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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XLI,] MILLED SEVILLE, GEORGIA, MARCH 28, 1871. HUMBER 35. $ 1) C Jf t b e r a I Union, is PUBLISHED WEEKLY • IN MILLEDGEVILLE. GA , For the Federal Union. TA2.E IT ©OWN. BOUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE, (Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson Streets,) At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year. S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor. ADVERTISING. Transient.—One Dollar porsquare of tenlines for first insertion, and seventy-live eecufor each subse quent continuance. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit uaries exceeding sixlines, Nominations for office, Com munications or Editorial notices for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriff’s Sales, per levy of ten lines, or loss, $2 50 “ Mortgage ti fa sales, per square 5 UU Citations for Letieis of Administration, 3 lit 1 “ Guardianship, 3 00 Application for disuiissiou from Administration, 3 00 “ “ “ “ Guardianship, 3 00 “ “ leave to sell Land 5 00 “ for Homesteads,.. ... j 75 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00 Sales ol Land, &c., per square . 5 00 perishable property, 10 days, per square,.. 150 Estray Notices,30 days, 3 00 Foreclosure of .Mortgage, per sq-, each time 1 00 Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,) 1 75 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land, &.e., by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required bylaw to be held on the first Tuesday inthe month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situated Notice of these sales must he given in a public ga zette 10 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale ol personal property must be given 111 like mauuer 10 days previous to safe day. Notices to the debtois uud creditors of an estate must also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, &c., must be publish ed tor two months. Citations for letters of Administration,Guardianship, Ac., must be published 39 days—for dismission from A 1 1 ■ ini-i ration monthly three mouths—fordisinission from Guardianship, 40 dajs. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish- d monthly for four months—for establishing lost pa pers lor the full space of three months—for compell ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where bond lias been given by the deceased, the f’Sll 3paceof three months. Publications will always be continued according to these,thelegulrequirements,unlessotherwise ordered. Take it down, now, boys—the victories won Outnumber the lost—we have seen; If it fell, it has soared like the bird of the sun : 'Tis trampled, not conquered I ween- A sound is abroad 1 ’Tis the deep sullen roar That tokens a nation’s unrest, Like the moan of the ocean lashing the shore When storm-fiends are rending his breast. There’s a rush and a whir, as if viewless things Are riding with Death on the blast— A rush and a swoop of invisible wings As the herald of vengeance sweeps past. Take it down, proud hearts! That is blond on its bars, Not the blush of a cringing slave ; The tide that well’d up and tarnished those stars Went forth from the hearts of the brave. Fold it up, b»ys—all bloody aud riven, Remove not a tint of that stain ; It’s dust, should it rast, will be gather’d in Ileaveu To enjewe! bright crowns for the slain. Might reigneth on earth, but A’t'r/it reigneth There Ami Justice sits thinned in her hails— Her sword in her hand uplifted and bare, Siie weigheth each teardrop tiiat falls. For the Federal Union. LETTER FBOfl SiSDESSlILLE. District Court—Judge (Gndn-Bus; I, a ». yera-Urological Features— FomiN—Liwr- stone Formation—Floral Attractions— ftnndersvilie. Population, Ac.—Col War. then—3lr. Gilmore and Mr. Mediock of the Central Georgian—Population and Area of Washington County. SIndersville, Ga., March 21, 1871. We came here to-day, arriving from Macon at Tennille about 10 a. m., and reaching this place (three miles from the railway) aoout 11. Judge Gonder proceeded from the hotel to the Court House and opened the new District Court for the 20th District of Georgia. A jury was sworn, after a few Book and Job Work, of ail kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. NEW Crawford LAW FIRM. Williamson ATTORNEYS AT LAW, AM) SOLICITORS IN BANKRUPTCY, MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. Y\7ILL practice tli-.-ir prutesaiju in the counties '* composing the Ocmnlgee Circuit—the counties of Hancock and Washington, and in the U. 6. Circuit and District Courts. CHAS. P. CRAWFORD. WM. W. WILLIAMSON. Feb II, 1871. 29 Iy DSL J. W. IlEIiTY, PRACTISES IN P Drantjjtsof jjis profession. Office at the Drug Stole of L. VV. Hum or, Co. Residence on Jefferson Street, corner Hancock St. Jau. 24, 1S70. 2S 3m asw law Finns. FlUIE UNDERSIGNED have formed a eo -partner- X ship for the practice of Law, under the firm of SANFORD & FURMAN. They will bestow prompt attention upon all business entrusted to their care in this and the surrounding counties. Office on Wayne street over Stetson’s Store. D. B. SANFORD. F. C. FURMAN. Miliedgeville, Jac’y 5th, 1571. 24 iy J T. W. WHITE, jlttaf fietf. at am, MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., ■\\ r lLL practice in this aud adjoining counties. r » Applications for Homestead Exemptions, un der the new law, aud other business before the Court of Ordinary, will receive proper attention. Miliede'eville, Oct. 12, 18ti8. 11 tf W. G. McADOO, Attorney 1 Counsellor at Law, DIIIiLEDOEVI libC «3-:«KGIA (Office in the Federal Union Building.) Will give prompt attention to business entrusted to him in any part of the State, and will regularly attend the Courts of Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam and Wil kinson counties. Miliedgeville, March 25, 1870. 35 tf T.A.IIj031.X2V€3- ! rjpUE undersigned lias removed his TAILOR SHOP To Wayne Street, Up Stairs, over Store of MESSRS. C. H. WRIGHT & SON, Where he is prepared to cut and make gentlemen's clothing in the LATEST STYLES, and respectfully solids a share of the public patronage. Old Clothes made as good as new. He will also clean and repair old clothes making them look as good as new. tyAll work warranted. FRANK FOARD. Miliedgeville, Jan 23, 1870. 20 Cm ssa GPa STAND FROM UNDER!!! If you want Good bargains for the Cash, call at the Store of C. IF. Gause <$• Co., "IXTHBEE you will find Goods, consisting of every- TT thing usually kept in a first class Family Gro cery Store, as cheap as the cheapest and as good as the best, and all we ask is a trial to convince any of our friends ami the public generally of the fact. Store on east side of Wayne street. C- W. GAUSE & CO. Miliedgeville, Nov 28, 1870. 18 tf A T the Family Grocery Store of T A Caraker. Agt. CORN! PEAS and any other kind of pro duce, also, DRY AND GREEN HIDES, for which the highest market price will be paid in trade or raonoy. Miliedgeville. Jan 7, 1871. 20 Jm Flour! Flour! Take it down, brave hearts—like a hope that is fled, Some beautiful hope in Life's heaven— Ablaze for u time—still bright as it sped Down—down like a meteor at even. Ah ! so fei! my own—my own bright evening star ; I miss its soft light from my sky, Aud the mother's lone wail,reaches up—how far— To the ear that is listening on high: The stain that empurpled niy boy’s sunny hair I- more potent than Tyranny’s sword, And Right over Might shall yet rend the air, For “ Vengeance is mine saitL the Lord.’’ Take it down, fori it, boys—in the beauty of trust— Lay it down with the martyr’d dead; Lay it down ; fold it ’round, in its owu hallowed dust, 'Tis the sign, not the sou! that has tied, Fruition of ali, for which ye have striven, May spring from the woes of to-day; The meed of unrest, to tyranny given, Wil 1 rend from the spoiler his prey; J Wolves have their strife, in forest aud lair. Anitas Anarch sped fast on his course, A right arm, unseen, ready poised in the air, Struck down botli the rider and horse. WHAT A GEORGIA WOMAN IS DOING. The following, which we clip from Our Society, shows what a Georgia woman is capable of accom plishing. Mrs. Tucker want to New Y'ork in strait ened circumstances, but determined to work her way to a competence and wiu honorable fame.— We are pleased to hear of her extraordinary and complete sncce,ss : Mrs. Mary E. Tucker, the sweet poetess, whose name is now so familiar to the American public, is one of the most industrious of our American jour- nalists During the last year she contributed to the New York press one hundred and forty fashion articles, twenty live poems, fifteen sketches, and wrote twenty letters for country papers, besides various journalistic notes and items in various fashion departments. Mrs. Tucker has also a large purchasing business, giving employment to sever al assistants. The correspondence connected with tins business has made it necessary for her to an swer over2,000 letters and purchase $10,000 worth of goods, within the last six months mostly dry goods, fancy articles and jewelry. For the next ye-ar she has engaged to contribute one article weekly to tbe New York Itcikly, to supply the fashion articles aud poein3 for Pomeroy’s Democrat and write the “Notes for Buyers ” tor tiie New York Daily Democrat. She contributes, besides, to Bonner s Ledger, and occasionally to the New York Leader. The readers of Packard's Monthly well remember her beautiful poems, “ The One,” and “A Woman's Prayer,” and an essay of re markable power aud grace, ‘'Am I a Woman’s rights Woman 7” in which she ably advocated the negative side of the Woman s Suffrage question. Among ali her varied contributions to the press she has never penned a line of satire, scandal or •slander. As a lady of the society, she is admired for tbe tact, amiability and grace with which she receives and bestows attention. She is a pretty blonde, with a tender and melancholy expression of countenance, aud gentlemen find her fascinat ing. while she is nniversally beloved by her own sex. IjjP The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated for April, appears in its usual becoming dress, and contains an excellent variety of reading matter with several portraits. We would instance- Misses Nils son and Demorest, with portraits, Henry Burden and Elias P. Needham, two Inventors of the Day; the late Boy Suicides; Edward C. Delavan; Italians in New York-, Tree piaul ing in America, General “Stonewall” Jackson; The Anglo-Saxon Civilization as typified in Alfred the Great; Slavery without a master; Wm. K. Bowling, M. D.; Alice Cary, the poet; Genius and Honesty. A good number. Price 30 cts.; $3 a year. Sent half a year, on trial, for If I. Address S. K. Weils, 389 Broadway, N. Y. J\ J, COISiEKr, Home, Ga., Manufacturer of |the Celebrated COllEN'S FLOUR, Keeps, also, constantly on sale all latest improved Mill ;li : Machinery at manufacturer’s price. Rome, Ga., Feb. 13, 1871. 29 ly The Wyoming papers say that the people of that Territory are about to “abandon woman suffrage as as both mischievous and impracticable.” To test a horse’s eyes, look at the eye carefully when the horse is in a rather dark stable Notice thesize aud shape of the pupil, carrying this care fully to your mind, while you turn the horse about to a strong light. If the pupil coutracts aud ap pears much smaller than in the first instance, you may infer that the horse has a good strong eye ; hut if the pupil remains nearly ot the same sizo in both cases, his eyes are weak, aud you had better Lave nothing to do with him. A French journal, Ln Havre, attributes t ie mishaps and dov. ulall of France to the vice of drunkenness. “Let ub suppress drunkenness,” says a writer in (fiat paper, “by visiting with the most sever-* penalties tile drunkards and those who furnish them with liquor. Let us take all possible menus to repress them, and we shall Bee a notable change in the tendencies ot the day. The nation, now troubled and unhinged, will be led back to the habits of modesty, industry, order, moral ity and discipline, lost by it amid the unwholesome fumes of tiie taverns. Let us seek practical means to lepress this vice.” From the Montgomery Advertiser, 14th. STATU INSANE VSVM H. Wa have glanced over the pages of the 10th An nual Report of the Alabama Insane Hospital with great and increasing interest in its contents Dr. Reuben Searcy is President of the Board of Trus tees. and Dr P. Bryce is the Superintendent aud Physician of the Institution. His Associate and Assistant is Dr. John Little; Mr. E. L. Clarkson is the Steward ; Hon. W. Moody is the Treasurer; and Mrs. H. Woodall is the Matron. The report, by the accomplished Dr. Bryce, is addressed to the Board of Trustees, and is both full aud appa rently accurate in all of its statistical statements. In the course of his report he mentions the assist ant physician, tbe steward and the matron iu com plimentary terms, for the satisfactory manner in which they have discharged their important dn- tics Besides referring to hospital affairs, and to the treatment of the insane patients under his care, Dr. Bryce also discusses at much length the prac ticability aud usefnluess of establishing iu con nection with the hospital, a reformatory ter inebri ates. He maintains that Mclhomania is a species of insanity or brain disease, aud he insists with an almost unanswerable argument, that it is both the policy and duty of the State, to provide for the support and sanitary care of such persons as of others afflicted by other forms of mental or moral insanity. He examined the subject, both in its moral and financial aspocts, amj arrives at the couelvmou that Alabama would save thousands of dollars yearly in saving the health and bodily vig or of her population by suppressing the effects of inebrity on procreation, when assuming the char acter of Methomania. He refers hribfly to the work and productions, the religious exercises and the amusements of insane patients. The tables in the appendix of the report contain perhaps its most valuable matter. One of the ta bles describes tbe causes predisposing to insanity. We observe that not quite two-thirds of the cases consist of inherited insanity. The next larger number became insane by injuries received affect ing the structure of the brain or its tissues. It would appear from another of these tables that more persons become insane who havo no educa tion than those who have either a “ liberal” or “gaod” education. Another table shows the period in human life when lurking insanity is apt to de velop itself, and the period when the danger be gins to decrease uuti) it finally disappears. It would appear that the ten years of life between thirty and forty is most apt to exhibit insane man ifestations. Of course we have no time nor space for au elaborate notice of this exceedingly inter esting report; but Dr. Bryce conclusively shows that the Insane Hospital at Tuscaloosa is a valua ble State Institution, and should bo fostered by liberal legislation. Violins were invented in 1477. No great man had a fashionable mother. The spinning-wheel was invented in 11430. Dio Lewis says most men prefer little wives. Roses were first planted in England in 1505. New Y'ork critics have iouud out that Booth is no actor. Punctuation marks were first used in literature in 1520. An Ohio Prodigy.—Ohio is bragging over a man with wonderful memory. He is fifty-three years of age, illiterate and neatly blind, but be remembers the occurrences of every day since January 1, 1827, when be was nine years old.— Mention any date to him, in the last forty-four years, and he tells you instantly what day of the week it was, what sort of weather prevai.ed, and what he was working at and conversed about-— A gentleman who proposed a test provided him self with ajournal for forty-five years, and after several severe cross examinations proved the Ohio man to be correct invariably. jury was sworn, airer a lew very seusible and pertinent remarks of Judge Gonder ; but there being no cases for trial at this, the first term of the Court, an adjournment took place to the April term. The members of the Sanders- ville bar were extremely busy at their offices—this being their “ return day” for the approaching Superior Court of Washington county. We shall return this afternoon to Tennille and go thence homeward. We were surprised to find along the road from Tennille an oak and hickory forest. We were near the border of the geological formation termed by geol ogists the “Primary,” as you are at Miliedgeville. A short distance to the South of us, we understand the Ter tiary formation sets iu, extending thence to the seaboard, and covered with the magnificent yellow piue (Pi- nus palustris) so inestimably va uable for lumber. As a singular, and we believe excep tional feature in the geology of this re gion, we were informed that a stratum of limestone exists hereabout, and our landlady at the hotel has been kind enough to present us with a specimen. On a very slight examination, we judge it to belong to the Cretacious group, and to be of the series mentioned by Sir Charles Lyell in hi.s travels in the United States, as found by him in a similar latitude iu Alabama, containing ammonites, baculites and other char acteristic fossils. Organic remains are visible in the specimen before us ; but we cannot now determine their pre cise character. We are impressed with the idea that this lime, in the form, doubtless of a carbonate, would prove a fertilizer to the adjacent lands, and thus save an immense annual outlay for guanos and other imported fertili zers, whose odor we frequently en countered on meeting wagons on the road from Tennille hither. We found the Botanical interest of this region in a charming state of devel- | opmeut. Everywhere the Gclsemium j — the native yellow jasmine—spread its golden flowers, and diffused its grateful fragrance. The white flowers of the Cornus Florida flashed here and there iu the forest; a species of the Baptisia stood by the roadside exhibit ing buds soon to burst into flowers ; that fine oak which botanists dignify with the learned name of the Quercus nigra exhibited its flowers and half- grown leaves ; and the rich lilac-color ed racemes of the Wistaria, in full bloom, ofiered themselves to the mock ing bird as a fit perch while he trilled his enchanting song. Sandersville is a handsome town of probably 1000 or 1500 inhabitants.— We are particularly impressed with the commodious and handsome Court House, as also of the Masonic Hall.— We have not had time to explore the place ; and we must leave on our re turn homeward in a few minutes. We have had the pleasure of meeting here, Col. Warthen, a lawyer and a graduate of our Oglethorpe University; also with Mr. Gilmore, the proprietor, and our friend J. M. G. Mediock the editor of that handsome journal “The Central Georgian.” We were pleased to learn that in this region the journalist’s path is not devoid of the substantial rewards which such laborers for the public good usually deserve, and do not always get. “The Central Georgian” is certainly a handsome and well conducted news paper. The county of Washington is one of the most populous and flourishing in Georgia—thenumber of inhabitants by the census of 1S70 reaching 15,8-12— an increase from 1850 of 4,070. Washington county was established in 17S4 and included a part, or the whole of the present territory of Greene, Hancock, Baldwin and Lau rens. It embraces at present an area of 1441 square miles. Sandersville is situated near the centre of the county, 4S0 feet above tide water, in a most healthful and delightful climate. It became the Seat of Justice of this county in 1790 and was incorporated in 1S12. Bufcour Jehu is at the hotel door, and we must journey. W. G M. HI.HOII IN WOMEN. The Atlanta New Era of the 12th, (which, outside of its politics, is a re spectable paper) contains an article headed, “ What *Woineu Cannot Do.’ ” It says “ that women can write novels, but they cannot write humorous poet ry, sharpen a pencil, hold a parasol, or tie a bundle.” We have no com ments to make on the three impossibil ities last enumerated by the Era, and the wonder to our mind is that the writer stopped at “ humorous poetry,” and did not extend his remarks to hu morous prose, aud deny them alto gether the faculties of genuine, natur al, creative humor. Our attention was turned to this subject some years ago, when in feeble health, we read more leisurely than we had done, the plays of Shakspeare. We were satisfied that this immortal genius had souuded all the depths and shallows of humanity ; and outside of revelation, that what he had left un said, did not exist in nature, and would never be known. We found in bis works portraitures of female charac ters drawn in colors of resplendent light, from the amiable Cordelia, whose voice was low and musical, an “ excellent thing in woman," (o the nim ble tongue and sharp temper of Cath arine, the Shrew. We have the fierce and dark ambition of Lady Macbeth, with her maniac night-walk and the smell of blood on her little hands, which all the perfumes ol Arabia could never sweeten, to the youthful and loving Juliet and Desdemona, and the faithful, pious wife, Catharine of Arra- I gon. We see before us the high and ! the low, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, the wise and the foolish, the witty and the severe, tiie princess, with brows circled with gold and flashing diamonds, to the peasant maid, her head crowned with wild flowers—but we never met with a female Falstaff. Jessica and the wise daughter of Shylock, the one sitting on the moon-lit bank and drinking in tne music of Heaven, and the other expounding the law, are there, but we look in vain foraDogbery ora Justice Shallow. Titania is there, with her wood blue and jessamine, but we have none of the “ infinite jests and most excellent humors” of Harry, Prince of Wales. Cleopatra, with a beauty which age could not wither, nor cus tom stale, reveals her queenly charms, but where are the female Bottoms, Snug the Joiner, the Master Simples, in her Egyptian court and in her gold en barge t The the nearest approach to female humor in Shakespeare in the two char acters, Mrs. Ford aud Mrs. Page, in the Merry Wives of Windsor. When analyzed, their humor is nothing but a practical joke. Nothing is more con clusive to our mind that the. failure in this instance, was caused by an impos sibility in the subject. Sweetest Will wrote, at the suggestion of the imper ial commands of a haughty queen, and against the grain. He could find no counterpart for a female humorist in nature, and consequently even his mighty genius broke down under the imposed royal load. After no little observation, reading and experience, we have never found MR. 8 I’M NEK’S SUCCESSOR. Tho Portland Advertiser (Republi cau) says : “On the records of the House of Representatives may still be read the following resolution passed on the 30th of April, 1862, three months after Mr Cameron resigned his seat in the Cabinet: Resolved, That Simon Cameron, late Secretary of War, by investing Alex ander Cummings with the control of large sums of public money and au thority to purchase military supplies without restriction, without requiring from him any guaranty for the faith ful performance of his duties, when the services of competent public officers were available, and by involving the government in a vast number of con tracts with persons not legitimately engaged in the business pertaining to tbe subject matter of such contracts especially in the purchase of arms for future delivery, has adopted a policy THE MITRAILLEUSE A CONFEDER ATE INVENTION. One night during the month of No vember, 1864, General Breckenridge, Duke, and Colston, *met at Lynch burg, Virginia, to hold a consultation about the expected attack of the ene my on the Lead Mines, in south-west Virginia. The conference broke up up about 2 o’clock in the morning, and learning that Gen. Humphrey Marshal was at the hotel, it was proposed to have a supper prepared and invite the General for the pleasure of hearing him talk, for which he is gifted as few oth er men are. The supper was announc ed ; the guests took their seats, and very soon the conversation turned on the war, and the different campaigns in the valley. At a suitable pause in the conversation an officer said to Gen. Marshal: “ Sir, I desire to ask you a question. I hope you will not deem it imperti nent, for I do not so intend it, but I really ask for information. Is it really 1 highly injurious to tbe public service true that the Union women stole your and deserves the censure of the House artillery on your last trip into Ken- j This resolution passed a body at tucky V ! that time almost two-thirds Republi The General quietly laid aside his jean, by the decisive vote of 79 to 45, knife and fork, and drawing himself up ana this is the man who is put forward in an inquiring and dignified attitude, ; to supplant Mr. Sumner as chairman of to discover if the inquiry had really the most important committee of the been made in earnest, commenced. Senate. This proceeding, it is perfect Every one at the table ceased to speak ly understood, is dictated by the Pres and all gav-; their strict attention, ident, who unquestionably has made a Said he : great mistake.” “ Young man, you are just entering - - upon life, I am going off, aud can there-, Luther and the Germany of to fore give you some sound advice, day.—It will be remembered that which, if you will heed, may be of use Luther had by “the profoundly learn- to you. It is this: stop a lie! Stop ed lady, Catharine Luther, his graci- it in time, sir, or it will ruin you ; for ous housewife,” whom he valued be assured your destiny in this world “ above the kingdom of France or the depends more on what people say of State of Venice,” six children. The you than on what you do or really are. eighth generation of his descendants Now, sir, as I see you are really desir- ; was represented, in the male line, by ous to be enlightened, I will give you 1 Joseph Carl Luther alone. This Jo- the facts connected with that lie. I seph had seven children, of whom all had arranged a campaign for Ken- I except two daughters, Maria and Eliz tucky, and had decided to take no ar- jabeth, were in 1867 living in Halle or tillery, as the road I expected to follow vicinity. None of them were at all rendered it impossible. A short time distinguished, and nobody in Eisleben previous to this there came a fellow j or anywhere else knew anything eon- here with an old gun which he wanted j cernirig them beyond the simple fact me to adopt. I examined it, and did not think it would be of any service for the following reasons. (And here he went into a very interesting des cription of this gun, for Gen. Marshal is one of a few who can digress from an interesting narrative and be so en tertaining that you do not grow impa tient for him to return.) This fellow got to playing cards with my men, and of course lost all his money, and the upshot was that he had to borrow two hundred and fifty dollars from old Col. Tom Johnson to pay his expenses to Richmond. He left the gun as collat eral with “old Tom,” and when I was about to start to Kentucky he came to me and proposed, if I would furnish a file of men he would furnish the horses and carry it along on his own responsibility. Accordingly, I detail ed Sergeant Lail aud ten men to report to Col. Johnson, and thought no more of the matter. When I got to where what is kuown as the Rebel Path, di verges from the main road, Sergeant Lail could follow no longer, aud he was accordingly instructed to keep the main road, and rejoin me at Pike- ton. The first night after he left me that there is such a curiosity in the world as a female humorist, in verse or ! he put up at a house occupied by the prose. Humor, says Webster, is that! wives of some of Patrick’s bushwhack- quality ot the imagination, which j ers, and while he slept the women gives to ideas a wild turn, and tends ! stole all of his ammunition. The next to excite laughter by ludicrous im- Right they unlimbered the gun and ages. It kills more by a side wind ! stole that also; and the third day he than the point of the weapon. Our Washington Irving and the Spaniard Cervantes were humorists—Sydney that they existed. “ Sense becomes nonsense, welfare a plague; alas for thee that thou art a grandson!” says Goethe. The memory of the mighty monk is not cherished as it deserves, either by the Prussian government or by the German people. Not in all the city of Eisleben, with its two daily newspa pers, could I find a photograph of the Reformer, and it was with difficulty that I discovered in an obscure Buch- handlung one of his house. The stone step of his humble dwelling is little worn now by the tread of reverent pilgrims, aud the cobwebs stretch athwart the stairs. Germany has erect ed a few statues in honor of genius— ro Guttenburg, Faust and Jchoffer, to Goethe and Schiller; but most of its statues are in apotheosis of sashed and ribboned idiocy, bestriding the horse which the Germans, of all men, sit most ill, and only great “ by the grace of God” or the titular additions THAT ROME Ht'.KLtX. The Mntler fEiplaiarl—G«mn*r Hallo*I* Par* 87,000 on a twinlle., of flunkeyism. France writes on hei* * n g them as the ones worn by the par- rejoin my com- Napoleon’s Flower.—The violet is the emblematic flower of the Bona- partes, as the lily is of the Bourbons. When Eugenie agreed to accept Napo leon’s offer of marriage, she expressed it only by appearing one evening dress ed in an exquisite violet tiolet—violets in her hair aud dress, even to a bunch iu her hand. Louis Napoleon under stood. Napoleon the first, while con sul selected this as his llower. It was through Josephine asking him to bring her a bouquet of them on her birthday —a desire he was only able to serve after great difficulty. He cultivated them while a prisoner at St. Helena ; and they were profusely plained over the grave of Josephine. After his death, his coffin was covered with the humble flowers be loved. It is even said that in the earlier days of Louis Napoleon he was silently told who his friends were by a cautious display ol violets. New land is excellent for turnips; so is any vegetable mold, sod included and the ashes of the sod best of ail, says an eminent authority. Smith and Swift were wits. Mark Twain is a humorist—the late and present editors of the Courier-Journal were and are wirs. We have seen women witty— wise and winsome ; foolish, funny and frolicsome ; sad, solemn and sarcastic ; vain, virtuous and vicious ; proud, punctillious and pusillanimous: but never saw we a humorous female.— They may laugh at the fun of others and be the cause of fun in themselves, but they i ever create that mental something which makes you, against the will, hold your sides- They ei ther overshoot the mark, which ends in ridicule, or the arrow, winged and blunted by a too downy feather and came driving up to mand with only the fore wheels of the gun carriage. I thought it a gaod joke on old Tom Johnson, and laughed at him about having as security for his two hundred and fifty dollars the fore wheels of an old gun. The next day I heard the boys laugh ing about the “ women stealing all of our art liery ;” and after a little while the members of my staff took it up and said, “ General, this will be a good joke on us when we get back.” “ I had not been long in Abingdon, after my return, before I got several remarkable statement to Mr. George letters of condolence from my friends. \ Ripley, respecting affairs in this coun- The next thing was a letter from Jeff j try. ‘Assure as the Lord reigns,’ Davis, stating, “that he regretted my said he, ‘you are rushing down to hell misfortune, but added he had expected ! with desperate velocity. The scum better things from me as a soldier;” j of the world has got possession of your and the next thing was an order per- j country, and nothing can save you a leaden point, falls short of its aim, j emptorily removing me from the com- j from the devil’s clutches. Not, per- and amounts only to exaggerated imi-1 mand of my department; ami all on j naps, cried he, raising his voice to its account of a d—d old gun, sir, that I July column the names of all her im mortals ; Italy fashions from the im perishable marble, with the long pa tience of centuries, and places in her Pantheon at Milan, the shapes of all her illustrious sons; but Germany, which is full of bronze kings who in their generation were tyrannic idiots, plants no worthy statute to Humboldt or Luther or Bethoven, princes of sci ence, of religion and music in all our Christian world. Peaceful as she is, in all practical matters, Germany is the youngest of all civilized peoples, and like a young girl, her imagination runs on military brass and spangles.—From Student Rambles in Prussia, in the April number of Lippincott's Magazine. The New York World, cites from Thomas Carlyle the following emphat ic prophecy : “Thomas Carlyle, of Scotland, a short time since, made the following The Atlanta Constitution of tho 16th contains the following bit of most ex traordinary news : “A HUGE HAUL. Yesterday Governor Bullock gave a warrant to James S. Wyatt for seven thousand dollars for the apprehension of Wm. N. Keeley, James Epps, and John Parton, claimed to be marauders, whose apprehension was advertised by Executive proclamation dated the 15th February, 1871. This is, as we understand, that Rome case that the Rome papers denounce so much. Will our Rome contemporaries please take this matter in hand and ventilate it ?” In answer to the request of The Constitution, we have to give the fol lowing statement of facts : During the sitting of the last term ot the Chattooga Superior Court, three men wearing a calico disguise, went to the house of a gentleman nam ed John H. Hutchings, residing in Chattooga county, with the evident purpose of robbing him, as it was known that a considerable amount of money had been paid to him a few days before. Fortunately, Mr. Hutch ings happened to be awake when the rogues made their appearance, and he being a good old reb, and no ways loth to take hand in shooting when it was to be done, which fact these rascals well knew, they wisely concluded to change their intentions, and instead of demanding hi3 money, they called for whisky. Mr. Hutchings, wishiug to inveigle them into a betrayal of their identity, broug t out his whiskyjug and the exploiters soon became familiar nder its jolly iulluence, and in an un guarded moment, raised their masks and revealed to Mr. Hutchings the faces of three men of notoriously bad character, who had been in the Union army, and were dropped in the coun try after the war. After leaving the house of Mr. Hutchings, the robbers visited several negro houses in the neighborhood aud committed a number of petty robber ies upon the unoffending and frighten ed negroes. The next day Mr. Hutchings pre sented the matter to the Grand Jury, theu in session, and a true bill was fouud against the parties. A warrant for their arrest was issued aud placed the hands of .James S. Wyatt, who was in attendance upon the court as Deputy Sheriff. Mr. Wyatt in accor dance with his siatple duty as an offi cer, for which he was paid the lawful fees, proceeded to make the arrest.— In doing so he found on their premises the disguises woru by the robbers upon tbe night in question. The parties were immediately put pon trial. The lobbed negroes iden tifying the masks found upon the premi ses of the rogues as those woru by the robbers, and Mr. Hutchings identify- tation. In this way they overdo na ture so abominably, that while the groundlings iaugh, the judicious only stare and grieve and pity. No woman ever will, has, or can, write such a book as Don Qujxote, Knickerbocker’s History of New York, or portray a character like Falstaff or Bully Pistol. They can touch with the magic wand of genius the fountain of tears and the eyes will weep big drops of sadness and bitterness, which would not stain an angel cheek. They may cause a sigh as deep as the Moor when driven from Granada by the Spanish chivalry. They may adorn story and song, and catch the spirit of philosophy, law, language, letters, and give utterance to the inspirations of the historic muse, but never have, will, or can they write a sustained, original, humorous work near equal to many ancient and modem classical productions. Humor comes, like hon est Dogberry’s reading and writing,by nature. It may be educated when created. For a purpose, like the wis dom of God, “past fiuding out,” He never has made a female humorist. If He has, will some reader give us her name, nation and pedigree ? and we will stand wisely corrected. fColumbus Sun. The first Spring dress has appeared on the avenue, in New York. It was gray and white striped silk. The first Spring dress in Terre Hante, Ind„ was of blue calico with white spots, and the woman was barefooted. 50 post country, and the uinuber steadily increases. sir, had no more to do with than you have with one of your men’s six shooters.” The gun referred to above is the fa mous Mitrailleuse. The Confederate officer referred to sold his patent to a Frenchman and he introduced it iuto France. Confederate. A Wait from New England. The Springfield Republican (Radical) has tbe following: The political situation as now existing at Wash ington is indeed a gloomy one for the present ad ministration. With the worst management in the world, the Democrats have a fair chance of success in next year’s Presidential contest. They are like ly to carry every Southern 8tate, except Florida, South Caroliua aud Mississippi and they may car ry two of those. They are sure of New York, and have a fair chance iu Peuusylvania and Indiana, New Jersey. Missouri, Connecticut, aud three or four other States. Ten electoral votes will proba bly decide tbe contest, and the result in a dozen Congressional districts may determine the majority ill the House. These things crave wary walking, and will cot bear such a wilful, blundering, hit-or miss policy as the President and his friends have adopted this winter. All over the country there is disappointment and distrust at tbe mistakes ol the adiriiuistiatiou, and nowhere a brilliant suc cess or an unquestionable record. Our reduced expenditure and rapid payment of the debt will count for little if the President rebuffs tbe men who have made economy possible, and maintains in office such rings as those that have bean plun dering the New York Custom House, and the In dian Department, and mean to fill their pockets out of tbe San Domiugo annexation and tbe Ala bama claims. Revenue reform gains ground eve ry day, end the popular dissatisfaction with tbe Pennsylvania coal and iron monopolists will not be removed by anything that the President has dons or seems likely to do. Southern reconstruc tion satisfies neither party and tbe administration seems to have no remedy to propose. The Sau I)o mingo quarrel has assumed proportions oat of all reason, when the present value of tbe island aud the public indifference to annexation is considered. These and a dozon other caoaes of contention are on hand, and to these the obstinate Mr. Urant proposes to add a quarrel in which be is wholly wrong, and in which success will be worse for him than a failure. If this is statesmanship the less we havo of it tbe better. shrillest notes, ‘a hell burning with material fire and brimstone, but the wide, weltering chaos of corruption in high places and the misrule of the peo ple. A fine republic that.’ Mr. Rip ley adds : ‘Of course 1 could make no reply to the prophetic sounds so full of woe.” Ilow to be Pretty.—Mrs. Greeley advises young women, in a practical way, how they may preserve their health, and have red cheeks without the aid of rauge. Her words are :— “Too many young girls sit moping within doors, over some trivial and worthless bit of fancy work when they should be seeking vigor, elasticity and happiness from the life-giving influence of wood aud meadow, breeze and sun shine.” Blaine, tbe Speaker who wanted to ' punch Butler’s head, is thus described by a Radical admirer: He, Mr. Blaine, is of a tall, commanding figure and imposing presence. He has a clear dark eye, stiff grizzled hair, thick beard, and a lace indicative of force and reso lution. In manner, be is dignified and courteous, in action quick and firm, while in repartee he is wonderfully bright and ready. His voice is loud, sonorous aud distinct, and perfectly audible to the farthest corner of the large ball. He has been in Congress for six terms, and understands the busi ness and rules of tbe House distinctly. —i—hi “Long engagements,” write* a young lady, “are go ing out of tastiion, young men being at last convinced of the stupidity of making matrimonial proposals be fore they are in a position to fulfil their promise at oace." ties who visited his house, of course conviction followed, a'nd the robbers were sentenced by his Honor, Judge Harvey, to seven years imprisonment in the Penitentiary. No one thought iu the least, about Bullock’s Ku-Klux proclamation, or dreamed that he would be such a mis erable fool as to order its payment to the deputy Sheriff for making the ar rest ; and when we read the paragraph m The Constitution, calling our atten tion to the tact of his paying seven thousand dollars for the arrest of the parties, we must coufess that we were utterly confounded at this exhibition of the Governor’s reckless and crimi nal extravagance. We have not the patience to com ment upon it. It is one to those acts of infamy that is beyond the province of patient discussion. We can only give the facts aud let the outraged peo ple of the State do the cursing. [Rome Courier. The Trade in Homan Hair. Unless there is a considerable change in fashionable head dresses, the peas ant girls of Southern Europe will soon be bald headed, particularly those who are so unfortunate as to be blondes.— A late essayist declares that the twen ty-two thousand pounds of human hair imported into England during the year 1^68 represented the clip of for ty-five thousand women. It came from the communities of sisterhoods in France and Bulgium. Even if the pious sisters were to give their undi vided attention to the production of hair for the profane votaries of fashion it is obvious they could not produce such a crop annually. The value of a first-class nunnery in which each head grows a half pound marketable chignon a year could hardly be over estimated. It would he a grander speculation than the famous Verona Minkery. But whatever golden an ticipations any one may entertain re specting this enterprise, they are like ly to come to naught, especially since it is announced that a H’euglish ’air maker has taken out a patent for man ufacturing human hair from the hair of a goat. The experiment has been so successful that he challenges auy one to distinguish the imitation from the genuine article. This is welcome news for those who have a prejudice against feeding their seal dr to jude bugs, but it will, we fear, prove a lit tle rough ou the billy goats. Who will start an American Goatery for ca- pilliary purposes ? Le Havre, a French journal, allows one ot its writers to attribute the re cent disasters and downfall of the prevalence of drunkenness among them, and to urge the repression of in temperance by stringent penalties. A recently wedded pair in New York received as preceuta four, pUoo#. _ A* ■

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Federal union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1865-1872, March 28, 1871, Image 1