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THE MONROE _,fg£lL ADYEETISEE
GEORGE A. KING k CO.,]
VOL. XVITI.
Ehc pcnroc
FORSYTH, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1873.
Thk Milledgevllle Hotel Company Lave decided
not to rebuild, and will sell the hotel lot and ap
purtenance* to the highest bidder.
Twelve thousand bales of cotton have been
shipped from Mllledgeville over the Central rail
way the present season.
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' Con. Clarks, of the Coustitntion, has cossent
ed to address the Press Association at its next
regular meeting.
On Wednesday last Mr. Stephens was elected
to Congress from the Eighth District, without
opposition.
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It is announced In Atlanta that Capt. J. G.
Foreacre, of the Alabama Western Railroad, will
soon take charge of the Macon and Western Rail
road, In place of Capt. A. J. White.
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The Covington Examiner says every bridge on
Yellow river, In Newton county, except the rail—
ro and bridge, has been swept away; also the bridg
es cn Alcova river are gone.
THEjvalne of stocks and bonds in Georgia in
1372, was $4,266,552; value o( cotton manufac
tories $3,695,150; capital invested In shipping
a id tonnage, 1973, $183,313.
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One of the acts passed at the late session ol the
Legislature, requires Justices of the Peace to fur
nish Tax Receivers with lists of tax payers, at a
certain date each year.
Tim Legislature passed 321 hills during the late
cession, the greater portion being of a local char
acter. The Constitution says: It is hinted that
some of the acts will be attacked on the ground
that the journals of the House do not shew that
they were “read the third time and passed.”
Die. N. J. Bussey, President of the Eagle and
Pl.osnix Factory, and Wm. 11. Young, Esq., have
gone to Cuba, where they have commenced ar
rangements for a more general introduction ol the
fabrics made at !hi* establishment. Success must
attend such efficient and faithful officials.
On Monday morning, the 34th inst., twenty
four tenement houses, ail occupied by colored
people, were destroyed In Savannah. They saved
all their household goods. On the same day the
house ol Dr. L. A. Falligant, on Anderson street,
was consumed by Are.
The Republican says that the coming inaugura
tion of President Grant for his second term on the
4th of March, will he signalize 1 in Savannah by an
examination of applicants for the position of prin
cipal of the colored department of the boys’ col
ored public schools.
The case of the State vs. Grier, charged with
Ibemurdtr of J. A. Middlebrooks, was tried in
Jasper Superior Court last week. The Jury failed
to agree, and the prisoner has been returned to
the Atlanta prison, it is stated that the Jury
stood ten for a verdict of murder in the first de
gree and two for a verdict of a lesser grade.
A Pahty of German immigrants arrived at Au
gusta Saturday eu route to the home of their em
ployer in McDuffie county, a short distance from
Augusta. The party consisted of seven men,
three women and three or four children —all of
them healthy, bright, and Intelligent looking peo
pie. They came from Prussia.
Baldwin Superior Court was in session last
week—Judge Bartlett presiding. This was his
first appearance in Lis new position. Judge John
son, of the Chattahoochee circuit, presided in Jas
per, as Judge Bartlett was engaged in most of the
eases docketed. The Union and Recorder speaks
favorably of the new Judge.
Tub Constitution states that Gov. Smith, on the
“Ist, appointed Mr. John T. Brown, of Cuthbert,
piincipal keeper of the penitentiary, vice W. S.
Darnell, removed. It is due to Mr. Darnell to say
that there were no charges against him. Mr.
Brown is, we believe, a brother-in-law of Gov.
Smith.
Tub '1 homaston Herald announces the death in
Upson county last week, of Mr. Asa W. Byron, u
native of Massachusetts, but for forty years a citi
zen of Georgia. When Wilson and his brigands
were in that county, some of them then endeav
ored to toree him to g ve up his watch, bnt he re
futed, and was hung up so long that it was only
by great exertions that his life was saved.
Tiik following gentlemen have been elected a
Board of Directors of the Macon Board of Trade:
T. D. Tinsley, J. W. Burke, W. A. Hopson, J. W.
Kankin, Albert Mix, B. A. " ise, 8. G. Bonn,
G. B. Turpin and Hubert IT. Hardeman. The
Board is a good one, and headed as it is by the
irrepressible fluff, will accomplish a revolution in
the trade of the Central city.
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Tub Trustees of Mercer give notice that the
Preparatory School of the University will take
place on the 31 proximo. This school will be
taught, as heretotore, by the Vacuity of the Uni
versity, and will so continue until arrangements
can be made for transferring it to tutors who will
always be under the control and supervision of
the Faculty.
Tub Sun compliments Judge Trippe on his first
decision, by saying: On yesterday, in the Su
preme Court, the new Judge, Hon. R. P. Trippe,
rendered his first decision in a case before that
body. We learu that it was able, lucid and con
cise, evincing a clear perception of the intricate
workings o( the law, and giving promise of a
brilliant future on the Supreme Bench for this
distinguished Georgian.
Tub Bainbiidge Sun says the defeat of the At
lantic and Gulf railroad bill strikes a knell of dis
appointment iu the hearts and hopes of the citi
zens of Bainbridge and the surroued ng cocutry.
The extension of this road would have opened up
to a market a tine country, and afforded unusu..l
facilities for the development of large and very
profitable resources hitherto dormant and unde
veloped, on account of the difficulty of access to a
market.
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Thb New York Advertiser thinks that if any
body should ask Robert Toombs what he thought
of the behavior of the Credit Mobilier miserable#,
he might be pardoned for exclaiming : “Sir, it
fatigues the indignation!” Had it beerPln the
Book of Fate that he should live to call the roll ot
his slaves in the shadow of Bunker Hill monu
ment, he might have searched the rueuial throng
in vain for meaner slaves than these.
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Tek Constitution fays Forsyth and adjacent
counties have been visited by a Ihird and the
Eo6t destructive freshet since the great Au
gust freshet of 1853. On the 30th inst.,
from 13 to S o’clock, a. m., the heaviest rain
fell ever witnessed, accompanied by heavy
thunder and sharp lightning. The creeks over
flowed the bottom land, washing away fences,
mill aDd cotton gin dams. Fourteen mills and
dams in Forsyth county have beß carried away
.or more or less injured by the recent freshets ; the
bridges across creeks are in almost every instance
<eithiet gashed away or damaged; the land is badly
washed and packed, making the prospect rather
gloomy for Urn farmer,
Judge Irwin on flic Bond Ques
tion.
Judge Dav.d Irwin has written a short letter
on the bond question, which will command atten
tion. The reputation of the author is extensive
as the limits of the State, and the conservative
course he suggests, will, we do not doubt, accord
with the sentiments of honest men of the State.
The letter is addressed to the Con-titntion, brief,
jet clear. We annex it almost entire, in his own
language:
Y on ask my opinion on the bond question now
under discussion. This is a question of vast im
portance, which should not be hastily determined.
It should be considered calmly and free from all
prejudice. To do thiß, in my judgment, we should
delay any action until the whole subject is fully
discussed and understood; still, I think the inter
est of the Btate, a* well as the bondholders, de
mand that an investigation of this matter should
be had, and a final disposition of this vexed ques
tion be made within a reasonable time. It is
claimed, and, I believe, pretty generally admitted,
that a large amount, it not all, of these disputed
bonds were Issued, and disposed of, and indorse
ments made of the bonds of several railroad com
panies by the agents of the State without author
ity, and in violation of law. It this is true, bonds
so issued or endorsed are nail and void and ought
not to be paid. Still there may be equities exisij
Ing between the State of Georgia and the bond
holders, which ought to be investigated—for in
stance, if these bonds were hypothecated as a se
curity for money for the use of the State, on her
credit, it would seem that the State is morally
bound to pay the amount of money 60 borrowed
by her agent, with legal iuterest thereon, though
the security given was void, and the party lending
would not he bouud to see to a proper applica
tion of the money so used, unless he had notice
ol the fraud. How far this legal proposition may
apply to this case, of course, would depend upon
the facts disclosed by proof. Inasmuch as a State
cannot be sued without her consent, it may be
asked how this investigation cun be had? 1 an
swer by the Legislature, or the consent of the
State—it may he before the Courts, or by arbitra
tion. I repeat, that in my judgment, this whole
mai ter ought to he investigated and dually dis
posed of within a reasonable time. For many
reasons which I could give, I can t tell huw far
the credit of the State may have been affected by
the transaction, but 1 am quite sure it has not
been improved.
Washington Reports
The Committee on Conference agreed to extend
the time to the Southern Claims Commission for
four years. They have twenty-two thousand un
tried claims before them.
Two more of the Alabama ku klux have been
pardoned.
The bonds stolen from Colfax have been recov
ered.
The Marshall House, where Ellsworth was killed
—the first blood of the war—has been burned by
an incendiary.
The House Ways and Means Committee lias
been instructed to investigate charges of bribery
and corruption against members of Congress in
connection with the granting of a subsidy of one
million dollars per annum to the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company. It is said that fully one
half a million dollars were expended in and around
Congress, and that some members got as much as
ten thousand dollars. A list of the bribed M. C.’s
will be forthcoming, aud the officers of the Pacific
Mail Company have been summoned to appear
with their books. Several Congressmen are ready
to testify that they were approached on the sub
ject.
The last proposition with regard to the refund
ing of the cotton tax, is that of representative
Harris, of Mississippi, who has introduced a bill
providing that the sums paid by the several States
be placed to the credit of said States, and held by
the Secretary of the Treasury In trust for them as
a perpetual school fund.
Fkom ihe Atlanta Sun we learn that a worthy
Georgia lady has obtained justice from the gov
ernment at last. That paper says: During the
late war, a citizen ot Savannah named McDaniel
purchased a large amount of cotton and stored it
in or near that city. When Savannah was taken
possession of by the Yankees, this cotton was
taken in the name of the Government of the
United States, and confiscated. Before and dur
ing the war Mr. McDaniel was a man in affluent
circumstances, but, like thousands of others, the
close of the war found him reduced to poverty.
Since then he has died, and his widow has been
making her own living by personal exertions.
She came to this city, where she has earned a sup
port principally by her needle, and has never mur
mured at her lot. By advice she was induced to
put In a claim at Washington for the cotton be
longing to her husband. The services of lawyers
at the seat of Government were procured to pros
ecute the claim. Mrs. McDaniel did not Bit down
and wait for the issue of the suit, but, as stated
above, weut to work to earn an honest living.
Some days ago her lawyers at Washington tele
graphed for her to come on and get the money,
as the claim had been granted. She immediately
repaired to that city, and on yesterday, we learn,
returned to Atlanta bringing $05,000 in green-*
backs.
“ Tub Situation ’’ of some of the Georgia Re
publicans, in Washington, is thus stated by a cor
respondent of the Herald:
Senator Joshua H : ll is making a heavy fight to
have Mr. Glover appointed collector ot’ internal
revenue at Macon, and Mr. Bell postmaster at
A meric us.
[l* Senator Hill succeeds in securing the ap
pointment of Mr. Glover, the administration will
make a discreet selection when compared with
some of the arrangements for this responsible po
sition J
Major Chamberlain is applying for the position
ot special agent of the Postoffice Department, but
has little or no chance for success.
Fred Humphreys, formerly a Confederate Ordi
nance officer, at Columbus, Georgia, and recently
confirmed by the Senate, collector of the p>ort at
Pensacola, nas been refused nis commission by
Secretary Boutwell, on the ground that he is still
a rebel, he never having been pardoned.
W. L. Scruggs, the newly appointed minister of
the Unite-’. States of Colombia, will sail for As
pinwall on the first of April next.
Vlr. Markham, formerly of Augusta, has left
Washington disgusted, having failed to get the
territorial governorship he sought for.
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Among the late decisions of t he 8 uperior Cour
we find one declaring that a defendant in a mort
gage .tf/0., issued on a foreclosure of a mortgage
on personal property, who desires to eoutest the
amount due on the grounds that there is usury in
the debt, and that he is entitled to have the claim
reduced or decreed to be satisfied and paid, from
the fact that he had leased to his creditors, (plain
tiffs in fi. fa.) a plantation to be cultivated by
them for one year in farmer like style, and they
were to apply the net proceeds thereof to the pay
ment of said debt, and that by reason of their gross
m sinaußgeiuent a small crop wav made, and he
thereby damaged to an amount greater than his
debt, has a complete remedy in the provisions of
sections SS99 and 3000 ot the Revised Code, and he
cannot resort to a Court of Equity for an injunc
tion to prevent a levy or for the appointment of a
receiver to lake charge ot the plantation, etc., and
for relief on account of said gionnd of defence,
unless for special reasons shown, such aa the in
solvency, non residence, etc., of his creditors.
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A London special of the 24th says an agreement
has been made between the Due d’Montpensier
and the adherents of Queen Isabella, to place
Prince Alphonso on the throne of Spain—the
Duke to be Regent during the minority of Prince
Alphonso, and the latter to marry the youngest
daughter of the Duke. Queen Isabella accepts
| the programme, and the two important parties,
j therefore, will act together in the present Spanish
i crisis.
FORSYTH, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 4. 1873.
Old-Timr Beauties.
Ancient and Modern Women—Something about
Their Fascinations and Surroundings—Pleasant
Treatment of a Pleasant theme—Classic Names
end Familiar Names.
Hypatia, the Greek philosopher and religions
martyr, Zenobia, the beautiful but unfortunate
Palmyrian Queen, and Aspasia, the companion
and competitor of Pericles, and of whom Madame
de Stael say*: “ She is a model of female loveli
ne, an Alexander of heroism,” are scarcely pro
totypes of any of the women of more modern
times. Yet the history of the last and present
centuries furnishes many instances of notable wo
men who have made their influence felt in the at
fairs of their time, The character of that influ
ence, and to what good end, are not always
apparent, but the fact and the magnitude are
undoubted.
Mme. de Pompadour probably furnishes the
most notable example that can be found in any
age or country of what an education intended
merely for show, in conjunction with woman’s
tact, can accomplish. Of obscure parentage, she
was adopted and educated by a rich financier, and
married her cousir, Le Normay l’Elioles, who was
said to be a man of whom auy woman might be
proud, and who loved her devotedly. She, how
ever, left her husband to enjoy the royal favor of
Louis XV, who made her the Marquis de Pompa
dour. She became the close friend and political
adviser of the King; the undoubted Premier of
France—appointing ministers, embassador*, gen
erals and maintaining correspondence with for
eign courts.
The royal conncil convened in her boudoir.
Maria Theresa, for political ends, addressed her a*
“ma cousine.” Her extravagance knew no limit;
she lightened the king’s treasury during her short
reign over $150,000,000. She died about 45, at the
zenith of her power. This woman acquired an;l
held her influence by sheer force of what might
be called surface fascination, her education hav
ing been of the ornamental type, expressly con
fined to music, elocution and drawing. She
possessed great beauty of face and figure, and
cultivated dress as a fine art. In temperament,
cold, heartless and every grace of face
and person was made subservient to some selfish
purpose. Her chief power undoubtedly lay in the
skillful handling of her forces to meet the de
mands of the vascillating king.
Among the women famous,for beauty, wit. and
want of modesty in the time of Louis XIV, Ninon
de l’Euclos was the mo3t notorious. Though
openly depraved she was not entirely excluded
from the higher ranks of society. The young son
of Madame de Sevigne was said to have been as
enamored of Ninon when she was fifty-four years
old as was his father in his youth. She is said to
have preserved her beauty and appearance of
youth to the last.
Madame de Stael was one of the French who
did not rule society or fascinate by her beauty or
vices. She amused herself at the early age of
eleven by writing comedies and tragedies. She
was the first leader of society both during and af
ter the Empire. Her fine mind, popularity as an
authoress and unwillingness to join his party in
curred Napoleon’s hatred, and he never ceased in
his persecutions of her so long as he had the power
to annoy.
Banished from Paris by order of the Emperor,
she was an exile for ten years, and friends who
visited her were exiled. The last four years of
her life were the most brilliant of her career. The
Restorationist hailed with eagerness the return of
the talented daughter of the Minister of the last of
the Bourbons ; the newspapers were delighted to
have a few words from the author of “Corinne.”
Her rooms were thronged with the representa
tives of political and literary liberty of the day.
Wellington, Chateaubriand, Lafayette, Blucher,
came to her as to the center of political movement.
Canona represented art, and Madame Recamier —
still radiant at six and thirty—beauty. Hers was
the reign of intellect.
Madame Keeamier was the greatest beauty in
Franck during the Empire. Among the earliest
tributes to Mer beauty were those of the two
Bonaparte?—the Emperor and his brother Lucien.
The first eight years of the present century were
the period of Madame Recamier’s reign as a social
eoveieign. Refusing to become a member of the
Emperor’s household, and becoming a too at
ti active feature in the Paris saloons, she was also
banished. Canova, the great sculptor, once at
tempted to give her a pleasant surprise by dis
playing two busts secretly modeled after her like
ness ; but the beautiful work of Canova was not
good enough for the vain French woman, and she
could not conceal her chagrin even before the
great artist. Madame Recamier was not a woman
of profound mind. She was a great flirt, and she
lived to enjoy life. But her life was composed as
much of literary and political oeleorities as of the
merely fashionable people of Paris.
The probable secret of her later success, social
ly, lay as much in that charm of manner, and per
fect ease and grace in conversation, naturally ac
quired in five and twenty year& of continued good
society as in her beauty. Another element of her
influence was that her apparent sympathy for the
opinions and feelings of others which lead her to
treat every one with the utmost importance ; a
manner which brought her many friends, even
among men and women vastly superior to her in
intellect. It is a curious fact in the history of
this flirt that the older she grew the more devoted
became her admirers. Chateaubriand, verging on
80- infirm, tottering, and with one foot in the
grave, offered Madame Recamier his hand, and
she nearly 70, and wholly blind, had the good
sense to refuse him. She died of cholera iu 1849.
Montagu House, London, is one of the land
marks of modern society. To Mrs. Montagu’s
entertainments crowded the scholar aud the poli
tician, the wit, the critic, the orator. It was at
the meetings of the literati at the house that the
sobriquet “blue stocking,” so long applied to
literary women, originated. It arose from a re
mark npon the stockings of Dr. Stillingfleet—
that learned divine being an oddity and a sloven.
A foreigner present cried: “Les has bleus,” and
the society was afterward known as the Blue
Stockings, denoting that the full dress then in the
evening was to be dispensed with. No English
woman has ever completely succeeded in deceiving
men and women lrom the trivialities of society to
the disquisition of literature aud science as did
Mrs. Montagu. She was clever as a writer. Her
essay on Shakspeare was pronounced by Beattie
the most elegant pieee of criticism in our language
or any other. Mrs. Montagu was the Madame du
Deffand, of London. And her fame as the queen
of society rested not only on her intellect, her es
says, her conversational talent, but also on the
solid basis of being the best in Lon
dun,
Sidney lady Morgan was born on-’ shipboard
between Ireland and England. Her father was an
actor, a singer, and the manager of a theatre.
Such was the origin of one whose life presents an
instance of what unassisted women can do to
raise themselves as high as they choose in the
seals of society—upon even a (Binder stock of ed
ucation— with energy and talent. She wrote Irish
novels, and wrote for the periodicals. She used to
relate how enchanted she was when, for some tale,
the editor sent her two guineas, her first earned
money. These two guineas, she said, were the
source of all her scribbling. She learned the art
of society in Paris, aud she never forgot it. Born
amid actors, learning first her letters, probably
from a play-bill, she lived to 83, to figure in the
elegant neighborhood of London, among the most
lettered, the most famous, and the most aristo
cratic society in the world. She had a land of
“In Or od we Trust.”
Irish drollery, which was never quenched till the
death of her husband. She died in 1850, and with
her ended those few remaining literary cliques, the
like of which—sadly do I write it—we of the pres
ent age are not to know except as matter* of his
tory.
That the American women have not been taught
“wit in six lesson*”—as they do in France : that
they have not made an art of conversation; have
not held those brilliant coteries whose witty
scintillations have gone forth to astonish the
world is owing to the fact that American soci
ety c. me in just as that fashion was goiDg out.
But that there have been maiiy “queens” of our
society no one can doubt, the sway of beauty and
fashion being essentially loyal.
The wife of John Adams, onr second President,
spent her early yeare in England and France, and,
as Mr. Adam’s wife gracefully performed her part
in the higher circles of social and political life,
both before and after her husband became Presi
dent. j
Mrs. Hancock, wife of John Hancock,Governor
of Massachusetts, and afterwards President of the
first Congress, was ackr wledged to possess won- ;
derful beauty. She was Torougbly high-bred, had
a courtly manner, and fine conversational powers. !
She was for years considered one of the “wonders
of the age,” and was visited until the close of her
life by the distinguished persons from foreign
countries, as well as of her own.
Mrs. J. J. Roosevelt was a leader of society in
New York for a long time. She had bad the ad- \
vantage of the best society abroad when quite a
yourg lady, and was married in Paris in 1831, in |
the presence ol many distinguished friends, among i
them General Lafayette, who gave the bride 1
away.
In later days Mrs Jesse Fremont was our most
noted conversationalist. Her early experience
with her father in Washington society, her exten
sive travels with her husband over every part of
her own country, and her great talents aud vivid
imagination made her conversation particularly
spirited and brilliant. Her talk always sparkled
with lively wit and picturesque illustration, and
appears wholly unstudied.
Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis was the “moblest Ro
man of them all.” Her conspicuous and unflag
ging patriotism during the rebellion, made her
name more pleasantly familiar to us than of any
other living woman. It was many years ago that
she established Ihoss delightful little tea and cake
Saturday morning receptions and Thursday even*
ing soirees at her house in Boston. Many noted
people—dear to us though their works—were
proud to call Mrs. Oti* their friend, and to enjoy j
the quiet, elegant hospitalities of her modest little !
house on the corner of Joy and Mount Vernon 1
•treets. i
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Cctton Statistics. —The New York Chronicle
reports the receipts for the seven days ending on
the 21st ult., at 109,153 bales, against 122,052 the
previous week, 126,521 the week before, and 114,-
616, the week before that. The total receipts
since September Ist are, 2,610,510 bales, against
1,166,957 last year, showing an increase of 443,563
bales. The interior reports received during the
same time, 18,831 bale*, against 17,086 the same
week of last year; shipments 18,814, against 18,-
078; stocks 90,783, against 87,065. The table of
visible supply foots up 2,329,105 bales, against
2,321,689 the same date last year showing an in
crease of cotton in sight, amounting to 7,416
bale*.
The Chronicle also says that the poor average
quality of the crop has continued to be the subject
of remark ; and, with a view to guard against the
possibilities of the future, the members of the
New York Cotton Exchange have adopted the fol
lowing resolution:
Resolved, That, from and after the Ist day of
September next, ordinary cotton be included in
contract deliveries; that not more than 25 per
cent, of ordinary and 25 per cent of strict ordinary
shall be delivered on any contract per 100 bales;
that no notice be taken in public report, or in
printed circulars of sales of any other contracts,
and that no other contract be stamped by the
Exchange.
The action of the New York Cotton Exchange
may, perhaps, contribute to the establishment of
a rival.
The Merriwether County Vindicator vindicates
the utility of perseverance in giving the following
statement:
On the plantation of Mr. Bazwell Brown, in this
county, in 1866, the first effort was made to sink
a well, and & rock was struck, which proved the
effort a failure. Mr. Hiram Smith, in this effort,
baa the misfortune to get both eyes put out by
blasting rock. He is now living on the charities
l’albot county, in the poor house. The second
effort met with the same impediment—a rock.
Mr. John Turner, being the operative, was blown
up, with some personal injury, and abandoned
the task in despair. The third attempt shared the
late of the two former, and was abandoned be
cause the rock could not be penetrated. The
fourth effert was attempted wi’h the most peculiar
success imaginable. Alter penetrating lorty-flve
feet into the red clay, Mr. John S. Vining and Mr.
J. B. Brown then blasted about twelve feet of sol
ld rock, when, to their great surprise, they
reached a natural well with the exception of
one side. For twelve or fifteen feet there was a
eolid rock wall on three sides, forming a complete
square, precisely the same size (about 4 feet
square) of the orifice made above by these gentle
men. After blasting the third side, they came to
a good supply of good, clear, celd water. The
well is now seventy feet deep, passing through
twenty-five feet ot solid rock. This weii is situa
ted within thirty feel of the spot at which the first
effort was made. During the thirty-seven years,
since, the first effort was made, the family brought
what water they used from a spring situated
nearly a half mile off
Factories North anc South—Their Proiits.
lender this heal the Columbus Enquirer has an
article from which we extract these figures :
The Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing Com
pany of this city reports profits equal to 34 per
centum of the capital invested, by last year’s
operations; the Columbus Manufacturing Com
pany re P ort 23 per cent.; the Tallassea Factory
P er cent.; and the Roswell Factory 9 per
cent, for the last six months of 1872. We have
not before us the reports of the Augusta and Ma
con factories, but their successful management
heretofore is a sufficient assurance that their gains
are in the neighborhood of those reported. Look
ing a little farther north, we have fully as good a
report from the Petersburg cotton mill, whose net
profit for 1873 is 25 per cent, on its capital stock.
This mill runs 100 looms and 3,022 spindles. It is
stated in one of our exchanges that “the reports
of the Northern mills represent their profits to be
from 4 to 6 per cent, lor six months during the
last year, or at the rate of from 8 to 13 per cent,
per annum.”
Ihb Louisiana matter was up in Congress on
the 25th, when Senator Trumbull made a
strong denunciatory speech. The question
came up in a peculiar manner not involving
points at issue, but under the agricultural
college bill, it being that no money should
be given to Louisiana by a usurping gov
ernment. The discussion will be long, and at
present involves Kellogg’s Government, which
Carpenter asserts and Morton admits could not
atand five hours without Federal support, but will
lead to no positive legislation. It is simply a dec
laration, and the issue is whether Lonisiana shall
be stricken from the States to which college mon
ey is given.
The following is the record of a case before a
Kentucky Justice of the Peace: Commonwealth
of Kentucky against George Washington, for
beating his wife, Martha Washington. Witnesses
on behalf ot the Commonwealth, Thomas Jeffer
son, Daniel Webster, Henry Cl&y, Andrew Jack
son, John C. Calhoun. The case came up for
hearing on the Bth day of February, 1873. De
fendant fined $lO and casts. John C. Calhoun
having failed to appear a witness, was attached
and fined $3 for contempt of court.
The Polar-Star,
“ Duty is the polar star
Of all true lives,” they say ;
Beaming softly from afar,
It leads the better way.
But well we know,
O’er frost and snow,
Oar aching feet must tread ;
Oft stand above
Where ali we love
Is lying cold and dead.
A lonely path, indeed
Oh, polar star,
How few there are
To follow where you lead!
Follow you ! We try and fail.
Sometimes, in sorrow’s night,
Mournful winds begin to wail
And cloud* obscure your light.
And then we stand,
With groping hand,
Not knowing where to go,
Until we find
That far behind
The world is all aglow—
A pleasant place indeed.
Oh, polar star,
How few there are
To follow where you lead !
Pointing others to your beams,
We think they need not stray,
For they may with esse, it seems,
Walk firm in duty’s way ;
And, s'ranger yet,
We oft forget
That they are tempted, too ;
8o we condemn
The thiDg in them
That we with conscience do.
Strange theory, indeed!
Oh, polar star,
How few there are
To follow where you lead !
Glimmering above the hills,
We see you and we know
Safely, through life’s joys and ills,
Does your rough pathway go ;
And though we yearn
Ofttimes to turn
Adown a sunny path,
We know the end
No joy will lend,
While your 6 a brightness hath ;
And though our feet might bleed,
Oh, polar star,
Which beams afar,
We’d ioliow where you lead !
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS*
THE MONROE FEMALE COLLEGE,
Forsyth, <3-a.
THE SPRING TERM will open WEDNESDAY.
JANUARY 22d, 1873.
FACULTY.
R. T. Asbuky, A. M. Pres. I Mbs. M. A. Turner.
Rev. S. G. Hillyer, D. D , Miss Eugenia Amos.
Prof. H. Hechter. | Miss L. Hillyer.
Miss Kate Milledge. | Mrs. C. C. Morrall.
R MARKS:
The success of the Institution for the past year
has been encouraging and gratifying to its friends.
I ts patronage has steadily aud constantly increased.
Discipline has been firmly but gently maintained.
Most of the old students will return, and an un
usual number of applicants have applied for the
present year.
Expenses:
_ ’ >i s j>
Board and Tuition, Spring 1 In, 6 Months, $139 20
Board and Tuition, Fall Term 4 Mouths 96 80
Payment lor each Term required in advance.
For further particulars apply to
R. T. ASBURY, Pres. Fac.
Dr. J. 8. Lawton, Pres. Board Trustees.
jan7.ly
Mix tfo K.irtl&nd.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers c
BOOTS AND SHOES,
3 COTTON AVENUE 3
AND
66 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 ia 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
Btreet, Macon Ga.
Sole Agents for the PATENT EXCEL
SIOR GAITER.
apr!6.ct
THE LATEST 8 BEST FROM MACON!
ALL the latest styles of Fashionable Hats, of
the Best Quality, at
THOMAB 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, Valises and
Umbrellas, at
THOMAS U. CONNOR’S.
ENTLEMEN'S Wedding Outfits a Specialty,
THOMAS U. CONNOR’S.
HfThe Fashionable Place in the City of Macon.
junelLly
L. T. WHITCOMB, Agent,
93 Bay St... Successor to J. A. 8r0wn,...99 St.
IMPORTER OF AND DEALER IN
West India Fruits and Vegetables.
PINE APPLES, Oranges, Apples, Bananas,
Lemons, Potatoes, Nuts of all kinds, Onions.
Elc., Etc.
99 Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA
aprß.tt
Globe Hotel,
AUGUSTA, GA
A. J. S. JACKS ON, Proprietor.
oct29.ct
Marshall House.
SAVANNAH, GA
A. B. LUCE, Proprietor.
oct29.ct
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
W. L. LAMPKIN.
H. G. BEAN
33 IST KIIST G HOUSE
or
WM. L. LAMPKIN & CO.
FORSYTH, GrA.
IN
Stocks, Bonds, Gold and Silver Coin, Uncurrent Money and Exchange
%
Certificates ol Deposit
a nI n fCOLLECTIONS made iu any part ot the United States IVVPNTMItkt*
in K l de d t.l e . Cted Pr ° mptli ’ ‘° r ° Ur P atro -. • conducted
Foestth, Ga., December 16th, 1871.
be conducted under the'idrmnanufo/ afco** DIJ l,Ußiness - w hieh will thereaier
decl9.
_WM. L. LAMPKIN.
H. G. BEAN. . DPlfc
JNO. A. BEAN.
LIFE IIP FIB! llllllill lillif
- or
H. G. BEAN & BROTHER.
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REPRESENT THE LARGEST LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN THE
United States with assets aggregating over
$70,000,000 00.
AND WE ARE PREPARED TO ISSUE POLICIES ON LIVES OR ON ANY DESCRIPTION
of property at as REASONABLE RATES as will give adequate security to the insured.
septß. ct
BiClSs 11 TIE HUMS! IBM,IS
J. B. ROSS & S. T. COLEMAN
OFFER
DRESS GOODS,
SILKS, POPLINS, SATTEENS, Eta., Etc., at Reduced Prices
GOODS, Jaconets, Naimsooks, Mulls, Tarletans, Lonsdale and Jones’ Cambric.
gLANKETS, English, Swiss and American—9-4,10 4, 11-4, 12-4, white and colored.
ASSIMEREB, Gents, Boys and Youths wear—grey, brcwn, gold and blue.
£fORS TS, French, German and American—all 6izes, from 16 to 35.
W T hite, Red and Opera, plain and twilled.
JIJOSIERY, British and Balbriggan, Hose and naif Hose.
Grey, Brown, Gold and Bine, English and American.
Bleached and %. 4 4, 5-4, 6-4, 10-4, 11-4 wide.
K ID GLOVES, Perinot, Harris, Hector, Lupin and Empress, 1 and 2 Buttons, all ahadee.
HAMBURG LACE CURTAINS!
We offer the above at A REDUCTION from former rates and solicit an inspection.
SAMPLES Bent by mail on application. Parcels delivered anywhere in the city, free.
J. B. ROSS & S. T. COLEMAN,
dec24.ct MACON, GA.
FANCrr and FAMILY GnOCBniES.
MAYS & DRISKELL,
Have opened a
Teried, Stock of Fainilj Groceries,
At the old stand of J. D. Proctor,
Consisting in part of SUGAR, COFFEE, CANVASS HAMB, FLOUR, RICE, SYRUPB, CHEESE
CRACKERS, CANDIES, Fruits, Pickles, Oysters, Etc., Etc.
Families can be supplied in any quantity at any time. Planters will find it to their interest to
examine our goods before buying elsewhere. Prices reasonable. Try us.
oot&tf MAYS & DRISKELL,
[PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS.
NO. 3.