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Cfivomcie ar.& £futtnel.
\v iDN EBDAY, BEPTRMBgB 19,1877.
A SERVIAN LOVER’S MESSAGE.
8 net sifter of mv loved and loving one,
K *s thv wi'd brother, kiss him tenderly .
Ask him what it is. witless, I have done
That he should look so coldly upon me.
Ah, well * * * X know he recks not. Let
Yet 'ay * * * ‘ There’s many a woodland
nodding yet . . . .
For who needs wood when Winter nights be
cold.” „ . .
g av • * * “Love to give finds ever love
There !vk not goldsmiths where there lacks
DOt gold. , ,
The wood will chim the woodman by and by;
The gold (besnre '.) the goldsmith cannot mi.-e :
Each ma and to win finds lads to woo ; and I—
■Well, child, but only tell him this !
Sweet sister, tell him this!
[Owen Meredith’s Translation.
( Fr tfu Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
ENDURANCE.
Tins life of onr's is an up-hill work,
And mauv grow faint by the way ;
Forgetting the gloom of the morning,
The sunshine may soon chase away.
Often it is hard to murmur not.
To sorrow and yet lie strong.
To fi.n/1 the lovely sweet star of Hope,
When toe gloom has lasted so long
At the summit of the hill there blooms
A wreath of the fairest flowers—
If we only try t win the goal
This lovely wreath may yet be onrs.
To d"y the clonds may appear so dense,
To-morrow all is bright and clear,
Item . ruber however long the night,
The light of morning must appear.
Though the waters may bo dark and deep,
And angiy billows round us roar-
Trrih* '•uur craft to tbe only /binnan
Who guides safely through weal and woo.
But when tbe music has left your heart,
It is so bar 1 to mug a song
jjnt let ns not weary in the strife
Though the struggle may yet be long.
Methinks 1 bear a soft sweet whisper,
Descend iiom the Father above.
Bidding >i" to ha brave and endure
If wa wish HU guidance and love.
Coh.’ented then let us journey on.
Cherishing the promise given
That they who are faithful to the end
Meets with the approval of Heaven. M.
Islington. Ha , March .1.
EYE'S.
Sweet babv eyes,
That look around with such a grave surprise,
What do you see ?
A strange new world w here simplest things
Engender wild imaginings
And fancies free t
A resting-place that is not home.
A paradi e wherein to roam
For years may be (
A placid, wandering baby eyes,
Tire mystery that in yon lies
Oft puzzles me.
Clear, boyish eyes,
Whose fearless glance unconsciously defies
Trouble and care ;
When babyhood is past and gone,
What is it that you gaze upon ?
A land most fair :
A sunny shore with pleasures rife ;
And that great, glorious gift of life
’Tie bliss to share.
Oh. happy, trustful, boyish eyes.
Let sages envv. fools desp.se,
The faith you wear.
The anx one eyes
Of manhood, slowly piercing earth’s disguise,
Oise .ver what ?
Tha‘ lifo at best is quickly done,
That hopes fulfilled and wishes won
Are n'early got ;
That i*ladowß cha*e4.n heailoMg haute,
And golden fruit he s'rove to taste,
Delight him not.
Oh, restless, doubling, troubled eyes,
To learn in sorrow to be wise
In manhood s lot.
Dim, aged oyes,
rsi/ing across tho wreck of broken ties,
Wlio do they see ?
Behind—dead loaves that withered fall,
A failing wilderness where all
Is vanity ;
Before-to gladden weary sight
A glimpse, a premise of the bright
Eternity.
Oh, dim and tearful, aged oyes,
If waiting till that dawn shall rise,
lilossed are ye ! ,
[leisure Hour.
CLEOPATRA.
BY W. W. STOBY.
Hi re, Cliannian, tako my bracelets—
They bar with a purple stain
My arms; turn over my pillows
They are hot where I have lain;
Upon tho lattice wid. r,
A gatizo on my bosom throw,
And let me inhale the odors
That over the garden blow.
I dreamed that I waH with my Antony,
And in his arms I lay;
Ah. me ! tho vision han vanished —
In mimic lirh died away;
The flame and the perfume have perished—
As this spiced aromatic pastille.
That wound the blue smoke of its odor,
Is now but an asliy lull.
.Scatter upon mo rose leaves.
They cool mo after my sloop,
And with sandal odors fan mo
Till into my veins they creep;
Beach down the luto, and play me
A melancholy tune.
To rhyme with the dream that lias vanished,
And tho slumbering afternoon.
Thoro, drowsing in golden sunlight,
Loiters the slow, smooth Nile,
Through slender papyri, that cover
Tlio sleeping crocodile.
The lotus rolls on the water.
And opens its heart of gold,
And over its broad leaf pavement
Never a ripple is rolled.
The twilight breeze is too lazy
Those feathery palms to wave,
And yon little cloud is as motionless
As stone about a grave.
All, me! this lifeless liaturo
Oppresses my heart anil brain!
oil! for a storm and thunder—
For lightning and wild, fierce rain!
Fling down that lute—l hate it!
l ake rather his buckler and sword,
And era'll and c'asli them together
Till this sleeping world is stirred!
Hum ! lo mv Indian beauty—
Mr cockatoo, croaniy white,
With roses under liis feathers,
That flash across the light.
Look! Ustin ! as backward and forward
To his hoop of gold ho clings.
How he climbs, with erost uplifted,
And shrieks as lie madly swings!
O. cockatoo, shriek for Antony!
Cry, "Como, my love, come home 1”
Shriek, “Antony! Antony! Antony!”
Till lie hears you even in Borne.
There—leave me. and take from my chamber
That wretched little gazelle
'With its blight black eyes so meaningless,
And its silty, tinkling bell!
Take him—my nerves lie vexes—
Tho thing without blood or brain—
Or. bv tbe body of Isis.
I’ll snap bis thin neck in twain !
Leave mo to gaze at the landscape
Mistily stretching away,
When the afternoon’s opaline tremors
O’er the mountains quivering play.
Till the fiercer splendor of sunset
Fours from the West its fire.
And melted, as in a crucible.
Their earthly forms expire;
And the bald, blear sku 1 of the desert
With glowing mountains is crowned.
Til at. turning like molten jewels,
Circle its temples round.
I will lie and dream of the past time,
.Enos of thought away,
And through the jungle of memory
Loosen my fancy to play :
Whe . a smooth and velvety tiger,
Bibbed with yellow and black,
Supple and cushioned footed.
I wandered, where never the track
Of human creature had rustled
Tho silence of the mighty woods,
Amt fierce iu a tyrannous freedom.
I k ew hilt the aw of my moods.
The elephant, trumpeting, started
When he heard my footsteps near.
Am? the spotted giraffes fled wildly
In k yellow c’oi'd of fear.
1 slicked in the noontide splender,
tjuiveriug alone the glade.
Or yawning, panting and dreaming.
Basked in ihe tamoriek shade.
Till I heard my wild mate roaring.
As the shadows of night came on,
To brood in the trees’ thick branches.
And the shadow of sleep was gone ;
Then I rou ed. and roared in answer.
And unsheathed from my cushioned feet
Mv curving claws, and stretched me,
And wai dered my mate to greet.
We toyed in tho amber moonlight,
{’pon the warm, flat sand.
And struck ,v each other our massive arms—
How powerful he was and grand!
His vehow eyes flashed fiercely
As lie croskhed and gazed at me.
And his quivering tail, like a serpent.
Twitched, curving nervously.
Then iike a storm he weired me,
With a wild triumphal, i cry,
And we met. as two clouds u. Heaven
When the thunders before the*, fly,
We grappled and struggled together.
For his love, like ins rage, was rude:
And his teeth in the swelling folds of my nook
At times, in our play, drew bleed.
Often another suitor —
For I was flexible and fair—
Fongbt for me in tbe moonlight.
While I lay crouching there.
Till liis blood was drain'd by the desert;
And. ruffled with triumph and power.
He licked me and lay beside me
To breathe him a vast half hour.
Tbs’i down to the fountain we loitered.
Where the antelopes came to drink ;
I.ike a tO'*t we spmug upon them,
Ere thev had time to shrink.
We drank thei.* blood and crushed them,
And tore them ,’;tnb from limb,
And tbe hungriest lh .n doubted
Ere he disputed wub hilts.
That was a life to live for!
Not this weak human life.
With its frivolous, bloodless passions,
Its poor and pet'y strife !
Come to my arms, my hero :
The shadows of twilight grow.
And the tiger’s ancient fierceness
I I my veins begins to flow.
Come not cringing to sue me '
Take me with triumph and power
Asa warrior that storms a fortress !
I will not shrink or cower.
Come as you came in the desert.
Ere we were women and men.
When ihe ticer passious were in us.
And love as you loved me then!
B!ol(flt AhfeiircM Ratification.
[Sovcumah Aeirs J
The ratification of the new Constitu
tion is now an assured fact. Foster
Blodgett has been interviewed by a re
porter of the Chboxicue and Constitc
tionadtst, and nearly two columns of
opinion of that distinguished constitu
tion maker is given to the public. Gen
eral Foster Blodgett sees “some things
to approve” and “much he considers
objectionable.” If Foster Blodgett had
given his approval of the instrument as
a whole it would have been a strong ar
gument in favor of its rejection by the
honest people of Georgia.
A BEAETIFCL SHE-DEVIL.
The Career of “Mrs. Wallingford,” Ihe Al.
v.nt.ro*— Intimate Delation* With Wash
ington, “Sintesinen” Her Preposterous
Claim on the Dulled state* for Damage*.
( Washington Corr. Chicago Inter-Ocean j
A popular novelist has written a story |
to illustrate the woman lobbyist ami her ,
claim. The author is J. W. DeForest; j
the novel is “Playing tho Mischief.” To
a casual reader the claim on which this
story is founded will seem too ab6nrd to ;
be real; and the book will be thrown
aside as a miserable attempt to portray
a legislative incident which fails from j
exaggeration. In the story, which nine
persons out of ten writ call exaggerated,
the pretty widow lobbyist’s grandfather
had a barn which was destroyed by the
Federal army in the war of She
secures the payment of u claim of SIOO,-
000 for this barn, ami the modus op
nrandi is described in the unraveling of
the tale. The oniv fault with the book
as a picture of the’lobby is that it is too
mild. The files of the Committee on
CU ms of the House of Representatives
will furnish actual claims a hundred
fold more absurd than this fietion, and
most of them come from pretty women.
Tiie person who will go down in his
tory as having proposed the most stu
pendous fraud and inexcusable absurd
it ,■ iu the shape of a claim is Benomi 8.
F irier, a Democratic member of Con
gress from the First Indiana District.
The woman in the case was \noieClaud
ine Whittimore, alias Wallingford,
alias Collier, alias Tiffany, and the
owner of a half dozen more aliases. She
has just come into notoriety again by
earning the arrest of a Philadelphia
merchant, whom she claims robbed her
of SI,OOO at a Cape May hotel.
fi,j 8 woman is, perhaps, the boldest
adventuress ever known in Washington.
Neither Lola Montez or Phoenix Black
ford, nor any other beautiful siren was
ever expert in weaving traps to catch
that innocent—man, of mote heartless
ly cruel in the treatment of her victims.
Mat y a distinguished statesman will
shudder at tho mention of her name,
and tier appearance in a Washington
hotel will cause as much consternation
among her quondam victims as if she
were a devil with a hnndred beads.
Hhe is a ripe, voluptuous creature, as j
ch mgeable in her appearance as a elm j
rue on ; sometimes glittering with a :
fierce, cruel beauty; at other times the j
picture of itDorxiut girlhood, timid and
confiding. Hometiin' S yon would think |
she was forty years old, mature and
able enough to rule an empire with wis
dom. At other times 6ho will seem to
be a mere bud of a woman, fit only to
do crochet work or answer a lover’s
sriri'e. But down in the volume of her
memory are written pages after pages of
crimes—crimes worse than murder.
This woman has desolated more homes,
has blighted more happiness, has ruin
.d more meu, aud caused more hen rt
•tehe than any creature satan ever in
tuited. Many of her adventures arc
known to the world; society has r arked
manv ol her victims as outcasts; but all
the ruin she liaH caused cannot be
reckoned. „
t he w *ho daughter of a Georgia :
planter, named Whittjpiore, am was j
horn, as she baa alwavs otaiiaed, CD tbe
ocean, while h r parents were returning i
from a tour in Europe. About the close j
ot tiie war, at her home near Dalton, '
Ga , she made tho acquaintance of a
vou.ig army officer, Lieut. Wallingford,
of tbe Boveuth Cavalry. She was then
about nineteen, and is said to have been
nvishingly beautiful. She married him,
followed him to a military post in Kan
sas and afterward went farther west,
accompanying her husband as he was
transferred from one point to another
with his command. She is said to have
made ilia life very nnbappy, to have de
stroyed hie manhood, and driven him to
that scarce of relief where pnlmppy
husbands too often go—tho boUip. In :
1809, or thereabouts, she left him and j
eioped with a Colorado gambler named j
Collier, living for a couple of years with j
him at Denver as his wife. Walling- j
ford, soon after her elopement, was j
cashiered from the army lor intoxication j
and conduct unbecoming an officer, and
l lf , b ”siuee died. Until 1871 she made;
the Western States aud Territories the
scenes of her operations, f ‘!’vlhg pi? ou
society,” as the term goes, maintaining .
a certain degree of respectability, but
carrying on a system of blackmailing I
schemes which involved many men ot ,
wealth aud prominence. Some tUUO in '
1873 she established au iatimacy wnJ )
Lieut. Tiffany, tho eon of the Rev, I)r. j
Tiffany, formerly pastor of a Methodistl
church in Chicago, and with him shared j
the notoriety of a romantio and some- ;
what mysterious Diarriage at a St. Louis .
hotel. As ucar as I can remember the j
circumstances, she was stopping then
with young Tifiauy, and appealed to the |
proprietor of the hotel, as au injured .
woman, to compel Tiffany to
reputation by making her his wife. The
latter consented to the ceremony, to
avoid notoriety, a clergyman was called
in at midnight, and the papers were full
of it the next day.
Soou after this occurrence Tiffany left
her, and was subsequently kilted iu a
railroad disaster in Pennsylvania.
Her next appearauae before the public
was iu Chicago, where she was involved
as the mysterious woman iu a bead rob
bery case, tho circumstances of which;
were published in the newspapers.
She commenced a series of blackmail
ing operations in Western cities, travel
ing about under v-ostoua aliases, and
will bo woll remembered ;';i Detroit,
Cleveland, Toledo, Cincinnati, Colum
bus aud elsewhere. At one time sue i
brought suit against the Panhandle
Railroad for tiie alleged loss of her bag
gage. Hotel keepers everywhere in ihe
West kuow her, aud her desert ptffjfl has
been sent out, in circulars from police
offices many times, with warnings from ,
her victims to people on whom she was i
supposed to have fraudulent intentions. ;
None of her victims, however, seem to ]
have had the courage to peoepeuto her ,
iu the Courts, aud she has been |
to go on her evil way unmolested.
At vise opening of tho Forty-fourth
Congress she made her appearance in ,
Washington, tiring in extravagant style
at a prominent faotei, and cultivating i
the society of confiding Congressmen. |
Many of those on whom she operated
are well known, but they have been suffi
ei 'utlv punished, and do not need to
have their unfortunate experience ex- ,
posed. She was .used in a variety of
ways during tbe first seasick of the last
Congress by men who had schemes to
promote, aud is said to have received
considerable money from several sources
for her “influence.” During the series
of investigations which were set on foot
by the Democrats she was used to ad
vantage us a detect**!', and is said to
have beeu instruments! ip fpme disclos
ures that were made.
Not satisfied with acting as a tatoffiflpr
of “the third estate,” she appeared with ;
the most stupendous claim that was over ;
brought against the Government for
damages growing out of the war. Benoni
S. Fuller, of Indiana, was her sponsor
aud introduced tiie bill for her relief.
Her claim was so absurdly extravagant
and preposterous that it received no at
tention whatever except from a few i pn
gressmen who desired to maintain her
good wilt for the sake of their own repu
tation.
I will give a list ot the items of prop
evty she claimed to have lost during the
war, as they appear on her petition for
relief; just to show how bold a fryind,
this woman is capable of concocting.
Her oath appears attached to the follow
ing:
One horse $2,300 j
Thirty-four horses at $l5O each. 5,100
Twelve young mules at $175
each.. ... 2,100
Sixteen work oxea at SSO each. . 800
Seven nriloii cows at SSO each... A6O
Eleven yearlings 8t $lO eaclto .110
Twenty-eight young cows at $25
each *o®
Two hundred sheep st $3 each., 600^
Three hnndred aud ten hegs at
$lO each 3,720
Fifty packages of tobacco, 2,500
pounds, at $1 per pound.. •- - 2,500
Two huuilrea bushels of wheat
at $2 50 per bushel 500
Two barrels of sugar , 100
Ten barrels of flour at S2O per
barrel 2001
Four thousand two hundred and
fifty bushels of corn at $1 50
per bushel 6*370
Fifty tons of fodder at sls per
ton.,
Ten tons of hay at S2O per ton.. 200
Thirty acres of corn-fodder 420
Twenty head of beef cattle..... I*ooo
Four farm wagons at SIOO each. 400
Twelve boxes merchandise..... 2,000
Library 1,000
Two iiuudred and sixty-two
bales of cotton...> < ■ 131,000
1 One thousand three haudrad
and thirty-ght bales of cot
ton 669,000
Four parlor sets of ftirutU*tc., 1,200
One set black mohair furniture 200
One set green velvet furniture.. 4bw
One set empress clpth furniture. 350
One Chickericg piano.. ....... 800
One Steinway grand piano
Oue whab-uot * >
! Seven sets damack window cur
tains 200
Seven acts lace curtains TOO
Twenty-four oil paintings 2*jfoo
Four sets black walnut chamber
furniture 2,000
Four feather beds 100
Four spring mattresses........ 160
Sixteen pillows 100
Two tables 60
Miscellaneous household arti
cles, clockery, etc T 45
Total $810,435
This woman actually had the audacity
to ask Congressmen to pass this claim.
Day after day she used to sit in the
Speaker’s room of the House of Repre
sentatives and hold levees, surrounded
at times by dozens of respectable mem
bers, on whom she would use her un
usual powers of fascination. Tears and
smiles, wit and pathos, were ready at
her command, and her personal charms
were displayed lavishly. Nor cbd she
confine herself to the Speaker’s room at
the Capitol. Her parlors at the hotel
were the reaort of prominent politicians,
some the subjects and others the objects
of Congressional scheming. But after
a time her indiscretions made her sus
pected, aud her intimates in public life
sought her less openly. After having
glutted themselves with her fascinations,
Congressmen would avoid her, bat she
pursued them to the Capitol and be
came tbe bane of many a statesman’s
life. Many interesting scandals might
be related that occurred daring her resi
dence here, but I have do desire to ex
pose the weaknesses of the legislator.
The latter part of the Winter she be
came so notorious that she was not
allowed to live at any of the hotels, and
she took private rooms and began a sys
tem of blackmailing, fleecing many who
bad been intimate with her out of large
sums of money.
When Summer came she went to
Long Branch and Cape May, and until
her true character became known was
the center of masculine attraction. Her
dashing bathing costume is said to have
fascinated the bachelor heart of Samnel
J. Tilden, and she was the recipient of
lavish favors at his hands. If rumors
can be credited, his acquaintance with
tbe adventuress was an expensive luxury.
Last Winter she remained here for a
short time, bnt her appearance of re
spectability no longer served her as
capital. Her departure was a solid grati
fisation to several eminent men.
Her last escapade was at Cape May
with a married man, a merchaut of
wealth aud high social position in
Philadelphia, who deserted hfs family
and associated with her publicly there.
His friends interfered, induced him to
leave her and return to his home and
business, and she wreaked her revenge
by having him arrested recently for
robbing her, so that when tho case came
into Court lie was exposed to public
disgrace.
THE RATTLE OK tIKTTVSIII’HtI.
Some More of f’olonel Tnylor’a niinatale
meuh Corrected.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Col. Taylor, iu the Thursday morn
ing’s issue of your paper, is made to say
that “ Pickett’s command alone entered
the enemy’s lines at the battle of Get
tysburg;” and on Sunday morning,
General Lee’s report sa.ts that “Mc-
Laws’ division fell back.” Both these
statements do injustice to MeLaws’
division, as I will show. The order of
attack that, came to me was that General
Barksdale’s (Mississippi) brigade, which
was on the right of Hill’s corps, should
attack the enemy's battery placed on the
enemy’s left on Cemetery Hill, to be
supported by Wofford’s brigade of
Georgia troops. When the order for
the advance was given, Barksdale’s
brigade charged and took the battery ;
but, owing to the long distance charged
i by General Lee’s report, three-quarters
of [j mile), tho exhaustion of tho men
and the loaa of killed and wounded in
making the assault, the enemy’s re
serves retook their guns, leaving General
Barksdale mortally wounded at the bat
tery he had just taken and lost. Had
Wofford’s brigade supported Barksdale
and been ready to meet the advance of
the enemy’s reserve, the battery taken
would have beep bold.
Wofford’s brigade, by some misunder
standing of the orders to support Barks
dale, was hurried by a double quick
step into the line of battle, which was
some distance in advance, owing to the
belief of the Colonels of the brigade
that they were to support Barksdale ;
apd jvhen this brigade struck the
enemy they (the enpmy) were disor
ganized and retreating, pp much so that
they threw up their hands aud hats, and
twice I ordered the Sixteenth Georgia
to cease firing on them. Their com
manding officers twice rallying a small
number pf their men, they opened fire
upon us, when \ ordered my men to
fire and continue to fire until we were
engaged hand to hand with tbe enemy’s
cofoji gtjafd—jpeu of the Cobb Jje
eiou and the Bi?teeptb Georgia
lighting for the colors, which
were eventually taken by a man
of the Cobb Legion.. We killed ten or
twelve men before the flag was taken
After this contest there was no enemy
in Ronf t)f the Sixteenth, only a battery
of four pieces pbpfß two hundred and
fifty yards in our front, frqm jvhich the
enemy had been driven.
The position, then, of the Sixteenth
Georgia and the Cobb Legion was a lit
tle in the rear of the enemy’s lines aud
Cewetpiy Rill, and on our left of the
Round Top Mouptafn. with no force of
tlje enemy on Round (XStjngse
curely behind a stppe wall, and they re
mained thus until ordered to retire by
Gen. Longstreet, From this it is plain
that Col. Taylor is mistaken as to Pick
ett’s being the only men that penetrated
the enemy’s lines, for Barksdale was
killed their works, and the Sixteenth
Georgia and Legion took a flag
from the bands of tfie calor bearer of
the enexny iu a hand-to-hand And
if lieu. Leo, when he says tjiait MoLaws’
division full bach, that pey were
driven back by the enemy, hp hhfc u . ow '
iugly did injustice ho McLffWS' division.
I believed at the time 1 was ordered to
fall back, aud now, after reading all the
reports that have recently appeared on
the biitje of Gettysburg, that had
Simms’ aud Wofford’s Brigades held
their positions, weoould night have
occupied the Round Top Mouutajn i'ith
Confederates, aud thus held the Jcey of
the pewitfiju. J say there was no strong
force of tho enemy on tjio Round Top,
for if there had been the poaitfou of the
Sixteenth Georgia aud Cobb Legion
would have been untenable, for the
stoue wall behind which they were rest
ing was Hanked by the hill and would
ha-v.o been a very unsafe restiug place.
The truth fa that Pickett’s command
never fought at ail pn the second day’s
fight. Mr. J, A. Anderson, & ier of
Longstreet, aud now editor of the Cov
ing &tar, was sent back twenty miles on
the seooud day, to hurry up General
command, and I presume Col.
Taylor, in report, must refer to the
third day’s tiglif; IJoefE Bryan,
THE FRENCH STATESMAN.
Tiie Mea* Ex-l’resldcnl—M. Tliior*’ I‘rivule
i.lle—A Horrible Story, If True—Married
Hi III* Diujufer-Uii Mode ot Living.
(A r ia York Herald.]
Let us see how far this unceremoni
ously btrong worded verdict is justified
by facts. First of all, what Dr. Karl
Miuf sllndes to in sayiugthat the “pri
vate life,of M. Thiers is as infamous as
hi public life is uflious,” is this : WheD
M. Thiers was yom'g fle fejl (as fall a
vast majoriiy of Frenchmen, iff loye
with a married woman of the name of
Mrue. Dosne, the wife of a stock broker.
This lady had a daughter by her hus
band, and had, by aud by, ono by M.
Tit tors. The relation between the lovers
asted as Jjoag as the lady lived, and, so
o'*, M. Tt'iers was, according to certain
no ton* of tho French', tojAfl/cl IpaD ‘
In countries where, as in Franco, there
is no divorce, mistakes wbiob are made
by young people who marry sod see
after a abort time that they are not fit
for one anotfle*, have no other escape
than that oi a anbseqtumt concubinage
with someone else; Had' M. Thiers
merely eloped with the wife of .the 1 Stock
broker, no one in Frauec would proba
bly have had anything to say against M.
Thiers or Mme. Dosne; but what he is
accused of now is, first of all, that he
always remained in business transac
tions with the tiusUpffuJ of his mistress.
From the time that be ynSiS into
-power with the accession of Louis Fhit
lipjto the throne of prance, he took
advantage of the patjiiuaj information
he possessed, communicated it to the
stock broker, and gave him tlms the
chauee of speculating at the Stock Ex
change with full security of success. Of
course, the profits which the stock bro
ker realized were shared by M. Thiers,
and it to chiefly in this way that the for
tune of the Dosne family and of M.
Thiers himself has been made. Further
more, long before lime, Dosne died, M.
Thiers, with a view to secure to his ille
gitimate daughter his name and his for
tune, married his own {fluid. This scan
dalous fact is known in France by any
one who knows anything' of M. Thiers,
in justification of whom, however, it
must be said tflaf it jvas always believed,
eveu by bis enemies, that fle neyer had
with his wife any of tfie relations im
plied by the marriage. It seems to have
been a purely practical trick oaleulated
to secure the happiness of his illegiti
mate offspring. The young Mme. Thiers
was left at fall liberty to live as she
liked, and the haHdsome woman is
known to have taken fall advantage of
this privilege, ft was in allusion to this
fact that, when M. Thiers began to
assume power over France and to speak
of his patriotism, jocular people called
h:m “The father of France and of his
wife.”
As the details of the lifes of men m
prominence are often falsified, and, ac
cordingly, questioned by the public at
large, this fact miaht also be regarded
as an invention. In the well known res
idence of M. Thieps, in the Place St.
Georges, there was a part of the house
crammed with all sorts of most valuable
antiquities and works of art, to which
Madame Thiers never had access. Peo
ple who enjoved the intimacy of M.
Thiers, knowing that only himself and
Mile. Dosne had access to that ware
house of treasures, used t make end
less comments as to whether M. Thiers
and Mile. Dosne were studying art or
studying love in that retreat.
This part of M. Thier’s life being put
aside, the figure of the little President
appeared in qnite a different and rather
an attractive light; for when out of the
political arena M. Thiers was always
one of the most pleasant of men. Full
of wit and spirits, he had little of that
noisy and frivolous verbiage which is
characteristic of the French nation. His
learning and knowledge were something
marvelous, as was his industry and en
ergy. During the whole of his past life
it scarcely ever occurred to him to live
in the fashion of his Parisian fellow
citizens. The rising sun was always
sure to find M. Thiers at work, and it
was a p-lagne to his subordinates and
Ministeis to keep the appointments
which M. Thiers made for them, for
when any particular business was to be
transacted M. Thiers seldom appointed
for it any other hour than of six or
seven in the morning.
•M . ■
RAPES REVENGED.
Lynch Lew in Georgia—A Negro Lynched
in Miller County.
Ths Miller county correspondent of
the Early County News writes as fol
lows: “Iu last week’s issue of this paper
we made mention of an attempted rape
by a negro, John Mills, upon the person
of a white girl in this county. On last
Monday he was captured in Baker
county by Mr. W. Joiner, who conveyed
information of tbe arrest to the sheriff
of this county. On last Tuesday the
prisoner was brought to Colquitt by
Sheriff Sheffield. The prisoner had a
committal trial before the Judge of the
County Court, where he confessed his
guilt. In default of a bond for his ap
pearance at the Superior Court, he was
confined in the jail. On the night of
the same day some unknown persons
broke the jail, took the prisoner there
from, carried him a half mile from Col
quitt. and hung him to a joist of the
new (unfinished) colored church, where
he was found on Wednesday morning.
An inquest was held by Judge Morton,
acting coroner of said county. The ver
dict of the jury was: ‘We, the j my, find
deceased, John Mills, came to his death
by being suspended by a rope from the
joist of the unfinished colored church,
in said county, by the hands of some
person or persons unknown to ns.’ ”
Another Lynching in Brook* County.
[Quitman Reporter.]
Ou last Wednesday Mr. John Wilson,
who lives just across the Florida line,
about twelvo or thirteen miles below
Quitman, went away from home to work
the road, leaving his wife and sister at
home alone. Late iu tho evening Mrs.
Wilson went out to the lot to feed the
mules, when she was confronted by one
Elbert Jackson, a young negro man
who had been picking cotton on the
place, and who rushed upon her with a
demand that at once horrified and
frightened her. As tho villain attempt
ed to force her to tho ground for the
purpose of accomplishing his brutal de
sign, Mrs. Wilson screamed and called
her sister, who was in the house, to
come to her assistance, and bring the
pistol. The young lady responded
promptly, and the negro, seeing her ap
proaching with the pistol in hand, de
sisted and quietly walked away. Upon
liearing of the outrage, sorno fifteen or
tweuty men got together the next day
and went in search of Elbert, and found
him picking cotton in the field of Mr.
Jack Childers, on the Georgia side of
the line, but not more than two and a
half miles from where ho had made tho
bold and outrageous attempt of the
evening before. At tbe first sight of
the men he fled. He sought escape in a
swamp near by, but he had been appre
hended in this, and ran right into the
midst of a half a dozen or more men.
He was ordered to stop, but continued
to run until he was shot, three buck
shot entering his side. He then sur
rendered and started off in charge of
his captoia, bqt soon darted out of the
road into another swamp. He was
closely followed, and pretty soon a great
noise which sounded like guns was
heard. Right hero it is best, perhaps,
that we should let the curtain fall. We
will only add that Elbert Jackson will
never attempt to outrage another wo
man.
JUDGE DAVIS? SEAT,
Tins 111 nil Wliu Sliouhl Fill It—Jlerscliel V.
J oiln*ou—YVlmt Does the Georain Delega
tion Sny '<
[ Correspondence Chronicleand Constitutionalist]
Sandersville, September 10.—On my
way to this flourishing and beautiful
inland city so much of late beautified
and'improved by (ler substantial aud
enterprising merchant's and artizans, I
was rejoiced to see the prospects of good
crops and plenty in the counties of Burke,
Jefferson and Washington. Occasionally
the weeds and grass seem to have got
ten tropi neglect of culture the advant
age,' and now a D fl tflpp dry sectipus may
be seen. At the beautiful and delight
ful JjOßje of ope of Georgia’s greatest
thinkers, purest statesmen, best patriots
and ablest constitutional lawyers,
whose intellect is still bright and
unclouded by age or any of the vices
inconsistent to a successful political
life, but who seems to be mentally in
the zenith of his greatness, it was my
good fortune to spend a day and night,
and although it was ay ii rs,: visit, such
(he cordial welcome extended by
this great nip.n and his noble, kind and
gentle wife that I could blit feel cpm
fortable and at home during my entire
stay, only regretting my seeming early
departure. In the future I know
memory will often recur to the kind and
generous hospitality of this great man
au<l poblc yoman. The large green old
majestic oaks that surround his beauti
ful mansion, with long avenues,
evergreen, shrubbery, beautiful flow
ers excellent peSc)) an 'l tipple
orchards still fAU of* delipfons fruits,
with large und numerous pears of every
variety, grapes and figs iu abundance,
clearly indicated to the writer that
greatness with provident care must re
side within. When on the hustings, iu
the Senate Chamber, iu the Court room,
on (he bench, you see and hear this
great ‘man, flis hi'flliaut majesty and
towering intellect display such efful
gent brightness and greatness that yon
are compelled involuntarily to exclaim
lie is a head and shoulder taller than
any of your modern statesmen who,
Tike enlighten only to dazzle—
this being tho pure, steady and bril
liant light of the situ at high paeridian.
Yet when you heard you had been favored
aud blessed. A richer aud greater bless
ing still remains for the appreciative
1 visitor when you sen hip) in his simplic
ity aronpd theliearfffstonc in his house,
in his orchards, ip his gardens, among
his domestics, but oue single person is
oallod up from memory, and that is no
less a person than the Father of his
country, at his Mount Vernon home, on
the banks of the grand old Potomac.
Whilst 1 have knowu Qoy, Johnson
from pjy boyhood days, and been Ta
miliar with his achievement? in contests
willt the giant intellects'of the nation, I
must coufess his qualities oi’ heart and
tastes, that alone can make true great
ness, were unknown to me until this, my
first, visit to bis magnificent home.
It has occurred to me that if Presi
dent Hayes be, as he seems to me, in
ekrnCst about reconciling the people of
this country and uniting qs &and a nation,
with full confidence in every department
of the Government, Governor Johnson
can give more strength aud aid to this
feeling in the entire South, and perhaps
the West, than any now living man. The
Douglas pemocracy of the West, the
true men of the {south, before, during
and since our unfortunate war, of every
color, would certainly feel the fullest
confidence not only in Jiis own action,
but in his power and influence
over his associates for every good.
is an honest man in any sense of
that word, as understood by the strict
est sects of moralist, t>* yeflgionists,
He is a true and devoted Jffan
to every interest of this now vast and
growing Republic, and keeps himself
fuliy up to all healthy progression. He
is one, if not the best, posted men in
this Government in her history, both as
to the creation of government and its
practices since its organization. He un
derstands perfectly its organic law, with
its numerous judicial constructions, both
the principles of our Government and
the great principles of truth and justice
that insures rights of both person and
property with their fullest enjoyment
and protection, are familiar to him. It may
be said of him that he has been a life long
Democrat, yet his promotion to the Su
preme Court Bench will be no triumph
of Democracy nog defeat of Republicans.
If the Georgia Republicans—at least
that poor and unfortunate class who
need most the protecting influence of
Courts and law-could speak, I doubt not
he could be made their Chief Justice.
What the country needs is peace and
confidence in onr government, perpetui
ty and full protection for every consti
tutional right and privilege of person
and property. To this triumph all pa
triots can say : God speed the day ! On
the Bench I know he would have no par
tisan feelings or bias. Asa citizen of
Georgia, if he should so will, no party
can be builded up on the ruins of the
Democratic party, nor can any man use
it to promote his own personal ambi
tion. If our people could and would ask
a united effort of our entire delegation
and State organisation, I doubt not Gov.
Johnson wonld fill the vacant seat of
Jndge Davis on the Supreme Court
Bench. Let ns try it. G.
Baby carriages are intended to keep
the bawl of the domestic, affection roll
ing.
CONDITION OF TIIE CROPS.
THH CROPS IN GEORGIA AND
THE SOUTH.
.Monthly Report of the State Department of
Agriculture—The Corn Crop—Cotton—Su
gar Cane—Peas, Potatoes, Klee aud Tar
nip*.
The following report for the month of
August has been issued by ths State
Department of Agriculture :
Corn.
The average condition and prospect
of corn in North Georgia is reported at
103—exactly the same as reported for
June and July. This is the only section
of the State in which over an average
crop has been produced. In Middle,
Southwest and East Georgia, there has
been a very decided falling off since first
of August—amounting to 9 per cent., or
80 against 89 one month ago, in Middle
Georgia ; 5 per cent., or 67 against 72,
in Southwest Georgia ; and 9 per cent.,
or 79 against 88, in East Georgia. In
Southeast Georgia the prospeot is un
changed. The general average prospect
for the State, on the Ist September was
81.7 against 89.8 per cent. Ist August.
The prospect September Ist, 1876, was
106, and September 15th, 1875, 85 per
cent, of an average.
It is evident from these estimates that
the supply of corn for next year will be
deficient.
Cotton.
There has been a general falling off in
the prospect throughout the State, vary
ing greatly in the different sections, viz:
In North Georgia 2 per cent., or 91
against 93; in Middle Georgia, 4 per
cent., or 76 against 80;.in Southwest
Georgia, 7 per cent., or 73 against 80;
in East Georgia, 12.4 per cent., or 75.6
against 88; iu Southeast Georgia, 1 per
cent., or 91 against 92. The general
average for the State was 79 on the Ist
September, against 68.6 on Ist August.
Iu North Georgia, the complaint is com
mon that cotton is “ late, some rust;”
in Middle Georgia, “ drouth, and some
rust;” iu Southwest Georgia, almost uni
versally, “rust and drouth;” and in
Thomas, Decatur, Early and Dougherty
counties, in addition, "caterpillars.”
The crop will certainly be short.
Any difference between the esti
mates now and the final yield must
he attributed chiefly to error in the for
mer, since it is too late in the season for
tho recent rains—which perhaps have l
been general—to effect more than secure
the present estimates. During the pre
valence of a long drouth and under its
discouraging influence farmers generally
over estimated the injury to the cotton
crop. Still, the complaint of injury from
rust aud drouth are so general—well
nigh universal iu large cotton producing
sections of the State—and the cotton
being generally late in North Georgia,
the final yield will probably not exceed
three-fourths of au average crop.
Sugar ('nuo, Etc.
Tho prospect for this crop is inferior,
except iu Southeast Georgia, where it is
reported at 97. This section has been
favored with more abundant rains dur
the whole growing season than any other,
and tho crops of all kinds more generally
good.
Field peas, sweet potatoes and sor
ghum are generally inferior, exoept in
North and Southeast Georgia. The gen
eral average for the State is, for field
peas, 87; sweet potatoes, 77 ; sorghum,
91.
Rice.
In Southeast Georgia, the only seo
tion producing this cereal in consider
able quantity, the yield is 96 per cent,
of an average. In the other sections
the reports refer chiefly to upland rice.
The general average prospect and yield
is 82 per cent. The culture of upland
rice in Georgia should receive more at
tention. The want of a cheap machine
for cleaning the rough grain is the only
drawback on its general cultivation to
supply the homo consumption.
The seasons have been very unfavor
able for securing stands of turnips. It
is not too late to sow even now, and ad
vantage should be taken of the rains
during September to put in crops of the
harder varieties, such as Yellow Aber
deen and Seven Top, for Winter use,
manuring very highly and cultivating
rapidly.
The Crop in LoiiiMiunn, ftlisßissippi, Arknn
apd South Carolina.
New Orleans, September 9.—The
National Cotton Exchange has received
from the New Orleans department the
following crop report for August:
Louisiana—From thirty-two parishes
in this State we have sixty-nine replies
of the average date of August 31 st.
They report the weather generally too
hot and dry and somewhat less favor
able than last year. The plant has
fruited well, bqt extremely hot and dry
weather had caused it to shed badly in
tbe hills and slightly in the bottoms.
The condition as compared with last
year varies with locality. In the river
parishes it is decidedly better, while in
the interior it is not so gooff. Picking
had commenced auff would be general
by September 10th and 15th. The
worms had appeared iu nearly every
parish and had done serious injury in
Rapides and Aroyelles. In other par
ishes the injury was slight to the date
of our replies, but the worms were eat
ing and increasing rapidly in number.
The injury by shedding is very serious
aud generally complained of in our re
plies.
From Mississippi tye baye receiyed
eighty-five reports from twenty-nine
counties, dated from August 28th to
September 4th. The weather early in
August was rather too dry with cold
nights. Iu the latter part of tho month
there was more raiD, generally favorable
to the growth of cotton, more so than at
the same time last year. Cotton has
fruited well, but lias not retained its
squares and bolls, particularly on hill
lands, where much complaint of shed
ding is reported. The Condition
compares favorably with last year, bnt
the plants being backward and worms
having appeared, nearly everywhere,
fears are entertained of their doiug con
siderable damage. So far the injury
from worms is very slight. Numerous
complaints of rust are made. Picking
has commenced in many counties and is
expected to bo general by the 10th or
15th of September.
From Afkaffsas 'we nave received forty
one replies from twenty-five counties of
tbe average date of August 81. The
weather during the month has been less
favorable. The plant is well fruited,
but we have a general complaint of
drouth, with heavy shedding and rust,
and the present condition of the crop is
about the same as last year, then
was not good. Very little'picking has
been done so far. It will becorno gen
eral about the Jstih jps{aht.
have pflt in Aw ' ju 'Afflry
county, bqt no damage ?s reported as
yet,
New York, September 9. —The report
of the Charleston Exchange for August,
compiled from ninety-three replies, cov
ering all the counties of South
is as iuhows : Tho weather is reported
as favorable by eighteen, the fivsv part
favorable, and sinoe' hot 1 and dry by six
ty-five. Compared to August of last
year, which was unfavorable for cotton,
nineteen report this season more favor
able, twenty-seven same and forty-seven
as less favorable. Cotton was fruiting
weli, though two weeks late when the
present drouth began. This had caused
rust and the general shedding of squares
ar.d young bolls, and the present condi
tion is reported by over half of the cor
re pondents as being worse than last
year at the same time. At the general
date of the replies, September 1, a little
picking was going on, mostly in cotton
forced open by rust. Picking will be
general ;;i the lower part of the State
about the loth, and ifa the upper part
about the 20th instant. Worms have
appeared in six counties, bnt so far have
done little or no damage to cotton. The
drouth, which is reported from all sec
tions of the State, seems to be doing
more injury, from the crop being back
wap! and the plant full of sap when it
begajfl'
leorifia’(* Cot toil Crop—Ciood Crop In Upper
Georgia—Last Year’s Yield Exceded There
—PeterinK Out in Counties*— Rust
and Shedding in the Southwest.
Savannah, September 10. —The follow
ing report for August was issued this
morning by the Cotton Exchange of
Georgia: The weather has been very
favorable in certain sections of the
State, while in others very unfavorable,
during the past month. The plant is
fruiting well, except where it is affected
by rust or sheddiDg. In upper Georgia
the condition of the crop is generally
very good, and the yield promisee to ex
ceed that of last year. In Middle Geor
gia the condition of the orop daring the
past two weeks has been gradually bnt
surely failing. In Southwest Georgia
complaints of shedding and rust are very
general, and the prospect compares very
unfavorably with last year. Picking
will become general from the sth to the
15th September, according to the locali
ty; while there are reports ol worms
from the lower tier of counties, no dam
age has resulted from them. The plant
is two weeks behind last year, and is
small where rnst has appeared. It is
opening very rapidly.
Heary Rains in Florida—Two Months Be
hind Hand—Worms in Sight.
The weather has been favorable the
past month, tbongh some injury has re
sulted from several heavy rainfalls. The
plant is ten days behind last year, and
is frmtiug well, but in some localities it
is shedding. The condition of the crop
is better than last year, though there is
serious apprehension from rnst. Pick
ing has become general in this State.
Worms have appeared in several conn-
ties, bat the damage from them will be
slight.
The Staple in Texas—Fruiting Well—AFall-
Ofl Evident la the Crop.
Galveston, September 10.—The Cot
ton Exobange crop report says the char
acter of the weather, since the first of
August, has been favorable in 13 conn
ties. unfavorable in 3, and dry and hot
in 47. The weather, as compared with
last year’s, has been more favorable in 8
connties, less favorable in 35 and the same
in 70. The plant is fruiting well, retaining
its squares and bolls in 16 counties, but
not fruiting well and shedding in 47.
The condition of the crop at present is
good in 14 aDd poor in 49 counties and
compares with last years as follows :
Sixteen counties report the same, 18 a
decrease of 25 per cent., 26 a decrease
of 50 per cent., while three northern
connties report an increase of 101 per
cent. Picking has commenced all over
the State and will become general about
the 10th of September. Worms have
appeared in 51 counties damaging six
counties’ 25 per cent., 10 counties 33$
percent., 21 counties 50 percent., and
six counties 75 per cent., while eight
counties report no damage.
Yirjiinin and North Carolina—Unfavorable
Weather—Too Much Weed and Two Utile
Fruit.
Nokfolk, Va., September 10.—Report
of the Cotton Exchange on the con
dition of the cotton crop: Forty-five
reports from 27 connties in North Caro
lina and Virginia were had. Forty re
port the weather during August un
favorable, being very rainy early in the
month and afterward very dry. Five
report the weather as favorable, thirty
not favorable as last year and 15 report
the weather about the same or better
than last year. Thirty-nine report cot
ton not fruiting well and shedding, six
report the crop fruiting well, 37 report
the condition of the crop not us good,
three better and five about the same as
last year. Picking will not be general
nntil the 20th and 25th of September.
Worms are reported in four counties,
but no damage. The crop is fully two
weeks later. The excessive rains in
July and early in August gave unusual
growth of weed with but little fruit and
the drouth siuco has caused shedding
and rust.
Alabnmn and Dlii*fci*Mippi—Crops Sliglilly Be
low l.aNt Year— Drouth Docn flic Work On
All Hands—No Worms Tills Year.
Mobile, September 10.—The Mobile
Cotton Exchange crop report for August
says : In Alabama, from forty-five coun
ties, 114 letters were read. The weather
during August has been generally very
dry; occasional showers have fallen in a
few localities. It has been more favor
able than during same period last year.
Cotton has fruited well and retained its
squares and bolls in lowlands, but there
has been considerable shedding iu up
lands, caused by dry, warm weather and
rust. The present condition of the crop
though not as good as at the date of our
last report, is better than at this time
last year. Pickiug has commenced, and
will become general from 10th to 15th
September. No complaint of damage to
crop by worms, but drouth aud rust
have materially depreciated the pros
pect of August first.
Mississippi—From twenty counties
fifty-seven letters have been received.
Weather since first c-f August similar to
that of last year, has been very dry.
There are general complaints that cotton
plants have not fruited well. The pres
ent oouditiou of the crop is little less fa
vorable than at this date last season.
A few worms have appeared, but have
done no damage; some injury, however,
has been sustained by rust. Picking
has commenced, but will not become
general before the middle of September.
PABKKIW REMORSE.
Tlie Escaped Slate Treasurer of South Caro
linn Mukes n Sorrowful Confession—lm
portant Disclosures.
[Chicago Times New York Telegram, Sept. 9. |
The World will print to-morrow a long
and detailed statement or confession
made by Niles G. Parker, ex-State Trea
surer of South Carolina, but at present
living in Jersey City, in which he makes
startling charges of corruption against
ex-Governors Moses, Chamberlain and
Scott, United States Senator Patterson,
Financial Agent Kimpton, and other
members of the ring which plundered
the Palmetto State of millions. Parker
frankly acknowledges his own guilt in
all this, since it appears by his state
ment that most of the stolen moneys
were paid out by him in his official ca
pacity. He is now under indictment,
and professes his sorrow for his crimes
and readiness to go to South Carolina
for trial. His statement, if substan
tiated, will confirm the former charges
against Pattepson, and doubtless lead to
the indictment of Chamberlain. They
are corroborated by a voluminous array
of figures, dates, oircumstanees, etc., iu
which the connection of Gov. Chamber
lain with the fraudulent issue of bonds
seems, made clear. Parker’s motive for
making the oonfession is given by him
self in his refusal to be made the scape
goat for the crimes of his allies.
In the course of this confession and
arraignment of his ring partners, Mr.
Parker says: “I don’t wish to say any
thing which may appear like a personal
attack upon Mr. Chamberlain, though I
acknowledge that I have been offended
by his treatment of me. I dp, object,
however, to being niajje tfif) scape goat
of thp ring, apd } am by no means
willing ihat Chamberlain and Kimpton
should foist off any of their load upon
my shoulders. I am tired of hearing
what Parker did, and how he acted in
this transaction, and that when I knew
that my share in the unquestionable
doings of the ring, from 1868 to 1874,
was no greater, to say the least, than
the other members with whom I acted.
During these six years tfie corruption
aud pecplntjop increased yearly, and it
is idle to attempt to palliate or deny it.
If the present investigation in South
Carolina is pushed, the extent of the
corruption will be laid bare, and all who
were parties to it will be brought to
judgment, I wish it to be understood
that I do not shrink from this investi
gation. I desire, rather, that it be
made as thorough and searching as pos
sible, and I am ready to fiold uiyself re
sponsible jibr my sharp in it.
“For Chamberlain and Kimpton to
deny that they were privy to what was
goiug on is simply ridiculous. Some
things undoubtedly Chamberlain had
no hand in directly, though they were
done directly under his nose, and he
must have known about them. In otfi- |
er transactions his naqip nos appear,
but thare cap fie no question tb?t lie was
concerned In t‘hem in some way. In
other cases still hp yeaped a direct bene
fit from liiei pa-operations. Take the
case qftfie Marine aud River Phosphate
MinitJg Company. The ‘shady’ transac
tions connected with the management
of this company and the bills lobbied
through the Lee->'“’' a ' turo f or it ß "benefit
“l - " quire generally known. Iha meas
ures by which tfie interests of its stock
holders were subserved in the Legisla
ture have been published in the Charles
ton papers; but Chamberlain’s con
m ction wirli it has not heretofore been
stated. The stock of the company
was owned largely by members of
the riDg, and Chamberlain held one
fifth of it. It was 8500,0Q0t, I believe,
in all ; so that Cfiamherlain's share of
the stock was $82,000. Tim Hurley,
Chamberlain’s right hand man and the
Treasurer of Charleston county, lobbied
the bills for its benefit through the
Legislature. Then there was the Green
ville and Columbia Railroad. The bills
in connection with the road were noto
riously disreputable. The capital stock
was held in twelve shares, I think, of
$25,000 each, Spott, ijengle, Patteyson,
Chamberlain, Cardona, Kimpton, Hur
ley, Crews and myself were stockholders.
I know, also, that Chamberlain received
$2,000 direct for his connection with the
transaction, which I do not care to yet
make public. It was the same transac
tion alluded to in the letter which Elliott
read in the last nominating convention.
He rose in his seat, brandishing this let
ter, and threatening to make its contents
public. An agreement was thereupon
patched up between him and Chamber
lain, and he made the least of his pre
vious threats against him.”
Toombs for Governor.
[Columbus Enquirer .]
Already the journals are speaking of
candidates for the position of Governor
of Georgia. Hon. Thomas Hardeman
appears to be adopting the mode pur
sued by Governor Colquitt, by becom
ing President of the Georgia Agricultu
ral Society. Hon. J. H. James takes
the example of Governor Smith, and is
reaching for the high position through
a legislative reputation. We have
thought it would show a proud and just
appreciation of General Toombs to ele
vate him to the chief executorship, that
he might carry out the provisions of the
Constitution, the most important fea
tures of which are of his own framing.
In point of intellect he has not a peer
in the State, and though often rash in
speech, in counsel his actions are gov
erned by wisdom, justice and modera
tion. It would be a fitting and appro
priate tribute to make him the first
Governor under the new Constitution.
A Singular Case.
A few evenings since, as the fast train
of the Macon and Augusta Railroad was
approaching the city.it struck a cow near
the three mile post. When the train
reached the city the conductor examin
ed the cow catcher and found several
pieces of rope on it. This satisfied him
that the cow was tied on the track.
Mew Advertisements.
FIRSTDOSE
OX A BOSTON POLICE OFFICER.
Boston, November 16,1871.
H. R. Stevens:
Dear Sir—ln the Spring of 1869 I was sti tok
en down with fever, wh ch had a long and al
most hopeless run. The best medical advice
being in attendance, I was taken through the
fever; but it left me terribly reduced and
weak, with excruciating pains in my side, back
and hips. I was completely prostrated with
Kidney Complaint, and no medioine seemed to
reach iny case.
In this condition I was persuaded to try Yeg
etine by a friend whom it cure! of the same
disease, and it seemod as though I could feel
the effect of the first dose through my whole
system: and from that moment I began to
mend, gradually growing better from day to
day; and I followed on with the Vegetine,
until it completely restored me to health,
since which time I have been able to perform
my duties as a police officer, enjoying good
health; and there is no doubt about "the great
value of Vegetine in Kidney Complaint and
similar diseases. lam. sir. respectfully.
LAFAYETTE FORD, 564 Broadway.
All Diseases of the Blood.
If Vegetine will relieve pain, cleanse, purify
and cure such diseases, restoring the patient
to perfect health after trying different physi
cians, inary remedies, suffering for years, is it
not conclusive proof, if you are a sufferer, you
can he cured ? Why is this medicine perform
ing such great cures ? It works in the blood,
in the circulating fluid. It can truly be called
the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIF.K. The great
source of disease originates in the blood : and
no rued cine that does not act directly upon it,
to pnrifv and renovate, has any jnst claim
upon public attention.
Seventy-one Years of Age.
East Makshfield, August 22, 1870.
Mb. Stevens :
Dear Sir—l am seventy-one years of age;
have suffered many years with Kidney Com
plaint, weakness in my hack and stomach. I
was induced by friends to try your Vegetine,
and I think it the host medicine for woakness
of the kidneys I ever used. I have tried many
remedies for this complaint, and never found
so much relief as from the Vegetine. It
strengthens and invigoiates the whole sys
tem. Many of my acquaintances have taken
it, and I believe it to no good for all the com
plaints for which it is recommended.
Yours truly, JOSIAH H. SHERMAN.
Would Give a Dollar fora Dose.
Boston, May 30, 1871.
H. R. Stevens, Esq. :
Dear Sir—l iiavo boon badly afflicted with
Kidney Complaint for ton years; have suffered
great pain in my back, hips and side, with
groat difficulty in pa-sing urine, which was of
ten aud in very small quantities, frequently
accompanied with blood and excrutiatiug pain.
I have faithfully tried most of tlie popular
remedies rocommouded for my complaint; I
have been under the treatment of some of the
most skillful physicians in Boston, all of whom
pronounced my caso incurable. This was my
condition wlion I was advised by a friend to
try the Vegetine, and I could see tlie good ef
fects from the first dose I took, and from that
moment 1 kept on improving until I was en
tirely cured, taking in all, I should think,
about six bottles.
It is indeed a valuable medicine, and if I
should ho afflicted again in the same way I
would givo a dollar for a dose, if I could not
got it without.
Respectfully, J. M. GILE,
361 Third St., South Boston.
LIFE A BURDEN.
Boston, November 2, 1873.
H. B. Stevens, Esq.:
Dear Sir—From a poor, emaciated sufferer,
the Vegetine lias restored me to perfect
health.
I have for yoars beon a terrible sufferer from
Canker and Dyspepsia, at times rendering life
almost a hurdon to mo. lam now fifteen (15)
pounds heavier than when I commenced the
use of Vegetine.
I will make mention that I was also a great
sufferer from Kidney Complaint, causing ex
cruciating pain through the small of the back
neatly all of the time. This, too, Vegetine
has cured, and lam now a perfect picture of
health, and 1 will add, happiness—all caused
from the use of a few bottles of Vegetine.
Respectfully, H. G. HUGHES,
i Union Place. Biston, Mass.
Vegetine is composed of Roots, Barks and
Herbs. It is very pleasant to take ; evory
child likes it.
Vegetine is Sold By All Druggists.
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AUGUSTA MUSIC Will
IN COMPETITION WITH
NEW YORK BOSTON !
■■ow ■ KICES UICK^^ALES
G. 0. ROBINSON & CO.
IN addition to tl.eir city trade, sold in the
months of
MAY AND JUNE. 1877:
1 Piano, Shipped to
Milford, New Hampshire.
2 Pianos Edgefield fo., 8,0.
2 ; Pianos McDuffie, Da.
2 Organs..... Washington, tia.
1 Piano Lincoln ( 0., Ga.
I Organ Madison, Ga.
1 j Piano Columbia, S. C.
1 i Organ Millet, 8. ۥ
1 Piano JoluistouV, S, C.
1 i Organ Allendale, 8. C.
1 Piano, ,•. ..Lexington Cos,, 8. G.
1 Organ.... .Bel-Air, Ga.
1 Organ,,,. .Columbia, 8. €.
1 Organ Social Circle, Ga.
1 Piano Wa)itcsboro, Ga.
1 I Organ Sumter, S, C.
1 Organ GraniteyilU, 8. C.
1 0rgan,..,.. Bartow, Ga,
Of the above sales several were made in
DIRECT COMPETITION
With NEW YORK and BOSTON HOUSES,
THE LARGEST STOCK,
THE LLE.iiT MAKERS
and tho LOWEST PRICES
At tho AUOUSTA MUSIC HOUSE, 2C5 Eroad
Btr6 ° G. 0. ROBINSON & CO,
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WHEAT! WHEAT!
A, LL who desire the feat variety of SEED
JA- WHEAT pow known, suited to this
climate, will do well to call upon the under
signed soon. I havo the Purple Htem, Im
proved Ruat Proof, the Improved Fultz and
thejSenaca. These varieties, from past expe
rience, will make more per acre in our climate
thafi any other known.
Ilither of the abovo varieties will bo ship
ped! promptly, and in good order, tn applicants,
at *2 25 per busliel.
I aiso have a few bushels of the Finest Rust
Prcjof Oats known in this climate, of which I
witt dispose at $2 per bushel, shipped in good
order. No ap- licant pa get mp e than two
buLeis. as I wish as many planters as possible
to got the seed. In every ease tho money
must accompany the order. Try them.
NOAH SMITH,
Jefferson Cos., Ga.,
Post Office, Stellaville, Ga.
altjoubT 23d, 1877. aug24-w2*
COTTON MACHINERY,
LOWELL MACHINE SIP,
LOWiLL, MASS.,
Manufacturers of every description of
COTTON HMOT.
Of most approved patterns and with all recent
Improvements.
PAPER MACHINERY,
-ALSO-
Tnrlime Wtaetls, Shafting and Gearing,
Hydraulic Presses and Pumpsj
ELEVATORS, Ac., Ac.
Irf- |>|au for Cotton and Paper Mills.
Geo. Richardson, Supt.,
I.OWELL, MASS.
Wm, A. Burke, Treas.,
6 PEMBEBTON BQUABE, BOSTON.
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Free Tuition at the luirerslty.
THE undersigned will be pleased to exercise
liis power, as Senator, to nominate stu
dents for the College at Athens, Georgia, who
will not he charged tuition feee; S2OO r< qtured
for other necessary expenses P
JOHN T. SHEWMAKE.
aug!sdl-w4 Senator 18th DUtrict.
Wew AdvertlmementM.
To Wholesale Buyers
DRY OOODB.
We have now open and ready
for your inspection :
40 Gases Kentucky Jeans 9 all
prices.
40 Gases Bleached Shirtings, all
grades.
100 Bales Brown Shirtings, Drills,
Checks, Stripes, &c.
40 Cases Prints, Hosiery, No
tions, &c., &c.
The above goods have been bought from the Manufacturers direct,
thereby saving Agents’ Commissions, &c,, aud are no v offered to the
1 rade at less than New York Jobbers’ Prices.
JAS. A. GRAY & CO.
Receiving and Opening!
FALL AND WINTER GOODS
AT
The Fredericksburg Store
WE are now receiving our FALL and WINTER STOCK, which will soon ho complete in all
the Departments. Wo havo already opened Choice DRESS GOODS : have received
some of the best BLACK SILKS, at *1 and {it 25. over offered for the price. We are receiving
Beautiful CALICOES—Now Fall Styles—at 6J and He.; wide SHEETINGS and SHIRTINGS at
Eactory prices. FLANNELS, CASSIMERES, TWEEDS, KENTUCKY JEANS, NOTIONS ,Vc
and from this on will eontinno to receive daily Goods of Evory Description Suited to Uni Fail
and Winter Trade.
COSSETS!
OF ALL THE
EestMes
W E NOW HAVE
in stock the BEST
and Prettiest CORSET
at One Dollar ever of
fered for the money.
The Best Corset at 75c.
ever worn by any lady;
and at 25, 35, 40 and 50
cents Corsets that were
NEVER surpassed or
equaled in value for
the price, and to which
we re epect folly invite
the attention of the
ladies.
WHOLESALE ROOMS.
In our WHOLESALE ROOMS, on second and third floors, we havo a large assortment of
GOODS suited to the wants of the trade, and wo will make it to tho interest of Morcliants who
buy close for CASH, or on short timo, with good city acceptance, to givo that portion of our
Stuck an examination.
All aro invited to call and examine our GOODS, which will be shown with pleasure by com
petent aud pleasant Salesmen,
V. Richards & Bro.,
angl r >— tf CORNER HY THE PL4NTKKH’ HOTEL.
The Augusta Shoe House !
233 Broad Street, Opposite the Masonic Hall,
Will continue until the FIRST
OF OCTOBER. I would say to
parties who wish to buy cheap,
fine goods : Call early in the
month, before all the bargains are
gone. This month is positively
the last. Don’t forget it !
JOSIAH MILLER,
PBOPBI KTOIf .
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107 V.
FALL EXHIBITION OF DM BOOBS !
FOR THE
RICH AND FOR THE POOR I
AT
L. RICHARDS’,
309 Broad Street ( Augusta, Ga.
NEARLY OPPOSITE CONFEDERATE MONUMENT BASE.
X AM now receiving one of tho nicest and beat selected stocks I ovor had the pleasure of ox.
hibiting to the ladies of Augusta and vicinity, and for variety and cheapness and elegance oan
not be excelled, comprising everything usually found in a First Glass Dry Goods Htoro and
good many tilings that aro not. I respectfully invito tho ladies to call and examine and be
convinced.
To my conutry frionds would say that I continue to sond samplos when requested, and pay
expressage to their nearest depot when Goods aro ordered to the amount of $lO or over at re
tail.
Merchants visiting tho city would find it to their interest to call and examine my stock, as /
am offering thorn inducements in tho way of Kentucky Joans, Homespun, Prints, Ac. Re
spectfully, _ _ __
L. RICHARDS.
XK W FALL DRY GOODS!
W. T. ANDERSON Ac GO.
s* fiie Cawli Dry Goods House,”
•348 IIKOAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA.
WE ARE NOW RECEIVING DAILY, largo shipments of Fall Dry Goods, selected carefully
fur a First-class Retail and Jobbing Trade. City ami country merchants who intend
purchasing their Fall Stocks within tlie next few weeks should not fail to look over our Dress
Goods Flannel, Woolen and Domestic Departments.
’ We will open on TUESDAY MORNING, for the Jobbing trade :
10 Oases of Kentucky Jeans, from 8 to 52$c. per yaid.
6 Cases of new Fall Prints, fast colors and good styles, ssc.
28 Bales of Georgia Plaids at 7$ and up.
25 Bales of Sea Island, from 3sc. to yard wide at Cc.
10 Cases of Bleaching at 5,6, 7, 8 and 9c.
TO THE LADIES !
We have just opened a nioe line of Fall Prints, Ties, Hose, Corsets aud Kid Gloves.
THE PIONEERS OF THE LOW PRICE CASH SYSTEM,
W. T. ANDERSON & CO.
______ __„_____—————
Look Oil Hay InnuJit 1311, ail Oa.
New Goods Just imi at lie Hew store.
H. W. Landram, 268 Broad Street
-1 —rF NDOTTARTERS for first class goods for the Retail Trade—Bustles, Oor-
XX sets. Gloves, Hosiery, Ribbons, Ruches, &c. A fresh supply of the above
just received. i e a ohed Qods, all the best brands, at low prices ; new Fall
five^we^s. ladj^should 1 see them. No Humbug. Only try them-they
BPe Oo'unfry MeSnts can save money by calling at 268 Broad Street Lots of
new goods for the earlyHade to be sold at low pnces-Checks, Btnpes, Jeans, &c.
PERFECT FITTING i
COMFORTABL
L EVERY PAIR WARRANTED !
„„ 11. W. LANDRAM.
Real Estate Agency.
Special attention paid to the sale or purchase ol Town and
Country Property. Money borrowed and loans made on* Real
Estate. Special attention paid to the management and renting
of property. The undersigned having been requested by many
of their patrons to resume the Real Estate business, will, from
this’ date, devote the energies ot the concern to all business en
treated to them, and charges will be moderate.
JOHN J. COHEN & SONS.
Onr Bond, Stock Brokerage and Life and Fire Insurance will
be carried on as usual.
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