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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST |
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1874.
[Nsw York World.
WONDERS OF MAGIC.
Tricks of Jugglers Contrasted With
Spirit Manifestations.
So eminent a scientist as Prof. Al
bert R. Wallace has written several
elaborate articles In an English period
ical in support of the claim that tho
physical phenomena called spiritualis
tic, is produced by spirits which once
inhabited human bodies. Many mar
velous things are reported almost
daily of this spirit manifestation. A
few years ago nothing more startling
than raps and table-tipping was pro
duced, but now we are asked to be
lieve, not only that mediums like Home
elongate their bodies from six to eleven
feet, carry red hot coals in their hands
without injury, and float visibly in the
air, but that the “ spirits ” can “ mate
rialize ” themselves so as to become the
solid flesh and bone that they were in
this life. Nay, more, Col. Olcott, a
clear-headed, practical lawyer, and a
gentleman of unimpeachable veracity,
who is at Chittenden, Yt., investigating
the alleged phenomena produced by
the Eddy mediums, telegraphs to New
York in triumph that he has succeeded
iu catching one of the spirits—a female
one, and weighing her on Fairbanks’
scales.
PROFESSIONAL MAGICIANS.
Now, all this from Messrs. Wallace,
Crooks & Yarley, from Col. Olcott,
from Philadelphia, Moravia, N. Y., and
other places haunted by materialized
spirits, and from persons who have sat
with Slade, Foster and Mansfield is
\ery wonderful; but is it conclusive
proof that the claims of Spiritualism
are right? What if it can be shown
that phenomena quite as extraordina
ry have been produced by professional
jugglers, men who have made no pre
tense that they were assisted by occult
powers, aud who have even explained
the mechanism of their tricks? If
this can be done, the inference must
necessarily follow either that the spir
itualistic mediums are cunning impos
tors or that the professional necro
mancers are liars when they declare
that their phenomena are mere trick
ery, and that they are really assisted
by supermundane agents. All history
is full of the deceptions practiced
either by these professional characters
or of others who pretended to super
natural powers, and wero subsequent
ly exposed as charlatans. Jugglery
was allied to the ancient religions of
the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and
Chaldeans. Hollas had.its oracle with
its cunning pristhood; Rome its au
gurs and diviners, and Chaldee its
world-renowned magicians. In the
dark ages of Europe there were en
chanters, sorcerers and astrologers,
and, a little later, witches, who had to
have their con jury burned and drown
ed out out of them. The Thauma
turgists and Rosicrucians pretended to
magical powers. There is not an age
iu the world’s recorded past, hardly a
year, even, that some prestidigitateur
has not figured on the scene, either as
a court appendage, a religious leader,
or an actor performing for the amuse
ment of the populace. Let the Daven
port Brothers or Dr. Slade do more
than is related here, and then they will
have a right to ask us to consider if
the phenomena they show are the work
of “spirits.”
ZIITO.
In the “ Lives of th eNecromancers,”
by William Godwin, (London, 1834),
there is an account of a conjurer in the
Court of Weueeslaus, King of Bohemia,
aud afterwards Emperor of Germany.
On one occasion this person, Ziito by
name, exhibited his extraordinary skill
to the court. He showed himself first
iu his proper shape, and then in those
of dilferent persons successively, with
countenances and a stature totally dif
ferent from his own. At one time he
was spendidly attired in robes of pur
ple and silk, and then, in the twink
ling of an eye, in coarse linen and a
clownish coat of frieze.
A MAGICAL TREE.
In the same volume a sketch is given
of Doctor Lamb, a noted necromancer
in the time of Charles the First. The
celebrated Richard Baxter is au
thority for the statement that
Lamb, meeting two of his ac
quaintances in the street, and they
having expressed a desire to witness
some example of his skill, he invited
them home with him. He then con
ducted thorn into an inner room, when,
presently, to their no small surprise]
they saw a tree spring up in the mid
die of the apartment. They had scarce
ly ceased wondering at this phenom
enon when, iu a moment, there ap
peared three diminutive men, with lit
tle axes in their hands for the purpose
of cutting down this tree. The tree
was felled, aud the Doctor dismissed
his guests, who were fully satisfied
with the solidity of his pretension. An
account of this feat will be found in
Baxter’s works.
RESTORING THE D£AD TO IJFE. *
One of the most remarkable exhibi
tions of clever jugglery is mentioned
in Salverte’s “Philosophy of Magic”
(London, 1846, vol. 1, page 105). It was
seen at Nancy, in France, in 1829. A
man from the audience was induced to
lie down on the stage, and the magi
cian deliberately chopped off his head.
He displayed the severed head to the
audience "so that they could recognize
tho features; he permitted them to
touch it, to open the mouth which
shut again of its own accord, and to
examine the bleeding section of the
neck at the extremity of the trunk. He
removed the body, and withdrew a
curtain, and almost immediately tho
supposed dead man appeared in per
fect health. Salverte says the behead
ing trick was performed by the Ma-
®he My (Constitutionalist.
hometans, and that JElian is authority
for the statement that Esculapius ap
parently reunited the heart of a woman
to her corpse, aud restored her to life
and health.
THE MffclUM HOME RIVALED.
According to Mr. Goodwin, in his
“ History of the Necromencers,” it was
a common practice at the time he
wrote (fifty years ago) for jugglers in
the market-places of the English towns
to make the scales of a balance move
at command, alternately ascending and
descending.
THE ORDEAL OF FIRE.
Much stress has been laid by the ad
vocates of Spiritualism upon the ability
of the medium Home to handle live
coals without injury or showing a scar.
He has been seen to put red hot coals
on his head, and the hair was not
singed. The “ fire ordeal ” is a very
old and familiar one to necromancers.
One of tho most ancient feats of magic
was the art of breathing flame. During
the insurrection of the slaves in Sicily,
in the second century before Christ, a
Syrian named Ennus acquired by his
knowledge the rank of their leader. In
order to establish his influenoe over
their minds, he pretended to possess
miraculous power. When he wished to
inspire his followers with courage ho
breathed flames or sparks among them
from his mouth. At the same time he
was rousing them by his eloquence.
St. Jerome informs us that the Rabbi
Bur3hochebas, who headed the Jews in
their last revolt against the Emperor
Adrian, mado them believe that he was
the Messiah by vomiting flames
from his mouth. And at a later
period the Emperor Constantius was
thrown into a state of alarm
when Yalentinian informed him that
he had seen one of the bcfdy
guards breathing out firo and flames.
Sir David Brewster, who quotes these
instances in his interesting “ Letters on
Natural Magic,” was not able to ex
plain the exact methods by which
these effects were produced ; but he
said Florus informs us that Ennus
tilled a perforated nut-shell with sul
phur and fire, and having concealed it
in his mouth, he breathed gently
through it while he was speaking. This
act is performed moro simply by the
modirn juggler. Having rolled together
some flax or hemp so as to form a ball
tho size of a walnut, he sets it on fire,
aud Allows it to barn until it is nearly
cons umed. Ho then rolls round it while
burning some additional flax, and by
these means the fire may be retained
for a considerable time. At the com
mencement of his exhibition he intro
duces tho ball into his mouth, and
while ho breathes through it the fire is
revived, and a number of burning,
sparks are projected from his mouth.
Tho sparks are too feeble to do any
harm, provided he inhales the air
through his nostrils. The kindred art of
WALKING ON BURNING COALS
or re I-hot iron belongs to the same
antiquity. The Priestesses of Diana at
Caste,bula, in Cappadocia, were accus
tomed, according to Strabo, to walk
over burning coals, and at the annual
festh al, which was held in the Temple
of Apollo, at Mount Socrate, iu Eu
truriu, the Herpi marched over burn
ing cials, and on this account they
were exempted from military service,
and received other privileges from the
Roman Senate. The power of resisting
fire was ascribed, even by Yaro, to the
use o:’ some liniment wflth which they
anointed the soles of their feet. Of the
same character was the art of holding
red-hot iron in tho hands or between
the the teeth, and of plunging the
hands into boiling water or melted
lead. About the close of tne seven
teenth century, an Englishman named
Richardson rendered himself famous
by chewing burning coals, pouring
melted lead upon his tongue, and swal
lowing melted glass. Brewster says
that these effects are produced partly
by deception and partly by a pre
vious preparation of the parts
subjected to the heat. The fusible
metal composed of mercury, tin,
and oismuth, which molts at a low
temperature, might easily have been
subst tuted in place of lead, and fluids
of easy ebullition may have been used
in place of boiling water. But though
the conjurers with fire may have avail
ed themselves of these singular prop
erties of individual bodies, yet the gen
eral secret of their art consisted in ren
dering the skin of the exposed parts
callous and insensible to heat —an ef
fect w hich may be produced by con
tinually compressing or singing them
till th 3 skin acquires a horny consist
ence.
houdin’s tricks.
One of the most adroit jugglers of
the present age was Robert Houdin, a
Frenchman, who for many years gave
foshionablo entertainments in Paris.
Houdin wrote his autobiography, and
related many curious feats performed
by him in the course of his professional
career. On one occasion he was in
vited to display his art before King
Louis Philippe and his court at the
chateau of St. Cloud. Houdin invented
a trick especially for this royal and
noble assemblage, and received un
bounded applause for his success. He
borrowed from the King and his cour
tiers six handkerchiefs, which ho made
into a parcel and laid on the table.
Then, at his request, different persons
wrote on cards the names of
places whither they desired their
handkerchiefs to be invisibly trans
ported. When this was done, he
begged the King to take three of
tho cards at hazard, and choose from
them the place he might consider the
most suitable. “ Let me see,” said
Louis Philippe, “ what this ono says,
‘I desire the handkerchief to be found
beneath one of tho candelabra on the
mantelpiece.’ Ah! that is too easy for
a sorcerer, so we will pass on to the
next card : ‘The handkerchiefs are to
be transported to the dome of the In
valides.’ That wquld suit us, but it is
much too far—not for the handker
chiefs, but for us. Ah, ah !’ the King
added, as he looked at the last card, “ I
am afraid, Monsieur Robert Houdin, I
am about to embarrass you. Do you
know what this card proposes ?” Hou
din, with a respectful bow declared
that he did not. “Well,” responded
his Majesty, “it is desired that you
send the handkerchiefs to a spot be
neath the roots of the last orange tree
on the right of the Avenue of St.
Cloud.” Houdin affected the utmost
nonehalance. “ Only that, sire ?” he
said. “ Deign to order aud I will obey ”
The King gave certain directions in a
low voice, and immediately a number
of his attendants hurried off to the
orange tree to watch it. Ho then said,
“ I select the orange tree.” Houdin’s
first business now was to send the
handkerchiefs on their travels. So he
placed them beneath his opera glass,
and, taking his wand, ordered them to
fly to the spot the King had chosen.—.
Ho raised his bell, the little parcel was
no longer there, and a white turtle dove
had taken its place. The King then
walked quickly to the door, whence he
•A.XJGXJSTA., GA., SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 18. 1874.
looked in the direction of the orange
tree, to assure himself the guards were
there, and when this was done he be
gan to smile and shrug his shoulders.
“Ah ! Monsieur Robert Houdin,” he
said, ironically, “ I fear much of the
virtue of your magic staff.” Then
he added, as he returned to the end of
the room whore several servants were
standing, “Tell William to dig immedi
ately below the last tree at the end of
the avenue, and bring me carefully
what he finds there —if he does find
anything.” The attendant proceeded to
the orange tree. The earth at the side
of the tree was carefully removed, and
down among the roots, after much
groping, a smali iron box eaten with
rust was found. It bore every appear
ance of having been in the ground
many years. This curious “ find ” was
cleaned from its mold and brought in
and placed by the side of the King. The
greatest excitement and impatience
prevailed on all sides. Houdin brought
perched on his linger, the dove to the
King, and around its neck his Majesty
discovered a little rusty key. At the
desire of tho coujurer ho unloosed it
and opened tho box. The first object
that met his eye was a time-discolored
piece of parchment, upon which he
read: “This day, the 6th of June,
1786, this iron box, containing six hand
kerchiefs, was placed among the roots
of an orange tree by me, Balsama,
Count of Cagliostro, to serve in per
forming an act of magic, w T hich will bo
executed on the same day sixty years
hence before Louis Phillipe, of Orleans,
and his family.”
“ There is certainly witchcraft about
this,” cried the King, and then he
looked again, and found in the bottom
of the box a parcel sealed with the
well know r n seal of tho famous Cagli
ostro. He broke it and opened tho
parcel, and there were the six hand
handkerchiefs which but five minutes
before were lying on the conjuror’s
table. Was not this trick as remarka
ble as tho producing of “ Katie King”
from a dark cabinet ?
BODIES HEAVY AND LIGHT AT WILL.
Houdin was employed by the French
Government to go to Algeria on a
novel mission. The Marabout priests
exercised great influence over tho na
tives, because they w T ere able to per
form certain feats of jugglery, which
they pretended proved their divine
power. These Marabouts were enemies
of the French, and encouraged turbu
lence among the Arabs. The govern
ment thought that it might be a good
stroke of policy to send Houdin
through the colony performing his
miracles and demonstrating to the na
tives that a French sorcerer was
greater than an Arab sorcerer. Ac
cordingly Houdin appeared before large
audiences, beginning in the city of Al
geria. At the first of these perform
ances he introduced a box which be
came heavy or light at his order. This
box was brought by him to the foot
lights, and while holding it in his hands
he declared to his hearers that he pos
sessed the power to deprive the most
powerful man of his strength, and re
store it at will. He invited any one
who thought himself strong enough, to
come on the stage. An Arab of middle
height, but well built and muscular,
came to his side with great assurance.
“ Are you strong ?” asked Houdin,
measuring him from head to foot. “Oh,
yes,” he replied carelessly. “ Are you
sure that you will always remain so ?”
“Quite sure.” “You are mistaken,”
said Houdin, “ for in an instant I will
rob you of your strength, and you shall
become as a little child.” The Arab
smiled disdainfully. Houdin told him
to lift the box. He stooped and lifted
it without any effort, and said coldly,
“Is that all ?” With an imposing
gesture Houdin solemnly pronounced
the words “ Behold, you aro weaker
than a woman ; now lift the box.” The
young Hercules grabbed the box quite
confidently, but to his amazement, it
would not budge. He attacked it vig
orously, over and over again, while his
countrymen sat looking on in silent
wonder, but it resisted. Ho vainly ex
pended on this box a strength which
would have raised an enormous weight,
until at length, panting, exhausted and
red with anger, he buried his faco in
his burnous, and retired from tho stage.
Houdin does not explain the secret of
this strange trick by which he made
bodies heavy or light at will, and with
out apparently touching them, but it
was a favorite of his, and often ex
hibited to his fashionable Parisian au
dience.
THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
At the same exhibition in Algeria of
which we have written, Houdin invited
one of the audience to come on the
stage. A young Moor, about twenty
years of age, tall, well built, and richly
dressed, advanced. There was a plain
table on the stage (the space between
the top and the floor being unmistaka
bly open) which Houdin asked him to
mount. When he did so Houdin cover
ed him with an enormous cloth cone,
and, instantly removing it, the Moor
was gone. The trick produced a panic
in the audience. Screaming, “It is the
Evil One?” they clambered over the
benches in wild terror and rushed out
the door into the street, where, in the
public place, rubbing his eyes in stupe
faction and wondering how ho got
there, they found the young Moor.
INVULNERABILITY.
While in the interior Houdin gave an
open air exhibition to the wild sons of
the desert. Ho pretended that he was
invulnerable, and offered to let a Mar
about shoot at him. There was a great
crowd, and a vindictive-looking fellow
came out from it and claimed to have
the honor of killing the hated French
man. Tho pistols were handed to Hou
din, who called attention to the fact
that tho vents were clear. Tho Mara
bout put iu a fair charge of powder and
drove the wad home. Among the bul
lets praduced Houdin chose one which
ho openly put in the pistol, and it was
also rammed down. By the same pro
cess the second pistol was loaded.
Everybody watched with the most pro
found solemnity. Houdin posted him
self fifteen paces from the Marabout
without evincing the slightest emotion.
Tho Marabout immediately seized one
of the pistols and, on Houdin’s giving
the signal, took a deliberate aim at
him. The pistol went off and the ball
appeared between the magician’s teeth.
Moro angry than ever, the Marabout
tried to seize the pistol. “You could
not injure me,” said Houdin, “but
you shall see that my aim is more
dangerous thau yours. Look at that
wall.” He pulled the trigger, and on
the newly whitewashed wall appeared
a large patch of blood exactly at the
spot where he aimed. Tho Marabout
went up to it, dipped his finger in tho
blood, and raising it to his mouth con
vinced himself of the reality. When
he acquired this certainty his arms fell
and his head bowed on his chest as if
he were annihilated. It was evident
that for tho moment he doubted overy
tliiug, even tho prophet. This seem
ingly incomprehensible feat Houdin
performed by means of prepared balls.
With a bullet mould and a bit of wax,
mixed with lampblack, he had manu
factured a very fair imitation bullet.
Another bullet of the same material
he had filled with blood. Of course it
was by sleight-of-hand that he changed
the bullets forced upon him by the
Marabout and substituted his own. An
old trick enabled him to get tho real
bullet between his teeth, while the
waxen one was shattered to pieces. So
with the second ball, it was shattered
upon striking the wall, but a spot of
blood was produced. If Houdin had
not explained this part it would be
quite as wonderful to most people as
the phenomena of Spiritualism, and
could have been passed off as good
evidence of spirit agency.
SPIRIT FORMS PRODUCED BY JUGGLERS.
When William H. Seward mado his
tour around the world, he witnessed
some performances of jugglers in India
which were quite surprising. He saw
a man climb a bare pole sixty foet high
standing in the open air, and when he
reached the top he mysteriously disap
peared. After a while his feet reap
peared, then his legs and body, and he
came down. He claimed no supernatu
ral powers. How did he do it? There
was an Indian juggler who had a little
den on the Bowery, in this city, a ■ few
years ago. He was a dirty fellow, and
respectable people were not much dis
posed to venture into his place. A
gentleman told tho writer that, moved
by curiosity once, he went in. The j ug
gler made him sit on the floor. In a
moment two figures, apparently hu
man, rose out of the floor in obedience
to tho wand of the conjurer. They grow
to the ordinary height of a human be
ing. The visitor made a motion to
rise, when the figure sank through the
floor instantly. An examination of the
place betrayed no visible solution to the
ingenious performance.
WHAT THE SPIRITUALISTS SAY.
The writer, while looking up these
facts, interviewed a well-known Spirit
ualist, and presented them before him,
asking him for an explanation. If such
a feat as that performed before Mr.
Seward was but a clever piece of jug
glery, why should more than that be
claimed for tho appearance of alleged
spirit forms in Chittenden and Phila
delphia? The Spiritualist was at a
loss for an answer. Ho boldly took
the ground that the disappearance in
the air seen by Mr. Seward was not a
piece of jugglery, but was the produc
tion of spirit intervention. All phe
nomena which could not be explained
he relegated to tho realm of ghost
work. He was not to bo put down.
But mere assertion is not going to con
vert tho unbelieving inquirer who
goes forth armed with the facts re
lated here.
[Detroit Free Press.
The Book Agent and the German
Talior.
He was tall and solemn, and digni
fied. One would have thought him a
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speech on finance, but he wasn’t—sin
gularly enough, ho wasn’t. Ho was a
book agent. He wore a linen duster,
and his brow was furrowed with many
care-lines, as if he had been obliged
to tumble out of bed every other night
of his life to dose a sick child. He call
ed into a tailor shop on Randolph
street, removed his hat, took his
“ Lives of Eminent Philosophers ” from
its cambric bag, and approached the
tailor with: “ I’d like to have you
look at this rare work.”
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“It is a work which every thinking
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“ My friend, this is no receipt book,
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“ My friend, must I again inform you
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not a collection of nauseous trash, but
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A minister asked a tipsy fellow, loan
ing up against a fence, where lie ex
pected to go when he died. “If I can’t
get along any better than I do now,” he
said, “ I shan’t go anywhere. I’ll stay
where I am!”
To illustrate how fast we grow, they
say that Mr. William Tell wouldn’t
have been anywhere among the marks
men at Creedmoor.
Letter from Ceres of the State Grange.
White Bluef, Ga., Sept. 14, 1874.
Editors Herald and Georgian :
It is very gratifying to me to find
tiiat the resoluticn I introduced at the
January meeting of the State Grange,
known as the “ Calico Resolution,” and
passed in such complimentary terms,
has excited so much interest that a
slight variation in a portion of my
dress, at the Co-operative Feast, on
the 3d inst., in wearing a cheap skirt of
two Summers’ use, was noticed ty
some of my sisters. This, to my mind,
is conclusive evidence that the resolu
tion has impressed the sisterhood, and
I trust is resulting in great good. For
tho future, my sisters, I shall strive to
avoid even the appearance of a viola
tion of what I commended so earnestly
to others. I will take occasion to say
just here, however, that the resolution
did not contemplate the discarding of
dresses already purchased, as there
would be no economy in that, but tho
quality of goods to be bought for our
own use iu future.
In attending Grange meetings in va
rious parts of our State, and adhering
so strictly to calico in my dress, many
sisters have often apologized for not
doing the same. Sisters, let us be in
earnest in economizing. The times de
mand it. The depressed condition of
our section demand it. Yes, all tho
surroundings demand it, and I intend
adhering strictly to my resolution—
wearing only calico, and using my little
influence in making it the leading dress
among the matrons in Georgia. Sis
ters, our Fall purchases are near at
hand. Let us not be tempted to de
viate in the least from tho rule of econ
omy we have adopted. Remember our
distressed country, and make your
purchases conform strictly to your ne
cessities. Lot the world see and know
that wo are what we profess—Matrons
indeed, and not unworthy co-laborers
with our struggling husbands, fathers
aud brothers. Let us, by example and
every influence we can command, be
true to the necessities of the times,
making economy our watchword.
It is gratifying to me to hear from a
prominent Patron that the resolution
in question had saved him two hun
dred dollars at least. Suppose out of
the largo number of Granges in Geor
gia every family had saved as much in
proportion to the size of the same,
what an immense amount of money
would have remained in tho pockets of
our husbands, brothers, &c. Our order,
composed as it is of only tho tillers of
the soil,Jproducing cotton as the rnoneyd
staple crop, making its consumption of
momentous importance, we should in
terest ourselves in lending our influence
in that direction. Our adopting prints
as our dress is not only important in
point of economy, but the use of cot
ton is laudable, for the price of all
commodities much depends upon the
consumption thereof. So the double
advantage accomplished, my sisters,
will induce us to adhere strictly to the
resolution in question.
Sisters, let the next meeting of the
State Grange, on the third Wednesday
in January, 1875, be long remembered
for the display there made by our sis
ters in calicoes.
Yours fraternally,
Mrs. T. J. Smith,
Ceres of Georgia State Grange.
Short Sayings.
In these last days, it costs too high
For men to marry; women try
With pads and rouge to please the eyo.
It was not so in olden times,
When calico so clean and neat
Exposed tho shoes on little feet.
No dragging train to scrape the street.
And yet the mosquitoes linger.
Pickpockets are persons who take
things easy.
Whatsoever a man sewoth, that shall
he also rip.
A paper containing many fine points
—a paper of needles.
“ What shall we do to be saved ”
from dull trade ? Advertise.
When does a man have to keep his
word ? When no one will take it.
Never attempt to form an opinion of
a woman’s weight by her sighs.
When sausages become dog cheap it
is time to changeiboarding houses.
Love without money is something
like patent leather boots without soles.
Noah made a “ corner ” in the salt
provision business when he took Ham
on board.
Why did sho turn her back on you,
young man? Innocent child! She
wished to make an exhibition of her
new overskirt.
There is a wide difference between
battle-scarred and badly-scared veter
ans, although the latter generally
claim all tho honors after a fight.
An ignorant old lady was asked by a
minister visiting her if she had religion.
She replied : “ I have slight touches of
it occasionally.”
Sweet aro the lessons of adversity,
no doubt; but the man who is dunned
s ; x times a day would prefer to con the
bitter pages of prosperity.
A Now Orleans woman got so excited
about war that she dressed herself and
walked out without any covering over
her hoop-skirt.
Just as our people are coming back
to their everlasting brick houses and
brick pavements, the foliage of the
country is assuming its most gorgeous
hues.
A Western man sot fire to tho prai
rio for fun ; but after he had run seven
miles and climbed a tree, with his
pants all burned off, ho concluded the
sport was a little too violent exercise
to be indulged iu oftener than once in
a lifetime.
A Sioux City deacon asked a stranger
to start a hymn, and when the stranger
struck into “Mollie Darling” they tried
to drown him out with “Old Hundred.”
Mrs. Nyo, of lowa, can get supper,
split kindlings, wash tho dishes, milk
the cows, aud feed the hogs while her
five boys and two girls are playing a
game of croquet.
“What is bullheaded luck?” asks a
Kentucky paper. Twisting a mule’s
tail and getting away from his heels
without being kicked, comes near
enough to answer tho question.
We should think this would bo effec
tual. The New Orleans Times says:
“ Let every lady refuse to kiss lior hus
baud until he registers.”
A serenading party at Dubuquo were
invited in, furnished with a lunch duly
seasoned with jalap and other drugs,
and tho voice of the midnight song
has not been heard in the land since.
About this time the young man un
packs his Winter overcoat, spreads it
out on the bed before him, gathers up,
one by one, the little rolls of cotton
that irregularly dot its surface,- and,
holding it close to the light, comes to
the conclusion that camphor is a delu
sion and tobaceo itself a snare !
J. Wilkes Booth.
A REMARKABLE POEM ON J. WILKES BOOTH,
BY A CITIZEN OF LINCOLN’S HOME.
To the Editors of the Herald:
Tho following linos wore written by a
prominent citizen of Springfield, Illinois,
the home of Abraham Lincoln, and are
founded upon tho report tiiat Stanton, then
Secretary of War, ordered the remains of
•J. Wilkes Booth to be taken to sea and
thrown overboard in mid-ocean. They have
never before been published:
Oli! give him a grave as broad as the sweep
Of the tidal wave’s measureless motion;
Lay him to sleep in the arms of the deep,
Since his heart was as free as the ocean.
It was liberty slain that maddened his
brain,
To avenge the dead idol he cherished:
So ‘tis meet tiiat the main, never curbed by
a chain,
Should entomb the last freeman, now
perished.
The dust of tho brave could not rest in tho
grave
Of a land where blind force hath domin
ion;
But the step of a slave never soiled the
proud wave
That spurneth the hamper and pinion.
Ho, who dared break the rod of a blacka
moor’s god,
All the hosts of the despot defying,
May not sleep in the sod, by a nation’s feet
trod,
That he shamed with his glory in dying.
Yes, hide him away from tho sad eyes of
day,
In the coral of sea-green abysses—
Where the mermaidens gay, as they ily
thro’ tho spray,
Siiail purple ins pale cheek with kisses.
As the ocean streams roll from the gulf to
the pole,
Let them moan him with musical dirges;
Let the tempest-bell toll the repose of a
soul,
More sublime than tho sound of its
surges.
He hath written his name, in letters of
flame,
O’er tho pathway to Liberty’s portal;
And the serfs that now blamo will crimson
with shame
When they learn they have cursed an im
mortal.
He hath died for the woal of a world ’neath
tho heel
Of too many a merciless Nero;
But while there is steel, every tyrant shall
feel
That God’s vengeance but waits for its
hero.
Then give him a grave as broad as the
sweep
Of the tidal wave’s measureless motion;
Lay our Brutus to sleep in the arms of the
deep,
Since Ins heart was as wild as tho ocean!
List of Marriages in Augusta.
1862.
Jan. 2—Zacheus Oswald and Motha Bo
ken.
Jan. 28 -Benjamin E. Taylor and Eliza
beth Wray.
Jan. 29—Jesse W. ltankin and Mary P.
Jones.
Feb. s—Michael Bozle and Mary Ann
Rowlett.
Feb. o—Charles Rowland and Martha G.
Reynolds.
Feb. 6—Frank L. Marsh and Indiana C.
Snead.
Feb. 17—James F. Doolittle and Julia F.
Johnson.
Feb. 20—W. G. Murphy and Martha
Thompson.
Feb. 22—Henry G. Griffin and Lucy Ann
Burnett.
Feb. 24—Robert Tankerslcy and Martha
E. Baldwin.
Feb. 27—William Luke and Mary E. Labi
scho.
Feb. 27—Oliver G. Tarver and Marcilla
Tinley.
Feb. 27—Henry Sehaub and Emma John
son.
March 25—Thomas T. Wright and Mary
B. Clarke.
March 30—Josk. White and Ellen King.
April B—William E. Walker and Elenora
Evans.
April 20—Henry T. Doniphan and Mattie
Kelly.
May 3—Llewellyn Hill and Martha Ro
land.
May 6—Audorson P. Longstreet and
Mary R. Carmichael.
May 9—Michael Madden and Mary A.
Wimberly.
May 12—John Hoctor and Elizabeth Mc-
Naughton.
May 15—Elmore A. Dunbar and Minnie E.
Frazer.
May 10—Robert C. Gay and Miranda
Blankenship.
May 19—Jno. Frazer Bheeut and Maria E.
Erickson.
May 26—Chas. W. Duval and Henrietta
Herbert.
May 29—Hiram Wilson and Mary New
berry.
June 2—Francis Sherman and Jane
Blake.
Juno 15—John C. Sheehan and Ann Day.
June 16—Jno. Henderson and Jane Gerry.
Jund 17—Osborn M. Stone and Mollie A.
G. E. Brown.
Juno 22—Jas. J. Knapp and Caroline Ag
nes Reilly.
Juno 23—Thos. J.'iMurphy and Mary Ann
Burns.
July 9—John A. Wilson and Louisa Ann
Burns.
July 13—William E. Parr and Margaret
Dunham.
July 15—Thcophilus Bambrick and Han
nah Foley.
July 20—Thomas G. Burton anil Frances
Rebecca Prince.
July 20—J. Henry Davis and Aurcna
Whitaker.
July 22—Hampton A. Hudson and JJane
W. Shrival.
Aug. 20—Joseph Worsham and Mary Ann
Ford.
Sep. 4—John G. Allen and Sarah String
field.
Sep. 6—Wm. A. Zimmerman and Bridget
E. Doylo.
Sep. 11—Henry Colston and Mary F._Har
ben.
Sep. 11—Goo. W. Bush and Augusta J.
Foster.
Sep. 21—Wm. C. Whitaker aud Matilda M.
Revel.
Sep. 23—George Smith and Elizabeth
James.
Sop. 24—Wm. Pendleton Jand Zomula C.
Walker.
Sep. 24—Michael McDermott and Mary
Kiernan.
Oct. 3—John B. O’Donnell and Catherine
Larkin.
Oct. 6—lsaac W. Smith and Bettio Ann
Elizabeth Newman.
Oet. 6—Samuel WTav and Barbara Reed.
Oct. 7—John M. Gannon and Margaret A.
Gallagher.
Oct. 9—Samuel A. Palmer and Mary E.
Tinley.
Oet. 14—Joseph H. Spear and Mary G.
Warren.
Oct. 21—Ninian Thomson and Ilessie Mc-
Cartney.
Oct. 22—David Wells and Mary J. Dor
mot.
Oct. 23—Saunders A. Frain and Mary A.
Stephens.
Nov. 18—John B. Crumpton and Alice
Young.
Nov. 27—Patrick Chambers and Margaret
McDonnell.
Dec. I—Robert A. Palmer and Caroline C.
Merry.
Dec. 2—Wm. H. Shaw and Savannah Wil
liams.
Dec. 2—John Jennings and Hannah Mur-
Ph &e. 11—Freeman S. Palmer and Delia
Ann Allen.
Dec. 12—Archibald Y. Bird and Amanda
Johnson.
Doc. 16—W. D. Bowen and Julia A. Bur
ton.
Dec. 20—Absalom Kendrick and Amanda
Rowland.
Dec. 21—Wm. M. Redding and Elizabeth
Thompson.
Dec. 28—Lawrenco HeGetrick and Mar
garet E. MeGetrick.
Dec. 30—Louis Holland and Mary E.
Noble.
Dec. 31—Samuel H. Oppenheim and Han
nah A. Goldsmith.
Dec. 31—Julius H. Oppenheim and Sarah
Ann Goldsmith.
A low-spirited horse committed sui
cide in Hardin county, Illinois, by stick
ing his nose into the mud and holding
it there until he was smothered to
death.
Chicanery—To palm off old hen as
fricasseed chicken.
Sayings and Doings in Georgia.
Four candidates for Mayor in Co
lumbus.
Warren ton is getting ready for several
marriages next Winter.”
The Elberton Minstrels will give their
second entertainment Friday night,
30th.
Elder T. M. Harris dedicated the
Christian Church of Sandersville, last
Sabbath.
That biography of Joseph E. by the
Atlanta Constitution —what pleasant
reading it must have been for the Hon.
B. H.!
C. R. Strother, of Lincoln county, is
announced as a candidate for Clerk of
the House of Representatives.
In Romo, last week, a little boy of
Mr. G. W. Bowen’s was seriously in
jured by a fall from a tree.
A citizen of Columbus has had eight
children. Each ono of them, when
quite young, had the left arm broken
by a fall.
Maj. Calhoun, of the Columbus En
quirer will address the Mechanics’ and
Workingmens’ Club of Montgomery,
Ala., Monday evening, 19th.
Owen H. Tucker is spoken of as the
next Democratic candidate for Clerk of
the Superior Court in Newton county.
The mother of W. A. Cherry, of Ma
con, broke one of her limbs by a fall
last Thursday, 15th.
The Covington Enterprise says : A
former teacher in the female College
at Covington is billed to marry an Ar
kansas preacher on Thursday next.
A cavalry company has been organ
ized at Brick Store, Newton county, un
der command of Capt. Paine.
John Catoo, son of J. J. Catoe, of
Washington county, and aged eight
years, picked forty-nine pounds of cot
ton in four hours, the sth inst.
Master Enoch P. Hartley, aged eight
years, and son of H. H. Hartley, of
Washington county, picked a few days
ago, in about eight hours, 118 pounds
of cotton.
The Herald and Ceorgian says : “T.
Christian, Esq., Independent Demo
crat, was elected Representative from
Johnson county, by a majority of 52
votes over the regular nominee, Swain
Fortner.”
There will be a grand mass meeting
of Patrons of the State of Georgia, on
Wednesday night of the approaching
Fair week, in the city of Atlanta.
The health of Prof. E. A. Steed is en
tirely restored, and he will preach in
the Baptist Church in Sandersville the
fourth Sabbath in this month.
In the spelling contest, on the occa
sion of the closing exercises of Moss
Spring Academy, Washington county,
Miss Mattie A. Smith, principal, the
medal was won by a daughter of W.
L. Taylor, Esq.
The Covington Enterprise learns
from authentic sources that since the
first of August more than 450 persons
have been converted to religion within
the borders of Newton county. The
pious editor of that paper is greatly re
joiced thereat.
The libel case of A. L. Harris against
tho editor of the Atlanta News has
fallen to the ground. The grand jury
of Fulton county failed to find a true
bill in tho case.
Col. E. Steadman, of Covington, lec
tured in Atlanta Thursday night, un
der the auspices of the Mechanics’ln
stitute, on the “ Manufacture of Cot
ton.” After Col. S.’ lecture Mr. Butler,
of Augusta, was called out, and, the
Atlanta News says, entertained the au
dience for a short while in most excel
lent style.
Gen. Gordon and Hon. Henry R.
Harris addressed the eitizens of Mus
cogee in the Opera Oouse at Columbus,
last Thursday night. The Enquirer
reports Gen. Gordon as saying that
Gen. Grant had said to him : “If I un
derstand the sentiments of the South
ern people, they are not ono tithe as
disagreeablo to me as the Radicals.”
The Columbus Enquirer asks : “ If
the Executive Committee of the 7th
Congressional District cannot find any
man within its limits who can unite
the party and beat Felton, what is to
prevent them from nominating Hon.
B. H. Hill ? Is there any constitutional
hindrance ?” What with the combined
efforts of tho Enquirer and the Atlanta
Herald, with a lift now and then from
the Albany News and the La Grange
Reporter, the Hon. Ben may succeed in
getting into some office, from some
where, some time or other, somehow
or somehow else.
The Atlanta Herald of the 17th says :
A gentleman by.the name of Bleakley,
in Augusta, Ga., has been for five years
past constantly working upon a piece
of machinery, of his own invention,
which is to excite the wonder and ad
miration of tho world ! His ceaseless
toil and untiring energy has just been
completed, and yesterday notice was
received by the Mayor that ho was
ready and would have his wonderful
piece of mechanism at the Fair Ground
by Monday morning, and put it on ex
hibition before the public for the first
time. Ho has named it “ Bleakley’s
Hydro-Electro-Automatic Landscape.”
The landscape is a perfectly grand
affair, and many Northern men of ex
perience who have seen it say it is ab
solutely unsurpassible, and there is
nothing in the world to equal it. And
that it is the largest piece of mechani
cal work in tho world. And not only
this, but is tho most perfect piece of
work in the world.
It is worth more than the price of
admission to the Fair to see this great
“ Hydro Electro Automatic Land
scape.” It is a Southern invention, by
a Southern man and made in the
South.
t C LA ft k
A. '*• f A ,
184 BROAD STREET,
1)()OK Augusta,
THE TELE- Wh \ llg|
GRAPH OF- ggff W o'
DEALER IN
Watches, Clocks & Jewelry,
SPEOTAUI*ES, EYE-GLASSES, ETC.
WATCHJfiS ana CLOCKS repaired and
warranted.
Jewelry Made and Repaired.
All kinds of HAIR BRAIDING DONE.
mh29-Cm
HORSES FOR SALE,
AT THE
Street Railroad Stables.
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-New Series—"V"ol. 2, ISTo. 246
GLOBE HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, GLA.,
Corner of Broad Jackson Streets.
The GLOBE HOTEL has just been RE
FURNISHED and REFITTED, with all tlio
Modern Improvements and
Conveniences,
Together with tho addition of a NEW VE
RANDAH, making it one of the most com
plete HOTELS in tho country, and is now
ready for the accommodation of the TRAV
ELING PUBLIC.
I*. MAY,
sept!3-tf Proprietor.
Dissolution of Copartnership
THE Copartnership heretofore existing
between JAMES MONACH, Jr., GEO.
E. RATCLIFFE & CO., and HENRY B.
KING, under the firm name and style of
JAS. MONACH JR., & CO,, is this day dis
solved—Jas. Monach, Jr., having disposed
of his interest to tiie remaining partners.
The affairs of the concern will be settled
by Ratcliffe, King & Cos.
JAMES MONACH. JR.,
GEO. E. RATCLIFFE & CO.,
11. B. KING.
Mr. Monach will continue his Superin
tendence at tho Factory, as heretofore.
seplß-lm
Fall and Winter, 1874!
C. J. T. BALK,
No. 136 Broad, below Monument Street,
HAS NOW IN STORE a full assortment
of Dry Goods for Fall and Winter.
Great bargains in Jeans and Cassimeres.
Great bargains in Black Alpacas.
Good Black Silk at $1 per yard.
Velveteens, in black and colors, from 60c.
up; 1,000 Ladies’ Felt Skirts, tho cheapest
in town; the best 250. Towel in the city;
Cotton Goods lower than ever; 500 dozen
Coats’ Thread, at 70c. per dozen; the best
assortment of Calicoes, Bed Ticking, Blan
kets, Linseys, Flannels, etc., cheap. Look
for No. 136 Broad street, between Monu
ment and Centre street. Special induce
ments to wholesale buyers. Orders care
fully attended to. My one price system
(prices being marked in plain figures) se
cures the same advantages to the most in
experienced buyers as to the best judges of
Dry Goods. Goods cheerfully shown and
samples given. C. J. T. BALK.
sep2o-suwefrtf
DAY AND BOARDING SCHOOL
FOR
CHILDREN AND YOUNG LADES,
W ILL also be received as Summer
Boarders.
Address MRS. GEO. I. KOLLOCK,
Je2B-su6m* Clarksville, Hab Cos., Geo.
MISS E. LUDEKENS
WILL HAVE HEB
FALL OPENING OF MILLINERY GOODS
—ON—
THURSDAY, Oet. 15.
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J. S. LAMAR,
Attorney at Law,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
WILL practice in tho counties of the
Augusta Judicial Circuit.
Office on Mclntosh street, between Broad
and Reynolds. _ oc4-lm
Notice to Grangers.
THE Stockholders (Grangers) to the Co
operative Warehouse and Depot are
requested to meet in the City of Augusta,
on TUESDAY, the 27th of Oetoi er. A full
attendance is earnestly desired, that busi
ness may at once be commenced.
GOODE BRYAN,
oct-td Sec. S. A. Valley Association.
HOUSE FOR SALE.
A. NEW COTTAGE HOUSE, situated on
McKinne street, containing live rooms, well
finished, and all necessary outbuildings.
Lot 50 by 200 feet. Possession at once.
Apply to
oet9-6* F. COGIN.
FIRE INSURANCE.
FIVE, SOUND, RELIABLE, PROMPT, IN
DEPENDENT, NON-BOARD
COMPANIES.
Capital and Assets, nearly $3,000,000
RISKS taken on Buildings, Merchandise
and Cotton, at fair and equitable
bates. SAVE MONEY by calling on the
undersigned for Rates, before placing
Risks.
D. R. WEIGHT,
Insurance Agent.
Office at Store of Jonn D. Wright, 233
Broad street. a 8-sututhSm
COPARTNERSHIP.
The undersigned havo this day formed a
Copartnership under tho firm name of
READ & CAMERON, to do a general
Cotton and Insurance business.
Their list of Insurance Companies, Lifo
and Fire, comprise some of the leading
companies in the country, and particular
attention will be paid to this department of
their business. They will buy and sell con
tracts for futuie delivery in New York,
through Mr. Charles A. Easton, and In
Augusta, if desired.
WM. M. READ.
octl3-tnovl JOHN AV. CAMERON,
SITUATION WANTED
By an experienced Book-Keeper, with no
objection to a largo town. Unexceptional
references, etc., furnished by addressing
F)
octG-tuthl Care P. O. Key Box 178.
militaryUompanlES
"yiyriLL save money by buying METAL
’ LIC PRIMED CARTRIDGES, at
S. COHEN’S,
je3-tf 176 Broad street.
PIANO TUNING.
HaVING employed Robert A. Harper as
our PIANO TUNER, wo are prepared to fill
all orders promptly, if left at the Augusta
Music House, 265 Broad street.
GEO. O. ROBINSON & CO.
sep2()-suwetf _ _
HENRY JAMES OSBORNE,
OCULISTIC OPTICIAN.
NO 171% BROAD STREET,
Under tho Augusta Hotel. aug2o-tf
STRAYED,
On the 18th of September, a small black
Terrier SLUT, botii ears cropped, no tail,
and answers to name of “Kit/ ’ Any infor
mation will be thankfully received t 273
Broad street. octil-3