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.1. V. GALLAIIIJi:, Kdllor.
SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1874.
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IT IS TOO SOON
To <vnvn* Uio ijnttttion on to who flbnll
Ik> tiko next Oovarsor. It i not the
friend* of a party who urge#* bin claims to
pieferatent at |Ui> onrly rhiy. Why bring
OrmoitArJfiiHinon Ixifore tho pul*lioat. this
unocitnormhlc period, more thnn two yearn
before the election will take plane. Ho i ,
a man of apotloss dmmcUr, worthy of tlio
highest position on account of his eminent j
qualities of heart atul mind. 110 is not ;
Onlk*rnatorial lui'iors. Ho is not j
asking hi* frirttifls to urge nny of hterhiim* |
or any rights tlmt lie may posses* toprefer
jucjit. If it i* hi* friemls tlmt is thus car
Iy urging his claims wo think they are act
ing indiscreetly nml certainly in such a
way as to defeat their own object. Why
not wait patiently and note the events un
til the time arrives nml then in conjunc
tion with nil of his friends in the State,
Democratic Convention make him the
nominee in and urge him to accept the norm"
nation and for the interest of the Ht&te lie
w 11 accept and the people every where will
say amen.
Wale tru through Ihe press tlmt 11 It,
Hill li.-tH'beeu and is standinglUxllwa under,
etaml-will continue to stand for Congress
in the Ninth District until the day of the
election. This brings 11 m standing with his
wavering political .record exposed to the
j let a* well ns unjust criticisms. We have on*
iy to say tlmt we admire the talent of Mr.
Hill, but we think his past history ex- j
poses his great want of firmness and sin-i
itilify. Judging bin future by his pant we
think it not at all unsafe to say that if Den
does sland firmly upon tiny principle from
now until the next Congressional election •
it will he the longest stand he ever made
in polities.
H's political record is certainly n ' ii-ful
one. having been on both sides of the
most important questions. In l.is notes
on tlioj situation he rebuked the Kadi
cals for doing what, ho in his new dt pnr
tnro spceehi and nrliclcs denounced* the
Democracy for not endorsing.
He was the denunciator of Bullock tut
the chief captain of a party of plunderers
and thieves and than supped with him and
gave ntoast to his long life and prosperity, ■
and in an assemblage of Bullock ltepubli- i
cans, he said lie was not u Democrat and if
ho hud ever been lie “didn’t go to be.”
There is but two parties and if ho is not a
Democrat why urge him or even per
mit him to eland in the Ninth District for
Congress. We think a good, well propor
tioned Democrat might make a viry t.ue
coNsitil stolid in tlmt District,
A NEwTeGREE.
What will the Grangers of Georgia do
iu reference to the new degree as practic
ed in Kentucky. Hear what, they did at
ft met tir.g of one of their Lodges:
Quite recently, while there came a mo
mentary lull in the proceedings, a young
brother and sister of the order walked to
the front of the chaplain and were united
in marriage. The i ntiri audience was ta
ken by surprise, having had no intimation
that there was to he a wedding. Moft eyes
began to dart love glances around the j
Orange, and diffident bachelors exclaimed !
that the new order exceeded their inoat
sanguine expectations in providing life
partners for the faint hearted. No one
need my, after this, there is any danger of
the Grange idea becoming polluted with
politics. No sir, not while there aro snub
clmnecs for using the more improved ns
"veil as old styles of agricultural imple
ments, such as thrashing machines, cra
dles etc., as is now offered to the “Pat
rons of Husbandry,"
To the Member* cf the Georgia Press
Association.
Attention is called to the following res
olutions adopted by the Association, May
!), 1872:
Whereas, A number of journalists of
this State arc part imbuing auxiliary pub
lishing houses, and believing tliia to be
illegitimate and inimical to the press and
the best interest of the people.
Jtesmed, That tuis Association look upon
all such publications with disfavor, and can
in no wise recognize them as journalist or
members of this Association.
2 That ninety days from this date it
shall be the duly of the members of tli s
Asswustioii to strike from their exchange
list all who persist in using such publica
tions, ami ail who engaged in the Business
of auxiliary publishing.
3. Tnnt members of this Association
owning more than one paper shall hold
eaeti one of his papers subject, to the
rules, regulations and rates of this Asso
ciation.
4. That all the papersvopresonted in this
Association Ihi requested to publish these
tegnlutuias.
Hesolrc l, That advertising agencies that
shall, after present contracts arc comple
ted, aid or patronize auxiliity, publications ;
in this State, or for advtSrlisiug in this:
State, shah be dropped from the books
and business columns of the journals of
tiiis Association.
Pubiisd.ed by order of the Association.
J. 11. Esrinn, President.
Notes from Washington.
WasuixliTON, March 10. A paper has
been prepared by Mr. Pratt, member of
tn- tVuteiiuiid stuff, showing from the
official statistics of immigration from 1809 j
to 1873 that the average tucvciise of immi
gration into the United Sodas for tlios,
t un j eers was over a hundred thousand
e year over that for iy pi feeding period
of il'mr years, and was largely due to our
of and <• national issoatvcs
end the products <ff industry at the Paris
exhibition in 18(;7, together with the iu*
tonnatiou disseeimoUnJ by tho coannis-
MOll.
The lowest cso- , 1 placed by the stain
tieiacs and pmilirui economist* upon the
average value of immigrants is 8800 a
piece to the Boautry, so that the increase
of immigration for these four years
amounted to $820.1)00,000. It was pre
dicted by General Banks. Mr. Beckwith,
Mr. J. B Buggies and others that u gr.ul
Kierease of immigration would follow stieh
an exhibit its we made. What will tic the
effect of if foil eslubil in ItsTG of all our
marvellous and varied re ourees ? 1 iicse
immigrants me many of them skilled
tiiiuiera and lutisuus of the most thrifty
nations of Europe, und every Spate of the
rtsith which makes at the exhibition a
proper exhibit of its ngriuuitural and min
eral wealth, w.ii secure a shaven: this im
migration, composed cubl'cly of white
people.
[ Written fur the IsnKresusxT.J
PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
War and a true prosperity are fncom-
I puliblo. Tin y cannot co-exist among a
people any more then light and dark
j ness caii When darkness comes on
I light departs, and an when scimiters and
I swords clash, and sliot ru 1 shell fly and
blood flows, then prosperity plumes her
pinions and taken her flight, uml will not
return until the sword is sheathed and car
nage ends. When a people expends their
strength and resources In crippling and
killing one another, prosperity is impossi
ble; for now the soil goes untilled, the
spindle and the shuttle cease to whirl and
ily, the fires of tho foundry go out, the
goods and wares of tho merchant rust and
mill won tho shelves and the men 1 an
ship rots intlie harbor. There is a general
stagnation of busincm ,
We have hud u civil war, wo say to
our shunto. In it bravery enough was
displayed on both sides. Blood enough
wus shed on both sides. It lusted long
enough, too long, and it was fierce
enough to make it fiendish. But it has
ended, ended wo trust, forever, and we
think that God has decreed that wo hence
forth shall bo ono people. And tho sooner
wo tmjto up our minds to this and break
down every middle wall of partition,
banish from our lips and lives every!king
that tends to exasperate, and so to prevent
the old wounds from perfectly healing,
the better. I am from the North. 1 wus
born in the North, I was educated in the
North. Vale, tho alma mater of many a
Southern man, is my alma mater. But 1
I am not a citizen of Connecticut or of New
| England, 1 am a citizen of tho United
States; and by the United States I stand,
; by my country 1 stand, no part or portion
| of it from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from
j ilie. Lakes to tho Gulf of Mexico being
j left out.
But wo who were temporally and
foolishly divided aro slow, too slow,in com
ing together. 1 suppo. o that this is natural
(but such a ghastly wound us our civil war
made should bo very slow iu healing.
But surely eight or, nino years should bo
long enough for o cure, and to-day, no
bear should bo viaiiwi to tho keenest vir
ion. Our country is one, our language is
one, and our interests aro ono. The
| North cannot injure the South und not in*
| jure itself; and the South cannot injure!
| tho North and not injur* itself.
Wo urn like the several part-: i
I of the human body, if ono member suffers
all the members suffer with it. And the
great question now is, how can the old
wound he quickcstand tho most thoroughly
healeu? We can only in tho briefest
manner touch on this subject. And in
the first place we must let bygones In by
gon':i. Evil, and only evil results from
constantly bringing up old diiflcultties,
discussing them in public, iqid so keeping
our feelings sole and soured.
Carrion that, has been dead for years is
too old for decent people to feed upon. It.
should he. buried at nco and forever, bu
ried bona and muscle, born and hoof, beak
and claw; buried a thousand feet under
It u and; so dio;> that nftt even the most,
neneative nostrils shall detect tho least
oder. We say therefore let us bury pant
difficulties' and build no monument to
their memory.
Also let all vituperative language and
harsh utterances cease. It is a poor cause ,
that neoils such support. If there has
been a time for calling hard names and
hitter railings that tuiw has passed. Audi
concerning tin’s matter certain newspapers,
wo think aro fearfully at fault. It seems
as if they wore determined that tho old
wound should never heal. Day after day j
they pamper low prejudices and feed the
• fires of jealousy and bate. By their angry
words nud by calling hard names they
hinder tho growth of good feeling. They j
make the South ally of tho North nud the
North shy <■* the South. They prevent
free and friendly intercourse between tile
two sections of the country. They prevent
capital and enterprise from seeking the
places where they are tho most needed,
and will work the greatest improvements.
It seems that lii.r y newspapers in our
country thought that they would die for
want of patronage unless they weekly and
daily presented to their readers a bill of
faro composed chiefly of worm-wood and
gall, denouncing men and measures in :
language too course even for a low state of
civilization. If wo xristake not, it win.
certain newspapers and a few politicians
without principle and fail of selfishness
that plunged the nation into war, and that
are now doing all they can to foster the
spirit of unfriendliness and sectional pre
judice.
Wi cordially believe that if these papers ,
1 had, with the ending of the war, ended
: their Billingsgate and been more coneilitt
! tory iu their tone and temper, a much bet-
I ter state of things would have existed, than
; exists to-day. And in a great measure it
Auouins with these to say whether preju
dice, distrust, and division shall continue,
and peace nmi prosperity lie iudetinite
jly postponed, or whether these shall die
and tho dividing chasm be filled up and be
i planted with cotton and corn, with no armed
I soldiers,no bristling embattloun uts to pre
, vent from crossing, or even an alarm
bell to intimidate the timid. And wo be
unto those whose tongues and whoso pens
delay the burial of the battle uxo, and the
ushering in of the full noontide Of pence.
The North wants the South. It wants
its cotton and its pines, and whatever can
Ibe grow iu its lovely climate, and the
South wants the North. It wants whatev
ier its soil will produce and its uiumifncto
ries can turn out. It wants its surplus cap
ital and its spirit of enterprise, and what
| ever will help develop the resources of the
■ South, And tin-re is but one way in
which each can get what each wants; and
that is by cultivating u spirit of forbear
] ance and kindness; by banishing from our
vocabulary every harsh epithet and every
j hard name. And w hen the newspapers no
longer contain editorials steeped iu gall,
j and grievous words that only stir up an-,
gel-, and when they cease to speak of our
one county nif it was two, ntid show a
spirit truly pacific, then tho year of Jubi
lee will come. And I think that, the
masses are right, that what t i-y want and
are waiting for, is the full orbed day of
peace. At the North I hear no expression
of animosity toward tho Hnuth. Tho per
vading feeling m that of good will, -ami I
am glad to find this spirit so generally re
ciprocated by those I have met with at
the Month and such a readinesaon the part
■of tho better portion of its citizens to put
sway ull malice and to welcome every
worthy man to their large hearted hospi
tality, and to a home in their sunny dime.
And I truly believe that notwithstanding
all the untoward influences that are at
work, all the strivings and teachings of self j
Ish and scheming men, and tho false no
tions of ignorant men, good counsels
will ultimately prevail, and kindness and
courteousness will bo in the ascendant,
slid that an nnpreocdentcfl prosperity shall
he ours; a prosperity bounded by no State
lines, but only by n latitude and a longi
tude that shall take iu our entire nation.
God speed the dayt
/,. 11. Bubb.
Letter From Thcmasville.
TnoMASVtum, Ga,, March 19, 1871
Editor Ini Irpnndp.n t.-
As you are aware a special term of the
| Superior Court was held here, begirdng
tic- flint Monday in tic s month and ending
with Thursday of lant week. This Court
was intended to clear the jail of criminals
if possible -of which there was about
twenty—charged with different offences.
Three of these have joined tho chain gang',
two go to the Fenetentiary for four years,
two for life, and four to the end of the
rope. The Hall murderers, Emanuel,
Nimrod and Charley, also, Webster Lyon,
for poisoning his wife, are to be executed
on tho 17th of April next. It is believed
that Judge ILuiscH intends the execution
shall bo private. There seems to reasons
pro and eon as to tho effect publie or pri
vate executions may have upon evil doers.
II there in any advantage in ono plan over
the other tho people of Thomas county, of
all others, desire the benefit of the choice,
for there is not a county in the State
more cursed with criminolsand feloua.thun
our own.
This isa melancholy fact, and I regret,
its truth and reality an ir.it li ns any one;
but candor compels the statement. The
question naturally arises, why is this? Js
there uni/ poaticnlur pause for this outlatvery
anti crime? The answer is, our great
cause, underlying most, if not all (fit,
in km ii til ism in one-shape or another.
Before the war Thomas was ono of the
most, civil and lawtibiding counties in the
State, and known to bo ao far and near. I
say Ihuliculism Las reversed nil this and
converted our county (in many respects)
into a bedlam on earth.
I take it that the shit, incuts above rar.d ■
arc staidly true and can bo easily proven
logically by simply tracing cause to
effect. It may be that oilier causes have*!
iu some way, had something to do with j
the guilt of sonic of our jail-birds, buV I j
repent it, lhidii alism in some form or other, i
is rei.ponsibU: for nine tenths of aU the
crime iu the county. What tin awful,
amount of responsibility rests upon those
among us, who arc aiding and abetting j
in any way the powers that he, when they ,
know and realize the workings of these
evil influences day bv day in our own j
midst!
The negroes know that they have a;
voting majority in the comity of about;
five’ hundred. They aro naturaly cm-j
boldeuod by this, but their greatest cue- j
luies are the evil-doing white nidi that
aro counseling and advising them in po
litical light niei lings, for personal gain. :
Tiro legitimate fruit of this Bing b si-;
nesr,, an 1 j iglory, w.!l crop out at tho end
of ;t rope in nnsp-vikablc horror on the
17 th ot next month. Will the negroes,
take warning by the fate of the four who
are to suffer tho penality of death ou tho
day mentioned V
Will the white people who have been
meeting with these negroes in political
gatherings—many times in secret and un
der the cover of darkness cease these ox- j
maples and had advices for the good of the !
deluded race ? It is to lie hoped they i
will, and 1 think sonic of them that have -
a spark or two of humanity, and conscience j
left, will profit by the moral teaching of
tho last, two weeks, and what is laid out for
the next live.
Tho trial was ill si] respects fair. There :
w ere no jury bummers hanging around,
the Court House for once.in the lost five
years. Than: was a cause for this too.
There was no general presentments to fill
up, looking to new counties, building
new bridges, or complaints to make about j
Commissioners Court,all for peculating po- j
litieal misrule. These j elf crows will be in I
force at the next regular term of Court, !
we confidently expect. If they do not it'
will be an omeui of good to the-conn try.
The Medical Association to assemble
hero ou the Ist of April, is attracting some
attention. The proper committees have
the matter in hand, and from appearances
the association may, asd will be one of
more than ordinary interest to this sec-'
tiou of the State. Hon. J. It. Alexander
will deliver the welcome address on the
part of the citizens. This will be the 25tli
annual meeting of this body, and the firtst
in the piney woods proper, never hav
ing held a meeting south of Americas.
Now and Tiiun.
One of tho Republican newspapers in
St. Louis contemplates tire dissolution of
the Republican party ns a not very remote
contingency. Speaking of the trouble
which Butler has created iu Massachusetts,
it says :
Taken altogether, the trouble, which
would be bad enough if it w ere merely a
splinter, may be portentous of evil if it is
a split ; and it is possible that the cause
of it may find himself now, as he found
himself once before, on the wrong side of
the gap, and in his blustering assumption
of the leadership of the Republican party
he may experience the fate of one who j
tries to sit down on a chair when there is
no chair to sit on.
A PBKSIAN VISION OF TIIE
HKHF.AFTKIL
BY riSTBOUSDM V. ttASlir.
Aboii ben Adhere was annoyed one
morning by an elderly gentleman, who
desired to learn of the ideas the I'ersiau
sage had of the hereafter, particularly
as to tho style and quality of people who
would be likely to reach a future bliss.
Abou removed his chibouk from his
lips and moistening hi* throat with u long
draught of nherbot, apoke to him thus:
“My friend, many hundred years ngo,
when I was comparatively a voting man,
f dreamed ono night tlmt I hail shuffled
id! tiiis mortal coil, and was in the land of
tho hereafter. Me-thought I wimdecently
deceased, had been genteelly buried, and
a tombs tori o hud been erected to my mem
ory, on which was inscribed enough vir
tues to furnish iidozen. I blushed a spirit
liluhli wlmi I read that tombstone and ;
discovered whatan exemplary man I had
been, and I likewise wept a spirit-weep j
when I thought wlmt a loss the world bad
sustained in lny death.
“I ascended and was knocking at the
outer gate of Paradise for admittance.
Tho season hail been a very healthy one,
for a National Convention of Physicians
had been drowned while taking a steam
boat excursion on the Persian Gulf, so
the doorkeeper had but little to do w hile
[my case was being decided 1 whiled away
an hour or two ascertaining the where-’
about* of my old acquaintances, who laid
dt-ceusi and during the ten years previous.
“There are a large number of my friends
up hero V” 1 remarked inquiringly.
“Not very many,” was the reply.
Elm Beear is here, I suppose ?”
“Not any Ebn Ilecar,” was the answer.
“I am surprised,” 1 answered. "Ebn
Beear, the datc-sillcr, not iu Paradise!
Be cbesm, no man in Ispahan was more
| regular in his attendance at the 1.1-
I und he howled his prayer like a dervish,
i He was exceedingly zealous iu -keeping
! the fuithlid in the line of duty.”
“True 1” said tho doorkeeper, “true.”
' But, you see, Etui kept his eagle eye so
: intently fixed cm his neighbor's feet that
hiH own got oil' the road, and when he
pulled up it wasn't at tin* place ho had
[ calculated. His prayers were pleasing to
la true believer, but, ns they were not
hacked up by doing things iu proportion,
they failed to pass current here.”
“How fared it with Hafiz, the scribe?
!He was churituhle qo man gave more to
the poor than he ?"
“Hafiz did give many shekels to the
! poor each year, hut it was tho wav he
gave it that spoiled til-effect of his chari
ties. lie gave not for any love of his
kind, but because it. was n part of his sys
tem to give. 11c was afraid not to give.
Mo ho said, ‘I will answer the demands < f
the law oi the prophet by giving so much,
which will insure me paradise,’ nml fan
cied that was charity. When the widow
of Selim, the imile-ilriver, employed him
to save her inheritance to her children,
from her wicked lu-fiber, he requited ail
that tin: law permuted him to ex ict. •.•
that she said, ‘Lo I I might on well have
let my brother had the laud.’ tie an
swered, ‘The law gives it to rue go to!”
110 would Oppress tho poor in a tue iaoss
way, ami compromise with his conscience
by subscribing a tenth of bin profits to
charity, i 'ouiproinisiug never did work
iu such matters. The compromiser gives
to the devil something of value, and re
ceive:! iu return that which (hunt: him.
The oppressions aud grasping* of Hafiz
were i xuctly balanced,’in U'lmh* r, by Ins
charities, but as he died north a million,
the oppression side Wi* tho heaviest in
qualify. We keep books very accurate,
you olouu'vo.”
“Abdullah, the mak--v of shawls. i.>—”
“No he isn't. He was an ardent teach
er of the rides the l’ropbot gave for the
faithful, but he was the worst practice!' I
ever luid any knowledge of. Tee strong
waters of the Giaour ruined his iiihipects.
He preached abstinence from wine, but he
e. si .-badly partook of til- forbidden drink.
He loved wine, uml immediately proceed
ed to deceive liiiiu*!!' into the belief that
he lmd dyspepsia and hud to l,d;o it. Hear
ing once that strong liquor was an antidote
for the bite of a serpent, he aiiai-li-.tely
uioy- and into a province where serpents
abound 'd. He talked loudly against glut
tour, but excused himself for eating five
courses l.y holding Unit ho needed it to
keep himself up. He succeeded iu do
c* iviuglnr.iM I ,hat he couldn’t deceive m.”
“Kahkaui, the poet, whoso son . where
all in praise of virtue, is here ? Tin fer
vent goodness that produced such morality
nun I. be safe?”
“Quite wrong, my dear sir. Kahkani's
poems wore beautiful, but, hi as you, he
never felt the sentiment in them, lie had
an itching for fame, and writing spiritual
hymns happened to be his best hold. If
he could have written comic songs better
Ilian hymns lie would have written comic
songs. ”
“Who have you here, pray?"
“Saudi, the cauiol slioer, is here.”
“Saadi! Why, ho was constantly violat
ing the laws of the prophet,”
“True, lie would even curse the camels
he was shoeing, lint he was always son v
for it, and he would mourn over tho in
firmities of his temper, nud strove honest
ly and zealously all the time to live better
mid be better. He did not make a great
success, but he did iii I vat he row id. ID
gave liberally of his substance, without
hinting it all over Ispahan. When be gave
a dirhem he didn’t, pay the newspapers
two dirhems to ’make the fact" public,
which is my definition of genuine charity.
Then there’s I'ivdusi, the carpet cleaner —"
“He never gave , ily thfira. 1
“Certainly sot, for he had nothing to
give. The Prophet never asks impossibili
ties. Me would have given if ho had it,
and he tried hard to get it. Then there’s
Je'ubvd-'liit—”
“lie couldn't make n pinyer.”
“True, but he said ‘A lien' to those who
could, and he, meant it, wi.-irh was more
than half those who iuede the prayer could
say.”
“And Wftssaf, the teacher—where is he?
A more pure und blameless life no man
ever led!”
“He is here, but occupies n very low
place.”
“A low place!”
“Verily. Wassaf did not sin. it is true,
but it was tio credit to him that ho did
not. A more cgregic.nsly deceived man
never lived or died* lie obeyed the laws
of the Prophet because lie could not do
otherwise—thus crediting himself with
what he could not avoid. He esuld not
be a glutton, for his stomach was weak—
ho could not partake of the strong waters
of the Frank, because his brain would not
endure it—he was too cold-blooded —too
thin-blooded to have any passion. He
had not moral force enough to commit a
decent sin, and this inability to be wicked
he fancied was righteonsu-'ss. He was a
moral oyster. He, uu iceberg, plumed
himself upon being cold. Now Aglin. the
tluto player, who was at times a glutton
and a wine-bibber, and all the rest of it, is
several benches higher than Wassaf. For
Agha’s blood boiled like a cauldron —be
was robust, he had tlie appetite of the
rhiuiKVrolls of the Nile, and a physical
nature that was constantly pushing him to
the commission of sin.'but Acha, foehns'.
it manfully. He fell frequently, for the
evil ope knew his meak moments, hut Le
rose and fought against himself, and man
aged to come out victor, at least half the
time. There was no more merit in Wns
anf’s virtue than tln'rc is in an iceberg’s
being cold. But Tor a burning volcano
like Agha to deep himself down to an even
temperature that was great,
“My friend, it is not worth while to
enumerate, but—well yon will know more
| when you get inside it you do get inside.
! You have seen the sky-rocket of Jamt.
1 They ascend with much fizz and make a
I beautiful show, but alas ! before they i
reach the skies they explode and disappear
jiu a sheet of flame, Precisely so with j
many men, They soar aloft on their pro- i
fissions but they too (to use a vulgarism) j
bust before they attain Paradise, and go j
down in a sheet of flame.
"The true believer, who practices what!
lie believes, is an arrow. Pointed with be- 1
lief —feathered with works, death shoots I
him off, he pierces the clouds and lands ou j
the right side of the river. ”
“At this point,” continued Alioti, “I
awoke. My ideas of tho future I got
largely from that vision. My opinion is
that ill New Jersey, as in Persia, there are
a great many people deceiving themselves.
(In thy way. Be virtuous and be happy.
1 would rent me.”
Doings of the Eov. (1) Mr. Barnitz, a
Traveling Bible Agent,
j The St. Louis Democrat thus sketches a
j little episode in the life of ’dr. Barnitz.
who { r aches and peddks Bible.-., and—the
' tlemocrat tells:
S lie earm* In.to under tlic auspice* of the
! American Bible Union, and ou the pica of
[ charity obtained hotel accommodations at
i half rates. The room assigned to him was
too public and in too noiuy a locality for a
I [non of his ih v nit nature. He was ehabged
jto another, and stiil he was not suit'd. At
lust he was placed in a secluded apartriu nt
with windows looking out upon tho court,
! aud not facing tho busy street, which was
- constantly filled with sights and sounds
[ not suited to his pious moods. Now Miss
j or Mrs. Dolly Trip appears upon the scene.
I Bsruitz makes her acquaintance an inti
macy springs up between them nt once.
She ami Barnitz arc Keen promenading tin
! street* together. Dolly goes to the theatre
-and just as she returns and enters the ho
tel ut the ladies’ entrance, Barnitz comes
j in at the iMuticmon’s entrance—the hour,
i eleven o’clock p. m. Dolly goes to the
parlor. Barnitz accidentally strays into
i the same room. Barnitz retire* to Ids
i eiiamhcr, No. 35. Dolly uaci-ml* the stair*
| nml the watchman, who follows closely
after her, loses sight of her near No. 55.
and hears a door close, tie suspects. lie
| goes to Dolly’s room, No. 63, and finds it
vacant, and it remains unoccupied during
: the t ight. Another watchman hears some
j one conversing with Barnitz in Lis room
!in a low tone of voice. A guard is placed
; near Barnitz’* door and in the morning
that individual H.-Jlies forth on a recuiinui
; tering expedition, fit secs the enemy ’sou i
-and r.-treats. The guard entice.- Ik.
iiimself Barnitz pokes his bend out of the
| dour, walks into the hall, takes observations,
J and supposing tho coast to be dear, rcti.nu
to his room again, and passes Dolly into
: tlie hall. Dolly goes to h’l and finds it
! looked. She complains and is told that all
is known, and after some hesitancy she
! expresses the opinion that Barnitz is it
j and and rascal, signs u statement admitting
i that she passed the night with him, and,
! after interviewing that, estimable foul ie
[ man, pay.i ten dollars for her hotel uteom-
I modaUons and d.spppoars. Barnitz is
unnimotu and to the office, and is DM to set
: tio liis bill and leave tho house. Ho does
I so. It is also capable of proof that Bur-
I nit* hud the effrontery to insult another
[lady guest of tho house, to whom he was a
T wi *. t■ it stranger.
We feh it to be our and dy to gild) t tint;
! moral carrion, who wan tiavchuig about
the coiiutry disgnisi-tl an a Bibio agent ana
t minister of tin- G...sp, ;. und we thiiik wu
I have dona it. If he continues hia v, x.t
--1 :i.,-.is liti:non \.-■ - ;.i vetit‘h.te- 1 i.*
iirot'i-d.i , a in trim ’ 111: at ti, where he
| brought . candid upon the cause of veligit.n
[ several years ngo.
It in a hard matter for editors to keep
[ the ministry pure.
"
Fraud on a Grand Scale.
The Washington correspondent of the:
I Cincinnati tJazrU* (llepnldicsn) brings t,>
: the light of day, in that journal of tsatur
dav, oue of iim many stupendous frauda
i committed by giveniinent elneiul* during
; the Into war. The story tills near a jmgt
; and ft hidf of tins ilazeite, and sets forth u
i villainous conspiracy of Qtiartcrt-.i.t -ter
!F. \Y. Hurt I, George i>. Scott and other
: confederates to plunder the government;
[in the latter years of the war. The plan
; was deep-laid, shrewd and atrocimis, asd
appears to have be* n either partieipated
in, er connived at, by a number of high
i government officials, from Secretary Stan
ton down. Their operation* consisted
I m,duly in buying up immense quantities
| of grain, forage, horses' mules, eto., etc.,
! with tho govi-rnm-nt money, and then
\ forcing the market, and buying them
j again for the gqt eminent at prices leaving
nti immense margin for profits. In order
|to get into a position wire-re these rasc-'.li
; ties could Ik< conducted successfully,
ilurtt arranged for the removal of the
Quartermaster at Cincinnati, and his own
appointment to tlie place, w hile be subse
quently got rid of a thorough exposure of
his villainies by procuring the transfer of
the officer who hiul investigated them to
Fort Vancouver, ou the l'.io.tio coast. The
whole thing appears to have been known
to Stanton, and a number of araiy officers
, high in command, but by them sup
l pressed. That the reader may form some
. idea of the transactions exposed, we give
the Gazette's heading to the articles in a
condensed form:
Startling Disclosures—Chapter of Se
cret War History —The Great Hurtt
Frauds Brought to Light—A Conspiracy 1
to Btiin Honest Men and Swindle the
: (tovcrmua&t—The Private ('< •rrespondenco
|of Hurtt with his Barkers —Henry D.
! Cooke and Associates—The String* that
were Pulled—Senator Sherman, Governor
j Dennison, Secretary Chase and other
Prominent Men use their Influence —How
the Great War Secretary was Imposed
i Upon—General Burnside does his Best,
| but is Overruled —The Conspirators Drive
! one Honest Man to a Lunatic Asylum,and
; Another into Exile —What’s the use of a
Penitentiary ? — Atlanta Herald.
A ¥ocsi* G :uman's Suicide After His
Rejection by a Colored Gum. —John
Fort red er. a German- aged' twenty, who
said that he lived at 117 West 25th" street,
New York city, has beeu a bar-tender in
a Canal street saloon and lust his situation
sonic time ago. He was unsuccessful in
! obtaining employment, and, having no
trade, became despondent. He became
! enamored of a colored girl who had fre
: qnented the saloon where he hud been em
' ployed. She assisted him white he was
i out of employment, nud with heracqnaint
' ances endeavored to obtain a situation
ior hiir.. At length, unable to find work
| for him, she grew cool in her demeanor,
; and then abandoned him altogether. Last
Sunday night lie called nt her residence
at I York street, and was repulsed.
Thereat he went down into the back yard
! and shot himself in the right eye. He
GEORGIA NEWS.
Elopements are fashionable at Athens.
The editor of the Gainesville Advertiser
is a brevet Ituliau.
Henry B. Pope is about to start a large
sheep farm near Romo.
Twiggs county is making hog raising a
specialty this season.
Carroll county has only two represents*
tives in the Georgia penitentiary.
Forty persons have In-en converted dur
ing the Presbyterian revival in Atlanta.
Governor Vance, of North Carolina, pro
poses to give two lectures in Rome.
About sixty feet of the bank of tho Au
gusta canal have been washed away.
Bain bridge has a spring bed mania. ;
She is right they help us to gut up.
Bishop Beckwith, during his visit to i
Augusta confirm; and thirty-three person*.
The steam saw mill of H. M. Little, 1
near Ocklocknee was destroyed by fire ou !
the 15th inat.
The freshet in the Ocmulga river on
Tuesday last was within eighteen inches
of the Harrison freshet.
Col. Grady ol the Atlanta Herald is po
etically inclined, but f.iils to make things
gin Ac *o please Hu.r s.
Much marrying and giving in marriage
in Bainbridge. So it is in Quitman, we
look lor a ttno crap of people next year.
The oil stores of Atlanta are waging a
deadly war Igainef eftoh other. Kerosene
i is retailed at fifteen cents.
Thomas county propose* to deplete the
ranks of kinkeys on the 17th >.f April, by
choking four of them until their physical
[ Barometer indicates cool weather.
The residence of Colonel William R.
! Brown, of Fort Valley, was accidentally
; destroyed by fire on the 13th. The loss is
fifteen thousand doHurs, upon which there
| is no insurance.
Houston county boasts of a rooster that
i'i connection with his oratorieil powers
claims tlx- right to lay eggs. We *ay lot
him rip and crow ye hen* crow for we ure
Ia hens rights woman.
C. W. Collins, .Sheriff of Mitchell ooun
i ty, lias been ordered to appear at the
! April term of the United Btutcs District
: Court, at Bttvanualt, to show cause why he
j should not be punished for contempt of
. said Co'irt.
FLORID AGNEWS.
This beats the Hamilton county bache
lor’s 8. Q. Lent. The Montioello Constitu
j lion . “Mr. liuuiscy brought to our
office uii Tuesday too eggs, said to be laid
by an ordinary hen on tjie plantation of
Mr. E. W. 8t phens. one of which meas
ured seven and a half, end the other eight
‘ inches in circumference.” This may be a
very ordinary hen but her lay itig capacity
iis c rtainly ex'roordinary. The hou that
, laved Stone Mountain must have been
above the average.
Anew channel has recently been opened
I through tho bar at the mouth of the Si.
j Johns river. It is short, straight aud of
I good width, following the line of beach
’ and opening well to the south. Vessels
! drawin-f eleven and a half feet of water
have been taken through the new channel,
which is steadily improving, and will
ev.-iitii-dly be, if not alicady, tiia main
channel.
ITEMS CF GENERAL ISTE2EST.
Tiro recent snow storm in the Rocky
Mountain* was one of the severest on re-!
curd,- The telegraph has already told ns I
of the detention of trains on the Pacific ;
railroad, trad of now vo. iffy-five f. ot deep !
i'll a k*Vi t iu tile < mThe railroad '
is forcing apa ac e through with powerful 1
snowplows. BeVi-.i eng.uea w; re at work
at one time, and sent tho white etnbunl -:
ineuts flying. Tiiey crumbled away life
magic, bat still tlie Htoiui wie. k pro'r.-.cte,',
that for a long time fears were expressed’
that loan’s power would be beaten by that
of nature.
There is to be no election for United j
Flutes Senator in Nt w Hampshire this
year. The Senatorial vacancy docs not!
occur until the 4th of March, iS77, when]
the tenn of Mr. Aaron if. Gntg.in expires.
The coming election in Connecticut, how
evil-, involve a S niator, as the term of
Mr. Buckingham (Re-publican), expires ou
tho ft !i oi March, 1875.
The pension office is in danger of being
investigated by a Congressional committee. !
The charges are made by Helen M. Bar-:
nurd, a former cli rk in the office, who is
said to be acquainted with some damaging I
filets in connection with- its management.
Commissioner Baker is averse to the inves-;
ligation, nud threatens, in east* it goes on, |
to expose u number of newspaper eorres- 1
nondenfs who held riseenre positions in the
olßce for years past, drawing their salary
regularly, but doing no work. This is
precisely what the public want to know—
the niiu.es of tlie correspondents and the
papers they represent. It is a grave
offence, much more so in newspaper men
than in any other class, for in their cases
the positions take the form of a bribe,
and their salaries are simply “hush
money.”
Mwcß&BNJitnott BY Law.—The Missis
sippi Supreme Court has affirmed the
legitimacy of issue by the marriage of
whites and blacks.
The decision was rendered in a ease
where a parcel of mulatto children sited
for the property of their father, who, u
they alleged, was married to their mother,
a negro woman, and this settles the rnut
i ter of mixed marriages in the State of
Mississippi. Hereafter it is a mere matter
!of taste and not law iu that unhappy
State.
In Alabama an inferior court decided
this question iu a more summary wuv, as
I will more fully appear by the' following
paragraph:
“In Montgomery, on the 10th, a burly,
! uncouth negro was married by a justice iff
the peace ton white cyprian of that place.”
Wants His S.vlv ags. —Philadelphia,
March 17.—Captain O. L. Brady has Re
turned the thousand dollar check voted
'him'by the directors of the American
Steamship Company, and filed in the office
>of the United States District Court his
libel against the company, owners, con
signees and agents of the cargo of the
Pennsylvania, salvage as compensation for
services rendered in bringing the vessel
and cargo safely to the company's dock,
j at this port.
The captain and first and second officers
of tlie vessel were swept overboard before
Brady took control of the ship.
NevvYobk GuanoeKs.— Albany, March
: 17.—The New York State Council Inde
pendent Grange formally recognized the
, National Council, organized at Spring
• field, as the supreme authority of the or
! cler in the United States. About thirty
. subordinate councils are ready to be in
i stituted. Council Number One, of Al
ley y. will be in full • y -ration next week.
The Succyssml Life.
Will I succeed in life ? How often this
question presents itself to the earnest stu
dent, who, like Albert Churltoro, talks of
“vocation” and “goal 1” Iu the quiet of
his study, among mirthful companions—
evi-ry where it accompanies him, and will
not ilow n nt his bidding nor vanish at a
wave of his hand.
Before answering the • question, it is
necessary to define the term success. Itß
generally received definition is vague, if
not erroneous. With tho idea of success
is popularly associated that of eminence—
of flash and brilliancy. But this is not
essentially true. A man engaged iu some
trivial enterprise may meet with succesi—
he can do no more who conquers a world.
' Success," then, “is the attainment of a
proposed object.” He who accomplishes
what he undertakes, be that insignificant
or otherwise, succeeds.
How often in hasty, inconsiderate judg
ment have we accounted Jives of success
failures, simply because renown and emi
nence have not attended them. The lilly
that blooms unseen in the marshy deli ac
complishes the purpose of its creation, and
lives ns successful a life as the more con
spicuous of its kindred whose graceful
| forms are mirroeed in the limped waters of
i the public fountain. The insect bird that
| wanders from flower to flower, calk g
! sweets from the fragrant chalice, makes ..
success of its life as well as tho eagle
whoso broad pinions cut the other in his
ij iral march to the sun. Bo with regard
I to human affairs. Modest worth has its
j reward. A life may be unassuming, yet
| crowned with success. The author of a
] kind word may be as well-beloved and as
! gratefully remembered us the author oi a
| volume. v
“If you iiiii too weak to jounisv
.. I’P tin* mountain, steep rim high,
You uu stand within the valley
While the multitudes go by;
You can chant in happy measure,
As they slowly puss along.’’
And vour life will be none the less a
I i.necesa for so doing; fur, continues the
jpoet:
“Tliiiagli they uiayforget the singer,
They wifi u.it forget tiir. song,”
Man is said to Ik- the architect of his
I own fortune —lie is also the author of his
| own success. He measures the goal of bis
ambition, and through his own effort nuc
f needs in attaining it. Accomplishing this,
j though loftier heights are yet beyond, ho
| reclines in the evergreen shades, content
and happy. Chance seldom or never ren
! dors him more elevated or illustrious. Iu
tin respect he is what he make himself,
i Hence the propriety and importance of
j aiming high:
\ -‘A s ll Uigh: 'ti* better fvr to see fnnJ Hope
| ; inv-iK.i unit bleelkig *n*l wear the fetit-iS of
u, i IlisagpointineiiV, ii; the straggle
JI or grt.iuin.ss, Ihaii to ni: idly down and
fire title the air of the vuUcv, when mountains,
- IA- : ".! -• -brooding t-itir.ds, invite your tireless
i to st ale their eiag;,'\ t ye . itid tremlheights.
Unknown save to Oiymoi.iu go;l* wiio still,
A, ia former tiou s, control the changing
jit sloe, s. ,f the human race.”
But aiming high is not the only thing
iWsential to eminent success —there must
i also be perseverance und work.
The value of perseverance erniiot bo
-.viivstiniafed. liisthe life of enterprise;
a insures success. Great undertakings
j have failed on tiio eve of completion
} through its absence; and thus eminence
I has been lost to men of merit and hard
i work, w ho, in addition, have not possessed
: it. Tie- hour of victory dues nut Me
i suddenly; but oftentimes after the long
| and patient siege. The greatness which
[ tuny-be reached by a single step is not far
removed from mediocrity; and is often as
Uh.- igre and transitory as the exertion r. -
qibved in gaining it. We must mount;
the balder round by round, remembering
[that in idleness we retrograde, iu eon
! tinned i ffort alone we ascend.
But the exertion in whie.'i we are to per
severe must not Ik; play, but hard, earnest
; work. Writes Mary Russel Mitfonl:
“Scott and Southey, the only two meu
of the last age who have left imperishable
Harm s, worked like draghorses. ’ To tie
i [lOpuilti' mind there is something ineredu
lortiy in the idea ot au accomplished scholar,
gifted, aud of large intellect, toiling for
months, even years, in the production of
a poem the reading of which requires ImJ
a few minutos. Nevertheless it is true.
The artist’s conception may roms like u
flash of light, lint lo transmit it to canvas,
win re it shall glow with an intense reality,
requires more ti ne. The sculptor’s eye
iu a moment may se,o Beauty imprisoned
in the nigged marble, yet montiis must
■eliii's" ere skill aud work can effect her
liberation. It may Is- B.iphai placing
•fain by grain the powdered steel into ap
propriate and peculiar setting; ir Micha-1
, Angelo, with nimble fingers, yet patient
; and laborious work, liberating the inipris
; oned I’.ngel. The tine poet is both nr
ti .1 nud srulptor; his picture must bo
faithful and true, his statue faultless. In
his &*•* cspeeiußy, if they grind exceeding
fine.
‘‘‘The nriils ofilza god grind stciwiy.”
Not authorship idojie, however, is an
[ end'ess bisk. In the pulpit, and the bar —•
! anywhere -eminent success is attained
| ouly by work. The treasures of learning
h v hidden from the carelessness of the
; idle seeker, but they reveal themselves to*
I work. From whatever pftiut of ascent,
work clambers the -mountain with surest
step to
‘‘toii' ii Fume’.! protvl temple shine* afar.”
Itself tiie key at whose magic touch tho
well-burred doors swing invitingly open,
i Cincinnati Saturday Might.
‘‘May it please your honor,” said a law
yer, nddri .'-sing one of the city judges, “I
' brought r-h a prisoner from jail on a habeas,
I corpus. ’ • Viell,” *oid £ fellow, in on
| undertone, who stood in the'rear of iho
court, “these lawyers wifi say anything. I
j saw the man getout of a hack at the court
\ room door.
LEGAL All YEIiTISEMEETS.
: roTATE OF GEORGIA, Bf.ook* Cocnty.—Eliza
H A. Mcijcod having applied fur exemption of
I personalty and setting apart and velnation of
In meetoad, I will pass upon the name at my of
fi. ■ in Quitman, *t U o'cleck a. m., on Friday, 87th
; f March,- 1574.
Given under niy hand and official signature,-
i tiiis 15tli day of March, 1874.
| KTar2l-2t J. M. Sheabeb, Ordinary.
To Tiix Payers. ~
Being instkvcted by the oomttrot^
lcr Geu-ral, I heioby give uotice that I will
; proceed at once to collect all taxes due on wild
land* returned in Br- inks County. All parti, s who>
claim such lands, whether lying in Brooks or aoy
other county, if returned in’Bnmka, must pay tho
tax at one,. or the sam,- will be collected t*
| the law directs.
j itnri ,-it .T. M. Sirr,vrek. Ordinary.
QTATE OF GF.OKGIA, Brook* Cocsxv.-On
! O the FIRST MONDAY IN APRIL NEXT, I
[will apply to the Court of Ordjjiary of Brooks
: County for leave to sell, at private sale, all the
wild lambs lying in the conn tv of Floyd, State of
Georgia, belonging to the estate of 11. E. Parrs
! more, deceased.
, , . . JOHN' A. IRVINE,
fenqi-tt Admiaistratiir with will anne-cd.
OTATE C>F GEORGIA. Brooks Cor Sty.—
, I y .james M'.irea. Guarihan of Eulab, Jack
*'. (formerly Fuii'ia Pea- ock.) having applied
_ to tlie Court of Ordinary of said county for a dis
’ eltarge from his guardianship of said Eulala
1 Jauksoil's person and property,
i This is therefore to uitu all pers ns concerned’-
to show cause, by tiling objections in my office,
wliv tlie said James E. Morrow shfiuld" not be*
dismissed from his guardianship of Eulala Jack*
f S(, * ! * and receive the nsv.al letters of dismission,
i (iiven uirdcr my official sigtiatiire, this 2d.dav
\ of Marrh. 1874.
I mar7-lt J. M. SJiKAKLR, Ordinary.