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VOLUME XLII.j
MILLED SEVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 12, 1872.
N II M B E R 46.
ft jj e J-fberal Union,
IN
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Sheriff’s Sales, per levy of teu lines, or less, $2 50
“ Mortgage ff la sales, per square 5 0U
Citations for Letters ol Administration, .... 300
“ “ Guardianship,.. ..... 3 00
Application lor dismission from Administration, 3 00
“ “ “ “ Guardiansbip, 3 00
“ “ leave to sell Laud, 5 00
“ for Homusteads J 7j
Noticeto Debtors and Creditors, 3 00
gales o! Land, See., per square 3 00
“ perishable property, 10 days, per square,.. 150
Estray Notices, 30 days, 3 (;0
Foreclosure oi Moi tgage, per sq., eacii time 1 00
Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,) ] 75
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Laud, Sco., by Administrators, Executors
•r Guardians, are required bylaw to be held on the
first Tuesday intlie month, between the hours of II
in the toreuoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court
House in the County in which the property is situated.
Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga
lette 40 days previous to the day of sale.
Notices for the sale of personal property must be
given in like manner 10 days previous to safe day.
Notices to the debtois and creditors of an estate
must also be published 40 days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of
Ordinary for leave to sell Land, &.c. t must be publish
ed tor two months.
Citationsfor letters of Administration.Guardianship,
See., must be published 30 days—for dismission from
Administration monthly three months—fordismission
from Guardianship, 40 days.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish
ed monthly for four months—for establishing lost pa
pers for the full space of three months—for compell
ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where
bond has been given by tlie deceased, the full space of
three months.
Publications will always be continued according to
these, the legal requirements, unlessof iierwiae ordered.
From theSoutberu Recorder.
KOI.DEN VOICES.
BY MARY FAITH FLOYD.
When sunshine o’er earth's verdant breast,
Pours out its radiant gold.
And gilds thr hills, and paints the trees
With magic touches bold,
Wy soul drinks draughts of calm delight,
That alt my senses fill:
Then nature's golden voices deep
My quivering pulses tbnll.
Wh en winds art stirred with angry howls,
With tumults loud and hoarse,
Wrapping the sun in clouds of gloom.
Loosing the lightning’s force.
In gleaming, forked tongues of flame—
When maddened oceans reel.
Then wild suhlimely golden tones
Through coral soul-depths peal.
When ebon night hangs o'er the world.
Her woudrous starry fold,
And Dian pale through rushing clouds
Walks like a huntress bold,
Sad Mem ry wulks, and opes the door,
And waves her phantom hand;
Oli then the golden voices dear
Sweep from the spirit laud!
Voices that speak from friends who once
Were treasured jewels here
In earth’s rich peiishing cabinet ;
Rut now, in loftier sphere,
Swell out in heavenlier tones than earth’s
Most charmed symphonies,
And forge, with golden music’s bars,
Links bfting us to skies.
October, J871.
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ft i 1 g g i r t c t o r 5.
HAIL ROAD TIME TABLE.
Anival and Departure of Trams at Milledgevillo.
MACON 6c AUGl’STA RAILROAD.
I* n T Train.
Pawn Train to Augusta arrives at Mil'edgev., 8.17 a m.
Up Train to Macon arrives at Milledgevillo, 7 23 p.m
Night Train.
Arrives from Augusta at 10:20 a m.
“ “ Macon at 12:15 a in.
EATONTON Sc GORDON RAILROAD.
Up Train to Eatonton arrives at Milledgev., 8.45 p. m.
Down Train to Gordon arrives “ 2.35 p. m
Post Office ZtTotice.
Mu.i.fogevii.le. dan. 18, 1872.
From and after this date mails will close as follows :
Malls for Atlanta and Augusta and points beyonu
going north and east, wi I close at 8o’clock A M.
Mails lor Macon. Southwestern Road, and points
beyond, going south-west, will close at 5 P M.
ilp.i s for Savannah and Florida ch se at 2:15 P M.
Mails for Eatonton and Monticello closes at 8:45- P M.
Office hours from 7 A. M. until ti.30 P. M.
Office open on Sundays from 8 to 9 I -2 A. M.
Money Orders obtained from 7 A. M. until 5 P. M
JOSIAS MARSHALL, P. M.
Church Sirectory.
* BAPTIST CHURCH.
Services 1st and 3d Sundays in each mouth, at 11
•’clock a m and 7 p til.
Sabbath Schftol at9 I-2o’clock, am. S N Bougbton,
Supt. Rev. 1) E BUTLER, Paetor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Honrs of service on Sunday : 11 o’clock, a m
and 7 p in.
Sunday School 3 o'clock p m.—W E Ft ankland,
Superintendent.
Friends of the Sabbath School are invited to visit it
S S Misstonaiy Society, monthly, 4th Sunday at 2 p m
Prayer meetiug evety Wednesday 7 o’clock p m-
Rev A J JARRELL, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Services every Sabbath (except the 2d in each mo)
at I I o’clock a in, and 7 p in-
Sabbath School at 9 1-2 a m. T T Windsor, Snpt.
Prayer meetiug every Friday at 4 o'clock, p m.
Rev C W LANE, Pastor.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Without a Pastor at present.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock, a m.
lodges.
I. o. g. T.
SlillrdgeriMe l.odgc No 115 meets in the Senate
Chamber at the State House on every Friday even
ing at 7 o’clock. C P CRAWFORD, \V C T.
£ P Lane, Sec'y.
Cold Water Templars meet at the State House eve-
y Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
MASONIC.
Brnerolrnt I.odgc No 3 F A M, meets 1st and 3d
Saturday nights of each mouth at Masonic Hall.
G J) Case, Sec'y. I H HOWARD, W. M.
Temple I'hapier meets the second and fourth Sat
urday nights in each month.
G D Case, Seo’y. S G WHITE, H P.
Millrdgrville I.odgc of Perfection A.'.Sc A.\
§. R. . meets everv Monday night
SAM’L G WHITE,T.-.P.*. G.-.M.*.
Geo- D.^Case, ExcGinnd Sec’y.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Mayor—Samuel Walker.
Board of Aldermen.—1. F B Mnpp; 2 E Trice;
ITACarakrr; 4 Jacob Caraker; 5 J II McComb;
8 Henry Temples.
Clerk aud 1 lvasurer—Peter Fair.
Marshal—J B Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle.
Deputy Marshal and Street Overseer—Peter Ferrell.
Sexton— F Beeiaud
City surveyor—C T Bayne.
City Auctioneer—S J Ktdd.
Finance Committee—T A Caraker,Temples. Mapp.
Street “ J Caraker, Trice. McComb
Land “ McComb. J Caraker, Trice.
Cemetery " Temples, Mapp,T A Caraker,
Board meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights in each
mouth.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Judge M. R. Bell. Ordinary—office in Masonic Hall.
PL Fair, Clerk Sup’r Court,
Obadiab Arnold. Sheriff,
O P Bonner, Dep’ty Shot iff, lives in the country.
Josias Marshall BeV'r Tax Return*—at PohI Office.
L N Callaway, Tax Collector, office at liis store.
H Temples, County Tieasurer, office at his soire.
Isaac Cushing, Coionor, residence on Wilkinson st.
John Geutrv, Constable, residence on VV ayue st, near
the Fac tory.
MEDICAL BOARD OF GEORGIA.
Dr. G. r> Case Dean. Dr. 8. G .WHITE Pre»'dt
Regular meeting tirst Monday in December-
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Dr THOS F GREEN, Superintendent.
H R Bell, Tr. & Steward.
FIRE* DEPARTMENT.
D B Sanford, Sec’y. JOHN JONES, Chief.
The M Sc M Fire Co. meets a! the Court Room on
the first aud third Tuesday nights in each mouth.
CALL AND SEE US
CO,
C. W. GAFSH dl
D ealers in
PRO VISIONS, GROCERIES,
LIQUORS. hardware,
CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, SHOES,
In fact everything usually kept in a First-claas
family Grocery & Provision Sure.
East side Wayne Street.
Agents for Whann’s Raw Bone
Soper Phosphate.
B. All nerson* indebted to ns ate earnestly re-
^nested to settle at onoe.
c W, GAUSE. H. *1. BOSE.
lUHodgovllls, Ga., Fob. 6,187«. 18 *f
Mrs. Meriwether—We present
the following poem from the pen of
the accomplished Mrs. Meriwether of
Memphis, Tenn. Is it not beautiful ?
A book written by her will appear
this summer.
From the Memnhis Sunday Appeal.
MOUNTAINS.
BY L1DE MERtWETHF.lt.
“Tbe morning s’ars sang,” as together they
shone,
"And the eons of God shouted for joy,’" round the
throne.
When by God-givrn mandate the bio ruled the
day,
And the young earth in boanty and !ov-' ness lay:
then fresh from his moulding, omnioo' t hand,
One emblem of poA er stood triumph.. ••. K :>.nd ;
Low bow we before him; our homage wc hr; .g
To the cloud-kissing mountain, and hail him as
king.
tripping, bright blushing
the clear wood-
raiubow-hued
Soft glancing, light
comes spring.
His green aisles resound with
note's ring.
His giant slopes flushing with
flow era.
His wild torrents rushing o'er grey battling tow* 1
ers,
Till golden-lmired summer, with soft, languid
beam
Changes loud roaring billow to low singing
stream.
Serenely he stands, without shade or alloy,
"A thing of bright b- auty, forever a joy”
Now autumn flings o'er him her Boft, dreamy
light;
The frost king with stealthy tread steals through
the night.
He marshals his hosts, and their banners unfold,
Of orange, and purple, and crimson and gold :
Old winter rides torlh on his cloud ma tied car,
Mad shrieking, loud crashing, his demons of war
Kush down on the legions with thundering tread,
Aud the hosts with their tanners iie scalteied and
dead.
The grey mo ning breaks, to his covert night
flies.
And the shadowy mist-wreaths ascend to the s' ies
To the Democratic Party of Cteorgia*
By a resolution adopted by vour
Executive Committee, a Convention
of the Democratic party is called to
assemble in the city of Atlanta, on
tbe 26th day of June next at 10 o'clock
A. M., in the Hall of the House of
Representatives.
The Committee, by another resolu
tion, directed its chairman “ to issue
an address to the party, giving expres
sion to the views of the Committee,
and explanatory of its present action.”
In accordance with this resolution, I
have the honor to submit a few words
for your consideration :
You will perceive that the time
fixed lor the assembling of the Con
vention is in the latter part of June,
about two weeks before the day of the
meeting of the General Convention of
the party at Baltimore. This was
deemed best, as it would give the dele
gates to Atlanta the advantage of a
knowledge of the prior action of the
Conventions of the other States, and
of the circumstances which could
throw light upon the political situa
tion, and at the same time give ample
opportunity to the delegates to the
General Convention, selected at Atlan
ta, to reach Baltimore by the 9th of
July.
The committee, in the call for the
Convention, specify but one purpose
for its assembling: “ To select dele
gates to the National Democratic Con
vention to meet in Baltimore on the
9th of July next.”
It was deemed inexpedient, at the
time of the meetiug of your commit
tee, to include in the objects of the
Convet tion the nomination of a candi
date for Governor. At that time a
bill was pending before the Congress
of the United States to remove the
disabilities of citizens disfranchised by
the fourteenth amendment of theCon-
| stituiion. It was not known whether
j that bill would become a law before
j the time of the assembling of the State
' Convention. The committee, there
fore, deemed it proper, and only just
to the people, to postpone any notni
nation of a candidate for Governor
until a time when it would be certain
whether or not the field of choice
would be enlarged.
In addition to this, it was evident
that another convention of the Demo
cracy of the State must be called
to assemble alter the Convention
at Baltimore, to receive the report
and consider the action of the dele
gates to that Convention, and per
haps to nominate Presidential electors.
This latter Convention can, also, make
a nomination of a candidate for Gov
ernor, under circumstances, and with
the light of events to guide them,
which would not, perhaps, exist prior
to the Convention at Baltimore.
The committee by its resolutions
have called upon you to renew and
perfect your party organizations in
power be retained by the apparent
will of the people at the next elec
tion, a centralized and consolidated
despotism is to be expected. In that
event, who can foresee the evils to be
inflicted on the people of the South?
It is true, that such a victory will,
eventually, in the course of time, re
sult in great evil to the whole Union.
But, first and foremost, immediately and
practically, the Southern people will
suffer. It is for us, then, through the
proper diiection of the strength of the
Democratic party, to work out aud
secure future safety.
We earnestly urge that wc all await
the action of the Baltimore Conven
tion, and not- submit ourselves irrevo
cably, in the meantime, to any course
of conduct. Confide in our chosen
and selected agents; and if their ac
tion should be consistent with honor
and principle, as it will be, let our own
peculiar notion of policy be sacrificed
on the altar of our common interest
and our common safety. Day by day
throws additional light ou the circum
stances surrounding us. No man can
safely say what conclusion he may
reacn as to his proper course a month
from to day. Iu the meantime, dec
larations of intention produce discus
sion ; discussion is stimulated into an
tagonism ; and finally, when the time
for action arrives, pride of opinion, ex
pressed and vindicated in argument
prevents our decisiou according to the
dictates of our enlightened judgment.
We ask for reservation of opinion
and harmony of action to secure the
safety of us all. Let us remember
that the approaching contest is for the
preservation of the great principles ol
Constitutional Liberty. So far as
we are concerned, this next President
ial election will decide their fate aud
and ours. They have been saved in
times as dark as the present. From
the day when they were originally
wrested from an English tyrant by the
Th« Pro© Trade or Revenue Reform j which may recommend itself to you as
Movement. j best—first, to nominate at once, at
For several days past there have your meeting, candidates for President
beeu evidences of a movement on the
part of the Revenue Reformers or
anti-tariff men who composed the
principle element of respectability
and strength in the late Cincinnati
Convention to retaliate upon the
Greeley politicians for the fraud prac
ticed upon them in that body. The
idea of a convention for the nomina
tion of a candidate opposed to Grant
upon whom the Democrats might
unite with the Liberal Republicans,
originated with the Free Traders.—
The intrigues by which Horace Gree
ley, the most radical protectionist and
the most inveterate enemy of Democ
racy in the Union was nominated, has
been openly denounced by the Liberal
press, and as is shown by the resolu
tions adopted at the Steinway Hall
meeting, it has been determined to re
pudiate the action of the Cincinnati
Convention and place a new ticket in
the field. This purpose is most em
phatically declared iu the following
article from the New York Post, the
influential and able organ of the Free
Traders :
no more conventions.
The horrible plot to which we re
ferred the other day, of making an
anti-caucus nomination for the Presi
dency, has at last come to a head.
The Steinway Hall Committee, ap
pointed on Thursday evening, will
soon take steps iookiug towards the
selection of a new candidate. Be
sides this Committee theie are nume
rous other forces in motion, which are
all moving in the same direction. Be
fore the Baltimore Convention meets
there will be three tickets in the field.
The first effect of this action of the
Revenue Reformers is already begin
ning to be seen in the movements of
the politicians. The political wire
puller, the political log-roller and the
and Vice President; or, second, call a
meeting of representative men to make
nominations at Steinway Hall for some
day later than the 27th of June.
“ We will pledge ourselves to heart
ily co-operate with you in such action,
or iu any other course that you may
adopt, to secure the end of placing a
ticket in the field that shall fuhy rep
resent the principles embodied iu the
platform adopted by the Reunion and
Reform Convention recently held at
Cincinnati.”
It will he observed that the signers
of this communication, among whom
are several prominent members of the
Cincinnati Convention, not only urge
upou the New York meeting to put a
new ticket in nomination, but pledge
themselves to heartily co-operate with
them in any such action, or in any
other course they might adopt for the
placing of an acceptable ticket in the
field. Do we need any better evidence
of tbe weakness of Greeley even
among the Liberal Republicans? And
does not this movement on their part
indicate that the true men among
them would unite in the support of an
acceptable Democratic nominee upon
a sound constitutional platform in op
position to Greeley or Grant t
YE DOliRFCL I.AMENT OP A OIAMAI.
OFFICE HOI.DEM*
AIR—“DEAR PATHER COME HOME.”
mailed hands of English Barons, at political thief, who two or three weeks
From the base lo tne summit their cloudy lorms each County. We mean bv this that,
_~1 I . __ •
in our judgment, the Democratic par-
| ty should not, under any circumstauces,
be disbanded. Its principles are the
only true interpretation of the consti-
i tution, and their successful mainten-
i ance affoids the only means for the
preservation of the rights of the States
! and the liberty and protection of the
indiv idual citizen. We have no appre
hension that these principles will be
in anywise abandoned or ignored by
the action of the General Convention
at Baltimore. On the contrary, we
indulge the earnest hope, amounting to
a confident assurance, that the Conven
tion will reassert and proclaim anew
the adhesion of the Democratic party
to the principles of constitutional gov
ernment which present condition ol
the country and the experience of the
Southern States during the last seven
roll,
Like shadows of doubt th*t encircle the soul;
Like a gian 1 uprising- the sun rules the day,
And his flashing glance chases the shadows away;
So Fa-th. eagle-eyed and with beckoning hands
Ou the mountain’s proud summit triumphantly
stands.
See him proudly erect ’neath the fierce noon-day’s
sun,
Like ‘ a strong man rejoicing in race to be ruu,''
No shadows or clouds o’er bis gleam ng si es roll,
Leave shadows behind thee, press on to the goal.
Proud type of eternity, firm sh-dl ye stand.
As tte ages roll on over time's golden sand,
Close mantled with sunbeams iu bright burnished
sheen,
In power, omnipotent, God like in mien.
The shadrwy twilight is stealing apace,
Clothing mo ntain and valley in beauty and grace.
The low, slanting sunbeams athwart his sides
gleam.
The soft flitting shadows like silent ghosts seem :
So in twilight of life steals the shadow or shine,
Lost hopes and bright visions their memories en
twine,
And like Christian’s bright hope when death's
shadow steals down,
Runnymede, aud at once became the
cardinal, living, life-giving elements ol
Anglo-Saxou freedom to the present
hour, through all the vicissitudes of
time, and change, and blood, they have
uever died. Time and again they have
seemed to be overwhelmed in the tu
mults of temporary revolutions, or des
troyed by the vacillating changes of
popular will. Time aud again the
haud of some Tudor or Stuart, or the
power of some Star-Chamber, or the
grasp of some military despotism, has
seemed to crush them into dust. But
each time the example of some Hamp
den, or the sacrifice of some Lee has
proved to the world that they still ex
isted, and claimed their followers and
apostles.
Let us unite together as a party,
and with all its friends, by whatever
name called, save these great princi
ples of Constitutional Libeity!
Respectfully submitted lor the Com
mittee. Julian Hartridge,
Chairman.
Moonlight on tbe mountains ; how soft her beams
glow.
From t -e valley beneath, where the bright waters
flow
To the cloud-circled summit, where, silvery bright,
Rt sts the evening star royally, queen of the night:
Now slowly her beams tade, as night yields to
dawn.
Seienely and soft, as the calm life of one
Who has- fought the good fight,” who has won
the dark day,
Who has “kept the faith” steadfastly, passes
away.
Raea Springs, September 29, 1871.
From the Charlotte N. C. Daily Dispatch,
“The Nereid. ”
A Southern Book.—From the
gifted autlioiebs a la<iy of Georgia,
we have this entertaining and well
written novel. It was writ .i and
published in Georgia, and isfek athern
in conception, execution and .ipie-
tion. life fair authoress, Mrs. tV\ G.
McAdoo, is the daughter of Gen. U. K.
Floyd, who figured prominently some
y ears since, in the field, in politics and
in society, in Southeastern Georgia,
and is a worthy scion ot so illustrious
a house. We have read many of her
Magazine articles and minor pieces,
and was prepared to welcome this
bantling into the household ol stand
ard literature—hut we confess our
anticipations have been more than re
alized.
The scenes are laid in that portion
of Georgia with which the authoress
was most familiar in times before the
war, and her vivid portraiture ot the
customs, and incidents ol life, scenery
and marked characteristics of the peo
ple, are graphic and will ever stamp
he/as a writer of wouderlul powers
of delineation. The scenes sflilt to
England, to the Continent, aud ulti
mately to Rome. The plot is admi
rably conceived, executed with power,
and the interest thrillingly kept up to
the denouement. The style is classic,
shows familiarity with the best au
thors, aud the sentiment pure as the
icicle which bangs on Dian’s Temple,
and as fragraut as the violets of her
own Southern home.
We commend this book to our read
ers as another evidence of the genius,
high culture and refinement of the
women of our sunny land.
Rests the crimson and gold of the cloud s sunset y ear8i prove to be the only foundation
j for the prosperity of the whole Union,
and the renewal of anything like fra
ternal relations among the people of
its different sections.
Nor do we bolieve that Convention
will recommend or for an instant con
template the I’issolution of the Demo
cratic party as an organization. What
may be its pdicy as to nominating
candidates for President and Vice
President cannot uovv be with cer
tainty foreseen. It may be that the Con
vention, composed as we trust and be
lieve it will be, of men of patriotism,
wisdom and experience, will consider
it good policy to make no party nomi
nations for the Presidential election.
But, even if this be the result of its
deliberations, we feel convinced that
the party organization will be main
tained equally with the party princi
ples. For whateverour party may do,
iu order to be effective, should be done
as a solid body, and with united efforts.
Therefore your committee do most
earnestly urge upon you the necessity
for organization and united action in
each and every county. Send your
delegates to Atlanta, and let the uni-
nited wisdom of the party select dele
gates to wiiom can be entrusted the
guidance ot your action in tbe ap
proaching election, the result of which
must be your restoration to the fair
and full proportions of free citizens of
a republic, or your consignment to a
condition more burdened with oppres
sions than any you have yet endured.
And in this connection your com
mittee desire most earnestly to urge
upon you the necessity for harmony of
feeling and concert of action among
all the friends of Constitutional Lib
erty. We deprecate most sincerely
any rash or uuadvised declaration of
future course of individual action by
members of the party. The juncture
of affairs now upon us is more impor
tant, more pregnant with results for
good or evil to our country, and espe
cially to the people of the Southern
States, than perhaps any which will
again occur in generations. Upon a
prudent, careful, well considered ac
tion of the Democratic party depends
the future character of this Govern
ment. If the administration now in
The New York World and scores of
Democratic papers in that State say
that three Democrats will remain at
home for each Radical that supports
Greeley. Hon. Jeremiah Black, of
Pennsylvania, replied to a Greeley
editor in Washington, to the question,
“ Do you believe the Democracy will
take up and endorse the nomination V”
“ Judging from the feeling in my own
district in Pennsylvania, 1 should say
not. 1 know of but one Democrat
willing to sustain Greeley, aud, by the
by, no Republican.”
Prominent New Jersey leadersassert
that under no circumstances will the
masses iu that State vote for him. The
same account comes from Maryland,
Delaware, Georgia, Alabama; and vve
know the feeling iu Iudiana to he so
bitter that those who are entitled to
credit, assert the State to be good for
Grant against Greeley by 50,0U0 ma
jority.
Now, if we could asseut to an entire
stultification by abandonment of poli
tical principles and the consequent dis-
bandoumeut and destruction of our
own party, the “ condition precedent”
demanded by the few Radical editors
who support Mr. Greeley, what possi
ble beuetit can the people derive lrom
alibis promises? His defeat wouid
be absolutely certain.
Iu New York only his own paper,
the Sun, and Wilkes’ Spirit oj the
Times, indorse him upon the Radical
side. In New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land, aud the entire South, not a Re
publican paper has raised its voice in
his behalf. In Pennsylvania not a
Radical, and only two Democratic pa
pers among the press of the State. In
Ohio only the Commercial. In Indiana
uone. Iu Illinois the Chicago Tribune
aud Springfield Republican. Where is
his strength ?
There is nothing in his past record
to make Democrats anxious to support
him; there is no hope of success even
to sugar-coat the bitter pill presented.
Shall we desert “ the substance for
a shadow?” I, and those who think
with me are not schismatics. But for
the demoralization produced by “ new
departures,” “ passivism,” aud “ Gree-
leyism,” we should have settled all
issues by the only authoritative expo
nent, our National Convention, and our
nominees wouid triumphantly have
achieved a victory. It is not too late
yet to enforce discipline and organiza
tion to accomplish those results, aud
to permit the withdrawal from our
midst, without detriment, those “mauy
presses and leaders who have commit
ted themselves to the Greeley and
Brown ticket” too deeply “ to draw
out of it.” Blanton Duncan.
Louisville, May 25, 1872.
The reports from the wheat crop in
Middle Georgia are very encouraging.
Twenty and three-quarter bushels to
the acre is anuounced ia some favored
localities.
ago were pretty confident that they
understood the situation, are begin
ning to have their doubts. They have
a keen scent, but now they are run
ning over the grouud completely at
fault. They thought that the divis
ion of the spoils certainly lay be
tween Grant aiid Greeley. Now it is
uncertain whether this calculation
may not have been wrong, and the un
certainty begins to alarm them des
perately. They must have office and
tliey must have protection, and who
is going to have these desirable things
in his gift it is becoming difficult to
say.
There is probably nothing that the
politicians would now hail with so
much delight as the announcerneut
that there was to be another reform
convention. One they have already
captured; in a few days they will
have another, which has capitulated
iu advance. Next month a third is
coming off, and if only one other
could he held meantime, they would
be perfectly contented.
The real reformers, in getting rid
of the Greeley faction, got rid of their
most formidable enemies, and now
stand free to declare their real choice
tor the Presidency, unhampered by
the claims of availability or greed
for office. They have lost something
in numerical support, but they have
gained much more in the clear defini
tion the split has given to their prin
ciples, and the proof it has afforded of
their firmness.
It is to the last degree desirable that
this condition of things shall continue
Let it be understood that the Reform
ers will have nothing more to do with
politicians. Let tbe public under
stand why it is that we will hold no
more conventions. As we said the
other day, the convention lias ceased
to be a deliberative assembly, and has
become a mere piece of political ma
chinery. What with pig-iron rings,
flax rings, administration rings and
railroad rings, the people are no more
represented by the delegates to con
ventions than the feelings of the ani
mal world would be represented in a
convention composed of circus-owners,
stable-men and menagerie proprietors.
The new nomination must be made
by representative men of character
aud influence, their number is of small
consequence. Their names must be
such as carry weight with the com
munities they represent, and be a
guaranty that it is not office or pri
vate emolument they are seeking, but
the real welfare of their country.
There is one other hiut that we
would throw out. The Reform cam
paign will have to be chiefly conduct
ed, as all campaigns now are, through
the Press, and it is of great impor
tance that the declaration of princi
ples of the Reformers should be writ
ten in plain English, and not in the
weak, shuffling style of the Cincinna
ti platform, or even in the manner of
the Free-Trade call for the late meet
ing. Let it be written by some one
whose choice of words is governed by
the desire to express, not conceal, his
thoughts. A terse, pointed address to
the people would be half the battle.
The Reunion and Reform Party
Opposed to Greeley.—A very formid
able meeting of the Free Trade League,
presided over by W. Cullen Bryant,
was held in New York on Thursday,
at which the nomination of Greeley by
the Cincinnati Convention was de
nounced as a fraud upon the iuaugura-
tors of the Liberal Republican move
ment, aud especially upon the friends
of Free Trade. To this meeting a com
munication was addressed, signed by
leading liberal Republicans and Demo
crats of Cincinnati, in which they urg
ed energetic atrtion on the part of those
opposed to the electioa of either Grant
or Greeley. The letter concludes as
follows.
“ We hope that you will not fail to
initiate suoh action. We suggest that
you take either of the two oourses
O Htrain UIvmm, comeback to your dad,
For the clock on tlie steeple strike! two,
San Domingo's “gone up,” and tbe Dents have gone
mad,
And time swear it's all over with you.
Philadelphia Conventions can help you no more;
The Methodist Conference wou't pray ;
There's the ugliest new* from ihe Ohio shore,
And in short—there's the dickens to pay !
Come home, come home.come home
Sweet Hiram Ulysi. •*, come home I
Don Hamilton Queer Fish is floundering ont
Of the muddy old treaty he made,
While your half-witted Frederick goes prancing about
In Europe, with feartul parade.
Ben Butler is cocking his eye at your spoons;
Tom Mui phy lien out iu the cold ;
Your bands nave stopped playing their Custom House
tunes,
And I fear me, sweet Hiram, you're "sold.”
Come home, come home, come home !
Sweet Hiram Ulysses, oome home '
There's a liorse in the circus for yen and Colfax—
’TU the horse that you rode in the South,
Tbe monkey* stands ready to leap on yonr backs,
Anil there’s whisky to put in your mouth.
So Hiiam, dear Hirain, dou't feel very bad.
When you learu liiut my tiding. are true :
You arc better at home with cigars aud your dad,
For the people are tired of you !
Come home, come home, come home !
Sweet Hiram Uiysaes, come home!
*It is narrated in tbe annals ot Ulysses 1, (as recor
ded by the paternal Juese in Bonner’s Ledger) that on
one occasion the youthful monarch was riding a rough
colt bare-backed around a circus ring, when a mon
strous babboon belonging to tbe concern sprang with
a tremendous leap on tiio hero's sbouldurs. But his
blood was up, and both monkey and rider kept their
seats amid the mi bounded laughter and applause of
the admiring throng. Sad to relate, it waa not the
last time iu his life that the great and magnanimous
Kuigkt ot Galena was—,nontcey ridden.
Poor old Rough Rice thus bids fare
well to tbe newspaper business in At
lanta :
To the Patrons of the Red Hot
Reporter, and the Public General
ly.—I have labored hard for two years
and sunk over fifteen hundred dollars
to establish the Reporter, and now I
have to say that it must go down.—
Circumstances, unavoidable on my
part, force me to stop the pablication
of said paper, at least iu Atlauta. I
may revive it again, but it will be in
some other field of operation. Atlan
ta is the poorest town to the size of it
for a newspaper in the world. The
people will not suhscrioe and the bus
iness men will not advertise. There
have been more business men failed iu
Atlanta than any city in the Uuited
States. The merchants and people
have less energy and pride in a litera
ry way than any other people. They
are the most selfish people in the
world. There will not be any paper
printed in Atlanta in a few months
more, except the Constitution, nor
should there be, is a fixed iact. The
people are not worthy of a newspa
per, and no man who is capable of
running a paper should waste his time
and talent ou such a people. They
should be’leftin tbe dark where they be
long, to grope their way after the al
mighty dollar, which they worship,
and lumber on down to the devil,
where they will surely go.
I am done with the newspaper bus
iness in Atlanta now and forever.
Rough Rice.
Different Styles of tiif. Proph
ets.—All the sacred writers, inspired
by tlie same spirit, treating tbe same
subject, acting under a divine iuflu-
euce, each uniformly exemplify, in the
peculiarity ot his style, the character
of his mind. Who can fail to perceive
that the character of the mind of
Isaiah was sublimity? He is always
an eagle in his flight—never losing
sight of the sun—uever stopping in
his career. Stripped of his poetical
garb, and arrayed in the plainest dress
by a literal translation into another
language than his own, his book re
tains its grandeur alloyed, yet easily
distinguishable; and he moves with
princely port, under all tlie disadvan
tages ot an humble investment.
Tne mind ol Jeremiah was cast in
the mold of tenderness. Far less sub
lime than the prophet who preceded
him, be is much more pathetic; and
it is impossible to read the language in
which he deplores the ruin of his coun
try, without feeling our hearts melt
ed, aud mingling our tears with those
of the patriot.
Ezekiel, possessing neither of these
qualities to the greatest extent as the
others, is distinguished for tlie force
and tire of his appeals. Neither of
these is greater than the other as an
inspired writer; all were influenced
by the same spirit ot trutb^all were
clothed with the same authority—all
demanded the same submission to their
awful messages; but each displayed
tbe qualities of bis own mind iu the
character of his style.—Dr. Collycr.
The ladies will hardly believe it, but
tbe bats they wear are patterned ex
actly after those worq in 1930
California Orchards.
The orange, almond, olive, English wal
nut, lemon, lime, and citron, are the fruits
to which attention has been, for two or
three years, specially directed in the coun
tries of Santa Barbara, Los Angelos, San
Bernadino. and San Diego in Southern
California. Santa Barbara has a long,
narrow strip of sea coast, fronting south,
which is believed to be fitted for the cul
ture of the almond, which in Los Angelos
is found to be sometimes hurt by a late
frost. The almond is also grown in shel
tered spots in the Napa Valley, north of
San Francisco, but we believe it is there
an uncertain crop. Several gentlemen
living near Santa Barbara have originated
seedlings of their own which are very mnch
liked. The ahnoud thrives best in a san
dy loam, and at five years after planting
may be expected to yield 12 ponuds to the
tree, or 1,200 pounds per acre, which at
20 cents per pound would give $240 per
aero. No disease troubles the tree of
Sants Barbara, but the squirrel and gopher
destroy it when it is young, and tbe form
er sometimes robs the tree. These, how
ever, are easily driven out by poison, and
preseverance; one man’s labor suffices to
keep in order 20 or even 30 acres of
trees. When they are ripe, the almonds
fall to the ground, and the husk falls off
of itself, or is easily picked of!.
The olive, of which is the oldest and
one of the finest groves in the State is at
the San Diego Mission, is propagated by
cuttings. It grows slowly at first, begins
to bear at four years, under fvaroable cir
cumstance*. but does not yield a full crop
until the tenth or eveu the twelfth year. It
should then return an average, for the
orchard, of 25 gallons of olives per tree.
Sixty trees are planted to the acre, by the
most experienced men. Tbe olives are
sold at Santa Barbara at this time for 60
cents per gallon in tbe orchard, aud the
few olive groves now in full bearing at that
rate, are worth, gross $900 per annum.
As it is more profitable to make the fruit
into oil than to pickle them, the former
course is taken.
The machinery for pressing the oil is
very simple aud usually stands under a
shed in the orchard ; the pulp is crushed
from the pits, and stuffed into strong rope
nets, which are then pressed, the oil run
ning down iuto a tub of clean water, on
the surface of which it collects. Sauta
Barbara is likely to become the center of
this culture.
Tbe English walnut near Los Angelos,
San Bernardino and Santa Barbara shows
itself as a stately, magnificent tree,
with clean, grayish bark, and wide-
spreading branches. It is, like our own
black walnut, a tree of slow growth, and
does not begin to bear until it is seven or
eight years of age. At twelve years,
with thorough culture and irrigation, it
bears from 50 to 75 pounds of nuts; at fif
teen years from 100 to 150 pounds ; thirty
trees may stand on one acre, and it is
customary here to plant almond trees be
tween the rows of walnuts, which pay the
cost of cultivation and a handsome profit,
and are cut down when the walnuts begin
to cover the ground. The nuts sold this
year for 12£ cents per pound, in Los An
geles. One man can easily care for thiity
acres.
The lemon, which becomes a stately,
far-spreading tree, bears in ten years a
valuable crop. It is not yet planted in
orchards to a great extent; one tree, ten
years old, which I saw in Los Augeles,
yielded 600 lemons; one fifteen years old
bore 2,000 lemons. They bring in Sau
Francisco $30 per 1,000.
Los Angeles is the center of the orange
culture of this State. The tree grows
well, in all Southern California, wherever
water can be had for irrigation. It does
best nearest the mountains, among the
foot hills, probably because it gets there
a more uniform temperature. Sixty or
ange trees are commonly planted to the
acre. They may be safely transplanted
at three or even four years, if care is used
to keep the air from the roots. It begins
to bear in from six to eight years from the
seed, and yields a crop for market at ten
years.
Upon examination, it has been found
that at 15 years from tbe seed, or 12
years from the planting of three-year old
trees, an orange orchard which has been
faithfully cared for, and is favorably sit«
uated, will bear an average of 1,000 oranges
to the tree. This would give, at $20 per
1,000—a low average—a product of $1,200
per acre. One man can care for 20 acres
of such an orchard; and every other ex
pense, including picking, boxes, shipping,
and commissions in San Francisco, is cov
ered by $5 per 1,000. The net profit per
acre would, therefore, be a trifle less than
$900. The oldest trees in the orchards
are now bearing very little less than 2,-
000 oranges to the tree. The best culti«
vators do not prune the tree at all; but
in all oichards willow poles are used to
prop np tbe overladen branches. A care
ful horticulturist near Los Angelos had,
as parts of bis last year’s crop, 250.000
oranges, 50.000 lemons, 25,000 pounds of
walnats, Ac., Ac. He thinks his success
due to deep aud thorough cultivation, and
regular irrigation. He irrigates, all his
trees once iu every six weeks, and plows
or hoes after every irrigation. One man
on his place, and with his system, can
care for 20 acres of orchard; one man can
pick 5,000 oranges in a day. He buys the
shooks and makes his own boxes, and al
so h : s own wine casks. His whole fotce
consists of 15 men, of whom the plowmen
are Indians some others are Chinese. The
orange ripens iu December, when they be
gin to pick. It hangs on the tree, and
gets sweeter, until the next Fall, but is
in perfection in April; and it increases
in size as long as it remains on the tree.
This circumstance, and the other that it
bears transportation so well, give it great
value. Tbe orange-grower has at least
five months in which he may market his
crop, and Los Angelos oranges have been
sent to Boston, overland, and arrived in
good order. Experienced cultivators say
that they believe themselves able to com
pete with Florida, France, Italy and the
Pacific Islands; and thus have not only
the heme market, but the whole world;
and tbe present profit is so enormous that
there is a large margin for a fall in prices.
Whether all this is true or not, it is certain
that not only small farmers, but capital
ists are turning their attention to this busi
ness. In Santa Barbara and Los Angelos
counties, a large number of small fortunes,
as well as farmers, may be found deliber
ately giving money aud time to the for
mation of orange, lemon, and nut orchards.
They say, “We will work and wait for
eight or ten years, in order that at the end
we shall hare a small fortune, to make oar
latter years easy and if a man may, in
ten years, from twenty acres secure him
self a regular income of ten or even five
thousand dollars per annum, with a tri
fling labor and care, these persons woulij
seem to be wise.
