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VOLUME II—NUMBER 5. Sltf HJcJcffie gontnal, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY —A T— THOMSON. GS-A.., —B Y— RONEY & SULLIVAN, HATES OF ADVERTISING . Transient advertisements will be charged one dollar per square for the first insertion, and seventy five cents for each subsequent insertion. BUSINESS GARBS. PRMH i TRIISIENT BARDISG. Mrs. Lallerstedt, HAVING located in Thom son, and taken the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Giles, is pre pared to accommodate pennanent or transient boarders on the most reasonable terms. She will have a conveyance at the depot, to take baggage to and from the railroad on the arrival of every passenger train. Day boarders accommoda ted. janlTml GLOBE HOTEL, S. W. CORNER BROAD A JACKSON STS., AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. JACKSON & JULIAN, Proprit’rs- We beg leave to call the attention of the travel ling public to this well known Hotel, which we have recently leased and placed on a footing second to none in the South. No expense will be spared to render it a first class House in every respect, and every attention is paid to the comfort and convenience of guests. x.. a. PEACOCK, IMS Gronn Street, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Transient & Permanent Boarding. jai.3l ly Dr. Willoughby Barton HHVING moved to Thomson, respectfully offers his Professional Services to the citizens of the place and surrounding country. He may be found at all hours, when not profes sionally engaged, at the residence of the late Mr lvi;ox. janlTml NOTICE. vAtaVING recently located in tof Thorn* .1. 1. Bon, McDuffie county, Ga., C offer inv pro fessional scrWees to the people of McDuffie and adjoining counties. Can he found at my residence at all times in the night, and at my office in the daytime, when not professionally engaged. All calls promptly attended to, day or night.— Charges reasonable. It. C. JOHNSON, M. D. janlOinl CHARLES S. DuBOSE, si Trail rm v/ tl ?i va Warroiiton, Ga. Will practice in all the Coui-s of the Northern, Augusta k Middle Circuits. DR. T. L UUKRSTKDT OFFKI'JS 111:S PROFESSIONAL SERVICES To the Citizens of Thomson and Vicinity, lift can he found at the Room over Costello’s, when Lot professionally absent. P.EFEBS TO Pro- J A. Eve, Pro. Wm. 11. Doughty, Di« JuHS S. Coi.EMAN, I>R. S C. Evb. 11. c. RONEY, gUturmir at lito, THOJiSO r, Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits. no I—ly R. B. PHILLIPS, (43, JACKS. N STREET, NEAR NEW TOST OFFICE,) AUGUSTA. 0 4. IMPORTERS & WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Foreign and Romcstic Liquor*, Brandies, Wines Gn, Rum, Whiskie**' Bitters, Porter, Ale, Etc., Etc. TobaccO and CigarS Os Every Variety. A® SSUIT a If H 1 Celebrated noUESTOMACH BITTERS. May 3,1871. nlOly SOUTHERN MASONIC X , E'M'jA.XjT3 college THE Spring Term of this institution opens on the 15th instant. Having been fully endorsed by the Grand Lodge at the last communication, and the whole operation of the college being put upon an enlarged scale, let those interested send for circulars. Price of board reduced to $16.00 per month. Washing included $lB 00 Entire cost for collegiate year, embracing music and incidentals $312 00 Without music 252 00 A uniform and economical attire will be adopted bv the middle of Spring term. Address Rev. J. N. BRADSHAW’, Covington, Ga. janlOwfi Principal. FOUND. AS ALL sum of money. The owner can have the same by naming the amount and Having charges. Apply to HanlOwl JAMES H. BURCH. BLANK BOOKS- PRINTING, STATIONERY, &C E> If. PI GHE, Book and Job Printer, IB3DS ©3332)1 E im tMlilßo I •Taekson Street,) ftUPIIQTS PJ NEAR THE POST OFFICE, > lIUU UU 111, llfli. BLANK BOOKI3 I In store, a very large assortment of all sizes and decriptions of Blank Books, such as Ledgers, Jour nals, Cash, Day. Record, Memorandum, Pass, Time, receipt Books, etc., suitable for Merchants, County Clerks, and other public officers ; and can furnish at short notice, any kind of Books, ruled and bound to patterns that may be desired, at New York prices. *&TAlso, Envelopes, Note and Letter Paper, etc. jan24w2 Manhood; How I.OMt, How Restored. JI'ST published, anew edition of Dr Culver v oil’s Celebrated Essay on the radical cure of certain weaknesses, the effect of errors and abuses in earlv life. The celebra'ed author, in this admirable essay, clearly demonstrate* from a thirty years’ sue cess fill practice, that the alarming consequences of such er rors and abuses niav be radically cured without the dangerous us** of internal medicine or the app/ica tion of the knife; pointing out a mode of cur'at once simp/e. certain mid effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may he, may cure himself cheaply, privately and radically. This lecture should be in the hands of eveiy youth and every man in the land. Sent, under seal, in plain envelope, to any ad dress, postpaid, on receipt of six cents, or two post Maui us. Also, Dr. Coulverwell'B Marriage Guide, price 25 cents. Address the publishers. <7#AS. J C. KUNE k CO., 127 Bowery. New Yoik, Post Office Box 4,580. Jan24yl M. O’DOWD GROCER ajstid Commission JHcnl)ant, No, 284 Broad Street, •Augusta, g EORGI.I. HAS on hand and for sale, at the lowest market prices, for cash or good factor’s acceptances, payable next Fall, a full scock of Choice Groceries & Plantation Suppiios, among which may be found the following : 50 hhds. I). R. bacon sides 10,000 lbs D. S. shoulders 10 casks hams 100 packages lard 200 boxes cheese 300 bbls flour, all grades, 300 sacks oats 40 “ seed ryo 100 bbls. Irish potatoes 100 packages new Mackerel- Nos. 1, 2 and 3 100 “ extra mess Mackerel 10 bbls. buckwheat 100 chests tea all grades, 500 bbls. syrup—different grades 200 cases oysters 1 and 2 lb. cans 200 cases canned fruits and vegetables 300 cases pickles, all sizes, 50 “ lobsters, 1 and 2 lb. cans 200 gross matches 200 boxes candles 50,000 Charles Dickens segars 50,000 Georgia Chiefs “ 50,000 our choice “ 200,000 various grades “ 5,000 bushels coni 25 hhds. Demarara sugar 35 hhds. brown sugar 10 hhds. Scotch sugar 25 boxes Havana sugar 50 bbls. crushed, powdered and granulated sugar 200 bbls. extra C and A sugar 200 bags Rio coffee 50 “ Laguayra coffee 50 pockets old Government Java coffee 100 boxes No. 1 soap 200 boxes pale “ 150 boxes starch 100 boxes soda 100 dozen buckets 50 dozen brooms 10 bbls. pure Baker whisky 50 bbls. Old Valley whisky 200 bbls. rye whisky, all grades 5(1 bbls. pure corn whisky 30 bbls. brandy, gin and rum 10 quarter casks imported Cognac brandy 8 quartej casks Scotch and Irish whisky 20 quarter casks Sherry, Port and Madeira wine 20 casks ale and porter 10 casks Cooper’s half and half 50 cases Champagne 40 cases claret 50 cases Schnapps 100 cases bitters 200 boxes tobacco, all grades 100 cases smoking tobacco, all grades. jan3lyl Notice to the Public. [ REGRET tha: circumstance* make it neenssary I :or m* to give notice again that I am engaged in the practice of my profession. Some person or persons have reported that I do not atien 1 calls at night or in bad we»th»*r. Ido not know how itr* reportat t»-d, hut this much 110 hi»w, that it did no; come from me. As long as lam able io p»ac t;re. ii is my inten ion to aerv* the people faithfully, and when unab * to do this, I wiU give notice to the public. Please notice, and jot rn yourselves ac» cording/y. JAM/2S S. JONES. Thomson, jan24w4 Thomson, McDuffie county, ga., February 7,1872. foefog. Mrs. Waslitub on Telegrams. j All, drat them nasty telegrams that keeps folks all in such a flurry. Whenever there’s the least to do, with constant worry, worry, worry! I recollect in my young days when there were no I sich expectation, And news to travel took its time, suspense was bore with resignation. AVhat was to be, we used to say, would be, and couJJn’t be prewented, Which ewas consolin’ for to think, and made one happy and contented. What would be we should live to see. if we lived long enough, ’twas certain, And p’raps it might a mercy be the future was be hind the curtain. Misfortunes came, as come they must, in this here wale of trial and sorrow. But then, if bad news came to day, no news was like to come to-morrow. No news was goods news, people said, and hoped r lean while they might lie better, Leastways until the next day’s post brought ’em a paper or a letter. ’Tis true, relief as soon may come sometimes by artificial light’nine’; When days and weeks of dark ami stom you’ve undergone afore the bright’nine’; All’s well us ends well, thanks be praised, the croakers found themselves mistaken— But by them plaguy telegrams how my poor old narves have bin shaken! fpscellmimisu War* Reminiscences. A lady’s CASKET OF JEWEDB, AND HOW THEY WEBE RECOVERED—"A VERY SINGULAR NARRATIVE. 1)Y I*AUL 11. IIAY.NE. f The following curious adventure roadies us from unexceptionable au thority. The Butler’s language has been altered, for bis half cockney pa tois proved embarrassing; but every es sential incident remains as be detailed it. The narrator himse'f was an extra ordinary man, as the stratagem we are about to relate would, per sc, be enough to demonstrate.] In my mistress’ handsome house (he begins), on the banks of the Erlisto, in South Carolina, I hod lived as a fa vorite upper servant—her butler, in luot- for twenty years. My mistress was an Englishwoman, marrit and early in life to a Carolina rice planter, whose handsome fortune she quadrupled, but with whom Providence permitted her to live for three years only, he dying, rather suddenly, of malarial fever. My lady was prejudiced in favor ol white attendants—immediately about her person, at least, which is one reason why she. retained me so long and trust ed me so thoroughly. I need hardly say how deeply attach ed I became to her, and how anxiously I waited f r some opportunity of prov ing my devotion in away out of the common. But the chance came at last. About the end of the second yearol the w ar, a party of as rough looking Federals as you would like to see, paid our house a visit. There were ten or twelve in all; and made themselves at home, of course. Alter eating the best food and drinking the best wine—and amusing themselves now and then by knocking over the furniture, breaking the cups, and shooting at the family portraits, the captain of the squad made a strict search for silver, in plate or bullion, but there I had been too cun ning for him, and ho got not a five cent piece for his trouble. This soured his temper, and he had the insolence to sneak alter my mistress to her own chamber, to drag the rings from her fingers, the watch from her fob. and worse than all, to seize upon her jewels, which, with unaccountable carelessness, she had left exposed upon tier dressing table. These jewels were of immense value, borne of them had come down through her family for more than two centuries. She was in des pair at their loss, and when the ruffians went away, sent for me to consult about the matter. At firsc the case seemid really hope less, but as I thought and thought, an idea flashed upon my mind. In earlit r years I had been an actor in 1 jw comedy at a London theatre—a clever one, people said —and I now con ceived the project of a careful disguisq following 1 lie Yankees, introducing my self to them (by accident, of course,) as a sailor from thegun oatnat Port Royal, and watching my opportunity on the road, or when they rested at night, to get the captain alone, and recover the jewel case somehow. My mistress objected to the whole scheme, as rash and desperate ; but I carried my point, and proceeded to test the experiment in detail. There was a sailor’s dress in the house which had once belonged to a Yankee cockswain, a man distantly related to my lady’s husband, the dress having been left with us by niistake, and the garment itself suggesting she plan. I have mentioned that I disguised myself thoroughly in a false heard and moustache that had been knocking around the garret, with some odds and ends of costume, em ployed in a fancy ball years before; and knowing the direction taken by the thieves, I rode briskly after them, A low grog shop or tavern, ten miles off, and near the coast, would, I felt certain, be their stopping place for the night. Nor Was I deceived Cautiously approaching the tavern, I saw the Fed erals unsaddling their horses, and mak ing other preparations for rest. bo I rode swiltly but quietly back for a quarter of a mile, entered the woods at a point I knew, and secured my horse, where he could neither be seen nor heard. Then I walked back towards the enemy, arranging every item of the little drama I vvus about to inaugurate, beforehand. My role was to be that of a drunken tar, who had berfn left by his comrades accidentally on the river shore near by, and who had lost his way and his wits together. Under cover of my assumed character, with the help of two bottles of cognac and my capital disguise, I by no means despaired of accomplishing my purpose. Reaching (lie tavern, I staggered noi sily in. ‘Bully for the old flag !’ says I, ‘who wants a drink V Now, the ma jority of die squad were rather far gone in liquor already, and my invitation acted like fire to tow. A few words of maudlin explanation, with the pro iuc tion of the brandy put me on a friendly footing with the fellows at once. The captain, however, to my intense disgust, sat apart, and could nut be in duced to take a drop. B’or hours we kept up the carouse, until one by one the men straggled off to sleep. The captain lodged in an inner room, and as he it was who kept the jewels, I puz zled my brain for some expedient to come at him. Suddenly, as in ti e first instance, a device presented itself.— When all the a* hers*were snoriug loudly I tapped at the captain’s door. He must have been wakeful, for immedi ately he started up, and asked : ‘Who is there ?' ‘Hush, hush,’said I, in a mysterious voice; ‘l'm not so drunA us you thought me, and I have come to give you warn ing. L*t tne see you a moment; your life depends on it!’ This roused him. He came to tiie door, and opened it just wide enough to let me whisper in his ear : ‘Those fellows of yours are d——d scamps ! they have found out somehow that you took a lot of jewels from some place or another; and I overheard them discussing the propriety of knocking you on the head at tha first fair chance. You had better get out and vamose! — I’m good natured myself, and I’ll help you to give th»*m the slip. The devil burn me if I don’t hate a sneak !’ He hesitated, but a trifling event turned the scale in my favor. Just then one of the Yankees turning in sleep, happened to mutter, ‘d—n him ! shoot him, shoot him!’—a mere coin cidence, of course, but the captain asso ciating it with what I had said, and swearing he believed ‘the dogs did want to murder him,’ threw on his coat, seiz ed his holsters and sabre, and rushed out of the house with me. When we reached the stable, I had to help bridle his horse, for actually the rascal’s hands shook so, he couldn’t place the bit be tween the animal’s teeth. What with bodily terror and cupidity, tie seemed completely unnerved. ‘Pshaw!’ I remarked in a cheery tone, ‘it’s all right now; lend me lead your horse out und r the trees, and then you can mount and be off.’ I hardly can tell how it was, but for a single moment he suspected me. I observed his face, pale before, grow paler, and he made a slight motion for his pistols. Now, though I say it, who shouldn't say it, I am a cool hand, and always was.’ ‘Don’t be a fool,’ I whispered quietly, ‘and ruin yourself when the game is nearly won. Give me ten dollars for my trouble in saving your throat, and it will be all right, captain.’ This reassured him wonderfully. We were now in the shade, and he began to fumble in his pockets for the money.— As his head was turned a little aside, I threw the horse's rein over a bush, clasp ed him round the neck, tripped up his heels, and had him prettily gagged in less time than it takes to tell you. In the breast of his frock coat I felt the jewel box, which was speedily in my possession. I mounted his horse, and TERMS—TWO DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE, made my way to a ferry lower down the road. Then I jumped off, and whip ping the animal soundly, soon had the pleasure of seeing him tallop towards the coast. Two hours more, and by a rounda bout way, 1 had come to a spot iri the woods where my own horse was hitch ed. We mjide such excellent time that not long after sunrise I enjoyed the sat isfaction of replacing her jewels in the ownpi’s hands. Os the Yankees, ami their Captain, I never heard afterwards. Puraeouted Mexico. Unfortunate iMexico has ever been the sport of the Furies. Her republic was born under a fatal star. Always the scene of usurpation and political and civil disorder, she is now a specta cle cl war, rebellion, insurrection, re volt, conspiracy, rapine and devastation, that seeks in vain for u parallel in history. Benito Juarez, the old Indian Presi dent, is ill sustaining himself, and ac cording to present advices, promises to soon become the prisoner, if not the victim of the Revolutionists. The suc cess reported to have been achieved by him some time since over the ir.sifrgent Diaz, of Oaxica, proves to have been totally misrepresented. He only de feated a small rear guard, commanded by Felix Diaz, cousin of the Insurgent General, who was left behind with a detachment to cover the retreat of the main army of the Revolution. Minor armies of the insurgents are concentrating their forces at Saltillo, a city in the State of Cobuila, bordering on the Rio Grande. The city of Mexi co is excited by the report that a body of the cavalry of Diaz is in the vicinity. The Government forces have been de feated in several minor engagements. The Northern front er is entirely in the possession ol the Revolutionists. Daily, prominent Generals, Governers, and States, are withdrawing their allegience from the Government, and several in stances of revolt and desertion have occurred. If old Juarez can surmount tiiese dif ficulties, he is, indeed, worthy of the cause. His government is in imh.iuent danger, and as the ilemoumt.nl approach es Lereda, another candidate for the Presidency, appears ; thus creating an other source of dissatisfaction. In the event of the defeat of Juarez, another war far more desolating between the adherents of Diaz and Lereda, the two prominent candidates for the Presiden cy, will devastate and demoralize the country. The only remedy for Mexico is intervention, and even that is a des perate resort. lsusiuoss Laws It is not legally necessary to say on a note—for value received. A note on Sunday is void. A note obtained by fraud, or from a person in a state of intoxication cannot be collected. If a note is lost or stolen, it does not release the maker, he must pay it if the consideration for which it was given and the amount can be proven. An endorser of a note is not exempt from liability if not served with notice of dishonor within twenty-four hours of its non payment. A note by a minor is void. Notes bear interest from date only when so stated. Principals are r* sponsible for theacts of their agents. Each individual in a partnership is responsible for the whole amount of the debts of the firm. Ignorance of the law excuses no one. It is fraud to conceal fraud. The law cornpells no one to do im possibilities. An agreement whitliout considera tion is void. Signatures made with a lead pencil are good in law. A receipt for money paid is not le gally conclusive. The act of one partner binds all the others. Contracts made on Sunday cannot be enforced, A contract with a minor is void. A contract made with a lunatic is void. 22,156 barrels of sperm oil, 15,141 batrels of whale oil, and 387,199 pounds of bone were imported into the United States in 1871. It requires 65,000 cobcineal insects to make one pound in weight. The United States imported last year 1,549,- 842 pounds. Tl»o Arlington Kstnte— tion of Mrs. Le«>. In the House of Representatives on Monday, Mr. Lewis, of Virginia, presen ted a petition from the widow of Gen eral Robert E. Lee, setting forth that the Arlington estate was bequeathed to her by her father, George W. P- Curtis, in 18-57, and occupied by herself and family until the commencement of the lute civil war; that it was sold for non payment of a direct tax of $92 70, and by i rder of President Lincoln bid in by the United States for $26,800, no por tion of v hich sum has ever been paid to the owner of said property. The peti tioner argues that the above named pro ceedings were insufficient to pass a legal or valid title to the United States, be cause the act of Congress under which said sale was made is unconstitutional ; the Constitution authorizing Congress to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over such places only ns are purchased by the consent of the State in which they are situated, for the purpose alone of erecting forts and other needful buildings. It is further argued that the General Government has never attempted to ex exercise any exclusive legislation, or to call in question the jurisdiction of Vir ginia over that portion of the county of Alexandria ; and also that the sale of the whole eleven hundred acres to pay a tax of S9O, while the tract was clearly divisible and a sale of a portion amply sufficient to pay the tax upon it, was un constitutional. It is also asserted that the amonnt of this tax was duly tender ed to the Tax Commissioner before the said sale. In view of these circumstan ces the petitioner asks Congress to ap propriate $300,000 to purchase the es tate from her, whereupon she will give the Government a clear title. Commenting on Mrs. Lee’s appeal to Congress, the Baltimore Sun remarks : It is difficult to see how the petition can be refused, unless law and justice are to be alike disregarded because the petition er is the widow of Gen. Lee. Even if Arlington had belonged to Gen. Lee, in stead of being his wife’s inheritance, Congress ought to be ashamed to por petuate now an act of spoliation inci dent to and jerhaps excusable by the necesities of war, which has no sem blance of legal or constitutional war rant in time of peace, to say nothing of good morals and equity. But it is the Curds estate, descended to a lady of that family, in which Gen. Lee had no furth er interest than by marriage. We cannot but assume such sense of justice in Con gress, and sensibility to appreciate the attachment of a child to the home of her father, as will lead to the giving of some sort of equivalent to Mrs. Lee for her property. Congress can now aflord to be magnanimous, and can acquire a rep utation for that quality by being just. The holding of property by a mere tax title, giving the owner no opportunity to redeem it, is not considered proper, among individuals, and it is not general ly allowed. How much more improper then, is it in a great government to do such a thing ! Had the property been Gen. Lee’s in his own right, and confis cated on account of participation in re bellion, it would have reverted, under the law, to his heirs at his death. Let the widow, then, have her own or its equivalent.’ The world uses 250,000,000 pounds tea each year, and 713,000,000 pounds of coffee. China furnishes nearly all the tea, and Brazil over one half of the coffee. On 'y 140,000 pounds of Java, and 18,000 pounds of Mocha are pro diced, The United States consumes nearly one-third of all the coffee pro duced in the world, and the English people are the greatest tea drinkers out of China. The Germans take rank next to the Americans as coffee drinkers.- The Americans consume about six lbs. of coffee and 112 pounds of beef per head, counting adults and infants, each year. This looks large, but the yan&ee nation never does anything by halves. The Louisville Gazette of the 27th ult., says that the pork packing season is drawing to a close, with an improved feeling among dealers, owing to the light supplies during the week from Chicago and Cincinnati, several packing houses having closed operations. The comparative packing at those points up to the 2Sth ult., is 648,252 hogs this year at Cincinnati, 448,312 last year ; at Chiccgo, 910,152 this year, against 689,236 last year. At nearly all the minor points the packers have packed all they wanted, and have closed. He who has no opinion of his own, but depends on thatof others, is a slave.