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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 GEO. P. ROWELL & CO., No. 40 Park Row. 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. o 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.