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F. R. FI LUES, Editor. VOL. IV. (Tic (Quitman fanner. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. IEKKB OF 60B8CRIFTION. IX ADVANCE. „ $3 00 Par on* year « ft Far «ix month* .9 For tSret* months 1 Far si igle copy 1U TERMS FOR ADVERTISING. iXVARURI.V IN ADVANCE. One aquar*. (10 linen, or less.) first, inserticn *• 00 ; eaeh tolhiwing insertion, ft 00. When advertisements are continued for one »on!b or longer, the charge w ill be as follows : 12 Month*. « G Months. 3 Month*. ! ; 1 Month. Number •f Squares. I 1 ' $ 5 00 I $lO 00 |* 15 Oil 1$ *2O 00 s 800 l. r > 00 25 00 ; 35 00 J ;| 32 00 I 18 00 ! 35 00 i 45 00 4 I If, 00 I 24 00 I 40 00 : 53 00 5 " ”. I 20 00 I 35 00 I 45 00 I SO 00 i Uol'iiinl 35 00 I 55 00 I 80 00 ] 12(> 00 I <• I 60 00 ! 80 00 1 130 00 i 200 00 Obit'iurv notices. Tribute, of Respect, and :d ar'ietesof a personal character, charged for as advertisements. Ker announcing candidates for oillce. SIO.OO SUfflIM FOR LOVE. “Mercy! Tie horrid tiling What shall we do with him now?” Miss Gardner andied the ten nth to a wretched cral>, which we had discover ed in cur peregrinations along the beach and had succeeded after half an hunt’s patient labor in extricating it from be tween the huge atom s. “1 am sure 1 don't know,’ said 1 ‘can i wc put him into the boat?” * 0!i dear no; he’ll crawl all around. Resides we’ve got the boat I alf full of shells and thing* already.” "Well then, we’ll leave him behind.” “No. we mustn’t. 1 want to keep him , I'll tell you what ; yon run up to tin house and get a basket —that s a dear. M ss Gardner turned her blue eyes to ward mo in a way that was not to he resisted' I became so exhilarated at the sound that I immediately clapped my hat over the unfortunate crab, told the voting lady Jo put her toot on it, and started away bareheaded toward the boose at the top of my speed. 1 had run a dt zen yauls when the con Viol inn that I was making a fool of my self made nie stop and look back. Miss Gardner sat on the side of the boat laugh ing merely with the bewitching I t)tr fmt on the rim of my hat, and waving me on with her hand. So I dashed for ward again. For two months I had Leon pondering what mysterious attraction it was drew me toward this girl. She was very nret ty but »i this time this was no enchant went in try eyes. 1 was very charry of pretty faces, and never, approached one without a certain degree of suspicion. My first meeting with Miss Gardener was unpleasant. 1 felt that I almost disliked her. She lad such grand ban teur and seemed to feel such a serene in difference to tny presence that my first love was hurt. Hut at that time I was a victim to an unbounded admiration to my cousin Nellie a fancy which as the summer wore on melted away with Mias Gardener’s magnetic influence like snow beneath the sunbeams. t>he had come to tis in early June in the capacity of a school teacher, when (be meadows were green and covered with a golden dust of dandelions. She carried her leserve into the school room with her too, and yet the children by a potent spell were drawn to her at once ’VVhitburg iiad about as wild a set of boys as any village in the country but I don’t believe there w-as one of them who would not have gone through fire and water for Miss Gardener. In consequence of this the female por tion of the community called her “stuck up” and little Polly l-anith whose mother kept the post office at the Corners told me quite confidentially one day that she thought Miss Gardener was awfully c m coited and put on great naira for a school mistress.’ But when I come to know Alias Gardener better, I found a blithe some heart this cold exterior and diacovered that after all she was as met* ry a minx when occasion required as any other girl in Whitburg So by de press I learned to like her, aid it soon became quite a regular thing for Nellie to ask her to join us in our afternoon etrole*. Ala-1 before the summer was gone, poor Nellie herself was left out of out calculations entirely. I Lad a slim suspicion— I know not b w it came, nr up n what it tested that Mies Gardner had passed through i the ordeals of what the French call an | affair of the heart. About tbe middle of : July my conviction was verrified by the j appearance of a dark complexioned cav alry Captain who registered his name on the tavern books a* plain John Smith This interloper on my rightful domain bo sooner established himself than he com menced courting the school mistress with all bis military might slid ferocity. His advent brought home to me that I had a deeper feeling for Mias Gardener than ; mete regard. I met litem «*no moon’ight • night returning from a drive along the ; beach; and as they rolled past a great j throb of iny heart told me that hence j forward there was to he a struggle for victoiy between myself and the cavalry captain. Thus matters stood nt present, and 1 turned them over in niy mind as I w tided through the clover tops and crossed the long meadow below the house. It was a sunny dreamy August day. The elms along the road dropped their branches listlessly to the lit-;:t and the sun shom like a silver shield. The captain had gone falling and I had taken the oppor tunity to ask the little school-mistress to go rowing with me. .She assented for it was her half holiday; and so we’ row ed loisuu-ly around the point to the beach where we had just now found the ciub, and where incredibly »s it may seem she lead actually called me dear. “Aunt Mary,” said 1 when I reached , the door, “I want a basket.” “What for?” she asked. No one ever laid down a proposition j to Aunt Mary that she did not reply by asking either “which” or “what, for?”— j it was a weakness she had. This time I laughed in her face. “Well,’’ she said snappishly, “the only one I know of that ain't in use Uncle j llezkiah’s has got down to the cove I chimin. That one's in use tew .” 1 turned away and rumaged success ively the barn the coni crib in the fruit j less search for something that would an- j swer my purpose. 1 had offended Aunt Mary by not an swering her question and she would give me no assistance. Finally after nearly an hour’s delay as a last resort I seized the water pail and started down to the beach. When 1 arrived at the spot I- bad leftl looked up and down the shore but I could see nothing but my hat, which, pro j pelled by some unseen power, was slow ly and laboriously traveling up the bench j The boat was gone. 1 recovered my tile and in so doing liberated our ugly captive, on whose account I bad already been put to so much tr mble. But where was Miss Garde nei? Was she playing: a trick? Ilai.’ ti e cavalry captain made j a coup d'etat in my- absence and carried ; her off. Neither ofthesc things seemed likely hut where was she? I ran along the sand and mounted a ; great roc-k which jutted out into the wa ter. In a great deal of distress I shaded my eyes with my hand and gazed earn - ( eslly !ar and neat over the sleepy shin, ing sea. Ah 1 could that* he her? the i black spot upon the watei ? Yes for :n , n moment more I could distinguish tl e waving of the handkerchief. There ] could be no one with her and it needed hut little reflection to convince me that the school mistress was alone in the. boat and was drifting out to tea. Still I was pnzzeled to know if it was that she had let herself float hopelessly away from the shore without an effort to save herseif; for I knew that Miss Gard tier was almost as good a sailor as I. However there she was at all events; and I ran up and down the shores sever a! times in a state of semi distraction. I There was not another boat within miles' and every second of delay separated un fa rther from my life. At that moment: I knew how much I loved her. At last in utter desperation I threw off my coat and boots and waded into , the water. I had been an excellent swimmer fiom boyhood and withso 1 smooth a sea and the tide running out 1 . felt hopeful of gaining the boat. I swum steadily on uutil I was tired, and then turned over on my back toj rest. It seemed an age before I reach ed the school mi-tress and I became so. tnoronglily exhausted was several i times on the point of letting myself down in despair. Then the thought of sharks came over me and I became seized with a wild panic arid I swam as though swim ruing for my life as at last I really was. I had gone so far from shore that to re . tu:n was impossible and I ku- w (hat (be HESE SHALL THE MESS THE PEOPLE'S EI3HTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY FSA3 AND UNESIBED BY GAIN. QUITMAN, GEO., MAY 28. 1809. only chance for my own salvation was to reach the boat. As I neared it I saw the poor little schoolmistress in the agony of supplica tion. By my direction she retired to i In farther side while 1 climbed in then fell suddenly down at my feet sobbing bit terly. "There,” said I, “you are quite safe now.” “Alas, no,” she said. “You will be one more. YVbat hope is there for eith er of us.” I looked around the boat and tny heart sank within'roe. Not a thing did it con tain besides ourselves. The oars had bceu left on shore. ! “There is hope w here life is," 1 re ■ plied. : 4 The flood tide will surely carry os back again.” \Ve could do nothing hut sit still and 1 wait its turning. I tried to lead Alias f Gardners attention a way from our fear ful situation and with lint end in view, I. talked of other things 1 told her stories. 1 quoted poetry; we criticised the last books we had r,ad; we discuss ed botany, geology, and philosophy; we sang song together and when tired of all these tilings we made puns at each j other, and laughed till tears rolled down our cheeks. The sun descended into the ! sea a scarlet fiery ball and the stars caine out in countless myriads and we! saw the glittering armies form together j ad ake up their march through spate : Under the glorious dome of night wc drifted out upon the darkening sea. I was wet and cold, and so tlu; little school mistress modestly removed one j of her skirts and insisted on wrapping it. abont my shoulders. I told her that we I would divide the night into watches, and that mine should be the first ; but she J stoutly declared thal we would watch ’ together. Before long however, her eye-j lids began to droop dcteimination gave way to nature and Miss Gardener leaned her head against me and fell fast asleep j For the first time in my life I clasped j her tightly in my arms. We were alone] beneath the stars, drifting helplessly out upon an unknown sea, but I would not ; have exchanged those precious moments for the happiest one I had ever passed on shore, nor would I fora kingdom lose my repentance of them now. It was nearly midnight when she un closed her eyes and looked up into my face. “Where are we?” she asked. “We’re afloat, we’re afloat,” I said, ! and cheerily tried to strike up “A life on j the Ocean Wave.” She smiled faintly, but lay iu my arms quite still. "Has the tide turned yet?” “1 eipect it lias; but it don’t seem to make much difference to us.” “Is there nothing before us, then?” “I see nothing hut watei,’ said I, look ing room.- “And death.” "And death!” I repeated. "But death with you will be sweet. Forme life a lone is nothing. I bent down over her more closely.— She made no reply; but her little hand stole gently and softly into mine. “For all time?” I asked. "For all time?” she said, ’whether we ! live or die.” Now might the witpls and waves do their worst. Now might the heavens fall on the earth and stand still- Wiiat would it matter to me. We were floating, liiating silently on, but ia the depth of my joy I cared n >t It was intoxicating—delirium. Had 1 the means, I would not have returned. So I sat still, holding Lei closly to mo, and showering kisses on heriips. The night tad seemed scaioe begun before morning had painted her first: gray streaksacioss the east. By our! united exertions, we succeeded in teat iug off one of the long cleats from the : side of the boat, and after an hour's la- ' bor, succeed ng in raising ii m the bow with tbe skirt stretched across it for a > sail which, after all, was not so much \ of a sail as a signal of distress. I now began to feel the tumires of a raging thirs'; but nty companion was so sjli l and uncomplaining, I felt ashamed to say anything of my misery. Slowly,step by step, tire sun mounted . the stairs of day, aud the sea became I hot aud burned our eyes. The land had ! Vanished iu the night aud we were alone I upon the barren waste of waters. At last toward neon, I spied far upon the horizon a tiny white speck, aLd we i ‘sat vratch'ng breathlessly ns it earns nearer and nearer. In an hour my j straining eyes detected the white wings j of a yacht, and the little school-mistress , plied me with a hundred eager ques j til Q '. Did 1 think they would see us ? Was cinr sail big enough or our mast high enough ? Would they not he likely to puss by and leave us? How far off were they? How loug would it tuke them to reach us? Our fears Were soon put to rest for the yacht suddenly altered her course a little and bore straight down upon us. The wind was very light and it seemed a year before it came within bailing dis i lance. On the deck stood a tall man j j whom I recognized at once as the c-aval- ! :ty captain. Strange as it may seem the i | old feeling came back to me in a quick I J hot flush and I wished him aud his yacht, ■ at the bottom of tile sea. ; “Hallo tnv buy! Take this line,” he i shouted cheerily, throwing a coil of rope i across to me, while the vessel luffed up : into the wind. I made him no reply, but sat motion-I less. “Zounds, man !” he continued, “arc you deaf? What’s the matter with you?* ; The boats drifted together, *nd he reached down and made fast to us with a boat hook. Then he lifted my school : mistress up over the side, and to my ut ; ter astonishment she immediately threw : her arms around his neck and burst into I !tears. “lie's my brother,” she said laughing and crying together, and with this ex planation 1 was satisfied. 1 was so stiff with salt water and ex- j posure that 1 c u lei searcly move. The ] captain helped me tcudeily into the cuh-| in and put me to bed, while I resigned i my companion to his care wit i a couti- ! deuce as sudden as it was implicit, It is nearly three years since I made my memorable voyage with the school j mistress. We live together now in a little cut- ! (age overlooking the bench where she first called me dear; and the incidents ol that eventful afternoon and the follow ing night have today been vividly brought back to my remembrance, by the reception of two neatly engraved wedding cards, whereon was inscribed I the name of the calvary captain and my I cousin Nellie. A wounded soldier was riding, a short - time siueo, in one of the Third Avenue j cats, New York, where ho was comfor- i lahly seated. A lady entered the ear, and as the seats were all fit:l the soldier gave her his seat, After tiding sortie distance the lady got up to go out, when a gentleman standing by remarked that she lud forgotten something. .She res pondi and that she was not aware of hav ing done so when the gentleman remark ed that she had forgotten to thank- the wounded soldier for giving her his seat. * Senator Sumner called uL the While House to see the President last work, but j Mr. Dent, the chief usher, having carried ■ up liis card returned with the remark that he would have to wait fifteen min uti s. Mr. Sumner said he would not wait fifteen minutes for Napoleon, Vtc to iaor any one else, and that when Air. j Grant wanted to see niru he could send j for him. With that he withdrew in a j rage and told a friend that the White House was nothing but a military camp j The animal kin.wn us a “fast boy" i.- ; thus apostrophized: Smart youth! You arc going it with a great rush—you ' are outnumbering you. years. You have! slipped your collar, wild colt, broken j ! ’oose from all parential restraint. You : : determined not to tarry in Jericho till your beard be grown; and so you dash 1 i into the world as if yon had been through ; it a dozen times and knew every crook ] and turn from one end to the other. II you can drink rum, chew tobacco and; swear like a trooper, while just entering , upon your teens I hardly know what you I will be best qualified for when you get ! into ilie middle of your tjtiea. V’erily j you will probably go either to Congress or the State Prison—and it mat ers but | little wh ch, so far as your own good is concerned. Solicitous f itherl—auxi -ns mother, io k np >u that b’boy aud weep ! Progress. Madam, at what pi ice per yard do von sell this broadcloth?’ asked William Pen I nington of a fair Miss. “Five dollars sir ” I ‘ You are a little dear.” “Yes replied the blushing mtiden, so all the yoong men tell me.” Savannah Houses. W. J. WALSH, WHOLESALE DEALER IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Fancy Goods, SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, : TItr.MSES, I PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES, Io o Stuffs, Garden Seeds, Ac. FINE WINES AND LIQUORS, SOUTHEAST CORNER BROUGHTON AND BARNARD STREETS, Savannah, Georgia. February 19. 18U9. 6 ly Edoar L. Gi'kkaito. Edwird L. Hoi.Cesuja. MRIRD & HOLMBii, FACTORS, General Commission & Shipping KERCHANTS, No. 5 Stoddard’s Lowur Raage, Hay St. SA VANN AH GEORGIA. AGENTS FOR THE Best Fertilizers in Use. 8. 8. STRICKLAND, A**nt February 19. ISflfl. ly ! SAVANNAH - MACHINE WORKS. S. W. GLEASON, I Suprar Mil's, Sugar Pans, Gin Gear. Shafting, Pul j leys, Iron Railing, Iron and Brass Castings. 1 1 Portable and Stationary Steam Engines, and Ma chinery of all kinds. St. Juliitn Street, S A VAN NAIT G EORGIA. ! February 19, 1889. 5-ly D. FALVEY. DKaI.KR IX EVERT VARIETY , (,f ’’L? *■<«*«* m a Ml •ifM i8 i 153 Broughton St., SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. ■ nAS IN T STORE a large and varied assort-- meat of 3 I MAHOGANY, WALNUT, , CHESTNUT AN I) ENAMELED psb ■33 Ta H| ni’ , *a 9 Tables Sc Bureaus, Os Every Style and Pattern _CHAIRS, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, dC., dC. I Fflbraary i9. 18U9. 6ni i! (I III; It TV & TILIJIN, Commission Merchants, ! North aide. Bay St., 2nd door West of Exchange, SAVANNAH, CA. | Hiram Rokkrt.s, Savannah, Jorkhi Tim man * i I>. L. Robkkts, “ Madison co., Fla. oct 10-14168 30-1 j CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED OF EARLY* SPEIS6 tITSEB. SIHS. 4?. For Bale here, or shipment North, on which IA I 15 K K AL A DVANCES *|WTLL BE MADE/ Also solicits shipments of MIM/W.1.V1) H’OOL, I For which the Highest Market Price will be paid, and no commissions charged. E. TV. Wt CM HON'D & TiRO.. Commission Merchants, lot liuy st. i | Savannah. April 9,1869. fnl GBEAT EXCITEMENT ! ! ! JUST FROM CUBA! O, FOB. OOEMCHEII THAT QUESTION SETTLED. \ /"SOMF, UP TO THE CAPTAIN’S OFFICE, j V_> Buy your Cheap Sugars, pay your Green backs freely, and he will show you 110 RACE GREELEY. you mind !! Call agaio at! ALEX. DOYLE’S, oN WHITAKER STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.,! Where tho Cars will stop and take vo » in. April 9, 1869. 12-lra ■■■ ■—■ ■■■■_■■■";»■ JOH\ ESTE.t COOK’B HEW HOVEL. C. J. Huntington A C 0.,! 459 Broom St., New-York, Have in Press, to he readv in October,] IVSOHUN: Or, Tho LAST DAY3 OP LEE aad HIS PALADINS By J. EsTty Cook. Author of ‘ Surry of Eagles’Nest.’ Os “Surry.” of which Mohun is a Sequel, Ton j thousand copies wore almost immediately soi l. • Tho i \ow work is still more intensely inutroalkig. I Pi' nto I on flue toned paper, and rich I v bound in cloth, with upwards of 500 p>.ges, it has for its j frontispiece a find steel medallion bead of Gen j | Lee, and four beautiful illustrations ic Homer’* ! best style. Either book, is sent by aaii. post free, na receipt of tho price. $2.25. For sale by j ail Booksellers sad ssJws ,# n town and country. m er*? [53.00 per Annum NO. 19 P.H.BEHN, Cotton Factor, —AND— j GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT; Fir it door West of Exchange. Bat Strrkt, I 'ava*xah, Gl#, j octlti-’6B 36-ly* ! wa. u. tmo.v. wm. w. <k>kpo». TISOX & GORDON, Cotton Factors AND ! (Central Commission Ulcrrjranfs, 9G Ray J'treet, Savannah, Gko. Bagging, Rope or Iron Ties advanced oa crops. Liberal advances made oa conaigaiuvaM of Cotton. Grateful for liberal patronage in the past, ry effort will he made to continue w merit pafc lic confidence. October 2. 1868. Cm S. S. MILLER, BEIT.gR IS'l P if_Jl A 110 Ct SI ¥, VUICT AJD Plltjg F UK N ITU RE, TRENCH AND COTTAGE | BUD SniDUOBUK MattraKßCri made to order. No. 157 Broughton Stmet, i SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, ! a)>l4 Iv M. M. SULLIVAN~ DEALER IN* Siia<L and all kinds of Fish* In their Season, Oysters, Game, etc., .Vo. 1 Hi Buy Lane, SAVANNAH, GEO. motto is : Justice to all. j £.-o**Orders from the country will be proujpi ■ ly and carefully filled. ’ nov22-u J. BERRIEN OLIVER, i Central Commission itlcuhnf, No. 97 Bay Struct, (over Wilcox, Gibbs A Cos. SAVA NA Nil, GEORGIA. December 4, 1868. I v FDRffITUBE HOUSE. JOHN M. WITT, Caliiiicl Milker sUiulcrtakiT, QUITMAN, CA. fIT.AKES pleasure in notifying tho jL citizens of Brooks and adjoining paaßsflS' i Counties, that he bus eHtabl'u bed 1 Quiiman. a regular i-i»i titi*o Mn ti« uliietory, and is prepared to put up te ! order— ! BUREAUX, BEDSTEADS, SECRETA RIES, SIDEBOARDS, TABLES, WARDROBES, : and everything needed in the Furniture Pfftr, aa«f in any «f) k» required. An experience of many years. justifies him in assuring the public that his work will! give saii»- faction in every respect; and prices will com pare favorably with those of Savannah or «l*e vvliere, with this.important advantage to the pur chaser : every piece ol Furniture leaving hie e#*- tttblishnient will be wamuited. Hepuiring done with neataea* j and dispatch. IJißlißTllrslslim In connection with the Furniture btodncaa, Lo is also conducting that of UNDHtt PAKHIt. and will put up, on very short notice, any descrip tion ofGOFFIN Plain or Ornamented, ueaily trimmed, and mounted, if desired. A general assortment of Coffins always kept on hand. fl&r Prices as moderate as possible. WANTED. T am in need of ;i large quantity of SEA* SONED LUMBER, smViw Red j£y, limit. < berry Maple, iilaew Walnut, Ac., As., for which a liberal price will he paid. JOHN M. WITT. Qnilinan, Ga.. .fan 22, LSU9. Its Dll. D. L. ricks, OF THK ORIGINAL JfIRM OF ,«B. DJENTISTS, WRIGHT & KICKS, AUGUSTA, GA.. ‘VA.njJ ■ TvO-.; c [Aow K«i>i(lriit of i '/ e f -> eisasiAs- I ecif«ll|r tolicite the patronage »>f the citizens of Southwest Georgia and Florida. /i'-F E’eif.-ct Si.'.is.l»cti«n Guaranteflfl,'’fc.\