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iOL. V. (tti § mmm Wholesale ,tnd Retail . JBfrl Rftl n{j g*'.- I «w sr &*. •**. ''■ "■ ' * * t - ! v ■• ~ ■ '■*•''■ , , : . 1 t , pin respectfully call the attention of their friends and the public' generally to their we ' xk. nnd soli'.it» continuance of the generous patronage heretofore extended to the old , ictu coßutiiyon hand a cqiqpM* stock of PAINTS, glassware, medicines, oils, s PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS, E PAINTBRUSHES, N YARNISHKS, X i CITEMICAI.S, SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS i'INE LIQUORS, W nicy and Toilet Articles Perfumery Os erery variety—Hair Brushes,Tooth Brushes, nmi mm ale. nm seiafps, FISHING TACKLE OF ALL KINDS, m tt urn. rmr m «□» • w n: mm. vj n BOOKS, FIVE.AWT) FANCY ENVELOPES, JXOTE, ■ LETTER CAP AND BILL PAPER, Kerosene Lamps ov VMuoUßprn,E, kerosene oil lamp chimneys, '■ (her »• Ic>e apportftiiuog to the business. The reputation of the house is -a sufficient guar ► aM tNttera entr«et*4 to it will bc fiUed to entire eatisfactioß. • i» : . ' ■ ’'• ,M 4i ' PHYSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS 13.1 ‘ ‘I accurately compounded at all hours, day or night. L L:J 3 LA. SOLOMONS A CO., "**" “* ■ * r* fcR UCrGI S T S, CORNER OONGE3B AN i) '"•ItTAKER STREETS, . - - . «XiOl«U. | . Establish a 1440 If '■ " I,’ •' I Emp eoaHaatly OB head » large supply of ~ -’• ■ *>**. » TOILET-ARTICLES. > # 9 P.UXTS ' VARNISHES, ’ OILS, ;; BRUSHES, &c. ; They ate the M*nufcctttr«« of *□» JWT 9 (Hv: JMI mtt 3EQ «S* ff« reG©m*u»d«d by some of the most distiogUfshe t H L.. Ba»k«t I B G* SCOTT, —with— I* Qavis & co, -GENERAL l<tini»i inciimi Alfi DKAT,*KS Us ■ ij ROCERIgg f HARDWARE, BOOTS, SHOES, &C. f **•» m AON STREET BAINBKIDGE* GEOBGIA K «*Jprk,*iw» f i oa hand. Pa? the Mgfce«l market? rices for Cot ”*■ r,-.- ) •* • fSK BH H ySp |3| Pwm fli jgLrilg Bg IpS H 1 B B S EjSl B | fs3 Eh hH |S3 93 33 H SB -A.:n. Iftaependent j ouraai—Devotecijo the Interests of Georgia' BAJNBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1870. Low Prices. cones ap rke factor ./—AND- .si .* (SoMinisshm |§f mfaml, •i’'** * * ■ • • • / .. . / . First Office 'Vest of the Exchange, ✓ . t ' )« ’ . ’ SAVA NN AH ! GEORGIA Sept 9 20 6nt< New&oods! • i ;-;t ]. ROCKWELL & WEST, BROAD TREET, *fc * 1 : Bainbtidgc, * - Georgia Wholesale and Retail .Dealers in > Jfejrt* muT &mt\j §ra OSwflg • •:• * t . » 1 • ‘ .• * ■ WOULD respectfully inform the citizens of Bain bridge and surrounding country that they have on hand and are constantly receiving one of the larg est and best assorted stock of Goods in the market; consisting in part of k , Fancy Dress Goods, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, &c. And in fact any article that can be found in at first-class Dry Goods Establishment. All we ask is a trial. Our motto is. “LIVE AND LET LIVE.” PIEDMONT AND ARLINGTON Life Insurance Co-, of RICHMOND VIRGINIA; Assetts ... .. SI,OOO, 600 Policies issud in a little over two years 8000. Policy Holders participate in the profits. ADVANTAGES OF THE PIEDMONT AND ARLINGTON First—lt is purely a South Institution, successs ful beyond all precede' Js, with widely increasing influence and popula ity. - Skconb—lts policies are Mutual and non-for? feitable T*ißt)—Gold Policies will be issued 'to those prefening. end paying premiums in Gold or its etpi*valent in 'Currency P’ourtii is a Home Institution; all money paid in Premiums in Georgia will be invested in Georgia, under direction of a Local Board of Di rectors FlfTtt—Yt has paid all Lorses Promptly and Without Litigation *•- Vonitig Man— provide for your old age—the payments are smail; don’t defer it. Middle Age Mai| Insure! Now you are,in the fu\l enlargement o your.faculties aud in the prime of Life; this this sum laid by may prove your best Investment. i *■ Old Nutt i;-'; Insure! You know your family cannot much longer have the benefit of your labor —Place them beyond a doubt, above want Kirli Maw Insure! Misfortune may overtake you; secure with a small portion of your means something cer tain for your loved ones. Now especially Poor Ulan Insure! For the fortune of your wife and little ones consist in your Life rJE** r®Jß® JBLu -Bb£? JXS $ GENRE At AGENT, BAINBWEGK GA. JT. A -% 'KI TTS, REFER TO Hon. C; J. Munnerlyn, Judge H, G. CraMrfpn> Messrs T. • lb• tiu#uew.*U & Cos, E. H Smith, & Cos., Judge li M Itvacb, Capt. A T lieid. Messrs Belchers A Terrel, Bvfwev, McGill, & Bower, blexu ing & Kutheiferd. 23 ts « • • ■ THE ESTEY ORGANS FOR PARLOUS, HALLS, AND CHURCHES, Combine more perfections than any others in the •?, • > market. ! . The manufacturers; have invented and applied more Y»luabe improvements,during the last twenty yearstlian any other iu the land. The Patent Vox Humana Tremolo. — A wonderful imitation of the tremolo of the hurrtan voice, pronounced by the ’most eminent organists and organ builders the only perfect expression stop ever invented. The Patent Harmonic Attachment. —An octave coupler, jwhich doubles the power of tjhe in strument without increasing its size. The Patent Manuel Sub-Baas.— Ah octave of independent-bass reeds of great power which are played with the ordinary keys. The Patent Vox Jubilant. —A new and beautiful stop, giving‘a style of music hitherto un attained in reed instruments. . These Organs are superior to all ochers in quick articulation—round, pipe-like tone— sweet ness and power. Thay have received nearly ox* hd.n dfki> First Premiums over all competitors. They are endorsed by the highest musical authori fjpa Send for Illustrated Circular. PIANO FORTES The subscribers also offer to the publican assort ment of beautiful Fxaito Fo*TS-elegant rosewood rases-fall iton frame-overstrung bass-Frencb action, etc., at moderate prices and fully W For circulars and full particulars address ft fSAXE k ROBERTSON 1 tr, xTi BR q ME STREET. tfEW YORK. Ifcnyi*,***’ THE SOUTHERN SUN Published Weekly by JOHN a. HAYES, Prophmr. Terms of Subscription : One Copy, one year /, $2 60 One Copy, six months 1 50 One Jbpy, three amuths,..*.. 1 00 * ADVERTISEMENTS Will he inserted at one dollar per square, for the first insertion. Liberal deductions will be made on contracts. Obituaries and mariages will be charged the same as other advertisements. ORDERS FOR JOB WORK SOLICITND.^f Written for* 1 the Southern Sun. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. ~ , . t . ..* t . ; . ■ Bt C.P. C. There are some men of whom it is imposible to speak but in praise. We become devotees, were, to their fens ius, and in Eastern prosilytisui are read}' .to proclaim them Allah’s Favorites to duce others to worship with us* 01 such met) it is imposible to speak impartially ;• for feeling has warped the reason, and directs the flowing thoughts in eulogy and blinded idolatry. What, we may say, then, of Henry Wadss worth Longfellow, wo will not vouoh for its corresponding with the preconceived opinion of the truthful and unbiased reader. For we are free to confess, that with uiThe is natures only poet; the painter of the Beautiful and the only architect of true and proper ’ Sentimentalism. The spirit of genius is seen in everything ho writes, mov.es in every stanza and quivers in every strain. Without ’imitation, he breathes the spirit of Mrs. Homans—here as cheer ful as the lute notes of Arcadia, and there as mournfully melodious as Shakespeare re presents the groans of Ariel in his cloven pine. Not aspiring in Miltonic grandeur to the sublimity of Byron, who “wove his garland of the lightning’s wing”—nor in heroic style ; treading out a monotonous ep>c in hexameter verse—ho rather dallies with the Gentle and Beautiful;— sighing where others groan, whispering where others talk and smiling where other* laugh. He fears more than admires the Terribly his soul has no companionship with it, and at its approach retires with the sad and des pairing wail of the sea gull, which, temp est-frightened, leaves its briny home for refuge in the rocks. But with all his mol lis in sjpirilrir. , he wields the magic of truth and power. An influence?. tint like that of the sun, which germinates into actiou and warms into .vitality all animated objects, 1 but more like the soft light from the far off planets, which charms rather than fires, and soothes rather than excites. Unconscious ly his power steals over the heart, and in his descriptions of the picturesque scenery of the Rhine, the golden glories of indian sum mer, the wide billowing prairie and in his incising of Hiawatha, the spirit is calmed to rest and the “honey ‘from the honey comb” is given to the soul. The distinguishing qualities .o' Longfel low seeru to be the beauty of his imagi nations, the delicacy of his taste, his mild earnest ness and deep sympathetic feel* ngs, expressing themselves in language always chaste and original^and always melting into ‘ Sweet and ITelancholy sounds, ’ Like music on the waters.” ' if ' ' . i f Never pretending be always succeeds . and though his works do uot rise to the dignaty of efforts and an properly mere ef fusions,* yet they bespeak for him great originality, which has never been sacrific ed by a couscionsness of his own power. But manly and meekly lie bears his maiiv ornaments, which, unlike those of tie foolish Sabine, maid have not crushed him, nor impeded the action of his versatile and peculiar gebills. Longfellow is the only poet who has given respectibility to sentimentalism. With others it becomes mockish and dis gusting, but with him tire softest passions and the veriest fffeioincy became the beautiful and sublime Sentimental in manly attire and noble livery Though be sings of the soft moonlight and the oooings o[ love, yet the former is never separated from the splendor of the sta r s, nor does the the latter escape the Aigus eye of virtue. He gather# the roses and lillies from the wild woods and the »aider’s garde* and “wreathes them iuto .chaplejs for the brow and neck of the beaotLul.* ’ His sentiments now savors of the naaseline poet ©f tHe woman’s mind and then of the female pare pf tbs man’s. Life* Hit booty hpy hit spirit wings its way from flower to flower et, sipping sweet here, and little there, yet even retering to rear upon its pedestal hi 8 ■staiue of the Beautiful, which like the lovely chef-d'oeuvre of the Grecian artist blend in perfection the finest conception of sentimentality aud dignity. As we have no copy of Longfellow’s poems at hand we will not enter into a re condite criticism of each particular one but merely selecting a few flowers from his in tellectual Leaßou, we would form.them into a bouquet, as a speimen of his beauties— dispensing th 6 sweet aroma of Ills gentle weird spirit. First comes Ilyperean his only prose work of any value. We remember well when we first read this happy story. It was at«fhe close of the la s e war, when ive' had just plodded our way through' cott’s series of Histories and Miss Evatds flimsy pedantic novels, and our mind thirsted for some pool of Siloam—some de sert for the soul—and we found it in ll}'- periar.. It was truly to us ail emanation .from Heaven’—‘one of those happy thoughts that seems to drop, like bright days, from the transcendental’ to allure to serencr re** gions the wearied mind and panting soul. Throughout the book we see the genius of the poet moving.though wending its way through, the labyrinths of now finding in some old forgotten German myth a beautiful moral and valuable pre* cept, now moulding into flowing language the simple story—the half forgotten legend of the ‘auhl lang syne’—of the stjy ferry maid as she rowed him over the beautiful Rhine, and then discussipg with the great German authors the lore of the moth erland, —he throughout never forsakes the waving billowy language of the book; which partly charms iti sparkling imagery and.partly in its mellow-toned sentiment which falls upon the heart like the far-off murmur!ngs of our Southern pine. In Hiawatha we find ingenuity and orig inally combined; and the imagination of the poet pictures uniquely and picturesquely the longings of the Indian’s heart, his joys andsorrows, his gentle Wooings and philoso> phizings in the-beautiful lines of the poem so plaintive and yet-so true. Eminently descriptive of Indian life, it brings Rim be fore .us dreaming in the smoke of his cal umet, ot his own dusky maiden and in the varied hues 01 the rainbow seeing the bright hunting grounds of spirits, whither one day his soul will tend, to bask in its sunshine and rest in its shade. Hiawatha portrays the character of lii* dian'happiness'.- It warbles its notes like Teyuyson’s brooks, —now laughing and singing to itself, as it carries along in its sparkling progress the Indian’s light canoe, and now slumbering, in still deep pools, where fishermen come and go,—here leav* ing the corn field and wigwams, and then lost in wooded and sounding* glens, “And out again to curve and flow To join the l/Hmfning river.” We will now close this feebly ti’ealisje.ou the merits ofLongfellow by noticing, that little but brightest gem in thy coronet of bis literary fame, which iu its Excelsior notes copes in universality with the Iliad, Paradise Lost and Childe HaVold. The idea, of Excelsior was not original with Long* fellow. Many writers before him had coirs ceived it, but none had expressed it; — none so to spe‘ak had given it tangibility; and it was reserved for' Longfellow to snatch the fire-brand from the Empyrean and write in burning verse the charge pf genius in the bailie of life, and show what another had said “That the paths of giory lead but to the grave. . That figure climbing the bleak cliffs of the Alps, while the darkness of night was coming on, iu defiance of danger, the wan nings of ago and the deep allurings of wo man’s love, typifies tile man of principle, tri umphing iu bis ascent to the trauscedental, purified by suffering and persecution, and at last perfected in death. In this portray al 6f the spirit to ‘do or die,’ we see th*e arn bitioas student who makes tfie welkin ring with fan thrilling ‘ExCetkior’ as he cbAibs the steeps of science, in the echoing cry of ‘Excelsior’ commences the often at tempted ascent of shady Pannassus. ‘Excelsior,’ too, shouts the warrior as he encourages his soldiers in the Tlier niopylee of Battle. ‘Excelsior,* cries life’s true hero,‘onward ami upward into y'<yi der lowering regions of storms! ttie past is tatne, npw for the shaggy future.’ ‘Ex celsior’ cries the dyjng Christian, ‘I am wearied of thee, Life. Behold, yonder the hallowed heights of Lebanon and Carmel, the boundaries of *iny New Jerusalem’ Aod this is theory of all spiritual iife-i --the noble battle spng of all active life— the Christian’s triumphant shout in death— Bmhitioi’a watch*.word, ‘Excelsior!’ jW****»•*. feb, 4tb.l«To. —: i-f: ■ !)»"•»( Gen. Lf.e— V?e grieve Iq learn, fts.fg.qiA through a private letter, that the t jjmjjih I* it General Lee is not tys family, and friends desire, though,it: wonijl > :jtygq9j| | to give himself liktje or no tfig, to Europe in the spring is urged upon ftiun* but thern is no c«r4#inty that he will cede,, ■ .. |. .« Had we the e*r of th* General, we woo tell him that, if he does not tal&ikr yory. best care of his health, we belidve tho< Southern people i?ill -with him. JP A s trlp to Europe will a lease of life, while his presence 'there ML be hailed with thejiveliest satisfactipn millions' This latter fact may, we fear, have rather a deterrent effect, but it is nq fact, 49 every • American wfio visited Ey*. rope during or since the W*r can testify.— r N.b. raw*' ” '• f -Vine Apples.—T^i^Jacksonville (K'oriiiljA Union says Mr. Benjamin Baker, West Florida, has sold his crop of pine ap ples this year for nearly seven .thousand dollars. ‘“The crop was gathered from' less, than an acre and a half of giospd. Jle has, one hundred aud fifty , thousand which will be in bearing next ypah, these cover less than seven acres of groups and if sold at the same rate as this ye/ir’s. crop will net him sixty thousand, jjiyjlapu* The pine apple crop of next year will ceed two hundred .. . The appearance of Mr. Rebels, tlia cbfc ored Miasisippl S»enator v i* deeidedty possusing.. He is five feet ten inches high#i. weighs ISO pounds, and is i^bout, j.h'oe toufths white. His features are regular, but prominent, and with tils broad expan sive brow, indicate targe In maun or, he is easy and' affable, ttwdq lakes the honor uoiifftrred upom hi»,ws Iwnsft bly and thankfully, as Ge% Gfaftt 4*4 Presidency. r ‘ ' :• ■ n .1 J Hi .J .. -'I. .rxH :• # i-if, pia Jh at 5w " i | VYeDDJNG Ilf. CINCINNATI -r-.TU% Oindii'.nati Enquirer,"of the contains a graphic account of the Tiuptials in tliQ aristocratic circles iof Severtth 'street? I! ftr that city, of.Kenel® T.- Digby, %•* nwtfcbaf of the Britisl) Parliament, aod'Mia*jGrroe*i4i beck, daughter of Hon, \V. S. ■ G roe* Week*. formeVly a prominent member of CJonjarreMU. and one of the feo-nutfel for PrbsidenA JcfFiYl— son iu the late impeachment trial. l -We bridegroom traces back to thwi troublous limes of Charles, tho #94i the'bride was' a ‘icignirjg belle; of the Queen Cit3 r . SdVOiLh slreet Was m a blaze, th© partaiiut ‘HUfentitfn bride’s father wap all aglitter with d«UMM zling beauties, costly toilets and bis festTVittes! The bappYoduj?f& tmon a special car, on Thursday * for N4w York?; ? whence they Mfill. em«ba*k foivanaerji i arid ft England. , . , , * 4 . u Projected Canal.—A .writer Brunswick Appeal thinks that A through Florida, from the St. riy£»; #J Georgia, to some point on the jGuAk wojpUl, create jh great revolution in the. trade ct the Gulf and Western Stalea, and benefit not South, bat the whoi# country. It is beliavod by many that*, canal joining ihp water# of tip B*. Itary’a and Suwan?e river* coaid he made at come paratively little cost. ,r —- m -w ■ yw■ * 0 Calvin Rodgers, the mid -night assasin who mdrdered Miss; Maggie McClellan the night of the first of October last, in this place, was arrested at the rqsjdunce Andrew Watson, coloied, last night, and _, ni attempting to break arrest was '\Uiea by the Constable and posse^ — Maria'**, Cfptcn&r* .* ■■. ■■. si X ■■■ : 1 . - • < li* Ml i MLSGEbLAN£O#&7 i The Philadelphia retail Wefchants bav© lefgned themsekea 'together |h4 { pose of oxterminatiog the “dollar store*.’ o An editobont West gifea fmr ; dignafion as follows ; 4 He that steals my m purse steals trash ; but he llrat shale xuf umbrella—caw kiaa] . A Yankee editor says that the girJ§ com* plain that.the times are so hard that the [young men can’t pay their addresses. A vender of glyeerfhe scattered tlfo loungers in an engine room in Titusvtlte RjK by caltniy sitting down a can near sbc fire and remarking :.. “X want to leaw) thia glycerine here a while until it thaws oat * , This affectionate advertisement ed in a late issue of the London * T ‘“«V “George E , sooty will meet yon ia the aaiooa of tha New Greenwich Theatre bti December 16, or else at the old Jiootmaksr’* at diaper street You must be a silly x old dear to sooty hai forgotten .her pfett/linnet, George, never. Sally i* in AA alea. An Indian Chief if tha moat on a W'ilfioatKri e’-rttflß =: . „ **