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INTERESTING READING MATTER ON 4th TAGE
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• THU PAST. 1
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Dante, in the incomparable Divina Com- !
media, represents certain false prophets with
their faces everlastingly reversed. It has fre
quently occurred to us that misdirected youth
was sure to meet such punishment in weary
age. Perpetually shunning the vistas of fu
turity, it grapples ancient pleasures with
drowning tenacity, gazeing with distorted vis*
age upon the irrevocable post. Nearly all men
whoee oarlier lives have been squandered on
the world, lounging in the deceitful palaces
reared by the Prince of the powers of the air,
if they survive to the period of grey hairs,
still live imaginatively in the old animal life
which, in the course of nature, can never re
turn in reality to them. Their sac s are
fixed the wrong way; instead of awaiting the
hour when the v portals of another world shall
open unto them, they glue their ryes upon the
perishable gauds of dust and rtumb'e back
ward, as it were, into the presence of the
Eternal. The pure and holy face the stars
and not the earth. They feel lhat they are
not at home , and, in the rertle's longing for
perfect rest, sock fruition in the skies, and not
in moping over the sensual images of the long
ago. Grimaldi, the famous who
kept all London in n broad grin for years,
was of all men most miserable, and wept be
hind his mask. Theodore Hook died in
clownish melancholy. The repertory of lit
erature is full of similar examples, and the
experiences of ordinary existence are crowded
beyond computation with va : n careers. If
the past has been honorable it can be
glutoed at occosro.-a’ly with satisfaction, be
cause it ip safe, and further, because it is the
fonndat.tdh stone for exaltfd age. If it, nn-<
happily, has been bad—we cannot dwell in
its arid waste profitably for years. It should
be reviewed, net in the spirit of longing for
dead sin* bnt rather with compunction for lost
opportunities, cud then abandoned for what
is possible in the days that, still remain.
This sad plaint of do«p>ir never found
eterner echoes in any man’s heart than in that
of Clarence Maugan—of all Irish poets, the
most extraordinary and most wre'ched. In
the following poem he puma up, with weipd
felicity of thought and language, the meagre
consolation of a dweller in the post, writing
with terrible emphasis over the entrance' to
fiut.dess dotage. what the Ita’ian saw burn
ing on the gate of hel!:
“ Laaciule ocjni speranza voi ch’ entente *
O, the rr.tn. th" wearv. rtrea.rv ntn
How’t pplaslits o*i the wludow-eill t
Night, I gne«* too. aunt * « on the w*' #
Stress ertl areund are grown so still.
Here I sit, with c*'ff *e in mv cud —
Ah! t’wns rarelv f belifld it fl >w
In the *«.vern where I loved to sap
Twenty golden yoori ?&•> ■
Twenty yon ? ago, a)a»t—bnt stay—
On rav life, 'tis half-past twelve o’oloak I
After all, the hour* do ‘•lip aw*»_
Como, heee'go»s fn ha r n ««iothi»r b'nek!
For the night, nr morn, i.?we». and nolo :
' And rnv Siie i? dvtriiWitg rather low:
I had (ire enough, when young and bold
Twenty golden years ago.
Deer! T don’t f*el well at ad, somehow:
Few in Weimar dream how had lam;
Floods of teaoM s-row commoa with me now,
Hiatt-Put'h flood?, the Reason cannot dam.
Df'Otors think IMI neither Hr* nor thrive
ir 1 mope at boon go—l don’t know—
Am I livirg note f 1 w«» alive
Twenty golden years ago.
'WitelefH. friendless, fla»Borl«*e, alone,
Not quite bookless, though, unties? I ehu-o,
Left with nought to do, except to groan,
Not a soul to woo, eioept the muse—
O 1 this Is b ird fo'- me to bear,
Me, Who whilonto lived so m»ab «" A«**.
He. who broke all heart? rtfce china wire,
Twenty g-'ldru years ago 1
Perhaps ’tie batter time’" defu lng waves,
Lon*' have quenched she radiance of my brow—
They who cur-« me nightly from their grave*,
Bevre oon d leva me were thev living now ;
But my loneliness hath darker Hl?
Such don d im aaConscieice, Thought and Co.,
Awful Uorsons ! w was than tailors’ bills
Twenty golden years ngo 1
Did I pa*nt a fi'th of-what 1 feel,
O, how plaintive you wou'd ween i was !
Ba' I won’t, albeit,*! tiave a deal
More to waii {.bout than K-ruer hat* 1
Kerncr’s io-»r- Bre wept for witherel flowers,
Mine for withered hopes, my reroll of woe
Pi'w, alas! from youth's deserted bowers,
Twenty golden yesrsavol
Yet, may Deutschland’s bnrdlines flourish long,
Me, 1 tweak no beak among thorn hawks
Mutt cot pounce on huwtcs: beside?, io song
I could onte beat all of them by ohaUs.
Though you Hod me as I near my goal,
Ssniimeotaiisisg like Rou-se trt,
Oh ! 1 had a grand Byronian e-.ul
T wenty golden y oars ago 1
Tiefc-tick. t’ck tick!—not a sound save Time’s,
And the wlndgaat us it drives tbo rain—
Tortnred torturer pf reluctant rhymes,
Go to bed. and r’egt thine aching brain I
Sleep I—do more the dope of hopes or schemes ;
Soon tlv n .deepest whore the thistles blow—
Coricns unttolttrax to t.hy drcsins
Twenty golden years ago !
*atreet and lane.
Application of the Rawhide.
A prominent city journal, generally supposed
to be an especial admirer and champion of
the'views of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, gives
particular prominence, in its largest type, to
the following paragraph The manner and
place in which it appears show that It was a
labor of love on the part of the editor :
Frederick Douglass, making a speech the
other evening in Brooklyn, was induced to con
sider Rev. Hj-nry Ward Beecher and so pie ol
ins recent utterance* affecting (be rights of
negroes. ‘'l do not find fault wi'h Mr, B-ec-h
--er,” F*.id Fred, “though I do notalways agree
with him. I remember that, rot many years
ago, he declared that, if he could*abolish sla
very on the instant, or. by waiting twenty-five
years, coaid have it so abolished that its over
throw would wholly redound to the glory of
the Christian Chnrc-h, he would prefer the lat
ter. I presume be was entirely sincere in this
preference; and yet if I were a Maryland slave
bolder, and Mr. Beecher were my Blare, and I
had a rawhide, I could take this opinion out
ot him in less than half an hour.'*
It woul indeed, to see Mr. Freder
ick Douglass rawhiding Henry Ward Beecher
until he renounce 1 tha glory of the Christian
Cbureh, and we really cannot believe that the
brawny Frederick could do the job in less than
thirty minutes. Mr. Beecher is himself capable
of itmnenss physical endurance; and if that
endurance were tested with reference to his
pobienes- and holiest convictions we are quite
sure he would hold oat beyonoTSe time indi
cated.
Bot, ecrious’y, ib not this style of illustration
A little eerero? We need sot contrast the
wbipper and the wbippee; they are widely
known —the one as a Ohrl-iian gentleman ami
philanthropist of whom thooeands of peraonal
friends and the world at large wherever great
intellects sre honored, are justly proud. The
other is e mulatto of considerable smartness,
entitled to a certain degree of credit for es
cape from slavery and efforts for the ameliora
tion of the condition of his race. To the en
franchisement of Mr. Douglass sad bis kindred
Henry Ward Beecher has devoted the best
ffert of• hard working life; he has preached,
lectured, paid, prayed and voted for them—has
fed, protected, encouraged, advised und em
ployed them—has done vastly more real work
for them than any man living. These are his
thanks; thirty minutes of lashing with a raw
hide in the hand of a six foot negro, so thai
the love of God’s Church might be whipped
out of him, or thp do?ma of immediate social
levulaion" whipped into him, is the courteous
proposition of Mr. Douglas. The picture is
decidedly morp impressive than pleasant, ano
recalls a word of advice iu such cases, spoken
by very high authority with Mr. Beecher,
Mr. Douglass may esteem it. It is:
nofymir pearls before swine, lest they
tu again aed rend you.”—[Now Tork Times
Ubadlst.—The Savannah Republic
tofhe following order in reference
ti( *M Bradley, for using sedi.
of War ’' The Se retaj-j
Aaron Bradley, colored
l6 “v* be orders* to‘
that, on his M-> u * n d go Northed
the military
into effect.” 11 »aie be earrled |
. From the New York World. a
Wade Hampton. r
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A TKIBUT* TO TRUE CHIVALRY. J
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Virginia January, 1866.—There wsk a gcu- s
Hainan oft noth Carolina, of high social pori v
tlon and ample estate, who. iD 1861, came to t
take part in the war in Virginia, at the head of f
a “Legion’ of hi* hundred men, infantry. This i
body of ircn, it was said, he had equipped from |
his own purse, as he had aent to England and i
purchased the artillery with which he was <
going to fight. 1
The ‘L-gion” waa composed of brave stuff, i
and officered by hard fighting gentlemen—the |
flower indeed of the great South Carolina race; i
a goed ptcck. I believe it first “took the field* 1 '
in earnest at the first battle of Manassas as an
independent organization; belonging neither ;
to B aurt gird’s “Army of the Potomac” nor i
to Johnston’s “Army of the Shenandoah ’’ Bui
there it w-.:s, ns though dropped from the cloud*,
ou the meaning of the fiery 2lst of July, 1861,
amid tho corn-fields of Manassas. It made its
mark without loss of time—stretching out to
Virginia that firm, brave band of South Carolina
At 10 o’oh ck- in the morning of this eventful
day, the battle seemed lost to the Southerners.
Evans was cut to pieces; Bee shattered and
driven buck in utter defeat, to House
Mill; between tho victorious enemy Beau
regard's unprotected flapk were interposed only
the six hundred men of the “Legion” already
flp, and the two thousand Bix hundred and
eleven muskets of Jackson's not yet in position
The “Legion’’ occupied tho Warrenton road
near the S one House, whero it mot and sus
tained with stubborn front the torrent dashed
agait st it. General Keyes, with a whole di
vision. tacked these six hundred men from
the direction of R-d Rouse Ford, and his ad
vance wis forced back and compelled 'o take
refuge beneath tho bluffs near Stone Bridge.
The column of Goners! Hunter, meanwhile,
closed to on the left of the lit' ie band, envelop
ed their Hank, and poured a destructive artil
lery fire- along tho liDa. To hold their ground
further was impossible, and they slowly fell
hack - but those preoious momenta had been
ntcur< d Jackson waa in position; ihe “Legion”
retreated, and upon his right; the
enomv’s advance was checked; and when the
Southern line advanced in its turn, with wild
cheers piercing the Federal centre, the South
Carolinians fought shoulder to shoulder beside
'he Stonewall Brigade, and saw the Federal
foioe* break in disorder When the sun sat on
his bh>' dv and victorious field, the “Legion”
had mo lea record among the most honorable
in history They had done more than their
part in the gigantic struggle, and now saw the
* enemy in full retreat, but their leader did not
witness that spectacle. Wade Hampton had
1 been n’>ot down in the final charge near the
■ Henry House, and borne from the field, cheer
> ing on to his men to the last, with that stub
horn hardihood which be derived from his
* onceeliel blood.
1 Su’li was the firs*, apoeararoo upon the great
I irenu -f a man who was destined to act a
promii.ent. part in the tragic drama of the war,
and w*n for himself a celebrated name. At
* Manaesss. there in tha beginning o! the strug
h ij)p «? always afterwards he was the cool and
reader soldier. It was easily seen by those
who watched Hampton "at work” that he
5 fo ue h>, from a sense of duty, and not from
t nation, or to win renown. The war was a
~ e „i,, day. foil of attraction and excitement to
some ; with him it was hard work—not sought.
1 hut Hcoepted. I am certain that he was not
1 actuated by a thirst for military rank or renown.
P From those early dnys when ql} was so gay and
brilliant, to the laiter yean when the conflict
1 had l» oome so desperate and bloody, opptessing
t) every heart, Hampton remained (he same cool,
linage!M soldier. Ha was foremost in every
fight, and everywhere did more than hi? duty,
but e ventually martial ambition did not move
him Driven to take up arms hy his princi ■
pj.s, he fought for those principles, not for
fainn It followed !'j, hi —lie did not, follow it;
ard lo « the character and career of
sue*' a man is wholesome.
Hi* long and arduous career cannot here be
jrarra'ed. A Ware reference to some pr iminent
pnhda is all that «an be given. Col Hamp’on,
of the 11 Hampton Legion," soon because Brig
Her. Hampton of the cavalry. The horsemen
of Use Gulf Slates, serving in Virginia, we.e
placed under him, and the brigade became a
portion of Stuart’s cejpmend. it eoon mad"
its ir ’.ik. rf.-.re ere seme of thy Jnodmarkg in
the s'iiTiog record :
The hard and stubborn stand made At the
Oatootin mountain when General Lee first in
vaded Maryland, and where Hampton charged
and osntorad the Federal artillery posted in the
anhmbs of Frederick City; the rear guprd
work a« the Southern column hastened on, pur
sued by MoOleVeTi. to BKarpst.urg ; the stout
fighting on tho Confederate lori j,i ie r „;u
around MoClellan'a army fu October; v.o
stinate fighting in front of tho gap of the Blue
Ridge ns Lee *>tt back in Novorab-r to the line
of the Rappahannock; tbo expedition in dead
or winter to the Occoqinn; th> critical and
desperate cotnhat on tho 9th of June 1868 at
Flretwood Hill, or Brandy, where Hampton
held the right, and Young, of G orgia. the
brave of braroe, went «t tho flanking column
of the enemy with the sabre, n< ver firing a
ahot. and swept them from the field ; the speedy
. advance,-thereafter, with the fighting. fighting,
fighting, on the road to Gettysburg; the close
arid Witter struggle whet) the enemy, with an
ovPKpowrrmg force of infantry, oavairy and av
•> tillery, about the 28th of dune, attacked the
Southern cavalry near Middlebnrg, and forced
them hack, step by step, beyond Upperville,
w* ero, in the last wild charge, when the Con
federates ware nearly broken, Hampton want
in with the sabre at the head of his men and
waved the command from destruction by hia
“door die” fighting; the advance thereafter
into Pennsylvania, when the long, hard march
was strewed all over with battles like the
verses of Ariosto; the stubborn stand at Han
over town, where Hampton stood like a rock
upon the hills above the place, and the never
er awing receding roar of his artillery told ns
that on the right flank all was well; the march
thereafter to Carlisle, and hack to Gettysburg;
the grand charge there, sabre to sabre, wbore
Hampton was shot through the body, and
nearly cut out of the saddle by a sabre blow
noon the head, which almost proved fatal; the
hard conflicts of the Wilderness, when General
Grant came over in May, 1864; the fighting
on the north bank of the Po, snd on the left of
the army at, Spottsylvanla Court House, the
various campaigns against Shoridan, Kaui*,
Wilson and the later cavalry leaders on the
Federal side, when Stuart having fallen, Hamp
ton commanded the whole Virginia oavalry: the
hot lights at Trevillian’s, at Reams, at Bell
field*, la » hundred places ; when in those ex
piring hours of the great conflict a species of
furv seamed to possess both combatants, end
Dinwiddie was the arena of a struggle, bitter,
Wool , desperate beyond nit expression ; then
the fighting in the Carolinas on the old grounds
of the E iisto, the high hills of the Santee and
Oongsree, which in 1864 and 1865 sent bulle
tins of battle as before ; then tho last net of the
tragedy when Sherman oame and Hampton’s
Ffthre gleamed in the glare of his own house at
Colombia, fired by himself, and then was
sheathed—such were some of the scenes amid
which the la*o form of this soldier moved, and
h* That gleaming sabro had
alwaysbe<m seen in the rap. On the Rappa
hannock, tn°'Po, the Susqnohrnuah, the Shen
andoah, the North Anna, the James, the Row
mitv—in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania
—Hampton had fought with the
ennrago inh riled from his revolutionary sires
Fighting lastly upon the soil of his unlive Stale,
he .frit no doubt as Marion and Sumter did
when JUwdon and Tarleton name and were
met sabre to sabre. In the hot conflicts of 1865
ITrmnton met the new enemy a« those pruex
eheva’Urs with their great Virginia comrade,
* L’ght Horse Harry” Lee, had met tho old, in
17*1.
Os this eminent soldier I will say that, see
ing him often in many of those perilous
straits which reveal hard fibre or its absence, I
nl wavs regarded him as a noble type of cour
age aniLmanhood—a gentleman ane soldier to
the-finger rails. But that, is not enough;
generalisation and eu'ogy are unprofitable—
truth and roiunte characterisation are better.
. 0a" persona! anecdote of Caojar would be far
more valuable than a hundred commonplace s
—and that is true of sth«rs. It i* not a “gen
oral idea” lam to give—l wou'd paint the
portrait. If I can, of the aebtal man. The in
dividuality of the great South Carolinian wa3
very marked. You saw at a glance the race
from which b“ sprung, and the traits of heart
and brain which he brought to the bard con
test. He was M whole in himself and due to
none.” Neither in physical nor mental confor
mation did he resemble Stuart, the ideal cav
alier, the rough rider, Forrest. or~the rest.—
To compare him for an instant to the fnmon?
Stuart—tha latter laughed, sang, and revelied
in youth and enjoyment. Hampton smiled of.
tener than he laughed, never sang at. all that
1 aver beard, and bad the composed demeanor
of a man of middle age. Stuart loved brilliant
cdore, gay scenes, and the sparkle of bright
pyes, Hampton gave little thought to, these
things, and his plain gray coat, worn, dingy
and faded, beside the great cavalier’s gay
fighting jacket, shining with gold braid, de
fined tho whole difference. Ido not say ilia'
the dingy coat covered a stouter heart than the
brilliant jacket—there never ifred a more he.
rric BOP than Stuart — bnt that in this waS
shown the iodividna'i y of etch. The ohe —
Stuart—was young, gay, a Wrgt Pointer, and
splendid in his merriment, efonnod abandon
The'otber—Hampton—a civilian approaching
middle age, a planter, and not a soldier ot
profession—a man who embarked in the ardu
ous straggle with the coolness of the states
man. rather than the ardor of the soldier. I<
was the planter, sword fn'hand, not the U 8
officer, that one saw in Hampton—the country
irentlemanwho took nrma hreause bis native
sfil was invaded, as the r*o a of which he came
bad done in the past. That the plain Ranter,
without military education, became the great
soldier, is an evidence that ‘‘the strain will
ihow.”
1 Bere Is an outline of the South Carolinian
is he appesred In July, 1862. whenthe cava'- t
■y wer* resting aber tbo battles of the Clucks- i
lomiviy. and ho of:en c imp to the old slmdy i
?ard of Hanover Court House, to talk with Gan”, i
under the trees there. What the eye <
■aw imtiiPM' days was & personage of tall slat. ■
ire and “dbtirguisliG«l”apoearance. The face 1
was browned by tho sun and wind, half cov- ]
“red by dark ride-whiskers, joining a long i
moustache of the same hue--the chin bold,
prominent and bare. The eyes were brown, <
voice low, sonorous, and with a certain accent |
of dignity and composure. The frame of the |
soldier—straight, vigorous and stalwart, but i
not too broad for grace—was encased in a plain <
gray sack coat, of civilian cut, with the collar i
turned down; cavalry boots, large and ser- i
vioaable. with brass spurs ; a brown
without star or feather; the rest of tnWress (
plain gray. Imagine this stalwart figure with
a heavy sabre baek'ed around the waist, and ,
mounted tinon a large and powerful animal ol
most excellent blood and action, but wholly
“unshowy," and a correct idea will ba obtained
of Genera! Wade Hampton. Passing from the
clothes to the man—what impressed all who
saw him was the attractive union of dignity -
and simp'icity in his bearing—a certain grave
and simple courtesy which indicated birth and
breeding. Here was evidently an honest gen
tleman who disdained all preteuse or artifice.—
It was plain that be thought nothing of per*
socal decorations or military show, and never
dreamed of “producing an impression’* upon
any one This was revealed by that bearing
full of prftnd modesty—neither stiff nor insin
uating—simple.
• Afier bring in his presence for ten minutes,
you saw iliat he wss a man for hard work, and
not for display. That plain and unassuming
manner, without pretension, affectation; or
“official coolness, was an index to the charac
ter of the individual. It is easy to tell a gen
tleni in— something betrays that character, as
sour lb! 'g betrays the prelender. Refine
ment, g od breeding, and fealiy through all, to
ho or, wore hers emb'died. Trie General was
as courteous to the humblest private soldier as
to the Commander-in Chief, and you could
discover in him no traco whatever of that air
of “condescension" and “ patronage’’ which
small persons, aiming to be great, sometimes
adost It was the unforced courtesy of tke
gentfem -n, not the hollow politeness of the
pretend r to that tit*e, which all saw in Hamp
ton. ifo did r,ot act a tale, but lived his char
seter. fn his voice, in Ms bearing, in all that
he said and did, the South Carolinian betrayed
the man who is too proud uot to bo simple,
natural and unasusming.
Upon this trait of manner merely, I may
seem to dwell too long. But it is not a trfia.
lam try ing to delineate a man of whom we
Southerners are preud—and this fare grace
was hi". I' reflected clearly the character of
the individual—ilie noble pride, the true conr
t sy, and tho high bred simplicity of one who
•amid all the jarring stri f e of an excited epoch,
would not suffer his serene equanimity of tern
per to be disturbed ; v ho aimed to do his doty
to his country, not rise above his associates;
who was no politer to the higher tiian to the
low, to tho powerful than to the weak, and
who respected more the truth and courage be
neath tie tattered j icket than the stars and
wreath on Ihe braided ooat. The result of
this kindly feeling toward “men of low estate”
was marked. An officer long associated with
him said to me one day, * I dd not believe
there ever was a gene-nl more beloved by his
whole command, and he more than returns it
General Hampton has a real tenderness, I do
believe, for every soldier who has ever served
under him." Ho was alwaya doing the poorer
members of hla command some kindness. His
hand was ot»en like Lis heart. Many a brave
fellow’s family was kept from want by him ;
and a hundred ina'anc Bof this liberality are
doubtless recorded in the grateful memories of
the women and children whom he fought for
and fed, 100, iu those dark days. This munifi
cence was no where else recorded. Th3f left
hand knew not what the right band did.
I risk a few words more, at the risk of re
petition, in reference to tha personal be,.ring
of the man. His composure upon trying oc
casion*, as in every day life, indicated a s.-lf
pcised and independent character. He ratcly
yielded to hearty mirth, but his smile w?o very
friendly and attractive. You could see that, he
whs a re ,- Son of earnest feelings, aud had a
good heart. In camp he wa* a pleasant com
panion, and those who saw him daily became
nao-t atteehed to him. His stiff wero devoted
to Irtij. I-remember the regret exoerienc- dby
t hea i brave g rate men when Hampton’s assign
melt' to the command of all the cavalry separ
ated them from him The feeling wbieh they
then exhibited left no doubt of the tnUnte cor
diale between the members of the military
‘amily. Genera! Hampton liked to langh t*nd
talk with them around tha camp fire; to do
them everykindness he could.—*»’«•* *»«•
l,la weaKOCSS toward everyn.jilj, — un (l play
chess, draughts, or other games, in the t.iier
vale of fight'Dir or work One of his passions
was hunting. This amusement he pursued upon
every occasion—over the fields of Spoitsylva
*nia, amid the woods of Diawiddie, and on the
rivers of North Carolina. His sacce es was
great. Ducks, partridges, squirrels, turkey
and deer fell before his double barrel, in what
ever eountry he pitched his tents He knew all
the old huntsmen in the regions in which he
tarried, delighted to talk with such upon the
nohie science of veoery, and was considered by
these dangerous critics a thorough sportsman
Thev regarded him, it is said, as a comrade not
undistinguished, and sent him, in friendly re
cognition of h’s merit, presents of venison and
other game, which wag plentiful along the
shores of the Rowanty, or in the backwo 'ds of
Dinwiddle. Hampton was holding the right
of General L'Vs lines there, in supreme com
mand of ail the Virginia cavalry ; but it wns
not a» ft hunter of ‘‘blue-birds”—so we used
to call our Northern friends—that they respect
ed him most It was as a deer hunter; and I
have heard that the hardfighting cavalier relish
ed, very highly, their good opinion of him in
that character. It is singular that a love for
hnnting should so often characterize men of
elegant scholarship and literary taste. This
great soldier and huntsman was also a poet;
and one day Stuart spoke in high commenda
tion of his writings. His prose style was for
cible aad excellent—in letters, reports and all
that he wrote. Tl^>admirably written address
to the people of South Carolina, which was re
cently published, will display the justice of
this statement. That paper, like all that come
from him, wa3 compact, vigorous, luoid, "writ
ten in English,” and everywhere betrayed the
schloar n* less than the patriot It will live
when a thousand octavos have disappeared.
Such was Wade Hampton, the man—a gen
tleman of refinement, purity and elevation in
every fibre of his being. It was impos-ible to
imagine anything coarse or profane in the ac
tion or utterance of the man. An oath never
Boiled his lips. “Do bring up that artillery,”
or some equivalent exclamation, wns his near
est approach to irritation even. Sqch was the
supre ne control which this man, of character
full of fire, force, and resolution, had over his
passions. For, under that simplicity and
kindly courtesy was .he largely moulded na
ture of one ready to go to the death when
houor called. In a single word, it was a pow
erful organization under complete control,
which the present writer seemed to recognize,
in Wnfie Hampton. Under that meekness and
dignity which mads him conspicuous among
the first gentlemen of hit epoch, was the stub
born spirit of the torn soldier.
Little space is left to speak of him in bis
military character. I preferred to dwell upon
Hampton, the man, as be appeared to me for
t Hampton, the general, will find mapy histo
rians. Some traits of the soldier, .however
must not be omitted—this character is too em
inent to b.; drawn only in profile. On the
fi-Id Hampton was noted for bis coolness
This nc-ver left bim It might almost be called
repose, so pprfect was it He was never an ;-x
--ci'able man, and as doubt and danger pressed
heavier, his equanimity seemed to increase.
You could see that his was-trnly a stubborn
spirit- Ida not think that anybody who
knew him could even imagine Wade Hampton
“ flurried.” His nerve was made of invincible
stuff, and lis Ci tire absence of all excifibility
on tl e field was spoken «f by his enemws ns a
fault. It was said that his. coolness amounted
to a defect In a cavalry leader ; that he wanted
the dash, rush aufl impetus which this branch
of the service demands If there was any
general truth in this criticism, there was, in
particular Insta pes. Hampton was sufficiently
headlong when I saw hini-r-wn* one of the most
thoroughly successful commanders imaginable,
.and certainly seemed to hare a natural turn
for going in front of hia oolumo with a drawn
sabre. What the French call tlan is not, how
ever,'lie greatest merit in a soldier. Behind
he st rong arm is the weary brain. Cool and
colkoted resolution, a comprehensive survey o'
ihe whole field, and tbo most excellent dispo
rtons for attack or deform*—such were the
supreme merits of this great soldier, I could
never divest myself of the idea that, as a corps
commander of infantry, he woul.l have figures
among the most eminent name of history
Willi an nncludfcd brtdn, a coup d'ceil sb cl»ar
us a ray of the sun ; invincible before danger •
never flurried, anxious or despondent; content
to wait; too wary even to be surprised ; looking
to great trials of # strength, and to general re
sul s—the man possessing these traits of char
acter was bet'or fitted, I always thought, for
the command of troops of all arms—infantry,
cavalry and artillery—than for one aim alone
But' with that arm which he commanded
cavalry—what splendid results did he achieve I
In how many perilous s'raits was bis tall figure
seen in front of the Southern horsemen, bid
ding them “come on,” not "go on ” Re was
not only the commander, but the tabreur too.'
Thousands will remember how bis stalwart
form towered in the van—at Frederick City, at.
rUpperville, at Gettysburg, at Trevillian’s, and
in a hundred other fights. Nothing more su
perb' could be imagined than Hampton at such
moments There was no flurry m the man—
but determined resoluiiop. No doubt of the
result apparently—no looking tor an avenue
of retreat. "Sabre tor.abre!’’ might have
been taken as the motlo of bis banner. In the
"heady fight" he was everywhere seen, amid
the clouds of smoke, the crashing shell, and
ihe wbiailmg biillo, figb'.i- g like a private h •)•
dier, his long sword doing bard work in the 1
uoelee, and .carving its way Vj did ihe trrn- 1
chant woiipooa of the ancient knights. This (
spirit of the thorough cavalier in Hampton is j
worth dwelling on. Under the braid, ot the
Major General was the brave soul of the fear»
loss soldier, the “fighting .r.an.” It was not a 1
merit in him oftn others that-they gave ud'
wealth, business, elegance, all the comforts I
convetjiene-s and sereue enjoyments of life, to <
live hard and fight hard ;to endure heat, cold, 1
hunger, thirst, exhaustion, and pain, without a
murmur ; hue it was a merit in this brave sol
dier and gentleman that he did more than his j
duty, met breast to breast, in single combat, ■
the beat swordsmen of the Federal array,
coanting his life no more than a private sol
dier’s ; and seemed to ask nothing more than
to pour out his heart's blood for the cause in
•whcli he fought. This personal heroism—and
Hampton had it to a grand extent—attracts
the admiration of troops. But there is some
thing bettor, or more useful at least—the
power of brain and torce of character which
won the confidence of the Coramander-in-Chief.
'When that. Commander ln-Cbief is called Robs
ert B. L e, it is something to have secured his
high regard and confidence. Hampton had
won the heart of Lee, and by that “noblest
Roman of them all” his great character and
eminent services were fully recognized. These
men seemed to understand each other, and to
be inspired by the same sentiment—a love of
their native land which never faded, aud a
willingness to spend and be spent to the last
drop of their blood in the cause which they had
espoused. During Gen. Stuart's life, Hampton
was second iu command of the Virginia Cav
alry; but when that great cavalier fell, be took
charge of the whole as ranking officer. His
first blow was that res’lute night attack on
bheridau's force at Meehanitsville, when the
enemy were driven iu the darkness from their
camps, and sprung to horse only in time to
aviid the sweeping sabres of tho Southerners
—giving up from that moment all further at-
tempt to enter Richmond. Tnen came the
Jong, hard, desperate fighting of the whole
year 1864, and the spring of 1865 At Trevil- '
lian's, Sheridan was driven back, and Char- 1
lot'esville saved; on the Weldon railroad the '
oueaay’s cavalry, under Kautz and Wilson, was
nearly cut to pieces, and broke in disorder,
leaving on the roads their wagons, cannons,
ambulances, their dead men and horses; near >
' Ballfteld the Federal column seat to destroy i
the railroad was encountered, stubbornly op- 1
pos?d aud driven back before they could burn j
the bridges at. HicUsford; at Burgess’ Mill, near
Petersburg, where General Grant mado his first
great blow with twe corps of infantry, at ihe
Souihside railroad, Hamp’on met them in front
j. and flmk, fought them all an October day
nearly, lost his brave sou Pceatcm, dead from a
bullet on the field, hut, in conjunction wilh
1 Mahone. thatbaidy fighter, rent the enemy In
haste b ck to their wo’kv, thus saving for the
time the great war arlerv of the Southern army
Thenceforward, until he was sent to Sooth
' Carolina. Hampton held the right of Lee, in the
j woods ofDiowiddie. guarding with his cavejrv
1 cordon the line of tho Rowanty, and defying ail
comers. Stout, hardy, composed, smiling,
' ready to meet attack, last days of
; the strange year 1864 he seemed to my eyes
the beau ideal of a soldier. The man appeared
1 to be as firm as a rock, as immovably rooted
* as onfrot the gigantic live-oaks of his native
‘ country. When I asked him one day if he ex-.
pected to be attacked soon, be laughed and
> said: ‘‘No, the enemy’s .’rivalry are afraid to
i show their uoses beyond ’heir infantry.” N. r
r did tha Federal cava'ry ever achieve any re
s suits In that rpgion until the ten or fifteen
s thousand crack cavalry of General Sheridan
; came to ride over the two thousand rain, on
e starved and broken-down horses of Gen Fitz
if Lee in April, 1865. From Virginia, in the
r dark winter of 1864, Hampton was sent to
- oppo?e with his cavalry the advance of Gen.
i Sherman, and the wot Id known how desperate
ly he fought there o i his natale talun. More
than ever bes )re, it. w s sabre to sabre, and
~ Hampton was Still }n fyont. When the enemy
~ nressed on to 0 dumbia, beset his fine house
.' there pn fire with his own hands, and fell back.
fighting from street to street, and so continued
v fighting until ihe thunderbolt fll in South
Carolina, as it had fallen in Virginia, at Ap
e pomattox, and (be struggle ended The sword
that Hampton sheathed that day was one which
no evil of hftd fui'h, cruelty or dishonor had
ever tainted. It was the hhtde of a brave and
Irreproachable chevalier—of a pian who,
throughout the most despera e aod eollliltewd
conflict of ali history, bad kept his anoes'ral
/latrse from.every h'ot, and had proved himself
upon a hundred battle fields the' worthy son of
the “mighty meq of olt}.”
—Such, In tough outlioe, was this brave and
kindly soldier and gentleman, as he passed
bptore oor eyta in Virginia “working bia
work.' K „«i na him often—in camp, on the
*»•*» *-*»*■* Jay, ana WTien tneeky was
darkest—the present writer looked upon him
as a noble spirit, .he truthful representative of
a groat and vigorous race.. Brave, just, kind
ly, oonrteens with the tenderness of n wqmsu
under that grave at times almost eoid, exte
rior ; devoted to the principles for which he
fought and would have died ; loving his native
land with a love “pausing the love of a woman;’’
proud, but never haughty ; not so much “con
descending” to tnen of low estate, as giving
them—if they we rf> soldiers—the .waim right
hand of fel owshtp ; merciful, simple minded ;
foremost in the fight, but nowhere to be seen
in the ante-chamber, of living man with a
hand shut right upon the sword hilt, but open
as day to ‘‘melting charity;" counting h > life as
nothing at the call of honor ; fighting with
stubborn resolution for the faith that was in
him ; never cast down, never wavering, never
giving back until the torrent bore him away,
but fighting to the last, with that heroic cotir
ago born iu his blood, for the independence of
his country. Such was Wade Hampton, of
South Carolina. There are those, perhaps,
who will malign him in these dark days, wheu
no sun shines. But the light is yonder beyond
the cloud and storm ; Rome day it will shine
out, and a million of rushlights will not be am
pie to extinguish it. Tuere are others who
will call him traitor, and look, perhaps, with
pity and contempt upon this page which claims
for him a noble piace among the illustrious
figures shining all along the coasts of hinory,
like beacon lights above the storm. Traitor
let it ba—one hundred years ago there were
many In the South, and they fought over the
same ground. Hud the old Revolution tailed
those men would have lived forever, as Hamp
ton and his associates in the recent conflict will
“Suirender,” written at tbe end of this great
history, cannot mar its glory—failure cannot
blot out its splendor. Let the storm of bitter
obloquy and insult beat—it will not be long
At least one fellow-traitor lives to share that
obloquy, and lake bis portion of that "pitiless
storm’’—a poor writer, who is proud to have
touched the brave hand of Wade Hampton,
J. E C.
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> -
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CONCERT HALL.
BTrae Crhioni & Sig. Susini's
GRAND ITALIAN OPERA.
Director Max Strakoich.
MR STRAKOSCH announona with mnch
I leisure that lie.has succeeded in engag
ing a complete and efficient
ITALIAN OPERA COMPANY,
Etnbra irig the most eminent Artists and com
p'ete llhorns and Orchestra, comprising the
he*t A> lists from New York, with whom he will
sive, in Augusta,
ea_ 1 OR SIX NIGHTS ONLY,-®#
i # Co-ninencing MONDAY, Feb. 26,
Six Different Grand Operas.
A ebansre of Open each night, which wDI be
l given m a stylo unrivalled by any other tnanage
i ment.
The following em’nont Artis es fioro ihe New
Y rk 'end-niy of Music, eorsti'utev the Ghioni
ik Sn iri Grand Opera Company :
Piime Donne,
. M’mo 'NOIOLTNA GHIOVI M’lle UAUUNE
> CANISSA, M’me PATTI SYRAKOSI’H.
. Prim: TenoM,
l big. M t.t.’CsFtRR.I, Sig. ERRANI.
Pi-iini Hsritoni.
Sig. MAM DSF, Sig MAItIIA.
Prlmi B»'»i
Sig. AITHUSTIXO SUSTNI.
'Pssso Bofi »,
’ Sig. GRkFK.
Vi m. PfllOZZf, R :nora ZVI’UZZr, Second
Donnas.
Signors JIMP V KS -ti l BELLI. Second To-nr?.
Signor* LOCATELLI and MASSIO, Second Bas
-1 SOS.
* With a powerful Cbon« and Orchestra,
1 nr-der the direction of the Mu teal Conductor,
Si- ROSA
Le-'der. Mr P ZtTVF.RBART; Stare M.nr
. cer. Slg-NARDINI ; Proirntcr. Sisr. LANZt ;
haW^;tA Co3lumol ’'** M ’ ma
'fho following Opera- wtH parforinod EN
TIRE:
Jl Trovatort. Ernani,
Martha, ftmst,
s Norma, On JBallo Maschera.
i AdmErien—s2 0(1. Reserved Seat*, $3 00.
8 Th-v office for the sa>e of Seats for the Reason
lonly) wifi opm at 10, a. m , Wednesday, at John
Sch ■'•iner& Sons, Broad street.
f*b>Btt r
\ THEATRE. T
Lessees anti Mansgers,
1 RAYMOND & HAMILTON,
8 (Also of Stvunnah.)
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1 LAST WEEK OF THE .SEASON !
, Monday Evening, Feb. 19th,
1 By reqneit of many patrons, th» Popular Ccme
i dian,
1 MR. JOHN T. RAYMOND,
will repeat his great impersonstinn of
ABA TRENCHAUD,
in the great Comedy of
; OUR AMERICAN COUSIN!
* In which he will be supported by the ohanuirg
> Comedienne,
MISS M. E. GORDON,
, as MARY MERhDITH.
Mr. Thko. Hamilton as Loan Dundrsatl
This will be the last opportunity of seeing this
Great Comedy.
’ Becme your seats at Sohreiner’s Musio Store.
> febld
! New Spring
i
DRY GOODS.
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QUAY, MULLARKY & 00.
respectiully inform the public
*h ;t they arc now receiving a Largo Stock of
DRY GOODS,
of new ond beautiful gtylcg, to wlvch they
would respccl fully invite the attention of
CouuUjr Merchants visiting our cify ; also
Plirniers, and the public generally, as we are
selling goods at very Low Price*.
GRAY, MULLARKY & CO.,
feblfi 6* 228 Broad street ’
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Wanted,
A FEMALE TEA ©HER, to take charge
/X ot a small Sehool in the country a le*w
Augu.t*. Rhe must come ’ w fe U
commended M, t ,..c h the Eng-
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fetilfi fi* * re 0l ' foflD *’ oll 4
Augu-ta.
Tan Bark and Sumac
WANTED.
The undersigned will pay the Highest Mar
k«*t P:it© for—
-1,000 cord* Osk Tan Bark, in merchantable
order,
80 tnntf Bomhorn Stnnae, well cured, ground
and bolted dulivsred at any cunvenient
tb# Georgia or other railroad*, or at any land
'“g on the Savannah river above or b*!ow_Ai,>
gusts. They will also hire the privilege of pesl
ißK food Bark Lands, favorably titualcd,
Additu-, j
SHERMAN, JESSUP A CO.
felilß-6*
For Philadelphia.
The steamship Cumbria will leave Savannah
for Philadelphia, on SATDRBAY, the 24th |nst. 1
*'jr Freight or Pacvge, apply to '
ROUTER * GAMMELL,
f el 18 t Savannah, Qa.
■ —'■» I.J. 1 1 1 1 1 ,
Plow Steel and Iron, ~
50 BARS T and 8 inch Irop, and 9, 10 and I
ll inch Steel, for Ylows. f
For sa'e by
feblß 6 FLEMING A ROWLAND.
FRENCH STORE,
200 BROAD STREET.
FRENCH ROLLS
i EVERY AFTERNOON.
; French Brandy,
A FEW CASES FOR MEDICAL PURPOSE *.
CAIMDY,
WHOLESALE and RETAIL.
r
CAJHEIS,
GROCERIES.
fel.lß-1
Clothing r Clothing!
A Splendid Lot of Clothing.
Gentlemen desir us of obtaining a
good Suit of Clotbe3, CHEAP, con do so
by calling on us.
; C. V. WALKER & CO.,
... , „ 271 Broad street.
er.dtf
“ CASH ”
Advanced on cotton co™igo c .i to
i Messrs. Robt. Lockhart & Dumpster,
Liverpool, Messrs. Norton, Slacohtkr &
Co., Messrs. Lbes & Waller, New York.
Representing the above Wealthy and Re
sponsible Houses, and Laving established a
permanent house in this city, we are prepared
at all times to make Cash Advances on
Cotton. MAUDE & WRIGHT,
fel,lfi.fi U ° USta '
Just Arrived^
• A. LOT or English Pocket Knl.cs, Reg,,,..-
make, selected by Mr. Gee. F. Adam, fur
W. P. CARMICHAEL,
feblß B*°™ r h Kah “ * Co DPStairs
WILL BE GIVEN ON
Thursday Evening, February 22,
AT
MASONIC HALL,
i FOB THE BENEFIT OF
Mechanic Fire Engine Company.
rickets, $5. To be had at the Segar store
P. Hansbrroer, or of the Committee
fehl4—td
The Augusta Foundery
AND
MACHINE WORKS,
AUGUSTA, GA.
T HE uudersigudd having fitted up the above
A works, and being supplied with abundance
of material, are now prepared to fill all orders
for everyth.ng in their lino, on trie shortest no
tico and at prices to suit the times, vis:
Agricultural Implements, if all kinds
Rdlroad Work, of every description
Hollow Ware, Sash Weights
Church, School, Factory and Fire Alarm
Bolls ; and in fact Castings of all and every
kind, heavy or light, in iron or brass.
Railroad Companies, Car Builders, Factory
*md Mill Owners, Corporate Authorities, and
all those wishing • large amount of Castings,
will find it to their advantage to give vs a cnll
before contracting elsewhere.
ANTI-FRICTION METAL,
For Heavy or Fast Bearings, furnished at
short notice, and warranted of host quality.
r i I, a PHILIP MALONE A CO.
feblß 9m
Edgefield Advertiser, AtlsnU lutilllgeneer and
ibiUtffifSC! °' m “•»“>
For Sale.
«
A COTTON Plantation fl>r sale in Columbia
county, containing 760 acres. For further
particola-s apply at this offioe. fobß- 139 p
Lime.
40 CASKS LIME
«Hnt received and lor sale by
■IK W. H. HOWiBD * SOX.
To Rent.
A LARQD V.MDt Lot on T.ir.ir itrrp,
between Elbert and Lluooln, suitable for garde j
ng purposes. Apply to g
D. H. VAN BURBN, «
febl7—l ' Express Office. *
Wanted
T- ° * et Beard, by the week or mouth, in a 1
private famUy, tor a Lady. Apply at
fefclT— PLANTERS’ HOTEL.
Notice to the Public.
In tbe year 1848, the writer embarked in the
Drug Ba&im <s in the city of Phils e'.phia, nnd
while thus engaged, made several experiments in
regard to t‘ .■ mist desirable mode of preparing
Fluid Extree ». My < florts being successful—the
articles h- iog approved and us< d by the Medical
Faculty—l wm» de-irous of placing them before
the public, but hesitated for some t : me before
cc.ncludin.tr toiesort to newspaper advertising,
knowing i f the prejudices that cx'sied in the
tuinds of many against using advertised Medi
cines or Nostrums, but through the advice of
friends and those who bad used them this ob|.c
tion wis overcome.
Alter 18 years’ exertionr, comm ’ncim* iu a
small way, the popularity of my articles has ex
tended to all parts of the United States, and
widely throughout foreign countries—and th’S in
the face of much opposition. Every means has
been resorted to by unprincipled dealer* since
their merit aud success have been Known —such
as advertising larger bottles at lesn price, cen
suring all o'her preparations, and even copying
my advertisements —but I am happy to s'ate that
out of the many who hayu resorted to this, none
have been successful.
MY OBJECT
In this notic 1 is to make facts known to the pub
lic nnd r<siectable dealers, ballving, after so
many year.-.’ ex itions, that the Druggists wll
discountenance auch proceedings, and that the
reputation ■ f mv articles may not be damaged
by tbe use < f inferior or gpnrions ones.
Knowing that many mry read tl is article wbo
are unacqu.vnted w.th me. I append a few re
mark* from those of my native city, ami whose
names are known in all p irts of the wo-ld :
“ Being personally acquainted with Mr. H. T.
Relmbold, it, affords roe ple’Siro in rtating 1
have been most f*v«r n Wv impa-ssed with his
energy and integiity, a-d gratified »t i-is suc-
W,M. WEIGHTMAN,
Firm of Powers A Wciehtmann
Ninth and Brown strfets, Philadelphia.
[Evening Bnlletin, Philadelphia.]
“ VVhen on a visit to the city of New Yoik a
few days since, I was induced tscnll on our old
friend aid townsman, M". 11. T. He'mhold,
Druggist. 591 Broadway, N. Y. His store is a
Model, a perfect Gem—the handsomest of any
kind we have ev r h.'d the pleasure of viewing,
and ho ex'eiisire, being 34 feet front, flv3 stories
in height, end over 20(1 feet deep. It indeed af
fords ns much pleasure to know that he has been
so Bucc« al'ul, and it is nrnp'e evidence of the
merits of his articles —as to our whole buiness
experience we have not known of ibe success of
»ny articl'B without Merit—advertising merely
bringing the name before the people."
[Boston Herald.]
“ We do not like to advertise worthless wares,
or articles calculated to deceive our readers;
and when v/e eee an advartiser like Mr. Helm
bold, whom we have known for year', grsdu -l'y
extend hi* advertising from year to year un'il be
Beoomvs tha largest advertiser in the United
States, we are satisfied that, the statements iu re
gard to Ids articles must be correct.”
The writer reluctantly inserts the above,,and
would not do so were be not a stranger * > many;
and concludes by stating the nan es of his arti
cles, and the diseases (or which iliev have been
used by many thousands with eomp’ete 'uccess.
[iDTBRTISKMKMT.]
Helmbold’s Extract of Buobu
wi'l cure ail diseases of the Kidne'S and B ad
nor. Cures Pain or Weakness in the Back,
Strictures. Ac; Cures Weak Nerves, Loss of
Memory, Trembling. D : mn'Ssof Vi-Un.
HELM BOLD’S FLUID EXTRACT OF BU«fl’J
is a y u e fluid extract, nit a weak tea, or infnsim.
Is the one thirg needful for a’l complaints inci
dent to Females. For particulars send for Cir
cular.
HELMBOLD’S FLUID EXTRACT BUe HU
cares Gravel and Dronoioa! Swelling* * x’s ing in
Men, Women, or Children; in fact. All Diseases
requiring tbe aid of a Diuretic. Tt i» the great
est Tonic ar,d D uretic known—rerfoctly safe,
p'earant in teste and < do', and immedia'e in its
action.
IJelmbold’s Fluid Ixtract of Sarsaparilla,
HtOntY CONCENTR-ATSD.
One b >t,tle equivalent in strergth to ons gallon
of the Syrup or Decoo ion.
It reach‘B the seat of t’ e disessc immediately,
expt-11 ng all Humors of the Blood, and
BEAUTIFYING THE COMPLEXION I
'Burse article.", being cf such strength. *hedrs»
is exc uiiuglv small From this fact, it is used
it tlic United Hta’es Army Ho pirals nnd j üblio
Sanitary Institutions throughout the lan t.
Sold by all Druggist* ever, where.
Ark for Hcitnhold'S Take no O’her !
flu* out the adv rtis'sment and seed for
it, and by il.ia mean-, avoid Counterfeit.
fcii4-lm
DRUGS, DRUGS,
WHOLESALE and RETAIL.
0
LARGEST STOCK
Z •
In the S(af« of (it^rgia*
a ♦♦♦
T'hRUGS, Mi dicines, Chemicals, Patent Mcdi
-0 I/' ' i .fg. and Perfumerii *.
“Trusses, Surgical Instruments, D>e Stuffs
Flavoring Extracts, & 4:.
Pole Agent for IJelti.bold's Extract of Buobu
and Sn>; apart 1 la, Ayer’s Preparations Ja>ce’s
Preparations, Ruif’ St Domingo Bitters' arid
Pripa ntioos, Houfland’s German Bitteia,Click’s,
Hail Restorer, Thompson’s and Pinion's Hair-
Preparations and Toilet Ar icles, Well’s Strength
’ euinq Plasters, and all tbe other Patent Mirdinsetf
before the trade.
ALSO,
The most extensive and complete stock of
Paints,
» defycomp'etlou.'b “ 4 ak absolutely
Glass.
Every variety of Glass; F, e -rch and Oernrsn
Pure French Brandies, Wines and Whiskies,
For Mscicinal purpo et; and a hrgo supply of
r other Liquors Li- general use.
onimMwn
Pole Agent of the only true lmported Brsndß'
tn the counuy, vis : Carle lt’Or, Lac D’Or, and
Sillt ry,pronounced by all connoissf urs snpurior to
any heretofore in use.
•penial Agent lor the Ame-ican Vintage Com
ply, and a large stock ot tbeir C tebrated Cali
fornia jtrandr constantly on hand.
My special Arrangements with Manuf.K'tnrers
i and importers of the North, and in Euiope, war-
I rant, me in not only guarnnteeing tie absolute
Puriry nnd Genuineness of my entire stock, hut
1 also enables me lo fell any of the nbove mention
e.i imes i f goods at first cost prioes—in some
lines even less transportation.
An examination or my prices will sustitio these
st.it. meuts in every par lioulur.
W. M. WALSH,
S. E. Cor. Barnard ard Broughton Sta.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
i*n4— fim
HEW PERFUME
For the Handkerchief.
pewits
Hunufanurtni riii.lv, PH ALOM A SOM.
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BEWIBE OF«6raTEHFHTS.
ASK FOB PH AXON’S—TAKE NO OTHER.
Sold by Druggists gODer*IW