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r.fa fmtstott gome fottmal Perry Ga- jSj-Publislicd every Saturday by-jp# )Wiw ivrAH.TXixr. Bates of Subscription. INK YEAR, 52.00 §1.00 § .50 Professional Cards. Cuds inserted at one dollar a lins per annum if paid in advance, otherwise, two dollars aline. A. S. CILES, Attomev at Law :■j:i:i:Y. HOUSTON COUNTY, GA! Office in the Court House. Special attention given to business in the Snpe- | rior and County Courts of Houston County, feb 31. ; IT. C. J. HARRIS, Attorn at L -w, 5£ACOX GEORGIA. I "lirn.1, practice law in litigatedcasea in the I 11 counties of the Macon Circuit to wit: Bibb, [ Houston, Crawiord and Twiggs- J. A. EDWARDS, Attorney at Law, •; makShaixyiiae gfobgia. W. H. REESE, Attorney at Law. MABBHAIXV1I.LE GEOBGIA. BS-Spedal attention given to cases in ani | roptcy. DUNCAN & MILLER, attorneys at Law, PEItnV and FORT VALLEY, G A. c C. Dnncan, Ferry, office on Public Sgua r e A. Litiller, Fort Volley- office in Mathew's H all B. M. DAViS. attorney «*I*aw PERKY, GEORGIA. 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MARKET, PEBBY, GA. FINE WINES, WHISKIES, BRANDIES, ETC. AT RETAIL. fiS^-The best LAGER BEER a 5 cents a glass. Everybody is invited to give me ft call at my new store next, door to my old stand. G. Y.MARKET. March 21 3 m. H T. MARTIN Manufacturer and Rerail Dealer in TIN WARE, cooking Stoves, SHEET IRON tin ware, ET CETERA. R epairing, roofing guttering i &c., done at short notice and in the best manner. T, T. MARTIN, tf. Perry, Ga. C.D.ANDERSON, TORT VALLEY, GA„ Agent for the following high grades <of commercial fertilisers: .REESE’S SOL. PACIFIC GUANO. SOLUBLE SEA ISLAND GUANO. Maroh 14 tf. AjspESos, President WJLBrown, Cashier. '•CASK CAPITAL, $100,000. BASK. FOET VALLEY, GEOKOIA. ®*iniacts *a' General Banking, Discount, and 3EScchin'ge Business. Particular attention gfveii to the collection of Kotes, Drafts, Coupons, Dividends, etc. DIRECTORS. .. v -v*;; \Vm. J. ANDiutsbN, &.L. Petard, . ' L. M. Felto »• ^’•H.Holunshead, W.A. Mather Jan. le. 125 The “Rebel Prison Pen” at Ander- sonrille, Ga. It is the duty of every lover of jus tice, when he sees a gross and inju rious calumny put into circulation which he is able to refute from direct knowledge, to challenge it at once, and more especially if it is aimed at his own people, and meant to be used to their injury. It is true that in those regions for which calnmnies are prepared they are too generally pre ferred to the truth, even wheu the truth is ofiered; hut the duty of af firming the truth is no less stringent' on those who are able to affirm it. It is with this view that the following paper is written to correct certain statements which recently appeared in Appleton's Journal, professing to relate facts gleaned during a trip 'to Andersonville, Ga., concerning the Confederate military prison there and the treatment of Federal prisoners. Instead of reviewing the article in de tail, I will merely take up, one by one, tho principal false statements.' THtt WATEB THE PRISONERS DRANK. It was my fortune to be stationed at Ancersonville almost from the first establishment of the prison until the removal to Millen, Ga., or Camp Law- ton, and I unhesitatingly pronounce the statement that “the prisoners had to drink the water that convoyed the offal of three camps and two large bakeries off before it. reached them” utterly false. The guards drank of the same water that qnenched the prisoners’ thirst, cooked their food with the same water, the same large stream or creek flowing through the encampment of guards and stockade, or prisoD-pen as the Northern writers sneeringly call it. The camps of the guards all faced the stream, while their sinks were far off in the rear, and orders were most strict not to muddy the stream, much less defile it in any way. As to the offal of the ba keries, these being presided over by prisoners on parole, and who did the cooking for the entire prison, I do not believe they, would pollute the water their brother prisoners had to drink. As rapidly as they could the prisoners dug wells; in all-some two hundred were dug, and purer, sweet er, cold water I never drank. Being on the staff of Captain "Wirz, I had free access to the prison at all times day or night, and whenever I wished to quench my thirst, I went inside the prison and drank frem one of these wells. THAT PROVIDENTIAL SPRING SO-CALLED. That “providential, spring” is an impious myth, I have been in the prison thousand times and never be fore. heard it so called, except on reading the Herald’s account of the anniversary of the Fultou Street Prayer Meeting, when some pharisa ically pious old brother recited a long rigmarole about this same “providen tial spring,” and said it wa's planted there in direct answer to prayer. The gist of this spring title is that when the'prisoners’sickness and suffering suffering from thirst was at its great est, all at once this spring burst forth in direct answer to prayer. Was there ever such blasphemy? If such was the case, why does the spring still ex ist after it has answered its purpose? Do those rocks of Horeb struck by Moses to slake "the children of Israel’s thirst still exist, and at this late day the water gush forth? It isfall a cock- and-bull story, and' unlike' Sternes, one of the poorest I ever heard. TWO FEDERAL AND THREE TCTVnCT. PROV IDENTIAL SPRINGS. If my recollection serves me right, there was yet another of these same “providential springs” inside the stockade, and that Providence who sends the rain alike on the just and unjust gave unto the'wicked and un godly Rebels three of these ‘‘providen tial springs” and I ain sure he did not plant ours in answer to prayer, for we bad just as leave drank the Iranch water. SEASON WHY THERE WERE NO BARRACKS. The Confederate Government has always been harshly, assailed for its want of humanity in hot having bar racks to house the prisoners from the sun andrains. A more senseless hue and cry was never heard. How was it possible to saw timber into planks without saw-mills? There vere two water-power'mills -distant three and six miles respectively, but such rude primitive affairs undeserving the name. The nearest steam saw-mill was twenty-three miles distant- (near Smithvillej, the next at Reynolds, obont fifty miles distant;: but the great bulk of lumber used, fully two- thirds/was brought from Gordon, a distance of eighty miles. Even if these mills had had the capacity to sup ply the necessary amount of lumber, it would still have been impossible to them. Nearly every building in the encampment was built of rough logs and covered . with clap-boards split from the tree and held to their places by poles. The force of these state ments is readily appreciated by every inteliigent and unprejudiced mind.— Besides, is it customary for any na tion in time of war to treat their pris oners in a more humane manner than their own soldiers in the field? The inquiry becomes pertinent when we reflect that during the last two years of the war there was not a tent of any description to be found in any of the armies of the Confederacy save such as were captured from the Federals. HOW THE STOCKADE WAS BUILT. The stockade was built by the ne groes belonging to the neighboring farms, either hired or pressed into Sunth depends very largely, and with placed on exhibition for preservation as truth this fabrication of partisan hate. No Andersonville prisoner, unless he were lost to all sense of honor and shame, could make such a statement as that the rations were no more than the specimens shown. WHY. THE PRISONERS WERE FED ON CORN BREAD. ’ It has been charged as a crying shame upon the Confederacy by igno rant humanitarians that the South might at least have given the pris oners wheat bread occasionally; that they rarely ate corn bread in their own land, and that the bread we is sued was made of meal so coarse and unsifted that it caused dysentery, thereby largely increasing the mortal ity-. It is well known how that the service by the Confederate author ities to cut down the immense pine trees growing on .the ground intended for the stockade; and these same trees were then entinto proper lengths and hewn on the spot, then planted in a ditch dug four feet deep to re ceive them. In this manner was the stockade made. Before it was com pleted the prisoners were forwarded in great numbers, and it being impos sible to keep them, in the cars, we had to put them in the completed .end of the stockade and double the guard, our whole force kept ever ready day and night for the slightest alarm; for at first we only had the. shattered remnants of two regiments, the 26th of Alabama and the 55th of Georgia, numbering in all some three hundred and fifty men. This constituted- the guard. In about ten days thereafter my regiment, 1st Georgia Reserves, composed of youngboys and old men, (I was not sixteen) just organized, were sent to take the'place of the 26th Alabama and 55th Georgia, so they could be sent to the front for duty. In a few days after our arrival the 2d, 3d and 4th Georgia Reserves, all com posed of lads and hoary headed men, for we were reduced to the strait of “robbing the cradle and the grave for men to make soldiers,” joined us rap idly as they could be organized. The author of “Jaunt in the South” says: “When the stockade was occupied in .1864, there was npt a tree nor a blade of grass within it. Its reddish sand was entirely barren, and not the smal lest particle of green showed itself.— But now the surface is covered com pletely with underbrush; a ricli growth of bushes, trees and plants has covered the entire area, and where before there was a dreary desert there is now a wild and luxurious garden.” I have before said the ground was covered with a pine forest, and the trees were utilized to build the stock ade. Any one who has traveled south of Macon, Ga., knows the piae is abundant, ard in fact almost the only tree. In these forests the ground is covered with wire grass and other grass peculiar to them. WHY ANDERSONVILLE WAS SELECTED. The main reasons, for locating the prison at Audersohville after its first being thought the most secure placb in the Confederacy from the Yankee cavalry raids, was the abundance of water and timber, wherewith to con struct the prison rapidly, and its be ing the very heart of the grain grow ing section of the South, which would make it less inconvenient to supply with provisions such a vast multi tude. have provided barracks for the pris oners, as all the available engines of all the railroads in the Confederacy were taxed to their utmost capacity in transporting-supplies for the army in the field and to the prisons. But few even of the officers of the guard had shanties, and these few were built of slabs and sheeting, which every one knows is the refuse of the mills.— And even though there was no lack of umber, when we remember that there was but one solitary manufactory of cut nails in the limits of the Confed eracy, certainly no blame could be at- MALICIOUS EXHIBITION IN OHIO STATS CAPITOL. In the summer of 1867 I set out. for New York, being resolved to live no longer in the Soiith where negroes were being- placed over us by Yankee bayonets, andin their vernacular, “de bottom rail was agittin’on de top er de fence.” I,travelled very leisurely and stopped in every city of any note on my route, and kept eyes and ears wide open to drink in everything. I visited the Ohio State. Capitol at Col umbus,-and in the mitsenm of carios ities were some small paper boxes carefully preserved in a glass case,' con taining what purported to he the ex act quality ana quantity of ration is sued per diem.;: at Andersonville. In one box was about' a pint of coaarse unbolted meal, and in another about one table-spoonful of rice, and still another box with about two table spoons of blaok peas; and in a tiny little box was about one-eighth of a tea-spoonful of salt. Underneath it is all explained, and says among oth er things: “When rice was given the peas were withheld, but when they had no rice this kind of peas were given instead.” It is needless to say how my blood boiled at this atrocious, malicious and damnably false exhibi tion. No wonder the hatred of .the North is kept alive, and ..the bloody chasm continually widened by such wicked and uncharitable displays as this in one of the largest and most en- lighteffied States in the Union. A SAY GUARANTEED using our WELL AUGER i DRILL iu g«od ofK>WA^IWICAN^WAftAKOTA j tac hed to the authorities for not fur- (fUkfubu, Y.5&I3, Et, Ini*, IM.% ; Dishing more comfor table quarters for HATTONS TO GUARDS AND PRISONERS THE I was for three months a clerk in the commissary department at Ander sonville, audit was my business to weigh ont rations to tne guards and prisoners alike, and I solemnly assert that the prisoners got ounce for ounce and pound for ponnd of just the same quantity and quality of food a» did the guards. The State authorities of Ohio ought to blush at thus traduc ing and slandering a fallen foe,- and never m the first instance' to hare shame I confess it, on the West for ‘her bread and bacon, and the cotton belt proper makes but little preten sion of raising wheat, for the climate, it is said, is.unsuited; so that the re gion round about Andersonville, be ing in the very heart of the cotton- growiug section of Georgia, such a thing as feeding prisoners on floor was impossible, and the little flour that was obtained as tithes (one-tenth of all the crops raised was required by our Government) was devoted en tirely to :'the use of the hospital. Not only . was this true of the territory im mediately surrounding Andersonville,.' but of the whole South. Our armies were unsupplied with flour, and per haps not one family in fifty through out the whole land enjeyed that luxu ry. The guards ate the same bread, or rather meal; the bread eaten by the prisoners beiDg baked by regular bakers (prisoners detailed for that purpose), while , the guards did their own cooking. The meal, however, was the same, and both were unsifted and in truth very coarse. I ate the unsifted meal always. THE DEAD LINE. Another cry of holy horror is raised every time the “Dead Line” is men tioned, as if this dead-line was prima. facie evidence that the Southerners were as barbarous, and cruel a race as ever blotted the face of the earth.— The civilized North, however, had the same barbarous dead-line in their prisons, andin fact originated the de vice. It was a necessity with ns, for we never had at one time more than 1200 to 1500 guards in the foot* regi ments fit for duty, and we had the keeping at one time of nearly 40,000 prisoners. By a concerted plan of onslaught they, .could at any time have scaled the walls, captured the guards, and with the weapons of their keepers overrun the entire country, which, all south of Dalton, Ga., (100 miles north of Atlanta), was left wholly unpro tected save,by gray-haired old men and young boys; and the women, children and negroes, who were the only hope for the making of crops for our armies, would have been helpless ly at their mercy. This dead-line was clearly defined and consisted of stakes driven into the ground twenty feet from the walls of the stockade, and on these stakes was a three-inch strip of plank nailed all around the inside of the prison. They were all notified that a'step beyond this line was not prudent, and they were not so unwise as to venture beyond that limit. BURIAL OF DEAD PRISONERS. Speaking of the number and burial of the dead, the writer of the afore said • - Jaunt” says: “The authorities a; the Stockade who had charge of the interment of the Federal dead, did their work rudely * * * dig ging pits and burying them in;” then he goes on: “It- is hard to comprehend the true value of the number 14,000; its magnitude eludes yon. Fourteen thousand men-form a great mob, or a great army, or a great town, Here you have 14,000 men lying silently in a few acres. Within these bounds men have suffered as greatly as have any since the world began.” In re ply to this I would merely say, the burial was the work of prisoners pa roled especially for the purpose, both the ^hauling ' of the bodies to the ground, the digging of the graves and even the records of the names were all done by paroled prisoners. Books and a tent were provided solely for the latter purpose. Owing to the weakness of the guard, paroled pris oners were employed for this duly, as we could spare no men for the pur pose;-and if the work was rudely or carelessly done, the blame rests with them. As compensation they were given doable rations and almost entire freedom. As to the number of dead we admit that it is great, but statis tics show that more Southern soldiers died in Northern prisons than North ern soldiers in Southern prisons, In vain have Northern writers tried to disprove this fact. •’ j MORTALITY NO GREATEB AMONG PRISO NERS THAN GUABD. Great as was the mortality among the prisoners, it was no greater in proportion to the number than that of the guard, which is fnDy attested by the reports of the surgeon in charge. Besides, it is well known to every soul that can or does read, that the Confederacy, through thehr agent, Judge Onld, made frequent and tire less efforts to- get the United States Government,- through their agent, General Butler, to exchange. But so, tiie Federal authorities would not hear to it; but acting on the avowed and promulgated idea that the South, being blockaded, could not recruit her armies from foreign lands, while to the North the whole of Europe was opened, they cruelly determined not to exchange, so as to detain our soldiers from again fighting them, well knowing even then we had made our last conscription (17 to 50 years) and when those we had were killed up or in prison, we would of course be overpowered. This was their cold blooded, brutal policy; and closely did they stick to it, even till were al most literally wiped out, while the men they had fighting ns were in the most part hired substitutes, drafted men and foreign hirelings. PRINCIPAL OAUSB OF MORTALITY. Farther, as to the mortality among the prisoners, let it be remembered that a majority of the deaths caused in our prisons was for want of proper medicines, which we did not have and could not get, except by blockade- running. Had the Federal Govern ment any of the milk of human kind ness in its composition, it would havo acceded to our earnest request to take cotton in e'change for drugs t> ad minister their own dying soldiers.— Their immense manufactories were lying idle for the want of cotton, while we had it but could not use it. But *S these self-same drags and medi cines would also be applied-to the re lief of our own sick soldiers, they de termined it would be to their advan tage to let all die alike, knowing that that the South could get no more men to supply the places of the sick and dying, and those they had im prisoned, and so refnsed all overtures. After using every effort and exhaust ing every argument to get an ex change, we proposed—as we had no ined bines and could get none, except what we accidentally ran in through the blockade from Europe, (they being declared contraband and always con fiscated -whenever captured by the blockade fleet) we proposed to turn, over to them all their sick, without requiring man for man, but giving them absolutely up, if the Unite! States would ' only send vessels for transporting them. This was done at Camp Lawton (Millen, Ga.), after the prism was removed from Anderson ville for greater security. EXTRACTS FROM AN OFFICER’S-DIARY. From the private journal of a Con federate officer high in command, both at Andersonvile and other Southern prisons, I glean the annexed facts, the first bearing directly upon the foregoing: “At one time an order came to Camp Lawton to prepare 2000 men for exchange. The order from Richmond was to select first the wounded, next the oldest prisoners and sickly, filling up with healthy men according to date. This party went first to Savannah, as arranged, but by some mistake the ships were at Charleston, and the poor wretches had to be taken there; and every one who knew the Southern railroads in those days, and the difficulty or rath er impossibility to procure food for such a crowd along the road, will know what those poor fellows suffered. At Charleston they were refused, the commissioner declaring that he was not going to exchange able-bodied men for such specimens of humanity. (The term used was mote brutal)— Finding him obdurate, Colonel Ord requested him to take them, without exchange. This he refused with a sneering laugh, and the crowd was ordered back. Never did the writer of this witness Such woe-begone coun tenances, in.which misery and hope lessness were mare strongly painted, than shown by these poor fellows on their return. And the curses leveled against the rulers who thus treated the defenders of their country were fearful, although certainly well de served. As the stockade gate closed upon them the surgeou in charge said to the.writer: “Poor fellows! the world bias closed, upon more than half Of them; their disappointment will be their death-knell.” TTis words proved true. "Who murdered these men?-— Let history answei the question. CLOTHING FOB PRISONERS. Again I extract from the aforesaid journal: The. Northerners talk much of the cruelty of the South to Federal prisoners. At one time the unfortu nate prisoners were almost without clothing, indeed some hardly, had as much as common decency required. The South could not provide them, not being able to clothe their own men An application was made to Seward. The reply was that ‘the Federal Government did not snpply clothing to prisoners of war.’ Luck ily for the poor fellows, a society in New York took the matter in hand, and several bales of clothing and ca ses of shoes were forwarded to Rich mond, and divided -in proportion to numbers, among the prisoners. barbarous nature that they were pro* hibited with disgust by Confederate officers, who substituted milder and more humane ones; and yet the for mer were in common practice in the Federal armies, as testified by all the prisoners. BLOOD-HOUNDS. Among the numerous lies invented by Northerners, and actually still be lieved by some parties to this day, was the stoiy that the Confederates used to hunt and worry prisoners with bloodhounds. Now it is well known that the breed of bloodhounds is pear ly extinct in the South, and tho large packs of those dogs allnded to by wri ters on the subject existed only in their imaginations, the prolific brains of penny-a-liners, whose vile and ly ing compositions now abound in many so-called respectable New York papers; no public man is safe from their fero cious attacks. Among the various specimens of this dog allnded to by the above named gentty, was the fa mous bloodhound of the Libby Pris- The writer has-often] seen this formidable animal, which certainly in his youth .must havo been as fine a specimen of the kind as coaid be met anywhere, but unfortunately for the thrilling portion of the accounts of his doings at the time of the war. the poor beast, worn ont with old age with haidly a tooth in his head, wan dered about a harmless, inoffensive creature. He was the property of the Commandant of Libby, who kept him because he was a pet dog of his father’s, and there the brute lived a pensioner in his old age. As to his worrying men, he could not, had he even tried, have worried a child.— The other prisons haj none, not even even as pensioners. Among the rec ords history gives ns of using those dogs to hunt men, it is stated that du ring the Florida war a number of bloodhounds were imported by the Federal Government from Cuba to hunt the Indians out of Everglades, and that numbers of the natives were -worried to death By the ferocions heists. The writer does not deny that when a prisoner got out of the stockade trjing to esca pe, if no due could be obtuined of his whereabouts, a few mongrel or half-breed fox hounds were used to track him, but the worrying was all done in the cor respondent’s own brain. However, it suited the times aud made the article sell. The only complaint made is that this vile and malicious lie is still, if not believed, repeated by some who use it for party purposes, and thus help to keep up the bad feeling between the North and the South. BESPON8IBILIRY FOB THE GREAT MORTAL - ITT. So never shake your gory locks or point your guilty finger at the South for the dead who died in Southern prisons. History, with impartial pen will place the guilt and censure of the damning deed at the door of the in- sulter of defenceless women, the plun der of New Orleans, and the murdei- of -Mrs. Surratt, or as' he is admiring ly called by his worshippers, “the great Secretary,” Edwin M. Stanton and their backers, the members ot the United States Congress. History will also declare Captain "Wirz to. have been as foully and wilfully murdered ers as Mr (. Surratt. Thongharudepio ers fane man. he was never guilty of heartless cruelty while I was under him, a period of over three months, until the prisoners’ removal to Camp Lawton. The day will come when his memory will be fully vindicated; now the attempt is vain. I will add that this article has' not been written either for fame or money It has been prepared amid the pres sure ofbusiness engagements and at necessarily detached intervals, and is prompted solely by .a sense of duty to vindicate the cause of truth and the claims of an outraged people.— L. M. JPabk in Southern Magazine. CRUELTY TO PRISONERS. A great deal has been said of the cruelty to the prisoners inside the stockade. This so-called cruelty was inflicted by their own saen. In every prison a police and a chief, all from the prisoners, was appointed to keep order, see to the enforcement of the regulations, and inquire into all of-- , reporting through their chief t» the Commandant. The Acknowledgements. Attorney-General Williams made a clear breast of it'before the committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice. He admitted that a re cent Examination disclosed great, ex- travigauce in the contingent expendi tures of his department. He proposes to do better in the future. The fa mous Iandaulet—which he admitted hod been nsed both for the official and social uses of himself and family—Las been sold and the proceeds covered into the Tieasury. It is understood stood ' in Washington that Judge Wright bought the Iandaulet for §1,- 600, with a view to exhibit it in the f .11 campaign of Ohio, Indiana and other States. Festival of the Plow. In most Buddhist countries the Fes tival .of the Plow is held annually, with, great honor, all classes, from the monarch down, paying reverence to this symbol of the dignity of labor. In Saim, on these occasions, a King of the Husbandman is chosen, who represents the highest authority, and is made tbe centre of various singular rites. During his brief sovereignty, he receives for his perquisite all feres paid for violating tbe law against do' *g work on that festsi day. $13 a Year* The weekly paper printed in the meats, such as were used in the Fed-! city M Mexico iu- English on Sundays eral army, were ordered infected by J is thirteen dollars a year—-just a quar- these men, and some were of such a ter of a- dollar a- week,- Dried Greens. There are old people in tbe.mountnihs of Kentucky who have never seen a grain of tea or coffee in all their lives. Not long since I heard a zelous Sun day school missionary for the moun tain districts of Kentucky, preaching about the destitutions in that region enforce his remarks with the follow ing incident: A yonng theological student from somewhere down East who knew far more of hooks than hu man nature, as Dr. Beecher used to say, and withal a very delicate and nervous body to whom tea was an in dispensable beverage, came to the mountains of Kentucky to improve his health, and do good at the same time to those poor plain people. By way of precaution he brought his tea with him a two-pound canister. He put up for the nigl>t at a plain log cabin worn with the labors of the day, and no tea. To his hostess: “Madam, can’t yon make me a cup of tea in the morning.” “Oh yes; I can cook anything that is cooked.” The young man liadned her his canister, and ascended a stick- ladder to his bed in tbe loft. “Next morning,” said the preacher, “they kept waiting for him to come down, and he kept waiting for them to invite him down; for he did' not know whether the ladies below were all up and dressed; but if he had had any common sense,” added the preacher by way of parenthesis, “he could have peeped through the cracks and seen for himself. Bnt at last he ventured down; and wliat was his horror when he saw four or five little white headed mountaineers rolling the empty tea- canister over the floor, In the mean time the good ladv of the house came in, her cap strings streaming in the wind, end with her best smile on. “ I was not certain about them dried greens you give me last night, but I went to the smoke housejand cut a pence of middling and pnt them altogether in the pot, and when they began to nn- kirl I knowed I was right.” The loss of all his gun-powder in one night put an end to that “Summraers cham paign.” Rates of Advertising. swi ywiiiwi.i"*. 24 00 G W 12 OTIS 00 21 00 3100' 8 Soil* 50118 00,25 001 37 00* 10 23 17 00121 00:2000; 4200 1300 IS 73 29 00 35 00 43 00 63 00' 3rw,sriiq4800|«g ool7g.pt ueoo T. J. CATER & SON, PERRY. GA., Are now receiving their SPRING & SUMMER STOCK DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, CROCKERY, ETC., ETC., ETC! .Vise, ON HAND: 30 } casks choice smoked SIDES; with SYRUP, SUGAR and COFFEE.- w HICH WE OFFER FOR SAL’ —AT— FAIR PRICES. T. J. CATER. F. S. CATER: THE BEST INVESTMENT Imaginative Medicine. Charms, amulets, talismans, and philacteries all belong to the list of articles which produce imaginative cures; seeing that the person who trust to them believe in some good obtainable from them, in purse or in person, in health or in welfare: and if the good does come, more assnredly the imagination is the channel through which it approaches. Two or three years ago, at a town in Worcester shire, after the inquest on the body of a man drowned in the Severn, a wo man applied to the chief constable for permission to draw the hand of her son eight or nine years of age, nine times across the dead man’s throat; in order to bring about the removal of a wen from tbe boys neck. In nnotber’in- stance, in the same county, this was actualty done with faial results; for the man had died of typhoid fever, which was in this way communicated to several living persona. A ring made of tlie hinges of the coffin, and a rusty old sword hung by the bedside are (in some districts) charms against the cramp: headache is removed by the halter that has hung a criminal, and also by a snuff made from .moss that has grown on a human skull in’ a graveyard. A dead man’s hand, and especially the hand of a man who had been cut down while hanging, dispels tumors. Warts may be removed bj a bit of stolen, beef; the drips of a gal lows worn in a little bag aronnd tbe neck, will cure the agrie;_a stone with ahole.init, suspended at the bed's head, will prevent nightmare. Many verses are known, which if repeated aloud, are credited , with cur ing cramp, bums, and other, bodily troubles. When.you have the whoop- ing-congb, apply for a remedy to the first person you meet riding a. piebald horse—a ceremony that Dr. Lettsom, the physician was fated more than once to become acquainted with.—All (he Year Around. Segro Presiding. A late Washington dispatch says: “There was little done in either House to-day outside of routine busi ness. When the House went into Committee of the whole , on the In dian appropriation bill, speaker Blaine called Mr.- Rainey of South Carolina to the chair, This is the first time, in the history of the govern ment that a colored man ever occu pied the Speaker’s chair in the House Representatives. A number of white members on the floor were speaking in favor of civil rights for the In dians. Postage Increase* The agregate amount of postage stamps issued by the Post Office De partment during the past ten months of the present fiscal year was §20,872,- 278 09} an- increase of §3,u03-,806- 41, over the previous corresponding ten months. Exclusive of §1,579,926' of ficial stamps-the increase amounts- to nearly eight per eent. ' » ^ The Crusade: The women’s- temperance crusade has broken out in'a mild form ita Cali fornia. In the West it has died out. Whether it has done good or harm- it it too early yet to judge. That no permanent effect was produced by the j crusade- i self is certain.. /, YOUNG MEN. W HO wish to obtain a thorough Pract/-- cal Business Education, and prepare' themselves for the duties of Actual Business Life, under the instruction and advice of Experienced Accountants, should attend A STANDARD INSTITUTION,. AND LEADING Business School in the Sonth.- CONDUCTED ON. ACTUAL BUSINESS PRINCIPLE. Supplied with banking and other officers, combining every know focility for impart-' ing a thorough practical and systematic knowledge of die .science of accounts, in the shortest possible time, and at the least ex-' pense. Stndents received for Telegraphy. No vacation. Stndents admitted at any time. Circulars containing Terms, etc. mailed on application. Address B. F. MOORE, A. \L Feb. 28. 1871. V Superior Court. At the approaching May Term of this Court the dockets will be called? in the following order: 1st. COMMON LAW DOCKET*- 2d. APPEAL DOCEBT. 3rd. EQUITY DOCKET. 4th. CLAIM DOCKET. 5th. CERTIORARI DOCKET. CRIMINAL & MOTION DOCKETS’ to be called as may suit the Court: The Clerk will have the foregoing- published in The Houston Home Jour-' xal each week ’till the next term of- tbis Conrt. B. Hill, March 6,1874 Judge,- A true extract from the'minutes. D. JEL Culler, Clerk. B. T. BABBITT'S Pare Concentrated Potash OR XjYE. Of double the strength of any other' SAPONIFYING SUBSTANCE-! I have recently perfected a new method of 1 packing my Potash or Lye, aud am now' packing it only in BALLS, the coating of' which will saponify, and does hot injure tbe Soap. It is packed in boxes containing 24 and 48 lb. 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