Newspaper Page Text
VOL. XIX.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1877.
NO. 302
THE LEAP OF KOIHIIAV BED.
i>
\V. LONGFELLOW IN THE
AKV ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
Mounted on Kyrat sirongand fleet.
His chestnut steed with four white feet
lUiuslinn Bep, called Kurroglou,
Smi of tin* road and bandit chief,
seeking refuge and relie,
Up tin* in on main pathway flew.
to agree to anything, provided he
could have a merry life here on
earth.
Such was Kyrat’s matchless speed
Never yet could any steed
Reach t lie dust-cloud in his course;
than maiden. more than wife’
Mon
Mon* than gold and next to life,
Roushan, the robber, loved his horse.
In the land that lies beyond"
Kriznom and Trobizond
Garden-girt his fortress stood;
Plundered khan or caravan
Journeying north from Koordistan,
Gave him wealth and wine and
Seven hundred and fourscore
Men-at-arms his livery wore, -
Mid ids bidding night and day;
Now through regions all unknown
Ife was wandering, lost alone,
Seeking without guide his way.
Suddenly the pathway ends.
Sheer the precipice descends,
Ix)ud tlie torrent roars unseen;
Thirty feet from side to side
Yawns the chasm; on air must ride
He who crosses-this ravine.
Following close in ills pursuit,
At the precipice's foot
Keylian, the Arab ofOriah,
Halted with ills hundred men.
Shouting upward from the glen,
“La al Allah! Allah-la!”
Gentiy Kousliun B<*g caressed
Kyrat’s forehead, neck and breast
Kissed him upon botli his eves;
Sang to him in his wild way
As upon tlie topmost spray
Sings a bird before it flies.
“Oh my Kyrat, O my stood,
id slender as a reed.
Round and
Carry me this danger through!
Katin housings shall he thine.
Shoes of gold. O Kyrat mine!
O thou soul of Kurroglou!
“Soft thy skin as silken skein,
Soft as woman's hair thy inane,
Tender are thine eyes and true;
All thy hoofs like ivory shine,
Polished bright. O life of mine,
I.esp, and rescue Kuriogiou!”
Kyrat then, the strong and fleet.
Drew together his four white feet,
Paused a moment on the verge.
Measured with his eye the space.
And into the air’s embrace
Leaped as leaps the ocean.surge.
As tlie surge o'er silt and sand
Hears a swimmer safe to land,
Kyrat safe his rider bore;
Rattling down the deep abyss,
Fragments of tlie precipice'
Rolled like pebbles on ashore.
Roushan's tasseld cap of red
Trembled not upon his bead;
Careless sat he and upright;
lie
Neither hand nor bridle shook.
Nor his head he turned to look.
As lie galloped out of sight.
Flash of harness in the air,
Seen n moment like the glare
Of a sword drawn from its sheath!
Thus tlie phantom horseman passed;
on “ ''
And the shadow that he east
Leaped Ihe cataract underneath.
Reylian, tlie Arab, held his breath,
While this vision of life and death
Pressed above him. “Allah hu!"
Cried he; ’in all Koordlstan
Rreathes there not so brave a man
As tliis robber Kurroglou!’’
THE THREE WISHES.
ABBAXGFO FROM THF. GF.MMAX.
(Jeorge was a .stupid follow; so stu
pid that Ins father, when dying, will
ed all his possessions to his younger
son, Hans, who, lie trusted", knew
enough not to make nine into one, or
ten into naught, as George would
surely have done. Shortly after his
father’s death, as George had noi a
penny, nor was likely to have one
unless he earned it—something lie
was not at all willing to do—he went
to borrow or beg one from his rielier
brother; but tliis affectionate relative
very kindly told him to “go to the
Devil,” when ho heard his request.
Thereupon George immediately ran
to the schoolmaster, who was, he
thought, most .it to tell him how to
follow his brother’s advice, lie 1 icing
the most learned man in the village.
But the schoolmaster thought very
naturally that George wished some
thing more substantial than good ad
vice; so, first looking around carefully
to see that no one was near, lie, too,
said, “goto the Devil,” and shut the
door in his guest’s face.
Poor George was puzzled as to the
manner of finding the person he was
sent to, hut he resolved to go out into
the world, where perhaps he might
meet him. However, lie first went to
say “good-bye” to Elsie, the belle of
the village, with whom he had been
in love since he wore petticoats.
Strange to say, she repeated the ad
vice already given him, in a most em
phatic manner, with u shrug of her
pretty plump shoulders.
Just at this time the Devil had cer
tainly broken loose, for it was during
the "thirty-years war; but though
there were to be seen footprints every
where, it was difficult to catch him }n
propria personae. In order to have
good food ami drink George enlisted,
and among his comrades our friend
heard many stories of his majesty,
though when his ardent desire to
make his personal acquaintance, m ss
known, the soldiers fled in terror.
One night, however, he sat around a
watch fire with someof them, endeav
oring to keep awake and warm, by
exciting stories of witches and won
ders and such pleasant things.
At length one, more venturesome
than the rest, offered to sell himself
to Beelzebub for a sack of gold.
“And so would I, if I only knew
where to find him,” said "George,
eagerly.
“To find him? That’s easy enough,”
laughed old Walloonet. “Will you
try?”
“I should like nothing better,” re
plied our hero, but liis comrades cross
ed themselves.
When they hail all gone to sleep ex
cept George "and himself, Walloonet
asked if he was serious in his desire to
make acquaintance with the Devil.
“Certainly,” replied George. “I
was advised to do so by all my friends,
and have only not doiie it before be
cause I could not find him.”
“Well, I can teach you quickly
enough, but you mustpromise me one
hundred dollars if I do,”
George declared his willingness to
do so, but his inability also, for he
had spent all his pay", and plunder
had been scarce in the few days pre
ceding.
“Stupid head!”growled Walloonet.
“I don’t mean now, but when you
have ended your contract with "the
Devil.”
To this George acceded, and the old
soldier gave him all tlie proper in
structions.
The following midnight found
George where the four cross roads
meet; magical roots were in his hand,
a charmed circle had been made
around him with humanbpnes, which
sprinkled plentifully the fields
about. After George h"ad fearlessly
uttered the necessary invocation a
number of times, he felt some one pull
bis ear, and turning around lie saw a
hunter by his side, but with horns,
tail and cloven feet, which he took no
pains to bide.
George touched his cap politely and
^id, “Good evening, Mr. Satan!”
"It’s you, is it, George? Well, what
do you wish ?” said his majesty, smil-
in gjy.
tune y°u to make my for-
, was the re ady answer.
...»" I shall not have to waste
w QTdI on you, I foresee. But
, J0 - Vou understand the terms which I
.iequire?”
\ tJeorgfc4 9gujr€ ^ him of his readiness
“Well, I will allow you twenty-five
years of merriment and pleasure, hut
then you are mine.”
“All right,” said George.
“And now, what am I to give you
in exchange for your soul ?”
George thought a moment or two,
but the only thing of which he could
think, was the asking for three wish
es, which he did. The Devil laughed
aloud at this. “What! that old story
is not dead yet? But it’s all right:
conic and sign the contract.”
He took a sheet of paper from his
breast-pocket, the only clean thing
about him, showed George how to
draw blood from his finger tip to sign
it with; then placed his own signature
upon it wit i a pencil of sulphur and
phosphorus, tied the roll carefully
with a long worm, put it in his coat
pocket, and said with pleased grim
aces:
“Now wish quickly; I have much
work to do.”
“First, I wish for a great bag of
gold, and a wheelbarrow to earrv it
on.”
The Devil nodded, and quick as a
flash a wheelbarrow with a bag of
shining gold stood besides the delight
ed George.
“Secondly, I wish Elsie would love
me enough to wish to marry me.”
The Devil nodded again with half
closed eyes, made a waving motion in
the air with his hand, and said:
“That will he all right, and now
your third wish.”
But George’s thought had gone as
far as possible in one day, so he said
lie M ould like to talk the matter over
M’ith Elsie and find out what she
would like.
“Very well. You have enough to
torment you for the present: a wife
and money,” said the Devil. “Fare
well, and be happy.” So saying, he
vanished.
George seized tlie wheelbarroM-
with a gay heart, paid Walloonet the
sum promised, and trundled off' to-
M ard his native village. By dawn,
to his surprise, he sumt Elsie running
and springing to meet him. How de
lighted he M r as. They hastened to the
nearest church, were made one in a
trice, and the then proceeded home
ward.
I cannot picture Elsie’s surprise
M’lien she heard of the contents of the
great sack. No matter Iiom* often she
rubbed her eyes or how widely she
opened them, their still shone the
bright gold—a solid reality; not a
dream.
She felt a little frightened when she
heard that her husband had only
twenty-five years in which to enjoy
the honey of life, but by degrees she
became accustomed to the idea, and
concluded, M'ith him, that it was bet
ter to live a quarter of a century in
dulce jubilo, than drag along double
that term in misery and discontent.
“We will buy a good farm with a
new house,” she said, “and twenty
head of cattle. And you must wish
the enemy M ould never come in our
neighborhood, and that you only had
black hair instead of your stiff' yellow
hair, and a smooth, rosy face, instead
your pock-pitted one, and a long blue
coat with bright silver buttons.”
George nodded his head contented
ly, though a little doubtfully.
* “Then I must have something for
myself. So I wish that I may always
be young and pretty as now, and have
the nicest dresses in the whole coun
try.” George nodded again with a
pleased face.
“Then we M ill need more money;
and we must have a closet no thief
can enter.”
“And a great cask of Nuremburg
beer that Mill last forever,” added
George phlegmatically.
“And an invisible servant to do all
cooking ami housework while I am
asleep,” said Elsie.
“And a soft arm-chair which will
carry me all over the house,” added
George, quite lost in delightful antici
pation of his prospective luxury.
“And a pair of gold shoebuckles for
me !”
“Roast pork anti cherry cake forme
every day!”
“And a—oh, dear!” said Elsie, sud
denly checked in her enthusiasm
George looked at her questioning-
iy.
“Ah! M-e have M'isheil for so much
already, and yet there is still so much
mo need. How can all that lie got
M'ith one wish?”
“I’ll see to that,” said George, com
posedly. “The Devil must keep his
M-ord, and I’ll call him to-night and
talk the matter over.”
But George did not need to M'ait for
midnight and a magic circle, for Satan
is never far from the souls he OM'ns.
Indeed during this conversation he
had been listening behind the bushes
M’liieh bordered the roadside, and noM'
nodded and winked to George to come
to him.
“I have heard your whole conversa
tion,” he said, laughing till poison ran
like tears over his red lace. “But the
five hundred things yon have wished
for cannot be got at once. So choose
which you M'ant most, make your
third M'ish and lets end the affair.”
Nom- in the M'hole world there M’a3
not a more cool, collected person than
George, so he M'as not the least distil riv
ed by Satan’s jokes or ridicule.
“Come hurry up,” added the Devil.
“Do you suppose I have time to both
er M'ith you for an hour?”
“You see that since I cannot have
all I have M’islied for out of this third
M'ish—”
“Well!”
“Then,” said George, scratching
his head, thoughtfully, “then I M'ish
that I had three more wishes.”
Our hero said this as simply and
quietly as if it M as the most natural
thing in tlie world, and in truth so it
appeared to him. It M as like the egg
of Columbus—a perfectly simple
thought, but one which would never
have occurred to any one less stupid
than George.
When Beelzebub heard the M'ish lie
started a moment as if almost discon
certed. He felt almost as as if he had
gone on the ice for the first time to
skate, a little tottering and cold, for
he foresaM' at a glance to what such a
M'ish might lead. But he trusted to
George’s stupidity not to see it also,
so he replied in a*matter-of-fact tone:
“Very good. Go on, I am in a hur
ry.”
“I M’ant a fine farm, with twenty
com's and a handsome house.”
The Devil waved his hand of phos
phorus through the air and suddenly
the roof of a stately house arose above
tlie bushes and the loM’ing of com's
Bounded melodiously in George’s ear.
“Next I M'ant a great cask of Nu
remburg beer that M-ill never give
out.”
Again Satan’s hand made signs
hither and thither.
“Done! now thirdly and lastly!” he
said, a little uneasy.
“Thirdly, I want”—Geopge paus
ed.
“Make an end—I’ve no time to
spare,” growled Beelzebub.
“Thiraly, I wish—I M’ish—I had
three wishes more.”
“Thunder!” shouted the Devil.
“Goon!”
Now came the various M'ishes for
Elsie and himself, forcontinued youth
of the one, and moving ann-chair for
the other, but he recollected the roast-
pork for himself, and the golden shoe
buckles for Elsie, in time to say:
“Thirdly, I M’ish for three" more
M’ishes!”
By this time George had begun to
think it M’ould be better, perhaps, to
reserve some of his M'ishes for the
twenty-five years of his life, so lie
laughingly said lie M ould keep his
last M'ish for the next day. To this
Satan M'as obliged to agree, Mulling or
not; so, green M’ith rage, and howling
M’ith fury, he ran aM’ay.
But George, with curly black hair,
and blue coat M’ith enormous silver
buttons, walked proudly into his new
house M'ith Elsie on his" arm, the pret
tiest woman with the prettiest dresses
to be seen in the entire neighborhood;
with everything ready to their liand,
and nothing to do but enjoy them
selves and fancy M’hat they" needed
next.
At midnight George M’eut to the
cross-roads again, for he and Elsie
had thought of a host of needful
things. The Devil came when called
spitting fire and flame, from fury, and
George M’ished again. He wished to
be the richest peasant in the country,
that his fields should yield harvest
without planting; that if the enemy
came his property should be invisible;
and then that there might be peace,
for fear that the sound of the cannon
should disturb his afternoon nap.
But after a time these wishes greM'
tame and he began to amuse himself
at Satan’s expense. Once he wished
that his majesty should dunce a min
ute before him, which lie did, though
yellow M'ith wrath. Then again, that
he should stand on one foot for ail
hour and listen to hymns!
So time passed away, twenty-four
years, eleven months twenty-nine
days—the last month of George’s pro
bation had only thirty days—and now
his final hour nad come. Long be
fore, he had M'islied that he and his
Elsie should be good, true people, and
this, too, had come to pass. So he
waited M’ithout anxiety for the coming
hour. At eleven o’clock ho sat in his
arm chair, placidly smoking his meer
schaum, M’hen Satan appeared before
him M'ithout waiting for a call.
“Eleven o’clock!” hissed the tor
mented Devil. “One hour and you
are mine; then I’ll pay you for the
tM'enty-fi ve years that are gone. Nom'
what do you want?”
“Three M'ishes more,” said George,
M’ith composure.
“Well!”
“First, play a game of cards M’ith
me and stake the tip of your tail on
it.”
“Have you nothing better to think
of in your last hour than jokes?” in
quired Satan, sullenlv.
“No!” .
“Then M’e’ll play,” taking a pack of
cards from his pocket.
“Secondly, I wish for all the
trumps!”
The Devil groaned aloud. They
played, he lost, and George pocketed
the bit of tail M’ith visible pleasure,
M'hile Satan grit his teeth with pain
In a few seconds it M’ould strike
tMelve. Beelzebub’s red face grew
bright, liis eyes rolled M'ith anticipa
tion, and he leaned eagerly forward
“One more M’ish,” said George
quietly.
“Out M’ith it,” croaked the Devil.
Tlie clock began to strike.
One!—tM’o!
“Thirdly, I M’ish—” said George
thoughtfully.
Three!—four!
“I M’ish—”
Five!—six!
“What?” howled Satan.
Seven!—eight!—nine!
“That our contract should be null
and void!” exclaimed George trium
phantly. -
. A clap of thunder shook the house,
the Devil vanished in a flash of light
ning, and the clock struck loudly:
Ten!—eleven!—twelve.
Tlie thunder had aM’akened Elsie
and she rushed into the room to fine.
George standing before his chair
laughing till his sides ached.
“What is the matter? Have you
lost your senses?” she demanded."
“No, hut come to bed, or I shall
laugh myself dead.”
BURNING VIRGINIA HOMES.
Mitfor General Hauler and HI a Feder
al*—Willing Tool* to Destroy Happy
Home*—Eloquent But Withering Let
ter of Hr*. Lee.
TWA IX AT THE WBITTMKM
XF.M.
Since this adventure, the Devil has
been very shy about making bargains
M’ith people noted for stupidity.
WIIOSF BOG .**
Justice Godney Essays King Solomon
Again and now with Happy Results.
From the New York Am.]
The trial of adogcasebetM’een Silas
S. Lewis and James S. Conlin served
to croM’d the Eighth District Court
room all day the other day. Among
the witnesses examined were Colonel
Bruce, of the Turf, Field and Farm,
Major Farwell, and many other gen
tlemen interested in hunting, M’ho
M’ere visitors at the shooting gallery
of the defendant. The testimony
M’as very conflicting. The plaintiff
stated that the dog was a gift to him,
and that he had strayed from the
house and had been led off by a dis
trict telegraph boy. The boy testified
that he had found the dog near the
plaintifFs house, and that the de
fendant had taken him aM’ay from
him. This the defendant did not de
ny, but he averred that the dog had
strayed from him, and that he was
merely getting back his own property.
The defendant’s witnesses who testi
fied to his own ownership were
many, but some M*ere not sure that it
Mas the same dog in the court room.
The dog being alloM'ed to roam at
will in the court room, very wisely
selected an open windoM', and put his
nose out of it.
The plaintiff testified that the dog
M as well trained, and M’ould perform
a number of tricks.
“I tried last M’eek,” the Justice said
at length, ‘To play King Solomon
and let the dog help me reach a deci
sion, and I failed; I will try another
experiment. Suppose tlie" litigants
make the dog perform.”
An impromptu circus M’as here
opened in the court room. The plain
tiff, taking his whip, made a hood
through M’hich the dog bounded and
rebounded; then through the plain-
tifFs arms held open. The dog lay
doM’n, stood up, fetched the whip,
and “down charged” at the M’ord.
“Nom - let the defendant tty him.”
The defendant’s son advanced, and
the dog retreated under the plaintifFs
chair. The defendant tried to coax
him out, but as he advanced the dog
barked at him and the court took the
papers.
SO BLACK M LACKS TO XUS.
k. jjfi’iMnKi'SlSfrA'ii r-tet.
A Colored Attorney BtflnH Permis
sion to Practice to Maryland.
Baltimore, Md., December 20.—
The application of Charles Taylor, a
colors citizen of Maryland, for per
mission to practice in the Court of
Appeals of the State was refused to
day at Annapolis. Chief Justice
Bartol delivered the unanimous opin
ion of the Court. This is the first
time the question has been judicially
decided upon in Maryland, and it
excites general Interest The right of
such admission was claimed under
the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.
Judge Bartol in his opinion cited the
decisions of the Supreme Court of the
United States in tne Slaughterhouse
cases (16 WaL 36), and also of Brad*
mel vs* th«,State^in 16 WaL ISO,
■
Gen. Imboden in Philiadelphin Times.]
THE COMPLAINT OP MRS. LEE.
Martindale’s written order fromHun
ter also embraced another Virginia
home. He burned it, too. The story
is told by the gifted mistress of that
household in the folloM’ing letter,
M’hich M’as delivered to Hunter,
have been furnished a copy with per
mission to publish it. This letter M’ill
live in history for its eloquence and
sublime invective:
Shepherdstom’n, Va., i
July 20, 1804. f
General Hunter: Yesterday your
underling, Captain Martindale, of the
First New York Cavalry, executed
your infamous order and burned my
house. You have the satisfaction ere
this of receiving from him the infor
mation that your orders M’ere fulfilled
to the letter; the dwelling and every
outbuilding, seven in number, M’ith
their contents being burned, I, there
fore, a helpless woman whom you
have cruelly wronged, address you, a
Major General of the United States
Army, and demand why this M-as
done? What was my offence? My
husband was absent—an exile. He
had never been a politician or in any
way engaged in the struggle now go
ing on, his age preventing. This fact
your chief-of-staff, David Strother,
could have told you. The house was
built by my father, a Revolutionary
soldier, who served the M’hole seven
years for your independence. There
was I born; there the sacred dead re-
E ose. It M’as my house and my
ome, and there has your niece {Miss
Griffith,) M’ho lias tarried among us
all this horrid M’ar up to the present
moment, met with all kindness and
hospitality at my hands. Was it for
this that you turned me, my young
daughter and little son out upon the
world without a shelter? Or was it
because my husband is the grandson
of the Revolutionary patriot and “reb
el,” Richard Henry Lee, and the near
kinsman of the noblest of Christian
warriors, the greatest of Generals,
Robert E. Lee? Heaven’s blessings
be upon his head forever! You and
your government have failed to con
quer, subdue or match him; and dis
appointed, rage and malice find vent
on the helpless and inoffensive.
Hyena-like you have torn my heart
to pieces! for ail hallowed memories
clustered around that homestead; and
demon-like you have done it M’ithout
even the pretext of revenge, for I
never saM’ or harmed you. Your
office is not to lead like a brave man
and soldier your men to fight in the
the ranks of war, but your work has
been to separate yourself from all
danger, and M’ith your incendiary
band steal unaM’are upon helpless
women and children, to insult and
destroy’. Two fair homes did you
yesterday ruthlessly lay in ashes,
giving not a moment’s warning to
the startled inmates of your wicked
purpose; turning mothers and chil
dren out of doors, your very name
exerated by your own men for the
cruel M’ork you gave them to do.
In the case of A. R. Boteler, both
father and mother were far aM’ay’,
Any heart but that of Captain Mar
tindale (and yours) would have been
touched by that little circle, compris
ing a M’iuoM’ed daughter just risen
from her bed of illness, her three lit
tie fatherless babes—the eldest not
five years old—and her heroic sister.
I repeat, any man M ould have been
touched at that sight. But, Captain
Martindale! one might as well hope
to find mercy and feeling in the
heart of a M’olf bent on his prey’ of
young lambs, as to search for such
qualities in his bosom. You have
chosen well your agent for such
deeds, and doubtless Mill promote
him!
A colonel of the Federal army has
stated that you deprived forty of your
officers of their commands" because
they refused to caary out y’our malig
nant mischief. All honor to their
names for this at least! They are
men—they r have human hearts and
blush for such a commander!
I ask M'ho that does not M’isli infa
my and disgrace attached to him for
ever M’ould serve under you ? Your
name M ill stand on history’s page as
the Hunter of M’eak women and in
nocent children; the Hunter to de
stroy defenseless villages and refined
and’beautiful homes—to torture afresh
the agonized hearts of widows; the
Hunter of Africa’s poor sons and
daughters, to lure them on to ruin
and death of soul and body; the
Hunter M’ith the relentless heart of
a wild beast, the face of a fiend and
the form of a man. Oh, Earth, be-
Hia First and Only Attempt to Travel
Hune-ne —
on His Horn De rlnne-fhe Extraor
dinary Guests an Old Miner Had.
The Boston Advertiser gives the
following report of the remarks of
Mr. Samuel L. Clemens at the ban
quet given in honor of Mr. John G.
Whittier in that city on Monday
evening
Mr. Chairman—This is an occasion
peculiarly’ meet for the digging up of
pleasant remembrances concerning
literary folk; therefore, I M’ill drop
lightly into history myself. Standin
here on the shore of the Atlantic and
contemplating certain of its biggest
literary hi Homs, I am reminded of
thing M’hich happened to me fifteen
years ago, when I had just succeeded
in stirring up a little Nevadian liter
ary ocean-puddle myself, whose
spume flakes were beginning to blow
thinly Californiaward. I started an
inspection tramp through the South
ern mines of California. I was cal-
Iom’ and conceited, and I resolved to
try the virtue of my nom deplume.
very’ soon had an opportunity,
knocked at a miner’s lonely log-cabin
in the foot-hills of the Sierras just at
nightfall. It M’as snoM’ing at the
time. A jaded, melancholly -man of
50, barefooted, opened to me. When
he heard my nom de plume he looked
more dejected than before. He let
Emerson
hold the monster! Can I say, “God
forgive you?” No prayer can be
offered for you! Were it possible for
human lips to raise your name heav-
enM'ard, angels would thrust the foul
thing back again and demons claim
their own. The curses of thousands,
the scorn of the manly and upright,
and the hatred of the true and hon
orable will follow you and yours
through all time, and brand your
name infamy ! infamy !
Again I demand M’hy have you
burned my house ? AnsM’er as you
must answer before the Searcher of all
hearts; M’hy have you added tliis
cruel, M-icked deed * to your many
crimes ?
Henrietta E. Lee.
I have only recited the more promi
nent incidents of Hunter’s brief ca
reer in the Valley of Virginia. The
United States Government could not
stand it, his army could not stand it,
as many or his prominent officers .vet
living tell hoM’ keenly’ they felt the
stigma such acts—beyond their con
trol-brought on them. Shortly’ after
th.e date of Mrs. Lee’s letter he M’as
removed, to the honor of the service,
and General Sheridan M’as his suc
cessor—of his career, perhaps, anon!
If the people of Chambersburg M’ill
carefully’ read this record of wanton
destruction of private property, this
‘o’er true tale” of cruel M’rong in
flicted on the helpless, they M ill un
derstand why r , M’hen goadetl to mad
ness, remuneration M’as demanded at
their hands by General Early’, and
upon its refusal retaliation M’as in
flicted" on the nearest community that
could be reached, and it M’as their
misfortune to be that community.
Contrast Lee in Pennsylvania in 1863
and Hunter in Virginia in 1864, and
judge them both as history will.
. pretty reluctantly, I thought
and after the customary bacon and
beans, black coffee and a hot whiskey,
I took a pipe. This sorrowful man
had not said three words up to this
time. Nom’ he spoke up and said in
the voice of one who is secretly’ suf
fering : “You’re the fourth—I’m a go
ing to move.” “The fourth what?”
said I. “The fourth literary’ man
that’s been here in*tM r enty-four hours
I’m a going to move.” “You don’t
tell me!” said I. “Who M’ere the
others?” “Mr. Longfellow, Mr,
Emerson and Mr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes—dad fetch the lot!”
You can easily believe I M’as inter
ested. I supplicated—three hot M’his-
keys did the rest—and finally the
melancholly’ miner began. Said he
“They came here just at dark yes
terday evening, and I let them in, of
course. Said they’ M’ere going to Yo
Semite. They M’ere a rough lot—but
that’s nothing — everybody looks
rough that travels afoot." Mr. Emer
son M as a seedy little bit of a chap—
red-headed. Mr. Holmes M’as as fat
as a balloon—he M’eighed as rnueh as
300, and had double chins all the way
doM’n to his stomach. Mr. Longfellow
M’as built like a prize fighter. His
head M as eropped and bristly—like as
if he had a M’ig made of hair brushes.
His nose lay straight doM’ii his face,
like a finger with the end joint tilted
up. They had been drinking—1
could see that. And M'hat queer talk
they’ used ! Mr. Holmes inspected
this cabin, then he took me by tin
button-hole, and says he—
“Through the deep caves of thought,
I hear a voice that, sings:
Build thee more stately mansions,
O my soul !
“Say’s I, ‘I can’t afford it, Mr.
Holmes, and, moreover, I don’t M’ant
to.' Blamed if I liked it pretty well,
either, coming from a stranger, that
M’ay T . HoM’ever, I started to get out
my" bacon and beans, M’hen Mr. Emer
son came and looked on a M’hile, and
then he takes me aside by the button
hole and say’s:
“ ‘Give me agates for my meat,
Give me canthnrides to eat;
From air and ocean bring me foods,
• From all zones and latitudes.’
“Says I, ‘Mr. Emerson, if you’ll ex
cuse me, this ain’t no hotel.’ You
see it sort of riled me; I M'asn’t used
to the M’ays of littery SM’ells. But I
M’ent on a SM’eating over my’ work,
and next comes Mr. Longfellow and
button-holes me, and interrupts me.
Say’s he:
“ ‘Honor be to Mudjikeewis! *
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis—’
“But I broke in, and says I, ‘Beg
ging your pardon, Mr. Longfellow’, if
you’ll be so kind as to hold yquryaM’p
for about five minutes and let me get
this grub ready’, you’ll do me proud.
Well, sir, after they’d filled up I set
out the jug. Mr. Holmes looks at it,
and tljpn fires up all of a sudden and
yells,
“ ‘Flash out a stream of blood-red wine!
For I would drink to other days.’
“By George, I was getting kind of
worked up. I don’t deny it, I was
getting kind of worked up. I turns
to Mr. Holmes, and says I, ‘Looky
here, my fat friend, I’m a-running
this shanty, and if the Court knows
herself, you’ll take whiskey straight,
or you’ll go dry.’ Them’s the very
words I said to him. Now I didn’t
M’ant to sass such famous littery peo
ple, but you see they kind of forced
me. There ain’t nothing on-reason
able ’bout me; I don’t mind a passel
of guests a-treadingon my tail three or
four times, but M’hen itcomes to stand
ing on it,it’s different, and if the Court
knows herself, you’ll take whiskey
straight, or you’ll go dry’. Well, be-
tM’een drinks, they'd swell around
the cabin and strike attitudds and
spout. Says Mr. LongfelloM’:
“ ‘This is the forest primeval.
“►Says Mr. Emerson:
“ ‘Here once tire embattled farmers stood,
And tired the shot heard round the world.'
The military’ eritics are ranking
Osman Pasha’s defense of Plevna
with Hassan’sdefense of Rustchuk
in 1810 and Fenwick Williams’ de
fense of Kara in 1854. This is gross
injustice. Osman’s operations dis
played real military genius, his emer
gence from Windin, bold march on
and seizure of Plevna right on the
flank of a half million of men and
successful mantenanceof his position,
required the highest military’ quali
ties, far beyond the mere bull-dog
tenacity displayed in the berate de
fense of Rustehul^and Kan.
• ' ► ■ •
- •- ••• : ' J
“Says I: ‘O, blackguard the prem
ises as much as you want to—it don’t
cost y’ou a cent.’ Well, they’ went on
drinking, and pretty soon they got
out a greasy olu deck and went to
playing cut-throat euchre at ten cents
a corner—on trust. I began to notice
some pretty suspicious things. Mr.
Emerson dealt, looked at his hand,
shook his head, says:
“ ‘I am the doubter and the doubt—’
and calmly bunched the hands, and
M’ent to shuffling for a neM’ lay-out.
►Says he:
“‘‘They reckon ill who leave me out!
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep. I pass, and deal again
“Hang’d if he did’nt go ahead and
doit, too! 'Oh, he \vas a cool one.
Well, in about a minute, things M-ere
running pretty tight, but of a sudden
I see by’ Mr. Emerson’s eye that lie
judged he had ’em. He Had already
corraled tM T o tricks, and each of the
others one. So noM’ he kind of fits a
little in his chair, and says:
“ ‘I tire of globes and aces !—
Too long the game is played!"
and down he fetched a right boM er.
Mr. Longfellow smiles as sM’eet as a
pie, and says:
“‘Thanks, thanks to thee.my worthy friend
For the lesson thou has taughtt”
—and donny cats, if he didn’t doM’n
M’ith another right bower! Well, sir,
up jumps Holmes, a M’ar-whooping,
as usual, and says:
“God help them if the tempest swings
The pine against the palm!’’
—and I wish I may go to grass if he
didn’t sM'oop doM’n with another right
bou’er. Emerson claps his hand on
his bowie, Longfellow claps his on his
revolver, and I went under a bunk.
There was going to be trouble; but
that monstrous Holmes rose up, wob-
bling his double chins, and says he:
‘Order, gentlemen; the first man that
draws, Pll lay down on him and
smother him!’ All quiet on the Poto
mac, you betyoui
“They were pretty how-eome-you-so
now, and they begun to blow. Emer
son says: ‘Trie bulliest thing I ever
wrote was ‘Barbara Frietchie.’ Says
Longfellow: ‘It don’t begin with my
'Biglow Papem.’ Says Holmes: ‘My
‘Thanatopsls’ lays oyer ’em both.’
They mighty near ehded in a fight.
Then they wished they had some
more company, and Mr.
pointed at me and says:
“ ‘Is yonder squalid peasant all
That this proud nursery could breed?’
“He M’as a whetting his boM’ie on
his boot—so I let it pass. Well, sir,
next they took it into their heads that
they M’ould like some music; so they
made me sing ‘When Johnny Comes
Marching Home’ till I dropped at
thirteen minutes past four in the
morning. That’s M’hat I’ve been
through, my friend. When I M’oke
at 7 they M ere leaving, thank good
ness, and Mr. LongfelloM* had my
only boots on, and his oM’n under his
arm. Says I, ‘Hold on there, Evan
geline, M’hat are you going to do M’ith
them?’ He says; Going to make
tracks M'ith ’em*; because—
‘Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime;
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints in the sands of Time.’
“As I said, Mr. TM’ain, you are the
fourth in 24 hours—and I’m going to
move—I ain’t suited to a literary at
mosphere.”
I said to the miner : “Why, my
dear sir, these M’ere not the gracious
singers to whom M’e and the M’orld
pay homage; these are imposters.”
The miner investigated me with a
calm eye for a while, then he said:
Ah! imposters, M’ere they?—are you?”
I did not pursue the subject, and since
then I havn’t traveled on my nom de
plume enough to hurt. Such was tlie
reminiscence I M'as moved to contrib
ute, Mr. Chairman. In my enthusi
asm I may have exaggerated the
details a little, but you will easily
forgive me that fault "since I believe
it is the first time I have ever deflect
ed from the perpendicular on an oc-
tnis.
casion like
Turkey’s Military System.
Correspondence of the Chicago Times.]
London, November 29.—Several
accounts have been printed of the
new Turkish military system M’hich
were interesting, and might have
been valuable if any tu T o of them
agreed ; but none of them agreed. In
a recent steamboat trip I met a young
Turkish officer on his way to Con
stantinople M’ho gave me a straight
forward, intelligible statement of tlie
system which, I venture to think,
may be M’orth reproducing for the pe
rusal of the readers of the Times, es-
jecially in vieM’ of the fact that the
ast reserves have been called out, a
proceeding M'hicli is expected to result
i n an accession of tu'o hundred and
seventy-five thousand men to the Sul
tan’s armies.
For military purposes, every prov
ince of the empire is noM* constituted
military district,-subdivided into
military circles, according to popula
tion, the Turkish name of the circle
being merkiss. A census is taken of
all male Mahommedans over eighteen
years of age in each of these circles
and on the basis of this census each
circle is required to furnish so many
battalions, troops and batteries of in
fantry, cavalry and artillery. The
headquarters of the circle are gener
ally situated in one of tlie principal
cities, and here the staff permanently
reside, the affairs of the circle being
administered by a President and a
committee of merkiss officers! *1X10
Presidents of the circles and a princi
pal officer appointed by the Porte con
stitute a district committee to admin
ister the military affairs of the district
at large. A11 the regiments raised
are designated by the district to which
they belong. "The battalions are
numbered and subdivided in the man
ner shown further on.
Each province or district, of M’hich
there are seven, is expected to pro-
auce a complete army corps, ready for
detive service in the field, supplied
M’ith guns, horses, rifles,ammunition,
commissariat, telegraph and hospital
service, and all material of war. For
this purpose the district committee
requisitions the Seraskier of Constan
tinople for M'hatever money and
stores they require. All pay to sol
diers, pensions; and local expend!
tures for each army corps, therefore,
are distributed on the spot. All
stores for arms, etc., for each merkiss
are kept at the merkiss headquarters;
and the headquarters of the district
or province is the central distributive
point, the seat of arsenals, factories,
etc., etc. Drawing men for the army
is by Jot, on much the same principle
as the conscription in France. So
many men, being such and such a
proportion of the estimated popula
tion, may be drawn for the Nizam, or
regular army, every year. The men
so drawn are first liable to serve in
the regular army for the term of four
ears. In this position they see con
stant service in all parts of the
empire to which they may be sent,
for the full term of four years,
the expiration of which they
receive their discharge out of
the Nizam, and become soldiers
of the etagot; that is to say they are
entitled to one year’s rest at home,
unless a national emergency requires
their being recaUed into the ranks.
At the expiration of the etagot term
they become liable for sendee only in
case of M’ar, and are attached to" the
army corps of the district as the Sirifi
Evril,or first ban of the Redif. In due
course they are permanently trans
ferred to the battalions of the circle to
M'hich they belong, and in this ban
they remain four years. They come
up yearly, for thirty days’ drill, to
receive pay, and to maintain their
organization, but have no officers or
permanent staff, the duties of which
are performed by the permanent staff
of the circle, consisting of officers of
the Nizam. These, out of their om’ii
number, have to provide officers for
the Reilifs during the training period.
By,the most extraordinary and fatal
oversight, the possibility of M ar and
the consequent necessity of officering
the Redifs appear to have been wholly
forgotten, and M’hen M r ar did come all
these fine, hardy men had to go into
tion M’ith one officer to about every
hundred soldiers, and that offieer
generally a supernumerary non-com
missioned officer of the Nizam. Here
is the first, the great, the disastrous
defect of the Turkish military system.
At the end of their term in the first
ban, the Redifs are transferred to the
Sinfi Sanni, second ban of Redifs, in
M’hich they serve a second term of
four years; and after that they go
into the 8infi Salis or third ban, "for a
third term of four years. During the
M’hole of this time they present them
selves at merkiss headquarters once
every year to join battalions for year
ly training. The training is of the
most desultory description, consisting
principally of loafing around till the
limited permanent staff can get funds
to pay them or summon up enough
energy to attend to them. One day
is like another; the days and M'eeks
slip by, and finally the Redifs depart
for their homes, none the better but
considerably the M’orse for their an
nual meeting. Of course there are
exceptions to the rule, M'hen the
merkiss happens to be presided over
by an energetic, conscientious general
officer; and in such a rare event the
men M’ill receive proper instruction,
be carefully looked after, and be dis
missed to their homes, feeling well
pleased with theif outing; but even
my informant, Turk as he was, ad
mitted with a sigh that such officers
are few. The President of the mer~
kiss Councils, by-the-by, has the rank
The three terms of Redif being com
pleted, the actual sendee expires, but
they are still liable for a term of six
teen years, to be called into the
ranks of the regular army in the
event of M’ar. On expiration of the
sixteen years they are finally dis
posed of"bv being transferred for five
years to tlie Mustahfiz, in M’hich they
are liable to be called out in the event
of all the other military forces having
been exhausted. By this time the
young conscript of ei^teen has become
a man of fifty-seven, and the Sultan
has no further need of him except to
make him pay taxes. The Turkish
-regiment consists of four battallions
on a peace footing, and tM'enty bat
tallions in its full establishment,
namely, four battallions of Nizam,
four battallions of the Sinfi Evril or
first ban of Redif, four battallions of
Sinfi Sanni or second ban of Redifs,
four battalions of Sinfi SaHs or third
ban of Redifs, and four battalions of
Mustahfiz. The seventeen-year ser
vice men may be regarded as re-en-
forcements to the Nizam in time of
M’ar. The Nizam battallions are
called the first, second and third
tabors, and Tallin. The Redif and
Mustahfiz battalions are designated
by the district they belong to, and
numbered.
There are no commissioned officers
below the rank ol Bin-boshi (major)
who are chefs de bataillon. All bat
talions are divided into right and left
wings, each wing consisting of four
companies of one hundred men max
imum and sixty men minimum
strength, besides non-commissioned
officers. The wings are commanded
by wing leaders, named Kol-agassiz
who are appointed from the military
schools. All below the Kol-agassiz,
beginning with Yuz-baslii (captain)
are non-commissioned officers. Pro
motion is made from the ranks to the
position of Yuz-bashi, but beyond
that all positions are filled by tlie sons
of the nobles and persons of wealth
and influence. '
In addition to the regular army
there is an Imperial guard, National
guard, Civil guard, volunteers and
gens d’armes, consisting of Turks, ex
empt from service, as Nizams and
Redifs, foreigners taking service M’ith
the Porte, and Christian subjects of
the Sultan who prefer service to pay
ing tlie price of exemption, which is
fifty pounds Turkish. The M’hole of
these auxiliary forces will number
about 300,000 men, available for field
operations, of whom quite 200,000
must have been already used up in the
field, according to my informant’s
estimate.
This exhausts the list of sources
from' M hich men 'can be drawn, ex
cept the wild tribes, Egypt, Arabia
Mesopotamia, Kurdistan and other
countries tributary to the Sultan,
which are not part of the regular
military system, or not yet fully or-
'ganized, and which can not he relied
on for effective aid unless the stand
ard of the Prophet be unfurled, M'hen
a religious frenzy might possibly
bring some hundreds of thousands of
devoted men into the Turkish mili
tary centers, some of whom M’ith in
finite trouble and at great cost might
be turned into useful soldiers, but
most of M’hom M ould merely serve to
harrass and ruin the country itself, as
the Kurds have been doing in Arme
nia; too eoM’ardly to fight, too lazy to
M’ork, but prompt to massacre, violate
and pillage the peaceful inhabitants
and mutilate the dead and dying,
Turkish and Russian alike, on the
field of battle; fiends and beasts
of prey for whom the Sultan has pro
vided a daily feast since the Russians
entered Armenia, a feast made up
chiefly of his own people and their
property.
THE GREAT EUROPEAN NOVELTY.
HUNYADI JANOS,
New Aperient Water.
Specially recom
mended for rich-
ness in aperient
salts, and Its effi
cacy in Bilious atr
tacks, prevention
of Gout, Piles,etc.,
>rdf
land as an ordina-
r y aperient b y
LI F, BIG, VIR
CHOW, SCANZONL
and SIR HENRY
THOMPSON, and
the entire medical
profession in Eng
land and Germany.
i. K. BARNES. Surgeon General U. S. Army—
“Tlie most certain and pleasant in its eP
feets of any of the bitter waters.”
Hit. J. MARION SIMS. New York—“As a lava
tive, I prefer it to every other mineral
water.”
DR. IYM. A. HAMMOND. New York—“The most
pleasant and efficient of all purgative
waters.”
DR. ALFRED L. LOOMIS, New York—“The
most prompt and most efficient; special-
BOOTS AND SHOES.
NEW SHOES
—AT THE—
Old Shoe Store.
-JoJ-
FALL AND WINTER STOCK
JUST RECEIVED!
Beecher on Hell.
In Plymouth Church, on Sunday
morning last, Beecher’s text Mas the
ninth verse of the first chapter of
Ephesians, and the theme of his dis
course M’as the background of myste
ry’ M’hich surrounds, or rather ob
scures, all attempts to teach or under
stand tlie attributes and nature of
God. It is not an easy thing, said
Beecher, for an honest, conscientious
man to know just M’hat to preach and
M'hat not to preach. His own head
had often reeled, and his mind had
been greatly troubled, when he re
flected upon his responsibility in this
matter. It was no easy matter to re
move the rotten timbers and replace
them with sound ones, and not stop
the voyage of the ship. It was said
that Adam was created perfect; also
that Adam sinned, and that in conse
quence of that sin the whole human
race fell. The human race had ex
isted on the earth for thousands and
thousands of years, and had gone on
propagating and multiplying, until
all the waves of the ocean which had
rolled iii upon the shore during those
centuries did not contain drops
enough, nor the sands of the sea par
ticles enough, nor all the figures of
the arithmetic numbers enough, to
compute the preface, to say nothing
of the body, of the great history of
the human race. The numbers of the
human race were actually beyond
computation, and for thousands and
thousands of years they had been
born into the world, had lived, and
struggled, and finaUy died, and gone
—^where? “If you tell me that they
have all gone to heaven, my ansu-er
will be that such a sM’eeping of mud
into heaven M’ould defile its purity,
and I cannot accept that. If you
tell me that they have gone to
hell, then I swear by tlie
Lord Jesus Christ, M’hom I
have sworn to worship forever,
that you will make an infidel
of me. The doctrine that God has
been for thousands of years peopling
this earth with human’beings, during
a period three-fourths of M'hich M as
not illuminated by an altar or a
church, and in places where a vast
population of those people are yet
without that light, is to transform the
Almighty into a monster more hide
ous than Satan himself, and I sM-ear
by all that is sacred that I M ill never
M'orship Satan, though he should ap
pear dressed in royal robes and seated
on the throne of Jehovah. Men may
say, ‘You mUI not go to heaven.’ A
heaven presided over by such a de
mon as that, M’ho has been peopling
this Morld with millions of human
beings, and then sMeeping them off
into hell, not like dead flies, but M’ith
out taking the trouble even to kill
them, and gloating and laughing over
their eternal misery, is not such a
heaven as I wan’t to go to. The doc
trine is too horrible. I cannot believe
it and I won’t. They say the saints
in heaven are so happy that they do
not mind the torments of the damned
in hell; but what sort of saints must
they be M’ho could he happy M’hile
looking doM’n upon the horrors of the
bottomless pit ? They don’t mind—
they’re safe—they’re happy! What
would the mother think of the six-
teen-year-old daughter who, M’hen
her infant was lying dead in the
house, should coroe dancing and
singiug into the parlor, and exclaim,
‘Qh! I’m so happy mother! I don’t
eare for the dead naby in the coffin!’
Would she not be shocked ? And so
with this doctrine; and by the blood
of Christ I denounce it"; by the
wounds in his hands and his side, I
of Ferik, equal to an American lieu- abhor and denounce it as the moat
abhor it; by his groans and agony, I
‘dei "
tenant general, and is called reiss. I hideous nightmare of theology.”
ly adapted for daily use.’
DR. FOBDTCE 1 ~
BARKER. New York—“Requires
less, is less disagreeable and unpleasant
than any other.”
DR. LEWIS A. SAYRE. New York—’“Preferred
to any other laxative.”
A Wineglassful a Dose.
Every genuine bottle bears the name of
Tue Apoleinaris Co. (Limited), London.
FRED’K DE BABY & CO.,
41 and 43 Warren St., Xetc Fork,
Sole Agents for United States and Canadas,
FOR SALE BY DEALERS, GROCERS AND
DRUGGISTS.
no28 codGm
PHCENIX JEWELRY STO
101 Broad Street,
New Goods—Fashionable
GOLD AND SHYER
WATCHES
JEWELRY,
Fashionable Patterns ami Styles.
Sterling Silver Ware, Silver Spoons,
Forks, Cups, Napkins, Rings, &e.,
DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER.
CHRISTMAS! CHRISTMAS!! (UR1STMAS!!!
Beautiful Presents for the Holidays
Mr. T. S. Spear
AV'ill be pleased to attend to the wants of
liis friends at the
PHIEIilX JEWELRY STORE
delt eod:im
Of Interest to Everybody!
$10,000 WANTED
At J. E. DEATON’S
VARIETY STORE,
No. 166, Under Rankin Honse,
IN EXCHANGE FOB GOODS
A T MV STOKE may be found a large, va
ried and miscellaneous stock, embracing
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hats, Shoes, Hard
ware, Wooden-ware Crockery and Glass
Ware, Saddles and Harness. A Good line
of Plantation and House Furnishing Goods
and Notions.
These Goods were bought for Cash, and
can be sold at bargains. Farmers, laborers
and citizens generally will find it to their
interest to call on me before buying else
where.
oct28 eod2m
J. E. DEATON.
GREAT REDUCTION!
To prepare for getting up a
Spring Stock,
I will close out
READY-MADE SUITS
AS FOLDOM’S i
Eagle & Piirnix Live Oak JEANS GOATS, $3.00;
" “ “ PANTS, 1.25;
“ “ “ TEST, 1.00*
FULL SUIT for 5.00
STANDARD DOESKIN COATS, $4.00;
" “ PANTS, 2.00;
*• “ VESTS, 1.50;
FULL SUITS for J.50.
EXTRA DOESKIN COATS, $5.00;
“ “ PATNS, 2.50;
“ “ VEST, 1.W;
FULL SUIT, ».©0.
These Goods are well made and trimmed,
and the fit and finish excellent.
On Hand, a good line of North Georgia,
Virginia and Texas CASSIMERES, which
we make up at short notice in good style.
Also any Goods brought in from else
where made up well, and trimmed in the
best manner.
G-.
J. PEACOCK.,
* POfl t f "
nov!8 eodtf
Reduction in Rates.
O N and after^the 1st of October the Rates
1 '
via CENTRAL LINE BOATS to all
points on tlie Chattahoochee and Flint Riv
ers will be as follows :
FLOUR, per barrel .20 cents
COTTON, per bale 50 cents
Other Freights in proportion.
STEAMER WYLLY—C. Brocka-
way, Captain,
Leaves SATURDAYS, at 10 A M, for Apala
chicola, Florida.
£9-For further information call on
€. A. HUNK.
General Freight Agent.
Office at C. E. Hochstrasser’s. ju23tf
PHENIX
CARRIAGE WORKS!
Herring & England,
(East of and Opposite Disbrow’s Livery
Stables)
OGLETHORPE STREET
RE PREPARED
with competent
workmen to do Car
riage Work in all its
various branches, in
the best style, ana as
low as the lowest. We also manufacture
NEW' M’ORK of various styles.
my!3 eodly
NeM’ and Attractive
-IN—
Gents’ Shoes
Brown Cloth-Top Button Congress,
“fifth Avenue” Congress,
And all other Styles, in Hand and Machine
Sewed, and Fine Pegged Work.
Ladies & Misses fine Shoes,
Kid and Pebble-Button,
Siile-Lace and Foxed Work!
-toj-
A large lot of Ladies' Kid Foxed Button
Shoes—very stylish' at 32.25 to 33.00.
Tlie best Misses’ Protection Toe School
Shoe ever offered iu this market.
AN EXTRA LARGE STOCK OF
Brogans, Plow Shoes, Kip Boots,
Women’s Plow Shoes, Ac.,
For Farmers. Our stock for tlie WHOLE
SALE TRADE is being daily received, and
in quantity, quality and prices is unsur-
We invite I
passed in the city. We invite
of COUNTRY MERCHANTS.
the attention
M®-For anything you want in tlie Shoe
and Leather Line, at bottom prices, call at
No.
73 Broad Street,
(Sign of the Big Boot.)
WELLS & CURTIS.
sep30tf
Lawyers.
ALONZO A. DOZIEMt,
Attorney and l'ounaellor-at-Lam
Office Over 136 Broad Street.
Practices in State and Federal Courts
both Georgia and Alabama. mhW,’77 ly
CHARLES COLEMAN,
Att.rnrjr-id.Lair.
Up-Stairs, Over C. E. Hochstrasser’s S.
febll ,’77tf
BENNETT H. CKAWfOBB,
Attorney and Caaucllor-at-Law.
Office Over Frazer’s Hardware Store.
jal4,’77 ly
REESE CBAWEORU. J. M. M’KEILL.
CBAWFORD * McNEIEL,
Attorneys and Counseltors-nt-Law,
128 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
jalC,’76 ly ~ ——
G. E. THOMAS,
Attorney and ConnsolIor-at-Law.
Office:
Over Hochstrasser’s Store, Columbus, Ga.
jy9,76 ly
h. bi.andfod. | louis r. oahkard.
BLANDFOKD * GARBAMD,
Attorneys and Counaellers-mt-Lnw.
Office, No. 67 Broad Street, over Wittich A
Kinsei’s Jewelry Store.
Will practice in theState and Federal Courts.
sep4,75
Plano Tuning.
E. W. BLAU,
Rapairer and Tuner of Pianos, Organs and
Accordeons. Sign Painting also done.
Orders may be left at J. W. Pease A Ner-
man’s Book Store. sepS, 75
Tin and Coppersmiths.
Worker In Tin,
Skeet Iron, Copper, *r.
Orders from abroad promptly attended to.
Jyl. ’~6 174 Broad Street.
Doctors.
DM. C. E.
Office Over Kent’s Drug Store.
Ju3 ly
Watchmakers.
c. H. LEuonr,
134 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
Watches and Clocks repaired in the best
manner^mDwarrMiteA^^^^^^^yi^TS
REAL ESTATE. ACENTS.
JOHN BLACKMAR,
Georgia Home Building, next to Telegraph
Office, Columbus, Ga.,
Real Estate, Brokerage and Insurance
Agency.
LAND WARRANTS BOUGHT.
Referjtiy permission, to banks of thlWrty.
nov3,75 tf
SPRINGER
Under Springer’s Opera House,
COWER OGLETHORPE ari CEAWNEI STO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
uroeeries
All kinds
WINES,
LIQUORS,
TOBACCO, 1
CULkRS,
And General Stock ofv
Plantation and Family Supplies
AS-Alt Goods delivered In city and vicir
lr ?i ! of dray age. novl eod3i
n WEST!
%
The Last Chance
IN 1877.
ROYAL LOTTERY.
GRIND EXTRAORDINARY DRAWING
Will Take Plate Dee. 31st, 1877.
Only 18,000 Tickets, and 2,346 Prizes.
Capital Prize 0000,000.
Total Amount of Prizes, $1,350,000.
We only guarantee those tickets obtained
through us as being genuine. Send your
orders and call for plans to
BORN IO A BROTHER,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Oldest Agents in the South. [oc23eod2m
FOR SALE:
Ti Shares Eagle & Pkenix Fac
tory Stock;
30 Snares Georgia Home Insu
rance Company Stock.
JOHN BLACKXAR, Broker.
^ AUDD[R *p.
U.G SONS’! SECURITY
The Best Household Oil in Ua
Warranted 150 degs. Fire-Test.
Water White in Color.
Fully Deodorized.
Will Not Explode!
HIGHEST AWARD AT
THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION
FOB EXCELLENCE OF MANUFACTURE
And High Fire-Test!
JoJ.
Endorsed by Insurance Companies!
Brail this Certltratc—One of Many ;
Howard Fire Insurance Co. of Balti
more, Baltimore, Dec. 23d, 1874.—Messrs C
West A Sons—Gentlemen : Having used
the various oils sold in this city for illumi
nating purposes, 1 take pleasure in recom
mending your “Aladdin Security Oil” aa
tlie safest and best ever used in our house-
hold. Yours truly,
(Signed) ANDREW REESE, Bres t.
MANUFACTURED BY
C. WEST & SONS, Baltimore.
Try It, and You will Use no Other.
oc20d6m
A PHYSIOLOGICAL
View of
Ouida to Wedlock sod
ittatid IrnliN oa tha
J«a ol and the
!•*«««tint no(t for it: the *e-
ent* of Reproduction and
Disease, of Wean,
ook for private, eootid-
rcadiag. a» pagM, price
AlYJgfBLtoir
vuh tha beat
rSSSSBSSiSIBWBM&. km aod.
Eithsr book *eot poMpaldoa receipt ot price; or att tlfl