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THE COURANT. Pnblihd Kvery Thursday, tiARTEKMTILLE, GEORGIA. 7MB COVRA XT Is published every Thursday tnarning a ltd it delirered by carriers in the city r maided, postage free, at $1 SO a year; tu-M SO seats; three months, 60cents. AI) VERTISIXG HA TES depend on location in the paper, and teill befurnish*! on applica tion. MORRESPOX I)S SC E containing important n/n solicited from all parts of th county. A DDRJCS3 all Utters, communications and teb earamt, and mats all drafts or checks payable t, TDK COURANT, CartersviUe, Ga. DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON. APRIL 16, 1885. A lady friend thanks us lor our arti ticle on the tenant system of last week. If she will only put her experience in shape for the Couimnt it will be a most enjoyable treat for our readers. Oi k sterling citizen, Mr. L. S. Mun ford, left yesterday for the New Orleans Exposition, accompanied by his estima ble wife. We trust they will have an enjoyable trip to the Crescent City. Now what do you say of the weather? Did you ever see such a spring? One of our townsmen was bemoaning yesterday the sad fate of his potato patch, which had been blackened twice in the last few days, by hard frost. Will we have any fruit? Onr of our neighbors dug up a gold dollar in his yard a few days ago. When it was lost or who lost it the memory of man doth not recall. It had been buried so long as to make the superscription il legible. Another neighbor resurrected another gold dollar the same day from the rag-bag, where it had been forgotten nearly thirty years. If the luck will only continue we can afford to snap our Ungers at any common gold mine in the State. Wk have many persons living in our midst who were here before the removal of the Indians. Rev Bethel Quillain was one of the sheriffs who organized the first court in the Cherokee country. lie liv ed a neighbor to the celebrated Indian, MWiite Path, in Gilmer county, of whom Judge Underwood has told us. Mr. Quillain says, “he was indeed a man in every sense of the word.” We would like to inquire if there is not some poet or novelist in our midst who could, like Fenimore. Cooper or Longfellow, im mortalize himself by writing up the his tory of the Cherokees in fiction or verse? Where is there in this world a richer field for both than tho traditions, the su perstitions and tho romantic history of the sweet-tongued race, who gave the melodious names to our beautiful streams? J udo u William Ezzakd, of Atlanta, writes us that he was the Mrst Solicitor- General of the Cherokee Circuit, so graphically described by Judge Under wood in his “Reminiscences of the Cher okees. “It became my duty/’ says he, “to prosecute the Indians all well as tho whites, us the laws were extended over the Indians some four or five years be fore they were removed. As you may imagine, I had a good deal to do with the Cherokee Indians. I remember the old man Scudder very well, of whom the Judge writes. I stopped at his house frequently when passing. The iast time 1 was there the old gentleman insisted that I should go with him to the church where his marble coffin was deposited.” We find that Mr. Scudder was well known to all persons who are familiar with the country in that early age. A friend from Gordon county told us a few' •venings ago ot a visit to Mr. Scudder’s, and the old man’s talk about Solomon, which he had never forgotten. We will endeavor to get as many facts and inci dents as possible of those early times, for they will be valuable to com'iug genera tions. Except Judge Underwood’s ar ticles, we have never seen a written his tory of this famous Cherokee country. Judge Ezzard is upwards of eighty him self, and it is our duty to our descend ants to gather all the history we can be fore these noble veterans leave us. and GIXSROUS SCGGESTIOX. In “Scribbler’s” contribution of this week (whose communications are so in teresting to us and the readers of the Courant,) you will find a notice of Mr. “Cube” Guyton’s bereavement. Our neighbor, “Bill Arp,” (Maj. Smith) has made his name a household word in the Constitution. We have known Mr. Guyton for many, many years—were acquainted with his own good mother before him, and she was one of the “ex cellent of the earth.” He, himself, is a kindhearted, clever and obliging neighbor, and whatever charity can be bestowed will be grate fully received by him and those eight motherless children. Should our Car tersville friends desire to donate such articles as “Scribbler” indicates, we will see that they are conveyed safely to this helpless family—if they are deposited at the Courant office. Perhaps the Constitution, whose read ers have had so much enjoyment with Mr. “Cobe’s” antique saying and doings, will give an extended notice. The clothing and half-worn shoes, etc., w ill keep these little ones from suffering, i and the charity will find its way directly | and usefully to those who need it and ' will appreciate it. Jcdoi Jamks Brown, of the Blue Ridge t ircuit, is & brother of the Senator. It is said that the latter has the longest head and the former the longest neck in Georgia. The other day the Spartan ju rist fined himself because the train on which he was travelling was behind time, thus necessarily delaying his open ing court. It is said His Honor is a can didate for Congress in the Ninth Augusta Chronicle. The Weekly Sentinel, of Augusta, Georgia, is, we understand, edited by a colored man. Ihe copies we have seen do him credit. We are glad to see the colored people successful in all laudable undertakings. A TI. A XTA IXITSIXFA XC Y. We have read various chapters In the Constitution, and lately some in the Au gusta Chronicle, upon this subject, but we think it is possible, for a person who saw* the Gate City in its earliest youth to tell something about it, that these au thorities would have to obtain at second hand—if they should be able to tell the story at all. The town was first called Marthasville, and when we first saw it, it struggled and suffered under that name. A number of civil engineers, who were then engaged in surveying and constructing the Georgia Railroad, were temporary inmates of the writer’s home. Ours was the nearest quarters where they could be entertained and accom modated, So, when the news came that an excursion train would start from Mar thasville to Marietta on a certain day, the kind, sociable engineers insisted that the hospitable family should go also. The writer was rather too small to take along, but it was equally inconvenient to leave her at home, so we were prepared for the trip, much to our gratification and delight. If the young “shavers” of this day and time are ever half so excited as we were, in being made ready and antici pating this tremendous journey, then, Indeed, should modern mothers and fathers be very lenient, for the excite ment, a* we recollect was tremendous in such a small body as ours. Anew dresr, made out of what was left after our mother’s was constructed, anew hood, and a pair of new shoes for the impatient ■mall feet, almost overcame us. Such a plethora of nice things was rarity in these day*. We drove to Decatur in our barouche, behind a pair of spanking cream horses, for everybody had fine horses before railroads came, and dined at Dr. Thomp son’s famous hostelrie. He was brimful of expectation and likewise all his household. A gayer crowd it would be hard to find, even now. Wo all made our way to Marthasville after an early dinner, to find a very sor ry looking town. Except a frame build ing, used as a depot by the State road, and one grog-shop, there, was nothing but the virgin forest all about us. The locomotive—and the State road owned but one, it having been haultd with mules from the completed end of the Georgia road, wltich road was making its way to the same place by slow ap proaches—and one passenger coach, were all the equipments for the great under taking in its infancy. As w’o recollect, our horses were very averse to approaching the monster en gine that made the wilderness echo with its perpetual succession of whistles, and one small backwoods girl was perhaps the most frightened creature in all the crowd. We think yet we never heard such an agonizing whistle on a locomo tive, and we opine it was played for all it was worth that day, to show “smart” on the part of the engineer and fireman. When we boarded the the train, heard that mighty man, the conductor, cry out “all aboard,” the engine whistle giv ing vent to its final agony, and realized the fact that we were at the mercy of a dreadful Apollyon, which breathed out fire and smoke, our state ot mind can bet ter be imagined than described. As soon a3 we reached the Chatta hoochee river we all got out walked around to see the mighty work, a per formance carried out at every bridge,until we reached Marietta, where Kilby’s ho tel was in a state of noisy expectancy, anxious to take the excursionists in charge. The crowd danced all night, but sleep happily came to the relief of our tired brain and feet, so we know but little that happened until we boarded the train early next day for the return trip. We next saw Atlanta in 1845, and it was a sorry looking chance fora town at that time. Soon, however, it began to take on airs, and its pioneer citizens adopted the role of bragging on every thing it did, which they have continued to do, world without end. It had a rough crowd for a good while to contend with, and the people of Decatur looked upon its pretensions much as decent people do on faro banks and the theatre comique, a place to make money in, but a spot to be shunned socially. The attack on Mr. Stephens by Judge Cone was one of the notable occurrences of that day, A mass meeting of the Taylor campaign was held in Atlanta shortly after, and Mr. Stephens, still an i invalid from his wounds, was placed in a j carriage and drawn by human strength to the speaking place amid the wildest enthusiasm. The killing of Hilffurn by his brother in-law, Bird, was another notable event of Atlanta, which had shaken off Mar thasville and put on anew name with a fresh dress. Atlanta was not the only name pro posed for the embryo city. “Termini” was seriously discussed as a suitable cog nomen for its wonderful capabilities as a grand terminal point for Southern rail roads. One of the civil engineers, who was active at that time, was anxiously in favor of the latter name, but Atlanta got the most votes at the time of the selec tion and thus it became Atlanta. Poor Decatur was soon sucked in wlien Atlanta began to show its magical power and attractions, and for a time it seemed as if its glory was forever departed. We are glad to say she is beginning again to Shine, but only by reflected light. 11l onr opinion Atlanta succeeds by her “cheek” and supreme confidence in her self. She booms everything. Whatever she attempts to do, becomes from that moment the bravest, wisest and most proper thing to do. She always rides a hobby, and she rides it for all it is worth if she kills it in the attempt. “Any thing to keep Atlanta on the boards” is the motto, and whether it is au Exposi tion or a Base Ball Club, it is the all ab sorbing topic of the day. If the Cocrant readers would like a dainty, try Phillips’ Digestible Cocoa. It is nice. prospectsri war betweex exg- LAXD AXD RUSSIA. It seems that war between these two great European powers is now inevitable. a sad and discouraging reflection that our common Christianity does not suppressor even lessen the frequency of war. It has, in connection with the improved implements of warfare, greatly ameliorated the accompaniment* of war. It has civilized warfare. Its restraints have compelled the nations of the earth to slaughter each other according to specified rules—rules internationally agreed upon. It has given birth, promi nence snd efficiency to the terms contra band, non-combatants, priso ners, parole and exchange of captives. This is about all Christianity has yet ac complished in arresting human slaughter upon battle fields; but the good time is coming—the time when the plowshare and pruning-hook shall banish the sword. England and Russia may fight—in deed, ail Europe is in feverish excite ment and nothing but the highest order of statesmanship can save the world from a general war. Thi3 war between England and Russia will be long and bloody. They are the two great empires of the world. Togeth er, they control about one third of the firm land of our globe. Together, they practically give laws to about five hun dred millions of human beings. These two powers propose to meet in battle and determine what is apparently a mere trifle—namely, who shall own a little strip of land which is quadrilateral in shape, and contains about 250,000 square miles, having a population of four mil lions. This little strip of land is swept in its northern portions by snow-storms, and in its southern portions, and in its valleys it produces the tropical fruits. This variety ot climate and production is attributable only to the different heights and directions of its mountain ranges. But this comparatively insignificant strip of territory is the connecting link between India and Western Asia. Who ever controls Herat, one of its chief cit ies, must exertl?reat influence in India and all of Western Asia. India is the “precious gem in the crown of Great Britain.” Victoria is Empress of India. The little island we 1 call England furnish es the brains and the hibles, while India furnishes the material treasures of that mighty empire. It has oyer three hun dred millions of inhabitants, and its products and its commerce are the rich eft and most desirable of the world. Eng land must own and control Afghanistan, or India with its immense wealtli and re sources is exposed to the aggressive march of Russian armies. So, then, it is not so much a trifle after all, which is unchaining the “dogs of war” and iparshaling the armies of Eng land and Russia around the proud, war like Afghans. Success to old England ! God bless her standards and strengthen her bulwarks! Her enemy, Russia, is politically, ecclesiastically and socially s monstrosity among the nations of the eaith. Czarißra expresses and describes her past and outline* her future. Hew humanity, religion and constitutional liberty shudder at her approach. Her touch is death to everything which hon orable men usually covet. She instinct ively coalesces with all that is despotic, cruel and unclean. Her nature is to crush all self-assertion, justice and truth, all through the house of Rurik, and the present dynasty of Roman off, with their Ivans, it* Catherines, its Anns, its Nich olas’ and Alexanders it has struggled to suppress all freedom of thought and ac tion and has relied for its maintainance upon censorship, police and an army of •pies. If this war between England and Rus sia begins, it will make the United States the workshop and granary of the world. There is comfort in the thought that American labor will grow rich by the wars of other nations. Russia is the great wheat field of Europe. India it the cotton belt of Asia. These five hun dred millions of human beings, under tlie*e two governments, and who are likely to be so largely engaged in war, must be fed aud clothed. The cotton spindles of England must be kept run ning. The United States must furnish these supplies. The United States can furnish them provided her productive industries are brought into full working capacity. It will, however, be no time for vagrants and idlers to stand on the street corners bewailing the evils of over-production. Labor and its products j must be wonderfully increased. All breadstuffs and meat supplies will be in stantly in demand. Cotton will be only temporkrily depressed and will inevita bly advance in price. Corn and wheat fields, factories, furnaces, ship-yards, and all places of industry will feel the quick ening influence of the war. Let our people prepare for it. Let them remem ber that labor then, as now, will be the talisman ot public and individual pros perity. Especially let them remember that corn is the basis of American agri culture, and therefore the basis of Ameri can wealth and thrift—that the State which has “corn and meat” to sell, and not to buy, will be the State which will profit most by the approaching war be tween England and Russia. W. H. F. GMX. GSAXT IX TBM HdXDS OF SB A BPS BS. The testimony in the Fish trial reveal* an astonishing state of things, as our readers will see from the sample as copied in another column. It is a melancholy exhibit. There was never a time when a man of Gen. Grant’s reputa ion had- before been used so mercilessly as a a tool. His name and 'credit were used for iniquitous jobs, wrecking his own fortunes and sinking ten millions be longing to other people. He was loyal and steadfast toWard, who, with Fish and other sharpers, used his confidence to throw him into humiliation, mortifi cation apd financial disgrace. It Is a pity, a sad pity ! We hope he will live through tbe trial of Ward, who now lies in jail awaiting it. Fish has been found guilty, and his sentence will cover ape riod of five to ten years in the peniten tiary. If the General dies before Ward testi ties,there may be a bafeh of falsehoods foisted on the country, when the only man who could protect Gen. Grant’s name and honesty is out of the way, un able to contradict and uncover fully the swindler. We hope he will also live' long enough to rebuke the tears and gush of all other people who used their influence to swindle him out of his n o iy. Certain exposed swindles and a flood of tears over Gen. Grant’s supposed death, are irreconcilable to honest dealing peo ple. •* TUB PRINCESS OF WALES. No conquered province was ever more refractory than Ireland has been since the year 1800, when the legislative union between Ireland and England took place. Ireland was reduced to subjection, but she ha* never been brought to a state or condition of resignation under English laws. England has tried various methods to induce pacification—and she has been likewise very ready to show her arbitrary control. Nothing has ever been done to inspire the Irish people with a real feel ing of tolerance or generous respect for the English people. Until last February, however, there has been no attempt to assassinate the royal family or the nobility by these restless insurgents. While Russia was afraid to ride abroad or to sit at home to eat with comfort, or to *leep in quiet, the Euglish nobles and the princes of the blood have been comparatively easy. Btit the late attempt to blow up the House of Commons and the Tower, be trayed a hate and desperSllon that coulu not be slighted as a warning. It is net healthy or comfortable to have foes in front as well as in the rear at the game time, and it becomes necessary to recon cile the Irish people before Russia opened war on the Afghan country with her mighty armies. And what has England done to ac complish this end and to arrest this trouble? She has simply sent a woman over to Ireland to wake up in their hearts the alienated affections and dormant loy alty of the Irish nature. It is true this woman is the daughter of a king, and the wife of the heir to the greatest throne in the universe of nations, but she i* only a gentle, lovable woman for all that, Her father, King Christian, of Den mark, is a amall king, if you consider only the size of his dominions, hut meas ured by what he has done in rearing, educating and marrying-off two of his daughters, he is no small man, estimated even by a kingly rule. The Prince** Alexandra of Wales, is without contradiction the finest speci men of the royal females in Western Europe. Her sister, the late Princess Olga of Denmatk, now the Czarina of Russia, is nearly equal in culture, re finement and queeniy merit and majesty. It was a lucky day for queen Victo ria’s boy when he found his wife among the Danes. Her girlhood home is a mite of a principality compared to the great, British Empire, but the Princess herself is a crown diamond in the circlet of queens and empresses. She captured the English nation as a bride, but her beautiful domestic life will make her the idol of her subjects when Tier husband succeeds to his mother’s .throne and power as king of England. It was a shrewd design therefore that sent her to Ireland. The Guelphs were ever a sluggish people, and the Prince of Wales is a genuine descendant of his German kindred. He needs the tact, the grace and the sweet urbanity of the princess to win to himself the love as well as the respect of Great Britain. When the little lady, escorted by her husband and oldest son, set foot on Irish soil, she was dressed in the famous “Irish green,” and we will wager she wore a sprig of shamrock somewhere on on her hat or near her heart. Whenever you read the details of the royal banquet in Dublin you will find her draped in Irish silk and lace*, with Irish emblem* woven therein. Courage is good, but tact is better, and the Princess of Wales has enough of both to make her beloved by the sons of Erin. The prince was sharp to take along so potent a charm. “Her overpowering presence makes you feel It would not be idolatry to kneel.” DIA TH OF MR. “SUXSET COX’S" MOTHER A private letter of congratulation from us to Mr. and Mrs. Cox upon his ap pointment abroad as Minister to Turkey, found them by the death-bed of Mr. Cox’s aged mother. She was eighty three years old, and a most remarkable woman. Her father was Judge Samuel Sullivan of Ohio. He was himself a na tive of Delaware, and was when a child a witness of one of the first naval fights of the revolution, which took place on the Delaware river. Mrs. Cox lived in Ohio in its pioneer days, and often mentioned her playing with the Indian children. She was the mother of thirteen children, of whom she lived to see nearly all grown into womanhood and manhood. She was “honored with affection beyond most mothers,” arid by none, more than her son, S. S. Cox, who had been the stay of her widow-hood and her old age. It was a part of her supreme delight that he came in time to see her while she was conscious and could recognize him. | When told that he was appointed to the Turkish Empire, she said she feared she w-ould never see him. When told he was near her, she said, “If the office pleases him, it pleases me to have him go. He deserves all the President ha3 done.” “She passed away as a child drops into slumber, painlessly and placidly. Her life was as simple and pure as the Sa vior’s teaching had made it.” While it was sad to bid her good-bye forever, on the eve .of a long absence from the United States, the recollections that this good son will have of having watched her last moments, will be inexpressibly sweet for him to remember in the land of “Orient sunbeams.” FI3H RKLKASED FKOH THE WIT- ' JfCSS-SXAJiD. The examination of James 1). Fish, late president of the Marine Bank, ended yesterday before Judge Benedict in the United States Circliit court, lie identi fied the assignment as the one made by him May 7, ISS4, which he said he de livered to Mr. Morris at the bank. Fish then, in reply to Mr. Stanley, said: “In the latter part of ISS3 I called at the office of Grant & Ward to see Mr. Ward, and met Gen. Grant in the on Wide office, and after some little conversation I asked him how the business was. He said : ‘First-rate. The success of Grant & Ward is'phenomenal. 1 think we have made more money during the past year than any concern in Wall street or perhaps the whole country. I think Mr. Ward is the most able man I ever saw.’ I asked him if he ever looked ovei the books, lie said no; he only locked over the monthly statements, which were sat isfactory to him.”’ Mr. Stanley asked the witness to whom he referred in a letter read on the pre vious day iu the words, “Will not the General be willing to give his note for that $25,000 loan?” &o. The witness re plied: “Gen. Grant,” and that the loan was to him. In reply to questions of Mr. Root, however, it appeared that this was a loan to Mr. Ward put in the Gen eral’s name, as other loans hail been to Malloy, Doty, etc. No security was given for the loan and in the letter Mr. Fish asks W r ard if he can't get a note from the General, so that there shall ap pea, to be security to the eye of the bank examiner. In the letter of Sept. 2, ISSO, Mr. Fish speaks of his “friend and partner,” and to Mr. Stanley the witness said that in this phrase he re ferred to Qeq. Grant; but it afterwards appeared, iu to Mr. Root, that Gen. Grant had not become a partner until two months afterwards, and that the al lusion to “an unfinished road” referred to the Elizabeth City and Norfolk road, upon the bonds of which Ulysses S. Gram, jr., had on that date borrowed $30,000, and that he was the “friend and partner” alluded to. In reference to the conversation with Gen. Grant at the office, to which witness had testified, Mr. Root asked : “Why did you drag Gen. Grant’s name into this business of borrowing money without security in a letter written two months before he became your partner?” “lie had frequent loans,” was all the reply Mr. Fish coijld make. “Why did you ask Gen. Gaant if he had examined the books.?” “I had time to ask him about the busi ness. It was a right I had, and I had curiosity to know.” “What gave you a curiosity ?” “I had an interest.” “Did you suspect that there was any thing wrong about the books?” “I did not.” A letter marked private of Fish to Ward was read, in which he speaks of the Relmont mine property, which had been purchased for the firm by young Grant of Gen. John B. Gordon for $155,- 000, and expresses the opinion that the property is not worth much and adyises that the firm sell out, but at any rate, Fish says, if Ward don’t think it well for the firm to sell out., he hopes that Ward will sell out his (Fish’s) portion for the best price he can obtain, and not to let Gen. Grant or his son know anything about the contents of the letter, and Mr. Root asked: “When in this letter you say you don’t wish Mr. Ward to show to Gen. Grant and his son the information you had ob tained about this property, are you fairly illustrating the ‘consultation and advice’ which you desire to have with Gen. Grant in the letter of July 5, 18S2? You did not wish him to know any tiling about it until you got out? “I wished the firm to sell out.” “But you did not mean that Gen. Grant or his son should know anything until you got out?” “I did not think it necessary to give them my opinion.” “And you thought—you, a business man of man}’ years’ experience—you thought it necessary to ask the opinion of Gen. Grant as to the contents of books at all times open to your inspection, and which you had never cared to examine?” “It was a question I had a perfect right to ask,” replied poor Mr. Fish, who seemed very much annoyed at Mr. Root’s persistency. St. Louis, March 13, 1882. (Private.) Dear Mr. Ward: I arrived here this morning; found no letter from you, but got a telegram which [ have answer ed. It is about time for the comptroller of the currency to call for a quarterly statement. lam afraid the bank will be disgraced with a pitiful showing. Can you not borrow some money for the bank or collateral for a few days? No matter if you have to pay fully 6 per cent. Don’t worry John about it, but insist upon doing it if you can* I wish we had the money we put into Belmont; that would just about do it. Sell out that concern if you can. Take my opinion this time and I will stake my reputation on it. It is a concern to sink money in which I think can never be recovered. I will be here until 16th, inclusive, or tome time du ring that day. Telegram after you re ceive this will reach me here, lam well and feel first-rate. Truly yours, J. D. Fish. A letter dated Jan. 6, 1882, said: “Be fore our committee make their examina tion please have Mrs. Farwell’s loan fixed up. I mean that joint loan you and I have together, in which there is 100 shares mining stock.” The postscript •ays : “Glad that Tappan will not draw'. We must make as good an appearance all the time as possible.” Mr. Root also read three letters from Mr. Ward to Mr. Fish, written just be fore fhe failure as follows: May 3, ISS4. Mr. Fish: Dear Sir: I have arranged with a party uptown a loan of $200,000, but will not get the check till I go to*his house to-night. I will, however, deposit it by 9:30 o’clock on Monday morning. That will be in time for the Clearing-House, won’t it? This is*from a private investor uptown, who does not come down; hut 1 am to take the securities to his house to-night. Yours, F. Ward. New York, May 5, ISSI. Mr. Fish: I have secured a loan of $250,000 from a private investor uptown, and will take the securities up and get a check, but may not get back till iate this afternoon. I will either have the check to-night or by 0 o’clock in the morning. Yours, F. Ward. This, with.the SIOO,OOO, will make us all better. F. W. May 5. I will get that $250,000 check to-night if possible. lam doing my best to put matters through and make the bank easy. I went for Spencer, and he went to Platt to get him to deposit $50,000 ex tra to-day. Spencer also got $75,000 from the Pennsylvania Coal Comp my. lain not leaving a stone unturned. I think Gen. Grant will get more money from W. H. V. to-morrow. A TOUCHING INCIDENT In the Life of General Grant, in Which a Cincinnati Physician Figured. Courier-Journal. Dr. John W. McUeish, of Cincin nati, formerly of the Twenty-sixth lowa Voluhteeer Infantry, Third Brigade, First Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, relates the following pathetic incident, showing General Grant’s kindness of heart, which at this time will be appre ciated by all his old soldiers: The army was encamped at Young’s Point, La. An order had been promulgated by the General to the effect that no officer should be allowed leave of absence until after the capture of Vicksburg. I had a lit tle girl at home who was my pet and idol. One morning I received a letter from my wife, which contained the fol lowing sentence: “Come home imme diately, if you would see Winnie alive.” Startled and fearful lest I should be too late to see my darling child again, I hastened to procure a leave of absence, and succeeded in getting it regularly ap proved until I reached Gen. Sherman’s headquarters, where I received a stern refusal: “No, a soldier should know no family iu time of war.” I turned away, knowing I could go no further, when 1 heard instructions given to an aid-decamp to take dispatches tp General Grant, whose headquarters were on a boat three-quar ters of a mile away; but into the rain and darkness I impulsively rushed after after the aid, and with him made my way to the boat. Appealing t;o Major Bowers for a personal interview with General Grant, 1 was ushered into the presence of the General, whom hitherto 1 had thought to he stern aud unap proachable. lie greeted me with a kindly salutation. 1 told my story, and knew by the tnostened eye and sympa thetic voice that the great General had also a great heart. “Approved twenty days leave of ab sence, with transportation to and from Cairo,” was bis order; then turning to me he said: “If you are required to re main longer, do so, but report in person to me on your return, and I sincerely hope you may not find your daughter; s ill as you anticipate.” My little one died, and had been buried ten days when I reached our Western home in lowa. When the exquisite lines of Eugene Field, in sympathy with General Grant on his sick bed, yearning for the arrival of his beloved Nellie, were published, the doctor had them neatly engraved on white satin, and lately forwarded them to Mrs. Grant, with a beautiful note re lating the incident. The appropriateness ot the lines are apparent: “His listening soul hears no echo of battle, No patan of triumph, nor welcome of fume; Rut down through the years cumes a little one’s prattle, And softly he murmurs her idolized name. And it seern3 as if now at his heart she were clinging As she clung in those dear distant years to his knee; lie sees her fair faoe, and he hears her sweet singing, And Nellie is coming from over the sea. “While patriot Hope stays the fulness of sor row, While our eyes are bedimmed and our voices are low, He dreams of the daughter who comes with the morrow Like an angel come back from the dear long ago. Ah, what to him now is a emotion, And what for our love or our grief careth he? A swift-speeding ship is asail on the ocean, And Nellie is coming from over the sea!” GEORGIA BONDS. Five Per Cent.—Thirty Years. Executive Office, } Atlanta, Ga., March 10, 1885.f Under authority of an act, approved Dec. 23, 1884, authorizing the Governor to issue Bonds for payment of principal of bonds maturing in 1885 and 1880, sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Treasurer of Georgia up to twelve o’clock ra. on April 15, 1885, for j three million, four hundred and fifty-five | thousand dollars ($3,455,000) Five per I cent thirty year coupon bonds as herein i after set forth, bearing date July 1, 1885. i Principal and interest payable in the city | of New York, at the fiscal agency o | Georgia; and at the office of the Treas | urer of Georgia in the city of Atlanta. [ Interest payable semi-annually on .Jan uary 1 and July 1 respectively. Bids will be received for two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) of the amount to be delivered on July 1, 1885. And for two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($225,000) to be delivered January I 1, ISS6, the accrued interest being with- I held by the State. And for the remain der of the amount of three million four hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars j ($3,455,000), (or so much thereof as may | be necessary for the purpose aforesaid), on June 1, ISS6, the accrued interest withheld as aforesaid. As to last de livery, however, successful bidders will have the option of tendering any Geor gia Bonds maturing as aforesaid, at their | par value, in payment therefor, at any time after July 1, 1885, and receiving new' bonds. Bids must specify amount of bonds cie- j sired in multiples of one thousand dol- I ars ($1,00')) accompanied by certified check, or certificates of deposit of some solvent bank tor live per coni', of the amount of such hid, payable to the order of the Treasurer of Georgia, or by a de posit of bonds of the State of Georgia. Bids w ill be opened and declared by the Governor and Treasurer, the State lesoi ving the right to reject any one or all of the bids. The State will issue registered bonds in lieu ot any <>t the above named five per cent, bonds as provided in said Act at any fcime on demand of the owner. Copies of the Act of the Legislature, and inform;!!ion touching (lie proposed i.-stieot hoieis, wiii he lurni.-i ed on ap plication to the Tivasur; By ti:e Governor. • Hi;xi:y D. Me Dam i r,. MOTHER'S FRIEND! /Vo More Terror! No More Pain ! No More Pnrrg4^ Motto or CMM THE DREAD OF Motherhood Transformed to HOPE AND JOY! Safety and Ease TO Sufiering Woman. This invaluable preparation | is truly a triumph of scicn ailie skill, mid no more ines timable benefit was ever he ist owed on the mothers of the 'world. I { ft not only shortens a he tunc of labor and lessens lie intensity of pain, but, better than all, it greatlv di minishes ihe danger to life jto both mother and child, j iud leaves the mother in a vendition highly favorable to I speedy recovery, and far less [liable to flooding, convul sions, and other alarming symptoms incident to linger ing and painful labor. Its j: fitly wonderful efficacy in [this respect entitles tho j Mother’s Friend to be \ranked as one of the life |saving appliances given to illie world by the discoveries of modern science, j From the nature of the vase, it will of course be un j lerstood that we cannot | publish certificates concern ing this Remedy without wounding the, del ency of the writers. Yet we have hun- Idreds of such testimonials on file, and no mother who ihes once used* it will ever j again lie without it in her time of trouble. A prominent physician lately remarked to the proprietor that, it it were unmissable to make public the letters we receive, the Mother’s Friend would outsell anything on the market. I most earnestly entreat every female expect ing to lie oonlined to use Mother’s Friend. Coupled with this entreaty I will add that during a long obstetrical practice (forty-four years) 1 have never known ic to fail to produce a safe and ipuck delivery. II.,!. HOLMES, M, I>., Atlanta, Ga. Send for o r Treaties on Female Diseases, mailed freo, Address, The T.kadi’iicld Keqiii.atok Cos., feb?(i-lm Box 28, Atlanta Ga. MIS’ SIfCUREI MOUTH MSH Ml DENTIFRICE Cures Bleeding Gums. Ulcers, Sore Mouth, Sore Throat, Cleanses the Teeth and Purifies the Breath | used and recommended by leading dentists. Pre &ared by Dus. .1. P. A W. It. Hot.iwks, Dentists, Macon, a. 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