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(Maher’*; .1. V. GALLAIIIJi:, Kdllor. SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1874. ij ..." ——— 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.