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CARTERSVILLE GA
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July 17, 1866.
James W. Strange,
Dealer i»
STOVES.
GRATES,
IRON,
HARDWARE,
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Clean Linen and Cotton Rags taken in ex
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Guttering done with neatness and dispatch.
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A in the SOUTH, at
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Oil as goo and To i*m s.
as atn be had in the country,
NORTH OR SOUTH,
—BY—
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November If, 1866. wly
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RAIL-ROAD SPIKES, CHAIRS,
BRIDGE BOLTS, BAR IRON,
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Mdl Gearing and Machinery of all kinds.
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October s.tf
lit very Stable
By
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CARTERSVILLE. GA,
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i\ traveling public with convey am e through
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at reasonable rates of hoard. Our vehicles and
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AT L.4YT.4, G E08G1.4.
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| ami expense has been expended in making it
worthv of patronage. Modern improvements
have been added, and the public can re v 01. .s
I being equal to anv in Son hern cities
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uvl~l.
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CARTERSVILLE. GEORG
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IS prepared to execute alt kinds
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--L ingline, with neatness and in du- if
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Cartersville, jan 25.
C -H w . H. 3101XTCASTLE,
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In the Front of A. A. Skinner & Co’s store.
Cartersville; jan 25k
CARTERSVILLE GA, MARCH 8, 1807.
Reduction of
PER CENT,
OK FALL AND WIKTER
GOODS.
Wishing to reduce our entire stock of FALL
ANSI WINTER DUY-CJOOBS,
Clothing,
flats,
Shoes,
and
Boots,
Woolen Gooils of every Description,
such as
Nubias,
Hoods,
Sontags.
Shawls,
Cloaks,
BROAD CLOTHS,
CASSIMERES,
WHITE GOODS, &C.
Also a large stock of
OI^OOKERY
and
XXXXXX-D W-AXELE.
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cent on all Goods on hand,
Our stock of Dry Goods is equal to any
stock South, in quality or style, and part con
sisting of
FRENCH PLAIDS,
CALICOS,
FLANNELS,
SHIRTINGS,
SHEETINGS,
OSNABURGS,
&C.
Our Stock of C othing consists of
Broad Cloth Suits, at all prices,
C’assiiaere Suits,
Overcoats, every style and price.
Our stock of Boots and Shoes is complete,
Ladies’ calf,
“ Moroco.
Kid,
“ cloth,
Gentlemens’
WATER PROOF CALF BOOTS,
*4 )((p 44
BOYS’ BOOTS,
Oursfock of Hats consists in
MENS’AND BOYS’
Wool, Cassimere, Fur, Felt and Plush.
Our stock of Hardware consists, in part of
Knives and Forks,
Tea and Tablespoons, iron and si!,
Locks, of every kind,
Hiiigcs, Butts, Screws,
Elat diets and Hammers.
Smoothing Irons, Chains,
Shovels and Pitchforks,
Our stock of Crockery and Glassware con
sists, in part, of
STONE AND GRANITE WARE,
CUPS AND SAUCERS.
DINNER AND BREAKFAST PLATES.
BOWLS AND PITCHERS.
GOBLETS AND TUMBLERS.
SALT CELLERS AND MOLASSES CANS#
Our stock ofGROCERIES is complete,
This entire Stock is offered to the public at
.*>o per cent below regular pri
ces, at
LOEWEXSTEIX & PFEIFER’S.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Jan 4, 1867,
HOff COL. OTTOJI4Jf OLD
BERN CJOT II fS \H Ii \ 41lP
A Story of the W ar.
BY M. W. M.
[All the incidents in the following
gram ful and graphic sketch, really took
place.]
As she glided down the broad gravelled
walk of the garden, the early sunlight
glinted on her soft brown hail, bring
ing out every gleam of gold that lurked
amid its dusky shadows. Now, she
bent her bright low face over a bed of
crimson verbena,, now stooped to ap
ply tlte sharp little teeth to an obsti
nate while rosebud that clung tenaci
ously to its rough stent, then she
sauntered on whistling (do not be
shocked, gentle reader,) absolutely
whistling, deftly and sweetly, too, the
bird-like noies of a waltz. She paus
ed, though, as she heard another voice
singing behind a huge clump of cali
canthus, just at the corner of the walk.
“All ! Unde Chris is out, I see,”
she said, as she listened smiling to the
ebo strain, which ran in this wise:
“Grassohppersetting on the sweet tater vine,
The s tv eel; tater vine,
The sweet: taler vine;
Old turkey goblcr t ome crccpin up behine,
Crecpiu up Whtne,
Snatch grasshopper of* do sweet tater vine,
The sweet tater vim-.”
The singer was a negro between fifty
and sixty years of age, with a broad,
brown, good-humored face, stalwart
and bow-legged. He had an enormous
mouth, and a nose that, as one of the
sable wits of lire plantation was wont
to say, “looked like somebody had
tione step upon it.” lie became silent
as the girl turned the corner, and
doffing his old wool hat with elaborate
courtesy, bade her a ceremonious good
morrow.
“You perambulates early dis morn
ing, Miss Jacque,” he said.
l'he young lady’s name was Jacque
line. but she was known in the family
only by this elegant diminutive.
“Yes, Uncle Chris. 1 wanted to
ask a favor of you. Will you do
something for me this morning?”
“To he certain, chile. Did Uncle
Chris ever have tie heart to defuse you
anything since you was a baby?”
“Well, I want yon, after breakfast,
to go down to Shady Hollow 7 , where
our boys are hiding, you know,
and tell Colonel —ahem ! tell them, the
boys, that all the Yankees have left
the neighborhood for several days, and
we want them to come up to our house
to-night. The gifls from Gienburn
and Oakley and Hickory Hill will be
here, and we will have a dance and a
nice time generally. It won’t be safe
to write, there are so many spies about.
Do you think you can remember all
this !*’
“To be sho T can, Miss Jacque.—
Uncle Chris ain’t so old yit as to dis
remember his constructions.”
“I’ll send you out a nice breakfast,
then, and you must make haste back
to brush up your Sutuly coat and get
your fiddle in tune. Col. Oldburn
plays himself, and is a judge of music,
you know.”
“Dat he is, Miss Jacque, and ol
beauty, too, I speck. Yah ! yah !”
Jacque turned quickly, with a height
ened color, to pursue her walk, while
old Chris resumed his hoe and vocal
exercises. He left the hapless grass
hopper to his fate, however, and broke
out this time into a lively camp-meet
ing tune, in which he assailed his
Satanic Majesty with great apparent
relish in the following spirited, if not
spiritual couplets:
“De devil is mad, an I so gland,
An augh, glo-re-e-e.
He los one soul he idiot he had,
An augh, glo-re-e-e,
For when he shot his gun at me,
He missed my soul an hit a tree,
And augh, glo-re-e-e-e-e.
From the illumined windows of
Squire Butord’s hospitable mansion
broad bars of golden light stretched <ar
across the smooth green lawn, and
ever and anon bright, anxious faces
peered from behind the floating cur
tains of an upper casement, where the
girls were “doing each other’s hair”
and performing other mysterious rites
of the toilette, upon which we shall
not allow profane eyes to look. The
last flower was adjusted, .and the last
flowing ribbon attached. The glances
towards the windows became still more
anxions and frequent, when a quick,
joyous exclamation from merry Maggie
Duval drew them all around her. —
Holding up a slender, white’gloved
hand to impose silence, she listened,
and borne upon the summer breeze
they heard the sound of gay, manlv
voices, blended with the mellow echo
of laughter and the faint musical jingle
of spur and sabre, that made many a
soft eye more softy bright, and many a
tender little heart fluttered undere its
silken boddice.
“Here they are,’, whispered Jaque,
as she drew the curtain closer, to con
ceal her white drapery.and looked cau
tiously below, where a gay party of
cavaliers were dismounting and passing
in under the low arches of the piazza.
“Thatis Powhattan Areher. I know
hisswingingstride,” whispered Maggie,
“and yonder is Arthur Clayborn. Bee
how the light shines ou his red whis
kers.”
“Kcd, indeed !” pouted little Clara
Belton. “T.’tey are beautiful auburn.
You would give your pearl earrings
this minute it Charley King could sport,
such a pair on his smooth cheeks.’*
Miss Maggie subsided into her satin
slippers lor an instant, but soon railed.
* Bravechainpion of bright whiskers,”
she laughed, with a mock ooiirtestv,“l
own myself vanished. Let it be pro
claimed henceforth that
“Hazel is his eagle eye,
And auburn of the deepest dye.
His -hort curled beard and hair.”
“Oh, there is Colonel Oldhurne him
self,” breathlessly cried another fair
spy. “How handsom he is, anti how
superbly gotten up, *lrom the tip of his
spur to his silken moustache.” “Look,
Jacque;” but Jacque only drew back
hastily into the shadow of the room.
“Oh, dear!” exclaimed a bright
brunette ; “I do believe that saucy
Harry Shelton caught a glimpse of me
as I peeped out. Didn’t you see him
kiss his hand ? I’ve no patience with
such impudence.” Yet she did not
look particularly vexed.
Just then a wild burst of music
sounded from below, and hastily snatch
ing up fans, boquetsand handkerchief's,
the whole bevy rushed towards the
mirrors for a parting glance, and were
soon swooping like a flock of gay birds
down the wide old staircase and
through the open parlor door, with a
breezy twitter an i rustle, and a soft
cloud of mingled fragrance. Their
cavaliers pressed loaward to meet them,
and the bright group fell apart and
melted in among thegrey uniforms and
their glittering accessories like a broken
rainbow absorbed by a sun-gilded mist.
The wild, entreating tones of the
creole waltz drowned the buzz of
voices, and ere long the light feet of
the dancers beat time like throbbing
pulses to its wierd notes.
*****
'l'he crowd had just returned from
the supper room,, and the revelry was
at its height, when the dark, frightened
face of Uncle Chris showed i;s grin r
nitig teeth and rolling eyes at the door
way, and whispered a single word
“Yankees!” The music ceased sud
denly with a trembling thrill, the pois
ed feet of the dancers fell noiselessly
to the floor, white arms dropped like
melting snow wreaths from the broad
shoulders where they rested, the sweet
light of love and joy died out from solt
eves, and white terror usurped the
the place of the rose on lips and
cheeks that but now “blushed at the
praise oftheir own loveliness.” Manly
faces grew stern and dark, strong hands
closed firmly on their unrelinquished
weapons, stalwart forms pressed shoul
der to shoulder in the close brother
hood of danger : firm resolves sat on
each determined face. 'l'he deep tones
of Squire Buford broke the ominous
silence :
“This way, boys! follow me! Avoid
a contest here, il posible. Remember
the presence of the ladies.”
“Do not think of us. Act as if we
were out of the question,” rang out
more than one silver voice, clear -and
unfaltering. But the counsel of the
host prevailed. Sternly and in silence
they followed him through the hall to
a doorway under the staircase leading
to a deep, extensive cellar, over which
the mansion was built. He had hasti
lv snatched a lighted candle from the
hall table, and rolling away some loose
barrels piled against the wall of one of
these underground apartments, opened
a door artfully concealed in the mason
ry, when a vaulted passage was re
vealed leading, as he hastily explained,
to an old disused landing on the neigh
boring river. The house was an old
revolutionary building, and this secret
passage, known at present to very few,
had been used to good purpose in the
olden times, even while the British
occupied the place. Upon one occa
sion a large party of the enemy had
been by this means surprised and
captured, “as may possibly happen
again,” the old man muttered with a
grim smile.
During this time the dreaded Yan
kees had arrived, and completely sur
rounding the house, prepared for a
thorough search, the withdrawal of
Colonel Burton’s regiment having been
only a ruse to induce the rebels, whom
he suspected ot being concealed in the
neighborhood, >o venture forth. De
lighted at having his as he sup
posed, in the toils, he ordered a strict
watch to be kept by the men on every
outlet, while lie himself, wiili his
officers, prosecuted the search.
Meanwhile, Colonel Buford, believ
ing everything sale, sauutt red leisure
ly through the house, getting up a face
of innocent and half-indignant surprise
wherewith, to meet the baffled loe. —
What, then, was bir horror and aston
ishment to bind Colonel Oldburn in
the retired little music-room, pleasant
ly chatting with Clara Belton, Jacque
line, and little Belle Buford, the child
sister of the latter.
“What the d— l ! Coed God ! Why
Oldburn, the Yankees are in the house,
and we have all escaped except your
self!”
“Mv gracious! no they haven’t!”
cried Belle, breathlessly. Lieut. King
is up stairs with cousin Mag, 1 saw
them walking on the verandah,” and
she started oil'to warn her favorite.
But as Maggie is a woman, 2nd had
had ten minutes’ previous notice,
wherein to use her quick wits, we will
leave Charley to her for the present,
and remain with our hero, whose situ
ation is much more critical.
Theie w»s no time lor speech or
action. They heard the musket of the
sentinel come down with a clang on
the stone pavement beneath the closed
window by which they stood, and the
armed heels and long sabre of the
Yankee colonel ringing on the uncar.
peted floor ol the hall. Just as he laid
aln avy hand oil the I t-It of the door,
the two gills, as ii actuated bv one
impulse, seized upon their rebel guest,
and with entreating looks and gestures
forced him down upon his hands and
knees close to the narrow sill of the
window, and seating themsel v es upon
it. spread out their lull dresses so as to
conceal him completely, while the old
squire groaned an amazed approval
under his iron-grey moustache. For-
Yankee tumbling at the
latch was obliged to draw oil his gaunt
let in order to turn the bolt ; thus they
gained time to prepare for the astonish
ed eyes a most touching tableau—two
sweet young girls seated trembling
close together on tlie narrow ledge of a
low casement, one pressing with her
white, jeweled lingers a lace handker
chief to her eyes ; the little brown head
of the other, who seemed almost in
sensible from terror, hurried in the
bosom ol an oitl gentleman witii rever
end locks, who seemed trying in vain
to soothe aml reassure her. The hard
heart of the Yankee melted.
“Do not be alarmed, ladies,” he said,
with an awkward attempt at gallantry.
“1 have no wish, no intention, to harm
you. Then more sternly to the eld
gentleman : “Sir, I have been inform
ed that your house was this evening
the rendezvous of rebels, and I intend
to give it the benefit of a thorough
search.”
“1 have no power to prevent it, sir,”
replied the Squire, “and shall throw no
obstacles in your way; but allow me
to beg that you wiil shot ten proceed
ings as much as possible ui this room
as my daughter and her young friend
have been much alarmed, and it is ex
tremely painful to me, and must also
he so to you, as a gentleman, to see
them in this state.”
A faint te-he, that might have been
a sob, sounded from behind the lace
handkerchief, while the little brown
head burrowed deeper into the old
gentleman’s capacious vest, and the
white shoulders seemed convulsively
agitated.
Toor things ! thought the colonel;
the very folds of their drapery tremble
with their excessive agitation. How
was he to know, with his limited ac
quaintance with rebel femininity, that
those deceitful folds were shaking to
the suppressed laughter of the half
suffocated reb. they concealed. He
did not quite neglect his duty, however,
for lie cast a piercing glance round the
room, looked behind the furniture, and
even drew his sword across the cur
tain behind tiiem, to be sure that no
one lurked under it; then, as he turned
to pursue his researches in some other
apartment, Clara ventured a timid re
quest that he would forbid anv of his
comrades to enter this room, her dear
friend was so very nervous. “Indeed,
I am not strong myself,” she sighed,
with a pleading look. “You soldiers
; are so strong and stern and terrible.”
| Here the sly witch threw in another
| telling glance in which she contrived
| to blend a touching timidity and fear
| ful admiration extremely flattering to
; the “conquering hero.” “Conquering
hero” knocked under at once. She
might have any room in the house. —
JNo one should come near it. He
would see to that—with a dreadful
frown, at which Clara hid her face.
“Might she lock the door,please?”
“Oh, certainly, if she should feel
safer; but even without this precaution
she would not be disturbed.”
Here the little brown head ventured
to lift itself also, and another pair of
very fine eyes discharged a battery of
grateful looks witn great effect, while
the sweet lips murmured faint thanks,
but the owner was still sadly discom
posed, for the treacherous drapery
shook just then more than ever. He
endeavored to reassure them as
he stalked out accompanied by tfie
Squire ; hilt no sooner had the door
closed upon them than Jaqne sprang
lorward to lock it ; then turning to the
laughing Oidburne, who was stretching
his long limbs with exaggerated effect,
she led him across the lower part or
the now leserted dancing-room, thence
through a closed entry into the pantry,
where another narrow staircase com
municated with the cellars. These
having been searched and nothing
found, were now vacant, and Oidburne
passed safely through the secret pass
age, not, however, without taking a
tender and grateful leave of his nretty
guide.
* * * * * * * *
And now for poor Charley King,
whom we have forgotten so long. He
was promenading one of the upper
verandahs with his sprightly compan
ion when they saw a party ofbluecoats
come clattering up the long avenue.—
Both lie an Maggie knew at once there
would be no chance to leave the house,
I which would be surrounded ere he
I could descend. But Maggie was equal
to the occasion, and Charley's smooi.lt
cheeks and girlish ‘ace, which hi and
caused him so much mortification,
stood hint in good stead lor once. —-
Maggie hurried him into one ol the
bedrooms, and snatched up “a long
white thing” (as he profanely termed
the elaborately frilled robe ilc nuit of
buxom Nellie Courtland) she dung it
over his head and fastened it close
under the rosy chin, tied a dainty cap
with a wide lace bolder over the flaxen
hair, already “parted down the mid
dle,” then turning down the white
coverlet she tucked him neatly up tit
ihe bed, and a most virginal looking
young woman Lieut. Charley made,
booted an spurred, soldier though he
was. This done, Maggie threw a loose
dressing-gown over her own party
array, shaded the lamp, ana taking a
crystal scent-bottle from the toilette
stand poured some of its contents on a
lilinl v little handkerchief ami began to
dab liis forehead with i‘. energetically.
Charley liked it.
She was thus engaged when two
Yankee otlicers soon alter entered the
room. She appeared very diguant on
account of her trier,d, whose modesty
was thus outraged,and w ho was sutler-*
tug already from a severe headache, and
indeed the young lady in question did
seem verv much excited, and drew iluj
cover close round her flushed lace and
heaving bosom. Kiubanssed by the
“novelty of the situation,” and cowed
bv Maggie’s biting sarcasms and indig
nant glances, the officers withdrew al
ter a slight and luji tied survey id the
room, Maggie slamming the door and
shooting the bolt behind them wiin
vindictive emphasis. It was a trying
time for poor Charlie, as the fair occu
pants of the room flocked in ; but Mag
gie carried him bravely through it, and
silenced all exclamations bv giving
them the difficult problem to solve, ut
how shall we get him to the cellar?
The Yankees were still in the house,
most of them carousing tu ll.r supper
room ; hut two sentinels«iro the adt rt in
the hull below, two in tire-■gallery above.
Col. Burton was both puzzled and vex
ed. The rebels had certainly met lit
the house, witness ti e houses, saddles,
&c., even the hats still hanging on nbe
hat stand. Yet no one had been touml,
though no one could have escaped.—
Now what had become of them ? The
Colonel scratched his head in vain.—
He could make nothing of it. As t >
getting anything out of the women, he
might as well have questioned the in
scrutable shadow of the old Sq.uire’s
grandmother that smiled down upon
him from the parlor wall. So- lw; deter
mined, to Charlie’s great annoyance
and the utter consternation of the girls,
to stick to his present quarters, and sen
what would turn up, said quarters be*
iug good.
“Dear me, what shall we do ?” said
prim Emma Malcolm. “Just to think
ol having a horrid great man packed
away in our room, as large as hie.—
Oh !my goodness ! Did yov ever !"
she continued, half crying and half
laughing.
“It had better be him than any of the
rest,” said Jacque. “Nobody minds
Charlie muck."
Though this was said by way of
comfort, it seemed to nettle Maggie
strangely, who bridled with resentment
and remarked sharply that for her part
she didn’t see why it wasn’t as bad to
have Lieut. King up here a» Col. i.*ld
burne himself, or that red (she begged
pardon, glancing at Clara) —that auburn
whiskered Arthur Clayborn, or ”
“Thai’s just what 1 mean,” inter
rupted Jacque, demurely ; ‘-the whis
kers you know. Think ol having had
to shave him !”
Maggie blushed and bit her lip, amid
sly titters of the rest Suddenly Clara
came to the rescue with flying colors.
“I’ll tell you, girls,” she cried, “I
can fix it. We w«ll pretend somebody
is sick and run backwards ami forwards
among the sentinels, calling for one
thing and another, till they are com
pletely bewildered, when someone
must cry out for wine. Half a dozen
of us will volunteer loudly to go to the
cellar lor it. Then we will fix Char
ley up in Nellie’s things. They will
fit him exactly, and he can go with us.
The sentinels will never miss one from
among us as we rerurn.”
'l'llis was agreed to be “the vers*
thing,” and the whole party adjourning
to Charley's room as they had dubbed
it, proceeded to carry in effect at once.
“Charley was arrayed with inuctt
stifled mirth and some embarrassment, in
Nellie’s dressing gown over the robe du
rndt, a large fight shawl was thrown
over his head and shoulddrs, and the
Squire’s slippers substituted lor his
heavy cavalry boots, which (tell it not
in Gath) were securely tied to Miss
Maggie’s extensive hoops, her flowing
drapery and graceful locomotion being
not the least discommoded thereby.—•
In this guise they passed the uncr n
cious sentinels, several of the girls lit -
ing similarly attired and walked on tip
toe under their trading robes, in order
to emulate the height of their mascu
line companion. He was not missed
from among them on their return, car
rying the wine conspicuously ; but as
t hey dosed the door cart inly behind
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