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Cfjvomcic anb Sentinel. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12, 1874. [From Lippincott'i Magazine for July.] TUB GENIUS OF THE FUTURE. The world grows leu ; And silence deepens in the realms of soul; Babblings of half-taught minds depress ; To weaker moons the tides of Passion roll; Day’s lord in blazing sky To sage and poet speaks no sovereign wojd ; The mighty hours that thronged around him die. . . , And dull mechanic clocks alone are heard. The city spreads; more frequent soar the spires. But paler grow the spirit’s altar-nres. In marble hills Wait undelivered shapes of gods unknown ; But now no deathless wills Breathe life's quick breath into the passive stone; The awful nnseen forms Await the passion of the moulding hands In scornful sleep, 'mid theologic storms And dying creeds that blast the wasting lands; While yearning for love's wonders and love's signs, We sigh and weep in cold and mouldering shrines. • * * * » • * Delay no more To slake the thirsty world's divine desire, Thou wonder of life’s sunset shore ; Kindle with burning heart the new life-fire. Htauucli thou the sources of our tears, And let thy woman’s harmonies be heard Marrying, 'mid echoes of the eternal Bpheres, Time's final song to their immortal word. Wake all thv music on our heart-strings dumb : Take from this hand thy crown : thine hour is come. Alfred H. Lotus. CALL NOT AGAIN THE “SWEET OTHER HOURS.” ANSWER TO BERTELLE —BT EUGENE. Would you list to the tale of the “sweet other hours,” Give tlnne car to the memory they would bring— Would you gaze on the sear and withered flow ers . And call back to thee thy childhood again ? When you look down the vista of years, Ber tolle. You will find in them too much for sadness— Sweet, we know, are the fancies that dwell Li the innocent hearts of gladness. But oh, Bertelle, cal! not again Visions of departed years, Sweet dreams of the past—bring US pain And much for the flow of tears. 'Tie true thy childhood passed in joy— Thou wert even a tender flower, The earth seemed glad—no dross to alloy And beauty was in thy youth’s hour. Would you dream o’er the dreams of the by gone — So beautiful, so lovely and bright, When you know the deceit—the promised dawn Would o'ershadow tho dream of delight. 'Tin well to remember the loved and dear, And to think of the joys past— But the aching void makes all things drear— We know that naught can last. Then why would you call back “sweet other hours.” When you know the dread pangs they would bring. Let them sleep in the shade of the mystic bowers, And call them not back, dear Bertelle, again. FAIR AND FIFTEEN. BY IfOWAItD GLYNDON. She is the East, just ready for tho sun Upon a cloudless morning. fc)b, lier cheek Hath caught the trick of tho first delicate streak Which sa\s earth’s lightward footsteps have begun! Anil still her brow is like some Arctic height Which never knows the full, hot blush of noon i She wears tho seal of May, and not of June ; She is the new day, farthest off from night. Luring in promise of all daintiest sweetness — A bud with crimson rifting through its green— The large, clear eyes, so shy their lids be tween, Give hints of this dear wonder’s neat complete ness. For, when tho bud is fair and full liko this, We know that there will he a queen of roses Before her cloister’s emerald and gate un closes, And her true knight unlocks her with a kiss! And gazing on tho young moon, fashioned slightly— A silver cipher inlaid on tho blue — For all that she is strange and slim and now, Wo know that she will grow in gldry nightly. And dear to loving eyes as that first look The watcher gotteth of the far, white sail— This now light on her face—sho doth pre vail Upon us like a rare, unopened book! [July Atlantic. NOT KNOWING. I know not what shall befall mo ; God hangs a mist o’er my eyes, And at each step in my onward path He makes new scenes to arise, And every joy Ho sends to me Is a strange and sweet surprise. I soo not a step before mo As I tread on another year ; But the past is still m God's kneping, Tho future His mercy shall clear, And what looks dark in the distance May brighten as I draw near, For perhaps the dreadful future Is less bitter than I think ; Tho Lord may sweeten tho waters Before 1 stoop to drink ; Or, if Marah must bo M&rah, He will stand besido its brink. It may bo that 110 lias waiting. For tho coming of my foot, Homo gift of such raro blessedness, Home joy so strangely sweet, That my lips shall only tromhlo With tho thanks they cannot speak. O. wistful, blissful ignorance ! It is blessed not to know ; It keeps me still in the arms of God, Which will not lot me go, And hushos my soul to rest In the bosom that loves mo so. So [ go onward, not knowing— I would not if 1 might; I would rather walk iu tho dark with God, Than walk alone in the light ; I would rather walk with Him by faith, Thau walk alone by sight. TIIE CROW’S CHILDREN. BY OKAY GOOSK QUILL. A huntsman, bearing his gun afield, Went whistling merrily: When ho heard the blackest of black crows Call out from a withered tree : “ You uro going to kill tlio tliiovisU birds, And I would, if I were you; But you mnan't touch my family, Whatever else you do!” “ I'm only going to kill the birds That are cutting uj> my crop ; And if your young ouea do aucli things. Bo sure they'll have to stop.” “ Oh," said the crow, “my children Are the best onoa ever born; There isn't one among them all Would steal a grain of corn.” “But how shall I know which ones they are ? Do they resoluble you ?" “Oh, no. said the crow, “tlioy'rothe prettiest birds. And the whitest that ever Hew!” So ofT went the sportsman, whistling, And off. too. went his gun ; And its startling echoes never ceased Again till the day was done. And the old crow sat untroubled, Cawing away in her nook ; For she said. " lie'll never kill my birds. Since I told him how they look. “Now. there's the hawk, my neighbor, She'll see what she'll see." soon ; And that saucy, whistling blackbird May have to change his tune W hen, lo ! she saw the hunter Taking his homeward track, With a string of crows as long as his gun. Hanging down his back. "Alack, alack." said the mother. " What iu the world have you done ? You promised to spare my pretty birds. And you've killed them every one.” “ Your hints 1" said the puzzled hunter ; “ Why. I found them in my com. And. besides, they w ore black and ugly As any that ever were born!" “ Get out of my sight, you stupid!” Said the angriest of the crows: “ How good and fair her children are There's none but a parent knows. ’ " Ah ! I see. I see." said the hunter, " But not as you do. quite ; It takes a mother to be so blind She can t tell black from white." To the Memory of a Kithless, Kinless Orphan. [Dundee (Scotland) Advertiser, July 13. J It will be remembered that in Sep tember, 187'_\ a young American girl, named Alice Blanche Oswald, who had come to England from her native land with a Scotch lady, who, it was said, turned her out of doors, committed sui cide, when perfectly friendless and for saken, by throwing herself into the Thames off Waterloo bridge. The his tory of the deceased was a very sad one, and many American ladies and gentle men, as well as several English benevo lent people, determined to give the girl a respectable interment, which took place a fews after the event iu the Ne cropolis, Wokiug. A committee, chiefly composed of American ladies, was form ed to erect a simple monument over the grave of the deceased. It has now just been completed. It consists of a rustic cross in marble, resting on a cluster of rocks, chiseled out of white marble. On a slab placed on the rocks is the follow inscription: “Alice Blanche Oswald— Kithless, Kinless Orphan. Died of de spair in the Thames, sth September, 1872; 19 on the 20th of the month. By Thy infinite goodness forgive me. ” The monument will be placed over the grave in a few days. THE POPULATION OF HEAVEN. A Persian Vision of the Hereafter, Aboa Ben Adhem was annoyed one morning by an elderly gentleman, who desired to learn the ideas the Persian sage had of the hereafter ; particularly as to the style and quality of people who would be likely to reach a future bliss. Abeu removed his chibouk from his lips and moistening his throat with a long draught of sherbet, spoke to him thus : My friend, many hundred years ago, when I was comparatively a yonng man, I dreamed one night that I shuffled off this mortal coil and was in the land of the hereafter. Me thought that I was decently deceased, had been genteelly buried, and a tombstone had been erected to my memory, on which was inscribed enough virtues to furnish a dozen. I blushed a spirit-blush when I read that tombstone and discovered what an examplarv man I had been, and I likewise wept a spirit weep when I thought what the world had sustained in my death. I ascended and was knocking at the outer gate of Paradise for admittance. The season had 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 while my case was being decided. I whiled away an hour or two ascertaining the whereabouts of my old acquaint ances, who had deceased during the ten years previous. “There are a large number of my friends up here?” I remarked inquiringly. “Not very many,” was the reply. “ Ebn Becar is here, I suppose?” “Not any Ebn Becar,” was the an swer. “ I am surprised,” I answered. “ Ebn Becar, the date seller, not in Paradise ! Be chesm, no man in Ispa han was more regular in his attendance at the mosque, and lie. howled his prayer like a dervish. He was exceedingly zealous in keeping the faithful in the line of duty.” “True!” said the doorkeeper, “true. But you see, Ebn kept his eagle eye so intently fixed on his ueghbor’s feet that his own got off the road, and when he pulled up it wasn’t at the place he had calculated. His prayers were pleasing to a true believer, but as they were not backed up by doing things in proportion they failed to pass current here.” “How fared it with Hafiz, the scribe? He was charitable —no man gave more to the poor than he.” “Hafiz did give many sheckels to the poor each year, but it was the way he gave it that spoiled the effect of his charities. He gave not for any love of his kind, but because it was apart of his system to give. He was afraid not to give. So ho said, ‘I will answer the de mands of the law of the prophet by giv ing so much, which will insure me Paradise and fancied that was charity. When the widow of Selim, the mule driver, employed him to save her inheri tance to her children, from the wicked brother, he required all that the law permitted him to exact, so that she said, <Lo ! I might as well have let my brotner have the land.’ He answered, ‘The law gives it to me—go to!’ He would op press the poor in a business way, and compromise with his conscience by sub scribing a tenth of his profits to charity. Compromising never did work in such matters. The compromiser gives the devil something of value, and receives in return that which damns him. The op pressions and graspings of Hafiz were exactly balanced, in number, by his charities, but he died worth a million; the oppression side was the heaviest in quality. We keop books very accurate, yon observe.” “Abadallah, the milker of shawls, is—” “No ho isn’t. He was an ardent teach er of the rules tho prophets gave for the faithful, but he was the worst practice! I ever had any knowledge of. Hie strong waters of the Giaour ruined his prospects. He preached abstinence from wine, but he constantly partook of the forbidden drink. He loved wine, and immediately proceeded to deceive him self into the believe that he had dyspep sia, and had to take it. Hearing once that strong liquor was an antidote for the bite of a serpent, lie absolutely moved into a province where serpents abound. He talked loudly against glut tony, but excused himself for eating live courses, by holding that ho needed it to keep himself up. He succeeded in de ceiving himself, but he couldn t deceive us.” “Kalikani, the poet, whose songs were all in praise of virtue, is here ? The fer vent goodness that produced such mo rality must be safe?” “Quite wrong, my dear sir. Kah kani’s poems were beautiful, but bless you, lie never felt the sentiment in them. He had an itching for fame, aud writing spiritual hymns happened to be his best hold. If lie could have written comic songs better than hymns, he would have written comic songs.” “Who have you here, pray ?” “Saadi, the camel shoer, is here.” “Saadi! Why, ho was constantly vio atiug the laws of the prophet.” “True, he would even curse the camels ho was shoeing. But ho was always sorry for it, aud he would mourn over the infirmities of bis temper, and strove honestly and zealously all the time to live better and be better. He did not make a grand success, but lie did the best he could. He gave liberally of liis substance, without blating it all over Ispahan. When he gave a dirhem, he didn’t pay the newspapers two dirhems to make the fact public, which is my de finition of genuine charity. Then there’s Firdnsi, the carpet cleaner—” “He never gave anything.” “Certainly not, for he had nothing to give. The prophet never asks impossi bilities. He would have given if ho had it, and he tried hard to get it. Then there’s Jelal-ed-din —” “Ho couldn’t make a prayer.” “True, but he said ‘Amen’ to those who could, and he meant it, which was more than half those who made the prayers could say.” “And Wassaf,” the teacher—where is he ? A more pure and blameless life no man ever led.” “Ho is here; hut occupies a very low place.” “A low place?” “Verily, Wassaf did not siu, it is true, but it was no credit to him that he did not. A more egregiously deceived man never lived or died. He obeyed the laws of the prophet because he could not do otherwise—then crediting him self with what he could not avoid. He could not he a glutton, for his stomach was weak—he could not partake of the strong waters of the Frank, because his brain would not endure it—he was virtuous because he was too cold-blood ed—too thin-blooded to have any passion. He had not moral force enough to commit a decent sin, and this inabili ty to be wicked he fancied was righte ousness. He was a moral oyster. He, an iceberg, plumed himself upon being cold. Now Aglia, the flute player, who was at times a glutton, and a wine-bib ber, and all the rest of it, is several benches higher than Wassaf. For Agha’s blood boiled like a cauldron—he was robust, he had the appetite of the rkino cerous of the Nile, and a physical nature that was constantly pushing him to the commission of sin, but Agha, feeling, knowing that it was wrong, fought against it manfully. He fell frequently, for the evil one knew his weak moments, hut he rose and fought against himself | and managed to come out victor at least '■ half the time. There was no more merit in Wassaf's virtue than there is in an ice berg's being cold. But for a burning j volcano like Agha to keep himself down, \ to an even temperature, that was great. ] “My frieud, it is not worth while to I enumerate, but—well, you will kuow ] more when you do get inside. You have ; seen the sky rocket of .Tami. They ascend with much fizz and make a ; beautiful show, but alas! before they i reach the skies they explode aud disap pear in a sheet of flame. Precisely so with many men. They soar aloft on their professions, but, they, too (to use a vulgarism), burst before they attain Paradise, aud go down in a sheet of flame. “The true believer, who practices what he believes, feathered with works —death shoots him off, he pierees the clouds and lauds on the right side of the river.” At this point, continued Abou, I awoke. My ideas of the future I got largely from that vision. My opinion is that iu America as in Persia, there are many people deceiving themselves. Go thy way. Be virtuous and be l appy. I would rest me. Homicide is M * rianna, Florida—A Man Kilos His Brothek-in-Law.—Au thentic intelligence reaches us, says the Columbus Sun and Enquirer, ' of a bloody tragedy which occurred at Mari anna. Florida, last Saturday. Charles Nickols, aged some twenty-two years, was killed by E. W. Mooring, who en tered a back door and with a double barrel gun tired the fatal shot. Moor ing several years ago married Nickels' sister, against the opposition of her faqiily. since which a feud has existed among the opposing elements. Nickols was shot while at his desk, and died four hours after. Mooring al so endeavored to kill Nickols’ father, but could not find him as he was behind a door in the store. Mooring endeavor ed to kill the latter three years ago. Mooring had been drinking heavily for several days. He is claimed to be in sane. He is a lawyer and a man of wealth. After shooting Nickols Moor ing wanted to kill his wife’s sister, when he was e nested. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. SEVENTY-THIRD ANNUAL COM MENCEMENT. The Classic City of Athens-Impres s-ions of the University—The Sermon of Dr. Lipscomb—Hsi Retirement- Add l ess of C. T. Goode— Distinguish ed Visitors—The Sophomore Exhibi tion. [SPECIAL COBBESPONDENCE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. 1 Athens, August 3, 1874. Athens, the classic city of Georgia, is romantically situated among the hills of Northeast Georgia on the west bank of the Oconee river, which here is quite an insignificant muddy looking little stream. Tradition has it that the first house built where the city now stands was erected in 1789. It has a solid rock substratum from eight to fifteen feet below the surface, is blessed with pure mountain water, and its human nature still farther blessed with a cool, invigorating atmosphere. The popula tion is something in the neighborhood of six thousand, and numbers among its dead, ex-Governor Howell Cobb, Gen. T. K. R. Cobb, Geo. Lumpkin, Chief Justice Lumpkin. A beautiful white Italian marble monument rears its shaft in the city, in the middle of one of its principal streets, and upon its four faces are in scribed the names of the Confederate soldiers of Athens and Clarke county, who fell during the late war, surmount ed by appropriate legions. In its general business aspects it is not unlike a thousand cotemporaneous towns. The University of Georgia Is Athens—Athens is the University, but blended so much in it that the town virtually sinks in the University. Old Gov. Milledge founded the University, and Athens in 1801, now seventy-three years ago, and this day is its seventy third anniversary. As is well known it has given to our State a long, yea al most countless line of great men—men distinguished on the forum, in the pul pit, on the battle fields, on land and sea, in the halls of science, in almost every other elevated walk of life. To old John Milledge more than any other man are we indebted for this Uni versity. He suggested it, located it, and gave it a large tract of land, which was afterwards sold to the State of Georgia for SB,OOO per annum in perpetuity. This is all the endowment it has ever had, if this may be called an endowment at all. The State sold these lands for over one hundred thousand dollars, and thus instead of helping the Uni versity it got up a shrewd, sharp and successful speculation upon it. It has often been asked to help it, and although giving with a liberal and lavish hand to almost everything else of a general pub lic nature, has always shown a gingerly, miserly and niggardly economy towards its great institution of learning. Another sharp and swindling opera tion upon the only other important do nation ever made the State University occurred during the reign of Bullock. The Congress of the United States, it will be remembered, about the session of 1868-9, gave it all the public lands in the State, or rather donated them, for the purpose of agricultural education, in such a way as the Legislature might direct. The Legislature voted a law to attach an Agricultural Department to the University, ordered the lands sold, and the money turned over to it. Bul lock had them disposed of, aud reported that they brought $243,000. But it is now known that the amount realized was over $40,000 mors than that sum. First Impressions. Externally the University buildings wear an old and dingy appearance. Their architecture is upon the Noah ark style, and iu just about that contrast with public buildings of every class of modern times. To anyone coming here from anew, fresh and vigorous American city of modern times, and walking through them, he cannot help thinking he is on the continent of Europe, and among someone of its decaying latin cities. Inside they look equally anti quated-cheerless, unsightly. Nor has there been any effort made to improve the surrounding grounds—the campus proper or contiguous—or even to guide the hand of nature in doing so. The agricultural building may prove a relief to the rest, or rather it may show by its beauty the contrast between the beautiful and the hideous. First Day—Sunday. A large audience assembled in the eliapel yesterday morniug to hear the Baccalaureate sermon preached by the venerable Dr. Lipscomb. His text was from the 13th chapter of St. Paul’s Epis tle to the Hebrews, Btli verse. Subject— “ Jesus Christ—the same yesterday aud to-day and forever.” The sermon is pronounced on every hand to have been the ablest ever heard in that chapel. The old Chancellor, although bowed with three score and ten and quite fee ble in body, still retains all his intellec tual faculties. Bearing the Latin face, his eye is almost brilliant, whilst the very lines of his countenance traces the unmistakable evidences of a highly cul tivated intellect. As refinement always softens the features, so does education brighten and make them still the more radiant. His resignation has been re ceived and at the moment of writing the Board of Trustees are debating his suc cessor. Thus forever closes the life of an instructor of the youth of our coun try—one who has walked among and as the peer of the truest men of genius in all our Southern land. He is univer sally loved, revered, respected, honored. Monday—Address of C. T. Goode. At 11 o’clock this morning the Demos thenean and Phi Kappa Literary So cieties, headed by the Board of Trus tees present, the Faculty and the Athens band of music, marched into and up the aisles of the chapel, the band ascending to the gal to the galery aloft, the Professors and Faculty to the stage and the stndents taking'positions immediately in the cen tre front. Every seat in the hall below and the gallery above was taken, your city being well represented by ladies and gentlemen. I noticed on the stand ex-Gov. Joseph E. Brown, Hon. B. H. Hill, Gen. J. B. Gordon, Kt. Rev. Bish op J. W. Beckwith, Judge James Jack son, Judge John J. Gresham, C. T. Goode, Dr. T. E. Skinner, D. D., and many other men of note, including the Faculty. After prayer by Dr. Skinner, Chancellor Lipscomb introduced C. T. Goode, Orator of the Day. He took for his subject “Wliat consti tutes a State,” and spoke for one hour, bis address abounding in classical allu sions and happy conclusions. He said that the South "although conquered by the sword, was the truest home of civil and political lliberty on earth. It had fought for principles which are still en tertained as convictions as firmly as be fore the war. It is natural and custom ary for conquered nations to yield to despondency. With the exception of Ireland and our own South, this has been the almost universal record of his tory. The eagles of Rome have folded their wings in eternal silence, and the language of Cicero and Ceasar is dead. But as England has failed to crush a single principle in Ireland, so has the North failed to force us to yield a con viction. You, young gentlemen, must never forget that you have the country of Washington, of Lee,. of Cobb and Sidnev Johnson, or that the State is soon to be transmitted to your keeping, and you must remember that education is not only its chief engineer, but its surest defense. Said the speaker: A monarchy is the strongest government, an aristocracy the wisest, a democracy the weakest aud the best. (Quoting from Father Ryan : “Trampled right is grander than triumphant wrong." After speaking of the young man who wore scented kid gloves, a cane, moustache, and otherwise tilled the general bill of disgust, and stating that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like pne of these, he said that he would not giye one hard working young man for a con tinent of them. Warning them against the evils of in temperance, and a nameless .vice, he commended the Bible, There was no book like it. It had for its story the past, the present and the future. For its subject Heaven, earth and hell. For its characters, God, man, the angels aud satan. Passing on, he paid a beautiful tribute to woman—pure as the temple of Diana, pure as a dew drop on her tresses. At the conclusion of the address the audience retired, to assemble again at four o’clock to hear the Sophomore Prize Declamation. The number of people present is quite small iu comparison with former years. The main hotel is not overcrowd ed, and I believe still has a few more vacant rooms to let. The Painting in the Chapel. Suspended over the stage in the chap el is a most magnificent interior view of St. Peter’s at Rome. It is seventeen by twenty-four feet, was executed by Geo. Cook for Daniel Pratt, the famous gin manufacturer of Alabama, who paid him 812,000, and who presented itto the Uni versity of Georgia. Dr. Lipscomb pro nounces it a master piece, a perfect pic ture of the interior of the world renown s and church. It was framed by Messrs. Burke & Hodgson, of Athens, who form ed the combination of gilt and who exe cuted that portion of it most excellently well. Sophomore Declamation. Monday Afternoon. August 3. At four o’clock this afternoon the Chapel was again filled to hear the chosen orators of the Sophomore class. The evening was rather warm, bnt that did not retard, apparently, any one from being present. There were enough ladies present to fill the lower floor, forcing the young boys to the galleries, where they kept up quite enough noise for one occasion, and the middle aged and old gentlemen around in such places as they could get. The first speech was by J. M. Carlton, of Athens—“ Spartacus to the Gladia tors.” He spoke this famous oration, which has rang through every college wall since the dawn of civilization and which is to-day a most matchless piece of eloquence. He was followed by J. S. Cook, of the city of Atlanta, who repeated “Invec tive against Corry;” R. W. Cole, of San dersviile, “ Purpose of Bunker Hill Monument.” We were next treated to “Byron to the Greeks,” by young A. L. Dearing, of Athens. Tnen followed Sprague’s oration upon Lafayette, de livered by T. W. H. Harris, of Carters ville. And now came forward young J. U. Jackson, of onr own city of Augusta, who selected an extract from a speech of Robert Toombs. He was perfectly self possessed, and did honor to himself, to Augusta, and to the illustrious original author. He was loudly applauded, both during the delivery and at the close, and received a shower of boquets. The next, “Liberty and Revolutions,” by the Milford Bard, spoken by L. M. Landrum, of Stephens, Ga. Next, “The Polish Boy,” spoken by J. W. Miller, of Greensboro, Ga. “ Discourse on the Crisis in England,” by Robert Hall, and delivered by J. W. Nisbet, of Ma con. This boy spoke well; he was, up to this point, the best speaker who has appeared. “Ex tract from a speech of B. H. Hill,” by Jacob Pliinizy of Athens. “Fitz James and Rhoderic Dhu,” W. O. Sanders, of Penfield. He spoke that renowned com position with the truest eloquence. “National Monument to Washington,” spoken by R. G. Taylor, of Athens. Next, “Extract from a speech of D. W. Vorhees,” by G. D. Thomas, of Athens. The next, sixteenth and last, “Regulus to the Carthagenians. ” Upon the whole the class certainly did honor to the University and credit to themselves. Especially were the ef forts of young Carlton, Jackson, Nisbet, Sanders and Thomas. The audienee seemed to enjoy the declamation from beginning to end. The Phi Kappa celebration will take place to-night, but two late to be report ed in this letter. Election of Chancellor. The Board of Trustees met this after noon for the special purpose of electing a Chancellor in place of Dr. Lipscomb, resigned. It was a private meeting, re maining in session for two hours with out coming to a vote. The friends of the various candidates inside and outside the Board are working hard for each particular friend. Curry and Tucker. Dispatches are now being exchanged with Dr. J, L. M. Curry, of Richmond, Va., asking him to allow his name to go before the Board. The character of his replies have not been made public, but if he consents it is thought the choice will fall upon him. Gather ing my information from the promiscuous crowd it would seem that the next strongest man is Dr. H. H. Tucker, recently President of Mercer University, who is well known to be one of the ripest scholars in the State. President Davis is also spoken of, and it is fervently hoped by many friends of that great man that the choice will fall upon him, and that he will accept it. No one who understands the deplorable condition of the college building and campus, and the want of mony to ad vance the interests of the University generally, fails to perceive in Mr. Davis the very man needed to bring it out of its dilapidated condition. Charles C. Jones, the Indian Archaeologist, Pro fessor Le Roy Broun, and one or two others are spoken of. The Board will hold another meeting to-morow, bnt it is not probable that a decision will be reached until Tuesday. Speech of B. H. Hill. It is not in strict order, but I will mention that Hon. B. H. Hill made a long and very able speech at the Court House here on last Saturday night, on the political issues of the day. What ever else may be said of Mr, Hill, there is no doubt about liis ability, no doubt that he is one of the finest scholars in American politics in the South, and no doubt that in Congress, he would il lustrate our country. The contest for the nomination in this District is now fierce. It is very difficult to tell who will receive tho honor. Governor Brown and Gen. Toombs Blake Friends. To-day, at the solicitation of friends of both gentlemen, Gen. Toombs and Gov. Joseph E. Brown, who have been personally alienated for several years met, shook hands, and agreed without either demanding or requiring an ex planation or retraxit to forget the past. Note— l regret being called away from Athens to-night, and therefore will be denied the pleasure of finishing up the commencement exercises. I have no doubt, however, that the gentleman who takes my place will do it better. Jean Valjean. Address of General Gordon —Tlie Science of Government—Orations by Blessrs. Fleming and BlcCord Be fore tlie Plii Kappa and Demosthe nian Societies —Our Young Orators Acquit Themselves Handsomely—Dr. Tucker Elected Chancellor. [special correspondence chronicle and SENTINEL. 1 Athens, Ga., August 4th, 1874. We succeed Jean Valjean, your valua ble and voluminous correspondent, with some degree of hesitancy; and, yet, knowing that your readers will readily ex cuse and overlook all mistakes herein contained when they are informed that the writer stepped from the cars this morning, after a fatiguing all-night’s travel, only to attend to-day’s exercises and to endeavor to report them in full, we take up pencil and paper willingly. Arriving in Athens, I found this clas sical little city crowded with visitors from all parts of the State. Loveliness walks in the shadow of greatness, and mediocrity surrounds the two. Newton House is packed with all styles of indi viduals of both sexes. The students step around daintily in their ugly uniforms, nor hesitate to inflict their attentions, by the hour, upon the “Daughters of Eve.” We feel greatly for the youug lady who has to stand in the midst of six, or more, college students and listen and reply to all of their nonsensical queries. Yet, this is an evil attendant upon Com mencement, and they must submit. Gen. Gordon Delivered his speech to a very large audience this morning, and held its attention until he ceased speak ing. He said that the subject he had selected would naturally lead him off from the beaten track usually pur sued upon such occasions, but the gravi ty and importance of the subject would be his excuse. He discussed the impor tance and the necessity of educating the young men of the South in the science of government. This subject blendid the literary with the political. The General pursued his line of argument with masterly force and skill. we d° not propose to give a synopsis of his address, for, situated so inconveniently as we were this morning for writing—al though we endeavored importunately to secura a better position- -such a thing were impossible. We will simply giy e some of the thoughts thrown out with out reference to their particular order. He said, Truth, whether political or re ligious, is an infinite reality. Then why not teach political truth regularly, as truth iu all other departments Gov ernment is the most intricate and impor tant of all sciences. There is not an interest of humanity that it does not in some manner touch, it is next to religion, and should be inculcated in the hearts and minds of all of the young men of the South. Statesmanship is cultivated, not born, nor is it the result of accident. From the peculiar institution of slavery, there sprang the noblest statesmanship the world has ever seen-that represented br our Southern men. Edmund Burke said the truest and last conservators of a republican form of government were to be found among slaveholders in the South. I will digress from my subject enough to say that I deplore the custom which has been inaugurated of late, of laying the failure of the Southern'arms at this or that man’s door. We failed because it was impossible to succeed. General Gordon spoke at length, and received the close attention of all. Me Yvas frequently interrupted by rounds of applause, and his speech was very heartily enjoyed by his hearers. He reviewed the political demoraliza tion of the day, and pictured m horrible colors the instrumentali ties that were used and the terrible sacrifices that were made by men to secure individual aggrandizement and advancement. He spoke of the vital bearing which public sentiment had upon the liberty of any nation. Educate public sentiment up to a proper concep tion of the end of civil government, and the purest liberty will follow. He ad vocated prudence and forbearance on the part of the Southern people. Pru dence and forbearance are virtues m every age and in all departments of his tory— they constitute the Christianity of politics. But while he advocated these virtues, he also begged that the South ern people would have pride in their section and in the glory of their ances try. The speaker discussed the evils attendant upon absolute power in the hands of the majority, and said that popular governments were all times to be dreaded. The reigu of terror was a reign of majority. The great question is, how to restrain power. The law must be supreme, to which the majorities and minorities must bend the knee. The orator was very eloquent in some parts of his address and caused repeated thrills to pass over the entire audience. What we have given you are simply the imperfect outlines' of some of his thoughts. As the General spoke with out notes his address, though well di gested, was at times too disconnected to permit us to get a synopsis that would do him justice. After the address there was a meeting of the Alumni of the University. But whether there was any business of an important nature transacted we have not been able, by diligent inquiry, to ascertain. Fine Oration. To-night at 8! o’clock a very large audience assembled to hear the com mencement orator of the Demosthenian Society. Last evening a similar ex hibition was conducted by the Phi Kappa Society, which was splendidly represented by Mr. Wm. Flem ing of your city. The Demos thenian orator of to-night was Mr. Chas. McCord, also of Aususta. He discussed the literature and fine arts of Athens, when Greece was living Greece, with the strictest accuracy and precision—showing a wonderful knowl edge of the olden times. It is a subject of congratulation to Augusta that her young men are so rich in the honors of the University. And we certainly take great pleasure in contributing to bring their achievements prominently before the Augusta public. They deserve to be heralded,and Augusta should now re ceive back her sons who have reflected so much honor upon her with open arms. Mr. .Smith Clayton, of Atlanta, was awarded the medal for being the best debater in the Demosthenian So ciety. He has some reputation among his peers as a wit “of the first water.” He will doubtless make many an Atlanta jury split their sides with laughter. Commencement Hop. Deupree’s Hall was all ablaze to-night with beauties from all parts of our peer less State. Nor were there wanting such members of the masculine sex as to render the dance delightful in the ex treme. The music began about half past ten or eleven o’clock; and no sooner did the music strike up than the floor was well filled with the most ardent ad mirers of Terpsichore. The dance con tinued until a very late hour, when all the participants sought their homes. We have never seen a ball room in which there were so many beautiful ladies as were at Deupree’s to-night, and con spicuous among the most beautiful was the bevy of Augusta ladies now in at tendance upon Commencement. Dots. The Trustees held a meeting this after noon and elected Dr. Tucker, of Atlanta, to succeed Dr. Lipscomb as Chancellor of the University. There are a great many men of distinction in Athens this Commencement. We do not think the I acuity of the University ought to have been so very anxious to provide seats for the audience as to place newly painted benches in the chapel. Yet they did so, and your correspondent and others, after sitting on one of them through General Gordon’s speech, arose with painted coats. It is true this is a small matter, but we never could bear small matters. Leonard. THE COTTON WORM. How Shall it be Destroyed ?-Two Suc cessful Plans Suggested. [From the New Orleans Picayune.] From our country advices we gather that there will be a rather serious dem onstration of the cotton worm this sea son. We wish therefore to recall atten tion to the subject of the various meth ods of prevention now in use, and to urge the prompt application of such of them as may be most convenient. The use of Paris green has already been described, and its virtues have been tested by hundreds. We believe it to be the best chemical known for tho pur pose, and have no hestation in recom mending its employment, of course un der the guides and precautions hereto fore established as prudent and neces sary. Paris green is a powerful agent, and a deadly enemy to the worm. In default of or even in connection with Paris green, we suggest an experi ment of the very simple plan proposed some months ago by the Picayune, and affirmed quite recently by Col. John M. Sandidge, one of our leading cotton merchants and an experienced planter of many years’ standing. The process is available by all, and has been uni versally approved wherever tried. We will here reproduce Colonel San didge’s letter on the subject: It is known that any violent agita tion of the cotton stalk, or leaf on which the worm is feeding, causes them to double up and spring off. Getting them to the ground when they are young, very many would perish (if nothing more was done),not finding their way up the plant again; bnt to make the thing sure, they should be buried at once. With many other ways for tlie accomplishment of the same purpose, to get the worms to the ground, perhaps the simplest would be for two men or boys, on horses or mules, keeping one row of cotton be tween them, to ride from one end of the row to the other, each holding an end of a piece of baggiug or other heavy cloth twenty-five or thirty feet in length, so that it would, in a sort of loop, behind their horses, be dragged over the cotton row between them. Passing over in that way, they should return along the same row, thus pulling the stalks in both directions, with two good shak ings. To be still more effective, some small brush hanging down from across the pommel of the saddle could be made to tickle the side limbs of each plant. And to finish the job, should come right after the plowman with a “buzzard wing,” or some similar sweep,sufficiently wide to clean out the row with a single furrow and cover up the worms, by that time all on the ground. This operation performed two or three times—or as often as the worms might appear in number—has proved as effect ive as any application of poison, costs no money and but little labor, at a time when the labor can be conveniently given, and does much to keep down the late grass and other stuff that would in terfere with cotton picking; and I com mend it to every cotton grower, should the worms appear. John M. Sandidge. We urgently advise our planters to try one of these plans, or, if it be prac ticable, both of them. We feel confi dent that the worms can be subdued and destroyed beyond all doubt. The experiences of this season prom ise to develop some certain remedy for cotton worms. Mr. E. J. Hart, one of our most extensive wholesale merchants —who, by the way, is agent for the sale of Paris green—has spoken of offering a reward for proof which shall establish the entire success of any feasible agent of destruction, and we have no doubt bis idea will be pfit in force before the close of the season. Meanwhile we trust that the plans here described will be faithfully and intelligently tested. The cotton worm can and must be over come. RUST IN COTTON. Professor Stubbs, of the Alabama Agricultural College, says true rust is a fungus growth similar in its nature to smut, mildew, etc. In examining with the microscope the various “so-called rusts” we find them entirely unlike in different sections. We have found but little information on this sabject, but since it is a source of much evil to the Southern planter, perhaps it may yet elicit some attention from the celebrated botanists and entomologists of the pres ent day. By examining soma leaves of cotton we "find that they have been changed to a bright yellow, tinged here and there with red, and with occasional marks of brown. On others we find rusty brown spots on the under side, resembling incipient rust—while again on others we find yellow surfaces with little or no appearance of vitality, edges curled up, and whole leaf seeming with ered and dead. The first under the mi croscope gives no marks of an insect on any part of the leaf—the growth is vegetable, a real fungus and is the true rust. With a powerful microscope we find the second to be the work of a min ute red spider (genus acarus) which at tacks the under side of the leaves, punc turing them until they are stung and spotted all over and finally fall from the plant. The third is caused by the cot ton louse (a species of aphis) which pierces the outer coating of the leaves on the under side. From the constant drainage of the sap by this insect, the leaves are enfeebled, curl up, turn yel low, and finally fall. Later in the sea son young shoots are also attacked and are often completely covered by these pests. But there is another affection of the cotton plant, which is found very preva lent in alluvial bottoms, and sometimes in uplands. It is usually improperly styled “black rust,” but in reality is a species of blight. An intelligent obser ver thus describes it: “This blight ap pears very suddenly. One day all of the plants' of a field may seem to be per fectly healty and vigorous, while on passing through the same field on the next day many of them may be observed with drooping leaves, as if affected by the heat of a midday sun. A few days j thereafter all the leaves will wither and i fall to the ground, leaving the stem bare, though still green, aud the ready form ed and in some cases fully matured, opening bolb adhering to the branches. After remaining in a state of apparent lifelessness for some time, should rain and favorable growing weather follow, the affected plant will often send up suckers from the crown of the roots, and even sometimes young shoots from the junctures of the branches with the stem.” This is the blight, and a glance will show a wide difference from the “red rust.” In the latter the leaves turn yellow and are blurred with red, while in the former they suddenly wither and droop without changing to yellow, then turn brown and black, and fall. The bolls also shrivel, dry up, and the whole plant gradually dies. I have not been able to observe this plant throughout all stages of the dis ease, but ou examining an old blighted plant, and dividing longitudinally the stem, I found a black or brownish ap pearance presented by the pith and heart of main root, stem and branches —just as if the centre was rottesp. This may be the proximate cause of the withering of the leaves. On examina tion, no insects nor their punctures could be descerned. It is obvious then that the whole plant is in a state of dis ease which most probably is caused by the excess of some vegetable acid, or by the deficiency of some chemical ele ment in the soil necessary to health and perfection of plant, or perhaps by tap root, penetrating into a hard, sour or otherwise unfavorable subsoil. In ex amining the soils which “rust” cotton, we find no excess of vegetable acid, but we do find a sad deficiency of sulphuric acid, a substance so essential to the full maturity of every plant, and a subsoil whose mechanical condition is such as to preclude the healthful growth of a tender root. Again, we learn from in telligent farmers that fields freshly cleared will not rust cotton until third or fourth year. By this time the small amount of sulphuric acid is exhausted, soil surclianged with the excretory vege table acids left in soil by continuous cul tivation of same crop and the subsoil baked and hardened by decending rains and hot suns, which easily penetrate the poxus cultivated top soil. This being then the probable cause of rust, to pre vent this we should seek to supply our lands with sulphuric acid, rotate our crops and thoroughly underdain and subsoil our lands. Sulphuric acid is most economically applied in form of sulphate lime (land plaster) or sulphate iron (copperas). [RECULATORi NEARLY ALL DISEASES originate from IN DIGESTION and TORPIDITY of the LIVER, and RELIEF is always anxiously sought after. If tlio LIVER IS REGULATED in its action, health is almost invariably secured. Want of action in the Inver causes HEADACHE, CON STIPATION. JAUNDICE. PAIN IN THE SHOULDERS. COUGH, CHILLS. DIZZINESS, SOUR STOMACH, RAD TASI'E IN THE MOUTH. BILIOUS ATTACKS. 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For 9 inch saws, per saw .*3 50 For 10 inch saw. per saw 3 75 Railroad freight to be paid by the purchaser. Old Gins repaired in the best manner, at reasonable charges. Freight must be pre-paid on these when shipped by railroad. Orders for new Gins solicited early, to insure prompt delivery for the ginning of the present orop. We could furnish hundreds of certificates of the best character, but as that is so common in this day, we decline to do so. J. D. A H. X. HAMMACK, jyl2-dAw2m Crawfordyille, G». New Adverti*emeut*i. “psVCHOHAWY or SOI7L. <‘H4RMI\U.” JT How either sex may fascinate and gain the love and affections of any person they choose in st.ifitly. This simple mental acquirement all can possess, free, by mail, for 25c., together with a mar riage guide, Egyptian Oracle, Dreams, Hints to La dies, Wedding Night Shirt, kc. A queer book. Ad dress T. WILLIAM & CO., Pubs., Philadelphia. jy2s-Aw HART SHARP COLLEGE. Established fu 1851. 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The “ECLIPSE” can bo furnished all complete, or simply tho Iron, as parties may desire. PRESSES arranged for steam or water power when required. We have TESTIMONIALS from many of tho Largest and Best Planters in Georgia (and all the other Cotton States) using this Press, whoso names are as "familiar as household words.” Planters visiting Macon are earnestly advised not to purchase a Cotton Press until tliev EX AMINE CLOSELY AND THOROUGHLY the “ECLIPSE," and JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES. Send for Descriptive Pamphlets, containing testimonials and prices. Though far superior to all other Presses heretofore, we have made Recent Valuable Im provements, giving all parts increased strength, and affording still LIGHTER DRAUGHT and dispensing with what was known as tho ‘‘inner sleeve.” Tho "ECLIPSE” is now PERFECTK )N. R. mm impmi mm mm, FOB STEAM OR WATER POWER. FINDLAY’S IMPROVED POWER PRESS, for steam or water power, pomhokhcs rare advan tages and conveniences. Screw Pin is ten feet long; Gearing heavy and strong, and instead of the doubtful and dangerous "clutch” arrangement, tight and loose pulleys with ‘ shipper” are used, thus insuring Safety, Certainty, aud Promptness of Action. This Press will bo supplied with our new patent Conical Rollers', a most valuable improvement, for the purpose of receiving the “end thrust,” and very materially lessoning friction. This Press was also Trium phant at Last State Fair. NEW FEATURE. In addition to our regular “Eclipse” Prena, woof Tor thin noason (guaranteed aw above) a atriotljr “ HAND ECLIPSE PRESS,” With horizontal levers, for working inside of gin house, Will he from three to four times as fast and lighter draught than any other Head Screw Press ever offered. STILL ANOTHER. By positive right wo will also manufacture in all its forms, NisM's Improved ffroilt Iron Screw Cotton Press, Using our “Eclipse” frame, and adding ournew “patent Conical Rollers,” to lessen friction, etc. This Press will be made for Hand. Ilorso, Water or Steam Power, and in evoiy instance tho Screw Pin will be ten feet long and four inches in diameter, of warranted material. We will be Prepared to Supply Any Kind of a Screw Cotton Press that may be Desired. AT AN EARLY DAY, Wo will introduce a New Gin Gearing, bound to supersede all others, being simply tho old fashioned Gin Gearing running on anti-friction rollers, and working on the ground, thus dis pensing with “king posts,” and “centre supports,” and the trouble and doubt of putting them up. We advise parties not to order until they see this “now movement,” and hear our guaran tee, etc. Send for Descriptive Circular, containing Detailed Illustrations ot our Presses, etc., aud Testimonials, Price, Terms, etc. MANUFACTURERS ALSO OF STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW and GRIST MILLS, WATER WHEELS, AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY AND CASTINGS, ETC., ETC. It. FINDLAY'S SONS, FINDLAY IRON WORKS, MACON, GA. B-Fronworks^S For sale by ADGJSTA STEAM CBACKER BAKERY, 1 20 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. o J. I>. HAHN Ac BRO., Proprietor* WE would respectfully call tho attention of our City Merchants and Country friends to our extensive facilities for manufacturing CRACKERS OF EVERY VARIETY, which in price and quality will compete witli those of Northern and Western manufacture. We solicit orders, guaranteeing satisfaction in every instance, with strict attention. ALSO, BREAD of all kinds and CAKES of every description—WEDDlNG and PARTY CAKES made to order in the finest style of the art. , CANDIES of our own manufacture at Wholesale and Retail, and a general line of CONFEC TIONERIES always made and on hand. J. I). HAHN & BRO., Hakersi iiiul UonlV‘ctio« ,, ‘ r ». jyl2-sn&wo3m 120 BROAD STREET. AUGUSTA, GA. ENCOURACE HOME ENTERPRISE 1 Goldsmith's Self-Fastening I edge Cotton Tie. A_pril, 1874. TO Cotton Factors, Planters and Manufacturers tho Subscribers are now prepared to offer their entirelv novel SELF-FASTENING TIE, for baling Cotton aud other produce. This TIE is EQUAL in every r spect to any Tie now in ti e. being as easily fastened, ana is SUPERIOR from the fact that once fastened it is an impossibility to remove the Hoop without first cutting it, thereby GUARANTEEING Farmers and other interested parties against loss of weight by reason of removal of Hoops. . . This TIE has been examined by nearly every Factor and Merchant of Charleston, ana lias been pronounced a perfect success. , . . Orders for NEW OR SECOND HAND RIVETED HOOPS will bo promptly filled, at as low a price as any other Tie, at the Manufactory. MOHKH GOLDSMITH SON, 4,6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 10 COLONNADE ROW, VENDUE RANGE, CHARLESTON, S. O. •J. H. OPPENHEIM, Geuornl Ajfcnt, jul3-s&ttuJcthCm 103 REYNOLDS STREET, ALGESIA. ISAAC T. HEARD & CO., Augusta, Ga.
