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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL.
BY WESTON & COMBS.
§al»s«it SttctMj Journal,
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(Ms.
C. B. WOOTEN?
Attorney at Law,
MACON, GA.
\\ T ILL practice in the Circuit Courts of
v V South-west Ga., and in the District
snd Supreme courts of the State and United
States. All business from whatever section
or of whatever character entrusted to him
will receive prompt attention. Oct 10. ’71.
Lyon, DeGraflenried and Irvin.
Attorneys at Law,
MACO.K, • - - GEORGIA.
WILL give attention o professional bus
iness in the Macou, South western &
Patauk Circuits ; in the U S Courts, anSa
vannah, and vlilanta, and by speciil con.
tract iu any part of the State.
F. M.. Hj;VKJr > JER
ittorjiey api Colipjellor at LaV
f,.f.
DR. G. W. FARRAR
nAS located in this city, and offers h : s
Professional services to the public -
Office next door to the "Journal Office," on
Main Street, where he can be found in the
day, unless professionally engaged, and at
night at his residence opposite tbe Baptist
church feb. 2.tf:
K. J. WARREN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SI.UtUSriLLE, - - - 0.1.
C. W. WARWICK,
Att’y at Law and Solicitor in Equity
SMITHVILLE, QA.
Will practice in South Wesern and rataula
circuits. Collections promptly remitted.
n A. COLLIKR. C. T. CHKVES,
TOWNS HOUSE,
BROAIi ST.,
ALBANY, GA
HY
B. A. COLLIER & CO.
McAFE HOUSE,
At Smithville, Ga.
f IMIE undersigned having fitted up the Me.
L Afee House at Smithville, takes pleasure
in notifying the travelling public that the
above tiouse is now in the “full tide” of sue
ee«sful administration by himself. He will
spare no expense to make it a First-Class
Hotel. J/cais ready od the arrival of the
tain. W. M. McAFEE.
PLANTATION
Few Sal©*
I OFFER for sale my place, five miles be
low Dawson, immediately on tbe Railroad,
containing 1417# acres. Weil watered and
Umbered. Asa Stock Farm, unsurpassed -
Healthy ,desirable everyway. To any one
wanting a home, here is an opportunity to
ona at half iU real valoo, as I am deter
mined to aell, either for money or Gotten, to
* responsible party. A pply to W. F. ORR,
at ZCawsovL 14 not sold, will be for rent.
eeptlU 4m W. T. BURGE.
COTTON
Campbell a jones
Again offer their services to Planters and
Merchants, as
Warehouse & Commission
MERCHANTS,
-4nd ask a continuance of ibc patronage so
liberally given them the past season.
Close personal attention given to the stor
age and Sale of Cotton, and to the filling of
orders for Bagging and Ties and Plantation
Supplies.
Refer to the patrons of the past season,
the place—
Iron Warehoune,
* Poplar st., WACOM, GA.
Agents for the Winship Improved
Cotton Gin and John MerrjmaD & Co.’s Jm
moniated Dissolved Bones, which we now of'
fft at » reduced price. pept!4 8m
Oawsop Business Directory,
Ui*y Goods iTtcfclia tils,
Dealers in
V 7 Drv Goods Clothing, Bools and Shoes
Groceries &c. Also agents for some of the
mostapproved Fertilizers. Main Street.
K ‘y!? ER.EDWA R I», Dealer in
( '?• F * Dei * ler In Fancy and sta
r w.? 7,?? MaiQ «., next door to
J- W. Keddlck’a.
Grocery Merchants
H 0 ****’ **•’ Dea,erin Groceries and
, **mily supplies generally, at W. F.
tJrr s o u stand, uuder ,j ournal „ ‘
Main st. *
f HaSS, .F, E. Grocer t»nd Com
JH mission A/erchaut, Dealer in Bacon,
flour, Liquors, Ac.
I? EDISSCSi, J, Grocer dealer in Ba
* A con, Hour, Lard, Tobacco, Ac.
HARDWARE.
T EE & BROTHER, Dealers in
Hardware. Iron and Steel, Wagon Tim
hers, and Plantation Tools. Also Manufac
turers of Tin Ware, Mam st., at J. B. Perry’s
old stand. 1
Baldwin, Andrew. Dealer
in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware Cut
terly, Furniture, Ist door from the Hotel.
Druggists.
/SHEATHAVI, C. A., Druggist and
vV Physician. Will visit by day or night,
patients in Town will prescribe for
any and all the ills that flesh is heir to.
Keeps a complete supply nf Drugs and Med
icines, School Books and stationary Gar
den Seeds Ac , Ac., At his old stand, The
Red Drug Store on Main St., ,TERA/S Strict
ly Cash.
TANES DR. J. R., Dealer in
ft Drugs, J/edicines, Oils, Paints, Dye
.Stuffs, Garden Seed, Ac., Ac.
Livery Stable.
PRIXCE, !%. G. & J. K., Sale,
Feed and Livery (Stable. Carriages,
Hacks, Buggies, Drays, Wagons, Harness
and Mules for sale or hire. Hoises boarded
at reasonable rates. Denot Street.
BE ICIiS.TIITH SHOi*r
WARE, BAM DALE. Will make
T T and repair Wagons, Buggies Plows,
Dickson Sweep, Shoeing horses, near Poet
Office-. Always ready to do work good and
cheap Jan. 19 ly
BROWN STATION
No Road
CAKE SHOP.
rOHXSOX & HILL, at Brown Station,
would respecifully inform their custo
mers, and the pubiiu generally, that they
have neaiiy completed their Urge anu com
modious Store House, which is 5u x 50 feel,
and divided into
THREE DEPAUTJIETTS,
for the accommodation of the public, and
especially the ladies. The Dry Goods De
partment being
ENTIRELY SEi'IiBATE
from tho Bir on 1 (J
They have a well selected stock of
GEA ERA L M ERCII AS BASE,
Always have on hand plenty of the ctle
brated ROIIE and FLOUR.
BAGGISG & TIES 2
at reduced price.
Those who wish to regale the inner man
will find at the Bar the beat things thereunto
peitaining JOIISMIS «V HILL
Oct 12 ts.
A PROCLAMATION.
GEORGIA:
By BUFUS B. BULLOCK,
Governor of said Slate.
Whereas, There is now pending in the Su
perior Court of Hall county, r Bill of Indict
ment, charging one John E. Williams with
the offense of seduction, alledged to have
been committed upon tbe person of Marga
ret Prater, in said comity of Hall ; and
Whereas, The said Williams, subsequent
to his arrest in pursuance of said indictment,
succeeded in making his escape and is now
at large: ~
Now, therefore, to the end that the snd
Williams may te brought to tiial for the of
sense with which he stands charged, I have
thought proper to issue this,my proclamation,
hereby offering a reward of Two Hundred
and Fifty Dollars for the apprehension and
delivery of the said John E. Williams, to the
Sheriff of Hall county, and an additional re
ward ot Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars upon
his conviction. , ,
Given under my hand and the Great Seal ot
the State, at the Capilol in Atlanta, thia
tweotieth day of Octocer, in the year ol
our Lord A’ighteen Hundred and Seventy
one, and ol the Independence of the Uuit
ed States of .dmerica the Ninety-sixth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
By the Governor;
David G. Cottino, .Secretary of .State.
TAX NOTICE.
I will be at the following districts
at the time given, for the purpose ol
collecting the Stato and County Tax
for Terrell county:
District. October. November.
4th 2d & 16th Ist
3rd 3d & 17th 2d
Gth 4th & 20th 4th
12th 10th & 23d Sth
11th 11th & 24th 10th
Dawson 14th & 27th b'tb
Parties will please be prompt, as 1
shall close my books after the 15th of
Noveusber. W- B. .O*FOBJ>.
sept 28-7 w
DAWSON, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1871.
From the sftlauta New Kra.
Speech ol lion. Thomas Har
deman, at Oglethorpe Hark,
Atlanta, Ga., October lStli,
I*7l.- in Earnewt Appeal to
Georgians to Ituild tip the
Grand Old Commonwealth.
Ladies and Gentlemen :
At the request of the Exeeutivo
Committee of the Atlanta Agricultur
al and Industrial Association, I have
consented to repeat, in part, an ad
dress which I had the honor to deliv
er at a recent Fair in Cartersville. I
am sure, had I consulted my own feol
ings, I could not have complied with
this request, and after the exhibition
that we have had from this stand, to
day, I feel that one must have cour
age, indeed, to follow in the wake of
the yong orators who have preceeded
me. [Applauso.] I say that, had I
consulted my own feelings, T would
not have been here to-day. 13ut,
where so much interest aud so noble a
spirit has been manifested by the peo
ple of Atlanta in rebuilding her fallen
fortunes, and thereby enhancing the
interests and prosperity of our State, I
think that it is eminently the duty of
everyone, when called upon, to aid in
her onward march of improvement.—
When wo look back at her course and
remember her as I have seen her,
decked in her bridal robes, and then
as we have seen her a widow in her
weeds stricken by tlie blast ar, J crush
ed by the whirlwind ard the storm, it
must he a source of great pleasure and
of pride to see her to-day a widow
with her weeds thrown off, with the
widow’s cap upon her cheek, and the
bewitching smile that widows only
were more boautiful.by far than when
arrayed in her bridal robes. Aud,
therefore, I say that when we see such
an exhibition of enterprise and of
spirit, we can but congratulate our
selves, and congratulate our whole
people, that there is life in the old
State yet.
I speak not now of that melancholy
existence that characterized the chil
dren of Israel when they sat down by
the rivers of Babylon and wept, when
they remembered Zion, nor of that life
of angry repining aud fault-finding
sorrow, which was exemplified in the
prophet of the tribe of Zebulon when
in the morning of his troubles, as ho
looked upon the withered gourd that
the evening beforo had blessed him
with its freshness and its shade, he
exclaimed in the bitter accents of a
Providence-defying nature: “It is bet
ter for me to die than to live but of
a life, despite thefl withered palms that
overhang every household, despite of
captured cities, sacked temples, and
ruined fortunes, that is binding its ev
ery energy to restore joy to the house
hold, plenty to the coffers, independ
ence to the people, and honor and po
sition to the loved old Commonwealth.
[Applause ] A life that sits not griev
ing over the fortunes of the past, but
looking tearfully at its glory and great
ness, shakes the dust of its ruins from
its wings, aud pluming them for a
loftier, bolder fight, will rest them not
until sho has gained that exalted
height where, overlooking her former
greatness and position, in the fullness
of her fortune and her honor, she can
sing again the song of Georgia’s “up
rising,” Georgia’s greatness, and Geor
gia’s glory. Gloomy melancholy,
sorrowful brooding, never restored a
lost joy, a wasted opportunity, or a
broken fortune. Job sat repining over
the conflagration of bis property', the
loss of his children, and the desolation
of his hopes, until his calamities forced
him to curse his fate and pray for
death ; but this did not restore his
herds, his children, his fortune, or his
happiness. Darker and darker grew
the day of his being, until tbe sun of
his hopes set in the night of despair,
nor did the morning dawn until, lis
tening to the voice of Providence,
heard above the roar of the whirlwind,
he arose und girded up his loins like
a man ready for the duties of life, and
the requirements of Ileaveu. Then
was it that joy flowed into his bosom
—a gladdening stream ; his desolate
heart beat with pulsations of strango
delight as new sons and daughters
sprang up, the pride and solace of his
years ; his pastures, long herdless and
abandoned, teemed again with in
creased flocks and folds; and the old
patriarch, in the decline of life, de
spite the afflictions of the past, its be
reavements and its poverty - , looked out
upon a present rich with the posses- |
sions ot earth and a future radiant
with the promise of a plenteous con-'
tentment. Cease, then, ye men of
Georgia, to weep over the wrecked for- :
tunes of the past. The treo has fall- '
en, so it must lie; yet fx’om its branches
the acorn may be gathered that, if
planted now, will gTow up a mighty
oak, under whose wide spreading shad
ow, in coming years, your children
can sit and 6ing those good old songs
that gladdened the hearts of their fa- j
thers and mothers, who will then sleep ,
in its shade. The waters of plenty
are spilled, but the vessel that con
tained them are unbroken ; and here
in tho wilderness of your desolation
are Ilorehs still, which, if struck by
the rod of energy will pour fourth
gushing streams theorby enabling you
| to fill them again to overflowing ; but
! they will remain cold, barren rocks
unless tho Moses of the land strike
them with the rods of their power.—
i The mountains of your State aro rich
I with mineral wealth, yet it will remain
valueless and profitless unless organ
ized labor digs from its bed and con
verts it into uses, remunerative to tho
laborer, aud beneficial to mankiud.—
Your rich valleys, susceptible of a cul
ture that would* abundantly repay the
toiling husbandman, aro as worthless
as so many barren wastes, unless that
. husbandman prepares them for the
1 grain, that Providence, in his bounty,
will ripen for the harvest. Your no-
bio streams will pour their waters to
the sea as they did when the rod man
hunted their banks, unless accumu
lated capital combinos to turn thoso
waters into manufacturing u tility, and
thus give employment the thous
ands unable to plow a furrow or drive
a plane. The elements of greatness
and independence are yet in Georgia,
uud all that is requisite to sec tiro them
is determination and effort. Labor is
the only talisman of success ; action,
will, application are all we need to
make Georgia the pride of her sons
and the glory of the States. With a
soil susceptible of the highest culture,
with a climate unsurpassed for salu
brity, with a people homogeneous in
their wants and necessities, Georgia
stands to-day in these respects, with
out a peer or a parallel; and she is
laggard in the great march of improve
ment. Why is it thus written of you,
my countrymen ? An* you degener
ate sons of illustrious sires ? The same
sun that germinated the seed and ri
pened the grain for your fathers,
blesses you to-day with his warmth
and his power. The same seasons
that brought that respective blessings
for them yet roturn to you, ladeu with
their gifts and their offerings. The
same earth that yielded them a plen
teous support and a rich subsistence,
inv.tes you to labor in her fields,
whitening still with rich harvest.—
The same God that gaveth the sun
shine and the shower iu the days of
prosperity is yet able to give the in
crease iu this, the durk Dour of your
existence. Up then, ye men aud wo
men of Georgia, and iu the name of
all that is bright in the past and hope
ful iu the future, with determined
will—
Slrikoono more blow for Georgia weal ;
Strike with the plow the fertile field ;
Strike with the factory’u busy wheel;
Strike with the miner’* edge of Hteei •
Strike with the merchant’* thrifty zeal;
Strike oft, strike long, strike all who feel
Proud ol her rivers and her riiln;
Proud of her valleys and her hills,
Proud of the wealth her soil coiicatils,
Proud of her graiu and cotton fields,
Proud of her varied, fertile soil,
Proud of her hardy sous of toll,
Proud of her women, her greatest pride*
Lovelier here than iu all the world beside,
Then will her bonds indeed be riven,
Then will new hope, new life, be given
To Georgians all, who, where’er they roam.
Will point with pride to their dear Georgia
home.
Educated labor, diversified and di
rected, is all that is essential to real
ize for your State all that patriot hope
can anticipate or patriot heart desire,
and for this diversified labor, every in
terest in the present and every hope
for the futuro, plead and invito the en
ergies and enterprise of her sons.—
Your streams must be vocalized with
tho music of machinery for this. Cher
j okee Georgia has water capacity suffi
| cient to turn the many spindles for
I Lowell, and contiguous to them you
| lflve fertile fields fiat 'An supply the
i thousands engaged therein, with tho
j neces aries of life, creating at the same
! time a home market for the produc
! tion of your soil and a home supply
| for tho products of your looms. Here,
too, is an inviting field for tho mechan
ical arts iu your great natural labora
tory cf mineral wealth, whoso inex
haustible treasures lure you to-day
; w ith their richness and their value.
j One of Georgia’s greatest wauts to-
I day is skilled mechanics, not your mere
I builders of houses, but your Tubal
I Cains, workmen in copper, and brass,
and iron, to make your engines and
I machinery, your ears, your cultivators
—in fine, to work to advantago and
profit the ores now lying profitless in
i your mountains. She ueeda, as friend
Greely says, more shops, more forges,
more furnaces, more factories, more
school-houses to develop tho latent en
; ergies of her pooplo. Let tho fire of
! your furnaces be seen among your
hills and in your valleys, and lot Geor
gia artisans, educated in Georgia’s
mechanical schools and work-shops,
supply your necessities from these fur
naces and forges, run by coal obtained
; from your mountains. Let tho hum
of the factory be heard above tho roar
of your waterfalls, and the song of the
happy operative break upon your
morning devotions or your cveing qui
i et. Let your common schools—sup
! plied with all tho appliancos of educa
tion—be brought to the doorways of
every citizen of the State; he he hum
ble or in high place, and Georgia will
have begun in earnest her march to
. ward independence and greatness.—
Exhaust not your fertile soil in tho
j cultivation alone of corn and cotton. —
Small grain and tho grasses will provo
equally remunerative, for every pound
* of clover hay, every sheaf of wheat,
and barley, and oats, will ever com
mand remunerative pricos in tho mar
i kets of the world. Study, my coun
trymen, the ennobling art which to
day engages your time and your labor,
for agriculture, like the mechanic arts,
requires pationt study. It is a fatal
error to suppose that every man who
can plow a furrow, who knows when
it is seed-time and harvest, is therefore
a farmer. Successful agriculture re
• quires educated labor. I speak not
simply of the education of theoretical
agriculturists, but the practical expe
rience, based upon a knowledge of go
ology, chemistry and vegetable physi
ology, of men who look upon agricult
ure, not simply as a great necessity,
but as an art coeval with man’s civili
zation, and the basis of every art that
adorns aud ennobles tho human race.
The agriculturist should know the an
alysis of his soil, its wants and neces
sities ; for old mother earth, liko the
human system, has wants, the supply
ing of which is essential to her main
tenance and support. He should have
a correct knowledge of tho properties
of mineral, animai and vegetable ma
nures, and the best mode of applying
them. You would think strange of
an accredited physician, who would
administer to a patient, without having
a diagnosis of his disease, or any
knowledge of tho remedies that the
case demanded; and yet, with the
j same eulpaple ignorance, you often ad
minister to tho condition of the soil,
without knowing one of its constituent
elements, and what remedies are best
suited to its requirements and necessi
ties. Yes, my countrymen, the pro
fessed friends of agriculture and the
cultivation of tho soil, you are in many
instances the Cassiuses, the Cascas,
and Brutuses, that have mortally
stabbed the Caesar of your love. And
when I look upon “the bleeding piece
of earth,” when I hold up the rout
mnutle and see whore your daggers
pierced, with stricken Antony I ex
claim :
“/ am no orator,
Jiut a* you know me all—a plain, blunt man—
For 1 hnva neither wit, nor words, nor
Action nor utterance, nor the p »werof speech
To atir men’s blood—l only apeak right on.
/ tell yon tlint which you vouraelvea do know,
Show yon aw?** Gftesftr’s wounds, peer, poor
dumb mouths.
And bid them apeak forme
And your miserably wasted fields
aro speaking; your gullied hillsides,
your scalded hilltops, are speuking;
your defective rotation crop system
is speaking. The remedies and stim
ulants you are ignorantly administer
ing to a famished soil are speaking ;
your farming area system is speaking ;
your defective preparation of soil is
speaking ; your dependence upon the
products of distant localities is speak
ing ; and each and all are speaking in
tongues that should move tho very
soil u|h)u which you stand to riso and
mutiny. [Applause.] Study, my
countrymen, the ennobling art of agri
culture, which is engaging to-day sev
en eights of the people of almost every
civilized community on tho globe. Far
back in the annals of the ages gone
we read of Noah, ,the husbandman,
and Abel, sacrificing “ the firstlings of
the flock. ’’ Again, we see the Egypt
ians iu their admiration ol this Heav
en inspired art, “ worshipping tho ox
for his services as a laborer ” in tho
baru yard, and tho ancient Roman
venerating the plow that broke this
soil, while Rome’s greatest encomium
upon one of her bods was to say ho
was a judicous and industrious hus
bandman. As it was glorious in the
past, so it is eminently honorable in
the present—an active instrumentality
in building up those moral and indus
trial habits whicli give position to gov
ernments and permanence to their in
stitutions. A thorough knowledgo of
agriculture, its wants and require
ments, will lead to a well devised sys
tem of diversified labor, and this im
portant lesson Georgia should learn
at once. I,ook at your State to-day,
poor and impoverished, not because
you have not labored, for no people
groaning under adversity have so her
oically struggled against misfortune,
but because you have labored unwise
ly and too much iu ono channel.
Learn a lesson, my countrymefi,
from those who aro being enriched by
your folly. Look at the great West; I
and she is great in all tho elements ot :
greatness. See her as I have just
seen hor, her labor directed in,a thous
and channels, and each ono converg
ing iu the great ocean of hor prosper
ity. She uiukos her own machinery |
from her own mineral ores; she makes
hor own woolen goods, her own furni
ture, her own funning utensils, builds
vessels and freights them; largo cities
and peoples them with thrifty popula
tion, and in addition to all these, fur
nishes you, people of Georgia—and I
say it to your shame—with your flour
aud corn, your bacon and your mules,
that you may raise cotton to enable
you to purchase again the products of
her labor. AU these you cun do for
yourselves. You have the minerals
and the coal sleeping iu your moun
tains ; you have the water power at
your very doors ; you have the forest
in all its native growth and beauty,
and you have a soil peculiarly adapted
to the wants and necessities of your
State. Awaken, then, to tho impoit
ance of living at homo and supplying
yourselves. Then will success bright
en the horizen of your present, and
hope gild her heaven with tho radiant
splendors of your future. lam an
xious to see the day again iu my old
State when our farmers will get their
meat out of their own smoke houses ;
when tho ox will know his owner and
the ass his master’s crib, for I assure
your if this latter animal could speak,
Balaam’s of old, it would bo in
denunciation of your present mode of
farming, and your uncharitable prac
tice of forcing him to earn a substance
by grazing with Nebuchadiiezza in tho
scanty grass fields of the country
Aye, say you, those are stubborn
truths ; but our labor Aias been taken
from us, and we are unaccustomed to
menial service. Where aro the hands
the God of Nature gave you, and tho
determined will that characterized your
fathers 'i Yes, say you, we have the
will, we acknowledge the necessity;
but then labor is degrading and toil
the burden of a curse. Fata), delusion,
miserable subterfuge for indolent
pride ! Labor is not a curse attend*
aut upon Adam’s fall. God did not
intend in creating man that he should
sit an idler admirer of Eden’s beauties,
for he was enjoined to labor in that
gardeß, to “ keep and to dress it. ”
No briars or brambles were to grow
among its buds and blossoms—no foul
weeds among the plants that were un
folding lor him their beauty and their
loveliness. Creative agency the very
day man was located in Eden—its I
trees untouched by blight, its groves
redolent with the perfume of flowers,
and sighing through their branches
the sweet music of l’uradiso, with
plenty above and arouud them —en
joined him the duty, hence the digni
i tv, of labor. Read, then, my country*
j men, in the very preface of your be-
I ing, tho assurance of divine will that
I you labor in the sphere assigned you.
II know it grates harshly upon the ear
of aristocratic refinement and weuithy
indolence to assure them that labor is
a heaven enjoined duty, but there is
the record and the deoroo, and he or
she who would mar the one or efface
the other should bo forced to glean
with Ruth in the barley field, or grind
corn with Samson iu the prison house.
Over sensitive young man, ashamed to
bo seen at tho plough or tho bench. !
Vain young lady, unwilling to nek
knowledgo you can sew or cook ! Go
road the history ot tho first laborer up
on record. It was the Almighty God
head, tho groat I uiu : “In the bo
ginning God created tho heavens aud
the earth. ” Tho very first lino in
oreatiou’s history evidences the labor
of Ilis hands. Nor did he rest there
from until he made the firmament
from tho midst ot the waters, set tho
hills upon their everlasting founda
tions, ffxod the sun and the moon in
their spheres in the heavens, created
earth, and placed man in dominion
over it. Then, but not until then, did
he rest from the works He had made.
Nor was ho ashamed of the labor cf
Ilis hands; for iu the fullness of His
exultation lie pronounced it good.
Away, then, with the idea that labor
is degrading, and toil unmanly. Sweat
of the brow and labor of the brain are
tho great talismen of success in every
vocation of life. Work ! It is tho rod
that strikes tho noreb of all honor, of
all distinction, of all success. Wealth
smiles iu its coffers, plenty crowns its
board, peace broods over its alters,
while glory wreathes it with the lade
loss flowers of immortality.
Honest toil dignifies character, en
nobles nature, reiiues poverty, elevates
tuan. By it Galliloo wove lor himself
a chaplet of stars, and Herschel
wreathed his brow with a coronet
bright as the satellite he discovered.
By it Fulton ascended on wings of
steam the rugged eminence of worldly
Yenown, and Morso with electric rapid
idy transmitted his name to the com
ing generations. By it the golden
gates of succoss aro unbared, and tlve
avenues are open to thoso inviting
heights, where wealth, and honor, aud
fame await tho successful comers with
chaplets and crowns. Labor, then my
countrymen, educated and diversified,
will soon show its beneficial results in
increased intelligence, accumulated
wealth aud universal prosperity. Aro
you too poor to effect, these grand re
sults ? Invite tho labor and the capi
tal from tho North and South, the
East and the West, to come in your
midst. Give all who thus come among
you, bearing in their hands tho olive
branch of peace, a hearty welcome and
a God speed in their efforts to aid you
in building up the material prosperity
of the State, so that sho may stand a
ie >r among her sisters—an equal
among them ail. An it will not be
long be ore joy will kindle in the sky
of your being, and prosperity gladden
your hearts with the fullne. h ol its
treasures. Work —well-directed labor
—is tho key that will unlock to us the
treasures we desire. Fathers, teach
your sons that industry is the parent
of every virtue, idleness tho mother of
evory vice. Teach them that David,
the shepherd, was as honored as was
David the King. Impress upon them
that Paul, tho teut-maker, w as esteemed
eminently fit to become an ambassador
of Christ, and a spokesman of Heaven.
Teach them that Franklin, at his
printing press, Cincinnattus, at his
plough, were nobler specimens of true
manhood than nre the fashionable gen
try of this day, whoso gloved hands
administered to a family s necessity,
and wl ose brains never originated a
thought that elevated themselves or
benefitted society.
Young men, to y; u, upon whom
rests the future of your State, her po
sition, her honor, and her glory, I ap
peal to-day. You must be the pio
neers in hor great march of improve
ment. Bowed down with the misfor
tunes of tho past, you can bring to
tho discharge of your duties firm re
solvos, resolute wills, manly hearts.—•
Be not ashamed of tbe work before
you. Georgia calls, you must obey,
and in the field and the work shop, at
the bench or the bar, in the labratory
or in the forum, s' ow by your perse
verance, your intelligence and your
will, that her 6ons are equal to the du
ties of the hour and tho necessities of
the State. Think not you aro fulfill
ing your duty or your destiny.
4 >Tlhmi you rtHO, tic on your neckcloth, with skill
it mi with ease •*
Kor youH£ im ii, when they go out iu the world,
if you pleuM*,
Must have their necks tied there ia uot a
doubt of it—
Almost aa tight aa stun*’ men who go out of it.
With mom*tactics well oiled, aud boots that hold
up
The mirror to nature so bright you could sup
Off the leather, likechina, with eoattoo that draws
On Ihe tailor, who suffers a martyrs applause;
ffllh heads bridled up, like a lour in-hand team.
And m./uthsthat lomesay are run cheifly by steam;
A c«hc their only vinibh* means of *upi»ort- -
Disdainingeobl water, they drink slurry or port,
with cigar in their mouths- ah that ia glory
enough.
For their lives, like thin smoke, can go up in a
puff,
And with curls, like those locks to 3/ussulinen
For ajigels to hold by as they lug them to heaven.,
Thus photographed, you may cora
liiund the admiration of tho thought
less und tho gay; but nobler iar, iu
tho eyes of the man of merit, is tho
humble laborer returning to bis neat
cottage home, the consciousness ol du
ty performed gladdening his breast,
the sweat of his brow jeweling his
face, the Just of his field proclaiming
his vocation and his calling. Mothers,
learn your daughters that the work of
tho household, tho kitchen' and the
dairy, is a jewel in the casket of their
adornments; for, believe me, the art
ist never painted lovelier picture than
aid Solomon, when he photographed
his ideal of accomplished womanhood :
‘She teeketh wool and flux, aud worketlidiligent
ly with her hernia \
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her
1 liiuida hold the diktat!;
! She looketb well to the ways of her houaenold,
uud buteth uot the bread of idleuess.*
j Verjly doth the the work of 6uch a
one ‘praise her iu the gates.” Young
VOL. VI. — NO. 40.
woman, be man’s helpmeet in this, the
hour of his adversity. Go back to th«
simple customs and fashions of your
mothers ; for, while your fathers are
struggling with poverty and misfortune,
it were better that you should be a
Rebecca at the well, clad iu simplicity,
with your pitcher on your shoulder,
ready to give drink to the servant of
the lord und the camels of his attend
ants, than Sheba’s Queen, clad in tho
silk and the purple of Eastern luxuri
ance. Economy now is wealth, and
you, my fuir countrywomen, whoso
sacrifices iu war wore on’y equalled by
a patriotism pure as raiu drops from
virgin clouds, must present sacrifice,
upon tho altar of duty, your fashiona
ble follios and costly extravagances.—
Do your duty, young man—young wo
man—in this, tho hour of your State’s
necessity, and the historian, eatchin" -
the inspiration of a rural bal'd, can ex
claim :
'•ln rnln f«lr Georgia wtopulifr tleurrt plains,
bln- moves her enry, wlm no w. 11 eumplntus.
/n mill lien wer’n oppression inlet her low,
She wcurs lhe gir-hind on her fnded brow.
Amid her bowers the eonqurrers hand Is wen,
And desolstioii saddens all her green,
Hut blessed witli these, of mttive strength pos
sessed,
Tliough very poor, we still are very blest.”
Cheerful home duties will create
home pleasures and home comforts;
and thus our children will become at
tached to the sjKit whore their infant
eyes first saw the sunlight and their
infant ears caught the first notes of
nature’s minstrelsy. To accomplish
this mako home beautiful and lovely.
Adorn the old homestead wit l ' fruits
and flowers, and you will attach them
to tho old walks of their fathers, and
implant in their bosoms a desire to be
buried in the shadows of tho trees that
surrounded the dear old homestead.—
Thus you will have settled population
upon your soil—a population that,
looking to their present surroundings
as their homes in the future, will, both
for con fort and emolument, improve,
beautify, and adorn them. No State
can permanently prosper whose popu
lation has no fixed abode—no “abiding
home.” Georgians, why leave your
own to link your destinies with anoth
er State ? Has any other fairer skies,
more salubrious climate, lovlier valleys,
richor mountains, nobler forests, or
lovlier wo.nun than your own native
Stato ? Here lio the bones of your fa
thers and your nr others ; abandon them
ni t. Here, too, aro lying.
Upon the ensanguined battle fields of
your State—from Missionary Ridgo to
their humble graves among the flow
ers of our Southern coast, they are ly
ing, and from thoir patriot graves
c mos tho eloquent appeal, stamped
with the earnest of tiro noble dead,
abandon not the State honored with
our dust and immortalized by our
deeds. Listening to that patriotic ap
peal to day. let us, Georgians, bury
the animosities of tho past, and link
ing our shields together, strike ono
mure blow for Georgia’s prosperity
and Georgia’s glory. Working men
of tho State, laborers in her fields,
her workshops and her factories, upon
you hang our hopes for prosperity and
independence. You are the Atlas up
on whose shoulders rest tho preseut
and the future of your State. Be not
discouraged at the bereavements of
tho past, or tho forebodings of the fu
ture. Tho night is dark, but through
its mantling gloom a feeble star sends
forth a glimmering ray. It is the
stut - of duty. Follow it, it may prove
tho Bethlehem of your deliverance.
Borrowing au illustration from nu em
inent Diviuc, "1/st, this, my country
men, be Israel’s last night iu Egypt.”
Prepare the pusriiul lamb; sprinkle
the blood upon tho lintels and tho
door jK/sts, nn l with sandals on your
foet und staff in hand, begin your
march from this land of bondage aud
of slavery. The perils of tho wilder
ness, its lengthening gloom, its dark
shadows, its threatening dangers, may
lie before you ; but if you are tiue to
yourselves, true to your fathers, who
have goue before you, true to old State,
you too shall commemorate your exo
dus from tho ovil that threatened you,
and sing in the fullness of your joy,
your “passover song ol’ deliverance.”
Then, my countrymen, amid the green
fields and rich pastures of your Canaan,
wbero, in plenteous contentment, fi
nancial independence, and intellectual
wealth and social refinement, you shall
dwell in fellowship und in peace with
the children of your love, may exclaim,
with feelings of triumph at pride, ‘This
is my State, whose power is heralded
from her mountains, aud whose great
ness is echoed from hor valleys aud
hills J [Applause.]
Wayside Gallieriugs.
A pleusant tune—Fortune.
Nock or nothing—A ball dross.
St. Crispin’s anniversary—All-Soles
day.
Universal profession—That of gold
chaser.
Auy two apples are alike if they
are pared.
Fancy bread —A roll of the eye,
A leading article—A locomotive.
Ocular punishment —Eye lashes.
A pair of tights—Two drunkards.
The tune of the smoker—Spit-tune.
A little short— I Gen. Tom Thumb.
Capital furniture—The Weather Bu
reau.
Cash advances—Attentions to a rich
widow.
Funny—That ‘syuaro’ dances ar#
coming round again.
A bad sign—To sign another man'*
name to a note.
What age is most agreeable to a
man just started in business ? Pat
rou-age.