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VOL. V.
■ and (J ft'RLBY. D. A. Russell.
fcftLEY & RUSSELL,
ATTORNEYS
Bind Counsellors at Law,
I «flue over the store of Babbit & Warfield,)
bain BRIDGE, GEORGIA.
■ rtf WHI practice in the Southwestern and Ra
IS Circuits. Also, in the U nited States Courts .
SHEFFIELD & BAUGIIN,
Att nti id
caLQUriT, (Miller County,) GEORGIA *
gj» win give prompt attention to all business
malted to their hands.
■vor.l. (J.ILSKY & CO., DEALERS IN CLOTH
|!\ l-'iuiMsliuig Goods for men wear, Staple
lioness and Saddlery, Water street
Georgia. lJunel
SAVANNAH DIRECTORY.
B ATl’IdK ,»tJ. liERItIEN OLIVER, General Com
■ { ! mivsiihi Merelinf.t, No. 97, Ray Street (ovei Wil-
Bt„i,tSibbs & Cos.) Savannah, Ga. [ikc2 35
IJSTIN k ELLIS, cotnmissou and fwvmd'og
uiiTchnnts, Savannah, Ga.
■ /UAGHOKN & CUNNINGHAM, gv-jeers and shin
■ t rlmn.lleis, corner Ray aud Drayton Streets, Sa
■ vMinah, Ga.
■ rJON'SIi! & JOHNSON wholesale grocers and
■\j commission inereliants, corner Barnard and Ray
H treetit, S.iv annah Ga.
AULEV & SIMMONS, Cottonfactors and coin
B 1 liiissimn Merchants. ftS IViv s-tieet Savannah*
I TOIIN OLIVER, No. (5. Whitaker Street, Savan
■?) null, Georgia. Dealer in Sashes, Doors, Winds.
I Maulderings, Paints. •Olis. Gkss, Rutty and til
■IT liters' and Glaziers material. Mixed Paints of
coloib and shades.
JJ. DICK ISON & CO., cotton factors and coni
mission inereliants. 58 Bay Street Savannah. Ga.
Vi 1 U UEMsHaUT, wholesale ami retail dealer in
■U. doors, saOres, h\imis, mouldings new?! posts.
Bv :. North side, ol ll.vy Street, foot of Barmin 1, Sa
Inn ah, Ga.
I I) tNDEI.L it CO , wholesale grocers, ‘dot & 202
I it Ray Street, West of Barnard, Savannah Ga
I Agents for Georgia, Florida and Alabama of thv
■ Orange ride powder.
MKERST it CO;, wholesale dealers in gvoctT.es
, wines Liquois, tobacco’s and segars, 1-15 and.
I 47 Savannah, Ga.
UOI.COM RE. HULL &CO , wholesale groce >
Ray Street, Savannah. Ga.
I I J. GUII.MAItI’IN & CO., cotton factors and
I general cotninisssion inereliants, Ray Street,
I Mvannali. Ga. Agents for Bradley’s super phos-
I plutiMif lime. Ragging, rope and iron ties el ways
I «u baud. Uusual facilities extended to customers
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LEARN TO WAIT.
Learn to wait—life’s hardest lessons.
Conned pe reliance, through blinding tears ;
While the hea rt-throbs sadiy echo
To the t read of passing years.
Learn to wait— hope’s slow fruition ;
SCiint not , though the way seem long ;
There is j >y in each condition ;
Hearts through suffering may grow strong.
Constant sunshine, howe’er welcome,
Ne'er could ripen fruit or flower ;
Gian'; oaks otfr'e half their gieatness
To the scathing tempest’s power-
Thus a soul untouched by soriow,
Aims not at a higher state,
Joy seeks not a brighter morrow—
Only sad hearts learn to wait.
Human strength and human greatness
Spring not from life's sunny side—
Heroes must be more than driftwood,
Floating on a wave less tide.
A KONG Or’ THE WIND.
Sh e went across the autumn woods-,
The netted branches through ;
An 1] the rotted lea vs clung to her feet
And to her hair the dew.
“0 wind !” she cried, “for the Spring sake,
And the love beyond the sea,
O south wind ! O tender wind !
O, blow him back to me.”
She went across the winter fields
The salt tears rising fast,
With her folded robe about her head,
Again-t the bitter blast.
•*“0 north wind ! O hitter wind !
Because the sun has gone,
O, tell him thou art k. en and cold,
And 1 am all alone.”
The wind cam ft over the fair fields ;
And the wind came thr nigh the woods,
And strange feet crossed the p ile spring grass,
Au-l strange eyes saw the buds.
“O love !'' he cried, “who called to me,
And I was slow to come )
The wail of death is in my heart,
But death is in my home.”
GOING TO SLEEP.
Two tireless little feet all day have trotted
Across the parlor floors ;
Two tiny dimple 1 hands have slyly plotted
Mischief behind the doors.
Two magic crystal orbs with watch unceasing,
Their glance on all have flung ;
Two rose red lips, their merry chattering teasing
In bird like notes have sung.
Now, o’er those orbs the drowsy lids are closing,
Bidding adieu to light;
And lips, while hands and feet lie still, reposing,
Have whispered their “Good night.”
0 blessed hour, when soft-winged sleep descending,
Brings a desired release
To toil worn mortals all their troubles ending
In sweet oblivious peace.
For He who ever guides the sunlight’s setting,
And gently Veits the earth.
That deep rep se may tiling that self forgetting
Prelude to newer birth.
Will ever guard the tender infant's slumber,
And send bis angel bands,
The midnight watch and dawning hours to number
With star tipped wands.
fate of a fighting dog.
A man he owned a terrier dog—
A bob-tailed, ornev cuss—
And that tluro purp got, that there man
In many an ugly muss :
For the man was on bis muscle,
And the dog was on his bite, _
So to ki« k that dog-goued animilo
Was sure to raise a light.
A woman owned a T he mas cat,
That fit at fifteen pound ;
And other cats got up and slid
When that there cat was round.
The man and his dog came along one day,
Where the woman she did dwell.
And the p o p he growled ferociously,
Then went for the cat like
He tried to chaw the neck of the cat,
Hut the cat he wouldn’t be chawed ;
So he lit on the back of there dog,
And bit! and clawed ! and clawed !
Oh, the hair it flew ! and the purp he jouled .
As the claws w cut into his hide
And ehuncks of flesh were peeled from Ins back ,
Then he fiummuxed, and kicked, ami died .
The man be ripped, and cussed, and swore,
s ho gathered a brickbat.
That he would be durued essentially
If he didn’t kill that cat ! . . ~. ,
But the woman allowed she’d he b.essed it he uid .
Ami snatched up an old shot -gun,
Which she fired and peppered his diaphragm
With bird-shot number one.
They toted him home on a window blind,
And the doctor cured bun up ;
But he never was known to fight again,
•* tbis herß
All i‘& that lighting Hog,
Hay tackle the wrong Tom cat.
Atl ent Toumai-Devjjyt to the Interests or Georgia.
BAIYbJHDGE, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1870
WILLIAM GILMORE S.MMB;
o
DEATH OF THUGRGATSOdTa
CAROLINA NOVEL EST. *
Hi* Life, Character ud Wrifittffijj
”-T*\ —,
The lion. William Gilmore Simms, D. C.
L-, died at the residence of his s on-in-!aw,
Mr. Edward Roach, in this city, at about 5
o’clock tin Sunday afternoon. Mr. Simms
had been in delicate health for some time,
but only a week before his death was well
enough to join in an excursion down the
harbor. His strength, however, rapidly
failed him, and on Thursday night there
was no hope of recovery. He lemained
conscious to the ehd, his last woids being,
•‘Not long !” The bells of St. Michael’s
tolled yesterday—the solemn notes convey
ing to the whole city the mournful tidings
of the death of him who was the ornament
and the pride of the State beloved so well.
William Gilmore Simms was born in this
city on April It, 1806. His father was of
Scoto-Irish descent, and his mother, Har
riet Ann Augusta Singleton, was of a ViTo
ginia family which came early to South
Carolina. While yet a child he was left an
orphan, and was thrown upon his own re
sources. For this reason his regular edu
cation derived small aid from the pecuniary
means of his family, and he had little classic
cal training ; but he acquired knowledge
with an astonishing celerity, and was soon
the possessor of a vast fund of miscellane
ous information. At eight he wiote verses,
and at eighteen his self-acquired scolaiv
ship was already remakable. No profes
sor or college did for him one hundredth
part of what he did for himself.
Mr Simms was originally destined to the
study of medicine. This pursuit jumped
not with his tastes, and he chose the law by
preference, being admitted to the bar at the
age of twenty■me. Law, however, was
too tedious fur the actutely active mind ot
Mr. Simms, ail wh >se inclinations lay T in
the direction of the pleasant path of liter
ature. His first active literary engage
ment was in the edttoiship of the Charleston
City G-azitte* a paper which opposed the
doctrine of nullification. The Gazette was
a failure, and Mr Simms, its proprietor, as
well as editor, wu.3 a heavy loser. The
effect was not Unhealthy, for it caused Mr.
Simms to deVote himself, iu earnest to liU
eratUre as a profession.
The literary debut of Mr. Simms was
made iu 1823, when he published a ‘Monody
on General Charles Cotesworih Pinckney.’
A volume of hts poems followed iu 182(,
and ‘E irly L iys’ was published in the same
voar. The warm reception given to his
first ‘efforts was highly gratifying to the
young author, who thence forward, for
more than forty years, applied himself to
those pursuits in which he won fame for
himself and honor for his native Suite,
The publication of Atalantis iu 1932, in
troduced Mr. Simms to the litterary circles
of Now York, The next the Harpers’ pub
lished his first tale, ‘Martin Faber, the
story of a Criminal,’ which at once atti acted
public attention.
From this sime hence so uniform was his
career, that a few words will sum up the
incidents of his history. A second mars
nage, to the daughter of Mr. lUacb. of
Barnwell, his first wife having died soon
after their union ; a seat in the State Gen
eral Assembly, where lie made his tuaiK ;
the reception of the Doctorate of Laws from
the University of Alabama; his summer
residence in Charleston and his winter
home at Woodlands ; these, up to the be
giniug of the war, are the few external in -
cidents of a career, whose events must be
sought in the achievement of bauds and
btain. The elegant residence of Mr. Simms
'at Woodlands—a mansion with equal
wings and a fine front—was burned down
'by Sherman’s raiders in 1365. At the
same time an extensive library was wiiollv
destroyed. But Mr. Simms returned to his
general literary work with his old eneigy,
aud was in harness almost to the day of
his death. The long roll of his literary
works is the noblest tribute ‘hat cau be
paid to the memory of him who can be
aptly styled ‘the Walter Scott of the South.’
‘Martin Faber,’ his first prose work,
brought Mr.Simms fairly before the public.
The book was decidedly successful, and
its success was richly deserved. The story
of guiify love * of tll ° cry of blood tlom th , e
mule earth, of the mysterious law by which
the bloody hand of the murderer is made to
poiut to his own bosom ; these things are
shown with graphic power. From year to
ye ar, sometimes from mouth to mouth, he
i threw off bis rapid series of fiction ; now
dealing with the aboriginal characters of
American life ; now depicting the achiev.-*
ments of knight and infidel ; now amid the
glades of Florida ; now in the wild freedom
of the West—over the whole wild range of
Southern and Southwestern American life.
But, as Mr. Davidson remarks, ‘He was
1 ; Tricot at. home iu the Revolutionary times,
wh -n war, aud craft, and treachery, and
iv’Ve, and death, ruled the hour ; or in the
oldcw and pre-revolutionary times, when
the stai.'art and sturdy Indian yet strug
gled with bipedy hands for the erstwhile
dominions, and yet hoped to wrest his
lands from the pale faces.’ As to the high
order of his ability as a pros’e writer, there
is no difference of opinion.
Edgar Poe said of Mr. Simms r ‘He has
more vigor, more imagination, move move
rneut and more general capacity than all
our novelists (save Cooper) combiued- ’
Duychinck, than whom there is no cooler
critic, says of Mr, Simms . ‘As a novelist
he is vigorous in delineation, dramatic in
action, poetic in liis discretion of scenery,
a master of plot, and skilled in the arts of
the practical story-teller.’ In every home
in South Carolina the romances of Mr.
Simms have found a pleasant resting place.
Well might Mr. Davidson, write that while
‘Cooper has the advantage in characteriza
tion and plot. Mr. Simms has clearly the
advantage in the energy of action, variety
of situation, and perhaps literal truthful
ness of delineation - ’
Asa historiorgrapher, Mr. Simms accom
plished just vvhat he proposed—a readable
history of South Carolina for the young,
something of less ‘immemorial dust and
dignity’ than Ramsey and Carroll, and
something of far less research than Rivers.
As ii biographer, Mr. Simms produced
four creditable voiums—enough, in them.-
selves, to have made the reputation of a
man «£ lest, note.
Asa poet Mr. Simms wrote very largely.
Besides his long poems Atalantis, the Cas
s'que of Accabee, Donno Florida, and the
Vision of Cortes —be wrote two dramas,
and hundreds if not thousands of lyrics,
ballads, odes, idylls, canzonets and other
minor poems. Atalantis is generally con
sidered the best of his narrative poems, as
will be seen by the following extracts from
an article published in the Southern Liters
ary Messenger tor May, 1851. ihe writei
who is a Char’eston gentleman of great
culture and admirable taste, says :
“A scholar of no mean attainment in lit
erature, and of cultivated critical skill, pro
nounced the Atalantis of Mr. Simms not uns
worthy of comparison, as a poem and a
work of art, with the immortal‘Comus’ of
Milton, The vigor and originality of ex
pression, tile fervor and richness of imagi?
nation, the fullness of thought, the com
mand of language, the power aud wide
range of conception, united with the suiter
graces of deep and truthful sentiment, and
of musical rhythm, which distinguish At
alantis/ will also be found, in greater or
less degree, to characterize all of the poetiy
of its author. We do not mean to say that
Mr. Simms has not published poetical trL
Acs, which, penned merely as trifles, make
no pretension to any high or peculiar mor
it, and do not claim to bo, by any means,
exponent of his powers aud characteristics
as a poet. * * * There are abundant
evidences throughout the writings of Mr.
Simms, and perhaps in none more thau in
his poems, of power to accomplish vastly
more than he has performed. Not
that the existing performances are
crude, or the offsprings are ‘ceitain
immaturity of genius; but they are such as
could ouly have emanated from the truest
genius, while they are not the highest ex
pression of the power so eviuentiy shining
through then\. and which alone could have
been adequate to their production. ‘Atalan*
tis’ must be placed in the very highest rank
of the class of poems to which it belongs;
but it is not the loftiest and grandest order
of all poetry, while the geu'us which was
capable of producing it, must, of necessity, j
be able to touch ihe very summit of poetic- ,
al excellency.”
Among the poetical works of Mr. Simms
are manv rare gems of thought and diction,
but it cannot be said that his poems arc
familiar in the months of the people. The
very copiousness of illustration which
sprung from the fertility of his fancy, was
likely to wear the general reader, who ures
of any long -continued demand upon his
attention and discriminating judgment.
And the ease and fluency with which he
wrote tempted him to write overmuch
Those who knew him best knew that he
could do more than he had ever done They,
looked forward With confidence to the day
when his name—borue on the wiugs of a
mighty Epic—might t>e measured iu busy
Europe as iu his native Carolina. But
time and circumstances were wanting.
That astonishing industry and activity
which remained with him to the end gave
him no repose, and when ho appeared in
public for the lust time, the flow of thought
and fancy was as ripe and fresh as when
he first stepped into liteiary life. To the
buoyancy of the boy was joined the sober
scholarship of the mature man. Who did
not notice that the voice was weak and
faint as he delivered the opening oration of
the Floral Fair, in this city, only a few
short weeks ago ? And yet who of his
auditors dreamed then that the teeming
brain and kindly heart had well nigh done
their work ?
In company with those whom he loved or
admired, Mr. Simms was full of jest and
merry conceit. A charming talker, he,
like Coleridge, rather discoursed than con
versed. At all times, he was a true and
generous friend, whose hand was always
ready to help the unfortunate. In all his
anxieties, he did not forget the sorrows
and afflictions of other*. Action—in his
charity as in his professional work—was
the feature of his life.
Mr Simms was twice married. Ill's first
wife was a daughter of Othniel J. Giles,
and his second a daughter of Mr. Nash
Roach. His first wife bore him a daugh
ter, (now the wile of Mr. Ed Roach, of this
city;) and his second three sons aud two
daughters, all of whom are living. One of
the daughters is the wife of Mr. Daniel
Rowe.
The body was laid out in the parlor of
Mr. Roach’s residence yesterday, and many
called to take a last look at the features of
the great departed. The countenance bes
tokened that he died without suffering.
The funeral services of the deceased will
take place at St. Paul’s Chinch, at 5 o’clock
this afternoon. The remains will bo iu*
terred at Magnolia Cemetery. —Charleston
J\ T ews.
Wait. —Wait, husband, before you won
der audibly why your wife don’t get along
with the household responsibilities ‘as your
mother did.’ She ia doing her beat—and
no woman can endure at best to be slighted.
Remember the long, weary nights she sat
up with the little babe that died; remember
the love and care she bestowed upon you
when you had that long fit of illness. Do
you think she is made of cast iron ? Wait.
—wait in silence and forbearance, and the
light will come back to her eyes—the old
light of the old days.
Wait, wife, before you speak reproach
fully to your husband when becomes home
late, and weary and ‘out of sorts.’ He has
worked hard for you all day —perhaps far
into the night; ho has wrestled hand in
hand, with care and selfishness and greed,
and all the demons that follow iu the train
of money-making. Let home be another
atmosphere entirely. Let him feel that
there is no other place in the world where
be can find peace, and quiet, and perfect
love.
Siiame on Him—Some chap, hard up for
an item, perpetrates the following slander on
our and everybody else’a numerous friend,
the Smith family. Wc hope when they
get clear of the Sheriff they’ll go for him.
Says the wretch :
“A few weeks ago the Governor of
Ohio offered SSOO for the arrest of a man
named John Smith. There are a hundred
and ten coutilies in Ohio, and in less than
two days the Sheriffs of all these couuties
arrived in Columbus, each with a matt
named John Smith. During the three sues
ceeding days over two thousand detectives
policemen, and private citiceus from Ken
tucky, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio,
Indiana, West Virginia and Illinois, ar
rived in Columbus, every fellow bringing
with him some unhappy man named John
Smith, and more arrive every day. The
aggregate of Smiths at present in ColuAi*
bus is simply awful. And the worst of it
is, that every man insists that his Smith
is the particular Smith mentioned iu the
proclamation, and he is going to have that
SSOO or hash the Governor right up. The
The Governor is trying to decide whether
to pay the reward to every man in tho 10l .
or resign.”
How to Wasu Flannel. —No woolen fa
bric should have soap rubbed on it, unless
you wish to shrink it. Soak it in warm
water half an hour; rub lightly when you
rinse it out; then rub thoroughly in good
hot suds; rinse it out, put iu a tub and
pour cleat* but boiling water on it the
more the better; let it stand till coos enough
to be ringed out by hapd*
Advertising —The case of Mr. B. 0. Al
len, of Augusta, Maine, is another attract
ive illustration of the advantage of ad
vertising. Five years ago, whdh he waa
uot twenty-five years of age, his worldly
wealth amounted to less than ten dollar*,
but his knowledge of the value of printer's
ink was worth a fortune, Since then, by
judicious «wlv&vtising, somekliueß paying
oue New York advertising agency aa
much as SSOOO a month, he has grown rich.
The Hartford Post %a\\s the letters received
by him have exceeded the entire mail of
the other citizens of Angusta combined,hia
bill/or postage stamps averaging more
than SIOO daily. So great an influx of
mail matter has caused Augusta to be fa
ted as a first>clnse office, and the happy
postmaster is delighted with an increased
salary, us in such cases is provided by law.
The offices which were ample for the. State
printing and the wants of the most widely
circulated newspapers iu the State have
been compelled to add new presses and
material to fill his orders' for circulars. A
corps of forty assistants is constantly em
ployed. All this g.tund result has been
accomplished by newspaper advertisings
A German paper says that the simplest
pcst-uflico in the world is to be found on
the Southern extremity of America. |*or
some years past a small barrel hus Wan
fastened by an iron chain tp the outermost
rock of the mountains overhanging The
Straits of Magellan, opposite Terra del Fa*
ego. It is opened by every ship that pass
es through the Straits, either to place Ist*
ters in or take them from it. The post
office, therefore, takes care of itself ; it is
confided to the protection of seafarers, and
there is no example of auy breach of this
trust having occurred. Each ship under*
takes the voluntary transmission of the
contents of the barrel if their destination i*
within thb limits of its voyage*
Washing Liquid. —TakooneparFxffisolt*
ed sal soda ; two parts spirits turpentine .
mix in a bottle and use a tablcspoonful to
a tub of water. It will make the soap, go
twice as far.
Dr Hall says sponge beds are healthy.
We kuow a man who has sponged beds,
and even sponged his meals for five years,
and he isn’t so very healthy—except at
meal times;
BABBIT & WARFIELi,
TAKE pleasure in announcing to their ftieadi ff
Decatur and surrounding counties, that tfcey
have just received a large and well assorted Sleek
of
GOODS*
Consisting of
STAPLE & FANCY
DRV GOODS.
Groceries.
Wo can fill >ny order from a
Pound of Soda to a Cask of Bacoi
■f * t " ■ * - V V y 4*.
Boots, Shoes,
Hats, Caps,
Hollow-ware,
Potwaro,
Plantation Tool®.
Also, a Fall Line of
In fact auytliiog that the Flanter, or tha moat
tidious can call for.
THE GREAT DECLINE IN GOLD
a
Has involved a
Decline in Goods
Os nearly every description, consequently we
sell for lower prices than last season. -V
'lhe public generally are invited to «*"
amine our /Stuck, and maku „ n< j
NO. 8.