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VOLUME Xliii.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, JANUARY 24. 1872.
NUMBER 26.
Jf £ b e r a I ilnion,
Id PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IN MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.,
BY
BOUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE,
(Corner ot Hancock and Wilkinson Street*,)
$2 in Advance, or $3 at end of tho year.
S. N. HOUGHTON, Editor.
ADVERTISING.
TRA58IKNT.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for
li rt : insertion, and seventy-five centsfer each subse
quent continuance.
Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit-
nari ,: s exceeding six lines, Nominations for office, Com
mnnications or Editorial notices for individual benefit,
charged as transient advertising.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Sheriff’s Sales, per levy .>f ten lines, or iess $2 60
“ Mortgage ti la salee, per square, J 01
Citations for Letters of Administration, A Ut.
Guardianship, A U0
Appl Icatiou for dismission from Administration, A 00
•• Guardianship, 3 0(
“ “ leave to sell Land, i 00
44 for Homesteads,
Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 01
Sales ot Land, &.C., per square,
perishable property, 10 days, pel square,.. I Hi
Estray Notices, 3U days, 3 00
Foreclosure of Mortgage, per sq-, each time, 100
Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,) I 75
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Land, &.C., by Administrators, Executors
or Guardians, are required bylaw to be held on the
rinst Tuesday iuthe month, between the hours of H
in the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court
iu tiie County in which the property is situated
Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga
zette ID days previous to the day of .ale.
Notices for the sale of personal property must be
given in like manner 1*1 days previous to sale day.
Notices to the debtots and creditors of an estate
must also be published 40 days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of
Ordinary rot leave to sell Land, Ac .must be publish
ed tor two months.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship,
he., must be published 30 days—for dismission from
Administration monthly three mouths—for dismission
from Guardianship, 4(1 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 compell
ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where
bond lias been given by the deceased, the full epaceof
three months.
Publications will always be continued according to
these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered
MACON CARDS.
E. J. JOHNSTON,
Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry,
SILVERWARE,
FANCY GOODS, CUTLERY, &c.
Particular attention given to repairs on Fine and
Difficult Watches.
JEWKLBV KEPAIRED,
Corner Mulberry and i
2d Streets,opposite > MACON, (JICORGIA
new Court House. )
Sept2, 1871. 6 6m
Book and Job Work, of all kinds.
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT THEM OFFICE,
S A V A N N A II CARDS.
O Jik. jEL jF* 33 ‘27 IS ,
Oil Cloths, Mattings, Window Shades,
LACE, REP A DAMASK CURTAINS.
Diminsions being given, no charge for cutting or
LATIIROP & CO.,
Corner of Congress & Whitaker Sts.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Oct 17, 1871.. 12 3m
lTj ."GUI L MARTIN? J OH N~ FLA N X E RY
L. J. Gt'ILHARTIN «fc CO.,
COTTOrJ FACTOB3 AISD
General Commission Merchants,
Bay Street, SAVANNAH, Ga.
Agents for Bradley’s Super Puer-phate of Lime,
Jewell's Miils Yarns, Domestics, &c., dec.
Bagging, It ope A Iron Tien, alwsyaaa Iinnd.
tff U sual Facilities Extended to Customers.
Ang 15, 1871. 3 6m
WM. H. STARK, H. P. RICHMOND.
WM. If. STAKE & CO.,
Wholesale Grocers, Cotton Factors,
AND
General Commission Merchants
SAVANNAH, GA.
Careful attention given to Sale-; or Shipment of
Cotton and all kinds of produce. Liberal Advances
made on consignments.
ARROW and EUREKA TIES at Lowest Agents
Prices- Keep constantly on hand a large s'ook of ai!
kinds of BAGGING. Agents for E. F. COE’S SU
PERPHOSPHATE OF LIME.
August 29, 1871. 5 6m
LAMER HOUSE.
N, BINNWAINGER, Proprietor.
Mulberry Street, - Macon, Georgia.
The above named Hotel has been recently refur
nished and fitted up for the accommodation of trail
sient as well as permanent Boarders. Persons wilt
find it to their interest to stop at this House, as its
central location makes it a very desirable place for
merchants and families coming to the city for business,
or lor a sojourn ot pleasure- An ELEGANT SAM
PLE ROOM has been fitted up for the special use of
commercial travelers.
The table always supplied with all the luxuries of
the season, from first markets, and can be surpassed
by none in the South.
Omnibus to convey p&ssergers to and from the
Hotel and all trains, free of charge.
N BINSWANGER, Proprietor.
October 18.1870. 12 fim
OIBBEBGE & HAZLEHURST,
BANKERS <fc BROKERS,
EsIACGSr, GEORGIA,
R eceive deposits, buy and sell ex-
C H A NG E, GOLD, SILVER, STOCKS,
BONDS, aii'l I’ucurrent Fuiuis.
Collection.* ’lade on All Accessible Points.
Office open at all hours of the day.
Match 21. 1871. 34 ly
HDjELKTSSrs*
CHERRTT STREET,
Opposite Carhart &, Curd,
Macon, - - Georgia.
B. F. DENSE, Proprietor.
March 21,1S71- 34 12m
TRUMAN A GREEN
Sole Agents,
Dec 14, 1871.
x&Acoar, ga.
21 2m
NOTICE
Of Change of* ^rheduir on Jlncou &
lu Knilrouii.
Augiift-
as®.
Sfi'rFvcii
Our Experience as Cotton Seller
Warrrntn u. In Koliciling <.'on»tignuit*nU.
Libera! advances on produce sent us, and remit
tances promptly made.
W. F. SIMS & CO.,
Savannah, Ca.
August 23, 1871. 5 6m
CL4GH0RN CUNNINGHAM,
Wholesale and Retail
8 E 0 f .1 8$|
and Dealers in
Fine Wines, Liquors and Segars,
3AVAKTICAH, GA.
Sept 6,1871. 6 6m
JAKES it. SHELDON,
Gen'l Commission Merchant,
Bay St. Savannah, Ga.
Liberal Advances made on Consignments. Bag
ging aud Iron Ties Furnished. Consignments re
spectfully solicited.
Oct 4?'1871. 1° *n
FISHER CRAY CETS PHOTOCUAPBED.
I want you to take a picter o’ me and my old wo
man here,
Jest as we be, if you please, sir—wrinkles, gray
hairs, and all;
We never was vain at our best, and we're goin’
on eighty years,
But we've got s me boys to be proud of—hand
some, straight and tall.
They are coming home this summer, the
teenth day of July.
Tom wrete me (Tom’s a lawyer in Boston, since
forty-eight;)
So we're going to try and surprise 'em, my old
wife and I,—
Tom, Harry. Zay and E’isha. and the two girls,
Jenny and Kate.
I guess you’ve heern of Elisha—he preaches in
Middletown.
I'm a Methody myself, but he's 'Piscopal, he
says.
Don’t s’pose it makes much difference, only he
wears a gown;
An’ 1 csuldn't abide (bein' old and set) what I
call them Popish ways.
But he’s good, for I brought him up ; and Tom
and Harry ’an Zay.
They’re merchants down to the city, and don’t
forget their motiier ’an me.
They’d give us the fat of tha laud, if we d only
come their way ;
And Jenny and Kate are peartly off, for they
married rich you see.
I never could look that tiling in the face, if my
eyes was as good as gold.
’Taint over ! Du say ! What! the work is done ?
Old woman, that beats the Dutch.
Jest think! we've got our picters took; aud we
nigh eighty year old .'
There ain't many couple in our town, of our
age, that can say as much.
You see on the nineteenth of next July our Gold
en Wedding comes on.
For fifty year in the sun and rain we've pulled
at the same old cart.
We've ne’r had any trouble to speak of, only our
poor so» John
Wen’t wrong, an’ I drove him off; ’u’ it almost
broke the old woman’s heart.
Well, iud, that's a cur'us fix, sir! Do you screw it
into the head ?
I've heern of this photography, and I reckon
it’s scary work.
Do you take the pieters by lightnin’ ?—La, yes,
so the neighbors said,
It's the mn that does it, old woman : ’u’ he
never was known to shirk.
Wal. yes. I’ll be readin' the Bible; old woman,
what'll you do ?
Jest sit on the other side o' me, ’u' I’ll take
hold o’ your hand.
That’s the way we courted, mister, if it’s all the
same to you ;
Ami that’s the way we're a goin' please God, to
the light o' the better land.
There's a drop of bitter in every sweet. An’ my
old woman aud me
Will think of Johu when the rest come home.
Would I forgive him, young sir 7
He was only a boy, and I was a fool for bein' so
bard you see.
If I could just git him atween those arms, I'd
stick to him like a buir.
And what's to pay for the sunshine that's painted
my grave old phis 7
NothingThat’s cur'us ! You don't work for the
pleasure of working, hey 7
Old woman, look here ! there’s Tom iu that face—
I’m olest if the chin isn't his .'—
Good God 1 she knows him 1 It's our son John,
the boy we drove away !
exhibited a wish to encourage such
enterprises by exempting them from
taxation for a certain period. The offi
cial and social evils will effect their
own cure in time, and the organization
of such companies as should be formed
for the purposes proposed, would
proved to be powerful auxiliaries in
accomplishing so desirable an end.
What would be some ot the obvious
beneficial results from the introduction
more generally of cotton manufactur
ing establishments through the .South
ern States. A home market for our
products, employment for many of our
destitute poor, who would constitute
a large portion of the operatives. Un
der the sheltering roof of the school
house and the church, would gather
the children of ignorance and vice;
habits of industry and economy would
take the place of idleness and waste
fulness; there would be more ot sobri
ety and intelligence, social culture,
comfort and happiness. Villages would
spring up, and with them ademand for
other mechanical employments, arts
and artisans : bringing more wealth, a
larger population, less taxation, wiser
legislation, and less official roguery
and corruption. If these views are
well founded, and they are at least
honestly entertained, how strongly
they appeal to every feeling of our
better nature, while at the same time
they address themselves to our stern
judgment, and practical consideration.
Rusticus.
no\F TO LIVE HAPPY.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the follow
ing excellent advice. There is much
human nature and good sense in it :
“ Harmony in the married state is
the very first to be aimed at. Nothing
can preserve affections uninterrupted
but a firm resolution never to differ in
will, and a determination ineachtojpbe Ocmulgee river has filled up and
consider the love of others of more j I s Lot navigable. I am glad to learn
value than any object whatever on | Giat you will address our citizens upon
which a wish had been fixed. How : L'is subject. Yours truly,
light, in fact, is the s!»crifice of any j A. G. Butts.
other wish when weighed against the
affections of one with whom we are
to pass our whole life ! And though
opposition in a single instance will
hardly of itself produce alienation, vet
THE GKKAT WESTER* CA.VAL.
INTERESTING LETTER.
_ /
We publish with pleasure the fol
lowing letter from the Hon. A. G.
Butts, formerly Surveyor General of
Georgia, addressed to the State Engin
eer and Superintendent of Public
Works. There is no man in the State
whose opinion is entitled to greater
respect and consideration than the
writer of the letter. For many years
at the head of the Surveyor General’s
office, and the author of a correct and
admirable map of Georgia, he is well
qualified to utter an opinion upon the
great enterprise which is already at
tracting the attention of men of sound
judgment and practical business sense,
not only in Georgia, but every part of
the country :
Macon, January 10, 1872.
Col. Frobel—Dear Sir : I feel a deep
interest in the proposed Atlantic and
Great Western Canal.
Georgia is the lap to the sea for this
work. It is looked upon to some as a
visionary enterprise. They admit that
the waters of the river may be used
as feeders for the canal, but say that
the Ocmulgee river is not constantly a
navigable stream. •
I was engaged for many years in the
navigation, by steam of the Ocmulgee,
from Macon to Savannah and Charles
ton, and am able to speak from expe
rience. On the first of July, 1S6-5, I
commenced building cotton boats, at
Macon, to move the cotton to market.
(The railroads had been torn up by
the Federal army.) I continued to
load, and sent forward twenty-seven
boats upon the lowest stages of the
river, during the summer and fall
months, from Macon to Darien, with
out an accident or loss to the insurers.
I mention this as a rebuttal against
the fallacy that some have urged, that
Forth* Federal Uniuu.
A* ACROSTIC.
Sweet chernb with the golden hair,
A qneen of Faries bright and fair,
Like an angel that ha« come to earth—
Like an embodiment of mirth,
I see thee smile, I feel a thrill—
Enchanted, charmed-yes, I am still
Enraptured when I view thy face,
True picture 'tis of worth andlgrace—
Unique, for there is none like thee—
Respected by all who chance to see:
No one, I am sure, can lovelier be.
Enjoyment is hia wha dares to claim
Right to changa thy maiden name.
Moultrie, Ga., Jan. 9th, 1872. T. C.
> Hawthorn on the Venus de Me-
| dici.—I could not quite believe that I
| wa3 not to find the Venus de Medici;
1 and still as I passed from one room to
another, my breath rose and fell a lit
^ ii ,* , i • I duUlllel. IlJy IHualll I Uoc dull Itrll d ill -
every one has their pouch into which ! , . ’ / , , , .. c ,
all these little oppositions are put; j 1 c ’ wlt 1 the half-hope, half-fear that
while that is filling, the alienation is ; she might stand before me Really, I
f AX TUI* MOl’TII lIKKini: A MAXI'-
F ACT I'KI *44 t’OlI.VntV t
A correspondent of the Rural Caro
linian writes as follows :
In this day of sore calamity to the
people of the cotton growing States it
becomes every one, while he is so he
roically enduring the evils which sur
round him, to suggest, if lie can, any
little cross purposes of husband am
Flour!
Flour
J\ O'.
COHSN
Rome, Ga.
Manufacturer of the Celebrated
COHEN'S FLOUR,
Keeps, also, constantly on sale all latest improved Mill
Machinery at manufacturer’s price.
Rome, Ga., Feb. 13, 1871. 29 ly
SIXTY-FIVE FIRST PRIZE MEDALS AWARDED.
TS1S GK2AT
friV-iT SOUTSBRK' riANO
n 9 1 ** MANUFACTORY.
Office Ilaeon & Aagusla R. !«., (
Augusta Oct. 6, 1871. )
On and aftei SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8th, 1871,
and until further notice, the Trains on this road
will run as follows :
NIGHT .TRAIN.
Leave Augusta 7:00 p. m.
Leave Macon 6:30 p. in.
Arrive at Augusta ...2:45 p. m. I
Arrive at Macon.. 2:30 p. m.
DAY TRAIN—DAILY
(Sunday* excepted.)
Leave Augusta 11:00 a. m.
Leave Macon 6:30 a. m.
Arrive at Augusta 5:30 p m.
Arrive at Macon 7:35 p. m.
Passengers by flie Night Train, leaving Augusta
at 7 p. rn., will make clo-e connection at Macon
with Southwestern Railroad to all points in South
Passengers leaving Macon at 6:30 p. in will ! possible plilD of relief, consistent wit_ I
make close connections at Augu.-ta with North- ! the good Order of Society. We may . .
~w, in the language of Shake,-1 9h *‘ " ““
Charleston.
Passengers leaving Macon at 6:30 a in., make
close connections at Camak with Day Passenger
Trains on Georgia Railroad for Atlanta and all
points West; also f, r Augu.-ta with trains going
North, and with trains for Charleston; also, lor
Athens, Washington and all stations on Georgia
Railroad.
Passengers from Atlanta, Athens and all points
on Georgia Railroad make close connections at
Camak with trains for Macon. Milledgeville and
Sparta, aud ali stations on Macon & Augusta
Railroad.
Passengers leaving Augusta at 11 a. m arriving
at Macon at 7:35 p. m., make close connections
with trains on Southwestern Railroad.
No change of cars between Augusta and Macon.
First class coaches on all trains.
S. K. JOHNSON, Snp’t.
filling
insensibly going on, and when filled it
is complete. It would puzzle either!
to say why; because no one differ-!
ence of opinion has been marked
enough to produce a serious effect by , T ..
if 1} i . • ir .• J Italian artists, chiefly riorentmes,
itself. But lie hnds liis affections vvea-1 .. ’ , , \ i
caught a glimpse of tier through the j
did not know that I cared so mucl
j about Venus, or any possible woman
marble. At last, when I had come
from among the Dutchmen, I believe,
aud was looking at some works of
I
Recollections of Jenny Lind.—
Jenny Lind made her first appearance
in Copenhagen as Alice, in “ Uobert Ie
Diabie.” It was like a new revelation
in the realms of art; the youthful
fresh voice forced itself into every
heart; here reigned truth and nature ;
everything was full of meaning and
intelligence. Jenny Lind was the
first tiuger to whom the Danish stu
dents gave a serenade ; torchea blazed
around the hospitable villa where the
serenade was given ; she expressed her
thanks hv again singing some Swedish
songs, and then saw her hasten into
the darkest corner and weep for emo
tion. “Yes, yes,” said she, “I will
exert myself; I will endeavor; I will
be better qualified than I am when I
again come to Copenhagen.” On the
stage she was the great artist who
rose above all those around her; at
home, in her own chamber, a sensitive
young girl, with all the humility and
piety of a child. “There will not in
a whole century,” said Mendelssohn,
speaking to me of Jenny Lind, “ be
born another being so gifted as she;”
and his words expressed my conviction.
A noble, pious disposition like hers,
cannot be spoiled by homage. On one
occasion only did I hear her express
her joy in her talent ami her self-con
sciousness. It was during her last
last residence in Copenhagen. Al
most every evening she appeared
either in the opera or at concerts;
every hour was in requisition.—
She heard of a society, the object of
which was to assist unfortunate chil
dren, and to take them out of the
hands of their parents, by whom they
were misused and compelled either to
beg or steal, aud to place them in oth
er and better circumstances. Benevo
lent people subscribed annually a
small sum each for their support;
nevertheless the means for this excel
lent purpose were small.” “ But
have 1 not still a disengaged evening
I The South for Englishmen.—We
were very much interested during the
past week in a conversation with an
intelligent and earnest English work
ing man from Nottingham,who has
been in this country about three
years. He had recently visited North
Carolina and purchased a farm a few
miles from Raleigh, and was most en
thusiastic in his praise of that portion
of the South. It was just like being
arffong people whom he had known
all his life. Their speech, their man
ners, their customs, their feeliugi, were
all in accord with his, and the wonder
was to him that he and so many others
of his countrymen should have been so
profoundly ignorant of the truth with
regard to the South and its people*
He himself is a machinist, and anxious
to make arrangements to erect mills on
the property, upon which he has lo
cated. He states that there are num
bers of skilled workmen iu Notting
ham, men and women who know how
to make laces and many other useful
articles for which that city is celebra
ted, who as soon as they can be con
vinced of the true state of affairs, will
be glad to coine over to settle in the
South.
And we want to add our testimony
to his. There is no doubt but that
thousands of industrious English fami
lies with a little ready money can come
to any portion of the Southern States,
engage, either in farming, or in the
establishment of manufactories for use
ful articles, to which they are accus
tomed and for which a ready market
could be found, and which does not re
quire any heavy outlay of capital to
start them, and make for themselves a
pleasant and agreeable home, among a
kind and homelike people, where they
will find every advantage they now
enjoy at home.— The South.
- , f , r ; . caut’iit a glimpse ot uer uiruuiiii U1L . , Bing ?” said she: “ let megive a night's
ried out by a constant dream of c,iecks ^ of ^ ne jj fc room> It is the best! performance for the benefit of these
and ol^tades. Other ^“ices of dis ; f the serie8< octagonal in shape, I children ; but we will have dou-
content, very common indeed, are the . , . , ’ s . . 1 ’
j i and hung with reu damask, and the
’ight comes down from a row of win-
wife, in common conversation, a dispo-, , . . , , ,
■ • j ‘ dows, passing quite round beneath an
sition in either to criticise and mips-! ’ r i —
tion whatever the other says, a desire j 00 a & ona * 0,ne ‘
always to demonstrate and make him j
feel himself in the wrong, especially in 1
company. Nothing is so goading.—
Much better therefore if one compan
ion views a thing in a light different
from what we do ; laave him in quiet
SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,
Macon &. Brunswick
Macon, Ga , Oct
WM. KNABE & CO.,
rtnrers of
i A\l> I PICHaiT
i ij m U S
Manufacturer* of
URAXD, SQUARE ASD I
RSr
BALTIMORE. AID.
These Instruments have been before the public
for nearly Thirty Y r ears, and upon their excellence
•lone attain'd an unpurchased pre-eminence,
w bich pronounces them un'qualed, in
*0 NE
TOXJC.TS,
WOiiKBrlAWSHIP
And DURABILITY.
tT" All our Square Pianos have our New Im
proved Overstrung Scale and t. e Agraffe
Theeblf,.
ty We would call special attention to onr late
Patented Improvement in Grand Pianos and
Square Grands, found ill no other Piano,
"bich bring the Piano nearer Perfection than has
yet been attained.
EVERY PIANO FULLY WARRANTED FOR 5 YEARS
Ti' r We ar** by special arrangement enabled to
nroish Parlor Organs and PAelodeons
the most celebrated makers, IVholesaU and Ke-
I Luwtst Factory Prices.
Illustrated Catalogues and Price Lists promptly
Qtnished nn application to
^ wn.KNAiix: &. CO., Baltimore, Md.
•ny of our regular established agencies-
°ct. IS, 1871. 12 Cm.
^
NEW "LAW FIRM.
Crawford dc Williamson,
ATTORNEYS at law,
SOI.I4ITORW I* BAAKBt FTUV,
lx milledgeville, ga.
yyILL practice their profession in the counties
of R„ cor,1 P' Bil, Z the Ocmulgee Circuit—the counties
j ^ r,orl ck and Washington, and in the U. S. Circuit
CIIA8 P. CRAWFORD.
WM. W. WILLIAMSON.
29 ly
and
fcnd tv * • *’ v* ii
D “tnct Courts.
* #b U, I87i,
CHAiVUE OF SCHEDULE.
OFFICE, )
. R R. Co., >
.28,1871. )
O N and after Sunday, October 29, 1871, the fol
lowing schedules will be run :
DAY ACCOMMODATION TRAIN DAILY (SUNDAYS !
EXCEPTED.)
Leave Macon (Passenger Shed 8.20 a. m.
Arrive at Jesup -6.45 P. M. ;
Arrive at Brunswick .... 9.25 P. M.
Leave Brunswick 5.45 a. m.
Leave Jessup 8.2(1 A. M.
Arrive at Macon (Passenger Shed) 5 25 P. »i-
Conriects closely at Jesup with trains of Atlaii i
tie >:nu Gulf Railroad, to aud from all points in j
Flu: ma.
THROUGH PASSENGER TRAINS DAILY (SUNDAYS
EXCEPTED.)
Leave Macon (Passenger Shed) 8.10 p. M.
Arrive at Jessup 4.47 a. m.
Leave Jessup 10.20 P. M.
Arrive at Macon (Passenger Shed 6.50 A. M
C»unec:s closely at Jessup with trains for Sav
annah, Florida and all points an Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad. At Macon with Macon and West
ern trains to and from Atlanta
N ■> change of cars between Macon and Savan
nah, and Macon and Jacksonvi.ie. Fla.
HAWKINSVILLE TRAIN DAILY, (SUNDAYS EX
CEPTED.)
Leave Macon
Arrive at Hawkinsville
Leave Hawkinsville
Arrive at Macon
WM. MacRAE, Gen’l SupT
If]
OF
CHOICE STOCK AND TRUE TO NAME
Every Variety of Selected
GARDEN, FIELD AND FL )VVEK SEEDS.
Having over 200 acres devoted to Seed Growing,
all wanting Pure Seeds direct Irom the
G&9 WEB.,
SHOULD SEND their ORDERS DIRECT to us
Descriptive Price List and Catalogue furn
ished on application.
COLLINS, DOWNS & CO.,
1111 4* 1113 MARKE T S TREE T,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Seed Farms near Haddonfield, S*. J.
B.—TRADE SUPPLIED ON LIBERAL
terms.
Dec 12,1871. 20 2m
T. VV. WHITE,
flttatiie.£ at 1£clhl,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.,
W ILL practice in this and adjoining counties.
Applications for Homestead Exemptions, un
der the new law, and other business before the
Court of Ordinary, will receive proper attention.
Milledgeville, Oct. 12, 1868. 11 tf
PLANTERS’ HOTEL
J
AVGUSTA, GA.
Telegraph office and Railroad Ticket office connec
ted with the Hotel.
JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, Proprietor.
Sept 25, 1871. 9 tf
pear’s mixed metaphor, attempt to
“ Take up arms against a sea of trou
bles, and by opposing end them.” We
must struggle on not the less manful
ly, however, if we would see our coun
try prosperous and happy, and leave
to our children an inheritance of free
dom and independence.
With most of us, agriculture is out
vocation, and must continue to be, and
how to make it yield the best returns,
is or should he, our constant study ;
but are there not other employments
better suited to many of our people,
which might prove helpful friends to
agriculture, powerful patrons to our
staple product, bountiful benefactors
to our people, and magnetic influences
to the worthy immigrant, to cast his
lot among us ? It has been said that
no nation can attain to any considera
ble eminence, whose prosperity de
pends upon any one employment; it
would seem, therefore, to be part of
wisdom, to diversify ourindustrial pur
suits, and whilst the sturdy husband
man continues to gather from his
! broad acres the silken fleece of our
! great Southern staple, the swiftly
moving spindles should twist it into
thread, and the restless little shuttle
! construct it into those thousand beau
tiful fabrics which so wonderfully en
hance its value.
j The water-power t»f our streams,
now for the most, part running to waste
is literally incalculable ; the advanta-
j ges of our mild and salubrious climate
3.05 f. m. unsurpassed ; the labor suited to the
6.45 p. m. ; work, and seeking employment, ahun-
* ”'! dant; the compensation to the capital-
i ist especially tempting; and the gen-
eraf good to the country, sufficient to
satisfy the benevolent aspirations of
the purest patriot or philanthropist.—
Are there any reasons why the South
should not manufacture, or at least
spin her own cotton ? If so, what are
they, and how may they be met ? The
firtt that will probably be urged is the
want of capital. This is much less
formidable than at first sight would
appear. The site and adjacent land
for all requisite uses would in many
places be given gratuitously ; building
material ot the best quality would, in
some cases, be found on the spot; and
contractors may be found ready to take
a portion of the expense of construc
tion in the stock of the company. As
to the cash required, let it be demon
strated that the annual, or semi-annu
al dividends, will exceed the prevailing
rate of interest, and the cash portion
of your capital will be readily forth
coming. But says a cautious philoso
pher, the condition of the South, both
financially and socially, is teo unset
tled ; your officials are too corrupt;
your Legislature too ignorant; your
taxes too high. Every word true, but
these evils do not bear any heavier on
manufactures than upon any other
property in the South, iudeed our So-
fons have, on more than one occasion,
use of rectifying him if the thing be
unimportant; let it pass for the pres
ent, and wait a softer moment and con
ciliatory occasion of rehearsing the
subject together. It is wonderful how
many persons are rendered unhappy
by inattention to these little rules of
prudence.”
Dickens’ Early Poverty—The
Great Novelist’s Early Struggles
with Adversity.—The London Times
has let out the secret, through Mr.
John Forster, that all those little life
pictures in ‘ David Copperfielu” were
hut truthful photographs of scenes iu
the real life of Charles Dickens ; that
he himself was the tear eyed compan
ion of “Mick Walker” and “Mealy Po
tatoes,” and that it was the infant
tears of the great novelist that “min
gled with the water in which he and
they washed out bottles.” Many
years of Charles Dickens’s life were
spent among the poor and the unfor
tunate. When he went into the
blacking warehouse to work for a few
shillings per week, it was a great pro- i is of no use to throw heaps of words
motion. j upon her, foi they all fall away, and
Said Dickens, in telling his biogra- j leave her standing in chaste and naked
phy, “I was so very pooj and scantilv grace, as untouched as when I began,
fed then that in going to Hungerford {She has suffered terribly by the mis-
stairs of a morning, I could not resist! haps of her long existence in the mar-
the stale pastry put out at half {trice j ble. Each of her legs has been broken
Oil trays at the confectioners’ doors in in two or three fragments; her arms
Tottenham Court Road, and I often I have been severed ; her body has been
The Venus stands
somewhat aside from the centre of the
room, and is surrounded by an iron
railing, a pace or two from her pedes
tal in front and less behind. I think
she might safely he left to the rever
ence her womanhood would win, with
out any other protection. She is
very beautiful, very satisfactory, and
tuts a fresh and new charm about her
unreached by any cast or copy. The
iiue of the marble is just so much mel
lowed by time as to do for her all that
Gibson tries, or ought to try, to do for
his statues by color, softening her,
warming her almost imperceptibly,
making her an inmate of the heart, as
well as a spiritual existence. I felt a
kind of tenderness for her; an affec
tion, not as if she were one woman,
but all womanhood in one. Her mod
est attitude, which before I saw her I
had not liked, deeming that it might
be an artificial shame, is partly what
unmakes her as the heathen goddess,
and softens her into woman. There
is a slight degree of alarm, too, irr her
face, not that she really thinks any
body is looking at h«r, yet the idea has
flitted through her mind, and startled
her a little. Her face is so beautiful
and intellectual that it is not dazzled
out of sight by her form. Afethinks
this was a triumph for the sculptor to
achieve. I may as well stop here. It
bte prices!
was given,
Such a performance
and returned large pro
ceeds. When she was informed of
this, and that by this means a number
of poor children would he benefitted
for several years, her countenance
beamed, and tho tears filled her eyes.
“ Is it not beautiful,” said she, “that
lean sing so?” Through her I first
became sensible of the holiness there
is iu art; through her I learned that
one must forget one’s self in the ser
vice of the Supreme. No books, no
men, have had a better or more enno-
hliug influence upon me as the poet
than Jenny Lind.—Hens Chrislan An
dersen.
spent in that the money I should have
kept lor my dinner. Then I would
go without my dinner, or maybe
bought a penny roll. For tea,” con
tinued Mr. Dickens, “I used to go to a
broken quite across at the waist; her
head has been snapped off at the neck.
Furthermore, there have been grievous
wounds and losses ol substance in va
rious tender parts of her person. But
coffee shop, and have halt a pint of j on account of the skill with which
coffee and a slice of bread and butler. | the statue has been restored, and also
When I had no money I took a turn} because the idea is perfect and indes-
iu Covent Garden Market, and stared
at the pine apples.”
“I know,” wrote Mr. Dickens, “that
I do not exaggerate and unconsciously
unintentionally the scantiness of my
resources and the difficulties of my
life. I know that if a shilling or so
were given me by any one I spent it
in a dinner or a tea. I know that I
worked from morning till night with
common men and hoys—a shabby
child* I know that I tried, but inef
fectually, not to anticipate my money,
and to make it last the week through
by putting it away in a drawer I had
in the counting house, wrapped iu six
parcels, each parcel containing the
same amount, and labelled with a dif
ferent day. I know that I have loung
ed about the streets insufficiently and
unsatisfactorily fed, I know that, hut
for the mercy of God, I might easily
have been, for any care that was taken
of me, a little robber and a little vaga
bond /”
Boston, the city of huge morality,
requires an annual outlay of $-5S0,Soli
45 for police duty.
Fisk’s estate will settle up at con
siderable over a million. “ Oh, she is
a gay young widow.”
tructilde, all these injuries do not iu
the least impair the effect, even when
you see where the dissevered frag
ments have been reunited. She is^jet
as whole as when she left the hands
of the sculptor. I am glad to have
seen this Venus, and to have found
her so teuder aud chaste.
Nightmare.—It is caused by re
maining so long in one position that
the blood ceases to circulate. How
hard we try to run in our sleep some
times to get out of the way oi some
terrible danger! It does such a per
son no good to ask what’s the matter.
Don’t waste time in asking questions,
but give relief to the sleeper by an in
stantaneous shake, or even a touch of
the body, that breaks the dreadful
spell in an instant, because it sets the
blood going toward the heart.
The Post Office Department is to
be investigated with the probability of
finding something “ rotten” beside the
dead letters.
When Creswell learned that his De
partmentwas about to be ‘interviewed,’
the ‘stamps’ he put upon the floor
were such as are not prescribed by any
of the Postai Laws.
Ivory in Alaska.—Upon every
stream in Alaska that cruises its way
to the ocean are being found vast quan
tities of fossil ivory; the lowlands and
lakes are filled with tusks and bones
of elep'nants of an age long past, and
a race, zoologically speaking, long
since extinct. This ivory is not found
in isolated localities or masses, but
over almost the entire country from
the mountains to the ocean, and in
such abundant quantities that ship
loads of it are being collected and sent
to the markets of the world. Upon
the Yukon river there are such great
amounts to be collected that there are
now a large number of persons en
gaged in collecting the same, and they
are receiving large compensation for
t heir labor. In these localities are
also found some of the most extensive
beds of the finest quality of bituminous
coal vet opened on the continent, and
in them the remains of a flora and
sylva entirely tropical in its recognized
forms. These facts seem to point to
hii aye when our coldest regions were
once the homes of the fair a and flora
of a truly warm latitude not less intense
than that now at the equator.
Getting Honest.—The discontinu
ance of the practice of discounting
Federal currency slightly mutilated,
will be a relief to the people general
ly. The following is published as the
rate of discount on notes so much mu
tilated as to require discounting:
Three-lift: s in one fragment of a
legal tender note, or any currency de
nomination, will be redeemed at its full
face value. More than one-half and
less than five-eights will be redeemed
at half its value. Less than one-half
will only be redeemed on affidavit that
the remainder has been destroyed. It
is expected that this change will great
ly better the condition of the curren
cy-
Christmas in Italy.—Nearly every
country lias a peculiar mode of cele
brating Christmas. In Italy feasting
and singing is the order of the day,
and as the shades of night fall upon
that lovely town, numbers of musicians
go forth to celebrate the one who has
most merited their esteem and appro
bation during the past year.
If the cable news be found short for
a few days the pnblic will understand
that it is be because G. D. Alexis Al-
exandrovitch has shot a buffalo, and
the cable is burdened with the news
to the old man and congratulatory re
sponses.
Alexis Buffalovitch would now be
a good name for him ; or may be Buf-
faloski would do better.
“Barkis is willing.” This week Mr.
Colfax again announces that he‘hasfelt
himself constrained by the earnest re
quest of his friends, to so far yield his
private wishes in regard to retiring
from public service at the close ®f the
present term of office as to say that,
while he cannot ask for renomination,
nor be regarded as antagonistic to the
able men whose names have been sug
gested, he would feel it to be his
duty to obey the voice of those who
represent the party whose principles
he has for so many years vindicated
and supported; and if theyplace him in
nomination for Vice Presidency at the
approaching Republican National con
vention, he will not refuse the nomina
tion While he has sincerely desired
to be excused from further public ser
vice, he has at no time said that he
would refuse to accept of the nomina
tion.”— We have forgotten how many
times Mr. Colfax retired to private life
last summer, but this is the third week
that he has announced that he could not
refuse a nomination. It is sad to con
jecture tiie torture th it has wrung
this confession from him.
Cotton*.—The detailsof the receipts
for the week ending to-night, as also
the totals since September 1st, at each
port to date, are given below :
Port*.
Wk. Kect
Total Rect.
New Orleans,
94,019
486,327
Savannah,
23,221
304,267
Mobile,
10,778
192,890
Charlnston,
1,615
171,769
Virginia,
8,646
165.789
Texas
6,572
117,804
New York and other ports, 1 1,754
110,664
Narth Carolina
581
33.093
Tata!,
95,191
1,582,603
From this table it wiil be that the total
receipts of the season, from the 1st of
September until to-night, aggregate
1,582,003, against, 1,891,909 to the
corresponding date last year, showing
sn aggregate decrease in favor of the
present season of 309,306 Dales, equiv
alent to about 20 per cent, of the total
thus far received. Of this decrease
the last two weeks have developed
about 16 per ceut.—Montgomery Ad
vertiser, I'dth.
Newspapers.—The Macon Tele
graph very justly remarks: “None but
the initiated are aware of the immense
expenditure of cost which is required
weekly in the publication ofa first
class daily newspaper. This is made up
from the agglomeration and power of
liltles. Hence the importance of ad
hering rigidly to the cash system.
Subscribers, too, should remember
that the cost of collecting these small
sums amounts to prohibition, and they
should need no reminder to send in
their dues. A well filled news journal
is a perpetual well-spring of enjoyment
and profit to the reader, and he who is
without one is worse than a heathen.”
A western editor, in acknowledg
ing the gift of a peck of potatoes,
says :
“ It is such kindnesses as these that
bring tears to our eyes. One peck of
potatoes makes the whole world kin.
We have trusted in Providence and
this is our reward. We would like a
little kindling wood and some good
turnips, but that would be asking too
much, so we will cry and do without
them.”
How long will timber last when
completely immersed in water? This
question receives a partial answer at
least in the example of the piles of
the bridge built by the Emperor Tro
jan across the Danube. One of these
piles was taken up and found to be
petrified to thedepth of three-fourths of
an inch ; but the rest of the wood was
little different from if3 ordinary state,
though it had been driven more than
sixteen centuries. The piles under
piers of old London bridge had beeh
driven about 600 years, and, in 1746,
it did not appear that they were ma
terially decayed ; indeed they were
found to be sulficienttly sound to sup
port the massive superstructure. They
were chiefly elm,