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Cfttonute an& .Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY... DECEMBER 9,1874.
A PERSIAN LOVE SONG.
BT THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH.
Ah! Md are they who know not lore.
Bat fer from peesion'e teen end ami lea
Drift down moonless sea, beyond
BTse eilvery coeete of fairy lend.;
Andsadier they whose longing Ups
Kim empty air and never touch
The dear warm mouth of those they lore—
Waiting, wasting, suffering much.
But clear as amber, fine as musk.
Is life to those Who, pilgrim wise.
Move hand in hahd from dawn to duu.
Kaoh morning nearer Paradise.
Oh, not for them shall angels pray;
Ther stand in everlasting light :
They walk in Allah's smile by day.
And nestle in his heart by night.
[For the Sunday Chronicle and Sentinel.]
IN MEMORIAM OF QUI VIVE,
The Columbia correspondent of the Charles
ton Newt and Courier , who lost his life by the
explosion of a kerosene lamp while at the poet |
of duty.
r.ifca a vet'ran in battle with face to the foe,
Obedient to duty’s stem call;
His country’s defender in the hour of woe,
He fell as a hero should fall.
Only a pen for a weapon, yet deadly that aim
While straggling for freedom, and when
Even hope it had faltered he strove to sustain
The rights of his loved countrymen.
Firm 'mid temptations he stood at the van
Guarding a God-given trust;
And the nation that mingled its praise for the
mjkn.
Now weeps o'er Ms sanctified dost.
Let the rue and the laurel entwine o'er his
grave,
As tributes of sorrow and glory.
On the tablets of fame live the deeds of the
brave,
Emblazoned in song and in story.
Viaonnus.
TIMES GO BY TURNS.
An English Jesuit, Robert Southwell, wrote
the following Unes of much merit two centimes
and a half ago. The philosophic strain of the
piece is worthy of admiration :
The lopped tree in time may grow again.
Most naked plants renew both fruit and
The sorriest wight may find relief from pain.
The direst soil suck in some moistening
Times' 1 go*by turns, and chances change by
course.
From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.
The sea of fortnne loth forever flow.
She draws her favors to the lowest ebb ;
Her tides have equal times to come and go,
Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest
web; . .
No joy so great bnt runneth to an end;
No hap so hard but may in time amend.
Not always fall of leaf, nor oven Spring ;
No endless night, nor yet eternal day ;
Though sad lest birds a season find to sing,
The roughest form a calm may soon allay ;
Thus, with succeeding turns God tempereth
That mau may hope to rise, yet fear to fall.
A chance may win that by mischance was lost ;
That net that holds the great takes little
flah :
In some things all, In all things none, are
Few all they need, but none have all the
wish ! . . „
Unmingled joys here to no man befall,
Who least, have some ; who most, hath never
all.
BHORT AND SWEET.
A BTTLB or VERSIFICATION THAT SHOULD BE EN
OJUIUOCD BT THE INTELLIGENT COMPOSITOB.
An lowa editor who attended a party was
■mitten with the charms of a fair damsel who
wore a roso on her forehead, and thus gushed
about it: *
Above her ncse
There is a rose;
Below that rose
There is a nose.
Bose, nose,
Nose, rose,
Sweet rose,
Dear nose.
Below her chin
There is a pin j
Above that pin
There is a chin.
Pin, chin,
Chin, pin,
Sweet pin,
Dear chin.
Whereupon a rival editor thus apostrophisos
the lowa chap :
Above t he stool
There is a fool;
Below the fool
There is a stool.
Stool, fool,
Fool, stool,
Old fool,
Damphool.
Below his seat
There are two feet;
Above these feet
There is a seat.
Seat, feet,
Feet, seat,
Soft seat,
Big feet.
[For the Sunday Chronicle and Sentinel.]
NOVEMBER LEAVES.
BEHTF.LLE.
81owly pass the melancholy hours,
Sad mourners o'er tho wreck of Summer's
bloom;
And o’er tho graves of fadod flowers,
November winds bemoan the woodland’s
gloom.
Softly, sadly, on the chilly ground,
Like perished hopes, the leaves are falling ;
And hushed and still oaoh cheerful sound—
E'en the jay has ceased its calling.
O where aro the sweet wild birds that sang
Through the long bright Summer's prime,
Whose carols through the woodlauds rang
At morn and noon and e’en time ?
As if frightened by the echo of their
Own sweet notes, in the changed and silent
vales,
They have flown to climes more fair,
To warble their songs on soft Southern gales.
Deserted and lonely is tho glade
And tho glen, bereft of the birds and the
Flowers, ah! dear little buds, ye bloomed but
to fade!
So short were your young lives of beauty.
Not now flows along tlie brook with a song,
As softly it hurries alone on its way;
It sighs for the flowers, the bright, gentle
throng,
That smiled on its banks in warm, sunny
May.
My heart grows sad as I wander
All alone o'er the leaf-covered hillside ;
And. thinking of loved oues, 1 linger
With tears o'er the changes of time's rolling
tide.
Though the Summer soon hastens to Autumn,
Ana the hillsides are strewn with the leaves
of November,
Yet why should sad change to the heart ever
come;
O why should it cease to remember!
O would that the chill which falls on the heart.
Like the snow-drifts that cover the flowers.
When the Springtime returns, as quickly de
part,
With its. remembrance of dark, weary hours.
O then would the flowers of affection appear,
And spring in the heart once again ;
They'd bring recollections of friends loved and
dear.
Forgetting the heart's bitter pain.
November, 1874.
THE VOICE AND THE ,PEAK.
TENNYSON.
The voice end tho peek
Far over summit end lawn.
The lone glow end long roar.
Green rushing from the rosy thrones ol'
dawn.
All night hare I heard the voice
Rave over the rocky bar ;
Bat thou wert silent iu heaven—
Above thee glided the star.
Hast thou no voice, oh. peak.
That standee! high above all ?
“I am the voice of the peak, *
I roar and rave for I fall.”
A thousand voices go
To north, south, east and west ;
They leave the heights and are troubled.
And moan and sink to their rest.
The fields are fair beside them.
The chestnut towers in his bloom ;
But they—they feel the desire of the deep
Fiji— and folUyr their doom.
The deep has power on the height.
And the height has power on the deep ;
They are raised for ever and ever,
And sink again into sleep.
Not raised for ever and ever.
But when their cycle is o'er.
The valley, the voice, the peak, the star
Pass, and are found no more.
The peak is high and flush'd,
At his highest with sunrise fire;
The peak is high, and the stars are high.
And the thought of a man is higher.
A voice below the voice.
And a height beyond tho height:
Our hearing is not hearing.
And our seeing is not sight. -
The voice and the peak.
Far into heaven withdrawn;
The lone glow and long roar,
Green rushing from the rosy thrones of
dawn.
The successful employment of an
Anaesthetic which prevents pain without
destroying consciousness is a matter of
interest and importance to medical peo
ple everywhere. Dr. B. W. Richardson,
in the "London Lancet, describes two
operations of this kind, by him perform
ed, for removal of cancerous tumors of
the breast, both patients being ladies. —
A spray of common ether was directed
upon the tumor until thoroughly chill
ed. The lighter fluid, a compound of
ether with hydride of amyl, specific
gravity 0.720," was then applied until
the whole breast was frozen like a snow
ball. Instead of with a scalpel, the in
cisions and removals were effected by
means of small, strong, sharp and curv
ed scissors. The use of this instrument
is considered essential. The operations
were successful, and healing speedy
without discharge or trouble of any
kind.
Pio Nono College has sixty-one stu
dents, with six or eight professors.
TREASURE TROVE.
Strange News from San Francisco—
Midnight Work, on Gloat Island—A
Chinaman In the Bay.
San Francisco, October —“A China
man in the Bay" is no nnusnal occur
rence here—indeed most of the newspa
pers keep the paragraph in standing
type, having occasion to use it several
times a week. A Chinaman was found
in the bay this day a week ago, however,
under circumstances rather peculiar.
He turned up in the wake of El Capitan,
the Oakland steamer, and when exam
ined was found to have two Spanish
doubloons firmly clenched in his right
hand, while a keen Italian stiletto, with
a blade twelve inches long, was driven
hilt deep into his breast, with wonderful
force and precision, cleaving his heart
in twain. The dagger was recognized
as belonging to an Italian fisherman
known by the name of Francisco Calsa
bigi, part tenant of a hut near the north
west point of Qoat Island. Calsabigi,
when searched for, however, was found
to have disappeared, and no traces can
be found of him. There are some cir
cumstances connected with this China
man in the bay and the disappearance
of Calsabigi that are of snch a startling
and singular nature that I think them
worth narrating to the World , and shall
do so without farther preamble, merely
premising that I cannot indicate the
sources of my information more clearly
than to say simply that the leading facts
here narrated are known at Police Head-
quarters.
To begin at the beginning, when Con
gress met last December much laughter
was excited here by a petition presented
in the Senate, I am not certain by whom,
but I think by Mr. Sargent. This peti
tion was signed by several well-known
Spiritualists of this place, and asked
Congress to give them the privilege of
digging for treasure on Goat Island,
otherwise called Yerba Buena Island,
and to give them also a title to and pro
tection in such treasure as they might
find. The thing was laughed at by
everybody except James Turner, a fa
mous prospective and the most adven
turous speculator in dips, spurs, and
angles, that this coastful of speculators
has ever developed. “Who knows,”
said Jim—every one calls him Jim—-“but
what the ‘mother lode,’ after twisting
around in some unaccountable way, has
taken a notion to crop out on old Yerba
Buena?" Jim wrote to Sargent fora
complete list of the signers to the peti
tion, and when, in due conrse, he got
his copy and found the name of one the
shrewdest bankers in Sacramento sand
wiched between those of two obstre
perous woman’s rights advocates, he felt
his suspicions confirmed, and from that
time forth constituted himself a sort of
amateur detective with right of promis-
cuous search.
It would be too long a story lor me to
tell you all about Jim Turner’s efforts
to detect the secret whioh he fancied lay
hidden nnder the petition to Congress.
He prospected on Goat Island for a
while, but could find neither “color”
nor “indication,” and soon gave it up
for a bad job. He turned a Spiritualist,
and speculated in seances with the ut
most ardor. Here he met with better
success, for a leaky sister, indignant at
having been left “out in the cold,” be
trayed the fact that the petition was
gotten up by a “ring” who wanted to
search Goat Island, not for original
gold, but for buried treasure, which, so
they seemed to think, was to be found
somewhere under tlie Government bar
racks on the island. “Sarah Jane Mau
pin pretends to know the very spot,”
said tho sister, very contemptuously;
“and makes out the spirits told her.—
Fudge! the spirits never communicate
with such a wretch. I suspect the
pirates who buried it were some of her
kinsfolk 1”
After searching and inquiring further,
Jim Turner thought it would be worth
his while to take a trip to Sidney, New
South Wales, und preparing for that
ecd, he sought some letters of introdua
tion. Among those to whom he applied
was the Sacramento banker mentioned
above as having signed the Spiritualists’
petition, and who, as he knew, had re
cently visited Australia. This gentle
man kindly gave Turner letters to sever
al persons, both in Melbourne and Sid
ney. Among these letters was one to
Commodore Hanee Sglyage, a retired
British naval officer liviug in the out
skirts of Sidney.
Upon his arrival in Sidney, Turner
made it his first business to inquire into
the facts concerning the execution of
two pirates who were hung there Juno
8, 1819. One of these pirates was a
Sicilian named Domnico Calsabigi; the
other, an American, who gave the name
of “Claude Livingston,” which was sus
pected to be an alias. Ha found that
an American schooner, running lades
from California to Boston, had in 1817
or thereabouts been captured when one
day out from Tumbez, on her return
voyage. The captors, who were thought
to’have been part of the crew, and a
lot of reputed passenger* who had en
gaged the vessel to transport them down
the coast to tho Roads of Islay, set the
captain and some of the crew ashore on
Lobos Island, threw the dry hides over
board and sailed away. They were next
heard of in Frisco, where, apparently
by previous arrangement, they shipped
a miscellaneous crew, took on “board
provisions, ammunition, muskets and
cutlasses, and three cannon, two earro
nades and a long gun amidship. Thus
equipped, the pirate soon beoame noto
rious under the name of the “Fly-by-
Night. ” Tho schooner was a fast and
taut little clipper, and she ravaged the
whole Pacific coast from Cape Mendo
cino to Cape Horn for more than a year,
escaping to the Galapagos whenever any
pursuit was made. Several treasure
ships were captured, and many atroci
ous deeds done by the reckless and
ruthless scoundrels aboard of her. At
last, after capturing several vessels of
different nationalities, a combined effort
was made to suppress the Fly-by-Night.
Our own navy combined with that of
Spain to drive her off the coast, while
two British cruisers watched for her at
the Galapagos.
One of these vessels, the sloop Auck
land, was famous for her speed, and be
fore long had a chance to test it. The
Fly-bv-Niglit came in sight, and the
Auckland started immediately in pur
suit. Alter some perilous dodging in
and out among the islands, finding she
could not shake off her pursuer thus,
the Fly-by-Night steered eastward and
sailed boldly away towards mid-ocean,
the Auckland after her.. An exciting
chase ensued, lasting seven days, so
nearly were the vessels matched in
speed. At last the Auckland began to
overhaul hi r, very slowly, and the pi
rates to fire their long tom at her, in
hope to carry away some of her spars.
Tho Auckland did not reply, and pres
ently the long gun of the pirate ex
ploded, killing her captain, helmsman
and several of the crew, cutting the
shrouds to windward, and smashing the
wheel so that she could not be steered.
The pirate fell off, and daring the ten
minutes of confusion that eusued, the
Auckland was near enough to have fler
under her broadside and at her mercy.
“Surrender!” shonted the captain.
“Never !” cried a voice from the pirSte
—it was afterwards found out that it
was “Liviugston” who apoke—and a
ball from one of the carronades smashed
into the cruiser’s sides. The reply was
a broadside, another, a third—and,
when the smoke from the last volley hail
cleared away, the Fly-by-Night was no
longer to be seen. She had sunk with
all on board.
Four of the pirates were picked up
by the Auckland’s boats. "Claude
Livingston,” Jacob Tegg, Domenico
Calsabigi, and a Lascar named Tooms
Shallybang. Livingston, who was
badly wounded, was said to be the mate
of the pirate, and to have been one of
the vessel’s original crew out of Bostou.
Tegg turned King’s evidence before the
vessel got to Sidney, and upon his testi
mony the other three w.re convicted.
The Lasear's sentence was not carried
out; he was pardoued, after a year’s im
prisonment; but the the other two were
hanged in Sidney on the day stated
In the course of his investigations.
Turner found that Commodore Hance
Selvage had been a midshipman aboard
the Auckland at the time when she cap
tured the pirate. He at once pre
sented his letter of introduction,
and was cordially received by the
British officer, a frank, bluff, hearty,
jovial, red faced specimen of the
true Briton, rather the worse for years,
salt water and brandy, and a victim of
the gout. “ How does our friend the
banker get along ?” He asked. “A
clever Yankee, that! keen as a razor
sharp as a Dyak’s lanee. I wonder if
he ever found that treasure I gave him
an inkling abont ? Did you ever learn?”
Jim Turner, all ears now, said he
thought he had, judging from some cir
cumstances ; but the banker was not in
the habit of speaking nuieb about his
affairs. " That’s so—close as a anpff
box. He’s right. You need not tell
him I told you anything about it But
the dog promised me an invoice of Mis
sion wine if he was successful; and I
have not received so much as a sork.”
Turner, seeing the Commodore was dis
posed to tell his yarn, let him flow on
without interruption. “I learned it
when I was middy on the Auckland, in
T 9, and when" we captured those
pirates.” Turner said he had heard of
that brilliant achievement, and of the
sut>so<ju6iit executions. \©s t I listed
to see those fellows hang, for all- 1
knew they were guilty, and stained with
blood to the core. What devilish glit
tering eyes that Sicilian east around at
the crowd ! How gamely that Yankee
died! He would have made a splendid
naval officer, if he hadn't been such a
d-d rascal.” “Who? Livingston,
you mean ?” “ Livingston be hanged I
That wasn't his name—his name was—
I’ll be banged if I haven’t forgot it.
This gout plays thunder with the mem
oir. Tell you what—if you want to
know it, you'll find all about it in the
Sidney Timet , June 20,1819, with a let
ter he wrote to his sister some place in
New England. It was a shame to pub
lish it, but the letter was sent in good
faith.”
Turner thanked the Commodore, and
said he had taken snoh an interest in
the capture of the Fly-by-Night that he
thought he Wbnld make a magazine
article about it for the Overland Month
ly, and hence he wonld like as many de
tails as possible. “I took a deal of in
terest in (he matter myself," said Com
modore Selvage. “There was a Lascar
among the men picked up, a young fel
low about my age, named—named Too ms
Shallybang—hanged if I didn’t almost
forget it, too—well, I saved that fellow’s
life, sir—saved his life. He was going
to be hung with the rest, bnt I deter
mined he shouldn’t and I got the cap
tain to intercede for him. By Jove,
when that wouldn’t do, we went right to
the Governor’s lady aud interested her
in the case, and she worked np all the
big wigs. It was pretty hard to do, but
we got him off. He was pardoned. The
most grateful creature you ever heard
of, sir. He’s the one that told me about
that buried treasure in San Francisco
Bay, on Yerba Buena Island—he even
drew me a map of the place, and show
ed me the spot where it was hid. I kept
it some years, but lost it frolicking round
somewhere. He said they buried more
than a hundred thousand Spanish doub
loons—but he must have exaggerated.
I don’t think they could have taken all
that specie, and most of their treasure
must have gone down in the schooner.
What a waste of prize money it is to
sink a pirate !’’ “What became of the
Lascar ?” asked Turner.
Dead ! singularly enough, he was
killed by pirates. He went from here to
Hong Kong, and used to run a little
lorcha from there to Canton and up the
Hang Kiang. Onca he made a voyage
to Wanchow, and the Hainau pirates got
after him, caught him, and cut off his
head. I met him several times while I
was cruising in the China seas. Ho
turned out a great rascal, opium smug
gler and the like, but he always had a
chest of the finest tea in the world for
me when I came across him. Scamp or
not, he was grateful.” “ Can’t you re
collect the real name of thut pirate who
was hung, Commodore ?” “ Can’t for
tho life of me. He wrote to his sister,
concealing his circumstances, saying he
was doing well, and alluding obscurely
to the buried treasure on Yerba Buena.
1 think he wanted to give his home folks
a hint about it, without putting others
on the trail.” “ Did the Italian make
any confession ?” “ No, he had a priest,
you know ; aud I remember he gave him
a letter.” “ Was the Yankee’s name
Dixon, Commodore ; James Dixon ?”
“No; I don’t think it was Dixon, I’m
sure it was not.” “ Was it Maupin ?”
“ Maupin ! That’s it—Maupin ! Doo
little Maupin ! I recollect it now. How
the dickens did you guess it?” “O, I
didn’t guess it, exactly. I have been
investigating the affair a little, you
know, and I’ve seen that copy of the
Sidney Times." “Yes, that was the
name he signed —Maupin. Had the
making of a man in him—and died a
pirate with a rope round his neck !”.
When Turner returned to Frisco,
whioh he did promptly, his interest in
Goat Island was very much increased.
He visited the place often, and, without
digging or prospecting, studied both its
geology and topography with scientific
minuteness. About a month ago, for some
reason or other, he took to visiting the
island at night, aud was several times
challenged, and once shot at by the
sentinels at the barracks. He fonnd
that he was not the only visitor who had
a taste for noctural rumbles over its rug
ged surface. An Italian fisherman, liv
ing in one of the huts on the far point of
the island, did a good deal of that sort
of thing ; and a Chinaman who landed
on the west side of the island, just off
the highest point, and pulled his boat
close in to shore, was often a night
visitor. As for Turner, he used to go
over in a sail-boat, with a crew of two
men. These landed him and then stood
out in the bay with their craft until lie
signalled them to come and take him
off.
One night, about ten days ago, Jim
Turner went over to the island about 10
o’clock, and climbed quietly to the hill
whioh marks the highest point, and
whioh looks down equally upon the
barracks at one end of the island and
tho flshesmen’s huts at tho other end.
Upon the ridge not near sohigli as the
point where he stood, and much nearer
to the fishermen’s huts, are some old
graves, sunken and dingy looking, as if
they had been there, undisturbed and
neglected, for a century or more. There
was light in one of the fishermen’s huts
when Turner first reached the promon
tory, but that was soon extinguished and
all was quiet. Presently, in the vicinity
of the old graves, he seemed to see a
faint and glimmering light which at
tracted and puzzled him. He covered
his boots with a pair of moccasins and
crept noiselessly down towards the place
until he was within tweuty yards of it.
Then he saw that it was a Chinaman,
digging away for dear life with pick and
spade right down into the central and
largest grave of the lot. It was curious
to note the sweating eagerness with
which the man dug, and his complete
absorption in his task as he got deeper
and deeper, until he could not be seen
except when he stood erect now and
then to straighten his back. Jt was
daik all around, too, for the dark lan
tern lie carried he kept down in the
hole to guide his strokes. Turner
watohed and waited, silent as the night.
At last tho pick seemed to strike into
and splinter some hard substance. There
was a pause, and tlien he peard the Chi
naman give utterance to an uncontrolla
ble, wild, exultant ery, accompanied by
the unmistakable click of coin. At the
same moment there was a rush, a man
leaped into the hole upon the China
man’s back, there was the flash of a
knife-blade in the air, once, twice, three
times. Turner had not time to move
hand or foot. T he roan came out of the
hole—Turner saw it was the Italian
fisherman dragged the Chinaman’s
body out, shouldered it, and staggered
with it down hill. Turner crept nearer
to the hole and waited. After what
seemed an hour the Italian came swiftly
back, leaped into the pit, and seemed to
exhaust his vocabulary in exulting cries.
Suddenly he beard a terrible voice in
hia ear, “You git J” and felt the cold
steel of Turner’s pistol-barrel against
his temple. Lithe as a tiger and des
perate as death ha seized the weapon
and tried to wrest it from Turner’s
hands. There was a struggle, short but
sham, aud at the end Turner knelt upon
the Italian’s breast, tied his hands and
feet with a rope, and gagged him secure
ly. “I could kill yon, and I ought to do
it, for killing that heathen Chinee,” said
Turner, “but I wont. Rut you cap'/; have
this treasure. It’s mine, and by a better
right than any pirate’s legacy can confer.
Your name’s Calsabigi, ain’t it The
Italian nodded. “ Nephew of him that
was hung at Sidney. You’ve made a
good hunt for it; but the treasure’s
mine, not yours. If yen’ll lay quiet,
I’ll give you money enough to get away
on. If you don’t I’ll beat you till you’re
drill. ” Turner now signalled to his craft,
and report has it that it took the three
men sll nearly daybreak to carry off
their treasure, fa regard to this I can
not say. 1 do know that Turner left
Frisco two days later ; that Calsabigi,
the fisherman, disappeared before tfic
Chinaman’s body was found in the bay,
and that the Sacramento millionare re
ceived tbp following letter :
“Dear Sib : I off for Paris. En
closed find cheek for S2BO lov which you
will oblige me by purchasing and send
ing, carriage free, one case best Old
Mission wiue to Commodore Hance
Selvage, Sidney, N. S. W. By the way,
I do not think there’s any more use iu
searching Goat Island fo? treasure or
petitioning Congress on the subject.
That pocket’s panned out. It may in
terest yon to read the following para
graph from the New Bedford Herald, of
October 12, 1817 :
“Captain Jabez Turner,formerly of the
schooner Will o’ the Wisp, trading be
tween Boston and the Pacific, arrived at
this port yesterday in the whaler Naney,
late from "Callao. Buck Jones, the ne
gro cook ; J. B. Cotton and Salem Our
sLer, of the crew, are also with him.
Captain Turner reports that when one
day oat from Tsjmbez some of the crew,
headed by Doolittle Jlappin, first mate,
and assisted by some Spanish passen
gers, mutinied, and seized the yeasel
The Captain and the faithful of the crew
were unceremoniously put ashore.
Captain Turner says he heard before he
! left the Pacific coast that the captured
| vessel had be- 31 ) armed and turned into
pirate.
Captain Turner is deeply to he pitied.
1 He owned the schooner, and by this
i high-handed outrage is deprived of the
| earnings of an industrious life-time.
Maupin. who belongs to this town, has
i gone far to fulfiUtl* prophecies of all
| who knew him best—that he would cer-
I tcjnly come to a bad end sooner or later.
1 This Captain Jabez Turner, as it hap
pens, was my gyapdfather. The pirates’
; treasure, even were it &s large as the
| Lascar said it was to Commodore Selv
age, would not more than suffice to pay
the principal and interest of what my
grandfather lost by them. Yours truly,
Jakes Turner. ”
I inquired yesterday of one of my
Chinese merchant friends if he knew
anything about this Chinaman, who was
found with Calsabigi’s stiletto in him,
and whose name, by the way, was Wat-
Fun-Hang.
“JSTogpodj no good!” answered the
old merchant. “He Bay he come to
■earchee treasure—he come searchee
pockets, I spec ! He pilate—ent heads
off—um—bad man—come from Hainau ! j
Pilate, air, Pilate l
POSTAGE.
The following in relation to newspaper
postage is of general interest. At the
lsst session of Congress the subject of
postage on newspapers and periodicals
was taken into consideration by that
body, resulting in tho passage of a bill
compelling advanoe payment of postage,
and fixing tho rate at two cents per
pound on all that class of matter pub
lished onoe a week, or more frequently,
and transmitted to regular subscribers
through the mails, and three cents per
pound on snoh matter issued less fre
quently than onoe a week. The provis
ions of this law are to go into effect
January 1, 1875. The Postmaster-Gen
eral being by law confined to a choice
6f one of three modes of collecting
the postage by means of stamps,
considerable attention has been giv
en to the matter by this office;
and, after a careful review of the plans
proposed, it was deemed best to recom
mend the adoption of the system of pre
payment by postage stamps affixed to a
memorandum of mailing, or, in other
words, to a stub in a book retained 'by
the postmaster at the mailing office, a
receipt showing the weight of matter
and the amount paid given by the post
master to the person mailing the same,
the stamps affixed to the stab tp be can
celled by a cutting punch, thus prevent
ing their reuse. This plan, it is believ
ed, is more practicable and less expen
sive in its operations than either of the
others, while at the same time it will be
qnite as effectual in collecting the post
age. A series of stamps been de
vised of twenty-fonr denominations, by
means of which any sum which is multiple
of either the two or three cent rate, from
two cents to 875, can be made by the use
of not more than four stamps. It is ex
pected that, notwithstanding the reduc
tion of rates by the larw, the system of
compulsory pre-payment of newspaper
postage will yield a larger revenue to
the department than has ever been col
lected. In the city of New York alone
a comprehensive inquiry seems to war
rant the belief that not less than $60,000
per annum will be paid—a sum which is
little less than one-half of the entire
newspaper postage throughout the
United States during the fiscal year just
closed. It is, however, impossible to
estimate the actual increase for the
whole country, owing to that provision
of the law which allows the free mail
circulation of newspapers in the coun
ties in which they are prin ed.
THE MARR FORTUNE.
An American Family Claiming a
Scotch Estate Said to be Worth
$350,000,000!
Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 19.
Probably no one thing—not excepting
McArdill’s famous pursuit of his buried
treasure—has occasioned more curious
comment or wandering speculation in
this State than the announcement dar
ing the past Summer that the Marr
family were making vigorous though
quiet efforts to obtain possession of one
of the most colossal fortunes that has
been accumulated in modern times. The
family had kept the matter very quiet;
but, by means known only to themselves,
certain correspondents of metropolitan
journals had become cognizant of the
facts, and of course the whole world
was made acquainted therewith imme
diately. In September last a meeting of
the family was held at Lausing, and an
organization formed for the purpose of
making a systematic effort to secure the
fortune whioh awaited its rightful own
ers in Scotland. At this meeting mem
bers of the family were present from
Saginaw, Gratiot, Wayne, Tuscola,
Genesee, Livingston, Calhoun and Ber
rien oounties, in this State, and also
from Maine, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Illi
nois and Canada. Daniel R. Marr, of
Dowagiac, was chosen President, and
Charles S. Marr, of Battle Creek, Cor
responding Secretary. From the latter
gentleman your correspondent obtained
the facts contained in this communica
tion.
In the possession of Mr. Daniel R.
Marr, of Dowagiac, are copies of the
records which fully substantiate the
claims of the family. It appears from
these records that the earliest known
ancestor was Thomas Marh, of Bally
shannon, province of Ulster, Ireland,
who was born about 1600. His son Pat
rick Marh emigrated to Scotland, and
settled in the county Arg.vle, where he
became quite wealthy. He had but one
child, a daughter named Mary, who
married John Erskine, who assumed the
name of Marh, changing it, however, to
Marr. For some valuable services to the
King he was created Duke of Argyle,
and afterwards Earl of Marr. A daugh
ter, Helen Marr, married a distant rela
tive, Henry Erskine, who assumed the
name of Marr, as the Earl had no sons,
aud succeeded to the title and estate.
He had four sons—Henry, Richard,
James and John—of whom the eldest,
Henry, of course, succeeded to the es
tate. Henry had two sons—Henry and
Lawrence. The eldest again took the
property and title, while Lawrence came
to America and settled in New Jersey.
Henry died some sixty years ago at Lin
lithgow, Scotland, without heirs. Since
that period numerous claimants to the
estate have appeared. In 1870 the family
of Erskine endeavored to establish their
right, but failed ; and in 1872 the Duke
of Hamilton, who married a Marr, also
vainly tried to make out a case. A miss
ing link in the chain of evidence has
been recently discovered by Mr. Charles
S. Marr, of this city, who is a direct de
scendant of the Duke of Argyle and
Earl of Marr, from whom comes the es
tate in question.
A correspondent, writing from Lon
don recently, has thought to throw ridi
cule on this laudable movement of the
Marr family to obtain their just rights.
Mr. Marr informs your correspondent
that this London writer was wholly in
error in hjs assertions, and in fact knew
nothing whatever of the matter he was
writing about. The necessary proofs to
sustain their oase are nearly completed,
and the presentation of the olaim will be
made to the proper tribunal without
delay.
- HI ■ m
Patent Fifth Aot.— Now, our idea of
a red hot fifth act for a rod hot society
play—aud Mr. Daly can use it without
paying us a cent for it—-is about as fol
lows ; The heroine has a misunderstand
ing with the hero, they part in anger,
he goes to Baden and she goes to the
bad. [This gives an opportunity for
plenty pf prurient pathos, and will
make the ladies weep buckets of tears, j
In the first scene of the last act the
heroine goes out riding, and is thrown
from her horse and breaks her leg.
(Realistic runaway scene, the horse
knocking down stuffed apple women and
practicable lamp posts, and the comic
policeman turning on the fire alarm.)
Slip refuses to have it ampntated, and
gangrene sets ip.
Last scene: The stage set as a medi
cal college operating room, students
throwing peanuts t the porter and giv
ing cat calls. The heroine is chloro
formed aud laid on the operating table.
(This brings in the leg business, which
can he road® a good deal of.) The
eminent surgeon (it would add
to the realistic effect pa have the
leading surgeons of the pity app ear
in tarns) trifles with his knife, and at
last makes an incision in the plump
member, followed by a spurt of blood
and a scream. A handsome young stu
dent in a masji: leaps npon the stage and
scatters them figbl sl)4 left. “Batchers,
beware ! that is the wrong leg (” Con
fusion. The student, like one inspired,
presents his theory how, by stimulating
the osmic nerves with saturated bipro
taside of hydrocephalus, amputation
will hot be necessary. The eminent sur
geon says: “Young maii, Astley Cooper
was an ass to you. Gentlemen, Galen
has come to earth; he is our superior.
The unamputated woman awakes. That
—vQiee 1 Who —spoke ! I—thought—
I heard—” “Ay®. Fautinptte; ’tis I, Ar
mand <” shouts the student, tearing off
his mask. “Spring to my bosom and
grow there.” “Fantinette I ‘ Ar
mand!” “The hidgis past is forgotten,
and we twain stand in the sunrise, my
life, my wife.”
If this play wouldn’t run till the night
before the day of judgment, we are very
much mistaken.
A Fbesch Newspaper Office. —A
Paris correspondent says, in describing
the office of the Figaro : “Opening upon
the grand gallery that runs around the
Spanish palio or rotunda, are the rooms
or hajls that lead to the rooms of the va
rious employees- These are all furnish
ed in magnificent style, with rosewood
furniture, rich carpets, tapestry, bronzes,
and marble statues. Some rooms ac
commodate a single writer, others two
or three. The principal editor, De Vil
lemessant, occupies a small room on the
ground floor, to the right pf the princi
pal entrance. There are also a riohly
furnished council room, in which all the
literary force meet each month ; bed
ropms, bath rooms, and breakfast and
dining rooms—for all the literary force
of the paper, save the editor-in-chief,
eat, sieep and live in the building-
There is also a very large room whose
sides are hung with masks and glitter
ing foils. Each day, at 2 o’clock, all
the employees assemble in this room and
receive lessons in fencing from an ex
pert. This is obligatory on each one,
for the reason that each individual is
expected to hold himself in readiness to
call or be called to the field of honor at
a moment’s notice. Any hesitation in
such a case would secure the instant dis
missal of the individual involved.”
SOOTH CAROLINA.
Announcement ol* the House Commit
tees—A Queer Mixture—Protests In
the Senate—The Preparations for the
Installation Of Chamberlain.
[Special Dispatch to the News and Conner.]
Columbia, S. 0., November 30.—1n
the House to-day the standing commit
tees were announced. The committee
of ways and means consists of Paris
Simkins, chairman, T. B. Johnson, W.
M. Thomas, A. W. Curtis, C. P. Leslie,
G. A. Trenholm, N. B. Meyers, Joseph
Crews, J. D. Boston, Nelson Davies and
M. McLaughlin. The committee of
privileges and elections consists of M.
J. Hirsch, Guffin, Simkins, J. L. Orr,
Reedish, Crittenden, Holland, Harriott
and Coker. Mr. G. A. Trenholm is
chairman of the committee on commerce,
W. C. Beatty of the committee on the
judiciary, Cnrtis of the committee on
printing, Joe Crews of the committee
on railroads, T. B. Johnson of the com
mittee on contingent accounts, Boston
of the committee of incorporations, W.
M. Thomas of the committee on claims.
Vanderpool gave notice of a bill to
pnnish sheriffs for allowing prisoners to
vote, and also a bill to abolish the Infe
rior Court of Charleston. Barnwell
gave notice of a bill to amend the char
ter of the Mount Pleasant and Sullivan’s
Island Ferry Company, and a bill to
establish a juvenile reform school in
Charleston. Freeman gave notice of a
bill to make the office of county treas
urer of Charleston elective.
In the Senate notice of protests were
filed against the Senators from Claren
don (Ind. Rep.) and Lexington (Con).
All the bills on the calendar were re
ferred to committees. Great prepara
tions are making for the inauguration,
which takes place to-morrow. Whitte
more is chairman of the committee of
arrangements. The United State? Band
has been engaged for the occasion, and
a salute of artillery will be fired in the
Capitol grounds.
CHAMBERLAIN INAUGURATED.
He Promises to Reform Existing
Abuses.
Charleston, December I.—Governor
Chamberlain was inaugurated before the
Legislature at Columbia, to-day, with
great eclat. The hall of the House of
Representatives was densely crowded
with spectators, including the Judges
and officers of State and Federal Courts,
army officers and prominent members of
the Charleston bar. Music was fur
nished by the 18th Infantry band. After
the oath had been administered by the
Chief Justice, the new Governor was
greeted by a salvo of artillery outside
the State House. Gov. Chamberlain then
delivered his inaugural address, fore
shadowing his policy for the reform of
governmental abuses in South Carolina.
He calls attention to the fact that in the
late canvass the two political parties
which fought for supremacy were equal
ly emphatic in their demand for the
correction of abuses. Only two parties
appeared at the polls, both of which
professed to seek similar ends by similar
means. Chamberlain says that he will,
therefore, rely for support upon those
members of the General Assembly
who were opposed to him as con
fidently as upon those who fa
vored his election. The paramount
duty, he says, is the practice and en
forcement of economy and honesty in
the administration of the government.
In his opinion, our evils are chiefly
those of the administration, and the
earliest and most earnest attention
should be directed to the subject of the
collection, appropriation and disburse
ment of the public funds. He admits
that valuations of property for taxation
have been unjust and oppressive, but
the total assessments have been reduced
$30,000,000 or $40,000,000 this year, and
he stands ready, he says, to co-operate
with the General Assembly in any
measure calculated to obtain a
just valuation of all property for
taxation according to its true money
value, and so far as the faithful execu
tion of law depends upon officers ap
pointed by him no county shall have
just cause for complaint. !£he taxes, lie
says, should be strictly limited to the
actual requirements of the government,
and contingent funds should be totally
abolished. The legislative expenses
must be reduced he says to an eco
nomical limit by reducing the length
of the session to thirty days;
by avoiding the consideration of special
acts which can be covered by general
laws; by reducing the number of sub
ordinate officers and attachees and by
cutting off the contingent or incidental
legislative expenses, which have been as
much as $90,000 a session with $500,000
of legislative pay certificates still
unpaid. The public printing system he
declares to be incapable of defense or
excuse. In three years its cost was
$918,629. He urges also that the expen
ditures of the State be kept within the
receipts. The issuing of certificates of
indebtedness and of orders or warrants
when no money is in hand to pay them
is condemned. In the matter ol abol
ishing unnecessary offices and reducing
salaries, Governor Chamberlain will
agree to any measure which the General
Assembly may adopt. In emphatio words
he declares that the settlement of the
public debt under the aot of last Winter
must be regarded as final as far as
legislative and popular influence and ac
tion can make it so. About two million
dollars of bonds have been funded un
der the aot in question, and the actual
State debt when so funded will amount
to only $5,740,016. For • the outstand
ing bills of the Bank of the State Gov.
Chamberlain holds the State to be Re
sponsible, and advises that they be de
clared receivable for all past due taxes,
and he receivable in installments for fu
ture takes,, as was done in a similar case
by the State of Tennessee.
The Trial Justice system he looks
upon as costly, inefficient and oppressive
and he promises that he will appoint as
Trial Justices only persons who well know
the law and who will use their powers
to preserve the rights and protect the
interests of all. The passage of a law
for registration of voters is reoommend
ed as a matter of obvious justice, as well
as a mandate of the Constitution. The
repeal of tho law requiring insurance
companies doing business in the State
to make a deposit of bonds or stocks
with the Comptroller-General is strongly
recommended. The pardoning power
will no longer be abused. Governor
Chamberlain promises that oooasions
will be rare when he will be justified in
setting aside judgments of courts and the
verdiot of juries. He advises that there
be no reduction of the sum now ap
propriated for eduoational purposes,
but" the General Assembly is invited
to see if the want of efficiency on the
part of the county school commission
ers cannot be remedied. To these meas
ures of reform Gov, Chamberlain de
clares himself to be unalterably pledged.
The inaugural is universally recognized
as au able and statesmanlike address,
and the tax payers are hopeful that if
Governor Chamberlain’s administration
will enforce in good faith the policy
marked out good government and pros
pe#ity will be restored to South Caro
lina.
Certified Giiecka,
[New York Journal of Commerce.]
A tradesman received a check which
had been raised from the original sum
for which it drawn, sent it to the drawee
to bay© it certified, and then deposited
it in his bank for collection. It passed
through the Clearing House and was
duly presented and paid. On the dis
covery of the fraud, the bank which
had paid it sued the bank which had
collected it to recover the difference be
tween thp sijip paid and that for which
the check was drawn. Thi suit went
against the claimant in the General
Term of the Supreme Court, but the
Court of Appeals has now allowed it,
thus reversing the decision of the Court
below, and the collecting bank must pay
back the money- Jf it- cannot recover
the sum of the customer who deposited
it for collection, and who was duly paid
the money, it must lose it. In render
ing this decision the learned Judge says
that ff jf a bank which certifies a check
warrants not only the genuiness of the
drawer’s signature and the sufficiency of
his credit, but also the genuineness of
the check in all its parts, including the
specification of the amount to be paid
and the names and identity of the
payees, then obviously there must occur
an’ immediate and complete change in
the modes of doing business which
would defeat and practically put an end
to the use of certified checks. For no
bank under such a rule could safely cer
tify a check without in the first instance
investigating its origin and history by
inquiry of the makers and payees.”
The Greenes boro Herald says: The
resolutions passed by a meeting of the
good people of Union Point, condemn
ing the payment of the fines of the con
victed rioters at that place, and which
were handed jn too late for pur last is
sue, have been withdrawn. We neverthe
less take the liberty of publishing the
first resolution, which is as follows:
Resolved, That we will not recognize
any man as a gentleman who shall aid
or in any way assist in the payment of
said fines.
We heartily endorse this resolution.
Asa principle, it is wrong that the pun
ishment of violators of the law should
be commuted to the payment of mopey.
Money is no equivalent for eorporeal
punishment. Especially is this the ease
with the CQlored element of our popula
tion. We wish our whole people, as one
man, would always refuse to pay the
fines imposed on culprits. The result
of such a course would soon be apparent.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Pale of Forney’s Frees— How It
Was Slopped — The Kepnbliean Alarm.
Washington, November 30.—1 tis
known that the ringleaders in Philadel
phia are bringing every influence to bear
on Forney to induce him to revoke the
sale. It was negotiated by cable, and
therefore he has an opportunity to wrig
gle out if he chooses, when the agree
ment comes to bepnt formally in writing.
Forney had given an obligation, prior to
sailing for Europe, to certain members
of the ring, that he would not attempt
to exercise any control of the Press,
politically, for one year, and in consid
eration therefor a ioan of 820,000 was
advanced to him. Now, since it has
transpired that ihe Press is to pass into
McClure’s hands, these same ring men
are attempting to hold Forney to his
agreement with them, and have made
him large offers of pecuniary aid, if he
requires it. George W. Childs is said
to be very active in opposition to the
transfer of the Press, and has cabled
Forney that he will guarantee him any
amount of money he may need to retain
control of the paper. Colonel McClure,
speakiDg of these efforts to defeat the
sale to him of the Press, says that if
Forney asks to be relieved from his ob
ligation t.o transfer, as agreed upon by
cable, he will not object. He would
prefer to have the Press, br cif Forney
backs down, the gentlemen he represents
will either buy some other establishment
in Philadelphia or start anew paper.
He says, further, that nine-tenths of the
money put up for this purpose is from
Democrats, and that Tom Scott has not
a dollar in the pool.
There is an undertone of feeling in cer
tain circles here that Forney may be of
fered the Russian mission. The combi
nation which has succeeded in buying
the controlling interest of his paper (it
is thought) may otherwise wean him
from the endorsement of the administra
tion of Grant, which he has heretofore
so reluctantly supported. It is deemed
politic to take care of him.
The Arkansas Project.
The game is to put Brsoks forward as
the Governor rightly elected in 1872 over
Baxter. Messrs. Poland and Ward, of
the House Committee, are to report in
bis favor ; and an effort is to be made to
have Congress recognize this faction
and upset all the people have lately
done in Arkansas. The difficulty in
the way of this little game is, that
the Democrat's will fight such a pro
position to the death. In the Sen
ate, there is no previous question ;
and in the House, dilatory motions may
be kept up by the forty-five resolute
men till the close of the session. The
effect of all this will be to bring the
Radicals unpleasantly near to the loss
of some of the appropriation bills, and
thereby involve a Spring session of the
next Congress, with a Democratic House
to poke fun at the animals in power. It
is already known that the Radicals have
no stomach for the meeting of the next
House, and thus Clayton’s prospects are
very blue. These are the calculations
of the Hon. James B. Beck, who was
here yesterday.
The Talk About a March Session—lts
Bearing on the Appropriation Bills.
The discussion that some of the news
papers have been carrying on with refer
ence to the meeting of the next Con
gress in March has no response from
the Republicans who have been heard
from in Washington. The law which
was passed early in the war, providing
for the meeting of Congress in March
instead of December, was repealed on
the deliberate judgment of a Republi
can Congress that no meeting in March
was necessary or desirable. The Re
publican majority will naturally think
that there is no more reason for a Demo
cratic Congress to meet in March than
for a Republican, and they have no idea
of restoring the repealed law, but on
the contrary will resist any attempt to
restore it. Bearing upon this question,
the forwardness of the appropriation
bills is important, because the only way
in which the Democrats could secure a
meeting before December would be by
defeating some of the appropriation
bills, so that an extra session must be
called by the President.
The New Architect,
Washington, December 2.—Secretary
Bristow has tendered the office of Su
pervising Architect of the Treasury to
William McAuthur, of Philadelphia.
Naval News. •
The hydrographic steamer Fortune is
at Kingston, Jamaica. All well. The
Manongahela is detailed to observe the
phenomena of the Yenus transit at Lay
Table Bay. The King of the Cannibal
Islands leaves San Francisco for Wash
ington Saturday.
Mullett’s Report.
The sites for proposed public build
ings at Helena and Little Rock have
been purchased. It was necessary to re
sort to condemnation to secure the
property at Grand Rapids. In many
instances North appropriations are in
adequate, the Juices assessed under con
demnation being in excess. Memphis
has presented property to the Govern
ment for public buildings, valued at
•8300,000. The old Custom House lot at
Norfolk was sold at auction. The Cus
tom House, Court House and post office
at Knoxville have been completed with
in the appropriation. The buildings at
Columbia, S. C., will be completed with
in the present year. The recommenda
tions regarding the Custom House at
New Orleans are renewed. Special at
tion is called to remodeling and extend
ing the Custom House at Pensacola.
[Correspondence of the Morning News.]
A '‘Herald” Sensation.
Washington, November 29. “The
young man,” as Mr. James Gordon Ben
nett, of the New York Herald, is styled,
has determined to take anew departure
—so far as his Washington correspon
dent is concerned. The Herald, like
other rich journals of the North and
West, has always spent a large amount
of money in maintaining a oorps of cor
respondents at the National Capital.
But Mr. Bennett, who is always on the
alert for new sensations, has concluded
to startle Washington sooiety by spend
ing here a few more thousand dollars
per annum of the enormous profits of
his paper. Accordingly, Mr. Charles
Nordhoff, the eminent literateur, is to
be re-established here as the Washing
ton editor of the Herald. Mr. Nord
hoff is to have a magnificently fur
nished mansion, with the most com
plete appointments, and dashing equip
ages, with liveried attendants. He
is to be provided with a large
fund from winch to give princely enter
tainments, the intention of Mr. Bennett
being that the Herald house shall, in
all the essentials of style and sumptu
ousness, take rank With the establish
ments of the Cabinet ministers and
foreign embassadors. Society is all
agog over this new sensation. The im
pression is that this whim of Mr. Ben
nett will cost him a pretty penny, as it
is already generally understood that
Washington is to be gayer than ever
this year, and entertainments will be on
an unusually lavish and extravagant
scale, No one thinks that this venture
will, in the practical sense of the term,
pay, but it is probable that Mr. Ben
nett appreciates this, and will be satis
fied with the notoriety that will attach
to his undertaking. None of the resi
dent correspondents are at all apprehen
sive that Ml. Nordhoff will beat them in
the gathering of news, and Mr. Nord
hoff himself remarked yesterday to a
friend that he had no such expectation.
Officials, high and low, will, no doubt,
flock to the Herald house to partake of
its hospitalities, but that will put no
news in the fferatd hopper.
THE ROME ELECTION.
Judge James M. Spnllock the Next
Mayor—The Platform On Which He
is Elected.
[Special tQ the Atlanta Herald.]
Rome, Ga., December I.—The mu
nicipal election passed off quietly. Out
of a registered vote of three hundred
and forty-six the whole vote cast
amounted to two hundred and ninety
one—two hundred and thirty-five whites
and fifty-six colored votes. Judge James
M. Spullock was elected Mayor, with a
fnll Board of Aldermen, by a majority
of over ninety votes. Judge Spnlloek
received votes for Mayor, and Capt.
M Dwinell 99. The Spullock ticket re
ceived about 40 majority of the white
votes. The following are the Aldermen
elect: Jesse Lamberth, J. G. Daily, W.
M. Shropshire, William West, J. L.
Camp, G. W. Bower. The ticket is
elected on the platform of resistance to
the payment ci all illegally issued honds
and interest, and a compromise of the
balance with the bondholders, and for
low taxes.
JERSEY ClTY
f|lendenning—‘Longshoremen.
Jersey City, December 2. —The Pres
bytery is discussing the Glendenning
scandal to-day with open doors.
The strike of ’longshoremen has ter
minated in Jersey City. The strikers
have accepted the offer of the Cunajd
Line to pay three dollars per day and
forty-five cents per hour fair over work,
but the men must enroll themselves as
non-society men. Nearly all the strikers
from this dock have accepted the offer.
The damaged cargo of cotton of the
steamship St. Louis was sold at Savan
nah on Monday— 2,ss7 bales brought
$92,258 50, the balance, 900 bales, being
withdrawn by the underwriters.
New Advertienmonm.
E 1 TwHi
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it as the 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: Pain in the
Back, Sides or Joints, often mistaken for Rheu
matism; Sour Stomach, Loss of Appetite;
Bowels alternately costive and lax. Headche,
Loss of memory, with a painful sensation of
having failed to do something which ought to
have been done; Debility, Low Spirits, a
thick yellow appearance of the Skin and Eyes,
a dry Cough, often mistaken for Consumptien.
Sometimes many of these symptoms attend
the disease, at others very few': but the Lives,
the largest organ in the body, is generally the
seat of the disease, and if not Regulated in
time, great suffering,wretchedness and Death
will ensue.
For DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION. Jaun
dice. Bilious Attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Col
ic. Depression of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH,
Heart Bum, Ac., Ac.
The Cheapest, Purest and Best Family Medi
cine in the World.
Manufactured onlv by
J. H. ZEILIN & CO.,
Macon, Ga.. and Philadelphia.
Price, sl. Sold by all Druggists,
j an2omyl6anglfi—tnthsaA wly
CONSTANT EMPLOYMENT—At home, Male or
Female, $lO a week warranted. No capital re
quired. Pattlculars and valuable sample sent free.
Address, with six cent return Stamp, C. ROSS, Wil
liamsburg, N. Y. nov2s-4w
Agents wanted for the people’s jour
nal. Four magnificent Cbromos fro*. The
most liberal offer ever made. Send three cent stamp
for circular and sample. P. W. ZIEGLER & CO., 518
Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. uoV2S-4w
“ pSYt’OMtSICY, or SOUL, CHARMING.•
_L How either sex may fascinate and gain the
love and affections of any person they choose in
stantly. This simple, mental acquirement all can
possess, free, by mail, for 25e., together with a mar
riage guide, Egyptian Oracle, Dreams, Hints to La
dies, Wedding Night Shirt, Ac. A queer book. Ad
dress T. WILLIAM & CO.,
nov2s-4w Publishers. Philadelphia,
FI! Si F SAMPLE to Agents. Ladles’ Cuimmia-
I Rl.li | ion Ae e iiie Book, with Chromos. Send
stamp. DEAN A CO.,
sep2s-4w New Bedford, Mass.
WORK FOR ALL
AT home, male or female; 035 i-er week, day
or evening. No Uapital. We send valua
ble package of goods by mail free. Address, with
six cent return stamp, M. YOUNG,
sep2s-4w 173 Greenwich Street, N. Y.
wanted-agents Prize Stationery Pack
age out. Sample Package, post paid, for 26c. Cir
culars free. J. BRIDE, 767 Broadway, N. Y. 0c25-4
SUCCESS BEYOND COJHPETITIOW.
Kellis 1 Cotton Tie,
M Thl* Ti* meets the approval of every Planter and W
BBH Factor that ha* given It a trial. A pintle trial ut the |H
fig Press or Comorea* affirms its strength, merits and EM
!$H advantages over any in the market. We oro prepared kSs
ijilf to supply the trade at market prlcea. CrArrs B ud B
ij|i. Sample Orders respectfully solicited. Address ff|
A. J. NELLIS & CO., Pittsburgh, Pa. ||
Ijjjjj Ctr Also, m’frs. Steels and Irons of all kinds M
jjijjt Tongues, Shovel*, Pea Vine Cutters,' Jko.. Jko. * Steel ftej
Tempered br Nellis' Process to suit all kindsof soil. B 'fig
novl3-4w
FIRST GRAND GIFT CONCERT,
Montpelier Female Humane Association
AT ALEXANDRIA, VA.
NOVEMBER 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
60 Cash Gifts, 1,000 each 60,000
100 Cash Gifts, 600 each 50,000
1,000 Cash Gifts, 100 each 100,000
1,000 Cash Gifts, 50 each 60,000
20,000 Cash Gifts, 20 each 400,000
22,178 Cash Gifts, amounting to $1,000,000
NUMBER OP TICKETS, 100,000.
PRICE OF TICKETS.
Whole Tickets S2O 00
Halves 10 00
Quarters 6 00
Eighths or each Coupon 2 50
Tickets for 100 00
The Montpelier Female Humane Associatiofi, char
tered by the 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, 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.
E. Withers, Lieut.-Gov. of Virginia anil 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, &c., send for
Circular. Address, Hon. JAMES BARBOUR,
President M. F. H. A., Alexandria, Va.
Reliable Agents wanted everywhere. 0c25-4w
HAVE YOU TRIED
JURUBEBA?
ARE YOU
Weak, Nervous, or Debilitated 1
Are you so Languid that any exertion requires
more of an effort than you feel capable of making ?
Then try JURUBEBA, 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 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 Dot 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 Druggets. 4w
Attorneys at Law.
WM. D. TUTT Thomson, Ga.
W. M. <fc M. P. REESE Washington. Ga.
W. G. JOHNSON Lexington, Ga.
J. T. JOBDAN Sparta, Ga.
J. T. BEIL. Crawfordville, Ga.
GEO. F. PIERCE. Jr Sparta, Ga.
JURIAHH. CASEY Thomson, Ga.
F. L. LITTLE Sparta, Ga.
R. O. LOVETT Waynesboro. Ga.
BILLUPBA BROBBTON Madison, Ga.
C. E. KINNEBREW .Greenesboro, Ga.
WM. H. BRANCH Greeresboro, Ga.
CRAWFORD & WILLIAMSON. .Milledgeville.
A. S. MORGAN Warrenton, Ga.
PAUL C. HUDSON Thomson, Ga.
SEWING SILK.
THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST!
Use Salter & Cotter’s Sewing Silk.
DIRECTIONS FOR USING SALTER Sc CUT
TER’S SPOOL SILK.
NB.— The Spools are numbered on one
. end, like spool cotton, viz: 70, 80, 100,
Ac., thus showing the Size of Machine Needle
to be used, and are lettered on the other end,
A, B, C, See., in the usual way.
BLACK. —For Hemming Dress Goods, by
Machine, nse our No. 120.
For Stitching the Skirt of a Dress, use our
100. or, if of very heavy materia], use our 80.
For Stitching the Waist of a Dress or Cloak,
by Machine, use our No. 80; or, if of very
heavy material, use our No. 70.
Fox Stitching Vests or Pantaloons, nse our
No. 70; or, if of very heavy material, use our
No, 00.
For Stitching a Coat, No. 60; or, if of very
heavy material, No. 50.
For Stitching a very heavy Overcoat, No. 40.
For Embroidery, by Machine or Hand, nse
our No. 30 or 21. For Hand Sewing, use our
No. 60.
COLORS—N. B.—We make all shades of
color in two sizes, via ; No. 100 and No. 70.
For Hemming ex Sewing the skirt of a Dress,
use our No. 100, which is equal in strength to
A, of the ordinary quality of silk.
For Stitching the waist of a Dress or Cloak,
for Vest or Pantaloons, or for Hand Sewing,
nse onr No. 70, which is much stronger than A,
of the ordinary quality of silk.
JAMES A. GBAY & CO.,
nov26-tf Sole Agents, Augusta, Qa.
APPLES, APPLES.
JUST received, on consignment, one hnn,
dred barrels APPLES, direct from Boston
which we offer at *3 per barrel.
nevl7-tf JAMES G. BAILIE St 880.
New A (Ivtjrlintiinnii.iM
5125,0d0
Worth of New and Fashionable
DRY GOODS!
AT RKDUCED PRICES.
:o:
W E OFFER OUR ENTIRE STOCK, FROM THIS DATE, at GREATLY
REDUCED PRICES, for CASH. Every article in the House Marked DOWN.
Ten cases yard wide BLEACHED SHIRTING, SUPERIOR QUALlTY—
undressed-finished for family use—at 10 cents per yard*
Twenty oases CHOICE CALICOES, at 10 cents per yard.
Five cases SLPERIOR KENTUCKY JEANS, at 1G 2-3 cents per yard; former
price, 25c.
Four cases KENTUCKY JEANS, at 25e.; former prioe, 40c. Six cases KEN
TUCKY JEANS, at 30 and 35c.; former price, 50c.
Forty bales RICHMOND STRIPES, by the piecCor bale, at lie. per yard.
LINEN GOODS, TABLE DAMASK, TOWELS, NAPKINS and DOYLIES,
at less than Cost.
DRESS GOODS, ALPACAS, MOHAIRS and SILKS, at Extraordinary Low
Prices. SHEETINGS, CANTON FLANNELS, P. C. COTTON FLANNELS and
BLANKETS—aII included in this sale ; also, HOSIERY, EMBROIDERIES and
NOTIONS.
Merchants will find this an opportunity to assort their Stocks at Prices Lower
than Charleston, Savannah or any other markets.
Samples forwarded upon application. All orders shall receive immediate
attention.
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.
nov29—dtriA-wlw
A Great Book for Agents.
Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes and Letters of
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE.
By Rev. J. WM. JONFS, D.D., formerly Chap
lain Army Northern Virginia, and of Washing
ton College, Virginia. (Published by
authority of the Leo family, and of
the Faculty of Washington and
Lee University.)
SIXTEEN SrLENDID PORTRAITS AND ENORAVINOS.
Price, in Cloth. $3 BO; Sheep, $4 50: Half
Turkey. 85 50; Full Turkey, 87 50. Applica
tions for exclusive Agencies for Counties should
be made at once, naming first, second and third
olass of territory.
D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers,
549 and 551 Broadway, New York.
nov2l-dl<tw3 ■
Don’t Bay Until You Hare Care
fully Examined Our New
AND LOW RESERVOIR
As we have 12 GOOD REASONS why they will
do your work.
Quick (lihl Kasy,
Clietip si lid Clean.
They are cheapest to buy,
HH . They are best to use,
rf~) They bake evenly and quickly,
Their operation is perfect,
j ) They have always a good draft,
t~ They are made of the best material,
They roast perfectly,
They require but little fuel,
OThey are very low priced,
They are easily managed,
They are suited to all localities,
pH Every Stove guaranteed to give
jTj Satisfaction.
SOLD BY
Excelsior Manufacturing Cos.,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
AND BY
D. L. FULLERTON,
Ju9-tuth<tsaiweowtjalo AUGUSTA, GA.
The Universal Pet I
The People’s Machine.
Everybody’s Eriend.
THE HOME SHUTTLE.
THE public is positively assured that this
popular, cheap and greatly improved
Family Sewing Machine is fully equal to any
iu 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 yea: s to every
purchaser. Buy it, and evade the enormous
commission paid to canvassers for selling the
high price Machines which alone will more
* pay for the HOME SHUTTLE out and
and out. Call and examine, and try it beforo
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. 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,
j un24-wtf 148 Broad at., Augusta, Ga.
; L. 3. OCILMAKTIN | JOHN FLANNERY. ;
j L. J. GUILMARTIN & CO., i
; Cotton Factors,
; —AND— :
: COMMISSION MERCHANTS, :
Kelly’s Block, Bay St., Savannah, Ga., j
: Agents for Bradley’s Phosphates,*:
; Jewell’s Mills Yarns and Domestics, Ac. ;
I Bagging and Iron Ties for sale at low-'.
• est market rates. I
: Prompt attention given to allbusinesss ■
; entrusted to us.
• Liberal cash advances made on con-;
; signments. au27-w6m -
Horse Strayed or Stolen !
FROM Dr. Hutson "s Plantation, in Edge
field county, on the Savannah river, a
SORREL HORSE, stiff in the hind quarters,
blind in the right eye. and spotted white on the
shoulders. A reward will be paid for his de
livery to MARSHALL FISHER,
nov2o-(lAw3 At Dr. Hutson’s Plantation.
NOTICE,
A MEETING <rf the Board of Directors of
the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad Com
pany will be held in the city of Augusta, Ga.,
on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10th, next.
By order of the President.
H. J. LANG ?
novl9-dl Aw3 Sec’y A. St H. B. B. Cos.
M. P. STOVALL,
COTTON FACTOR AND COMMISSION
MERCHANT,
Ho. 5, Warren Block, Jackson St.,
AUGUSTA, GA.
CONTINUES to give his personal attention
to the STORAGE and SALE of COTTON
and OTHER PRODUCE.
Commissions for Belling Cotton, *1 per bale,
O" Liberal advances made on consignmenta.
aepl3-sntnAfrAw-Biß
C. V. WALKER’S
Furniture Rooms
319 AND 321 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Elegant furniture at low figure*, ail
styles, direct from the Factories, consist
ing of Chamber Suits, Dressing Case Suits,
Bedßteads, Lounges, Washstands, Chairs, Ta
bles, Desks, etc., etc. Give me a call.
C. V. WALKER,
Auction Commission Merchant
And Furniture Dealer,
oct4-2m 3X7, 319 and 821 Broad St.
THe Oiliest Fptnre House in tie Slate.
PLATT BROTHERS,
212 & 214 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, CITY.,
Keep always or hand the latest styles
of •
FURNITURE
Of every variety manufactured, from the
lowest to the highest grades.
Chamber, Parlor, Diaing-Room,
AND
Library Complete Suits, or Single
Pieces,
At prices whioh cannot fail to 8c if the
purchaser.
UNDERTAKING
In all its branches. METALIO CASES
and CASKETS, of various styles and
make. Imported Wood Caskets and
Cases, of every design and finish.
COFFINS and CASKETS, of our own
make, in Mahogany, Rosewood and Wal
nut. An accomplished Undertaker will
be in attendance at all hours, day and
uighfc. PLATT BROTHERS,
212 and 214 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
oct26—janl4-d+Awlv
EST'd; 7853.
pooLEr's
YEAIST POWDER •
THESFAN D ARD BAKINfiPOVVDER 4
IS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST
PREPARATION EVER
OFFERED FOR MAKING
r ;i BREAD. —
DOOLEY a, YEAST POWDER
Is perfectly Pure and Wholesome,
DOOLEYS YEAST POWDER
Is put up in Full Weight Cans.
DOOLEYS YEAST POWDER
Makes Elegant Biscuits and Rolls.
DOOLEYS YEAST POWDER
Makes Delicious Muffinß, Griddle Cakes, Com,
Bread, &o.
DOOLEYS YEAST PO WDER
Makes all kinds of Dumplings, Pot Pies, Cakes
and Pastry, nice, light and healthy.
DOOLEY sTyE AST POWDER
Is the Best, because perfec ly pure.
DOOLEYS YEAST POWDER
Is the Cheapest, because full weight.
DOOLEY’S YEAST POWDER
Is guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Be sure to ask for
DOOLEY’S YEAST POWDER
and do not be put off with any other kind.
DOOLEY’S 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, by dealers in
Groceries and Family Supplies.
545 .Actually Saved.
Dooley&Brother
>, Manufacture
ST. NEV V YORK ,
apl-dAwl' ;
ABDOMINAL SUPPORTERS AND PILE PIPES.
Relief, comfort and cure for Rpptdbe, 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 steel spring being coated
with hard rubber, light, cool, cleanly, used in
bathing, fitted to form, universally recommend
ed by all surgeons as the best mechanical sup
ports known. Send 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. oc!4-w3m
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
tigned -at Camak, on the Georgia Railroad,
before purchasing elsewhere.
oc9-dß<fcw3m W. W. SWAIN.
| N.F. BURNHAM’S
1874 TURBINE_
per cent, guaranteed -with
NOTICE.
TO RENT, until November, 1875, a commo
dious STORE HOUSE, at Gunn's Mills,
convenient to Depot. Apply to
J. F. A JONES,
novlß-dlAw3 Wriglitsboro, Ga.
JAMES LEFFEL’S
IMPROVED DOUBLE
Turbine Water Wheel.
POOLE
Manufacturers for the South and South
west.
OYER 7,000 now n use, working under heads
varying from 2to 240 feet! 24 sizes,
from 5} to 96 inches.
The most powerful Wheel in the Market,
And most economical in use of water.
Large ILLUSTRATED Pamphlet sent post free.
MAN UFA CTUEEES, ALSO, OF
Portable and Stationary Steam Engines and
Boilers, Babcock & Wilcox Patent Tubulous
Boilers, Ebangh’s Crasher for Minerals, Saw
and Grist Mills, Flouring Mill Machinery, Ma
chinery for White Lead Works and Oil Mills,
“•'“"“SEFOBCrKLAIffI.
f#b2s-wly
.WATER WHEEL
■ The best in the Market, and
sold at less price than any other
first-class ‘Wheel. ,
: Send for a Pamphlet and he oon
visaed. N. f. BcuNUAM.York, Pa.