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VOLUME n— NUMBER 34.
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BUSIXKSS HAROS. .
E. S. HARRISON,
Physician nncl Surgeon
Offers his service- t<» the public. Office with Dr.
J. S. Joues. over McCotd & Hardaway's.
aprlOm.3 Thomson, Ga.
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Wholesale and RotaU Dealers in
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Meini-Chiiin rmith China,
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244 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga
aprlO ly.
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Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and
Middle Circuits,
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JAMES A. GRAY & CO.,
Have Removed to their
N<*\v li*o»i Fronl 1
BROAD STREET, AUGUST, GA
nprlthf
GLOBE HOTEL.
S. W. CORNER RIiOAD & JACKSON STS.,
AUGJSTA, GEORGIA.
JACKSON & JULIAN, Proprit’rs-
We beg leave to call the attention of the travel
ling public to thin well known Hotel, which wo
have recently leaded and placed on a footing
necond to none in the South. No expense will be
spared lb leader It a be* n.HW in GVMrv
rewpect, and every attention is paid tu the comfort
and convenience of guests.
DR. T. h. UUftSTKOT
oi'ui.iis 3llS
professional SERVICES
To the Citizens n! Thomson and Vicinity,
lie can be found at the Room over Costello’s, when
cot professionally absent.
REFERS TO
Pro. J A. Iv k. Pro. Vi a. 11. Uoreurr. Dr.
John S. Cos. i man, Da. S. C. Eve.
O IST tus/cb.
TILL Til: FIRST OF HDVEM3ER.
J WILL furnish planter* and other* in want of
* ks o a: *
on City Acceptance, till Ist November next, at
cash prices. D. COHEN,
apr 3 13ra3 Augusta, Ga.
CHARLESES DuROSE;
Wiirrentoii, (in.
Wi'l practice in all the Courts of the Northern,
Augusta Middle Circuits.
J". M. UAHS 3 ,
Wholesale and retail dealer in
LAMPS AND LAMP FIXTURES.
Manufacturer and dealer in all kinds of
TIN AN] SHST IRON WARS
GUTTERING, ROOFING,
And all kinds of Jobbing done promptly and neatly.
6in6 158i Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
Established in IS 15.
T. 11. MANLEY,
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CEO. Movlho.x 8? BQNs
NURSERYMEN,
hate for pale a large assorment of
ORNAMENTAL TREES, EVERGREENS, &
ROSES,’
Grape Vines and Small Fruits,
dwarf and standard fruit titles,
Rochester, N. Y.
JAJIES El. HULSEY’S
Steam Dyeing and Scouring
ESTABLISHMISTSIT,
133 llroad sit., Augusta, Ga.
Near Lower Market bridge Bank Building for the
Dyeing and Ceailing
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,
dr Orders by Express promptly attended to.
Augusta, Ga. apr.Bind
Svapnla—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 Fork.
faettg.
The Bivouac of tlie Dead
The muffled drum's sad roll has heat
The soldier’s last tattoo:
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame’s eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.
No rumor of the foe’s advance
Now swells upon the wind ;
No troubled thougth at midnight haunts
Os loved ones left behind;
No vision of the morrow’s strife
The warrior’s dream alarms;
No braying horn, no screaming fife
At dawn shall call to arms.
Their shivered swords are red with rust,
Their plumed heads are bowed;
Their haughty banner. trailed iu dust,
Is now their martial shroud.
And plenteous funeral tears havo washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed,
Are free from anguish now.
The neighing troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle's stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout, are past;
Nor war’s wild note, nor glory’s peal
Shall thrill with tierce delight
Those breasts that never more may feel
The rapture of the fight.
Like the fierce northern hurricane
That sweeps his great plateau,
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain,
Came down the serried foe.
Who heard the thunder of tho fray'
Break o'er the field beneath.
Knew well the watch-word of the day
Was “Victory or death !”
Long had tho doubtful contest raged
O'er all the stricken plain—
For never fieri- fight had waged'
The vengeful blood of Spain-
And still the storm of battle blew,
Still swelled the gory tide;
Not, long, our stout old chieftain know,
Such odds his strength could bide.
Twas m that hour his stern command
(failed to a martyr’s grave
'I he flev-rr ~f hie .iwTV-lrw. 1 land,
The nation’s flag to savo.
By rivers of their father’s gore
His first-born laurels grow,
And well he deemed the sons would pour
Their lives for glory too.
Full many a mother’s breath has swept
O’er Angos nnra’st plain—
And long the pitying sky has wept
Above its mouldered slain.
The raven’s scream, or eagle’s flight,
Or shepe.rd’s pensive lay,
Alone awakes each sullen height,
That frowned o’er the dread fray.
Sons of the Dark and Bloody ground,
Ye must not slumber there,
Where stranger steps and tongues resound
Along tho heedless air ;
Your own pron l land's heroic soil
Shall bo your fitter grave—■
She claims from war his richest spoil—-
The ashes of her brave.
So, 'neath their parent turf they rest,
Far from the gory' field,
Ilorne to a Spartan mother’s breast,
On many a Moody shield ;
The sunshine of their native sky
Smiles sadly on them here,
And kindred eyes and hearts watch by
Tho heroes' sepulchor.
Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead,
Dear as the blood ye gave ;
No impious footsteps hero shall tread
The herbage of your grave ;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While fame her record beeps,
Or honor points the hallowed spot
Where valor proudly sleeps.
Yon marble minstrel’s voiceless stone,
In deathless sond shall toll,
When many a vanished age hath flown
The story how ye fell;
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter’s blight,
Nor Time’s remorseless doom,
Shall dim one ray of holy light
That gilils your glorious tomb.
A Quaker Tletective.
We were five passengers in all; two
ladies on the back seat, and a middle
aged gentleman and'a Quaker on the
middle, and myself in the front.
The two ladies might have been
mother and daughter, aunt or niece,
governess and charge, or might have
sustained any other relationship, which
made it proper for two ladies to travel
together unattended.
The middle aged gentleman was
sprightly and tal/rative. lie soon struc/r
up an acquaintance with the ladies ;
towards whom, in his zeal to do, he
rather overdid the the agreeable—bow
ing, and smiling over his shoulder in a
way painfully suggestive at his time of
life of a ‘crick’ in the trick. He was
evidently a gray Lothario.
THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GA., AUGUST 28, 1872,
The Quaker wore the uniform of his
sect, and confiued his speech, as many a
parliamentarian would save his credit
l>y doing, to simply ‘yeas’ and ‘nays.’
As for myself, I make it an invariable
rule of the road to be merely a looker
on and listen.
Towards evening I was aroused from
one ot those reveries into which a young
man, without being a poet or a lover
will sometimes fall, by an abrupt query
from the talkative gentleman :
•Are you armed sir?"
‘I am not,’ I answered, astonished, no
doubt visibly at the question.
‘I am sorry to hear it,’ he replied :
‘for before reaching our next stopping
place it will be several hours in the
night, and we must pass a portion of tiie
road on which more than one robbery
is reported to have been committed.
The ladies turned pale, but the stran
ger did his best to reassure them.
‘Not that I think there is the slight
est danger at present,’ he resumed,‘only
when one is responsible for the safety
of the ladies, you know, such a thing as
a pistol in reach would materially "add
to one’s confidence.’
‘Your principles, my friend,’ address
ing tho Quaker, ‘I presume, are as much
opposed to carrying as using carnal
weapons!’
‘Yea,’ was the response.
‘Have the villains murdered any of
their victims'?’ the elder lady nervously
enquired.
‘Or have they contented themselves
with—with plundering them V added
the younger in a timorous voice.
‘Decidedly the latter,’ the aimable
gentlemen hastened to give assurance ;
‘and we are none of us prepared to offer
resistance in case of attack, so nothing,
worse than robbery can possibly befall
us.
Then, after blaming his thoughtless
ness in having unnecessarilly introduced
a disagreeabk subject, tfie gentleman
quite excelled himself in efforts to raise
ttie spirits of the company, and had suc
ceeded so well hy the time night had
set in that aH had quite forgotten or on
ly remembered their fears to laugh at
them.
Otr genial companion fairly talked
himself hoarse. Perceiving which he
took from his pocket a box of newly ‘in
vented cough candy,’ and alter passing
it to the ladies, he helped himself to the
balance and tossed the paper out of tho
window.
He was in the midst of a high encomi
um on the new nostrum, more than half
the efficacy of which, he insisted, de
pended on its being taken by suction,
when a shrill whistle was heard, and
almost immediately the coach stopped,
while two faces, hideojsly blackened,
presented themselves, one at each win
dow.
‘Sorry to trouble you,’ said tho man
on the right, acknowledging with a bow
two lady-like screams from the back
seat; ‘but‘business is business,’ and
ours will soon be over if things go
smoothly.’
‘Of course, gentlemen, you will spare,
as far as may be consistent with your
disagreeable duty, the feelings of these
ladies,' appealed the polite passenger in
bis blandest manner.’
‘Oh, certainly ! they shall be first at
tended to, and shall not be required to
leave their places, unless their conduct
renders it necessary.’
‘And now, ladies,’ continued the rob
ber, the barrel of his pistols glittering
in the light of the coach lamp, ‘be so
good as to pass your purses, watches,
and such other trinkets as may be ac
cessible without too much trouble.’
The ladies came down handsomely,
and were no further molested.
One by one the rest got out. The
middle aged gentleman’s turn came first,
lie submitted with a winning grace, and
was robbed like a very Chesterfield.
My own affairs, like the sum I lost,
are scarcely worth mentioning.
The Quaker’s turn came next. He
quietly handed over his pocket-book and
when as&ed if he had any other valua
bles, said ‘Nay.’
A Quaker’s word is good, even
among theives; so, after a hasty ‘good
night,’ the robber thrust his pistol into
his pocket, and with hi3 two compan
ions, one of whom had held the reins of
the leaders, was about departing.
‘Stop!’ exclaimed the Quaker, in a
tone more of command than of request.
‘Stop/’ What for?’ returned the
other in evident surprise.
• ‘For at least two good reasons’ was
the reply, emphasized with a couple of
Derringers, cocked and presented.
‘Help,’ shouted the robber.
‘Stop / the Quaker exclaimed. ‘And
if anyone of your sinful companions
advance a step to thy relief, the spirit
will surely move me to blow thy brains
out.’
The robber at the opposite window,
and the oue at the leaders’ head, thought
it a good time to leave.
‘Now, get in, friend,’ said the Qua
ker still covering his man, and take the
middle seat, but first deliver up thy
pistol.’ The other hesitated.
‘Thee had better not delay ; I feel
the spirit begin to move my forefinger.’
The robber did as he was directed,
and the Quaker took his place by his
side, giving the new comer the middle
of tho seat.
The who was half frightend
out of his wits, now set forward at a
rapid rate. The lively gentleman soon
recovered his vivacity. He was espe
cially facetious on the Quaker’s prow
ess. ‘You're a rum Quaker, you are.—
Why, you don’t quake worth a cent.’
‘l’m hot a ‘Shaking Quaker,’ if that’s
what thee means.’
'‘Of the ‘Hickory,’ or rather the ‘Old
Hickory’ stripe, I should say,’ retorted
the lively man. But the Quaker re
lapsing into his usual monosyllables,
the conversation flagged.
Sooner than we expected, the coach
stopped where we were to have supper
and a change of horses. We had defer
red a re-distribution of our effects until
we should reach the place, as the dim
light of the coach lamp would have
rendered ..thfiuprocoss somewhat difficult.
It was now necessary, however, it
should he attended to, at once, us our
jovial companion had previously an
nounced lii.dinteution of leaving at this
point. ll>x proposed a postponement
till after sJaper, which he offered to go
and order'.#.
‘Nay,’ «bd the Quaker, with an ap
proach oHlbruptuess, and laying his
hand on tHL ither’s arm, ‘business be
fore and for business, there is
no time present.’
‘Will good enough to search
the said to me, still keep
ing his friendly way, on the
I ngc^^^Hr
1 ilid one of the stolen
tides | T
‘lie rid of them
conch’ suggested,
and offiuvd to go in
•Stop the Quu/rer, tight-
The pale and struggled
to arm. In an instant
one of was levelled at his
heart/ IK
‘Blx6) ‘ or foot and you are a
dead (fa Jan
must have been awfully
excited so completely to forget both the
language and the principles of his per
suasion.
Placing the other pistol in my hand
with directions to lire at either of the
two men-that made a suspicious move
ment, he went to work on the Lothario,
from whose pockets in less time than it
takes to tell it, he produced every item
of the missing property, to the utter
amazemeut of the two ladies who had
bigun, in no mearurod terms to remon
strate agiustthe shameful treatment the
gentleman was receiving.
The Quaker, Ineed scarcely add, was
no Quaker, at all, but a shrewd detec
tive, who had been set on the track of
a band ol desperadoes, of whom our
middle aged friend— who didn’t look
near so middle aged when his wig was
off—wjas the chief. The robbery had
been adroitly planned. The leader of
the gang had ta/cen passage in the coach,
and after learning, as he supposed, our
defenseksssCondition had given the sig
nal to his companions by throwing out
the scrap of paper already mentioned.
After the unexpected capture of the
first robber, it was attempted to save
the booty by secretly passing it to the
accomplice, still believed to be unsus
pected, who counted on being able to
make off with it at the next stopping
place.
The result was that both, for a sea
son, ‘did the State some service.’
One J. F. Cunningham, a United
States Deputy Marshal, was arrested in
Jackson, Mississippi, the other day, in
the act of receiving a box per express
from New York. Said box being open
ed was found to contain two large books
of blank State warrants and anew sac
simile great seal of the State, in copper,
showing that Cunningham was getting
ready to establish himself in the business
of filling out State warrants with such
acccuracy and perfection that Mississip
pi could not possibly distinguish his
warrants from her own. This touching
evidence of a confiding faith irt the
credit of Mississippi drew tears from the
eyes of all beholders.
Greeley ;it Portlaml Ale.
Portland Me.. August 15.—The
following is the address of Mr. Greeley
in the City Hall yesterday :
Mr. Chairman and Ladies and Gentle
men :
It is certainly due that throughout
the course of my life, so far as I have
been connected with public affairs, I
have struggled with such capacity as
God has given me for—first, impartial
and universal liberty; second, for the
union and greatness ol our common
country; and third, and by no means
least, when the former end was attained,
for early and hearty reconciliation and
peace among our countrymen. For
these great ends I have struggled, and
I hope the issue of the third is not
doubtful. I thoroughly comprehend
that no personal consideration has
drawn this vast assembly together.—
Other higher and grander considerations
have collected you around me to-day.
It is part of the unwritten law of our
country that a candidate for the Presi
dency may not make speeches in vindi
cation and commendation of the meas
ures which his election is intended to
promote, though a candidate for Vice
President is under no such inhibition.—
I not only acquiesce in the restriction ;
I recognize and affirm its propriety.—
The temptation to misinterpret and
misrepresent a candidate for the higher
posts is so great that the means of cir
culating such perversions among the
people who never see a word of their
refutation, are so vast that a candidate
has no moral right to subject his friends
to the perils. He must be brave, if
not, invite by taking part in the can
vass. Yet there is a truth to he utteied
in behalf of those who have placed me
before tho American people in iny pre
sent attitude, which does them such
honor that I claim the privilege of stat
ing it here, and now this is that truth.
No person has ever yet made the fact
/mown that he proposed to support, or
actively did support, my nomination,
whether at Cincinnati, at Baltimore, or
in any action which resulted in sending
delegates to either Convention as the
basis of a claim for office at my bauds;
no one who favored rny nomination be
fore either Convention has sought office
at my hands, either for himself or for
any one else ; nor has any one sugges
ted to me that I might strengthen my
self as a candidate by promising to ap
point any one to an important office,
in a very few instances less than a dozen.
I am certain some of the smaller fry of
politicians have, since my double nomi
nation, hinted that I might increase my
chances of election by promising a Post
Office or some such place. To my vol
unteer correspondents every where res
pectively, I have not usually responded
to these overtures, but 1 now give gen
era,! notice that should I be elected I
will consul ?r the claims of these un
timely aspirants, after those of the
more moderate and retired shall have
been fully satisfied. [Applause.] In
two or three instances 1 have been ask
ed to say whether I would not, if elec
ted, confine rny appointments to Re
publicans, I answer these by pointing
to the plank in the Cincinnati platform
wherein all who concur in the princi
ples therein involved are cordially in
vited to participate in their establish
ment and vindication. I never yet
heard of a man who asked his neighbors
to help him raise a house and proceeded
to kic k him out of it as soon as the roof
was fairly over his head. For my own
part, I recognize every honest inan
who approves and adheres to the plat
form as my political brother, and as
such fully entitled to my confidence and
friendly regard.
One other point demands a word :
Those who are adverse to me ask me
what pledge I have given to those late
ly hostile to the Union to secure their
favor and support. I answer that no
man or woman in all the South ever
as/ced of me, either directly or through
another, any other pledge than is given
in all my acts and works. From the
hour of Les’s surrender to this moment,
no Southern man ever hinted to me an
expectation, hope or wish that the rebel
debt, whether Confederate or State,
should be assumed or paid by the United
States Government, and no Southern
man who could be elected to a legisla
ture or made Colonel of a militia regi
ment ever suggested pensioning of all
the rebel soldiers, or any of them, even
as a remote possibility; All who nom
inated me were perfectly aware that I
upheld and justified Federal legislation
to suppress Ivu-Klux conspiracy and
outrages, though I had long ago insist
ed as strenuously as I now do that com
plete amnesty and general oblivion of
the bloody, hateful past, would do mote
TERMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE
for the suppression and utter extinction
such Outrages than all the force bills
and suspension of ha-bcan corpus ever dt»
vised by mam Wrong and crime must
be suppressed and punished. But far
wiser and nobler is the legislation, the
policy by which they are prevented,
From those who support me in the
South I have heard but one demand—-
‘Justice,’but one desire—‘Reconcilia
tion.’ They wish to be heartily re-uni
ted and at peace with the North on any
terms which do not involve the surren
der of their manhood. They ask that
they should be regarded and treated by
all Federal authority as citizens and not
as culprits, so long as they obey and up
hold every law consistent with equality
and right. They desire a rule which,
alike for white and blac£, shall encour
age industry: they discourage rapacity
and villainy; they cherish a hope in
which I fully copcur. that between the
sth of November and the 4th of March
next quite a number of Governors and
other dignitaries, who, in the absurd
name of Republicanism and loyalty,
have for four years been heaping debts
and taxes upon their war-wasted States,
will follow the wholesome example of
Bullock, of Georgia, and seek the shades
of private life. The darker and deeper 1
those shades, the better for themselves
and for mankind ; and it is to be hoped
that my election may hasten the much
desired hegira of thieving carpet-bag
gers has reconciled them to the necessi
ty of supporting me many who would
otherwise have hesitated and, probaly,
refused to do so.
Fellow citizens, the deposed and pat'-
tially exiled Tammany Ring has stolen
about 50,000,000 dollars from the City
of New York. That most gigantic, and
it hurled its contrivers and abettors from
power and splendor to infamy, but thiev
ing carpet-baggers have stolen three
times that amount. Stolen it from peo
ple already impoverished and needy,
and they still nairnt their prosperous
villiany in the highest places of the land,
and are addressed as Honorable and
Excellency [Applause;] I think I
hear iv voice ftoin the honest people of
all the States de_ lari rig that their iniq
uity shall be gainful and insolvent no
longer, at the farthest, than the 4th of
March next. By that time a national
verdict will be pronounced that will
cause them to fold their tents like the
Arabs and as silently steal away, and
that I trust will be an end of their steal
ing at the cost of the good name of
our country and the well being of htr
people.
At the conclusion of his speech, Mr.
Greeley sat down amid a storm of
cheers.
A good story is told of a candidate
before a county convention in Ohio.—•
He was out electioneering, and stopped
at a house on Harris’ Prairie and asked
the lady who came to the door if her
husband was at home. Sh 6 replied in
the negative. The candidate expressed
his regret, as he wanted to secure his
vote for the coming convention. ‘Oh,
if that’s all,’ returned the lady, ‘you
needn’t give yourself any uneasiness,
he’ll vote for you. There were seven
candidates along here this morning be
fore be left home, and he promised to
vote for everv one of them.’
Meiirimox Elected.—A Washington
dispatch to the Baltimore Sun says let
ters have been received ‘here from North
Carolina which state that the frau is in
the recent election there have been so
glaring that even honest Republicans do
not deny them. A legal official count
will give Merrimjq the majority by
quite two thousand ; and no doubt is
felt that at the proper time the Su
preme Court of the State and the Leg
islature will install him into office.’
A Lincoln county correspondent of
the Chronicle and Sentinel says the
Methodists and Baptists of that county,
instead of Democrats and Radicals, will
run opposing candidates lor county offi
ces at the ensuing election.
Died at Penfield, on Sunday last, af
ter a protracted affliction, Mrs. Lizzie
Hobbs, consort of Mr. Minor Hobbs, a
worthy citizen of that place.
An Omaha paper advertises the peo
ple 'not to make such a fuss about the
shooting of a constable, as there are for
ty candidates for the office.’
At Selma, Ala., two buzzards on the
wing, high up in the air, south of the
city, were stuck by lightning and tum
bled to the ground.
Augusta received her first bale of
new cotton on Wednesday—four days
earlier than the first bale last year.