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WEDNESDAY. .NOVEMBER 18,1874,
▲ WILD ROSE IN SEPTEMBER.
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O wild rd rose what spell has stared
Till now thy Summer of delights ?
Where hid the south winds when he laid
His heart on thine, these Autumn nights ?
O wild re 1 rose! Two feoes glow
At sight of thee, and two hearts share
All thou and thy south wind can know
Of funahine in thia Autumn air.
O sweet wild roes! O strong south wind!
The sunny roadside asks no reasons
Why we such secret Summer find
Forgetting calendars and seasons!
Alas! red rose, thy petals silt;
Our loring hands tend thee in rain;
Our thoughtless touch seems like a guilt;
Ah, oould we make thee lire againl
Yet Joy, wild rose '■ Be glad, south wind!
Immortal wiDd ! immortal rose!
Ye ahall lire on in two hearts shrined.
With secrets which no words disclose.
Transcript.
TROPIC MIDNIGHT.
The rain floats off; the crescent moon
Holds in its cup a round of dusk.
Like palm-buds in the month of June
Just breaking through their remal husk.
Night-blooming agaves fill the sheaf.
To catch the light distilled in showers,
Till orerfiowing cup and leaf
Its cluster breaks in midnight flowers.
A sensuous stillness north and sonth
And east and west, and just as sweet
As seeds of pomegranate in the mouth,
Or kisses when young lovers meet,
Breaks in a low. sweet under-tone
Like brooks that grieve in be Is of fern,
As if by curve and pebble-stone
The moon had spilled her silver urn.
Its airy current fills and ripes
The flower and fruit to wanton use ;
It blows the rush's slender pipes.
And rounds the purple figs with juice ;
Like merchants breaking kids of uard
Or Jars of olives, desert born
Pine-apples lift their pickled shard.
And show the seeds of fragpant corn.
Like Hebrew maids the citrons hold
Their pitchers to the vapor spring,
And fill the hollow rinds of gold
With musky midnight's flavoring.
So once, I think, earth knew her Lord,
In lands like these of palm and vine.
When midnight gave the sweet accord
That turned the water into wine.
{For the Sunday Chronicle an>i .Sentinel.]
AT THE BEA BIDE.
BY FEED. WILLIAMS.
How near we were unto tho starry skies,
When we walked on the sea side strand j
As rustic lovers walk o’er meads,
With hand in hand.
In country innocence we took
That walk, we two to fashion bred ;
We loved it for its novelty,
Where billows tread.
We left a throng upon the pave.
We left their jewls. satins, thrall
Of ala mode, to stroll away,
And that was all.
Fd worshipped her in jeweled throng,
In silken, modish glamour drest;
But there, upon the moonlit sands,
I loved her best.
Her hand upon my arm laid white
And Boft—l saw it by the moon;
I thought it seemed a flake of snow,
Bnt, it was June.
I had the heart to speak my love j
I shaped it into burning words ;
Her voice grew low and sweet —I thought
Of singing birds.
Of birds that coo unto their mates,
With tunesome beaks together wed ;
My fevered lips were close to her's,
“I love,” she said.
We parted on the moonlit sands;
That night I lay awake for bliss,
Her kiss was witn me till the dawn,
And still it is.
A month of every-day joy passed,
Each hour an hour to thank God for ;
And, then, our grooves ran wide apart,
Love had a flaw.
We met again last night—the throng
Barged gaily by—l saw but her;
The old man at her side she named—
“My husband, sir.”
Novemiieu 4th, 1874.
YEARB AFTER.
I never loved him ; for awhile
We were two passing friends; and yet
I learned to prize the slow, sad smile
Whioh touched his features when wo mot.
His words of greeting, light and brief,
The clasp his fingers left on mine.
And saw, with vague, unspoken grief,
, The signß which marked his life's decline,
And when, awaiting certain doom,
He lay at last, serene and calm,
I often sought his lonesome room,
With flowers and words of friendly balm ;
And when P bathed his aching brow.
Or read, or talked—still, all the while,
His earnest eyes—they haunt me now—
Repaid me with that slow, sad smile.
At last. one day, when gathering shades
Made the spring landscape chill and drear,
He said : “Dear friend, the sunshine fades ;
To-morrow I shall not be hero.
“And when you come, yon will not see
This trembling hand, this thinning face,
So—you were always kind to me—
Grant me, I pray, one gift of grace.
“I cannot reach yon where you stand,
Come closer, while I say good-bye,
Nay closer—let me hold your hand.
And kiss you once before I die.”
Ah, why that sudden storm of tears ?
I did not love him—wherefore then
Would I have given all my years
To bring him back to life' again ?
And when, next morn, beside the door,
I waited in the soft May rain,
They told me he had gone beforo,
And I had culled my flowers in vain.
Ah, why, when half a score of years
Across his low. green grave have moved.
Do I bedew with bitter tears
Tho grave of one I never loved ?
We were but casual friends, at best;
A word, a smile, and all was said;
I stood not near his heart, nor guessed
That I should grieve if ho were dead.
And yet, if on the earth there be
One soul that holds me half so dear
As his last blessing is to me,
Or his sad memory, year by year,
It will be all I ask or crave,
To smooth my bed or bless my sleep,
Even though the whisper haunt my grave,
“I did not love her—wherefore weep ?”
Argosy.
(For the Sunday Chronicle anil Sentinel .]
HEROES.
BY N. BRUM CLARK.
Hie heroes of the world have pen*
To celebrate their praise.
And laurel wreaths and diadems.
And Fame's applause, that wide extends
The glory of their days!
And waving banners kiss the sun,
O’er him who victories hath won,
And made a nation slaves!
Great Julius, Lord of Ancient Home,
Led captive kings in chains;
And Macedon’s imperial son
The habitable world o'errun;
But what of them remains ?
Mingling with all the millions slain,
(The cost of their ephemeral fame).
They’ve left us but their names
And tales of blood, and sculptureo
Fast crumbling to decay;
And beasts of savage nature roam
Where once the massive gilded dome
Shone bright in sunny ray.
Is human glory more thaii this,
A syren’s sweet, but treacherous kies.
That serves but for a day!
Where rolls the periodic Nile,
On Egypt's classic ground,
The towering monumental pile.
Where ghostly monarchs strut and smile
On royal wrecks around.
But serves to shew Ambition's aims.
Tho’ fortune crowned, but this obtains:
Death and a mouldy mound!
But there are heroes worthier far,
Unstained with human gore,
Who ne'er were borne on Triumph's car,
That heralded great deeds in war,
Nor crown of empire wore;
Yet victories they achieve, unknown
To any. save themselves alone.
And Him who went before.
No clarion of renown proclaims
Their names and moral worth ;
Nor pageantry, nor martial strains.
Nor all that worldly greatness claims.
Are theirs upon the earth:
And still their lives are more sublime
Than warriors of illustrious line,
Or prince of royal birth 1
And they are followers of the Lord,
As meek as nobly brave ;
Their battle cry's the Holy Word—
Their only weapon is the sword
Of faith that Jesus gave!
In life great victories they win
O’er all the tempting hosts of Sin.
And triumph o'er the grave !
Though unrewarded here below,
Oppressed and stricken sore;
Tho’ Satan’s messengers of woe,
Or Heaven sufferings bestow,
They love the Saviour more 1
Through tribulation purified.
Thev shout. •'Redeemer crucifiedF*
And God for e’er adore.
“Didn’t Know Brans.”— A newly em
ployed clerk in one of our dry goods
stores was exhibiting to a lady customer,
a few days since, a lot of “under vests,”
for Winter wear, when bis eye suddenly
encountered an arrangement in the
bosoms of the vests which was new to
him, so when the lady customer inquir
ed the price he courteously replied,
looking at the cabalistic figures on the
bottom of the box and then at the afore
said mysterious arrangement: “Well,
the price is one dollar each, ma’am; but
as these appear to have been pieced or
patched, yon may have them for seven
ty-live cents each. ” The lady took the
lot, while the clerk has sinoe become s
sadder but a frieer man.
AMONG THE MONTE MEN.
Fleecing Passengers on tne Pacific
Railway-A Midnight Ride with
1 Slim Jim," the Houle King.
[Cor respondent Sacramento JUcord ]
We are gliding through tho canon of
the Truckee River, at night, and nine
ont of ten of the passengers are dozing,
when suddenly the door opens, and in
with the cold night comes the queerest
specimen of humanity I ever saw. One
side of the slouched hat is pinned np,
and by the lamplight discloses a face
that is young anil not unhandsome, a
pair of honest bine eyes, and a good
forehead. The beard is unshorn, how
ever, the hair unkempt and every linea
ment of the countenance bespeaks un
mistakable verdancy. It requires no
particular knowledge of character to de
cide that the fellow is a green Missou
rian, fresh from tho primitive precincts
of Pike county. One leg of his cordu
roy pants is stuffed into the top of an
old cowhide boot. These, and the
woolen 6hirt, and the dilapidated vest
and c jat, render his costume decidedly
seedy. As if totally oblivious of the
stuation and surroundings, he begins
humming in a low, musical voice—
‘Away down South in Dixie,
•Away, away.’
Keeping time to his weird song, he
waltzes with a light, shuffling step the
entire length of the car, and in a twink
ling has disappeared. rie has molested
no one, noticed no one, and yet every
body is awake and talking about this
strange personage. He has not awaken
ed them by his humming song or shuff
ling dance so much as by his strange,
indescribable tone, manner and condnct.
The boy on the front seat is convulsed
with is lighter, the young miss across the
aisle giggles with glee, broad smiles
overspread the faces of men and ma
trons, and the more serious mntter
“Poor fellow !he is crazy.” They areas
unconscious of the person at whom they
have been looking as of the scenery
through which they have been gliding.
Ah ! that good wife would scarcely have
awakened her drowsy husband to ‘‘look
at that fellow” had she imagined for an
instant that it was ‘‘the terrible Slim
Jim,” ehiefest of the monte sharps. In a
little time he returns, and with the same
abstracted air proceeds to walk through
the car. Impelled by curiosity, several
of us follow him into the smoking car.
He is surrounded by a group of laugh
ing fellows, who are listening to his
story. At Truckee, he said, a lady bad
stepped up to the ticket office to buy
her ticket, and found that her purse
was missing. She had asked him for
S4O, and had promised to pay him when
she got aboard the train. He let her
have the money, and now had gone
“ clean through” the cars without find
ing her. He told the story in such a
droll manner that everybody laughed,
even while they pitied the poor fellow’s
loss. He seemed to care but little, how
ever, for he drew from his pocket a
large leathern bag, fully eighteen inches
in length, that was half full of shining
gold pieces. He told how he had been
swindled out of some of bis money by
the fellows called “ monte sharps,” and
proceeded to illustrate the manner in
which they found him. Believing that
he had thoroughly learned the game
from the rascals, he bet that
no one could find the ace of diamonds,
and in less than five minutes he lost
S4OO to a well-dressed gentleman who
stood around. His hands moved so
awkwardly that a child could pick out
the right card.
No man ever saw SIB,OOO placed con
veniently within his grasp who was not
tempted to covet the lucre. So it was
with the black‘visaged man, who sprang
eagerly from his seat as soon as the
greenhorn began losing his money. Of
all the men in the car this man was the
most perfect villain, if God’s hand
writing in his countenance was not
wholly unintelligible. Carried away
with the one idea of stealing the Mis
sourian’s money, this fellow planked
down his cash, his watch, his gold chain,
and—lost! All this occupied not over
ten minutes, including the waltz, the
game aud the winning. Just as the fel
low turned the wrong card a low whistle
from the further end of the car an
nounced the coming of the conductor.
Quicker than ‘‘scat” the cards disap
peared, the cappers and all hands drop-
Eed into their seats. Slim Jim drew his
at down over his eyes, and the victim,
after glaring fiercely aiound for a mo
ment, settled back into his seat in moody
silence. The conductor entered and
passed slowly through the car, but not
a single hint did he obtain of the fact
(hat a game had been going on. Hardly
had he left the car before the villainous
looking victim demanded anotherchance
to bet. From another pocket he had
drawn twenty dollars, his last cept, and
eagerly asked for a “sight. ’ Coolly
disregarding his importunities, Slim
Jim said, “No, sir, I don’t want to
break you.” In another minute he had
disappeared through the door, dancing
and humming “Away away,"
NO CARDS.
“My dear countess,” I said, “I assure
yon I never gamble beyond my means,
aud lose neither head nor temper, which
ever way luck goes. I play for amuse
ment in a town where all play—men and
women—” “Not at all, sir,” broke in
my companion, curling her pretty lips
with disdain, not unmingled with irrita
tion. “I and many here never do so
simply to kill time. Yon seem to forget
what is pleasure to you may be death to
others.”
Cards were always a source of conten
tion between the charming Countess
Collini and myself. Traveling through
Italy I had made her acquaintance at
M , a small town, the inhabitants of
which were much given to games of
chances. I had found the Countess so
charmiug that I instantly pitched my
tent there to enjoy her society, and, as I
have said, for amusement often dropped
into the Cassino for an hour or so dur
ing the evening. Being at Rome, I did
ns Rome did, that was all; but it brought
down on me the Countess’ wrath. She
had lived much iu England, spoke the
language perfectly, and 1/ad so acquired
our manners that she appeared but half
Italian. She was very beautiful, but
looked most so when she was excited.
The subject of gambling always render
ed her so, and I own to selfishly indulg
ing my admiration by frequently bring
ing it upon the tapis.
“I really must give it np,” 1 repent
antly said, one evening, after a more
than usually hot passage at arms. “I
don’t care about it, but she is evidently
more annoyed than she even confessed,
aud I wouldn’t seriously vex her for the
world.” The game was just commenc
ing. I carelessly put down my stake. I
won, I left the lyra and what it had
gained on the color, and won it again
aud again. Indeed, a tide of luck had
set in my favor. People crowded around
me, but *my attention was most attracted
bv a man shabbily attired, opposite me.
He was an Italian, sallow, black-haired,
black-moustached, thin aud haggard.
He staked small sums, but invariably
lost ; ill luck pursued. I noticed him
from the avidity with which he watched
the heap of gold and notes ever increas
ing before me. Indifferent to success, I
pur, down yet more recklessly. Still I
won, until the game stopped. I had
broken the bank., I was placing my
heavy gains safely away in my breast
coat pocket, when a voice addressed
me—
“ You have been fortunate to-night,
siguor. Englishmen always are." I
turned. It was the Italian. A ghastly
smile on his brow and a strange wildness
on bis countenance. “ Yes, signor,” I
answered, “ yon should have backed my
play, then I* might have returned the
compliment.” “ Backed such play,” he
muttered, “it was the evil one’s luck.”
“ Signor, you played recklessly.” A
friend coming up, the Italian moved
away; but I saw, with some anxiety, he
kept his glance furtively fixed on me.
“ That man’s dangerous,” I thought.
“ It’s hardly safe, I fancy, for me to
carry this money.” But I kept a sharp
lookout on my way home, and I reached
mv apartments in safety. It was late in
the afternoon when, next day, I called
on the Countess. “Well, Signor Mel
ville,” she said, immediately accosting
me, “ so you broke the bank last night.”
“ Then the news has reached you ?” “It
alwavs travels fast,” she responded,
dryly. I began self-extenuation, as
nsuab when she stopped me. “ Stay!
Let us say no more on the subje -t just
now. I have a visit to make. Will you
act as mv cavalier ?”
I accepted the offer, and the Countess
retired. She soon came back dressed
for walking, when we set forth. As we
went I perceived something had evident
ly gone wrong with my companion. She
was grave and talked but little. I was
at last abont to comment upon it, when
she atopped before a high, wretched
house, in a poor street.
“ It is here I have to call," she re
marked. “ A wretched abode, Mr. Mel
ville ; but will you come with me ?” “If
it were the unmentionable region itself,
dear Countess, I would follow you,” I
rejoined, bowing gallantly. Whereupon
we went into the dark, close-smelling
passage, and mounted up the stairs un
til nearly under the tiles. Here she
knocked at a door. I heard sobs with
in, but no answer coming, the Countess
entered. Never had I beheld a soeno of
such misery. The wretched room was
almost bare of furniture, and on a chair
by the table, on which her arms and
faoe rested, was a woman with dishevel
ed hair, weeping passionately, while
two pretty, but ill-clad children lifted
their tiny voices with their mother’s.
The Countess approached and address
ed her in soothing tones, which calmed
her grief. Then she asked, “Lena, may
I go into the next room with this gen
tleman ?" The weeping woman bowed
assent, and my cicerone beckoned me to
follow. It was a miserable bedchamber,
while on the bed evidently lay the cause
of a woman’s tears—a body covered by a
sheet. “Her husband?” I exclaimed,
interrogatively. “Yes, a suicide.” He
made away witn himself last night. Mr.
Melville," proceeded the Countess sol
emnly, “yesterday yon broke the bank
and deprived a wife of a husband and
her children of a father. His few coins
increased your gain. ' Do you know the
face!” She drew the sheet aside, and I
shrank back with self-approach. It was
the Italian—the man whom I suspected
intended to raise his hand against me.
It had been lifted against himself. “This
is, indeed, my work,”lejaculated. “Not
altogether. It’s the reward of play,”
she answered. “Lina Decard was my
lady’s maid, as pretty as good. She
married this man, who was well to do.
They settled here. Gaming attracted
him. All else was neglected; he sold
everything for the tables. You see the
result. Last night he returned penni
less. He forced from his wife the few
cents she had kept to get bread for her
children, and bought the poison which
has caused his death.”
“Cover that ghastly, accusing face,” I
said, with deep loathing; “it will haunt
me to my grave. Let us go from here ;
the air is stifling !” She obeyed. We
returned to the other room. There I
laid my purse, containing fifty pounds,
in the widow’s lap, and withdrew. I was
not, yet I felt myself the indirect cause
of her husband’s ruin. “Poor wretch !
when I saw him at the tables, suicide
was on his mind,” I said when the
Countess joined me. “Yes,” she re
marked slowly, “You played for amuse
ment, he for life. The stakes were
widely different. Ah ! it is you easy
rich people who are criminal. These
wretched houses would not be kept open
for such as he. Shut up, the weak would
not be fascinated, and such as Decard
driven to evil deeds.” “Conntess, your
lesson has been a severe but effectual
one.”
“I believe it, Mr. Melville. I knew I
had not misunderstood you ; so let me
ease the pain you now suffer. Lina has
lost, but little in her husband’s death.
Living he would have kept her poor.
>he is good and industrious, and with
your good munificence and my help
will soon have once again a comfortable
home.”
I dined with the Conntess that day,
and this year we are both in London.
She is married, so am I, that is, she is
my wife. Lina is also married. When
we go to Italy we make it a point to call
on her, and when I see her bright smiles
and rosy, laughing children, I cannot
but contrast them with those other faces
I had first beheld in the wretched attic.
I think, too, of the ghastly face of her
first husband, and stick more firmly to
my motto, which is—save in a quiet so
cial rubber—“No cards.”
[Savannah News ]
The Carpet-Bagger as Described by
Senator Norwood.
In his masterly speech at the Theatre,
on Monday night last, Hon. Thomas M.
Norwood indulged his audience with a
most graphic and truthful description of
that modern monstrosity, the carpet
bagger. In our hurried synopsis of the
points of the speech we were unable to
give the picture in “ full length” which
so excited the admiration and mirth of
the audience. As considerable desire
has been expressed for copies of the
picture, for preservation, and as the car
pet-bagger will shortly become an ex
tinct species in Georgia, we have taken
pains to reproduce Senator Norwood’s
sketch, not omitting the nice touches of
the arcist, which bring ont the striking
aud peculiar characteristics of the crea
ture in such bold relief. Coming in the
course of his speech to the carpet-bag
ger, Senator Norwood said :
“The reconstruction acts have wrought
immeasurable evils, but perhaps the
greatest of all is the production of the
carpet-bagger. I have great admiration
for the genius who first used that word,
carpet-bagger. What can be more ex
pressive ? His like the world has never
seen, from the days of Cain or of the
forty thieves in the fabled time of Ali
Baba. Like the wind, he blows, and we
hear the sound thereof, but no man
knoweth whence he cometli or whither
he goeth.
Natural historians will be in doubt
how to class him. Ornithologists will
claim him, because in many respects he
is a bird of prey. He lives only on cor
ruption and takes his flight as
soon as the carcass is picked. In
other particulars he resembles the
migratory crane. For when driven by
the frigidity of social ostracism from the
North, he flies with marvelous instinct
to the torrid and unctious embrace of
his African mates and peers among the
swamps of our Southern shore. As the
crane fills his craw, so this creature fills
his bag, for the flight. And as the
crane, when the days grow hot, flaps his
wings and, screaming through the air,
returns to the North, so this ill-omened
biped, when times become warm in the
South, gathers up his legs aud flying
with screams and shrieks away, perches
on the wooden head of the figure of jus
tice commonly known a3 the Attorney-
General, and drowns the air with croak
ings about Southern outrage and wrong.
In the other respects he is like tho mar
supial family of quadrupeds, for as they
are named from the pouch or bag iu
which they carry their young, so he de
rives his name from the bag ho carries
and in which are stored all his earthly
possessions. The opossum is of the
marsupial family, and the carpet-bag
ger, like that am®al, does all his travel
ing at night.
Solomon was a wise man, but he did
not know everything. He was wroug in
saying, “there is nothing new under the
sun.” The world has swung on for
thousands of years through wars and
pestilence, through famine aud plagues,
has been visited by tempests aud earth
quakes, frogs and flies, murrain and
lice, and grasshoppers, but never until
the year of our Lord 1867 was any por
tion' of the globe afflicted by a carpet
bagger. Solomon did know him,
nor did David or Jeremiah conceive of
such a calamity. If they had, the sopgs
of David and the Book of Jeremiah
would have been lost to mankind, for
they would have fled the face of man at
the bare conception of such a woe.
Though he sprung into existence soon
after the war, the cai pet-bagger js no
offspring of that martial coition. The
time was not gravis Marte when he was
hatched or littered. There is no look of
Mars, but there is infinite speculation in
his eyes. A reward as large ps that
offered by the Roman Emperor for a
new and savory dish could not tempt
the most abandoned, perjured ne
gro to swear that he has ever
known a carpet-bagger to stand
the fire which he has so often
drawn by liis incendiary work. His
courage oozes out at his departing heels.
During any “little unpleasantness” this
Pharisee becomes, as by magic, a Publi
can, for he takes his-stand “afar off.”
He ;_is no product of the war. He is
“the canker of a calm world” and of a
peace which is despotism enforced by
bayonets. His valor is discretion; his
industry, perpetual strife, and liis elo
quence “the parcel of a reckoning” of
chanee3 as he smells out a path which
may lead from the White House to a
Custom House, a post office, the Inter
nal Revenue Bureaus, or, perchance, to
either wing of the Federal Capitol. His
shibboleth is “the Republican party.”
From that party he sprung as naturally
as maggots from putrefaction. His re
lation to that party is that of pimp to a
bawd, for, his meretricious service is re
warded iu proportion to the number of
innocent negro victims he inveigles to
gratify its lust for power. Like Wapaba
and Gertk, he never travels without
wearing his master’s collar; and he is
equally content whether turned loose to
chase like a sleuth hound tjbe monarch
of Southern soil, or called by a 6uap of
the fingers to eat the garbage of his
party. Mis collar is his passport to roam
at large, and it matters not with what
persistence he may break into a South
ern gentleman’s closet, his master will
not permit him to be muzzled, for he is
“the ox that treadeth out the corn” as
well as “the ass that knoweth his mas
ter’s crib.”
Wberever two or three or more ne
groes are gathered together in the name
of Grant, he, like a leprous spot, is seen,
and his cry, like the daughter of the
horse leech, is always “give—give”—me
office. Without office he is nothing;
with office he is a pest and public nuis
ance. Out of office he is a beggar; in
office be grows rieh till his eyes stick out
with fatness. Out of office he is, hat in
hand, the outside ornament of everv
negro’s cabin, a plantation loafer and
the nation’s lazarene; in office he is an
adept in “addition, division and silence. ”
Out of office he is the orphan ward of
the Administration and the general sign
post of penury; in office he is the com
plaining suppliant for social equality
with Southern gentlemen.
His former neighbors in the unknown
region whence he fled, wonder, not at
his flight, but at his escape and conceal
ment ! But when, asjsometimes happens,
he reaches Washington, labelled as
“Senator” or “Representative” from the
province of Louisiana, or Soutli Caro
lina, or Alabama, or Mississippi, and
invoiced and consigned to President
Grant or some of his henchmen, the
romanoa of the transfiguration so veils
his identity, that those neighbors gather
in the Capitol and with field glasses in
hand they wrangle and swear (?) in the
galleries in angry dispute whether the
official automaton be Tichborne or his
counterfeit. He is at best, but Cinde
rilla at the ball!
We wonder at his slippers, his face, clothes
and his hair,
Bat the gras test wonder is, bow bo over got
there.
Our wonder, however, is not as great c.r
distracting as his own. For, [when he
thinks of the fairy, Reconstruction, which
wrought this marvelous change in him,
and then sees the familiar pumpkin
which he, from < arly and fond associa
tion had come to regal'd as an elder
brother, snddenly transmuted into a
carriage and gayly caparisoned horses,
and examines his glass slippers, and
then timorously ventures to look down,
down, into the depth where his fairy
fonnd him amoDg the cinders and ashes
of Southern desolation, his head swims
and he instinctively leans heavily on
Prince Ulysses’ arm, and doubting his
own identity, begs not to be called Sena
tor or Representative, bnt to be called
by his old name so familiar in Sleepy
Hollow—Schneider.
DISTURBANCE AT UNION POINT.
Riotous Negroes March Through the
Town—One White Man Shot and
Wounded—All Quiet at Last Ac
counts.
[Special to the Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Ukion Point, November 9.
The negroes of this neighborhood, to
gether with “Clubs,” as they call them
selves, from other sections in this vicini
ty, had a grand meeting at a cabin near
by, to organize and agree upon a leader
who was braver aud could do better for
them than Jack Heard. There were
several aspirants. Montgomery Shep
herd was chosen bythem to lead, and he
commenced liarrauging his followers, who
promised to stand by him. He marched
through our main streets in a very noisy
and defiant manner about one o’clock
Sunday morning. A part of them, with
guns, pistols and sticks, marched round
our depot and stores, thence over the
hill, haltirfg at several residences, call
ing the names of occupants and saying
they were not afraid of them and asking
why they did not come out. Their
language was boisterous and defiant. At
one gentleman’s residence they halted
where a young lady was very ill. Her
father was sitting up at her bedside. He
ventured to open the door, when a cap
was popped at him by one in the crowd.
After marching about in this threaten
ing manner till three o’clock, they re
turned to their quarters. Citizens, yes
terday evening, not willing to pass such
conduct unnoticed, issued warrauts and
sent them out according to law, and some
six of the leaders were arrested and con
fined under guard during the night.
After nightfall plentiful rumors
came in that an attempt would be made
to rescue the prisoners. Immediately
arrangements were perfected for any
emergency and notice was sent out for
assistance. Wm. A. Reynolds, a citizen
had some call to his farm, three miles
out, went there late last evening.
When he was returning, just after dark,
he was fired at from the roadside by two
parties, two shots hitting him on the
back of the neck and arm. Wounds
slight. He was horseback and made his
escape. Mr. L. D. Carleton, one mile
out, was watching his place about mid
night, and he discovered fire rapidly
burning under liis barn, adjoining his
gin house, where nearly liis whole cot
ton crop was stored. He succeeded
alone in rescuing it, but burned his
hands considerably. The fire was
shoved far under a pile of dry lumber.
All these events bursting so suddenly
upon us threw our little community into
great excitement, but we are cool and
calm to-day, fully determined to investi
gate this matter thoroughly, but en
deavoring to do no in justice to'the un
fortunately deluded blacks. Opinion is
that some white men are at the bottom
of the whole movement. If proven they
will be well cared for. B.
Chinese Indifference to Death.
The Chinese are almost indifferent to
the phenomenon of dissolution, and fre
quently compass their own end when
life becomes wearisome. A wife some
times elects to follow her husband on
the starlit road of death ; and parents
will destroy their offspring in time of
famine anil great distress rather than
allow them to suffer. Still more re
markable is the custom of selling their
lives in order that they may purchase
the superior advantage of obsequies,
which are considered to insure the body
in safety for the future resurrection. A
wealthy mail condemned to death will
arrange with his jailer to buy him a sub
stitute for a certain sum of money to
be spent upon the poor wretch’s inter
ment and preservation of his body.
Should he have parents, so much is an
nually paid to them in compensation for
their son’s life. Chinamen invariably
help to support their parents ; filial re
spect and devotion is the great Chinese
virtue and religious precept, in which
they rarely fail.
Regarding death as inevitable, he
makes the best of a bad bargain, and
cunningly and comically gets paid for
dying. The wholesale destruction of
life in this country is greatly the result
of indifference. Hence the massacre of
Europeans, so terrible to us, seems to
them a matter of little moment, and
they cannot comprehend why we should
make a fuss about it. They regard our
indignant protestation very much as we
might treat our irate neighbor whose
dog we had shot. “ Well, well, be
pacified ; if it was such a favorite, I am
sorry, but it is only a dog and there are
plenty more. How much do you want
to be paid for it ?” “ You English
think so much of a life,” argues the
Chinese ; “ have you not plenty of peo
ple at home ?” Death is China is award
ed as the punishment for most trivial of
fenses, and frequently for none at all,
except being in somebody’s way.
A story was told me as fact, that du
ring the visit of one of the royal princes,
a theft was committed of a chain or
watch belonging to the royal guest. The
unfortunate attendant was caught with
the property upon him, and without
further ceromony his head was chopped
off. The mandarin in attendance imme
diately announced the tidings to the
prince as a delicate attention, showing
how devoted he was in his service. To
his astonishment, the prince expressed
his great regret that the man’s head had
been taken off. “ Your Highness,” cried
the obsequious mandarin, bowing to the
ground, “it shall immediately be put
on again !” so little did he understand
that the regret was for the life taken,
and not the severed head. In times of
insurrection or famine'the mowing down
of human life is like corn-stalks at har
vest time, appalling to European
ideas. I must confess to a ner
vous shuddering when I stood upon
the execution ground at Canton—a nar
row lane, or potter’s field —where so
many hundred had been butchered per
diem during the weeks together, the ex
ecutioner requiring the aid of two
smiths to sharpen his swords, for many
of the writhed victims were not allowed
to be destroyed at pue fell swoop, but
sentenced to be “hacked to pieces” by
twenty to fifty blows. I was informed
by a European who had traveled much
aud -seen most of the frightful side of
life, that witnessing Chinese executions
was more than his iron nerves could
stand; and in some of the details which
he was narrating I was obliged to beg
him to desist. And yet he said there
was nothing solemn about it, and the
spectators looked on amused. It was
the horrible and the grotesque combined.
Loos After tre Eves.— Multitudes
of men and women have made their eyes
weak for life by the too free use of eye
sight, reading small print and doing
flue sewing. In view of these things it
is well to observe the following rules in
the use of the eyes:
Avoid all sudden changes between
light and darkness.
Never read by twilight or on a very
cloudy day.
Never sleep so that on waking the eyes
shall open on the light of the window.
Do not use the eyesight by light so
scant that it requires an effort to discrim
inate. .
Never read or sew directly in front of
the light of the window.
It is best to baye the light from above,
or obliquely, or over the left shoulder.
Too much light creates a glare and
pains and confuses the sight. The mo
ment you are sensible of an effort to
distinguish, that moment stop and talk,
walk or ride.
As the sky is blue and the earth green,
it would seem that the ceilings should
be a blush tinge, the carpet green and
the walls of some mellow tint.
The moment you are instinctively in
clined to rub the eyes, that moment
cease to use them.
If the eyelids are glaed together on
waking do not forcibly open them, but
apply saliva with the finger and then
wash your eyes and face with warm
water.
The German Empire, —The area of
the German Empire is only 212,000
square miles, or scarcely four times as
large as that of Illinois, and on that
small space dwell over 42,000,000 of peo
ple, which exceeds the present popula
tion of the United States, scattered over
twelve times that extent of territory, and
Germany produces enough breadstuff's
and meats for the support of her popu
lation, and raises a sufficient quantity of
beets from which to manufacture nearly
all the sugar and molasses consumed by
her inhabitants, whereas the United
States, with their great variety of cli
mate and soil, expend $100,000,000, an
nually, in the purchase of those com
modities from tropical countries. Ger
many grows most of the tobacco con
sumed by her people, and they are in
veterate smokers.
TTAaHINtFTON NKYTB.
Views of the President on the Elec
tion.
Washington, November 7. —The Presi
dent, since the results of the elections
of Tuesday have become known, has
conversed freely with a number of his
intimate friends as to the causes which
produced such a revolution and unpopu
lar verdict. Some of the views ex
pressed by the President may be given
without any violation of confidence. He
is of the opinion that the Democrats
were as much surprised by the over
whelming successes of their party as
were the Radicals, and he unreservedly
admits that although he fully expected
Republican losses, he was not prepared
f or the crushing defeat which has come
upon the party. He does not for one
moment sanction the idea that his policy
or his personal acts have contributed in
any degree to the party defeat. So far
as Louisiana is concerned, he says that
he took a course which he believed was
his duty to take, but that he twice
called the attention of Congress to affairs
in that State, and requested that body
to indicate its opinion as to the proper
course to pursue. Congress failed to
express any opinion, and there was no
alternative bnt for him to adhere to the
line of action he had initiated.
The President thinks that at the door
of a Republican Congress alone may be
laid the defeat of the Republican par y.
He does not lay much stress upon the
neglect of Congress at its last session to
present a financial measure which would
restore confidence and revive declining
trade, for in the nature of things this
was next to an impossibility. A proper
adjustment of finances was not a matter
susceptible of party control, as tho
different sections of country had diverse
interests and diverse views, superior to
and overpowering all mere party claims
and all mere party considerations. The
President thinks that the great element
of discord iu the party was rather the
unwise attempt to force upon the Ameri
can people the impracticable and Uto
pian theories of Senator Sumner as em
bodied in the Civil Rights bill last
Spring. It was authoritatively stated iu
these dispatches that the President
didn’t favor the Civil Rights bill. It
can now be said that his views in oppo
sition to it have become much stronger
by the recent elections. He is firmly
convinced that the Civil Rights bill hail
more to do with the defeat of his party
than all other causes combined, aud he
has expressed himself iu such a manner
as to leave no doubt upon the minds of
those with whom he had conversed that
if the bill shall be passed at the next
session be will interpose his veto.
The President is not despondent. He
gives his friends to understand that lie
is not by any means utterly cast down
by the recent elections. He believes
that the Republican party has yet before
it a glorious future, and that it may re
trieve the errors of the past in time to
march to the music of triumph in 1876
as significant and as decisive as that of
1872. He believes that the Republican
Congress, which comes together in four
weeks from this time, can, in the three
months of life which is left to it, so act
as to heal all dissensions within the
party and to win back the confidence of
the people at large. It is not improba
ble that in his message to Congress in
Deoember the President will set forth
some of the views herein given. Helias
not so far, in any conversation on elec
tions, indicated that he considered the
third term agitation has anything to do
with the result. After Cabinet meeting
the elections were discussed. Iu the
course of the conversation the Presi
dent expressed himself more on the
third term than he has condescend
ed to do heretofore. Without re
nouncing any such idea on his
own part, he said that a careful exami
nation of the returns from the different
States showed conclusively that the peo
ple iu rendering their verdict were not
influenced by wild and senseless cries
on this subject which had filled the air
for months past. He pointed to what
he considered two noticeable instances
in proof of his assertion. The South
Carolina Republican Convention had
emphatically pronounced for him for a
third term, and its candidate for Gov
ernor had been triumphantly elected in
the face of the enormous odds against
him. On the other hand, in the Utica
District, where the Republicans had al
ways had an overwheming preponder
ance, Mr. Roberts insisted upon the
Congressional Convention which nomi
nated him pronouncing against a third
term, and Mr. Roberts was defeated.
How They Played it on Dougherty,
[Detroit Free Press.]
One day last week four or five De
troiters went into Macomb county to
shoot squirrels aud kick their shins
against logs and fence rails. They had
just eaten a cold lunch in the woods one
noon, when one of the party, a young
man named Dougherty, stretched out
on his back, pulled his hat over his
eyes and gave himself up to the work of
assisting his body to catch a little rest.
The remainder of the party having an
understanding before hand quietly with
drew, one by one. One of them passed
around to a bush near Dougherty’s feet
and took a tin rattle box from liis
pocket. Another stood close to the
young man’s legs, and, in a suppressed
voice, when the signal was given, whis
pered : “ For heaven’s sake ! Dougher
ty, don’t move so much as a finger. A
big rattle snake is right under your
leg !” Dougherty was flat on his back,
eyes covered, arms sprawled out and his
voice trembled as he replied : “My
God! what shall I do?” “Keep per
fectly quiet. It is your only hope ! If
you even raise a finger lie will dart his
fangs into you !”
The man with the rattle-box gave it a
shake, and reached out and laid a club
across Dougherty’s legs, while the other
man moved off about twenty feet and
exclaimed : “ Heavens ! what can we
do ? If we shoot we may kill Dougher
ty !” The club was rolled off on the
ground and the victim whispered :
“For mercy sake kill it.” The clnb
was rolled over his legs again, the box
shaken, and the man whispered back :
“Be quiet or it is instant death. I think
the snake wants to go to sleep, and if
you will keep still you will be all right.”
The box was shaken, the club moved
around, and finally the “snake” seemed
to Dougherty to settle down on his
breast. He dared not whisper for fear
of rousing it, but one of the men called
out : “There! It is asleep! We’ll move
away and wait for it to glide off.” The
whole crowd moved over behind a bank
and laughed and rolled aud tore up the
dirt until they were exhausted, while
poor Dougherty lay there like a log, not
even daring to draw an ordinary breath.
The sweat ran down his face and started
out from his body, until his shirt was
wringing wet. The fellows took their
guns and tramped away, leaving him
thus, and were gone an honr and a half.
When they returned Dougherty was sit
ting up, having discovered the joke
about five minutes previously. He
didn’t have a word to say, but there was
a whole unabridged dictionary in his
eye. They spoke to him, but for an an
swer he rose up, shouldered his guu,
and made a bee line for the highway,
and none of the party has met him
since.
This is a sample of the congratulation
Col. Jack Brown, Radical, is now re
ceiving upon his defeat. The Americus
Republican says: A box containing a
small tortoise was received at this office
on Thursday last, directed to Jack
Brown, care of the editor of this paper.
It was a present from the Democrats of
Maoon county. As it was directed to
our care we immediately, ou its recep
tion, sent it to the one to whom it was
directed. Before doing so, however, we
took a copy of the mottoes on each side
of the box. They were as follows: Ist.
Ton to one on the tortoise against Jack
Brown. 2d. Rations for the outward
bound trip. 3d. A fit emblem of your
recent race. 4th. Jack Brown, Head
Waters Salt River, care of C. W. Han
cock. A Rote directed to Jack Bro wn
was inside the box. The following is a
correct copy of the note:
Macon County, November 4,1874.
Compliments of Macon County to Col.
Jack Brown:
We can’t send you the 500 majority
promised by Parson Harris, but do the
next best thing. We present you with
the veritable “ ground hog” that your
Sabbath boy failed to get.
During the meeting of the Democracy
at the Manhattan Club, ou Thursday
evening, a very sensible piece of advice
wvs given by Senator Thurman to the
Governor elect in behalf of a beantiful
widow (Democratic.) It was to the effect
that Gov. Tilden should get married.
This was sound, advice, and, coming
from a widow, eminently appropriate.
Inasmuch as Mr. Tilden is already pro
posed as a Democratic candidate for the
next Presidency, it is peculiarly sensi
ble. The only bachelor President whom
we have had was James Buchanan. The
coincidence was not a happy one. Prob
ably even Mr. Tilden would not care to
leave the Presidential chair—if he ever
got into it—with the reputation achiev
ed by Mr. Buchanan. We do not assert
that his bachelorhood has anything to
do with Mr. I)nohanan’s erratic and
vacillating character, but it is not im
probable that it did. A wife is a very
useful appurtenance to a man, a Gover
nor, and specially a President. It is
only an unfinished life that does not in
clude marriage among its incidents. By
all means, Mr. Tilden, take the widow’s
advice—and the widow, if you can get
her! At any rate, get married.— N. Y.
Republic.
The Augusta Dry Goods Trade.
The lffoue of James A. Gray <Sc Vo.
Perhaps there are few visitors who visit the city
of Augusta whoae attention is not attracted to the
magnificent looking building on Broad street oc
cupied as a Dry Goods House by James A. Gray A
Cos. In this city, where there* is a great lack of
architectural taste, especially in the construction of
business houses, this building appears well, really as
well as by contrast with its surroundings.
Planned especially for a Wholesale and Retail Dry
Goods House, it was erected io JB7l, the builders
adopting nothing but modern ideas and using the
finest material in carrying them out which could be
obtained. It was theintention of theprcprietors to put
up a structure which would not only stand the test
of half a century of time, but the test of taste to a
very remote day in the future. And it would seem
hat they fully succeeded.
The extreme length of the house is one hundred
and twenty-five feet. Width, forty-one feet. It has
three stories above and one under ground. It has an
iron front, from pavement to roof, in which are large
windows of heavy plate glass. Perhaps no building
in the South presents a more splendid front.
The Show Windows.
Of these there are four. They contain brilliant
samples of the long line of heavy, light, flue, fancy
and every ether grade of goods aud notions in
which thß hou<e dea's. They are the title pages, the
calendar or indexes of the busiues, aud whether il
luminated by sun or gaslight, always present a
wealth of brilliancy.
On the First Floor.
Walking across the Stone Moun'ain Rock Pave
ment laid in front of the whole building, and the
cellar sky light of heavy and stained ground glass
thick as flooring and as strong as iron, we enter the
main wide and lofty front door and the main
salesroom. When crowded with customers the un
initiated no doubt supposes that a great deal of con
fusion, and consequently a great many mistakes
must be ma ie. But if ho were to have the whole
thing explained he would see that it was summed
up in one word— system. As every clerk has his
duty well defined, so every article, from a box of
Needles to a bolt of French Broadcloth, or a Cash
mere Shawl has its place. Til*' cashier has his desk
on the left centre, and to him every sale, from three
cents to a thousand dollars, must bo instantly re
ported by the cash boys, every figure made on the
counters revised, and then the wnole transaction
placed upon his book, which book must at a stated
hour, with all the memoranda, be passed to the
head book-keeper to be again passed upon. On his
left is a counter where packages are wrapped, label
ed, directed aud handed to the porters to be deliver
ed in the city, or to the cash boys if for the cus
tomer immediate.
The Divisions.
The first division or department upon this floor is
appropriated for Hosiery and Notions. The second
department to Dress Gooes. The third, this is set
apart for Black or Mournin g Goods, of which the
house makes a speciality, and always carries a very
heavy stock of everything required and of every
quality. In the fourth division of the first floor are
found a long line of Calieces, Ginghams and Do
mestic Goods. To supply this department selections
are made chiefly from the looms of the United
States, the greatest care being always taken to pur
chase such qualities *is will suit the tastes of the
Southern, pcop'e. It is rerliaps here that the best
judgment of a merchant is brought iuto requisition,
for rich and poor, c.dored anu white, must have
these goods, and the taste and the purse of all mu6t
be pleased.
In the fifth division are arranged Linens and
Damasks. In the sixth—the Woolen Department—
which embraces the costly Broadcloths irom the
Looms] of France and Great Britain, Flannels and
Jeans. The Jeans are principally from rho Facto
ries of Kentucky aud North Carolina, now celebrated
all over tho North American Continent. To such
perfection have they now come that the laboring
man can appear neatly in lhemaud # in any place and
in any company.
In the sixth division of this Augusta Mammoth
Dry Goods Emporium we find Fancy Goods, Ruch
ings, Belts, and the thousand other articles which
go to make up the wardrobe of our fair ladies. It
would take almost the space of this article to men
tion them in detail. Eighth division: Parasols, Um
brellas and Sunshades. In some problems the
figure “9” is a mithicai number, but the ninth di
vision of tho House of James A. Gray & Cos. wo find
it anything else than superfluous; for here v/e fiud
the Merino Blanket as soft as down, Bedspreads,
in every pattern and the Standard Marseilles
Quilts of which the good housekeeper will never
grow tired.
The tenth division embraces Domestic Goods—the
product of Georgia and South Carolina Mills. Here
are Sheetings, Shirtingi\Osnaburgs, Checks, Stripes,
Brown Homespuns, Bleached, and Yarns, every mill
in all the country lying within the commercial world
of Augusta being duly represented.
So rapid is transit between this and other markets
that any line of Goods is not exhausted but for a
few hours. First tho electric spark, then the loco
motive and before one sleeps the third time the
Goods are upon the shelves.
On the Second Floor,
The first half of this room is fo* tho manufacture
and display of Ladies’ and Children’s Wearing Ap
parel. It is under the direct management of Mrs.
llammond, who is thoroughly acquainted with the
business of cutting, making and fitting every gar
ment. So that purchases in the store can be made
there in any style and fashion that may be required.
This department always contains a full stock of La
dies’ aud Children’s Ready Made Clothing, from the
smallest size girl to a full grown woman. As simple
as this idea is it has only been five or six years since
it was thought of. Whilst men as long ago as can bo
recollected could walk into a store and obtain a suit
of clothes ready made up, women have had to go to
buy tho goods and go to work and make them up.
But all this is changed now. By calling at this
House any lady can get almost anything she may
wish, and as in Men’s Clothiny. Stores, of almost any
grade of fineness that may be demanded.
Tho W holesale Department.
The Wholesale Department of the House is upon
this floor. The House has always offered the most
extraordinary induements to the wholesale trade,
and labored hard to build it up. Always carrying
full stocks bought with judgment and at prices
small purchasers cannot obtain in great Dry Grods
centres, it is thus master of the situation in our im
mediate section.
It was not intended in the original scope of this
article to enumerate anything, but rather to describe
in outline one of the great and attractive Dry Goods
House of the city of Augusta. It would be quite
tedious reading to write it otherwise.
Personal.
senior member of the House, Mr. James A.
Gray, has been a citizen and a merchant cif Augusta
for a great many years. Ho has devoted his entire
time and attention to the study of its principles and
to the prosecution of its labors. Perhaps no man
among us more thoroughly understands the trade as
applied to this division of the Continent. He has in
deed built a monument, both in a magnificent
house and business. But he is still, like all such
men, dissatisfied, and has a yearning to press for
ward and do more.
His partner, Mr. Wm, Delane, is much younger,
is attentive, wary, active, and always on the alert
in the daily routine cf such a largo business, which
does appear that it would become irksome by such
inoessant confinement to most men.
The Arcade.
After walking through the cellar, where is found a
large furnace for heating the whole house, through
the first, second and third floors, going upon the
roof and taking a view of the whoie city, from Ham
burg to the Saud Hills, from the Upper Market to
the Fair Grounds, we return to the third floor and to
the railing of the Arcade, which pierces the centre of
all the floors, and through which a flood of light
pours in from the skylight, and makes all tho de
partments at any hour as light as day.
It must be a f,treat satisfaction to do business in
this way. It is a realization of the bright dr am
which has flitted through the brain of boyhood, but
realized, alas ! how seldom ! *
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sawed from the very best selection of long
leaf pine, and thoroughly seasoned for build
ing purposes. Parties wishing lumber will
make it to their interest to write to the under
signed at Camak, on the Georgia Railroad,
before purchasing elsewhere.
oc9-d3Aw3m W. W. SWAIN.
New AdTertlsemeniH.
THE FAVORITE HOME REMEDY
Is eminently a Family Medicine ; and by be
ing kept ready for immediate resort will save
many an honr’of suffering and many a dollar
in time and doctor's bills.
After over Forty Years' trial it is still receiv
ing the most unqualified testimonials to its vir
tues from persons of the highest character and
responsibility. Eminent physicians commend
it as tho most
EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC
For all diseases of the Liver, Stomach and
Spleen.
The Symptoms of Liver Complaint are a
bitter or bad ta te in the month: l’ain in tho
Back, Sides or Joints, often mistaken for Rheu
matism: Sour Stomach, Loss of Appetite;
Bowels alternately costive and lax. Headehe.
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 aud Eves,
a dry Oough. often mistaken for Consumption.
Sometimes many of these symptoms attend
the disease, at others very few; hut the Liver.
the largest organ in the body, is generally tho
seat of the disease, and if not Regulated in
time, groat sufferieg. wretchedness and Death
will ensne.
For DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION'. Jaun
dice. Bilious Attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Col
ic, Depression of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH,
Heart Bum, Ac.. Ac.
The Cheapest. Purost aud Best Family Medi
cine in the World.
Manufactured oulv bv
J. li. ZEILIN & CO.,
Macon. Ga.. and Philadelphia.
Price, sl, Sold by all Druggists.
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SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS “
trated. Great inducements to Agents. For terms
and circulars, address, NEW WORLD PUBLISHING
CO., Philadelphia. oct2s-4w
wanted-ageNTS Prize Stationery Pack
age out. Sample Package, post paid, for 25c. Cir
culars free. J. BRIDE, 7(57 Broadway, N. Y. 0c25-4
AGENTS WANTED ! DIPLOMA AWARDED
for HOLMAN’S pM TO tt[AL BIBLES
1300 ILLUSTRATIONS. Address for circulars A. J.
HOLMAN & CO., 930 ARCH St„ Phila. 0c25-4w
AGENTS WANTED
FOR THE GRANDEST BOK EVER PUBLISHED,
YOUMAN’S EVERY-DAY
DICTIONARY WANTS.
Contains 20,000 RECEIPTS FOR EVERYTHING
(bona-fide number; beware bogus imitations), abso
lutely indispensable to ALL CLASSES, saving money
daily to every buyer. Selling faster]} than any other
three books combined 11(5 page circular and extra
terms free. F. A. HUTCHINSON & CO., Cincinnati,
Ohio. oct2s-4w
WATERS’ NEW SCALE PIANOS,
SQUARE and UPRIGHT, a^V“he
Touch Elastic, tho Tone Power ul, Pure and even
through the entire scale, yet mellow and sweet.
WATERS’ Concerto ORGANS
canuot be excelled in tone or beauty ; they defy
competition. The Concerto Stop is a fine imitation
of the Human Voice.
Warranted for six years. PRICES EXTREMELY
LOW for cash or part cash, aud balance in monthly
payments. Second-hand Instruments at great bar
gains. AGENTS WANTED. A liberal Discount to
Teachers, Ministers, Churchrs, S bools, Lodges, etc.
Illustrated Catalogues mailed. HORACE WATERS
& SON, 481 Broadway, New York, P. O. Box 3,587.
0c25-4w
THE MASON & HAMLIN
ORGAN CO.,
Winners of THREE HIGHEST MEDALS and
DIPLOMA of HONOR, of VIENNA, ’63, and PARIS,
’(57, now offer the FINEST ASSORTMENT of the
BEST CABINET ORGANS in the world, including
new styles with recent improvements, not only ex
clusively for cash, as formerly, but also on NEW
PLANS OF EASY PAYMENTS, the most favorable
ever offered. ORGANS RENTED with PRIVILEGE
of PURCHASE, to almost any part of the country.—
First payment $9 90 or upwards. Illustrated Cata
log oes and Circulars, with full particulars, sent free
on request. Address, MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN
CO., Boston, New York or Chicago. 0c25-4w*
FIRST GRAM) LIFT CONCERT,
Montpelier Female Humane Association
AT ALEXANDRIA, VA.
NOVEMBER 3, 1874.
LIST OF^GIFTS:
1 Grand Cash Gift sloo,oo§
1 Grand Cash Gift 50,000
1 Grand Cash Gift 25,000
10 Cash Gilts, $10,0(.'0 each 100,000
15 Cash Gifts, 5,(;00 each 75,000
50 Cash Gifts, 1,600 each 50,000
100 Cash Gifts, 500 each 50,000
1,000 Cash Gifts, 100 each 100,000
1,000 Cash Gifts, 50 each 50,000
20,000 Cash Gifts, 20 each 400,000
22,178 Cash Gifts, amounting to $1,000,00#
NUMBER OF TICKETS, 100,000.
PRICE OF TICKETS.
Whole Tickets S2O 00
Halves 10 00
Quarters 5 00
Eighths or each Coupon 2 50
Tickets for 100 00
The Montpelier Female Humane Association, char
tered by tli;? Legislature of Virginia and the Circuit
Court of Orange county, proposes by a Grand Gift
Concert to establish and endow a “Home for the Old,
Infirm and Destitute Ladies of Virginia,” at Montpe
lier, the former residence of President James Madi
son.
Governors Office, Richmond, July 3,1874.
It affords me great pleasure to say that I am well
acquainted with a large majority of the officers of
the Montpelier Female Humane Association, who re
side in the vicinity of my home, and I attest their in
telligence and their worth and high reputation as
gentlemen, as well as the public confidence, influence
aud substantial means liberally represented among
them. JAMES L. KEMPER, Governor Virginia.
Alexandria, Va., July 8, 1874.— * * * I com
mend them as gents of honor and integrity, and fully
entitled to the confidence of the public. * * *
R. W. HUGHES, U. S. Judge East’n Dist. of Va.
Further references by permission : His Excellen
cy Gilbert C. Walker, Ex-Governor of Virginia; Hon.
Rob’t. E. Withers, Lieut.-Gov. of Virginia and U. S.
Senator elect; Senators aud Members of Congress
from Virginia.
Remittances for tickets may be made by express
prepaid, post office money order on Washington, D
C., or by registered letter.
For full particulars, testimonials, &c., send for
Circular. Address, llon. JAMES BARBOUR,
President M. F. H. A., Alexandria, Va.
Reliable Agents wanted everywhere. 0c25-4w
POSTPONEMENTS IMPOSSIBLE.
WILL BUY A
FIRST MORTGAGE PREMIUM BOND
OU THE
N, Y. Mnstrial Exhibition Company,
Authorized by the Legislature of the State of N. Y.
2d Premium Drawing - - December TANARUS, 1874.
3d Series Drawing - - - January 4, 1875.
EVERY BOND will be Redeemed with a Premium,
as an equivalent for Interest.
CAPITAL PREMIUM, 0100,000.
Address, for Bonds and full information,
MOKGENTUAU, BRUNO & CO.,
Financial Agents, 23 Park Row, N. Y.
©cl 4—4 w P. O. Drawer, 29.
WORKING PEOPLE—MaIe or Female. Employ
ment at home, S3O per week warranted, no
capital required. Particulars and valuable samples
seDt free. Address, with 6 cent return stamp, O.
ROSS, Williamsburg. N. Y. aug2s—4w
|?D %|7 SAMPLE to Agents. Ladles’ Combtna
1. t j OII fteedie Book, with Chromos. Send
stamp. DEAN & CO.,
sep2s-4w New Bedford, Mass.
WORK FOR ALL
AT home, male or female; @35 per week, day
or evening. No Capital. We send valua
ble package of goods by mail free. Address, with
six cent return stamp, M. YOUNG,
sep2s-4w 173 Greenwich Street, N. Y.
HAVE YOU TRIED
JURUBEBA *?
ARE YON
Weak, Nervous, or Debilitated?
Are you bo Languid that any exertion requires
more of an effort than you feel capable of making ?
Then try JURUBEBA, t-lie wonderful Tonic and
Invigorator, which actH ro beneficially on the secre
tive organs as to impart vigor to-all the vital forces.
It is no alcoholic appetizer, which stimulates for a
short time, only to let the sufferer fall to a lower
depth of misery, but it is a vegetable tonic acting
directly on the liver and spleen.
It regulates the bowels, quiets the nerves and
gives such a healthy tone to the whole system as to
soon make the invalid feel like anew person.
Its operation is not violent, but is characterized
by great gentleness; the patient experiences no sud
den change, no marked results, but gradually his
troubles
“Fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And silently steal away.”
This is no new and untried discovery, but
been long used with wonderful remedial results, and
is pronounced by the highest medical authorities,
“the most powerful tonic and alterative known.”
Ask your druggist for it. For sale by
jy2s-4w WM. F. KIDDER & CO , New York
For
COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS,
AND ALL THROAT DISEASES,
Use
WELLS’ CARBOLIC TABLETS,
PUT UP ONLY IN BLUE BOXES.
A TRIED AND SURE REMEDY.
Sold by PrnggiHtß, 4w
Jennings, SmilM Cos.,
COTTON FACTORS,
.A.TJGTJSTA, GA.
GIVE special and careful attention to the
Storage and Sale of Cotton and other
Produce. Open and Clone Storage superior to
any in the city.
Also, sell the following first class Standard
Fertilizers at reduced prices for cash:
Zell’s Bone Phosphate,
Eureka Superphosphate,
Cumberland Superphosphate
Stono Soluble Guano,
Stouo Acid Compound for Com
posting.
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* Now AdTertiHeiuemw.
Positively the Only Large Show
THAT WILL EIHIBIT ij AUBIM DURING tie TRAVELIHG SEASON OP 1811.
Monday and Tuesday, Deo. 7 and S,
OLD JOHN ROBINSON'S
Great World’s Exposition!
INDISPUTABLY THE LARGEST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD!
Thousands of Living Animals,
Myriads of Birds, Polonies of Monkeys,
Schools of Amphibia, Miles of Reptiles.
No Impossibilities Promised; we Guarantee to Exhibit all we Represent or the
Money Refunded.
OUR MATCHLESS ORGAN TZ ATION EMBRACES THE LARGEST AND
MOST COMPLETE
Menageria, Aviary and Aquarium
In the World, containing living specimens of our Creator’s great handiwork, of
which
“They went in two aud two, unto Noah into the Ark,
The male and the female as God had commanded Noah.”
Among which are the following special novelties, which we guarantee to exhibit,
or the money will be refunded. BSP’Mark well these lines.^j
WE WILL EXHIBIT AT EACH PLACE THE GREAT SHOW VISITS
A Herd of Living Giraffes, Posting §62,01)0 in sold! A Black Sumatran
Rhinoceros ! The Largest Performing Elephant ia America ! A Giant
Ostrich, 12-feet High! Monster Sea Lions! A 3-Horned and 3-
Eyed Bovine from the Holy Land, the only one ever exhibited.
These are special features that are not owned or controlled by any other travel
ing exhibition. In addition to which is the STRICTLY MORAL CIRCUS, em
bracing over 100 STAR ARTISTS, TWO MAMMOTH BANDS—FORTY MUSI
CIANS. Gorgeous Street Display—Finest iu the World I
Doors Open tit 152:30 aud 0:30, p. m.
Arrangements have been made with all the lines of railway for ROUND TRIP
TICKETS, good on all the traius from all stations, to enable parties desirous of
visiting the GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH during the day it exhibits in this
city. Don’t forget the date.
Augusta: MONDAY and TUESDAY, December 7th and Bth.
Thomson: WEDNESDAY, December 9th.
Milledgeville: THURSDAY, December lOtli.
Washington: FRIDAY, December 11th.
Crawfordville: SATURDAY, December 12th.
Athens: MONDAY, December 14th.
Greenesboro: TUESDAY, December 15th.
Madison: WEDNESDAY, December 16th.
Covington: THURSDAY, December 17th.
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J. M. BURDELL,
Cotton Factor and Commission Merchant,
AUGUSTA, GA.
(At Old Stand, No. 6 Warren Block.)
BAGGING and TIES and all customary supplies furnished, and CASH ADVANCES made as
unual. Consignments solicited. Hep3-thsatn<tw3m
The Universal Pet I
The People’s Machine.
Everybody’s Friend.
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 minds)*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 is warranted for five yeats to every
purchaser. Buy it, and evade the enormous
commission paid to canvassers 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 be 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 price, or by Express, C.
O. D. Refer, by permission, to Mrs. Hr. L. D.
Ford,Augusta. Ga.; Mrs. Dr. Wm. Pettigrew,
Langley, S.C. Illustrated Circulars and sam
ples of work sent free on application. Agents,
with small capital, wanted.
A. B. CLARKE, Gen’l Agent,
jun24-wtf 148 Broad st., Augusta, Ga.
JAMES LEFFEL’S
IMPROVED DOUBLE
Turbine Water Wheel.
POOLE A HUNT, Baltimore,
Manufacturers for the South and South
west.
Nearly 7,000 now n use, working under heads
varying from 2 to 240 feet f 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.
MAXCFACTUBEBS, ALSO, OF
Portable and Stationary Steam Engines and
Boilers, Babcock & Wilcox Patent Tubulous
Boilers, Ebaugh’s Crusher for Minerals, Saw
and Grist Mills, Flouring Mill Machinery, Ma
chinery for White Lead Works and Oil Mills,
Shafting Pulleys and Hangers.
SEND FOB CIRCULARS.
feb2s-wly
L. J. GUILMABTIX | JOHN FLANNEIIY.
L. J. GUILMARTIN & CO.,
Cotton Factors,
—AND —
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Kelly’s Block, Bay St., Savannah, Ga.,
Agents for Bradley’s Phosphates,
Jewell's Mills Yams and Domestics, Ac.
Bagging and Iron Ties for sale at low
est market rates.
Prompt attention given to ailbusinesss
entrusted to us.
Liberal cash advances made on con
signments. au27-w6m
NOTICE.— On the First Monday in DECEMBER,
1874, application will be made to tli • - Court of
Ordinary of Kichmond county,for leave to sell the real
estate belonging to the estate of Josephine Steig
ler, late of said county, deceased.
CHARLES A. HABPER,
nev*-*w Administrator Josephine Steigler.
STATE OF GEORGIA.
PROCLAMATION.
By JAMES M. SMITH, Governor.
IN grateful recognition of that Providence
which has awarded our labors with plenty
and protected our homes from pestilenco ; and
in reverent, acknowledgment of tho signal favor
of Almighty God, lately vouchsafed to our en
tire country, in arresting tho evil tendencies of
the times, and assuring a speedy restoration of
fraternity and good government, I. James M.
Smith, Governor of Georgia, do hereby desig
nate and appoint
Thursday, the 19th day ef November,
The present month, to be observed as a day of
public Thanksgiving and Prayer.
I earnestly recommend that all the people of
the State do. upon that day, abstain from tlieir
usual avocations, and, assembling at their
places of religious worship, gratefully acknowl
edge the Divine favor in the past and invoke
its continuance upon us and our posterity.
, —*—, Given under my hand and tho Seal
Jl s ■ Executive Department,
j ' j the Capitol, in the city of Atlanta,
' —>—' this seventh day of November, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four.
JAMES M. SMITH,
By the Governor: Governor.
J. W. Wauben,
Secretary Executive Department.
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ANOTHER CHANCE !
FIFTH AND LAST CONCERT
IN AID OF THE
Public Library of tatty.
54:5 .A.ctnally Saved.
Postponed to November 30,1874.
Drawing Ccrtainjt That Date.
LIST OF GIFTS.
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT
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 GIFT’S 3.000 each 0,000
50 CASH GIFTS 2,000 each 100,000
100 CASH GIFTS 1,000 each 100,000
240 CASH GIFTS 600 each 120,000
500 CASH GIFTS 100 each 60,000
19,000 CASH GIFT’S 50 each 950,000
GRAND TOTAL 0,000 GIFTS, ALL
CASH $2,500,00*
PRICE OB TICKETS.
Whole Tickets ® 50 00
Halves 25 00
Tenth, or each coupon JjjJ
11 Whole Tickets for “00 00
221 Tickets for ,•••••••• I>°s° 00
For Tickets and information, address
THOS. E. BRAMLETTE,
Agent and Manager.
Public Library Building. Louisville. Ky.
Tickets for sale at the AUGUSTA HOTEL,
Augusta, Ga. sepl3-suth&wlmtnoyzs
M. P. STOVALL,
COTTON FACTOR AND COMMISSION
MERCHANT,
No. 5, Warren Block, Jackson SL,
AUGUSTA. GA.
CONTINUES to give bis personal attention
to the STORAGE and SALE of COTTON
and OTHER PRODUCE. _
Commissions for Selling Cotton, $1 per bale.
teT Liberal adv ances made on consignments.
sepl3-antu& f r A w-3m
Notice to Grangers!
AN ADJOURNED MEETING of the Stock
holders of the Co-operative Warehouse
and Depot of the Patrons of Husbandry will be
held, in the city of Augusta, on MONDAY,
November 16tb. A full attendance is desired.
GOODE BRYAN,
ov-d*wl Secretary.