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- < Vol. IX. rlplioA KrK. S&ggtz '2* **"•- . *0 TLnas Months Xuvcuxb y in Advance. *•" tper sect *utt! the money te pal# 9" Kotioe given each ttbsc.fber two urnkn ketrfte Um oxpirutioc of hi* time, •nd if renewed, the peper lii Oar no tice will'be the I Sturt "O," merked on thenmrgtn at Ure piper n blae pencil ” lay persou who wQI send in the neiswe ef *re new eabxs-riberK. with *5 o*h. will be entitled to one year's sub •cHptioc free. Xflv<RPtilnr Ratos. 'ne eqaete, Irst insertion., $1 00 -ewhae minion " ft, Sl'ne eifesre .hree months 10 00 kOne square six months 15 00 Mne square twelve months 20 00 'Quarter column twelve months.. 40 00 Half column six months (10 00 Half column twelve months 75 00 One column twelve mouths 125 00 “V Pen lines orlesseonsidered a square tit fractions of squares are counted as full squares. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, ETC. A. C. QUILLAIN, . Dentist, WILL be in Thomson from the Ist till the 1 fifth of each month. All optrationa strictly First Claes. Office B Main street, first door scuth of A. B. Thrasher’* residence. Private engage ment* in the oouutry promptly filled, j an 29-1 y PRICES = SUIT HAr D TIM S HPIIE UNDERSIGNED is better pre- I pared thau ever to make BOOTS ANI> SHOES of all styles for Ladies and Oentlemen, cheap for cash. I ketp on hand an assortment of the very bent material, and make Wedding aud Party Boots and Shoes a specialty. I have re cently learned anew process of prepar ing Holes from the best Baltimore Oak and Slaughter Hemlock that make them last much longer than t old process. Very thankful for past liberal patron Age. I solicit a continuance of the same. All work warranted. Call and examine stock and prices. • Shop in back room of T. N. Lewis' store. jan2*;-ly W B. B. CASON. J. M. HARP, Dealer in ancl Manufacturer all kinds Tin & Sheet Iron Ware. Aio. Dealer in CROCKERY AND GLASS WARE LAMPS and LAMP GOOD*. Gutter ing and Hoofing done at Lowest Rates. The ioweal prices guaranteed for every thing. and I will not be undersold. **M4Jcr Price List. NO. 144 BROAD STREET, Opp Miita Markwalter's Marbie Works, j mil-Gw Augusta, Ga. PAVILION HOTEL, Charleston, S. C. a. T. ALFORD CO., Proprietors. Hates, £2.00. £2.50 and£3.oo per day Hair Outtlna; -IN THE— LATEST AND MOST SCIENTIFIC MANNER, —BY— E. D. AMONITTI, ArtiHt on fliunitn Ilnir, (Orricit Un;>, it Cektbai, Horn..) AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. MiaHotf Planters, Attention! ► ••■A $ We could not supply the demand for the Gullet Gin last season owing to the yellow fever quarantine. To prevent a similar occurrence during the coming heason, we have been instructed to offer .the Improved Gallett Gin, ALSO Feeder and Vondenxer*, At a very low price to all who will pur chase this Bpring for cash or good paper. Now is your chanoe to purchase the fluent Cotton Gin ever offered to the trade, at prices that any planter can afford. To get the largest discount yon should purchase between now and May 15th. We are also offering the celebra ted Bigelow Engines of eve* j style; also, SWF.P.PSTAKE SEPARATORS. SAW MILLS, THRESHERS, GRIST •MILLS, Ax., Ac , At greatly reduced prijes. Give ns a call or write for circulars. Extra low figure* made to those who purchase their entire ginning and threshing out fits through us. Address, • 0. M. STONE & CO., .General Agents for Plantation Machin ery, Augusta Oa. apl?B.ftm. KERVOUS DEBILITY SEMINAL WEAKNESS, Lost Manhood, lin potency. Universal l aaitnde. Enerva tion of Mind aDd Body, and all diseases that follow as a sequence of indiscretion or exeewt, quickly and permanently cured by Mate s Specific, prepared by a physician, and a the result of years of atndy and practice in treating these special diseaaoa. and sold at $2 per uackage. three packages for $5. For tpeeiic circular and full particulars, ad- Anm Dr. BATE* CO., 201 Clark St., UL feblO.ty A BTJBJTHAM'S E MMTOAUniIHtt /* MVKirawKlnS '-•PRJSTEUtIiTDUt-USI -■ l*rlrr rlri. I'mmphUiJw. Works: Christian*, Co., J*n. Ofiber: 98 8. Bv+osr Bt., York, Bm. Opium and Morphine Habit And DRUNKENNESS absolutely and .speedily cared. Painleee; no publicity; the worst cases of Drunkenness cured in 10 or 15 days. Send stamp for particu lars to J. 8. CARLTON, 2<W S Clark St., Chicago. HI. feblO-ly f can make money faater at work for || us than at anything else, capital not || required; we will start yon. sl2 per day at home made by the industri ous. Men. women, boys and girls want ed evervwbere to work 4 %t us. Now is the time. Conti, outfit and terms free. 1 Address. TRUE A CO., Augusta,Me b27-bj} E. I. O. M. MOTTO OK T.M.H. O.T.S. SUPERIOII Pianos & Organs OF THE BEST MAKERS. The Most Attractive Stock South of Baltimore'. *SO to *IOO Saved! PACTS AND FIGURES, With numerous testimonials from Vir ginia to Alabama, prove that the llfilSTl MUSIC HOUSE —IS THE— Music Saving Institution OF THE SOUTH. Purchasers will save money by visit ing or corresponding with G.O. RoMflson&Go. Who sail the BEST PIANOS and OH GANS at lower prices than any house South. LOW PRICES! EASY TERMS! QUICK SALES! ASOfS 1 tl'oj, <1 Street, ujar*2(i-ly Augusta, Ga. Bricks! Bricks! Having purchased the we’l known Brick Yard of the late I HUMAN MJNNKGAN, HAMBURG, S. C., I urn now j ’vpp.md to deliver any quan tity of First-Class Bricks. The bricks made at this yard are of THE BEST CLAY, And known by contractors as the BEST IN THE MARKET Address, w. j. mmm, AUGUSTA. GEORGI*. Feb. 12-4n Change of Scheinle. GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY,) Superintendent's Opfice. Augusta, Ga., April 5, 1879 ) /COMMENCING Sunday, the tth inst.. \J the following Schedule will be oper ated. Trains run by Atlanta time, ten minutes Flower than Augusta time: NO. 1 WEST—Daily. Leave Augusta 9:45 a. in Leave Thomson 11:18 ft. m Arrive Miliedgeville 3:30 p ui Arrive Macon. 5.20 p. iU Arrive Wushington 2:00 p. in Arrive Athens 3:30 p. in Arrive Atlanta...., 5:00 p. in NO. 2 EAST—Daily. Leave Atlanta 7:45 a. m Leave Athens 0:15 a. m Leake Washington 10:45 a. rn Leave Macon 7:10 a. m Leave Miliedgeville 0:08 a. m Arrive Thomson 1:31 p. m Arrive Augusta 3:18 p. m No connection to or .’rom Washington on Sundays. NO. 3 WEST Daily. Leave Augusta 5.30 p m Arrive Thomson 7.50 p. ni Arrive Atlanta 5.00 a. m NO. 4 EAS I— Daily. L<*ave Atlanta 6.00 p. rn Leave Thomson 4.05 a. ni Arrive A ugiista 0.25 a. in NO. 15 WEST-Daily. Leave Augusta 8.30 p. m Leave Thomson 11.01 p. in Arrive Camak 11.41 p m Arrive Miliedgeville 4.05 a. m Arrive Macon 6.10 a. m NO. 16 EAST—Daily. Leave Macon 9.00 p. m I/eave Miliedgeville il-45p m I.eave Camak 440 a. m Arrive Thou son 5.25 a. rn Arrive Augusta 7.50 a rn Trains Nos. 1, 2. 3,4, 15 and 16 will not stop at Flag Stations. S. K. JOHNSON, Superintendent. E R. DORSEY, Geu’l Passenger Agent. REDUCTION OF PASSENGER FAKES. GEORGIA RAILROAIK IB SELLING Straight auc Excursion Ticket* Between all Stations on its main lii e and tranches, including the Macon and Augusta &jlrood, at the following great ly reduced rates: straight Tickets At 4c. per mile Excursion Tickets at 6c per mile. (Good for ten days). Minimum for Straight Tickets, ten cents; for Excursion Tickets, twenty cents. To secure the advantages of the re duced rites. Tickets must be purchased from the Station Agents of the com pany. <'ondntors are not allowed to charge less than the regular tariff rate of five (5) cents per mile. Excursion Tickets will be good to re ’ turn ten days, from ard including the date of issue. No tay-over privileges attach to these tickets, nor will any .be granted. Tho Company reserves the j right to change, or entirely abrogate 1 these rates at pleasure, and without notice. E. R. DORSEY, oct2s-tf Genl Passenger Agent I Notice to Debtors. ALL who ate indebted to the firms of White & Combs, or J. E. W hite & Cos. 4 former proprietors of this paper, for subscriptions., advertisements or job work, are earaw/Jy requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned. The hnsioesK of the old firms must be settled up without delay. I J. E. WHITE. Thomson Ga., Jan. 22, 1879. THOMSON, GA., Esr>A_Y, JUNE 4r, 1579. Sometimes in spring there comes a dav. •Vhen nobody hasn’t got nothing to sny Shad are how plentiful in the Ouach ita river. Two colored men hare been elected Aldermen in Yazoo City. The Afghan difficulty has already cost England about ten millions of dollars. *> floe new theatre has been built at Statford-on-Avon in honor of Shaks peare. A colored woman in Kenton, Ky., gave birth to two boya and oim girl last -Monday. - '' * A white man taken by the Zulus, who escaped, saw a Zulu reading an English newspaper. The war in . outh America has tem porarily ceased until the Bolivian army can mend its suspenders. Voss, the Richmond swimmer, lately hw ud seven miles, and then rowed a boat buck against wind and tide. Kit Carson, a son of the famous icout and a very witty and intelligent person, it is reported is making tempernme speeches. Since fly time has come, the Now Orleai s Times saya the Society for the Suppression of Profanity has suspended operations. Brother Wong Ching. in full Chinese dress, officiated ns den con at a Congre gational communion service in Hartford. He is a deacon at home in China. 'fihe Frond government recently paid the last installment of the debt of 1,- •500,000.hm>f, to the bank of France, in curred at the time of the war with Germ my. The Wheeling Democrat avers, as a fact unprecedented m the history of West Virginia, that not a dollar of dc- Hnq ent taxes, fines or licenses is due from any Sheriff for 1877. The work of reconciliation between the North and South, so says Harper s Weekly, at least among Christians, was much furthered by the late Baptist Con vention, held in Vtlanta. Burglars in Clayton county lighod a lamp and ronsaeked the house of Rev J. S. Dodd while he was asleep, stole £i,*;oo and departed., The money was ‘ f the Confederate variety. A contemporary employs two hun dred and fifty words in describing how to ram en oil barrel. The old method of taking a hole and putting staves and h ops around it is much more simple. A Mr. Kennedy was bitten by a rat tles. .ake, near Wakulla. Fla., tl e other day. He applied the white ol an egg to the wound and drank abundantly of whisky at once. The next day he was as well as ever. ♦ The 8 -nth Carolina memorial shaft to Stonewall Jackson, taken by the Feder al army and now to be returned, was presented to the State by West India islanders. It is made of shells, and is exceedingly chaste and beautiful. * The Georgia Baptist Convention which recently met in Columbus, nbol ished all missionary agents, and it is probable other denominations will fol low suit. the agents gener lly get mre of the money than the heathens do. Mi sC. L. Wolfe, of New York, thir ty-five ears old, at tract ive, and the richest single woman in the United States, has arrived at Newport, R. I. She is worth over £10,000,000, and has just returned from a two years’ visit to urope. While a boy was digging for fish bait near Sunbury. Pa., he discovered iu the san 1 the body < f Fredrick Wilhelm, who with his son. was drowned in the river ut Danville about the Ist of December last. The body was iu a remarkable state of preservation. The use, of telegraph wires for mes sages from one part of Paris to auother ceased on the Ist of May. Pneumatic tubes are in operation. Blank faints lor messages are sold to the public, and may contain any number of words. The charge is ten cents if the form is left open, and fifteen cents if it is closed. The project of laying a cable from the ' alifornia coast to Japan by way of the Hawaiian Islands has reached the point where subscriptons to the stock are invited, and Cyrus VV Field has put his name down for £IOO,OOO. It is ex pected that the Hawaiian government will subscribe $ 1,600,000, and the re mainder of the requisite capital will be raised in London, Paris, New York and San Francisco. Miss Maud Miller, the daughter of Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, has be n arrested at Portland. Oregon, for complicity with her step-father, l homos E. L. logon. in the abduction of a twelve year old girl named Alice McDonald. A letter from Miss Miller, which the police captured, reveals not only the fact that she was the instigator of the abduction, and induced Logan to become her accomplice, but also that the daughter of the great poet is aston ishingly illiterate and unpoetical. Over to the Vidow’s Home, on Web ster street, Allegheny, Pa., lives Auntie Baker, who lias records and papers which show her to be oDe hundred and twelve years old. She was born in Shippenborg. Her family are all dead except a grandson. 'J he eid woman is in capital health and spirits, and, as Tuesday was her one hundred and thir teenth birthday she was visited by a number of people, who left little pres ents with her as evidences of their good will. She thinks she is good for sever al years to como. TIME TURNS THE TABLE. Ten years ago, when she was ten, I used to tease and scold her; I liked her, and she loved me then, A boy some five years older. I likeu her, she would fetch my book, Bring lunch to stream or thicket; Would oil my gun, or bait my hook, And field for hours at cricket. She’d mend my cap, or find my whip, Ah! but boy s hearts are stony! I liked her rather less than “Gyp,” And far leas than my pony. She loved me then, though beared 1 knows why, Small wonder had ahe hated. Fur scores of dolls she’d had to cr. Whom I decapitated. I tore her frocks, I pulled her hair. Called “red” the sheen upon it; Out fishing I would even dare Catch tadpoles in her bonuet. Well, now I expiate my crime— The Nemesis of fables Came after years—To-day old Time On me has turned the tables. I’m twenty five, she’s twenty now. Dark-eyed, pink-cheeked and bonny, The curls are golden round her brow; . She smiles and calls n e “Johnny.” Of yore I used her ohristiau n me. But now, through fate or malice. When she is by my lips can’t frame Five letters to make “Alice.” I, who could joke with her and Stand silent now before her; Dumb, through the very wish to please, A speechless, shy adorer. Or, if she turns to mo to speak, I’m dazzled by her graces; The hot blood rushes to my olieek, I babble commonplaces. She’s kind and cool —di! Heaven knows how I wish she bid* bed and faltered; She likes me, and l love her now ; Dear, dear! how tilings have altered. MA qUERADING. BY FLORA. [Written for the Journal ] A beautiful May morning, tliat Bright Reason when the fluwerß wake up ami nod their areh faces right in the face of t'io sun; when birds begin to rejoice, and the fragrant, balmy winds blow back and forth over the earth, and when happy little children all over the land laugh aloud in the sunshine. Sealed around the breakfast table, in a cool and pleasant morning room, three persons. Kind iwnd-, or, allow me to introduce them. First, Robert Wayne, a portly looking old gentleman, and u gentleman iu every respect, as all who are u qu ,ii ted with him wdl tell you. Refined and eulii vated, wit a tender, loving heart, and there is a gleam of mischief and .rling from his twink ling gray eyes which denotes a keen relish for a good joke, and lie never allowed an. opportunity for practicing one to pass unini proved. His daughter und only child, Clara, is like him in many re spects. Bright, sparkling und joyous, with u woman's impul sive heart, filled to overflowing with gladne-s, she was a daugh ter to be loved, ayo, worshipped —a daughter such as many a man would sacrifice all his pos sessions to win. To these lova bto traits of character was added that rare typo of brunette beau ty, so often ami eagerly slight and so seldom found. A wealth of : aven tresses crowned her shapely head, her gazelle eyes, large, lustrous and brown, that seemed to penetrate beneath the surface and gaze into the soul, and her c< tuploxion a delicately tinted olive- Such was the only daughter of a wealthy lather, ller cousin, Janet, the other oc cupant of the room, was not so very different from her. Both were graceful, hut Janet was somew hat taller and more sleir per than her cousin, and both were as sweet and araiablo as beautiful. Mr. Wayne had been left a widower when Clara was but eight years old, and bad fill <J th'c place of father and mother to her ami to Janet a-< well, who had been left an orphan in his care by the death of a dear and only brother, am! she had in re turn given him a daughter's love. The two girls were near the same ago and as devoted to each other as twin sisters- Clara, when six years of age, was be trothed by hor pureuts to Fred rick Kingston, the son of two of their beloved friends, Judge Kingston und his wife. Fred, too, had been so uuforlunate as to loose both of his pureuts soon •after the betrothal, but ho had promised bis mother on her death-bed to fulfil the contract and marry Clara when he arriv. ed at the ago uf twenty.two yea s, at which time Clara would be eighteen. Mr. Wayne had jus, finished reading a letter, and Clara and Janet could see that ho tvus much pleasod and their curiosity was hard to restrain. At length Clara said: “Well, papa, what is it that ipleases you ho? Let us share the enjoyment, will you not?” | “Aye, that I will, and gladly J to). We are going to have com- Jjjtony at Elmhurst. Fred, who t has becd travelling in Europe j fm eight years, writes me that ihe arrived in New York last j week and will he hero on Thurs- I day. Ah, ho has grown to he a j hoarded man in this time, I sup Lpuse, and will lo wanting to take Kmy littlo daughter away from ~ , am. sureYAfioii't know, >apa. Fie may have changed,,his mind its- all these year*,” “Then ho will change it back again when he secs yon ordvc is do son of Leonard Kingston.” “Papal”.exclaimed dura, after a brief pause, “1 have an idea.” “Indeed; no very range thing with you, I believe " “My idea is V’is," continued Clara. “Janet, you will help mo, will you not?" “If it is nothing wrong, and, of course, you would do nothing of that kind, certainly, Clara (fear.'" . “Then listen. Fred Kingston has boon travelling abroad so | long that ho will not recognize! me and lie has never seen Janet. Besides,” she added, blushing, j “when 1 merry, 1 want to be j sure timt the man f wed really : loves me. So, with your permis sion, pupa, Janet und I will ex change places for awhile—say a week or two—and Janet, shall ho the daughter uni I the niece. It will he capital fun.” ‘‘Yes, no doubt,” answered Mr Wayne. “You alvvgys man age to have things your own way, pet. Upon the whole 1 rather like the plan myself. But you did not wait t’’ hear the last of the letter. Fred writes that he will bring a friend of his with him j what if he should prove to be an acquaintance of oars ?'*- • “SVv'&in risk tbit, uncle,'" soid Janet, laughing merrily; “I am of Clara’s opinion, and think it will I e just jolly.” “It is settled then,” said Clara “Now, papa, you must remember to (1111 mo Janet, and to end Ja net Clara, when you introduce tts. 1 must go now and see that the rooms are made ready, for to morrow is Thursday.” “And I will galhe somo flow ers and urrungo them in the va ses,” siti-1 Janet. The next day, according to appointment, Fred Kingston and his friend, Frank I'hnrnc, arrived at Elmhurst, the latter gentle man, fortunately for their plot, proving to he a stronger. The young gentlemen were handsome and very agreeable, and t lie days passed pleasantly. There were rides, drives and walks. Frank Thorne was very attentive to the supposed Janet, ami Fred Kingston was equally persistent iu ms attentions to Clara, the true Janet, much to the annoy atico < I Mr. Wayne, who began to wish he had not allowed Clara and Janet to change their names It mis three weeks after his arrival that Fred Kingston and Clara (Janet) wended their wav slowly down the avenue of elms which bordered the carriage drive through the park at Elm hurst. The sun was sinking be low the horizon, hiding himself in a ploud of gold. Too birds “their tiftoditg hymns, while the lowing of the gentle Aldernoys and the tink ling of the sheep bolls .wore heard in llio distance. They were alone, silent and thought ful, lulled into a sweet uud dreamy abstraction and repose by the gentle whitmen’ gs of the fragrant evening breeze, as it rustled softly through the ohns. Flaeh was thinking of the other, and both were dreading the words that were to bo spoken ; for, though neither tiad spoken of love, each know that the heart of the other had been won. Have you nevor looked into an eye aod read there the emotions of the heart? Among mankind generally, but more oortainly with the generous and gifted, there exists a sec-rot, silent, sub tie, but inscrutable sympathy, unknown to the world, unfelt save by those who participated in its enjoyments, a chord that reaches to the heart—a vrioo sweet as the song of Miriam, • hat responds in tones of joy and gladness—a light brilliant as the beauty of an Esther, reflected bnck pure and lustrous as the gorgeous rays of the sun—u somethin.' that sWOuten* and soothes the way of the weary pih grim in the path of life Just so it rvas \y}tb those two. A glance from the eye had re vealed to each the love of the other, and it created in the hearts ot both a sweet pain— sweet., because it is sweet to bo loved by the one whom you love —painful, because both thought tho other was being deeievod. And so they were, ns we shall see. “Clara,” said Fied, “I know I that I have no right to speak to | you thus, for you are betrothed to another. But I have learned U> love—” “I am betrothed to no one; you are deciovod”— began Janet. “I ill light,” said Fred, “that ! is, 1 heard yon were betrothed in your childhood to Fred King slon.” “You speak strangely. Are you not Fred Kingston?” “I seo 1 must toll you all. No, I am not Fred Kingston, hut Frank Thorne. Forgive me tor decieving you, though I am not wholly to blame. When Fred asked me to come here with him he proposed that wo should ex change names for awhile, and I, thinking it would be amusing, consOntod. 1 regret now ever having done so, though I would have loved you all tho same if 1 had retained my own name. Oh, forgive me, my darling. I can not help it, but 1 love you, I love yon, and I have even been so! w ild as lo think my love was re- j turned. Oh toll me, is it not t HO?" ‘ TANARUS, tob, have a confession to make,” sai l Jnnot. “I ant not Clara, as you suppose, but Janet. We did it all for fun at Clara's suggestion, and I have been so miserable under the belief that you were Fred Kingston, though 1 think Clura has Buttered quite as mu h as I, thinking Fred Kingston is Frank Thorne, for I beliovo she loves him with her whole heart.” “And you, my precious queen, do you not care k litllli, -a very little for mo?” “I think I do, ’ murmured Ja net her lovely face sufftis and with blushes, and the hand she placed in his slightly trembling. “ Then e me, my heart's own, let us go and ask uncle’s consent to out' union.” Meanwhile let us return toother actors in the liU le drama. Clara had kept her room all tho after noon, complaining of a headache, and when Frank and Janet wont to walk Fred Kingston had gone into the library where Mr. Wayne sat reading. 110 took up a hook and tried to read, but could not got his mind fixed tip on it, and lie laid it asido with a sigh. “Well my dear Mr. Thorne, what is the matter? I thought it was for love-sick maidens to heave such sighs, not strong, do termined young men, like your self.” “My old friend, if so I may call yo.i, I will tell you, for I love candor. lam in trouble.” “1 thoro any thing I can do for you, my young friend? If so, tell mo and I will do all in my power to help you.” “Alas, I lour you cannot help mu in this. I must strive to overcome my feelings as best I can, hut I will toll you. I love your neice, Janet.” Mr. Wayne's brow clouded. “1 am not Frank Thorne as you think,” continued Fred* “Forgive me, I beg, for having deceived you, hut I am Fred Kingston, the affianced husband of your daughter, Clara. 1 ' “And you wish mo to release y u from your engagement to my daughter, do you?” asked Mr. Wuj no, with a humorous twinkle in his eye. “No, sir. i trust lam a man of honor, and I will carry out io the letter the wishes of my pa rents, with your approval; and, if you do not nform lara, she will never know that she was not my heart's choice.” At this point Mr. Wayne burst out laughing, “Really the joke is too good to ho kopt longer,” said he. “My dear fellow, whom do you suppose you aro in love with? Not Janet, not my ueioe, hut Clara, my daughter and your betrothed. Ah, you have been playing with your match, my boy,” “Heavon he praised I” ejacula ted tho young man. “Where is Bho now—Clara, 1 mean. Lot me go to her.” “You will fiud It or in the par lor, I think,” 110 rushed eagerly into tho parlor, and there, we supp se, ho soon made everything right, for when Mr. Wayne, aecompa nied by Janet and Frank, who had been a short time with him in the library, entered the par lor thoy found Clara’s head rest ing confidingly on Fred’s shoul der and his arm around her waist. The “Masquer; do” was over, and “All Is Well Well.” AFTER ANIJ OVER. Alter the shower, the tranquil sun ; Silvery staia when the day is done. After the snow, the emerald loaves ; After Lho havv-uni, gakka a < After the clouds, the violet sky; I Quiet woods when the wind goes by. After the tempest, the lull of waves; | After tho battle, peaceful graves. j After the knell, the wedding bells; j Joyful greetinga from sad farewells. After the bud, the radiant rose ; After our weeping, sweet repose. After the burden, the blissful meed; After the furrow, the waking seed. j After the flight, tho downy nest; Over the shadowy rivor—rest. REMINISCENCES OF COLUMBIA COUNTY. r AN OLD'CITIZBN. John Ramsey was one of the earliest settlers ho>e. Born in Virginia in 1755, ho moved there from and settled on Euchre creek, or, rather, near it. ills wife, Mary, was born in 17(ill. They raised two sons and two daughters. The oldest daughtei j married Mr. Heggio and they ; were the parents of I. N. lleggie, ! recently deceased, James, living in Mississippi, and Malho, killed in tho late war. John Ramsey, tho oldest son, married a sister of Jesse Walton and Laac who married a Wolborn. Old John Ramsey settled hero soon after the old Revolutionary war, and j was a good soldier during that! war. He died in 18015, his wife I in 1818. 18AAC UAMSKY, tlie subj et of this Sketch, was horn at tho old homestead in 1796. Ho married a daughter of Johnson Welboin, of Wilkes county, s brother to Armor and Elias. They had thirteen chil dren h rn unto them hut raised only four—one son, Phoeion, who married Miss Emma Hill, daughter of Theophilus Hill, of Monroe county, whose wife was Salena Welborn, daughter of Elias Welborn, of Columbia coun ty. I’ll cion still lives in Colum bia, owning the old Shady Grove Goodnor Place. 'J his old house was burned down a few years smico. It was in this house that. Knownothiugisrn had its birth in Columbia. Isaac Ramsey, Sim and Cuff Crawford and Cur lis 11. Shockloy were its patron saints. In tho attic of the old mansion th -so gentlemen, with their friords, who had met there for ordination, assemdled, when Gen. Geo. W. Evans and Foster Blodgett, of Augusta, adminis istered tho oath which bound them to this socrot political or ganization. Isaac Ramsey’s throe daugh ters were very beautiful, and all married well. Parlbcnia mar ried Mr. Moborn, of Macon, Ophelia married Dr. Reese, of Houston county, and Eudocia marriod Mr. Bonner, of Hancock. From my first acquaintance with Isaac Kantsoy up to tho time of his death ho was the most prom inent. and public-spirited mao in the county. He was a man of marked habits and decided char acter. Whole-souled and goner ous, with largo means and liber ally hospitable, his house was always open to his many friends, who were always 'uro of a warm welcome from both himself and liis household. Theyertertained in a princely style. Mrs. Ram sey was proverbial for being one of the host, of housewives, and knew well how to serve tip the best viands of tho table. There was nothing mn"ll about Isaac Ramsey. Thoro was no half-way ground—no com; ro mise ah ut him To use a slang phrase, “ho wont the whole hog,” or he wouldn't go at all. He was an active, enterprising, busy man, of iron will and nerve, and quick decision. Ho was busy about his houso and his large planting interests; but he liked rocreation, and would seek on joyment on tho race course, and sometimes at cards, with gentle men in a sooinl game of whist and othor games. He loved ox citement, and was always on hand to aid the young people in their sports. These were tho “flush” times of Columbia. In White’s Statistics the question is asked, “What is Columbia coun ty remarkablo for?” Auswer, “For her fine-looking moo—the No. 2: j. .two Hamilton*, Turn r Clanton, Moody Burl, Isaac Ramsey und others.” These gentlemen, with •Turiah Harris, the Lukes, and James Lam kin, worn Columbia’s largest and n ost successful plant ers, Vorking t heir lauds by the thousand acres with their slaves. Columbia llte-n was a gicat feeder to Augusta, sending thero annually her thousands ofcotton bales. These were the halcyon days of Columbia—day* when money was handled us if it grew “on trees. Those were tliV money days of Columbia, but how changed her citizens to-day, As a comfort to those who love the good and eschew the evil I* will say that Columbia of to day has as little iiiienifier nee and caru playing as any county iu the Suite. J often visit old Appling, once the reudezvorz for gameiug' and drinking, and can hardly realize life great change. It is now tho dry eat place tins side of Salt Lake, kheard an old ouo urmed soldier say, a few days ago, that lie couldn’t oven buy an ounce of whiskey iu Appling to make a little tincture ot cam phiro; and us to a dock of nr Is, I do not suppose one has been sold there in two y ears. Some three years since, duringouenfo.tr Courts, somo of our visitors, tired of the dull rotino of the law, concluded t■* have a little game of cards. All preparations were made, ilie table and chairs, tho | (layers had taken a social drinc and had seated themselves at tho tat le when tho porter, who had been sent for the cards, announc ed that not a dock of cards could ho bought or borrowed in Ap piing. I rarely over see a game of cardi)in those days even for file, and never for monoy. It may be that, t! e hoys haven't tho “tin” to unto, and they haven’t time to play for amuse ment. They now drive their business, knowing that, if they neglect it it, will drive them. It was once their custom to invest their year's earnings in a certain bank—a queer sort uf a hank—a bank that seldom declared a div idend to those who put money in it. No “wild cat bunk,” but, somotimes called the “Tiger.” But I have wandered from toy subject, and will now return to the. kind, hospitable noble Isaac Ramsey, whoso like t shall never see again, lie was no ordii arv man. He served one session iti the Legislature but could not ho induced to repeat, saying that ho was not made for a lawmaker. He was for JO years cither Sher iff or Deputy, and all for the Rftko of his friend Dick Jones lie was a progressive man —did not like to see things taking a downward teic'ency. Ho was the popular auctioneer at most, of our public slew, and as ery apt to get good prices for all ur. tides. In fact, if llie'G was not lively bidding ho would hid him self, even lln.u o li lie had no use for tho article. Isaac Ramsey was originally a Clarkist, but became an ardent Whig, and subsequently an on thusiaslic Kiiownothing. Some years previous to his death ho built a magnificent mansion near to the Washington is ail, in sight, of Jesse Walton's. He turnMieil it handsomely and gavo to it all the attractions and enmfor's that money could supply. Hero he died in Jam.ary 1860, of pneumonia, eoriplieated with othor disease.'. I [i j ifo follow ed him just twelve inou lis uftu wards. At tho time of Iris and. a •> ho was possessed of some o,oot> acres of lan I and lbl slaves. When deal It closed Uni eyes of J suite U;uuM/y in that long sloop Columbia comity lost her most public spirited citizen. The pro Miction ut' iho salmon canneries of the Pacific coast last year was 581,000 cans, or 128,032,000 pounds. Specimens weighing from sixty to seventy live pounds w ere caught by the Oregon fishermen. A peculiarity of the Oregon salmon is their con to nipt for all the anglers’ lures. There is no sal mm ang ling on the Oregon rivers. They arc sometimes caught ny trolling at tho mouths of the rivers, but they never lake the angler’s fly. Peer, who jumped from tho suspension bridge at N iagra Kalis, a few days ug >, woie a rubber life preserver, to lesse t the depth of bis penetrate n ii:t > the wale"; a sponge over his mouth and nostrils, to prevo t the water from being torrid in• • ■ them, and a thick cloth over h.s loot and legs, to pr teet them from concussion, A brass win, attached to his shoulders, was reeled out t.s he fell, with just enough tension to keep him ii an upright position, fo strike lliu water flaiwiss would be cer tain death. Poor dropped 132 feet in four seconds. !!■ wuscs cecdingly nervous just baton to * feat, ami it was thought that hid courage had given out.