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jan 19, ly
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Quitman, Ga., Sept. 12, 1870. tf
CJLOTHIjNG.
Although we advertise up-side down, we
are right-side-up, especially in the sale of
CLOTHING. We have now in
our store the largest and most varied assort
ment of Clothing ever in this market, and
by an arrangement which we have perfected
with I. L. Falk Sr. Cos„
Manufacturers and wholesale d< filers, of
Savannah, we can supply our customers with
any article in the clothing line at 25 per
cent, below the retail prices of any house
in Savannah. Call and examine sam
ples, and give us your orders.
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Quitman, Ga., Sept. 19, 1870.
PIMPLED.
I will mail (free) the recipe for preparinr
a simple Vegetable Balm that will remove
7 an, Freckles, Pimples and Watches, leaving
the skin soft, dear and beuutifu 1 ; also in
structions for producing a luxuriant growth
of hair on a bald head or smooth face. Ad
dress Ben Vaudelf &. Cos., box 5,121, No. 5
Wooster street, New York. 48-21
({HITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 12, IS7L
FLORIDA ITEMS.
Tlio Florida Presbytery was in
session in Madison lust week.
The farmers of Gadsden are turn
ing their attention to Wheat and To
bacco this season.
—There is to he an excursion from
Chattahoochee to Apalachicola, on
Monday, the lGth.
The Municipal election in Jack
sonville resulted iu the election of >
Capt. Wm. Stokes Boyd.
The Court House square in Gaines
ville is to be enclosed at a cost of j
8850. Reduction is tho word.
- Tho Ancient Order of A. F. M.
at Quincy contemplate celebra.ing
St. John’s day, the 25th of June.
'—Drew's “ Smoke-House” for idle
“niggers” is undergoing repairs.—
When will the Penitentiary prove re- i
munerate ?
—Hon. W. D. Bloxbam has been
invited to deliver an address before
the Memorial Association of Quincy
on the 26th.
Dr. Preston, of Suwannee county,
was found dead recently in the woods.
He had been absent from his home a
week when found.
—A century plant has bloomed in
Quincy. llow old are they when
they blossom we would like to know.
Not a hundred years old we do not j
think.
—Mr. AVm. Astor, of New York, is
said to have registered at Jackson- j
ville. Wonder if he voted at the j
Municipal election which occurred on
the 4th.
—The United States Court was in :
session last week iu Jacksonville. —
Judge Settle who was “settled” by I
Gov. Vance, was provided for by
Grant before he retired.
—There are 807 white and G 52 col
ored voters in Jacksonville, and yet 1
that city is largely Republican, when
a State election is held. It is the
carpet-baggers retreat now.
—An alligator, twelve feet long,
with a heavy coating of uiud on its
back, from which was growing a.
thriving crop of prairie grass, was !
killed near Gainesville last week.
—We did not know that the citi
zens of St. Augustine permitted wild j
beasts to roam in St. Johns county.
A bear weighing three hundred and
fifty pounds was recently killed near 1
the Ancient City.
—There are sixty-six Indians at
Fort Marion, St. Augustine, and two
squaws among the number. They
dri’l and make good sentinels. They
will doubtless be removed to thej
West this summer.
—The Fraudulent President has ap
pointed Stearns as one of the Com
missioners to take charge of the Hot
Springs reservation. Not all tho wa
ters of (he Hot Springs can make
Stearns clean, a dirty hog.
The Sun says that among the bills
presented to the City Counsel of Jack
sonville the other night, was one from
the Press of that city for advertising
179 descriptions of city property at
collector’s sale, four times, $358.
—A correspondent of the Jackson
ville Union says that the wonderful
Ponce de Leon spring, with its fabled
powers, is a verv commonplace ar
rangement, and it takes some stretch
of imagination to surround it with
much romance.
—A Mr. Durden, living near Ma
riana, Jackson county, aged thirty
five years, visited that town, one day
last week for the first time in his life.
He required the services of a physi
cian for his family. Liens on crops
have no charms for him.
—The citizens in and around Lake
City desire, and that very earnestly
too, that their soil shall be made
known if good inducements are worth
anything. From three to five years
free from taxation. What a lease
and yet how many will accept the mu
liificent order remains to be seen. —
Oh ! for energy among the truck-far
mers.
It. D. G., a Wakulla correspondent
of the Savannah Daily News gives a
horrible account of the death of an
infant child by drowning. The fa
ther and mother, when tho boat they
were in capsized, took refuge in a
life boat, and the storm was so great
that they could not save it. The
irother viewed, floating tho next
morning, a corpse upon the edge of
the water, near Rock Island.
[Written for the Quitman Reporter.
A SAILOR'S EXPERIENCE
[Continued from Last
There is something intuitive in man,
and not unfrcqnently soon in inferior
animals, that gives premonition of
approaching danger when ocular
demonstration is wanting. The ship
may roll, she may pitch, or she may
lurch to the greatest extent of her
her ability, but these in no wise in
terfere with the slumbers of the ma
riner; but let the slightest motion or
noise unconnected with these pecu
liarities of the ship occur, and sleep
is dispelled, and mind and, matter
shake off lethargy as a traveller would
his cloak, and his perceptive and
physical faculties arc immediately on
the alert.
This was singularly demonstrated
by the captain at this crisis, for, as
tho mate approached his berth, he
sprang from his bed, and without in
terrogating that officer, ordered him
on deck again. He put on his slip
pers, seized his overcoat, and was on
deck in an instant. A glance con
vinced him of the situation. He took
his speaking trumpet from the com
panion, advanced to the pooprail, and
with stentorian voice gave the order
to “let go all.”
Every man was at his post, for we
were keenly sensible that our very
existence depended upon our prompt
ness. ■ It was no sooner given than
executed, but with the voice came the
storm, and ere the last word had
passed from his lips, the wind, as if
maddened at the possibility of oar
escape from its fury, laid the ship,
which was gently rolling to the un
dulations of the ten, on her beam
ends, creaking in every joint and
struggling in vain to right herself
against the gigantic power which
held her down and lashed the waters
into foam; and which, notwithstand
ing the torrent rain, rose iu moun
tainous waves and became the willing
ally—and nearly equal m force—to
Jhe liquid but invisible power whose
impetuous course it could not resist;
arid that which, so r. eerily was list
less from calm repose, was suddenly
aroused to mighty energy and strife,
apparently bent on the destruction of
all that floated upon its buoyant sur
face, but which it had previously
shown a disposition to bear iu sa'etv.
Confusion for the moment was
confounded. The surrounding scene
was appalling; from lurid light we
were gradually cast' into •pandemo
nium darkness; the howling and
whistling of the wind through the
shrouds and blocks were as, echoes of
the funds lejoicing at the prospect of
our destruction. Yet stout hearts
and active hands were equal to the
emergency, though keenly sensible
that the ship was a mere wreck upon
the ocean.
Our top-gallant sails were blown
clean out of the ropes, and the fore ;
top-gallant yard, stripped of its lifts
and braces, bung suspended by the
tie; the top-sail yards had nearly de
scended to their caps, and the tacks j
and sheets of. the main course ropes, i
equal iu circumference to a man’s
wrist, snapped like a gossamer thread,
when the report made by the flapping
of the sail was equal to a small can
nonade. The running gear was flying
to leeward like pennants, and our
situation was far from enviable.
Not having had time to call the
watch below, who, ignorant of the
approaching storm, were taken by
surprise, made their wav on deck as
best they could to see what the matter
was, and aid in resisting the jarring
elements. Let my readers fancy the
position of these brave men, aroused
suddenly from their midnight slum
bers by the action of the storm —a
sense of danger upon their minds—
from their warm berths and, in a state
almost of nudity, exposing themselves
to the chilling winds and saturating
seas and rain, and that, too, with a
cheerfulness and energy which danger
can never confound ami on which
their safety depended. Danger is un
doubtedly the time to try men’s souls,
and the stuff which ferms the com
position of your true seaman is ma
teriolized oi something more than
human clay.
By good seamanship and great
physical exertion the ship was event
tually hove to under close reefed fore
and main top-sails and stay-sail. In
this position we rode like a bird upon
tho water, bidding defiance to that
which recently wo had much occasion
to dread, for wo were now in com
parative safety and could contemplate
with serenity the damage the vessel
had sustained. Fortunately she was
nearly new, this being her fourth
voyage, and it was not so great as we
anticipated, the injury being mostly
confined to sails and gear. The car
penter sounded) the pumps, and they
were tried with a satisfactory result.
[2b be Continued.]
SIMON TO DON'.
Tils I.AST LAY OF THE CLAN CAMERON.
Tin* following, ns I iinilorstaiul it, is Si
mon's dying address to his sou Don, to
whom lie bequeaths everything lint his
bruins and his reputation. Simon does not
will Don his brains, because Don lias no use
for the article; while he already has all the
reputation of that sort that lie can conven
iently get along with:
Come hither, Donald Cameron,
And stand beside my knee,
My race of life is nearly run,
Grim death draws near to me;
Hilt as I quit the public crib
I will explain to you,
How jobs are done and parties run
And how to put things through.
Lo! I have been for forty years
A statesman and a chief;
Sonic call me Winnebago—
Yes, mime have whispered thief.
But I have never been accused—
Whatever I have done— *
By day or night, of losing sight
Of Simon, number one.
Tims iu these marble Senato halls.
I've sat for many days;
The politician's trade I’ve learned,
With all its tricks and ways.
I've learned that statecraft is a game
Like poker -with a blind—■
AY lore if yon pass, for want cf brass,
You’re always left behind.
The Keystone is a noble State;
Realm proud enough for king,
And I have ruled it many years
AVith what they call the ring.
But now my hand is getting weak,
My pulse beats faint and low,
My lingers slip, I lose my grip,
And I must let go.
There is a place called Harrisburg,
And there a crew doth meet
Of caitiff's and of flunkeys hired
To wash and wipe my feet.
This crew I do bequeath to you
To have and hold ill way;
They’ll do your work and never shirk
>s'o they but get their pay.
Now, ail you need to do, my son,
Is keeping the gang well paid,
And keep those whom you cannot buy
Disheartened or afraid.
If these behests you do observe
And these commands obey,
You shall l>e king and boss the ring
AVith undisputed sway.
I charge thee, boy, if ever thou meet
AVith one of Forney’s name,
Be it iu legislative halls
Or ill the lobby's shame,
Face him as thou wouldst face the foe
AViiO thy sire’s sins did tell;
If member of what breed thou art,
And give the caitiff hell.
[.4. C. Buell, in Washington Capital.
The political itnation in the United
States is one of great gravity. It is
not because of the success in the Gov
ernment of one party and the defeat
of the other; the country is accustom
ed to events of that kind. Neither
is it because a President has been
counted in instead of elected; the
country is also used to that.— National
Quarterly Review.
This is not true. No man was ever
counted in as President before Hayes.
Every one of bis predecessors was
lawfully elected. Some of them were
elected by a minority of the popular
vote; but they wore always elected in
accordance with the Constitution and
the laws. Ilayes was not elected at
all. He was counted-in by fraud and
in violation of the Constitution and
the laws. This is what makes the
political situation in the United
States one of the great gravity, and
puts the Republican institutions of
the country in extieme peril.
Why Secretary Evarts has Arran
ged to’ Practice Law. —None of
Hayes’s Cabinet are rich, unless it is
Evarts, and as lie owns alarm in Ver
mont, he can, of course, never become
an exceptionally wealthy man. He
has a very large income from his
practice, and ho accepted a seat in the
Cabinet only upon condition that he
be allowed to retain it. There is no
statute of 178 G, heretofore, overlooked,
as in Stewart’s case, to prevent this,
and we may expect to see the Secre
tary of State journeying to New York
about once a mouth to look after his
law cases. He says his salary alone
would cut but a sorry figure in meet
ing bis family expenses. You remem
ber a few years ago Mr. Evarts was
spoken of for Governor of New York,
but declined. He could not afford it,
because a term as Governor would
break up his law practice. Gincinnati
Commercial.
Bad Ltjck to the Great Southern
Built Steamer. —The press telegrams
have already chronicled the wreck of
the steamer Rockawav, lately built at
Norfolk, Va., as an excursion steamer
ta plv in New York Bay and vicinity.
She was not only the largest steamer
ever built in the South, but one of
the largest ever built anywhere—be
ing 285 feet long, GG wide—tonage
1,950 —threo decks, and intended to
accommodate 4,000 passengers. She
was launched on the 17th and left
Norfolk on the 20th in tow of steam
ship AVynnoke for New York to re
ceive her engines and outfit but met
with such terrible weather that she
had to be abandoned Sunday night in
a water logged condition and driven
ashore near tho United States Hotel
at Atlantic City, New Jersey, broken
in two and a total wreck.
Paying the Returning Boards.
The present Administration must
not be charged with ingratitude.
Four votes were stolen from Tilden
in Florida, and turned over to Hayes
* by the Returning Board of that State.
\Vo have already reported the fact
! that tho chief of these rascals. Samuel
: B. McLin, has been appointed Asso
ciate Justice in New Mexico, as a
i recognition of bis services. As this
: place is under the department of
! which Gen. Devons is the head, who
j was a Judge himself, of good repute,
and ought to know the qualifications
! for such a trust, it becomes him to
; explain whether lie recommended
| tins appointment, or only obeyed tbe
j Fraudulent President’s order iu mak
ing it.
But, however that may be, tho Hon.
Madison Wells, of Louisiana, will be
cheered by such a beautiful illustra
tion of civil service reform. Thus
far, he has not received his reward,
owing to the unsettled condition of
the State of his residence; but he still
expresses the utmost confidence in
Hayes, who entertained him hand
somely at tho White House, and
| spoke admiringiy of his fortune under
difficulties. Tom Anderson, his pa
triotic colleague of the Returning
Board, is an applicant for the Col
| lectorship of New Orleans, and is
backed for it by the Fraudulent
| Secretary of the Treasury, who was
; an eve witness of his achievements in
transferring Louisiana from Tilden to
Haves.
The two mulatto'confederates on
the Board, Caseuavc and Kenner, will
doubtless be provided for in good
time, as representatives of their nice.
Complaint is made that Hayes does
not more quickly and at once take
care of tho faithful who counted him
in to tlie White House. But he can
point with pride to Sherman, Evarts,
Mathews and McLin as examples of
his fidelity. All he asks is time to
“make everything right.” —New York
Sun.
Fire in Bulloch County.
The residence of Dr. J. F. Brown,
a well known citizen of Bulloch
county, situated about three miles
from station No. 6, Central railroad,
was entirely destroyed by fire on last
Wednesday night. At the time of
the tire Hon. H. B. Tompkins of this
circuit, and A. Pratt Adams, Esq., of
this city, and several members of the
bar from Scriven county in attendance
on the Superior Court, were the guests
of Dr. Brown, and they had just re
tired to bed when the alarm was
given, and escaped with the loss of a
few articles of clothing. The tire was
discovered in the roof near the chim
ney, and is supposed to have been
caused bv sparks, as the iilue was
very foul, and a large fire had been
burning in the fire-place during the
evening; a high wind prevailed at the
time of the conflagration, and in
about an hour after its discovery (10
o’clock) the entire building was in
ashes. Tho house was the finest in
Bulloch, and was built twenty-one
years ago by the late Janies Young,
the father of Mrs. Brown, and was
uninsured. — Savannah News.
Wo reproduce the above for tbe
benefit of the many relatives and
friends of Mrs. Brown who reside in
this section of the State. She was
not, however, the daughter of the late
James Young, but his grand-daugh- 1
ter—her maiden name being Hen
derson.
Murat Halsload on Long Branch.
There is already a good deal of
speculation touching the future of!
Long Branch. Ex-President Grant
is going, aboard, and will bo absent
at least, two years. There is not the
least probability that Hayes will make
it bis summer down there for recrea
tion. Mr. Evarts lias a stately conn- j
try home iu New England. Mr.
Selmrz is a cosmopolitan, and lias
shown no partiality for the seaside. :
Mr. Sherman retires upon Ohio when I
he wants fresh air. Mr. Thompson j
will summer on tho Wabash. Mr. j
McCrary has a partiality for the pel-1
lucid lakes and streams of the North
western States, and Mr. Key is more
at home in the- Virginia and Tennessee !
ranges of the Cumberland Mountains. 1
Long Branch must get aloug without
a President and the Administration .
on wheels, and now that ex-Presi
deut Grant is not to be there, it is ,
possible Mr. G. W ■ Childs, A. .if., and
even Tom Murphy may not adorn it
with their presence during any con
siderable part of the season. But
Long Branch will not be deserted for
all that.— Cincinnati Commercial.
“ The American Government,” says
the London Academy, “ have not yet
replied officially to the invitation to
take part iu the Exhibition of 1878,
but it is supposed, in spite of the lit
tle contretemps that arose out ot tho
Philadelphia Exhibition, that they
will do so, though probably, like oth
er nations, they are beginning to ex
perience ‘ tyranny ot exhibitions:’—
England seems about the only coun
try that has responded heartily to tho
French invitation. The refusal of
Germany is still a sore subject.”
Recent experiments at Antwerp
for lighting up the river and the har
bor with electric light have been very
successful. It is believed that this
mode of lighting will now be gener
rully adopted for the lighting up of
large spaces.
VOL. IV.—NO. 7.
Mercer University,
MACON, GA.
rpTIE SECOND TERM, 1870-77, WILL
1 open on WEDNESDAY, January 3, 1877.
Actvt :
1. A full corps of able ami efficient Pro
fessors; 2. A comprehensive and strong
j course of study: 3. Ample facilities for in
struction: 1. The lowest rates of tuition and
board: 5. A healthful and beautiful loca
tion: 0. Tim most splendid and complete
College ediiico in the South.
Tuition S6O per annum, payable S2O at
.beginning ol First Term, and S4O the first
ot January. Contingent fee, three dollars
per annum, payable in same proportion.
Prepayments rigidly required. Board in
“Students’ Hull” sl2 per month.
For catalogues and special informa
tion, address
Rev. A. J. BATTLE. D.D.,
Priiaiclont.
Mercerl diversity
LAW SCHOOL.
Three Professors. Next Term begins Jan
uary 3. Tuition SS() for the course. Di
ploma entitles graduates to practice.
For catalogue or further information ad
dress Hon. (’lifford Anderson, Chairman
ol‘ Law School, or I>r. A. J. Battle, Presi
dent M reer University, Macon, Ga. 41-tf
mmsmt sews
PRIZE STORIES.
SIOO FOR THE BEST AM) SSO FOR
THE NEXT BEST ORIGINAL
STORY.
Founded on Incidents of 1 lie Wnii Be
tween the States.
WITH a view to develop borne talent, to re
ward literary effort, and give especial local
interest to Tiif. Sunday Telegram and
Weekly Xr.vs. I will pay ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS for the Ist original story , found
ed upon'incidents of the war between the
States, and written by a resident of Georgia
or Florida.
The story to make not less than forty-eight
columns of the News, r.nd to be published
in the Weekly News and Sunday Telegram.
The award to be made upon the decision
of a committee of liter.-.ry gentlemen, anil
the copyright to he seen ret l to the author.
A priz ■ of Fifty Dollars will be paid for
the next best story, the award to be made as
above.
The manuscripts of unsuccessful competi
tors will he returned to the writers ii re
quired.
All manuscripts should be left at this
office I)v the first of Juno, and should he
accompanied by a sealed envelope containing
the name of the author, not to be opened
until after the award of prizes by the com
mittee. Address J. 11. ESTILL,
212 Publisher News, Savannah, Ga.
pTMM ACADEMY
I\ W. JOHNSON, A.11., Principal,
I*. IV. .JOHNSON, As-istaut,
Ami Instructress in Instrumental and Vocal
Music.
Other teachers will he added as the in
crease of the School demands.
Iu the above school pupils can receive in
struction in all the branches taught in our
first-class institutions.
Mrs. John, on is an experienced and suc
cessful teacher of music. The patrons arc
inx A1 to visit tlu> School at all times, but
especially on review day, the last Friday in
each scholastic month.
Terms per quarter of ten weeks, payable
at the end of each puarter:
First Class, 85; Second Class, $7.50;
Third Class, $10; Fourth
Class, $12.50.
Music on Piano, including use of instru
ment for practice one hour per day, $12.50.
Contingent Fee, 25 cents. 50
PULASKI HOUSE,
Snvnunali, On-
W\ M. NICHOLLS, Proprietor.
rjdUIS favorite HOUSE, with accommoda
.l tions for three hundred guests, has been
lease! by me for a term ol years, and will
be opened to the travelling public on Tues
day, February 13. The Hotel has been
thoroughly cleaned and refitted, and is now
equal in all its appointments to the best
hotels in the United Statue. The TABLE
shall not be surpassed by any other house.
Feeling willing to divide the depressed
state of the times with the travelling public,
1 have made rates to suit the times. My
terms will be: 25 rooms at $2.50; 50 rooms
at $3.00; 50 rooms at $4.00 per day. By
the week from $12.50 to $21.00, according,
to location and number in a room.
W. M. NICHOLLS,
50-51 Proprietor:
TO CONSUMPTIVES.
The advertiser, having been permanently
cured of that dread disease, consumption,
by a simple remedy, is anxious to make
known t<> his fellow sufferers the means of
cure. To all who desire it, he will send a
copy of the prescription used, (free of
charge,) with the directions for preparing
and using the same, which they will find a
s re cure for consumption, asthma, bron
chitis, Ac. Parties wishing the prescrip
tion will please address, Rev. E. A. Wilson,
101 Penn street, Williamsburg, N. Y. 48-21
Plantation for Sale.
For sale, at a bargain, 415 Acres of fine
farming land, ying in the Hickory Head
neighborhood of this county, well improved
and in good of culFv.iU n. .*• > v r
apply to 11. M. Mclntosh, Reporter Office.