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LOUISVILLE, GA
fttas s2§o PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
bates of advertising.
X year, j
6 months, |
3 months.
4 weeks.
1 week.
SQUARES
I Jlluu $3.35 $7.50 SI2J)OS2O.UU
• 1.75 5.00 12.00 18.00 30.00
j 2.00 7.00 16.00 2800 40.00
4 8.60 9.00 26.00 85.00 50.00
6 4.00 12.00 28.00 40.00 60.00
teal 6.00 16.00 34.00 60.00 75.00
Mel 10.00 25.00 60.00 80.00 120.00
100 l 20.00 60.00 80.00
legal advertising.
Ordinary't. —Citations for letters
ot administration,guardianship, &c. # 3 00
Homestead notice 2 00
Applioationtor dism’n from adm'n.. 500
Application for disra’n of guard’n.... 350
Application for leave to sell Land.... 500
Notioe to Debtors and Creditors.... 300
SahM df Land, per square of leu lines 500
Sate of personal per sq., ten days 1 50
Hhitifft— Each levy of ten lines,.... 260
Mortgage sales of ten lines or less.. 500
Tax Collector's sales, (2 months.... 500
Clerk’s— Foreclosure of mortgage and
other monthly’s, per square 1 00
Estrhy notices,thirty days 3 00
gales of Laud, by Administrators, Execu
tors or Guardians, are required, by law to
be held on the first Tuesday in the month,
between the hours of ten in the forenoon
and three in the afternoon, at the Court
house in the county in which the property
a situated.
Notice ot these sales must be published 40
daws previous to the day of sale;
Notice for the sale of personal property
mast be published 10 days previous to sale
to debtors and creditors, 40 day
Notice that application will be made of
the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land,
4 weeks.
Citations for letters of Administration,
Guardianship, Ac., must be published 30
kyi Hi dismission from Administration,
Oenthly six months, for dismission from guar
dianship, 40 days.
gate I for foreclosure of Mortgages must
bp published monthly for four months—tor
establishing lost papers, for the full space oj
months —for compelling titles from Ex
scutors or Administrators, where bond has
Men given by the deceased, the full space
of three months.
Application for Homestead to be published
Istw in the space of ten consecutive days.
LOUISVILLE CARDS.
} 9 CAIN’ J. H. PQLHILL.
CAIN 8 POLHILL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
LOUISVILLE 5 GA.
May 6,1871. 1 ly-
T. F. HARLO W
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WatciL ISA! aicer
—AND—
inRiFRICXIBm,
Sjoulavllle, Oa.
Special attention given to renc-
repairing WATCHES, CLOCKS,
JEWELRY, SEWING MACHINES &c., &c.
Also Agent for the best Sewing Machine
tb May«"lß7l. 1 lyr:
DR. I. R. POWELL,
LOUIBVILLE, GA.
Thankful for the patronage
eigoyed heretofore, takes this method of con
tinuing the offer of his professional services to
patrons and friends.
May 5,1871. 1 ly»
W. H.. FAY,
LOVIiYILLE, GA.
s A DKD L E
—AND—
Sarn'ess Ivlalder.
also ,
BOOTS tib SHOES
ada te erder AH work warranted and sat--
i .faction guaranted both as to woand price
Give me a c»H. .
May 5,1871. Ifim -
XEDIOAL.
DR J. R. V SMlTHlate of SandersvilleGa.,
efiprs bis Professional services to the
citintirdf Louisville, and Jefferson county.
An experience of nearly forty years in the
profession, should entitle him to Public Con
fidence. Special attention paid to Obstetrics
and the diseases of women and children, of
fice at Mrs. Doctor Millers.
Louisville June 80, 187 (. Btf.
New AdYertisemeßts.
Dissolution
—OF—
ee&iMSWJgssMiP.
The Copartnership heretofore ex
isting between the undersigned, un
der the firm name of
SAMUEL M. LEDERER & CO.
is this day dissolved by mutual con
sent.
Messrs ISAAC M- FRANK and
FUSTAVE ECKSTEIN are alone
authorized to settle the affairs of the
late firm, collect all moneys due,
and sign in liquidation.
SAM’L M. LEDERER,
I. M. FRANK,
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN
Savannah, July 18ih, 1871.
Copartnership Notice.
The undersigned have this day
associated themselves together as
Partners for the transaction of a
General
DRY GOODS
business in the City of Savannah,
under the firm name of
FRANK & ECKSTEIN,
AT 131 BROUGHTON ST.,
where they will continue to carry an
extensive stock otj
S TT Ah JP IL ffi
AND
% fc % t
m
811 <&OOD§
AND
lofl I H 8 .
Possessing facilities to purchase
Goods
in the
Northern
Markets
on the very best terms, will contin
ue to offer such
IN ID SO EMC UTS
as will make it the interest of
BUYERS
to deal with us.
Thanking you for the kind favors
bestowed on the late firm, we re
spectfully solicit your patronage in
future. Also an early examination
of our slock and prices.
Yours respectfully,
FRANK * ECKSTEIN.
131 Broughtoa St-
Parties desiring to send orders for
Goods or Sample* of Dry Goods will
find them promptly attended to by
addressing
P. O. BOX 38,®
Savannah, Ga.
August 18, ly. a
Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Friday, October 20, 1871.
B. J. Davant, Jr. W. D. Waples J. Myerr.
Davant, Waples & CO.,
factors
—AND
COimniSSION MERCHANTS,
BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
August 15, 4m. rn
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
Are re pectfully solicited for the erection of a
BOAUMENT
TO THB
Confederate Dead of Georgia,
And those Soldiers from other Confederate
Btataa who were killed or died in this State.
THE MONUMENT TO COST #50,000.
The Comer Stone it is proposed shall be
laid on the 4th of July, or so soon’ thereafter as
the jpHjEJMH PHilll
Fat every Five Dollars subscribed, there wil
be given a certificate of Life. Membership t
the Monumental Association. This certificate
will entitle the owner thereof to an equal inter
eat in the following property, to be distributed
as soon as requisite number of shares are sold,
to-wit: _ , , . „
First. Nine Hundred and One
Acres of Land in Lincoln
county, Georgia, on which are
the well-known Magrnder
Gold and Copper Mines, val
ued at-.-- —--• ------ - #150,000
And to Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Four
Shares in One Hundred Thousand Dollars of
United Btates Currency; to-wit:
I.hare of #IO,OOO #IO,OOO
1 - 5,000 5,000
2 •• 2,500 5,000
to « 2,000 20.000
10 <• 1,000 1 0,000
go « 500 10,000
100 « 100 10,000
200 “ 5® 10,000
400 “ 25 10,000
1000 I® 10,00
#IOO,OOO
The value of the separate interest to which
the holder of each Certificate will be entitled,
will be determined by the Commissioners, who
Will announce to the public the manner, the
time and place of distribution.
The following gentlemen have consented to
set as Commissioners, and will either by a
Committee from their own body, or by Specia
Trustees, appointed by themselves, receive and
take proper charge of the money for the Mon
ument, as well as the Beal Estate and the U.
S. Currency offered as inducements for sub
scription, and will determine upon the plan for
the Monument, the inserption thereon, the site
therefor, select an orator for the occasion, and
regulate the ceremonies to be observed when
he corner-stone,is laid to-wit:
Generals L. McLaws, A. R. Wright, M. A.
Stovall, W. M. Gardner, Goode Bryan, Colo
onels C. Bnead, Wm. P. Crawford, Majors
Jos. B. Cnmming, George T. Jackson, Joseph
Ganahl, I. P. Girardey, Hon. R. H. May, Adam
Johnston, Jonathan M. Miller, W.H. Good
rich, J, D. Butt, Henry Moore, Dr. W. E. Dear
"th e Agents in the respective counties will
retain the money received for the sale oi
Tickets until the subscription Books are clos
ed. In order thst the several amounts may
be returned to the Shareholders, in case the
number of subscriptions will not warrant any
farther procedure the Agents will repert to
this office weekiy, the result of their sales.
When a sufficient number of the shares are
sold, the Agents wilt receive notice. They
will then forward to this office the amounts
received.
L & A. H- MoLAWS, Gen. Ag ts.
No. J Old P. O. Range, Mclntosh sts.
Augusta, Ga
W.OD. ROBERTS Agent at Sparta, Ga.
L.W.HUNT ft CO., Agents MiUedgeville
Georgia.
rp a n May, 2,1871. Cm.
Uliscdlaneims.
What is it to boa Widow.
“I think it must be a jolly thing to
be a widow.” I heard this remark
the other day in a group of laughing
girls. I think I remember saying
such a thing myself in the careless,
girlish limes.
Do you know girls, what it is to
be a widow ? It is to he ten times
more open to comment than any
demoiselle could possibly be. It is
(o have men gaze as you pass, first
at your black dress, then at your
widow’s cap until your sensitive
nerves quiver under the infliction.
It is to have one ill-natured person
say, “I wonder how long she will
wait before she marries again ?”
and another one answer, ‘‘Until she
gets a good chance, I suppose.” It
is now and then to meet a glance of
real sympathy, generally from the
poorest and noblest women that you
meet, and feel your eyes fill at the
token, so rare that it is, alas, unlook
ed for. It is to have your dear fash
ionable friend condole will) you af
ter the following fashion : Oh, well!
it is a dreadful loss. We knew you
would feel it, poor dear.” And in
the next breath, ‘‘You will he sure to
marry again, and your widow’s cap
is so very becoming lo you.”
But ii is more than this to be a
widow. It is to miss the strong arm
that you have leaned upon ; the true
failh that you knew could never fail
you, though all the world might for
sake you. It is to miss the dear
voice that uttered your name with a
tenderness none other could give it.
It is lo hear never more the well
known footsteps that you flew once
so gladly to meet. To see no more
the face that, lo your adoring eyes,
seems as the taces of the angels of
God. To feel no more the twining
arms that folded you so lovingly;
the dear eyas that looking into your
own sail so plainly, whatever it
might seem to others, yours was the
fairest earth held lor him. It is to
fight with a mighty sorrow as a man
fights with the waves that overwhelm
him, and to hold it at arms length
for a while, only to have —in hours
of loneliness and weakness—the tor
rent roll over you, while—poor storm
driven dove—you see no haven of
peace in the distance hut heaven.
A Widow.
“Keep the Gate Shut,”
An English farmer was one day at
work in his fields, when he saw a
party of huntsmen riding about
his farm. He had one field that he
was specially anxious they should
not ride over, as the crop was in a
condition lobe badly injured by the
tramp of horses. So he dispatched
one of his workmen to this field, tel
ling him to shut the gate, and then
keep watch over it, and on no ac
count suffer it to be opened. The
boy went as he was bidden; but
was scarcely at his post, before the
huntsmen came up, peremptorily
ordering the gate to be opened. This
the boy declined to do, stating the
orders he had received, and his de
termination not to disobey them.
Threats and bribes were offered alike
in vain—one after another came for
ward as spokesmen, but all with the
same result; the boy remained im
moveable in his 3elermination not to
open the gate. After a while one of
noble presence advanced, and said
in commanding tones': ‘My boy, you
do not know me. lam the Duke
of Wellington—one not accustomed
to be disobeyed; and I command
you to open that gate, that I and my
friends may pass through.’ The
boy lifted bis cap and stood uncov
ered before the man whom all Eng
land delighted to honor, then an
swered firmly: “I am sure the Duke
of Wellington would not wish me to
disobey orders. 1 must keep this
gale shut, nor suffer any one to pass
but with my master’s express per
mission.”
Greatly pleased, the sturdy old
warrior lilted his own hat and said:
“I honor the man or boy, who can
be neither bribed nor frightened into
doing wrong. With an army of such
soldiers I could conquer the world.”
And handing the boy a glittering
sovereign, the old Duke galloped a
way, while the boy ran off to his
work, shouting at the top of his
voice, “Hurrah, hurrah ! I’ve done
what Napoleon couldn’t do—l've
kept out the Duke of Wellington.”
Thb Local Paper. —A local
newspaper is a travelling agent, ta
king his weekly round to the fami
lies of all their customers. No mat
ter whether times are good or dull,
no matter whether trade is brisk or
otherwise, no business man can af
ford to take down his s : gn, nor
withdraw the pleasing influence ofa
weekly chat with his customers
through ihe newspapers. For a
business man to stop advertising,
would be equivalent to his saying,
“I have slopped business, and ask
no more favors of the people."
FICKLENESS OF FASHIONS.
A lady thus criticises the prone
ness of her sex lo follow the chang
ing fashions of the day :
Sensible women must resist, as far
as they can, the expensive despotism
of lhat invisible tyrant called fash
ion Wjiat enormous taxes it imposes
upon us !—t ix:-s to a lithe of which
we would not submit lor a moment
from any other ruler. What a mys
terious and omnipoient power it is !
Suddenly (here goes forth an edict,
nobody knows from whom, that eve
rybody must wear trailing garments ;
and straightway the filthy streets
are swept with silk and satin. Some
French manlua-makers, whose for
tune depends upon stimulating the
rivalry of wealthy idlers, invents
some new cut of a sleeve, or some
new adjustment ot trimming, which
vanity immediately adopts as a pub
lic advertisement that she is rich
enough to change dress with every
passing whim. Then the mystic
saying goes around the world, “ They
dress so, this season.” Who they
are nobody knows ; but the voice
must be obeyed, without regard lo
climate or convenience, or becom
rningness to individual faces and
figures. A milliner of the Empress
Eugenie places a grape leal on the
head ol her imperial mistress, and
calls it a bonnet ; it forms a pretty
ornament for her tresses, and its
utility is no object lo her who rolls
through life in a chariot, such doll’s
headgear answers well enough for
her. But, because she wears it,
straightway every farmers wife in
New England feeb compelled to
walk through wind and dust, heat
and cold, with a grape-leaf on her
head.
We laugh at Chinese women for
deforming their feet and rendering
them useless by the fashion of cast
ing them in baby shoes ; yet in this
enlightened country, girls are strain
ing the muscles of their feet beyond
repair, and losing the power of walk
ing with a firm, elastic tread, be
cause it is the fashion to topple
about on high-heeled shoes. In this
country it is peculiarly remarkable
that we submit so tamely to such
perpetual and vexatious interference
with our free will and our daiiy con
venience. We scorn the idea of
having our affairs regulated by any
other monarch, and would resist any
other involuntary taxation to death.
But we empty our purses, and waste
our time and facilities, and tumble
over crinoline traps, and stifle our
lungs, and weaken our feet, and
freeze our brains, because fashion,
in the person of some Parisian mo
diste, proclaims, “Ttiey do so this
season.”
General Boynton’s Darky.
When General Boynton was in
the South, a swarthy, good-natured
darky became quite attached to that
jolly son of Mars and quill-driver.
■The General, in course of time,
sent him lo bis father in Ohio. The
old gent asked Sam if he knew any
thing about horses and carriages.
“Spec I does, massa ; was massa’s
old coachman, dis chile was !” He
wa3 told to go to ihe barn and
“grease up” the buggy, meaning, of
course, the wheels. After a while
Sam was told lo put the horse in the
buggy, which he did. The old gent
then got in, but thought the dasher
was rather sticky as he laid his hand
on it to assist himself in gelling in.
But what was his horror to see that
Sam had literally “greased up the
buggyfor he had applied the
wheel grease to every part of it —
the seat, lop, sides, wheels, dasher
and shafts. His rage was not cool
ed much by Sam’s remarking, as he
scrambled out of the sticky concern,
“Golly, massa, couldn’t grease dis
yer harness, cos de grease all don
gone ! ”
The darky was afterwards taken
to the village with Mrs. 8., who,
wishing to leave a short message
with a lady friend, and not desiring
to get out of the carriage, told "Sam
to get out and ring the bell. Sam
got out and stood in the road, (jeer
ing and gazing up in the air and
around the sides of the house, with
his great hands stuck in his trows
era’ pockets. Mrs. B. asked him
what he was looking after. * Foh
der Lord missus, I don’t see no hell.
Reckon dey hasn’t got any hands on
dis yer plantation.” He was look
ing for a Southern plantation hell of
two-darky power in Ohio ! Mrs. B.
Baw the joke, and directed him lo
lake hold of the little silver bell-han
dle on the side of the door and pull
it out. Sain went for it, got hold of
it, held on to it. pul his big right foot
against the door-post, gave a tre
menduous pull—when something
broke and Sam landed in the middle
of the desiy road, exclaiming, “By
golly! reckon dey ment dis ye re
shouldn’t never come out!”— Har
per's Magazine.
Happiness grows at our own fire
sides, and is not to be picked up in
the stranger’s garden.
True Words
A fit pair—a dandy and a co
quette —the one is a thing in panta
loons, with a body and two arms,
head without brains, high boots, a
cane and white handkerchief, two
broaches and a ringon his little fin
ger. The other is a young lady,
with more beauty than sense, more
accomplishments than learning, in ire
charms of person than graces of
mind, more admirers than friends,
and mote fools than wise men for
her attendants.
Education is at home a friend,
abroad an introduction, in solitude a
solace, in society an ornament.
Man was created to search for
truth, to love the beautiful, lo desire
what is good, and to do the best.
Beauty flows in the waves of
light, radiates from the human face
divine, and sparkles in the pathway
of every child.
Perfection of mint! consists ot
firtrness and mildness, of force and
tenderness, of vigor and grace.
There is no greater expounder of
moral principle, no eloquent teacher
ot divine truth, who is more useful
in God’s world, than a business-man
that carries his leligion into his bus
iness.
A bright and beautiful bird is
hope ; it will co.ne to us amid the
darkness, and sing ihe sweetest
song when our spirits are saddest;
and when the lone soul is weary,
and longs to pass away, it warbles
ihe sunniest notes, and tightens
again the slender fibres of our hearts
that grief has been tearing away.
Pleasure is a rose near which
there ever grows a thorn of evil. It
is wisdom’s work to so carefully
pluck the rose as to avoid the thorn,
and let its rich perfumes exhale to
heaven in gratitude and adoration of
him who gave the rose to blow.
Idleness —ls the bane of body
and mind, the nurse of naughtiness,
the step-mother of discipline, the
chief author of all mischief, one of
the seven deadly sins, the cushion
upon which the Devil chiefly reposes,
and a great cause not only of mel
ancholy, but of many other diseases:
for the mind is naturally active ; and
if it be not occupied about honest
business, it rushes into mischiel, or
sinks into melancholy.
A Good Irish Anecdote. —Some
years ago, when the beautiful paint
ing ot Adam and Eve was exhibited
in Ireland, it became the chief topic
of conversation. Finally, a ragged,
illiterate peasant went to gee it. The
light wag go arranged ag to reflect
on the picture and leave the specta
tor in comparative darkness. The
peasant as he entered the room
to see his first parents, wag struck
with so much astonishment that
he remained speechless for some
moments. He stood like a statue :
as though he were incorporated with
ihe oaken floor of the room. At
last with an effort he turned to an
acquaintance and said :
“Barney, I’ll niver say another
word agin Adam in all me life, for
had I been in the garden, I’d have
eat ivery apple in it tor the sake of
such a lovely creature as Eve.”
The Power of Woman. —Gail
Hamilton has never written more
truly than when he penned the fol
lowing :
The subtle and mysterious at
traction that everywhere draws men
lo women is a sacred trust commit
ted to women by the Creator. It is
not only a power irresistible, but a
possession inalienable. By no mis
use or disuse can it be forfeited. U
is not beauty nor wit nor goodness;
for the attraction exists independent
of all these. It is simply woman
hood. Man pays delereuce to wo
man instinctively, involuntarily, not
because she is beautiful, or truthful,
or wise, or foolish, or proper: but
because she is a woman, and he can
not help it. If she descends, he will
lower to her level; if she rises, he
will rise to her height.
This is the teal danger—not that
i»he will drive him fiom he(\ She
cannot help being his blessing or his
bane. She cannot make herself into
a being he will not love. If she is
insipid, ignorant, masculine,coarse—
then lie will love insipidity, igno
rance, masculineness, coarseness,
and be himself deteriorated. So
much the more ought woman, by
virtue of this mysterious and inalien
able power, to rise to the height of
wise and worthy exercise. Instead
of making il merely the minister of
her own indolence and vanity it
should be made to minister to all hu
man grace and succor. Instead of
regatding it as a reason why she
may dispense with all prudence and
wisdom, it is the reason ot all rea
sons why the should concentrate
| within herself every resource of pru
dence and wisdom.
No. 25.
Womanhood. —ln true woman.*
hood are combined ali the best at
tributes of humanity ; tenderness
without weakness; trust without
credulity ; modesty without prude
ry : dignity without haughtiness;
self-respect without conceit ; confi
dence without boldness ; courage
without coarseness ; goodness with
out piel.sm, and reverent worship
without superstition.
Elder Knapp, the great revival
ist, was actively engaged in a revi
val of religion down in Arkansas,
and when about to baptize anew
convert he called out in a loud voice,
“Does any one know any reason
#hy this man should not be baptiz
ed ?" and to his surptise, a long spe
cimen of an Arkansas traveler shout
ed in response, “See here, Mister
Preacher, 1 don’t want to interfere
in that ’ere business of yours, but if
you expect to get the sin all out of
that olil cuss you will have to an
chor him out in the river over night.”
How borrowed things are often
used is well exemplified in the dtse
of a hoy who was met on horseback
crying with cold. Someone said to
him, “why don’t you get down and
lead your horse? That is the way
to keep warm.” “No,’ said the
boy, “it’s a b-b-orrowed boss, and
I’ll ride him if I freeze.”
A splendid story is told of McMa
hon when a colonel. Duting a pa
rade he had an altercation with an
officer in the ranks, who refused la
obey him. McMahon finally threat
ened the offender, and the latter
drawing a pistol, took deliberate
aim and fired. Fortunately the cap
snapped. Without the slightest sign
of fear, cool and impassionate, Mc-
Mahon said, “Give that man fifteen
days in the guard house for having
his arms out of order.”
There is hardly another sight in
the world, says Hawthorne in one
of his romances, so pretty as that of
a company of young girls—almost
women grown—at play, and so giv
ing themselves up to their airy im
pulse that their tip toes barely touch
the ground. Girls are so incompar
ably wilder and more effervescent
than boys—more untamable, and
regardless of rule and limit, with an
evershifting variety breaking contin
ually into new modes of fun, but
with a harmonious propriety through
all. Their steps, their voices ap
pear free as the wind, but keep con
sonance with a strain oi music inau
dible to us. Young men and boys,
on the other hand, play according to
to recognized law old traditionary
games,* permitting no caprices of
fancy, but with scope enough for
the outbreak of savage instincts;
for, young or old, in play or in ear
nest, man is prone to be a brute.
The Cuorse of True Love.—A
Eureka, California paper relates a
remarkable tale of love and constan
cy. A young man in the east wish
ed to marry the daughter of a pros
perous merchant, but had no money
with which to back his suit. £te
was therefore declined as a son-in
law, and so he went to tire Pacific
coast to seek his fortune. He
sought gold everywhere, but found
little ; and at last, after years of la
bor and fhardship, determined to
return to his old home. He engaged
his passage from San Francisco,
when he encountered his early love,
now nearly middle nge, who, with
her brother, had gone in quest of
her old lover. Her parents anti all
her near relations had died, aaveber
companion. She was wealthy, and
only too happy to give her fortune,
with her hand and heart, to the man
who hid struggled valiantly and
failed to earn the meed of toil. The
twain were wedded, and returned to
the East with the dream of *©ve as
bright and fresh to them as it had
been years before.
The Open Countenance.— Give
us the open, fiank, full and vividly
marked countenance, which be
speaks a cheerful, ingenuous, ener
getic and manly soul within, that
despises selfishness, ingratitude and
meanness ; a soul that loves its kind,
and sympathises with liieir joys and
sorrows; a soul ever assiduous for
the extension of human attainments;
a soul foil of a lofty genius, and a
noble moral energy, ready for every
word and work. In fine, a cheerful
and enter prising spirit, solicitous to
advance mankind iq all that enno
bles human character, and fit* man
for peace on earth and joy In heaven.
We like ibis plain index lo the soul.
A gentleman expressed lo alady
his admiration of her twlel. She
said she supposed he had been im
pressed by her angel sleeves, Jk
answered with effusion: ‘‘lwirwift
I’d like to be,”