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THE HENCHMAN.
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
My ladv walks her morning round.
My lady's page her fl«*et greyhound.
My lady’s nair the fon£ winds stir.
And all the birds make songs for her.
Her thrushes sing in Rath burn bowers.
And Rathbum side Is gay with flowers;
But ne’er like hers, in flower or bird.
Was l»eauty seen or music heard.
The distance cf the stars is hers;
The least of all h**r worshippers.
Tie* dust l»eiieath her dainty he 1.
She knows not that I see or feel.
O proud and calm! she cannot know
W here'er she goes with her Igo;
O cold and fair ! —she cannot guess
I kneel to share her bound's caress 1
Gay knights h«*side her hunt and hawk,
I rob their ears of her sweet talk;
Her suitors cotr.e from east and west,
I steal her smiles from every guest.
Unheard of her, in loving words,
1 greet her with the song of birds.
I reach her with h -r green-armed bowers,
I kiss her with the lips of flowers.
The hound and I are on her trail.
The wind and I uplift her veil;
As if th • calm, cold moon she were.
And I the tide, I follow her.
As unrebuked as they, 1 share
Tin* license of the sun and air.
And in a common homage hide
My worship from her scorn and pride.
Nor look nor sign l>etrayeth me;
I serve her in my low degree,
Content in humble ways to prove
He serveth well who serves for love.
And still to her my service brings
The reverence due to holy things;
Her maiden pride, her haughty name
31 v dumb devotion shall not shame.
—John Greenleaf Whittier.
Miss Ada Langston, daughter of Dr. A. H.
Langston, of Elbert irounty, while using a nee
dle, placed it in her mouth and accidentally
swallowed it. Lodging cross-wise in her
throat, serious consequences were feared, but
fortunately it was dislodged and the young
lady relieved. Don't put needles or pins in
your mouth.
The meeting of the business men and citizens
of Augusta in the interest of direct trade with
the West Indies appointed th** following repre-
sentativegentlemen to visit Havana; Messrs. J.
O. Mathewson. Jno. M. Clark, W. N. Mereierand
J. V. H. Allen.
The store of Mr. Jacob El>erhart at Goose
Pond Oglethorpe county, was burned Tuesday
night, and the building, together with quite a
large amount of goods, including about five
hundred pounds of fresh liacon, was totally
consumed. It was supposed to have been the
work of an incendiary.
31r. J. Howard shot and wounded policeman
McCafferty in the left arm at Macon on Thurs
day night. The policeman was attempting to
arrest 3Ir. Howard when the latter drew his
pistol and shot him. The wound is not danger
ous, but severe.
On Thursday morning an attempt was made
to burn a residence on Fifth street near the
comer of Plum street. Macon, by setting fire to
the back porch under the stoop. The flames
were opportunely discovered and extinguished.
We made mention in this column a few
days since of a bold theft of seven bales of
cotton from Blackwell's Landing, on the Savan
nah river, in Elbert county, by thieves who
crossed from South Carolina fot thar pur
pose. The parties who had been out on a
search for the cotton came up with the entire
seven bales in Abbeville county, S. C., last
week. Oae of the thieves sends over his affi
davit that he was the only white man connect
ed with the robbery.
This from the Augusta Chronicle and Consti
tutionalist: “With the new year the Savannah
News donned a n»-w and exceedingly handsome
tyi>ographiral dres*. The News is one of the
leading dailies of the South, and it gives us
pleasure to know that its success has been com
mensurate with its merits.'"
The Hartwell Sun has the following: “One
day last week Milton Fuller had four heavy
bales of cotton on his wag< »u. and had crossed
the Savannah river in a flat boat. On ascending
the second hill from the river his oxen turned
(the cotton luckily fell off) and ran into the
river with the wagon. When about the middle
of the river the wagon became uncoupled, and
the oxen came out on the Georgia hank, about
three hundred yards below the regular landing,
with th** fore wheels and tongue ail right. Mil-
ton hod the lines in his hand when they plunged
into the river, and when he reached the hank
threw* them after the oxen, stuttering out. as
usual. 'There, d-d-damn you, g-g-g-go! ’’
The Sandersville Herald and Georgian has
this military item: “Captain I. Herman made a
hurried trip to Atlanta last week in the interest
of Martin's Battery, of Sandersville. He has
assurances from the Executive Department that
no proper efforts will he spared to secure the
early equipment of the old battery. There art*
but two artillery companies now in the State—
one in Savannah and one in Augusta. The
Governor seemed to take a soldierly pride in
*’ ■ reorganization of this company.
Georgia Affairs.
At a meeting of the Green Line held at the
Kimball House, Atlanta, on Wednesday evening,
for tin.* purpose of organization of the lines,
the following railroads were represented: St.
Louis, Iron 3Iountaiu and Southern, Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. I^ouis, Western and Atlan
tic, St. Louis aud Southeastern, South Carolina
Railroad. Georgia Railroad, Atlanta and Char
lotte Air-Line. Atlanta ar.d West Point, Macon
and Brunswick, Port Royal, Alabama and Chat
tanooga, Southwestern. Georgia Central, Cairo
Short Line, Louisville, Nashville and Great
Southern. Owing to the illn**ss of one of the
delegates, no business of importance was trans
acted, the meeting adjourning in consequence
until ten o’clock Thursday.
A meeting of the Southern Railroad and
Steamship Association was held at Atlanta on
Thursday, tin* object of the meeting being the
readjustment of the division of business.
31 r. Charles II. Williams, manager of the At
lanta Daily Tribune, Is a candidate for Secre
tary of the next Senate. He was Assistant Sec
retary of the Constitutional Convent ion, and won
deserved popularity for the ability with which
he filled the position.
The Atlanta Tribune thinks that at least one
thousand people in Atlanta sat down involunta-
rily-on the sidewalks on Tuesday night. It was
“powerful” slippery.
The barn and two thousand pounds of forage,
belonging to Colonel Tom C. Howard, at Kirk
wood, Fultou county, was destroyed by fire on
Tuesday night last, the work e.f an incendiary.
Thursday's Issue of the Atlanta Tribune comes
out under a new head, which is a decided typo
graphical improvement on the old one.
The Franklin Register thinks it would pay
the citizens of Caraesvill.* to give half their
property to fhe building of the proposed rail
road from Camesville to Harmony Grove.
Now. don't let all the citizens speak at once.
The Rex Ball at Atlanta, notwithstanding the
very inclement weather, was a success, and the
merry revellers enjoyed themselves hugely. At
twelve o'clock the gay i>orry unmasked, and
when each stood out in propria itersuiuc it was
discovered that General Pierce Young was Rex.
and the Queen of the Carnival Miss Norma
Clayton.
Carrie Watt, colored, was noprictetl at the
present term of the Muscogee Superior Court
at Columbus, for tho burning of the Locust
Grove Colored Baptist Church in July last.
Robert Banks and Carrie Watts were members
of the church, but had l>oen expelled, and they
set fire to the church in revenge for this action.
Banks made his escape, leaving his partner in
crime to bear tin* brunt of ike law.
The financial exhibit of Fulton county for the
year ending December 31,1877, shows that there
was a balance on hand January 1, 1877, of $5,-
0QS es; that the receipts into the county treas- j .
uiy for the year just closed were $33,450 49, and I Both animal and Vegeta lie
•&r were $50,-
th<
The Hawkinsville Dispatch says : “Dr. Moses
Tomlinson Fort died at his home fourteen miles
below Hawkinsville on Friday afternoon, Janu
ary 4. 1878, aged about fifty-one years. Dr. Fort
was for many years a citizen and practicing
physician of Hawkinsville, and there are many
who will regret the announcement of his death
and feel a sympathy for the stricken widow
and eight children.”
3Ir. A. L Hatton, Tax Collector of Telfair
county, has vamoosed, leaving his sureties to
foot the executions to the amount of two thou
sand eight hundred dollars, issued against him
by the Comptroller General. The Hawkinsville
Dispatch says, in reference to the defalcation:
“Mr. Hatton had always sustained a good name
for integrity, and liis family name was respect
ed for honesty. His great sin was drinking, and
this failing has no doubt led to the trouble, as it
hits in hundreds of other cases. The tax-books
were mutilated and injured considerably, and it
is believed that a considerable amount of the
tax is yet uncollected.”
The Augusta Evening News of Thursday says:
“This morning forty-five negroes from South
Carolina, employed by 3Ir. Ayeock for his tur
pentine farm in Southwestern Georgia, arrived
here and took the Central Railroad train for
th.hr destination. During their short stop at the
Union depot the whole party were taken by
tlieir employer around to Bennett A Howard's,
corner Campbell and Telfair streets, where a
square drink of whisky was dealt out to each
one. It required one gallon of whisky to sup
ply th**m. and a v»*ry lively scene was presented
while the}* were drinking. ’
The North Georgia Citizen says : “The Sr#
vannah News has donned a new dress and pre
sents a very handsome appearance. It is one
of the l>est"dailies in the wnolecountry—always
brimful of spicy news.”
The Elberton Gazette says: “Sheriff Adams,
having so many more prisoners than cells,
placed four negro men in one of the up-stairs
apartments of the jail. Last Monday, pursu
ing his usual morning rounds, h** discovered
that these four had by some means procured
two case-knives which they had converted into
saws and with them had severed four of
tli** iron bars across the window. They
were about half out, and had the dis
covery been postponed a little later,
the jail-birds would have flown. The work
"••is as smoothly done as if a skillful smith
had taken his time to accofupl&i the same. The
bars were half an inch by three inches, and un
less one had seen the knives tried lie could
hardly realize that tho sawing could be done
with them We understand that these prisoners
had plotted to throw a blanket over tlu* Sheriff
when he made hfs appearance, put him hors du
combat, and then away to the *->ods. All this
in the event of failure to escape by the win
dow. The Sheriff, having some intimation of
then designs, frustrated all of them.”
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
FROM THE THEATRE OF WAR.
The
Armistice Negotiations Not
Concluded.
ORGANIZATION OF THE FRENCH
CHAMBERS.
AFFAIRS /_V CHINA.
A HEAVY
SWINDLING
TION.
Forelgn.PolItIeaI Note*.
! shivering
that the disbursements for the
542 53, leaving a balance on hand January 1.
3878, of $8,513 25.
Georgia has 1,364,440 hogs and 1.261,240 in
habitants, one hog for each man. woman and
child, and 200 over. If equally divided, and the
hogs were fat it would about furnish the entire
population with bacon and lard.
Captain J. E. Hitch, formerly business man
ager of the Athens Georgian, his received his
commission as Deputy United States Marshal
for the Ninth District.
The bam, stables, several thousand pounds
of fodder and some corn of 3Ir. John Searls,
of Lincoln county, were entirely consumed by
fire a few days since. Two negroes in the neigh
borhood were arrested on suspicion of being
the incendiaries, and committed to await trial
at the next term of the Superior Court
On Friday last, at Hamilton, Harris county,
H. C. Watson was arrested as the man who
shot at Mr. L H. Zaehery, at Cochran's Cross
Roads, on the Wednesday night preceding.
The officer had Watson in custody, but by some
means he escaped on Sunday.
The Athens Watchman learns that one day
last week, in Madison county. 3lr. Wm. L Lan
ders, aged about twenty-two years, was mar
ried to Mi*» Annie L Nelms, aged eleven years
and five months, who weighs only sixty-eight
pounds.
On Wednesday night last 3Irs. Milley A. Da
vis’ dwelling house, kitehen and lumber house,
at Hartwell, were burned to the ground. A por
tion of the furniture and bedding was saved.
The expense of running the municipality of
Dalton for the past year was $6,640 46, and the
receipts from all sources were $6,711 83, leaving
a balance of $71 87 to start the wheels of pro
gress in 1878.
Freights received and forwarded from the
depot at Gainesville In 1877 were ten per cent,
more than for the year 1876, which indicates
progress in the right direction.
The following named gentlemen will run the
municipality of Toeeoa this year: Major J. 31.
Freeman. Mayor. Councilmen—Dr. A. G. Har
ris, H. W. Jones, S. H. 3Ioseiy, J. W. Payne and
Alford Price. Recorder, L P. Cook.
At Crump & Pampley’s mills, on North river,
in Franklin county, it is estimated that ten thou
sand bushels of wheat and fifteen thousand
bushels of corn were ground during the year
ending December 31st. 1877.
Major J. M. Freeman, the Mayor of Tocoa, is
announced as associate editor of the Tocoa
Herald, so that the Herald is now the official
paper. Its typograplxical appearance would be
improved with a little less ink.
A flr^ on the roof of the Buena Vista Argus
office on Tuesday morning last, caused a gener
al pying of the forms which were nearly ready
for the press, entailing much labor in their re
arrangement. Nevertheless the Argus made
its appearance on time, and though somewhat
deficient in matter, evidences the goaheadativo-
ness of its proprietor and the compositors.
It has been determined by the authorities of
Macon to seil twenty-five thousand dollars
worth of short date currency boode, and with j
the proceeds io take up that amount of the
mutilated city currency. A committee has
also been appointed to confer with the Central
Railroad authorities to endeavor to enter into
some arrangement whereby the city currency
will be received for freight* by the said road.
Jehu Johnston, of Floyd county, bus a mule
he bought in 1860. She was then four years
old. She is now a good mule, and can do as
much work as any ordinary mule, and has lost
none of that agility of the hind legs character
istic tfcea*ute ^edes.
Dots from Northern Georgia.
Sitting in my room in this llttie town
(where I am temporarily stopping), this
chilly January morning, looking through
the window at the snow, the hare trees
the wind, all animation,
seeming lost,
one can scarcely realize that but a few
months ago all the towns upon this the
Air-Line Railroad were thronged witli
<jHv and festive multitudes, many from
Savannah, coming to this sanitary cli
mate, avoiding the miasma common to
the “low country” during the heated
months.
The summer is the season of gayetv
here; there the winter.
Splendid new hotels are being erected
• and completed, old ones remodeled and
elegantly finished, making ready for the
immense crowds of summer resorters ex
pected to fill them.
The improvements, however, all
of this nature—not all dependent upon
t lie bent or fancy of pleasure-seekers for
their sustenance. Manufactories are
springing up. Tho dull times seem but
to stimulate. This being comparatively
anew and undeveloped country, water
powers abundant, fuel cheap, its re
sources extensive, the attention of capi
talists is being concentrated here.
This is especially noticeable in the vil
lage of Noicrdss—but fifty min
utes ride from Atlanta—where I
am to-day. stopping. Manufactories
here have already started — others
to commence at tin early day. Among
the most conspicuous already in opera
tion are those of X. F. C'ooledgc & Sons.
These gentlemen arc manufacturing
quite extensively a novel grist and flour
mill, which will undoubtedly work as
complete a revolution in the old stvlc of
milling as railroads have in the old style
of travel. These mills, novel m struc
ture, can be run with less than half the
power of other mills, can be put in the
place of a gir. and run with horse power.
Another peculiarity is they never heat the
meal.
Another feature of this country quite
noticeable is that emigration to the West
ern States from this section is far short of
that from other sections.
The Air-Line Railroad is doing a great
work towards the development of the
resources of this country. Its officials
are live, active men.
This country’s future is bright, and I
predict that it will soon be, if it is noi
already, the Eden cf the State. B.
Nokcross, January 9.
The exports of cheese from the United
States, as shown by a table prepared by
the Bureau of Statistics, has grown from
144,734 pounds in the year 1790 to 107,-
364,666 " pounds in 18f 7. The total ex-
TIIE ARMISTICE QUESTION NOT YET SET
TLED.
London, January 11.—The Agcnce
Rnsse denies the truth of the state
ment that the Porte has already
accepted a preliminary basis of
peace, and says: “The Porte, how
ever, is aware that the acceptance of
these bases must precede the conclusion
of the armistice.”
Constantinople. January 11, 8:30 a.
3f.—The armistice has not yet been ar
ranged. The Porte lias received the Rus
sian answer to the Turkish communica
tion proposing an armistice, intimating
that negotiations must be conducted on
the basis of eventual peace conditions.
The Porte has not yet replied to this.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT HONOLULU.
San Francisco, January 11.—A fire
at Honolulu devastated the Esplanade por
tion of the city, destroying the govern
ment warehouses opposite, the custom
house wharves and sheds devoted to
the use of the ocean imiil steamers,
lumber yards and a number of private
buildings, including storehouses, manu
facturing establishments, etc. The loss is
about $350,000. The government loses
$60,000, the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany. $26,000; T. S. Davis, $26,000; Al
len & Robinson. $25,000, and W. G.
Invin A Co., $20,000.
affairs in the east.
San Francisco, January 11.—The
steamer Belgic has arrived with advices
from Hong Kong to December 14th and
Shanghai to December 15th. There is
no abatement of the ravages of the famine
in the northern provinces. Vast districts
are being completely depopulated. There
is no possible hope of relief this year or
perhaps next.
The United States Minister had return
ed from Shanghai to Peking. Mr. Brad
ford, late Vice-Consul General at Shang
hai was still in jail.
a heavy swindling operation.
New York, January 11.—Superin
tendent Walling was notified last evening
that Henry M. Cutter, cotton broker, had
swindled John Collins, of Brooklyn, out
of $25,000 worth of cotton by buying it
under the pretence of sending it to North
Adams, Hass., then putting it in a bonded
warehouse, drawing $8,000 and running
away. Cutter owed Collins $5,000 lie-
fore this and $1,000 to the carman for
cartage. Cutter's office was at 131 Pearl
street.”
organization of the french cham
bers.
Verseilles, January 11.—M. Grevy
has been re-elected President of the Depu
ties by 335 votes out of a total of 346.
Many Deputies of the Right abstained
from voting. MM. Bethmont, Brisson
and Rameau, Republicans, and Count
Durfo-t DeCivrac, Legitimist, were elect
ed Vice Presidents. Duke D’Aufret
Pasquier was re-elected President of the
Senate by 172 votes against 6J blank. The
former Vice Presidents were re-elected.
AFFAIRS IN GREECE.
Athens, January 11.—It is asserted
here that an insurrection in Macedonia
is imminent.
Demetrius Bulmaris. the well known
Greek politician, died of apolexy. He
was President of the Provisional Govern
ment of Athens in 1862, and was subse
quently President of Council and Minis
ter of the Interior. At the time of his
death he was Chief of the Greek Re
volutionary Committee.
NOTES FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, January 11.—There is
no news of ifte missing dredge lx>at Mc
Allister.
The tobacco dealers here held a meet
ing and adopted a memorial to Congress,
asking the reduction of the tobacco tax
and drawback on tax already paid.
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange
yesterday paid a dividend of eight dollars
per share to the stockholders.
THE VICTORY AT 8CHIPKA PASS.
Bucharest, January’ 11.—A corres
pondent of the Times says the battalions
captured in Schipka Pass probably num
ber from three hundred to four hundred
men. The victory-will result in a com
bined movement by Generals Radetzky
and Skobeleif through S^hjpka and Tro
jan Passes respectively,
CONSOLIDATED VIRGINIA MINING COM
* PANY.
San Francisco, January 11.—The
Secretary’s report of the Consolidated
Virginia Mining Company, shows cash
on hand at the beginning of the year
$35,012 79; receipts from all sources
$13,864,644 76; disbursements $12,879,-
211 43. including $8,640,000 divindeds.
THE POPE ON THE DEATH OF VICTOR
EMANUEL.
London, Jaawr 11.—The Daily News'
correspondent at lvome says the Pope on
receiving the news of the death of the
King said: “I expected it and I had par
doned him. Let us now pray for the re
pose of his soul. ”
SULIEMAN PASHA RELIEVED.
Vienna, January 11.—The Political
Correspondence's special from Constanti
nople states that Sulicman Pasha has
been relieved from command, and sum
moned to Constantinople.
THE REDUCTION OF THE WHISKY TAX.
Nashville. Tenn., January 11.—A
meeting, with fifty counties represented,
adopted 4 resolution to memorialize Con
gross to reduce the \ihjskytax to fifty
cents.
FAILURE.
New’ York, January 11.—Francis P.
Wyncoop. in the varnish trade, has
failed. Liabilities over a quarter of a
million; assets small.
POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN SPAIN.
Madrid, January 11.—Debarzanallano
and Herrera have been re-elected Presi
dents of the Senate and Deputies respec
tively.
TIIE SURRENDER OF ANTIVART.
Cettinje, January 11.—Antivari sur
rendered unconditionally to the Monte
negrins vesterdav,
FAMOUS DUELS.
How They Fought in Florida—A
Loafing Tour Through the Land ol
Hotspur* — Keminlacence* of the
Time of the Seminole War—A Per
sonal Insult that Led to Haifa Doz
en Fatal Kneoonteni
A Visit to Senator Patterson.—A
Washington dispatch says Senator Pat
terson replied on Monday to a gentleman
who asked him in regard to the current
report of his resignation :
4 J shall not resign under any consider
ation. If Iain to he sick I should lie a fool
to resign, because I can lie here and draw
my thirteen dollars a day. No, sir. I
authorize you to say that I will not re
sign, and those fellows down there will
not rob mo yet of my seat. I am going
to Pennsylvania w'ht*n I get wejl enough
to travel. Simon Cameron has invited
Under the new army regulations every
Prussian soldier carries iu his left trous
ers pocket the plaster, lint and bandage
necessary for a first dressing of a wound,
do that in an emergency each can help
himself or a comrade.
pt rts for the je iod, including bptli those me to visit his farm, and I think I shall
years, has been 1.262,952,571 pounds. dose, but I am subject to these re
lapsed, and I don’t know when another
will come on. I have bec-n worn out by
hard work and hatrassed by refugee
ixmth Carolinians who want situations,
until I am entirely broken down. I do
not intend to abandon South Carolina if
my persecutors will let me go back. My
interests are in the State. I own real
property in Columbia and Charleston. I
wish I did not. I would like to get out,
but I cannot. These stories al»out my
shamming sickness are false. I am un
able to move, and even this conversation
excites me and makes me fear a relapse.
You are the only person, except Be© Sut
ler aud my doctoce, whom I have aefcn
Jwustiiten sjcfc”
TUc Treasurer of Augusta. Me., has
hung a big banner across the street, bear
ing the device: “Treasurer’s office.
Have you paid your taxes ?”
Scarlet fever is spreading so rapidly in
Topeka, Kansas, and vicinity that all the
schools ao$ churtffies are to be closed
uatil the scourge abates.
H. W. Grady. in Philadelphia Weekly Times.
Some of the bloodiest duels on record
were fought in Florida. The Seminole
war, in 1837, brought to the front a lot of j
reckless young blue bloods that were full
of fire and sparkle. Gay livers for the
most part, they headed carelessly through
the world and carried the whole defense
of their lives in their pistol fingers. A pres
sure of the trigger was the answer they
g..ve to protest of deprecation. The brush
they ha i with Osceola and his yellow de
vils warmed them up sharply, and when
Prince Murat settled upon their coast
with a colony of Frenchmen challenges
flew thick and fast. The Frenchman, of
necessity and with pleasure, fought their
way through, and very soon the already
turbulent society of Florida had received
a deeper tinge from the splendid drilling
of the cut and thrust followers of “the
Prince. ” It was in Florida that the feud
began in which the Alstons, Willis and
Augustus, lost tlieir lives. I was sitting
one night in Brown’s hotel—a famous old
rendezvous of forty years’ standing—
pickling myself in orange brandy and
munching soaked biscuit, when a shuf
fling old fellow approached me. I recog
nized him as Mr. Zabran, a ragged post
script to the life of a gentleman,
engaged at the time in the humble
but respectable business of washing
dishes at the hotel. "Do you see
that ragged hole up there over the
furder flj’ brush?” asked the old man.
Upon my replying to the question,
which really did not require an answer,
but was thrown out by the crafty old
gabbler as a lasso, with its interrogatory
loop at the end, he reflectively wound
his cup-towel about him. and sitting
down, remarked: “Well, sir, if all the
blood that was shed in the quarrel in
which that hole was made was smeared
on these walls it would redden up this
whole room, I can tell you.” The san
guinary seduction that the old fellow had
pat into bis story, and pushing him a
glass of brandy, I asked him to tell me all
about it. Then and there, in that musty
and half ruined hotel, full of its wild
and riotous memories, the old fellow told
me a story that for fierce gallantry and
recklessness puts fiction to shame. The
actors in it, of sunny and heroic temper,
of largo wealth and* illustrious lineage,
are dead. Their descendants jet live
and stand high among the highest. Of
course it is impossible to avouch the par
ticular correctness of the details of this
story, or the most of those that follow,
l#lt the general points are believed to Ik*
just as written.
A DUEL OF THE SEMINOLE WAR.
“In the Seminole war,” said Mr. Za
bran, evidently ambling down a well-
worn groove of conversation, “Governor
Call, of this State, commanded a crack
regiment. One morning he received a
note announcing that his wife was quite
ill. He at once repaired to her bedside.
During his absence a battle was fought.
Shortly afterward an article appeared iu
the Chronicle and Sentinel, of Augusta,
insinuating that Governor Call had pur
posely absented himself from the battle.
The paper containing this cruel article
reached the camp, and was at once the
subject of comment. Lieutenant Au
gustus Alston determined, in the ab
sence of his Colonel, to protect his
honor, mounted a horse and plunged
through the woods for Augusta. Reach
ing that city he made his way to the
Chronicle office and demanded to know
the author of the offensive article. It
turned out that it was Governor Reed,
of Florida, for a long time* a bitter politi
cal enemy of Call’s. Lieutenant Alston
at once sent him a peremptory challenge.
Governor Reed replied that he would be
happy to accommodate Lieutenant
Alston with satisfaction as soor as he had
concluded au affair with Lieutenant
Williams, of Call’s staff, who had already
favored him with a note upon the same
subject. Alston thereupon had to con
tent his soul in patience until the affair
with Williams was over. He did not
have to wait long. A meeting was soon
arranged between Reed and Williams,
the conditions of which were that
they were to fight with bowie knives until
one or the other should be cut down.
At the meeting the men came upon the
ground, stripped to their shirts. They
advanced until they met each other. They
then clasped their left hands together in
a firm and dead-game grasp, standing toe
to toe’ The keen and shining knives
were then placed in their right hands. At
a signal they were dropped perpendicu
larly along their legs, At the next word
they were raised into the air, and then
the terrible fencing began. It was a
brief, strenuous struggle. The long
knives cut and gashed and wheezed
through the flesh of the combatants and
clashed and sparkled against each other,
now buried in vital tissues and now
whipped out with a dim, bluish moisture
veiling the blades, until at length Lieut.
Williams fell, hacked almost to pieces.
Governor Reed escaped without dis
abling injury.
a brother’s revenge.
“He then turned his attention to Lieu
tenant Alston. Being the challenged party,
he had the choice of weapons, lie
selected a murderous weapon, now
happily obsolete, but then of common
use, and known as a yager. It was a
broad-mouthed, funnel-shaped, smooth
bore gun that carried a handful of shot,
and was warranted to hit everything in
the neighborhood of its aim. The duel
was a most unfortunate one in its direct
and remote h<suUs, (’attain Kenon was
Lieutenant Alston's second. The princi
pals were posted with tlieir backs to each
other. As the word ‘wheel’ was called
it Is claimed that Alston slipped and
stumbled. The command, ‘Fire—one—
two—three !’ followed almost imme
diately, and before he could re
cover his gun went off into the
air. Governor Reed took cool aim. tired
promptly kt tlio word, and Lieutenant
Alston dropped dead. Thus two gallant
young fellows had already fallen in de
fense of the honor of an absent com
rade. But the cruel feud was hardly
open<*d. Colonel Willis Alston, then
living iu LbtpajrnF-. hearth of his
brothers death, and became impressed
with the idea that be had not been
fairly killed. He claimed that Governor
Reed should have withheld his fire when
he saw his brother’s gun spring aim
lessly toward the skv. Indeed, it is
said that a sister of Lieutenant Alston
had the lead taken from her btouier’s
body and a new bullet moulded, which she
sent lo Culouel Will la Alston. aud de
manded that he should come and avenge
their brother’s death. Colonel Alston
came as fast as possible to this hotel.
Governor Brown met him as he rode up
to the piazza, and at once divined his
purpose. You hgve come here to chal
lenge Reed?’ he asked. Colonel Alston
assented. Governor Brown then begged
him to be very deliberate and cool
and quiet about it. On the very
night he got here, he was sitting
near the fireplace yonder, with
a large cloak around him* and his head
bowed upoij his band, fje had been sit
ting there only a few moments when
some one rushed past him rather roughly,
liaising his head he discovered that it was
Governor Reed, the very man he had
traveled so far to challenge to deadly
combat. In an instant he was ablaze
with excitement, and rising, exclaimed:
‘You have murdered my brother, sir,
and now do you presume to insult me ?
Draw and defend yourself, sir.’ As
quick as thought Reed drew a six-bar
reled pistol and fired, tearing away
Alston’s third finger, just as the latter
poured a broadside into him from a horse
man’s pistol, lodging a hall in his side.
The fire was repeated, each man receiving
another bullet. Colonel Alston was then
out of ammunition, having only two
horseman's pistols. Throwing back his
long cloak, however, he drew his bowie
t^nd closed with his antagonist. In a few
|?ethum strokes Governor Reed was cut
to the floor, and his opponent sank in a
Xajjitipg jjt. i£ taelqe that
that hole
A DEADLY MEETING.
“The two men were taken to their
beds, and for several weeks after were
confined to their rooms. Col. Alston was
the fix st to recover. He was very much
embittered by the contest that hail taken
place, and said that he intended to kill
Governor Reed on sight. A few days
afterward he met Governor Reed on the
street. He went home ami loaded a
double-barreled shot-gun, putting in one
of the liarrels, it is said, a bullet that
his sister ~ had moulded with the lead
taken from his brother’s dead body.
Seeking Reed again, he fired at him on
sight, tearing away his shoulder with the
first barrel and riddling his heart with
the second. This rencontre created the
intensest excitement, and led to some
legal proceeding against Colonel Alston,
which, however, did not result in any
thing. Colonel Alston shortly after this
went K) Texas. He had lieen there
but a short time when he heard
that Dr. John McNeil Stewart,
a man of prominence in Brazoria,
had commented disparagingly upon
his affair with Governor Reed. ‘Meeting
Dr. Stewart upon the prairie a few days
after this report had come to his ears,
he handed him a letter containing the
offensive language and asked him if he
was responsible for it. Pending their
discussion of the matter at issue thev
fell upon each other with great fury. It
appears that Dr. Stewart was armed
with a pair of Colt’s pistols and Colonel
Alston with a bowie-knife and shot-gun.
When found by their friends, Alston was
lying at the root of a large tree, with four
bullet holes through his body. Stewart
was lying near by, with two loads of
bucksiiot in his heart, stark and stiff.
Colonel Alston wa> so badly wounded
that he could only lie carried in a blan
ket, slung hammockwise between two
men. As he was being borne into the
town in this manuer his friends were met
by a company of armed men. who fired a
hundred shots into the blankets, killing
Colonel Alston instantly.”
THE CRUEL CODE.
This feud, involving the death of so
many superb men anti bankrupting two
powerful families, is but one of a thou
sand that might be traced in fatal scarlet
through the system of Southern society.
We have only followed the direct vein of
the feud. 4Vere all the results, direct
and remote, carefully looked up, it
would be found that the publi
cation of that article in the
Chronicle caused the death of a score
of chivalric gentlemen. It is a peculiar
feature, too, that every challenge that
makes up its bloody story was issued in
defense of a comrade’s honor. Prince
Murat, albeit he was a quiet and schol
arly man, was a stickler for the code.
While there is. no record of his having
him>elf fought a duel, his edict was au
thority in dueling circles, and his voice
was never lifted against the practice. All
trace of the warm-spirited Frenchman
and his comrades is swept away. The
shock of war dislodged tlieir influ
ence from the heart of the Floridians,
and it is a mayhap if any one of the in
habitants of Tallahassee now show you
the spot where their royal guest lies
buried. A law against dueling has
oeen enacted, and hands that once played
with the pistol-handle have now per
force gone in terrible earnest to the plow-
handle. And yet there is not a people
upon earth hotter in temper or more
je dous of honor than these swarthy fel
lows, that thirty years ago might have
heard, as they hiy dandling in their cra
dles, the whip-like crack of pistols, as
their fathers popped away at each other
in some convenient glen.
We reproduce the above article from
the Philadelphia Weekly Times in
order that we may correct some of
the misstatements of the writer in
jurious to the fame of one whose
eminent ability, public services, true
chivalry and manly virtues commanded
the esteem and respect of good men who
knew him in life, and entitle him to hon
orable memory now that he is in his
grave. The writer gives his readers some
thrilling details of sanguinary’ scenes,
which, he well remarks, “put fiction to
shame,” and which, he informs us, he ob
tained from a ragged plate washer in a
Tallahassee hotel, “while pickling him
self in orange brandy and munching
soaked biscuit.” We must suppose that
our friend Grady succeeded very effectu
ally in the “pickling” process, for on
no other hypothesis can we account
for his permitting himselF to be so
egregiously imposed upon by that
remarkable “postscript to the life of a
gentleman,” Mr. Zabran, whose narrative
as a whole might be very properly char
acterized as an arrant fiction, with just
an occasional scintillation of truth to aid
the imposition.
For instance, his story of the circum
stances which led to the first blood}*
bowie-knife butchery which he calls a
duel, as well ua the butchery itself, is
without the slightest foundation in truth.
To take up the story in detail: Governor
1835-’6. At the close of the campaign,
and after Gen. Scott had withdrawn till
the troops from the field, it was discovered
that a small garrison had been left in
a block-house on the Withlacoochee. and
were entirely surrounded by the Indians.
The release of these men was considered
a most hazardous if not hopeless under
taking, when Gen. Reed volunteered to
lead a forlorn hope to the rescue. Being
joined by some fifty men, most of whom
had served under liim. he undertook and
successfully accomplished the desperate
enterprise. Procuring at St. Mark’s a
large open barge, he fortified it with
pine plank bulwarks, pierced with loop
holes for musketry. This boat was towed
by steamer to the* mouth of the Withla-
coochce with his small force on board.
After moving some distance up the river,
keeping a sharp lookout for the Indians
and arriving in the vicinity of their camps,
he waited for the darkness of the night.
Then, ordering perfect silence amon£ his
men, he moved noiselessly forward lx*
tween the hmh hanks of the river, while
the pine woods on either side were lit up by
The smouldering camp fires of the unsus
pecting Indians. Arriving in the vicinity
of the block-house, a preconcerted signal
was given, and the half-fainishtd garri
son rushed on board the baa . which
dropped noiselessly down the stream.
Thus the rescue was effected without the
loss of a man or the firing of a gun.
Thisandother like achievements during
the war had given Gen. Reed promotion
and a widespread popularity. Local j>oli
tics ran high at this time in Florida.
General Reed became the leader of i
strong faction. Colonel Augustus Alston
a gentleman of character and great
popularity, was of the opposing party.
In the exciting issues of the day personal
animosities and resentments * were en
gendered, and as leaders of opposing in
terests and parties, these gentlemen were
drawn into an attitude of hostility to each
other, which culminated in the duel in
which the latter fell.
It is unnecessary to enter into a de
tailed account of that fatal meeting.
It is sufficient to say that the duel was
fought with dueling rifles in strict con
formitv with the requirements of the
“bloody code” and the special terms of
meeting agreed upon by the parties.
Both gentlemen liehaved gallantly, no
such absurd and impossible occurrence as
that described by the writer in the Times
took place, and from the day of the duel
until we read his account of it we had
never heard the slightest imputation of
unfairness attributed to either of the
combatants. Both were remarkably cool
and collected on the ground. Colonel
Alston, of a quick, nervous temperament,
fired first, but instantly afterwards
received the fire of his antagonist
and fell dead where he stood.
This duel very naturally caused con
siderable excitement even in Tallahassee,
where at that period such affairs were of
but too frequent occurreace. Col. Willis
Alston at the time of the duel was absent
from the territory. The sisters of the
Alstons being passionately attached to
their brothers, were almost frantic in their
grief, and it was stated that, having ob
tained the fatal bullet, they declared that
they would never rest in peace until with
the same ball Willis had revenged the
death of Augustus.
General Reed was cautioned by his
friends to beware of Willis Alston, but
he had no such meeting with Alston in
the hotel as is descrilted by the writer in
the Times, and received no challenge, nor,
so far as is known, any note of warning
from him. The facts* of this hotel ren
contre are as follows:
Not lon^ after the duel General Reed
was elected to the State Legislature, and
at its organization was made Speaker of
the House. On the evening of that day
the usual legislative dinner was given
in the dining room of Brown’s Hotel. As
the company wore ulxjijt to be seated at
the table a man, nmffied in a large cloak,
with a slouched hat drawn over his fact*,
was seen to enter the outer door of the
room. As the stranger rushed to
wards the spot where General Reid
was still standing, a cry of alarm was
given: “Alston! Alston!” Drawing his
pistol, Alston (for it was he) tired upon
General Reed, striking him in the side,
then hastily retired towards the door by
which he had entered. General Reed
drew a small pistol and fired upon the
retreating form, striking Alston in the
hand, whereupon Alston rushed back,
and, with a bowie knife, inflicted an
other wound upon General Reed, who
was still standing by his chair. In the
midst of the excitement and confusion
Alston disappeared, and v/«»s not seen
again iu Tallahassee for months after
ward, until the day on which he accom
plished his purpose of taking the life of
General Reed.
he would escape or be rescued by his
friends, a party of some twenty or thirty
of the friends of Dr. Stewart, whom he
had killed, took him from the jail and
conveying him to a short distance shot
him to death, every man in the party
putting a ball in his body.
Such iu brief is the true history and
the incidents of this bloody episode in
Southern frontier life.
Pry floods.
Pry floods.
i aiaiie up tfcerek
Call did not “command a crack regi
ment” in the Seminole war—he was not
absent from the field in attendance upon
his wife when a battle was fought—Gov
ernor Reed did not write the article in the
Augusta Chronicle—no such article was
written or published—there was no such
man as “Governor” Reed in the case—
Lieutenant Augustus Alston did not
mount his horse and ride five hundred
miles to Augusta to make a demand on
the editor of the Chronicle—Lieutenant
Alston did nfit challenge Governor Reed
—Governor Reed did not accept a chal
lenge from Lieutenant Williams to fight
a duel—and no such duel with bowie
knives as that so graphically described by
the writer, ever took place between Lieu
tenant Williams and Governor Reed or
anybody else. So much for the duel that
never was fough^
We might, gu on in the same way to
dispose of most of the writer’s state
ments in regard to the duel between Gen.
Leigh Reed and Col. Augustus Alston,
in which the latter was killed. But we
will not attempt to correct in detail all
the misstatements of the writer in regard
to thai unhappy affaji. Dur purpose,
which is ‘merely to disabuse the public
mind, and vindicate the memory of a
brave and honorable gentleman, will be
served by a simple statement of the facts,
as well as we can recollect them.
Leigh Beed wa* . 0 f Tennessee.
He came to Tallahassee, Florida, atxrnt
the year 1831 or ’33, and entered the
law othce of Gen. U. K. Call, at that
time a prominent lawyer and leading
politician of the Jaeksonian-Democratic
school. Modest and retiring in his man
ners young Reed mixed very little with
the public, while he devoted himself al
most exclusively to study, taking no ac
tive part in public affairs. Though of
opposite politics he was personally at
tached to General Call, and it was in rc-
sentng what he regarded as an imputatoin
upon the General’s character, on the elec
tion ground durinjj the contest between
Genera] Call and Hon. Joseph M. White,
for delegate to Congress, that he became
involved in a quarrel with Oscar White,
a nephew of the latter gentleman. This
quarrel led to a hostile meeting between
White and Reed, on the race course,
near Tallahassee, in which both com
batants were wounded, and in which
both men behaved with coolness
and gallantry. On the breaking out
of the Seminole war in ’183-i, Leigh
Reed joined the Florida volunteers
under Gen. Call, and was wounded in the
battle of Withlacoochee. The Florida
forces were formed on the north hank of
the river, in the immediate vicinity of
the battle field, but did not cross the
stream. Gen. Clinch with his small force
having engaged the Indians on the oppo
site bank, Reed, with one or two others
swam the river, joined Clinch's troops,
and fought gallantly through the battle,
receiving a severe wound, but keeping
the fielatill the victory was won.
Returning to Tallaljassee General
Seed raised a betmjjfcm, uffijch
wnugaaded during trie camyaigu of
The manner of that bloody tragedy is
too well known to Georgia and Florida
reiiders to need rehearsal, and we allude
to it here, in its proper connection, only
for the purpose of correcting the false
impression conveyed by the statements of
the writer whose article we are consider
ing. After the affair at the hotel, as we
have stated. Colonel Alston did not lin
ger in Tallahassee, was not confined to
his bed by his wounds, anil (lid pot meet
General Koed in tliu street, but made his j
escape front the city, and on the day of
the tragedy, as at tic time of the attack
at the hotel, was not known to be in the
city either by Governor Brown or any
one else, except it may have been by
some of his partisans, who did not dis
close his secret. The facts are these:
General Reed, who was now United
States Marshal of the territory, had resign
ed his office with a view to remove with his
family to Tennessee. On that day, with
his wife, he had come to the city to de
liver up his official papers, aud was walk
ing along what is now the principal
business street of the town in company
with a friend, when, after they had
passed a small untenanled frame building
some ten or fifteen steps, the door of the
building was suddenly thrown open. Als
ton appeared with a double-barrelled gun,
from which he discharged a heavy !cgd
of buckshot into Reed’s Lack, breaking
his arm, aa.i as the General turned to
face his assailant and attempted to draw
a small pistol from his pocket he re
ceived a second charge of buckshot in
his breast, and fell dead in the street.
Alston was arrested and lodged in jail
for safe keeping, under c strong guard,
<is rescue by his friends was apprehended,
On the following day, UI \ery soon after,
he was brought before a board of magis
trates and hail in heavy bonds taken for
his appearance for trial! When released
from custody he fled to Tcsas Of
course his bad °"r, Torfeited. But
0“ investigation it was found that
the bonds were utterly void, not nav-
ing been taken m accordance with
the law before a hoard of three
qualified magistrates. Three magistrates
officiated, but it was afterwards found
that one of them was not qualified to act
as his commission had some time before
expired. Thus Alston’s bondsmen were
released.
Col. Willis Alston was never again seen
in Georgia or Florida. He returned
to Texas, where he met a vio
lent and a lawless death, not howev-
e • while returning wounded from a
duel on the prairie. Shortly after
reaching the place of his " former
a!>ode in Texas he met at a country store
a party of gentlemen who had been upon
a deer-drive. They had set their loaded
guns down bv the 'door of the store and
were partaking of some refresh
ments when Alston came up. The news
of General Reed's death had reached
them. One of the party, a voung
Doctor Stewart, formerly of Tallahas
see. had received a letter from a friend
giving him the full particulars of the
tragedy. The subject being alluded to.
Alston stated that he had fought a duel
with General Reed and killed him, upon
which Dr. Stewart replied that such was
not the fact, that he had fought no duel
with General Reed, hut had shot him
down in the streets of Tallahassee. A
few fierce words ensued on both sides,
when both the men sprang towards the
loaded guns standing by the door. Each
seized a gun. Stewart "fired first, but in
the excitement missed his aim, when Al
ston fired, and Stewart fell to the ground
dead.
Alrio^ was aiwsted and lodged in a
ve^- insecure log jail But fearing trial
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M. F. FOLEY & CO.,
dtfS-Tu.Th&Stf 27 BARNARD ST.
B. F. MEMA tc €0.,
157 Broughton Street.
Great RednctioQ Id Prices,
ClosingOutonrWinterStock.
4 LL our BOURETTE. KOMOand other Fancy
1 i. Dress Goods at reductions of from 25 to 50
per cent.
All our handsome BASKET PLAID, all wool
dress suitings, at very decided reductions.
All the remaining pieces of our stock of fine
all wool FRENCH CASHMERES, reduced as
follows: From $1 50 to §1 25. from Si 40 to
Si 12Yi, from SI 20 to SU from §1 10 to 90c.. from
$1 O* to H5c.. and lower grades reduced in pro
portion.
All our WOOL CAHSIMFJtES for Men's and
Boys' wear, reduced fully 33 per cent.
BLANKETS, SHAWLS, FLANNELS and all
heavy winter goods at great reductions.
b. f. McKenna & to.
Corsets, Hosiery, Gloves, etc.
HcORSETS—“La Traviata,” “ L’Elegant. "
“Oueen Bess,” “Grand Opera,” “Cinderella,”
"Nonpareil." and oth**r popular brands. Also,
’Abdominal” or “Heulth” Corsets in all sizes.
Prices from 25 cents up.
HOSIERY—Full lines of Ladies’ COTTON
HOSIERY, Fancy Striped. Solid Colored. Em
broidered; BALBRIGGAN*. White and Brown.
Full lines of Children's Fancy Stripe. Solid Color
and White long half and three-quarter HOSE.
Full line of Gentlemen's Stout and Superstout
ENGLISH HALF HOSE.
FRENCH PRUNES.
COX'S GELATINE.
FRESH YEAST CAKES.
BUCKWHEAT.
GEORGIA SYRUP.
CANNED PUMPKIN.
—AT—
A. M. & C. W. WEST'S.
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SI (iAU!
11 pounds Extra C Sugar for.
10 pounds A Sugar for
it
$1 00
. 1 00
rs.
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Soaiitlin's
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Seamless Evaporator.
iUfl.
W()(U),W( >OI>.
A. S. BACON & CO.
H ave a full stock of all kinds of WOOD on
hand, which they are selling at LOW
PRICES.
ORDER BOXES.
Post Office, Bay and Drayton.
L Vogel's. Broughton and Luayton.
Branch & Coqperti. Bro'ughtftn an* 1 Whitaker.
Mrs. Reilly'a. Cor. Jones and Abercorn.
A. M. & C. W. West's, Liberty street.
Wcichselbaum s Drug Store, Barnard and
Wayne. deo4-tf
COAL, C< )AE
J/*A TONS SUPERIOR RED ASH COAL
TU “ Egg <tnd Stove Coal, ex H. W. -Anderson.
150 tons English Bituminous Coal.
Now landing and for sale in lots to suit pur
chasers. Delivered in any part of the cit - *
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CUNNIN'GHAM & H
e city by
EWES.
GRATE
GLOVES—A full assortment of sizes. In three
button, REAL ALEXANDRE KID GLOVES,
winter colors. A full assortment of aJze* In
other Kid Gloves from 50c. per pair upwards.
A choice lot of T^ulie&’ Elegant Hand-work
EMBROIDERED LINEN CAMBRIC HAND
KERCHIEF^.
Ladies’ Handsome LACE BORDERED LIXFN
HANDKERCHIEFS.
Ladies Fine CLEAR LAWN LINEN HAND
KERCHIEFS
JUST RECEIVED.
30 more gross of those fine LEAD PENCILS,
at lc. each or 10c. per dozen.
50 more gross of HAIR PINS, at lc. per pack
age or 10c. per dozen packages.
500 do?en of that popular BASTING COTTON,
at lc. per spool or 10c. per dozen.
100 dozen all LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, at
5c. each.
100 gross Fine LAWN HANDKERCHIEFS, at
5c, each. dec31-tf
HEA1MJUARTEKS
—FOR—
POULTRY, EGGS, BUTTER,
GAME, ETC.,
CHOKE FAMILY GROCERIES
Orders delivered with promptness and free of
dray age.
KILI OUGH & COLLINS,
139 CONGRESS STREET.
jan8 t f
SI;ED POTATf)I:sT
I BBI-S. PURE VERM<>NT EARLY ROSE
tfUU SEED POTATOES.
100 lib Is. JACKSON WHITE POTATOES.
100 lthis. PEERLESS POTATOES.
1U) bbls. CHILI POTAT< >LS.
10U bbls. EARLY GOODRICH POTATOES.
100 bbls. PINK EYE POTAT< >KS.
250 bbls. PEACH BLOW POTATOES.
Warranted all PURE seed. No mixed stock.
For sale by
P. H. WARD & CO.,
Janll-tf SAVANNAH. GA.
FLOUR, HAMS!
4I T I- have just received a car load of GKOR-
" GIA FLOUR, which we will retail as
follows:
Half sacks BEST FAMILY at 3 ‘ 15.
Half sacks CR< >ICE FAMILY at «1 90 and ?2.
trier sacks BEST FAMILY at $1 10.
sacks CHOICE FAMILY at 95c. and $1.
'ar-cured HAMS at 14J4c l>er pound.
(Quarter sa
Quarter sa
Best sugar
A. C. HARMON k
31 WHITAKER STREET.
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10.,
Song 5ooks, &(.
JUST PUBLISHED.
—THE—
SUNSHINE OF SONG,
\ BRIGHT and sunny collection of New
Songs. Ballads and Songs with Choruses,
and with Piano or Reed Organ acoompauirnent.
A book quite American in character, with our
own popular composers, and the class of songs
that are the. gne«*test favorites.
Uniform in style, binding and price with the
“World of Song.” “Gems of English Song,”
and others of the “Library” series, and costs in
Boards $2 50; Cloth $8 00; Fine Gilt $-1 00.
—THE—
CLUSTER OF GEMS.
'fhu a a valuable collection of pieces of a
somewliat advanced character as to difficulty,
and is suited to the tastes of advanced players.
There are 239 pages Sheet Music Size, and the
E ieces, which average about 5 page? each, are
y Leybach, Spindle, Von BuIqw, Lichner, Ru-
benstein, Ascher, Oesten, and other celebrities.
Uniform in style, price and binding, with the
“Sutvihij^e” described above, and with the 27
other books of the famous • Library” series.
In Boards. $2 50; Cloth. S3 00; Fine Gilt. $4 00.
For sale at all the principal music stores. Will
also be mailed, post free, to any adtlre*s. for the
jg| may bo aeot in postage
r^HFX'Jvnnd WHITLOCK'S FLOUR.
L BELLE OF LOGAN FLOUR.
DOOLEY S BAKING POWDER,
A choice assortment of GR£E>f and BLACK
TEAS.
PIPER HEIDSIECK CHAMPAGNE.
NORTH CAROLINA APPLE BRANDY.
CHAMl’AGF. C lf>ER on draught.
Agents f-A- KRUG & CO.'S CHAMPAGNE.
Howe A Hubbell’s WELCOME WHISKY.
Also, a choice assortment of GROCERIES,
ALES, WINES, LIQOUItS and CIGARS, at
JAS. McGKATH & CO’S.,
octai-l t 17 WHITAKER STREET.
PIGS’ FJilET.
TEN HALF BARRELS PIGS’ FEET.
Just received and for sale by
V, L. GILBERT & CO.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
Janll-tf
COFFEE.
000 COFFFE, per American brig
David Babcock, direct from Rio de Janeiro.
Now landing and for sale by
jan8-tf WEED A CORNWELL.
SYRUP.
100 Bfils. CHOICKFLORI DA SYRl P
FOR SALE BY
H.
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MYERS & BROS.
?HESTON COfyiNGHAM.
WM. H. HEWE*.
CUNNINGHAM A HETVES,
9
Grocers & Ship Chandlers,
Corner Bay and Drayton Streets,
SAVANNAH
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GEORGIA
retail price,
stamps.
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OLIVER DITSON & CO.,
Boston.
C. H. DITSON A CO.,
843 Broadway, N. Y.
J. E. DITSON & CO.,
922Chestnut st, Phila.
flits.
MERY FENDERS!
BOLSIIAW’S.
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Linseed A Cotton Seed Oil.
attention:
WT'ILL be sold under foreclosure. FEBRUARY
14th, 1878. at 12 m., the extensive OIL
WORKS on Meridian street. East Boston. Thera
are large buildings. b*st machinery capable of
crushing 1.500 bushels of seed a day. dock
privileges, and about 39,000 feet of land; the
whole at an extraordinary baxgaln. T1 e ma
chinery may perhaps be cold separately. For
particulars apply to
M. FIELD FOWLER,
jan7-4w 27 India street. Boston. Mass.
Soots and Shots.
Cheaper than Ever
—FOR—
THIRTY DAYS!
professional (fards.
DR. GEO. B. DOUGLASS,
OFFICE A.VD RESIDENCE, PAVILION HOTEL,
jul-Ioi savannah, Gfc
HARD WAlRE.
1A A TONS SWEDES IRON.
IUU 15U tons REFINED IRON.
75 tons PLOW STEEL.
300 dozen AXES.
1,500 kegs NAILS.
4v000pajrs TRACES.
LQ00 bogs SHOT. cr aaie by
nortf-tf WEED & CORNWELL.
I ADIES’ and Misses' WHITE
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KID SLIP-
| PELS, $1 50.
Ladies’ Fine BRONZE TOILET SLIPPERS, %i.
Ladies' SERGE KID FOXED BUTTON BOOTS,
Si 30 to S2 30.
Ladies' GOAT and PEBBLE BUTTON BOOTS,
$1 50 to 52 00.
Misses’ and Children’s BUTTON BOOTS, §1 ®
to $1 75.
A large assortment of Fine GENTS' SLIPPERS.
Hand-sewed and Cable GAITERS and BOOTS.
GREAT BARGAINS.
JULIUS SPAXIER,
149 CONGRESS STREET.
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