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QTfiromae and
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1877.
uo TO SLUP.
BT MABIA LOC EVE.
Thro' the derk boon, watching, planning ;
Waking, while the world is sleeping:
Trying herd to reed ther.dd'e,
All oar pillow wet with weepirg;
Lo, comes en enswer, like e lullaby ;
Oo to sleep, my child, leave it ell to me.
O, may we ever beer that voice,
When oar tired heads ere weaving
All vainly at the tangled threads
That cease as so much grieving;
Wondering, questioning, whet shell the end
be ?
Qo to sleep, my child, leave it all to me.
And when at last the useless strands
Are dropping from onr feeble hold,
Uay He weave them in a garment
That never, never shall grow old ;
Shotting down onr eyelids, whispering softly;
Oo to sleep, my ohild, lerve it all to me.
STRANGER*.
Frees ■ Yeees USi’i Anlesnyk Albacs.
Two streams, tbo' wide apart their eoeroe,
And wider, still their early coarse,
At last, if each event be right,
At last are destined to unite.
It matters not from whence they flow,
How far divided they may go.
How late they meet, how old they be,
Together they wil> seek the sea.
Two strangers led by seeming chance,
Toward each other may advance ;
For years unknowing and unknown,
By different paths tney each move on.
Home words at length they interchange,
Tliey cease to deem each other strange,
And ore the second greeting ends
They are, perhaps, already friends.
If one he mau, the other maid.
And neither be of love afraid,
These beings, once so far apart.
May now draw nigh, as heart to heart.
At last, the time becomes complete,
When lovers, like the waters, meet,
And they (ah could I say that we;
Oo on united to the sea.
Milner. Ga., February 14, 1875
NOVEMRKR.
When thistle-blows do lightly float
About the pasture height,
Aud shrills the hawk a parting note.
And creeps the frost at night,
Then hilly ho! though 1 sing so,
Aud whistle as I may,
There comes again the old heart pain
Through all the livelong day.
In high wind creass the leafless tree
And nods the fading fern ;
The knolls are dun as snow-clouds be,
Aud cold the sun doth burn ;
Then, ho, hollo! though calling so,
I cannot keep it down ;
The tears arise unto mine eyes,
Aud thoughts are chill and brown.
Far in the cedars' dusky stoles,
Where the sere ground-vine weaves,
The partridge drums funereal rolls
Above the fallen leaves ;
And hip, hip, ho ! though cheering so,
It stills no whit the pain ;
For drip, drip, drip, from bare branch-tip,
I hear the last year’s rain.
Ho drive the cold cows from the hill,
And call the wet sheep in;
And let their stamping clatter All
The barn with warming din.
And ho, folk, ho! though it is eo,
That we no more may roam,
We still will And a cheerful mind
Around the tire at home !
[O. J.. Clcvelaml, in Atlantic Monthly.
LOST.
A wild rose, by the wayside hung
Dew glittering, on the morning air
A pure ecarce conscious perfume flung ;
I looked, and found the flowret fair—
Ho fair 1 aought with sudden zest
To wear its heanty on my breast,
The trembling petals at my touch
A sweeter, subtler fragrance shed ;
'Tis strange I loved that flower ao much.
And—it was dead.
In that high mood when thought hath wiugs,
Aud duds alone its speech in song,
1 struck an old harp's slumbering strings,
And drew an idle hand along ;
Nor deemed the careless chords had caught
One life note that my Bpirit sought,
Till sudden on my startled ear
Ita dream-created accents woke,
I Alack ! I bought the rapture dear—
The string had broke.
I heard a wild bird on the shore.
Hinging a wild eong to the sea ;
And bold the burden that it bore,
And sweeter than all else to me—
CV> aweet, I caged the bird to hear
His magic minstrelsy more near.
Unladed, the captive’s swelling throat
In one sad song his whole soul asst;
Too welt I knew his loveliest note
Had been his last.
And yet while memory hath power
To count the hours too vainly spent
The fragrance of that faded flower,
That harp's last dying mUBio blent
With the wild bird's weird, death eong, will
Haunt every waiting moment still.
Teaching my heart the hitter coat
Of all the eye of hope hath seen,
Of all that life hath won aud lost—
That might have been.
I Tinsley's Mayarine.
m e w
IUY tllßh.
I.
A little corner with its crib,
A little mug, a spoon, a bib,
A little tooth so pearly white,
A little rubber ring to bite.
li.
A little plate all lettered round,
A little rattle to resound.
A litte creeping—see ! she stands !
A littlo step ’twist outstretched hands.
in.
A Uttlo doll with flaxen liair,
A little willow rocking-chair,
A little dress of richest hue,
A littlo pair of gaiters blue,
tv.
A tittle school day after day,
A "little sciioolma’am" to obey,
A little study—soon tis past,
A little graduate at last.
v.
A little muff for Winter weather,
A little Jockey-hat and feather,
A little sack with funny pockets,
A little chain, a ring and lookets.
VI.
A little while to dance aud bow,
A little escort homeward now,
A little party, somewhat late, {
A little lingering at the gate.
VII.
A little walk in leafy June,
A little talk while shines the moon.
A little reference to papa,
A little planning with mama.
VIII.
A little ceremony grave,
A little struggle to be brave,
A little cottage on a lawn,
A little k'ss—my girl was gone !
| John 8. A Daws: filovember St. Mlchola*.
I.UTKD AT LAST.
And eo he loves me, though they said
No lover e'er would oome to me.
That I should ne'er be wooed or wed,
Or uurse a child upon my knee;
They were so sure that 1 should miss
The woman's heritage of bliss.
And I, too, m the sad gray hours,
When through low clouds nosunlight shone,
And when the slow September showers
Seemed nature's tears for Hummer gone,
k muruurred with a long sad sigh,
“My Hummer also has gone by.
But now 1 know that what to me
3 Seemed Autumn rails* were showers of springi
Hummer has come, and now I ses
Love's sunlight brighten everything;
Ha aays he loves ms. and to-day
My year rolls hack to early May.
Mow did a come ? I ask of him :
He save my face is sweet and fair;
Aud vet’to me these eyes seem dim,
And ou this brow are Unee of care ;
But now these eyes shell yet be bright,
And once again this brow grow light.
He loves me ! loves me! I repeat
Tli* blest assurance every hour;
And now the wine of life is sweet
That vosterdav was sharp and sour;
Now 1 can drink, with spirit bold,
Love's nectar from a cup of gold.
I look through long alow-coming years.
Made hv bis love all bright and fair;
1 look around through happy tears,
And see bis image everywhere;
In his great love I breathe and lire ;
If it be sin. dear Qod, forgivs.
It cannot bs. Since I have known
Bis love. God's love seems dearer too;
He has come near to me, and shown
Wtutt for the humblest he can do.
Life's fateful fingers intertwine
The liirnu love with the divine.
Ob love. love, lore! Oh bleseed word.
That never did l understand
Till in mv ear his voice I heard.
And felt the pressure of his hand ;
No more I walk with eyes cast down;
I am his queen, love is my crown.
—All the Year Bound.
GATHER THEM IN.
Cardoza Fssnd tisUw *■ Celumfclu IMails
Transfer the Case le the l ulled Mates
(’•art.
lAfcerirt*’ lo V" Chronicle and Conslitulwualist.l
Conr-MB'd, November 7.-The jury
rendered a yerdict of guilty in the jmae
of Cardozo. A* “Pl** 1 wIU donbkle “
** and W hHem-re ladle!ed.
The case against Robt. Smalls, mem
ber of Congress, for aecep.'ag A bribe
while member of the South Carolina
Legislature was taken up immediately
after the verdict of guilty waa rendered
against Cardoso this morning.
Judge Melton, counsel for Smalls,
has filed a petition for the removal of
the case to the United Statee Court on
the ground of prejndioe and polinoal
feeling and the motion therefore will W
argued to-morrow. Before the grand
jury was dismissed a true bill was re
turned against B. F. Whittemore for ac
cepting a bribe as member of the State
Senate. Whittemore was in Canada
when last heard from.
Sugar coated peannte are the latest.
This country is going to destruction on
account of too much luxuriotuneae.
THE STATE.
TH PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS
Oglethorpe county wants a fair.
Bryan county has plenty of corn.
The greet potato crop is a big one.
Oconee county seems to have had an
excellent fair.
There was bnt little racing at the
Oreenesboro Fair.
The Reformed Episcopal Faith is
growing in Atlanta.
There are one hnndred and twenty
seven gins in Jasper.
The Rossini Musical Club, of Atlanta,
has been reorganized.
A little pickaninny waa kidnapped
in Oglethorpe recently.
The Colnmbns Times affirms that the
State Fair wss a suocees.
Miss Addie Griffin died last week in
Snooyside, Henry county.
The Primitive Baptists in Oglethorpe
county are increasing in numbers.
Anew steamer is running on the
Oconee to Dublin, Laurens county.
The Sumter County Fair had the
finest display of hogs of the season.
The ladiee of Eatoutou have present
ed the Eatoutou Rifles with a beautiful
banner.
About $7,000 has been subscribed to
wards the Lexington and Crawford
Street Railway.
A negro woman was found dead in a
pool of water near the Methodist
Cbnrch, at Albany, Wednesday.
Mr. F. R. Jerrell, of Sparta, had his
arm tom off last Wednesday, by the
belting of a pumping apparatus.
Tom Byrd, Jr., a Dawson negro, while
handling a pistol last Saturday night,
shot his mother in the left breast.
Arnos Keeter was run over and killed
by the Sandersville branch train be
fore day last Friday. He waa asleep on
the track.
Hairdstown is to have a corn concert.
In the entertainment, the sale of corn
raised by different members of the Sun
dav School will be made.
Dr. Shaffer, of Gainesville, has jnst
removed a cataract from the eyes of
Mrs. Wilson, of Hall county, who is
eighty years old. She had been blind
ten years.
Griggs, who was sentenced to the pen
itentiary for the killing of Rozier, has
been respited until tbe adjournment of
Court this month. The Sparta Times
says that this action is due to the fact
that the last grand jary found a true
bill against other parties for the murder
of Rozier.
Atlanta wants an opera.
Tronp county had a very successful
fair.
Mr. Wm. Webster, of Harris county,
is dead.
Mr. James Dukes, of Burke oounty,
is dead.
Charles J. Fairies, Esq., died reoently
near Darien.
The cow thief is tripping around in
Floyd county.
Peaceful sleepers begin to let down
the mosquito bars.
Gainesville wants a free bridge across
the Chattahoochee.
They ought to turn over the State
Fair to Thomasville.
There is but one retail liquor shop in
Chattahoochee oounty.
The thieves and robbers are still on
the war path in Darien.
A highway robbery was last week com
mitted in Harris oounty.
The Columbus Choral Union will give
a series of concerts soon.
Old man Tunis Campbell is now re
siding in Washington City.
A brass baud is about to run the
News and Farmer man from his lair.
Athens is said to outrival Atlauta in
obtaining the business of that section.
The Madison Hume Journal says that
this has been a remarkable Fall for farm
work.
Macon’s daily cotton receipts are run
ning ahead of corresponding dates last
year.
Mr. Morrow, of Union Point, is rail
road agent and telegraph operator at
Rutledge.
Mrs. Margaret Irwin died last week in
Tbomasville, in the eighty-second year
of her age.
Josh Billings was invited by the Ma
con Library to lecture in that city, but
has declined.
Columbus now has a fine system of
drainage. She also has a half million
dollars of debt to carry.
Johnny Griffin fell from a gin scaf
folding near Eatonton, the other day,
ami broke one of his hips.
Jealousy caused a man named Barrett
to cut up a young man named Waldrop,
in White county recently.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun, already
one of the handsomest papers in the
State, has put on anew dress.
Troup Factory is undertaking to
bring water 1,500 yards with which to
drive its public giu and tannery.
The highly imaginative editor begins
to speak of the “unprecedentedly large
crop of grain about to be sown,”
The most popular young lady at the
Macon Library Fair will reoeive a black
walnut bed-room set—in miniature.
Mr. h. S,, StocktoD, of Columbus, has
been adjudged “a demented inebriate
and a fit subject !o the lunatic asy-
Wttt. ”
A Jefferson county boy thinks that the
advantag* in courting through the tele
phone, you don’t have to wash your
neck and put on a eioan oollar.
The section hands on the Southwest
ern Railroad, numbering about two
hundred, struck on the first instant,
caused by the Central Road’s reducing
wages. . .
Mrs. Dilbeok, in Cherokee county,
gave birth to four children the other
day. Duly three years sgo this lady
wan bloniuid yvitb triplets. All doing as
well as, Ac. _ ,
The crop of Colonels jn Georgia and
South Carolina this year will fall twen
ty-seven per cent, below the yiei4 of
jirjg, and great public suffering and des
titution is feared, unless a generous
North comes to their relief with liberal
subscriptions.— Hawkeye.
The desperado, Owen Wright, was
hung, and not burned, as a Columbus
special had it. He acknowledged his
crime and admitted that the Newton
county ku klnx indictments were trump
ed-up chargee. Ha had raped five wo
men, and had shot fogjr men in the
course of his Tile career.
Covington need# more street lamp*.
Ameriou* tallies ten thousand bales.
Forsyth has reeded 3,475 bales of
cotton. .
Nacoochee Valley is having J religi
ous revival.
Sandersville has plautel a Christmas
tree already.
Mr. Jno. M. Ghacu!!#*, of Milledge
ville, is dead.
The time for the “ ootton option " has
abont expired.
Autumn pie-nies iu South Georgia are
very fashionable.
There are some fine sheep farms in
Southwest Georgia.
Mr. Henry Keating, of Milledgeviile,
has invented anew planter.
There are five hnndred and thirty
seven Granges iu Georgia.
A Sandersvßie physician amuses him
self with a pet rattiosnake.
Atlanta has no beer gaK>Xeps. There’s
no aao guardin’ the beer up these.
Miss Lojila Woolfolk died Sunday, *t
her father's residence, near Colnmbns.
Mr. C. A. King has been appointed
Sheriff of Monroe ccmnijr, vice MoCune,
resigned.
A party of Houston county boys re
oently bagged two hundred and forty
squirrels.
Mr. T. R. Christian, foreman of the
Old Capital, died the other day in Mil
lelgeville.
The steam giu house of C. A. Howel',
of Duluth, was destroyed by fire on Sun
day night.
Iu DeKath ooijßty, Mr. James Weeds,
while in a weil, wag pushed to death
by caving walls.
An old negro woman, said to nave,
been 120 years old, died the other day
in Milledgeviile.
A colored man in Albany, named Boll
ing, foni lf murdered his young wife, a
girl of seventeen years.
The young Indies of the Luct Cobb
Institute gave n delightful musical soiree
in Athena, Friday night.
The State owns seventeen hundred
acre* of land in connection with the In
sane Asylum at Milledgeviile.
Dougherty oounty boaata of having
fewer criminals than any other oounty
of equal population in the State.
Mr. Wm. M. Moses, of Washington
county, shipped three thousand bushels
of peaches to New York, last week.
Mr! Powell Mallard, riding home from
BarnesviUe, was murdered by two ne
groes, who shot him throneh W’ head.
Lumpkin has a boy dwarf fourteen
rear* of a*** who is no* over three feet
high, and does ate weigh fifty pounds.
Mr. W. L. Adams, of jopson oounty,
has a pumpkin yine on his plaoe with 36
pumpkins on it—weighing 654 pounds.
It now appears that the negro, Owen
Wright, was bribed with money to get
up the Ku-Klux arrest* in Newton eoun-
forty-seoond annual session of
the State Board of Physicians will con
vena in Milledgeviile on the 3d of De
oecabar.
A tombstone in county Ml-
Bounces that the man ut whoa® memory
it waa erected weighed aix hand rod and
fifty pounds.
Aunt Esther Barnes, a colored wo
man in Butta oounty, picked five hun
dred pounds of ootton last weak- She ie
10fi years old.
Col. J. W. Robertson was re elected
President of the Roewell Manufacturing
Compsnv at a meeting of the stockhold
ers last Wednesday.
S. M. Herrington, Esq., of Athens,
bas been appointed Commissioner of the
United States Circuit Court for the
Northern District of Georgia.
THE GEORGIA CAMPAIGN.
Elbert is about evenly divided on the
Cspitol issue.
They don’t ’low to elect any lawyers
in Warrenton.
Franklin and Hart are making a lively
fight over the Senatorship.
T. W. Kent is a candidate for the Leg
islature from Johnson county.
Newton county feels that she is en
titled to the next Congressman.
Mr. James H. Bullock, of Madison
conntv. stands for the Legislature.
Mr." W. H. Branch, of Greene county,
declines to run for the Legislature.
Both Senatorial candidates in Ogle
thorpe favor a District Convention.
They don’t allow politicians in Clarke
county to meet in the Court House.
A mass meeting of the Democracy of
Hancock is called to meet next Tuesday.
Jeuhtha H. Rucker, Esq , is promi
nently mentioned for the Mayoralty of
Athens.
Hon. J. B. Respass will not oppose
Colonel Felton for the Senate from his
district.
No one seems to be particularly anx
ious to run for the Legislature from
Hancock.
Messrs. J. E. Strother and George
Weathers are mentioned in Lincoln for
the House.
Mr. Robert L. Crawley, an Atlanta
commission merchant, is named for the
Legislature.
Judge Augustus Reese has written a
letter to the Constitution favoring At
lanta as the capital.
Six candidates from Harris county are
pawing and champing impatiently for
the race to the Legislature.
The Covington Enterprise thinks that
Major H. L. McDaniel should be re
turned to the Georgia Senate.
At a primary election in Upson county
last week, Hon. John W. Brown was re
nominated to succeed himself.
Hon. Miles W. Lewis will not accept
a nomination for either branch of the
General Assembly from Greene.
The names of Judge John A. Speer
and Hon. F. M. Langley, of Tronp
county, are suggested for the Senate.
Taliaferro, in her primary election,
chose Mr. W. H. Brooke for the Senate
and J. T. Chapman, Esq., for the House.
Capt. S. R. Brown, George E. Wise,
Dr. Peeples and Arch Brown are spoken
of for the Legislature in Henry county.
Hon. Farish Furman repudiates the
boast which the Constitution attributed
to him, that he was a candidate for Con
gress.
Henry county endorses Co’onel Geo.
W. Bryan, the Senator from that Dis
trict, and George E. Wise, Esq., their
Representative.
A correspondent of the LaGrange
Reporter thinks that justico demands
the return of Messrs. Cox and Awtrey
to the Lngislature from Troup.
The Covington Enterprise thinks that
the voters of the Flint Circuit would not
object to see Hon. John J. Floyd fill the
chair of Judge for that Judicial Circuit.
Sam Small shou'd get up a Capitol
jollification at Decatur, where he could
uninterruptedly wave his spectacles in
the air and have all the fun on his side.
Hon. C. S. Dußose has been invited
to make an address in Gibson upon the
new Constitution at an early day, and a
rousing ratification meeting is talked of.
Hon. B. F. Carr, formerly of Coving
ton, will make a tilt for the Legislature
from Rockdale county. T. C. Posy and
the Hon. W. L. Peck will also enter the
race.
Hon. T. B. Cabiness has been nomi
nated for Senator in the Twenty-second
District. Pike withdrew from the Con
vention, leaving Monroe and Bibb to do
the work.
The McDuffie Journal thinks that
Gov. Johnson's able advocacy of the re
funding of the cotton tax was of itself
sufficient to defeat him for the United
States Supreme Court Bench.
Two Senatorial candidates met at an
Oglethorpe corn shucking. It was pro
posed to turn them, lose upon the stack
of corn, the man first to find a red ear
to be the choice of the county.
The names of Hon. W. R. Smith, T.
A. Gibbe, J. Q. A. Radford, J. E. Nun
ally and Dr. W. 8. Barrett are suggest
ed as candidates for the Representa
tive’s place in the next Legislature.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Con
stitution says : “Major Smyth has no
right to ask the public to consider him
vindicated upon his own declaration or
in respect to the opinion of the Attor
ney-General. Let us have the testimony,
and then the public will be enabled to
form its own opinion without the aid of
Federal officials.”
Capt. John Reese is a legislative can
didate from Floyd.
Judge John A. Speer is proposed for
the Senate in the 36th.
Mr. W. J. Houston will probably op
pose Col, Alston in DeKalb.
Liberty county had a grand Constitu
tional ratification meeting recently.
The Ellijay Courier nominates Gee,
Garsrell for the United States Senate.
J. E. Bryant, it is said, will stump
the State against the new Constitution.
Tbe Rome Tribune is decidedlp op
posed to Senator Gordon's re-election.
Messrs. TANARUS, A. Bennet and W.I. Pike are
legislative candidates in Jackson coun
ty-
judge G. A. Cooper will be brought,
forward for the Legislature from Ful
ton.
Hon. John H. James announces him
self as a candidate to serve his time out
in the Legislature.
Joseph Jordon has been nominated
for Representative of Crawford county
by primary election.
The Rome Courier oontonds that
Floyd eouaty is entitled to pame the
Senator from the 42d.
Mr. Albert Weldenwili be prevented,
on account of siokDess, from runuiDg
for the House from Harris county.
Mr. Sam F. Smith was renominated
for the Legislature at the Democratic
primary election in Butts county, last
Saturday.
Hon. R, A. Evans, of Jefferson coun- ;
ty has written a letter tp the News and
Farmer, declining to be a candidate for
re-election to the House.
The Athens Georgian has advises from
Washington City that little or no opposi
tion will be msdp to the confirmation
of Col. Fitesimons aa Marshal of
Georgia,
The quarrel over Senatorship in tho
32d between Messrs. Hockenhull, of
of Dawson, and Boyd of White, has been
sett*;;} bv a reference to a convention of
three delegates from each of the three
counties.
Senator Hill has been in Atlanta on
business.
Milledgeviile has nearly five thousand
inhabitants.
Col. R. S. Cook secure? thp nomina
tion in Pike.
W. Y. Elder is a candidate for the
Degi*la*nre from Oconee.
Mr. Aaolpu Joseph is mentioned for
the Legislature in Baldwin.
Colonel E. C. Rower has been nomi
nated for the Senate in the Ninth.
Measf*. Cpj and Awtrey have been
renominated to tpe Rouse from Tronp.
Messrs. Hudson and (Joy are the |
Democratic nominees in Harris county.
Messrs. 8. C. Trout and Joel Brauham
are the Democratic nominees in Floyd j
oounty.
Delicate charges of bribery are again j
being handed around in the capital
campaign. . J
Hon. L. II Felton declines to run in
the 13th, and J. R- Respass may
have a clear field.
Come to study over it, ’twont do for
Small and Farish Fnrman to go to]
Congress together.
Messrs. W- A. Huff, Chas. J. Harris
and Robert A. Nisbet pjre yapdidptes in
Bibb for the House.
The Sandersville Courier favors Elder
T. M. Harris as the legislator from j
Washington county.
The Colnmbns City Council declines
to abolish the municipal commutation
poll tax of two dollars.
The Democrats of Stewart county re
puiLsi.c the “rotation system” in the
nomination' oi \ Senator.
It is not known whte connection
Grady’s “Patchwork Palace* has with j
the Opera House Capitol.
B. F. Carr, of Rockdale county, says
the reason he is rnnning for the Legis
lature is simply to beat W. L. Peek.
The Da|iJop?ga Signal is ef the opin
ion that some of thpiiojff by extern coun
ties will give majorities against Atlanta.
The independents compose the
nucleus around which Republican oppo
sition to the new Cuaatjtutipß wil) clus
ter.
Considering that there is no Republi
can party in Georgia,Bryant, Markham,
Norcross & Cos., are very solid and ac
tivs.
Col. E. F. Hoge, of Atlanta, will ad
dress the people of Athens on the capi
tal question, on Wednesday, the 14th
iust.
General Toombs is said to be rolling
up his sleeves and trimming down anew
cigar, preparing for the capital cam
paign.
Hon Farish C. Furman has returned
to Milledgeviile from the mountains,
where he has been slinging around a few
rough rocks of truth.
Dr. Poisal, Chaplain of the House of
Congress, having resigned. Dr. Harri
son, of Atlanta, has been asked by Dr.
Felton to offer for the place.
It is feared that unless'General Gor
don pots in a stiff letter for Atlanta
soon Colonel Herbert Fielder will be
hoisted to the fJnitgd States Senate by
the myrmidons of Fulton.
The Marietta Journal says; “Ihe
appointment of Fitzsimons to the Mar
sbalship has caused more rejoicing
among the mountaineers in this section
than did the election of Tilden."
Ellijay Courier: Legislative candi
dates are springing up like mushrooms.
All we got to say is let them spring. If
they can’t go to the Legislature they
can stay at home and keep off the calf.
, CONTENTMENT.
A S*rmoo by the Key. T. De Witt Talma**—
Be Content With **nch Thins* as Yen Hare
—Good Reading for To-Day.
| New York Herald.]
Mr. Tslmage preached yesterday on
“Contentment,” taking his text from
Hebrews xiii., s—“Be content with such
things as ye have.” If I should ask
someone, said he, where is Brooklyn to
day? he would say at Shelter Island;
where is New York to-day? at Long
Branch; where is Philadelphia ? at Cape
May; where is Boston ? at Martha’s
Vineyard ; where is Virginia ? at the
Sulpher Springs; where are a great mul
titude from all parts of tbe land ? at
Saratoga, tbe modern Betheada, where
the aDgel of the waters, the angel of
health, is ever stirring tbe waters. Bnt,
my friends, the largest multitude are at
home, detained by business or circum
stances; among them the newspaper
men, the hardest worked and the least
compensated; the city railroad employes,
the ferry masters and the police and
tens of thousands of clerks and mer
chants waiting for their turn of absence,
and households, with invalids that can’t
be moved, and other multitudes by the
stringency of tho times hindered from
further expendit jre, and a great multi
tude of well-to-do people who stay at
home because they like home better
than any other place, refusing to go
away merely because it is tbe fashiou to
go. Now, the genuine American is not
happy until he is going somewhere, and
this fashion is so great that there are
Christian people with their families de
tained in the city who come not to the
house of God, trying to give people the
idea that they are out of town, leaving
the doorplate unscoured for the same
reason, and for two mouths keeping the
front window shutters closed while they
sit in the back part of the house with
the thermometer at ninety. There is a
great deal of common sense in Paul’s
advice to the Hebrews, “Be ye content
with such thiDgs as ye have.” To be
eontent is to be in good humor with our
circumstances, not picking a quarrel
with our obscurity or our poverty or
our social position. There are four or
five reasons why we should be content
with the things we have.
The first reason is the consideration
that the poorest of us have all that is
indispensable in life. Wo make a great
ado about our hardships, but how little
do we talk of our blessings. Health of
body, which is given iu largest quantity
to those who have never been petted and
spoiled by fortune, we take as a matter
of course. The grandest luxury God
ever gave a man is health. He who
trades that for all the palaces of the
earth is infinitely cheated. “Oh,” says
someone, “it is not the grossest pleas
ures that I crave, but it is the gratifica
tion of the intellectual taste—love of
fine arts and pictures.” Why, you have
the originals from which these pictures
are painted. There is a great deal of
affectation about fondness for pictures
among those who never appreciate the
originals. Another consideration is the
fact that our happiness is not dependent
on outward circumstances. You see
people happy and miserable amid all
circumstances. Iu the family where the
last loaf is on the table and the last stick
of wood on the fire, you somet mes find
a cheerful confidence in God, while in
fine palaces yon will find hospitality
freezing to death iu a cheerless parlor.
The heart right toward God and man,
we are happy; the heart wrong toward
God and man, and we are uuhappy.
Auother reason why we should come
to this spirit inculcated in the text is the
fact that all the differences of earthly
condition are transitory. Persecution
never knocked at the door of the grave,
and a coffin made out of pino boards is
just as good a resting place as one made
out of silver mounted mahogany or
rosewood. The Egyptian guano thrown
on the fields to benefit the soil is the
dust raked out of the tombs of ancient
kings and lords and mighty men. Oh,
tho shame of some of those migthy men,
if they had been told that after death
their ashes would be so used aud would
be called Egyptian guano ! Another
reason for contentment is that God
knows what is best for all bis creatures.
I can tell you why you have not been
largely affluent and greatly successful.
It is because you can’t stand the temp
tation. If your path was smoothed you
would have depended on yourself, but
God roughened it so that you may have
to tako hold of His hand. Would to
God we could understand that our trials
are the very best things for us. Another
consideration leading us to the spirit of
the text is the assurance that the Lord
will provide somehow. What God did for
merly by miracles Ho does now in some
other way and by natural laws. It is
high time that you should understand
that the word of the Almighty is involv
ed in the fact that you are to have
to eat and to wear.
Again, I remark the religion of Jesus
Christ is the grandest influence to make
a mau contented, an indemnity against
all financial and spiritual harm. It
calms the spirit, dwindles the earth into
insignificance and solaces the soul with
the thought of Heaven. I commend you
this morning to the warm, hearty, prac
tical, common sense religion of Jesus
Christ.
Yet, my friends, notwithstanding all
these inducements to the spirit of con
tentment, 1 liavo to tell you this morn
ing that the human race is divided into
two classes—thoso who scold and those
who are scolded. Everybody would be
happy if he only were somebody else.
Everything is upside down, or going to
be. Ah, my friends, you never make
any advancement through such a spirit
as that j you can’t Ret yourselves up,
and you may fret yourselves down.
’Mid all this grating of saws I strike this
string of tho gospel harp, goodliness
with contentment is great gain. We
brought nothing into the world, and it
is very certain we can carry nothing out;
having half a raiment let us be therewith
content. If this morning, in review of
all your circumstances, you can’t think
of anythipg else to praise God for, I
call upon yon to day to thank Him that
matters are no worse. Let us all re
member that if we are Christians we
are going after a while, no matter what
oi;r circgmstanpeß are here, to have a
glorious vacation.
THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION.
A Curious Letter From One of the Cominiis
sioner*—Wlint Justice Strong Says Ilfs l)e
--<*iaion VVa Based On—A Novel Application
ot itie Doa.;ripe of States* UightN.
[New York Sun.)
The Hon. William Strong, of Penn
sylvania, is one of the Associate Jus
tices of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Ha was one of the
fifteen members who constituted the
Electoral Commission through whose
action Rutherford B. Hayes was declar
ed to be elected President of the United
States. Had Judge Strong, as a mem
ber of that Commission, yoted tjie other
way, Mr. Hayes would have been ex
cluded from the office of President, It
is there/oM to tjie yote of J edge Strong
that Mr. Rayes o;wes Jiip office. The
Commission consisted of fiftpep, of
whom, leaving Jndge Strong in doubt,
seven were for Mr. Hayes aud seven
were against him. The grand result de
pended upon the way Judge Strong
should vote. Under these circum
stances, and with such consequences
hanging upon his vote, Judge Strong
mado up his mind to vote for Mr.
Hayes.
It now appears, however —and it ap
pears by a letter under Bis own hand—
that in arriving at this conclusion,
Fudge StfODg was governed by a strictly
technical rule, apj yltpough he
cast the determining vote in favor of
Mr. Hayes for President, he does not
believe, and never did believe that Mr.
Hayes was lawfully elected to that office.
The view taken by Jndge Strong was
that Congress has no right to inquire
into State elections for State electors;
that the Electoral Commission had no
more power than Congress had; and so
he voted for Hayes, although he feared
a great wrong had been perpetrated by
the Louisiana Returning Board. All
fn!! v appears in a letter addressed
by Mr. justice Strong to]an Oiu personal
friend of his, the Hon. George W.
Jones, of Tennessee, This letter, being
entirely upon a public question of over
shadowing importance, has been for
warded to ns by Mr. Jones for publica
tion, and we print the two letters, which
are as follows, in full:
Fayetteville, Tens., Oct. 16, 1877.
Hon. Charles A. Dana : Dear Sib—
Daring the sitting of the Electoral Com
mission in Washington last Winter I
wrote to Mr. Justice Strong, of the
United States Supreme Court, and a
member of the Commission, with whom
I had been associated formerly in Con
gress. I difi not keep a copy of My let
ter, but addressing him I wrote in sub
stanoe as follows : “When you and I
were in Congress together you were a
Demoorat, and regarded as an honest
man. Do you believe that the people of
Louisiana voted for the Hayes electors ?”
I enclose a copy of Justice Strong’s let
ter in response to mine. If you think
his letter worth publishing you are at
liberty to give it to the public. In my
reply to Justice Strong’s letter I wrote:
“By the Constitution of the United
States it is provided that Presidential
electors shall be appointed in such man
ner as shall be prescribed by the State
Legislatures; but the returns of the
electoral votes are to be returned to the
President of the Senate, and shall be
opened in the presence of the two
Houses of Congress, and by them count
ed. Congress clearly has the right to
inquire and determine whethar or not
the electors of the several States had
been appointed in tbe manner prescrib
ed by their respective Legislatures. ”
I never write secrets nor keep copies
of the letters I write. And Ido not be
lieve that the official acta of public ser
vants and the reasons for their acta
should be regarded as private and
secret. Very respectfully yours,
G. W. Jones.
“Washington, February 26,1877.
“ The Hon. George W. Jones ;
“My Drab Sib —l was a Democrat
when you and I were together in Con
gress. lam a Democrat now. I hold
to all the opinions the State Rights
Democrats have always held, and which
the acknowledged leaders of the party
have avowed up to the present Winter—
never more clearly than in 1878 to 1875.
I do not believe that Congress has any
constitutional right to inquire into State
elections for State electors. Congress
has of late years interfered quite too
much with the States. The Electoral
Commission has do more power than
Congress has, and I think it would be a
most dangerous usurpation were it to do
what the States alone have a right to do,
even to cure what I fear was a great
wrong of the Louisiana Returning
Board. I cannot doubt that snob will
be your opinion when you reflect to
what the assertion of such a power
would lead. It would place the right of
the States, respecting the choice of elec
tors, at the mercy of the Federal Gov
ernment, and be the greatest stride ever
made toward centralization. Better
suffer a present evil than open such a
door, better than abandon all the time
honored principles of the Democratic
party. lam yours, very respectfully,
“W. Strong. ”
ORANGE BLOSSOMS.
Mr. John Ragsdale, of Columbus, was
married to Miss Eliza Brooks last Sun
day, in that city.
Mr. Wm. J. Keeling to Miss Eliza
Green, in Atlanta, on 28th ult.
In Atlanta, on the 30th, Samuel D.
Cherry to Miss Minnie Johnson.
In MacoD, on the 30th, Mr. Henry A.
Pope and Miss Lucy W. Howes.
In Hamilton, Ga., Mr. B. C. Kim
brough to Miss Ida R. Hnnley.
In Pike county, on 28th ult., Mr. John
Chapman and Miss Susan Banks.
On the 20tb, Mr. Wm. H. Gill and
Miss Malinda Moore, both of Pike.
Mr. Hiram D. Harris and Miss Hono
lula Pilgrim, in Atlanta, last week.
On 31st, in Macon, Miss Cora Vaughn
to Mr. Thad C. Doughtie, of Americus.
In Macon, on the 30th, Mr. William
Wellsbacher and Miss Mary Ellen St.
Clair.
In Hancock county, ou the 30th, Mr.
William C. Collins and Miss Alice M.
Waller.
W. W. Hightower, of Monroe county,
the 21st ult. to Miss Z. M. Gloss, of
Henry county.
Iu Dublin, Laurens county, on the
25th ult., Mr. W. T. Smith to Miss Car
rie E. Hudson.
Iu Sparta, on the 18th, A. A. Arm
strong and Miss E. E. Cook, both of
Washington county, Ga.
Mr. J. E. Field, of Cartersville, to
MiBS Mary Hampton, of Woodford
county, Ky., on the 25th.
In Burke oounty, on the 30th, Hon.
Jesse A. Robson, of Washington county,
and Miss Georgia Shewmake, daughter
of judge Oscar Shewmake.
“Gen.” Washington Grimes, of Mad
ison county, a widower of about 65
years, to Mrs. Frances Rowe, a charm
ing young widow of about 45 summers,
last week.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
('roll News—A Poor Prospect—Polillenl Points
—The Senatorship.
[ Con espondcnceChromcle and Constitutionalist:]
Lincolnton, Ga., November s.—As
we seldom see anything in your paper
from Lincoln, I will write you a short
letter from this part of the moral world.
Crops are poor indeed, cotton especially.
I think I am safe in saying that the cot
ton crop of Lincoln county this year
will not average over sixty per cent. I
heard a substantial farmer say not long
since that by the first of October last
year he had gathered and sold twenty
bales of cotton, and at the same date
this year he had not gathered over eight
bales and ho is working one more band
this year thah he did last. The corn
crop will perhaps reach seventy-five per
cent. By economical management our
farmers will be able to get aloDg pretty
well, as they are not in debt much. We
have three candidates—Dr. B. F. Bently,
Col. J. E. Strother and Mr. Z. S. Wil
lingham—for legislative honors. They
are all good and true men, and the in
terest of the county would be safe in the
hands of either. A mass meeting of
the citizens of the county has been
called for Thursday, the 15th instant,
to determine which of these gentlemen
shall be our next Representative. As re
gards a Senator for this (29th) District I
hear bnt little said, Some favor rotation,
while others think we should have the
best man, irrespective of what county he
comes from. Your correspondent be
longs to the latter class. lam not in
fuvor of rotation further than to get the
mau best qualified to fill the office. Lin
coln has some men who, with two or
three exceptions, are the first of any in
the district, and if elected would make
worthy Senators. Citizen.
If ALT AND CONSIDER.
Wlmt the Independent Movement Meant*.
[Athens Georgian. |
The recent movement in Republican
circles, especially iu Georgia, are indeed
significant and should induce every true
Democrat in our midst to halt and con
sider. The defeat yisited upon this par
ty in the last Presidential election, and
which gave rise to the electoral fraud
and the now existing division in the Re
publican ranks, have given great uneasi
ness to the party leaders and bestirred
them to every means and exertion for
the perservation of powar. What, then,
has been their more direct movement,
their last party strategy ? Unquestion
ably the order has been given the South
ern Republicans, especially in Georgia,
to temporarily disband, and, uniting
with tho Independents in theiy move
ment, seek to disintegrate and break np
the Democratic party in the South. In
proof of this unmistakable determina
tion on their part, we find the most
avowed and obnoxious Radicals in our
midst, those who have so long sought to
oppress and outrage our people, in full
sympathy and concert of action with the
Independent movement. However well
Mr. Hayes may administer the Govern
ment under the Constitution and the
laws, nevertheless, tfie flie'aps by
whiefh tie acceded ’ to the Presiden
cy and the fear of such means be
ing continued to the jeopardy of our free
and republican institutions, have so
awakened and alarmed the American
people that the leaders of the Republi
can party noy? see no safety or future
hope of success except in the disruption
of the Democratic party. Democrats,
it yon to halt and consider
well before you, by inactivity, indisposi
tion or otherwise, permit this yyanton
and deep laid schenie of 'tfie Radicals to
triumph. Jt behooves you equally to
disconntppappe sll independents or bol
ters from party ranks, less ip tfie midst
of present and prospective victory,
shameful and ruinous defeat may over
take the Democracy. Let Democrats
be up and doing; let them look well to
their party organization and the trne
principles of their party and the suc
cess which has heretofore been secured
unto them will be continued and a grand
viotorv made B pre in thp Presidential
election of IBgo.'
fIQNpKS TQ THE DEAU.
liewin*; '"iennipr M©rfon*s Rfuiains in In-
Arraiifee.iieutH for Barfal*
Indianapolis, November 4. —At least
fifty thousand have viewed the rem“']”
of Senator Morte”_ contributions of
Sowers are in great profusion, some of
them coming from Washington St.
Louis and elsewhere. 'Me eonjinittees
of the Seiiate and House arrived to-day,
and during the afternoon viewed the re
mains in company with Governor Wil
liams. Representatives of the Presi
dent’s Cabinet will arrive at 11 o’clock
to-night.
Washington, November Sj. — 46 the
funeral of Senator Morton takes place
to-day, all Government Departments
and the offices of the District Govern
ment are closed.
Indianapolis, November s.—Rain fell
from daylight to noon. From noon to
dark it grew colder, with considerable
wind; the temperature bad fallen twelve
degrees up to sundown. From the open
ing of the Court House doors this morn
ing until half-past ten an uninterrupted
throng moved through, viewing the
honored remains. At that hoar the pall
bearers took a last look, when the cas
ket was taken to the hearse.
starvation in tfce Midi* of Ptentx.
t&oiuion Slammer.]
A correspondent writes from Constan
tinople to the effeot that “the harvest is
so rich throughout the Turkish pro
vinces that 500,000 men and the whole
Turkish cavalry can be fed for a year on
the tithes alone. In Angora last year’s
tithes are not yet consumed; and this
year’s crops throughout the Vilayet have
been so abundant that the authorities
do not know where to find room to stow
the tithes away.” This is strange. We
are under the impression that last year
half Asia Minor was suffering Horn
famine. At any rate, that waa the im
pression here when subscriptions were
raised for the sufferers. On second con
sideration, however, it is not strange.
Abundance of Government tithes in Tur
key and famine amongst tbe people are
quite reconciled.
THE SOUTH’S WORST FOES!
SCHEMES OF COTTON-QAMBLERS
TO BREAK DOWN PRICES.
The Way It i> Done ta K[inland—A Bona
Fide ltrviral of Bnsiaean Interrapted by
the Dealers ia Fntares—The Prodneers at
the Mercy of the Klas la America and
Karope— An Appeal te Parliament Contem
plated.
[From Vie London Cotton, October 20.]
At the beginning of last week a feel
ing of considerable confidence pervaded
ever; department of the cotton trade,
though in different degrees. For a
month or more the markets for the raw
material had been gradually advancing,
owing to the rapid melting away of the
stocks, and the poor prospects of any
immediate supply on a liberal scale.
Between August 16th and October 12th,
the visible supply of cotton—that is, the
stocks in ports and afloat for the world
—raa down as follows, oompared with
the movement in the corresponding pe
riod of last year:
1877. 1876. Deficit.
August 16 1,882,009 1,995,000 113,000
Augustas 1,750,000 1,870.000 120.000
September 13 1,564.009 1,772.000 208,000
September 27 1,335,000 1.733,000 398,000
October 12 1,249,000 1,771,000 522,000
The reduction in the two months
amounted to 633,000 bales, against only
244,000 bales last year. So serious an
inroad upon stocks naturally attracted
the attention of all classes of buyers.
Another result was a large, though by
no means an extensive business between
the end of August and the commence
ment of last week, resulting in an ad
vance of id. to |d. per lb.
During the greater part of the upward
movement, Manchester looked on with
almost stolid indifference, but towards
the close orders commenced to come in
from all quarters, and it is admitted
that between the end of September and
the Bth of October the advance in yarns
and goods was fully equivalent to the
rise in cotton during the previous five or
six weeks. Producers, in fact, were be
ginning to get into a very satisfactory
position, and orders were being freely
given out, when Liverpool suddenly col
lapsed, owing to an unexpected “raid”
of the “bear” party upon the market for
“futuies.” The appearance of the
“bears” frightened the “bulls,” who
had recently been buying pretty heavily,
and these immediately became sellers in
order to realize the recent advance. The
result was a drop of 5 16d. to fd. So
sudden a transformation very naturally
dried up the demand in Manchester, for
it was not likely that buyers would go
on buying goods and yarns on the basis
of 6|d. to 6|d. for middling upland,
when they saw sellers willing to accept
6Jd. to 6 5-16d. for the delivery of that
commodity a month or two hence.
This ruthless interruption to a bona
fide revival in business may be very
profitable to “bull” and “bear” specula
tors, who deal in mere “paper” con
tracts, but it is absolute destruction to
legitimate trade. Eventually, of course,
matters will right themselves, but that
is no cousolation to the spinners and
merchants who have been victimized in
the meantime. We are perfectly aware
that a very clever defense can be set up
for this speculation in time bargains.
But quite as good'a defense can be made
for gambling of all kinds. The cotton
spinners and manufacturers have at least
£100,000,000 of money employed in this
the leading industry of the nation, and
. common sense, not to say common hon
esty, protests against this vast capital
being at the mercy of speculative “rings”
arranged between Liverpool and New
York. This is a matter which the Cot
ton Spinners’ Association might very
properly take up. If an act of Parlia
ment can be passed to prohibit certain
transactions in bank shares, why not an
act to prohibit the sale of cotton “ fu
tures,” except upon the condition that
marks and ship’s names shall be given
either at the time of sale or by the mail
leaving the port of shipment next after
the date of contract. Such an act would
reduce speculation to fair and legitimate
limits, and do away with the iniquitous
system which places the man of straw
and the man of substance on the same
level.
As to the probable immediate future
course of the market, we have nothing
to add to our observations of last week.
The stock of cotton in Liverpool will
very shortly be reduced to 400,000 bales
or less. Consumers can draw their own
conclusions from this faot.
11, FACT SK SOl/ItIKTTRE.
A Ministry, “Over the Left,” the Only Re
course—Resignation Thought Necessary-
No Coup D’Ktat.
LoNroN, November 7.—A Paris cor
respondent asserts positively that Presi
dent MacMahon does not approve and
never has approved a coup d'etat. He
is equally determined not to take a Cab
inet from the Left. If ho adheres to
this resolution, his only course is to re
sign. The correspondent thinks, how
ever, that the President will consent to
take a Ministry from the Left.
The Official Journal announces that
the Deßroglie ministry, at President
MacMalion’s request, have withdrawn
their resignations. They, however, in
sist it shall be fully understood that
while continuing to discharge their
functions, this shall in no wise prejudice
the President’s subsequent decisions.
Opening of tlie Chambers—Grevy Provisional
President of the Deputies.
Pabis, November 7- —A great crowd
assembled at the railway station this af
ternoon to witness the departure of the
parliamentary trains for Versailles.
President MacMahon started at one
o'clock,
Verseilleb, November 7.—The Sen
ate reassembled this afternoon and the
nomination of members of the bureaux
began. M. Grovy was elected Provis
ional President of the Chamber of Dep
uties. Tho vote was 290 against 170.
Remand, a Moderale Bepublican, and
Lepere, a Radical Republican, were
elected Vice-Presidents. M. Qreyy, in
taking the chair, tbaul?e4 the Chamber
in a brief ftnd polorlpss speech far the
honor, The sitting then terminated.
M. DeLarently demanded that the
question of the election of four life Sen
ators be placed on the order of the day
for the 15th instant. The sitting closed
without incident. No message was re
ceived from President McMahon, nor
any communication from the Govern
ment.
When the Chamber of deputies met
M.l}eSeau ?) Radical Republican, occu
pied the Chair. M. Raspail Fils being
indisposed, M. DeSeaux spoke in eulo
gy of M. Thiers, whom he declared de
served well of his country. He added
that the present Chamber would labor
to strengthen the Republic ant} defend
it against all tjttacjis regardless from
whom they come, and concluded with
the cry of “Vive la Republic,” “Vive la
Paix.”
Will Not Resign.
LoNpoN, November 7. —A Paris dis
patch says : “President in
receiving tjie delegation of deputies of
the Right yestpiday gave them a very
categorical answer implying that he was
firmly resolved not to resign.”
COURT CHRONICLES.
A Mortgage Foreclosure Against tlie Erie
Railway.
New York, November decree of
foreclosure and std? 9? i W the
Farmers’ Roa'u and Tiuaf Company ye.
the Erie Railway and otters was en
tered by Judge jjanohne to-day on a
mortgage made to plaintiffs in 1874 for
$25,000,000, on which over three million
dollars interest are due. The order is
made subject to lien", of S'S prior mc'rt-1
gages > provides for a sale td ooqdto'J'!
ers if they form a the j
laws of Pennsylvania and
sew or' a transfer of the bid to
them. The sale is to be in New York,
for cash, by George L. Curtis, but not
until auxiliary suits in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania are e xcluded.
A Fraudulent Collector,
Norfolk, Va., November ?.—ln the
flnited States Circuit Court to-day,
Charles E. Gettsleeh was found gnilty
of embesaling Government fnnds while
Deputy Collector of this port.
DRIFTING IN THE .“TOBM.
What the .Signal Service Observers Saw in
the Misti.
Washington, November 7.—The sig
nal observer at Tybee Island, Ga., re
ports a heavy northeast gale since yes
terday evening. The Spanish bark
Meroedes was dragged half a mile. 4,
p. m .—The British bark Ellen Holt’s
broadside is on the beach. No assist
ance yet—wind 36 miles northeast.
The observer at Barnegat Inlet, N. J.,
reports yesterday, shortly after noon, a
vessel, supposed to be a steamer, was
seen three miles off the shore on her
beam ends and drifting before a strong
westerly wind. About 2, p. m., she dis
appeared and is supposed to have sank.
Three men were observed clinging to
the rigging. Apparently no effort was
made to save them. No traces of the
vessel have since been seen. This oc
curred about four miles south of this
station.
A Bonanza Indeed.
[From the Virginia Evening Chronicle.]
The dividends declared and paid to
date by the bonanaa companies amount
to $54,000,000. Of this amount the Con
solidated Virginia Company has paid
$34,560,000, and the California Com
pany, $19,440,000.
GEORGIA IN CONGRESS.
Bonn Platt Haa a Good Word for the Dele
fltftle
[ Washington Capital.]
Georgia fared well at thehofads of Mr.
Bandall in the arrangement of his com
mittees. It was to be expected that the
Speaker would “come down handsome
ly” to the State whose nnflinohing sup
port made his election a certainty.—
Georgia was the center of Mr. Randall’s
line, snd no demonstration of the allied
forces of Morrison, Cox, Sayler and the
rest made any impression upon thst
solid rook. When Congressman Blount
announced, two weeks before the meet
ing of the Democratic caucus, that Geor
gia was “solid for Randall," he not only
showod that he had thoroughly perform
ed his work as one of the managers of
Mr. Randall’s fight, but he proclaimed
the certainty of Mr. Randall’s election.
Asoneof Mr. Randall’s counselors, Mr.
Blount has looked out well for the in
terests of his State in the disposition of
his colleagues. Mr. Hartridge, who is
one of the best lawyers and most finish
ed speakers in the House, appropriately
goes to the Judioiary Committee, where
distinction awaits him. His position in
the House is already a high one—a clear
case of conquest of great modesty by
great merit. Brave and genial General
“Phil” Cook is at the head of the Com
mittee on Pnblic Buildings. He has as
many friends as any man in Congress,
and as his constituents seem determined
to keep him here, we promise them an
increase every year of his large personal
influence with his fellow-members. Col
onel Blount is second oi the Commit
tee on Appropriations, where he has al
ready earned a fine reputation with his
associates.
VECETINE
Purifies the Blood, Renovates and
Invigorates the Whole System.
ITS MEDICINAL PROPERTIES ARE
Alterative, Tonic, Solvent and Diuretic.
Veoetine is made exclusively from the
juices of carefully selected barks, roets and
herbs, and so strongly concentrated, that it
will effectually eradicate from the system
every taint of Scrofula, Scrofulous Hu
mor, Tumors, Cancer, Cancerous Hu
mor, Erysipelas, Salt Rheum, Syphi
litic Diseases, Canker, Faintness at
the Stomach, and all diseases that arise
fiomimpurj blood. Scintica, Inflamma
tory and Chronic Rheumatism, Neu
ralgia, Gout and Spinal Complaints,
can only he effectually cured through tho
blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptive Diseases ( f
the Skin, Pustules, Pimples, Blotches,
Boils, Tetter, Scald-head and King
worm, Veoetine has never failed to effect a
permanent cure.
For Pains In the Back, Kidney Com
plaints, Dropsy, Female Weakness,
Leucorrhoea, arising from internal ulcera
tion, and uterine diseases and General De
bility, Veoetine acts directly upon the
causes of these complaints. It invigorates
and strengthens the whole system, acts upon
the secretive organs, allays inflammation,
cures ulceration and regulates the bowels.
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual
Costlveness, Palpitation of the Heart,
Headache, Piles, Nervousue-s and
General Prostration of the Nervous
System, no medicine has uiven such perfect
satisfaction as the Veoetine. It purifies the
blood,cleanses all of the organs,and possesses
a controlling power over the nervous system.
The remarkable cures effected by Veoetine
have induced many physicians and apotheca
ries whom we know to prescribe and use it in
their own families.
In fact, Veoetine is the best remedy yet
discovered for the above diseases, and is the
only reliable BLOOD PURIFIER yet plac
ed before the public.
Prepared by
H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS.
WHAT IS VEGETINE?
It is a compound extracted from barks, roots
and herbs. It is Nature's Remedy. It is per
fectly harmless from any baa effect upon the
system. It is nourishing and strengthening.
It acts upon the blood. It quiets the nervous
system. It gives you good, sweet sleep at
night. It is a great panacea for our aged
fathers and mothers, for it gives them
strength, quiets their nerves and gives them
Nature’s sweet sleep, as has been proved by
many an aged person. It is the great Blood
Purifier. It is a soothing remedy for our child
ren. It has relieved and cured thousands. It
is very pleasant to take; every child likes it.
It relieves and cures all diseases originating
from impure blood. Try the Veoetine. Give
it a fair trial for your complaints; then you
will say to your friend, neighbor and acquain
tance : “Try it; it has cured me.”
Veoetine for the complaints for which it is
recommended, is having a larger sale through
out the United States than any other one med
icine. Why ? Vegetine will cure these
Complaints.
CANNOT BE EXCELLED.
Charlestown, Mass., March 19, 1869.
Me. H. R. Stevens :
Dear Sib—This is to oertify that I have used
your “Blood Preparation” in my family for
several years, and think that, for Scrofula or
Cankerous Humors, or Rheumatic Affeotions,
it cannot be excelled; and, as a blood purifier
and Spring medicine, it is tlie best thing I
have ever used; and I have used almost every
thing. I can cheerfully recommend it to any
one in need of suoh a medicine.
Yours respectfully, MRS. A. A. DINSMORE,
19 Russell street.
GIVES HEALTH, STRENGTH AND
APPETITE.
My daughter has received great benefit from
the use of the Veoetine. Her declining health
was a source of great auxiety to all of her
friends. A few bottles of the Veoetine re
stored her health, strength and appetite.
N. H. TILIiEN}
Insurance and Real Estate Agent,
No. 49 Sears Building, Boston, Mass.
Prepared by
H. H. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS.
Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists.
ootS-wlm
Tie Music House of tie Sol.
ißfiiJ W Ml
COMPETITION
$5!) TO SIOO
Saved by Purchasing at the Augusta
Music House 1
Pianosi Organs
The Most Celebrated Makers.
THE LARGEST AND BEST ASSORT
MENT SOUTH OF BALTIMORE,
At Prices Absolutely Beyog Ccapi jtioii
L P~O S
■Mow I BIOEB^^UICK^^PaLEB
Musical tenwats,
0t Every Variety,
Stieet Music andllusicßoots,
The Latest Publications,
musical merchandise,
And everything pertaining to a
First Class Mosic House*
TUNING AND REPAIRING.
PIANOS, CHURCH, PIPE and REED OR
GANS, and all kinds of Musical Instruments
Tuned and Repaired by Mr. O. H. Taylob, the
best skilled and one*of the most thorough
workmen South. Mr. Taylob devoted nearly
fifteen years is the construction of instru
ments in some of the best factories in this
country, and is the only authorized Tuner for
the AUGUSTA MUSIC HOUSE.
G. O. Robinsos. Ltjddes & Bates.
8. 0. ROBINSON & CO.
oct27-tf 265 Broad Street.
: JOHN FLAKNEBY, JOHN L. JOHNSON.: :
: Managing partner late firm
: L .3. Guilmartm A Cos.,
: 1865 to 1877.
JOHN FLANNERY k CO.,
:: COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
I No. 3 Kelly’s Block, Bay Street,
| Savannah, Georgia.
Agents for Jewell's Mills Yams and Do- :
: mestios. etc , etc.
: BAGGING AND IRON TIES for sale at:
: lowest market rates. Prompt attention given:
: to all business entrusted to us. Liberal cask :
: advances made on consignments,
:: 6* Our Mb FLANNERY having
the entire assets and assumed the liabilities::
: of the late firm of L. J. GUILMABTIN A::
: CO., we will attend to all on to tan ding busi
: ness of that flrm.-g* ]e2o-dt&w6m ;
New Ad vortlNcmeutk.
SEEK NO FURTHER.
Save Time and Money
BY BUYING YOUR DRY GOODS AT THE
Augusta Dry Goods Store,
WHERE YOU WILL FIND
An Immense Stock, All Fresh and New, of the Most Choice Goods
OF THE SEASON, AT THE LOWEST PRICES.
DREBB GOODB—A beautiful line uneurpaesed, newest shades and deeigna, from ICo. to the
finest; Colored Cashmeres. new Shades, from 26c. and upwards; Black Cashmeres, the
Deet make, from 50c. to 01 50; Black Alpacas, the finest lustre and best blaoks, from 26c. and
npwards; Black and Colored Silks, all prices. An immense stook of Kentucky Jeans, from 10c.
and upwards; Cassimeres, Tweeds, Waterproofs. Flannels, Unsays, all prices.
Plmk. 8 , C^ lld ™ n ’ a Undervests and Drawers. A beautiful line Ladies' new style
Cloaks, all prices. Blankets, both white and colored, a large assortment, cheaper than ever
known. Bed Spreads, Quilts and Comforts, at prices unprecedented. A great variety of No
tions. Fancy Goods, Ladies’Neck Ties, Collars and Cuffs. Ribbons, Silk and Linen Handker
chiefs, Corsets, Gloves and Hosiery, all at bottom prioes. Kid Gloves at 50. 75, sl, 91 50 to $2
& T rtm6 . nt ° f „ C ? Uooe8 t ; “ 5- 6. ‘o So. Bleached Shirtings and Sheetings
at the lowest prioes. Domestic Goods at Esotery prioes by the piece. Geods of every descrip
tion usually kept in a First-Class Dry Goods House, suited to the wants of the people, both ui
pnee and quality. r r *
_.AJ WHOLESALE AND RETAlL.—Merchants will flod it to their interest to examine this
stock before purchasing. Orders tilled with care and promptness.
Samples sent on application. I will pay Express charges on all orders for Goods at retail
S7 5 £.™ D lfc?ull?£bSui” ■"““■“'“I! flood. O.
L. RICHARDS,
oct2B-d2iw<i w! y BTIIBET ' AUGUSTA, GA., NEARLY OPPOSITE CENTRAL HOTEL.
CLOAKS!
SILKS!
AND—
DRESS GOODS.
SPECIAL ATTENTION
IS DIRECTED TO OUR
STOCK m THE ABOVE,
WHICH FOR PRICES AND COMPLETENESS OF ASSORTMENT,
Cannot be Matched in the Southern
States.
oc2B-tf JAMES A. GRAY & CO.
THE TRUTH IS MIGHTY.
WE WILL THIS WEEK MAKE BIG REDUCTIONS IN THE PRIOES OF THE FOL
LOWING LINES OF DRY GOODS :
Blanket!!, Quilts,
Comfortables, Flannels,
Cloaks, Shawls, Wool Jackets,
Boulivard Skirts, Hosiery and Gloves,
Corsets, Nubias,
Hamburg Edgings, Etc,, Etc.
We invite the people to examine our stock before purchasing their
supplies. We will be glad to show the goods and give samples for
comparison. We mean what we say in our advertisements.
AUSTIN MULL ARK Y & CO.,
oe2B-tf_ 862 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
MILLER & BUSSEY,
Wholesale and Retail Grocers,
No. 283 Broad Street, Corner Campbell (store formerly occnpied by M.
O’Dowd), offer to dealers and the pnblic at unusually low prices for the
CASH:
40,000 Pounds C. R. D.S. Sides. 50 Barrels Sugar Syrups.
20,000 Pounds C. B. Sides. 300 Rolls Bagging.
io 000 Pounds D. S. Shoulders. 500 Bundles Ties.
-J /'Y FY Boxes Tobacco all Q/Y
-L VA O grades. Ov/ v / Barrels Flour—all grades.
fi A Q/Y/Y Packages Mackerel, in half
LI LI Bags Rio Coffee. OVA I barrels and kits,
tj pr Barrels refined Sugar— pr ( \
{ all grades. 'J VA Barrels Liquors—all kinds.
100 Barrels Reboiled Molas-
Tegether with Apices, Candles, Soaps, Teas, Ac., &c.
All Goods and Weights guaranteed.
MILLER & BUSSEY.
oc9 tf
NEW PROCESS FLOUR.
CRESCENT MILLS,
AUGUSTA, GA.
J. F. & L. J. MILLER, Proprietors.
OUR FANCY FAMILY FLOUR MADE BY NEW PROCESS HAS NO
EQUAL. mh4—d&wly
MYERS & MARCUS,
188 and 288 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.,
—WHOLESALE DEALERS IN—
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes,
Hats, Trunks, Site.
PRICES AS LOW AS IN NEW YORK OR PHILADELPHIA.
A Large and Varied Stock on Hand.
sep3o-snweAwlv
A BETTER DAY HAS COME
ONE THOUSAND CASES
BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS
FOR THE PEOPLE AT
Wm. Mulherin’s, 293 Broad Street.
MERCHANTS who pay Cash will find prices as low as the New fork,
Baltimore and Charleston Markets.
PLANTERS will find a class of goods specially snited for Plantation
services. *
MECHANICS can get, at low prices, BOOTS, SHOES and GAITERS,
that were made to order and are warranted to stand hard service. -
Ajlarge stock of LADIES’, BUSSES and CHILDRENS’ lino SHOES on hand
“Quick Sales and Small Profits” is the motto.
Wm, Mulherin,
oc2B-suwe&frd(fewlm gQ3 Broad Ktreot.
W. S. ROYAL
HAS REMOVED TO THE COMMODIOWS STORE KNOWN AS
THE AUGUSTA SHOE HOUSE,
238 BROAD STREET,
Opposite Masonic Hall.
AND NEARLY OPPOSITE CENTRAL AN© GLOBE HOTELS.
Goats* French Calf Rid Toy Batten Gaiters. Gents* French
Calf, Double Sole, Congress, Box-toe. Gents’ French Calf, Doahle
Sole, Congress, French Tee. Gents’ French Calf, Single Sole
Bex-toe. Beys’ and Yoiths’ Buckle Alex Ties, Sewed. Tenths’
Calf Sewed, High Lneed Beets. The shove Goods are the finest
and bsst ever brought to this city, and will be sold CHEAP FOR
CASH. nov7d&w
