Georgia Historic Newspapers

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WEDNESDAY SEPT’BER 8. 1875.
I AND THOU.
I From the German of Oeibel.]
I tm the storm that northward loves to flee;
Thou art the moonlight on a tranquil sea.
How can each I with each a Thou agree ?
Thou art the beam that lights the lily’s eves,
1 the wild hail that from the black cloud flies;
O. endless chasm that between us lies l
I wild, inconstant, earth's dark guest, and Thou.
With almost angel-clearness on thy brow.
Come, Lore, and show thyself almighty now!
SLIPPERS.
I read, when a child, of a wonderful maid,
Who lived in the days of old;
How she won the heart of a gay young knight,
With slippers embroidered in gold.
They were samples of cunning, and genius and
skill.
Which his heart could never withstand,
And so the designing young maid had her will;
He offered bis fortune and hand.
There was scarcely a day in his after years
Unmarked by his grief and care;
His life was a sorrowful tale of woe—
A burden that few might bear.
His skilled wife proved a shrew and a scold,
As the slippers began to wear;
And. rich as be was, he could never make bold
To ask for another pair.
But the relics he kept till his form was bent
And bis hair was thin and gray;
And many a time, at the noontide hour,
He'd steal from his dinner away;
And many a time, in the midnight still,
He'd wake from his sweet repose,
To gaze for awhile on the worn out heels
And the fancy work on the toes.
He talked to them oft of his early days,
Forgetting his sorrow the while;
And though he despised their looks and their
ways,
They often provoked a smile.
He often wished he was single again—
Rebelling against the fetter;
With the little experience he had since then
He could take the slippers better.
And many a lady has tried since then,
By slippers to play her card;
The time draws near when these poor young
men
Must be strictly upon their guard.
For maidens steal, at the dead of night,
With none to protect or shield.
Through street on street, to the workman neat,
With their traps to be soled and heeled.
FORTY YEARS AGO.
How wondrons are the changes, Jim,
Since forty years ago,
When gals wore woolen dresses, Jim,
And boys wore pants of tow;
When shoes were made of calf-skin
And socks of home-spun wool,
Ajid children did a half day’s work
Before the hour of school.
The girls took music lessons, Jim,
Upon the spinning wheel,
And practiced late and early, Jim,
On spindle, swift and reel;
The boys would ride bare-backed to mill,
A dozen miles or so,
And hurry off before ’twas day,
Borne forty years ago.
The people rode to meeting, Jim,
In sleds instead of sleighs,
And wagons rode as easy, Jim,
As buggies now-a-davs;
And oxen answered well for teams,
Though now they’d be too slow,
For people lived not half so fast
Home forty years ago.
O ! well do I remember, Jim,
The Wilson’s patent stove,
That father bought and paid for, Jim,
In cloth our gals had wove.
And how the neighbors wondered
When we got the thing to go;
They said ’twould bust and kill us all,
Home forty yeare ago.
Yes, everything is different, Jim,
From what it used to was,
For men are always tampering, Jim,
With God’s great natural laws.
But what on earth we’re coming to,
Does anybody know ?
For everything has chauged so much
Since forty years ago.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
Bobbed on the highway boldly,;
Bobbed in a nn bless way ;
Bobbed without cry or parley,
Bobbed iu the open day !
This I remember only :
A strange and subtle spell;
A glance like Bummer light’ning,
And voice like silver bell.
I gave no cry nor struggle,
Called not for aid aloud ;
Bought not the law’s protection,
Nor pity from the crowd.
But gave, quite unresisting,
'The treasure I have lost;
Nay rose, forgave the robber
Whose path my own hail crossed.
“ Six feet." string and stalwart,
Captured by " five feet one,”
Bound by a tether liner
Than evet spider Bpun !
My captor wore a bonnet.
Mistv and blue and small;
Out side it rose or feather,
I cannot tell at all.
But pearls, and stars and roses,
And curling rings of gold,
Were somewhere twixt the bonnet
And the throat-tie’s silken fold.
And words with silver echoes
Bang as she passed me by,
And then my heart unguardod,
She boro off bodily.
’Twas thus the robber met me
One sunny Saturday-
Bobbed me in open day light,
Upon the broad highway.
CHANGE.
He picked a rose,
A sweet red rose ; and put it in her hair—
The rose-hue on her ohoek was not less fair
And said, “Sweet love, when roses bloom
again,
I’U eome from out the buoy haunts of men.
Ho koep the (lower of faith, no patience lack ;
Til come again to claim the blossom back.
He took a kiss
From her sweet mouth, her mouth so ripe and
red.
And as she kissed him, softly, sweetly said—
•* Dear love, when once again the Summer
glows
I’ll come again te claim my sweet wild rose ;
And when I come—oh, longed-for hour of
bliss— „
I’ll take my rose, and give you back your kiss.
He went his way ;
And she—as women will—Uved on his words ;
The very sunshine, all the songs of birds,
The roses lifting up their lips Oi bloom.
Kepeated oft his words—” I'll come! 111
come, , ,
She keops his gift—the blossom he had given
She treasured as she would a gift from Heaven.
She trusted him ;
And he—as men will do—with roses decked
The heads of other maidens : he was wrecked
On coral reefs of reddor lips. At last
Came with fresh roses memories of the past—
A red rose and a kiss. Ah, me, his vow.
That there was bliss, seemed such a tyrant
now.
Bat when ho came
To take again his pledge, she lay at rest—
The bit of faded bloom upon her breast ;
She was asleep—the sweet eyes in eclipse
Giving her kiss back to her waiting lips—
A truer lover, all unheard, unseen.
Whom meu call Death, had come their lips
between. ________
DAISY’S FAITH.
BT JONAS A H. MATHEWS.
Down in de b’ight deen meadow
Do pittv daisies' home
Daisies dat are my name sakes.
Mamma has let me tome.
S'e said dat s'e tonld see me
From her yoom window dere;
Besides. I know Our Farder
Will teep me in his tare.
Oh, see how many daisies,
Daisies so white an' fair—
Fll mate a weaf for mamma
To wear upon hair.
An' den 'e 'll loot so petty—
My dariin' own mamma—
An' tiss her title Daisy,
An' s'ow it to papa.
One. two. fee. sits, an" leven.
Handed an' eight, an' nine,
I b'ieve dat mos enough now
To mate it pitty tine •
I wouldn't be at aid here.
Mamma an* Dod tan see.
I know dey w uld let uosein
Tome near dat tonld hurt me.
De breeze ie soft an' toolin',
And tosses up my tnrls!
I dees it tomes from Heaven
To p'ay wis 'ittle dirls.
De birdies sin' so sweetly.
To me dey seems to say.
"Don't be at aid dear Daisy,
Dod teepa on ail de day."
I'U make a ball for baby
Soon as dis weaf is done.
An' den I'll fow it at her—
Ob me! my feads ail done!
Well den. Fit tate dis ribbon
Off tuy old st'aw hat:
I sint mamma would let me :
ril— oh, dear me, what's dat ?
I sought I did hear some sin'
Move in das bos' 'tiose by.
I'm not at all af aid dough ’
Oh ’. no, indeed, not I'
Mamma—why se's not lootin’,
S'e s Tgui de window don:
Den may be Dod is tired too.
Tause I tai'd here so lon'.
I dees I'll run a 'ittle,
I b'ieve Dod wants me to, >
He tant tate too much t'ouble
I sint I'd better do.
An’ tate my pitty f owers.
An' tay ur's mamma dear.
Dod is way np in Heaven.
I would hte someone near.
Mv daisies! dey are failin',
Sly ban's are e'atin so.
Oh, dear I de weaf is boken !
Don't tare ’ I want to do.
1 know dere's somesin' live dere.
See now ; dere’s two big eyes
A lootin' ’yight straight at me.
Dod’s way up in de sties.
A good many publishers who expected
to wade through the financial crisis will
be somewhat discouraged when they
bear that there’s trouble at the Fords.—
Commercial Advertiser.
FROM SINDERSTILLE.
THE TRIAL OF THE INSURREC
TIONISTS.
Meeting of the Snperior Court—Able.
Eloquent and Impartial Charge of
Judre Johnson—-‘The Law is Oar
Sheet-Anchor”—No Report from the
Grand Jury Up to Four O’clock Yes
terday—An Important Witness from
Burke.
[.Special Inspatch. to the Chronicle and Sentinel ]
ANDEHsvrLLE, Ga., August 30, 1875.
The Superior Court met at ten o’clock
this morning, Hon. Herschel V. John
son presiding. The grand jury was
duly sworn and organized, with Theo
philns J. Smith, Esq., foreman. Judge
Johnson then delivered the following
charge to the grand jury :
Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the
Grand Jury :
Having been properly advised that an
insurrection, conceived and formed by a
portion of the blacks, for the indiscrimi
nate murder of the white people of this
aud other counties has been detected
and exposed, and that many have been
arrested upon the charge of complicity
with the horrid design, I have called
this special term under the three thou
sand two hundred and forty-fifth section
of the Code of Georgia, for the purpose
of a full investigation and the trial
of those against whom, if any, bills of
indictment may be found by your body.
Before entering upon the task before
yon I will submit to you a few remarks,
which may enable yon to perform it in
telligently and in a proper spirit. Un
der oar Code, sections forty-three hun
dred and fifteen and forty-three hundred
and sixteen, you have the definition of
insurrection, as follows:
Section 4315 of the Code says : Insur
section shall consist in any combined
resistance to the lawful authority of
this State, with intent to the denial
thereof, when the same is manifested or
intended to be manifested, in open vio
lence. Section 4316 of the Code says :
Any attempt, by persuasion or other
wise, to induce others to join in auy
combined resistance to the lawful au
thority of the State shall constitute an
attempt to incite insurrection.
Under section 4317 of the Code the
penalty is declared to be death, unless
the jury trying the accused recommend
him to mercy, and then the penalty is
confinement in the penitentiary for not
less than five nor more than twenty
five years. You perceive from these
definitions that a single person
cannot commit insurrection. The crime,
from its very nature, requires the joint
action of two or more. But one person
can commit the crime of attempting to
incite insurrection. The task before you
now is to inquire diligently into the
matter of this alleged insurrection in or
der to ascertain (first) whether there has
in fact been auy insurrection or any at
tempt by any person to incite insurrec
tion, and (seeond) to indict by bill or
presentment such persons as you may
find to be implicated. It is important
i’or you to know upon what testimony it
will be your duty to find true bills or to
make presentments. On this point let
me impress upon you (first), that you
are not authorized to find a true bill
against, nor present any one, upon mere
suspicion. You must be governed by
proof. Secondly, That you are not au
thorized to find a true bill against, nor
to present any one, upon mere rumor or
hearsay testimony. The law presumes
every one to be innocent until he is
proven to be guilty, and the humblest
as well as the highest citizen i3 entitled
to the benefit of this presumption. No
one can be put in jeopardy of life or
liberty upon mere suspicion, or rumor,
or hearsay. But whilst I thus instruct
you, you are not to infer that the law
requires positive and irrefragible proof
of guilt in order to justify you in find
ing a true bill against or presenting any
one for the commission of crime; for it
is not your province to try parties and
decide finally upon their guilt or inno
cence. That responsibility is devolved
by law upon a petit jury. Investiga
tions before you are ex parte. You hear
but one side of the case; that is, such
testimony only as may be produced by
the prosecutor or informer. Hence it is
impossible for you to say whether a
party is actually guilty or not. All you
can do is to find whether from the tes
ti.’nony before you as a grand
jury you believe the accused to
be guilty. In that case it is
your duty to find a true bill
or to make presentment. So far from
trying parties yourself it is for you only
to say whether they shall be tried. If the
evidence adduced before you leads you
to believe that the party is guilty, you
should find a true bill or make present
ment, and thus decide that the accused
shall be put on trial. Otherwise you' will
find “no bill,” whioh simply means that
the presumption of innocence in favor of
the accused has not been removed or re
butted—that you do not believe he is
guilty and therefore he is not to be
tried' for the alleged offense. Now, as
to the amount of proof necessary to show
a prima facie oase oi guilt, I can give
you no definite rule. Each case must
stand upon the testimony viewed in con
nection with its attendant ciroumstan
stanees. But in all cases the proof must
be sufficient to satisfy your consciences
and judgments that the accused, accord
ing to that evidence, is guilty. On
this point there is quite a conflict
among the authorities. On the one
hand it has been contended that
the grand jury should be satis
fied of the guilt of the defendant;
on the other hand it has been insisted
that iu case there be probable evidence
the grand jury should find the bill, be
cause it is but an accusation, and tbe
party is to be put upon his trial after
ward. In my judgment, the safe and
true rule is this : Suppose you were a
petit jury trying the defendant. If the
evidence before you as a grand jury be
guch that if unexplained or uncontra
dioted yon would find him guilty, then
you should find a true bill. To this, as
well as to all other questions, three
kinds of evidence are applicable, to-wit:
Direct, circumstantial and presumptive.
Direct evidence is that which immediate
ly points to the question in issue; cir
cumstantial evidence is that whioh only
tends to establish the issue by proof
of various facts sustained by their
consistency with the hypothesis
claimed ; presumptive evidence con
sists of inference drawn by hu
man experience from the connection
of cause and effect, aud observations of
human conduct. In applying these va
rious kinds of testimony to cases before
you you should first determine whether
there is sufficient direct evidence, if un
explained and uncontradicted, to show
that the accused is guilty. If so, find a
true bill; or, if there be no direct evi
dence’, or,’if any, not enough, inquire
whether there have been facts proved
which by their consistency with the hy
pothesis or guilt tend to establish the
guilt of the accused and satisfy your
consciences and judgments that accord
ing to such evidence uncontradicted and
unexplained, he is gnilty. If so, yon
should find a true bill, or if there be no
direct evidence nor enough in connec
tion with the circumstantial to make out
a oase of guilt, then inquire whether
from all the evidence, both direct and
circumstantial, the necessary inferences
drawn from human experience from the"
connection of canse and effect, and the
observations of human conduot uncon
tradicted and explained, you aro satis
fied of the guilt of the accused. If so,
you should find a true bill. On the
other hand, if neither the direot nor the
circumstantial, nor the presumptive,
sppnratrlj oonidor©d, now oil
kinds of evidence combined, be sufficient
to satisfy your consciences and judg
ments of the guilt of the accused, it will
be your duty to return no bill. You
have all served as grand jurors before
this, and you have been instruct
ed by the charge of the Court as to your
duties. Hence what I have said may be
unnecessary, but iu view of the gravity
of this occasion, and being animated
with an earnest anxiety for you to do
what is right, I felt constrained to im
part to you these special instructions in
order that you might proceed utjder
standingly. And now, gentlemen, I
will submit to you a few remarks in
relation to the spirit anditemper in which
you should conduct yonr investigations.
The phraseology of the oath you have
inst taken is pregnant with instruction.
Von have sworn that you will not present
any one “from envy, hatred or malice,
nor leave any one unpresented from
fear, favor or reward or the hope there
of, but that you will present all things
truly and as’they come to your know
ledge.” This applies as well to your
finding indictments as to presentments
made on vonr own mere motion. This lan
guage addresses your moral sense and
binds your conscience to the throne of
Eternal Justice, whilst by it you call
upon the Supreme Being to witness the
solemn obligation into which you have
entered. Then the spirit that should
animate you is that of strict impartiality
and fearlessness. Ordinarily this ad
monition would perhaps be deemed
unnecessary, but the circumstances
which have brought us together
are well calculated to excite the
indignation of the most prudent and
self-possessed. It is impossible to con
template with complacency a plot for
wholesale, indiscriminate and secret
murder of one race by a part of the
other race, which two constitute the
elements of one social organization. It
is difficult to suppress a feeling of vin
dictive revenge against those charged
with thus plotting bloodshed and
slaughter. But you and I are here in a
judicial capacity to administer justice
according to law and not according to
human passion. We must not permit
ourselves to be swayed in our conduct
by any angry impulse, however natural,
nor our judgments to be warped by the
rumors which may have been circulated
in reference to the alleged insurrection.
We are sworn to impartiality. We are
sworn to expel from our bosoms every feel
ing of hatred, or malioe, or revenge. We
are sworn to be guided by the light of
truth and to enforce the law just as it
is. Those who are alleged to have con
cocted this plot of insurrection are
colored people, lately the slaves of the
white race. This fact is calculated to
inflame the indignation of the latter and
intensify their feeling of insecurity* but
we mnst watch ourselves on this point.
They are free and entitled to a fair and
impartial trial. The law throws over
both races the same and equal protec
tion, nor is this any new feature in onr
code. It is not the fruit of emancipa
tion. Even when they were slaves they
were shielded by law and could not be
punished for violation ofthe criminal
code without a fair and impartial and
judicial trial. In this respect
emancipation has conferred on them
no nefr boon nor imposed upon
the whites any new obligations. Then,
gentlemen, in your investigations ig
nore the fact that the ‘accused are ne
groes, ignore the fact that they were
ever slaves, deal with them as free and
as if they were whites, and award to
them their full legal right to your im
partiality. Let it be our conscientious
resolve to afford them—that is, those
against whom, if any, you may find true
bills or make presentments—a fair trial
according to that law of our State, to
which all are alike amenable. In every
community—and, gentlemen, Washing
ton county is not tn exception—there is
a considerable number of men who un
der circumstances like these we are
considering are disposed to adopt ex
treme measures, and some will go even
so far as to advocate summary punish
ment, irrespective of the forms and
principles of law. Fortunately, in this
instance—and it should be recorded to
the honor of this county as well as of all
the other connties embraced in the sup
posed insurrection—not a gnn has been
fired, not a drop of blood has been
spilled, not an act of cruelty or violence
has been perpetrated by those who
were to be the victims of the alleged
plot. Such forbearance under such
circumstances is perhaps without a
parallel. It ought to acquit us of the
untrue and unkind imputations by those
to whom the facts are not known,
but gentlemen I am now speaking of
those among us, if there be such, who
may feel impatient of the restraints of
law and who would counsel extreme and
summary actions. They may disap
prove of much that may be done here.
They may complain if, you should
ignore bills of indictment that may be
preferred or fail to present any who is
supposed to be implicated. Remember
that you are sworn to act without fear.
Disregard outside influence and outside
clamor. Shrink not from duty but fol
low where truth and justice and law
lead, and time will vindicate your recti
tude and in the end your course will re
ceive unanimous approval. Duty im
partially performed imparts consolation
more precious than rubies, but disloy
alty to truth and rights leaves in the
soul a sting that is akin to the second
death. There is another class of censors
who impute the whole of this grave af
fair to the machinations of bad men
who desire to bring about a collision be
tween the races that the whites
may have a pretext for murdering
the blacks. This is contradicted
by the fact that throughout the whole
affair not an act of violence has been
perpetrated against a colored man; but
I do not allude to this calumny for the
purpose of refuting it. The investiga
tion on which you are about to enter
will show whether or not it is a scheme
concocted by white men for any such
mean and brutal purpose, but I refer to
it to admonish you not to be influenced
by it in any way or in any degree. Let
it not excite your prejudice against the
black race nor incline you to shape your
aotion with the view of conciliating such
censors. Be firm and true to duty. Ig
nore every consideration calculated to
divert you from the path of inflexible
rectitude. The innocent sbonld not be
prosecuted, much less punished, but the
guilty must take the consequences of
their conduct. It is of the utmost im
portance that we adhere to the law, fol
low the law, conform to the forms and
principles of the law. The law is our
sheet anchor. Its mission is to protect
property, life and liberty. It guards
with flaming sword the hovel as well as
the palace, and throws its aegis over the
poor and the weak as well as the rich
and the mighty. Without law anarchy
and revolution must reign, and society
recede to the darkness and cruelty of
barbarism. Its supremacy must be rec
ognized and maintained, and this im
plies not only its enforcement when vio
lated, but also a cheerful obedience to
it by all. Voluntary obedience to whole
some laws is the very essence of liberty
and the most distinguishing character
istic of a good citizen, and their
firm and impartial enforcement, when
violated, by a free, pure and inteligent
judiciary is the very essence of good
government. Then, bowing before the
majesty of the law, let us hold the scales
of justice with steady hand and unfal
tering purpose.
The Court room was crowded with
spectators. The State was represented
by Hon. N. J. Hammond, Attorney-
General, John W. Robeson, Solicitor-
General Middle Circuit, Col. W. H.
Wylly, Salem Dutcher, Esq., and J. A.
Robeson and R. L. Rodgers, Esqs. A
portion of the prisoners were repre
sented by Gilmore & Jordan, Col. J. M.
Stubbs, Longmade and Evans, and
Col. Thomas Evans. Hon. A. T. Aker
man will represent all not represented
by other counsel.
The Court adjourned at noon to three
o’clock. The grand jury having re
ported no bills at 4 o’clock, p. m., the
Court adjourned till 10 o’clock to-morrow
morning. An important witness from
Burke is to be brought here this even
ing by Sheriff Bell. S. F. W.
ABDUCTING AN HEIRESS.
Clswego, N. Y., August 23. —Last
Spring Mrs. Guimaraez, widow of a
wealthy Spaniard, who bequeathed her
an estate of over a million dollars and
an almost princely income from royalties
on all the mahogany and other valuable
timber exported from certain districts
of Brazil, came to this city from Rio
Janeiro. Her family consisted of her
adopted daughter, Jessie, a girl of great
personal beauty, whom Mrs. Guimaraez
adopted at the age of four years, and
who now is about sixteen, and a South
American girl, still younger, whom she
brought with her to educate. Mrs.
Guimaraez was a native of Oswego
county, and adopted Jessie, who also is
her niece, during the life of her first
husband, with whom, as well as herself,
the child was a pet. For several years
Jessie has been sent North, and has
visited her mother’s relatives in the
town of New Haven, Oswego county,
where lives a family named Simmons,
and another named Calkins, whom she
also visited.
On Monday the Simmonses visited
Mrs. Guimaraez, and Jessie was per
mitted to go home with them. Jeffer
son Simmons is station-keeper at Sand
Hill, a small station on the Rome and
Oswego Railway. Calkins, whose wife
is a cousin of Mrs. Guimaraez, keeps a
petty grocery at the same place. On
Tuesday afternoon it is alleged that
Jessie was in Calkins’ store, and he ask
ed her to drink some pop. She drank
one glassful, after which she claims to
have become unconscious, in which don
dition oh wm taken into • mniage By
Frank Calkins, son of the storekeeper,
who drove to Holmesville, three miles
distant, and there a Baptist minister
married him to the girl, after which he
drove back to Sand Hill, and left her at
Simmons’ house. Jessie says that the
first thing that she recollects after drink
ing the pop is being in Mrs. Simmons’
and hearing young Calkins telling Mrs.
Simmons that they were married. She
has an indistinct recollection of riding
aloßg a road in the interval of uncon
sciousness. Tbe evening of the mar
riage voung Calkins went to Oswego,
told Mrs. Guimaraez that Jessie had
married him, and tried to reconcile her
to the match. On Wednesday morning
Jessie returned, accompanied by her
friends, and related her story, alleging
that she had been drugged. On the
afternoon of the same day Mrs. Gin
mareaz started with Jessie for Illinois,
intending for the present to leave her
with her parents, who live somewhere
in that State, and procure a divorce at
once. The friends of the girl allege
that it was a job put up by the Cal
kinses, who knew Mrs. Guimaraez s af
fection for Jessie, and that she would
be the sole heir to her wealth. Calkins
is a dissolute fellow, and has been em
ployed as a track hand on the Rome
and Oswego Railway. The Calkinses
will probably be proceeded against
criminally on charge of abduction.
A young manufacturer of out ac
quaintance is making money fast on this
motto, parodied from “Poor Richard:”
“Early to bed, and early to rise; never
get tight, and advertise.”
A newspaper biographer, trying to
say his subject “ was hardly able to
bear the demise of his wife,” was made
by the inexorable printer to say, “wear
the chemise of his wife.”
Does the Court understand yoa to say
that you saw the editor intoxicated?
“Not at all, sir, only Pve seen him in
such a—a—a flurry as to attempt to
cut np copy with the snuffers; that’s
all.”
A Colombia professor, reproving a
youth for the exercise of his fists, said:
“We fight with our heads here.” The
youth reflected, aud replied that but
ting wasn’t considered fair at his last
school.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Beggars on Horseback—Their
Present Condition—Senator Patter
son-Petticoat Protection—Elliott—
Colonel Charley Minort—Neagle and
HU Bridge—What Will They Do ?
[Seuj York Sun.] '
The return of Governor Chamberlain
to his prosperous principality introduces
him to a strange set of beggars who be
set his pathway with their prayers.—
Those green bay trees, which have flour
ished around Columbia in their wicked
ness so long that retributive justice ap
peared to have slept upon the seat of
mercy, are they whose proud heads are
now bent in tearful demands for frater
nal and Execntive assistance. The Gov
ernor’s organ cruelly reaps the benefit of
these appeals, which appear nnder the
head of sheriff's sales, and which have
been precipitated by the failure of
Hardy Solomon’s bank. U. S. Senator
John J. Patterson comes forward with
all his household goods, which are to be
sold on sale day next. His cottage is
beneath feminine control, so that honest
Johns creditor’s are unable to acquire a
title to it through their executions
against him. A few years ago he urged
his nomination for Congress in the
Fonrth Congressional District upon the
groan and that he owned three railroads
through that district, the Spartanburg
and Union, the Lanrens and the Bine
Ridge Roads, while he was Vice-Presi
dent of a fourth, the Greenville and Co
lombia Railroad. Bat his title deeds
have all wilted, and his cups and sau
cers, tables and chairs are all that the
sheriff can find to advertise out of the
colossal fortune which rewarded the
Senator’s honest labors, His good lady,
though not so active, has been more
fortunate, and has been able to retain
the Mansard roof cottage and water
works as the price of her endurance, so
that probably the sheriff will turn over
to her as purchaser the household goods
he must sell.
Elliot’s Downfall.
But Patterson is not alone ; his sable
neighbor in Columbia, ex-Congressman
Elliot, at present Speaker of the Lower
House of the South Carolina Legisla
ture, is in identically the same fix. The
sh’eriff has levied upon his library, as the
last remnant of the Speaker’s responsi
bility. His Mansard roof, with his
plates, saucers, &c., are already vested
in Mrs. Elliot, with a contingent re
mainder to the little Elliots, and soon, it
is supposed, she will take a literary
turn and become the owner of her hus
band’s tools of trade. Elliot has been
the owner of many fine houses and plan
tations and studs of horses, and is yet in
the enjoyment of a fine practice as at
torney at law among his brother Radi
cals. But his lands have passed away,
his clients are impecunious, and his
luxurious habits remain such that he is
continuity pressed for money to main
tain his princely style. The condition
of the ladies in these families is bad
enough, but that of tho wife of one
the honorable Senators is worse. An
drews, of Orangeburg, who purchased
one of the finest old mansions about the
capital, impaired his personal credit so
much by his domestic sacrifice iu mak
ing it over to his lady, that she had to
become responsible for future liabilities,
and the sheriff has laid his ruthless
hand upon the homestead.
A Gallant Wreck.
Charley Minort, the gallant colored
Colonel of Moses’ militia, who defended
Governor Frank when the sheriff of Or
angeburg sought to attach the cor
poreal existence of the State on a charge
of larceny, has all his property paraded
before the world, and offered for sale by
the same public broker at the same time
with his compatriots. Charley was rich.
He sat down one evening, a poor man,
to a little game of draw poker with his
friend, Brigadier-General Whipper, who
from his multifarious possessions was
styled the Black Prince, and by next
morning Charley had earned all that
Whipper had hoarded up. The title
deeds were made to him for many val
uable lots around the capital and the
gallant Colonel, beaming with luck and
military renown, threw himself in the
breach against the black Senator, Bev
erly Nash, for the seat which had form
erly been occupied by Preston, Black
and Hampton. His luck deserted him,
and he has gradually been going down
until now the sheriff’s flag floats over
him. State Adjutant-General Henry
W. Purvis, a colored knight, formerly
of Philadelphia, is in the fashionable
catalogue. And as there is apparently
nothing else of this world’s goods be
longing to him to satisfy his rapacious
creditors, the sheriff has announced the
sale of the General’s war horse. It iB
hoped, however, that there will be
enough left from the Freedman’s Sav
ing Bank at Washington to enable.the
family to save their champion’s steed,
and remount him for the “war of races,”
or else the next regular races on the
Congaree’s course, where he has so often
figured.
Poor Neagle.
The advertisements are not closed.—
Poor J. L. Neagle, the richest of the lot,
comes in. His beautiful iron bridge,
which spans the Congaree, and whose
daily toll should be a fortune to any or
dinary man, falls beneath the hammer.
Gen. Sherman, ou his approach to Co
lumbia, burned the former bridge, and
Neagle purchased in tho days of his
plenitude the old piers and powers of
the former company. Asa member of
the great Bond Ring, who had kicked
the conversion bonds of South Carolina
along the pavements of Wall street, he
had an abundance which seemed to defy
fate, and it enabled him to throw a
modern structure across those old piers,
which he intended should be unto him
and his posterity a monument and a
support forever. But he borrowed from
the Bank of the State, and unfortunate
ly antagonized the powers of Governor
Chamberlain. The windfall of Parker’s
coupon-funding came in, and by pledg
ing the consolidated bonds which they
brought him, he delayed the eventful
day of sale which threatened. But the
day for their redemption came. He was
in the hands of the Philistines, and his
bonds sold for twenty-eight cents on the
dollar. Worse still; Chamberlain, as
the attorney for Receiver Puffer, closed
upon his bridge, and now the freshet
which has swept his neighbors is upon
the last hope of the family. Is it any
wonder that in his outrageous moments
he becomes defiant to law, and bom
bards with his trusty rifle all who appa
rently cross the horizon of his setting
sun ?
General Disaster.
•
These are individuals. Along with
them, however, is the city of Columbia.
This beautiful municipality, which vies
with Versailles or Baden-Baden in her
groves and quiet, classic grandeur, has
been for eight years beneath Radical
rule. The Corporation Council have
rolled up an extraordinary debt, not
withstanding that during their time
Colombia has been the common recep
tacle into which the stolen resources of
the whole State have been lavishly
poured. Millions npon millions of
money, wrung by piecemeal from every
hearthstone throughout the Common
wealth, have been expended by the
thieves who have beset her, among her
merchants and trades-people, and yet
she has exceeded her chartered limit of
indebtedness, and has recklessly laid
her corporation property—her water
works and her parks—liable to the sher
iff's hammer. Large meetings of her
protesting citizens have been called, aud
her •wrong** hav boon ezpoMid, but the
sale goes on as if the day of general
jndgmentand final retribution had come.
Paints and Enamels.
A Paris correspondent records these
dreadful secrets: Avery curious in
dustry in Paris, and one that is more
extensive than might be supposed from
its nature, is that of paints, pencils,
and powder for making up the com
plexion. Most of the great performers
such as Gnarlain, Pirer, etc. have a back
room to their shops, especially devoted
to this mysterious commerce. The
ordinary method of danbing the face,
first with a white paint, and then with
ronge, finds no favor with the consum
mate artists who teaoh the use of these
beautifying compounds. For whitening
the skin, a preparation is shown that is
composed of some insolnable powder in
a liquid; the bottle must first be well
shaken and a very small quantity of its
contents mnst then be taken on a fine
old linnen rag or bit of cotton and rub
bed around and around till the prepara
tion penetrates the skin thoroughly.
This wash makes the complexion beau
tifully white without a trace of theflonri
ness of powder or ordinary paint, ltis
very costly, being sold at twenty dollars
for a small bottle full. Next comes the
rouge, which is also very costly, being
valued at eighteen dollars for a box of
the best quality. From this superfine
article the grades descend through dif
ferent prices till we reach the coarse
sixty-oent ronge, which no well-bred
beauty would condescend to use. Differ
ent shades of rouge are sold for different
occasions; there is a shade for daylight,
one for the theatre, one for the ball-room,
one for the race-course, etc. Then we
have a scarlet liquid used for coloring
the lips and a black powder for blckeo
ing the edges of tbe eyelid; this last re
quires some dexterity in its nse, as it
must be'put on as a powder and delicate
ly “washed in” with a fine linnen rag
and lake-warm water. Black and brown
pencils are used for making the arch of
the eye heavy, and a pencil of delicatest
blue comes for tracing the veins on the
snrfac of the painted skin. To
aid in this last Aowning touch of the
whole artistic performance, a chart has
been prepared which gives with medical
accuracy the position of every vein in
the human face, neck and chest. The
negative quality of harmlessness is
claimed for most of these pigments, yet
deaths from too free use of them are
not uncommon. M. Obin of the Grand
Opera was killed by white paint where
with ;he whitened his head when he
played WelHsm Tell, and Mad’lle Mass,
the celebrated actress, fell a victim to
the poisonons effect of the hair-dye,
wherewith she restored the raven hue
of her profuse tresses.
OCR ATLANTA LETTER.
The “Hub of Georgia”—Fuss, Rush,
Ramble—The Übiquitous Street Car
—The All-Pervading Dustr-Atlanta
as a Summer Resort—Her Palaces
and Hovels—Her “Mineral Waters”
—Ponce De Leon and Lager—Hand
some Jack Brown and Rosy Loch
rane.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Seniinci.l
KmntAT.T. House, September 1.
It strikes me as something proper that
Atlanta should be called “the Hub of
Georgia,” not by any means for the
same reason as that place of the Frog
pondians (as Poe termed them), who be
so moral in the shadow of Bunker Hill
monument of Centennial memory, but
because there is such an unfailing and
unceasing and prevailing hubbub here.
Noise, fuss, rnsh, rumble, eternally and
forever, during the day aud harilly
stopping when night folds her pinions
over this side of the globe and people
and things elsewhere sink to dewy and
needed repose. through the mid
dle of the town roll trains of cars,
freight and passenger, all the time; not
quietly and as on India rubber wheels
as in onr own calm and delightful Au
gusta, but with snorts and puffs, and
backing and clanging that take away all
faint remembrance of lolling in a
Pullman sleeper and gazing happily
oat npon green valleys and leafy land
scapes and snowy fields and peaceful
rural homes that flitted by, and force
one to think but of the cinders and grit
and rush and dangers and death of
railroading. * If you turn away from the
tracks that interlace in the vale of the
depots,, to se,ek a spot for a moment’s
quiet, you are met by Babels of brick
and mortar'going np three and four
stories high with the noise of trowell
and falling debris and the shouting of
workmen and answers of hodcarriers
responding from far below. For let it
not be whispered in Gath that a work
man or employee in Atlanta ever speaks
in tones less loud than the highest pitch
of his voice. If a man wants a dray or
a truck or a phaeton or a wheelbarrow,
it is the rule to stop on the Bidewalk or
on some corner, and yell tell somebody
brings what is desired. It’s the only
way one can bo heard at all, and any
person pursuing another plan would be
permitted to die in the street and give no
sign. And where you don’t find these
drays and vehicles and workmen that
are not mute and screaming engines and
rumbling trains, there you will meet
the inevitable—the ever passing street
cars, two mules and a driver to each
with a whip that seems to possess the
principle of perpetual motion with
which it is determined to endow those
mules’ tails. Try to avoid them by
flanking a corner and there you’ll be
confronted and confounded always by
two and sometimes more. They
are übiquitous—they are everywhere,
and always moving (under the
philosophical exertions of those drivers’
whips), and yet never missing a pas
senger, for these Atlanta car drivers
have their eyes constantly on vidette
duty, and if they see a fellow shying
around a corner in full retreat from their
noise and dust and the noise and dust
that are everywhere they’ll pull up and
go slow to see if the victim wont come
back and be suffocated and made dumb
by a ride with them. Any one
of them will do this, and really
it seems to be a trick of their trade.
These street ears are not to be escaped ;
they go on all the streets; and where
there’s no railroad train count on a
street car or two just passing. They
run on Peachtree and on Deeatur, on
Whitehall and to Taylor Hill, out to
West End on Marietta, on Loyd to Mc-
Donough, and somewhere else, to Ponce
de Leon, to the Mineral Springs, to the
Cemetery, and the Lord knows to what
other seaport! Indeed someone has
suggested that if any one wanted to
make a trip to the place where the wick
ed do not cease from troubling, but will
be in full blast, it is only Decessary to
commit the valorous deed of mounting
one of these street cars, giving the
driver a five cent ticket and instruc
tions, and he’d stop pretty soon and
point to Descensus Averni in a close lit
tle valley just over a bill, and say fare
well. It may be imagined that one
must have traveled at least one season
on the Great Sahara to approximate
an appreciation of the capacity of
dust. It rises everywhere,
and settles in the same locality. A pitch
er of water left for an hour in a most
carefully protected room will be cover
ed on the surface with a thick coating
that looks anything but inviting. It is
thrown in your eyes, searches out the
ramifications of your throat, causing a
cough as hacking and horrible as that
of consumptives, ruins good clothes in
a trice and invades all homes and fire
sides and rooms and places of business.
It is now three inches deep in the streets
and on the crossings with an upward
tendency. Ladies are confined indoors
by it, for it is of such a penetrating red
brown that the most snowy skirt loses
its neat look in a moment amidst it. But
it doesn’t trouble the average Atlanta pe
destrian, and he never seems in lovelier
feather than when going at breakneck
speed through its involving folds with
both eyes cocked and his pocket hand
kerchief at his nose. Walking in At
lanta is not fashionable or business
like; the fox trot quickstep is the mode.
A friend observed a propeller making
such style of locomotion as this at the
sultry hour of noon, and pointedly won
dered if “that man had just realized a
thousand dollars on a peanut specula
tion or fondly expected to make a nickle
in six weeks.”
The miserable brick red dust might be
laid in the streets by utilizing the $500,-
000 waterworks just made available by a
system of holly pipes that run over the
city, but it is supposed the pipes will
keep up their successful bursting until
the season is over and tbe wet weather
takes the dust off the stage and brings
on the equally as miserable mud. Be
tween her dust and her mud, may the
good Lord in all seasons have mercy on
Atlanta 1
The dreamer who dreams that there is
anything green in Atlanta hugs a vain
delusion to his fancy’s breast. It is a
place of brick and mortar, of red hills that
jut np their dry backs in many
sections in startling barrenness, of smoke
and cinders, of dust that hangs like an
obscuring cloud over its limits, and of
the heat that oppresses as it surprises
one at this season. Tourists have come
and stay for a few days, but these dis
tractions caused an early exit in nearly
all cases, and the glory and pretensions
of Atlanta as a Summer resort have
paled and faded before a practical test.
The Summer just closing, the Gate City
has been much of a failure in this par
ticular, and its faithful dailies, which
are about as good for blowing about
this mountain metropolis as her railroad
engines are, have toned down with won
derfully good taste and in them almost
unprecedent modesty. In the subnrbs,
or, more correctly speaking, in the outer
limits, of the city there are not a few
delightfully situated and tastefully or
namented residences, at which the nights
must be most graciously cool and airy,
but this doesn’t hold good as to down
town places. We do not remem
ber a Southern city that shows to
more advantage, and none that is like
it in this bnt rolling Richmond on the
James ; for though surrounded in a
measure by a range of mountains, At
lanta is built in a valley of hills, and
thus placed on a hilltop as it were shows
herself to all the world for what she’s
worth in bnildings and in architectural
features; aud in these there is a strange
mingling of piles of mortar and tumble
down shanties, of palatial residences
and humble hovels of dirt, side by side
in grim contrast.
Upon the question of mineral waters,
at Ponce de Leon, at the West End and
at another place not yet visited by your
correspondent, about all of which the
enterprising journals here have been ex
cessively loud (for Atlanta in all things
is a loud city), the popular verdict
seems now agreed that they might have
been discovered, analyzed, puffed and
improved with granite curbs and
fancy temples a thousand years
ago with the same nominal bene
fit to siok humanity. The board
ing house for invalids so enthusiastically
constructed at West End seems deserted
and tenantless, and “the path to the
cottage has now grown green and all
looks quite lonely around,” while the
boat that was made notorious we are
told by drowning a young lady now rocks
and rote on the artificial pond hard by
with only an occasional pleasure party
to tng at its levers and make its side
paddles splash. As to the virtues of
this celebrated water, an old resident
told ns he had never heard of its making
the lame walk, curing the blind or heal
ing the sick, althongh he had known it
for a score of years and passed it three
or four times every day—but he was a
gentleman frotft the country and may be
ruled ont as a bad witness about a city
attraction. Ponce de Leon should be
twice as fine a mineral resort for they
charge twice the fare on the street line ont
there, bat aside from being delightfully
located in a romantic spot and affording a
cooling draught ont of a slightly chaly
beate spring that gushes forth from a
rock in the hillside where it is nearly
always protected from the sunshine’s
warmth, we could find no feature for
which it should justly be renowned but
an underground dispensary of as mean
lager as ever gave a Christian the head -
ache.
While not a success as a Summer
resort, serving more as a brief resting
place for pleasure seekers than as an
abode for any great time in the hot sea
son, the charming inducements Atlanta
offers to those returning from higher
latitudes to spend tho opening month or
six weeks of Autumn in a bracing and
pure atmosphere yet free from too great
chilliness are well and properly appre
ciated. The Fall rains will dispel
the dust and still not be suffi
ciently copious to bring the Nile
like deluge of Winter mud, and
thus the city will be most agreeable to
sojourners. The advantages are already
bringing down tourists who have fled
before the advance of Jack Frost in the
mountains, many of whom have thus
early arrived and taken quarters, with
the design to await here the further pro
gress of the season.
For amusement in the evening, visitors
and the festive of the city are reduced
to the musical entertainments nightly
given at the “Reading Room” on
Marietta street by a band of wandering
harpers who inaugurate their perform
ances with a grand voluntary overture,
and All ont their succeeding programme
by collecting toll in a hat —the same old
way those street musicians cultivate in
going for a nickle or a copperjack.
The latest sensation among men in
Atlanta and the present notoriety of the
city in the genus homo is Col. Jack
Browiff the new collector of Internal
Revenue for the United States. He
made a bully and a gallant light for the
confirmation of his appointment against
a clan of the Radicals, headed by Potash
Farrow, and won by his pluck a triumph
that has gained him a flattering recep
tion here. Farrow’s scalp as Federal
District Attorney for Georgia is said to
be the coming trophy of this skirmish,
and it is whispered that his victor
stands a fair ohance to become
his successor. This may or may
not come out a true prophecy or
calculation, but one thing is certain
Col. Brown is the first man who has
been, in official circles here for some
time who has in public opinion tackled
Judge Lochrane on good looks, and
some gossippersare now animatedly dis
cussing the debate whether the genial
Judge or the handsome Colonel is the
more distinguished in appearance. If
your correspondent could scan the future
with prophetic ken and read in the stars
or coffee grounds, or anywhere else the
fate of men and nations, as well as he
knows the bill of fare of the Kimball
House (since he has been here), and can
speak of the pleasant attentions of mine
host, Col. Geo. McGinley, to his numer
ous guests, he would at once announce
who will be the nominee and who the
next Governor of Georgia. Leaving this
with becoming modesty to your more
acute diviners, we beg to put in for one
qualification as essential for the man
the people will vote for—he must Inan
age the affairs of the State as ably and
as satisfactorily as Colonel McGinley
runs this magnificent hotel. [N. B. We
haven’t paid our board bill, but expect
to.]
When you publish this cursory letter
your correspondent will be in Tennes
see or some other State, but he will not
return to Augusta by the Atlanta route.
J. D. C.
REMINISCENCES OF ANDREW
JOHNSON.
To the Editors of the Tribune :
Sib—l see you are publishing reminis
cences of the late ex-President Johnson.
Will you let me add one or two ? In
1866 I was sent by the Bishop of South
Carolina to tho North, to try and raise
money to establish a school for colored
children, under the charge of the Episco
pal Church, to be managed by Southern
men, and with .Southern teaohers. At
that time the education of the colored
people was not so popular at the South,
but the Episcopal Church in this State
had always taken a lively interest in the
negro. At the first convention held
after the war a policy was declared and
adopted which has been followed ever
since, and it was to carry this out that I
was sent to the North. While in New
York I saw in the papers that the Marine
Hospital in Charleston would probably
be condemned, and if Congress would
order it sold and the President would
sign the title I hoped to be able to pur
chase the building, as it was admirably
adapted to our purpose. So I went to
Washington, and called on General O.
O. Howard. I had saved the life of one
of his lieutenants, Lieutenant John A.
McQueen, of the 15th Illinois Cavalry,
and had taken him in a buggy from
Camden, South Carolina, to Raleigh,
North Carolina, and had him sent through
the lines to Gen. Howard. This was
done in retarn for kindness shown by
the Lieutenant to my family when
Columbia was burned. Gen. Howard
took me to see the President. I told
him that I was what he was pleased to
call “a good rebel,’’that he had met me in
Columbia, etc. He also told the story of
Lieut. McQueen. Mr. Johnson listened
very patiently, and then asked what he
could do for me. I told him about this
Marine Hospital, and what we wished it
for, and asked him to sign the bill as
soon as it was passed. I entered fully
into the subject of our willingness and
anxiety, not only to accept the results of
the war in good iaith, but to do our
parts as Christian lpen to elevate and
Christianize these people. When I had
finished, Mr. Johnson took me by the
hand—yes, both bonds—and said this
was the pleasantest thing he had heard
from the South since he had been in of
fice; then turning to Gen. Howard, he
said: “I have often told you so. Just
let these gentlemen alone; they are
honest men, and true, and they will do
full justice; only give them time. They
are the best friends the negroes have,
and it will be found so in the long run.”
Then turning to me, he said : “Yes,
sir; I will sign the bill as soon as it
passes through Congress. You had bet
ter see some of the members of Con
gress about it,” and he added : “When
you are ready to buy it I will send you
a check for SI,OOO, my subscription to
the good work. ” The bill was passed,
and the building was bought, and Mr.
Johnson did send me his own check for
SI,OOO for the first large public schooles
tablished by Southerners at the South
for the education of the colored chil
dren—which school has continued to this
time, and the Home Commission fbr
Colored People of the P. E. Church has
paid its expenses annually.
This was in 1866. Soon after that
visit I drew up a petition for the pardon
of Mr. G. A. Trenholm, ex-Secretary of
the Treasury of the Confederate States.
I got Gen. Sickles, then in command of
Charleston, to recommend it. General
Howard signed it; also, Mr. A. A. Low,
Mr, Cyrus Curtis, Mr. Edwards Pierre
pont, and one or two others. These
names I obtained through the aid of
Dr., now Right Rev. A. N. Littlejohn,
D. D., Bishop of Long Island. With
this paper I went to Washington, and
waited at the door of the President’s
room for two days. At last about 5
in the afternoon, I got into his presence;
he recognized me, took my papers, and
told me to call in the morning, directing
the porter to anuoniice me as soon as 1
appeared. At 9:30, a. m., I was at bis
office. As I met the President, he put
out bis hand, saying : “I have signed
your papers, and have done so with
pleasure.” There were half a dozen
persons in the room when he said aloud,
“You, sir, are the proper person to
have this matter in charge, as the pastor
of Mr. Trenholm. lam glad you came
for this pardon, for I know there is no
money in this ease; a great many have
hurt their cause here by sending money
agents; I am determined no man shall
make money out of this business if I can
help it” He called his son Bobert and
told him to go with me through all the
offices and not to leave the paper but to
have it signed and delivered to me in
person. This he did, and if lam not
mistaken thus procured the first pardon
of a member of the Cabinet of the Con
federate Government. If you think
this of this sufficient interest, you may
rely upon the statement.
Respectfully, A. T#omer Porter,
Rector of the Church of the Holy Com
munion.
Aiken, S. C., August 7, 1875.
THE BIG BONANZA.
The Nevada Silver Mines—A Great
Product the Present Year.
. [Correspondence of the If. Y. Tribune .]
Virginia City, Nev., July 31. —The
mines in this city are so marvellous in
extent and operation that I should hesi
tate to give the facts in relation to them
were thej not certified by proofs so con
vincing that doubt is impossible. There
were shipped from the Consolidated
Virginia mine about 2,000 bars of gold
and silver, unseparated, or about $7,000,-
000, previous to the beginning of the
present calendar year. The following,
which I copied from the books of the
company, and verified by bills, receipts,
&c., shows the amount of the business
since that time : During the month of
January, 1875, there were shipped
$1,100,607; in February, $1,200,743; in
March, $4,707,571; in April, $1,509,657;
in May, $1,521,777; and in June, sl,-
503,816. From $18,000,000 to $20,000,-
000 a year, to be taken out of a single
mine is something worthy of remark. In
conversation with Mr. Crawford, Super
intendent of the mint at Carson City,
who was at the mine at the same time I
was, I was informed that a short time
ago he had a contract with the Consoli
dated Virginia to furnish the mint, for
coinage purposes, bullion to the amount
of $1,500,000. “It was delivered in just
twenty-one days,” said Mr. Crawford,
“and I have reason to believe that it was
nearly all produced from the mines dur
ing that time.” The contract was made
in a Very good time for the company.
The machinery in one mill cost a
quarter of a million of dollars, and one
engine in the Savage mine cost $120,000.
In the Consolidated. Virginia mine alone
1,000,000 feet of lumber are used every
month for bulkheads, and 40,000 cords
of wood are burned in one year in the
several mills and mines belonging to
Mackay, Fair & Cos., They have be
tween 3,000 and 4,000 men employed at
an average of four dollars per day. The
pay roll of one mine, which I saw my
self, for the month of June amounted
to abont $70,000. The firm pays $40,000
a quarter, or $200,000 a year, as fax on
the production of bullion for one mine.
The discount and express charges on
bullion to San Francisco cost the com
pany about SBO,OOO a month. The assay
department, spoken of above, is able to
melt, bar, assay and stamp SIOO,OOO a
day in gold and silver bars in combina
tion—the gold being about 45 per cent.
The weight of the bars is from 90 to 110
pounds. '
The following statement, which I
copied from the books of Wells, Fargo,
& Cos., will show the wealth of the Ne
vada mines and those of other States
and Territories. It is based on actual
shipments, and may be received as trust
worthy, it being a nearer approach to an
official statement than any yet given.
Mr. Valentine, the General Superintend
ent, regards it as absolutely accurate :
Statement of the Amount of Precious
Metals Produced in the Staffs and
Territories West of the Missouri
River During 1874.
California $20,300,531
Nevada 35,452,“233
Oregon 609,070
Washington 155,535
Idaho 1,880,004
Montana 3,439,498
Utah 5,911,278
Arizona 26,066
Colorado 4,191,405
Mexico 798,878 ■
British Columbia 1,636,557
Total $74,401,055
This table allows that Nevada’s pro
duct 'of the “recious metals last year
was greater than that of all the Territo
ries combined, and that it lacked some
thing over $3,000,000 of equalling the
combined bullion product of the entire
number of States and Territories West
of the Missouri river. If the yield of
the Nevada mines during the first half
of the present year is any indication of
this year’s production, there will be
more than $60,000,000 as against the
$35,452,233 of 1874. The shipments of
ore from the Consolidated Virginia mine
for the first six months of the year have
been over $8,500,000 as against less than
$5,000,000 of the entire year of 1874.
Mr. Flood and Mr. Fair both say they
expect to ship $4,000,000 of bullion a
month when they get fairly started.
While this seems an extravagant esti
mate, it would not be more remarkable
than the discoveries already. Indeed, it
is held by experts, among them Dr.
Linderman, director-general of the mint,
who went into the mine at the same time
I did, that there are from ten to fifteen
millions of dollars of ore in sight. Dr.
Rogers, of the University of Pennsyl
vania, an experienced mineralogist, said
the ore seemed practically inexhausti
ble, and from the manner in which it
lay he thought there was no doubt there
were “millions in it.” General La
Grange, Superintendent of the San
Francisco mint, is of the same opinion.
Dr. Linderman remarked, after com
ing out, that he had never seen so much
money in his whole life, and never ex
pected to see so riluch again. He will
embody the result of his examination
in an official report to Congress, and for
this purpose he took samples of ore
from every portion of the mines, and he
will have them assayed at the Carson
mint. Dr. Rogers will embody the re
sult of his examination in a report also.
Dr. Linderman thinks the Nevada mines
will have a great deal to do with the re
turn to specie payments. He sees no
reason why silver should not be in gen
eral circulation now instead of small
notes and fractional currency, as the
low price of silver in the London mar
ket makes a greenback dollar by the
quotation worth the mofe by one of two
cents.
PUBLIC REPORT
—OF A
POLICEMAN.
•
I have not enjoyed good health for several
years past, yet have not allowed it to interfere
with my labor. Every one belonging to tho
laboring class knows tho inconvenience of
being obliged to labor when the body, from
debility, almost refuses to perform its daily
task. I never was a believer in dosing with
medicines; but having heard the VEGETINE
spoken of so highly, was determined to try it,
and shall never regret that determination. As
a tonic (which every one needs at some time)
it surpasses anything I ever heard of. It in
vigorates the whole system; it is a great clean
ser and purifier of the blood. There aro many
of my acquaintances who have taken it, and all
unite in praise of its satisfactory effect.
Especially among the aged class of people,
it imparts to them the one thing most needful
in old age—nights of calm, sweet repose,
thereby strengthening the mind as well as the
body. One*aged lady, who has been suffering
through life from scrofula, and has become
blind from its effects, having tried many reme
dies with no favorable result, was induced by
friends to try the VEGETINE. After taking a
few bottles, she obtained such great relief that
she expressed a wish for her sight, that she
might bo able to look upon the man who had
sent her such a blessing.
Yours respectfully, O. P. H. HODGE,
i’olioe Officer, Station C.
Boston. Mass., May 9, 1871.
Heartfelt Prayer.
St. Paul, August 22, 1864,
H. H. Stevens, Esq.:
Dear Bib— l should be wanting in gratitude
if I failed to acknowledge what the VEGE
TINE has done for me. 1 waß attacked about
eleven months since with Bronchitis, which
settled into Consumption. I had night sweats
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frequently spit blood; was all emaciated, very
weak, and so low that my friendk thought my
case hopeless.
I was advised to make a trial of the VEGE
TINE, which, under the providence of God,
has cured me. That He may bless the use of
your medicine to others, as he has to me, and
that His divino grace may attend you, is the
heartfelt prayer of your admiring, humble ser
vant, BENJAMIN PETTINGILL.
P. B.—Mine is but one among the many
cures your medicine has effected in this place.
B. P.
MAKE IT PUBLIC.
South Boston, February 9, 1871.
H. it. Stevens, Esq.:
Deab Kik -I have heard from very many
sources of the great Bucoeas of VEGETINE in
cases of Scrofula, Rheumatism, Kidney Com
plaint, Cattarrh, and other diseases of kindred
nature. I make no hesitation in saying that I
know VEGETXNE to be the most reliable reme
dy for Catarrh and General Debility.
My wife has been troubled with Catarrh for
many years, and at times very badly. She has
thoroughly tried every supposed remedy that
we could hear of, and with all this she has for
several years gradually been growing worse,
and the discharge from the head was excessive
and very offensive.
She was In this oondition when she com
menced to take VEGETINE; I could see that
she was improving on the second bottle. Bhe
continued taking the VEGETINE until she had
used from twelve to fifteen bottles. I am now
happy in informing you and the public (if you
choose to make it public) that she is entirely
cured, and VEGETINE accomplished the cure
after nothing else would. Hence I feel Justi
fied in saying that VEGETINE is the most re
liable remedy, and would advise all suffering
humanity to try it, for I believe it to be a good,
honest, vegetable medicine, and I shall not
hesitate to recommend it.
I am, &c., respectfully,
L. C. CARDELL,
Store 451 Broadway.
VEGETINE acts directly upon the causes of
these complaints. It invigorates and strength
ens the whole system, acts upon the secretive
organs, allays inflammation, cleanse? and
cures ulceration, cures constipation, and regu
ates the bowels.
Has Entirely Cured Me.
Boston, October, 1870.
Mr, Stevens:
Deab Sib— My daughter, after having a se
vere attack of whooping Cough, was left in a
feeble state of health. Being advised by a
friend, she tried the VEGETTNE. and after
using a few bottles was fnlly restored to
health.
I have been a great sufferer from Rheuma
tism. I have taken several bottles of the
VEItETINE for this complaint, and am happy
to say it has entirely cured me. I have recom
mended the VEGETINE to others, with the
same good results. It is a great cleanser and
purifier of the blood: it is pleasant to take;
and I can cheerfully recommend it.
JAMES MORSE, 364 Athens Street.
SOLD BY ILL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS EVERY
WHERE. im-tw
Washington Female Seminary.
MISS E. F. ANDREWS, 1 PrincilMlla
MISS E. A. BOWEN, j "tncipals.
)
THE Fall term of this institution begins on
MONDAY, 23d of August, with a full
corps of teachers. The School is furnished
with a fine chemical apparatus, geological cabi
net. Ac., and the advantages it offers for mu
sic and the languages are excelled by no insti
tution in the South.
The beautiful home of the late Judge Gar
nett Andrews has been converted into a board
ing bouse for the pupils of this School, a place
unsurpassed in healthfulness, convenience
and beauty of situation. For full particulars,
apply to the Principals, at their residence in
Washington, Ga. jy24-d6Awlm
DOVER SCHOOL? VA.
THE Twentieth Session, of ten months, will
begin the FIRST MONDAY of SEPTEM
BER, 1875. A quiet home and a practical edu
cation given to Boys. Address R.B. McCob
mick, Principal. References; Gen. Hunter,
Warrenton, Va ; Bev. J. A Beoadies, D. D.,
Greenville. S. C.; Prof. John Hart, Richmond,
Va.; E. P. Raynolds, San Marcos, Texas.
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New Advertisements
Augusta Sayings Institution,
No. 249 Broad Street, Augusta, Ca.,
(NATIONAL EXCHANGE BANK BUILDING.)
Incorporated February IQ, lgys.
COMMENCED BUSINESS MAY Ist, 1875.
Deposits Received to July 31st. just Three Months from day of Open
lag, Over $60,000, and Over SIOO,OOO Declined Because not
Offered According to onr Terms of Deposit.
THIS INSTITUTION is founded upon the best and only safe principles for savings and accu
mulations. The management is in the hands of eleven of onr best citizens, worth, in the
aggregate, over ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,COO) ; and while all the property is liable for
the deposits, they are prohibited by the charter from borrowing cr using a dollar of the funds
of the Institution.
Deposits received in sums of one dollar and upwards. Interest paid on deposits remaining
under six months, and all profits divided amongst permanent deDositors, instead of paying them
ont to stockholders, as is done in all other Institutions in this State.
Mechanics, Laborers, Charitable Institutions, Executors, Administrators, Women and Chil
dren will find it to their interest to deposit their money here, where it will not only be safe and
secure against fire and thieves, but will also be accumulating.
Foreigners and others, wishing to send money abroad, can obtain Sight Drafts here on Eng
land, Ireland and Scotland, in sums of AT and upwards ; on Franoe, Switzerland, Belgium. Italy
and the Orient in sums of 10 francs and upwards; on all the citieß of Germany, Holland. Russia
and Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Portugal and Spain, in small or large sums,
in the currencies of the various countries.
SAVE YOUR EARNINGS AND BE INDEPENDENT !
ALFRED BAKER, President. J. S. BEAN, Jr., Treasurer.
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THE IMPROVED
Winship Cotton Gin ! !
Is ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE THE BEST BY ALL WHO USE IT, or have
seen it in operation. It is now the LEADING COTTON GIN in the South.
VERY LARGE REDUCTION IN PRICES—ONLY $3 50 PER SAW, DE
LIVERED.
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THE WINSHIP COTTON PRESS,
The Best and Cheapest WROUGHT IRON COTTON SCREW in tho market,
made to work by Hand, Horse, Steam or Water Power. Prices
reduced to suit tho times, and now Very Low.
' SIOO EACH AND UPWARDS, according to stylo of Press wanted.
EVERY GIN AND PRESS WARRANTED..
For further information and terms, apply to
C. H. PIIIMZI & eo., Agents,
jyl—w2m AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
MANY PARTIES
Within the past six mouths have professed to see the BOT
TOM in prices. Ton cannot really tell that the final bottom is
or has been risible. In many goods it is now to be seen at
JAMES A. GRAY’S, 194 and 196 Broad street, or it nerer will
be. On Monday morning, July 19th, we will offer Merchandise
at prices below any living man’s experience.
Twenty thousaud yards good styles Calicoes at 7 cents per
yard.
Splendid yard wide Bleached Cottons at 11 and 12 cents
per yard.
At the same time, the entire Stock of Summer Goods at
corresponding low prices. Consamers attention is solicited to
the prices of the following specialties in full assortments: Lace
Stripe White Dress Goods, Iron Bareges and Colored Dress
Goods, Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Gauze IJnderrests, Gents’ Supe
rior English 1-2 Hose, Gents’ Suspenders, Marseilles Quilts, Da
mask and Huckaback Towels, Doylies and Napkins. Immense
bargains in Corsets, all qualities. Pillow Case Cottons and Wide
Sheetings. To wholesale buyers for cash special indneements
offered in seasonable goods in order to reduce a large Stock.
JAMES A. GRAY.
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NEW FURNITUKE HOUSE
New Goods and New Styles I
O. Y. WALKEJEI,
Auction and commission merchant and wholesale and retail furni
ture DEALER, 817, 319 and 321 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia, few doors above the
Planters’ Hotel.
I am daily receiving at my New Furniture Rooms. 319 and 321, largo additions to Stock of
ELEGANT FURNITURE, which I propose to sell at NEW PRICES. These Goods have been
mostly selected in person from the best manufactories in the United States, and consist in part
of Parlor Sets, Chamber Sets, Dressing Case Sets, Chairs, Tables, Bed Springs, Rockers, Ward
robes, Side Board||Desks, What Nols, Hat Racks, Extension Tables, Washstandß, Bureaus,
Brackets, Lounges, Child’s Beds, Cribs, Trundle Beds, Tin and Wire Safes, Office Chairs, Marble
Top Tables. Ac., Ac. Also. Mattresses at $3 50. $4, $5, $6, $7 50. SB, $lO and sl2 each. EX
AMINE MY GOODS BEFORE YOU PURCHASE. (au22~tf) C. V. WALKER.
Fairbanks’ Scales.
The Standard.
ALSO,
Miles’ Alarm Cash Drawer.
C'IOFFEE and Drug Mills,Letter Presses, Ac.
J Principal Scale Warehouses, Fairbanks
A Cos., 311 Broadway, N. Y.; Fairbanks A
Cos., 166 Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md.;
Fairbanks A Cos., 53 Camp street, New Or
leans; Fairbanks A Cos., 93 Main street, Buf
falo, N. Y-; Fairbanks A Cos., 338 Broadway,
Albany, N. Y.; Fairbanks A Cos., 403 St. Paul’s
street, Montreal; Fairbanks A Cos., 34 King
Williams street, London, England; Fairbanks,
Brown A Cos., 2 Milk street, Boston. Mass.;
Fairbanks A Ewing, Masonic Hall, Philadel
phia, Pa.; Fairbanks, Morse A Cos., 11l Lake
Btreet, Chicago; Fairbanks, Morse A Cos., 139
Walnut street, Cincinnati, Ohio; Fairbanks,
Morse A Cos., 182 Superior street, Cleveland,
Ohio; Fairbanks, Morse A Cos., 48 Wood street,
Pittsburgh; Fairbanks, Morse A Cos., 6th A
Main street, Louisville; Fairbanks A Cos., 302
A 304 Washington avenue, St. Louis; Fairbanks
A Hutchinson, San Francisco, Cal. For Bale by
leading Hardware Dealers. Jy6-eodASv3m
N. A. STOVALL,
Warehouse & Commission Merchant,
No. 1 Warren Block, Augusta, Ga.
rpHANKFDL for the liberal patronage here-
I tofore bestowed, would take this occasion
to notify the Planters of Georgia and Carolina
ttiai be continues the Commission Business in
all its branches (except buying and selling fu
tures), and solicits consignments of Cotton for
sale or storage. He will give the selling of
cotton hia personal attention. He is, as here
tofore, Agent for the justly celebrated Patapsco
Guano and Grange Mixture.
augls-w3m M. A. STOVALL.
THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY,
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE—BALTIMORE,
MARYLAND. The next Annual Course
of Lectures will begin OCTOBER Ist, 1875,
and end February 24th, 1876. The Hospital
and General and Special Dispensaries, attached
to the College, furnish ample material for
daily Clinical Lectures. Every facility for
Dissection. For Catalogue and particulars,
address J. E. LINDSAY, M. D.,
Jy3o-eodAwlm Dean of the Faculty.
The Singer Sewing Machine Again
Triumphant.
rpHE WORLD’S AWARD AGAIN received by
X the World’s Favorite. Number of sales
for 1874, 241,679, or 146.852 machines more
than was sold by any other company during
that year. See the sworn statements of
each company at the office of the Singer Man
ufacturing Company,l4l Broad street, Augusta,
Ga. Agents wanted. WM. H. SAUL,
jell- Agent.
THE JAB. LEFPEL .
Double Turbine Water Wheel,
as Manatactnrea oy
If POOLE & HUNT.
JL Baltimore, Ha.
■■ 7/tOO XO W JIT VS El
SIS „ Simple, Strong, Durable,
| always reliable and eatia-
L oi
llfjgM Portable fi Stationary
Steam. Boilers,
A Grist Mills, Min.
vHHßflflraSVtn!? Machinery .Gearing
for Cotton Mills, Flour,
Paint, White Lead and
(M Kill Machinery, jßydraulic and other *
JNw ArtvorttHDim-mr.
AGENTS WANTED
We will prove, by facts and our splendid illustrat
ed circulars and extra term**, that our new book,
LIVINGSTONE’S LIFE and EXPLORATIONS and
LAST JOURNALS, outsells any other. The only
teuuiue low priced people’s edition, (550 pages, only
2 50, superbly illustrated. No matter what you
think—write and be convinced ; or, if in haste to be
gin work, send $1 for complete outfit for it and
another book gratis. VALLEY PUBLISHING CO.,
Cincinnati, Ohio. au2s-4w
Water’s Concerto Parlor Organs
Are the moat beautitul in style and perfect in tone
ever made. The CONCERTO STOP is the best ever
placed in any Organ. It is produced by an extra set
of reeds, peculiarly voiced, the effect of which is
most CHARMING and SOUL STIRRING, while its
imitation of the human voice is superb. WATER’S
NEW ORCHESTRAL VESPER, Grand and VIA
LESTE ORGANS, in Unique French Cases, combine
Purity of VOICING witii great volume of tone ;
suitable for Parlor or Church.
WATER’S NEW SCALE PIANOS
Have great power and a fine singing tone, with all
modern improvements, and are the BEST PIANOS
MADE. These Organs and Pianos are warranted
for six years. PRICES EXTREMELY LOW for cash
or part cash and balance in monthly payments.
Second-Hand instruments at great bargains. Pianos
and Organs to reut uut.l paid for as per contract.
AGENTS WANTED. Special inducements t:> the
trade. A liberal discount to Teachers, Ministers,
Churches, Schools, Lodges, etc. Illustrated Cata
logues mailed. HORACE WATERS h SONS,
481 Broadway, New York. P. O. Box 3,567.
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Trinity College, N. C.
SESSION commences SEPTEMBER 2, 1875. Full
Faculty, elegant buildings, superior board and
accommodations; location near High Point, on the
N. C. Railroad, very healthy. A receipt in full for
all expenses, except books and clothing, for five
months, will be given for S9O. Aid given to young
men of limited means.
Post Office, “Trinity College, N. C.”
Jy2B-4w B. CRAVEN, President,
A FORTUNE IN IT* Every family buys it. Sold by
a agents. : Address, G. 8. WALKER, Erls, Pa.
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For Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, and all
Throat Diseases, use
WELLS’ CARBOLIC TABLETS?
PUT UP ONLY IN BLUM BOXES.
A TRIED AND SURE REMEDY.
Sold by Druggists generally, and JOHNSTON.
HOLLOWAY, Philadelphia, Pa. jeHS-4
WHEREVER IT HAS BEEN TRIED
JURUBEBA
Haa established itielf as a perfect regulator and
sure remedy for disorders of the system arising from
improper action of the Liver and Bowels.
IT 18 NOT A PHYSIC, but, by stimulating the
secretive organs, gently and gradually remove*! all
impurities and regulates the entire system.
IT IS NOT A LOCTORED BITTERS, but is a
VEGETABLE TONIC,
Wblcb assists digestion, and thus stimulates the ap
petite for food necessary to invigorate the weakened
or inactive organs, and givea strength to aU the vital
forces.
IT CARRIES ITS OWN RECOMMENDATION,
as the large and rapidly increasing sties testify.—
Price One Dollar a bottle. Ask your Druggist for ft.
JOHNSTON HOLLOWAY A CO.,
Je2S-4w Philadelphia, Pa., Wholesale Agents.
Closing Out Wale
BY THE ASSIGNEES OF
C. C. GOODRICH.
A LARGE STOCK OF GOODS to bo sold
below cost, consisting of Harness, Saddles,
Bridles, Saddle Cloths, Horse Blankets, Collars,
Trunks, Valises, Satchels, Leather, Shoe Find
ings, Horse Broshes, Bite, Spars, Halters,
Buckles, Bings, Coppel: Rivets, Harness, Leath
er and Rubber Belting, Plantation Wagons, one
Herring Safe, one Desk, Show Cases, Counters,
Shelving, Ac., Ac. All goods remaining on
hand on September 21st will be sold at pnblio
outcry. JAMES J. BROOM,
G. W. SUMMEBS,
aulT-tuthaa&wtd Assignees,