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VOL XL Cravln CflHittg Uctos, IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. OFFICE IN “NEWS BUILDING,” South Blakely. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Copy, Four Months Si,oo One Copy, Eight Months $2.00 One Copy, One Year $3,00 Six Copies, One Year .$15,00 In advance —butwhen notpaid until the end of the year, fifty per cent will be added. RATES OF ADVERTISING : One Square, (ten lines or less of solid Bourgeois,) 1 insertion $2,00 For each subsequent insertion SI,OO When advertisements are continued for one month or longer, the charge will be as follows: Number w o i— fga a g of 2 § § © X- e* »•*- ** Squares. “ « ” Sf 1....T. $ 5 $lO sls S2O 2 8 15 25 35 .3 12 18 35 45 4 1G 24 40 53 5 20 35 45 60 J)cTn 35 55 80 12f. 1 “ GO 80 130 200 All personal matter double price. Obituaries will be charged for as other advertisements. Notices, in local column, thirty cents per line. Editorial notiees, where requested,for individual benefit, thirty cents per line. For a man advertising his wife SIO,OO Advertisements inserted without specifi cation as to the number of insertions, will be published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. All advertisements due when handed in. RATES: Citations on Letters of Administrat'n..s6,oo “ “ Dismissory 10,00 “ “ “ GuardVp..6,flo Leave to sell Real Estate 8,00 Notice to Debtors & Creditors 6,00 Sale of Real Estate by Executors, &e., per square 10,00 JOB WORK. We arc prepared to ilo BSy JOB WORK of oil kinds with neatness and dispatch, and on as reasonable terms as any other Office in this section. Also all kinds of BUNK'S printed to order on excellent paper. Cite ns atrial, and we guarantee yon will not go away dissatisfied. L. ,T. GUILMARTIN JOHN FLANNERY. j. £ (Cmilmortiit & Co., Cotton Factors AND ©[EKI[I 03 [L Commission Merchants, BAY STBEET, SAVANNAH, GA. AGENTS FOR BRADLEY’S SUPER PHOSPHATE OF LIME, JEWEL’S MILLS’ YARNS d) DOMESTICS, BAGGING , ROPE <f- IRON TIES ALWAYS ON HAND. Usual Facilities Extended to Customers. 3-6 m iiiii (Uitlifiect, Georgia, Is keeping the Kiddoo House, and will be pleased to have his old friends and the trav eling public give him a call. Tables fur nished with the best. Comfortable rooms, clean beds and attentive servants. In connection with this House there are good Stables, where stock will be well at tended to. Terms moderate. Call and see “Uncle Henry.” March 11, 1870. 29-ts C LOCKS WATCHES AND JEWELRY CLEANED & REPAIRED. The subscriber being associated with Mr. T- J. Guimarin, (a Watch maker of many years standing) is prepared to do all jobs in the above line with neatness and dispatch. tg¥*ALl work warranted. THOMAS WILLIAMS, August 5, 1870. 49-ts A M. Sloan, Rome....C. F. Stubbs, Macon C. E. Groover, Brooks C0...A. T. Mcln tyre, Thomasville, Ga. Sloan, Groover & Co., COTTON FACTORS COMMISSION N MERCHANTS Claghorn & Cunningham’s Range, BA Y STREET, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. advances on Cotton consigned to our Correspondents in New York A Liv erpool, £-tf tolj teintg News. ©tuj©©[!©© 7© ALL IPAIT ‘u’GOgDK K]@M[l© t ? TOKtl TTtnllE Ko EL K©Mg[LlL P ATTORNEY AT LAW, BLAKELY, GA. Office at the Stafford Office. v9-25-tf T!n]©©a \Fo nD©RO[E©S, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BLAKELY, GA., Will give prompt attention to all busi ness entrusted to him. 39-ts ATTORNEY AT LAW, Blakely, Early Co., Ga., W ill give prompt attontion to all busines confided to his care. v5-13-tf ©HKD © a ©AKT©^©©^ ATTORNEY AT LAW, BLAKELY, EARLY COUNIY, GA. Office in the building next to Judge Peter Howard’s City Hall. ©i©i©i~W o -A-ttornev at Law: AMERICUS, GA. cDo cO©[rOK] ©!^©!Xc) AT TOR NE Y AT L A IF, MORGAN, GA., Will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to liis care. 4G-tf HHKHfSY ©□ ©KLiKKOLI©®* ATTORNEY AT LAW, COLQUITT, MILLER COUNTY, GA., Tenders his professional services to the public, assuring those who put business in his hands that it shall have prompt and faithful attention. 6-ts ATTOENEY AT LA W, €Q£QTTXSS, a®il! fiite prompt atttnthn la ai! suzintgg eniiutfeb to i)ig fjanhs. 28-ts T. M. HO WARB, SURCEON BLAKELY, GEORGIA. May 19, 1871. 38-Iy ©Kb Mb Mb ©MKDSITD ARD B BLAKELY, GEORGIA, TENDERS his sincere thanks to the peo ple of Blakely and Early county for their liberal patronage in former years, and now again offers them his services in his profession, and solicits a share of their pat ronage. 44-ts Kb Lgsa®KQ©GS s LL ©7 S MORGAN, GA., Offers his professional services to the citi zens ofOalhoun county, being permanently located in this community. Particular at tention paid to Chronic cases. Can be found at his office or his residence unless profes sionally absent. Those indebted must pay up, or they will find their papers in an officer’s hands for collecion. 4-ts OIL K, ©©©TOKe, GHL ©b B BLAKELY, CEO., Tenders his services to the citizens of Early in the various branches of his pro fession. ©©LtcpLHF K®TgL, COLQUITT, MILLER COUNTY, GA., JOHN V. HEARD, PROPRIETOR. The Proprietor of this House having re cently taken charge and refitted it, takes pleasure in stating to the traveling public that he will do his best to make all who stop with him comfortable during their stay. On his table will always be found the best to be had, and his rooms and beds clean. July 10, 1868. 45-ts © m KD © K J © DPlantei' , s Hotel, OPPOSITE CARHART & CURD’S, NO 58 CHERRY STREET, MACON, GA. B. F. D ENSE , 22-ts Proprietor. ®K©WM ©]©¥!©, OPPOSITE DEPOT, Macon, - - Georgia, E. E. BROWN & SON, 26-ts Proprietors A. L. JONES - Watcfe Mate aadl Jeweler, BLAKELY, GA. SHOP AT THE STORE OF IRWIN BIRD. WOBX WABSUMWSB. WILL Birr QLB BILTCB. March 11, 1870. 29-ts BLAKELY, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1871. THE VOYAGER’S GUIDE. Far out on the thieatening sea of life A mariner steered his boat; Proudly she stood ’neath the swelling sail, With his banners rll afloat. Expectation looked with eager glance From the bright and searching eye ; Already he saw in letters famed, A name that would never die. With pride he thought of the glitt’ring goal Os the world and all its worth, And smiled and hastened on his boat To the gilded fields of earth. But a ringing voice came o’er the sea—• “ Whither, sailor art thou bound ? I’ll he thy guide to a glorious port, Where peace and joy are found.” “ Where is that port, O gracious guide, To which your promise leads? Is’t fairer than you glittering world With jewel-covered meads? “Look how radient’ and it jjUU me— Calls an *. wops gferinore ; A .i iny barque with hue unspotted, Almost touches at its shore.” “ Fairer than you could conceive it,” Cheerily the voice replied ; “ And over the breakers, through tempest and storm I will be your friend and guido. m “ Eye cannot reach its golden gleam, But it gleameth and snincth still; And never a shadow night e’er throws O’r emerald bank and crystal rill. “ Wilt go to this beautiful place, And be so wonderfully blest? — To sec our King, to gaze on bis smile, And live in infinite rest ?” “ But of that land not a trace I see, While here is my heart’s desire; Iv’e only to lift the cup and drink, To quench ambition’s fire.” 'With pity the guide’s sweet voice grew soft As he said, “ Earth will doceive, But the port of peace is open to man, If he will only believe. “ Leave, I entreat, this billow-hound shore, And conic sail this way with me ; I promise not a storm shall demand More strength than I shall give thee.” “ Away 1” the boatman angrily cried, “ When old and weak, I’ll call thee ; While here in my strength and pride of life, What evil can befal me ?” But never more the sky seemed bright— A cloud hung ever o’er him ; And whither he would not have steered. The current ever bore him. Like enchanted giound, that fair land seem’d Far receding,—then so near— Till mocked and cheated with phantom joy, He grew desperate in despair. Long the combat waged, hut all in vain ; Soon human strength was wasted ; Helpless he lay, with the brilliant joys Os fame’s bright cup untasted. He drifted long o’er braker and wave, Jostled by tempest and tide ; Helpless, and friendless, and all alone— Alone on the waters wide. The useless hands in desoair were clasped, Cautiously drawing each breath, Shutting the picture out from his eyes, Waiting each moment for death. But in the last of this agony deep, That guide still loving and kind, With one stroke of power turned the craft Before a favoring wind. With hopeful words dispelled the sorrow Os the lonely sea-exile, And drifted into the haven of rest With a sweet and peaceful smile. Lila. Savannah, Feb. 11, 1871. Unlucky Days for Matrimony. We may possibly be doing a service to some of our readers by informing them (on the authority of a manuscript of the 15th century, quoted from the Book of Days) that there are just thirty-two days in the year upon which it is unadvisable to go into join-hand—namely : seven in January ; three each in February, March, May, and December ; two each ia April, June, July, August, September, and No vember; and one in October the best month for committing matrimony, the actual un lucky days being these : January Ist, 2d, 4th, sth, 6th, 10th, 15th; Febuary 6th, 7th, 19th ; March Ist, 6th ; April 6th, 11th ; May sth, 6th, 7th ; June 7th, 15th; July sth, 18th ; August sth, 19th ; Sep tember 6th, 7th ; October 6th ; November 15th 16th, and December 15th, 16th, 17th. As to which is the best day of the week, why Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best of all; Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all. Elder Knapp, the great revivalist, was actively engaged in a revival of religion down in Arkansas, and when about to baptize a Dew convert, he called out in a loud voice: “ Does any ono know any reason why this man should not be bap tized?” and to his surprise a long specimen of an Arkansas traveler shouted in res ponse: “See here Mister Preacher, I don’t want to interfere in that ere busi ness of yours, but if you expect to get the \ sin all cut of that old cuss you will have , to anefcoi him out ia the river 07ei m^ht. f?rom the Independent.] “A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK.” Ben. Butler's Nephew in Egypt- I The following shocking account of offi cial misconduct calls for the immediate at tention of our Government. It is written from Alexandria by a prominent American missionary in Egypt. He is known to ' many of the Christian people of this coun try and Europe, aud most kindly remem bered by his brother soldiers of our late war. To those who know him these facts will come as the statement of a man of cool, clear judgement and superior discrim ination. Rev. Mr. Strange writes; Knowing that the people, whether we wish or not, intimately associate the Amer ican Mission wuh the American Consulate, you may fo£j* some idea of how deeeply we are interested in having a respectable j Consul General, one who shall make the name American honorable in this land, not despised as it is to-day in the chief towns of Egypt, through the misconduct of Col. George H. Butler, our present Consul General. It would make this letter too long to tell you in detail how he has ac complished so much in one year; but you can afford to read a few of the items. It may not be amiss to state to you that when he first came he was polite euough to the members of the mission ; that I with oth ers was iuvited to his Fourth of July re ception, was pleased with it, and wrote a favorable account of it to one of our church papers. So favorable was the impression he produced at first, that when we heard of scandals connected with his office we took for granted he was imposed upon by men whose language he did not under stand, and that the only thing necessary to secure a reform was to inform him of the abuses. Very shortly after Mr. Butler’s advent in Egypt the consular agents in the vari ous towns received notices informing them that tlieir offices had expired with that of the Consul General by whom they were appointed. As their official position se cured them certain rank and privileges, and j "caused them to be heartily envied by their less fortunato neighbors, they were panic struck, and several of them hastened to Alexandria to beg a renewal of their ap pointments. Coming here, they were not able to converse with him without an in terpreter, and generally they had little op portunity to converse with him at all.— They were met in the office by an Arad named Hassan and a wandering Jew nam ed Strologo. The former, who speaks sev eral languages, told them that the latter was Mr. Butler’s confidential agent; that he had bought the Consulate General for Mr. Butler in America, and would now attend to retailing the agencies in Egypt. The retail prices ranged from 8500 to 81,- 500; and they were told that on the pay ment of these sums to Mr. Strologo he would give them a receipt, which they could exchange within two days for a proper ceitificate of office. These things were reported to Colonel Butler in a letter signed by every male member of the mis sion then in Egypt. I was the bearer of the letter. He gave it respectful atten tion, and soon after pleased us by setting Mr. Stologo aside. He assured us be was ready to appoint men recommended by the missionaries, and that money spent in bribes wouldj’oe wasted. After this, mem bers of the mission went again and again with men in whose appointment they felt a friendly interest; but all action was de layed on some frivolous pretext, till they made up their minds to the swindle dicta ted by Mr. Strologo. ' Then the applicant went, with an Arab ; interpreter only, and finished business at - one sitting. Ouly a few weeks ago, ac cording to a paragraph I saw in the local papers, Mr. Felix Walhas, a worthy old man, a gentleman and a scholar, was set out of the Vice Consulate in Cairo, and his successor is this infamous A. D. Stro logo. Persons pretty well informed ho- ! lieve Iliac the only consular agent w ho got 1 his place without paying a specific price is ! a man in Tanta, who earned his appoint ment by entertaining the Consul General in a day’s drunken revel. When was in Egypt a short time since, he aDd Butler and Strologo visited the upper country and several towns of the Delta to gether. To secure proper consideration for such worthy companions, letters were ! sent telling the agents to prepare for the reception of “distinguished American of ficials;” and the deluded Egyptians thought that in the person of they were entertaining one of the highest diguitaries of the Great Republic. And such enter tainment! At Tanta the striking feature was a company of dancing women perform' iug in puris vaturalibus. At Maosoora they asked for dancing women, but neith er the Consular Agent nor the chief of po lice would procure them. They met with a similar refusal from Wasif al Khayyat, the agent in Osioot, on whom they called Sabbath evening. But they were not to be defeated, and they procured the dam ! sols by means of their own interpreter, 1 Mr. Lane, who 3peut some years study-, iug the language and customs of the mod ern Egyptians, and whose book is a world wide authority, says these dancing women are the lowest courtesans of Egypt. Our “distingushed American Official” had, perhaps, not read Mr. Lane’s testimony, or had doubts of its accuracy. At any rate they escorted the trail females to their homes, where they probably found suffi cient light on the subject. This affair is notorious among the natives throughout Ifigypt, and it is commonly said the dan cers have not enjoyed such patronage since a royal rake went up the river two years ago. The distinguishing feature thus far of Mr. Butler’s official course has been his prosccu'ion of wliat is known as the “Kin dincco case,” in which n Greek, named Kindineco, claims from the Egyptian Gov ernment theytttormous sum of 813,000,- 000. How he dares to prosecute it at all is a mystery to us, who know that the total ! rottenness of the claim was exposed to the | State Department by the late Consul Gen eral, Mr. Hale. The sham citizenship of the plaintiff was procured after the com plaint began, and for the purpose of its prosecution. With a full knowledge of i the facts, Mr. Butler urges the case, and makes American citizenship odious in | Egypt. I could write you more, but my , time is short, and this is euough, at least, for the present. Yours truly, David Strang. Alexandria, Egypt, May 5, 1871. The Valandigham Tragedy—How the Fatal Shot Came to be Fired. Mr. Vallandigham had been engaged ; for ten days in preparing for the defence j of one McGehen, charged with the mur- ! i dcr of Meyers, at Hamilton, Ohio, some weeks ago. He had gone to Lebauon to attend the trial, and his wife had been summoned to attend the funeral of her brother at Cumberland in Maryland—-the Hon. John V. L. MacMahou, a lawyer of that State. A Lebanon correspondent of the Cincin nati Enquirer furnishes that paper with the following details of the terrible acci dent which resulted in his death : After taking supper, he procured from j the landlord of the hotel a bit of white muslin cloth perhaps a foot square, for the j purpose of testing to his own satisfaction j the question as to whether a shot fired from a pistol in close proximity to it would not leave a mark of powder upon it. Hav ing provided himself with this, aud put his pistol in his pocket, he and Mr. Mili ken and Mr. Hume went out together to the south edge of town, beyond the resi dence of Governor Mcßurney. Arriving there, they were joined by Dir. MclMr ney, aud the trio become a quartette. TIIE PrSTOL which he took with him for this purpose is a new revolver which ho had purchased only a few days before coming to Lebanon. It is one of Smith & Wesson’s manufac ture, with a fourinch barrel, aud five cham bers, and carries a ball of 32-100 of an iuch caliber. HOW THE ACCIDENT CAME ABOUT. Two shots were fired into the cloth, and all were satisfied with the result of the experiment, and started back to the hotel Mr. Milliken, ever cautious and thought ful, said: “ Val., there are three shots in your pis- : tol yet. You had better discharge them.” • “Wliat for?” responded Mr. Valland igham. “To prevent any accident,” replied the cautious attorney. “ You might shoot j yourself.” “No danger of that,” replied Mr. Val-i landigham, “I have carried and practiced with pistols too long to be afraid to have a loaded one in my pocket.” “ You had batter be careful, though,” said Mr. Miliken. “ Never fear me,” was the reply. They then slowly walked back toward the town, and, before they bad reached the hotel, separated. Arriving at the Lebanon House alone, j | Mr. Vallandigham was stopped on his way j j up stairs by the landlord, aud a package j j that had been left for him in his absence | ■ placed iu his hands. That parcel con- . | taiued another revolver —a weapon that j had been exhibited at the trial in court, j and was not only unloaded, but had the | chambers removed. Proceeding to his j room, he unrapped the parcel, and at the same time taking his own weapon from j his pocket, laid the two murderous instru- j ments on the table, side by side. A moment later, Mr. Scott Symmes, a young lawyer who has beeD connected with the prosecution of the case, passed the door. “ Symmes,” said he, “ Follett is mistak en. A man could easily shoot himself as Myers was shot. Come in and I will show how it is done.” Thus invited, Symmes entered the room, but a moment later, seeing Judge Pope coming up stairs, excused himscif on the ground that he was going to Hamilton in the morning, and wished to see the Judge before he left. He passed out and a min ute or so afterward Mr. Mcßurney came into the room. Mr. Vallandigham, still; standing by the table on which the pistols j i laj, said; [ NO. 44. '!, .“ 1 shuw y° u how Tom Myers shot - j himself. Follett’s mistaken when ho savs i| it can’t bo done.” Saying this, ho took r up one of the murderous instruments in , his hands, put it into his pantaloons, pock > et , and slowly drawing it out again, cocfe ’ iug it as he drew it forth, he attempted to place it in the exact position which he be lieved Myer’s weapon to have assumed at 1 the moment the fatal bullet was sped on • its mission of death. The muzzle of the weapon still within the lappel of the pock -1 at, he brought it to an angle of about for ty-five degrees. j “There, that’s the way Myers held it, j only he was getting up, not standing erect.” Saying this, lie touched the trig ! s cr - A sudden flash—the half suppressed sound of a shot—and Clement 1,. Vallan digha.n, with an expression of agonv, ex claimed : “My God, I’ve shot myself,” and reeled toward the wall, a wounded anti dying man—wouuded and dying by his own hand. De-Koi-um in the louisana House. | _ A Senegambian “Legislator” in the Lous. , iana fLm of Representatives was called , to order for what the Speaker was pleased ito term a breach of decorum. The Sen egambian. who had been listening to a speech by a Congo member, on the close of said speech classsicali'y observed, “Dat dar oigga is a dam liar, an’ I’ll f'row my boot down his front if he opens his collu doah on me again. To this Chesterfieldian outburst the j Speaker responded with his mallet, called i order, and ventured to declare “the gen tleuiau guilty of a breach of decorum.” “llr—br—breach ob de who—who, sah? breach ob de iVlio?” “ Rreach of decorum, sir.” “Dor’s no korum heah at all, sah IV'e I a qualified memba atilt, a settin’ hcah for itodo do business ob my constitumus; art’ I if dat dam nigga fochcs his lies to diet | 'sernbly, I’ll frow a number sebeutecn boot into dat trap-duah ob his sah.” After the indignant gentleman had thus given expression to his sentiments, the j other gentleman subsided, and the august j essombly of lawmakers for the State of | Louisiana went on with their important i business. A llap at Corner Loafers.—Ad exchange “goes for” corner loafers in the following: That young squirt on the corner, with his hat a little on one side, the stump of a cheap cigar in his mouth, and a stave for every young lady that passes—is a loafer. Do you knotv where he gets his money ? His mother earns it foi him by taking in washing. Poor soul ! She thinks her boy will get work soon. lie could find work enough to keep him busy fifteeu hours a day, if he wanted it. If he gets a place he shirks or docs his woik so very poorly that he is soon discharged. He □ever works for the same man twice. Os j perhaps he is particular as to what kind lof work lie does. lie is willing that his mother or sister should sew or wash tcf earn money for him to spend, but he is a little particular, he is, what work he does with his hands. He looks down on that sweaty curpenter who hurries by him, and ! nods condescendingly at his friend the j shoemaker, and sends a whiff of smoke iu ; to the eyes of the bedaubed painter, with I both hands full of pots and brushes. Ho couldn’t borrow ten cents of any of them, j They know that he would never pay them j They earn their money. He begs his o£ I his mother. A stylish boy, isn't he? Secret of Happiness An Italian bishop who had struggled through many difficulties without repining* and beeu much opposed without manifest ing impatience, being asked by a friend trt | communicate the secret of his being al j ways happy, replied : “It consists iu one i thing, and that is making a right use |of inv eyes.” His friend in surprise begged him to explain his meaning.— | “ Most willingly,” replied the bishop.--- j “Iu whatsoever state I am, I first of all I look up to Heaven, aud remember that ! my great business is to get there; I look ! down upon earth and call to mind how I small a space I shall soon fill in it; I then look abroad in the world, and see what multitudes are iu all respects less happy than myself; aud then I learu where ail my cares must end, and how little reason I ever had to murmur, or to ho otherwise than thankful. And to live in this spirit is to be always happy.” A physician of great note has said, “ To bacco has a tendency to soften and weak en the bones of young people; it greatly injures the brain and spinal marrow, and, in fact, the whole nerveous fluid. A boy who smokes frequently, or in any way uses tobacco constantly is never known to make a man of much energy, aud generally lacks muscular as well as mental power. Ministers are said to be, on the average, the longest lived men. There are thirty thousand women aud girls in New Aork who earn their living , in the stores and manufactories of the city,