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ent. above regular rates,
al column inserted fur twenty
fur leave to sell real estate,..
Professional Cards.
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Americas, Georgia. i- ; »-
Jno. D. CARTER,
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Americus. Georgia.
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r am!»lollegi- alroetn. may 18 tf.
FORT & HOLLIS.
rfTttHKXYS AT LAW,
An-1 Solicitors of Patents.
Aim-rifus, Georgia.
..... n,, rum over tt. T.liyrd’s store.
april 29 tf_
0. T. GOODE,
At torney at Law
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
Utiicc over W. T. Davenport’s Drugstore.
SAM. LUMPKIN,
attorney at law,
Georgia.
tot ice in all the courts of 8. W. Ga.
bv |>oniiiM*ioi), to Dr. Wm. A. Greene.
With M. Callaway, Esq., in the Court-
JuugO, 1870. -ly
JACK BROWN,
A ttornoy at Xsaw,
AMERICUS, GA.
Office iu Court Houee with Judge HUu-
feblC tf.
N. A. SMITH,
toi-xxoy at Xj aw,
L practice in the Courts of Sumter and
djoining Counties, and in Circuit Court of
("•fficc on College street, noxt to Repnbli-
ice. _ feb 25 tf.
J. A. ANSLEY,'
Attorney-atLaw
Amorlct
of Southwestern
es Courts at Sa-
givhn to collection of
-.tlic Mile ami pvrebase of lands and tb
HAWKINS & GUERRY,
Attorneys-at-Law,
Li i-mtinue to practice in !
enmities, and in United
ih. 1’articular atten-
Oflice—corner College
' the public,
and adjoin-
Circuit and
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A Li. BROWN,
ATTOKNEY AT LAW',
r * cu S Georgia.
nriLLgive prompt attention to all business
« enUnsteii to bis care. ndv2G_tf_
George W. Wooten,
ATTOltNEY-AT-LAW,
Amorlcus, - - - Ga.
-V- 111 tile Court House. Janl3tf
GEORGE W. KIMBROUGH,
attorney at law,
ral Agent for the sale and purchase
• e. lain! in Southwest Georgia. Iuvestigat-
«- "trietly adhered to. Will faithfully at-
DR. WILLIAM A. GREENE,"
AUKBICUS, GEORGIA.
C'NTlNl Us to serve liis friends of Americas
*“i * u . rr<,u,,, fing country in all the depart-
Dr. jF b? HINKlll!' 17
nrulLD ugain tender his services (in all the
1.'/™^“*. of Uio Profession) to the good
1 Sumter counts, and so-
of the liberal patrona
wial* tuT U *'° 11 - * l ‘ m -
uanen, at the />rug Storeo? Thr! E.
‘“•“‘deuce fronting that of Iter. J.
June 8 tf
Dr- S. B. HAWKINS.
IT 0FF,CE “ Drug Store.
^»idence u
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.wtetf cou,ltr y e e “«rally.
medical cardT
^omoval.
D\»US E. SMITH would inform hie
Hie public generally, that he
r t iw ^ " a next door to Westlieim-
ullw* * ,0 r*. over Mr. SeweU’a Hameee cs-
•Lie«ii »i* w|l<- re he will be found at all times,
oa profesaional duty. He solicits
i. bin, 11 ■ thc ‘dieted generally to call
,u *■“*
J . «. CALLAWAY & CO..
millers,
10R r oaines, w Georgia.
Presh Flour ground at their
SackJ *’ * nd P* cked °P 50 and 100
Dissolution.
* tte A W’ WASHBURN A CO., is
tir, rttSS. Ve<l ^ coMcnt. IL K. Wash-
buoineas and solicit
: *Wi. We i,»,. tx ' lton . fledging prompt atten-
1 iHL^k. ADAMS k BBO.
• s *'»iinah i Ga,, Not. 1,1870. *nJtrl0W
mviva NOTICE.
** out ***y of Juno last, sold
IJ Kr. 8 m p 1 n P* fttroitore business
bV heretofore
«asSS*wapas
fessstSMsss
I stood and watched my ships go out,
Each, one by oue, unmooring free,
That time tliejpiiet harbor filled,
What flood tide from the sea.
Tlic first tbat'Sailcd, her name was Joy,
She spread a smoo h, white, shining sail,
And cant ward drove with bending epars
Before the sighing ga!?*.
Another sailed, her name was Hope,
No cargo in her bold nhe boro;
Thinking to find iu western lauds
Of our merchandise a store,
he uext that sailed, her name was Love,
She showed a red flag at her mast,
A flag as red as blood she showed, ■
And she sped south nght fast,
ilie last that sailed, her name was Faith,
Slowly she took her passage forili,
Tucked and lay too ; *t last slie steered
A straight course for the north.
My gallant ships they sailed away.
Over the shimmering Sommer sea;
Iwtoodatwatchftmnniyadiy—- ———— •
' o came back to me.
For Joy was caught by Pirate l’aiu ;
Uoj>e ran upou a hidden reef,
And Love took fire and foundered hud,
Iu whelming seas of grief.
Faith cauic at last, atonu-beat and torn.
She recompensed me all my loss ;
Dr, as a cargo safe she brought,
A crown linked to a Cross.
(From the New York Herald.]
Howie-Knife Duel on Horseback.
Lowell, Kansas, November 12.—Dr.
V. C. Lawrence, of Vacnna, Colorado
recently of Philadelphia, has jnst arrived
hero and furnishes me the following de
tails of one of those bloody tragedies en
acted nowhereelse than on the borders:
On Tuesday (election day) Joo aud
Charley Bigger (brothers,) Gus Norton
and Tom Jackson, who had been driving
herd of cattle into Missouri, passed
through hero on their return home, in
Northern Texas. The men were all
young, well mounted and armed, and
each possessed of considerable money,
the proceeds of the sale of their cattle.
They stopped some two hours in this
place and I had a long conversation with
them. On Wednesday afternoon they
camped on the banks of a small stream in
the Indian Territory, about forty miles
from here, and after taking out their
horses while cooking their supper, sat
down to a game of cards. They had
hardly commenced their g&me when Or-
Watrous (known as Cock-eyed Wat),
The Allison, and Dick Bradford, noted
New Orleans gamblers, rode into camp.
These gamblers were on u professional
tour from Fort Scott, and were bound
for Buxton Springs and Kansas City.
The new comers were gladly welcomed
and invited to camp with the herders,
which invitation was quickly accepted.
The sun being some two hours high it
os suggested that there was plenty of
time to have a sociable game or two of
poker before supper, aud accordingly
Watrons, Bradford, Joe Bigger, and
Jackson took a lmnd. At first Bigger
and Jackson won. but luck soon turned,
and Watrous and Bradford were in’a fair
way Of cleaning-out the others, when
Bigger detected Watrons cheating. A
ce ensued'; blows were inter
changed and weapons drawn by both
parties, when it was proposed, in order
to secure fair play, that Bigger and Wa
trous should fight it out on horseback,
their weapons being bowie knives. This
was at once agreed to, and the men pre
pared for the bloody fray. They wero
divested Of their coats aud shirts, and
their knives were bound to their right
hands. They wore then placed sixty
yards apart, with orders to ride at each
other with full speed, passing on the
left side. Both were splendid horsemen.
Bigger was mounted on a clean-limbed,
fiery pony, a little over fourteen bauds
high, while Watrons rode a large “watch
eyed,” vicious roau.
At the word “go” the combatants spur
red towards each other like the wind,
but passed without inflicting any injury.
A second and a third joust was
wheu Watrons’ horse received a slight
the flank. On the fourth round
Bigger, as he passed Watrons, threw
himself on the off side of his pony,
to expose no portion of his person, and
drove his knife deep into the neck of his
adversary’s steed. Watrons, divining
the manoeuvre, wheeled as the blow
struck, and attempted to hamstring
Bigger’s pony, but succeeded only in
dieting a severe wound. This style of
fighting was then abandoned, and both
men and horses appeared to become in-
furated at the sight of blood. As they
neared each other the fifth time. Bigger
suddenly struck Watrons with his left
fist in the face, at the same moment cut
ting a fearful gash in his thigh : but be
fore be could get away Watrous succeed
ed in driving his knife into Bigger’s
shoulder. The comliatants and horses
were becoming weak from loss of blood,
when Watrous determined, if possible,
to end the conflict by riding down his
adversary, which he thought the superior
weigh! of his horse would enable him to
do. Accordingly, on the sixth round,
he made directly upon Bigger’s pony,
and Bigger, iu attempting to avoid the
collision, was severely cut in the arm and
lace. The pony, however, was game,
and although very lame, seized the roan
by the cheek, lacerating it in a fearful
manner.
At the seventh encounter the horses
come together with a fearful shock, the
pony being thrown, falling upon his ri
der, but both immediately regained
themselves. Watrons* horse waa fast
bleeding to deatfi from the stab in the
neck, and Watrous himself could scarce
keep his seat from the wound in the
thigh- Bigger succeeded in again stick
ing Watrous in the thigh, and was struck
in return ib the side. Several blows
were interchanged and evaded, or fell
only upon the hones.
The fight had now lasted more than
half an hour, wheu Dr. Lawrence rode
up in time to witness the final round.
As they came together Watrons endeav
ored to rise in his stirrups and to throw
himself npon Bigger, but neither horse
could stand the encounter, and both
felL Bigger was streaming with gore
from the cuts in the face, back, and arms,
vas able to extricate himself, and
rushed upou Watrous, who could not
rise on account of the woands in his
thigh. Bigger threw himself upon Wa
trons with the fury of a fiend, and al
most in a moment his knife had reached
the unfortunate gambler’s heart, and
Bradford, seeing the fate of his friend,
raised his pistol, fired, and Bigger fell
dead across the corpse of Watrous.
A free fight at once ensued, Charley
Bigger, Norton and Jackson firing upon
Bradford and Allison. Bradford was
killed in the melee, and Charley Bigger
and Jackson severely wounded. The
wounded were taken to a cabin about
half- a mile Irom the battle-field, and ^ c r and shot the-old man four times,
their wounds dressed by Dr. Lawrence,
who pronounces them in u fair way of
recovery.
A GAY DECEIVEU.
UIS THUNK.
Don Plat, in a Chicago letter to the
Cincinnati Commercial, writes :
Do you see the broad-shouldered
i, with black, mutton-chop whiskers,
with a face that would be handsome but
for its assurance ?”
“Cerlainly.”
“Well, he is framed for his affairs with
women. It seems to be his profession,
for he is continually the hero of some
noted adventure. What bothers one is,
why he should be so successful. A fel
low asked him ouce, and he said the se
cret was to be found in the fact that he
lived in a first-class hotel and carried f
side-saddle in his trunk.”
What in the old scratch has a side
saddle to do with it
‘Well, I don’t know. But the gay
Lothario is a graceful horseman, and a
few fast women about first-class hotels
can resist a ride on horseback.”
Well, that is the oddest view of fe
male human nature I ever encountered.
I have known women rained through
fine clothes, and blasted by diamonds,
but a side-saddle is a new fact and a new
feature.”
'Certainly, and therefore to be enter
tained. The chap who drew out the se
cret gave him sorno other talk of this
female killer. He said that in every first-
class hotel were certain fast females ad-
jdicted to gay apparel and the public
piano. Ho said that fellow who
noted for his success could win his way
through a few songs and complete his
triumph through a ride oa horseback.
“How disgusting.”
“Very ; don’t yon wisli you had a good
tenor voioe and a side-saddle ?”
Not if the conrt knows herself. There
is nothing so beastly disgusting as a pro
fessional deceiver. One may have
through accident this little affair, and ro
mantic secrecy gilds the sin. But to go
prowling about with a tenor voice like a
tomcat in a gutter, is vile.”
Korrect.”
A Dreadful Story.
EFFECTS OF LIQUOR.
•. Louis, November 21.—A most hor
rible murder of a whole family, number
ing five persons, was committed near
Potosi, on the Iron Monntaiu railroad,
Washington county, Mo., last Satur
day. The particulars, as related by
special dispatches to the papers here*
follows: John Armstrong and
Charles Jolly, miners working in the
neighborhood, went to Potosi on Satni>
day to sell their material.
They drank freely in town and while
returning home called at the cabin of
David Lapere, a French creole residing a
mile and a half north of Potosi. While
there a difficulty arose between Arm
strong and Jolly and a sister of Mrs.
Lapere. Mr. Lapere interfered to quiet
the disturbance when Jolly drew a revol-
killing him instantly. Jolly then turned
npon Mrs. Lapere, who had endeavored
to prevent the killing of her husband,
knocked her down with his fist and then
shot and killed her.
Armstrong in the meantime luul pro-
cared an -axe with which he knocked
down Mrs. Laperer’s sister and then
pletely severed the heads from their
bodies. Tho two children were also
murdered. The men then fired the cabin
and burned it to the ground with the
bodies of thebntcheied people in it The
murderers then fled and have not yet
been captured, but the officers and a large
posso of citizens are in pursuit and their
arrest is regarded as certain.
George D. Cary, .sentenced to bo
lmng but now to go to State prison for
life, writes to his mother from Syracuse.-
'•Dear Mother, I have good ne.ws this
morning. Mother, I am going to State
prison for life ! Oh, ain’t I glad of this!
I know it is a hard word to say—I’m glad
to go to State prison for life. Bnt think
of the gallows two weeks from to-day!
Oh, mother, God lias done this for me.
I asked Him to spare me another year,
and Ho has ! Mother when you get in
trouble, ask God to help you, aud He
will, as He did me. Oh, how can I thank
Him for that! His loving kindness, oh,
how good ! Mother, when I am in State
prison, yon will come sometime to see
me—won’t you mother.” Mother don’t
forget God, thank him for what he has
done for me. I shall not forget Him
He is my friend forever—in this world
and the uext. Mother God lias saved
your son from the gallows ! I may never
see you again after I leave this place. If
not we may meet in heaven. Jesus said
He would go and prepare a place for us,
and then He would come for us. You
will find it in the 14th chapter of St
John, the third verse. Mother, I want
yoa all to seek for it now—so He can
have it ready. I hod rather be here as I
now feel than to be oat and have all my
sins upon me, os they were when I came
home last spring. Mother, Jesus says
'Come and follow me, and I will save
you.’ I look up and say, ‘Blessed Jesus.
Then Ho smiles on me. Oh. mother,
yon don't know how happy I am! It
t because I am going to State prison
—it is because God is with me, and
Jesus, my dear Savior 1 Good-by, my
dear mother. Yoar affectionate son.
George D. Cart.
The Lesson of Life.
When everything is counted, it will
be found that the sum total of our lives
resolves itself into but two things—antic
ipation and memory. Tho pleasures
and miseries of the moment are ephem
eral, and only to bo taken note of iu
they have been looked forward to, or m
they leave their record iu the past. In
youth, life is richest iu anticipation ; but
as years roll on, the mind acquires the
habit of looking backward, and when
old age has come, there is nothing left
this side of the grave. Fortunate
that man who, iu the midst of the cai
and turmoils of a busy nnd often unsatis
factory life, has a happy childhood to
look back npon—a picture gallery of lov
ing faces that once formed a home circle,
a record of sunny years, which includes
gentle tones, kind actions, cheerful
roundings, smiling skies, twittering
birds, blooming flowers and innocent
amusement. Whoever robs a child of
these, robs liim of more than he can
return to him in any other shape. A
close, hard, narrow life, lived in child
hood, not only dwarfs the future mau’i
whole moral and affectionate nature, bnt
leaves him no blessed store of memories
to fall bock npon when the present
unsatisfying. Make your little children
happy. Provide for him what enjoy
ments yea can, be they great or small,
and begrudge no money that yon can
spare iu securing him these. In doiug
this, you are not only giving him pres
ent pleasure, which is a great deal, i
youth, impressions ore stronger and i
readily received, and the capacity for
enjoyment consequently greater; but
yon are really laying up a store of bap.
{ >iness for him in memories which shalj
ast him all his life. Let the atmos
phere which surrounds your childreu be
so impregnated with affection that they
shall breathe it iu, as it were, at every
inspiration,’ aud their hearts will grow
larger and their blood run clearer and
purer for it. Let your own lives, moth
ers and fathers, be so upright and pure
that when yon have passed away, your
memories shall be enshrined in their
hearts, and a halo will surround them
like the aureole of a saiut. Sitting, my
friend, by the evening fireside; sitting
your easy chair at rest, and looking at
the warm light on the rosy face of y
little boy or girl sitting on tho mg be
fore you, do you ever wonder what, kiud
of remembrance those little oues will
have of you, if God spares them to grow
old V Look iuto the years to come;
think of that smooth face lined and rough-
enea ; that curly hair gray, grown care
worn and sad, and you long to be in yi
grave. Of course your son will not hi
forgotten yon; ho will sometimes think
and speak of his father who is gone.
What kind remembrance will he have of
you ?
Two deaths by prairie fires
curred near Pomeray, Iowa, on Satarday
week. The fire approached the residence
of & Mr. Snyder, who was absent at a
neighbor’s at the time. Appearanoes
dicate that Mrs. S. must have gone to the
stable to release the hones, taking her
child, which she placed on a wagon for
safety. The wagon doubtless was en
veloped in flames before the horses wero
released, and the poor woman flew to the
rescue of her child, only to be suffocated
miJ perish with it. iu the devouring ele
ment
S&'Sojouxnkj^ Truth, addresses the
women to this effect: “I’m awful hard
dress, you know.’ Women you for
get that you 4*8 the mothen of creation ;
you forget yonr sons were cut off like
grass by the war, and the land was
ered with their blood ; you rig yourselves
up in panniers and Greciou bend-backs
and flummeries ; yes, nnd mothers and
gray-haired grandmothers wear high-
heeled shoes and humps on their heads,
and put them on their babies, and stuff
them out so that they keel over when
the wind blows. O, mothers I’m asham
ed of ye! What will such lives as you
live do for humanity ? When I saw them
women on the stage at the Women’s Suf
frage Convention, the other day,
thought, what kind of reformers be you,
with goose-wings on your heads, as if
you were going to fly, and dressed
such ridiculous fushion, talking about
reform and women’s rights ? 'Pears to
me you had better reform yourselves
first But Sojourner is an old body,
and will soon get out of this world into
another, and wonts to say when she gets
there; ‘Lord, I have, done my duty ; I
have told the whole truth and kept noth
ing back.”
IgU The medical school at Iowa City
has a dog with a siphon pipe let into his
stomach. By its aid gastrict juice can be
obtained for experiments and other cu
rious physical phenomena be shown,
such as opening the end and allowing the
dog to drink, which as the fluid runs
out as fast as jt is token jn, he will do
till be lies down exhausted.. The canine
lain good health.
In a sketch of the condition of
the workingmen of Paris, written be
fore tho war, a writer in Chambers’ Jour
nal says: “The Paris workman has no-
grandchildren—hard work, eaieless liv
ing and drunkenness combined, not only
destroy the man, but his children are
weak and unable to battle with the stern
necesities of life ; they die out early for
want of stamina, leaving in their turn
offspring who never reach maturity. In
fact, were it not for the constant influx
from the provinces, the Parisian artisan
would soon be extinct. $pite of all the
government has done for him, the Paris
workman is ever discontented, and ready
laways to cry; “Anything for a change'l’
THE HAREM AND SAT.AMI.rg.
A Jewish. Wedding in Constantinople
The Harsh and Sin.iiir.tg—.Runur,
Dresses—Turkish Salutation—Wed-.
ding Ceremony, etc.
The bridegroom was a boy of eigh
teen, who had already divorced a former
wife; the bride, a smart looking girl of
sixteen. At about 11 A M., .guests and
visitors commenced to arrive at the
bride’s house, where the wedding was to
be celebrated. These visitors were re
ceived in two different saloons. In the
first, the bride and relatives .received’
their lady-visitors; in the other, the
bridegroom and his friends received the
male guests. This separation of tho sex
es at a feast is also derived from the
Turks aud Arabs, as your readers certain
ly will know that tho Turkish houses
are always divided into two distinct habi
tations, one adled the Salnmlik, where
the men reside and receive their male
visitors and the other the Harem, or
Horemlik (from the Hebrew and Arab
root, meaning tf/ru&c/, separated; and not
accursed, as' some English translators er
roneously make it,) where the mistress
or mistresses of the house with their
female attendants reside, and there they
receive their lady-Visitors.
Tho rich have their enuchs to guard
their wives in that port of tho building.
No other man ever enters there. The
of the house, if above thirteen years
cannot come there ns long as the other
wives of their father reside there. The
husband equally may not enter his wives’
room when a pair of yellow slippers out
side the door indicates the presence of a
strango woman. Through these rigorous
customs neither Christians nor Jews are
permitted to reside in the regular Tur
kish quarters, as it is not expected that
they would turn their heads another way
if, by chance, they should meet the un
veiled face of one of their Turkish wives,
as the conscientious Turk would invaria
bly do.
It is strange that the Jews slionld have
adopted this unsociable custom of sepora
tion, which they practice, not only in
their joys, but also in their sorrows.
When in the week of monrning for one
of their relatives they receive, sitting on
the ground, visits of condolence, the sex
es are then also separated, although de
licacies are freely handed arouud in the
shape of mocha coffee and cigarettes,
which in itself would look strange nnd
irreconcilable with our Western Jewish
notions of mourning visits.
To return to onr wedding; I said that
a stream of visitors, in their ample Tur
kish robes, came in, or rather jumped in,
as it is Turkish custom that a visitor,
when once admitted within the door cur
tain, by the servant outside, without
further ceremony, saluting or noticing
anybody, he enters the room, and jumps
it once on the immenso long sofa ; then,
ipreoding himself out iu a cvossed-legged
sitting posture, lie makes his salum, or
salutation, to the master of the house ;
next, he repeats the same to every one
separately ii. his turn, who are all obliged
to return this salutation, so tliat, with a
goodly number of visitors, it is a rather
ludicrous scene to see all this mimickiug
and waving of hands going on for some
minutes, and to be repeated as each fresh
visitor enters.
It is notable that the Turks have a
more rational way of greeting than
do. Our way is certainly au unmeaning
fashion, to show our curls or bare cra-
uiums to our friends. The Turk and
Arab, on the contrary, never nncover
their heads, not even for the Sultan.
Iu fact, there is nothing more insulting
than when a Turk in his anger bares his
head, and throws his turban or fez to the
ground. They salute generally by mov
ing their right hand to their heart; then
they touch their forehead, and after
ward their lips, indicating therewith that
their hearts aud bruins are cheerfully at
your service.
At about one o’clock, when all the in
vited have arrived, including the Cliadutm
and liis s ribe, sweet preserves in crystal
vases are handed round. However, be
fore touching them with yonr lips, good
breeding requires that you should salute
again with the usual salum, the first, the
Chacham, and tho principal dignitaries.—
Previous to the ceremony, the afternoon
prayers (mincha) are read ; then the
young bridegroom, dressed in a sky-blue
colored caftan or robe, is led by his
father and uear relatives from the sofa to
the centre of the room. The- bride,
dressed iu some bright-colored silks,
(more or less of European cut, as the
Jewesses have not adopted the Turkish
female dress,) wears over her head a col
ored gauze covering, with a profusion of
gold tinsel hanging down in long stream
ers from head to foot, covering almost
entirely her blushing face. Then fol
lows the most imposing part, when the
bride from the ladies’ assembly room is
led by her mother and friends to the
bridegroom. She walks so slowly, and
moves her bridal feet so imperceptibly,
that frequently the distance of five or
six yards takes fully fifteen minntes, and
it is considered a smartness nnd a proof
of good breeding that the bride should
keep the bridegroom aud guest in long
suspense, during which a deadly silence
prevails. The meaning of this slow pac
ing is, that the bride expresses that she
quits her parents with great relnctance,
hesitation and pain, that she is very slow
in quitting her paternal roof for that of
her husband. When at last, standing by
the ride of the bridegroom, the usual
wedding rites, as putting on the golden
ring, the blessing over the wine, and the
breaking of the wine cup, ai-e performed
as by the Western Jews.
Your readers are aware that the latter
ceremony meaus that just as the scattered
fragments of th£* broken glass could not
again be joined together in the same way,
so man and wife cannot be divided as
under daring their Hfe.
At last the marriage contract in He
brew is read by the scribe. This docu
ment on parchment is merely formal,
as the oontents and notions are invariably
the same for rich and poor, only the
Turkish Jews have it printed in a large
size, and it is ornamented with enormous
patches of gold-leaf, not unlike an orna
mented Dutch ginger-bread. Next bride
groom and bride descend to the entrance
of the house, followed by all the guests,
when a flat tray or basket with three*live
fishes, ornamented with colored ribbons,
are presented to them; they lift bp this
tray above their heads three times, where
after these fishes are given to the poor.
This ceremony indicates iu a symbolic
way the text, “ They will multiply like
the fishes.” This is equivalent to the
ceremony performed in Holland and
parts of Germany, called the Maan, in
which the Rabbi before the canopy
throws two or three handfuls of wheat
toward the bridal pair, expressing there
by that they shall mnltiply like wheat
thrown on a field. This concludes the
ceremony, end those specially invited re
assemble again in the evening to a -fes
tive dinner, which if repeated for seven
days with more or lees splendor according
to the means of the pgrtief.—The Jewish
The State of Dade—Ah TJntemfied
Candidate on the Stomp.
A gentleman from Urn State of Dade
called npon us yesterday, and handed us
the following, which Lc assured us was
an almost verbatim reimrt of a speech
delivered by acandi.'n'.j for Representa
tive at Trenton on tt> 24th of Septem
ber, 1870:
Feller-Citizens : I A G., the Snnny
South the world ©ye.. I was born in old
Buncoinb" county, North Carolina. I
have been in Dade, feller-citizens, thir
teen years, and this is the first time I
have ashed for au offk*e.
I am, for secession. I am in favor of
seceding Dade 'from the balance of the
world, and making au independent nation
of her.
We have natural boundaries. There is
the Lookont Mountain ou the east, llac-
ooon Mountain on tho west, and old Bob
Parish’s hog lot on the north, and—well,
I’ll be d -d if I know what is on the
south, unless it is Bob TatumV Sulphur
Spring Branch. Dade has a population
to twenty-five million, if you will add
four of them round 0’s, and that is easy . , . . _ .
dono for- they are aboafc tho shape ol tile *8““ t0 and aa
The Adiulultratloa te Bach Down on the
Tariff and Fall Back on the Deinocrmie
Platform.
Grant is evidently scenting danger
from afar, says the Savannah Republican.
The recent elections in the West have
startled him from his close adhesion to
New England Radical measures, and, if
a member of his cabinet is to be believed,
decided him to repudiate the Radical ta
riff and internal taxation, and call upon
the party to do the same—in other words
to put the party on the Democratic plat
form. The fright at Washington ■ must
be great indeed if the administration is
to retain power, by repudiating Radical
principles and turning Democratic.
Strange it never paid that compliment to
Democracy until it found itself in dan
ger ! But death-bed repentances are du
bious things at best. Those who make
them, under a belief that they are
extremes, generally become bad sinners
ring in my ox-yoke, feller-citizens. Jnst
look at the resources of Dade: we have
minerals of all kinds, railroads, mills and
cotton gins.
There is Joab McCullnm, who owns a
mine that contains gold,- silver, copper,
iron, tin, zinc, stone coal, candle coal,
and the devil knows what else, all in the
same time.
There is tho Cherokee Iron Works,
under tho management of • that d d
old carpet-bagger McClain, that has not
sense enough to' manage the running-
gear of a duck’s nest; then there is Stan
ton’s A. & C. R. R., that will give you a
free pass to the lower end of the road to
get to charge you tbreo prices to bring
you back.
Look at our mills gentlemen—there is
Cureton’s mill, Sitton’s mill, Wilkinson's
mill, Hook’s mill and Mitch Pope’s d—d
old cotton gin.
Feller-citizens, look at onr cities: there
is Morganviile, with nothing but the ville,
for Morgan lives a mile off; then there’s
Trenton, the home of one of my oppo
nents, Dick Graham. I understand, gen
tlemen, that Dick Graham says I am
bald-headed. Dick had better be a little
careful abort saying to me, go up thou
good bald head, for there is she Bears
and he Bears, too, in the mountains of
Dade, but the Bear that eats Dick will
havo a digestive organ of forty.horse
power, if it digests him, head, hair and
all. Then there is Rising Fawn, the
home of another of my opponents,
little fistey Lee Tidwell, who is looking
around just like any other tlste among
big dogs.
Feller-citizens, I have uoticed all my
opponents as I passed along, except Mor
gan. I have only this to say, gentlmen;
the Bible commands ns to multiply and
replenish tho earth, and Morgan has
been married forty years, and there is
none bnt him nnd his wife yet I don’t
think it is right, gentlemen, to elect a
man that has uever helped to increase
the number of his country’s defenders.
.Feller-citizens, I will continue my
speech at the next appointment. I thunk
you for yonr attention. Yon will now
adjourn to tho grocery.—Chattanooga
Excitement at West Point—The
Cadets Indignant at the Order
Relieving Their Colored Hrotli
er in Arms from Arrest.
West Point, Nov. 16, 1870.—The
greatest excitement that has relieved the
usual moutony of military routine at this
post since the battle with dipper weapons
between Cadet J. W. Wilson aud (col)
Cadet J. W. Smith occurred to-day at
the reception of the news of the War De
partmeut’s action concerning the ver
dict of the recently-convened general
court-martial. Had the accused been
sentenced t-o be led out aud shot, public
astonishment could scarcely liave been
greater. The general expectation was
that if Smith escaped dismissal, he
would not fail to be severely repreman-
ded. But simply relieving him from
arrest, under circumstances where a
severe punishment has been awarded, is
a result almost incredible.
Military law, and especeially the Milita
ry Academy rules, strictly suppress nil
formed opinions -and feelings upon the
subject But neither officers nor cadets
can conceal their feeling, which are well
known to be quiet unanimous. The ca
dets do not have such class meetings os
are in vogue in civil colleges. But they
will and do talk. _ They are indignant
and disappointed. Not that they desire
to injure the accused any more that ho is
already in their estimation, nor to glory
in his punishment, because his long-
protracted arrest was severe enough.-r-
But they assert that his prevarications
and inconsistencies have condemned his
cadet honor; that, black or white as he
may be, while iu a cadet uniform he is
identified with the edrps and institution
that the most henious military crime of
falsehood lias not been cleared from him;
that he is released from all penalty for
the past, and in a degree promoted to the
rank o! a martyr to color and raoe before
his sympathizers in the nation at large.
Every one in the vicinity of the court
martial was convinced that, with the
single exception of Gen. Howard, the
court intended to place a penalty e^ual
to the gravity of the offence against
Smith’s name. The cadets feel that
Smith has not been justified and they as
body have been wronged. The senti
ment against Smith is more unanimously
bitter and intense than ever. The pre
viously adopted resolution to taboo any
in. the corps who affiliate in any wav
with Smith will be more rigidly observed.
SlibiiId another oollision occur, it is plain
that the result would be more serious
than before. Had he been reprimanded
and his action declared guilty, the feel
ing of prejudice would be greatly modi
fied. But os it is there chagrin is too
great for words to express. With one or
two exceptions the officers, although they
dare not pnblicly say so, share the same
feeling.—N. Y. Heraltl.
The refined two ‘‘Barrett’s."
An Illustrious Exampl b.—It ia not
often we bear of an instance of self-sacri
fice that equals the following:
Miss, Nora Mitchell, of Taylor county,
daughter of CoL Wm. Mitchell, a "large
planter has conducted a school tins year
of about 30 students, the proceeds of
which she has appropriated entirely to
the rebuilding of a Baptist church. In
addition to her weekly exercises she con
ducts a.lkrge Sabbath school where all
the children of the neighborhood are
seen gathered Sabbath mornings. Reg
ularly every month, we learn, Miss.
Mitchell furnishes -each of her Sunday
school pupils a copy of Burke’s •* Little
Soldier,” free of charge. God bless her
noble efforts in be'half of the church and
eligion.—TbOaftn Standard.
Y&.' A town in the interior of New
York is very “proud of the honor of
having a nine-year-old burglar.*’
Grant and liis'party may turiTdladioai
again after the elections, the people are
likely to trust those who have been faith
ful all along. This stealing of Democrat
ic livery by Grant and the Radicals is
both base and' cowardly, and the party
that has always worn it and consistently,
is far more likely to command the popu
lar confidence and support.
Mr. Postmaster Cresswell has just been
“interviewed” ou the political situation
by a Washington correspondent, and the
coolness with which he lays down Demo
cratic measures for the future, and char
acterizes them as “the mission of the ad
ministration,” is decidedly refreshing.
His regret for the los3 of ScUenck, the
great high-tariff apostle of the House,
stands in strange contrasts with his views
of that so called “mission.” We give an
extract from the conversation, which will
be read with interest as developing the
desperation and future expedients of the
administration.
‘Yes, sir,” he (Mr. Cresswell) answer
ed. “We liave great reason to regret the
defeat of General Schenck. His loss was
undoubtedly the greatest of the canvass.
The administration will cettainly miss
bis power in the House. Looking to
the future, he added, “we have no rea
son for uneasiness. We have only to
continue the development of onr policy
to win in the next election. In other
words, we must keep our finances firmly
in hand, continue to reduce our public
debt, which is the most effective way to
maintain the national credit, and at the
same time relieve our people as much as
possible from taxation. To do all this
we are requested to maintain a sufficient
tariff for revenue, but we must take from
the tariff list such articles as sugar, oof-
fee, and tea. and rely on luxuries alone
for income. We must also relieve our
people from internal taxation, because it
is the most odious form of collecting rev
enue. The law which says to a man, we
assess you so much, nnd if you do not
pay it we will seize and sell your property
is simply oppressive. For that reason,
if not for the protection of our home in
dustries, we must keep up at least a reve
nue tariff. When the people see and un
derstand these acts, they will appreciate
the mission of the administration.”
The Blodcett Perjury Case.—It ii
due to truth to correct our report of this
yesterday’s Republican, and to
amend a notice of the same which ap
peared in this column in the absence of
the editor. From tho two statements
would conclude that Blodgett
duly tried on the merits of the charge
and triumphantly acquitted. Such
very far from being the case The trial
took place, and the accused was acquitted
but not on a hearing of the evidence.
The latter was rnled out on a legal tech
nicality very properly perhaps, and a ver
dict of acquittal rendered simply because
proofs; once Inown to e.cist, were not
forthcoming. The original oath npon
which perjury was charged and a true
bill found by a grand jury composed
exclusively of Union men, was sent to
Washington some months ago and there,
among the committees of Congress, acci
dentally or intentionally, lost On the
trial Monday the United States Attorney
proposed to substitute an exact copy of
the oath duly verified, which the court
would not allow except it should be veri
fied by the officer before whom it was
taken. That officer, Ordinary Roatlie,
of Augusta, being dead, this condition
could not be complied with, and, as a
consequenco, in absence of legal proof,
tho juty were instructed to bring
verdict of acquittal, which they did with
out leaving the box. There was no trial
the merits; they wero rated out for
want of legal form and the accused set
free.
Such are the facts, and perhaps it
were as well that the case went off in that
way. Nobody has ever donbted Blod
gett’s guilt, and nobody ever believed
that he would be punished; therefore
the sooner such a case is got off the dock
et the better.
Since the foregoing was pat in type,
we find- in the Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel the following account of a trick
practiced, in that city in order to ; prevent
the attendance of witnesses for theproee-
cution :
On last Saturday, the Commissioner
issnod subpoenas to the witnesses living
in this city, commanding their presence
in Savannah on Monday (yesterday) mor
ning. Had these subpoenas been deliver
ed on the day npon which they were
issued, or even on Saturday, the witnes
ses would have reached Savannah in
time. But, either through the gross
negligence of the depnty marshal, or be
cause engaged in a conspiracy to shield
a notorious criminal from justice, they
wero not delivered until ten o’clock, ana
after that hour, yesterday morning, when
it was too fate for them to leave the city.
This is no nunor which we pnbUsh, bnt
a fact, which can be proved by the wit
nesses themselves, Gan, or wifi Depnty
Marshal Porter, explain his conduct ?
This is the manner in which Blodgett
ir- Tho fruit is known by its tree.
Tho bad taste and indelicacy of killing
the disturber of domestic peace is not so
forcibly shown in any other way as by a
survey of one character of the McFar
lands and Sickles who resort to ib And
the analogous female fashion of perforat
ing a faithless lover is best shown by
showing the sort of women who set .ib
The fenialo person who shot a San Frau-
> lawyer for effecting her “ruin" is
shown to have been on iuveteraU
subject of seduction and betrayal. Iu
fact, she had been so oftcu and so per-
anently “ betrayed” as to have become
quite a picturesquo and moss-grown
before her victim ever encountered
It is to bo hoped that tho jurois
who acquitted Mary Harris, and the
other jurors who acquitted another vic
tim of lieartlessncs8 in Pittsburg the
other day, will have the grace to blush
when they discover from tliis third story
exactly what manner of women these ore.
—World.
Taxationon Bonds.-The United States
Circuit Conrt at Springfield, Illinois,
after full argument in tlic cose of the
United States vs. John V. Bunn, and
after having fully considered the case,
which was reserved for. tho purpose of
careful examination, havo, all the judges
concurring, sustained the following rul
ing of the Internal Revenue Bureau:--
Bonds issued by cities or towns to aid in
the construction of railroads, and to
purchase stock therein, are not consider-
s issued by municipal officers in the
exercise only of functions strictly belong
ing to them ,in their ordinary govern
mental and municipal capacity. They
held lfable, therefore, to stamp tax at
same rate ns promisory notes, being
five cents for every hundred dollars part
thereof. Tho coupons are a part of the
bond, and do not require additional
stamps.
SQL. A Janesville paper says : “Ayonug
lady was walking rapidly up Milwaukee
street this forenoon,, with a spool of
liuen thread in her pocket. In pulling
her handkerchief hurriedly from the
pocket, to mako use of it in flirting with
tall gentleman across the street, a loose
cud of the thread came with ib aud was
caught on one of the splinters of a hitch-
ing-post. The young lady sped rapinlj
onward, happy in her innocent little
flirtation, unconscious that tho spool iu
her pocket Teas paying out thread a little
less than ten rods a minute. She beat
the time of the Great Eastern with the
Atlantic cable. At the Jackson street
crossing a horse became entangled in
the thread, which roused the lady to a
consciousness that something about her
was unravelling. Tho unruly cord was
quickly brokeu off close to the spool,
and the victim of its unwindings got out
of sight as rapidly us possible. It is
supposed that she was trying to get tho
tall gentleman ‘on tho string.”
SQL Ida Lewis, tlio licroino of Lime
Rock, who was married a few weeks ago,
understand, received from the late
Mr; Peabody the sum of $5,000. The
money was placed in trust for tho benefit
of the young lady, therefore Ida wa; not
a dowerless bride. It is astonishing that
woman of the light frame of the old
lighthouse-keeper's daughter should to
able to pull so strong an oar. She
weighs lets thau oue. hundred pounds,
but is lithe and sinewy. Her hands are
largo, feet ditto, and what is not very
pretty in a heroine! whoso name has been
enshrined in song, she does not show
much respect for Lindley Murray. But
then she performed a gallant act, and
tho people honor gallantry wherever
they find it. By the way, Ida was a
mother at. the time of her marriage—a
mother and not a widow. A certain cap
tain in tho navy was the lover , of the
lighthouso-koeper’s daughter when he
wore the uniform of a midshipman,—
[Turf, Field and. Farm.
Bar The discovery has recently been
made that teeth may be extracted and
then again replanted. It has been found
that in cases of inflammation about the
roots of a tooth, the latter may be taken
ont, scraped, cleaned, reinserted and
made to do dnty again. The method of .
procedure is to remove the diseased
tooth ; clean out its cavities, filling them
up, after cleaning with carbolic acid,
with cotton wool impregnated'with the
same ; next to scrape the fangs, but pre
serving the mucous membrane about tho
neck, and after bathing in a solution of
carbolic acid, return to its place. The
London Lancet says, in speaking of the
process: “Mr, Lyons carried this ont
in fourteen cases for Boleman, with suc
cess, in the case of bicuspids and molars
no mechanical appliances being used
to keep the teeth supported until they
bad become firm.”
bos been acquitted of 'the commission of
a crime of the most intamous nature,
and these are the means which liave been
employedto secure that acquittal.—Sac.
. <6^ A Ddtch Judge,-on conviction of
a culprit Joe having four: wives, decided:
Boot-Making Sewing Machine.—It
is stated that a company, with a largo
capital, has been established at .New
Haven, Connecticut, for the manufacture
of a new and ingenious boot-making
sewing machine. The process of mak
ing boots by this machine is described as
follows: AlLwork is lasted before being
placed in the machine; the lasts are next
placed in position, and tlic inner sole,
welt and upper leather are in a minute
sewed together. The outer sole is then
put on. The operation just docribed is
repeated, and the .bottoming process is
complete.; •
James Russell, of Sutton, N . H. hah
ed himself a few. days ago, leaving’tho
following explanation:. “I came into
Jhe world in 1800; have lived seventy
years and seen the machine, but don’t
understand it/ I cam© into the world by
“He hash bunishment blenty; I life mit tho neck, andif they will accept me will
go out by the neck."
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