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THE HAMILTON WEEKLY VISITOR. VOL H.---NO. 20. C|e Hamilton Visitor D. W. 11. BOULLY, Proprietor. CASH SUBSCRIPTION KATES. One copy one year One copy six I 00 One copy three i 5 Any one with the money, will free. Subscribers papers changed from one another, must state the name of tho ’post office from which they wish it changed, as well as that to which they wish it sent. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. The paper will be stopped at the end of the time paid for, unless subscriptions are pre viously renewed. Fifty numbers complete the year, CASH ADVERTISING RATES. g PACE 1 mo 3 mos 6 mos 12 mos fwh $ 2 60 $ 4 50 $ 6 00 $ 10 00 2 inches". 450 725 11 00 18 00 g inches .. 500 900 15 00 22 00 4 inches .. 660 11 00 18 00 27 00 1 column.. 660 14 00 25 00 35 00 !column.. 12 50 25 00 40 00 60 00 1 column.. 22 00 41 00 02 00 100 00 Marriages and deaths not exceeding six lines will be published free. Payments to be made quarterly.in advance, according to schedule rates, unless otherwise agreed upon. Persons sending 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. Legal advertisements . Sherifs sales, per inch, four weeks... $3 60 *< mortgage fi fa sales, per inch, eight weeks 5 60 Citation for letters of administration, guardianship, etc., thirty days 3 00 Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate, forty days 6 00 Application for leave to sell land, four \J ee tg 4 00 Balesof iand, etc., per inch, forty days 5 00 “ “ perishable property, per inch, ten days ; .. ; r...... —2 00 Application for letters of dismission from guardianship, forty days... ._ 5 00 Application for letters of dismission from administration, three months t 50 Establishing lost papers, the full space of three months, per inch • • 7 00 Compelling titles from executors or ad ministrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months, per inch 7 00 Estray notices, thirty days 3 00 Rule for foreclosure of mortgage, four mouths, monthly, per inch 6 00 Bale of insolvent papers, thirty days... 300 Homestead, two weeks. •• • • ■ 2 OO Business Oar<As W. T. POOL, D. S., Broad Street, COLUMBUS, GA., Will visit Hamilton and vicinity once a month daring the summer. All calls proj®t ly attended to. Plate work and in the best and latest styles. Satisfaction guaranteed, or no charge. mayß-6m R A RUSSELL O R RUSSELL RUSSELL & RUSSELL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Will practice in all the State Courts. IDr- T- Xj- JenKlns, HAMILTON, GA. THOS. S. MITCHELL, M. D., Resident Physician and Surgeon, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Special attention given "to Operative Sur gery and treatment of Chronic Diseases. Terms Cash. "W. IP. TIO-ISTIELFI, DENTIST, ; COLUMBUS, - - - GEORGIA, Office over Chapman’s drug store, Ran dolph st, near city terminus of N. & S. E. E. Eespecfully offers his services to the peo ple of Harris county. ju2oly CHA TTAEO 0 CHEE HO USE , By J.T.HIGGINBOTHEM. WEST POINT, GA IIENRY C. CAMERON, Attorney at Iaw t HAMILTON i GA D ii. J. W. CAMERON, HAMILTON , GA.% Special attention to Midwifery. Charges moderate. Sines Dozier, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW HAMILTON, GEORGIA Will practice in the Chattahoochee Circuit, or anywhere else. All kinds of collections pushed —either way. RANKIN HOUSE COLUMBUS, GA. J. W. RYAN, Prop’r. Fbank Golden, Clerk. RUBY RESTAURANT, Bar and Billiard Saloon, UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE, falri* J. W- Prop’r. NEW GOODS. We have in and well-selected SFUmcJ GOODS, BOUGHT*ERY LOW. Dry Goods, Notions, Hatf, Boots and Shoes, Clothing, Crockery, Hardware, Drugs, etc., which we will sell at the Lowest Prices k>k CASH. A nice lot of Ladies’ and Misses’ Hats, which we will sell vert low. Prints, best brands, 10c. Coats’ Thread, 80c. a dozen. Brown Homespun, ij to 10c. ' Bleached “ 7 to 20c. Clothing.—Coats, $1 to $lB. Pants, $1.25 to $9. All other goods as low as they can be bought in any market South. All we ask is, Give us a call. COWSERT & KIMBROUGH. Hamilton, Ga., April 17, 1874—3 m TO THE TAX-PAYERS OF HARRIS COUNTY! The following is a list of my appointments for my second and third rounds, for the pur pose of receiving tax returns: Blue Spring, May 4th and June 15th. Hamilton, May 5, June 2 and 22, July 1. Ellerslie, forenoon of May 6th and June 9, and at Mt. Airy in the afternoon. Waverly Hall, forenoon of May 7th, and all day cm June 10th. Milner’s X Roads, afternoon of May 7th, and all day on June 11th. Valley Plains, forenoon, Barnes’ afternoon of May Bth and June 12th. Goodman’s X Roads, May 9 and June 13. Cataula, May 11th and June Bth. Lower 19th, May 12th and June 16th. Upper 19th, May 13th and June 17th. Whitaker’s, May 14th and June 18—Har gett’s in forenoon, Billingstea’s afternoon. Whitesville, May 15th and June 24th. Davidson’s, May 16th and June 19th—Flat Top in forenoon, Johnson’s Mill afternoon. Cochran’s X Roads, May 18 and June 20. By an act of the last Legislature, Tax Re ceivers are required to lay before the Grand Juries, at the fall terms of the Courts, their returns; aud if, upon examination, they find any property given in under market value, said furors are required to re-assess the same. „ JOHN M. WISDOM, apt7-7t Receiver of Tax Returns. BAMILTOM MALE SEMINARY, HAMILTON, GA. Theexercisesof thiß school will be resumed on Monday, January 26, 1874. Parents or guardians having boys to edu cate may feel safe in sondiug them to this school .. Hamilton is centrally located between West Point, La Grange, Talliotton snd 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 fiom $12,50 to $15.00 per month. The course of instruction will lie thorough and practical; the government mild but fi. m. The following are the rates of tuition, pay able at the end of each session : Spelling, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, Primary Arithmetic, etc, per month $2 00 Reading, Writing, Geography, Arithme tic, History, English Grammar, English Composition, etc., per month 3.00 University Arithmetic, Algebra, Geome try, Latin, etc., per month 4.00 The Higher Mathematics, Latin, Greek, Natural and Moral Science, etc., per month 5.00 Compositions and Declamations required throughout the course. First Term continues six months; second, four months. There will be a Public Examination at the close of the first term. S. T. FULLER, Principal. References : H C Kimbrough, A T Brooks, F Barnes, J M Mobley, Willis Jones, W W Bruce. J T Johnson, President Board of Trustees. jan 2 THE BEST OFFER YET! $2 FOR THE Illustrated Christian Weekly. FROM NOW TO JANUARY 1, 1876. The best and cheapest, most profusely il lustrated, instructive, and entertaining fam : jly paper published. We announce the following additional fea tures for the coming year : William of Orange, a serial history by John S C Abbott, (just commenced.) My American Holiday, sketches by Rev. Jos. W Parker, of London; . Modern Unbelief, by Professor Theodore Christlieb of Bonn, Prussia; Occasional Contributions, from Rev Wm Arnot of Scotland; Papers on Popular Science, by Jacob Ab- bott, illustrated ; Familar Letters on Preaching, by Rev. S H Tyng, D D. Talks on Health, byWW Hall, M D, edi tor of the “ Journal of Health.” The monthly Illustrated Sabbath-school Supplement will continue to he furnished to subscribers free. All those features which have rendered the Weekly so popular in the past will be con tinued. In the APT DEPARTMENT the Illus trated Christian Weekly is conceded to lie the finest weekly paper in the world, and it will not suffer itself to lose the reputation it has earned. TERMS, $2 A TEAR IN ADVANCE. Special rates to Sabbath-schools. Speci men copies tiee. The largest cash commis sion to canvassers. Premiumcircular mailed free. AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, Pub lishers, 150 Nassau st., New York. RICK'S 200 Pages ; 500 Engravings and Colored Plate. Published quarterly, at 25c a year. First number for 1874 lust issued. A Oer man edition at same price. Address, James Vicyt, Rochester, New Y'ork. HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA, FRIDAY, JULY 3,1874. SANDY REDIYIYUS. BY 8. H. ■ Not long after the conclusion of ”he late war I chanced to meet up with my okl friend, Sandy Higgins, whom I had not seen in some time. He was jogging along on his pony, evidently in deep thought, and didn’t notice me until I hailed him—- “ Halloo, Sandy! How are ycu?” “Well, ef it aint the Squire 1 How do you do ? ’* “ First-rate,” said I. 1 what are you looking so’-Wlema .( wut? Who’s dead ? ” “ Nobody in particular,” said he, looking solemn again, “but I ortw be, that’s a dead fact. What use is thar in livin’ an havin’ your bein’ when you can’t enjoy yourself? That’s the question.” “ What’s happened to you now, Sandy ? ” “What’s allerg happenin’ to me, of course—troubles an’ vexation of body. Do you believe in predestina tion, Squire ? ” “ Some,” I answered, i*a “ I do more’n some. I ht’Ueve it harder than a four year old mule, conld kick a houn’ puppy, an’ I know I was predestinated, Bet .apart an’ duly qualified to see trouble an’ be a fool, Ef I warn’t I hain’t ful filled my destiny, that’s all aboqt it.**; “ Tell me some of your troubles, Sandy,” said I soothingly; “it will ease your mind.” “ No, it won’t; it’ll only make it worse. But I’ll tell you some things, if you’ll promise to keep ’em to your self, but its no use promisin’; for I never knowed a lawyer or an editor but what would tell lies—savin’ your presence. Hows’ever, 1 can’t tell you nothin’ now, for I’m too flustra ted, I thought I seen trouble enough in my young days, tumblin’ down stairs, an’ swollerin’ spring lizzards, an’ sich fun, but as I grow older it grows on me, like rascality on a Yankee. The hard times, an’ the bad crops, an’' the war, an’ the taxes, Un’ the Radicals* is about to run me rayin’ distracted. I could s outer make out to bear everything else, but the taxes on whisky, tbar’s whar it chaws me. They tax a man for sellin’ it, an’ I’m expectin’ every day, they’ll tax me for drinkin’ it. Every time I go to take a drink I feel like thar was a tax collector stowed away in the bottom of the glass, an’ it scares me so I swaller it cross ways an’ git strangled on it, so that it don’t do me any good. When I go to sneeze I alters look round to see ef thar ain’t a tax collector standin’ by with a book in his band, ready to pop me for sneezin’. Did yon ever read the Declaration of In dependence, Squire ? ” “ Some,” said I. “Well,” oontinued he, solemnly, “ that thar instrument’s a lie, Squire, —a livin’ lie. All men are not equal. A nigger ain’t equal to me, an’ a abolitionist ain’t equal to a nig ger, an’ a radical ain’t equal to a abolitionist, an Parson Brownlow ain’t equal to a radical. Then I’m not equal to Jabe Curry an’ Bill Yancey, an’ they’re not equal to Bob Lee fax' Jeff Davis, an’ so it goes. Nobody, ain’t equal till they’re dead, an’ I guess some of em’ wiU fare rather* different from others, after wards, if thar’s any truth in what Parson Grant preaches. As for a radical, he ain’t equal to nothin’ else in all creation. I think he must be a cross between a mean nigger an’ a buzzard. Slavery’s as dead as a forty year old mackerel, but they keep pickin’ at its carcass, an’ every thing they say or do has got nigger in it. I aint got no m*re confidence in ’em than I have in a bom-shell with half the fuse burnt out, an’ I ain’t got no more use for ’em than I have for a empty whisky barrel. Ef one of ’em was to sleep in a bed of mine I’d have it scalded with red. pepper an’ smoked with assifidity jest like thar had been a pole-cat’s den in it. While the war was goin’ on they hollered hooraw! an’ stayed out of reach of the bullets, an’ stole money from the government, an’ hired their soldiers to steal Southern jewelry from the women, an’ all the while pretendin’ to be great friends to the Union. But now when white folks want the Union made over again they pull back like a blind jackass, an’ say we shant go tell we make the nigger equal to us. It wouldn’t be no great job to make some equal to them, an’ 1 wish to God they was alt penned up together, with a wall yf fire around- ’em as high as a bulb bat could fly in a fortnight. Excuse me, Squire, but when I think of the things an’ their doins it makes me madder’u old deacon Watson was when Dan Johnson filled his snuff box full of Mexican pepper.” “And Brownlow?” I suggested. . “ Oh, Lord! Squire, keep him out of my mind, ef you don’t want me to bus’t into more pieces than old Joneses pig did when I put the blast in him. I’m satisfied he won’t never die, for he can’t go to heaven, an’ ef he ir&a to go t’other niace the devil Wuld Lave to move out, for bo would’nt stand no more chance than a sore-nosed pig on a flat rook. t gome of the poets say some thin’ about the devils all agreein ? ” . “ I think Milton said something to that effect,” said I. “ Well, no matter who said it, he may commence again ef Brownlow gets among ’em. Thar’s nobody down thar mean enough to agree with him, an* ef any of ’em should undertake to abuse him, they’d lose thar breath before be talked three minits. No, he won’t die—he’ll jest Wwivel np an’ turn to a mud-wasp, or stingin’ scorripin, or some other fractious animal. “Good-bye, Squire. Some time when ray miuds’ a little more com posed I’ll tell you somo of my scrapes,” and, using his heels vigor ously, he cantered off, nodding his head from side to side as if his neck bad lost the use of itself. Song of the Decanter. A LITERARY AND TYPOGRAPHICAL CURIOSITY. There was an old decan ter, and its mouth was gaping wide; the rosy wine had ebbed away, and left its crys tal side: and the wind went humming, • bumming, up and down the sides it flew, and through the reed-like, hollow neck, the wildest notes on it .* blew. I placed it on the window, where the blast was free, and fancied that its pale mouth sang the queer est strains to "me. ‘ 1 They tell me, puny conquerors! the plague has slain his ten, and war his hundred thousands, of the very best of men; hut l”—’twas thus the bottle spoke— "but I have conquered more than all your famous conquerors, so feared and famed of yore. Then come, ye youths . and maidens —come drink from out my cup, the beverage that dulls the brain and burnß the spirit up ; that puts to shame the conquerors that slay their scores below; for this has deluged millions with the lava tide of woo. . Though in the path of battle darkest waves of blood may roll, yet, while I killed the body, I have chained the very soul. The chol er a , and sword, such ruin never wrought as 1, in mirth or malice, on the innocent have brought. And still I breathe upon them, and they shrink before my breath, and year by year my thous ands tread the dismal roads to death.” An Outrage.—About midnight of the 20th ult., as the forms of the New Orleans Bulletin were being carried to the press-room, they were seized by the police, and locked up in the station-house. The property was in the custody of the sheriff at the time, who next day made a formal demand for it on the chief of police, and was told that it was at his disposal. The Bulletin has lately published some severe, but merited, strictures on the rascally doings of Kellogg and his minions, and this high-handed measure was doubtless instigated by them to suppress that paper; but the police authorities found that there was no excuse for the outrage, and so restored the property. ht A man in Benton, Vt., in easy ] circumstances, hung himself the other day, because ho had been sued for $29. He left a note saying that he was perfectly sane, but if be had got so low that his name wasn’t good for $29, he had no wish to live longer. The Alapaha Forester states that a severe hurricane passed over that section a few days ago, uproot ing stumps, and tearing up logs that had been imbedded in the earth for years. GP* Prominent citizens express the belief that real estate has reached its lowest point in Columbus, and that a reaction will take place in the fall. The News says that Mr. Jno. Reynolds, of Albany, was attacked with a chill on the 21st ult. and died within five hours/ The Secret of Wealth. (PUBLISHED BY RKQUEBT.) How many thousands of poor, hard working men bewail their fate, and, accusing fate of nnkindness, ponder bow they caM grow rich. It requires no Aladdin’s lamp—no magician's art nor philosopher’s stone, to discover the secret. Wealth is within the grasp of every man possessed of health and sound mind, if he ♦ill but practice three things through life, viz.: INDUSTRY—FRUGALh'Y—ECONOMY. Industry^means tbfe sound of the; hammer in the workshop at daybreak. Frugality means prudence and fore thought in every expenditure, and economy means common sense and "JusticeAjjpyourself, and to those de pegdgpf on yon. SET of toil, don’t blame fate for your poverty—blame yonrself. ’ Tis your fault—not fortune’s. Yon need not be poor, unless you will it so. Every man can obtain wealth if he tries. You answer, “ Money makes money, I know; but I have none.” Then go to work and get it. Earn it and save it. Don’t borrow it, for debt is a tfiillstone. Make it yourself. You can if you will. You would ask the seoret of wealth. The question is answered in the tal ismanio word of only fpur letters: b-a-y-k! This is the keystone to the impreg nable arch of wealth, without which the whole structure tumbles. Begin your savings in small things. Don’t argue that you need all you make to live, and can’t save. ’ Tis false; for were you under sentence of death, you would save one half you earn, to save your life. Do as much, then, to save yourself and family from poverty. You argue that you are industrious now—frugal, because you only buy necessary things, and Economical as you can be without being mean. llow many hours do you waste every day, that would yield “ money to save ” ? How many expenditures do you make for foolish trifles ? Is this frugality ? How much money do you waste that might be saved ? Is this economy ? You speak of being mean. Is it mean to provide for a rainy day ? Is it mean to save up a fund for your family ? Is it mean to leave behind you, should you die, enough to keep your children from being paupers? No—a thousand times, not It is mean, rather, for you to de prive your dependent family of a means of support when you are gone, by wasteful indulgence in the frivoli ties of life. ‘lt is not only mean,-but it is absolutely criminal. You claim that your hours of labor are long enough already; and yet the farmer or sailor rises with the sun, and only closes his labor with the darkness; yet he does not oomplain. Just realize that you have not one dollar in the world, and your addi tional labor will become a labor of love. Let us calculate: First, suppose a laboring man paid by the day. We will average the pay at $1.50. He indulges in at least “ two days off,” each month. This, in a year, would amount to $36. Suppose he-were by extra time for a year to make, say 24 days more. This would be equal to $72 a year, total, which, in five years’ time, would amount, principal and interest at 6 per cent., to $430,32, or enough to purchase a neat oottagc home in yearly installments. So much for lost labor. Next let us calculate wasteful expenditures. A man who makes, say S2O per week, is a smoker, a chewer, and drinks an occasional glass of ale. See what this amounts to: 26 cigars a week $2 60 4 papers tobacco 40 20 glasses ale 1 00 15 car rides 76 5 saloon lunches 1 60 Total per week .... $0 16 This useless outlay would amount to an aggregate of $319.80 per year. Now let us average it at S3OO a year. Suppose this were saved instead of spent. In five years it would amount, in principal and interest, to over $1 ,800, or enough to secure your fam ily ever after from want. Another view may bo taken still; for as every one admits that figures can’t lie, they niay bo deemed the straight argument. Suppose yon lay out a plan to save, and, to ensure a certainty of keeping ywir determina tion, you begin at a dollar a week. If you begin at 20, and save until $1.50 A YEAR. you are 60, you have $8,413.12, which, invested at 7 per cent., would net you SSO a month in yonr old age. Should you start at 30, you havez on reaching 60, $4,256.60; or, should you delay until you are 40, yon have, at 60, $1,939.96. These amounts com prise the savings of only one dollar 4 week with interest compounded at $ per oent. Surely, then, no man oan truthfully say, “ I can’t save,” or “ I can’t grow rich.” Only begin it, and the habit of eoonomy will grow of itself fur children will follow your ex* pie. They also will save; and what with Hie aid of two or three bank books in eaoh household! ndi family need be poor. One closing hint. The man out of work, who can show..hiß .bank book, with deposits rcgiilarly made,’ has a recommendation stronger than all other endorsements. It proves industry, frugality, and eoonomy; and stamps him at once as an holiest! upright, thrifty man, and one to be relied on. Remember that “ God helps those that help themselves.” WIT and HUMOR. Nothing makes a person laugh so much as a set of new teeth. Mrs. Van Cott says that at one pf her prayer meetings a negro brother prayed: “O Lord! send dy angel to pin de wings on Sister Baucet’s heels, dat she may fly troo de world preachin* de eberlastin* Gospel.” And one added, “ Lord! give wings on her shoulders, too, or de preach ing will not have effect, for she’ll fly upside down.” An American clergyman wrote td a lottery agent“ I do not of lotteries: I regard them as no better than gambling schemes. My son bought ticket No. 6 in drawing, but if he drew anything don’t send the money to him—send it to me.” The clergyman will profy ably feel relieved to learn that the ticket didn’t draw anything. ( *i)ad, if I were to see a dock oft the wing, and were to shoot it, would you liok me ? ” “O, no, my Bonit would show that you were a good marksman, and I would be' proud oif you.” “ Well, then, dad, I peppered our old Muscovy duck as he was flyin’ over the fence to day, and it would have done you good to see him drop.” A Danbury man, who received. § telegram from Buffalo requesting him to go thither immediately to attend his mother-in-law’s funeral, sternly, declined, saying that ha never at* tended celebrations during Lent. “ Young gentlemen, do not gqt. into the habit of betting,” said a pro fessor to his class. “No kind of bat is excusable—in fact, every bet is ft sin as well as a mark of vulgarity. Have nothing, to do, young gentle-, men, with a bet of any kind. “ That, I suppose, puts a finisher upon our. dear old friend the alphabet /” exr claimed one of the students. The. professor smiled blandly upon the, young man, and gave him fifty extra lines of Greek. . Thackeray bad a nose of a most peculiar shape, as may be seen by his portraits. The bridge was very low, and the nostrils extremely developed. On one occasion, at a -party where Douglass Jerrold was present, it was mentioned that Mr. Thackeray’s religious opinions were unsettled, and that a lady of bis ac quaintance was doing her best to convert him to Romanism.- “To Romanism 1” exclaimed Jerrold; “let us hope, then, she will begin with his nose.’’ r . A fish farmer gets seventy-five Cepits per pound for trout; thus admail string of fish will bring as much as . a sheep, and they require neither grain, hay nor stabling. Why is a room full of married peo ple empty ? Because there is not a single person in it. Dr. Ctiyler wants all Uie young . ladies to band together ancf say, “No , lips shall touch my lips., that have k touched a bottle.” Racier rough this on the fellows who were brought up on a bottle. A Danbury man has brought out a _ new vermifuge with the significant name of “ Early Bird.” At a public sale pf books in Lon- 4 don, Drew's “ Essay on Souls ” was _ knocked down to ft. shoemaker, who, to the great amusement of the ,*- sembly, asked auctioneer if he,, had any more books on eh'oemsking to sell.