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D. A. Russell.
Y & RUSSELL,
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I counsellors at Law,
■ the store of Babbit & Waifield,)
\ISBR^GE, GEORGIA.
Hr'!practice in the Southwestern and I’a
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■capers KING,
■orney at Law,
H&ceon Broad Street, Bainbridfc, Ga.
Hui jrive prompt attention to all business
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■harles G. Campbell,
ATTORNEY
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lIAINBuIDGE, GEORGIA.
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THE SWALLOWS.
With rapid shoot of purple wings,
Like crescent arrow-heads they fly,
And cut the soft blue deeps as if
To them belonged the endless sky.
Now and soaring near the dome
That spreads in azure down to earth ;
Now low along the river wide
That minors all the Summer’3 mirth.
Now skimming over meadows rich ,
With waving crowds of golden flowers ;
Now stooping close, a moment’s rest,
(Jn linchened rail in orchard bowers.
Then up and swift again they hunt
Through deserts of the air arid light,
Where bluest space and yielding breath
Stretch wide around their utmost flight,
Oh, who can e’er such gladness know
As that which tills ‘he swallow’s breast,
When all the land in morning lies,
And skies above the sun hath dressed.
Oh who with such a reckless dive,
The sea immense of heaven would dare,
And rush on leafless wings to tasio
The glorious freedom of the air,
STEP BY STEP-
Heaven is not readied in a single bound
Bui ws build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaunted skies,
And we mount to its summit round by round.
I count these things to be grandly true,
That a liobiehleed is a step towaid God —
Lilting the soul from the common sod
To a purer air an i a broader view.
We rise by the things that are under our feet,
By what we have masteml in greed and gain,
By the pride deposed and the passion slain,
And the vanquished ii! wc h >urJy meet.
We hope, we lesolve, we aspire, wc trust,
When ihe morning calls iu life ai:u tight,
But hearts grow weary, and ere the night
Our lives are trailing in the sordid dust,
Wings for the angel", hut reel for the men !
Wc must ho to ow lhe wings to find the way—
Wc may hope, and resolve, and aspire, and pray,
But our feet must rise or we fall again.
Only in dreams is the ladder ‘hiown
From weary earth to the sapphire wall ;
But the dreams depart and the visions fall,
And the sleeper awakes on his pillow of stone.
LIFE AND DEATH.
BEAUTIFUL SKETCH 11V CHARLES DICKENS.
There was once a child and he strolled
about a good deal, and thought ot a num
her of tilings. He had a sister who was a
child too, and his constant companion.
These two used to wander all day long.
They wondered at the beauty of flowers;
th«'5 r Vvotidered at the height and depth of
the bright water; they wondered at the
goed’VesS ilud bower of God who made the
lovbly world'.
They hsed to say t\s one another some
times, 'supposing all tlvc children of the
world were to die, would the flowers and
the water atid the sky lie sorry?’ They be
lieved they would be sorry . For, say they,
the buds are children of the flowers, anti
the little playful stream's that gambol down
the hillsides are the children of the waters;
and the smallest bright specks playing at
hide and .seek in the sky all night, must
surely be the children of the stars; and
they would be all grieved to see their play
mates, the children of men no more
There was one clear star that used to
come out in the sky before the rest, near
the church spire, about the graves. It was
larger and more beautiful they thought than
all the others, and every night they watch
ed for it, standing hand in hand at the win
dow. Whoever satv it first cried out, ‘I
see the star!’ And often they cried out
both together, knowing so well when it
would rise and where. So they grew *o
lie such friends with it that before lying
down in their beds, they looked out once
again to bid it good Might; and when they
were turning round to sleep they would
say. ‘uod bless the star.’
Bui while she was still very young, oh,
very, very young, the sister drooped, and
came to he so weak that she could no lon
ger stand in the window at night,* and then
the child looked sadly out by himself, and
when he saw the star, turned round to the
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BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1870
patient pale face on the bed; ‘I see the
star!’ and then a smile would come upon
his face, and a little weak voice used to
say; ‘God bless my brother and the star!’
And so the time all came too soon, when
the child looked out alone, and when there
was no lace on the bed; and when there
was a little grave among the graves, not
there before; and when the star made long
rays down towards him, as he saw it
through his tears.
Now, these rays were bright, and they
seemed to make such a beautiful shining
way from earth to Heaven that, when the
child went to his solitary bed, he dreamed
about the star; and dreamed that; lying
where ho was, he saw a train of people tas
ken up that shining road by angles. And
the star opening, showed him a great world
of light, where many more such angels
wailed to receive them.
And these angels, who Were waiting,
turned their beaming eyes upon the people
who were carried up into the star; and
some came out from the long rows in
winch they stood and fell upon the people’s
necks and kissed them tenderly, and went
away with them down avenues of Ugh!,
and were so happy in their company that,
lying on the bed, he wept for joy.
But there were many angels who did not
go with them, and among them one he
knew. The patient face that had once
lam upon the-bed was glorious and radiant,
but his heart found out his sister among all
the host,
Ills sister’s angel lingered near the en
trance, of the star, and said to the leader
among those who brought the people
thither—
‘ls my brother come?’
And he said, ‘No.’
She was turning hopefully away when
iho child stretched out his arms and said
‘Oh, sister, lam here! Take me!’
And then she turned her beaming eyes
upon him, and it was night; and the star
was shining inlo his room, making long
ravs down towards him as he saw it thro’
his tear.
From that hour forth the child looked
out upon the star as on the ho ne he was
to go to, when his t.ime should come, and
lie thought he did not belong to earth
alone, but to tho fsta:, ioo, because of his
sister aug«*i gone before,
There was a baby born to be a brother
to the child; and while ho was so little that
he had never yet spoken a word, he
stretched Lis tiny form out on the bed and
died.
Again the child dreamed of the opened
star, and of the company of angels, and
the train of people; and all the rows o{
angels with their Learning eyes all turned
upon those people’s faces!
Said his sister angel to the leader:
‘ls my brother come?’
And he said, ‘Not that one but another.’
As the child beheld his brother’s angel
in her arms, he cried, ‘Oh. Bister, I am
here! Take me!’ And she turned and
smiled upon him, and the star was shining.
He grow to be a young man and was
busy at his Njok vvlieu ah old servant came
to him and said:
‘Thy mother is no morel I bring her
blessingon her darling son.
Again at night he saw the star and all
that former company. Said tlie sister's an
gel to the leadeiv
‘ls my brother come?’
And he said, ‘Thy mother’
A mighly cry of joy went forth through
all the tears because the mother was reunis
ted to her two children. And ho stretched
out his arms and cried: ‘Oh, mother, sister
and brother, I am here! Take me!’ And
* ;
they answered: ‘Not yet, aud the star was
shining.
He grew to be a man whose hair was
turning gray and he was sitting in his
chair by the fire-side, heavy with grief,
and with his face bedewed with tears, when
the star opeued once again.
‘Said his sister’s angel to tho leader, ‘ls
my brother come?’
And he said, ‘Nay, but his maiden daugh-
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ter. . ?
And the man who had been a child saw
his daughter, newly lost to him, a celestial
creature among those three, aiul he
‘Mv daughter’s head is on my liter’s
neck, and at her feet there is baby of
old time, aud can bear horn her,
God be praised.’
Anci the star wa* shining.
Thus the child come to be an *ld man,
and his once smooth face was wrinkled, and
his steps were slow and feeble, and his back
was bent. And one night as V* Jay upon
his bed, his children standing around him,
he cried as he had cried" 0 Iun * a & 0;
‘I see the star!’
They whispered to another, ‘He is dying.’
And he said, ‘I am. My age is failing
from me like a garment, and I move
ward the star as a child.—And O, my Fath
er, now I thank Thee that it has so often
opened to receive those to await mef*
And the star was shining; and it shines
upon his grave.
THE SOUTHERN STAPLE.
From the time, says the New York Tri
bune, when so good a farmer as George
Washington had a hundred cows in his
yards, and yet bought butter for his table,
the South has been a standing illustration
of a system that seems to bring wealth hut
in fact leads to penury. Ten years ago
she went to war, trusting mainly to lh u
fact that she could do ouc thing to perfec
tion—grow clean, longsstaple cotton at a
cost of less than ten cents a round. She
had not then learned that rational strength
depends on doing mauy *nings well ; she is
not in a way to that lesson now,
though it nas been enforced with the
lhetoric ol the cannon. She Las
to learn the omnipotence of concerted
action and diversified industry, For in
stance, the last decade has proved conclu
sively that England will put no limit on
the price she is willing to pay for a certain
amount of good American Upland. Her
spindles and looms are all fitted up for
just such cotton ap America alone can
grpw ; and if she'must pay a gold dollar
for a pound of it, she will pay the dcl/ar
rather than dispense with the cotton. Tlie
scanty crops of 186 1 and ISGS reduced the
supply in her factories so she has been
willing to give 25 cents a pound, But the
three millions bales of 18Gt) have gone so
far to fill the void that the price has ties
ciined, and may descend to a point at which
the production of cotton by free labor be-,
comes unprofitable. It in January and
February ttie planters of the South could
have met iu conventions, talked these mat
ters over and agreed to plant less cotton,
dQi’i ot something else, they would have
controlled the price and held it at a quar
ter of a dollar and over. As it is, the old
infatuation of one crop, one style of farms
ing, has crept back upon tho Southern
mind, and with it in many cases, an exag
gerated estimate of the importance of the
■Southern staple to the welfare of ihe world.
Instead of this being true, the cottin
as an element of national and international
strength, ceases at two and a half million
bales, When cotton is cheap, England
uses choice American for both warp ahd
wool ; now she mixes it with the short and
kinky staples of less favored climates.
When cotton is cheap it creeps as a dull.
adulterant into ail our fabrics, it hardens
the surface and chills the warmth of our
woolens’ it takes the gloss from our silks,
it makes our linens limp in texture, it
drives richer and more lasting goods out
of the general market, discouraging the
wool grower, the silkworm-feeder and the
flax producer—delaying the introduction of
ramie and of mohair, as profitable Atneri
can staples. All this subtle mischief a
great crop of cotton works in tho world,
while the curse of a one-sided and exhaus
ting tillage rests over all the cotton fields.
The planter will float corn a thousand miles
down Western rivers, and then haul it fifty
miles over muddy and narrow roads, that
he may cling with a closer and more ruin
ous devotion to his single staple. His cat
tle are small and bony. They pick a scan
ty living in the canebrake, ticks worry
them, mosquitoes tormentthem, and poach*,
era kill them ; so he learns to depend on
Kentucky for his beef. His hogs are wild
and restless all summer, gaining* no flesh
and but little bone. His corn is insuffi
cient for his plough horses, and he learns
to depend on Cincinnati for his pork. He
needs artisaus of all sorts near him—wag
on makers, tanners, shoe makers, ropewalks
ploughmakers and weavers. But these
persons find that while wages arc a little
higher, food is a good deal dearer; that the
roads are narrow and dusty when not mud
dy; that the streams keep all who are not
well mounted weather-bound for a day af
ter rain* that the undrained swamps
brood myriads ol mosquitoes, and that
where the lands are rich they abound in
malaria. Arguments like these must con
tinue to drive the mechauic from tho Goto
ton States, certainly while in addition
he is made to feel that neither James Watt
nor George Stephenson nor Robert Fulton,
if landless, would be as much honored as
the owner of a thousand wild acres. We
are aware that the South has goffered from
the struggle and starvation of a long war.
We admit that the proclamation and the
surrender destroyed a vast amount which,
by the constitution, as it then read, was
property. Far be it from us, who justly
prize tiie thrift, the enterprise, the inven
tion, and the progress of the felhern
chat actor, to draw invidious distinctions,
or fan a Sectional pride. But wo wish to
show the South how she is cheated by that
insane loyally to old tyiannous, and now
uncrowned, King Colton. She wants
bread and ho gives her a stone; she asks a
fish and gels a scorpion. Cotton gives her
gold, but for all important ends of national
power that gold is dross. It buys nothing
of that which makes nations great aud
keeps them so. It has little power to feel
forests, drain swamps, to bridge stre; m<,
fill s',ncol bouses, and change villages into
Cities. The fundamental mischief in that
sunny, and the most part fertile land, is not
the negro nor the bureau, nor the bayonet,
nor the army worm; but a political econo
my false in its first principles and rtiinous
in its working. r l he South spends so
much on factors and shipping merchants ;
she keeps on the road such long trains of
wagons; she supports such an army of
steamboat bands and sailors ajid clerks
and brokers and insurance agents—iu short
she pays so large a share of what she earns
in order to get a chance to buy what she
wants; that she must continue to live in
lo'g cabins and ride in bridle paths. What
she most needs is a statesman, far-seeing
and sagacious; as able as Calhoun was to
mark out the path of national greatness and
draw her feet into it.
Tun Present Condition of the South.—
The New T'orb World has a leader upon
the present condition of tho negroes in the
South, based upon information leceived
from an observing gentlemen who has ju»t
returned from a rcsidence of sev.jen.or eight
months in a Gulf State. According to this
testimony emancipation is not regarded as
an evil by tho owners of the Southern plan**
tations, and they heartily acquiesce in free
labor. The negroes, he says are reasopa>
bly industrious, and are improving every
year under the wages sydleii:,. , siorcover,
The social problem would bo no problem'
at all, if it were not for meddlesome carpet
bag interference. A law lias been passed
t»y the Legislature of Louisiana giving
negroes equal rights in schools, theatres,
hotels and public conveyances; but this is
something which the negroes themselves
do not care for and have never demanded.
It is repulsive and odious to the whites,
and in their present temper will never sub
mit to it- They will willingly be taxed to
support separate free schools for the black
children; the street railroad companies in
New Orleans are ready to give up every
other car to the negroes; but association
and contact are. repelled as indignities, and
as a.general rule, the negroes do not. claim
this kind of equality. The attempts which'
have been made to enforce it have utterly
failed. Every law of that kind will be a
dead letter, as there is lio possibility of
executing it.
Cheering for North Carolina.— From
every direction comes cheering news. The
good and true people of the State have
been aroused and on all hands are putting
forth their.strength to kill put Radicalism
in the landi Already the Republicans be«
come demoralized, the Ciont rank oi the
party—the carpet-baggers—are going
down from political view. The late acn'on
of the Governor, in calling out the troops
to suppress disorders that cou’d easily be
put down by a strict and impartial admin
istration of justice, iu a great confession of
weakness. Troops are needed at the polls
to intimidate voters, and force it to be used
to assist fraud and chicanery to gain the
day. Holden is determined to ruin or else
quite bankrupt the State,,,
But the.very means that he has adopted
to secure him in place will but accelerate
his downfall. The people are not inlirnida*
ted, even by the formidable warlike prepa
rations of our gallant Governor., On the
contrary they have been aroused, and are
everywhere throughout the land denoun
cing the corruption and tyranny of the
State’s Executive. In August they will
express themselves at the tallotFbox, and
next winter, with a Legislature of own
true and loyal men, we can defy Holden
and his partisan friends throughout the
State.— Wilmington Journal .
The New \ork Sun (Radical) is very
severe on Butler, considering that he has
done so much of the dirty work of the Rad
ical party. That pa er says : “If Boiler’s
statement about the Cubans is trne, that
thep offered only bonds to purchase his in
fluence, it is ea«y to understand hi.- dis
satisfaction. What he wanted was spoons.
LETTER FROM GENERAL LEF.
Some weeks since, Harper's Weekly ba?-
ing- published a false and malioioup
against \ irginia’s noble son. that ho retDeiniV
cd in Gen. Scott’s service as a member of bis"
staft, until the moment before joining
‘lost cause,’ in order to obtain a full fttibwU
edge of that officer's, plans of future opera- -
lions, Major Sidney Albert, editor of the
Troy Messenger and Advertiser, felt called
upon, in view of his official knowledge of
the facts of the ease (lie being at the com
mencement of the war a staff officer at
Washington) to refute the false
and defend the honor of Gen. Lee. That be
was i ight in his statements, and his goods In— ‘
tent ions have been fully appreciated by Gen
Lee, is clearly shown by the fullowing-vef^ l
modest letter which M;<jyr Herbert has just"
received from _ tho gallant old horp^ttnti
which he kindly permits us to give to thft
public through the columns,of the jSnquirer;"
, , Lexington, Virginia; Juno 38, 1870.
Dear Sir:—l am much obliged tp yojij
for the kind sentiments expressed towards
me in your reply from tho Messenger and
Advertiser, of which you are editor, tho
erroneous assertion of Harper’s Weekly re>.
specting myself.. Though it is difecult to
learn the truth, the fuels in the charge cited,’
might, I think, liave beer, easily ascertain
ed, inasmuch as I never belonged to thq
military lamily of Gen. Scott, or served near
his person except iu Mexico, when I was
attached to the general staff of tho army
in that country.
J hanking you for the refutation of tho
charge, and for your kind jvishes,
Z am very respectfully’,
Your obedient servant, _
H. E. Lee,
Major Sidney Herbert, Troy, Alabama,
Millionaires. —William B. Astor is de
clared by those who ought to know to rep
resent $50,000,000; A. T. Stewart, 4Q,000' f
000; Cornelius Vanderbilt’, $30,000,000;
Daniel Drew, $6,000.000; G. Law. $6,000,
000; August 8e1m0nt,.55,000,000; Samuel
N. Pike,, $t,000,000; James frisk, Jr.,
000,000; James Lenox, $5,000,000, and two
or three hundred others are variously eati«
mated from two to five rpillions, There are
a thousand persons in New York who are
worth at iue lowest calculation, $500,0M
apiece.
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The Robert E. Lee.— The Steamer Rob
ert E. Lee, which won the race the other
d»y on the Mississippi river, was built in
Louisville, about four years ago, and is the
noblest looking craft of its kind in the Wesf*
tern waters,. When she was ready for
reception of her boiler, <&c., she was lowed
to New Albany, Indiana, to receive it, The
abolition,sentiment was so string at that
time in that part of Indiana, that a mob
was organized to destroy the boat. The
mob was outgeneraled, however.
We have heard of a witty reply of a negro
why had sioleh and oaten one.of his master’s
* r * « ■ vt* 3*' t • '
turkeys when he was accused of the crime.
He repelled all manner of wrong, saying
that ‘Massa’s only change form;
lie has less turkey, but more uj.ggcr,*
iri~ tr * ’ v."t.• ;■ rtr ul4__ \I *
Beautiful Badge for Mr. Davis.—Mr. 0.
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M. Sexton, jeweler of this city,, showed us
yesterday a very beautiful gold and jewel
ed badge that he had just finished for the
young Indies of thp Adelphinn Society of
the VY’esieyan Female. College, tp t be pre
sented by them to px-President Davis. The
badge is diamond about one inch,
and a half in length and three-fourths of
an inch w;de. On the front and elegantly
carved in gold is the emblematic clasped
hands and on the sleeve or cuff of each are
three small pears. Surrounding all this and
in frosted work are t,he words 'Adelphian
Society. \Ve live jbr each other,’ and at
Iho points of the badge are two small ru
bies. Oh tbejback and very exquisitely
engraved, are the words : ‘Jefferson Davis.
From ike Adelphian Society, W. F. Colleg. I
1870.’ We have rarely examined a raoio
beautiful aud exquisite little trinket, amt
we are sure the gicat and good man
whom the young ladies ordered it, wiF
prize it as another aifeutionate token
the fair daughters of the Sou iix.^Tel.
Mess. <
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