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THE GREEK SBIRO’ HEiuiA).
j, K. SPEM’E Jt To,, Proprietors, j
VOL. 11.
THE II i:if A I 11.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
AyEENSBORO’, ga
by
Jo It. Spenw k in.
Terms.
Ono copy per annum, ----- $2 oO
Schedule
FOR MACON AND AVGUSTA RAILROAD.
Lear© MilleJgoville 5 30 a m
Leave Carr’s 9 am
Leave Deavreaux 6 25 a m
Leave Sparta J a m
Leave G ulverton J 25 a m
Leave Mayfield ~ &Q a m
Leave Warrcnton 8 25 a in
Arrive at Camak 8 55 am
RETURN TRAIN
Leave Camak 12 30 pm
Leave ' arronton 1 05 p id
Leave Mayfield 1 40 p in
Leave G ulverton 2 10 pm
Leave Sparta 2 40 p rn
Leave Deavreaux 3 10 p m
Leave Garrs # 3 35 p.m
Arrires at Milledgeville 4 10 pm
Schedule of Georgia Railroad.
m
OX and after Thursday v October 10tb, 1 867,
the Passenger Trains on the Georgia
Railroad will run as follows *.
Lay Pnssecgrr Train.
(Daily , S uvday Excepted ,)
Leave Augusta at J am '
Lei? ve Atlanta at & 00 p. m
Arrive at Augusta at 3.30 pm
Arrive at Atlanta at 6 30 pin,
Night Passenger Train
Leave Augusta at 6.lJ> P m
Leave Atlanta at 5 45 r- to
Arrive at AtUn'aat 300 a in
Arrive :;t Augusta at 6 1 5 n m
Passenger for Sparta, Washington and Athen
Cl i, most take Day Passenger Train from Au
gusta an Atlanta
Passengers for West Point, Montgomery
Selma, Mobile, and New Orleans, must leave
Auguta on Night Passenger Trtiin at 7 15 p, in
to make close eon eotions.
Passengers for Nashville, C rinlh. Grand
Junction Memphis. Louisville, and ~t. Lou?.'
<an t ike either train and make cl ,- se conncc
tiling. , ,
Trough Ticket' and Baggage Checked
through t,o lie above places
Pullman's Pallaca bleeping (Fars on all
Night Passenger Trains.
6 E w cole
eetl9-t f General Superintendent
Atlanta A: AV. P. Ilail
roa il
L, r. GRANT, Snprriutcr.dent.
Leave Atlanta J a m
Arrive at West Point 12 a m
Leave West Point 12 40 p m
Arrive at Atlanta 5 30 p m
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
ON and afther .Tanuarv 12, 1868, Passenger
Trains w 11 run as follows j
GOING NORTH.
Leaving Atlanta.
820 A M Daily—(except Sundays) Express
I* issengcr Arrive at Chattanooga at
500 P >1 connecting with T-rxi sos
Nashville and Chattanooga Rialroad
for Nashville, Louisville, and the West
and Trains of Memphis and Oh.are.le*-
ton Railroad for Memphis New Grlea.cs
Ac.
4 15 P M Daily except Sundays Dalton Accom
modation Arrive at Marietta 5 55 P M
Cartersville, 8 18, Kingst n, 9 29, D i ! -
ton . 12 32.
700 P M Daily Great Northern Mail. Arrive
at Chattanooga at 4 00 A 31 connecting
with trains of Nashville and Chftttan o
ga Railroad for Nashville and the West
and making close connections for Mem
phis, New Orleans, e*c. via. Nashville
_ also connecting with East Tenncsoe and
Georgia Railroad for Washington
Philap'lphia. New York and others)
eastern cides
Coming South.
Arrive at Atlanta
2 35 A M Daily Great Southern Mail, Leaving
Chattanooga 5 35 P M connecting
with Train- of Nashville and i’h.tta»
nooga Raihoad and Dalton 8 » P 31
connecti g with Trains of Last Ie::nc?»*
see nd Georgia Railroad
10 30 A M Daily except Sundays Da ton Accom
modation Leave Dalton at 2,15 A M
Kingston 5 lj Cartersville 5 05 Ma
rleta 845 A M
315 P M Daily except Sundays Express Pn*-
serg r Leave Chattanooga at 6 35 A 31
making clo.'C conn *cti ns with trains *>f
Nashville A Chattanooga and 3lemphis
and Charleston Railroads*
laliman's Patent. Sleeping'Coaches on ail
fifhr Trains.
joiin r. feck
j io-30 ts Master Tranportation.
O' T JOHE>^-3N
ATTORNEY AT LAW
G-.A.
ofP?e in L‘ w Building
nov23
South Cnrolina Railroad.
Mail and Through rassenger Train—Au
gusta to Columbia.
Charleston Running Time.
Leave Augn-ta 3.40 a m
Arrive nt Kingville 11.15 a m
Arrive at Columbia 1.10 p in
Passengers for Wilmington Road. Cbar
otte Road, and Greenville and Columbia
Road, can only make connection by taking
this Train.
Mail and Passenger Train tr Augusta from
Columbia*
Charleston Running Time.
Leave Columbia 10.00 a m
Arrive at Kingville 12.05 p m
Arrive at Augusta 7 40 p m
Mail and Passenger Train—Augusta and
Ch rleeton.
Charleston Running 'Time.
Leave Augusta 3-40 a m
Arrive at. Chmlesion 12.20 p rn
Leave Charleston—»—........ 10.40 a m
Arrive at Augusta 7.40 p in
Night, Express Freight and Passenger Ac
commodation Train—Augusta and
Charleston. —Sundays excepted*
Charleston Running Time.
Leave Augusta 4.10 p n
Arrive at Charleston. 4.00 a m
Leave Charleston 6.30 p m
Arrive at Augusta 6.50 a m
H. T. PEAKE,
Dec2l'67 General Superintendent
NASHVILLEfc CHATTANOOGA RAIL
ROAD.
Clyuisrc of Tinye.
Two D lily Trains Icve Nashvilc for Wash
ington, Philadelphia New York End all points
East and South. Closi c nnec.ions mate at
Chattanooga, fjr all Eastern a..d Southern
Cities,
Office of Gener.il, Super'nten.lent, 4
N, &0. Railroad >
Nashville, Term. Doc. 8, 1867 : j
ON and aftor Sunday January 12, 1868 the
morning train will leave at 800 a in,
stopping only at Smyrna, Murfreesboro, War
trace, fuilahoina Estill’s Springs Ilercherd
Cowan, Andersm, Stevenson and Bridgeport
and arrive at Chattanooga at 505 p to.
The afternoon trajn will leave Nashville at
7 30 p m, stopping at all stations, and arrive at
Chattanooga at 6 00 s m
AM trains connect closelv with Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad, and all trains from
Chattanooga connect closet.) with Louisville and
Nashville r.ailroad
Elcwmit Palace Sleeping Cars on all A'ighf
Passcnpr Trains.
ShelbyviUe Accommodation Leave Shelbv
ville at 5 20 am, arrive at Nashville at 10,00
am Returning le ive Nashville at 345 arrive
at Shelby ville at 8,30 r> ra.
K If. EWING. General 3 up’t,
ISAAC LINTON, t.en’l Ticket Agent,
dec2l, 1867
FACTS FOR THE TRAVELING PUBLIC.
No deception Practiced
MEMPHIS A Charleston Railroad makes
close connections at Chattanooga-is the
Shortest. Best, and Quickest
Ji.-TjTu Tl IL LIME
To Mobile, New Orleans, Feli
ma, Meridian, Jackson,
Canton, Vicksburg
and Memphis
Pastengefc leaving Atlanta at 820 A >1
ARRIVE AT MEMPHIS THE NEXT DAY,
At 2 34 PM 18 hours and 41 minutes in ad
vance of passengers on the same train who go
via Nashvi'lee <fc Chattannooga and Na hvillo
t fc North Western Railroads. Passenger by same
train going South
Hukc Connection at Corinth
with Mobile A Ohio Railroad, and at, Grand
j,,nation with Mississippi Central Railroad
Twenty-Four Hours in Ad'-anre of passengers
n the same by Nash.il’e & Chattanooga and
X i.hvi le and" North-Western Railroads at Cor
inth Passengers for
Jackson Tcnn . Colombus, Cairo,
bt. Louis Chicago, and the West
Take the through train on the Mobile <fc Ohio
i*. U.
8 Hours and 12 Minutes
In Advance of passengers on same train by
Nashville & Chattanoogi and Nashville &
Western Railroads.
Fare as Low as by Any Other Route.
For tickets to all tlipsa points jpplv at 'he
Ticket Office of the Western A Atlantic Rail
road at the General Passenger Depot.
A A BARNES.
General Ticket Agent.
\V .T ROSS-
General pNperintondcnt,
JULIUS HAYDEN,
ian33 U South-Eastern Agent.
“ YINC’IT AMOK PAT HI.IV’
GREENSBORO’, GA., MARCH 5, 1808.
Augusta Hotel.
AUGUSTA, : : : : GEORGIA
S. M. JONES, Proprietor.
rINI IT S Leading, Fashionable llotrd. has
J. been newly and elegantly furnished,
nnd is no vprepated to extend a / Georgia
Welcome.”
Col. GEO. 11. JONEB, Chief Clerk,
may 10—if
GREENSBORO’ IIOTEI.
i t ■!! IE undersigned has re
opened the above narn
Rsi tijwfSlt ec Hotel at Ineold stand
opposite thef Court House
where he will at all times be pleased to se<
his friends and the public generally. Tht
bouse has been renovated, and the table
will be li orally supplied.
Mr W. T Roster will be in readiness
with good horses and vehicles to convey
passengers to .any desired noint.
J. J. DOHE/fTY
c pt2o—tf
AMERICAN HOTEL
Alabama Street
ATLANTA, GEOR jIA.
TYHITE & WHITLOCK, Proprietors.
Bryson and Wtley Clerks-
Baggage carried to and from Depot free of
charge,
PI, ANTE US HOTEL.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
"VfEWLY furnished and refitted, unsurpassed
j-X by any Hotel South, isjiowopen to the
Public
T. S. NICKERSON . Prop’r.
Late of Mills Home, Charleston, and Piojjrietor
of Xickersou’s Hotel, GWumbla, ts. O.
CITY HOTEL.
Mrs. J. A. SPELLINGS, Troprictress,
Grecusboro', <»ii,
r sif*Porters will be found at every Ttain,
febS ts
GEO. F. PIERCE JR.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office Law Building,
dec 14
NEW GOODS
rnilE subscribers are constantlvreceiving
I flesh accessions to their present desira
ble stock of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
and the publii, as welUas their friends, are
respectfully’nvited to favor them with a
call.
Their assortment of
DRESS GOODS
Hats, Shoes, School Books, &c.,
arc ample and are off -red at prices that
will not fail to give satisfaction.
may3-tf HOWELL & NEARY.
New Firm.
r |MIE firm of Dougherty & Turner having
1 bom dissolved we propose to continue 'be
same bussines under the firm and style as under
signed. We hope that, our friends and the
public will remember us and treat u>
in kindly as in days past. We will receive on
consignment and sell to the best Jtinu. e all
g-mds entrusted to our care W< have on hand
Groceries, fry Gnods &c . and are aso general
Gnano a ent*. would be j leased tc sopp ! y the
farmers the coning season.
I.C.A DeL.IMAR TURNER
Sparta Ga, janlO 1808
The Galveston Yews,
Published Daily, Tri-WeAlv und Weekly,
GALVESTON TEXAS.
Terms oi" News.
U. S. Currenev.
Daily, per yeor
Tri-Weekly, per year “ u
Weekly, per \ear „ .
' V W.RICHARDSON k CO,
jan 031867 Editors * Proprietors
"Wanted !
A Vo, 1 Blacksmith wanted immediately
CARMICHAEL. GRIFFIN k SMITH,
i Fob. 13. I itiS -ts
POETRY.
mW SOtrXIIEUN 1101 l 11. (
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My Ho tne is by the river's side.
Our and strung.' old river,
Whose bkuadless wealth to Mexio’s tide,
Goes running on forever.
’Tis a styuny Home, where the ori'dc swings
Amid each le ;fy cover ;
Where the morning breaks to the sound of
wings.
Aud the song-bird woes Us lover,
A starry Home, where Southern night
Looks )ovc o’er leal anu water ,
Where walks the moon her path of light,
As calipas prophet’s daughter.
A happy Rome in the days before
Hate cast her fearful omen,
And the flowers that gr w by the p< aceful
door
Wore crushed by the feet of foemen. |
A joyous home till spoilers-came,
With steel and banner, burning,
A ud wrapped our fields and homes in flame,
Our altars overturning ;
And our noblest sprang to their country’s
call,
Out-numbering foes defying,
And around her stood like a castled wall,
And prayed for Her when dying.
There left my side a brother, limn.
His blue eye softly regal;
No knightlicr crcit ere marshalled men,
His soul as true as eagle.
In his early youth he had kissed the page
Where glows the song and story
Os the precious names that in by-gone age
Have tred the path to glory.
I’ve list him tell, with awe and pride.
The deed’s of‘•martyr’d Poland
How Ivry sa\v King Henry ride ;
Os Bayard end of Roland ;
Os the princely B>uce, and the Swissland’s
Dofiwt,
ltis mountain’s fiercely keeping ;
Os the stalely Cid ; and our own bright host,
Whoss ashes are proudly sleeping-
And well I knew, if battle’s pall
Ere darkened our savannahs,
Os one wor.’d own fair Dixie * call,
And dialeneath her banners. . ,
And he sleeps the sleep of the storied brave
My bine-eyed, darling brother.
Where the palm and sweet magnolias wave,
And then there was —another,
Who pressul his warm, rich lips to mine
II is gif taring on my finger,
Whilst heart leap’d up as clings the vine.
1 co lid not bid him linger,
And lie passed like light lo the fi, Id, away
Where brave men led the rally :
And his bright locks rolled where the fjre
most lay.
And lie sleeps in “The Valley.’’
They told me Toncc had spread her wing,
And the battle shock was over.
J saw a gird, bright maiden spring
To meet her soldier lover ,
But thete came for me not a joyous hour
With soft Letlien (olein :
Even brighost things have the saddest pnweq
When hearts and homes are broken.
\
Y'es, brijrbest things may round us lie,
A paradise revealing ,
May speak of promise to the eye,
Yet break it to the feeling.
And my own bright clime,and this sunny
strand.
The bird-songs, anil the flowers—
All whisper to mo of that gallant band,
The lost and good of eurs.
All honor to our noble dead—
Your sleep is purer, bettsr,
Than life with tyrants overhead,
Sconred with rod and fetter.
Tint a little while and we "hope to go
To joiu your tanks ftrever,
And- rest in the shade of the tiees” that grow
Beyond ihe peaceful River.
l>aniel AYobxter'w Proph
esy.
This is an appropriate titne to
call to mind Daniel Webster s fa
mous prophesy so often quotedd as
a warring in year3 past :
If those fanatics and abolition
ists ever get power into their hands
they will overrule the Constitution
set the Supreme < ourt at defiance,
change and make laws to suit them
selves, and finally, they will bank
rupt the country and deluge it
with blood.
Was ever prohrsg more true
| than this ? Is not its almost final
| fulfillment cuough to rouse th° peo
ple to a sense of the dangers wliic i
I surround them ?
a suoitr PtriNi kidit no >
BU DOW. Jit.
My text i» taken from the Newspaper,
which makes its business to know every
body’s business ; *• /
*‘!s it any body’s business
If a gentlemen should choose *
To wait upon a lady
II that lady dati’l refuse?
Or to speak a lit Ig plainer.
Tlitrt the meaning all may.know,
Is it any body's business
If a lady lias a beau ?
Tile substance of our query,
Simply staled wonid be this :
Hit any body’s business
What another's business is ?
Whether ? ti? or whether ’(isn't,
Wa should renlly like to know.
For. we’re certain, if it isn’t,
Th' re are son e who make it so. - '
I
MY HEARERS;
I never was in a world wlu-re people
make it tlu-ir business to meddle with busi
ness that is none of their businaa-s os they
do in this, aud yet, are everlastingly com
plaining that they havn’t enough busiue.-s
to attend to, Perhaps you may say this is
uouc of brother Dow's bus'll cs. I mora
than halt think so myself- nevertheless, I
shall lake ’he responsibility for this ouce,
of meddling with the meddlers.
Now, my brethren, there is nothing that
can create nervous excitement in a small
village, upon a diminutive scale like the
premonitory symptoms of marriage be
tween a young couple moving in a circle
anywhere outside of that town’s door. Ev
eiybody io agitated from the grammar
school to the gnmdmother-**from the plo*
boy to iparson. The social hire begins
to buzz when it is first whispered about
that Abijah Yardstick and Patience Peapod
an* getting as thick as (bree in a bed and
two tit the foot. The community is getting
tijmu -ts, .(."in toe matter, rne subj.-ct
is brought on at breakfast, set out again
for dinner, und warmed up for tea—and |
eomatlinos nibbled at between meals. Old I
maids turn their cups bottom upwards and '
tell their fortunes; see plenty of beaux
perfectly alive with eadles, as brother
Townsend says, in the mysterious tea
grouuds, fine houses, splcnded equipages,
and I don’t know.but bouncing babies. Old
bachelors beat the devil’s tattoo upon the
window-sill with their lingers, and indulge i
in all sorts of silent conjectures. Father I
and mother feel of the ribs, look in the
mouth, and exumiuc all the prominent
points of the interesting young couple, and
conclude they arc hardly yet lit for market,
or would not work well together in double
harness. Auut Prudence censes from her
knitting lo relate what she- has heard ; and
then goes at it again with redoubled fury—
as if she was trying to knit herself round a ,
race-course in two minutes and twenty s, c
onda. Every body has something to say
about the mattir—there is no such thing us
keeping quiet. There is a super-abundance
of electricity in the moral atmosphere, and
(V -ry one’s magnet more or less affected.
The excitement, my brethren, continues
gradually to increase, till it is asserted that
••they are positively engaged!” Then
comes the climax. • “Do toll!” “I want to
know!’ “I declare!” ‘‘You don't say
so !” are echoed in parlor, dining-room,
»Ld kitchen, and yet is just what every
body expected. Thou next Sunday a scrap
of paper is seen through the g!a-s door of
a little box stuck in the porch at the meet
ing house, announcing the intention ot
marriage “between Mr. Abijui, Yardstick
and Patience Feapod, bath ol this town.’
Then in goers gather about it thicker than
crows roun*l a dead horse —or red ants
about a plate of sweet cake, il that suits
you better; and while the hymn is .being
sung, the sheepish-looking pair, ns the
psalmist says; are the rhinoceroses of all
eyes. In a week or so. inquisitiveness, is
satiated. Affairs take a more sober turn;
the slioemairer's and tailor's promises are
fulfill, and to the letter- Betty, the kitchen
maid, don’t let her di b water boil over;
and the store ft ecpir’s clerk finds less diffi
culty in posting up his books. Everyone
minds h s oivu business until, perhaps a cer
tain old gray marc is seen, every Sundae
night, bitched to the gatepost in front of a
certain young lady’s residence —and then
the whole Tiling goes mad again.
My brethren, for charity’s sake, whose
!m iness but her own is it if a young iady
Inis a beau, two beaux, twenty beaux or no
beau at all ? Is a little flirtation, or a
course of systematic courtship such a nov- !
el and wonderful affair as to excite the cu- j
riositv and meddling propensities of tocie- |
ty at large ? Why the thing has been done
ever since N’oab and his family gave up the
ship, and went forth to multiply and re.
plenish the earth. It is a fait business
transaction between the parties concerned
—and a very pleasant piece of business it
is too, when not interfe;r.d with by calcu
lating parent.', w’uo o arithmetic !.- ym Bi
T. 11. Mlittll. I'riutcr.
NO. 44.
ble—by paste-board relatives, who fear that
*>me of the starch will be taken oul of the
family pride—and by out-ide’pnke*noses in
general, who arc determined to meddle for
the fun and cruelly of the thiug. Lord!
what an unnecessary fuss there is made -
when a fvllow treads up to a girl Wfif U#
meant to put her through a hasty courtship
and then make her his old woman in spile
of the devil himself/ I wonder if, when a
gander selects his goose, there is such a
gitlb! ng and shaking of feathers among
tile flock.
My friends: I intended to have said some
thing about meddling with other matici»:
but ns my printers hare got ml in a fight
corner, we will conclude by singing the fol
lowing hymn. You can try it to the tone
of Nancy Duwson:
“How nice it is to have a bean
To take a body to and fro,
The opory, church or Monkey show,
And hope for blessed union!
For the.i, wher’er we chance to stray.
On sunny night or sunny day,
| The people all will surely say—
There'll shortly be a union?’’-'
’Tis sad to have to walk alone,
j Along a path with brambels strewn,
Without a beau tb call your own,
And not a show for union /
Nov no wonder that old maids declare
They’re ten years younger than they are,
And paint their cheekp aud dye their hair.
To bring about a union !
But to the devil they most go !
The bachelors will be there too;
And every one will get a beau,
But narry happy uaiou !
So note it be I
A Horrible Csiniiibnl .Story.
A bonible tragedy (heretofore briefly
mentioned] is reported fr m the Island of
Fcjee, South Seas. The Rev. Thomas Baa
nlth an a-ai-tant missionary and sfx
native teachers, went to visit some island
tribes, and he and his party were brutally
murdered by one of the tribes, who are de
scribed as the most confirmed cauuibais.—
The writer says:
“In this town (Longtown] there lives a
notorious cannibal, with wncm I had a lit
tle conversation. He pointed me to a pile
of human bones in the fork of au orange
tree Under which we were sitting, and as
sured me that he had eaten the men of
wh ch each bone there was a representative,
ami that hu had kept these bones as a me
mento of his ca’ioihaU-m, Many other
| things did this inhuman wre ch make known
I to me, and his countenance and more than
| ordinarily worn teeth only helped to con
| vines me tlwt he had literally been a bone
[crusher. To have listened to this maa’s
statements, and told, too, in the presence
of those who could have contradicted them
!j f false would have removed forever from
the minds of some the idea that Fejeeans
are not lovers of human flesh. This vile
cannibal declared that, as for eating, noth
ing was comparable to human flesh, not
even fowls or pork.”
The main fact iu the above statement is
confirmed by the letter of a gentleman
formerly ot Lawrenceburg, Indiana, to a
brother in Cincinnati, dated Lconka, Ova
lan, Fejee, September 2nd, 1867- We make
the follow ing extract:
‘ Our native population, too, have been
indulging themselves in a cannibal feast,
almost unprecedented in the annals of can
bal Fejee. There is a district iu the largs
est island of the group of which little !•
yet known. W; to men have crossed over
or through it, but it was never considered
safe. About two months ago one of the
Wesleyan missionaries with somewhat of a
bravado spirit, determined to penetrate in
to the stronghold of heathenism, by their
leave or no. lie took with him ten of the
Christian natives of coast tribes, and march
cl boldly on, fom town to town, through
heathendom, thongff lie was warned by the
people time and again, that he would be
killed if he went furth t ou. Still he went
on; anil when in the midst ot the district
they set upon him and hit follower* and
killed all but one of the natives, who es
caped bv more of a chapter of accidents in
his favor thau otherwise . to tell the horri
ble tale. The dead bodies were all piled
U p a powwow was held over them by the
lathcns. and ilien they were distributed
tor cooking, the ruling chief keeping Mr.
Baker aud one native for his own private
palate.
Pin; coast is in a furore The old king is
making preparations to kill, hang and
quarter the interior tribes, and sell ouv the
distr ct to white settlers for cotton grow
ing. Hundreds, or thousands, perhaps,
will be sacrificed to avenge the missiona
ry's death.
We have been informed, by a responsible
gentleman of this place, of a female child
being torn in York District, with a true
resemblance of a waterfall, at the back or
1 t.pr head What is still as remarkable, ttie
mother uever approved of such fashions^
1 Its hair is about an inch in length, and ol a
I beautiful black. How strange that nature
will endeavor In imitate the fashions of the
Luv by such ridiculous freaks, t h. pro
-1 lom for the wise to solve.— Chester -tana