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VOLUME XL1I.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 3, 1872.
N U X B E R 36.
lU t f b c r a 1 S n i o n,
IX
13 FCBLISHKD WEEKLY
MILLEDGE VILLE, GA.,
BOUGHTON, BARXES & MOORE,
(Cornel* ot Hancock and Wilkinson Streets,)
$2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year.
S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor.
ADVERTISING.
Trassien't.—One Dollar per square of ten line, for
£ rati ion, and seventy-live cents fir each aubee
quent continuance.’
Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies.Obit
uaries exceeding six lines, Nominations for office, Com-
I, ideations or Editorial notices for individual benefit,
charged as transient advertising.
LEGAL ADVERTISING?
> iriff’s Sales, per levy of teu Hues, or less $2 50
Mortgage ti la sales, per square 5 00
T i uuis lor Letters of Administration......... 3 00
Guardianship, 3 00
Application for dismission from Administration, 3 00
“ Guardianship, 3 00
“ ‘ “ leave to sell Land, 5 00
“ for Homesteads, j 7_
> ■ ice to Debtors anil Creditors, 3 00
». - ot Laud, per square 5 00
perishable projierty, 10 days, per square,.. 150
E-uay Notice ,30 days, 3 00
r closure ol Mortgage, per *q., each time, 100
A, p .rations for Homesteads, (two weeks,) 1 75
Book and Job Work, of all kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT Till!, OFFICE.
Agents for Pedcral Union in New York City
ilEO. I > . ROI\ ELL A CO., No. 40 Park Row
S M. PETTINGILL & CO., 37 Park Row.
I'if ' .'i > ssns. Ghifun A. Hoffman, Newspaper
A \riis** ■’ Agents. No. 4 South St., Jialtimore, Aid.,
an-hi. y authorized to contract for ad veitisements at
, ■ rst rates. Advertisers in that City ure request
ed to leave their favors with this house.”
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Pales of Land, Ate., by Administrators, Executors
or (Lmrdians, are required bylaw to b« held on the
th»t fuesday in the month, between the hours of 10
in i •• forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court
H , in the County in which the property is situated,
of these sales must be given in a public ga
e lavs previous to the day of sale.
■es for the sale of personal property must b«
n like manner lit days previous to sale day.
■ to the debtois and creditors of an estate
Iso be published 10 days.
N : • ■ tliai application will be made to the Court of
Ordinary for leave to sell Land, ike., must be publish
Ld tor two months.
Citations for lettersof Administ ration. Guardianship,
k. must he published 30 days—for dismission from
A niiuiistration monthly three months—for dismission
fmm (Inardianship, 40 days.
Kul.s for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish-
ed uiouthiv for lour months—tor establishing lost pa
pers tor (he full space of three mouths—for compell-
iog tit! s from Executors or Administrators, where
lend has been given by the deceased, the full spaceof
three months.
Publications will always be continued according to
these, the legal requirements, uuleasntherwiae ordered.
StilJfbgcbillc business Diutforn.
Attorneys at Iiaw.
IY ERSON L. HARRIS, Office on Hancock st.
L H BRISCOE, office at City Halt.
McKINLEY Sl BARROW, office over Clark's Drug
Store.
CliAW H)RD &. \\ ILLIAMSOK, office iu Masonic
Hall.
SANK >KD Sc FC UMAX, office over Stetaon’e- Store.
T W WHITE, office in Masonic HalL
W. G McADOO, t ffice at residence, cor. Jufferfcoo
and Franklin streets.
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HAIL HOAD TIME TABLE.
Ar ival and Departui e of Trams at Milledgeville.
MACON St AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
I*»y Train.
P mn Train to Augusta arrives at Milledgev., 8.14 a.m.
I'p Train to Macon arrives at Milledgeville, 5.35 p.m.
Night Train.
Arrives from Augusta at 12:15 a m.
“ “ Macon at 8:40 p in.
EATOXTON & GORDON RAILROAD.
Tp Train to Eatonton arrives at Milledgev., 8 45 p. m-
Duwu Train to Gordon arrives “ 2.35 p.m
Post Office TJotice.
Milledgeville, Jan. 18, 1872.
From and. utter this date mailt* will close aa follows :
Mails for Atlanta and Augusta and points beyond
poipg north anti east, will close at 8 o’clock A M.
Mails tor Macon, Sou!liwestern Road, and points
beyond, going- aoutli-wegt will close at 5 P. M.
N1 hi s tor Savannah ami Florida close at 2:15 P. M.
Midi? for Eatonton and Monticello closes at 8:45. P M.
Oftin* hours* from 7 A. M* until 6:80 P. M.
< Mii •* open on Sundays from 8 to 9 1-2 A. M.
Moi v Orders obtained from 7 A. M. until 5 P. M.
JOglAS MARSHALL, P. M.
Church Directory.
BABTIST CHURCH.
Services 1st and 3d Sundays in each month, at 11
o'clock a m and 7 pm.
Sabbath School at 9 I-2 o’clock, am- S N Bough ton,
So;.: Rev. D E BUTLER, Pastor.
Notary Public.
PETER FAIR, office at City Hull.
Physicians.
Dr. S O WHITE, office at residence on Jefferson st.
Dr. G I) CASE, office at lesideuce on Wayne st.
Dr. W H HALL, office over Clark's Drug Store.
Dr J W HERTY. office at Drug Store of Hunt,
Rankin & Lamar.
Dr G EDWARDS, office at residence on Jefferson et.
Southern Hxpress Co.
OFFICE at Conn s Store. W T CONN, Agt*
Bank Agency.
SOUTHERN INS. A TRUST CO - R L HUNTER,
Agt-—Office in Waitzlelder’s Building, upstairs.
Western Union Telegraph Co.
Office in Milledgeville Hotel— Operator,
Family Grocery dit Provision Houses.
SAYl'L A. COOK, No. 1 Milledgeville Hotel.
J.R. DANIEL, No. 8 Milledgeville Hotel.
(i. W. IIAAS. No 6 Milledgeville Hotel, (north end.)
C. VV. GAUSE Sc CO., east bide Wayne street.
T* A. CAKAKEK, Agt. 3d door from corner ot Wayne
and Hancock streets.
MOORE Sc MoCOOK, 2d door from S. E. cor. of
Wayne Sc Hancock streets.
HENRI TEMPLES, Hancock st. east of Wayne.
SAM WALKER, Hancock st., next to City Hall.
P. M. COMPTON ct SONS. Masonic Hall.
C. B. MONDAY, Wayne st, north of Masonic Hall.
C M BONE, Butcher - Meat Store at C B Monday's.
E. J. WHITE, Wayne st. next door north of P. O.
(Sign ot the Rea Flag and White Star,
if. E. HENDRIX, Washington Hull.
W. T. CONN, Wayne st., Brown’s Building.
C. II. WRIGHT Sc SON, Wayne st. west side.
PERRY’ Sc DENTON, west side Wayne st-, 2d door
from Hancock >t.
FRED HAN FT, Wayne st , west side.
MILLER EDWARDS, Hancock st. op. Washington
Hall. *
L. N CALLAWAY, Hancock st.
M B JOEL, Hancock st, opposite Washington Hall
BROOKS Sc ELLISON, Hancock st., opposite Fed
cral Union Printing office.
A F. SKINNER, W* yne st. near the Factory.
From The Home Joarnal (N. Y.)
Propitiatory.
TO 111 V QI EEN-R EON ANT.
BY W G. M ACADOO.
Your Beauty and your Wit
Leap’d in the scales one day;
But which was weightier, it
Would puzzle one to say.
One moment Beauty’s beam
Ascended in the air;
The next, proud Wit would seem
To lose the wager there.
A. Victory (fair coquette 1)
Betwixt the two did waver,
Permitting each, to get
Some semblance of her favor,
Forth came your Common-Sense,
And took the sca'es from both,
Ami called your Kininesa thence,
Who came with steps not loath;
And when I left them there.
As sportive as young whales,
The well-poised partners were
See-sawing in the scales 1
DRESSED IP W'O.UEIY.
surf reflected by some beetling distant
cliff* overhanging the wave-pressed
beach with a stern and perpetual
frown. Alas, that sin and sorrow
must ever press into the most beauti
rul picture of human life whose touches
are given by the pencil of truth !
Alkalis is worthy of the pen of the
distinguished lady who has produced
the book ; and it must add largely to
her already brilliant reputation as a
writer.
Dry Goods Stores.
ADOLPH JOSEPH, Wa'tzfelc.er’s Building.
WINDSOR Jc LAMAR, under Nowell’s Hail.
THOMAS & SANFORD under Newell’s Hall.
YOEL JOEL, Hancock el opposite \\ ashington Hall
H. ADLER, Washington Hall. Aiso Family Groceries
J. ROtsENULD St BRO., at ‘‘.Stetson o Store.”
A. BlfCUOk, No 5 Mikedgevilte Hotel.
CLINE St QUINN, Washington Ha l.
Drug Stores.
JOHN M. CLARK, 8 E corner Wayne A Hancock s's
HUNT, RANKIN A LAMAR, (represented by B R
HERTY,) IVaitzfelder’s Building.
SSiliinery Stores.
Mrs P A LINDRl'M. Waynest, Brown’s Building.
Mrs. N S HOLDRIDGE, No 2 Mil edgeviile lintel
Miss MARY' GARRETT, next door weal W&shiti "ton
Hall.
Furniture Store.
W A J CARAKEK, Masonic Hath
BY BEN JOXSOH.
Still to be neat, still to be drest
As you were going to a feast :
Still to be powdered, still perfumed :
L> dy, it is to be presumed,
Though Art’s hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, ail is not sound.
Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes sin piicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free :
Such sweet neglect m? re takelb me
Than all th’ adulteries of art:
They strike mine eyes, hut not my heart.
Alhnlir, or A Southern , YiUcgginturn :
•A Wiuter’s Tale-” By “Filia”, Author of Agnes
Graham” “Lucia Dure,” etc., etc. Philadelphia:
Claxton, Remsen A Ilaffelfiuger. New Orleans; J.
A Gresham. 1872.
Jewelry Stores.
G T WIEDENMAN, Wayne st, opposite Milledgeville
Hotel.
OTTO MILLER A CO, Waynest.
JAS SUPPLE, Wayne st, north of Post Office.
Photograph Gallery.
BROWNE BROS, over “Stetson’s Store.*’
METHODIST CHURCH.
Honrs of service on Sunday’: 11 o’clock, am,
sod 7 pm.
mii n iy School 3 o'clock p in.—W E Ftankland,
Superintendent.
Friends of the Sabbath School are invited to visit it
S S Missionaiy Society, monthly, 4th Sunday at 2p m
l’i iV'.-r meeting eveiy Wednesday 7 o’clock p in-
Rev A J JARRELL, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Services every Sabbath (except the 2d in each mo)
at I I o'clock a m. and 7 pm.
Subbath School at 9 1-2 a in. TT Windsor, Snpt.
Prayer meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock, p m.
Kev C YV LANE, Pastor.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
W tliont a Pastor at present.
SuLiiiiy School at 9 o’clock, a in.
Dodges.
I. O. G. T.
Milledgeville Lodge No 115 meets in the Senate
Ct.a;ui at the State House on every Friday even-
ini’ at 7 o’clock. C P CRAWFORD, W C T.
i£ P Lank, See’y.
On ! Water Templars meet at the State House eve-
y Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
MASONIC.
Benevolent Lodge No 3 F A M, meets 1st and 3d
Sx day nights of each month at Masonic Hall,
b 1) Cask, Sec’v. 1. U- HOWARD, W. M.
Temple Chaplcrzneets the second and fourth Sat-
Dr ' nights in each mouth.
G H Cask, Sec’y. S G WHITE, H P.
Hiliedgeville Lodge of Perfection A.’.A A.*
S It.', meets every Monday night.
SAM'L G WHITE, T.-.P. .G.-.M.’.
Uko. D. Cask, Exc Grand Sec’y.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Mayor—Samuel Walker.
H'anl ol Aldermen.— 1. F B Mapp:
“ l A Caraktr; 4 Jacob Caraker; 3 J
f Ih-i.ry Temples.
I i rk'and Treasurer—Peter Fair.
Mu: lial—J 1! Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle.
Il-puty Marshal and Street Overseer—Peter Ferrell.
Sc.uon — F Beeland
City Surveyor—C T Bayne.
city Auctioneer—SJ Kidd.
Finance Committee—T A Caraker,Temples, Mapp-
S <eet “ J Ccraker, Trice, McComb
Land 41 McComb. J Caraker, Trice.
<'• in-tery 44 Temples, Mapp, T A Caraker.
Hoard meets 1st and 3d YY'eduesday nights in each
tsrnth.
2 E Trice;
II McComb;
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Judge M. R. Bell, Ordinary—office in Masonic Hall.
■' •• Fair. Clerk Sup’r Court, “
1 ".Jiaii Arnold, Sheriff, 44
V C Bonner. ))•■],'t v Sheriff, lives in the country.
Marshall, Ri-o’r Tax Returns—at Post Office.
J- N t alia wav, Tax Collector, office at his store.
;■ I ■ pies. County Tieasurcr, office at his store.
" H ' u-ii ng, Coronor, residence on Wilkinson st.
’°tui Hi-ntry, Constable, residence on YY’ayne st, near
die Fact ory.
MEDICAL BOARD OF GEORGIA.
br ‘ G ’l>- Cask. Dean. Dr. S. G. WHITE, Pres’d*
Regular meeting first Monday in December-
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Dr THUS F GREEN, Superintendent
^ R Bell, Tr. St Steward.
D ® Hanford, Sec’y. JOHN JONES, Chief-
M & p’jre Co. meets at the Court Room on
and third Tuesday nights in each month.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
COURT OF ORDINARY, l
At Chambers, March 11, 1872. f
WHEREAS, the e.-tate of P. E-Pritchard late of
■, ’‘•id county, deceased, is unrepresented aud like-
• .’° *•; utinue MO; It is ordered that citation issue
, ”6 “j 11 kiudred aud creditors and other persons in-
rested, to appear at said Court at the next May
rm i to show cause why the Clerk of the Superior
i'.°”t should not, at that* time, be appointed Admin-
tlis Gg 0 * 1 4a 'h estate, iu conformity with Sec. 2459 o'
35 )1 M. R. BELL.Ord’y B.C.
House Furnishing Store.
JOS STALEY, S W corner Wayne and Hancock sts
Bar Rooms.
R C CALLAWAY, Hancock st up. Washington Hall.
G W HOLDER, under Milledgeville Hotel.
J II HOLDER, Leikens old stand.
E ti LEWIS, Hancock street, east (if Wavae.
M G L1NCH, Wayne st. Staley’s old stand.
Bur Boom Ar Uilliiin! Mialoon.
C B KELLEY, up stairs over Moure Sc McCook’*.
Confectionerys.
W. T. CONN, Wayne st. Brown’s Building.
G W HAAS, No u Milledgeville Hotel.
J R DANIEL, No3 Milledgeville Hotel.
M B JOEL, Hancock at., opposite Washington Hall
Eater j’.
FRED IIANFT, west side Wayne st
RXilledgeviilc Manufacturing Co.
COTTON &• WOOL FACTORY—F Skinner, Supt.
Wayne st.
Tobacco I&anufactory.
SWEANEY St EVANS, Wayne st.
JOHN JONES,
Warehouse,
Hancock st. near Jefferson.
ZVXills.
HUGH TREANOR'S Grist Mill, on Oconee river.
JOHN JONES Steam Cuttuu Gin aud Grist Mill, Mc
Intosh street.
Milledgeville Hotel.
CALLAWAY & TRICE, Proprietors.
Iiivery and Sale Stables.
T. W. HARRIS, Greeu st., near old Darien Bank.
Contractors dh Builders.
EVES & McELFRESH.
JOSEPH LANE, Shop on Hancock st, east of Jeffer-
non street.
E T ALL1NG.
WM MARLOW, (col’d) Brick Mason.
Shoe Stores and Shops.
FRED HAUG, Boot mid Shoe Store, Wayne street.
D SHEA, Boot Maker, Brown’s Building, up stairs
HAL LOFTIN’, (colored) Shoe Shop, cor liaucuek
and Wilkinson sts.
Tailors.
THOS BROYVX, Shop ou Wayne st. south Post office
YV SUPPLE, up stairs Brown’s building, Wayne st.
FRANK FOARD,(col’d) over C II YVright &. Sou.
Carriage, Wagon and Blacksmith Shops.
GEO A GARNDEK, on McIntosh st.
PARKER Sl COLLINS, Gardner’s old stand.
JAMES SHERLOCK, Blacksmith Shop, Wilkinson
■t opposite new Livery Stable.
JARRATT MITCHELL, (col'd) Blacksmith Simp,
Hancock st opposite old Court Hou-e Lot.
WILKES FLAGG, Blacksmith Shop, YY'ayne st.
EZEKIEL REYNt >LDS, Blacksmith Shop, YY’ayne st.
BEALL St RAIFORD, (col’d) Blacksmith Shop,
McIntosh st. opposite the Steam Gin.
r ashionabie Barber Shop.
II G HEATH, over Wiedeunian’a Jewelry Store.
Harness Shop.
JOHN SINTON, (col) corner Hancock and
kinsoa Streets
Wil-
Notice to the Public!
M r. iu s,
i
_ HOLDRIDGE of Milledgeville is now
prepared to receive Cotton Lint for Kepnirx.
Being a Master Mechanic and Cotton Gin Builder,
and for many years Master Mechanic at Samuel Gris
wold’s Factory at Griswoldville, he does not hesitate
to warrant all his work. Satisfaction will be given or
the money refunded. He can give huudreds of refer
ences in Ualdwiu, Jones, Putnam, Hancock and YY’asli-
ington counties.
Mr II.is the man who in 1859 fitted up and built the
celebrated J. W. St L. L. Moore Gin.
Myshopisina portiou ot the old McLomb Hotel,
convenient to everybody who comes to the city. I
will pay all freight ou Railroad when the job ex
ceeds fifty dollars, and one-hall if less than fitly and
over tweuty-tive. .... ,
All repairing done at the lowest possible prices, and
the workmanship second to uoue. Briug iu your Gins
early to give ample time for repairs.
I am prepared to furnish New CJiu* of the Gris
wold patent, also the latest improved Gullett’s Steel-
Comb Gins, or any other kind desired
H. S. HOLDRIDGE.
P. S. I will keep, in connection with my business,
a few choice Buggies and Harness, which those wish
ing to buy will find it to their advantage to call aud ex
amine before purchasing elsewhere.
H. S. II, Agt.
Milledgeville, March 1,1872. 32 4m
w. H. KAXjL
r|*>ENDERS his professional services to the public
X Office over Drug Store of J. M. Clark.
Milledgeville, March 18, 1872. 34 dm
1 Baldwin County.
\y BEREAS, E. J. White, Administrator ol the
t ari **t*te of John P. Hill, having made his final re-
trm,' n {. Petitions to be discharged from the adminia-
r», v !l cl estate. This is to cite all persons inte-
t4 > »1 a! 0 a PP e * r at the next July Term of said Court
^ I .. t t .. ■■■■ f J Tb n. Inst A M sft,An1d II a!
Krantl*5 llai ’ e w fiy leltenj of dismission should not'be
t0 ‘'in as said administrator
k.-. M. R. BELL, Ord’ry,
«»roh 27,1872 . 35 3m
Grovewood First Class School.
FIRST SESSION opened March
11th will coutiuue five uiontLs. Tui
tion $ 15, first term. Board $10 per
mouth—washing excepted. Dis
tance from boarding house to school
room 300 or 400 yards.
Pupils will be trained thoroughly,
so as to enter the Mt. Zion Academy,
without embarrassment. Apply to
W. R. Ennis, ot Hill’s District, for
the arrangement of board.
J. A. SHIY’ERS, Preceptor.
Hill’s District, Baldwin County. ) 35 3tpd
Marob 27,1871. 5
Among the Southern literary pro
ductions of the year 1S7H, none can
excel in some remarkable merits the
handsome little volume YY’hose title-
page entire is presented abot’e.
It “points a moral” whose keenest
darts must be hurled pitilessly and in
cessantly it modern life in America is
to be saved trum a social corruption,
a material sensualism, threatening to
engulf it: a sensualism whose most
striking parallel in history is to be
lound alone in the corrupter ages of
the decline of the Roman Empire; a
corruption which rotted it to its fall.
The Yvorld is filled with unreasoning
optimists who dream of a rapid ap
proach of man to a species of moral
perfection scarcely lower than that of
the angels. They are deceived by
their wishes ; possibly (some of them)
by their own blind personal virtues;
very many by the swift material pro
gress mankind seems to be making.
But the wiser and sadder see that mor
als do not keep pace with our railway
progress, and that the instantaneous
flash of intelligence over the globe by
electric wires serves quite as often the
cause of Mammon as the cause of God.
The fabric of modern social life in
America is in great danger. The pes
tilence tirst assailed the Northern life
where its virulence is understood to
prevail with greatest force even yet.
But the War developed into compara
tive activity in the South the latent
seeds which ever lie dormaut in human
nature, like undeveloped tubeicles in
the healthiest mortal liable to consump
tion. To (hose who remember the
pure life, the simple dress, the earnest
religion, the sturdy virtue of the Lu-
cretian school prevalent in the plain
republican simplicity of our grand
parents, the downward stride of the
present day is vast and appalling.—
Who so simple as to be surprised at
American MormonismV It is but the
logical out-cropping of the genius of
the age ! In high life—in Ioyv life—
in the North—in the South—in the
Churches—out of the C.'.nrches—in
one sex—in the other—this appalling
“rot in morals” progesses.
Athalie is a warning voice, raised
in the far West, beyond the turbid wa
ters of the swift-rolling Mississippi,
by one of the most accomplished ol
the fair daughters of the South. The
warning is uttered with all the delica
cy of a pure and noble mind, and with
the power of a practised and polished
genius. The lesson is terrible. “But
he kuoweth not that the dead are
there ; and that her guests are in the
depths of hell.”
We are unauthorized to mention the
author of this powerfully-Yvritten sto
ry except as she has chosen to be
known to the world under the pseudo
nym of “Filia.” The friends of South
ern literature however, after reading
“Athalie” Yvould do well to read of
her in the volume (pp. 74—So) recent
ly published, entitled “Living Female
Writers of the South” They Yvould
there learn that she occupies a Y’ery
prominent place in the Southland’s
literature ; and that she is a lady by
birth, by culture, by travel, by noble
traits, second to none iu the land. We
have before us a letter in which she
gives details of a most interesting
interview with England’s greatest
author, Thomas Carlyle, w’hom she
met in London during a European
tour of 1S71.
Aside from its needful moral, the
literary beauties of Athalie are of the
highest order. Its portraiture of life
in the South-West is vivid, truthful
aud artistic—life in two phases . that
of lofty culture, refinement aad hospi
tality to be met with even yet in the
semi-feudal seats of ante-bellum wealth
not wholly destroyed by the great
Aphelion of 1SG1-5 ; yet lingering here
and there in a iesv happy paradises
where the Mammon of the latest mod
ernism has not yet succeeded in gliding
with Satanic fatality : the other, that
of a lower class in point of intelli
gence and culture ; yet a class filled
with the dreamy fire that too often
burns along the thrilling veins of the
South’s warm-hearted children of the
sun. In this class are thefated Letty, and
John Caldwell, whose thrilling story is
told with the power and pathos of a
master. In reading its pas»ionate
pages, one is reminded ot those fine
prose-poems of Lamartine full of the
abandon of genius, sounding the heights
and depths and breadths ot the human
heart in its most wondrous capacities
tor sadness and for joy, but with the
unceasing dirge-like echo of the ocean’s
For the Federal Union.
FORT FIDIl'S.
Soon after the close of the ReY’olu-
tionary War the Tories, the border In
dians, and runaway negroes from South
Carolina, became very troublesome on
the Western frontier of Georgia ; so
much so that all the troops from the
New England States, Maryland, Vir
ginia, North Carolina and South Caro
lina had to be ordered into Georgia
and stationed on her frontier, as near
the center as practicable, and were
located on the Oconee river, about six
miles below Milledgeville. There they
built a fort on or near the river, which
they called Fort Fidius, which place
is still visible, and on Mr. Harper Tuck
er’s plantation. A place just above it
became the most public as a crossing
place and trading town on the riY’er, and
was known as the Rock Landing Place
A large warehouse was built on the
high bluff of the river, and a good deal
of produce and merchandise was ship
ped to and from that place. Quite a
large town was settled there, and pro
duce shipped to and from it. A gar
rison vv’as settled there, troops sta
tioned, and a strong picket defence
surrounded the enclosure very effici
ently. It was the general trading
town for all the country near it. As
Hancock county settled up, it became
too public for a garrison. The Gov
ernment then ordered the garrison re
moved across the river, and Fort Wil
kinson was built on the west bank of
the river. Georgia was settling up
rapidly, and a rigid order was issued
by the General Government prohibit
ing any intercourse between the races.
A white man Yvas not allowed to cross
the Oconee river from its mouth to its
head source. If an Indian caught a
Yvhite man on the western bank of the
Oconee, he tied him and carried him
to the garrison ; the officer received
him, put him in irons, and sent him off
to Savannah and put him in jail, and
there kept him until the next term of
the Federal Court, when he would be
severely punished.
The first man that ever Yvas hanged
in this county was a regular soldier,
hung for killing a man who Yvas caught
stealing his fish.
A line of garrison defence was es
tablished from Carolina on the sea
coast of Georgia, upon its western bor
der, up to point near Knoxville, in Ten
nessee, which required all the availa
ble. force of the army, and left in Fort
Wilkinson a large number of women
and children, with twelve hundred
young women, whom the Government
did not know what to do with. The
treaty of Fort Wilkinson had just
been concluded. General Levi Lin
coln, General Wilkinson, and Colonel
Benjamin Hawkins were the Commis
sioners who made the purchase of the
Iudians. Arrangements were then
made for the removal of the garrison
to Fort Hawkins, on the Ocmulgee.
The great difficulty then to over
come was to make some disposition
of the young women then in the gar
rison who had grown up; there were
1200 of them. Colonel Boat, then in
command of the garrison, determined
to dispose of them by lottery. He
ordered them enrolled alphabetical
ly, and ordered the draYving to take
place the first of June, by putting
1200 ballots in thebox—400 prizes—
800 blanks. Three months thereaf
ter a second lottery occurred; and
three months afterwards the third
lottery came off. The parties were
ordered at each lottery to be pre
pared to leave the garrison imme
diately after the drawing was over,
and then they were put over on the
east bank of the river—forever there
after to take care of themselves.
Just about this time the garrison,
all, including men and women, wore
their hair extremely long. The men’s
beard aud hair hung down as low as
their waist when they were dressing
themselves. Gen. Henry Knox was
the Secretary of War, and he ordered
the garrison mustered on a given day,
and the commissioned officers shaved
and shorn (on the first Tuesday in May,
1S04); and on the Friday following,
the non-commissioned officers and pri
vates should be treated in like rnauuer.
The day the commissioned officers
were ordered to be mustered, shaved
and shorn they all appeared, beauti
fully shaved aud shorn, as prescribed
by General Order from the Department
of War. And the extra women had
left the garrison without murmur or
complaint, in conformity to orders.
In your next paper I may make
some reply to Mr. Jones’ late commu
nication on the mounds on the Ocmul
gee river, near the city of Macon.
The Ciacinnati Convention.
What will the May Convention ot' liber
al Republicans do? This is the question
which more than half of the voters of the
United States are seriously asking one an
other, at the present time. Will that
body nominate a presidential ticket, or
will it adopt a platform and then adjourn ?
Will it take the first steps towards the or
ganization of a new party or will it at
tempt to reform the old ? We are not ad
vised, but there are certain facts which
lead to the conclusion that uo ticket will
be nominated in May. The convention
is not called for that purpose. Thu lea
ders iu the projected organization say that
the reform is to be worked out in the Re
publican party, if possible. They seem
to hope that the action of the Cincinnati
Convention will secure the defeat of
Grant at Philadelphia. They have acted
with the Republican party so long, that
they cannot yet believe that its mission
ended. So they are hoping against
hope that their expostulations may pre
vent the nomination of Grant. But while
there is a bare possibility that they may
bo able to dictate who shall not be nomi
nated by the regular Republican Conven
tion, they cannot hope to say who shall be
the nominee at Philadelphia. The Cin
cinnati Convention is to be a convention
of Republican*, it must be recollected.
The call is addressed, not to Democrats,
but to “Republicans who desire the re
foams set forth” in tiie Missouri platform,
which was adopted, almost rerbatnn, by
the Democrats of Connecticut. The oc
casion for the bolt is to be the re-nomina
tion of Grant. We conclude that the
principal work of the Cincinnati Conven
tion will be the adoption of a platform to
be the basis of a new party, if it should
become necessary to organize one, and to
intimidate the Philadelphia convention.
Should the Republican convention nom
inate Grant,—and there is very little
doupt that it will,—then it will be neces
sary for the liberal Republicans to perfect
tbeir organization and name a candidate of
their own. Who will be the man? Here
all is doubt and uncertainty. The names
most frequently mentioned in this connec
tion are those of Senator Trumbull, of Illi
nois, B. Gratz Brown, of Missuuri, J udge
Davis, of Illinois, and Charles Francis
Adams of Massachusetts. Judge Davis has
already been nominated by the Labor Re
formers, and has accepted the nomination.
Of fbe men we have named, we regret
Judge Davis as the very weakest candi
date. In the Eastern States, Mr. Adams
would probably be the strongest, and we are
not certain but that he would also be the
stongest in the West, although Senator
Trumbull and Governor Brown are both
popnlir men. Probably one of the four
men we have named will be the candidate
of the liberal Republicans.
One feature of the campaign is worthy
of special notice. The Republicans who
are opposed to Grant, and who are prepar
ed to sustain the action of the Cincinnati
Convention, are taking veiy little interest
iu the election of delegates to Pbiladel
phia. Resolutions enendorsing Grant
were adopted unanimously, by the Rhode
Island Republican Convention, although
there is a strong faction in that State op
posed to the renomiuation of Grant. The
only State convention yet held, in which
anti-Grant delegates have taken part, was
in Kentucky, and there they withdrew rath
er than bind themselves to support the
nominee of the Pniladelphia Convention.
This is the light policy. 1 hey give fair
notice, in this way, to the friends of Grant,
that they will not support him, and leave
the men who control the organization to
decide whether they will insist upon his
nomination.
W e see that an effort is to be made to
so direct the proceedings of the Cincinnati
Convention, that its platform aud candi
dates may receive tbe support of the ex
treme protectionists, including Mr. Greely.
If this is carried out, we predict that it
would be the death of the reform move
ment. A reform party, which begins by
suppressing its principles, is not likely to
amount to much.
Max Adaler in the Pittsburg Leader, Feb 2d.
THE FIRST MAX.
Adam One Handred Miles Hi|b.
We learn from a recent book that Adam (whom
many of our readers will doubtless remember as
tb- first man) was according to rabbinical tradi
tion, one hundred milts high. If this i* really
true, every one of us ought to be fervently thank
ful that the race lias dwindled since Adam’s day.
It is appalling to thiuk of tire inconvenience and
expense to which we should be subjicte l it we re
tained Adam’s dimensions. A man would re
quire, we should judge, trowsers fifty mihs long
and about four hundred furlongs of suspenders.—
And, if we were to preserve the proper proportions
in our dress we should each require about sixty
thousand cubic feet of higb bat. YY’hen a small
family of such meu died the entire State ot Penn
si Ivania would ba required as a cemetery ;.and
the way the undertakers would accumulate char
ges tor e.oftins would be simply frightful. So it is
better as it is. Adam did very well while he was
alone in the world ; but just at present a man of
his inches, who lived in Philadelphia, could hardly
sit down without mashiug Lancaster out of exis
tence.
YVe learn from an English paper that during
some recent explorations by a party of scientist!
among the ruins of Nineveh, a petrified umbrella
was f niud iu one of the temples. A description
ot the interesting relic is not given ; but it it is a
green gingham umbrella with a hook on the han
dle, it is probably oura. for we missed one of that
kind several years
may have found its way
that we can not imagine how it could have got
there, for we have no recollection of ever lending
it to Jonah and we repose too much confidence iu
the integrity of that prophet to suppose that he , . , * . _ .. . :n„,
would l ave carried it off with him after one of his i shin© ttflJ poetrj that CHH llllllftlORtO
Things Worth Forgetting.—How
much wiser we would be if we could
remember all the things worth remem
bering that occur day by day all a-
round u9. And hotv much better we
should be if we could forget all that is
worth forgetting. It is almost fright
ful and altogether humiliating to think
how much there is in the common on
going of domestic aud social life which
deserves nothing but to be instantly
and forever furgotten. Yet it is ama
zing Iioyv large a class there is who
have no other business but to repeat
and perpetuate these very things. This
is the vocation of gossips—an order of
society that perpetuates more mischief
than all the combined plagues of Egypt
put together. Blessed is that mau or
woman who can let drop all the burs
and thistles, instead of picking them
up and fastening on to the passenger.
Would we let the vexing and mali
cious sayings die, how fast the lacera
ted and scandal-ridden world would get
r« ago, aud just as likely as not it' healed and tranquiltzed. Forget the
its way to Ninevah. w e admit 1 g08si pj ng8 an d bickerings, the back
bitings and mean inuendoes, and re
member only the little gleam of sun-
visits to our bouse. Thu iheory that we left it in the humblest life, if we only drive
the temple ourselves is hardly plausible, because
we do not remember having gone to the church iu
Ninevah ; and it is ahsutd, anyhow to suppose
that tbe sexton ot the temple wonld have permit.,
ted that umbrella to remain in the pew for years,
until it was petrified, without embezzling it. Cer
tainly it is very strange. We can not account for
this umbrella, hut we are willing to take it, and
accept the chance of its being ours. No man shall
away aud forget the clouds engendered
by things that should never be remem
bered.
The Cincinnati Gazette says : “ The
bridge now iu process ot erection
ever say that wo shirk responsibility when it falls across the Mississippi aC bt. Louis is
upon us. j one WOIi d er8 0 f the age. It is
M*re Rudirni.ina. to be atubular, cast-steel, arch bridge,
Wo find the following letter in the New York Supported by the abutment ,ind two
Son, which says “it is published in Kansas in piers; the iattef ate 515 feet apart,
RosJs Paper, the editor of which says that he has and 499 feet each from its nearest
in possession the original in Pomeroy’s handwri- abutment, making three spans of 500
tin K feet each. Its greatest span is the
MV DEAR Slit t-H^ryou^ft Amended 8ame ^ °/ the Kullenberg bridge
any one to sell goods to the Pottcnvaitoraies ? If OV6T the Leek, an arm Ol the Klline,
not, I have a plan—Mr. T., of New York, will j n Holland. Telford’s Suspension
take hold and furnish a splendid lot of goods— , , . r - - * ,
providing he gets the license to sail exclusively oil bridge aCTOSS the iYleiial fttraltS U.IS a
the reserve at St. Mary’s Mission. You can give spall uf 570 feet. TheVlctoriatubu-
the Indians an order for gjods ou this store—and |5_ • _ ,,f Mm tn.nl orcooria
those orders are accepted when the annuities are laf ,ro11 blu, g« pt Montreal eXCeeilS
p tid—this proceediug is recognized here at the this greatly ill length, being 5,GOO
Department-and is all right—1 send enclosed a f eet /[l miles) but it rests Upon twetl-
torm ot a letter lor you to send back to me to give . , ' . ' . , 1
to Mr. D. But I don't deliver it until Mr. T. and ty-fotir piers, and its spans are mainly
C. of Lawrence—now figuring here in Indiau mat- only 275 feet. Tile suspension bridge
ters—and who have an agreement with each other ! , vr: _ nana coi (L pr OK
—about gooJs—I say I don’t deliver your recom- , 1 -t^ldgiira spans o«.i It,et, a ^
inundation until I have executed to me a contract feet above the water. The Ease river
to have oue-fonrth of the profits paid to W. E.
Uayloru as my share, and one-fonrib of all profits
paid to Mr. (name him to me) for ywurshare.
Y'.,u and I, through our own friends, are to have
one-half ot the profits and T. an J C. the other halt"
aud Tappau to do all the business and we have
nothing to do. only to take our share of profits at
each payment.
You will see from this letter what kind of a re
commendation to give to Mr. T. But don’t fail to
send it to me, as they must cjme to terms before
they get the license. T. is a grand fellow It’s
ail right.
Let me hear from you at once. Truly,
S. C. Pomeroy.
The Detroit River Tunnel.—
Work on the (Detroit side) shaft was
begun December 1, 1870, and was
finished January 31, of this year, when
the bed rock was reached, 108 feet be
low the bed of the river ; depth of
masonry, 114 feet; upper 89 feet is
15 feet diameter and 16 inches thick ;
the remaining 25 feet has a diameter
of 9 feet with 12 inch walls. The
drainage tunnel staits from the bottom
of the shaft, S feet above the rock,
leaving well below for Yvater that may
come into the shaft. Drainage drift ex
cavated under the river to a point 130
feet from the shaft, a daily average of
5 feet, through very hard clay, having
layer ol' builders from a few feet to a
cubic yard in size half way up iu the
drift. Latterly these are smaller and
less frequent, and it is thought will
either run out or dip below bottom of
the drift. Portions of the tunnel have
stood well a week unsupported, but
the tunnel is carelully lined with ma
sonry within a day or two—an eight
inch circle of the hardest brick, every
one subjected to the most rigid inspec
tion and laid in a hydraulic cement.
The drift rises from the shaft to centre
of a river on grade of one foot in
1000. The line was located above
giound by triangulation, and transfer-
ferred below by means of plumbob in
water, suspended down shaft by tine
silk cords. As tbe distance between
them was so short that an error of
1 32 would throw the work out 6 or S
iuches at the middle of river, a drift
has been run back from the shrift 5 4
feet, and an iron tube is being sunk to
its end, iu which a plumbiine may b#
suspended and a longer range obtain
ed. The drainage drift is not straight
across the river, but has two short
curves in it. Work has been com
menced on the shaft at Windsor, and
a tunnel will be excavated from it to
meet that being worked from the De
troit side. It is anticipated that the
main tunnels will be surrounded their
whole length with good solid ground,
guitable for construction—firm blue
clay. Developments have thus far
been quite as favorable as was expect
ed when the plans and estimates were
prepared, and show nothing to dis
courage a reasonable belief that the
work will be carried to a successful
issue.
Tbo State convention of the Gonserva*
tive party of North Caroline will meet at
Greensboro* on Wednesday, the 1st day
of Hey next.
The Extent ok Esuland.—Hon James
Brooks, iu a letter from Calcutta speaks as follows:
England, once more, one everlasting England !—
That little sea-girt island has not only girdled tbe
great isles of the world, and put its stamp upon
them, lint here am I, in the portals of the great
Brilish East India Empire, the very magnitude of
which is astounding Think of it, over2lid,tllI0,-
IlhtJ of people, native and British in the Indian
Government proper, under the British flag ! Sa
tiated with the very vastness of dominion here,the
British Crown declines more land, and all the pop
ulation it wants—nay, more, too, refuses actually,
to be bothered with yet more ! Think of the rev
enues and expenditures of this British Iudian Em
pire. $2()il,000,000 of nur money, incoming and
outgoing, each year. Think of it* immense army,
320 (HIU iu all, of whom 70.000 are European sol
diers, the others, Indians, under British officers,
all! Think ol a Christian government over 110,-
000,000 of Hindoos, 25.000,000 of Mussulmans,
12,000.000 of Aboriginal Nothingarians, 3,000,000
of Buddhists, Ate. ! YVhata medley of humanity
to rule ! What a mixture of laws, as weli as of
creeds, and of tongu“s and languages ! (There
a-e sixteen, or more, language* that a British ru •
ler ought to iearu.) What a vast trade, some
$250,000,000 of imports, and over $500,000,000 of
exports 1 The little England at home, which gov
erns all this vast territory aud these millions ef
people, dwindles, herseif, into ins gmficance, when
contrasted with this, her mighty empire of the
East.
The Proposed “Channel Tunnel ’*—After
a delay of soiiii ten years, a company has actually
been organized in London for the purpose of bull-
ring a tunnel under the Straits of Dover,and open
ing railroad communication between England
and the continent. The New Yoik Bulletin, in au
bridge will span L,000 ieet, at a height
midway of 130 feet.”
Wendell Phillips on Tom Scott: —
“Your great fellow-citizen, whom
some people irreverently call Tom
Scott, is at the head of a company con
trolling $350,000,000. He places one
hand on the Atlantic and the other on
the Pacific ; his influence extends from
Saginaw to Mobile, and when he walks
eastward from the Golden Gate the
wind of his coat-tail topples over a
State Legislature at every strike.”
The trial of Marshal Bazaine for the
surrender of Metz is expected to take
place soon in Paris. As he can only
be tried by his peers, there is some dif
ficulty in assembling a court-martial
which is competent, for the reason that
nearly all the Marshals of France, of
whom the court must be composed,
Yvere themselves concerned in similar
transactions during tiie late war.
Out Yvest the new synonym for “re
tiring” is “Colfaxing.” Parents no
longer admonish their children that it
is “time to go to bed,” but tenderly
observe, “My darlings, it is time you
Colfaxed.”
Savannah has five Building and Loan
Associations that in a few years have
aided the material prosperity of the
city $500,000.
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Of all the German papers in this
country, numbering more than one
exhaustive article on the subject, says : “Should hundred and thirty, Only six are still
the experiment, which is certainly a bold one, sac- ! ,• , - - \ ™
eeed, it is probable that other works of a like char- i Grant and 1US administration. We
acter will soon be projected. England aud Ire- j make this Statement UpOU the authori-
land would next be united : a tunnel would prob- I t f U Washington Patriot,
ably be cut under tbe North Sea iu the course of j J &
time; and thus, between the tunnels, eiiip-canals, ! — ■ •"
railway bridges, and telegraph, the crooked paths j It is a good and golden rule never
ot commerc will he made straight, the widely . ° . y .
separated nati ns brought into closer, and more in- to Sii y wliat may lead you into a dispute
timate intei .communication, and great material | with any person; if a person be in
l with which what ' _ ‘ *t
results achieved, in comparison
engineering science has already accomplished will
seem as nothing.”
Be Steadfast.—An English admiral, who ro»e
to his high station by his own stea ly exertions,
used to be fond of relating, that, on first leaving a
humble lodging to join ins ship as a midshipman,
his landlady presented him with a Bible and a
guinea, say:ng, “God bless you and prosper you,
inv lad : and, as long as you live, never softer
yourself to be laughed out of your money or your
prayers "
error and be obstiaate, that is no
reason why you should dispute with
him, and make yourself uncomfortable
to put him right.
Orders have been issued for the con
struction of a double track on the en
tire line of the Philadelphia and Erie
railroad, from Sunbury to Erie. The
The young sailor carefully followed jhis advice | wor k j 8 to Commence in the spring, as
through life, and had reason to rejoice that he did j c, °
b regretted, when too s on ns the ground is fit to work.
nurse 1
A monster fish resembling in all re
spects an elephant, but covered with
scales, has been washed ashore near
Cape Hatteras. It is thirty feet long.
When you can’t think of what your
wife charged you to bring home, get
hair pins. They are ahvays handy in
the house.
while thousands have regretted, when too
late, that they have puisued a different course
Never let your honest convictions be laughed
down. Be true to yourself; and, in the end, you
will not only be respected by the world, but have
the approval of your own conscience. Bee to it
that whatever you lose, whether it be money or
place or reputation, you do not lose courage, hon
esty, simplicity, or truthfulness.
Tltr Position ®f Judge Da via.
Much interest will necessarily attach to the tele
gram from the New York Evening Post, which is
given below, because the statements come from
sources that are entitled to claim every confidence:
Washington, March 20.—The friends of Judge
Davis authorize the publication of the following
statements: The Judge accepted the Columbus
nomination in a telegraphic dispatch which has
been widely published, and he has heid no other
correspondence ou that subject, public or private
He has not sought, directly or iudirectiy, by any
agency whatever, and will not seek the nomination j '■
ufauy convention for the Presidency, aud he de- ! The wet weather has very seriously retarded
dints to enter into any political correspondence or i crop operations in Baker and Calhoun counties,
arrangement concerning a nomination, deeming
The word “Backgammon” is of Welch
origin, signifying “little battle.”
Conyers is disposed to brag. Two years ago it
' was a mare settlement. To-day it has tweuty-
j live business houses, four churches, two schools,
'etc., and is altogether iu a prosperous condition.
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such a course incouMStcUt with tbe proprieties of
his present judicial trust. His position is plainly
this : If people who seek to bring about a reform
in the government, wiio favor amnesty for politi
cal offenses, a cordial restoration of the Union in
all its integrity, the supremacy of the civil over
military power, tiie upright enforcement of the
laws, hostility to ccntialixation, aud integrity iu
the administration of atlairs, desire him to repre
sent them as a candidate lor the Presidency, he
will accept that honor, because those principles
accord entirely with his own convictions.
State Road Frauds.—One of the State Road
committees has returned from np the road. It
got lots of proof ot trauds, aud will probably make
a good many arrests.
The evidence gained against Hoyt was very
damaging. Over $29H,00U worth of wood was
used ou the road in 1870, when $100,000 worth
was ample. Of th.s Hoyt got pay for $184,000,
and other parries for $100,000- In many cases
two parties got pay for the same wood. Citizens
put the wood ou the road and were paid, aud Hoyt
brought the wood to bis engine, where ha cut it
np for use, and got pay for it as furnished by him
Large uuiubers of witnesses were examined and
gave valuable evidence. Men have been implica
ted little to be inspected of such gnilt.
A little reprobate wanted a sister or brother to
play with. His ma suggested he should pray for
one. The devout child kneeled down and prayed
for a hundred (M0) brothers and sixty v t>0) sisters.
He slept very warm that night without any extr*
bed clothe*.
“It Aria l.ike a Charaa.”
Th : s is what we hear on all aides of DR.TUTT’S
EXPECTORANT. In case* of Croup, Brouchi-
tii, Asthma au-1 all Pulmonary Diseases it affords
inBUut relief It permeates the very substance of
the Lungs and causes then to throw off all acrid
matter. It is very pleasant to the taste. Chil
dren take it readily. <,
New York, August 31,1869.
Dr. Wm. tt. Tull: *
Sir—When id Aiken, laat winter, I used your
Expecto: ant for my cough, and found more bene
fit from it thau any I ever used. I took half a aoaea
bottles home with me, and uave had to give some
of it to my friend*. Please send me one dozen by
KXP ALFRED CUSHING, 123 We*t31st Street.
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