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bates foe legal ADVERTISING! Sheriff Sales, per square 8 3 00 Mortgage Ji.fi. sales, ptr square 5 00 fax Collector's sales, per square ...... 3 OIU Citation for Letters Administration and Guardianship ... 400 Application for Letters Dumlssoryfrom Administration and Executorship ... 6 50 Application for Letters Dismissory from Guardianship 6 00 Application for Lave to sell land, per sqr 400 Notice to debtors and creditors 6 00 l/md sales, per square 3 00 Sales of perishable, property, per square 200 Estray notices, sixty days 6 00 Notice to perfect service 7 00 Rtdcs ni si to foreclose mortgages,per sqr 300 Rules to establish lost papers, per square 500 Rules compelling titles 6 00 Rules to perfect service in divorce cases 10 00 Application for Homestead 2 00 Obituary Notices, per square $1 00 Marriage Notices 1 00 gates of : Transient advertisements, first insertion..Bl 00 .Subsequent insertions <5 Ho advertisement taken for loss than one dollar. Monthly or souii-monthly advertisements insert ed at the same rates as for new advertisements, each insertion. L bcrnl deductions will be mado with those ad vertising by the quarter or year. All transient advertisements must be paid for when handed in. Payment for contract advertisements always due after first insertion, unless otherwise stipulated. Serous of jfttorrtytfon: One copy, in advance, one year 82 00 One copy, in advance, six months 1 00 A club of five will be nllowod au extra copy. No notice will paid to orders for subscrip tion unaccompanied by the cash._,#fl grofestfiomrt DENTIST R yT GEORGE V TERSON, D. D. S„ OFFICE NEXT TO PLANTERS' HOTEL, WAYNESBORO’, GA. FAMILIES desiring liis services at their homes, in Burke, or adjoining counties, can address hiiu at this place. dec23-ly 'R. O. ATI O RNE Y AT LAW , WAYNESBORO’, GA. Will practice in the Superior Court of tl e Augusta, Middle, and Eastern Circuits. — Special attention given to Justice Court practice. lebl s—ly A. M. RODGERS,* ATTORNEY AT LAW WAYNESBORO, GA. OFFICE AT THE COURT HOUSE. PERRY & BERRIEN, A TTORNEYS A T LA W, WAYNESBORO, GEORGIA. Office in Court House basement—northeast room JOHS n. ASUTOM. I HOMKII C. GMSSOX. ASHTON GLISSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW , W A YNEBBORO’ G BORG I A. Will practice in the Superior Courts cf the Augusts, Eastern, and Middle Circuits, the Supreme Court of the Stele, and in the District and Circuit Courts of the United States, at Savannah.^.Claims collected and ens enforced. liovlG— ly MAT. B PERKINS, PROP. OF SCIENCE AND LITERATURE OP MUSIC Wlt.r, TKACII Cl. ASS-SING I NO, CONDUCT MUSICAL SOCIETIES, AND Organize anJ Drill Choir*, with special reference lo th wants of the Church. Address, MAT B. PERKINS. jy22* Lawtonville, Burke co., Ga. TETI-IRO THOMAS, DBAI.RR IN FAMILY GROCERIES, HpyGoodS and Clothing (Opposite Planters' Hotel), WAYNESBORO, GA. W. A. WILKINS, DEALER IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, DRUGS AND MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, ETC., ETC WAYNESBORO', GA. R. H. BARR, DEALER IN GROCERIES, LIQUORS, DRYGOODS, CLOTHING, ETC., etc., WAYNESBORO, GA. $5 TO S2O Per Day! Agents Wanted All classes of working people of either sex, young or old, make more money at work for us in their spare or all the time, than at any anything else. Particulars free. Address G. STINSON & CO., Portland, Maine. MRS, K BRUM CLARK, 251 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA., H. S NOW A LARGE AND VARIED STOCK OF Millinery and Fancy Goods, REAL HAIR SWITCHES, BRAIDS AND CURLS, New Goods received tri-weekly. Mrs. Clark will give personal attention to the millinery department. Mbs. N. BRUM CLARK, 261 Broad street. ftjrs. .piflrk will exhibit Pattern Hats and ounets on Tuesday, April 15. aplO-3 JOB PRINTING NEATLY EXECUTED AT Tills Offloe. ADVERTISE IN THE EXPOSITOR.’ lie ifiMiliL BY FROST, LAWSON, CORKER & GRAY. | TWO DOLLARS A YEAR, HST ADVANCE. VOL. 111. f [From The Aldine for June.] AT THE LAST. • Three little words within my brain Beat back and forth their one refrain, Three little words, whose dull distress Means everything and nothingness, Unbidden move my lips instead Of other utterance: She is dead. Here, lingering, wo talked of late Beside the hedge-grown garden gato; Till, smiling, ere the twilight fell She bade me take a last farewell. Those were the final words she said— But yesterday—and she is dead ! I see the very gowu she wore, The color I had praised before; The swaying length, where she would pass, Made a light rustle on the grass ; There in the porch she turned her head For one last smile—and she is dead ! Could I have known what was to come, Those hours had not heeu blind and dumb ! I would have followed close with Death, Have striven for every glance and breath ! But now—the final word is said, The last look taken—she is dead. We were not lovers —such as they Who pledge a fairtTto last for aye ; Yet seems the Universe to me A riddle new without a key : What means the sunshine overhead, The bloom below—now she is dead I So new my grief, its sudden haze Bewilders my accustomed ways; And yet so old, it seems my heart Was never from its pain apart: — What was and is aud shall be, wed With that one sentence—She is dead. THE iHIRMIKG OF COLUMBIA. An Unintentional Conti ssion by one of “Sherman's Hummers.” The Columbus Sun and Times pub lishes the following letter, which was found in the streets of Columbia imme diately after the army of General Sherman had loft, and the original of which has been preserved and can be shown and substaniated : Camp Near Camden, S. C., Feb. 26, 1865.—My Dear Wife : I bare no time for particulars. Wo have bad a glorious time iu this State. Unrestric ted license to burn and plunder was the order of the day. The chivalry have been stripped of most of their valu ablos. Gold watches, silver pitchers, cups, spoons, forks, etc., arc as common in camp as blackberries. The terms of plunder are as follows: The valu ables procured are estimated by com panies. Each company is required to exhibit the results of its operations at any given place—one-fifth aud first choice falls to the share of the comman der-in-chief and staff, one-fifth to the corps commanders and staff, one-fifth to field officers of regiments, two-fifths to the company. Officers are not allowed to join the expeditions without disguising them selves as privates. Ono of our corps commandors borrowed a suit of rough clothes from one of my men, and was successful in this place. He got a large quantity of silver (among other things an old-time milk pitcher,) and a very fine gold watch, from a Mr. DeSaussure at this place. DeSaussure is one of the F. F. V’a of South Carolina, and was made to fork over liberally. Of ficers over the rank of captain are not made to put their plunder in the esti mate for general distribution. This is very unfair, and for that reason, in or der to protect themselves, subordinate officers and privates keep .back every thing that they can carry about their persons, such as rings, earrings, breast pins, etc., ot which, if I over live to get home, I have about a quart. lam not joking —I have at least a quart of jew elry for you and all the girls, and some No. 1 diamond rings and pins amoDg them. General Sherman has silver and gold enough to start a bank. His share in gold watches and chains alone at Columbia was two hundred and sev enty-five (275.) But I said I could not go into par ticulars. 4D the general officers and “S ALUS P OPULI SUPRBM A LEX ESTO.” WAYNESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1873. many besides had valuables of every description, down to embroidered la dies’ pocket hankerchiefs. (I have my share of them too.) We took gold enough from the d—d rebels to have redeemed their infernal currency twice over.— This (the currency) whenever we come across it, wo burned, as we consider it utterly worthless. I wish all the jewelry this army had could be carried to the "Old Bay State.” It would deck her out in glo rious stylo, but alas, it will be scatter ed all over the North and Middle States. The d—d niggers, as a general rule, prefer to stay at home, particularly af ter they fouud out that we only wanted the able-bodied men (and to tell you the truth, the youngest and best look ing women). Sometimes wo took off whole familiesaud plantations of niggers, by way of repayiag secessionists. But the useless part of them we soon man age to lose—sometimes in crossing riv ers—sometimes by other ways. I shall write to you again from Wil mington, Goldsboro, or some other place in North Carolina. The order to march has arrived, aud I must close hurriedly. Love to grandmother and Aunt Charlotte. Take care of your self and the children. Dou’t show this letter out of the family. Your affectionate husband. Tuos. J. Myers, Lieutenant, &o. P. S.—l will send this by the first flag of truce to be mailed, unless 1 have an opportunity to send it to Hilton Head. Tell Sallie I aui saving a pearl bracelet and earrings for her; but Lam bert got the necklace and breastpin of tho same set. lam trying to trade him out of them. These were taken from the Misses Jamisons* daughters of the President of the South Carolina Secession Convention. We found those on our trip through Georgia. This letter was addressed to “Mrs. Thomas J. Myers, Boston, Mass.” An Ingenious Fuaud. —The ancient Roman Emperor who was rash enough to offer a reward for anew pleasure, and who has suffered for his sins by be ing more ‘quoted’ than any potentate of any age, might have been more suc cessful iu his speculation if he had called for anew crime. Among the joint-stock companies recently wound up iu London, was one which for sim plicity and ingenuity doserves praise beyond its own immediate circle. • Its promoters, directors, and shareholders numbered only two, and they based their operations on a regulation of the Metropolitan Board of Works. That body has been frequently troubled by the bad conduct of contractors and their men, who, instead of removing street mud, have simply shot it down the next sewer—an operation that, if not detected at once, leaves no clew to the offender, though there may be many traces of the crime. To deter the con tractors from such bad habits, the Board has been in the habit of giving a reward of 2 lb. IDs. to any informer who helped to prosecute any person de filiug the sewers with mud, and, on con viction of the criminal, a fine of 10s. was usually imposed. On a basis so simple, two ingenious persons built their scheme. One of them put down the mud,the other gave the information; the first was fined 10s. the second ob tained 2 lb. 10s. Uniting their forces the fine was recouped, and then each of the conspirators had a pouad for him self. By repeating the operation in several parts of the metropolis, and changing the parts, a very sufficient livelihood was earned. Unhappily the plan has been detected, and the Board of Works has inconsiderately reduced the reward to 10s.—tho exact amount of the fine—thus leaving no margin as a stimulus to exertion. Wo only hope that the talents of the invontor of this scheme will not be altogether lost to society. A Negro in Mississippi. Tho ceremonies had already begun when I arrived. A uegro preacher, as sisted by two attendants who only ap preciated the importance of their posi tion, stood in the edge of the stream, and one by one the tho candidates, or "seekers,” as the negroes have it, do cendcd to the water from a tent on tho slope abuve. The sacred'formula was pronounced over each one, then camo a little splash as the sinner was "buried” a moment in baptism, and then that shrill and to me almost terrifying shriek which constitutes an orthodox religious "shout” was beard as the regenerate darky emerged from the water and was led back shrieking and struggling to the shore, wuerc the older "brethren” aud “sisters” were waiting to* receive him. As soon as the preacher had pronounced this formula the whole as sembly, led by a magnificent bass voice, set up one of those wild, weird, negro choruses which, once heard, can never be forgotten. The music continued till the next candidate was about to be immersed, and then ceased only a mo ment to rise again as soon as the preach er’s voice was hushed. Those who have neTer heard a chorus of this sort don’t know what music is. Such a magnifi cent volume of sound, such a grand roll of human voices, as some favorite strain such as “Let’s go down to the water,” or "Stand on the walls of Zion,” came surging and swelling over the river, uever greeted my ears before. It beg gars all description. The grand organ at Cologne is but a penny whistlo to it; the Boston Jubilee but a piping of spar rows. There was not a single false note, not a slip in time or tune, as the wonderful chorus came swelling over the water, making the very heavens ring with melody. AU four parts— tenor, bass, alto, soprano—were carried in such perfect harmony that it was as if one n.ighty voice were hymning its praise to heaven. How they manage it is a mystery ; not one of all that sable multitude was acquainted with even the first rudiments of music, yet no trained orchestra ever kept more perfect time. We kept our station on the raft for over an hour, while some thirty “seek ers” were converted into “professors” and then, at the suggestion of my friend proceeded further down the stream to have a nearer view of the ceremony. I was sorry afterward that I had done so, for all the solemnity of the occasion im mediat ly departed. Some of the ges tures of the negroes as they came up out of the water were ludicrous in the extreme, aud their language often irre verent, even blasphemous. Negroes consider some violent physical demon stration a necessary evidence of the validity of their conversion; indeed one old woman informed me that she “never had knowed nobody to come through all right without they went into a trance.” The effect of the music was decided ly spoiled by too close proximity. The voices which bad sounded so grand and sonorous from a distance wero harsh and coarse close by, while a distinct hearing of the words did not contribute by any means to the grandeur of the music. Who, for instanoe, could re press a smile at the following, though sung to the most exquisite melody: I weep, I mourn, what make I mourn so slow 1 ? I wonder if a Zion traveler has gone along before. Mary and Martha feed my lambs, Feed my lambs, feed my lambs, Mary and Martha feed my lambs, Set tin’ on the golden alter. There is another specimen, the effect of which I leave to the reader’s imagina tion : I meet my soul at de bar of God, I beerd a mighty bumber; It was my sin fell down to hell Just like a clap of thunder. Sharks in Florida Waters Thcirc Exploits in Man Fining. In a letter from Florida to the New York Sun, Mr Amos Cummings writes : The water fairly boils with sharks. I counted 112 within the space of an acre, none of which w.cro less than 8 feet long. Indian river people say they have seen them 20 feet in length. I saw one that measured over 17 feet. They would frequently break under the bows of our twenty-one foot sail boat, careening her to one side and at times half lifting her from the water. They flocked about the boat by dozens, and cast hungry looks at the hugo yellow dog on the forecastle. At one time I struck a twelve-foot fellow over the snout with a heavy boat pole. He made a great swirl through the water as if surprised, but saucily darted back to the craft to see what had hit him. Occasionally boatmen plunge lily irons into them, and tow them about the river against wind and tide for miles. Some of the natives declare that they are man-eaters, while others deny it. Jim Paine, of Fort Capron, told me that he had stood in the water for hours while these big sharks were nosing about his legs, but Dr. Fox, my guide, seemed afraid of them, and*declared that he had known them to pull an estimable young lady from Savannah out of a boat while she was dragging her baud behind the-stern. She was cut into mince meat in five se conds. During the war, it is said that a boat containing 14 men was upset, in Jupiter Inlet, about 20 feet from shore. There was a foaming of the waters, and in a half a minute 12 of the 14 men dis appeared. The water tinged with blood marked the spots where they had been drawn under. Two of the sailors got ashore, but so bitten and in shreds that they died soon afterward. I was told another story of four men who started to walk up the beach from Cape Florida to St. Augustine. They managed to get across New Inlet upon an improvised raft, but on arriving at Lake Worth Inlet they attempted to swim across. Three of them were gobbled up by sharks. The fourth reached the shore, and traveled on to Jupiter Light, where he told of the fate of his com rades. These reports show that many of the sharks are man eaters. The most of them are of the shovel-nosed variety. As they are more lively and voraciousan the summer than in winter, it is probable that they would attack a man in July or August when they would not touch him in December or January The Peoria, (111.) Review has its own old man who reads that paper and no other, and thus describes him: “ Chew ed tobacco sixty years and got fat on it. Then he took to hard drink and follow ed it for twenty-five years, and grew younger every day. Now he reads his paper by moonlight alone, through an inverted microscope, to make the type appear smail enough for his eyesight. Walks four miles every morning for his drinks before breakfast. Chops a cord of wood between each meal. Tried to die of old age thirteen times and failed every whack. Attends to the wants of his old and feeble grandson, and su perintends the funerals of his posterity with a decency becoming his years.” The incorrigible Donn Piatt, contem plating the po sibility that Capt. Jack will exterminate the American people at the rate the very one-sided Modoc war is going, throws a sop to that fero cious chief by saying that ho desires to be distinctly understood, before this thing goes any further, that Capt. Jack has always been his first choice for President. ♦——. A tailless calf was born in Warren county, Indiana, last week, who is en joying life now—but wait until fly time. - RULES FOR LEGAL ADVERTISING' Sales of land, etc., by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians are required l>y ’ate to be held on the firet Tuesday in the month, between the hours qf ten in the forenoon and three in the eftsmoon, at the court house in the county in which the property is situated. Notices of the le sales must be given tn a public gazette in the county where the land lies, if there be any. Notices for the sale if personal property must be given in like manner ten days pervious is sale day. Notices to Debtors and Creditors of MS estate must be publish'd fc-ty days. Notice that aa plication will be made to the Court of Ordinary fir leave to sell land , etc., must he published once a week for four weeks. Citations for Letters of Adminis tration, Guardianship, etc., must be published thirty days. For distt. ission from Administration and Ex ecutorship three, months—Dismission front Guard ianship, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure tf Mort gage must be published monthly for four months. For establishing lost papers, for the full space qf three months. For compelling titles from Adminis trators or Executors, where bond has been givtn jM deceased, three months. Apr’icntion for Homestead must be published twice. Publications will always be continued according to these requirements unless otherwise ordered, RIP Opt inch, or about eighty Words, is a square; fractions counted as full squares. 1N0.40. The Fatal'Hemlock. —Experiment at the New York State Lunatic Asylum have resulted in proving tbo great value of conium—the hemlock of the ancients —in the treatment of insanity. The concurrent testimony of the cases in which it has been tried is that it soothes and mollifies the moter oentres, opera ting on the motor tract as opium ope rates on the brain, thus quieting and re novating the whole muscular system,' and acting indirectly as a tonic and ner vine. It is now largely used in oases of epilepsy by New York physicians. n—n m- Taxes for tub Construction of Rail-roads Unconstitutional. —The Supreme Court of Ohio has pronounced unconstitutional a law of that State em powering cominunites to levy taxes fox the construction of railroads. The grounds of the decision, which was unan imous, are, that such taxation is not for public purposes, for which alone taxes can be constitutionally levied, and that the State Legislature is forbidden by the constitution to authorize any com munity to engage in this way in private enterprises, directly or indirectly. As the Constitutional Convention of Ohio is now in session, it is probable that this matter will receive their attention. Watteuson’s Visit Explained.- “Maok,” of the St. Louis Democrat,who plays poker himself, thus alludes to Mr. Wat ter son’s trip to Europe: “From the large number of Louisvillians booked for Europe this spring, we in fer the winter poker season at that point was very successful. One promi nent citizen was heard to remark to his wife a day or two since. ‘My dear, if I hadn’t filled on that last hand yes terday we would have been obliged to skip Italy, but it is all right now ; that last ‘raise’ Of Higgins just pays for the Vesuvius and Pompeii trip.’ Thus do the fine arts of the present assist in diffusing a knowledge of.the past.” o- A. Faithful Dog. —Among the sec tion men mentioned caught out in the frightful Minnesota storm, was one who lived several miles from St. James. He was unable to reach homeland his wife became alarmed for his safety, and he was uneasy about his family. On Thurs day, a shepred dog belonging to him came bounding into St. James with a little leather bag to his collar, in whieh was a letter from his wife containing the joyful intelligence that they were “all well at home, ’’and asking for news of her husband. Another letter was writ* ten informing the wife that the husband was safe and would return home as soon as he could reach there. This letter was placed in the leather bag, and the faithful animal told to “go home.” Away started the almost human animal through the fearful storm and snow drifts, and arrived safely at home with the precious news so anxiously looked for by the weeping wife and mother. The next day the husband reached home. This dog was also 9ent with a letter to a sick neighbor, and brought back an answer. The dog is not for sale. A Good Toast. —Here is a Quaker toast that has a thought in it. “This is me and mine to thee and thine. I wish when thee and thine come and see me and mine, that me and mine will treat thee and thine as kindly as thee and thine have treated me and mine.” This is anew version of the old compliment, which runs sometimosafte this wise : “I wish theo and tby folks loved me and ray folks as well as me and my folks love thee and thy folks. For sure, there never was folks, since folks was folks, that ever loved folks half so well as mo and my folks love thee and thy folks.” * . The devil is the father ov lies,bath* failed tew get out a patent for bis in venshun, and his bizzniss is now suffer ing from competishun.