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VOLUME II—NUMBER 50. She UJcfJuffie gontmtl, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY -A T— THOMSON. C3rJ±., —II Y H. C. RONEY. RATES OF ADVERTISING, Transient advertisements will be charged one dollar per square for the first insertion, and seventy* fire cents for each subsequent insertion. WHINES CARDS. " R. W. H. NEAL. 3,11 orn nj at £uin , THOMSON GA. Office.—in Court-House Building. dec4mG. ONEY T lit Sato, THOJttSO 0./. #«x- Wit! practice iu the Augusta, Northern and Middle C ircuits, DO 1-lj CHARLES"Si. DuBOSE, 3&TWQftrYm\'lTL-'I m Warrenton, Gn. • Wi’l practice in all the Courts of the Northern, Augusta Sc Middle Circuits. J&tsfral ijotel, BY 111 It S. U . 11. THOnAS, AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. seplltf 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 make to order suits on the most reason able terms, and in the very latest styles and fashions. An experience of thirty years in the business satisfies me that I can guarantee satisfaction in every in stance. Call and see me, next door above J. H. Stockton’s store. novl3thtf J. M.BARFIELD. Important Notice. TO HOTELS, 3UHJN3 H3J3E3 AND PRIVATE FAMILIES IMIE Undersigned are now Prepared to Supply Hotels, 80-irding Houses, and Private Fami lies, with the Choicest Beef, Veal, Mutton. Lamb, Pork, Spare Ribs, Pork Sausage, Roasting Pigs, Game, Etc. 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 Family Grocery, wet lstocked with all kinds of Family Supplies including Canned Fruits, Fish, Meats, Pickles, Jellies. Etc. ■BT Send yonr Orders or Baskets to us, and we will fill them and ship hy earliest train direct, at the Lowest Market Prices. will, also, fill any order from customers ■for articles that ate not in onr line—such as Fish, Oysters. Vegetables, Bakers’ Bread, etc. We are confident of giving satisfaction and ask only a trial. LAWRENCE & RIGSBY, 114 Broad Street, And Htull lO Lower Market Augusta, Ga- FOR SALE. One Store House and Lot, one Dwel ling House and Lot, and several vacant Lots for sale low for cash in Thomson, by JOHN R. WILSON, deedtf. The Gales of Araby are not spicier than the aroma of the fragrant Sozodont imparts ot the breath. Nor is the heart of the ivory nut whiter than the teeth that are cleaned daily with ♦hat matchless fluid. CPfIBTQ' €3t seDl * ree - Address Eagle ufUlllu Rook Cos. 9 Murray at. N. Y. ihfIMPV 1 w Rh our Stenril and key- MUHEJI Oeck Outfit. Free mn Agents wanted! Just out! A splendid new OUU Chart ; “Christ blessing little children. ” Im mense sales! f»fljb agents wanted for our large Map of the “United States’’ with immense “World” Map on reverse side. Our Maps and Charts go like wild-fire. Haasis & Lubrecht, Empire Map and Chart Es tablishment, 107 Liberty Street, New York. $£H) made Dec. 8d by one Agent selling Horace O-reeley *nd Family A fine engraving, 22x25. in., sent hy mail for *1 (10. We also mail Button-Hole & Sewing Machine TUreail Cutters, and Needle Threading Thimble, price 25 cents each. Circulars of various other Novelties mailed frequently to all old and new agents, address. American Novelty Cos., 302 Broadway, N. Y. LOOK! FREE TO ALL! .SSO Per Week to Agents, Male or Female. To all who will write for an Agency we send a copy of that “Wonder of Wonders,” the Illustrated Horn of Plenty. It contains over fifty beautiful illustra tions, & will be sent Free to all who may write. Address I. Garside, Paterson, N. J. nT> T*' V C' T \? r V To Book Agents r libit VTk r 1 a complete outfit of the Pictorial Home Bible it is the only Bible in which a complete History, Encyclopedia, Analysis of the Scriptures, ami Improved Classified Bible Dictionary is given: its “uncqualod beauty and merits make it the cheapest and fastest selling Bi ble published. Will. Flint & Cos., Atlanta, Ga. T>J ’ T He deceived, but for coughs, coles, sore throat hoarsitaKs and bronchial difficulties, uso only WELLS’ OARBQLh TABLTS. Worthless imitations arc on the market, but the only scientific preparation of Carbolic Acid for Lung diseases is when chemically combined with otner well known remedies, as in these tablets, and all parties are cautioned against tiring any other. In all cases of irritation of the mucus membrane these tablets should be freely used, their cleansing end htaling properties are astonishing. lit warned, never neglect a cold, it is easily cured n is incipient suite, when it becomes chronic the cure >s exceedingly difficult, use Wells’ Carbolic Tablets as a specific. JOHN Q. KELLOG, its Platt St., New York. Sole Agent for the United S'ates. Price 25 cents a box. Send for Circular. AGENTS 9W*nnfed* Act at once. There is a Pile of money in it. The people everywhere are Eager to buy the authentic history of LI VI NGSTI ft’S Di°.?oVe°rh! and Thrilling Adventures during 28 years in AL*en, with account of the Stanley Expedition. Over 000 pages, only s2.f>o. Is selling beyond papallel. 4V# f / 1 4K V*. Beware of inferior works. This is the only Complete and Reliable work. Send for circulars, and see proof and great success agents are having. Hubbard Bros. Publishers, Boston, Mass. V GREAT OFFER / Horace Wafers. 481 Broadway, N. Y, Will dispose of 100 Pianos, Meh* leans, mid Organ'*, of six firsfc-class makers, including Waters* l very h w prices fur carii. or part cash, and balance in small monthly instalments. New-7-octav** first class Pianos, modern improve meats, for $275 cash. Now ready a Concerto Par lor Organ, the most beautiful siyU and perfect tone ever in *<!**, Illustrated Catalogues mailed. Sheet Music Merchandise. TO PLANTERS? BOWEN & ME BOER’S SC P K it - S’iß OSPIIA T V S3B PER TON. Warranted equal to any Phosphate manufactur ed. Send for Phamphlet of Certificates and An alysis. by Professors Means, Piggott, and Stewart, to Bowen & Mercer, G 5 South Gay St. Baltimore, Md. Open The Sewers ! When the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels do not act healthfully, the wastes from the action of the system remain in the hided, and porduce irritation and disease. These organs are the outlets of the system and under Ihe influence of HAMILTON’S BUCHU AND DANDELION, are kept in good running order. W. 0. Hamilton A Go. Cincinnati. DO Agents Want absolutely the best selling hooks? Send for circulars of Vent’s Unabrid i ged Illns. Family ' ible. Over 1100 pages 10 by 12 in. 200 pages Bible Aids, <fec. Arabesque $0.25 ! Gilt Edge,’l clasp, $8.25 Full Gilt, 2 clasps, 11. On. [“Belden: The White Chief,” For Winter Even- I ings 30th 1000 ready the American Farmer’s Horse Book:” The Standard. 40th 10119 ready, Epizootic Treatments, Ac. C. F Vent, N. Y. & I Cincinnati. Vent A Goodrich, Chicago. to $250 per month, ■4J 1-verywhere. mule or female, to introduce the rj Genuine Improved Common Sen o Family Sew iii£r Machine. This machine will Mitch, hem fell, tuck, quilt, cord, bind, braid embroider in »n a most superior manner Price onlv sls. J Fully licensed and warranted for five year**. VV« * will pay SI,OBO for <&uv machine that will sew a *tri»nger. more beautiful, or more elastic Ream rj th -ii ours h makes the <( Elastic * ock Stitch.” 0 Every second hi itch can be, cut, and si ill the cannot be nulled apart with >ut tearing it. pay agents $75 to $250 per month *nd ex | pensH-, or a commission from which twic»* that amount can be made. Addres SECOVIB <fc CO. Boston, Miss ; Pittsburg, Pa., Chicago, 111., or ! St Louis, Mo. Cheap Farms ! Free lloiliest! I On the line of the Union Pacific Railroad, I 12060.000 acres of the best Farming and Mineral Lands in America. 3.000,000 Acres in Nebraska, in the Platte Valley, now for «ale. MILO CLIMATE FEE TILE SOIL for Grain growing and Stock Raising unsurpassed by any iu the United States. Cheaper in Price,more favorable terms given, and more convenient to market thau can be found else where. FREE HOMESTEADS FOR ACTUAL SET TLERS. The best location for Colonies—Soldiers entitled to a Homent' ad of 100 Acres. Send for the new Discriptive Pamphlet, with new maps, published in English, German. Sweedish and Danish, mailed free everywhere. Address O. F DAVIS. Land Com’r U. P. R. R- Cos., Omaha, Neb. THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GA., DECEMBER 25, 1872. [regulator! This unrivalled Me Heine is warranted not to coniain a single p trtide of Murcu*y,or any injuri ous mineral But stance, bin is Purey Vegelab e. For forty years it has proved its great value in all diseases of the live*, bowels and kidneys. Thou sands of the good and great in all parts of th** country vouch for iis wonderful and peculiar power in puri fying the blood, simulating tho torpid liver and bow elv. and imparting new life i.nd 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'her prepara tion, viz .* a gentle Cathartc, a wonderful Tunic, an unexceptionable alterative and a certain correct ive of all impurities of the b dy. Such signal suc cess has attended its uso that i' is now regarded as the Great Unfailing Specific for liver complaint a.id the painful JLor.ng thr \ lo wit: Dyspepsia, Cons ipution, Jaundice, Ll - Sick Hendntdic, Colic, Depression of Spirits, Sour Stom.ich, ‘bnrt Burn. s:c., See. Regulate th Liv«r and prevent CHILLS AND FEVtR. SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR Is niHiiulnrt mod only by* J. H. ZEILIN & CO., Macoiij Ga.. and Philadelphia. Price $1 00 per package ; sent h” mull, postage paid, $1.25. Prepared ready fur use iu bottles, $1.50. SOLO BY ALL . DRUGGISTS- Beware of all Counterfeits and Imitations. sepllyl WH BLOOD PURIFIER unequaled by any nown remedy. It, will eradi cate, extirpate and tbnrou-jhly destroy till poisen ous subsiunces in the Blood ami will effec uully d.s pel at! predi-position to bilious derangement. Is there want *>f action in v«> r Inver & Spleen ? Unless relieved the blood becomes impute by deletrious secretion?, producing scofuloiiH or skin diseases, blotches, felons, pustule*, Catiker, pi ru les. «tc., &c. Have you a Dy.mep’ic S’omnch/ U'Hrss diges j lion is promptly rid and the pysb*m is with I poverty of the blood, Dropsical tendency, general j weakness and inertia j Have you weakm-es of the /(destines ? You p re in danger of Chronic Diarrhoea or lullammation of th" Bowels. Have you weakness of the Uterine < l* Uruiary Or gans? You are exposed to suffering iu its most aggravated form. Are you dejected, drowsy, dull, sluggish or de pressed in spirits, with head ac e, hack ache, coat ed to guo and bad taming mon h ? For a certain remedy for all of these diseases, weaknesses and troubl s; for cleaning and purilv ing th** vitiated blood and imparting vigor to all the vital forces; for build ng up and restoring the weakened constihi'i'm Uso .1 URUISEHA which is prouounc and by th loading med ; cn,l autori tie« of Loiidon and Bari-- “tho ui**<t powerful tonic and alterative known to the niouicil w*»rld.” This is no new and iintriAd discovery hut has bc-*u long j used by the 1 ading physicians of other countries with wonderful remedial results. Don’t weaken and imp dr the dig*-«tiv<* organs !>v cathartics and physics, they giv • only temporary relief—lndigestion, flatulency and dyspepsia with piles ami kindred dine ses arc sur.i to h llow th:r u«e. Keep the blood pure and henllli is aS'iin*. JOHN Q. KEliLOfrt;, 18 Platt -St , N- Y. «olc Agent f.»r th-- United States. Price, One Dollar per Bottle. N-mis oui Peter Kalbfleiscih, Manufacturer ami Drain in \ Mouldings, Odd Size Sashes, Door Frames, and all necessary trim mings used iu the Erection of Bnildings, All patterns of Pxqket Pending* Also House Carpentering, Furni ture Manufacturing, and Gene ral Machine Repairing, done at shortest notice. C3F° Prompt attention to house Paint in-r. Cull on PETER KALBFLEI3CH may22tjar 1573 Saw Dust, Georgia. I. MimPMF <£* GQ. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in ISM WHITE IlMliTt Si C, f, f 131 —ALSO— Scuii-Cliiiia French Fliina, iilassnai’c, &c. 244 Broad Street, Augusta, Ua aprlO ly. NOTICE; All who are indebted to me are re quested to ma/ce payment by the 2-sth inst, or their accounts will I>b placed in the hands of an officer for collection. J. T. KINDRICK. loetnu Kent. 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