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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 Lodge after considerable discussion, resolved that all spirituous, vinous and malt liquors shall be excluded from the Lodge rooms, ante-rooms, or halls con nected with or adjoining thereto, when under control of any subordinate or de gree Lodge or Encampment of this or der. It also adopted anew funeral and anniversary ceremony. During the dull season thff Griffin clerks amuse themselves with a brush and marking pot, by advertising their wares upon the pavement, I IN ew Advertisement*. rsiBSS THE FAVORITE HOME REMEDY Is eminently a Family Medicine : and by be ing kept ready for immediate resort will save many an boor of suffering and many a dollar in tithe and doctor's bills. After over Forty Years’ trial it is still receiv ing tbe most unqualified testimonials to its vir tues from persons of ttie highest character and responsibili y. Eminent physicians commend it as the most EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC For all diseases of the Liver. Stomach and Spleen. The Symptoms of Liver Complaint are a bitter rr bad ta te in the mouth: Fain in the Back, Sides or Joints, often mistaken for lllieu matism: Sour Stomach, Loss of Appetite; Bowels alternately costive and lax. Headelie, Loss of memory, with a painful sensation of having failed to do something which ought to have been done: Debility. Low Spirits, a thick yellow appearance of the Skin and Eyes, a dry Cough, often mistaken for Consumption. Sometimes many of these symptoms attend the disease, at others very few: but the Liver, the largest organ in the body, is generally the seat of the disease, and if not Regulated in time, great sufferieg. wretchedness and Death will ensue. For DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION Jaun dice. Bilious Attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Col ic. Depression of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH, Heart'Burn. Ac., Ac. The Cheapest. Purest and Best Family Medi cine m the World. Manufactured only by J. H. ZEILIJV & CO., Macon, Ga.. and Philadelphia. Price, sl. Sold by all Druggists, j an2omy lfiaugl B—tnthsaA w lv NOW OPEN. BOOTS AND SHOES! ALL GOODS NEW ! WE HAVE OPENED A BOOT AND SHOE STORE, first door above Jas. A. Gray & Co’s. We intend to keep all qualities usually found in a first-class establishment. All Goods warranted as represented. Our long expe rience in tlio Shoe business justifies us in say ing that we are confident we can give satisiac tion to all who give us tlieir patronage. Wo will be adding to our stock as fast as the Goods are manufactured W. S. ROYAL A CO. N. B.—Our Sign is not yet up. sep22-d6Awl Attorneys at Law. W. M. A: M. P. REESE Washington. Ga. W. G. JOHNSON Lexington. Ga. J. T. JORDAN... Sparta. Ga. J T. REID Crawfordville, Ga. GEO. F. PIERCE. Jr Sparta, Ga. JURIAH li. CASEY Thomson, Ga. F. L. LITTLE ! Sparta, Ga. R. O. LO VETT Waynesboro, Ga. BILLUPS k BROBSTON Madison. Ga. C. E. KINNEBREW Greenesboro, Ga. WM. H. 8RANCH............ Greeresboro. Ga. CRAWFORD k WILLIAMSON. .Milledgeville. A. 8. MORGAN Warrenton, Ga. PAUL C. HUDSON Thomson. Ga. Commercial Insurance AND BANKING COMPANY. Capital Stock : : : : $309,000 DIRECTORS: W. T. WHELESS, of Sibley k Wlieloss. WM. S. ROBERTS, ol' Roberts, Morris k Shivers.^ JAS. T. BOTIIWELL, of Bothwoll Bros. II F. RUSSELL, of Russell k Potter. JOHN W. WALLACE, of Warren, Wallace k Cos. JOHN M. CLARK, of John M. Clark k Cos. WM. H. HOWARD, of W. H. Howard k Sons. WM. C. SIBLEY, of Dunbar k Sibley. JAS. G. BAILIE, of Jas. G. Bailio k Bro. W. T. WHELESS. | W. S. ROBERTS, President. | Vice-President. J. C. FARGO, Cashier. Prepared to do a General Banking Business, receive Deposits, deal in Exchange, attend to Collections at all accessible points where le liable agents can be procured. sepll-dl2.twlm LADIES’ UNDERWEAR. T7IULL assortment of all styles Garments, I from the best manufacturer of the above Goods in the United States. AH styles French and Glove Fitting Corsets, at very low prices. JAMES A. GUAY k CO. Yak Beaded Laces. THE Newest Trimming Lace Edge in all widths. Beaded Veil Laces, Hortense Laces for Scarfs, Courtald’s Superior Black English Crepes and Ladies' Hem-Stitched Handerchiefs, cheap at JAMES A. GRAY k CO.’S. Lupin’s Mourning Cioods. BLACK BOMBAZINES, Tamise. 5-4 Mons selaines, Cachemiro. Empress Cloths, all of Lupin’s manufacture, superior in color and texture to any B 1 ck Goods manufactured. Full lines of Alpacas, Mohairs and other Black Goods at the lowest prices. JAMES A. GRAY k CO. Jouviu’s Kid Gloves. FULL assortment Fall Shades in Jouvin’s 2 Button Paris Made Kid Gloves. Also. Black’s 2 Button and 1 Button Black at $1 25 per pair. Jouvin’s Gloves are recoguized as the best Kid Gloves made. JAMES A GRAY k CO. Ladies’ Neck Ties. TVTEW and Elegant Ties in new designs, just IN imported. Large assortment New Sash Bibbons at 40 cents. 05 cen s. 85 cents and id. Handsome Black Sash Ribbons, Gros Grain Watered and Boiled Silk, at seplS-tf JAMES A. GRAY & CO.’S. JAMES LEFFEL’S IMPROVED DOUBLE Turbine Water Wheel, POOLE & 111 VI, Baltimore, Manufacturers for the South and South west. Nearly 7.000 now n use. working under heads varying from 2 to 240 feet! 24 sizes, from 5} to 96 inches. The most powerful Wheel in the Market, And most economical in use of water. Large ILLUSTRATED Pamphlet sent post free. MANUFACTURERS. ALSO. OF Portable and Stationary Steam Engines and boilers, Babcock <fc Wilcox Patent Tubulous Boilers. Ebangh’a 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-wly § $ I I J 5 U t KIIISIGUS CURE FOB Chicken Cholera I Is THE ONLY SPECIFIC YET DISCOY EP.ED FOP. THE DISEASE. It lias been need for two years as preventive and cure with almost COMPLETE success. For sale by Merchants and Druggists gen erally. Prepared by Db. WM. KING, ap7-dl<iw6m Athens, Ga. THE BRIXLEI PLOWS FROM and after this date, till further notice, will be sold at Reduced Prices, for only. No credit will be given on them hereafter. Orders for other Implements and Machinery for the field tilled at short notice on the same terms. JAMES STOGNER, sepl-d3Aw4 Agent. MiseollunooiiM. I.MUKOVI’D gLiii cum press, PATENTED MABCII, 1874, BY PENDLETON & BOARDMAN Augusta, Ga. THE satisfaction this PRESS has given in the past, the great improvements made on it. and the fact of its being from forty to fifty dollars cheaper than any other good Press, should induce planters aud others to send for one of our new Circulars before purchasing. We also manufacture Irons for Water Power Tresses and Screw Presses. Address. PENDLETON k BOARDMAN, Foundry and Machine Works. jn7-snweAwe4m Kol ock St.. Augusta. Ga. ANOTHER CHANCE ! FIFTH AND LAST CONCERT IN AID OF THE Piic Library of Kentucky. Postponed to November 30, 1874. Drawing Certain_at Hiat Date. LIST OF GIFTS. ONE GRAND CASH GIFT $250,000 ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 100,0(11) ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 75,000 ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 50,000 ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 25,000 5 CASH GIFTS $20,000 each 100,000 10 CASH GIFTS 14,000 each 140,000 15 CASH GIFTS 10,000 each... . 150,000 20 CASH GIFTS 5,000 each 100,000 25 CASH GIFTS 4,000 each 100,000 30 CASH GIFTS 8,000 each 00,000 50 CASH GIFTS 2.000 each 100.000 100 CASH GIFTS 1.000 each 100,000 240 CASH GIFTS 500 each.. .. 120,000 500 CASH GIFTS 100 each 50,000 19,000 CASH GIFTS 50 oacli 950,000 GRAND TOTAL, 20,000 GIFTS, ALL CASH $2,500,000 PRICE OF TICKETS. Whole Tickets $ 50 00 Halves 25 00 Tenth, or each coupon 5 00 11 Whole Tickets 10r... „ 500 00 221 Tickets for 1,000 00 For Tickets and information, address TIIOS. E. 15 HAM LETT E, Agent and Manager. Public Library Building. Louisville. Kv. Tickets for sale at the AUGUSTA HOTEL, Augusta. Ga. seplS-suth&wlm The Oldest Furniture House in the State. PLATT BROTHERS, 212 & 214 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA, Keep always or hand the latest styles of FURNIT UR E Os every variety manufactured, from tin lowest to the highest grades. Chamber, Parlor, Dining-Room, AND Library Complete Suits, or Slagle Pieces, 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. oct2fi—lftnl4-rl+Ai.wl v 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. C 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. sJS|r||ls 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*.