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HANCOCK, GRAHAM & REILLY
AMERICUS. GEORGIA:
Friday Horning, July 8, 1870.
Official Organ of Sumter Co.
official obgah or bchlSt cotott.
Official Organ of Lee County.
Ofllcial Organ of Webster County
Varney Gaakill stole State road
money last fall, and Bollock lias issued
a proclamation pardoning him in advance
for the theft
B®- It is stated that the Hon. Jeffer
son Davis will soon sail for Europe, to
bring: his family back to Memphis, Tenn.
ttH- Congress has decided to extend
the ballot to persons of African nativity,
bnt denies that inestimable boon to poor
Coolie. What on immaculate Congress!
Call Accepted.—Rev. Dr. DoVotie,
for many years pastor of the Baptist
Church of Columbus, has accepted the
call of the First Baptist Church of Grit'
fin.
t®- Olivo Logan, speaking of tho fif
teenth amendment, said it is time that
we lifted the white woman to our lips.—
Some of them don’t need any lifting, but
if thero is any nice modest woman that
wants to get to onr lips—we will lift her.
Criy* Wo liavo received tho first num
ber of the True Georgian, published by
Grant's obsequious bootlick, Sam. Bard,
ft has not the frankness of the Era, and,
like the New Era of old, will be filled
with fulsome praise of the great Radical
butcher, Grant.
fta^An “affair, of honor" between
Colonel John Forsyth, editor of the
Mobile Register and Colonel W. D. Dunn,
very nearly resulted in a duel, but the
matter was amicable adjusted by General
.lones M. Withers and John J. Walker.
The difficulty grew out of the Nicolson
pavement controversy, which has raged
for two or three months past in that
city.
Young Georgia, Forever!—Miss Sallie
Lamar, of Athens—a niece of Mrs. J. B.
Ross, of Macon—who has been for a
year past a pupil in tho Virginia Female
Institution, at Staunton, has recently
taken the star medal for scholarship in
very clever class of twenty-two; and, in
addition, has also carried off the star
medal for composition—which is con
sidered the highest honor of the school
E®- Out on the frontier, in Kansas,
audiences at the theatres have an original
way of applauding actors and actresses.
They give a regular Indian yell, patting
their mouths with their hands at the time.
A certain Eastern actress was so applaud
ed, which frighted her so she ran out
the back way, hired a carriage, and rode
twenty-five mile* to the nearest railroad
station, leaving the play in the middle.
She vas afraid they would scalp her.
tziTAn experiment with gun cotton
lias been made at Ryo, England. The
Martello tower No 36, the walls of which
were twelve feet thick at the base, were
entirely demolished by 200 pounds of
gun cotton divided into three charges
and fired simultaneously by electricity.
The gun cotton was in five-inch discs,
and none of the dibris was blown away
to the extent of fifty yards from the build-
Tex Negotiations fob the Sale of
Cuba.—A rumor was current in well in
formed circles in Washington on Satur
day that negotiations had been almost
concluded for the cession of Cuba by
Spain to the Cubans, under the joint
guarantee and protectorate of England
and the United States. The money to
be paid in some way to be for the bene
fit of Spanish bondholders, whose only
chance of realizing anything has for
many years been a sort of vested right in
the Island.
1 the Crops.
S. W. Bloodsworth, the noted agricul
turist, in the vicinity of Griffin, who took
the premium last Fall at tho Macon Fair
for the largest yield of corn to the acre,
[between 120 and 130 bushels] writes to
*Tho plantation” that he lias tho same
land in corn again, and that the present
prospect is, that it will exceed the yield
of last year should no storm or mishap
befall it.
Corn Prospects in* Eastern Texas.—
A private letter from Tyler, Texas, writ
ten by a former citizen of Decatur county,
Ga., to tho Bainbridge Argus, says the
and cotton crops in that portion of
Texas, are unprecedently fine. The wri
ter says com a littlo west of Tyler, for
future delivery can bo purchased at
cents per bushel.
Tho lice are said to be doing great dam
age to cotton on plantations west of Flint
river, in Baker County; but we presume
they are not confined to any particular
locality, as the continued rains which
have produced them have been general.
Judge Bush, of Miller county, informs
us that the boll worm has made its
appearance in his cotton.—Bmnhridge
Argus.
The growing crops continue in the
most flourishing condition. Cotton is
vigorous and healthy, and is altogether
very promising. Some of onr planters
are disposed to brag on their pet patches,
and we hear of a few who maintain that
they have fields on which tho weed will
average breast high. Com has also at
tained a vigorous growth, and promises
a very large yield in proportion to the
area planted. The weather since the
drouth, has been of tho most seasonable
and propitious character, and planters are
very hopeful.—Monroe Advertiser.
Big Yield.—The Griffin Star learns
through Mr. Ed. Fortson, of Clayton,
that Jasper Kinebrougb, of Oglethorpe
county, made fifty-nine bushels of wheat
off one aero of land this year. It was
manured with 200 bushels of cotton seed.
It was common red wheat; and two other
acres manured with 50 bushels of cotton
seed per acre; yielded 25 bushels per
acre.
A correspondent of the Macon Tele
graph, uniting from Houston county,one
of the best and and safest districts in tho
State, says of the cotton in that region :
I think I am correct in saying that the
prospects have not been so gloomy for
twenty vears. First: It is at least three
weeks later than usual. Second: The
grass has materially injured the crop.—
Third: The lice are doing a serious dam
age to it But finally and the worst of
all, the boll worm is destroying the
blooms and young bolls. In corrobera-
tion of this fact I herewith send you a
package of young bolls, all taken from
oue stalk this morning, and among them
you will find the genuine worm and see
tho execution done, Mr. William D.
Allen, of this county, well known as one
of the most scientific and successful
planters of our State, handed mo the
package of young bolls sent you. He
says the ravages of tho worm up to this
time is unprecedented in the annals of
cotton culture, and predicts almost a to
tal failure.
The military have been poking
their noses down this way again. This
flagrant outrage was the arrest of Mr.
W. B. Harris, tho Deputy Sheriff of
Houston connty, who has been carried
to Atlanta under guard to be interrogated
by “Gin-eral" Terry. The following is
Mr. H.’s statement, as given in the Jour
nal: He had arrested a negro under a
warrant issued at Marshalville; on con
veying his prisoner to that point, not
being ready for trial, the authorities re
fused to take charge of him. Instead of
taking his prisoner to Peny, the county
site of Houston, for safekeeping, he was
carried to Oglethorpe, Macon county.
On finding that the jail at Oglethorpe
had been burned, Mr. H. left the negro
in charge of a friend in the county, and
returned to Fort Valley, promising to
return the next day with the uegro'i
clothes. On going to the man’s residence,
in J. R. Griffin’s quarters, Mr. H. found
his prisoner—he having escaped and
returned horn Me con county during the
night of the day on which he was left
there. Mr. n. says the charge against
him is false imprisonment, or imprison
ment on a farm.’’
It strikes our mind that this very irre
gular conduct of Sheriff Harris could
have been fnlly dealt with by tho judicial
authorities, and did not call for this
tyrannical military usurpation of power.
Such acts as these only tend to widen
the breach between the people and the
Government They only inflame pas
sions already too heated, and confirm
the prevailing impression that a white
man need expect no justice. If Radical
satraps and law-givers expect obedience
to the law, they themselves should set
the example.
5®- An old lady died the other day at
Uxbridge, in England, who proved her
self to have been in more ways than one
a remarkable jicrsonagu. Not only had
she for many years successfully defied the
inquisitorial gossip of a country town,
hut she really hod in early days lived a
romantic life, although her latter years
had l>een passed in the deepest seclusion.
Having been found dead in her bed, at
the age of ninety-two, au inquest was
held, when it came to light that she was
the daughter of a Spanish nobleman of
high distinction. In early life she c n-
tracted a clandestine marriage with Count
do Chantal, of France, who was a Gene
ral in the French army under the first
Napoleon, and who fell at "Waterloo.
Exiled from her native country, as well
from France, she took refuge in England
«*on after the restoration of peace, and
lived on her scanty income at Uxbridge
in the manner described. It is supposed
that she had lain dead for several days
before her Itody was found, and it would
be hard to find a case presenting stronger
features of the utter loneliness to which
human being may be reduced.
Important to Distiller* and Whisky
Dealers-
Untied States Intzmui. Rcvraux.)
Assessor’s OSes 4th District Cbi, >
Atlanta, July 2, 1870. )
For the information of persons who in
tend to distill brandy from fruit, the fol
lowing synopsis of regulations, just ias-
ued by the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, is published:
Every still in tho possession of *ny
person mnet be registered with thefts*
Assistant Assessor as either Do
ing for use or not for use. All
whether foruso or not, must be registered
forthwith. Penalty for failure $500.
Every person having a still or stills
registered for use, and intending to dis
till brandy from fruit, must giro notice
on Form 27 i, to the Assessor, or Assistant
Assessor, according to said Form ;cn re
ceipt of which the Assessor will proceed
to the place of distillation and determine
per diem producing capacity of the stills;
at the same time the distiller must fam
ish the Assessor with a bond in the sum of
five hundred dollars, with two approved
securities, who mnst justify on Form 33.
Tho special tax will be at tho rate of
$50 per year. The lax on spirits 50
cents per gallon, and eight or tea cents
per gallon for gauging tax.
The per diem tax is remitted.
Every distiller must provide himself
with a book form 25}, in which each
day’s operations may be entered.
As the spirits ore produced it must bo
placed in packages containing not less
than ten gallons, wine measure, and the
distiller must retain the same until it ii
gagued, tax paid and stamps attached.
Severe penalties are provided in the
law for changing, consuming or removing
tho spirits before the tax is paid thereon.
Disstillers can sell their brandy at the
place of distillation only, and in the origi
nal tax paid packages.
For further information call upon the
Assessor or Assistant Assessors.
William Jennings,
Assessor 4th District, Atlanta, Go.
> be Wiped Out and Expunged.—
recent meeting of the Democracy
of Scbulkill county, Pa., Hon. Francis
Hughes, speaking of the 15tli amendment,
said that “as long as the Supreme Court
has not declare* 1 it unconstitutional tho
Democratic party mnst submit to it.—
But tho same power that did it can undoo
it, and the time will and must como when
that part of the constitution will be en
tirely wiped out and expunged as was the
resolution of the 'United States Senate
censuring General Jackson. Look at the
signs of the times since the adoption of
the amendment, Connecticut, before Re
publican, elects a Democrat, and the
Radical Governor is superceded by bis
Democratic competitor, English. Then
came New York, with its immense ma
jorities for Democratic candidates for the
Judges of tho Court of Appeals. W
were at first surprised to hear that the
majority was 50,000, then it was 60,000.
then 70,000, then 80,000. and is about
90,000, and he did not know whether
it would stop short of 100,000. This
glorious vindication of the natural law
stamping the white man os the superior.
The Democratic party should not cease
to agitate and to vindicate the white
man's rights.”
The French court has gone into
mourning for the death of the Baltimore
Bonaparte. The Emperor wears mourn
ing ;for eight days. Prince Napoleon
goes from Norway to Greenland. The
editor of the Iteviel, an irreconcilable
organ, has been prosecuted for having
reproduced the false anecdote of the
Emperor and of the Earl of Clarendon
from the columns of the Figaro. Deles-
ckasze, the editor-in-chief, has been sen
tenced to thirteen months imprisonment
Prim has offered tho throne of Spain
to a Prussian prince. Advices from
Rome represent that the discussion of
the infallibility dogma will certainly
close this week.
The following is from Die LaGrange
Reporter. We tender our sympathy to
the bereaved parents:
“And a little child shall lead them.
There is a melancholy pleasure in the
grief of our loved and lost There is a
sweetness in the remembrances we cher
ish for the idols of our hearts when they
hare perished from our sight The mind
naturally dings, with fond affection, to
the memory of all they did in life; The
little child that has wound itself around
our hearts by the thousand sweet little
incidents of its life, so much so that its
rear existence seems a part of our own,
ana is then taken from our fond remem
brances forever, w« fed that there is a
to notification in treasuring up, in offeo-
tion’s sweetest memories, the touching
story of that short existence. All other
thoughts seem profane in the freshness of
such new grief.
S®»Tho latest sensation of the radic-
s is to impose upon the negro, by ma
king him believe that ho cannot receive
justice in the courts of law. During the
lost session of court in Spaulding county
Judge Green, remarked in opeu Court,
to some negro criminals that “their
always fared better in court than the
whiteman,” “that he hod observed, that
all who were brought up, beforo him
caped tlrnt rigor of tho law which the
wliitemau invaribly received.’’ Judgi
Green is a republican, and one in a po
sition that should enable him to be
competent witness in such mutters yet
the contrary slander, is instituted to stir
up strife.
1®. General Robert E. Lee has refused,
on behalf of Mrs. Lee, to accept the an
nuity of $3,000 feettled upon her by the
trustees of Washington College. The
board, however, has, as ddkatdy as pos
sible, intimated to him that they mnst
adhere to their original plan.
The prosperity of Americns with
in the last four years has been unprece
dented. Notwithstanding tho fact that
the railroad has discriminated most un
justly against Americns and in favor of
the chill and fever village of Albany, she
has continued to increase in population
and wealth in a ratio which is truly as
tonishing. We no longer claim com
panionship with villages of the size of
Albany; our success is too well estab
lished for that We must now prepare
to enter upon an era of metropolitan
greatness.
That Americas is destined to be the
great business emporium of Central and
Southwestern Georgia, and Eastern
Alabama, we have no doubt whatever.
Being situated in the heart of the great
cotton-growing belt, having the most
healthful location south of Atlanta, and
possessing every business advantage, we
cannot fail in securing this prominence.
The successful completion of th
Americas & Newnan Railroad, will be
the advent of an immense Northern
trade, which has hitherto found its way
to Macon. The direct line from the
North, through Newnan and Americas,
to the 6caboard, will be much shorter
than the present one via Macon, and
running through the richest producing
portion of the State, it will cany with it
what has hitherto been the main support
of Columbus and Wnfen,
Oneof the proposed lines, connecting
us with either Brunswi ck or Savannah
will carry all tho cotton trade for 150
mties on each side of the A. & N.R.R.
through Americas for final shipment,
leaving on each aide, aa mere auxiliary
towns to Americas, Albany, Macon and
Columbus.
If our citizens will but do their duty,
and enoourage those railroad enterprises
with a spirit worthy the undertaking, we
hesitate not to say that by 1880 our
will have a population of 30,000. Tto
prospects ahead of us are bright Indeed,
and it behooves ns to use well the golden
opportunity.
A boy named Baldwin Alexander,
aged 17 years of age, residing in Pulas
ki county, Virginia, having been appoin
ted a cadet at the Naval Academy by
Representative Gibson, of Virginia,
derwent a thorough examination, and
passed. He made a favorable impression
upon the Board of Examiners and the
Secretary of the Navy, and his appoint
ment was confirmed; but when asked to
take the test oath he declined, asserting
that although he was a mere child at the
commencement of the war, and bnt 12
years of ago at its close, his associates,
surroundings, etc., lxad created a sympa
thy in his mind and heart for those
aronnd him, and to swear that he had
not sympathised with or countenanced
the rebellion, would be base perjury,and
he could not do so. He conld take all
the remmoinder of the oath, bnt those
two terms. His honesty and candor
elicited enconiunn from the naval au
thorities, and Senator Johnson took the
matter in hand and tried to liavo the
youth admitted upon taking tho proper
constitutional oath. The law on the
subject is imperative, and the Secretary
of the Navy has informed Senator John
son that Alexander conld not be admit
ted to the academy as a cadet unless he
subscribed to the iron-clad oalli. Sena
tor Johnson will ask special Congressi
onal legislation in his case, and Represen
tative Platt also stated that he wonld ask
the removal of Alexander’s disabilities by
the House, and that he be allowed to
enter tho academy without taking the
iron-clad oath.
£6^ The 15th day of July has been set
apart as the day of the adjournment of
Congrew. The ^deration el .tag
omnnnf nf ]>nmnoM -mil nectfsonlv be ~L.i •• in,. I-" 7 -
amount of business will necessarily be
postponed to the next tenn.
to mefin tune. You see jou'habgotfle
inflermation of de bronchial tubes dat
The patient bad
hy an Election Should Not
Held.—Iu the discussion on tlio Georgia
bill, Friday before last, Bailer tho Beast,
thus delivered liimscll:
“The Senate proposition was to revert
the State of Georgia to military rule and
provided for an election for members of
tho Legislature, on the 15th of Novem
ber, 1870. The Bingham amendment
was objectionable on the well known prin
ciple, nascittire a foci is; it was acceptable
to the Democratic members, andthertfore
open to suspicious on tho Republican
side. If they adopted it they sent Geor
gia back to a new election this fall. Her
military was unorganized and would
have no time to get arms, equipments
officers; and no power to preserve the
laws; and throw»tbe fire brand of such on
election into the centre of the Southern
States to disturb the elections in Mississ
ippi, Louisiana and Florida, and endan
ger the success of the Republican party."
The idea, responds the Hartford Times,
is clear enough. The military must be
in readiness for the election, and
trolled by tho right parties; and the “Re
publican party” must be sustained with
out regard to the wishes of tho voters.—
Possibly tho people have not soon enough
of election farces and military rulo—of
Congressional usurpation, dictation and
despotism. If not, they will havo en ough
of it, and enough of all of it.
Salt for Cabbage.
A New Jcrsiy farmer considers salt
necessary to tho development of cabbage,
especially in places far from tho coast.—
He finds them more crisp, of better fla
vor, and to keep better when suit is used
than without He used it a3 follows;
A few days after setting out the plants,
and when they are damp, either after a
rain or when the dew is on, I take a small
dish of line salt and walking ar.iong the
rows, sprinkling a little pinolx of salt on
tho centro of each plant when tho leaves
begin to grow. I repeat the salting, and
when the centre of the leaves begin to
form tho head, I apply salt again, scatter
ing it over tho leaves; after this I look
them over occasionally, and if I find
plants that do not head well and appear
diseased, I sprinkle the salt over freely;
this will save all such plants. A quart of
salt is sufficient for five hundred plants
a season, although more can be used
with safety.
How Akeuman Stands Towaeds Bul
lock.—A writer in the Atlanta Georgian
signing himself “ One who Knows ” says:
Since November, 1868, Mr. Akerman
lias been an uncompromising opponent
of the scheme inaugurated by the Gov
ernor to go back on the reconstruction of
Georgia. He made speeches in Atlanta
against it; he wrote long letters to Col.
T. P. Saffold in opposition to it; lie went
to Washington at the request of a num
ber of Republicans, and opposed it there;
lie talked with General Grant before his
inauguration, and a number of Congress
men, making known his views to all. AU
these facts are well known to the Govern
or and his supporters. Up to tho day of
his nomination, he continued to hold the
same views, expressing himself in clear
and strong terms, both publicly and pri
vately. Ho is a warm friend of Joshua
Hill, believing that he was legally elect
ed, and that he is entitled to his scat in
tho Senate. He holds that Georgia was
legally reconstructed in 1868; that we
ought to have an election in the fall of
1870, and repudiates the doctrine of two
years longer os repugnant to the Consti
tution which ho assisted in framing
EtRBXTtB SHALL Sr AND ON TT3 own
Bottom."—While it is true that every
human being exerts an influence, to a
greater or leas extent, over his fellows,
and the profitless of professing Christiana
constantly bringing roligion into disre
pute, yet salvation is an individual matter
which rests alone between the creature
and his God. About the poorest exooae
a man ever gave for going to hell is the
attempt to justify hi-* own sinful example
by that of some church member, whom
ho odnoeives to be no better than him
self, nor half so good. One might just
as woll refuse to live in the world because
it is filled with abominable characters, as
to refuse to connect himself with the
church because, forsooth, large numbers
have crept into it who bring repzoach
and disgraoe upon the pure principles up
on winch it is founded. We have gener
ally noticed that when non-professors
attempt to justify their own delinquencies
they are apt to hold up the vary worst
characters to be found within the church.
Instead of imitating tho example of tho
good they devote their time and energies
of hunting for defects in the band. Ac
cording to the Bible, the wheat and tares
must grow together until harvest, when
the final separation is to take plaoe. It
is, therefore, likely that in time the
church militant will be purged of hypo
exits and week and erring brothers.—
Thero is only one place where wo may
expect to find pare and holy socie y—
that is heaven. The Garden of Eden
had its Serpent, the Camp of Israel its
Achan, the Apostles their Judas, and the
Church of all ages the insincere and hy
pocritical. If people would devote a lit
tle more time to an examination of their
own hearts, they wonld have a tittle less
to comment upon the frailties of their
fellows. Although the Devil beguiled
Eve, it did not prevent the execution
of the sentence against her; neither will
the vtle characters who sometimes unfor
tunately veil their hypocrisy under the
gaise of religion serve as a plea for those
who fail to “ work out their own salvation
with fear and trembling.” The great
question for every person to determine,
is not what) will become of the mean peo
ple in the church, but “ what is to become
of me?” It will be poor consolation to
be forced to associate with those in hell
whom vou could not affiliate with on
earth.—Columbus Enquirer.
Newspaper Decisions
At the recent term of onr District Court,
a suit was determined at the suit of the
Galveston Neics, involving a question of
some iuterest to publishers of newspapers
and their subscribers. The defendant
had prepaid his subscription to tho Neics
for six months; after the expiration of
which time, without any express renewal
of the subscription, tho publishers con
tinued to send the paper and the subscri
ber to receive it.
When the bill was presented, tho sub
scriber refused to pay it on the ^ground
that having subscribed and paid for a defi
nite time, and not having authorized a
continuance, it was tho duty of the pub
lisher to discontinue the paper at tho end
of the term. The plointifis contended
tliat upon tho facts there was an implied
contract to pay for the paper at tho rates
previously agreed upon, and that it was
the duty of tlio subscriber to refuse to re
ceive the paper, if ho did not intend to
pay for it.
Tho verdict of the court was for the
plaintiDs, thus affirming the correctness
of tho Jieies. Wo understand that the
case will not be appealed to tho Supreme
Court by tho defendant, and the decision
of the District Court therefore stands for
law.—7irenluim Banner.
B. C. Yancey, President of the State
Agricultural Society, lias issued an ad-
dress calling for an Agricultural Conven
tion, to be held in Atlanta on Tuesday,
lfithJLugnst. The Secretary has, says the
and personal application to the superin
tendents of railroads, obtained the privi
lege of the passage over the railroad,
both ways, without charge, of throe del
egates from caohcoonty agricultural so
ciety to semi-annual conventions. This
privilege of a pass both ways is confined
to the three delegates from each county
society. All other members and all ad
ditional delegates will pay one fare.—
"Where there are two or more societies in
county, they must unite in tho election
of representatives, as only three can com©
from a county. The county societies are
therefore requested, at their monthly
meeting in July, to elect their delegates,
and immediately report their namea to
the Secretary at Atlanta, who will forward
to them the superintendents’ free tickets.
The following are among the subjects
which will be submitted to the consider
ation of tho convention .*
1. A closer connection and mutual de
pendence between the County Societies
and the State Society. Apian will be
submitted which it is believed will give
greater vitality and usefulness to both.
2. A careful consideration and exami
nation of the influence and bearing of
the legislation of the State upon the in
terests of agriculture.
3. The system of taxation has some un
just discriminations in favor of corpora
tion and capital—none of any kind in fa
vor of agriculture,
4. Application to the Legislature for a
liberal appropriation for the establish
ment of a Bnreau of Agricultural Chem
istry.
5. A geological and agricultural survey
of the State.
6. The reiteration and continual reiter
ations of our demand for the payment of
the annual appropriations by the Legis
lature of 1860, of twenty-five hundred
dollars—ten years’ appropriations now
due, and not one ever paid.
7. The delegates from the several coun
ty societies are requested to bring up
with them full and detailed reports upon
the agricultural condition of their respec
tive counties. Let these reports embrace
comparative statements of the probable
yield of the crop this year and the last;
the number of acres iu cotton and grain
this year and the lost; increase or de
crease to the grain crop ; more or less at
tention to the production of meats;
changes and improvements in the modes
of preparation and tillage; changes and
improvements in contracts with and
agementof labor.
How to Have a Loving Wife.—A
correspondent sends the following to the
Phrenological Journal:
If you would have a loving wile be
gentle in your words after os before mar
riage ; treat her quite as tenderly when a
matron as when a miss ; don’t moke her
the maid of all work and ask her why she
looks less tidy and neat than when “ you
first know her ;*’ don’t buy cheap, tough
beef, and scold her because it does not
como on the table “ porter house ; ” don’t
grumble about squalling babies, if you
can’t keep up a “ nursery, ” and remem
ber that “baby ” may take after papa in
his disposition; don’t smoke and chew
tobacco, and thus shatter your nerves,
and spoil yonr temper, and make your
breath a nui. once, and then complain
tliat your wife declines to kiss you ; go
home joyous and cheerful to your wife
and tell her the good news you nave heard,
and not silently put on your hat and go
out to the “club ’’ or “lodge, ” and let
her ofterwards learn that you spent the
evening at the opera or at a fancy ball
with Mrs. Dash. Love your wife ; be pa
tient ; remember that you are not perfect,
bnt try to be; let whisky, tobacco and
vulgar company alone; spend your even
ings with your wife, and live ft decent,
Christian life, and your wife will be lov
ing and true—if you did not marry a
heartless beanty without sense of worth;
if you did, who is to blame if you suffer
the consequences ?
Civil War.—In the discussion in Con
gress tho Radicals threatened civil war if
a Democrat is eloctod President. “Sir,
I soy here, ” said Senator Drake, “ that
whenever the time comes that this nation
shall see clearly that the voice of its legal
voters lias been overthrown by this vote
in the city of New 1'ork, then a large
portion of the voters will rise as one man
and declare that the man elected to the
Presidency by that fraudulent vote shall
never take his scat as such, and then will
come tho first real civil war in this coun
try. ”
English Emigration.-—'We append an
extract from a letter written by an intel
ligent Englishman, who is heartily enlist
ed in directing English immigration to
the South:
The cotton and woolen manufacturing,
and other skilled interests, are all disor
ganized, and partially, through the Amer
ican war, paralyzed, so that millions of
Rrjfa'"h capital and hundred of thousands
of artisans and skilled operatives aro now
at liberty to embrooe the wonderful op
portunities for profitable investment, that
are superior in the South to any other
part of the world. Now is the time to
The new United States District
Attorney for Georgia (nominatedfor that
position by the President) is John D.
Pope, Esq., of Atlanta, late a law partner
of Ex-Gov. Brown, and more recently a ter of the people ot^England and the
Snrarmr Oonri Jndffft. Wo helio™ that South are the most smtable. ; Your mfld-
atrike and secure the lion’s share of the
future emigration from England, which
will be started during the next twenty
years. The climate, mineral resources,
the nature of the soil, genius and cbarac-
Superior Court Judge. We believe that
he has a fair reputation as a lawyer, that
he is a native Georgian and that he has
not manifested the extreme xnalaoe to
wards the white people of Georgia so
oommon to the Radioal politicians among
What are They Fob?—The Union
(S. a) Times of the latinst, says:
We are reliably informed that 800stand
of sixteen-shooters have arrived in this
county for the use of the negro militia.
In the name of common decency, what is
all this for ? Is it not time far the white
people to organize, in self-
er and shorter winters, your high and dry
lands for sheep raising, will remove the
| grand objection to intelligent English
fanners which hinder their going to the
North.—Richmond Enquirer,
Horrible.—A Richmond dsipatch of
the 2d task, says: The scene of the
cation of Lewis Kennedy, a negro, who
ravished andmurderedM 18 * Stewart, and
afterwards killed John Baker, hor farm
manager, at New Kent Court-House,
Virginia, yesterday, was a horrible one.
Tlio ropo broke twice, and tho miscreant
died after a prolonged struggle.
The Amnesty Abortion.—Tho New
Orleans Picayune justly cliaraoterizesthe
so-called amnesty bill proposed by the
Committee on Reconstruction :
History shows that, on repeated occa
sions, much better men, far more educat
ed and conscientious tban.tkose who have
framed tho policy of the General Gov
ernment towards tho late Confederate
States daring tho past live years, have
yielded to temptations to abuse political
power; but no parallel can be found in
tho annals of English speaking races, to
an abuse of power ot once so vindictive,
remorseless and brutal as that perpetrat
ed by the Radical leaders in Congress,
and in the State Governments established
through Congressional usurpation and
military force in the Southern States.
The proposed amnesty bill is bu
wretched abortion, a hideous monster of
legislative outrage. It can disgust, but
it can never conciliate truo Southerners,
who intend to preserve their self-respect,
and cannot be driven into surrendering it
by paying the price of political and civic
degradation. If they aro to have amnes
ty at all, it must come to them pure,
pie, unstinted, instead of being clothed
: i insalt and wrong.
A Bio Boat Race—Half Million of
Dollars Bet on the Race.—A Mem
phis special of June 30, to the Nashville
Union & American, of Friday, says :
It is supposed that half a million dol
lars have boen bet on the race between
the R. E. Lee and Natchez. Steamers
await their coming at different points to
supply fuel. Lee gained one minute and
forty seconds on the first nineteen miles.
The boats will reach Memphis in forty-
eight hours. Many invited geests are on
board.
At Memphis the Lee was one hour and
four minutes ahead.
later
8t. Louis. July 5.—The steamer Gen.
Robert E. Lee, arrived at 11.-25 thia morn
ing—making her run from New Orleans
in three days and eighteen hours and
fourteen minutes, and beating the Natch
ez^ time on her last trip three hours and
44 minutes, and James M. White’# famous
time about five hours. The Notches was
detained by a heavy fog, one hundred
and twenty miles below, and had not ar
rived at six v. h. A million dollars
changed hands on this result Thousands
of people were out to witness the arrival.
The race has been a complete ovation
from first to last.
Capk Leathers,of the Steamer N&tohez,
claims that deducting six hours laid up
by fog and 86 minutes lost repoiriag »
below Helena, the Natchez beat
[uetto both Captains will be given at the
Judicial Definition of the
Scalawao.—A few days since, while look-
rad as this expression is in general uso at
the present time, acconnt of it may not
be uninteresting. The definition is con
tained in an extract from a volume of de
cisions of the Court of Appeals in Nfew
York for 1865.
In the case in question, hogs fed upon
beechnuts and acorns, or from a still
are called “Scalawags,” to distinguish
them from hogs fattened on oorn, which
are kno wn to the trade as “hard fed hogs. ”
The scalawags subsisting upon .trash and
such things as it can pick up, is very in
ferior, rad hardly considered eatable.
No better and more descriptive term
Po*®bly be applied to those individu
als^ this seotion who now bear this name.
Like the hog in question, they wander
through the country, seeking an alwavs
precarious, and sometimes very dishon
est livelihood, and like him again, they
are very inferior, of no use whatever, and
always swindles.
A Sad Day in the History of Cabt-
xrsville.—Last Sunday was the saddest
day known in the history of our growing
town. On Saturday death spread liis
withering, wintry arms over this commu
nity, fend in the space of a few short
hours, took six of onr dear ones from our
midst into the shadow of his pale relm,
and on Sunday six gaping graves stood
ready to receive their immortal remains
forever _ from our gaze. The scene wit
nessed in our cemeteries, on Sanday
morning, was unparalelled in times of
peace—four open graves in close proxim
ity. Two were adults and four children.
CoL Wm. H. Pritchett, Mrs. F. M. John
son and her infant babe, (which was bu
ried in her arms) the sixth and only child
of Mr. J. Q. Harwell, child of Mr. Scott,
and the youngest child of CdL Wm. Rich.
They were all buried during the day.
The special providence of God, doubt
less, interposed to deliver Rev. James L.
Pierce, or in all probability ho wuald
have made the seventh.—Express.
Dull.—On account of the dullness of
business, twelve freight conductors on
the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad
were suspended Wednesday, until better
times. A large number of brakesmen
were suspended on the same account—
Chattanooga Times.
fiSF* Tho Brunswick Appeal says there
are now about 800 hands employed by
the contractors on the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad; and that every effort is
being made to largely increase the force,
with a vie w of reaching the cotton belt
of Georgia by the time the growing crop
isr eady for market.
ll? 0 *** a * nr on tho
- J to cite and admonish .n
..*?? ««53r .a
fNLOKCHA-SCHIXT Cocxtt.
U Where**, Henry W ~
omerwfee letters J?! * ’
graated said applicant. ‘ U
r*T*!P untI er hand and official
this 4th day of July, 1870. "Mature,
Ja!7m4m SE.Easos, Ordinary
HeOBOIA—Scklet Oomtrr: —-
Whereas, Peter Stewart applies to f, -
of dismission as administrator on tlit-
cut* ot Henry Stewart, deceased. "
4«wore to cite andsdmociah, all
kindred and creditors of said
“^penons concerned, to be and
witb “ prescribe.!
bylaw, and show cause, if any they Lave, otli-
£Sotu£uw dismission will be granteda
4?^ a - oflid * 1
Jnl.-mta s . j. ^
HIDE OUT, BEDBUGS:!
\ PIBITHS STILLY NIGHtT
Of •meUaaicr.wUns round m«!
You can he relieved of <»H*e i
loathsome annoyances quick'
aad at the eame time lure y
Fumltu
and made to look
and small coet.
Painting, Graining, Gilding,
Glazing, Bronzing, Marbling,
Staining, Varnishing, and
Paper-Hanging,
NmUt executed by R. <J. TRAYWICK.
Aniencue, Ga., July 2-
Georgia—Sumter county.
TTT1IEUEAS, the estate of Major M. I\. stc-
1W phone, deceased, late of said countv, is uti-
represented.
rtieso aro therefore to cite and admoukb all
ami mngular, the kindred and creditors of baid
decrased, to be and appear at mv office witbiu
the time prescribed bjr law, and hie their obj«-
tiona, if any they have, why such letters should
Curious Things to Know.—In this
hoc weather, the following “Curious
Thing” is quite useful to know:
Besides the fact that ice is lighter than
water; there is another curious thing
about it whieli persons do not know,
perliapc—namely, its purity. A lump of
ice melted will always become purely
distilled water. When the early naviga
tors of the Arctic seas got out of water
they melted fragments of those vast
mountains of ice called ieeburgs, and were
astonished to find that they yielded only
fresh water. They thought that they
were frozen salt water, not knowing
they were formed on the land and in
some way launched into the sea. Bnt if
they had been all the same. The fact
is. the water in freezing turns out of it
all that is not water—.salt, air, coloring
matter and nil impurities. Frozen sea
water makes fresh water iee. If you
freeze a basin of indigo water it will
make it as pure as that made of pure rain
water. When the cold is very sudden
these foreign matters have no time to es
cape, either by rising or sinking; and are
thus entangled with tho ice but do not
form any part of it
Agricultural Convention.—Colonel
Yancey, President of the State Agricul
tural Society, has issued a call for a Con
vention of the Society in Atlanta or
16th. 1 It is desired that delegations be
sent up by all county societies, We
would urge tlio necessity of organizing a
society in every county in the State where
there is not one already.
A WHOPrEH.—The Orangeburg (S. C.)
Xetrs says that Mr. J. J. Cannon of that
place, has an egg which is the largest
common fowl egg ever seen in that c
try. It measures eight inches aronnd
from butt to point, and six and three-
quarter inches around the sides. It <
be beak
The Independence Movement in Can
ada.—A great “independence” moss
meeting took place in Montreal, Canada,
on Saturday night In the course of a
stirring speech by Hon. John Young,one
of the leading local politicians, he said
that the time had now come when Cana
da should sever the connection with Great
Britain and become an independent na
tion. At this announcement the greater
part of the vast assembly cheered lustily.
Mr. Laflamme, Q. C., said that an appeal
to England for support in case of an inva
sion of the Dominion wonld be futile.—
The present imperial administration had
deserted her colonies, and proved herself
a step-mother to those who had fostered
the deepest affection for her. It was,
therefore, folly to think of anything but
independence. Other speakers' followed
in tho samo strain, and tho meeting ad
journed to Tuesday. The independence
movement may, therefore, be regarded os
fully started in the Dominion.
What our Criminal Courts are Com
ino to.—“Ladies of the Jury, I appeal
to you ; should suoli whiskers be hang ?
True, ho killed his wife; but, as yon know,
she was a horrid jealous thing and led her
poor husbaud such a life. In my opinion,
killing was too good foi her. Ladies be
merciful; tho prisoner hangs upon your
lips. Consider his eves; consider his nose.
Were I married to a woman who called
me an unprincipled wretch, wouldn’t I
kill Lea V Ladies, bo generous.” And
so forth. (Jury retire, but return imme
diately with a verdict of Kot Guilty;
Judge, Jury, Counsel, and all shed tears
and kissed indiscriminately. They take
up a collection for the prisoner, who,
next day marries the fore-woman of tho
jury, out of gratitude.]— Retract /ram
Speech of Counsel for Defence.
Arctic Rivers.—Some of the streams
which flow into the Arctic Ocean aro re
markable for their extent aud depth.—
The McKenzio river, which lies in the
British Possessions, is from one to two
miles in width, and is navigable for
steamers for a distance of 1000 miles, or
from the Arctic Ocean to Slave lake.—
Colville river, in Alaska, is another noble
stream. It takes its rise by one branch in
the British Possessions, and flows nearly
across the whole width of A1 Last
summer an American far trading com-
P«nr, it ■■ wid, nut * steamer cm, thou-
sand miles from the cost on this river.
Dyspepsia of Seven Years Standing.
Charleston, S. C.. August 1,1SC9.
Dr. Wm. H. Tutt: Dear dr: I wish to inform
I au, and if you wish you am publish it, that I
ave been afflicted for upward* of seven years
with Dyspepsia. I could eat nothing that
agreed with me. I became emaciated, I had no
energy, aud felt gloomy and melancholy all tho
time. 1 have been using your liver pills for
three weeks, and have experienced the greatest
benefit. I haro a fine appetite, and can now eat
anything. I cordially recommend them to all
who have dyspepsia. Dennis O'Hallobjln.
Leather-Pegged Shoes.—Mr. P. Bow
man, the Richmond agent, (soys the
Charlotte Bulletin) has sent the Dispatch
a specimen of a recent valuable invention,
known as the leather pogged shoe. These
shoes aro manufactured by a Northern
company, with an immense capital, and
bids fair to supersede the old wooden-
pegged and aewed articles in which we
have been in the habit of encasing onr
feet It is claimed that they have many
ad vantages, and it is worth while for the
shoe dealers of Virginia to give them an
examination.
Tight Times at trb North.—AWashr
ington special to the New York Times,
says: A. T. Stewart does not return on
income of even $100,000 for the past
year, while Calfin, Mellen & Co., and
many other large houses: show bnt small
profits. Hundreds of merchants swear
to lasses for the year, and & number of
timoTma 20 mfrufteT“ A W- houses Uava lailoj. This jeat hwbaau
a terrible one upon the merchant princes
as well as small traders.
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
TERRY DAVIS’ PAIN KILLER
Has become an article of commerce—which
medicine ever became before. It ia aaniuch
every bill of goodu sent to country mer
chant* aa tea, cofice or sugar. Thia speaks vol-
oic« in ita favor.—CHens’ Falla Messenger.
Rev. H. L. Vanmeter, Burnish, writes, “The
*in Killer baa become aa almoat indiapcnsible
rticle iu my family.”
Hundreds of missionaries give similar teati-
iony of ita virtues.
Rev. J. Q. Stearns writes, “I co
remedy I know of for dyspepsia.
Itev.Jabe-'
years in my
ble remedy.’
Rev. M. II. Rixby writes, “I have had occa-
on to use the Pain Killer very frequently dnr-
ig my residence in Bun—*- —* * *
a very nattal medicine."
8ohl by all druggist*.
Koskoq,— 1 This medicine is rapidly gaining the
confidence of the people, ana the numerous
'imonislaof ita virt ’ *
of medicine, leaves
and reliable remedy lor impurity of the blood,
liver disease, Ac. The last Medical Jnnral con
tains an article from Prof. R. s. N«wtou, M, D.,
President of the Medical College dty of New
York, that speaks in high term* of its curatiro
^,<1 gj TC8 a special recommendation
to the practitioner* of medkiae. This
believe, the first instance where such
medicines have been officially endorsed by the
Faculty of any of the medical colleges, and
reflects great credit upon the skill of Dr. Law
rence, iu com pounder, and also puts “ Kcmkoo’
in the vane of all other medicines of the present
day—JSotfoVc Daffy Journal December 11th. tf.
W ANTED
$2,000! $2,000! $2,000!
About $2,000 in County orders.
\. N. HART & CO.
July 7, 1870-2w
■ oljet-
a’the Clerk of tnoHupcriorConrt,
Is still on liand a
and customer*
d willing to sell to her h
XTEW TAILOR SHOP—The
il undersigned would respectfully inform the
dtixena of Americns and Burater county that be
has opened a new tailor shop in the old hotel
boildmg, when be is prepared to do all kinds of
work in hk fine In the very best stria, each as
enee in the business, warrants him u» „
that satisfaction will be given always. Cleaning
and repairing old garments done in the best
style, and at the shortest notice. Shop in the
first room old hotel opposite the itoro of J. J.
Cranberry A Co.
July7-tf J. E- REMNEY.
Postponed Sheriff Sale.
W ^HLL be sold before the Court House door,
city of Americu-s Sumter cowitr, between
the legal hours of rale, on the first Tuesday to
August, the following property to-wit:
200 acres land, No. 992, ui 23th diet. Sumter
co. Levied u*» as property of Joseph Mann, to
satisfy taxi fit iaraedmr State and eo. tax for
co. Levied on as the
tontien’r on estate of
Pi in I I i HI |
■ yoarHBBHHH
II, A. Masdbcen, Dep. Shff.
jection if any the
CTRAYED—From my resi-
kl donee, in this city .on or about the 25th of
May. one large RED COW, with a white fcce,*nJ
she had a CALF with her; also, at the nine
time, one WHITE COW, with red head *ml
neck; a CALF with her. Any information will
be appreciated, aud ffir the delivery of uiJ
a liberal reward will bo paid.
18-tf J. LOTT PRICK,
Bargains! Bargains!
MRS. LAZARON
MILLINERY
Of the latest and tcont
FASHIONABLE STYLES,
At the Lowest Prices
Dress Department
i equal to any in Americus, and we are wiliinp
to sell at such prices that everyone may afford
to buy.
Con\e one, Come all,
EXAMINE OUR STOCK,
As no pains are spared in showing gotxlr.
Mrs. R. H. GREEN,
Also will bo pleased to see her old and new
friends at our establishment.
June 80,1870 WiL LAZAHON.
_ TH0S. H. EDEN,
[GUN & LOCKSMITH,
GUNS, PISTOLS,
assortment of fishing tackle^ consisting in |*rt
of crass, eilk, cotton and linen lines, book*,
floats!**inkers, jointed and reed poles, liner,
; tues, spoon and spinning W*,
R. B.—J geucy of the celeb***!
ttle Sewing Machine*. «*«
Cl'STOM-HADE WORK
at the aborteet notice. We have
Two European Workmen,
SBaajftSsSSftgfti
Marion Superior Courts March IV*
* BTO ' xiW ®> r Divorce.
ItACHAEL A- C. HATTIWAY
’llwbos BAgrnu*-