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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN.
ESTABLISHED I V 12434,
By CHAS. W. HANCOCK,
VOL. 18.
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BIG BAICA!
crornsr jbl. shaw, :
Forsyth. Street.
GA.
Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!
THE LARGEST STOCK EVER EXHIBITED IN AMERICUS.
OVER SSO Dill STILES.
Including Ladies, Misses and Children’s
PHILADELPHIA CUSTOM MADE GOODS.
ALL OK WHICH I AM OFFERING AT
PRICES I
SPECIAL DRIVES Bft
NEWPORT and OXFORD TIES,
OPERA, VICTORIA and JERSEY LILY SLIPPERS,
AND ALL LOW CUT SUMMER WORK TO CLOSE.
This Immense Must be Reduced.
The best value for the PRICE can always lie obtained every day in the week
(Sunday excepted) from C a. m., to 8 ]>. m., at
JOHN R, SHAW’S
Forsyth Street, Arr\ericus, Ga.,
nojr'T \*ou forget it. 9
43tock Ordinance.
“An ordinance to make it unlawful for
cows and sheep to run at large within the
corporate limits of the city of Americus, and
to prevent the same.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and
City Council of Americus, and it is hereby
ordained by the authority of the same,
That from and after the first day of Octo
ber, to the first day of April, of eacii year,
it shall be unlawful for any cow, calf, heif
, or, bull, steer, ox, ram, wether, ewe or
lamb, to run at large within the corporate
limits of the city of Americus.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained as afore
said.
That all such animals running at large in
violation of the foregoing section shall be
taken up and impounded by the impound
ing officers of the city.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, etc., that
each animal so impounded as aforesaid,
shall be sold by the Marshal of this city at
public sale, not less than eight days from
the time such animal, or animals, shall be
taken up and impounded,
Provided, that the said Marshal shall ad
vertise such sale by written posters in three
or more public places in said city, giving
time and place of sale, three or more days
before said sale.
Provided further, that any owner, or
claimant, may reclaim said animal, or ani
mals, at any time before said sale by paying
all cost and expenses of impounding and
keeping same.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, etc., That
the fee for taking up and impounding a cow,
calf, heifer, bull, steer or ox shall be twenty
five cents, and for each day’s keeping of the
same fifteen cents.
That the fee for impounding all other ani
mals embraced in tills ordinance shall bo
twenty-five cents each, and for each day’s
keeping of the same ten cents.
That the fee for selling any animal or
animals embraced in this ordinance, to in
clude the service and cost of advertisement,
shall be one dollar.
. - Sec. C. Be it further ordained, that all or
dinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
with this ordinance bo and the same is hereby
repealed.
D.K. BRINSON,
auglß-30d Clerk and Treasurer.
REMOVAL.
Can be found on and after September l,
at the Store on Cotton Avenue, now occu
pied by James G. Edmundson, where we
will be glad to welcome our customers and
friends. We will keep
A SELECT STOCK OF
HEAVY AND FANCY GRO
CERIES.
Thankful for past favors, wo are
Yours truly,
Schumpert, Roney & King.
AMERICUS,
Thankful for past patronage, a continua
tion Is earnestly solicited. One now 45 saw
(■tin for sale at *4.25 per saw. One 45 and
two 40 second hand Gins in first-elass re
pair for sale at *1 per saw, all wnrranu
ed. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Shop
on Lee street, Americus, Ga.
auglß-lm P. L. MIZE.
i J-OHH IR,. SHAW,
Forsyth Street,
AMERIOUS. GrA.
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LOOK!
Mrs. M. T. Elam
Has a Large Lot of
Buttons
Of various styles and qualities,
which she will sell at
5 Cents per Dozen.
Americus, Ga., June 2,1883.
Wool Wanted,
BY THE
Laurel Mills Manufacturing
Company.
in exchange for good honest jeans tweeds
and linseys, we exchange our cloth to farm
ers, wool-growers and merchants on favora
ble terms, and will give you bettor value for
your wool than you can get by selling for
money.
FOR 10 POUNDS WASHED WOOL,
We give 8 yards Doeskin Jeans.
We give 10 yards School Boy Jeans.
Wo give 10 % yards Tweeds.
We give 12M yards plain or Check Linseys.
FOR 10 rOUNDS WOOL IN THE DIRT,
Wo give 6 yards Doeskin Jeans.
We give 8 yards School Boy Jeans.
We give B'A yards Tweeds.
Wo give 10 yards plain or Check Linseys.
We will manufacture your wool into
leans for 22H cents per yard, tweeds 15K,
linseys 12K. We pay freight on all wool
sent us. Send for circular and samples, and
you will send your wool when you see our
goods. Direct to
Laure Mills Manufacturing Cos.,
ROSWELL, COBB COUNTY, GA
april-sw&wly
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1883.
New Orleans, August 1, 1883.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Investigate for Yourselves!
Postmaster-General Gresham having pub
lished a wilful and malicious falsehood in
regard to the character of The Louisiana
State Lottery Company, the following facts
aTe given to the public, to prove his state
ment, that we are engaged in a fraudulent
business, to be false and untrue:
Amount of prizes paid by The Louisiana
State Lottery Company from January l,
1879, te present date:
Paid to Southern Express Cos., New
Orleans,!’. M. Wescoat, Manager. 51,366,309
Paid to Louisiana National Bank,
Jos. H. Oglesby, President 403,900
Paid to Louisiana State National
Bank, S. 11. Kennedy, President. 125,100
Paid to New Orleans National
Bank, A. Baldwin, President. ..... 88,550
Paid to Union National Bank, S.
Charlaron, Cashier 04,450
Paid to Citizens’ Bank, E. L. Car
nere, President 57,000
Paid to Germania National Bank,
Jules Cassard, President 30,000
Paid to Hibernia National Bank,
Chas. Palfrey, Cashier 57,000
Paid to Canal Bank, Ed. Toby,
Cashier 13,130
Paid to Mutual National Bank, Jos.
Mitchell, Cashier 8,200
Total paid as above 52,253,050
Paid in sums of under 51,000 at the
various offices of the Company
throughout the United States 2,027,410
Total paid by all 51,881,000
For the trutii of the above facts we refer
the public to the officers of the above-named
corporations, and for our legality and stand
ing to the Mayor and Officers of the City of
New Orleans, to the State authorities of
Louisiana, and also to the U. S. Officials of
Louisiana. We claim to ho legal, honest
and correct in all our transactions, as much
so as any business in the country. Our
standing is conceded by all who will inves
tigate, and our stock has for years been sold
at our Board of Brokers, and owned by
many of our best known and respected citi
zens.
M A. DAUPHIN, President.
arcAi*iTAi, PitiZE, 55,000..g®
Tickets, only 1.5. Mi arcs in proportion
IL.S.L.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY 00,
“We do hereby certify that ice supervise the
arrangements for all Monthly and Semi-Annual
Drawings of The Louisiana Stale Lottery
Company, and in person manage and control the
Drawings themselves , and that the same are
conducted with honesty , fairness, and in good
faith toward all parties, and ice authorize the
Company to use this certificate , with fac simile,
of our signatures attached, in its advertisements s' 1
UoaitKlsvioiicrsi
incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by the
Legislature for Educational and Charitable
purposes—with a capital of 51,000,000— t0
which a reserve fund of over 5550,000 has
since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its
franchise was made a part of the present
State Constitution adopted December 2d,
A.D., 1879.
The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed
by the people of any Stale.
It never scales or postpones.
Its lirand Single Number Drawings
take place monthly.
A. SPLENDID oppoitmvirv TO
WIN A FORTUNE. NINTH GRAND
DRAWING, CLASS l, AT NEW OR
LEANS, TUESDAY, September It, 18S3
—looth Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize, $75,000.
100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, in Fifths in proportion.
LIST OF PRIZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE of $75,000
1 do do 25,000
1 do do 10,000
2 PRIZES OF SO,OOO 12,000
5 do 2,000 10,000
10 do 1,000 10,000
20 do 500 10,000
100 do 200 20,000
300 do 100 30,000
500 do 50 25,000
1000 do 25 25,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
9 Approximation Prizes of $750 6,750
9 do do 500 4,500
9 do do 250 2,250
1967 Prizes, amounting to $265,500
Application for rates to clubs should be
made only to the office of the Company iu
New Orleans.
For information write clearly, giving full
address. Address P. O. Money Orders or
Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, Litt
Ordinary Letters by Mail or Express to
M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, Lu.,
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
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Rey. Father Wilds’
EXPERIENCE.
The Rev. Z. 1\ Wilds, well-known city
missionary in New York, and brother
of the late eminent Judge Wihls, of the
Massachusetts Supreme Court, writes
os follows:
“78 K. s \th .87., New York, May 16, 1882.
Messes. J. < ’. Ayer & Cos., Gentlemen :
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more especially my limbs, which itched so
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Bloody 'Work at Vicksburg.
Grant’s Great Assault and Terri
ble Repulse—Arrangements for
Attack that Led to Slaughter
Pens.
Detroit Free Press.
Grant’s first assault upon Pember
ton’s lines was made under the impres
sion that the Confederate troops were
demoralized and that a rush would
break the line at some poiut. The as
sault was repulsed. Then Grant made
ready for one of the most desperate and
bloody struggles of the whole war. He
had failed ip the assault with a coips;
he would now assault with his whole
army.
After the repulse of Sherman the
Confederates became jubilant. Previ
ous to the assault there was a feeling
of despondency that bade fair to settle
the fate of Vicksburg within a week.
The defenses had been testeu; an as
sault resisted, aud hope returned.
Even if Johnson made no division in
favor of Vicksburg it was to be defend
ed to the last.
Therefore, as Grant made his prepa
ration for the second assault, Pember
ton made his for the second defense
aud with equal enthusiasm. All along
the Federal lines batteries were posted
for concentric fire, sharp shooters push
ed to the front made by scouts to secure
information concerning the Confederate
defenses. The fleet in the river was to
co-operate, and Porter promised Grant
such a fire as Vicksburg had never
felt.
Pemberton made ready to every
point. He knew that an assault en
masse was coming, and he knew that
every Confederate in Vicksburg had
got to stand np for a square fight or
the line would be broken at some point,
lie did not issue an address; he issued
rations and ammunition instead.
Grant’s order was for a general as
sault at 10 o’clock on the morning of
the 22d. Three hours before the bugles
sounded every preparation had been
made and every detail carefully looked
to. Every piece of artillery which was
to take part was in position. Every
corps, division, brigade and regiment
had received instructions for assault.
The commands which wore to carry
planks and ladders for crossing the
ditches and sealing parapets had been
drafted and their materials secured,
and there was not a soldier in that
whole Federal army who had not been
instructed in regard to emergencies.
They were told how ditches were to be
crossed—how to narrow into parapets
ancl slopes to hold their positions—
how to conduct themselves in front of
the abattis—how to shelter themselves
in the ravines and hollows, and while
brigades were to act independent of
each other to a certain extent, the
whole assault was to be in harmony.
The testimony of all general officers
shows that it was one of the most care
fully plannedjassaults in modern war
fare. and the report of regimental com
manders prove that there was less con
fusion in the midst of repulse and dis
aster than was instanced before or after
our civil war.
Pemberton had the advantage of
position, but an earthwork would beno
obstruction unless defended. He must
make one man couut for two along
every yard of his lines. His prepara
tions were also made in detail, and
were as perfect as could be under the
circumstances. No Confederate had
less than forty rounds of ammunition,
and they were instructed over and over
again to hold their fire for close fight
ing and to take deliberate aim and fire
with coolness. That these instructions
were followed is shown by the terrible
death-rolls accompanying Federal re
ports. Confederates behind the stone
walls at Federicksburg had a dead
rest and a certain target every time
they fired. It was the same at almost
every point on Pemberton’s lines. Men
had but to pull the trigger on living
targets so close to them that the color
of hair and eyes could be plainly made
out.
At exactly 10 o’clock the whole
Federal army was transformed into a
monster serpent, which began to writhe
and twist and turn and undulate.
From right to left—from left to right
—from the sharpshooters in the hol
low's and behind the rocks to the dou
ble ranks sheltered in the valleys and
woods, there was a movement.—
Brigades broke off and advanced right
or left oblique—divisions moved up
squarely to the front—caunon began to
thunder—the hoarse shouts of officers
were echoed along the lines—columns
closed up—the earth began to shake
and tremble—the curtain had gone up
on the tragedy of war.
The van of Sherman’s assault was
composed of a thin line of skirmishers,
followed by tho men detailed to carry
planks and ladders and pick-axes and
shovels. Then came the solid lines.
The Confederates who were watching
every moment say that a grander sight
was never seen during the war. Every
moment was executed with a coolness
that spoke of determination, and the
Federal batteries fired slowly and wast
ed but little ammunition.
The orders inside of Pemberton’s
linos were to remain concealed until the
Federal infantry reached the ditches.
This lesultod in a mighty advance
upon forts and breastworks giving out
no signs of life. As Sherman’s van
swept along after his skirmishes the
Confederate works appeared to have
been deserted, and hundreds of men
grasped at the delusive hope that the
Confederates had become panic-stricken
and retired. Sherman concentrated the
fire of twenty-eight guns upon Fort
Hill alone, and it seemed to the troops
as if the place was being torn to pieces.
The Confederate sharpshooters ran in
as soon as pressed by the skirmish
lines, and in such haste that more than
one Federal officer encouraged his men
in the belief that no resistance was to
be met with.
With a steady tramp, and with
ranks as solid as the earth over which'
they moved, Sherman’s first brigades
had reached within a stone’s throw of
Fort Hill before a bullet fell among
them. Then death came with the rush
of an avalance. At the word, a thou
sand Confederates sprang up on the
crest of the parapet, and a thousand
muskets flamed and cracked and sent
their bullets right down intothe crowd
ed ranks.
It was a sudden and terrible check.
In three minutes more the Federals
would have been pouring into the fort.
There was a moment of confusion, and
then one brigade dashed to the right,
another to the left, and the third rush
ed to the crest of a hill on a level with
the parapet and there opened such a
fire that a ramrod held in the air above
the fort would have been cut in two on
tho instant. Sherman’s troops were
in the same position as during the first
assault. They had crossed the ditches,
reached the slopes, planted their flags,
and burrowed into the ground like
foxes, but they could advance no fur
ther. Pemberton had not concentrated
■against tho one corps this time. Every
man in the Federal army was march
ing to the grand assault, and Porter
was raining such a storm of shot and
shell upon the city as bade fair to wipe
it off the hills.
The Federal artillery was playing
upon Fort Hill with a terrible fire,
keeping many of its guns silent and
clearing tho parapet of infantry, hut
it became plain alter awhile that the
only' way to take tho place w-as by a
rush of the infantry lying all around
it. Two brigades formed for this pur
pose and dashed at the parapet. The
Confederate infantry- rose up and sent
their volleys into ranks so close that
the powder burned the men’s faces. It
was butchery to hurl men against such
defenses. It was death to remain there
—it was death to retreat. Thus
through long hours the brigades of
Sherman’s corps, bearing the brunt of
the fight, were penned up and waiting
for their turn to be picked off. The
loss in the fort was not one to fifteen,
and, compared to the loss of the regi
ments directly assailing it in iront, it
was not one to thirty.
McPherson had the centre, lapping
Sherman on one hand and McClernand
on the other, though the flanks were
not looked after as they would have
been if the army had been advancing
against troops instead of defenses.
Kansom’s brigade of McPherson’s corps
joined in Sherman’s assault upon Fort
Hill, and Steele’s brigades did some
terrible fighting further up the line,
but it was the dash of a wave against
a rock. Had the defenders along that
front been reduced one-half, and the
assaulting force increased fifty per
cent., tho general result would have
been the same.
That portion ol McPherson’s corps
which was hurled against tho strong
lines against the Jackson railroad had
no more show of carrying them than
Porter had of running his fleet over the
house-tops of the city, and the several
desperate assaults made resulted in
terrible losses. In front of 100 feet of
Confederate line not less than 400 Fed
erals lay dead or wounded at snnset that
day, w’hile inside the line for that dis
tance two men had been killed and five
wounded.
“We were perfectly safe from' the
Federal artillery fire,’’ says a Confed
crate, “and as for the infantry in front
we paid no hoed to them except when
they assaulted. We waited until they
were close at hand and then sprang up
and withered them at a single volley.
Long enough before we had a wounded
man in my regiment we could count
the dead on our front by the score.”
The day was to wither the laurels
which a brave General had won over
and over again on other liard-fought
fields. McClernand took the left with
a determination to carry his corps into
the Confederate works. The ground
in his front was less difficult to ad
vance over, and there was unmistaka
ble enthusiasm among his men as they
moved out. They were advancing upon
fort and redoubt, ditch and bastion,
but the movement was made in fine
spirits, and at the first rush the advance
brigades were carried across the ditches
and half way up the slopes of every
thing on the front. It seemed as if
they must walk right into the forts,
and troops in the rear were raising
cheers of victory, when the Confederate
infantry rose up and delivered that
terrible volley at short range. The ef
fect was the same along tho whole lino.
Such a volley killed every third
man iu the ranks moving up. Ohio
and Illinois had their flags planted on
the Confederate works, and the men
took cover and hung right there, deter
mined to win a victory. Pieces of
artillery were hauled up by hand and
fired into imbrasures, and in several
instances small detachments of Feder
ate crossed the parapets or penetrated
into ports, but only to be shot down or
taken prisoners.
It seemed to McClernand as if he
had gained a decided advantage. His
front was all up, advance brigades
were lying right under tho Confederate
works, and he had silenced many of the
guns above him. It was impossible
for him to know that Sherman and
FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
NO. 100.
McPherson had gained just such posi
tions only to find them of no advantage.
He therefore reported to Grant his suc
cess and his belief that reinforcements
would bring him victory. It must have
looked that way to him. There were
evidences that the Confederates had all
they could do to hold him at the foot
of their works. Let reinforcements
come aud the scale would turn in his
favor. He therefore hung on and
waited.
Grant was ready by noon to recall
his army from the assault. He could
see that ueithe’’ Sherman nor McPher
son had gained any advantage, while
their losses had been terrible. Then
came McClernand’s reports of success,
one following the othsr, and finally,
much against his better judgment, he
acquiesced, but in the hope that victory
might come from it. Reinforcements
were ordered to McClernand, and Sher
man and McPherson were instructed to
make fresh assaults along their fronts
as a diversion.
McClernand was too sanguine. He
counted too much on the endurance of
his troops. lie expected the sight of
reinforcements hastening up would
dishearten the Confederates. He fully
and earnestly believed that 5,000 more
men would aid him to carry everything
in his front. Grant was mistaken in
thinking lie could carry Vicksburg
by assault, but a subordinate must not
err. McClernand hurled his corps
against the rock timo after time, but
only to leave; his dead and wounded
along the ditches. Sherman was hurl
ed back—McPherson was hurled back
—the great assault was a defeat along
every yard of the line. McClernand
had fought with the greatest valor,
and his men had come the nearest to
victory, but he had been too enthusi
astic, and the result was the loss of
prestige and position.
When night came on the Federal
armj- had been beaten back at everv
point. Porter’s tremendous bombard
ment had failed to silence a single bat
tery, and the dead and wounded were
lying in front of the lines in such num
bers as to appal those who had come
safely out of the horrible tornado of
death. Vicksburg could not be taken
by assault; Grant would now enter
upon a regular siege. M. Quad.
ON AN ALTAR OF FIRE.
A Religious Crank’s Wild Frenzy.
III? ATTEMPTS TO CRUCIFY HIS SON AND
ROAST his daughter. , *
Erie Special.
The eastern part ot this county is in •
tensely excited over the freaks of a man
crazed by religion. Sylvester Knott, a
well-to-do farmer, living in a compara
tively isolated spot on the bank of Lake
Erie, is the fanatic who e deeds are the
theme of public conversation. Some
months ago he attended a meeting of
the Salvation Army at Franklin, where
he became greatly excited. Since then
his brain has by degrees grown more and
more inflamed, and now his frenzy
knows no check. For two weeks past
he wandered up and down the lake
bank, regardless of sunshine and storm,
declaiming on salvation schemes, pictu
ring the horrors of judgment day and
calling upon sinners to worship God or
be eternally lost. Yesterday morning
he planted a large cross in the woods,
upon which to nail his eight-year-old
son, believing that the boy would be
tormented in hell fire forever unless he
died the death of mankind’s Redeemer.
With strength well nigh superhuman
Knott held the lad firmly while driving
a large nail through the little fellow’s
hand, unheeding his piteous pleas for
mercy. The dreadful work was inter
rupted by some wood cutters, who chan
ced to be passing. Leaving his son
hanging the maniac, first strikingdown
one of the rescuers with a hammer leaped
into the lake. A search for his hiding
place proved fruitless and it was thought
that he had been drowned. But such
was not the case. Before midnight the
crazy man returned, smashed the door
of his house and knocked Mrs. Knott
insensible at a single blow. Entering a
chamber in which his only daughter,
Minnie, a beautiful girl of seventeen,
lay sleeping, ho bound her hands and
feet and carried her to a lonely place
in the forest, where hundreds of cords
of wood were piled. An altar was
quickly built and upon it the madman
secured his child.
‘Even as Abraham did with Isaac,
will I offer you as a burnt offering unto
the Lord,” chanted the madman, set
ting the funeral pyre on fire.
The climbing flames soon licked the
exposed limbs of the girl, whose shrieks
of agony and prayers for a more merci
ful death were music to the madman’s
ears. Dancing around the heap on
which lay the girl, he implored the Al
mighty to accept the sacrifice as atone
ment for the sinful deeds committed by
him in years long gone, and added fresh
fuel to the altar. Hut help arrived in
time to prevent the consummation of
the fearful design. Two young men,
crossing the woods on their way home
from a party, saw a bright light and
heard the young lady’s screams. One
felled the demented father, while his
companion scattered the blazing fagots
and lifted the girl from her fiery bed.
The cords that fettered her limbs were
transferred to those of the unconscious
maniac.
Miss Knot is painfully burned about
the limbs, and there are large blisters
on her shoulders and sidos. So awful
was her experience that the doors ol an
asylum may open to admit the daugh
ter, as well as the father. She raves
night and day, and it is feared her rea
son is permanently dethroned.