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SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER ,15 1853
s:iw safely deposited in Raymond’s iron
chest at his private residence. Within the
following year Raymond died. The neph
ew found tile will, and as it afterwards ap
peared, such was his baseness, that to se
cure in addition to the rest the ten thous
and pounds left to Edmonds, he immedi
ately burnt the document, knowing that, if
his uncle died intestate, he himself was
heir-at-law. On this villainous announce
ment, Edmonds sinking his conscientious
scruples, produo d the first will made by
Raymond, and claimed the chief of the
property; and the unprincipled nephew,
after making full confession during a lit of
delirium tremens, killed himself.
The Gfiaost at Cliehea, Eu;,iaat!.
By the last steamer, we have the follow
ing additional accounts of the Gho.t at
Chelsea, which lately frightened so many
people. The London Globe says :
The neighborhood of the Fulham-road
has been in a state of extraordinary ex
citement from the rumor that a supernatu
ral apparition had thrown several persons
into fits. The following is the story : At
No. 6. Pond-torrace, Collcge-st. Chelsea,
resides a family of the name of Ward.
Ward’s family cousists of two sons, exca
vators, aged twenty-five and twenty-seven,
and a daughter, aged seventeen. lu the
same house resides a family named Parsloo.
On Thursday night, Emma Ward, upon
going into her bedroom, saw the apparition
and fainted away. Upon her brother James
coming home ho entered the same room,
and was so terrified by the sight that he
also fell into violent fits. The noise alarm
ed the lodgers, and Mrs. Parsloe, an elderly
matron, opened the door, and she likewise
went into fits at the sight of the spectre.
The eldest son, upon coming in and ascer
taining how matters were made up to the
ghost and endeavored to clutch it; but to
his horror, although the spectre stood be
fore him, he could feel nothing substantial,
and he straightway followed the example
of the preceding ghost-seers.
Ilis fits, however, required several men
to hold him down, and lasted hours. By
this time hundreds of people were collect
ed outside the house, and the policeman on
the beat being informed that it was a ghost
most prudently deferred entering the house
until he had a reinforcement. Having re
ceived the aid of three of his comrades in
blue, an entry was made by bursting iu the
door. What they saw is not clearly known
but they audibly declared that they would
not stay in the house for untold gold, and
advised the inmates to leave the ghost in
uninterrupted possession. Ward’s son came
in at this juncture and stayed the emigra
tion. By this time the streets were impas
sable, and hundreds of people were outside
the house as late as five o’clock in the morn
ing; This brought up another reinforce
ment of the blues, and although they re
mained and searched the promises in every
direction, the most horrible inoans and
noise continue!. The doors kept opening
and slamming to without any visible agen
cy. The noise still continued, and a nom
adic preacher was on the premises yester
day to exercise tire spirit. The description
of the spectre given by each of the witnes
ses is the same—a man with deathly fea
tures and snowy garments falling to the
floor.
Mr. Robert Owen has received special
intelligence respecting the above appari
tion. He has written to the Morning Post:
“Sik : At 4 o’clock to day, I had by ap
pointment with the spirits of President
Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, a seance
of importance for an hour and a half, and
afterward, at 6 o’clock, also by appointment
with his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent
for an hour, after which l enquired if any
other spirit was present, and Shelly, the
A.Qibiicul Bepiualiou.
One of the Boston Museum’s old and
valued corespondents, Mr. Lord, who is now
residing in Illinois, was a short time since
tnneling on horseback from Jacksonville to
Peoria, iu that State and as {he was passing
a small hut by the road side, he noticed a
a shaggy headed boy of about eight years
of age, with large eves and no hat dressed
>ir of his father’s trousers,
the place of the cracked voice; hut when
she came to the word “all” so full was the
poor-old creature of love for the niece, or,
perhaps, of determination — let ns hope net
h ,te against her son—that she. half rose up
in her bed and clentehed her withered hand
and shriek'd out that word again. It
must have been a terrible sight—t hat of life
struggling with death, fora will! It was
a short matter to write that will down;
and Calchpole’s pen flew over tlie paper,
ami the old eyes that were glazing so fast
stared anxiously the while, and the thin
lingers actually held the pen she bad asked
fur beforehand ready to sign the paper. In
a f. w min utes all was ready; but what a
difference that few minutes made! The
clerk had lisen from his seat and approach
ed the conch; wheu the surgeon, who
stood on the other side., said; with that
coolness which medical practice brings, “It
| is too late;” aud was too late. The dead
fingers clenched the unused pen so tightly
that they had to be unclasped from it. The
son wss heir of ail, and Eliza a beggar !
1 h ath had translated that screamed out
“all,” into none. The sequel is soon told.
The proper - ,)' was wasted by the son,
and has long since passed into other hands,
and Eliza, instead of possessing some thous
ands a yeor. aud being wooed by Mr. Catch-
pole, is a faded daily governess.
Every lawyer’s office has plenty of such
stories as this. Once I remembered a mi
ser who had ruined more than one family,
ami in bis last moments wished to make
such reparation as bequeathed gold could
compass. Poor wretch, when the will was
brought, catalepsy had seized him, and
iie lay there a living corpse—dead in all
but mind. He could not move his hand;
his longue refused its office; only his eves
weie free to move: and of those eyes 1 have
been told a terrible tale. He was, as misers
often are, a man of strong and iron nerve.
Passive as he was in every other part, the
eyes told all that was passing within. You
could have seen in them intelligence when
the will was read to him; the powerful vo
lition brought, to bear aud persevered in,
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Sandersville, March 8,1853. 6—Iv
<& B.. JQUM&TOZi,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Sparta, Geo rg i a .
Will practice in Hancock and the ad-
oining counties, and tbeSuprerm- Court.
MARK JOHNSTON, | R. M. JOHNSTON.
March 22, 1853. 8—tf
EXCEE SEN’S 1?
BY BILL BRAMBLE
Uncle Ben was a queer old
And a queer old man wa
He owned a ram-—a butiin
In fact his huttabie pupeii*
him to butt everything buiinbh
ilh large eves and
in u worn out |
trying to balance himself on the spliutered
toj» of a hickory stump.
More for the purpose of breaking the mo
notony of riding all day without sj eal-.ing,
than to gain information, Mr. Lord reined
his horse up to tli fence and exclaimed—
My little boy can you tell me how far it
is to Sotiganion Bottoms?’
The boy poised himself on otie leg,
opened his large eyes to their largest ex
tent, and replied —
‘’Bout six miles, I recoil.’
‘Do you live in that house?’ inquired
Lord.
I reckon,’was the repi)’.
Do you enjoy yourself out herein the
woods?’
‘A heap!’
‘What ails your pants?’ says Lord.
‘Tore ’em,’ was the laconic answer.
Finding he had held of a genius that
couldn’t be pumped, Mr. Lord turned his
head to depart, but in his turn was hailed
by the boy who in a comical, half reluctant
tone exclaimed
‘What mout
Uncle Ben bad a fat old spour-e-
A fat old wiie was s,ho—
Wiio used to feed and pail his i
That e-mo up so regular in die 1,
;lit Aim stood under a tarn; pear ir
fcQC'iOSTT, i-OKG, GO.
Commission Merchants and
SHIPPING A GENTS.
126 Bay Street Sacannrh, Ga.
LOCKETT, W. H. LONG. J II. D
sept. 20 34—If
3? G ASUIX.NT GTOIV;
attorney at law,
JjOit isctlle. Ga.
October, 25. 1853. ’ 39—tf
But one sad morning asBrindlc stood
Beneath the stately pear,
Old Ben’s wife in a merry mood,
H. s milking her, occupying her usual
position with posterior extremity a elevated iu
air.
The ram and Ben the fact espied,
And loudly Ben did shout:
‘iSquat down! r-quato*wnl’ be s’eridvcried;
But she didn’t hear him and- before lie
couni interim, li;o ram had turned his fat old
wife inside out.
Now Uncle Beil was very wroth;
All, very wroth was lie;
[trough,
lie look up the grind-stone from its
And tyi g a rope to it, hung upon a limb
35C- 23- KtKTAF2\
Manufacturer of
SADDLERS. HA It NESS, cC-c. <C-c., and
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in all
kinds of
SADDLERY WARE. CARRIAGE
Trimmings, Laces, Erinyes, Patent Leath
er, Springs, Axles, Bands, Varnish, etc.
AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN SADDLE,
West t ml of Gibbons’ Building
^lavkct Square, Savamsah.
A large assortment always on hand, and
for sale at. the lowest prices.
your name be?’
‘Lord, 1 was the reply.
The hoy here grinned all over, even to
the wrinkles in his father’s trouser’s, nnd
seemed hardly able to suppress a broad
snicker.
‘You seem plesed,’ said Lord; perhaps
pou nevea'hoard the name before.’
‘Yes, I have,’ replied the youngster; I've
heard pop read about you'] 1
Lord put spurs to his horse, and says
that even the sacred thoughts to which the
incident gave rise were not sufficient to
keep him from snickering throughout the
rest of the journey.
We can imagine that shaggy headed
ragged trousered boy, leaping from the
splintered stump running to his “pop,” and
telling him what he had seen. May-be
those large eyes didn’t open!
Exhaustion of Talk.—Ilow long the
lamp of conversation holds out to burn
between two persons only is curiously set
down in the following passage, from Count
Gonfallioner’s account of his imprisonment
“Fifteen years I existed .in a dungeon ten
feet square! During six years I had a
companion; during nine I was alone! I never
could rightly distinguish the form of him
who shared my captivity in the eternal
twilight of our cell. The first year we talk-
incesantly together; we related our past
lives, our joys forever gone, over and over
again. The next year we communicated
to each other our thoughts and ideas on all
subjects. The third year we had no ideas
to communicate; we were beginning to lose
the power of reflection. The fourth, at the
interval of a month or so, we would open
our lips to ask each other if it wers possiple
that the world went on as gay aud bustling
as when we formed a portion of mankind
The fifth we were silent. The sixth he was
taken away I never knew where, to execu
tion or to liberty. But I was glad when
he was gone*, even solitude was better than
B X.. VX33iGO£Z:
Attorney at law,
Halcyombde, Scriven co., Georgia
WILL give bis whole attention to the
practice of Iauv in all its branches.
Jnl 13, 1853. 24—6m
It Elis JlilT a4 , Si
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
" Sandcrsvitte, Georgia.
WILL practice in the counties ot Wash
ington Burke, Jefferson, Scriven, Emanuel
Laurens, Wilkinson and Hancock.
(Office in Court House on Lower bloor.)
Feb. 1, 1853. 1—ly _
JA"3;a-33 S. 5^003$ •
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sandersville, Georgia.
PRACTICE IN THE COUNTIES Or
. ) Washington, Burke, Scriven
rcuit. ^ j c ff crs0 ,| and Emanuel.
Circuit, j - - Laurens.
Circuit j - - - - Wilkinson
next door to Warthen's store.]
jan. 1, 1S52. 51—ly
Right briskly then the fight begun;
The stone would not “give i:t,”
Ai-.d Ben’s old limn would yield to none,
ifo he butted all day, and when Uncle lien
went to bed, he was still buttling like all sin.
But when old Ben arose next day,
And went out into tne lawn,
The Ram had bucked himself away,
And every thing ui.dcr heaven but about
two inches of his tail was used up—completely
gone.
£awso^;& »03f*.est
Commission Mere hauls,
93 BAY STSiEET
SAVANNAH, GEO.
A. LAWSON. J. E. GODFREY.]
it a testament was required; the terror and
horror which came over him when he found
the right hand, which had so often aided
him for evil, would not help him for good:
the despair which burst the unseen bonds
around him, and with a convulsive motion
let out the last of life. It must have been
a spectacle of horror, when punishment
came in the shape of mercy, which might
have made some amends for a lifetime of
w rong.
Then there was another legend of a man
whose daughter married against his will.
He lived sotnee&liere in a l
town,
SOHKT G,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
PAINTS, OILS, TURPENTINE *£
varnishes,French and American
Glass, Taper Hangings and Borders, Fire
Board and Decorative Papers, Sashes, Blinds
and Doors: West Side of J/onmnent Square,
NavankailGa. Orders from the eoun
trv promptly attended to.
to 1)22, .1853. 4—ly
Some tuna ago l had occasion to go to
Doctor Commons to look at the will of a
dead man. The dead that signed it was in
the grave long before—dust, perhaps; but w
the record of the will which animated that j He lived somewhere in a retired country
hand was there among those dusty folios, ■ house, far oti Romany town. Ibis man
engrossed in an almost undecipherable j was subject to a disease of the heart, aud
hand, which tell how all the real property one might, toeling the symptoms of an ap-
iu the country lias been disposed ol over j preaching attack, and that strange presenti-
and over again. 1 had no difficulty iu find- incut which so often comes before death, he
ing it, for i had a note of the precise day roused his houshold, and sent a messenger
the deceased died on. It is not necessary' on horseback, not for a surgeon, but for a
lo sav anything about the contents of Unit lawyer. He wanted his will made instantly,
will, however, for they have no relation lo /lhe messenger could not be expected back
what I a in writing. It is only Lbe date which for two hours, and long before that the
I have any business with The will was da- ’spasmodic attack had come on, hut still in
ted the day before the man died. I had, of the intervals ol his paroxysms, that deter-
course, often heard of men makiug their, turned man wrote as though against time,
wills when they were just at death’s door, When the lawyer did arrive, all that was
without any particular thought being! exci-; lvft ot the living will which had been ac
ted; but this time 1 was surprised, as a sin-' live and energetic a few hours before was
gle fact very often does surprise us when that last piece of writing. It expressed the
we have passed by a host of similar ones deceased’s intention, in the strongest terms
unnoticed. I knew the man who had utterly to disinherit his rebellous child, and
made that will, lie was a shrewd, prudent to give his property to some charitable in
sharp lawyer, who had risen from nothing slitutions. ltjwas complete, even (o the sig-
to be a man of immense wealth. If he was nature ; only the flourish usually added to
distinguished for any qualities iu particular I tlie name was wanting, as though there
it was for punctuality and promptitude., the hand had tailed. But that writing was
None of the clerks of his office were five‘not a will ; it was notin proper form, nor
minutes late. That was an offense not to [ attested. In the eye of the law it was but
be forgiven. No one c-ver knew him to be an invalid piece of paper, and the daugh-
behind at an appointment, or lo let busi- ter took that which her birthright entitled
ness be uudoue. Ilis housekeep r, who, her to.
managed his bacheio home for many : Wills generally afford a frightful temp-
years, only kept her place by being exact tat’on to the worse part of our nature. I
of time. Yet this man had not made his believe that more cunning, more falsehood,
will till a few hours before his death ; and more worldly anxiety, and more moral
therefore the possession of his property . wrong are blended with the subject of
formed the subject of a very flourishing “wills” than with the whole mass of law
lawsuit. ! parchments extant. A will should not on-
VVhen I went out of that dark, dismal ly be property made, but properly placed
catcombof dead men’s wills, 1 went on and more than one should be cognizant of
ihiuking of albthe similar cases of proorasli-! its whereabouts. I have known many ca
nation which I knew or had heard of—aud ses of gross turpitude in the shape of des-
thev were not a few—for tiffs is a piece of troying wills, and record one rather curi-
the experience of one who was a law clerk ous anecdote, affording a vivid illustration
before he quarrelled with red -tape. What 1 of unprincipled greed defeating itself. Two
a curious catalogue they were! There was \ gentlemen in the city, close friends from
an old lady, a toothless old dowager, who their schooldays, were in the decline of
had a reprobate and discarded son, and a life. Ediuouds had a large family, with
pretty gentle niece, who lived with her.' comparatively small means, while Mr. Ray-
WILL
VJiE.STII.ikS & BTTT2.EX5..
DEALERS IN FA SHI ON A BLE
Boots, Siioes & Plantation Brogans,
No. 161 Congress street.
South Side Market Square,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Feb. 15, 1S53. 3—ly
R, I
ATTORNEY AT L A W,
Snnderscille, Georgia.
SClL-fl-XSTOINA S 0112$ SO XI &. GO
GROG E li S.
Savannah, Ga.
D. T. SCRANTON, > gavannah .
JOSEPH JOHNSTON. )
t W. B. SCRANTON,
} No. 19, Old Slip,N York
wife died a year ago.’ Then the door was
shut, and I heard no more; they had been
flung this great agony upon me and ieft me
alone with it again.”
The Gold Mines of Peru.—The N. O.
Picayune has been [favored by a gentleman
of that city; with a letter dated Lima, Sept.
27th, from which it makes the following ex
tract;—
“1 know of no political news. In regard
to the Bolivian troubles, jthey are never
spoken of here. The accounts from the
land near the Amazon in regard to mineral
wealth, are truly great. Quicksilver cop
per, silver, and gold, are in the greatest
abundance. If a tenth part of what is told
is true it will be enough to draw a great
emigration to this country.”
tW A fellow in East Salisbury, who
wants a wife writes to his friend in Boston
on the subject asking the following impu
dent question:
“Mr. Merril—Will you be so kind
as to inform me if I should be likely to find
a single woman in Boston of good moral
character?
ATTORXEV ASD COUNS2LLEU A J EAW,
Office, 175, Bay street, Savannah,Ga.
feb. 22, 1853.
DU B.£>. SWI2T42,
Swuiusboro, Ga.
Has permanently located at tiffs place, and
will attend Professional'calls.
aug 30, 1853 31 — n
R, Xu FVLS'.'H,
Factor and Commission Merchant*
No. .71, Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
Feb. 15, 1B53. 3—1ly
SEHN & FGSTE3.,
Factors and Commission Merchants
Savannah,Ga.
P.1C. BEHN,] [JOHN FOSTER.
feb. 2*2,1853. 4—!y
S B- CRArfON.
attorney at law,
Sandersvillc, Georgia.
Will also attend the Courts of Emanu
Laurens, and Jefferson, should business be ent
rtusted to his care, in either ol those countie-
feb.ll. 4-tf
01*35
“Savannah Stove Depot,”
COOKING STOVES of all sizes and
various patients, Grates Stoves and Heaters
for all purposes*Tin and Britannia Ware,
I’uinns and Pipes, Wooden Ware, Domes-
ic Hardware and Iloii**-kecpiug articles,
oo numerous to mention.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
JAMES SEEEIVAH?
No. 145 Broughton Street
Savannah, Ga.
Feb. 15, 1853. 3—ly
pany him to see this spirit to-morrow at
5 o’clock. It will, I think interest the pub
lic. Yours truly, Robert Owen. I enquir
ed of the spirit of Shelley, if the ghost in
Pond terrace is a spirit from the spirit
world, and he says that he is. 1 asked of
what family? The spirit of Shelley replied ;
‘Of the family of Ward. 1 I then anted,
Do you know what the spirit wishes?’
Yes; to make medium.” ‘In what way?’
Because we want to convince them that
spirits wish to communicate with their
earthly friends.’ ‘From what sphere ia this
spirit?’ ‘From the fourth sphere.’ All this
was obtained by the alphabet.—R. O.’ A
correspondent, writing to a ootemporary,
states the facts of the ease as follows: “In
the house No. 6 Poud terrace, there lived a
young man of the name of James Ward,
who i» subject to fits, which when he is at
tacked, bring on certain delusions, and
hence the report. This was the fi^st fit he
had had for the last four years. The only
constables who visited the room where the
man in question was lying, were Acting
Sergeant Wright, 39 B. and constable Rice
248 B. who state that they never saw any
thing but the unfortunate sufferer.” The
landlord of the house confirms this state
ment.
A drunken chap blundering through the
darkened hall of his boarding house, was ^ f
accosted by his landlady to know if he <*i g a y 5 ’Judge, I
would not have a caudle. I to k e; f or I don’
“Thunder! no,” said he, “it’s so cussed
dark out here, that I couldn’t see if I had Why are goo
a light!” ladies? They v
RABUN & WSITEHBAB.
Factors & Commission Merchant
Savannah, Ga.
W ILL give strict attention to the sale o
Cotton aud other produce consigned to
them. Orders for Bagging, Rope and other
Family Supplies, will be filled at the lowest
prices. Our long experience in business
induces them to hope for the continuance
of the liberal patronage extended to the late
firm of Rabun, Fulton & Co.
Maj. IVm. Hodges, of Sandersville, will act
as their.agent for Washington county,
juries' U 18.YB 16—7m
gSTThe following is one of the toasts
given at the celebration of the Fourth of
July, out West; “American Youth—May
their ambition reach as high as ther stan
ding collars.”
One day, as Judge Parsons was jogging
along on horseback, over a desolate road,
he came to a log house, dirty, smokey and
miserable. He stopped to contemplate lbe
evident poverty of the scene. A pooivialf
starved fellow, with uncombed hair and un
shaven beard, thrust his head through a
square, which served fora window,with—
2i ASLI'&Q&XG S.3S STITGTB’ fiery hair into the most killing curls, and ! to Ins trier
Coroer of St. Julian st. & Market Squar changei the out at-elbows coat for the of paper,” ‘
J I smart one he wore out of doors, and beau- my nephew
savannah Georgia. i t jg e( j himself as far as that was practicable, rest of my j:
F ZOGBAUM& CO., Importers and Deal-! Wel ] a message came otie day that the will make g
• ers in Musical Instrpients ot every de-; Q | j j a <j y was j]f verv j|| with an urgent re monstrated,
so “ e ^should go at once and ( ally compell
Co and J.B. Dunhani, New York, in every va- make her will. Ott went our -Adonis a» j op in his ]
licty of style and price. These Instruments j fast as a promise ot something liberal over | months, bov
are acknowledged, by the best musical judges j the fare could urge the cabniau. When : treaty, Edm
to be at least equal to any other manutfictur-; jj e arrived, the old lady was alive—just a- j to make ant
crs. Dealers supplied with every article in jj ve enoU gh to tell him that all her proper- j bequests, le.
the line at New York prices. ty was to be left to Eliza. She told him. the propert;
[geo.MITCHELL. ^ ^ HisBing whisper which supplied:aud pounds.
JOSS M4Z>I<E£7f
Draper and Tailor.
lerin Ready-Made Clothing and Gentle-
furnishing Goods. 155, Bay street,
Savannah, Ga.
22, 1853. 4 —‘y
IvTrilOLLIFIELfi
SUS.&EOJ DBNSIST.
Vi D H R S V I L L E, GEORGIA