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Site WwMg gepuMfom. HANCOCK, GRAHAM - * REILLY 1-r.opr.xtToiia. AMERICUS. GEORGIA: Friday Vnmfag, lone 10,1870. omCIAL 0B6AV OF SCHLEY COTOTY. Official Organ of Lee County. Official Organ of Webster County Foolishness of Intemperance. The habit of drinking v; to onr mind, the most inexcusable piece of destruct ive nonsense in tho world. And no irheraia it more prevalent than in cities The money ponred down tho throats of men each year is greater than is expend ed for improvements. Whysky shops, saloons, and all sorts of irrational devi ces and places to fool away money, are fonnd by the hundreds and thousands in Official Organ of Sumter Co. i cities, If a man is tired, he drinks; if at work he drinks. If doing nothing he must have acip every hoar. If too warm he most have julip; too cold whisky. If he is by himself, out comes a flask or bottle; if in company, he stands treat till all his money is gone; then like aj“ dead beat,” lie sits around till some one asks him tip. A man of moderate salary steps iuto a saloon, invites half a dozen friends to drink, pays half a dollar or more, and walks out. Three or four times a day he repeats this and always drinks when asked. It is social. Men mean nothing by it But daring the week half aman’s salary is poured down his throat, de stroying his stomach and weakening his nerves, over-exciting liis brain, and rob bing himself and family of money need ed for other purposes. But it is social. Drink in tho morning, at noon, at night, then a few between drinks. The brain whirls—the hand grows unsteady— the pocket grows empty—the home ones suffer—the eyes look red and tremulous, as if asliamed— ambition is drowned in poison. Pretty soon poor fellow, he anfit for business—he makes He is sick, unable to work. He is not to be relied on. Ho leaves his place and ii time finds a poorer one. Then he feels blue—drinks still more, his family suf fers, ho leaves his place again, and at last dies a wreck. Bat it is social. We believe a man has no right to kill himself snddenly or by slow poison. It may be none of onr business in the ab stract, yet we are soriy to see men fool ing themselves away, dying liko weeds in a gutter when they might be men, up right, healthy, loved and useful, of benefit to themselves and others, and this is why wo write against intemperance. Health is too precious to be wasted. Manhood is too noble to be thrown into the gutter. Life is too sweet to be drugged with poisons now compounded and sold os liquors. To drink poison may be social but it costs too much for us, or any other To Scrsciuuebs.—In accordance with the programme adopted by tho Southern Press Association at its late session in Savannah, wo have determined that the subscription price of the Republican must bo paid in advance by subscribers. Those who are in arrears and who have been repeatedly donned by tho “X ” mark on their papers or otherwise, will be dropped from onr books if they do not immediately settle up. We are compell ed to pay the cash for every article used in this office and therefore adopt this sys tem so that we may be able to meet all demands against us. Those who do not wish to comply with the above can not expect ns to continue to send the paper to them, if they do, they will be sadly disappointed. Persons who ore advertising under con tract most pay quarterly in advance, as l>er agreement. We cannot afford to lose time to don a man two or three dozen t imes before wo can get money that lie bus promised to pay when called for. If he cannot fill his part of the contract and "’ill lot us know it, we will appropriate the space devoted to his advertisement to something moro profitable. Prize Candy.—Commissioner Delano has decided that dealers in prize candy avc subject to the same internal revenue tax ns gift enterprises, vis: $150 per an- Capt. Matthew Hunt, tho oldest pilot of Boston, died Saturday, aged 70 years. He was a pilot in tho war of 1812, and witnessed the famous engagement between tho Chesapeake and the Shan- B9u Commissioner Delano has decided to allow insurance companies to deduct sums paid for re-insurance when making returns of gross receipts, reversing a pre vious decision of Commissioner Rollins’ division as made retroactive. | man who loves himself or others. Who S3. It is said that Whittemoro’s over- j of onr readers dare think of this matter whelming success in South Carolina was and act as their better judgment shall attributable, in a great measure, to the I dictate. fact that Mrs. W. campained for him by j — kissing the negro women promiscuously.' Beautiful and Appropriate Dedica- ' >x.—Mr. Stephens sends forth his sec- •Stamped Pater.—Commissioner De lano has approved a design for a stomp to 1»e imprinted on blank paper with the words, “ Good only for a Bank Check, printed across it. This new form ' of stamped paper will be supplied under tain restrictions, so that-parties may have their bank checks printed where and by whom they choose. This is something new under the *uu : The inmates of the jail in Pittsyl vania county, Va., have formed them selves into a moral association. Among the articles in their creed is one against profane swearing, the penalty for violat ing which is stripes. It was enforced on one of the members last week. S®. At the 17th anniversary of the Bnp- t ist Historical Society, held last week in Philadelphia, on appeal was made for a sum of five to ten thousand dollars, to make once for all time, in America, a complete collection of the sources of Bap tist hist on*. * tOf* Tho General Conference of the Methodist Church, which was lately held in Memphis, passed a resolution recom mending an amendment to the book of discipline, prohibiting the marriage cere mony for any divorced party whose hus band or wife is living. Philadelphia hii3 a great divorce case. Mrs. Louisa Kocher charges her husband, Dr. Leonard R., a well known dentist of having been unfaithful, and of ornamenting his office with unchaste statuettes and pictures. He alleges, how ever, t hat in a time of pecuniary dfficul- ties, he made over his property to his wife, and that she wants to leave him and retain it Tho parties are worth about $75,000 each, she being an heiress, have lived happily for twenty-fonr years, and have three children, one at a convent school in Boston. Good Negro Sense.—The editor of the Maysville (Tenn.) Republican, tho only paper in that State edited and published by a colored man, inarecent article, says of Radicals: They are men who want office; are ma licious and want revenge; people who want to increase, the colored man’s ene mies and make a break in tho friendshi] now existing between the negro man anu his late owners. They are the dema gogues—unprincipled and corrupt poli ticians ; men who want an army of sold iers, to saddle more expense upon onr State, in order to do their dirty work un der bayonet protection—in a word, ex treme Radicals. We entreat the men of onr race not to bo blinded or fooled; be free, and not tho slaves of miserable gnides, without judgment, conscience or honesty. As a matter of historical informa- tion, not perhaps generally understood, says the St. Louis Times, we publish the following, incidentally stated by Senator Howard in his speech upon the enforce ment bill " I was struck by a coovenation which I liaa not long since with a gentleman connected with tho Union army doting tho war, who Tinted Richmond during its moot flagrant period, and had there a conversation.with Jefferson Davis. In that conversation he represented Ur Da vis •» declaring, in the most emphatic and earnest terms, that the idea that the Soothnn people were fighting tor the porpetoatxm or even the preservation of slavery waa an entire mistake; thatthey wen contending for no such thing; that they were pounog oat their bkiod and ond volume of the war between the States, with the following lieantiful and appro priate dedicatory : “ To the memory of those whose lives, in the late war between the States, was sacrificed, either in 1 tat tle, in hospital, in prison, or elsewhere, in defence of tho Sovereign Right of Lo cal Self-Government, on tho part of the people of the several States of the Feder al Union; and in defence of those prin ciples niton which that Union was estab lished, and on which, alone, it or any other union of the States can l>e main tained consistently with the; preservation of Constitutional Liberty throughout the country, this volume is most solemnly and sacredly dedicated; while others are to-day strewing flowers upon their graves, this oblation, with like purposes and kin dred emotions, is thus contributed by the anthor to the same hallowed shrine. ” “Futures.” Daring the past cotton season quite on extensive business has been done by Northern sharpers with Southern green horns, in what is known in the commer cial world as “futures.” The operations are conducted somewhat upon the gift enterprise and Peter Funk plan. Ropers and blowers are sent ont to every village and city where cotton is sold, who do the work. The whole thing is a swindle, (and ' the men engaged in the dirty business are swindlers, and should be so regarded by our courts. Whether these transactions are in gold or cotton, the purchaser is always sure to lose. A moment’s reflection and a glance at a bill of charges will satisfy any specu lator that there is no chance to win at that game. It is well understood by the ring that no cotton or gold ever changes hands in these transactions, though the silly purchaser thinks he has made large purchases, and imagines himself the holdef of fabulous amounts. Great ingenuity and skill is displayed by the ring in getting up these enter prises. Shrewd, sharp men are son! ont from New York, who profess to be posi tively certain that cotton or gold, or both, will advance in a few weeks, and that “there is money in it” Mr. Sharper proposes to sell Mr. Green- hem “futures;” a trade is consummated; a bonus of ten to twenty per cent is re quired, which Mr. Sharper pockets; ii dne time invoices aro rendered, upon which Mr. Sharper informs Mr. Green horn that to hold the cotton or gold longer, the bonus must bo increased ten tojtwenty per cent more; if this is refused, it is immediately reported sold; sales are rendered; Mr. Greenhorn’s bonus is all absorbed by charges, and largo reclama tions are invariably demanded. There may have been little or no change in the market yet this is always the result We have known cotton sold at i cent lees than they cost and held only a few days, and loeo from eight to ten dollars per bale. Commissions for baying and telling, brokerage, drayage, mending? insurance, warehouse expenses, labor,loss in weight etc., are a few of the items which appear in a bill of charges, when in reality there has never been a bale of cotton bought or sold. SMkbe^'ss? little, a tMoimJ Indepenflinae; ml in- ■lependcnco wo will have, or vo vrfll luvre the rebellion, for spirit.which fa chief; wad there was no trner representative of the M^The most immoral country in Europe is Scotland, there being 90 illegi timate births in every 1,000. IUegititi- macy is greater in the country than in the towns. The next Is England, in which illegitimacy is in tho proportion of «to 1,000. These figure* may be of interest to somo who think these two races tho pinks of perfection. On the contrary, illegitimacy in Ireland Is only in the proportion of 38 in 1,000. It will thus be seen that the social fabric is three times more rotten in Scotland than in Ireland, and almost twice os rotten England. Does this not show that the Irish are the superior people of the three races? Again: In the Province of Col naught, J —An Arkansas colony wflt soon bo fonnded by Chioagoana. —A citizen of Bangor has entered into tho frog-raising business. —Tho Minnesota Grand Lodge of Good Templars has resolved to support no mau at the polls who not openly favor prohibition. x & —Domortie, who married,tho^nigger wench,Downing, in Washington, wnot a distinguished Frenchman, but a mu latto who used to bo a messenger at the Boston Custom House, and is said to be a son of Senator.Sumner’s. While Revels is being lionized by the Raiicals, his sister is in a. New Jersey charity hospital, destitute and friendless. . . Bo* then she has not got a vote. which is pre-eminently Celtic, being in -There are over 500 visitors at Hot Lilft UmnnrHnn r\f O4a Ft .11 * • _._ rt • • • - the proportion of 95 to 5, illegitimacy is only 19 in 1,000, while in thQ Province of Ulster, which is almost exclusively Scotch, it is 62 in 1,000; Thus it will be also seen that illegitimacy in Ulster tre bles that- ci Connaught, and that the same debasing crime is fire times greater in Scotland than among the unadulterated Irish. These figures are furnished by the “First Annual Report of the Regis trar General of Marriages, Births and Deatlis in Great Britain k Ireland,” re cently published by the British Govern ment for general information. Crops in Southwestern Georgia. A friend who has just returned from a tour in Southwestern Georgia, furnishes the following report 'of the agricultural condition and prospects to the Macon Messenger:: lias made an extended tour through many of the counties of South western Georgia daring the past fifteen days. The prolonged drought of ah weeks’ duration extended everywhere, bat it hod been succeeded by a most beautiful fall, or rather series of fall*, of rain.. Corn, cotton, wheat and the small- crops looked remarkably well in every field which fell nnder his eye. The oat crop has been a partial failure—the dry weather striking it at a time when it should have matured. Little wheat was i, but it is now being harvested and ii yielding well. Never were better stands of cotton ob tained. It is small for the season, bnt there is no lack in the quantity of stalks above ground. Since the rains of last week and the week before, cotton seed which have lain dormant for a long time have almost universally come up. The long drought hnrt nothing really except oats, and afforded planters an excellent opportunity to clean their fields of gross, chop cotton to a stand, and put every thing iu fine order. This was not lost; that when tho showers came, they fonnd all prepared for them. The area of land planted in the great staple is about equal to that of last year, while three times the amount of fertilizers lias been used over any timo since the lands were first shorn <5f tho original j 7 ^ * forest As every financial hope hangs i Look upon this Picture and upon the production of cotton, planters jnst now in fine spirits and look for- en 0n ward with the greatest confidence to i The Constitution of the United States reaping a rich reward for their labor.' Springs, Arkansas. -Tim numbers ol tho Mississippi have learned to call each other liars in debate as gbbly as -though they belonged to Congress. —All women of ill-fame have been ex pelled from Omaha. —An Indianian has just hung himself haring been married one year without a divorce. The London Jewish Chronicle urges the concurrence of the Jews in the reris- of the Bible. -Strawberries are only 20 cents a quart in Dubuqne. —The only discouraging crop news comes from Californio. Our. Saxon grandmothers cnlt what are now known as garters shankbands. -A rebellion iu Iceland, and a conse quent separation from Denmark, ore probable. —A Norwegian mother at Sionx City, Iowa, recently gave birth to a child weighing twenty pounds. —Tho first Masonio lodge established in Indiana was at Vincennes in 1809. There are now 425 lodges and 22,000 af filiating members. ■ fi™ Bolt has been convicted of mur der, in Cecil, Maryland. He was doubt less driven crazy by bis incessant efforts to “remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt,” by request. The squabble in England about the comparative merits of ether ond chloro form, baa been renewed with great vigor. The doctors go in exclusively for chloro form, while their patients, less bigotted, exclaim: “How happy should I bo with ether, Were t’other dear charmer away.” A new county in West Tennessee is to bo named after Emerson Etheridge. —The Right Reverend Thomas Grant, Roman Catholic Bishop of .Southwark, is dead. The agents of Mazzini aro very ac tive iu tho neighborhood of Genoa. There is reason to believe that a sediti- tious movement of somo kind is on foot, and the Government is taking all*need- ful precautions. The recent publ.cation of the proceed ings of a conference hold last winter at Philadelphia by the Rabbis of the latter school, for tho purpose of agreeing leading principles, enables ns to state with precision what they are. The atten tive thinker, of whatever religious per suasion, cannot bat take an interest in knowing the religions and philosophical movement* going on in a race which has always taken a principal part in those of the worhl in general. The first article of faith agreed on by the conference renounces the idea that the Isnielitish expectation of a Messiah refers to the re-establishment of the Jew-1 ish kingdom under a descendant of Da vid, and tho gathering together in Ca-I naan, of the now scat! , Interpreting the doctrine __ in a purely religious and intellectual sense it defines his coming to mean “ the asso ciation of all men os ch ldrcn of God, actaiowledging one solo deity, for the union of all intelligent beings and their moral purification. ’ Article two declares the destruction of the Jewish kingdom to hare been not in punishment of the sins of its people, bnt as a step toward tho fulfilment of the divine design to scat ter the Jewish race over the earth that it mighfperform its high priestly duty of calling all nations to the true knowledge and worship of God. Articles three and four declare that the Aaronio priesthood and the Mosaic forms of worship were merely preparatory to the more extensive priestly calling of the whole Jewish race, and the offerings,-in which alone God de lights, of inward veneration and moral purification ; that with the destruction of the second temple that old Mosaic dis pensation-came to an end forever; that consequently in public worship and in privileges of the descendants of Aaron .have ended. Article five declares that special emphasis is to be laid on tho call ing of the Israelites to be a religious peo ple, the depositary of the highest idea of the human race, and like emphasis on their mission to preach throughout the world tho equal love of God for all His children. Article sixth denies the resur rection of the body and declares that the belief in existence after death is to be in terpreted as referring solely to the im mortality of the souk These six articles exhibit the leading principles of the reformed Jews, their confession of faith as it may be called.— But the changes they introduce into the discipline anu pnbiio religious service of their community are equally sweeping.— Tho exclusive use of the Hebrew lan guage in their religious service is disap proved, and their publio worship is made greatly to resemble that usual among Protestants. The marriage ceremony is changed so as to exclude the oriental idea of the wife’s subjection to the husband, and express their equality in duties and rights. Polygamy is denounced and for bidden, and the spocial laws of marriage applied to the descendants of Aaron among tho existing .Tews aro pronounced obsolete, and abolished. The Mosaic form of repudiation of a wife by tho hus band is declared to be a nullity aud di vorce is left to tlio- civil tribunals. The question of aliolisbing tho rite of circum cision was debated and referred to a fu ture conference. The same course was taken with regard to the observance of the Sabbath and the details of the ritual. —St. Jjuuis Republican. HORRIBLE STORY OF BRIG ANDS. TELEGRAPHIC. FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, June 7.—Simon Wolf has dispatches from Europe somewhat confirmatory of tho outrages upon the. Jews In Roumania.-■ • Emery (conservative) is «l*y»toVl Mayor of Washington by over 3000 majority.— The votes reached within 1000 of tho re gistration. Many negroes voted and electioneered openly for Emery without molestation from their colored fellows.— The rejoicing throughout the city is al most universal. The Bowen men have only two members of the upper and four of the lower Board* Three colored men were elected to the Council on the Emery ticket. Dispatches to Republicans hero con cede the election of a Democratic Gov ernor, but claim the Legislature of Ore gon by one majority on joint ballot, thus securing tho next Senator. Nothing de finite through regular channel. Red Clond made a speech at the grand council of the Indian office to-day. He said he wanted Fort Fetterman removed and the military taken ont of his country. He desired no people seut there who had no sense and no hearts. He also wants his reservation moved away from the Missouri,and protests that it is tho whites, and not t he Indians, who have been un friendly. He made an earnest demand against tho whites coming on the Block Hills and Big Horn mountains, which, he said, belonged to him. His people were melting awav liko tho snow on tho hill sides when the sun warm, while the whites aro like blades of grass in Spring, and were.great and powerful. He wants am munition. His speech was of great length ... r « £ nd delivered while he was sitting on the private life, all the peculiar duties and. “ 00r * J* HL no * at probable that the gov- t powder at pres- A Funeral Without a Conrsx.—Wo yesterday, aays the Rome (Go.) Conner, a train of four country wagons, loaded with Western hay and Western corn, polled V ee$npy little mules, and driv en by dejected fanners, pass through the city to their farms in the suborbs. We have never seen sadder looking men in onr lives than were these poor farmers, nor do wa ever wxpeot fa* until next fall, when the same men will be selling cotton at ten coat o pounds and buying corn at two dollars a bushel. Disasters may yet come which may blight tho crop, bnt it is to-day in an extraor dinary fine condition. In view of all which has been written and said, the writer was astonished to see so much corn in tho ground. If heaven fit to send rain, almost enough wiil be raised to supply the wants of the great body of planters. As a rule lioaest effort is mode to prodace a i cient quantity. The planting of a plen ty has been the rule—none at all the ex ception. In some few neighborhoods grain has given away to cotton almost ex clusively. In some sections repeated efforts to raise corn, in past years, have invariably resulted iu repeated failures. This has led to discouragement. No one can find fault with these men. They complain of the ungenerous flings of the press toward them, when the facts are above. Upon the whole the situation is me encouraging. . Everything black and white is in the field knuckling down to the hardest work—presenting a picture of reconstruction, golden-lined front and back, behind which lingers a brilliant dream of future Georgia, dazzling with the truest elements of peace and prosperi ty- _ IS* On Wednesday morning May 25, three men went to the house of Daniel and Neil McLeod, two brothers, living in the Western portion of Cumberland Co. N. C., and murdered them, and also bad ly wounded the wife, daughter and son of Neil McLeod. The McLeods were Democrats, peace able citizens, and were highly respected by their neighbors. I0T The English Presbyterian Synod, after a stormy session lately, voted in favor of allowing organs to be used in their churches. One old Scotch clergy man was, however, terribly distressed abont it He oaid that “when he left quiet Scotch manse some time ago, he never dreamed that he was going to join an organ-playing community in Eng* land. He should rather expect the bless ing of God in connection .with tho use of tho bag-pipes—played with all tho intelli gent energy and natural enthusiasm of the Highlanders—than in connection with the use of mechanical contrivances played by professional musicians. The McFarland Tragedy on the Stage. —The McFarland-Richardson case has been dramatized in San Fran cisco, at the new Pacific Tteatre. The death-bed marriage is made the chief in cident, and is made intensely humorous by Horace Greely giving away the bride and Senator Revels signing his z witness. Tho leading oomie role is that of Ned Harrigmn, who plays and dresses Horaocr Greely to the life. The denou- ment is a perfect reconciliation; between McFarland and his wife, and the curtain falls upon their second nuptials, the oere mony being performed by Beecher and Fothingham. S- No exil propenzitj of tho human heart iz»o powerful that it majnot be znMnodbydladpline. *®-The tweak in the French i-dd.i... been ueertained to be about twohadred and ninetj-fiTO miles east of the «f—- chuaetta Frank B. Austin, n pioneer Cali fornian, haabeen appointed bjtbe Unit ed Statea Grand Siroa apodal eommia- aiooer to eatabliah Odd FeUowahip in As interpreted and As understood by cameil ont in 18C0 : tho Radical admin- istration of Grant iu 1870: * 1. The power to say 1. The people of, who shall vote taken eacliState to say who away from the State shall be voters with-;and people, and in their limits. lodged in the Fede ral government, and cannot be changed except by three- fourths of the State legislatures, two- thirds of Congress | concurring. 2. A majority of 2. No State could'the States represent- be deprived of its,edin Congress exer- representation injeise the power of de- Congress unless all laying to a minority the people abstained jof the States their from voting for votes in Congress,or members to it. for President and 'vice president of the United States, „ .... 3 * In one-third of 8. The military the Union to-day no force* of theGovern-1 State power is exer- ment not allowed cised except that nrnjer any circum- Winging from elec- stances to interfere tions controlled by in elections. the soldiery acting under orders of the President 4. States are now 4. No State oonld! compelled to adopt be compelled torat-jeonstitnt ion a 1 ify a constitutional Amendments, nnder amendment against pftnalty of loss of the will of its people.' Congressional repre sentation if they re- 'fase, j 5. Men not in the 5. No person conld, military service are be brought to trial I now tried by milita- for a criminal offence .nr commissions, and exoept before a jury deprived of all the of his countrymen, common-law rights |of prisoners. * j 6. Elections are 6. All elections now nnder the con- were regulated bvtrolof the bayonets the pooplo of each of the Federal Gov- Statoto suit them-'eminent selves. , 7. Now a Gene- 7. Each Legisla- ral in tho United tore was the judge'Statcs Army as- of the qualification'names to say who of its members, 'aye, or who are not members of a State jLegialatore, and to violate every known •Jaw. The contrast conld be extended much farther, and all to the same purport in power token from tho people and lodged in a centralized, arbitrary despotism. ‘Things, L&«1 begun, make strong themseives by ilL" The Hero of Eleven Divorces. From the'Akron (Ohio) Times. On the 11th of April, 1866, Samuel Les lie was married at Wooster to a young la dy twenty-four years of age, Samuel hav ing reached the mature age of fifty-seven. He had possessed too wives before this, each of whom had obtained divorces from him. She had known him bnt from the 8th of March to the 11th of April, but he had money; and she.laid all the blame upon his former wives and gave him her yonng and virgin heart She lived with him bnt a short time when she discovered that he was a common drnnkard. and he commenced to dianlav his affection for her by hitting her over the head with a shovel, throwing boiling water at her, driving her ont of doors at the dead of night, and other snch pet acts as were not very pleasant, to say the least She ap plied for a divorce, but he pleaded so warmly and made her so many promises that she withdrew her application, bnt he soon renewed'his former coarse and she agaii made her application. This time the suit was prosecuted, and on Sat urday Jadge Boynton gave her the di vorce aud *1,200 alimony. This was tho suit that has been A horrible stoiy of brigandage reaches us from Chili. Don Gomez y Logo er on, a famous bandit captain who, from his fastness in the Sierra l’rofuuda, has long defied the Chilian authorities, wus recently pnrsued, with the brigands un der his command, by a body of troop*-, which succeeded in cutting him off from his followers, and driving him to take refuge in a cavern situated near the stim- of one of the loftiest mountains constitu ting the above named range. In this cavern ho had concealed a female captive, whose husband he had robbed and slain, and whom ho had for some time com pelled to live with him as his mistress. The soldets made several attempts to reach the entrance to this cavern, to which there was only one means of ac cess—a mere mountain goat-track; but Lagoberon; a man of gigantic stature and herculean strength, rolled heavy rocks down upon them, and succeeded in boat ing them off, after several men had been severely injured. Tho officer in com mand, unwilling to sacrifice his troops uselessly, resolved to starve the bandit out, and “sat down” before the place. After two days’s blockade, however, the soldiers grew weary of so tedious and hu miliating an expedient, so they impro vised an escalade of tho robber-chiftain’s stronghold, and succeeded in capturing him. To their horror, they found that Lagoberon had ont off one of las unfor tunate companion’s breasts npd eaten it. The poor woman was discovered in a dy ing state, having sustained a fearful loss of blood; and she expired shortly afUr her rescue from the clutches of her bar- barons paramour. The butcher was conveyed to Talca, where he waspxompt- triedand condemned to death by the garotte. In South America, execution follows sentence with startling rapidity ; and Gomez was straightway conducted to the scaffold, guarded by a strong es cort of mounted gendarmes. While the executioner was o igaged in adjusting his toilette do mort, the convict drew a whis tle from his pocket, and blew it sharply; whereupon about sixty of his men, who had introduced themselves amongst the crowd surrounding the scaffold, rushed upon the’gendarmes, and masacreed them ere they conld offer any resistance. They freed Lagoberon, and completed their enterprise, in tr manner not devoid of a certain ghastly humor, by garc executioner; after which they escaped, unscathed to the mountains. They are prqbibly still at liberty, practicing their profession to the terror of the ■ v ’ country round. It should bo Qbs that to facilitate their flight they nexod” tho horses of the fallen gendar mes, and that a good many of them seized women from tho throng gathered upon the i lace of execution, carn-i them away, flung across their sodd bows. The social condition of Chili, revealed by this narrative, is one of al most hopeless degradation, only to be equalled by that of Mexico, Greece, and certain districts of Central Africa, where murder, lust and rapine are the rules of life. Civilization penetrates bnt slowly into these savage countries, of whose ex istence we are scarcely ever reminded save by some appalling and revolting in cident, like the Marathon massacre, or the cannibalism of Don Gozmez y Lago beron.—London Telegraph. The small-pox has broken ont in Wal ton county, near the Morgan line. Six or seven families are afflicted with ii Rev. C. W. Howard delivers an address before the Newton County Agricultural Society on Saturday, the 11th insi Miss Fannie 0. Tennyson, of West Point, waa awarded the first premium at the Louisiana State Fair for the finest qnili The Czar drinks $150 worth of wine a day, and that is chiefly what’s the matter with him. Ex-Governor M. L. Bonham, Judge J. E. Bacon and General M. G. Gray, ol South Carolina, were in Augusta on Sat urday. A New York reporter says that the legs of Weston, the pedestrian, resemble two* ordinary lead pencils fastened to one end ernment will give tin eni Tho usual speeches were made by Messrs. Cox and Parker. Mr. Cox said they could not have powder until all the todians were at peace withthe whites. The Republicans have favorable private disjiatches from Oregon. Returns from Oregon are meagre. In dications are that the Legislative contest will bo very close. Grover, Democratic candidate for Governor, is probably elect ed by 400 majority. A Portland telegram says the election passed off quietly. The Repnblicans claim a majority in that city and county, and some gains in other counties and be lieve tho vote in the State is very close. In the House the Reconstruction com- mittBO added n proviso to tbo Georgia bill that nothing therein contained should interfere with an election this Fall, as provided in the Georgia Constitution. It also resolved to take no action regarding Tennessee this session. general news. Hartford, June 7.—The citizens’tick et, composed of men of both parties, has teen elected over the regular Republican San 1 HAScisro, June 7.—A special election will be held to-morrow to deter- mine whether tho city shall donate ono million dollars toward the construction of tho bontheni Pacific Railroad. York, June 7.—There n a rumor on the street which cannot be traced that the steamer Dacia, belonging to the Central American Telegraph Corps, has been lost near Bermuda. FOREIGN NEWS. Constantinople, June 7.—The confla gration lias been checked. Though it is still raging, it cannot spread, the houses having been blown up, leaving the burn ing district isolated. Tho burned district includes one of the wealthiest and best built portions of the city. Paris, June 7.—Owing to tho drought the wood* ore bnrnnig in manvfjarts of Europe, involving loss of life. *Ono hun dred acres of tho Pontainbleau forest has been destroyed. Bombay, June 7, via London, 7.—The prospects of the cotton crop are improv ing. Heavy rams have fallen in the planting districts, and apprehensions of a short crop have been removed. Fnaxkfokk, Jnufi 7.—Wkzt is known i the dead season lias fairly set in here. But few transactions in bonds or other se curin'>s. •Bomb, June 7.—The Augusta Gazette says: “The American delegates in the Ecumenical Council show a growing dis inclination to the infallibility dogma, are disgusted with the sophistry and syco phancy of its advocates.” Juno 5.—The Irish telegraphs e still deranged. Madrid, June 6.—The debate on the question for electing a King commenced in Cortes yesterday. It opened with ani mation and bids fair to become exciting. The most prominent among the speak ers yesterday was Senator Rivere. He created a marked sensation, by declaring (bat the restoration of a Bourbon in Spain would never be permitted by tho majori ty. He then proceeded to denonnee a monarchy in general It hail produced nil the evils from which Spain .offered Hia speech was received with cheers, and hud an undeniable effect npon members, Replies were made by tho supporters of royalty. The *scnssion lasted until a Into boor, when, without taking any ac tion on the qnestion, the Cortes adjonrn- Tq-ilny, the Cortes is engaged in the consideration of various railroad schemes. tO. In tho Virginia House or Dele gates, May 20, llev. Dr. Bettelheim, of the Jewish faith, offered the following prayer: “Almighty Go<l! still we aro in want of justice, righteousness und truth ; still we are auxious to boo Virginia* governed by \ lrginmns, through virtue and integ- nty. Justice, truth and peace were the pillars upon which Virginia has been rest ing. Oh Lord ! sludl these pillars totter Shall Virginia, the star of toe states, be trampled down by heart less strangers and by native enemies ? * lr 6toi a ’« light grow dim in our days y Oh Lord ! have mercy on us for the sake of our widows und orphans, for toe sak£ of tlio actions of our noble an cestors. How they fought for freedom, for enhghtcnmAt, and relief from op- pression J 1 “ Oh Lord! remember us in thy mer- cy, and bless this noble assembly, bless both Houses of the Legislature of this Commonwealth, the Speaker, tho Gov ernor, and all officers of this State. Re store to us the glory of Virginia, nowand forever. Amen. ” -Col. Baxtor. Smith, of Nashville, is called upon to run for Congress. ', 1 Some of Gen. Lee’s friends advise him to go to Europe this summer. Stock is being subscribed iu Memphis to bnild a Masonic Temple. Tho colored men of Forsyth propose organizing a fire company. More than an an average crop of wheat will be harvested in Monroe. Monroe Female College commence ment exercises begjn on the 30th inst A “ Slipper Club” is to be oi^ganized in Girard. i Macon to o highly favor- Heavy rains have fallen in Burke county, doing slight injury to the crops. Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, is patting all his relatives in office. A secret order, with ritnal, signs and grips, called the Earthquake, has origi nated at Tiptou, Indiana. Its object and purposes are unknown. Prospects are good for a war between Persia aud Affghanisten. The Protestant Episcopal Convention of Virginia and West Virginia is sitting at Wheeling. The Cortes is opposed to conferring royal prerogative on Serrano. _ One man was killed and several others seriously injured by a falling wall **“ Charleston, on Wednesday last. Mary Delany, of St. Louis, asks George Henderson $2,000 for a thrashing he ad ministered to her recently. W. H. Campbell, charged with horse stealing, escaped' from Thomisville jail on Thursday night. A fashionable tailor of Pittebnrg has been sued for obtaining money under false pretenses, failing to make a suit of clothes fib When a young man in Greece joins the Brigands his friends regretefuly an nounce the fact by saying “ he has gone into politics.” At Sb Joseph, Missouri, a man arrest ed for assulting a musician while perform- “ Shoo Fly” on an accordeon has been acquitted. The San Francisco Bulletin remarks that “General Sherman in as successful in literature as in war. He sees the key point of the position and hurls his words upon it as keenly and successfully did liis troops.” tQE. In sixteeu counties in this State, in March and April, dogs killed 2,543 hogs. Ia Missouri and Illinois in thirty counties over 10,000 hogs were killed. In 417 counties in the Union nearly 100,- 000 were killed. E®b. The New York Sun declare that “ the Republican party in New York is disintergated rain; and General Grant, ed on a cigar. box, contemplates this i, and in undistnrbed placidity blows Sumter Sheriff Sales for J^~ =! smoke through his^n gw Dtlverfefraente. WILCOX & GIBB’S SILENT J. Ik Won*; 1 •ndroontyftx for iJRimHfuig :h “ 8ui ' trator on estate ofSSah ALSO; ° rSU *® tax fl fk issued forSUto *° •**** year 18C9. county tax tc. r the ALSO: ): St prowrtvoljol,,, **’ d ,or8 '*“ g l.nd in lj,l, k<*l r.fri-tor to “IVJxMr ol tlx foraSScV* ,nr **" erty of G. \V. Doaier «■ I * c S ed on M pwp- to satisfy fi for ****7 Summers, 4Tu 9: “*** *** “only tax for ise£ a-. erty of Joeopl, lUnn, fc-Sutcmlconnt,t„ giLjsiws srsataawas iaenedfor N,.„. ral count, u?f„?£?tg*“ H. A, lUSBBCXK, Dop. Hhff. "7——dI place, 1 house aud lot in at v of Amencus. Levied ou is proper trot M “* * llic, > i» now live. V,. Mtiji I! fcs fur nut, rail coral, ,J ' n . c ■ >i ?“ *,“ J > >U “t 1101 •“ eit, of Airar- mu crauimug 1 rare, boradeil e. bv F 11 bcwborragli, n. b,A.B. Se.,i L . L l " ltoone . kit rail utreet, ky Church street Uvicil ont, property or It. CDUckto utiw, tg ) fa | 5'„?."* ^nted ra',. •nim! * nd pU ^> 60 •crea land in old W A d p J? Umtcr ®°;. ^ ned on aa property of W. A lUmscy, on which he lives, to satisfy tax ATRn' 1 * StaU " Dd eount >' ta x for 18G9. AtB*™ e time and place, 320 acres land of Nos 12, 22o, in 26th and 27th diet. Sumter oo. Levied on as property of T. J. French to satisfy tax ti fa jyjjtato aud county tax for year 1868.’ i ;Y* h i e 6aI ‘ lc » anii . l’ko!, ono house and lot in the city of Amencus, bcini* the place where on J. G. Harrison now resides. Levied on as tho property of J.D. Carter, as Acent for Mrs. Memwcathvr, to satisfy her State and °T J ’ T t tLu * Teir 1869 ' Property !*ou>ted ALSO: Johnw.n, to satisfy one Tax tUfa^fd? the year 18C'J, m favor of tlio State and countr’ v«. Le^Johnson Sr. lToperty pointed out iu fi-fa. At the same time and place 2GG acres of land, os. 86 and 1S3 being in 2*Jth District of Sumter county. Levied on as the property of James T. Singletary to satisfy one Tax fi-fa In favor of the State and county vs James T. Singletarvforhi* Taxes for the year 186'J. Property poinhted out ALSO." and place 100 acres of land No. 174 in the 15th Diet of said county of Sumter. t8 the pr; petty of Jackson f ro tax ti-taa for the years 1863 a of tho State and County vs Property pointed out in said fi-fa. and place SO acres of land atu i»‘ * - - Levied on as t A PERFECT WONDER In its simpUcity. strength of stitch, apd beauty of finish. Needle ia self-adjusting and cannot be set wrong. It tucki, cords, hems, fells, em broiders, brauls, quilts and does all kinds of plain and fancy sewing, with neatness and dis patch. For sale at manufacturer's prices by I. N. HART CO., agents. Canary Seed, Rape Seed and Cuttlefish bone. LACON at prices to correspond with the de cline in gold and cotton by mh30-3m L N. HART A CO. Furlow Masonic Female Annual Examination. Sous Genuine Ku-Kixx.—It has been teqnentiy asserted and as often denied that some of those Indians who harass the border were really white men plnmed and painted; but we have Gen. Sherman’s official declaration that, “in areoentcase between Fort Hayes and Camp Supply, the Indians, on being captured, tuned out to be white men in disguise.” The reader will also remember that the case of the Into horrible outrage at Ladore. Kansas, it wu stated in theflnt dispatch that it was thought the ruffians who to brutally maltreated Iwo girls were either lexans or Indians; whereas when the villains were brought to the gallows they were fonnd to be white m*»n t one and alb from the Eastern States. These oases, ooming so close together and in a time of a threatened war npon the Indiana for al- tedged outrages, would seem to im]' that while thp red men are no doubt I enough—rendered so, we believe, in most coses, by. wrongs done to them in the first instance—they should not be held responsible for all the outrages on the Camillo Urso is better off by #40,000. She fiddled fo* the Californians. The examination of the classes i ntiou will liegin ou Monday Morning N^xt, lo o’clock. The exercises will continue from 9 to 12 ami from 3 to 5 o’clock on Monday and Tuesday. Annual Concert, At the same ti t __ «v.w» M .«*, No. 215 in the I5th Diat. of said county of Sumter. Levied on as tho property ofjesmt A. Sucg*. to eatifv unpaid Taxes for tbeyear 1868, in favor of the State and comity, va. Jesse A. Suggs. Property pointed ont in li-fa. ALSO. le and place, 100 acres of hit tho 2S:h District of Snmter _ . - oa the property of Jane Cleincuts for the year 1368 to satisfy one Tax fi-fa in favor of tbo county and State vs J*ne CJern- ALSO 1>IX,perty P° intctl out in fl-k- At the same time and place, 100 acres of land, 213 in the 15th Dut. of uaid countv of Sumter. Levied on as the property of A. A. Flowers, to satisfy one Tax ti-fa for the year 1868, in tavur of the Suto aud county, vs. A. A. Flowers. I’rop- ertygointed out in li-fa. ty of Amencus, being the D. W. Smith lives. Levied on \aa property of ■ W. Smith, to satisfy tax fl fa for State and un ty tax for year 1868. Pointed ont by G. M. jon7tds HJBY, Wheeler. June 9th 1870, tda. TAX NOTICE. MY BOOKS WILL CLOSE 13 DAYS AFTER THIS DA YE. All persons who have net given their State ai\d County Tax Are requested to come and give them in a T. b; GLOVER, Tax Receiver, 3-10*1 Sumter Comity. TUESDAY NIGHT, Acimlwaion 25c. Class day exercises open on Wednesday morn ing at 10 o'clock.' Literary address by Samuel Lumpkin, Esq., of Americas, Os. Tbo public generally are invited4o attend. THE MEMBERS OF THE MASONIC FRATERNITY, ffe respectfully requested to assemble at their hall on Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock, and proceed to tne college in procession to attend the class clay exersisc*. TETER F. BROWN, Jun» President. E. B. AMOS. Attonxesr* at-Zuaw, AMKRlCrS,*GA., TTTILL give prompt attention to professional Jr. in the different conrtsof Snmtr- tsneo with J. A. Analey, over B. EmannelA Bro * Jan *4f niSSOLUTIO N—The JLf _ partnership heretofore existing between joiu, uy xnewii tbs debts of the old firm wiU-be new one. A. R.BROW1, jau »-lm • W. A-cSo^’ TH0S. M. EDEN, [GUN & LOCKSMITH, Doftloi- In GUNS, PISTOLS, Powder, shot, cape of all kind*, wada, tridge^ pistol heisure, moldj, ing ammunition of every kind. Wesson * tw» loading Rifles. Now on hand a hrge and assortment of Calling tackle, consisting in of grass, eilk, cotton and linen tyes, floats, tinkers, jointed and reed .poke* Wilson Shuttle Sewing fiachinre. Publio Square, next door to Wo. Sirnne * » Carriage Manufactory. Dancing Academy- PROF. ALLEN V. B0BIN- 1 SON bega leave to notify the dtix«»” Americas and vicinity that he will «WS*j7 the exercises in the above mentioned im««» rad polita art, oo Rood*? p. a., 2Kh of for young ladles, misses and masters at o'clock, in the City Hall. Person* Tuesday*. A practiringWon tor ssarsasSfcflStiSsaB Mi.od.yrad Torad., weoi; F ,V° EjSSr 1 - Ho, ‘- P ' lt OB " r coo*r XTOTICE.—All persons «* 11 iimbr tamrad raraat William.rad wil. radra,"^ CTMtfggj sas-a.^-jsr-ssna-— about 5 ft. 8 or tin. fa