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About The Expositor. (Waynesboro, GA.) 1870-187? | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1873)
HATES FOR LEGAL ADVERTISING: Sheriff Sales, per square $ 4 00 Mortgage J.. fa. titles, per square. 500 Tax Collector's sale*, per square . 400 Citation for Letters Administration and Guardianship , ... 4DO Application for Letters LismLisoryfram Administration and Executorship. .. ii 50 Application for Letters JJismiseury from <Guardian ski,p 5 00 Application for Icaee to sell land, per sqr 400 ,Y at ire to debtors and creditors........ 5 00 Land sales, per square. j 00 Sides of perishable properly, per square 200 Estray notices, sixty days '. (i 00 Notice to perfect serrire 7'W Rides nisi to foreclose ou>rtpa"ts,per sqr 300 Rules to establish lost papers, per square 500 theirs compelling titles. 5 00 Ruts* to perfect service in divorce cases 10 00 1 Application for Homestead 2 00 Obituary Notices , per square $1 00 i Marriage Notices 1 00 J £tntfj o( : Trnnflont. a flvorfi-e merits, first insertion..9l 00 Subsequent insertion*. 75 No uilvofliscment taken for loss than one dnltnr. Monthly or semi-monthly mlvortisoinonts insert* nd at tho same rates as for new advertisements, each insertion. liberal dodaotions will lie made with those ad vertising by the quarter or year. All transient, advertisements must be jiaid for when handed in. Payment For contract advertisements ahrays due after first insertion, unless otherwise stimulated. (Terms ot : One copy, in advance, one year 8- 00 One copy, in advanee, six months. 1 00 A dub of five will Vie allowed au extra copy. Oft?'” No notice will paid to orders for subscrip tion unapeompaniod by the <,ash.„/ysj 3£roffatonal gulrertiic incuts. 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. pkiYi v v ae lift lull k x, • aTTORXEYS at law ; W AYNESBOK O, GIX)HOt A. OTJh-j; in Qourt. If mile hate went luirthvast room • roi ! V ! >. ITON, 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. vMjfe , Huggry liiiilding yjj REP AIEIN G. WE are prepared to repaie Til titilES, GAIUtIAttKS, etc., in a worlunnxilikfi iii Minor Painting, Trimming, anil Blacksmifh ing oxoeuted in the host stylo, and at reasonable ■ 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\, mylo-tjanl Waynesboro’, Oa. K S PERKINS, fKOF. OF SCKSC* A-W LtTBRATURE OF MI'SC wrrx rr Arll crs.* BS ‘* sl ' XG,KO > CONDUCT MFSIIU Tj SOC: ’ TIES, AND Organize and Bri ftwri, with spttia! rtferenff tu l’ l suik af tk Chan*. Address, MAT IT. PERKINS, Lawtouvillc, llurke eo., Ga. I F/rUKO THOMAS, DKAf.KK IN FAMILY G HOC Ell lES, H-y ( foods andOiotliing (Opposite Planter*' Hotel ), WAYNESBORO, GA. W. A. WILKINS, PKALER IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, DRUGS AND MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, ETC., ETC WAYNESBORO\ GA. — HA Rj j JMCAI.KU IN GROCERIES, LIQUORS, DRY GOODS, CLOTHING:, CT(;„, ETC., WAYNESBORO, GA. $5 TO S2O Per Day! Agents Wanted All classes of working people of cither sex, young or old, make more money at work for us in their spare moments, or all the time, than at any anything else. Particulars free. Address G. STINSON & CO-, Portland, Maine. JOB PRINTING V.2JEATLY EXECUTED fry ' OfflCC. il l ; i %pra%ll ai . 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 ■ ; . ;
