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BY J. P. SAWTELL.
E. H. PURDY,
Manufacturer of
Saddles, Harness aid Trails,
And Wholesale and .Retail Dealer in
All kinds of Sadlery Ware,
Corner of Whitaker and Bryan Sts.,
GA.
Orders for Rubber Belting, Hose and
i-’acklngj also, Stretched Leather Belting,
tilled promptly. ' sep!7-6m
JOHN FLANNERY..
L J. GUILMARTIN & CO.,
Cotton Factors,
AND
Commission Merchants,
Bay St., Savannah, Ga.
Agents for Bradley's Super Phos
phate of Lime, Powell's Mills
Yarns and Domestics, etc.
Bagging, Rope and Iron Tics, al
ways on hand.
IST Usual Facilities Extended to Customers.
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A. J. MILLER & CO,,
FURNITURE DEALERS,
150 Broughton Street,
SAVA.\.\AIi, GEORGIA.
WE HAVE ON HAND, and are con
tinually receiving, every variety of
Parlor and Bedroom Sets,
Bureaus, Washstands, Bedsteads, Chairs,
Rockers, Wardrobes, Meat Safes, Cradles,
‘Looking Glasses, Feathers, Featherbeds, Pil
lows. etc.
Hair, Moss, Shuck and Excelclor Matrasses
on baud, and made to order.
Jobbing and Repairing neatly done, and
with despatch.
We are fully prepared to fill orders.
Country qrders promptly attended to.
All letters of inquiry answered promptly.
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MARIETTA MARBLE YARD.
J am prepared to furnish
Marble, Monuments,
“Tombs, Head and Foot Stones,
Vaces, Urns, Vaults, etc.,
At very reasonable terms, made of
Italian, American and Georgia
MARBLE.
IRON RAILING Put Up to Order.
For information or designs address me at
this place, or
DR. T. S. POWELL, Agent,
. Cuthbert, Ga.
Address,
J. A. RISAAER,
sepl7 Cm Marietta, Ga.
GEORGE S. HART & CO., ~
Commission Merchants,
And Wholesale Dealers iu
Fine Butter, Cheese, Lard, etc.,
-39 Pearl.aud 28 Bridge Sts., N. Y.
. Batter and Lard, of all grades, put up
.inevery variety of package, for Shipment to
Warm Climates. sepl7-fim*
reeTTcTarkeT
No. 22, Old Slip, New York,
DEALERS IN
PROVISIONS,
Onions, Potatoes, Butter, etc.
sept.l7-6in
ELY, OBERHOLSTER & CO.,
Importers and Jobbers in
Dry Goods,
Nos. 329 <£33l j ßroadway,
Corner of Worth Street,
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Will Gearing,Shaftin^Pulleys
uuHo£T%nMoßjjf
SEttD foracircuiar>J^
Tgeorge page & CO.
JVo. 5 N. Schroeder St., Baltimore.
Manufacturers of
PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
Steam Engines and Boilers
PATENT IMPROVED,PORTABLE
Circular Saw Mill
Gang, Mulay and Sash Saxe Mills,
Grist Mills, Timber Wheels, Shingle Ma
chines, &c. Dealers iu Circular Saws Belt.
Ing and Mill supplies generally, and manufac
turer’s Egents for Leffel’s Celebrated Turbiue
Water Wheel and every description <>f Wood
Working Machinery. Agricultural Engines
n Specialty.
IJT Seuu for descriptive Catalogues & Price
Lists. 6epi7 ly.
Farmers’ Warehouse,
CUTHBERT, GA.
J. M. REDDING & CO.,
Proprietors.
WE TAKE THIS METHOD of inform
ing the citizens of Randolph and ad
joining counties, that we have put our Ware
house in a good state of repair and are still in
the
WAREHOUSE
AID COMMISSION BLSIXESS,
And have ample arrangement, for the Storage
and Sale of Cotton and other Supplies.
Truly grateful for past favors, and with a
full consciousness of having done our duty
to patrons in the past, and a determination
to do so for the future, we hope to merit a
full share of public patronage.
Cash Advances on Cotton and
Goods in Store.
As we intend to close out our Sto k of
Dry Goods, we will give our entire attention
to a strict aud close
WARE HO USE B USINESS.
A full assortment of PLANTERS’
SUPPLIES always on hand.
Our Patrons will be furnished
with ample accommodations for
Stock and Teamsters FREE !
t iT’ Consignments solicited.
sepl7-tf J M. REDDING & CO.
JAS. S. ANTHONY,
Manufacturer of
Y 3 lfiiii Tin Ware,
And Dealer in
Staijei, Japanued aid Planished
ware,
Wood Ware,
And all other Goods generally kept
in a first-class Tin House.
Roofing, Guttering, Job Work
And Repairing Generally,
Promptly attended to.
J. S. AUTIIOYY,
East side Public Square,
octßet Cuthbert, Ga.
ELDER A BIIOWY,
MASTER BUILDERS,
CUTHBERT, GA.,
ARE prepared to erect, at short notice, first
class STORES, PRIVATE DWELL
INGS, CULVERTS, etc., etc., from beauti
ful native Roek, quarried from uu inexhausti
ble bed of the material, within a half mile of
the out skirts of the city. Either
Tin or Slate Roofs Supplied
If desired, and both Wood Work and Mason
ry warranted to be of the best description.
For particulars inquire of either of the
firm. JOHN ELDER,
Bep24-ly JAMES A BROWN.
PALMER & DEPPISH,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
HARDWARE,
ROBBER BELTING,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
Powder, Shot, Caps and Lead.
148 Congress & 67 St, Julian Sts.,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
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Crockery and Glass Ware.
A full Assortment of
Granite ’and C. C. Crockery,
And many useful Articles of
GLASS WARE,
Just received and for sale by
JAS, S. ANTHONY,
At His
House Furnishing and Tin Store-
East Side Public Square,
octßct Cuthbert, Ga.
HAVE ON SALE
A large Stock
TOILET SOAPS,
WASHING SOAPS,
STARCH.
BLUING,
Violin STRINGS.
Guitar STRINGS
Musical Instruments
CUTLERY, CURLING IRONS,
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, Etc.,
For sale by T. S. POWELL, Trustee,
Druggist. Bookseller and Stationer.
COOKING and HEATING
STOVES,
And COOKING UTENSILS
Os every description, with a great variety of
House Keeper’s Goods generally
For sale at the Tin Store of
J. S. AMTHOM,
octSgt Cuthbert, Ga.
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1870.
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To a City Cousin about to be
Married.
BY JOHN G. SAXE.
Is it true, what they tell me, my beautiful
cousin,
You are going to be married—Lave set
tled the day ?
That tbe cards are all printed ?—the wedding
dress chosee ?
And everything fixed for an evening in
May?
Ab—well—just imagine—had I been a Turk,
And. you, but, no matter—’tis idle to
whine; .
In the purest of bosoms some envy may lurk,
And I feel a little (I own it) in mine !
11.
’Tis over—tbe struggle was but fora minute ;
And now let me give you, dear cousin, I
pray,
A word of advice—if there’s anything in it,
Accept it; if not you can throw it away.
An excellent maxim is “ crede experto,”
Which means (since your Latin I venture
to doubt)
For practical wisdom ’tis best to refer to
A teacher who kuows what he is talking
about.
111.
C’est mot! I’ve been married this many a
year;
And know rather more than a bachelor
can ;
And more--I suppose it is equally clear—
Than a very young wife, or anew married
man.
Os course there’ll be matters to worry aud
vex,
But woman is mighty, and patience en
dures ;
And ours—recollect—is the (much) “softer
sex,”
Though we (not very gallantly) say it of
yours!
IV.
The strong should he merciful! Woman we
find,
Though weaker in body, surpassing us still
In virtue ; and strong—very strong iu her
mind,
When she knows what it is—not to men
tion her will.
Be gentle! how hard you will find it to bear
When your husband is wroug ; and as dif
ficult quite,
In tbe other contingency, not at all rare—
When you’re forced in your heart, to con
less he was right!
V.
Be careful of trifles ; a maxim of weight
In questions affecting the heart or the
head ;
In wedlock, consider, how often tbe fate
Os the gravest affairs may depeud on u
thread!
On a button, perhaps ; Ah ! the ‘congugal tie’
Should never be strained to its ultimate
test;
Full many a maiden has found with a sigh,
That the fixture was barely a button at
best.
VI. *
A truce to this jeEting! While friends by
the dozen
Their kind gratulations are fain toemploy;
None more than your poet—your mirth lov
ing cousin—
Puts his heart in the words while he’s
‘wishing yon joy.’
Quite through to its close may your congu
gal life
Maintain the impressions with which it be
gan;
Tbe womeu still saying, l l envy the wife ;’
And husbands exclaiming, * I envy the
man!’
Orator and Newspaper.—Com
pare the orator, one of the noblest
vehicles for the diffusion of thought,
with the newspaper, and we may
gain a faint glimpse of the übiqui
tous power of the latter. The ora
tor speaks but to a few hundreds,
the newspaper addresses millions.—
The words of the orator may die in
the air, the language of the newspa
per is stamped on tablets imperisha
ble as marble. . The arguments of
the orator may follow each other so
rapidly that a majority of the au
dience may struggle in a net of
ratiocination—the reasoning of the
newspaper may be scanned at leis
ure without a fear of perplexity.—
The passion of the orator influences
an assembly, the feeling of a news
paper electrifies a continent. The
orator is for an edifice, the newspa
per for the world —the one shines
for an hour, the other glows for all
the time. The orator may be com
pared to lightning, which flashes
over a valley for a moment, but it
leaves it again in darkness ; the
newspaper to a sun blazing steadily
over the whole earth, and “fixed
on the basis of its own eternity.”—
Printing has been happily defined
“the art which preserves all arts.”
Printing makes the orator more
than an orator. It catches up. his
dying words, and breathes into them
the breath of life. It is the speak
ing gallery through which the ora
tor thunders in the ears of ages.—
He leans from the tomb over the
cradle of rising generations.
Almost any young lady lias
public spirit enough to be willing
to have her fathers house used as a
Court house*
A man in Michigan swapped
his horse for a wife. An old bach
elor acquaintance said he’d bet there
Was something wrong with the
horse, or its owner never would
have fooled it away in that manner.
An Unpleasant Situation.
John Smith, you’ve heard of him
—is very bashful; is too bashful, in
truth. He was born and raised in
the country. His father gave him
a good education, and always al
lows him plenty of money, but
John with all other attainments,
could never accustom himself to the
society of females; not because he
did not like the girls, but because
his shy nature would not permit
him to associate with the fair sex.
It once happened, not very long
ago, either, that John’s father had
some very important business to
transact in the city. He also had
some very particular affair to attend
to at home, which demanded his
personal attention, and not possess
ing the power of übiquity, he dele
gated his son John to transactj that
in the city.
John, being thus commissioned,
immediately proceeded to the city,
and to the residence of his father’s
old friend whom he found to be a
very nice old gentleman,with a beau
tiful daughter, and gold spectacles.
John was ushered in the parlor
(anew thing for him) and motioned
to a seat—no! a sofa, (another new
thing.)
But we must use his owrn lan
guage : I took my seat and made
my observations. Everything w r as
fine! Fine carpets, fine sofas, fine
tables, fine curtains, fine nooks, fine
piano, fine everything, and espe
cially a fine young lady, who was
dressed in fine silk, fine satin, who
had fine curls, and who had a fine
appearance generally.
After chatting with the old gen
tleman a few minutes, he took
down his hat, told me to make my
self at home for an hour or two, and
left—left me alone with his daugh
ter and a small mischievous boy,
the young lady's brother. I didn’t
relish the situation at all. The idea
of keeping a city belle in conversa
tion for two hours; perdition ! Si
lence reigned in the parlor for a
short time you bet. I amused my
self as much as possible with the
boy—that is, loaned him my knife
and watch-key, and watched him
cut holes in the carpet with one, and
then spoil the other. I don’t know
what I would have done, had it not
been for that boy—lie was so good
to attract one’s attention you know.
It is true he asked somestartling
questions occasionally, such as this,
for instance:
“Are you going to court sister
Emily ?”
Such things must be expected un
der such circumstances.
Miss Emily’, thinking no doubt
to be a good hostess, she must
engage her guest in conversation,
asked,
“How 7 do you like country life?
It must be a beautiful sight to see
the laborers, male and female, romp
ing on the new-mown hay on New
Year’s day. I ahvays thought I
would like to spend a Christmas in
the country 7 a nut gathering w 7 ith the
village lads and lasses. It has al
ways been a mystery to me how
they get eggs off the trees without
breaking them.”
In return, I thought to keep up
my part of the conversation, it was
necessary for me to quote poetry,
and the like, which I did. Among
other quotations I unfortunately re
peated the well-know 7 n lines of
Shakespeare:
“ There’s a Divinity that shapes our endß,
Rough how them as we will.”
At this juncture, the boy, w r ho
bad perched himself upon my knees,
looked very earnestly in my face,
and said,
“ Divinity shaped the end of your
nose mighty curious.”
I’m certain that I wished some
body w r ould spank the young rascal.
Wc talked of hills, mountains, vales,
cataracts—l believe I said water
falls when the boy spoke up, and
said,
“ Why, sister’s got a trunk full of
’em up stairs—pap says they’re
made out of hoss hair.”
This revelation struck terror in
to me and blushes into the cheeks
of my fair companion.
It began to be very apparent to
me that I must be guarded in what
I said, lest the little boy might slip
in his remarks at uncalled for pla
ces; in fact, I turned my conversa
tion to him, and told him he ought
to go home with me and see w 7 hat
nice chickens we had in the coun
try. Unluckily I mentioned a yoke
of calves my brother owned.
“ Sister’s got a dozen of ’em, but
she don’t wear ’em only when she
goes up town o’ windy days.”
“ Leave the room, unmanly little
wretch!” exclaimed Emily; “leave
immediately !”
“ I know what you want mo to
leave the room for,” replied he;
“ you can’t fool me—you want to
set in the man’s lap, and kiss him
like you did Bill Simmons the other
day—you can’t fool me, I’ll jes’ tell
you. Gimme some candy like he
did, then I’ll go. You think be
cause you’ve got the Grecian that
you’re smart. Guess I know a
thing or two. I’m mad at you any
how 7 , ’cause pap would a bought me
a top yesterday, if it hadn’t been
for your curls, doggone yer ! You
peedn’t turn so red in the face,cause
I can see the paint. There ain’t no
use in winking that glass eye o’
yourn, ’cause I ain’t going out of
here, now that’s what’s the matter
with the purps. I don’t care if you
are twenty-eight years old, you ain’t
no boss of mine, you old fool.”
That is all of the story that John
related. He says that he don’t
, know how 7 he got out of the scrape.
Discoveries Made by Accident.
Not a few discoveries in the arts
and sciences have been made or
suggested by accident. The use of
the pendulum, suggested by the
vibrating of a chandelier in a cathe
dral ; the power of steam, intima
ted by the oscillating of the lid" of
a tea-kettle; the utility of coal-gas
for light, experimented upon by an
ordinary tobacco-pipe of white clay;
the magnifying property of the lens,
stumbled upon by an optician’s ap
prentice while holding spectacle
glasses between his thumb and fin
ger,—are v T eIl-known instances in
proof of the fact.
Galvanism was discovered by ac
cident. Professor Galvaui, of Bo
logna, in Italy, gave his name to
the operation, but his wife is con
sidered as actually entitled to the
credit of the discovery. She being
in bad health, some frogs were or
dered for her. As they lay upon
the table, skinned, she noticed that
their limbs became strongly con
vulsed when near an electrical con
ductor. She called her husband’s
attention to the tact: he instituted
a series of experiments, and in 1789
the galvanic battery was invented.
Eleven years later, with that dis
covery for his basis, Professor Ales
sandro Volta, also an Italian, an
nounced biff discovery of the “vol
taic pile.”
The discovery of glass-making
was effected by seeing the sand'
vitrified upon which a fire been
kindled. «
Blancourt says that the making
of plate-glass w r as suggested by tbe
fact of a workman happening to
break a crucible filled w 7 ith melted
glass. The fluid ran under one of
the large flagstones with which the
floor was paved. On raising the
stone to recover the glass, it was
found in the form of'a plate, such
as could not be produced by the or
dinary process of blowing.
Glass pearls, though among the
most beautififl, inexpensive, and
common ornaments worn by the la
dies, are produced by a very singu
lar process. In 1656, a Venetian,
named Jaquin, discovered that the
scales of a fish, called bleak-fish,
possessed the property of communi
cating a pearly hue to the w 7 ater.—
He found, by experimenting, that
beads dipped into this water as
sumed, when dried, the appearance
of pearls. It proved, however, that
the pearly coat, Yvhen placed out
side, was easily rubbed off; and the
next improvement Avas to make the
beads hollow. The making of these
beads is carried on to this day in
Venice. The beads are all blown
separately. By means of a small
tube, the insides are delicately,
coated with the pearly 7 liquid, and
a waxed coating is placed over that.
It requires the scales of four tlious
and fish to produce half a pint of
the liquid, to which a small quanti
ty of sal-ammonia and isinglass are
afterward added.
Lundy Foot, the celebrated snuff
manufacturer, originally kept a
small tobacconist shop at Limerick.
One night his house, which was un
insured, was burned to the ground.
As he contemplates the smoking
ruins, on the following morning, in
a state bordering on despair, some
of the poor neighbors, groping
among the embers for what they
could find, stumbled upon several
canisters of unconsumed, but half
baked snuff, which they tried, and
found it so pleasant to their noses
that they loaded their waistcoat
pockets with it'. Lundy Foot,
aroused from his stupor, imitated
their example, and took a pinch of
his own property, when he was
struck by the superior pungency and
flavor it had acquired from the
great heat to which it had been ex
posed. Acting upon the hint, he
took another house in a place called
Black-Yard, erected ovens, and set
about the manufacture of that high
dried commodity which soon be
came widely known as Black-Yark
snuff. Eventually he took a larger
house in Dublin, and making his
customers pay literally through the
nose, amassed a great fortune' by
having been ruined.
Spend Wisely. —Look most to
your spending. No matter what
comes in, if more goes out you will
always be poor. The art is not in
making money, but in keeping it;
little expenses, like mice in a barn,
when they are many, make great
waste. Hair by hair, heads get
bald; straw by straw, the thatch
goes off the cottage ; and drop by
drop, the rain comes into the cham
ber. A barrel is soon empty, if the
tap leaks but a drop a minute.—
When you mean to save, begin
# with your mouth ; there are many
thieves down the red lane. The
ale jugis a great waste. In all o‘th
er things keep within compass.—•’
Never stretch your legs further
than the blankets will reach, or you
will soon be colcT. In clothes,
choose suitable and lasting stuff,
and not tawdry fineries. To be
warm is the main thing; never
mind the looks. A fool may make
money, hut it needs a wise man to
spend it. Remember that it is
easier to build two chimneys than
to keep one going. If you give all
to back and board, there is nothing
left for the saving bank. Fare
hard and work hard while you are
young; and you have a chance to
rest when you are old.
--—An urchin being sent for five
Cents’ worth of maeaboy snuff, for
got the name of the article, and
askedPfor five cents’ worth of make
> a boy sneeze.
Our Atlauta Letter.
Atlanta, October 31, ls7o.
Editor Morning News: .
Having noticed your article of
the 28th inst., asking if someone
cannot give something like an esti
mate of the extravagance, stealings
and general rascality of the Legist
lature that has just adjourned, and
having been a looker-on, with much
indignation, most of the time,
while the unprincipled majority of
this body rode rough-shod over the
Constitution,- laws, the feelings of
Democrats and everything else re
spectable, for the sake qf “Auld
Laug Syne,” as well as with the
hope of doing some good, in the
way of waking up the people of
Georgia to their true condition, I
have taken up my pen this morn
ing for the purpose of giving you,
alone from memory, a rough aud
it may be an imperfect report of
the actings and doins of the
LEGISLATURE JUST ADJOURNED.
Before doing this, however, I
must say that, taken as a wholo, a
more sordid, baso, corrupt and
reckless body of men never before
assembled together as legislators,
as were the Radical members of our
present Legislature, (there were
but few exceptions), and it is to be
hoped “there like” may never be
assembled together again in Georgia,
unless it be in a State prison or on
a chain-gang—and yet it is possible
that “one more set of the same
sort” may be again elected, and as
semble again as legislators at At
lanta, if the honest w hite aud color
ed people of Georgia don’t soon re
alize their situation, and go to work
and carry the next election at all
hazards. The past two or three
years legislation, aud more especial
ly the past few montlis legislation,
has satisfied me that all of us (1
mean the Democrats,) committed a
considerable blunder when, in-1867,
avo resolved upon non-action, aud
permitted a few carpet-baggers and
mean white native men and the ne
groes to get control of aud manage
our State. Ido not mean to say
that none among the whites, ex
cept carpet baggers aud mean na
tive white men, “accepted the situ
ation” and “engaged iu reconstruc
tion, thinking it best for the inter
ests of the State.” On the contra
ry, 1 am now satisfied that many
good, honest men virtuously took
this position, but they wore two few
to control the action of the carpet
baggers and native mean white
men Avitli w’hom they were associ
ated, and these carpet-baggers and
mean white native controlling the
negroes, not only they, but you and
I, and every other man having a
little property in Georgia, or who
feel any interest in the welfare of
our State, are now suffering for our
non-action policy; and I fear it will
bo many years before, if we ever
get over the eliects of this error;
tor thieves and robbers, mostly, are
now 7 governing us sure, and how
long they Avill continue to govern
us the Lord only know 7 s. Certain
ly their reign will not be short, un
less every honest ‘white man in
Georgia, who has the welfare of his
State at heart, will arise in their
might aud defeat these Goths and
vandals at the December election.
It is with the hope of arousing
some of our good citizens to action !
action! action! and that I have
thought proper to write you this
communication, and give you from
memory some of the doings of the
last Legislature. But to these acts :
After wasting about sixty days
in January and April and July, the
Legislature again convened in July.
Having been previously so extrava
gant with the people’s money, there
was no money in the State treasury
at its meeting in July, except about
$250,000 of the Common School
Fund. With all these promises to
the colored voters, to educate their
children, these Radical members of
the Legislature voted to themselves,
or for their own pay, this $250,000
of the Common School Fund, and
put in place of the same State
bonds. There w 7 as about $404,0(10
more due the School Fund from
def aulti and g tax-pay ers—defaul ters,
who had not paid their poll-tax for
the years 1868 —’69 and 1870, with
the hope of getting most of these
defaulting tax-payers to vote for
them. Later in the session, and
just at its close, these Radical legis
lators gave away this $400,000 poll
tax to these defaultets, declaring
said tax illegal, and prohibiting the
Tax-Collectors from collecting this
tax due for the years 1868, 1869
and 1870, but they tfould not re
fund to you, I and others the poll
tax we paid. The Democrats voted
against both of these propositions.
With not a dollar in the treasury,
these same Radicals, vvith eight or
ten Democrats, to please Gov. Bul
lock and Mr. Kimball, voted to pay
H. I. Kimball $380,000 for a build
ing, for a Capital, Avhen said build
ing, if the State were to leave it
to-day, and it was put up at auction,
would not sell for $75,000, perhaps
not $50,000. And, just before the
session closed, on the last day, these
same Radicals bought, by a resolu
tion, the James House for Goa 7 .
Bullock, giving Mr. James SIOO,-
000 for a building Avhich cost about
$50,000. And this is done too iu
the face of the fact that the city of
Atlanta agreed to and stood pre
pared to furnish a Capital and Ex
ecutive Mansion to the State free
of charge for eight years.
Notwithstanding others, elected
members, had -served two sessions
of the Legislature and received
their $9 per day—yet, Avhen the
minority members, men who were
never elected to the Legislature,
Avere put in their places by Terry’s
bayonets, these Radical members
paid these uon-elected members
from July 7 , IS6B, from the begin
ning of the Legislature, amount
ing to $30,000 or $40,000, besides
paying the colored members for
days that they never served $30,-
000 or $40,000 more. Even A. A.
Bradley, Avho w 7 as expelled by them
in 1868, was, on the last night of
this present session, paid in full
from July, 1868.
Besides paying the Clerk of the
House and Secretary of the Senate
aud their assistants, each, sl2 per
day, SSOO extra pay to each, has
been given them each session, be
sides paying $9 per day to three or
four times the necessary 7 number of
enrolling and engrossing clerks.—
And oven some men avlio w r ore
never employed by any one, but
who professed to have dono some
work iu the Clerk’s office of the
House, where all theso supernumer
ary clerks were employed, were
also paid.
In former days only one door
keeper and one messenger was al
lowed to each House, aud they had
to attend to all calls, provide water,
etc. Besides paying these regular
offioers $9 per day, each, and mile
age, the preseut Legislature paid
several assistants at tS per day,
each, besides any number of pages
at $2 per day 7 . Indeed, in these
and other things, duriug the last
days of the present session, the
people’s money was voted away ap
parently as freely as if it was wa
ter. As I looked on, so recklessly
was the money voted away to Tom,
Dick and Harry, it seemed to me
that the Radical side ot the House
were “trying their very hardest” to
see how much they qpuld damage
the tax-pay r ers of Georgia.
Newton, the Clerk of the House,
Avas charged, iu the Constitution
newspaper, several weeks ago, with
giving certificates to persons, as
clerks, who were not clerks, aud
that these men drew money from
the Treasury uponthoso certificates.
The author of this charge otfored
to pr@\ 7 e it if the House would take
action, but the House took no no
tice of it. A Radical Senator gave
his ow n son-in-law a certificate to
the Treasurer that he was eutitled
to draw two hundred dollars for
service as clerk of a committee,
when said clerk had never been
elected by a committee, and had
performed no service. A select
committee was raised on this case,
but this Radical committee and the
Radical majority iu the Senate said
it was all right.
In addition to the endorsement
by the State to the Albany and
Brunswick Railroad Company (a
Northern company) for $15,000 per
mile in gold bonds, at the session
of 1869, equal to about 18,000 in
currency bonds, SB,OOO per mile
more was put on to this road this
session, making the endorsement
about $26,000 per mile. About
$3,700,0J0 Avas voted in iB6O,
and about $2,000,000 this year,
making over $5,000,000 to this road.
Three thousand dollars per mile,
or about $600,000 additional, Avas
put to tbo Macon and BrunsAvick
Railroad. It is due to this road,
hoAvever, to say that having previ
ously received an endorsement of
SIO,OOO per mile, this last $3,000
per mile only put it upon a footing
Avith other roads chartered, aud to
which State aid has been given this
session, and it only gets half of what
the Albany and Brunswick Railroad
gets. Why Avas the Albany and
Brunswick road so much more for
tunate than any other road-? Ask
Messrs. Bullock, Hurlburt, Kimball
& Cos.
In addition to these things, rail
roads Avere chartered and State aid
given in the way of endorsements
of bonds to from thirty to fifty
roads of all length# and shortnesses,
and in every - imaginable dii’ection.
As to the amount of aid thus given,
I have no idea, but would not be
surprised if it runs up to forty or
fifty millions of dollars ! A beauti
ful sum, indeed; besides the hun
dreds of thousands and millions of
dollars in hard cash, voted away for
other matter, to be voted away by
so-called representatives of tbe peo
ple, the whole ot whom, perhaps,
not paying as much as sooo tax in
to the State Treasury annually.
In addition to this, the Okefeno
kce Swamp, that in 1866 was dona
ted to the Georgia Orphan Homo
Association, has been taken from
it, and voted to a company of spec
ulators. And millions of acres of
Avild lauds that belong to the people
of Georgia, many of whom are Avid
ows and orphans, and very poor
men, have been placed in a situa
tion, by au act of this present Legis
lature, that Avill enable land specu
lators and land pirates soon to own
the whole of this land.
I might say more at this time,
but I think I have said enough in
this to “wake up” and “move” all
the “terrapins” among the Demo
crats, or the honest, Georgia loving
Republicans in the State, and cause
them to “rest not”until our State is
redeemed from her enemies. Hop
ing that the Constitution paper here
will inform you of all these things
particularly and in detail, I will say
no more at present. Eulton.
X •
the delivery of a lec
ture by Mrs. Dr. Walker, in Kansas,
a fe\v days ago, a precious youth in
the andience cried out “ Are you
the Mary that had a little lamb?”
“No,” Avas the ready reply, “but
your mother had a little jackass.”
VOL. IV—NO. 47
Bottom of tiie Atlantic. —The
soundings which wore made be
tween Ireland and Newfoundland
before laying the Atlantic cable
have made the bottom of the At
lantic almost as well known as the
surface of Europe or America. It
is covered with a fine mud, the re*
mains of microscopic insects, which
will one day doubtless -harden into
chalk. Os the inequalities of this
ocean bottom Professor Huxley
says.
It is a prodigious plain, one of
the widest and most even plains in
the world. If the sea were drained
off? you might drive a wagon all
the way from Valentia, on the west
coast of Ireland, to Trinity Bay, itl
Newfoundland, and, except upon
cue sharp incline, about two hum
dred miles from Valentia, I am
not quite sure that it ■would ever
be necessary to put the skid on, so
gentle are the ascents and descents
upon that long route.
From Valentia the road would
lie down hill for about two hundred
miles, to the point at which the
bottom is now coverod by seven
teen hundred fathoms of sea water.
Theu would come the central plain,
more than one thousand miles wide,
the inequalities of the surface of
which would be hardly perceptible,
though the depth of the water upon.
it varies from ten to fifteen thous
and feet; and there are places In
which Mont Blanc might bo sunk
without showing its peak above wa-‘
ter. Bej’ond this, the ascont on
the American side commences, and
gradually leads, for about three hun- J
dred miles, to the Newfoundland
shore.
The Ckow.— Aside from the spe
cial question of profit and loss, we.
have a warm side towards the crow,
he is so much like one of ourselves.
He is laxy, and that is human; he
is cunning, and that is human. He
takes advantage of those weaker
than himself, and that is man-like.
He is sly, and hides for to-morrow"
what he can’t eat to day, showing *
a real human providence. He learns
tricks much faster than lie doe*
useful things, showing a true boy-,
nature. He thinks bis own color
the best, and loves to hear his own
voice, which are eminent traits of
humanity. He will never work
when he can get another to work
for him—a genuine human trait.—-
Ho eats whatever he can lay his
claws upon, and i less mischievous
when he is full than when hungry,
and that is like man. lie is at war
with all living thmgs except hi»
own kind, and with them he has
nothing else to do.
No wonder men despise erow«f
They are too much like men. Taker
oft' their wings and put them in
breeches, and crows would, make
fair average men. Give them wings
and reduce their smartness a little,
and many of them would be almost
good enough to be crows.
Thoughts. —And, after all, what
is wealth ? and, in the end, what
matters poverty? The rude box
that contains the poor man’s re
mains is as soft a resting place
the dead as the splendid receptacles
prepared for the rich.
The briny tear of the poor mart's
child, shed in grief over her father 1 #
grave, is as heart-born and pure as
that of a princess, shed at the
of the proudest king.
The wild rose, planted by Ms dis
consolate wife, to mark the spot
where her hopes He buried,, is as
noble a tribute to his honest fame
as the stately monument of marble
or brass erected to the memory of
the rich.
And, at the fast day, when the
trumpet shall sound to awaken the
dead, it will as soon arouse the poor
man from his humble sleep beneatl*
the sod, as the rich man whe re
clines in a princely vault, and the
green sward that covers the one
yield up its charge ns readily as the
marble to-rab that contains the oth
er. , j
What, then, is the distinction bc--
tween the rkrb and the poor, the
high and the low, the noble and the
ignoble by birth ? Miserable worms
that we are, the span of life is but
a dot on the cycle of eternity ; and
yet we live in arrogance and folly,,
as though our days were not num
bered.
- The following i* a young
ister’s idea of tho expansive nature
of the human mind : Yes, my dear
friends, the mind of man is so ex
pansive that it can soar from star
to star, and from sachelite to sajcli
clite, and from sefaphene to
phene, and from cheTrybeaux to
cherry beam, and from thence to J,ho
centre of the dome of heaven.”
The following lines were taken
from a young lady’s hymn-book, a
few days ago,- which she earclVssly
left in church :
,f I look in rain—he does not come;
Dear, dear, What shall I do 1
1 caftuot lijWi as I otfgfrt, Jk
Unless he lis-iens too. * ’ ’ j
lie might have come as w ell at hoi j
' What plagues these fellows are!
I'll bet he's fast t-sbtp at home,
Or smoking a cigar.”
—The best way to jpake good
coffee is to go to the principal ho
tels, restaurants, railroad eating
houses, etc., and ascertain just how
they make coffee; then make it as
they don’t.
- , j *
“Did you say that my brother
Jim didn’t know as much as Bmith’s
yellow dog?” “No, I said Smith’s
1 yellow dog knew more than yout 1
I brother Jim.”