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VOLUME n— NUMBER 34. ©he pkJtoffic sanvnal Clsj so C? 7 IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY —A T— THOMSON. G-JN., —B Y— RONEY & SULLIVAN, RATES OF ADVERTISING, Transient advertisements will be charged one dollar per square for the first insertion, and seventy live cents for each subsequent insertion. 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. /r MV&Ftrr a> car Wholesale and RotaU Dealers in nun ran auin &11 no —ALSO— Meini-Chiiin rmith China, (tilasMWarc, »Vr. 244 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga aprlO ly. 11. <3. iSON, s:w 3Utorwn at Xatu, TZtOMSO V, a.t. Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits, no 1 IV 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, —wmi — 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.