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Cartersvilie, Ga., Sept. 19th, 1878.
U. O. ROBERTSON, M, D.,
Hygienic Physician and Electro-
Therapeutist,
Begs leave to announce to the
citizens of Bartow, Gordon, Cobb, Cherokee,
and other counties of North Georgia, that for the
sake of rendering his mode of treatment more
universal and available, and the Health Institute
equally easy of Access to patients in all parts of
the.state, lias removed from Rowland Springs to
Atlanta where lie has permanently established a
Health Institute.
Tlie Atlanta. Health. Institute
is the only institute south superintended by reg
ularly qualified Hygienic Phyeicians, and the
only place where all kinds of curable diseases
are scientifically treated without a particle of
medical drug in any form, and with success un
paralelled by any other known process of treat
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and drugging, considered incurable, are re
spectfully requested to visit or correspond with
us. Thousands of chronic invalids, after having
patiently tried the “deadly virtues of the (drug
ophatic) healing art” and with uo other change
than that of growing continually worse and
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cation, been speedily and permauedtly restored
to health.
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DR. U. O. ROBERTSON,
feb2o Atlanta, Ga.
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who has built a splendid dam, (cost $7,000,) using
this cement and pronouncing it the best he ever
used. Also refer to Gen. Wm. Mcßae, Superin
tendent W. &A. Railroad Company, who has
been using it for piers of bridges and culverts on
his railroad, for two years; also to Capt. John
Postell, C. E. Also to John Stone, Superinten
dent of Bartow iron Company, Bartow, Ga., who
has built several large reservoirs with it, which
are perfect; to Messrs. Smith, Son & Bro., of
Rome, who have made a splendid pavement
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Butler, of Savannah, who have used it with
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of Savannah, Mr. J. J. Cohen, of Rome, to
Messrs. Grant, Jacksonville, Ala., who have
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LECTURE TO YOUNG MEN.
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radical cure of seminal weakness, or spermator
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ments to marriage generally; consumption, epi
lepsy and fits; mental and physical incapacity,
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which every sufferer, no matter what his condi
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SUCCESS!
SCROFULA CURED!
The North Georgia Medical In
stitute Discharges Another
Scrofula Patient!
•
My litttle boy now four years of age was af
flicted with the loathsome disease, Scrofula,
which exhibited external symptoms at about six
months of age. He became very weak, his skin
presented a peculiar yellow appearance—had no
appetite, became so very poor in flesh that he
was really unpleasant to look at. Large swell
ings appeared under his right arm, and finally
they broke and continually discharged the most
fearfully offensive odor —almost unbearable —his
mother could hardly bear to wash and dress the
deep-running sores. After the disease had gone
on for about a month, we called in our family
physician, a man who bore the reputation of be
ing a learned and skillful physician. After
treating the case for a number of months, he
told us that it would take two or three years to
perform a cure. However, be continued to treat
the child, but with no manner of benefit as we
could see. Indeed, with the painful lancing and
unpleasaut internal medicines the poor little
creature seemed to grow more restless and a
great deal weaker.
About this time myself and wife came to the
determination to change physicians, but were
greatly troubled as we then knew of no one
whom we could trust with more confidence than
the one engaged. Happily, through the advice
of a friend—one who deeply sympathized with
us in our dire distress —we were directed to see
and consult Drs. Memmler & Jolinsonf who had
established an Infirmary in Cartersvilie. Our
consultation with those gentlemen resulted iu
our turning over to them the treatment of the
little child, whom we deemed beyond the skill of
any earthly physician; but our love for the dear
child, who had gone through so much suffering,
prompted us to leave nothing undone that prom
ised the least relief. After thoroughly examin
ining their patient, Drs. Memmler & Johnson
began treatment. We had given only three
doses of their medicine, when we noticed consid
erable improvement, and every day thereafter
improvement went rapidly on. With nothing
but internal remedies, no sore, no plasters, no
lancing was resorted to by the above named gen
tlemen. Simply their internal remedies, after
hardly three months’ treatment have performed
the cure which it was said required years to ac
complish.
And now, in conclusion, I invoke the richest
blessings of the Great Physician—who looks over
all things—to bless and prosper them, and to the
afflicted world we feel that we could wish them
no greater earthly blessing than to fall under
the care and treatment of these gentlemen. If
any desire to hear from me directly, they will ad
dress me at Cartersvilie, Ga.
Most respectfully,
his
NIMROD X HO WREN,
mark.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd
day of February, 1879.
J. W. PRITCHETT, N. P. & J. P.
All Chronic Diseases Cured and
Surgical Operations Per
formed at the North
Georgia Medical
Institute.
MEMMLER & JOHNSON,
Proprietors.
CARTERSVILLE GA
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1879.
MADAME BONAPARTE.
The Romantic History of the Aged Wo
man Who Died at Baltimore.
Detroit Free Press.]
A dispatch to the Free Press of Satur
day contained the brief announcement
that Madame Bonaparte was dead. The
following is her history:
‘‘l would rather be the wife of Jerome
Bonaparte one hour than the wife ff any
other man for life.” So the estimable
Mme. Bonaparte, ot Baltimore, is report
ed to have said when, soon after he# bril
liant marriage to the brother of the first
Napoleon, herfiiends suggested thit per
haps trouble was in store for her. The
trouble came. It was on the 24th of De
cember 1803, that Jerome Bonaparte,
commander of a French frigate, was mar
ried in Baltimore to Miss Elizabeth Pat
terson, the beautiful daughter of the
wealthy ship owner, William Patterson.
Before the marriage her father opposed
it, and sent his daughter to Virginia to
get her away from the fascinating for
eigner. After tie marriage the Emper
or Napoleon opposed it, and ordered that
the young wife should not be permitted
to set foot on the soil of France.
Betsy Patterson was 18 years old when
she first saw Jerome Bonaparte. Her
beauty was remarkable, and so were her
accomplishments. Nobody was surpris
ed that the yodng Frenchman, then on a
visit to Capt. Joseph Barney, of Balti
more, with whom he had served in the
French navy, should surrender to her
charms of person, of mind, and of fortune.
Indeed, the fact that at an evening par
ty his gold watch chain became entangled
some how or other in her hair was very
generally mentioned as a pretty and fa
vorable omen. He seems to have loved
her with Gallic ardor, and even to have
resolved to give up all hopes of prefer
ment under the Empire, in order that he
might stay in this country and maintain
his relationship to her. Napoleon’s
animosity, however, was oil the in
crease, and the pair resolved to go to
France and plead their cause before him.
Meanwhile Jerome’s supply of money
was cut off, and the following communi
cation was- received from his imperial
brother:
“I will receive Jerome if, leaving in
America the young person in question, he
shall come hither to associate himself to
my fortune. Should he bring her along
with him, she shall not put a foot on tlie
territory of France. If lie comes alone I
shall recall the error of a moment and
the fault of j’outh. Faithful services,
and the conduct which he owes to him
self and to his name, will regain him all
my kindness.”
At the same time the youthful bride
groom was informed, that so far as
France was concerned, his marriage has
been annulled by the following decree of
the French senate:
“By an act of the eleventh ventose,
prohibition is made to all tlie civil offi
cers of the empire to receive on their reg
isters the transcription of the act of the
pretended marriage that Jerome Bona
parte has contracted in a strange coun
try during the age of minority, without
the consent of his mother and without
previous publication in the land of his
nativity.” Commander and Mi s. Jerome
Bonaparte nevertheless, tried to set sail
for France. They were unsuccessful.
The French man-of-war lying in New
York harbor was afraid of some British
craft outside of Sandy Hook, and would
not venture down the bay. The Ameri
can vessel which took out Gen. Arm
strong, our minister to France, they fail
ed to reach. At length they embarked
in a ship hound to Cadiz, Spain, and
were wrecked on the coast of Delaware,
Jerome and his young wife being saved
with difficulty. Not in the least daunt
ed, they finally, on the eleventh of
March, 1805, about fifteen months after
their marriage, took passage in the Erin,
one of Air. Patterson’s packets for Lis
bon. After various vicissitudes they ar
rived at that city, found a French man
of-war in waiting, and learned that its
captain had been forbidden to receive
“the young person to whom Jerome had
attached himself.”
It was a critical hour in tlie lives of the
travelers. They resolved to separate for
a time, Jerome to go to France and ap
peal to the mercy of the emperor; his
wife to proceed to Amsterdam and await
the result of his mission. The Erin pro
ceeded to Holland, but was not allowed
to land her passenger, French men-of
war again being in the way. She put
back to Dover, where the young wife,
about to become a mother, disembarked
and went to Camderwell, near London.
Here on the 7th of J uly, 1805, her sop,
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, was horn.
His father’s entreaty was spurned by the
emperor. The first Napoleon had a name
to make, and did not propose to see his
brother allied to an untitled American
damsel. “Your marriage,” he wrote
to Jerome, “is null, both in a religious
and a legal point of view. I will never
acknowledge it. Write to Miss Patterson
to return to the United States, and tell
her that it is not possible to give things
another turn. On condition to her go
ing to America 1 will allow her a pen
sion during her life of 00,000 francs per
year, provided she does not take the
name of my family, to which she lias no
right, her marriage having no existence.”
Subsequently he granted Jerome an
interview. “So, sir,” said he, on seeing
him, you are the first of the family who
has shamefully abandoned his post. It
requires many splendid actions to wipe
off that stain from your reputation. As
to your love affair with your little girl, I
do not regard it! ”
The husband communicated to his
wife the emperor’s irrevocable decision.
He advised her to go home to her father,
with the hope that her obedience and his
own might perhaps evehtually soften Na
poleon’s heart, in one of his letters he
says: “My dear and well-beloved wife,
life is nothing to me without thee and
my son. Be tranquil; thy husband will
not abandon thee.” In another: “to
leave thee, my good wife, I have never
had that fatal thought. I act as a man
of honor, as a brave and loyal soldier. I
love my country; I love glory; but I love
thee as a man, who, accustomed to fear
nothing, never forgets that he is the fath
er of Jerome Napoleon and the husband
of Elise. 1 embrace you as I love you,
and 1 love you as my life.” He tells her
that so far as he is concerned, she is pref
erable to a adds “Believe me
my Elise, my first thought on awakening,
as well as my last on falling to sleep, is
always of thee; and if i was not sure of
the blessed happiness of rejoining my
well-beloved wife 1 should cease to live.”
Mme. Bonaparte and her son returned to
Baltimore. The husband, whose tem
porary affection for her there seems to be
no reason to doubt, yielded to the solici
tation of his brother, the emperor, and in
about two years married the Princess
Frederica Catharina Wurtemberg.
Madame Bonaparte made several visits
to Europe after the second marriage of
her husband. On one occasion, in Flor
ence, she met him in a picture gallery.
The encounter agitated him more than
her. He whispered to the Princess Fred
erica, who aeeompanyed him, “That is
my former wife,” and disappeared. In
spite of persistent efforts on her part, her
marriage was never recognized in France.
The case was formally Died after the ac
cession of Napoleon 111., but judgment
went against her. That sovereign, how
ever, 'instructed liis council of minis
ters "to issue a decree that the Mad
ame "s son, Jerome Bonaparte, was “a le
gitimate child of France,” —whatever the
words may mean.
The failure of Mme. Bonaparte did not
conduce to sweetness of temper. She be
came noted for her opinionativeness, ava
rice, atheism and general eccentricity.
Her father paid her this touching tribute
in his will:
“The conduct of my daughter Betsy
has through life been so disobedient that
in no instance has she ever consulted my
opinion or feelings; indeed, she has caus
ed me more anxiety and trouble than all
my other children put together; her folly
and misconduct have occasioned me a
train of experience that first to last has
cost me much money.”
He left her a small share of his proper
ty—the sum currently reported being
SIOO,OOO. As time bore her along, her
tongue became untamable, making her a
sort of terror to her friends.
Her habit was to varnish the tale of
Jerome’s desertion of her. She always
despised the man. By penuriousness in
a Baltimore boarding house she is report
ed to have saved a good deal of money,
which will probably go to Charles Bona
parte, one of her two grandsons. Of late
her pen has been busy, and “The Me
moirs of Mme. Bonaparte, AYritten by
Herself,’” will doubtless soon astonish a
world that will consider Greville’s Me
moirs by the side of them.
THE CLOSING SCENE.
A special dispatch gives the following
details in reference to her late illness,
and her death, w hich took place at Bal
timore on Friday afternoon:
Madame Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
died at 1:14 p. m., to-day, aged 94 years.
Her grandson, Charles J. Bonaparte,
Mrs. George Patterson, her brother’s
widow; Mrs. Sophie J. Clarke, her
cousin’s child; Miss Hester Stiles, the
latter’s sister, and Dr. James S. Macken
zie, her attending physician, were at her
bedside when she breathed her last. Col.
Jerome N. Bonaparte, her other grand
son, left the room only a few minutes
before her death occurred. In accord
ance with her oft-expressed wish, she
died unconscious, and her dissolution
was calm, peaceful and, of course, abso
lutely painless.
Madame Bonaparte was taken ill the
day after last Christmas with a cold, and
her advanced age gave her relatives and
attending physician grave doubts as to
her ultimate recovery. Dr. Mackenzie
states that on visiting her after the inter
view' with Col. Bonaparte he at once de
tected a remarkable change for the worse
in her condition. It seems as though
she had been sustained by the determina
tion to see her grandson, and w hen her
wish was gratified she appeared to give
way and resign herself to the inevitable.
She was aw are that she w T as dying.
On Tuesday hist she muttered a wish
that some one would pray for her. Rev.
J. T. Loitwice offered a prayer, during
which he referred to the efficacy of
Christ’s blood as an atonement for sin.
The prayer seemed to afford her great
comfort, and she appeared deeply im
pressed.
At 1 o’clock this afternoon Dr. Mack
enzie called. Entering the room he ap
proached the bed, and taking her hand
felt the fluttering pulse, which was al
most imperceptible. She was resting on
her back, her mouth opened wide, and
her haggard features for the first time
bore evidence of the long struggle be
tween life and death. He noticed also
the altered appearance of her eyes, which
had a fixed look, the pupils seeming to
have become flattened. The physician
retired to a seat near the window, and
Col. Bonaparte left the room, and shortly
after the house, intending to be absent
only a few moments.
At 1:14 Mrs. Clarke noticed a slight
movement of the bedclothes, and uttered
an exclamation which drew all in the
room to the bedside. As Dr. Mackenzie
stooped over her it was plain that the
struggle was about over. The breath
came sharp and heavy, and after three
long-drawn gasps life was extinct.
Two cablegrams w r ere Sent immediately
to Europe—one to Mrs. Jerome Bona
parte, in Paris, and the other to ex-Em
press Eugenie, in England. Her estate,
worth $1,000,000, goes to her tw'O grand
sons.
THE NATIONAL, NEEDS.
An Interview Witli Mr. Stephens.
Special to the Constitution.]
Washington, April s. —Soon after the
adjournment of the house to-day, your
correspondent called at the rooms of Mr.
Stephens, of your state, at the National
hotel, when the following conversation
ensued, which I thought might not be
uninteresting to your readers:
“Well,* said your correspondent to
him, w'ho is now know'll as the Georgia
Commoner, “you have passed the army
bill in the house at last?”
“Yes,” said Mr. Stephens, “anti a very
decided majority.”
Correspondent—What w T as the vote ?
Mr. Stephens—l4B for it and 122
against it, giving 29 majority for the bill
with the repealing clauses in it. The bill
was stronger than the democracy. It re
ceived the vote of every democrat and all
the greenbackers except two.
Correspondent—Will it probably pass
the senate as in the house ?
Mr. Stephens—l have no doubt of it.
It may be discussed there a week or ten
aays, but I have no doubt that it w ill
pass there just as it went from the house.
Correspondent—What about the veto;
and if Mr. Hayes does veto it, what then?
Many of the radicals say he certainly w ill
veto them.
Mr. Stephens —I know some of them
say so, but Ido not think he w ill. I do
not see upon what grounds he could
place a veto. Vetoes have heretofore rest
ed upon grounds of unconstitutionality
or hasty and inconsiderate legislation.
But the president certainly could not
hold the position that it is unconstitution
al to repeal any law w hatever, whether
he thinks the law appealed was constitu
tional or not. Nor could he hold that
this is hasty or inconsiderate legislation,
for it has been subject of discussion for
upwards of fourteen years. Since the be
ginning of the government, no act of
congress repealing an act was ever vetoed
by a president. Moreover, Mr. Hayes
was reared in that school of politicians,
w'ho were opposed to the exercise of the
veto in any case, and one of the grounds
for which he voted for the impeachment
of Andrew Johnson was his exercise of
veto pow'er. So Ido not in any event
expect a veto. If he does not wish to
sign the bill with his approval he may
let it become a law by not returning it to
the house w'ithin ten days after it is pre
sented to him; and in that event it would
become a law under the constitution
without his signature or approval. So I
do not expect any veto; still, there is
very little certainty w hat any man in
public or private life w ill do nowadays.
But in reply to your question “what
then in case he does veto it ?” All I have
to say now is that sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof.
Correspondent—ls it probable that we
will have any legislation on the line indi
cated in your caucus speech as publish
ed in the New York Times ?
Mr. Stephens—l cannot say. There
was a sort of test vote upon that subject
in the house this evening. It was on a
motion, after the passage of the army bill,
to adjourn over till Tuesday. The object
was to defeat the introduction of bills on
Monday. Monday, you know', is the on
ly day that bills can be introduced in reg
ular order. Tne object of this motion,
therefore, was to stave off the introduc
tion of bills of general legislation. This
question to adjourn over was decided by
a vote of 155 yeas to 109 nays. It is a
very notable fact that on this question
the republicans stood in solid column—
save one—against general legislation for
the relief of the country. They evident
ly want affairs to remain as they are.
They numbered 121, and with them stood
34 democrats. The 109 consisted of one
republican, a few greenbackers and more
than tw o thirds of the democratic party.
It is true, some new members, and 1 have
just seen one of this class—democrats—
voted to adjourn over without under
standing the object or effect of the mo
tion. This vote clearly demonstrates
that more than two-thirds of the demo
cratic party in the house, and more than
a majority of the greenbackers, are in fa
vor of pursuing that line of policy which
I indicated in the democratic caucus.
Now', w hether the thirty-four democrats
who voted to-day to defeat legislation w ill
continue in their alliance with the re
publicans for the accomplishment of this
object, I cannot say. Ido hope they will
not, but if they do they will defeat all
legislation looking to the relief of the
country from the evils of radical mis
rule for the last ten years in matters
of currency, finance, taxation, bank
ing, 6tc., which have resulted in the
present prostration of all the industries
of the-country.
Correspondent—Have the democrats
any clearly defined line of policy on these
questions? And what seems to be the
trouble about progressing w ith the busi
ness ?
Mr. Stephens—A large majority of the
democrats are decidedly in favor of the
renewal of the unlimited coinage of sil
ver. England and Germany are about
to change their policy on the silver ques
tion. A like majority of the democrats
are also in favor of an increase in the
volume of currency, resting upon a sound
basis. Some are in favor of coin and
bullion certificates, such as suggested by
hie. Some are in favor ot the issue
of greenbacks backed by the faith and
credit of the government for their re
demption. But these points of difference
could be easily reconciled on consultation.
The object on all sides is relief against
present contraction and such relief as shall
be founded upon the soundest principles
of political economy; three-fourths are
in favor of a modification of the present
iniquitous system of internal revenue
and three-fourths of them, nay, nine
tenths of them are in favor af a modifica
tion of the present unequal tariff. A like
proportion, I think I may say, are in fa
vor of repealing the present prohibitory
tax on state banking. On all these as
well as other important questions an over
whelming majority of the democrats are
in favor of remaining here and legislat
ing in correcting the abuses and reform
ing the evils of the maladministration of
public affairs of the last ten years w hich
lias reduced the country to its present
deplorable condition. The trouble of
progressing with this business of reform
is this: About twenty democrats —per-
haps hardly so many—represent what
may be styled without offense as the mon
ied power of the country. This small
minority of the party are in full accord
with the majority on the questions in
volved in the army bill and the legisla
tive bill; but they are utterly opposed to
disturbing the existing status of the finan
cial, currency and taxable questions;
hence a few of the timid and time-serving
who agree with a great majority of the
party as to the necessary reforms, go
with this small minority rather than
split the party. This, I think, is a
correct statement of the issue, lienee 1
think unless public sentiment is aroused
and the democracy throughout the land
shall be fully awakened to the responsi
bilities resting upon tnem and expecta
tions of our oppressed people from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the gulf
to the lakes, there can be little hope for
any improvements in our existing state
of affairs from the present congress.
Correspondent—Do you think there
will be any change made at this session
in the pension law's, so as to embrace the
soldiers and the widows of soldiers in the
Mexican war?
Mr. Stephens—This question stands
with the others alluded to. This emi
nently just measure ought not to be ig
nored, and this congress ought not to
adjourn with a deaf ear to the appeals of
justice in this matter that come up from
every quarter. Members of congress are
now paid by the year, they are salaried
officers of the government as much as the
judges of our courts, federal and state,
and they ought to remain here and per
form their duties, as judges do, and they
will be derelict in duty if they do not,
and, in my judgment, an indignant peo
ple w'ill hold them responsible if they
shall now, in the hour of greatest need,
shirk their duty—adjourn and go to their
homes without even making an attempt
to right the w'rongs which are fast tend
ing to bring general bankruptcy und ruin
upon the whole country.
Correspondent—ls not congress given
too much to president-making?
Mr. Stephens—Now you hit the nail
on the head. This is undoubtedly the
chief trouble. What the great mass of
the people of this country, in every po
sition of life and in every department of
labor and industry, want, is good govern
ment. AVise, equal and just laws for the
protection of life, liberty and property'
faithfully executed. The vital question
w ith them is not so much who governs
as how' they govern. It is not so much
who is to be president as to the principles
and policies of his administration. If
the present state of affairs in relation to
finance, taxation, currency and other
matters of deep interest to the people are
to remain as they are, it matters little to
them who is president. In that view a
presidential contest is degraded with
nothing but a miserable scramble for of
fice—a contest between tax-payers and
tax-consumers. Then, if not before, tax
payers must take care of themselves.
There are said to be two or three mil
lion of people in France who eat no
bread, subsisting on chestnuts and vege
tables.
The reason so many negroes live to
such extreme old age is that they don’t
know exactly w hen they w r ere born.
Queen Victoria has some $9,000,000
w'orth of plate in Windsor Castle.
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AMONG THE GOLD MINES.
The Auriferous Region of North Georgia.
From the Morristown (Tenn.) Gazette.
1 have recently returned from a trip
through the gold region of North Geor
gia, and a brief sketch of what I there
saw' may be a matter of interest to your
readers. Leaving the Western & Atlan
tic railroad at Calhoun, Georgia, in a
hired conveyanee, 1 went directly to the
Franklin mine, in Cherokee county, 32
miles distant, owned and worked by Col.
W. A. Hoskins, of Chattanooga. The
Colonel was 'kind enough to hitch up a
team of spanking bays of Kentucky rais
ing to a substantial two-liorse buggy, and
the next morning we left for a week’s
jaunt through Cherokee, Lumpkin and
White counties, viewing as we went the
operations of several mining companies
in those counties. The first we visited
was the Battle Creek mine, near Dahlon
ega. wliere from a head of some 200 feet
we saw at work the “little giant” pipe or
nozzle -a California invention. The wa
ter was brow n w ith such force as to up
root in a few' minutes large trees, and to
displace immense rocks. This mill was
profitably w orked many years since, and
large quantities of gold taken out. The
present company have spent much money
in getting ready to make more, and l
would like to see their expectations real
ized.
In AATiite county we visited the mines
of Gen. St". John, of New York, whose
expenses have been very heavy in erect
ing dams, blowing out rocks, etc., and
with good, prospects of. ultimate success."
In the same neighborhood w e were at
the mines of Mr. W. R. Deau, at Naeoo
chee—formerly a citizen of Knoxville.
Air. Dean is at present confining his op
eration's to placer mining, -and there
seemed to be scarcely a foot of his premi
ses that did not contain gold. He has
several quartz leads running through his
lands, and an abundance of Water power
close at hand, which lie ’w ill speedily
utilize in working his quartz veins. -The
gold taken out of his placer mines the
day w r e were there was simply astonish
ing.
On my return 1 examined particularly
the Franklin mine of Col. Hoskins, be
fore referred to. It is situated on both
sides of the Etowali or Hightower river,
and in days ante bellum Airs. Franklin,
the then owner, in a short time took out
283,000 cwts, of gold worth in coin over
$250,000. Her excavations made scarcely
any impression upon the 'property.
There are eight distinct leads running
through the land —all of which are rich.
Upon these seven shafts have been re
cently sunk, developing ores or rare value
and in quantities practically inexhausti
ble. From these Shafts Col. Hoskins lias
built a tram road to his mill where he is
running ten stamps and has provided
room for twenty more to be soon in use.
These stamps are propelled by the whole
Etowah river, across which lie has
thrown a substantial dam. I saw' no
such other property in Georgia, and
nothing like such work accomplished
with the comparatively trifling outlay.
May the Colonel have all the success that
his energy and enterprise entitle him to.
The dwelling, from an eminence crowned
with forest oaks, commands a view of the
whole premises, embracing some 525
acres, much of which is first and second
river bottom; and I consider his placer
mines by no means the least valuable of
his property. AI.
An English visitor at Peshaw'ur sends
home the following inscription copied by
him from a trombstone in the English
graveyard there; “Sacred to the memory
of file Rev. Blank Blank, A. AI., who
spent seventeen years as a missionary
among the Afghans, and translated the
Holy AVrit into their language. He was
shot by his attendant. ‘Well done, thou
good and faithful servant.’ ”
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Ex-Secretary Gorliam of the United
States senate, a few days ago, at the close
of his administration, during which he
had handled many millions of dollars,
found that exactly one cent was due him
by the treasury department. A check
was made out for that sum, and the coin
—a big, old-fashioned copper—was sent
to him and will be kept by him as a me
mento.
Ex-Senator Stanley Matthews is the
man who knows what the president is
going to do. He is in Washington now,
and being a regular caller at the white
house, Air. Alatttiews fells at liberty to
announce that the president will veto
both the army and legislative bills just as
often as they are presented to him with
the repeal legislation tacked on.
The condition of the negro emigrants
from Louisiana to Kansas is well illus
trated by the fact that when the steamer
Durlee left St. Louis for Wyandotte,
Kan., last Saturday, with over GOO col
on and emigrants, only $45 could be raised
among them to pay their fare, and the
Mullanphy Emigrant Relief Association
had to pay the balance.
The Savannah Recorder wishes the
nominee for governor to come from
southern Georgia and would like to have
the honor conferred oil Hon. A. T. Me-
Intire, Gen. A. R. Lawton or Col. R. E.
Lester. Next to these the Recorder's pre
ference is for Hon. Augustus Reese, of
Morgan.
A telegraph operator sent a message
from Boston to Springfield for accommo
dations for twenty “prisoners” instead
of “persons,” and the consequence was
that a traveling dramatic company was
received at the railroad by a party of dep
ot}' sheriffs.
Dr. Felton has been made a member of
the leading committee of the house—the
committee of ways and means. Air.
Speer is also a member of an important
committee, that of privileges and elec
tions.
Rectifiers have presented a memorial
to Commissioner Raum protesting against
the clause in the internal revenue bill,
passed at the last session of Congress,
requiring rectifiers to give bonds.
A son Of the Siamese twins is achiev
ing high honors in an Eastern college,
which leads a funny man to ask: “Why
shouldn’t he rise in the world? His
father was well connected.”
A gentleman, speaking of a young
beauty’s fashionable yellowish hair, call
ed it pure gold. “It ought to be,” quoth
a friend, “it looks like twenty-four car
rots.”
The Sultan, yielding to the urgent rep
resentations of the Grand Vizier, has re
called several exiles and ordered releases
from prison.
Oil City Derrick: It is the easiest thing
in the world for a man to commit suicide
in Texas. He has only to call another
man a liar.