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v r oTs7 p ROPHITTi
f R ’ Covington Georgia.
I un in Ms celebrated
L" WII .y sussicihes,
■** ' Consisting of his—
■„,rn medicine,
■ aolyne pain kill ir,
I anti-bilious PILLS,
I AfUTE TILLS,
dysentery cordial,
FEMALE TONIC, and
PURIFYING pills,
J will attend to all business in
fchsreto sor ®’ meg to his office.
K» line, .. f „ r patients when consulted,
■ Will rr e 6 nV that come to his office at any
I , attention given to all Oroers.
B Upnt Remedies of DK. TROPITTTT,
■Tho e* ce " ' i„,jon—their well known power
wthe diseases peculiar to our South-
KemoTing “ lre#dy established for them
reputation in Georgia and the ad
■ 'anftes As the majority of persons hv
■ising s,9 i® ’ i are predisposed to disease of
Kin the f t °ig granted by alt intelligent physi
■« Liveb 1 ,- 0 f painß and aches of our
■*D»that organic <ir functional derange
■°,»f*that important organ.
K ,t#ft PHOTHITT’S
L Itrer Medicine
Vr ,etlvat the root of the evil. It cures
tikes directly » niue caBOS out of ten, is at
L Liver, w Coughs, Dyspepsia, Colic,
Ku'Xhe Rheumatism, Constipation, Men-
Lt! Suctions, etc,, so common among our
| I* I Ver Medicine.
u ' „i a »» of almost anv other 1 repara
r that acts upon the Liver It is
a Fluid Extract—ready for use at
U.formnf night<ft|ld canb e carried to
FT'vivin America, winter or summer, ns it
tu lo< ith«r sour'nor frUe at any temperature
L .".human being can occupy with safety,
h . to,, strong for children, or too weak
r lt ,, 9n °ttoo stro g no troU ble about
r,To^to unstop the Bottle and drink it
Iking it, on > ft has gained a
bwo'p " loc.lilj 111...1..4
U P «R»te south of Maine, and is alike appll-
ESS3K. "fa,. u.« *.,4
V" ,t| n *!V P 'riel nor'h' it'a oov it.
PARTICULAR NOTICE.
l.rcafter NO MEDICINE WILL I?E DELIV
■rED. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
■lii need not call unless you are prepared to
HAT C.vSfl, fori will not Keep Books,
jlun. 11, 1889. <»• s - TROB! I ' ITT.
I M OOUE & MARSH,
JOBBERS OF
■RY GOODS, NOTIONS, HOSIERY,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, &c.,
ecatur and Pryor streets,
ATLANTA, GA.
FTERft trial of THREE YEARS, we are
L fully convinced that, the Dry Goods JOR-
V(i business can be successfully conducted in
;lanta, and accordingly have prepared for the
holesale Trade exclusively, by the erection of
large, commodious, and splendid STORE
DUSE, specially adapted to ti at business, and
lich in architectural attraction and conve
ence, will compare favoiablv with the best
tablisliments of Northern Cities.
We are now engaged in getting up Stock for
e Fall Trade, and by the Ist of September will
able to oiler to Merchants the largest and best
•ortment of
Dry Goods in its Various Lines,
ANCY NOTIONS, White Goons, HOSIERY,
BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS,
at lias ever been presented to the Trade in the
uth. All our purchases being made for
SADY CASH, of AGENTS and MANUFAC
IRERS, enable us to offer every advantage
at the Northern Wholesale Dealer can afford,
e therefore confidently appeal to Merchants to
amine our Stock and prices before visiting
her markets. All we ask is a trial.
MOOItE <1 MARSH.
N. R.—We are sole agents for the sale of
)NCORD JEANS and Cassimeres —verysupe-
>r in Georgia; also
*kte for Trion Factory. Keep a large supply
n«t#ntly on hand, of Graniteville Shirting,
eeting and Drilling, and Rock Island Jeans
and Cassimeres—all at manufacturers’ prices.
2m43 M. AM.
r MANUFACTURE
u p!e ri o r Cotton Yarn s>
No. 6to 12. it Doz, No. 400 to 700.
tATTR R 8 8 KS
A}l sixes and qualities to suit orders.
3 a t t in S,
Os Waste or Good Cotton
Pool carding.
Tho quality of the RoHs.^unsurpassed.
§L OUR and MEAL.
■NIIE GRIST MILL cannot be surpassed in
■- the quality, nor the quantity of MEAL or
■LOUR turned. A supply of .deal or Flour
■instantly on hand. Flour of all grades to suit
■ taste and price.
B fancy, Double Extra, Extra Family, FnmMy
Buperfine, and Fine. Graham Floor and Grit
■ order. SHORTS andlluAN, for Stock Feed
B Bn kept. The patronage of the public is re
■ectfully asked. Satisfaction guaranteed.
I 4 splendid stock of
t* r y Goods and Groceries
1 hand and for sale Cheap for Cash or barter
ir all kinds of Country Produce.
E. STEADMAN, Frop’r.
Sr*\ujitM, Norton Co.,Ga., Feblß 19,
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
J. C. MORRIS,
Attorney at Law,
CONYERS, GA.
J. W. MURRELL,
D B N T I S TANARUS,
Office —Ujf glairs in Muhuei.l’s Quick oTonr,
Covington, Oeobui*.,
Being prepared with the latest im-
j„ Dental Material,
Guarantees Satisfaction in each
branch of Operative and Mechanical Dentistry.
tw If desired will visit Patients at their
homes in this and adjoining Counties,
All orders left at Hie Covington Hotel, or at
Hie residence of Mr. G. W. H. Muriif.i.l, Oxford,
Ga., will receive immediate attention.—ly37.
H. T. HEN R V,
DENTIST,
COVINGTON. GEORGIA.
has REDUCED HIS PRICES, so
that all who have been so unfortu-
nate as to lose their n ttural Teetli
can have their places supplied by Art, at very
small cost. Teeth Filled at reasonable prices,
and work faithfully executed, Office uorth side
of Square. —1 22tf
JOHN S. CARROLL,
dentist
OOVINGTON, GEORGIA.
Teeth Filled, or New ones Tneerled.in
the best Style, and on Reasonable Terms
Office Rear of R. King’s Store.—l ltf
W. B. RIVERS,
r> K N T Is T ,
(Office near the Depot.)
CIONTINUES the practice of his profession upon
1 Terms that cannot fail to gives atisfactiou to all
who employ him.
Covington, June 25th 1869. 4.32.tf.
JOSEPH Y. TINSLEY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler
Is fully prepared to Repair Watches, Clock
end Jewelry, in the best Style, at short notice.
All Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House —6tf
PHOTOGRAPHS!
. HAVE JUST RECEIVED a Fresh Supply
1 of Chemicals, and am now prepared to exe
cute work in my line in a supeiior manner.
Call soon if you would have a superior Pic
ture. at my old stand, rear of Post Office build
ing—2otf J. M T . CRAWFORD, Artist.
I would respectfully inform the
citizens of Newton, and adjoining
yf counties, that I have opened a
SADDLE and HARNEY SHOP
On north side public square in COVINGTON
where I am prepared to make to ord -r. Harness
Saddles, <tc , or Repair the same at short notice,
and in tlie best style.
17 ts JAMES B. I l.OWlf
•
FISK’S METALLIC BUHIAt CASES
AND CAS KET 8,
"or sale by THOMPSON A HUTCIIINS.
2y2q ‘ Covington (»a.
Hotels.
PL A n:t ers hotel,
Augusta, Georgia.
This well known first class Hefei is now're
opened for the accommodation of ihc traveling
public, with the assurance that those who may
have occasion to visit Augusta, will be made
comfortable. As this Hotel is now complete in
every Department, the Proprietor Hot es, that hv
strict and personal attention, to merit a share of
public patronage. ,
JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, Pro’p.
United States HoteL
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WTITTAKER & SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Tasscn
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
AHi E IK IC AN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pi e letors.
Having re-leased and renovated ie above
Hotel, we are prepared to entertain uests in a
most satisfactory manner. Charg J fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to .ease.
Baggage carried to and from Depot .rce of charge
a caud.
THE undersigned, having purchased she. cn
lire interest of f*. M. Jones in the A UGLS>-
TA HOTEL, respectfully solicit a share of pat*
ronage from the traveling public generally.--
We propose to keep a First Glass Horse, and
use every effort to satisfy and please all that,
give us a call. Both of us have been connected
w ith the Hotel for thirteen years.
The Rooms of the Hotel are large and airy
and furnished equal to any in the city.
We call the particular attention of tie old
patrons of the House to the change. We desire
to see and welcome them.
The BAR furnished with the best Liquors and
Cioars DAN’L G. MURPHY,
b PATRICK MAY.
T. MARKWALTER,
■A&BLE WORKS
Broad Street, Atgusta, Ga.
MARBLE MONUMENTS,
T o'jn b Stones,
Marble Mantles, and Furniture Marble
OF,*EYERY DESCRIPTION,
From the Plainest £o the most. Elaborate, design
and furnished to order at short notice.
l!tt£T All work for the country -oretully boxed
decl4-3-5-ly.
Newton County Script Wanted.
a KY person having any of the above named
A Feript to dispose of, will consult their own
interest by calling °“ bowkEß & HARRIS.
"take notice.
A LI cf those persons who have been buying
\ Goods from me “on a few days’time,’ will
■*, come forward and PAY UP, as 1 am corn
[l.'l e 1 to raise Money. 1 shall sell Goods for
THi; MONEY ONLY hereafter.
JjTNone need apply unless they come with
theCASH. „ S. N. STALLINGS
August 3, 1869, —2m38
COVINGTON GA., OCT, I, 1809.
Ntuneless.
There is no Leart hut hath its inner Anguish}
There is no eye but hath with tenrs been
wet;
Them is no voice but hath bien heard to lan
guisli
O’er hours of darkness it can ne’er forget.
There is no cheek, however bright its roses,
But perished buds beneath its hues are hid ;
No eye that in its dewy light reposes,
But broken star-beams tremble ’neath its
lid.
There is no lip, howe’er with laughter ringing,
However light and gay its words nmy he,
But it hath trembled at some dark upspring
ing
Or stern affliction and deep misery.
We all are brothers in this land of dreaming,
Yet hand meets hand, and eye to eye re
plies;
Nor deem we that beneath a brow all beaming
The flower of life in broken beauty lies.
Oh! blessed light that gilds our night of sor
row ;
Oh ! balm of Gilead for our healing found :
We know that peace will come with the to
morrow,
And that afflictions spring not from the
ground,
| Boston Advertiser,
The Brave at Home,
The maid who binds Her warrior's sash
With smile that well her pain dissembles,
Tho while beneath her drooping lash
One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles,
Though Heaven alone records tho tear,
And Fame shall never know her story,
Her heart lias shod a drop as dear
As e’er bedewed the field of glory !
The wife who girds her husband’s sword,
'Mid little ones who weep or wonder.
And bravely speaks the cheering word,
What though her heart be rent asunder,
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts of death around him rattle,
Hath shed as sacred blood as o’er
Was poured upon the field of battle 1
The mother who conceals her grid
While to her breast her son she presses,
Then breathes a few brave words and brief,
Kissing the patriot brow she blesses,
Wi'h no one but her secret God
To know the pain that weighs upon her,
Sheds holy blood as e’er the sod
Received on Freedom’s field of honor I
Hoiv to be Miserable. —Think about self,
about what you want, 'what you like, what
respects people ought to pay, what people
think of vou ; and then to yourself nothing will
be pure. You will soil everything you touch ;
you will make misery for yourself out of
everything; you will be as wretched as you
choose on earth or in heaven cither, 1 say ;
for that, proud, greedy, selfish, self-seeking
spirit would turn heaven into hell. It did turn
heaven into hell, for the great devil himself.
It was by pride, seeking his own glory—that
lie fell from heaven to hell. lie was not con
tent to give up his own will and do God’s will
like the other angels. He would he a master
himself, and rejoice in his own glory; and so
when lie wanted to make a private heaven of
his own, lie found he had made a hell. And
why ? Because bis heart was not pure, clean,
honest, simple, and unselfish. Answer not(a
word when unjustly accused, and you are the
conqueror.
The Lever tells an anecdote of one the sub
stantial men of New Haven, who had been
chosen to the deacon's office, in one of the Con
gregational churches in that city about the
time that Augur’s Jeptha, now in the Yale art
gallery, was the subject of general conversa
tion. Two members of the church were dis
cussing thenow appointment, and one of them
remaiked that ho feared Deacon B. didn’t
“know the scripter” enough for a deacon.—
“Why” said he, “I’ll prove it.” The two,
weighed down almost by the gravity of the
matter in hand, proceeded to the store of the
the worthy deacon, and asked him if he could
tell who was this Jeptha and his daughter
that everybody was talking about. The good
deacon suspended work for a few minutes to
take n good think, and after pondering the
question for a little while, slowly t answered :
“Jeptha—let me see- yes—Jeptha—why, he
was —of course—yes, Jeptha—be was one of
Napoleon’s Marshals.”
A practical farmer writes: Id my observa
tions for twenty years in the practical' appli
cation of manure, I am convinced that what is
ordinarily termed mulching, or the application
of thoroughly decomposed barn yard manure
to ttie surface is the most economical use cf
this class of fertilizers- From this experience
I am convinced that one cord of manure ap
plied on wheat land at the time of sowing, or
on ground intended for corn in the latoautumn
or applied to all yarieties of large and small
fruits, is worth three cords plowed or dug un
der to the depth of eight inches,
A prominent physician of Portage county,
Ohio, relates a case within his knowledge
where a boy, now some fifteen years old, has
used tobacco since the age of five mouths old ;
being a nervous and fretful child, a plug of
tobacco was placed in his mouth, and produced
a soothing effect. The remedy was often used
during infancy and through the teething pe
riod, and bofore the child could talk plainly it
was a confirmed chcwer.
“What church do you aiteud, Mrs. Parting
ton? - ’ “Oh, any paradox church where the
Gospel is dispensed with. ’
“Lc«f by Leaf the Boses Full.”
We do not mean to be sentimental, as the
above heading would indicate. But wo rise to
protest against the following article which we
find in a late number of tho New York
Times:
It has long been suspected, if not positively
know n, that ihe picturesque story of Sir Isaac
Newton having been led to the discovery of
the law of gravitation by the fall of an apple,
was as baseless as many of the other fine
traditions of genius. We fear it will now have
to he finally consigned to the limbo of slaught
tcred fictions. A remarkable manuscript of
Newton has come to light, in which he him
self gives an account to a friend of tho origin
of his great discovery, and not a word occurs
to show that the fall of an apple had anything
to do with it. In bidding a kir.dly farewell to,
this venerable marvel who will refuso a tear
to its memory ?
Ever since w 6 arrived at man’s estato, some
officious scribbler has been knocking out of
our head the lessons crammed into it by appli
ance of birch and other instrumentalities.—
Sad!/we have learned that things taught as
truths, sacred almost as the teachings of Holy
Writ, were nothing but a pack of lies. We
worshiped as a boy, a revolutionary hero.
He turned out to be a British spy. A Yankee
history taught our youthful mind that we
whipped the British at Bunker Hill. We sub
sequently learned, that notwithstanding the
monument, there was no fight at Bunker s
Hill, and in the fights near by on Breed’s
nil!, we were outrageously thrashed and
routed by the Britishers. For twonty years
we were ready and anxious to make affidavit
that Gen. Jackson fought the battle of New
Orleans behind cotton bags. We saw pictures
of the bags in a Geography and painted them
skv blue Alas !it turned out that there was
not a bale of cotton on the ground, and we
began to doubt if there was such a place as
as New Orleans or such a man as Gen. Jack
son. An ancient school-marm taught us that
General Washington was the greatest and
purest of men. A l r ankco biographer has in
sulted us by publishing that be was a proud,
stupid aristocrat,, who was in the habit of
cursing like a sailor. We still hang on to a
few traditions, and wo warn all trespassers
against foraging on them. We believe that a
tea kettle gave the idea to the inventor of
steam ; that Franklin developed electricity
with a kite and a key ; and that George MTash
ington did cut the cherry tree, and did not tell
a lie nbout it.
p. S.—AYe do not believe that this is tho
“best Government the world ever saw.” —Col,
Sun.
Mrs. R. E. Lee.
A letter from tho Rockbridge Baths to the
New Orleans Times, gives a very pleasing
sketeli of the estimable wife of Gen. Lee, which
we copy below :
The baths here are famous for rheumatism
and scrofulous diseases. There nrc many per
sons who profess to he greatly relieved by
them. Among them I found hero Mrs. Gen.
Robert E. Lee, whom I had not seen for thirty
years. I had known her when a boy, as the
belle of Arlington, the daughter of George
Washington Parke Cnstis, who was an adop
ted child of George Washington, but no blood
relation. Then she was an elegant and attrac
tive young lady, of great affability of manners
and personal charms. Alas 1 I found her
greatly changed by time, and still more by
disease. Tho charm of her manners still con
tinues, hut her body has been terribly afflicted
by rheumetisin, which has made her such a
cripple that, for some years past, almost from
the commencement of the late war, her only
locomotion is effected in a chair with wheels,
which is moved about by servants. In spite
of this affliction she is a most agreeable and
cheerful old lady, receives every one with a
smile and converses upon ail subjects with
great intelligence, vivacity and good humor.
There is nothing of the langour, querulous
ness or discontent of the invalid in her manner
or conversation. Her time is occupied in so
cial converse, sewing, writing and playing with
her grandchild, a jolly little fellow, the son of
Gen. W. 11. F. Lee. She is full of energy and
industry, and employs herself most zealously
to a late hour of the night sewing for herself
and one of her daughters, out of sjme calico
sent as a present from the Phoenix Cotton Mills,
in Georgia. Mrs, Lee, though contented with
her situation and deeply grateful for the many
tokens of love and admiration which have been
lavished upon her husband and herself, very
naturally sighs for her old home, at Arling
ton, from which she has been so ruthlessly
and barbarously banished. She expects to
close her life amid the scenes of the happy
days of her childhood and girlhood. Even
this most cherished desire, however, she will
cheerfully sacrifice to her dignity and pride,
and will never consent to receive back her es
states if tendered with any conditions, or as a
charitable and merciful condescension and
favor by the Government which so cruelly de
vastated and appropriated property bequeath
ed by her patriotic father, and never legally
acquired by the authority which now retains
it. Arlington must cease to be a Federal
cemetery when the family of Robert E. Lee
rc-occuppy it. The daughter-in-law of Mrs.
Lee is hero with her, the wife of Gen. W. 11.
F. Lee, one of the most elegant and beautiful
ladies I have seen in Virginia. She was a
Miss Bolling, of Petersburg, of the old Poca
hontas stock, always famous for beauty and
high spirit. Her commanding and elegant
figure, her bright and beaming face, an air of
mingled dignity, grace and gentleness, would
I mako her in the largest assembly the cynosure
I of all eyes, the observed of all observers.
General Albert Sidney Johnson.
He was a very largo and massive figure,
and finely proportioned. He measured six
feet two inches in height, and had flesh to give
him perfect symmetry. His face was large,
broad and high, and beamed with a look of
striking benignity. His features wore hand
somely molded. Ho was very straight and
carried himself with grace and lofty and sim
ple dignity. He dressed neatly but in full
Confederate gray General’s uniform, that suit
ed him admirably. His appe irance iddicated
in a marked degree, power, decision, serenity,
thought benevolence. Wo thought him then
at first flush, and think now in the hallowing
memory of his manhood, made sacrod by the
consecration of his thrilling and heroic death
for the Southern cause, that he was one of tho
sweetest and raoft august men wo ever met. —
His character was entrancing in its nobility.
There was something in his manner that em
boldened confidence, and whon wo got through,
nothing could exceed the fatherly manner with
which ho replied, encouraging, instructing and
assuring us of his kindness. He proffered to
help us with his counsel, or otherwise ; invi
ted us to call on him at any time, and giving
us the necessary orders, we left.
It was that gentle politeness that won every
body who approached him, and endeared him
to his people. Often afterward, we met him
at his headquarters, and sometimes in the
field, and he always was the same affable,
considerate fatherly gentleman, inspiring the
gravest reverence, winning the fondest regard,
and exciting the highest admiration. But we
must hasten on to our interview with him.
It was at Corinth, Mississippi, a few days be
fore the bloody battle of Shiloh. We had
some important business, and rode to his
headquarters. He met us with his usual cor*
diality, but stated that in consequence of
pressing matters he would be unable to give
us his personal attention, and must, for once,
refer us to bis Adjutant General, but that we
must not foel slighted, and he would also be
glad to see us hero afterward with the same
freedom.
The consideration of his manner and re
marks amid the engrossing occupation of pre
paring that great movement at Shiloh, upon
which he depended so much to retrieve the
disasters of Donaldson and Nashville, prove
how thorough a gentleman he was. and how
kindly was his heart. He bid us good morn
ing with a friendly grasp of the hand—we
Dever spoke to him again. That mighty strug
gle at Shiloh came on. We saw him once in
the dread carnage, flashing across the field, the
incarnation of the splendid warrior. He al
ways rode large and magnificent horses. His
favorite steed was a grey. And when he
was mounted upon tho noble animal he was
the beau ideal of a general. His firm, graceful
seat in the saddle, his majestic proportions,
his noble countenance, the radiant bearing of
knightly chivalry that marked every movement
and feature, all leave a proud remembrance of
gallant and striking manhood, for those to
dwell upon who knew and loved him.
He was killed about twelve o’clock in the
first day’s fight.
When the historian sits to write what will
be the fair chronicles of the turbulent war of
those times, he will lovingly dwell upon no
character more shining, illustrious and exalted
—upon no hero more luminous for chivalry,
patriotism, genius and sublime manhood, than
Albert Sidney Johnson.
A True Bill.
Someone has drawn a very correct bill of
indictment against the Radical party. It is
one that can be sustained by facts and figures.
In this bill of indictment the Radical leaders
stand charged with—
Calling themselves Unionists, they have
consummated and maintained disunion.
Affecting economy, they have given us the
costliest Government on earth.
Prating of virtue, they made it the most
corrupt.
Clamoring for equal rights, they have pro.
scribed more people than any monarchy in
Christendom.
Invoking freedom, they established and
maintained the darkest despotism in eleven
States.
Professing toleration, they proclaim accep
tance of their creed the alternative of ostra
cism and disfranchisement.
Howling about purifying the Government
they have made dishonesty nnd office holding
identical.
Preaching principle, they subsist by passion
and prejudice.
Deploring caste, they elevate blacks nbove
the whites in two thirds of the country.
Magnifying loyalty, they trample out every
worthy principle of our system.
Claiming statesmanship, their officials aro
either conspirators or thieves.
Lauding independence, they are the servilo
slaves of party caucus.
Pretending to invite criticism, they stifle
freedom of debate in Congress by partisan
rule, and drown it elsewhere in blood.
Insisting upon peace, they prolong the old
strife to stir up anew one.
They have made anarchy and cali it peace.
Pretentions without sincerity, is their pro
gramme, to be carried out with tyranny. Their
creed is hypocrisy, their is cant, their
practice is theft, and their end is despotism.
Sale of Relics.— Various relics have just
been sold at auction in Newport, Rhode Is
land ; among them a chair that belonged to
Cotton Mather, a clock two hundred attd
thirty years old, and various pieces of furni
ture that date back to a period before the
revolutionary war. An iron hammer that
“came over in the Mayflower” was also dis
j»osed of.
m. 4 NO. 46
A Sai Tale.
Tho World publishes the following from a
lady, and scorns to vouch for tho truth of its
statement :
That Mrs. Sickles was lovely in person,
simple and childlike in. character, all admit.—
Were she tho degraded creature he. has led the
whole world to believe, her sensibilities
would not have remained so acute “that she
died in less than two years of a broken heart.”
She was weak and cowardly, I admit. Alas I
those defects would have made her sacred in
the eyes of a manly man, and he would hare
done his utmost to shield her from evil.
Lot me depict the few last hours in tlia life
of this injured woman.
.Stung, it may ho, by an irrepressible foel*
ing of remorse, he pretends in the eyes of the
world to have restored her to favor. I will rwf
discuss the propriety of this kind of Klopstocfc
sentiment. I speak of the fact.
.She was placed in a handsome house, with
the ordinary appliances of wealth. Os the
secret history of tho two at this time nothing
need be said. She was ruined in character,
broken in health, utterly lost to the world M
only a woman can he lost—left without hope
without society and without sympathy, except
from the few who were related to her, and
who loved and pitied her. She had long in*
tervals of nervous prostration, when she would
lie for hours like a dying person. She sat
day after day, head leaning upon her wasted
hand, and even listless, seeing and caring for
little in a world whoso sunshine to her had
beon so darkly eclipsed. She sighed faintly,
but said little or nothing. She was a sad
wreck. She knew she was dying, and ex*
pressed no thought or interest in anything but
her absent daughter.
One day she turned suddenly to a young
friend and asked : “Do you think me a guilty
woman?*’ and without waiting for an answer,
she went on, “I wish to speak now while I
can. I was so shocked and terrified at that
horrible time that I did not know what I said.
But lam not guilty of any sin. Mr. Sickles
was very violent—l was afraid of him—he
brought me a paper, which he said I must
sign—he said ho should bn hung if I did not
sign iL I never read one line of that paper ?
I didn’t see one word written in it. I put my
name where he told me, nnd to save his hfe.’ r
She was sinking rapidly, and was carried
to her bed from a long fainting turn. As she
opened her eyes, reviving slowly, they fell
upon the face of Daniel E. Sickles painted
and framed, hanging before her. Lifting her
pale hand, she said :
“Take it away.”
Those about her remonstrated ; hut the seev
ond and third time she murmured, “Take it
away.”
The picture was removed. “Now place my
daughter's face there,” she said with a sad
smile. This was done, and she gazed with a
longing wistful look upon the young face, and
sighed heavily. The poor weary eyes closed,
and she was gone to Him unto whom are open
the secrets of the heart. One Wiio Knows.
Sir Johv Fr avert v.—A correspondent
writes to the San Francisco Bulletin from San
Buenaventur that a document has been found
on the beach at that nlace on the 3d of Aug. r
very badly mutilated. On the document was
found a request for the finder to forward it to
the Secretary of Admiralty at London, or the
British Consul at the nearest port, the request
being printed in six commercial languages on
the margin.
Every vacant portion was filled with writing
relating to Sir John Franklin and his party.
The document was evidently cast in the water
in latitude 69 degrees, 37 minutes, 42 seconds,
and longitude 98 degrees, 11 minutes, 5 sec
onds. It gives an account of the desertion
from the ships Erebus and Terror. The party
numbering 105 at the time of the desertion’,
under the Command of F. R. M. Crozier. They
had succeeded in reaching the above latitude,
where they had found relics of the late Sir
John Ross.
The document states that the party half
wintered at Beechy Island in 1846 and 1847,
and that Sir John Franklin had died on the
11th of June, 1847. It contains many interest*
ing incidents connected with the expedi
tion.
The Test Oath in Missouri.
It will be remembered that several clergy
men of different denominations in Missouri'
were Inst year arrested and imprisoned for re
fusing to take the test oath exacted by the new
constitution of that State. The St. Louis Re
publican of Wednesday, thus refers to one of
the “rebellious” ministers:
“Rev. J. A. Cummings, the Catholic priest
who had tho distinguished honor of being the
first minister of the gospol to be cast into
prison for refusing to take and subscribe to
the infamous test oath of our new constitution - ,
was present at the laying of the corner stone
of the Catholic Cathedral at St. Joseph, on the
12th inst. Father Cummings has acquired a
world wide fame for his firm refusal to ac
knowledge the spiritual authority of a tem
poral government to grant him permission to
preach the gospel, instead of that of his Di
vine Master. From the prison walls of Pike
county jail to an honored place in the volume
of history may be a long step, but Father "
Cummings has had the high honor of making
it. He will live in story when his persecutors
shall have been forgotten for years.”
Arrival or Tea at Chicago. —The first con**
signment of tea from China, overland, arrived
nt Chicago, via the Chicago, Rock Island, and
Pacific route. It was shipped froln San Fran
cisco by Sing-Man and Choy-Chew. Its arri
val was celebrated with music and public ™> -
rade through the principal streets.