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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1875)
Cfttomcte anfr genftml WEDNESDAY. JUNE 2, 1875. AFTER THE STORM. After the storm a calm; After the bruise a balm; For the ill brings good in the Lord's own time. m And the sigh becomes a psalm. After the drouth the dew; After the cloud the bine; Foe the sky will smile u> the son's good time. And the earth grow glad and new. Bloom is the heir of blight. Dawn to the child of night. And the rolling change of the boar world j Bid* the wrong yield back the right. Under the foant of til Many a rnp doth fill. And the patient lip, though it drtaketh oft, rinds only bitter still. Truth seemed oft to sleep. Blessings slow to reap. Till the boors of waiting are weary to bear And the courage is bard to keep. Nevertheless!. I know Out of the dark most grow. 800 tier or later, whatever is fair. Bince the heavens ksve willed it so. MOTHER IN-LAW. Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law— Dearest old lsdy that ev r I ssw! Her dnger thrust into svsry pie ; Each Huger bored by her gimlet eye: And for every thing that amirs doth go. The comforting murmur "Told you so.'* I Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law— Dearest old lady that evar I ssw! ; Mousing and meddling, and stirring up strifs, Now wiib the husband now with the wife ; Perennial spring of a family care From the day she began our comforts to share. , Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law— Dearest old lady that ever I saw! And now she says she is going sway. When I’ve dons so much to prolong her stay. I gave her a room on the topmost floor, With a hanging shatter and a lockless door; Choked up the chimney for her dear sake, And bought a cross watch-dog to keep her awake. Could a son do more ? She couldn't demand it. And yet the old lady declares she can't stand it. Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law— Dearest old lady that ever I saw! Coming each Christmas day to dine; Now yon bring Joy to this heart of mine. Which quite walls orer with grateful cheer As 1 think that day only comes once a year. THE SOLDIERS’ URAVJS. Tread lightly—’tis a soldier’s grave, A lonely, mossy mound— And yet, Io hearts like mine and thine, It should he holy ground. Bpeak gently—let no careless laugh, No idle, thoughtless jest, Escape your lips, where sweetly sleeps The kero in his rest. For him no revello shall beat, When morning beams shall come; For him, at night, no tattoo rolls Its thunder from the drum. No costly marble marks the place Recording deeds of fame, But rudely on that bending tree Is carved the soldier’s name. A name—not dear to ns—but ah ! There may he lips that breathe That name as sacredly and low As vesi>er prayers at eve. There may bo brows that wear for him The mourning cyprehs vine: And hearts that m ike this lonly grave A holy pilgrim shrine. Tbero may bo eyes that joyed to gaze With love into his own, Now keepiug midnight vigils lung With silent griefs alone. There may ho hands now clasp’d in prayer This soldier’s hand have pressed. And cheeks washed pale by sorrow's tears, His own cold cheek caressed. Tread lightly—for a man bequathed, Ero laid beneath this sod, His ashes to his native laud, His gallant soul to God! BARB IN THE LANE. After the milking was over, Annie would follows the cows Half a mile down to the clover, And turn them in to hrouse. Neat little figure is Annie, Han ding the bars in the lane, Lotting down ever so many. Just in the sunlight's wane. Wild roses blooming boside her Match not her cheeks' lovely red; And the loaves trying to hide her, Dance at her musical tread. Witching cnrls peep from her bonnet— Peep like bright birds from their nest! And her heart—oh, to have won it! — Beats with a gallant unrest. Lips may be humming a ditty, And faces may show unconcern, Upt secrets there are—what a pity That some are so easy to learn! Now while the robins are nesting, Why does she wait in the lane ? Though, if white arms need a resting, No one, of course, could complain. Lights in the farm-house are gleaming, And bars must be laid in their place, But little Annie stands dreaming, A blush oil her beautiful face. It is late ? Not that she cares now; Ah! merry eyes, mild and brown, Gould you not tell why she wears now Just "the least mite of a frown ? Over the path by the hill-side, Someone would waiider by night; Someone who came from the null--uie, Lured by two eyes that are bright. Meadow and valley grow stiller Under the early stars; Would it be strange if the miller Hoip Annie to pnt up the bars ? "FOR I NEVER HAVE SEEN THE GAME PLAYED.” Harry Tinsley’s local in the Staunton Vimli eator oil the Flight of King Pharo has called forth the following in the Valley Virginian: THAT LITTLE GAME. "I wish I was dead.” Were the first words he said, A* a hand on his shoulder was laid ; "Aud I wish I may die If it ain't all a lie, For I never have seen the game played. “ 'Twas Tinsley, the cuss, That raised all the muss, And caused that abominable raid; For he got up a local, And things became vocal. About a small game that was played. "And'now they propose To poke in their nose. And see if a haul can't be made ; But I’U skute from the town Till the thing simmers down, Tho" I never have seen the game played.” The grand jury met. In a terrible sweat. And swore ’hat the fine should be paid, But the witness had fled, Aud nary’ a red Came iu from the game that was played. And so they dissolved, And nothing evolved Concerning a brisk little trade. That with chips red and white, For many a night, Were used m that game that was played. And now as the star In the heavens afar Peeps timidly out through the shade Of night, can be seen By eyes very keen. Those fellows that saw tho game played. Bnt if you are told That these larkeys so bold Of tho grasp of the law are afraid, Put it down as a fib. For mv mother Eve s rib "They neper have seen the game played.” RETROSPECTION. Sit I alone ; And, as I gaze iu the coals. I remember, Here, in my snug little tire-lit chamber, . Days long agone. Saddening it is when the night has descended. Thus to sit here. Pensively musing on episodes ended Many a year. Btill in mr visions a golden-haired glory ' Flits to and fro : She whom 1 loved—but 'tis just the old story. Dead, long ago ? Tis but the waiter of a love ; yet I linger. (Thus passion errs.) Foolishly kissing the ring on my finger— Once it was hers. Nothing has changed since her spirit departed. Here, in this room. Slave I, who. weary, and half broken-hearted, Bit in the gloom. Loud 'gainst the window the Winter rain dashes. Dreary and cold; Over the floor the red fire-light flashes Just as of old. Just as of old—bnt the embers are scattered Whose ruddy blaze Flashed over the floor where her fairy feet pattered In other days! Then, her dear voice, like a silver chime ring ing. Melted away; Often these waits have re-echoed her singing. - Hushed now for aye S Why should love bring aught bnt sorrow. I 'wonder? Everything dies! Time and death, sooner or later, most sunder Holiest ties. Tears have rooted by; lam wiser and older— Wiser, but yet Not till my heart and its feelings grow colder. Can I forget. So in my snug little fire-lit chamber. Bit I atone; Asd, as I gaze in the coals I remember Days long agone! At a meeting of the Philadelphia Cen eunial Commission held the other day Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar was elected one of the orators of the day and Gen. Joseph E. Johkston Master of Cere monies. DUGAS’ PATHOGNOMONIC SIGN 3f Dislocations of the Bhimlder-Joint —By W. T. Briggs, M I)., Professor ofihe Principles and Practice of Stnr gery in the Medical Department of the Unive;sity of Nashville and the Vanderbilt University. (From the Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, May, 1875. J Notwithstanding the great progress in onr diagnostic knowledge of injuries about the joints in the last quarter of a century, many errors are atill commit ted, eveu by able practitioners. The per sonal experience of every atrrgeon of large practice will furnish numerous ex amples of cases in which fractures about the joint have been mistaken for dislo cations, sod conversely, dislocations for fractures, and simple contusions for either. Now, the signs of each of these injuries are so marked, when the patient is seen early, that even the more inex perienced can scarcely fail to differenti ate them ; but iu a short time so mnch tenderness and tumefaction supervene that the signs which were so prominent tiecome completely obliterated, to be come prominent again when the tume faction subsides. It is during the stage of inflammation and tumefaction that so many errors are made, especially in dislocation of the shoulder-joint; the taxation is left un reduced, and the patient remains a liv ing memorial of the surgeon’s ignorance or inattention. Almost all authors con cur in the opinion that it is not always an easy matter to make a correct diag nosis in shonlder-joint dislocations. In 1832. Sir Astley Cooper, in his great work on dislocation, after discussing the diagnosis of Bhoulder-joint disloca tion, writes: “Yet it would be an act of injustice not to acknowledge that the tumefaction arising from extravasation of blood, aud the tension resulting from the inflammation which frequently en sues, will, in the ear’y days of the acci dent, render it difficult for the best sur geon perfectly to ascertain the exact ex tent of the injury.” In 1872, Dr. Gross, in his masterly work on surgery, says: “Although the signs of this dislocation are generally well marked, there are few accidents which are so liable to be mis taken, and no paiDS should, therefore, be spared to establish a correct diag nosis.” Aud Ashurst, in his excellent work on surgery, says: “Although by a careful and systematic examination tiie true nature of the injury may almost always be eventually determined, the surgeon should hesita e before criticising another practitioner for a mistake that may have been unavoidable under other circnmstances.” Such is the opinion of almost every writer on the subject, and if we depend alone on the signs usually mentioned, mistakes will be constantly made. For tunately, howaver, we have a sign upon which we can rely implicitly, under all circumstances—one which wo have been teaching and practicing for many years with so much confi lence that we would he willing to base a diagnosis on this one sign alone. We, of course, refer to Dugas’ sign. In the March number (1856) of the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, we find au article, by Prof. L. A. Dugas, on anew principle of diagnosis in shoulder-joint dislocations. Iu Slay, 1857, be made a report on the same subject to the American Medical Association. It is astonishing that so clear and lucid au exposition of a princi ple of diagnosis so important to the surgical world—nay, to the whole medi cal world—should have received so little attention from surgical writers. Smith, in liis excellent Surgery, barely men tions Dugas’ paper. Gross, who is usually so correct in all his writings, in his great work on surgery, states the principle' wrong when he says : “An other sign, although net au infallible one. first pointed out by Dugas, of Georgia, is the inability which the patient experiences in touching the sound shoulder with the hand of tho injured limb.” Ashurst, who is always willing to give honor to whom honor !s due, does not refer to it in his work. Nor do any of the European writers on surgery mention it. Hamilton, in liis incomparable work on fractures and dislocations, refers very properly to Dugas’ sign, and in his Surgery gives him full credit for priority, and copies largely from his report to the American Medical Association. We are satisfied that the profession generally do not appreciate its great value, and even Professors of Surgery have often failed to avail themselves of it in their teaching. Dugas pathogno monic sign of shoulder-joint dislocations may bo stated as follows : If the fingers of the injured limb can be placed by the patient, or by the surgeon, upon the sound shoulder, while the elbow touches the thorax, there can be no dislocation ; and if this cannot be done, there must, be a dislocation. In other words, it is physically impossible tobringthe elbow in contact with the sternum, or frout of the thorax, if there be a dislocation ; aud the inability to do this is proof posi tive of the existence of dislocation, in asmuch as no other injury of the shoui der-joint can induce this inability. The proposition is so lucidly and powerfully sustained by the author, in his report, that we take the liberty of quoting it in full : “In order to make these propo positions apparent, I beg leave to present drawings, taken from the skele ton, showing the relative position of the bones in the natural state, and in the several dislocations of the shoulder.— The evidence thus obtained in support of my principle would be still stronger if the bones were invested with their normal coverings and attachments.— Let ns then look at figure 1, and we may observe that while the head of the humerus occupies the glenoid cavity, and the fingers rest upon the other shoulder, the elbow and lower end of the humerus lie upon the thorax with out difficulty, because of the circum stance that the head of the humerus, when in its natural position, is removed several inches from the ribs. In conse quence of the rotundity of the thoracic walls it is physically impossible that both ends of the humerus should, at the came time, come iu contact with the chest. We see, therefore, in figure 1, that in the absence of any dislocation, the upper half of the bone does not touch the thorax, and that the lower half does so without the least difficulty. “By now referring to figure 2, which represents a dislocation into the axilla, we find that, the lingers being placed upon the opposite shoulder, the elbow is forced so far forwards that it cannot touch the thorax. Iu this state of things the upper end of the humerus alone touches the riba, while the lower eud is proportionately removed from the chest. Auy attempt to force the elbow against the thorax must be fruitless, unless at the expense of a disruption of ail the soft parts by which the head of the humerus is held down; for, as 1 have already stated, it is physically impos sible for both ends of the humerus to touch the thoracic walls at the same time. “Wo have represented, in figure 3, a dislocation forwards, or below the clavicle; aud here again sve find the upper end of the humerus resting upon the ribs—the elbow being consequently removed from the chest. The i tpqcr half of the humerus touches the thorax, and so long as this is the case it is physically impossible for the lower por tion of the humerus also to do it. In dislocations of this kind, it is very dif ficult to carry the fingers upon the op posite shoulder, even though the elbow be allowed to project forward, because of the resistance offered by the strong muscles which pull back the humerus. I have, however, represented the bones of the skeleton in this position for the purpose of showing the effect, in case it could be assumed, in the living subject. “Dislocations of the humerus upon the dorsum of the scapula, although | very rare, should be carefully studied. I have, therefore, represented this acci dent ia figure 4, by which it may be seen that the same principles ere appli cable also to it. Here, as well as in the other instances, it is only the upper end of the humeras that touches the thorax, aud the elbow projects strongly forwards. In this dislocation it might be possible to bring the elbow against the side of the trunk, by carrying the humerus down parallel with the axis of the body; but any contact of the elbow with the chest is impossible, if tho fin gers be directed towards, or placed sp oil the sound shoulder, for then the form of the thorax woqld offer an insu perable obstacle. Having bow, I trust, sufficiently demonstrated the truth of the proposition that it is physically im possible to bring the elbow against the froat of the thora* in dislocations of the shoulder, I would simply add that it is equally true that no other injury of the shoulder-joint than a dislocation cau induce this physical impossibili ty. It ia obvious, that a mere contu sion of the soft parts may render motion of the joint ao painful as to deter the patient from the effort necessary to carry the finger* upon the other shoulder.— I But there can be no dU&oaky on the part of the surgeon in placing the limb in this position, and an anaesthetic might be used, if desirable, so as to ren der manipulation painless. £he same may be said of fractures of the upper end of the humeras of the acromion, of the coracoid process, and of the neck of the scapula. In neither of these acci deut* can there be any physical impedi ment ia the way of bringing the elbow iu contact wuii'tjje front of the chest, for in naif her of them cap the upper end of the humerus be so fixed against the ribs as to make it impossible /or the lower end to touch the chest. Nothing, therefore, but a dislocation can prevent the limb from being placed in the posi tion indicated. If it be justly esteemed a matter of great importance to be in possession of correct principles of diag nosis in occult diseases, it is certainly not the less so with regard to surgical accidents, especially alien these demand prompt interference. Our professional records unfortunately establish too con clusively the imperfection of our diag nostic resources in injuries of the joints to permit any indifference on the sub ject. If, therefore, the views here pre sented may facilitate, in the least de gree, the detection of injuries confessed ly more or less obscure, my object will have been attained.” The principle upon which this im portant diagnostic sign is based is true. The sign is pathognomonic iu every va riety of dislocation of the shoulder-joint. It is simply perfect and infallible. Western surgeons* have done much for the general advancement of surgery. McDowell, Sims, Dtaderick and Smythe have made their names immortal by their glorious deeds; but Dugas has con ferred more benefit on the profession, by pointing ont this true sign of dislo cated shoulder-joint, than either of those distinguished men. It should be known, and handed down to all future generations, as Dugas’ Sign. *Dr. Bowling was the first to call at tention to the fact that American snr gery owes most of its progress and glory, during this century, to those who lived in towns and villages of slave States. He calls the names of his heroes his “string of beads.” A DISTINGUISHED DEFAULTER. One of Boston’s “Bine Blood” Law yers Embezzles aud Absconds—Jack son’s Little Game Evidences of Fraud, Forgery and Betrayal of Trust. Boston, Mass., May 20.—Commercial, financial and social circles have been shocked this afternoon by the exposure of a series of gigantic frauds and defal cations by one of the most noble, and heretofore one of the most reputable, lawyers of Boston. The offending mem ber is Abraham Jackson, an old and es tablished blue blood of the Beacon Hill stripe, and his frauds upon those who trasted and reposed in him are likely to reach hundreds of thousands of dollars in amount; in fact, his peculations have been so numerous, enormous and of long duration that it will be impossible for several days to ascertain the full amount of his swindles or the exact number of his victims- Each hour, almost, unfolds some new story affect ing the integrity of the man, and show ing how persistently, yet methodically, lie has carried on his system of decep tion. It is urged that liis embarrass ments are temporary, and that though he not been seen since last Friday, he will yet return and make honorable restitution. The great mystery in the case is, what possible disposal has he made of the money ? He has not been known as a speculator, and his habits have been snch as to prelude the possibility of extravagant expenditure. The perfect confidence that has bean re posed in him only aggravates his acts, which seem inexplicable upon any other theory than that of fraudulent intent. The Safe Manufacturing Company. His connection with the American Steam Safe Manufacturing Company as its President first excited suspicion.— The misfortunes of that corporation were such that it was voted to wind it up, last July. Upon investigation of its affairs it was discovered that Mr. Jack son bad induced the Directors to sign the notes of the company, jointly aud severally binding themselves to pay. Among the Directors was a retired mer chant of large wealth, who, placing the most implicit confidence in the honor and integrity of the President, was in duced to yield to almost any request that was made. In addition to signing the notes, under the plea that the com pany needed money, the merchant loaned at once $17,000 worth of United States gold bonds. It was subsequently ascertained that Jackson used these bonds to secure loans for his own per sonal use, and the $17,000 worth of bonds were only recovered after a pay ment of $15,000 in currency. Jackson was appealed to in vain, giving his word only to break it, aud seeking, by prom ises never fulfilled, to gain time, as sup posed, to relieve himself from his em barrassments in the management of the company. He appears to have in geniously made many personally re sponsible for his acts, and, through his skill as a lawyer, to place in jeopardy large amounts of money, when it was supposed lie was in reality liquidating the indebtedness of tho corporation. The retired merchant will scarcely escape without a loss of some §50,000 or more. Widows and Orphans. The character of Mr. Jackson has been so high that he was the trusted custodian of tho property of widows and orphans. On Friday afternoon a lady, whose husband is laboring under men tal affliction, discovered that there was something wrong in the management of his affairs, and she made a direct appeal to the alleged defaulter to tell her why lie had sought to take from her the little she depended upon for her support. He gave no satisfactory re sponse, and since that night he has not been heard from. A lady who resides in Keene, N. H., is also a sufferer from his want of fidelity to his trust. It is stated that he has used bogus mort gages to deceive those who trusted him with their investments; it is also said that trust money, originally invested in bank stock, was sold six years ago, though the lawyer has paid the divi dends to his clients with marked regu larity. A New Move in Finance. One of the operations of the missing Jackson develops the possibility of car rying on financial opera!ions and un folds an entirely new method of making one note answer the purpose of four. He held a mortgage note of $5,000, and, as is sometimes the case whfre there is no question of the integrity of the par ty, a bank will loan money upon the note, the mortgagee holding the mort gage as it were in trust, as mortgagee. He borrowed money upon a $5,000 note of this description very recently. The party holding the note accidentally dis covered that another party held a note for the same amount, secured by the same mortgage. As they compared notes it was impossible to tell which was the original, and while leaving the question open for adjustment they heard that a bank on State street had a third note, identical in amount, and purport ing to be given and secured by the mort gage of the same property. Upon com paring these notes it was thought that, there was prima facie evidence that the note held by the bank was the original. Here was $15,000, SIO,OOO of which was, of course, not genuine; but the eud was uot yet. The gentleman who gave the note was called upon to identify his sig nature, when, to the astonishment of the three parties in interest, he exhibited a receipt signed by the missing lawyer, acknowledging the payment of the money, with a promise to return the note. This is certainly anew method of financiering, and it is interesting to those who invest money to know the fact, that they may be on their guard. Some few months since a gentleman who had oceasjpn to look into the affairs of the missing lawyer obtained a schedule of his property, and it was then estimated that it amounted in value to mors than $200,000. Since i then some of it has disappeared aud at tachments have been put upon what re mains, The fact stated regarding his habits throws a very great mystery over the whole affair, jje has been noted as a conservative, steady going man, whose conusel was sought by investors, aud whose guard of trust property stood second to none in the confidence of the community. There is little probability that he will return to the city, for the more liis affairs sue u';.e/igated the more complicated they benouip. par ties holding his notes are of comae reticent; bnt from what is already known it is oppareut that such a course of un accountably dishonesty has never before been brought to light in this city, and were it told in a work of fiction as hay ing occurred in Boston would be ridi culed as too absurd for belief. The loss to several families will be severely felt, for iu two instances it takes from them nearly all their wordly means. Y. M. C. A. The International Convention— Large Attendance— The Organization— Mr. LocKhart. Assistant Secretary. KieKMOND, May 26 —The rnternationl Convention of the Young Men’s Chris tian Association met here to-day. It was called to order by F. D. Taylor, of De troit, President of the last Convention. The 'Convention adjourned until 4, p. m.. to await trains with the Northern delegates, at which hour it reassembled. Over four hundred delegates are in at tenee, representing thirty States, Terri tories and Provinces. After devotional exercises and temporary bnsiness, the following permanent officers were 1 chosen: President, Joseph Hardee, of i Selma, Alabama; Vice-Presidents, R. K. Remington, oi Massachusetts ; M. R. Jessupfof New York; J. B. Morrow, of Nova Scotia; L. W. Munhall, of In diana; George Hague, of Ontario; M, S, Crosbv, of Michigan ; D. C. English, of NewJersev: J. B. O'Bryan, of Tennes see* D. A- 'Waldron, of Rhode Island; John L. Wheat, of Kentucky; D. R. Noyes, of Minnesota; W. P. Munford, of Virginia; Recording Secretary, J. B. L Graham, of Maryland; Assistant Seo | retaries, H. L. Porter, of Mas&aehu- I setts; P. T. Lockhart, of Georgia, and I J. W. Jones, of Bicbmond. JEFFERSON DAVIS. HIS ADDRESS AT THE TEXAS STATE FAIR. A Brief Allusion io the War. and Sev eral to the Ladies-The Nobility of Labor—Need of Manufaclorie i in the South. The Galveston Mews brings ns a fair synopsis of the address delivered by the Hon. Jefferson Davis at the Texas State Fair, in Houston, on the 11th instant. He avoided reference to contemporary politics, and alluded but once only, and then briefly, to the late war. He said: Indies, Countrymen, Friends and Fellow-Citizens ¥ Texas— for I am proud to be one: I have had too many evidences of yotir affection not to be en titled to that honor. I have for many years desired to pay a visit to your State. I was prepared for all that hos pitality could offer. I was prepared for all that generosity could give Iu the day of trouble and disaster you would not turn your backs upon me. This is your honor, that while other nations have held their leaders responsible and received them with curses as the au thors of their misfortunes, you have not chosen to hold me responsible for yonr miseries. The welcome with which you have received me makes me almost un fit for utterance. You are the descen dants of those brave men who, true to their Anglo-Saxon instincts, achieved a glorious victory on the soil cf Texas, from the smoke of which the Lone Star rose and shone with bright effulgence. With the recognition of your indepen dence yon became fit to take a place among nations. You achieved all that could be achieved; but your hearts yearned back toward the Union from which you came. Four times aud thrice happy to stand in the presence of such men. Five times and four am I proud. It has been said that the last war was a war of women. If so, I hug the charge to my breast; I am proud of it. I was told that I was not expected to deliver you a formal address ; nor shall Ido it. But upon coming here I find that this is the opening of the State Fair, anil it would be like the play of “Rich ard” with King Richard left out if I did not make a speech. Your purposes are agriculture, mechanics, commerce. Agri culture was the first employment of man. From the recordof creation—that record which we know to be true—we learn that when the Creator had separated the land from the water, created the fishes and the birds, one thing more was wanted to utilize this creation—man to till the soil. Right well has your Presi dent told you of the honor and the duty of work. "But there was still one thing more wanted. Man was created out of the dust of the earth and made a living spirit. But something more was re quired, something nooler, for the crea tion of woman—that dust etherealized and ennobled was used for the creation of woman, and we are all the descend ants of the Adamic race. By tilling the soil wealth is created; manufactures change the condition of the products of the soil, and increase their value ; com merce interchanges their location, aud thus increases their value; but agricul ture alone produces wealth. But it may not be that agriculture shall look down on commerce and manufactures. That would boas if the hand should sav to the head aud the heart, what use have I for thee ? Mechanics and commerce follow in the footsteps of agriculture. One of the two sons of Jdam kept flocks and herds, and so you who live iu the vast plains of Texas are included in the list of laborers. You have now reached a point where manufactures are spring ing up in Texas. Asa Southern man I have often been ashamed that the very broomeorn which grows in our fields is taken to a Northern village, where tim ber is less plenty than it is with us, and made into brooms, brought back, and that onr blessed women are required to sweep their floors with a Yankee broom. Why not make our own wagons, car riages and wheelbarrows ? Why not spin our own yarns ? The profit would be greater and the freight less. Then, you may go on and make cloth; but it will not be until you have a crowded population that you can produce the finer fabrics. I am not of those who would have you turn away from fields co seek the profits which agriculture would give you more readily. Ido not intend to tax your patience by telling you p.ll I know about farming. [Mr. Davis here made ft graceful allu sion to the Grangers, and the advanta ges to be derived from a concentration and accumulation of capital.] I hope the time will come, he contin ued, when Texas will make all her own agricultural implements, and that our women may have time to read as many novels as they please, without being forced to help their husbands compete with Illinois in the cultivation of their fields. To get our full benefit of good we must have direct trade. Direct trade will increase the profits and dimin ish the cost. Direct trade will enable you to send out ships, which, like Noah’s dove, will go to and fro over the earth, promoting the peace of nations. Then, if ever, are nations to be unified, swords beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks. But to do this we must, have ports, and we will have them. I am glad to see that the works begun for the improvement of the harbor of Gal veston are successful, and that there is an equal prospect of the improvement of your own bayou. The river Clyde was a smaller stream than your bayou, suitable only only for sloops and schoon ers; but they have dredged it out until its artificial channel accommodates the largest ship yards of the English navy. Mr. Davis here alluded at some length to the invention of a ship which pro posed to carry 10,000 bales on sixteen feet of water. By the aid of such ships he thought that the harbors of the Gulf would be served. This ship had been tried and found to succeed, making one knot more to the hour than other ves sels. Their great breadth of beam, so he argued, would accommodate immi grants in large numbers. This brought Mr. Davis to the question of immigra tion, aud he urged upon the people the necessity of providing for immigrants, establishing agencies in Europe, and argued that it would be better even to pay for the passage of immigrants than not to get them at all. Mr. Davis laid great stress upon the necessity of mak ing no promise which could not be sa credly kept. He showed how the rail roads had succeeded in bringing immi grants to the country, and he thought that if they could do it to Northern lands, Texans, who had the advantage of them in soil, climate and other facili ties, could do more. Passing in brief he reviewed the products of the country, and said : “ But it is only after you have raised everything a man wants to eat that you can do this. When you go to an inhabitant of Great Britain aud tell him that Texas produces all kinds of fruit and grain, and then that yon im port.your meat and flour from the North, he may not tell you that he don’t believe you, but he hardly does. You must not buy a barrel of beef and pork or of flour; you must have a plenty to feed the hun gry in all parts of the State.” Passing from agriculture to mining, Mr. Davis, in a rapid review, referred to the devel opment of the metallic resources of the State. He prophesied that when arte sian wells shall have been dug the arid plains will become great grape-growing regious, and that there was a man on the platform abundantly able to bring arte sian water to the surface. In conclusion, the orator returned, in a voice all tremu lous with emotion, his heartfelt thanks for the sympathy extended to him and the honor and hospitality of bis recep tion. OLD CORBIN. Something About One of the Presiden tial Brothers-ln-Law— How He Ma nipulated the Administration for Black Friday. [•‘Gath" in the Philadelphia Times.] Amongst the resident villa owners in this umbrageous city of Elizabeth is the rich brother-in-law of the president of the United States, Abel R. Corbin. Here he resides with the President’s elder or eldest sister, a lady unmarried until the afternoon of life, but a good Christian woman, with the family strength of Jes se Grant and her mother. It is an old story that Mr. Corbin made the ac quaintance of Miss Grant alter the General became great, and that the ele vation of the brother to the Presidency and the sister to metropolitan matron hood were nearly abreast of each other in time. It is wholly to Mr. Corbin that this incident refers. A short time ago I was walking in Elizabeth, when his house was pointed to me. My infor mant had a personal acquaintance with ; Mr. Corbin, which a public writer could ; never attain with such a shrewd, crafty aud suspicious old worthy. Said my iu formant: “Do you know that old Cor bin is one of the most interesting men we have? His knowledge of politics, finance, law, journals and literature is remarkable. His manner is cool, plau sible, desirous and rather chuckling. Upon my word, his abilities of their kind are prodigious.” You will remem ber that Mr. Corbin was a native of the interior of New York, and moved to St. Louis, where be married a widow of property, his senior, and with grown-up children. These he had taught at a pri vate school attached to the church their mother attended. Afterward Corbin attached himself to Senator Thomas Banton, and edited an organ for him of great obsequiousness. Benton found him of uncertain loyalty, and Cor bin then became clerk of a House com mittee, from which he was relieved by an investigating committee, of which the late Benjamin Stanton was chairman. The committee reported that Mr. Cor bin had been a mild type of “ striker,” and bad received SI,OOO for alleged ser vices, not rendered, on the passage of a tariff bill. Corbin then disappeared un til he became, after a lapse of years, one of the heroes of Black Friday, with Fisk, Gould k Cos. The notoriety he drew at that time was the means of iden tifying him as the obliging individual who had suggested the propriety of pre senting a bouse at Washington to Gen. Grant, had indicated the house as well, and finally, had got, the for it. Corbin made 300 per cent. onThis prop erty, and it was afterward bought from Gen. Grant for Gen. Sherman, whom it almost beggard, for $65,000, having originally cost Corbiu $12,000. This ex traordinary real estate performance on the national gratitude plan was all Cor bin’s. I never believed that the Presi dent knew anything about the modus opirandi. Gen. Dan Butterfield, sub treasurer of the United States, held the Sherman fund and was subject to Cor bin’s manipulations, as he also was on “Black Friday,” whereby Butterfield had to resign his office and submit to political disgrace. This topic is recapitulated to introduce what is new matter to me—the Corbin side of Black Friday. My Elizabeth City informant contin ued : “Corbin makes me sympathize with Grant’s want of worldly wisdom. A crude mau of courage and a soldier, meeting a wealthy citizen, his elder in years, who has just become a member of his father’s family, could hardly mas ter the fact that this new brother-in-law was merely using him for a dupe to pro mote a speculation. Corbin, after leav ing Wash ngton under a cloud, took up real estate here in Jersey and showed financial snap. He took a fine house in New York, near the Fifth Avenue Hotel, after he was married, aud there" he con trived, with Fisk and Gould, the great Black Friday job of September, 1569 The big chaps were to carry the goid while Corbin was to keep the Adminis tration from relieving the market with Treasury gold. He was to go iu the pool for his influence. Now, really, he did nothing but print some financial rea soning on the theory that it would be to onr advantage, in exchange, to have gold go up in the Fall of the year, while we were shipping the crops to Europe. The old fellow, Corbin, rang this into the ears of such officials as he could see, the President inclusive. The idea did not take well, but it mystified action at Washington until Boutwell rolled in his relief. Now, Corbin talks of the matter in the most plausible manner to this day. He holds to his crop moving theory, aud says that the only mistake of the specu lation was the greed of Fisk and Gould. Instead of stopping at about 145, they grew crazy and forced the premium up to 160 and beyond, and then the bubble burst and broke the reckless operators, Albert Speyer, with $47,00u,000, and Belden with $50,000,000, were examples of that frightful affair. Corbin himself had moderate rapacity, and made money while Fisk aud Gould were next to ruined.” “Then, I suppose, they were the parlies who exposed Corbin ?” “Certainly. Fisk had no sort of doubt that Corbin had secured the President, and he believed that both Corbin and Grant had played false. Fisk incited the exposures, aud he was assisted by one of Corbin’s step-sons, who thought that the old man had not settled right with the heirs. I believe he had made a marriage contract with his first wife’s family, by which he bound himself to return her money and her children’s. This he did, but not on.the basis of the fortune he acquired by the use of it.” “Well, did General Grant entertain no suspicion of Corbin after that?” “Probably only a trifle. The old fellow, Corbin, affects, to be sure, that he was merely speculating a bit, with a high na tional motive. He lias been a considerate husband, and the entente cordiale was unbroken. Mrs. Corbin is very much respected here in Elizabeth. She has no children. The President comes here some times. Such was the origin of one of the occurrences which led to the financial block of the Western world for nearly a whole week. A FRENCH ROBBERY. [Pans Correspondence of the London Tijues.l Stories of robberies are aljways amusing for those who have not /been the victims. A few days since a Parisian jeweler was the victim of a robbery to the amount of 106,000 francs, organized with rare audacity and persistency.— Wliat at the outset is curious and really anyizes one, is that it is jewelers or money changers who are always the ob jects of the enterprises, and that these plots, a thousand times revealed, sue ceed the thousandth and first time. It would seem that as soon as a man be comes a jeweler or money-changer he should calculate on being exposed to the attempts of swindlers, and that con sequently bis first care, his first notion of business, should consist in defending hirtaself against attacks so inevitable.— Nothing of the kind. Here is a story of yesterday, the moral of which is obvi ons, and which shows that thieves keep pace with the times and modify their schemes so as to remain of a level with a more refined civilization. A week or so ago, a well dressed gentleman, ac companied by a young and handsome lady, very elegant and very shy, follow ed by au irreproachably attired man servant, installed themselves in apart ments on the entresol of an apparently very respectable house in the Avenue d’Eylau. The rooms were completely furnished, the rent, 65Df. a month, paid in advance, and they were let for two months. The gentleman, lady and ser vant affected a marked English accent, a circumstance which proves nothing as to their nationality, for swindlers on a large scale have long made it a point to imi tate foreign accents to perfection, to pass for French in England, for Ger mans in Spain, for English in France, and for Spaniards in Germany. Cos tume, manners, gait and mode of salut ing corresponding to their accent. They brought with them numerous trunks, conducting themselves as if they m ant to make a long stay. The ser vant, who expressed himself with diffi culty in French, took hia meals with the concierge, and soon became friendly with everybody. He was thought to have a little curiosity, but appeared much attached and very respectful to his master and mistress, and he was very ready to stand a glass to the ser vants of the rich houses around. Mon sieur and Madame was out a good deal. Shopmen almost every day brought arti cles which they had bought and paid cash for. Among these was a jeweler’s employee who brought something or other nearly every day, sometimes a ring, at other times ear-rings, studs, pins, etc. The concierge was more and more deferential to Ins wealthy tenants. He calculated that within a week they must have spent about B,ooof. The jeweler alone had supplied them with articles worth 6,000f. As, however, the old servant with his large blond whis kers and his prepossessing air, always stood at the door, as soon as a shopman arrived he politely conducted him to the entresol so as to save people the trouble of accosting the concierge. Thanks to this the tradesmen—above all the jewel er—did not know but that their custom ers occupied rooms furnished by them selves. A few days ago Monsieur and Madame treated for a set of diamonds, for which the jeweler asked 112,000f., and for which they offered him 100,000f. After several visits, Monsieur called and offered 106,000f., which was accepted. He wished to surprise Madame by giv ing the extra 6,000f., for she was ill, and he asked the jeweler to send the casket and bill to the Avenue d’Eylau. When the shopman arrived the servant was at the door, and hastened to usher him into the entresol. Monsieur was in the drawing-room, which bore traoes of Madame having been in it. An old shawl was thrown on a chair, a work basket was placed near the window, aud on a table in the corner bundles, ap parently of bank notes, were ia readi ness for settling the bill. The shop man entered. Monsieur took the-casket, and, begging the shopman to wait, car ried it to Madame, who was in bed. The shopman waited, looking through two or three newspapers which were on a table beside the couch on which he had been directed to sit. The reading entertained him, but after glancing over the three papers he raised his eyes, and, looking at the timepiece, he perceived that it was motionless. Seiz and with a ! vague uneasiness, he took out his watch, j he had been waiting three-quarters of an hour. He instinctively rushed to the table containing the bank notes. He began to count them, but perceived they were only prospectuses. He hur- 1 ried to the door leading to madame’s room ;it was locked. He went from one door of the drawing-room to the other ; all were locked. He tried to ring. The bell-pull fell off into his hand. He opened the window and call ed the concierge. The concierge had been sent to the Boulevard Malesherbes by the incomparable domestic to get a portmanteau repaired, and his lodge was entrusted to a littlp girl. He leant over to the street, perspiration on his face, his countenance distorted by the fear of how matters stood ; he josticu lated, he cried, “lam robbed !” Pass ers-by looked up at him, took him for a lunatic, and laughed. There was nothing to be done but to wait for tjje concierge’s return. Three quarters of an hour elapsed before the concierge arrived. The stairs were as cended with some precaution, the un fortunate man was fonud locked in, and no longer knowing what he said. A thorough search was made. The occu pants had disappeared. The neighbors saw them quietly going out with boxes under their arms, bowing politely, and getting into a cab waiting at the corner. They had been gone two hours. The j dice consaiUsury of the district was sent for, put his question and sealed the apartmeuts. They were inspected this afteruqon. Trunks were found en tirely empty, and a little dirty linen without any mark; in a closet there was a man’s hat, without any hatter’s ad dreess, some false light chestnut tufts of hair, two or three pairs of whiskers of various shades, a beggar’s ditto, a lady’s old dress, an old shawl, carpet ing, aud the famous bundle of bank notes. Everything else had disappear ed, aud the unfortunate jeweller swells the list of victims of his class to simi lar enterprises. THE FOREST FIRES. Details of the Loss and Suffering in the Pennsylvania Mountains Vil lages aud Settleineuts Burned—A Town Entirely Surrounded by Fire aud Retreat Cut Off—Narrow Escape of the Inhabitants—The Noted tlauie Region of Pennsylvania Swept Over —Estimated Loss in Dwellings, Mills aud Lumber Over $300,000. Shohola, Pa., May 23, 1875.—Never siuce the memorable Spring of 1862 has this region of country been so devas tated by forest fires as during the past week. The raius of Friday night aud yesterday morning have subdued the flames; but thousands of acres of wood land, numerous farm buildings, lumber ing villages, tanneries aud saw mills mark their track with smouldering ruins. The fire in the mountains here about appeared a week ago to-day in an inconsiderable bush fire, which could easily have been extinguished. Simul taneously with that small fire others sprang up in every direction, until the high hills to the west, in the direction of Bloomiug drove, the Sullivan county mountains, and the lofty range border ing the Delaware river four miles north and south, were almost solid sheets of flame. Iu this immediate vicinity the fire was confined to the burning of tim ber, cord wood, railroad ties, bark, &c., lying iu the woods, and it is estimated that two thousand acres of land have been burned over. A hundred men, fighting the flames night and day, kept them from sweeping down the moun tains to the settlement, but were un able to stay their progress through the woods, westward. The farmers m the valley, from Susquehanna depot to Port Jervis, over a hundred miles, have been obliged to neglect all farm work for a week in order to fight the fires. The unusual dryuess of the weather favored the progress of the conflagration, and it was only tin? fall of rain above men tioned that saved not only acres of forest and thousands of cords of wood and bark, but villages and dwellings that stood iu the path of the tires. To-day has been the first in nearly a week that the sun has appeared other than as a dull crimson disk, seen through the dense clouds of smoke that lowered over this section of country, and last night the first that a watch over villages,•farms, mills, &e.. has not been necessary. The air has been filled with cinders, and firebrands in the shape of burning branches have been a constant source of danger for days. A Village Consumed. Other places have not been so fortu nate as this. In Sullivan county, New York, across the river from this place, settlements in the lumbering woods are more numerous. Friday night the vil lage of Gilman’s, which had been sur rounded for two days with fire, was al most totally consumed. The entire pop ulation combated the flames successful ly for forty-eight hours. A strong wind from the west then arose which fanned the extinguished fires again into flames and drove the already furious fire from the back woods rapidly toward the vil lage. An attempt was made to obtain aid-from the Port Jervis Fire Depart ment, but before word eould be carried to that place the lire had communicated to oue or two dwellings occupied by em ployees of Gilman’s tannery. From these the spread of the conflagration was rapid, aud in the space of ten min utes after the fire reached the settle ment the tannery, an immense structure, together with all its adjacent buildings, the extensive saw mill and ten dwellings were in flames. They were all totally destroyed, together with several hun dred thousand feet of lumber, §12,000 worth of leather and 10,000 cords of bark. The loss will not be less than §125,000 at this one place. At Swamp Mills, on Ten-mile river, the mountains encircling the place had been burning for three days, but the few families re siding at the lumber settlement did not feel alarmed for the consequences until Friday afternoon. Some twenty men were lighting the fire, but the stiff wind that arose toward evening drove the flames down the mountain with great velocity and compelled them to aban don the work and fly for their lives. Fortunately the mill and the large amount of lumber piled around it were on the side of the stream opposite the advancing flames, and the fire on the mountains sloping up from the mill was driven away from the building. By keep ing the mill drenched with water, and extinguishing th°> burning branches that fell thick about it, it was saved; but 16,000 feet of lumber, piled on a dock in the stream, were concerned, together with with three small buildings. Geo. Crane, while fighting the fire on Friday a'ternoon, was caught beneath some burning limbs which fell upon him, and was terribly, if not fatally burned, be fore he could be rescued. It is reported that two tanneries, three saw mills and a number of farm houses in Rockland, Sullivan county, were de stroyed on Friday night. A bridge across the east branch of the Delaware, near Shavertown, was also destroyed.— lu Wayne county, Pennsylvania, six miles from Narrowsburg, are the very extensive steam saw mills of Ward & Boyd. The village in which they are situated is Eldred, containing about 200 inhabitants. Tlie mountain fires sur rounding this place gradually reduced the circle, despite the efforts of the in habitants, until they threatened the de struction of the village, and had Cut Off Alf. Retreat From it. Isolated buildings were con sumed, and much lumber, piled on the outskirts of the place, ready to be haul ed to the river. The most intense ex citement prevailed iu the village as the fire steadily closed it. The peo ple became panic stricken, and it was with great difficulty that women aud children could be kept from rushing into the very flames to find some way out of the doomed village. Men hurriedly built “back fires,” and, forming bucket lines around the place, drenched the gtound with water. Others cleared away the space between the approaching fire and the village, taking out the inter vening underbrush and combustible stuff. It is doubtful if all this would have caved the place and its inmates, but a change in the wind,- which came up from the west iu almost a gale, turn ed the course of the conflagration, and the village escaped with comparative little damage. Taylortown. Pike county, Pa., also suffered considerably. The fire from the woods was driven by- the wind down into the settlement, which is on ground formerly belonging to the late Horace Greeley, and where he es tablished his unsuccessful Fourterite Society some forty years ago. The place consisted only of a large circular saw mill and two or three houses. These were all destroyed, together with 10,000 feet of manufactured lumber and as many logs. The property was known as the Ballet Mill property, and belong ed to a Newark firm, whose loss is about §15,000. A herd of fifteen cows, belonging to different farmers around Taylortown, which were pasturing in an old clearing made by the Fourierities, were sur rounded by the fire, aud being unable to escape, were bnrned up. James Haney, who had been out beyond the place lobking at some wild land he in tended to purchase, was compelled to run a gauntlet of fire for two miles, the woods being in flames on either side.— His horse fell dead a quarter of a mile from where the road emerged from the burning woods, and Haney was com pelled to leave his wagon, in the bottom of which he had been able to shield himself somewhat from the heat, and make the rest of the distance on foot, reaching Taylortown just before the mill was destroyed, almost dead from his terrible experience. He was badly burned. The fires through the western part of this county with no lfiss fury than that which characterized them in the valley. The High Knob, the loftiest eminence in Northeastern Penn sylvania, being two thousand feet above tide, was lit rally a mountain of fire. — The seetion of which the Knob is the centre is in the noted game region of Pennsylvania, and where the lands of the Bloomiug Grove Park are situated. It is a complete wilderness, filled with hear, deer and other wild game. The fires drove large numbers of deer from the woods to the numerous lakes in the region, and they even sought refuge in the clearings around farms on the out skirts of the wilderness. Near Bloom ing Grove village, in different pastures, ten deer were counted last Friday feed ing with the cattle. At the village of Egypt, above Blooming Grove, two large black bears and three young ones emerged from the burning woods and followed the pnblic road for a mile, when they again entered the forest, having passed beyond the burning dis trict. They were followed by three hunters, and several shots were fired at hem without effect, the bears escaping apparently uninjured, and eluding their followers in the woods. Thursday and Saturday the air was literally filled with wild pigeons which had been driven from their roosts in the depths of the b* ♦ch woods west of Blooming Grove, a*fl were flying northwa and in search of ot.ier resting places. Hundreds were killed, not only with guns, but with clubs, by persons stauding on the brows of high hills. It is feared that the fires have ruined the prospects of a success ful game season next Fall, as hundreds of animals must have perished and par tridge nests been totally destroyed. A party of Philadelphia fishermen were en camped on Bright Brook, a noted trout stream sonth of the Knob. The fire surrounded them and they were obliged to desert their tents and seek safety by climbing a mountain which had been burned over, but which was yet covered with smouldering fires and hot ashes, stumps, &c. The party were forced to make their way a mile in this way before reaching a place of safety. Two men from R'Chester, named Downs and Beeves, who were spending a few days’ fishing in this vicinity, had An Exciting Adventure And narrow escapewhile fishingon Wed nesday on Taylor’s creek. They had Ashed up Dearly to the Babit Mill, when they met the advaucing ferest fire that destroyed that structure. They had noticed the prevalence of the fires on the mountain on both sides of the creek as they came up, and had suffered consider able inconvenience from the smoke and heat, but did not dream of any dauger from them. When they came upon the vast tract of fire that had just swept over Taylertown advancing on down the stream, on both sides, they at once com menced to retrace their steps. They had not gone more than a quarter of a mile before they noticed that the fires dowu the creek had drawn nearer the stream, aud finally found their retreat entirely cut off. They were shut iu on every sido by walls of fire. To escape up the mountains, which rose on both sides of the creek, was impossible, and the fishermen awoke to the terrible na ture of the situation. A horrible death stared them in the face and they saw no possible chance to escape. Their only hope seemed to be that the fire from be low, which was not so fierce or extensive as the one coming down the stream, would be stopped Dy an opening about twenty feet wide, made by a ravine near the spot where they were forced to halt, when they thought they could wade down the creek and get out of ihe burn ing woods. This hope was soon dis pelled, for the fire coming dowu the stream made such rapid progress that it was evideut that it would be upon them before the lower fire reached the opening. In this strait Downs hit upon a plan that seemed to offer them the only remnant of hope. The creek where they were shut off by the fire falls over a precipice about ten feet high. It then spreads out into a circular basiu about twenty feet ill di ameter, and very deep. Downs’ plan was for him and his companion to plunge into the pool, and remain there until the fury of the fire was spent, which would he in a quarter of an hour, as the approaching flames would meet before that time, and having nothing more to feed on along the creek would climb higher up the mountains. He thought that by keeping in the water, diving and moving about, and shielding themselves beneath the cascades that they could pass the ordeal with safety, and undergo very little suffering from the heat. Unfortunately, Beeves could not swim, but, as be said to liis compan ion, he would rather run the risk of drowning than be burned to death, he found a piece of pine log, and, with the support of Downs’ arm, pitched with his companion in the stream. They made their way up to the foot of the falls, where Reeves found a projecting rock, which he grasped with his hands aud kept his head above water. By this time the heat had become intense, and the air was dense with smoke and filled with burning twigs and branches, which fell like a red hot shower in the pool. Downs, being able to move about in the water, aud remain some time beneath the surface, at no time having more of his person exposed than was necessary to obtain air, suffered nothing from the heat or smoke. Reeves, on the contrary, had only such protection to his face aud hands as was afforded by the waters of the cataract, behind which thin veil he kept as much as possible. He had no support for his feet, aud was afraid to release his hands from the rock, although he could feel them blistering with the heat. For nearly fifteen minutes he remained in this tor turing situation, and then, saying lie would rather drown than suffer any longer, let go his hold and disappeared beneath the water. When he reappear ed he had reached the lower end of the basin, and when he recovered his breath he started as fast as he.could down the creek, knocking aside burn ing branches with his hands and keep ing them away from his face as much as possible. He soon disappeared from view. About half an hour afterward the worst of the fire was over. The op posing conflagrations had met and taken a course up the mountain. Downs tlieu followed his companion down the stream. The heat was still intense, and the smoke almost suffocating. He found no great difficulty in making his way along, and found Reeves about a quar ter of a mile below, lying on the ground below the burned district. He was al most exhausted, and his hands and face were badly burned. His clothing was full of holes, and there were several blisters on his body and limbs, where burning embers had fallen on him, and burned through his clothing. His in juries were not serious, however, and in about an hour the fishermen had so much recovered as to start on their way to their boarding place, a farm lious * near by. On Thursday they returned to Rochester. Near Hawley, Wayne county. Pa., on the line of the gravity railroad of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, a saw mill belonging to the estate of J. T. Barnes and $5,000 worth of mine props were de stroyed. Tho fire for nearly two days was only kept away from a number of the stationary engine houses on the road, at the heads of planes, by the united efforts of a large foroe of em ployees. Thousand of railroad ties were destroyed along this road. On a branch of the Eqununk creek, in WayDe county, a circular saw mill and 8,000 feet of manufactured lumber were burned. The total loss in the destruction of mills, lumber, &0., so far as known, cannot fall below $300,000, while the loss in standing timber, cord wood, tan bark, railroad ties, and similar property can not be estimated. When the full measure of the damage done is known, it will far exceed any calamity, in a financial point of view, that ever befel the region. NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD. [Northeast Georgian.] We are pleased to note the earnest ef forts which have been made in the city of Augusta in behalf of our Northeastern Railroad, by Dr. James P. Phillips, one of the very best and most enterprising Directors of tho road. We are also pleased to know that the Chkonicius and Sentinel, which is ever alive, not only to the interest of its own immediate connection, but to the interest of Georgia at large, yea, and to the interest of the whole South, has so nobly assisted our representative Dr. Phillips, and so faithfully urged his claims in behalf of our road upon tho citizens of Augusta. We have not learned as yet what success Dr. Phillips met with in securing aid to the road, but feel assured from our knowledge of him as a man of enteprise, and as a most earnest advocate of the Northeast ern Railroad, that every effort has been expended on his part towards arousing the oitizens of Augusta to a full realiza tion of their direct interest in this road and the immediate importance of rend ering such aid as is within their power, nnd which will inevitably return to them a commercial benefit far more than com mensurate with their most liberal con tributions to this Northeastern feeder to their city. Are not the city of Augusta and the Georgia Railroad natural allies of Athens and the Northeastern Railroad ? Indeed wonld not the completion of the North eastern Road to its terminus at Rabun Gap, thereby opening tip not only a trade to Augusta from all North Georgia, but supplying the long needed Western communication, be really of as much, if not more, importance to that city than to Athens ? Certainly it will need no argument to convince the commercial men of Augusta that it is better for them to avail themselves of this! proffered aid to their interest j than permit Savannah and the Central Railroad to step in and i wrest from them that enterprise, which would prove such a valuable aud needed stimulant to their business importance. Oar road must find that ally which will | guarantee the necessary Southern con nection or outlet, and now with induce ments of such unmistakable importance, so forcibly and fairly presented, aud our necessities so fully make knowD, as doubtless they have been by Dr. Phil lips as well as at other times, and in other ways, it remains to be seen whether Augusta, Savannah or Macon will hecome the needed friend, and con sequent recipient of the benefits of the Northeastern Rail oad. Pacific Mail. New Yobk, May 26.—At the annual meeting for election of Direotors of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, the following were chosen : Sidney Dillon, Geo. S. Scott, Jay Gould, Jas. D. Smith, Chas. J. Osborn, Geo. J. Forrest, Rufus Hatch, Oliver Ames, John Riley. About ninety-six thousand shares were voted in the election, Modicnl. KIDNEY COMPLAINT. Probably there is no complaint that afflicts the human system which is so little understood at the present time as some of the varied forms of Kidney Complaints. There is no diseaso which cruses such acute pam or more alarming in its results than when tho kidneys fail to socreto from the blood the urid acid and other poisonous substances which the blood accumulates in its circulation through tho system. If from any cause the kidneys fail to per fonn tho functions devolving upon them, the cumulations are taken up by-the absorbents aud the whole system thrown into a state of disease, causing great pain aud suffering, and very often immediate death. Hence tlie im portance of keeping the kidneys and blood in a healthy condition, through wiiich all the im purities of the body must pass. PAIN IN TOE BACK. There is no remedy known to medical seieuce which has proved itself more valuable in cases of Kidney Complaints than the VEGETINE. It acts directly upon the secretions, cleanses and purities the blood, ai.d restores the whole system to healthy action. The following extraordinary cure of great sufferers, who had been given up by tho l> t physicians as hopeles* cases, will speak tor themselves, and should challenge tho most profound attention of tho medical faculty, as well as of those who are suffering from Kidney Complaint. THE REST MEDICINE. East Maksiifikld, August 22.1870. Mr. Stevens : Hear Sir I am sewnty-one years of age: havo suffered many ye..rs with Kidney Com plai.it, weakness in my hack and stomach* I was induced by friends to try your VEGETINE. and I tliinl; it the best medicine for weakness of the Kidneys I ever used, I havo tried many remedies for t is complaint, and never found so much relief as from the VEGETINE. It strengthens and invigorates the whole system. M ,tiy of my acquaintances have taken it. and I believe it to ho good for all the complaints for which it is recommended. Yours truly, JOSIAH H. SHERMAN. PRONOUNCED INCURABLE. Boston. May 30. 1671. H. 11. Stevens. Esq.: Dear Sir—i havo been badly afflicted with Kidney Complaint for ten years; have suffer and great pain in my back hips a; and side, with great difficulty in passing urine, which was often and in very small quan tities. frequently accompanied with blood and excruciating pain. I have faithfully tried most, of the popular remedies recommended for my compl out; 1 have been under the treatment of some ol‘ the most skillful physicians in Boston. all<of whom pronounced my * ase incurable. This was my condition when I was advised by a friend to try tho VEGETINE, and 1 could see the good ef fects from the first < ose t took, and from that moment I kept on improving untii I was en tirely cured, taking in all, I should think, about six bottles. It is indeed a valuable medicine, a id if 1 should be afflicted again in the same way. 1 would give a dollar a dose, if I could not get it with out. Respectfully. J. M. GILE, 361 Third Street, South Boston. NEARLY BLIND. H. ti. Stevens : Dear Sir—ln expressing my thanks to you for benefits derived from the uso of VEGETINE, and to benefit others, I will state: When eight or nine years old I w’aa afflicted with Scrofula, which made its appearance in my eyes, face and head, and I was very near blind for two years. Ail kinds of operations were performed on my eyes, and all to no good result. F nally tho disease principally settled in my body, limbs aud feet, and at times in an aggravated way. Last Summer I was. from some cause, weak iu my spine and kidneys, and it was at times very hard to retain the urine. Seeing your ad vertisement- in tlie *• Commercial,” I bought a bottle of VEGETINE and commenced using according to directions. In two or three days I obtained great relief A ter using four or five bottles I noticed it had a wonderful effect on the rough, scaly blotches on my body and legs. I still used VEGETINE. and tlie humor ous sores one after another disappeared until they were all gone, and I attribute the cure of the two diseases to VEGETINE, and nothing else. If I am ever affected with anything of the kind again I shall try VEGETINi'i as the only rehab o remedy. Once more accept mv thanks, and believe me to bo, very respect f nilv. AUSTIN PARROTT, No. 35 Gano St., Cincinnati, Ohio. December 1, 1872. Diseosos of tho Kidneys. Bladder, etc., are always unpleasant, and at times they become tho most distressing and dangerous diseases that can affect tlie human system. Most dis ease' of the Kidneys arise from impurities in tlie blood, causing humors which settle on these parts. VEGETINE excels any known remedy in tlie whole world for cleansing and purifying the blood, thereby causing a healthy action to all tho organs of the body. Vegf tinc is J-old by all Druggists. ai27—3tn °FF£Rcn'FORMAMN\ DOOL E Y\ S YEA ST EO WDE R Is put up in Full Weight Cans. DOOLEY is YEAST POWDER Is perfectly Puro and Wholesome, DOOLEYS YE;{ST POWDER 31akes Elegant Biscuits and Boils. DOOLEYS YEAST POWDER Makes Delicious Muffins, Griddle Cakes, Corn Bread, Ac. DOOLEYS YEAST PO WDEB Makes all kinds of Dumplings, l’ol Pies, Cakes and Pastry, nice, light, and healthy. DOOLEY’S YEAST POWDER Is the Best, because perfec'ly pure. DOOLEYS YEAST PO WDER Is the Cheapest, because full weight. DOOLEYS YEAST POWDER Is guaranteed to give satisfaction. Be sure to ask for DOOLEYS YEAST POWDER and do not be put off with any other kind. 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 3larket is flooded with Cheap, Inferior Baking and Yeast Powder of light or short weight. D.iOLEY’H YEAST POWDER is war ranted full strength aud full weight. So'd at wholesale and retail, generally throughout the United States, by dealers in Groceries and Faintly Supplies. 'O9//EW'ST. NEW YORK. Attornevs at Law. WM. D. TU'IT Thomson, Ga. W. M. & M. P. REEKK Wa-liington. Of. W. G. JOHNSON Lexington, J. T. JORDAN Spnrri.. G* J T. KF.IL. CrawfoKlvilio. Ga. GEO. F. PIEKCE, Jr. ...Sparta. Ga JURIAH A. CASEY Thomson. Ga. F. L. LITTLE Sparta. Ga. It. O. LOVETT Waynesboro. Ga. BILLUPS & BROBBTON Madison. Ga. C. E. KINNEBItEW, Greeneshoro. Ga WM. H. 13RANCH Greenesboro, Ga. CRAWFORD A- WILLIAMKON.. Mlllotlgeville. PAULO. HUDSON Thomi-on. Ga. H. G. BOSKY Thomson. Ga. Emory Uollegc-1874-75, OXFORD, GEORGIA. One Mile from Covington Depot, Georgia R. R. Q BRING TEEM, JANUARY 20TH TO JULY k_) 23d. fs74. Two new lteeitation Halls and anew Day Chapel are among tlie improved la cilitiea of the Institution. Tlie lec ure room in these halls are large, well ventilated, lighted aud warmed. A third halifor tlie use of the Hci lenuiia Department, it is expect,: , will be ready for occupancy by the beginning of the Term. Attention is called to the desirableness of Oxford as a place to educate youth, its location and healthfuhiess. as well as its social and re ligious features offering peculiar advantages. FACULTY. Rev. O. li. SMITH. D. D.. President shd Pro fessor of Mental and Moral Science, and of English Literature Rev. GEO. AY. W. STONE. A. M., Vice-Presi dent and Professor of Mathematics. Rev. ALEX. MEANS, M. D., D. D., LL. D., Professor Emeritus of Natural Hoi nee. Rev. I. S. HOPKINS, A. 31., 31. D., Professor of Natural Science. Rev. MORGAN CALLAWAY, D. D., Profes sor of Latin Language. Me. JOHN M. DOGGETT, A. M., Professor of Greek Language. Mb RUFUS W. SMITH, A. 31., Principal of Academic Department. Tuition, Spring Term, in Collego Classes,s4s. Tuition, Spring Term, iu Academic Classes, s3l. Board, including ail expenses for fuel, lights and washing, from sl6 to S2O per month. A year's Tuition in College may be awarded by the Principals of the Academic Department, and of Collinsworth Institute, at Xaluotton. to the beat scholar in those schools. Two free scholarships are offered to Local Preachers aud Laymen in each Presiding Elder’s District of the North Georgia, South Georgia and Florida Conferences. For particulars, consult Presiding Elders. For further information, address Rev. O. L. SMITH, President. I. S. HOPKINS, Secretary. dec2U-tf jV <“ W A(iv<'rflt4e>nentß T AKE SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR, For all Diseases of the Liver, Stomach and Spleen. It is eminently a Family Medi cine ; and by being kepi ready for immediate resort will save many an hour of hufieriii!/ and many a dollar in time and doctors’ bids. After Forty Years trial it i* still re (riving tlio most unqualified tes timonials of its virtues fr in per sons of ihe highest character and responsibility. Eminent physicians commend it as tho most KlTeotnal Npeeiilc For Constipation, Headache. Pain in the Shoulders, Dizziness. Sour Stomach, bad taste in ilie Mouth. Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, pain in the region of ihe Kidneys, i espondency. Lorn and forebodings of evil, all of which are- tho offspring of a diseased Liver. If you feel Dull. Drowsy. Debili tated. have fro uent Headache, Mouth Tastes badly. Poor Appet to and Tongue Coated, you arc suf fering from Torpid Liver, or *Tkli- usi.osV’ and nothing will cure you so speedily and permanently. The Liver, the largest organ in the body, is i enerally tho seat of the disease, and if not Bcgnlated in time, great suffering, wretched ness and Death will ensue.* Armed with this ANT DOTE, all climates and changes of water and food may be faced with out tear. Asa Remedy in MALARIuTJS FE VERS. BOWEL COMPLAINTS, RESTLESS NESS, JAUNDICE, NAUSEA. The < beapest, Purest nnd Blest Family >Wdl cine i?i ihe World I “I have never seen or tried such a simple efficacous, satisfac tory and pleasant reinedv in my life.”—U. Haineh, St. Louis, Mo. Hon. Alex. H. Stephens. “I occasionally use. when my condition requires it. Dr. Simmons’ Liver Regulator. with good effect.” —Hon. Alex. 11. Stephens. Govern on of Alabama. ‘•Your Begulator has been in use m my family for some time.and 1 am persuaded it is a valuable ad dition to the medical science.”— Gov. J. Gill Shouter, Ala. “I have used the Begulator in my family for the past seventeen years 1 can safely recommend it to the world as the best medicine 1 have ever used for that class of diseases it purports to cure.”— 11. F. Thigpen. President of City Bank. “Simmons’ Liver Begulator has prove 1 a good and efficacious medi cine.”—C. A. Ntj’tinu. Druggist. “Wo have been acquainted with Dr. > immi.ns’ Liver Medicine for more than 20 years, ana know it to ho tho best I fiver Begulator of fered to the public.”—M. U. Lyon and H. L. Lyon, Beilefontaine, Ga. S I M M O N S’ LI V JK K RT^'inrAr o c For rtYKPLPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaun dice. Bilious attacks. SICK HEADACHE, Colie, Depression of Spirits. SOIJIt STOMACH, Heart Burn, Ac , IT HAS NO EQUAL. Ts a faultless family medicine, liocrf not disarrange the sysri m, Js sure to cure if taken regularly, Is no cl astic violent medicine, 3 ioes not interfere with business, Is no intoxicating beverage, Contains the simplest and best remedies. CAUTION! Buy no Powders or Prepared SIMMONS LIVUK REGULATOR unless in our engraved w apper with Trade Mark. Siam]) and Signa ture unbroken. None other is genuine. J. 11. ZHILIN & CO., Macon, 0.i., and Philadelphia The Symptoms of Liver Com plainfare uneasiness and pain in tho side Sometimes the pam is iu tho shoulder, and is mistaken for rl.eu matism. 'Jhe stomach is affected with loss of appetite and sickness, bowels in general costive, some times alternating with lax. The head is troubled with pain, aud dull, heavy sensation, considerable loss of memory, accompanied with painful sensation of having left undone something which ought to have been done. Often com plaining of weakness, debility and i>w spirits. Home imes many of Ihe above symptoms attend the disease, and at other times very few or them; but the, Liver is genetallv the organ most involved. Nearly all di-easos originate from Indiges tion and Torpidity of the i iver. and relief i always anxiously sought after If the Liver is ltegul .ted in its action, health is almost inva riably secured. Wnt of ac ion in the Liver causes H rda he, Consiipaiion, Jaundieo Pam in the Shoulders. Cough. Chills. Dizziness, Sour Stomach. Bad Taate in the Mouth. Bili ous Attacks. Palpt'alion of iho iloarl. Depres sion of Spirits, or tho Pinos, and a hundred other symptoms, for which SIMMONS’ I IVt- It liKGUI.ATOIt is the host remedy that has ever been discovered. It aefs mildly, effec tually. and being a simple vegetable compound can do no injury in auy quantities that it may he taken it is harmless in everyway; it has be> 11 used foi 40 years, and hundreds of the good and great from all parts of the country will vouch for its ho.ng tho purest and host. The Ci.kiioy. “My wife and self have used the t’ogitlaf-'l for years, ad testify to its great virtues.”— Rev. J. R. Felder, Perry, Ga. Ladies' Endorsement. “I have given your medicine a thorough trial, an l in no case has it failed to give full satis faction ” Ellen Meaofiam. Chattahoochee, Florida. dec22apls-fciilliea&w6m BUY ONLY THE GENUINE i i !i J, PYfi;r !i rx ’ e* § 'FAIR BAN ksl DA fi* 5> SCA LES. ALSO, THE MOST PERFECT ALARM CASH DRAWER. Miles alarm till co.’s. aio, Her riug’w SafciH. Coffee and Drug Mills, Letter Pj esses. 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For sale by leading Hardware Dealers. ap2l-eodfcu 10 Foster’s Second Texas Drawing! $200,000 GOLD COIN ! HOUSES AND LANDS! POSITIVELY THE FAST POSTPOSKME-Yr l Air ILL draw, without fail, at Houston, VV Texas, June 30th, 187.) We did not sell quite ab om Tickers in time todr.isv on the 13th of May : but r o eerta n are we of success, and iu evidence of our good faith and inten tions, wo will receive in payment for Tickets, certificates of d©i onits in any lirvt class bark in the U. S wi h tins ndornemeDfc : Payable only when Foster's Texas Drawing takes place” >io Scaling of Prizes, but every one paid in full. Over 60.000 acres of choice land, centrally located, near ra-lroads, 17 Houses, 2,32.) Gold Coi.i prizes, among them one of SIO,OOO and one of $5 000. Our enterprise is endorsed by tho City Conn il. Reliable Agents wanted Send for irculars. 'Jhey will convince you we are both reliable and responsible. 'Tickets oolvsL Eleven for $lO and 23for S2O. No connection with any other j-imilar enterprise. Commexdatoky —Having, from our long ac quaintance with J. K. Foster, every confidence in his integrity, we feel justified in saying we be ievo he ill carry out his Distribution honestly and fairly. Signed by the Mayor, Hon. J. T. D. Wilson, and the City Council. We are specially desirons that parties inter ested would write to the Batiks. Merchants and Postmaster of this place (where we have Jived 15 years) lor information as toonr reliability. J. E. FOSTEIi, Manager. mylß-d<fcwlm Houston, i exas. JEWELL’S MILLS. 13. A. JEWELL, Prop’r. Post Office, Jewell’s, Hancock Cos., Ca. WOOL WANTED. ON and after May the 20<h we will CARD WOOL for One Fourth Toll, or for Ten Cent* Per Pound. Will pay market value for W T ool or Exchange for Good- ? t reduced prices. W< ii shipping Wo* 1 to us by Railroad to bo Carded or Lxch nged. mark you- name and ad dress piaiidy on th-u bundle and ship to May field. _ , 4-4 Sheeting , J Shirtings, 8 ounce Osnaburgs, Yarns. Kerseys, and Jeans lor sale at Lowest Market Kate*. Orders solicited. my2l-w3m !)• A* JEW ELL*
