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J )KN r nSTHY.
RGE FTEBSN, n. v. S.,
OFFICE NEXT TO PLANTERS' HOTEL,
WAYNESBORO’, GA.
FAMILIES desiring Ids services at they
homes, in Burke, or adjoining comities, can
address him at this place. dec2B-ly
\l. O. IfcjvkttT
ATl ORN E Y A T L A W ,
WAYNKSGOEO’, GA.
Will practice in the Puportor Court of tic
Augusta, Middle,.and Eastern Circuits. —
.Special attention given to Justice Court
practice. tel) 15-1 y
A. AI. It’ODM ERS,
ATTO RN E Y A T LA W
WAYNESRORO, GA.
OFFICE'AT THE COVIVV 110CEE.
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• aTTORXEYS at law ;
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OTJh-j; in Qourt. If mile hate went luirthvast room
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ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
W A YN O’ G EOfeGt A.
AVill practice iu tlio iSujwrlor Courts of the
Aiis'iMa, Eastern, anti Middle Circuits, the
Supreme Court of the Stele, and in the
District and Circuit Courts of the United
States, at Savannah. Claims collected ami
liens enforced. Sj>ec®Ll attention given to
cases in Bankruptcy. jel2-ly
HOM ftll <\ <; r/i sso IST,"
A'ITQRXEY AT LAW,
LAW TUX VILLE GEORGIA.
Will practise in the 3up.■-■lor Courts of (ho Au
gusta, Ka.-leru. and i dj Circuits, the-Sn
preuie 0 )'ir; of the Statu and in the District
and Circuit Courts of the l uited tates, at Sa
vannah. Claims collected and liens enforced
Special attention given to cases in Bankruptcy.
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iii Minor Painting, Trimming, anil Blacksmifh
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rates. Wo solicit orders from all nur old, and
as many now, friends that may derive anything
in our line. ft ' Special attention given to the
making and repairing of wagons plovv-stocfat,
and plows. J- & U ,VTTA n A\,
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All classes of working people of cither
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at work for us in their spare moments,
or all the time, than at any anything
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1J V FliOS'l’. LAWSON, CO li K Ell <fe GRAY.
VOL.IILI
Tlic Art of iSiiiltlitn; States.
I After some twenty-seven yea fa’ study
and observation in the South, the wri
| ter has come to the conclusion that the
art of building States is not so well un
derstood as it ought to bfe. Asa Dutch
and English colony, New York existed
one hundred and fi/ty years before tho
Revolution, and had three old Dutch
cities, namely, New York, Albany and
Schenectady ; yet, down to 1790, when
the lirst census was taken, the whole
Sta‘e had only 840,120 souls. Penn
sylvania had a larger population by
1 0,000 in round numbers;, and the
population of Virginia was just 57,370
more than twico as large as that of
New York. The art of State building
was not cultivated by a well-to-do
Knickerbocker class of landholders and
farmers before tho year 1810, some of
whom owned two largo counties, like
Stephen Van Ran:ellaer, who had the
O 1 u tty of Albany on one side of the
Hudson and the county of liansellacr
on the- opposite side. This bring* the
history of the State within the recollec
tion of tho writer, who may be permit
cd to say that the owner of the farm on
which he was born represented his coun
ty in tho Legislature twenty-two years
in succession.
The large tract of lari‘l which the
Holland Compati}’ bought for twelve
cents an acre in Western New York,
has an average distance from New York
city of four hundred and fifty orYnore
miles. .This land is new worth SIOO
an aero in gold, on which to raise com
mon farm produce for European con
sumption. Imagine farms four hund
red and fifty miles from Norfolk, in
Upp'r Virginia, or the same distance
from the cities of Wilmington, Charles
ton, Savannah and -Mobile, selling at
one hundred dollars an acre to produce
grain and provisions for London and
Liverpool markets, with the earth cov
ered with snow nearly half of the year.
If having the plow strike” frozen ground
It to in April, and sometimes in May
and foddering cattle six months instead
of three, are advantages', the North has
them. But one wlro has studied Agri
culture in both climates, doe? not see
any benefit in keeping the surface of
tho earth frozen six months, any more
than six years The iec that bursts a
p’ant; tion jot one cold night does not
burst all the fragments of the pot next
night; so that protracted cold weather
has little, or no mechanical advantage
for the farmer.
Why, then, can wc not make Georgia
and South Carolina (not to name other
States equally worthy) distinguished*
for th'eir rapid growth in wealth and
population ? There is but one obstacle
in way, that may be insuperable.—
We will not, at this time, Damn the ob
.-ticlc, for it is thougni better to point
out the ways and means by winch the
people of New York increased the value
of then-lands from twelve cents to one
hundred dollars an acre. Wc assume
that reliable history of recent date, is
sound philosophy teaching by example.
•The Legislature of New York, at its
session of 1809 10 appointed DoWitt
Clinton, Gouverneur Morris, Stephen
Van Ranscllaer, Peter 15 Porter,
Simeon Dewit, Thomas Eddy and Wil
liam North, and men of distinction,
Commissioners “to explore the country
between the Hudson and Lake Erie,
and report to the next Legislature such
improvements as they might think ne
cessary-for the internal prosperity of
the State, and for securing to New
York its present high standing.” The
idea of securing to New York its then
‘•high standing,” does not imply any
conception of flip embryo faot that the
city, at the Atlantic terminus of the
Erie Canal, was to become the com
mercial metropolis of the continent,
simply by advancing “the internal
I prosperity of the State,” and of the
wilderness west of it.
It is a mistake of history to give Dt-
“BALUS POP UL I BUPB EM A LKX B8TO.”
WAYNESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, .114,Y 10, 187:1.
Witt Clinton more than his equal credit
with Gen. Peter 11. Porter, Stephen
Van liansellacr, and others, for the con
struction of the Erie Canal; bat it is
not our duty to parcel out, praise or
censure in a matter of State building
sixty years ago. The main point we
make is this: Cheap transportation
from farms*in Western New York to j
Liverpool, would have availed nothing
had farmers assumed that grass will
not grow there with which to make
wool, butter and cheese for exportation.
Such a mistake would have boon fa
tal to “the internal prosperity” of a
great dairy and wool-growing State, j
Within the writer’s time, New York
farmers hare had twenty times more
land (lean they could cultivate with the
plow, lias any reader of “The Plan
tation!’ ever seen such a state of things
in the South ? If he lias lot, which
way lias he been looking? ‘All, 1 says!
the reader. ‘Southerners to the manor
. j
born, don’t believe in getting an income .
from land except by the old-tiine way
of planting.’ My dear sir, then you
owned the laborers of the plantation :
now, you do not. You own land, a few
mules, and generally not much over, j
Look to the land ; on that wo build a !
prosperous and wealthy State, not by
any trick of art, but simply cultivating !
perreuial plai t> that will grow, .and
grow, and keep growing as long as any i
truthful old man can say that lie has !
seen Bermuda grass grow on any soil
of Georgia. Not a dime come- out of
cotton, corn or tobacco without growth.
Skill in agriculture turns mainly on
the cost of the growth or organization
of any staple. The leading Southern
idea aims to make money out of human
and brute labor at the expense of fer
tility consumed, which decreases the
intrinsic value of the land. The lead
ing New York idea is. (among the best
farmers) to make money by raising the
maximum of agricultural plants with
the minimum of labor, during the six
months in which growth is possible.
Farmers who are subjected to protrant
ed, and often severe cold in (ho winter,
with all their farm stock, naturally stu
dy earnestly to make the most of the
•solar heat and light, rain and dew, that
a good Providence gives them. This
study has its reward in making every
one hundred acres of God’s blest sun
shine worth, in the market ten thousand
dollars. Why, then, does not the same
area of bettor solar heat and light brill"
a higher price in Georgia? One rea
son may be because the people of Geor
gia are very shy of demonstrating the
value of their climate to produce 'the
crops with which all Europeans, and
immigrants from the Northern States
are quite familiar, and are familiar with
no others. Southern soil and climate
are represented as hostile to European
tillage and husbandry.
This representation, which the writer
regards as a mistake, and therefore a
O
misrepresentation, keeps Away millions,
and thereby defeats the great object of
sonic thousands of State builders. This
is an important matter, and wo wish
to discuss it with something like math
ematical accuracy; but from long ob
servation, not in the South akn e, but
in both climates.
Can any one give a reason why ninety
degress of solar heat in New York
should be less severe on a clover or
timothy plant, than in Georgia or Ala
bama ? Such an assumption is found
ed on reliable facts. An excess of heat
for a day in Quebec will kill any plant
as effectually as an excess for a
or any longer time. The physical force
of heat and that of freezing, when the
point of killing is reached, do not wait
for days nor hours', befoie doing the
harm. There is no higher summer heat
in Georgia than in New York ; and as
a matter of fact, clover is not killed in
a sugarcane climate,neither in Florida,
Louisiana nor Texas. Of course clover
and European grasses often ruu out
TVV.O DOTiLAUS A YEAR, IN ADVANCE
and need considerable attention in our
climate; but all sensible farmers from
Europe and the North expect to work
for a living, and look closely after their
crops and farm stock, whether sheep
j cattle, horses or mules.
Tho art of building States lies wholly
in utilizing all the natural advantages
within ihc territory. If we want im
migrants from Europe to settle amongst
us, and help to build roads, factories,
cities,and create a reliable home market
for land, and all its products, to should
have a few farms managed on the Euro
pean system of farming, to show that
our climate does not forbid such hus
bandry. Western farmers dc this j and
notwithstanding their long winters, and
lack of timber and water, they receive
a thousand dollars in money and labor
from enterprising State builders where
wo receive one. No one has found out
a way to make an “Empire State’’
without people; nor will a very few
answer tho purpose. L
The Soft South Wind !
In delicious early summer days,
we can fully appreciate this charming
and timely little extract from Warner’s
I “Black-Log Studies,” in Scribner's
Monthly :
Perhaps the influence of the four
great ffrinds on ohancter is only a fan
cied one; but it is evident on tempera
ment, which is not altogether a matter
of temperature, although the good old
deacon used to say, in his humble, sim
ple way, that his third wife was a very
good woman, but her “temperature swa
very different from that of the other
two.” The north wind is fail of cour
age, and puts the stamina of endurance
into a man, and it probably would into
a woman, too, if there were a scries of
resolutions passed to that effect. The
west wind is hdjieful; it has promise
and adventure in it, and is, except to
Atlantic voyagers America bound, the
best wind that ever- blew. The east
wind is peevishness, it is mental rheu
matism and grumbling, and curls one
up in the ehimneycoruer like a eat.—
And if the chimney ever smokes, it
smokes when the wind sits in that quar
ter. The south wind is full of longing
and unrest, of effeminate suggestions,
of luxurious ease, and, perhaps, we
might say of modern poetry —at any
rite, modern poetry needs a change of
air. I am not sure but the south is the
most powerful of the winds, because of
its sweet persuasiveness. Nolhing so
stirs the blood in spring, when-it comes
up out of the tropical latitude; it makes
men “longcn to gon on pilgrimages.”
A RKMA UK A 81. K A IJVKXTU It K,— A
young man named J. E. Van Doren,
who resided in Brooklyn, and was em
ployed in the publication department
? of the World, left his residence Decem
ber G, 1872, to go duck shooting on
Long Island, since which time he has
j not been seen by any of his frieuds or
' acquaintances, although lie has been
| diligently searched for by the Brooklyn
detectives. His father, itov. L. N.
| Van Doren, of Boontown, N. Y., his wife
and children and many friends, reluc
tantly gave him up #s lost, until a few
days ago, when Lis father received a
| letter from him, posted at Rotterdam,
1 Holland, in which the young man states
that while duck shooting near Fire Is
land his boat capsized, his companion
i was drowned, while ho managed to cling
to the upturned boat and was drifted
out to sea.
When nearly out of sight of land he
was picked up by a vessel bound to
Buenos Ayres, just as he became in
sensible from cold and hunger. He
was attacked with brain fever and was
unconscious for live days. Except the
captain none on board could speak Eng
lish, so that Mr. Van Doren could do
nothing toward getting home until the
vessel was fifty-four days out, when,
| during a calm, he was able to board an
! English bark bound for Rotterdam. A
long and tedious voyage following, bat
finally, on May 20, tho vessel arrived
at its destination. The young man i
writes that, having no money to pay a
steamship passage, he had engaged to*
rotujn by a sailing vessel bound for!
! Philadelphia, and is probably on his j
1 way home at the present time j
Itcligiou til Cards.
Tho following is perhaps old, but (o
many i t will be new, and as it is quite
a curiosity in its way we give it as we
find it.
In Glassgow, Scotland, during the
war there was a company of soldier- at
t tiding church on a Sabbath morning.
Soon after being seated, one of them,
named Richard Lr-e, took from his pock,
et a pack of cards and having folded
his overcoat across his knees, he com
menced displaying his cards before him, ,
when the sergeant of the compay re- ,
quested him to put them away. He
refused to obey him and the sexton of ,
the church was called on, who arrested
him and took him to the nearest mag
istrate. The magistrate said to him:
‘Well, sir, you are arrested for playing
cads during divine ,service. What
have you to say ?’
‘Much, I hope sir, if your honor will
allow me to state. I have been on tho
march for six week*, and have lost my
IJible, aud since then have substituted
my cards. ‘Explain yourself sir,’ re
plied the magistrate.
‘lf your honor w ill allow mo the u*e
of your desk 1 will;’ and taking his
cards, lie spread them out, saying:
‘When l.scc the acc it reminds inc of
but one God. When I see the deuce,
that is Father and Son. The tray is
Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The
four spot is (he four Evangelists, that
were sent to preach—Matthew, Luke,
Mark and John. The five spot is the
five virgins; there were ten, but five
were shut out. The six spot is the six
days in which Gor> made the world. The
seven is the seventh day He rested and
billowed it. The eighth is the eight
righteous people whom He saved during
the flood—Noah and his wife, his throe
sons and their wives. The nine is the
nine lepers who were cleansed.. There
were ten, but one only returned thanks*
The ten is the Ten Commandments—
thou shall obey, &e. The queen is
tho Queen of Sheba. She was as wise
a woman as King Solomon was a man.
She sent forty girls and forty boys, all
dressed in girl attire, io the jung, to
tell the boys from the girls. The King
sent them to wash, when the boys wash
ed to their wrists, and the girls to their
elbows—hence he tola tho boys from
the girls.
‘But hold on,’ says the magistrate,
(seeming deeply interested.) ‘You have
missed the Jack.’
‘Well, your honor, I don’t wish to
offend any one, but the greatest Jack
or knave as I call it, (looking around)
is the sexton who brought mo here.’
‘That will do, sir, that will do,’ re
plicd the magistrate, ‘you are excused.’
‘Thanks, ;our honor, and l will ex
plain to you farther that you will find
fifty-two cards in the pack, which is the
number of weeks in the year, and in
playing them there are thirteen tricks
taken, which is the number of weeks in
a qyartcr. * The twelve picture cards
is the number of months in tho year,
and, if your honor has the time to play
a little game, I’ll show you how to find
365 spots in the pack, a spot for each
day in the year.
Josh Billings says. “Fuss works hard
all day. and don’t do enny thing; goes
to bed tired a* night, gets up then next
morning and begins where she left
oph.”
- ■- • a."
Mr. Frederick Lockyer of London
wrote this pithy verse:
“They eat and drink, and scheme and plod,
And (o to church on Sunday ;
And many are afraid of God,
And more of Airs Grundy,"
Lord Chief Justice Cock burn lias
just made a joke. A Mrs. Jury being
examined as a witness m the Tichborne
case, stated that she had eleven chil
dren, whereupon His Honor observed
he had always understood it took twelve
make a mry. England is still echo
ing the laugh which convulse! tie court.
RULES FOR LEGAL ADVERTHtWt
Hairs of land, dr., by Administrators, KirsmlsSO,
i Uuardinns an required by lau> to be belli on tho
.hrst Tuesday in the month, between the hours of Im
in ike forenoon and three in the tyftsrnson, at tho
court iicun io the county in which the prtueirmGa
situated. .Sot,res of these sales must be giwsn M •
public gatettc in the. county where the land Us*, ff
there, be any. Noticcsfor the stile qf persona/ property
toast hr given m like manner ten days presisstsm
sole day Notices to Debtors' and Creditors yf <M
, suite must hr published forty days. Notice that me
plication trill be. made to the Court of Ordinary for
Icarr to sell land, etc., must he published onet a isooA
fur four trerks. Citations for l.ettses of Adminis
teatiun, Ciuardianehip, etc,, must be jmblishtd thirty
days. For disn, ission from Administration and Ka
ren! irship Ihirr, months — l)iemission from Ouard
ianship, forty days-. Rules for Foreclosure qf Mort
gage must be published monthly for four month*.
For establishing lust papers, for the full spate of
three months. For compelling titles from Adminis
trators or Executors, where btmd has been given by
d*i eased, tim e months. Application for Homestead
must be published twice. Publications will editttgi
be continued according to these requirements unless
otherwise ordered. One inch, or about eighty
words, is a square; fractions counted as full squares
iN0.45.
[Portland (Me.) Argffs.J
Jc*ff l>avi*i’ Alleged Di<*guisev
I am no admirer of Jeff Daria, f am
a Yankee, b: th between Saccarappa
a id Got bam, Corner, am full of Yankee
prejudices ; but T think it wicked lo
lie even about him, or for that matter,
about the devil.
I was with a party that captured Jeff
Davis ; saw the whole transaction from
its beginning. I now say— l hope yot*
will publish it—that Jeff Dafiir didno#
have on, at the time he was taken, any
garment such as is worn by woman. Ho
did have over bis : ’ oulders a water
proof article of clothing— something
like a “Havelock.” It was not in th
least concealed. He wore a hat, and
did not carry a pail of water on M*
head, nor earry a bucket, or kettfo m>
j any way.
To the best of my recollection, to'
j carried nothing whatever in his hat&-
llis wife did not tell any persow fttot
her husband might hurt somebody if to
got exasperated. She behaved like m
lady and ho as a gentleman, though
manifestly he was chagrined at being
taken into custody. Our soldiers be
haved like gentlemen as they were, and
the foolish stories that went the news
paper rounds of the day, telling hew
w elfishly he deported himself, were all
false. I know what lam writing about.
I saw Jefferson Davis many times while
he was staying in Portland, several
years ago; and I think I was the first
one who recognized him at the time of
bis arrest.
AV hen it was known that be was cel*
tainly taken, some newspaper corres
pondent— I knew his name at the time
—fal r.cated the story about ike disguise
in an old woman’s dress. I heard tto
wholc matter talked over as a good
joke, and the officers, who knew better,
never took the trouble to deny it. Per
haps they thought the Confederate
President deserved all the contempt
that could bo put upon him. I think •*
too, only I would never perpetrate a
falsehood that by any means would be
come history. And, further, I would
never slander a woman who has shown
so much devotion as Mrs. Davis has to
her husband, no matter how wicked be
is or may have been.
I defy any person to find a single of
ficer or soldier who was present ■ ‘to
capture of Jeff Davis who will nr,
upon his honor, that he was disguised
in woman’s elotlies, or that his wife
acted in any way unladylike or undig
nified on ;liat occasion. Igo for try
ing him fur his crimes, and,, if he is
guilty, punishing him. But I would
not lie about him when the truth will
certainly make it bad enough.
JaA H. Parks*.
Ellburnvillc, Pa.
—■ # .
A Parting, a Meeting and a Wkd
—Ten years ago Maurice R.
Christie journeyed from England to
America and found employment in
Lord & Taylor’s. After five year*’
faithful service, on recommendation of
that firm, he began traveling for White,
Ross & Cos., with whom he remains.—
Before he visited Amcriea he fell in
love with a blue-eyed, rosy maid of
twelve years, and on parting the two
bound themselves with a solemn vow to
become man and wife. Maurice did
not hear from her during the ten year’s
absence. He worked bard arid laid up
a snug little fortune. Last Saturday
a friend told him that a young English
woman was in the Stacy House, whose
name was Carrie Linyard. Maurice
hastened and found his betrothed of ten
years ago a beautiful, accomplished
young lady. Her aged father was with
her. The old vows were repeated. —
Each had written to the other, but the
letters did not reach their destination.
With the father’s approval they were
married that night, and thej now live
in Montgomery street. Jersey City, as
happy as two bees in a tube rose.—jY
Y. Sun ■ ; . ;