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Common Schools.
T
! nadincs of the 1
Mu, Editor I b»re noticed, with
®* T " Mr.^Thigpen, pleasure, a communication, over the sig-
j nature, of Grit, in jour last issue, on »be
rp to Miss Lizzie ni'.i, both ;
lat 50
W» for advertising
r lunch ami hot
nov 21-lf.
fc celebrated “ Kentnckr
cived, and are selling
Viced. X. E. FELL A CO.
f. Uay-st. A Public Square.
WJan. b-4t.
asdics. Cakes arid Pastry at
KENLEY'S.
■>-v
; 21 tf _
r^TM i^astial Shoes fur Khool girls
found at the Shoe Store. [dec. 12-tf.
j,v*tVr. Mean Business.—Come along
,nb your job work. We will duplicate
Alljnta hi Is- ^ ^
ttu Ca.'AED Fruits, Nuts and Toys at
.or 21-tf. FENLEYS.
•‘•arc 75 per cent, by making your own
If Dr. Ed. Smith will furnish the
jan. 30—4t.
j^Fbi its at FENLEY S.
I ]_ ,b B. A. JohkboN have received and
': 1 ,Vr, constannlv on hand, a large stock
I irn bulk meats, nour, A-c. Fanners will
' „,n'to learn their prices before purcha-
Tbey sell for cash and are determined
, , L at low figures. Goto them to buy
-j ,-ippbes. jan. 23—tf.
pFry cry has removed 2nd door east
,( post Office. nov. 21-tf.
„ tv\nniso! 1-6*—All persons in-
*1 to nc, either by note or coconut, for
. / a ure or Coffins, are earnestly requested
; and settle the same by the 15th
r I ruarv in it, after which time all our
\ .... will he turned over to an Attorney for
ii i N j exceptions. Como and settle
li ’.,' ‘ * THOMPSON, COLE A CO.
“jan. 10 >‘-
BTs City. We regret that circumstances ! 9abjcct of „, mgo Khoo!l .
prevented our availing ourselves of an in- j It wou)J ^ who]lj UD p ro fi Ub | e if not
vitation to bo present on tbis interesting Im[lcrtin( . nt t0 nrgnnlcnU in Eup -
occasion. But our heart was with lb™, j ^ ^ an uodertaking , hich romm ents
and our best wishes for their happiooss | ltfc , f to the unbiased judgment of every
philanthropist. No subject is of more vi-
■patches m.Plowed, can have it done
„„-_li.,rt notice, by applying to *a.G. L.
lt . a. joiinson.
feb. C-tf.
I\„ is worth knowing! Otto of the best
imirations of the South, and prosperity of
I bail'd on, is lo be found at the Establish-
m ,nt of Messts I. H. IIali, & Co., located
,t S'* 2. I. 6, ® Market St., 223 & 225
1 |hy. i lie rapidly increasing business
l„t year of this firm, has induced them to
rllI .„,, 0 (heir Establishment, wltich now
I plies every conceivable article that can
i i,quirod in Hut building of a house,
fiei'i a Inhisfcr to airy rizo timber. Our
f.icinlrt iii the City, and throughout the
-ial, aIm contemplate building a house
»n Ik- supplied with all the materials ncc
, , y fur its construction, at prices and
quality of work whiclt will save a largo
pcrentage in the cost of building. They
me Agents for Asbestos’ Hoofing Felt, en-
Ji.rfcd by some of the best firms in the
•m,11 v. Send for price list and circulars
Jan. Odm.
paX-Geotgia I’apet Mills Co. through
lasiduiiUOmce, tnaltu an important nn-
nuuuesmcnt. Nee advertisement.
»■).'' Vick’s Floral Guido” for January, is
nor thy llic attention and perusal of all who
,1, -i iv in improve and boatilify their homos.
Sr advertisement of it in another colitmn.
in) I'. liv'd J Evans A Co., Nurserymen and
Srr.Duion, York, l’a., havo an advortisoment
in tins week’s paper.
jo.Mr A J Vaughn of Heard co. warns tho
public in another olunin, against employing
sic Charles Brooks, colored.
Jo-See “Important Announcement” in
cm advertising columns.
ft-y-1"11ib v. R. B. Anthony, (Luthe-
i in) a ill preach at the Methodist church
cu Sunday morning next,
ipj' Wo are requjtc 1 to state, that ‘‘old
i.i'lunncd” prayer meetings are held at
l i t. llhodes school house on every Tues
kay night All feeling an interest aro in
vited to attend.
and prosperity.
On the 29th ait. by the Kcv. J. B. S.
Davis, at the residence of the brides father,
Mr. Warner Buchannan of heard County,
to Miss Amanda Wallace of this County.
Public School.
We call attention to the communication
in another column, over the signature of
Sencz, on the subject of Public ft bools for
Newnan. Vfc understand that a petition
signed by about one hundred and fifty of
our citizens, praying the establishment of
public or free schools in our city, will socn
he piesentad to the CUy Council. This is
pethaps the most important measure that
has ever been brought betore our City
Fathers for their deliberation. Our knowl
edge ol the gentlemen who compose this
body, warrants us in saying, that tho sub
ject when presented, will receive that care
ful consideration, which its importance de
mands.
Simple Larceny.
On Friday, the 23rd ult. a yctti g man
named Charley Palmer came to the home
of Josiah Shinn in this county, ostensibly
for tho purpose of renting land. After be
ing there a short time, he asked of Mr.
Shinn the loan of his mule and buggy, for
the purpose of visiting an uncle in Meri
wether County. The request was granted,
and the young man was soon on the road
to Meriwether. Tito time for his return
having expired, and hearing nothing frotr
him, Mr, Shinn became uneasy, and went
in search of his property. He was not long
in discovering that the buggy and mule
had been sold to a negro near Greenville
for fifty dollars and a watch. Tho property
was recovered, tho mule being much data
aged from the severe drive ho had received.
Once on tho tract of the fugitive, Mr.
Shinn continued his pursuit, and readied
West Point just as the train bearing away
his iiinu, was moving from the Depot. The
telegraph was called into requisition, and
a message sent to Montgomery offering one
hundred dollars reward for his arrest. In
due time, an answer was received, announ
cing that the party was in custody. Mr.
Shiun, together with tho .Marshall u( West
Point, went to Montgomery and brought
the young man a prisoner to this City,
wbero he was lodged in jail. On Monday
morning last, tho prisoner was brought be
fore Justice Dent on a warrant charging
him with simple larceny, no waived an
examination and upou giving bond in the
sum of three hundred dollars, for his ap
pearance at the March Term of llio Su
perior Court, was dischurged. Mr. Shtnn
says ho expended $176.50 in his •Torts lo
secure the arrest of this parly. These arc
the facts ns they hayo been related to. If
the accused is innocent of tho grave charge
brought against him, he will soon have an
opportunity of proving it before a court
and jury of his country, where ho will soon
havo an impartial hearing.
I argue for the plow strongest for that is
the main stay of all other business. Good
practical mechanics are needed too and
will be encouraged. They should bo proud
of their calling. The cry is, wc need more
laborers. Well we can supply their places
by the ladies becoming clerks and as well
post mistresses. If they are not govern
ment officers they can make good clerks,
school teachers and the men do the harder
lahot; wc should have no drones in the
hive. If we do net, in less than five years
from to-day our country will be in the cen
tal concern thau the education of the mass-1 dition to do anything wo chose. We will
not he seeking northern and foreign capi-
es. Popular enlightenment is the sure ac-
cuuipanimcnt of public virtue, the firmest
| tal, hut we will have it of our own inde
pendent of ail credit Mobtliers, Salary-
support of social, religious and political j g, a bbcrs and any other thing we may be
systems.and should receive,in every well or- ; compelled to paj. For the present 1 leave
dered community, the most sedulous pro- : the subject until your next issue.
«... „ .. . , Coweta.
motion. But waiving ail discussion of a|
theme which lias receive! the most ex
haustive consideration from the ablest men
of our times, what is the great need of
Newnan? Unhesitatingly, wc answer a sys-
In Memoriam
so much tend to build up and develop our
material interests ; nothing wilt famish
more potent attractions to those in search
ol permanent locations, than a system of
public schools, in which all may receive
the advantages of a rudiincntal knowledge
of the sciences. If, in this connection, wc
may be permitted, to EUggeet what we
have always conceived to be, a most radi
cal defect, in our educational system, it is
the lack of efficient means, by which, the
benefits of education may be more uniform
ly distributed. We have schools and col
leges of the best order, hut the difficulty,
under our system has been, the poorer
classes, are necessarily excluded from any
participa'ion in the advantages they afford.
Where every matt exercises the tight of
suffrage, it is incumbent on those in power,
-o to it, time his judgment be proper
ly prepared, for a judicious investment of
his talent. What may he argued of Rc-«
publics at large, may, with equal propri
ety, be argued in favor of communities.
Wc insist, then, that our municipal au
thorities should, iu response to the earnest
appeals now being made, do something to
foster und encourage public schools. Such
a course will put money in our treasury ;
it will invite capital to our City and will
hold back what is already here. Thousands
of dollars are annually expended for edu
cational purposes, in neighboring cities,
which might be kept at home. When we
add to this, the important consideration,
that parents might then have the manners
as well as morals of tlieir children under
their own immediate supet vision, we can
not hesitate to give our hearty endorse
ment, to the suggestions offered by Gets.
Rsxex.
Iacitvi). It is reported of a young man,
neiiitly umrric-d in Newnan, that he
» i.iui up his watch seven times on the
evening of his marriage. We are tint in-
i mil l as to whether his watch has receiv
'd such mat keti attention since that time
or not; lint we fear it ltas been correspon
dingly neglected.
SiTKKtoit Court —Tho spring Term of
Coweta Superior Court continences on tho
first Monday iu March next. Tuesday
next, the 10th inst., is return day; or the
tat day within which suits can be brought
l 'ti c Match Term of The couit. Clients
m l Atteruics should take notice.
UvtsRrarsiXQ.-The Carroll County Times
fays, a young man recently traded a yoke
oxen in that county for a shot gun, aud
then swapped tho shot gun for two hound
puppies From this we infer that our
worthy fellow townsman Judge S , no
lunger satisfied with the contracted limits
1 'weta,has extended his canine speculations
iuto the “free state of Carroll.”
1'essoxal.—Uon Anselm Lee, represen
tative ia the Legislature, from Coweta,
ra 1 le a hasty visit to his family on Satur
day l.vst.
t'ol. C. \Y. Mabry of the Lag t ango Bar,
tuade us a pleasant call last week.
Judge AY. F, Wright, of Atlanta, made n
li ving trip to Newnan a few days ago.
fesfOur exchanges come to us with nu
tuetous notices of the death of J. C. Woot-
•vu Esq late editor of this paper. It is a
-teat source of comfort to tho family and
friends of tke deceased, to knew that ho
was so highly esteemed by his brethcren o f
the press
A Xew Hauisnirc lecture commit
tee wrote to Boston to learn wliat Mrs.
t'eou-Siddons would read for. The
rer.l
A negro named Jack Wood, with several
aliases, was arrested in this County on Fry
day best, by Sheriff Hackney, by virtue of
nti order from Governor Smith of litis
State, which order was based at poo a requi
sition from the Governor of Alabama. The
facta as wo learn them are ns follows :
About the twelfth of October ’873, the
above named Jack Wood, together with
two other negroes whoso names we have
not learned, suddenly disappeared from
Bullock County Alabama, and with the
also disappeared two unties anti a wagon
tile property of Messrs. J. C. & M. 44 •
Thompsotn, and two horses upon whivh
the Messrs. Thompson held a mortgage
It appears that some time tu the early part
of Novembe, last these same negn.es con
tracted with Mr. Nathan Mattox of this
County, to cultivati a pari of his land for
tho year 1874, und gave Mr. Mattox a Bill
of Sale to the two horses to stature the pay
ment of some advances made to them
Tt e mules were sold to other parties. In
due time the Grand Jury of Bullock Coun
ty, Alabama, fotui'l a true bill against the
absconding parties. One of them having
returned to Alabama, was arrested, hut
afterwards nixie his escape. While in cus
tody however, he divulged the where
abouts of his confederates, together with
the property. Hence the requisition, with
the results above stated. Tho wagon aud |
ore of the mules, we understand, have
been recovered. Tho other is, as yet, non
esl inventus. The two horses, Mr. Mattox
refuses to surrender until he is indemnified
for the advances he has made to the negro,
Jack Wood, It being admitted that they
were his property, the Messrs. Thompson
only having a mortgage on them.
Died on the 22nd ult. at hig residence in
Newnan, Jesse C. Wootten, who was born
tem of free schools. We submit, in all the in wukes County, Georgia, Oct. 6th 1836,
candor of honest conviction, nothing will lbirty ECTeu ycarSi three months, and
Mr. Editor I write you a few lines on
the present occasion to call tho attention
of our people to the truo interest of our
section of tho couutry, which in my hum
ble opinion is to curtail tho cotton crops
at least one half. Raise more grain and
that will raise more hogs. We never can
become a prof|>crous people while wo keep
our smoko houses and corn cribs in the
West. We arc making great efforts to
have (l.e great Western Canal built, to gut
cheap liausportation. The cheapest trans
portation is on our own plantations, if
wo raise our own corn, wheat, oats aud
pork. Aud we will not complain ol high
freight on the balance, anil wo wiil then
have time to make other improvements,
and our cotton money then can he spent
for building factories, improving our lands,
making them produce more, and in lien of
wearing them out. they will become bet
ter every year, and we will soon hear no
more complaints o f laborers leaving
Georgia for the West.
The question will be asked at once h
tve are to do it. Well in the first place I
trill say to every farmer, make your own
fertilizers, and then you wiil enrich jour
lands. Your commercial fertilizers have
bankrupted the country, and seven years
experience with them should convince
every body that it is losing business to buy
them. We have every facility at home to
make a belter fertilizer than wo call buy,
at one half the cost. 1 have got now about
live tons of fertilizers that would not cost
tile as much as one ton if I had it to buy,
and have not tried hard to make it either.
Weil that is one improvement in the tight
way. Tito next is the hardest of all to do
with our people. That is to induce our
young men to turn their attention to the
farm or a good mechanical trade in lieu of
tho iearnrd professions or a clerkship in a
one horse store, a grog shop or an apple
cart. New Mr. Editor I am not going to
raise a quarrel with any one for doing any
business he choscs ; "out I going to try to
convince numbers of men about your city
of Newnan that it will be much better
for them to take hold of plow bandies,
jack-plains, sledge hammers, or some other
profitable business, than to l>e clerks or
loafing or other tin profitable business ns
many mo doing about Newnan, (and what
js applicable to Newnan will suit others
cities ami towns.) To prove this, Newnan
could well spare one hundred hands for
the plow or other business. Each of
sixteen days. Truly hath it been 6aid,
that in the midst of life, we are in death.
Only a few day6 before his death, Major
Wootten was in his usual health, his spirits
buoyant with a prospect of a long life of
prosperity and usefulness. But death came,
like an untimely frost, and cut him down
in the prime of life. In his various walks^
of life, the deceased ha* always been noted
for his genial disposition and kindness of
heart; strictly conscientious iu all dealings
with his fellow men, his life was a model
of purity and virtue. With him, doty was
supreme Jaw, to which he always yielded
eady obedience. As a citizen, he was
public spirited ; being ever ready to aid by
counsel and otherwise iu any enterprise
that would tend to incresnse the public
weal. As an editor his pen was active in
advocating such measures as he believed
to be of local or general advantage. Scru
pulously avoiding all personalities and un
just criticisms, lie endeavored to make his
paper a model of high toned anil dignified
journalism.
But it was in the domestic circle that
he shone most brightly. 'Jhere surrrouu-
ded by an interesting family and all nec
essary cumfurts, his home seemed to him
terrestrial Paradise. To stranger and
friend alike, he always extended a genctous
hospitality. He was a dutiful son, and af
fectionate husband and a devoted father.
Eut never did he allow his parental affec
tion, to blind him to tho duties he owed
tojhis children; tor he early instilled in
them both by couusel and example, the
importance of filliul love and obedience.
Adopting a rule of life sanctioned by his
judgment and conscience, he endeavored
to live by it. It is no wonder that such a
man was not afraid to die. “Death has
long since lost its terrors for mo’’ were
among his dying utterances. What to
many is regarded aa the king of terrors,
was to him a messenger of peace. Truly a
good and useful man has gone ; and as
his loss is sorely felt l>7 us all, wo can only
unite our sorrows with those of his distress
ed family.
FRIEND.
A PRETTY PREDICAMENT FOB
A LIMB OF THE LAW TO BE
PLACED nr
IM PORT ANT TO ATTORNEYS PRAC
TICING in the United States
Court.—In a recent decision in re
Mr B. Johnson, bankrupt, among
other matters, his Honor Judge Ersk-
inc ruled as follows ; “No one, under
the law and rules, can appear as attot-
ney aUlaw for a plaintiff or defendant
who is not at the time on the roll of
attorneys here. All papers must be
signed by attorneys of this, the Uni
ted States Court. All petitions must
be signed by the attorney of this
Court himself. Neither can any per-
not at the time a member
before
hundred bushels of corn. That would be
100 hundred bales of cotton at $75,Oil each
would be $7500, 10,000 bushels of corn
$1.00 $10,000, making for Newnew $17,
500. While the same one hundred bauds if
they stay in Newnan will consume and
spend at least $17500 a year which would
be equal to $35,000 while other parts o f
the country could do as much more if they
would try and could make the resources
of our county at least $100,000 more than
what it is at present. That added to our
resources would make us a prosperous and
flourishing people, and within a few years
would make us wealthy and then we could
and would make our own wagons, bug
gies, carriages, plows, farmers axe handles
and maDy other articles that wc are now
straining every nerve to rose cotton to buy
to make other people rich and ourselves
poor. Young and old men wake up, take
hold °f the plow and dont look back, and
ray word for it yon will never regret. Dora
complain that yon haTe no capital while
you have two hands and good health. Do
not grieve oyer the idea that you cannot
start where the rich man left off. Ninety
nine out of every hundred prosperous bus
Jness men in the country started poor.
Then you should not be discouraged but
spring time make your start.
Mr. Rawly walk'
his heels stalked Bitters,
themseves, the one on a chair,
otheron the end, directly in frontofthe
Surrogate. Mr Jagger looked at the
dog with the solemn eye of a Surro- w * l h Puprcz
A day or two since the case of the
State vs. an emiuent colored citizen,
who had become entangled in the
meshes of the law, through an earnest
effort to transport some colored broth'
-cr from this mundane sphere, and was
indicted therefor by the grand jury,
was called in the Superior Court. His
learned counsel, not being exaetly
ready to proceed with the trial, desir
ed continuance until yesterday after
noon, which was granted, aQd the
Judge remanded the prisoner to jail
until the time. The zealous counsel
here stepped briskly forward and re
quested the Court to recall the order,
promising to be responsible for the
appearance of his clicntatthe appoint
ed hour. With the accommodating
spirit characteristic of the Court this re
quest was acceded to, and the talent
ed colored eitizen waltzed glleefullv
out of the room, and, as the sequel
shows, to parts unknown. Yesterday
the case was again called, but the gon
ial assaulter, with intent to kill nou est
inventus. Earnest search was made
for him, but with no success, and the
confiding limb of the law found him
self in a rather awkward predicament.
He had pledged himself as personally"
responsible for the appearance of his
client, and now could not produce that
anxiously inquired for individual,
whereupon the Judge pleasantly re
marked that if the State were ready,
he would proceed to try the legal gen
tleman for the offense. Here was a
pretty pickle, but the young limb of
the law was equal to the emergency,
and pleading “cireurostancica over
which he had no control,” threw him
self on the mercy of the Court. This
saved him, and an order was at once
gate, and shook hia head as only
Surrogate can shake it.
“Arc you the witness/’ inquired he
of the dog’s master.
“I am, sir,” replied Mr. llawley. “I
was subpenacd to testify.”
“What’s that animal doing litre ?”
demanded the Surrogate.
“Nothing,” replied Mr. liawky.—
“He comes when I come, lie goes
when I go.”
“The animal must leave the court
It’s contempt of court to bring him
here.” said Mr. Jagger, angrily “Re
move him instantly-”
Mr. Rawley fiad frequently been in
attendance at the police courts, and
once or twice had a slight taste of the
session; so that he was not so much
struck with the Surrogate as he oth
erwisc might have been. He re
plied :
“I make no opposition, sir, and
shall not move a finger to prevent it.
There’s the animal, and any officer as
pleases may remove him. I say nuf-
fin agin it. I knows what a contempt
of court is; and that aint one.” And
Mr. Rawley threw himself amiably
back in his chair.
“Mr. Slagg I” said the Surrogate to
the man with a frizzled wig, “remove
the dog*”
Mr. Slagg laid down his pen, took
off his spectacles, went up to the dog
and told him to get out, to which
Bitters answeredby snapping at his fin
gers as he attempted to touch him. Mr.
Rawley was staring ahstracedtly out of
the window. The dog looked up at him
for insructious; and receiving none,
supposed that snapping at a scriven
er’s fingers was perfectly correct, re
sumed his pleasant oppression towards
that functionary, occasionally casting
a lowering eye at the Surrogate as if
deliberating whether to include him in
his demonstrations of anger.
“Slagg, have you removed that dog?”
said Mr. Jagger, who, the dog being
under his very nose, saw that he had
not.
“No sir, he resists the court.” re
plied Mr. Slagg.
‘‘Call Walker to assist you,” said
Mr. Jagger.
Walker, athin man in drabs, had an
ticipated something of the kind, and
had accidentally withdrawn as soon as
he saw that there was a prospect of
difficulty; so that the whole court was
set at defiance by tho dog.
“Witness !” said Mr. Jagger.
Mr. Rawley looked the court full in
the face.
“Will you oblige the court by re
moving that animal?” said Mr. Jag-
gers mildly.
“Certainly, sir,” said Jlr. Rawley.
“Bitters, go home.” Bitters rose stif-
ly and went out, first casting a glance
at the man with the wig, for the pur
pose of being able to identify him on
some future occasion, and was soon
after seen from the window walking
up the street with the most profoud
gravity.—From the “Attorney,” by
Johil-T. Irving.
Arguments Against the Pos
tal Telegraph Scheme.—Prcsi
dent Orton, who has recently been be
fore the Senate Post-offiicc committee
several times, the Ilubbatd Telegraph
bill being before them, concluded Fri
day his argument, maintaining the fol
lowing propositions :
First—Congress has no right to pass
the bill, because it would indirectly
take private property for telegraph
purposes without just compensation
and, furthermore, the passage of the
bill would be a violation of a contract
established between the government
and the telegraph companies now ex
isting under the provisions of the law
of 1866.
Second—If there were no constitu
tional objection or any violation of
contiact it would be impossible to
adopt the Hubbard scheme comtem—
plated by the bill, bccsu3e it consti
tutes a partnership between the gov
eminent and a private corporation, to
be conducted by both official and pri
vate agencies operating at the same
tin.0, under which there is to be a di
vision of the expenses between the
government and tho company, while
all the profits are to accrue exclusive
ly to the latter.
Third—That whatever may be the
faults of the existing telegraph system
of this country, the scheme proposed
affords no adequato remedy for them
In this connection the fact was estab
lished by abundant evidence from of
ficial documents that the present aver
age rate for messages in Europe for
like despatces, and that in this coun
try the business is conducted without
any expense to the government, while
in Europe the annual dificiency raised
by taxation upon the people amounts
to several miltioNs.
Company, in Atlanta, were
these colums. The affair ap
have created considerable excii
and interest among the p
and numerous communicatii
the subject havo been pub
different papers.
The matter has finally been b:
to the attention of New York
No. 1, Benevolent and Protcctivj
dcr of Elks, a powerful organ"
and at a regular meeting of th
on the 25th instant, in New
the facts in the case were re
ami a committee appointed to in'
-ate the same. The result
committee submitted the following
port, which was unanimously ade’
ed:
Whereas, Bro. Frank Dumont, on
the 20th day of November. 1S73,
while riding in the cars from Ope
lika, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia,
in pursuit of his legitimate business,
as an attache of Duprcz & Benedict’s
Minstrel Troupe, was charged with
having robbed a fellow passenger on
the train of the sum of S250, and was
arrested and tried for the same; and
Whereas, The testimony elicited at
the trial was clearly sufficient to have
entirely exhonerated Bro- Dumont
from the dastardly charge preferred
against him, showing that Bro. Du
mont, during the entire-passage of tho
train, was not for one mement in the
same car with his accuser ; and
Whereas, In tho face of this evi
dence, Bro. Dumont was found guilty,
and mulcted in the sum of 8902 50,
thus conclusively showing that while
perhaps there- may be some law in
Georgia, there certainly was no justice
in this case; therefore, be it
Resolved. That the charges brought
against Bro. Dnmont were, as we firm
ly believe, totally untrue in their alle
gation. and were not only unsupport
ed, but entirely refuted by the testi
mony adduced atthe trial; and that the
verdict of the jnry and the sentence
of the court were condemnatory in the
extreme, antj, should be forever look
ed upon as a black page in the judi
cial history of Georgia.
Resolved. That the well-kuown and
unblemished rnputation of Bro. Du
mont has suffered no injury in the
eyes of the just, by tho unfounded
charges brought against him, but that,
instead, ho has now a more exalted
standing, in our estimation than be
fore, and that wc cheerfully, extend
unto him tho right hand of every
brother, assuring him of our faith in
his innocence and our sympathies with
his misfotunes.
Resolved. That the noble manner
in which Messrs. Duprcz and Bene
dict stood by their employe during
his hour of darkness, merits the es
teem of all “true and upright men,”
and elicits from this body their warm
est commendation.
[Signed] George J. Green,
Col T. Allson Brown,
Claud Goldie,
Committee.
very moderate calculation could
two bass of cotton and one for ' th(J arrcst of thc absent of
fender. It is probable that hereafter
counsel will not trust their clients of
the colored persuasion so implicit as
to offer to stand responsible for their
appearance at trial.
A Tribute to Confederate Sol
diers.—The New York Sun, in ta.
king strong ground agaist the increase
of the United States army, compares
the material of the Union army dur
ing the late war with that of thc Con
federates, and says :
“The quality of the Confederate sol
diers effectually disposes of the plea
that it is necessary to keep the regu-
ly army as a nucleus. On thc Union
side was the entire rank and file of
the old army. Of that force the reb
els had only officers. The Confederate
rank and file was composed wholly of
raw men, and, in the first two years
of the war, volunteers. Yet what in
fantry they were ! Those ot us who
saw them charge in line of battle nev
er approach a Confederate ccmetry
without taking off our hats in homage
to thc devoted braves who ever walk
ed straight into thc jaws of death with
out flinching."
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THE PHILOSOPHY ON COMPOSI
TION.
On Mamage—To the Yonng Men.
The true girl has to bc-sought for.
She docs not parade herself as show
goods. She is not fashionable. Gen
erally, she is not rich. But, oh ! what
a heart she has when you find her' so
large, and pure* and womanly. When
you see it you wonder if those showy
things outside were woman. If you
gain her love, your two thousand are
millions. She’ll not ask you for a car
riage or a first class house. She’ll wear
simple dresses, and turn them when
necessary, with no vulgar magnificant
to frown upon her economy. She 11
keep everything neat and nice in your
sky parlor, and give you such a wel
come when you come home that you 11
think your parlor higher than ever.
She’ll entertain true friends on a dol
lar, and astonish you with the new
thought how little happiness depends
on money She’ll make you love home,
(if you don’t your’c a brute,) and teach
you how to pity, while you scorn a
poor, fashionable society that thinks
itself rich, and vainly tries to think it
self happy.
Now. do not, I pray you, say any
more, “I can’t afford to marry.” Go
find the true woman, and you can.—
Throw away that cigar, burn up that
switch cane, be sensible yourself, and
seek your wife in a sensible way.
The Abbe Marolles once boasting
to a poet that his verses cost him lit
tle, “They cost you what they are
worth,” wps thc reply. I wish also
to prevent you from giving way to de
spair when you find how great the la
bor is. When a subject is presented
to you do not shrink from it because
it seems unpromising; there may be
more in it than you suppose. Gowpcr
at the age of eighteen wrote a poem of
considerable merit on finding the heel
of a shoe ; and what a poem he pro
duced when the sofa was given to him
as a task !
When you are about to write on any
subject thc first thing for you to do is
to think. As it is expressed in “Fcs-
tus
Once
Begun, work thou all things into thy
work,
And set thyself about it as thc sea
About thc earth, lashing it day and
night.
Though all may seem dark at first,
by patient thought one ray of light
after another will break in, until at
last a flood of light pours itself upon
thc subject. In an October afternoon
Gibbon sat musing among the ruins of
the Capitol at Rome, while barefooted
friars were singing vespers in the tem
ple of Jupiter. His mind went back to
thc warlike mcD, the rulers of thc
world, who in other days trod the
same ground. Perhaps, as the shades
of evening closed arouud him, he saw
the dim forms of the old warriors stalk
ing amid the ruins, and frowning up
on their degenerate successors. He
there determined to write the history
of the change. “At the outset,” says
he, “all was dark and doubtful; even
the title of the work, the true era of
thc decline and fall of the empire, the
limits of the introduction, the division
of thc chapters, and the order ot thc
narration ; and I was often tempted to
cast away the labor of seven ycare.”
Thc first chapter he rewrote three
times, and thc second and third chap
ters twice ; after which lie proceeded
with greater ease till he finished what
is regarded as the greatest historical
work in thc English language. (From
February “Rome and School” Louis
ville, Ky.)
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The ability of tho human body to resist
tlie causes of disease dopends upon its vi
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In the winter the most prolific sources of
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VX Brown, head of a family, applies to mo
for setting apart and valuation of homestead
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A M on the Oth day of February, 1371, at my
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NEWNAN MARKET.
Thursday, February 5.
Cotton.—131 cents. •
Gold—Buying at 1 10—selling at 112 pre
mium.
Our quotations below exhibit a correct
statement of thc retail market:
Bacon—clear sides 10®
shoulders 9@
hams 15®
Bulk Meat—It H> 10®
Bagging—Ft yd 15@lb
Butter—let tt> 25®
Blue Stone—?tlb 164
Cheese—D> 20 ®25
Chickens 20 ©25
Corn—S bnsh’l 100@
Coffee—® Bi 33©
Egos—Hi dozen 20®
Fish—mackerel—ft kit- $1.75@225
Flour—ft 10016s *350@G00
Hay, Western—ft 10016s $2.00@205
Iron—-Jj) If) 0®
Ties qy 16 : lo®
LARD-f) 16 124©
Meal—fi btish’l jl.lO®
Pork, fresh—ft 16 8®lo
Prints—'%) yard C.i®124
Salt—f-i sack $225®
Steel—fiI6 12^ ©15
Sugar—7J 16 10® 1(»
Syrup—ft gallon 75®100
Wheat—a bush’l $175®20U
Marshall McMahon, President of
the French Republic, was only left an
old family sword, half eaten with rust,
by his uncle. Count McMahon, who
bequeathed to another nephew his do
mains, and to a third his personal
property.
Sir George Campbell, the Lieuten
ant Governor cf Bengal, posponed this
resignation when the apprehensions
of famine became serious, and placed
his services at the disposal of thc
Viceroy so long as they might be re
quired.
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