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VOLUME II—NUMBER 45. iTUe HJcJJuffie jgournal, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY -AT— THOMSON. OA., —B Y 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, 23 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.