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VOLUME II—NUMBER 7. f ht fgtguffic gonml IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY —A T— tpioivtsotst. g-a., —B Y— RONEY & SULLIVAN, RATES OF ADVERTISING. Trausient advertisements will be charged one dollar per square for the first insertion, and seventy five cents for each subsequent insertion. BUSINESS CARDS. T. M. H ARP, Wh desale and retai dealer in [&!ESIT H!§!S©§§s!li ©tlL<> LAMPS AND LAMP FIXTURES, Manufacturer and dt*ul» r in all kinds of TIN AN' SH ET IRO'l WARE! GUTTER NG, HOOFING, % * all kiuds of Job’ iug do. e promp /y and neatly. 6rr.6 1-SSA Broad St., Augusta, Ga. GLOBE HOTEL, S. W. CORNER BROAD & JACKSON STS., AUGUSTA, GIGRGIA. 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 oil a footing second to none in the South. No expense will be spared to render it a first class House in even respect, and every attention is paid to the comfort and convenience of guests. BLANK BOOKS. PRINTING, STATIONERY, &C E> IT. FUGUE, Book arid Job Printer, ©©©a ©rpiQE R mu mLtiu • liK-Uson Strool,) Allf'li'iT'l Psi NEAR THE TOST OFFICE, ) IlUtllJulll, Ull. BLANK BOOKS 1 In store, a very large assortment of all sizes and decryptions of Blank Books, such as Ledgers, Jour nals, Cash, Day, Heoord, Memorandum, Pass., 'lime, receipt nooks, 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. tfrAiso, Envelopes, Note pad Letter Paper, etc. Y»n24w2 Xj . A-, EA.G O G T-C . OO Grc;ii (Sti'oct, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Transient & Permanent Boarding. jan3l ly CHARLES S. DuBOSE, TTOILYEr.'T TL.'l W 9 Warrrnton, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of the Northern, Augusta & Middle Circuits. DR. T. L. LATLEBSTEDT OFFIdUS IIIS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES To the Citizens of Thomson and Vicinity, lie can be found at the Boom over Costello’s, when noi professionally absent. REFERS TO Tbo- J A. Eve, Pro. VVm. 11. Doughty, l)n John S. Coleman, Dr. S C. Eve. H. C. RONEY, Attorni) at C.ilu. THff.llSO r, «./. Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and j Middle Circuits, no J—ly R. B. PHILLIPS, (43, JACKS N STREET, NEAR NEW POST OFFICE,} AUGUSTA, 0 1. IMPORTERS & WHOLE SALS DEALERS IN Foreign and Domestic Liquors, Brandies, W nes G n, Rum, VVhi-kie%’ Bitters, Porter, \!e, Etc.. Etc. TobaccO and CigarS Os Every Variety. AS !53-7 S f© & 70 S Celebrated noni:stoqach bit ilks, May 3,1871. nlO ly SOUTHERN MASONIC FEMAL-J COLLEG-E ri"SHE Spring Term of this institution opens on the lath 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 $612 00 Without music - 00 A uniform and economical attire will be adopted by the middle of Spring term. Add; ess Rev. J. N. BRADSHAW, Covington, Ga. janlOwG Principal. M*. O- DOWB GROCER A INTO Commission Jit ml) ant, No, 284 Broad Street, GEORGIA. 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 Supplies, among which may be found the following : 50 hhds. D. 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 rye 100 bbls. Irish potatoes 100 packages new Mackerel—Nos. 1, 2 and 3 100 extra mess Mackerel 10 bbls. buckwheat 100 chests tea ail grades, 500 bbls. svvup—different grades 200 cases oysters—l and 2 lb. cans 200 cases ciinned 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 corn 25 hhds. Doinarara 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 coffeo 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 50 bbls. pure corn whisky 80 bbls. brandy, gin and rum 10 quarter .casks uftported Cognac brandy 8 quarter 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 FURNITURE OP ALL DKSCKI PTIO^S, \T— PLATT BitOTIIFKS, (Formerly C. A I’lalt & C 0.,) 1214 Broad Street, Augusta, (la. 1,000 Maple & Walnut Bedsteads, $5 io $10! We particularly call ihe attention of purchasers to our Solid W Inut Chamber Suit* for Beauty, /durability and Cheapness. Our Manufacturing Department is atil/ in opera tion. Special orders will he promptly attended to. R -pairs cone in all its branches. Upholstering Department. Hair Clo‘h, Enameled Cloth. Reps, Terry and Spring*,and al/ ..rticles Suit&b'efor manufacturers, wo offer at Low I’rtces. jau3l mG i l If You Wisli to get the Best and Most Reliable, you Must Buy B RES )r puKSEitner WHO FSAI.E «KII(J«ISTS 212 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. Jan. 17, 2m On Consignment. 30 Bbs- Choice Flour in Barrels (50 ' ‘ Flour in Sacks (assorted grades Weed Oats Prime White Corn All for Bale at close figures, For Cash. Cottosi Wanted. janl7tf JOHN E. BENTON. Jouvin’s Inodorous Kid Glove Clean er restores soiled gloves equal to new. For sale by and Fancy Goods Dealers. Price 25 cts. per bottle. F. C. Wells & Cos., N. Y. janlOinl Thomson, McDuffie county, ga., February 21,1872. i’ocfvn. Bear and Forbear. Be careful, ye, whose wedded hearts Are lovingly united , Bo heedful, lest an enemy Steal on you uninvited. A little, wily, serpent form, With graceful, luring poses— Or, coming in a diff’vent guise, A thorn among the roses! Be careful, ye, whose marriage bells Now merrily ai*e ringing ; Be heedful of the bitter word, The answer keen ar.d stinging— The sharp retort, the angry eye, Its vivid lightning flashing— The rock on which so many hopes Are daily, hourly dashing! “ Bear and forbear”—the only way To tread life’s paths together; Then come, and welcome, shining sun, Or come, dark cloudy weather ; Two wedded hearts, conjoined in one That cannot live asunder, Have put Love’s golden armor on—• Oh, world, look on and wonder ! Out. Out of tho darkness into the light, Out of the shadow into the sun, Never a day more fair and bright, Than this glad day that has just begun. Never a fairer sunlight smiled, Tinging the mountain tops with gold, Never a sweeter song beguiled, Than tho song to my waiting heart just told. |JMswUaucoM& >IY WIDOW. BY SHIRLEY BROWNE. Jones advises me not to marry her— he said she was too young and pretty. Farnuin adv’sed me to remain an old bachelor—told ine a man past forty simply made a fool of himself by mat rimony. Tewksbury—a man who is notorious for never minding bis own business — told me she had made a love affair with Harry Birmingham before he went South. Allen shook his head, and said Clara Myers might be very pretty, but he liked somebody maturer and more set tled. (N B.- He married his liqutie*,. keeper the next Week, and she is ma ture enough for Mathusaleh himself/) Every body thought I was trying a dangerous experiment, but I din’t pre tend to suit everybody—so I simply suit ed myself, I went quietly to church * with Clara Myers, and married her one glorious January morning, when tiie eaves of old St. Paul’s were fringed with glittering icicles, and the brisk wind was treiglited with particle of fly ing snow, like a biittalion of diamonds on tlie double-quick. She was nineteen and I was mne-and thirty. She was as beautiful as a rose bud, with a shy, pretty way, like a timid child, and lam a rough old cod ger, sound enough at heart, but like a winter apple, unpromising on the ex terior. In short, we were as unlike as May and November, and the good natured world shook its head, and said, ‘no good could come of such an unequal match.’ But she said she loved me, arid I believed her. Nobody could look into Clara’s blue eyes and not believe her, you see. And the next day I made a will, and bequeathed all my property, uncondi tionally, to my wife. ‘Are you sure you are doing a wise thing, Mr. Folliott ?’ said Marilyn, the lawyer,pushing his blu>- spectac'es up on his forehead, until he looked like a bald old gnome, with a double pair of eyes, ‘You see, she is very much younger than yourself, and—’ ‘Please to be so kind as to mind your own business,’ said I, brusquely.— ‘Don’t be offended, Marvyrr, but really people seem to suppose I am riot able to attend to my own affairs.’ ‘Just as you please,’ said Marilyn, in a luge. ‘I am a mere tool in your hands.’ ‘That’s it, exactly,' said I. So I signed the will and went home to Clara.’ ‘Oh, Paul, you must not die/’ said Clara, with a sacred look, when I told what I had done. ‘Nobody ever loved me as truly and generously as you have done, and I don’t know what I should do if you were taken away !’ ‘There was a young Birmingham, if all reports were true —’ I mischievous ly began, but the curl on Clara’s lip stopped me. ‘A mere butterfly,’ she said haughtily, ‘without either brains or principle.— Paul, Paul, I have found a shelter in your true loving heart, and I mean to nestle there a ways /’ And then she cried—this foolish softhearted little wife of mine. [ Jones and Tewksbury might have called this policy. Farnuin would have said it was acting. But it was very pleasant, and I felt more than ever like a man who has found some .precious jewel, and wears it, like an amulet, on his Lreast. So things went on untill the firm of which I was managing partner, needed to send someone to Calcutta to see af ter a turbaned scoundrel of an agent, who had absconded with more money than we could well afford to lose.— Morrison was old and feeble—llevvit’s wife lay very ill, so I was the one to go I kissed Clara good-bye as cheerfully as I cot.' ,— — \ expecting to be back in three mouths or so. But—you know the French adage—‘Themme, propose, ot Dieu dispose !’ I had to follow the agent up into the mountains of India— 1 fell ill of one of those burning climate fevers in the bungalow of an old native priest, and months flew by, until it was more than a year before I found myself on the deck of tho ‘Blue-eyed Mary,’ steaming into New Yoik harbor! And, all this time, Clara had never heard a word from me ! I hud written to her, to prepare her for whatseemed almost like my rising from the dead, but I had afterwards found my letters in the pocket of the neglectful native servant who had un dertaken to deliver the mails to the Calcutta office. ‘But it don’t matter so much, now !’ I thought, she will be the mere delight ed, poor little girl. And then a eoid chill seemed to creep through all my veins, like aNovember’s wind suddenly breathing across a bed of flow. rs. Clara had hoard nothing of me for nearly fifteen months—what might not have happened in that time? All that Tewksbury, and Jones, and Allen, and all the other prophetic ravens of my acquaintance had said, recurred to my mind, like the burden of an uneasy dream. I had been counting the days, the hours, the very minutes until we should touch port; hut now that my feet, run r once more upon the pavement r>ohily**iaivxi not go home. T turned into a down-town restauiant, where I had been wont to go, in the days of my bachelorhood, and slunk in that dark corner; the twilight was just falling, and I was sheltered by the partition. Hush/—that was Tewksbury’s voice, harsh and jarring as of old. ‘Just what migth have been expec ted, said Tewksbury. ‘Pretty and young widows don’t go begging in this market /' ‘Fol.iott might have known it,’ growled old Farnuin. ‘Poor Folliott,! there was some good points about h ; m» too! Sad thing, that ! very sad thing ! ‘We must ail die,’ said Tewksbury gravely. ‘Yes, but a fellow would naturally prefer dying in his bed to being carried off by an East Indian fever and buried in the jungles!’ I shuddered. Had I then come borne to my own funeral as it were ‘l ‘And she’s going to marry young Bir mingham, after all !’ added Farnuin. The paper dropped from my hand. ‘I could have told Folliott so, when I found out what a confounded idiotic will he had made,’ said Tweksbury. ‘So gold has fallen again. Just my luck ; I sold out to night!’ I stayed to hear no more, but stag gered out in the darkness with one idea whirling thro’ inv dizzy brain—my Clara was mine no longer ! It was quaslionable what Tewksbury had said. I might have anticipated some such end. She was too young, too lovely for such a rough old fellow as I was. Sty widow—what a curious sensation the Words gave me as I men tally pronounced them. Under my own windows, with the rubv-red light shining through wine colored damask curtains, I stood there feeling as Rip Van Winkle might have felt in the play—like a dead man walk ing on the earth once more. Voices and lights were within. I opened door softly, and crept into the hall. The drawing room was ajar. Clara, herself, stood before the fire, in deep black robes, with a frill of white crape on her auburn gold tresses—the awful sign and symbol of her widowhood.— Directly opposite, stood Harry Bir -1 mingham, looking diabolically young : and handsome in the soft, gas light. ‘Clara, Clara /’ he cried,‘you surely are not in earnest. You will reconsider!’ ‘My answer is final!’ she responded. ‘The time might once have been when I fancied I had a childish liking for you. Harry Birmingham—but that time has long since passed away. I gave my heart to the noblest man that ever breathed—Paul Folliott—and in his grave it is forever buried. I loved him once; I shall love him on into eternity/ 1 never was half worthy of him but—’ And Clara’s voice was choked with sob;-. ‘My love—my darling—my own precious wife P How I ever got into the room—how I managed to make Clara comprehend that I was my own living sell, and not a ghost arisen from the shadow of the sepulchre, I cannot tell to this day— neither can she! —butl know thatyoung Birmingham somehow disappeared, and I \va3 standing with Clara clasped to my breast, the happiest man that ever bresthed God’s blessed air. • For Jones, Tewksbury, Farnhsm & Cos., were all wrong—and to use the words of the orthodox fairy stories, slightly paraphrased, ] and my widow ‘lived happily ever afterwards !’ A Nabob’s Vi--.it to New York. BY SI AIIK TWAIN. [As to!u by himself in his new book entitled ‘Roughing It,’ now in pre33. It is a sample of the good things con tained therein.] In Nevada there used to be current the story of the adventure of two of her nabobs, which mayor may not have oc curred. I give it for what it is worth: Colonel Jim had seen son: what of the world, and know more or less of its ways; but Colonel Jack was from the back settlements of the States, had led a life of arduous toil, and had never seen r. city. These two, blessed with sudden wealth projected a visit to New York— Colonel Jack to see the sights, and Colonel Jim to guard his unsophistica tion from misfortune. They reached San Francisco in the night and sailed in in the morning. Arrived in New Yoik Colonel Jack said : Wye heard tell of Carriages all my life, and now I mean to have a ride in one; I don't care what it costs. Come along. They stepped on the sidewalk and Colonel Jim called for a sylcish ba rouche. But Colonel lack said : ‘No, sir! none of your Cheap John turnouts for nie, I’m here to have a good time, and money ain’t any object. I mean to the nobbiest rig that’s going. Now here co lies the very trick. Stop that yaller one with the pictures on it---doi)’t fret—lll stand all the expense myself.’ So C ionel Jim stopped an empty om nibus and they got in. Said Colonel Jack: ‘Ain’t it gay though? Oh; no, 1 reckon not. Cushions, windows and pictures till you can’t rest. What would the boys say if they could see us cutting a swell like this in New York? By George I wish they could see us.’ Then he put his head out of the win dow, and shouted to the driver : ‘Say. Johnny, this suits me—suits yours truly, you bet! I want this she bang all day. I’m on it, old man. Let ’em out. Make ’em go ! We’ll make it all right to you, sonny.’ The driver passed his hand through the strap-hole and tapped for his fare— it was before the gongs caine into com mon use. Colonel Jack took tho hand and shook it cordially. He said : ‘You twig me, old pard! All right between gents. Smell of that, and see how you like it.’ And he put a twenty dollar gold piece in the driver’s hand. After a moment the driver sai I lie could not make change. ‘Bother the change ! Ride it out.— Put it in your pocket.’ Then to Colonel Jim, with a siund ing slap on the thigh : ‘Ain’t it style, though ? Hi nged if I don’t hire this thing every day for a week.’ The omnibus stopped, and a young lady got in, Colonel Jack started for a moment, then nudged Colonel Jim with his elbow. ‘Don’t say . a word,’ lie whispered. Let her ride, if she wants to. There’s room enough.’ The young lady got out her porte moiiie, and handed her fare to Colonel Jack. •What’s this for ?’ he said. ‘Give it to the driver, please. ‘Take back your money, ma fam. We can’t allow it. You are wt Icome to ride here as long as you please, but the shebang is chartered ; we shan’t let you pay a cent.’ The girl shrank into a corner bewil- TERMS-TWO DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE. dered. An old lady with a basket got in, and proffered her fare. ‘Excuse me,’ said Col. Jack. ‘You are perfectly welcome here. Madam, but we can’t allow you to pay. Sit right down there, mum, and don’t you feel the least uneasy. Make yourself as free as if you were in your own turn out.’ Within two minutes three gentlemen, two fat women and a couple of children entered. ‘Come right along, friends,’said Col. Jack; ‘don’t mind us. This is a free blow-out.’ Then he whispered to Col. Jirt), ‘New York ain’t no sociable place. I don’t reckon it ain’t no name for it.’ lie resisted every effort to pass fares to the driver. He made everybody cordially welcome. The situation had dawned on the people, and they pock eted their money, and delivered them selves up to covert enjoyment of the episode. Half a dozen more passengers entered ‘Oh, there is plenty of room,’ said Colonel Jack. ‘ Walk right in, and make yourselves at home. A blow-out ain’t worth anything as a blow-out un less a body ha3 company.’ Then in a whisper to Colonel Jim, ‘But ain’t these New Vorker3 friendly • And ain’t they cool about it, too? Icebergs ain’t any where. I reckon they’d tackle a hearse, if it was going their way.’ More passengers got in; more yet, and still more. Both seats were filled, and a file of men were standing up, holding to the cleats overheard. Par ties with baskets and bundles were climbing up on the roof. Half-sup pressed laughter rippled up from all sid ‘6. ‘Well, for clean, cool, out-and-out cheek, if this don’t bang out every thing I ever ssyv, I am an Ingun,’ whis pered Colonel Jack. A Chinaman crowded in his way. ‘I weaken,’ said Colonel Jac/r. ‘Hold on, driver. Keep your seat3, ladies and gents. Just make yurselvesfree—eve rything is paid for. Driver, rustle these folks around as long as they have amiind to go—friends of ours, you know. Take them every where, and if you want more money come to the St. Nicholas, and we will make it all right. Pleasant journey to you, ladies and gents ; go it just as long as you please —it chant cost you a cent! The two comrades got out, and Col onel Jack, said ; ‘Jimmy, it’s the sociablest place I ever saw. The Chineman waltzed in as comfortable as anybody. If we’d staid a while I reckon we’d had some niggers. By George, we’ll have to barricade our door to night, or some of these ducks will be trying to sleep with us. Another Stupendous Undical llobbery. The New York Sun publishes a state ment from a responsible source setting forth the startling fact that there is a deficit of several million dollars in the accounts of the Stamp Department of the Internal Uevenue Bureau. In other words, the stamps have been issued and sold, but the money to the amount ol the missing millions has not been re turned to the Treasury. This state ment, says the Sun, is fortified by a considerable amount of evidence, and we are assured that there is much more no? yet produced. It is alleged that the facts have been for some time known to various prominent persons who have labored steadily and hitherto successfully to keep them hidden. It seems that there is no limit to the fraud and corruption, the plundering and robberry in every department of the Government. Every day biinga forth its new developments of crime until the people have become so accus tomed to disclosures of official villainy that they cease to wonder at the perpe tration of the most stupendous frauds. An intoxicated man saw two cars passing him the other evening, with red and blue lights in the front and rear. His fuddled brain comprehended colored lights, and he was heard to say to himself: ‘Must be pretty sick— sickly here ; they’re runingdrug stores round on wheels.’ The greatest mau living may stand in need of the meanest, as much as the meanest does of him. He that will be angry for anything, will be angry for nothing. A knowledge of our weakness creates in us charity for others. An honest man is always believed without an oath.