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THE MONROE ATItERMER;
GEORGE A. KING & CO.,]
VOL. XVII.
2lit gloom Q&vcxtmx.
FORSYTH, TUESDAY, FEB. 11, 1873.
Mks. L. A. Johnston Las been appointed Post
M l*tre at Griflln.
Tub Kingston (Gm.) flooring mills were burned
on the night of the 4th.
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On the Ist !u#t. the lower House of Congress
passed a bill removing the disabilities of Cos!.
Hardeman.
Tub Quitman Banker cays Dr. Briggs, the
President ol the Quitman Factory Company, la
shipping large quantities of yarns to Savannah and
other cities. That’s business !
Till Atlanta and Great Western Railroad
Company has reduced Its fare from Cincinnati to
New York and return to 914. Ihe distance is
between five and six hundred miles.
Dblboatks from eighiy-Uve counties, to the
number of about two hundred and fifty, will at
tend the Utate Agricultural Convention, which
asm rubles at Augusta to-day.
On account of prevalent sickness In Mr con th
Wesleyan Female College has declared a two
weeks' holiday, and a greut many ot the students
left for their homes.
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Tub Indian Spring hotel—Varner property—ls
advertised tor sale on Saturday next, by Hon. R.
P. Trlppe and Jas. 8. Boynton, Commissioners.
This property is conveniently located to the
Bpring, and valuable.
Tub Enquirer says: Col. Washington Poe, of
Macon,.hat bought the plantation of Mr. J. R.
Banks, ten miles from Columbus, on the South
western Railroad, consisting of 1100 acres, and
he will probably remove there duriug the com
ing summer.
The Sun learns that a move is on foot to build
a freight track around the city from the Georgia
road to the Macon & Western. This is a grand
idea and will be hailed with joy by those who
have so frequently to wait at the crossing at
Whitehall street for long freight trains to pass.
Tub Savannah Sabre Club has disbanded for the
reason that uearly every member thereot belongs
to some of the recently organized military com
panies of that city, and could not attend to the
duties of both. The handsome prizes won by the
club, together with its archives, pictures, etc.,
have been turned over to the keeping of Mrs.
Gen. R. H. Anderson, wife of the captain of the
club.
Tub Athens Georgian states that the State Uni
versity opened this year with about two hundred
and fifty students in the two departments, and the
number la daily increasing. The prospect is flat
tering for a large attendance. This is as it should
be. The Professors cannot be surpassed for high
literary attainments, the citizens of the place tor
morality and honorable characters, and the city
for its health and fine salubrious climate. The
discipline of the college is what it should be.
Instbab of inviting their lady acquaintances to
go “coasting,” in Canada, the young men ask the
young gitls to go “ tobogganing.” The tobog
gan, in its highest development, is six or 6even
feet long and twenty inches wide. It is made of
light, tongh, wood, perhaps three eighths of an
inch in thickness, and furnished with cushions,
while paint, gilding, a lamp or a string of bells
are added, according to the owner’s taste. In this
kind of a sleigh young gentlemen and young la
dies go coasting down the steep hill sides.
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Tni bill for the erection of a public building in
the city of Atlanta, as amended by the U. 8. Ben
ate, appropriate# the sum of one hundred and ten
thousand dollars for ihe purpose. This appropri
ation, however, is made upon condition that the
city Rives a valid title to a lot of land sufficient
tor this purpose, and that this donated site be
Independent and unexpo#ed from the danger of
lire from any adjacent buildings. This site more
over, is to be exempt from taxation by the city or
State government.
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Fhom the Constitution we learn that on the
morning of the 4th inst., Mrs. Montgomery, wife
of Judge W. W. Montgomery, of the Supreme
Court, boarding at the Kimball House, met with
a serious accident. Mrs. Montgomery went to the
entrance of the elevator, en the first floor, intend
ing to go up to her room, and finding the door
open, presumed that the elevator was there;, un
fortunately such was not the case, and stepping
through she fell some twelve or fifteen feet into
the basemeut on some iron railing, breaking her
collar bone, one rib, one of her wrists, and one
finger.
Jcdoi Rbnsb has Introduced a bill in the Sen
ate to enable the Governor ot the State of Georgia
to purchase, tor the State, the Macon & Bruns
wick Railroad and the appurtenances, rolling stock
and fixtures, to protect said State in tfce event
that the same fall into the control and possession
of the authorities of the said State on account of
non-payment ot the interest accruing on indorsed
bonds of said railroad. A correspondent of the
Telegraph A Messenger says: It is understood
that the Governor and Judge Reese have had the
subject under consulUtion for some time, and
doubtless the bill is indorsed by Governor Smith,
whe is probably taking precaution to secure the
State from loss in the eveht the road and its assets
and eflects revert to the State.
Tub Dair and Dumb Astlum— The Trustees
of ibis benevolent State Institution, report the
operations of last year as having been successful.
The pupils number sixty-one. The cost of the
institution was $14,649 70 in 1573. Some money
la asked for drainage and water.
There are 16,305, deaf mutes In the United
States, or one to 2.500 people. Georgia, accord
ing to this ratio, should have 533, of which 350
should be at the Asylum, whereas only 61 attend.
The object of this asylum is to make deaf mutes
self-eupporUng by educating them to practical
labor. The course takes six years, and in this
time they can be learned to carry on conversation
by writing, transact ordinary business, read sim
ple books and newspaper articles, and know
something of arithmetic, geography and history.
Th Albany News speaks hopefully of the plant
ing outlook is that section, and says that not
withstanding the short crops of last year, and the
ruinous system of borrowing and provisioning o i
time, and high rates of interest and exorbitant
Profits on bacon and corn, the planters of Dough
erty are commencing the work of 1573 under bet
ter auspices and better prospects than any year
since the war. There is no scarcity of labor, and
it has been hired upon reasonable terms. The
last year’s crop was gathered and gotten out of
the way before the close of the year, and there was
no hindrance to early preparations for this year’s
crop. Froprletc re have learned the lesson, by
sad experience, that planting cannot be made suc
cessful with free labor, by proxy, and have re
solved to give their personal attention to the bus
iness. Many who have heretofore spent their
time hnndreds of miles away from their planta
tions, and relied upon managers for good crops
and profitable results, have discovered their mis
take, and era now directing their own afiaira.
The Xew Georgia L>aw Makers.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, writing on the 3lst nit., furnishes
his estimate of a certain class of Georgia law ma
ker#. Its publication in a Radical paper is rather
singular, but its truthfulness is beyond question;
and the people on either side of Mason & Dixon’s
line can be enlightened by perusing the letter.
A sudden change in the weather, amounting
to about fifty degrees in thirty hours, and a small
coal grate, no larger than a man’s hat, and not of
much more warmth, caused your correspondent
to change his quartern the other night and estab
lish himself in a warmer latitude.
Returning from Stephens’ speech I was shown
my room in the third Btory of an imposing brick.
It was large, with a cheerful fire at one end and
two beds at the other. A short but black negro,
under a ping hat and wrapped in a heavy cloak,
stood before the fire. The servant of some guest
—statesman, who occupies one of these beds, 1
thought—an ex-slave who still clings to his oid
master. _
“Whose room is this?” I asked o! the negro.
“ Senator Blank slays here, Bah.”
“ Are you his servant ?”
“ No, sab ; I'se a member ot the Legisiatur.”
“Oh, indeed 1”
“ Yes, sih, and I came here to meet the Senator
to talk and cousuit about this here election that’s
coming on.’’
“The Senatorial election t”
“Yes, sab; that business is getting red hot,”
and the legislator laughed a silvery laugh.
“ Is the Senator you spoke of a Republican ?”
“ Yes, sab ; we are both from down on the
coast, where all the Republicans come from that’s
elected?"
“ What's the matter that so few of you are iu
the Legislature ?”
“ Well, sah, the white men have got the money
and the braius, and they just fix up party business
to auit themselves. Our party is about played
out in this State. Every election we get less. A
heap of the darkie6 are getting to vote the Demo
cratic ticket as a regular thing. I know one
county down on the coast where seventeen hun
dred darkies voted the straight-out Democratic
ticket.”
“ Why didn’t you work with them?”
“ Oh, I did; I made a heap of speeches, but it
’pears like it did no good. Them niggers down
there have got a big Democratic devil iu ’em. You
had just as well Calk to stumps. They have
soured on our party. A Democrat can take a bale
of cotton and vote a hundred.
I laughed.
“ It’s a fact, sah; a burnin’ and a shameful fact,
as I tell ’em It’s a disgracement to the reason
of mankind. I tell yon I went for ’em in my
speeches. But a heap of times they would only
laugh and tell me to come down and give ’em a
chew ol tobacco Why, they mighty nigh beat
Col. Whitely for Congress. Colonel Whitely is
one of the greatest men that walks on this yere
country. The fool niggers voted the Democratic
ticket so much that we only elected our man by
fifty votes. We worked every day and night. I
made fifty speeches. We spent all onr money,
Cos). Whitely put in the last cent—the last cent,
sab. One day I went to his house for money to
bring out the darkies. His wife kept the money.
‘ Wile,’ said he, ‘give Jim some money.’ ‘ There
ain’t but twenty dollars in the house,’ she says.
‘Give it to him,’ he says: * I am going to spend
the last cent,’ and he did, but we only missed be
ing beat by a mighty little. Next time they will
set him. I will tell you, sah, some of these days
the Democrats will have every bit of this State
under themselves just as they want it.”
I was about to obseivc to the despondent col
ored brother that they had it now, when the door
opened and the Senator—a tall, epare white man—
cuine in. We introduced our selves and chose
beds. “ This is Jim,” he said, turning to the
negro. “ He’s a member, and has come up to
help us whip the d—d Democrats.”
As there are about six Democrats in the Legis
lature to one Republican it looks as though the
whipping out process might be good exercise.
"Jim,” he continued, “do you know all the
black members ?”
“ Yes, sah.”
“ Well, you stir round and get them into the
caucus Monday night. We must act together. I
don’t 6ee how we can vote for Stephens, Goidon,
or Hill. If the thing gets close we may hold the
balance ot power.”
“Yes, sah.”
“Do you know what that is ?”
•’No, sah.”
“That means if the vote is close between two
Democrats we will all vote for one or the other,
and elect him.”
“Yes, sah.”
“Which one of the three, Jim, can we swallow
the best ?”
“Some says Stephens.”
“No, Jim; I’ll be d —d if we can go for Steph
ens. Do you know Stephen’s record ?”
“No, sah.”
“Well, he’s an old Democratic sinner. I’d
just as soon send Jeff. Davis to the United Stales
Senate as him. I tell you, Jim, our chance is
Hill. We can’t possibly go for Gordon or Steph
ens. You put up the boys on this. We can’t
help ourselves in this fight, and we mu6t do all
we can to hurt the Democrats. Jim, how did
you leave business at home?”
“Pretty fair, sah.”
“Glad of it. I tell you, if we can bother the
Democrats it will pay us to stay here all the
spring. The boys will plant our corn and cotton,
and it they don’t it may go to thunder. Onr bus
iness is right here to worry the Democrats. Jim,
did you know the Democrats had ruined this
country once?
“Yes, sah.”
“And they’ll do it again. They would send the
devil to the Senate it he could serve. But they
can’t get him, so they will try to send old Alex.
I know Alex, mighty well. Did rever tell you,
Jim, about what old Alex, did in the Secession
Convention ?”
“The which, sah ?”
“The Secession Convention that took the State
out ot the Union?”
“No, sah.”
“Well, they held secret secession, Old Alex,
was in there. I gave the doorkeeper a dollar to
let me open the door half an inch. You can buy
a heap of people for a dollar, Jim, and a d—d
sight of them for ten dollars.”
“Yes, eah."
“Well, as I was saying. Old Alex, was speak
ing. Says he: ‘Mr. President, lam opposed to
the policy of secession, but if it has to come, let
it be done before vonder sun sinks in the west. I
am a Georgian, and will stand by Georgia to the
bitter eDd.” You see, Jim, he thought more of
this one horse State than he did of the whole
country. That’s why we can’t vote for him. No
matter what comes, Jim, we mustn’t allow a sin
gle Republican vote to go for Stephens.”
“ No, eah.”
“We will throw away our votes on Akerman
first.”
“Yes, sab.”
“ Bnt I think we had better vote for Hill if we
can beat Stephens or Gordon with him, don’t
yon ?”
“ Yes, sah.”
“ Now, Jim, yon may go, bnt mind that you
don't talk too much.”
“Yes, sah;” and the honorable colored mem
ber folded hla martial cloak around him and with
drew, a:id I went to sleep to dream of strange
Georgia scenes.
Lunatic Astlum Committee.— The Joint Leg
islative Committee on the Lunatic Asylam spent
two days ot last week in our city (says the Mil
ledgeviile Federal Union of the sth,) on the accns
tomed visit of inspection to that institution.
Among them we met with great pleasure our for
mer fellow citizen, Hon. W. A. Harris, of the
Senate, and eur worthy representative, Hon. W.
W. Williamson; also, Hon. John W. Hudson, of
the Senate, (from Putugm) and Hon. W. F. Jen
kins, representative of the same county. We
doubt not the gentlemen of the committee have
discharged their duty faithfully; and we doubt not
their report will be equally honorable to them
selves and creditable to the excellent institution
which they visited. *
Millbdgbvillb has been suffering from menin
gitis. The last Union and Recorder fays: We
mentioned in our last issue that Joel Walker, son
of Samuel Walker, died on Monday night of last
week, of meningitis contracted at Mercer College.
On Wednesday, Alice Dillard, a niece of Mrs.
Walker, a lovely girl of about twelve years of age,
died ; and on Friday, Mrs. Walker also died of the
same fatal and fearful disease. Thus in one Bhort
week has death claimed three victims in the same
household, leaving only one—Mr. Samuel Waiter
—remaining.
Nebraska having paid out $10,600 in bounties
under the Gofiber law, without realizing enough
extra from her crops to make up the amount,
want* the law repealed.
FORSYTH, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1873.
The Credit Mobilier Plague.
The New York Herald gives as a full report of
the ravages of the Credit Mobilier plague among
the Washington notables. The distinguished dead
are numerous.
The terrible and wide-spread ravages of that
extraordinary dieease culled Credit Mobilier are
alarming the whole nation. The epizootic was as
mild as the measles compared to it. It has already
carried off many most distinguished victims. It
did not come from Canada like the epizootic, nor
from Asia like the cholera, nor from the Weet
Indies like the yeiiow fever. It is believed to have
started somewhere in Pennsylvania, and meeting
with a favorable condition of the atmosphere in
Washington, District of Columbia, stayed there,-
and was developed by reason of the defective aan e
itary arrangements !n the political systems of th ’
capital. Great sympathy is lelt for Massachusetts
so many of her distinguished citizens have been
swept off. The subjoined list of deaths will be
read with painful interest by the public. The no
tices are inserted (contrary to our usual custom)
free of charge :
Ames, Hoax, of Massachusetts, died of Credit
Mobilier (long and lingering illness,) aged sixty
nine.
O lofty worth, whose virtues were unknown;
O shining light, whose glamor was unseen;
Whose latest spaam of godlike work has shown
What men were not, but what they might have
been.
Thou toldst the truth, tho’ hid ’neath many cloaks,
O concentrated essence of a Hoax.
All the stockholders of the Union Pacific Rail
road who received a higher dividend than 750 per
cent, are cordially invited to attend this funeral.
Massachusetts papers please copy.
Alley, John 8., of Massachusetts, died of C. M.
(not cholera morbus—was discovered with the
disease too late for the physic,) aged about a cen
tury.
O’er this sad wrsck let mankind never dally;
Fraud knocked down every ninepin in this Alley.
This is nobody's funeral.
Allison, John 8., of lowa, died of C. M. (an
overdose of dividend hastened his departure) aged
fifty years.
Long dead to us, sweet Allison,
The Hoax thou could’st not rally ;
If so soon done, why wer’t begun,
Thou fragrant son of Alley ?
Remains will be embalmed.
Bingham., John A., of Ohio, died of C. M. (sup
posed to have caught the fatal infection from
Dawes) agad sixty-two years.
Moan for him, welnin, he’ll wake yon no more
With shouts against theft, Buckeye Bingham,
The death-bells shall boom how he garnered his
store,
And gentle Ben Butler will ring ’em.
Announcement of the funeral hereafter.
Ohio paper3 please copy.
Brooks, Jim., of New York, died of C. M. (pro
testing to the last that he was well in health; no
remedies were administered;) aged sixty-two.
He chattered, chattered, as he went,
To join the great Salt River;
Hoax might threat or Hoax relent,
But he’d deny forever,
’Mong well-filled “ banks ” his way he picked
With watered “Credits” ever,
McComb might “ dam,” McComb convict,
Jim Brooks dealed forever.
His funeral will have no political significance.
Colfax, Bmiler, of ludiana, died of C. M. (the
agonies of this poor victim were intense; to the
last he insisted that it was something else besides
Credit Mobilier); aged forty-two.
A beautiful smiler came in our midst,
Too lively and fair to remain;
They stretched him on racks till the eoul of Coifax
Flapped into Heaven again,
May the fate of poor Schuyler warn men of a smiler,
Who dividends gets on the brain!
Indiana papers please copy.
Dawes, Henry L., of Massachusetts, died of C.
M. (he had the reputation of having |a powerful
constitution, but it was evidently a delusion),
aged fifty-seven.
Retrencher! Leader! Thou has left us,
Plymouth Rock thy loss will feel;
For a pottage-mess bereft us,
Old Honesty is ausgeyneU.
Funeral strictly private. No wake.
Garfield, James A., of Ohio, died of C. M. (strug
gled hard against tho dreadful epidemic, hut, it
was no use. He caved in unexpectedly), aged
only forty-two.
Here rests his head upon its lap of earth,
A youth to fortune and misfortune known ;
Mobilier frowned upon his bumble birth.
And Hoax Ames henceforth marked him for his
own.
Will be buried at Congressional Cemetery,
Washington, D. C. No Cards.
Kelley, William D., of Pennsylvania, died of
C. M. (too much iron in his blood and too little
protection of himself made him an easy victim to
the fell destroyer), aged sixty.
Weep not “pig iron,” ptblic dear,
He is not dead, tho’ sleeping here ;
His thunder’s hushed, his eye is dim,
Mobilier put a head on him.
His remains will be “ protected ” in a metalic
casket. A oae-horse funeral announced hereaf
ter.
Patterson, James W., of New Hampshire, died
of C. M. (his sufferings drew tears from his
friends; he persisted to the end in supposing it
was a different complaint) ; aged fifty years.
Peaceful be Uriah’s slumber,
Heep ed he is in burial low;
Thirty shares his coffin cumber,
How it is yourself you know.
Mourning by Senators for thirty days. A gran
ite sarcophagus will inclose the mummy.
Schofield, Glenni W., of Pennsylvania, died of
C. M. (passed off quietly), aged fifty-three.
Hoax Ames, the Ancient Mariner,
Btopped Navy Schofield bland,
He held him with his glittering eye
And with his skinny hand,
Then Schofield did a hellish thiDg
And it did work him wo,
His ten shares clipped him on the wing,
And laid the Quaker low.
Pennsylvania papers please copy. Funeral at an
early day. Music by the baud: “Down in a coal
mine.”
Wilson, Henry, of Massachusetts, died of C. M.
(great hopes were entertained of his recovery),
aged sixty-one.
His sinninga sore long time he bore.
Like martyr on the rock,
Till bad Hoax Ames, oi sinful games,
Had eased him of his stock.
His “ sole’’ had ne’er unto the void been cast
Had he “ waxed” firm and stuck unto bis “ last.”
Natick (Mass.) papers please copy. Memorial
services at Faneuii Hall. No Irish need apply.
Wilson, Jesse E , of lowa, died of C. M. (aston
ishing everybody, he had hitherto enjoyed such
excellent health); aged forty-five.
Tears, idle tears, he knew not what they meant,
But counted them three dollars tor a share ;
They blotted out a life we thought well spent—
Ah! was his sweetness nothing but a snare?
Rev. Dr. Newman will conduct the services and
preach the panegyric from, the campaign notes.
Free list entirely suspended.
Baldwin county takes the banner. The Union
and Recorder says: W. J. Myrick, a planter re
siding in this neighborhood, raised on his farm
last year, with one mule, twenty-one bides of cot
ton, twenty of which were sold by J. & W. A.
Beall & Cos., of New York, at 21>£ eta.—producing
the sum of $5,135 37. Here’s a one-mule crop of
old Baldwin.
Commodore Maury died at Lexington, V irgiu
ja, 10 o'clock Saturday, February Ist. He was a
true Southern man ; as a scientist, his fame was
widespread throughout the civilized world.
Whbn the sheriff at Helena, Aikansas, has a
warrant for a desperado, he shoots him and then
serves the warrant on the body. That is a safe
ountry for frodmen to locals in.
“In C3-od. we Trust.”
Bright Hours Only.
A lesson iu itseil sublime,
A lesson worth enshrining,
Is this —" 1 take no heed ot time,
Save when the sun is shining,”
These motto words a dial bore,
And wisdom never reaches
To human hearts a better lore
Than this short sentence teaches.
As life is sometimes bright aud lair,
And sometimes dark and lonely,
Let us forget the toil and care,
And note the bright hours only.
There is no grove on earth’s broad chart,
But has some bird to cheer it,
So hope e’er sings in every heart,
Although we may not hear it.
And if to-day the heavy wing
Of sorrow is oppressing,
Perchance to morrow’s sun will bring
The weary heart a blessing.
We bid the joyous moments haste,
And then forget their glitter,
We take the cup of life and taste
No portion but the bitter.
But we should teach our hearts to deem
Its sweetest drops the strongest,
And pleasant hours should ever seem
To linger round us longest.
The darkest shadows of the night
Are just before the morning,
Then let us wait the coming light,
All boding phantoms scorning.
And while we’re passing on the tide
Of Time’s fast ebbing river,
Let’s pluck the blossoms by its side,
And bless the gracious giver.
Mr, Georgs Torrey, a respectable cotton
planter of Mississippi, recently went to England
to induce farm and household servants to come
hither with a view of permanent settlement. In
a letter written at Liverpool on the 6th ult., Mr. T.
informs us that he finds some difficulty in procur
ing emigrants of the proper kind in England, but
thinks they may be obtained in any number from
Alsace and Lorraine. The cost of passage from
these last mentioned places to Liverpool would
be about eleven dollars, and from Liverpool to
New Orleans thirty-five dollars. Colonel Torrey’s
letter is accompanied by one from J. L. Fiuegan,
Esq , who is fully endorsed by Father Nugent, of
Liverpool. Mr. Fiuegan speaks in high terms of
the people of Alsace and Lorraine. He says:
“They are remarkable for their sobriety and in
dustry, and are indeed the best agricultural labor
ers to be found in France.” He adds : “ Having
lived in France for many years, and having only
recently returned from France, I could easily
open official communication either iu person or
by letter, whereby you could obtain one hundred
(or more, if requisite) of these people, who would
only be too glad to emigrate to Louisiana. I may
tell you that, for the most part, these Alsatians
and Lorrainers aro Catholics, and could readily
adapt themselves to the customs and manners of a
free country,” etc.
Rejoicing. — l’he Baltimore Mirror has this to
say about the movement, on foot to send Mr.
Stephens to Congress:
Alexander H. Stephens is coming back to Con
gress. It is the field of his glory. For sixteen
years he sat in that ouee grand body of American
leaders. For ten years at least, he was its master
spirit. Pure as Aristides he returns to the cotni
tium, but what a change in public morals since
his voluntary withdrawal nearly fifteen years ago.
The false gods have enshrined themselves in the
higi places, and great is tfummon in the Capitol.
Gordon is no doubt. I woivv,v man but,Stephen?,
vieorgia’a greatest eoiiTitvTng or dead, tho states
man of forty years service, the political philoso-
Eher, who alone of all our public men at this day,
as proved himself able to grapple with the pure
principles of political science, deserved better of
the State, in whose service he has labored so well,
than the second place in the Senatorial ballot.
When Bristol rejected Burke, Malton enjoyed the
privilege of bis service. “ That humble borough,”
says Adolphus in his History of England, “ gained
by such a member an honor which the greatest
commercial city might reasonably envy.” By
naming Mr. Stephens lor Congress Georgia has
redeemed herself from the sin of ingratitude. His
nomination of course implies his election. After
all it is meet that the eloquent Commoner should
re-appear in the popular branch of the govern
ment where he first won his enduriug triumphs.
After the battle of Actium political eloquence
slumbered for a thousand years. Postquam j>ugna
tum cst apnd Actium magnet Ula ingenia ccssere. At
this day the decline is not so lengthy. The at
tendants on Congress alter fifteen years of sever
ance, are about to see and hear their old favorite
again.
The Accident at the Kimball House.— The
Atlanta Herald of the 4th, after Investigation,
gives an account of the accident to Mrs. Mont
gomery, and the cause. It says:
About eleven o’clock, yesterday morning, the
elevator made its morning ascent, and the colored
man in control, after turning off the steam and
securely fastening the door, left the house. Ev
erything, he asserts, was left in order, and there
was ao cause for any mishap. About noon one of
the minstrels registered at the Kimball House was
taken suddenly ill on the street, and was brought
to the Kimball by his friends. Entering the side
door hurriedly, they rushed up to the door of the
elevator, and finding it closed, jerked it open and
placed the sick man in the Beat. Immediately
taking hold of the rope, they endeavored to make
the elevator ascend, but the engine being without
steam, they did not succeed, however, they left
the valve open, and the elevator in a condition
to raise as soon as steam was supplied. Finding
that they could not reach the up-stairs in this
way, they left tho elevator, opening wide the door,
and proceeded up the stairway. About the dinner
hour the engineer, as usual, put the engine in op
eration and supplied the elevator with steam. At
once it rose to the filth story, without the knowl
edge of the managers of the house. As there was
no call for the elevator, and no occasion to visit
it, the managers were unaware that the door was
open, and under the circumstances it was but a
trap-door to a pit eight or nine feet deep.
Unfortunately the door remained open until
dark, at which time Mrs. Judge Montgomery re
turned to the hotel, after takiDg her evening walk.
Being in the haoit of reaching the up-staira in the
elevator, and surpecting no danger, she op
proached the door and stepped into the empty
space. Before she could regain her balance she
was precipitated to the bottom.
Our New*Senator. —The Atlanta correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Commercial—H. V. Redfield
—writes that paper:the following description of
Senator John B. Gordon :
General Gordon has nothing of the Stephens in
bis composition. He is as different as white is
from black. He is young, |ardent, stout, elo
quent, full of nerve, energy, vim and push; a
brilliant orator, dashing military officer, and a
man who never knew fear. In the Southern army
he won the title of the bravest of the brave. He
is forty years old, well built, about medium
height, and slender, and would be handsome if a
piece of bombshell had not made an ugly gash in
his cheek. He was in all the battles he cou Id by any
possibility get into, and bears scars all over his
body. This gives him strength among the colo
nels, captains, and lieutenants who make up a
good portion of the Georgia Legislature. They
remember their “comrade in arms.” Camp fire
and hard-tack ties are not severed in seven years.
The Savannah Advertiser has this paragraph in
one of its Atlanta letters:
Tha State road plunderers Lave been compelled
to disgorge.' Varney Gaskill emptied bis pocket-
Dook of $9,000 and took a quit claim title to the
penitentiary a few days since. Hoyt is out on
bond. Fatty Harris still lords the muddy streets
of Atlanta, and Whitaker has become an object of
charity and commiseration. The weather con
tinues as bad as possible. Trains come in on every
road sheeted with ice. The Atlantese indignantly
deny any imputation upon the health of their vil
lage, but we have the most undoubted authority
for the statement that meningetis does prevail
here. There was a case here last night, and there
were several deaths from the disease at the Ci
ver*Ue d' Afrique last week.
Thh City Committee on Claims in Boston have
come to the conclusion that the city is legally lia
ble for the destruction of property hy the blow
ing down of buildings during the great fire, the
matter coming strictly within the range of the
statute Igw, and not subject to the application
of the common law. This is a just ruling that
afcoald always obtain.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE MONROE FEMALE COLLEGE,
Forsyth, GJ-a.
rniiE SPRING TERM will open WEDNESDAY
1 JANUARY 33d, 1573.
FACULTY.
K. T. Asbuut, A. M. Pres. I Mrs. M. A. Turner.
Kkv. S. G. Hilltkr, D. D , Miss Eugenia Amos.
Prof. H. Bbcutkr. | Miss L. Hillyxr.
Miss Kate Millrdgb. j Mrs. C. C. Morhall.
REMARKS:
The success of the Institution for the past year
has been encouraging and gratifying to its friends.
Its patronage has steadily and constantly increased.
Discipline has been firmly hut gently maintained.
Most of the old students will return, and an un
usual number of applicants have applied lor the
present year.
Expenses ••
Board and Tuition, Spring Term, 6 Months, 1189 20
Board and Tuition, Fall Term 4 Months.... 96 80
j. ayment lor each Term required iu advance.
For further particulars apply to
n „ I Q T R A T - ASBURY, Pres. Fac.
Dr. J. 8. Lawton, Pres. Board Trustees.
jan7.ly
HILLIARD
MALE INSTITUTE,
-E'orsyth, C3-a.
THIS SCHOOL offers facilities for ftcqrtlrlotr I
thorough
mm II CLASSICAL DICITIOI.
The Principal Rev. THOMAS G. SCOTT, and
the Assistant, ROBERT G. ANDERSON, have
both taught successfully in Forsyth and its vicini
ty for the last twelve or fifteen years.
JSf”The Exercises will be resumed MONDAY,
JANUARY lorn, 1873.
J-3?” Good board in the village on reasonable
terms. Rates of tuition 93.00, 94.00, 95,00, per
Scholastic month.
23?" Tuition payable in advance.
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Mix cto mrtland
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Wholesale aud Retail Dealer*
BOOTS MB SNOBS,
3 COTTON AVENUE 3
AND
6© Third Street.
MACON, GA.
WOULD inform their friends and all in want
of Boots and Shoes of any kind, that they
have on hand one of the largest and best assort
ments to be found in this State.
They cordially invite their numerous old cus
tomers and all others in want of anything in their
line, usually kept in a First-Class Store, to
Call and Examine.
They pledge themselves to sell at the LOWEST
POSSIBLE PRlCES—either at their Old Btand
No. 3 Cotton Avenue or their New Store, 66 Third
Street, Macon Ga.
Sole Agents for the PATENT EXCEL
SIOR GAITER.
aprl6.ct
THE LATEST & BEST FROM MACON I
ALL the latest styles of Fashionable Hats, of
the Best Quality, at
THOMAS U. CONNOR’S.
A LARGE assortment of Gentlemen’s Under
wear, to fit anybody from a Dwarf to a Giant,
or even an Alderman, at
THOMAS U. CONNOR’S.
DRESS Shirts, Collars and Cuffs, and Silk Neck
Wear, at
THOMAS U. CONNOR’S.
TRUNKS of all styles, Satchels, Valise* and
Umbrellas, at
THOMAS U. CONNOR’S.
Wedding Outfits a Specialty,
THOMAS U. CONNOR’S.
£sjf The Fashionable Place in the City of Macon.
junelLly
THOS. B. CABANISS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
FORSYTH, GA.
WILL practice in the Courts of the Flint Cir
cuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, the
United Btates Court at Savannah—and elsswhers
by contract.
Office— ln the brick building, N. W. corner
public square.
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L. T. WHITCOMB, Agent,
99 Bay St... Successor to J. A. Brown,.. .99 Bay St.
IMPORTBB OP AND DBALBB IN
West India Fruits and Vegetables.
PINE APPLES, Oranges, Apples, Bananas,
Lemons, Potatoes, Nuts of all kinds, Onions,
Etc., Etc.
99 Bay Street, BAVANNAH, GA.
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Globe Hotel,
AUGUBTA, GA.
A. J. S. JACKSON, Proprietor.
ct29.et
A e TO AC) r\ Per Day! Agents Wanted! All
5? J classes of working people of
either sex, young or old, make more money at
work for us in their spare moments, or all the
i me, than at anything else. Particulars tree. Ad
dress G. STINSON & CO., Portland, Maine.
janl4.ly
JOB PRINTING of every description ntatly ex
ecuted at Ths Advbbtiseb oflQce.
POPULAR PRICES!
' ,
r- JOHN A. DANIELLY
n
F RECEIVING A FULL ASSORTMENT OF GOODS IN HIS LINE:
Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Notions, etc., etc,
W A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF Q
jp LADIES’ DRESS GOODS, OF THE LATEST STYLES!
I-H o . 9 allcos * Bleaching, and a full line of DOMESTICS. A great variety of
Caesimeres and Kentucky Jeans, Flannels and Linseys. A large stock ot
tSOSSiS® I
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common, medium and line—for Men, Boys’ and Children’s wear; Blankets, i__
white and colored ; Shawls, of every style and quality; Balmoral, Boulvard
stock bkirts ’ MATS to suit everybody, in quality and style. A large
Boots and Shoes _
o
, T Of the LATEST STYLES and BEST QUALITY; Trunks, NOTIONS,
pH (this department is very full,) Umbrellas, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Hand
,l kerchiefs, Suspenders, etc.; CROCKERY and GLASSWARE, Hardware, /-s
r “] Cutlery and Tobacco.
h“i
rv . T 0 MY FRIENDS AND THE TRADING PUBLIC:
Thankful for past favors, my friends ane the trading public are invited
to call and inspect my goods. Prices guaranteed as low as any in the market.
anl4 ct JOHN A. DANIELLY.
isaoraj WirTciou”
W. L. LAMPKIN. H q BEAN.
u house
OF
WM. L. LAMPKIN & CO.
FORSYTH, Gr.A
IN
Stocks, Bonds, Gold and Silver Coin, (Jncurrent Money and Exchange
DEPOSITS received ; Commercial paper discounted; Loans made on Stocks, Bonds, or other
first-class Collaterals. ADVANCES MADE ON COTTON in store, or on growing crops and on
shipments of Cotton to any city in the United States.
Certificates of IDeposit
(Bearing Interest) issued. COLLECTIONS made in any i>art of the United States. INVESTMENTS
of any bind effected promptly for our patrons, aud a GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS conducted
in all its details.
Having first-class business connections in all the principal cities of the United States, our facilities
for the prompt transaction of any kind of business in our line are uusurpassed.
We have provided a large Fire-proof Vault for the use of our patrons, where any kind of valuable
papers, silver plate or jewelry may be deposited for safe keeping, free of charge.
Foestth, Ga., December 16th, 1871.
From and after January Ist, Hbnry G. Beau will be a partner in my business, which will thercafer
be conducted under the firm name of Wm. L. Lampkin & Cos.
declO. WM. L. LAMPKIN.
LOOK IRi!} everybody ! {LOOK HBRE!
L. GREENWOOD & BROS.
WISH TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEY HAVE DETERMINED TO SELL OFF THEIR EN
tire stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Notions, etc,,
BELOW COST.
NO MISTAKE. NO HUMBUG.
The Choicest Selection of Gry Goods ever Brought to this Market.
13?“ We invite the attention of our patrons>nd friends to the superior inducements, offered in
this proposed sale of our slock.
0T Call at once at our store room in Pye’s new brick building, and secure the best bargains!
janl4 ct L. GREENWOOD & BROS.
ATLANTA NURSE RIES.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
HARDEN & COLE, Proprietors.
OFFER FOR SALE THIS SEASON a large stock of well grown Trees and Bmall Fruits adapted
to the Southern climate, consisting in part of Apple, Plum, Nectarine, Quince, Grape, Straw
berry, Peach, Cherry, Mulberry, Pomegranate, Gooseberry, Raspberry, i ear, Aprico*, Almond, Jrig
Currants, Blackberry.
The Ornamental Department Is full of choice Deciduous and Evergreen Trees and Shrubs, fine
Roses and Flowering Plants. Descriptive Catalogues sent Iree to all applicants.
Address HARDEN & COLE, Atlanta, G*.
I MR. W. W. ANDERSON. Agent at Forsyth, Ga. _ octL4m
[PUBLISHERS
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
"NO. 50.