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QTtmmicte an& Wr.l >N f.SDAY, - JUNE 13,1877. THE LOOM OF LIFE. All day. all night I can hear the jar Of the loom of life, and near and far I* thrills with its deep and tunffled eoiiud, As the tirelews wheel* go always round. ItueilT. ceaselessly goes the loom, In the light of day and the midnight a gloom. The wheels are turning early and late, And the woof is wound in the warp of fate. _ (lick clack ! there's a thread of love wove in; Click’ clack ! another of wrong and sin ; What a checkered thing will this life be When we see it unrolled in eternity . Time, with a face like mystery. And hand* a busy ae hand* can be. Hits at the loom with it* warp outspread, To catch in its meshes each glancing thread. When shall thia wonderful web be done ? In a thousand years, perhaps, or one : Or to-morrow. Who knowetb Not yon or 1, lint the wheels turn on aed the shuttles fly. Ah, sad-eved weaver, the years are slow, But each one is nearer the end I know ; Aiifl nome day the last thread shall be woven in, ... God grant it be love instead of sin. Are we spinners of wool for this life web— Ho we furnish the weaver a thread each day t ft were better then, oh my friend, to spin A beautiful thread than a thread of sin. FABTEI). In the mellow light I ait, Idly disregarding it, Idlv rocking to and fro, A* the shadows come and go, Asking vainlv, asking why By fate we're parted, yon and I ? Ah ! why is it ? There are few Half so genial, half so true in heart and soul allied as we ; yet, an unkind lie-tiny Bears her cruel barriers high— Jiy fortune sundered, you and I. Were our paths together laid, \Ve hal treaded, undismayed, Valley deep and mountain pass, fu light or darkness; but alas! jiuw.n divided hills they he— ■j,Ve um sundered, you and I. fs it, darlibg, is it sin, .Inst to think what might have been t To nnvoil my ©yfos 4ua What can never, never be ? j tf.jr beneath closed lids I see C at, has parted you and me. Great this sudden sorrow is, And through our infirmities We forget that tsars of p&m .Blossom into smiles again ; ‘That our souls to purify, vW are parted, you and I. Yet, O yet. beloved, will time Teach us golden rules sublime, Anddieyond this dark eclipse Hriall our uncomplaining lips -Say submissive, ‘ Thy will be ’ ’ Fate lias parted you and ms. SIMIIIEH. Lo! lazy Hummer, swarthy, in the sun ] Lies panting, with hare breasts, upon the hills, . , Swathing her limbs in hazes warm and dun, Where splendors i ito dusky splendors run, And sultry glory all the heaven o erfllia. Not a white dimple stirs amid tho corn, Not a low ripple shivers through the leaves : Hi nee, wrapped in golden crimson gleams un shorn, . Came, flashing through the east, the regal morn, , No throated twitterings gurgle round the eaves. Flooded in sunny silence sleep the kine ; ; In languid murmurs brooklets float and flow; The quaint farm gables at the rich light shine, And round them jasmiued honeysuckles twine, Anil close liesido fhem sun-flowers burn and blow. Amid the growing heat I lie me down, And into visions swarms the rnoted air ; ■ Gleams up before me many a famous town, Pillared and crested with a regal crown Ontshimmering in an orient purple glare. l, lowly Tadmor, burning in its sands— Baalbeck and Babylon;—! see hlow streams Gilding by mosque and minaret -see the gleams O ' seas in sunset —slips of strands. And drowsy Bagdad bnried deep in dreams ; Hoe swarthy monarchs flushed in purple riugs Of silken courtiers ;—through half-open doors (latch tho spies odors, and the cool of springs Leaving forever in a nta/e of wings. See light forms dancing over pearly floors ; Hleeping soraglics, spite and tremulous dome Winking in drowsy splendor all the day.— Beo forest haunts wuero thick the lions roam, Bee thirsty panthers splashed in bloody foam, Leap terrible as lightning on their prey ; Or stand with Cortes tn a mountain peak Above tho Aztec city,—see unrolled Goiu-t breaded sh,.reH of Montezuma weak, — Bee the white temples, swarming thick and sleek And sunny Htroets stretch up by towers of gold ; 800 silkon i ails float by, ambrosial, Ladon with spices, up a Persian glen ; Or stand on Lebanon, 'mid the cedars tall, Or hear the soft and silvery fall Of water down a jut of Darien. But lo! a waking shiver in tho trees, And voices 'mid the hay-cocks in the glen ; The sun is sotting; and the crimson seas Are shaken into splendor by the breeze. And all the busy world is up again ! —London Athenoeum. WARREN C'OINTV MATTERS. Tlic ltul Templars’ Plc-Nlc—A Delightful A flair—Prop Prospects--Religious. | Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist.] Barnett, Ga m .Tune 4.—A1l of War renton and vicinity were on the qui t rive early Friday morning, Ist instant to join in the annual celebration of the Temperance lodge. About 8 o’clock, a. m. the Macon aud Augusta fast train arrived and the party boarded it for the pic-nic grounds, some ten miles distant, at Mayfield, Hancock county. A few minutes ride and the steam horse pulled up nt the destination of the party, a very quiet unpretentious depot boast iug’ of one store and a few residences. The grounds selected were uear the rail road trestle in the Ogeechee swamp— shady, cocl, and inviting, just the right place to discuss temperance or for a “spooney” couple to dispatch “Court House business” in a style to astonish the natives. The crowd was not long ; in assembling at the favored place, dis tant from the depot three hundred yards. Besides those who came on the train there were good delegations from Jewells, Cnlverton, Shoals of Ogeechee, Norwood, Camak, aud the surrounding country. Major McGregor introduced Rev. Mr, Dunlap, of Thomson, to the audience, who held their attention for about an hour in a telling speech. Rev. A. J. Hartley was next introduced and acquitted himself as usual in a very happy manner for about 40 minutes. Both speakers covered themselves with j glory and received the plaudits of the i assembly. Dinner was now announced ] ami I assure you the ladies had not j neglected their part of the programme, as the contents oi their baskets proved. | The innertnan was refreshed and we felt rejuvenated, and that it was well for si* be there. The 6 o’clock, p. m., train from Macon took the Warren tomans homeward, while those by pri wate conveyances were noticed casting i long lingering kvoks at them as the train i was lost in the distance. All were de- ■ lighted with the occasion and wish for j the return of many more. Spring oats are badly damaged, bv * drouth, and Fall oats are almost a fail- ‘ ure, save in a few instances. Wheat is very fine, and is now being gleaned rapidly. Cotton that is up is doing, fiuelv, but a large percentage of the crop ' is in the ground yet. aud will be until it rains. Corn is looking well where a stand has been secured, which is rare. Baruett rejoices in au Evergreen Sab bath School, of some seventy officers and scholars, amt a splendid library, pre sented them by Mr. L. Battle. Hon. Titciai? Pool addressed the Sunday •.School la.st Sabbath in a very interesting and pleasing manner; at night, Rev. Mr. Simmons, ci Crawfordville circuit, preached to a crowded house. He is to conduct divine services here the first Sabbath ct every month, *ls, p. m. The prospect is bright for a and com modious church at aa early day, ©0 ac commodate the wants of the people. .So ,notf it fee. SyiusT. Why i'rwun Plf Ymi. (fiiniuM .4rtt*T<isr.} A wnter filly amounts for the re**on whv printers die youM. w ky are continually tramping from place to place -a search of pint'tu.lc, ne says that working for forty editors and spores of authors, every one of whom is a* sitive as a sore thumb, anil as lively ana interesting as a hornet, no wonder the printers die young, and only pachyder matous, grizzly, mulish specimen* g&t their share of life. The writer wishes that he could offer himself a an awful example of the perils which environ the man who meddles with cold—type. A thoroughly trained printer should have a step-mother and tKen a step-father, and then have beeu bound out to a tan ner, and then have married a scolding wife and lived in a smoky house, and have had a family of babies who were afflicted with the colic. He should have added to all this discipline a thorough knowledge of science and law, lan guages, theology, history .and bmgra* phy. If, in addition, he has a vicious looking eountenanee and an annatote dis position, he may stand some chanee with these authors and editors; but the probabilities are, after aH, that they will worry him to death. This picture will have a very depressing effect .upon ambitious boys who are anxious to learn the “art preservative of arts." The pic ture, however, ie a tolerably correct one. THE NEW LEANDER. Traanlaied far the t'hranirle and C’onMlto tianalUt, from Ihe (Orman of Mas Vma Srhlintl. CHAPTER IX. Even in Laveno, as calm and peaceful as it lay after the storm, which had ex pended its force npou the Sasso del Ferro, time and events had not stood still. Scarcely an hoar after the ghost frightened grenadier’s communication to Mihalasy, Captain Kornfaessel, dur ing the sixth half-lost game with the Podesta, had been suddenly startled by the furious gallop of a horseman, who seemed to be trying to break his neck and his bones on the dreadful street pavement. Before Guido had buckled on his sword and reached the door a half-dead corporal of dragoons stagger ed in, delivered an enormona letter, and then sank exhausted pon a chair. Kornfaessel unfolded the paper, read it, and taking off his hat, said, with sol emn joy, the significant word: “War!” “War,” repeated the Podesta, earnest ly and anxiously; for, as truly loyal as be was, he saw in his mind all the de struction and misery which must break over a blooming country. “War !” murmured the landlord tim idly, as if the hangman already had him by the neck, for he had business con nections and friends on the other shore, who made the imperial-royal patriotism very bitter to him, and he thought of the" wine year which had opened *o promisingly for him, and now would be so calamitously “shot away,” perhaps with the vine-sticks and the vineyards themselves. Teresita, the landlord’s brown eyed daughter, said nothing, but hurried sobbing out of the room. Her ac knowledged sweet heart, the rich timber merchant’s son, who had rented all the forests of the Basso del Kerro, and to whom she was to be married the next Spring, had gone over a few days ago to the Garibaldiaus. Captain Kornfaessel, as good hearted as he was generally, to-day bestowed no attention upon the emotions of the per sons around him, bat walked with the air of a world conqneror out of the coffee room, aud immediately afterwards the long roll rattled dismally through the quiet street of Laveno. In a few minutes the little garrison was assembled in the fort. But Frst Lieutenant von Walden was absent from his troop of white coats. Kornfaessel, whose face had beeome like iron since he held the general’s dispatch in his band, demanded an explanation of Mihalasy. The latter could not (lo otherwise than tell the captain the truth —with a few Walden had begged so piteously to l>o allowed one mflre chance at the floantess, fljat $ man must have had a heart of stone to be able to refuse him. Really he ought not under any circumstances to have consented, but “you know, captain, we are all men,” eouplodpd the lieutenant, whom the declaration of way bad cut short off at the knees, “You are a fool—a treacherous, dis obedient soldier.” said the captain, “as treacherous as —” ... The recollection of their early friend ship held him back from sayiDg these hard wordß about Walden to bis subor dinate, but nothing should prevent him from going forward, with unrelenting severity, if his duty required it. A non-commissioned officer was sent to the red honse to bring the first lieut enant. However, chief gunner Waufcel haber, an energetic, farseeing man of forty years pf age, with the marks of four years of service on his sleeve, with brave eyes, and a yery long thick mus tache, which was his greatest pride, came back, after a short time, and related, not without humor, hut greatly to Mi balasy’s displeasure, that, after waiting a long time, be caught sight of a crea ture as round as a hall, who declared ' ‘hat site considered it very unmannerly to ring up peaceable waiting uiaids out of tucir sleep, and to suppose that at midnight a first lieuten ant could he visiting her Coun tess And. after she had given the chief gunner, Waukelhuhcr, the hint that his captain ought to be alh#fi£,d of himself, she shut the door in his face, ® aae all farther inquiry for the first lieuten ant impossible, without using force. Although they had sought the latter in vain, aud a large portion of the captain’s military order had been ohilled by this incident, he read gloomily and with frowning brow the proclamation from the general in command to his loyal army, aud he accented it with cu garn estuess which chilled the blood in Mi halasy’s veins, that according to several indications fiom the general, tips post of Laveno was important for the Jst.er movements of the troops, and therefore must be held as long as possible. “That means,” explained the captain, “you must be cut to pieces at the last gun that remains mounted, before thinking of giring up the post entrust ed to us. At the slightest sign of cow ardice I will bring the despicable crea ture before a court martial.’’ Mihalasy scarcely dared to Breathe for fear his breath might betray his fright, and iu that case he already saw the can noneers of Intra taking aim at his splen did person, *f)d heard the grenades whizzing, and the bombshells bursting arotiud his big ears, file hailed it to a certain extent as a sort of prolongation of fife when the captain entrusted him with the disposition of the vidette and picket posts, for his military knowledge was sufficient to understand that one of the divisions ia the vineyards or on one of tfie neighboring Itf/Js would be less of a mark in the morning twilight than the unwieldy tower that could lie seen from afar, aud which on account of ;ts foolish form could be easily distinguish ed from its surroundings. Fear actually oonquered Mihalasy’s love ot comfort and he climbed hills and points of view which he would have avoided carefully in time of peace and gave his outposts positions in such a wilderness that it was questionable how they would retreat in case of the enemy’s approach. Early iu the bright morning Mihalasy came back from his task, and it gave him some trouble to designate to the re lief guard where he had placed their predecessors. Several times the captain’s eve wan dered to his subordinate, aS if lie were examining his trustworthiness. Then ouo of the soldiers who had returned from the outpoai frightened to death, said that he had seen sofftothing white shining in the thicket, and upot £<ami nation, had found the first lieutenants uniform laid away in the alder bushes, bill had seeu nothing of him. . Fear of the court martial now forced Mihalasy to speak of the not*rj)al ap parition" In the captain's head and that of Mihalasy conjectures differed according to their owners. “He probably swam too far out into the lake and Was seized with cramp,” said the lieutenant, giving expression to his thoughts. Tlie captain looked at him for some time in gloomy distraction, and b' B 'r regular feature# worked more desper ately than ever. He knew better. Ju dignant at the suspicious of his friend, aud still without the moral courage to tear himself away from the toils of the temptress, Walden had sought death. It was yet quite early in the morning; all was quiet aronpd; nothing was stir ring in the batteries jjq,d jrifle pits, which were now almost visible tc fcb© ffajked eye at the moutu of the Jutra opposite. The lake lay motionless and bright; nature herseff Vvtad breathlessly for the com ing events, wiui© fch of the hostile shores seemed to wish jto ftp rid of the tremendous responsibility and teaye it to the other. Then Guido Korufeessel seemed to : Dome to a determination. He gave up the command of the fort to the lieuteu- , ant as solemnly as if he doubted whether ’ he would ever’returu and set out iu the direction of the ted house. Not withstanding the early hour, he I had hieweit announced the (JwUßtess, j aud was .as am eh *3 Pepi was inclined t to detain him with o&u of her harangues : about deportment and customs/ imine- • diately admitted by her mistress. She! saw how the captain stepped before the j gracious lady with his hand on the hilt I of his sword and with a face that seemed 1 wish to devour her. Pepi therefore : couriered it her duty to remain near i by, although she had been sent away by her mistral' She was on the pouac U feting out of the ante chamber and £he scene, for the captain was becoming vey rPhglb but now the Countess be gan to ‘softly and earnestly and al most imploringly. the captain said nothing more. Then falbjysd a long pause, and as she was troubled it, keJ poked her head through the door, and her perfect horror, the wild captain before her Countess and continually £er hand, which she vainly sought to withdraw. Pm* yanted to come to the aid of her mistress' wfc?.e, when the captain rewe 3 nd humbly forgiyenness for the aowident. and offered tuj hfe if she though* that the sacrifice of it cuj, i sist iu saving Lis friend, whom lie had so criminally misjudged. Then he de parted The Countess sat*, reeping on i a ohair, and believed she had my*C;ed ! the kind, faitbtal Walden. While the c aetata talked to hi* ic;* the lrregu ; laritigs of fois face was turn*** “tone, and his roftta swimming in **. looked like two Urge balls. Mihalasy busied bimsaU with the guns a*s he saw his captain ing. /or military courts and cashiering lurked MT in all his movements. When the captain cashed him he turned around with the face of a foully, bat his heart stood still from fright. Two big tears coursed over lkoriuaes- I gel's cheeks, and with the greatest emo- tion he extended his hand to the impu dent lieutenant. “Our Walden is probably not drown ed, but is in the power of the enemy, which at this time is mnoh worse. For get the anger that I have displayed to wards him—there is no more loyal or noble character than his—” Several movements on the other shore, as if the enemy were bringing guns into the batteries at the month of the river, turned the Austrians’ attention in that direction ; later came the thunderstorm which drove all the men, except the sen tries and pickets, into the casemates. When they came oat again, only a row of low clouds lay over the landscape and a magic il bine light rushed in from the west over the lake. The Italians dread, the rain almost more than the mid-day heat, and prob ably the only inhabitant of Laveno (be sides the sentries) who had spent any time in the open air daring the storm was Geronimo, the famous smuggler, and business friend of Tommasso, and the present fisherman. The sultriness of the atmosphere, preceding the storm, which is considered the best time for fishing, had induced him to cast his trout nets by the steep shore wall of the Basso del Ferro; he had been surprised by the storm (which had come up with unusual rapidity) as the last of the lines of corks which held the Dets danced on the troubled waters. Geronimo had reached the shore in his boat only with the greatest difficulty, and had hidden it under a shelf of rock and concealed himself beneath one of the overhanging cliffs, as it had grown dark, and the outer world had been lost to view for half an hour. At last even this storm psssed over, and Geronimo looked out to see what had become of his nets. In anticipation of a storm he had selected the strongest of them and added a heavy stone to the lead which held them on the bottom. The nets were found in an eddy, at a spot protected against the most violent force of the waves. When the surface of the lake again appeared he saw indeed the strings of corks, bobbing up and down on the water, but two of the strings were broken and to the third was hanging nothing less than a pretty two-oared boat, which danced with them on the angry waves as if trying to outdo theta. The boat was apparently without a rud der, but something bright lay on the bottom of it, over which the water streamed at every motion of the boat. The former smuggler, before he could clearly determine how the boat came there or had time to be additionally hor rified at a danger which did not concern hira,busied himself with the question of how he could secure the pretty boat without being seen. He determined to leave it out here until night, to bring it then to a secret cove near his home,from whence he would carry it ashore and af ter giving it another coat of paint, would launpu it for his own use. As he stepped boldly into his own worm eaten boat and rowed nearer, }ie had at the sight of the pale pretty crea ture lying on the floor of the boat half covered with water at first no other idea to throw the same overboard, and by means pf tlje strong current ot the lake from the south, to let the people farther on trouble themselves with the body. The pretty boat whioh had torn his nets in two and which was so well adapted for fishing he could keep with perfect justice as indemnity. But at the moment when he (not with out a seefot horror, as if he feere com mitting a crime) took the supposed corpse by the shoulders, he was sur prised by tbp unusual regularity and whiteness of the face over whioh the wet black hair floated, and the dark lashes ’reached far down on her cheeks; he drew back terrified when the dead girl suddenly opened her eyes, her lips ipqyed and quite audibly whispered, “’njuttaF.i’ Geronimo hijd lived long enough un der German masters to understand the most usual words of their language, and the most natural association of ideas led to the conjecture that there must be some connection between the pretty shipwrecked maiden, who was evidently the eijild of wealthy people and the German Uontecs who had left her purse with Tommasso, aud 464 still rewarded himself (Geronimo) richly. It ppsmfd to him, too, that the young lady’s face was ye?y familiar, a circumstance which was explained by the fact that for several lip fiafj geen her al most daily on the haleoy Of the red house. Realising perfectly that he vas not capable of saenfioiug iu cold blood a living being who had fallen in his pow er - and the advantages to himself that pould result fiom the rescuing of the gut became evident to him immediate ly, and in an.yfbP' moment he had taken off his dark gray Jacket, and, spreading it on the floor 'of tym fftfp i bow, u-i 4 the helpless girl on it, and, j by powerful pfftjkes, carried the gaily L painted boat 19 toy fq W;e red house. Before even the custom h°ft 8 0 °fff cers bad hurried fro* their digtimt Po ß ta to inspect the ogispptW? an d> the fisherman had; with tty© hefP ©f the cress old gardener (who immediately re cognized his young mistress), parried her into the house, and had given her into the arms of her terrified mother. A fey hours after the news had been brought hi* ,qf 9 drowned woman, Captain Kornfaessel s summoned to the red house. He was fiM© tft ply with the request, as the shades of twilight were already falling, apd it was not to be’ supposed that U* cqemy would open fire to-day, as 'would be barmleS? against this aid©apd ppe highest degree disastrous to the hW B PG Pf peaceable citizens. When he reached the Counteas he found her engaged in cheering a beauti ful young maiden, who in greatest agi tation yas sitting in an easy chair and was almost pfie dress which she wore. At a sight of the captain the 'girl sprang up and hurried towards him with a cry : * “Save poor Henry—they are going to shoot him'!” The captain turned pale. His worst fears were realized. With impetuous haste which was only prejudiced by anxiety for her daughter, the Countess related in detail the danger in which Walden was trembling and the way in whiph he came to be in his present position, while Caroline with folded hands sat trembling in her chair and repeated : 7 “Save him !” The captain shook his head sadly and •said with a deep sigh : "JJow gladly I would do so, but to all appearance, tjje garrison on the op posite shore is far superior to us. Even if we wished to attack them, 1 could not expose the fort and they would always find an opportunity to carry ofl the prisoner, eap.oojally if he were still in your father’s villa/’ “So he must perish miserably/' sigh ed Caroline, iu despair. “And with half a dozsn determined men to help me, I would set him free myself.” “With half a dozen men ?” asked the captain, in anxious agitation. “In Intra, the only place were one can land, there lie at least a thousand.” “But in oqr yilla there are only two riflemen and three cpstom honse ofgoers, who smoke the whole day ?” pried Caro line excitedly, her oheeks glowing and her eyes blazing. “But how would one reach the villa ? The stories descend steep'and rocky into the lake !” replied the captain, involun tarily aroused by Caroline’s reproaches. “Our haibo* is not guarded or I would not be here,” said Caroline, positively. “And it will not be to-dayjor to-morrow, for the Italians are too fond of their comfort and too lazy for that. Oh that I were a *an !” added she, wringing her hands despairingly. “And would it be possible for you fo point opt to us more clearly the spot where one can isd apd reach the villa ?” asked Guido Kornfaessel in breathless excitement, while his eyes shot arouud in every corner of the room as if he were to be executed the next moment. •*l will conduct you myself !” answered Caroline resolutely, “ Child I” cried the Countess, cruelly torn by anxiety for 'her daughter nnd fear for Walden, if remember that you were a few moments since lying helpless aud that your oheeks are glow ing now with fever.’’ The young girl shook her head almost impatiently : “ Let me alone, mother; when the storm took from me the power to do for Henry, I wished to die, be cause i. "wag §o helpless, and the fever which courses ti&osgfo my veins now will never cease until Bta*y is saved or my last strength is consumed. Oh i have mercy ?” She begged, with up lifted hands, “ and act for him, or let me do s* fcefsre it is too late.” Tears stood ie tfoe pyes of the maiden, and Guido KornfaesseS stamped bis foot excitedly. “ If I had only my individual danger 13 pomsider, how gladly I would risk my l ie, that I'migii* this valiant offi cer for the Emperbr. Ifo* indeed my own life is not much. But as deeply 48 I respect your judgment, my honored lady, any cs deeply as yonr interest in my friend affect* mp, *ou see with the eyes of an excitedly lady, osigisd away ty her sympathies; who considers im poaairbhtag possible, because she wishes it so much. The** if a difference be tween enjoying I ,the beauties of i coast on * rleasnre voyage and trying its Inac cessibilities a* * co]dier,” Caroline sank despairingly ca a sofa. “Qh, poor Henrysoobea she, “while w* us falling here they ponlfi hare murdered joa. wbijltl not' have been neoeasary to beg him so long to save a friend from danger, even if he had geen certain death ahead of him.” [ Kornfaessel turned pale. “We will call Geronimo," suddenly decided the Countess. “He is waiting ontaide for a reward which he has richly earned. When he rowed me across it seemed to me that he knew every rock on the other shore, and bad formerly carried on a smuggling trade. He can probably give us valuable particulars. Pepi, call in the fisherman who came with Caroline !” The smuggler appeared, rolling his fez in his hands. The Countess composed herself with an effort and began; “Recently, when we went across the lake, you impressed me as knowing the other shore v©ry well. Is it not so ?” Geronimo seemed somewhat hard of hearing, and blinked at the lighted chan delier over his head, evidently to gain time to collect himself. Then he shrugged his shoulders and thought, with a side glance at the cap tain, that as a fisherman he had seen here and there a bit of the shore, but be had never bestowed any special atten tion upon it. “You distrust us,” said the Countess earnestly. “And we would be so grate ful for your advice. I -w ill put the ques tion differently, and your answer will bring you into no danger. My daugh ter, whose rescue was your work, is con vinced that one can go from the lake through the harbor of the villa Bandin ni.ani, and reach the park and garden [ unnoticed. Is that correct?” Geronimo’s face was drawn up in countless little wrinkles, and his fez looked like a red string from which the few remaining threads of blue wool stood forth. Then the Lombard an swered with the same reserve which would have characterized a Swabian peasant under similar circumstances, “That that really might be possible.”— Then he winked at the captain, who had kept him under a cross-fire of glances, which grew more and more distrustful. “Listen,” the Countess began again, with a sigh of despair ? “I have proven you to be my faithful, determined and brave friend, Geronimo; therefore I have confidence in you, as you might have in ns. Now, a relative whom w'e all highly prize, whom I love as a son, aD officer whom all his com rades, and whom without doubt you know by his courage while he was exe cuting a commission for me on the other shore, has fallen into the hands of the Italians, and iu consequence of the war which has broken out m the meantime has been placed iu a very perilous posi tion. He has beeu sentenced to death and is inprisoned iu the villa Bandi miani while awaiting his execution. My daughter has ventured out on the lake during the storm to bring us the terrible news and to summon his comrades to his relief. It is not to be doubted that something might be done for Walden, for the villa is only poorly guarded. In deed you know yourself how careless tie Italians are in such matters. But the oaptain knows nothing of the en trance to the harbor. In truth, my daughter would show the way.” Geronimo, who had listened very at tentively, shook his head angrily. “By night and by day everything looks differently. The waves are black and the rocks also. One might pass the gate ten times without seeing it if one did not know it well.” “Then you conduct the boat!” cried the captain excitedly. Geronimo withdrew timidly and cau tionsly a little to one side and again rolled up his fez. “I only think all this,” said he then evasively. “I do not know this gate, but there are many suoh along the shore. The officer Walden was a fine, handsome gentleman, who always had a recognition for a poor devil who saluted him. It is bad for him, for the Piedmontese do not use much ceremony, I know in 1848, wheu I won the white coat myself.” Threateningly the captain walked up to Geronimo, and grasped him by the arm : “If you have ever worn the uniform of the'Bmperor, you must help us. It is clear that you know the plaoe upon whioh we depend. I will give a hun dred florins for the passage.” Geronimo disengaged himself and said with sneeriDg anxiety : “In all proba bility, to be placed to-morrow next to the handsome lieutenant and keep him company when he is shot ? I cannot oblige you, sir ! I would rather catch trout a lew years inore. They only bite Ashing lines in two, not the threads of life.” ’ ‘‘And spoil a coward was once a sol dier 7 * groaned tbp ppptaip.. Geronimo nodded slyly: “I was in deed, and never once deserted, like a great many others. In battle, at least a man does not know in advance when he will die, but to know to the very day and hour when one is to be led out— ”, Geronim shook his head very ener getically, Tyithout completing his sen tence) ’ The captainls face felj, and the Goun tess clasped her daughter’s trembling arm. Then she tore herself away, and suddenly thj-ew herself on her knees be fore Geropinj, apd hpr hands cried tp him : 1 “£)h I why did you npt throw me into the water when yop fopnd me, instead of refusing your help now f Geronimo was evidently touched aud gazed with superstitious terror at the young girl who seemed to have guessed his secret thoughts. “Listen 1” said the Countess, coming forward' iq raise her daughter. “You have 9 wife ahd'ohM..’.*” ~ “Nothing but 9 half deaf sister, whom I did not give myself," answered Gero nimo attempting to overcome his em barrassment by Z yoarse jest. “Very well,” continuud the Confess. “I bifFp over two thousand florins with me. i will giv 1° your sister if you will help us. Bee fhe'capreih ppd his men will risk their lives to save one who would otherwise be lost.” The Lombard shifted about from one foot to the other, and seemed very in dignant that such a difficult choice should have bepn‘placed before him. “And I will give the Copntess to-day double that omoupt for your sister in case we do not come back—" Geronimo took a long breath, and his eyes sparkled. The charm of such a large sum exerted au influence over him, although his death would be the means of obtaining it. “But if we reach the harbor,” said he, wiping the perspiration from his brow with his red caR, “even then wa are not in the villa. I hq,ve npver entered the park in my life.” ’ “But 11" said Caroline quietly, but with the most determined expression. “My child ! My child!” cried the Countess, embracing her. “There has been sacrifice enough. I cannot lose you!” Caroline looked at her mother earn estly. “And do you believe that I could pos sibly live if Henry tp be kflied on my account ?” The Copgtess’ face fell. Geronimo had observed the scene and even seemed to understand it, for shrugging his shoulders he said: “It seems to me that the youDg lady would do more harm than’good. Women are not fit. for such business. I remember, too, that one of my acquaintances, a real God forsaken smuggler always went through that har bor and'the villa Randimifjni when he carried sdii))’ to the Piedmontese. He has described the way to m e that I might find it if there were any necessity. The only excuse I can think of is to carry back the boat which I fished out of my nets, and if desirable, I would take it directly to the villa. That would be a good work which no Christian man even in time of war could misinterpret,” con tinued Geronimo, with a smile which showed he was again a smuggler. “If the captain with his men pursues me then and detains me on that side I can say nothing against it, for I know noth ing. The young lady's shell is of a very bright cftlor, lhat one can see at a great distance at night, and the napef-faf rev enue cutter—number five is fast—faster than all the others, though she only car ries six oars and is already old. She has formerly pressed many a smuggler so closely that his breath was too short. Now, if you, as you say, wish to do something for my sister, it is no affair of mine. She is now at home an q tel) her that the Countess wishes to speak Vdb her opt of'pity be cause she is such a miserable creature and is such a millstone about her broth er’s neck. When I go for a couple of oars for the lady’s little boat, I will tell her. Is that correct ?” concluded Geronimo,to whom the adventure began to be a joke, and in whom all old memo ries seemed to be awakened. [To be Continued in next Sunday's Chronicle and Constitutionalist.] THE EI.LENTON CASES. The Jury Disagree, anil a Mistrial Ordered. Charleston, June 3.—Judge Waite, last piffht. summoned the jury in the Ellenton ctu>e into Court and found, on interrogating them, that they eouid oply agree upon a verdict in the case of one of the eleven persons charged with con spiracy. This was Abner W. Atkinson, a man over aijty years old, who was ac quitted. The Judge then discharged the jury, and the ten remaining prison era were released upon giving bonds for thair aooearance at the next term of the Court/'the uousjsJ think it unlikely that these cases will ever again oe t n?o. It is now known that the jury stood six to ata off the question of a general ac quittal,' T the whiles being for and the Slacks against. The black jurymen, however, were willing to agree upon a verdict convicting two of the accused and acquitting all the rest, but to this the siy’whites wonld pot consenj:, The period of school examinations is close at hand. BREAKING THE SEALS. A POBT OFFICE CLERK COMES TO GRIEF. Being a Sketch of Irregularities In (he Au gusta Post OBce-Haw Ihe Nimble Clerks Were Shadowed and the Strawberry Mark Conte Oat at Last. One of the principal factors in the newly perfected system of the Post Office Department consists in the com plete organization of the Secret Service, which covers the entire country with a network of detectives. The examina tion of a private billet-doux by post office officials, seemingly a very easy and simple offense, has now become both difficult to concetti aud disastrous iu its consequences, so that he who would go behind the seal of the most insignificant note, and, through curiosity or other wise, possesses himself of the contents, seldom continues his innocent amuse ment unmolested. The episode which we now present, and which is of eepecial interest to our readers, is only one of the many in stances iu which Uncle Sam’s Argus eyed scouts peer into these light-finger ed practices. For some time complaint has been made by many of our citizens to Post master C. H. Prinoe, of Augusta, that letters had beeu opened, and particu larly did this irregularity seem to obtain in feminine epistles. Evidently some clerk or agent somewhere was amusing i and perhaps enriching himself by this nefarious practice, and especially were the delicately penned and perfumed documents, bearing the impress of fair hands, and those indeed direoted to the gentle sex, temptations which he could not conquer. Cruel fellow that he was; this penchant made him doubly crimi nal, even though his habitual perusal of feminine postscripts must have con stituted him uncommonly wise.— Think of it, young ladies; you who have impressed words of glowing affec tion aud framed sentences of rounded devotion destined only for him who really read them at second hand; and you who have passionately kissed the unyielding” seal, which have pressed other lips than his ! But we shudder ingly return to particulars. Postmaster Prince detecting a mousy odor immediately informed the Depart ment of these irregularities and accord ingly about ten days ago Col. John Frey, Special Post Office Agent, with Brad. Williams, Esq., his assistant, ar rived iu the city aud began a system of observations. After working up a series of decoys, and by persistently mailing marked letters at different points to sound the railroad route agents, the matter was finally uarrowtd down to the Augusta offi je, and the detective signals were spread. Letters to certain parties were mailed in the office, bearing some Northern post mark, and it was e asily ascertained that many were not delivered. Secreting themselves ac cordingly in the office at different times of the day while the clerks were at wqrk, for suspicion as yet pointed to no one, Mr. Frey and his assistant dili gently watched their movements, and soon ascertained that W. E. Arnett, one of the clerks, was in the habit of slily and quickly opening the letters; sometimes reading them and oft times eliding them into a private drawer to which he alone had access. Arnett’s manipulations were so quietly and expertly done that it was hard to catch him and no decisive action was taken until he was “Caught in the Act.” Determining that the game had been properly played, Col. Frey, concluded to wait no longer, so last evening about seven o’clock as the day’s work was being wound up, he arrested his man, coming from the back door to Mclntosh street. Arnett offered no resistance, and lie was taken back into the office where his Secret Drawer Was opened. In it were found numbers of letters, decoy and real, which he had intercepted and secreted, and many, as we previously noted, being of feminine origin or destination. The proof was conclusive, though the pris oner disavowed any intention to steal these documents. It seems that Arnett had played his cards wisely, and if it be true that “he playeth long who playeth vyel}/ be was a vplersjn in the business. Indeed so extensively were his operations carried on that upon an average of eight or ten letters, it is esti mated were concealed per diem. Rather than go to jail, Arnett was allowed to go to the Planters’ Hotel, where last evening he staid, under the guard of Col. Frey and Mr. Williams. This morning he will be examined be fore Commissioner W. M. Moore, at which time further facts will be de veloped. The charge is ipdeei} a graye ope, and if sustained wil| ‘ be' severely punished, for Uncle Sapi recognizes no ameliorat ing elements which temper his dealings with such delinquents. —r- JiEN. TI10MB& )N AHRASiS^Sj; rr.- 0 . A Speech at the Hot Springs—Hayes anil His Policy Endortted. The following is an extract from a speech recently made at the Hot Springs by General Robert Toombs : “ I do not like the principles of the present Jlenjooratio party ; but I like less the principles and practices of the Republican party. The Demo cratic party have not had reoently any chance to have any practices at all, and iuC” took the best they could get, and that was bad principles. Hayes got in, not bv bis own act-lie is there by the fotly oribeapaeiiy oi tbs cratic party." Hayes Is' , Prelde l tit df facto. 1 pal" !!““ atteation t 0 promises, but he has taken his post and carried them out. He has d°pe ftU tljat Tilden oqulj bav e 4h n o s m 88 I)ouis iania and South Carolina are concerned. He has given them back that heart of great price, he has given back that jewel, that life blood of good, government, which makes all else possible —State self-government. He lias brought baok the ark of the government and placed it where it belongs. He has commenced civil service reform; he has ordered his of ficers to turn out had men i*nd to turn out useless officials who feed upon the people as dropes ip the hive; apd 4. applaud him for these tbipgs. I will BPpT°V e of whatever good he does and will condemn whatever he does of evil. This is the duty of every patriot. Is it not time that we ‘should sink the partisan into the patriot ? The South never sought any pecuniary advantage from the Govern ment of the United States; she ought to seek none now. I was in Congress seven teen years, aud in my own District in Eastern Georgia, and 1 say to you now that I never gbf; a cj o l'ft a F. 0 R t pf_lhe Treasury for ope single spot in that Dis trict. I was not sent there to steal. Every dollar taken from the Treasury for one particular locality is an injustice to the rest of the oountry, and I can tell you, to the glory of my constituents, that in the seventeen years of my publio service in Congress no man in Georgia asked me to do it. “We haye a grancj copntry ourselves —a goodly land, a inagnificent heritage, all that a good man needs in this world. We can be quite prosperous and happy if we will stapfi by the old landmarks and sustain good progress. Let us hang our banners on the outer walls, neither chagrined by defeat, disheartened by desertion, nor overawed by defeat. Let us display a magnanimity as great as the occasion, as prolonged as the con flict-all then will be well for us and our children and our children s children, ‘till time spall be po pjore.’ ” AN ENCSJ.ISU ASHTAJJUL4- 4 s, !a peni B p Bridge Soaps |p Hie Middle and Kalla Through— One Hundred Person* Pre cipitated Into the River-Many Drowned and Killed—Cause of the Terrible Disaster —Who In to Blame < London, Jane 6.— The Widoombe sus pension bridge fell and about one hun dred persons were precipitated thirty feet into the river Avon, Eight dead have been recovered) and it is (eared others perished. Many were injured. Another account represents the disaster much more serious. The bridge was wooden and of light construction, narrow and about thirty feet long, between thirty and -forty feet above the river Avon, resting upon posts, morticed into stone work at either end and without a centre support. The bridge snapped in the centre and the two ends were wrenched clear from the sides. The whole mass with the people was plunged into the middle oi the stroam, which was about seven feet deep. Boats from the shore were immediately at’work rescuing the living and searching for the dead. About twelve persons were killed and fifty-one injured, some fatally. New Yertter* UuettinS'in the Yooemite. [San Francisco Chronicle.] Frank Leslie’s party arrived at Big Tree Station on Sunday, and two of Mr. Leslie’s young men quarreled oyer the smiles of a lady who accompanied the party, and|finally struck the other’s cheek. The’ same "afternoon’ a challenge was sent, and promptly accepted, the wea pon chosbn being pistols. The two young men then 1 went to a convenient grove, and whiled away an hour or so by firing $t each other. A stray shot finally struck one o( the duellists in the arm, and'it was announced that he had ample satisfaction. Oats are being rapidly harvested in Southern Georgia. BETTING WITHOUT LOSING. BOOK MAKING INTRODUCED INTO THE AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB. How the Book Maker Arranges His Schedule •f Odds so that lie is Sure of Winning—The System Clearly Explained—“Welchers”— Some Wagers on the Jerome Park Rares. The act making pool selling a penal offense has driven sportingtonen addict ed to speculations on tnrf events to another form of betting, namely, book making. The system of betting by auc tion pools was an American institntion devised for, and resulting in the least possible risk commensurate with the re sults. The system, in fact, made some one person of approved responsibility the stakeholder for totally unacquainted betters. The pool seller simply became responsible for the amounts bet, charg ing a commission for his services. Even prior to this enactment, “books” on turf and other sporting events were opened. They were schedules of odds against any particular individual winning any speci fied prize or stake. Morrissey, Lovell, Kelly A Bliss. Johnson Brothers, and other sporting men and firms have annu ally advertised such “books.” The sys tem, however, obtained no such populari ty as the pool betting, because the average better likes to know what he is betting against, and especially likes to know that the person with whom he is betting is taking some chance of losing as well as himself. This the book maker does not guarantee. One must depend upon the schedule of odds offered by the book maker. The book maker, presumably, is well informed concerning the condi tion, training and probabilities of start ing of any particular horse entered for any specified event. The better has no other inducement than what may consist in the attractiveness of the odds. It is a balancing of information against the lack of it, and the result has been that the majority of turf speculators have preferred wagering their money in the pool box, and paying a small commis sion, to betting it against professional book makere. This privilege having been denied them by legislative enact ment, they are restricted to betting againSt books or making them. The obvious purpose of book makers is to make a series of bets which will yield a profit no matter what the result of any given match may be. Say, for instance, that five contestants are en tered in a boat race. The natural odds against any particular man winning would be four to one. Still, A has made a record in previous contests that make his chances of winning so preponderant that the book maker, who always gives odds, is unwilling to bet more than two to one that he will not win. If he has only SI,OOO to bet on tbe race, he wagers it against SSOO that A will lose. B has also achieved some reputation as an ors man, and the book |maker is therefore unwilling to I et SI,OOO against less than S4OO that he loses. The other three be ing novices he offers SI,OOO to $250 that each of them will lose. The book maker does not put up his money, but those who take the odds deposit their money with him, so that if he fills his book, that is, gets all the money laid against his that he has calculated upon, his account stands thus : A, st,ooo against SSOO. B, SI,OOO against S4OO. 0, SI,OOO against $250. D, SI,OOO against $250. E, SI,OOO against $250. These aggregatesl,6so. The most he can lose in any case is SI,OOO, so that if A, the favorite, wins, the book maker, after payiDg the first better $1,500, is ahead $150; if B wins, $250; and if any one of the others wins, it netts him S4OO, without a chance of losing in any event. Still, his antagonist, who bets on the winning man, wins SI,OOO. This principle applies more extensive ly to turf book making. The entries for racing events are made generally as much as a year before such events are decided, frequently two or three years in advance. Messrs. Belmont or Loril lard enter this year perhaps half a dozen colts or horses for the Withers Stakes or Fordham Handicap of next year. The list of entries for these events is thus often swelled to fifty or more horses, each of which is regarded as having, a chance of winning unless dead or declar ed out before a specified time. Against each of tfiese tfie book maker declares the odds that he is willing to give. Many of the horses entered never go into training at all, and all money bet on them against the book is lost, as bets are named “ play or pay.” Many of the horses fully entered for the stake train badly, get into poor condi tion, or meet with accidents that de prive them of any reasonable chance of winning, so that their owners would ra ther forfeit the entrance fee tHqn send them on the track. The money laid on their ginning is as certainly lost as though' tfiey had run apd been beaten. For these reasons the book maker is generally willing to lay odds, that look excessive, some months before the ex pected event. As the time for it ap proaches he gradually lessens the odds. The perform ar, pas of the animals in training or on other courses enable him to regulate with some certainty the amounts that he is willing to risk against them. Owners of the horses, perhaps, are induced to back them, out of stable pride, and the book maker finds that he has filled his book as far as the probable wiuners are concerned. The odds against them are or perhaps he refuses io "aoeept any more bets upon them. At the same time he increases his odds on those having least chance to win. SIIEKMAN STILL CONTRACTING. Alleged Combination of Naliounl Bunks with Secretary Sherman t tlip p^r, relief, Washington, June 4. —It is reported here from eourees usually reliable that Seoretary'Bherman has orignated or gone into a*combination, whereby the eighty per cent, clause of the Resumption act shall make free banking the means of contracting the legal tender circulation down to $300,000,000. A prominent Sundav newspaper of this oily charges that Sherman is in collusion with the National Banks, and details the scheme as follows : “The banks embraced in the scheme are to apply to the Treasury for certain amounts of additional circula tion. IJpon the pircqlafipn being ob tained if is to b 3 locked up from use, and not contribute to ease in the money market. Upon the issuance of this bank circulation, the Secretary, pur suant to section 3 of the Resumption act, will retire and cancel an amount of legal tenders equal to eighty per cent, of the new bank notes issued, thereby effecting a contraction of legal tenders to that extent, in order to provide the legal tenders to be tfius gappejed. It is further understood that the Secretary will sell, under the authorization claimed by the Resumption act, an equivalent amount of bonds for gold, subsequently selling the latter for greenbacks. An effort haß been or is being made to se cure the co operation in this plan by banks in Philadelphia and Boston. Io what extent it i3 proposed' to carry this process' remains to be seen. It does not, however, requite any very extensive co operation to effect in this way an impor tant degree of contraction. Each bank in the scheme can, by re turning imme diately for retirement tho notes it has thus received, repeat the operation about twice a month, so that a bank taking out say $50,000 of circulation can com pel a contraction of legal tenders to the extent of SBO,OOO within each month. The plan is as ingenious as it is start ling; it is born of the necessities of what bankers consider a beggarly rqte of in terest.” THE CONVENTION QUESTION, fiie I'rfiDfitit ( (.aaiitutloH an Insult to tlie People of Georgia. Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: It has been suggested that a Conven tion should be called, if. for no other reason, to expunge from the Constitu tion of Georgia all allusion to “rebels” and “rebellion." I think the point is well taken, and that more prominence should be giyen to ft matters little whether our enemms call us rebels or not. We can well afford to rest under the intended stigma for a time, when snch men as William Wallace and Wash ington, with their associates, have borne, and their memories lived down the opprobrium. Bat we cannot afford even tacitly, or by implication, to con fess ourselves, or the soldiers who died for their native State in the late war, to be rebels and traitors. Time was when we were obliged to submit to the infa mous libel, wnich ignorance, under the guidance of New England Puritanism incorporated in the fundamental law of Georgia. Those were the days of bayo net supremacy. But happily that period is passed, and Georgians can now, in the exercise cf tte right, which was never denied them in the better days of the Republic, draft a Constitution, every article, section and paragraph of which shall be of their own dictation, and in accord with their own senti ments. Then let every good citizen vote for a Convention, which, along with other, pernaps moire practical, but cer tainly not more important changes, shall blot from onr organic law all traces of the words “rebel” and “rebellion” as applied in the present Constitution to the people of tfie sovereign State of Georgia. Auwa. .. b. n~ Dr. Boll’s Coqgh Syrup has been be fore tbe pubfic for years, and is pro. nonneed by thousands superior to all other medicines for the cure of Goughs, Colds, Influenza and all Pulmonary Complaints. New Advertisements*- Vegetine Strikes at the root of disease by purifying the blood, restoring the liver and kidneys to heal thy action, invigorating the nervous system. Y egetine Is not a vile, nauseous compound, which sim ply purges the bowels, but is a safe, pleasant remedy, which is sure to purifyjho blood, and thereby restore the health. 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WILBERFORCE DANIEL, Successor to Daniel A Rowlaad, WILD continue the COTTON COMMIS SION BUSINESS at the Warehouse of the old firm. Books, Notes and Accounts of the same will be found with him. my3-c3m THE TIFFIN J|| Drily U* ft,. Uipat IKOrtr l "* in the world. Bore* i—ySwlaVo 44 Inches In diameter. It does Rework of a doien men. The horse does not travel around the weU. Au*er la raised and lowered instantly. Sneeessftil where all others fall. Mo labor for man. Send for our 0 PACE BMK, FREE. LOCUS & ap22~w6m* WHEAT ai FLOUR. Highest market price paid fftjr New Wheat. O.uf customers can be supplied with Choice White Com Meal, and the differ ent grades of Flour, ground at the Excelsior Mills. GEO. T. JACKSON A CO., je6-wefuAwe Proprietors. SICK H tn a Week to Agents. $lO Outfit Free. $99 o $<P. O. VICKERY, Augusta, Maine ocll-wiy New AdTertisements. M ULLARKY BROS. ARE OFFERING Bargains in Dry Goods! 1_ 0 CASES STANDARD CALICO AT sc. PER YARD. The best assortment of CORSETS ever offeied in thS city. ALL SIZES AND ALL PRICES. The best Stock of BLACK GRENADINES that lias ever been offered in this city will he dis played this week at prices that cannot be equalled anywhere. Gents’ LAUNDRIED AND UNLAUNDRIED SHIRTS, a full assortment very low. A large assortment of CASSIMERES, TWEEDS and COTTONADES at a great deal less thau their regular prices. TO ARRIVE, A choice selection of LINEN SUITINGS, all prices. We are also offering our stock of BLEACHED SHEETINGS and SHIRTINGS, DAMASKS TOWELS, SPREADS and PIQUES at bottom prices. MCJLLARKY BROS., , „ 262 BROAD STREET. jeS-tf The Augusta Shoe House, 233 Brohd Street, Opposite tbe Masonic Hall, HAS ON HAND AND RECEIVING WEEKLY a full line of Ladies, Misses, Children and Gents' Shoes in all styles, at the lowest prices; Ladies, French Kid Box Toe Button Boots. Ladies’ Luriso Ki Box Toe Button Boot , Ladies’ ( uriso Kid Box Toe Bu.ton Boots, Ladies’ Peb Primp and Box Toe Bui ton Boots, Ladies’ Kid Box Toe Polish, Ladies’ Kin Fixed Box Toe Polish, Ladies’ kid Fixed Polish, Lad es’ Glove Calf Polish, y Ladies’ Glove Calf Congress, Ladies’ Lasting Congress, Ladies’ Newport Ties, Ladies’ Newport Buckles, Ladies’ Newport Box Toe, Ladies’ Kid Low Cut Slippers, Ladies’ Lastiug Low Cut Slippers. Gents Slippers in all styles, Misses, Laced and Button Shoes in all styles Children Shoes in all styles and colors Call and examine one of the finest an I best selected stock ever brought to this city. All goods purchased direct from the manufactures for cash, aud can be sold at nrioea hat defy competition. * JOSIAH MILLER, m,27 —tf PROPHIETOB. CHRISTOPHER GRAY & CO. Invite the public to call during the next two weeks for bargains. We will not advertise anything we have not. We will not quote Prints or Domestics at two or three cents lower than they can be bought. We will show the best assorted stock in the city* at the lowest prices. Another large lot of Embroideries Tuesday. Just opened, a quan tity of flue Bobinett. Mosquito Netting slightly soiled on outside at about half prices. CHRISTOPHER GRAY & CO. Je3-tf GREAT CLEARANCE SALE To Begin on Monday Morning:, May 28, at tbe NEW ©TORE, H. W. LANDRAM, 268 BROAD STREET. I WILL OFFER, ON MONDAY MORNING, and ou, my whole stook at GREATLY REDUCED •BRICES, the whole to be sold regardless of cost, SUMMER SILKS at low prieea. BLACK GRENADINES—haid to beat—see them before you buy. COLORED GRENADINES at prices never before beard of. WHITE VICTORIA LAWNS, just received, at prices to please. COL ORED FIGURED MUSLINS, new goods, at popular prices. BLEACHED SHIRTINGS, of all makes, and at right prices. SPECIAL To arrive, on Monday or Tuesday morning, a beautiful line of something new in LINEN SUITINGS, also TRIMMINGS to match, all of which will be offerod at low prices. These are new aud pretty goods, and at half their former price. Lots of smaller things, Notions, Ac., too numerous to mention ; has only to be seen to be appreciated. Come on Monday morning, and on, and you will be well paid for time spout in lbokiug h rough. II- W. I,A> JAMES A. GRAY & CO. WILL OPEN TO-MORROW MORNINO! The Newest Styles out io Black Guipure and Spanish Nets for Scarfs and Overdresses. Egyptian Veiling, Black Brussels Net, with Black, White, Navy Bine and Tiiieul Chenille Dots. Ladies’, Misses’ and Gents’ Silk and Lisle Gloves. Ladies’ and Gents’ Kid Gloves, best makes, all colors. Ladies’ Undressed Kid Gloves, 2 and 3 Button—all sizes. The latest things out in Jabots, Ties and Fichus. Misses’ Silk Hose, iu Pink, Cardinal and Blue. Misses’ Solid Colored Cotton Hose—Light, Blue, Pink, Cardinal, Navy Blue and Brown. Misses' Striped Hose, In endless variety. A full assortment of Ladies’ and Gents’ Summer IJndervests. The vry newest things in Parasols. A magnificent line of Black Grenadines, Silks, Dress Goods, &c. The Suit and Underwear Department will be found, as usual, ahead of anything iu tt e south. For decided Novelties, at tbe prices paid for old trash, call at JAMES A. GRAY & CO’S. ap2o Incorporated 1845. Capital, $600,000. WILLIAM A. BURKE, Treasurer GEO. RICHARDSON, Sap’l, 8 Pemberton Square, Boston, Lowell, IQtbi. LOWELL MACHINE SHOP, LOWELL, MASS. —MANUFACTURERS OF— COTTON MACHINERY. Pickers, Cards, Lap Winders, Railway Heads, Drawing- Frames, “Lowell Speeders” of seven different sizes, making Bobbins containing Bto 64 oz. Cotton each, Sawyer Patent Ring Frames, Pearl Patent Ring Frames, Common Ring Frames, with 6, 8,10 or 12 oz. spindles, Mules (Platt pattern) Spoolers, Warpser, Slashers (L. M. S. patent), Looms, Twist ers, Filling Winders, Shearing Machines, Brushing Mp chines Sewing Machines, Folders (Elliott patent), Hydraulic Presses, Hydraulic Pumps, Size Kettles, Stop Gates, Indigo Mills, Elevate ra (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 P A PER MACHINERY Light and Heavy Rag Cutters, Railroad and Devil Dusters Thrashers, Rotary Bleachers, Rag Engines, Cylinder Wash ers, Fourdrinier and Cylinder Machines, Stop Cutters, Stull and Fan Pumps, Chilled Rolls, Super Calenders, with four to ten Iron or Paper Rolls, Platers, Gun Metal Rolls, Cylinder moulds, Dandy Rolls, Roll Bars and Bed Plates, Trimming Presses, Plans for Paper Mills, etc., etc. Factory, F. Gogin, Esq., Superintendent; Langiey Manu facturing Company, Langley, 8. ; Campeidown Mil Is, Green vlile, S. C.; Marsh A All good Tiion Fact/ary, Ga.; J. W. A F. i'. Gray, Adalrsville, Ga.; Mississippi Mills, Wes son, Miss.; Great Falls Manufacturing ('''Hunpany. Rockingham, N. C.; Roswell Manu facturing Company, Roswell, Ga.; Friuc-ton Manufacturing Company, Athens, tia.; Chattahoochee Manufacturing Company, Wes-t Point, Ga.; New High Shoals Manufac turing Company, High Shoals, Ga.; Reedy River Manufacturing Company, Greeirvllle, S. C.; D. E. Converse & Cos.. Bi vlngaville, 8. C.: J. T. Morenead A Cos., Keldsville, N. C.; Little River Manufacturing Company, Manchester. N. C.; Lehman Manufacturing Com - pany, Prattville, Ala.; Tanneeaee Manufacturing Company, Nashville, Tenn.; Laudis Manufacturing Company, Shelbyville, Tenr ; 8. L. Graham A Son, Plnewoou, Tenn.; Stonewall Manufacturing Company, Enterprise, Miss.; Marshall Manufacturing Com pany, Richmond. Va.; Wm. E. Hooper A Sons. Baltimore, Md.; Union Manufacturing Company, Baltimore. Md.; Gambrill, cons A Go., Baltimore, Md.; Wm. H. Baldwin A Cos., Baltimore, Md.; Phaantx Factory, Baltimore, Md.; Laurel Manufacturing Company Baltimore. Md. tans mh 18-tv IBPORTAUT IQ PLABTEBS ill OTHERS! THE RICHMOND FACTORY, ten miles from Augusta, continues to manufacture Woo km Cloth, and to Card Wool Roll* for Planters and other parties sending Wool to us. We. propose in future to Dye the Cotton Warp when desired, and we will also Dye the Wool Filling,, if requested, either Brown, Black or Gray, or the Cloth can be mode in the natural oolor of the- W The charge for making Plains will be 12) cents a yard, and for Twills, 13 cents a yard; for Dyeing Cotton Warp, 1 cent a yard; Wool Filling, 2 cente a jar* Carding Rolls, 10 cents a. pound. Wool can be sent in the dirt. We are prepared to Waah and Burr it promptly. Our machinery being in perfect order, no delay will take plaoe in prompt delivery of U Cloth and Bolls. All Wool sent us should be plavdy marked with the owner’s name, and aU in structions and inquiries he made to and i'*,.vCgV YOUNG A HACK, Agents, August a, myl3-d64w4 PRESIDENT RICHMOND FACTORY.