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Clmmicte and Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 81, 1875.
.IN THE OLD CHURCH TO WEB.
In the old church tower
Hangs the bell:
And above it on the vane,
In the sunshine and the rain,
Cut in gold, Bt. Peter stands,
With the keys in his two hands,
And all is'well!
In the old church tower
Hangs the bell;
You can hear it’s great heart beat;
Ah ! so loud, and wild and sweet,
As the parson says a prayer
Over happy lovers there,
While all is well!
n the old church tower
Hangs the bell:
Deep and solemn. *Hark! again;
Ah ! what passion, and what pain!
With her hands upon her breast,
Home poor soul bas gone to rest
Where all is well!
In the old church tower
Hangs the bell;
A quaint friend that seems to know
All our joy and all our woe:
It is glad when we are wed,
It is sad when we are dead,
And all is well.
AN HAUNTED HOUSE.
There stands a house upon yonder hill,
A lonely house that's haunted:
A child might wander tbroogh it at will
All day, with a heart undaunted;
Yet I say that house is haunted.
About it are many flowers and trees,
And nothing is there that's dreary;
In the garden musily hum the bees,
And the bird's song there is cheery :
No, none would call it dreary.
Whenever 1 in that garden stray,
A feeling strange comes o'er me,
And scenes from many a vanished day
Phantasmal float before me.
And an olden dream comes o'er me.
A long-lost form past the twilight nooks
Glides by, in garments gleaming ;
A sweet, fair face from a window looks,
With a love-frought welcome beaming,
Like a light in darkness gleaming.
Into ths silent Aoom I go,
And 1 deem t.iere is no one nigh me;
But a shadowy shape, with a footstep slow,
Comes, smiling, and sits there by me,
Though I deem there is no one nigh me. ’
There's a glamour abont the house aDd grounds
That dazes my waking visions.
And charms my ear. and I hear old sounds,
And X pause with indecision,
Half doubting my ear aud vision.
To others, no doubt, these things are not;
But to me the place is haunted ;
Fair memories hover about the spot
That never will be surplanted,
And the house on the hill is haunted.
MISSING.
In the cool, sweet hush of a wooded nook,
Where the May-birds sprinkle the green old
ground, .... ..
And the wind, and the birds aud the limpid
brook,
Murmur there with a drowsy sound;
Who lies so still in the plushy moss,
With his pale cheek pressed on a breezy pillow.
Couched where the light aud the shadows
cross
Thro’ the flickering fringes of tho willow
Who lies, alas!
So still, so chill, IB the whispering grass ?
A soldier clad in Zouave dress,
A bright-haired man with his lips apart;
One hand thrown up o’er his frank, dead face,
And the other clutching liis pulseless heart,
Lies here in the shadows cool and dim,
His musket swept by a trailing bough.
With a careless grace in each lifeless limb
And a wound on his m inly brow;
A wound, alas!
Whence the warm blood drips on the silent
grass.
The violets peer from their dusky beds,
With a tearful dew in their great, pure eyes;
The lillies quiver their shining heads.
Their pale lips full of sad surprise;
And the lizard darts thro’ the glistening fern,
Aud the squirrel rustles the branches heavy;
Strange birds fly out, with a cry, to bathe
Their wings in the sunset glory;
While the shadows pass
O'er the silent face in the dewy grass.
God pity the bride who waits at homo,
With herlilly cheeks and violet eyes,
Dreaming the sweet old dream of love,
While her lover is walking in Paradise.
God strengihen her heart as tho days go by
Aud the long drear nights of her vigil follow.
Nor bird, nor moon, nor whispering wind.
May breathe the tale of the hollow.
Alas! alas!
The secret is safe with the woodland grass.
EFFECT IN THE DISTANCE.
Translated from the German of Goethe.
The Queen stands in her regal halls,
With many a taper blazing bright;
When, turning to a page, she calls,
“Go bring my purse, I’ll play to-night;
“It lies at hand,
“ Upon my stand.”
So quick the youth his way did weud,
He soon had reached the castle's end.
New, sipping sherbet near the Queen,
There stood a maid, fairest of all;
When from hor lips the cup was seen.
With sudden crash, to break and fall.
“ Shame and distress!
Oh lovely cress!
She hastens aw&v from the throng.
And flies through the castle along.
The page, returning on his way,
Met this fair ladv in distress ;
Though none had known it, oft would they
Their love in secret faith confess,
A kindly fate *
On lovers wait.
So to his heart the maid he press'd
With kisses sweet her cheeks oeress'd.
But Anally each tore away.
She hastened to enter her room.
The page, to the Qneeu, made his way
Tli rough many a sword and waving plume ;
The princess espied
The vest-stained side!
For rarely was aught left unseen
By one, so like Sheba's fair Queen.
She called a lady of her train—
"We lately came to strife aud jar,
“For you so stoutly did mantain
“That spirits act’ not from afar,
"And in presence alone
“An effect may be known ;
“That no one can act from afar,
“Not even a heavenly star!
“Now see, for you know, in this place
“That spirit-glass of sherbet fell,
“And at the same moment (behold the trace)
“On the page’s vest, it left a spell:
“Get another, fond yonth,
“And beeaueo the truth
"Of my argument, you are upholding,
“I'll pay for it—and save yon a scolding!"
LADY BYRON’S REPLY TO LORD
BYRON’S FAREWELL.
Yes, farewell, farewell forever,
Thou thyself has fixed our doom,
Bade hope's fairest flowers wither
Never again for me to bloom.
Unforgiving thou hast called me ;
Didst thou ever say forgive ?
For the wretch whose wiles beguiled thee,
Thou alone didst seem to live.
Short the space which time has given
To complete thy love's decay ;
By unhallowed passions driven,
Soon thy heart was taught to stray.
Lived for me that feeling tender
Which thy verse so well can show.
From mv arms why didst thou wander ?
My endearmeuts’eould forego ?
Oh, too late, thy breast was bared,
Oh. too soon to me 'tw&s shown
That thy love I once but shared,
And already it is flown.
Wrapt in dreams of jov abiding,
On thy breast my head hath lain ;
In thy love and truth confiding,
Bhss I ne’er shall know again.
That dark hour didst first discover
In thy soul the hideous stain,
Would these eyes had closed forever
Never to weep thy crimes again !
But the impious wish. Oh. Heaven !
From the record blotted be ;
Yes, I yet would live. O. Byron.
For the babe I’ve borne for thee.
In whose loftv features (let me
All my weakness here confess,
Whilst the struggling tears permit me)
All the father s I can trace.
He whose image never leaves me,
He whose image still I prize.
Who this bitterest feeling gives me.
Still to love where I despise.
With regret and sorrow rather.
When our child’s first accents flow,
I will teach her to say “Father,”
But his guilt she ne'er shall know.
Whilst to-morrow and to-morrow
Wake me from a widowed bed,
On another's arm. no sorrow
Wilt thou feel —no tear wilt shed.
I the world's approval sought not
When I tore myself from thee ;
Of its praise or blame I thought not,
What its praise or blame to me f
He so prized, so loved, so adored.
From my heart his image drove.
On my head contempt has poured.
And preferred a wanton’s love.
Thou art proud, but mark me, Byron.
I’ve a heart proud as thine own ;
Soft to love, but cold as iron
When contempt is o’er it thrown.
But. farewell. Til not upbraid thee ;
Never, never wish thee ill,
Wretched though thy crimes have made me,
If thou caii'ct, be happy still.
Incidents op the Tornado. — A gen
tlemau just from Columbia county in
forms ns that the ravages of the tornado
near Appling were frightful. A whole
forest of young trees in front of Mr.
Bailey’s house weie denuded of their
bark. Immense timbers from the
wrecked house were carried hundreds of
yards. Our informant stated that all
his strength, united with that of a
friend, was hardly sufficient to raise one
end of some of these timbers. Two of
Mr. Bailey’s sons were out in a field
bunting. The storm came up just as
one of them, a lad sixteen years old,
was raising his gun to take aim at a
bird. The weapon was wrested from his
hands by the wind and he himself was
lifted from the ground, taken npintothe
air.and carried entirely across the field
and then dashed violently to the ground
and rolled over and over. He was ter
ribly cut up and bruised. His brother
was also badly bruised. In the 124th
District of Richmond county forty
houses were blown down in one locality.
Everything went down before the storm
like reeds. Huge trees were twisted off
above the roots and fences scattered in
every direction.
A STORY OF A f AMPIRE.
Transfusion Extraordinary—V Frag
ment from Police Archives.
In the year 1857, apartments au troi
sie-me were taken in the house No. 319
Rue St. Honore, Paris, by a couple, who
had Austrian passports, and gave their
names as Jean Kislov and wife. Kis
lov pretended to be a musician, in part
teacher and part amateur composer. He
was a person very well informed,
haughty and aristocratic in manners,
and striking in appearance. He had a
spectral face, set in a frame of thick
black hair, and cut by a long mustache
which hung down to his breast. His
eyes, intensely black, thrillingly bril
liant, flashed as if they belonged any
where rather thap to his ghastly white
face, entirely immobile, the pallor of
which was heightened by bright car
mine lips. He was emaciated to a sin
gular degree, but there was nothing of
the languor and dullness of disease
abont him; on the contrary, a fire and
intensity which gave a sort of passion
;to all that he said and did. He dresa
j ed entirely in black, with a sumptuons
ness of tone that was itself impressive.
Mme. Kislov was a less distinguished
person, being a very fair and florid
I blonde, with white eyebrows and a
| pinkish stripe above them. She was
i plump, aud the way in which the rose
i bloom was laid on her glistening white
I skin gave her something of the appear
! ance of a wax doll.
When Kislov had been living in the
Rne St. Honore about four months,
1 several circumstances combined to bring
j him under the surveillance of the po
lice. Riding in a cab one day in Boule
vard Montmartre, he was set upon by a
workman, who assaulted him with a
knife and would have killed him but for 1
the prompt interposition of a sergeant
de-ville. The man was arrested, but
Kislov persistently refused to appear
against him, and the workman—whose
named was Jasz, a Bohemian or Hun
garian—was finally discharged. He
would say no more than that he knew
Kislov, and that he was a monster. The
singular refusal of Kislov to testify j
against an assassin directed the atten- ;
Hon of the authorities to the man and j
provoked inquiry into, his antecedents. 1
Two things were found out immediate
ly—that his name was not Kislov, and |
ti.wt he bought arsenic in considerable
quantities at some pharmacies near
where he lived. A little further inquiry,
however, seemed to set the police curi
osity at rest concerning Kislov. The
Austrian embassy, which vised Kislov’s
passport, assured the authorities that
they knew him perfectly well, and were
satisfied with the reasons he gave for
living incognito. He was a Hungarian
nobleman of high rank and great estate,
which he had left to come to Paris, un
der au assumed name, because the igno
rant and brutal peasantry by whom he
was siirroimded had got a firm belief in
their stupid heads that he was a vam
pire who lived by sucking blood, Ac.
I'his would explain the attempt on his
life made by Jasz, who was probably au
emigrant from his neighborhood. As
for the arsenic, M me. Kislov was a Bty
riaD, who had the reputation of being
!an arsenic eater. Kislov’s music teaeh
■ ing was merely an amiable eccentricity
j of his, since lie was very rich, and a
great enthusiast iu matters pertaining to
the tone -art.
An agent of the police de surete, how
ever, not satisfied with wliat was report
ed concerning Kislov, determined to
make a private inquiry of his own. This
agent, Sylvain, a man of great astute- j
uess, and much trusted by the authori- \
ties, hunted up Jasz, and ascertained 1
from him that the suspicions of vam- ;
pirism which lay against Kislov had j
originated in ctrcumstanees intimately
connected with his reputed music mania,
and there were some parts of the busi- j
ness which were exceedingly puzzling, i
Sylvain set to work to investigate con
cerning Kislov’s pupils in Paris. He j
found that Kislov’s classes were com- j
posed of girls and young women exelu- j
sively ; that he gave his instructions for \
pay which was purely nominal, but iu j
return exacted the most arbitrary condi
tions, and was indeed exercisiug over
his pupils a despotism which was as
bizarre as it was imperious. He dis
missed them at pleasure and without
cause, assuming a right of arbitrary
selection which he would permit no
body to dispute. He would have none
but handsome girls and women, and
these must bo blondes—the fairer they
were the more likely to be retained. He
selected his pupils from all classes of
society, but only in rare Gases did he
give private instruction to persons of
the higher social classes.
To offset all this, it must be confessed j
that Kislov was an extraordinary teach- j
er. He was thoroughly accomplished in j
his art, and very capable of imparting ]
to others his enthusiasm. Where a pu- j
pil was completely to his taste he spared !
no time nor pains to bring her rapidly i
forward. Ho was a favorite with his pu- !
pits, too. His conversational powers
were very great, ami there was smoo
thing of a magnetic spell in his presence,
iu the sombre mystery which shrouded
his bewildering eyes, and the tender
eourtesy of his peculiarly sympathetic
mantlets, which made his susceptible |
pupils advance most charmingly under
his guidance. But, as Sylvain present- j
ly discovered, there was always a culmi
nating poi-iol to this progress, when it
was checked off suddenly, and the rela
tion between master uud pupil on me to
an abrupt end. The pupil, after almost
confidential friendship with the tutor,
would be startled by a sudden coldness
on his part, and a dismissal rude anil so
peremptory as to admit of no qualifica
tion, or else she would bo iuvited to go
to Kislov’s apartments, to see Madame,
and to practice some unique music he
had there upon his own piano, the tone
of which was incomparable. In the first
ca<e, the pupil was never taught again.
In the second case, the pupil never re
turned to the apartments to practice a
second time. Sylvain personally inves
tigated four or five of these cases of the
favorite pupils who were invited to prac
tice at Kislov’s bouse, and found that
the main circumstances in each were
verv nearly the same. Take, for in
stance, the case of Mile. Swartz, daugh
ter of an Alsatian concierge. Mile.
Swarlz was a brilliant blonde, aged
seventeen, with a very pretty
voice, who was preparing to go
upon tho stage iu opera bouffe. Sue
was a plump, pleasant creature, with a
good deal of archness in her manners,
and a frank insouciant grace which
promised to help her materially iu her
profession. She was the picture of joy
ous, rosy health —a laughing Hebe of
Saxon descent, with the blue eyes of
Franconia and the fair hair of an
English girl. ,
Mile. Swartz was received m Kislov s
house with distinguished courtesy by
the teacher and easy quiet by Madame.
The room was shaded by curtains, which
threw a crimson color upon all objects,
and there was a strong tropical odor of
perfume, which was rather oppressive.
Mile. Swartz had an unbounded faith in
and reverence for her teacher, who had
made her advance moat rapidly, but
this was tinctured with not a little awe,
and she felt rather confused and dizzy
when, after a period of conversation,
! Kislov advanced to hand her to the
i piano. This confusion did not wear off,
but rather increased, as she began to
play, at sight, the preliminary bars of a
piece of strange music, Kislov accom
panying her upon his flute, and Mme.
Kislov striking a few notes upon the
zitter. Suddenly there was a blank, and
she was roused again by finding herself
( by an open window, seated in a chair,
I and Mme. Kislov bending over her with
I kind solicitude. “Do you feel better
j now?” she was asked. “Do not be
I alarmed, my dear ; the room was too
j warm for you—it made you faint. ” Then
j Kislov, in his deep, mysterious tones,
| said ; “Starosta, you had better aceom
| pany Mile. Swartz to her home in a
! carriage all this while Mile. Swartz
scarcely noticing anything, what with
| the dizziuess and a strange languor that
possessed her. All she thought of, all
she spoke of, was her desire to be taken
home, and that was speedily done.
Mile. Swartz's appearance caused her
friends the greatest alarm when she was
brought home. Mme. Kislov explained
that her frightful pallor was the result
of a fainting fit, and that she would be
(quite well again on the morrow. This,
however, was not the ease. Mile.
Swartz kept her bed for ten days, anil
i it was more than three months before
! the pallor left her. Meantime a note
! came from Kislov stating his regrets
that, owing to unavoidable circum
stances, See., he would not be able to
permit Mile. Swartz to resume her
studies and practice under his direction
—a thing which she had no intention of
doing ; for her awe and reverence were
now supplanted by an invincible repug
nance. Sylvain found not less than four
of Kislov’s pupils whose experiences
were almost identical with those of
Mile Swartz. While the detective was
brooding over the mystery these eases
were shrouded in lie heard of still j
another which was exciting inquiry in ■
another direction. A Mile. Goijonx-
Enchnysen, daughter of a wealthy
banker, the representative of a Dutch
family that had been in business in
Paris since 1808, was also taking masic
lessons from Kislov. Mile. Goijoux-
Enchnysen, as perfect a blonde as Mile.
Swartz, was morespiritnelle, less robust,
and more nervous. She returned from j
her single visit to Kislov’s iu a deep
swoon, that was succeeded by fever and
delirium. In endeavoring tosnbdne her
restless tossings the nurse noticed that
the pillow she was lying upon had be
come stained with blood, and that there
was a wound upon the back part of the
girl’s neck, from which blood oozed with
some rapidity.
The attending surgeon was summoned
at once, and found that the hemorrhage,
though not violent, was very persistent,
and was only subdued by the nse of the
most powerful styptics. He could not
ascertain anything in regard to the
wound or how it was caused, and he was
much puzzled about it, since its charac
ter and that of the hemorrhage attending
it was singularly like an aggravated leech
bite. In the pursuit of his inquiries he
called upon Kislov, who, however, de
nied peremptorily that she had been
hurt while with him, and the surgeon
could not dispute this, since he had de
tected no sign of such a hurt in his pre
liminary examination of the patient. He
thought it worth his while, however, to
make some inquiries of the police con
cerning Kislov, and the case of Mile.
Goijoux-Enchuysea thus came to the
ears of the detective.
M. Sylvain called at once to see the
surgeon, and, after a long conversation
with him, induced him to visit Mile.
Swartz and the other pupi’s of Kislov
who were similarly affected. About
three weeks later Jean Kislov and wife
were cited to appear before the Juge
d’lnstruction. Sylvain had made out
his case. The accused, on being ex
amined, at first haughtily refused to be
interrogated, but finally admitted that
his name was not Jean Kislov, but the
Count Hadnaji Jotiuzo; that his wife
was the Countess Stanoska, and that he
lived in Hungary, in the country border
ing on the Teiss, near the town of
Madriega. He denied peremptorily that
he was guilty of any of the practices at
tributed to him, and said that he did
not snppose it possible for the authori
ties of the elegant city of Pans to be
tinctured with the ignoble superstitions
which disgraced the rude boors of
Bohemia, Hungary and Wallachia. He
j said, moreover, that it was no new thing j
for members of his family to be accused j
of being vroucolacas and strigse—it I
was jierhaps part of the price they paid !
for their ancient patent of nobility. Au j
ancestor of his had been murdered by I
the Vehmgericht upon a very similar |
charge to the one now brought against I
him; bat be bad no fear before an open !
tribunal and in the broad daylight of
: the nineteenth century.
; The four pupils and Mile. Swarx testi-!
! tied to the line of facts i already stated, |
but Mlb. 'doijoax-Enehtysen was as yet
■ too ill to *p{iir. The, surgeon, how
ever, testified to lit.* general condition
and the character of the o,i n d upon
her neck, which, though the p.-ibe
revealed it to be superficial, was very
unusual in appearance, and he was
almost willing to stake his professional
reputation that she had been cupped
there or the wound had been sucked.
He had examined the neckß of the pre
vious witnesses, and in each case there
were traces of a small cicatrix in or
about the same part where his patient
was wounded. Anew witness was
now called in the person of Mila.
Leonide Saumaise, a sprightly blonde,
with a resolute face, but which had the
pallor of recent illness. She testified
that, in obedience to the instructions of
M. Sylvain, she had applied to the so
called Kislov to be to be taught singing,
and had been reeived into his classes,
and finally invited to his house after
the regular formula. Her object was to
find out the nature of the practices at
tributed to him for the information of
the police. M. Sylvain was apprized of
| her movements, was near at hand for
j duty in case his services should be re
| qnired, and she herself was provided
j with ammonia and stimulants to en-
I able her to resist the insensibility which
had overcome all the other witnesses,
j She, however, had yielded precisely as
j the rest, and recovered from the syncope
i to find herself pale aud languid as if
■ just bled copiously. Instead, however,
of suffering herself to be taken home,
| she had gone immediately with M. Syl
| vain to the surgeon’s, who examined her
j neck. There was no pain, and at first
no appearance of any wound ; but the
microscope revealed a spot over which a
| slight film of animal membrane was
( deftly adjusted. This was carefully re
j moved, and under it was a slight lancet
j wound, the bleeding from which was
' oheoked by some powerful styptic, and
the incision closed with tho most con
summate art.
At this stage of the proceedings the
examination was discontinued for the
day, with the understanding that it was
to be resumed on the morrow. Count
Jotiutzo and his wife, after giviug heavy
bonds for their reappearance, were per
mitted to go home. M. Sylvian, how
ever, was determined not to lose sight
of the couple. He armed himself with
a provisional warrant, and went to a
room in the maison garnie which he
had hired for the purpose of watching
| them. This room was immediately be
low the sleeeping-room of the Count and
| Countess. Towards midnight Sylvain
i was startled by a single shrill shriek in
i the apartment above him, followed by
| the sound of a heavy fall. Without,
j hesitation Sylvain traversed tho stairs
I and burst into the room.
He witnessed a scene never to be for
gotten. Tho gas-lights were flaming
! high, the air was filled with an oppres-
I sive odor, and on the floor, in her night
j dress, with a face calm and sweet as an
j infant’s asleep, lay the Countess, full
[ length, with the Count on his knees be
i side her, his lips glued to her neck. As
| Sylvain burst in the door he looked up,
j glaring at the iutruder with a maniacal
i fire in his eyes, blood fieeks all over his
I white face, aud his mouth and chin
fairly drirP“* ir esn B ore - h . vl ‘
i vain, old agent and cool ollicer as he
I was, was just paralyzed by the sight,
j The monster, or whatever ho was, even
| as Sylvain looked, dropped his head
j again, seized the wounded throat iu his
j teeth, and snarled like a tiger throttling
j his victim. Sylvain drew a pistol and
j advanced to seize him, but the Count,
! with a wild cry and frantic agility,
bounded to meet him, pressed him out
j of the way with two powerful hands
| against his shoulders, aud darted from
| the room, Sylvain firing at him iu vain.
The alarm was given, a surgeon was
called, but the unfortunate woman never
; recovered consciousness. Her throat and
j seek were frightfully torn and mangled,
j and she died during the night. Count
! Jotiutzo was never arrested. His dead
i body was found five days later in the
j woods of Vincennes, and a post mortem
examination revealed that his death was
i caused by arsenical poisoning. His
wife’s blood had killed him, but the pre
cautions she had taken to preserve her
| own life were insufficient.
Examination of the room showed that
the Count had produced insensibility iu
\ b’s patients by using an ethereal pre
| p. -ation, the smell of which was dis
gu.sed by heavy perfumes, such as jas-
I min, Ac. This preparation was diffused
by means of the piano keys. Doubtless,
whan the pupil was once overcome he
j repeated the. doses as long as the effect
was needed. An apparatus of caoutchouc
i was found which might well seirotor
| sucking a vein in the neck without in
| juring the integuments, and these things,
with an ointment possessing great stypti
; eal yirtuej and a box of carefully pre
i pared leaf fat skin, showed that this
' monster was deliberately fixed up for
the gratification of his terrible appetite
; so as not to be detected.
Patient inquiry in Hungary elicited
the further facts that Count Jotiutzo’s
! vampirism was known to the members
jof his family. He had unquestionably
i destroyed tile lives of his two previous
wives by indulging his maniacal thirst
for blood, and his family compelled him
j to marry this Styrian arsenic eater,
I thinking she would be safe. She wfts a
j woman of low orign, and knew whom
| she was marrying; indeed, had compro
mised with him and his f&niily, agreeing
to take care of him and keep him from
| doing murder, but at the same time let
; him have a moderate indulgence of his
infernal appetite wiie&eyer he could cou
; trive it safely, on the express condition,
i however, that she was to approve the
i patient, be present at every operation,
j and regulate tiic quantity of blood'
I taken. Under such eiraninstanaes she
was not entitled to much pity, n spite
j of the terrible death that had come up
j on her.
A Diamond Stout. An old man, well
known in Brussels, who would appear
] every afternoon with mathematical regu
; larity in the Saint Hubert arcade, where
' he would walk for exactly one hour from
! 4 to 5 o’clock, died recently in that city.
; The oldest dwellers in that quarter of
• Brussels remember to have seen him
take his daily promenade for many years
baok without ever conversing with any
one. Among Bio papers a will was found,
in which he asked to be. buried in a
neighborhood cemetery by his wife’s
sied, and requested that a person who
| now fills an exalted position in St. Pe
! tersbnrg might be informed of his death.
It appears that when young he had been
j employed in a diamond-producing dis
' trict of Asia. One day ho fonnd anenor
| mous diamond and determined to se
| cure it for himself. The difficulty was
now to escape the lynx-eyed agents. He
; make a deep wound in the calf of his leg
in which he concealed the diamond. He
I then pretended that he had been wound-
I ed and his leg was bound up and he was
authorized)to leave the district. He suc
ceeded in escaping to Russia, where be
sold the gem for a large sum. It is now
one of the crown diamonds of Russia.
Having thus acquired wealth, our hero
traveled all over the world. Iu England
i he married a young lady, who died in
i Brussels some years ago. After her
; death he did not wish to leave the city
where she was buried.
Columbia Supebiob Court. —This
Court met at Appling last Monday,
Judge Wm. Gibson presiding. On ac
counc of the terrible suffering in the
county caused by the tornado, Judge
Gibson adjourned the Court until the
regular September term.
Sheridan In Ireland.
The Dublin Nation, by far the ablest I
and most influential journal in Ireland,
has a scathing review of the treatment
of the Southern States, since the close
of the war, by the Republican party of
the North. Coming down to that most
disgraceful episode in the history of the :
Republic, the dispersion of the Lou- j
isiana Legislature by the United States j
troops, and the infamous and blood
thirsty telegrams of Sheridan to the
President, the Nation says : A shout of
anger and indignation has burst forth
from every State in the Union—North,
South, East and West. Even Republi
can as well as Democratic journals and
politicians have denounced the scandal.
It was nearly time ; for even Bismarck
might have hesitated at the armed inva
sion and overthrow of a legislative
chamber. So far we have endeavored
to summarise as clearly and correctly as
may be the long and tangled story of hia
coup d'etat. What remains now to be
told fills us, as Irishmen, with shame
and humiliation. The man who figures
most disgracefully iu those transactions,
or rather in subsequent proceedings
arising out of them, is said to be Irish
by birth or blood General Philip Sheri
dan. We well know that some of our
countrymen boasted of his record in the
war of secession ; to-day they will hang
their heads for this brutal Haynau of
the American Hungary. General Sheri
dan telegraphed to President Grant that
the real way to settle up the busiuess
was to proclaim the people of Louisiana
as bandits, and leave the rest to him and
his dragoons. We quote textuallv from
the conclusion of this truly blood-thirsty
document:
“It is possible that if the President
would issue a proclamation declaring
them banditti, no further action need
be taken except that which would de
volve upon me.
(Signed) P. H. Sheridan,
Lieutenant-General, U. S. A.”
Yes, dead men tell no tales; and “no
further action neid be taken” except the
drumhead and the fusilade ! This infa
mous suggestion was, of course, based
on a libel as monstrous as the proposal
was inhuman—-namely, that Rory of thf
Hills was about, aDd that the air was
suffused with lawlessness aud crime.—
Ws know that sort of trick here in Ire
land. We, too, have beared the cry of
“Leave ittomo I” But quickly a notable ,
refutation appeared. Over the signature?
of Mgr. N. J. Perche,Catholic Archbishop
of New Orleans; Right Rev. Dr. J. P.
Wiiroer, Protestant Bishop of Louisi
ana; Right Rev. Dr. J. C. Keener, Bishop
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South; the venerable James K. Guthiem,
pastor of Temple Sinai (for the Jewish
community); ana qnite a number of
non-political dignitaries ana personages
beside, the statement of General Sheri
dan was branded as a calutnuious false
hood—the scandalous pretext of tyran
ny, “old as the hills, yet not out worn.”
It is positively appalling to contemplate
this requisition to have a people deliver
ed up to slaughter ! Even in the heart
of war such an atrocity would arous
the whole human race to protest. To
propose it in cold blood, as the savage
resort of political vengeance, has been
reserved, not for a Russian, but for an
American General—Sheridan, not Suar
roff, by name ! If it be indeed true that
this man claims any lineage from Ire
land, he must be the descendant of
some trooper, or some pitch-cap-and
triangle yeoman of the’9B period. We
disown him; aud it is a satisfaction and
a consolation to ns to observe that the
name of our country has been saved
from the pollntion of identification wilh
his conduct by the manly and noble
protests of every organ of Irish opinion
in the United States.
j Mr. Carlyle on Modern Liberalism
Mr. Thomas Carlyle, it is generally
understood, is the writer of the short
and vigorous sketches of “The Early
Kings of Norway,” which h„vc been ap
pearing in Fraser's Magazine. The
series is concluded iu the March num
ber of Iraser, and by way of epilogue
the writer says :
The history of these Hanrfagrs has
awakened in me many thoughts nf des
potism and democracy, arbitrary gov
ernment by one, and self-government
(which means no governmentor anarchy)
by all ; of dictatorship, with many
faults ; and universal suffrage with little
possibility of any virtue. For the con
trast between Olaf Tryggoeson and a
universal suffrage parliament or au im
perial copper captain has, in thsse nine
centuries, grown to be very great, and
the eternal Providence that guides all
! this, and produces alike these entities
with their epochs, is not its course still
through the great deep? Does notit
still speak to us if we have ears ? Here,
clothed in stormy enough passions and
instincts, unconscious of any aim but
their own satisfaction, is the blessed be
ginning of human order, regulation and
j real government; there, clothed ia a
j highly different but again suitable gar-
UfttlAAx iakotilutß, QPtl
ly unconscious as to real aim, is tiiu ac
cursed-looking ending (temporary end
ing) of order, regulation and govern
ment—very dismal to the same onlooker
for the time beiDg—not dismal to him
otherwise, his hope, too, being stead
fast. But here, at any rati, iu bin poor
Norse theater,‘one looks with interest
on the first transformations, so myste
] rioUR and abstruse, of human chnno in*o
I something of articulate cosmos; wit
nesses the wild and straDge bird
pangs of human society, and reflects
that, without something similar (little as
men expect such now) no cosmos of hu
man society ever was got into existence
nor can ever again be.
The violences, fightings, crime—all,
yes, these seldom fail, and they are very
lamentable. But always, too, among
those old populations there was one sav
! ing e’ement, the now want of which,
especially the unlamented want, trans
oends all" lamentation. Here is one of
these strange piercing words of Ruskiu
which has in it a terrible truth for us in
these epochs now come. My friends,
j the follies of Modern Liberalism, many
| and great though they be, are pracu-
I cally summed up in this denial or neg
j leot’of the quality and intrinsic value of
I things. Its rectangular beautitudes
and spherical benevolences—theology of
i universal indulgence aud jurisprudence
j which will hang no rogues—mean one
and all of them in the root incapacity of
| discerning or refusal to discern worth
; and unworth in anything, and least of
i all in man; whereas nature and Heaven
i command you at your peril to riia
) oem worth from unworth in every
| thing, and most of all in man. Your
i main problem is that aneient and trite
j one, “Who is best man?” and the fates
I forgive much—forgive tho wildest,
| fiercest, crudest experiments—if fairly
| made for the determination of that.
I Theft and blood guiltiness are not pleas
! in their sight, yet the favoring
i powers oi u< soiritual and material
i world will confirm to you j-our stolen
! goods, and their noblest voices applaud
i the lifting of your spear and rehearse
| the sculpture of your shield, if only
| your robbing and slaying have been in
fair abitrameut of that question, “Who
lis best man ?” But if you refuse such
I inquiry, and maintain every man for his
! neighbor’s match—if you give vote to
j the simple and liberty to the vile—the
| powers of those spiritual and material
j worlds in due time present you inevita
j bly with the same problem, soluble now
! only wrong side upwards ; and your
| robbing and slaying must be done then
1 to find out ‘‘Who is worst man ?” which
| iu so wide an order of merit is indeed
j not easy; but a complete Tammany ring
I and lowest circle in the Inferno of Worst
. you are sure to find and to be governed
| by- ,
A Constitutional Convention in Ala
bama. — An election is to be held in
j Alabama on the Tuesday after the first
j Monday in August to elect delegates to
! a Constitutional Convention. The Gon
| veution is to meet on the first Monday
i ia September, provided a majority of
| the votes east are in favor of holding a
i Convention. The Constitution, which
may be prepared by the Convention, is
not to be operative until ratified by the
people. This ought to be satisfactory
even to Radicals, as they claim to have
a majority in the State. The bill calling
for this Convention further provides,
“That if any Convention be called, it
shall not be authorized to make any
ordinance, rule or law which shall be
binding on the people of the State, or
any part of them, or to deprive any per
son in office of his right to said office, as
j now held by him under the Constitution
and laws of this State, nor to place any
property or educational qualifications
upon the right to vote in this State, nor
to do any act but to frame and recom
mend for adoption a Constitution amen
datory and revisory of the Constitution
now iu operation in this State. In the
Constitution so framed it shall be the
duty of the Convention to provide for a
system of common schools, as liberally
as the means of the State will permit,
and to be enlarged as these means shall
increase,” &c. One of the objects of
the Force bill was to prevent the States
of the South from changing or amend
ing their Constitutions; but even the
most bitter Radical surely cannot com
plain of the*work this Alabama Conven
tion is expected to do,
Columbia, March 23.—The Legisla
ture to-day elected Thomas C. Dunn
Comptroller-General of the State. Dunn
is a Northern Republican, who was
elected to the State Senate by the Con
servatives. He was Chairman of the
Reform Republican Executive Commit
tee of the last campaign, and is gener
ally respected by all parties in the
State. The Legislature adjourned sine
die Friday.
THE TREASURY TROUBLES.
A Card from Treasurer Jones.
To the Gentlemen of the Joint Finance
Committee of the General Assembly
Now in Commission:
A communication to the Chronicle
and Sentinel, which appeared in that
journal of 17th inst., signed “One of the
Committee,'' takes me to task for va
rious short comings.
As I desire to reply to his several
charges and point out the misrepresen
tations and perversions of fact therein
contained, I think I am entitled to the
name of the author, so that standing in
the open field I may not be required to
meet a hidden assailant. I therefore
respectfully ask that the author of that
communication avow himself, and let
me have fair play. Being assured of
his position he is, of course, invulner
able and in no danger, and consequent
ly has nothing to dread in the avowal,
which, when made, I assure him and
the pubdic shall receive due attention.
Respectfully, &c.,
John Jones, Treasurer.
P. S.—All papers in the State, lovers
of truth and justice, and especially those
that have published the anonymous com
munication mentioned above are earn
eastly requested to give the above a
prominent insertion and oblige
John Jones.
Asking for Information.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
I have read with deep interest a com
munication by “ One of the Committee”
in your issue of the 17th instant, written ;
in auswer to the defense recently pub
lished by Treasurer Jones in his vindi
cation against charges made by the State
Finance Committee. The author, rumor
says, ia Judge Wm. M. Reese, a name
which carries weight with it on whatever
side be chooses to espouse. I will say
nothing now upon the questions he t eats, j
and upon which Treasurer Jones has i
seen proper to make an issue with the ]
committee, except that the people arc j
astounded at the developments made by :
the committee, and ean hardly credit |
the assertion that the known acts of the
Treasurer involving the loss of thou
sands to the State of Georgia cau be
consistent with official honesty and in
tegrity.
But what more particularly attracts
civ i in the article of “ One of
is the following : “Be
fore this subject, the rise in our
bonds, 1 dicsire to say that after the act
of 18”3 wies passed authorizing the issue
of boj‘Js 1-aring 8 per cent., and noti
tnxs'-’ie, ail l after these splendid bonds
were put ijfiu the market, old 6 and 7 i-er
cent, jliunds, seiliug, as the Treasurer
says, at -tW, 70, 80, were bought up in
large quantities at these reduced prices
and exchanged at their nominal ” (par)
“value for 8 per cent, noil-taxable bonds,
which were then sold at par or nearl v par.
It is very clear somebody has made vast
sums of money out of these last bonds,
and that the State has profited nothing
by the great sacrifices made to sus
tain her credit.” Now let Judge
Reese, or whoever is the author of
the foregoing, let the public know more
about the purchase, exchange and resell
ing of Georgia bonds, ami who it is,
that made immense profits out cf the
transact.>n. Was legislation forecast
jto meet the case ? And did members of
the Legislature who took a leading part
in shaping legislation buy these six and
seven per cent, bonds knowing that a law
would be past authorizing their re-sale,
bearing eight per cent., and in this way
make vast sums of money out of the
j over taxed people of the State? I say
j to “One'vsf the Committee,” that rumor
! is busy with the questionable honor and
j action of prominent, political actors, and
i that Treasurer Jones is thought not to
| be the only one covered ail over with
the slime of ill gotten gain, and who
| cannot escape without the smell of tire
upon their garment.
I say, let Judge Reese, or whoever it
is, speak out. The people desire to
know much more than tho foregoing
meagre extract disclosed.
Baron Steuben.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
Ben Butler's Letter to a Colored Man
--No Privileges In Bar Rooms ami
Barber Shops—Butler’s Advice.
Washington, March 18, 1875.— Sir :
1 have the pleasure to acknowledge re
ceipt of yours of the 14th, containing
expressions of appreciation of my ef
forts in behalf of tho Civil Rights bill,
for which exceut my thunks. You
further ask, “ Will you be kind enough
to inform me if colored men are en
titled to the privilege of saloons and
barber shops under its provisions ?”
An Unenvied Privilege.
To this I answer ; I understand by
“ saloons,” yon mean drinking saloons,
and *L am happy to say that the Civil
Rights bill does not give any right to
a colored man to go into a drinking
saloon without the leave of the pro
eriotor. ;jnl am verv glad that it does
gof, f) f, ill Willing’ to concede, u" i*
I friend to the colored man that the
, white race may have at lea* this one
| superior privilege to the colored man,
! that they can drink in bar rooms and
i saloons, and I shall never do anything
j to interfere with the exercise of that
; high and distinctive privilege. I would
I not advocate a bill which should give
that rigb‘ *•- * ,l ’“ man. it I
t er to vote for any bill on this subject
i at all, it would be one to keep the color
ed man out of the drinking saloons ;
and I hope no barkeeper will ever let a
! colored man have a glass of liquor at. I
any bar open for drinking. Indeed, Ii
should be glad whenever a colored man
i should go into a drinkiug saloon for the
1 purpose of drinking at the bar if aome
| body would at once take him and put
] him out, doing him as little injury as
; possible. He could do the colored man .
j no greater kindness.
Privacy of a Barber Shop,
j As to the other branch of your ques- j
j tion, in reference to barber shops, let 1
ne say that the trade of a barber is like i
j any other trade, to be carried on by the j
man who is engaged in it at his own
will and pleasure, and the Civil Rights
bill has nothing to do, and w-as intended
; to have nothing to do, with its exercise,
j A barber has a right to shave whom he
i pleases as much as a jeweller has a right
to repair a watch for whom he pleases,
; or a blacksmith to shoe such colored
horses as he pleases. In other words,
, these are not public employments, bnt
private business, in which the law does
not interfere.
Ttie Colored Mali's Rights fit Common
Law.
From time immemorial all men have j
; had equal rights at the common law in ;
places of public amusements, in public 1
i conveyances and in inns or licensed tav- j
erne, because all such business was for ;
the public under special privileges
granted by the Government. The thea
tre and like public amusements were li
censed by the public authorities and
protected by the police. The public
conveyances used the King’s highway.
The public inn had the special privilege
of a lien or claim upon the baggage or
other property of any traveler usiug it ;
for his keep; and if any man was re
fused, while behaving himself well and
paying his fare, a seat in any place of
amusement, or carriage by public con
veyance, or shelter in a public inn, he
had at oornmon law a right of action
against the party so refusing. The
Civil Rights bill only confirms these
rights of all citizens to the colored man
in consideration of the prejudice against
him and an attempt in certain parts of
tfip /vv.’.v.Vtr to interfere with the uaci- ’
cisa of those common law rights, and j
bas enacted a penalty us a means of en- j
forcing the right iu his behalf in con- \
sideratiou of nis helpless and depend- '
ent condition. The Civil Rights bill has i
not altered the colored mans rights at i
all from what they were before under i
the common law applicable to nearly j
every State in the Union. It has oniy
given him a greater power to enforce
that right to meet the exigency of
combined effort to deprive colored citi
zens of it; and all idea that the Civil
Rights bill allows the colored man to
force himself into any man’s shop or ■
into any man’s private house or into any I
eating house, boarding house or estab
lishment other than those I have named,
is simply an exhibition of ignorance as
well as, in some cases, of insufferable
prejudice and malignity. And while I
would sustain any colored man in firmly
and properly insisting upon his rights
under the Civil Rights bill, which were
his at common law, as they were the.
right of every citizen, yet I should op
pose to the utmost of my power any at
tempt on the part of the colored men to
use the Civii Rights bill as a pretense to
interfere with the private business of
private parties. It is beneath the dig
nity of any colored man so to do, and all
acts, such as stmtting him out from
drinking saloons, may be well left to the
ignorant and generally vicious men who
keep them as a badge of their superiori
ty to the colored race. I have the honor
to be, Ao., Benjamin F. Butleb.
Weavers of Philadelphia are still
striking because of reduced wages.
Eight or nine manufactories are closed.
Great alarm prevails at Port Jervis.
People living on the banks of the Dela
ware are moving to high grounds in or
der to escape the threatened freshet.
John Mitchel was buried yesterday at
Newrv, Ireland. Ten thousand persons
were in attendance. The Government
prepared for trouble, bnt none occurred.
Mrs. Low left Mr. Low, yeateidoy, to
take a servants’ place in a boarding
house, whereupon Mr. Low shot Mrs.
Low twice and himself once. Mr. Low
died immediately. Mrs. Low will follow
salt. All this in Low-ell, Mass.
WASMAIiTOK MEWS.
Adjournment of the Senate.
Washington, March 24.—The Senate
was in executive session to-day, most
of the time being spent in discussing
the nomination of D. A. Pardee to be
United States District Judge of Louis
iana, vice Dnrell, resigned. The nomi
nation was finally laid on the table. _ A
committee was then appointed to wait
upon the President and inform him that
the Senate was ready to adjourn unless
he had some further communication to
make. The President replied he had
none. The usual resolutions of thanks
to the Vice-President and President pro
tempore were agreed to, and the Senate
at 5:45 adjourned sine die.
The Louisiana District Judgeship.
Washington, March 24. — The action
a)f the Senate tabling Pardee’s nomina
tion places litigation in Louisiana in an
awkward positiou. The District Judge
alone has jurisdiction in bankruptcy and
admiralty cases. Neither Judge Wood
nor Judge Bradley has an initiatory
voice in these branches of law. There
is now in the hands of the Kegistry of
the District Court for jurisdiction by or
der of the District Judge $72,000 and
other suits in bankruptcy, involving over
$200,000 are pending. There is doubt
of the President’s power to appoint a
Judge ad interim. It seems probable
that all cases in bankruptcy and ad
miralty must remain in abeyance until
the next session of Congress. J udge
Pardee has unconditionally withdrawn
from the contest. I
VEGETINE
Purifies the Blood. Renovates and
luvigorates the Whole System.
i
Its Medical Properties are
ALTERATIVE, To>lt, SOLVENT
AND DIURETIC.
\TEOETISE in made exclusively from the
juices of carefully selected barks, roots
and herbs, aud so strongly concentrated that it
will effectually eradicate from the system
every taint of Scrofula, Scrofulous Humor,
Tumors, Cancer, Cancerous Humor, Erysipe
las. Salt Rheum, ssyphilitie Diseases. Cauker,
Faintness at the Stomach, and all diseases that
arise fiom impure blood. Sciatica, luflamma
toiy aud Chrome Rheumatism, Neuralgia.
Gout and Spinal Complaints, can only be ef
fectually cured through the blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptive Diseases of the
Skin, Pustules, P mplea, Blotches Boils. Tet
ter. Scaldhead ami Ringworm. Vrgetine has
faUa to cff.mt a permanent cure.
For Pains in the Baca, Kidney Complaints,
Drop y. Female Weakness, Leucorrhcea, aris
ing from internal ulceration, and uterine dis
eases and General Debility. YtaETiXK ac.s di
rectly upon the cause of the complaints. It
invigorates and strengthens the whole system,
acts upon the secretive organs, allays inflam
mation, cures ulceration and regulates the
bowels.
For Catarih, Dyspepsia, Habi ual Costive
ness. Palpitation of the Heact, Headache,
Piles. Nervousness, and General Prostration of
the Nervous System, no medicine has ever
given such perfect satisfaction as the Veoe
vime. It purities the blood, cleanses all of the
organs, and possesses a controlling power over
the nervous system.
, The remarkable cures effected by Vegetine
have induced many physicians and apotheca
ries whom we know to * rescribe and use it iu
their own families.
In fact. Veoetine is the best remedy yet dis
covered for Ihe above diseases, and it is the
only reliable BLOOD PURIFIER yet placed
before tho public.
PREPARED BY
11,. 11. STEVENS, Boston Mass.
What Is Vegetine ?—lt is a compound ex
tracted from bark*, Toots and heibs. It is Na
ture’s Remedy. It is perfectly harmless from
any bad effect upo i the system. It is nourish
ing and strengthening, it acts directly upon
the blood. It quiets the liervou** system. It
gives jou good, sweet sleep at r.iglit It is a
great panacea for our aged fathers and moth
ers. for it gives them strength, quiets their
nerves, and gives them Nature’s sweet sleep—
as has been proved bv many an aged person.
It is the Great Blood Purifier, it is a soothing
remedy for eur children. It- has relieved and
cured thousands. It is very pleasant to take,
every child likes it. It relieves and cures all
diseases originating from impure blood. Try
the Vegetine. Give it a fair trial for your
complaints; then you will say to your friend/
neighbor and acquaintance, ‘Try it; it has
cured mo.”
Vegetine for the complaints for which it is
recommended is having a larger sale throughout
the United States than any other one modi
cine. Why? Vegetine will cure these Com
plaints.
VALUABLE INFORM *ioA.
December 12. 1869.
GBBTt.r.itfES— My only object iu giving you
Ibis testimonial is to spread valuable infor
mation. Having been badly afllic;ed witliJSalt
ltbenru, and the whole surface of my skin be
ing covered with pimples and eruptions, aid
knowing it to be a blood disease, I took man
of the advertised blood preparations, among
which was any quantity of Sarsaparilla, with
out obtaining any benefit until I commenced
\ taking the Ykoetike. and before 1 had com
pleted taking the first bottle 1 saw that I bad
got the right medicine. Consequently, I foi
! lmved ob with it until I had taken seven bot
i ties, when 1 was pronounced a well man, aud
i my skin is smooth and entirely free from pim
ples and eruptions. I have jiever enjoyed so
g od health before, and 1 attribute it ail to the
use of Ykoetike. To benefit those afflicted
with Hbeumatism. I will make mention also of
the Yeoetise’h wonderful power of curing me
of this acute complaint, of which 1 have suffer
ed so intonselv. 0. H. TUOKEK,
| l'as. Ag’t Mich. (J. It. K.,69 Washington street,
I Boston.
VEGETINE IS SOLD BY ALL DRUGGIST!).
jan27 tf— uiar2s-w3
VEGETINE
Striker at the root of disease by purifying the
blood. restoring the liver ami kidney a to
healthy action, invigorating the nervous eya
tem.
VEGETINE
Is not a vile nauseous compound, which simply
purges the bowels, bat a bate, pleasant reme
i dy which is sure to purify the blood and there
-1 by restore the health.
VEGETINE
| Is now prescribed in cases of Scrofula and
other diseases of the blond, by many of the
best pliy icians, owing toils great success in
j curing all diseases of this nature.
VEGETINE
Does not deceive invalids into false hopes by
- purging and creating a fictitious appetite, but
\ assists nature in clearing and purifying the
j whole system, leading the patient gradually to
! perfect health.
VEGETINE
j Was looked upon as an experiment for some
time by some of our best physioians. but those
| most incredulous in regard to its merit are,
I now its most ardent friends and supporters.
VEGETINE
i Instead of being a puffed-up medicine has
; worked its way up to its present astonishing
j success by actual merit in curing all diseases
of the blood, of whatever nature.
VEGETINE,
! Says a Boston physician, “has no equal a* j
j a blood purifier. Hearing of its many wonder
| ful cures, after all other remedies had failed, I
; visited the laboratory and convinced myself of
j its genuine merit. It is prepared from barks.
I roots and herbs, eacli of which is highly effec
| tive, and they are compounded in such a man
ner as to produce astonishing results.”
VEGETINE
I Is acknowleged ana recommended by physi-
I cians and apothecaries to be the best purifier
| and cleanser of the blood yet. discovered, and
| tbousan is speak in ito praise who have been
I restored to health.
PltOOi’.
WHAT IH NEEDED.
Boston, February 12, 1871.
j Mr. n. li. Stevens :
! Dear Sir— About one year since I found mv
! self in a feeble condition from general debility.
VEGETINE was strongly recommended to me
by a friend who had been much benpfitted by
its use. I procured the article and after using
several bottles, was restored to health and dis
continued its use. I feel quite confident that
1 tiiorc io i.o mccboto r-txperior to it for those
j complaints for which it is especially prepared,
! and would cheerfully recommend it to those
| wlio feel that they need something to restore
! them to perfect health. Respectfully vours,
U. L. PET fINGILL,
| Firm of 8. M. Pettingili & Cos., 10 State Bt.,
Boston.
Cincinnati, November 26. 1872.
! Mr. 11. H- Stevens :
Dear Sir—J lie two bottles of VEGETINE
j furnished me by your agent, my wife lias used
with great benefit.
For a long time she has been troubled with
dizziness and costiveness ; these troubles are
now entirely removed by the use of VEGE
TINE.
fc*he was also troubled with dysrepsia and
general debility : and has been greatly bene
fited. THUS. GILMORE, 229 j Walnut Bt.
FEEL MISELF A NEW MAN.
Natick, Mias., Jane Ist, 1872.
Mr. 11. R. Stevens :
Dear Sir—Tlirongli tlie advice and earnest
persuasion of ltev. E. S. Best, of this place. I
have been taking VEGETINE for Dyspepsia,
of which I havo suffered for years.
I have usee only two bottles and already feel
myself anew man. Respectfully.
Dr. J. W. CARTER.
Report from a Practical Chemist
and Apothecary.
Boston. January 1. 1874.
Dear Sir—This is to certify that I have sold
at retail 1544 dozen (1.852 bottles) of yonr
VEGETINE since April 12, 1870, and can truly
say that it has given the best satisfaction of
anv remedy for the complaints for which it is
recommended, that I ever sold. Scarcely a day
passes without some of my customers testify
ing to its merits on themselves or their
friends. lam perfectly cognizant of several
cases of Scrofulous Tumors being cured by
VEGETINE alone in this vicinity. Very re
spectfully. yours. AI GILMAN.
To H. R. Stevens, Esq. 468 Broadway.
Vegetine is Sold by ill Druggists.
feb26-lm
Notice To Skippers.
ALL cotton shipped over the Port Royal
Railroad to Savannah. Charleston and
Port covered by Insurance in Fire
man’s Fund of California, represented by
Messrs. Reed & Cameron, of Augusta.
KEK BOYCE,
Agent P. R. R., Augusta.
Savannah “News” will advertise for one
week and send bill to this office.
dec2-tf KER BOYCE, Agen*
New AdveitlgemeiUMt
L'U t T SAMPLE to Agents. Ladle*’ ronitmin
r lllviy (lon Needle Book, with Chromes. Sena
stamp. F. P. GLUCK,
feb’2s-4w New Bedford. Mass.
MHYITY easily made by selling TEAS at IM
PORTER’S PRICES, or getting up
clubs in towns and country for the oldest Tea Com
pany in America. Greatest inducements. Send for
circular. CANTON TEA CO., 148 Chambers street,
‘ N. Y. few2s-4w
VO L VERS,
Of any and every kind Send
for Catalogue. Address Great Western Gun
and Pistol Works. PITTSBURGH, pa”
feb2s-4w
“P*¥CMSt:Y, or Mil l. CHARMING.’
JL How either sex may fascinate and gain the
love and affections of any person they choose in
stautly. This# simple meutal acquirement all can
possess, free, by mail, for 25c., together with a mar
riage guide, Egyptian Oracle, Dreams, Hints to La
dies, Wedding Night Shirt. &c. A queer book. Ad
dress T. WILLIAM & CO.,
mar2s-4w Publishers. Philadelphia.
DR. S. VAN METER & CO.,
Proprietors of the famous Charleston, 111., Infir
mary, are endorsed in the last issue of the “National
Journal of Health.” by men of prominence South
aud North. Also by fifty ministers of various de
nominations. An opportunity is now offered to
obtain a thorough examination and treatment
without having to visit the Infirmary. Address
at once
DR. S. VAN METER & CO.,
Charleston. Ill._
The DIAMOND COTTON CHOPPER
WVe',;!, K A.STDo“ r “.'
work of over 6 men k 1
Cotton Planter*
Planter attachment.
All wan anted. Agent*
wanted. Seud forlllustrat-
J. W. HINSDALK. See., FajUtev)!!--, N.C., or lo Lool Art
mar&V-tw
For Coughs. Colds, Hoarseness, aud all
Throat Diseases, use
WELLS’ CAKBOLH 1 TABLETS,
PUT UP ONLY IN 15LITE BOXES.
A TRIED AND SURE REMEDY.
Fold bv Druggists generally, and FULLER k
FULLER. Chicago, 111. dec2s-lw
HAVE YOU TRIED
JURUHEBA *?
ABB YOU
Weak, Nervous, or Debilitated ?
Are you so Languid that any exertion requires
more of an effort thau you feel capable of making V
Then try JURUBEBA, the wonderful Topic and
luvigorator, which acts so beneficially on the secre
tive organs as to impart vigor to a'l the vital forces.
It is no alcoholic appetizer, which stimulates for a
nhort 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 jwtrsou.
its ojieratiou is uot 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,
Ami silently steal away.”
This is no now aud 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
jy’i.V4w WM. F. KIDDER A <’> . New York
Short Postponement—Day Fixed- Full
Distribution.
FIRST GRAND GIFT CONCERT,
Montpelier Female Humane Association
AT ALEXANDRIA, YA.
J 1 ABCII •-*,
LIST OF GIFTS:
1 Grand Cash Gift U"0,000
1 Graud Uash Gift
1 Graud Cash Gift *25,000
10 Cash Gifts, SIO,OOO each 100,0(H)
15 rash Gilts, 5,000 each 75,000
60 Cash Gif Is, 1,000 each K‘ K)O
100 Cash Gil ts, 500 each 50,000
1,000 Gash Gifts, 100 each loo.onn
I,non Cash Gifts, 50 each
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 f 2O
Halves JJJj
Quarters J J*)
Eighths or each Coupon *
.iu Tickets for ; .100 00
The Montpelier Female Humane vsummation, char- ,
t* red by the Legislature of Virginia and the Circuit
Court of Orange county, proposes by a Grand Gift
Concert to establish and endow ; “Home lor the Old,
Infirm and Destitute Ladies f Virginia,” at Montpe
lier, the former residence of President James Madi-
Goveunoh’s Office, Richmond, July 3, 1874.
It affords me great, pleasure b* say that l am well
acquainted with a large majority of the officers of
the Montpelier Female Humane Association, who re
side in tlio vicinity of my home, and I attest their in
telligence and their worth aud high reputation as
gentlemen, as well as the pubbeconfidence, inlluence
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 ami integrity, and fully
entitled to the confidence of the public. *
R. W. HUGIIKS, U. H. Judge KaatTi Dist. of Va.
Further references by permission : His Excellen
cy Gilbert C. W alker, Ex-Governor of Virginia; Hon.
Kob’t. E. Withers, Lieut.-Gov. of Virginia and 11. S.
Senator elect; Senators and Members of Oongrcas
from Virginia.
Remittances for tickets maybe made by express
prepaid, poet office money order on Washington, D
C., or by registered letter.
For full particulars, testimonials, Ac., send for
Circular. Address, Hon. J v MLS BARBOUR,
President M. F. 11. A , Alexandria, Va.
Reliable Agents wuv.ted vwlm • ■ . -I’v
Tte OMest Fnioitn.nl floasu in >&e Stare.
PLATT 8 ROT HER 8,
212 & 214 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, OTV.,
Keep always or hand the latent, styles
oi
W U RNJTU HE
Of every variety manufactured, from the
lowest to the highest grades.
Chamber, Parlor, Dining-Room,
AND
Library Complete Suits, or Single
Pieces,
At, prices which cannot fail to sc :f the
purchaser.
umi>en t a u in a
In all its brunches. METALIC CASES
and CASKETS, of various styles and
make. Imported Wood Caskets and
Cases, of every design and finish.
COFFINS and CASKETS, of our own
make, in Mahogany, Rosewood and Wal
fiut. An accomplished Undertaker will
be in attendance at all hours, dav and
night. PLATT BROTHERS,
212 and 244 Broad St., Augusta, *a,
oct2s—iaiil4d+.V wl v
. Vi * G
/y-'' " \
-rT7"W respectfully call the attention of the
W farming community to the EUIiEKA
AMMONIATED i ONE PHOSPHATE, which
we now offer with every confidence that it will
prove t qual to any Fertilizer sold in this mar
ket at the price. Standard and Analysis guar
anteed by us.
TERMS:
Cash at Port Royal or Savannah SSO 00
Time, with Cotton Option, at Port Royal
or Savannah 60 00
Jennings, Smith & Cos.
jan3o-dAw2m
HARDWARE!
1,000 KEGS NAILS.
1,000 DIXIE PLOWS,
2,000 PAIR TRACES.
150 TONS IRON.
50 TONS STEEL.
100 DOZEN AXES.
Plow Shapes, Scooter, Shovel,
TURN PLOWS
AND SWEEP HEEL SCREWS !
CLEVISES, GRASS RODS, PLOW HANDLES, ,
Aud a General Assortment of
hardware.
For sale Low for Cash.
ytoORE Jit <JO.,
243 Broad Street. Augusta. Georgia.
jan!o-w3m
New AtlvertiMemeuis.
New Spring Dry Goods 1
Best Always the fchtapest.
♦ r,
1 %
l
JAMES A. CRAY,
194 AND 190 BROAD sfREET,
W OULD respectfully inform the public (hat lie is now receiving one of tho
best SPRING STOCKS of STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOO. S which, he has
ever offered in Augusta. NOT ONLY THE REST, BUT THE CHEAPEST. He
would request SPECIAL ATTENTION to it few of the hading articles, which will
indicate prices. *
100 pieces Black Alapaca at 2'ic, worth 40. t
100 pieces very superior and. !o„ fi c. worth 6.j.
300 pieces l'acitic: 1.40 J Lawn. 12 I-2c, worth 4 I 12 in lew Vork by
the case.
100 pitces 4-4 Percales, 12 l-2c ; worlii 10.
5 cases 4-4 Prints, 12 l-2c.
50 cases best American standard Prints, 8 1-2 to 9c, by the piece or
case.
500 10-4 While Quilts, Xsc.
200 dozen Linen Damask Doylirs, 50c per dozen. ,
I case Black Uranadiue, 40c, worth 75.
New and Elegant Dress Boons of al! the laiest stjles.
2ttp bales of Domestic Kooils, in shirting. Meeting, BriiSiiiffs, Osnabmrffs,
Stripes, Denims, sea Islands and ail the
leading domestics made in Ibis country at unnsu lly low prices.
To all of which ho would respectfully invite tho attention of the public.
J AMKS .Al. <5 i2 AY,
194 AND 196 BROAD STREET.
mbl9- ______
wiiMWiinmi 11 iMMHinr "■uiinn —' 1 1
SIMMONS’ /
iiiiiiiwimiii 11 liirnri" ir™ t* - * ""
' ! 77
JA/
'llld Syiupfconiß of Liver
jriUMl* if lheri.l* , .‘ Solmi •!!.* th?WSn’ts 12
vrPw ,,-fv f ■offafefc-aai /\r rli •uidei*, nml mistaken for rhen
Vf A* matlhiu. The stomach is affected
a Jr with |. hs uf api otito and sickness,
jF b..wt*lH in general costive, sr,mutinies
A t Jr altrrnutiug with lax. The head is
& fy troubled with pain, and dull, heavy
r V ' ’ ll,!ltl ' *’*'• ’'bjo lohh •!'’ niem
th'i.g which ought i* have been
attend the ckea e, \tt otuer
Ij ver in gereralJy the organ most
TIIE FAVORITE HONE I.EMEHV 11 il■! < >JM -
Ih warranted not to contain a singlo particle , have nrver seen or tried such a simple,
of Mercury, or any injurious mineral substance, p .ti M f act(.ry and pleasant remedy in
bttt iB i lt ,.„r v VegH able, bfc. .l. St. Lou.., Mo.
• Hon. Alex. H. Stephens.
Containing those Southern Hoots anti Herbs, use, when my condition ro
which an All-Wise Providence has )1 Aectl in t Dr. Simmons’Liver Begulator, with
countries where Liver Diseases most prevail. r f t , C fc.”—Hon. Alex. 11. Stepukhs.
IT WILL CURE ALL DIME ISK ' earned by oou c
DERANGEMENT OF THE LIVER AND BOW Governor of Alabama.
ELS. o-onr l’egnlator has been in use in my f m
jlv or Homo time, and lam persuaded it is a
SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOB, OB MEDICINE, enable addition to tlio medical science.”—
(;>v. J. Gill Shorter, Ala.
Is eminently a Family Medicine ; and by being
kept ready for immediate re ort wnlleavemany . U( ( j |n 1U1) : |(1 SH m(J dlcine I
an hour of suffering and many a (h/fiar mti !iav „ rm-thrt class or diseases it
Forty Years’ trial it is pu-ports to U. F. Tutu™:,,
ing tJit most unqualified testimonials to? \ I'BKSfDi NT of City Bank.
viitncif ffom pfcns.llß of th> highest chara ‘■sinmion' Liver Regulator lias proved a
and r, spoir* llity I: “ I,KI J, pt l v -ici:i:is , ,j cfli' tyious mwlicino.”—O. A. Nct
mend and M the nn'St ” s( , -T
Din. .Yoist.
EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC •*Wo have been acquainted aiili Dr.Fim
mens’ Liver Medicine for more than 26 years,
For Constipation. Headache. Pain in tho Shoul- and know it, io be the best. L>ver Regulator of
ders. Dizziness, Hour Stomach, bad taste in the fared to the p'lhhc. • •
mouth, bilious attacks, Palpitation of tim Lvou, Ho letoiitame. >a. , ,
Heart. Pain in the re ion of the Kidneys, des- - J was eni-ed by himmons
pondency. gloom and forebodings of evil, all afii-r li iviug suffoief se e l
of which are tho offspring of a Diseased Liver, and Fever, H- •- s *■ u
* The Clergy.
For Dyspepsia or Indisrestioii. theVteguiat. n ivearago■'it
a charm in my case’.’ --Rev. i. G. Holmes.
Armed with tliis ANTIDOTE, al) climates an 1 ( akii s’ Fedoi sement.
changes of water and food may bo faced with- fhnrnmrli trial
out Fear. Asa remedy in M AL.\KIoUB J ’- -i have given your mcr c no,a "i“™W'"
VEIiS. BOWEL COMPLAINTS, RESTI.LSh- an lin no case * f^HJhooJtoe
NESS, JAUNDICE, NAUSEA, faction - Ellen Mkaoiiam, Cattaboochee,
T'ltirifia.
T rn rx a o \t/\ Tc/ kTT \ i SHERIFF 11188 ( OUNrY.
II HAS NO EQ / J. 'I have nsed yonr Regulator with supsessfa)
It is the Cheapest. Purest and Best Family 'XVw'riandv .Mmi.li^bioa”
Medicine in the World . U, e ”~t ). Mahte'rkon . Bibb county, Ga.
C AITIOMI My Wipe.
Buy no powders or PREPARED SIMMONS’ “My wife and
LIVER REGULATOR unless m our engraved for years ad t( si ty to Is fcieat
wrapper with Trade mark Stamp ami Signa- Rev J . Regulator one of
tore unbroken. Ntye
Macon. Ga ..and AliMeiphia. My wife and many others bare used , with
For Sale bv All Drqoists. wonderful effect. -E. R. sparks Atuauy, a.
Tale Simmons’ Lifer Rejlalir j sxrjg %£?*££
. , fj . , u, ,t ;i mohi valuable and sat’sfactory medi-
For Diseases of the liiver,Stomach and v ,. .f it was used by the profes-
Ah a remedy in Malarious I-eveis. B*)we ; “ wj ‘ ' it } J( . 4 ,f t> , rviee j fl very many cases,
plaints, Dyspepsia. Mental Depression W- „ r tH component parts, and
lessness, Jaundice, Nausea. Hick Hea ; • . | ,f v *its medicii al qualities are perfectly
Colic, Constipation and Biliousness. •-} 11/ * ‘ , - m] , p riuioas M. D.. Macon. Oa.
Nf> KQUAL. dec2Z-tu<hHinyj^' ,IT> , ’ - * 1
Pacific Guano Company,
CAPITAL - - - SI,OOO.OOO!
SOLUBLE PACIFIC
Gr U A. N C >.
AND
COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE,
S
For Composting with Cotton Seed.
The SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO is now so well known for its remarkable
effects as an agency for increasing the products of labor as not to require especial
commendation from me. Its use, for Ten Years past, lias established its character
for Reliable Excellence. The large, Fixed Capital invested by the Company in
this trade, affords the surest guarantee of the continued excellence of its Guano.
The Guano and Phosphate will be delivered to any boat or depot in the city.
Free of Drayage.
CASH PRICE:
Pr Ton 2,000 Pounds, SOLUBLE PUIFIC GUANO - - - S4B
Per Ton 2,000 Pouittls, AMU PHOSPHATE ....
TIME PRICE :
Without Interest, and option of paying in Liverpool Middling Cotton, delivered
at nearest Railroad pepot, at Fifteen Cents per pound :
Per Ton 2,000 Ponnds, SOLUBLE PAfIFIC (.UA\O - - - SSB
Per Ton 2,000 Pounds, AMD PHOSPHATE 42
6fey"Orrlers received and information furnished on application to my Agents at
various Local Markets.
J. O. MATHEWSON,
dec4-dt&w4rn Agent Pacific Gnerio Cos.. Augusta. Ga.
BANK
Deposits of One Dollar Deceived.
-j f \ PER CENT, paid on the Capital Stock, 7 per cent, paid 011 Deceits.
TAP BRANCH, President. | JNO. P. KING, Vice-President | JOS. 8. BEAN, Jr., Cashier U
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