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About Upson enterprise. (Thomaston, Ga.) 1878-1879 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1878)
L JNO. F MEANS, Editor and Proprietor. THE UPSON ENTERPRISE A OVER FISING 3 Squares, 4 Squares. Column, iColumn. 4Column. A ADDRESS OF HON. THOMAS X HA IDEM A N, JR., 342 A a |blessings, and be prepared for its jmands and saerfices. ( PRESIDENT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 1M.|8 M.16 M.| 12M. DELIVERED BEFORE THE SOCIETY THE OPENING OF THE PATT $1 00 I$250 3 00 4 00 500 10 00 15 00 700 10 00 1200 20 00 $7 00 1 1000 1 $1500 10 00 | 1500 1 2500 1500 2000 3000 3600 4000 2000 3000 LSON ENTERPRISE THOMASTON, GA, WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER I, STS =========== I, 41 its advantages and the civilized world to a discipline Aid I Delicts. acquired in the training of the school. And, sirs, is education unpopular here, supported, as it is chiefly by taxation? A well posted writer in- Iam justified in the assertion that |one of the great demands of the pres- ent is the C Dies- the simple teaching of the schools and lashes the sea and fells the forest corteges do not fully reach the practi- has its accustomed course and its HI CsL wants and necessities of the peo- pointed time despite of sea or wave. I‘ C. The engineer cannot construct | The tender virte, running around the canal or bulld a bridge with "tup- forest tree, shoots its schdrils in the .1: egraph, the mechanic cannot same direction, regardless of limb or fashion the engine or the mill by the growth. The swelling spring pours formulas of Euclid; the minner ex- its crystal waters Front rock and Bill- plore the earth successfully for ore or for coal with the rules of Smith the subject. On the whole, howe Icannot do less than to thank Mr !Shanks for the kindliness in his mo ilwright and Machinist Barnesville, Ga. 2, postg the controversy Gen. Grant has thought proper to TETIT --- open with me and my command 506 W tions raish drawings and specific, regard to the fight. The interview - Turbine Water Wheels, sito m Mill = said to have been held with ihatgen- St Cher rice a at “th any are amba corresp lent of the -YREC. Fit FAwuu Address as abores given if requested- aprit2,-ly FT * : os as that 111 no country in tl e EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE, world do all classes respond morelib- re of ersily, or more cheerfully, to com . pulscry education than History has estab- I Prussians, wh SESSION, TUESDAY AU- | 30 00 4 4000 |, GUST 131H, 1878. 5006 Reported for the Tel. & M for Upon this depends the welfar the citizen, the prosperity and stand- C ston. makes it one the duties of listed the fact that those governments | and felt its blessings, sou presiding officer to open the excrr- that foster most lilents cases of your convention with an ad sciences all dress on some appropriate tlcmic. Butucationat advantages Xwould as soon look for a never tail- in rust proof out, a complete cotton , pure and Dicker or for an infallible panecea for hOffice first door cholera for a. subject for discourse to 39 00 6500 7000 A T 1 ORN EY A T L THOMASTON, G Al Will practice in the various State and Federal Courts. r North 01 the Webb House mch 12-1y W. X. BEALL Attorney and Counsellor at Law THOMASTON, GA. LEMEN OF THE CONVENTION Custon, makes it 01 Will practice in the various Courts of come exl 2 iv the State of Georgia. G Office in the e exhausted in Court-house—down stairs. mch5-ly | how JULIUS E. H. MATTHEWS ATTORNEY AT LAW Thomaston, Ga. Office ubsairs Cheney Buildings J. A. COTTEN TTO RNEY tAW, Thomaston, Ga. Will practice in all courts in the State rompt attention given toall business en- usted to him. mch5,-ly A. C. GREENE TTORNEY AT LXt, THOMASTON, GEORGIA. Collections a specialty: Office th Inson’s Building. * mch5,-ly JOHN F. REDDING ORNEY ATi ill practice in all the courts of 1V mch5,-y the HUNT & TA IOR, eh do these its power berally the arts and FRASER |sciences are the most advance T v st advancedin ed-in one year appropriated over $£000,- tainment, intellectual scientific at- 000,for educational purposes, one- |material prosperity. I st 1 and | half of which was devotee to prima- Recognizing this ry and secondary education. As far civilized world Is Inter ‘I a, the ack ns 1831, she sent a distinguished si- IneFemAie ERcdlatiel facies emoractum 6Ry JA thereby [laying the I the educational want of her millions| greater adyancement she became active and zealous see the cause of popular education, and con i. convinced that in quered, yet 001> and con- a p- propor ion to the intelligence of the | quickened by be- |masses will be the material growth C- for a. subject :L to this society, outside . of the beaten path or some new field of the people, where cotton does not grow and corn | foundation for is not known in its furrows. In truth, A prosperity; for true statesman- the sibjeet of agriculture is so exten- ship has become sive (yet so familiar) that many prehensive that mother earth may |and prosperity of that peopts. STONRL |ical economy teaches no greater truth I than that industry will be applied to , capital in proportion to the intellect- sowing in the Imtry or dark nights, | a Batio a Ilie (co n as faring Isuppose, that the starry | upon the alisnin depends largely lot ter resources, are PLANTING IN THE MOON, while other equally enterprise Spheres will become conversant with industry and capital co-operation of their modes of culfnn. 0, zthCt capial, every. w: ... . - ( 1 ulture; some fearful that invites these elements of Cg a deep wound in nature’s should bo cherishedsin . ) X face, sweep gently over it, while oth- The question shied and fostered. of inflictin a deep wound in nature’s purposes, one yet enlightened France or Murray, nor the agriculturist learn the nature of vegetalle matter, the composition of the soil, the anvivsis sites, and flows on to the sea, iai ac cordance with the laws of its being. [So should the seed of man’s intellect |the streams of his understanding be permitted to germinate in soil, or flow in channels for which nature’s God of fertilizing food from the learned Anbsis of Zenophon or the smooth has made and fashioned them. If you True, the want the oak, plant the acern. So: if Illiad of Homer. miner. the mechanic Herald Ihave always seriously doubt- ed, and shall continue to do so until more fully confirmed respect it Interviewers Have or Inte displayed so much cunning and m inin the practice of their pursuits y incredulity will not ief mak- I. M. GILLELAND, ANFriCT HME A.. DEALE IN Harness, Saddles, Bridled; ANb you want the niechanie, the agricult- appear urist, the manufacturer, the profes -4 sional niari, educate them forthe call, tou successtary fields and farms, and ings and industries adapted to their have flourished and prospered with tastes and capacities and their avoca the eaching of our schools and col- tion will be a practical blessine in leges, but they have not kept pace and the agriculturist have made in- ventions and explored mines, cultiva- ted successfully fields and farm ‘the educated Indus- with those of other tries of her people, has been sitee the war of desolation, more re- cent than ours, to lift from her peo-, ple the enormous debt exicted of say: her by her conquerors. How differ cut the condition of Spain, once the NURSE OF SCIENCE countries and enabled states, where schools in these prof agency I and (Io cradle of great captains," yet wealth for the last centur naturally suggests it: self here, in what condition of socie- ers less heartless plunge deep the un- feetinzes scooter, while hilden nntire Ex may we expect to finl this mutual eks as dependence most recognized and ch- courage? In one where he inteleet- ualenltivation of the people excites hat people to encourage a harmoni- ous co-operation of these elements, or in one where ignorance, filing to 1 reedgitize the importance, oftheir mu- tual dependence, nurses the danger- ous fallacy that they are antipodesii interest and destiny, and deceived by this idea of antagonism, sits down in idleness and sloth, regardless of the present and hopeless of the future? , Ineed not argue to this intelligent body the proposition that if the Same amount of labor and capital is cm- ployed ih communities, the produe- . Cales fivettess of that labor and capital will but it may be said all this. eie greatest in that community true, common school education where there is most intelligence and be adapted to old and thickly VII ue, and that the more universal lated countries. Tint. reveals her clay and worn looks: the subsoil turns the sod. The ewels that glower in the sunlight or glisten ing her million self. trop. The earth feed- 8, asks food for her- ,Science burns the rock on her hilg that she may subsist upon their ashes. Chehistry, alkalies and acids, that she may drink the ammonia of life. Geogony, with ail eye to her material support, furnishes the ingredients of present, necessities and future supply, while Hydrography is measuring her rivers and seas to ascertain their ca- pacity and satisfy her thirst. Nature when left alone will support herself, but avaricious man robs her of her treasure, then reluctantly supplies her necessities ilien she seeks his assist. Ince. U | TIE WELL FILLED CISTERN, W, from which a hundred pipes are con- |er will be ducting the water, will so on exhaust | labor and |that, water unless fed by streams equal | of ountles comprising |ill capacity to the waste; so will the I PROS; A T L A that intelligence er will be the productive chess of that capital in all the elements Hightower EER STEWART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. and Federal. 7 inallthe Courts both State June omal-ser- ie prompt attention to Office at his resident DR.G W. T. HANNAH, THOMASTON 6 A. Tits is Hot the Becasion of accident, |but results from the facts cunei. 11 Inn continues to exhaust Net acsiiteciigan cojuiv-alive, that intelligence is industrious| ex IAIN Aoeliieme, miit 5 Hew ficl Hlabor taken from her Sisthwel is we have conquest. The other beats the tattoo her origlaal Iinsi her to and fi town to sletip, stutistied with duettos nition, with her pro- the surroundings of the present. The |impaired, is 01 f the gran T of this Societ. If she c: ok the untutored 4 thology, to avert the disease that cau-| ses the desolation. If she cannot re- the citizci government has an Inter - call Cresaislie will hold up the gar- . ments The worefand point to the rents provision |ment and and for its prosperity and qu ) they ntside by Cassius, the envi- a, and beloved Brutus, that children. imnortal tead of a theoretical advancement EDUCATION SHOULD BE NATURAL. ions have been established and fos-ronulid takes no pleasure in studies : Well does the Commission Duisive to its inclination and tastes, that those countries where I acs when the force which Binds :farte—* . to them is withdrawn, it abandons -them, because they were unpleasant 3 and unnatural. Water forced by rains or engines up the mountain side, finds evidence of thrift and | Its native element in the streams at its Thrift and | base, so will the youthful niind, ele- rated by parental authority to posi- mines of tions unnatural and unloved, fall schools for instruction in taufactur- ing working in metals, in mining engineering and agriculture, were the acknowledged leaders of all oth- ers in their ry she has neglected the educational wants of lior people and year after year she sunk in the T 1 X - .. |tons unnatural scale of nations till her resources were inori wealth ? Our peopleto-day, back again to the GRt DiOVe (Shausted, her government defied and | despite of 1 IC great advance made t ral tendencies, when IDA of is her name despised. Seeing hehselffinder the guidance of Professor Lit- rm 1 . When that Dowe outstripped in the race of material are ignorant of the immense otten progress, she has awakened to a true | treasure inibedded in her mountains sense of her condition, and for Have we no vast ware last twenty years under a system of powers con pulsory education, she is oivino prosperity. A, 0 T: And has Georgia no rich mines noved. natu- 1 want of proper school too |has L , * VERE Fant has held such high positions that 11 |am unwilling to believe that he will| voluntarily go back on himself, or on| the troops that served him with all| the ardor and devotion of their na- Ies, as he seems to have done, and which I can account for in no other way than that he was in his cups, or that the prospect of a third term had ,.this brain. ()f course Genera1 Grant will never Ue chargel erm en or 28 constantly on ban 1. Roddies of thatave mentioned artjo Bridies a speetnimed on the best Tree neatness and dispur pairing done wi Also, I have with me: Prices reasonab USD.. N. PATTERSON, M.1 SUGGS & PATTERSON; THOMASTON, GA. Tender the public their profession "Stay ruffie up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound earth, that shall move The stones themselves to rise and mu tiny.” 14 u- In this way she hopes to Ittoclaim and rebuild the agricultural and me- chanical interests of the State. It is a commendable avocation, a patriotic enterprise sustained by the demands of the age and urgod on by a desire to advance the people and promote the great interest of the common- wealth. IXIT +A...1 4117 111 his tenders the citizens of Upson if vices and solicits their pat- feet kinds of dental work done istan satisfaction guaranteed in desire W ill visit the residences 1thmoure work done. All orders me noth the Post Office, or left at attention Thomaston will have 1 ion. may22-tf THOMASTON, GEORGIA R.J. M.BIALOCK There was a time in the history of Rome, so says a traditionary legend; when a wide gulf opened in the forum presaging ruin to the city, because in it wasaugured the anger of heaven; consternation seized the inhabitants, the gods were consulted as to its pro- tentions import, while the dha visit Thoma ston: call at his De four Dent al Work done as tracted eeth inserted, teet filled, eof the tee h att ended to in the Dental Aat. Call one |yout only call again, bt t will arts it, friends, including your WARP Nother-in-law. -ALL and hear ED. .0 Office, on moa his Dwelling, tf Fllino+ \ COUNTY — Leroy ftheon, Administrator, de bo-- . has estate of Sandy a Chapell, sapplied to me for leave to This property belonging to said erned therefore to cite all per- of T • to show cause at Septem- have son Court of Ordinary, it anted.) said application should Ihand and official signature,| 878. AMOS WORRILL, _ Ordinary, RIED EE MONS, W. WHEILEIS, the FRENCH BOOT MARIE be glad to meet his ANKER, who wiH many new ones ustomers and as prepared to do all kill call on him, he is coarsest Brogan to the work from the MNEf. i MANUEL SPEIR, BOOT ANDSHOE MAKER, ‘THOMASTON, GA. , . Doken the sub- stance of the interview as reported to us, for that is foreign to his style, as any one who has either read or lis. tened to him can readily discover. I strongly suspect that the interview was "coached, by another officer of the army, of high rank, whose peen- Har mode of warfare for some time past has been oriis covert character. ut before calling your attention to some of what I consider inaccuracies in Mr. Shanks’ letters Imay pezhilse brice fly by saying that it was not the intention of the General-in-chief for any part of the army of the Potomac to take a leading role in the opera- tions around Chattanooga, which thtet I was not aware of until my com- land was divided and the Eleventh corps of it sent across the Tennessee to reinforce General Sherman, who, with the Army of the TonSs vho. compels parents to adopt this forcing system of education which re- stiltsi: dwarfed, ruined intellects, becaUSe the avocation is unnatural and tie talents misdirected. Giveis no inviting fields for agri- culture and science? Ile wlio is con- versant with the history of his F • also the mistory of itlay. For |knows that in all these elenients she |centuries she was the bright star of . Is tistipassed and unrivalled, and if the world of sience, yet her masses :these new alliances, these great pric- were uneducated and her posterity leal agencies, CAR be secured for us, waned and her sun of glory set. Yet new )ife will be infused into our : their blessings and 2 :v her Garibaldi and other great people, idleness will abandon the - - HE Sand a smaller number Became aroused to hei condition and : State for profitable employment and tonchia a: industrial pursuits, population will settle among us, and our people, in- spired by their energizing influence, will rejoice in the hopes of renewed life and vigor- Such is also the history of Itlay. For| State then those schools of industrial ed cation and you will fnd none of our H be secure: young men engaged in those indus- Itries because a proper knowledge of them will enhance the application of 2 id Stateng) Cheneyi l, do all Kinds of Boot and Shoo his patrons andruaranten satisfaction to ceived in exchaunt y produce will be re- your orders None for work. Send in _ : mehl2-1v, READ THIS touched her with the WAX OF UNIVERSAL EDUCATION and Itlay Ilves and breathes e: lated countrie but may be may y popu- it never can be made available in a sparsely settled agriculture country teachings of history Such is not t e Look at Nor- |way her people are mainly agricul- tural, with but little arable land n1 trialy axe Maid is eve Dte land, and slie has adopted a systent of common try, and remaining Istertile coun- certain months coin schools, arc giving the means of education to 150,000 chil- dren and yet not ntore than onnse able for cultivation en, an inhospitable will, abandon the will flock to the already overcrowled |professions. Elevate your agricultu- |ral and mechanical pursuits and you will enlist in their interests many of the youth of the land. . Anewera has dawned, a higher civilization is blessing the wor earth is developing new means. Wealth, and applied science is secur- 1 he young are naturally ambitious. "ROPER- They desire honor and applause. And a proper education of the people will suor Pestilt in a high standird of indus- -Id;the trial pursuits, and hence will enlist of more of the country in their progress and advancement. Aonnl: operating 01 the opposite extremity of the enemy s line; and then you will see by my report that Iapplied to. with the Eleventh corps, as they were going into battle. 1have a good lot LEA THER, BO OTS & SHO S SUCH AS MEAT, FLOUR, COFFEE SU3A3 Subsequently the river got up, car- ried away the drift wood and broke Wmrehin g to the Itile of tie Mierus minis or the Be CIk A aA conquest; old ocean, ! broad field for research, for cultivate invites to otlidi sings a ceaseless A . NouL WillexehangeforItido: MONEY. LG DOWNS. A I inse who owe me must com and settle, either with the CASH or note, as I wish. Drages before all of Sherman’s army had crossed, and then it was de- termined, and not till then, that I might niske, with one division of the as. Tweinh corps and two divisions on $60 other armies, a demonstration on Lookout Mountain, General Grant they act previously communicated a de- HAL not LA P accounts Ruy loner fox Ac meth me soen * will pay meh6-1v B. B. WHITE, want a busines XHttelleet. Honor and usefulness wwait those who enter these fields and REAP THEIR HARVESTS. Sterious source,: ag of progress, tribute upon licr| work Portia nd, Maine. Sign to attack Lookout Mountain, but after a division of my command, it is A TOOSA SPRINGS GEORGIA equally clear and gatisttetory that his- original design had been abandoned Tars delightful summer resort It is a mistaken idea, my countrymen OKS THE HANDS that honor and distinction are found noxs|only in professional paths. Cuvier, her billows Na |Lavoisier, Humbolt and Agassiz will live in history when the barristers of meiwwa their day will be conigna.t toeivi- on. History may record in golden letters, the fame of those "learned in the D the profession" who have walked be- the im- fore us, in the path of honor and fe- now, but the mighty engine wheel- Georgians, the glory of your |ingacross continents the cominterce of demands enlarged and petienl by k | nations transmit to 1 oiterity the terms of education for the dever lA Vatts, while the bursting dean - . is co- billows ploughed by the ocean steam urch, without | the utilization of all the elements or er will dived forever the requiem of ere can be no in- your power and wealth. Catching the | inon. The towering column may waters, and COMMERCE IN lu- ture, in all her ele men t 3 and rock v For this I try possessing but few adva of this |great energy and : • : |taUlisled in addition intelligence of et-PIOstess, development, coun- |is grasping after infinity The finite will. She ha yet | longing for things Uns es- huntan mind, stanped the visible while the and it was only through the interven- tion of Divine Providence that an op- portunity was presented me for tack. Ilius you see "man often pro- poses, but God disposes.” * at- or opened for the reception of visitors no the ist of June, with an ENTIRE CHANGE OF MANAGEMENT. Its fine location, in the health and picturesque region of North own advance- should make for the education of its Recognizing this fact, the Webster say: "Who can England, as it should be spoken of; who can speak of the wisdom, fore- sight, benevolence and sagacity of our forefathers in establishing a gen- oral system of public instruction as a great public policy for the benefit of the whole, as a business in which all are interested?. When you talk of fostering governments, of guardian governments, of governments which render to subjects that protection |which the allegiance of the subject |demands (and I might add of gov- ernments derived from and sustained by the people), when is it," he adds, "that as is here vWith us, it has come to be a great and FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITION oracles existing before Constitutions, that it is the duty, the bounden duty of governments, composed by the, rep- resentation of all, to buy the dative gave answer that the chasm would . not close up until Rome cast into it of the happiness and respectability whatever was most precious to Rome. Rich and costly were the offerings brought to satisfy the angry fates; yet vain were the rare gifts, for it ... hot till the manhood of Rome offered in the of society in universal education?” Other States and other govern- ments have recognized this obligation I and to-day are taking noble efforts itself a willin g sacrifice that the gulf was closed and the city saved. The tradition, whether false or true, con- veys a wise lesson, that the welfare and condition of a State depends up on the 1 PATRIOTISM OF HER soxs. And looking at my own old common- wealth the question suggests itself, has the Curtean lake opened itself and| is there not manhood sufficient among her sons to save her from impending disaster. States, like individuals, have their crisis, upon the determina-| tion of which depends their Success| and existence. France read her des- tiny by the lurid light of the Kremlin and the smoking walls of Moscow. Poland heard her knell in the dying DR.BUTTS No.12 N.EighthSt, cords the epitaph of Cartlinge fir St. Louis, Mo. Hannibal s slow progress to the gates of Rome, while Rome secured a spec- dy transfer of the war from her gates greats? IWECe es of bLXperience in the treatment of the given male and female than any physician we results of his long and Successfri works, just published, entitled - ivurnergzes OLOCY OF MARRIAGE to the decisive fields of Zatha ; and z %Feld, and Self.Tnstructors in all mat- • They, son and Womanhood, and supply a ally undere beautifully illustrated, and in plain ntain vale stood. The two books embrace 545 01 the recnshie information for both married and our homer t improvements in medical treatment new worDapers say: "The knowledge imparted something is in no way of questionable char- etim of that every one should know. The thy maybe indiscretion; the Man, otherwise the wbe, but with waning vigor in theprime we, too, may repeat their histories, unless we adapt ourselves to the stern necessities of the present, and the plume, $1 $ in cloth an * in 20009 V O etent GLE FE reat, course of popular in: struction. Their Statesment locking to the grand results of the future, high attainments in the arts and sciences, exalted position in all that elevates a people, enlarged material prosperity and vwealth, have risen to the enter- geney of the times, and the demands of the age, and either by laws for local taxation or governmental as- sistance are laying deep the found- tion of ppoular education, and there- fore of material prosperity. In so do- ing they are profiting by the voice of experience and walking BY THE LIGHT OF THE PAST. Bear vith me while Iallude briefly to some, for their, course may be a lamp to guide us in the path of duty. First in the van is She was the first to adopt a sy stem of instruction for the people, and to-day she has 25,000 common school an attendance of about :,1 with children, supported chiefly by local -kingaGhme: peortieu of the |mintiorith delrici claims as kingdom, her migratory school SYS-| term, and to-day she is educating ov- er 500,000 children, who under the| |ac 10 nt usages of the Kingdoni, cannot |ment of all your Industrio |Be confirmed by the chdr • --Dndstrte |which confirmation then termarriage, unless one shows he is able to read or write, and, says the his and practical SV Idi attack and carry Lookout Mountain, and this was the first assu- rance to General Grant that he was to be successful in all lis operations around Chattanooga, Etthough Gen Shersian had repeatedly informed him of successes which were not Aim of : crealized. spirit of theage; establish and foster toriar in this little Sosu C IS - those measures of improvement and i J S. tie State, surrounded progress. Sustain your agricultural by so many disadvantages: there is as | schools, your small a per cent, or persons who can- |logical bureaus. - not read or write as in any country people; marching to th 11 the world. • 12 0810 Imight point to Holland, compel- iilg lice commoners in their own countries to support their primary schools; to the German States those beacon lights along the shores of na- tions, where parents canidt fail to send their children to school without fine and imprisonment; to Bavaria with a population about double that of Georgia, only five per cent, of whom are unable to read or write. To Wurtemburg, where element- ry education has been compulsory| for twenty years, and whose intellee.| tual condition and resources ‘agricultural and peo- Then will your MUSIC OF PROGRESS |lend your State to Lugner attitudes than she occupied in the day that are past. Blended with the Univer- sity of the State, it combines w With agriculture its classics and scientific departments, and if the associatidi is equal (and I trust it is) it must and should command not only the sup- port of the agriculturists of Georgia, but the fostering care of the Gov- ernment in supplying it with material and libraries. * * * * * * * and whose intellect not satisfied that science has .a opened her literary treasuries to the learned and the wealthy, bitt so open the averities ot knowledge that he who toils for his daily bread cast re- ceive for His family its advantages and blessings. Faster the agricultu- ral college connected with this time- honored University, which eiv coin- mand the admiration of the World; to Switzerland, whose sys. tem bears a striking resemblance to that generally adopted in the United States, which is elevating her in the scale of nations But I have instanced a sufficient number of examples, fur- nished by history, and so satisfactor- ily compiled by Mr. J. W. Hoyt, the| United States Commissioner to the| en the State her Cobbs, her Toombs, her Stephens, her Lumpkins, her Iierces, and a host of others who have made that State glorious, yet montment Pitt, Fox, Calhoun and Webster, but Jupiter and Saturn will sound on and on down the ages the name of Gallillio. Poets sin: sweetest verse for centuries to come the praise of Cicero and Deniosthenes, but the starry spheres will hymn for- ever the fame of Kepler and the name of Herschel The broad fields are still fiviting and no people are more interested in a proper appreciation of their labors than are the planters of Georgia for I their profession and their home. It throws a charm around the intelli- gent home circle, that vice cannot break, nor misfortuile despoil. It is the private life, the character at home which portrays the real man, and the habits of domestic life are indices of the greatness and weakness of hu- manity. I look forward with much anxiety to the future of this people. I catinot foresee the ISSUE or Tug STRUGGLE against misfortunes that have befall- en tliem, but I know that such a con- flict nourished in the people an ele- vated principle of honor and a p: triotic desire for independence. Press for ward, then farmers of Georgia in your work of restoration, reclama- tion and advancement, and be assure |Paris Exposition of 1867, to convince you that the civilized word is |ALIVE TO THIS GREAT INTEREST, |and their own welfare. |And shall we gentlemen, in the face of these efforts of other countries, ! shall we fall behind them, and our| sister States in this Union, who, I am| proud to say, are marching in the i that they may bless that section with which underlines their virtue, front rank of the people in this great | their influence, you will have done 4:12 . revolution of the nineteeth century? much to elevate and improve your GRANTS AFTER-THOI 6 Shall it always be said of the States of the South that we are laggards which languish to-day for want of that support which the State so just- ly owes her. Sustain your agricultu- ral school in North Georgia, which is doing so much, be it said to her hon- |ten brings deliverance and hope, for ed that while prosperity hasits pleas- ures and enjoyments, misfortune of- Chaplain Van Horn’s his- torv of the Army of the Cumberland will present you with all of the facts, and I know them to be facts. General| Grant or general anybody else to the I contrary notwithstanding. General (Grant, as well as some other officers JAACANUAIC der It one of the most desireable waferisiz places in the South. Four tre: 1 the western and Atlantic I# of tween Atlanta and Chat i bad he- depot, two and t half LENT IN Ora pass the the springs, where comsitant from ances are always in WaitiTalle convey- etorswill endeavor to ITNRI I he propri- in every respect to X make it acceptable ous. Ki Terms $10 00, he most fastidi- WE C IE IIEON ST DOPG 1801 11 rank) is famous for after- thoughts, as you will find on critical examination. We had, and I presume still have, rings in the army as well| as out of it. i have not written 80 mich about the fight at Lookout since i the war as I now have, as I am anx ious that you should know all the facts. My, fight at Lookout might have equalled General Grant’s in the WH derness had I closes to advance in front on the enemy behind their in- trenchments, which seemed to be Nig favorite mode, but which his whole army revolted at Cold Harbor. But I had no particular desire to be consid- ered a butcher in ily mode of making war. Sometime i do hope that a com- mittee of intelligent and fearless Con- Stessmen may be appointed to inves- tigate this subject and to report not only on this battle, but Shiloh, the losses in the Wilderness, etc., etc., as in no other way can the truth of history be made out. General Ingalls, Grant’s own quartermaster, informed me that he tarnished transport tion for 90.000 men to go north between tie Rapi- dan and James rivers, and, of course, this number could not embrace all the casualties. If 6 : to reaeli the third term by the ci Bou of such imposing and abomi able statements I aminclined to think that he will find it rough traveling or, for the improvement of the people | no misfortune is irremediable as long | before he reaches Iocs tr and the advancement of the State; es- as the spirit of the people is unbrok- you may feel assured that tit tablish similar onesin lower Georgia • en, 10 calamity irreparable but that | not his statements. Some oneis you may feel assured that these But IN THE INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT of your people blend the material and I. C. I lant & Sons, BANKERS AND BROKERS MACON, GEORGIA.‘ buy and sell Twondk Gold, Stocks and ID POSITS RECEIVED: Op w hich interest will be Allowed! US Collections promptly attended to THOMAS GOODSON, IDHIOTABLE BARBER and HAIR his friclsE. solicits the patronogef of Building ev at his shop in the Johnson 17 Terms reasonable 1 / 4* $ IP ANTI-FAT CORP OLENOE ALLAN’S ANTI-FAT upon the tool it end perfectly harmless. It acts converted into fat. Taxane preventing its being rection , it will reduce a in accordance with a(3 pounds per week, at person from two to five Harbinger or others f st adisse set, but the thousand years ago, and w Hippocrates twe the loss so to-day. 20410 What was true, then is none celptor slop. Quarter dozen scoot Par upon re- .° BOTANIC MEDICINE co., Proprictorc, Buffalo, V. z Someoneis "bull- |losing him, the same as was the ease among the politicians while he was administering the government as President. You probably saw an ac- count of an interview with me at Sar- FIGHTING JOE HOOKER REPLIES V ITH FORCE—A SHARP REJOINDER. Editor New York Tribune: My at- Mathar Washington (olege, Abingdon, Va. or and asor e of competent Profess General Grant and pretty muchey- erything else. I had learned early in the cause of popular education, and that of 5,000,000 and more of chil- dren in attendance upon common .: schools in 1860 and 1861 f one Jn civilization of the tim and a half of the white topulation ye young in the trades. The distribution was one in four in Drolessions, peculiarly adapted to one in fourteen in thetheir capacities and desires, if you But in addition to common | would have them proficicat in their schools to furnish for all children the| rudiments of a common English edu- ucation, we need practical schools |adapted to the enlightened demands of the age—schools of Agricultures. Mechanics, Mining and Maunfse the useful with the moral and es. Educate the the callings, the tention has just been called to an ar |life that the best mode of fighting th ticle in your paper over the name of William F. G. Slinks in regard to to Mr. I But before writing more let usturn TMr. Shanks letter. Not a man of Howard’s command was in the fight at Lookout Mountain, and if I had the surroundin advanced in front at the base of the mountain I might have lost half of sorry hesecpis to have forgotten some my command, and in the end have |of the circumstances necessary to a been unsuccessful. It was under the correct understanding of the fight, influence of my success, too, that na I have only a moment to call Thomas’ command made its glorious a alekly aware: 1 your attention to is few of his Here all 2 Mco f v@ acevect 3 Iwart, prominent omissions in his narrative, ! on the 24th and 25th, while the army EDUCATION DUST BE APPROPRIATELY ty. Nature, the great teacher, zu- but will refer you for full r details to v. AppLteD. trates the idea inculcated in all herli Experience has demonstrated that works. The Sweeting evel . sweelins Cyclone that desire to inform your elf further on 3,000,000 | the North, and Lv South. But in would have them proficicat taxation aided from the general funds of the government. And has not Prussia, realized the blessing of her system? Did she reap the full beife- fit of her expenditures in the war of the battle of Loookont Mountain. Af- ter the lapse of so much time since the battle was fought (if ever) I am egand healthful, and th, Mineral waters of great yn Lacious andele Sant, Thtains Besides a full course in the pressing demands of the ruture. The character of the age in which we live is our wakened spirit of pro- 1866, when the armies of the less cul- LTess and development, and if wetivated Austrian soldiery quailed would have a place of elevated posi- before her intelligent and victorious tion and honor we must understand yeomanry? A victory ascribed by and tendencies of the mind from their natural channel, but like the plant re- I moved from indigenious soil, it with- and Manufac- ers and dies, or grow |with faded bloom and blurred beau illus. my report of that battle, now on file 1hen in the War Department, should you on Grant’s left had accomplished nothing it was sent to do. Yours as J. HOOKER, Major General. Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., Aug. 17, 78 -,Gnterature, UDDex; il e offered in instrumental n-I tuition for ten men hs a rate. Next session b ber. S ni for Catalorte. - W ARREN D PRE Exit: s mod- President. PRESCRIPTION FREE Porthes— Ty Cure of S minal V weakness. Lost Manhood and all disorders brought on by in tis-
