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VOLUME H-NUMBER 19. flic HJcftoffie goaroal, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY —A T— TPI O IVES OUST. GkA.., —B Y— RONEY & SULLIVAN, HATES OF ADVERTISING. Tr»nsient advertisements will be charged one dollar per square for the first insertion, and serenty five cents for each subsequent insertion. lIIiSINKSS CARDS. E. S. HARRISON. Physician Surgeon Offers his service? to the public. Office with Dr. J. S. Jones, over McCoid & Hardaway’s. aprlo«i3 Thomson, Ga. jr, Mwmpsr * co. Wholosale and Retail Doalers in MSI WHITE BMIITE t C. C. WARE —ALSO— Semi-Chinn, French Chinn, Ul.isßW.ire, Ac. 244 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga aprlO ly. M. T. L. UUERSTJKIiT OFFEHS HIS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES To the Citizens ot Thomson and Vicinity. He can be found at the Room over Costello's, when not professionally absent. REFERS TO Fro. J A. Eve, Pro. Wm. H. Doughty, Dr John S. Coi.esun; Dr. S C. Eye. -A. • 1* E ACO CK , SXt < i rcon St,r«M't. AUGUSIA, GEORGIA. Transient & Permanent Boarding. j*!*3 l »y GLOBE HOTEL. 8. W. CORN’EII BKOAD & JACKSON STS., AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. JACKSON & JULIAN, Proprit’rs. AVc beg leave to call the attention of the travel ling public to this well known Hotel, which wc 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. O IST TIME TILL THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER. J WILL furnish planters and others in want of 8 lIOES on City Acceptance, till Ist November next, at cash prices. D. COHEN, apr 3 13in3 Augusta, Ga. LUMBER. LUMBER. LUMBER! ANY quality or quantity of Pine Lumber de livered at Thomson, or 34 Mile Post on the Georgia Hailioad, low for cash. Poplar, Oak or Hickory Lumber saw ed to fill orders at special rates. J. T. KENDRICK. February 21, 1872. 7m6 CHARLES S. DuBOSE, W s Warrenton, On. Will practice iu all the Courts of the Northern, Augusta & Middle Circuits. 11. C. RONEY, Jttormg at Jato, Tnojttsor, fij. Will practice in the Augusta, Northern aud Middle Circuits, no 1-ly JAMES A. GRAY & CO, Have Removed to their New Iron Front Store, BKOAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA aprlOtf JAHES H. HULSEY’S Steam Dyeing and Scouring ESTABLISHMENT, 133 Broad St., Augusta, tia. Near Lower Market Bridge Bank Building for the Dyeing and Cleaning of dresses, shawls, cloaks, ribbons, Ac. Also gen tlemen’s coate, vests and pants cleaned and dyed in the best manner. Piece dry goods, cloths, me rinoes, delane, alpaca, rep goops and jeans dyed and finished equal to those done in New York, *&" Orders by Express promptly attended to, Augusta, Ga. apr, 3m3 Svapnia—is Opium purified of its filknening and poisenous properties, disoovered t>>- Dr. Biglow, Professor of Botany, Detroit Medi cal College. A most perfect anodyne and soothing ppia.te John Farr, Chemist New York. IMug. The Ijoho Busier. BX MIRE B*I,LIE THOMPSON. [After the war for Southern Indepenence was over, and the troops all dispersed, a lonely bugler passed through our mountain city with this bugle in his hand. J ' * Never more that bogie’s call; Shall wake our scattered legions In the twilight's holy fail, ’Mid love’s consecrated regions. Where the tones of battle rose, Silence sits enthroned forever, Summer suns and winter snows Fall on silent graves, but never Will that bugle blast awake Heroes 'round a Southern banner, For whose dear familiar sake Many shouted forth Hosanna. Vanished as the morning lights, Faded as a rainbow vision, Sink into eternal night, Golden dreams and hopes elysian. Tread of armies, proud and high, Music breathing, banners flying, Ikons in the summer sky, Forth in strains of triumph dying. Never more that bugle’s call Shall awake our scattered legions In the twilight’s holy fall, 'Mid these dim deserted regions. Bugler, with the shadowed brow, Seek some quiet, far-off valley, llest from all thy labors now— Southern hosts no more shall rally. Graves are dark and hands are cold, Hide for’ere thy mournful token In the dear, Confederate mould, With the hearts too sorely broken. —— Hfettllanemts. Tlio Volunteer Counsel. A THRILLING STORY. John Taylor was licensed when a youth of twenty-two, to practice at the bar. He was poor, but.well educated, aud possessed extraordinary genlUS. He married a beauty who afterwards de serted him for another. On the 9th of April, 1840, the court house in Clarkesville, Texas, was crowded to overflowing. An exciting case was about to be tried. George Hopkins, a wealthy planter had offered a gross insult to Mary Ellison, the young and beautiful wife of his overseer. The husband threatened to chastise him for the outrage, when Hopkins went to Ellison’s house and shot him in his own door. The murderer was bailed to answer the charge. This occurrence produced great excitement, and Hop kins in order to turn the tide of popular indignation had circulated reports which would operate against her character, and she had sued him for slander. Both suits were pending—for murder and slander. The interest became deeper when it was known that Pike and Ashley, of Arkansas, and S. S. Prentiss of New Or leans, by enormous fees, had been re tained to defend Hopkins. Hopkins was acquitted. The Texas lawyers were overwhelmed by their opponents. It was a fight of dwarf against giant. The slander case was for the 9th, and the throng of spectators grew in number as well as excitement; public opinion was setting for Hopkins—his money had procured witnesses who served his powerful advocates. When the slander case was called, Mary Ellison was left without an attorney—all had with drawn. ‘Have you no counsel V inquired Judge Mills, looking kindly at the pris oner. ‘No, sir, they have all deserted me, and I am too puor to employ any more,’ replied the beautiful Mary, bursting in to tears. ‘ln such case, will not some chival rous member of the profession volun teer ?’ said the Judge, glancing around the bar. The thirty lawyers were silent. ‘I will, your honor,’ said a voice from the thickest part of the crowd, behind the bar. At the sound of that voice, many started—it was unhealthy, sweet and mournful. The first sensation was changed into laughter, when a tall, guant, spectral figure elbowed his way through the crowd, an! placing himself withio the bar. His clothes looked so shabby that the court hesitated to let the case pro ceed through his management. ‘Has your name been entered on the rolls of the Stats V demanded the Judge, THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, CA, MAY 15, 1872 ‘lt is immaterial,’ answered the stran ger, his thin bloodless lips curling up with a sneer. ‘Here is my license from the highest tribunal in America!’ as he handed the Judge a broad parchment. The trial went on. He suffered the witnesses to tell their own story, and he allowed the defense to lead off. Ashley spoke first, followed by Pike and Prentiss. The latter brought down the house in cheers, in which the jury joined. It was now the stranger’s turn, he rises—before the bar, not behind it—and so near the wondering jury that he might touch the foreman with his long, bony finger. He proceeded to tear to pieces the argument of Ashley, which melted away at his touch like frost be fore a sunbeam—every one looked sur prised. Anon he came to the dazzling wit of the poet lawyer Pike. Then the curl of his lip grew sharper, his smooth face began to kindle, and his eyes to open, dim and dreary no longer, but vivid as lightening, red as fire-globes, and glaring ns twin meteors. The whole soul was in the eye; the full heart streamed out of his face. Then without bestowing an allusion to Prentiss, he turned short round upon the perjured witnesses of Hopkins, tore their testi mony into shreds, and hurled into their faces such terrible invectives that all trembled like aspens, and two of them fled from the court house. The excite ment was becoming tremendous. Their united souls seemed to hang upon the burning tongue of the stranger—he in spired them with power of his malig nant passions—he seemed to have stolen nature’s long hidden secret of attraction. But the greatest triumph was to come. Ilis eye began to glance at the assas sin Hopkins, as his lean taper fingers assumed the same direction. He hem med in the wretch with a wall of strong argument, and cut off all hope of escape, he dug beneath the murderer’s feet ditches of dilemma, and held the slan derer up to the scorn and contempt of the populace. Having thus girt him about with a circle of fire, he stripped himself for the work of masacre. Oh ! then St was a vision both glorious and dreadful to behold the Orator. His voice became as impetuous as the mo tion of an oa£. in a hurricane. His voice became a trumpet filled with wild wirlpools, deafening the ear with crash es of power, and yet intermingled all the while with a sweet undersong of the softest cadence. His forehead glow ed h/cea heated furnace, his countenance was haggared li/ce that of a maniac, and ever and anon he flung his long bony arms aloft as if grasping after thunder bolts. He drew a picture of murder in such colors that in comparison hell itself might be considered beautiful. He painted the slanderer so blacA that the sun seemed dar k at noonday, when shin ing on such an accursed monster, and then fixing his portraits on Hop&ins, he fastened them there forever. The agi tation of the audience nearly amounted to madness. All at once the speaker descended from the perilous height. Hia voice wailed out for the dead and the living—the beautiful Mary, more beautiful every moment, as her tears flowed faster—till men wept and sobbed like children. He closed with strong exhortations to the jury, and through them to the bystanders, he advised the panel after they should bring a vredict for the plain tiff not to offer violence to the defend ant, however richly he might deserve it. In other won s, not to lynch the villian, but to leave his punishment with God, This was the most artful tried of all. and the best calculated to insure ven geance. The Jury returned a verdict of fifty thousand dollars, and the night after wards HopGns was taken out of his bed and beaten almost to death. As the court adjourned the strager said : ‘John Taylor will preach here this evening, at early candle light’’ He did preach, and the house was crowded. I have listened to Clay, Webster and Calhoun—to Dwight, Bas com and Beecher—but never heard any thing in the form of sublime words that ever even remotely approximated to the eloquence of John Taylor, massive as a moutain, and wildly rushing as a stu penduous cataract. How fast time flies when you are working against it. How slowly when you are endeavoring to fill it up. What a difference between trying to get your work done before dinner and trying to fill up the hours before meal-time ar rives. There are 8,000,000 sheep iu Cali fornia. Capt. Chas. V. Hamilton. He Denies Implication with the McDuffie Robbers. Pronounces the Statements of Lonir and Willis a Tissue of Falsehoods. From the Augusta Constitutionalist] Yesterday our had an inter view with Capt. Chas. V. Hamilton, the alleged leader of the band of robbers, and who was couvitted at the last term of McDuffie Supeftor Court and senten ced to ten years’ impiisonment in the Penitentiary, for robbery. Reporter— Caps. Hamilton, you sent me a request to visit you, and I am here in accordance with that request. Hamilton—Yes, sir; I wish to make a statement in regard to the evidence of Long and Willis, and also in regard to the previous character of those men. Reporter—Was not that evidence true ? Hamilton—No, sir ; not one word of it. It was a tissue ot lies from begin ning to ind. Long’s statement was identical with a passage in a hook called “The Fancy Man, or A November Day- In Boston.” Long had this book here in jail with him and learned that passage before the trial took place. Long sta ted that this robbery was his first of fense. That was not true. lie con fessed to me when he was with me in this jail, some time before the trial, that he had been implicated in a number of critnes during and since the war. In 1864 he stole a horse and exchanged it for a mule, which he sold to a Mr. La nier, in Abbeville county, South Caro lina. He said that after the war, in 1865, he was hired by several parties to kill Mr. Lanier, for which service he was to receive SIOO. Before he got to Lanier’s house, however, he concluded not to kill him but to give him a good whipping. Lanier was a horse doctor, and sent tfnian up to his house to tell him that a gentleman had a sick horse do wn in the road, which he want ed attended to. Lanier went to where Long was; who gave him three hundred lashes, alnuvl killing him. He was next in with a plttv who robbed an old inan nariD’d Ifcrerelft*, 7» AbbVv Hie. Long was to kiU4*jUntree with a sledge ham mer, sut as Ve made a blow at him the old man doj’ged, and the hammer, slip ped from long’s grasp. Rountree then jumpedJo his gun, and the robbers ran off taking with them about six hundred 'dollar*. Immediately afterwards, Long, with fivo others, stole a lotol guns, pis tols, Vatch and $l5O in money from a party of negroes on Little river in South Carolina. Finding that he was getting undergnspicion, he said he came down to Edgefield and hired himself to Series & Hewitt, who were working a gold mine, While there he frequently stole gold, which another person was suspect ed ot taking. He and another party went to rob a negro on the Savannah river, but us they entered the house the negre struck at Long with an axe, cut ting open his shoulder, and nearly cleav ing him in twain. He afterward tried to mal.e it appear that it was the Elam boys, of Lincoln county, who were con cerned in this robbery. At Dorn’s Mine, S. C., Long robbed the United States census taker in 1870 of his books and money. He said that there was a man named Harriss came to him after ward and told him that if he gave up the books he might keep the money.— He told Harriss he knew nothing about the robbery. Harriss then went to a man who was concerned with Long in the affair, and told him Long had con fessed. The man then gave up the books. AgaijFfalling under suspicion, Long said he went to Coweta county, Ga., and afterwards located in Thomson. He also stole a horse from a man named Blackwell, in Edgefield county, S. C., and sold it in Glascock county, Ga.— Willis, who tiled to makethe impression that I had induced him to do wrong, was as bad as fx<ong. He helped to murder Atkins, busbies being engaged in other crimes. fla>meey, in 1866, went with a party to Lincoln county, and searched the house of an old negro man named Henry Cobb for money. Failing to get any at this house, they went to the house of Cobb’s son, V horn they hung until he was nearly dead, to make him confess where his father’s money was. They then went back to Henry Cobb’s, where they were fired upon by a party pf negroes. One ot Ramsay's party was killed, and the others were all wounded. Last spring Ramsay went to New York to get counterfeit money. His expenses were paid by four citizens of the county, whose names I never expect to make known. Reporter—ls you were innocent, Capt. Hamilton, why were you convict ed ? A jury of twelve honest men tried your case. Hamilton— I was unable to employ a lawyer until the last moment, conse quently, was not prepared. If I had had a chance, I could have proved that Long and Willis were induced to testily against me, and could have established my innocenee to the satisfaction of eve one. That which did me the most haras was the report that I was a Uni ted States detective trying to ferret out Ku-Klux. Isl was that, I was certain a dangerous man in the community. Reporter—Long’s evidence in rela tion to you, Capt. Hamilton, was very straightforward and conclsive. Hamilton—Yes; but as I said before, he took every word of it out of a boo& which he had here in jail with him. Long stated that he was twenty years old, while his real age is twenty-four years. This he told me himself. Mr. Evans, who was robbed some time since, has repeatedly said he would not be lieve Long on his oath. 1 am innocent and am made to suffer for the crimes of others. Hamilton then stated that he was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1547, and served through the war in Gen. Forest’s command as captain" of a band of scouts. He was married in Edgefield, in January, ISG7. Hamilton is a powerful built man, and has anyting but a pleasing counte nance. His bare statement that he is innocent will hardly be believed when twelve citizens of McDuffie county, which was the principal scene of his misdoings, after a fair and impartial tri al, have pronouced him guilty. Arrest of the Notorious ,T. C. Norris. United States Soldiers to his Rescue. On Sunday afternoon, Mr. J. C. Nor ris, who claims to be a United States Deputy Marsha!, the same notorious in dividual who figured so conspicuously in the Warren county persecutions some time ago, was arrested in this city upon the authority of n bench warrant, issued by the Superior Court of War ren county. The arrest was made by policeman Couch, and Norris was con veyed by the 8 p. m. train to Warren ton. He is charged with being accessory before the fact in the murder of Charles Wallace, a citizen of Warren county. After learning the facts yesterday morning, the United States officials—at least some of them —claimed to be much alarmed for Mr. Norris’ safety and life, some of them maintaining that it was the intention of this “mob,” as they termed it to assassinate Mr. Norris. So yesterday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, a de tatchment of ten Federal soldiers under the command of Lieutenat Bateinan, was dispatched to Warrenton. Upon inquiring upon what authority this was done, we were informed by the United States authorities that these soldiers were sent at the instance of several in dividuals who made affidavit that Mr. Norris’ life was endangered, and that it was not the intention of this force to interfere with any legal process against Nr. Norris, but to protect him in case of violence. This individual, J. C. Norris, was formerly a citizen of Warren county.— In 1869 he was appointed deputy sher iff in that county by Gen. Terry, then military commander of the District of Georgia, Florida and Alabama. In 1569 he was indicted by the Grand Ju ry of that county for false imprisonment of divers persons. He was also indict ed for the crime of being accessory be fore the fact in the murder of Charles Wallace, for which he is now under ar rest. He was arrested with warrants for all these charges. Gov. Bullock grant ed him a pardon for false imprisonment on the ground that the accusations against him were founded upon an al ledged illegality in his appointment, when, in fact, no reference was made in the indictments to the manner or legal ity of his appointment, and the sole ground of the prosecution was that he arrested and imprisoned persons with out warrants and without giving them an opportunity of being heard before a Court of Inquiry. The pardon docs not refer at all to the accusation of the Grand Jury in the case of the murder of Wallace. There can be no pretense that the offense has been pardoned by Bullock. It has been intimated by some that this arrest has been premeditated, so as to occur at the time when Norris was endeavoring to force Hancock to South Carolina. This, however, we are assur ed is entirely a mistake. The bench TERMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE, warrant upon which Norris was arrest ed was issued bv Hon. Garnet Andrews, Judge of the Superior Court of the Norther Circuit, and dated April lst f IS72.— Atlanta Sun. Bold Stag’*? Kobhet y. The stage which arrived here yester day, from Palisade, was stopped by four masked men, near the Hay Ranch, twen ty-two miles this side of Palisade, night before last, and robbed of about ail the valuables on board, including the mon ey and jewelry belonging to most of the passengers. The robbery occurred three miles south ofthe Hay Ranch Sta tion, on an open plain. The robbers were apparimfy lying on the ground, and when the stage approached they all sprung up with one accord, and com manded the driver to halt, which order was obeyed without argument. The passengers were assured that if they would keep still not one of them should be molested. Wells, Fargo & Co’s, treasure box was handed down by the driver, and the leading man of the band proceeded to chop it open with an axe brought along for the purpose. Meanwhile the other three stood guard over the driver and passengers. It is supposed that the box of Wells, Fargo & Cos. did not ‘pan out’ very well, as the fellow in charge of it was heard to curse his luck. At this stage of the proceedings it seems that the robbery of the passengers was resolved upou. Accordingly they were ordered ont of the stage, one at a time, when their effects were duly taken charge of. The total amount taken from the pas sengers in money was only about two hundred dollars. Some three or four watches, however, v, ere taken from the party. As the passengers were ‘clean ed out,’ they were arranged in a row" at the rear of thestage, where one of the masqueraders kindly protected them with a shotgun. The next move was to unlasli tbaffioot and go through the trunks and other baggage. This part of the work Was done with a vengeance, the axe being osed freely to smash things to pieces. Ibe leader of the band, who appear ed Very desperate, swore there was money aboard, and he intended to have it. He further said he had been watch ing thia opportunity for the benefit of his family for sometime. Oue ofthe trunks was known to contain a lot of jeweiry, but whether it was taken is not known. A passenger thinks that in one of the trunks or boxes in the boot, a large sack of money was found, as the robber notified one of his companionsin an under tone that he had struck it. After getting through, the robbers took out the swing horses and rode them off. They had two horses tied near by, and all four of the meu went mounted to the eastward. The robbers were number ed one, two, three, four. Number one, a tall, slim man, with striped, prison looking pants, and a large, broad-brim ed, white felt hat, did the heavy work and most of the ta k ng. It is thought by some people that Clifford and Par sons, the lately escaped convicts, were of the party. A Treasurer City saloon keeper saved his watch and money by passing his bottle around among the robbers soon after being stopped. All hands were badly frightened, and two of the passengers got their heads under the seats, and lemaiued in that position until dragged out by the robbers. Some of the robbers were also badly frighten ed. and trembled violently at "the begin ning. The whole performance detained the stage about two hours.— Eureka Sentinel. The Wood Case. —The Jury, yes terday morning brought in a verdict in the case of Wood vs. The Atlanta & Richmond Air-Line Railroad, in which Wood sued for compensation for dama ges sustained by personal injuries caused by falling into a cut of the road near Norcross. The damages were estima ted at 810,000, and the jury gave a verdict for 54.250. The case we learn, will be carried to the Supreme Court, Counsel for Wood—Peeples & Howell’, and Sidney Bell; Counsel for Railroad Company—John Collier and L. £, Bleckley.— Atlanta Sun* The passengers on an English road lately a very realizing sense of danger. At a point on the line where there was no station, the train “slowed up” and! finally stopped. After an unaccounta ble delay of some minutes, the passen gers finally grew uneasy, and one gomg up to the engine, found the engineer and firemen both helplessly drun£ and asleep, the Vteam exhausted, and tbe fire out. Lightenin-bugs appear every night.