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VOLUME 11-NUMBER 29. Ute *MciDuffie ganmat, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY —A T— THCO3VISO3Sr. C3-A-, —B Y— RONEY & SULLIVAN, RATES OF ADVERTISING , Transient advertisements will be charged one dollar per square for tlie first insertion, and seventy five cents for each subsequent insertion. BUSJXKSS II VIUIS. E. S. HARRIS ON, IMi.V»icia.n und Surgeon Offers his services to the public. Office with Dr. J. S. Jones, over McCord & Hardaway’s. apr!om3 Thomson, Ga. j: MWMPMT & Wholesale and Retail Doalers in Hffl WHITE MUTE Si E, E, 111 —ALSO— »cmi<Chi»n French China, Cilassware, Arc. 244 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga aprlO ly. 11. <5. RONEY, Mornm at Into, tii <t.ft so v, u.i. Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits, no l-ly JAMES A. GRAY & CO., Have Removed to their New Iron Front. Store, BROAD STREET, AUGUST , GA aprlOtf GLOBE HOTEL. s W. CORNER BROAD & JACKSON STS., Ki, GEORGIA. N & JULIAN, Proprit’rs ve to call the attention of the travel ► thirt well known Hotel, which wo y loanel ami placed on a footing ie in the South. No expense will be uder it a first class House in every 3VCTy attention is paid to the comfort nee of guests. L. ULLHSTEHT >FFI>U» IIIJS ISSIONAL SERVICES iliiens ol Thomson and Vicinity, lie can be tonnd at the Hoorn over Costello’s, when cot professionally absent. REFERS TO Pro. J V. K.-e, Fito. Wji. 11. Do uiity. Du John S. Culkjian, l>n. S. C. Evu. O IST TIIVES. TILL THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER. I WILD furnish planters and others in want of sno k s on City Acceptance, till Ist November next, at cash prices. D. COHEN, apr 3 ISm.T Augusta, Ga. CHARLES S DuBOSE, TiTrv/t.Y£ r r.'/ Th?i m Warrcnton, Ga. Wi'l practice in all the Courts of the Northern, August* & Middle Circuits. ‘ J. M. HA.R.P, Wholesale and retail dealer in 111 23 ¥ i525®32532 ©0 L a LAMPS AND LAMP FIXTURES, Manufactured and dealer in all kinds of TIN AN3 SHiET IRON WARE I GUTTERING, ROOFING, And all kiuds of Jobbing done promptly and neatly. GmG 15S-1 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. Established in I*ls. T. 11. MANLEY, —WITH— /r AY/, Mquesqnt & tS'O.Y? NURSERYMEN, HAVE FOR SALK A LARGE ASSORMP.NT OF ORNAMENTAL TREES, EVERGREENS, & ROSES,’ 4A rape Viaies and Small FitiiN, dwarf and standard fruit teles, Rochester, N. Y. JANIES 11. Ul iNEYN Steam Dyeing- and Scouring JBST-A.fem.XSid IVEEX-sTT, 13S Broad St., Augusta, t/a. Near Lower Market Bridge Bank Building for the Dyeing and Craning of dresses, shawls, cloaks, ribbons, &c. Also gen tlemen’s coats, 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. *ST Orders by Express promptly attended to. Augusta, Ga, apr.3m3 Svapnia—is Opium purified of its siknening and poisonous properties, It is a perfect anodyne, not producing headache or constipation of the bowels, as is the case with other prepara tions of opium. John Farr, Chemist New \ork SoftVH. There I* No Death. There is no death! Then say, oh say, What means the last, the sad farewell, The pallid face, the folded hands, The grave, the solemn funeral knell ? What means the fearful stillness ? What The widow’s bleeding heart, the groan, As on each vacant chair she reads In bitterness, alone —alone ? There is no death? Then why so oft From orphaned hearts goes up the cry, God of the fatherless, be Thou To us a Father ever nigh ? There is no death ? Tho sobbing winds, The rustling leaf, the faded flower— Do they not silently declare, We, too have our appointed hour ? There is no death. Tho loved one 'lives, Immortal life to him is given ; And though the last farewell be said. It is a sound unknown iu Heaven. No death ! no death! the voice of Spring Will call again the faded flowers, And. kissed by gentle zephyrs, they Will bloom again in fields and bowers. There is no death! The Conqueror lives And reigns enthroned in glory high ; He stooped to break the Tyrant’s chain, lie bled that he might never dio. yV Cuution. Love hailed a little maid, llomping through the meadow; Heedless in the sun she played, Scornful of tho shadow. “Como with me,” whispered he, “Listen, swoot, to Love and Reason;” “By-and-by,” she mocked reply, “Love’s not in season.” Years went, years came, Light mixed with shadow, Love met tlie maid again, Dreaming through the meadow. “Bo not Coy,” urged the hoy, “List in time to love and lloason, “By-and-by,” she mused reply, “Love’s still in season.” Years went, years came, Light turned t<> shadow; Lovo saw the maid again, Waiting in tho meadow. “Pass no more, tny dream is o’er; I can listen now to Reason.” “Keep thee coy,” mocked the boy, “Lovo’s out of season.” pfefdlancous. Marryiny a Fortune. ‘Have you heard the news about Miss Temple, Ned ?’ said Charlie Ashton, as he sauntered leisurely up to the desk which Edward Farnham occupied in Smith & Jones’ office on Wail street. The warm blood colored Ned’s face in spite of' all his struggles to prevent it, and he replied ; ‘No ; I hope no harm.’ ‘Well, I should guess it wasn’t.— Come, [tut up your books, and as we go up town I’ll tell you.’ ‘No ; I cannot leave yet. I have not finished my balance,’ ‘Oh, pshaw/ finish that to-morrow before ten o’clock. I wouldn’t work as hard as you do for any living, and much less for those bankers, who think all a fellow’s made for is to wor/r and make money for them. Come along.’ ‘No ; I cannot go,’ ‘Well, then, the tale is .short, she’s had a big fortune left her, some say five hundred thousand dollars.’ An involuntary sigh escaped Ned, and he rather muttered than spoke : ‘l’m sorry to hear it.’ ‘Why, what's got into you ? Sorry? Why, I haven’t heard anything that pleased me so much in many a day. I always liked the girl, but I am not philosopher enough tu marry her for love alone. My doctrine is, when poverty comes in at the window, love goes out at the door.’ ‘I am afraid that I don’t agree with you in such things, hut I have no time to discuss it now. Miss Temple, in my opinion, would be a fortune for any man, did she not possess a cent of money.’ ‘Pshaw, Ned, that’s old fogy. Love in a cottage! ha! ha/ Well, I liked her pretty well before, but I can’t help thinking her attractions very greatly enlarged since I heard that news. I never should have thought of anything but a pleasant acquaintance—guess I’ll go for her now. Goodbye, old fellow, and don't hurt yourself working over those books,’ Ned made no reply, but felt as if he would like to grind beneath his heel one wlio could speak so irreverently of her who, in his idea, combined every grace of heart and mind, and perfection of form and feature, which should make up a perfect; woman, His thoughts Thomson, McDuffie county, ga., july 24, 1872. turned to action, and he caught himself stamping his heel on the desk stool with such force as almost to dent a hole in it, aud looAiug up saw Mr, Smith’s steady gaze fixed on him. , Bac/L to his work he tried to bring his thoughts, but they were not subject to his will, and he found himself in great danger of writing the thoughts passing through his mind. ‘She is lost to me now. Oh how I wish it had never happened /’ lie had closed the book, put away the papers, and, with that dreary, lost, far away kind of ItioZ, passed unheediugly among the throng on the money mart of the world. Charley Ashton lost no time in improv ing his opportunities, for that night found him seated tete-a-tete with Miss Temple in a cosy little room in Twenty first street. Miss Temple was an orphan, and lor years lived with her aunt— her father’s sister. An income of four hundred dol lars a year had b ten left, which at least supplied all necessary wants. Sho was not ashamed to assist her aunt about many things some would call menial; and in form and feature, heart and mind, all her acquaintances said, fully sustained the high opinion we have seen Ned Farnham had of her. Ere the evening was over Charley Ashton had succeeded in appearing deeply in love, aud not many days pass ed ere he had proposed and was accept ed. Os all her mule accquaintunces Miss Temple had til ways preferred the two young men mentioned. It was true she had rather leaned to the quiet Mr. Farnham, but of late he had ceas ed to visit her, while Mr, Ashton’s presence had been almost constant.— lienee she persuaded herself that she loved him, and accepted him. Charley urged a speedy marraige, which, came abortt in a conversation too long for me to detail, wherein it appeared that some of tho ‘boys' on the ‘street’ wore fixiu up a pool to buy a certain sock, and our friend Ashton wanted some of the five hundred thous and .dullars to put in it. Miss Temple preferred a longer time, urging that time would ina/ce them Know each other better, especially in the intimate relation they now stood. Charley vowed that lie Knew that time could never developed any faults iti her. ‘But,’ stiid Miss Temple, ‘there is an other reason, and i thin re I can be free with you now ; I have spent so much of my little income, and aunt has no spare money—that I have no spare means of defraying necessary expenses.’ ‘But yon have the fortune left you by your California uncle ; even if you have not received it, your agents will certainly maice an advance.’ ‘I have no fortune, dear Charley.—■ Some thought it was mine, but the for tune to which you probably allude was left to my cousin, Bliss Thompson Temple, to whom I introduced you at the Philharmonic.’ ‘Alt, it was indeed ! She is a favored young lady; but how much does she re ceive ?’ ‘Report said five hundred thousand dollars, but cousin Nan has been inform ed by the agent that there is but ten thousand dollars in money— the rest in houses and lots at San Francisco, val ued at ninety thousand dollars.’ ‘Ah/ well, really, how these tilings do spread. But to our matter. I guess Miss Arina, you had better have your own way.’ The hours of that evening dragged heavily along, and as they lengthened, Charley Ashton’s manner became more and more formal. He left and Anna’s warm heart was sad as she thought over the cool manner and cooler parting. No sleep came to her eyes that night. ‘Can it be?’ she said to herself a thousand times ; ‘and yet it must, for his manner changed almost from my tell ing him olNannic’s fortune.’ The next night came, and Charley was not in his usual place, and the next also. About a week afterward, a short note informed Bliss Temple that having lost all his savings in a bad speculation, he should not think of holding her to an engagement which would be out of his power to consummate in years. To say this did not grieve her would be false, but it did not require many days to teach her that she had not loved Charley Ashton as she should the man she was to marry. Again our two young men met, this time on Broadway. Charley, gaily saun tering along, hailed Ned in the old fa miliar way : ‘Well, old boy, off early to-day.’ • ‘l’ve been promoted, and am not ob liged to work so late, though I often do ; I am going riding in the park ; my head has ached much of late, and I am more nervous than formerly.’ ‘Shouldn’ t work so hard ; don’t get any thanks for it. By the by, that for tune of Miss Temple’s turns out to be all in my eye.’ ‘How—what’s that ?’ was the eager reply. ‘Well, a Bliss Somebody Temple had about one hundred thousand dollars left her, but it wasn’t our pretty little friend.’ ‘Biit I hiLj.iT vou were attentive, some said engaged.' ' ‘There is no telling what might have been but for the fool of an aunt making a mistake in names. However, it’s all over now. You know that. lat least can’t afford ■ o marry, if she is a Peri. I /mow you entertain some sort of a fool ish notion that love, etc., will do, but it’s all bosh. Give me the dimes, my boy. When poverty comes in at the window, etc., you /now. TaKe my ad vice and drop all such foolish ideas.’ Ashton might as well have tallied to the lamp post for all the hearing Ned Farnham did. What he was thinsing of we cannot say, hut he did not go to the pare that afternoon, and the even ing found him in the little parlor which had so often been graced by Charley’s presence -JRre, the evening had passed lie had explained his long absence, told her of his better prospects, and offered his heart and hand. She asited three weeiis to consider, he to visit her as often as he pleased. After that time he was accepted, and Anna learned what true love was. Here my story might end, but there is a sequel. Some months after the en gagement Mr. JSmitli tapped Ned on the shoulder, and motioned him to the pri vate office. ‘Going to marry my niece?’ said that gentleman. Tam engaged to Miss Anna Temple, sir, and we expect in a quiet way to be married, one month from to-day. But I was not aware that she was your niece.’ ‘Neither ' Puntil a few days since. As for your quiet way, understand me, sir, the child of my only sister can be married nowhere else but in my bouse. Come, now, no flinching, I’ve heard all about it. But she’s poor—poor as Job’s tursey ; and I have too many children to give her more than a decent wed ding.’ Ned did not understand the expression on Mr. Smith’s face, but he felt a little angered and replied : ‘I should'never have addressed her, and I would release her this moment if I renew she was an heiress.’ ‘No you don’t. I Know you, and I Know the whole story. You can go. Ned pondered long over this singular conversation, but no satisfaction came from his own thoughts or from Anna. She replied by a smile or a Kiss. Not withstanding all the urging of her new found uncle, Anna refused to leave her aunt until the time for the wedding. The event came, and the ceremony was over. Then Mr. Smith called theyoung married couple into tho library, and, drawing from his safe a strong iron box, said : ‘Now young man, you’re tied hard and fast, and I’ll tell you that you’ve got an heiress, and a riel) one too. A foolish brother of her father’s one who would go to Calafornia, took into his head to die, not long since, and left such a botched up will that it has taken six months to get the straight of it. We were his agents, and kept the matter to ourselves, because it was a large sum and might create impostors. We of the one hundred thousand dollars to Bliss Anna Thomp son Temple ; but the contents of this box, five hundred thousand dollars, in bonds, wc used more scrutiny in assign ing, and in the coourse of our investi gation, I not only found the rightful owner of our trust, but the child of my only sister. Sir, you are worthy of her, and what is less, her fortune. The morning papers will announce you as a partner in our house,’ ‘Ella, my child,’ said a prudish old maid to a pretty niece, who would curl her pretty ringlets, ‘if the Lord had in tended your hair to be curled he would have done it himself.’ ‘So he did, aunty, when I was a baby, but he thinks lam big enough now to do it myself. ‘Where was Bishop Latimer burned to death ?’ asked a teacher in a com manding voice. ‘Joshua knows,’ said a little girl at the bottom of the class. ‘Well,’ said the teacher, ‘if Joshua knows he may tell.’ ‘ln the fire,’ re plied Joshua looking very grave and wise. From the Atlanta Constitution. Tln-illing- Adventure. On last Saturday, between two and j three o’clock, Major John B. Steward, who lives on his farm near the North base of Stone Blountain, thought he heard the voice of a man in distress on the steep side of the mountain. Upon looking up he saw the head of a man, and saw him waving his hands for suc cor. The man called to Major Steward for a drink of water, and said that he had but little money but he would give it all to be taken from the place he was. Major Steward asked him if he was not hoaxing him? The man replied that he was in earnest. Major Steward was a gallant wearer of the gray and has a heart always open to the ciy of the dis tressed. Cautioning the man to keep quiet, he proceeded at once to town and obtained assistance. The news spread like wild fire over town, and every heart ran out in anguish for the condition of the unfortunate one* Those who went to the rescue made “quick time” to get there. Blen were stationed at the base on the north side to signal the party on top at what point to descend. Securing the rope to a cedar tree firm ly imbedded between two massive roc/cs,- Colonel J. T. Willingham and F. P. Julian made the perilous descent to res cue the man. About three hundred feet from the top of the mountain they came to him. He was lying in a gulch, or water-course furrowed out of the rock by rains. One foot was jammed in a crevice, and the other bent under his body. He was hugging the rock close ly, while one hand was grasped in the strap ou the collar of his coat. A small tablet of rock, two or three feet long, and a foot or so wide, was all that was between him and a fall of some twelve hundred feet to the ground. Had he moved two or three feet either to the right or left, he would have been precipi tated twelve hundred feet to the bottom, and only a horrible mass would have been found to tell the tale. He had'Tatirr-tbare fry.ni even ing late until Saturday evening about •5 o’clock, a period of nearly twenty four hours. His anxieties and sufferings were intense no doubt. Ilia feet were swollen, lacerated and blistered by the hot rocks-: the sun poured upon him its fiercest rays, causing the most excru ciating thirst, and producing almost en tire blindness, Death seemed to stare him in the face on all sides. Return, without friendly aid, he could not, He was afraid to move either right or left, or get up, for that terrible fall was be neath him. Without succor, he must die a lingering, torturing death of thirst and starvation. In adjusting the rope several rocks were in the \*gy and fearing that the rope miglit dislodge them aud bring them down on the unfortunate man, they were removed and thrown off in such a direction as not to strike on the spot occupied by the man# With a crashing noise they rolled to the brow of the precipice on a line with him, and then plunged down that terriffic distance bury ing themselves in the earth at the base. Reaching the place, the rope was tied around the man, and assisted by Colonel J. T. Willingham he was con ducted .to a place of safety, and Blr. Willingham returned then anil assisted Mr. Juhan to get back. Upon reaching the summit the rescued man was so thirsty that he would have emptied a bucket of water at two draughts had he been suffered to do so. He was carried to Colonel Willingham’s store and cared for. Bluch praise is due to Major Steward, Colonel Willingham and E. P. Juhan for their praise worthy and humane efforts. On Friday evening, the man alluded to, reputed to be a Mr. BlcCarty, of Villa Rica, Carroll county, went on the top of Stone Mountain, ta/ing with him a bottle of whisky, He drank rath er freely, and perhaps, was light-headed. He started down in search of the “Dev il’s Cross Roads,” and finding the decent becoming abrupt, lie pulled off bis boots* He bad not gone far when he recollects falling and scrambling. His boots were found by Blaster George Jones, with an empty bottle, at the foot of a ce Jar tree, someone hundred feet above where McCarty was found. Hence it is supposed that he fell and scrambled to gether some forty or fifty feet. He recollects leaving his boots there. The accident occurred about nightfall. It is doubtless one of the most mirac ulous escapes from death on record, when it is considered that death seemed inevitable from falling down the steep or starvation, or that he should fall that distance and escape without seri ous iujury. That this providential es- TERMS—-TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE, cape will have its influence on him we cannot doubt. He expressed a desire, as soon as he got safely to the top, to join a temperance society. This sermon on the mount to him is more effective than a hundred temperance lectures. Sunday he left for home. jV Fortune Made by a Hat. We have all heard of the lad who stooped to pick up a pin as he was sad ly leaving the presence of the rich banker, of whom he had asked for em ployment in vain, and was thereupon recalled, given a stool ill the office, af terward taken into partnership, and died immensely rich. It may well have been true, as many fortunes have turned upon as slight points as that. The other day Herr Muhle died at Col mar, late of France,' but now of Ger many, twice over a millionaire, w T ho owed all his fortune to his hat. He had been apprenticed to a turner,‘and, in the course of his Wanderjahr, or traveling year of the German journey men, he found himself in Colmar, and applied to Messrs. Well & Boutron, who had a great machine shop, for work. The tagged and barefooted boy, with bis knapsack on his bac£ did not cemmend himself to the mas ters ; aud he was told to go about his business. As he was going, the master machinist called after him, ‘I say, man what kind of a hat is that you have got on'?’ ‘A wooden one, sir.’ ‘A wooden one / And where did you get it 5” ‘I made it, sir.’ ‘IIow?’ ‘With my lathe. I had a long way to go. and needed a hat that would keep out the rain ; and as I had no money to buy one, I made this out ol wood.’— ‘But this is oval, and an oval form can not be made with a lathe.’ ‘That is true, sir; but nevertheless I did it.—< 1 took my central point and worked away till I had made my hat.’ The poor apprentice had instinctively hit upon the principle of the eccentric lathe. The keen-sighted tn,mer : afe once engaged h-Wn, and foutiu Turn to. be, a mechanical geniu| as well as a good workman. lie became a pit;:, . and afterward sole propnetor, under the Gallicized name of M. Moulin, and died the richest man of the whole Countryside. Thu Cabinet on tub Stems. - Grant is about to call into the field all of his Cabinet Lieutenants. There is hot Work ahead, and the Chief sees that he will have to fight it out if it takes all the summer, and every avail able man from the Cabinet dawn is put into service. So far Mr. Secreta ry Boutvvcll is the only one that is to be sent South—into Virginia and North Carolina. The selection of Mr. Boutwell to such an impecunious State as North Carolina is a happy one, and illustrates the stragetic powers of the Chief. Mr. Boutwell goes, into the field that Littlefield and Swepson have swept and garnered. There is no doubt but that lie will deliver some profound exposition of financial princi ples, which will greatly edify' those who suffer by the scarcity ot curren cy and the price of gold, especially among the wards of the nation—if ac companied by practical operatoins sus tained by drafts upon the seceret ser vice fund, by way of illustration. A telegram from London on the 11th says that a dispatch from Aden an nounces the arrival there of Stanley, the Herald African correspondent, and says he will start to-day for London, in company with the son of Dr. Living stone. Stanley is the bearer of letters from the great explorer for the British Government, as well as for his family and friends. Stanley states, when ho left the interior of Africa, Li virgstone was unwell, but he was nevertheless de termined to proceed with his explora tions, and will not return home until he has completed the great work of ascertaining the source of the Nile. Dexter’s Time Beaten.—Dexter is no longer the king of the trotters. On Saturday last Joe Elliott, aged eight years, and owned by Mr. Bonner, trot ted, at Boston, one mile in two min utes, fifteen and one-half seconds.— He had been in training four wteks.— Oue year ago his owner drove him half a mile in one minute and six seconds. A California jury, in a suicide case lately, found the following verdict: We, the jury find that the deceased was a fool. H. I’otash Farrow has called a meet ing of the Radical State Committee on the 25th, the day after the Democratic Convention.