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general understanding Of. the army
at the time. So, according to ire
frahable Union testimony, the frsmq
aOas done By Federal; and VIM. 7,
Sherman will be damned to an. i'm
mortality OF :infamy, as either direct
ly or indirectly responsible for it
No matter who, which or how many
of his invading hordes, applied the
torch to Columbia, he could have
prevented it; and, after the. fire be-
gan, could have saved the city, if he
wouldl Our own opinion is that
though the queenly city may have
been fired, as stated by our informant,
by liberated Federals,- was done
only BY the direct order. or at the
secret instigation, Of the Perjured
Arch-Bummer and Incendiary, Sher-
man May he find in eternity, The
flames he kindled in Carolina And
may the. vile government that pro-
NOTED him for his gigantic crimes
alone, be compelled to foot the devil
try-bills for which he and it are
wholly, solely and indisputably re-
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ters anu Inc It's A.aea..a-:a.s y! o!G,'
casy out their virgins to the Minota-
urs of Radicalism
But will those noble women sub
nit to this odious and cowardly ran
som Will they, whose loins have
borne the fallen heroes who sleep in
the dust Of thousand battle fields,
permit the faint hearted survivors Of
the struggle to buy an ignomlnlous
peace at such an infamous price ?
Will those women forget that they,
too, have received in all its purity
the sacred inheritance Of a common
ancestry and that they cannot, with
out sacrilege, transmit it to their own
descendants tainted and polluted in
it's fountain head /?
When nations become so degenerate
and currupt that men are only fit to
wear the shsckle OF servitude, histo-
ry teaches US. that women, divinely
inspired by never dying principles
of devotion to race and country steps
up to the front of the arena, and like
the Roman matror passing to her
trembling husband the dagger dyed
in her own blood, and exclaiming
"Take tit hurts hot!" shows BY
her example that death is preferable
to disgrace.
And to them now we imploringly
appeal to cast away from them, with
loathing and contempt, the degener-
ate SONS Of their noble sizes, and to
spurn them with horror from their
maternal or conjugal embraces.
I.s. them re-vindicate their impre-
scrlpiiblc rights TO their share OF that
heirloom oil greatness. virture and
self denial, which has shed much
brilliancy Oh their name, and future
generations wiilr up aid call them
blessed
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Grants Attorney General whe

Grants Attorney General when
applied to by some Of the white peo-
pie in Louisiana for relief from the
tyranny of the administration, as ad-
ministered through Kellogg and the
mulatto steamboat cook, replied by
advising them to attend to their pri-
vate affairs and let politics alone.
This is the very advice that the Gar
of Russia gives to his 'subjects-not
through his Attorney General, but by
means Of his military power. The
two Napoleons were OF the same
opinion, and enforced it stringently
while they ruled France. Bismarck
as chancellor of the German Empire,
was always carrying oat the very
same idea; and If the Emperor ol
Austria was asked his views.he would
doubtless adopt the language Of Grants
Attorney Geperal. There never was
a tyrant, from the days Of Nimrod
down to his latest copyist, who did
not act upon this principle. He
would rule the peoples place was
to attend to their private affairs. We
fear that it is too much the. fashioE
here, of late years, to act upon the
idea embodied in the Attorney Gen
erals curt and insolent reply to the
people of Louisiana and just as fal
as the people of the United State:
fall into this rpt. just so far have they
drifted from the example Of then
fathers. and Just so far are they
swinging away from a government
by the States and the people, into al
irresponsible rule Of demagogues anc
pretenders, who will in a short time
hold up before us the bare alterna
tive OF military absolutism or an
archy and confusion. The time was
when every American citizen wa'
governed by principle in his politics
The old questions still exist and claim
attention as much as ever. There
has been no day since the Inaugural
tfon of Washington, that there ha
not been danger of our beautifully
organized system Of government be
ing twisted from its true course by
false doctrine and heresy; and tn
danger was never greater than 1T Il
now. Let the people all through th'
country obey the mandate of the ad
ministration, and devoting themselve
to their private affairs leave polite
to their rulers, and the child is nov
in existence who will, beforeit reache
maturity, see our whole Constitution
torn to pieces.
The great evil of the day is t tina
the people are too prone to follov
this governmental counsel; in thi
they are guilty of q manifest neglec;
Of duty, A freeman has responsible
tiles as well as privileges. He Ia
no right to shun those responaibiliie
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Who Fired a'lll Columbia :
TIE ARoH-BUMMBRiAND, INcEND1A-
RY IMPALED ON "A SPIKE OF
CAUCASIAN Truth.

From the Lexington lMo:) Caucasian.
How all yankeedoodledom and
pandemonium rangS5with exultant
hallelujahs and bullyebummers, when
the telegraph hashedsover the world
the news, that the proud capital Of
the Palmetto Stats-the. cradle Of
secession-had been; given up to
flames andruin, by the Vandal hordes
of brutal ruhian wearing the stars
of a Federal Major General. How
every sniveling Puritan bible-mouler
poured forth maudin Te-Deums'
in polluted pulpits.AsHow the whole
yankee nation thre@9up its universal
hat and chignon, and, rent the heav-
ems with one prolonged, gigantic
huzza for ShermalTF Senators and
congressman, governors and poetast-
ers Wed with each other in piEng
wind-bag honors on;his name. For
this deed Of hel5Athis monsvous,
wholesale burning ofa beautiful city
alone, he aUas, aiventhe loftaeSt aIche,
save one, IN yankee annals Of the aOor !
His rise dated from that hour. He
was promoted, swiftly as a boot-lick
congress could create loftier posts, to
lieutsnant-general, and then to gen.
eralissimo. The burning of Colum-
bia was the crowning glory of his
immortal (in infamD march to the
sea-.
But change has swept over the
spirit of their dreams. In that Gend-
kindled confagration millions Of dol
lars worth OF cotton belonging to
British subjects, was burned. They
have presented their claims for dam
ages. Their government backs their
demands. The question, Who fired
Columbia ?" becomes a matter OF vast
international Importance, involving
immense Sums of5money. And all
at once, the Washington Mongrelism
discovers that the sConfederates We're
he incendiaries. The flaming laurels
- mn .sstt;;'ssawears Of gloatlng
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RetrenChment in the State Gov
Y erBment.
From the Charleston News

The present, administration went
into power under certain solemn
pledges to the people. They promis-
ed so much that it was impossib e for
the most incredulous to believe that
they would not fulfill little. They
were to give us thorough retrench-
ment and reform in the conduct Of
public affairs. All useless Offices were
to be abolished; salaries to be reduc-
ed, and expenditures generally cur
tailed, within the compass of a mod
crate rate Of taxation. Have they kept
these promises in whole or in plrt ?
We regret to be forced to say that
they have not. The expenditures
have not been visibly diminished, and
the rate of taxation. is higher than
ever before, though no provision is
made for the payment;of interest on.
the public debt. There is, no assur-s
ance either that even the enormous
rate of taxation will be sufficient to-
meet the. extravagant expenditures,
and the probabilities are that Novem-
Der next will find us with almost as
great deficiency as had to be pro.
vided for during the current fiscal
year. -
The people have been forced to-
pay this year rate of taxation thir-
teen times as high as before the war,
and FIVE times as high as in 1867. the
last year of Democratic rule. With
all this additional burden we came
out in debt. The administration have
one more year in which to make good
their pledges. Let them see to it
that it is done, or else let them re-
tire to private life, that better and
more capabls hen may take their
places: -
It is high time in this State that
Bu1combs should cease to pass for
Brains, and Republicanism cease to
be preferred to Common Honesty.
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Don't be in a Hurry to Go.

Come. bows, I have something to tell you
Come here, I would whisper 1t low;
You're thinking of leaving the nome
stead,
Don't be in hurry to go.
The CITY has many attractions,
But think of the vices and sins,
When once in the vortex of fashion,
How soon the course downward begins
You talk of the mines of Australia,
THEY'RE wealthy in treasures, no doubt
But ali. there is gold in the farm, boys,
If only you'll shovel 1t out:
The mercantile life is hazard,
The goods are first high and then low,
Better risk the old farm awhile longer
Don't be in hurry to go.
The great busy West has inducements,
And so has the busiest mart,
And wealth is not made in day, boys,
Don't be in hurry to start.
The banker and broker are wealthy,
They take in their thousands or So
Ah. think of their frauds and deceptions--
Don't be in hurry to go.
The farm is the safest and surest;
!. The orchards are loaded to-day;
You are free as the air of the mountain,
And monarch OF all you survey.
But stay on the farm awhile longer,
n Though profits come in rather slow,
Remem ber you We nothing to risk, boys
Don't be in hurry to go.
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- - ~! -. itt-eIs niscE@Sltl1
the Declaration OF American IND
pendence. And what does ~?
Will these idle and extravagant de-
monstrations ever work out the great
problem Of Georgia independence? !?
No! Never until labor becomes popu-
lar will money get easy. Never,
until we feed fancy less, and learn to
fatten chickens and hogs more, will
want disappear and plenty step in:
When these plain secrets of life shall
have been leaned, when the wild
mania for speculation shall have de-
parted from our farm houses and
plantations, when our planters shall
learn from experience to abandon
Wall street brokers and " cotton fu-
lures" and come to deal more direct
ly in the productions of square little
"spots" Of potatoes and corn, when
agriculture shall become the ruling
feature and controlling interest in
our StatcEthen, and not until then,
will we become an independent, pros
porous and happy people. And we
have here in Georgia all the elements
necessary to this great end. Here
God has blessed US with everything
essential to the prosperity and growth
Of man or beast, if only worked out.
Everything, from chicken and a
churn to a cotton field and coal
bed, from ground-pea patch on the
sand hills to gold mine in the
mountains. These are among the
rich, rare and multiplied resources Of
Georgia; these constitute our strength,
our refuge and our power.
Think of it, farmers and planters
of Middle Georgia Here we are,
in the heart of the Empire State,
the boasted owners of lands without
stint, blessed with. a climate and soil
where two crops Of grain or two of
potatoes, or one each of pea-vines
and hay can be successfully grown on
the same land the same year, and
yet we go to Baltimore to buy guano
to make little cotton to sell in New
York TO get money 10 buy hay, oais
and corn away out in the rich States
Of Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri. Ard just so long as we
are the voluntary patrons Of produce
dealers. heartless rings and pampered
.monopolies, such as noW own and
control, operate and direct, our only
lines Of trade and transportation
north, south and west, just so long
will we be fit subjects for lien-drafts
and homestead laws, mortgages, and
reppdiatiop. 4he South must work
out her own Independence. The
remedy is ours, if we will only apply
it. Too often have we been beguiled
by plausible schemes for great i'm
provements and financial relief. Let
us no longer be lulled into false
security by any promises which can
be made, outside of our harvest fields
and hog pens, our hay patches and
cane mills. 1t is here we shall find
it. To this end the State Agricultu.
raj Society throws tn " open her Exposi.
ton halls offers her premium lists tc
the public, and invites competition
from every section OF the country.
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a wen n,leu ual., a.d WI show
you one who is not affected by low
priced cotton or high transportation.
on.the other hand, point me to that
farmer with lean smoke-house and
an empty corn-crib, and l will show
you miserably poor and mistaken
wretch, whose dependent and destl-
tute condition can never be reached
by high-priced cotton, or relieved in
any way by cheap transportation.
The truth is, we have been betting
our bottor. dollars SO long or three
fatal cards, called credit, . F." cotton, "
and caterpillar" that we now have
nothing left US but our mules and
lands; and in seven cases out Of ten
these are pledged to some warehouse
firm for supplies to make this year. $
crop with. And yet, in the face OF
all this crouching poverty and. en-
barrassment, we learn from the news
papers Of the country that more land
is planted in cotton this year than
last, or even any year since the war.
No wonder, then, that we should be
crying out for more transportation.
Fifteen years ago, when l first
commenced the produce business in
Macon, my little orders for grain and
meat seldom went farther west than
the fertile hills of Cherokee, Geor.
gia, and tie narrow valleys in
East Tennessee. ! had time then to
writs and send letters for these sup
plies and wait the return OF quota
tions before buying. l, with other
merchants, purchased there, at our
| leisure, all that was necessary to sup
ply the wants of Middle and South
western Georgia. Now we send our
immense orders by telegraplic wires
to he rich fields. and broad plains Of
Illinois and Missouri and if, by amy
chance or ill buck, a railroad bridge
is burned or a transfer boat is sunk
and Il little blockade occurs en- route
IL panic ensues, and meat, bread
and hay famine at once threatens
every man and beast south of Chat
tanooga. This is our miserably poor
and helpless condition to-day-fear-
full and unreasonable as it may ap-
pear to outsiders But that annual
deficiency of fifty millions of bushels
of grain in the four States of Geor-
gia, Alabama, Florida and South
Carolina, commented upon so gravely
by the late Canal Convention in At
lanta, tells the whole story. We
have suddenly awakened, as it were
from d deep sleep, and discovered
the unwelcome fact that we are q
poor, thriftless, non:produc-ng, all.
consuming, dependent people. Anc
Just so long as The farmers and plant.
ers of Georgia pursue their present
mad policy of buying fertilizers tt
make cotton to buy corn, bacon anc
hay with, and then pay two per cent
month for money from April tx
November of each year to run thi
wild schedule, just SO long will they
be pitiable beggars and borrowers a
the doors Of transportation Office
and Georgia shaving shops, provided
a worse fate does not speedily over
take them.
The truth is, the whole countr.
has become one common counting
room and huge gambling shop. Wha
we once did with the axe and the hoe
the plowshare and the reaping hook
we now seek to accomplish by strate
gy and chance, credit and ,srecula
tion. And we must, sooner OF later
come back to first principles, or W
must perish. We have too man,
:able-bodied young men in ahad.
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Good Advice.

We publish. with great pleasure
the following extract from an address
recently issued by Mayor Huff, Of
Macon, Ca, to the people of upper
and lower Georgia, in relation to the
State Fair.
The address is full of wisdom and
plain practical good sense, which ap,
plies not only to Georgia, but to all
the Southern States. We heartily
wish that in every State of the South
there were Mayor Huff, who had
the intelligence and capacity to COM
pose, and. the manliness to utter the
sentiments of this address: :;
That transportation which fosters
and encourages our improvidence
while it depletes our pockets, may be
the transportation least of all others
wanted in this country. And the
objections now so strongly urged
against our railroad systems might
not be entirely overcome by these
proposed water lines. 1t is not,
however, the practicability OF these
grand schemes for reducing freights
that we must stop now 10 consider
for no matter how feasible they lnay
be, Georgia is in no condition to wait
their completion. The emergency
bread-is upon US, and we must GO
to work. and 60 to work to-day. We
must teach our boys, by precept apd
example, that the great virtue of lile
and the necessity Of the age is to be
ioi,Dj IN lie trnth of the old Latin
iaaXiya, .Lu5a o.1Hv 'TecH HE
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their useless lives, laying hold Of eve
ry newly invented stimplant to arouse
their doping energy. and blaming
their fate, when they dare not blame
their God, for having placed them
where they are. These individuals
will often tell you, with an air of
affected compassion for who can be-
lieve it. real?) that poor mamma is
working herself to o2death, yet no
sooner do you propose that they
should assist her, thap they declare
she is quite in her element; in short,
that she would never be happy if
she had nalf as much7to do.
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strenggi by { '-pre.ac Jiuge
in Illinois, and there is good reason
to believe that it will carry. Iowa next
Fall. If it shall, it will have con-
quered position, and viii almost
certainly have its own way Ill the
West alter that. 1t is queer sort
Of power; the politicians do not
comprehend it. Only few weeks
ago it told us thatit would have moth
lug to do with politics. Now we see
it boldly declaring war upon the two
great existing parties, nominating
and electing its own tickets, condemn
ing the measures OF Republican
Congress, and even audac ously CEN
suring the acts Of a Republican Pres
dent.
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IDLE G1RLs.-It is a painful spec
tacle in families, where a mother is
the drudge, to see the daughters, ele-
gantly dressed, recliningat their ease
with their drawing, their music, their
fancy work, and their reading, be-
guiling themselves Of the lapse of
hours, days, and weeks, and never
dreaming Of their responsibilities ;
but, as a necessary consequence Of
neglect, Of duty, growing weary Of
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or she whom of all the world you
choose as a partner-she may love
you warmly, passionately children
may love fondly, but never again,
never, while time is yours, shall the
love Of woman be to you as. that Of
your trembling old motheNhas been:
Exchange. -
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TAKE NOTICE.

A LII persons are hereby. forewarned
n against trading for certain Note
;yiven By the undersigned to II. q: Adams
dated Dec. ;ls, 1871, for about $6s, and
made payable one day after date there
is failure of consideration In the prop
erty for which Raid Note vas given, and
I VII not pay the said Note; unless. COM
n2ied by }aW. '793 :. j.. a. SELF.
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The Political Power of the West.

Ihe farmers CT the west are II
dead earnest. In Iowa, as in Illinois
Ohio and Indiana, they are making
up their minds, not only to come out
OF, the two existing parties, but tc
nominate full State tickets, and sup
port them with all their strength
Here is the platform adopted by the
farmers of Wayne county, Iowa:
First. That we hereby renounce all
former party bonds, and will act as
freemen knowing our rights and dar-
ing to maintain them.
Second. That all the evils that af-
aict. our country are directly tracea.
ole to the politicians and policy Of
the Republican and Democratic par
ties, so-called, and to their corrupt
and dishonest practice.
Third. That both the parties have,
by corruption and disrd gard Of public
duties, and in violation of public
trusts, forfeited all claims to the
support of free and intelligent
people.
y Fourth. That we will not support
any man for office who will take
part in, or accept y nomination from,
either the Republican or Democratic
parties, so-called.
Commenting upon this platform Of
the farmers OF Iowa, the St. Louis
Republican, says
This looks like business, and a
business, too, which is filling the Re
publican leaders with alarm for they
correctly argue that, if the farmers
go on at this rate, they will defeat
the party in the strong Republican
States of the West, and prepare the
Way for its ultimate overthrow. As
that party is tho author and uphol-
"a, ~ = ,n..1 9 .ilIrsIq4' rf',,, :,
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Some old genius, who very evident
ly knows a thing or two" gives the
following advice to young men who
depended on father for their sup
port:' !
a0ome, off with your coat, clinch
the saw, the pillow handles, the axe,
the pick-axe, tine spade, anything
that will enable you to stir. your
blood |. Fly around, tear your Jacket,
rather than be the passive recipient
of the old gsntleman's bounty Soon
Ell than play tho dandy at dads ex-
pense, hire yourself out to stop holes,
or watch the cars, and when you
think yourself entitled to a. resting
spell, do it on your hook. Get up iii
the morning-t1ffp, around ,,et least
twice before breakfast-help the old
gentleman, give him now and then a
| FIT in business, learn how to take the
lead, and not depend forever on be-
ing led; and you have no idea how
the discipline will benefit you. Dc
this, and our word for it, you, viii
seem to breathe a. new atmosphere
possess a new frame, tread a Few
earth, wake to- q new dessiny-anc
you may begin to aspire to man
hood! is lIl,a ,-.i.i .uata,
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MILLER, BISELL & BURUM
WHOLESALE eROcERs
Commission Merch' 'ts
It's and 1T Broad Street,

Augusta, Ga.
now Fall Stock of GROCERIES, consist"
ing IN pasS Bacon SHOULDERS Dry Salt SIDES
SgyRIIPsMNew Orleans and New York DrEs.
MoIAssKs Bio, Iagqyra and lava, lava CoFFEEi
FFnpAgoo SALT, PEPPER SfGE
Crackers Pickles. Cove Oysters ~ ,,: rotoo. &o
CANNED GOODS consisting Of Peaches } nJ M &C.
ssad WHEAT Seed BYE, Seed OATS Seed BARLEY
Ssaai Ssse LIQUORS Of BRANDY, WHISKEY, GIN, cn,pp1
Case erins the complete and largest stock of BARRE
1ouoRs Of any the City and selling at prices that will n00
buy nter and Merchants Edgfed would take this occasion
our thanks for past liberal patronage and respectfully re
W w - ! cont nnance of the same :, n
qae Goods for CASH prepared to sell as low and OFT
times lower lowe thar saae any 0'hs. sn. i9qss J. - ~
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and at the same time expect to enjoy
the privileges.--Pittsburgh penn
po,t -