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These thoughts and no. In' Heaven we
•hall know all. . ,
AN ANNI.SBSABY. t
In ajehamber o’d and oaken,
In a faint and faltering way,
Half a dozen words were spoken,
Just eleven years to-day.
What was hound and what na broken,
Let a woman’s conscience ay.
Half a dozen Words excited,
Whispered by a lover s side:
Half delighted, half afrighted.
Half In pleasure, half in pride;
. And a maiden’s troth is plighted,
And a false love knot la tied.
Has a maiden not a feeling
That oan swell, anti sing, and soar ?
Cam* not o’er her spirit stealing
r Thonghts of things that were before ?
her heart did no revealing
■ Toll her love was something more ?
HFBarely half a dozen glances,
Half in earnest, half in mirth—
|W Five or six or seven dances—
■ What, is such a wooing worth ?
Ooartal)ip la which’ no
™ T.on\ ■ tin-
Tii-v are UrmiK t.> "*
Throng the qniet
Now our level wjr we keep.
We have hJ oar time of gladness,
•Twas a prond aud happy day
Ah! the proudest of our journey—
we felt that we could say
<V*uie children God has given,
'Looking fondly on the ten:
Lovely women"are our daughters
And our sous noble men I”
We have had our time of sorrow,
pur time of anxious fears.
When we could not see the milestones
Through the blindness of our tears;
In the sunny stammer country,
• Far behind us little May, i
And Willie, too. grew weary.
And we left them on the way.
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Are you looking backward, mother, ,
That you stumble on the snow!
I am still your guide and staff, dear,
Lean your weight upon me, so!
Our road is growing narrow;
And what is my wife, you say i
Isa! 1 know our eyes are dim, dear,
But we have not lost the way.
Cheer thee! cheer thee! faithful hearted 1
Just a little way before
Lies the great Eternal City
Of the King that we adore.
I can see the shining spires ;
And the King, the King, my dear.
We have served him long and humbly,
He will bless us, do not fear.
DECORATION DAY-MAY, 1875.
BT JAMBS ANCRUM WINSLOW.
[Broome Republican, Binghampton, N. Y.]
Ay, deck our heroes’ graves with flowers,
The fairest of the Spring;
But, in the feelings of your hearts,
A nobler tribute bring;
Bemember those who gave their lives
To save the nation’s life,
Nor recked of hardship, or fatigue,
Or peril in the strife.
They rest in peace—’tis well to strow
Flowers o’er each hallowed spot
Where now they sleep, though yean have
passed,
We bUII forget them not.
“Men live in deeds, not years,” their deeds
Are on the roll of fame.
And naught that tosses with length of days
Could honor more their name.
But when we strew our flowers to-day
Above our Union dead,
Forget we not the foes who late
In strife against us bled.
Their graves, with ours, to-day are decked;
Their graves with flowers are spread;
The living foes are reconciled;
Then, peace be to the dead.
Our brothers once, our brothers now,
If erring, true and brave.
Our kinsmen, children of the land
Our soldiers fought to save.
Unreckoned blood, uncounted gold,’
Hateful fraternal strife.
It coat to bring our brothers back.
And save the nation’s life.
Forget we not the charnels vast
’Neath each great battle plain,
Where, undistinguished, rests the dust.
Commingled, of the slain;
Forget we not the thousand graves
Whose tale no tongue can tell.
Where by a chance or ambushed shot
Some lonely picket fell.
The unnamed graves no loving hand
Can strew to-day with flowers.
The missing ones whom loving hearts
Have mourned through weary hours;
The graves no monument adorns
In thicket and in glade.
Where shrouded in the Autumn leaves
So many a corpse is laid.
Now, as Verona’s hostile elans
Joined hands above the grave
Where, clasped in death, their children lay.
And mutual wrongs forgave.
Their long feud quenched, let North and South
Forgive and bury deep
All bate withiu the common graves
Were now their heroes sleep.
Then shall the dearest blood of both
Our country fertilize.
And from their ashes, joined in death,
i A grander nation rise: i
jj stronger union than the old,
“ Fast bound by wrongs forgiven;
And all the st rs unclouded gild
Our banner’s azure heaven.
An E*-Confederate in Egypt.
New Orleans, June 9.—Colonel D. F.
Boyd, Superintendent of the Louisiana
State University, has definitely accept
ed the appointment of Superintendent
ef the Government Military College,
near Cairo, Egypt, with the rank and
pay of a Brigadier-General in the regu
lar army of the Khedive.
THE UNIVERSITY.
Popular Science—The Laboratory Lec
ture Course—Fourth and Concluding
Bpeture—Professor E. M. Pendleton
—Agricultural Education.
We publish- in the Chronicle and
Sentinel this morning tke fourth and
last lecture of the Laboratory Coarse.
It Was delivered- at Athens, on Friday,
the 4th of Jane, at the dedication, of
Moore College, by Dr. E. M. Pendleton,
Profee so* of Agriculture. Subject—
“ Agricultural Education.”
After a brief exordium, the Professor
said -
What Government Aid Has Dene.
hen the dißtingnished gentleman
Ijom Vermont, Mr. Morrill, introduced
-Ms bill in the Lower House of Congress
•lor the establishment of an Agricultural
College in each State of the Union, he
.tacked it np by an able speech, taken
from the statistics of the country, by
Which he shotted that the soils of the
older States were being rapidly ex
hausted, and if some measures were not
instituted to recuperate them the time
could not be far distant when gaunt
famine would stalk through our onee
prosperous land. He showed that in
s single decade the production of wheat
had fallen off in the six New England
States’from 2,014,111 to 1,063,132 bush
els ; that potatoes had decreased in the
same States from 35,207,500 to 19,418,019
bushels. And in the States of Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama
there had been a decrease of the pro
duction of wheat from 12,012,736 to
6,141,780 bushels. That the wheat crop
of the State of New York from 1845 to
1860 had dwindled from 13,391,770 to
6,000,000 bushels. That Western New
Yorik had shipped her valuable wheat
crops to other countries, containing the
invaluable principles of nitrogen, phos
phorio acid and potash, until the aver
age production per acre was redneed
from 25 to 12 bushels. That the. tobac
co crop ofVrgiM| was 18,000,000 lbs.
less nEIO. That the cotton
lands oKißP’Utn had been exhausted
production of one bale
to to one in five, and that the
of many of the old cot-
had been reduced 100
per cent, because of the exhaus
tion of their lands. That as a conse
quence of this general deterioration of
the soils of the country, while its popu
lation had increased 35 per cent, in a
decade, that of domestic animals had
only increased 20 per cent. From such
facts as these, the honorable gentleman
predicated an argument so invincible
that 4e carried his bill triumphantly
through both houses ojf Congress. The
great central idea of this grand move
ment was to restore tho worn soils of
th 9 country to their pristine fertility and
enable agricultural science, by every
possible means, to keep pace with the
increasing demands of a rapidly increas
ing population. Hero, then, we have,
in a nut-shell, the origin of these
State institutions, the whole scope
and design of their formation, the
arguments by which Congress was
convinced of their necessity, aud the
secret which caused the representatives
of the people to bestow such a magnifi
cent appropriation on an untried and
somewhat dubious enterprise.
The Mechanic Arts
Were brought in as a side issue, not
merely to strengthen the main enter
prise by arraying in its sppport the in
dustrial interests of the country, but be
cause of their close connection to agri
culture itself, and the aids by which it
could indirectly help to sustain its in
terests. What if we had plenty of hu
man muscle and the most fertile lands ?
we could do nothing without impli
ments to cultivate, them, railroads to
carry our produce to market, and mills
to manufacture our raw material. Tims
while agriculture is the basis of all the
industrial and commercial interests of
tha country, the mechanic arts are
among its most efficient means of suc
cess. Applied chemistry is itsplf a most
beautiful and delicate art v based upon
one of the most profound and in
tricate sciences ; without, which
there or ifid be but little, if any, ad
vance nade in scientific agriculture.
The -fiiMivation of the soil is the sim
plasfffif all the arts, and is better learned
KJith the common laborers on a farm
| tliin under any circumstanoes. On this
!* fek, unfortunately, many of these agri
fltural institutions have been wrecked,
isoonceiving entirely tho idea of what
;ricultural education should be, they
ivo undertaken to educate their stu
mts as practical farmers and even day
borers. Parents have had to pay
>ard for their sons to learn how to hoe
id plough, which can be done much
teapor, much better and much safer at
>me. Hence we find in the reports
lof many of these institutions that the
| agricultural classes have dwindled down
Ito a few unfortunate wights, who have
Ito carry at onoe the double weight of
I physical and mental labor, without any
Lhigh and commanding motives to stim
■llate their energies and inspire their
[hopes* * * * *
Experimental Stations.
The climatology of a country has
much to do with its agriculture. Hence
the importance of having our own ex
perimental stations, that we may study
ear own climate, soil and productions.
| How could we expect the college at Am
bnrst, Massachusetts, or the experi*
■Mwtal farm at Rothemstead, England,
the cotton plant, to teach
its diseases, the rational,
life, nutrition and.growth ? The
"Tors of this institution acted wisely
Wtul establishment of an experimental
t” m i" connection with the professor
ship (f. agriculture. It is to be regretted
that tK.v have not beep.—-jjile to follow
it miDb' su ch liberal d&PJj£j°ll9 08
woukipßWV in the front/rank an/Mf£.
the 'of the world.
I havo done the be si I could under the
eircthDistances. Mnny important ex
peri iVpts have bcou postponed in order
to parry out the rigid economy
made necessary by the paucity of
funds. Many have failed to be
davelope<i iu some of their most
interesting phases for the lack of
assistance in the analytical department.
I feel under many obligations, however,
to the chemical professor for suoh vol
untary aid as he could find time to give
from his arduous duties. It ie out of
the question for the intentions of the
almoners of this bounty to be carried
put as regards the recuperation of our
worn out soils without an
Experimental Station of High Grade,
Where all the appliances of the Labora
tory can be run in synchronism with
those of the soil. Whatever other de
partment has to suffer for funds, wheth
er it be the mechanical or military, this
should not. It seems to me that while
the Legislature has appropriated $15,-
000 for the associate departments of the
institution, they ought to allow some
thing to the agricultural department
proper, and enable the agricultural pro
fessor to have at his command the physi
cal and chemical analysis of soils, fer
tilizers and products, with a view of
establishing fixed data as to the causes
which operate in soil fertility, the par
ticular elements and combination of
elements upon which particular plants
rely for their sustenance and the extent
and character of exhaustion of agricul
tural soils. I have progressed far
enough in this great study to know that
the little already known is bat a small
fraction of the great ■profound that lies
odt in tantalizing proximity to ns, bnt
will only \>e solved, it may be, by the
philosophers of coming centuries. Upon
the establishment of a first class experi
mental station, in our humble opinion,
rests more than upon anything else con
nected with agricultural education, the
recuperation of the soils of the country,
the development of the agricultural re
sources of Georgia, and the advance
ment of the students themselves in agri
cultural science.
The same difficulties environed the
establishment of the first experimental
station in Germany, about 25 years ago.
But so signal were its benefits to the
farming interest that a number were es
tablished in a few years by State aid,
and it was admitted that far more
money had been saved to the Govern
ment than u appropriated from the
single item of learning to mix and econo
mize the car bo hydrates and albuminoids
as cattle food*, ‘We ask no money for
the erection of costly edifices or spaci
ous lecture rooms, or for the purchase
of a magnificent farm. We have land
enough, implements enough, buildings
enough ; we only want such an appro
priation as can furnisk us with means to
supply the deficiencies in the analytical
department. This can be done in sev
er always, either of which would be ac
ceptable and remunerative. We ask
this boon because it is essential to our
progress, and because we do not want
“ mrne, meue, tekel upharsia ” to be
written upon oar gates, as has already
bees done with other institutions. * *
DenoßstraUons the Experimental
B?t wliat, it may be asked, has been
done foi the benefit of the
cwnntry ? Without reforiing to what
■as been accomplished in my own de
partment, as a teacher, or 4 ® my con
freres, bearing either directly or indi- !
rectly upon agriculture and its coilSteral
sciences, I beg leave to mention slew
demonstrations made on the agrieijtu
ral farm which are already beginripg
to bear fruit, and which, from aesaxVj
ces I mm constantly receiving, are being
appreciated by the practical agricultu
ralists of the country. It has
been demonstrated that phosphoric
acid is the only mineral element
needed to be applied to the worn soils
of Georgia to restore them to their pris
tine fertility. This fact has been so
clearly established by a number of ex
periments, and its rationale is so clear
and logical that we have no more doubt
of it than of the correct solution of any
mathematical problem. Take the lead
ing agricultural products of the coun
try—cotton, corn, wheat, oats, peas, Ac.
The average per cent, of silica, carried
off in their suds, is only 16-6; of Lime,
24.2; of chlorine (in peas and cotton, we
have no estimate for the cereals) 27.3;
of soda, 39.6; of snlphnric acid, 41.3; of
potash, 58.6; of magnesia, 63.9; and of
phosphoric acid, 85.2. Now it shonld
be borne in mind that what is left in the
stubble and in the roots of plants is,
when decomposed, ready at once for the
use of succeeding crops. It is as me
chanically fine as it can be made, and
□fostly in soluble forms. Phosphoric
acid is the only one of them all that is
likely to go back into insoluble condi
tions, nnfit for plant food. Bat ad
mitting all the mineral food left in
the debris of plants is available for the
forthcoming crops, we have left of silica
enough for six crops of seed equal to
the one taken off. Of lime, more than
enough for these crops, and of chlorine
not quite enough for three; of soda and
snlphnric acid enough for one and a
third. Of potash nearly enough for
two-thirds, while of phosphoric acid
there is just enough left for one-sixth
of a crop. Is there any wonder then
that snlphnric acid is the first mineral
ingredieot exhausted from a soil, when
the available form is slow to be develop
ed, easy to be thrown back into insolu
ble forms, and when there is 'seven
times as mnch of this prepared food
taken from the soils in the seeds, as is
left for future crops in the vegetable
matter? Is it any wonder that when
soluble phosphoric acid is applied to
worn soils such wonderful results should
be produced without the application of
other mineral ingredient ? And when ap
plied even to the richest virgin soils that
it should produce such largely increased
crops ? Then whenever a soil has the
remains of one crop of vegetable matter
upon it, minus the seed, there is plenty
of all the constituent in an available con
dition, except phosphoric acid, to make
a good crop, and the succession con
tinues as long as there is a good supply
of organic matter. Where this fails,
rest and rotation of crops shonld follow,
in order that by weathering, an increase
of potash and magnesia might be pro
duced, which would be much cheaper
than any attempt to supply the demand
with commercial fertilizers. All this has
been demonstrated by us, and the
facts, the theory and the logic have
all resnlted from our experiments. Car
ried oat in practice on all the farms of
Georgia with its economy of organic
matter and of nitrogen, and the applica
tion of but one universal element, the
amount saved to the farming interest
would be incalculable. From calcula
tions made by us in reference to over
one hundred analyses of American soils,
there is enough of magnesia and soda
(taking the average) to last over six
thousand years for the production of an
Average Crop of Cotton
Each year. There is enough lime and
sulphuric acid to last over four thousand
years; enough potash to last two thou
five hundred and ninety-five years;
enough chlorine to last nine hundred
and forty-three years, and enough phos
phoric acid to last four hundred and
sixty-five years; so that you perceive at
once that it is like hauling coal to New
Castle to apply most of these substances
to our soils, when by lying fallow,
weathering and proper rotation of crops
they can all be made available in suffi
cient quantities, except the last. When
a soil is worn out, it is not from the ex
haustion of its mineral substances, but
simply its available nitrogen and phos
phoric acid. Take any old field in Geor
gia which has ceased to yield remunera
tive crops, and make aa analysis of the
soil and of the primitive forest hard by,
and you will find but little difference in
the amount of mineral elements. B. H.
Loughbridge, of the Geological Depart
ment, has recently made an analysis of
two soils in Upper Georgia, one of them
under cultivation one hundred years
without fertilizers, and the other in
the same locality never cultivated;
in the surface soil the potash is
as 0.947 to 0.347 per cent.; in
the subsoil, 0.925 to 0.706 per cent.;
showing that enough potash remains at
the same rate of exhaustion for the
crops of several centuries. We are not
to understand, in asserting that phos
phoric acid is the only mineral ingre
dient needed as plant food, that other
substances are never needed to be ap
plied as fertilizers. On the contrary,
lime, potash, soda, sulphuric and car
bonic acids are all very useful under
certain circumstances, but harmful un
der others. Here come in the demon
strations of science again. They are
needed not as food for plants, but to
prepare food for plants. Lime devel
ops ammonia from soils abounding in
humus, but is ruinous to a soil which
has but little organic matter. Caustic
potash acts in the same way, while
chloride of sodium (common salt) elimi
nates ammonia from clay and hydrate of
iron in soils, enabling plants to take it
up, which would otherwise remain in the
soil unappropriated to the growing
crops. It also dissolves the insoluble
phosphates of the soil, rendering them
available to plants. This is peculiarly
the office of carbonic and other acids in
soils, as well as to break down the sili
cates, eliminate potash and magnesia,
and preparo them for the same use.
Thus we perceive, under the benignant
light of scieuoe, an educated agricul
turist knows what he is about and is not
led by blind empiricism to do many
foolish and hurtful things. He applies
his fertilizers with the same assurance
of results that the chemist eliminates
his gases or The great
ia~ of iudncji^f u makes him fe<LJj(o r '
calculations as far cP
the soience of agriculture has been'
known and taught.
But take the masses of the farmers in
this country, oven the most enlightened
of them, and how little do they know
about the whys and wherefores of their
own profession. How much valuable
time and money is wasted because they
know not how to save the immense
amount of nitrogen evolved from their
stables and their cotton seed heaps.—
How much is lost in the purchase and
application of substances which are often
not worth the freight paid upon them ?
What farmer is there in the country who
knows when he purchases a fertilizer
what it is or what it ought to be ? A
hundred similar questions could be
asked and answered in the same way in
reference to the application of the most
important principles of science applied
to practical agriculture. The young
men taught in institutions like this will
know these principles and go out to
teach them to others until the whole
land is blessed with the light of science.
But this
Work will Necessarily he Gradual.
Thus while we have recently demon
strated on the farm by eleven different
experiments, that a certain amount of
ammonia and phosphoric acid applied
in certain farms to cotton, paid an in
terest on investment, the first year of
292 per cent., the cotton being
sold at 13 cents; and the residue the
second year 658 per cent., and, for both
years, for every dollar laid out in the
purchase of the chemicals, we realized
$9 48; and although this has been pub
lished and read by hundreds of intelli
gent farmers, how few will undertake to
carry it into practice ? We will have to
look to another race of farmers, especi
ally to that class educated in these halls,
to make much progress in the scien
tific details of progressive farm
ing. By way of making the
thing more practical we proved to a. de
monstration that the man who would
properly use and apply such a class of
pure fertilizers, meeting with the same
seasons and contingencies of culture
that wo did, could pay for the fertilizers
and make cotton for the two years in
cluded iu the experiments at five cents
and eight mills per pound, while it would
cost the man who would cultivate the
same land with the same labor, without
the fertilizers, twelve cents per pound.
We might have doubted ourselves if
there had been but one experiment; but
therp were eleven, and we have tried it
two year# and are now trying it the
third. If some Yankee book vendor
was to come to Georgia and propose to
sell a pamphlet for five dollars per copy
that would tell them how to double
their crops with the same labor the
thing would be published in all the
papers, and the whole country would be
agog to try the experiment. Such
a thing has actually occurred,
and proved to be a humbug.
But when a scientific demonstration is
made at the experimental farm people
take hold of it very cautiously. I am
glad they do. It will be apt to last all
the longer. This remarkable result was
mainly due to the effect of the residue
of fertilizers left in the soil frofcn the
first year's application. The truth was
demonstrated practically, which had be
fore been announced by Liebig, that
clay soils hold phosphoric acid tena
ciously for all time, and will not release
it, even when in an available form, only
to the roots of plants. We left the beds
as little disturbed as we could, so that
the old roots and the residue might re
main as much concentrated as possible.
By this meausjthe little fibres will decay
and their nitrogen be converted into
ammonia, which, with the phosphoric
acid already in the bed, will preset the
very aliment needed by the plant.
It has been demonstrated in Germany
vey recently that 136 lbs. of nitrogen is
lefi in the stubble aud roots of lncerne,
per acre, to the depth of 10| inches;
while red clover leaves, 191 lbs. Wheat,
which is a nitrogen destroying plant,
yields 23} lbs. I have no donbt that
cotton will leave largely more than this,
and intend to demonstrate the fact the
present season by actual experiment.
Thus you perceive on our worn soils the
plan of undertaking to mannre the
whole land, as in Europe, will not pay
in this country ; that we must fertilize
the plant rather than the soil, as we can
make more with a much less outlay of
labor and of money than to adopt the
stereotyped notions of the old country.
Bat it has also been demonstrated that
another element has been exhausted
from our soils, which it is • necessary
also to fnrnish to them in some
way before remunerative crops can
be made. This is not a mineral
element, however, bnt an organic ele
ment, and yet it must be furnished to
the soil as it ia only taken up by the
roots of plants. We, of coarse, refer to
nitrogen. This may be applied either in
the form of ammonia, or organic nitro
gen as it exists in cotton seed, animal
dnst, Ac., in the form of albuminoids,
or as nitric acid in the form of the ni
trates. We have clearly estalished by a
number of undoubted experiments, that
although the chemists put the nitrates
forward as the most valuable, that it is
the least so, and that a cotton planter
can afford to give 50 cents a pound for
nitrogen in the form of animal matter,
■ rather than give thirty-five for it as' m,
trate of potash or nitrate of soda. The
simple reason is, that in %wer pots of
sand, the nitrates being better prepared
for good, act at once without having to
undergo transformatioh, while in a soil
the albuminoids have to undergo a rapid
putrefactive decay, and in its decompo
sition it gets np heat and forms other
chqprical combinations, as carbonic acid
and water, as well as ammonia; ail of
which act as solvents in a poor soil and
help to make it richer. In a flower pot
of sand it has no material to act npon
as in the soil, and hence it cannot ac
complish as much. * * * * But we
have clearly proven the value of organic
matter—humus, if you please—so that
It Cannot Admit of a Doubt
In any unprejudiced mind. Chemists
contend that, because plants can be
fully developed in chemical solutions
without organic matter, it is of no bene
fit t.o crops in.a soil. Not one of them,
however, ever made another inference
(quite as legitimate) that because plants
could be grown in chemical solutions, in
water, without soils, ergo soils were not
necessary to produce crops.
We demonstrated last year that 1,016
pounds of cotton could be raised per
acre*by the application of 200 pounds of
green weeds, applied in that condition
to a row seventy yards long, while the
ashes, containing all the chemicals (so
called) without the organic matter pro
duced only 650 pounds, the natural soil
587 pounds. This was owing to the ni
trogen of the weeds, made available by
being converted into ammonia by rapid
decomposition. We have also demon
strated in other field experiments, aud
in flower pots, as Professor Storer, of
the Bussy Institute, lias recently done,
that humus absorbs and snpplies to
plants much of the nitrogedupon which
they feed. * * * *
Problems to be Demonstrated.
But there are great problems still to
be worked out, a few of which we will
glance at before we close. We have just
seen that Boussingault found 1,044
pounds of nitrogen iu a garden soil. Kro
ker obtained enough from a barren sand
to produce one hundred crops, and in
twenty-two soils he found on au aver
age from five hundred to one thousand
times more of nitrogen than was neces
sary for a crop. Now as to how this
nitrogen can be converted most cheaply
into ammonia and nitric acid, and saved
in the soil as plant food, is one of the
problems. Another is to convert insol
uble phosphates, both in the soil and
out, into available and soluble forms,
and by such cheap process as will ad
mit of universal application. I firmly
believe that we have under experiment
methods that will result in incalculable
advantage to the farming ihterest on
this subject. We shall reserve the de
tails of these experiments until the
thing is clearly established beyond
doubt or cavil. A thousand and one
questions of great interest are constant
ly springing up, in reference to the best
processes to save, apply and combine
cotton seed and stable manure. Al
ready great advances have been made,
but much remains to be found out by
the most careful and patient investiga
tion, both in the field and in the labora
tory. Each years adds to our stock, of
knowledge, and may we not hope that
much will be accomplished in our own
day, and by this institution, for the
solving of these great problems of
scientific agriculture ?
extracts prom a history op
THE CAMPAIGNS OP THE THIRD
GEORGIA REGIMENT.
I
By Capt. C. H. Andrews—lß6l, 1862-
Chapter First—Organization,
The State of Georgia, in convention
assembled, having passed an ordinance
of secession from the Government of the
“United States of North America,” on
the 19th day of January, A. D., 1861,
and the Government of the Confederate
States; (siaveholding States) formed, it
became necessary to raise an army to
resist the policy of coercion determined
upon by the Government of the “United
States.”
New volunteer organizations of militia
were formed, aud equipped in the State
of Georgia, and, with companies that
had existed for years, tendered their
services to the Governor of the State.
The tender was accepted, and they were
called into service for (12) twelve months,
upon requisitions for troops, made by
the Confederate States Secretary of War.
In compliance with a requisition of
the Secretary of War (April 22, 1861),
'iiplih<4^orgiiC'A r two regiments of in-,i
fantry. Gov. on
23d of April, 1861, ordered intff "sfitvice
the following ten companies, to corhpose
the Third Georgia Regiment of Volun
teers:
1. Athens Guards, Captain H. 0. Bil
lups, Clarke county; 2. Brown Rifles,
Captain R. B. Nisbit, Putnam county”
3. Blodgett Volunteers, Captain F.
Blodgett, Richmond county; 4. Burke
Guards, Captain W. C. Musgrove, Burke
county; 5. Confederate Light Guards,
Captain E. J. Walker, Richmond coun
ty; 6. Dawson Grays,'.Captain R. L. Mc-
Whorter, Greene county; 7. Governor’s
Guards, Captain J. R. Griffin, Houston
county; 8. Home Guards, Captain J. S.
Reid, Morgan county; 9. Wilkinson
Rifles, Captain W. O. Beall, Wilkinson ;
county; 10. Young Guards, Captain A.
H. Lee, Newton county.
The Governor ordered them “to
rendezvous at Augusta, Ga., to be fully
equipped, then to proceed by railroad
to Richmond, Va., under command of
the senior captain present, then organ
ize by the election of field officers. “The
first company that reached Augusta,
Ga., of this regiment from a distance
was the' Home Guards, frojn Morgan
county, on the 26th April. , It was es
corted to quarters at the Waynesboro
Depot, by the volunteer companies of
the city. As rapidly as the companies
composing the regiment arrived at
Augusta, and were equipped, they were
mustered into the Confederate States
service by Capt. R. G. Cole (late of the
Eichth Infantry U. S. Army), ,for (12)
twelve months, and started for Rich
mond. On the 2d of May the Burke
Guards and the Home Guards took the
cars on the South Carolina Railroad,and
reached Petersburg,Va., on the.morn
ing of the 4th, where orders awaited
them to proceed to Norfolk, *which place
they reached at 11 o’clock that night.
On the morning of the 6th they were as
signed to quarters iu the Gosport Navy
Yard.
On the Bth of May the regiment elect
ed field officers. Ambrose R. Wright, a
private of the Confederate Light Guards,
was elected Colonel; James S. Reid,
Captain of Home Guards, was elected
Lieutenant-Colonel,and A. H. Lee, Cap
tain of Young Guards, was elected
Major.
In consequence of the promotion of
Captains Reid and Lee, First Lieuten
ant C. H. Andrews (Home Guards) was
elected Captain of that company, and
First Lieutenant J. F. Jones was elect-
Captain of the Young Guards.
The roster of the regiment, as now
organized, was as follows;
Field—A. R. Wright, Colonel; J. S.
Reid, Lieutenant Colonel; A. H. Lee,
Major.
Staff—W. W. Turner, Cos. B, Ist and
Adjutant; W. O’Brian, Cos. B, Sergeant
Major; Alex. Philip, Cos. G, Captain and
Assistant Quartermaster; R. A. Stanley,
Cos. F, Quartermaster Sergeant ; H. S.
Hughes, Cos. K, Captain and Assistant
C. S.; Thomas Mahool, Cos. K, Commis
sissary Sergeant; W. S. Moicre, Cos. D,
Surgeon ; R. B. Lester, Cos. A, Chap
lain.
Line—l. Captain W. 0. Mnsgrove,
Cos. A; 3- Captain H. C. Billups, Cos. K,
3. Captain J. R. Griffin, Cos. E; 4. Cap
tain R. L. McWhorter, Cos. C ; 5. Cap
tain E. J. Walker, Cos. G; 6. Captain B.
B. Nisbit, 00. B; 7. Captain Foster
Blodgett, Cos. I; 8. Captain W. O. Beall,
Cos. F; 9. Captain C. H. Andrews, Cos.
D: 10. Captain J. F. Jones, Company H.
First Lieutenant J. Ik Sturgis, Cos. A;
First Lieutenant T. M. Daniel, Cos. K;
First Lieatenant J. A. Hamilton, Cos.
E; First Lieutenant J. B. Sanders, Cos.
C; First Lieatenant C. Snead, Cos. G;
First Lieatenant W. F. Reid, Cos. Bp
First Lieutenant W. H. Stallings, Cos.
I; First Lieutenant D. M. Clay, Cos. F.
First Lieatenant L. Schelpert, Cos. D;
First Lieutenant L. F. Luckie, Cos. H.
Second Lieutenants —1. J. T. Burton,
Cos. A; 2. D. B. Langston, Cos. K; 3. B.
Le Suefie, Cos. E; 4. J. Fe Geer, Cos. C;
5. B. Willis, Cos. G; 6. John S. Beid,
Cos. B; 7. J. A. Bennett, Cos. I; 8. S. H.
Washington, C.. F; 9. C. G. Harris, Cos.
D; lOjj. H. Evans, Cos. H.
Bre lt Second Lieutenants—l. J. M.
MeC liners, Cos. A; 2. Geo. Hays, Cos. K;
3. J. N. Smith, Cos. E; 4. J. Wilson, Cos.
C; 5. M. Bridwell, Cos. G; 6. R. A. Den
nis, Cos. B; 7. S. Moore, Cos. I; 8. J.
Rivers, Cos. F; 9. J. P. Smith, Cos. D;
10. J. S. Carroll, Cos. H.
Gorham, Mor
gan, filers, Cos. C; A. B. Spencer, Sr.,
snare drum, Cos. C; James W. Reese,
bass drum, Cos. D.
The following is a roll of the regi
ment, as first mastered into the Confed
erate States army (which is omitted be
cause of its length in this extract.)
The Department of Norfolk was first
under the command of Brigadier-Gen
eral Gwynn. In a short time he was re
lieved, and Brigadier-General Benjamin
Huger assnmed command, with head
quarters at Norfolk. Gen. Huger was a
native of South Carolina, graduated at
West Point in 1825, was a Major in the
Ordnance Department, United States
Army, and held the rank of Bievet-Colo
nel at the time of his resignation, 22d
April, 1861. He was highly esteemed
in the old army, for his ability in his
arm of the service as well as for his
genial qualities as a gentleJhan of the
old school. The Third Georgia Regi
ment was attached to the Third Brigade
in the Department, commanded by Col.
A. G. Blanchard, the Commander of
the First Louisiana Regiment, who was
afterwards appointed Brigadier General,
with headquarters at Portsmouth. Gen.
Blanchard was a graduate of West
Point, in the class of 1829, but after the
war with Mexico retired from service, to
enter it again, as a volunteer, in April,
1861. His name is mentioned for con
spicuous gallantry in official reports, at
the storming of the Bishop’s Palace,
Monterey, in the war with Mexico. The
camp of the Third Georgia Regiment
was established just outside of the Navy
Yard walls, and called for Gen. Gwynn;
from which camp were written tender
words of affection to loved .ones at
home, mingled with regrets at the ne
cessity of such a war, but buoyant with
hope, for the struggle being for the
preservation of constitutional represen
tative government, the idea of failure
never entered the mind of the Southern
soldier. In that camp—the regiments
first upon “ tented field”—many pleas
ing incidents occurred, and are still re
membered, and are repeated, and will
be repeated to children’s children. Many
hardships were endured, which are sadly
recalled, but made dim to the survivors
by the lapse of many years and their
great distance in the past.
PREADAMITE RACES.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
The question of a plurality of races is
of interest to Americans not so much as
a matter of speculation as for its practi
cal bearing. The long ages during
which America was kept, as it were,
concealed; its discovery just before the
seism of Luther; the meeting on its
shores of all the races of men; the de
velopment of new principles of govern
ment; the declaration that the pursuit
of life, liberty and happiness was the
birthright of humanity; the doctrine of
political equality ’to be maintained by
the exercise of universal suffrage and
the prevailing inclination of a strong
party to force upon the higher race so
cial amalgamation with the iuferior; in
fact,-the absolute denial of any such in
feriority, and the evident disposition of
a portion of our people to repudiate the
Bible and the church as instrumentali
ties no longer required for popular regu
lation, authorizes tho supposition that in
our hands will lie the solution of one of
the problems of human progress, and
that it is our duty to investigate it
thoroughly, if we are to co-operate with
the Divine Ruler in working out our own
national and personal salvation.
The creed of the Christian, reduced to
the form of a philosophical conception,
may be thus expressed, viz: God is a
spirit of supreme wisdom, power and
goodness, who created the world by a
process of gradation, the object- of
which is to bring into being creatures,
who by faith in His Word, obedience
thereto, and by good works consequent,
shall be fitted for an eighth “day” of
immortality with a promised Messiah.
To prepare us for this state the human
race undergoes “tribulation,” that the
moral wheat may be separated from the
chaff which unfits it for the master’s barn
—and is tried as gold is tried in the fire,
before it is fitted for the sovereign’s
stamp. It moreover holds that the first
Adam, the created father of the race,
fell, but that the race itself was con
tinued in Seth, the God engendered or
God given seed from whioh, through a
pure race, should come the God man,
and that to this race of Seth is assign
ed the task of replenishing and subdu
ing the earth, till it shall be prepared
for the millenial reign of the son of God
himself in person. Now to prepare the
way for this favored race, it is held, was
the object of every step, from the for
mation of the infusora of the princial
seas, through fishes, birds, creeping
things, mammals, preadamite man, up
to the destruction of the world by water,
and that since the Deluge the whole of
onr history exhibits but a grand drama,
which we are allowed to play that we
may learn the vanity of rejecting the
sovereignty of God, and substituting
therefor a faith in the sufficiency of hu
man wisdom and virture to our salva
.tion. When we realize the error of this
'nation, and laying aside our idols, show
; a willingness to return to the rock
whence we are hewn, then and not before
Will the stone hewn without hands swell
into a mountain, and righteenfsnjss coyer
the eartli as the theimaT 1
INow, how can wfl-yStioncile with this
pflan instead of allowing
siii men an equal chance to sink or swim
bjy the exercise of equal powers, God
r snould have interfered miraculously to
reduce some of the families, by a short
process, to the state of the bnshmen—the
liotteatbt, and the guinea negro in Afri
ca to the condition of the Papuan and
Australian in Australasia, of, the Digger
Indian, Pattigonian and Commanehee
i America—*while in Asia, he ar
resss (he Mongol race and chrystalizes
it "into semi-civilized, unprogressive
bodies, which constitute nearly one
half rtf the human race, and sets apart
the Caucassian —who alone preserves the
color of the adamite, the florid man—to
be the depository of the power and
knowledge necessary to carry out the
great design ? Is it not far more ration
al to suppose that there were many races
created to occupy the earth, and that
the children of Shem, Ham and Japhet,
of the pure Adamic race, were set apart
to replenish and subdue it ? That they
have been so far the dispensers of what
light we have is a historic fact, while
the doom of Canaan, “servant of ser
vants shall he be,” may be explained by
reference to the meaning of the name.
“Canaan” means “Merchant,” trader
“who humbles and subdues,” and it
cannot be denied that commerce, whose
first gre.at movers were Canaanites is to
our. own day the great civilizer, which
draws together the families of men, and
even none instigates to the humbling
and subduing of nations or tribes that
oppose the Japhetan mission to “dwell
in the tents of Shem and have Canaan
for his servant.” Of this we have a re
markable instance in the present opera
tions of England, who is preparing to
subdue the descendants of the man
Canaan through the use of her traders,
backed by the military force of the chil
dren of Ham, the Egyptians and light
colored races of the Central Africa, af
ter having by her machinations crippled
the forces of a rival commercial nation
by the freeing of the negro, whose con
trolable labor formed the basis of their
industrial edifice. Well did my old
grandmother say, long before the aboli
tion of slawary, that the United States
were doomed to be the worst failure the
world ever saw, because they would
shut their eyes to the teachings of the
Bible!
To understand the steps by which the
great design of human regeneration is
to be accomplished may not be within
the reach of onr present mental powers,
but some of them are visible in the re
mains of the instrumentalities employed
by the Divine Architect. Rocks formed
by the deposition of the shells of dead
infusors and the remains of other or
ganisms precipitated to the bottom of
seas which rolled in ages inconceivably
remote have been broken np and mixed
till fitted for the production of soils
bearing the food of animals. These
animals, kept down by canivora, and
these by the hunter race (whose rude
instrum-, nts of warfare and the chase
are buried deep under the remains of
animals which they hunted and which
ceased to exist long ages before the ap
pearance of the Adamic race) till further
admixture of soils permitted the growth
of grain fit for the support of au agri
cultural community. Cattle, oxen and
horses supplied to make agriculture
possible without too toilsome labor and
a general arrangement of things which
rendered intellectual pursuits feasible,
shows a gradual development of means
to an end, which is unmistakable. But
did the gradation cease here f While
the mule and the horse were given suffi
cient intelligence to serve as moveable
physical forces te operate on nature, was
it designed that the intellectual Japhe
tan race, though doomed to subdue the
earth by the sweat of their brow should
supply the whole of that rough and ab
sorbing labor which is purely prepara
tory and unintellectual, so that at its
fullest development the larger part of it
must be at menial service altogether in
consistent with all ideas of personal
dignity and elevation, or was the im
mense gap between the mule and the
man of high race filled by an intermediate
organization combining ' the power to
bear toil and sufficient mental force to
be directed by reason, with a submis
sive and patient spirit which would not
render subordination to the superior
race a curse, but rather a blessing and a
reward ? That servitude was not always,
either one or the other, to the negro,
does not weaken the probability of the
idea that he was created to fill this
vaeuum in the divine plan, since we all
now acknowledge that it is deranged by
man’s rebellion. But was not this re
bellion also shewn in this very act of ne
gro emancipation, when we recollect
that its originators repudiated the Scrip
tures and called for “an anti-slavery God
and an anti-slavery Bible ?” It certain
ly was, as surely as the same sentiment,
running back to the examination of the
question of a subordination of races on
scientific grounds gave rise to a convic
tion that the negro existed long before
Adam, and that therefore if the idea of
a common descent was to be adhered to
its origin must be found far back in the
dim ages, when the antropophoid ape
was the highest type of living animals !
But such is the natural effect of all at
tempts to substitute man’s ideas of
right for the teaching of Law and Gos
pel, and yet when we consider how grad
ual is the rise from the lowest of the sn
tropophoid races to the gorilla, and from
the gorilla to the bushmen, the Hotten
tot and the negro of the Gamboon river
and the coast of Guinea, from which
I most of the ancestors of the American
negro were taken, we are obliged to say
that the scientist who rejects the Mosaic
record and refuses to accept the doctrine
of special creations is logically com
pelled to find the origin of the human
race, in “some animal of the ape species
whose habits were arboreal.”
Now which is the more philanthropic
and philosophic doctrine—this or that
which assigns to the negro the place not
of the connecting link between man and
monkey, but of a step in the gradation
of races, far above the mere animal, in
which and in which only he can fulfill
his mission to aid in producing and
then in enjoying the result of the
world’s labor divinely arranged and di
vided to each his appropriate share?
That such arrangement and divisions
exists may be easily understood and ad
mitted by any unprejudiced observer
who has seen the impatience of the
poorer classes of America, writhing
under the restraints of their poverty,
with the phantasm of equality in their
dreams; who has been among the sub
dued and humble peasantry of Europe,
longiug for a fairer state of things al
most against hope, and then living in
the Southern States of America, and
contrasting with both the state of things
in the well regulated families of the
slaveholders. Such a one would readi
ly believe the story told of liuskin, who
refused to be introduced to Adams as
the representative of a government
which had destroyed the best social or
ganization that the world ever saw; es
pecially if in a position to compare the
present state of the retrograding freed
man with the former contented Blave.
How many an emancipated negro has
felt and said to Northern men since the
war, “I never was a slave until made
free by you." The next generation will
probably see the effects of this tendency
to retrocession (since the present adult
race of negroes have not yet lost the
habits acquired in slavery) in the state
of the young negroes of this day who are
generally becoming more and more in
different to the attractions of education,
and equally appreciative of the delights
of idleness, night gambling, license and
loaferism generally.
That this tendency to sink is a race-
characteristic, appears to boas unde
niable from the history of the world as
that repose is that of the Shemite, and
activity and progress that of the
Japhetan. That it is not characteristic
of the descendants of Ham, may be as
serted, since the Egyptians, Phoene
cians and Carthegenians were remarkbly
active and intelligent, and only suc
oumbed after a long struggle to brute
force. But if descended from neither
Shem, Japliet or Ham —whence comes
the negro? The answer is from the
Preadamite—the sixth-day man of
Genesis, the man of the “stone age” of
the geologist. Again, the doctrine of a
community of origin for the negro and
white man, involves a descent for him
so rapid that if the Mosaic chronolgy
be correct the moral, mental, social and
physical change, including the anatomi
cal difference and alteration of color,
must have been effected in little more
than eight hundred years, a supposition
not readily to be received by one who
has observed how little effect a resi
dence of two hundred years has had on
the negroes imported into Maryland or
even into Rhode Island. Such a change
would be miraculous, and would render
the doctrine of Anxximander as to the
origin of man from a mixture of earth
and water, heated by the rays of the
sun, quite as acceptable to the common
mind as that whioh compels the creator
so constantly to Resort to extraordinary
shifts to alter his works to meet unfore
seen complications.
But the doctrine of Preadamite races
also involves difficulties for the Mosaic
account; first, as to the time that the
Adamic race has been on the earth, and,
secondly, as to the length of the days of
creation. About the first I can say
nothing new, but about the second I
have an idea which I believe has never
been put forth, and which I think valu
able as settling the meaning of a hereto
fore undecided and very important point
of controversy.
The Hebrew text fixes the creation of
Adam before Christ about fliqr thou
sand years and the Deljftge sVWet’E-O’h’fcy'-'
four centuries....- stow the Egyptian
monuments.rafe generally believed to
have beeja-’built soon after the Deluge,
-‘trtr&'tEe earliest, of them, the Pyramid
of Cheops, contains certain arohitectual
features which constitute it an astro
nomical monument so remarkable as to
cause it to be thought a divine inspira
tion intended to confirm the Mosaic ac
count and convey to us knowledge with
regard to the earth and heaven to which
we have but recently attained through
our improved science. In the succeed- '
ing pyramids the negro is unmistakably
delineated with such characteristics as
show him to have been then the same
that he is now, so that originally a son
of Noah’s son he must have been the
product of a beastly union, or have
been changed from what he was as one
of the pure race into the negro of the
pyramid in about eight hundred years.
As the first he comes under the curse of
Canaan nud is unfit to associate with
man as a beast, and as the last, he is
one whose characteristics mark him as
too slow of progress to join in the gov
ernment of the superior raee, while as
one of another nature, another kind of
man, as Ifn certainly appears to be to
thosq-who know him best, the utmost
stretch of charity would require us to
give him a separate domain in which to
develop to the full, untrammelled by
the white, but under the protection of
white government and within the in
fluence of the example of white civiliza
tion. In any case he is out of his place
as the political associate of the white
and more markedly as occupying
the box of the juror or of th,e
judge, while in his present stage
of development and civilization, wh'ere
as, with his own territory, social organi
zation, schools, churches, government
and policy, without any white man to
molest him or make him afraid he may
exercise the right of self-government
through the ballot box, accumulate
property, and, under the protection of
the United States, as an independent
citizen of an allied power, make himself
a habitation and a name whenever sub
ordination in a white State became irk
some to him. Such an arrangement
would make the negro really free, t the
same time that it would remove all dan
ger of discord between races divided by
an ineradicable color line, when dema
gogues or hostile agents should, as they
certainly will, saise questions involving
the interest or prejudices of race. Lo
cations for such States might be found
in Florida—on the Gulf shore of Lou
isiana, where the productions of nature
are abundant, with little cultivation, or
in New Mexico, where irrigation and
mining would yield wealth to those who
had the energy and skill to resort to
them, and the dormant energies of the
Afrioan be forced into action should he
be disposed to neglect the suggestion of
St. Paul, “If- any one will not work
neither let him eat.”
The length of the demiengic day will
be examined in my next, and some other
points of accord of the Mosaic text with
science tonohed upon. R. W. H.
THE MINING IV AB.
Prospective Clo-e of the Miners’
Strike—A Net Loss of $10,000,000.
New Yoke, June 7.—A dispatch from
Pottsvilie says : It is the general belief
among the coal operators and other well
informed citizens that the miners’ strike
will end within a tortnight at farthest,
and probably not outlast the present
week. The final surrender of men will
not be simultaneous, but one colliery
after another will find enough ready to
abandon the Union to begin operations.
To protect themthe assistance of troops
will be needed until the strike is definit
ely abandoned. The loss to Schuylkill
county alone, from five months’ snspen-.
sion of all mining operations, is estimat
ed at ten millions, of which sum the men
lose five millions in wages. If they
should carry their point they could not
make up this loss by the difference be
tween the old and the proposed new
wages in four years.
The National Sportsman’s Association
re-assembled in Cleveland yesterday.
Delegates were present from eighteen
States,
THE RAID ON THE BALLOTS.
Gov. Chamberlain’s Answer to the
Blackville Memorial.
Governor Chamberlain has sent the
following answer to the memorial of cit
izens of Blafkville published a few days
since: i
May 31, 1875.
M. F. Molony, Esq., and others, Black
ville, S. C.:
Gentlemen—l have received from you
a document in which you recite the cir
cumstances attending the recent disap
pearance of the evidence of the result
of the late election in your county, and
in which you request of me my official
condemnation of the act, and the adop
tion of means and the offering of re
wards to bring the criminals to justice.
If any one in Barnwell oounty or else
where has done any act impairing, or
tending to impair, the rights of the peo
ple as involved in the late eleotioD, or
in the events which preceded or follow
ed that election, such an act has my
personal and official condemnation and
abhorence. Such acts are blows, not
only at our form of government, but at
the rights themselves which government
is established to secure. But of this it
is almost superfluous to speak, because
no man will dare dispute the proposi
tion. The practical point is presented
when you suggest the adoption by me
of means and the offering of rewards for
the punishment of .those who have thus
wronged the people.
These duties, permit me to say in
kindness, belong, in my judgment,
primarily, if not wholly, to the good
people of Barnwell county, i rather than
to the Executive or to the State at large.
I am not aware that any facility for the
detection or punishment of crime, ordi
narily enjoyed in this State, is wanting
in your county. Your Trial Justices
arp believed to be efficient, your citizens
are intelligent, your lawyers are able,
and your Judge is one in whom all have
perfect‘confidence. The offense is one,
which, while it nffects to some extent
the whole State, peculiarly and especially
affects Barnwell.county. In addition to
this, I have not a dollar at my disposal
which can be used for the payment of
rewards for detecting the authors of this
crime, and I am not willing to offer a
reward which I canuot pay. The prac
tical as well as the right thing to bo
done is for the good people of your
oounty to arouse themselves to the duty
of discovering and punishing those who
may be involved in this offense, and to
enforce the laws through the peaceful
agencies of the laws. If the people so
determine, the work will be done, and I
see no other way in which it can be done.
My duty will be to see that the results
of the efforts of your people and your
county are not nullified by any action of
mine—a duty which is more onerous and
difficult than you probably imagine—but
if the people of Barnwell oounty will do
their duty, I will do mine, and then the
laws will be administered, crime punish
ed, and the rights ef all secured.
With great respect, your obedient ser
vant, D. H. Chamberlain,
Governor of South Carolina.
Over the door of the office of the Gov
ernor of Connecticut is inscribed “Gov
ernors Room.” The painter having
omitted the possessive apostrophe, he is
growled at by the Hartford Host, and
charged with opening the room to all
Governors. The Post doesn’t seem to
realize that there are many worse men
than that painter. A man who would
leave out an apostrophe once in a while
would be looked upon as an aDgel in
some of the printing offices of the West,
where it is often held by one or two of
the most muscular compositors that all
words ending with the letter “s” should
have an apostrophe in them somewhere.
The negro murderer, Reecl, who was
dropped from the Nashville suspension
bridge by a cowardly and blood-thirsty
mob, is said to be alive. The same
thing was said of Barmore, “the man in
velvet,” who undertook to investigate
the Ku-Klux, but when the corpse ar
rived in Nashville, public opinion
changed. Barmore was seen half a dozen
times alive after he was dead, but his
funeral took place just the same as
if nobody had contradicted the report
of his death.
LORD k TAYLOR,
Dealers in Foreign and Domestic
I>l£,Y GOODS,
Are offering Select Lines of
BLACK AND COLORED SILKS.
SPRING AND SUMMER DRESS GOODS.
SUIT AND HOUSEKEEPING LINENS,
FOULARD FINISHED CAMBRICS,
PRINTS, CALICOES, &c. Ac.,
Together with an extensive Line of Ham
burgs, in all grades. Insertions. Edgings,
Trimmings, Ac., Silk Hose (all colors), Plain
and Faucyjijpse for Ladies, Misses and Chil
dren. Also, Gloves, Fans, Parasols, Sun Um
brellas, Ac.. Ac.
183“ Our Ladies’ Shoe Department contains *
stock unsurpassed for elegance, durability and
lowness of price. Directions for self-measure
ment sent on application. S'"
Complete assortment of Gentij.’.rffurnisk
iug Goods, Shirts, Collars. Cu|t*r v 'Ties, Hose,
Gloves, Ac. Goods sent, t# any part of the
country. Shirt mea.su,laments sent on appli
sSJWBiL'
' ®3" For th# accommodation of Ladies and
Families who are unable to visit the city, full
lines of samples of all grades of Dry Goods
will be sent, and orders \>y mail filled with the
greatest possible care.
BROADWAY AND TWENTIETH STREET,
NEW YORK. juG-wlmsepAoct
BUY ONLY THE GENUINE
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IfAmj&NKSf'
STANDARD SCALES.
ALSO,
THE MOST PERFECT ALARM CASH DRAWER,
MILES ALARM TILL CO.’S. Also, Her
ring’s Safes, Coffee and Drug Mills,
Letter Presses. Fairbanks’ Standard Scales,
Manufacturers, E. AT. Fairbanks A Cos., Hi. (
Jolmsbury, Vt. Principal Scale Warehouses/
Fairbanks A Cos., 314 Broadway, N. Y.; Fai/
banks A Cos., 166 Baltimore street, Baltimonfe,
Md.; Fairbanks A Cos., 63 Camp street, New Or
leans; Fairbanks A Cos., 93 Main- street. Bfaf
falo, N. Y.; Fairbanks A Cos., 838 Broadway.
Albany, N. Y.; Fairbanks A Cos., 403 St. ESul’h
Btreet. Montreal; Fairbanks A Cos,, 31/King
Williams street, London. England;
Brown A Cos., 2 Milk street, Boston; Mass.;
Fairbanks A Ewing, Masonic Hail,/’Philadel
phia, Pa.; Fairbanks, Morse A C0.,y1l 1 Dike
street, Chicago; Fairbanks, More/A Cos., 139
Walnut street, Cincinnati, Obw* Fairbanks,
Morse A Cos., 182 Superior street, Cleveland,
Ohio: Fairbanks, Morse A Cos., 4/Wood street,
Pittsburgh; Fairbanks, Morse' A Cos., stli A
Main street, Louisville; Fairbanks A Cos., 302
A 304 Washington avenue, St. Louis; Fairbanks
A Hutchinson, San Francisco, (Cal. For sale by
leading Hardware Dealers. (ap2l-eodAwlo
FURNITURE
Cheaper Than Erer Known.
OUR entire Stock of Parlor. Chamber and
Dining Room Furfiitore will be sold at
manufacturers’ prices, commencing MONDAY,
May 31st, and continue for the next three
months, to make room ’or the rebuilding and
improvement of the rear part of our Store.
The room must be had to do the work required,
therefore the Goods will be Bold <8 above
stated rather than store them away Now is
the time for all to make their purchases.
PLATT BROTHERS,
my3o-dwStlm 212 and 214 Broad Street.
WANTED!
A PARTNER, with $1,500 Cash Capital-
Si,ooo for half interest in the establish
ed PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY and SEWING
MACHINE AGENCY,.No. 148 Broad Street,
which, includes Stock, Apparatus. Fixtures,
Furniture, Ac., appewiining to both branches
of business, and .SSOO (the advertiser finding
the same amount) to invest in the purchase of
HOME SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINES, to
sell on the monthly installment plan.
proved that ten Machines
can be this plan to one on the cash
system, amf money made rapidly with little or
no risk. *
For olAer particulars, apply to or address A.
B. CIAIiKE, Box 407, Augusta, Georgia.
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MILLS.
D. -A.. JEWKLL, Prop’r.
Post Office, Jewell’s, Hancock Cos., Ga.
WOOL WANTED.
ON and after May the 20th we will CARD
WOOL for One Fourth Toll, or for Ten
Cents Per Ponnd-
Will pay market value for Wool or Exchange
for Goods at reduced prices.
When shipping Wool to us by Railroad to be
Carded or Exchanged, mark your name and ad
dress plainly on the bundle and ship to May
field.
4-4 Sheetings, f Shirtings, 8 ounce OBnaburgs,
Yams, Kersevs, and Jeans for sale at Lowest
Market Hates. Orders solicited.
my2l-w3m D. A. .IKWKPL.
The Catoosa Sp tings, l
ON Western and Atlantic Railroad, will be
open June 10th, 1875. Board reduced,
railroad fare reduced. Send for circulars.
EUGENE W. HEWITT,
jus-lm Proprietor, Catoosa Springs, Ga.
IN eW
CHRI|. CRAY h. COj
HAVE PLACED ABOUT ONE HUNDRED PIECES j
,/ipf • ;*v; OF
i’OLoLsou- i ‘ :
ON FRONT COUNTERS, AND MARKED THEM dW
FROM 40, 50 150 60 CENTS TO 25 CENTS PER TAM
It Will Pay to Call and Look at the Goods.
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100 Pieces Best Black Alpaca
ih the Wcfcrld for 25 cents per yard.
James A. Gray,
_ " 194 and 196 Broad Street.
50 Pieces Best Black Alpaca in,
the World for 50 cents per yard*
James A. Gray,
194 and 196 Broad Street.
50 Pieces Best Black Alpaca in
the World for $1 per yard.
, .James A. Gray,
194 and 196 Broad Btreet.
5 Pieces Pure Silk Warp
Best in the World, for $2 per yard.
James A. Gray,
194 and 196 Broad Street'
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IMPORTANT TO PLANTBRSI
The Michniond Factory,
NEAR -A.TTGTJfifr.A, (LA..,
r
CONTINUES to manufacture Woolen Cloth for .Planters at 15 cut its per yard for Plains and
20 cents for Twills. If the owners of the Wool wish tho same dyed, they ate prepared to
do so—making a Gray—the only color fluey propose making. Tho c(yprgefor Dyeing the Filling
wilt be 3 cents a yard" extra. Wool will bo" carded at Iff cents per pSjjml. No Wool will be re
ceived from Depot without the owner’s name is distinctly marked upon eacbTackage. Goods ,
to be paid for oil delivery. *'
&T All instructions and shipments ofi-Wool should be to
ADAM JOHNSTON, , YOffiVG & HACK,
AAuv2uY|^^^^^Ai!ntH^An!uista^Ga.
Foundry 1
kollockl
WITH increased facilities®
all descriptions, Iron a®
I WOULD CALL SPECIAI
LETER ]
A CHEAP, SIMPLE, 4
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STEAM ENGINES
FOR PLANTATION tf
USE OF ALL SIZES
CONSTANTLY ON 'tM
HAND. WATER
WHEELS, SAW AND
nBIST MILLS, JH
HORSE POWERS, .
KIDnrEY COM
Probably there is no j
the human system wldfl
at the present time mM
(>; Kidney Complai JH
There is no
pan. or more
the kidneys fail t'Hfl
mid acnl and .
th,- Meed accmmnH
the system- I
If ’from
form the fuuctfl
cumulations ad
and the wlml®
disease.
very often
portance of S
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purities ol^^B
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years of age ; liavSH
Kidney Complaint,
stomach. 1 was
VEGETINE, and 1
for weakness of
hjeve tried many remHß
and never found no mil
VEGETINE. It strengH
tho whole system. Man
ltavo taken it, and I hell
ail the complaints forwll
Yours truly, JOSII
PRONOUNCED nH
BostolH
H. R. Stevens, Esq. : Dear
badly afflicted with Kidney CJj
years; have Huffer :d great pal
bipß and side, with great diffil
urine, which was often and in ri
tities. frequently accompanied w
excruciating pain.
X have faithfully tried most of IB
remedies recommended for my coj
have been under the treatment of sfl
most skillful physicians in Boston, al
pronounced my <'ase incurable. r nJ
condition when I was advised by
tho VEGETINE, and 1 could
facts from the first <:o~ . 1
.ritf-nr I l;r:; i:u;
cured, taking in ail. 1
six bottles.
It is indeed a valuable
should be a,flinted again in
give a dollar a dose, if I
out. Respectfully. KM
361 Third Strc
NEARLY ■
If. li. Stevens: Dear Sir
thanks to you f..r benefits
use of VEGETINE, and to
will state: a
When eight or nine years old I w,HI
with Scrofula, which made its
my eyes, face and head, and I .van ■
'blind for two years. All kinds of
were performed on inv eyes, and all
result. Finally the disease
in my body, limbs and feet, and at
aggravated stay.
Last Summer I was, from some
in my spine and kidneys, and it was
very hard tt retain the urine. Seeing youl
vertisempht in the “ Commercial,” J boug!
bottle of VECbETTNE and commenced uj
according to direArious. In two or three I
I obtained great relief. After using foul
five bottles I noticed it had a wondferfuhd
on the rough, scaly blotches on
legs. I still used VEGEf^iKa^^H
ipil
--s
else.
If I am ever
kind again I sh|
reliab.e rem^B
and believe^H
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