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VOLUME II—NUMBER 50.
She UJcfJuffie gontmtl,
IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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BY
111 It S. U . 11. THOnAS,
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
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MILLIiN E H V .
MIIS. IVORRILL would respect
fully ca'l the attention of the
Ladies of Thomson and vicinity to her
well selected
STOCK OF 111LLI.\EitV
and white goods. Also a fine assort
ment of
LADIES’ ;«OOTS
Ladies’ Hats made in in the latest
style. Old Hats retrimed at the lowest
prices. Call and examine. octlOmU
J. M. BARFIELD,
TAILOR,
I AM permanently located in Thom
son, and am prepared to cut and
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able terms, and in the very latest styles
and fashions. An experience of thirty
years in the business satisfies me that I
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TO
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AND PRIVATE FAMILIES
IMIE Undersigned are now Prepared to Supply
Hotels, 80-irding Houses, and Private Fami
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Veal, Mutton. Lamb,
Pork, Spare Ribs,
Pork Sausage,
Roasting Pigs,
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IN ANY QUANTITY DESIRED.
All our Meats arc warranted Fresh, and of
he Best Kind.
OUR CORNED BEEF,
Put up by oua Mr Lawrence, is superior to any
from New York Fulton Market.®
<BT Also, we keep a First-Class
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including Canned Fruits, Fish, Meats, Pickles,
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■BT Send yonr Orders or Baskets to us, and
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will, also, fill any order from customers
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Oysters. Vegetables, Bakers’ Bread, etc.
We are confident of giving satisfaction and
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And Htull lO Lower Market
Augusta, Ga-
FOR SALE.
One Store House and Lot, one Dwel
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Lots for sale low for cash in Thomson,
by JOHN R. WILSON, deedtf.
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loetnu
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lIY FATHER RYAN.
My feet are wearied—and my hands are tired—
My ftoul oppressed;
And with desire liave I long desired
Rest—only Rest.
Tis Juud to toil —when toil is almost vain
In barren ways;
Tis hard to bow —and never .garner grain
In harvest days.
Tho burden of my days is hard to bear—
But God kuows best,
Aud I have prayed—but vain has been my prayer,
For Rest—sweet Rest.
’Tis hard to plant in spring—aud never reap
The Autumn yield;
’Tis hard to tin—and when ’tis tilled to weep
O’er fruitless field.
And so I cry, a weak ami human cry,
So heart-oppressed;
And so I sigh a weak and human sigh
For rest —for Rest.
My way lias wound across the desert years.
And cares infest
My path, ami through the flowing of hot tears
I pine for Rest.
Twas always so;when still a child I laid
On mother’s breast
My wearied little head; o’en then Ijprayed,
As now. for Rest
And lam restless still; ’twill soon bo o’er;
For 1 down tho West,
Life’s sun is setting, and I see the shore
Where I shall Rest.
For Ooclamatiou.
THE LITTLE GIRL’S SPEECH.
So you like the smell of a good cigar
do you V Well, I have heard young
ladies say so before, but 1 always
thought if’l was in their place I would
not tell it. Whatever you can say,
nobody will think you like the nasty,
stinking thing for its own sake. Why
it almost strangles me. And after my
papa has been smoking, I would almost
rather he would not kiss me sometimes.
1 don't believe he would want to kiss
me, if he should smell tobacco smoke
in my breath. lam sure lie would not
call me his rose-bud again very soon.
lam very certain men don’t like to
bacco breaths in other people. I won
der if that is the reason they don’t kiss
each other?
How do I know they don’t like to
bacco smoke ? Well. I can read some,
and don’t I see “No smoking” up
around in ever so many places ! And
when I asked iny papa what they did
that for, he said it was not nice to have
tobacco sino/ce from other people’s
mouths putted into our laces. My papa
said that himself. And then on the
ferry-boat I see the men come flocking
into the ladies’ cabin, because their
own is full of tobacco smoke; and I
don't see any ladies go into the men’s
cabin, to get the smell of the smoke.
And they don’t scent their handkerchiefs
with it. nor put it in their boquets. I
should think if they like it so well they
would have essence of smoke among
their Colongne bottles.
Bah! nobody will make believe that
a clean, sweet young lady cares any
thing about the smell of a cigar, unless
there is a man behind it. And the men
don’t believe it either. They may not
say so, but they kept a-thin/ring, and
they think you say it to please tliein
tiie egotistical fellows ! P-rhaps after
wards they’ll say, as my brother Bill
said the next day after you professed to
Me his cigar: he said it made him
think of the young lady that took a few
whiffs now and then when she was lone
ly. because it made it smell as though
there was a man around,
A minister once told Wendell Phil
lips that if his business in life was to
save the negroes, he ought to go South
where they were arid do it. ‘That is
worth thinking of,’ replied Phillips,
‘and what is your business in life ?’ ‘To
save men from hell,' replied the minis
ter. ‘Then go there and attend to your
business,’ rejoined Phillips.
A car in which were a bright little
maiden and her mother came rushing
into the Central depot the other day;
and there engines were tooting hideous
ly, hackmen howling, and small boys of
a dirty and fiendish aspect were shout
ing ‘Morning papers !’ Is it any won
der that the little girl cuddled up to
her mother and inquired with terrible
awe: ‘Mamma,’ is this the ‘badmau’s?’
The Great Open JPotai* Sen. j
The reported discovery of a vast!
open Polar sea, %ast and northeast of
Spitsbergen, by the Norwegian Cap
tain Nils Johnson, conQrms the original
finding of Dr. Hayes, and the New
York Journal of Commerce, thinks,
should make scoffers feel ashamed of
then selves. JPe quote ;
Dr Hayes, in tiis first volume of
Arctic researches, told in a few plain
words, without a dash of boasting, of
his discovering an unfrozen Polar sea,
with no visible northern shore. The
doctor and his solitary companion had
reached it by sledge, penetrating as tar
north as Cape Constitution, Washington
Land, latitude S2 deg., 72 min., and
longtitude about 69 degrees. Scientif
ic persons, and even those who made a
study of Arctic explorations, saw fit to
doubt this story, on the ground of its
supposed extreme improbability.
People generally did not challenge
the report —the evidence being good
enough for them. Capt. Nils Johnson,
cruising to the east of Spitzbergen, on
a whaling voyage, has now, by accident,
entirely corroborated the statements of
Dr. Hayes. Attaining a point given
at 79 degrees 8 minutes north latitude
and 30 degrees 15 minutes east longi
tude, he found the whole sea to the
south and east and east northeast per
fectly tree from ice. He sailed along
the coast without obstruction for two
days and one night, and it was every
where open except in one line toward
the north, where ice was visible. As
ceriding a mountain near the coast he
obtained a veiw over a wide circuit,
and saw an iceless ocean to the extent
of his vision, in a direction east noith
east. The Captain saw birds, seals
and reindeer, but said nothing about
whales. He saw great piles of driftwood
along the shore, some of them heaped
twenty feet above high-water mark.
Capt. Johnson having brought back
such valuable results with a common
sailing vessel, the editor thinks the
scientific wot id may be encouraged to
hope that a better fitted craft, going
out for the express purpose of explor
ing the open Polar sea, may, by that
line, make her way to the North Pole.
In the Wit ’NG Pew.— Gris, in his
paper, Contributions, Saturday night,
thus gives his adventure in a torch light
procession :
We at length found the long sought
procession. IVe recognized it partly
by the torches, but more hy the infer
nal uproar they made. Wo fell into
line as quickly as possible, anxious to
have it over with, and began to holler
with the rest, lie can holler some, too.
J! we missed any head we saw on the
sidewalk through the flare of the light,
it was because our torchhandle was too
short to reach him. We whooped and
wejuinped, we reared and pitched, we
snorted and we yelled, square after
square, growing more and more ekeited.
As it was the only procession we ever
did march in, and the only one we ever
meet to, we determined to do it up to
the handle, even if it was the handle
of a torch. A fellow-torchist finally
turned to us and said :
‘See here, old man, who the are
you yellin’ for V
CFhoam I yelling for? IVhy, for
Greeley, of course.”
‘Greeley be , this is a Grant pro
cession ; now you git /’
The perpetual efforts to invent per
ual motion seem to have been success
ful at last. The editor of the Pennsyl
venia Argus has become a convert to
the ida that the “true theory of perpet
ual motion has been discovered.” Ho
says: ‘Tne ignorant may scoff, and the
unthoughtful deride, but we do candidly
admit that we think the invention has
introduced the ideas and arranged the
application ofAiiown forces that will act
complish all the inventor claims, name
ly, perpetual motiou.” The invention
lives in Petaluma, and a citazen of that
place has offered to pay all the expense
and attend to all the legal business see
ceosary to the perfecting and prochne
ot patents from the different Goueing
merits for one twentieth interest in tru
patent. The Argus adds : ‘lf th s ihe
vention been success (and on scientifin
principles wed not see how it can be
denied) it will revolutionize the world
ami do away with the steam engine al
together. Our overland trains, ocean
and inland steamers, will be driven by
this power, the cost of which will not
amount to mills where it now costs
thousands of dollars.’
Learn to do good, £and cease to do
evil whiletbe heart is young.
TEEMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE
Terrible.—The telegraph aunnouces
a fire at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in
New York, Tuesday night, resulting
in a mournful loss of life. The brief
dispatch says :
The fire was in thd cock-loft, occu
pied by laundry women and domestics.
Sixteen bodies have been found burnt
beyond recognition. They w»re found
near the only windovy of the room,
which was barred; the only means of
escape being the sfjdrway, which was
in Haines. The victims had to wait for
death, and it is hoped many died while
asleep. Twenty-two bodies had been
recovered up to two o’clock yesteiday
morning. The fire originated in the
elevator leading to the laundry. None
of the 500 guests are reported injured.
The loss by the fire and water will
probably be over SIOO,OOO. The smoke
was suffocating, and the water drenched
the floors and halls, filled with baggage
and clothes of 78 servants who escaped
It also ruined fully one-fourth of the
furniture, valued at $400,000.
A Thrifty Carpet-Bagger.—The
Boston Post says that “ex-Governor
Bullock, of Georgia, lives in style itr
one of the finest suburban residences
about the city of London, Ontario”—
that “his house is magnificent; his stud
is of the finest stock, his turnouts un
surpassed, and hesays he has concluded
to make London his residence for the
future.”
The plundered State of Georgia fur
nished this grand outfit. But what
party is responsible for fastening this
now escaped thief upon an unwilling
people, and of affording him the oppor
tunity to prey so long upon an impover
ished and oppressed State? i’hat is
the question. We are not surprised to
hear that Bullock has determined to
ta&e up his abode in a foreign country,
since it would not be safe lor him to re
main in his own. He is one of the kind
that leave their country for their coun
try's good.
A writer in the American Artisan
proposes a novel device for making
buildings fire proof, and wonders that
no architect ever thought of so obvious
a plan. He would make up the parti
tion of the walls of buildings in a man
ner analogious to sectional steam boil
ers, and fill them with water; then no
fire could be communicated from one
building to another till the water had
boiled away. The water spaces need
not be made more than one inch in
thickness, and might be constructed of
thin sheets of metal. Nothing can
burn until heated to the temperature at
which it combines with oxygen, and
the partition could never reach this
temperature so long as they were kept
supplied with water, since each atom of
that fluid is a swift vehicle to seize and
carry away the heat,
The following was written by a fa
ther to his son in college :
‘My dear soil —I write to send yon
new socks your poor mother knit for
you by cutting down some of mine*
Your mother sends you ten dollars
without my knowledge, and for fear
you would not spend it wisely 1 have
kept back half and only send you five.
Your own mother and I are well except
that your sister has got the measles,
which we think would spread among
the other girls if Torn had them before,
and he is the only one left. I hope
you will do honor to my teaching, if
you do not you are a donkey and your
mother and I arc your affectionate par
ents.’
“How do you get along with your
arithmetic ?” asked a father of his lit
boy, who answered and said : ‘l’ve
cyphered through addition, partition,
subtraction, distraction, abomination,
justifications, hallucination’ derivation,
amputation, creation and adoption !”
The newspapers of the country are
urged to warn advertisers that postmat-*
ers are .forbidden by law to deliver let
ters addressed to initials nr fictitious
names, unless sent to the care qf some
responsible, person-
A wag ofa border complained to the
mistress that the sun must have gone un
der a cloud when the shadow of tl a
chicken fell into the pot where her broth
was made.
A wag, observing on the door of a
house the names of two physicians, re
marked that it put him in mind of a
double-barreled gun : if one missed the
j other would be sure to kill