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VOL. 11.--NO. 16. fisiior D. W. U BOULLY, Proprietor. S SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Ope copy one year. $ J Jo due copy three months “ F vny one furnishing five subscribers, with tU SnbiIJCT o th'i rP pi>ers changed f m one do t-office to another, munt slate [iwnamo Irf the po>t office from which they IK “changed, well as that to wh.ch must he paid in advance. The pypor wilt he stopped at the end of the time pEdfor, unless subsc.ipti-ns are pre viously renewed. Fifty numbers complete the year, CASH ADVERTISING RATES. - Spins" Imo 3 mos 6 mos 12 mos fffidrr:F2loTT6o * e oo $ 1000 l 460 725 11 00 18 00 * neh“ 500 900 15 00 22 00 i nchH" 560 11 00 18 00 27 00 iroTumn" 650 14 00 25 00 35 00 1 column!. 12 50 25 00 40 00 60 00 1 column.. 22 00 41 00 62 00 100 00 Uarriages and deaths not exceeding six lines will be published free. Payments to be made quarterly in advance, according to schedule rates, unless otherwise * g r£rsonH°eending advertisements will state the length of time they wish them published and the space they want them to occupy. Parties advertising by contract will be re stricted to their legitimate business. IiBGAi. Advertisements. BheriffVsales, per inch, four weeks.. .$3 50 “ mortgage fi fa sales, per inch, eight weeks 6 60 Citation for letters of administration, guardianship, etc., thirty day 5...... 3 00 Notice to debtois and creditors of an estate, forty days. 5 OO Application for leave to sell land, four Sales^of"land, etc., per inch, forty days 5 00 •* “ perishable property, per inch, _ ten days Z 00 Application for letters of dismission from guardianship, forty day 5........... o 00 Application for letters of dismission from sdinini-tration, three months 7 50 Establishing lost papers, the full space of three months, per inch • - J w Compelling titles from executors or ad ministrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, the full space _ of three months, per inch ‘ 00 Estray notices, thirty days • • 300 Rule for foreclosure of moitgage, four _ _ mouths, monthly, per inch 6 00 gale of insolvent papers, thirty days... 300 Homestead, two weeks. -* m Business Cards K A SUBSBLL R KrBSI£LL RUSSELL& RUSSELL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. Will practice in all the State Courts j)r- T. La jreni£.ixis, HAMILTON, GA. THOS. S. MITCHELL. M. D., Resident Physician and Snrgeon, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Special attention given to Operative Sur gery and treatment of Chronic Diseases. Terms Cash. ■W- IF 1 . DENTIST, ; COLUMBUS, - - GEORGIA. Office over Chapman’s drug store, Ran dolph st, near city terminus of N. & S. R. R- Respecfully offers his services to the peo ple of Harris county. ju2oly CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE , By J. T. HIGGINBOTHEM. WEST POINT, GA HENRY C. CAMERON, Attorney at Law , HAMILTON ; GA DR. J. W. CAMERON, HAMILTON, GA. Special attention to Midwifery. Charges moderate. Sines Dossier, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW HAMILTON, GEORGIA Will practice In the Chattahoochee Circuit, or anywhere else. All kinds of collections raub—either way. • J- FOGtlaX], Dentist, OLUMBUS, GEORGIA Office in the building of the Georgia Home Insurance Company. feb2l-ly Rankin hotjse COLUMBUS, GA J. W. RYAN, Prop’r. Fbikk Golden, Clerk. * RUBY RESTAURANT, and Billiard Saloon, UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE. J.W.BYAN, Pitop’B. To loung Men. The young man who has an ambi tion to make a great noise in the world should learn boiler making. He can make more at that trade than at anything else be can engage in. If he believes a man should “strike for wages,” he should learn black smithing; especially if he is good at “blowing.” If he would embrace a profession in which he can rise rapidly, he should become an aeronaut. He couldn’t find anything better “ for high.” He certainly could do a staving (and perhaps a starving) business in the cooper trade. If he believes in “measures, not men,” he will embark in the tailoring business. If the one great object of his life is to make money, he should get a position in the United States Mint. If he is a punctual sort of chap, and anxious to be “on time,” he should put his hands to watch mak ing. If he believes it the chief end of man to have his business largely “ felt,” why, of course, ho will be come a hatter. If he wants to “ get at the root of a thing,” he will become a dentist— although if he does, he will be often found “ looking down in the mouth.” If a man is a bungler at his best, he should become a physician, and then he will have none of his bad work thrown upon his hands. It is generally buried out of sight, you know. Should he incline to high living, but prefer Jflain board, then the car penter trade will suit him. He can plane board enough at that. If he is needy and well bred, he will he right at home as a baker. He shouldn’t become a cigar maker. If he does, all his work will end in smoke. The young man who enjoys plenty of company, and is ever ready to scrape acquaintance, will find the barber business a congenial pursuit. The quickest way for him to as cend to the top round of his calling is to become a hod-carrier. Avery “grave ” young man might flourish as an undertaker. Don’t ltarn chair-making, for, no matter how well you please yonr customers, they will sooner or later get down on your work. And don’t become an umbrella maker, for their business is “used up.” If he would have his work touch the heads of the nation, we know of no way he could sooner accomplish such an object than by making combs. The yonng man who would have the fruits of his labor brought before the eyes of the people, will become an optician. The work, being easily seen through, cannot be difficult to learn, A man can always make a scent in the perfumery business. If a young man is a paragon of honor, truthfulness, sobriety, has never sworn a profane word, and has twenty thousand dollars that he has no use for, then he should immedi ately start —a newspaper. If, how ever, be lacks nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars of having the above named sum, he cannot do better than to invest the dollar be has in subscribing for his county paper. HAMILTON MALE SEMINARY, HAMILTON, GA. The exercifiesof this school will be resumed on Monday, January 26, 1874. Parents or guardians having boys to edu cate may feel safe in Bonding them to this school. Hamilton is centrally located between West Point, La Grange, Talbotton and Co lumbus, and accessible by railroad from the latter place. Perhaps no locality can excel it for its good health, fine society and excellent church facilities. Board can be obtained in the best of fami lies at from $12,50 to $16.00 per month. The course of instruction will be thorough and practical; the government mild but fiim. The following are the rates of tuition, pay able at the end of each session: Spelling, Beading, Writing, Primary Geography, Primary Arithmetic, etc, per m0nth............... $2.00 Beading, Writing, Geography, Arithme tic, History, English Grammar, English Composition, etc., per month ;■■■■■ 800 University Arithmetic, Algebra, Geome try, Latin, eta, per m0nth....... 4.00 The Higher Mathematics, Latin, Greek, Maturaland Moral Science, etc., per month,. > f 0 ? Compositions and Declamations required th^^Tem h >utinnM six months; second, close of tbp first term. , , 8, TANARUS, FULLER, Principal' BnrEßjaics*: H C Kimbrough. A T Brooirs, F Barnes, J M Mobley, Willis Jones, W W Bruce. J T Johnson, President Board of Trustees. HAMILTON, HARRIS CoT^BI From Pomeroy’s Democrat. Nothing but a Granger, J Too true, Mr. Bondholder. lam nothing but a Granger! So you turn up your nbse ! YotfP papers, owned by your money-making" rings, denounce us. We are all fools I' We are nothing but clod-hoppers, plow-holders, cow-milkers and poov ignorant country jakes, with hay seed* in our hair! In Washington, you sneer at us, and denounce those who hut teU the story of our wants, as inflationists, nincompoops and Western trash 1 In Wall street, you sit in yonr pal- ’ ace-furnished offices, drink your wines, smoke imported cigars, plan, scheme, 10b and shave the entire business in terests of the country, outside of yonr special lines, and then haw-haw in glee at the nice way you have fixed things in Washington, in the treasury department, so the bondholders will hold the money, fix the rates of in terest, build up monopolies and enjoy the labor of honest men and women without paying for such labor what it is worth. What do we intend to do ? Asa Granger, I will tell you. We intend to devote ourselves to our own interests. To fill the offices and places of. power with honest men. To send thieves to prison, or to treat them to a concert conducted by Judge Lynch. To proteot ourselves, our wives and our children. To organize wherever the sound of a dinner horn will awaken an echo, and work together in the future as you, the thieves, hankers, brokers, bondholders, military robbers, Con gressmen, Credit Mobilier swindlers and others of your class do, for the men, means and measures which will fill our pockets and empty yours 1 We intend to vote for honest men for office. To prevent being delivered when swindlers sell us to railroad aud other, corporations. We intend to harmonize, restore the equilibrium of finances, and to have laws, money, and such rates of taxation as will give the plow-holder the same chance for his life that the bondholder has, or we will repudiate the efilire national debt, and serve those who come to collect taxes as they do the surplus wives in that country through which flows the Bos phorus I am a Granger. I work for what I have, but do not have that which I work for and earn. From morn till midnight I toil. I cut down trees, burn stumps, build fences, grub out roots, erect houses, make roads, improve land, plant seed, raise crops, pay taxes, and work like a dog, from boyhood to the grave. When I was minding my own busi ness, you were inciting the people to strife. When I was swinging the ax, or steering the plow, years ago, in the land of the pioneers, you were pray ing to God, lying about the people of the South, distributing fanatical books, and building tip a wall of prej udice between honest men of differ ent States, but of a common interest. After you had plunged the people into the red bath of war, you called on me to help destroy the country. While you printed notes and bonds, we signed them in our blood. While you, the bondholders, bro kers, spoon-thieves, abolitionists, long haired meddlers and prowlers for plunder, were working to fill your pockets, I was working to defend the country from dissolution. While you sat in yonr fancy offices in the East, I was working in the West and South. You sent your sons to Europe to es cape the draft. My sons went to the war, and were killed on one of your damnable crusades for cotton, negroes and silver-ware. While your bods were dancing with the fancy females of Paris, my poor sons were dying in hospitals or being bnried in trenches. I am nothing but a Granger, but that means a great deal t It means an honest man who has at last awak ened from the sleep he has ao long been in, and who now proposes to work fpr the good of his fellow work ingmen, and not for the fbrther en richment of an army of swindlers and corruptionists, who live exclusively by legislation. While your wife wears her dia monds ana jewelrr. “y wife wears tears mZSt! ff* , , While your wife rides in her car- j IDAS * i .. the soulless wretch who smiles, smirks hd rubs his palms as he reaches for his interest of three per cents month. I--- y r — -VUW am a Granger. A Plow-holder. VL . . tu an A man who has been robbed. A freeman born, but now a slaW: to the mouey power of the A man who would release his chil 'dr6n from bondage. . A man who pays taxes and build! up a country for bondholders to owii. A man who pays taxes upon every dollar’s worth of property I have, while the bondholder, whose is counted by tne thousands, liv& at hiease, ejpjoya* in idlpjfesfi tie fruits of the property he has stolen, boasts of bis loyalty, helps continue the pres-. ent damnable Republican party in power, and pays not a penny a year to support the gowernmdht whose in quisitorial machinery is grinding the life, enterprise gnd happiness out of millions upon millions of lamest met?', and overworked tax payers eacfc year. I am a Grmger, and an honest man. It is true that I have no friends at court—no influence with the great reform party which came in power a few years ago to abolish slavery! I have no interest in the money of the country, for that all belongs to the bankers of the East. I have no in terest in the laws, for I am not a thief, a monopolist, a railroad owner, a land grabber, or a relative of the President, whose friends are partners of thieves mid robbers. I am Bfothiug but a Granger now, but before the next Presidential elec tion I will be one of millions who united will stand, and who united will strike to the earth, under the feet of our horses and into oblivion, the army of plunderers who now claim to be the government. When I see my wrinkled, over worked wife, my hard-working chil dren, my unfurnished home, my hard hands, my empty pockets, accumula ting taxes—when I see my lands be ing sold, and all my years of labor going by without profit to myself or my loved ones, then I am glad that I am a Granger, and one of a band of brothers in interest, eworn to remedy the evils and abuses which of late have so cursed the industries and in dustrious ones of the country. I am a Granger to-day. I will be a saviour of the country, and an avenger of its wrongs, to morrow ! nr a matron gives the girls the following sensible advice: “ Girls talk and laugh ahont mar riage as though it were a jubilee—a gladsome thing—a rose without a thorn. And so it is, if it is all right; if they go about it as rational beings, instead of merry-making children. It is a serious thing to marry. It is a life business, and that of heart and happiness. Therefore never do it in haste—never run away to get mar ried ; never ‘ steal a marriage ;* never marry for wealth, or standing, or fine person, or manners, but only for char acter, for worth, for the qualities of mind and heart which make an hon orable man. Take time; think long and well before you accept any pro posal; consult yonr parents, then some judicious friend, then yonr own judgment. Learn all that it is possi ble for yon to learn of your proposed husband: when all doubts have been removed, and not until then, accept him.” One-horse Power. —The Scientific American thns explains it: “The power of pritne movers is measured by horse power. Watt found that the strongest London draught horses were capable of doing work equivalent to raising 33,000 ponnds one foot high per minute, and he took this as the unit of power for the steam engine. The horse is not usually capable of doing so great a quantity of work. Rankine gave 26,000 foot ponnds as the figure for a mean of several experiments, and it is probable that 26,000 foot pounds ia a fair minute’s average work for a good animal. It would require five or six men to do the work of a strong hoi>e, Watt’s estimate has become, by general consent among engineers, the'standard of power measurement for pnrposes.” jfcy Iciness grows on people— it tyegins in cobwebs and ends in iron ehalns,i •? had an aunt coming to visit "me for tbejHttfroksmpe rqv marwg* and I <sn’t ge&us -prompted the which I perpetrated toward iߧs-i(b and an- U jVTy float. ” f Q Wife OD the day aunf%> arrived, “ you know Aagt Mary is coming to* i. ' * .** , . • yTT ’ althoggh, Bh i oan hear aty .voice, yet you will be obliged to speak eje trembly loud in prder to be heard. It will be rather inconvenient, but I know you will do everything in your power; tp make her visit agreeable.” Mrs.-~-*M**announce<i her determi nation to make herself heard, if it .yaf in hdfjSowdf. * w ’ I thePwefi&bo JpHh JT JBps a |oke Wdy l kuowof, told him in thedioifttfgVO compare vclyiihm>y T Vw eupHl im rai l road a jarrriajp next nigjk.'and when# was on my, I sarff: “ MjWeal-there, is ' rati# ann&vmg’infirnlnjg that Annie' (toy wife)' l^*t^vhit , h LArgot to men-, tfon hjifor he is v€jy deaf, ymd although she can- toiog, to whiclytfic js accustomed? nary tones, yet yon 'win, he obliged to spesflt extremely* Joud in m-der U>, be heard. I armaovry fcA it.’* 1 * 5 , Aunt Mary, in thq gosdness of her hearty protested that ranter liffko 1 speaking aloud, and' to do sp would afford her great. Dlgasnre. The carriage 'hp-Son we steps waa,my the window was John face alt utterly solemn as if be had hurnld his relatives that afternoon. “I am delighted to see you,” shrieked my wife, and the policeman on the opposite side was startled, and my aunt nearly fell down the steps. “ Kiss me, my dear,” bawled my aunt; and the windows shook as if with the fever and ague. I looked at the window; John had disappeared. Hnnian nature could stand it no long er. I poked my head into the car riage and went into strong convul sions. When I went into the parlor my wife was helping Aunt Mary to take off her bat and cape; and there sat John with his face buried in his handkerchief. “ Did you have a pleasant jour ney?” suddenly went off my wife like a pistol, and John nearly jumped to his feet. “ Rather dusty, ’’ was the response in a war-whoop, and the conversation continued. The neighbors for blocks around must have heard it. When I was in the third story of the building I heard every word. In the course of the evening my aunt took occasion to say to me: “How loud your wife talks! ” I told her deaf persons talked loudly, and that my wife being used to it, was not affected by the exer tion, and that she was getting along very nicely with her. Presently my wife said softly— “ Alf, how loud your aunt talks! ” “Yes,” said I, all deaf persons do. You’re getting along with her finely though; she hears every word you say.” And 1 rather think ahe did. Exalted at their success of being understood, they went it hammer and tongs, till everything on the mantle piece clattered again, and I was seri ously afraid of a crowd collecting in front of the house. But the end was near. My aunt being of an investigating turn of mind, was desirous of finding out whether the exertion of talking was injurious to my wife. So-—“ Doesn’t talking so loud strain your lungs?” said she in an unearthly whoop, for her voice was not as musical as it was when she was young. It is an exertion,” shrieked my wife. “Then why do you do it?” was the answering scream. “ Because —because - you can’t hear if I don’t.” “What!” said aunt, rivaling a railroad whistle at the time. I began to think it time to evacuate the premises; and looking around and seeing John gone, I stepped into the back parlor, and there he lay flat on bis back, with bis feet at right angles with bis body, rolling from ride to side with his fist poked into his ribs, and a most agonized expres sion of countenance, bat not utterinr* I?LSO>A year i a soffird.. Isiinmediatcly and involun- Jtarily assumed 9 Similar attitude, an| the relative position of our feet and h?ada and attempts to restrain oiir laughter, apoplexy must ipevit#ly have ensued, if a hokrihle giAan which John gave vent to in his endeavor to suppress his l risibility had not betrayed our hiding j In rushed my wife and aunt, who by this time comprehended the joke, *bd Such a scolding as I got then I before, afid I hope never I know hot end woiild have been if JjW, in his endeavors to be respeotfyfaud sympathetic had pot given vent to such a groan and a hoarse laugh that all gravity was up set, and we sosaatpei} ip eo^ceft. "* I wot wrong, and all tMJ; a "falsehood, but I tt>ie liiplelf. would have iy*e had seen Aunt Mary’s wjien she was *Jnfarmed defective. ( t nWj tten forjths^Mtjy" j Hoy ever sad if may he to coptem- hqre are many who look pon Jabor Asia degrading necessity, and only submit to it ifrom the fact that canne? escape its thraldom, de ahjing- nothing more than to pass tffough the world without toiling. Had it been better for us, the Great HgrdfcihwSould easily have faahioned everything in beauty and splendor, altogether with la^or; but in so doing, all man to improvement would Virtue and heroism would have been unknown. Exertion hr far more noble than enjoyment; because the man that toils’is far more worthy than the idler. The history of the world abounds with testimony to prove how much depends upon industry, and what wonders may be achieved by proper application. There are numerous instances in which men of genius and ability, who,’ on account of their inactivity, and a want of inclination to improve their natural talents, have so degenerated as to become wretchedly worthless. On the other hand, the testimony is equally as strong, that industry and perseverance are always rewarded with success. It is frequently the case that young men from the same family, and with equal advantages— one may be admitted to the circles of genius, while the other may be scarcely above the point of mediocrity. You see the one, by bis steady appli cation, climbing the bill of science, an ornament to his family, and a blessing to his country; while the other is sinking in poverty, and ob scured in wretchedness. How inex cusable, then, is idleness, and what encouragement is given to the indus trious. While we advocate industry in all the different avocationß of life, we would also advocate a spirit of econ omy. Nine-tenths of the people in this country are forced, by the ne cessities of the world, to gain a liveli hood by the “ sweat of the brow,” and yet, the larger part of our con sumers are not producers. In this we are entirely too extravagant;' Many of our young men, instead of going to work upon the farm, at would be more suitable for them, flock to the various cities, in order to get light work, and to prevent the summer nun from tanning and har dening their delicate hands. It mat ters not with them whether their re muneration be great or small, so they are in the shade , and have an easy task. Occasionally we find young men who reside in the country, esteeming themselves of too much importance to toil in agriculture, pre ferring to spend their fathers’ money in idleness. They should not be ashamed of hard hands, scarred with service, as they are far more honora ble than the soft, glove-bidden hand of the fop, whose very mfike-up is conceived in ullenese, and fashioned in vanity. There is a class of “ sweet cutting gimblets,” who group around the store doors, endeavoring to excel each other in whittling a piece of soft pine to nothing, whose chief de light is for someone to ask them to drink, and whose highest ambition is to own a sharp knife. The field of industry is large and inviting, yet these men fail to see it, and wonder why it is they are pinched with pov erty. It is treason to nature to shun Industrial pursrils of any character, and as agriculture is the driving wheel, we should esteem it an honor to toil manfully with our hands, and not a menial service. Our prosperity in the various erned by its ■access. ' , G ' M*sls, ° a ’