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Jordan in Cuba.
W’e l«ove at last heard something dcfiuite
of the motrertients of Gen. Jordan in Cuba.
The day after his lauding on the southern
shore of the Bay of Nipc, a considerable
body of Spaniards, reinforced subsequently
by a body of men from the garrison of May
an, moved ipon his defences. He made be
lieve that lie had abandoned the position,
and awaited the attack as in a citadel, se
creted in an inner work, taking that which
he had left as a bait for the Dons. The
Spaniards having felt their way with cau
tion, concluded the place was uudefeuded,
and lushed upon it gallantly at the point of
the bayonet! They occupied itin a victory
without blood. Some pieces of dismounted
artillery were there, and a small quantity
of material and small arms—all left as a
decoy. Elated with the success they throng
ed into the place; and thrown together thus
in a disordered mass, were opened on by
two guns previously ma ked, and by one of
those deadly fusilades so close as to have
cut down trees at Spotsylvania ! They were
literally slaughtered. The remnant fled in
terror until reinforced by a detachment from
the garrison at ftlayari. Jordan had brought
with him, besides six field pieces, with their
carriages, two heavy guns for permanent
defences. He had expected to have been
joined by a part of the command of Quesa
da; but having arrived somewhat earlier
than the time agreed on for the junction,
he concluded it unsafe to await in his first
position until the Spaniards could have made
tire c/ncentrutkm that would certainly be or
dered for bis destruction. lie is said to
have abandoned, therefore, bis two siege
guns—which he never should have encum
bered thimsclf with—and perhaps lor want
of transportation (which is very scarce in
tire region that ha? been so long the seat of
the depredations of both sides) was obliged
to leave behind him one or two of his field
pieces. His movement from the scene of
bis first victory was. decided on promptly
and was executed with cupidity. • The
Spaniards appear to have mistaken this
tact for a disastrous retreat, and pressed
upon him from a distance; but after the les?
son on the shore of Nipc did not come to
close quarters. Whether (be abandonment
of his one or two pieces may have been deli
berated before leaving bis works or may
have followed, as a subsequent necessity of
rapid movement, does not appear positively,
but in neither case can it be set down as a
ground of Spanish gratulution.
Quesada was to have covered the landing
of Jordan. lie moved for that purpose with
the elite of the Cuban forces, from the line
of the railway between Nuevitis and Puerto
Principal, lie bad with him about 20,000
men. Whether in the bad faith of jealousy
or in a misunderstanding as to time, he
was three days behind. Jordan appears,
however, to have moved to a junction with
him at some point southwest of his first field,
with the view, apparently, ot keepiug May'
ari cut off, and, after its capture, of a com >
bined movement for cleaning out all the
Spaniards from the eastern end of the Island,
including Valmasedu at Bayamo. The
junction of Jordan and Quesada is re
iporteu, but does not come in very positive
manner. One thing, however, is certain.
Jordan has passed into the interim with
but trilling losses in men or material, and
is -now out ol immediate danger of attack, in
perfect cuniuiuiikmfiou with a force ol pas
•t i iots-Quesada’s ■rwimediato command among
them—sufficient to overwhelm all the
in that of the Island.— Chronicle.
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’lhc Riot at Sparta.
The Augusta Chronicle gives the follow'
ing statement of facts furnished by a re
spectable citizen of this place, who was in
Sparta on Tuesday when the riot reported
by telegraph yesterday oecurod :
It appears that on last Tuesday afternoon,
Ames’ Circus was performing near tho do
pot of the Macon and Augusta railroad, and,
■of course, a large crowd of negroes had cuuie
in from the country to witness the exhibi
tion. Among others who were attracted to
file place, was a uegro man, named
Washington Pierson, a notorious scouudrel
■and desperado, who has fur some time past
been known as the ringleader in nearly
■every act of rascality committed itt Hancock
county, and anodicrocgro, named Eli Barns,
the colored Representative in the Legisla*
ture from that county, who was expelled
last year, who is also reported to be a bold,
turbulent incendiary, and a constant stirrer
up of strife between the white and colored
races, The circus exbition opened at two
o’clock in the afternoon, and the canvas
wajgjtepn filled with a largo crowd es both
wl«nicople and negroes. Two hours later,
at fffai' o’clock in tho afternoon, a crowd of
neflp*, in which were both Barnes and
'PißjMjfti. assembled outside of the canvas,
wH|c latter got into ail altercation with
twj) while men standing near. Some words
patted between the parties when Pierson
prinrotinced one of the white men to be a
G and and and liar. At this the man
dr cw his pistol and fired, the ball penetrat
ing the heart of Pierson, killing him instant
ly. Upon seeing the fall of their leader
tb e negroes' fired a volley into the two whites
but did no execution. A ball, however,
from one of their pistols struck a negro
named Marshall, who happened to be in the
way, and inflicting a mortal wound.—
The ball which struck Marshall was suppos
ed to have come from a pistol held in the
bauds of E li Barnes, the expelled negro Re
presentative. The white men, as soon as
Pierson fell, fled from Sparta into the coun
try, pursued by the negroes. The pursuit
had not been conducted ’a very great dis
tance when, it is said the white men rallied
and fired a volley into the pursurers, which,
though no one was injured, caused the ne
groes, in turn, to take their heels.
Soon after the negroes were killed, Mr.
Rogers, the Sheriff of the country, summon
ed a posse coniitatus of the citizens and
went out to arrest the supposed guility par
ties. This posse was still out when our in
formant left Sparta yesterday morning.—
Onr informant also states that “Ilev.” Wm.
Henry Harrison, another expelled negro
member of the Legislature from Hancock
country, left Sparta yesterday for Atlanta.
Os eourse he was the bearer of dispatches
to Bullock, and we may look out for anoth
er dispatch to the Radical journals North
and West.
A rare genius proposes to give a uicwsi
cal entertainment here at no distant day,
which will throw the Bostou piece jubilee
in the shade. It will he a mammoth con
cern—comprising no less than one hundred
and sixty cats and kittens, who will join in a
eline song.
How to H&ko a Newspaper.
We copy the subjoined article from the
W ilinington (N. C.) Star. B contains
many valuable hints which gentlemen of
the press may digest to advantage, and, in
our judgment, as a whole, contains correct
views of what it takes to constitute a read
a hle, useful and successful rewspnper :
Modern Journalism. —We foci the
deepest commiseration for those untortunate
editors who feel that their journalistic rep
utations and the pecuniary success of their
papers depend entirely on the manufacture
and publication of three two-column articles
in every issue. It appears to be a matter
of small consequence wbat they write about
—quantity, not quality, being the highest
aim of many.
Some confine themselves exclusively to
politics, as if their readers were in the
midst of an interminable, heated political
campaign ; some, again, condense a chapter
of Theirs or Macauley, for the edification of
those who have never read history; others
discuss, in the most earnest and self-sacri
ficing manner, the very peculiar habits of
the Chinese and the Japanese; while oth
ers, still, tax their ingenuity to the utmost
to rake up from the embers of the past all
the dead issues that can form the basis of
articles as ntterly devoid of interest to the
great mass of their readers as a school-boy’s
compostiou on the horse.
The editor of a daily newspaper could
not possibly make a greater mistake than
conclude that be must fill up bis editorial
columns with original matter every day,
even though it be at the expense of other
and more interesting.departments of bis
journal. Many of the best newspapers in
the country recognize this as a self-evident
truth. Oftentimes we have seen such mod
els of utilitarian journalism as the Philadel
phia hedger and the Baltimore Sun each
with less than a half column of editorial
■matter —occasionally, with none at all.
The fact is, the conductor of an enter
prising, progressive modern daily newspaper
understands that lie must subordinate the
■editorial to every other department of bis
paper. If his advertising columns are
crowded ; if his general news, telegraphic
or local departments have an usual press
of interesting matter, he must give all those
the preference.
We may be in error, but we hazard our
judgment on the assertion that, except in
cases of rare editorial ability, nine out oi
every ten readers of a daily newspaper read
the editorial articles last. Os course, there
are exceptions to this, as to all other gener
al rules, as when questions of great national
importance are bciug discussed, or subjects
of unusual local importance are agitating
the public uiind. But, even under these
circumstances, the editor Is guilty of a fatal
error who imagines that prolixity is a con
vincing argument.
Nearly all the best news journals of the
country arc rejecting the old and objection
able stylo of iongwinded cditorals. They
have discovered that no man of taste or
judgment is willing to wade through two
columns of type to find out what an editor
flunks of the Atlantic cable or the purchase
of Alaska; of Grant as a President or Mrs.
Van Low as a postmaster.
Brevity is what tlie reading public de.
maud in a daily news journal, and it is
what they will have in spite of tireless pens
of those editors who write for their own
amusement.
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Make Way for tiie Negro.—From
tho Savaunah Republican we learn that
among the white men in the employ of the
Custom House in that city, who have recent
ly been removed to give place to negroes, is
slr. Ponce, who has been iu the service of
the Government it, this State for tho jagL
twenty-five years,and in the Revenue ser
vice for the last eighteen years. HqjBHH
several languages fluently, and h««aM|BB
himself very useful as r.n interprefceSjSsßHi
has discharged his duties to the
meet with intelligence and', in igOOd .futfe* \
and now, after having spent
his life in public s-.-rviop, he is <
fed
by lung oxprrinee, merely ivgMNm Ire W W,
unfortunate «- to be a white tuatt.-sufi&wt***
A Town of Tits
—Tin: town of Con«iIMBHWI r P»e
:;s tlic I'lii n
-(■■ in- i i\i :y to become a permanent city. —
T 1 1• ■u_ 1 1 i.of month- old,
lias upwards of 10,ffOOiinJabitants, a muni
ieipa! organization,MffipM hotels, dry goods,
auction and commission - stores a banking'
bouse, and a dailv’paper. The streets have
been numbered iffFihigh as thirteen, and
municipal ordinances looking to the wealth
and cleanliness of the city are enforced by
the efficient police. The daily paper is
now crowded with advertising, and iudi
cates exceeding activiity iu business.—
Corinno must be set down as one of the
wonders of the interior.
The Printers’ Convention on Col
or.—The /’rintors’ National Convention at
Albany, by a vote 0f56 to 28, laid on the
table a resolution for abolishing all dis—
trinctious all distinctions of race and color
in the craft, /’his means that the distinc
tion of color is to be enforced as an onjcction
to the objie ion to the black man, and as it
is with the printers so it will be with a|) the
other Trades’ Union. They will all bo ar
rayed against negro equality in their work
shops, and the administration before long
will hear from them at the polls. - New For i
Herald.
A Letter from Chief Justice Chase, re
ceived here, gives a flattering account of
the improved condition of South Carolina.
He says the people are fast recuperating
from the effects of the war, and if permitted,
would soon bo thriving and prosperous
He and his daughter have been treated
everwhere with tho greatest respect and
kindness. —National Intelligencer.
A young gentleman, visiting his iutenr
ded, met a rival who was somewhat advan
ced in years, and wisbiug to insult him, in
quired how old he was. “I can’t exactly
tell,” replied the other;” “but I can tell
you that an ass is older at twenty than a man
at sixty.”
News from all quarters, indicate good
crops of wheat this year.
A gentleman informs the Coktmbus En
quirer that be felt undulations that must
have been caused by an earthquake, on
Wednesday night last, in that city. The
hour was just about 12 o’clock. He was
in bed, and describes the sensation as some
what similar to that proluced by the tossing
of a small boat by a wave. It lasted proba
bly about one minute. His wife also exper
ienced the sensation. lie noticed that the
dogs in the neighborhood barked or howled
ot the time of rocking, or immediately after
ward.
We have often remarked upon -tho great
irritability in the flower, gome flowers, as
in the morning glory, open early in the
morning and close as the sun becomes hot
ter. The pond lily closes later in the af
ternoon, while the four-o'clock opens at
about that hour, and the evening primrose
only opens after sunset, so that by carefully
observing the plants in any given locality a
so called flowery .clock might be arranged,
which would tell the time of day within ten
or fifteen minutes.
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Nil Df.sperandum, lloi-e !—Hundreds
of eases of Serofula, in its worst stages, old
cases of Syphilis that have defied the skill
of eminent Physicians, Rheumatics who have
been suflorers for years ,and the victims of
rite injudicious use of Mercury, have been
radically cured by Dr. Tutt’s Sarsaparilla
and Queen’s Delight. It is the most pow
erful alterative and blood purifier known. It
is prescribed by very many Physicians.
A Stubborn Fact. —There is scarcely
any disease in which purgative medicines
arc not more or less required and much suf
fering might be prevented were they more
generally used. No person cau feel well
while a costive habit of body prevails; be
sides, it soon generates serious diseases which
might have been avoided by a timely use of
Cathartic Medicines. For this purpose Dr-
Tutt’- Vegetable Liver Fills are confidently
recommended; they aro mild, safe, prompt,
and uniform in their action. They contain
no Mercury. Persons may eat and drink
as usual, aud they may be taken at any
time
ESRISOKS OF YOUTH
A GK.n fLLMAN who suffered for years from
Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, and nil the
effects of youthtul indiscretion, will, for the
sake of suffering humanity, send free to all who
need it, the receipt and directions for making the
simple remedy by which lie was cured. Suffer
ers wishing to profit bv the advertiser’s experi
ence, can do so by addressing, in perfect confi
dence, JOHN H. OGDEN.
No. 42 Cedar street, New York.
Juno 4, 1809—ly.
TO CONSFMPTIVES.
THE Advertiser, having been restored to
health in a few weeks, by a very simple remedy,
after having suffered several years with a severe
lung affection, and > hat dread, disease, Con
sumption—is anxious to make known to his fel
low-sufferers the means of cure.
To all who desire it, he will send a copy of
the prescription used (free of charge,) wilh the
directions for preparing and using the same,
which they will find a sure Curs for Consump
tion, Asthma, Bronchitis, etc. The object of
the advertiser in sending the Prescription is to
benefit the afflicted, and spread information
which lie conceives to be invaluable ; and he
hopes every sufferer will try his remedy, as it
will cost tuc.n nothing, and may prove a bless
ing.
Parties wishing the prescription, will please
address.
Puvv. EDWARD. A. WILSON,
Williamsburg, Kings County, New Yolk,
■Tune 4, 1869 ly.
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AdininisHaliix Sale.
pH&jRt lOld, >tl public auction on the first
'fpßSßlJiy .in. August next, between tho usual
sale, bjtfore the Court house door, in
|Bf|HWlEi3llber t County, a tract of land lying on
'tho Vyaters of .Milh-hoal m-ek, in said County.
A und ml and twenty four acres
roots dr iwsjoi lg lands of Marlin White, Mi-
IPpPjgKßSt'io of nn order us the Court of
HHHHjMikuid county as the property of Ja
■Hßfct-IMffffft deceased to pay the debts and di
the heirs of said deceased. Subject
of the widow’s dower which has
for and is now pending in the Su
gmMiirCourt of said County. SARAH MOON
li June 15, 1809—40d Administratrix
KEALTY.
Oeoucha, Elbert County.
■ William Me Curry, lias applied for setting
“part and valmUkm of homestead, and ! will
pa3S upon the same at 11 o'clock, A M. on
Tuesday the Slh day of July, 1809, at my office.
E. B. TATE Jr.,
Ordinary.
June 25, 1809—2 w
NOTICE.
ON tiie first Monday in July next I Will apply
to the Ordinary of Elbert County for leave to
sell all the lands belonging to the Ga
briel Booth deceased.
NATHANIEL BOOTH.
Administrator.
June 5,1869—13—4 t
HARNESS REPAIRED
With neatness and despatch, with the best of
Leather, very cheap for cash, at the
CARRIAGE SHOP of
BRUCE & AULD.
May 28, 1869-3 mo.
NOTICE
TO
Tax-Payers
The Undersigned will be at Elberton on
tho 28th, 29th and 30th of this month, and
also on tiie first Tuesday in July next, for
t)ie purpose of receiving returns for the
present year. This will bo my last day cut
anywhere, and all persons interested aro no
tified that they must make their returns
promptly, as my books will bo closed by the
20th day of J uly next.
A. M. RICE, T. R.
Hip
Wm. WALSMAN, & CO.,
MERCHANT TAILORS,
Have removed their place of business to the
large and commodious rooms over the Store of
S. Franklin & Cos.
They keep on hand a full assortment of
GENTLEMEN’S Dress Goods,
Os all desc. iptions—consisting principally of—
CLOTHS,
cassimerJs,
ALPACOAS,
LINENS.
SHIRTING,
HOMESPUNS,
' N BOOTS & SHOES,
HATS, Ac,, Ac.
Mr Wnlsman being a MERCHANT Tailor of
long experience, Hatters himself that he is a
go oft judge of
GOODS,
Andihaving given his personal attention to the
seledtion of their stock, and having tiie same
manufactured at his own
$ H 0 F,
He asserts that he can furnish ull kind of
READY-MADE
Clothing CHEAPER, and of better MAKE and
QUALITY
Os goods, than vail be purchased anywhere in
this section of tho country. They
WARRANT
Their work to stand, and their goods to be as
REPRESENTED;
They will furnish CLOTHING of EVERY
iU»- to 03M )ER from the FINEST 10
the aij. t coim.iou article.
ATl> W;il.small Would beg leave
to return his THANKS tS his many OLD
Olj STOxiIEIISi w ' lo lmv* patronized
him so liberally, and paid him so promptly, and
would respectfully solicit a continuation of their
patronage for the new firm.
June 23, 1869—ts.
Traveling Thrasher.
The undersigned has recently fitted up the
most complete Traveling Thrasher thateverwas
in this county, and is now prepared to thrash
wheat lor any person desiring it He under
stands that some of the Thrashers have been
engaging different crops—but all he asks is a
fair showing at your wheat, should he oe first to
come, an ! lie defies competition either in speed
or elea-.i thrashing. He thrashes for one tenth.
June 18. JOSEPH L. DEADWYLER.
NEW GROCERY.
JAMES & ROUSEY
HAVE just received a Splendid assort
ment of Wines and Liquors, at the
New Buiiding on the North side of the
Public Square, and they solicit the patron
age of the public.
Their Stock consists in part us follows:
■* WHISKEY”,
BRANDY,
HUM,
ALE,
WINK,
PLANTATION BLITERS,
ST. DOMINGO “
BRANDY PEACHES,
SMOKING AND
CHEWING TOBACCO,
FINE SUGARS,
PIPES,
MACKAREL,
SOAP, ETC.,
ALSO
An Assortment of Confcctioneriea
Such as
OYSTERS,
LOBSTERS,
SARDIENES,
CANDIES,
PICKLES,
CRACKERS,
FRUITS,
ORANGES,
LEMONS, &C., &C.,
All of which they will sell very cheap for
CASH.
March 26,1869 —Btf.
THE
Greatest Excitement.
OF THE
A G E,
HAS BEEN CAUSED
BY THE
GRAND EXHIBITION OF
HEW ȤS
AT
“THE GENTLEMEN’S CORNER!”
F. W. SMITH HAS JUST
returned again from Augusta where he has pur
chased something to please the taste of the most
fastidious, and respectfully invite those who
wish anything in his line to give him a call.-_
He has all kinds ol
FINE WINES, LIQUOIIS
SUCH AS
WHISKIES,
RItANDIES,
WlNES—Champagne, Port & Claret,
PORTER,
ALE,
LAGER BEER,
and all kinds of
Fine and fancy
DR llli!
Fine Ghewing and Smoking Tobacco,
Fine Segara,
Oysters, Lobsters, Sardines arid Pickle
Candies,
I’iue Apples,
Oranges,
Lemons,
Raisins, and, ra fact, something to please
any and ■everybody.
Come one and all, I have bought uiy
goods with money—-and for the MONEY, I
can afford to sell so oheap that you will no
be apt to purchase elsewhere.
RANK. W. SMITH
229 BROAD STREET. 229
OppositeMasoneHall,
New Stock of FASHIONABLE
CLOTHING.
THE FINEST AND CHEAPEST
Ever offered to the Citizens of Augusta and
Vicinity.
ANDREW T. GRAY.
(Late of the firm of Keuny& Gray,)
HAS RECEIVED
FROM THE ■>! IM lMdi tifitS
UD IMI'ORTLtItS
A SELECT STOCK
OF
Fine Medium and Low-
Priced Ready Made
CLOTHING
AND
Gentlemen’s Furnishing;
GOODS
OF THE LATEST AND MOST FASHIONABLE
STYLE S-
THESE GOODS WILL HE SOLD
Very CHEAP for CASH.
The Public are invited to Examine before pur
ehasing Elsewhere.
ANDREW T. GRAY.
Augusta, April 16, IS6o—ll-2m
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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, James
M. Harmon having in proper form applied to
me for permanent letters of administration on
the estate of Karon 11. Stone late of said coun
ty, this is to cite all and •singular "the creditors
and next of kin of Karon U. Stone to be and
appear at my office, within the time allowed by
law, and show cause, if any they can, why per
manent administration should not be granted to
James M. Harmon, on Karon 11. Stanc's es
tate.
Witness my hand and official Signature,-'
June Ist 18G9.
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