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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. > k iv : I! Not mu'tj fill) £1 i r t c t o rn. 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. TM1 © © E TH s Old 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. 55 ft ft ft ft ft ft X> ft 98 * 5 ft ft t 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. Dr. Twsa'e Umir » ye Cwlwre lacki ■alifk^