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THE FAMILY OF FORNEY.
We here another piquant article from
the pen of “Mack," the wideawake and
intelligent correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, in the sketch of the “Dead
DuckV' quacking relative! and immediate
family, which we publish below. “Mack”
deserves credit for this interesting notice
of the “house of Forney!”
FOKNBV, THE DISINTERESTED PATRIOT.
Every once in a while the great Amer
ican toady, John W. Forney, speaks of the
party which supports the President aa made
up of "hirelings,’ a word which he borrows
from the vocabulary of the late Southern
masters. The public may like to know
bow purely disinterested Forney is, and
has been, in support of the Republican party
—how ranch, self sacrifice he displays in the
premises, in fact.
Firstly, then, there is John W. Forney
the dead duck in propria persona, Clerk of
the Senate, at 13,500 a year and atcalings.
Secondly, there is D. C. Forney, pub
lisher jf the Chronicle, cousin of the dead
dock's,in pay of the Senate, drawing a
salary of about $2,000 a year for work which
he never performs—a clear swindle.
Thirdly, there is another Forney, a broth
er of the duck's, mail agent between hen,
and Philadelphia.
Fourthly, there le another brother, male
agent on the Pennsylvania Central Road.
Fifthly, there is a junior Forney, who all
through the war was a staff officer, on duty
in Philadelphia.
Sixthly, there ia another son of the dead
duok’a who, early in the war, waagot a
commission in the navy, under a solemu
covenant never to be sent to sea, nor exposed
to the rude fire of rebel gunt —and he never
was.
Seventhly, Forney is carried about the
city of Washington in a vehicle owned by
the Government, drawn by a horse owned
-by the Government, and driven by a man
pa'd as a laborer in the Caditol grounds,—
All.of wich maybe strictly patrotic,but
it is not legal.
Eighthly, Forney has for a private
servant a man who is paid as a laborer for
tbe Senate, whicb ia contrary to the law in
such cases made and provided.
Ninthly, Forney* gets the Chronicle
edited by men who are paid as clerks of
tbe Senate, which may bo patriotism, but
looks like swindling.
Tenthly,Toruey wifi employ nobody as
clerk or messenger in the Senate who will
not help to edit either the Chronicle or Ike
I‘rese; which is good economy but bad
morals in tho dead duck.
Eleventhly, Forney wrote a begging letter
to tho President about six months ago.—
'j-'he President did not grant the prayer of
the petitioner, and the Chronicle immediate
ly came out against Andrew Johnson and
hie policy; which may he disinterested, but
.doesn't look that way; looks rather like an
unsuoceessful attempt to.
Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee,
When thrift may follow, Poumrg.
What a self-sacrificing patriot Forney ia,
to,be sure! MACK-
Arkansas.— Arkansas possessing a soil
of unsurpassed richness, and a climate pe
culiarly suited to the raising of cotton, is
bound to be, in the course of time, the
first cotton State in the South. The time
Qf this meat depend very much upou our
own actions. We peed wise legislation
to majte lAC-labor weliave profitable. To
do this we must have some system to reg
elate and make certain that tbe contracts
made between employee and employer
will be enforced or damnges will be collec
table in case of failure from either party
that is delinquent. At present the major*
ity of the laborers are negroes, and are
Wdftr the management of that God forsa
kon institution, the fieedmen’s bureau
which we, in all candor, thiuk an enemv,
both to the white and black man —and in
deed to every one save the pockets of those
who have the fortune .of holding positions
under it. This is indeed one of the great
est obstacles we have to contend with, and
if it ie to be continued the little pittance
whicli has been left the State by the late
war, will be takeu to pay taxes to support
this mammoth swindling machine; but let
us hope for the best, and think that the
good sense of the conservative party North
will rally and drive from power the men
who are sutaiuing this unconstitutional
humbug, and that next April it will leave
our soil never to be heard of savages oue
of the greatest follies of the past. Then
will labor emigrate to our State; and her
vast and superior mineral resources will ho
improved and worked, our internal system
of transportation will be commended and
Arkansas will become as she ought, the
wesUbest of the Southern States. To
effect this end we have much to do ; we
must form and put in working order emi
grant aid societies, and bring the healthy
laborera from the east to supply tbe place
of tbe negroes lately set free, and rendered
unreliable as laborers. Let all good friends
of the State go earnestly to work, and with
proper energy and economy, but a few
years will suffice to place her among the
prosperous States of the American Union.
—Monticello Guardian.
VEESES FOk’tHE YEA* 1900.
Tell John to set the kettle on,
I want to take a drive—
I only want to go to Rome,
And shall be baok at five;
Tell cook to dreee those hummingbirds
I shot in Mexico,
They've now been killed st leaet two daye,
They’ll aoon be un peu haufl.
And Tom, lake you the gold leaf wings,
And atari for Spain at thrae—
I want aome Seville oranges.
Twist dinner time and tea ;
Fly round by Fraaee, and bring anew
Perpetual motion gun.
To-monow, with some - friends I go
A bunting in the aun.
The trip I took the other day.
To breakfaat iq the moon,
Thanks to my Lord Bellair, he
Spoiled my new balloon;
For, steering through the milky way,
Ha ran against a star, .
And, turning round again too aoon.
Came jolt against my ear.
Bat, Tom, yon get the ear repaired,
And then let Dan and Dick
Inflate with ten square miles of gar,
i ipsan to travel quick ;
My steam is surely up by posr,
Pul tba high-pressure on,
Give me the brealb-bag fur the way—
All rigbf—hey—whi*—f’m gone.
BIHODLAR*DREAM.
A gospel minister, pf the Evangelical
principles, whose name, from tbe circum
stances that occurred, it will be necessary to
conoeal, being much fatigued at the conclu
sion of the afternoon service, retired to his
apartment in order to take a little rest.
Lie had not long reclined upon his couch
before he fell asleep and began to dream.
He dreamed that on walking in his garden,
he entered a bower that had been erected
in it, where he sat to rend and meditate.
While thus employed he thought that be
heard some person enter the garden, and
leaving hie bower, he immediately hasten
ed toward the apot whence the sound
seemed to come in order to discover who
it was that had eulered. lie had not
proceeded far before he discerned a par
ticular friend of hi*, a gospel minister of
considerable talent, who had rendered
himself very popular by his zealous and
unweaiied.exertions in the cause of Christ.
On appronching his friend, he was sur
prised to find his countenance with a
gloom, which it had not been accustomed
to bear, and that it strongly indicated a
violent agitation of mind, apparently aris
ing from conscious remorse. After Lite
salutations had passed, bis friend asked
tbe relator tbe time of day, to which be
replied, “twenty-five minutes after four."
hearing this the stranger said : “It is only
one hour since I died, and now”—(here
his countenance spoke unutterable horror.)
“Why s<? troubled t" inquired the dream
ing minister. “It is not,” said he, “be
cause I have not preauhed the gospel;
neither ie it because I have noi been ren
dered useful; for I have now many seals to
.my ministry that can bear testimony to
the truth ns it is in Jesus, which they have
received from my lips; but it is because I
heve been accumulating to myself tbe ap
plause of men, more tban the honor that
cometh from above; and verily I have my
reward.” Having uttered these e xprea
sions he hastily disappeared, and was seen
no more.
The minister walking shortly afterward
with the contents of this dream deeply en
graven on his memory, proceeded, over
whelmed with serious reflections, towaid
his chapel, in order to conduct the even
ing service. On his way thither he was
accosted by s friend, who inquired wheth
er he had heard the severe loss the church
had sustained in tl.e death of that able
minister * * *> and he replied,“No,”
but being much affected at the singular in
telligence, he inquired of him tbe day and
time of the day when bis departure took
place. To this bis friend replied, “This af
ternoon , at twenty-five minutes after three.”
—Herald of Truth.
‘Tom, I hear you are going South to
reside,’ ‘Yes; going to Florida.’ * ‘Well,
I advise you to get into a to*n where
there are no buckets, for when I was iu
that region every other man was kicking
the bucket.’ -
Solution of Haunted Houses. A
haunted house is a tenement of any num
ber of ordinary atones, to jvbich is added
an extra-ordinary one, iu the form of a
Ghost Story.
A National Bankrupt Law.—lt is
an instructive fact, saye tbe Tribune, that
the repuguaoce to a national bankrupt law
it strongest iu those communities which
are least exposed to loss or injury by its op
eration. That, the Chamber of Com
merce of New York has just reiterated its
prayer to Congress to pees the bill already
throogh the House, though it ie certain
that many millions of debts due from the
interior and West to that city would be
sponged out by such an act; whereas the
West, aa represented in Congress, teems
generally averse to such a law, though tbe
Weat would be relieved by it of tbe legal
obligation to pay many millions owned
tbeuce to the East. To other words, tho
creditor interest asks for a bankrupt law,
while tbe debtor interest resists its enact
ment.
■We hope and trust that Congress will
not adjourn without letting the captive go
free. It would give anew spring to indus
try and business, if it were this Summer
settled that tbe duty imposed by the Con
stitution on Congress of enactieg ami
maintaining a national bankrupt law shall
no longer be ignored nor evaded.
Stopping at a village inn, there came a
thunder storm, and Captain Hall, surprised
that anew country should reach a per
fection in those metedrologic manufactures,
said to a bystander, ‘Why, you have very
heavy thunder here.’ ‘Well yes,’ replied
tbe man, ‘we du, considering the number
of inhabitants.’
At the battle of Spires, a regiment bad
ordure not to grant any quarter; and an
unhappy enemy, wounded and disarmed,
begged hard for his life from one of its of
ficers. Touched with hit situation, the
other replied ‘I pity yoar misfortune, and
—ask anything else but that, and upon
my honor I will grant your request.’
An old lady, on being examinod before
a magistrate as to her place of legai settle
ment, was ashed wbat reason she had for
supposing her husband bad a legal settle
ment in tbet town. The old lady said,
‘He was born and married there, and.they
buried him there, and if that isn't settling
him there, I don’t know what is.’
The following advertisement recently ap
peared in a daily paper: 'A young lady
who has received a good education, can
read and yriic, and is verted in geography,
history, music, dancing and elementary
mathematics, wishes a situation in a respec
tadlu family at a washer and troner,'
O'Connell, in addressing a jury, having
exhausted every ordinary epithet of abuse,
stopped for a word, added, This naufruge
out ruffian.’ When afterwards asked by his
friends the meaning of the word, he con
tested he did know, but said 'he
thought it sounded well.’
•Isn’t it strangt,’ asked a friend the other
day, ‘that Sir lsaao Newton should ever
have indulged in clownish freaks?’ When
did hel’ we inquired. 'Why, when he
was dividing the rays of lights, to be sure,
for wasn't that rutting up shines?’
A physician orJerad one of his patients
to drink Seidlit sj water. The man made
up a wry face at the suggestion. 'lt is on
ly the first glass that is unpleasant,’ Mid
tbe doctor* ‘Very well, then,’ answered
tbs tick man, ‘l’ll only dtink the second.’
Avery absent minded individual, being
upset from a boat in tbe liver, sank twice
before be remembered tlint be could swim.
lie fortunately remembered it just before
he sauk the last and third time.
Sniffkinssays that Jack is a mean and
impudent fellow, always cutting hit best
friends. Sniffkins means Jack-knife.
0. V. WALKER & CO.,
271 BROAD STEKT. AUGUSTA. GA,
Auction and General
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Will give prompt and personal attention to
all business entrusted to them.
or Favors solicited.
RxmKNCKs:—Merchants generally of Au
gusts, Gs.; Earle A Cos., Sehanck A Downing
Dudley I*. Ely A Cos., New York; John Gib
eon e Sons A Cos., CUghorn A Herring, James
C. Hsnd A Cos, Philadelphia; Heyward, Bart
lett A Cos., Ward Love A Cos, Baltimore; Ches
ter, Gueld A Sons, Brigham, Thayer A Cos,
Boston! Shylock A Rowland, St. Louis, Mo.:
Andrew Buchanan A Go, Louisville, Kv.: T.
F. Walker, New Orleans, Le.; Goodwin, Ward
A Cos, Selma, Alabama, Ala.; Baker, Robbins
A Cos., B. A, Weems, Cunningham A Pune,
Mobile, Ale.; W. H. Stark, A. Champion,
Henry Bryan, Savannah, 6s; Geo. W. Wil
liams A Cos, Willis A Chisolm. Charleston, S.C.
June I, lAS6, A, 3m. »
FLEMING & ROWLAND,
Wholesale Grocers and
Commission Merchants,
AMGUSTA. GA.
KEEP constantly on band a targe and well
selected stock of Groceries and Planta
tion Supplies, consisting in pert, of SUGAR,
COFFEE, IRON. NAILS. BAGGING sod
ROPE' ByCON and LARD, Woolen and Cot
ton Goods Seovil’e genuine HOJJS, to which
they invite the attention of their friends, and
the publie generally, [April 27, Sm.
HARDWARE,
QUTLERY, AGRICULTURAL TOOLS, Ae.
FOR SALE BY
JOHN &. THOS. A. BONES,
105 Broad Street, Auguste, Ga.
June 1, 1866, 6-Sm
Southern Kexosine
LAMP AND On DEPOT,
309 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.,
Under the Planters Hotel.
EDWARD i RLEAKELY,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
KEAtOSIjSTE OILt
LAMPS, LUANDA LIEKB, ISRACKETS, Ac
MY Stock embraces the following articles
and styles of GLASS aud METAL HAND
LAMPS, NIGHT LAMPS. LARGE AND
SMAI.L STAND LAMPS. BRONZE PARLOR
LAMPS, HALL SWING LAMPS, HALL
BRACKETS, with-and without Reflectors;
Chandeliers, all styles, with 2, S, and 1 Lights;
Police, Pocket, Globe aod Dark Lanterus;
Chimneys and Burners of the most improved
kinds; Wicks, Oil Cans, Trimmers, etc.
ar Hum Lamp* easy in price from 50 cents
to $25 rack. Chandelier* from $5 to SIOO.
iar Keep constantly on hand a Large Sup
ply of the PUKEST AND RUST KERO
SENE OIL MADE, put up in Barrels, and
Tin Cana, suitablo for. City or Country.
All orders large or small solicited and promp-
Ity attended to. E. S. BLEAKLEY.
June 1, 1866, 7—3 m
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SosLL WORK TOR THE COUNTRY a.
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HEWITT’S
GLOBE HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
W. C. HEWITT, Proprietor,
Bate of Jfemlt House, Va.
Col. GEO. H, JONES, Clerk.
June 1. 1866, C-3m,
GEO. R. CRUMP & C0.7~
General Commission Merchants and
Wholesale Dealers in
GROCCRIES. LIQUORS, TOBACCO,
Baeon, Lard, Grain, Guano, Ao„
tff Will purchase and sell on Commission,
Cotton, Tobeeco, Produce, and Merchandise of
every description.
CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED.
.tar Refer in-Washington to S. H. Cren
shaw, Jss. Junkin, G. W. Bryant, Pettua A
Callaway, [Juue 1, 1866,-Sm
JOHN D. BUTT. | JOSHUA W. BUTT.
JOHN D. BUTT & 6R0..
GENERAL GROCERY'
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
206 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
Will attend to the sale of Cotfon and Produce.
3 r Dealers in Imported Sngars, Brandies
Wines andFamily Supplies. [June 1. Stn*
J. J. ROBERTSON & CO.,
Cotton Factors
AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
X*. 5, Warren Block, Augusta, Ga.
May 10. 1866, 3, ts
BORGIA. WILKES COUNTY.—Whereas
Arden Evan?, jr., Administrator ou /the
eatate of Arden Evans Sr., late of said county,
deceased, applies to me for letters of disraia&itin
from said trust;
Tbeae are, therefore, to cite ao4 admonish,
all and singular the kindred and creditor* of
said deceased, to be and appear at my office
within the time prescribed by law, to allow
cause, if any they have why letters«hould not
be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature, at
Washington, this 7th day of May JBG6.
G. G. NORMAN,
. Ordiuary.
May fi, 1866, S-lm6ra. «
/S BORGIA, WILKES COUNTY.—Whereas
v_K Moses H. Arnold, Executor ou the estate
of Alien Arnold dso’d., applies to for letters of
dismission from said trust:
These sre, therefore, to eite admonish, alt
aud lingular the and creditors of said
deceased, to be and appear at my office within
the time prescribed by law, to show cause, if
aiy they have why letters should not be gran.
Given under my hand and official signature, at
Washington, this sth day of June, 1866.
G. G. NORMAN, Ordinary.
June 5, 1866, 7—l m 6m.
NOTICE. —All persons indebted to the estate
of A. J. Ashmore, late of Wilkes county,
deceased, are requested to make immediate
payment; and those having claims against
said estate are notified to present them in
terms of the law.
WIL D. QTTINN, Adm r.
May 7, 1866, 3-Ct
FRANK. BGRWEIX GREEK
F. ARNOLD & CO.,
DEALERS IN
GROCERIES,
HARDWARE, &C.,
AT CLEVELAND’S OLD STAND.
WE .lesire to call tbe attention of thajrub
lie to our complete Stock of
GROCERIES,
which we offer cheap for CASH. Our assort
ment consists of
SUGARS, COFFEES. TEAS, PICKLES, VIN
EGAR, LOBSTERS. OYSTERS. SAR
DINES, MACKEREL. SALT, CAN
NED FRUITS, JELLIES, FINE
WINES. BRANDIES, ALE,
WHISKEYS, PORTER,
CANDIES OF ALL
KINDS, SOAP,
PIPES,
INK.
PAPER.
CURRANTS,
FINE CHEWING
ANI) SMOKING TO
BACCO. FINE CIGARS,
COTTON AND WOOL CARDS,
BLyCKING, ALMONDS, RyISINS,
HARDWARE. HOBS, TRACE CHAINS,
BUCKETS, TUBS, SHOVELS, KPADE3,
Axes, Uatehets,
Files, Screws,
Neils, Prawknivee,
Sifters, Padlocks,
Broome, Smoothing Irons,
Sheers, Sytlie BlaJes,
Knives, Forks, Pocket Knives,
Measures, Shot am) Caps,
GLMSWMB,
CROCKERYWARE,
TINWARE, AC.
. ar Produce of all kimia taken in exchange
fur goodaat the HIGHEST market prices.
Just Received,
A fine lot of SUMMER HATS and SHOES at
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Washington, April 27, 1856, 1-ts
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Stands for Clothing when ftshionably made;
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Glad, to see you when our establishment you
seek.
It E M E MBE R
I. SIMON & CO.,
Fashionable Clothing Emporium
224 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
Mey 18, 1866, s—ts
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