■— ■■— hU HARD W. tiKIBB, Editor & Proprl’r. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION $2 50. 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-- -- - , - ,T 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, ‘ *