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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
JAS. A. WRIGHT, AGENT.
Cash Clothing House.
K&WMT & ©E.E'X?*
MERCHANT TAILORS,
AND DEALERS IN
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
238 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
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We are now offering for Cash, a Large ami Handsome Slock of Men’s and Hoys
Clothing, of the Latest Styles and Best Workmanship.
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Our Stock of French, English and American Cloths and Cassimers will he found ex
tensive and Cheap.
Our Cutter is one of the Best in the Country,
And satisfaction will be guaranteed to every one having Clothing made to order.
WE WILL KEEP A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
Ghent’s Furnishing Goods,
AMO Na WU I CII W ILL 11 K FOUND
firnts’White SHIRTS and COLLARS, Gents’ Under VESTS and DRAWERS.
Gents’ Brown an t Vnite HALF HOSE, Gent,’ Kid Gloves, White, Blank ct Colored,
o-nle’ttilk and Linen Packet Ilaudkereliiefs, Gents' NECK TILS, in great variety.
Gents’ Traveling Shawls and Baggy Rugs, die.
The attention of the public is called to our Goods.
Any one w ishing to purchase CLOTHING w ill find it to their' interest to examine
our Stock.
KENNY & GRAY.
N»v. 28, 180(5. 2,6 m.
I. KAHN CO.,
262 Broad Street, Augusta,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
Dlt Y GOO DS ,
FOR FALL AND WINTER.
"VJITE ARE now in receipt of'a well selected stock of all Goods in our line, and receiving ad
VT ditionsl aupplies weekly, to which we invite the attention of our friends and the ti ado
enerallv. Our Slock will compete with sny in the South both in price aud variety. W’e only
sk that those in want of Goods will call first, and examine our STOCK.
TO MERCI/AXTS WE OFFER GOODS AT A VERY LOW PROFIT FOR CASH.
To Planters we will give the be«t advantages, and nil bills exceeding SIOO will bo furnished
at a very small profit above the Wholesale market
Our Stock consists principally of all kinds of DRY GOODS, Foreign and Domestic.
A Aeons, Hosiery, Gloves, Blankets, Shawh, Cassimeres ,
Embroideries, Whitt Goods, Cloths, Vestings, &c.,
BESIDES THOUSANDS OF OTHER THINGS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION,
I. KAHN & CO,
tW~ Agent* for J. VT. Bradley** now patented “Duplex Eliptic (or Double) Steel Spring
Hoop Skirl*. * November 2,28—3 m "
CLOAKS! CLOAKS!!
THE PROPRIETOR OF THE HARLESTON STOKE.
AUGUSTA, CA.,
BEGS leare, roost re«*peetfully, to inform bi?
customer* and the public generally that he has
now in store one of the and eLirant.lv
setoccted stock* of LADIE'S COVERINGS
ever brought to this city, comprising every va
riety in Style, Quality and Price. Among his
*s»ortment may b* found—
Black *ud colored Cloth Basques,
Black *nd colored Cloth Sacques,
Black and colored Cloth Paletot?,
Black and colored cloth Cioeks,
DRESS GOODS, &C.-AT LOW PRICES-AT DRAKE’S.
Our stuck u now full and complete, compris
ing all the latest novelties in PopliDs, Empress
.Cloth*, Reos, Paris Stripes, Marltan Plaid*, lie
a1 French Merino**. all shade?, English Meri—
noe«, all color*, Colored Ajpa..*a?, in every
shade, BTk Bombazine*, (Spin** best make,
Blaek Alpaca?, all qualities, All-Wool De
laine*, every color and ehade, every variety of
Mourning Dress Goods.
CALICOES—-Every variety and make, now
in *tore, at prices that defy competition.
C. C. DRAKE,
23G Broad Street, cndzr Central Hotel.
November 2, 1366, 28—2 in
WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1860.
B ack and colored e’otli Circular?,
An assortment of Wafer Proof Cloaks, and
full assortment of Ol mks for
All the above goods are entirely nnv, made
up in the very best manner, in all the lafest and
fno-«t improve 1 style* and shapes—the style?
for the most confined exclusively to this estab
lishment
The Ladies are particularly invited to call
and examine the assortment, before making their
purchase. The prices will be low.
FLANNELS of styles and qualities. Canton
Flannel*. Long Cloth. Linen Diaper, Toweling*
Huckaback, Domestic Ginghams. Hosiery
Shoe?, A full assortment of Glove?, Frenc
Corsets, aud Gents L'udeisliir;*, Vests,
Also. Silk Cravat?. Belle, Ribbon*, Braids,
Embroidery, Raffling*, Pin*, Needles, Spool
Cotton, Flax Thread. &c.
Besides many other articles too numerous to
mention.
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE
Ti-.ums-— Three Dollars h year, in advam-e.
J r=sx-- -----w3 fe,
From the Richmond Examiner.
A ROMANCE—TRUTH STRANGER TKAj|
FICTION.
It occasionally happens that an event < n
curs in real life as romantic as il prodtte irl
by the conception of a writer of
One of those is transpiring now in th *
city. Eighteen years ago, in the city •if
London when the parties were bath young,
a gentleman addressed a Indy. For soils
reason his suit was rejected, and in a sbdht
time the lady married another gontlemA
They emigrated to America and sett!«l
ii). this city. A (e.w days since the l.uV
hand died atfd left his wife a widow. Siticb
that time she has been engaged in an liohj
esc vocation, by which she had supported'
herself, and won the respest of a largo etk
clo of friends and acquaintances. A ( tap
j her marriage the gentleman who first *<!/
i'dressed her also married. He remained in
London. Some twelve monta since, nra
I wife died and he became a widower.
It appears that he had not forgotten liU
I first love, aud a letter, with a foreign postal
mark' directed to Mrs , if living,
readied ahis post-office. It was advertised
and was received by the lady to whom it j
was addressed. Its purport was to ascot
tain, first, whether she was still living, and,
if so, w(iat her condition was; whether*
still married or a widow. She replied, in-j
forming the gentleman that she was still j
alive and a widow. In a short time sldl|
received another letter, renewing the rejec
ted suit of eighteen years, ago, and inclo&i
irig a photograph of the writer, in ofdatl
that she might see the changes that timet
had wrought in him. She, evidently satis-1
liod with his personal nppeurance,and' no>j
forgetting his eighteen years ■< const a Ai* 1
returned a favorable answer. ' sF iM
The gentleman immediately embi#*^' l '<
for America, and on reaching N«vf
went to the West to attend to »ortfe 'husii'i
ness it* that quarter- Af Chicago hrrnfiol
taken sick, not ill, but lob sick to travel.
The lady was notified of his arrival
and of the cause that detained him
from coming on immediately to tlm
city. A correspondence is commenced,
and the lady is informed that the gentle
man is convalescing, and will l-o here in a
short time. It is arranged that the mar
riage is to take place on the gentleman’s
arrival here, after which the happy couple
will depart immediately for London, the
home of their childhood and early love.
Admirable Views. — Hon. Albert I’ike,
of Arkansas, recently wrote a letter to ,
President Johnson, asking for a pardon un
der the £20,000 clause. From it, we
make the annexed pointed and truthful ex
tract :
“The late war was morn owing to the
dead of the past, who are honored, than
to the I’ving of the present, who are exe
crated ; more to Jefferson and Madison,
than to Davis arid Hunter; more the Ken
tucky and Virginia resolutions than to the
arguments of 18150. ‘Civil commotions
have long roots in tho past,’ and their true
authors have often been long arid beyond
the reach of human vengeance, while those
whom hatred seeks to immolate have been
but tbe bondmen of necessity, the blind
instalment* of fate. Why should the
scaffold crave the Mood of the living who
only obeyed the dead ?
"I respectfully submit that it is not just
to regard as rebellion and treason what
had been claimed by States and parties for
seventy years as the lawful exercise of a
political right by a State ; and that it
would be a grave mistake to make evfltl
one name and memory a watchword and
beaeon for all coming time. It would be
to create that ‘impassible barrier which al
ways separates, after blood is so she-J, the
children of the same country.’
‘lf convicted and sentenced, none now
accused will feel, nor will the people of
the South believe, that they have been
guilty- of treason. Neither defeat norcon
• damnation changes convictions. They
will have been cr : mina!s,'but on’y to have
atoned with their lives for the sin of fail
ure in the assertion of rights claimed, even
if unreal, by many States, and by a great
political party’ since the begining of the
Government,"
A young man recently wrote to his
sweetheart, saying : “There is riot a glob
ule of b’ood in ray heart which does not
bear your photograph,” He had it very
bad hadn’t he ?
Among the advertisements in a morn
ing paper is one wherein we are informed
that ‘two sisters want washing,’
THE BACHELOR'S SOLILOQUY- j
bless my soul 1 I’m thirty-nine to-day, i
six feet in my stockings,-black eves, curly !
hair, tall and straight as a cedar of Leba
non, and still a bachelor! Well,it’s an I
independent life, at least—no it isn’t, eilh |
er 1 Here s these new gloves of mine full j
of little lips, string off one of my most i
faultless die keys, nice silk handkerchief in
my drawer wants hemming, top button off
the waistband of my pants ; what’s to be
done? llowprovoking it is to see these
married people looking so self-satisfied and
consequential, at the head of their lamilies,
asil they had done the State a great sc-r
vice. \\ by as to children, they are as plon
ty as flies in August, and about as trouble
some; every ajJßV,and court, and garret is
swarming with them ; they’re no rarity,
and any poor miserable de— (I beg par
don 1) wretch, cmi get a wife, enough of
them, too, such as they are. It’s enough
to scare a njan to death to think
how much it costs to keep one. Young
lolds have to begin now where their fat h
ers aud mothers left off. Silks aud satins,
ribbons and velvet, feathers anil flowers,
•cuff-pin* and bracelets, gim cracks aud
■there’s no help for it in my eyes—for if I
|iii'irritil a woman I loved, and the dear
j*!ittlo thing should ask me for ray scalp, I
i should give it to her, I know I should
i Then there’s the tapestry, carpets, and mir
j rors, and sofas, and ottomans, and damask
t Curtains, and pictures, and crookerv, (and
ijou must look at the subject in all its bear-
Jffigs) little jackets mid frocks; and wooden
Mprses and dolls, arid pop-guns, and ginger
(Tjjread, don’t believe I qnn do it, by Jupiter!
~lju. then, here I sit, with the too of niv
Ltfesl boot kicking the grate, for the want of
RjrW'thing better to do; it’s coining awful
|£(id.diee>y weather, long evenings, can't
o®lo concerts forever, and when I go, “mv
Ujftc |<piks so much tbe gloomier when I
Bne hack, and it would bo so cosy to
h nine little wife to chat nnd laugh
jjHfa, yp life* to think of something else,
- •••’!'; of r Auk ?o.the. t»rr.yl ,!*u id®
’usee a pair of bright eyes; even the
fltndows on the wall take fairy shapes-
Lin on the brink or ruin—l feel it. I shall
read my doom iii the marriage list before
long—] know I shall. Heaven help mo,
fin-(here’s no living with a better hall, so
they say; and may I he refused if I can
get a long without one.
A friend of ours was traveling while
afflicted with a very bad cough. Ho an
noyed his fellow travelers, until one of
them remarked, in a tone of displeasure:
“Sir, that is a vary bad cough of yours,”
“True, sir ” replied our friend, “but you
will excuse me—it’s the best I've go.t 1”
Gem. Hr ecu in ridge at Baton Rouge.
—The Baton Rouge (La) Advocate, of tho
Bth, contains an anecdote of Gen. Breckin
ridge which we have never before
heard : When General Breckinridge was
marching on Baton Rouge, lie one day,
unattended by his aids, rode up to a soli
tary pinoy woods vidette who had just
come in from St. Tammany, and was new
to the etiquette of army life. Tho general
had not tjre pass word, and tho vidette had
no advantage of him in that respect.
“I wish to pass,” said the general.
“Well, dod durn you, pass on, who
cares a ouss, I, ain’t stoppiu’ this here road,
are I
“Yon don’t know who I am,” said tho
general smiling.
“No I don’t—that’s a pooty boss you
are on, anyhow.”
“I am Genera! Breckinridge, the com
manding officer,” continued the general,
much amused at tho picket’s idea of the
duty required of him.
“You ar, ar you ; well I’m Bob Cliig
gers, an I am glad to see yen, old feller
how are you,” replied the picket, extend
ing a hand as large as a frying pan.
The genera! shook hand* and galloped
on to avoid some lengthy inquiries about
the health of Mrs. Breckinridge and the
family.
An old gentleman who was living with
his sixth wife, and who has always been
noted for the ease with which he managed
his rpouses, on being asked to communi
cate bis secret, replied, “It is the simplest
thing in the world. If you want to use a
woman up. just let her have her own wag
n every thing all the time. There never
was a woman born who could survive
that a great while.”
Deferred Sensibility.—A client once
burst into a flood of tears, after be had
heard the statement of his counsel, ex-,
claiming, ‘I did not think I suffered
half so much till I heard it this day.’
AN ANECDOTE CHARACTERISTIC OF JOHN
VAN BUREN.
Among those who-have paid a tribute
to the memory of the urle John Van Bu
ren is Judge Edmonds, who presided'at the
anti-rent trials in New York somo years
ago, when Mr. John Van Boren was Com
mon wcalili’s attorney (as we call ft.)-
Judge Edmonds, to illustrate tho magnan
imity of Mr. Van Boron, tells the follow
ing anecdote :
- ‘While the trial was in progress, the op
posing counsel called Mr. Van. Buren a
liar. When ha was thus grossly insulted,
with the greatest coolness in tho world, he
looked around at the counsel, who sat be
hind him, and then raising his elbow, with
out turning struck Lis adversary in the face.
They ll ten rose and placed themselves in
an altitude of hostility to e’acii other in the
court, The Judge (who had been invited
to dine with Mr. Van Boren’s father, it
must here be mentioned),ordered both to
jail for twenty four hours. Mr. Van Bo'
ren begged to be fined five hundred*dollars
and not imprisoned. But the Judge was
inexorable.
Tho next morning, the twenty-four I
hours having expired, they came out nnd
walked into court. Each took a seat at
tho table. Tho trial continued until 1 1
o'clock, when, ns those of them knew who
had practiced in the county, the usual hour
bad come to adjourn for a short recess. Up
to that time no word had passed between
either of the counsel and the presiding
judge, except what transpired in the course
of the trial before tbe audience. Then
Mr. Van Buren,stepping up to the bench
with some nonchalance, leaned on his arm,
and in a low tone of voice made the re
mark than lie ’hoped tho court had slept
well last night.’ ‘The Judge said,‘Yes, I
was not tyvai'e that anything had disturbed
its slumbers.’ ‘I didn’t know that its con
science would, under the circumstances,
permit it,’said he; and 'then- he said,‘l
suppose our agreement to visit the uid
man i* “Vpd*?y Thu vi -il, ws-* mil ■
it would not have dittie under the circum
stances. The father subsequently told the
Judge that he appreciated the motives that
induced him not. to make the visit, hut that
he approved of the action of the Judge on
that occasion.
Not twenty four hours after the Judge
was informed that in consequence of vvliat
had occtired Mr. Van Buren had tendered
to the the Governor his resignation. Tho
Judgo immediately wrote to tho Governor
not to accept it, as the gentleman had been
grossly insulted and was bound to recent it,
was a violation of order and decorum in
the court. The Governor wrote back that
he should not accept the resignation. Af
forwards Mr. Van Buren replied to resolu
lions of a political club, sympathising with
him censuring tho Judge for not having
discriminated between the two, that the
Judge did right; that his business was
with the disturbance in which both were
actors. To show tho magnanimity thus ex
emplified was what he had in view, the
speaker said, in relating the circumstance.
Judge Edmonds related other incidents il
lustrative of the greatness of soul of their
deceased friend. Others might speak of
his position as a lawyer, as a politician, as
an orator; he mourned his loss as one
whom he could not hut love and respect as
a man.
Tacking Cotton. —The press is caliing
the attention of planters to the necessity of
more care iri packing cotton. Bagging
weighs two and' one-fourth pounds per
yard, and sells on the bale at the price of
cotton. R igging costs forty-five cents per
yard, and, therefore, sells on the bale at
about sixty-eight cents. Wliat folly, then,
in planters, to stint the use of bagging in
properly -protecting the bale of cotton.
And yet, fur the want of such protection,
the cotton in this market is actually suffer
ing in classification and price. We call
the attention of planters and packers to
this subject, and, without further words,
trust, they will see tho necessity of such
liberal use of bagging as will protect the
fibre from dirt aud stain.
Clorieal Wit.—An old gentleman of
eighty-four, having taken to the altar a
young damsel of about sixteen, tbe cler
gyman said to him—“ The font is at the
other end ol the church.” “What do I
want with the font ?” said the gentle
man. “Ob 1 I beg your pardon,” said the
clerical wit, “I thought you had brought
this child here to be christenod.”
Logical.—Tt is said that the reason why
why the Irish make better sailors than
the Welsh, is because they prefers sham,
rock to a leak.
VOL, I.—NO. 30.
FEEDING SOLDIERS.
When we are informed that tho daily
rations of a Prussian soldier consists of a
pound of meat, a sufficient quantity of
bread and vegetables, coffee, a reasonable
supply of brandy and somo segars, we are
not surprised at his fighting so well. Pluck
depends a great deal on diet, and if a soL
diet- is not well fed, fighting goes against
his stomach. There is little reason to
doubt that the South failed in her struggle
from the poverty of her commissary and
quartermaster departments. And had it
been piossible to feed our soldiers at the
conclusion of the war as well as at tbe
commencement, there is very little reason
to doubt that the decision of that contest
would lihvo been far different. Good’
clothes and good food have a vast deal to
do with tho courage and esprit de corps of
soldiers. Our poor boys were kept ragged 5
and bnro-footed too long and corn bread
and sorghum soon reduced their pugnae
ity.
Who does not believe that our merf
would have conquered if they could have
had a judicious supply of brandy and se
gars all duriii!» the war ? Why, their
•onging for these article* frequently-lost'
them the victory after tho capture of a
\ankeecamp. Had they been supplied'
with all those “knick-knacks" which aro
se irresistible to a soldier, who can affirm
that w« would have been beaten I Sar
dines, crackers, cukes, cheese, whiskey* cof
fee, sugar, and all these innumerable at
tractions of a Federal camp, always prov
ed more dangerous to us than the bullets
and bayonets of the enemy. Had our
men been, well supplied with all thesa they
would never have stopped for them, be
cause then no novelty.— Richmond Dis
*patch.
Gentle Anna, Again. —The Boston
correspondent of the Louisville Courier
who went to hoar Miss Anna Dickinson'
lecture, and was impressed. Uear what
lull " tlluiit viumh save of Uji, (sir Vs-
And that reminds mo, I went to see and
hear Anna deliver Her new lecture, , which
slio calls “ The Rejected Stone," but I wa
unable to discover the relation which the
above held to ils title. But Anna is as
sprightly little cuss, and has a voice that
would clmrm jthe birds off tho bushes.
For tho benefit of your fair correspondent*
“Kentuckienne,” I will describe her cos
tume in, full. Straw-colored ailir, with
black laco face trimmings around her neoli
and down her waist in front ; diamond’ oi»
left hand finger ; hair short and bushr.
Taken as a whole she was exceedingly
nice and pretty. 1 don’t care if Bile did
pet Fred. Douglas, she is pretty, by jingo I
-Sho hurled her rejected houDer at tho
audience as gracefully as David Blung his
little smooth stone at the giant. She was
severe on President Johnson, comparing
him to all the tyrants of any standing in
ancient or modern history. She told a
bout Dick Taylor’s making Union men
dig their own graves, and' about Burk .
Blackburn’s shooting two little Union girls
Sho brought up the God send for lire Rad
icals, the New Orleans riots, alsotheMem
phis massacre of schoolmarms. She lied
like tho devil. She vindicated; Congrese,
and pointed out the only mode of recon
struction, etc. , etc.
I left wondering how a human feraala
coul 1 ho so beautiful and bewitching, and
tel! such whoppers.
How to do cd Shirt Bosoms.—\Ve
have often heard, says the Norfolk Virgin
ian, ladies express a desire to know by
what process the fine gloss observable on
new linen shirt bosoms, dec., is produced,
and in order to gratify them we submit the
following receipt for making gum Arabic
starch : Take two oz. fine white gum Ara
bic powder; put it into a pitcher, nnd pour
on it a pint or more of boiling water —ac-
cording to the degree of strength yoii de
sire—and then having covered it, let it set
all night; in tho morning pour carefully
from the dreg* into a clean bottle, cork it,
and keep it for use. A tablespoonful of
gum water stirred into a pint of starch
made in the usual* manner, will give to
either white or printed lawns a look of
newness when nothing else can restore them
after washing. Much diluted, it is also
good for thin muslin and bobinet.
Beau Brumntel used to say, “Always
accept a seat in the carriage of a lady who
has oaten no dinner, for the chances are
that, as she has touched nothing since
luncheon, there i3 a good 6ttpper waiting
for her at home, which sho will of course
have to ask you to share. A discreet and
watchful man may nearly earn his living
in this wav.’