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VOL. III.—NO. 47. (Tlir auiilion Visitor £). W. U. BOULLV, Proprietor. CASH SUBSCRIPTION RATES. mif copy one re-w... $2 00 One copv fix months .. .• 1 00 One copy thrte months 75 Any one furnistffnf: five sulisnihefs, with (he money, will receive a copy free. Subscribers wishing their papers changed from one pn ( office to another, must state the name of the post office from which they wish it change l !, as well as tliat to which they wish it sent. All shhscriptinns rtlnst Ire pavt in advance. 'lho paper will lie stopped at the end of the Htne paid for. nnless subscriptions are pre viousiv renewed. Fifty numbers complete the year. CASH ADVERTISING RATES. 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MITCIIELL , -V. /A, UnMiitil Physician ami SiiTcnn, HAMILTON GEORGIA Special attention given to operative surgery Terms Cush T-~ PRESTON GIBUS, IS SURGEON ano PHYSICIAN, Hamilton, Ga. • Will>>e found at the hotel or the store of W H John.-ton unless professionally ehuased. ”CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE, Br j. t. iiigginbothem. WEST POINT, GA ALONZO A. DOZIER, Attorney and Counselor at Law, COLUMBUS, GA. Practices in State and Federal Courts in Georgia and Alabama. Makes Commercial •Law a Sfeciolty Office over C. A. Redd & Co's store, Columbus, Ga. dec4-jy Hines Dozier, ATTORNEY-AT LAM’, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Will practice-in the Chattahoochee Circuit, or anywhere else. Office in the Northwest comer of the Court-house, up-stairs. janß Columbus Dental Rooms, W. T. POOL, Peoprli tor, C orgia Ih'irr rtiiltinp fttlpmbns Ga. HA^KINHOUSE COLUMBUS, GA. Mrs. F. M. GHAT, Proprietress /. A. Sellfrs, Cleric. G. A. KCEHNE, MERCHANT TAILOR, 154 Broad St., Celnmbns, Ga-, Has on he is hnnn.'om* ■ '-vtnient of Oeft th men’s D.ess Hoods, English and French Cassimere:, yestiogs, etc. • Cutting done at reasonahle rate . Have your clothes made by me, and I smar entee periect sati, faction in style and price. HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING. I prepared to do any kind of Paint ing—H° u se. £ign or Ornamental. I can mend your Umbrellas and Parasols, and them as good as new. Prices low. Give me a trial. My shop i opposite t&e market-house, Columbus, Ga. W. D. SMITH, Katural Artist. Hamilton mUfe Victor. THE PAWXIJROKEIPS STORY. Asa pawnbroker in a populous suburb of London, 1 have had occa sion to see painful and sometimes net npleasing phases of society. Just to give an idea of Wbat ,{>erinsioallv comes under the notice of a person in my profession, I shall describe a little incident and its consequences. One evening 1 stepped to the door for a little fresh air and to look about me for a moment. While I was gni i-’g P and down the road, I saw a tidily-dressed young jiWson step up to our side door. She walked like a lady—-and let me tell you that in nine cases out of ten it's the walk, and not the dress, which distinguishes the la dy from the servant girl—and Hist she looked about, and then she seemed to make tip her mind in a flurried soit of a way, and in a moment more was standing at our counter, holding out a glittering something in a little trembling hand covered with a worn kid glove. My assistant, Isaacs, was stepping forward to take the seal, when I came in and interposed. The poor voting tiling was so nervous and shy, and altogether so unused to this work, that I felt for her as if she had j been my own daughter, almost. She] couldn’t have been above eighteen I years old—sc frail and gentle a crea ture. “If you please, will you tell mo,” she said timidly, in a very sweet, low voice, trembling with nervous ness, “ what is the value of this seal ? ” “ Well, Miss," I said, taking the sea! into my hand and looking at it —it was an old-fashioned seal, such as country gentleman used to wWf, with a coat of arms cut upon it— “that depends upon whether you want to pledge it, or to sell it out right.” “ I atn married, sir,” and she said the words proudly and with dignity, though still so shy, and seaming ready to burst out crying; “and my husband is very ill —and —and— And then the tears wouldn’t be kept back any longer, and she sobbed as if her poor little heart would break. “There, there, my dear,” I said to her; “donHcry ; it w ill come all right in time;” and I tried to comfort her in my rough-and-ready way, “I will lend you, ma’am,” I said to her at last, “ a sovereign upon this seal; and if you wish to sell it, perhaps I can sell it for you to advantage.” And so I gave her a pound; and she tripped away with a lighter heart, and many thanks to me, and I thought Do more of the matter at the time. The very next day, the day before Christmas, there came into our place of business a Very eccentric gentle mitt, who had called upon us pretty often before, not for the sake of pawning anything, though he was generally shabby enough to. But he was a collector —one of those men who are mad upon old china and cu riosities of all sorts. “Anything in my way, to-day, Mr. Davis?’’ he said, in his quick, ener getic manner, with a jolly smile upon his face, end putting down the cigar ette he was smoking upon the edge of the counter. The Rev. Mr. Broad man is a collector of gems, and rings* and seals, and, in fact, of any stohes that have heads or figures upon them. And I had been in the habit of put ting aside for him whatever in this way passed through ottr hands, for he gave us a better price than we should have got for them at the quar terly eale3. “ The fact is, Davis,” he said to me, “ these things are in valuable: many of them are as beau tiful, on a small scale, as the old Greek scriptures; and some of them even by the same artists. And they are made no longer; for, in this busy nineteenth century of oars, time and brains are too precious to be spent on these laborious trifles.” Now, although I had no stones of the kind be wanted just then, it entered into my head that I would tell him about the seal which had come into my possession the evening before. I told him the story somewhat as I have just told it to you. lie lis tened attentively to all I said. 'Whep I had done he looked at the seal and said, “I observe that it has been the heraldic emblem of a baronet.” He then congratulated me upon the wa; in hich I had acted. He asked, too, for this young lady’s address, which she had given me qnite correct, and then he left the shop without another word. HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA„ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1875. You must give mo leave to tell the rest of the story in my own way, although it may boa very different way from that which the reverent personage employed in relating it to me afterward. It seemed that U was a runaway match. A country baronet’s son bad fdlen in love with the clergyman’s daughter in the village where his fa ther lived, and they had run away to gether and got married. Then they came up to London, these two poor young things—for neither his father, nor herbs either, for the matter of that, would have anything to Say to the match—he, full of hopes of get ting on in the literary and artistic line, and she, poor creature, full of trust in him. The project of living by literature did not turn out as was expected. The young felhnv without experience or friends, spent much time in going about from one publisher to another, and sending his writings to the vari ous magazines—which I need not say we e always “returned with thanks.” And then lie fell ill: typhus, I fancy, brought on bv insufficient nourish ment, and bad drainage, and disap pointed hopes. The registrar-general does not give a return of these cases in any list that I atn aw are of; but we see something of them in our line of business nevertheless. It was just at this time that Mr. 1 >roadman found out Mrs. Vincent, for tliat was the name of the voum*- lady who came to my shop with the gold seal.. Cambridge Terrace is not very far from the Angel at Islington, and theie, in a hitlc back street of small, respectable houses, inhabited by junior e'erks, with here and there a lodging house, Mr. and Mrs. Vin cent lived. They w ere rather shy at first of a stranger, and a little proud and haughty, perhaps. People who have seen better days and are down upon their luck, are apt to be so. But the parson with his pleasant ways and cheery Aoice, soon made it all right; and, in a jiffy, be and Mr. Vincent were talking about college, for they had both been to the same university. And there was even soon a smile, too -—a wan smile enough—upon the poor invalids’ sharp-cut, thin face, with (lie hollow, far-away eyes, which looked at you as if out of a cavern. He was the wreck of a line young fel low, too; one who had been used to his buttling and shooting, and all the country sports which make broad chested, strong-limbed country peo ple the envy of us poor, thin, pale townsfolks. Mr. Broadman came direct to me when he left them. I did not live far off, and he thought that I might lend them a neighbor’s help. “Da vis,” says he, “that poor fellow is dy ing; I can see death in his eyes.” What is he dying of? ” ] replied. He looked at me steadfastly a mo tne'nt, and I could see a moisture on his eye, as he said, slowly arid sol emnly, “Of starvation, Davis—of ac tual want of food.” “A geutleman starving in London, in Islington, a baronet’s son, too! Why it’s incredible.” “ Not at all,” said Mr. Broadman ! “ these are the very people who die of starvation in London, and in ail great cities. Not the poor who know where the work-house is, and who can get at the relieving officer, if the worst comes to the worst; but the weii-born, who have fallen into des titute poverty, and who carry their pride with them, and dive into a back alley like some wild animal into a hole, to die alone. Mr. Vincent wants wine and jellies, and all sorts of good things; if help hasn’t come too late. No, no, my friend,” he continued, putting back my hand, for I was ready to give my money in a proper cause. “No, no; I have left them all they want at present, Davis. Bnt I’ll tell you what you can do; yon can, if you like to play the good Samaritan, go and see them, and cheer them up a bit. Mr.s Vincent hasn’t forgot your kindness to her, I can assure you, And I think hat husband would like to thank you too, and it would rouse him up a bit perhaps.” And then Mr. Broadman told me, shortly, something of what these two poor things Lad gone through—she, loving and trusting him so; and he, half mad that he had brought her to this pass, and could do nothing for her. Mr. Broadman wrote that very day to the baronet, a proud, hard man, I’m told. But the letter was soft enough, and mellrog to read; it was so full of human nature, yon see the father’s heart swelling tip at the, thought of getting back his son; and bursting through the thick crust of pride which had prevented him from making the first advances. And the parsi.n siys to me: “ Well, Mr. 1) i- j vis,” he said, “there arc many pec-j pie kept asunder only for want of j somebody to go between them, you see, and make peace.” And I said partly to myself: “Why shouldn’t Christianity itself be such a generous peacemaker as that?” “Av,” replied Mr. Rroadtnan, “if people only believed in it properly.” That very day we grit the l>aro net’s letter, 1 was On my way in the afternoon to Cambridge terrace to pay my respects to Mrs. Vincent—and I lmd sent, in a few bottles oPgood old port wine from my own wine-merch ant —at least as good as coaid be got for money or love. Well, when I got near tlie door, I saw an old gentle man walking up and down, a little disturbed, apparently, in his mind at finding himself in suck a queer local ity, and as if looking for something or somebody. A short, rosv-faced fellow lie was, clean shaved as a pin, and very neat and old fashioned in his dress, w ith that sort of air about him which marks an English country gentleman wherever he may be. Well, we soon got into a talk, for I’d spotted the Baronet in a moment, and' lie w as anxious to find out something about bis son, as soon as be beard I knew a little of the young couple. “And yoti, do not think, sir, that my--—that Mr. 7 invent is dangerously ill?” said the old baronet; and there was a sob in bis voice as lie spoke, and bis hand trembled as ho laid it upon mine. “ Here is the house,” I said, “and you will be able to judge for your*, self.” We went in. At least, Ihc baro net went into the room, trembling in every limb with the excitement of seeing Isis son. But when he set eyes on him, the poor old man was so startled that he could scarcely speak. His son saw him and tried to rise, hut fell back feebly into his chair. “ Dear father,” lie murmured, stretch ing out a thin, trembling hand, “for give ” But the father was on his knees by the chair in a moment, clasping his son’s head in his arms, and fon dling him as he had dono when the man was a baby, “ What have I to forgive? Y T ou must forgive me for being so hard, my dear boy, and get heller soon, Wilfred, my son, my son ! ” I had come into the room; I ocmld not help it, I was bo interested and excited. But I saw that in the young man’s face which made my heart sink into my bosom like lead. The young wife saw it too, o,nd gave one, two, three sharp screams, as if a knife had been thrust into her side. Mr. Broadman saw it; and quietly kneeling down, commended to God —as well as he could, for sobbing— the soul of his servant departing this life. And I—well, why should I be ashamed to confess it ? I knelt down too, and cried like a child ; for the young man had died in his father's arms at the very moment of recon ciliation. I m ICJ—. They have a fountain of death in Pennsylvania. It is on Nobow Ridge, near Reading. The water is cold, but bubbles and foams as if boil ing. The bubbling is caused by a deadly gas. There is no animal life within a hundred yards of the foun tain. Birds that fly over the spring and too near fall dead. Bnakes have been thrown into the charmed circle of its influence and died in three min utes. Ills estimated that it will de stroy human life in twenty minutes, but the actual experiment has not been made. It is said that aventure j some fellow once stood over the pool j five minUtes, and found it very diffi— ! cult to get away in lime for healthy respiration to resume. The Irwinton Southerner savs that as Mr. L. L. Peacock was je-RiH | ting in loading a wagon whb seed cottofi from a pen in his field, he took up with an annlul of cotton a good sized rattlesnake, which he threw into j the wagon. The cotton became sep arated and the- snake was disclosed I with a mouthful of cotton which he ! had got hold of trying to strike while ‘in Mr. Peacock's embrace. The wag oner vacated in favor of the snake, I and afterwards killed him with a I pole. Special Correspondence of the Visitor. FLORIDA. A Trip to Middle Fla, —Scenes by (lie Wayside.—The Florida Penitentiary.— A Spring Oar den in Wilder.—Crops in (lads* don.— Ml.Pleasant.—Sitting on the Stile.—Gophers*—Ground hogs, etc., etc. November 20, 1875. 1 have now been spending several weeks in Florida,and one of the most delightful of nty experiences has been a visit to Gadsden county, in the mid dle part of ,the State. Accompanied by one of the most entertaining la dies in Jackson, I left Greenwood by private conveyance, and went through the country to Chattahoochee Land ing, on the Apalachicola river. The country is perfectly level, nttd an almost unbroken pino forest to the Landing. At some points we could see for miles away through the pities, and the scenery is beaqtiful. Here and there along our line of tra vel may be seen small houses, with a few acres of land iu.cultivation. As wo approach the river, we find the residences of large planters, and ev-* erytbing is more inviting. I was so well entertained by my traveling com panion, that I forgot to niake much observation ; however, I counted as many as eight large black fox-squir rels in-one group, and a little farther on four'tnoro were playing together. This section of the country is filled with deer and other game. Wc ar rived at riiATTAitoocmcit about 4 o’clock, and here the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers come to gether, forming the Apalachicola. We were carried across the stream in a flat ferry-boat, managed by a ne gro as bright as Egyptian darkness, and after handing the “beautiful snow ” six hits, (they count money by hits here,) we hade him adieu and went up to Title or.n iform, to lunch. Aftei' reaching the eastern hank of the river, the first thing that presents itself is a large and imposing wooden structure, which is now for saken and empty, consequently is ra;>- Idly going to decay. It was not al ways forsaken and lone, and the large live oaks which stretch out their long, slender arms of green seem to try to hide the forsaken grim ness of the old mansion. Time has been when its coat was white, the blinds were green and its doors swung on oiled hinges. To days gone past, there was a patter ing of merry feet to and fro; a busy Opening and shutting of doors; a ceaseless rattling of tins and dishes in the kitchen, and a rustling of books and papers in the cosy sitting-room. The old house is shabby now, and cob-webs aro on the window sills. Travellers go elsewhere now to seek a slopping place, “ Such is life.” Leaving this grim old house, we then slowly ascended the winding road up the chain of river hills. First black hill, then up white hill, and next up red hill to the sandy level again. A ride of one milo up those hills brought us to the town of Chattahoochee, and the only attraction we found at, this dilapidated little village was the old Arsenal, which at present is . THE FLORIDA riCNITKNTfAftV, In speaking of attractions, 1 except the people, of course, as I was told that the most handsome tnnn in the State resides Imre, and this informa tion was rccieVed from a young lady of excellent taste. You may be sur prised at the idea of a penitentiary being an attractive place, but it is truly such. The wall is a splendid piece of workmanship, and the build ings are large, fine and well arranged. It is on an elevation, and overlooks the country for a long distance. The prison house is the only gloomy look ing place about the grounds, arid it almost makes you shudder to look at this massy pile of brick and mortar, with bars of iron running two ways across the windows. Attached to tho grounds and inside the wall is A garden which reminds one of the early spring though it is now winter. The gar den had been freshly worked, anß cabbage plants, tomatoes, lettuce, and ail vegetables imaginable bad been freshly set out in one portion, while in another part, the same kind of veg etables were in full and half growth. Judging from appearances, it is no more difficult to have a garden here in winter than in summer. About ten miles from the place we came to MOUNT PLEASANT, and found that the name is by no means a misnomer. It is quite a nice settlement, with the J, P. and M. R. It. running through it, and all the j conveniences of a good market close at hand. The people are at*, sociable and clever :is they know how to bo, and they seem-to understand the bus ine-'B perfectly. Your Correspondent was entertained in a most princely style, which lie attributes to the most excellent company ho was with, as well as tho principles of hospitality which actuate all whole-souled peo ple; and at Mu Pleasant none other can be found. Some few people here in Gadsden county have been get- ting into trouble by living too fast, but things generally aro not going to the dogs, as in many other places The people are in the main “ well-to do” farmers, and will come around all right after awhile. Even now they are able to pay their ‘’quarterage” regularly, and it is a commendable fact that they take great interest in church affairs; more so than any por tion of the State 1 have visited. One of the greatest things aL Mount Pleas ant is COT* XtARTtN’s VI NET ART), nvrhioh embraces an area of about 30 to 40 acres. He lias grapes in any variety and quantity, and they aro a fortune to him. He also has about 40 acres enclosed, in which ho con templates setting out various kinds of fruit trees. I Its house is an ele gant, as well ns a novel otic, and but for a shower of rain, which prevented an evening t ido, I would have gone through it. Col. Martin is the ioss of the penitentiary, and uses the con victs to do any work for him he may desire, and is making a fat thing out of it. TIIU field ettot’s of Gadsden are com, cotton, cane, poas, rice, rice, oals, potatoes, ground pons and tobacco, all of which can bo successfully and profitably grown. The soil and climate of this section is well adapted to raising the sea island or long staple coll on. The Cuba to bacco is another great crop here, and can he grown throughout the State, but as a staplo market crop, it lias heretofore been confined to this coun ty. The crop of Gadsden alone in lfltlO amounted to 1,200,000 lbs,, and the demand wiih equal to the supply, Capt. George Davis gave mo some ' cigars of his own manufacture, that only require ago to make them equal to the first-class ilavanahs. It lias been said that you might ns woll talk Hebrew to Turks us romance to the young ladies of Florida, as they are far too practical to admit of anything like theorising, but one of the. most pleasant mementoes of Mt. Pleasant was the old Scotch style of SITTING ON THE STII.B. In company witli one of the moat accomplished of Florida flowers, I sat in the bright moonlight, and waitod the gathering of the congregation for church. There is quite a romance In this, and, somehow, tilings seem moro pleasant in one glorious whirl of de light, as J recognized in my fair com panion all those charms that take hold of the human heart. -It was a moment of ccsiacy (to me)—a mo ment looked and longed for, that is only realized once in a life-time, as we made dales of a. confidential chat, and promised a mutual remembrance of it —Nov. 6th. Long after the present fades into the past will I remember Mt. Pleasant, and the “sitting on the stile.” In my last communication I prom ised to tell you something about the PECULIARITIES OF THE GOPHER, but I have already so lengthened this letter, that I can speak of only one of his redeeming tuaits of character, and the way he is used in capturing the ground-hogs. Those with whom it is a “ground-hog case,” take a go pher, first having procured some rich ligbtwood splint-a-s, which they se curely fasten to his back, and having found a ground-hog bole, they Bet the splinters on fire, and send the go pher with the burning torch into the hole, lie soon runs the hog out, which is killed by a sentinel posted near by, and the gopher is cangbt and releived of his tovch, and is reudy for another victim, So endeth another chapter, Videttk, Prolific. —The Albany News says that Mrs. Howard, of Colquitt coun ty, has given birth to three children in eleven months—a pair of twins ten and a half months after the birth of the first child. fisP The steamship City of Waco was lately destroyed by fire off Galveston. It i supposed that every soul perished, • $2.00 A YEAR. What are We to Do? Ed. VrsiTOß —This question is ask ed almost every hour in the day by some fanner in oilr ttbmmnuity. The orinrity is in a dilemma, and a recital may lead to some good suggestions tliat will relieve us of a part of our troubles. Not more than a half Crop has been made, and planters are in debt* Tho merchants have strained their credit that they might .thus be ena bled to accommodate the former* The farmers’ notes are not WrDrth in the aggregate more than forty cents in the dollar; consequently the mer chants must Deforced into bankruptcy* In addition to a failure in crops* there are a score of “tramps’* roam ing through the country, who break our locks, steal our hogs, Chickens, etc., carry away our corn, Cotton, and frequently ottr mules* They carry our produce to a cross roads grocery, where they find a “ kid glove gent * ready to exohango a pint of “rot-gut” whisky for a bushel of good corn, 23 lbs. seed cotton, Or half dofcon grown chickens. When We Boud our labor ers to mill they will slip a peck of corn from each sack before they get there, and find tho hone At miller ready to swap them three five-oent halls of thread, ten cents Worth of candy, or four pounds of fourth qual ity flour for a bushel of our corn, when ye honest (?) miller knows at tho time that he is trading with a ne gro who works for standing wages, and has no corn at all of his own. It. is the else In many instances where nien gin for tile ptlbliC—gius part of our cotton in the daytime for the toll—buys the balnrtCo fit flight* forty pounds to tllo dollar, and, front tho best information we Can get, about | of tho cotton never gets to the hands of the proper owners, A neat mathematical calculation would demonstrate that one-fl.’th of the pub lic mills and gins in tho country nrd engaged in tho traffic of Btolc-u corn and cotton, and the estinfate abont one-fifth for toll, What are we to Jo ? But still further; the cross-roads grocery, the mill and tho pUbiiO gin aro not tho only places where the funner* aro made to snffor. There are said to be fifty shops in tho city of Columbus, and one of the largest manufacturing business houses in tho city, engaged in trading for Beed cot* ton. I am unable to say what we are to do, hut I know that wo cannot live at this fust rate; and unless we have ft law to check tils business, we will necessarily be forced to obeck it wiih our own hands. Every individual should determine, and every organ ized body ahould pass resolutions bearing upon this question, and give no patronage to any one that engages in the traffic of seed cottotl, or couru tenanco any man who will trade for seed cotton, or any other produce, if he has any reason to think it is stolen. If this state of affairs continues, I am persuaded that wo will soon be unable to pay even twenty cents in the dollar. Then, will not our merchants, fof mutual benefit, aid us in memorializ ing our representatives to enact such laws as will protect us from such au outrage ? If we detect and have ofie of these thievos arrested, through the care lessness of some officer, or by tho low advantage that some lawyer will take of technicalities, we cati not easi ly in this county bring one to justice. If this is not the case, we happen to have a jail, the original cost of which was $2,000, besides a cost of one or two hundred dollars annually, which will keep a prisoner only so long as he wishes to board on the county at 50 cents per day. Yet we must not complain, but be as docile as lambs. Let the thieves steal everything we have, and carry it to our neighbor—■ he will buy it i arrest the thief and commit him to jail—he is taken ont on some writ. We are taxed to death to pay the public debt in order to punish the guilty, yet nobody is pun* islied, and wo must not complain, or else sonic gent is insulted, As good citizens, it stands ns it! hand to break up theft in till its grades and shapes, and we would be glad to hear of any means by which it can be accomplished. Cataula. To do business a man roast have dollars and sense. -*• aw t {SP It is difficult to tell how much a fish will weigh by looking at tbf scale#, r- • -