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VOLUME HI—NUMBER 50. &hc tsc|Wfic fonrnal, i)6 PUBLISHED WEEKLY T—. T THOMSON. GA., —B Y— eone;y &, white. RATES OF ADVERTISING . Transient advertisements will be charged one dollar f»er square f«F the first insertion, and seYenty five cent* for each subsequent insertion. L c vftnx, ’ R. W. H. NEAL. 3.11 oxn cij at £ u tu, THOMSON GA. Office.—in Court-House Building. dec 4 mb. 11. O. IIONEY, Motitni at lab, thomso r, r;.i. " ill practice in. iho Augusta, Northern &ti<l Middle Circuits* no I— I y CHARLES S- DuBOSE, Warrenton, C»i«. "iV» HCtiee in all the Courts of the Northern, & Middle Circuits. (Tfntral |jotci, BY IfIRS. \\ . 11. TiSO.U AS. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. seplltf Tm. BARFIELD, TAILOR. JAM permanently located in Thom son, and am prepared to cut and make to order suits on the most reason able teims, 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. Cml and see me, next door above J. H. Stockton's s f ore. novldtbtf J. M.B Alt FIELD. THE OLD POPULAR BURKE HOUSE Corner of Broad and r.rl it p;< if- tr< its, Augusta, Georgia, Has Re-opened for Public patronage ou the Ist instant, by .i. r. iishim.fr, whose long experience enables him to guarantee satishictioji to all who favor him with their patronage. Tiie Cen tral Location and Moderate Charges (which are less than' regular hotel charges)., of the BURKE HO TZ £ , are advantages to visitors to the city that' are worthy of their consideration. n tv27m3 Important Notice, TO H3TE3, BiAliuiita HOUSES AND PRiv'ATE FAMILIES r HE Undersigned are now Prepared to Supply | Jlutpjtf, Pisarding Houses, and Private Fami lies, Wfil, thf, ('boiceal Beef, ypal, Mutton, X,an,t,. fork, Spate Libs, Pork Sausage, Jtoasting Pigs, tjaroe, Eto, IN ANT QUANTITY DESIRED, All our Meats are warranted Fresh, and of he B est Kind, OUR CORNED BEEF, Put up by oca Mr. Lawkekce, is superior to any from New York Fulton Market. CiT Also, we k6ep a First-Class Family Grocery, wel lstocked till all kinds of Family Supplies including Canned Fruits, Fish, Meats, Pickles, Jellies, Etc. Send your Orders or Baskets to us, and we will fill them and ship by earliest train direct, at the Lowest Market Prioes, We will, also, fill any order from customers for articles that are not in onr line—such as Fish, Oysters, Vegetables, Bakers’ Bread, eto. We are confident of giving satisfaction and ask only a trial. LAWRENCE & RIGSBY, 114 Broad Street, And stall lo Lower Market Augusta, Ga- CM BTC* Book sent free. Address Eagle Hi lulu Book Cos. 9 Murray tt. N. Y, Mjpy E:i«i'y mad* with our Stem il and key □l 0 e?k Outfit. rculars Fre«*. mn Agents ianted! Just out! A splendid new uUU A'hart: “Christ blessing little children.” Im mense sales! SQO agents wanted for onr large Map of the “Uui’.ed States’’ with immense “World’* Map on reverse side. Our Maps and Charts go like wild-fire. 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On the line of the Union Pacific Railroad. 12 000,000 aores of the best Farm ng and Mineral Lands in America. 3,0G(’,00 J Aorea iu Nebraska, in the Platte Valley, n«w for sale. MILO CLMM.iIK FERTILE SOIL for Grain growing and Stock Raising unsurpassed by any ill the United States. Cheaper iu Price, more favorable terms given, and more convenient to market than can be found eise where FREE HOMESTEADS FOR ACTUAL SET TLERS. Thebert location for Colonies—Soldiers entitled to a Homeetead of 160 Acres. Send for the new Pamphlet, with new maps, published in English, German. Sweedish and Duni-h. mailed free eycrywliert-. Address O. F. DAVIS. LanJ ComV U, P. Ft. R. Cos.. Omaha, Neb. Thomson, McDuffie county, ga., January 8,1873. |?octf]b j liacou and Greens. I havfr lived long enough to be rarely mistaken, And had my full share of Ife’s chan goble scenes; And my woes have been solaced by good greens and bacon, < And my joys have L en doubled by bacon and greens. With a thrill of remembrance e’en now they awaxen Os childhood’s gay morning and youth’s mer ry scenes— When each day we had greens and a plate full of bacon. And the next we had bacon and a platefull of greens. Ah! well I remember,when sad and forsaken, Hear wrung by the scorn of a-raiss in hor teens. How I fled from her sight to my loved greens bacon. And forgot my despair over bacon and greens. When the banks refused specie, and credit was shaken, I shared in the wreck and was ruined in means; Mv friends all declared that had I not saved my bacon, But I lived, for I still had my bacon and greens. If some fairy a grant of three wishes could make one So worthless as I, and so laden with sin, I’d wish all greens in the world, then the bacon* Then wish for a little more bacon and greens. Oh ! there is a charm in this dish,rightly taken, Which from custards and jellies an epicure weans; Stick your fork in the fat, wrap your greens round the bacon. And you’ll vow there’s no dish like goood bacon and greens. |psftHancon& Murdeir Will Out. nv james nnnsEv. ‘ Yes. sir,” said the policeman, “we officers of the law see many strange sights, and have many strange adven tures in the discharge of our doty.” A parcel of us were sitting around the stove at the Railroad Depot, wait ing for the down train, and had gotten into conversation with the policeman on duty at the station. He was a good Matur’d, (rank fellow, and did not seem unwilling to make himself agreeable. “Dell.” said I, “I’ll warrant me you have some good story just on the end of your tongue. So come, now, let us have it.” He, laughed, and replied, good hu moredly.— “Yes, sir, you are right. I "was thinking, when you spoke, of an occur pence that came under my observation only a few days ago, and which seemed to me one of the strangest things I ever knew. “Let us hear it” chorussed the group, add the officer, nothing loth to relate the stury, at once commenced : ' “\y V H, I an, afraid, gentlemen,” he said, "it will be rather a dry story to you, as you don’t q! course take a* much interest in these matters as a man of my profession does. Indeed, it is cot to be expected of you, who only hear of a case of crime one day to for get it the next. We, however, study these things closely, and try to draw from them ideas and experience which will enable us to detect or prevent, similar occurrences. “Sixte2fi yeafs ttgo there was a kind of rough tavern down hi the lower part Os the CitJ’i which was intended for sailors and steerage passengers. No re spectable person ever thought of step ping there,, and the house had scarcely custom enough to keep it going. The tavern was built just on the edge of the water, and its place is now occupied by a warehouse. Its back windows opened right on the harbor, so that anything dropped from them would fall into the water.” "The man who kept this tavern was a rough, fierce looking follow of about forty He had once been a sailor, and his dark, forbidding aspact accorded well with his general reput tion. He was well-known at the police-court, where he had often been charged with criminal offences: but by a strange and uniform good fortune he had always contrived to escape punishment. “IFell, gentlemen, not to make my story too long, sixteen years ago there arrived from California a packet ship, which brought, among others, two men who had returned from the diggings. She came in so late at night that she simply dropped anchor up the harbor without trying to get up to her wharf in the darkness. The two men I have, spoken of being very anxious to get on! ’shore, prevailed on the captain to laud j them, and it so happened that he put them right ashore at Jona-s Halsey’s tavern. It was midnight, and Halsey was just closing his house when the men came to him and asked for lodgings until the morning. In a few minutes Halsev, who was a good questioner, gained from them that they had just re turned from the gold regions. In reply to his question as to whether they had been successful, they laughed and said ‘not very,’ which to any man of sense would have been proof that they had plenty of cash with them. "Halsey understood it to be so, and without more words he showed his guests to their chamber, which was in the rear of the buildin r, and directly over the water. After this Halsey went, back to his bar. and after sitting (or a long time in silent thought, closed the door and put out the lights. “The two men went to bed as soon as they were shown to their room. It might have been an hour or more afterwards when one ot them was aroused by a heavy noise- Looking up, he saw the landlord striking his com panion a heavy blow with an axe. Springing up lie tried to seize his knife but before lie could do so. Halsey, who was a powerful man, clutched him with a death grip, ard wrenched the knife from him, A fierce struggle ensued, the stranger being gradually forced back to the window. Fim rally Halsey stuck the knife in his side with a terri ble blow, the hot blood spurting all over him, and then hurling the man bat k threw him out of the window, which chanced to be raised. In another instant his companion, who had been killed by the first blow of the axe, was (lung into the v ater also. The tide was running out rapidly, and Halsey was sure the bodies would be carried out with it. “The men had foolishly carried their money on their persons, and when they went to bed had deposited it under ts eii pillows. It amounted to mor than twenty thousand dollars, and of course fell into the murderer's posses sion. “The next, morning Halsey was miss ing. No one but himself had known anything of the arrival of his unfor tunate guests, and the blood upon the floor and window-sill was a great mys tery. At, last, however, we came to believe that Halsey had been murdered in this room by some unknown party, and thrown into the water. “1 was finite a young chap at that time, and had not then joined the police force, but the afiair made a deep im precision on me. I had frequently seen Halsey, and I Anew him well by sight As the time passed on, however, I for got the affair, ind would not have re membered it had it not been brought to mind in a strange way. “A few days ago a man came in here to wait for the train. He was such a ra-cally looking fellow that he at once attracted my attention. Hisfiice seem ed very familiar, too. I tried to think where I had seen him, but for the life of me I could not remember. “Just then I ha; pened to look up, and saw a can standing iu the doorway, looking at my man with a most startled and savage expression. He said noth ing, however, but came and sat down by the stove, with his back turned to wards the man I had been watching. As he did so he uttered an exclamation of pain. “‘Anything wrong, sir?’ I asked. “‘jYo, he replied. •] still suffer from a wound in the breast which I received in this city sixteen years ago.’ "I saw the first man start and turn qui kly towards the speaker. He could not sea him, however, but al though the new-comer had his back to my man I could see that he was watch ing him closely. In an instant it flash ed across my mind that my man was Jonas Halsey. I kept my eoolness, however, and asked, as carelessly as I could,— “‘Ah! how was that?’ “ ‘Well, you see,’ said the stranger, and I could see that he was still watch ing Halsey closely, ‘sixteen years ago I landed here in company with a friend. He had just come back to California, where we had made a great deal of money, alrid, like fools, we had it all with us. We put up for the night at a sailor’s tavern on the shore, intending to start for an inland town the next day. During the night I was aroused by a noise, and jumped up to find the land lord murdering my companion. I tried to defend myself, but after a struggle he stabbed me and threw me out of the window into the watc The tide car- ried me out into the harbor, where I was picked up by a brig and nursed kindly until I was able to go about. I’ve been looking for that landlord ever since.’ ".‘Do you think you’ll ever catch hun /’ 1 asked, and for the life of me T couldn’t keep down my excitement. “\Vith the rapidity of light the stranger wheeled around, springing to his feet,.and faced Halsey. Laying his hand on his shoulder he said cooly , ‘I have found him. This is the inun. Arrest him, officer.’ "Halsey s mined completely stunned. The shock was so sudden and unexpect ed that it deprived him of all power of resistance. I secured him while lie was in this condition, and soon had him at tlie station house. The next day he confessed tile whole tiling. He will be tried at the next court, and I suppose will be hung, us he deserves.’ Just then the whistle of our train called us to the platform, and wo hur ried oH to the cars. Tlie Liuuaties of History. Without going to the absurd length, which tunny now do, of attributing all crime to insanity, and thus acquitting modern criminals on that absorb [ilea, we yet believe a long possession of des potic power will in the end induce madness ; and it is, therefore, a natural result that the great monurehs and ru lers who have acted like monsters, have become insane through the wicked flat tery and cowardice of their subjects. No nation is oppressed by a tyrant, that has not deserved it. //’lien we per ceive the evil effects which indulging chiidreu has upon them, we must allow its influence upon tlie human heart. and so much tlie greater the effect oil men, when bowed down to by mil lions. Much of the tyranny and despotism oi the world lias been the result of cere bral disease, and, if justice had been done, not a lew of the rulers of history would have been confined in asylums lor the insane. Caligula, the beastly /{oinan Emper or, was certainly a lunatic. His uc-, eesesiou to tlie throne was greeted with joy by the Roman people, and he after ward become so popular by the gener ous and conciliatory acts of his reign tout, w it'ii lie w; a att: eked with sick ness, mi rilices were ottered in the tem ples for his recovery. His bruin 1111- tloubtedly became diseas, and during his sickness, lor Irom that time he became a changed mail. The remaining four yturs ol Ins reign were disgraced by some of the most unnatural and capri cious tyranny recorded in history. He put to death a large number of ins sen ators. Every ten days he delivered human victims to be devoured by wild beasts, and jocosely termed this horrid act ‘clearing bis account.’ He caused divine honors to be ; aid to himself, m a telnj le erected expressly lor that pur pose, and under the superintendence ol priests of Ins own appointing, lie invit ed Ins favorite horse, lucitatus, to dine at the royal table, wlituelie was fed on gilded oats, and drank from jeweled goblets; and bul lor his premature death, tins animal would have beeti raised to the consulship. In a more en lighten'd and liberal age, Caligula would have been sent to an insane re treat. The Romans endured his cruel ty lor four yeais. and then put him to death by a well-planned and successful conspiracy. The career of Nero was something like tiiet of i aligula. In youth he was notably clever, kindly and amible. and tor the first year of his leign lie ruled with clemency and justice. He was at this time so harassed by the attempts ol his mother to wrest the scepter from Ins bands, that his brain probably be became disordered, and he was meta morphosed into a lyrant. 110 poison ed Ins own brother at a least to which lie had invited him. 11 is mother, Agip piiia, he murdered in her own bed. He relentlessly persecuted the Christians on the [ilea that they set lire to Rome, lie caused to be executed Lucan, the [met, and Seneca, the philosopher, and kicked his own wife to death. JVor was his insanity manifested by acts of cruelty alone, 110 had a silly rage for music, and in his morbid ambition to be thought the greatest singer of the world, he appeared on the stage in the character of an operatic performer. Domitian, Heliogabalus, and possibly some of the Consuls of Rome, must have been of unsound mind. Domitian liAe Caligula and Nero, began to reign with generosity ; and under the pres sures and worrying of Government be developed into a monster. Heliogabalus made hie horse consul, appointed a sen- TERMS-TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE* ate of women, forced the Romas to worship a black stone, and prepared golden swords and cords of silk and gold, in order to put. an end to his own i life when he fit. All these were j the freaks of a madman. I Alexander the Great behaved like a i lunatic in the latter part of his reign, and the supposition is plausible that, if ! he had survived a few years longer, he might have become a most impiicable and capricious tyrant. From being very abstemious. In; gave himself up to debauchery. His lust for power became a disease, and he strove for gigantic im possibilities. Robespierre and some other leaders in the French revolution were probably made more or less insane by the ezeiting events in which they took part. It is certain that Robespierre was naturally Aind-heurted and considerate, for he be gan life by endeavoring to procure the abolition of capita! punishment This Dosi stic Relations of the Thkee Uue'T Editoiis. i’he New York correspondent ot the Augusta Constitutionalist calls attention to the fact that the editors of three great dai’ies of that city died as few men w ish to die. lie says : Mr, Raymond, of the Times, was found soon after midnight in the hall of his dwelling, prostrated with apoplexy, and never spoke more; his wile and older children far from him, and he buried by bis business aud political as sociates. Mr. Bennett, although an old man. bad been entirely deserted by every one of his kith and kin, and in his last moments was ministered to only by his faithful servants, in the selection of which lie was always, fortunate Mr. Greeley died as has been narrated. Besides, they were unfortunate in their mar. iage relations. Mr. Greeley and t.is wile had lived apart for ti 1 teen years; and for years before the death of their hush i(ids, Mrs. Bennett and Mrs. Ray mond had lived in Europe. 1 believe however, that tio estrangement had ever taken place between Mr. and Mrs. Ben nett ; it was simply indifference ; their tastes and habits of thought were in op posite directions, and they lollowed them. The largest brewery in the woild is that of Barclay, Perkins & Cos., of Lon don. They use annually 18,000 bales of hops, and make one million barrels of a'e and porter. Their p'uce covers twelve acres in the heart of London.for which they recently refused the sum of $20,000,000 per acie. Barclay, Perkins & Cos., use nine thousand pounds of hops and twelve thousand live hundred bushels of malt daily. They make one thousand seven hundred arid sixty bar rels at a brewing. Their porter is stow ed n each holding,from fifteen hundred to three thousand barrels! IFliy thev have seven casks, called the ‘seven sis ters,’ which hold thirty-six hundred bar rels each. They are fifty feet high and thirty feet in diameter. Their draft horses are the marvel of all London. They have one hundred and sixtv-two of the splendid nineteen hand horses, s. ven hundred dollars apiece. They are so heuvyas to wear out an inch tiiick horse shoe in one or two week*. The popular vote of the United States may bo pretty nearly approxi mated in the following estimate: Whites for Greeley 3,300,000 IFliites for Grant 2,900,000 White majority for Greeley 400,000 tVegroes for Grant 959,000 Negroes for Greeley 50,000 iVegro majority for Grant 900,000 Grant’s majority, white and negro combined, is 500,000- The total vote is fully 7,200,000- Grant’s majority on this is about seven per cent In other words, he has 100 votes to Greeley’s 93- This is the extent of the tremend ous sweep we hear so much about.— Cincinnati Enquirer. The new Legislature of Texas ron*r sists of 17 Democrats and 13 Radicals. Os the Democrats, eight held over, and nine were elected in Aovember ; of the Radicals, ten held over, and only three were elected last month. The House is composed of about seventy Democrats and twenty radicals —all elected in November. The legislature will meet on the 14th of January. ‘Mr. Smith I wish- to speak to you privately. Permit me to take you a.mrt ■ for a few nibmeuts.’ Smif.h(.vin> was ; not the ipast frightened): ‘Certainly, sir* i if yon promise to put me together again *