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WEDN EBDAY.. NOVEMBER 25,1874 ■
THE BEARER.
I pledge thee this golden cup,
rilled with mV life's red ’nine j
Drain if thon wilt the generous draught.
For every drop is thine.
Look down into its sparkling depths,
And watch the bubble* bright
That rise from out its ruby heart
And break to foamy light.
Then take the cup I pledge to thee.
Filled with a draught divine ;
My soul lies trembling on the brim,
And every drop is thine ;
Is thine to take or to reject,
But if reject thou must,
Toes to the winds the worthless wine,
And crush the cup to dust!
[Harper'* Magazine for November.
VESTA.
0 Christ of Cod ! whose life and death
Onr own have reconciled,
Most quietly, most tenderly
Take home thy star-named child !
Thv grace is in her patient eyes,
Thy words are on her tongue ;
The very silence round her seems
As if the angels sung.
Her smile is as a listening child's
That hears its mother's call;
The lillies of thy perfect peace
About her pillow fail. t
She leans from out our clinging arms
To rest herself in thine :
Alone to thee, dear Lord, can we
Our well-beloved resigu.
Oh, less for her than for ourselves
We bow our heads and pray ;
Her setting star, like Bethlehem's,
To thee shall lead the way.
ONLY A GLOVE.
It is only a glove, Ted. a lady's glove—
It has lain in the desk where I found it
For twenty long years, but the freshness of
lovo ,
And the glory of youth cling around it.
Yes, there comes, Ted, whenever I see that
glove,
A vision of music and dancing:
And again, in my mind, the eyes of a dove
Into mine are tenderly glancing.
And I clasp once again in this hand of mine
That glove and the soft hand within it;
And I feel in the waltz, through the glare and
the shine,
That it throbs like a new-caught Unnet.
I feel her ambrosial breath on my cheek,
Like the scent of the linden blossom ;
And I know that she loves (though she does
not speak)
By the rise and fall of tier bosom.
Well I went to the Indies in ’OO, Ted ;
And—and—Tush ! its brandy and water.
Why, when I came back she was dead—she
was dead ;
And—l married Robinson's daughter.
Just hand me a light and a fresh cigar ;
It is foolish to keep such a token,
When the girl who gave it is sleeping afar.
In a land where the rest is unbroken.
—Figaro.fi
MASSACHUSETTS TO LOUISIANA.
Sister J we have longed to speak it!
We have waited long to save !
We have yearned to speak the welcome—
“ Enter—i-e no more a slave !”
Every tear thai fell, wo saw it.
As we braced to meet the shock,
Now' Come in—<he door is open ;
Sit thou here by Plymouth Rock !
We have seen thee all dishevelled,
Scon the bend with trembling Up
Whon the men who should havo loved thee
Raised again the brutal whip,
IB*/ we knew their day was coming
As we know their day has come ;
Jting tlioir doom, Louisiana !
Massachusetts drives them home !
Queen thou wert in all thy sorrow ;
Quoon thou shalt be yet in pride.
Many-tbroned Columbia calls thee
Where her queens sit* side by side,
And thy regal robes are ready,
And thy crown is on the throne,
For we knew our Cinderella
Would come back to claim her own.
Nevermore shaU one be driven
To the desert ; nevermore
ShaU the children of the Union
On their brethren bar the door.
God be thanked for love grown stronger ;
Heart and hope go hand hi hand.
W* are North anil South no longer
Bui a great United Land !
—John Boyle (/Reilly, in the Boston Pilot
LISTENING.
BT HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD.
Her white hand flashes on the strings,
Swooping a swift and silver chord,
And wild and strong the great harp rings
Its throng of throbbing tones abroad ;
Music and moonlight make a bloom
Throughout the rich and sombre room.
O sweet tho long and shivering swells,
And sweeter still tho lingering flow,
Delicious as remembered bolls
Dying in distance long ago—
Whon evening winds from Heaven were blown,
And the hoait yearned for things unknown !
Across tho leafy window place
l’eace seals the stainless sapphire deep ;
One sentry star on outer spaco
His quenchless lamp lifts, half asleep ;
Peace broods where falling waters flow,
Peace where the heavy roses blow.
And on the windless atmosphere
Wait all tho fragrances of June,
The Summer uiglit is hushed to hear
The passion of the ancient tune.
Then why these sudden tears that start.
And why this pierced and aching heart ?
Ah, listen ! We and all onr pain
Are mortal, and divine the song !
Idly our topmost height we gain—
It spurns that height, and far along ,
Seeks in tho heavens ite splendid mark,
And we fall backward on the dark !
IOND-LILIEB.
BT MARGARET E. SANGSTEB.
In earlv morning, whon the air
Is full of tender prophecy,
And rose-hue faint and pearl-mist fair
Are hints of splendor yet to bo,
Tho lilies open. Gleaming white,
Their fluted cups liko onyx Bhitio,
And golden-hearted in the’ light,
They hold tho Summor’s rarest wine.
Ah, love, what mornings thou and I
Once idly drifted through, afloat
Among the lilies, with tho sky
Cloud-curtained o'or our tiny boat!
Noon climbed apace with ardent feet ;
The goblets shut whose honov-dew
Was overbrimmed with subtle sweet
While yet the silver dawn was new.
The pomp of royal crowning lay
On daisied field and dimpling doll,
And on the blue hills far away
In dazzling waves tho glory fell.
And flashing to our measured stroke.
The waters seemed a path of gems,
Beneath whoso clear refraction broke
A grove with mirrored frauds and stems.
In music on the sparkling shore
The plashing ripples fell asleep ;
We laid aside the dripping oar.
For one delight we could uot keep.
In all tho splendor farther on
We missed the morning's maiden blush ;
The soft expectancy was gone,
Tho brooding haze, the trembling flash.
A MYSTERY.
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.
The river hemmed with leaning trees
Wound through its meadows greeu ;
A low blue line of mountains showed
Tho open pines between.
One sharp tall peak above them all
Clear into sunlight sprang ;
I saw the river of my dreams.
The mountains that I sang!
Now clew of memory led mo on,
But well the ways I knew ;
A feeling of familiar things
With every footstep grew.
Not otherwise above its crag
Could lean the blasted pine ;
Not otherwise the maple hold
Aloft its red ensign.
So up the long and shorn foot-hills
The mountain road should creep ;
So green and low the meadow fold
Its red-haired kine asleep.
The river w ound as it should wind;
Their places the mountain took.
The white torn fringes of their clouds
Were no unwonted look.
Yet ne'r before that river’s rim
Was pressed by ffcet of mine.
Never before mine eyes had crossed
That broken mountain line.
A presence, strange at once and known.
Walked with me as my guide ;
The skirts of some forgotten life
Trailed noiseless at my side.
Was it a dim remembered dream ?
Or glimpse through icons old ?
The secret which the mountains kept
The river never told.
But from the Tision ere it passed
A tender hope I drew.
And. pleasant as a dawn of Spring.
The thought within ms grew—
That love would temper every change
And soften all surprise,
And, misty with the dreams of each.
The hills of Heaven arise.
One dav Professor Youmans called
upon Mr. H. Appleton, and, after
a brief conversation as to the lack of
scientific publication in this country,
exclaimed, “We must new have a maga
zine." “Oo ahead,” said Mr. Appleton,
pointing over the river toward Brooklyn;
“there is the printing office. ” Professor
Yonmans did not need another word.
In a few hours he was preparing copy
for the Popular Science Monthly, and
in twelve days the first number was is
sued without any previous “flourish of
trumpets.” That was nearly three years
ago. The magazine has since become a
standard publication, and one of the
most acceptable and useful in the coun
try. '
A ROMAKfE OF OLD.
A STORY OF THE RATCLIFFEB.
[From the Londvu Daily Telegraph.)
Nine days is the duration of the no
toriety proverbially attributed to a won
der; ana very often does it happen that
in much less than nine days the most
moving and the most terrible dramas in
the repertory of passion, of sorrow, or
crime, excite astonishment, undergo dis
cussion, and are then clean forgotten.
The real fades more swiftly and more
completely than the imaginary; espe
cially when the creatures of fiction will
have* been adumbrated by the hand of
genins are immortal. Not all the
art of the German savant caD awaken
Tydides or Sarpedon. They are very
dead indeed. Even the course of Simois
is uncertain; but the “zEneis” lives, as
though it had been created the day be
fore yesterday. Looking at the bustle
of modern action, and the rapidity
with which modern thought is transmit
ted; looking at the crowded state of the
world’s stage, the variety of the scenery,
the multiplicity of the performances,
the caprice and Impatience of the audi
ence, it must be a very startling or a
very pathetic drama which can be ex
pected to “draw” for more than the tra
ditional nine days. Still, to this rule,
there are occasional exceptions; and, in
the melancholy story of real life, which'
may be styled the Derwentwater Ro
mance, may be recognized a tragedy
which, for nearly a hundred and eighty
years, has lost nothing of its deeply pa
thetic interest. At last, however, that
interest seems fated to be obliterated
by Time’s unsparing fingers. There
took place, on Tuesday last, at Neweas
tle-on-Tyne, a great sale of the estates,
in the ixmnty of Northumberland, be
longing to the Commissioners of Green
wich Hospital; and the auction natural
ly attracted much attention, not only
from the extent and the value of the
property brought under the hammer,
but from the historical associations with
which it was surrounded. Lot the first
comprised Dilston, the ancient seat of
the Ratcliffe family, with the ruins of
its ancient castle, its chapel, and the
modern mansion, with the Wooley and
Hexhamshire properties, in all 4,500
acres, inclusive of the woodlands, shoot
ings, minerals, Ac., pertaining thereto.
This noble demesne was knocked down
to Mr. Beaumont, M. P., the owner of
extensive adjacent estates, for the sum
of £231,000. The Thornborough estate
was sold to Col. Joicey, an extensive
coal owner in the county of Durham,
commanding a volunteer battallion, for
£52,000; and several parcels of land, be
longing to the same estate, but of less
importance, were subsequently disposed
of at high prices. Thus comes to a
close the proprietorial connection of
the Commissioners of Greenwich Hos
pital with the Valley of the Tyne: and
with the last fiat of the auctioneer at
Newark Castle, the interest of tho Der
wentwater Romance may be said vir
tually to have disappeared.
Prior, however, to tho sale taking
place, certain solemn arrangements, de
manded by the requirements of deco
rum, had been made at Dilston Castle.
The Greenwich Commissioners had un
doubted Parliamentary right to dispose
of the Derwentwater estates, of which
they havo been for nearly two centuries
the Trustees; but it would scarcely have
been within the proprieties to have sold,
at the same time, the bones of genera
tions of dead Ratcliffes to the highest
bidder. Thus, last week, the vault
beneath the old chapel at Dilston was
entered, and six coffins were reverently
removed. The first five contained the
ashes of Francis, the first Earl, who
died in 1696; of Edward, the second
Earl, who died in 1705; of Mr. Francis
Ratcliffe, who died in 1704; and of the
Ladies Barbara and Mary Ratcliffe,
whose decease took place respectively in
1696 and 1726. These five coffins were
carried to the cemetery of the Catholic
Church at Hexham, there to be rein
terred. It was on the last coffin, how
ever, that interest principally centred,
for in this were the remains of James,
third and last Earl of Derwentwater,
who, in ttna year 1716, and at the early
age of twenty-aeyen, was beheaded on
Tower Hill. The dust of the ill-fated
Jacobite Earl has been removed to
Thorndon, in Essex, there to be rein
terred in the family vault of Lord Petre.
The removal took place by rail, and sel
dom has railway tiuck borne a stranger
freight thau that hearse, with tho bones
of tho decapitated partisan of the
Htnarts within. A considerable assem
blage had been gathered at Dilston in
anticipator of some attempt to disturb
the proceedings being made by the ec
centric lady who is under tho impres
sion that she is entitled not only to
claim an attainted peerage but the con
fiscated estates once belonging thereto.
The poor lady, however, did not make
her appearance, and the removal of the
bodies were quietly effected. A„“R°‘
maneo” could scarcely bo more effcMifcu
ally effaced; for the removal of the re
mains of the Ratcliffes from Dilston will
do much toward dissipating the shadowy
prestige the locality has long enjoyed.
A stately cenotaph may be erected to
the memory of Earl James in the ances
tral sepulchre of the Petres, and suitable
memorials to his kindred may mark their
resting-place at Hexham; but it was at
Dilston that tho romantic influence of the
family was paramount; it was at Dilston
that the beheaded nobleman, being dead,
yet spake. As firmly as the peasantry
in remote parts of Franco believe that
Napoleon I. is yet alive, and that he will
appear some day, gray great-coat, little
cocked hat, and all, to avenge the
wrongs of his house, so have succeeding
generations of Northumbrian peasants
held that the spirit, at least, of Earl
James Jiovered round his patrimonial
domains, and that anew Ratcliffe would
arise to wear the dead man’s coronet,
and to enjoy his broad acres. It was in
vain to tell these simple folks of acts of
attainder and forfeiture. They persist
ed in their fidelity to his memory as
their fendal chief, and in declaring that
the beautiful old border ballad of Lord
Derwentwater’s “Good Night” was not
an everlasting farewell, but an injunc
tion to them to wait patiently for the
dny when the noble Ratcliffes should en
joy .their own again.
It in passing strange that, beyond the
boundaries of family tradition, into
which—unless Petre has communicated
his family muniments to the Historical
Manuscripts Commission—it would be
impediment to pry, much less is known
concerning the young, wealthy and gal
lant Earl of Derwentwater, who was
executed on Tower Hill after the ’ls,
than about bis brother Charles Ratcliffe,
the titular Earl, who was captured on
board a French ship in 1746-7, and be
headed without trial, anil on an attainder
thirty years old. In slaying him, the
law was surely*most cruelly overstrain
ed, for Charles Ratcliffe had long been
in the military service of France, and if
his immunity as a French subject conld
not be recognized, he might at least
have been permitted to claim the benefit
of a tacit Statute of Limitations in cases
of treason. Unhappily, the Govern
ment which refused to show mercy to
Charles Ratcliffe had the Derwentwater
estates in their fullest, clearest view.
The crown had not clutched them per
sonally; but they had been handed over
to a Board of Commissioners, and the
common people—Jacobite and Hanove
rian—had an odd spice of old English
conservatism in them, and could not be
brought to see how any Board of Com
missioners had a right to the ancestral
domains of a great English noble. Of
his demeanor on the scaffold, an ample
and minute acconnt has come down to
us. We are told how nobly and modest
ly he bore himself; how bravely he was
dressed, “in a scarlet waistcoat, his hat
a full cock, richly laced, and with a
feather in it;” how proudly he perform
ed the last offices of his creed; how he
gave the executioner a parse of guineas,
telling him it was all he had, bat bid
ding him do his best for a poor gentle
man at a pinch; and how, when the
sheriff coming to an end of reading the
death warrant, exclaimed in a loud tone,
“God save King Georgehe turned upon
him with a stem look, and in a loud, clear
voice, cried out, “ God save King
James!” So he died. Details scarcely
so copious have been transmitted to ns
in the account of the last moments of
his brother, Earl James, who was execu
ted on the 24th of February, 1716. The
times were ruder; the Hanoverian Gov
ernment were alarmed and enraged at
the escape of Lord Nithsdale, who was
to have suffered with Derwentwater.,
Not a single voice in the House of Lords j
was raised in his favor; and—to the credit
of English letters—the only member of
the Honse of Commons who dared to
plead in his place for merey to the con
demned Earl was a noted contributor to
the Spectator, named Richard Steele.
The young Countess of Derwentwater,
who is supposed to have principally in
strumental in inducing her lord to join
the rebellion, tried in vain to melt the
icy heart of George I; Walpole boasted
in the House of Commons that he had,
refused a bribe of £60,000, offered him
to spare the prisoner’s life. At the last
moment his peers relented, and ad
dressed the King on his behalf and that
of his condemned colleagues; but it was
too late. On the scaffold he read a paper
acknowledging himself a Roman Catho
lic, and afterwards examining the block
and finding a rough place in it, he made
the executioner hip it off lest it should
hurt his neck— a singular precaution to
be taken by one on the very threshold of
death. He appears to have heen a very
weak-minded bat amiable young man;
and by the peasantry on his estates, by
whom he was passionately beloved, his
death was regarded not as an act of
strict justice, but as a judicial murder.
That belief was shared by the descend
ants. The Government reluctantly con
sented that his body should be carried
down to Dilston for interment, instead of
being buried beneath the dreary chapel
within the Tower; bat it was insisted
that, to avoid awakening the sympa
thy of the population of the midland
and northern counties, the funeral pro
cession should travel only daring the
night. In the daytime the corpse rested
in the chapels belonging to Catholic
nobleman and gentlemen; and it was on
its arrival at Thorndon, the seat of Lord
Petre, that Earl James’ coffin was
opened, and that bis severed head was
sewed on to his body. Back to Lord
Petre’B seat, at Thorndon, have these
poor bones gone, and the curtain falls,
it may be forever, on the Derwentwater
romance.
TYNDALL'S POSITION.
He Repels the Imputation of Being an
Atheist The Limits of Molecular
Force the Issue of the Day—An Ob
ject Lesson.
Professor Tyndall, on the 28th ult., de
livered the first of a series of scientific
lectures which are to be given in the
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England,
by a number of distinguished scientists.
The subject selected by Professor Tyn
dall was the “Crystaline and Molecular
Forces.” The following is a summary
of the lecture:
Professor Tyndall, who was received
with great applause, said that he wished
most sincerely that what he had got to
tell them might be more worthy of their
hearing than it was. However, when
asked to come to Manchester and lend a
helping hand in what he believed to be
a truly good work, he conld not, though
hard pressed by other duties, refuse the
invitation. [Applause.] Some few years
ago he happened to visit a large school
in the country, and the principal of that
school asked him to take one of his
classes and give them a lesson. He
agreed to do so, provided the principal
allowed him to take his younger boys.
This he kindly consented to do, and
after casting in his mind what he conld
say to interest or instruct the little fel
lows, he went to a village hard by
and purchased a quantity of sugar
candy, and when the hour for as
sembling the class arrived that was his
only teaching apparatus. He took
the crystals asunder before the boys,
who were still accustomed to experiment
upon such crystals in a certain way.
[Laughter.] He tried, however, to re
veal vividly to their young minds the
manner in which these crystals of sugar
candy had been built up. He tried to
make them follow him, as atom after
atom was bnilt up until the crystal was
formed. The little fellows listened to
him with great interest. They had been
sucking sugar candy all their lives, but
they had no notion of the numerous
forms of beauty that lay hidden beneath
the crystals of sugar candy ; and when
he took the crystals and found that in
one direction he could split them into
pieces of lammae the joy of the boys was
complete, and he had rarely spent an
hour with greater pleasure than with
those little boys. At the end of the les
son he thought it only fair to open his
pockets and permit the class to experi
ment on the sugar candy in their own
particular way. [Laughter.] He was
afraid that the great assembly would
deem it somewhat impertinent on his
part to endeavor to entertain them on
the subject he found so interesting to
those little boys. However, he would
run the risk of being wearisome as well
as impertinent, and he also labored un
der the disadvantage that, at the con
clusion of his lecture, he should not be
able to make matters pleasant in the
same fashion as was open to him in the
case of the little boys. [Laughter.] They
had to consider that evening the phe
nomena of the crystalization, and before
they reached the ideas now entertained
upon that subject, and in order to trace
back the fancies of these notions, they
had to go a long way back. In the draw
ing of a bow, in the toting of a javelin,
in the lifting of burdens, and in personal
combats, even savage men become ac
quainted with the notion of force; and
after ages of discipline, during which
this force was directed against nature,
against his brain, and also against his
fellow-man, he acquired foresight, he
learned how to provide for the future,
to collect food, to give himself a little
leisure, and thus enable himself to look
around him and to become an inquirer
into external nature. And in process of
time he discovered two things which
must have profoundly excited his in
terest, One of these things consisted in
the fact that a certain resin or kind of
resin, dropped from the amber tree, par
ticularly on the shores of the Baltic,
when rubbed, acquired the power of at
tracting light bodies to itself. He also
in those early days made the observation
that $ certain ore of iron, a certain stone,
which was called a loadstone, was also
capable of exercising a similar power
upon a particular metal. The inquirer,
in these early ages of history, had
obtained tolerably clear notions of
the exercise of force from his own
muscular option. He was also able
to distinguish the action of muscu
lar efforts in pushes and pulls, and as
his experience augmented he found that
this loadstone and this electricity were
capable also of exercising pushes and
pulls; and as he saw the magnet draw
ing particles of iron to itself, and as he
saw the rubbed amber drawing light
subjects to itself, he transferred the no
tion be had obtained from his own mus
cular notions, and the pull and push of
amber and magnet were to him also
forpe, Tho lecturer then proceeded to
show, by means of elaborate experiments
and explanation, the action of polar
force. He remarked that his object was
more to show them the growth of scien
tific ideas than anything in an experi
mental way. He then went on to say;
W.e are surrounded by wonder and by
mystery everywhere, and if you will al
low me to say so, I have sometimes —not
sometimes, but often —in the Spring
time watched the advance of the sprout
ing leaves, and of the grass, and of the
flowers, and observed the general joy of
the opening leaf in nature, and I haye
asked myself this question: Can it be
that there is no being or thing in nature
that knows more about these matters
than Ido ? Do lin pry eagerness rep
resent tho highest knowledge of those
things existing in the universe'? Ladies
and gentlemen, the man who puts that
question fairly to himself, if he be not a
shallow man, if he be a man ca
pable of being penetrated by a
profound thought, he will never
answer that question by professing that
creed of atheism which lias been so
lightly directed to me. [Cheers.] Ev
erywhere throughout our planet we
notice this tendency of the ultimate
particles of matter to run into symmet
ric forms. The very molecules appear
inspired by a desire for union and
growth, and the question or questions at
the present day is one, I fear, that will
not be solved in our day, but wili con
tinue to agitate and occupy thinking
miuds after we have departed. The
question of questions is, “How far does
this wondrous display of molecular
force extend ? Does it give us the move
ment of the sap in trees?” I reply,
with confidence, assuredly it does.
Dees it give us the heating of our own
hearts, the warmth of our bodies, the
circulation of onr blood, and all that
thereon depend? This is a point on
which I offer no opinion to-night. I
have broughtyou to the edge of a battle
field into which I do not intend to enter,
from which indeed I have barely escaped
- [laughter and cheers]—somewhat be
spattered and begrimed, but without
much loss of fansrt or hope. [Loud
cheers.] It now only remains for me
not to enter this battle-field, but to
point out to you the positions oi the
contending hosts. You can pass on by
almost imperceptible gradations from
this womLsrfu. 1 display of force that
I have been able to make mani
fest to yonr eyes to-night—you
can pass on, I say, to the lowest
forms of vegetable life; you pass from
timid to higher forms, and so pass to
the highest. I have spoken of contend
ing hosts, and their position is this:
One class of thinkers suppose that all
these actions—the crystal yon have seen
formed before yon—regard this as the
growth of a single natural process. They
grasp, as it were, this development of
life as an indissolubly connected whole,
one great organic growth from the be
ginning. Others say it is not possible
to pass from the inorganic, as they are
pleased to call it. Here, then, are two
perfectly distinct positions. If you look
abroad you find men of equal interest,
equal earnestness, equal intelligence,
ranging themselves on two opposite
sides in relation to this question. Which
are right and which are wrong is, I ad
mit, a question for grave discussion,
and not for abuse and hard hitting.
•'Cheers.] lam afraid that many of the
fear* row entertained on these subjects
really have their roots in a kind of
scepticism. (Hear, hear.] It is not al
ways those who are charged with scepti
cism that are the real sceptics, and I
confess it is a matter of some grief to
me to see able, useful and courageous
men winning to and fro upon the earth
and wringing their hands oyer tho
threatened destruction of their ideas.
I would say, if I dare, to saefa men, I
would exhort them to cast out this
scepticism, for this fear has its scepti
cism. [Hear, u£9C.] In the human
mind we have a substratum of all ideas,
and as surely as string responds to
strings when the proper note is sound
ed, so sure when words of truth and
nobleness are uttered by the living hu
man soul so surely will those words
have a resonant response in other souls,
and in this faith I abide, and in this
way I leave the question.
At Philadelphia, Annie Beaver, aged
seventeen, was kidnapped,
THE HEART OF THE COMSTOCK.
An Underground Monntain of Solid
Silver Ore —Inexhaustible Riches.
[From the Virginia City Enterprise, Oct. 24.)
The Consolidated Virginia Mining
Company are beginning to open up and
lay bare the secrets of the northern
end of the great Comstock lode. They
are reaching the great lode on anew
and sound line, and are finding a con
tinuous body of ore. This body is now
known to extend from the Gould & Cur
ry through the Consolidated Virginia,
Califomiaand Ophir, the Union Consoli
dated. The Consolidated Virginia Com
pany are on the upper edge of the great
deposit lying under the basin in which
are situated the eastern suburbs of the
city, and are now beginning to reach
some of the rich ore it contains. In the
early days many of onr miners were of
the opinion that in the course of time a
pointin the lead would be reached where
would be found almost solid silver. At
the further depth of four or five hun
dred feet in the mine the Consolidated
Virginia Company may reach a point
where their ore will lack but little of
being solid silver. There appears to be
lying far down in this portion of the
lode a perfect mountain of silver ore.
Specimens brought up from the drift
running into the Consolidated from the
fifteen hundred foot level of the Gould
& Carry are even now almost solid
masses of silver. The reporter of the
Gold HillfNeww, who visited the newly
opened section of the Consolidated Vir
ginia mine day before yesterday, gives
the following account of it:
“The drift, after reaching the Consoli
dated Virginia south line, and being
connected with the fifteen hundred-foot
level of that mine by an air winze, the
Gould & Curry drift being thirty-eight
feet lower down than the south draft
from the Consolidated Virginia shaft,
was pushed directly ahead to prospect
the ore vein on the level. Hardly had
the line been crossed before the drift en
countered a body of rich, sulphuret ore,
second to nothing of the kind now
known to exist on the Comstock lodge.
The drift has penetrated this body of
ore 110 feet, with every indication of its
extending the entire length of the claim,
and even into the California ground.
To attempt a fair description of the
rich character of the ore is almost use
less, the sides and face of the drift be
ing one glittering mass of sulphurets
mixed with the richest character of
chlorides. Much of the ore is being
sacked, and a portion of the amalgama
ting department of the Mariposa Mill is
to be set apart for its reduction, its ex
treme richness often requiring the use of
500 or 600 pounds of quicksilver to a
charge of a single pan, where only 200
pounds is used in working the ordinary
class of ores. No cross cutting of this
body has yet been attempted, and all
the air forced in by the compressor is
required to drive the Burleigh drills in
the face of the drift. The exhibition of
the precious metals displayed in the
face when a blast of half a dozen holes
is discharged is simply grand, and one
that would cause the eyes of a miser to
weep with joy. Two upraisers, have
been made, 1,000 feet apart, for air con
nections with the 1,500 foot draft south
of the shaft, both of which passed the
entire distance through the same rich
character of ore. The future prospects
of the Consolidated Virginia, judged by
its present developments, are not only
almost entirely without an estimate, but
every drift run, in fact almost every
stroke of the pick made, seems to be
adding to its already immense wealth.”
The Democratic Victory anil the Priee
of Butter.
(From tho Albany Journal, Nov. 5.)
We heard a story yesterday in regard
to a confiding Democrat, an honest, sim
ple-minded laborer. He attended a
number of political meetings during the
campaign just closed, and swallowed,
with unquestionable faith, all that the
Democratic orators told him as to
the intimate relation between hard
times and Republican rule, and, of
course, drew the inference that the elec
tion of Mr. Tilden meant times just the
opposite of hard. Yesterday morning,
having mastered the election news, he
seized a plate handed him by his es
teemed helpmate, and, in accordance
with her request, hied him to a neigh
boring grocery store and requested to
be served with a couple of pounds of the
best butter. The energetic and urbane
clerk in attendance lost no time in
placing it upon the proffered plate.
Then, while he was in the act of laying a
delicate sheet of white paper on the top
of the butter to protect it from dust on
its way to its destination, the purchaser
asked what there was to pay. The ener
getic and urbane young clerk, who was
quick at figures, replied : “Two pounds
at forty-eight cents a pound—ninety-six
cents.”
At these words the face of the cus
tomer, which up to this point had been
wreathed with the smiles which the
election news had invoked, became over
spread with an expression of astonish
ment and anger. For a moment or so
his emotions rendered him speechless,
and then, in a loud voice, he broke
forth : “ Forty-ate cints ! O, musha,
musha! The devil fly away wid ye;
wasn’t that what ye was after chargin’
me Munda ?” The urbane clerk ex
plained that his customer was right—he
had been charged forty-eight cents per
pound for the best butter on Monday,
and the price in the meantime had un
dergone no variation. “Did ye take a
eqnint at the Argus this morning, me
boy ?” queried the excited party before
the counter, at the same time exhibiting
to the gaze of the clerk a copy of that
sheet, freighted with Democratic victo
ries. The intelligent clerk replied that
he had seen the Argus, and added that
he was much elated at the news. “ Ye’ve
seen the news, ye say that ?” “ Yes, sir,
I’ve seen the news.” “And ye’s know
that Tildern is elected?” “Yes, sir, I
am aware of that fact.” “ An’ Mr. Til
dern elected ye’ze chargin’ me forty-ate
cints a pound for butter, just the same
as on Munda.”
The clerk, as good humored as he was
urbane, explained that the election of
Mr. Tilden had not the slightest effect
upon the butter market. The too con
fiding Democrat hung his head for a
moment and then handed out ninety-six
cents in full for his butter, and then, as
he passed out of the grocery, pitched
the Argus Into the gutter,
It seems as if inanimate things as well
as men are sometimes designed for par
ticular purposes, and no matter how
they may PP thrown away or throw
themselves away, they manage by some
mysterious agency to accomplish their
end. A man named Kane cut bis throat
in New York, in 1867, and would have
consummated suicide but for the timely
arrival of his wife, who prevented any
mo to cuts and threw the razor out of
the window. Jt was picked up by a
man who subsequently 2°t into Hudson
oounty jail and took the razor with him.
There" was a man named Jeremiah Q’Sul
liyXP staying there a few days, prepara
tory to taking up a five years’ residence
in the penitentiary, and he wanted to
shave before starting. Hp borrowed
that identical razor from his fcl’ow
prisoner and cut his throat with it and
died, thus cheating the law of its ver
dict. The invisible hand of fate that
liohjs the razor is red with blood again.
As they say in the barber shops, “next!”
-1*?,..
Mr. E. Crown is a market gardener
near Washington, and gets up at 5
o’clock in the morning and goes to
market with his truck. He leaves his
wjfis sleeping, and in the same room
with her Rey brother—a boy of fifteen—
occupies a couch. Tim other morning
after her husband baa gone tq maritet
Mrs. Crown woke and saw a large negro
standing over her sleeping brother with a
drawn butcher knife, large and gleaming.
SJie reached under her pillow, and
drawing forth a Smith & Wesson re
volver, fired. Her hand must have been
more shaky than William Tell’s, for she
missed the negro and hit the hoy, The
pegro ran away* and escaped, and the boy
was suddenly wide awake. The bullet
had entered bis behind tfie ear, and
passed round without penetrating the
brain. It may be better than the knife
might have been, and probably the boy
is in luck after all.
Street dresses are made to clear the
ground, says a fashion correspondent,
so that the untidy and extravagant habit
of gathering up the dust of the pave
ments and mua oi tfa.e crossings, with
fine velvets, silks, and French cashmeres,
can now bo avoided without offense to
the mode. Skirts are about three and a
half yards in breadth; formed of a front
gore, one or two side gores, and a full
width behind, with all the fullness
drawn back by strings of stoat ejastic
bands, set on underneath. The trim
ming no longer differs in front and
back, but is alike all around. The
pardessns is either the inevitable polo
naise, modified somewhat from the
original idea, which found form in the
Marguerite, or the basque and tablier,
finished with a sash, looped so as to con
ceal the gathers of the apron.
Reduced Kates,-*-It will be a great
relief to Augusta merchants and others
who have experienced so mnch annoy
ance from delays in getting goods deliv
ered at way stations on the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta, Port Royal,
Georgia and the Macon and Augusta
Railroads, to know that the Southern
Express Company has succeeded in ob
taining reduced rates over the afore
mentioned lines, whereby it is enabled
to offer low rates to shippers by passen
ger trains.
LETTER FROM GREENE COUNTY.
Near Penfiecd, Greene Cos., Ga., (
November 16, 1874. \
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
As such a change has come over the
political horizon of onr country, and
Civil Rights bills and third terms have
played out, it seems that changes (for
the better) might come in some other
things, for we profess to be a civilized
and a christianized country. But from
the signs of the times now we have de
parted from the faith, or, as onr Metho
dist brethren would say, fallen from
grace, for we have about got to the
place that all our gatherings for the ad
vancement of our temporal interest
mast either open or close with regular
breakdown dances, and side shows must
be tacked on with fortune wheels and
dice tables. These things have even
made their way into our agricultural
fairs—an institution, we were told, whose
object was to stir up our people upon
the subject of farming, and make it not
only a paying business, bnt to make it
take a more prominent position among
the professions of our country, and if
possible to get more of our young men
of talent to take hold of it, and at least
to keep some of them from behind
the counters. But, alas ! how sad to say
that this institution has been chaugeii
into one of horse racing and gambling.
We are told that it was astonishing to
see what interest was taken at both the
Greene county fairs in these fortune
wheels and dice tables. Our old men
and young men, and even boys to their
teens, were there bettiug their money.
That Floral Hall only had an occasional
passer-by, while the masses stuck close
to these gambling places, and with
shame we say it, many of them were
members of the Church of Christ (we
do not say Christians). Now, Messrs.
Editors, what is the remedy ? Will not
the laws we have now do ? If not shall
we apply to our next Democratic Legis
lature before our young men and boys
are all ruined ? This state of things is
alarmiug, and does not speak well for
the gentlemen who control these Fair
Grounds. But let us turn to the bright
side of the picture. Old Greene, so long
under Radical rule, has shaken off the
chains and come out right at last. In
the last Legislature you had a special
delight in writing the word (colored)
next the names of our representatives ;
but, in spite of all the agents, at this
point of connecting railroads, we have
sent men this time that. Greene county
is proud of and Georgia will not be
ashamed of—L. B. Willis and L. D.
Carlton—for they are the right men in
the right place. Our election on the
3d instant was a small one. Mr. Ste
phens’ Grant notions made the people
weak in the knees. But we thiuk we
can stand it, for we have rejoiced greatly
at the defeat of Spoon Bntler.
Yours, Fishing Creek.
POISONED VEGETATION.
The Manifold Perils of Using Paris
Greeu.
In a paper read before the American
Academy of Science, last week, Prof.
Le Conte expressed the following rather
startling views;
I call attention to the extensive use of
Paris or Schweinfurth green for destroy
ing insects injurious to agriculture.
Paris green is a mixture of arsenite and
acetate of copper, and in the result of
certain empirical experiments has been
recommended as destructive to the Co
lorado potato beetle, and, in fact, as a
universal remedy against injurious in
sects which appear in masses. Now
arsenic and copper are poisons which act
with equal energy upon plants and ani
mals. The material, though diffused
upon the leaves of the plants to be pro
tected, which are incapable of absorb
ing it, is speedily carried into the soil,
and if used annually it is merely a mat
ter of time how many years will elapse
before tho soil is poisoned so as to pre
vent the growth of all vegetation. The
chemical possibilities which may re
sult in the poisoning of the
vegetation • raised from the soil I
will leave to be developed by my
colleagues. I solemnly protest against
the loose manner in which, on the recom
mendation of persons who have ob
served only the effects of these poisons
upon the insect pests to which their at
tention has been directed, a most dan
gerous material has been placed iu the
hands of a large mass of uneducated
men. The manufacture of this poison
has increased to a fearful extent. A
friend, residing in one of the grest agri
cultural centres of the West, writes that
the druggists of his town order it by the
ton. The ravages of the Colorado po
tato beetle, which has been tne chief
cause of the use of Paris green 11 agri
culture, commenced in the West many
years ago, and its extension at are .i.lar
rate was predicted by entomologi ts>.
The prediction has been verified almost
to a year. Now, it was within the power
of the Government, through a properly
organized scientific bureau for the pro
tection of agriculture, to have the sub
ject investigated by a commission and
recommend proper measures to be adop
ted. The use of metalic poisons would
not be one of them, but human labor,
properly compensated and intelligently
employed, might have been one of the
agents employed to avert a national ca
lamity such as has come upon us.
An interesting discussion followed the
reading of this paper. All the members
who took part in it approved Dr. Le
Conte’s views as to the danger of using
Paris green. Prof. Sillman had heard
of several instances of loss of human
life from carelessness in its use for kill
ing cockroaches. Prof. Alexander said
that there were well established cases
where its employment as a coloring
matter, for wall paper, had resulted in
poisoning persons who were affected
after only half an hour spent in the
rooms hung with such paper. Dr.
Mitchell referred to a number of cases of
poisoning by this substance. It might
be that the soil in which it was strewn
imparted a poisoning influence to plants
before refusing to yield its product, and
that the plants so affected acted injuri
ously upon the human system. Dr. Le
Conte sharply criticised the Agricultu
ral Bureau at Washington for failing to
investigate this subject. The use of
strychnine in fields to kill crows was re
ferred to by another member, who
thought that this most indescrutible of
poisons might affect the vegetation.
MUNICIPAL INSURANCE.
Augusta, Ga., November 16.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
In the able letter from Mr. W. F.
Herring, on the trade outlook, that gen
tleman ascribe the cause of bad trade to
the dearness of food. He is correct only
to a certain extent. There is also some
other cause that contributes to depress
it—the protective tariff, the high taxes,
the high rato of fire insurance premium,
by taking so much money out of the
pocket of the working masses. When they
have bought the necessary quantity of
feed required for their families, they
have less to buy something else. Those
institutions take the money from the
many for the benefit of the few. The
protective tariff should be abolished, the
taxes could be reduced by a more wise
and economical system of the general,
State and municipal affairs. As for the
evil of fire insurance the remedy is very
simple; the people ought to dispense with
them, by the establishment of munici
pal insurance in the incorporated cities,
and in the country in each county to
establish mutual insurance companies.
It will be more advantageous for the
citizens to associate themselves for the
mutual protection of their properties
rather than to pay so daar to have them
protected by foreigners. It will cost
less and keep the money at home. For
instance, in regard to the city of Augusta,
the adoption of the municipal insurance
system will cause the retention of a
capital of probably more than $150,000
annually. Supposing that this capital
is turned over twice during the year apd
the profits realized by our merchants to
be 15 per cent, each time, it will be an
increase of business to the amount of
$300,000, and a pofit to our merchants
amounting to $45,000. At the end of
five years only the business capacity of
the citizens of Augusta will be increased
to the amount of $1,500,000, and the
profit to onr merchants to the sum of
$225,000. So much in favor of the
municipal insurance system. It has
been presented as a remedy against the
evil of the actual system of fire insur
ance. I would like to know what the
opponents of it can say to prove that the
remedy is worse than the evil. Come
out gentlemen, from the chimney cor
ner, and give to the prople the reason
for your opposition. If yon are sincere
in your belief that the adoption of the
municipal insurance system will be in- j
jurious to the interests of tfie citizens of j
Augusta you should not be so bashful.
Yours respecefully,
F. A. Mauge.
Caked Bags in Cows. —A correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Gazette says for
caked bag in cows, get ten cents worth
of dry iodine; fill a cup with good fresh
lard, and stir in the iodine until it is
thoroughly mixed; let it stand for a day
or night; stir it again and rub it in with
the hand frequently, and a cure is cer
tain. Whoever employs the violent
remedies should understand that they
may do more than is desired. lodine
affects the secretions powerfully, and
causes (the absorption of tumors and ab
normal growths ; may it not also cause
a decrease in the secretion of milk ? We
have found that persistent kneading and
robbing was better than anything else.
If the bag be very tender, as it often is,
take a teaspoonfnl of tincture of arnica
in water, and rub the same, dilated with
twice as mnch water, upon the bag, to
take ont the soreness. _
The Augusta Dry Goods Trade.
The House of Christopher Gray & Cos.
One of the most noted me rcantile houses in the
city of Augusta is that of Christopher Gray & Cos.,
at the corner of Broad and Mclntosh streets.. The
senior member of the house is one oi the oldest mer
chants in the city, not to say one of the pioneers of
the trade in Georgia. He, however, of late years,
spends most of his time in New York, purchasing
for the house, leaving the more active duties of it
under the immediate supervision of his brother, An
drew T. Gray.
The advantage of a house having an experienced
merchant, ripe in education a9 to all the wants in
their every detail of the people, constantly stationed
In the commercial metropolis of the country, and
armed with money with which to pay cash down for
every purchase, will be seen at once, and more es
pecially by men versed in the trade. A day hardly
ever passes evea here that great bargains cannot be
obtained for tbe money, to say nothing of New
York.
The Aim of the House.
The aim of the house has always been to keep a
wealth of Dry Goods to sell at retail, to furnish every
article demanded by such a business, and to furnish
such grades of goods as are required by people who
buy for their own consumption. Has it succeeded
in so doing ? Tiie best answer to this is found in
the extraordinary am unt of business it does from
day to day, from year to year.
Dress Goods.
One of the most attractive features of the house is
its Dress Goods. Of course first in this line are the
Black Silks, without which no lady ever consid
ers that she has anything to wear ! Well, they do
lock well any day in the year in one, and upon tny
and every occasion. They make Bl.ck Silks a spe
ciality. Next to the Black Silks, and often pre
ferred to them, are the Black Alpaceas. The Messrs.
Gray male this also a speciality, and always have
a heavy and complete stock of them of th j various
shades and grades made. As largely as they have
dealt in them heretofore they are running upon them
more heavy stiirthis year.
Under this head of Dress Goods comes ail kinds of
Woolens. Cashmeres, Crepes, Valoures, Diagonals*
Bombazines. Marinos and Satines.
Ihe Linen Department.
The house always carries a fine stock cf Table Da
masks, Towels, Napkins, Doylies, Shirting, and
Linen, the most of them imported direct from Ire
land, for any use that any one may chot se to put
them.
Woolens.
Under this head we find French, English and
American Cassimeres. Satinets, Janes and Kerseys.
They enter as largely into the grand aggregate of
the house as anything else, or rather any other di
vision. Cloth for men and boys uses can here be
found at from 25 ceuts to ten dollars per yard—and
in all human probability of any color required.
Domestic Cotton Goods.
This department contains goods from all Southern
mills adjacent to the city of Augusta, as well as from
the mills of New England, New York, and the Middle
States. They are sold at precisely the same figures
charged at the factories. This, of course, does not
mean that they are sold at no profit, but 1 every one
knows that in making large purchases from factories
cheaper rates can be obtained. The stock kept by
the Messrs. Gray includes checks, stripes, plaids and
plain white goods for shirting, sheeting, and the
hundred other purposes the trade requiies.
Hosiery.
For this line selections are made from German,
English and American manufactories.
Furnishing Goods and IVot ons.
Ladies and Gentlemen’s Handkerchiefs, Ties,
Gloves of all makes, Shirts for both ladies and gents,
and Underwear, are some of the articles we find here.
In addition to these are Ribbons of every color, tint,
hue and shade, and in which the house does an extra
ordinary business.
Shawls.
From the smallest American to the imported
Broche. This is saying a good deal, but it is fully
justified by tbs rich, varied and fascinating display
made upon the counters.
Blankets.
The Winter months through which we are now
passing make this article suggestive. The reader
can find at the house of Christopher Gray & Cos.
Blankets worth from one to twenty-five dollars. We
saw a large double blanket there yesterday as a spe
cimen of a lot made of pure lamb’s wool, and which
weighed twelve pounds.
American Prints.
The looms of the United States supply this depart
ment. The brands comprise all the celebrated facto
ries of New England, and as varied as the tastes of
our ladies are, the house can satisfy all.
General Remarks.
In a word, the Mt ssrs. Geay at all times and all
seasons command and carry stocks of Goods which
are demanded by the Retail Trade of the city of Au
gusta. The reputation of the establishment is a
household word in the latitude of this city, and its
sales ramify far and near.
CMstojMray&Co.
In view of their promises last
week to do more good than the
speech makers, come to the front
and keep their word b.v advertising
the Cheapest Goods ever offered in
Augusta.
Fine Black Silk, the best in Geor
gia, at $2.
White Blankets, from $4 50 to
$25 00 per pair.
A splendid line of Dress Goods.
Briliiantincs, Mohairs, Alpacas,
Cashmeres.
Thibit Cloths, Alpines, Crepes and
Bombazines.
We offer a better 4-4 White Shirt
ing than Bills, Launsdalc or Frnit
of Loom at 12 l-2c.
CHRISTOPHER GRAY & CO.,
BROAD AND McINTOSH STS.
n o vB-su we & f r t f
EST'D. 7858.
pOOtEVs
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Makes Elegant Biscuits and Rolls.
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Makes Delicious Muffins, Griddle Cakes, Com
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Makes all kinds of Dumplings, Pot Pies, Cakes
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DOOLEYS YEAST POWDER
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DOOLEYS YEAST POWDER
Is guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Be sure to ask for
DOOLEYS YEAST POWDER
and do not be put off with any other kind.
DOOLEYS YEAST PO WDER
Is put up in Tin Cans of various sizes, suitable
for Families, Boarding Houses, Hotels,
Restaurants and River. Lake and
Ocean Vessels on short or
long voyages.
The Market is flooded with Cheap, Inferior
Baking and Yeast Powder of light or short
weigh. DOOLEY’S YEAST POWDER is war
ranted full strength and full weight.
Sold .at wholesale and retail, generally
throughout the United States, bv dealers in
Groceries and Family Supplies.'
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Attorneys at Law.
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WM. D. TUTT Thomson, Ga.
W. M. A M. P. REESE Washington. Ga.
W. G- JOHNSON... Lexington, Ga.
J. T. JORDAN Sparta. Ga.
J. T. REID j Crawfordville, Ga.
GEO. F. PIERCE. Jr Sparta, Ga.
JUKIAIT 11. CASEY .Thomson, Ga.
F. L. L1TTLE....... • • - -Sparta, Ga.
B. 0. LOVETT Waynesboro, Ga.
BILLUPS & BBOBSTON Madison, Ga.
C. E. KCNNEBP.EW Greenesboro, Ga.
WM. H. BRANCH Greenesboro, Ga.
CP-AWFORD <t WILLIAMSON. .Milledgeville.
A. B. MORGAN> Warrenton, Ga.
PAUL C- HUDSON ...... , .Thomson, Ga.
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for HOLMAN S PICTORIAL RUBLES
1300 ILLUSTRATIONS. Addross for circulars A. J.
HOLMAN & CO., 930 ARCH St., Phi la. cc2s-4w
AGENTS WANTED
FOR THE GRANDEST BOOK EVER PUBLISHED,
VOUMIiVS nw EVERY-DAY
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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 fasterj than any other
three books combined 116 page circular and extra
terms free. F. A. HUTCHINSON & CO., Cincinnati,
Ohio. oct2s-4w
WATERS’ NEW SCALE PIANOS,
SQUARE and UPRIGHT, I MamS
Touch Elastic, the Tone Power nl, Pure and even
through the entire scale, yet mellow an<i sweet.
WATERS’ Concerto ORGANS
cannot 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, and balance iu monthly
payments. Second-hand Instruments at great bar
gains. AGENTS WANTED. A liberal Discount to
Teachers, Ministers, Churches, Schools, Lodges, etc.
Illustrated Catalogues mailed. HORACE WATERS
& SON, 481 Broadway, New York, P. O. Box 3,567.
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THE MASON & HAMLIN
ORGAN CO.,
Winners of THREE HIGHEST MEDALS and
DIPLOMA of HONOR, of VIENNA, ’63, and PARIS,
’67, 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.—
Firßt payment $0 90 or upwards. Illustrated Cata
logues and Circulars, with full particulars, sent free
on request. Address, MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN
CO., Boston, New York or Chicago. 0c25-4w
FIRST GRAND GIFT CONCERT,
Montpelier Female Humane Association
AT ALEXANDRIA, VA.
NOVEMBER *23, 1874.
LIST OF GIFTS:
1 Grand Cash Gift SIOO,OOO
1 Grand Cash Gift 60,000
1 Grand Cash Gift 25,000
10 Cash Gifts, SIO,OOO each 100,000
15 Cash Gifts, 5,000 each 75,000
50 Cash Gifts, 1,000 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 $1,000,000
NUMBER OF TICKETS, 100,000.
PRICE OF TICKETS.
Whole Tickets S2O 00
Halves 10 00
Quarters 5 00
Eighths or each Coupon 2 50
6Y* Tickets for 100 00
The Montpelier Female Humauo Association, char
tered by tfio 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.
Governor’s 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
and substantial means liberally represented among
them. JAMES L. KEMPER, Govornor 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 and 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, Ac., send for
Circular. Address, Hon. JAMES BARBOUR,
President M. F. H. A., Alexandria, Va.
Reliible Agents wanted everywhere. 0c25-4w
POSTPONEMENTS IMPOSSIBLE.
—s<2o—
BUY A
FIRST MORTGAGE PREMIUM BOND
OF THE
N. Y. Industrial Exhibition Company,
Authorized by the Legislature of the State of N. Y.
2d Premium Drawing - - December 7, 1874.
3d Series Drawing - - - January 4, 1875.
EVERY BOND will be Redeemed with a Premium,
as an equivaleut for Interest.
CAPITAL PREMIUM, SIOO,OOO.
Address, for Bonds and full information,
MORGENTHAU, BRUNO & CO.,
Financial Agents, 23 Park Row, N. Y.
ocl4—4w P. O. Drawer, 29.
WORKING PEOPLE—MaIe or Female. Employ
ment at home, S3O per week warranted, no
capital required. Particulars and valuable samples
sent free. Address, with 6 cent return stamp, O.
ROSS, Williamsburg, N. Y. aug2s—4w
UB LI? SAMPLE to Agents. Ladles’ Com&lna
£ HLli lion Needle Book, with Chromos. Send
stamp. DEAN & CO.,
sep2s-4w New Bedford, Mass.
WORK FOR ALL
AT home, male or female; $35 |er 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
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ABE YOU
Weak, Nervous, or Debilitated I
Are yon so Languid that any exertion requires
more ol'an effort than you feel capable of making "
Then try JUKUBEBA, the wonderful Tonic and
Invigorator, which acts so 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 lewer
depth of misery, but It is a vegetable tonic acting
directly on tbe 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
“Fpld their tents, like the Arabs,
And silently steal away.”
This is no new and untried discovery, bnt
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
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For
COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS,
AND ALL THROAT DISEASES,
WELLS’ CARBOLIC TABLETS,
PUT UP ONLY IN BLUE BOXES.
A TRIED AND SURE REMEDY,
Sold by Druggists. 4w
FOR SALE!
Farms With Improvements, Dwell
ings, Outhouses, Gins and Saw
Mills,
LOCATED in the neighborhood of Augusta.
Also, Lands in Burke and Richmond
•ounties. For particulars, apply to i
i
BRANCH, SONS A CO., ;
Corner Campbell and Beynolds etreete. (
norHrtf
New AdTertiHemncM.
Positively the Only Large Show
THAT WILL EXHIBIT in AUGUSTA DURING M TRAVELING SEASON OF 1874
Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 7 and 8,
OLD JOHN ROBINSON'S
Great World’s Exposition!
INDISPUTABLY TEE L4ESEST EIEIBITION IN TBE lOBLD!
Thousands of Living Animals,
Myriads of Birds, Colonies of Monkeys,
Schools of Amphibia, Milos of Reptiles.
No Impossibilities Promised; we Guarantee to Exhibit all we Represent or the
Money Refunded.
OUR MATCHLESS ORGANIZATION 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 and 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. IfcifMark well these lines.
WE WILL EXHIBIT AT EACH PLACE THE GREAT SHOW VISITS
A Herd of Living Giraffes, Costing $62,000 in gold! A islack Sumatran
Rhinoceros ! The Largest Performing Elephant in America ! A Giant
Ostrich, 12-fect High! Monster Sea Lions ! A 3-Ilorned 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 !
Doors Open at 1S:30 and 0:30, p. m.
Arrangements have been made with all the lines of railway for ROUND TRIP
TICKETS, good on all the trains 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 10th.
Washington: FRIDAY, December 11th.
Crawfordville: SATURDAY, December 12th.
Athens: MONDAY, December 14t,1i.
Greenesboro: TUESDAY, December 15th.
Madison: WEDNESDAY, December 16th.
Covington: THURSDAY, December 17th.
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J. M. BUBDELIL,
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
usual. Consignments solicited. Bep3-tliHat.il/kw3m
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 uso for all domestic and light manufactur
ing purposes, nor is it inferior to any (as may
be inferred by some minds Ton 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
Bale, and is warranted for five yeais 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 $76. Sent to any
address on receipt of price, 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 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 & HUNT, Baltimore,
Manufacturers for the South and South
west.
Nearly 7,000 now n use, working under heads
varying from 2 to 240 feet I 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.
KANCFACTUEKR3, ALSO, OF
Portable and Stationary Steam Engines and
Boilers, Babcock & Wilcox Patent Tnbulous
Boilers, Ebaugh’s Crusher for Minerals, Saw
and Grist Mills. Flouring Mill Machinery, Ma
chinery for White Lead Works and Oil Mills,
““nsisrasLii.s.
f eb2s-wly
; L. J. GUILMABTIN | JOHN FLANNEBX.
j L. J. GUILMARTIN & C 0„ ;
; Cotton Factors, ;
—AND— ;
; COMMISSION MERCHANTS, j
i Kelly’s Block, Bay St., Savannah, Ga., ;
; Agents for Bradley's Phosphates, ;
; Jewell's Mills Yarns and Domestics, Ac. !
\ Bagging and Don Ties for sale at low- -
• est market rates. .
I Prompt attention given to alibusinesss *
• entrusted to us.
• Liberal cash advances made on con- ;
; signments. au27-wfim :
Notice to debtors and creditors.—au
persons indebted to the Estate of Robert Doug
lass, late of Richmond county, deceased, are hereby
requested to make immediate payment to the under
signed, and those having claims against the same
are notified to present them, duly authenticated, ac
cording to law. FRANK H. MILLER,
oc9-4w Executor Est. R'bcrt Douglass.
ANOTHER CHANGE !
FIFTH AND LAST CONCERT
IN AID OF THE
Piic Lilrw if Mr.
Postponed to November 30, 1874.
Drawing Certam_at That Date.
LIST OF GIFTS.
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT $250,000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 100,000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 75,000
ONE ORAND CASH GIFT 50,000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 25,000
5 CASH GIFTS $20,000 each 100,000
10 CASH GIFTS 14,000 oach 140,000
15 CASH GIFTS 10,000 each 150,000
20 CASH GIFTS 5,000 each 100,000
25 CASH GIFTS 4,000 each 100,00#
30 CASH GIFTS 3,000 each 90,000
60 CASH GIFTS 2,000 oach 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 each 950,000
GRAND TOTAL 0,000 GIFTS, ALL
CASH $2,500,000
PRICE OF 'PICKETS.
Whole Tickets $ 50 00
Halves 20 00
Tenth, or each coupon 5 00
II Whole Tickets for 500 00
224 Tickets for 1,000 00
For Tickets and information, address
THOS. E. BRAMLKTTK,
Agent and Manager.
Public Library Building. Louisville. Ky.
Tickets for sale at the AUGUSTA HOTEL,
Augusta, Ga. sepl3-Butli£wlmtiiov2s
Jennings, Smith & Cos,
COTTON FACTORS,
AUGUST A., GA.
GIVE special and careful attention to the
Storage and Sale of Cotton and other
Produce. Open and Close Storage superior to
any in the city. .
Also, eell the following first class Standard
Fertilizers at reduced prices for cash :
Zell’s Bone Phosphate.
Eureka Superphosphate,
Cumberland Superphosphate
Stono Soluble Guano,
Stono Acid Compound for Com
posting.
oct3-d&w3m
(IfwO J Hard rum Lip IjL
's^.tidssks*! —^
ABDOMINAL SUPPORTERS AND PILE, PIPES.
Relief, comfort and cure for Buittjbe, Fe
male Weaknesses and Piles, unlike all other
appliances known, will never rust, limber,
break, chafe, soil nor move from place—inde
structible. The fine Bteel spring being coated
with hard mbber, light, cool, cleanly, used in
bathing, fitted to form, universally recommend
ed by all surgeons as the best mechanical sup
ports known. SeDd for Pamphlet. Establish
ments, 1347 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, and
737 Broadway New York. Complete assortment
for sale, with careful adjustment, by J. H,
ALEXANDER, 212 Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
Beware of Imitations. ocl4-wßm
Lumber! Lumber! Lumber
TWO hundred thousand feet of LUMBER,
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 Oamak, on the Georgia Railroad
before purchasing elsewhere.
oc9-d3&w3m W. W. SWAIN.
545 -A-ctually Saved.
