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(Eftromcte anb Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY...SEFFBER 29, 1875.
A BONO OP SEPTEMBER.
September strews the woodland o'er
With many a brilliant color ;
The world is brighter than before —
Why should our hearts be duller ?
Sorrow and the scarlet leaf,
Sad thoughts and sunny weather,
Ah me ! the glory and the grief
Agree not well together.
This is the parting season—this
The time when friends are flying
And lovers now, with many a kiss
Their long farewells are sighing.
Why is earth so gayly drest ?
This pomp that autumn beareth
A funeral seems, where every guest
A bridal garment weareth.
Each one of ns, perchance, may here.
On some bine mom hereafter,
Beturo to view the gandy year,
But not with boyish laughter.
We shall then be wrinkled men,
Our brows with silver laden,
And then this glee may’st seek again,
Bat never more a maiden !
Nature, perhaps, forsees that spring
Will touch her teeming bosom.
And that a few brief months will bring
The bird, the bee, the blossom.
Ah ! these forests do not know—
Or would less brightly wither—
The virgin that adorns them so
Will never more come hither.
—Thomas W. Par tons.
[For Due Sunday Chronicle and Sentinel.]
“GAINS FOB ALL OUR LOSSES."
There are gains for all our losses,
Ho the Poet sweetly sings;
There is sunshine for the shadow
Of each cloud that sorrow brings.
Thoms there are. but not so many
As the Boses which conceal;
There is balm, they wisely tell us
For each heart-ache which we feel.
Is it so? Are age and wrinkles
Becompense for faded youth;
Are we paid back by Experience
For our loss of faith in truth ?
Does the wisdom we may gamer
Make us any St return
For the cruel scars we gather
While life’s bitter facts we leam ?
Ah! the lot most blessed hath trials,—
Never yet was mortal made,
Howe’er sunny was his pathway.
But walked sometimes in the shade.
For an under tone of sadness
Even has life’s sweetest song,
And the sunshine is so fleeting
While the shadows seem so long.
As we traverse earth's dull journey
We are losing every day,
Every step that bears m onward
Home rich Pearl doth drop away:
At the close of each day’s travel.
Wo may count our joys and pains,
And I think we’ll find our losses
Far outnumber all our gains.
’Tie a pleasant doctrine truly—
But for every heart-ache given,
If we find some balm t<f soothe us.
Twill be when we have reached Heaven.
As for this poor world of shadows.
With its dreams of faded Youth,
The sweet song the Poet sings us,
Has more poetry than truth.
AnacsTA, Ga. B. A. L.
THERE IB NO DEATH.
8t LOUD LYTTON.
There is no death ! The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore,
And bright in heaven’s jeweled crown
They shine forevermore.
Thero is no death ! The dust we tread
Bhall change beneath the Hummer showers
To golden grain or mellowed fruit,
Or rainbow-tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize,
And feed the hungry moss they bear;
The forest trees drink daily life
From out the viewless air.
There is no death 1 The leaves may fall,
And flowers may fade and pass away;
They only wait through wintry hours
The coming of the May.
There is no death ! An angel form
Walks o'er the earth with silent tread,
And bears our best loved things away,
And then we call them “dead.”
He leaves our hearts all desolate.
He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers;
Transplanted into bliss, they now
Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird-lke voice, whose joyous tones
Make glad these scenes of sin and strife,
Now sings an everlasting song
Around the tree of life.
Where'er he sees a smile too bright,
Or heart too pure for taint and vice,
He bears it to that world of light,
To dwell in Paradise.
Bom unto that undying life,
They leave us but to come again;
Witli Joy we welcome them the same,
Except their sin and pain.
And ever near us, though unseen.
The dear immortal spirits tread;
For all the boundless universe
Is life. There are no dead!
ONLY A BABY.
BY B. P. PEPPEBTON.
Only a baby that's slumbering there,
With a smile on its peaceful features;
Only a baby with face so fair,
Yet the dearest of all God’s creatures.
Only a baby! How the careless words sound
In the loving mother’s ears:
To whom there is naught in the world around
So deserving her smiles or so worthy her
tears. •
Onlv a baby—whose innocent ways
Win all hearts to cherish and love it;
An object to humor, and pet and praise ;
A being as fair as the heavens above it;
Too young to know either pleasure or sorrow.
To be cheered by bright hopes or discouraged
by fears ;
Having no thought of the cares of to-morrow.
Or the thorny pathway of future yeare.
Only a baby—with hands so small
That its Angers clutch nothing but Bpace ;
Grasping at everything, missing them all,
With a smile on its innocent face.
Innocence now; how long will it be
Ere life and its endless vexations
Will cloud the brow from care so free,
And mar the fairest of God’s creations ?
Only a baby—so helpless and weak,
And yet so strong in its helplessness ;
The baby eyes with such eloquence speak.
Commending each loving and tender caress.
Only a baby ? ’Tis a tyrant as well
As the monarch who sits on the throne—
That innocent smile hath a subtle spell,
Those tiny hands have a power of their own.
Only a baby to love and caress ?
"fis a soul just dropped from an angel's arms
A spirit immortal still bearing impress
Of the Power which endowed it with inno
cent charms.
Anew born mortal in form divine,
A soul from the unknown realms above,
A beautiful spirit, before whose shrine
We bow and acknowledge the power of love.
Only a baby in life's happy spring,
Tiny and frail as a delicate flower ;
But the cotring years of the future may bring
Knowledge and greatness, strength and
power.
The tongue now silent soon will speak;
Those eyes will flash with intelligent Ught;
The baby hands so small and weak
Soon will be toiling from morn till night.
When the world is in darkness the fresh falling
dew
OWes life to the flowers that are dying ;
After the storm there appears to our view
The bright face of the sun. the heavy clouds
flying
Before it. So with the storms of life it may
be
The clouds are dispersed by the smiles of a
baby. _
LOVE’S BELIEF.
I.
I believe if I should die.
And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie
Cold, dead and dumb to all the world contains,
The folded orbs would open at thy breath.
And. from its exile in the Isles of Death,
Life would come gladlv back along my veins.
I believe if I were dead.
And vou upoa my lifeless heart should tread—
Mot knowing what the poor clod chanced to
be
lt would find sudden pulse beneath the touch
Of him it ever loved in life so much.
And throb again, warm, tender true to thee.
n.
I believe if in my grave.
Hidden in woody deeps all by the waves.
Tour eyes should drop some warm tears of
regret.
From every salty seed of your dear grief
Some fair.'sweet blossom "would leap into leaf
To prove thA death oould uot make my love
forget.
HI.
I believe if I should fade
Into the realms where light is made.
And you should long once more my face to see.
I would come forth upon the hills of night
And gather stars like fagots, till thy sight.
Fed by the beacon blaze, fell full on me.
I believe my love for thee
(Strong as my life) so nobly placed to be,
It could as soon expect to see the sun
Fall like a dead king from his heights sublime.
His glory stricken from the throne of Time.
As thee unworthy the worship thou hast won.
IV.
I believe who has not loved
Hath half the treasure of his life unproved.
Like one who, with the grape within his grasp.
Drops it, with all its crimson juice impressed.
And all its luscious sweetness left unguessed.
Out of his careless and unheeding clasp.
I believe love pure and true
Is to the soul a sweet, immortal dew
That gems life's ratals in the hoar of dusk.
The waiting angels see and recognize .
The rich crown jewel love of paradise.
When life falls from ns like a withered husk.
At read by 3frs. E. L. Davenport
Mr. Henry A. Wise writes to the New
Haven Jtegittcr a long letter on the
currency question. He believes that
there is but one standard—that of
specie; the intrinsic value of precious
metals, and wonld have resumption on a
ai'ver basis brought about at once.
Captain John Jones dived over Niagara
a few days ago, to show how easy a
thing it was to do. The plunge must
have deafened him somewhat, for al
though his friends have been firing can
non all along the river, he has failed to
torn op or pay any attention to the noise.
GEORGIA.
THE “HERALD” AND “TRIBUNE"
ON OUR STATE.
Southern Opinion—Judge Johnson on
Paper Money—More Capital Not
More Currency— Mr. Akerman’s
Views—Confederate Currency and
Greenbacks—Georgia Inflationists.
[Staff Correspondence of the Tribune ]
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 6, 1875.
Since I came South I have been grati
fied to find that many of the most influ
ential men in this State, representing
both parties, are strong advocates of
honest currency. A few evenings ago I
listened to a very interesting conversa
tion on this subject, which took place on
the porch of the hotel at Sandersville,
and which was participated in by several
of the most prominent lawyers and poli
ticians of Middle Georgia. The senti
ment in that company was at least two
to one in favor of a sound currency con
vertible into specie. Judge Herschel V.
Johnson, who joined in the discussion,
sconted the idea that an irredeemable
paper money, no matter how abundant
it might be, could in any way promote
the prosperity of the South. What the
South needs is more capital, and not
more currency, and the cotton planter
whose crop fails to pay the cost of rais
ing it, would be just as short of moDey
if the volume of the currency were to
be doubled as now.
Among those present who joined in
the discussion were the Hon. A. T.
Akerman, ex-Attorney-General of the
United States. He said that he was un
able to conceive how any one who was
within the lines of the Southern Con
federacy during the war, and had fonr
years’ experience with the inflated mo
nev then in circulation, could advocate
inflation now. “The class who expect
to be most benefitted by the issue of
more currency,” he said, “is composed
of those who are in debt.. They expect
to pay their debts in a currency worth
less than that in which they contracted
them, and if they can do this, of course
inflation will, to a certain extent, relieve
them. But the truth is that men don’t
take advantage of these opportunities
when they are offered; they did not do
it here during the war, and, I believe,
they will never do it anywhere. Up to
July or August, 1863, Confederate mo
ney was very rarely rejected by anybody
to-wliom it was offered in payment of
debts contracted before the war or soon
after it began, and when our currency
was not depreciated. Up to that time it
was so generally considered disloyal to
refuse to take it that to do so would
subject one to suspicion if not to perse
cution. In other words, in the Spring
and early Summer of 1863 the debtors of
Georgia had an opportunity to discharge
tlieir obligations by paying them in a
currency worth only about 20 per cent,
as much as that in which they were con
tracted. But nobody did so; debts most
easily paid are not those which are most
promptly cancelled; thero was a sort of
intoxication caused by the handling of
money in such large nominal sums that
stimulated speculation, or men thought
that they would wait a little longer until
the currency was a little more depre-
ciated before they paid their delfts.
Then came the disasters of that Sum
mer; our paper money shrank very rap
idly in value, and, when the opportunity
was past, not one man in ten had taken
advantage of it. Since the war these
debtors have" been clamorous for relief,
and attempts have been made to give it
to them by means of ‘scaling laws,’
&c. And we have even been checked in
this by a decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States that one of those
laws was unconstitutional.”
Mr. Akerman added that Confederate
money continued to perform the office
of currency long after creditors refused
to receive it in payment for old debts,
and, indeed, that no other was in circu
lation until the close of the war, and
he gave a very amusing account of his
own last experience with it. He was a
member of Governor Brown’s Georgia
militia, and was ordered, late in the
Spring of 1865, to report for duty;—
Having a case to attend to in Court, and
knowing that matters were in such a
desperate condition that the Confedera
cy must soon go to pieces, he did not
start at once, and a day or two later the
headquarters were transferred to Au
gusta and ho was ordered to report here.
On his arrival he found that the General
on whose staff ho held a position had
been captured at Macon. He, however,
reported himself to the officer next- in
command, and by him was given * fur
lough. This business occupied a part
of one day only, and, as Be arrived in
Augusta in the evening he was able to
leave for home on second morning,
remaining at tho hotel two nights and
one day. On calling for his bill it was
made out t the rate of SIOO a day. Be
fore leaving home his wife had request
ed him, if possible, to get a card of
hooks and eyes and send it to her. Dur
ing the afternoon which he spent in Au
gusta he wont in search of it. Many of
the stores were closed, but he finally
found one open and succeeded in pur
chasing an ordinary card of hooks and
eyes for $lO. On his way back to the
hotel he saw in a store window some
very inferior greenish glass tumblers.
Glassware was very difficult to obtain in
the Confederacy during the war, and
Mr. Akerman, who hail married ODly
the year before, had been unable to get
any." The price of these tumblers was
$l6O a dozen. He bought three of them
for which he paid S4O. On his way to
the railroad station he saw some shoe
blacking selling for S2O a box, and pur
chased one box. This was the last occa
sion on which he had to use Confederate
money, except to pay for a railroad ticket
home.
Inflationists whom I have met in
Georgia argue that the people of that
State never had so great an abundance
of all kinds of food, which they pro
duced themselves, as in 1864, before
Sherman made his march through the
State, as though a kind of paper money
of which twenty dollars would hardly
buy one of gold had anything to do with
that plenty. The truth is, that there was
then a law* iu Georgia forbidding anyone
to plant more than a given number of
acres of cotton for each horse or mule
worked, and the result was, as it was in
tended to be, that the people raised im
mense quantities of all kinds of provis
ions, stock, &c. If the planters of
Georgia would make it their first and
principal object to produce a sufficient
quantity of corn and meat to carry them
through the year, making cotton a so it
of supplemental crop, the State would
be richer to-day than it is now, and there
would be fewer hard-pressed debtors
clamoring for an inflation of the cur
rency.
Mr. NordliofT Again—Political Condi
tion of the State—The Republican
Party Moribund—Democratic Party
l.eaders and Policy —The Indepen
dents-
Amine, N. J., Sept. 16, 1875.
To the Editor of the Herald:
I conclude my account of Georgia
with a few remarks about the political
condition of the State.
In the first place there is no Republi
can party worthy of the name in the
State. There is but one Republican
newspaper, and that is a weekly. One
of the most zealous Republicans in the
State said to me, “The Republican
party, so far as its white members are
concerned, consists mainly of Federal
office holders and men seeking office—
mostly natives of the State.” He added,
“There are not more than a hundred
active white Republicans in Georgia
who are honest and out of office.” An
other zealous Republican said to me,
“The white Republicans of Georgia arc
made up almost entirely of Federal
office holders, whose aim is to keep their
places, and of men who are trying to get
these places. There is substantially no
body else, white, in the party.” An
other said, “White men put themselves
forward for Congress on the Republican
ticket, knowing they will be beaten,
with the sole object of rushing to Wash
ington as soon as the election is over to
set up a claim for a Federal office on the
ground of their defeat.” “The Civil
Rights bill killed the Republican party
in this State,” said a Federal officer to
me—“it put us back t 0.1867.” Less
than 5,000 whites voted the Republican
ticket at the election of 1874. In 1872,
a Republican told me, at least 10,000
blacks voted the Greeley ticket, and
“more and more negroes vote Demo
cratic all the time.” I notice that among
the grievances of the blacks mentioned
in discussions of the so-called insurrec
tion is one that they are disfranchised if
they do not pay their poll and road
taxes. This is perfectly true, and, I
think, perfectly just. Poll aud road tax
is all that the greater part of them pay
toward the support of the government,
and if they evade this they do not de
serve to vote. The same law applies to
the whites.
In the Georgia Congressional dele
gation there is not now a single Repub
lican. One reason for this is that, in
some cases, the party nominates men
who cannot get the support of honest
Republicans. One such man I was told
of, who was no sooner beaten than he
proceeded to Washington and set up a
claim to all the Federal patronage of
the district in which he had been cut by
every honorable Republican. Nor are
claims of this kind always disallowed at
Washington. For instance, not long
ago a man was appointed Collector of
Internal Revenue in a Georgia district
who, according to general Republican
testimony, had been a Ku-Klnx in-Kn
Klux times and who actually conld not
take office because he then stood charged
with offering a bribe. One of the most
prominent Federal officers in the State,
a native and a zealous Republican and
bitter opponent of the Democratic party,
said to me, “ I don’t know that there is
any Republican party in the State. The
negroes will not vote in general because
they have no white vote back of them.
The blacks are almost totally disfran
chised by their taxes. At leat two
thirds of the colored voters are thus dis
franchised. Then, again, in some coun
ties where there are large negro majori
ties, half a dozen black demagogues in
sist on running for the same office, and
then Democrats run in between them.
Wherever independent tickets have been
put up in counties the supporters of
these strove for the negro vote, and in
such cases the election was always
peaceable and fall, because there two
parties were anxious for this vote. I
not think that for a year or two past
there has been much cheating in wages ;
the people have learned to do better.”
Georgia has been longer and more
continuously than any other cotton
State since the war under the rule of the
Democratic party. Bollock, the Repub
lican Governor, chosen at the adoption
of the Constitution in 1868 for a term of
four years, abandoned his office and the
State in October, 1871; Smith, Demo
crat, was elected to fill his unexpired
term; was re-elected in 1872, and is still
Governor. The Legislature, which is
elected every two years, was Republican
by a small majority in 1868 ; bnt the
body which assembled in November,
1871, was strongly Democratic, and
both Houses and all the executive offi
cers have been Democratic ever since.
It follows that, since the Winter of
1871, the State government has been en
tirely in Democratic hands, aud the
county governments have also, with but
few exceptions, fallen under the same
control. The Legislature has been over
whelmingly Democratic in both
branches. It would be strange, consid
ering the circumstances and the party
strength, if the ruling party had been
always wise ; but it must be said that
they have dhne very few wicked or very
foolislr things. They have been fortu
nate in the possession of a few wise and
conservative men, with courage enough
to make their sentiments known. For
instance, in the last Legislature a stupid
old Bourbon introduced a bill to make
a breach of contract by a negro a penal
offense. But Mr. Fnrlow, a strong Demo
crat, but a sensible man, rose at once
and declared that he would oppose such
a measure as long as he lived; that in
his experience if you pay a negro and
treat him honestly he will work fairly
and Btick to his contract. Fnrlow is a
popular man and has the conrage of his
opinions, and the result was that in a
House of 130 members only twelve votes
were cast for the bill. In like manner the
Toombs men, who are the Bourbons in
Georgia, have tried on different occa
sions to get a Constitutional Convention,
bnt have always failed, the Constitution
being a sufficiently good instrument.
So, too, in his last message Governor
Smith, who has conducted himself so
well in this “insurrection” business,
urged the Legislature to stop the appro
priation of SB,OOO per annum for the
colored university, and the Superintend
ent of Public Instruction supported him,
believing, as he told me, that a normal
school for colored teachers was more
necessary than a university. But, in
spite of a foolish prejudice against the
teachers in the university, the Legisla
ture refused to do the Governor’s bid
ding. It is but just to add that if the
dread of “social equality” was likely to
die out this would be skillfully prevented
by some leading Republicans, chief of
whom is the Northern Methodist Bishop
Haven, who has on several occasions
openly declared himself in favor of
“social equality,” and who appears to
me to have quite a genius for keeping
alive a subject which naturally stirs up
ranoorous feelings, and which is best
left to settle itself.
Democratic Politics.
The prostration of the Republican
party has given the Democrats such
great power that they are now on the
verge of a quarrel among themselves.
In two Congressional districts, iu 1874,
Democrats lan against Democrats; in
many counties independent candidates
were put forward, and where the Re
publicans were wise enough to support
them were elected. There are at this
time eight or ten candidates for Gover
nor, and I hear that Mr. Stupliens is not
unlikely to run as an independent. By
the way, Governor Smith is a candidate
for re-election, and in view of this fact
his firm anl just course during the “in
surrection” excitement shows that he at
least believes that the white people
whose votes he would like to get are iu
favor of justice to the negroes. Georgia
has some able and many influential pub
lic men. Unfortunately for the Re
publicans they are all in the Democratic
party. Governor Brown, who is reputed
the ablest and most popular man in the
State, was a Republican in 1868; but he
is one no longer. He is a man of
moderate views, a lover of justice; and
if the Repnblicans in Washington had
been wise, one would think they would
have tried to keep him in the party. Of
Mr. Stephens I need not speak. He is
deeply respected by all Georgians, who
forgive him all his vagaries and will
support him for whatever place he de
sires, conscious that he will serve them
honestly. General Toombs is a man of
but little influence. He has a small and
decreasing following, composed ojf a few
extremists. Mr. Ben Hill, who is a
member of the next Congress, is spoken
of in Georgia as a prodigy, and as cer
tain to make a career in Congress. He
is a ready speaker, and has spoken, in
his time, on both sides of several impor
tant public questions. There are other
notable men, but those I have named
are the leaders of opinion.
“When the I emocrats are so likely
to split, especially on the nomination
for Governor, I suppose the Republi
cans will stand ready to support an in
dependent Democrat,” I said to a lead
ing Republican. He replied “That is
not so certain. It is more probable
that some Republican will be selfish
enough to demand a nomination for
himself, will get it* with the help “of the
negro, and will of course be beaten.
The fact is,” he added, “you can see
that there is no room here for a Repub
lican | party suoh as exists, compos
ed of a few ambitious leaders and a
mass of ignorant blacks; it is a nui
sance.” He was right; such a party is
a danger to a community; and I cannot
help but admire the self-control of the
Democrats who, with such overwhel
ming majorities in the Legislature, have
committed so few follies. Their man
agement has not always been wise, and
in the parts of the State remote from
railroads there has been maltreatment
of blacks, which was scandalous, and
which the press did not properly report.
Suoh things are getting rare, as I was
assured by Republicans who were well
informed. But it seemed to me that
both the press and many of the public
men of the State are foolishly timid in
rebuking both folly and wrong. They
have not sufficient confidence in the
people. It was laughable to me to see
how timidly a part of the press and
some of the prominent public men sup
ported a movement in Atlanta to cele
brate last Fourth of July; and to see,
nevertheless, in what crowds the people
turned out in the city and came in from
the country to join in the celebration
when it was finally determined on. I
ought to add, on the authority of sev
eral Federal office holders, all earnest
Repnblicans, that the bar of the State,
in matters where justice to the colored
people is concerned, is not chargeable
with neglect or cowardwice. They told
me positively that lawyers all over the
State, from the highest to the least,
were always ready to defend a negro in
a Court of justice if called on. The
conduct of the recent conspiracy trials
shows this to be true.
The difficulty in Georgia is that black
and white Republican and Democratic
demagogues unite iu maintaining the
color line in politics. The bad Demo
crat does not object, for it enables him
to control the State. The bad Republi
can likes it, for it makes him a martyr
and gives him what he longs for—a
Federal office—or at least the excuse for
demanding one. Governor Smith spokp
wisely when be said to me that only
when the color line was broken conld the
politics of the State be settled, and this
would bring absolute security to the
negro. There is no doubt, too, that the
Civil Rights bill and the Force bill, and
all the other efforts made to maintain in
the South a spurious Republican party,
such aa giving many of the Federal
offices to men who have no real hold or
influence in their State —all these things
have only tended to band the white
voters together in a more and more in
flexible opposition to the Federal Ad
ministration, and to band the ignorant
' blacks together and subject them to the
: rule of demagogues, leaving the moder
; ate men of both sides without their just
| voice of influence.
C SABLES NOBDHOFF.
An erroneous impression has long pre
vailed in regard to the terms of Presi
dent Polk’s will. It has been supposed
that at the death of his widow, Mrs.
Sarah Polk, Polk Place would come into
the possession of the State of Tennes
see, and it has been suggested that a
mausoleum be erected on the grounds
to contain the remains of the three
Presidents from that State. Jt appears
that it was If r, Polk’s desire to secure
his homestead in the possession of re
latives, and by the terms of his will the
property is to be held in trust by the
State of Tennessee, the Governor of
which is to designate some person to
occupy the premises, always preferring
the nearest of kin by the name of Polk.
The will, it is believed, was made while
Mr. Polk was President, and contains
some curious provision#.
Mrs. Bloomer doesn’t rage around
with pants any more, but she pants
around with rage when she reads in the
newspapers how she is twitted with in
consistency.
CAPTURE OF MORRIS.
HOW AND WHERE HE WAS CAP
TURED.
The Chief Mogul of the Georgia In
surrectionists Caught In Atlanta and
Lodged in Fulton County Jail.
[Atlanta Herald. J
Ever since Governor Smith offered a
reward for the capture of Gen. Joseph
Morris, the instigator and leader of the
negro insurrectionists in Southeastern
Georgia some weeks ago, Capt. Murphy
has had his eyes open, and has fre
quently been on a hot trail after the
General, bnt it was Dot until last Friday
that he got the matter to where he re
garded it as an assured success. Suffice
it, however, his whereabouts has always
been known to the sharp detectives.
General Morris arrived in Atlanta last
Friday. The object of his daring visit
is unknown, but he secretly found his
way to the United States Coart room,
where he would remain confined in the
offices from early until late. But judg
ing from the circumstances in the case,
it would seem that he was fully aware
that detectives were on his tracks and
watching him closely. He must have
had some idea that he would find pro
tection under the wings of the United
States officials in this city or he would
certainly never have come here.
Yesterday Capt. Ed. Murphy loitered
around the United States Court rooms,
having very positive knowledge that his
man was iu there, and several times he
asked citizens to help him watch around
the doors, as there are two stairways
leading up to the offices and Courtroom,
It was not until late in the afternoon
that Capt. Murphy kuew for a certainty
that General Joseph Morris was in the
building, and then he saw him with his
own eyes. The Captain quietly walked
into the office of United States District
Attorney Farrow, and seeing General
Morris standing in there, held a note
towards him, with a request that he
would carry it to someone outside for
him. But the General smelt a mouse
and asked someone standing beside him
to carry the note. Capt. Murphy re
fused to give him the note and passed it
off with a laugh as a joke. Someone
spoke in a whisper to Gen. Morris, and
as Capt. Murphy says, he feels assured
that he told the General his name and
business, for very soon Gen. Morris, si
lently and unobserved by any save Ed.,
slid into one of the side rooms and lock
ed the door. Being at his row’s end,
Capt. Murphy had no other alternative
now bnt to play his hand open. He told
them who the negro was, and that he
wanted him, but they did not give him
up.
Murphy sent for some citizens, also
for Captain Anderson, Chief of the
Police, and Sheriff Perkerson. He also
wrote a note to Judge Erskine, request
ing permission to enter the Court room
to catch the General. Meantime Sheriff
Perkerson and Chief of Police, Captain
Anderson, made their appearanc on the
scene. By this time it was eight o’clock
in the night. Not wishing to break
open the door of a United State office,
they thought of taking him through the
transom. Captain Murphy climbed up
to the transom and struck a match but
could not get a glimpse at his bird, yet
knew he had not flown. Sheriff Perker
son climbed up to the transom and went
inside. In a moment he exclaimed,
“Here he is !” He was found crouched
up under the table. Captain Murphy
climbed through the transom and placed
a pair of iron bracelets which he had
upon the wrist of the General. Thus hav
ing him secure, they unlocked the door
and marched the General down to jail,
where now remains in close confine
ment.
GENEALOGY OF CHIME.
•
Margaret, the Mother of Criminals—A
Family of Criminals—The Descend
ants of One Woman—Male Tltieves
and Female Prostitutes—A Remark
able Revelation.
[New York Times.\
The interesting facts first stated in
these columns in regard to “Margaret,
the mother of criminals,” have attracted
the.attention of the United States Com
missioner of Education, who has made
a careful investigation of them. From
the information furnished to the bureau
by the member of the Prison Associa
tion, Mr. Dugdale, who first unraveled
the genealogy of this guilty family, it
appears that his attention was originally
called to them by discovering the follow
ing interesting band of relatives in the
Ulster County Jail : The oldest, a man
fifty-five years of age, awaiting trial for
receiving stolen goods; his daughter,
aged eighteen (subsequently arrested as
a prostitute), held as a witness against
him; her uncle, aged forty-two, for bur
glary in the first degree; the illegitimate
daughter of the latter’s wife, aged
twelve years, upon which child he had
attempted violence, and who was await
ing sentence for vagrancy, and two
brothers, aged nineteen and fourteen,
accused of an assault with intent to kill,
they having pushed a child over a cliff,
aud nearly killed him by the fall. These
were all blood relatives, and, on careful
ly tracing back their genealogy, proved
to be the descendants, among numerous
others, of one unfortunate little vagrant
and her sisters. The ancestral source of
this line of paupers and criminals is de
scribed as “the forest covered margin
of five lakes, so rocky as to be in some
parts inaccessible,” iu Ulster county.
Here a colony of rural rovers and va
grants lived, crowded in small log or
stone houses, all ages and sexes, rela
tions and strangers living and sleeping
together in the same room, much as do
our shanty or tenement population in
some portions of this city. No privacy
was possible, and purity or modesty
was unknown. The occupation of these
people were fishing, shooting, fighting
and stealing. Owing to their out-door
life they grew up, unlike our criminal
population, very wiry and robust, and
they were enabled to continue for six
generation i tlieir genealogy of crime.
The attention of the benevolent was
frequently drawn to the ragged little va
grant, Margaret, and her miserable sis
ters. The kind hearted here and there
gave them bread or supplied them with
clothing in the Winter. But the ma
jority of persons did not consider them
selves responsible for the wretched con
dition of this little waif, and made no
efforts to reform or educate her or her
sisters. She grew up, as hundreds of
such children are growing up through
the State, without known parents (for
in all probability she or her sisters were
illegitimate children), without friends or
education, or being reached by any reli
gious influence. The vagrant girl grew
up to a wicked womanhood, and died
shortly after 1825, aged, it is believed,
about sixty-five years. The family line
of her and her sisters has been carefully
searched, and 834 persons are distinctly
traced, but it is believed that the full
number of descendants is at least 1,200.
The number whose fortunes are most
clearly known amount to 709—327 males
and 319 females; remainder unknown.
Of these, 106 were illegitimate, 164pros
tutes, 17 keepers of houses of ill fame,
142 receiving out door relief, 64 paupers
in aim houses, and 76 were criminals.
The number of indictable offenses com
mitted by them is 115; the number of
years’ imprisonment they have suffered,
116; the number of years’ individual re
lief, 734. And of the whole 709, only 22
ever acquired any property, and of these
8 lost what they gained.
When it is remembered that these
figures are all derived from the public
records, and that they only express
probably a fraction of the offenses
really committed by this unhappy fami
ly, the picture becomes truly appalling.
In examining more closely the offenses
of this guilty stock, it will be found that
among the females the especial crime is
licentiousness, and among the males
theft and violence. The former would
arise naturally from the promiscuous
habits of living of the families. Iu our
own House of Refuge there have been
six children from three families in the
sixth generation from Margaret—count
ing herself as the first. Fifty per cent,
of all her direct female descendants be
came prostitutes, and of the whole
stock, from the age of twelve upward,
fifty per cent, are found to be of dis
reputable character. Murder or at
tempts to murder appear among the
males in every generation except the
sixth, where the children are not older
than seven years. Forgery is found but
once on - their records. Theft appears
everywhere. As Mr. Dugdale well ob
serves, the same general conditions of
parentage and training produce prosti
tution in the one sex and theft in the
other. The tendency of crime is in the
direction of least resistance. Each sex
without moral training chooses the
easist way of making a living. The
trait at the foundation of the true
criminal is “ the lack of the power of
continuous effort.” Early want of train
ing and early examples, as well as in
heritance, produce this in both sexes,
and each shows the result in analogous
forms. It is to be hoped that this ter
rible lesson in the inheritance of crime,
furnished by the New York Prison As
sociation, will be carefully studied by
all our village and city authorities and
the superintendents of our alms-houses.
A little care and expense may turn a
genealogy of guilt into a family line of
virtue and industry.
The Meridian Mercury -contains a
proposition to Governor Ames. It is
that he shall give peace and order to
Mississippi by leaving the State forever.
If Governor Ames can be induced to
leave Mississippi, the Herald will un
dertake to guarantee the State against
all acts of burglary or violence for the
next ten years !
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Good reports from the cotton crop on
the coast.
Robert Jones has been elected Intend
ant of Abbeville.
The Greenville Fair comes off on the
20th of October next.
James Hunter has been elected In
tendant of Pendleton.
There were eleven arrivals at the peni
tentiary during the week ending the
18th.
Solomon Pinkney, an ex-Trial Justice
of Colleton, died of consumption last
week.
The steamship Charleston on Thurs
day took 1,600 bales of cotton for New
Yore.
The Anderson County Fair will be
held on the 27th, 28th and 29th of Oc
tober.
Married, 9th, Joseph M. Cox, of An
derson county, to Flora D. Mullikin, of
Greenville county.
There were four deaths in Columbia
for the week ending September 18th—
whites, 1, colored, 3.
The prospects of Due West Female
College are very encouraging. Two new
teachers are to be added to the faculty.
Frank Ludway has been appointed
Trial Justice of Lexington, and W. F.
Phillips, Notary Publio of Orangeburg.
Typhoid fever prevails to an alarming
extent in the lower portion of Lancaster
county and the upper edge of Kershaw.
Miss Pamela Jane Patterson died at
the residence of her father, Robert Pat
terson, in Laurens county, on the sth
inst.
Mr. G. L. Warren, a much esteemed
citizen of Sumter county, living in the
Salem section, died last week, after a
short illness.
Mr. Arch Pettigrew, of Anderson,
while bridling a horse one day last week,
had his wrist broken in two places by
the animal attempting to bite him.
The Marion Star says that that coun
ty is infested by organized bands of
robbers and burglars, and advises the
people to be prepared to meet them
with,“buck and ball.”
The steamer Montgomery, from New
!£ork, arrived at Port Royal Monday, 12
m., with the largest freight she has ever
before landed there, besides quite a
number of passengers. *
Mrs. Lucy Smith, relict of the late
William Smith, died at her residence,
near Fish Dam, Union county, on Mon
day last, after a painful and lingering
illness of many months.
Rooms have been engaged at the Man
sion House, Port Royal, for the mem
bers of the corps of engineers who will
be engaged iu surveying a site for naval
purposes at or near Port Royal,
Section Master J. J. Chandler, em
ployed on the Wilmington, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad, was robbed on
Thursday night last, 9th inst., of cloth
ing, bedding, &c., within the corporate
limits of the town of Sumter.
Union-Herald : There is an air of re
spectability about bankruptcy. When
a man owes everybody and has nothing
to pay with, he assigns his property.
After that he is forbidden by law to
liquidate demands which he is unable
to meet.
The Abbeville Press and Banner pro
tests against the too free use of the
name of the Lord by preachers, as, fox
instance, speaking of the earth always
as “God Almighty’s earth,” instead of
referring to it just as enybody else
would, and also thinks the use of such
expressions as “Hell bent and damna
tion bound,” and other kindred re
marks, grate harsh upon the ears of po
lite people, and shock those piously in
clined. We know a preach er in Georgia
who always says “God’s gveen earth.”
Anderson Intelligencer We had the
pleasure of attending, on Tuesday, the
7th inst., an occasion which is of rare
occurrence. It was the 77th birthday
anniversary of Mr. Moses Dean, a re
spected citizen on this county, which
was celebrated by a sumptuous” dinner,
at which fifty-one of his children and
grand-children were present, together
with about thirty-five relatives and
friends of the family, making in all
eighty-six guests. Mr. Dean has been
married fifty-three years, and has fifteen
children and grand-children in the State
of Texas, who were not present on his
birthday. With the exception of dim
sight, he is as vigorous and active as
most men who are his juniors by twenty
five years.
MODERN DICK TURPINS.
The West Virginia Baufi Robbers—A
Cool Crime.
Huntington, W. Va., September 9,
1875.—Wi1l you and your readers be
lieve that I write truth or fiction when I
tell the plain facts of the remarkable
bank robbery here—an affair in all its
details almost incredible in this country
or in this century ? Four men have
been stopping in this neighborhood for
two or three weeks, one of them at a
hotel here, making a considerable bank
deposit and frequently calling at the
bank on business, registering as J. C.
Johnson, of Tennessee; the other board
ed at a farmer’s, dealt a little in stock
and purchased four fine horses. With
out creating suspicion, they rode to a
farmer’s on Saturday, with their horses
iu splendid condition, and remained
until Monday. While there they were
grooming their horses almost constantly,
frequently bathed their backs with ar
nica, had them carefully shod and made
ready for the fearful race before them.
At 2 o’clock Monday they rode quietly
into town, tied their horses, and two of
them crossed the street to the Bank of
Huntington. One stood near the horses,
another entered a store opposite the
bank, called for a cigar, Asked the three
men inside if they had any “shooting
irons,” then coolly drew his own and
frankly told them his friends were hav
ing a little trouble making change over
the way and didn’t wish to be disturbed.
In the bank the two sprang over the
counter, seized the cashier (Mr. Oney),
and demanded money. He gave the
$1,500 lying on the counter, and, after
some delay, opened the safe and took
out $9,000 more. They asked if this
was all, threatened him if he answered
falsely, carefully examined the vault,
and then in the quietest manner opened
his books, saw the balances of Satur
day, and then the leader said : “I be
lieve you are right, but this is a mighty
poor bank, Mr. Ouey, and it is too bad
to tempt honest men with false appear
ances.” As if this was not audacious
enough, he turned again to the cashier,
and said : “I knew you in Mosby’s com
mand and don’t want yon to suffer. How
much stock have you here ?” He an
swered politely ; “About $7 50,” when
our Dick Turpin coolly unrolled his
money, made exact change and laid it on
the counter. He then said : “You see I
am not after your money, Mr. Oney, and
it would be very dangerous to leave this
bank alone, but I must trouble you to
cross the street with me, as I may need
help in mounting.” They then marched
Oney and the colored porter across the
street, mounted coolly, called in the sen
tinel, when the leader made another
speech : “We are obliged to part with
yon, and as you seem to have something
to say you may now say it—in fact, you
may yell!” And the cashier did yell, and
Jim yelled, and the three men in the
store yelled, and the President, who was
quietly walking up the street with a
friend and had just wondered what his
cashier was out there trading horses for,
yelled, and the two hundred people who
were on the street yelled. The robbers
rode quietly out of town, walked their
horses up a long hill overlooking it, and
saw a wild communty running for shot
guns, mounting dray horses and in a
very few minutes in hot pnrsuit. And
the” pursuit was hot. Most of the horses
ridden at a furious pace were “stove” or
“blown” before they reached the sum
mit, while the robbers waved their hats
and loosed their reins. The country
has been aroused, and hundreds have
been in pnrsuit.
The robbers have been in the saddle
now three days and nights, and seem to
have ridden with great caution and
have every day been in sight of their
pursuers. They have an advantage in
being able to ride at night, while their
pursuers have an advantage in getting
relays of fresh horses. There are no
telegraph lines in the country, and they
have evidently bribed people along the
way to throw the pursuers off the track.
The ride is almost as remarkable as the
robbery. The sheriffs of thirteen coun
ties are in the pursuit. Immense re
wards are offered, the robbers have been
declared outlaws and yet these four
horses, “two bays, a gray and a brown,”
have steadily gained upon, and have
probably now distanced their pursuers.
They have crossed rivers and moun
tains, and are nearly beyond the borders
of Kentucky and near the mountains of
East Tennessee. The location of the
bank, although at one end of the town,
was not favorable to the robbery. It
was upon the principal street, at least
twenty stores were in sight, and several
people passed daring the occurrence.
Some ladies were sitting in the windows
opposite and noticed the disturbance.
The cashier detained (hem folly fifteen
minutes, and yet they showed no ner
vousness. They made no attempt to
conceal their faces. They appeared to
be weU-ioformed men, and certainly all
they met were impressed favorably.—
Springfield Republican.
If we had cheap telegraph rates a per
son living in Detroit could, for fifteen
cents, telegraph his mother-in-law in
New York not to come—family got the
small-pox.
COTTON CROPS.
Cotton Crops of the Past Fifty-five
Year9—Their Size and Price— U-one
Consumption—Figures for the Past
Year.
The following tables, taken from the
New York Journal of Commerce , con
tain valuable information, and will be
read with interest:
Comparative Crop Statement.
Bales. Bales.
1830-1 430.00 1848-9 2,728.596
1821- 455,000 1849-50 2.096,706
1822- 495,000 1850-1 2.355,257
1823- 509,158 1851-2 ...3.015,029
1824- 569,249 1852-3 8,262,832
1825- 720,027 1853-t 2,930,027
1826- 957.281 1854-5 2,847,339
1827- 727,593 1855-6 3.527.845
1828- 870.415 1856-7 3.939,519
1829- 976.845 1857-8 3.113,962
1830- 1.038',848 1858-9. 3,851.481
1831- 987,477 1859-60 4.669,770
1832- 1,070.438 1860-1 3.656,086
1833- 1,305,324 1861-2. (est). .4,800.000
1834- 1.254,328 1862-3. (est) .1,500.000
1835- 1,360,725 1863-4. (est) . 500,000
1836- 1.422,930 1864-5. (est).. 300,000
1837- 1,801.497 1865-6 2,151.476
1838- 1,360.532 1866-7 1,951.978
1839- 2.177,835 1867-8 2.430,893
1840- 1,634.915 1868-9 2,260.557
1841- 1.683.574 1869-70 3,114.592
1842- 2.378,875 1870-1 4.347,006
1813— 2.030.409 1871-2 2,974.351
1814- 2.394.503 1872-3 3.930.508
1845-6 2.100,537 1873-4 4,170.388
1816- 1.778,651 1874-5 3,827,845
1817- 2,347,631
Highest and Lowest Prices of Middling
Upland Cotton in Each of the Calen
dar Years Named at the City ot New
York :
Highest Lowest Highest Lowest
Year. prifce. price. Year. price. price.
1825 27 13 1851 14 8
1826 14 9 1852 10 8
1827 12 8 1853 11 10
1828 13 9 1854 10 8
1829 11 8 1855 11 7
1830 13 8 1856 12 9
1831 11 7 1857 15 13
1832 12 7 1858 13 9
1833 17 9 1859 12 11
1834 16 10 1860 11 10
1835 20 15 1861 28 11
1836 20 12 1862 68 20
1837 17 7 1863. 83 54
1838 12 9 1864 1 90 72
1839 16 11 1865 1 22 33
1810 10 8 1866 52 32
1841 11 9 1867 36 15}
1842 9 7 1868 33 16
1843 8 5 1869 35 25
1844 9 5 1870 25} 15
1845 9 4 1871 27} 14}
1816 9 6 1872 27J 18}
1847 12 -7 1873 21§ 13}
1848 8 5 1874 18} 14}
1849 11 6 1875 (to Sep
-1850 14 11 temberl). 17} 14}
Highest and Lowest Price of Middling
Upland Cotton at New York During
Each Week or the Year Ending Au
gnst 31. 1875:
Week High- Low-| Week High- Low-
Ending est. est. I Ending est. est.
Sept. 8, 1874.. 16} 16}|Mck.*l0. 1875..16} 16!
Sept. 15 16} 16} March 17 16} 16!
SeDt. 22 16} 16-i|March24 17} 16}
Sept. 29 16} 16} March 31 17} 17}
October 0 15} 15}|April7 17} 17}
October 13 15} 15} April 14 17} 16}
October 20... .15} 15} April 21 17 16}
October 27.... 15} 14} April 28 16} 16}
Nov. 4 14} 14} May 5 16} 16}
Nov. 11 14} 14} May 12 ,16} 16}
Nov. 18 15} 15} May 19 16} 16}
Nov. 25 15} 15 May 26 16} 16}
Dec. 2 15} 15 June 2 16} 16}
Dec. 9 15 14fjune9 16} 16}
Dec. 16.. 14! 14} June 16 16} 15}
Dec. 23 14! 144 June 23 15} 15}
Dec. 30 14} 14} June 30 15} 15}
Jan. 6, 1875... 14} 15} July 7 15} 15}
January 13 15} 154 July 14 16} 15}
January2o 15} 154 July 21 15f 15}
January 27 ... .15} 15} July 28 15} 14}
February 3 16 15} August 4 15} 14}
February 10.. .16} 16 August 11 15 14}
February 17... 16} 16 August 18 14} 14}
February 24.. .16} 16} August 25 .15 14}
March 316 j 16} August 31 15} 15}
Home Consumption.
North of Virginia. Elsewhere, Total.
11)56-6 bales . 665,718 154,218 819,936
18A7-8 bales.. 452,185 143.376 595,562
185.8-9 bales. 760.218 167,433 927,651
1859- bales:. 886,521 185,522 972.043
1860- bales.. 650.357 193,383 843.740
1865- bales.. 594.000 72,000 666,000
1866- bales.. 690,000 80.000 770.010
1867- bales.. 884.281 81.385 965.666
1868- bales.. 846 756 79.498 926,254
1869- bales.. 777,341 85,265 862,606
1870- ba1e5..1,072,426 94,542 1,166.968
1871- bales.. 1,007,510 130,000 1,137,540
1872- bales 1,063,465 137,662 1,201,127
1873 4 ba1e5..1,192.563 128,526 1,321,089
1874-5 bales.. 1,073,923 126,550 1,200,473
THE LOST VANGUARD.
A British Iron-Clad Snnk Off the Irish
Coast—All On Board Saved—British
Naval Discipline.
The following particulars of the dread
ful collision off Bray Head, Ireland,
which resulted in the sinking of the Bri
tish iron-clad Vanguard, are taken from
the Dublin papers of September 3d:
On Wednesday, shortly before mid
day, six of the seven iron-clads which
all through the tveek attracted such
hosts of visitors, weighed anchor in the
Kingstown Boads and steamed in the
direction of their new destination,
Queenstown harbor. Two hours after
wards, the Vanguard, one of the finest
of these leviathans, was run into and
sent to the bottom by her consort, the
Iron Duke. The details of this great
naval catastrophe, which will create in
tense excitement throughout the entire
empire, are few and sparse, the officers
and men of both vessels preserving a
reticent silence which baffles the most
eager inquirer. As if to make confusion
worse confounded, while all accounts
concur in representing the accident as
having taken place at ten minutes to one
in the afternoon of Wednesday, the. offi
cial telegram of the Admiralty fixes the
event at twelve hours later. However,
after collating accounts obtained from
the best authorities, the following ap
pears to be the most probable account
of the occurrence: The ships left their
anchorage at about half-past eleven and
steamed towards Queenstown. Scarcely
had they left when they were enveloped
in a very dense fog. At a quarter to one
o’clock in the day, about an hour and a
half after leaving the Roads, the fleet
were off Bray Head. The lookout of
the Vanguard, which was then going
only five or six knots an hour, suddenly
saw through the fog
A Large Merchant Ship Right Ahead.
To avoid a collision with this vessel
the Vanguard ported her helm. The re
sult of this manoeuvre was to present the
broadside of the ship to the bow of the
Iron Duke, then about a cable’s length
behind. The Vanguard’s officer must
have thought there was time to get out
of the Iron Duke’s way, but he was mis
taken, for suddenly the Vanguard’s peo
ple saw through the fog the jibboom of
the Iron Duke not fifty yards off. Both
captains gave the word to reverse engines
and back, but it was too late, and the
Iron Duke ran into her consort with
tremendous force, striking her amidships
with her plow or ram, and dashing in
her side almost from keel to bulwarks.—
The bows of these vessels are, we need
scarcely say, provided with iron “rams”
for the express purpose of sinking an
opposing vessel by a single blow, and
the event showed that the Iron Duke
was only too well fitted for her deadly
task. Her iron beak ground to powder
the armored broadside of the Vanguard,
and in a second
The Water Poured Through the Ori
fice.
The engine fires were extinguished, and
the vessel began rapidly to fill. There
were some 450 human beings on board
the Vanguard, and as the waters rushed
into the hold their situation was a terri
ble one. There was no time to even
think of saving property, and it is un
derstood that not a single article, valu
able or otherwise, belonging to the ship,
was rescued from the wreck; in fact,
officers and men arrived upon the deck
of the Iron Duke possessed only of the
clothes in which they stood, and what
ever jewelry or valuables they may have
had about their persons before the occur
rence. There was no time to ran down, to
remove clothing or other property, and
nobody thought of doing so, all being
intent upon self-preservation. The utmost
discipline and coolness prevailed, al
though hope is said to have deserted
the crew; but they looked what seemed
an inevitable fate sternly in the face,
and the stronger men endeavored to
support and cheer their weaker ship
mates. Both vessels were powerful
“rams,” but the Iron Duke was by far
the more powerful of the two, and the
fearful effect of her crushing weight
upon the broadside of her consort may
be imagined. The first named vessel
suffered insignificant damages, her bow
sprit and fore gear, or “head gear,” as
it is called, having only been carried
away ; while
The Vanguard Succumbed,
With guns, ammunition, accoutrements,
large stands of small arms, and, in fact,
with all the appointments of a first class
man-of-war, whose construction cost
nearly £500,000. The sunken vessel has
been occupied for several years as the
guard-ship at Kingstown. No lives have
been lost, and the crew eseaped unhurt,
with the exception of three men who re
ceived some contusions during their
transit to the Duke. The wails of a fa
vorite dog, who alone met a watery
grave, were heard above the general
din. At the time of the collision it ap
peared that, owing to the density of the
fog, the Iron Duke and Vanguard, at all
events, were not proceeding at a speed
of more than five or six knots an hour.
On leaving the man-of-war roads in Dub
lin Bay the squadron steered north of
the Kirk Light in order to get into the
deep sea track, and afterward the ships
headed southward. On nearing Wick
low Head the lookout on board the Van
guard perceived a large merchant vessel
looming a short flistanee ahead, and in
order to avoid running into her the or
der! was given to put the helm hard a
port. Captain Dawkins, of the Van
guard, was on the bridge amidships
when the catastrophe occurred, and be
ing in a state of much anxiety, was care
fully “coursing” the ship. At first sight
of the extent of the damage done, it was
believed impossible that the vessel could
long remain afloat. The water rushed
in through the aperture, and with a
hissing, seething sound, forced its way
through the ship in all directions. Capt.
Dawkins, like an experienced sailor, in
stantly had
Every Man at His Post,
With peremptory instructions to remain
standing by their duty to the last. The
result was the maintenance of the most
excellent order. With calmness and
regularity the boats were lowered, and
proper preparations were made for
transferring the crew on board accord
ing to seniority of station. In the
meantime the Iron Duke, which had
become hidden in the fog after the col
lision, again appeared in sight, and also
lowered her boats, and of oonrse her
officers and men assisted to the utmost ex
tent. The first batch of men ordered to
descend to the boats was composed of
the lower rank—the last to leave the ill
fated ship were Captain Dawkins and
Commander Landy. Naturally enough
the interval of time between the collid
ing of the vessels and the sinking of the
Vanguard was nearly all occupied in
transferring the crew by the boats to
the Iron Duke. No time was left to any
one for saving property. Valuables,
clothes —all had to be abandoned, in
some cases, of course, with great reluc
tance. Many of the unfortunate men
had considerable sums of money in their
lockers. Nothing could be seen yester
day but the topmast heads over the
water, the royal masts being housed.
The Vanguard went down in eighteen
fathoms of water, the Kish Light bear
ing west by northwest, eight miles from
the place where she at present lies.
BLEEDING THE FARMERS.
Grinding Rocks at the Guauo Beds
and Selling the Sand for a Fertilizer.
[Philadelphia Times.]
Mr. A. Ij. Phillips, one of the officers
of the Richborougli Grange, in New
port, Bucks county, was commissioned
by his Grange, a few weeks ago, to pur
chase twenty tons of Peruvian guano
for the use of its members. Mr. Phil
lipps came to Philadelphia and ordered
the guauo through a commission house,
who bought it direct from Hobson, Hor
nado & Cos., the agents of the Peruvian
Government in New York. The guano
reached Mr. Phillipps in the original
packages, not having been opened or
handled by the commission house. In
Newport it was bought by the Grangers,
Mr. Phillipps keeping only a few bags
for his own use. When he opened the
bags and began to spread it over bis
land he noticed that it was lumpy, and
apparently contained sand and gravel,
bo he measured out a half pound and
washed it carefully. The guano dis
solves in water, but in the bottom of the
pan was a heawy sediment, which, when
separated and dried, proved to be coarse
brown sand and fine gravel. This sedi
ment was sent to the agency of the New
Jersey State Grange, at 103 Arch street,
yesterday, and on a druggist’s scales it
weighed one and a half ounces, or 15
per cent, of the guano, for which the
Grange paid $55 a ton. The sediment
is of course useless as a manure, being
just such sand as any farmer can find on
his land; and in the same ratio purchas
ers of aton of guano at $55 pay $8 25 for
brown sand and gravel. The captain of a
schooner running from this port to the
Peruvian islands for guano wrote to a
friend a short time ago that when he
reached the islands he was afraid to load
his vessel, the adulteration being so
great that he feared he could not get
enough for the guano to pay for trans
portation. A stone breaker had been
put up near the guano beds, he said,
and it was evident for what purpose the
sand was used. He sailed to another
island fifty miles away, and there he
found the adulteration even worse; so he
came home without any load. “A few
years ago,” said an old farmer to a
Times reporter yesterday, “we could not
sow more than two hundred pounds of
guano to the acre, for it would make the
grain so heavy and thick that it would
break and tangle. But now a man can
sow half a ton to the acre, and he don’t
get a much better crop than if he didn’t
sow any at all. It’s all owing to the
adulteration. I bought a hundred and
fifteen dollars’ worth of guano last year,
and it did’t do me a hundred and fifteen
cents’ worth of good. This year it
seems to be worse than ever, and I
think it’s getting poorer every year.—
Last year they charged eighty dollars a
ton, in gold, for it. This Spring they
made a great fuss about reducing the
price, and now we buy it for fifty-five
dollars a ton, in currency. But it has
been reduced in quality ten times as
much as in price. We farmers lose not
only what we pay for the worthless
sand, but we lose the value of the crops
that we would raise if we used good fer
tilizers. ”
Economy is beginning to prevail
'again. At a funeral, Saturday, nine
men appeared with unblacked boot heels.
PURIFIES THE BLOOD, RENOVATES AND
INVIGORATES THE WHOLE SYSTEM.
ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE
Alterative, Tonic, Solvent and
Diuretic.
VEGETINE is made exclusively from the
juices of carefully selected barks, roots and
herbs, and so strongly concentrated that it will
effectually eradicate from the system every
taint of Scrofula, Scrofulous Humor, Tumors,
Cancer, Cancerous Humor, Erysipelas, Salt
Rheum, Syphilitic diseases, Canker, Faintness
at the Stomach, and all diseases that arises
from impure blood. Sciatica, Inilamatory and
Chronic Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gout and
Spinal Complaintß can only be effectually
cured through the blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptive Diseases of the
Skin, Pustules, Pimples, Blotches, Boils, Tet
ter, Sealdhead and Ringworms, VEGETINE
has never failed to effect a permanent cure.
For Pain in the Back, Kidney Complaints,
Dropsy, Female Weakness, Leueorrhcea, aris
ing from internal ulceration, and uterine
diseases and General Debility, VEGETINE
acts directly upon the causes of these com
plaints. It invigorates and strengthens the
whole system, acts upon secretive organs, al
lays inflammation, cures ulceration and regu
lates the bowels.
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costive
ness, Palpitation of the Heart, Headache,
Piles. Nervousness and General Prostration of
the Nervous System, no medicine has ever
given such perfect satisfaction as the VEGE
TINE. It purifies the blood, cleanses all of the
organs, and possesses a controlling power over
the nervous system.
The remarkakle cures affected by VEGE
TINE have induced many physicians and
apothecaries whom we know to prescribe and
use it in their own families.
In fact, VEGETINE is the best remedy yet
discovered for the above diseases, and is the
only reliable BLOOD PURIFIER yet placed be
fore the public.
Are not the many testimonials given for the
different complaints satisfactory to any reason
able person suffering from any disease men
tioned above, that thoy can be cured ? Read
the different testimonials given, and no one
can doubt. In many of these eases the per
sons say that their pain and suffering cannot
be expressed, as in cases of Scrofula, where,
apparently, the whole body was one mass of
corruption. If VEGETINE will relieve pain,
cleanse, purify and cure such diseases, restor
ing the patient to perfect health after trying
different physicians, many remedies, suffering
for years, is it not conclusive proof, if you are
a sufferer, you can be cured ? Why is this
medicine performing snch great cures ? It
works in the blood, in the circulating fluid. It
can truly be called the GREAT BLOOD PURI
FlEIi. The great source of disease originates
iu the blood ; and no medicine that does not
act directly upon it, to purify and renovate,
has any just claim upon public attention.—
When the blood becomes lifeless and stagnant,
either from change of weather or of climate,
want of exercise, irregular diet, or from any
other cause, the VEGETINE will renew the
blood, carry off the putrid humors, cleanse the
stomach, regulate the bowels, and impart a
tone of vigor to the whole body. The convic
tion is, hi the public mind as ' well as in the
medical profession, that the remedies supplied
by the Vegetable Kingdom are more safe,
more successful in the cure of disease, than
mineral medicines. VEGETINE is composed
of roots, barks and herbs. It is pleasant to
take, and is perfectly safe to give an infant.—
Do you need it ? Do not hesitate to try it.—
You will never regret it.
WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT
VEGETINE
FOB TEN TIMES ITS COST.
The great benefit I have received from the
use of VEGETINE induces me to give my tes
timony in its favor. I believe it to be not only
of great value for restoring the health, but a
preventive of diseases peculiar to the Spring
and Summer seasons.
I would not be without it for ten times its
cost. EDWAKD TILDEN,
Attorney and General Agent for Massachusetts
of the Craftsmen’s Life Assurance Com
pany, No. 19 Sear’s Building, Boston, Mass.
VEGETINE IS SOLD BY ALL DBCGGISTS.
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M, A. STOVALL,
Warehouse A Commission Merchant,
No. 1 Warren Block, Augusta, Ga.
THANKFUL for the liberal patronage here
tofore bestowed, would take this occasion
to notify the Planters of Georgia and Carolina
that he 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
cottoy his personal attention. He is, as here
tofore, Agent for the Justly celebrated Patapsco
Guana and Grange Mixture.
augls-w3m M. A. STOVALL.
THE JAS. LEFFEL
Double Turbine Water Wheel,
t Manufactured Oy
W POOLE & HUNT,
Baltimore, Kd.
gffK 7,000 HO W 1 -V USE!
H biraple. Strong, Durable,
ojj r jj always reliable and tatia-
Maliolhcturers.also. oi
Portable & Stationary
Steam Boilers,
Grißt Mills, Min.
hi Mill
Presses,&c. shafting, Pul)ey3 and Hangers
a specialty. Machine made Gearing; accu
•ate and of very best finish, fiend for Circulars.
IN ew Advertisements,
aFOTALEXANDER'S
DRUG STORE,
212 Broad Street.
A COMPLETE STOCK of DRUGS and CHEMICALS.
PHARMACENTICAL PREPARATIONS, PERFUMES, TOILET POWDERS, SOAPS,
BRUSHES, COMBS, POMADES, OILS, ETC.
SPICES and FLAVORING EXTRACTS. PATENT MEDICINES—BEST OF ALL KINDS.
PAINTS, OILS. PAINT BRUSHES and all PAINTER’S GOODS.
Go and Assortment of all the innumerable articles usual to Drug Stores.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS and appliances—a neat assortment.
PRES CRIPT.ONS FILLED PROMPTLY by highly COMPETENT HANDS.
Business done quickly and with reference to the interests and wishes of our customers.
Wo Pains Spared to Please.
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FASHIONS and GOLD COIN Presents!
„ in.. o> .. ... No. 315. This Costume wins the admiral ion
Smfors Instant Dress Elevator." o fall. It is one of those styles that is sure to f] 77%
0 please, especially as it is appropriate for any ffr ' .-jfft.
-jmBSBk sJjrwwronw Bid. material, ami requires less goods to make than
out', wit!'the “Ble- any other suit of equal beauty. It is one of the /■-ajßt
JBUMSSII vator”fiietiin. Von leading costumes of onr city-. The stout lady g jk IgSa
can r.t. Jr rttrt w ;g fl n( j j t possesses just tin; secret charm that w*,‘k
then let improves her figure, while the t-li-ht or perfect
,t fall, or you fan keep form may feel they were never so advantageously
WM it r.is'-J. it k-rn,th, attired. The waist is llio regular Otblier shape ;
nHHi mo Filth, the overskirt is draped to form a wide ruffle each ’Ha
■■■■i side of the sash, which may be of the
shtonable Manner, it dntws nit same, or Ribbon. Requires 10 yards of 27- sAVfjj
the fullness to th. beck, miking the inch poods for entire suit. No. of waist,
3723; pattern, with clothmodel, 23cts. N
rrom One Dress ta another. No. of overskirt, 8724 ; pattern, with
rrioe, 46 sent. ..eh. Mailed. cloth model, 2o cts. No. ot underskirt, ramwyjgrytflewh
■ 3725; pattern, with cloth model, 50 cts.
Mailed oq receipt of price.
OR the Patterns end Cloth Models of the ENTIRE
SUIT will be GIVEN FREE ns PREMIUM to nay person
who sends“Bl.lo to us. t) us one year’s subscription to the
T BURDETTE SMITH’S
Moitlily “WipW of Fashion,” JH
FINE ARTS and POLITE Literature. '
Subscription Price. s:t a year, post-paid, including ft •
premium of Two Dollars’ worth of patterns free to each
subscriber.
We send our CERTIFICATES fur this amount
upon receipt of suliwriptiou. (TWO of our DItKSH 11*. JLUBMh
ELEVATORS will be given IN PLACE of Ouc
Dollar's worth of Pattern*, ir desired).
The M MONTHLY
OF FASHION,” the very finest,!
i ami iiwrau y Ms Bam.
begin, with taking It, will NEVER dlacon- I „ Subscrip'ion Price, *1 10 a year, post paid.
I One Dollar s worth ot Pattens given to each Bub
tinue It while it la published. j Bcr iber FREE as premium.
$4,500.00 IN GOLD COIN 10 GIVE AWAY!
WE WILL GIVE $2,000 in GOLD COIN to 65 We WILL GIVE $2,500 In GOLD COIN to 138
persons who send us the largest nurnbor of sub- pors ns wh ' send us the largest number of sub
scribers to our “WORLD of FASHION,” at s3oiot), scribe's t> our “BAZAAR,” at $1 10 EACH, be
before MARCH 5, 1876. fore MARCH 1, 1876.
AS FOLLOWS: TO THE GETTER-UP OF THE AS FOLLOWS : TO THE GETTER-UP OF THE
Large-t Club S3OO 00 in Gold Coin. Largest Club $330 0‘ in Gold Coin.
2d Large .-t Club 203 00 in Gold Coin. 2d Largest Club 200 00 in Gold Coin.
3d Largest Club 150 t 0 in Gold Coin. 3d Largest Club 150 00 in Gold Coin.
4th Largest Club 130 00 in Gold Coin. 4th Largest Club 125 CO in Gold Coin.
sth Largest Club 120 00 iu Gold Coin. sth Largest Club 100 00 iu Gold Coin.
6th Largest Club 110 00 in Gold Coin. 6th L r-est Club 75 00 iu Gold Coin.
7th Largest Club 100 00 in Gold Coin. 7th Largest Club 50 00 in Gold Coin.
Bth Largest Club 75 00 in Go and Coin. Bth Largest Club 25 00 in Gold Coin.
9th Largest Club 50 00 in Gold Coin. 9th Largest Club 25 0) iu Gold Coin.
10th Largest Club 35 00 in Gold Coin. 10th Largest Club 25 00 in Gold Coin.
11th Largest Club 25 00 iu Gold Coin. 11th Largest Club 25 00 iu Gold Coin.
and so on to the 65th Largest Club. and so on to the 133d Largest Club.
YOU get a premium for EVERY subscriber you send us. AND every subscriber gets a premium.
BOTH of these GOLD COIN PRESENTS offers will be found at full ength in the SEPTEMBER
NUMBER, BESIDES the names and P. O. addresses of 102 persons to whom wo have JUST Paid
$2,135 in Gold, according to our previous OFFERS. You can write to ONE or ALL of them, and they
will toll you that we DO EX ACTLY AS WE PROMISE.
mn | III rII way is to send your own subscription to either of our Magazines, when you
|J |j'V | ’ will get the first number and your Ci rtificates of Premiums, which you can
|| 111 [4 I Bhow. and at once begin getting subscribers, or send 25 cents for ons copy.
1 SEND FOR FASHION CATALOGUE.
A. BURDETTE SMITH.
P. O, BOX 5055. 14 BKOADWAY, NEW YOIIK CITY.
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Immense stock new Hamburg
Embroideries, Edgings and Insert
ings, from 10c. per yard to $1.25.
James A. Gray & Go.,
194 and 196 Broad St.
NEW DRESS GOODS—Figured
Mohairs 25c. per yard, English Mat
telaise Suitings 35c. per yard,
Plaid Regent Suitings, Plaid Pongu
Suitings, Figured Pongu Suitings,
Black Bearritz and Balmoral
Crepes, Ladies’ Silk Neck Ties in
great variety, new Ruchings and
Rufflings, in great variety at great
ly reduced prices.
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.
sep!9 ...
WHITE SHIRTINGS.
!;
W E HAVE RECEIVED TWENTY OASES OF YARD WIDE BLEACHED SHIRTINGS,
WHICH WE WILL SELL AT 10c,
These Shirtings have been ackowledged by all our customers to be SUPERIOR to FRUIT
OF THE LOOM, LONSDALE and HILL’S SEMPER IDEM.
There is no use in paying 15 per cent, extra on Shirting merely for a name or brand. We are
therefore determined to sell these Goods on their merits and by that means save the consumers
15 per oent., and at the same time supply our customers with a superior grade of Goods.
CHRISTOPHER GRAY & CO.
We have received an excellent assortment of BLACK SILKS at all prices.
Our stock of these goods will compare favorably with anything ever offered in this market.
We call special attention to five pieces of that famous Black Silk at $2 00 per yard. So cheap
that most people thought it was smuggled.
We have also received a full stock of BLACK DRESS GOODS at prices much lower than
last year. Bombazines, Caohmeres, Alpacas, Mohairs. Ac.
We offer the best TOWEL ever sold in Augusta at the price. 25c.
Fine TOWELS and LINEN GOODS generally in large quantities.
CHRISTOPHER GRAY &. CO
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loporiait lo the foot, She oil lot He.
YTTE ARE NOW PREPARED TO SUPPLY OUR FRIENDS AND THE
VV TRADE GENERALLY WITH
Boots, Shoes, Hats and Trunks
AT
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
OUR WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT
IS COMPLETE, AND WE WILL SELL TO THE TBADE AT
New York Jobbers Prices.
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OUR RETAIL DEPARTMENT
IS WELL SUPPLIED WITH MILES & SONS’ BOOTS. SHOES AND GAITERS; ZEIOLER
BROS, LADIES’ BUTTONED AND LACE BOOTS, SHOES AND GAITERS ; DUNBABIt & CO’S
CHILDREN’S BUTTONED AND LACE BOOTS ; SOLLERS A CO.’S CHILDREN’S BUTTON
ED AND LACE BOOTS, AND FULL LINES OF OTHER DESIRABLE GOODS.
SMALL PROFITS AND LARGE SALES IS OUR MOTTO.
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS.
AN EXAMINATION OF OUR GOODS AND PRICES INVITED.
GALLAIIER & MULHKBO,
geps—BUtnthAwlmo 289 BROAD STREET.
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.
THE WINSHIP COTTON PRESS,
The Best and Cheapest WROUGHT IRON COTTON SCREW in the market,
made to work by Hand, Horse, Steam or Water Power. Prices
reduced to suit the times, and now Very Low.
SIOO EACH AND UPWARDS, according to style of Press wanted.
EVERY GIN AND PRESS WARRANTED.
For further information and terms, apply to
C. H. PHIMZV & CO., Agents,
jyl—w2m AUGUSTA, GEORGIA*