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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK, (_ VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - -?4 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 in Advance.®! All advertisements eminating from public offices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for eacli of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred arc considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of eacli advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising Rates. One Square fifst insertion, - - - - §I.OO Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .50 Esf Ti:n Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed places will .be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. DON'T T3TJY Groceries BEFORE EXAMINING GLOY M PERRY'S LARGE STOCK! —AS THEY— WILL NOT BS UfIOEtiSOLO ! On any article in their line, hut propose to UNDERSELL I WILL PAY HIGHEST PRICE FOP. Georgia Seed Rye ! COUNTRY MERCHANTS Will find that they can buyoi ub Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot and Matches! ! For less money than they can order. GLOVEII & PERRY, sspfltf Americus, Ga. OLD BUIiG COMES TO TIIE FRONT THIS SEASON WITH DRINKS, f NED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR TEN CEBITS. OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME ON HAND AT ALL TIMES. NIE&LS FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE ANI) AT ALL TIMES-DAY AND NIGHT. BILLIARDS 5c per game two games for 25 cts—cash. POOL 2K CENTS PER CUE-ALL CASH. Come one, come all, and see if yon don’tget the best—nothing charged at these rates. Best Cigars and Tobacco Always on Hand! BOTTLED LIQUORS ALWAYS ON HAND IN FRONT ROOM, J. P. CHAPMAN. Amorlous, Ga., Sept. sth, 1882. o.lm Mrs. M. E. RAINES IAS JUST .13 3SIVED A NEW LINE OF MILLIEIT CONSISTING OF Lace Straw Bonnets, Leghorn Fats, Round Hats, tagFluniinllGilKi, LACES AND FLOWERS. Those who have not yet purchased their Spring Bonnets will find it to their interest to examine her new goods. She has also FRENCH CHIP HATS IN WHITE AND BLACK. mayl7tf — A full assortmcnt of Toilet Articles, Per turnery, Soaps, Etc., Etc., at Dr. Eldirges, Drug Store. For Dyspepsia, SC o s tiveness, Sick Headache, Clironic Diar rhoea, Jaundice, Impurity of the Blood, Fever and Ague, Malaria, and all Diseases rangement of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys. SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED LIVER. Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax; the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy, with considerable loss of memory, accompanied with a painful sensation of leaving undone something which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often mistaken for consumption; the patient complains of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled; feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent, and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred when but few of them existed, yet examination after death .has shown the Liver to have been extensively deranged. It should be used by all persons, old and young, whenever any of the above symptoms appear. Persons Traveling or Living In Un healthy Localities, by taking a dose occasion ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, wifi avoid all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is no in toxicating beverage. If You have eaten anything hard o 2 digestion, or feel heavy after meals, or sleep less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved. Time and Doctors* Bills will bo saved by always keeping the Regulator ' in the House! For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and tonic can never be out of place. The remedy i> harmless and does not interfere with business or pleasure. IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE, And has all the power and efficacy >.f Calomel or Quinine, without any of the injurious after ellects. A Governor’s Testimony. Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a valuable addition to the medical science. J. Gill Shorter, Governor of /Via. lion. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga., says: Have derived some benefit from the use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a further trial. “The only Thing that never fails to Relieve.”—l have used many remedies for Dys pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never * nave found anything to benefit me t<> the extent Simmons Liver Regulator has. I sent from Min nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only thing that never fails to relieve. I*. M. Jannet, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex perience m the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in iny practice I have been and am satisfied to use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. only the Gen nine, which ahvavs has on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Murk and Signature of J. H. ZEILSN & ( (>. FOR SALE BY ALT, DRUGGISTS. PILLS A DISORDERED LIVER IS THE BAHE, of the present generation. It is for the Cure of this disease and its attendants, BICK-HEADACHE, DY£ PEPSI A, CONSTIPATION, FILES, eto., that TUTT’S PILLS have gained a w.orld-wide reputation. No Semedy baa ever been discovered that acta so gfently on the digestive organs, giving them vigor to as similate food. Asa natural result, the Nervous System is Braced, the Muscles are Developed, and the Body Robust, Chills 3?ovor, E. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La., says: My plantation Is in a malarial district. For several years I could not make half a crop on account of bilious diseases and chills. I was nearly discouraged when I began tho uso of TUTT’S PILLS. Tho result was marvelous: my laborers soon became hearty and robust, and I have had no further trouble. They relieve the enerorged Liver, eleanm the Blood from poisonous languors, end cause bowels to act naturally, with out vrbich no one can feel well. Try this remedy fairly, and you will gain a healthy Digestion, Vigorous Body. Pure Blood, Str'ing Nerves, aud a Sound ILlvcr. Price, 25Cents. Office, 35 Murray St., N, Y. TUTUS HAIR DYE, Gray ITair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy Black by a single application of this Dye. It Imparts a natural color, and acts instantaneously. Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of One Dollar. Office, 83 Murray Street, New York. (Dr. TUTT’S 3IANUAU of Valuable\ Information and Useful JXeceipts § trill be mailed FREE on application. J' HOSIIFer’s l&lfffftS That terrible scourge fever and ague, and its congener, bilious remittent,besides affec tions of tbe stomach liver and bowels, pro duced by miasmatic air and water, are botli eradicated and prevented by the use of Hostetler’s Stomach Ritters, a purely vege table elixir, indorsed by physicians, and more extensively used as a remedy for the above class of disorders,as well as for many others, than any medicine of the age. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. JOHJTaV McULROY, NOTARY PUBLIC, AMERICUS, GA. Having nothing else to do, 1 will devote my time to the making out of annual returns of administrators, guardians, etc., etc. I will also draw deeds to land, bonds for titles, etc-, etc. Orders left at the store of Burkhalter & Hooks, the Republican or Recorder offices, will receive prompt atten tion. CHARGES REASONABLE. maylStf J. A. McELROY. MITE SNUFF for the destruction of mites on chickens, can be had at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS, AMERICUS, GEORGIA; WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1882. VEOt WY. A CLEVER BCS. [The following clever dun was written many years ago by a Mr. Howe, while editor of tbe Pine Knot Journal.] ’Twas on a cold autumnal night, When clouds obscured fair Venus’ light, And not a star appeared in sight, As the thick forest through, Muggins, as usual “blue,” ’Beat homeward tacking left and right, When all at once he brought up right, Against an old dead yew, At which lie rounded too, Just when above him flew An Owl, which on a branch did light, Some few feet o’er the boozy wight, And then began, tu whit! tu woo! Quoth muggins who be you? You needn’t think to fright, A fellow of my weight and height, With you tu whit! tu woo! You cussed ternal buggaboo; So squaring off as if to fight, Said with an oath, Isliant indite, You d—d Infernal scoundrel you! For muggins aiut you due, ’Light ami I’ll lick you black or white, The printer’s paid up, honor bright, There at the owl withdrew, And muggins lilizzeled too. MORAL. There are some folks who might, Be caught out late some night, Who haven’t paid what’s right They know to who! to who! \\\S C> US7 A SOMNAMBULIST. A traveler asked permission to stop at a farmer’s lionse for the night. The famer, while inclined to accommodate the stranger, was unable to do so, all the rooms in the house being occupied on this occasion. At last the farmer said to the traveler that he had a house a hundred yards from the one he occu pied and that there was a furnished room in it but that no one could occupy it as strange sights were seen there by those who attempted to sleep there. The stranger insisted that he could sleep there. The farmer protested, but finally expressed his willingness to allow the stranger to try it. After sup per they indulged in a conversation till bed time. The young man expressed a desire to go to his room. The good farmer again warned him and reminded him that no one ever had for more than a year been able to remain in that house an entire night; that it was haunted. The young man with a smile again in sisted on being shown his room. A lamp being procured, the farmer went with him to the house, showed him his room, bade him a prayerful goodnight and returned to his house. The stranger was brave and skepti cal on the subject of ghosts. He laid awake a long time waiting for the ap parition. At length he was gratified. He noticed a shadow on the wall; (the light having been turned down low,) a moment later and a white specrial figure flittered by his window. He be gan to feel strangely curious to know the meaning of all this. He was not left in suspense but a moment. A slight, gtaceful figure, clad in a flow ing white garment, softly, noiselessly entered his room and steadily and silent ly approached his couch. A slight tremor shook his frame, but he remain ed in his bed with his eyes on the mys terious object approaching. The figure reached his bed and lying down beside the stranger heaved a deep sigh. This was too much for flesh and blood to bear. He determined to solve the mys tery, and with a sensation of mingled awe, fear and curiosity, he stretched forth his hand and lo! it was tangible object, like himself a creature of flesh and blood, bnt of a more delicate or ganization and more symmetrically formed. It was a female. Imagine the astonishment that must have pos sessed him at that moment. He took a jeweled ring from the finger of the woman, she seemed to be all uncon scious of it. After a few moments she rose and left the apartment as silently and mysteriously as she had entered it and an hour later the young man was in the arms of Morpheus, dreaming of goblins with golden tresses, bright eyes and jeweled hinds. The next morning at breakfast the beautiful and accomplished daughter of the farmer discovered that she had lost her dia mond ring, and was sorely perplexed, when after a diligent search in her room she could find no trace of it. She was positive that she had it on when she retired, and could not imagine how it had been spirited away. Immediately after breakfast the young stranger took the farmer aside, told his story and pre sented him the ring: The farmer was dumbfounded. It was his daughter’s ring. The young man was solicited warmly by the farmer to remain a few days as his guest. The result was a marriage. Advice to Consumptives. On the appearance of the first symp toms—as general debility, loss of ap petite, pallor, chilly sensations, fol lowed by night sweats and cough, prompt measures of relief should be taken. Consumption is scrofulous disease of the lungs; therefore use the great anti-scrofulous or blood-purifier and strength-restorer, Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery.” Supe rior to Cod liver oil as a nutritive, and unsurpassed as a pectoral. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, and kindred affections it h#< no equal. Sold by druggists. For Dr. Pierce’s treatise on consumption send two stamps. World’s Dispensary Medical Associa tion, Buffalo, N. Y. We are taught, to clothe our minds as we do our bodies, after the fashion in vogue, and it is accounted fantasti cal, or something worse, not to do so. If yon want to get the worth of your money In Cigars and Pipes, call at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store SPEECH OF GOV. A. 11. COLQUITT, DELIVERED AT Americus, September 20tli ISS2. A Stinoino,Stirring Campaign Speech in Which Personalities Plat a Large Part, and the Object is some one Connected With a Macon Newspaper —A Notable Speech. After the conclusion of the s[ eech of Hon. A. 11. Stephens and Hon. Thos. Hardemas, Dr. J. It. Iliukle presented Gov. Colquitt to the gathering in a few well-chosen and well spoken sentences that were followed with cheers, and the Governor arose in a storm of applause and said: Fellow Citizens— I join this vast crowd to-day in joy ful ratification of the action of the last Democratic Convention of Georgia. The reasons for this are multifarious and of unanswerable strength. The reasons urged in objection are as false as they are futile. Why do the ene mies of Democracy here in Georgia, as well as every where else, say that we should not accept the action of the con vention and vote for Mr. Stephens. Do these men of strife and schism say that his nomination was one not fit to be made? Do they say that his private life is not pure—that his public life has been a failure? Do they dare say that his deeds of benevolence, like those of thousands of others, have all been per formed for his own good—that his char ities ended where the world says they ought to have begun? Do these ob jectors say that the State of Georgia and the entire south are not honored by such a career and history as his? Noth ing of the sort is said or dared by the men who, by the saddest misuse of the powers which heaven has granted them, are laboring night and day to pull down the Democratic party and to sink with it the noblest fortunes of our State and country. These malcontents rave against Democratic organization and ask yon to reject as noble work as it ever made itself responsible for, because they say Mr. Stephens, onr standard bearer, was brought out by the bosses. Who are these bossec? Where have they lived and hectored? Where are the wrecks and ruins which their bit ter, rule has achieved? Let not a false modesty hide the historical fact that in this year of the “decline and fall of Georgia” the dreadful bosses are divid ed into three parts. One-third Brown, anotlior third OuidOll, and last, blit haO least, in sin, your humble speaker. There stands Brown and Gordon, and if the enemies of true Democracy in Georgia feel strong and pugnacious enough to attempt to butt or kick them from their pedestrals, let them try the temper of horn or heel, aud then tell us how they have prospered by the ven ture. As for myself I have exercised the right of a Georgian to entertain my convictions and express my views as to what ivas best for the honor and inter ests of my native State. . This 'is all I shall continue to ‘do, in spite of the effort to discredit my opinion, by the senseless cry of “bosses.” An Atlanta ring of bosses! I have known of no ring in Atlanta for any local object, or to advance the ambition of particular men. 1/ there is such a ring I have not had the honor of being in it, for in the Gubernatorial Convention of the past it has been my misfortune to be opposed by Atlanta through its chosen delegates. If there is an Atlanta ring it has not used its power in my behalf. Oh, away with such nonsense! Onee in a century,or may be nearer the truth, once in a thousand years, a man may arise in the midst of a free people, and be so strong—so good—,-:o wise, that the people will, during the sway of his greatness, abdicate their own judgment aud volition. But not in your day and mine have we had such a character among us. No, my friends, if we can’t accept Alexander H. Stephens with all the maturity and glory of his well earn ed fame, as a boss, we need not look for timber in Georgia, or the world out of which to carve one. Hear me to-day when I make the de claration that this charge against the nomination of Mr. Stephens is a false hood without“metes or bounds.” Never in my life have 1 had occasion to note a fuller, fairer or a more decisive ex pression of choice made by the people of Georgia of a candidate than was made in the instance of Mr. Stephens. The propriety, fitness, wisdom—yea, necessity—of his selection was fully discussed and acted on in the primaries of the party throughout tho entire State. In this connection I will call your at tention to what demands rebuke as one of the littlest, in spirit, and most auda cious in mendacity, of any of the edi torial outgivings published in my day. It is, I suppose, tho culmination of a purpose long entertained, and with a diabolical persistency adhered to to de stroy me if possible. But while the subject is fruitful in suggestions of very many things of a like sort, I will not detain you by now referring to those. Here is an editorial appearing Septem ber 15th in the Telegraph and Messen ger. I will give you only the salient points of it, as I would not weary you. This whipper-in ot the Georgia demo cracy says, in au editorial entitled, “A Flank Movement by the Boss:” The Senatorial rumor to which we had occasion to refer only a short time since, has fully bloomed out. It seems that Colquitt was on the point of ap pointing young Ben Rill to fill his fath er’s vacancy. In order to take such a step, he felt the necessity of support, and a petition, tho usual resource, was adopted. But the petition has this dan ger attached to it. It must necessarily take the public into confidence. Iti this case it proved immediately fatal. A puncture from the press, and death was the result. It was a most misera ble and untimely effort to save the fall ing fortunes ot Colquitt by invoking the name and fame of the dead Ben Hill, by an attempt to use his friends. ****** It was proposed to dazzle young Ben Hill with this, in the hope that he and his father’s friends would rally to the support of Colquitt for the full term. In all the doings of this Colquitt ring, nothing has been more selfish and shameless than this. It was simply an outrage to drag the memory of a great dead man, upon whose grave the grass has not yet grown, into the arena of political discussion for such a purpose and at such a time. And in another paragraph we have this: The move of Governor Colquitt in the Senatorial matter was a cunning one, but he overdid the thing. He can not successfully win over to himself the support of Senator Hill’s thousands of friends by such transparent trickery. If such a shocking imputation as tho above language conveys was deserved I will not undertake to deny in this pres ence that any reprobation of it could be too severe. Such chaffering and specu lation around the coffin whose inmate the State was lamenting in profoundest grief, would have been simply mon strous and heinous. If I -were guilty of it I were a brute—bnt if I am inno cent the creature that charges it is one. I now give you the commentary on this text. You all know Captain Jackson. If you do not now, in the near future you will. I claim for his own exalted private character and for his reputation as the Chairman of the State Executive Committee of the Democratic party, the fullest credence. Here is what he says about this matter of the appointment of young Mr. Hill and my connection with it: “Some days before the death of Sena tor Hill, but when it was known to the public to be imminent, I remarked to some friends that the best disposition that could be made of the utiexpired term was to fill it by the appointment of his eldest son, who bore his name; that no more appropriate tribute could be paid to the memory of the eminent sufferer who had filled so large a space in the political history of Georgia; that ltl Onn ti.ocj n of .TrootAHllg promise, a cultivated gentleman, and one who would reflect naught but honor on the State. After the death, as I sat by the casket that held all that was mortal of the great Senator, on duty as a member of the bar in the house over whelmed by mourning, l repeated sub stantially what I had said before as to the unexpired term, adding that such a course would lift the stricken family from the grave to the present and the future. Upon occasions since I have made the same remarks to others, and the suggestion seemed to meet with uni versal approval. Last week Major W. D. Luekie asked me why I did not move practically in the matter by preparing a petition for signatures, and suggested that I ought to do so at once. Whilst I had not heretofore contemplated tak ing an active part in the matter, yet as no one else had moved, and I was de cided in my views as to the propriety of the action, I prepared the petition as soon as my time permitted, and pre sented it for signatures. Neither Gov ernor Colquitt nor any member of the family of the late Senator Hill had any knowledge from me as to what I was doing. I never communicated with them, directly or indirectly, in ref erence to the matter of the petition. If they had any information on the sub ject it was from others than myself and without my knowledge. In other words, in no way or manner, directly or indirectly, did they, or any one of them, or any member of Senator Hill’s fam ily, influence my action. There is no use in expatiating on language as explicit as this or in en larging on an argument as entirely con clusive as Captain Jackson makes here.” Now here is the case. A charge in volving a result, if true, that should consign me to the execration and con tempt of mankind is made. No man, with any sense of honor or justice, would have made such a charge with out indubitable evidence of its truth. Was it true? Read the letter of Cap "tain Jackson and see. But granting in abundant charity that there was some mistake—some misinformation in making the original charge—the truth was furnished the offending and ag gressive party. How was it received? Did the spirit, of the wrong doer rise to the status even of a generous enemy? Did he frankly avow his error, and say: •‘While I hate and would destroy him; while I would crush him if I could, 1 would not besmirch him with a lie.” No, even this petty measure of justice is refused, and he comes hack in a sub sequent article. In that article he ac quits Captain Jackson and Mr. Hill of all wrong, but with an audacious de fiance of truth “stands” on the false hood as to Governor Colquitt. I have been often asked what is the meaning of this editor’s rage and his presistent vituperntion of me, I am a man of peace, and I think my whole life proves that I have hated and avoid ed strife. I trust lam even of a for giving temper. You all know that same temper in the last five years has had experience enough to have perfect ed itself in the virtue of forgeviness if it were possible. I will tell you. When I came into office as governor I had to act upon this man’s application for reappointment as solicitor of the eastern circuit. As was my bounden duty I made inquiry as to the fitness of the appointment, and after a most fair and exhaustive investigation into the matter of his qualifications for the re sponsible post he was seeking, I was forced in good conscience to reject his solicitations and appoint another. It is the old tale. The poet says that “hell has no fury like a woman scorned,” but that is clearly a mistake. There is no fury, no hatred on this earth more im placable, more savage than that of the disappointed applicant for office. There are a few honorable and magnanimous exceptions whose names I would mag nify if I could. But ibis editor is not with the exceptions. From the day his application for office was refused to the present hour I have been follow ed by a hatred on tho part of this man that has been at times devilish and maglignant. By an editorial fling he attempted to originate|and spread a scandal on private life, that is too foul to be mentioned in this presence. I will not refer to the many inuendoes he has published and the ungenerous use he has made of his advantage as an editor to scatter thoso which were intended to injure my personal character. The protection of my name from this sort of malignity and attack I suppose is my own private concern; but whe this rage carried him into the domains of my religions walk, I think a decent re gard for public morality and religions sentiment should overawe him. It is a sad thing indeed when a man in pub lic life cannot attend as an interested visitor a camp-meeting or Sunday school celebration without being re ferred to in language bordering on blas phemy. I can recall the day in Geor gia when public opinion would not tolerate an editor who tried to destroy his party nor one who was daring enough to crack editorial jokes and cast paltry slurs on religious observance. But I must not suffer the little good that I might do to he hereafter made impossible by calumnies and belittling decrials, when it may be avoided by exposing the malice and purpose which prompt them. The malice of this man respects neither opportunity or person. Inspired by a venom that is the result of a life of envious observance and failure and disappointment, he assaults almost daily with fling and inuendo and.in sults a man who is three thousand miles away, wl(t .rto of waivio rolling between—a man who, having served his country valiantly and hon orably in peace and in war, is now in Europe invokiug the aid of foreign capital to build up the Boutli and the interest of foreign capitalists in the de velopment of southern indust'ip. I allude to General Gordon. He has retired from public life. He has laid aside his senatorial robes as he laid aside his sword, and he is a private citizen. Without rank or insignia, he is to-day receiving the courtesies of royal blood, the welcome guest of the highest dignitaries, banqueted by men whose word is law in the world of finance, and who can be potent in hastening the progress of the south. It does seem that every Georgian would have felt a thrill of pride at the honors paid this private citizen of Georgia in foreign land and would have held up his hands in the work in which he is engaged and in the successful issue of which even the humblest Georgian is interested. But the malicious spite of this man knows no bounds. He hates for the sullen love of hate and slanders for the love of slander. His assaults on General Gordon under the circum stances is equalled in its disregard of propriety and honor and in its prosti tution of a great newspaper to the pur poses of personal malice. I see men here to-day whose patriotic hearts understand the call of their country. All about me I see those who shared my hunger and many marches and bloody struggles, and in the days that, though past, will never, never be forgotten. Where was this valiant soul, this burning patriot, this chevalier without fear and without re proach, this phenomenal character who, to hear him talk of Gordon, Brown, myself and others, yon would suppose all his life “felt a stain like a wound.” Why, I will tell you where he was. When some of you were marching aud fighting with Gordon and myself as Stoneivell Jackson’s foot cavalry, he was safely ensconced in a bomb proof position in Richmond with a quill be hind his ear. Then, how little like the present, he was a man of peace and did believe strongly in the paths of industry. But he had to evacuate even his beloved bomb-proof. Richmond fell and his peaceful office fell with it, and this ten der plant was soon transplanted to the lines around Columbus. We all re member the day when Wilson the raider was marching on the city. Worn down as tho body was, sick as the soul must have been with our losses and perils—even at that hour Columbus was glorified, and will be forever by the spirit rallied her people to the rescue. The women at that day cried shame on the laggard; the little boy, just big enough to carry his gun for the cock robins, was in the trenches; venerable W. H. Young,, his head as white as cotton and so deaf that he could not hear tho peal of the cannon, was there and received a bayonet wound. Dr. Devotie, holy man of God as he was, laid away his clerical robes for the hour, and was as ready to fight for his peo j FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. pie and home as to pray for them. All, all, self-marshled, was there. All, did I say? No, not all. One, and from the size of him now, as he rants and fumes in the columns of the Telegraph and Messenger, dealing out death and destruction—he must have been a host in himself—that one was not there. All answered to the roll call—all but him. And where was he? He was then fleeing from the defense of his home and his hearthstone and his wife and his little ones, and when his name was reached, “Absent and not accounted for” was the word that ran around the line. Thank God, no matter how much he may write of “a flank move ment by the boss,” he can never charge a “flank movement” like that on me! It is bad to be spoken evil of, I feel; but I have my choice of defamers, When my party, my candidate, my life, my character, are to be maligned, let the evil work be done by one whose own life and example gives earnest that the effort is harmless.” Mary’s Lamb on anew Principle. Mollie had a little lamb as black as a rubber shoe, and everywhere that Mollie went he emigrated, too. He went with her to church one day —the folks hilarous grew to see him walk demurely into Deacon Allen’s pew. The worthy deacon quietly let his angry passion rise, and gave it an un christian kick between the sad brown eyes. This landed rammy in the aisle; the deacon followed fast, and raised his foot again; alas! that first kick was his last. For Mr. Sheep walked slowly back about a rod, ’tis said, and ere the dea con could retreat he stood him on his head. The congregation then arose and went for that ’ere sheep; several well directed butts just piled them in a heap. Then rushed them straightway for the door with curses long and loud, while ramm v struck the hindmost man and shoved him through the crowd. The minister had often heard that kindness would subdue the fiercest beast. ,T Ahal” he said, “I’ll try that game on you.” And so he kindly, gently called, “come rammy, rammy, ram; to see the folks treat you so I grieve and sorry am.” With kind and gentle words he came irom that tall pulpit down, saying: “Rammy, rammy, ram—best sheepy in the town.” The ram quite dropped its humble air, and lObiO from Off ltd fVtJt, dlltl wlicix the parson landed ho was behind the hinemost seat. As he shot out the door, and closed it with a slam, he named a California town—l think ’twas “Yuba Dam.”— Exchange. SCHOOL HATS! A LARGE LOT OF SCHOOL HATS. JUST RECEIVED AT Mrs. M. T. Elam’s, Americus, - - - Ceorgia. SCHOOL HATS! sept2ot£ Rosser & Gunnels. New Bar and Billiard SALOON. Messrs. G. S. ROSSER and P. W. GUN NELS have opened a Bar and Billiard Sa loon in tlie new building of Mamil Bros., on Cotton Avenue, where they have a fine stock of pure Brandies, Wines and Whiskies ! Also the National Drink, ANHUESER BEER, the best in the land. The best Cigars and Tobacco always on hand. Our Billiard Saloon is one of the best in the city—everything new and good. We in vite tlie public generally to give us a trial. In afew days our RESTAURANT will be opened, and we promise that it shall com pare with the best and be surpassedTiy none. ROSSER & GUNNfeLS, septStf Americus, Ga. ACARD. Those who prefer to have their daughters educated in a SELECT SCHOOL, conduct ed with economy, and located in a quiet," healthy place, will please address ROBERT P. SMITH, Principal Reidville Female College, S. C. N. B.—Can refer to several patrons in and around Americus. augSl-lm TO RENT, ~~ Dwelling House to rent on Lamar Street i erterms apply to l. aiayiatf. Mrs, A.jajOlON* NO. 8.