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VOLUME II—NUMBER 45.
iTUe HJcJJuffie jgournal,
IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY
-AT—
THOMSON. OA.,
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H. C. RONEY.
RATES OF ADVERTISING ,
Transient advertisements will be charged one
dollar per square for the first insertion, and acventy
ive cents for each subsequent insertion.
DR. T~ 1,. ULUISTEDT
„ OFFERS HIS
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
To the Citizens ol Thomsou and Viciuity.
He can be round at the Room over Costello’s, »heu
not professionally absent.
REFERS TO
Pbo. J A. Evk, Pbo. Wm. 11. Pocoutt, Da
J,ihM S. Coleman, Da. S C. Evk.
PAUL C- HUDSON,
at fate,
l llOTIS«\, CiGUR(>H.
tHT Prompt attention given to the collection of
ol&ima.
tHT Will practice in all the courts of the Augus
ta, Middle and Northern Circuits.
OJllrf.—At the Oilioe formerly occupied by Jor
dan E. White, Esq. * seplSmS
ii 7 c. r()m:\%
SUtcrirj] at '£M,
THOMSO »*, 0.1.
Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and
Middle Circuits,
no 1-ly
CHARLES S DuBOE,
Mvo&jrmrsir&iiw,
Wari*enton» Ga.
Wi’l practice in all the Courts of the Northern,
Augusta 6l Middle Circuits.
Central Jjotd,
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Ylߧ. H. .11. TIIOUAS,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
seplltf
urantLli,
COTTON FACTOR
AMT)
EEISML COMMiSSIII ME6CBA9T.
Ho. 1 Warren Block,
Augusta, Georgia.
GsT Will give prompt attention to tile selling of
Cotton and other produce.
GsT Commission for selling cotton, One Dollar
Per Bale. sepl lm2
yr. H. HOWARD. C. H. HOWARD. W. H. HOWARD, JR.
W H. Howard & Sons,
TUffißl i rail lEICMITS.
No. 2 Warren Block,
Agnsta, Georgia.
C iff" ComniHsion for Selling cotton One Dollar per
bale. Strict personal attention given to business
entrusted.
All orders strictly obeyed. Liberal Cash Advan
ce? made on Cotto •.
Special attention paid to Weighing of Cotton.
Bagging and Ties furnished at Lowest Market
Prices. sepll if
~M VmPMF <fr QQ.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
IUIIIITEEM9ITE k I. E, WARE
—ALSO—
French China,
lassware, Ac.
244 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga
aprlO ly.
WM. S. ROBERTS. RICH’d B. MORRIS. JAS. A. SHIVERS
Roberts Morris & Shivers,
Successors to
Jas. T. Gardiner & Cos.
WAREHOUSE
A-iNTID
Cmumijsswn .
Jttclntonh Street .tur/waa Ga,
Will give their personal attention to
the storage and sale of cotton, and such
other produce as may be sent to them.
Commission for selling cotton one dol
lar per Bale.
Cash Advances made on Produce
in Store-
Sept, 4th 3m.
[regulator]
This unrivalled Medicine is warranted cot to
contain a single p*iticl <>f Murcury, or any injuri
ous mineral substance, but is
Purely Vegetable.
For forty years it has proved its great' aiue in all
diseases of the liver, bowels and kidneys, Thou
sand* of the good aud great in all parts of the couutry
vouch for its wonderful and peculiar power in puri
fying the blood, stimulating the torpidhverund bow
els and imparting new life and Vigor to the whole
system. Simmons’ Liver Regulator is acknowledged
to have no equal as a
LIVER MEDICINE,
It contains four medical elements, never united in
in the same happy proportion in any o’lier prepara
tion, viz ; a gentle Cathartic, a wonderful Tunic,
ail unexcepfiou ible alterative and u certain correct
ive of all impurities of the b dy. Such signal suc
cess has ui-.euded its use that i> is now regarded as
the
Great Unfailing Specific
for liver complaint aid the painful tf-nriug thereof,
to wit: Dyspepsia, Cons ipatioii, Jaund ce, Bil
ious attacks, Siclf Headache, Colic, Depression of
Spirits, Sour Stomach, Heart Burn, &c., &e.
Regulate th ' Liv*r and prevent
CHILLS AND FEVtR. SIMMONS’ LIVER
REGULATOR
Is mauutactured only by
J. H. ZEILIN & CO-,
Macjn, Ga., and Philadelphia.
Price ?! 00 per package ; sent bv mall, postage
paid, $1.25. Prepared ready for use in bottles,
$1.50.
SOLO BY ALL DRUGGISTS
ear* Beware of all Counterfeits aud Imitation?. “'©B
nepllyl
1 1 L L f iN ETT .
MRS. WORRILL would respect
fully call the attention of the
Ladies of Thomson and vicinity to her
well seiected
STOCK OF
and white goods. Also a fine assort
ment of
LADIES’ HOOTS
Ladies’ Hats made in in the latest
style. Oid Hats retrimed at thlvlowest
prices. Call and examine. oct 16m3
Thomas Richards & Eon,
]{ooli>ell(Ts, Stationers
AND
Dealers in Fancy Goods,
263 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.,
Established 18*17.
Keep a large 6tock of all kinds and qualities of
Blank Books,
Fools-cap, Letter, Note and all sizes of
WmriMG s
And every article of Stationery used in Counting
House and
PUB LIG OFFICES;
and a variety of Fancy Oood?, -to euit the
wants of Country Merchant*.
Anv Books wanted will he sent bv mail free of
expanse on receptof Publishers’ prices.
FIRST GLASS GRO&iRTES !
€• W* si■town*® & Gq.*
BEG leave to inform their old cus
tomers and the public generally
that they are constantly receiving and
have on hand a well selected stock of
FIRST CLASS STAPLE HI MET
GRO CBRIBS,
And every article kept in a good grocery
house.
Having recently commenced business,
we are determined to win patronage by
buying our goods at very low prices
and
SELLING THEM AT SMALL PROFITS.
Among our stock may found .sugar
cured and canvassed hams, flour of all
brands, and at prices to suit the people,
smoked and bul£ meats, cheese, crackers,
nuts, plain and fancy candies, sardines,
oysters, fresh salmon, fresh mackerel,
pickles, segars, tobacco, canned fruits
&c.
Call on us and we warrant to give
satisfaction.
C. W. Arnold &. Cos.
Thomson, Ga. [mr 13yl] oct2
R. H. BUSH, AgeiitT
I am agent for the following Standard Fertilizers,
and will take pleasure in supplying all those in need
of a good manure :
Atlantic Phosphate
Wando Fertilizer
E. Frank Co’s Guano
Etewan Guano.
To any of my planting friends desirous of pur
chasing the very best standard Fertilizers, I a m
prepared to furnish (hem on the most reasonable
terms.
oct 30tf R. H. BUSH, Agent.
THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GA., NOVEMBER 13, 1872.
gJoetru.
“They !Say.”
The author of this poem is unknown to us. It
is worth reading. The writer has doubtless suf
fered. from the class to whom it refers.
They say—Ah! well suppose they do ?
But can they prove the story true ?
Suspicion may arise from naught
But malice, envy want of thought;
"Why count yourself among the “they”
Who whisper what they dare not say ?
They say—but why the tale rehearse,
And help to make the matter worse?
No good can possibly aoerno
From telling what may be untrne ?
And is it not an blor plan
To speak of all the best you can ?
Then say—well, if it should be so,
Why need you tell the tale of woe ?
Will it the bitter wrong redress,
Or make one pang of sorrow less ?
Will it the erring one restore,
Henceforth to “go and sin no more ?’’
They—oh! pause and look within!
See how tliy heart inclines to sin!
Watch lest, in dark temptation’s hour
Thou, too, shouldst sink beneath its power!
Pity the frail, weep o’er their fall,
But speak of good or not at all ?
IpsccUaucoush
A Social Nuisance.
A lady who has been the victim of
those overwhelming nuisances, a sur
prise party, on the anniversary of her
wedding day, writes as follows; “I
have been the unwilling recipient ol
one of those social nuisances, dubbed a
silver wedding. Isaac and I /mew as
well a3 anybody that we had been mar
ried twe.ty-five years, but we didn’t
wish to celebrate the event, (or numer
ous reasons. We didn’t wish to beg
tor presents. Our house is not large
enough to accommodate all we would
wish to invite on such an occasion, and
we cou!d not bring ourselves to slight
any; and not being partial to large
parties, judge of our consternation when
we were overwhelmed by a mob con
sisting of some of our own friends and
many who were not our friends, or even
our acquaintances. Tom, Dick and
the dragon, any one who could be in
duced to sign their names to a paper
and pay their money to help buy a tea
set, under the promise of coming to our
house and having a gay time, just as
they would have paid for going to any
place of amusement. The presents
were very nice, indeed, but I shall
never use them, and for them we are
put under obligations to a class of peo
ple whose acquaintance we did not de
sire. They rummaged and ransacked
the house from garret to cellar, looked
into my closets and bureau drawers,
and even counted the blankets on my
own and my servant’s bed, mashed my
pet cat, wore Holes iti my sitting room
carpet by dancing on it, and have made
capital for gossip out of my household
arrangements generally. There were
even people present to whom I was
not introduced. We have always been
independent; retained our old friends
and made a few new ones. Now lam
expected to call on Mrs. this, that and
the other, and to speak to their hus
bands and brothers when I meet them
on the street, for their names are on
the paper which accompained our sil
ver among the list of donors.’’
Not long since a middle-aged gentle
man and a young lady happened to be
the only passengers starting that morn
ing in the stage for E . They were
strangers to each other. The lady was
carrying a large white rabbit—a pet.
Just before the stage stopped at a
tavern, the lady asked the gentleman to
hold the rabbit a moment while she
arranged some of her packages. He
took it, covered it in his shawl and
snugged it up in a manner quite father
ly. The tavern keeper noticing it,
asked if it was their chi’d. The gen
tleman replied,—
“Yes, our first-born, poor thing!”
After the vehicle had resumed its
journey the gentleman handed the pet
back, saying,—
“What beautiful eyes ! just like its
mother’s /”
“Yes,” responded the damsel, ‘and
earsjust like its father's /”
Dean Cowper, of Durham, was very
saving of his wine one day ; and des
canting on the extraordinary perform
ance of a man who was blind, he re
marked that ‘the poor fellow could see
no more than that bottle.’
‘I don’t wonder at all,’ said Mr, Dra/te,
‘for we have not seen more than that
bottle this afternoon,’
f Communicated. ]
Thomson, Ga., Oct. 21st, 1872.
Editor of the Journal:
Unlike Judge Reese in his last letter
to you, it is exceedingly painful to me
to have to appear before your readers
again; but Justice to myself demands
that I should say a few words explana
tory of some of the statements made
in my last letter, winch the Judge
would have you believe were made
without proper considerations, or with
intent to inislead the minds of your read
ers.
■ 1 have never said, Mr. Editor, that
Judge Twiggs gave me his opinion of
the Resolution, of which I thought so
highly and Senator Reese so ‘poorly. —
But his opinion as expressed was made
known to me by Mr. Lainkin of Colum
bia and Mr. Snead of Richmond Cos.,
and I refer you to these gentlemen to
learn whether or not I made a fair
statement of the facts set forth in that
portion of my last letter. Neither did 1
say that Gov. Smith had told me that hi
wouldendorse the Resolution. Several
prominent members of the House, who
were interested in the passage of the
Resolution, some of them personal
friends of the Governor, ha > agreed to
go with me to him. all of whom were
confident that lie would give it his sig
nature when it had passed both Houses.
It was upon this that I made the asser
tion that I had reason to believe that the
Governor would sign the Resolution
when it had passed both Houses.
Now Mr. Editor I propose to show
a slight inconsistency in Judge Reese
in this matter. He says “1 did con
demn this Resolution as soon as it was
brought to my notice, knowing it was
unconstitutional, and perhaps spoke of
it, as I should not have done, contempt
uously and opprobriously. I A-now
then as I now know that such a prece
dent as repealing by resolution an ex
isting apportionment law and divesting
rights to representation—rights more
highly valued at this time than ever be
fore in tiie history of our county —could
not be found.”
In tV, face of ail this knowledge and
conviction, at the last moment, lie rises
before the Senate and in that best speach
of ten minutes endeavors to effect the
passage of this Resolution whieli lie
''knew then and now knows" to be uncon
stitutional.
As to those outrageous bills and re
solutions to which the Judge refers as
having p issed the House turnout unani
mously— which fact should not be taken
as a criterion of their constitutionally,
I think he might have added (and I
ta&e the liberty of adding it for him)
another one to their number, viz ; that
outrageous resolution, increasing the
pay of himself aud other members of
the standing committees to investigate
the State Road House, official conduct
of Bullock, &c. after they tiad accept
ed their position with the express un
derstanding that they not to receive
but seven dollars per day, which, using
his own language would have created a
burst of indignation, had it been done
by a Bullock Legislature.
I deem it only necessary forme to
say that Judge Reese should have noti
fied us when he was e inverted by
Senator Hiliyer in respect to the
Agricultural bill, as we had entrusted
it to Him and he knew we expected
him to get it through for us. We
could have made arrangements with
other parties who were ready and wil
ling to attend to it. He certainly took
an undue advantage of us, which I
do not tliin/c one so powerful and ir
resistabie in argument as he lias proved
himself to be, from the number of bills
passed by himself “in the face of the
fiercest opposition,” should have taken
of those who were forced to go around
and by private arguments carry measures
through.
He is afraid, if we prohibit the levy
ing and collection of tax on Agricultur
al products, that our Calicoes, Shoes,
Osuaburgs and etc., will have as a con
sequence to bear the burden, Do not
the cities of Savannah, Macon and
Atlanta sell these articles as cheaply as
Augusta, the only city in the state to
my knowledge that forces this unjust
tax upon tile people? If Augusta
should dare raise one fraction of a cent
on these articles, could we not pur
chase them all in the Savannah, Macon
or Atlanta market? Most assuredly;
and far this cogent reason, the Judge’s
fears would scarcely be realized.
As to the Bond bill of McDuffie, the
Judge would have you believe that I
have mistated the facts, and that the
bonds of our county are now on an
equal footings with the Cobb county
bonds. He admits that they both came
from the House aliAe exempt from_
state, county and municipal tax.
It is a well known rule of parliament
ary law, that when a bill passes one
branch of the General Assembly and is
added to, taAen from or in any other
way modified in the other, it is an
amendment, and must be sent back to
the House from which it originated to
be concurred in. Our bond bill was
amende i in tile Senate and returned
to the House for its concurrence. How
could the Cobb county bond bill be
amended in the Senate and become a
law without having been returned to
the House and concurred in by it? Mr.
Anderson, theauthorof tile bill, writes
me that if his bond bill is not exempt
from state and municipal tax.it is be
cause the Governor failed to approve
it.
But suppose vve t; ke the J udge’s own
admission. Our bonds are exempt
from county tax only. The Cobb couiuy
bonds are exempt from county ami
municipal tax* Now, Mr. Editor, sup
pose vve wisli to negotiate those
tionds. Where do we go to sell them ?
Not in the couutry for there is very lit
tle surplus money there. Then we are
(breed to sell in the cities. We put
them in ttie same market and perhaps
in the hands of the same broker. I be
lieve that in Augusta tt e city tax is
about 2 percent. On 15,000 Dollars
the city tax, (from which Cobb county
bonds are exempt,) would be 300 Dol
lars annualy. Would any sensible man
hesitate to t ike Cobb county bon Is in
preference to those of McDuffie, at the
same market price ? In ten years the
city tax on our bonds would amount to
one fifth ot the principal, l. e. 3,000 Dol
lars; which sum the Tax payers of
dcDuffie would have to pay, lor uri
qustionably the market value ot our
bonds would be reduced below that ot
tile Cobb county bout 8, in propoitiou to
ibis tax. Hence this tax comes ultima
tely out of *he tax-payers ot McDuffie.
Does Ibis appear to you, Mr. Editor,
to place the bonds of our county on ari
equal footing with those of Cobb coun
ty ? Would we not have been far great
ly beuelitted, ii the Judge had ‘taken
the trouble t > have ‘■'gone around," even
at the expense ot lowering his dignity
somewhat, uud, if necessary by “ private
argument" have eonvi ced ttiat com
mittee that it was unjust, unwise, and
unwarrantable m them to i.isoriininate
thus against a county, and that county
one that had just then been deprived
the right of Representation in the iower
branch of the General Assembly ? It is
enough to make any people ieel ag
grieved. that their rights have been so
disregarded, even though it be a small
matter in its final results.
Ami Now, Mr. Editor, we leave the
matter to the calm, sober judgement oi
your intelligent readers, an 1 let me as
sure our Seuator, that I have not sought
any controversy with him in tiiis mat
ter, nur desired any. I bear toward*
him no ill feeling, but on the contrary
have the same high regard for him that
I have always entertained.
Very Respectfully
Geo. P. Stovall.
Man in tlie VVovlcl.
A native of Australia, Mr. J. E.
Evans, recently gave an exhibition of re
markable strength at the Sea Hotel, in
Chesterfied, England, to establish his
claims as the strongest man in the
world. He held a fifty-six pound
weight in various positions, at arm’s
length, and increased the number until
be raised four fifty-six pound weights
above his head, holding them nt arm’s
lentgh, and at the same time standing
upon four tumbler glasses. He also
held the weights on the top of the glass,
and allowed a glass of water to be
placed upon the top of the weights.
He laid Hat upon the fioor, and let a
fifty-six pound weight fall a distance of
about a yard on his bare chest, and the
w light rebounded as though it had
come in contact with a piece of india
rubber. A piece of stone four inches
thick, was next placed upon his chest,
and Mr. Ilinch, blacksmith, smashed it
with two blows into fragmets. Mr.
Hinch and Mr. Turner then cut a piece
ot two-inch iron in two across his chest
witli the hammer and chisel. The
feats concluded by Professor Hercules
lying flat upon the floor, and allowing
Mr. Hinch to strike him, with all his
strength, with a sixteen-pound sledge
hammer. The blow was met by the
Professor, and the hammer rebounded
without leaving a scratch upon his
body.
A furniture man is said to be the
laziest member of society, beciuse he
I keeps chairs and lounges about all day.
TEEMB-TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE
For Grammarians.
The Hudson Register deals humor
ously with a question of grammer, as
follows :
“A searcher alter truth writes to us,
‘Which is grammatically correct, to say
‘The house is building,’ or ‘The house
is being built;’ ‘The or street is paving
‘The street is being paved? There
is a wide diversity of opinion upon
the subject, but, we incline to favor
‘is beiug built,’ for the following
reason: Suppose you wish to ex
press another kind of idea, would
you say, lor instance, ‘Johny is spank
ing, or ‘Johny is being spanked ?’ The
dtl'erence to you may seem immaterial,
but it is a matter of considerable im
portance to Johny; aud it is probable
that, if any choice were given him,
he would suddenly select the for
mer alternative. You say, again, that
the ‘missionary is eating.’ Certainly
this expressesa very different and much
pleasanter idea than the form, ‘The
missionary is being eaten,’ and the sen
sation is very different for the mission
ary, too. VVe have consulted several
missionaries about it, and they all seem
to think that the two things are some
how not the same, no matter what the
grammarians say.
“But it is to be confessed that there
are occasions when the difference in the
form is not so marked. You assert,
we say, that “Hannah is hugging”—
which, by the way, would be a very
improper thing for Hannah to do; it
would be positively' scandalous, indeed.
Precisely a similar idea is coveyed if
you say, “Hannah is being hugged,”
because it is a peculiarity of the act
that it is hardly ever onesided ; there
is no sellishuess about it. And it is the
same with kissing. “Jane isf kissing”
—and her mother ought to know about
it if she is—is just exactly as if we say,
“Jane is being kissed ;” and the sensa
tion is the same, although none of the
grammars, a singular inadvertance,
mention the fact. It will not be ne
cessary, however, for our correspondent
to attempt to prove these lasc-u.ention
ed facts by practice. He must take
our word for them. Unless he does so
we sha I answer no more ‘questions in
syntax for him or any one else. Our
duty is to conserve the morals of the
community, not to start the people to
playing private games of Copenhagen.”
TlioEnd of Four Groat Mom.
Ihe lour great personages who oc
cupy the most conspicuous places in
the history of the world are Alexander,
Hannibal, Cassur and Bonaparte.
Alexander, after having climbed the
dizzy heights ol ambition, and with his
temples bound with chaplets dipped in
the blood of countless millions, looked
down upon a conquered world, and
wept that there was not another world
for him to conquer—set a city on fire,
and died in a sdene of debauch.
Hannibal,afr< rhaving tot ieastonish
ment and consternation of Rome, pass
ed the Alps, and having put to flight
the armies of the mistress of the world,
and stripped “three bushels of golden
rings from the fingers of the slaughter
ed knights,” and made her foundations
quake, fled from his country, being
hated by those who once exaltingly
united his name to that of their god
and called him Hina Baal, and died at
last by poison administeied with his
own hand, unlamented and unwept in
a foreign county.
Caesar, after having conquered eight
hundred cities and dyeing his garments
in the blood of one million of his foes,
after having pursued to death the only
rival he had on earth, was
assassinated by those whom he considei
ed his dearest friends.
Bonaparte, whose mandate kin;
and popes obeyed, after having fill
the earth with the terror of his name—
and after having deluged Europe with
tears and blood, and clothed the world
in sackcloth—closed his days in lonely
banishment, almost literally exiled from
the world, yet where he could som r
times see his country’s banner wavi
over the deep, but which did not an
could not bring him aid.
Thus, these four men, who seem to
stand the representatives of all thor
whom the world called great—th
four men, who each in turn made
earth tremble to its very centre ’
their simple tread—severally died—onJ
by intoxication, or, as was supposed, by
poison mingled in his wine—one a
suicide, one murdered by his friends,
and one a lonely exile. “How are the,
mighty fallen?” *!
Life, according to the Arabic proverl
is composed of two parts, that which is
past, a dream; and that which isl
come, a wish.