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ATTORNEY AT LAW
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x Office in Lr.w Building
f3T Special attention give to cases in
ruptcy
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dee 14
MEDICAL.
lOuS *"'m L A E D Alfriend Win* a?socint
tr.e nsotvea ns the Arm of Alfriend A Son; respect
fully offer their proLaasonal services to the pub
lie _
Office on Public Square
Sparta (*a
mar 19
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SASSEEN’S
United States Hotel.
SASSEEN, YO&K & JOIRDAN,
• PROPRIETORS.
WI THIN 100 Yards of the Gt nnrnl Pas
senger Depot, Corner Alabama ad Pryo
streets, Atlanla.Ga. _______
,J w. F. BRYSON,
* R. T. JOURDAN,
July 2nd, 1868-ts. Clerks
18Q8. |>| s || / 1868.
AMERICAN HOTEL.
Alabama Street
Atlanta, geoh.-ia.
Nearest Ilouse to Tassengtr Depot
WHITE A WHITLOCK, Proprietors.
W. D. WILEY, Clerk
AIAVISG rc-leased and renovated the
above Hotel, *• are prepared to entertain
miens in a most satisfactory manner-
Chartres fair and moderate. Oar efforts
will be to please. ,
Baggage carried to and from the Depot
frtee of charge. a P rl * 23 c •
CITY HOTEL
Mo. I. 1. SIELIIMjS, Proprietress
GREENSBORO.’ GA.
lifPortori willbs found at every Tiain
feb«tf
THE GREENSBORO’ HERALD.
' ISAAC T. HEARD Cos.
1 WAREHOUSE
AND
| ■■ w xCJ
| Commission Merchants
Corner Reynolds and Mclntosh Streets,
Warehouse formerly octfnpwd by Mea-rs Austin
& Walker
ISAAC T HEARD) . .. . .
0 M STONE f Augusts*!
Will evote their strict personal attention to
the storage and salo of oottou and all other
produce, Commission for Sel ling Cotton 1] per
Cent Orders for Bagging Rope. Kto. prompt
■y attendedto. Diberal CASH advances made
at all lim s on prodnoe in store
„ for Gullett’s' Patent Improved
•Sleet Brush Cotton Gins Septl7
w € Courtney &lx
Factors
AND
Commission Merchants
® Boyce’s Wharf,
CHARLESTON, S. C
W. G CGUTNEY.
OBT MURDOCH
JSMURD CH
S. D. Heard & Sun,
WAREHOUSE
AND
Commission Merchants,
Augusta, Ga.
S D HEARD,
_ R W HEARD
Septl/
J J Pearce & Son,
Cotton Factors*
Commssion Merchants,
•Tue'fson Street Augus a, Ga. Store and sell
Cotton and ot or Produce
CASH ADVANCES.
Bugging' Rcpe and lamily supplies furnished as
u ' uai J J PEACE
C A PEACE
Septl7 ,
Wheless & Cos.
Colton Factors
AND
C 04IA1K8 -roO'mfliA A »fll
Reynolds Street Augusta, Ga, store and se l
0, tton «nd other produce Bagging and Rope
furnished at Maketcesp ir SeptlY
Os Augusta Ga. Os Mad,son, Qa
Stovall, & Butler.
>(' -qa if iliYfflLSrff iH lltfl 1
Cotton Warehouse
AND
Graeral Commission Merchants,
New Fire Proof Warhonse, Soothwes Corner
of Bry and Jpckson Streets, Augusta, Ga,
Sept3 2m
POLLARD, OQA <s• CO.
Cotton Factors,
WAREHOUSE
_A_3STID
Commission Merchants,
Ccirrr eyno’.ds and Campbell Streets,
ACGOSTA, GA-,
Agents for Reed’s Phosphate, Ang27 U
T. MARKWALTER.
MARBLE WORKS,
Broad Street. AUGUSTA GA
MARBLE MON 0 MINTS.
mOMB Stones, Marble Mantles, au.l Furniture
1 Marble of ail kinds from the Plaines* Jo
the m st Übora-e. designed and furn.she. to
“t-r'AD worklo'r the Country carefully
Boxed »»
GREENSBORO', GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1868.
POETRY.
From N-w York World*
EPITAPH ON THE RE PUB
LI CAN PARTY
Radical rulers, hear attend I
Your vile career is near its end,
Rre long your party epitaph
‘■Shall thus bedeck its cenotaph.
Here lies entombed forev.-rmore
The country's scourge, embalmed in gore,
No morif its fratricidal band
Shall drench with brothers’ blood the land,
No more shall knaves and frantic fools,
Base hypocrites, and hireling tools.
With brutal sway lord o’er their betters,
And hold their conuntrymen in fetters,
No more shall fiends with human faces
Thi-nst negroes into white men’s place.
No mot e shall men insulted be.
dy jackass pimps In livery.
For breathing what they think and feel,
Vi here despots sebtfrge the common weal,
Armed ruffians yet shall rue the hour
They laid I heir hands with ruthless power
On t 1 ose who nobly strove to stay
Ere yet commenced, the murderous fray
Fanaticism waged id spite
To trample whites ’Drain n-gro might.
No more shall vulgar shoddy snobs
Enrich ihemselvesby swindling jobs,
Churches no more shall echo howls
Os carnage preached by pious ghouls,
Fanatics, hark / the avenging roar
Booms o’er he land from shore to shore, i
List to the shouts that rend the air,
•For sage Seymour and hero Blair.
Their ct b fs, the earnest people hail—
Listen, ye despots! hear and quail.
The joyous time is near at hand
When those who now oppress the lacd.
Herding alone, shall b-ar the brand
Os outcasls swindling thimble-r ggers
Self-lowered to (he grade of niggers. j
Tribute ol Respect.
TO THE HON. Y. P. KING
Monday Sept. 14th, 1868.
His honor, P. B. ROBINSON,
having announced in appropriate
and affecting terras the death of Col
N . P. King, late a of the
Ocmulgee Bar, on motion ofM. XV.
Lewis, a Committee of five members
of said Bar, to wit: MXV Lewis, N
G Foster, Augustus Ileese J A
Billups and H D McDaniel, were
appointed to report suitable action
to he taken in reference to his
death, said Committee made the
following report:
or Gobi'f"trrr.tr/ j
our lamented friend and brother
was admitted to tho bar. His long
and useful public career was closed
where it begun,in the county of
bis birth. He manifested his affec
tion f oi the place ol hs na'ivity,
the friends of his childhood and
their decendants by devoting the
ardent energy of early life, the
strength and vigor of maturer man
hood, and wisdom and experience of
his old age to their service. llis
efforts in their behalf, were not;
grudgingly or feebly made, bu'•;
were all distinguished by that zeal. ]
promptness and ability, which were
eminently characteristic of his
whole public career.
Excepting the two years of his
absence from the State as the Rep-
resentative of his country at a forn |
eign Court, he never missed a;
term of the Conrt. His genial
countenance and cordial greeting,
spoke a heartfelt welcome to visit
ing brethren of the bar, that con
tributed in no small degree, to
render Greene Court, to them, the
most agreeable in the Circuit —
While there was much in his pri
vate life vO attract the eßqeai and
confidence of lriends, aad the ad
miration and respect of all who
knew him; while his social life
exhibited all those virtues that are
calculated to refine and ennoble
all with whom he came in contact,
while his domestic life was a con
tinuous display of words and acts
of tenderness and affection, that
bespoke, the warmth and piety of
his noble heart, it belongs to the
present occasion to speak of him
only, as a lawyer. None among his
many distinguished contemporaries
attained a higher or more enviable
rank in his profession. Prompt
atteution to all professional en
gagements, thorough preparation
of all his c sesscrupulous integrity,
i r rep*’each able conduct at all times,
and unsurpassed fidelity to tne in
terests of clients, joined with his
elevated. higLtoned sentiments ol
honor, and unaffected courtesy in
his intercourse with the members
of the bar, marked him as a noble
model of a cultivated lawyer and
true gentleman. Tis nO empty,
unmeaning compliment, but an
honest, sincere expression of our
appreciation of lus worth, when
we say that take him all in all w
never shall see again.
Resolrtd, That in his death, the
Ocmulgec Ear, has lo3t one ot its
“ VINCTT AMOR PATRIAS,”
brightest ornaments, and each one
ot us an esteemed friend, to whom
we were bound by much stronger
ties than thos§ of professional
brotherhnoji.
Resolved, That while the semi
annual return of Greene Superior
Court, will be saddly suggestive of
our loss, we will ever checrish
an affectionate remembrance of
those noble qualities of head and
heart, that made him the universal
favorite
Resolved, That we tender to his
stricken family, our heartfelt sym
pathy in their great hereavment,
and commend them to the care of
that never-failing Friend on whom
he fixed his hope in a dying hour
M. W. LEWIS,
N. G. FOSTER,
J. A. BILLUPS,
A. REUSE,
h. i). McDaniel
The Committee appointed to. re
port suitable action to be taken in
reterenae to the death of Hon. Y
P. KING, having made their re
port, on motion it was ordetea by
the Court, that the same be re
corded on the minutes and a copy
be furnished by the Clerk to the
editor of the GroenesborV 'Herald'
for publication and another copy-to
the widow of the deceased.
j From the VTaverley Magazine.
! Noted American Writers
BV J. PARISH STEELE.
“-Brick ” Pomeroy.
M ark M. Pomeroy was born at
Elmira, Chemung County, N. Y..
on Christmas day of 1833. Hi.
father, Mr. Hunt Pomeroy, was a
watchmaker and jeweler at Elmiril.
and his grandfather was Gen. Gate.-
of Revolutionary memory.
Mr. Pomery’s mother died while
he was but one year old, and lie
was adopted into the family of Seth
M. White, an uncle on the mother's
side, residing at or near Bpaf!m«:t
in Chemung county - Lr t > ‘" ll l€
brought up as the -boy-of-all-work
Pomeroy was noted for his love for
mischief, desire for fun and sympa
thy for all who were in trouble or
distress. His early education was
by no means neglected by his
friends, but it was not of that class
generally referred to in biographi
cal skr-tches of great men—it was
!an education to qualify him for
i hard labor as a farm hand, and a
( teamster. His time was pretty
! evenly divided between working on
j the farm and driving a lumber
i team to Elmira—eight miles dis
i t int—from the period when he was
deemed large enough to do such
things, (and that was early in his
ilife,) till he was sixteen years old.
!As ’a teamster, it is said, he was
i hard to beat. He was not what is
called a “horse racer” by the fra
ternity, but he generally managed
to pass every team in sight ahead
of him In the summer season
when the crops were laid by, he was
permitted to spend a small portion
of his time picking berries, carry
ing them in pails, and making his
independent fortune by peddling
them out from house to house.
Mark's education in the branches
above named was thorough, but in
most other branches it was sadiy
neglected, so far as tuition was con
cerned. The Sabbath School and
Bible Class were about the only
temples he was sent to for the pur
pose of worshipping at the shrine
of letters; but he found other
shrines nevertheless. He read all
the books he could lay hands on ;
and in the great hook of nature,
which is open to all, but seen by so
few he was a constant reader ot
men and things. ,
Under these it i«
not difficult to mark out the extent
of Mr. Pomeroy's early education?
as the world understands the term.
Grammar he never studied an hour
in his life, and all the other highei
branches were equally neglected.—
When he had learned to write he
felt that he was educated, and from
that time on much of his spare time
was spent in the getting up of pleas
ing original compositions for the
youthful friends to whom he hap
pened to take a fancy.
In 1660, with exactly one shtll
ing in his pocket, Mark M. Pome
roy quitted his uncle's roof, and
having journeyed to Corning, set
in there with Mr. Thos. Messenger,
editor and publisher of the “Corn
ing Journal,” to learn the printing
business. He soon became a very
popular “devil”—all the employees!
of the office liked him and in less
than one year and a half from the
time of his setting in, ho had en
tire charge of the job department
of the concern, and was voted the
best printer of that office. This I
have from Mr. Messenger himself,
who is now publishing a paper in
Canada West.
the time of Mr. Pome
roy's engagdpient on the “Corning
Journal, Mr. D. K. Locke, bettor
as “Petroleum V. Nasby,”
was-also an employee of tho estab
lishment, acting in the double ca
pacity of compositor and pressman.
they were a couple wjell met, and
the tricks which they were con
stantly- playing on each other were
truly amusing. to outsiders. I re-1
member one of them in particular
j f D:vt was played at the expense of
I Locke. Locke was paying his ad
dresses to a young lady in Corn
iug, and with a view to'iimproving
his standing in her estimation he
presented her with a very fine muff, i
Mark heard of it the next day, and i
went to the house and told the lady <
that Mr.. Locke had sent; for tho t
muff that he might exchange jt, as 1
it was not the ono lie intended to <
give. As Mark was tlnj Udcvil” in
the office, and thereforo the very
hoy most likely to be sent on such
jan errand, the muff was handed
over without a word. lie took it to
a fur store, offered it in exchange
for other goods, and that night, to
'the astonishment of all, the “devil”
stepped into the office fully rigged
out in a fine fur cap, with gloves
• to match.
Matters went on between Locke
and his adored as before, though as
he afterwards acknowledged, there
seemed to be an unusual coldness in
her manner. Ho made several vis
never dreaming of the trick
„ ’"*■* been played, and the lady,
unt | * .forbore to make any men-
fish out of water. There was some
thing wrong. lie begged her to
tell him what it was, and got for
his pains a contemptuous smile with
“Nothing!” and nothing more.
But murder will out. Church
daiv rolled around. Locke went.—
Ilfs lady love came, and lo ! though
tho thermometer pointed almost to
zero, she wore no muff! Poor
Locke! little did the exercises of
that meeting interest him. His
fate was written in the absence of
that muff, and all it bad cost him
had been lost. But Locke was
brave. He resolved on knowing
why site bad thus east him, off, ,or
die in the attempt, so that night
with a sort of trembling in bis
| boots, he presented himself. A\bat
was the matter? “Nothing! ’ Why
( had she so him? “She.
had not !” With sfie'rihA eVcn’ show
ing a contempt for the few little
simple presents he had made hei ?
Locke came to the office very
“out of sorts.” Mark denied the
soft impeachment, of course, but it
was of no use. Neither was it
anv use for Locke to blow about
the matter, so he set matters right
bv forwarding the lady, at the
hands of a more trustwor‘hy boy;
a second and much finer set of furs.
Mr. Pomeroy worked at tint print
ing business in Corning and in Wa
verley, N. Y., till 18.31. when ho
changed his location to Canada.—*•
Worked there over a year, earning
money and to use his own words,
“having lots of fun.” Returned
to Adorning at the end of that time,
and with a few dollars 5 on hand, he
purchased of Jones. Conner k
Sons, Typefounders, New York, a
neat little six hundred job office,
all on time. Paid the notes of ma
turity from the profits of the office,
started a small advertising paper,
and in 1854, sold tile concern out
for Thirteen hundred dollars. W ent
to Athens, Pa., and started the
“Athens Gazette.” 'Made a spicy
local paper of it, hut starved out
in two years. Left Athens, of
course, and after drifting abou
some time turned up at H'oricon,
Wisconsin, as editor ot the “Ga
zette” at that place. Made’ l , to use
expression of otio of his friends, a
“rollicking local paper” of it, one
that attracted more attentioh that)
auy other local paper in the State.
It was Democratic in politics, and
had no little influence in its eec
j tion. Through this paper came
Mr. Pomeroy's first burlesque ar
ticle in that style which has since
tendered him so famous in all parts
of the country. It was written to
burlesque the rival town of Beaver
D.im, and while it was anything but
pleasing to the Beaver Damitcs, it
formed an “outcropping” to what
was in tho man, and started him at
two-forty on the road to fame.
Some say the nick-name of ‘Brick’
was given him hero on aecount of
this u'tfcle, but I do not know that
such is the fact, as I have seen it 1
stated elsewhere that George D.
Prentice, in copying some of his
correspondence, gave him the name
of “Brick Pomeroy.”
In 1860, Mr. Pomeroy began his
career on the “Ha Crosse Demo
crat, an obscure local paper, with
out money or patronage. To make
his prospects look still more gloomy
that part of the -State was largely
Republican. But something seem
ed to tpll him that this was the
time and placm so, as the boys say,
he rolled up his sleeves and went
in. Ilarrassed by a bitter political
opposition, by abject poverty, by
sheriff's sales, by mobs, and by at
tempts on his life, and without a
dollar of official patronage, he con
tinued to go in, until he brought
the concern out. From a very
small and miserable conditioned lot
of materials, loosely scattered
about in a room twenty feet square,
noF worth three hundred dollars,
and in debt at that, he has built up
the finest printing establishment in
the United States, with a business
which actually pays over $250,000
clear profits. His building is four
stories high, twenty-five feet front
by one hundred and ten feet back,
and is put up on a costly plan, and
the most elegant tastei To give
you an idea yaf how extravagantly
the concern is fitted up, I have on-
It is claimed that the circula
tion of the “La Crosse Democrat”
has now_ reached 300.000. In wri
ting on the circulation of political
papers. Mr. Greeley puts the Dem
ocrat down as second in point of
size, the Tribune being first, of
course.
In addition to all this, Mr. Pom
eroy is now erecting, adjacent to
his office, an eighty thousand opC
'ra house at bis own expense, which
will, it is sabT, he by far the most
showy building in La Cro3se.
Mr. Pomeroy ba-just staro‘d a
new Daily paper at New York, en
titled the" “New York Democrat.”
Tt is of the same character as the
La Crosse Democrat, spicy, cutting,
and politically red hot. l'rom this
and the “La Crosse Daily Demo
! ernt” his large “Weekly La Crosse
Democrat” is made up.
Asa rapid writer, Mr. Pomeroy
lias few, if any equals. His tho ts
flow with great rapidity, and his
pen dashes along at telegraph speed.
Ilia style is peculiarly his own.—
Most new literary lights have, when
they become great, been extensive
ly imitated, but the subject of this
sketch has been spared all such an
noyance, owing to the fact that thore
is but one “Brick Pomeroy” in the
world. No one writes like him—
no- one can do it, He is a polished
orator as well as writer and can get
off a stuipp speech at a moment s
warning. Mr. G. W, Carleton oi
New York has just issued two beau
tiful volumes from Mr. Pomeroy,
entitled “Sense,” and “Nonsense.”
Ilis “Sense” is written in a some
what sober vein, and though quite
a readable hook, is not so peculiar
ly “Brick Pomeroy” as is his
••Nonsense.” Each work is a col
lection of short sketches, and in
looking over tho last named one is
astonished to find about all the real
ly good things that have gone the
rounds of the press within the last
six or eight years. Who has not
laughed till the tears came into his
feves over somebody s •‘First Exer
cise in Skating.” “The Science of
Kissing,” “Mosquitos on a Ben
der,” “The Fun of Sleighing,”
'and so on? Well, “Brick” wrote
all those these things, and Mr.
Carleton with his usual good taste,
T. 11. MORGAN, rriatcr.
NO. 25,
has Sound thorn nicely together in
j “Nonsense*. a
Mr Pomeroy is ofle of our most
remarkable men, and wo look with
a kind of vacant amazement at the
jWotmeiful success of his newspaper,
Until we reflect that nearly all of
that peculiar humorous literature,
so popular in this country of late
first came to light through
Couple this with the reflection that
fie is tho sole and able newspaper ’
I representative of a strong but pe
culiar grade of politics, and we can
easily see how it was that an ob
! scare local newspaper should so'
[suddenly run up to a circulation of
300,00 U.
Grecian Bend.
XV e see that a number of our co
temporaries are discussing the
above bend, and do not speak
very admiringly of it. XYe hold
I t "' lt * s a free country, and that
| the dear ladips have, a .right to dress
us they please, and bend as they
please; arid it is no ohe’s business
if they appear on the streets with a
Rend that is suggestive of a good
dinner of collards and cucumbers,
with slight idigestion and the con
comitant colic.
XVe have seen a number of “col
ored ladies” that had tho Bend to
perfection, and they attribute it not
to fashion, but the good old days of
cotton picking. We are told in
Scripture, that God made man up
right,—we take it for granted that
woman was included—but that he
has sought out many inventions,
we suppose the Bend was included
as among them —Southern Reco
der
Gold and Silver Anklets.
XX e see it stated in the fashionable
intelligence of an exchange, that
gold and silver bands, plain, chas
ed and even studded with precious
stones, are to be worn on the ankles
by the ladies. The dresses being
anil will be quite stylish. Tire' 61-
o„nrv».nf the anklet will,,of course,
wearer, as well as tho size’ of the
ankle it is intended to encircle.
-
XV omen as Type-Setters.— The
New York World narrates its ex
experience in the matter of employ
ing female type-setters. It has em
ployed at different times nearly a
hundred of them! but at last it has
given them up altogether. It found
them incapable of performing any
thing like as much type-setting as
men; it found them incapable of
I setting correctly, and it found them
! utterly incapable even of learning
to decipher “bad manuscript.” In
I the latter respect neither the sense
nf an article nor their own wits en
abled them to get out of their diffi
culties.”
The Ordinaries’ Duties.— The
new Constitution of Georgia creates
a number of important changes in
our county organizations. The In
ferior and County Courts are abol
ished, anti fne'duties of the Inferior
Court are imposed upon the Ordi
nary. This transfer of authority
makes the position of Ordinary a
very responsible and‘important one.
In addition to his present duties
will be the following:
“1, In directing and controlling
all the property of the county.
2. In levying a general and spe-
Icisd tax for county purposes.
3. In establishing, altering and
abolishing all roads, bridges and
ferries.
4. In establishing and changing
election precints and militia dis
tricts.
5. In supplying by appointment
all vacancies in county offices and
ordering elections to fill them.
6. In examining, settling and al
lowing all claims against the coun
ty.
7. In examining and auditing the
amounts of all officers of the county
and bringing to account, etc.
9. In providing for the poo~,
conntv police, health, quarantine,
education, etc.”— Macon Telepruph
A Prug ian infant of four years
weighs 226 pounds.
Ex-Attorney General SUnber
ry is going to stump Ohio for Sey
mour and Blair.