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NUMBER 52,
VOLUME XL!!.]
£ Ije 11 b c r a l Inion,
18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IX MILLEDGEVILLE. GA.,
BY
BOUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE,
(Corner ot Hancock and Wilkinson Streets,)
At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year.
S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor.
ADVERTISING.
Tran.'if.nt.—One Dollur per square of ten lines for
firstieseiliou, and seveutj-tive centsfjr each subse
quent continuance.
Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit
uaries exceeding six lines, Nominations for office, Com
munications or Editorial notices for individual benefit,
charged as transient advertising.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Sheriff’s Sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, $2 50
Mortgage fi la sales, per square,. 5 DO
Cilaiiutis lor Letters of Administration, 3 00
•• “ Guardianship, _ 3 00
Application for dismission from Administration, 3 00
“ “ “ “ Guardianship, 3 00
“ “ leave to sell Laud, 5 00
“ for Homesteads...... 175
Notice to Debtors and Creditors 3 00
jjaics ol Land, Arc., per square 5 00
•• perishable property, 10 days, per square,.. 150
Estray Notices,dddays, 3 00
fierce.o-ure "I AIui tgage, per sq , each time, J 00
Applications tor Homesteads, (two weeks,) ] 75
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Land, *fcc., by Administrators, Executors
or (iuardiaus, are required bylaw to be lield on the
first Tuesday inthe mouth, between the hours of 10
in the torenojn and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court
House in tiie County 111 which the property is situated.
Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga
jeiti tb days previous to the day ot sale.
Notices lor the salo of personal properly must be
given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notices to the debtois and creditors of an estate
xnu't also he published 40 days
Notice that application
Ordinary for leave to se
ed n»r two months.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship,
A . must be published 30 days—for dismission from
Administration monthly three months—for dismission
from Guardianship, 40 days.
Rules tor forecl.isureof Mortgage must be publish
ed monthly tor lour months—for establishing lost pa-
MILLEDGE YILLE, GEORGIA, J U L Y 24, 1872.
TIBK STATE KOAil l.EASR.
Atlanta, July 5, 1S72.
Ex-Gov. Joseph E. Drown, Dresident
Ifcstcrn Sf Atlantic R. R. Company:
Dear Sir—I am informed that you
aive it as your opinion that if the peo
ple of Georgia desire the. lessees to re
turn the Western and Atlantic Kail-
toad to the authorities of the State that
the lessees are willing to do so, but
rhat they will resist any effort that
may be made in the courts to recovt r
the property upon the grounds ot
fraud. Please inform me whether my
information is correct or not.
Very respectfully, yours, etc.,
R. W. Phillips.
Atlanta, Ga., July 9, 3S72.
Hon. R- Jl. Phillips, Member House
Representatives, Atlanta, Ga.:
My Dear Sib—I am in receipt of
your letter of the 5th of this month,
and in reply have to state that I have
always said from the commencement,
that it was not my purpose to do any
injustice whatever to the people.of
Georgia, in the matter of the State
Road lease, and that if I were satisfied
it was the wish of a majority of the
tax-payers of the State that the road
should be returned to the State Gov-
un wifibemndeto tbeCourtoi {ernment, and again made a political
ill Land, &C.,must be publish- machine, I wouhl not, so far as I am
concerned, hesitate to surrender the
lease, and I think this is the feeling of
most, if not all, who are connected
with me in the matter. But 1 have
•the full space of three months
, ... , 1for com p e11 - I said repeatedly that, in my judgment
ni£ lilies from Executors or Administrators, where j *■ ^ 9 J cul ’
bued ims been given by tbedeceased, the foil spaced j the lease WHS the Very best disposition
Publications will always be continued according to 'that the people COUld make of the
these, the legal requirements, unlessotherwiae ordered j TOad. They HOW have ample guaraii-
Jlook and Job Work, of all kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT T II 5Si OFFICE.
Ayents for Federal Union in New York City
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S. M. PETTINGILL & CO., 37 Park Row.
Messrs. Griffin &. Hoffman, Newspaper
Adverti-iug Agents. No. 4 South St., llaltimore, Md„
are duly authorized to contract for ad vei tisements at
our loii'sf. rales. Advertisers in that City are request-
r ~ with this house.”
ed to leave their favi
<L' i t n Jirtc tor j.
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HOAD
RAIL ROAD TIKIS TABLE.
Ar ival and Departure of Trams at Milledgeviile.
MACON & AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
I>ny Train.
p.iwnTrain to Augusta arrive-at VI illedgev., 8.17 a m.
Up Train to .Macon arrives at Milledgeviile, 5 24 p.m
Nig lif Train.
Arrives from Augusta at 12:20 a m.
“ “ Macon at 12:15 a m.
EATONTON A GORDON RAILROAD.
Up Train to Eatonton arrives at Milledgev., 8.45 p. m
Pena Train to Gordon arrives “ 2.35 p.m
Post Office Notice.
Millkdgkville. Jan. 18, 1872.
From and after this date in&il.s will Hose as follows .*
Mulls lor Atlanta and Augusta and points beyond
guiiigiiicih hmI east, wi‘l Hose at 8o’clock A.M.
Mails lor Macon. Southwestern Road, and points
bt-MMiti, g«*ii t: south-west, will close at 5 P M.
AIui s for Savannah and Floiida ch se at 2:15 P. M
M i > ft 1 * Ivitonton and Monticello closes at 8:45- P M.
Office hourstrom 7 A. M. until b.30 P M.
Office open on Sundays from 8 to 9 1-2 A. M.
Money Orders obtained from 7 A. M. until 5 P. M.
JOSIAS MARSHALL, P. M.
Church directory.
BABTIST CHURCH.
Services 1st and 3d Sundays in each month, at 11
o’clock a m and 7 p in.
Sttbbaib School at9 1-2o’clock, am. S X Boughton,
Supt. Rev D E BUTLER, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Honrs of service on Sunday : 11 o’clock, a m
and 7pm.
Sunday School 3 o'clock p m.—W E Fiankland,
Superintendent.
Friends of the Sabbath School are invited to visit it
S S M -i.inaiy Society, n oiilhly, 4tb Sunday at 2 p m
Prayer meeting every Wednesday 7 o’clock pm-
Rev A J JARRELL, Pastor.
* PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Services every Sabbath (except the 2d in each mo)
at 1 1 o’clock a in. and 7 p m-
Sibbaili School at St 12 a rn. TT Windsor, Snpt.
Prayer meeting every'P’riday at 4 o’clock, p m.
Rev C W LANE, Pastor.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
W tliout a Pa>tor at present.
Suuuay School at 9 o’clock, a in.
Ziodgcs.
I. O. G. T.
TlillcHgcvillo Lodge No 115 njeets in the Senate
Cliamber the State House on every Friday even
ts at 7 o’clock. C P CRAWFORD, W CT.
E P Lane, Sec’y.
FG4 M ater Templars meet at the State House eve-
}’ Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
MASONIC.
Benevolent I.odse No 3 F A M, meets 1st and 3d
'i iy nights of eacl. month at Masonic Hall,
b 1) Case, Secy. I. H-HOWARD, W. M.
Temple t in.pier meets the second and fourth Sat-
c lay rights in each month.
b K Case, Sec’y. S G WHITE, II P.
^illrdgerille Lodge of Perfection A.’.it A.’.
“ w. . meets every Monday night
SV.M’L G WHITE, T.-.P.-. G.’.M.’.
r£o. D.^Case, Exc Grand Sec’y.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Mayor—Samuel Walker.
b ard of Aldermen.—I. V B Mapp; 2 E Trice;
i A Caraktr; 4 Jacob Caraker; 5 J II McComb;
* Herr, Temples.
I-Tkaud treasurer—Peter Fair.
Mar-iial— J B Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle,
b puiy Marsiml and Street Overseer—Peter Ferrell.
hsiliin— fi’ Beeland
] ■’> Surveyor—C T Bayne.
* ! y Auctioneer—SJ Kidd.
F ranee Committee—T A Caraker,Temples. Mapp-
Fhret “ J Caraker, Trice, IMcComb
e-aii f « McCnxnb, J Caraker, Trice,
b-ir-tery “ Temples, Mapp, T A Caraker.
o"ard meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights in each
*Julh.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ju ly, M ]; Bell, Ordinary—office in Masonic Hall.
BL. Fair. (_ ierk Sup’r Court, “
bhadiab Arnold. Sheriff, “ “
Jo-ia.
Lx
ji Ts
Marshall lveV’r Tax Returns—at Post Office,
rlaway. Tax Collector, office at his store,
temples. Comity Tieasiirer, office at his store,
n: I usihng, Coronor, residence on Wilkinson st.
.“i Gentry, Constable, residence on Wayne st, near
the Fae’uny.
MEDICAL BOARD OF GEORGIA.
Dr . b. 1) Cask. Dean. Dr. S. G WHITE. Pres'dt
ttegular meeting first Monday in December-
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
D Dr T1IOS F GREEN, Superintendent,
a Bel?., Tr. & Steward.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
T “ Sjsford, Sec’y. JOHN JONES, Chief,
tlieii^ " ^ M Fire Co. meets ai the Court Room on
rst and third Tuesday nights in each month.
selling off
PREPARATORY to A CHANGE OF SCHED-
^ ? ^ ,Ave determined to Hose out my entire
ti ee w 'f.’’B ELF GOODS at Cost for Cash. Par-
isuirg bargains must call soon.
J„!y, 0 . C. B. MUNDAT.
,1872
50 tf
A
ll
Notice.
parties indebted to the undersigned for the
tu.i l > are requee ed to Call and settle at once
i+Vfe. C.B.MLWY.
tee that tliey will continue to receive
S2-5,U00 per mouth for the road, paid
on tlie last day of each month, for
twenty years from the date of this
lease, making an aggregate of $(j.0U0,-
000 principal, and if interest is count
ed on cash payment it amounts to
about 810,000,000, paid into the
State Treasury; and they have the
further guarantee that the road will
be kept in good condition, and at the
end of the lease returned in as good
order as it was received. And I may
farther state, that while it is not named
in the bond, there is no question that
it will he returned in a much better
condition than it was received, as we
cannot afford to permit it to run down
as low as it was when we received it,
while we have any control of it. Both
the safety ol the traveling public and
the prompt dispatch of the freight
business upon tiie road, require that
it shall always be kept in better order
than it was in December, 1870. If we
were to attempt to run it as it then
was, we would lose more in damages
and loss of business, than it would
cost to put it in order. Therefore, I
have no hesitancy in saying that it
will never be returned in as bad con
dition as we received it.
In view of these facts, I have never,
for a moment, doubted that as a les
see, I am rendering to the people of
Georgia the very best service which 1
could render, in connection with this
great State enterprise. And I believe
I may say, within the bounds of reason,
that at least four-fifths, if not niue-
tenths of the tax-payers of Georgia
are not only satisfied with the lease,
but desire that it remain as it is. If,
however, I am mistaken, and they will j
express their desire at the ballot box
upon an issue fairly made, that it be
returned into the political arena, and
again used as heretofore ns a public
work understate control, I should fa-
ver an immediate surrender of the
lease; as 1 should not desire to hold
the property of the State, though my
judgment he satisfied that it is ior the
best interests of the people, if thay are
dissatisfied with the arrangement.
But I state very distinctly that I
will not be driven to surrender it by
the clamors of either a ring of disap
pointed politicians, who desire to have
control ol it that they may plunder it;
nor will I surrender it for the gratifi
cation of one or more attorneys at law
who have been mortified from the
commencement because they did not
have either a share in it or did not, in
gome other way, make money out of
it, who now desire to get up a litiga
tion between t 1 e State and the lessees
that they may come in, in the name ot
patriotism, and receive from the Treas
ury very heavy fees for prosecuting a
case iit which they must ultimately
fail. I will not, therefore, surrender
the lease at the bidding of any clique
of politicians ; nor will I surrender it
white those in authority make charges
against the lessees. I know that the
contract under which we hold the
lease was a fair and just one, and I
know furthermore, as has been again
and again stated by the very besi rail-
-road men in Georgia, and sworn to by
some of them, that we are paying a
fair and just consideration for it. This,
I believe, is all the people desire, and I
must he satisfied of the contrary before
I shall either fear the clamors or yield
to the persecutions ot the political
ring, who, without caring what be
comes of the road in the future, seek
to perpetuate strife upon this question.
If the present General Assembly, who
were not elected upon this question,
but were really elected before the
lease was made, should think proper,
in violation of the wishes of their con
stituents, either to attempt to set aside
the lease or involve the State or com
pany in litigation, I shall expect to
make the question before their consti
tuents in a tangible form, and let it be
decided by the voters and tax payers,
whether they desire either a disturb
ance of the present arrangement, that
is working well, or the return of the
road into the political vortex that will
destroy its future incomes and involve
the State in heavy liability on its ac
count. Of course if they approve of
litigation or disturbance of the present
arrangement, the people will re-elect
their present agents; if they do not,
they will drive from power those who
hjve attempted to put in jeopardy
their best interests, for the purpose of
serving private ends in the use of this
great State w r ork.
As a member of the General Assem
bly you have doubtless considered the
expense of this undertaking. At the
time we took charge of the road S500,
000 was asked for by the then Super
intendent, out of the State Treasury,
to put it in repair, and we have found,
by experience, that it was not an over
estimate ; indeed, wc have alrerdv ex
pended more than that amount in the
purchase of new engines and new cars,
in the rebuilding and reconstruction
of those that we tound upon the road,
and in the purchase of new iron ; and
we have not yet brought the road up
to first-class condition. We have in
curred a heavy debt in bringing it up
to a point where it now is, and you
will very readily see, if we should sur
render the road, that you have no
right to the new engines ot the new
cars or the new iron, that have been
bought with our own money. All
that you have a right to demand i-
that we return it in just such con
dition as we found it on the 27th
day of December, 1S70. What will
he the result? You must at once
appropriate from the Treasury of the
State at least $500,000 to put the
road up into such working condition
as we now have it, and whewyou turn
it over again into the hands of politi
cians it will not he long until you will
be very likely to have to appropriate
another $-500,000, unless you place
man at the head of affairs in the State
who would manage it in such a man
ner as to make it a success. I believe
I may say without boasting, that it
was my good lortune in politics to
make it pay, and I may say, truthfully,
that I have paid into the Treasury the
the rental promptly every month since
I have run it as a lessee, hut it cannot
he said that the same is true under all
other administrations. You must,
therefore, make up your mind, when
you take charge of the road, to make
these appropriations promptly, and
take the ihances for monthly payments
into the Treasury of the State, and
then to satisfy your constituents that
you have bettered their condition by
the change.
It has been intimated to me that
the enemies of the lease are wild
enough to suppose that they can bring
the representatives of the people up
to the point of directing the Governor
to seize the road and take it under his
control, in violation of our contract,
and in disregard of our vested rights,
which are protected by the Constitu
tion and laws of the State and of the
United States. We fear no such rev
olutionary folly, however, as we know
our lights and have the ability to
maintain them, and know full well
that tlie representatives would not be
willing to plunge the State into such
a revolutionary attitude, and meet the
indignant denunciations of their con
stituents for the gratification of a few
discontented politicians who have
great capacity for tearing down gov
ernments and public institutions, hut
very limited capacity for building up
the waste places and bettering the
the condition of their people.
It is to he expected that men who
declare themselves to be the enemy of
the Government, and say that no hon
est man can be its friend who glory in
strife and contention, revolution and
blood, and who labor to dissatisfy ev
erybody and to unsettle every tiling,
should he discontented with the lease
as they are with whatever promises
harmony among our people, and the
peaceful development and growth of
our State. But it seems to me the
people of Georgia have already suffer
ed enough by following the leadership
of such men, whose counsel have al
ways led to disaster and ruin. It is
time for us to disregard their boister
ous ravings and to look to the restora
tion of quiet, peace and good will
among our people, aud to aid the im
provement of her materisl resources ;
keeping steedily in view the restora
tion of confidence, and the reduction
of the public burdens, which, in the
shape ot taxation, now weigli so heav
ily upon the people of the State, which
impoverished by the ravages of war,
is driven to the humiliating position
of borrowing the bonds of a private
corporation, upon which to raise
money in the market for her urgent
necessities, when she fails to do it up
on her own credit, and is unable to
meet her bonds now falling due, issued
twenty years ago, about the legality ot
which there is no sort of contest. In
this state of things, I do not believe
the people desire to throw away or
hazard the safety of $300,000 per an
num, which is being paid regularly in
to the Treasury, and to that extent
lightens their taxation.
But do these political madmen sup
pose that they can accomplish their
object by any such revolutionary
scheme in violation both of law and ot
public opinion ? If the State Gov
ernment were crazy enough to attempt
it, it must be remembered that part of
the road lies in the State of Tennessee,
where the courts, both State and Fed
eral, are open to us, where our con
tract would be respected and the law
administered. Ami if we hold only a
portion of the road in the State of
Tennessee, until our rights can be vin
dicated in the proper courts, and take
from it the new rolling-aiock aud ma
terial which we have placed upon it, I
should like to see those gentlemen
run it successfully and accomplish
their wild scheme.
By others it is said that the policy
is to bring the matter into court, and
have a receiver appointed to take
charge of the road. What would be
the result ? This at once causes us
to take from if our rolling stock, re
turn it in the condition we lound it, as
near as we can, and it is then back
into politics a^ain, and large appro
priations must be made to sustain it;
beside, the State and Federal Courts
in Tennessee might not see the pro
priety of appointing such a receiv
er. You will readily see, my dear sir,
the embarrassments in the way of the
revolutionists who are attempting to
tear down the lease in defiance of our
rights at d the popular wish.
A word in reference to the future of
the road. My hope has been from the
start, that after appropriating the in-
cemes of a few years of the first part of
the lease, to the rebuilding, repairs and
reconstruction of it, the lessees would
ultimately be able to make a reasora-
able profit for their risk, toil and ex
pense. I still hope so, but from my
knowledge of the affairs connected
with the road, I see no prospects of
large returns to the lessees in future.
The competing lines that are spring
ing up around us will ultimately great
ly damage the Western and Atlantic
Railroad property. Efforts are put
forth under the lease by railroad men
of experience to extend long lines into
the West and control freights for this
route. It is very important to main
tain a thorough line between the city
of St. Louis and the city of Atlanta,
controlled by those in the interest of
Atlanta and of the Georgia lines of
road. In forming the company I look
ed to that object, and associated Col.
Cole, Resident of the N. and C. Road,
and Col. Allen, Pres’t of the St. Louis
and Iron Mt. Road. Since that time
the N. <fc N. W. Road, which connects
the two last named roads running from
the city of Nashville to the Mississip
pi river, and completes our control of
tiie whole line between Atlanta and
St. Louis, has been purchased by those
who are friendly to and connected with
the lessees of the State Road. The
terms of the purchase were favorable
futile company w’ho made it and it is
very easy by a glanc- at the map to
see that by the sale of that road to the
Louisville and Nashville road, enabling
trol to Nashville, and having leased the
road from Nashville to Decatur and
built the road from Decatur to Mont
gomery, will at once open competi-
tition with us for ali middle and South
western Georgia, and will compel us
to carry freights so low as to pay very
little, or we must lose them. If you
will look at the map y >u will see that
it is probably nearer from Columbus,
Georgia, to Nashville, by that route
than it is by way of Macon and Atlan
ta. The loss to the Western and At
lantic Railroad, on freight business,
the first year of tlie competition ol
the roads already mentioned, will not
probably he le>s than from S200.000
to S300,000. These difficulties will
be upon us by ,the end of the pres
ent year, or early in the next year.
There are other competing lines that
will be completed at a more remote
period, as the road from Macon to
Knoxville, cutting off the East Ten
nessee business for Middle Georgia
and turning it by that route. And
the road from Chattanooga to Colum
bus, which is a lateral competitor oi
of the State Road; to say nothing ot
the Georgia Western. With these
difficulties to be met in future, it is by
no means certain that the present les
sees can meet their engagement with
the State and make even a reasonable
profit; and that being so, I leave it to
the cool consideration of the people ol
Georgia whether a Superintendent
running it under the control of the
Governor, as a political machine,
would be likely to make it pay. It
will, at least, be very important in
that case, that the people shall make
no mistake in the selection of an Exe
cutive who has the experience and the
firmness to hold the iielm in his hand
steadily, and see that the finances ot
the State are properly managed, that
the proceeds ot the road are properly
cared for and paid promptly and hon
estly into the treasury. We are groan
ing under the heavy burdens of taxa
tion, and it is important that our finan
cial affairs he prudently and economi-
DOLI.V VAIIDSlt,
BY BRET HARTE.
Dear Dolly ! who does not recall
1 he thrilling’ pagre pictured all
Those charms that held onr sense in thrall.
Just as the artist caught her—
As down that English lane ahe tripped.
In flowered chintz, hat side ways tipped,
Trim-bodieed, breht-eyed, rogtiish'lipped—
The locksmith’s prttty daughter T
Sweet fragment of the Master's art!
O simple Uirh ! O rustic heart!
O maid rhat hath no counterpart
In file’s dry, doe-eared pages !
Where shall we find thy like? Ah,stay !
Met'finks I saw her yesterday
In chintz that flowered, as one might say,
Perennial tor ages.
Fler father's modest cot was stone,
Five stories high. In style and tone
Composi'e, and, I frankly own,
Within its wall* revealing
Some certain novel, strange ideas.
A Gothic door with Roman piers,
And floors removed some thousand years
From their Pompeiian ceiling.
The small salon where she received,
Was Louis Quaterze, and relieved
By Chinese cahiuets, conceived
Grotesquely by the heathen ;
The sotas were a classic sight—
Flie Roman bench (sedi ia bight;)
Tiie chairs were French, in gold and white,
And one Elizabethan*
them to turn it by way of Montgom-1 cally administered, our public debt re-
ery, the line between here and St.
Louis would be broken, and the in
terests of the State Road, of Atlanta,
and of Georgia, greatly damaged.—
Those of us who are interested in that
purchase could sell at no distant day
for a heavy advance upon what we
paid, and if disconnected with the
lease, we would be under no obliga
tion to give to the State the benefits of
the good bargain which we have made
in attempting to secure a through line
between Georgia and St. Louis
duced as fast as possible, and our taxes
made less onerous. If this end can he
better served by the return of the road
to the State, I shall be gratified to do
so ; if not, I am content to carry out
my contract with the people in good
faith.
I am very truly, etc.,
Joseph E. Brown.
And she, the goddess of that shrine,
Two ringed fingers placed in mine—
The stones were many carats fine,
And of the purest water—
I’lieu dropped a cour’esy, far enough
To tairly till liercretone puff
And show the petticoat's rich stuff
That her fond parent bought her.
Her speech was simple as her dress—
Not French the more, but English less,
She loved ; yet sometimes, 1 confess,
I scarce could comprehend her.
Her manners were qui e far from shy ;
There was a quiet iu her eye
Appalling to tiie Hugh who'd try
With rudeness to offend her*
‘‘But whence,” I cried, “this masquerade ?
Same figure for to-night's charade—
A Watteau sheperJess or maid 1”
She smiled, and begged my pardon:
“Why, surely yon must know the name—
That woman who was Shakespeare’s flame,
Or Byron’s—well, it's all the same ;
Why Lord ! Pm Dolly Varden !’’
Harper’s Bazar.
CASTE IN ENGLAND.
Broadly there are threo sets of peo
ple—upper, middle and lower. Prac
Again, a portion ol the lessees and | tically there are many more. There
their friends have purchased the road
known as the Knoxville and Kentucky
Road, running from Knoxville, Ten
nessee, out to Coal Creek coal mines,
say forty miles, with a charter tun
ning t',rough and connecting with the
system of roads in Kentucky. Any :
one who looks at the map for a mo
is royalty, nobility ; an upper and
lower upper; an upper and lower
middle, aud a variety of gradations
downward toward the nethermost
depths. Everybody washes his hands
of everybody outside of his own set.
The laborer is not admitted to the ar-
I tisau’s circle ; the artisan cannot en-
menty must see that the huildyig of a ^ er ^ ie tradespeople’s coterie; the
road from Walhalla, S. C., through I trades P eo P le are not admitted to the
Rabun Gap, by way of Knoxville to ■ merchants’ communion, and the mer-
Cmcinnati, would cut off’ from the c h an t must, with all his wealth, learn
State Road and the Georgia Road, and to keep his place if he comes info the
the other roads connected with this neighborhood of real blood. Public
line, the present business of the Caro- schools are absolutely out of the ques-
iinas, which is done over the line. It tion on account of this caste feeling,
therefore becomes very important to : “ ^ tiat! send your son to a school
build and hold in our hands the bal- j where tradespeople’s and artisans’
ance of the road between Coal Creek 'children are sure to go? Preposter-
and the Kentucky roads. This will ous *' Not hut that they are well
cost about $5,000,000, and it is ex- enough in their way; hut these chil-
pected by those of us who purchased ^ r en are liable to form life-long friend-
that road that we will be able to have school, which would make it
it completed at no very distant day. exceedingly awkward, you know !”
This will enable us to run cars from ^ a y o;,:i n woman wishes to open a
Atlanta to the city of Cincinnati, and P r i va te school for girls, she must de-
there load them and bring freight ei^e for what class of pupils it shall
through upon them to the different ^ e . ant ^ stick to that class. If she ad-
parts of Georgia and the Carolinas. I m ^ s j a shop-keeper’s or chemist’s
This gives us the key to the position daughter, all the hue young misses are
and . nables us, even after the road is immediately withdrawn. “One does
built through Rabun Gap to Knoxville, ; n °t desire, you understand, to see an
to control the freights and continue to intimacy spring up between our young
bring them this way. But, if we give indies and our tailor’s daughter. We
up the lease, our interest will then be have no other objection to the school —
with the Carolinas, and we could ,10ne whatever !” It is this rigid
doubtless, as soon as the Rabun Gap ca8 t e feeling, existing among our peo-
Road is built, make a large amount of P' e otherwise very sensible, that an
money by connecting with them aud
turning the tide in that direction. _
You will thus see that the present j Duly yesterday, sitting for an hour in
ed many liabilities, 1 a dentist’s chair, 1 drew out the senti-
American finds it so hard to under
stand and so impossible to approve.
lessees have incurred many
and have made arrangements to spend ■ ments concerning caste.
large sums of money to secure the “ A ' r '* i- '~
freights at the two great Western cen
tres—Cincinnati and St. Louis—am _
control and bring them by way of At- s t ai ' te d together. It is differ
lanta for the distribution. If the people !■’ or centuries there has been
Oh, you
Americans don’t understand it, of
course. You over there have been on
Cincinnati and tSt. Louis—and .equal footing from the first. \ou all
rent here.”
a gradual
process of natural selection going for
ward, until now the upper and lower
England are as unlike as two different
breeds of dogs. They have scarcely
anything in common. The lower
classes generally are utterly wanting
in the “gentlemanly instincts.” Now
this is a very fine theory with which
to defend this abominable class dis
tinction ; hut it is far more false than
it is fine. The “gentlemanly in
stincts” are quite as often, to say the
least—to me it seems more often—to
be noticed in the second-class railway
carriage as in the first class ; oftener
among the serious-minded middle class
folks than amid lavender gloves and
tine silks, and the general selfishness of
the uppertendom generally. Rut then
it would be commonly doubted here
whether, on account ot his democrat
ic antecedents, an American really
knows what the “ gentlemanly in
stincts” are. There are no gentlemen,
in the English sense of their term iu
America.—London letter.
of Georgia do not appreciate these ex
penditures, and desire to take the road
back and run it as heretofore, we shall,
of course, be under no obligation to
give them the benefit of our expendi
tures or of our influence in giving to
Georgia the monopoly in the freights
from these great Northern centres, but
we shall turn them in such channels
as our pecuniary interests may dictate.
I will call your attention to but a
single other point, which is worthy
your consideration, when you come to
act upon this question, and that is the
Air-Line Road from Atlanta to Char
lotte, N. C., which makes almost a bee
line road from this city to Richmond,
Washington and other Northern cities,
will probably be completed [>y the end
of the present year. This will turn a
great portion of the travel that now
passes over the State Road north over
that route, and we shall necessarily
lose it. Again, the road connecting
the city of Montgomery, Alabama, with
Decatur, Alabama, will, it is said, he
completed before the end of the pres
ent year, as the Louisville and Nash
ville Road which has purchased it, has
a very heavy force pushing it forward.
When that is doue the State of Ala
bama has a direct and easy communi
cation with the West without running
through Atlanta and Chattanooga, and
the heavy lreight heretofore brought
over the State Road for the State ol
Alabama, will at once be cut off and
turned over that line, and the Louis
ville and Nashville Road having con*
Greeley at Home.—The World
says the Southern delegates to Balti
more,who visited Mr. Greeley at Chap-
paqua, were charmed with his frank,
manly and cordial demeanor and said
all that is required is for the Southern
people to know him, and they will
support him unanimously.
A Baltimore paper gives as one
among a large number of reasons for
supporting Greeley that, “he has no
talents for bull-pups.”
Moultrie, Ga., July I5th, 1S72.
Editor Federal Union :
Like “Ben” the never-to-be-forgot
ten who in by gone days came out
quarterly with his “notes on the situ
ation,” so your correspondent from
this place, comes out quarterly or very
near it and not much oftener and if
not like the great “Ben” shooting big
guns at least giving what little items
ol intelligence can be gathered in this
little “backwoods town,” but like
most others at this politically exciting
time will occasionally lug in politics.
We do not know as he can be blamed
for this for do what we may to efface
it from our memory it will hold a
prominent situation, it will command
attention. But in this communica
tion we intend to speak more of the
people, the land, its productiveness
itc., than of the “political situation.”
We have here in Colquitt a large
area of wild or unimproved land ca
pable of furnishing support for hun
dreds of inhabitants,which can be pur
chased for a mere song. Tracts of
four hundred and niuty acres, can be
had for one hundred dollars, just
think of it, less than twenty-five cents
per acre, for well timbered and pro
ductive land on just such land as in
dustrious men in some parts of the
country are making from ten to fifteen
bushels of corn to the acre, and oue
third of a bale of cotton to the acre,
and some even more than the above.
We know of same that make a half
hale ot cotton to the acre without us
ing any manure, we are well aware
that our county is spoken of by the
citizens of neighboring counties as be
ing very poor, our lands unproductive
&c., but the main reason of the pov
erty of our citizens is not because the
lands are so unproductive but want of
energy in reclaiming the land from its
wild state and in not thoroughly culti
vating it when prepared for cultiva
tion. Although our citizens are most
ly poor yet they are strictly honest,
and not in the H. G* sense either*—
This lack of energy is what keeps
them poor. True a great many de
vote too much of the time that should
be devoted to their farm in hunting
and fishing, but if they choose to do
so who has aright to condemn them
for it? Game although not plentiful
is still to be had for the trouble ol
hunting, and every little stream
abounds in fish. Our citizens are
prone to take things easy, and to be
content “with the good the gods have
given” and not work to “lay up for
tliemseives treasures on earth where
moth and rust doth corrupt and
thieves break through and steal.”—
Although we cannot undertake to say
a little more work would not be bet
ter, who knows but what it is best
just as it? Weeimply mention this to
show that it is not on account of the
poverty of the land that the people re
main poor, but simply because they are
contented so to remain. If any # one
wants a good cheap home do not let
him think for an instant that by com
ing and purchasing one in our county
he will purchase a place upon which
he may toil all his life aud not bet
ter Ins condition, for to the indus
trious man tiiere is a good living, yea
a fortune to be made even in old Col
quitt. We have long since learned that
“there is more in the man than in the
laud,” and wiao would go without a
home when one can be had for such
a small sum. We have had here but
very few conveniences, but the county
is improving in this respect, there are
several good mills dotted about over
the country, good schools in every
neighborhood, churches tolerably con
venient and above every thing else
we have good health; a heathier coun
try was never seen, and we are not
troubled with the “fifteenth amend
ments” for there are not more than
J thirly persons of color in the whole
county little, big, young and old, male
and female, al! told; but if we say any
more about the advantages of the
county some one will accuse us, we
fear, of letting “interest blind judge
ment” and therefore we will desist lor
the present; but we cannot close this
letter without telling you that we
sometimes stumble on a ghost, here as
well as elsewhere and when such
things do occur we also have “men of
genius” to discribe such little occur
rences in verse when they do happen,
as the following ’‘poetical effusion”
will show :
The moon fair poddess of the night
Resplendently arose
Dispensing' far its mellow light,
O'er all hnshi-d in repose
It waded through ethereal blue
To the meridian height
While all around it little stars
Were almost lost to sight.
I sat me down to dream uud think
Of future and the past
And wonder if 'n time to come
My life should be o'ercast.
While thus I sat a sylph-like form
Drew near with noiseless tread
So silently it moved along
My mind was filled with dread
And nearer, nearer yet it came,,'
My h.art was in my throat r
It did not seem to touch the ground^
But in the air to float:
At last I courage mustered up
And to the phantom spake.
Immediately it disappeared
For I did th« n awake,
I rubbed my eyes and looked around
Sleep had overcome me quite,
I thought it better policy
To retire for the night;
But e’er I to my chamber went
I'd take a little stroll
To get my thoughts and fancies
More under my control,
And so adown the street I walked
Right leisurely along.
And as I went to myself hummed
A pretty little song;
A feath’ry cloud before the moon
Just for oue moment passed
And thus for a single second
Its brightness was o'erenst
A torm appeared so near to me
Could have touched it with my hand
Aud in the shadow of a house
This horrid thing did stand;
I stepped, I gazed upon it long
Fearful in to m it grew
And do my best its actions «
I could not well construe,
My hair on end, my gaze affixed
My heart up in my throat
I stretched my hand and placed it on
The head of billy goat.
You p#ceive by this that our peo
ple are the same by nature of others all
ovef the globe, sometimes imagination
etling the better of them and then
endeavoring to explain the feeling af
terwards poetically. If you are not
already tired of such trash we may
write you again soon.
“Old Settler.”
STRAWBERRIES FRO.U THE SEED
A correspondent of ours tells us
how he grows seedling strawberries,
which we publish. He asserts that
full three-fourths of the seed sown
germinates. He says : “I make a
water-tight box of the dimensions of
three feet long, two feet wide and six
inches deep. (This is made water
tight by calking or placing a piece of
canvas covered with white lead or tar
between the joints.) I then nail on
the bottom a cleat six inches long,
two inches wide and one and a half
inches thick.
Now make another, but two inches
shorter from outside to outside than
the inside ot the water tight box, one-
half inch narrower and six inches deep.
In the bottom of this box bore some
fifteen or twenty holes ; be careful
not to shave the chips out; if you do,
fill in with small wisps of grass or hay.
Take a corn sieve and sift this inside
box full of rich black earth. When
lull, strike the box from ertd to end
with a straight edge, making it level.
Now ail is ready to receive the seed.
Choose such berries that have the ri
pest appearance—those having the
darkest seed* Let them lay exposed
to the a;rin a room until the berry is
dry ; the seed will then crumble out
of the cavities by rubbing them geut-
ly with the thumb and forefinger.
Now take the seed and scatter them
evenly on the surface of the earth or
loam; afterward, with your sieve,
barely cover the seed.
The seed-box must be then placed
inside the water tight box ; before it
is filled the under box must be made
level on the ground, so as to save an
even depth of water on the bottom,
leaving, at one end all the space you
can for irrigation.
Your box thus constructed, and
your seed thus sown, make a tight
cover of boards, four leet long, three
wide, with hinges. Drive a stake in
the ground at each corner of the box,
letting the top of the two stakes at
oLe end be three inches above the top
of the inside box, and the other two
nine inches at the opposite end.—
These are to place your cover at night,
or in case of a rain : for it you let it
rain, or pour water on your bed, it
will wash some out and bury others
too deep, besides rut others.
Have some rain-water stauding in
the sun to temper it, and pour suffi
cient water in the lower box to come
half way up the seed-box until the
moisture appears on the surface, let
the cover remain off from sunrise, to
LI o’clock, A. M. arid from 3 o’clock
until sunset. If directions be follow
ed as laid down, one will be surpris
ed to see how soon the surface will be
covered with youm* plants
Banner of the South.
How the Nomination is Receiv
ed.—The Nashville Union and Amer
ican says the nomination of Greeley
and Brown was received with unpre
cedented enthusiasm throughout the
country. Guns were fired and other
demonstrations of gratification wit
nessed in almost every city and vil
lage iu the Union. A gentleman who
has returned from New York informs
us that he made it a point to get out
at every depot where the train stop
ped and OH^imong the people that he
might learn their sentiments, and he
assures us that he has never witnessed
such enthusiasm in any campaigu iq
the last quarter of a century.