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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME n—NUMBER 11. sfce jrtU|luffic gonoral, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY —AT— THOMSON. G-A., —B Y— HONEY & 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 CARPS. 'joins ss-mjErx# ivtks. shißer, TATELY of Augusta, offers her services to the j ladies of Thomson and vicinity as a Fashion ble COTTER. FITTER Ml MESS HDL Skilled in all the latest styles, she flatters herself that she can give perfect satisfaction to the most fastidious. She is also prepared to cut and make gentleman’s clothing. ORDERS SOLICITED. C*TCan be found at Mrs. Lallerstedt's boarding house. f eb2Bm 1 J. M. HARP, Wholesale and retail dealer in ©S3‘O’ ESIE®3!EffilS ©Bi* LAMPS AND LAMP FIXTURES, Manufacturer and de tiler in all kinds of TIN AN3 SHEET IRON WARE | GUTTERING, ROOFING, And all kinds of Jobbing done promptly and neatly. GmG 15SJ Broad St., Augusta, Ga. GLOBE HOTEL, S. V. COENER BROAD <fc JACKSON STS., AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. JACKSON & JULIAN, Poprit’rs- We beg leave to call the attention of the travel - I‘eg .public, to ‘.hi* 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. BLANK BOOKS,PRINTING, STATIONERY, BtC E, lit PTOHIf Book and Job Printer, Aim. GA. books i In store, a very large assortment of all sizes and deoriptions 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. CdTAlso, Envelopes, Note and Letter Paper, etc. jan2lw2 L A.. JP IF A. O O OK, S>o Green Str<M>t, AUGUST A, 'GEORGIA. Transient & Permanent Boarding. jau3l ly CHARLES S, DuBOSE, Warrenton, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of the Northern, Augusta k Middle Circuits. DR. T. L. ULLERSTEDT OFFERS HISS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES To the Citizens ol Thomson and Vicinity. He can be found at the Room over Costello’s, when cot professionally absent. REFERS TO Pno. J A. Eve, Pbo. Wm. H. Pougiity, Dr Joint S. Coleman, Dh. S. C. Eve. IX. C. RONEY, Morrng at f afo, two.ns o r, o.t. Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits, no J-ly R. B. PHILLIPS, (43, JACKS! N STREET, NHAB NEW POST OFFICE,) AUGUSTA. GA. IMPORTERS & WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Foreign and Domestic Liquor*, Brandies, Wines- Gin, Rum, Whiskies s *' Bitter?, Forter, Ale, Etc., Etc. TobaccO and CigarS Os Every Variety. ASSETS !r©!B IT BBS Celebrated none stomlaco iutters, May 3,1871. nlO ly M. O’DOW!) GROCER .A- IST ID Commission Ittcrtljant, No. 284 Broad Street, *iug\isla, 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 bo found the following : 50 hhds. D. It. 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 KMT bids. 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 Dickens segars 50,000 Georgia Chiefs “ 50,000 our choico “ 200,000 various grades “ .5,000 bushels corn 25 hlids. Dcmarara 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 ■ » 104) dozen buckets 50 dozen brooms’ 10 bbls. pure Baker whisky 50 bbls. Old Valley whisky 200 bbls. rye whisky, all grades 50 bbls. pure com whisky 30 bbls. brandy, gin and rum 10 quarter casks imported Cognac brandy 8 quarte.l 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 KM) cases bitters 200 boxes tobacco, all grades 100 cases smoking tobacco, all grades. jan3lyl FURNITURE of and kschi u rioN.s, \T— PLATT ItKOTIIEBS, (Formerly C. A. Piatt & C 0.,) 214 Broad Street, Aagusta, Ga. 1,000 Maple & Walnut Bedsteads, $5 to $10! We particularly call the attention of purchasers to our Solid Walnut Chamber Suits for Beauty, Durability and Cheapness. Our Manufacturing Department is stilZ in opera tion. Special order? will be promptly attended to. Repairs done in all its branches." Upholstering Department . ITair Clod), Enameled Cloth, Reps, Terry and Springs,and aU articles suitab'efor manufacturers, wo offer at Low Prices. jan3l mG 1 1 87^5 If You Wish to get the Best and Most Reliable, you Must Buy *S*||ps plumblleßier WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS 212 BKOAD STBEET, AUGUSTA, GA. Jan. 17, 2m On Consignment. 30 Bbs- Choice Flour in Barrels GO * ‘ Flour in Sacks (assorted grades Seed Oats Prime White Corn All for sale at close figures, For Cash. Cotton Wanted, janl7tf JOHN E. BENTON. Baugh’s Rawbone Guano.—Mr. John K. Wilson, of this place, has the agency for the sale of this well known anrl popular fertilizer. It can he had at the low price of S4B per ton, cash, and $55 on time. Cali on Mr. Wilson, and give his Guano a trial. Feb. 7,2 in THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GA, MARCH, 20,1872 fwtrjj. Hcautiliil Oliilri. The following exquisite little poem—said to bo the last written by the author of “The Beautiful Snow”—cannot, we think fail to excite the admi ration of every lover of the beautiful. Let not a reader of the Journal pass it without a perusal. Beautiful child, by thy mother’s knee, In thy mystic future, what wilt thou bo ? A demon of sin or a angel sublime— A poison Upas or innocent thyme— A spirit of evil flashing down * With a lurid light of a fiery crown— Or gliding up with a shining track, Like the morning star that ne’er looks back. Daintiest dreamer that over smiled, Which wilt thou be, my beautiful child ? Beautiful child, in my garden bowers, Friend of the butterfly, birds and flowers— Pure as the sparkling, clirystaline stream, Jewels of truth thy fairy eyes beam, Was there ever a whiter soul than thine Worshiped by love in a mortal slirine ? My heart tliou hast gladdened for two swoct years With rainbows of hope through mists of tears, Mists beyond which the sunny smile With its lialo of glory beams all the while. Beautiful child, to thy look is given A gleam serene, not of earth but heaven : With thy teil-talo eyes and pratling tongue — Would thou conld’st over thus be young— Like the liquid strains of the mocking bird From stair to hall thy voice is heard. How often in the garden nooks tliou’rt found, With flowers thy curly head around, And kneeling beside me with figure so quaint, Oh! who would not doat on my infant saint. Beautiful child, what thy fate shall bo Perhaps is wisely hidden from me: A fallen star thou mayest leave my sido And of sorrow and shame become the bride, Shivering, quivering through the cold streot, With a curse behind and before thy feet, Ashamed to live and afraid to die— No home, no friend, and a pitiless sky. Merciful Father—my brain grows wild— Oh ! keep from evil, my beautiful child! Beautiful child, may’st thou soar above ; A warbling cherub of joy and love ; A drop on eternity’s seat — A blossom on life’s immortal treo— Floating, flowing evermore In blessed light of the golden shore, And as I gaze on the sinless bloom And thy radient face, they dispel my gloom, I feel lie will keep tliee undefiled. And His love perfect my beautiful child ! IpswUanmtsi. The Outwitted' Father. ‘And so, sir, this is your decision ?’ ‘Honor, Father, forbids any other.’ ‘Do you mean to say, sir, that you are engaged to the girl ?’ ‘Not exactly. I await her decision.’ ‘Then you have proposed?’ ‘I have, sir.’ ‘And you have resolved to marry Miss Cameron, and not Miss Dash wood ?’ ‘lf Miss Cameron will accept me.’ ‘Very well, sir, very well! This is your gratitude—this is your lilial duty ! you self-willed, ungrateful dog, in re turn for the trouble I’ve had with you —the efforts I’ve made to secure for you the best match in the country.— Here is a fine, handsome, dashing young woman, rich and belonging to one of the first families in the country, whom you throw aside for the sake of a plae-faced chit of a clergyman’s daugh ter.’ ‘Father /’ ‘Don’t father me, sir-—don’t interrupt me—don’t speak to me again ! Get out of my sight; but remember, the day on which you marry Lena Cameron you wiil cease to be a son of mine. I’ll disinherit you, sir, and leave all I have to the new orphan asylum.’ . Such was the scene enacted in Squire Chester’s parlor—a scene frequently presented upon the stage to sympathiz ing and delighted crowds—an irate father, portly, red faced loud voiced, with hands beneath his coat tails, ala Pickwick, and eyes glaring wrathfully through gold rimmed spectacles, upon a handsome but undutiful son, bent upon wedding the object of his soul’s idolatry, against his father’s wishes.— Yet in this instance it was no mere act ing, but on the part of each, serious and resolute determination. To add to the dramatic effect, at the momentin which the Squire’s la-t words were spoken, a fair, delicate looking girl, who was about entering the room, catching the sound of the angry voice paused an instant with her hand on the door knob, as if hesitating whether to enter. And thus it happened that she heard her own name coupled with the threat already mentioned. She turned then and glided swiftly up the stairs to her own room. Lock ing the door, she threw herself on a couch, and burying her face in the pil lows, remained a Eng time quite mo tionless. She did not weep, but when she at length arose her face was very, very pale, and her sweet blue eyes had a haggard look of suffering painful to witness in one so young. Seating herself at the table, she drew toward In r a writting desk, she wrote as follows: ‘Dear Cousin Philip —Since our inter view of yesterday, I have thought the matter over, aud have come to the con clusion that it will be best that we shall not marry. Do not blame me, do not question me, ever. I have reasons which I cannot explain, but act as I think will be best for us both. Lena.’ ‘Where is Miss Cameron ?’ ques tioned Philip of the servant who hand ed him this note. ‘Gone over to Elmwood, sir, to her aunt’s, Mrs. Page. 1 heard her say she should stay there until her return to the city in a few days.’ An hour latter Philip Chester was on his way to Elmwood. The path was lonely, leading through a sequestered wood, and he was consequently sur prised when, at an abrupt turning, he came face to face with a young lady, very tall, very handsome, and attired in a rich riding habit an! lloating plume. Philip lifted his hat respect fully, and would have passed on, hut the lady paused full in the path before him. ‘Excuse me—you are Mr. Philip Chester.’ lie bowed. ‘And I’m Josephine Dashwood.’ In his surprise he hardly knew what to say. ‘I did not know—l was not aware of Miss Dashwood's being in the neighborhood.’ ‘I dare say not. Yoh were expecting, perhaps, you and your honored father, to behold me for the first time at the residence of my uncle and guardian, Simon Walker, Esq. But you see 1 was too anxious to wait, so I conclu ded to run down for a day or two to Elmwood, on the strength of Mrs. Page’s being an old friend of mother. I wunt el to see you, Mr. Chester.’ ‘You do me honor,’ said Philip, puz zled in what manner to treat this frank avowal. The young lady meanwhile played with her horse’s mane. ‘I am glad of this accidental meet ing,’ she resumed, ‘for I was just think i>ig how it ".' .aid he poagihy to obtain a private interview.’ Philip stared. ‘I beleive,’ she continued, cooly, ‘that there has been some arrangement made concerning us by those two old —I mean by your much honored father and my highly respectable uncle—a lit tle matrimonial scheme; if I am not mistaken. Very kind of them, doubt less, though it might hate been kinder to have left us to chose for ourselves and he happy in our otvn way.’ A faint gleam of hopetregan to dawn upon Philip. ‘I want to tell you a secret, Mr. Ches ter. May I trust you ?’ ‘lf you wili do me the honor,’ he re plied, still coldly. ‘Ah, I see you don’t like me, hut you will after awhile. This, then is my se cret: I am in love; pray don’t be alarm ed—not with you.’ ‘Thank you !’ said he, almost involun tarily. ‘With a very handsome, very clever, very worthy and deserving .young man,’ resumed Miss Dashwood, with unmoved seriousness—‘but poor. And you are in love with one as equally perfect, but suf fering under the same stigma.’ She looked at him seriously now, with her dark eyes, and he arret the gaze frankly. ‘Now, we understand each other,’ she said, resuming her former tone and man ner ; ‘and now we can act as seems best to us under the circumstances. It won’t do to rebel openly against these two old fogies—beg their pardoflzr-those wise and venerable old gentleman; but we can quietly circumvent them, and have our own way, can’t we ?’ ‘Perhaps you have found some plan to that effect?’ said Philip, half amused and half interested. ‘You shall hear,’ she answered. ‘I am told that your dear, delightful father admires ‘dashing’ ladies, wants a dashing daughter-in-law and rgistress of his es tablishment. You will dine to-morrow at Elmwood. Be sure not to disappoint Mrs. Page, who knows all about it and takes a tender and motherly interest in the affair. We will see whether the old gentleman is satisfied with his chosen daughter in-liw. But whatever occurs, your role, remember, js to be perfectly charmed. Will you accept your part, Mr. Chester?’ Half laughing, half wondering, he agreed. And so they rode on together through the shadowy woodpath ; Philip Chester liking his companion far better than he had previosly, thought possible of Miss Dashwood. 4 Scene second, act first, transport us to the drawing-room, where sat that good lady, Mrs. Page, in aU (lie formal dignity of a country dinner dress, endeavoring to entertain some half dozen guests, of whom Squire Cheater was one. Seated near an open window he was anxiously awaiting the appearance of Miss Dash wood, with a vague hope as to the effect which might thereby be produced upon his undutiful son. That self-willed young man lounged near, c' eerfully conversing with a lady, while Lena Cameron, very pale and quiet, was bend over a bit of embroidery, with fingers that tremble a little, and eyes that were rare'y uplifted. Suddenly the sharp notes of a bugle pierced the ears of the assembled com pany. ‘There is Joe,’ said Ms. Page. ‘I am glad that she is come, as now we can have dinner.’ ‘Joe?’ doubtly inquired one of the lady guests. The Squire looked from the window, as invited, and beheld a figure in a man’s hat and coat, as he thought, and a wo man's skirt dashing full speed up the avenue toward the house, with half a dozen dogs accompanying. Springing unassisted to the ground, she proceed ed to unloosen the saddle an 1 throw it to the ground ; then walked several times around the horse, evidently exam ining into his condition, and discussing the same with the groom, who had now appeared. If Squire Chester regarded this unex pected appearance of his son’s chosen wife with any emotions of surprise or disap pointment, he at least did not express it. On the contiary, he bowed and shook hands with a true, old school gallantry courtesy, as that young lady presently entered the room, followed by two of the dogs aforesaid, to whom she whistled an encouragement to enter. •Oh,my dear, the dogs/’ remonstrated Mrs. Page, piteously ; ‘we are not ac customed to have them in the drawing room.’ ‘Dear me! not have dogs in the draw ing-room ! Why, I have mine with me everywhere, and all over the house. Couldn’t do without them, I declare.— Like dogs sir?’ she inquired, with a pretty drawl, of her future father-in law. ‘Very much—in their proper place,’ the old gentleman felt constrained to say. To which Miss Dashwood replied with a just preceptible shrug of her (graceful shoulder ; and they went into dinner. ‘No turkey, thank you,’ said she, ‘I never take fowl it’s only fit for invalids and babies ; so insipid. I’ll take roast beef rare, if you please, though I prefer steak and onions.’ And besprinkling the gory slice with an abundance of cayenne sauce, Miss Dashwood commenced her repast, while the Squire turned away, his eyes meet ing those of Lena Cameron, his wife’s niece, who had been regarding these proceedings of the ‘dashing’ young lady with an expression akin to horror. Poor child, she was not in the secret. But the Squire thought, as he looked at her, how very delicate, and refined, and ladylike she appeared. Miss Dashwood declined sherry, but accepted port instead—though express ing a preference for French brandy and water. It was quite the ‘style,’ now for ladies to prefer brandy. Indeed, some even preferred a partiality for bourbon, though slie herself considered it inferior to brandy in point of taste and real re freshment ; and the Squire felt provoked at the asiduity with which the son re filled the young lady’s glass and listening admiringly to all she said. ‘Give us some music, Joe,’ said Mrs. Page, when they were again in the draw ing-room. And the Squire, who was de voted to music, looked up and brighten ed. It was one of his favorite anticipa tions, of his son’s wife playing to him and soothing him in his after-dinner hours with the melodies he loved. And now he came up to the piano and stood expectant. Miss Dashwood played a rattling pre lude, and then suddenly broke into a bravura, which caused one lady to va cate her seat near the instument. The Squire, undaunted, kept his post, until a hunters song, with all the accompani ment of the ‘horn, hound and rider haloo,’ overcame ever, his courtesy, and he too retreated. ‘Now, Lena, one of your favorites,’ said her aunt, quietly; and the girl sat down, and in a sweet, low, and some what plaintive voice, sang ‘Bonnie Doon;’ and ‘Annie Laurie,’ ‘That’s the music that I like,’ remarked Squire Chester, to his hostess, sptto voice— ‘Those charming old songs are worth j all the modern lal-de-rals that have ever been written.’ And he looked thougt -1 fully at Miss Dashwood and then at TERMS-TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE' Miss Cameron. Likewise he hearkened to the discourse now going on between the fomer and his son. ‘I do so doat on horses,’ observed the young lady. ‘I couldn’t be happy un der any circumstance, without at least two of my own—a rider and a hunter. I delight in hunting wherever it is to be had, and generally, on that accout, pass my summers among the mountains, though deer are becoming scarce, and woodcock almost as much so. I wis|i ■we had fox hunting here in England.— I prefer novels where fox-hunting comes in—‘Guy Livingston.’ What a splendid fellow he was, and what a humdrum country is hardly anything to amuse one except the theatres. If [ had my own way I should be an actress. Don't you think so, Mr. Ches ter ?’ ‘Capital’ responded the young man, with emphasis, and a pleased, half amused and half earnest look, which didn’t escape his watchful sire, though he might no understand it. ‘He’s a ninny !' was the mental reflec tion of the latter. ‘What sort of a wife should such a woman make ?’ was his next involuntary thought, until it sud denly occurred to him with something like a shock, that this was really, after all the woman he had chosen for his son's wife, for his dauhter-in law, for the mistress of his house and household. And again, he looked at Lena very kindly this time. ‘You must see my Beelzebub,’ resumed Miss Dashwood, enthusiastically. ‘Such a charming crea ture.'—so full of spirit, yet so tractable and affectionate, that I assure you, sir/ addressing the Squire, ‘lie will walk in to the breakfast room and drinA out of your coffee cup at the table.' This assurance appeared to have no particular charm far Squire Chester, for be turned away with very little ceremo ny. Miss Dashwood went up stairs on some errand, and they heard her whis tling a9she crossed the hall. ‘Philip,’ whispered the Squire, ‘I tlifiuk vy? had better be going,’ ? ‘Aot yet, ray. Miss Dash wood is about to sliow me her new pistols— then she will teach me anew game of cards, and afterwards we are to go to the stables/ ‘Togo where?' ‘To the stables, sir, to look at the? horses.’ The Squire cast on him a look of con centrated indignation. ‘ls that —is Miss Dashwood, or Joe, or whatever else she is called, a man or a woman ?’ ‘The latter, I presume, sir. It is the fashion, oow-a days, yon know, for dashing young women like her to adopt a masculine style in general. It sits well on Miss Joe—do you not think so, sir?’ ‘Joe be !’ The old gentleman recollected him self in time. But he had seen enough of the dashing young Josephine, his old friend Simon Walter’s niece, and very moody was he when he rode homeward that night. ‘Philip,’ said he a day or two after, ‘I do not see the use of going to Elm wood so often, now that Miss Dashwood is there.’ ' ‘Why not, sir? I thought that you would like it-’ ‘The truth is, lam disappointed in Miss Dashwood. I cannot approve of such a woman as a wife for any man, save a horse dealer or circus rider. Es pecially should I not approve of her as the mistress of this house. I have no desire to see my drawingroom turned into a dog kennel, or to have horses to walk in and drink out of my coffee-cup* In fact,’said the Squire, waxing warm, ‘I will not have my future daughter-in law going about the house whistling, and odorous of brandy and cigars, too, I should not wonder. I heard her say it was the fashion. Ugh !’ Philip was satisfied the more so when a week later his father observed that little Lena would make as good a wife for him as he could get. The wedding took place within six months. Miss Dashwood, herself a hap py bride, was present, and the Squire wondered exceedingly at the great change and improvement wrought in her by the influence of marriage’ A party of spiritualists have purchas ed a fine piece of farming property in Santa Barbara county, California, on which they intend to established them selves in a sort of community life, tak ing the Oneida colony of New York as a model. All property is to be com mon. The ground will be apportioned out to the various families, and the profits will go into a common purse to be equitably distributed.