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Newspaper Page Textis i jg . sw /% VOLOIE XLI.j M I L L E D (i E VIL L E, GEORGIA, 5IAY 16, IS7I. NUMBER 42, a I; c Jf t b e r a I S w i o n, 18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IX MILLEDGEVILLB, GA., BY BOUGHTON, BAMES & 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 persquare of ten lines for first insertion, and seventy-five cents far each subse quent continuance. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit uaries exceeding six lines, Nominations for office,Com munications or Editorial notices for individual benefit, ciiurgcd as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriff’s Sales, per levy of ten lines, or less,... .fy f>0 “ Mortgage fi fa sales, (jer square,. 0 00 Citations for Letters of Administration, 3 00 “ “ Guardianship, 3 00 Application ^ or dismission from Administration, 3 00 “ “ “ “ Guardianship, 3 00 “ “ leave to sell Land, 5 00 “ for Homesteads, 1 7. Nnliceto Debtors and Creditors,..., 3 00 Sales ol Land, &c., persquaie, 6 00 “ perishable property, 10 days, per square,.. 150 Estray Notices, SI days, 3 00 f.ircelosure ot Mortguge, persq., each time,.... 100 Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,).... 1 75 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land, &e., by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required by law to be Held on the first Tuesday iutlie mouth, between the Lours of 10 in tlie forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court Rouse ill the County in which the property is situated Notice of these sales must bo giveu in a public ga Z ette 10 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 tile debtors and creditors of anestate must also be published 10 days. Notiretliat application wiilbe made to tlieCourtot Ordinary for leave to sell Land, &c.,must be publish ed for two mouths. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, ,tc., must be published 30 days—for dismission from Administration monthly three months—fordismission from Guardianship, -10 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish ed monthly for lour months—for establishing lost pa |e>rs lor the full space of three months—for compel! ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where bond has been given by tlie deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always becontinued according to these,thelegulrequirements,aulessotherwise ordered. Book and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. TIIEKE XS NO DEATH. BY SIR K. BULWER LTTTON. There is no death ! The stars go down To raise upon some fairer shore ; And bright in Heaven’s jeweled crown They shiuo forevermore. There is no death! The dust we tread Shall change beneath the summer shower To golden grain or mellow fruit, Or rainbow tinted flowers. The granite rocks disorganize To feed tlie hungry muss they boar ; Tlie forest leaves drink daily life From out the viewless air. There is no death ! The leaves may fall, The flowers may fade and pass away; They only wait through wintry hours, Tne coming of tlie May. There is no death! An angei form Walks o’er the earth with silent tread ; He bears our best loved things away. And then we call them “dead.” Ho leaves our hearts all desolate, He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers, Transplanted into bliss, they now Adorn immortal bowers. The bird like voice, whose joyous tones Made glad these scenes of sin aud strife. Sings now an everlasting song Amid the tree of life. And where lie sees a smile too bright, Or lu-arts too pure for taint and vice, lie bears it to that world of light, To dwell iu Paradise. Horn unto that undying life, They leave ns but to come again; With joy we welcome them—the same, Except in sin aud pain. And ever near ns, though unseen, The dear, immortal spirits tread ; For all the boundless Universe Is life—(here are no dead. Brigham Young, in a recent sermon, wrestled with the Indian problem. Brigham says, if the Govern ment wants to exterminate Lo ! it must not fight, him, but attempt to civilize him. Give Lo! lino flour te eat.pnod clothes to wear, ltonses to live in, and good whisky to drink, and he will soon pass in his checks. Tight lacing, chignons, high-heeled shoes, and camel- li::iii}>paniers will do so much for Mrs. Lo! Brigham think- it would be cheaper to kill iudians with civiliza tion tiiau to kill them with gunpowder. The Chicago papers announce that the grave of i'ougia.- in that city is to. lie sold for taxes. It appears that in a communication from the City Collector to the Councils that the assessment for $2,200 for improve ments had been made upon the ground wherein reposes in! that was mortal of the Little Giant, and that the Courts having given judgment, he shall be compelled •" proceed. Such a story as this appearaa rcredible, hut it is, nevertheless, the truth. Among its recollections of Montgomery, the Adver tiser resuscitates tlie memory of the first dramatic per- fuimance, by a Tliespiau company, December 17. I'hS. The piny was "Julius Csesar;” the part of Ju lius Cae-ar by Benjamin (afterwards Gov.) Fitzpatrick; Mask Anthony by Henry (alterwards Judge) Goidth- wuite. Gov. Towns, ot Georgia, played the part of Octavius CtEsar. “ Woman is a delusion, madam !” exclaimed a crusty old bachelor to a witty young lady. “ And man is al ways hugging some delusion or other,” was the quick, reply. An old gentleman on the cars the other morning, was asked by an angu lar looking lady at his side, if he ever wept over Pontius Pilate. “Why,” said the startled gentleman, “ does he say I did ?” The Round Table says : “ If any woman’s head grew into any such monstrous shapes as may now be seen in all directions wherever wo men are congregated together, it would be a cause of mourning to her family, of consultation among eminent sur geons, and she would probably spend the greater part of her time injudicious seclusion.” An exchange gives the following as a sure way to drive bedbugs from old bedsteads : “Take green tomato vines, put them into a basin or tray, pound them to pieces as fine as possible, then stain the bedsteads where they inhabit with the juice ; fill the crevice6 with the pieces of vine; lay leaves under the ends of the slats.” If this is prac ticed twice a year not a bug will re gain in the bedstead. It is funny to see bow unanimous the democrats are in favor of tlje renomi- oation of Gen. Grant, by the Republi can party. They are just as unanimous as they were for the nomination of Mr. Seward in I860. If the qnestion c ould be left to them, Grant would be the candidate by acclamation; but, unluckily for the Democracy, the Re publican party will have something to 8a y Upon the subject. They will probably prefer some man who has some friends somewhere besides bis own relations, and who is not beaten before he is nominated.—N. Y. Hun. From the Hartford Times. TAMMANY SOCIETY. The Society of Tammany in New York, has been organized for many years. It is a political society, and its influence has been given to the admin istrations of Madison, Jackson and the other Presidents’ who adhered with strict fidelity to the principles of the Constitution. It lias never been pro scriptive, but so far as its influence is extended it has made the doctrines of the Constitution the test. All the powers delegated to the general gov ernment—powers clearly defined and enumerated—have never been ques tioned by the Tammany society as be longing to thefederal authority. Just as lirmly as it adhered to the doctrine, that all other powers are reserved aud belong to the States or the people.— On these fundamental principles the Tammany Society has founded its po litical creed—principles which consti tute the frame work of free govern ment. Hence it has endured and sur vived the persistent and vigorous at tacks of the Centralists, who believe the people wield too much power and who are so constantly laboring to weaken the popular voice, and estab lish a controlling dynasty at the centre which the people cannot reach. In the Tammany Society have been some of the best minds of the country, as well as representatives of the business in terests of the States. At all times has this Society given its influence to the cause of the people against usurped and centralized power. But at no time was this more significant than during the period when the Radical party at tempted to silence the Voice of the cities of New York and Brooklyn io the matter of their local governments. The Radical party controlling the Leg islature of the State, took trom the people the privilege of managing their streets, police, parks, and other im portant matters, and sent them amomr citizens of other counties to manage their affairs. The Hon. Wm. M. Tweed became a leader in the Tammany So ciety. Inside and outside of that or ganization he opposed these oppres sions with the remarkable energy and talent that characterizes him in politi- caljas well as in business engagements. He took sides with free government.— This brought down upon him the abuse of the centralists ; and they have dis graced themselves by their slanders up on Mr. Tweed. “Thief,” “villain,”! ‘plunderer,” “scamp,” are terms which they apply to him, and to the gentle men—men of pure character, mer chants, bankers, gooti citizens—who belong to the society of Tammany.— The partisan editors who publish these calumnies are not purer, to say the least, than those whom they assail.— They make no specific charges, and could not sustain lor a moment any of. their disgraceful calumnies. Mr. Tweed who has opposed with unswerviug pur pose the whole scheme of Radical des potism, including the military rule of the powers at Washington, is made the special object of Radical slanders. He asks no favor of those who belie and revile, and pays little attention to their shameful attack. He stands firmly with the great majority of the people of New York, whom he represents in part in the State Senate. He favors the people—the working men and the business men of New York, who are largely with him—and he opposes the centralists and their oppressions. The April number of the American Eclectic Medical Review published in New York says of THE HON. WM. M. TWEED : “The leading man in the Senate of this State, is a fair representative of one of the self-made men of the day. He has achieved both fame and fortune by his wonderful financial aud execu tive ability. He is now worth his millions ; and, out of this great fortune he is making more liberal aud gener ous donations for the various benevo lent and philanthropic causes of this city than any other man in New York. His benevolent works are every day to be seen and felt by thousands. We have always entertained the opinion that it is really harder lor a rich mart to do a generous act than one of more moderate circumstances; for the rea son that, as a general tiling, such be come more selfish and gasping, and harder to ba moved by any ordinary demand. If this be true, it shows that to be both rich aud generous manifests a higher character than is usually found in such men, and clearly indicates that such a man is exceptional and a bless ing to his fellow men. We have other men in this city worth millions, who have never been known to give a dellar to any benevolent cause or institution. The members of the various branches of the medical profession actually con tribute out of their hard earnings, aud labor and time more money than all other professions or men in this coun try. * * * * At any ordinary price for the labor of the physician, the amount of five hundred dollars each, referred to above, is a very low estimate ; yet it amounts to thirty-five millions ot dollars. Who hut the medi cal profession do as much ? If all the wealthy men of New York would do as much as Mr. Tweed, proportionally there would no longer be found in this city an amount of ‘acti,,d suffering not equalled in any other ci y in the Conti nent.” President Davis Visits His Old Home—Negro Farming on a Grand Scale.—A private letter from a gen tleman in Vicksburg to a friend in Chicago, which has lately found its way into the press of the latter city, gives an account of a visit recently made by the writer in company with Mr. Davis to the plantation 1 cultivated before the war by Mr. D. and his broth er, General Joseph Davis. The writer says: “We left at night on the R. E Lee, one of our finest steamers, and landed at the Hurricane plantation about day light the next morning. I’bis planta tion and another known as Blairlield, were occupied before the war by Jos. Reversal of the Legal Tender Decision.—In regard to the late de cision of the Supreme Court, reversing its former decision on the constitution ality of the legal tender act, the New York Tribune pithily observes : The Supreme Court yesterday an nounced decisions in the legal tender act and other cases of less public im portance. The former announcement of the back action of the court on the question of the constitutionality of the legal tender act, as applied to contracts made before the war, does not differ from that which we have already pub lished. It is a decision in the interest of the great railroad companies, and it has L. Davis and his brother, President \been reached through the instrumentality of Da\is. They were sold by Mr. Joseph their farmer paid advocates and stockhold er. Davis, who owned them both, to his ers now on, the bench. The first conclu- avonte freedman, Ben Montgomery, i gion of the court has been hastily re- for 8300,000, payable at the end of j versed, but it will not be as easy to re- ten years, (lstol January, 1876) in-j store the public respect and reverence terest at six per cent, payable annually. J for the tribunal which this decision has Ben, who is very black, but thorough- j sacrificed. ly educated before the war, met <,, j Thjs r e verea | js raM regsrded “J^attest, waning oa| as a ba8e comp |i ance wlt ,f executire the table himself; but not offer.,,g to I wUbes b creatures of the President, take a seat. After breakfast we bad a : )Iaced f oa the bench t# c oat hi „ carnage and rede over the magnificent | view8 . The „ id locales” alluded estate, the extent of which you cm l to ky g* Tribune are Jurtice. Bradley form some idea of when I say tha Ben and St Tlle Trib „„ e is Mt alon ' Montgomery made last year?,500 bales am Republican journals in makins of cotton and a large quantity of corn. tllis accuaa ‘ tit>n . T i! e following is from We dined at Blairfield, the former res- a , artic i c tile Sw York ldence of Mr. Jefferson Davis, and now j> osf . ° occupied as a residence by the afore- ; .. ! r . ,, . .. x . said Ben; and you will not be surprised . ‘‘After the main quesfon at issue to learn that the former slaves of Mr. f h * dbeen Voided by the court and the Davis greeted him with all the warmth ! declsl0n “cepted by the public mind, of affection that they were capable of 1 government, itself a party to the expressing. Mr. Davis met them cor- U 83Ue ’, added tbe [ nlr,ont y the dially and encouraged them bv many j Court J ud S es a,rettd y * D0Wn * La / e kind words. After dinner, at which e ?P reS8 ! d °P 1U ‘° 118 adverse to the de- our wealthy host again waited on U J ^lo", in number sufficient to reverse in excellent stvle, we passed on to a 1. Under these circumstances the new very large and valuable plantation de ? ,s,0 ° 18 necessarily regarded as the which had been purchased by Ben. Montgomery and added to the Davis estate, and which will add to his crop j l, j! this year probably 1,000 bales more, 0 making 3,500 in all, if it is a good crop year.” From the Washington Patriot. THE IVOBTntTBST PASSAGE. Capt. ZXall’a P.Iar Expedition. ASTOUNDING DEYELVPMEXTS. Our whole community has been in a state of anxious excitement during the past two days in consequence of the arrest and imprisonment of J. F. Con way, D. W. Granger and C. H. Davies, charged with conspiracy to rob the Southern Express Company of this city. J. F. Conway will be remem bered as the independent Republican candidate for the Legislature during our last election for representatives in .this county. D. W. Granger hails, we learn, from North Carolina, and served on the police force here for a short time some three or four months ago. C. H Davies was also on duty here as a policeman during the Christ mas holidays, and fur a short time previous. These parties were arraign ed before the Mayor yesterday morn ing for preliminary examination, when the warrant against Davies was dis missed and he was put upon the stand as & witness in behalf of the State.— With more or less embarrassment he proceeded to detail all the particulars concerning the diabolical and deep laid plans of the contemplated attack aud robbery of the Central Railroad Express car, on a certain night up wards of six or eight weeks ago. Da vies was first approached by Granger who made the infamous proposition to him, when both, by agreement, met on the outskirts of the city, the lead ing spirit in movement, in the person of J. F. Conway. The whole subject was thoroughly discussed and the plans detailed when they parted to meet again, at or about the same plaee on the day following. Davies was ap prehensive ot the great danger attend ing the discovery of the crime, aud af ter some reflection determined upon divulging the whole affair to an au thorized officer, which he did. The city authorities were soon apprised of the circumstance, when Mayor Huff notified the Express Company and de tailed special officers to keep strict watch on the movements of the par ties. Every precaution has been ex ercised and the closest vigilance insti tuted, in order to detect the men iu the act of perpetrating their villainy. The contemplated attack was deferred from time to time in consequence of a well founded suspicion in the minds of the parties that their schemes had been made known, and from the testi mony of Davies,together with corrobo rating facts,it appears they had aban doned their project, perhaps two or three weeks since. MayorHulf was thor oughly satisfied of this and determined on causing the arrests, as made, so soou as he could, without injuring the pros pects of a conviction. We feel satis fied, from all the facts we can gather, that there are several others iu collu sion with the prisoners, who for the present are endeavoring to evade ar rest. The examination will be resum ed to-day at nine'o’clock when Davies and the other witnesses will be intro duced. In this article we have con fined ourselves to ! voice not of the law, but of the admin istratiou. The new point established j by it is not that the decision in the case Hepburn against Griswold was wrong, but that, when a deaision is made by the Court which limits the powers of the general government, un der the Constitution, that government may reconstitute the Court so as to se cure a decision les3 distasteful to it.— If this practice is tolerated the Consti tution and its interpretation cease to limit the national government, and be come just what the appointing power chooses to make them.” The New York World remarks : What was it that encouraged knaves, who wished to escape the pay- j ment of their just debts, according to the terms of the contract, to bring new suits in the face of a decision of the Supreme Court V Why, the fact that Geu. Grant had appointed the attor neys of railroad corporations to the bench, with the undisguised purpose of overruling that decision. It is not law aud justice which speak in the re versal, but the sic volo, sic jubeo, of an ignorant, stolid military commander who appointed judges to execute his | orders. Even his own partisans revolt against this shameful prostitution of our highest judicial tribunal. The following is from a Northern paper, the Elmira Gazette, and is a fair and impartial statement of facts in the Southern States : WHY TROUBLE EXISTS. Every Southern State that joined the secessionists, with one or two ex ceptions, is now subject to Radical rule, and has been for six years last past.— The Radicals impeach themselves of imbecility when they admit that with all the advantages they possess they are unable to preserve order. It is the infamous rule they have inaugurated that makes people restless and dissatis fied. They have disfranchised the edu cated, property-holding classes and placed power in the hands of unprinci pled adventurers from the North— thieves and robbers—who preach agra rianism to the negroes, and thus fo ment discord and strife. The white people of the South have been com pelled to submit te outrages such as was never before inflicted on a civil ized community. The treatment of the noble hearted, but persecuted people of Poland by the Russian despot is mild when compared with the injustice heaped upon the Southern people.— They are ground under the heel of a negro despotism, their property con fiscated to fill the coffers of a lazy and worthless set of adventurers, and in ell other ways imaginable they are perse cuted and humiliated. The Radicals have made the Southern country a pandemonium so far as laws can do it, and profess to wonder why there is dis content. No European despot would dare to treat his subjects as the South ern people have been by a Radical Congress, of which, since the death of the notorious and infamous Tiiad. Stevens, Butler has been the ruling spir it. Notwithstanding all tlie provocations that exist, the stories circulated ofout- The circumstances of the overhaul ing, fitting out, and launching of the steamer Polaris, late the Periwinkle, have already been recorded in The Patriot. Captain Hall, it is under stood, will sail from this city on or about the 25th of May. The explor ing party, reaching Cape Resolution by the middle of June, will enter Hud son Straits, and steaming slowly up the broad channel, will occupy the time until the pack-ice opens in July in trading with the Esquimaux at Up per and Lower Savage and Southamp ton Islands, the former situated in the Straits, and the latter at the head of Hudson Bay. They will there pro cure furs, skins, &c., for clothing, and will provide themselves with several packs of the indispensible Esquimaux dog, with which to hunt and drag their heavy sleds. As soon as the Straits are clear of ice the steamer pro ceeds to Repulse Bay, Captain Hall’s old rendezvous, and, if it is practicable will then make an effort to force their way through the pack-ice into Fox’s Channel, and up through King Wil liam’s Land) to about 80 degrees north. Here they are expected to spend their first winter. Early in the spring of 1872, after having passed the winter in training the dogs, establishing caches, and mak ing other important preparations the party will leave the vessel and start, with their boats secured to the sleds, and amply provisioned for six months, on their journey over the ice to Baffin’s Bay, Smith’s Sound, and, it is hoped, the open Polar sea. The Polaris is to be well manned with experienced officers and seaman. Captain S. O. Buddiugton, anoldand experienced whaling master from the village of Groton, opposite New Lon don, Conn., is to be the sailing-master, and will carry with him, as assistants, officers who have for years buffeted the storms of the long Arctic winter. The crew is to consist of twelve sea men, besides two cooks &ud the same number of stewards, and four firemen. All the seamen are picked, intelligent men, and it is said that there is not one of them that is not capable of naviga ting the ship himself. A coips of sci entific gentlemen also accompanies the expedition, consisting of an astro.n- £j Je j omer, a geographer, aud a meteorolo- 1 gist. It is also said that Dr. Herman Bissell, au eminent German naturalist and chemist, a graduate of Heidol- burg, and who was a member of the Prussain expedition to the North Pole, accompanies Captain Hall’s expedition in the same capacity. There are to he two engineers, Mr. Emil Schuman and John Wilson, the former chief,aud Wilson the assistant. Two Esquimaux, Joe and his “coo- iiey,” or wife, Hannah, who have been with Captain Hall a number of years, and who have become partially civi lized and speak the English language intelligibly, also go with the expedi tion, the former as the interpreter and the latter in the capacity of a tailoress. It has been long ago demonstrated that the woolen clothing of the white man is absolutely worthless to protect the Arctic traveller from the cold piercing blasts to which he is exposed, and the costume of the Innuit or Es quimaux, -consisting of the deerskin kooly-bang—a sack jumper, with fur hood—the sealskin breeches, the deer, seal, and eider duck stockings, one over the other, and covered with stout moccasins of sealskin, with high leg gings, have been adopted as the only articles of apparel that are impervious to the inclemencies of the fearful cli mate. The Esquimaux tailoress is, therefore, an important and really in dispensable personage aboard the Po laris. Captain Hall surmises that he will be absent about two years and a half, and hopes to return to the United States by October, 1873. He is very sanguine of success, and asserts that the arctic experience he has already gained, anu the adaptation of his sys tem to the habits of the Esquimaux, by long residence among them, assure him, of his ability to accomplish much toward forcing the icy barrier to the long-sought object of discovery, which could not possibly otherwise be achieved. That was a very happy unconscious pun which Prof. G , of Roches ter University, perpetrated in his class room, the other day. He had been di lating to some extent on the character and career of Lylwarch Hen, the Nor wegian poet, aud wishing to illustrate the author’s style, he. remarked : “ I will read you one of his lays.” A slight smile came over the faces of a few stu dents at this, which gradually spread until the whole class was in a tumult of laughter before the professor saw his joke. rages committed, are mainly the coin- a statement of facts | age of worthless carpet-baggers, who in brief but will lay before our readers : expect to reap a personal advantage by to-motrow morning, the testimony in their currency. There is abundant detail as given by the witnesses in the Evidence of this coming from respeeta- case.— Telegraph and Messenger. ; ble republicans in the South who are „ ~7T. —T®T “ , . f | there for legitimate purposes. Grant will go down into the dust of; ° 1 historic book shelves as the nomadic President. He , Milwaukee has got a Turkish bath, stays in Vvoshiugton au j c jtj zeng are disguising them- only as a necessity of his position, and i se!ves by getting peeled. An editor as soon as any decent change oilers, ofl there took a bath the otber day ai , d lie goes. He has no “local habitation , wen (; home, and his wife drove him out and name,” for he lived nowhere, and : G f door8 w itb a club, and he had to go his name has never been dehnite y set- ; and make aQ at fij av i t tbat h8 vvas her tied. In fact he seems to be chasing ; busbaH( p Theu she would not believe his name around the country, aud . j t UD tj| gbe examined his pocket-book, turns up, as he himself avers, m the and f oun( ] that it contained nothing but most unexpected manner, to the aston- a ra p roa d pass. ishmeDt of himself and the people.— His sole object in life is to keep mov- No man can tell whether he is rich inp, and he wishes to remain iu power or poor by turning to his ledger. It that he may perpetually keep moving at! is the heart that makes the man rich, other people’s expense. [ He is rich or poor according to what Madison ( Wit.) Democrat■ 1 he is, not according to wha*" he has. Any Ku-Klux About There 1— The following dispatch from New York shows that President Grant would not have to come to the South to find a locality in which to execute the new “ Force act”—that is, if by the smash ing of the ballot-box at Greenbush any negro was deprived of his vote : Albany, May 3.—After closing the polls last evening in Greonbush, Rens- selimr county, there having been a charter election there, a gang of ruffi ans made an attack on the inspectors of one of the districts, aud seized the bullot-box and smashed it. A light ensued in which Luke Coniff, who led the ruffians, \?as terribly beaten. Dun can McFarland, President of the Trus tees, who was defeated in the election, was with the ruffiaus, and it is said was the one who smashed the ballot- box. In the fight, which lasted some time, the ruffians were severely pun ished, The citizens will hold a meeting BOW TO LIVE LOS6 4SD WELL. The poet Bryant, who has arrived at a good old age, with health and faculties unimpaired, gives, in a letter i to a friend, the following account of his daily life:—“I have reached a pret ty advanced period of life without the usual infirmities of old age, and with my strength, activity, and bodily fac ulties generally in pretty good preser vation. How far this may be the ef fect of my way of life, adopted long ago, and steadily adhered to, is per haps uncertain. I rise early ; at this time of the year about 5:30; in sum mer, half an hour, or even an hour, earlier. Immediately, with very lit tle incumbrance of clothing, I begin a series of exercises, for the most part designed to expand the chest, and at the same time call into action all the muscles and articulations of the body. These are performed with dumb bells, the veiy lightest, covered with flannel; with a pole, a horizontal bar, and a light chair swung around my head.— After a full hour, and sometimes more, passed in this manner, I bathe from head to foot. Wfien at my place in the country, I sometimes shorten my exercises in the chamber, and, going out, occupy myself for half an hour or more in some work which requires brisk exercise. After my bath, if breakfast be not ready, I sit down to my studies until I am called. My breakfast is a simple one—hominy and milk, or, in fplace of hominy, brown bread, or oat-meal v or wheaten grits, and, in the season, baked sweet ap ples. Buckwheat cakes I do not de cline, nor any other article of vegeta ble food, but animal food I never take at breakfast. Tea and coffee I never touch at any time. Sometimes I take a cup of chocolate, which has no nar cotic effect, and agrees with me very well.. At breakfast I often take fruit, either in its natural state or freshly stewed. After breakfast I occupy my self for a while with my studies, and then, when in town, I walk down to the office of the Evening Post, nearly three miles distant, and after about three hours return, always walking, whatever be the weather or the state of the streets. In the country I am engaged in my literary tasks until a feeling cf weariness drives me out in the open air, and I go upon my farm or into the garden, and prune the trees, or perform some other work about them which they need, and then go back to my books. I do not olten drive oat, preferring to walk. In the country [ dine early, and it is only at that meal that I take either meat or fish, and of these but a moderate quan tity, making my dinner mostly of veg etables. At the meal which is called tea, I take only a little bread and but ter, with fruit if it be on the table.— In town, where I dine later, I make but two meals a day. Fruit makes a considerbie part of my diet, and I eat it at almost any hour of the day with out inconvenience. My drink is wa ter, yet I sometimes, though rarely, take a glass of wine. I am a natural temperance man, finding myself rath er confused than exhilarated by wine. I never meddle with tobacco, except to quarrel with its use. That I may rise early, l of course, go to bed early; in town, as early as ten ; in the coun try, somewhat earlier. For many years I have avoided in the evening every kind of literary - occupation which tasks the faculties, such as composition, even the writing ot let ters, for the reason that it excites the nervous system aud prevents sound sleep. My brother told me not long siuce that he had seen in a Chicago newspaper, and several other West ern journals, a paragraph in which it was said that I am in the habit of ta king quinine as a stimulant ; that I have depended upon the excitement it produces in writing my verses ; and that, in consquence of using that way, I had become as deaf as a post. As to my deafness, you know that to be false, andjthe rest of the story is equal ly so. I abominate all drugs and narcotics, and have always carefully avoided everything which spurs nature to exertions which it would not other wise make. Even with my food I do not take the usual condiments, such as pepper aud the like.” “Some time before 1840, Mr. Cal houn wrote to Mr. Lawrence that he had been adding to his landed estates, and would like to obtain a loan ot 810,- 000 or 815,000 in Boston, where mon ey was more plenty thau in South Carolina, and the rate of interest not so high, for the payment of whi9h he would give his notes and a mortgage upon his estate, which would be am ple security. Mr. Lawrence said he consulted Mr. Nathan Appleton and one or two other wealthy citizens of Boston upon the subject, and it was agreed to raise the money for him,and take no security for the re-payment but his own note. Mr. Lawrence in formed Mr. Calhoun of the arrange ment which he had made, and express ed his gratification that it was in the power of himself and a few ot his friends to do a kindness to one so dis tinguished, whose life had been devo ted to the service of his country. Mr. Calhoun immediately wrote back, de clining the offer, and withdrawing his original request. He said it did not From the St. Louia Republican, April 28tb HOW THE SOUTH IS TO BE DELIV ERED. In recent discussions of the issues •£ 1872 we have intimated that the next presidential contest will be one for the deliverance of the South, aud that such deliverance, if achieved at all, would have to come from the Democracy of the North. The Southern people are the full equals of their Northern breth ren, in all respects ; Southern states manship, eloquence and patriotism are illustrated on every page of the nation al history ; and it is not surprising that a people conscious of their capac ity to take au eminent and honorable part in a great national controversy, should be reluctant to occupy a minor attitude in the important and decisive controversy of 1872. But it is in pre cisely this way that the South can do itself the greatest service and render its friends the greatest aid. The South ern-States are not free : they have not possession of their full powers ; their action is fettered; and even their counsels are warped by an inflamed sense of their wrongs. Their limbs are hampered with manacles, and to ex pose themselves in the front,line oftha contest is only to invite their massa cre. The Southern States are the spe cial objects and victims of ail that vio lent and vindictive legislation that they ask to be delivered from ; and the terrible lessons of six years have taught them that their helpless out cries for relief only proveked fresh measures of oppression. For them to deliver themselves has, again and again beeh proved to be an impossibility.— Their indignant remonstrances are not listened to; and the local outbreaks which their wrongs excite are sure to provoke aggravations of those wrongs. The ruling party does at the South what it would not dare to do at the North. Iu fact, it assumes to do any thing it wishes to in the Southern States and thus far its usurpations have scarce elicited a remonstrance from the country. ' The South, thon, must rely upon the Democracy of the North to fight its battle, and to secure its deliver ance. The Northern States are still comparatively free, though they clear ly discern that the dread shadow which envelopes the South is steadily moving northward. The struggle for the deliverance of the South is at tha same time a struggle for the mainte nance of their own freedom and a con sciousness of this fact will, if it can, lend fervor to the efforts of the north ern delivering hosts. The Southern States need to recognize the inexorble fact that they may not be able to do anything whatever for themselves in the approaching contest. They are in the grip of the new Enforcement act. Southern Democrats believe they can carry Georgia, North Carolina, Ala bama, Tennessee and Texas ; but wo tell them that Georgia, North Caroli na, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas will vote just as the Radical candidato for the presidency shall permit them to. It is not improbable that all the Southern States may be made to vota an approbation of their own oppres sions, by giving majorities to Grant.— Is it wise for a people thus helpless to do anything for themselves, to in sist on planning the outside campaign for their deliverance ? The battle for the rights of all the States and the su premacy of the constitution is to bo fought on Northern soil and as North ern Democrats must fight it, they must be allowed to plan it, and choose the ground for the contest. Southern Democrats aud Conservatives will need to afford whatever aid they can bring ; but we tell them, in all candor, that they will most effectually strengthen the arms of their friends, and contrib ute luosflargely to a successful result, by abstaining from all acts and coun sels that can be snatched up by their enemies and turned against their friends. The condition of public senti ment at the North is one of sensitive expectation. It is ready to side with the Democracy upon all grounds of dispute except an unsettlement of tha constitutional amendments; it is ready to go against it,if it plants itself on that ground. If the Democracy shall be so foolish as to place itself on the plat form which Senator Morton has made for it, it may as well yield the contest at once ; but if it shall reject that platform and go before the people on a basis of individual and State rights- uuder the constitution, with au assur ance of liberties to those who now possess them, and a restoration of franchises to those who have been di vested of them, its cause will be in vulnerable, aud its triumph certain. iiis evening to organize against the agree with his sense of propriety to rioters. accept a loan upon such terms ; that in the discharge of his public duties A match game of gum chewing came he did not wish to be embarrassed by off iu Webster, Mass., between a num- ■ a sense of obligation to any one.” ber of young ladies a few days ago. It is said by the Times that the winner can chew gum in seven different lan guages, with both eyes shut and one hand tied behind her back. , The London and Southeastern Rail way, leading to Dover, last year car ried 9,500,000 passengers without a single accident. The above “anecdote”, which we copy from the New York Tribune, is perfectly consistent with the character of the great Carolina patriot aud statesman. In what striking contrast is his conduct, as reported by Mr. Ab bott, with the general gilt agency in Washington. Pins and Hooks and Eyes.—Pina are in continual demand, while books and eyes are subject to the freaks of fashion. In 1835, pins which now bring 15 eents a pack, were worth 81. The old English were blunt and hard to use, while the modern American ones are slqn and with flue points.— There are eight pin factories in the Uuited States, whose annual produc tion is 6,720,000,000 pins which are made Irom brass, aud from iron, which is 25 per cent, cheaper than brass.— There is but one factory which makes hair pins, aud that one turns out 50 tons a month. Most of those used, however, arc imported. Seven facto ries, with a capital of 8500,000, are now idle, waiting for hooks and eyes to become fashionable. Track laying on the Southern Pa cific Railroad has commenced at San Francisco, and will progress at the rate of half a mile a day. . “Mamma,” said a little girl to her mother, “do you know how I get to bed quick!” “No,” was the reply. “Well,” said she in great glee, “I step one foot over the crib, then I say ‘rats’ and 1 frighten myself right in.”

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Federal union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1865-1872, May 16, 1871, Image 1