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VOL. VI. THE SOUTHERN SUN, Published Weekly by O’ O fctlN R. H A Y Es/ Proprietor. Terms ot Subs*'*’*-**'"** Jiopy. one ycaf, *2 60 t)u« Oopy, *l* mu nth*... / j 60 One Jopy, three months !!*..*.*.*.*.*.1 GO Ad v er t iseme n ts. \\ ill he inserted at one dollar per sqoare for the first insertion. Liberal deduction* wll be made on contracts. Obit naria* and marriage* will be chare** th- other adv^rllsenien*- RaTeS OF ADVERTISING. No Square*. 1 Mo. 2 a Mo« 6 Mo* 12 ilos 1 square $4 00 "177)0 $0 00114 (K) S2O 00 2 squares 800 11 00 14 00j-0 00 30 00 3 square* 12 00 15 00 20 00126 00 40 00 4 squares 16 00 20 00 26 00183 00 SO 00 f> squares 20 00 26 q 0 32 00 j 40 0> 60 00 6 squares 24 00 31 00 38 00 48 GO 7d "0 7 squares 28 00 37 00 45 00|66 qO 80 00 8 squares 32 00 43 00 62 00[64 0u 90 GO 9 Squared 86 00 49 Oo 60 00 72 00 100 00 10 squares 40 00 6.5 00 68 00 80 00 110 Oo $ column 44 0G 62 00 74 00 89 00 120 GO PROFESSIONAL CARDS. D. B. BOWER E. O. BOWER BOWER & BOWER. ATTORNEYS AT LAW BAIN BRIDGE, GA. OFFICE IN TBS COURT HOUSB. March 23, 1871. 44-1 y R. W. RAVIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BAINBRIDGE, OA. •CtT Office over I’utteison & McNair's Store. CnARLRS 0. CAMPBF.LT. B. F. 6HABOS. CAMPBELL & SHARON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BAIN BRIDGE. GA All business entrusted to their care, promptly at tended to. Office in Court House. {July 13, ly drTeTj: Morgan; ■* Omen on nouai Tmmu.’Wc it. tt. .t. store. Iterideuce on West Street. March 30-ty BAINBRIDGE, GA. MI SC ELLA NEO US THE SHARON HOfSE, JOHN SHARON, Proprietor Bainb ridge Georgia. TRANSIENT BOARD S3 PER DAY. The t raveling public are hereby notified that this Ito use lias been thoroughly repaiied ani refited, as well as refurnished throughout, andren doied one of the most desirable and agreeable hotels in the State, worthy the liberal patronage it lias heretofore received from the passcin ers on the river and railroad. No pains or expenses will be spared to make the SHARON HOUSE all that any one could desire. Call and test its merits. j<g”ln connection with the Hotel is an elegant SALOON where the finest of liquors are kept. C. Hates, . Ben. J. Lesteb Richmond, Ya Savannah, Ga shc 3tHimm«v AMoksutlc Tobacco, Liquor, Commission House "Win. C. HAYES & Cos. 141 Bay Street, Savannah. Georgn. AFFKR special and particular ißduwmenj to the 1 ) morohant* and planters of Georgia and *i a . Hides, Cotton and general exchange, and on consignmeu . - i8 wt> vances. quick sales, and small commissmi> hope to share a liberal patronage from e generally. THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST. Fire Insurance CO- Asscts over $20,000,000 in Gold. Over $8 000,000 Pays losses immediately after adjustment. Tk New York Life 'lnsurance Comp’j Assets $10,000,000. J. E. JOHNSTON & CO , General Agents. T. B. HUN NEWELL & CO., Agents, Bainbridge, Ga. t sri sssssr MEINHAFJ), BROS. & CO. * Wholesale Dealtfr*4n boots ssoes: Beady Made JlotWnK, V fitntUmr*’* |nrsfj»M#« 6«ols 111 BouKhto\~St. SAVANNAH,GEORGIA. omci JB B. Meitibard, l'so * 82 W|lH «M>k»4,r "§lt| The Willies. [From the French of Alphonse Karr-] At the clone of a beautiful day a com pany of young people were waltzing mer rily before the doot of VVilhern Gulo, the Guard-General, some young men playing mu me violin and horn. Silence settled upon the forest, a light wind that bad caused an occasional tustie of the foliage having ceased to ater in the trees j the sun had left upon the horizon only a tint of purple that still threw its ob lique light across the opening in which thnv danced, aud-*r** *—— «rnrc astt* oerw WTTfi a bright, roßy gleam. The waltz being ended, Anna Gulp ex claimed: “It is notjußt that poor Henry should pass the whole evening blowing his horn, without, at least, a single Waltz. Conrad often plays alone, and Harry might take part in the dance.’ “And to compensate him for the fatigue he has experienced in helping us enjoy our sport/ 1 added the pretty Genevieve, “let us offer him, in spile of all our previous en gagements, the privilege of choosing the one who seems to him the most beautiful, with whom to dauce twice in succes sion/* Anna Gulp began to tremble; she expec ted to rnarv Henry, such having been, for a long time, tho favorite purpose of the two families; still the youth as yet had scarce ly seemed to distinguish the daughter of Guard-Geueral by his attentions. Anna Gu*p loved Henry, who was the handsomest and best youth in the whole region; no hunter was more active or brave and the Prince had promised to raise him to the rank of Guard-General, which An na's father proposed to resign, npnn the consummation oftbe marriage. Anna was a good and pretty girl, who, since her mother's death, had been at the head of her father's household, he having been left with two children. Anna aud Conrad. Not a house anywhere seemed so nice and wu'l kept; not one, with so limited an income, offered such an aspect of comfort and happiness. Anna was tho idol of her father and brother; they called her their “good angel" —aud there was indeed some thing angelic in her appearance and dispo sition. She was slight and flexible, her pretty face was pale, while the long black hair, fastened, in bands across her fore head, and of eyes sad blue,full of tenderness aud melancholy, seemed, as if by a secret instinct, to awaken the presentiment that Anna Gulp was an angel from heaven, only lent to earth; and after having, like a ben eficent drop of dew, giveu life and happi ness to all about her, would spread her wi;.gsand return to the celestial country, leaving in the hearts that loved her the bit terness which seems to attach to all hu man blessings. Henry came, without any hesitation, to take the hands of Aiioa, whose heart had almost ceased to beat in bis sudden alter nation from feat to pleasure. Conrad played a waltz composed by Henry, and tbe waltz* ers started off. The moon soon began to mount behind the trees, and her white light danced among the branches. Impressed by tin* influences of the hoar, all row ceased waltz ing, aud drawing near *he door, where the father Gulp was smoking tranquility as he watched, the young propte joined in more grave and earnest conversation. Suddenly Henry and Anna, who had re» mah«d behind, approached the old man, and Hfe* V y gaid: “ My farther, we love each other, give us thy blessing.** Boib knelt. Wilhelm gave them his benediction and asked f-»r them beavers more potent blessing. Conrad came »p to press the hand of Henry, who presented to Vnna a bonch of heath blossoms be ind just gathered. Anna hastily enter* ed he house and sought refuge in her cham ber, she could give vent free to the tears \joy that rushed to her eyes. From this da\hey were betrothed, and forth with occied themselves with preparations for the milage. One day\enry came to the Guard-Gen eral, sad aolgloomy, showing him a Ict ter just torn pon, announcing that an un cle dying at ikyeoce begged him to come to him in seasl to close her eyes and ren der the lasts sAice of the friend aud relit tive. Anna said to im‘ “Forget not to return very soon.*' fchttonld say no more wiih ont beseeching It® not to leave her. This news grieved most paiufnl misgiv ings crowded npoi%er. Happiness is so evanescent, —so linled is the aiuonot allot ted to apy and the portioa we .A.23 TrtHr3r*rrt Journa —Devoted, to tin© Xinterests of 1 Georgia. i BAIXBRIDGE, GA., TIIURSDAt, NOVEMBER 2, 1871. might hope to claim for ourselves is so of ten necessarily shared with others, we are promoted to steal away, like robbers, to enjoy onr prize in secret, daring to express joy only in whispers. The paternal Gulp received the news without emotion, saying to Henry. “WpH, a good journey to you, my son, and return to us as soon as yon have properly dis. Charged the duties imposed by nature* When do you leave? “I musjt go this night/* said Henry, ’to tna coach that passes in that direc tion eight leagues hence, to-morrow.“ Before midnight, then, Henry set forth, his traveling-bag on his back, bis gun on his arm, making a circuit that would en able Lim, before leaving the country, to see once more the home of hi's beloved, and the glimmer of the night-lamp that burned in her chamber. On his way he gathered sprigs of heath er. and, weaving them into a wreath, hung it upon her window. The lap shone out across the fields, lightening tip the little chamber with a fanciful glow. Henry broke off a twigofhavel that almost touch ed the window-pane, and hastened on his way. The first golden rays stealing into the little chamber founp Anna still awake and restless’ Unclosing the widow to watch the dawn, and cool her aching brow in the fresh air of the morning, she found the white wreath and knew her lover’s act had been this tender farewell Henry sent a letter by every post, but however deep may have been his sorrow, it was for her who had remained behind that this separation had most bitterness, and ere long poor Anna had lost the rose from her che^k. After a time the letters became unfre quent, and finally ceased altogether, and Anna's heart was the seat of sad forebo dings that gradually ripened into convic tion. TVie poor sufferer made no complaint Ik II t hf»r Uiul UlinitOl) vealed the weight owe this neglect had wrought. Weeping ’"o silence in her chamber, she avoided even the society of her father and finally become hopelessly ill. Conrad had written to Henry, receiving no response, and finally when no answer was received to his fourth letter, he wt-w ted for Mayence. Two mouths afterwards he returned in a chariot pale and wounded. At the end of a few days of extreme suf fering be died. It happened thus: Reaching Mayence Henry found his uncle in •» less dangerous condition than he expected. R« jo>cd at the resemblance of the youth to hffe father, he attributed his own immediate convales ence to the arrival of hi* nephew. This uncle was very r»ch, and only one of his numerons children—a very beautiful daugbier —survived, whom he proposed to himself Henry should marry. The young man dared not refuse at once the honor desighed lor him, but a-ked for time to gain the consent of his mother at some time privately begging the good dauie to witbold it. During the period this response was awaited, he had become so interested ir. his cousin, and so comforta bly disposed towards a life of luxury, he was not sorry to receive his mother s reply urging'him to accept ail the advantages of the union he.was desired to consummate. He generally forgot Anna,amid the pleasure of a large city, and taught himself to re gard the sacred engagement into which he had entered with her as childish sport, that might be renounced by the mature man. Gmrad arrived on the day of Henry's nnptiala with his ctsusiia Bitterly re proaching his old fricud, and exasperating at not being able to move him by the pic ture of his siatci's distress, he iusulted and provoked the renegade in public; blows cucceeded, and Henry felled the avenging brother with his sword. Anna wept, no more, but tears fell upon her heart and corroded there in silence. From this time she devoted betsclf ex clusively to her father, who wa* sorely stricken by the death of his sou, and to prayer. Prayer is the refuge of the distressed, a sure tenonnee when all other support fails, a eacred bond between the human and di vine. Henry found himself master ot a large fortune, and husband of tbe prettiest wo man in the city of Mayance. All this life of luxury was filled with delightful novel ty for bin). j A year alter his marriage, however, hi* father-in-law died, and his wife, an inva lid, deijred to retire to the country. He purchased a chateau some leagues from the koine of Father Gulp, and passed the whole finie there. During this time Anna's waiting ended. She died without appareut regret, and was bush’d with the white wreath that Henry had bang upon her window, on the night d.-part tin a. One Waning, as returned from a late hunting party, he became bewildered in'the forest and could discern no better expedient for the recovery of his route than to gain his mother's house, whence it would be very easy to set out in the right direction. The early portion of his life hay ing been spent in the fores*, not .a path was unknown to him. He was obliged to pus the house where Father Gulp remained with an aged servant woman. It was a lonely autumnal evening ; the light of the setting sun. again irradiated the opening. Henry sighed and quick ned his pace ; ho would have walked even fas ter, if he had heard the poor old man with in the house, who keeping, his lonely vir gil through the night, prayed for his son and daughter departed while, he also cried ‘Henry, Henry I thou who has slain my two children, my curse rest upon the, my curse rest, upon thee l* The forest grew still more 6ilcnt aud mysterious ; the path that Henry followed became each moment more close and dark : the moon at times scarcely sent and fitful glimmer among the •branches. In vain Henry hied to Giive away the painful impression that crowded upon his mind ; in vain he •recalled*bis wife, his child and all the pleasures about him. The memory of Anna and the puie, happy’ days of his love for her revived with such irresistible emotion that all other thougts were excluded. Occasionally a light puff of wind brought from a distance the perfume of the honey sneklo. blooming in tluo forest, and as ho j walked forward it seemed to him that on the same breath of wind were borne the vague ad singalar measures of a song that was not unknown to him. He proceeded on his way, but suddenly stoped, shudder ing. What extraordinary danger thus caused Henry, the bravest of tho hunters of the forest, to stand trembling beneath the trees. He raised not his gun for defense, because no material foe confronts him ; it is only the very distinct measures of the waltz he conposed long ago, that Conrad played on the evening when Father Gulp blessed tho betrothal of his lovely daughter. Making the sign of the cross, faithful Catholic as he is, the young man urges his way forward. Now he loses no more of the song;the voi ces are those of women—pure, sweet, fleeting voices. He stops, holds his breath and listens. They sing the ir of the waltz, also there is a rustle of feet through tho measure, but so weak, so light, no human foot can produce anything like it. Henry's hair rises upon his head ; his limbs sway bemath him,but he advances,still listening. They sing some words, lines he recalls having arranged himself for this air, du ring the night when he was leaving Anna. He had never written them, nor repeated than to any one, and had quite forgotten th*m, —neverthiess these voices are sing ing them I Taking a few steps forward, the winding of the path brought him to &u opening ski-rounded by tail chestnut trees, and dmly ligved by the moon. He crouched ia a thicket, from which he contemplated the strange spectacle. -'Some young girls in white robes and crowned with flowers, waltzed, singing upon the turf; but their write robes were whiter than any fabric w} have ever seen ; their crowns of flowers w*re very brilliant; their steps were so light one could not know whether they really touched the earth; their sweet, weird voices seemed only produced by the move ment of the waltz ; their faces, above all, were of a frightful pallor. Henry now re called. the old legend of the “Ring of the "Willies;** young girls who bad been aban doned by their lovers, and died unmarried, wko, in the night, in the depths of *lbe wild wood dance by themselves under the tender fight of the pitying moon. The waltz ceased for a moment, and Henry heard the sound of the beating of Us own heart Some momenta passed in adjusting the crowns of flowers, then the song was resumed, which still followed the measure of Henry’s waltz. Two by two girls started forward for the waltz ; <■» ikflt m fevfltotdr searching glance seemed seeking for a companion. Her figure was delicate and slight; her black hair was fastened in bands upon her head; her eyes of a sombre blue, had a tender and melancholy lt>ok. Bhe was crowned with white heath I , It was Anna I Henry felt he was about to die. She ad vanced.toward the thicket in which Henry was concealed and took him by the hand. The hand of Anna waa cold aa garble. Henry bad no strengh to follow her, but was borne along by some supernatural power. The young spirits sang; tho waltz *as resumed, and Henry, draw n along in spite of hims elf, w altzed u ith his betrothed., Another phantom seized him in its turn ; to this succeeded a third; anon, a fourth. Henry «as exhauted. A cold sw eat stood up mi his forehead and he was bale as the dead. A fifth spirit came to claim him for this dance of death, and again a sixth, ur ging upon him the same resistless move ment; accompanied by the same song. The young man, worn out, half dead with fright as well as fatigue, would have drop ped upon the grass, but an invincible power dre w him on, still * hirling on in this mys terious dance. At last tin* air could no longer enter his I a up:* ; respiration must cease ; he 6lified. He wished to cry out, but could command no voice, or utter a sound when Anna seized him again, still pressiug him into the in evitable motion of the waltz ; but Henry felt that the white robe was. as empty as the bone of a skeleton. Tho hand of Anna placed upon his shoulder was no human hand. He looked again. The black hands of hair were gone—only a hideous deaths head remained, still crowned with white heath 1 The young man struggled, but the phan tom clasped him. drawing him on with a horrible rapidity through the mazes of that remorseless movement. Bewildered aud hopeless, he yielded to the fata pell. On ih‘> morrow they found the lifeless body of the young hunter in the forest. Some Rascality in Tills. With a great flourish of trumpets, it has been announced, through the press by tele graph, aud otherwise through the press, that Goyernor Bullock, with commendable good judgment, had selected the great Banking House of Henry Clews & Cos. as the Financial Agent of Georgia—tha same House to whom had been given the United States Financial Agency in Loudon, which was so long and so aatisfactorially filled by the Barings. The statement has been made and be* lieved for month*. Now, the House of Clews &, Cos. d<*ny being the Agents of tbe State, as will be seen by the following let ter to Dr. Angier, which fully explains it s*-lf : Banking House or llenrt Clew* k Cos ,7 32 Wall Street, New York, V October 21, 1871. ) Hon. N. L. Angier, State Treasurer, At lanta, Ga: Dear Sir : Your esteemed favor of the 7ib instant wan duly icceived, in which you desire us *as Financial Ageats of Georgia in New York/ to furnish art ac* count of our transactions in tbe bonds of that State, setting forth ‘the amount and kind issued : the amount sold cr hypothe cated : the amount realized by such trans action*, and especially the amount dis bursed, aud au itemized statement 00 wbat account.* In reply we have the honor to say that the Fourth National -Bank of New York are the Financial Agcnta of your State here. Our firm baa never held that ap pointment. We have submitted to Governor Bullock an account covering our transactions with tbe State of Georgia. The same doubtless has, ot will be, laid before you in that time for your report to the Assembly. Yours, very respectfully, llenrt Clews k 00. Dr, Angier, it will be seen, propounded the proper questions, covering tbe whole ground. He wanted the information to lay before the Legislature. He has failed to receive it. It wil be neaii that Clews kept the Doc tor’s letter on hand long enough to com mu# nicate with Bultock before replying. This m>*ans something. Bet Clew* k Cos. deny that they are Fi nancial Agrees of the State. Thi§ we -ball show ia not true ; The following ia an extract cf a letter from Henry Clew* k Cos., to the New York Time* in the e*»ly part of this ye*r : ‘lhelist report of the Treasurer of Georgia is actuated by violeot personal boatilitiw tnMfdi *» j evinced by the whole language of the doc (umcotß. With this hostility wo have noth# ing to do , betas agents of the State, In connexion with its loans, wc ire In a post* lion to know of the amount of the new la* sue of bonds' referred to by tho Treasurer, and tho finauces of tho State ill gfenfefaL Tho atnonnt of indebtedness at the begins ning of 1870 wfts stated by the Treasure* to be $6,014,000. This has been increased since, only by an additional Issue of s3,e 000,000 gold 7 per cent, bonds, for the salt of which wo arc agents for the State/ On the 30ih of November last, the fol lowing letter was written by Mr. H. 0* Corson, Gov. Bullock's private secretary 4 to G. P. Curry, E*q , Augusta, Ga.: ‘I am instructed by Hie Excellency, tho Governor, to inform you that bonds of this State, which have fallen duo will be paid upon ptesentation to Mossrs. Clows k Cos. 4 No. 32 Wall street, New York City, prinu cipal and interest to date of payment.* , Other proof might be introduced, but this is enough. There is rascality in the matter.—Atlanta Situ. Roumnco of Real Life.* A Correspondent of tlio Cincinatt! Com* morciul writes from Newcastle; Ky.; I write this letter in the liouso ol an old' 7 lady who is the nice of Rebecca Bryan who became the wife of Daniel Boone, and corns ccruiug w 1)080 eyes (the young hunter ,ii Raid to have mistaken them for those of * > deer) the pretty backwoods romance it told. The lady is bc-rself also the widow of one of Daniel Boon’s owu nephews, bet second husband; who assisted iu bringing* the great hunter back to Kentucky. She was born in one of chief old pioneer stations (her grandfathers) near Lexington, and* although she is in her eighty-first year, ah# is active in body, busying herself with her flowers und garden, clear sighted and alert in spirit. Recently, she heard that one of her middle-aged sons, absent over twenty years in California, and presumed dead fog wore than half of that time, was yet alive* and her joy was great*—He, too, had sup posed his mother to be loug dead. The old lady has a romance connected! with her eccond mariage. It is as follows! When her mother, was a young lady, Cole onol William Boouc, the nephew of Daoial mentioned above, was very much in love with her, and asked b*r on one occasion to ruary him. Sho told him she was engaged to Morgan Bryan, and that they were to be married in a few days, CoL Boone weal away and married another young womatfc Afterward be with his wife, visited the young married couple when their first child (now in her fifth score yes; «) was hot e very few days old, and, seeing the baby, fa# laughed and said to her mother ‘Now, Milly, as you won't hare me yourself, you'll give mo the girl for my second wife, won't youl Whether any jesting promise was mads X am not informed, but the baby grew up* and at 20 she was married, had seven chil dren, became a widow after nine years, and remained one for a long time, when CoL Bone's first wife having died some year# previously, she really became; in her own middle life* the wife of her mother's early lover, who had claimed her la her cradls The good old woman is accustomed, in re lating this to her sons and nieces, to speak of it as 'one of the most remarkable things that ever happened.' I think so' too, and it is a true sory. Col. Downing Cheif of the Cherokee itSS tioo. woe married some weeks sinoe to Mies Avrcs, a wealthy and cultivated maiden lady of Philadelphia. Tie affair baa a splw cing of romance. The lady met the hand* some chief (then, and until recently, m married man) some years sines in tlui Quaker City, became deeply interested ift him and his people. With the resolnw tion of devoting her life and wealth to tbs advancement of the Cherokee#, she removed to Taloqna, where she since lived, and where she has been most active in promo* ling the religions and educational welfare of the nation. Some years ago she adopv ted yonng Lewis Downing, son of the ebief a bright and promising boy, and has since watched over bis training and edneatfow with more than motherly care. A year ago' snehoilt, ostensibly for him, an elegsul residence, overlooking the beautiful village and furnished it with artistis taste. A few months since oceurcd the death of Mrs* Downing, a fall-blood Cher ok*#. And sow at the proper time the ch&lf leads to tbs als tar bis long time ad*iir#f. The tosnronce inspector of 3f ew ¥ork compels all conpsoies to sene* |# BWOr tt' statements ai,d then they wa.Vl ’ b&f to rig. 4 tn.eMig.lioo toW- ", irw> lT.M NO. 23