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REPAIRING NEATLY EXECUTED. The patronage of the public 13 respectful!/ solicited. ap.29-.lf (i. W. GAKRECHT. LiSHT CARBSASES & BUGGIES. kmmm v J. XT'. A ITTuI >, (^AlllllA<ie|ilA.Ni;i’Atrtl EE. 15ERTOX, GEORGIA. IJEST WORKMEN ! REST work: LOWEST PIIICHS! (good Suggios, warranted, - S12 1 ) to 3100 Common Buggies - SIOO. REPAIRING AND BLACKSMITH TNG-. Work done in this line in the very best style. The Best Harness My 2 2-1 v iiismpii. I?. J. SHANNON, Saddler & Harness Maker Is fully prepared to manufacture _II BRIDLES, SADDLES, At the shortest notice, in the host manner, and on reasonable terms. . Shop at John S. Brown's Old Stand. ORDERS SOLICITED. JC. CASRDNER, ELBERTON, OA„ DEALER IN MY 60®. 610C1P.11. H ARD WARE, CROCKERV, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS Notions, &o* ,T, Z. LITTLE, CABINET MAKER Pll JfJf -W~ '-—a i -4' AND UND'SRTAEEE Will close attention to repairing Furniture. Orders in Undertaking fiUedwith dispatch. Shop at Lelir’o old stand T. M. SWIFT. MACK ARNOLD SWIFT Sc ARNOLD, (Successors to T. M. Swilt,) DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. CROCKERY, ROOTS AND SHOES, HARDWARE, &c., Public Square, ELBERTOX G A. HENRY D. SCHMIDT, DRAPER&TAILQR Hes a select stock of goods for Spring and Summer wear, and i full line of samples from which selections may be nude. San.-faction guaranteed in ever}' case. Thankful for past patronage, he cordially so licits a continuance of the same. aplU,Gt THE GAZETTE. ]STew Series. THE GEEAT GOLD SEOEET. CHAPTER X. I’m a gold digger—that’s about what I am. You wouldn’t take me for an En glishman would you now ? No, nor yet any one else that knsw3 me ; but lam though. How old about, should you take me for ? Fifty five eh ? • Well, they all guess somewhere near that; but lam just 37 last month. I dare say you don’t believe it, either, if I told you that all this wrinkling and turning gray was done in one week. Well, it was, and when I think over it all now, and think that here I am alive after it all, I can hardly believe it myself. Would you like to hear about it ? Well, sit down and n ake yourself comfortable, aud I will tel you. It’s nine years ago last Valentine’s day (I remember all the dates well enough,.l warrant ye,) that I was at Frisco with a Yankee, name Seth Hickman. We'd met in Denver,. and stood by each other in a row that happened there, and of course that drew us together a bit; and the end of it was, we agreed to go prospect ing together and “share and share alike.” Seth was a sharp fellow and knew all the likeliest spots, and I could do a day s work with any man in those days though I ain’t much to brag of now; and the end of it was we made a pretty good haul When wo got to Frisco I thought of nothing but banking some of the stuff for a rainy day and having a spveo with the rest, and * then starting off again; but Seth didn’t seem to see it all. Ino ticed that ho looked serious-like, as if he had something on his mind, for the first after we got into the town; and on the day second evening, as we were sitting over our grog T he spoke out: “Jim, old boss, I’m a gwine to tell yew something that narry soul in creation knows about but myself ; f -r if you had not been some smart with your derrin ger when them three skunks went for me down in Denver they might La’ wrote ‘gone up’ over this child ; and no man ever did Seth Hickman a good turn, nor a bad turn neither, but what he got a cocoanut for you [iff ior t tj, you bet your life on that. - When I was ia Arica lasi year I went up country a bit with my rifle and thr I happened on an old Injun critter, as old as* George Washington’s nurse, livin’ in a hut all by himself among the spurs of the Andes and I camped in his hut for the night. “Wal, the aguardient whiskey in my flask war a lectio- too strong for him, and he got reg'iar slewed; and when his tongue got loosened by licker, lie kim out wi' i-it.cb a yarn as whipped every thing in Prescot all to fits. He said that when the Peruvian chiefs stamped ed from Cuzco after Piazarro took it, a lot on ’em got up among the mountains, carrying their gold with ’em till they kim out on the plateau of Lake Titica; and tbav lindin the Spaniards close on their tia.il, they chucked all the gol 1 in to the lake and skedaddled nobody knows where. And he said that if any body took the trail from his hut, north and by east, till they hit the southern end of the lake and then look out lor a big three-cornered rock like a pyramid upside down, they and jest got to scoop in tiie mud of the lake whar the rock’s shadow fell on it at sunrise, and they'd huff gold to buy up all \\ all street.— Now, we've got money to put that job through, and if you feel like tryin it I’m in. ’ I said “done” at once, and we got our money together, and shipped down the coast to Arica as fast as the Pacific steamer could carry 11s. The minute we ge t there, Seth went off into the hills to try and get hold of his old Indian for a guide, while f hunted about for work men—for this was a job that needed more hands than our own. At last I got bold of two Spaniards —two sturdy fellows they were, and honest enough as Spaniards go—and then a Portigee and two niggers. We weru’t long buying our stores and work ing tackle, and by time Seth came back with his guide all was ready we went. Seth was much too knowing a bird to let on what his real game was as long as we were within hail- of the town, for if you say “gold” there only in tt whisper those blessed Gambusinos [gold finders] will hear it a hundred milts off. Ro all we told our gang was that we : were going prospecting among the low er i anges, as lots of fellows did every day; but wnen we were past the old In dian's but and well up among the hills, so that our chaps couldn’t easily turn back if they wanted, he up and told | them the whole story. They were rath er taken aback, as they well might be, for Lake Titica’s a good many days journey to the northeast, among some very awkward mountains and a good thirteen thousand feet above the sea, if it is an inch. However a Spaniard will go pretty nearly anywhere if lie once gets on scent.of gold ;to our fellows they spoke up stoutly enough, and said they were ready to go up to the lake and down to the bottom of it into the bargain, after such a haul as that; and off we started again. I have seen a good many wonders in my time, knocking about the world as I have dune; but anything like that climb up the Andes I never saw yet. Rocks that seemed to go up into the very sky, straight as a plumb line; beds of moss ESTABLISHED 1859. ELBERTON, GEORGIA, JUNE 23. 1875. three or four feet deep, and soft as a veivet cushion; trees two hundred feet high, all one blaze of flowers from top to bottom ; leaves big enough to wrap you up like a blanket; tree-ferns as big as a table cloth, all glittering like the finest silver lace; hummingbirds, monkeys, parrots- and butterflies as broad as the palm of your hand; waterfalls sheer down over great black precipices a thousand feet high ; and far away be hind, the everlasting mountains, piled one above the other till they seemed to go right up to Leaven. Among all these enormous things we eight men. big and strong as we were, seemed of no more account than a lot of ants crawling on a blade of grass ; and I don’t think I ev er felt so small in my life as I did at that time. However, I hadn’t much leisure to think about it at the time, for you can’t expect a fellow to have much of an eye for scenery when he's hacking his way through a great cobweb of branches too thick for the light to get through, with liis boots full of damp vapor bath heat of the woods melting him away bit by bit; fifty prickles going in to him at once a thorn bush scalping him from above, and a creeper tripping him up down below. And so we hammered along, till at last we worked up the plateau, and saw the great lane spreading away before us as far as ever we could see We wern't long of making out the hree-cornered crag nor the shado v neither, for it was just sunrise when we got there, as if 6’ purpose for us ; and once we had made it out we scarcely waited to take breath before we were at it tooth and nail. The first day was a regular blank one till just towards sundown, and then tha Portigee screached out suddenly that he had got something heavy. I helped, him to haul up the pan, and there sure enough, was a bar of gold ovor a foot long, and pretty nigh as thick as my two fingers here. * At that we all shouted at once, and-? went at it Larder Tian ever; afuLf reap ly think our chaps would have worked all night but Seth stopped ’em. He bad! told ’em that the gold wouLdn’t run offA and that if. they put on too ..much pt aa? at first they'd just knock themselves up before they were half through, and that they'd better just light a fire, get dried, have some supper, and fix up sum kmd of a shelter against the dew, and then start fair, the next morning. And so they did The next day and the next and the next after that we kept bringing it up in hanufulis —gold "irclets and chains and necklaces and ingots without end. But on the fifth day I found the provis ions getting so low that I was rather scared, for up here there was no game of any sort, there being no vegetation at that height for the game to live on. So we hold a council of war. Our chaps had the gold fever so into their blood by tnis time that I venly believe they'd have kept digging on till they died of hunger ; but Seth and I, who. were a lit tie cooler, talked them over at last, We to.'d ’em that we and got enough already to make us all rich as Jews, that we must all starve if we didn’t replenish our stock somehow; that ten to one the “find' was played out; and that, in case, the lake was always tin re, and they could come back and try again whenever they liked. So, bit by bit, we worked ’em round, and all started to go back to gether. We’d hard work of it the first part of the way, for our loads were heavy, and stumbling in and out of these great rocks was no joke, let aloae the five days’ work that had taken it out of us more than we expected. One of the Spaniards got a bad fall, and not one of us but had his bruise to show. But at last we got over the barren bit, and found ourselves fairly down among the woods again ; and then I began to be jolly, thinking this was the end of it.— But it wasn’t. It was only the begin ning. CHAPTER 11. One afternoon, when we’d got well down among the lower ranges, we were just looking for a place to camp, as the Spaniard who got hurt Was beginning to give up, when one of the niggers said suddenly— “ Senor, man watch us 1” I looked un. and there, sure enough, was a man—a savage looking fellow enough,’.but evidently no Indian—watch- ■ ing us from the top of a ridge, a little to the left. He kept looking after us for a little while and then disappeared as if the earth had swallowed mm. “Don't like that,” says Seth, “that crit ter’s. seen that we carry a heavy swag, and he’s gone to tell some of his chums, you bet! “Wheifone has a punkin-pie, He goes and tells the t’others !” “I feel like campin’ in a strong place to night, I do !” And so we did—with a deep gorge be ! hind ns going sheer down nearly a hun | dred feet and a thick clump of trees in | our front that mada cover, while beyond it the ground was smooth and. level for j a good eighty yards, so .that no living thing couid come near us without being | seen and fired at. Just as we’d lit our fire, and wen be ] ginning to cook, we saw first one man and then another ; till we’d counted fif i teen in all, come zigzaging in and out of ! the bushes down the face of the oppo • site ridge. They halted just at the e ’ge |of the thicket, and took a look at the | smoke of our fire rising above the trees ; and then two of them laid’ down their rifles, and were coming across the clear ing to us, looking as friendly as they could, when old Seth shoves his head through the leaves, and says in Span ish—• “Gentlemen, we’re talking over a little business of our own, and wish to be pri vate, so you’ll oblige us by keeping your own side, and we’ll keep ours ; for we have a way of shootin things th ,t come too near us, and we would be sorry to hit you by mistake F” Back the two beauties went, looking as silly as a ha’porth o’ treacle in n two gallon jug, and Seth rubbed Lis hands and gave a chuckle. “They’d got a bottle in each hand, them two,’’ says lie; “they war gwine to make us slewed, and then clean out our swag ; but they don t fool this child, no how Naow, you see, they'll wait till dark, and then go for us with a rush— that’s what’s the matter with them —but I guess we'll be ‘not at home’ when they call.” He whispered to me to cut down three or four of the longest creepers and twist them into a rope; and I, guessing what he was up to, did it with a will. In a few minutes we had a rope that would have stood anything ; and then I hitch ed one end round a treo and let drop £he other down the ravine—the rest making a great shouting meanwhile by way of a blind. Then the old Indian, wh® was nimble'as a cat, slid down to the bottom, and we lowered our packa ges to him one by one. “That’s all right,” said Seth ; “now we’ll just take it easy till dark, and then take passage by this new overland line of our'll.” But one can’t take it very easy when there’s a gang of bloodthirsty rascals twice your strength, and armed to the teeih, waiting barely eighty yards off, to cut your throat. “Naow,” says Seth at last, when dark ness had closed in, "1 guess we 11 begin to leave.” But just then, as if this had .been a signal, there came a flash and a bang from tne other side of the clearing, and >■„ “}/ do mu came peppering in among* the trees. I felt something warm spurt over my hands, and the nigger who stood beside me fell all in a heap.— Like iightuing I up piece and fly, and i heard somebody give a yelp that sound ed as if that letter had gone 10 the right address. And then for a few minutes it was just flash, Hash ! bang, bang! like a fire wort—Seth and I keeping ’em in play while the rest slid down one by one And mighty ugly work it was, too, I can tell you, blazing away in the dark with nothing to aim at and hear the bullets come rattling about yon without seeing who sent them. But the rope was ooon dear, and then Seth stuck up the dead nigger against a tree, with Lis gun across th fork of it, that they might see the glint of the barrel, and think we were still or the watch. Then he slid down and I after him. We took the gold out of the nigger’s package snd divided it among us. The rest of the things we threw away, as we had thrown our tools away long before, for our only chance now was to march as light as possible, and then we set for ward along the gully. For sometime we could hear the rascals banging away overhead, but that died away by degrees and there was silence. All night we stumbled along the bot tom of the ravine like men groping in a tunnel, sitting down every now and then to rest, but when day came we saw tne rocks on each side getting lower, and the great black pit spreading out broad er, till at last, a little after sunrise, we came out into the forest again. But just then the other nigger sat down and put his hand to his side. “No can go farther, Senor.” I ran up to him, and blest if he had not got a big bullet wound in his side from last night’s scriinage, an .1 the brave fellow had dragged on all night without saying a gord about it, lest he should keep us Dack! I sat down and took his head on my knee, and he died as quietly as a child ; and we covered him- with leaves, and went forward on. our weary tramp again. Our loads were now necessarily heav ier, and I could see one of the Spaniards beginning to stagger and the old Indian tremoled l ; ke a leaf. Then a horrible fear crept over me they would continue to drop off until there was one left; and then at the thought 1 gave a sort of a veil. But Seth punched me in the ribs and said? “Sh! don’t frighten the rest.” And I set my teeth and choked it down. Presently Seth who[had gotten a little ahead sang out i “Hurrah We all looked up. “Here is something civilized at last, by the hoe-cake.! Guess we’ve struck the right path without knowing it. Look here.” Just in front cf us was a gully about 40 feet deep, through which ran a small stream, across it lay a bridge. Then wo ail shouted at once and stepped out to crass it; but all in a moment the old Indian who was one of the hindmost, lurched over the edge aud went slap I down into the water, and the gold he ! carried sunk him at once like a stone.— ISo now we were cut down to five, and i had lost our guide in the bargain. I “That’s a bad job,” saysjj Seth ; “but never mind, boys—we must jest steer by Vol. IY-Xo. 8. the light of natur’ now, Whar thar’s a bridge like that, tlrnr oughter be a trail somewhar” Sure enough there was a trail, and we tried to follow it, but we soon lost it, and tramped on all day at haphazard, i trying to steer by the sun. ! Towards evening we halted to eat and then pushed on again hot fot; for that was the last of our provisions Just as the moon rose we came upon a gully with a bridge across it, and there stopped and looked at each other—a look I shall never forget. It was the same bridge wo had crossed twelve hours before! That minute is one of the thing I nev er like to think of. There we were, lost in a tropical forest, and not a morsel of food left! “Well, boys,” says Seth [who was our mainstay throughout] “we re in a kind of a fix, there ain’t no denyin' it. Naow, I calc late this bridge ain’t been long built by tho look of it, and so, instead o’ goin’ losin’ ourselves outer every body’s way, I guess we’ll jest stick here till some party picks us up—it won t be long I reeiu’. That's my idee; how does it strike you 1” We all agreed at once, wo had gone too far for any more marching. So we sat down here for three days, bearing it as well as we could, and trying to shoot game between whiles. But our eyes were too dim, and our hands to shaky for that; and tho birds and monkeys scurried past, chattering and screaming as if in mockery. And at last we coul 1 not keep it o.ff any longer. And it eaiuo. The Spaniard died first, and no won der, poor fellow! for though some of them are brave men ns ever stepped, they haven’t the pith aud fibre of an Englishman. The Portigee held out longer, for he had the heart of a lion ; but at last he went too, and old Seth and I were left alone. “Seth,” says I “let’s burry these poor fellows while we can ; for if they are left lying here and our hunger gets worse, we might be driven to —yon know !” So we wrapped the poor fellows in their blankets, with a heavy stone in each, and rolled them over the edge of the ravine down into the water. Me buried the gold too, and marked the spot, in case anything should turn up to save us at tlw/last; and then we lay down again, as if we had nothing left to do but to die. And after that everything seems blur red and hazy, like a drtaru. The trees and the rocks and the sky seemed to go round and round in a whirl, and old Seth stood up as tall as a steeple, and great black things came out of the bushes and made faces at me ; and then I was sit ting under the old tree in the church yard at home, snd heard my old mother s voice (who has been dead this five and twenty years) aa plain as print; till all at once there were men’s voices all around us, and I felt somebody lifting my head and pouring someting into my mouth, and then I fainted right off. We kid been picked up by a party coming back from the mines, and they carried us down with them to Arica; and when we got round again went back and dug up the gold and gave a lumping lot of it to the wives and children of the poor fellows that had died for us. But when I got back after that last week's work my hair was quite gray —as gray as you see iL now. And tbats all the story. TEE UIVIL EIGHTS AO P, Declared Constitutional by a Life-long De mocrat. At Winona, Minn, June Bth, Judge It. It. Nelson, of the United States Dis trict Court, rendered an opinion affirm ing the constitutionality of the supple mental Civil Rights law. As Judge Nel son has, been a life-long Democrat, his emphatic opinion produces no little astonishment among politicians as well as lawyers. His opinion was given in response to a request by the the grand jury, before whom a cause was brought by the District Attorney under the Civil Rights bill. After reciting the provis ions of the last three amendments to the Constitution, and after alluding to the celebrated slaughter house decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Nelson proceeds: “I call your attention to this case for the reason that several distinguished Federal District Judges and an eminent Circuit Judge, in instructing grand ju ries upon the presentation of similar question, have considered that the in terpretation by the United States Su preme Court of this first section of tho Fourteenth Amendment is judgment against the constitution, and have, there fore given a negative reply to the ques tion propounded. With great respect for the opinions of these Judges, I cannot assent their conclusions, and while I have no sympathy with this kind of Congressional legislation, and believe that the State government should not puuish all wrong or outrage of this still I think where race, color, or nativity or political belief furnishes the only reason for the commission of such wrong or outrage, a proper occasion arises for the exercise of the power of Congress under this amendment. The objection urged against such a law is that it seeks to punish in the Federal Courts a violation of certain privileges which pertain to to State citizenship. It is not doubted that the punishment of ordinary offenso' against the persons of anyjjraee belongs to the State governments. They were created for the purpose of protecting life, liberty and pursuit of individual happi ness, and should Igislate for the object. Yet as the Fourteenth Amendment ere ates citizenship and guarantees tho equality of all citizens before the law, I think Congress cm provide for tho punishment of individuals who deprive any person of tho enjoyment of tho rights of citizenship and legal equality solely on account of race or color. These rights and privileges are derived from the Federal Government, and are under its protection. It will be con ceded, I think, that a State legislation/ making it an offense to refuse the enjoy ment- of hotel accommodations to white persons, would be repugnant to the amendment. If so, cannot Congress in terpose until some unfriendly and dis criminating State law is passed? Must it confine its action to correct obnoxious legislation, not restrain individuals’? In the case of McCulloch vs. tho State of Maryland (4th Wheaton, pp. 400 and 437) the construction of the grant legis lative power, under Constitution as it stood before the recent amendments, was fully discussed and it was decided within the grant of power to Congress for the purses of legislation, it may se lect any proper means of effecting the object in view, and may adopt and which might bo appropriate and which were conducive to the end. Applying the reasoning of the Court to this case, where the express power to enforce the provisory of tho amendment is given in the fifth section, it seems to me that Congress can legislate, even though a State had passed no obnoxious law, and may also in advance, by such enactments as it may deem suitable and necessary, remedy tho evil against which the amendment proposes to guard. If the opinon in the caso correctly represents the extent of Congressional legislation, the power of Congress can be exerted to put down all outrage or discrimination on the part of individuals whon the mo tivo originates only in race or color. I do not deem it necessary, at this time, to more fully discuss this question. The law is, in my opinion, ermtitu tional,. RULES FOR HIVING BEES. Allow ne one to stir or make the least noise while tho bees are lighting What! Not blow a horn, or ring a bell, or drum on a tin pan, or throw dust or water? Not do anything? Yes, reader; just exactly do nothing but keep still. Now, I have fol'owed this rule in over eight hundred swarms I have hived for myself and I toll you tho broad fact, I have not lost a single swarm in all that number. Bees will not go two hundred feet from the hive they come out of if you let all be pci feet ly quiet and thore is anything to tight on. My Mot oho out of a hundred swanns go over one hundred feet before they always light. So it will be with your bees, reader. So make it a rule to have no stirring, no noise, but all quiet until they are well lighted. Then bring out the hive from tho cool cellar—where it has been but a day or two, lest it got damp and moldy —neat and clean, and as you of course have tho Strips of boards or sticks,, boards, hiving cloth, etc.., ready, proceed to place your ladder and platform in the tree or on the ground, and other appli ances, so that before the last bee has lit you are ready to hive them. Never put a swarm of bees directly into a hive. You ask why not ? Because if you do the bees may not know it is a hive they arc in, but only think they havo had a slight accident or jar while yet on their lighting-limb or placo. So they will leave the hive and go off to the woods, because they don’t know they are hived. Hence, you will place tho hive so that when shaken off the limb they lit on, they all have to creep buzzing into tho hive and all go voluntarily up on tho in side of it. Then they all will not make tho mistake of thinking they are not hived, but will know they have accepted a hive. You need not he very quiet or slow about making bees go into a hive. You minded the bees till they lit, now is tho time to change and make them mind yon. So a gentle rudeness in shaking them off tho limb is as good as saying to them, “Bees, you have left your lighting place.” If they don’t go in tlio hivo readily take a dipper or flat piece of shingle or board, dip up a few, a pint or so, and shake them roughly close to the hivo, as if to say, “There is the hive, why don’t you seo it?” Then brush rap idly,but gently, the rest towards the hive. As soon as the most of them are in, be read to remove them to their permanent stand Thus you avoid the coming out of a second swarm, and the lighting and commingling of the few bees always un easy and living about the swarm, and who doubtless are the ones that find and lead the swarms off to some hollow treo or log in the woods. These bees are rarely over twenty or fifty in number; often not ten of them. Remember to shade tho new hive from tho sun until the hatched brood is in the new comb.—[Dr. S. J. Parker in Germantown Telegraph. There is an old story of a man who went to a country store aud wished to make some purchaso on credit. “We don’t trust strangers here," remarked the storekeeper. “Why not?’ asked the customer: “We don’t know them, was the answer. “But you know me, said the customer, mentioning his name. “Oh! ah ! yes.” exclaimed the store keeper recollecting the name ; “we don t. trust our acquaintances.” “Why not ? ’ again inquired the customer. “We do know them,"replied tho otber^ “Ish dere some ledder here for me ? ’ inquired a German at a city post office reee tly. ’ “No—none here,” was the re ply. “Vhell dot ish queer,” he contin ued, getting his head into the window, “my neighbor gets somedimes dree led dera in one day unt I geds none. I bays more daxes as he does, unt I hat nefer got one ledder yed. How comes dose dingß ?”