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Craig Williamson. VOLUME XXXVI. Poor soil and exhau tod fields which were once productive can again I <: made profitably fertile by a proper rotation of crops liid by the intelligent use of : ' rniizer :containing high per= yen cages of Potash. Stnkii.giy proiitable results It o •• h ■: a obtained by follow ii. f this plan. , ♦ a • n<.t advertising circulars boom* but are practical works, contain- ■ h- on the subject of fertilization, and iiegrfs.l t<» l.huci . i'hey are sent free for GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. ELECTRIKURE! No Drugs; No Fees; No Stimulants; Always Ready; No Failures; No Chem icals; No Shock. * The Electrikure is a small electrical device for the introduction of oxygen into the human system for the eradication of disease. It super cedes the physician’s diagnosis, and the drug gist’s compounds. 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The Gainesville Land Investment Company will sell on FRIDAY, MAY 1, at public auction, twen ty-eight city lots, a portion situated on North Bradford street and a por tion on East Spring street. All good building lots. Sale will take place on the grounds. Terms of sale : One-third cash, balance Dec. 1, 1896. Flats of these lots can be seen at the office of C. A. Dozier, in State Bank Building. IF YOU WANT 8 THE - BEST GARDEN in your neighborhood this season PLANT OUR FAMOUS all of which are described and illus trated in our beautiful and entirely New Catniogue for 1896. A new feature this season is the Free de livery of Seeds at Catalogue prices to any Post Otiice. This “ New Cata logue ’ ’ we will mail on receipt of a 2-cent stamp, or to those who will state where the v saw this advertisement, the Catalogue will be mailed Free I PETER HEHDERSON & CO. m 35 & 37 Ccrtlandt St., New York, k THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. IS® MM 4 ’ SPRING GOODS. A second trip to New York makes our stock complete. 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Plymouth Rock Co. WEAK MEN CURED AS IF BY MAGIC. Victims of Lost Manhood should send at once for a book that explains how full manly vigor t-fc <W— eas’iyr quickly J V* "« permanently 11! restored. No man suffering from I f _ 11 \ly7/ Ir'iTß weakness can as- I i -'R'i'J foi 'd to ignore this timely advice. yxcY Book tells how , strength, de- velopment and tone are imparted to every portion of the body. Sent with positive proofs (sealed) free to any man on application. ERIE MEDICAL GO., BUFFALO,N.Y. LONGSTREET’S BOOK. HiSh I.iterary merit, Full of Recollec tion., nu<l Rich in History. Havana, Feb. 14.—1 hope the people of the United States will do justice to Gen. Longstreet’s book, “From Manassas to Appomattox.” In the days and nights of a run from ’■\ew York to Havana I read his im mense volume with the keenest inter and do not hesitate to pronounce i’J the ablest and most important con tribution made by one man to the history of the war of the States, not excepting the memoirs of Grant, f&erman and Sheridan. On the national side there was more writing of history during the war than in the South. The conse quence is Longstreet covers experi ences comparatively new to the gen eral reader. The value of Longstreet’s book is greatly enhanced by the dis ti action of impartiality. His decision c‘ momentous historical questions is e ninently judicial. There is hardly t. e flavor of partisanisin. Indeed, v hen the dream of the Southern Confederacy was over he became so t horoughly a national man as to ex ♦, te sectional prejudice and lost the regard of those who have been most conspicuous in Southern politics since the restoration—and the word resto rrtiou is preferable to reconstruction -r-of the Union. It is a pity the American people are not better acquainted with Long street’s New Orleans letter of June 2, 1867. In that paper, which stamps the old Confederate hero as a nation al statesman, this sentence occurred: “I will be happy to work in any har ness that promises relief to our dis comfited people and harmony to the nation, whether bearing the mantle of Mr. Davis or Mr. Sumner.” Gen. Longstreet added : “Like oth ers of the South not previously con nected with politics, I naturally ac quiesced in the ways of Democracy, but so far as I can judge, there is nothing tangible in them beyond the issues that were put to the test in the war and there lost.” He held that there was “nothing left to take bold of except prejudice, which can ot be worked for good to any one.” The old war horse was in favor of ‘ recognizing the acts of Congress.” Which would seem rather a simple tiling to do. He says he might have added that the terms of the parole of surrendered soldiers were: “To re spect the laws of Congress.” For this letter he was denounced as a traitor, accused of joining the enemy and of being a deserter of friends. e j “Up to that time,” he says, “the Lit corps (his own) had been in all jjx parts, in all its history, above re proach.” He was in successful bus iness as a cotton factor, with $5,000 a year, and next day “old comrades passed me in the street without speaking,” and “business began to grow dull.” Gen. Hood was the only one of his old comrades who called occasionally, and “in a few weeks I found myself at leisure.” His book is of remarkable power, and it will be a very stupid thing if it is not highly appreciated and large ly circulated, South and North, in a way profitable to the old general. About the first thing said about Gen. Longstreet’s history is that he has criticised his old commander, Lee. He did that years ago, with moderation and dignity, and was as sailed as if he had committed the un pardonable sin. In the work before us he has re turned to what he regards as the flaws in Lee’s military career, with resentment toward those who struck him for presuming to offer sugges tions that Lee was not infallible, and yet his affection and admiration for Lee repeatedly come out, and be publishes letters in which it is proved that up to the date of his New Or leans letter Lee had for him the highest consideration. It should be understood that he does not sirgle out Lee for criticism, but states his objection to many lead ers in the field, and in the cabinet of the Southern cause, with a degree of candor and a force of specification that make this work unique. Jeffer son Davis is not spared. Bragg is severely handled, Joseph E. Johnston eulogized and Lee praised and blamed with equal heartiness. The merit of the book is in the courage in it to tell the truth, and the fear lessness with which great reputations are touched, not with petty animos ity, but with solemnity of competent judgment. Stonewall Jackson is re ferred to in terms justified by his brilliant career, and yet we find that even he is not to be regarded as always the all-conquering hero. The literary merit of much of Longstreet’s book is unexpectedly strong. There are many fine touches and memorable passages, epigramatic characterizations, word-painting, sim ple, but striking, phrases that cling in the memory—above all, a rare ca pacity to present intelligibly military situations, and the language of a competent soldier and one whose en lightenment was extraordinary. The battle pictures are superior to any thing else that has been done of this. “Manassas,” “Seven Pines,” the repulse of McClellan from Rich mond, the second Bull Run, An tietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Wilderness, Ap pomattox are enrolled before us in a grand and fascinating panorama, and one cannot fail to understand that a formidable actor in those tragedies has painted the scenery with the hand of a masteiful artist and an honesty that is indomitable. It is, of course, impracticable within the limits of this article to do more in the section of bits than to find the true flavor of the volume. Note this flash of humor and sarcasm, a scene in the sketch of the battle of Bull Run: “As we were under the bluff the fire (of a Federal battery at long range) was not annoying except oc casionally, when some of the branches of the trees were torn off and dropped among us. One shot’ passed far over and dopped in the house in which Gen. Beauregard was about to sit down to his dinner. This interrujnion so annoyed him that he sent us four six-pound and three rifle guus'of the Washington artillery, under Capt. Eshelman, to return the fire and avenge the loss of his dinner.” And there was a lively artillery combat for about an hour. Os the commaders at Bull Run, McDowell and Beauregard, Long street says: “As the experience of both com manders was limited to staff service, it is not surprising they failed to ap preciate the importance of prompt and vigorous maneuver in the hour of battle.” While the Bull Run panic was going on the Confederates were themselves panicky, and Long street’s comment is: “Glorious vic tory spread her generous wings alike over heroes and delinquents.” It is the opinion of Longstreet that Washington could have been taken, but “the favorite aspect for fruitful results was all sacrificed through the assumed authority of staff officers who, upon false report, gave countermand to the orders of their chiefs.” Os Gen. G. W. Smith, Longstreet says : “He has written a great deal about the battle of Seven Pines dur ing the last twenty or thirty years,” and he adds that Smith at that battle lay in wait three hours after the en emy’s positions were broken and car ried, and if the battle had opened at sunrise Smith would have made the same wait and Sumner’s march would have been in time to beat him, “and he lives to persuade himself that he intended to join in battle on the Williamsburg road, but there was no fight in his heart.” “And he re ported sick on the 2d and left the army,” Here is a touch to mterest the worshipers of “Stonewall Jackson” as to his delay during the seven days’ fighting before Richmond : “Jackson was long delayed repairing Grape- Vine bridge. He probably knew the river was fordable at that point, but preferred to pass his men over dry shod.” Concerning the statement that Gen. Lee said he would have won at Gettysburg if he had had Gen. Jackson with him, Longstreet says, “He had Jackson in the Sharps burg campaign, which was more blundering than that of Gettysburg,” and adds in a footnote, “At Sharps burg (Antietam) Gen. Jackson left the field at 7 o’clock in the morning and did not return until 4 o’clock in the afternoon”—when he started to execute the order (he had just re ceived), and gave it up without even asking permission. “D. 11. Hill was there from the first to the last gun, but Hill was not a Virginian, and it would not do to leave the field for refreshments.” The idea that “Stone wall Jackson” spent some hours in getting refreshments and disobeyed orders at Antietam is highly interest ing. On the way to Gettysburg the Con federate cavalry, Gen. Stuart, got Lee’s consent to make a raid, and “so our plans r adopted after deep study, were suddenly given over to gratify the youthful cavalryman’s wish for a nomadic ride,” and as Lee “advanced toward his adversary the eyes and ears of his army were turned afar off looking toward the homes of the non-combatants.” This greatly disturbed Lee’s mind, but on the Ist he was in his usual spirits “and called me to ride with him.” Longstreet thought it was agreed that “an aggressive battle should not be fought in the enemy’s country,” and proprosed to file around the po sition of the army of the Potomac on its left, “and secure a good position between him and his capital,” but Lee, “striking the air with his closed hand,” said : “If he is there to-mor row I will attack him.” Longstreet was surprised and “at a loss to under stand his nervous condition,” and re plied : “If he is there to morrow it will be because he wants you to at tack,” and asked why not take the fight at once—this was on the first day—“if it was the objective?” As to the slowness on the second day, Longstreet says : “The stars were shining brightly on the morn ing of the 2d when I 1 eported at Gen. Lee’s quarters and asked for or ders.” It is only plain justice to say that Longstreet disposes of the story of being slow on the 2d. He was with Lee, and the wait “was to see where the fight should be made,” and shows from dated orders that it was 1 o’clock when the 3d corps, on which the Ist was to form, was in po sition. Weird spirits keep midnight watch about the great bowlders, while un known comrades stalk in ghostly ranks through the black fastnesses of Devil’s Den, wailing the lament: “Seme one blundered at Gettysburg; woe is me whose duty was to die!” Upon the claim that Lee lost the bat tle at Gettysburg, because be was generous, Longstreet retorts : “But a heart in the right place looks more to the cause entrusted to his care than for hidden ways by which to shift its responsibilities to those whose lives hang on his word.” It has been asserted Longstreet was slow. He says the key of the Chickahominy campaign “was en trusted to General Jackson, who named the hour for the opening and failed to meet his own appointment.” The commands of Hill and Long street were waiting for him in posi tion and eight hours after his time was up he deliberately marched past the engagement and went into camp a mile or more behind the hot battle. He remained in his camp the next morning and permitted the enemy dislodged the day before to march by him to a strong position.” Several instances of Longstreet’s promptness are given and show that he was de tained by the tardiness of the 2d corps and the story is concluded : “So it looks as if the commander of the Ist corps (Longstreet) was easier to move than any one in the army, rather than harder, and his chief left SI.OO Per Annum. in Advance. him to fight the battles alone.” Longstreet repeatedly asserts and proves that he had Lee’s affectionate confidence until after the political troubles of 1867, and he fights back now along the whole line to vindi cate himself from the “latter-day knights,” as he calls those who have assailed him for bis criticisms of Lee, which it was a part of of his military character to give when not on his de fense. He quotes a letter from Lee, written on the Rappahannock, Oct. 26, 1863, concluding with this para graph : “But I missed you dreadfully and your brave corps. Your cheerful face and strong arms would have been invaluable. I hope you will soon return to me. 1 trust we may soon be together again. May God preserve you and all with yon.” There can be no reasonable deny ing the power of the book. It is full of recollection, rich in history. We • do not assume that Gen. Longstreet i was and is always right, but he is a ■ powerful advocate and defends his record with his pen in a fashion that shows he is a master of that weapon , as well as of sword. The western campaign, including the battle of Chickamauga, with caus tic criticisms of Jefferson Davis and Gen. Bragg, and the East Tennessee campaign and the final field of Five Oaks and the Appomattox surren der require a second article. Murat Halsted. NOT A CANDIDATE. The Cherokee Advance is in re ceipt of a letter from Hon. A. D. Candler, Secretary of State, in which he says he will not be a can didate for the United States Senate. Col. Candler’s letter to the Ad vance is as follows: Gainesville, Ga., 1 Mar. 7th, 1896. ) Col. Ben F. Perry: My Dear Sir:—l have just read in the issue of your valuable paper of the 6th the statement that I, along with other gentleman named, am a “probable candidate” for United States Senator. Please do me the kindness in your next issue to say that I am not, have not been, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate before the legis lature for that or any other office. While 1 am profoundly grateful to those partial friends who have sug gested my name in that connection, and to those members of the State press who have by the suggestion been prompted to speak kindly of me, I am not unmindful of the fact that there are other gentlemen, who aspire to the position, whose services to the party and to the State entitle them to precedence. This of itself, if no other reason existed, is a suffi cient reason why I will, under no circumstances, be a candidate. Very truly yours, A. D. Candler. Where the Preiidt niM Mlrrp. 1. George Washington died from a cold which brought on laryngitis ; buried on his estate at Mount Ver non, Va. 2. John Adams died from senile debility ; buried at Quincy, Mass. 3. Thomas Jefferson died of chronic diarrhea ; buried on his estate at Monticello, Va. 4. James Madison died of old age ; buried on his estate at Montpelier, Vt. 5. James Monroe died of general debility ; buried in Marble Cemetery, New York City. 6. John Quincy Adams died of paralysis, the fatal attack overtaking him in the House of Representatives ; buried at Quincy, Mass. 7 Andrew Jackson died of con sumption and dropsy; buried on his estate, the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn. 8. Martin Van Buren died of ca tarrh of the throat and lungs ; buried at Kinderhook, N. Y. 9. William Henry Harrison died of pleurisy, induced by a cold taken the day of his inauguration ; buried at North Bend, O. 10. John Tyler died from a mys terious disorder like bilious attack ; buried at Richmond, Va. 11. James K. Polk died from weak ness, caused by cholera; buried on his estate in Nashville, Tenn. 12. Zachary Taylor died from chol era morbus, induced by improper diet; buried on his estate near Louis ville, Ky. 13. Millard Fillmore died from paralysis; buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y. 14. Franklin Pierce died from in flammation of the stomach ; buried at Concord, N. 11. 15. James Buchanan died of rheu matism and gout; buried near Lan caster, Pa. 16. Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by J. Wilkes Booth; buried at Springfield, 111. 17. Andrew Johnson died from paralysis; buried at Greenville, Tenn. 18. Ulysses S. Grant died from cancer of the throat; buried in Riv erside Park, New York City. 19. Rutherford B. Hays died from paralysis of heart; buried at Fre mont, O. 20. James A. Garfield, assassinated by Chas J. Guitean ; buried at Cleve land, Ohio. 21. Chester A. Arthur died from Bright’s disease; buried in Rural Cemetery, Albany, N. Y. The Sultan of Morocco keeps a large number of live lions about his premises, and in the evening these an imals are set loose in the court yards of the Palace to act as guards of the royal harems. The Sultan is said to have rather more than 6,000 wives, 2,000 of whom reside in Fez. NUMBER 13. Mystery of Mysteries. Curse not the web of circumstance. Is God no God to thee? A brooklet ripples not by chance To j< in the brimming sea; By law its babbling waters dance And skip in minstrelsy. And are the laws of sea and brook But fables in thine eyes? And are the leaves of nature’s 'nook Writ with eternal lies? Is there no God of law to look On man and sympathize? Are great worlds moving without plant Were they by chance begot? The smallest insect doubt may scan Shows wisdom without blot. Then, be ye patient, foolish man— God is, or law were not. —Blackwood’s Magazine. The Veterans. We met at Chickamauga. I hadn’t seen him since We looked across the trenches and his bullet made me wince; But we both shook hands in friendship, as hearty as could lie. Though he had marched with Sherman and I had marched with Lee. We walked across the battlefield where once the bullets flew. And the green and bending grasses felt the fall of crimson dew, And we talked the whole thing over where the flag was waving free — How he had marched with Sherman and I hud served with Lee. The drums had eeased their beating. We saw no sabers shine. The hair about his forehead fell as snowy white as mine. And voices seemed to call us o'er the far, eternal sea. Where the men who marched with Sherman are in camp with those of L#e. We parted; eyes grew misty, for we knew that nevermore Would we meet until the roll call on the other peaceful shore, But both shook hands in friendship as hearty as could be, Though he had marched with Sherman and I had fought with Lee. —Frank L. Stanton in Chicago Times-Herald. A Fearful Criminal Urrord. The devil got into nun and women very largely last year. The record shows a fearful increase in the num ber of murders and suicides. There was a decrease in the number of lynchings but the number is still dis gracefully large. The Chicago Trib une, a specialits in criminal matters of all sorts, gives, the following com parative statement for six years past: 1895—Murders, 10,500; suicides, 5,758; lynchings, 171. 1894—Murders, 9,800; suicides, 4,912; lynchings, 180. 1893—Murders, 6,615 ; suicides, 4,436; lynchings, 200. 1892—Murders, 6,798; suicides, 3,860; lynchings, 235. 1891—Murders, 5,906; suicides, 3,331; lynchings, 192. 1890—Murders, 4,290; suicides, 2,040; lynchings, 127. It is a very bad showing for the South that there were twelve more lynchings in the Southern States last year than there were legal executions. Nearly every governor in the South has taken a determined stand against lynching and we may hope to see a decrease in this crime. The grand juries and prosecuting officers throughout the South have an imper ative duty in this matter and it will be unfortunate for this section if they do not perform that duty. The increase both of murders and suicides last year is alarming. The idea that in a country which boasts of being one of the leaders in the world’s civilization 10,500 people should have been murdered and 5,759 should have killed themselves in one year is truly shocking. We observe that physicians lead the list of professional men in the record of suicides. They have done so for many years past, not only Tn the United States, but in nearly every other country. Why is this? Last year fifty-nine physicians in the United States took their own lives, against forty-five in 1894. The increase of suicides by poison continues and the revolver is grow ing in popularity among those who seek self-destruction. Statistics of this sort are gruesome things, but we must know what goes on in this sin ful world. i i The JI nrvrlm of hu Ostrich’* Rlomach. The post mortem examination of one of the flock of ostriches owned by Barnum & Bailey, which has been on exhibition at the Central Park menagerie, New York City, gave the spectators a wonderful object lesson of the digestive capabilities of an os trich. The ostrich was disected by a taxidermist. He found the follow ing articles in the bird’s stomach: One wooden clothes pin; the bot toms of two beer bottles ; a mouth harmonica, five inches long and two inches wide; a ferrule of an um brella with a piece of the stick in it about four inches >ong; a inetal skate key; a brass door key, five inches long; a woman’s black horn comb; two pieces of coal; a woman’s silk handkerchief; three stones about an inch thick, together with some cab bage, grass, lettuce, celery and con siderable dirt. Strange to say, the ostrich did not die of indigestion, but from tuberculosis. The bird will be mounted in the museum and it would be interesting to preserve alongside the collection of objects which was * found in its stomach. A Kind Voice. There is no power of love so hard to get and to keep as a kind voice. A kind hand is deaf and dumb. It may be rough in flesh and blood, yet do the work of a soft heart, and do it with a soft touch. But there is no i one thing that love so much needs as a sweet voice to tell what it means J and feels, and it is hard to get and keep it in the right tone. One must start in youth and be on the watch night and day, at work and at play, to get and keep a voice that shall speak at all times the thoughts of a kind heart. It is often in youth that 1 one gets a voice or tone that is sharp, and it sticks to him through life, and stirs up ill-will and grief, and falls like a drop of gall on the sweets of home. Watch it day by day as a pearl of great price, for it will be worth more to you in days to come than the best pearl hid in the seas. A kind voice is to the heart what light is to the eye. It is a light that sings as well as shines.