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DEVOTE® TO new®, POLITICB* LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AN® GENERAL PROGRESS—INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS . VOL. X. $3 OO a Year in Advance. business cards. Philip B. Robinson, Attorney at Law, OREENESBORO'. . . . GA \x7iLL give prompt attention to business ** entrusted to his professional care. Feb. 20, 1873—6 ms M W. LEWIS & SON Attorneys at Law, GREENESBORO’, GA. r PIIE Senior member of this firm having -*• concluded to devote his time (hereto fore divided with his farm,) more exclusive ly to his profession, the undersigned, in re newing their partnership, hope to give such prompt and efficient attention to business as to merit the approval of their clients. M. W. LEWIS, jan9,1873-1 y E. L. LEWIS. Wm. H. Branch, A TTORNEY AT LA W. UKIIEHiItXBOnO', LA. f CONTINUES to give his undivided atten ' J tion to the practice of hig Profession. Returning thanks to his clients for their encouragement in the past, he hopes by close application to business to merit a con tinuance of the same. over Drug Store of Messrs. 15. Torbert & Cos. Oreenesboro’ Jan 16th 1874—1 y. 11. E. w. paijier" I Attorney at Law* UItEEYESISOKO', - - - €A. A LL business intrusted to him will rc- J\_ ceive personal attention. fljsfOFFlCE—(With Judge Heard,) in the Court—House, where he can Vie found during business hours. oet 15,’ 4tf wT W. LL.fl Pli § ATTORNEY AT LAW , 3’YIOY POINT, - -a OFFERS his professional services to the people of Greene ami adjoining coun ties, and hopes, by close attention to busi siness to merit and receive a liberal share of patronage. ‘jan23 ’74—ly. Dr. Win. Morgan, RESIDENT OREENESBOROGA. feb. 1, 1874. T. MARKWALTER, Marble WOrkM^ BROAD Street, AIjGUSTA, Ga. MARBLE Monumen s, Tomb-stones, Marble Mantles, and Furniture Mar ble of all kinds, from the plainest to the most elaborate, designed and furnished to order at short notice. All work for the country carefully boxed. n0v2,1571 —tf Pure Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines FINE PERFUMERY, TOILET ARTICLES, WINDOW GLASS,aiI sizes, LAMPS and LANTERNS, BUIST’S Garden Seeds, KEROSENE OIL, WHITE LEAD, Colors, LINSEED OIL, BRUSHES, &c.. For sale by .1. A. GRIFFEY. ®SP~Physicians’ prescriptions carefully dispensed. march 12, 1874 —ly Teaching! Learning! ! HARRIS’ INDEPENDENT HISS SCHOOL. I SHALL commence Teaching again on the 3d MOV WAV in JAM ARI, next, (1875.) JgyTUITION the same as heretofore, $4 00 per month—half to be paid in ad vance. IV. 1., 11, Harris. December 17, 1874—tf GEORGIA —Greene County—John A. Champion, Administrator of Seaborn L. Hutcheson, applies for Letters of Dis mission and such Loiters will be granted on the first Monday in March 1K75. Given under my hand and official signa ture this December Bth 1874 .11(EL E. THORNTON. OH v. She iGrccnrsliiirfi’ HrratiY Ihiilroatf Schedule. 1U AL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS Georg'ia Itailroad. Day Passenger Train. Leave Augusta, 8.40, a. m. Leave Atlanta, 6:30, a. m. Arrive at Atlanta, 6:45, p. m. Arrive at Augusta, 8:45, p. m. Night Passenger Train. Leave Augusta, 8:15, p. m. Leave Atlanta, 6:00, p. m Arrive at Atlanta, 6:05, a, m. Arrive at Augusta, 4:00, a. m. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN. Leaves Atlanta, 6:00 p. m. Leaves Stone Mountain, 6:45 a. nr Arrives Atlanta, 8:00 a. m. Arrives -tone Mountain, 6:15 p. m. S. K. JOHNSON, Sup’t. :Or Western At Atlantic R. R Night passenger Train — Outward. Leave Atlanta, 6:00 p. m. Arrives Chattanooga, 1:30 a. m. DAY PASSENGER TRAlN,—Outward. Leave Atlanta, 8:30 a. m. Arrives Chattanooga, 4:28 p. m. Night Passenger Train — lnward. Leaves Chattanooga, 3:45 p. m. Arrives Atlanta, 11:20 p. m. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. — Inward. Leaves Chattanooga, 5:45 a. m. Arrives Atlanta, 1:20 p. m, DALTON ACCOMMODATION. Lsaveg Atlanta, 4:35 p. m. Arrives at Dalton, 12:20 a. m. Leaves Dalton 2:00 a. m. Arrives Atlanta. 9:50 a. m. Jos. E. ISROWN President. MASONIC. Kiitt IHnnutt Saxlup. Yo 55 1. GKEi.JKSBORO', GA. Regular Meetings—First Wednesday night of each mon li. M. MAIIKWALTER, Scc’y. fitwiitslMtro’ IS. A. r., Y’e. 3? OREENESBORO’, GA. Regular meeting—Third Ftiday night of each montii. C. C. NORTON, Sec’y. I \!o\ I‘OIXT LOIMJE, Y'o. 300, F. A. 41., Union Point, Ca., meets regularly the 2d and 4ih Thurs day evenings in each month. JAMES M. GRIFFIN, W. M. O. E. FLUKER, S. W. JOHN T. COX, S. W. Feb. 4, 1875—tf \ A7"!SUING to devote myself entirely to v 4 the legitimate business of Clock and Watch Repairing, from this date, I of fer my entire Stock of Watches and Jewel ry at cost, finding that it interferes too much with the business I prefer. M. MA It KW AJLTEIt. Oreenesboro’, Ga., Sept. 24, 1874-tf CENTRAL HOTEL. BY 41 rs. W. 41. THOMAS, AUGUSTA. Ga- Jan. 21—ly. I ill M! persons indebted to Hightowers & Cos., are hereby notified to come forward and settle their accounts immediately, as we are determined to close our Books for 1874. All persons failing to do so, will find their Accounts in the hands of an Attorney —no exceptions. Nov. 19, 1874—1f J. MURPHY & CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in English White Granite and Common China Ware. —ALSO— Semi-China, French Chi na, Glassware, dec. 314 KICOAW STREET, jan 21—In). AUGUSTA, Ga $5 .. S2O h 7,t dress O. BTINSON & Cos . Portland, Maine .Tan ?1 1575-lv GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1875. POET’S CORNER. DUST. BY MR#. ELLEN M. MITCHELL. Whence come they, rising, felling every where, These tiny atoms sailing through the air? Far out at, sea, no glimpse of land in sight. They dance adowu the bars of glad sun light ; Nor is there in the world a single place Where one their subtle presence may not trace" What though we brush them patiently away ? We cannot stop the progress of decay. Still others come to fill the vacant space; All marks of dust no mortal can efface. We wonder not that, cloud-like, it appears ’Mid attic rubbish left untouched for years But on the book, a moment since laid down, W T e mark it settling with impatient frown. Whence comes it, that in clean-swept, dar kened rooms, In iron safes, close-locked, as well as tombs, It gathers still ? Is’t thus things pass away, Their atoms falling round us day by day? Is’t thus God meant the human race to learn. “Dust art thou, unto dust shalt thou re turn.” [Ex. aiVky. IIAMII/IOV, Jit. A MAN WHO REMEMBERS THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. THE STATESMAN-SOLI)IEIt’s EI.DEST SOYS RE COLLECTIONS OF HIS FATHER’S LIFE —A SUGGESTION FOR MR. A. T. STEW ART TO CONSIDER OVER. [From the New York Sun.] A remarkable old gentleman sat in an easy chair before a warm fire, in tbc front parlor of 87 Clinton place yester day afternoon. From the top of his high, full forehead, curled soft white hair to the edge of his snowy beard, and his skin was smooth. His sn ail hands, however, were wrinkled, and tbc veins distended their covering. His broadcloth suit, satin neck tie, and kid slippers were black, and accurately fashioned. He directed his brilliant eyes toward a Sun reporter, and smil ing dreamily. asked him to be seated. “ Are you not Alexander Hamilton’s eldest son, sir ?” asked the reporter. *■ Yes, I am Col. Alexander Hamil ton, Jr., the eldest son of Alexander Hamilton,” said the old gentleman, looking into the tire, and folding his arms in his lap, as though preparing for a long, cosey chat, “and I am about ninety years of age. I am the eldest of eight children, two daughters and six sons All of these except the former and the youngest of the latter are still alive. My brother Philip, two years my junior, was billed in 18U2 in a duel by a Mr. Acker. A political difference was the cause of the fatal meeting. Cooper, the tragedian, pre pared and seconded Acker, and a young friend performed the same services for my brother. Shortly after the duel Acker died, as every one said, of a b:oken heart. By the way, please write a note to A. T. Stewart, and tell him that his picture of Alexander Hamilton and his wife is a perfect cari cature. My father was born on the island of Nevis, in the West Indies, of a Scotch father and a Fren h mother. From the latter he inherited the finan cial talent that he afterward displayed in the office of Secretary of the Trea sury. At a very early age he left his home to enter the employment of a Mr. Cruger of Santa Cruz. Whenever his employer was away, my father took charge of his extensive business. In a year or two a commercial life became distasteful to him, and he came to this city. He went to Princeton College, and asked to be examined for entrance. As his application was made after the beginning of a regular term it was re jected. “ He returned to New York and en tered (Juiuinbia College. One of its officers, Mr. Cooper, was an ardent Tory, and frequeutij wrote articles un favorable to the Colonists, and gave them to n)y father for delivery to the newspapers. When they appeared in print they were always accompanied by powerful answers, written by my father This was in 1775, when the resentful feelings of the Colonists began to show themselves. A mob collected about Columbia College one day and threaten ed to kill Mr. Cooper. My father went out and commenced to address it. Mr. Cooper leaned out of a front witi- dow, and shouted : ‘Do not listen to that disloyal young rascal. He is tell ing you a lot of lies.’ My father's hear ers became more furious when these words reached them, and he had to ex ert all his oratorical strength to keep them in check until he could send a messenger to warn the Professor to fly. “ In 177 G he raised a company of ar tillery. ‘ Washington’s Court,’ A. T. Stewart’s picture, contains outrageous caricatures of my father and mother. My father’s height was the same as mine, five feet six inches and a half, and in the picture he is as tall as Mr. Jay. My mother is put in a sort of hole. II Stewart will send for me, I will go to h s house and point out the blemishes in the picture. It will cost him a dress coat, though, for I gave mine away a while ago. After uiy father had collected and equipped the compauy of artillery he was introduced to Washington by Gen. Green Wash ington made him a member of his staff, and considered him a valuable subordi nate. Now. sir. (leaning forward and whispering), I am going to tell you something that few know : my father wrote all but the first three lines of Washington’s farewell address. Wash ington submitted a sketch of his pro posed address, and in an accompanying letter, which I have seen, said, ‘Write your connections, alterations, and re marks in a clear hand, so that I can copy them without blundering.’ My father thought it best to rewrite all but the first three lines. “My father broke his connection with Gen. Washington’s staff on ac count of an undeserved reproach. Gen. Washington and he were in Philadel phia at the time the rupture was made. My father was iu the habit of issuing ordinary orders without consulting Gen. Washington. As he was return ing oue day from the quarters of Col. Trumbull, to whom he had bee iving some instructions, he met ihe til-acral, who said, ‘ Col. Hamilton, I wish to speak to you,’ and led the way to his private office, where Gen. Lafayette was seated. Without prologue Gen. Washington said, • Col. Hamilton, you have treated me with great disrespect’ To which my father answered, ‘ If you think so, General, we can separate.’ “On the day of my father’s duel with Burr, my youngest brother and I were fa his office in Pearl street, having Come earlier in the day from the family scat, a mile above what Is now called Manhattauville. The Sunday before, Col. Smith,,son-in-law of John Adams, had dined with us, and the result of a conversation on the subject was a tacit agreement on my father’s part not to fight. When he felt his death wound he said to nis second, ‘Take my pistol. I will riot lire.’ But his request was not heard, and as he fell the weapon struck against the earth and was dis charged. My brother Philip, who was shot two years before my lather, withheld his fire in the same manner. My father was the victim of a con spiracy. “ When Burr afterward visited Paris he wrote to Talleyrand, announcing his intention to visit him. Talleyrand's reply was, ‘ I have a picture of Alex ander Hamilton hanging in my house,’ Burr did not call. While the revolu tion was devastating France, Talle yrand was a frequent and welcome visi tor at our house. On one occasion, re ferring to my father, he said, ‘ I have seen the man who made the fortune ol his country toiling all night to support his family.’ After my father’s death I went to Spain and Portugal, to learn something of foreign manners and cus toms. “ A week after my arrival in Lisbon the Duke of Wellington encamped be fore the Castle of Badajos. Mr. Bar ron of Philadelphia and I joined his army and awaited the battle. The cas tle was on the summit of a mountain, and surrounded by a series of fortifica tious, the inmost of which was a chevaux de-frise, seemingly insur mountable. The British troops stormed all the outlying defences, but were brought to a stand by this barrier. Meanwhile the French and Portuguese were pouring shot and shell into their ranks. The Prince of Orange, who commanded the British storming party, despatched an orderly to inform the Iron Duke that the soldiers of Eng land could advance no further. When tho Duke received this message, he said : 1 Damn the Prince of Orauge The soldiers of England must advance.’ During this enforced pause a British bugler, supposing from the comparative quiet that the garrison of the castle had retreated, crept through the ohevaux de-frise and sounded his bugle. The garrison, believing that a large part of the enemy had entered the castle, be gan a wild and disastrous flight. By the by, sir, do not fotget to write to Stewart about that caricature of uiy father and mother. I did not remain long in Europe after this battle,and on uiy return to New York Studied law. Iu time i became District Attorney— was subsequently appointed by l’resi dent Monroe one of three Florida Land Commissioners' I wrote the report of this commission, and it is still referred to in title suits in that State. “ I married the daughter of William brother of John Knox. She was a finely educated aud very sweet woman. Her father spent SIO,OOO on her educa tion. She died 1871. We never had any children. All my brothers are widowers. Now, sir, do not forget to write to Stewart about that burlesque on my father and mother.” Col. Hamilton retires and rises early, and in fair weather exercises liberally Ho reads a chapter of the of the Bible and the service of the Protestant Epis copal Church every day, and frequent ly sits under its ministers. Sympathy to tiio South. We notice that the Northwest is of fering sympathy to the South. A cor respondent speaks plainly on this sub ject. If Grant’s Arkansas message does not disgust the honest Republi cans of the North and Northwest it is simply impossible for him to do any thing that they will not approve. This correspondent says : “I am confident there has never been su ii a marked change of senti ment, such an earnest determination to have wrong righted, as is in the minds of the people of the Northwest. There is no guarded, careful or doubtful ex pression as to the course of Northern political managers towards the South. All condemn the field marshals, and there is a general fixed purpose to see to it that hereafter a complete change of maneuvering is adopted I over heard many in the hotels and on the ears give expression to their feelings in regard to the castigation J Y. Brown gave to Butler. Without a single ex ception all admitted that wbat ho said was true, but doubted bis judgment. Butler is like a convicted thief-—He has no friends. Conservative Southerners need have no fears as to its effect. I am well convinced it has done great good. It has made all realize that the South has been goaded to death —even to such an extent that patience has ceased to be a virtue. So said those with whom I conversed. We prophesy a greater change will Like place at the next Presidential election than was wrought ii* the Harrison campaign - The people are clamorous for a change. They feel they have been most grossly imposed upon by the Radical leaders, and that the people of the South have been outrageously insulted and misre presented. Again I say there is no mistaking the outspoken, frank expres sion of opinion of the voters of the Northwest. That section at least is aroused and is iu sympathy with the South. Manufactured murders and crime cannot longer be used to gull them They are literally disgusted by designing politicians.” —The people of Alabama have a superfluity of officeholders who draw a great deal of money from the public treasury for which they make r.o valuable return. In or der to rid themsel v es of these leeches they are thinking of call ing a Constitutional Convention, which they would probably do were it not for the apprehension that such a stap might be seized upon by Grant as a pretext for over throwing their Government. It will be quite as well for them to wait a while. When the next Con gress comes together Grant will have all he can attend to in defend ing his immoral Administration, and will be le3S inclined to meddle in State affairs. —A Western Granger has written for some Mardi Gras seed. 41II)A 41K EE VERT. THE VICISSITUDES OF A BRILLIANT LITERARY SOUTHERN WOMAN. [Wash. Letter to theCin. Commercial.] Then Madame Le Vert will give her usual Lenten reception, full of music and readings, as one evening’s defecta tion to the world of fashion. It will go, and it ought to go, to gladden the tyes and fill the pocket of this wonder ful little lady. She’s already a historic figure in Washington, as was her father and her grandfather before her. Iler grandfather. George Walton, signed the Declaration of lolepemlenee, married the daughter of an English nobleman, was Governor of Georgia, and a mil lionaire. Ilor father, Col. Walton, suc ceeded Gen, Jackson as Governor of Florida, He was handsome accom plished and noble, and lost his large fortune by indorsing for his friends He spent many of his latter years in Washington; genial, full of anecdote, sunshiny to the end, never arraigning the fickle world that so quickly forget him and that he so long adorned. II is daughter, Oetavia Walton, w:.s born at Pensacola, while her father was Gov ernor of Florida. In early youth she accompanied her father to Washington and became a famous belle of succes sive administrations. She married Dr. Pierre Le Vert, of Mobile, and as a young wife accompanied her husband to Europe, She was a favorite at the court of Victoria, winning the personal friendship of the Queen. Although a Protestant, she received the blessing of thePupeat the Vatican. She spent years abroad, and her “Souvenirs of Travel ” are a graceful record of her European life For many years her home in Mobile was the center of the i must generous and elegant hospitality. | She entertained there many of her Eu- I rnpean friends. Lady Emelino Wort ley, in her notes on American Ufa makes especial mention of her visit at the beautiful home of Dr. and Madame Le Vert.* She, beyond question, is socially and personally the,most famous woman the South has yet produced. Never profound, she is simply marvelous in her grace, versatility, and in an out raying radiance of being which neither time nor misfortune has found possible to diminish. The Madame Lo Vert who entertained the titled and distin guished in her Southern home—and who, till the first year of the war, gave orand levees to the wealth and fashion of New York, wherein she would carry on sparkling conversation in half a dozen languages at the same time, and the Madame Le Vert of to-day, “ penni less,” no longer young, trudging over the long spaces of the capital on the little feet that, till of late, never had need to touch the ground, an umbrella for a stuff, and her pockets full of tick ets that are to earn her bread, are one the same. Nothing cmild be more changed than the condition of her lot, while she is utterly unchanged, un broken. undimmed, loving, enthusiastic, ever delightful. “ I saw you lift up that finger to stop a car,’’ said her friend Mrs. Paran Steven, to her not long since. •* As you got into the car you smiled as if you were perfectly happy, and I asked myself, what in the world now can she find to smile about —this woman who lias lost fortune, friends, everything that makes life delightful. Tell me. I want to know. Were you as happy as you looked? It seems impossible.’ “ I was,” said the little lady, “just as happy as I looked. It was so de lightful to have just five cents left to take me home in a tar.” Is not such a uature the fortune be yond price, after all ? —Visitors to Pennsylvania grave yards can get all the information they want, Here is a quotation from a Pennsylvania tombstone:— “John L. Wilson’s wife, took sick on the 15 November with a chill her sickness had been dropsy and lung fever or the consumption Died June 4 1872 her ago is 71 years 9 mos & 4 days her youngest brother had to HANIVE her for 7 inos & 24 days and nights.” —i • —lt is suggested that the filthy habit of tobacco chewing has one advantage, especially where the man is much in the house and spits freely upon the carpets—those car pets will never he moth eaten FACETIOUS — Beecher, Illinois, petitions for a change of name. - —A correspondent informs u.s that' the town of 'lilton, N. 11., also wants to have its name changed. •* ♦— —\\ hen a eat sings, dbes she not do it on pur puss ? She simply docs it to a-mews herself. —The man who prophesied a mild wintei has had his ears frozen three inches from the tips doWoWgrtf. —1 lie song of tlie Washington youth—“ I want to be a lobby man and in the lobby stands with brass upon my lorehcad and greenbacks in my hand.^ —An Indianapolis father shot si* times at a supposed burglar, and was astonished to here the fellow ask : “ Wazz r mazaer, fazzer? wazzer do ing?” - ><i ♦ Mrs. Sartoris is coming home, and it hasn’t happened in the White House' since President Tyler's time, and they are going to call it after its maternal grandpa, if it’s a boy. —mm • ‘'Alas!” said the nurse who at tended the witty divine, Sidney Smith,- in iiis last fflfnes.r, '• I have made a mis take and given you a bottle of ink.” • Then,” said the dying wit, “ fetch me all the blotting paper there is in the house.” A worthy but poor minister re> quested a loan of fifty dollars from the cashier of a bank ; and in the note re questing the favor ho said he would pay in fen days on the faith of Abra ham. The cashier returned word that y the rules of the bank the indorser mu t reside in the State. —“Crofton Billy,” of the Hopkins ville New Era, is a sad scapegrace. He attended a ball at Crofton the other night, viewed the paraphernalia scat tered round the room, and thus chants : Bustles are all a fleeting show, Tor man’s illusion given-, Filled with bran and stuffed with tow, You see how they stick out so; But they look first rate, by heaven ! A publisher in Dayton, Ohio, ad vertised by posters Talmage’s book, ‘ Old Wells Dug Out ” He soon re ceived a rrute : “ Dear Sir—f see you have old wells dug out. I have an old well which needs looking to. Send your man round to 17 La belle street, and oblige yours. Richard Ford.” —“lf you men,” remarked a Wash ington lady at a reception recently, “ would let the women’s dresses alone, there would be a much less foolishness and misery in the world.” A painful silence followed, and we suppose it proved the truth of the remark. - —Poor young thing! she fainted away at the washtub, and her pretty nose went ker-slnp into the soapsuds. Some said it was overwork ; others, however, whispered that her beau had peeped over the back fence and called out: “ Hallo, there, Bridget, is Miss Alice at home ?” —Woman does a great deal to dis courage lofty sentiments of parriotisui. When a man is leaning over the back feuce telling a neighbor how he would shed his last drop of blood for suffering Louisiana, it disturbs him to have his wife yell from the kitchen : “ Look here ! are you coming with that bucket of water, or shall I come out and see to you ?” A Yankee poet thus breaks forth: Oh! the snore, the beautiful snore, filling the chamber from ceding to floor ' Over the coverlet, under the sheet, from her wee dimpled chin to her pretty feet! Now rising aloft like 3 bee in June; now flute like subsiding, ■ then rising agaio, is the beautiful snore of Elizabeth Jane. —When we consider the prevalence of the custom to dub everybody who went to the wars with the title of Cap tain, Colonel, General, &c., there is a peculiar appropriateness in the follow ing resolution, which was introduced at a meeting of Confederate soldiers at Atlanta, Ga., the other day : llesolved, That the President appoint a commit tee of one to inquire into the matter of whether there were any surviving pri vates of the late war NO. 0