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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1875.
ATLANTA JOURNALISM.
Recent Changes in the Atlanta Papers
—Gossip Ai>outjtlie/NeW9 and It# Ed
itor—The llei-ifld and the New de
parture—Alston and Grady Happy—
The Constitution in Statu Quo —At-
lanta as a Field of Journalism —Who
Is the Coming Journalistic Caesar ?
(Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.)
Atlanta, Ga, May 3d, 1875.
Mutations and surprises in that cu
rious and almost nondescript li|£le
world called “Atlanta Journalism,”j
within a week past, have perplexed t|ie
quid nuncs who are always seeking to
fathom the secrets of the newspaper
arcana, and have also verified the
prophesies of others having better
sources of information. Avery lim
ited portion of the uninitiated public
were surprised at the suspension of the_
News, last week, with the promise of"
re-appearance on Sunday ; it is to be
hoped that a still more iimited number
were secretly delighted at the misfor
tunes of a paper which has been noth
ing, if not readable and courageous.
The prophets who, for a month past,
have clajjned to be acquainted with the
pecuniary troubles of the News, ac
cepted the announcement with that
unctuous complacency which always
characterizes the philosophers who
preach the cheap wisdom of retrospec
tion, and after the event promptly
say : “ I told you so ! ”
The News Suspends But Resumes
Publication.
Having the barest speaking acquain
tance with Mr. Abrams, I knew noth
ing, nor cared to know anything, of
the embarrassments that w'ere alleged
to threaten the existence of his paper;
but I had the sympathy of a profes
sional for an accomplished journalist,
and I regretted the necessity of his
suspension last week. On yesterday I
was glad to see the News re-appear
with something of its old aggressive
vitality, and to learn from the news
boys that there was no difficulty in
selling it. Mr. Abrams gives a detailed
account of the difficulties that finally
drove him to that generally fatal step
in the career of a newspaper—tempo-
rary suspension. It is a moving record
*j‘ journalistic tribulations, and is full
of instruction to editors and publish
ers fighting at disadvantage, the ex
actions of that enthroned despotism,
the Typographical Uuion.
The News Redivivus.
But the News is redivivus, and again
speculation begins as to the probable
period of its existence. This will de
pend to a great degree upon circum
stances apart from its merits as a
newspaper, for the latter would have al
ready commanded success for the News,
were nothing else reqired to give suc
cess to newspapers than merit alone.
As I just now remarked, I have little
acquaintance with its editor, and no
knowledge of the inner life of the News,
but for months it has commanded my
attention as a most creditable effort of
journalistic talent, and in everything
save as a a counsellor in polities it has
been a striking journal. In polities it
in rarely able, never judicious, and
always superficial to a degree showing
the author or authors of its political
editorials to be without acquaintance
with either the literature or the
methods of politics. There is suffi
cient uniformity in the style of its edi
torials to authorize the supposition
that one hand pens them all, or nearly
all, and that the hand of its sditor-in
ehief; and from them it is easily learn
ed that he could never become a leader
in politics—General neither of Division
nor Brigade; not even Colonel of a reg
iment; hardly the captain of a com
pany. Asa sort of Mosby—a captain
of guerillas, a chief of political Uhlans,
with opportunity, he will frequently
achieve brilliant success, as witness his
raid over into the Seventh District last
Autumn, when he headed the people
against the tricksters, and helped pow
erfully to elect Felton and rebuke the
conspirators against the people’s rights
and honor.
Journalism vs. Politics.
But want of talent for politics does
not impair the respect which is due Mr.
Abrams as au exceptionally capa
ble journalist. Few men combine
political and journalistic talent to
a noticeable degree. Journalism
and statecraft are essentially dif
ferent sciences. Mr. Greeley, the first
of journalists, v.as the poorest of poli
ticians. Thurlow Weed, without a ray
<>f the journalistufgenius of Mr. Gree
ley, though Weed has great newspaper
talent, is a marvel of tact and prevision
—if the talent to organize and harmo
nize the disjecta membra that make up
those coalitions of autipodai influences
that men call “political parties,” in
which there is mutual surrender of
minor antagonisms for the attainment
of sorno great common end. These
Titans of journalism fought each other
for twenty-five years, and during all
that time the old man of the Ttibune
never won a victory, never secured a
v trick in the protracted game, until
he manoeuvred so as to beat Sew
ard with Lincoln at Chicago in
1860. Geo. D. Prentice, the most
meteoric of the old school of personal
journalists, was an infant compared
>vith Forney, for example, in shaping
a oaDvass, or reconciling the adverse
factions of a party; and yet in all that
constitutes genius, Forney, in his best
moments, would have been but a rush
light by the side of a blazing comet
compared with Prentice. Almost alone
among American editors, Henry J.
Raymond was a really wonderful com
bination of remarkable ability iu both
Journalism and politics.
It Is possible that Mr. Abrams’ pro
ficiency its a journalist has been an im
pediment to the local success of his
paper. In frequent issues of the News
the editorial matter would be credit
able to any paper in New York. Occa
sionally the News gives evidence
of its brotherhood with the peau
iiarly emotional and tropical journalism
of Atlanta, but generally its editorials
are mai'ked in their dignity and cul
ture—the English being excellent, and
the range of topics revealing a broad
and high training in the journalist’s
art. Possibly the Metropolitan tone
and flavor of the News has been its
chief difficulty. Perhaps a little more
of provincialism would have helped it;
for though Atlanta is to-day the most
cosmopolitan city in the South, the
country supporting its newspapers hits
not grown pari passu with'Georgia’s
capitoline city.
Gossip AJbout the Herald.
As rumor had been busy with the
News .and its fortunes, so, too, it had
occupied itself extensively with the
Herald. In the case of the Herald the
capricious Daiiie had been most kind
in her promises of favor, and lavish in
testimonials of the coming fruits of
judicious husbandry. Tbg good fairy’s
wand was to be located somewhere in
the neighborhood of the Herald office,
subject to waves and nods from it*
counting-room. Alston was soon to
become a modern Midas ; Gradyjwas
to revel in journalistic idyls under the
wide-spreading beech of the Herald's
success, and to add to his well-earned
laurels as the first editor of his age in
all the South ; and Bill Moore, at the
head of the Herald's city department,
was to reap a lich fruition from the
employment of his marked capacity in
the specialties of his newspaper work.
Jn fact, rumor put it somewhat # af ter
ion as to the Herald: “Alston
ami 4ra.lv are going to have a chance
at last; they have succeeded, by their
own efforts, in placing the Herald upon
a paying basis, after a long siege of
trying vicissitudes ; it is a good paper,
represents the average Atlanta senti
ment iipon most questions of public
importance, ami certain capitalists have
;deterifcinocl tf help it ott." The friends
of the Herald had already whispered
their confidence in the ear of the gen
eral public, and hence there was little
surprise occasioned by the announce
ment on Friday morning of the organi
zation of the
Herald Publishing Company,
consisting of R. A. Alston, H. W. Grady,
J. A. Burns, and “their associate and
with a capital stock actu
ally pairuin of $60,000, &c., &c. In my
reference to the News and its editor I
thought proper to disclaim personal
bias; so as to the Herald, I have no
personal end to subserve in echoing
the hope that its present opportunities
will be improved to its own material
advancement and to the credit of Geor
gia journalism.
H The Constitution,
in the midst’ of the danger that its
neighbors experience, and unlike the
instrument from which it takes its
name, which has proven so facile and
pliable in the hands of Radical tinker
era, the Constitution maintains its status
and pursues the even tenor of its way.
Some critics charge the Constitution
with an excess of that “rascally virtue
of prudence,” against which Samuel
Johnson inveighed, and with a calcu
lating ambi-dexterity as to all public
questions upon which there is a di
vided public opinion. Its friends, how
ever, “deny the allegation and scorn
the alligator.” I recall an editorial in
the Constitution, of date perhaps two
months ago, which impressed me most
favorably as a protest against the
wretched system of personalities iu
.journalism, and as a very felicitous re
joinder to specific allegations against
itself. Iu the Constitution of April 13th,
in connection with other sensible state
ments, was the following paragraph,
full of instruction to those moat in
terested :
What Atlanta journalism needs Is not
more money to increase expenses already
extravagant, and to crush out opposition
by a mad rivalry as to who can sink the
most means and thereby hold out the long
er; but a return to a healthy, legitimate
business of profit based upon expense and
income. This is the only true plan.- The
newspaper which can only succeed by
crushing out its rivals, regardless of merit,
ought not to succeed. It is just this crush
ing idea that ruins the newspaper business.
One journal goes deeper and deeper into
debt with the hope that its rival will die
and leave it the field.
Atlanta Journalism in the Future.
It can hardly be seriously questioned
that the present status of Atlanta
newspapers will not be materially altered
for months to come. In the issue
of the Constitution, from which I just
quoted in a declaration that its pro
prietors “ would exhaust every dollar
of their individual property” before
they would suffer the Constitution to
be “crushed out” by any combination
whatever of capital and talent. The
News in yesterday’s issue declares that
this time, relieved of the aid man of
thg sea, in the shape of the Typo
graphical Union, it has “come to stay,”
and the Herald, with its increased
capitol, will, of course, renew its al
ready firm grip upon itincreasing pa
tronage. To disturb this existing
status nothing can occur save even a
far worse condition of general busi
ness than now exists, and assuming
that matters will not materially change
beforo the Fall, aud that then busi
ness will begin to mend, the future of
Atlanta journalism becomes an in
teresting study. That at an ear
ly day this city is destined
to boast a great newspaper, sec
ond only in propriety, influence and
ability to the Courier-Journal among
Southern newspapers, is a proposition
clear to any comprehension that can
embrace the present and prospective
advantages of Atlanta. Envious rivals
may continue to deride the little mush
room Gate City, to call it the “Shoddy
Capital,” and to say that it has out
grown its socks, and don’t yet require
breeches; but still Atlanta grows; still
the buildings go up; still the little
temporary structures of five years ago
give place to neat, and orten imposing
specimens of architecture; still stran
gers contiuue to locate here, and capi
tal continues to pass by other places
to find more propitiatory openings in
Atlanta.
We are not very boastful yet awhile
of our social tone ; society is not yet
stratified, and Atlanta is not traveling
just now altogether upon its respecta
bility. All these characteristics of the
staid anifcdignified older town we shall
exhibit after awhile,that is when we shall
have time to cult ivate them. Just as St.
Louis hopes to be some day virtuous,
Chicago hopes to be no longer known
as the wickedest city, so Atlanta will
bring order out of her social chaos, and
not even Augusta or Savannah will
turn up noses at her, or decline ex
tending social courtesies to her younger
sister.
Atlanta’s Newspaper Aspirations.
A veteran ed i tor once told me that
the worst newspaper was always good
enough for the public that was con
tent to read it. The Atlanta mind as
pires to first-class newspaper reading,
and it will ultimately attain its desire
to have here a really first-class j ournal.
Of this aspiration there is evidence in
the fact that we already have three
newspapers, which, if they are not all
prosperous, and though none of them
fully meet the highest public de
mand, are yet conducted with au energy
and spirit not only characteristic of
their readers, but sufficient to make
Atlanta newspapers au object of curi
ous infections throughout the country.
And this too at a time exceptionally
bad for newspapers everywhere, but
especially at the South. To appreciate
the inevitable demand for a great news
paper in Atlanta, one has only to glance
for a moment at the map ot the terri
tory included between the Mississippi
and the Atlantic on the west and east,
aud the Tennessee line and the Gulf of
Mexico op the north and south. Within
this territory it is difficult to see where
the limits of the proper patronage of a
really first-class newspaper published
in Atlanta are to be placed. Atlanta’s
railroad connections penetrate the
States of South Carolina, North
Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi and
Tennessee, aud her business con
nections embrace nearly every county
in Georgia. Right at the doors
of Atlanta, located upon the vari
ous roiiro&d lines, are innumerable
small towns—mere suburbs of Atlanta,
feeders to. her prosperity, furbishing
cuhrojpers for her merchants-and sub
scribers for fier newspapers. Iu this
respect alone, Atlanta, a* the seat of a
great newspaper, has advantages* not
approached by those of any other
Southern city. Within this wide sweep
of territory properly this of At
lanta newspaper enterprise the Cour
ier-Journal has ioDg since penetrated,
but it would noWinterfere with the suc
cess of an Atlanta journal, even ap*
proximatiug its well known excellence.
And yet pf such a paper as this city
must shortly fiaye—Briarean in its
grasp to reach and hold this vast ter
ritory tributary to Atlanta, cosmopoli
tan in ifs character, to suit the medley
of active fortune, seeking populations
soon to have homes wif hill that terri
tory, caring nothing for
newspaper tfiat it reads, save
that it shall reflect something
of the energy and vim’of its readers—
able, sprightly and dashing, the Coit -
rier- Journal is the only possible com
petitor. The general outlook for South
ern newspapers is not good. Richmond
is too near Washington and the great
Northern cities to give its newspapers
much Importance, and though there is
talent upon the Virginia press, the
newspapers of Richmond, Petersburg
and Norfolk—all of them good provin
cial journals, those of Petersburg being
exceptionally readable—have a look of
overburdened dignity, and read as if
they were designed for Virginians
only. In North Carolina there is
practically no journalism at all.—
Wilmington, where there is an
active business community and a
considerable advertising interest,
—if properly managed—deserves at
least one excellent local newspaper,
but at present contents itself with two,
both of which are very much leas than
first-class. In South Carolina, the
News and Courier, at Charleston, ap
parently does not seek more than a
State patronage, and has little reading
outside South Carolina, although an
enterprising journal within its self-se
lected limits. In Alabama and Ten
nessee, there is no newspaper with such
a base of operations as a first-class
Atlanta journal should command, and
there is none that could successfully
forbid its entrance into that vast neu
tral ground lying between the larger
cities, and as yet almost an unknown
land in newspaper enterprise.
Which is the Coming Paper ?
In view of the possibilities of Atlan
ta journalism and its present status,
people are asking already, who is to
reap the harvest that offers ? Will it
be the Herald., strengthened and re
freshed? the News, rehabilitated? or
the Constitution, with its pledge to sink
the “last man and the last dollar ?”
With perfect impartiality as to the
contestants, I shall be glad to chroni
cle the success of the victor. I ven
ture a suggestion, however : When
ever people talk in the South now-a
days of prospective newspaper success
the Courier-Journal is always instanced
as the standard of excellence. This is
complimentary to the Courier-Journal,
but it often "fails to comprehend the
philosophy of the success of that jour
nal. The Courier-Journal's success has
been neither illogical nor phenomenal,
but it is well to note that it has been
exceptional at the South. Watterson
is a miracle of journalistic cleverness ;
but he would be the last man in the
world to claim that; he had made the
Courier-Journal. I have talked with
him, and he is neither a sky-scraper
nor a star-gazer nor an egotist; he is
simply a wondrously gifted man in
the domains of journalism, full of
earnestness and chastened enthu
siasm. Haldeman, the business man
ager, is as able iu the count
ing-room as Watterson is in the
sanctum , and both have been reinforced
by able coadjutors. Ballard Smith, the
managing editor under Watterson, is
himself a remarkable journalist for one
of his years, and when I last saw him
two years ago he told mo that the
regular staff of the Courier-Journal em
braced more than twenty persons. It
would be a great mistake to attempt in
Atlanta a lepetition of tho career of
the Courier-Journal (or even an ap
proximate careor of ouccoss) without
the leading conditions of success that
the Coutier-Joumal has always pre
sented, viz: considerable capital, ex
ceptional talent (and a good deal of the
latter commodity), and a just apprecia
tion of the field of labor and its de
mands.
In another letter I shall talk to you
about something else than Atlanta
journalism. F. H. A.
Railroad Schedules.
Revised and Corrected by 11. F. Crown, Gen
eral Ticket Agent, Planters’ Hotel.
POUT ROYAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta G :00a.ro.
\rrivea at Augusta 6:25 p. n>.
Arrives at Port Royal 3:00 p. in.
Leaves Port Royal 9:05 a. in.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Loaves Augusta at. 8:45, a. in. andß:ls, p.m.
Leaves Atlanta at 7:00, a. m.and 10:30 p. m.
Arrives in Augusta 3:30. p. in. and 8 :lf>,a.m.
Arrives in Atlanta at 5:45, p.m. and 6:25, a.m.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:00, a. m. and 6, p. m.
Arrives Augusta at 5:15, p. res. and7:so, a.m.
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 10:45, a. m.
Leaves Macon at 6:30, a. m.
Arrives at Augusta 2:00, p. m.
Arrives at Macon at 6:40, p. m.
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:05, a. m. and 8:10, p.m.
Arrives at Augusta at 4:00 p. m.*and 7, a.m.
7HAKLOTIE COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAIL
ROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:30, a. m. and 4:15, p.m.
Arrives In Augusta at 8:05, p.m. and 8:45. a.m
Schedule of Arrival and Closing of
Mails at Augusta, Ga., Post Office.
ARRIVES. OLOSES
A. M. P. M. A. M. P. M.
Atlanta, Ga 8:15 3:3 ) 7:00 7:00
Savannah. Ga 7:00 4:00 8:00 7:00
Macon, Ga 7:00 4:00 8:00 7:00
Columbus, Ga - 7:00 8:00 7:00
Athens, Ga 8:15 3:30 7:00 7:00
Washington, Ga 3:3) 7:00 ...
Madison, Ga 8:15 3:30 7:00 7:00
Greenesboro, Ga 8:15 3:80 7:00 7:00
Southwest Georgia.7:oo 4:00 8:00 7:00
All West vt Atlantaß:ls .... 7:00 7:00
Southern 7:00 4:00 8:00 7:00
North and Eastern 8:39 8:05 8:00 3:00
Columbia, S. C 8:30 8:05 8:00 3:00
Charleston, S. C 7:30 5:15 8:00 5:00
G. R. R. Way Mail 8:J - 7 :00
C.. C. &. A. W. Mail 8:05 8:00 ....
8. C. It. R. Way Mail.... 6:15 8:00 ...
Port RoyT WayM ail 7:45 9:00
Ga. Central W. Mai!— 4:00 8:00
M.&A. Way Mail 2:00 10:00
Ath’s Br’ch W. Mail .. 3:30 7:00
Florida Mai1.....'. 7:00 4:00 8:00 7:00
No Way Mail delivered on the fol
lowing roads on Sundays: Central
Railroad, South Carolina Railroad, Ma
con and Augusta Railroad, and Port
Royal Railroad.
All Mails leaving on Sundays closes
at 1:00 p. m.
Horse Mail for Calhoun’s Mills closes
Mondays at 7:00 a. m. Arrives Wed
nesdays at 6 p. m.
Horse Mail for Double Branches
closes Thursdays at 7:00 a. m. Arrives
Wednesdays at 6 p. m.
NEW CROP TEAS!
FBESH boasted COFFEM, Bananas.
Oranges, Lemons, Apples, Figs,
Dates, etc. Just arrived at the
China Tea and Coffee Store,
TAKE NOTICE.
_ GEQBGIA— Morgan County.
AT ^ t J erec,y , g - ven * hat Ga Pt- J - m.
1.1 BURNS is no longer my agent, for
any purpose whatever.
apr22-law4 MARY W. ANDERSON.
Years Ago.
Bless me, boy, that was vears ago—
And you tell me that’s the girl—
That sleek old dowager, moving slow,
m- . ahead, in the purple bow,
The train and the chain oi pearl.
? re , a L n ’ n °t faded, but met full-grown,
And draped in a cashmere shawl!
1 m a man of business, sinew and bone.
And weigh, I won’t say how many stone,
But she—oh confound it all!
Let’s see—ten—twenty-odd years ago
1 shut her door in a j age,
That jar—I felt it a week or so;
A- fellow’s nerves will quiver, you know,
Before he is quite of age.
I remember tho room we parted in;
The twilight—the twittering birds:
Her sunny hair with its turquoise pin.
Her flashing eyes where a tear had been—
Our passionate parting words.
She waits me yet in some twilight place,
Flushed with that passionate glow;
A wraith-like creature of light and grace,
A dream, a \ ision, whose fleeting face,
I worshiped, those years ago.
No old acquaintance for me, my lad!
No resurrections here.
Rosalies, Maries, grim or glad,
The old loves hide that I have had—
But In a rosier sphere. A. M. H.
After a Storm.
► BY CORA KENNEDY AITKIN.
A stretch of sky a’l black and threatening,
And opposite a sky as bright as gold;
A mountain where the burning rowans
cling,
Half lit will! life, half shadow and cold;
Beneath two rugged lines of rock that hold
Atwixt them a wild river, hurled along
With all its foaming life blood poured
amoog
The sombre stones whereon leans heather
bold,
Whose crimson pai ms, dipped reckless in
the stream,
Can hardly struggle to the shore again.
Oak trees and laurels wandering down the
glen;
In all the air a pale bewildering gleam
Of sunlight moving lonely through a haze
Of rain, whose measured music fill-s the
days.
CANTON MATTINGS.
NEW GOODS!
Best 4-4 Red Check MATTINGS.
Best 4-4 White MATTINGS.
Best 4-4 Fancy MATTINGS.
ALSO
50 Bolls Fresh Canton MATTING, at sl2
a Roil of 40 yards. At
JAMES G. BAILIE & BBO’3.
LACE CURTAINS.
New Patterns Nottinghare Lace, new’ Pat
terns French Lace. At
JAMES G. BAILIE & BRO’S.
CORNICES AND RANDS.
New Pa. terns—just opened. At
JAMES G. BAILIE & BRO’S.
TERRYS AND REPS.
For Curtains. Couch Covers, aud Cushion
Covers, our finest goods at reduced prices.
Also, a now'line of low Priced Terr vs and
Damasks.
150 yards Furniture Covering
300 \ ards Turkey Red.
Embroidered and Felt Plano aud Table
Covers. Hair Cloths, all widths. Table
Mats. At JAMES G. BAILIE & BRO’S.
. Window Shades
Of new designs. Just opened at
JAMES'G. BAILIE A BRO’S.
Floor Oil Cloths
Of best makes of all grades. At
JAMES G. BAILIE & BRCVS.
Wall Papers and Borders.
Fire Screens and Side Light Papers and
Rustic Shades. Opened this week at
JAMES G. BAILIE & BRO’S.
mchl9-frsu2m
OFFICE OF RECEIVER OF )
MACON AND BRUNSWICK R. R.,
Macon, Ga., April 7,1875. )
IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN ORDER
issu and from the Executive Department
of this State, published herewith will be
sold on the FIRST TUESDAY IN JUNE
NEXT, between the hours of 10 o’clock a.
m. and 4 o’clock p. in., at the depot of tho
Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company,
In the city of Macon, Bibb countv. Georgia,
at public outcry, to the highest bidder, the
MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD,
extending from the city of Macon to Bruns
wick, iu Glynn county, Georgia—a distance
of one hundred and eighty-six miles, with
the branch road extending from < ochran to
Hawkinsville, a distance of ten miles, and
about five miles of side track on the main
fine of the road, and about two miles of
extension in the said city of Brunswick,
together with tho franchises, equipments
aud other property of said company, con
sisting of its road-bed superstructure, right
of wav, motive power, rolling stock, de
pots, freight and section houses, machine
shops, carpenter shops, grounds, furniture,
machinery, tool# ana materials connected
therewith.
Also, the following property of said com
pany, to-wit: Tracts or parcels of land
Nos. 1,3 and 4 in District Twenty, and Nos.
124, 126, 127 144, 145, 14G, 151, 155, 15G and 157,
in District Twenty-one, all lying and being
in Pulaski county, Georgia, and containing
each two hundred and two and a half (202%)
acres.
Also, a certain tract or parcel of land in
the city of Brunswick, known as the Wharf
Property of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad Company.
Also, one-half (undivided) of lots Nos. 3
and 4 of block 87, iu the city of Macon,
known in the locality as the Guard House
property.
Also, city lots Nos. 1, 2 and a portion of
No. 3, in square No. 55, in tho city of Macon.
Also, a tract or parcel of land in said city
of Macon, there known as “Camp Ogle
thorpe,” containing ten acres, more or
less.
Also, city lots Nos. 1 and 7, in block No.
10, in southwest Macon.
Also, city lots Nos. 3 and 5, in square No.
13, in saia city of Macon, with the buildings
thereon.
Also, tract or pat cel of land No. 217, in
District Three, Wayne county, Georgia,
and four hundred and forty shares of stock
iu the Southern and Atlantic Telegraph
Company, ceitilieate 1,009.
The foregoing property will be offered
for cash, for the bonds of this State, or the
first mortgage bonds of the company, en
dorsed in behalf of the State under Ihe
authority of tho act approved December
3d, 1866. E. A. FLEWELLEN,
Receiver Macon and Brunswick R. R.
Executive Department, j
State of Georgia, ■
Atlanta, April 5, 1875.)
Whereas, By virtue of the authority
given in the second section of an act en
titled, “An act to extend the aid of the
State to the completion of tho Macon aud
Brunswick Railroad, and for otner pur
poses,” approved December 3,1866, an order
was issued from this department on the 2d
day of July, 1873, seizing and taking posses
sion of all tho property of said railroad
company, aud placing tho same in the
hands of an agent for the State, to be held,
managed, and the earnings applied in ac
cordance with the provisions of said second
section of said act; and.
Whereas, Among other | provisions of
said second section of said act, it is ex
pressly provided that, after the seizure of
all the property of said company, as afore
said, the (governor “shall sell the said road
and its equipments, and other property
belonging to said company, in such mann r
and at such times as in his judgment mav
best subsprve the interest of all concerned r
and having become satisfied that it will be
for the best interest of the State and ail
eonoernad that all thp pronertv of the
company seized under said ortier be Sola at
an early day, it is, therefore,
Ordered, That all the property seized as
aforesaid, now in the possession of Edward
A. Flewellen, ltoceiver of tho property of
the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Com
pany, finder said order, bo sold to the high
est bidder, at public outcry, at tne depot of
tho Macon and Brunswick Railroad Com
pany, in the city 6f Macon, between the
hours of 10 o’clock a m. and 4 o’clock p.
m.., on the first Tuesday in June next.
The said sale will be made for pash, tor
bonds of this State, or the first mortgage
bonds of thb oonipany, indorsed in behalf
pf the State, uuder the authority of the act
approved Depember 3,1866. It is further
' Ordered, That the bald Edward A. Flew
ellen, as Receiver aforesaid, mako out an
advertisement finder this order, setting
forth with requisite particularity all the
property to be sold as aforesaid, and pub
lish the same in such public gazettes in this
htate and in the city of New York as in his
judgment will give proper publicity to said
saiy. #
Given under my hand and the seal of the
Executive Department, at the Capitol, in
Atlanta, the day and year above written.
JAMES M. SMITH, Governor.
By the Governor.
J. W. Warren, Secretary Executive De
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PORT ROYAL RAILROAD,
Augusta, Ga., April 25th, 1875.
THE FOLLOWING PASSENGER SCHED
ULE will be operated on and after this date:
GOING SOUTH.
Leave Augusta 6 :oo a. m.
Arrive Yemassee *12:04 p. m.
Leave Yemassee 12:34 p. m.
Arrive Port Royal 3:00p. m.
Arrive Savaunah 3:80 p, m.
Arrive Charleston 4:15 p. m.
GOING NORTH.
Leave Charleston 8:10 a. m.
Leave Savannah 0:05 a.m.
Leave Port Royal 0:0 a. m.
Arrive Yemassee *11:36 a.m.
Leave Yemassee 12:06 p. m.
Arrive Augusta 6:25 p. m-
Through Tickets sold and Baggage checked
to all principal points,
•Dinner. R. G. FLEMING.
T.S.DAYANT. Superintendent.
apr2s-tf General Passenger Agent.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Chableston, February 5. 1875.
On and after SUNDAY, 7th instant, the fol
lowing Schedule will be run on the SOUTH
CAROLINA RAILROAD :
Between Charleston and Augusta.
DAT PASSENGEB TEAIN.
Leavo Charleston 9-15 a. m.
Arrives at Augusta 6:15 p. m.
Leaves Augusta 9:oo a. m.
Arrives at Charleston 4:46 p. m.
NIGHT EXPBESS TBAIN
Leaves Charleston 8:30 p. m.
Arrives at Augusta 7:60 a. m.
Leaves Augusta 6:00 p. m.
Arrives at Charleston 6:30 a. m,
AIKEN TEAIN.
Leaves Aiken :io a. m.
Arrives at Augusta 10:20 a. m.
Leaves Augusta 2:46 p. m.
Arrives at Aiken 4:00 p. m.
NO DAT PASSENGER (COLUMBIA) TEAIN,
NIGHT EXPBESS TBAXN.
Leaves Augusta 6:00 p. m.
Arrives at Columbia 6:30 a. m.
Leaves Columbia. 7.00 p. m.
Arrives at Augusta. 7:60 a. m.
Night Train out of Augusta make close con
nection at Columbia with Greenville and Co
lumoia Railroad. Passengers for points on
tho Greenville and Columbia Railroad will
avoid a tedious delay and hotel expenses at
night in Columbia by taking this route.
Elegant new Sleeping Cars on night trains
between Augusta and Charleston.
8. B. PICKENS, S. S. SOLOMONS.
General Ticket Agent. Supt.
febs-u
CHANGE UF f-toTIR.L>ULj£
ON THE GEORGIA AND MACON AND
AUGUSTA RAILROADS.
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY. JUNE 28. 1874,
tho Passenger Trains on the Georgia and
Macon and Augusta Railroads will run as
follows:
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
I>AX PASSENGEB TBAIN WILL
Leave Augusta at 8:46 a. m.
Leavo Atlanta at 7:oe a. m.
Arrive in Augusta at 3:30 p. m
Arrive In Atlanta at 5:i5 p. m.
NIGHT PASSENGEB TBAIN.
Leave Augusta at 8:15 p. m
Leave Atlanta at 10.30 p. m.
Arrive in Augusta at 8:16 a. m.
Arrive in Atlanta at 6:25 a. in.
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
MACON PASSENGEB TBAIN.
Leave Augusta at 10:45 a. m.
LoaveOamak at 2:15 p. m.
Arrive at Macon 6:40 p. m*
Leave Macon at 6:30 a. m
Arrive at Camak 10:46 a. m.
Arrive in Augusta 2:00 p. m.
BERZELIA PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 4:15 p. m.
Leave Berzelia at 7:30 a. m.
Arrive in Augusta at 8:40 a. m.
Arrive iu Berzelia at 6:50 p. m.
Passengers from ATHENS. WASHINGTON
ATLANTA, or any point >n the Georgia Rail
road and Branches, by taking the Day Pas
senger Train, will make close connection at
Camak with trains for Macon and all points
beyond.
Pullman’s (First-Class) Palace Sleeping
Cabs on all Night Passenger Trains on the
Georgia Railroad.
8. K. JOHNSON, Sup’L
Supebintendent’s Office Geobqia and Ma
con and Augusta Railboads. Augusta,
Jy.no 28, 1874. igpa-tf
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE!
Chablotte, Columbia* Augusta R. R„ )
Genebal Passenger Depautmknt, >
Columbia. S. C.. June 27th. 1874. )
THE FOLLOWING PASSENGER SCHED
uiewillbe operated on and after SUNDAY,
the 28th instant:
GOING NORTH.
Stations. Tbain No. 2. Tkain No. 4*
Leave Augusta 9:30 a, m. 4:15 p. m.
Leave Gmniteville*io:23.a. m. 6:11 p. m.
Leave Columbia
Junction 2:13 p. m. t9:o6p.m
ArriveatColumbia 2:23 p.m. 9:i7p, m.
Leave Columbia. ...12:45 p. m.
Leave Winusboro.. 2:68 p. m.
Leave Chester t4:34 p. m.
Arrive atCharlotte 6:00 p. m.
No. 2 Train makes close connection vie
Charlotte and Richmond to all points North,
arriving at,New York o:05 a. m.
Train No. 4 makes close connections via
Wilmington and Richmond to all points
North, arriving at New York at 5:15 p. m.
GOING SOUTH.
Stations. Tbain No. l. Tbain No. 3
Leave Charlotte.... 8:30 a.m.
Leave Chester 11:02 a. m.
Leave Winusboro..l2:Bß p. in.
Arri’eatColumbia 2:42 p.m.
Leave Columbia... t2:52p. m. 8:40a. m
Leave Wilmington
Junction t3:i7 p. m. 4:15 a. m.
Leave GraniteviUe.t7:is p. m. *7:48 a. m.
Arrive at Augusta...B:o6 p. m. 8:45 a. m
•Breakfast. tDinner. tSupper.
South bound trains connect at Augusta for
all points South and West
■WTHROUGH TICKETS sold and BAG
GAGE CHECKED to all principal points.
**“ Sleeping cars on all Night Trains.
A. POPE.
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
JAMES ANDERSON.
-eiXuitf Ge neralSu peri ntendont.
Geo.T. Jaokbon. John T. Miller.
Walter M. Jaokson. Marion J. Verdery.
(M. T. JACKSON i CO,
proprietors of the
GRANITE MILLS,
AND
General Produce Merch’ts.
DEALERS IN
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CORN, OATS,
PEAS, CRACKED CORN,
PEA MEAL,
Bran, Middlings, Ect.
Orders are respectfully solicited,
and prompt attention promised.
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T. P. BRANCH, President.
J. T. NEWBERY,
N. B.—Draw SIGHT DRAFTS on Great Britain and Continental Europe
in sums of £1 and upwards. mh3o-tf
SCHOFIELD’S IRON WORKS,
XAdjoining Passenger Depot,),
MACON, GEORGIA.
SCHOFIELD’S PATENT i COTTON PRESSES,
F°?iF VRT T vEff 1 P r^Vr^ GHT CENTRE SUPPORT GIN
IRONKULIfe b f, “fhO NTS =
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fv U atSJd ( te ar tl 0 l- a T I PAi Re / ,airß °. f iilaa P d Machinery of all kindsprompt
n A ™ ML. JObEPH N EAL, formerly Superintendent of Forest City Foundry,
Bov g wmiKv d J nf m m K Ws friends that he 18 now Superintendent of
gU.™ wdl be £ lad to have their patronage, assuring them that, with the
increased facilities we now have, that they will get first class work at the lowest figures.
J. S. SCHOFIELD & SON,
Send for Circulars and Prices.! PROPRIETORS
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GREAT SOUTHERN
Freight and Passenaer Line
VIA
CHARLESTON, S. C.,
X O AND FItO 31
BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA,
NEW YORK AND BOSTON.
AND ALL THE NEW ENGLAND MANUFACTURING CUTE:.'
TRI-WEEKLY FROM NEW YORK
WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS,
ELEGAN'I SI ATE ROOM ACCOMMODATIONS—SEA VOYAGE TENiIO TWELVE
HOURS SHORTER VIA CHARLESTON.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY,
And connecting Roads West, in aUiance with the Fleet of Thirteen First Class Steam
ships to the above Ports, invite attention to the Quick Time and Regular Dispatch af
forded to the business public in the Cotton States at tho
PORT OF 1 CHARLESTON,
Offering facilities of Rai and Sea Transportation for Freight and Passengers not ex
ceeded in excellence and capacity at any othei Port. The following splendid Ocean
Steamers are regularly on the Line:
TO NEW YORK.
rur M. S. Woodhcll, Commander.
R- W. Lockwood, Commander.
James Bekky, Commander.
JAMrg> AUUhlt .T. J. Lockwood, Commander,
mr/vwriTa • JAMES ADGER <fc CO., Agents, Charleston, S. C.
u/iTrpn pahoi V .................B.Cbowkll, Commandor.
SOUIH CAROLINA T. J. Becklit, Commander.
WAGNER, HUGER A C 0.,) . . „ „
WM. A. COURTNAY. | Agents, Charleston, 8. C.
TO PHILADELPHIA.
(IKON STEAMSHIPS.
Alex. Hunter Commander
KQUAIOK -•-•••• ■"•••• O. Hincklei;, Commander.
SAILING DAYS—FRIDA YS.
WM. A. COURTNAY, Agent, Charleston, S. C.
TOTAL CAPACITY 40,000 BALES MONTHLY
TO BALTIMORE.
IrrumvTT,' Hainie, Commander.
t-KA uULii .Dutton, Commanuer
SAILING DAYS—EVERY FIFTH DAY.
PAUL C. TKENHOLM, Agent, Charleston, S. C.
TO BOSTON.
STEAMSHIPS MEIiCEDITA aud FLAG Sails Every Saturda
JAMES ADGER <fc CO., Agents, Charleston, 8. C.
Rates guaranteed as Low as those of Competing Lines. Marine Insurance one-half o
one per cent.
Through Bills of Lading and Through Tickets
Can be had at all the principal Railroad Offices in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Mis
sissippi. State Rooms may be secured in advance, without extra charge, by addressing
Agents of the Steamships in Charleston, at whose offices, in all cases, the Railroad Tick
e!®fh2.uldbe and Berths assigned. The Through Tickets by this Route in
clude Transfers, Meals and State Rooms while on shipboard.
The South Carolina Railroad, Georgia Railroad,
-Connecting Lines, iiave largely increased their facilities for the rapid rnove-
£ L I ent VJ Freight and Passengers between the Northern Cities and the South and West.
f,! rßt Class Eating Saloon at Rranchville. On the Georgia and South Carolina Railroads,
Cars. Freight promptly transferred from Steamer to Day and
Night Trams of the South Carolina Railroad. Close Connection made with other Roads
delivering Freight at distant Points with great promptness. Tho Managers will us <
every exertion to satisfy their patrons that the LINE VIA CHARLESTON caunot b e
surpassed in Dispatch and tbe Safe DeUvery of Goods.
n For further information, apply to J. J. GRIFFIN, Western Agent, Atlanta, Georgia
BENTLEY D. HASELL, General Agent, t.O. Box ‘979, Office 317 Broadway, N. Y.; B.
PICKENS. General Passenger and Ticket Agent, South Car olina Railroad • or
S. S. SOLOMONS,
RonffO-Aodt.f Snporintondentjsouth Carolina R. R.. Charl<*stop. 8. C.
WILMINGTON, N. C„ LINES,
. si:m i-WKi;iiLY
Fast Freight Route to All Points South or East.
BALTIMORE,
Baltimore and Southern Steam Transportation Company,
SAILING FROM BALTIMORE
Tuesday and Friday, at 3 I*. JVJL..
AND FROM '"WILMINGTON Wednesday and Saturday.
NEW YORK,
CLYDE’S WILMINGTON LI INF,
SAILING FROM NEW YORK
Tuesday and Friday, at 3 P. M., and from Wil
mington Wednesday and Saturday,
IVING through Bills of Lading to all points in North and South Carolina, Georgia
Vx and Alabama. For North or East bound Freight, to Baltimore, New York, Phil*
adelphia, Boston, Providence. Fall River, and other Eastern cities, .xiso, txj Liverpool-
Glasgow, Bremen., Antwerp, and other European points.
These Lines connect at Wilmington with the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad: connecting at ColumblaTs.C., with the Green villa andColumbii Rail Road,
and Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad.
At Augusta, Go., with the Georgia, Macon and Augusta, and Central Railroads, and
with their connecting roads, offer unequaled facilities for the prompt delivery of
Freight to all points. The Steamers of these Lines, on arrival in Wilmington, stop at
Railroad Depot, the Freight transferred under covered sheds to Cars without delay,
and forwarded by the Fast Freight Express that evening.
No drayage in Wilmington, and no transfer from Wilmington South. Rates guar
anteed as low&a by any other route. Losses or Overcharges promptly pa and.
Mark all Gocxlfl “ VIA WILMINGTON LINES.”
For Further information,apply to either of the Undersigned Agents of the Line:
EDWIN FITZGERALD, Agent Baltimore Line, 50 South street, Baltimore.
WM. P. CLYDE & CO., Agents New York Line, 6 Bowling Greer, New York.
A. D. CAZAUt, Agent Baltimore and N. Y. Lines, Wilmington, N. C.
E. K. BURGESS, Agent W. C. & A. Railroad, 263 Broadway, New York.
JOHN JENKINS, Agent, Augusta, Ga.
A. POPE,
nivs Gjx’lFt Jigxt ijixb. vYiHil n. 0., ail 263 Broadway, New York,