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Cfitomae and £mtmel WEDNESDAY APRIL 22, 1874. NEW “ LEGENIHOF THE FORGET M KNOT.” Whea Psycho lost her Lord, the Lord of Lore, Weeping alone she wandered. Listless by every well-know i field and grove, And on 'her lost Love pondered, Lasilvbv Lethe's stream her footsteps strayed; And “Oh !” she said, in sighing, “That I might din. and my past life lie made Like dreams with daylight dying !” The big tears from her blue eyes raining down Fell on earth’s pitying bosom : (hidden there sprang amid the sedges brown blue as her eyes a blossom. And o'er her head, soft rustling sweet and low. As though some bird s wing fluttered. In those loved tone- whose loss was all her woe, “Forget-me-not !” was uttered. No more: no sight, no touch; these words alone: And “Ah !' she cried, “forget thee ? Nay, but half Love in our glad life was known: Half Love is to regret thee. “Forget thee ? Nay, these flowers my tears begot Khali be to me a token Os Love ; they shall be called Forget-me-not, The name to cheer me spoken." 80 well, sweet river flowers, we welcome you, F,artb with faint sadness scenting— Horn of the tears from Psyche’s eyes of blue, For her lost Love lamenting. {FOB THE CHBOUK I.E AM< SKim.VBI..) LINKH KUGGESIED WHILE I'POXA VISIT TO BON A VENTURE. BY B. A. L. As I wandered sad and pensive Neath the. d'-op umbrageous shade ; There in death’s eternal silence Quiet sleepers low are laid. Then, oh ! lovely bonaventure, Fairest spot on earth to see Com l s a • pell cast o'er my senses, From the wand of memory. back into the pa-t T wander When gav voices filled the grove ; Happy youths, ami maidens whispered Os the old sweet story—Love. Mirth and gladness ruled the hour, Wine cups sparkled to the brim— Ab ! those hearts have long been pulseless, /tnd those lustrous star-eyes dim. Still those giants of the forest, •Stalwart oaks of strength and Jiower, Yet are whispering to each other, Os each happy vanished hour. They tradition says were planted In a monogram to prove Ilow two hearts were once united Jit the bonds of faith and love. With thy grseef ill grey-moss drapery Oh ! how beautiful th m art, Grand, majestic bonaventure, Never nature, yet or art, Framed a lovelier, fairer picture To enchant the artist's eyes, In such fairy spot to slumber One could almost wish to die. Oh ! how sweetly they are resting Those pale sleepers of the tomb ; Where the fair magnolia blossoms Hbed their subtle sweet perfume ; bonaventuro, lovely bonaventure, Here life's turmoil all is o’er Naught disturbs thy ceaseless quiet, yavo the river’s restless roar. THE BLEEDING-HEART.* A /''lower Legend. 11Y A. It. WATSON. I. Ah up the wearisome ascent Os pitving Calvary, The scourged and thorn-crowned Haviour bent, beneath the burd'niug tree, In grievous pain of human wo, lie felt the cruel scoff and blow. H. One thorn, more vicious than tlio rest, Pierced deep into His brow. And one dear crimson drop expressed, A moment with its glow. To stain the patient, pallid faee, Then earthward seek a resting-place. Hi. but lo! u fair, white HoWor, which grow Where Jesus walked apart, Caught up that drop of mighty dew And hid it in its heart, And treasured it as lovoiier far Than all the hues of nature are. IV. And to this day, the blessed flower, With over-bended head, bears a memento of that hour In one deep spot of red, With all its cheeks ahlush. the whilo, To Know that men could bo so vile. V. Oil, dear Lord Christ! who reign'st in Heaven, In thy immortal power, Lot not the precious trust bo given Alone unto the flower! but may my sin-soiled heart secure Enough to make it clean and pure ! *A tolerably well-known flower, of the Fumi tory family, known to botanists as iße />icce hn' Spn-talihi*. It is an exotic, and said to have been brought from the East, but its his tory seems not t o be well known. AN ODE TO HI If HENRY THOMP SON. [Boston Courier.] This room is my small mausoleum, Tho ultimate goal of ray kin, Arranged like a model museum. Where each man a luel homo may win. For years we have practiced cremation, ’ [ \vhs always a fancy of mine, And here’s each departed relation, In strict chronological line. Each man has his vaso. saint and sinner, Enshrined like the classical Ear, Ami here with a friend after dinner • 1 join m the tranquil cigar. I’m safe from all cynical strictures, They’re all of them folks of my raco, Not bought tike the family pictures A parvenu hangs in his place. I think the apartment is pleasant. The oniunieuls. too. are on suite; That hour-glass you see was a present From Bolus, of Requiem street: It holds what remaineof Aunt Tizzy— The notion. I think, is sublime; Humanity's a-hes are busy In place of the sands of Old-Time. t That vase holds my uncle, Heaven bless him! Though now of his pieseuce bereft, I look at his ash and address him With thanks for a legacy left. If ashes feel any emotion llis surely myst thrill, for I’m shown A nephew’s siiiherest devotion in Katin as sure as his own. That rosojeolored glass in the comer Recalls such a sweet little thing Who lett me. a lachrymose mourner. To wear a memorial ring. In spite of hermotieal sealing A curious feature 1 thul. Her volatile nature revcft ing. Her ashes are stirr’d as by wind. Von great vase, that holds a good Tory So stanch to hi.- colors and true, When leading his party to glory Ills ashes by right sluhilu be blue ; He was great at the toper's gay battles. Though gout cam-id him terriblo groans, 1 fancy that vase sometimes rattles bo gaily he "rattled Uio bones.” The last vase is empty, tor feeling Its shape was exec, inglv chaste (And I'm glad-of the chance of appealing To any observer of taste), I k pt it through winters and summers, It tenant loss stands on the shelf, Oblivious of any new-c mors 1 mean if one day for myself. H. Saviixe Clarks. HLI’K AND GOLD. i. Grizzly-bearded. swarthy, and keen, Sits a jyweiler. cunning and cold : Spectral-eyed, like a Bedouin. Counting Ins gems and gold. n. Counting bis chaplets of Syrian jet. An odorous amber steeped in the sun. The golden circlets, turquoise set. A dowry every one : m. Blood-red rabies, pearls like grapes. In clusters of purple, black, and white ; : Cameo girdles for exquisite shapes : Diamond drops of light ; tv. Jewelled masks and fUligrec fans, In carved cases of tropical wood : Aspic bracelets, buckles, and bauds, Clasps for mantle and hood. • v. Dreaming a dream of sordid gain. The merchant, keen-eyed, cunning, and cold, Smiles iu thought of a yellow rain. Ducats and sequins of gold. VI. Trailing her robe -of velvet and lace. Through the luminous dimness glows Viola's form of girilsli grace. And face like an Alpine rose. vn. She comes to look at the baubles new. To look at the rubies and strings of i earls, With light ill her eyes of turquoise-blue. And light iu her golden curls. vin. Phe fans herself with the filligree fans. Opal-handed, with llame and dusk— Givi; g the palms of her slender hands The scent of attar &ud musk. IK. She tosses the chaplets of Syrian jet And amber by. with a careless air. And looks in vain for a jewelled net For her beautiful golden hair. x. Grizzlv-bearded. with spectral gleams In the merchant's keen eye. cunning, and bold. Through the long day he sits and dreams Os mingled blue and gold— XI. Counting liis wealth of baubles and toys. Os the hoarded coin w hich his coffers hold, A snare for ihe eyes of blue turquoise And net for the hair of gold. A negro child five years "old was burned to death near Fort Valley the other day, having been left alone in a cabin. SOCIAL RIGHTS. [Correspondent of the Missouri Republican] Washington, D. C., March 26.—There was a concurrence of great men to-day in the restauraut attached to the House of Representatives, where a moderate cuisine is presided over by an eminent colored patriot, the Hon. Mr. Down ing. The concurrence was of the Hon. Samuel S. Cox, of New York; the Hon. Joseph H. Rainey, of South Carolina; the Hon. Pinckney Benton Stewart! Pinchback and the undersigned. As was natural to an assemblage made up of three statesmen and one metropoli tant journalist, the conversation turned upon public affeirs. And, as the recent experience of the Hon. P. B. S. Pinch back seemed to make him an eligible candidate for condolence, the same was freely extended to him. Pinch took all the condolence that was offered him with a very good grace. In fact it has been said of him that he takes every thing that is offered him in the same way. And it lias even been hinted that at a re mote period of his romantic career he was accustomed to take things that were not offered him—and all that sort of thing. But it isn’t worth while to al lude to these matters now, since Pinch has become a statesman, and since, as we are told by the model journalist, the habit of repeating these old stories con cerning our statesmen has a tendency to “injure our patriotic faith and corrupt our tireside thought.” TO RETURN TO OUR BLACK SHEEP. During the conversation this interro gatory was propounded to the Louisiana statesman: “Pinch, do you know who it was that beat you out of your seat in the Senate ?” “I suppose it was that fellow Bar rett,” replied the ex-Governor. “I am told that the Nortons employed him to set up the game against me, giving him seven thousand dollars to work with, and promising him the hand of Miss Norton if he succeeded. I haveno doubt it is true, since he has married the young lady lately.” “Well, Pinch, supposing this to be true, it does not comprise all the ro mance there is in the affair.” “What other romance is there about it ? I should think that of itself was enough,” responded the octoroon states man. “Well, I will tell you. You would have had but one very little trouble about getting your seat in the Senate if you had been a single man, or if it had been definitely understood that you would not have brought Mrs. Pinch back to Washington. In other words, the fuss made by Senators’ wives over the prospect of being compelled to ex change calls and receptions with a colored lady had more to do with yonr misfortunes than any other one cause.” CORROBORATION. “Yes, that’s a fact, Pinchback,” ob served the Hon. Mr. Rainey. “I was told the same thing by a member of the House, but I never said anything to you about it before, because I (lid not know that it was common gossip, ami hardly believed it when I heard it.” “I had heard some such thing my self,” said Pinchback, “but I never took the trouble to trace the report to any source, because I did not think it amounted to anything, and besides it was no more than I expected from some of them.” AN EXPOSITION OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Then the Hon. Samuel S. Cox deliver ed an able discourse upon Senatorial social etiquette and upon tlie logic of the Republican (and all other) plat forms, which was that the colored man was a brother, not only, but the colored lady a sister as well, and showing con clusively that whenever a Republican Senator conspired with his wife to debar Mr. Pinchback from a seat in the Senate on account of the race, color or previous condition of servitude of his wife, Mrs. Pinchback, then the aforesaid Republi can Senator and his wife were liable to prosecution under the “enforcement laws.” And Mr. Cox then proceeded to show that if there was reasonable ground to suppose that this conspiracy was en tered into during the night, or while the heads of the Senator and his wife were encased in night caps, they would be liable to the penalties of the Ku-Klux act; as under precedents set in tho Ku- Klux trials iu South Carolina and else where, it could easily bo established that a nightcap was a mask; and when ever white people, undercover of masks, assailed the rights of life, liberty or pur suit of happiness guaranteed to the col ored race, they became in the eyes of the law, both as to its letter and intent, members of the Ku-Klux Klan. Mr. Cox, having delivered this able and exhaustive opinion with all the 1 gravity and elegance of a great expound i or of constitutional law, which he is, re | marked that the country required his ! presence in the national halls of legisla tion, and took his departure, leaving liis auditors as is always the case—happier for having heard him and in better hu mor for having felt the sunshine of his genial presence. THE REASON WHY. There is a reason why the advent of a colored Senator should be an occasion of social trepidation. The social eti qnette of the Senate is somewhat delicato as well as quite inflexi ble. Now, on the House side these is no formal official etiquette as regards the intercourse of members’ families. They are governed simply by the ordinary regulation of society. THE AWFUL CONSEQUENCES Os the advent of a Mrs. Senator of color into Washington society can well be im agined. Now, if the colored Senator would betake himself and family to some obscure lodgings, and not make any social pretensions, the thing might be worried through some way or another, though the presence and the attendant responsibilities of such a disturbing element, likely to break out with a re ception or a call any day, would prove a skeleton in the closet of many a thrifty “leader of society.” Pinchback, however, had no intention of burying either himself or his family in social seclusion. If he had been seated in the Senate lie would have rented a house in an eligible locality, or he might have bought one for that mat ter, and then he would have set up a social establishment befitting a Senator and A GENTLEMAN OF AMPLE MEANS. As far as color or gentility of appear ance is concerned, Pinchback himself would readily pass for a member of the Spanish or South American Diplomatic Corps, while as a conversationalist and an entertainer ho would not reflect a particle of discredit upon the average of the Senate as it. is now constituted. In deed, his complexion is lighter by about two shades than that of the immortal Logan, not to carry the comparison’any further. THE SPECTRAL WOMAN. But the bulk of the society duty would have devolved upon Mrs. Piuch back, so that the American people would have been more deeply interested in her than in the Senator. She is an octo roon, the Caucasian seven-eighths being part French and part Spanish. I am not certain whether she was ever held as a slave or not, but my impression is that her mother was the slave mistress of a Creole gentleman, and that the children were all manumitted at liis death. She is about twenty-eight years old, rather under than above the medium size of women, beautifully moulded, has very small, prettily shaped bauds and feet, aud by all odds the finest gait aud car riage when she moves about that 1 have soon in Washington. She is the mother of three or four children, and her face shows the indications of the early de cline which is invariable with her race and tUe climate she was bred iu. But she is still very liaudsome. Her com plexion is a bright brunette, her skin is just a trifle tinted with olive, but per fectly transparent, the effect being simi t.tr to that of transparent or “clear horn. Like mauy of her class under the old regime, she received a “finished education” in a convent, and being very sprightly and ambitious by nature, she" has improved upon her early cul ture by every means that came iu her way, until she is now what you would call a rather uncommonly vivacious, in telligent aud cultivated little woman. odious comparisons. I suppose it would be very bad of me —though quite natural—to institute comparisons in my own niiud between her and the wives of several truly (oval Senators who, I knew, had been active in bringing to bear the social pressure that did more than anything else to keep Pinch out of his seat. It is vwitli the ut most humiliation that I confess J could not fiud in these comparisons any argu- i meut whatever against the aupplemen- ! tarv civil rights bill which was left among the effects of the late Mr. Sum ner. In other words, not to put toe. flue a point upon it, Mrs. Pinchback is fully up to the average of Senator's wives in all the externals of gentility and good breeding. She is vastly superior to the average in personal beauty, and would uot suffer by comparison with the aver age of them as regards culture, accom plishments and general information. It is unfortunately true, though not generallv known, that Mr. and Mrs. Pinchback went to housekeeping, in an experimental way, I suppose, some time prior to the date'of the marriage certifi cate. But the subsequent legalization of that experiment, aud its fruits, show ed a good deal of manliness on the part of Pinch, who, at the time when he led his mistress to the altar, might have made a far more “eligible” match, if lie had chosen to do so, and. one which would have made his children by it one remove nearer our Caucasian blood than he is. And even in this point of view, widely as the circumstance may clash with our notions of propriety, Pinch back’s case will amply bear comparison with that of the able Senator from Ore gon, whom the ladies all call “hand some, very handsome,” and (they say it with such sweet sadness) “so unfortu nate.” THE LOGIC OF IT. These observations may seem harsh, but it is only simple justice that the col ored people, who vote the Republican ticket so solidly in consideration of the pretentious shams of the Republican leaders, should know what those pre tentions amount to put to the test. The Senate, which, socially considered, is a highly solemn, mutual admiration so ciety, is a good deal like Bawston. The Senate can, with gravity and patriot ism, prescribe a dose of social equality for Mississippi or Louisiana. Bawston, with great complacency, has been cram ming Simmonses down the throat of the rest of the country for several years. But no sooner is the dose commended to the lips of the Senate or of Bawston, than nausea ensues. [Missouri Republican.! GEN. JACKSON AND HIS WIFE. The following from the New York Post: “In our remarks a day or two ago upon the forthcoming liistoiy of the United States by Mr. Bryant, we spoke of the material in the way of incident and pic ture which the snbject would afford.— Reading the other day of Jackson's visit to New l'ork about the time of his first inauguration, and just after his wife’s death, we were greatly struck with the pictorial qualities of the story. He rode the length of Broadway on horseback, with a long weeper, at that time in fash ion in Tennessee, tied around his white hat and hanging the length of his back. We have here just one of those pictures so very vivid and important, of which American history is full. There is a chapter of history contained in the pho tograph. That he should have ridden on horseback instead of in a carriage indicates a peculiarity at the time. The long weeper tied around the white hat— a thing familiar enough in Tennessee, and yet strange in New York—recalls the fact that the various parts of the country were not then so homogeneous as they are at present. Jackson’s trucu lent and defiant grief, even had he been conscious that his weeper was too long for the fashion in these parts, would have vindicated itself anywhere and be fore anybody. The weeper recalls the incidents of his wife’s early life and his affection for her, both of which exerted a profound influence upon his life. It recalls the duel with Dickinson, an en counter which, it seems to us, is one of the most terrible on record.” General Jackson’s “weeper” was not the idle ensign of a mimic woe, but the emblem of a grief all too deep for words—a grief which, from the moment of its birth, went with him clay and night, following him down to the grave, which he gladly entered, because he be lieved that through its gloomy portals he would gain admission to the presence of the woman whom he loved better than bis life. “ Heaven would be no Hea ven to me,” he used to say, “if I did not think I should meet my wife there.” There is not to be found in tho pages of history or of romance an instance of more chivalrous affection and constant, self-sacrificing devotion than was illus trated in Andrew Jackson’s uniform con duct towards Rachel Donelson. He married her under peculiar circum stances. Her first husband was, from all accounts, a man of violent temper and unbounded caprice, with whom it was utterly impossible for anybody, however well disposed, to live in peace. After one or two separations and reunions, they finally parted permanent ly, and it was soon after this event that Jackson—then a poor and unknown law yer in the backwoods village of Nash ville—asked her to share his rather un promising fortunes. A divorce was pro cured through what was thought to be the proper channel, and they were uni ted. The first months of tlieir wedded life were spent in Natchez, and not until their return to Tenuessee was it known that tho Court which granted tliedivorce had no authority to execute such an in strument —which, we believe, as the law then stood, could only issue from the Legislature of Virginia. But be this as it may, the legal forms were at last fully complied with, and to put an end—as it was hoped—to all possible misconstruc tion, the marriage ceremony was again performed. Had Jackson remained an obscure man, the matter never would have been revived, but as soon as he took the first steps in the career which was to laud him in the Presidential chair, jealousy unloosed the hands of calumny’, and enemies who could find no nobler plan of attack struck at him through the bosom of his wile. This was a sin which he never could and never would forgive; and who ever had breathed a word against the fair fame of that idolized object, might feel assured of having made au eternal and inexor able foe of one who came fairly up to the Johnsonian standard of “a good hater.” The duel with Dickinson, allu ded to in the above extract, had its real origin here. Dickinson was a promising young man belonging to a highly respect' able family in Nashville, and the junior of Jackson by several years. Attached to a different and hostile faction, he imagined a rivalry where none really ex isted, and being in the habit of drinking too freely, occasionally made remarks which would not bear repetition. Os course they were repeated, and to the one of all others most deeply interested. When the first offense of this sort trans pired, Jackson went to Dickinson’s father-in-law, told what lie had heard and begged him to guard, if possible, against a similar occurrence in the future. The warniug was of no avail, fur when the wine was again in the as cendant Dickinson threw out tlie same slurs, and this time they cost him liis heart’s blood. The duel ostensibly originated iu a horse race, which, by tlie way, was never run ; but the animus of it, so far as Jackson was concerned, lay in the fact that Dickinson had spokeu ill of Mrs. Jackson. It is unnecessary to repeat all the details of the meeting, which was indeed, as tlie Post says, “ one of tlie most terrible on record.” Dickinson was a dead shot; could hit a half-dollar at ten paces, kill birds on tho wing, and perform miraculous feats with the pistol. He was as brave and cool as he was skillful, and never enter tained a doubt as to the result of the combat. The arrangement was that when the word was given they could fire as soon as they please. Jackson, knowing Dickinson’s superior quickness with liis weapon, resolved not to at tempt to get the first fire, but to take chances for a second. The instant the signal was shouted, Dickinson fired. The dust flew from the breast of the looso-titting black frock coat which Jackson wore, but he stood there like a pillar of adamant, apparently unharm ed. Dickinson started back in horror and amazement, exclaiming: “My God! have I missed him ?” His stern and unrelenting antagonist took deliberate aim and pulled tlie trigger. Tlie pistol did not respend. He looked and found it was only at lialf-cock. A second time lie took aim, and as tlie sharp crack rang out among the silent woods where the deadly scene was laid, Dickinson tottered and fell into the arms of his friend. He died the same night. Jackson was able to mount his horse and ride home next day—barely able, for the bullet which seemed to miss him had really passed through the fleshy part of his breast and cut the breast bone. His shoes were full of blood when he walked from the fatal field; but he concealed the fact, as he said, “ because he did not want Dickin son to have the satisfaction of knowing that he had hit him at all.” In answer to the question how he could, after re ceiving such a shock, retain his steadi ness of nerve, he replied : “I believe I should have killed him had he shot me through the brain.” The wound never healed properly, was the occasion of fre quent hemorrhages in later years, and ultimately caused his death. There is no evidence going to show that Jackson ever repented of this duel. Long after wards—indeed, only a few weeks before he died —a friend visiting his sick cham ber happened to pick ‘up an old pistol lying on the mantel. The keen-eyed in valid saw the movement, and remarked quietly : “ That is the pistol with which I killed Mr. Dickinson.” In spite of his conversion and consistent fellowship with the church, there was a deal of “the old Adam” remaining in “Old Hiekorv” to the last. Those who saw Mrs. Jackson in her vonth say that at that period she was a plump and quite pretty brunette. But iu middle age the plumpness increased until all signs of a waist had disap peared. and the dark complexion became still darker, until it was almost the tint of venerable mahogany. In plain words, the was a short, fat and remarkably com mon looking old woman—ungraceful, of course, and not at all versed in the ways of polite society. Her husband, on the contrary, though spare and angular in | figure, and Quite as destitute of culture ■ as his wife, was confessedly one of the ! most elegant gentlemen of his day. His public life, particularly after the battle . of New Orleans, brought him into close ! communication with the gay world, and I his manners contributed as much as his i fame to make him the centre of every i circle in which he mingled. But neither ' the sweet smiles nor the sweeter words of the beauties who crowded aronnd him ever made him for an instant for get—much less prove false to—the mis i tress of his soul. Even his most inti ! mate friends could not discover by any j word or act on his part that he was con | soious of liis wife’s physical disadvan- tages and lack of what is called good breeding. To him she was not old or ugly, not ignorant or awkward—but always youug, always handsome, always the embodiment of brightness and of grace. No knight that ever laid lance in rest was more devoted to the fair lady whose colors he wore than was Jackson to the ancient dame who bore his name. She was the only human being who could stem the torrent of his fearfull passion. A word from her lips, a glance from her eyes, and the iron man, blazing with wrath and apparently as untamable as the lion of the jungies, became as mild as a lamb. He loved her from the very depths of his stormy nature, and be cause he loved her she could transform the storm into a calm. One might in fer from the extent of this influence over such a charrcter, that Mrs. Jack son was, what we now term, “a strong minded woman.” But she was far re moved from that questionable honor. The late Thomas H. Benttm. in a book which is a much better monument to his memory than the bronze abortion in La fayette'Park, gives a charming picture of “Aunt Rachel,” as he affectionately calls her. In this sketch, drawn by a loving hand, she is represented as an extremely modest and unassuming person, wlionever lost her native simplicity of thought and action in attempting to keep pace with the rising fortunes of her husband. When the most brilliant triumph of the war had lifted him high above all com petitors, and . when that triumph had been supplemented by his election to the first office in the gift'of his countrymen, she was the same amiable, sensible, un affected woman as when they lived to gether in a log cabin and bad nothing to distinguish, them from their humblest neighbors. To her he was never “the General,” but always “Mr. Jackson;’’ and she valued his wonderful success in life for the pleasure it gave him, and not for the glory reflected upon her. A sin cere and ardent Christian, a fond wife, a true friend, a constant .and liberal benefactor of the poor, she faithfully discharged her duties to God and man and found therein her highest happi ness. All who knew her loved “Aunt Rachel,” as such women, from their rarity, deserve to be loved; and when she died there was mourning, not only in the stately “Hermitage,” but in every negro but for miles around. Jackson, as we have remarked, never entirely rallied from the blow which his wife’s death inflicted. He went to the White House in many respects a changed man. He laid aside, to a great extent, those tremendous oaths which used to make the air of Tennessee turn blue; he grew softer, tenderer, more ready to for give than in former years, and was—for her sake—the firm and indomitable champion of all slandered women. He broke up liis Cabinet in sustaining Mrs. Eaton,although there was probably more truth than slauder in her case— and would never listen to or countenance any of that so-called “gossip” which delights in insinuations against female virtue.— Because his wife was pure, he believed —and was proud to believe—all her sex as pure as she. He wore next his heart an old-fashioned miniature of his lost darling, and each night before retiring lie laid it on the table beside the bed, so that he might look at it while reading a chapter in her Bible. Their ashes re pose side be side, and if there be such a tiling as reunion beyond the confines of tlie tomb, surely their souls are blended in tlie land where death never comes, nor any sickness nor sorrow—but where love is immortal as Him who gave it. A SUBMERGED EL DORADO. $37,000,000 Awaiting an Owner for 172 Years Beneath the Spanish Main. For over a hundred and fifty years, ever since the galleons laden with Span ish gold vanished in the dark waves of the harbor of Yigo from the grasp of the conquering Dutch and English fleets, ef forts to bring them again to the light of day and make them disgorge their gor geous cargoes have been many and fruit less. These riches thus took to them selves fins and swam away, it will be re membered, in 1702, during the war of the Spanish succession. Spain was ac customed to draw all her sinews of war from her possessions in South America, and her drafts were always duly honor ed, but the value received was apt to get into tlie pockets of the wrong parties. The seas swarmed with Dutch and Eng lish privateers, which made easy prey of the Spanish treasure ships, rendered slow sailors by their unwieldly build. Owing to these repeated anticipations of the modern custom house seizures Spain from IG9B to 1702 imported no treasure, but at last her necessities became so great that she resolved to brave the Dutch and English Jayne of those days. Accordingly in the Spring of the latter year a fleet of twenty-three galleons, laden with treasure which had accumu lated to a larger amount than ever before through the interval of non-importation, and convoyed by twenty-three French line-of-batile ships (France being the ally of Spain) and nearly the entire Spanish fleet, set out from the Spanish South American ports bound for Cadiz, and evading the Anglo-Dwtch fleet sent to intercept them, arrived safely in the harbor of Yigo on the 22d of Septem ber. Tlie treasure ships were brought within the lower bay, the narrow chan nel leading to which was lined with forts, and to make asusrance doubly sure a boom was thrown across the entrance. Some technicality due to Spanish eti quette caused a delay iu landing the treasure, which tlie enemy’s fleet took advantage of, and on the 21st of Oc tober it after a severe struggle cut through the boom and triumphantly en tered the supposed secure inner bay. Tlie Spaniards seeing their dreaded des poilers thus successful, abandoned all thoughts of resistance and only thought of preventing the spoils from falling in to the hands of the victors. They im mediately began to burn and scuttle tlie treasure-ships, with such success that only nine fell into the hands of the conquerors, two of which had to be abandoned, and one—the richest prize of the entire fleet —taken by the English frigate Monmouth, struck on a rock when leaving the harbor, and was lost. The English and Dutch made off in triumph with their six captures, and the remaining seventeen galleons with tlieir treasures have remained at the bottom of the harbor of Vigo to the present day. The amount of treasure on board the galleons at the outset is estimated at 50,000,000 of pieces of eight, which is equivalent to that number of dollars in gold, from which is to be deducted the amount landed, which is computed at 7,000,000, and the amount captured, which is 6,000,000 more, leaving 37,- 000,000 of pieces of eight, or $37,000,- 000, uow submerged iu the harbor of Yigo. During the last century, before tlie diving-bell had been invented, it was out of the question to attempt the recovery of what was thus, though lost to sight, dear to the memory of the Spaniard. But in 1825 an Englisman named Dickson, armed with a conces sion from the Spanish Government, made an unsuccessful attempt to rob Vigo’s harbor of tlie treasure it had guarded so long. In 1859 another En glishman succeeded in finding two of the galleons, but not having the capital to raise them, abandoned t-lie undertaking. Ten years later Colonel Gowen, an American, who distinguished himself by raising the Russian fleet of seventy ves sels, with all their armament and outfit, which had been sunk in the harbor of Sebastopol during the Crimean war, was applied to by the Spanish Concession aire, and he having satisfied himself of the feasibility of the project formed a company in England to carry it out. The Spanish authorities took advantage of some teefinieality to transfer the con cession to a French company, which, however, was prevented from pursuing the project very far by the breaking out of the Frauco-Prussian war. It succeed ed, however, ir recovering several bars of gold and silver, which, on being test ed, fully sustained the estimate made of the value of the entire treasure, and Colonel Gowen succeeded in purchasing the good will of the French company, which he has transferred to au Ameri can association, which intends immedi ately to enter upou the finding of the long lost treasure. SCHLIEMANN’S DISCOVERIES. The Ruins of Troy—The Remains of Four Cities. [Bayard Taylor in tho New York Tribune.] Schliemanu’s wonderful success in 1873 was due, in a great measure, to the conclusions which he had reached du ring the excavations of 18i2. He con tinued the classification of the ruins and the relics they contained, and soon found that they might be divided into four distinct strata, each of which rep resented a long historic period. Fur ther comparison convinced him that the third of these strata, counting from the top, was the only one which met the re quirements of Homer and Greek tradi tion; consequently here was Troy. But under Troy there'was an earlier layer of ruin, varving from thirteen to twenty feet in depth, before the primitive soil was reached. The discovery is hardly less interesting than that of the position of Troy. It carries the antiquity of the city back into that immense shadowy past of the human race, which stretches like a mvsterious twilight land behind our oldest history. The geographi cal position of Ilium explains its im portance in chose far-off ages. The gorges of Ida protect it in the rear; seat ed at the junction of the Hellespont wkll the .Egean, it made a station be tion between Colchis, at the eastern ex tremity of the Enxine, and all the Gre cia.il, Tdvjpti&.D Phcßflici&D co&sts, the ricli'plain around it furnished abun dant supplies, which could be readily exchanged for foreign merchandise, and as its people became rich and impregna ble within their citadel town, the other and ruder tribes in their neighborhood would yield to their power. It is cer tainly older by a great many centuries than' Athens, and its immemorial im portance was no doubt the first cause of the jealousy of the sensitive Greeks. The topmost historical stratum, which is only six and and one-half feet in depth, seems to begin about the year 700, B. C., when a Grecian settlement was established there under the Lydian dynastv. From that period, coins and inscrip\ions indicate the subsequent centuries until about the fourth century of our era. There are no later coins or medals than of Constans 11, whose reign ceased in 361, A. D. Schliemann is of the opinion that the city was destroyed at that time or soon afterward, but gives no conjecture of the manner of its fall. It seems to me that the raids of the Goths, then settled on the northern shore of the Black Sea, where they buil fleets, even sailing through the Bos phorus iu proud defiance of Constanti nople, to ravage the coasts of Greece and Asia Minor, give us an easy expla nation. The Greek Ilium, which cover ed the whole of the lower plateau of Hissarlik, must have contained 100,000 inhabitants. It was a rich, and at that time doubtless a luxurious city, clearly visible from the waters of the Helles pont, speedily reached and incapable of resisting such stalwart invaders. "We have thus an age of 1,050 years for the first 6i feet of rubbish. At this depth the Greek masonry suddenly ceases, and a stratum 17 feet in thick ness intervenes between it and the mas sive buildings of the 'lrojan era. The relics here found are of a perplexing character, aud will give plenty of work to the archaeologists. The walls are built of earth and small stones, but the abundance of wood ashes shows that the city—or the successive cities—was chiefly built of wood. If the chronolo gy of the Trojan age can be approxi mately established, it will, of course, give us tlie duration of this intermediate belt of ruin ; at present it is scarcely possible even to guess. The ruins of iroy form a stratum averaging 10 feet in thickness, the depth (from the surface) reaching from 23i to 33i feet. Since the foundation of the city is conjectured to have taken place about 1,400 years B. C., and its fall and destruction by fire to have occurred 1,100 B. C., this would give three centuries for the for mation of ten feet of ruin—which is quite sufficient if we imagine a small but crowded city, with houses of more than one story and much wood-work, of which the ruins gave amply evidence. The marks of intense heat are every where manifest. When the Scam Gate was first uncovered, the pavement was uniformly perfect; but at the end of two or three months the stone blocks along the upper part of the street, which had been exposed to the flame, crumbled al most entirely away, to a distance of ten feet from the Gate. The other blocks protected by their situation, remain solid, and promise to stand for cen turies. Finally, under Troy, there is a fourth stratum of ruin, varying from thirteen to twenty feet in depth, as I have al ready stated. The age of this is a mat ter of pure conjecture, since the vicissi tudes of tlie city’s history frequent destruction and rebuilding—would have tlie same practical effect, or nearly so, as a long interval of time. We have anywhere from 2,000 to 5,000 years be fore Christ—taking Egyptian, Phoeni cian on Pelasgic remains as guides—as the date of the foundation of the first Troy. Filled with his Homeric enthusiasm, Schliemann gives us, in the present work, only fragmentary and imperfect accounts of the characteristics of the earliest ruins. The most remarkable feature, perhaps, is tho superiority of the terra-cotta articles, which indicate a greater degree of taste and skill than those in the subsequent strata. From the beginning down to the Greek period the evidences of a gradually declining civilization are so clear, in the discover er’s opinion, that they must be accepted. The early vases are of a shining black, red or brown color, with ornamental patterns, first cut into the pottery and then filled with a white substance. Only one piece of painted terra-cotta was found. Tlie inhabitants of tlie city were certainly Aryans. This fact is il lustrated in their manner of building, and also in tlie frequency of the earliest Aryan religious symbols upon the terra cotta disks. TIIE TRUE POLICY FOR THE SOUTH. [From the American Grocer.] No nation ever grows wealthy by the production of raw materials alone. In dividuals may, nations never. There must be added value which manufactu ring gives to make tlie created wealth a permanent investment. Tlie Southern States, as a section of our country, have fully demonstrated tlie truth of the proposition stated. With natural en dowments and advantages far surpass ing those of other portions of the Uni ted. States, the South before the late war, although continuously overrun by a flood of paper currency, for which the superabundant exuberance of its agri cultural products under it? former sys tem of labor gave ample equivalent, never had that fixed capital in skilled labor which finds expression in factories, and mills; and foundries, and machine shops. The war, with all its sad expe riences and tender memories, did stimu late the South to a remarkable develop ment iu the right direction for its future success. Cut off by tlie vigilant block ade from more than an extremely uncer tain and dangerous intercourse with out side nations, the South was compelled to use its own resources to supply its population with food and clothing and implements of industry,and its army with arms and ammunition. Hence was created that remarkable Bureau of the Confede rate States Government known as tlie Nitre and Mining Bureau, the history of which is yet to be written ; lienee arose those immense foundries and machine shops at Richmond, Va., and Selma, Ala., and elsewhere; hence also was stimulated to more skillful production tlie cotton factories at Columbus, Ga., and the woolen mills of North Carolina. But the reaction which followed the close of tlie war, the prostration of its labor system, the want of adaptation of its older citizens to the new conditions surrounding them, the absence of per manent investments, the greed and ra pacity of cadaverous carpet-baggers and satanical scalawags, all united to impede the progress of the South in the true di rection given by the unavoidable neces sities of war. And it may well be ques tioned whether that section is as well off to-day as it was on the first day of April, 1865. From extended observation over every section of the South, and close in quiryamongst its intelligent citizens, as well as from the logic of palpable facts and figures, we do not believe there has been one cent of profit accrued to the South in the aggregate from tlie result of its productions since the close of the war. On the contrary, while there are excep tional localities, while even some entire States are in better condition than oth ers, the almost universal cry comes up of no money, mortgaged farms, bank ruptcies, extended credits, merchants asking extensions, high price for corn and bacon, and no further advances on crops. That there are, comparatively, so few failures amongst Southern mer chants is due rather to tho high sense of honor which has always characterized them, and which leads them to make any sacrifices rather than forfeit their newly acquired credit. But it must be evident that this state of affairs cannot last long. Men cannot be constantly going to the bad and never get there. There must be, aud we speak with becoming modesty but with the earnestness of deep conviction, a total revolution of the old ideas of what constitute pros perity as applicable to the present, and a well settled policy as to the true direction in which, to look and work for it in the future. That policy we believe to be contained in the fact enunciated in the opening sentence of this' article. Diversified industry and manufacturing will, in a few years, en able the South to regain all its lost ground, and enter upon an unprecedent ed career of prosperity. It must no longer be all cotton. Planters must raise their own provisions first—then all the cotton they can afterwards. More and more of this cotton must have value added to it at home by spinning it into yarn and weaving it into cloth. Iron and marble must be minded and quar ried, and cast and forged into vessels and implements of utility, or fashioned into images of beauty. The forests of the South are filled with all kinds of rare i and beautiful trees, which should furnish i materials for all manner of wood work, from an axe-handle to an artillery wagon, from a button to a bureau, from a churn to a carriage. To do this will require j skilled labor. Skilled labor is a higher manifestation of brain power. Educa tion, therefore, in the direction of tech nical knowledge, must accompany this new departure. It may be objected that the South has no money, no capital with which to make such a radical change. This ob jection is good and valid, and the change : in this respect must be gradual. There is no use disguising the fact, the South- • em people know it, there must come nay, it is now upon them —a baptism of suffering, through which alone will come their salvation. W bile some capi tal will go to them from the North and from Europe, they must rely on them selves to supply the greater portion. How can they do this while so much in debt ? They cannot; they must get out of debt. How ? By repudiating their obligations to their merchants, as, we are iuformed, General Law, of Alabama, advised the farmers to do at Opelika a short time ago ? No ; but by paying as far as they can their honest debts ; by resolutely and, it may be, heroically living within present means, raising corn, and hogs (where possible), and wheat, and oafs, aud potatoes, and vegetables and fruits and poultry ; by paying cash, as far as possible, for everything, and doing without every thing that they have not the money to pay for; then, by making all the cotton besides that can be produced. This is the only way we see for them to get on their feet again, and this, in many sec tions in the South, they are having to do whether they wish it or not. For the merchants have nearly ruined themselves extending credits and making advances, and cannot in justice to themselves or their creditors do any more. They must perforce, if not of choice, adopt the cash svstem to a greater extent than at any time since the close of the war. But if out of this terrible ordeal the South can emerge free from debt, with such a modified system of agriculture, it will be possible to make cotton raising profit able, the surplus from which may be in vested in manufacturing, and the future success of that section assured. That such will be the ultimate result we con fidently believe, aud none will rejoice at it more than ourselves. CHARII'Y AND ACTORS. [From the New York Tribune.] The dramatic critic of a newspaper in a neighboring city recently wrote to Miss Charlotte Cushman, asking her, without much ceremony, to give a gratuitous representation for the benefit of the poor of that place, and requesting her to answer by telegraph “yes” or “no.” To this summons Miss Cushman sent the following sensible and appropriate reply: Dear Sir —I am in receipt of yours of the Ist, in answer to which I find my self under the necessity of saying “no” to yonr request that I would give one of the nights of my short engagement in Washington for the benefit of your local charities. My reasons for this decision are as follows: I think the time has come in which someone should make a protest against the system now so fully inaugurated of making artists pay so much more than the rest of the community for charities in which they arc not especially inter ested, and which have no claim upon them. You simply ask of me that I should give from §IOO to SSOO to your poor, while those more immediately con cerned, those who are bound by all the ties of neighborhood and common brotherhood, think they are doing their part in [laying their quota of a dollar or two, when they receive in return a full equivalent out of the labor, severe enough, of the often hard pressed and struggling artist. Each one of these already does to the best of his or her ability, within the range of the claims which fall upon every human creature alike. You may think it indelicate, but it, is surely not irrelevant for me to say here that I every year give to my poor and needy, aud my poor’s poor and needy, upwards of $2,000, which I con sider a very fair per centage upon my income. As for myself, it would take every day of every year, if I were to respond to one-half the applications of this kind that meet me at every turn; and each one of us who are so freely called upon in these ways I have no doubt have not only their regular clien telle of claimants to whom they are bound, and for whom they are accounta ble, but also hosts of such applications and claims for which they are in no way bound. It strikes me that the whole affair is one-sided, and that a word is necessary in the way of justice. I am willing to place myself in this breach, and say for all my confreres in art—whose errors have never been on the side of niggard liness—that it is unfair we should do all the work, and pay also, both publicly and privately, as' we do to my certain knowledge. Allow me to suggest that in place of this easy manner of doing good, a house to house visitation for charitable objects would place it within the power of every citizen to help the poor of his own city and neighborhood, with much greater comfort to his conscience than this ceut per cent contract of so much money for so much amusement—and the poor thrown in. Believe me to be, with much consideration, respectfully yours, Charlotte Cushman. DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO. Nashville in Its Track—And Suffers (Treat Loss of Properly—The Extent of Damage Not Fully Known. Nashville, April 15.— A tornado passed over aud through this city, from the west to east, at 12:30 o’clock tins morning, doing an immense amount of damage. It struck the city at the Fair Grounds, passing diagonally through the city and out by the University and Mount Olivet Cemetery. Its width seems to have been about a quarter of a mile. After passing the Fair Grounds it struck the Exposition building and the Kidwell House, seriously damaging the former. The front of the Academy of Music, Freitli’s grocery store, Bar ney’s wholesale liquor establishment aud several other smaller buildings near the corner of Broad and Cherry streets were crushed. The front windows of Hurley Bros, and Hanson & Co.’s four story building, near the same locality, were crushed in. Beadle’s livery stables, containing an immense amount of feed, wagons, horses and cattle, were blown off the foundation into the back water. Several horses, and it is thought one man, were drowned. Parisher’s livery stable, on College street in rear of Beadle’s, was seriously damaged, be sides several feed stores and small negro dwellings. It passed from there, crush ing in the front of the Colored Metl o dist Church, next the Medical College, taking off a portion of its roof. From thence to the magnificent residence of Judge Parish, moving the whole of the roof out of place. At this hour it is im possible to enumerate the number of buildings, the damage, or the loss, which will exceed one hundred thousand dol lars. Many poor families are rendered homeless. It is feared there has been serious damage to property anu loss of life along its track. Telegraph lines were prostrated all along its course from Union City to Nashville. Saturday night two young gentlemen walked into the shooting gallery on Whitehall street, Atlanta, for the pur pose of target shooting. After being furnished with guns, one of the party raised the weapon up preparatory to firing, and remarked, “I was considered the best marksman in my regiment.” A Yankee soldier standing near asked him “what he said.” He repeated what lie had first said, when the Yankee asked him to walk out, as he wished to see him. Going out with him, he was asked to walk further up the street. 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AT IMPORTERS’ PRICES, by applying to the Special Agency just established for the purpose of delivering Genuine Peru vian Guano to consumers at any accessible port or railway station in the country.— Full particulars given in Circular* mailed free on application to It. HA ECA '/.\ K, No. 53 Beaver street, New York. REFERENCES BY PERMISSION: Messrs. Hubsox. lluktado A Cos.. Financial Agents of the Peruvian Government. 52 Wall street. New York. Moses Taylok. President National City Bank. 52 Wall street. N. Y. J. C. Tracy. Esq., Peruvian Consul, 26} Broadway N. Y. mli29-dlm<fcw2m couens, sore TnEOAT.IN'I’LU ENZA, WIIOO P ING COUGH, Cbocp, Bao.vciiiT -13, Asthma, and every affection of tho THEOAT, lUKCS and chest, aro apeedily and per manently cured by the use of Da. V, ls tau's Balsam or Wx lb Cue key, which does not dry up a cough and have tl.a t-auso behind, but loosens it. cleanses the lungs ar.d allay* Irritation, thu3 removing the cause of the complaint, CONSUMPTION CAN BE CUBED by a timely resort to this standard remedy, as is proved by hundreds of testimonials it has received. The genuine is signed Butts" on the wrapper, feETH W. EOWLE & SONS, Proprietors, iiov t*jH, Mass, bold by dealers generally. CANVASSERS WANTED TO SELL Tbe Novelty Lawn Mower and Trimmer j Cheapest! Simplest! Lightest! Best! £3" Has had four years of satisfactory trial. DOES WHAT NONE OTHER CAN AND ALL THAT ANY DOES. Send postage stamp for circular. Address GEO. DWIGHT, JR., A CO., mhll-lmo Springfield, Mas*. BARRY’S CHEMICAL FERTILIZER! CONCENTRATED, PREPARED BY EDWARD BARRY, M. D. PRACTICAL AND AGRICULTURAL CHEMIST, SOLD BY EDWARD BARRY & GO., 288 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. O- rpHE evidence presented in the statements of the respectablo and intelligent planters of the surrounding counties will satisfy Southern men that this CONCENTRATED CHEMICAL FERTILIZER may claim to be equal, if not superior, to any iu the market; that being composed of a base of Itaw-boue, de composed with Sulphuric Acid, and a combination of Chemicals, it is devoid of the enormous amount of inert matter which all Phosphate Rock preparations must contain ; and that it presents the best guarantee of a large profitable return, as testified to by all who have used it. We refer to our Pamphlets for this evidence, as it is too voluminous for nn advertisement. The preparation is varied in composition to meet the condition of the two great classes of our soils. Our 0. FERTILIZER adapted to CLAY SOILS ; our G. FERTILIZER adapted to SANDY SOILS. When ordering please say which kind is required. CASH—PRICE will be S6O per Ton. * TIME—PRICE will be SOS per Ton. Payable Ist November, 1874. Factors’ Acceptance, or other satisfactory security, will bo required on all sales. Please address orders to our office, 288 BROAD STREET, and call for Pamphlets. EDWARD BARRY & CO. jane2-tutl)9a<frw3m Planters Who Wish to Economize WILL USE # BABRY’S DIPHOSPHATE OF LIME, FOR Composting With Cotton Seed. TT has produced better results than most of tho Fertilizers in tiic market. It is a Compound in which tho Ammonia produced by the decomposition of the Cotton Seed is converted into a Non-volatile Salt of Ammonia, thus preserving the full amount of all that is eliminated of that ELEMENT, without impairing tho SOLUBILITY of the 81-PHOSPHATE OF LIME. The Combination contains tho most important requisites lor a SUPERIOR FERTILIZER, AT A VERY REDUCED PRICE. FULL DIRECTIONS FOR COMPOSTING WILL BE FURNISHED PUR CHASERS. The CASH PRICE per Ton will be sls 00 TIME PRICE “ “ 50 00 Factors’ Acceptance or other reliable security will be required ou nil time sales. Please forward orders to office of BARRY’S CHEMICAL FERTILIZER, 288 Broad street, Augusta, and call for pamphlets. EDW. BARRY & < 0. j anlß—enwefriAwSm SEWING MACHINES FOR ALL ! tJOO l*ov Cent. Saved I Equal to -Any in Use, Durability Unquestionable. 11l HOME SHUTTLE, A FIRST GLASS, Genuine Underfeed Rluft tlo Machine, established twenty-throe years. Maltos the celebrated Mastic Lock Stitch alike on both sides, precisely tho same as tiro Singer, Wheeler & Wilson and others, at three times its cost, and does every variety of work known to any Machino iu tho world, or no sale. Pricos, $25, $37, $42 and $75. Fully war ranted for live years. Sent to any address ou receipt of price, or by Express, (!. O. IJ. liefer, by permission, to Mrs. Dr. L. D. Ford, Augusta, Ga.; Mrs. Dr. Wm. Pettigrew, Langley,*. C. N. B.—Agents, with small capital, wanted in twenty two counties, lying belwoon Chatham and Habersham, to whom exclusive right of sale will ho given. Send for illustrated circu lar and samples of work. Address A. B. OLAIiKE, Gen’l Agent, apß-wtf 148 Broad st., Augusta, Ga. VALUABLE PROPERTY" FOR SALE. A RARE CHANCE FOR CAPITALISTS, U OFFER FOR SALE tho following property, L in Greene county, Ga., known as the Scull Shoals possessions : The Mills, now known as the FONTENOY' MILLS, consists of a brick and granite build ing, four stories high, exclusive of basement and attic, covered with gava ized iron,contain ing 3,070 Spindles, 120 Looms, and all other necessary machinery (English and American) fora complete outfit for the manufacture of Yarns and Cloth. Soperate Brick Picker House, (wo stories high. Separate Brick Boiler Holiho, for heating tho building throughout; Pumps, Hose and everything to render the establish ment a first class insurance; Work Shops com plete, with all necessary Machinery and Tools. The dam is of rock of tiie most substantial character, and tho water power sufficient to run 25,000 or 30,000 spindles. This Factory is situated on the Oconee river, eight miles from the Georgia Railroad. Athens Branch. A BRICK WAREHOUSE, for the use of the Mills, capable of storing from four to live hun dred bales of cotton. This building lias also two good offices in it complete. There ate suf lieielit houses for operatives built of wood some of brick. A MERCHANT MILL, granite barioment. three stories high, exclusive of basement and attic. This Mill has four pair of runners, two for Wheat and two for Corn, French Burr and Eusopus stones. A GOOD STOREHOUSE, two stories high, containing five rooms in addition to tho store room—a good stand for merchandising. A lino wooden covered TOLL BRIDGE spans the river, resting upon granite abut ments. A good, substantial SAW MILL. There is also a brick BLACKSMITH SHOP. A two story GIN HOUSE, with Carver Gin, run by water power. Attached to the foregoing property, and will be sold either separately or in connection with it, in lots to suit purchasers, is the PLANTA TION, containing 3, 300 acres of land, bordering on either side of the Oconeo river. This place is located in the real Cotton Belt of Georgia, and is well known to be inferior to none in Mid dle Georgia for Cotton, Grain and SL.ck Rais ing: well watered, and with Timber—Oak, Hickory, Ac.—sufficient to supply the place. Houses for Laborers; Barns for Stock; about forty Plow Horses and Mules; Wagors and Plows, besides ag< od stock of Cattle, s* :h as Milch Cows, Sheep, Hogs, Ac. On this Plantation, on 11 10 banks of tho river, about one mile from the Mills, is a site for a Residence unsurpassed for beauty and health. For terms and any other partieulrrs, apply to the undersigned. T. N. POULLAIN, Sr., Greensboro, Ja. ANTOINF, POULLAIN, Agent, dec2l-suAwtf Augusta, Ga, JAMES LE F F EI/S IMPROVED DOUBLE Turbine Water Wheel, POOLE & HUNT, Baltimore, Manufacturer* for the South and South west. Nearly 7.000 now in use. working under beads varying from 2 to 240 feet! 21 sizes, from 5} to 96 inches. Tho most in tl)e Market, And most economical in use of water. Large ILLUSTRATED Pamphlet stwit post free. MANUFACTUHKKH. ALSO, OK Portable and Stationary Steam Engines ar«l Boilers, Babcock A Wilcox Patent Tubulous Boilers, Ebangh's Crusher for Minerals, Saw and Grist Mills. Flouring Mill Machinery, Ma chinery for White Lead Works and Oil Mills, Shafting Pullevs and Hangers. SEND FOR CIRCULARS. feb2s-w6m TO SAVE ONE DOLLAR PARENTS SHOULD BU Y Silver Tipped Shoes^ febU-wtim JUDGE FOR YOURSELVES. Extimiue It, Try it and Buy the Dooiey&Brother an Manufacturer 09//EW ST. NEIN YORK, apl-d AwD ORDINARY’S OFFICE, I Oor.r.THOitrE County, Ga., April 1, 1874 J TT having beon made known to me that the I Honorable R. R. Mitchell, Ordinary of said county, has departed this life, now. therefore, 1, George If. Lester, Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, by virtue of (lie power and authority vested in 1110 by an Act of (lie Legislature of said State, approved December 15th, 1871, do hereby order an Election to fill Iho vacancy occasioned in said office by tho death of said Mitclioll, said election to take place on WEDNESDAY, tho 22dday of APRIL instant, 1374, at tho Court House, and tlio several legally established precincts in sai l county, and lo bo conducted in tlio manner prescribed by law. It is further ordered, That this notieo bo published till the (lay of election in the Augusta CmioNKT.K ams Sun ri.Ni i„ the gazette in which the Ordinary of said county published hjscita tions. ' GEO. 11. LESTER, ap3-(lAwtd Clerk Superior Court O. C. HENBYS CARBOLIC SALVE, * THE MOST POWERFUL HEALING AGENT EVER DISCOVERED. rpilE wonderful celerity with which thisrora _L bination of Carbolic Acid with other soothing and curativo emolieuts HEALS THE MOST VIRULENT SOIiES AND ULCERS Is something akin to the marvelous. It is with pride that the proprietors call at tention to the gratifying fact that Physicians give it the highest mead of praise, and use it and prescribe it in their practico. POINTS TO BE BORNE IN WIND: CARBOLIC SALVE positively cures tlio won t sores. CARBOLIC SALVE instantly allay* the pain of burn <. CARBOLIC SALVE cure* all cutaneous eruptions. % CARBOLIC SALVE removes pimples and blotches. CARBOLIC SALVE will cure cuts and bruises. CARBOLIC SALVE ranks at the head of all Halves, Ointments or otln r Healing Com pounds. and HAS ACHIEVED A GREATER REPUTATION AND HAH A LARGER SALE than any other similar preparation of contem poraneous invention, fcjpld everywhere. Prico. 25 cents. JOHN F. HENRY, CURRAN & CO., Proprietors, apl-wlm 8 and 9 College Place. N. V’. KING’S CURE % FOR Chicken Cholera \ Is THE ONLY SPECIFIC YET DISCOV ERED FOR THE DISEASE. It has boon used for two years as preventive and euro with almost COMPLETE succeed. For sale by Merchants and Druggists gen erally. Prepared by Dr WM K)NO> ap7-dlAwflm Athens, Ga. ’ (J. N. BUTLER, attorney at law, (Over Christopher Gray’s Store,) AUGUSTA, GA. Will practice in the Courts of Georgia and South Carolina. Special attention given to the Collection of Claim*. mU2ti-lm
