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VOLUME EE—NUMBER 20. flic |i|cl)ujffic gontmil, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY —A T— ' gla..,. - I? Y— RONEY & SULLIVAN, RATES OF ADVERTISING , Transient. advertisements will be charged one dollar per square for the first insertion, and screuty five ceuts for each subsequent iuserliod. msinf.ss n.vnos. E. S. HARRISON , 1 and Surgeon Offers liis services to the public. Office with Or. J. Joues, over McCord & Hardaway's. aprlOm3 Thomson, Ga. s. Mv<apur <t- co. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in nil WHITE Bum 11. E, via —ALSO— ttcini-Cliiiia, French China, CJlavxwnre, A:c. 244 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga aprlO ly. BR T. L LVLLERSTEBT OFFKKS IIIS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES To the Citizens ol Thomsou and Vicinity. He can be found at the Room over Costello’s, when tot professionally absent. REFERS TO Pito. J A. Eve, Pro. Wm. IT. Doughty. Db John S. Colbman, Db. S C. Eve. l. a.. 1 *E.voOCK, !><! Greon Street, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, ■transient & Permanent Boarding, ' r '?tHOTJSL . S. W. CORNER BROAD * JACKSON STS., AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. JACKSON & JULIAN, Proprit’rs • We Ueg leave to call the attention of tto .travel ling public t;> thiK well known Hotel, which wa 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 ami convenience of guests. ON T IIVE 20 TILL THE FIRST OF Ummß. X WILL furnish planters and others in want of K E3 O K S on City Acceptance, till Ist November next, at cash prices. D. COIIEN. apr 3 13m3 Augusta, Ga. LUMBER ’ LUMBER. IFmBER! A NY quality or quautiiy of Pino Lumber de livcred dt Thomson, or .14 Mile Post on the Georgia Haiti oad, low for cash. Poplar, Oak or Hickory Lumber sawed to fill orders at special rates. J. T. KENDRICK. February 21, 1 872. 7mG CHARLES S, DuBOSE, pITTOItYFF.'ITL.'I W» Warnuiton, Ga. WEI practice in all the Courts of the Northern, Augusta &, Middle Circuits. 11. C. RONEY, Jttormg at Xalu, TitOJtiSO r, Will practice in the Augusta, Northern aud Middle Circuits, no I—ly JAMES A. GRAY & C 0„ Have Removed to their IVew Iron Front Store, BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA aprlOtf J All IIS SI. KIOLSEY’* Steam Dyeing and Scouring IE ST ABLISHM EMT, 123 Broad St., An;n«tn, Ga, Near Lower Market Bridge Bank Building for the Dyeing and Cleaning of dresses, shawls, cloaks, ribbons. Ac. Also gen tlemen’s coats, vests and pants cleaned and dyed 1 in the best manner. Piece dry goods, cloths, me rinoes, delane, alpaca, rep goops and jeans dyed j and finished equal to those done in New York. *£§T Orders by Express promptly attended to. Augusta, Ga. apr.3m3 Svapnia—is Opium purified of its siknening and poisenous properties, discovered by Dr. Biglow, Professor of Botany, Detroit Medi cal College. A most perfect anodyne and soothing onia.te John Farr. Chemist New York. fgH You Didn’t Hoard dor Nows? You didn't heard der news ? Veil, veil, Dot’s kinder funny doo— Vy, every poddy knows id yet— Pond yon dink id's drue ? Yes, yes, dot’s so—vc god a son— My olt vuinans and me— Und lie’s der smardesd leedle shild You eilcr yed kin see. lie corned de very lasd nighd in March, Der sassy leedle mool, Es he’d availed a leedle vile, Den hoboes an Abril fool; Bnt dot phby. he mowed a drag or doo— Dey say so, he looked like me, I>ot’s cause I’m peen his s adder, Dot counds for dot, you see, He's god der nicesd leedle shnood, Und leedle hands und vect, Und he kin vinks mid hot lies eyes— Oli! he pees goot enuf to Cad. Tot’s dot ? I bed yon dot I'm broud, I veel like of I’m vild, I voodn’t sewab him for a varm; No, he pee’s doo nice a shild! Come in der house und saw’d him vonco; Hush now! Dond vako him up! He pees god an auful pair of lungs, He In* tin BcUwfeel like a bisend pub, See, der he is, now ainahe nice? lie's vixen he's moud to gry; lie vonds to suck on somedingsj; I guess He’s leedle droat, dot’s dry. Veil, go town sthairs in der beer saloon, Und trink ft glass' of peer. To der held of dotschmall shild of mine, Dot vas send me dis year; Und veil hobes von he gots to pea man, Dot chuscd like he’s farder lie’ll been, Und ve’ll hobe anodder schmoll shild vill come Nexd year dis dime agin. fgisjcUaucoHis. CIARICE. I did not hate Clarice Stanley, because 1 was taught in my childhood to believe that the harboring for one brief moment of that enujUcuL was an unpardonable l sit», and I thus acquire i a liabit of trying! c. £)wha,at Jj’.« oy„.f I must honestly confess that I had n > other reason for not perfectly hating her. She was a marvelously beautiful crea ture. How beautiful I cannot say; but she was the handsomest woman I ever saw, and no man ever came into her presence and remained half an hour without makiuga fool of himself. Now, on the other hand, I ioveJ my half sister Bertha. I did not love or ap preciate nVy mother until shewas dying, and then 1 was suddenly awakened to the fact that she was a good woman, and that in loving her, I was loving the best friend 1 had Hi the world ; and 1 was ready to promise all she wished in regard to the future of little Bertie. I was twele years older than this four year old sister, and very young to take her education into my hands ; but 1 did it cheerfully, and tried to do my duty. I think I succeeded; fir when Bertie was eighteen there was not a sweeter, prettier girl in all the country round. We had a neighbor, a rickety old man, with every complaint known, whose safeguard was his wealth. Well, this man died ; and in a week his heir came down to Granby Hall to view his vast inheritance. Bertie, dear little soul, had been remembered in the old man’s will, for her bowls of soup and morning calls, and Frank Granby himself led down the snowy horse, which had been the old man’s bequest, and Bavv my golden haired darling. I was so fond and proud, that I should not have wondered at any man who fell in love with her; and so, of course, I was not surprised to see Frank Granby lose the indifferent face he had brought across the lawn, and carry away one very animated and full of admiration. I did not see every glance, or hear ev ery word that they spoke after this , but I knew they were progressing well, and was quite prepared, when, after a few weeks, Frank led her to me, all blushes and modest happiness, and asked me to give them my blessing, and consent to their union. Ah, how reaijily I com plied / for this was the realization of all my dreams. She would have money, position, and love! Before the summer days ended my cousin Clarice came on a visit. I have already said that she was beau tiful ; and she possessed—what even goes further—the most wonderful con versational powers, and manners refined to almost perfect by years of practice in the best society. She was as old as my self, but far more beautiful than in girl hold; and when she crossed our thres hold, I was as envious and jealous for Bertie’s sake, as though 1 knew she would take our Frank away. THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY. GA., MAY 22, 1872 She knew, in a very little while, that Bertie was engaged ; and, when my dar ling went out to cut some fresh flowers for our tea-table, she said, ‘Rattie, why didn't you make the child wait ? She is pretty, and would produce a sensa tion in town. Why, she might marry a very rich man.’ ‘I believe that Frank claims that title. His uncle has recently left a large prop erty, and his father died but a year ago equally rich, and left everything to Frank.’ ‘Strange that he should select such a little wild flower. Being young, he might marry almost any one he chooses.’ She was our guest, so 1 held my peace. But it galled me very much to do so, and 1 at once resolved to watch her. The very moment she saw Frank, I knew that she made up her mind to win him; and, before he had been pres ent an hour, she had drawn him quite away from Bertie’s side. He did not seem to understand that she was several years older; indeed, she did not look it. As he went away she said. -You are the only member of the male sex I have seen since I entered this town ; and as I verily believe yon to be the only one I shall see, I claim you for my escort.’ He laughed at her, and went away with the same animated face he had worn when he first met Bertie. From that momenta cloud hovered over us. At first, it was a tiny thing; but it grew larger, until it quite dimmed our lives. Frank became as wax in Clarice’s strong hands. Then there wore nights when my dar ling came to my room, and crept into my arms, and laid her tear-wet cheek close to mine sobbing, ‘Oh, Pattie, dear, dear sister, my heart is breaking.’ The autumn drew near, and Clarice still remained with us. She was the same careless creature, and was appa rently in ignorance of the fact that she was the cause of the broken engagement, and that in our abode Frank Granby’s fnoe was seen no more. I was not ig norant of the fact, or that the roses were fleeing from Bertie’s cheek, aud > rt "• : l A "Li ■Rud there was not a night that I did not pray for her. One day, Clarice came to mo ; and settling her drapery around her, she sat back in a chair, she said, dreamily, ‘Pat tie, you hate me bitterly, 1 dare say, but where’s the use? I cannot help loving Frank, or prevent his loving me. He could not be happy with your baby sis ter, and you must not !Game him. We are to be married in three weeks from to-day.’ ‘Very well.’ ‘How icy your are ! Bless me / what a miserable looking wretch/’ The last sentence had no particular reference to me, but to a man who was crossing the lawn to the back door. 1 went out to him. A wretch / It was a fair name for him. He was not ill looking, but lie was indeed wretched. There was the dust and mud of one week’s travel at least, clinging to his heavy shoes, and a dirty, half grown beard hiding the lower [iart of his face. His coat was ragged and ill-fitting, and his linen limp and dirty. I spoke, and asked his er rand. ‘I am hungry, I am tired, I am poor, and out of work,’ lie answered. ‘You shall have food ; come in.’ He came and sat upon the door sten, ‘Couid you not find a few day’s work for me in all those fields ? I can work we'l, ma’am.’ My answer did not come readily, and he spoke again : ‘I see. Ido not blame you. It is the way of the world. You could not trust such an ill looking vagabond as I am. Give me plenty of water, a little soap, a comb, shaving utensils arid I shall be a man.’ I had lived the greater part of my life in that quiet country place, and had learned to be a trifle cold to strangers, aud most of all,.such -as he; but some thing possessed me tijcn, and 1 bade him enter ; called one of the farm hands and asked him to supply the man with the necessary toiletarticles, and clothes. In half an hour he again came before me. I was surprised at the change.— John, the farm laborer, had supplied him with a clean suit of clothes, and his face was clean shagen, and his hair combed smoothly. ‘Your name is Miss Patience Stan leigh,’ he said. ‘Yes,’ I replied, in wonder. ‘I have a long story to tell you. Will you come out to the end of the garden wall across your lawn, and listen ?’ And timid creature that I always was, I got up without a word, and followed him out, aud listened to him. When his story was finished, I directed him to J a cottage where he could lodge, and : work so ■ me; and then I went back to ' the hou ,e with great peace in my heart. I I did not speak of my visitor to Clari ice, or Bertie, and the former quite for- I got the miserable wretch she had seeu ; ! but I sent ti>Granby Hall and requested its master to come to our farm house.— l hurrie*, called Clarice and Bertie out of the and >or, and we were sitting there admiring the rosy sunset when Frank came up '.i/4cre was visible embarrass ment but I aiose to my feet qffi :kVyT saying .- ‘Frank, I brought you here to-night, not because I am angry at anything you have seen lit; to do, but because I wish to befriend you.’ ‘You M«e>i to marry my cousin ?’ ‘Yes,’ h: said with a flush. ‘You cai.not.’ ‘Who wI; prevent it? Not you, you envious, i aiieious, old maid/ cried Clarice. ‘Not I, indeed /’ ‘No. Cla-doe, not your cousin—but I, Mark Brad!fcy, your husband/’ and my ragged • u i stepped forth from the hall. Clarice sprang up with a sharp.cry, aud then caught the tellis for support. ‘Perhaps you don’t beleve it,’ cried Bradley iiDjjiipa up a piece of paper citedly Frank, ‘but it is true. There is ifij certificate. She thought mo rich, bat when she had been mar ried four cells, iter mistake, and let); me in my fcesolute poverty and lied. I have been ill, alone, poor and iricndlessvjsut I have .always /cept an eye upon her.’ t With coo glance at the white trem bling lon : of my enemy, Frank came to mo aivftdteld out his hand. ‘l’aUic u. it you forgive me ?’ ‘Yes, 1 rank, with all my heart.’ ‘ Will ! rtio forgive me V’ ‘Go and ack. her.’ lam ba«» she. forgave him; for they were got* *n long while down in the orchard And in three weeks they were married rw t «... -r-u cousin MaTk is my balilf, and a frequent visitor at vxanby Ball. Good tuid 1S:k1 Papers. It is a sad sight for one who longs for a nation’s isigheat prosperity, to see the youth of it nocking to the news stands and to the country post-offices, so eager lor the illustrated newspapers of the day. The instant one is secured the lad or young man walks away, eagerly devouringtite continued story, always full of the wildest sensational reading, if not teaching the most debasing mor als. Viliams of every lute are held up asheroe3, aad young minds are fired to imitate their deeds. That is the way many of our thieves and murderers are made. 'l2f.it is the way so many hoys are made perfectly worthless for any practical purpose in life. You can know the boy Who devours such-literature by his sloughing gait, and absent manners; by his crossness when called away from his enchanting, visionary world, and ob liged to take part in the real. Boys, ifyou ever expect to be success ful! aud honored men in the world, shun such reading. If an agent urges you to subscribe for such a trashy paper, tell him once for all—no. Inquire if lie has any good substantial paper that will give valuable knowledge—that Vviii render you better and wisesr. If he has invest your money in that, and you will find that of all the investments of the year, this is the best paying. What would you think of the farmer who should go’TJ'MT" in the morning and sow his meadows with ox-eyes daisy and wild parsley ? They are botli very pretty flowers, and beautifully diversify the monotony of the meadow. But I have yet to see the farmer pleased with them. Now, their influence is not half so pernicious as that of those sensation al papers on the minds of your children. You may, by .great care, root out these mischievous weeds,but the injury bad lit erature leaves is life-long. It resembles a miracle if the reader is not utterly ru ined by it.. Choose warily your chil dren’s reading, and when you have found a really good paper, stick to it as a fast friend. A New Yorker wrote to Gen. Spinner requesting his autograph and a ‘senti- upon the veteran Treasur er wrote a reply as follows : ‘You de sire my autograph with a sentiment.— My sentiment is this : When one gen tleman writes to another on his own business, he should enclose a postage j stan.p. Selma had a $7,000 fire a few days ago. j Tjovo in a Snowdrift. I The Kansas City Times recounts j the termination of a romantic young lady’s travels. A young and pretty girl, named Miss Alameda Cosgrove, re siding at San Diego, last summer re sponded to an advertisement in the Wa verly Magazine for a correspondence, with a view to enjoy fun and amuse ment, and perhaps matrimony. The correspondent of the young lady resided at Wathena, Kansas, and represented himself to be a merchant, young, weal thy, and in want of a wife. A long and loving correspondence ensued between Jerome Markham and Miss Cosgrove.— Photographs were exchanged, and Miss Cosgrove was delighted to find her un seen lover a good looking youth, distin gue in appearance and decidedly hand some. Finally she consented to come to Wathena to be married. Two weeks ago she started for Kansas. All went well until she got on the Denver Pacific. After leaving Cheyenne the train struck a drift, and became helplessly stuck fast. VYlide snow bound near Crow Creel-, Colorado, Miss Cosgrove attract ed the attention of Mr Julius Emmett, a commission merchant of Kansas City, who perceiving the young lady seated alone, and evidently unprovided for such an emergency, very gallantly ten dered such assistance as was in his power to give, which was a valise full ofcold food and two buffalo-robes. The young couple were soon on friendly, so cial terms. Miss Cosgrove very naively recited her adventures, and was reward ed by Emmett informing her that he was single, eto. They parted with re gret at Wathena, when the young lady turned to meet him the first time she was to call her husband. She had only a moment to wait before a rough, rak ish-lookilig individual, at least, forty years old mado himself known as her correspondent and expectant husband. Miss Cosgrove finding that she had been deceived, turned without a word and entered the car for Kansas City. A few days afterwards the lady married her friend Emmett, am', ahe will no doubt of a flirtation in a snowdrift on the. De nver Pacific. The Capital of Germany. —The population of Berlin in one hundred and seventy years has increased ten-fold, and its limits cover a radius of nearly thirteen miles. When Frederick the Great’s ambition desred a city, he first enclosed a vast sandy plain with walls, and ordered that his vassals fill the empty space with houses. The people being few were in consequence, some what puzzled how to fulfil l the wishes of their sovereign. They at last hit up on apian of geometrical triangles, and commenced raising two-storied hotels, having as many as twenty-five windows on a line. The streets thus mdde were beautiful and wide. The site of the city is flat, and consequently much expense has been incurred in order to make the drainage any way approaching perfec tion. An idea of this table like city may be formed when I mention that one street alone, the Freiderich’s strasse, is two miles long, and through its entire length there is not one foot of descent. The paving is in a very poor condition, and the trottoir.s or sidewalks wretched ly narrow. Berlin is as intolerable a city ;n the summer as it is pleasant in | the winter. But notwithstanding the disadvantages of situation and other drawbacks, Berlin may certainly claim to be one of the finest cities in Europe. By simply turning on one’s heels in the space between the Palace and the Bran deburg Gate may bo seen the Museum with its beautiful colonade, the chaste guard house, the great Opera and the University. All these buildings are in the well-known street Unlcr den Lenden, this being the principal and most fre quented thoroughfare in the city. A traveler in Polynesia eonculdes a de scription of the women of Tahiti, as fol lows: The most bashful and coy nev er passyou without a greeting, a glance of the eyes, and a slight gathering of her dress with the elbows, to exhibit her buxom ligurc to full Or else, perhaps she will come coquet tishly, and ask you for the loan of your cigar, take a few puffs at it, and hand it back gracefully to the astonshed owner, and then with a parting compli ment, which you most lively do not un derstand, let you go your way in peace —or not. The proper way to walk with your lady love in Tahiti is as fol lows: You put your arm around her neck, and she hers around your waist, and hangs on your breast in a limply, affectionate manner. It is as much selon les regales as walking arm in arm, and much prettier to look at. TERMS-TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE. True Lore. Yesterday, in one of the Catholic churches in the city of St. Joseph, there was celebiated a marriage, in which John Ilo'tzman and Catherine Mentz were made one. There is not much in the simple announcement, yet, thereby hangs a tale which we give to our read ers as it was told to us by a friend of the bridgroom. During the war between Prussia and France, Holtzman was one of those who were in duty bound to render service to his country. He was engaged to be married to a girl named Catherine Mentz, and not liking the idea of exposing his valuable person to the bullets of the Frenchmen, he conceived the idea of emigrating to a country where lie need not become a bold soldier unless he wished. But then a little pe cuniary difficulty presented itself. He had not the means to pay his passage out of the country, and in his extemity he applied to his fiance. She had with an eye to some day keeping house for Holtzman, saved up her wages, and for. tunately had in her possession at that time about S2OO. Tnis she freely gave to her lover, and he bade her a fond farewell, and secured passage for Ameri ca. Gradually he worked his way to this city, but fortune which he courted so sedulously, never smiled on him, and he began to despair of ever being able to send for his “Dolly Varden,” or to re turn to consumate the vows he had spoken. He wrote to this effect, and on Saturday last was agreeably sur prised by receiving a telegram from her dated in New Yoik, informing him of Her arrival there, and her intention to inimediathly come to St. Joseph. She arrived here yesterday morning, and ere noon the happy couple were made one. She has paid her own way from the old country, and besides, brings money enough to buy the 'neces sary furniture to,begin housekeeping.— Such devotion ought to meet with its reward, and we hope the newly married couple may never regret their action. nsr'l. i£»?S!S z'ianti.- ~os£, j» Bream. A singular case of the fulfilment ol a startling dream has recently been add ed to the many well authenticated in stances of such occurrences. A Mr. J. G. Clymore, of Vienna, 111., in a letter to Hon. Horatio King, of Washington, 1 with whom he was in the habit of cor responding, mentioned incidentally that he had dreamed for four consecutive nights that he had been murdered. A few days later a dispatch from Chicago announced that a Mr. J. 0. Clymer had been murdered near Vienna, on the evening of the 29th of March. Mr. King, recalling the story of the dream, at once supposed that the murder ed man must be his correspondent, al though there was a slight difference in the spelling of the names. To make the matter suie, he wrote to Vienna, and in answer he received two letters from the postmaster of that place, from which it appeared that his conjecture was correct. Mr. Clymore left his home on the morning of 29th of March, and was seen alive in a desolate spot latetnS the evening of that day.— The next mining his hat, saddle-bags, papers, and pieces of his clothing wwe {Sunu near where he was last seen. There were also two large clubs found, bearing blood and hair. The horse he was riding went home with a gash cut in one shoulder fourteen inch es long. His body was found floating in a stream. It was not known that he had any enemies, and it is supposed that he was murdered for money, as he was accustomed to have large sums in his possession. The Vienna Postmas ter writes that Mr. Clymore related his strange dream to the last man he is known to have talked with; A German, getting excited over an account of an elopement of a married woman, gave his opinion thus : ‘lf my vise runs avay mitanoder man’s, vise, I shake him out of her preechesy if she be mien sadder mien Got P Marriage is come to be looked on' as such a temporary arrangement in India that Justices’ fees for the cere mony have been reduced to twenty-fivb cents for customjrs Connecticut people have been expect ing that a hen, which was setting on a dozen apples, would hatch a barrrel of cider. ‘Where the woodbine tvvineth’ must be in Canada. That’s where all the ras cals go. ‘You’re a queer chicken,’as the iien said when she hatched out a duc/c.