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(Efiromctc and gnijinri. '
WKONESDAY.SEPTEMHER 30, 1874.
Thin was tbe marriage service of two young
0100 persons :
MINISTER.
This woman wilt thou have
And cherish her for life,
Wilt love and comfort her,
And seek no other wife ?
HR.
This woman I will take
That stands beside me now ;
I'll find hor board and clothes
And have no other “frow.”
MINISTER.
And for vonr husband wilt
You take this nice young man,
Obey h s slightest wish
And love inm all you can ?
SHE.
I'll love him all I can.
Obey him all I choose.
And when I ask for funds
lie never must refuse.
MINISTER.
Then you are man and wife,
And happy may you be ;
As many be your years
As dollars in my fee.
A PARODY.
Tell me yo winged winds,
That round my pathway roar,
Do you not know some spot.
Where woru-n fret no more ?
Some lone and pleasant dell,
Some ‘-holler’ in the ground,
Where babies never yell,
And cradles are not found?
The loud wind blew the snow into my face,.
And snickered as it answered, “nary place. ’
Tell me. thou misty deep,
Whose billows round roe play,
Know'st thou some favored spot,
Home island far away.
Where weary man cau lind
A (dace to smoke in peace —
Where crinoline is not,
And hoops are out of place ?
’Die loud winds sounding a perpetual shout,
Htopt for awhile and spluttered, "You git out."
And thou, sere os: moon,
That wiih such holy face,
Dost look upon the girlH,
Who with their beaux embrace,
Tell me in all thy round.
Hast thou not seen some spot,
Where muslin is not found
And calico is not ?
Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in woe,
And a voice, sweet but sad, responded “Poll!”
Tell mo, my secret soul—
Oh. tell me, Hope and Faith—
Is there no resting place
From women, girls and death ?
Is there no happy spot
Where bachelors are blessed—
Where females never go,
And man may rest in peaco ?
Faith, Hope and Truth best boons to mortals
given—
Waved their bright wands, and answered, “Yes,
in Heaven.”
| Roll THE SUNDAY CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.J
GENUINK WORTH.
Judge not by outward station,
l)y fortune, rank, or birth,
No high estate, nor length of purse,
Can give one real worth.
The gem of purest lustre,
Oft sparkles in the dust,
Or lies unnoticed, thrust away,
Given o’er to moth and rust.
What constitues a lady?
Is it tlio silken dress
Or jewels bright, worn to enlianco
The woarers loveliness ?
Is it the proud ancestral name,
The pure patrician blood ?
These may a lady make in name,
Not genuine womanhood.
The fairest, sweetest flowers may bloom
In garden spot obscure,
The maid of forest worldly rank,
Be chaste, and good, and pure—
No outward polish may be liers,
French muse's be unknown,
Yet she a lady be at heart;
A ijuoen on virtue’s throne.
Then judge not by the outer show;
One may bo unrefined
Yet have a noble, generous heart,
True worth and wealth of mind.
Labor is no disgrace -the hand
May be embrowned by toil
For daily bread and yet the soul
lse spotless, freo from soil.
’Tie no t alone the queenly fair
Who, stamped by fashion’s seal,
May tho proud title' •■lady" claim ;
No turn of fortune's wheel
Can give, or rob one of trim worth —
Yew, virtue we should prize;
God frames llis own nobility,
Which nil must recognize.
Augusta, Ga. K. A. L.
[FOR THE SUNDAY CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.]
HEARTH AND HOME.
BY ANNIE BLOUNT PABDUE.
Far out o’er the haunted lake
The yellow torchlights gleam :
The wind’s low voice joins ill a dirge,
With tho softly wailing stream.
What seek ye white-lipped men.
With torches and drag, and not?
Ah ! I catch a glimpse of a snowy arm,
And or golden curls wave-wet.
While afar amid Western wilds.
A mothor’s heart cries “Como”
My wandering child to tho hearts that love,
Como back to thy childhood’s homo.
Afar on tho restless night
Tho brilliant gaslight shines;
And lioses bend in tlieir scarlet bloom
O’er tho rarest of purple wines.
A fair-haired boy grows mad with mirth,
And the revel is at its height—
Oh ! hears ho not the voice I hoar
Float down through the starless night ?
A voice that haunts tho tender heart
Wherever tho feet may roam.
Come wanderer back to the old true love
Como back to thy childhood’s homo.
Pleasure, with syren spell
May smile in her rosiest bloom.
But life hath never such sinless joys
As those round the hearth of Home.
When the evening plays were o’er
And tho social board was spread ;
When the lamp-light glimmered o’er each still
faco.
As the Sacred Page was read.
Ah 1 yo, who have love-blessed Homes,
And fond mothers yet to pray
For a wayward child a father’s smile
To welcome you back a 1 a ay.
Lot not tho wine cup’s ruddy glow,
Or the music of idle mirth
Drown in your hearts the holy call
From the old familiar hearth.
The patient and sad refrain.
That sighs on tho haunted air,
The father s voice. Come back my child!
Tho echo of mother's prayer!
THE BAR-TENDER’S STORY.
i.
When I knowed him at first there was suthin’ —
A sort of a general air—
That was very particular pleasin’,
And what you might call debonair.
I'm aware that expression is Freucliy,
And rather high daddy, perhaps ;
Which accounts that 1 have the acquaintance
Os several quality chaps.
11.
But he got to increasin’ his doses,
And took ’em more often, lie did ;
And ii growed on him faster and faster
Till inter a bummer he slid.
I was grieved to observe this feller
A shovin’ hissolf down the grade.
And I lectured him onto it sometimes
At tho risk of its sp ilin' the trade.
m.
At last he got thunderin’ seedy.
And he lost his respect for liissolf.
Ami all his high notions of honor
Was bundled away on the shelf.
But at times he was dreadful remorseful
Whenever he'd stop for to drink.
And he’d swear to reform lusself frequent.
And end it by takui a drink.
tv.
nat saved that young feller? A woman!
She done it in the singlerest way. .
He come into the bar room one evenin’
(He hadn't been drinkin' that day),
And sot hisself down to a table
With a terrible sorrow faco.
He he sot there a groanin’ repeated,
And callin' hisself a gone case.
Ho was Uiinkin' and think in’ and thin kin’
And custyn’ and his face,
And ended h;s ihinkin' as usual
r»y orderin' a Bourbon stra ght.
Hi* was boldin' the glass iu his lingers.
When into the place from the street
There came a young gal like a spirit.
With a face that was powerful sweat.
n.
Ami she glided right up to the table
Ami took the glass gently away.
And she says to him. “George. it is over;
I am only a woman to-day .
I rejected you once in my anger.
But I come to you lowly and meek.
For I can't live without you. my darling ;
I thought 1 was strong, hut I'm weak.
TO.
“You are bound in a terrible bondage.
And 1 come. love, to sitare it with you;
Is there shame in the deed r I can bear it.
For at last to my love I am true :
I have turned from the home of my childhood.
And l come to lover and friend.
Leaving comfort, coutentmeut and honor.
And i'll stay to the terrible end.
Tin.
“Is there hunger and want in the future ?
I will share them wtih you and not shrink !
And together we'll join in the pleasures.
The woes and the dangers of drink.''
Then she raised up the glass tirrn and steady.
lint her face was as pale as the dead—
“Here's to wine and the joy of carousals.
The songs and the laughter," she said.
11.
Then he riz up. his face like a tempest,
And took the glass out of her hand,
And slung it away stem and savage—
And I tel! you ills manner was grand !
And he says. “I have done with it. Nelly,
And 1 11 turn from the ways I have trod.
And I'll live to bo worthy of yon. dear.
So help me a merciful God !
x.
“You have saved me. my love and my darling,
On a noble and womanly plan ;
Go back to vour home till I seek you,
In the garb and the strength of a man!"
« * » • * « »
I seen that same feller last Monday,
Lookin’ nobby and handsome and game;
He was w heelin’ a vehicle, gen’lcmen,
And a baby was into the same.
OPIUM EATING.
The universal assertion made by physi
cians ami apothecaries, that the Use of
no other drug has so largely and steadi
ly increased, within the last few years,
as opium, in its various forms, has ex
cited the gravest apprehensions, not
only on the part of moralists, but of ull
who are concerned for the public health,
in its present and future relatious. That
this apprehension is not at all morbid or
exaggerated, but has its foundation in
facts easily and abundantly verified,
needs not to be argued, ihe veriest
novice in physiology, hygiene and toxi
cology, is aware that of all narcotics,
voluntarily resorted to as a matter of
self-indulgence, none can compare in
positive and deadly influence upon body
and mind with opium, and that, the
habit once formed, no appetite is so per
sistent or tyrannous, no disease so shat
tering and irredeemable.
The energetic action of this drug on
the animal system is peculiar. Thus,
when taken in small doses, say from
one-fourth to a whole grain, it usually
acts as a stimulant, and produces pleas
urable excitement, but the dose has to
be increased in order to produce the
same effects. When a full medicinal
dose—as from two to four grains—is
given, the stage of excitement is soon
followed by that of depression; the skin
becomes hot, the mouth and throat dry,
the appetite diminished, the thirst in
creased and nausea or vomiting is fre
quently induced; a state of torpor then
comes "on, followed by sleep with pleas
ing or frightful dreams, and, on waking,
there is fr quently nausea, furred tongue,
headache and listlessness.
A large dose produces death in per
sons not accustomed to it, hut the num
ber of persons who have thus accustom
ed themselves is immense, and rapidly
increasing. In many instances, the
article is resorted to, at first, for the re
lief of bodily suffering, but the habit,
once commenced, is seldom relinquish
ed, and a life of woe is inevitable. The
habitual opium eater may, indeed, al
most always be recognized by his ap
pearance—a total attenuation of body, a
withered and yellow countenance, a
lame gait, a bending of the spine—fre
quently to such a degree as to assume a
circular form, and glassy, deep, sunken
eyes. The digestive organs are of course
greatly disturbed, the victim eats scarce
ly anything, his mental and bodily pow
ers are, in fact, destroyed. Then, as
the habit becomes by degress more con
firmed, liis strength continues decreas
ing, the craving for the stimulus be
comes greater, and, to realize the de
sired effect, the dose must constantly be
augmented.
The Chinese furnish, perhaps, the
most remarkable example, iu a national
sense, of the terrible and brutalizing ef
fect of opium, the smoking of it being a
practice to which they have long been
most passionately addicted. The wealthier
orders do their smoking of the drug in
their own dwellings; but, for the poorer
classes, there are thousands of shops
fitted in many of the cities with accom
modations expressly for customers thus
inclined. Many of these shops, as rep
resented by travelers, are the most mis
erable and wretched places imaginable,
vile hovels, where every low vice is car
ried on and rendering the places as near
as possible the counterpart of hell itself.
It is stated that there are more than a
thousand of these reeking pest holes in
the city of Amoy alone. But all classes
in the community are given to the in
dulgence, and the havoc made with
health and life is frightful. One of the
most distinguished of the Chinese schol
ars and writers says: “It exhausts the
animal spirits, impedes the regular per
formance of business, wastes the flesh
and blood, dissipates every kind of
property, renders the person iil-favored,
promotes obscenity, discloses secrets,
violates the laws, attacks the vital and
destroys life.” This statement is con
firmed by other natives, and by the uni
versal testimony of foreign residents;
and it is asserted that, as a general
thing, a person in ordinary condition of
health does not live more than ten years
after once giving himself up to this
habit. It is to tho credit, however, of
tho Chinese Government, that, against
great odds from within and without, it
lias put forth strong efforts to cut off or
restrict the traffic in this destructive
drug. Public attention was directed to
its injurious effects nearly four-score
years ago, and, in the early part of the
present century, an edict was issued re
quiring all ships discharging their car
goes at Wampoa to givo bonds that they
had no opium on board.
Still more stringent measures, how
ever, subsequently became necessary, in
order to save the Chinese population
from the terrible curse which was daily
becoming more wide-spread; and an
edict was consequently issued, declaring
that the injury done by opium being
brought into the country, and by the iu
ereas.'* of those who inhaled it, was near
ly equal to a general conflagration, and
denouncing upd.’ l the seller and user of
the poison the bastlffudo, the wooden
collar imprisonment,, banishment, con
fiscation of property and even death by
public decapitation or strangulation.—
But, notwithstanding all this, the thing
actually kept increasing, until at length
an imperial commissioner was appoint
ed, clothed with the highest authority
aud powers, to proceed to Canton and
endeavor to effect an utter annihilation
of tho trade. In carrying out this de
termination, lie seized aud destroyed
more than twenty thousand chests of
opium and compelled the merchants to
sign a bond that they would forever
abandon the business. This bold aud
decided action on the part of the com
missioner led to a war with England, as
most of the property destroyed belonged
to English merchants. One result of
this war was the ceding of tho island of
Hong Kong to the English. In this
island, after passing into the hands of
the victors, the trade in opium was le
galized, and numerous shops for its sale
immediately licensed, within gun shot
of the swarming Chinese empire, where
the offense was still punishable with
death, but where tho facilities and temp
tations were now greater than ever be
fore.
But the chalice thus forced by Britain
upon the weak and helpless Chinese has
been pressed in full and bitter measure
to her own lips. By evidence and con
fessions from nil sources, official and
private, the fact appears that this de
moralizing appetite possesses number
less persons iu all ranks and classes, and
that the increase of the depraved habit
continues to flow on in spite of the
wretchedness which it entails.
But even this wide-spread adult pas
sion which lias taken such hold upon
the English, not only in the great cen
tres of population, but extending, it is
known, to the obscurest boroughs and
hamlets, is excusable when compared
with the criminal practice, now so gen
eral, of dispensing the drug—in various
disguised forms and with insidious
mimes—to children, and even to infants.
Oue of the most eminent physicians in
England, Dr. Mitchell, some time ago
presented to the public health authori
ties a mass of testimony, obtained by him
from numerous medical witnesses, show
iugtlie almost universal resort to opiates,
in order to benumb or stupefy children—
even those of the tenderest age; a very
common preparation for this purpose be
ing a so-called cordial, composed of
treacle and opium, and ku jwu by the
name of “comfort.” So general is its
use that customers go to the apothecaries
and without any hesitation ask for a
dose of it to “give to the baby next day,
as they are going out to wo’-k." Re
spectable chemists frankly admit that
they make and sell these opium decoc
tions by the barrel full. The baleful
usage prevails not only in the colliery
districts, but also in all manufacturing
and non-manufacturing places; and one
physician states that, to his certain
knowledge, the habit of administering
opium to infants in the Nottingham,
Derby and Leicester districts —whieh
has long been iti vogue—usually begins
when the child is three or four weeks
old. Another witness slates that the i
above named opium cordial is frequent
ly given on the very day of birth, and is
even prepared in readiness for that event.
The inevitable result of this terrible
custom is, of course, that great numbers
of infants perish, either suddenly from
an overdose, or, as more commonly hap
pens, slowly, painfully, insidiously.
Those who escape with life become pale
and sickly children, often half idiotic,
and always with a damaged if not ruined
constitution. Compared therefore with
this abhorrent and criminal custom, the
Chinese practice of infanticide may be
said to be merciful.
That opium has its legitimate uses
and value is, of course, unquestioned.
The existence of certain diseases, parti
cularly of a spasmodic or painful char
acter, verv greatly modifies the power
of this drug over "the system; this is pe
culiarly exemplified iu such diseases as
the lockjaw, etc. Persons, .wen, who
are ordinarily very susceptible to the
action of opium, when suffering severe
pain, can often take it in considerable
quantity, without experiencing its usual
efforts, or, indeed, any effect beyond re
lief to pain.
Poisoning by opium is a very common
occurrence, the symptoms generally set
ting in from half an hour after the drug
has been swallowed, this circumstance
depending, however, partly npon the
form in which the poison is taken, the
effects of toe drug being delayed longer
when solid opium has been employed
I than when, as usually is the case, it is
I the fluid preparation. The quantity of
| opium required to destroy life may pro
i bably be stated at from four to five
| grains of the solid substance as a dan
: gerous dose to an adult, and from one
and a half to two drachms of laudanum,
■ and upward. A single drop of lauda-
I niim has been known to prove fatal to a
1 young infant.
THE PROTECTION SWINDLE AND
COTTON MANUFACTURES.
•[From the New York World.]
In the interesting review of the cotton
prospect published in the World of the
11th, wherein prominent members of
the cotton trade freely gave their views
concerning the incoming crop, it was
intimated by some that they “hope to
see domestic spinners supplied with the
raw material this season at prices which
will favor the speedy resumption of
general business and enable manufac
turers to offer fresh inducements to deal
ers and consumers.”
This commendable wish is unfor
tunately frustrated by the direct evi
dence that, whatever the price of cotton
may be, our tariff swindle, like the Old
Man of the Sea, sits for the time im
movable on our cotton industry and re
tards its progress. The following ex
tract from a circular issued by Messrs-
Gorltam, Gray & Cos., of Boston, speaks
for itself :
“Office, 54 Kilby Street, )
Boston, September 1, 1874. (
“In issuing our yearly circular to our
friends we propose only to comment
upon the situation of American cotton
at the opening of the crop of 1874 and
1875.
“It is undoubtedly true that England
has consumed proportionately much
more American the past year than of
othercotton, notwithstanding the tempt
ingly low prices of India.
“The Continent, too, has taken a
much larger proportion, and it is also
true that Manchester has done an exten
sive and profitable business.
“It would seem that, while our cotton
can be carried across, manufactured and
brought back, in better material and at
lower prices, still leaving profit to the
manufacturer, our mills with the raw
material at home do not make as cheap
goods or as saleable goods, aud are de
pendent upon home markets for their
disposal.
“England, with its great export of
American cotton made goods, will
doubtless be an increasingly good cus
tomer for our crop of cotton, while our
manufacturers, who have absorbed such
amounts of capital as to impoverish the
South and West, as evidenced by the
glut of money at tbe North and almost
entire absence of it South, are without
trade and are carrying the products of
their manufacture. Protective Tariff—
the great nursing bottle of our manu
facturers, the great creator of high
prices of food, aud consequent high
price of labor, the great detrimental in
terest to the development of manufacture
as a science, the great ipjury of tbe
whole country and particularly the West
and South—now holds our manufac
turing interest in perfect stagnation;
and while this crop will doubtless be
wanted abroad iu increasing proportions,
we may look for declining home con
sumption and less demand for home
manufacture. ”
Surely some good can come out of
Nazareth. But will not Boston rise up
to stone Messrs. Gorham, Gray and Cos.
for such blasphemy against “the great
nursing-bottle of our manufacturers ?”
Here, then, we have the best authority
for it that if our spinners were to get
cotton never so cheaply they could not
prevent England from sharing in the
cheapness of cotton, and that inauyease
England would do a profitable business
by carrying the cotton across the Atlan
tic, manufacturing it there, and then
sending it back again. And, in spite of
our protection tariff, England would sell
us the manufactures cheaper than we
could produce them. Iu other words,
our manufacturers are strangled to
death by tlieir own tariff. There is
much wisdom in the few lines of Gor
ham, Gray & Cos., and we take it as a
good omen that Gorham, Gray & Cos.
were not starved to death by the greedy
and misguided Protectionists of Boston.
There is rio cause for wonder that Credit
Mobilier Dawes, and that dearly beloved
old dromedary, Sam Hooper, decline
the honor of a renomination to Con
gress. When views so liberal as those
of Gorham, Gray & Cos. can find ac
ceptance in Boston the occupation of
the man who purposely took emi ry ore
out of the free list and taxed it SO a ton
for the simple purpose of obliging a con
stituent who had discovered a worthless
emery ore mine on his lands, and of the
other Credit Mobilier and salary-grab
ber, Sam Hooper, who raised the duty
on hair-pins from thirty-five per cent,
to fifty per cent., is indeed gone. Credit
Mobilier frauds and salary-grab steals
have not a brilliant prospect when the
tariff swindle is exposed from the very
stronghold of protection.
The anxiety of our cotton dealers for
cheap cotton for the home spinners is
thrown away, as it is clearly apparent
that as long as our tariff swindle lasts
American cotton manufacturers are en
tirely out of the race of competition
with foreign manufacturers.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
[special correspondence chronicle
AND SENTINEL.]
Aiken, S. C., September 15, 1874.
“Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said
This is my own my native land.”
Notwithstanding the deep and numer
ous humiliations which have been heap
ed upon our dear old State, I experience
to-day a more profound sentiment of
love for her iu the midst of misfortue
than I ever did in the days of her pride
and prosperity.
No State contributed more liberally
of blood and treasure than she did in
the struggle for Southern Independence.
She sent her sons, descendants of the
heros of ’76, to the battle fields aud she
poured her wealth without stint into the
coffers of the Confederate Treasury.—
Her fair daughters even seut their
jewels aud their plate to the Confeder
ate Treasurer at Richmond to sustain
the Government in its extremest need.
She converted her church bells into can
non and even her unbearded youth and
grey haired old men went out to the
glorious struggle. Everything that a
patriotic people dare do she did to sus
tain the Stars and Bars. But when the
great commander of the Confederate
armies surrendered at Appomatox, her
war worn veteran sons returned to the
bosom of their native State with the
honest intention of abiding, in good
faith by tho results of a struggle which,
though it had brought defeat to the
cause they loved so well, had added lus
tre to their manhood, their honor aud
their patriotism. They furled the con
qureed banner and proudly hoped that
the war being ended they were to have
peace. Not the empty shadow, but
peace with all its calm repose, its smil
ing industries and happy .firesides. Alas,
we have been sadly disappointed ! The
grinding heel of a strong centralized
government (republican only in name),
urged on by party tyranny, has been
placed on our necks, and a horde of
Northern vultures, the offscouring of
tlieir own communities, were turned
loose upon us, who, by imposing upon
the credulity and exciting the fear of
our former slaves, obtained political po
sition, and once there, with the rapacity
of birds of prey, fastened their greedy
talons upon our scanty money bags.—
These Northern vultures, representing
every disreputable element of society,
who, while at home “there wa3 none
so poor as do them reverence,”
have obtained the highest positions
of honor and trust through the
ignorant aud corrupt solid negro
vote. They have debauched the credu
lous and ignorant negro, they have im
poverished the whites, and have bank
rupted the public treasury and filled
their once empty carpet-bags to reple
tion. There is no office too exalted or
too insignificant to satisfy their avarice
and ambition. From tbe office of Gov
ernor aud United States Senator down to
the Intendency of a one-horse town they
are always to be found, elbowing their
way with the dexterity gt the pickpocket,
and finding perquisites and emoluments
where no honest man ever dreampt ik.ej
were to be had. This is what South
Carolina lias had to endure and what
she is still enduring, and these are the
people who have ruied us by tbe aid of
.the United States bayonets and the vote
of the ignorant negro, whom they fyave
deluded and corrupted. These are the
people who have been instrumental in
sending our peaceable and unoffending
citizens upon suborned and perjured
testimony to Northern prisons, upon
the charge of being Kn-Klux. Scott,
Patterson, Chamberlain, Leslie and Hur
ly, of the Northern whites, and Gar.dozo,
Elliott, Whipple, Jones and Bowley, gi
the Northern negroes, aided by such in
famous scalawags u Moses, Melton and
Macky, ft id omne genus, are the staple
of which the dominant political party in
this State is composed. Thanks be to
God that the list of Carolina’s native
degenerate sons is short, and with a
single exception were men of no conse
quence or respectability before the war!
But the day of deliverance is at hand,
for I verily believe that the nomination
of Chamberlain for Governor, the most
accomplished and consummate viilian of
them all, will eventually bring about
the overthrow of the Radical party in
this State. I have an abiding faith that
by a general uprising of the friends of
honest government and an honest count
at the ballot box we can defeat this ring
robber and elect some honorable Demo
cratic citizen as Governor. It now be
comes the duty of the Democratic party
of this State to run a fall State ticket",
and also to contest every county with
all the energy and power that Ood has
given them. And when they enter
upon this campaign I sincerely hope
that the sickening, pusilanimons name,
“Conservative party,” which deceives no
enemy and gains no friend, will be dis
carded and that we will go forth to vic
tory or defeat with the banner of
Democracy unfurled to tbe breeze. Let
ns have a party name that means some
thing and not one that may menu any
thing or nothing. The whole fact of
the matter is that we have borne our
misfortunes with a patience that smacks
strongly of supineness. We have tried too
much of pacification and passivity aud
too little of decisive and energetic
action. With some such man as Gen.
Kershaw, of Camden, or Col. Thomas Y.
Simons, of Charleston, as our standard
bearer, and a carefully planned and well
managed canvass, we may overcome the
majority against us and accomplish a
triumph for the cause of honesty and
decency. Let us inscribe one of the
mottoes of our State on our hearts,
“Dum spiro spero." Spectator.
AN OLD MAID’S STORY.
By Emma.
[FOR THE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.]
Ours was a beautiful home—Regie’s
and mine, with its sweet-briar, roses and
honeysuckle vines climbing all orer the
low windows and rustic porch, and
what made it dearer to us was the mem
ories that clustered around it. Under
its low roof our beloved parents came as
happy bride and groom; here Regie aud I
were born, and from here we watched
the coffined forms of father and mother
borne out to the quiet village graveyard,
wearing on their bosoms each a fleecy
white wreath, made from the roses
blooming around our cottage door. We
were lonely then, poor little brother and
I, and from the vine-tangled window we
used to look up to the blue sky and won
der if father and mother gazed down
upon their orphans from the glittering
eyes of the evening stars. Since then
we had lived alone, making our own
world, content in each other’s love,
knowing nothing, caring nothing for the
great, untried life before us. Ah, those
were halcyon days—flowers dipped in
the pearly dewdrops of innocent child
life—smiling a rainbow of delight ’till
drank up by the midday heat ! Years
have pased since then; darliug Regie’s
bright, blue eyes have been closed iu
death; but to-day memories of our child
hood troop around me, and I live over
hours claimed by the eternal past.
I am confident there was not in all the
world a nobler boy or handsomer man
than my merry, laughingbrother. Brn,ve,
impetuous, frank and loving, it was no
wonder I gave him all of a sister’s idola
try, and I know now—looking back
through the garnered years—he was t rue
to me at heart and would have remained
his own noble self if—but what heart is
there that lias not a grave dug,
an idol shattered, by that little
word ? As I have said, Regie was
imperious—stopping no time to consider
whether thestep lie was taking was right
or wrong, so it gave him satisfaction.
Ah, would that he had,poor little brother!
He had a merry, boyish voice, freo as
the trilling of the Summer lark. It
was music to my ears then, but there
came a time when it froze my heart into
ice, and crushed from it all of earth life.
I hardly knew when Regie first began
going out at nights to seek pleasures
other than those four din our little nest,
it came about so gradually ; aud how
his acquaintance ripened into friendship
with Frederick Hastings,but this I know,
there came long evenings when I was
left alone in the little brown house to
entertain myself as best I could with
the scanty means around me —evenings
when I stood by the vine tangled win
dow alone, where brother and I used to
watch the evening star, and waited far
into the night for th i sound of his dear
foot steps coming up the littlo gravel
walk. Then came a time when, watch
ing beside the blight wood fire, my ear
made quick by grief, dteected uusteady
ness in the firm, strong stride, an un
natural light in the dear blue eyes, and
I knew, with woman’s instiuct, my
darling had looked upon the wine when
it was red and tasted its fiery liquid. O,
God, I dread even now to think of that
first shock, that first grip of dread that
seized my heart with its hand of iron—
it seemed to part the veil that hid the
dim, dark future and point down its
dusky aisles to a gaping grave ! How I
prayed that night for the safety of my
beloved —but my prayers were not
garnered up, not beard ! Things after
this grew- from bad to worse, until
not a vestige of our former hap
piness was left. Regie preferred
his hilarious companions to his pale,
sad eyed sister, and I was left day and
night to weep and pray for the erring
one. It was then I learned to love Fred
Hastings with all the ardor of my pas
sionate nature. His looks of sympathy
as he assisted my poor brother’s un
steady steps to his little room, bis low
words of cheering comfort, spoken so
kindly yet cautiously, tbe hope he held
out of better days, and above all his
pure devotion to my blinded darling,
won my girlish heart completely, aud I
looked upon him as little less than an
angel. He loved me too, and one night
down by the little garden gate where I
had gone to watch for Regie’s return,
with the stars and flowers around, he
told me of it, and as he tenderly took
me to his broad bosom whispered—
“ Poor little Ruthie, poor little suffering
darliug, how I have longed to lighten
your burdens, longed to gather you as a
broken lilly to my heart, and nurse you
back to life! Together now we must
try and reclaim our loved one, pray our
God to shield him, aud show him liis
evil way.” Audi nestled my aching head
on his bosom and wept sweet, bitter
tears; sweet for the new found love, bit
ter for the brother’s love drifting away,
away from me. I did not know but we
were alone, Fred and I, out there iu the
twilight gleaming, until a smothered
curse startled me, and there stood Regie
with all the mad light of a drunken
demon in his eyes glaring upon us.
“Damn you, Fred Hastings, this is the
way you keep your faith to me, polluting
my sister by your caresses out here in
the night.”
“Regie, Regie,” I cried, clinging to
his arm, “don’t, don’t brother,” but he
knocked me off with a single blow of his
clinched fist full iu the faoe, and spring
ing upon Frederick before he could in
terfere, with all the strength of a liquor
fired fiend, pulled him to the ground,and
there in the pretty holy starlight I saw
a cruel knife descend and lick the heart
blood of my only earthly friend, my
noble, loving Fred. Oblivion kindly
spread her mantle over me, and when I
awoke to the world again it was only to
find myself widowed and brotherless.
Two graves out in the quiet church yard,
with the murdered and the murderer
sleeping calmly therein, was all left to
me on earth to love. Drink, drink the
demon, had stolen from me all that made
life beautiful. My bright eyed, laugh
ing Regie had bowed to llis sceptre and
sunk to a suicide’s grave with blood
stained hands. Ah, my home is not the
only one in this land to-night robbed of
its jewels by the fiery monster ! I am
an oh} woman now, aged with years and
grief, alone and unloved; patiently wait
ing the summons when I, too, shall lay
down life’s burden aud cross for the last
rime the little cottage door, rich with
ita wreath of roses, and find a resting
place at the feet of my darling dead.
Professor Tyndall’s Philosophy.—
The London Times, commenting on
Professor Tyndall’s address, so far as it
seeks to uncover tho origin of life, says :
“He says he abandons ail disguise, and
confesses his faith that ‘in matter’ is to
be discerned ‘the promise and potency
of every form and quality of life;’ but
the creed thus enunciated is coupled
with qualifications which Professor Tyn
dall’s candor compels him to make, and
which will rob it of its meaning with
the mass of the students of his dis
course." The word is yet to be spoken.
The sentence which shall reconcile free
dom with law is unsaid, aud we look to
the future for that solution of the enig
ma of life which the President of the
British Association fails to give us.”
The conclusion reached by the London
Times is :
.“There is no theological reason for re
coiling ivQtQ the conclusion to which
Professor Tyndall would conduct us.
The flight of time is nothing in the con
templation of the Creator; and all that
is, and all the perfection that we hope
will be, lay hid in the image of the future
which was conceived before the founda
tions of the wofid were laid. Let it be
granted that we can trace our civiliza
tion back to a chaos of matter and a
hurly-burly of elements, and the more
severe the reasoning which has con
strained us to connect onr present with
such a past, the more ii resistible are we
compiille;} to admit that the present lias
been a necessary consequence of the
laws laid down from the beginning, and
we are thus confronted with tho old
d’fßeultv of accounting for the organiza
tion of these laws which have conducted
the world np to ibis moment. Theolo
gy is apparently slain only to revive.
Professor Tyndall does not soive, and it
is obvious that his method can
not enable him to solve, the riddle
of the universe. There is, too,
another difficulty which he is the
first to confess. His analysis of the
world's history leaves out one-half of
man, and he finds it impossible to deny
to this other side of mans nature a re
ality as absolute as that which he claims
for his physical faculties and for his un
derstanding. The strain of reason and
the emotions of his spiritual nature will
not rest unrecognized: and when the
end of the Professor’s address is reach
ed we echo his own thought if we say:
‘There are more things in Heaven and
earth than are dreamt of in his philoso
phy.’ ”
The Standard and Daily News review
the address, less closely perhaps, but
calmly and approvingly. No exception
is taken to any part of it, but the latter
paper expressly intimates that none can
betaken. “If,” it tells us, “ the ad
dress be read fairly, there will be found
in it nothing to which reasonable excep
tion can be taken, while it is full of les
sons which our age much needs to
learn.”
GORDON’S BRIGADE.
A call has been issued for a reunion
Os Gordon’s Brigade to take place in
Atlanta Wednesday, October Ist—dur
ing the State Fair. Addresses will be
delivered by Generals Lawton. Gordon
and Evans, and by Governor Smith, who
commanded one of the regiments of the
brigade. Among these gallant men Au
gusta was well represented by the Walk
er Light Infantry—companies A and B.
These gallant men nobly represented
Georgia and we trust they will be at the
reunion in force. We call attention to
the letter of Lieutenant-Colonel H. D.
Capers, which we publish below :
Letter from Col. H. D. Capers.
Oxford, Ga., September 17, 1874.
Col. W. B. Jones, LaGrange, Ga.:
Dear Sir —l beg to express to you the
pleasure with which I receive the call
for a reunion of Gordon’s Brigade, A.
N. V., at Atlanta during the approach
iug State Fair. You may be assured
that I will co-operate with you in every
way in my power to bring again together
our old comrades, and to this end will
address the officers and members of my
command within my reach. Asa valu
able historical record for Georgia, as
well as a matter of interest to the Brig
ade organization, it would be well that
muster rolls of the different regimental
commands be prepared, showing the his
tory of this command. If the surviving
members of the different companies,
who may see the call, will make out
from memory a list of the killed, woun
ded and those who died of disease, Ac.,
it would enable proper rolls to be pre
pared for preservation. I will request
those of the Twelfth Bataliou to whom I
write to do so.
If no other good comes from these
reunions than the reviving of that
cliivalric and generous spirit which
characterized our army association, there
will have been much accomplished.
For ten years the mean spirit of per
sonal selfishness, stimulated by a mania
for speculation in political party profits,
has been active in demoralizing the man
ly characteristics of our people. It has
poisoned our whole moral atmosphere,
dwarfed our statesmanship, and given
birth to the sickly sentimentalism of Puri
tan piety, which in the name of peace
plunders fortune and reputation, and
robs the very shrine of liberty of every
valuable ornament. Let us then hail
these reunions as harbingers of good,
and iu the very act of reviving these ar
my associations preserve the nobler ele
ments of our characters, that we may
transmit to posterity the record of
achievements we cannot regret, and of
which we need never be ashamed.
I am, Colonel, very sincerely yours,
H. D. Capers.
ROBERT TOOMBS.
A Reminiscence of Ye Olden Times.
The following contribution to Georgia
literature was made to the Atlanta
Herald :
Knowledge depends on memory;
knowledge is the remembrance of the
things we have seen or learned—so
knowledge was defined by Socrates.
Now, among the men and things with
which I became acquainted more than
thirty years ago are Robert Toombs and
the scenes in which he was a central
figure and prominent actor.
The first time I ever heard Toombs on
the stump was at Macon, during the
“Harrison freshet” of 1840. During*that
memorable campaign, which young men
cannot remember, and old men cannot
forget, there was a more general political
excitement throughout every part of the
United States than has ever been known
before or since. It was the historical
period of red-pepper, haid-cider, coon
skins and log cabins. Miniature log
cabins were manufactured into every
shape and size ; they became fashionable
emblems everywhere ; they adorned the
mantlepiece, the traveling carriage, the
bar room, and were worn as golden
ornauieuts by the ladies. If you passed
a cabin on any road in the country un
adorned with a coon-skin and a string
of red-pepper over or at the side of its
front door, you could easily guess the
political complexion of the proprietor.
He was sure to be no “good Whig, any
how!”
It was in times like these that a great
mass meeting was called at Macon, in
the latter part of the Summer. The
whole country of Georgia responded ;
the people came from every town and
hamlet, from every log cabin with a log
eabiu, to mingle in the grand festivity.
Never, before or since, lias Georgia wit
nessed such a day! Some declared there
were forty thousand people at Macon on
that occasion. Orators were there from
all parts of the country, and the people
were in a humor to hear them. Various
stands were erected with a view of ac
commodating the anxious listeners as
well as possible. On each stand was a
separate improvised organization, with
its chairman. William C. Preston, of
South Carolina, the great orator of the
age, was there ; and so, too, Robert
Toombs was there. Bob was a splendid
young fellow then 1 “His locks were
like the raven” then ! and lie wore them
long to show them, or to shake them, as
he had a right to do. He wore them,
and he shook them to so ne purpose, as
it proved. Ho soon became in that vast
multitude of excited men the orator of
the day—the central figure of the whole.
His splendid voice, his fine gesticulation,
his commanding personal appearance,
caught the eyes and ears of that anxious
throng. Wherever Toombs went, there
followed the crowd ; some of the boys
cried out, “Hark from the Toombs 1”
and all tho other boys took up the cry,
and rushed after him wherever he went.
He spoke at every stand; he spoke every
where, and all other orators seemed to
sink into insignificance. Toombs was
adapted to the crowd and the occasion.
The writer of this reminiscence heard
Col. Preston say, “That young man is
the greatest stump orator I ever heard.”
Since then I have seen Toombs in
many grand scenes—in the Georgia
Legislature, on the stump, in Congress,
and elsewhere—but the scene at Macon
impressed me like a dream. I remem
ber the striking figure in the centre,
with its gestures and its playful locks,
but cannot remember its utterances.
However, what was said then and there
was not designed for “all time.”
I am happy to learn from your paper
that Toombs (now General Toombs) is
yet alive and well; and, if I can help
him, he will keep well. Baldwin.
New York City Sold for Twenty-four
Dollars.
Twenty-four dollars purchased the
whole city and county of New York in
1625. In 1638 tobacco was produced to
a considerable extent on New York
Island. In 1652 the first public school
was established; streets first paved in
1676; in 1667 there were twelve streets
and 384 houses. In 1711 a slave market
was established in Wall street. Iu 1729
iiiree pence a foot was given for laud on
the west side of Broadway, near the
Battery. The first stage route between
New York and Boston was established in
1732—time, fourteen days from city to
city. In 1733 a law was passed to pre
serve the fish iu the Fresh Water Pond
(the Kolck), now Centre street and
neighborhood. In 1737 a market house
was built in Broadway, opposite Crown,
now Liberty street; the city at that rime
contained 1,416 houses. In 1745 the
first coach (Lady Murray’s) was driven
in New York. When the British evacua
ted the city, November 25, 1783, the
buildings did not extend beyond Murray
street. In 1801 Broadway was ordered
to be continued through Thomas Ran
dall’s land, near Eighth Btreet, to meet
’the Bowery, and the hills leveled and
carted into Fresh Water Pond, which
was then the northern limit of Broad
way, and much beyond the settled parts
of "the city. Previous to this extension
of Broadway the Bowery was the only
entrace to the city, through groves of
cedar, to the Bull’s Head, now ihe Bow
erv Theatre. The old Potter’s Field is
now the Washington Parade Ground.
Congressional Nominations.
St. Lons, September 23.—The Demo
crats in the Ninth Congressional Dis
trict nominated David Ray for Congress
yesterday.
Clevelan-d, Ohio, September 23. —The
Democrats in the Twentieth Congres
sional District to-day nominated Henry
B. Paine.
Baltimore, September 23.—The Re
publicans iu the Fifth Congressional
District nominated A. B. Hagner.
Baltimore, September 23.—Ex-Gov.
Phillip Frank Thomas was to-day nomi
nated ior Congress by tbe Democrats of
the First District. He succeeded Cobb
as Secretary of the Treasury in 1860,
and was elected to the United States
Senate in 1869 and was refused a seat.
The Odd Fellows.
Atlanta, September 23. —The Grand
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resolved that all spirituous, vinous and
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At prices which cannot fail to su if the
purchaser.
U N I> K ft. TAKING
In all its branches. METALIC CASES
and CASKETS, of various styles and
make. Imported Wood Caskets and
Cases, of every design and finish.
COFFINS and CASKETS, of our own
make, in Mahogany, Rosewood aud Wal
nut. An accomplished Undertaker will
be in attendance at all hours, dav and
night. PLATT BROTHERS,
212 and 214 Broad Bt., Augusta, (la.
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ftmOTEHNNSE
The only Reliable Gift Distribution iu the Country
SIOO,OOO 00
IN VALUABLE GIFTS!
TO BE DIBTBIBUTED IN
D. SINE’S
45th SEMI-ANNUAL
GIFT ENTERPRISE!
To bo Drawn Monday, October 12th, 1874.
One Grand Capital Prize, SIO,OOO
in Gold !
ONE PRIZE, $5,000 IN SILVER !
Five Prizes, SI,OOO )
Five Prizes, SSOO > GREENBACKS.
Ten Prizes, SIOO each in )
Two Family Carnages and Matched Horses,
with Silver mounted Harness, worth sl,sooeach.
Two Buggies, Horses, Ac., worth S6OO each.
Two Fine-toned liosewood Pianos, worth $550
each. Ten Family Sewing Machines, worth SIOO
each. 1,500 Gold and Silver Lever Hunting
Watches (in all), worth from S2O to S3OO each.
Gold Chains. Silverware. Jewelry, Ac., Ac.
Number of Gifts, 10,000. Tickets limited to
50,000.
Agents wanted to sell Tickets, to whom lib
eral premiums will bo paid.
Single Tickets, $2; Six Tickets, $10; Twelve
Tickets, S2O; Twenty-five Tickets, S4O.
Circulars containing a full list of prizes, & de
scription of the manner of drawing, and other
information in reference to the Distribution,
will he sent to any one ordering them. All
letters must be addressed to main office,
L. D. SINE,
Box 86, Cincinnati. Ohio.
101 W. Fifth Street. sepH-dAw4 w
The Universal Pet I
The People’s Machine.
Everybody’s Eriend.
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WATER WHEEL
* The l*oift In the Market, eni
sold at less price tlmu any other
first-class AN lied. (
Send for a Pamphlet and he eon
▼ MMcd. N. F, BURNHAM»York, pas
THE HOME SHUTTLE.
THE public is positively assured that this
popular, cheap and greatly improved
Family Sewing Machine is fully equal to any
! in use for all domestic and light manufactur
ing purposes, nor is it inferior to any (as may
be inferred by some mindsj'on account of its
low price. It makes precisely the same stitch
as the expensive Machines, and does every
variety of work done by any in market, or no
sale, and iB warranted for five yeais to every
purchaser. Buy it. and evade the enormous
commission paid to canvassera for selling the
high price Machines which alone will more
than pay for the HOME SHUTTLE out and
and out. Call and examine, and try it before
buying any other make, and he convinced that
it is “a good article at a reasonable price "
Sold for cash, or on installments. Cash
Prices, $25, $37, $42 and $75. Sent to any
address on receipt of pmee, or by Express, C.
O. D. Refer, by permission, to Mrs. Dr. L. D.
Ford. Augusta, Ga.; Mrs. Dr. Wm. Pettigrew.
Langley, S. C. Illustrated Circulars and sam
ples of work sent free ou application, Agon's,
with small capital, wanted,
A. B. CLARKE, Gen’l Agent,
jun24-wtf 143 Broad at., Augusta, Ga.
NOTICE !
AS I am about to close my business, I here
by notify my customers to take out their
work within thirty days, or they will be sold
for expenses. J- GODIN,
Watchmaker, 336 Broad Street,
au2S-l» Augusta, Ga.
TPTJPSESCREW
DHcOTTON presses
MACON. CA.tggf^!
(Patented February 21, 1871, and April 28, 1874.)
CRAND COLD MEDAL
The Fastest, Most Durable, Lightest Draught aud Cheapest Screw
Cotton or Hay Press in the World.
Tracks the Hale in Tavolvo Hoi units.
Two lo three Hands or one Light Mule Packs a Rale in 2 Minutes.
Bales of Cotton packed by this Press range from 000 to 800 pounds.
WE GUARANTEE
TO MAKE GOOD. FREE OF COST (and pay expenses or transportation), ANY PORTION OF
HIE IRON WORK OFT! IF. ECLIPSE 111 AT MA\ PIl'iVE DF.FF.CTIVF. WITHIN
THREE YEARS AFTER PURCHASE. AND WARRANT AGAINST
BREAKAGE WITHOUT LIMIT AS TO TIME.
Tho “ECLIPSE” can bo furnished nil complete, or simply tho Iron, as parties may desire.
PRESSES arranged for Hleam or water power when required.
We have TESTIMONIALS from many of the Largest and Best Planters in Georgia (and all
tho other Cotton States) using this Press, whoso names are as "familiar as household words."
Planters visiting Macon aro earnestly advised not to purchase a Cotton Press until Ihev EX
AMINE CLOSELY AND THOROUGHLY tho "ECLIPSE," and JUDGE FOR i’ll EMSKLVEH
Send for Descriptive Pamphlets, containing testimonials and prices.
Though far superior to all other Presses heretofore, wo have made Recent Valuable Im
provemeuts, giving all parts increased strength, and affording still LIGHTER DRAUGHT
and dispensing with what was known as tho “inner sleeve.” Tho “ECLIPSE” is now
PERFECTION.
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FINDLAY’S IMPROVED POWIIt PUS,
FOR STEAM OR WATER POWER.
FINDLAY’S IMPROVED POWER PRESS, for si oam or water power, pohhoshos rare advan
tages and conveniences. Screw Pin is ton feet long; Gearing heavy and strong, and instead of
the doubtful and dangerous “clutch” arrangement, tight and loose pulleys with “shipper” aro
used, thus insuring Safety, Certainty, aud Promptness of Action. This Press will he, supplied
with our new patent Conical Rollers, a most valuable improvement, for the purpose of receiving
the “end thrust," and very materially lessening friction. This Press was also Trium
phant at Last State Fair.
NEW FEATURE.
In addition to our regular ‘-Eclipse" Press, wo offer this soaeon (guaranteed as above) a strictl
“ IT A NT) ECLIPSE PRESS,”
With horizontal levers, for working inside of gin house. Will ho from throe to four times as
fast and lighter draught than any other Head Screw Press ever offered.
STILL ANOTHER.
By positive right wo will also manufacture in all its forms;
Mel’s limed Wroilit In Screw Cotton Press,
Using our “Eclipse” frame, and adding our new “patent Conical Hollers," to lessen friction, eto.
This Press will bo made for Hand. Horse, Water or Steam Power, and in every instance the
Screw Pin will he ten feet long and four indies in diameter, of warranted material.
We will lie Prepared to Supply Any Kind ©l‘ a Screw Cotton
Press that may he Desired*
at an early day,
We will introduce a Now din Gearing, hound to supersede all others, being simply the old
fashioned Gin Gearing running on ami-friction rollers, and working on the ground, thus dis
pensing with “king posts." and “eentre supports,” and tho trouble and doubt of putting them
up. We advise parties not to order until they sco this “new movement,” and hear our guaran
tee, etc.
Send Tor Descriptive Circular, containing Detailed Illustrations of our
I’rcsscs, etc., and Testimonials, Price, Terms, etc.
MANUFACTURERS ALSO OF
STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW and GRIST MILLS, WATER WHEELS,
AND ALL KINDS OI MACHINERY AND CASTINGS, ETC., ETC.
It. FIN I)LA Y’W SONS,
FINDLAY IRON WORKS, MACON, GA.
For sale by ISAAC T. HEARD h CO,, Augusta, Ga.
•T. VI. BURDIODIx,
Cotton Factor and Commission Merchant,
AIKiUHTA, GA.
(At Old Stand, No. 0 Warren Block.)
O AGOING and TIES and all cUHtomary supplies furnished, and CASH ADVANCES made as
13 usual. Consignments solicited. _____ _BiJ | >jhtliHatiiA-w3m^^
ttSSS SAVINGS BANK.
Deposits of One Dollar Deceived.
1 o:o
j Q PER CENT, paid on the Capital Stock, 7 per cent, pjud on Deposits.
T. P. BRANCH, President. | JNO. P. KING, Vice-President | JOS- N. BEAN, Jr., Cashier
in arid—ts
Augusta Steam Cracker Bakery,
120 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
o
J. I>. II A IITV Ac BRO., Proprietors
WE would respectfully call tho attention of our City Merchants andl Country friends io our
extensive facilities for manufacturing CR ACKERS OF 1-AERY VARIETY, which in
price and quality will compete with those of Northern and We-tern manufacture. We solicit
orders, guaranteeing satisfaction in every instance, with strict attention.
ALSO,
BREAD of all kinds and CAKES of every description—WEDDlNG and PARTY CAKES made
to order in the fluent Btylo of the art.
CANDIES of our own manufacture at Wholesale and Retail, and a general hue of CONFEC
TIONERIES always made and on hand.
J. I). ETAI IN & BRO.,
llnkera anti Coniiietloncrg,
jyl2-su&we3m 120 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA^^
*£>4:s _A_ctuially Saved.
Fimllay’s Iron Worlti*.