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F. R. FILDES, Editor.
VOL. IY.
Xm\ Notices,
ft EOROIA. Brooks Cot-XTY. -All persons in
\.T debted to the Estate of Thomas M. Bailey,
late of said county, deceased, are required to
make immediate payment ; and those persons
holding claims against said estate will present
them, duly authenticated, within the time pre
scribed bv law.
CULLEN HESTER, -Ydrn’r.
September 17. 1869. 34-6 t
GEORGIA, Brooks Coisty. -Notice is hereby
given that thirty days after the date here
of the undersigned, Administrator of the Estate
of Thomas M. Bai ey. late of said county, will
make application to the Honorable Ordinary of
said .county., for an order of said Court to sell all
the real estate belonging to the said estate of
Thomas M. Railev. deceased.
, For distribution among the heirs and creditors
of said deceased.
CULLEN HESTER. Adm’r.
September 17,1869. • -O-et
CT EORGIA. Brooks CorxTY.— Thirty days af
IT ter date the ttndersigtted. Administratrix
of the E»tate of Joseph Dernier, deceased, will
make application to the Court of Ordinary of
sat.! County, for leave to sell a certain Town Lot
in the Town of Quitman.
JULIA V. DENSLER. Adm’x.
September 10, 18(19. dt-5t
C 1 EORGIA-. Coppkk County Whereas, J.J
--"W l’ickeron. Administrator of John Fickeron.
represents to the Court in his petition, duly hied
and entered on record, that he has folly admin
istered the estate of the said John Fickeron.
This is therefore to cite all persons concerned,
kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they
can. why said Administrator should uot be dis
charged from his administration and receive let
ters of dismission on the first Monday in January
1870 DANIEL LOTT, Ordinary.
July 28, 1869. tdd
To all u-hom it may concern :
NOTICE is hereby given that, as Attorney for
C. F, Arnold. ! shall, according to law,
proceed to establish lost papers for him. tin*said
Arnold, at Bainbridge, on the I.lth day of No
vember. 1869. J W. sl '- CLAIR.
August 27, 1869. 9m
('A EORGIA. Brooks Corvrv. All persons in-
T debted to the Estate of Thomas Kimble,
late of said county, deceased, are requested to
make immediate payment : and those holding
el aims against said deceased will present thorn,
duly authenticated, within the time prescribed
by law. THOS. E. HARDEE. Adm'r.
September 24, 1869. 16-6 t
County Tax Notice.
£ X EORGIA. Brooks County. Ordinary’s Court
VX September U. ,869. It is ordered by the
Court that a Tax ot Kilty per cent, upon the
State Tax of said county, fortlie year 1869, he
assessed and collected for corn y purposes for
said year.
Given under nn official signature.
' JAMES L. BEATY,
Ordinary Brooks County.
A true extract from tin* minutes of the Court.
Jamks L. Bbaty, Ordinary.
Sept. 17,1861*. 35 lrn
PLEDMONT
Life Insurance Cos.,
OF RICHMOND VA.
Authorized Capital ... $1,000,000
Capital paid in and securely invested, 100,000
Policies issued in twenty months ac
tive service 4,100
Income sum- time, over... . *OO,OOO
Dividends paid on Life Policies,. 10 per cent.
87 11 per centum of Profits paid to Policy
Holders.
W. C. Caurixoton, President. $
R. H. M v« ky, Vice President.
J. J. Hopkins, Secretary.
H C. II vkthook Assistant Secretary.
C. Hk.vry Perrow, Medical Adviser.
Geo. Ross. Assistant Medical Adviser.
J as. E. Wolff, Superintendent of Agencies.
Advantages of the Piedmont.
Ist. It is purely a Southern Institution, suc
cessful beyond all precedent, with widely in
creasing influences and popularity.
2d. Its Policies are mutual and non forfeitable.
3d. Gold Policies will be issued to those pre
ferring, and paying premiums in gold, or its
equivalent in currency.
4th. It is a home institution : all money paid
in premiums in Georgia w ill be invested in Geor
gia, under the direction of a local Board of Di
rectors.
sth. It has paid all losses promptly and with
out litigation.
6th. Security to the assured unsurpassed by
any Company on this continent.
Local E°ard of Reference at Quitman:
James Hilliard, I Samuel Stevens,
Thomas J. Llvinoston, | Wm. Hudson,
F. R. Fij.dks.
VV. F. HOOKER* Special Agent.
Dr. E. A« JKLKS, Medical Examiner.
At Quitman, for Brooks County.
Capt. F. L. HALE, Gen’l Agent,
Office —143 J street. Savannah, Ga.
October 1, 1869. ly
SOUTHEItN
■lttia* Bmif idJadia
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COMPANY.
WASHINGTON CITY, D. C.
Organized and Established for the Purchase and
Sale of Farming and Mineral Lands and
improved Real Estate in the
Southern States.
TITOMAS B. FLORENCE, President
JOHN MORRIS Secretary.
With the hope of promoting and encouraging
business relations between the people ot the
South and those who may desire to go among
rthem, the Southern Land and Emigration Com
pany has been organized and established, and
the projectors will faithfully serve the best inter
est of those who entrust their business to them.
Real estate owners in the Counties of Brooks,
Lowndes. Berrien and Colquitt, of Georgia, and
Jefferson and Madison, of Florida, who desire to
entrust the sale of their preperty to the above
named Company, can be accommodated, and
necessary information furnished, by communi
cating with the undersigned, at Quitman. Ga.
octl-tf F. R. FILDES.
Ditto
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| JL his plantion in Biooks county. VraraLV
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J. BERRIEN OLIVER,
feral (ftmmmsstctt Ptujpu
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[From the Cincinnati Oqmmercinl ]
I SKETCH FROM LIFE.
Flow a Cincinnati Pkkacher Turnkd to a
Lawyer, and Won ms eirst Case Before
an Arkansas J :ry.
Sojourners in the capital city of Ar
kansas will have their attention attract
ed by a conspicuously displayed sign
bearing this legend: "Rev. Thomas
Blind, Esq , Attorney at Law." Should
a Cincinnatian enter the premises upon
which this sign was blazoned, he will
probable find himself in the presence of
a once famous resident of our city.
Rev. Thomas Blind, Esq., Attorney at
law, &c., is no spoiled child of fortune.
Like Micawher he is always on the look
out for something to turn up, but Un
artful jade as often turns him utid his
plans up—that is, upside dowu—as any
thing else.
The r. verend and distinguished attor
ney was born in Kentucky, where, in the
wicked old slavery days lie toiled in n
tan vat for the sole benefit, of a hard hear
led task master. Achieving hi « free
dom be resolved that slavery which had
heiotofore been his bine should in the
future antidote his poverty. He took
the field as an anti slavery lecturer. His
success was wonderful. Yankees but
ton tip their pockets t ghtly and button
up their coats over that. Our hero was
smart enough to beguile even a Yankee.
First, he would let off a volley of jokes
funny stories and so forth. The unsus
pecting auditor would unbutton his coat
to give his ribs full play when he laugh
ed he would even thrust his hands in his
Dockets anil lean back to enjoy a hearty
guffaw.
Fatal moment, fatal move. The ora
tor would change his tactics and pour a
story of heartrending sufferings into the
ears ot the admiring and now sympa
thizing audience. How could they re
fuse a shilling to such a sou to purchase
hi* ug< and mother yet toiling in that dis
taut plantation flogged daily while she
performed that wretched task ? They
could tiot the shillings leaped spontane
onuly from the undefended pockets of his
listeners. His axiom was : “II I can
make a Yankee laugh [ can make him
give me a shil'ing.” He got many shil
lings. lit bought his mother he bought
his wife, he bought more mothers and
more wives. The fa.-t is that in those
days mothers and wives were good arti
cles to buy if you knew how
At. last he began to invest by spare
shillings in brink houses and corner lots
Sympathizing audiences were soon gatii
■ red contributions for the purchase of
the aged parent, and failing wife follow
ed plentifully, he bid fair to be a rich
man, when presto the war came on, and
knocking the platform from under him,
squelched him with many other anti
slavery orators.
For a time lie was dependent, lint, the
draft again opened a way to fill his pock
els. He became the factotum of lrigh
teued anti war men, whose principles
wed riot permit there to re a man
one dollar to support ad and abolition
war But to keep their wives quiet they
consented to put in a substitute. Con
trabands were numerous and cheap, and
scared people abundant. With our min
isterial lawyer tilings went merry as a
marriage bell But alas lie would not
lot well enough alone. He resolved to
force fortune to his embrace He play
ed boldly but like many a man before
and since lie failed.
Uncle Sam had galhcd in a ci mp back
of Covington a regemeut of his black
buys, many of iliem the substitutes of the
chivalry who hurrahed for John Morgan
but and o not ..dmirc his style of riding
They had been duly mustered, clothed,
rationed, and partiaHy drilled. Her--
was a reservoir of substitutes, which
Rev. Th mas Blind, Esq., attorney at
law attempted to turn to amount. By
means of a decoy agent he induced a
number of tbom to and sert sod immediate
! ly sold them ns substitutes, in States
I which were trying to buy out the draft,
j Foi a time all worked smoothly, but
; at last the officers got un inkling of the
: matter, and laying hands on the Rev.
I substitute broker incarcerated him in a
Lincoln bastile nor would they release
him until by dint of fines, court charges
and attorneys' fees they had relieved
him of three thousand five hundred dol
lars worth of his Yankee shillings.
Now, disaster after disaster "follow id
fast end followed fnsler.” He attempt
ed to make a contract v ith B'ind Tom,
offering inducements to him and his guar
dians. He even invoked the aid of the
law to force a contract, hut. Torn owing
to lbs blindness couldn’t see it.
The war now came to an end, the draft
no longer terrified timid souls and after
Lincoln’s proclamati n mothers and
wives could not be sold, and alas for our
ex-tanner could not be bought. Times
grew hard. Creditors pressed; some
other field must be found. He went
South to help reconstruct it. Again for
tune smiled, and he was ajp happy as a
clam at high tide.
He weut to work organizing Union
Leagues. Candidates were numerous
and the fees promply paid. lie was not
only making money, but visions of Con
gressional, nay, Senatorial honors danc
ed through his head Has not Ceneral
Grant gone from a tan yard to the White
House? Why then should not Rev.
Thomas Blind, Esq., Attorney at law,
a arting from the same place go as far
as the Senate?
The election for which be was prepar
ing came on. lie was placed on duty
as rallying committee at a certain vo
ting place near to which ho had organ
ized several Longues
He took his stand in the morning and
by 10 o’clock had got in several Radical
voti-s. At that hour a committee of
heavy jawed clay and tobacco stained
white men approached They were ral
lying committee on the other side. Tlwy
accosted him thus: "Look ahere, Uncle!
We mean that all the niggers in this
precinct shall vote the Conservative
ticket and they will if you go away and
let them alone. Now we don’t want to
hurry you but Joe Bings will he i ere
presently and your black hide won’t
buhl shucks an hour afo r he comes on
the ground. He’s gone down the road a
piece to hang a Union nigger that keeps
a Loyal League in his house. ’ Here
they showed carelessly the protruding
handles of their levolvors, and oue of
them playfully threw the end of a long
halter over the branch of a tree near by.
Tiie chances were against them and he
backed down leaving the committee to
manage things their own way.
Ths election being over there was no
longer a call for the organisation of
tioyal l.eagnes. Funds began to run
low; fiiends from w' mi he wanted to
borrow grew near sighted, ami landlords
talked loudly about carpet baggers. Fur
tile in expedients he resolved to suck
the Conservative teat, a ov th it the Rad
ical one was dry; but that also yielded
but little sustenance Conservative ne
groes were not of much vahi: after elec
tions.
Hu tried preaching. But there were
a dozen local brethren who could, yell
louder than he could. He could tell a
wonderful story of visions. But they
could boat him. One had seen ths Sa
vior in the form es a buck rabbit, sitting
on a stump and making the sign of a
cross, thus indicating the only way of
salvation. Another had “tnsseled’’ for
an hour “w id Satan in de brush,” and
had come out conqueror. Oar legal
clergyman had to pale his ineffectn il
fires before such experiences as these
lie was at his rope's end. All parties
began to frown upon him; his coat grew
seedy. His landlord at last informed
him that "taters had riz and i.s a cash
article ” At first he thought ofeeoming
home, hut this field was already woll
gleaned and creditors were as plenty as
lamp post* lie would have gone fur
ther in the bowels of Southern land but
just then the work ofrecoirstruction was
at a stand still everywhere. Affairs
were desperate, but lie had*freqneuily
sung
“’Twas just before tlm break of (lay,
Glory hallehljall," Ac.
.Just an iie was sinking lie resolved to
turn lawyer. No sooner thought, than
di'iie. In a week’s time ho studied law
Arkansas law, graduated and was ad
mitted to the bar. Soon the sign we
have described in the beginning of this
veracious article was stuck out anil be
sat down to wait his first case.
It was not long in corning. Two col
ored gentlemen quarri led about a horse
trade. From words they proceeded to
the dire resort of the law. The case
came on for a hearing in a magistrate’s
court. Kev. Thomas Blind, Esq , Attor
ney at law was retained for the defen
dant. A gentleman who had held a’high
legal position in the State in an e war
times was the champion ( f the plaintiff
Vow it happened that b ■ ase w, g the
first that the magistrat flat i ver heard,
and the jury of color and e which was
ii due time iuipauueled weie pci firming
jury duties for the firs tira ii their
lives. Matters being all arranged one
of the jurymen timid y asked if hey b and
not better open the case with pi ny -r, —
“His Honor’’ was not p t and and inqui
red of the legal gentlem n w tetiier i
was customary to ‘‘open c nits with
prayer.” .
The white attorney p oh-poehed ih
idea. Ilia practice at tic bar for (wen
|53.00 per Annum
NO. 38
ty five years had never presented a esse
of opening a court with praynr. Nor did
the 1 noks show any precedents.
Here was the tido in affairs of Rr>v.
Thomas Blind, Esq., Attorney at law,
which if taken at the flood, was bound'
to lead to fortune. He arose with litij
spectacles on Ids nose and tliliitih thrust
between the leaves of the book to keep
his place. He was an awful example of
virtuous indignation and profound legal
wisdom. Ho orated. He showed that
all laws from those given to Moses down
through Tribmiian and Bhn kstone to
the last ordinance of the Town Council
of Little Rock all pointed hut 0110 way,
had hut one language and that was that
it was not only proper and permitted to
open courts with prayer hut it is the
Magistrates bounded duty to do so.
The court unanimously voted to have
prayer. The e’ated advocate of prayer
was invited to “lead' 1 the exercise. He
diJ so with unction. He swelled his
chest and poured forth one of those rims
ing prayers with which ho had frequent
ly awakened the echoes of Deer Creek,
Valiev. Long before lie had c included
his prayer his case was won. How
could a man who prayed so well be
wrong.
In vain the opposing attorney showed
that the evidence and the law were on
the side of his client. The jury without
leaving their s’fits decided in favor oj
ReV. Tlioimis B Hid, Esq , Attorney at
law, au l the Judge in summing up corn
pli.neiited them for their wise decision.
The gentlemen on the ottier g ; de left
the court with at least one precedent
for opening court with prayer firmly
fixed in his memory.
Kev. Thomas Blind Esq., Attorney at
law is now the cock of the walk. lie
hud beaten one of the oldest and best
lawyeis in the State. Practice flows in
upon him. Once more the tanning
winds boar h's fortunes toward fame and
wealth.
llejhas re; i tered a vow to die rich
A g od many anxious creditors in tlie.se
parts hpo that lie may. His adminis
trator will perhaps pay his debts.
GAMBLING.
No passion can lead to such extremi
ties, nor i v l.e a men in such a compli
cated train of crimes and vices and ruin
whole fain lion so completely, as the bane
fill rage for gambling. It produces and
nourishes all imaginable disgraceful sen
satious; it s the in ist fertile nursery of
covetousness, envy, rage, malice, dis
simulation, falsehood, and foolish reli
ance oil blind fortune ; it freq ieiit'y
leads to fraud quarrMs, murder, forgery,
meanness, and despair; and robs 11s in
the most unpardonable manner of tin*
greatest and most irrecoverable treas
lire—time. Those that are rich act fool
ishly in venturing their money in uncer
tain speculations; and those that have
not much torisk must play with timidi
ty and cannot long continue play unless
the fortune of the ga ue turn, as being
obliged to quit the field at t :e first heavy
blow ; or if they stake everything to
fori o th' blind goddess to smile upon
them at last madly hazard their being
reduced to instant beggary. The gam
bler but rarely dies a rich man; tlmso
that have had the good fortune to real
ize some property in tile miserable way
and continue playing are guilty of a
two-fold folly. Trust no person of that
doscripti m, of whatever rank or charac
ter he may b •-
>——
WOMAN.
We look up >n the man us the repre
sentative of intellect, and tie worn m as
the representative of affection; hut e ten
shares the characteristic of tin* othei on
ly in the man one pred minutes and in
the worn in the other. Wc kno.v woman
as affectionate, as religious as oracular,
as delighting in grace and order, pos
sessed of taste. In all ages woman has
been the representative of religion, gin
all countries it is the women who fill the
temp es. In every religious movement
the woman has been nn active and pow
erful part, not only in those in the most
civilized out in the most uncivilized
countries; not less in the M ttmmrno lan
than the Greek and Roman r •ligions.—
She holds man to religion. There is no
man so reprobate so careless of religions
duties but that he delights to nave his
wife u saint. AH men feel the alvan
lage that abound of that quality in a
woman. My own feeling is that in ail
ages woman lias Held substantially the
same influence. 1 think that superior
women are rare, as superior men are
rare. I think that women fad when
they are in the press as men of genius
are said to do among energetic woi kers
that they sec through all these efforts
with finer eyes than their noisy masters.
I think that all men in the presence of
the best women led over-looked and
judged and sometimes sentenced. They
are the edneat ifs in all our society.—
through their sympathy and quickness,
they are the proper mediators between
those who have know ledge and those
who want it.
Bridget, iu reply to a remark of her
mistress that she lia I put too much gir
lie into the omelet, e.olied that she did
it so that it i* on Id not tiste so sirougiy
of tlieeg c s, which wre had.
A Vagrant who had been fined regular
ly' several weeks for drunkeness, reqties
tod the ma ;istiate to fine him by the
. ea; - at re meed rater.