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Newspaper Page TextPUBLISHED BY | HANCOCK, GRAHAM & REILLY. | "Volume 18. DEVOTED TO HEWS, POLITICS AMD GEMEBAL PEOOBESS—INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 17. 1871. , TERMS: ■< Tt\ree Dollars a Year, | PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Number 4. Unit! of Advertising. | Lujan*, firft insertion,..: fl 00 I Hiil>s«'<ju«;iit insertion, 60 - Xks I.inv-s of Minion typ*-, solid, consti-1 AU aihirtiBomenta. >ntraci«*l for will be nta not spccifring the length of they arc to bo ineortud will lie con- ilcred out ami charged for accord- •npy fixed places will be . local < l» insertion Legal Advertising. I., it.-rs of Diamiaxion, A -.lu-ation for leave to hcII re s'... of Ucal Estate, S n.-e to Debtors and Creditoi sl.trifT# Hale, (per levy) . i 2 00 ... S 00 ... 3 00 Professional Cards. HAWKINS & BURKeT Attorney* rvt Iiav Americas, Georgia. JnonST CARTER, T T ft K 3E K Y AT LAVf, Auuricua, Georgia. Ofiice iii Americas Hotel building, corner o; I jmar and College i*troets. may 18 tf. FORT &"HOLLIS, """ iTTftliSETS AT h AW Ami Solicitors of Patents. Americas, Georgia. 0!l'n— in the room over R. T.Byrd’s ntorc april 20 tf C. T. GOODE, Attorney at Law amkuicus, GEORGIA. office ovtr W. T. Davenport's Drug ator r'c- 111 ^ JACK brown, a ttornoy at a w, americus, GA. is OiYu-e in Court House with Judge Stai r „,,l feblfi tf. N. A. SMITH, Attorn oy at La yto W II.I. practice in the Courts of Hnniter ai adjoining Counties, and iu Circuit Court 1 Si^Oflice on College street, next U» Rerubli- ■taMaf. fel» 25 tf. SAM LUMPKIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AMRRICUS OA. J. A. ANSLEY, Alton ley-at'Law Amorici Gra.. urts of Southwest d States Courts at in givhn to collcctioi HAWKINS & GUERRY, Attorneys-at-Law, EAUTII’S NYHIAD TIUVRLLER4. March! march 1 march! Making sounds as they tread : llol ho! how they step, Going down to the (lead. Every stride, every trauip. Every foot-fall ia nearer, And dimmer each lamp As darkness grows dre-rer. But ho! how they march, Making sounds as they tread ; Ho! ho! how they step, Going down to the dead! March! march! inarch I Making sounds as they tread; Ho! ho!-how they laugh. Going down to the dead ! How they whirl, how they trip, now they smile, how they dally- How blithesome they skip. Going down to the valley! Oh! oh 1-bow they i rtli, ids as they tr. > tin-dead: March! march! march Eartli groans as they Itch Each carries a skull, Going dow.i to the dead. Every stride, every stamp, , skelet nt-lall is boldei amp. n bis sliouldci With • Bet ho! With a high-tossing head, That olay-covcml home, Going down to tl.o dead! A FANCY. I MipjHtsc if all the children \Vh<» have lived through age Wen- collected am! inspected They would make a wonderc Oh, the l abide of the Babel! Oli, the flutter of the fuss! To begin with Cain and Able, And to flnish up with us. A Wonderful Seating Frat—A Lrr tle Jaunt of one Hundred Mrr.va— Shortly alter the opening of the New York Central Park Skating Ponds, a man of medium height, with well knit, sinewy limbs, appeared. The marvel lous rapidity with which he skimmed over ths ice astonished all beholders. The fuste.it skaters on the ponds were left fur behind in their attempts to keep up with him. This man was Chas. June, of Newburgh. It now seems that there are two more fast skaters in Newburgh, as the following account will show: “On Thursday week three Newburgli- ers, named respectively Charles F. and George June and Gilbert Carpenter, skated from Newburgh to Albany, a dis tance of one hundred miles, in seven hours and five minutes skating time, ’roin Newburgh to Poughkeepsie, dis- ance sixteeu miles, they fonna the ice ery rough, aud were onu hour and fifty minutes skating that distance. From Hyde Park to Catskill, forty miles, the ice was iu sjdeudid condition for skating and ice-boating, and they mode that dis tance in two hours and a half, or an av erage of sixteen miles an hour. Just before reaching Cusilcton they found the ice to be very rough, and were compell ed to cross and rccroas the river several times. On the last mile of tho one hun dred Charles F. June made a “spurt,” and skated it in three minutes and one second. The feat is believed to be with out parallel iu tho history of skating From the New Monthly Magazine. An Old Maid's Evenings. au the That this world ofonrsliaa And or aU of them, not any But w as once a baby small While of children, oh ; bow i Ere they know that carlL And it.deed I wonder whel If w*> reckou ev’ry birih. a flock together Thu Who v i* fur the nth ? !i wash their smilling faces ? Who their saucy cars would box * Who wih dress them, and caress tlieni ? Who will dam their little socks '! Where are aims enough to hold them? Bands to pat each ehtiuug head V Who will praise them? who will scold the Who vill pack the off to led? null services to thepnblu .dice iu Knmtcr and adjoin Unito.1 States Circuit aw iv.uin.-th. . Particular at ten A. R. BROWN, ATTOItSEV AT LAW, icrii-us, . Georgia. George W. Wooten, ATTOUNEY-AT-LAW, d.iuoriovx», • * - <3rrv- )Cicv—Ovi-r (iranborry's, comer Lamar and -'■liege smets. janl3 tl Phillip Cook, Attorney at Law, AMERICUS. GEORGIA. W ILL practice in the Counties of Macon, .Sumter, Lee, Webster, Schley and Dooly. Little happy Christian ■ Little savage clnkm In all stages of oil ago Naked some, bedaubed with pa nly think of the confusion And to finish off wit h c Falling From the Trapeze. THRILLING SCENE IN Last night, says a recent number of the Kansas City Neirs, Carroll’s Theatre was crowded to repletion to witness the dar ing and graceful performances of the Murrettu h Liters upon the trapeze. Muny of those win night befi Beethrr’s Idea of God and Man.— ow, therp ia nothing for God to find out about us. He knows all about you. When ho took you, he took you knowing tho uttermost. And yon never will dis appoint him, by being worse than he thought yon would be. You never will there he did not expect you to sin. r guilt never will l»e greater than he mudu up his mind to bear with and par don when ho took you. He took you as a mother takes her child. She thanks God for it,* though she knows it will bo vain and proud and selfish, and that it will have all the evils of temper that be- ' ng to the race from which it comes. It her ft, and iu spite of its faults she loves it with unspeakable love. And God clasps every soul tlmt he once takes, and takes it for good or for bad. The wedding be tween the soul and God is one that knows no divorce, cither here or hereafter.— From n Fit/mouth Church Senium. A Falsehood Contradicted.—A state- cut going the rounds of the press to the effect that a gentleman was drowned at Sand Hill, Kv., while being immersed, is denied by the ollieiating minister II. lb Tuylor-r-iu u communication to the Christian Standard, at Cincinnati. The erroneous statement having appeared our columns, we cheerfully giving place to the material part of the communica tion, showing it to have been a base fabrication : Messrs. JMitors : My attention has late ly been called to an article published in the Daily Gazette of December 12, 1870; said article being in the form of u letter written by some scamp under tho signa ture of I. T. H. and detailing a marriage and baptism, or rather drowning, which he says occurred at Saud Hill, Lewis county, Ky. The facts iu the case are as follows: Nov. 3d I married Mr. A. Row nail, ot Ohio, slid Miss Mary J. Wil son’s Bottom, Lewis county, Ky. On the following Sunday morning I im mersed Mr. Pownoll in Crooked creek. Not the slightest iucideut- occured to mar the beauty uud solemnity of the occasion, as the more than one hundred persons sent will aU testify. Respectfully, H. B. Taylor. Ornra iu \Y» Hrjpb Office t lliaum'n Building Next t GEORGE W. KIMBROUGH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ANDGtniral Agent for tht sale &n<l purchase in Southwest Georgia. Invosttgat- •ulw strictly adhered to. Will faithfully at- 1 to all Inn.;ursa entrusted to his caro. AftviHr, Lee connty. Ga. novtltf DR. D. P. HOLLOWAY DENTIST. A *EWn s OF.ORKIA. 5 V,W9 E uv « Mrs. C. A Wrkuit’m Millinery L»obkshmetit. frb. 16, -ly.. dr. williamT'greeneT AMERICUS, GKOBOIA fjOXTIXUES to servakia friends or Americas * Ul1 surrounding country iu all tho depart- _ of bis profession. aprlti-ly Dr. J. B. HINKLE WOULD again tender hi* services (in al! me ,™ . Manilas of the Profession) to the good r ur Americas and Snrater connti, and so- ^ * continuance of tho liberal patronage lowed upon him. j»d-«juarti " sidcnce in tho hous Ufte. nr.rtv onnoalte i_ Dr. S. B. HAWKINS. OFFICE at Dr. Eldridgo’o Drug Store. ^wdenoc near tin: Methodist Church. . 4i.irri 8irv>t ** 1 ‘Hcnn tender the good people of J*i*°° untry g®nerally. MediCAL CARD. rtomoval. J woo d inform Wr i generally, that be D oxomcvr u THOMAS E. SMITH ’ 1,„. **£? po»*Uc g hr..... . las Oflice to the l unless absent on profrs- itsliisold friends and **"“ - call on him, promistn • the best of his ability. Notice. T *R. BhiIb md Accounts of tho AMERICUS COURIER SSttss&ft&ifSisjSs & *17* ■» ^-ned * 1 W ' W. L. PKBBT. attended tin sco the little Uonalic. in her perilous trap, aud scarcely a clmir was empty iu the house. The preliminary songs and dances were gone through with and tho Sisters were at last in mid-air and whirling from bur to rope, and hanging by hand, knee and foot, nuiid tho applause, of the au dience. Fiually the elder ascended to the npper swing, and then commenced tho more showy and perilous feats. The little one, a bright, pretty child of only thirteen years, twined her feet about her stronger sister, hanging iu every variety of postnre, and suspended as if by mere volition at such a perilous height above tho floor. They had jnst recovered from u mazy intertwiniug of hands and limbs, and the elder one, seating herself npou the bar of the upper swing, leaned backward, balancing herself, while the child slid forward from her lap aud lay, with fold ed arms, restng upon her feet. The performance is not so difficult as it seems, but depends for its safety entirely upon the nerve of the one npou tho bur. The proper way for it to end is for the child to extend her arms grasping the and then fall, hanging by her hands' Of tho other removes her feet. Still, though not difficult, it is donge- rons and most exciting to an nudicnce. As they saw the slender, child-like form lying with folded arms upon the feet of her sister, way up towards the roof, and calm us if witniu her cradle, a roll of spontaneous applause was breaking forth when of ii sudden it was changed to an involuntary shriek of horror. The elder girl, thinking that tho other had already grasped the bar, removed her feet, anu down from her perch near the high ceil ing, down like a falling star from its fearful height, went tho child. Such sublime nerve as she exhibited it has never been onr fortnno to witness child before. The arms remained fold- _i over the chn-t, the limits never changed their position, not the faintest cry escaped her compressed lips, and tho face was calm as thut of a sleeping babe without the least expression of fear. In just the same posture in which she left her sister’s feet she struck the floor, with* a dull, horrible thud that echoed ty a shriek from the andieuce Political Amnesty.—The following is the text of the bill reported a few days since by Senator Bobortsou, of South Carolina, from tho kelect committee on the removal of political disabilities : Do. it enacted, «t*c., That all persons sub ject to any disability imposed by the four tccntli amendment of the Constitution of the United States ure hereby relieved from such disability, provided that the following classes of persons ure excepted from the provisions of this act, that is to say : First, nil persons who, being mem bers ol theCongrejwof the United States, withdrew Jrom tlieir seats and aided the relielliou ; second, all officers who, being officers of tho army or navy of the United States, and beiug above the age of 21 years, left the army or navy aud aided the relielHon ; third, all persons who, being members of tho State Conventions which adopted ihe pretended ordinances of secession, and voted in favor of the adoption of snch ordinances. These cepted classes are reserved for future legislation. NUMBER I. Cheerlessly closes in the January night with fierce gusts of wind and rain sweeping gainst'the window, like some wild demon incarnate—like some resistless passion-storm weeping—like the fetterless spirit of Love. We’ll draw the curtains close, and fill the grate, and pull my great, cozy old chair up to the light and warmth—this way! Now let, l stretch my feet on the fender, and yawn. Lonesome* you ask. No; I don’t think that I am lonesome. Just look at my companions, and tell me how I could bolone some! Here, draw up under tho light, is my table, with its warm, bright crimson cover .; and it is loaded down with treasures. Here’s the “Laocoon” of Lessing—that masterpiece of German criticism, as his “Emilia Galoth’ is the masterpiece of German tragedy. Poor unfortunate, melaucbolly Lessing! always misunderstood, laways surrounded by dreary isolation, meet his cruel fate at every turn! “That, like Lessing,” says Heine, “could never have been happy, you will easily comprehend.— Even if he had not loTed the truth, and if he had not everywhere fought for it, h nevertheless have been unhappy, for ho was a genius. They will pardon thee everything —they will pardon thy riches, they will par don thy high birth, they will pardon thy handsome figure, they will even pardon thy talent; but no genius, men are inexorable.— Therefore is the history of great men alwayi a martyr-legend. If they suffered not for great humanity, they suffered for their greatness.” And Carlyle mentions trnly the only marked exception to this otherwise universal truth, when he says: “Only Goethe has force to keep even at the sun good fortune his Phucnix wings unsigned.” And here is Schiller, and Wieland, and •‘Jean Paul—the only”—of whom it was said in his youth : “Fortune seemed to have let loose her bandogs, and hungry Ituin had him in the wind.” And here is Mrs. Jameson’ “Loves of the Poets,” and the poets them selves—Shakespear, and Shelly, and Keats, Wodswortli, and Tennyson. And Chateaubriand, whom I think never rightly appreciated, or rightly understood; and that rare and marvelous book, “Noctes Ainbro- sianie:” and on the top of all, lying open his Eulogy on Burns, is that most honest and eccentric of all moderns, Thomas Carlyle.— You wonder why they lie unread. What I done but read them all the day ? My brain is surfeited, my soul starving. 1 can' not read—not to night! I turn my eyes wearily away from my com fortable fire, and, glancing upward, what * A face, at once a picture, aud man, and a spirit—a divine, tender face, with u deep, wondrous eye, and glorious lengths of sunny hair, hovering there in the blue air like a cloud. If glorious perfection, *n«l all womanly grace, mingled with, mild ethereal, heavenly loveliness, can be express ed on canvass, then surely has Haphael por trayed them in the matchless^feaiures of the Madonna di San Sisto. Even when I shut iny eyes, I see still tlmt calm, heavenly face, “Mournful as law, and tender as pity.” Jnst here, at my elbow, is a “.Steinway grand;” but my soul to-night, is not for music and unheeded lie Mendelssohn, and Mozart, and Schubert, and Chopin, aud Italiau ope ras, and gems of Herman song, and even my favorite, Gottsclialk’s “Last Hope,” and that sweetest of all songs, Beethoven’s “Adelaide, ’an the lips sing or the soul move the fingers to make music, when the heart crii ill time, out of nil tone, out of all harmony: •‘Give me love—give me love’ thoughtless aud giddy ones—ye gay and reless ones, who count nil men fair game, d mock all thoughts of holy love, and con sider a dozen conquests “the absolute total of this life’s vast sum,” be warned in time ! Cling to the pure nml the tnre, to the earnest and unaffected. And then, Alien some beloved voice that was to you Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly, And silence, against which you dare not cry. Aches round you like, a strong disease and THE PALMETTO STATE. A Dark Picture—What of the Future! South Carolina Correspondence N. Y. World.] What of the future for this once gal lant anil high-spirited race of white men and women of HoutU Carolina? Since their own color and kin of tho all po erfnl North sympathise, not with thet t>nt with their oppressors, the sc-mi-sa age blacks, their destiny would seem to l»o gloomy indeed. T believe they anti- Then the once brilliant belle becomes a teach r submitting with gentlest grace and hu- tility to the many indignities of that hard lot. And then as a school girl, I knew her, and learned to love her before I ever knew her sail history. To us, so unaccustomed to the pure, unadulterated essence of love, this sounds like romance, and we hardly conceive that ono has lived among us who could lay a life’* loyalty ai the feet of a false kind. And you, whose married eyes rest in pitiful scorn upon the despaired old maids—you do not know l That woman is just as true to her rou are to yours—ay, truer than you, for the bonds that hold you faithful are fettered by the iron clasp of custom and of circumstances, while hers are only flower wreaths, which any child’s hand might pull apart. Your faith is pampered and encour aged, watered by gentle showers, kissed by gentle breezes strengthened by warm, bright n rays. Hers must be kept in silence, and tears sometimes seeking do reward, meet- g no acknowledgment; scorched by the lightnings of passion, swept by the tempes tuous surges of a never-silent sea. You can have no appreciation, because you can have appreciation, because you have no under standing of the dreary sublimity of a life growing thus alone, struggling with self with memory, with the world: and you have no conception of the fortitnde with which she nerves herself to meet that saddest of all destinies—when a woman throws aside her womanhood, and battles hand to hand with rude coarse men. And she, too, has a wo man's heart, filled with the same tender ir repressible longings, the same desires and impulses, that animate yours. And passing the thousand little innocent, and inefficient compounds of sweetness and insipidity on* meet every day under the holy name ol “wife,” 1 place my royal crown of woman' hood upon the sorrowful brow of her whe has dared to be true to herself and to her better nature, even though she misses, thus, the one sweet thing in life—even though she bear always the onerous burden of the name, “old maid.” I go the window, and look out. It still rains, steadily and slow. 1 shiver and back to my seat by the Are, and tomi passes, whistling an old air I loved in my childhood. It is a song sometimes, or a faint odor of violets, or a sunset, or perchance a hazy softness on the summer wind, or even n look or a touch, that awakens memories we thought had slept forever. So, to-night that little plaintive air, whistled in the styeet takes me back over a long drift of years and leaves lue within the gate of childhood.— IVhat tender, thronging memories grasp my hand, and wander with me through the sun ny land! May playmates rush out to meet mens in days “langsyne;” their footsteps linger on the green, their silver voices lin ger on the air. And Willy, my childhood's little lover, son ofrny mother’s dearest friend Willy, my shadow, my second self— stands by me! What a rnimmic life we led, thinking of the tragedy that lay be hind, and under and after ! “We ate each other's mad pie*, took croup in each other's r forts, cried out the sums on each oth- slates, Upped over each other's ink bot tles, sopped up the ink with our mutual handkerchiefs, ‘told on’ each other in about equal proportions, ‘made up* with a common exuberance of sobs. And we played behind the wood-pile, and were married by the prize speaker, divorced by the first base, reunited by tho minister’s dauglit) and went to housekeeping in the old play ground at regular intervals, as far back my recollection extends.” And I remember the little ring he gave me once, hearts on it. No queen was ever prouder of her royal diadem. We « ere both fixed is a dreadful purpose—never to get any “big ger.” And I think this baby-courtship must have sounded very much like this: py for the love that made existence—life! Does the Father see the hungry eyes, beg ging for that which is not ? Docs Ho sec the tired head seeking a resting place? Does He hear the slow, sad pulsing of the poor rebellious heart, when it seems so hard a thing to look in the face of the Heal, and dream no longer of life’s grand possibilities? Does He? Do you think so? Ah! if he should not—if He should not, then is this poor life wrecked; for I have trusted all to Him—I have filled my weary ltands with all fifes joys, aud laid them at his feet; and, rudeless and compasslcss, with only Him to guide its ideriugs, uiy ship has gone out to sea; and if He should fail me, then is thift poor life wrecked. I opened the window again, and look out. The storm has not altogether ceased, and heavy black clouds are flying before the wind A few stray splashes of rain dash across my forehead, llow like tears they fall and trickle there—my mother's tears! I was al ways a wayward child, and I remember how it used to gricTe her; I was selfish aud exac ting, and she mourned it. O my mother's tears! just as do the rain drops to-night, so did they covor my heated brow. Through the arid winds of the desert have swept over my heart; though tho glaring sunsofloveaml or hate have drunk every drop of it* life blood; though pittilesS'Suows have drifted upon and frozen its shoreless tides; tho winds have not swept away, the suns have not scorched, nor have the snows frozen, those bitter tears of anguish aud regret, which, shed upon it in the long ago, shall burn on my hot head forever. 1 shut the window again, aud come bark, filled with thronging memories. 1 touch the slumberous chords of my piano. Sort, sweet, and low, rise the rich, deep tones of a mourn ful “Nocturne.” It sweets out, filling the soul with its woe. It seems like the memory of “ remembered kisses after death, Or sweet as those by hopeless Fancy feigned on lips that are for others ; Deep as love—deep as first love, and wild with all regret.” And so the grand heart of the melody swells, and reaches far out, ns if Reeking to embrace “great humanity;” and then it breaks, overcharged with its own intensity, leaving a silence; and slow and sad it rises again, like a broken-winged bird, and pulses d quivers in the air; and again it soli d moans, like a tired, grieving child, and u hear the lullaby, and the mother bus lo rest, and it slumbers. Dear me! the clock strikes two! I down on the cold hearth, and stir the lifeless ashes—for my fire is long since out. 1 clasp my hands over my knees, and look up n divine Mother of Sorrow; but there see be a misty cloud veiling her lovliness, for I through the lens of a tear.” TELEGRAPH. nod a stifled moan from tlio little suf ferer. She woe' immediately picked up and borne behind the scenes by one of the actor*, while the ngonized sister descend ed quickly from the trapeao ami joined her. In a few molnehss ft Vos announc ed to the aodienc that her hurt* were but trifling, and that she trusted to ap pear again tonight, and such report ia confirmed this niorning. Considering the height of the fall and the dangerous position in which she atrnelt, full upon her hack, her escape waa almost a miracle. cipate no relief from inside. The groes will be iu the numerical majority here for some year* to come, unless they take it into tlieir wise pates to emigrate further South. The-attempt to win them over to the conservative ride in politics, has been abandoned for ihe present, at least The tJuion Reform movement of last year, was ignominious failure. It wili not bo revived. Very few negroes could be in duced to leave the Republican organiza tion. which, through the instrumentality of the secret Union Leagncs, holds them tightly in its grasp. The only hope the white people of Ihe Stale have of relief from the robbers who are plundering them iu Culunibia. nn<l from the domina tion of an inferior race, is in the success of the Democratic party in the next Presidential uud Congressional elections. It is only from a Democratic General Government that they and their nice in the South, con expect common justice. The city of Charleston is slowly recover ing from tho effects of the war. The low price of cotton now ruling, has a depressirg effect on the business com- muuitv, but there is to absolute suffer ing. In common with the State, the city is cursed with a negro and carpet bagger government, and with corres ponding rascality in officials. till can say, from out the depths of this bereavement: “Father, I thank thee that I heard it when it called !” Ah! you are fair —once I was fair: you tell me you are young —youth cannot last for aye ; you speak of the promises of girlhood—mine had great rich promises, but they are shattered. And when to-morrow, you pass me on the street, young maiden, think twice before you tosa your pretty head, and pucker the sweet cor ners of that dainty mouth, and think, “Poor lonely one, once ahe was happy as I!” and think, “One day 1 may be like her.” And then I’m sure you will look kindly after her, or perhaps speak some kindly word Do you know some of the loveliest women I < knew were “old maids” Now, I am an maid, but not one of the lovely kind—O no, no! I am weak nml rebellious ; I cry out against the inevitable ; 1 long for the impossible. And fittler than me, and beautiful. lilt give you all the nicest things to ea' My silver cup, my fork, and all my toys, And never, never, never, never die! I wouldn't want to five, if you were dead: If I was dead, poor Vick! how you would cry! Wc won't need very much to eat, I think ; Our clothes will last, if we dun t get ’em tore; And all the time, dear Vick, that I don’t be Saying that I love you, you’ll be telling me!” I cry: “Let me alone, Kegret! I am content To throw thee all my post, so thou wilt sleep, For aye. But it is patient, and it wakes; It hath cot learned to ery itself to sleep, But ’plalncth on the bed that is hard.” • An Ohio farmer *4W a stranger tearing down his rail fence, and hailed him to know the reason. The reply was that ho waa'snd- ly seized with the shakes and was bolding on to tho fence for support. But I had a teacher once, an old maid who seemed almost to make up the sum of human perfection. She waa a meek quiet woman, with great brown eyes, and a head and walk like a queen’s. True she-waa thin and pale, and her sholders ware narrow, and she stoop od—who woeld not stoop? Bullet me give you her history. That w< gay, bright girl, so rarely endowed, and so marvelously gifted, that ahe was at once the pride and the leader of Charleston society. Ere long, with all the strength of her deep nature, ahe turned from the allurements of bcllesbip, and gave way all her heart—and gave it to one only, undivided and entire.— Long afterward, he proved to be-unworthy and when ahefound her idol clay ahe broke it, and, breaking it, broke her heart That trne, loyal nature had no other love. One after one her family loft her; bat she kept on her way liken bright, pure star. Finally, when father and mother, and all were dead, she gave way her vast possessions to differ* ist we parted one evening under the cedars, for we were both leaving home respective boarding schools. Of course we cried a little, aud kissed, as any little brother and sister might do, vowing get any “bigger.” When we met at vacation, we were a little shy of each other, like grown up boys and girls, for we had grown “bigger,” aad older, aud wiser souiewhat less true. 8till it never occurred us, 1 think, that we should eTcr be other than just what we were then, and that destinies should be two destinies instead of After many vacatiosn—when all tions, indeed—were swallowed- up i time, not holiday nor harvest, but seedtime, we mot again: very grown, very proper, very distant—a little pained perhaps, to find had drifted apart, for then we thought life had but one love, and we have passed it Afterward looking back to it, we found how foolishly wo had been mistaken, and yet 1 think we both treasure the memory of that happy innocent little child love which the angels must have smiled on. Years after, he brought home a sweet English girl to make the joy and gladness of his homo, and 1 have truer friends now than they. Such ten der, pliant affections end frequently in the most devont friendships. How unlike the bitter after-part of disappointed passion, whicb knows no medium, and seeks no mean! Very tenderly I look on tho picture of my Willy—mine no longer—all ruffles and ring lets, andbrown eyes and dimpled fingers; and very sadly do I wish, to-night, that all the memories in my heart were pure and guile less as this, the memory of the lover who “Wouldn't want to live, if I were dead.'’ The' Father surely knows—lie whe made eat charities, only mewing a bare pittance. Think yoojiot so? Tbs buried depths of yearning, tbe untrod heights of asperation —think you they are not plain and even in his sight? My soul sits dumb, to night in undefined and inexplicable pain. It is thoughts of sunny childhood forever gone. It is longing for the touch of the-mother- hand upon the curls she oneo caressed. It is calling for the Yoices that areailent; it 'is listening for the foststeps that are hushed. It is looking for the hope that made life hap- Washinoton, March 9. In tho senatorial caucus proceedings, Cameron sncceds Sumner us Chairman of tho Committee on Foreign affairs.— The Retrenchment Committee was ubol- ished. In the Senate Sumner intro duced his supplement to tho civil rights bill. He requested that it should not bo referred to the Judiciary Committee, and threatened to press the bill to ah issue before adjonrnmnt London, March .—Odo Russel has returned and will attend a special Cab inet meeting to-morrow. A disturbance among aome battalions of the Paris Mo bile Garde, has been quelled without terious consequences. Much typhoid and plagae exist among the cattle and horses iu Paris. It is finally settled that tho Assembly meets at Versailles. Havana, March 9.- In the fight near Mayare the Spaniards were defeated and captain, two lieutenants and three en signs, were killed. In a two hours’ fight, Santiago do Cuba, the Cabans were defeated, but carried off their dead aud wounded. The Spanish loss was eight killed. St. Louis, March 9.—A terrific hurri cane has occurred in east St Louis. The railroad depots were demolished. Nearly all the derricks and appliances for the construction of the bridge were dertroy- A thirty ton engine with a train of cars waa blown forty feet into a slough. Another train of thirteen cars loaded with grain was thrown from the track. Several are known to have been killed and thirty seriously hurt There is scarcely a building or treo left standing in the path of the storm. Ail steam boats lying ou the eastern side of tho river are damaged. London, March 9.—Tho Times has a Madrid letter, announcing that Mont- pensier has been banished for refusing to take the military oath in support of Amadeus. The Post affirms that a secret treaty as concluded between Russia and Prus sia about the time tho war broke out— Among its provisions was intervention should French successes threaten Port land, and should Austria make any de monstration Russia was to demonstrate upon the Austrian frontier, and should any European power combine with France, Russia was to combine with Prussia. New Yoke, March 9.—The Telegram has a cable dispatch from Paris, dated March 7th, which says the city is calm; bnt it is difficult to say whether it calmbefoie-the storm of collapse of the revolutioualists. The National Guard resist disbondonment and pile their arms on the boulevards and gather in ungry groups. The Belle vill o and Montmartie Districts show no signs of revolt! Rerun, March, 9.—Bismarck is here. Washington, March 11.—The caucus ring on adjournment and special Kn- klux legislation has so far been unattend ed with any result. • The impression is growing that the Democrats, aided by the more conservative Republicans, will soooeed in defeating any legislation sup plementary to reconstruction. rendered their cannon and will be form ally demanded to surrender all their arms to day. Tho Northern Star was wrecked Wrexford and all lost. Bark Dur ing is ashore and several drowned. Ar rived Weser, from Donati. London, March 11.—lathe House of Commons the education bill and the bill permitting marriage with a deceased wife’s sister have passed. The schooner Hope sunk near Glascow ; all lost Paris, March 11.—A Paris newspaper announces the death of Henri Rochefort Trochu is insane. The heart disease killed Rochefort. Bordeaux, March 14.—'Tbe Assembly after a strong speech from Thiers is in favor of removal to Versailles, defeated amendment to go to Paris by 497 to 104 and adopted a motion to go to Ver sailles by 400 to 104. The first public »n will l*o liehl at Versailles 20th. Brussels, March 11.—ThcEtoile Bee ys the uutives of Algeria disarmed the Mobile Guards and are masters of the situation. Washington, March 11.—Tho Demo cratic caucus, this morning, resolved that the duty of every member to re main in his seat to defeat dangerous leg islation. Collector Wallace, of tho 3d Sonth Carolinia District, reports that his as sistant and an illicit distiller, killed each other nt the first fire in a duel. The Governmcut lias official advices from Camp Supply, iudicating Indian hostilities. The tribes, instead of killing bnll'ulo, arefatening ponies, which, know ing ones say, indicate a general raid the white settlements. Nothing has transpired regarding the proceedings of the high Commission, except the details of their dinners. There were eight vacant seats in tht Senate. The Republican caucus has determined to remain iu session until Southern af- fais are fully discussed, and some law de vised which will satisfy Southern exit enl ists. Morton's hill making outrages umeuahle to the Federal Courts, and ex acting the iron-clad oath from Federal jurors, will ho presented on Monday. The Senate caucus nppoiuted a com mittee of five to confer with a similar Committee from the IIouso caucus to de- vise a force bill. Later. More reliable facts regarding the Republican Senatori al caucus. It was resolved that only the Ku-klux bill will be entertained. Efforts favor legislating on salt and coal. The Cincinnati mid Southern railroad. bill failed. The majority nf all parties seem indisposed to enter upon general legis lation. Washington, March 11.—The Havans Dinrio in an editorial advocates the plac ing of a priee upon tho head of* Maxima Gomez, the insurgent General, assigning a reason, that Gomez is a foreigner and incendiary Insurgent Capt. Carlos Cerice Toments, before being led to exe cution at Cienfngas, was married. Tho Tribune of to-day says, editorial- Though there was considerable fighting, no person was wounded. Order was promptly restored by llie authorities. London, March 11.—Eleven were killed and twenty-three wounded by an accident on the Northwestern Railway to-day. Tho report that Efnperor Napoleon is comiug to Cbiselhurst is premature. He is not expected at present “The impolicy of removing Mr. Sum ner from the chairmanship oi the Com mittee ou Foreign Relations, without better pretext than, his discordant so<^al relations with the white House and State Department, must now lie clearly mani fested to the dullest official at Washing- ton. No debate siuce tho Santo Domin go Commission was authorized) bas aroused so much feeling or elicited snch strong language as that of yesterday, the election of the standing committees of the Senate. It seems plainer than could wish, from the lino of that debate and from the language of the influential journals of tho country, from which quote, that a new cause of dissension has been needlessly forced upon the Repub lican party.” The Herald says editorially: Until yesterday the Republicans felt confident of carrying New Hampshire by at least seventeen hundred majority; but the news of the action of the Senate caucus is reported to have somewhat shaken their confidence. Yesterday evening a prominent Republican published an arti cle denunciatory of President Grant, for his course towards the Massachusetts Senator, which has, our correspondent states, cast a gloom over the party and elated the Democrats considerably.— Whether it will give the State to the Democrats is uncertain, but it is evident that the quarrel between Grant and Sum- desitined to produce a war of fac tions in the ranks of their party, at least New Englund. Zurich, March 11.—A German cele bration iu honor of the return of which began oa Thursday, waa disturbed by French officers, who are detained here prisoners of war. The Utrman Trallo music Hall was attacked and occupied by tho French, and several persons were injured in the melee. The Swiss Federal Council, at once ordered the adoption of military measures to put an end to the tnranlt, and prevent its recurrence.— Disturbances, nevertheless, were resumed on Friday, when Ton Tralle Hall, the Germans, waa again stormed by tbe French, and the German flag was torn to pieces. Subsequently a large number the people of Zurich, who sympathised with the Germans, attacked the prison in which 1G officers of the French Mo bile Guard, who were arrested the pre vious day, were imprisoned. The Swiss soldiers guarding the prison at once fired upon and repulsed the mob, but, un fortunately, killed" and wounded sever al innocent people in bouses on the op posite aide of the street The riot has been thoroughly quelled, and to-day the city is perfectly quiet Later—Only one killed during dis turbances. Tbe Federal Council sent for a battalion of infantry, nnd two batteries of artillery to assist in keeping ihe peace. Fair at Alacou—Premiums on Field Crops. Office of Sec’y State Aor’l 1 Society, Macon, Oa., March2,1871. f Tlu* Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society of Georgia at its great Annual Fair of 1871, at Macon, be ginning Monday, the 23d of October, and continuing four days The committee of seven appointed from the Excculivo Committee to revise the premium list, adopted, and ordered E ubiiskcd immediately tho subjoined st of i>remiiiws on field crops. They will meet several weeks to come, for the purpose revising tho remainder of tho list. Iu tho meantime, all persons who have suggestions of amendments or ad dition to the last jear, will please com municate them in writing to the Secre tory. PREMIUMS ON FIELD CROPS. Sec. 1 For the cheapest 10 bales cotton $50 00 See. 2 For tbe cheapest and best 1 aero of corn ... 50 00 Sec. 3 For the cheapest and best 1 . aero o! peavinehay DO 00 Sec. i For tbe cheapest and best 1 aero of clover hay DO 00 Sec. D. For largest crop of cotton produced on two acres of upland—with the mode of cultivation, tlio amount and kind of mauuro used, tho period of planting- tlio number of times plow ed—tlio number of times E ed and lioed—tho of cotton—the land to bo measured and the cotton weighed - in the presence of three disinter ested and reliable wit nesses with certificate from thorn DO 00 Sec. 0. Largest crop of native grass hay raised ou 1 acre requisition os above .... 50 00 Sec. 7. Largest crop of cultivated grass hay including or not a mixture ol clover DO 00 Sec. 8. Largest crop of corn grown on two acres of nplond, not less than 75 bushels per aero—requisitions as above 50 00 Sec. 9. Largest crop of corn grown upon two acres of low land, not less than ono hundred bushels 50 00 Sec. 10. Largest crop of wheat grown upon two acres.... GO 00 Sec. 11. Largest crop of lowloud rice on ono acre.;....... 50 00 Sec. 12. Largest crop of oats rais ed on two acres 50 00 Sec. 13. Largest crop of rye per acre 25 00 Sec. 14. Largest crop of barley per acre 25 00 See. 15. Largest crop of sweet po tatoes raised per acre, one eighth of an acre to be dug and certificates of the yield by disinterested persons furnished 50 00 See. 10. Largest crop of Irish po tatoes raised per acre 50 00 See. -17. Largest crop of turnips • raised per aero 50 00 See. 18. Largest crop of ground pens or Finders per acre.. 25 00 Sec. 19. Largest crop of field peas per acre .......... 50 00 Sec. 20. Best box of chewing to bacco, Georgia raised 20 00 Sec. 21. Best box of cigars from Georgia raised tobacco.... 10 00 Sec. 22. Beat sample Southern ntiav! nmnknifT trtlm/rct . !> 00 raisod smoking tobacco.. Sec. 23. Best samplo Georgia raised leaf tobacco 5 00 Sec. 24. Beat crop of broom corn on one acre, with sample of ono balo..... 25 00 • nv BOTH UNDER SIXTEEN TEARS OF ,A«E.. . Sec. 1. Largest crop of Indian corn grown by any boy un der 16 years of age on one acre of land—requisitions as in other field crops 25 00 See. 2. Largest crop of ootUn grown by any boy under 16 yean of age on oneacre —requisitionsas above.. 25 00 In tho reports made by exhibitors of all the above crops, Ute coat of produc tion must be carefully estimated and re ported, and in the cost of production shall be considered the value of the land —the cost of the fertilizers amt coat of cultivation. Exhibitors of all tho above crops must also state in writing in full, to the Secretary at the time of making the entry, all the faots as laid down in the requisition for corn, cotton, etc., given above—tho statement must bo ac companied also with certificates of three disinterested witnesses of the measure ment of land and of the Yield of pounds or bushels per acre. Judge will be irn- structed to withhold the awards where exhibitors fail to comply with these rules. Printed copies of this notice are sent to all the members of the convention daily, weekly or monthly journal a ble. By order of the Committe. * A. H. COLQUITT, President David W. Lewis, Secretory. Weights and Measures. IiUSlIEL. LBS. Wheat ....60 Shelled Corn.. ..56 Corn in the ear..70 Peas..... 60 Rye...........56 Oats 32 Barley .47 Irish Potatoes...60 Sweet Potatoes . .55 1 White Beans... Castor -Beans... .45 Clorer Seed.....60 Timothy Seed...46 Flax Seed......56 nemp Seed.....44 Blue Grass Socd..l4 London, March 1L—A Times special, I Further disturbances are apprehended, dated Paris 11th, - says the National Rome, March 12.—Disturbances occnr- Guards holding Mont Martre have sur- j red this morning in Jesus’ Church.— BUSHEL. LBS. Buckwheat. . ...52 Dried Peaches..38 Dried Apples...24 Onions ,‘,-57 Salt...... 50 Stone Coal...SO Malt 38 Bran........... 20 Turnips .5$ Plastering Hair . 8 Unslacked Liwo.80 Corn Meal... 4?' Fine Salt.......55 Ground Peas...-£$ Cotton Seed 32 Obituary notices are often unconsciously sartirical, as in this, written of an old citizen of NaahviUor “He was a most exemplary citizen and Christian. Ho Imd been four times married, aud died in perfect resigna tion,” ‘

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, March 17, 1871, Image 1