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'ISLISHED WEEKLY EVEKY SATURDAY BY
j. c. WOOTTEN,
J. A. WELCH.
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GOTTEN & WELCH,
Proprietors.
j c. WOOTTEN, Editor.
I
sH'OMjT LIST!!
AM now offering nt my old stand on Green
ville street, a new and well selected stock of
DRY GOODS, &.C.,
Consisting of
Calicoes, Worsteds, DeLaines,
Red, White and Opera Flannels,
Canton and Salsbury do
Kentucky and X. Carolina Jeans,
Casimers, Satinets, Jeans, Linseyfe,
Bleached and Brown Shirtings, Ticking,
1 risii Linens, Swiss and Jackonet Muslins,
Berates, Ladies’ and Misses’ Skirts,
Liidie3 and Gents’ Handkerchiefs, Hosery
and Gloves,
Men and Boys’ Boots and Shoes,
Ladies, Misses and Children’s Shoes,
Hats and Cap3,
Crockery and Glass IV are,
Painted and Cedar Water Buckets,
Weil Buckets, Tubs and Brooms,
Laddies, Snap and Blind Bridles,
Wagon and Buggy Collars,
Buggy Whips and Haines,
Umbrellas, Patent Cloth,
Table and Pocket Cutlery,
And Irons ana Sad Irons,
Sausage Grinders,
Hooks and Hinges, Screws and Butts,
Coffee Mills, Sivcs, Cotton Cards,
Pad Locks, Files, Nails,
Collin’s Axes, Spades and Shovels,
Blue Stone, Copperas, Indigo, Madder,
Spice, Pepper, Ginger,
Hoda, Starch, Epsom Salts,
Maccoboy Snuff, Table Salt,
Cheese, Sugar, Syrup, Tobacco,
Powder, Gun Caps and Tubes,
Cotton Yarns, and a great many Notions
and other tilings too tedious to mention.
Spelling Books, Almanacks for 18b7,
Paper, Ink, Gillott’s Steel Pens,
Cedar Pencils, Envelopes, kc.
All of which will be sold low for CASH
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Thankful to all my old friends and custom
ers for past favors, and hope to see them in
;; iin, and receive a liberal patronage from all.
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November 10-12m
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Oct 20-7-12m.
Correspondence Louisville Courier.
Letter from Eev. E- A. HoHand.
Jerusalem. Feb. 12, 1857.
A MORNING’S RIDE IN JERUSALEM.
Dear Courier : As the best method of group
ing some of the places of sacred interest we
have visited in Jerusalem and vicinity, I will
give an account of our morning’s ride.
We were sitting at the table in the saloon of
Herr Hornstein’s Hotel, sipping coffee, when
our blink-eyed “valet-de-place, ’’ Antiqua,
thrust his homely and good-natured face in
the door, and said, “Masters, the horses are
ready. Yellah ! come !” We obeyed, and
followed our gdide down to the street, where
on r steeds were awaiting us. Our route was
along the “via dolorosa’’ from the point where
it turns at the Austrian Hcspill toward the
south. As we rode slowly over the wet and
slippery stones, the old fellow (minted out sev
eral stations marked by blood colored frag
ments of columns, at which the weary bon of
God, exhausted by the hist night's agony in'
the garden and the morning’s scourge and lac
eration. had fallen under his cross on the way
to Golgotha. “Here,” passing an edifice, he
would say, “is the house in which Dives dwelt
and there, on that rock against the wall, sat
Lazarus, while the dogs licked his sores.”—
“Here is where St. Veronica handed the sufferer
her handkerchief with whicn to wine away the
bloody sweat from his brow, and here is where
Cimon the Cyrenian was compelled to Like up
the cross its intended victim could no longer
bear, and just there is where He turned to the
women who walked nigh to his side in the
crowd, wailing and smiting their breasts in an
guish, and spake the prophetic words, “Daugh
ters of Jerusalem weep not for me but for your
selves and your children.’’ Of course, we did
not credit the authenticity of the spots. We
knew that Jerusalem had been utterly destroy
ed by Titus, and thought there was little pro
bability that the modern streets correspond to
the ancient. Still, this via dolorosa had been
regarded for many years as the Savior’s path
from Pilate’s palace to the crucifixion ; over
its well-worn pavement many a foot-sore pil
grim had trodden seeking peace for his soul at
the shrine of the sepulchre-, and if not precise
ly along this narrow and zigzag lane (if the
sites of Antonia and Calvary be really known)
it could not have been far off, or in a very dif
ferent course, that the most mournful process
ion earth has ever known marched to the con
summation of Heaven’s righteous will. Besides
J had not come to Jerusalem to criticise, to in
vestigate localities, to bother my brain about
useless and unprofitable discussions, the ten
dency, if not design, of which is to change re
verence into mockery. I, too, like the multi
tudes who from the days of Godfrey before me
had travelled from distant homes to kiss the
rock oi the sepulchre, never doubting tlie tra
dition of its genuineness, was simply a pilgrim,
wishing more to be benefitted by faith in what
1 saw, and the emotions inspired by that faith,
than coldly to debate or sneeringly to deny
what, if not truth, indeed, had been rendered
truth to me by the centuries of devout esteem,
of penitential and hallowed affection it had,
albeit error, received.
CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE.
Thus musiiug I rode along the via dolorosa,
under its gloomy archways, between its prison
like houses, until having made a considerable
ascent, 1 paused on the summit of a hill. Why
did I, why did we all, as by a common instinct
pause ? There was nothing near that we had
determined to visit on this trip. Still we paused.
On our left were the ruins of the hospital of
St. John, within wnose vast walls once resided
knights whose lives were spotless as their
shields, and whose shields btained not the re
flection of the skies—the van of every charge,
the rear of every retreat, to whom battle was
a pleasure and death itself a glory. On our
right was the grand old Church of the Holy
Sepulchre, under whose huge* dome are the
supposed sites and I doubt not the true—of
the crucifixion and the entombment of man’s
Redeemer. We paused because we could not
help pausing, but reserving our visit to this
holiest of holy places for a separate day, we
then silently rode on among the venders of
chaplets and relics to the Jaffa Gate, on tlie
western side of the city. Here stood and yet
stands the tower of Hippicus, the large bevel
ed stones of the lower part contrasting with
the more insignificant material of the upper,
even as that antique grandeur, of which the
former are representative, contrast with the
torpid Turkish negligence of which the latter
are a flattering indication. The Jaffa Gate
opens opposite to the Valley of Gihon, which
deepening southward, becomes, where it bends
around Mt Zion to the southeast, the Valley of
Hinnom, a profound, wild and picturesque rav
ine between Mount Zjon, that rises fay above
on the north, crowned with its bastioned and
battlemented walls, and the Mount of Evil
Counsel on the south, a desolate elevation
whose acclivity is that singularly shaped tree
on which remorseful Iscariot is said to have
hanged himself.
A LErEE.
We had scarcely issued from the Jaffa Gate
when 1 saw sitting alone on the roadside a mis
erable wretch, his appearance so shocking to
sight as almost to counteract the pity it ought to
excite. His nose was eaten entirely away. His
face was a hideous deformity. He held forth
his stumps of hands—their lingers rotted off to
the knuckles. His arms were streaked with
white and covered with running sores. In fact
the man seemed from head to foot a solid scab,
a loathsome putrefaction. He was a leper.—
There is a portion of the city assigned to these
poor creatures. They live apart from the rest
of mankind, unclean to the touch, as of old.—
They go forth early in the day, and taking
their position in some public place where there
are likely to be many passers by, stretch out
their fingerless hands or hand in speechless im-
portunacy for alms. The alms is tossed to
them and they crawl and labor to take it from
the ground. They would utter their gratitude
but probably the tongue is swollen and motion
less. Alas, what a life must be theirs ! As to
whether the modern leprosy be identical with
the ancient I am not prepared to express an
opinion. It is similar in many respects—diff
erent in one, that of not being contagious.—
Nevertheless it is so disgusting as to forbid as
effectually as if infectious. It' is hereditary,
and transmitted through generations with such
certainty that the child of a leper may be con
sidered tainted even before the disease mani
fests itself.
THE VALLEY OF HINNOM.
A single glance at the specimen we had seen
was sufficient and tossing him a liberal buck-
sheesh we put spurs to our horses and cantered
j down to the valley of Hinnom. It reaches its
1 greatest depth where it unites with the valley
j of Jehosaphat, which lies on the east of Jerus-
j alem, and divides Mounts Moriah and Bazatba
J from the Mount of Olives. Jehosaphat sweeps
! around the southern extremity of Olivet east- j
ward, and through it Kedron once flowed its
course to the Dead Sea. Here where Jehosa
phat turns to the east it is met by Hinnom.
and here, or very near, occurred those tragic-
rites which have made Hinnom a synonym for
hell. They were performed in honor of Baal
and Moloch, and consisted in the sacrifice of
children. The spot was well adapted to the
devilish work, well adapted to insult the tem
ple that overlooked it, and to affright with its
fiendish noises the populace who might not at
tend, This sombre glen with its a few dusky
olives, then a grove—these stern, rock hearted
mountains encompassing it—that vista open
ing out upon the desert, and that stream to
drain the blood from the altar, all render To-
phet the select tpot for the damning and dam
nable deeds of idolatry. Up yonder on the
brow of the Hill of Scandal was the high place j
built by Solomon, the estal lisher of'the fear
ful ceremony. Into what a bottomless pit of
iniquity even ihe wisest of mankind may sink!
I can imagne the horrid scene. Tlie monstrous
statue of brass, with the head of an ox and the
body of a man, is heated red hot by fires kiud-
lded within the furnace of its hollow form.— !
Tlie crowd has gathered—fathers, mothers, j
children. 1 hear a whispeaing of wonder as to i
what family will be bereaved by to-day s obla- ]
tion, what woman's soul be torn and harrow
ed by the cruel murder of its strongest love.— '
Tlie moment of the offering approaches. The
superstitious multitude are now wrought up to
a high pitch of excitement by the prepared
stimulants of priestcraft. I see them now,
conspicuous by reason of aspect and station—
livid, haggard, trembling—the mothers of the
victims. They stand nearer the idol than the
rest. They press to their bosoms in farewell
embrace the innocent victims, smilingly in hap
py unconsciousness of their coming doom. Oh
the torture of that sweet infant smile, the
light of heaven to that mother’s eyes. But
she must give it up—stand aloof ami witness
its writhings, hear its shrieks, and behold its
blackened and cindered corpse. Site would
willingly die in its stead. She now tightens
her embrace as the priest approaches, and
feels she cannot ref T • the child from her arms.
Tie kisses it again and again, and then starts
to surrender, hut cannot ; she draws it closer
than ever to herself, and repeats the kisses
more wildly than before. It is inevitable.—
The child is taken and placed within the glow
ing arms of the brazen statue ; another and
another of the victims are added until the hec
atomb was completed. The drummers beat
their drums to drown the cries of pain on the
one hand, and the lamentations of sorrow
on the other. The inultitude also shout with
the frenzy of maniacs. Chcsnosh .is propitia
ted.
What better term coukl the Hebrew writers
have employed to express the inexpressible, the
infinite woe of future punishment, than that
which ever called up before the minds of the
people the fearful scenes they had witnessed in
this vale, Gehenna!
THE TOOL £F SILO AM.
Leaving -Hinnom, wc kept tlie road that
winds around Mt. Zion, and soon came upon
limpid brook, softly flowing between high
banks, green with luxuriant vines. An over
hanging rock shaded it. We traced it to its
source, a rectangular reservoir, down to whose
waters decends a flight of stone steps from the
level of the ground.’ It was loam. Its situ
ation is beautiful, just where. Tyropeon falls
gently between Zion and Moriah, into the Val
ley of Jehosaphat—a terraced declivity which
in the days of Ariel’s pride was the King's Gar
den. Full of the poetry of travel, I hastened
to the fountain’s edge to drink of water, and
lave therein my brow and C3 r es. Poetry speed
ily changed to nausea. The,water had washed
the rouge and powder from her face, and the
sallow, wrinkled witch, whom I had clasped as
a nymph, grinned spitefully at me disclosing
in that, her sea-green and decayed tusks. For
dear Courier, I had not much more than fairly
swallowed the draught, when I saw a blind
Arab feel his way down tlie steps, strip him
self. and wash in that self-same fountain, whose
dulcet name was now to me as the little book
the Apostle John took from the angel’s hand
and ate up, which “in his mouth was sweet as
honey, and as soon as he eat it his belly was
bitter.” Sd much for Siloa's brook, that flow
ed past by the oracle of God. Had I remem
bered the Savior’s command to the blind man,
“Go, wash in the pool of SUoam,” my recol
lections of that pool would be far more palata
ble.
ASCENT OF OLIVET.
From Si loam we con Fed oui ride around
Mt. Moriah, some of the foundation stones of
whose original walls still remain, to the pool
of the Virgin ; then crossing the Valley of Je
hosaphat and the rocky bed of the Kedron to
tombs of St. Janies, Zacliarias and Absalom,
we began the ascent of Olivet, among the
countless tombstones that whiten its western
slopo. These humble slabs, destitute of orna
ment, lying flat bn the ground, mark the rest
ing places of that miraculous people, whose de
votion to the very dust of Jerusalem has kept
them peculiar and distinct through ages of op
pression, of protracted and cruel persecution,
of universal prejudice and contempt. Of what
ever land he may be a native, under whatever
influences surrounded, whether bronzed, by
tropical suns or bleached by tern erate climes,
or chilled through his furs by tie long winters
of the Arctic, a Pole, a Briton, a German, an
American—still the Jew, unmistakably, proud
ly a Jew. The keen eye, the acquiliac nose,
the sad visage imprinted with the story of his
wrongs, ever stamp him with God’s seal of
prophecy. He lives and perpetuates in his
singularity an incarnate argument oi the divin
ity of that very Messiah his rejection of whom
is the origin of his misfortunes. His exile in
to all nations is God's method of publishing to
the world alike that the truth that Jesus is His
son and the anathema entailed by the denial
of that truth. But the Jew. amid all his trou
bles, a vagabond in the earth, nurses one su
preme desire, and that is, when the wandering
foot can stray no longer, and tlie weary breast
is tired unto death, they may both find the
repose the} could not find in life, in sweet sleep
amid the sacred dust of the Kedron valley*. be
neath, the lofty cliffs of Moriah, and i;igh un
to where that temple, whose magnificence was
their type of Heaven, lifted wNh the pride of a
Pharisee its lofty pinnacle in the air. Here
their fathers sleep. Here David and Solomon,
the Judges, the Prophets, and the Kings, sanc
tify by their remains the soil to holiness. Here
the Messiah himself shall stand at the Resur
rection to call the atoms of decay to pristine
form and glorified beauty. Here shall be the
first to awake in the newness of everlasting life.
Filled with these thoughts, from every part of
the world, when the burden has grown too
grievous much further to be Lome, the sons ot
Israel have toiled hither to deposit the weight
that has bowed them to the dust, anil stretch
their aching limbs for a loug and blessed rest
a rest beyond the pursuit of contumely, in the
society of their regal ancestors, with the calm
belief that their awakening will be in the ce
lestial radiance of Jerusalem restored—God
their own God, reigning upon Zion. Look at
these tombstones, extending from the very l>ed
of the brook high up the acclivity of Olivet,
and literally paving the mountain, thousands
upon thousands of them. “Look at them,”
did I say. Nay, listen to them. Verily, their
voice is in the breeze and speaks to the soul
mysterious, awful truths, truths of God, of his
justice, truths of a Redeemer and His judg
ments, truths wliich I would were heeded by
the race whose name they utter in the melau-
choly but unfaltering accents of a judicial sen
tence.
A MAGNIFICENT VIEW
We continued our ascent to tire little village
of Tor, on the central summit of Olivet. It
contains a mosque, from the balcony of whose
minaret we obtain cue of the finest views in
Palestine, limited by mountains on the north
west and south, although commanding entire
Jerusalem, but reaching on the east to the
mountains ef Ammon beyond the sea of Sodom
and spreading out beneath us as a map the
wilderness of St. John and the fertile valley of
the Jordan, the course of the river itself being
distinctly marked by the dark foliage of the
of the trees that shade its banks. The eye
ranges over a desolation, the tremendous sc ir
of Jehovah’s curse.
Bald, bleak, barren, gashed and wrinkled
hills, their sand fi nning in the sun, shelve
down from our feet in succession, down. down,
and then, as if demon possessed, plunge with a
final bound, into the Deal Sea, almost four
thousand feet below us and thirteen hundred
below the level of the Mediterranean. There
its. its drear, abysmal cauldron it simmers as it
over the very embers of liell. There methinks
hell did once open its dragon jaws and breathe
volcanic fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah and
swallow the wicked cities from the face of the
earth. The utter death solitude of its bitumi
nous waters, the leafless, withered trunks that
strew its sandy beach, the terrified aspect of
the mountains that closely compass it like sav
age hierophants, who, singed by the altar
flames which consumed the victim whose ago
nies they were intensely watching, and quick -
witness bis execution! There is no faith in
tyrants. Threats of confiscation are futile.—
Almost every one has been pardoned by taking
the amnesty oath or by spechd application.—
'Hie Southern people may be robbed and mur
dered, but their property cannot be confiscated, i c.LY JU/U
In order to debauch prominent Southern
men, oilers have been made in Congress to re
move their disabilities, and, it would seem, not
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that “look a hast.” then so suddenly arrested bribes to a few. is the policy adopted for radi-
and immutably fixed in stone, these all attest calizing the Southern States. With universal
that a supernatural tragedy has been enacted ! negro suffrage and debauched politicians, we
in thi.ir midst, so ineffably dreadful that the may bid farewell to all hope of republican in-
recoliections of it will haunt and keep them : stitutions. Virtue and intelligence alone can
thus deliriously wild until comforted by
message of a “new heaven and a new earth
wherein dwelleth righteousness.” Then shall rights, and property to make him feel an intcr-
they dress themselves in flowers and sing forth terest in the proper exercise or them, he should
praises with the voices of birds. I will not be allowed to vote. This principle has been
now endeavor a description of the view on the adopted in most of the Northern States, and is
west, as it involves Jerusalem, its sanctuaries wise and just. But it is wicked to put ballots
JUJlUgg
POWELL & STALLINGS,
Attorneys s&t Iia w,
NEWNAN,... GA.,
XTT ill practice in the several Courts of Law
V V and Equity in the Tallapoosa and Cow-
the sustain a republic. When the negro has ae- 1 eta Circuits, and in the United States District
arth i quired intelligence to understand his political j Court for the State of Georgia.
and immediate environs, and would require of
itself a separate and not very short letter.
REFLECTIONS.
Descending from the minaret, we are shown, j
in the Chapel of the Ascension, a footprint in
a rock declared by the monks to have bet-u ac
tually made by the Lord wh ... he’sprang from j
the spot into the clouds. Is it not a pity that ,
the fervid emotions the place kindles into be- i
ing should be put out by this dish-water of non
sense.
Nevertheless, Olivet lias few rivals among i
the holy places of Palestine. With its terraced j
slopes thickly dotted with thegnarled and veil- j
erable trees, from which it takes its name ; with
Gethsemane on one side, sweetly nestling at j
its foot, and Bethany on the other, clinging to i
its robe of verdure, half hidden in its folds ;
eminently fitted for the closing act in the
earthly career of the great Captain of our Sal
vation, that in which having planted his heel
upon the neck of Death and Satan, and unfurl
ed his cross-blazoned banner from their strong
hold. He takes a farewell survey of the prov
ince so dearly won, gives to his faithful subor
dinates, who he has called about,liim, iustruc
tions for the grand campaign of its total con
quest, then leaps into his ethereal chariot and
rules home to nis throne above the stars.
R. A. HOLLAND.
Policy and Duty of the Southern People.
LETTER FROM EX-GOV. l’EREY, OF S. C.
“ The United States shad guarantee to every
State in this Union a republican form of gov
ernment.”—Sec. 4, Art. 1 F, Constitution of the U.
S. of America.
Under this authority the Congress of the U.
States, after excluding from their seats the
Senators and Representatives of ten Southern
has established
in the hands of those who will be the passive
tools of thei. employers, or the mischievous
agents of Black Republican emissaries.
Nothing can be more unjust or iniquitous
than the discriminating disfranchisement of
the military bill. A Union man, whose life
has been spent in trying to maintain the inter
est of the Union, but who was a member of
tlie Legislature or a Judge ten or twenty years
ago, and who. after his State seceded, fid or
clothed a son in the Confederate army, is dis
franchised 1 But the man whose whole life
may have been spent in treasonable efforts to
! destroy the Union and involve the country in
j a bloody civil war, who was a leading member
J of the Secession Convention, and afterwards a
distinguished General in the Confederate army,*
j hurling his command against the army of tlie
i United States in a hundred bloody fields of
ad pre-
Constitu-
many
iglit be
justice and folly of
this disfranchisement. It is believed that
neither Generals Beauregard. Hill, Magruder,
nor General Lee, himself, the illustrious com
mander-in-chief of the Confederate forces, is
disfranchised. Rut the bumble Union magis
trate, who relieved the distresses of a son in
tlie Confederate army, is disfranchised!
There is not the remotest hope or probability
of the Southern States being restored to the
Union till after the next Presidential election.
Why, then, shall we voluntarily degrade our
selves, and give up our dearest political rights
for a delusion ? If we are to wear manacles,
let them be put on by our tyrants, not by our
selves. If a man threatens to kick you, self-
respect Would forbid your exposing your person
to him and asking him to kick you at once and
be done with it.' We have lived already two
years under military rule, in great poverty and
distress, and have been cheered all the time hy
the consciousness that wc arc not q degraded,
though a conquered people. We can continue
to live in the same way two years longer, or, if
need be, ten years, and feel a pride in knowing
that we have maintained our honor, and made
btates, has established in ail of the excluded j
States a military government, absolute and every effort possible to preserve our freedom
unlimited in its powers. It is well known that | and constitutional rights. A man who feels
these States have exhausted their power and j that lie lias dishonored himself, is lost, and so
resources in a gallant’ and heroic struggle for | it is with a people.
independence and self-government. They now j Let us live quietly and peaceably, attending
have no alternative but unoualified submission diligently to our various vocations in life
to the military despotism thrown oyer them.
It is to be hoped, and it is generally believed,
that tlie military commanders in the Southern
States will exercise their despotic powers wisely
and humanely. It is the administration of a
government, and not the form of a govern
ment, which makes it odious and oppressive.
A despotism, wisely, justly and virtuously ad
ministered, is the most perfect government
that can be established. It is the government
meat of God, established by him for the gov
ernment of the universe.
Five or six months ago South Carolina, with
all the other Southern States, rejected with
scorn and indignation the constitutional amend
ment-, which proposed to exclude from office
their leading men, and reduce tlieir represen
tation in Congress unless they permitted uni
versal suffrage. Now it is proposed by the
military bill not only to exclude this class of
persons from office, but to disfranchise them
and exclude them from voting in all elections,
and at tlie same time enfranchise their forme,
slaves, ami give universal suffrage to the negror
Strange to say that there are many persons in
the Southern States whose high sense of honor
would not let them adopt tlie constitutional
amendment, who are now urging the people to
voluntarily swallow* the military bill, regard
less of honor, principle or consistency. I am
happy to know‘that they are secessionists, and
never were Union men.
obeying patiently the powers that be; but
never think of voluntarily voting away our
rights as a State, or honor and freedom as men.
Let us trust to a returning sense of justice on
the part of our oppressors, which sooner or
later must come. Have patience, forbearance
and long suffering. Tlie Southern States fought
four long bloody years for what they believed
to btjtta. sacred right proclaimed by all the
AmciWan people in their Declaration of Inde
pendence. Can they ’not now afford to live
four years longer out cf that Union, rather
than sacrifice their honor, their rights as States,
and the great republican principles of freedom ?
B. F. Perry,
A Pretty Tough Story.
George Kendall, of the New Orleans Pica
yune, tells the following story:
“ While talking with jJapt. Wilson, who is
an old salt, and a good one, I find, in compar
ing notes, that I sailed or steamed with him
some sixteen or eighteen years ago, between
Charleston and Philadelphia, on the Osprey,
then running regularly in that trade. Hhe was
a slow steamer, but a staunch one. We had a
species of adventure on board which I shall not
soon forget. The first -morning after crossing
Charleston bar, somewhere off Georgetown; if
Special attention given to the conn .omisin t
and collecting of Old Claims, and Administra
tion, Conveyancing, &c.
All business entrusted to them will receive
prompt ami faithful attention.
JOHN W. It;■WELL, J. y. STALLINGS,
Newnan, Ga. Uchoia, Ga.
March 9-12m.
SCHEDULE OE THE A. & W. P. E. E,
L. P. GRANT, Superintendent.
DAY PASSENGER.
Leave Atlanta 7 2Q a. m.
Arrive at Newnan - - - - 9 31 “
Arrive at West Point - - - 12 10 p. m.
Leave West Point 12 50 “
Arrive at Newnan 3 33 “
Arrive at Atlanta 5 50 “
NIGHT PASSENGER.
Leave Atlanta - - - - - - G 00 p. m.
Arrive at Newnan 9 00 “
Arrive at West Point - - - - 12 25 a.m.
Leave West Point- - - - - 1 45 “
Arrive at Newnan - - - - - 510 “
Arrive at Atlanta - - - - - 8 15 “
GEORGIA RAIL ROAD.
E. W. COLE, Superintendent.
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta 6.30 A. M.
Leave Atlanta 8.30 A. M.
Arrive at Augusta 6.00 I*. Y.
Arrive at Atlanta.......... 5.30 P. M.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta 9,30 P. M.
Leave Atlanta 6.30 P. M.
Arrive at Augusta 1 6.15 A. M.
Arrive at Allan fa 7.00 A. M.
URGE FRESH ARRIVALS!!
my memory serves me, we were all, a good
The inquiry is, which, then, shall we do?— number of passengers, quietly enjoying our-
fhilst I have been writing, the telegraph selves under the awnings, the weather delight-
\Y
brings the glorious news that Mississippi and
Georgia have appealed to the judiciary for the
protection of their constitutional rights as
sovereign States of t he American Union. Would
to God that South Carolina stood by the side of
Mississippi and Georgia, in this tlie last noble
effort to maintain their dignity and honor as
States, and the just rights and liberties of
their citizens. If this last grand effort in favor
of freedom should fail, then the South will
have to quietly meet the tyranny of CongTess ;
but in meeting she need not embrace tlie hide
ous thing. When the military order is issued
for tlie registration of voters, let every man
not disfranchised go forward and register his
name. When the election is ordered for a
convention, it will be the duty of every voter
to cast his vote for the wisest, best and most
trustworthy men, who are eligible to seats in
that convention. This much he is forced to do
for self-protection, and to keep the State gov
ernment from falling into the hands of un
worthy and base men. He need go no further.
Let him then emlorseon Ids ticket “No Con
vention.” If he is a patriot and ail honorable
man, he cannot desire the change which the
military fill contemplates, and he should not
vote a lie!
With the cunning which always characterizes
the tyrant, Congress has enacted that the peo
ple themselves shall endorse the call of a con
vention, in order to give legal validity to its
acts. Without this indorsement, the whole
proceeding might be regarded as forced on the
States by the military government, and there
fore null and void. Hence the trick of making
the people endorse the cal! of a convention.—
It is to be hoped that they will not be caught
by this cunning devise, and that they will be
able to influence the freedihon to act with them.. . _ ...
Bat should a majority of the votes be for a 1 drawn on deck and taken to Philadelphia as a
convention, then it is to assemble, and not j trophy. The carcass, which was thought to
otherwise. When it assembles, the honor and j weigh some eleven or twelve hundred pounds,
destiny of the State will be hi its keeping
ful and the sea smooth, when suddenly tlie
bow of the steamer struck some hard substance
k’cliug, checking her up suddenly, causing her
to quiver from stem to stern. All rushed to
the sides, both larboard and starboard, expect
ing to sec a huge log or piece of a wreck pass
by ; but nothing could be discovered—not even
a limb or a piece of plank. There was excite
ment and wonder on board, and, as the steamer
passed on, many eyes were cast astern, expect
ing to see some kind of drift turn up ; but all
was smooth—not a speck came to the surface.
The passengers soon returned to their books or
cigars, and in half an hour all was forgotten.
“This w.is about *10 o’clock in the morning.
After dinner, while I was talking with the
captain, the engineer came up and quietly said
that something was wrong, lie had on his usual
head of steanfi but the Osprey was running a
knot or a knot and a half slower than usual.
He had examined every part of the machinery,
had found ail right, and could not account for
the falling off. The mate was called, and he,
too, was at a loss ; had noticed that the vessel
was not up to her usual speed, yet could not
account for it. But in looking well over the
bow, the whole thing was explained. The cut
water of the Osprey, rank and deep, had struck
an enormous trunk turtle directly in the side,
had gone about h df way through him, had
fastened to him, and was pushing him through
the water ahead, to the great detriment of her
speed. A church door, shoved sideways, could
not have impeded the steamer’s progress much
more than did this huge turtle, who was, of
course, lying fast asleep on the surface when [
struck. Nor was it an easy matter to disengage
him.' A number of men, with hatchets and J
axes, were sent down, and first cut off the tur- j
tie’s head, which, as large as a bucket, was t
But if the people should vote “No Conven
tion.” what then ? The honor and dignity of
the states will, at least, not be thereby sacri
ficed by their citizens. Wo shidl remain as we
are, under military rule, until there is a reac
tion at the North. It has already commenced
in Connecticut, and will, sooner or later, sweep
over the whole North-western and Middle
States. Then wo shall be restored to our rights
in the Union, with lion-a- unsullied and the
right of suffrage unchanged. Let us wait this
Democratic triumph, be it a hundred years,
rather than seek new associations with our
Black Republican tyrants and oppressors, and
i>e guiltv of the baseness of abandoning our
was next cut away, and when once loose from
her strange companion, the Osprey sped on at
her usual rate. In all my nautical reminiscen
ces, I do not recollect haring read of a similar
occurrence. ’ ’
Death from Pbids.—A distressing case of
'oolisfi yrclding to the dictates of vanity oc-
: carred in Dayton, Ohio, a few days ago. A
young lady had been in the habit of lacing
! very tightly for a long while, and h id caused
I a book to be placed in the wall of her room,
j and she would fasten her corset strings to it
j to enable her tc draw her corset tighter. She
1 had done it so long with impunity that she
rew careless, and the other day in repeating
friends at tne North, who have nobly detendea fv , . . ., - r me .... u -i
. „„ ( . i the torture, me turew herself too heavily on
onr cause for two vears past, ana saennted j . ’ , . , , , ,
- - - 1 =»-.«.« o-a broke a blood vessel, from
themselves in the struggle for Southern rights |
and constitutional freedom.
If we are unwilling to bear the ills to which
we are subjected, for the muintenace of honor 1
and principle, then we deserve our destiny. It j
is said tliat, if we do not accept the degrading j
terms now offered, worse will be imposed!— I
Have we any assurance that worse may not be !
imposed if we do accept ? Like the woman j
who consented to her own dishonor to save
the strings and
which she died in a few hours. A sad com
mentary ca attempting to make the form, from
a mistaken idea of beauty, different from what
it naturally is.
A fashionable thief iu Washington escorted
the wife of a prominent Congressman to the
theatre, and after having seen her home, stole
her valuable velvet cloak, which has been
the life of her husband, and was then made to * found at the pawnbroker’s.
A.. K. SEA.GO,
ATLANTA,; GA..
AS NOW AAECEIVINO
34 casks Bacon Sides, Shoulders and Hams—-
all new, well cured ;
6 tierces canvassed sugar-cured Hams ;
34 casks bulk or salt Pork, ready for the
smoke, cheaper than Bacon, including
clear sides, clear ribbed sides, shoulders
and hams;
60 barrels and tierces new Leaf Lard ;
40 kegs new Leaf Lar i ;
50 cans Lard ;
1000 bushels Oats ;
300 bags Liverpool and Virginia Salt ;
500 barrels of Flour, all grades ;
5000 bags Corn ;
500 bales Hay *
1000 bushels of Meal—fresh ground — bolted
and unbolted;
100 bushels Barley ;
70 Tons of Baugh’s Raw Bone
Sup&r Phosphate;
40 barels New Orleans Syrup ;
20 hogsheads Cuba Molasses :
10 barrels “ “
40 bags Rio Coffee ;
40 bags Sugar—various grades ;
100 boxes Chemical Olive Soap.
ALSO
FACTORY YARNS, 8, 10 and 12.
A. K SEAGO,
Fire-Proof Building,
Corner Mitchell and Forsyth Strs.
Atlanta, Ga., March 16-tf,
■mo. C. WHITKUR’S
General Insurance Agency.
Fire, Inland, Life & Accident,
Insurance Effected and Losses Promptly Paid.
Office at McCam? & Co’s. Drug Store, Franklin
Buildings, Alabama StFt., Atlanta, Ga.
Refers to Rev. Jame3 Stacy, and J. J. Pin-
sox, Esq., Newnan, Georgia.
Aug. 11-50-ly.
► JACOB BLACK,
Commission Merchant
AND WHOLESALE DEALER IN
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
LIQUORS AAD CIGARS,
(Under Planters Hotel,)
Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga.
Januarv 5-tf.
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