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VOLUME II—NUMBER 17. Z\\t |sr?)uftic Mcnvmtl IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY —A T— THOMSON. GrJN., —B Y— RONEY & SULLIVAN, R A TES OF A D YER TISISG, Transient artvcriUemeoU will be clnrgod one dollar per square forth? first insertion,auJ seventy fiVo cents for sii’‘StQiiput iuscrtioß. BUSINESS G.VRBS. E. S. HARRIS ON, 1 Miysielau aiul tSurgreoit Offers hU serv e l '- to the |mluic. Office with Ur. J. S. J>nes, over Me Cm and & llanlnwuv s eprloiu3 Thomson, Ga. J. • CQ. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in IBIWMBITi k UIIS W * -ALSO— Semi-l'liiii'i, C’reiic’i Oliiuat «~S;s-,S’.rare, Arc. 244 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga nprLO ly. m\. T. l>. LAM.KRSTEDT OFFIUiS Hl?* 4 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES To the Citizens <>! Thoin oa *nJ \ Icimty. 11, can-bu fout.J a! ti, Unonj oy. f Cu.lcllo’., when tot |»rotVsr>iauaUy ah.-out. REFERS TO rti ). JVFa .i‘ • « »• i)ol ' :, ‘ rY ’ Ull Js.iis S. Cutt n Da. ti so : ■•'it, j~ ~ .% . »• E A'C OC «<i Gt-c'.-ii Strout. AUGUST A, GEORGIA. Transient *L anoni Board-.ag. jiv»3l Iv GLO B S HOTEL. g -.y. CORNET, - ' > IA KS< >N STS., AUGJSTA, mmL JACKSON & JULIAN, Proprit’rs. YiVI«-rW !•> <■<'» <!.■ ntivnlKm "f tlie lu I : h»> i « and i'W>ed on a foot ~.,1 in ti. ■ South. No esixm*! will be v.,‘i .!.,■ ■•,",( ,1:. i House ill over-/ respect,judd to and couvf C •><••• of ig* o isr T* I JVE 3C TILL Tlia ri.BV 3? NiVAnm X WILL iui :.14i p1,.-i:.Ts and others in tvaut of S Si <» E S on City A , 'u! ul?', till Ist November next, at ca-Ji pri< *’• 1 ■■•■■■■ apr 3 1«u.3 Au. uiata, Oa. LUMBER. LUMBER. LUMBER! VNY qualiti r.r ru.liiv oT lTu« Lumber de livered at Thom-on, or .It Mile Tost on the tievigia Kailioart, luiv fur en-ii. Poplar, «L*k or Hickory Lumber ta ed 10 fill orders nl special rales. J, T. KENDRICK. February 21, ’M2. ‘ mtj CHARLES S. DuBOSE, <! T’J’Of* J ' h\ s Vs T r- <? iy g dVarivuton, Oa. Will practice in all Gib Courts of the Northern, Augusta oo Middle Circuits. 11. < ’- RONEY, 'Morani at Auto, ' w/ TItO.MHO V, U.t. Will practice in tin* Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits, no 1— 1 y JAMES A. GRAY & CO., Have Removed to their IVew iron Front Store, JJIIOAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA aprlOtt J A.TIES 11. HULSEY’S Steam Dyeing and Scouring ESTABLISH dVEEISr X?, 128 Broad :•<*., Aiigu*fa, U a. Near Lower M-irR ' Brulje Bank Building tor tno Dyeing and Cleaning of dresses, shawl-. ’ -'Mb . ■■ is. Also gen tlemen’s coats, vests and pants dye i in the bewt manlier. rinoes. delstne, alpaca, rep goopa and jeans dyed and finished •.■ i .;.d to those dene ill New York. ir5T Orders bjr Express promptly attended to. Augusta, Ga. apr. .bad Abound canvassing Look o', tire PICTORIAL HOME BIBLE, containiii-: rWm _lw.rßTß.v --noxs. With a couipreheusive Cyclopedia cxplana torv of the Scriptures. I. Ea.'-h and German. 3 Vji. FLINT & CO.. I’Uila.. I’a. M O'DOWD & CO GUO CEE, IST ID Commission ittmljant, No. 284 Broad Street, GEORG 1.1. IT AS Oil b ind and for sale, at the lowest market tl prices, for cash or good factor's acceptances, payable next Fall, a full scock of Choice Groceries & Plantation Supplies, among which may he found the following : 50 hhds. D. 11. bacon sides 10,000 llm P. 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 2i M) cases oysters—*l and 2 lb. cans 2 H) cases canned fmits 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 “ 130*000 our choice 44 200,000 various grades “ 5,000 bushel corn 25 hhds. l)eni irara s Jgar 35 hhds. brown sugar 10 hhds. Scotch sugar 25 boxes Havana sugar 50 bbls. crushed, powdered and granulated sugar 200 bbls. e:c!ra 0 and A sugar 200 bags Kio coffee 50 ** I.egeiayra coffee 50 p.j ke-s old Government Java coffee 100 boxes No. I soap 200 boxes pale 44 750 boxes ste.r *h % 100 boxes soda 100 dozen buckets * 50 dozen brooms] 10 libl i. pure ilaker, whisky 50 bbls. Old Vall«?y whisky 200 bbls. ryo whisky, all grades 50 bbls. pure com whisky 20 bbls. brandy, gin and rum 10 quail; r casks imported Cognac brandy 8 (juarte.i casks Scotch and Irish whisky 20 qusrier casks Sherry, l'ortand Madeira wine 20 casks aii l and porter 10 casks Cooper's half and half 50 cases Champagne •10 cases claret 50 cases Schnapps 100 cases bitters 200 boxes tobacco, all grades lot) cases smoking tobacco, all grades. jauSlyl FURNITURE" OF ALL IJ V— T-3* l A VT V a BOTH ES3 S, (Furmorly C. A. Flult & C 0.,) 214 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. 1 ,000 Nttplo & Walnut Bedsteads, $5 lo $10! We call the atteulion of purchasers <o our Soli«PN\ r .dnut Chamber Suits for beauty, Durability and Cheapness. Our .Vlauufacturiug Department is stiU in opera tion. Special orders wilt be promptly attended to. Kepairs done in all its branches. Upholstering Department. Ifuir Clo'li, Euamulcd G’luth, Reps, Terry and Springs,and ali artici-s suitab'efor uidnufacturcrs, wo offer at Low Prices. juti3l mO pH W. ARNOLD. CAPT. WVT. JOHNSTON O. W. Arnold & Cos. 5 Grocers & Commission Merchants, Thomson, - - - Georgia- HAVE Oil hand and tor Sale at the lowest market prices CF.OICE FAMILY GROCERIES AND PLANTA TION SUPPLIES OF ALL KINDS, j Among which may be found the following, Bacon, Flour, Sugar, Coffee, J.ard, Cheese, Mackerel, Oysters. Pickles, Canitpri Fruits, Soda, Tobacco, and everything kept iu the line of a I Firs! Class Grocery Store. We Respecruliy invite our friends to give us a call. C. W. Arnold & CJo.. Thomson, Ga. ?.larch 13, ly THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GA., MAY 1, 1872 foettg. l'armefs* Girls. Up in the early morning, Just at the peep of day, Straining the milk in the dairy, Turning the cows away— Sweeping the floor in the kitchen, Making the beds up stairs, Washing the breakfast dishes, Dusting the parlor chairs. Brushing the crumbs from the pantry, Hunting for eggs at the barn, Roasting the meat for dinner, Spinning their stocking yarn, Spreading the snow-white linen Down on the bushes below, Ransacking every meadow Where the red strawberries grow. Starching their cottons for Sunday, Churning the snowy cream, Ivin sing the pails and strainer Down in the running stream, Feeding the geese and poultry, Making the puddings and pics, Jogging the little one’s cradle, Driving away the flies. Grace in every motion, Music in every tone, Beauty of form and feature Thousands might covet to own— Cheeks that rival rosos, Teeth the whitest of pearls ; One of these country maidens is worth A seoro of your giddy girls. A Yaukco < 'st j>i«iiCV; Ailveu iur«. There lived many years ago, on the eastern shore of Mount Desert, a large island off the coast of Maine—now a fashionable place of summer resort— and old fisherman by the name of Jed ediah Spinnet, who owned a schooner of some hundred tons burthen, in which he, together with four stout sons, was wont to go about once a year to the Grand-Ran a (or the purpose of case!;,: !’; cod-iish. The .mi' l , man had five things about which lie loved to boast— bis schooner ‘Betsey •Jenkins’ and his four sons. The four sons were all that their father represented them to be, and no one ever doubted his word when he said that their like was not to be found for fifty miles around. The oldest was twenty-two, while the youngest had reached his sixteenth year, atid they answered to the names of Seth, Andrew, John and Samuel. One morning a stranger called upon Jedediuli, to engage him to take to Ha vana some iron machinery belonging to steam engines for sugar plantations; the terms were soon agreed upon, and the old man and his sons immediately set about putting the machinery on board. That accomplished, they set sail for Havana, with a fair wind, and lor several days proceeded on their course without an adventure of any kiud. One morning, a vessel was de scried off flic starboard quarter, which with some hesitation the old man pro nounced to be a pirate. There was not much time allowed them for the vessel soon saluted them with a not very agreeable whizzing of an eighteen pound shot under their stern. ‘That means for us to heave to,’ re marked the old man. ‘Then I guess we had better do it, hadn’t we V said Seth. ‘Of course.’ Accordingly, the ‘Betsey Jenkins’ was brought up into the wind, and her main boom hauled over to the wind ward. ‘Now, boys,’ said the old man, as soon as the schooner came to a stand, ‘all we can do is to be as coo! as possible, and trust to fortune. There is no way to escape that I can see now, but per haps if we are civil, they will take such stuff as they want, and then let us go. At any rate, there is no use crying about it, for it can’t bo helped. Now, get your pistols and see that they are surely loaded, and have your knives ready, but be sure and hide them, so that the pirates shall see no signs of re sistance.’ In a few moments, all the arms which the schooner afforded, with the exception of one or two old mus kets, were secured about the persons of our Down-Easters, and they quietly awaited the coming of the schooner. ‘One word more, boys,’ said the old man, just as the pirate came round un the stern. ‘Now watch every motion I make, and be ready to jump the mo ment I speak.’ As Captain Spinnet ceased speaking, the pirate luffed up under the fisher man’s leequarter, and in a moment more the latter's deck was graced by the presence of a dozen as savage look ing mortals as eyes ever looked upon. ‘Are you captain, of this vessel V ask ed the leader of the boarders, as he ap proached the old mate. ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘What isgiour cargo ?’ ‘Machinery for steam engines.’ ‘Nothing e’aef’ asked the pirate, with a searching glance. At this moment Captain Spinnet’s eye jjanght like a sail off to the soeUoWarid eafct’rd but not a sign betrayed the' discovery, and while a brilliant idea shot through his mind, he hesitatingly replied : ‘Well, there is a little something else.’ ‘Ha. what » it V ‘Why, sir, p’raps I hadn’t ought to tell,’ said C&ptrdn Spinnet, counterfeit ing the most extreme perturbation.— You see it was given me as a sort of trust, and it wouldn’t be right for me to give it up. You can ta/ro anything else you please, for I can’t help my sel f.’ 1- ‘You are ae honest codger at any rate,’ said theldrate ; ‘but if you would give toil minmos longer, just tell me what you’ve gftt.on board and exactly where it lays.' The sight! of a cocked pistol brought the old o'an to he- senses, and in a dep recating tone he muttered. ‘Don’t kill mc'slr, don’t ; 1 11 tell you all. We've got forty thousand silver dollars nailed lip iu boxes forward over the cabin •bulkhead, Mr. Defore didn’t suspect anybody would have thought of looking for it there-’ ‘Perhaps so,’ chuckled- the pirate, while his eyes sparkle! with delight. And then turnin' -to his own vessel, lie ordered all but tl roe of his men to jump on board the Yankee. In aA w minutes the pirates had ta ken off tiwAafelnis, and in their haste to get at the silver dollars, they fonot all else ; but not so with Spinnet; he had hi. wits it work, and no sooner had the hist oi fhrtiViiltUjUs disappeared be . 10-, Hie a,- .yWy w Am he turned to his boys, * ■ ‘Now, boys, 'or yoUT lives. Set'll, you clap yotir knife across the fore and peak halyards, and you, John, cut the main. Be quick, now, and the moment you have.-dons'it, jutpp .aboard the pirate. Andrew and Pup, "you cast off the pi rate’s grappiingj arid then you jump— then we will walk into them three chaps i aboard the clipper. Now for it.’ No*sooner were the last words out of the o'd man’s mouth than, bis sons did exactly us they were directed. The fore and main .halyards were cut, and the two grapmngs •cast off at the same instant* and is tire heavy gaffs came rattling dowi) our heroes leaped on board the pirate. The moment the clip per felt at liberty, Ijer head swung off, and before- tiro 'astonished buccaneers could gain th;r deck of the fisherman, their vessel ivaswnear half a cable’s length to the leetivjprd sweeping grace fully before the Mlind, while the three men who had brertAleft in charge were easily secured. A ‘Halloa, J there!’ shouted Captain Spinnet, as the luckless pirates crowded around the leegangway of their prize, ‘when you get-tliefn ’ere silver dollars, just let us know, will you V’ Half o dozen pistol shots was all the answer thd old man got, but they did him no hat/m ; and crowding on sail, he made for the vessel he had discovered, which layidead to the leeward of him, and which he now made out to be a large ship. The clipper cut through the water likeja dolphin, and in a short space of luffed up under the ship’s steijn, and explained ail that had happened The ship proved to be au East ludiaman, bound for Charleston, having told, thirty men on board, a por tion of whom 1 at once jumped into the clipper and offered theirservices in help ing to take the pirates. Before dark Captain Spinnet was once more within hailing distance of his own vessel, and raising a trumpet to his mouth, he shouted : ‘Schooner,lahoy l Will you quietly surrender yjurselves prisoners if we come on boaid V ‘Come anditry it!’ returned the pirate captain, as lie brandished his cutlass above his held in a very threatening manner, whiih seemed to indicate that he would figij: to the last. But that Aa v his last moment; for Seth, crouched below the bulwark, taking deliberate aim along the barrel of a heavy rifle, and as the bloody vil j lain was in tin; act of turning to his men, ! tlie sharp crack of Spinnet’s weapon rang its death peal, and the next moment ! the pirate captain fell back into the arms lof his men With a brace of bullets I through his heart. I ° TEEMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE. ‘Now,’ said theold man, as he levelled the long pivot-gun and seized a lighted match, ‘I will give you just five minutes to make up your minds in and if you don’t surrender, I’ll blow every one of you into the other would.’ The death of their captain, and withal the sight of the pointed pivot gun—the peculiar properties of which they knew full well —brought the pirates to their senses, and they threw down their weap ons and agreed to give themselves up. In two days from that time Captain Spinnet delivered his cargo safely at Havana, gave the pirates into the hands of the civil authorities, and delivered the clipper up to the government, in return for which he received a sum of money sufficient for independence for the re mainder of his life, as well as a very handsome medal from the Governor. The New Dominion. A Provincial Union —An Independent Na tion-- Alliance Instead of Ailcgicncc. Hamilton, Ontario, April G.--Hon. Wm. McDougall, formerl)' o' member of the Government of Ottawa, aid late Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, lect ure!’, last night on the position of Canada as affected by the relations be tween England and the United States. He stated that he had, while in England, discussed the question with Cardwell, with Mr. Adderly, the Under Secretary for the Colonies in a previous Govern ment, and the conclusion they had come to was this : That all the parties recognized the change that had taken place in the po sitiou of Great Brittain, and were unani mously prepared in every possible v. ay to meet the new state of things. lie had been forced to the conclusion that the policy was not to abandon the Colonies, nor to act so as to draw them away from the allegiance, hut to prepare them for maintaining theii own position by means of-their ’Own right hands, and . fi.n-i-, ( ;onsi;ioua that if an attack was levelled against them they must depend tfitiiiily, if not altogether, upon their awn Resources, and resist it; fail ing in which, they must be prepared to accept the consequences, whatever they might be, which followed an invasion and contest. Speaking for himself, and speaking freely, frankly and truthfully, he was of the opinion that a union of these provin ces was a preliminary step for the estab lishment of a system of government iu British America which would enable us, when the moment arrived, to maintain a separate and independent existence among the nations of the earth. He believed that that idea was present to the. minds of mos;, if not all, of those who took part in carry iug.out that great and important change. But because they foresaw that which they believed must happen, because they took initial steps to. put the country in a position to maintain itself in ease of war, was it to* be charged (as he had seen some of the public press had charged,) that they had proved themselves disloyal to the moth er country ? that they had shown them selves to be the of dangerous measures, and that they should therefore be politically opposed and condemned V tie denied that they were open to such condemnation, and he referred to the phrase of LorkMon.ck about a ‘new nationality,’ and Lord Lisgar’s declara tion that alliance should now take the place of allegiance, as well as to the repeated observations of leading news papers of England, to establish the fact that what the public men of Canada foresaw was based upon a correct un derstanding of the opinion in the moth er country. The whole drift of that opinion was that connection with Cana da was a source of embarassment, from which the mother country should be freed as soon as possible : and if English statesmen and the English press dis cussed the question so unservedly with out being subject to impunities of dis loyalty, it could not be charged against public men in Canada that they were wanting iu loyalty because they recog nized the actual position of affairs. The speaker’s remarks were frequent ly interrupted by applause. The history of gas light dates only buck to 1792, when in England Wil liam Murdoch lighted his own dwelling with gas. In 1802 a machine shop, and in 1805 a cotton factory were simi larly lighted, it was not until 1810 that a company got a charter for its Manufacture. In ISI3 Westminister bridge was lighted, and ISIS Guildhall. The bitter end—the last half itch of a penny cigar. Ijcatlii.r Cloth Fabrics. The manufacture ol artificial or leath er cloth has now become of much im portance abroad, and some valuable im provements have been made in the pro duce ion, and also in the quality and usefulness of the fabrics. It is claimed that while this article possesses all the qualities of leather in great strength and durability, it has special advantages of its own. such as complete imperme ability to water, a flexibility and soft ness equal to a woolen fabric, arid great cheapness compared with real leather. The material used iu this manufact ure varies according to the kin I of imitation leather that is desired. Thus, for cali-s/cin, a very thick kind of cottom fabric is weed ; fine calico or linen is used for water-proof material—the pro duct being as Water-proof as india-rub ber itself, ufM alpaca, silk, cloth, or common cotton for boots and shoes, book-bindings, harm ss, carriage furni ture, and all the well known purposes to which real leather is applied. The pigment, used accomplishes the object in a few hours, and is capable of being tinted to any shade that may be vvianted of green, red brown, black, blue'; yel low, &c., according to the use in view. The fabric to be converted into leath er, whatever it may be, and of any lentil or width, is merely wound on rollers, beneath a broad knife-blade, which by its weight presses in ami equally distributes the pigment pre viously placed upon it. A hundred yards may thus be done in a single minute, and in this most simple appli cation the whole manufacture begins aud ends, excoept that three coats of the pigment are necessary to perfect the leather, and an interval of twenty four hours must elapse between the ap plications of each. Foxes as Sheep Herders.— The Stockton, Cal., Republican vouches for the following story : People often won der at the remarkable instinct displayed by well-trained shepherd dogs, but wlnit w.il tiiry say when we tell them of a flock cl sheep that is guarded by foxes alone. The story seems improb able, but of its truth we have the most undoubted proof On Whisky Hill, four miles from Milton, may be seen al most any day a large flock of sheep, herded by foxes. These guardians of the little lambs are three in number, one a gray fox, and the other two ol the species, known as the red fox. In point of intelligence these novel shepherds are said to greatly surpass the best trained shepherd dogs. They perform their W'.u'k well, arid from morning till night are ever on the alert* The gray one seems to control, and in a great measure direct the actions us the other two. A gentleman informs us that he lately saw the gray fox pursue and at tack a hog that had seized a lamb, and was making ofi with it. The contest was short and sharp, and resulted in die hog dropping the lamb and beating a hasty retreat. The fox picked up the appearantly uninjured lamb, and carri ed it back to the flock. A fitting subject for patience on a monument is the Esquimaux when in winter he is hunting the seal. Having ascertained where the seal is gnawing beneath the ice for a breathing hole, the hunter perforates the spot with a slender bone rod, with a point at one end and a knob at the other, which is moved by the seal in coming to the surface* This may occupy twenty four hours. The hunter then builds a wall ol snow four feet high to shelter him from the wind. Seating himself behind it, lie places by his side lis spear-and lines. He must preserve the utmost silence, that he may hear th ) seal at wor/c and not cause fright to the animal. He even binds his knees to gether with a thong to prevent the rustling of his cljthes. And there he sits for twenty-four-hours, waiting the coming of the seal to the surface, when he cautiously rises with spear in hand, and the long sought-for seal is his. Grant’s Withdrawal Proposed.— Tilton’s Golden Age has come to the conclusion that the only way to pre serve the Republican party is for Grant voluntarily to withdraw from the field, ‘now, without further delay,’ and ‘to notify his partisans that he will not be a candidate at Philadelphia.’ It says there are thousands of Republicans j wli(> would not vote for him again, ! ‘even though lie should be jointly nomi | nated both at Cincinnati and Philadel j phia.’ The Golden Age adds: ‘lf ; Grant will not retire, nothing remains, ! but what Mr. Greeley styles the Cincin j uati Convention and its ‘conseque'nees,’