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THE JEFFERSON S NEWS & FIRMER. Vol. 1. TfHIE Jefferson News & Farmer B Y S. W. ROBERTS & BRO: LOUISVILLE CARDS. K, W. I'anwell, W. F. Denny. Carswell & Denny, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA, WILL practice in all the Counties in the MidJla Circuit. Also Burke in Au gusta Circuit All business entrusted to their safe will meet vrit'i prompt attention. Nor, 3. 27 ly ITW. J. HAM. AT'EOB.IffE!’ AT LAW, SVVAINSBORO’, GA. Will practice in the Middle and Augusta Circuits. All business entrusted to his eare will meet with prompt attention. liuv. 17th, l-’fi'l, 2 ts, fin CAIN J. H. POLEILL. CAIN S POLIIILL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW LOUISVILLE 3 GA. May 8,1871. 1 ly. Ti, hTrlow Watcli A! alier —AND— -2=5. S3 IE 3 J&. 31 3=5. 33 !OL , Louisville, &a. Special attention given to reno vating and repairing WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SEWING MACHINES Ac , Ac. Also Agent tor the 11, me Shuttle Sowing Machine. May 1 lyr: DR. 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Prompt, attention giver. to the sale of Cotton Wool, and Country Produce of every descrip tion. Liberal cash advances made on above when in store. Correspondence Solicited. No* 17 293 m, SAVANNAH, - I Ok. I LSI TOiN c 111 THE E§L\n /M pQMosting powerful invigorating Thwe Bitters pro positively inroluabl. in They purify the system, and vriifcujra Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, and are a preventive of Chills and Fever. All yield to their powerful efficacy. Are on antidote to change of Water and Diet, j to the wasted frame, and correct all ' j Will save days of suffering to the sick, and i The grand Panacea for all the ills of life. a swaths™™ ’ys Young or Old, J?ot Single, these Bitters are and havo often been means of saving life. TJY.ONK BOTTLE. MILLER, BISSELL 6l I URRUM, Whole sale Agents, and Wholesale Cf . mt's and Com mission Merchants. Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Thursday, February 15, 1872. Ne,7 Advertisement!?. Dissolution —OF— CO&)tgTA'£®SBIP. The Copartnership heretofore ex isting between the undersigned, ui> der ihe firm name, of SAMUEL M. LEDERER & CO, is this day dissolved by mutual con a enL Messrs ISAAC M. FRANK and GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN are alone authorized to settle the affairs ol the late firm, collect all moneys due, and sign in liquidation. SAM’L M. LEDERER, I. M. FRANK, GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN Savannah, July 18ih, 1871. Copartnership Notice. The undersigned have this day associated themselves together as Partners for the transaction of a 'General DRY GOODS business in the City ol Savannah, under the firm name of FRANK & ECKSTEIN, AT 131 BROUGHTON ST., where they will continue to carry an extensive stock ot S TP A IP lb a AND Ik % t \ BBT BOOBS AND HOTI © 1 S . Possessing facilities to purchase Goods ti NEW ST.,, New York. in the Northern Markets on the very best terms, will conliri ue to offer such INDUCEMENTS as will make it the interest of BUYERS to deal with us. Thanking you for the kind favors bestowed on the late firm, we re spectfully solicit your patronage in future. Also an early examination of our slock and prices. Yours respectfully, FRANK A ECKSTEIN, 131 Broughton St. Parties desiring to send orders for Goods or Samples of Dry Goods will find them promptly attended to by addressing P. O. BOX 38, Savannah, Ga. Atfgnit 18,(ly. n J. WALKrn Proprietor. K H. McDonald ft <*o.. Druggist* and Q «». Ag'ts, Sad rrauciiao Cal., and 32 and 3 4 Commerce fct, N.Y. MILLIONS Bear Testimony to their Wonderful Curative Effects. Thay are not » vile Fancy Drink, made ot Poor Rum, Whiekey* Proof Spirits and Refuse Li quors doctored, spiced snd sweetened to please the taste, called “Tonics,” “Appetizers,” “Restorers,” &e., that lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin, but are a tv no Medioine.made from the native Roots and Herbs of Cali fornio, free from nil Alcoholic Stimulants. 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No System of Medicine, no vermifuges, no anthelmintics, will free the system from worms like these Bitters. J. WALKER. Proprietor. R. H. MCDONALD Sc CO., D-'.tiste and (lon. Ascot- San Francisco. California, BSTSOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS, p May 13, 1871, ly. DARBY’S FJtQPIYLACTIC FLUID 1 11R18 iuvaluable Family Medicine, toi -5 purifying, cleansing, removing bao odors in all kinds of sickness; for burns sores, woui.ds, stings; for Erysipelas, rheumatism, and all skin diseases; lui catarrh, sore mouth, sore throat, dipthcria; for colic, diarrhoea, cholera; as awash to soften and beautify the skin; to remove nk spots, mildew, Iruit stains, taken in externally; st highlyreconJmencleTby'al'l who have used it—is for sale by all Druggists Ooun ry Merchants, and may be ordered di rectly of the DARBY PRO PH YLAETIC CO. ~ "™"”161 WillianTsTn'et, N. V. p Dec24’7o ly. rM»y2 nJuno3 ly w*. H. Throw. Wm, W. G >K LAN TISON & GORDON, (established, 1854.) COTTON FACTORS AND Commission Merchants, 113 BAY STREET SAVANNAH, GA. Bagging and ikon ties advan CED on Crops. Liberal Cash Advances made on Consign meat of Cotton. Careful attention to all busi ness, and prompt returns Guaranteed. oct.9 r * n 4m. M. Dye, J. I ■ Jdothwell, J M. Dye,Jr. DYE, BOTHWELL <fc CO., COTTON FACTORS —AND— COMMISSION MERCHANTS NO. i4J REYNOLDS ST., AUGUSTA, - - - GEORGIA. LIBERAL advances made on cotton and other produce when required. Orders for Bagging, Ties and family supplies prompt ly tilled. All business entrusted to us will have our prompt personal attention. Commission for selling Cotton, percent 14 S«p. 23 89 6m T- MARKWALTERS’ Broad St., Augusta, Ga. MARBLE MONUMENTS, TOMB STONES &C., &C. Marble Mantels and Furniture-Marble of all kinds Furnished lo Order. All work for the Country carefully boxcd'for shipment. Hah 12 p’7o ly. Reb 1, ’7l 1 y flliscellancmis. THE NEW POCAHONTAS. A i incident *t Moorefield , Va., in ’62. 1!T JOHN KS I BM COOKE. I heard some lime since from a distinguished Confederate officer the following incident, which I recotd for the admirers of courage and he roism everywhere. I run jus:died in declaring, I think, that the annals of ihe late war contain nothing more beautiful and touching ; and ilie in cident is as true as it is romamic— as actual as the most hum-drum events of the great civil conflict. Many yet live, who witnessed it and il anybody doubts the irutli ol the occurrence, abundant testimony can be product and to establish the facts, precisely as they are here recorded. The incident occurred at Moore field, near the headwatc-rs of the south branch of the Potomac, in the spring of 1802. At that time Jack son was posted at Winchester with the 10,000 men of his “Army of the Monongnhela,” soon to receive— from the people at least—the more appropriate name of die “Army ol the Valley,” and although compelled boa decree of the War Depaitmenl at Richmond to surn ndcr possession ol all the line ;eg «n around Rom ney, alier conquering it in January, the active commander of the Valley Army did t.ot cease lo operate with cavalry in that country, thus cheek ing in some degree the depredations of the enemy, who after the depar ture of his troops, had begun to rule the whole mountain country with a rod of iron. Ashby commanded the Confederate cavalry ; and al.hough Morgan, Hardy and Hampshiic were otherwise unprotected, his om nipresent horsemen were the terror of the enemy who every where found themselves confronted, ntnbudied, harrassed, by aloe os slerple-s as he was determined. In these move ments, Ashby, that pearl ot chival ry, laid the great foundations of his fame. He was to die before six tnoro months had rolled over his head ; but not before he, had won a renown which will endure as long as the mountains which rang to the dash of his sabre. What we are about to relate oc curred on one of these expeditions into ihe western country, to beat up the quarters ofthe enemy there. A company of Southern cavalry had penetrated as far as the vicinity of Moorefield—occupied like Romney, Bath, and other points, by the ene my—and in the vicinity of this town a heavy skirmish took plate be tween the blue and gray horsemen. It resulted in the repulse of ihe Con federate cavalry, a portion of whom were captured—among the rest a young man whose name is not ne cessary lor the clear comprehension of our incident by the reader. It is sufficient to say that he was a mere boy—that he did not want resolu tion, the sequel will show. Captured, and seeing before him in imagination the horrors of a Norih ern prison, he determined to make an rutempt to escape—and for this an opportunity soon presented it self, which he seized upon with the nerve of a good soldier. The guard to whom he was entrusted, deceived probably by his boyish appearance, committed the fatal emir of des pising the prisoner; he relaxed in watchlulness over him sot that rea son—and the result ot this careless ness was soon exhibited. The youth watched his opportunity when the Federal trooper was off his guard, and suddenly throwing himself up on him, knocked him from the sad dle, leaped upon his horse, and be fore the companions ofthe prostrate cavalryman could reach the spot, disappeared at a gallop, and was soon beyond pursuit. On the same night, the youth was laughing over his escape among his comrades, by the bivouac fire. * Such was the first act of the brief drama, in which the brave young fellow was to figure. He had exiri cated himself from what in military parlance is denominated a “tight place” by his ne:ve and courage— but fortune which had thus smiled upon him, was about to play a sorry trick in turn. In the lale war, it seemed to be the fate of some sol diers to be wounded or captured in almost every fight, as it was the good fortune of others never to be wounded and never to be captured. Upon what theory of chances—if there were such a thing as chance— could this be accounted for? Gen eral Lee was never wounded ; Gen. Stuart was never struck until the day of his death-wound ; General Jackson was only touched on the finger at Manassas; arid yet these three men were ever leading despe rate charges, where men were fall ing all around them. The single word Providence explains the whole ; certain it is that some of the most! leekless fighters of the war, went through a hundred baths unscath ed, by shell or bullet, while “con rcripts” forced in at the veiy last moment, were shot down in the ve v fir t skirmish! The destiny of our y< ung cav i ryman was to be eiemdlv taken prisoner. No sooner bad he jested alter hi# recent escapade than he went on another expedition into the county ol Hardy; goi inio a light; was duly captured ; and some of the men who captured him rrcog mzed in him the, prisoner who had 'airly made his escape. With a generous enemy this fact would have counted rather in his favor— for the true soldier prefers that his opponent should be brave, and nev er respects him so much as when he. has proved himcii'a foeman worthy of 1 1 is steel. It seems, however, that ihe captors ofthe youth on this occasion were not generous. Tiicv forced him to dismount ; hound his wri>ts together behind him with a cord ; and iu this condition he was compelled to trudge on foot over the rough mountain roads, until die town •f Moorefield was reached. Wc beg now that the worthy read er will accompany us—before pro ceeding further with our narrative— in a little excursion which wc pro pose to make into antiquity. Al first sight this may appear to him the most wanton and unprecedented ol proceedings ; opposed to all tin rules of narrative; and in every sense impcriinenl and out of place. Upon this point, however, wc hegthit he will do us the favor to suspend his judgment—assuring him that every line in our narrative is bom and to an other; evt ry Apparent digression goes to illustrate the subject. It is then an abrupt transition which we make from the hanks of die Souih Branch of the Potomac, A. U. 1862, to the banks of the York, near the shores of the Chesapeake, A. D. 1607. In a glade of the forest, in sight ol the bioad river, you see a group of savages, all was paint and feath ers, ia ihe midst of whom—lns head resting upon a huge block n( wood —is a captive with his hands bound behind him. On his throne is King Powhatan; around him are the grim ministers of his wrath, the huge nobles of his court; in their midst the executioner, armed with his Knotted club. Smith is about to die —captured in the swamps of the ClncLahominy, and borne ofTto the royal wigwam, he has been tried, sentenced, stretched upon the earth —in five minutes that huge club will dash out his brains. What is it that a brave man does when his last hour approaches ? He prays, if he is pure and faithful as Smith was, and awaits his doom with that courage w hich shrinks not before wounds and death. The captive brought this courage to his aid that day ; gazed serenely into the eyes of his cruel enemies, and, surrendering all hope, awaited his doom. Then the guttural decree issued from the copper lips of the king ; the executioner raised his club ; Smith closed his eyes, and com mended his soul to God. The prayer was heard —succour came. In the midst of die silence a cry re sounded ; a girl of fourteen, hall nude, hut as modest as a statue of purity, reached the spot at one bound, raised one round arm, deco rated with its bracelet of sea-shells, and with the other drew the head of the captive to her bosom. If the huge war-club fell, it must fall upon her breast ; 11 the captive was put to death, her spirit would accompa ny his to the Valley of Shadows ; if Powhatan persisted in his merciless resolution , then she too would die— better death than see an unarmed prisoner murdered ! You know the result of that grand and beautiful action, reader; how devotion conqured wrath, courage extorted admiration, pity won the boon ol the poor bound captive’s life. Smith was speedily unfettered; he stood erect before his enemies ; they consented to ransom him, and ere long he was again among his friends at Jamestown, invoking blessings on the head ofthe little Indian girl who had preserved his life at the immi-. nent peril of her own. And it was not Smith only who praised and blessed her. It was the whole world that saluted her, and came to offer her respect. And from that day to this the name of Pocahontas has been the synonym of courage, and mercy, and goodness. Her fig ure was cut on the old shield of Vir ginia—is that fact as generally known as it ought to be ?—writers made her their heroine ; Smith loved and cherished her to the day of her death. When she died the world felt that it had lost one of those be ings who reflect honor on the age in which they live and that humanity to wh ch they belong. It is possible that the reader will say, “All this is granted ; the story of Pocahontas is by no means new ; —why stop it) tlie midst ofyour nar rative, good sir, to revive this uni versally known legend?” We reply, in the fbsi place, that il is alway wholesome to ircall great drvoied ness—and secondly', that we wished to place beside this beautiful drama of the psst, a diama of the present —or nearly of the present —so sim ilar as lo excite like emotions. Without further preface we pro ceed to our incident. We bdi oui unfortunate young cavalryman a prisoner, and w.tli his hands tied be hind him. lie entered Moorefield in this manne—lied and under guard ; and the appearance of the column of cat atrv, defiling into the town, attracted the attention of the rest of the garrison. Among ethers who came oui to look at the pi isom er was the man who had guarded him on the occasion of his first cap ture, and whom Iso had knocked from the saddle. At sight of the youthful prisoner, whom he instant ly recognized, the Federal trooper was seized with a violent fit of rage. He had lost his horse, been laid up by the blow which he had received, jeered at by his companions, aid punished by his officer. All these disagreeable recollections wcie now aroused at the first sight of the per son who had thus humiliated him ; and, full of wiath, inflamed by bad whiskey, thirsting for vengeance, the trooper approached the prisoner, drawing as lie did so, his pistol. Then before ativ one suspected his intent, before a hand could be raised to arrest his arm he levelled his weapon at the youth, fmd ; and the prisoner, well nigh mortally woun ded, fell writhing to ihe ground, in the midst of the trampling column of cavalry. In spite of the murderous and cowardly character ofthe troiper’s act, no notice was taken of and by the officer in command. When some citizens, horrified’at thejcold-blooded cruelly of the deed, hastened for ward lo render ihe poor youth such assistance as he required, the foderal soldiers, it is said, repulsed ■ii m with threats and curses, ordering them to let the wounded man die where he lay. In truth, it seemed unnecessary to attempt to succor him —life seemed rapidly leaving him. He was lying upon the earth, bleeding profusely from the wound which the traoper hud inflicted; and writhing to and fro, in agony, Ins hands still tied behind him, appear ed to call by his piteous groans, oil some ofthe bystanders lo at least put him out of his misery. Such was the tragic condition of affairs—when that ever-present an gel of mercy, a woman, came to rescue the youth in his extremest need. From the window of a house near al hand Miss , a young lady of the place, had seen the cavalrv enter, witnessed the outrage upon the prisoner, haard his groans—and heard too the stern orders of the fed eral soldiers, that the citizens should stand back and let the rebel die where he lay. All this the young lady had seen and heard—flushing trembling, and then turning pale at the spectacle before her—but jjmore than all, she saw the poor youth writhing in his blood, and heard his moans as he vainly attempted to ex tricate his hands from the cord which encircled his torn and bleeding wrists. Then what the citizens were afraid to do, she proved that she was not afraid to do. They feared the federal bullets —she did not. Without hesitating a moment, she seized a pillow from her own bed, at one bound reached the stair case, descended a9 rapidly, rushed through the doorway into the street, and thrusting aside the crowd of federal soldiers who were laughing and uttering oaths around the prison er, reached the si le of the youth. Then careless of all else, she stoop ed and raised him iu her arms, un tied his wrists, and placing the pil low on her lap, his head upon the pillow; staunched the bleeding, and bound up his wound. No hand was raised to touch her. There is a magnetism in courage and devotion which awes the coars est. From whatever motive—wheth er shame, or indifference, or admira tion, we know not—the soldiery did not oppose the action of the girl, and without opposition from any she bore the youth into the house, laid him on her bed, watched over him, tended him, took care of h.m as the sbter takes care ofthe wound ed brother —and he lived. Such was the beautiful scene which occurred in the streets of Moorefield, in that far away spring of 18 f '2. Do you think that we w : wrong in declaring it grand and ad mirable: in giving this young lady the name of the new Pocahontas —lliat “blessed Pocahontas,” as the brave Captain Smith called her, who, two centuries and a half before, saved a JL * w • L bound and bleeding prisoner from death? And are we wrong in de claring another thing stii — t the town of Moorefield, however respec table it may be, howev, r i , t its inhabitants, however elegant its society—that this town of M ■•relield will be remembered fir bn • r as the scene < f this incident, than for id! else that lias tv -roccurred in its history? Strange magic f ii< roism! eternal iovelines and ultra io of courage, sell-sacrifice and ik.v.ni' a! Chose grand qualities touch the uni versal heart, and their memory lives when tiie thunder of great battles has died into silence; when victory •»r defeat no longer rejoices or de> presses; win n op kilis and . ges with dt their passions and co (1 - Is havo passed imo the gulf of oblivion. On dial day of the year ISO 2, lie offi cers rode about; the long column clashed by; the bright ha n rs wav ed; and the bugles made the moun tains re-echo their notes —but who remembers that? The officers have Vanished; the cavalry im disbanded; the banners have disappeared ; the bugles no longer ring—nothing is hoard but the moan of a bleeding boy; nothing s-cn but a girl who hold* his head upon her bosom, and binds up his wounds, in the midst of hostile faces, and oaths—powerless there, thank God! as they were powerless elsewhere, tip an many occasions, to make the brave, true heart of a girl shrink from iier ei rami of mercy ! A Frontier lion im it. —A few years ago, a man was living V vjth his young wife in Mankato, Minn. Lie was intelligent and successful m business, until the passion for drinking enslaved him, and his busi ness and reputation were both wreck ed by its satanic influence. He was forced to seek anew home for his little family, and his wife, bred to luxury, accompanied him to the frontier, in the hope that the removal Iroin temptation would free him from the grip of the habit which cursed him. Here they lived for several years, his abstinence from drink be ing broken only by an infrequent and occasional debauch when he visited some of the nearest towns. Parly in December he told his wife that business compelled him to go to several days. She, about to be con fined, with several helpless chddren and a scanty supply' of wood, fear ing that the insatiate clamor of ap petite was the motive which drew him away, entreated him to stay, but iu vain. He left. Soon after, one of those severe storms of De cember—doublv severe on the un sheltered prairie—came on. Before its close she was entirely destitute of wood, and the terrible alternative was presented to her of passively freezing to death with her little ones, or seeking assistance from the near est neighbor, over three miles dis tant. She courageously chose the latter, and leaving her three shiver ing little ones, with nothing hut a mother's yearning love and a prayer lul bles ; -ing, she started out t<> seek relief. The next day she was found, half buried in the snoiv, dead, with anew born infant at her side. The three children were found dead in the house. This, while the once fond husband was away reveling in the delirium or dozing in the stupor of drink. No words can add to the horror of this tale, but beside the unspeakable agony of I lie dying wife and mother, how trivial our common losses, griefs and sorrows seem.— Wisconsin llepuhlicn a. When the cold wind blows, take care of your nose, that it doesn’t get froze, and wrap up your toes in warm woolen hose. The above, \vc suppose, was written in prose, by someone who knows the effect of cold snows. Governor Davis, of Texas, and his Secretary of State. Newoombo, have been indicted in the Federal Court, ou account of irregularities iu thu late elec tion. Roberts, frequently Presidnitof the Republic of Liberia, Africa, was ro in augurated iuto that office ou the Ist January ult, Amorican stocks seem to be depressed in Europe by reason of the exorbitant “ Alabama claims ” being urged before the Geneva Committee. Fho Supreme Court in consequence of the illness of Chief Justice Warner, has adjoined to Wednesday the 6th. The people of tLo several States have yet to learn by sadder experience, by deeper financial derangements, and by social and political disorders, that there can be no departure from first principles —from right private and public fair deal ing—without the whole social and po litical fabric of society being demoral ized. There is still a harder lessou to bo learned—tnat there is no help for such au unhappy condition but in a speedy return to first principles, and to primitive vi.ttio and economy .—Jeffer sonian Democrat,