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WEDNESDAY, APRIL - 18, 1877.
BKUUARft TOB TWTKIDAY.
BT AUmr DOBSOS.
•■Prince* '-end yon mo* valoron*.
Noble* end barons of ell defrec* t i
Hearken awhile to th* prefer of *—
Beggars tbet com* from th# ever-#*** ■
Nothing we eak of gold or fee*;
Harry ua not with the hoando we prey;
Lo—for the enroot#'# hen w#.„
Git* oe—eh! fire ne—but Yeeterdey!
• 'Dame* moet delicete. imoroa#!
DemoeeU blithe B* the bended bee*'
Beerken ewhile to the preyer of oe
Beggars ihat come from the orer-e#**
Nothing we e*k of the thing* thet pie***;
tY eery ere we, end old end grey;
Lo—for we clutch end chip yoox knee*—
Give a* —eh I gire oe—but Yeeterdey •
■ ‘Demoeel* —demee, be piteone l
(Bat th* demee rode feet by th# roedwey
tree*.)
“Heer ne, O knight# megoenimoji#
(Bat the knight# pricked on in their peno
plies.)
Nothing they get of hop# or eeee.
Bat only to beet on th# breeet end my:
• Life we drenk to the dreg* end lee*;
Gire oe—eh! gire ne—bat ieeterdey
THOMPSON OF “ANOBU).”
Bret Hert* Trie# Hl* Hui AmJ* t
Hexameters.
[From ••fuek.'i
It * the itory of Thompeon—of Thompeon, the
here of Angela; . . .
Frequently drank wee Thompeon, but elweya
polite to th# etrenger;
Light end free we# th# touch of Thompeon upon
Greet th# mortelity incident on thet lightnee#
end freedom;
Yet not beppy or gey we# Thompeon, th* hero
of Angela. . . ,
Often epok* to himaelf in eocente of engrnah
in 4 sorrow,
■ ‘Why do I make the grav## of th* frivoloa#
youth who in fofly
TlieogbUeaely p*#e my reroher, forgetting ita
lightnee* end freedom ?
•‘Why in my deity walk# done th* eargeon drop
hi* left eye-lid, .
The undertaker amile, end the eoolptor of
grere-eton* marble*
Lean on bie ebiael end gas# ? I ear* not o #r
moch for attention; ... -
bimpls em I in my waya, aav# but for tin*
lightnee# end freedom.”
go apeke thet pensive men—this Thompson,
the hero of Angels, , .
Bitterly milled to himeelf, ash* strode through
the cbepperel musing. , „ . . .
“Why, O why ?" echoed the pines in their dark
olive depth fer rebounding,
“Why. indeed?” whirred the
tbet bent ’aeeth hi* feet non-eleetic.
l’leeaent indeed wee thet morn tbet dawned
o'er the bar-room at Angels,
Where in their manhood's prime wer* gathered
the pride of the hamlet.
Bix took auger in theirs, end nine to the bar-
Hmiledea'they wild 7 “ Well, Jim, you oan give
os oar regular fasti."
a4d#Dly, m the gray hswk swoops down on
the barn-yard, alighting
Whers, pensively picking their corn, the favor
ite pullets are gathered.
Bo in that festive bar-room dropped Thomp
son, the hero of Angsls,
Orasping his weapon dread with his pristine
lightness aad freedom.
Never e word he epoke; diveettng himeelf of
his garments,
Danced the war dance of th# playful yet trucu
lent Modoc,
Uttered a single whoop, and then in the ac
oents of challenge a „ .
Brjake, “ O behold in me a Created Jay Hawk
of the Mountain!"
Then rose a pallid man—a man sick with fever
and ague; ,
gmell we* he end hi* etep we* tremulous, week
end uncertain;
Slowly e Derringer drew end covered the per
son of Thomreon. _,. _ . ,
SeVd in hi* feeble pipe. “ 1 m e Bald-Headed
Snipe of the valley!"
As on it* native plains the kangaroo, startled
by bnnter*.
Leap* with uoc**eive bounds, end hums*
away to the tickets, ....
So leaped the Crested Hawk, end quietly hop
ping behind him . ,
Ran end oooaaionally shot thet Bald-Headed
Snipe of the Valley.
Vein at th* feetive bar still lingered the people
of Angels, ... ,
Hearing afar in the woods the petulant pop of
the pistol; , .
Never again returned the Crested Jay Hawk of
the Mountain. _ . „ . . „ .
Never again was seen th* Bald-Headed Suipe
of th* Valley.
Yet in the hamlet of Angels, when truculent
speeches are uttered,
When bloodshed and life alone will atone for
some trifling misstatement,
.Maidens and men in their prime recall the lost
Hero of Angels. , . .
Think of and vainlv regret the Beld-Headed
Ships of the Valley.
JOE JOHNSTON.
A Northern Opinion nf the lire*! I .ruder.
[Bouton Herald.]
It was hardly to be expected that General
Joe Johnston should be selected for a Cabi
net position, having been so prominent as a
Confederate commander. But this is the
only charge which can lie against him; in
Ids private life and strict honesty, as a man
of truth and exalted character, no man,
North or South, is more deserving the pub
lic confidence. Asa man of military ge
nius, the history of the war bears ample
testimony. His arrival on the field changed
the battle of Bull Run from a glorious vic
tory for our arms into a complete route, for
the Confederates were retreating when he
came up. Though he was desperately
wounded before Richmond, it was not until
after McClellan’s army had been forced to
abandon its offensive for a defensive cam
paign. Disabled from active service for a
long time, he was called to take command
of Bragg's army after its decisive defeat at
Mission Ridge. To him belongs the credit
of the Confederate arms during Sherman’s
inarch to Atlanta. Our immense army un
der Sherman, consisting of Thomas’ army
and Schofield’s army, commenced its ad
vance early in April, and until the middle
of July was occupied in advancing only 100
miles.' Nearly four month* were consumed
in a march which, without resistance, might
have been accomplished iu a week. John
ston realized the axiom of Frederick the
Great, that a defensive army ought to fight
as often as there were good positions, and
that such usually occurred every five miles.
In no case of the many contests did John
ston allow his army to be compromised by
a general engagement with his gigantic op
ponents. The news of his removal by Jeff
Davis because he would not risk a general
battle with a certainty of defeat, but pre
ferred to fall back from Atlanta to Macon,
and thus gather his strength while
weakening his opponent, was considered at
our headquarters as the presage of victory
for our arms. Had Johnston been allowed
to carry out his plan, it is very doubtful
whether the “inarch to the sea" would have
been accomplished, and the war brought
thereby to a close. We can well understand
the maguanimous conduct of General Sher
man in styling Joe Johnston the ablest gen
eral in the Southern army. But what can we
aay ot that proscribed Confederate General,
politically disabled from holding any office
in the United States, when be declined the
tempting offer of the Khedive, of the com
mand of the Egyptian army oo a salary of
£50,000 a year—a refusal based *n his de
termination to live and die an American
citizen ? The flesh pots of Egypt, full of
gold, were refused for a salary of agent of
a life insurance company, because he es
teemed simple American citizenship, even
milder political disability, preferable to
oriental wealth and power.
THE CSV OF •‘DEAD HEADS.”
In a long article on Journaism and Re
porters, dee New York Evening Mail rays
thus “Itea ihe people and not the journal
ists who ate "dead heads.’ In case anything
more serious Pyre stubbing the toe befalls a
man, he hastens to the nearest newspaper
and demands that the editor shall wield the
jien and shed ink in bis vindication or de
ienae. And if the jaded editor does not
with aW*ity espouse the case of hi* •patron’
lie will raalto an enemy for life. ‘Members
ot the press’ are literally hunted down bv
all torts of people who have axes to grind.
The managers of a public meeting who do
mot fiwi the reporters at tiic table, suffer
Ktiugs of disappointment; the flidgf, who
sonorously Mows his nose before reading '
bis opinion, took* anxiously for the steno-l
g rap Iters; the preacher who descant* upon
some special subject, loses oplrii if the rep
resentatives of the press are not there, even
burglar on the way to the State prison
A -o#tts a talk with the 'newspaper inan.j
Yet (in* outside barbarian thinks all newg
ipaper naen are dead heads, and envies them
Itbe fine times they have ,in the way of
free dinners and free tickets to all manner
uf shows. There never was a greater mis
take. People do nt **>m to realize that,
on the part of the journalist, it is merely a
matter of business, that the reporter goes to
these places, eo auraruve to outsiders,
much as the horse goat to the plow—oe
iqau.se he must do eo. We vwetnto to say
<thw four-fifths of these euleiteitwmiiis are
tto journalists intolerable bores. The press
iis the vtodot of the public's rapacious and
rinaeasing deg#and far services without pay.
Let u* have the hoot on the right leg.”
Sw Eaiatoad'* rs#4lG JMr#F#H#.
JCtuoaf# 2V.l
The Boston iimet, ever since Mr. Moody
commenced his campaign i* that wicked
city, has been burlesquing his seraaoss and
accompanying them with the broadest of
■caricatures, tome of them approaching the
•verge at blasphemy. The paper containing
these lampoons has had a circulation far ex
ceeding the circulation of those papers
which have priakri verbatim reports of the
<raou Had aay of the Chicago papers
printed a burlesque of (his sort they would
Live been ouahed by the indignation of
popular opinion. The fact shows the su
periority of Chicago over Boston iug:t*l
piety. "With Brother Cook’s bioplasms and
the Boston Timet blaatfeeoey. each attract
ing great crowds, it is emdoai that that
ungodly city is fast going to the deamtion
bow-wow*.
Col. Jeema Andeisoa, ear Jen/earns,
of Covington, is said to be the only mb
in Middle Georgia who earn predict a
cyclone with any certainty, front batter
pTilfc fluctuations in a canteen.
THE NEW LEANDKR.
Translated f#r th* Chraalel# and C##*Uca
IlwrfW, fra# th# Gersaa# of Max V*
Sehhuw*!.
CHAFTIK IT—CONCLUDED.
"In the exalted frame of mind whjoh
controlled me, I was able to pnt aside
some of my native indifference, for
everybody seemed so delighted with me
and my nataralnass, as they called it,
and I felt excessively honored by the
chivalrous homage which was offered
me. I was reminded of the knightly
age, wfaieh I bad considered long past
and half forgotten. Admiration of them
and of those thi> gs b longing to them,
is, after all. the surest way to win a
man’s heart. Even my mother, when
she once resolved to be enthusiastic,
took great pains to follow the lofty
flight of her daughter’s feelings, and my
loyal papa also allowed me now to call
Yeniee the ‘pearl in the diadem.’ It
was not strange, therefore, that Coant
Hippolyt Bendimiani, who, among all
the cavalieis, showed me moet atten
tion, was clothed by my fancy in the
veil of romance which lay over his na
tive city.”
The Countess paused, and teemed to
be reviewing in her mind a crowd of
lesser events which were not of anffieiept
importance to be related. Then she con
tinued without raising her downcast
eye* :
“One morning I was going with Hip
polyt (as I bad eo often done before)
through the Doge’a palace, whioh 1
could not ace and admire enongh.—
We stood in the great council cham
ber before the picture of the Doge,
who was Hippolyt’s ancestor. We fonnd
ourselves alone in the large room,
the walla of which illustrated the mighty
deed* of those who once rated hern.
My parents had walked out on the
balcony, from which a flood of sunlight
and strains of entrancing mnaio float
ed in . There Hippolyt sought my
lore . The whole beauty and glorious
past of the city of his fathers, plead for
him at this moment, and the almost
dull tone of bis wooing which corres
ponded so poorly with my previous con
ception of the stammerings of young
love, I considered chivalrons sincerity
and delicate reserve I became bis
bride. My alliance with one of tbe so
called royal families of Venice so exact
ly suited papa’s most cherished political
ideas of the interior nnion of the Em
pire, that he gave me his blessing with
a fervency which contrasted almost too
strongly with the ceremonious formali
ties of the betrothal. My mother only
wept—so heart brokenly that Hippolyt
was evidently wounded by it; for when
I felt that my eyes were also wet with
tears, I told him they were tears of joy,
but shrugging his shoulders, he confess
ed to me that since he had been a man
he had never wept, and had always con
sidered the expression ’tears of joy’ a
paradox. Instead of being frightened at
this trait in his character, I saw nothing
therein but manliness and sincerity.
Later my good mother confided to me
that she had given her consent to this
union withs sad heart, and would
much have preferred my going to the
altar with the plainest of the Carinthian
land owners, who would have been ca
pable of a hearty laugh and an amiable
conversation. How old-fashioned and
illiberal my mother's prejudices seemed
to or e at that time, when I even pro
nounced the rich, full sounding Italian
words with the greatest delight, and
continued obstinately to confound na
ture and education, surroundings apd
character. How infinitely noble seemed
my grave, talented husband, from whom
one never heard a loud word, in whom
one never saw anything unbecoming, or
a harried, ungraceful gesture, whose
cautions silane# where others spoke
seemed to me to souse#} t||o deepest
wisdom; who was temperate in hjs daily
life, and partieularly so in hip words and
actions. How far he was above our red
cheeked, ungallant young neighbors at
home who appeared to find their greatest
enjoyment in smoking, drinking and
gamming, who always spoke in thunder
tones and never rode up pgr castle hill
exoept at # break neck speed."
Again there was a pause, which was
only filled by the varying lights and
shadows on the Countess' expressive
face, or a melancholy smile, as a joyful
or gloomy reminiscence of the first years
of her married life passed through her
mind. However, her reverie must have
spoken in Hippolyt'# favor, for with
more warmth and less regret she began
again:
“ I believe that Hippolyt loved me
as deeply as he could. But, though I
would have wished it otherwise, the ro
mance of the lagoon oity lost something
of ita glamour when compelled to serve
for daily use, I could not put aside the
consciousness tht there was something
wanting, and the death of mj kind pa
rents placed me in suoh a ufat# of
wretchedness that everything was pow
erless to counteract it. Hippolyt had
no heart appealing words with which to
comfort me, and tor the first time, I
thought hi* nature no deeper than it
seemed, and that he suppressed nothing
more than he said,
11 The sooial conditions also were more
dazzling outwardly, than on a closer in
spection; for when one onoe knew the
charming attitudes of the ladies, tbe
glitter of their conversations, the melo
dious tones of their voices, and the cor
rupt little artifices of natural vanity
with whioh they worked, op# soon dis
covered that they continually repp/itd
themselves. How could there be a soul
refreshing originality where there was
no creative power in the heads or hearts
of the people, and where there waa only
an imitation of the most familiar melo
dies on life’s most eommou-plage sub
jects.
“Bat I was entirely separated from
these, and Hippolyt nad enough to do
in the early years of oar married life
to oomplete my education and oonfine
my excessive vivacity and ingenuous
ness within proper bounds.
“Indeed be was right in thinking that
it was not proper for a Venetian Jady
and especially hia wife, to ran from one
end to the other, up and down th# bun
dred steps and narrow alleys, instead of
using her gondola, only appearing in
publio now and then in the Colonnades
of tbs “Markusplatz;” and then return
ing quietly sod genteelly to the “Piaz
zetta” instead of striving (to the great
disgust of the domestissj at the back
gate of the palace, laughing pnt of
breath, and with flaming cheeks anti dis
ordered hair. He knew too, better than I,
that loud talking OT laughing in a gon
dola was not becoming jp a Venetian
lady of tbe higher ranks, and in
her movements she must always payi
special attention to the graeefnl fall of
her train, for no Venetian nobleman’s
lady was without that appendage. Hith
erto I had undoubtedly been in error,
as I had considered naturalness tbe
greatest attain .ble oharm, and all co
quetry and designing undignified de
ception. Hippolyt answered very se
verely, that if that were the oase, all
education wonld be superfluous, and the
natural condition of man tbe .only oor
reet one. I waa not angry with him for
this hard spceeb, although I oould have
easily explained to him the diAferencp
between German and Italian femal# edu
cation, and between innate and external
refinement. In time, however. I learn
ed to obey, and would bite my lips until
they bled rather than permit a bitter
word to escape me. I learned to obey,
bnt many a time I felt as if I could not
breath# in the marshy atmosphere of the
lagoons, an4l,he tide which rose and fell
twice a day at tire pdgee wall seemed to
oppress my very heart.
“Hippolyt was habitually well-btos a*d
eourteou*. He did not pain me inten
tippally; bnt, with all tbe prudenoe and
quiekn*M of individual judgment, his
mind was wt J}|rmoßioai and compre
hensive enough n* m adhere obstinate
ly to his laboriously acquired conolu
■ siona, even in trifles. How
stored under this tyranny, of which
like evtwyuAJbef self-critic, he waa per
fectly nnconaeicres i My nature, which
had been reared in peclcw re
belled against this, and the monotonous.
motjuifa'Q groups, and forests and lakee
of my native laud rose enticingly before
me, as if there alone happiness
and peso*.
“How grateful I was to Hippolyt, how
all seemed forgiven and forgotten be
tween ns, when he proposed to me to
spend the Summer in Carinthia, at the
country seat of my parents. I had been
too Pposd ever to suggest this, bnt still
I thartked ri’ft jjrith tears; he was also
touched,' pd 'fffff jeyjinr happiness
ssejped to shine forth anew. Upt we
brought Gre h,eayy atmodpJWol the
lagoon wire us. Hippolyt epoke ita per-.
feet German, and our npfghfeor* >d
relatives bad not always th# Uut to dis-,
regard the inoonvenienee of conversa
tion and his stiff gravity of manner. On
the other hand, I was the object of
1 iiy and often rough, but always kind
tv megnt The ehief amuse
ments tff thc oquutyy— hunting, nf.
riding and carousing, jtjmng life in
the gjr—did nvt iutoreat by
band and tfemufore it was natural that I
he enould spenjT‘a deal of his time
in the house, and moeh
isolated while y dpbes as re
quired all my attention, } mifthf nave
expected him to understood this, but
he withdrew from me more and more.
Gloomy and strange as he seemed
to the people, he was able many a time
to totorpept an incautious glance, a
question at 9 remark, whioh imbued
i him with distrust of my
country men and Germans ana
r oar viiit was brought to an ena
, the radiated time. The penod whioh
i now ensued was a stormy one. Ire
i belled openly against what I considered
had not changed everything. The Ital
ians love their children, and even Hip
polyt waa a tender father—eo tender
that in his devotion to his child, her
mother was soon forgotten. I was not
jealous of my child, and as in relation
to her education Hippolyt clang obsti
nately to the prevailing cut toms of his
native city, I determined to become
an obedient wife, in order to aecnre for
my daughter a cloudless peace in the
house of her parents, and to prevent any
shadow of discord from falling on her
young life. But, in our hei'.rts, Hippo
lyt and I came no nearer to etch other in
the years that followed, and it seemed as
if we had only come to terms, to smooth
tbe pathway of life for the being who
belonged to us. After a while, Hippo
lyt appeared to have overcome hie un
founded dislike to everything German,
and even permitted Caroline and myself
to be surrounded by German servants,
so that his daughter, as he jestingly re
marked, would not be ridiculed by her
relatives, as she would be, if she visited
Carinthia, ignorant of the language of
tbe oountry.
“On this occasion he also proposed to
me to alienate my eetete in Carinthia.
And when I objected, be informed me
somewhat irritably that several yei re
ago he bad taken care that I shoull not
in fntare Summers be deprived of the
fresh lake and mountain breezes ; and
had qnietly built on the shore of the
Logo Maggiore a villa, the style of
which wonld please me, for it was a
faithful oopy of the Doge’a palaoe. This
first proof of a loving regard for my
wishes overwhelmed me. With tears I
thanked Hippolvt and acquiesoed in
all that he desired. But the sale
waa not made, and I enter now for the
first time the villa fashioned after the
Doge’s palaoe.”
The Countess paused, visibly fatigued
by much talking and all these agitating
reminiscences; for a moment she looked
thoughtfully at the bowed head of the
officer, who had listened attentively and
silently, then she continued quickly ;
“All these are no world agitating oc
ourrences; lam aware of this aod you
wonld soarcely be interested in them if
they did not have some connection with
Caroline. But I must mention them or
what followed would be perfectly unin
telligible to yon. You cannot have failed
to see what a refreshing effect your vis
its had upon our monotonous family
life; how yonr never varying, kind and
cheerful temperament diffased an atmos
phere of harmoncy whioh evenHipployt’s
frigid nature could not entirely resist.
It could not lessen my husband’s or my
own regard for you that our child soon
olung to you with almost fanatical love.
You were endeared to me by language
and habit, by tbe relationship between
our families and by the proximity of
our native provinces; therefore I
understood perfectly all that you said
and did. You seemed to me, bright,
innocent and child like, as I had never
known any maD before, notwithstanding
the earnest fundamental principles of
your character, and your mind waa
quite strong enough not to lead your
heart astray. At the same time there
was nope of that coareepess about you
with whioh one so often meets among
the young people of my home; and you
must forgive me if I beheld in you my
ideal of German manhood. I was filled
with the deepest gratitude when I saw
how you, the youpg officer for whom the
Lagoon oity must have so many allure
ments, yielded to the whims of a child
and spent all of your spare, time with
her, while never once claiming the
thanks of her parents.
“Therefore, J Wftß wore agitated and
wounded tor you than for myself,
when my husband suddenly, with the
most vehement directness, hurled at me
the accusation that we both had united
in deceiving him, and had robbed him
of his honor—”
Pale was the face of the young
offiper a@ Ire raised Ilia. head. He
knew of this accusation already,
but it acquired double importance com
ing from the lips of the Countess.
She did not look up. After a mo
ment’s delay she resumed tbe thread of
her story with the eager haste that had
characterized the latter part of her nar
rative.
“Ifop remember probably as well as I
do the last time yon oa®e to opr house.
On the terrace where she used to make
the acquaintance of all the passing gon
doliers, Caroline had taken cold and
was confined to her bed. But abe beg
ged so pathetically for oousin Henry to
be brought to her as soon as he came,
that J pould not withstand her entrea
ties, With what fervor the devoted lit
tle creature stretched out her fever
whitened bauds to you, and how her
eyes sparkled ! You perhaps know also
that as we stepped out of the ante
chamber we suddenly stood before my
husband, who looked fixedly at us for a
moment, then without answering your
address, and without any salutation he
passed by us, and when a little way off
he pajled to me (as he had never been in
the habit at doing) to follow him into
his study. Still Widfy rises in my
memory the little room with the lat
ticed window opening on the canal, in
which I endured the roost horrible hour
of life. I learned from my husband’s
lips that J waa ap qnworthy wife, a false
and dishonorable woman, a peril to the
welfare of my own child, that { was re
pudiated and bad no right to remain
any loDger under the same roof with my
husband and daughter, and all this be
cause tbe little oorridor whioh we had
to oross in order to reach the large one
led also to my chamber. You never
Jfnew this ; even I had not thought of
it when I carried you to Caroline. To a
disposition inelitred to suspicion, and
whioh had been formed in atmos
phere of family intrigues and infidelity,
it was natural to arrive at such a dis
honoring conclusion against a woman
who baa &eyer, pypp jn thought, broken
faith with hi. Bow yog fcnpw ffie
cause of my quarrel with Hippolyt, and
hia unjust suspicions of yon, conclud
ed the Countess quite abruptly, al
though during tbe last part c f her story
her voioe had failed her several times.
“I have tried in every way to disprove
th# fpgpne accusation, but each one of
my word® /rely perved to make his an
swers more deeply Finally,
my fast remnant of pride
I would defend myself hP WOre^'
The Countess wire silent. Her eyes
were fastened on tbe floor like a jqiprit
awaiting her sentenoe.
Not a feature of the officer’s face had
changed, bnt be had listened with great
Sympathy. Then he said thoughtfully:
“i suspected something of the kind,
bnt I at lease huarrined more Berious
causes ; for it seemed‘lmpossible to be
lieve that a reasonable man .would repu
diate the mother of hia child, his wife
whom tie hsd Jpved until now (and that
he had done so, { saw with my own
eyes), this, I say, seemed to
siblo, and I would nevejr believe it if it
were not you, my honored cousin, who
assured me of it.”
Earnestly and dispassionately, Wal
den’s glanoe rested upon the still beau
tiful woman, who was no longer able to
master her evident embarrassment.
“You are right,” said she at last, reso
lutely “With your unerring instinct
for tiie truths yon have perceived
that I did no p tell jm #ll. I
wished t,Q do so, for nothing should
be unexplained between mygelfana the
man who foyps mjf OhW* But when f
came to the final words, my courage
failed me. Yon are right, th#t unfor
tunate accident was not snfficieht to
condemn me oven in my husband's sus
picious mind. There was still some
thing else between us whioh increased
his hate to implacability. You are fami
liar perhaps with the assertion of many
psychologists, that there is in the life of
mbec women * oond youth, in which
their irearts'beuhtt# Sgaip quite as sus
ceptible as in their first broom.” -Then
if their hearts are not entirely filled,
and new sympathetic impressions step
in, it is only a question of ednoation of
principles, of character, of opportuni
ties sod >4 intelligence, how far these
impressions obtain aonyroj oyer us. Men
like my husband have usukiiy a keen
eye for that whioh ia unfavorable to
them; he had also seen that for some
time ’l had pot been like my former
seif, and with oruei faouy, he pm
the question to/’ me ' whether it
really had been only love for my
hnanend Ygllicb had changed ’ me so.
This question atruejr e dfiffiL l h#4
never m my life told an nntrnth inten
tionally; now, for the first time, I was
tempted to do so, for the Bake of my
child; perhaps it would have been better
if I had succumbed and borne a burden
of hypocrisy and self-reproach through
out a joyless life. Or was it better for
my child to have no mother et all than
ah ho Aortoy one ,* I did not dare to de
cide that. Enough, ray pr/fie supported
me slid I confessed to • him a- feeling
which beep stronger than I, bnt
without hia question Woplfi h*7 e been
buried with me. 1 saw how pale he be
came, how his whole frame trembled
and how he straggled for breath. I
entreated him, if he oould not believe
me, to take the oenrse moet horrible to
a hitherto irreproachable woman, and
£nj out the troth by appealing to the
word 6f 1104.0, oj a man, npon whose no
ble, unselfish' c£aracte* tire pJlurementa
of a disloyal Wbmhii' hhff’beeif wasted,
ire burst rea lohd cruel ' laugh, and
said $ woui£ be unparalleled simplicity
for the tp call upta the
word ana virtue of the lover, and then
he explained to me with a cynical can
dor whioh turned my very aonl to ioe,
that such a model woman and young
man as I sought to reprefeat to him did
not exist at all, and if they did, they
would only be taken for fools. A wife
who si! only prevented by a sense of
dnty Troth the first tender thoughts of
another in ah', was already lost, and it
waa only important as a legal question
whether or not she had iaksa tbeTuial
step. A JO ung, pleasure-loving officer
did not visit almost daily a young wo
man and ber taciturn husband, merely
to carve playthings for their little
dsnghter. He bad, heretofore, on ac
count of hia wife’s honor and virtue,
politely ignored her evidently waning
affection, indeed to a certain extent had
understood it, but through my ingen
iousneaa, his views were changed. My
love wonld be considered hopelessly sil
ly by me and all of hia comrades, if be
did notr follow np hia advantages, and
allowed snch a pastime to escape him in a
garrison not rich in amusements. In this
way he spoke, and each one of these
horrible things which I was obliged to
hear, waa branded on my soul in letters,
of fire. I suffered terribly, aod my crime,
if I had committed one, was expiated in
that hear. Bat why all this? They
were not accidents and misunderstand
ings. bnt the original dispositions of
two beings tkat met each other so hoe
tileiy—the gloomy pedantry of a mind
which adhered strictly to the law, and
the free emotions of a heart which rely
ing upon itself never had room for
wioked thoughts Now you know every
thing,” she said, with a sigh of relief as
she arose.
“And if I have torn the last veil from
these unfortunate errors, it was yonr
ohild-like innocence and the confession
of your love for Caroline that gave me
the courage to do so. Since I have been
able to Bay all this, you must know also
(if my gray hairs have not already as
sured yon of it) that that soul sickness
is long sinoe past. And this clear qu : .et
glanoe with which you look at me proves
tnat you are worthy of the best feelings
of a woman’s heart. I wonld joyfully
give yon my daughter’s hand if I were
still her mother”—
The Countess was silent. The young
man had listened with a quiet interest
which indicated that among other things
he had lost sight of the part which he
had played in the this family drama,
and that no breath of frivolous conceit
entered hia heart.
“I quite understand that after all this,
yon oan never seek a reconciliation,”
said Walden gently. “And your hus
band has also forbidden every attempt
at an explanation on my part. He would
never give his daughter to a man by
whom he believes himself to have been
ao deeply wronged, and I would consid
er it a Crime to again disturb the peace of
ao unfortunate a family. It will require on
ly a little modesty on my part to assume
that Caroline has forgotten me or has
other and dearer friends. I will not in
terrupt her childish dreams with my
selfish wishes, and it is much for me to
be able to call as bright and pure a
recollection as that of your child my
own, ”
“A poor oomfort,” sighed the Count
ess.
“There are men who have less,” an
swered Walden softly.
The CouDtess drooped her head sadly
and seemed lost in her grief.
“Forgive me,” she said then, looking
np again. “If I had not given you that
oommiasion you would not have been
brought near the dear ohild. I thought
only of myself; still how oould I have
guessed that seeing your little friend
again would be so dangerous to your
heart? You were formerly so dispas
sionate and calm. It would probably
have been better for me if I had re
mained far away in exile with my rained
life; but as everything was so unsettled
throughout the country, as oivil war
was threatening, and as I had heard that
Hippolyt and my child were considered
enemies of the Emperor and could never
return to Venice, but had actually aban
doned the house in Laveno to go to Sar
dinia, then my heart was troubled; a ter
rible anxiety for Caroline seized me;
I saw her at night in my dreams,
pale and miserable, and prematurely
old, misunderstood and disowned by
her father as I had been, and seeking
me in vain through troops of hostile
soldiers and an exoited country. I went
to Venioe; I represented myself as
Hippolyt’s wife, in order to get news of
my ohild, bnt the information which I
obtained was meagre; they could only
tell of the nation’s quarrels, and saw the
peace of Europe destroyed by fire and
sword. I attempted now to get in the
vicinity of my husband’s new home, but
over zealous Custom House officers sent
me baok to the border. Then it occur
red to me that I had a right to be here,
and from this place to execute whatever
could lead to the accomplishment of my
object. What this was exactly, I knew
not very clearly. Then as I drove
through the town I saw you close by the
can i age. But by the time I could make
the half-deaf ooachraan undeistand that
I wanted him to stop, you were
not to be seen. However, I knew
now that I was no longer helpless
and forsaken. After I had almost
foroed the slow old man who guards the
house to admit me, I immediately sent
Pepi after yon. You had a tender heart
for a mother’s despair, and offered to
find out everything for me. At all
events, I gave you that letter, whioh
contained only an injunction to Caroline
to love and honor and obey her father
in ail things. Bat in case his counsel
was not snffioient to console her, or if
she felt lonely and neglected, to remem
ber then that she had a mother who
wonld gladly sacrifice her own life to
secure unclouded happiness for her
daughter. I bogged hey to have perfect
confidence in yon, and told her my ad
dress in future, and how letters would
reaoh me most quickly. You had no
opportunity to deliver this letter, and
now I am .thankful to Providence for it,
although my gratitude to you is none
the less; still it is perfectly inexplicable
to me how you, at suoh a time, crossed
th# lake unmolested and succeeded iu
reaching the park.”
“Let that remain my secret, worthy
cousin l" said with slight em
barrassment." “The ri*fc yap n q greater
than J have encountered often without
any jaotiye: *pd if yog need a greater
ou# Still—the war h 8 not FCt com
menced #nd danger and I are good com
rades, Mv life is at the aervioe of yon
and your daughter.”
Walden bad spoken these words with
out any special emphasis, and plainly
and simply he stood before tbe Coun
tess, who extended her hand to him for
a farewell. But she knew that the offer
had been earnestly meant, whatever
•i Rut now my task begins.’’
“ What asked WaldeD, anxiously,
“ That is my secret, worthy cousin V”
she said, trying to joke. “Still, if I
decline your assistance console yonrself
with the reflection that a uniform could
only be a hindrance to my scheme. Now
au revoir, and take care of my inexpe
rienced little Pepi if anything serious
should' happen jo me. Coca more, a
thousand thanks fofal) your devojion.”
The officer saw that the bund of the
Countess was already busy with the
plans upon vbicji fife# Wfl 1 >.9 sjsden)y
decided; be felt that be n#d no right to
influence in so serious a matter the reso?
lotions of a wife aod mother, and with
out any farther questions, he imprinted
a respectful kiss upon his cousin’s band,
and departed. Pepi conducted him to
tbe trellised gate whioh the old gardener
opened wide for him, with a squinting
glanoe and a half audible remark about
tbe prejjy dpipgs iu tye foopse.
[lo pe Continued, in hext ,Sunday'.a
Chronicle and Constitutionalist ,’]
TW* T OF
A Letter fr#in a Bpatou 6e*Ue*i> t |
Frjpnd in Augstn r
Extract from a letter, of the date of
April the 3d, reoeived from a Boston
gentleman to an old friend in Augusta :
“I think the South is soon to be re
lieved of its troubles. Ihe reiga of the
uarpet-bagger is about over. When
they and the soldiers are driven North,
business ’fijfll revise, pitewtiop will be
tamed from political to industrial mat
ters, and once more prosperity will come
to your people. Governor Wade Hamp
ton ia proving to be the very man want
ed at this time in South Carolina. He
is moet sensible and judicious. When tbe
Government gt Washington withdraws
ita inflnenoe he will reorganise his
State ao that law and order and peace
shall be secured to all. These obtained,
every material interest will revive. If
the Republicans had not cheated Tilden
out of tbe presidency, e Ary pbrt of the
oountry Wpnjd be at this time enjoying
career of unexampled prosperity.—
Business of every kind—agricultural,
commercial, manufacturing and me
chanical—would have recuperated, and
with this revival the beet of feeling be
tween the different sections wonld have
been obtained, the past forgotten, and
all looking to the future with hope and
confidence. The defeat, by fraud, of
tbe Democratic party postpones the re
cuperation, bpt tfee postponement will
be fox # short time.”
W#nk M##wi. :
The Wiener Medioinishe Presse men
tions a case in regard to the manage
ment of kereoine lamps, which it be
hooves those using this kind of light to
notioe. A merchant returned home
about two o’clock at night and found
hia wile lying on the bed groaning
heavily and unconscious. She waa wait
ing hia return, and at last, tired out,
laid 'hir&lr on jfie bed, after turning
down the wick of a lighted keroaine
famp as jow as -possibls %ithout extin
guishing It. 'ln This' position of the
wick, if the oil is bad, a vapor mixed
with an innumerable quantity of specks
of soot diffuses itself through the apart
ment, and ao covers the eyes, nose and
respiratory organsl that on falling asleep
one rune the risk of suffocation. It is
alwaya advisable, therefore, in the use
of keroaine lamps, to allow the wick to
burn brightly or to extinguish it en-
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL NEWS
OP ATLANTA.
Tbe Conventl## Question The Capital
Scare—lte Baseleasaess—Atlanta Aroused
—Tbe Ter* Senators—Relation* of Hill
and (Jordan— Matters Connected With the
Feud— T.e Independent Movement—lt*
Growing Strength—Other Matter*.
I Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
Atlanta, April 6. — The Convention
9 uestion is daily assuming greater im
portance in this latitude. Tbe sole
eanse of Atlanta’s interest in the matter
ia the fear that a Convention may move
the capital of the State from Atlanta to
Milledgeville. Were it not for this fear
I think Atlanta wonld vote for a Con
vention. As it is the vote of Fulton
county will undoubtedly be cast against
the measure. The same cause may
operate against the calling of a Conven
tion, though I do not think it likely to
work much mischief outside of this city
and < jounty. From what I can learn of
the sentiment of the people of the State,
I hnve no idea that the Convention will
be defeated at the polls. I have as lit
tle idea that the scheme to move the
capital will be successful when the
Convention assembles. It is only
in a few counties that there seems
to be a sentiment in favor of re
moval. Nine-tenths of the people
are satisfied to let the capital re
main where it is. If the city of Atlanta
will take the unsightly and unsafe struc
ture now used as a State House off the
hands of the Government, and present
a handsome Capitol to tbe State, the
friends of removal will muster very slim
indee I. The belief is becoming general
that the best men in the Btate will be
sent as delegates. The importance of
the work to be entrusted to the Conven
tion is appreciated, and it argues well
when snch men as Jenkins, Browo,
Toombs, Joshua Hill, Norwood, Law
ton, Wofford, Reese and Anderson are
brought to the front. It will not do,
however, for the friends of a Convention
to be too sanguine. The office-holders,
as a class (and they constitute a class
numerous and influential), are opposed
to it, fearful lest their hold upon the
treasury teat may be loosened, and they
are fighting it secretly but adroitly.
They have a good many strings to their
bow—capital removal, homestead, negro
fear, and bonds—and will pull them all.
The Tw Senators.
It is an open seoret that the Senato
rial delegation from Georgia is divided.
Senator Hill and Senator Gordon are
far from being the best of friends.
While there may not have been au open
rupture the fact that they get along very
inharmoniously is plainly apparent. I
do not think that Senator Gordon con
siders Senator Hill the safest and
soundest of men politically, nor do I
believe that Senator Hill regards Sena
tor Gordon as the most intellectual. Gor
don beat Hill for the Senate four years
ago when his military fume was still in
its flush and when Hill’s connection
with the State Road lease and the De
lano banquet had not been forgotten.
It is well known that in the contest of
last January the weight of Gordon’s in
fluence was thrown against Hill and in
favor of Norwood. Governor Colquitt,
as usual, sided with his friend and neigh
bor and Hill had to fight them both. He
did it and did it successfully, but as may
be readily imagined, the two men do not
entertain any higher opinion of each
other because of the conflict cr tbe vie
tory. In Washington Gordon labored
earnestly to secure for his friend, Col.
R. A. Alston, the position of United
States Marshal of Georgia—one of the
most luorative Federal offices in the
South— and with so much effect that the
President agreed to sign the commis
sion if Hill would unite with
his brother Benator in recommending
the appointment. This he declined to
do and Alston was not appointed. The
breach was not closed to any consid
erable extent by this affair. On the
other hand, the friends of Hill think
that the friends of Gordon were instru
mental in circulating the report that the
former had presented the name of Foster
Blodgett for the office and recommend
ed that worthy man to Attorney-General
Devens—a report that is bitterly denied.
It is easy to see that it will be difficult
to get the two Senators to work together
for the accomplishment of any object.
It will be a lucky thing for the State if
each does not become the leader of a
hostile faction and do l attle with the
other. Gordon’s term will expire iu
about eighteen months, and Hill’s
friends will doubtless make a fight on
him when he offers for re-election.
The Independent Movement#
I fear that the Democracy of Georgia
oaDnot be held together in another State
election. The party is so large that
there is good reason to fear it will fall
to pieces. The success of the ind'ipsn
dent movement in the Seventh District
and the large Democratic vote received
by the independent candidate for Con
gress in the Ninth District, give evi
dence of the weakness of party organiza
tion. Nominations will not generally
be regarded in the future except so far
as national politics are concerned, and
sorub races will be tbe order of the day.
The oolored vote will be assiduously
courted in such contests, and the oolor
line will also be measurably obliterated in
suoh a oampaign, and the black man
will vote as early and as often as his
white brother. I confess that Ido not
see how the evil is to be either remedied
or averted. When men hunger for office
they care little for consequences, pro
vided they obtain the object of their
desires. Such men argue that it is folly
to talk of the election of Radicals; the
Republican party in Georgia is dead be
yond the hope of resurrection, and there
is no reason why they should be fright
ened by # ghafiow fjom obtaining thejr
share df the gopd things of government.
la® afraid, too, that four years from
now tbe Dsmocratio nominee fur Gover
nor of Georgia will ha opposed, perhaps
defeated, by an independent candidate.
Indeed, many think that Felton, who
plumes himself upon having broken the
“machine” and destroyed the power of
the “riDg” in Cherokee Georgia, is even
now in training for such a contest.
Recent Ripples.
The failure of Adair apd tb e fiigbt of
Sharp, the ‘Hive jeweler. !i The former,
it is thought, will soon reouperate. He
has energy, pluok, industry and a host
of friends. He has met with nothing
save kind words, and though it be diffi
culty for a man past the meridian of life
to recover from such a blow, I think he
will soon be on his legs again. The
“live jeweler” has vanished from our
midst, exhaled, has fled. If, as Ariosto
says, all lqst things go to the moon,
George judibr ptay%e jpher'e; buf oprt&in
if is Atlanta will not see him’ again. Tfie
factory war, fanned by newspaper inter
views,continues with uo&b&ted fury. The
public are in doubt whether Kimball is
a saint or a scamp, and his defamers
geniuses or blockheads. Fulton coun
ty is likely to elect ex-Governor Brown,
N. J. Hammond, E. P. Howell, Dr. j.
F. Alexander and J. E. Eogtish to the
Convention, A^a^.
pARQLJNA AND LOUISIANA.
A Republican View of the Situation—Recon
strocti'en a Future—A Candid Admission—
The So(-t|t Apalbept-—ppUayt( Wl yIT 0 W
(:h^myer|alp—Hamptonts Responsibilities.
\Neu> York Times—Editorial ]
The apparent apathy of the North is
rendered still more noticeable by the ob
vious connection which exists between
the proceeding resolved upon in regard
to South Carolina and that which is
pending in regard to Louisiana. The
common sense of the country sees that
the practical recognition of Hampton in
one State Whit’be followed by the prac
tical recognition of Nicholls in the other.
There may be technical differences be
tween the two eases, derived from the
attitude of the local Courts toward the
respective claimants for the Governor
ship, but tbe distinction is too refined
to influence the popular judgment. If
it whs deemed necessary to sacrifice
Chamberlain to propitiafe Hampton and
his supporters, Packard cannot; hope to
esoape a similar fate simply because the
lo£al judiciary happens not to have pro
nounced against him. In a question of
this nature, technicalities amount to lit
tle. And the underlying conditions in
the two States being substantially iden
tical, it were affectation to suppose that
any zoom fer doubt remains with
reference to the result in Louisiana. —
It ia, therefore, impossible to feel
much interest in the doings of the Com
mission which will to-day leave Wash
ington for that State. It goes upon a
superfluous errand. Its inquiries and
negotiatl ns will alike wasted. Why
should Mr. Nicholls condescend to talk
of terms, or exchange the certainties of
his present position for the chances of
the plan proposed ? Has he not seen
that Mr. Hampton, with no better title
than hia own, has contrived by sheer
audacity to carry his point w thout being
bound by any other conditions than
those which he has all along been pre
pared to make ? The lesson is not likely
to be lost npon the Democratic claimant
to the Governorship of Louisiana, who
now knows that he has only to be obsti
nate and dictatorial to secure the re
moval of tfie troops from the Raokard
fortress. Popular logio recognizes this
as the inevitable sequence of the Sonth
Carolina decision, and the Loniaianians
cannot fail to look at in the same light.
They have but to wait and win.
Here, then, is a complete abandon
ment of a position heretofore held by
the Republican party as a consequence
of the reconstruction policy. One might
have expected some excitement among
Republicans at the North, if only as an
indication of sympathy with those who,
like Mr. Chamberlain, have fought a
gallant battle in reliance nponextraneons
help, and bare been qaietiy given over
to the common enemy. Bnt there is no
excitement. The approaching extra see*
sion of Congress may bring to the sur
face feelings now held in check, but
even then it is more likely to be among
the representatives of Southern Repub
licans then among the Northern mem
bers. Why ? Divers considerations en
ter into the answer. The interpretation
accepted by the President is undoubt
edly true up to a oertain point. There
is a wide-spread impatienoe with the
working of the system now to be dis
carded. It is looked npon as a failure.
It has not secured peace. It has not in
sured adequate protection of the blacks,
nor fostered friendly relations between
them and the whites. It has not pro
moted the prosperity of the South.
These are valid reasons for scrutinizing
the policy that had been acted up
on, and are the justification on which
the President must mainly rely. The
all-pervading business depression has
probably contributed still more to the
remarkable quiet which attends the new
rule of action which the President has
adopted. Languor should not be con
founded with acquiescence; and we sus
pect that the bnainess and industrial
stagnation that ia visible everywhere has
much to do with the absence of excite
ment in connection .with the change
which has taken place in the attitnde of
the Government towards States which
the Republicans believe to be rightfully
theirs.
Mr. Hampton’s avowed anxiety in re
gard to the avoidance of local tumult is
a tribute to Northern sensitiveness which
the President will surely appreciate.
He has assumed grave responsibilities.
The remark attributed to him, that if
any violation of rights occur he will
promptly exercise his authority for the
protection of the aggrieved classes,
covers only part of the case. Happen
what may, after Chamberlain is ejected
the authority of Hampton must be re
spected. Troops may be employed to
sustain the laws, but Democratic as
cendency will be secure. The conces
sion which sacrifices Chamberlain is ir
revocable. What the country now ex
pects is some compensating advantage,
and upon the realization of this the
vindication of the new policy depends.
Individual injustice will be ultimately
overlooked, if the general result be satis
factory. If Hampton is honest enough
and strong enough to fulfill bis pledges
respecting the freedmen, and if, under
his administration, the State regain
peace and prosperity, the President will
have little to fear from his own party.
These, however, are important provisos.
And if they be not forthcoming, his
position will not be enviable.
A MYSTERY OF OF THE SEA.
Was It a Disaster or a Dreadful Crime f
Boston, April B. —The Herald will to
morrow publish a statement to the ef
fect that there are grave suspicions that
Wui. Maguire, the sale survivor of the
brig Roanoke, did not tell a true story.
His statements to Capt. Carson, of the
schooner which rescued him, were con
tradictory, and gave rise to the suspicion
that the crew mutinied and probably
murdered the captain and his followers,
and also the passengers, and that the
vessel beoame unmanageable after they
got possession of it. It does not seem
consistent that passengers would have
deliberately drowned themselves while
there was the least hope of being saved.
In the safe, which was located in the
captain’s cabin, were $50,000 in gold,
sufficient incentive for an uprising of
the crews. It is surmised that the crew
drank freely of lager, and while drunk
went below to get the contents of the
safe and had a fight with the captain
and the sailors who remained faithful.
This theory is based on the fact that
Maguire says that one of the crew, a
Finn, threatened to shoot the captain,
and the fact that one of the orew was
found dead, with his upper lip ent off,
when Maguire was taken off by Capt.
Carson. Maguire said in explanation
that the Finn got a pistol ont of a dozen
that were lyiug about the cabin, aud
that the dead man found on the wreck
had his lip bit off in a fight with one of
the crew on the 26th of March. Maguire
is a thick set Irishman, and when found
showed little signs of exhaustion, a fact
rather strange in view of his claim that
many of his comrades had died of ex
posure,
Philadelphia, April B.— Capt. Car
son, of the schooner Annie Todd, ar
rived here yesterday. He says that
when Maguire was taken from the Roan
oke he was nearly exhausted ; at no time
did he correct his story or contradict
himself ; all hands had been drunk on
her, and they had fought among them
selves. The raft, Maguire said, was
washed overboard the night previous.
Maguire also tells a plain story to-day,
and does not deviate from the first told.
The man who attempted to shoot the
captain was drunk, and he also attempt
ed to injure Maguire, The insurance
men believe Maguire’s story and will
pay the loss. Capt, Carson came here
to tell the family of Mr. and Mrs. Dal
lett that the rumor of a mutiny and
murder is without foundation.
A UAHPJET-BAG EXODUS.
“The Most Unkindest Cot ol All.”
{From the New York Tribune .]
It is reported that certain Senators
and thirteen Representatives, of the
variety called carpet-baggers, have sign
ed an agreement to withdraw from tie
Republican party. They promise to
give the Democratic party control of
both houses of CoDgress, but if even
that advantage coul I be gained it would
be purchased tgo dparly by affiliation
with these persons. The Republican
party has been oarrying them long
enough to know what they oost. If
they, and their respeoted leader, Mr.
Butler, wish to do that party the great
est service in their power we trust they
will “stand not upon the order of their
going, but go at once.” That they do
not mean to do the Republican party
this favor, and will not go at all if they
can help it, we are fully convinced.
The fact is that the Republican party
has been rppping a political poor house
quite too long. The one fatal defect of
its policy sinoe the war has been that it
gave opportunity for adventurers, who
were utterly without standing or con
sideration in any Northern community,
and who, if not propped up by United
States bayonets, could not have beea
elected to any office by colored men of
the South, to fasten themselves upon
the party and the country as the repre
sentative Republicans of
States. G|qo(i'tpdq as wpil aa ’Viad men
fiaya gope 'from the North to take part
in Southern politics, But it is an un
happy consequence of the peeuliar in
fluence which worthless men attained
under Grant’s administration that tl:e
most worthless of all the generation of
carpet-baggers ’ to havet in the
uegree, the sympathy and up
fort of the were en
abled to. select officials who would serve
them, were thus recommended to the
Republican voters of the South as the
men of all others who were trusted at
Washington by official leader of the
party, and a uontrolijtig position
in the party at home by means of this
influence. We all know how decent
men have been repelled by this promi
nence of unscrupulous persons. All
other blunders put together have not
cost the Republican party as many votes
as the single fact that it was represent
ed and controlled in reconstructed
States by unworthy men.
lo get rid of this inenbus has been
the one thing needful. Unhappily, it
has also been of all things the most dif
ficult. for these sohemers have been
cunning to represent that their cause
was the cause of the colored people;
they have made many Northern men be
lieve that all opposition to them was
hostility to Republican principles and to
colored suffrage; they have filched for
themselves whatever the loyal people
had for “ the wards of the Nation;”
and they have not been restrained by
gratitude, consoicppe, deoenoy or hu
manity from fomenting bloody strife be
tween whites and blacks at the South
whenever it suited them to revive north
ern memories of the war. These men
have made the Southern problem a hard
one. Months ago we said that the Re
publican party conld solve that problem
only by dropping the carpet-bag politi
cians who have disgraced that party by
managing it at the South. Bat to this
day they have stock tighter than leeches.
It has been impossible to drop them, or
to shake them off, os to get rid of them
on any forms.
If this set of corrupt politicians will
transfer themselves to the Democratic
party, they will render the country a
great service, JJext to the advantage of
gaining men who strengthen a party is
the advantage of losing mem who weaken
it. As their unwholesome influence
has made more powerful every bad ele
ment in the Republican party, so they
are certain, if they go to the Democrats
at all, to contribute all their own un
serupulous recklessness to its most dan
gerous elements. Thereby the more de
cent and patriotic Democrats will be re
pelled, even as they will be drawn to
the Republican party by the expulsion
of its most odious men. A real recon
struction of parties, a bringing together
the best and worthiest men of both po
litical organizations would be the natur
al result if the remnant of carpet-bag
plunderers would be good enough to
transfer themselves to the Democratic
camp.
But the news is too good to be trne.
The scamps know that Democracy wonld
only use them for a day, and then drop
them forever. They that they
have made themselves offensive in the
lastdegree to the property-owning and
substantial citizens of the South. . They
do not like the liberal policy of Presi
dent Hayes, bnt it is not possible for
them to be ostracised more completely
than they wonld be within a year after
alliance with Democrats. They thirst
for revenge, bnt they hunger for the
fleshpots. Reform is a bitter word to
them. But they can tnrn reformers,
and pretend to be zealous adherents of
the new policy, and hope even yet to get
some place and retain some influence.
Tbe danger is not that they will go, bnt
that they will stay. The Administra
tion would gain many supporters, not
only from substantial citizens at the
South, bat drom the independent class
at the North, for every vote it may lose
by a departure of political panpers. Bnt
the danger is that the panpers will not
secede from the poor house as long as
there is the faintest possibility of vict
uals.
It has been repeatedly shown that one
gets better results from less than two
thirds of Dooley’s Yeast Powder than
from fall amount of any other baking
powder in tbe world. Housekeepers
have fonnd ont this fact, and the books
of grocers all through the country prove
this immense popular preference abso
lutely;
latlKQowMWe.
South Boston, May 9,1870.
H. B. Ftevexs, Eeq :
Dear Sir —I have had considerable experi
ence with the VeosTiNF. For dyspepsia, gen
eral debility, and impure blood, the Vkgktine
is superior to anytning which I have ever used.
] commenced taking Veoetine abo >t the mid
dle of last Winter, and, after using a few
bottles, it entirely cured me of dyspepsia, and
my blood never was in so good condition as at
the present time. It will afford me pleasure
to give any further particulars relative to wbat
I know about this good medicine to any one
who will call or address me at my residence,
386 Athens street. Very respectfully,
MONROE PABKEB,
886 Athens street.
Dyspepsia.
SYMPTOMS.—Want of appetite, rising of
food and wind from the stomach, acidity of
the stomach, heartburn, dryness and white
ness of the tongue in the morning, sense of
distension in the stomach an 1 bowels, some
times rumbling and pain ; costiveness, whioh
is occasionally rnterrupted by diarrhoea ; pale
ness of tbe urine. The mouth is clammy, or
has a sour or bitter caste. Other frequent
symptoms are waterbrash, palpitation of the
heart, fceadacho, and disorders of the senses,
as seeing double, etc. There is general de
bility, languor and aversion to motion , dejec
tion of the spirits, disturbed sleep, and fright
ful dreams.
Gained Fifteen Pounds of Flesh.
Souih Berwick, Me., January 17,1872.
H. B. Stevens, Eeq ;
Dear Sir—l have had dyspepsia in its worst
form for the last ten years, and have taken
hundreds of dollars' woitbof medicine without
obtaining any relief. In September last I com
menced taking the Veoetine, since which
time my health has steadily improved. My
food digests well, and I have gained fifteen
pounds of flesh. There are several others in
this place taking the Veoetine, and all have
obtained relief. Yours truly,
THOMAS E. MOOR",
Overseer of Card Room, Portsmouth Co.’s
Mills.
FEEL MYSELF A NEW MAN.
Natick, Mass., June 1, 1872.
Mb. H. B. Stevens :
Dear Bir—Through the advice and earnest
persuasion of the Rev. E. 8. Best, of this
place. I have been taking Veoetine for dys
pepsia, of which I have suffered for years.
1 have used only two bottles, and already
feel myself anew man. Bespeci fully,
DR. J, W. CARTER.
GOOD EVIDENCE.
Cincinnati, November 26, 1872.
Mu. H. B. Stevens :
Dear Sir—The two bottles of Veoetine fur
nished mo by your agent my wife has used
with great benefit.
For a long time she has been troubled with
dizziness ard costiveness; these troubles are
now entirely removed bv the use of Veoetine.
She was also troubled with dyspepsia and
general debility, and has been greatlv bene
fited. THOMAS GILMORE,
229} Walnut street.
Reliable Evidence,
Mr. H. B. Stevens :
Dear Sir—l will most cboerfnlly add my
testimony to the great number you have al
ready received iu favor of your great and good
medicine, Veoetine. for 1 do not think enough
can be said in its praise, for I was troubled
over thirty years with that dreadful disease,
, Catarrh, and had such bad coughing spells
that it would seem as though 1 could never
breathe any more, and Veoetine has cured me;
and Ido feel to thank God all the time that
there is so good a medicine as Veoetine, and
I also think it one of the best medicines for
coughs and weak sinking feelings at the
stomach, and advise everybody to take the
Veoetine. for x can assure them it is one of
the best medicines that ever was.
MRS. L. GORE,
Corner Magazine and Walnut streets,
,‘4 Cambridge, Mass.
APPRECIATION.
Charlesown, Mass., March 19, 1869.
H. B. Stevens :
This is to certify that I have used your
‘■Blood Preparation” (Veoetine) in mv family
for several years, and think that, for Scrofula
or Cankerous Humors or Rheumatic affections,
it cannot be exoelled ; and as a blood purifier
and Spring medicine it is the best thing I have
ever used; and I have used almost everything.
I can cheerfully recommend it to any on ■ in
need of such a medicine. Yours respectfully,
MRd. A. A. DINSWOBE,
19 Bussell street.
Vigetine is Sold by All Druggists.
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LOWEST PRICES!
a. O. BOBINSON. LUDDEN A BATES.
6. 0. ROBINSON & GO
Pianos Organs
The most complete an<\ aforsQtiye assortment
in the Bouh,
AT m wi WHOLESALE PR CES.
Freight paid to any point.
SIX OF THE BEST MAKERS REPRESENTED.
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By purchasing at
Tie Anpsta Music House.
Musical instruments
Of every veriety, imported direct from Europe
at lower prices than ever offered.
SHEET MUSIC,
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The latest Publications! Music received
daily ! Orders Promptly Filled !
MUSIC BOOKS,
Instruction Books for every Instrument!
Singing Books, Mimical .Merchandise, and
everything pertaining to
A First Class Mnsic lose.
Instruments by Express, with privilege of re
turning at our expense, and cash refunded
if not entirely satisfactory.
PIANOS TUNED AND REPAIRED.
We have a first-clqse fomfer and repairer of
25 years’ All work guaranteed to
givp pntite satisfaction. Orders will receive
prompt attention.
tt. 0. ROBINSON & CO.,
yOG Broad St.,
aplO-Um Angusta, Oa.
GREAT REDUCTION !
DRY GOODS
To be Sactifioed this Week !
SEE THE LOW PRICES AT
C. J. T. BALK’S,
136 Broad Street, Near Lower Market
FAST color Calicoes at sc.
Best Caliooe* at 6}o.
Good Sea Island Homespun at sc.
Splendid Cottonades for Pant- at 150.
Hamburg Edgings and Insertings at half
prices.
Best Bilk Pongee at 40c. My Alpaca at 35c.
is the best for the mone.. Splendid Black
Iron Barege at 25c. Silk finished Black Lining
at 10c. and litye. Bnt it is impossible to
qnote all the low prices, as the usual space
will not permit 1L Come and see for yourself
and you will be convinced of the fact that
such real bargains have never before been
offered in this city.
85 CASES OF STRAW GOODS 1
Consisting of Ladies' Shade and Dress Hats,
Missee’'School and Pic-nic Hats, B?al Leghorn
Hats, Imitation Chip Hats, Boys’ Straw Tats,
will be offered at retail at New York wholesale
prices. Ribbons, French and Am.rican Flow
ers at very low prices. C. J. T. BALK,
apl-dAw 136 Broad Street.
WANTED !
ONE GOOD MAN to solicit orders foi; ora
Goods in Augusta, and four to, travel m
Georgia and Alabama. A mod salary and per
manent employment tft thr proper men. Ad
dress, with reference,
UNION INDUSTRIAL WORKS CO.,
mh9-w5 Cincinnati, Ohio.
Now Advertisement*.
SOS. ItARGIh: SALE SOS.
' OF
DRY GOODS.
TO coramenco on Monday morning, April 9, and to continno until all is sold withent regard to
cost or value, bnt to be sold at a price. 130,000 worth of a fresh and well-sslected stock,
bought at recent panic prices, and will be sold accordingly—nothing reserved, bat all to be sold.
So look ont on Monday morning and on and make good use of this rare chance for getting good
goons y t such prices. See piicoß below and lie guided accordingly, at tbe new store of Hi W.
LANDRAM. 268 Broad street. 20.000 yards best Prints, from 6to 6}o. a yard, less than agent's
price 2.000 yards Pereales at 6}o. 6.000 yards Checks and Stripes, from Bto 10c. 10.000 yards
Bleached and Brown Shirting, from sc. per yard np to the best. DRESS GOODS : 2,000 yaids
Grenadines at 7c. per yard, goods cost 17c. in gold to import. 2.000 yards Black Grenadines
from 20c. to $1 per yard, less than i-ost to import. 3,00!) yards assorted Dre-s Goods, from 10c.
up. SILKS : striped. Checked. Black. Plain ami Colorei Silks, all new and pretty goods at
from 76c. up—New York prices and less. WHITE GOODS: 2,000 yards White Piques at 100.
yard, go.ids worth 15. 3.000 yards PUin and Striped Victoria Lawns 15 to 250., worth 25 and 500.
A beautiful line of French Nainsooks at low prices, something new. Goods for men and boys’
wear : 3,000 yards Cottouades, weeds and Linens, from 100. a yard up. goods worth 15c. A
nice line of Cassimeres and Linen Goods for gent's at low prices. 500 dozen ladies' aud gents’
Handkerchiefs at a great sacrifice, at retail lees than package price. 500 dozen ladies’ and
misses' Hose, from 6}c. der pair retail, less than dozen price. 500 dozen gent's Half-Hose, from
5o per pair up to something very nice at 250. 500 dozen spools Cotton, warranted 200 yards to Bpool
3 spools for 10c. 1.000 dozen Claik's Cotton, the best, at 650., agent’s price.‘2o.tioo papers Pins at
2c ; a-d lots of imall articles top numerous to mention. SPECIAL TO HOUSEKEEPERS ■
2.000 yards Irish Linens at very low prices 2.000 yards Table Linens at prices warranted to
please. A large line of Turkey Red Damask at low prices to close. 200 dozen Towels at very
low prices. 200 beautiful White Spreads, from 5 >c. up to something very nice at *1 and $1 25c.
500 Parasols, from 16c. up to something verj nice. To close : 20,000 yards Hamburg Edgings,
to be sold at 500. on tho sl, cr half their former price. 500 Corsetß. the best to be had. and at
less price. All the above goods have bsen seeded for the bes: retail trade and at very low
prices, and nothing misrepresented. The goods and prices will speak for themselves. All sold
for cash -no samples given or memorandums made during this sale. Come on Monday morn
ing. and on, as long as you have money to bay such goods as you may need the next six
months.
H. W. LANDRAM,
spß-d&wtf 268 BROAD STREET.
CHEAP CALICOES.
Cheap Soap Made of Chalk.
Cheap Trash From Auction and Imitation
Goods Generally
IS the order of the day, and these you can find almost everywhere. And no wonder as it is
the CHEAP AUCTION SECOND HAND SHOP WORN and IMITATION GOODS that pay a
profit to the seller, and in most cases from 100 to 500 per oent., and he who deals in suoh and
is able to push it off on tho credulous, soon gets rich and laughs in his sleeves at his ability in
being able to sell such trash, but it takes cheek to do it, and you know all merchants have not
that—but watch those who have.
OUR BUIEK is now in the Northern markets, and is daily adding to our immense stock
ohoice selections of FIRS l' CLASS DRY’ GOODS of every grade, and as we are now layiug in
the larger portion of our stock since the great decline in the Northern markets we are able to
offer groat attract; ms and decided bargains in every department in our house and in vour
shopping excursions do not forget the
OLD AND RELIABLE FREDERICKSBURG STORE,
ON THE CORNER BY THE PLANTERS’ HOTEL.
We now have choice Spring Silks from 65c. np. Good Blaok Silks at every price. Dress
Goods in the greatest varioty, and from the lowest price up. Fine Black all Wool and Silk Gre
nadine * and Iron Baragos iu coarse and fino mesh. White Goods in profusion. The largest
assortment of new and beautiful Fans ever seen iu this city. New Cassimeres. Tweeds and
Suiting Linens at a great deal under former prioes. Genuine Lonsdale Bleached Cotton at 10c-
Imitation do. at BJc. Fine Brown Cotton from 6c. up. Full lines of Table Damask, Napkins'
Towels, .-hirtings and everything in that way for family uso, and at the lowest down prioes. Cali
aud see our new Shirt already laundried and complete in every reapeot for one dollar—it is a
wonder. Also, our unlaundried Shirt, made of Wamsutta Cotton—it is another woDder for one
dollar. At our house we allow no humbugging or urging you to buy that which you do not
want, but sell First Class Goods cheaper than those who deal in auction trash.
We send samples free. Also, pay expressage as heretofore. Call and see our etook or send
for SAMPLES AND PBICE LIST.
Tho Spring Number ot Richards’ Bazar
Will be out this week. Call and get a copy free.
V. RICHARDS & BRO.,
pB-tf CORNER BY THE PLANTERS’ HOTEL.
NEW PROCESS FLOUR.
CRESCENT MILLS,
AUGUSTA, GA.
J. F. & L. J. MILLER, Proprietors.
OUR FANCY FAMILY FLOUR MADE BY NEW PROCESS HAS NO
EQUAL. ml)4—d&wly
GR AND OPENING !
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Straw Goods, Ostrich Feathers,
Flowers, Ribbons, Hat Ornaments,
Lace and Silk Ties, Embroideries,
Laces, Hair Goods, Jewelry, Fans.
A full assortment of Fancy Goods.
Bustles, Train Paniers, and special
lines of Corsets. Ladies’ Under
wear. Parasols and Sun Umbrellas.
100 Sets Croquet at $1 and $1 50.
J. H. TRUMP,
ar3 d&w4m 220 BROAD STREET.
Incorporated 1845. Capital, $600,000.
WILLIAM A. BURKE, Treasurer GEO. RICHARDSON, Sup’t,
8 Pemberton Square, Boston. Lowell, Maas.
LOWELL MACHINE SHOP,
LOWELL, MASS.
—MANUFACTURERS OF—
COTTON MACHINERY
Pickers, Cards, Lap Winders, Bail way Heads, Drawing
Frames, “Lowell Speeders” of seven different sizes, making
Bobbins containing 8 to 64 oz. Cotton each, Sawyer Patent
Bing Frames, Pearl Patent Bing Frames, Common Bing
Frames, with 6, 8,10 or 12 oz. spindles, Mules (Platt pattern)
Spoolers, Warpser, Slashers (L. M. S. patent), Looms, Twist
ers, Filling Wiuders, Shearing Machines, Brushing Machines
Sewing Machines, Folders (Elliott patent), Hydraulic Presses,
Hydraulic Pumps, Size Kettles, Stop Gates, Indigo Mills,
Elevators (Thompson patent), Turbine Wheels (Boyden pat
ent), Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, Cast Gearing, Cut Gearing,
Chipped Gearing, Iron and Brass Castings, Plans for Cotton
Mills, etc., etc.
O
PAPER MACHINERY.
Light and Heavy Bag Cutters, Bailroad and Devil Dusters
Thrashers, Botary Bleachers, Bag Engines, Cylinder Wash
ers, Fourdrinier and Cylinder Machines, Stop Cutters, Stuff
and Fan Pumps, Chilled Bolls, Super Calenders, with four
to ten Iron or Paper Bolls, Platers, Gun Metal Bolls, Cylinder
hiYulds, Dandy Bolls, 801 l Bars and Bed Plates, Trimming
Presses, Plans for Paper Mills, etc., etc.
REFERENCES.—Augusta Factory, F.Cogln, Esq., Superintendent; Langiey Manu
facturing Company, Langley, S. O.; Camperdown Mills, Greenville. S. C.; Marsh & All
good Trion Factory, Ga.; J. W. it F. P. Gray, Adalrsvllle, Ga.; Mississippi Mills, Wes
son, Miss.; Great Falls Manufacturing Coompany, Rockingham, N. C.; Roswell Manu
facturing Company, ltosweil, Ga.; Princeton Manufacturing Company, Athens, Ga,;.
Chattahoochee Manufacturing Company. West Point, Ga.; New High Shoals Manufac
turing Company, High Shoals, Ga.; Reedy River Manufacturing Company, Greenville.
8.C.; D. E. Converse <fc Cos., Bivingsville.B. C.; J. T. Morenead A Cos., Reidsville, N. C.;
Little River Manufacturing Company, Mancnester, N. C.; Lehman Manufacturing Com
pany, Prattville, Ala.; Tennessee Manufacturing Company, Nashville, Tenn.; Landis
Manufacturing Company, Shelbyville, Ten r ; 8. L. Graham & Son, I'inewood, Tenn.;.
Stonewall Manufacturing Company, Enterprise, Miss.; Marshall Manufacturing Com-
Biny,8 iny, Richmond, Va.; Wm. E. Hooper .fc Sons. Baltimore, Md.; Union Manufacturing:
jmpany, Baltimore. Md.; Gambrill, lions A Cos., Baltimore, Ma.; Wm. H. Baldwin if
Cos., Baltimore, Md.; Phoenix Factor j, Baltimore, Md.; Laurel Manufacturing Company
Biltlmorp Md mnlmhlfl-lv
NAVASSA GUANO COMPANY,
OF WILMINGTON, N. C.,
-MANUFACTURERS OF
SOLUBLE GUANO, HID ACID PHOSPHATE.
tw E ARE AGENTS FOR THE
sale of the products of this reliable
Company, which we guarantee to
be standard in every particular.
Prices, delivered in Augusta, Ga. „
at any shipping point from the city
Soluble lavuu Guano, in
soluble Acid Phoiptate, No
vember lst,.lscts. cotton
Parties desiring to pay cash will
be supplied at lowest current pricee
for Fertilizers of equal merit.
WALTON & CLAEK,
mh7dl*clm-mh!B 302 Broad street, Augusta, oa.