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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XL!.] Ij t Jf c b c r a 1 \\\ o n, 18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY MILLKDGEVILLE, GA., M ILL EDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, BOUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE, (Corner of Ilancock and Wilkinson Streets,) At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year. S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor. ADVERTISING. Transient.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for first insertion, and seventy-five cents far each subse quent continuance. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit- uarios exceeding six lines, Nominationsfor office,Com- muuications or Editorial notices for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriff ’e Sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, $‘2 50 “ Mortgage fi fa sales, per square, 500 Citations for Letters of Administration, 3 00 Guardianship, 3 00 Application for dismission from Administration, 3 00 “ “ “ “ Guardianship, 3 uo “ “ leave to sell Land, 5 00 “ for Homesteads, 1 75 Notice to Debtors and Creditors,.. 3 00 Sales ot Laud, &c., per square 5 00 “ perishable property, 10 days, per square,.. 1 50 Estray Notices, 30 days, 3 00 Foreclosure of Mortgage, per sq-, each time, J 00 Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,).... 1 75 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land, Szc., 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 iu the afternoon, at the Court Hom e in the County in which tiie property is situated Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga- setie JO days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. Notices to the debtors and creditors of an estate must also be published 10 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court ot 0 unary for leave to sell Land, Ace., must be publish ed lot two months. Citations for letters ot Administration, Guardianship, must be published 30 Jays—for dismission from Administration monthly three months—for dismission troin Guardianship, 10 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish ed monthly for four months—for establishing lost pa pers tor the full space of three months—for oompell- lea from Executors or Administrators, where bund ias beengiven by thedeceased,the full spaceof three mouths. Publications will always becontinned according to tin-.-'', tiieiegal requirements, nnlessotherwise ordered. Book and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS ©EE ICE. LOOK ALOFT. Take the trials God has sent yon, Smooth the wrinkles from your brow, Half the troubles that oppress you M alter not a week from now— It you know not hdw to bear them, Ask Him ; lie will tell you how. He not troubled, over-careful, Lest the motes dim duty's light, And in looking after trifles, Graver things-pass out of sight, And in cleaning household vessels. Fail to keep your own heart bright. What if childish hands are busy Strewing flowers or tracking clay Over floors just scoured so nicely ? Little foot-prints wash away ; Stains and tracks of merry children Are not sins—ah, let them play! True, your husband likes tilings tidy, l!ut he likes all cheerful, too; He forgives a slight confusion, Squares it with a smile from you, Then a spicy bit of gossip Makes him feel as good as new-. Men, though wanting all things cozy, Don’t object to tiash and noise— Hearing echoes of their childhood, In the creaky boots of boys, And I think they like the music Of their noisy drums and toys- SIv own husband, heaven bless him ! When 1 work with might and main. Washing, sweeping, dusting, scouring, Doorstep, floor, and window-pane, Bibs me “Stop an i take things easy; Clear the dust off your brain.” JACK. AND THE LADY, The following story is quite roman tic, and founded on circumstances that will not by any means warrant every youth’s watching for a fortune in just the,way described. One has opportu nities to be courteous, however, every day, and nothing is lost by it : A sailor roughly dressed was stroll ing through thestreets ofNew Orleans, then in rather a damp condition, from recent rain and rise of tide. Turning the corner of a much frequented and narrow alley, he observed a young lady standing in perplexity apparently meas uring the depth ot the muddy water between her and the sidewalk, with no very satisfied countenance. The sailor paused, for he was a great admirer of beauty, and the fair face that peeped out from under the little chip hat might tempt an admiring glance. Perplexed, the lady put forth one little loot, when the gallant sailor, with impulsiveness, exclaimed : “That pretty foot, lady should not be soiled with the filth of the land ; wait lor a moment only, and I will make you a path.” So springing past her into a carpen ters shop opposite, he bargained lor a plank board that stood in the door way, and coming back to the smiling girl, who was just coquetish enough to accept the services of the handsome vouttg sailor, he bridged the narrow black stream, and she tripped across, with a merry “ thank you,” and a ro guish smile. Alas ! our young sailor was perfect ly charmed. What else would make him catch and shoulder the pLnk and follow the little ' witch through the streets to her home. She twice per formed the ceremony of walking the plank, and each time thanked him with one of her pretty smiles. Presently our hero saw the young lady trip up the steps of a palace of a house, and disappear within its rose wood entrance. For a lull minute he stood looking at the door, and then, with a big sigh, turned away, disposed of his draw-bridge, and went back to his ship. The next day he received notice ol promotion from the captain. Poor Jack was speechless with amazement. He had not dreamed of being exalted to the dignity of second mate’s office on board one of the most splendid ships that sailed out of the port of New Or leans. lie knew he was competent; for instead of spending his money for amusement, visiting theatres and bow ling alleys on bis return from sea, lie purchased books, and had become quite a student, but he expected years to in tervene before bis ambitious hopes would be realized. His superior officers favored him and gave him opportunities to gather nautical knowledge, and in a year the gentlemanly young mate had acquired unusual favor in the eyes of the portly commander, Capt. Hume, who bad first taken the smart little black-eyed fellow, as the cabin boy. One night the young man, with all the other officers, was invited to an entertainment at the captain’s house. He went, and, to his astonishment, mounted the same steps that, two years before, the young lady had pass ed over—a vision he had never forgot ten. Thump, thump, went his brave heart as he was ushered into the parlor and like a sledge hammer it beat again when Capt. Hume brought forward his daughter, and with a pleasant smile, said, “ This young lady was once in debted to your kindness for a safe anti dry walk home.” IIis brown cheeks flushed hotly as the captain sauntered away, leaving Grace at his side And in all that as sembly was not so handsome a couple as the gallant sailor aud the “pretty ladie.” It was only a year from that time that the second mate trod the quarter deck, second only in command, and part owner with ti e captain, not only in his LETTER FROM SERGEANT BATES, i His March from Vicksburg to Washing ton— The “ League" and the “ Flag" —Holden's Offer of $10,000 if the Sergeant will Abandon the March in “ Disgust"—Bribery and Threats of Assassination. Indianapolis, Ind., March 27, 1S71. Editors Sentinel: Dear Sirs : In the report of the Sen ate Committee, of March 10th, on po litical outrages, they assert, in regard to the Union League at the South, that “its purposes were publicly avo\ved, that it held public meetings and pro cessions, in which its members appear ed and acknowledged their connection With it; that no violence was either direct ed or countenanced by the League.” Allow me to give you some facts in regard to the Union League South in connection with my tour with the Uni ted States flag through the late Con federacy. Not wishing to trouble you with a very long communication, I iutuiiia not uuiy I "ill i • p *ii , , , - A a. A will be as brief as possib e. vessel, out in the affections of T i j 1 , , . • , i , tiit i ; i After I had commenced the march his daughter, who had always cherish- f TT . , , , , f ed respect for tire bright-eyed sailor. from V.cksburg aod before getting out His very homely hut earnest act of Mississippi, I made the discovery politeness towards bis childbed pleased I , tl, , a 1 b f 1 “S b >' * res P e ® the captain, aud though the youtn From th<> Savannah Morning News. TIK E HEROISM. Thone iehom the Gods love die y iimg. How much is contained in one little paragraph, such as the terrible an nouncement : “Washed from the deck of the Europa in the terrific gale on the night of the 4th, the Captain, First and Third Officers.” How many heart histories are buried in the foam ing sea; how many hearts crushed and broken, and lives blighted and made desolate by such a simple sen tence as the above. God help those whose dear ones are at sea. “ How few understand all the self-sacrifice of those who have staked their all of happiness and fortune and dependence on this perilous and responsible pro fession.” When circumstances rendered it ne cessary for me to cross the ocean again and again, knowing all the comfort of the “Anchor Line,” the kindness and bravery of its officers, the pleasant, roomy staterooms and airy saloons, so much to be preferred to the densely crowded Canard and Inman Steam ships, with all their speed, (and espe cially by invalids who need all the comfort possible.) I wrote to secure passage in the favorite and best steam- knevv it not, was the cause of his first promotion. So that now the old man had retired from business, Henry Wells is Captain, and Grace Hume is, ac cording to polite parlance, “Mrs. Capt. Wells.” In fact, the honest sailor is one of the richest men in the Crescent City, and he owes in part his prosper ity to his politeness in crossing the street. From this Would to the Other. —We start in life an unbroken com pany ; brothers and sisters, friends and lovers, neighbors and comrades, are with us : there is circle within circle, and each of us is at the charmed cen tre where the heart’s affections are aglow, and whence they radiate out ward upon society. Youth is exuber ant with joy and hope, the earth looks fair, for it sparkles with May dews yet, and no shadow hath fallen upon it.— We are all here and could live forever. The home centre is on the hither side of the river, and why should vve strain our eyes to look beyond. But this state of things does not continue long. Our circle grows less and less. It is broken and then closes up again ; but every break and close makes it nar rower and smaller. Perhaps before the sun is at his meridian the majority are on the other side ; the circle there is as large as the one here, and we are drawn contra wise, and vibrate between two. A little longer, and we have al most crossed over; the balance settles down on the spiritual side, and the home centre is removed to the upper sphere. At length you see nothing but an aged pilgrim standing alone on the river’s brink, and looking earnestly towards the country on the other side. In the morning, that large and goodly compauy, rejoicing together with mu sic and wine ; in the evening dwindled down to that solitary old man, the last of his family, and the last of his gen eration, waiting to go home, and filled with pensive memories of the long ago ! The Negro as a Political Ele ment.—That the negro was invested with the right to vote that he might decide elections in favor of the Repub lican party is, says the St. Louis Re publican, a fact that cannot bcsuccass- fully denied ; that he failed to do the work for which he was enfranchised is a fact equally palpable, and much more interesting and suggestive. In the election in St. Louis, last Tuesday, the Radical party was reinforced by an ele ment that never appeared in our mu nicipal contests before, aud yet that party was defeated by a majority larger than the strength of the new element. Tiie accession of a body of a thousand or twelve hundred new vo ters to the Radical ranks was attended by the defeat of the party that has managed for eight years to carry our municipal elections without negro aid. It .was the same in Indiana at the last November election in that State; five thousand colored votes were added to the Radical strength, but the Radical party, in spite of this reinforcement, was beaten for the first time in many years. Negroes voted for the first time in New Hampshire at its recent election ; and the fact was atteuded by the defeat of the patty they voted with. Eveu in the South, where the colored population in many districts, and in some whole States, outnumbers the white population, the Radical party has been able to maintain itself only through the artificial and outside aid afi'orded by Federal bayonets and pre scription of its opponents. Our contemporary might have also included the State of Connecticut, which has just re-elected a Democrat ic Governor despite the thirteen or fourteen hundred negroes who went to the polls for the first time. The Northern Radicals are extremely jealous on this question of negro suf frage, but having failed in all their cal culations regarding it, we predict they will be the first to grow indifferent on the subject, if uot actually to make war in behalf of the intelligent suffrage.— Sav. Republican. AriNlocralM doing lo Work. A Warsaw correspondent of the Russian St. Peters burg Gazette says that a great change lias come over the character of the I’oies of late: “The old prejudices wh'cli prevented a nobleman from engaging in indus trial or commercial pursuits have almost entirely dis appeared I have myself seen tiie descendants of old aristocratic families working earlv and late in factories and offices, aud I know an old nobleman who has made his sou apprentice to a baker, and is now abont to help him to set up for himself, without the least anxiety as to what his ancestors would have thought on the sub ject. The care for one's daily bread lias completely humbled the old aristocratic pride and driven it out, from the minds and hearts of the Polish nobility. 1 know a very clever and wealthy land owner of Lithu ania, who collected the remains of his property and founded here in Warsaw a commercial house tinder his own name, which furnishes him and his family with tiie means of living very respectably. Everywhere, and in all classes of society, is to be seen a powerful desire for work and action of a nature to improve the country.” table and intelligent looking negro.— It would extend this communication too discovery that lie was a spy and tool of j j esg \ P) a( j coine to meet me on th India to wish me “ God speed,” and er, the India. My friend, Captain S., , , (of the famous clipper Dreadnought, much to explain how I made the | the Henrietta, and later of the Daunt- the Union League, and was to follow and act under instructions from the League in regard to me—(he was to do me uo harm, but if my object in going through the South was what the directors of the League asserted it to be, I was to be assassinated, unless I would return to my Northern home when learned to do so)—or how and why I made him my friend and arranged with him to take charge of my baggage, meeting me at such points as railroad sitting on deck, I was interested m watching one after another, who re cognizing Capt. S.'s well known face, came to greet him and were introduced by him, when I was strangely attract ed by one of the most striking faces I ever saw. He had on the uniform of the Anehor Line, his face was exceed ingly youthful, but his hair seemed frosted, as if changed by magic; his ' air of quiet dignity and command communication would admit of; howjL eemed to 8t him at once as mas- he assisted me to attend three secret ter> and j said to C t . ,« i; thill k T meetings of the league in disguise and ] see the Captain at last.” at the risk of my life ; how, on two occasions, at Warrenton and Augusta, Ga., he saved me from serious harm aud perhaps death from the skulking blood hounds of the League. If this shall meet the eye of any of the leading citizens of Warrenton it will bring to mind the unusual excite ment among the negroes on the even ing ef my arrival iu their town, and their openly expressed hostility to wards me—a feeling created by the false representations of the leaders of the League, the objdct being to excite the negroes to mob me. Some of the citizens will also bring to mind how strongly they urged me to allow them to guard my hotel during the night for the protection of myself and the flag, and how I successfully opposed their wishes in the matter. But they were not aware that late in the night, after they had retired to rest, for tiie pur pose of gaining information, I disguis ed myself, and with my trusty friend, stole quietly from the houseaud attend ed a negro meeting presided over by two white men, where I heard myself misrepresented by the whites and roundly cursed by the negroes. While in Selma, Ala., an agent of the League called on me and requested an interview, which I granted. His object iq calling was to induce me to become a member of the League. His argument and the inducements offered by him I will pass over (for the pres ent.) While stopping at theEuropean Ho tel, in Montgomery, Ala., 1 was one evening a short time absent from my room ; on returning to it and entering I found a communication which had been thrust under the door daring my absence, and it was from the League, who “ threatened me with certain death unless I furled my flag and re turned to my home, giving up all fur ther efforts in my attempt to deceive the people of the North in regard to the loyalty of the red-handed traitors of the South,” &c., &c. I mentioned the matter to but one person—Gener al JamesClanton, of Montgomery, who urged me to accept of an escort of ex- Confederate soldiers, who would see me and the flag pass safely through Al abama into Georgia. I refused the es cort. At Greensboro’, N. C., I was offered 810,000, which I was to receive, pro vided I would stop the march and go home. I was to do so apparently in disgust, aBd in the interests of the Re publican party. The offer came from Gov. W. W. Holden, of your State.— Although a poor man, nevertheless neither myself nor the flag I carried was for sale. On my way through North Carolina I was informed by num bers of the League that the organiza tion in that State was already power ful and was growing more so at a rap id rate; th&t Governor Holden was at the head of the League, and that they were guided’in all political matters by him. The above are only a few facts of the kind. That same Union League of which the Senate committee said “No violence was either directed or coun tenanced by them” made four attempts to bribe me, and three times threaten ed me with death while on my way with a United States flag from Vicks burg to Washington, it being weli known that I was in the interests of no party, my only object being to prove that the people of the North and South could and should be in the bonds of a friendly union. Allow me to say that 1 am opposed to all secret political or ganizations of whatever character, for I believe them unnecessary and a pub lic evil. I would also say that I can give you further and mere important information in regard to such organiza tions, asserting nothing but what I can [trove, and if acceptable, will do so, willingly, simply irom the tact that I believe it a duty I owe to the public to give publicity to information of the above character which I am possessed of. Very respectfully, Sergeant Cl* H. Bates, “But who is your commander?" he asked, and when I said “ Captain Munro,” he at once replied, “Ah, I am so glad—Captain Munro, of the Hiber nia, the finest Captain afloat; you are fortunate indeed.” Just then he was called, and return ed with Captain Munro. The officer who had so attracted me W2S first officer Davies the hero of the Hibernia, world-renowned for the wonderful bravery and endurance he had evinced in steering his little open boat nine hundred miles to land, whose history thrilled the whole world when re lated by all the leading journals, and splendid testimonials were presented to him on both sides of the Atlantic by those who recognized and appreci ated true heroism! His sufferings and privations had left their seal on his head and frosted it, as if nature herself did uot wish one of her noblest sons to pass by unrecognized. When re quested to do so, he would sometimes relate some of the fearful incidents of that horrible voyage to those who wished r.o hear it from his own lips, butthe thrilling story is so well known I will only dwell on one of its touch ing incidents, that shows his noble, and true character. The first boat was in command of the Captain when they left the sink ing ship, aud was picked up with its liviug freight the next evening by the Star of Hope. I was deeply interest ed in one of its inmates, whose sad fate recently drew forth many a sigh, if not tears, from the hearts of those to whom she administered in their suf ferings, and whose pain she had sooth ed—Miss Adamson, the kind and gen tle stewardess of the Hibernia. She was sustained by the Captain, and when lifted over the Star of Hope was quite insensible. When some one ask ed her, in my presence, if she felt any fear, I will never forget the expression of her face as she calmly answered, “ O no ! we were past fear.” The second boat from the Hibernia was put in charge of first officer Reade. They saw it steering east fly ing the-signal of distress ; it was never heard from again. The 3d was given to Mr. Davies, with thirty souls, among them a poor mother and her little babe. Seven days, weary days, they struggled on, vainly looking for a friendly vessel, measuring out the scanty food, and hoping each moment to sight a vessel. The little child was the brave officer’s special charge, and for it he saved the biscuit and prepared its food and gave it with his own hands, to the child. When its spirit fled and the poor famishing mother clung to the dead infant, refusing to let it leave her arms, the officer begged for the body to consign it to the deep, and had at last to bribe the dying mother with one of the last draughts of water left in the boat. The tenth day had arrived, one after another dying, and the last meal was one sar dine each, the exhausted officer was urged to give way to sleep while the others watched a few moments. He closed his weary eyes only to find him self in the water and the boat upset. Another desperate struggle and he had righted the boat and got in it with the tiiree others he found still clinging to it. No food, no water, still pulling in grim despair, they reached the land on the thirteenth day, and three starv ing, exhausted men tried to crawl up on the beach on which they had spent their last remaining strength to so desperately shove the boat, too weak even to throw into the water the dead body of one of their companions which lay in the bottom of the boat. When our vessel passed the coast, how touchingly our brave officer point ed out the little pile of stones which interrupted their way, over which they were tuo exhausted to step, when the poor fishermen who found them, fed aud warmed them. Again we crossed the Atlantic in the good ship India, and gladly greet ed our kind brave friends Captain Mun ro and first officer Davies. Another tribute had just been paid them and a testimonial from the Cunard Com pany, for their kindness and bravery iu rescuing the “ Siberia.” Few ap preciate the full meaning of such ser vice ; for often those who render them have to give up half their own food to share with the rescued, and the offi cers give up their comforts to them, noble seif-denial from brave hearts! With one other exception, all the familiar faces were gone—transferred to other ships—and the change sad dened me. Miss A. was on the Cam bria, and as we sailed down the lovely Clyde, we passed the poor Cambria, and vainly tried to get a glimpse of Miss A.’s kind face. It was the last voyage she made, when the Cambria followed us shortly afterwards. In a stormy night, one of our best sailors was fatally injured, swept across the deck. He lingered many hours, and our noble hearted first officer so ten derly cared for the poor man, anxious ly watched over him, stood by aud administered to him, with the Doctor, to the last trying moments, and, him self assisted in preparing the body for burial. We were speaking of*the Cambria, and one of our passengers, who had just been to Europe in the Cambria, was relating a touching incident of the voyage, showing the beauty of Capt. Carnagan’s and Miss 'Adamson’s character. A gentleman who came from Edinburgh, was taking his little boy to see his own parents, who had never seen any of their grandchildren, and when within a few 7 days of Glas gow, the little fellow was suddenly taken ill with croup. All were kind to the child, whose mother was so far away ; but the untiring devotion of the Captain and Miss. A., was describ ed as beautiful. When the little one died, the poor father begged that the body might be kept and taken to his own country, to be laid beside his own people. The noble Captain consented, and after Miss A. and others had ar rayed it in the little suit that the fond mother’s loving hands had prepared for the child to wear, when it first met its grandparents, the Captain had it carefully put away and then placed in one of the boats, to be kept until the ship arrived in port. Only a few short weeks afterwards the stately Cambria went down in almost the very spot where this touching incident oc curred, leaving only one survivor. Boon after our voyage Mr. Davis passed his examination for master, and Lis energetic mind would not rest, and while awaiting the command of the steamship the company were prepar ing to give him, he accepted the post of first officer of the Europa, (as he had left the India to pass this examin ation.) In the brief letter he sent just as the Europa was leaving, telling of his success and movements, he ex pressed his feelings of sadness in bid ding adieu to the India and his grief at parting from his friend, and ours, Cap tain Munro, in manly touching words, paying a noble tribute to him. I have stood by in admiration when strangers, visiting the ship, would ear nestly request the privilege of an intro duction to the “ Hero of the Hiber nia” who had endured with so much fortitude the almost superhuman suf ferings of that fearful voyage, and he would come with so much modesty and quiet dignity to accept the homage paid him, aud when his friend. Captain Munro, was near, the Captain would remark, while the beautiful watch with its speaking inscription was being ex amined and admired, “Mr. Davis will never want for bread or assistance with that testimonial in his hand.” The confidence and friendship existing be tween two such men, whom nature had stamped as her own noblemen, were beautiful to witness. And now, alas! comes the sad news that the no ble heart, so ready to sympathize with the troubles of others, has ceased to beat, the ready hand, ever stretched forth to help the suffering and dis tressed, now lies cold and [towerless ; the lithe, active form and energetic brain have been swept into the wild and surging sea, sleeping the dreamless sleep with the countless myriads who are awaiting the Creator’s command to the sea to give up its dead. Mr. Davies was of medium height, fair complexion, fine, regular features, his eye remarkably fine, gray, search ing and penetrating, exceedingly intel lectual. He was extremely well read, notwithstanding the few opportunities he had for reading while engaged in his laborious and responsible profes sion. His watchful eye never seemed to slumber; always at his post, he would not avail himself of the neces sary time allotted him for rest from his arduous and responsible duties; ever foremost in peril, his influence over the men seemed almost magical, and yet he had scarcely attained his twenty-eighth year. What a glorious death for a hero to die at his post, car ried away with the very bridge from which he issued his thrilling com mands. Those who once heard his pleasant voice can never forget its tone, and those whose privilege it was to call him friend will write iu goldeu letters on the pages of memory, that ’“ album of the heart,” the name of the “ Hero of the Hibernia.” With what strange fascination do we follow the weird histories of those who sail over the trackless deep. “ Lost at sea !” how 7 the moan of the billows strikes on the heart, and each wind waits a mournful dirge from over those graves beneath the foaming, surging Sea! Asleep or awake, vve hear the last despairing cry, or see the white faces floating above the water. Ah ! the loved ones of many a fireside sleep in the bosom of the treacherous deep, and how sweet will be the meeting of those whose hearts have yearned long weary years for the sound of the fa miliar footstep which will never come again from across the waters here, on the beautiful strand of the Jasper Sea ! “Break, break, break. At the foot of thy crags, O sea! I would that my tongue could utter Tho thoughts that arise in me! And the stately ships go on To their haven nnder the hill; But O ! for the tonch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still.” Mimoria will not be because there is any mate rial difference between the Northern man and the Southern man, who are bone of one bone and flesh of one flesh and at bottom very much the same, but because an artificial distinction has been raised up inducing the people of the South to judge the people of the North by their vilest representatives and leading the people of the North to judge the people of the South by the iucendiary representations of a vicious and ignorant partisan press. The car pet-bagger, as we have described him, and as the South knows him to be, is no more typical of the thoroughbred, warm-hearted, genial, and generons Yankee of the granite hills than the cartoons of Nast depicting the beast and the bully, who picks his teeth with his bowie-knife and combs his hair with his six-shooter, realize the native Southerner, who may have habits and From the Courier Journal. THE C ARPET-B AGG EIt. Concurrent with Mr. Colfax’s intro duction of the subject—an unpleasant subject, it must be allowed—the news papers of both parties in the North are turning their attention to the car pet-bagger. The history of this eye-sore, its ori gin, rise and progress, its genus and its pedigree, its wanderings, experiences and out-of-the-way belongings, in short, its species, life and adventures would puzzle the united energies of Air. Dar- , . . win, Dr. Agassiz and Mr. George Alfred j notions peculiar to himself, but is hos- Townsend. i pitsblc <ind kindly find incflp&blG of The carpet-bagger is an exceptional brutalism. The people of this coun- bifc of veneering; a bastard piece of j try, North and South, are not bastards furniture, of no use at all, but in every- or mongrels. They come of good body’s way. Sometimes it happens, in blood. Their origin and their antece- fitting up a new house, that a too ined- I dents are pure and noble. They are dlesome maiden aunt of the bride, or a nowhere, as a class, unworthy. They bothering old uncle of the husband ap- ought to be proud of each other, and pears with a clumsy and worthless they ought to respect if they do not book case or side-board, too big for love each other. There is no reason the library, too uncouth for the back for them to hate each other except that parlor, and absolutely unsuited to the which may be found in an artificial dining room, which is presented with pretext which has been fabricated by great earnestness and ceremony as an the party of eternal hate and oppres- heir-loom, and thrust, perforce, upon s * on > the party that draws all its sus- the astouished young couple, who do tenance from the bad passions of the not dare refuse, and yet are quite period and the evil recollections of the aghast at sight of the awkward, worm- P a ®t> the party that created the carpet- eaten, rotten and odorous intruder, full bagger and has given its blessing and of fleas and bed-bugs, and ancient sores support to five years’ of ruthless spoil- arid foul smells to contaminate and allon - disfigure the array of fresh and pretty j The South will gladly welcome the things from the upholsterer. Thus, new comer who will fetch her sonrie- at the close of the war, when the live thing more than a carpet-bag full of and vigorous energies of the South, re- schemes of plunder. The Yankee lieved of the pressure and the pres- ! who comes to us with a hand ready for ence of the armies, were preparing to | tiie plowshare or the loom and the renovate and refit their fabric with beaut of a man beating inside of him ideas and impulses adapted to their j will find no bar across his path. He altered but by no means hopeless con-! l‘ as on ly to go to honest work to make dition, did the Government of the ! h‘ s wa y ; an( l if he be quick, and kind United States, with all the airs of uf-I ail( i courteous he will find a people fection and patronizing self-assertion of the venerable and, withal, power ful relative, enter with a plan for lay ing the carpets and placing the furni ture wholly foreign to the wants aud notions of those directly interested. The more urgent the objection, how ever, the more positive the command, and, it being ruin to disobey, the un happy dependents had to submit and accept the unclean rubbish that was put upon them. Of this rubbish the most intolerable item was, without doubt, the carpet bagger ; and the worst part of it was that the benignant spirit that sent it was not satisfied to have it set up where it would be least likely to dis turb the household, but must have it located in the front parlor to the ex clusion of the best and handsomest ar ticles of domestic decoration and value. Everything had to give way foi the carpet-bagger. It was by turns an arm-chair and a grand piano, a case for silver plate and a lace curtain, a door facing, a hearth mat, a fiddle case and a pair of tongs, whatever chanced to be necessary to exclude something else, to annoy the company and to tarnish the aspect of the apartment in which it was made to [day the part of leading figure. In a word, to drop the metaphor, this wretched camp-follower, this fraud upon loyalty and mountebank disguised as a patriot, this swaggering, loathsome and noisy animal, having no aim or credit whatever, and destitute alike of conscience and charac ter, was enabled by the force of shamelessness aud bayonets to elbow the best and purest men out of the way and to fill the highest places of trust and honor. He was made a judge and dragged the ermine through the mire of his own ignorance and corruption into the hog wash which that ignorance and cor ruption presently created around about him. He was Mayor and squandered the property of the people without stint upon strumpets and faro banks, openly and notoriously playing the double and simultaneous parts of Chiei Magistrate and social outcast. He was made a Congressman, and the on ly act he performed for his pseudo con stituents was to invent calumnies to blacken their good fame and keep them under the ban of treason and the grind ing oppression of a state of perpetu al war. He was made an agent of the Freedman’s Bureau, and alternately swindled and cajoled the blacks. He was made a Revenue Collector and cheated the Government he pretended to love so ardently and to serve with such devotion that he alone was qual ified to serve it faithfully. He was made a sheriff and instead of looking after the peace of the community, he employed his time serving wanton writs and organizing negro leagues. He was made an officer of militia and differed only from the Ku Klux in his disguise. The Ku Klux had-no law, mock or otherwise, at his back and prowled by night. The loyal militia man had at least the pretence of law and prowled at all hours. The sum of the whole was that the fountains of political well-being were muddied at their source. Every department of the public service was turned over to the keeping of thieves aud vagrants, having neither decency nor remorse as long as a specious plan of loyalty en abled them to call in the aid of an alien partisan power in the general Government. We do not overdraw the picture. The story that the people of the South are so malignant that the hate the sight of a Yankee because he is a Yankee, and that the epithet of carpet-bagger is applied by this malignant spirit to every man alike, is stupidly false- If ever the people of the sections came to hate each other with a race bate it wondrous impressive and apprecia tive. But he must bring a mind free of the proscriptive and the proselyting bias, lie must not set up for a reformer. He must expect to learn more than he teaches, and he must not expect to get an office as soon as he arrives. Nay, more, he must keep a civil tongue in his head and fall into that vein of con ciliation which is demanded of the stranger and is always practiced by the stranger who is wise in an old commu nity which has set notions and ways of its own. He must remember that we are free men like himself, abound ing in human nature. We repent nothing, are ashamed of nothing, and not admit that we are any worse than other people. We are not ready to listen with complacency to the cant of the Radical press or to give in to the partisan idea that we are traitors who owe our necks to the clemency of a master caste. We hold that this is a free government and that we are or ought to be as free as any in it. He must therefore avoid the sort of gabble which delights the politicians of a cer tain school and identify himself with present and future of the people with whom he proposes to cast his lot. These conditions being filled—and they are conditions which would be exacted the world over—the Yankee who comes South may talk never so long and broad, and absolutely live on codfish and potatoes, and he will find, if he is an honest and straightforward man, that somehow he gets on and prospers, that people like him and pat ronize him, and as for the term carpet bagger, he will not hear it at all. Additional Representation in Congress.—Coburn, of Indiana, made an attempt to introduce a bill forad- iitional representation into the House ast Monday, but the New England and Middle States Radicals refused to uspend the rules; fearing, as the New York Herald says, that the new elections might add to the Democrat ic strength in the House. Coburn’s bill proposed for the States of Ala bama, Arkansas, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten nessee and Virginia, each, one addition al member. The States of Georgia, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin, each, two addi tional members. The States of Iowa Michigan and Missouri, each three ad ditional members, and the State of Il linois four addition members. Ah welcome ns sunshine In every place la the beaming approach ()f a good-natured face. As genial as sunshine, Like warmth to impart, Isa good-natured word From a good-natured benrt. There was a Dutch woman whose husband, Dietrich Van Pronk, kicked the bucket, and left her inconsolable. Folks said grief would kill the widow. She had a figure of wood carved that looked very much like her late hus band, in order to be constantly remin ded of her dear departed. In about six months she became interested in a voting shoemaker, who finally mar ried her. He had visited the widow not more than fortnight when the ser vants told her they were out of kind ling-wood, and asked what was to bo done. After a pause, “Maybe it ish veil enough now to split up old Van Pronk vat ish up shtairs.” V. V. Bullock aud wife,father and mother of R B. Bullock, are on a visit to Atlanta to share the lavish hospitality of their son, and to sit up of nights count ing the numerous evidences of how he has plucked and plundered the people of Georgia. Coffee county, Ga has a “Confederate baby.'’ He was boro u 1861, am] weighs -lfl pounds.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Federal union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1865-1872, April 25, 1871, Image 1