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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME n— NUMBER 8. Ihe journal, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY —A T— THOMSO-N-. G A_, —B Y— RONEY & SULLIVAN, RATES OF ADVERTISING , Transient advertisements will be charged one dollar per square for the first insertion, and seventy five cents for each subsequent insertion. BUSINESS CARDS. 3". 3VE. HAUP, Wh >lesale ami retai’ dealer in ©337 K318D31533 ©3© D LAMPS AND LAMP FIXTURES, 4 Manufactu-* r and dul r in all kinds of TIN AN SH ET IRON WARE j GIT If K R NG, HOOFING, -dnd nil kinds of Job’ iog done promp'/y and neatly. 6 ni(? 15SJ Broad St., Augusta, Ga. GLOBE HOTEIT, S. W. COIINEH BROAD & 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, whicli we have recently leased and placed on a footing ttpeond to none in the South. No expense will In* I spared to render it a first class House in every | respect, and every attention is paid to the comfort and convenience of guests. BLANK BOOKS. PRINTING, STATIONERY, &C ; E 11. PtFGfHE* Book arid Job Printer, ®®®K ®3'i!l®3R IBDISB* MSISTA, 61 Ml BLANK BOOKS 1 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. <arAlso, Envelopes, Note and Letter Paper, etc. Jan24w2 v . A., 3? B -A. OO O TZ. , !><» Greon Street, AUGUSIA, GEORGIA. Transient & Permanent Boarding. jau3l ly CHARLES S. DuBOSE, tfTTOJtXEr.'ZTLa W, Warronton, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of the Nortliern, Augusta & Middle Circuits. BH. T. l. IAIABHSTEDT OFFMRS HIS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES To the Citizens of Thomson and Vicinity. He ran be found at the Room over Costello’s, when cot professionally absent. REFERS to Pro- J A. Eve, Pro. VVm. 11. Doughty. Dr John S. Coleman, L>r. S C. Eve. h, o. RONEY, Attorn \) nt Jfato, THO.nso r, f..i. Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits. .no l-ly R. B. PHILLIPS, (43, JACKS* N STREET, NEAR NEW POST OFFICE,) AUGUSTA, 04. IMPORTERS & WHOLESALE OEALERS IN Foreign and Domestic Liquors, Brandies, W nes 0 n, Hum, Whi-kit*', Bitters. Porter, vie, Etc., Etc. TobaccO and CigarS OfEvery Variety. &®3!H73 ?©IB 7113 G'elebrfited ISO Ui: STOtl A CIS BITTER S. May 3, 1871. nlO ly SOUTHERN MASONIC FEMAL-J COLL SC3-E Spring Term of this institution opens on the I.lth 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 Sir,.oo per month. Washing included $lB 00 Entire cost for collegiate year, embracing music and incidentals $312 00 Without music 2.12 00 A uniform and economical attire will be adopted bv the middle of Spring term. Address Rev. J. N. BRADSHAW, Covington, Ga. janlOwG Principal. >l. O’DOWD GROCER AY IST ID (Commission ittmljant, No, 284 Broad Street, .luguaia, GEORGIA. FT AS on hand and for sale, at the lowest market 11 prices, for cash or good factor’s acceptances, payable next Fall, a full seock of Choice Groceries & Plantation Supplies, among which may be found the following: .10 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 all grades, 500 bbls. syrup—different grades 200 cases oysters—l 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 Dickons segars 50,000 Georgia Chiefs “ 50,000 onr choice “ 200,000 various grades “ 5,000 bushels corn 25 hhds. Demarara sugar 35 hhds. brown sugar 10 hhds. Scotch sugar 25 boxes Havana sugar 50 bbls. crushed, powdered and granulated sugar 200 bhls. 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 bills, rye whisky, all grades 50 bbls. pure com whisky 30 bbls. brandy, gin and rum 10 quarter casks imported 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. janSlyl FURNITURE OS’ ALL DESCRIPTIONS, vr— PLATT ESROTHIHIS, (Formerly 0. A Platt & C 0.,) 214 Broad Street , Augusta, Ga. 1,000 & Walnut Bedsteads, $5 to $10! We particularly call the attention of purchasers to our Solid VV hint Chamber Suit** for Beauty, .Durability and CheapnosF. Our Manufacturing Department i< stil/ in opera tion. Special or lorn will he promptly attended to. R-pairs r'one in all its branches. Upholstering Department. Hair Clo'h. Cloth. Reps, Terry and Spring*,and aU *rticl«s suiUkh'efor manufacturers, w - offer at Low Prices. jan3l in 6 1 N7?J 1 H7?^ If You Wish to get the Best and Most Reliable, you Must Buy PLJUMB&LEITNER AVISO ESALE DICFUGISTS 212 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. Jan. 17, 2m Oix Consignment. 30 Bbs- Choice Flour in Barrels <SO ‘ ‘ Flour in Sacks (assorted grades fSeetl Oats Prime White Corn All for sale at close figures, For Cash. Cotton Wanted, jan 17 ts JOHN E. BENTON. Jouvin’s Inodorous Kid Glove Glean er restores soiled gloves equal to new. For sale by Druggists and Fancy Goods Dealers. Price 2.7 cts. per bottle. F» C. Wells & Cos., N. Y. janlornl THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GA., FEBRUARY 28, 1872. ftoctrtb Ever. Ever and ever the world goes round, Bearing his burdens and crosses; Ever and ever the years roll on, With their tide of sorrows and losses. Ever and ever the book of life Bears upon its pages The weary, weary lay of the heart Sung through all the ages. Ever and ever with out-stretched hands We grasp for a golden morrow; Ever and ever the billows of time Are freighted with sorrow. Ever and ever the lips smile on That the world may walk in blindness; Little they know of the heart's wild woe, When the face looks but with kindness. Ever and ever the shadows fall O’er the golden mosses : Ever a gleam from Paradise Lightens our cares and crosses, Ever and ever the morning dawns On hopes that are breathed in gladness ; Ever the night brings in Iks tide of bitter sadness; Ever and ever the eye of God Looketh upon us with pity; And ever the light is shown to us, That gleams from the Golden City. SQUARE AT LAST; OR, A BROTHER’S REVENGE. Th 3 Englishman at large is nothing if not a sporisman, and the New Worid affords him singular advantages for the indulgence of his pet proclivities. He who in the lightness of his heart says to himself: ‘Let me get up and kill something,’ is, in America, seldom at a loss for something to kill, and can please himself as to the size of his game, from the dainty quail to the tough old Ebenezer, the renowned grizzly himself. Afew years agol was much embarrass ed by the dilficulty of choice. Florida held many attractions, but on the other hand, 1 was strongly tempted to try the hunting grounds about two hundred miles west of Omaha, where, an ener getic Western friend wrote me, all kinds of game were to be had in plenty, especially, he informed me, in a line bust of enthusiasm, ‘big game,’ deer, buffaloes, bears, and—and—lndians. With many a sigh I turned from this alluring piospect, involving the sacri fice of too much time, and betook myself to the St. Johns river, Florida, and engaging the services of one Lafa yette K. Wallop, better known in that part as Chuncky Lase, in allusion to his thick-set muscular conformation, as huntsman, boatman and general facto tum, I set out in quest of deer, Lase paddling away at a gieat pace. Chunky Lase was a silent man, sparing of his speech but prodigal of his thews and sinews.- His powerful strokes sent the light craft flying rapidly past (lie marshy banks, wooded to the water’s edge, till, just as I was beginning to en joy the enforced repose of the passive tenant ol a canoe, a sudden shout from the hunter startled me out of my semi somnolent condition. ‘Say, boss,’ said the Chunky one, ‘I guess you’d best lay down in the canoe.’ ‘Why on earth shouid I lie down V I do not see any reason for hiding.’ ‘Wall, fact is, Hefty Bill Slocum is coming up stream.’ ‘Bud what have I to do with Mr. Slocum f ’ I snapped out rather impa tiently. ‘Wall, yer see, Bill and me is on shooting terms, and every time we meet air kinder bound to have a crack at each other ; so as ] guess you, c’yur nel, ain’t in this deal, you ought not to put up any stakes ; this here muss ain’t none of your funeral, but it might soon be if you kep’ settin’ up thar.’ Here was a delightful situation/ Two Southern desperadoes burning to engage in an aquatic duel, all remon strance or interference absolutely use less ; the agreeable prospect of the canoe being upset in a broad, rapid river thickly tenanted by alligators be ing coupled with the probability of be ing accidentally picked off by the rifle of .>ir. Slocum. Howevever, as the exposure of my Uj per works to Hefty Bill’s fire could serve no useful purpose I followed the advice under cover, breathing many a prayer for the success of our side.— Peering over the edge, I saw that our opponent was waiting, rifle in hand, for us to come within range, a feat we were accomplishing with detestable, rapidity, while my gondoliers could drop the paddle and-seize the weapon at the slightest movement of iiis adver sary. Nearer we came, not a sound breaking the death-like silence, but the light plash of the paddle as Lale, a few - la*t vigorous strokes, made dropping his paddle with lightning speed the hunt* r seized his rifle. The report of the weap ons rung out| together as accurately as it the combatants had fired by signal.— I The splash and ricochet of Slocum’s bullet told my man was unhurt, when Chuncky Lase, lifting his foxskin cap, said slowly and solemnly : ‘Square at last, Bill Slocum ! Poor Sal /’ A Canoe floating lazily down the river v.'us all that remained to tell that Hefty Bill ever existed. The mention fa woman’s name by my usually tar, turn guide naturally awakened my curiosity, but that mo ment did net seem favorable for investi gating the mysu’fy, so I discreetly held my tongue, butlsuppose looked inquir ingly enough, as, after paddling swiftly and silently for nearly an hour, Lase deigned to open his lips. ‘Beg pardon, C’yumel, for bustin up your day's sport with my private biz,’ but guess you’ll excuse me when I tell you the story. Thar’s a good friend of mine live3 around the creek here and if you don’t mind we’ll lay over at his shanty, and after supper I’ll tell you the rights of the muss ’twix me and Bill.’ I consented gladly enough,* feeling that after the just enacted all hunting would be tame and spiritless. Paddling a short distance up a narrow tributary stream (always called o creek in these countries,) we came upon a large cheerful-looking homestead.— Lafe’s friend received us with true American hospitality; liis house, his meat, his drink, his horses, and his dogs, were all at our service in a moment. After a stiff horn of Monongahela to whet (very unnecessarily) our appetites, we fell pelKmell on a savory meal of oysters, fish and bear meat, not forget ting hog and hominy. At the conclu sion of a repast worthy of full-grown boaconstrictors, our host produced a demijohn of old Santa Cruz, and pipes being lighted, Chunky Lase pulled him self together, and expectorating freely, began: 5 • >. ‘Yer see, c’yurnel and friend Wash,’ (Lafe’s friend rejoicing in the name of Washington K. Pegrim,) ‘this was a kinder old score as 1 rubbed off to-day. In the good old times afore the war, Bill Slocum and me was fast friends, like brothers, I was going to say, but I’ve generally found brothers love each other in a slack baked sorter way ; any how me and Bill was alius around to gether, and barrio’ a kinder likin, bunt in’, fish in’, drinkin’ and' fightin,’ was two as likely hoys as any in Augustine. I can’t say as we was particularly heavy on, hut with a bit of land for cotton, a tidy corn patch, a drove of bogs, and a few niggers, ive managed to get along pretty well. All my relations had passed in their checks so long ago, ex cept Ss.l, and 4 suess a prettier, smar ter, or more stylishy gal wasn’t to be found in the State of Floridy.’ Here Lase seemed to suffer from a slight hus/riness, but imbibing a large draught of Santa Cruz, went on, visi bly refreshed : ‘Wal, poor Sal was run after pretty much by the boys, but Ike, t a sharp eye on’cm, 1 did, for though not veiy rich, we was hightoned, no high-ton derer family lived in them parts, and my sister was all in all to me, more nor nobody will ever be agin. Then come the war, and you gentlemen known vvhat that misunderstandin’ brought about. We Southerners rose like one man, and me and Bill weren’t behind hand, you bet. Many a hard day’s marehjiud hard day’s fightin’, we had togeth'A, and nary shoe to our feet, and nothin’ but a pocketful of parched corn to live on lor days and days to gether. At last came the bad days of Gettysburg, and me and Bill were in the thick of it. Four times we charged up to the muzzles of their evtrlastin’ guns, and four times we gotdruv back. Wal, we come on agin and and agin, yellin’ like devils, but it wasn’t no good; they druv us back, and at last I missed Bill. ‘Wal, I ain’t the man to brag o’ that, but 1 went into the hotest fire I ever seen, and brought in Bill, hit pretty hard. We had a bad time that day, but I brought off Bill, and somewhat pulled through, and was sent home down South. To make a long story short, I went through the whole war, and when our side bust up went down home with a sore heart, ragged suit, and adurnedempty pocket. ‘Through all the cussed affair I had looked forward to seein’ sister Sal and Ilelty Bill with the kinder feel in’ I des say you can understand, hut when I got ol e evening to Augustine, I found the old sha-ity shut up, and wonderin’ what was the matter, made tracks for the corner grocery. There I found the folks glad enough to see me, but seemin’ to look queer and act silent and dum my, as if they was to a funeral. So I says right out, ‘What in the thunder’s the matter with you all, and what’s o’ SalWal, yer see, the whole thing come out at last. Bill Slocum had come home invalided and dead broke, and Sal, of course, took him in and missed him as if he’d been her brother, and, after the manner of wimmen folks, fell in love with tier patient. Sal I guess, vvarn’t the first fool' °4 her sex, and won’t be the last, by a long shot. ‘Now comes the worst part of the story. One mornin’ they was both missed, and there was no doubt but that scoundrel Bill had run off with her to one of the cities North, without leavin’ letter or line to track ’em by. My mind was soon made up. I sold the old place and what little stuff there was on it for what 1 could get and made tracks for the North to find Sal, and mayhap get square with Bill.’ ‘I went through the North, city by city, in my weary seach, and at last found my poor little sister; but, gentle men, I would rather have found her headstone in the cemetery than have found her as I found her. I took good care of the poor girl, but it was no use ; she pined away, and I buried her in Chicago, and then looked around for the trail of Hefty Bill. ‘Nary a soul could tell a word about him and poor Sal, God bless her, never a word. She was true to him, bad as he had used her. Wal, I could not find Bill anywheres, and as I had to do somethin’ to live, I came down here huntin’around a little and drinkin’ a good deal, when one day, at Tim Mulli gan’s bar who should I see but Hefty Bill Slocum himself. Gentlemen, I have bean all through the big war, and in many a dashing charge, but I never felt as I did at that moment. My head swam round like a young gal’s in her first waltz, a fog came over my eyes, my-hand was cm my }>ering€*y when 1, saw a flash across my eyes, felt a warm splash, heard a shot, and all was dark. They tol l me afterward that Bill fired a little too quick for me, and that shot brought on a pretty free fight. They were a roguish set around Mulligan’s, and they wereu't the hoys to let a muss go by without taking a hand. So Bill scored the first trick in our small game, but I'd got to get square with, him and I tried more nor once, but his everlastin’ luck helped him till to-day,’ and here Lase dropped his head on his chest and stared into the fire, ‘I guess we’ve got square at last/’ Tins Alaska Seals. The islands of Alaska are the sum mer resort of seals in immense numbers, but where they spend their winters is an unsolved mystery. Sufficient search has been made for their winter abodes, with a view to taking their skins, to show that they do not winter in any considerable numbers on any known ground. They begin to leave the is lands early in October, and none are seen again until April or May. A few hundred, mostly young pups, are taken by the Indians around Sitka, 1,200 miles east of the islands during the month of December, again in the month of March, on their return to the islands, and in February off the coast of Colum bia, but in such small numbers as to make no appreciable difference in the immense numbers that v sit the islands annually. It is claimed by the natives that the seals return invariably the second year to the place of their birth, and when not too often disturbed by driving, continue to do so. In order to test the truth of this story, Mr. Bryant, special agent of the Treasury Depart ment. at St. Paul’s Island, has institu ted and experiment of an eminently practical character, although it might not command the entire approval of Mr. Berge, whose jurisdiction, however, does not extend to Alaska. He had one hundred male pups selected before leaving, on a rookery one mile north of the village, and marked by cutting off their right ear ; and a like number by cutting off their left ear, on a rookery to the south of the village. This has been done for two years, and next year the oldest will be old enough to be taken, when the result will be ascertained. It is evident that sharks or other vora cious fish prey on the young pups while in the water, from the fact that of more than a million of pups annually leaviug the islands, not one-third 4 return to them in the spring. Barto county Narrow Gunage Rail road is blockaded with mud. TERMS-TWO DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE How a Carpot-ba" Governor makes Money. Gov. Warmouth. in answer to a ques tion propounded to him by the Congres sional Committee, whether he had made a hundred thousand dollars in one year after he had entered upon duties as Governor, answered, ‘A great deal more than that.’ The process was simple and radically peculiar. He bought the securities, warrants, certificates, bonds, etc., of the State which have been depressed to low rates, and then, when they were all bought up, preparing bills for the Legislature, providing for the issue of bonds, to pay these bonds at par rates, and in such bills creating the Governor himself President of the Boards charged with the administration of the funds and the exchange of these bonds. There have been several of these bills, and in the administration of each of them the Governor and his immediate friends, including the Fiscal Agent, the Citzens’ Bank, have turned up to be the princi pal, if not the only holders of the evi dences of debt, to be paid out of these funds. Thus it is that enormous sums have been made, through the action of the State government and the adminis tration of its funds by the Governor and his friends, a large share of which has inured to him. This is what is meant by the speculations of Governor War mouth. Business Failures and Success.—• The business failures in the United States last year are stated at 2,915, against 3,551 in the year before. The amount of liabilities for IS7I is $35,- 252,000, against $36,242,000 for the year 1870. It is noticeable that there is a decrease in failures in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, three States visited by most detructive conflagra tion. In Illinois an increase was nat urally expected, but thip failures of 1870 were 214, while last year they were only 172 New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Qhi) Missouri—in fact the States generally in which there arb large, cities, show a .d-wczse, 'Mary land and Louisiana show an increase.— The Chicago fire so far as the merchants are concerned, has Lad its worst effect. All classes of trade are revived there, and merchants declare they are selling as many goo sas before the fire. The horse railroad on the noith side is doing three-fifths of the business it did a year ago, and the day after the fire it had a few cars, few horses, and six miles of track, with but one house on the line. If this does not promise a prosperous future, then all signs fail. The record of the last year shows tlr-t there is a decline in speculative business and that tire safer methods introduced by the necessities of the war commend them selves to the public judgment.— N. Y. Com. Ad. Weapons in War, —The Elberfeld Gazette publishes some curious statis tics of the comparative deadliness of the different weapons used in the Fran co-German war. According to them, of 3453 Germans wounded before Metz no fewer than 95.5 percent, were struck, by chascepct balls ; 2.7 per cent, only were wounded by projectiles from heavy guns, and there were only 0.8 per cent, of wounds from cold steel. As to the French wounded it is calculated that as high a propotion of 25 per cent, were wounded by artillery. This gives an average of one effective shot in every three fired from the German batteries* a result which appears to us to be hard ly credible. The losses ir, the different branches of the German army are esti mated as follows by the Elberfeld Ga zette; Os every 100 men put hors de combat , 90 per cent, were in the infantry', 5 per cent, in the cavelry, and only 3 per cent, belonged to the artillery.— The total number of cartridges fired by Germans in the late war is said to have been 25,000,000, or about 30 per man. The war having lasted—for fighting purposes —just six months, this gives only an average of five cartridges per man per month for the whole army. Taking the total number of French killed and wounded at 100,000, this would give an average of 250 cartrdges fired to each man struck. — Pall Mall Gazette. Matrimony is—hot cakes, warm beds, comfortable slippers, smoking coffee, round arms, red lips, kind words, shirts exulting in buttons, redeemed stockings, bootjacks, happiness, etc. Single bles sedness is—sheet-iron quilts, blue noses, frosty rooms, ice in the pitcher, unre generated linnen, heeless socks, coffee sweetened with icicles, rheubarb, and any amount of misery.