Georgia Historic Newspapers

    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. Arriving
in front of Haas’ clothing store, the Yan
kee informed the young man that he
had “lied,” and that he could whip any
d—d rebel. The young man quietly
“handed him one” on the nose, which
effectually laid him out, at the same
time asking him if he liad enough. The
fellow evidently had enough, as his nose
was bleeding profusely. The police
gave him lodgings for the night.
It is said that the destruction of cat
tle near Macon by the sudden rise in the j
water courses last week was very great, j
The flood was so rapid and unexpected i
that the stock owners did not have time
to drive their cattle from the swampy
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the system; produces a beautiful complexion
and causes the body to gain flesh and increase
in weight.
KIEF THE BLOOD HEALTHY
And all will be well. To do so. nothing has
ever been offered that can compaio with this
valuable vegetable extract. Price. $1 a bottle.
Sold by all Druggists. Office 48 Cortlandt st.,
New' York. novllfebSmbdG-tutbsaAw
Arff) A WEEK TO AGENTS. Fa stost selling artt-
V* / V i-tes out. Three valuable samples for tea
JS I A cents. J. 13K1DE, 707 Broadway, New
• * v York. febl-4w
WORKING CLASS “ k ;»
home, day or evening; no capital; instructions and
valuable package of goods suit free by m til. Ad
dress, with six cent stamp, M. YOI NG k (’O., 173
Greenwich St., New York. mar!9-4w
$ 2 6 OO a YEAR
c O >! H I \ A T «o j\ PHos PKV 1 I’ *.
family. Agents wanted in every County and Town
in the ITnittd States, to make a permanent business
on these works. *alew Hure aml Profits Largo.
abling you to commence at once. For outfit and full
particulars address JOHN E. POTTEIi A: CO., Pubs.,
Philadelphia, Pa. mar 19-4 w
SOMETHING That will pay younTTTDTT
rPii I heh Congenial, lionorablelj 111 fI J
111 UII# employ MINT. W W * *
LARGE CASH WAGESGUAKANTEED|A|> 1A1?
Foil ALL, either sex, young or old; ean r
be done during leisure time at your homes, or
pats immensely to travel. Largo I |W
Salaries to experienced it W U II 1 kJ#
A SPLENDID OUTFIT FREE ! Write for it at once,
to LARANE A HALL, lGjtf North Charles Street,
Baltimorq, Md. marl 9-4 w
Milliuus ol Acres
Rich Farming Lands
IN NEBRASKA,
NOW FOR SALE VERY (HEAP!
Ten Years Credit, Interest only G per ct.
Descriptive Pamphlets, with Sectional Maps, sent
free.
TIIE PIONEER,
a handsome Illustrated Paper, containing the Home
stead Law, mailed free to all parts of the world. Ad
dress, O. F. DAVIS,
Land Commissioner IT. 1\ It. It.,
marl9-4w Omaha, N« ».
wmßmam
mmmmmMmsa
Dr. J. P. Fitler.—Being sworn, Bfivs, I graduated at the
University of l’enn'a in 1833, and nftcr .'>() years’ experience,
perfected Dr.FHlcr’B Vegetable Rheumatic
fciyrup. I guarantee it an infallible euro for Nerve, Kid
ney aud Rheumatic diseases. Sworn to, this 2Gtli April, 1871-
F. A. OSBOURN, Notary Public, Phila.
■77 e Clergymen wore Cured by it, rmd will satisfy any one writ
ing us.R>w.Thos.Murphy,r\D.,Frankforcl,Philn.Rev.C.TL
Ewing, IV!sdia.Pa. Rev.J.S.Buchanan.Clarence,!own.ltev.
O.G.Smito, Pittsfor(t,N.Y. Jtev.Jos.Reggs. Falla Church,
I*hila.,<feo. Afflicted should write Dr.Fitler,Phila.,for expla
natory Pamphlet & guarantee,gratis. if 50 Reward for an in
curable case.No euro no charge,areality.Sold by druggists.
dec3l-4w
fra ® Sr. cage’s Cu
rfMh. Remedy
WswS by Its mild, hcal-
Wv ' t infi properties,to winch
fsjf r uUPyK tlio disease yield*
Ks v'tf'l when the system lias
HS \ |Jr been put In perfect]
RSjio% f/F order with Boclor
\ Pierce’s Golden
Iflcdlcal Discovery, which should
be taken earnestly to correct blood and
system, which are always at fault, also
to act specifically, upon the diseased
glands of the none and Its chambers.
Catarrh Remedy should he applied with
Dr. Pierce’. Nasal Donclic.witli
which medicine can be carried hiyh up
an d perfectly applied to all parts of pas
sages and chambers in which sores and
ulcers exist, and from which discharge
proceeds. So successful has this course
of treatment proven, that the proprietor
offers SSOO Reward for a case of
“Cold in Mead ”or Catarrh which he
cannot cure. The two medicines with
Instrument,for $2, by all druggists.
WE WANT-.
BOOK AGENTS
At once, to sell two of the most popular works ever
published :
UCJ a record of prison life at Fort
• Delaware,by liev. I. W. K. Handy.
AND
MARSHALL'S LIFE OF
Cert. Rofot. E* Lee.
trit" Scud for Circular at once.
TURNBULL BROTHERS,
4w _ 13A LTIMOItK, MD.
RUPTIIRK SEELEY’S HARD RUBBER TRUSSES,
iiXI 1 Uliri itelief, Comfort k Cure lor Hernia
TRII«I<X or Lupture. Fine Steel Spring,
1 11/UlJOfliiJ coated with hard rubber, highly
polished. Free from all sour, rusty, chafing, strap
ping or girthing unpleasantness. Cool, cleanly,
light, safe and durable. Unaffected by battling. Al
ways reliable. Every desirable pattern, including
the"new Hard Kubbkr Elastic Night Tiiuhh. Sent
by Mail or Express. Sold by all dealers. Send for
illustrated Catalogue. Estab’ts, 1,347 Chestnut St.,
Phila., and 737 lird’y, N. Y. Beware of Japanned
imitations. febl-lw
"EDEOGRAPHY.” —A book on the arts of Writ
ing l>y Sound ; a complete system of Phonetic Short-
Hand, the shortest, most simple, easy and compre
hensive, enabling any one in a short time to report
trials, speeches, sermons, &c. The Lord’s Prayer is
written with -Iff strokes of the pen, and I IO words
per minute. The unemployed should learn this art.
Price by mail, 50 cents. Agents wanted. Address
T. W. EVANS A CO., 189 S. 7th st., Phil., Pa. 4w
or SOIL CHA
X How either sex may fascinate and gain tins
love and affections of any person they choose in
stantly. This simple mental acquirement all can
possess, free, by mail, ior 25c., together with a mar
riage guide, Egyptian Oracle, Dreams, Hints to La
dies, Wedding Night Shirt, &c. A queer.book. Ad
dress T. WILLIAM A CO., Pubs., Philadelphia. 4w
For
'COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS,
AM) ALL THROAT DISEASES,
UNO
HELLS’ CARBOLIC TABLETS,
PUT UP ONLY IN BLUE BOXES.
A TRIED AND SUREREMEDY.
Sold by Druggists. 4w
The Highest Medieal Authorities! of Kurope
say the strongest Tonic, Purifier and Deobstruent
known to the medical world is
JUKUBEBA.
It arrests decay of vital forces, exhaustion of the ner
vous system, restores vigor to the debilitated, cleanses
vitiated blood, removes vesicle obstructions, and
acts directly on the Inver ond Spleen. Price, $1
bottle. JOIIS Q. KKLLOfIG, 18 Platt St., N. Y.
GENUINE
PERUVIAN GUANO
TTURMF’RS. AGRICULTURISTS and Dealers
11 in Fertilizers have now an opportunity of
obtaining this valuable manure in SMALL OR
LARGE LOTS. 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