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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 13, 1875
INDECISION.
[ Fanny Barrow m Che Galaxy.]
Do I lure her?
Dimpling red lips it me pouting
Dimplir-g shoulders it me flouting:
No, I don't!
Do I love her ?
Prisoned in those crystil eyes,
Purity forever lies:
Yes, Ido!
Do I love her ?
Little wild ind wilful fiction,
Teasing. torturing, contradiction:
No. I don't!
Do I love her ?
With kind lets and sweet words, she
Aids ind comforts poverty:
Yes, I do!
Do I love her ?
Quick she puts her cuirass on,
Stabs with laughter; stings with scorn :
No, I don't!
Do I love her ?
No! Then to my arms she flies,
Filling me with glad surprise :
Ah! yes, I do!
THE LAMP OF LOVE.
Methought I wandered dimly on.
But few faint stars above me shone,
When love drew near;
|‘The night," said he, ‘ is dark and damp.
To gtude thy steps receive this lamp
Of crystal clear.”
Love lent his torch—with ready hand
The splendid lamp, by his command,
I strove to light ;
But strove in vain : no flame arose;
Unchanged, nnflred as moonlight snowß.
It sparkled bright.
Again on wings as swift as thonght,
The hoy a glittering cresset brought
Of sunny gold;
Full sure 'twas worth a monarch's gaze,
And how I toil’d to make it blaze
Can scarce be told.
Deprived of hope I stood perplexed,
And, through my tears what offered uext
Obscurely floated.
One other lamp LoVe bade me take,
Mine eyes its color, size or make,
But little noted.
Till soon (what joys my soul inspire!)
From far within a steady fire
Soft upward steals;
And O how many a tender lme.
What lines to loveliest nature true,
That beam reveals!
Now what reck I of burnished gold,
Or crystal cast in statelier mould ?
This lamp be mine.
Which makes my path where'er I go
With warm reflected colors glow,
And light divine.
(.Sara Coleridtje.
awkward.
And so she's engaged to be married
To one of our class! I’m afraid
That if very much longer she tamed
Her degree would be O. M.—Old Maid,
"I know her ?” Oh, yes, or I thought so ;
But I’m more than inclined to believe
I wae wrong. I'm the fellow Bhe Bought bo.
But couldn't deceive.
“You’re surprised ?” 1 imagined you would bo;
It H a thing I ay little about;
’Twan aH open a case an well could be—
‘•Did he love me ?” There wasn’t a doubt.
Whv, she juat threw herself at my head, Bill.
But I knew she’d no heart and less brains ;
And though money will settle a bread bill,
It won’t wash off stains.
“You’re astonished at this ?” My dear fellow.
What the deuce did I care for her ago!
I like women like apples—when mellow,
But the fact wan. 1 knew every page
Of her history. “Flirted ?” You’d think so.
There was Harry McKeown, sixty-three ;
It was she that drove him to the drink so ;
“Am I sure ?” As can be.
She’s a scheming coquette, and I know it;
She hasn't the least bit of soul
Or an atom of truth. “Doesn't show it ?
No; her footings are under control.
Then it's nonsense to say she has boauty;
I pity the fellow she’s caught.
It must be a matter of duty
With him, or he’s bought.
Who the deuce can it be ? There’s Fred Baker;
You romomber him ? —scored for the Nine
But there isn't much fear that lie and take tier;
Ho wants blue blood and not a gold mine.
“Chicken” Jones ? No, lie’s married. Twas
funny.
How he ran a tie race with Jim 1 rout,
For the "class cradle," wasn’t it/-Money
He's got and the gout.
“Tub" Abbott was sweet on hor. Haudy
McGill uni!— he must he the one ;
By Jove, it’s old “Sandy the dandy !'
It's not ho 2 I give np, then. I m done.
Is it one of our class, are you sure.
That the vixen has seized for her prey ?
Who’s the follow ? Let’s have it! What! you
are ?
The diekonß yon say! ,
[,/. Cheever Goodurin in Scribner s.
TO ISADORE.
BY EDGAR A 111. AN POE.
Beneath the vine-clad eavos.
Whose shatlows fall before
Thy lowly cottage door—
Under the lilac's tremulous leavos—
Within thy snowy, elaspoil hand
The purple flowers it bore—
Last eve, in dreams, I saw thee Btand,
Like quoonly nymph from fairy laud,
Enchantress of’ the flowry wand,
Most beauteous Isadoro !
And when I bade the ffteam
Upon thy spirit flee,
Thv violet eyes to me
Upturned, did overflowing seem
With the doep untold delight
Of Love’s serenity;
Thy classic brow, like lilies white,
And pale as the imperial night
Upon her throne with stars bediglit,
Enthralled my soul to thee!
All! F.vor I behold
Thv dreamy passionate eyes,
Blue as the languid skies,
Hung with the sunset's fringe or gold ;
How strangely clear thine image glows,
And olden memories
Are startled from their long reposo,
Like shadows on the silent snows.
When suddenly the night wind blows
Where quiet moonlight lies.
Like innsie heard in dreams,
Like strains of harps unknown,
Of birds forever flown—
Audible as the voice of streams
That munuur in some leafy dell,
I heai- thy gentlest tone ;
And Silence comoth with her spell.
Like that which on my tongue doth dwell
When tremulous in dreams I tell
My love to thee alone!
In every valley heard
Floating from tree to tree
I,ess beautiful to me
The music of the radiant bird,
Than artless accents such as thine,
Whose echoes never flee !
Ah! how for thy sweet voice I pine ;
For uttered in thy tones benign.
Enchantress, this rude name of mine
Doth seem a melody!
REGRET.
BY CHRISTIAN REID.
If I had known, O loyal heart.
When, hand to hand, *e said farewell,
How for all time our paths would part.
What shadow o'er our friendship fell,
I should have clasped your hand so close
In the warm pressure of my own,
Thkt memory still would keep its grasp.
If I had known.
If I had known when, far and wide,
We loitered through the Summer laud,
What Presence wandered by our side,
And o'er you stretched its awful hand,
I should have hushed my careless speech.
To listen, dear, to every tone
That from your lips fell low and sweet,
If I had known.
If 1 had known when your kind eyes
Met mine in parting, true and sad—
Eves gravely tender, gently wise,
"And earnest, rather, more than glad—
How soon the lids would lie above.
As cotd and white as sculptured stone,
1 should have treasured every glance,
If I had known.
If 1 had known how, from the strife
Of fears, hopes, passions, here below.
Unto a purer, higher life
That vou were called, O friend, to go,
1 Should have stayed my foolish tears.
And hushed each idle sigh and moan,
To bid you a last, long God-speed,
If 1 had known.
If I had known to what strange place.
What mystic, distant, silent shore.
You calmly turned vour steadfast face.
What time your footsteps left my door.
1 should have forged a golden link
To bind the heart so constant grown,
And keep it constant ever there.
If I had known.
If I hail known that, until Death
Shall with liis finger touch my brow.
Ami still the quickening of the breath
That stirs with Ufa’s full meaning now,
So long my feet must tread the way
Of our accustomed paths alone.
I should have prized your presence more.
If 1 had known.
If I had known how soon for you
Drew near the ending of the fight.
And on your vision, fair and new.
Eternal peace dawned into sight.
1 should have begged, as love's last gift.
That yon. before God’s great white throne.
Would pray for your poor friend on earth,
If I had known.
M. Thiers’ organ, the Bitn JPublie, }
confirms the story that that statesman j
had au interview with Prince Gortscha-!
toff concerning the internal affairs of'
France and the maintenance of peace in I
Europe." The RnssiaD Chancellor j
thought that a solution of the Turkish \
troubles would be found in granting i
autonomy to Bosnia and Herzegovina
under the direction of the Archduke!
Salvador or Server Pasha, and in a recti
fication of the Montenegrin frontier.
Garibaldi, unable to attend the Con
gress of the International League of
Peace and Liberty, now sitting at Ge
neva, writes: “Beiug unable in person
to have the honor of taking part in yonr
humanitarian Congress, I beg you to re
member me to ail our brothers by con
viction, and particularly to direct the
eyes of all the apostles of liberty who,
like you, are standing in the breach, to
our Eastern brethren, who are now strug
gling like heroes against the most abom
inable of tyrannies.”
OCR WASHI.\CiTOi\' LETTER.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and .Sentinel.]
Washington, D. C., Oct. 1, 1875.
Male and Female Animals.
One never so ferociously anathe
matizes the fate that created one just on
the wrong side of the dividing line that
separates the female from the male
biped, as in traveling on Uncle Sam’s
highways. Men are such independent
animals. They have the best of every
thing, from the initiative in courtship
to a cocktail and a stamp speech. They
monopolize the fore-deck of a steamer,
and have the first sight of all that
comes; they watch the dissolving
views in comfortable ease; while
the women, huddled like sheep
in the rear of the boat, timorously peer
around its sides, and have their eyes
filled with cinders for their pains. Ob
serve the untrammelled majesty and the
cool bravado with which a man lingers
for a parting word with his inscrutable
fate until the cars are at full speed.
Then, while the fair one, in dire agony
for his safety, cranes her head out of the
window, thinking to behold a mangled
corpse, he swings himself from the plat
form with an air of consummate supe
riority, and waves her an adieu. Has
not she almost the same length of bone,
the same strength of muscle? But a
woman never dares take a leap for life
wtihont the horrible apprehension that
her rear appendages will catch in some
obtrusive nail or corner and present her
reversed to the eyes of the spectators.
Such being the state of affairs, the law
givers of the nation have no semblance
of a right to look awkward, or harried,
or excited, or dismayed. The very good
order their garments retain is aggrava
ting in the extreme. Their hair is never
frazzled, their dress never tumbled.
Called off on a long trip, for which a
modem female would require the con
tents of a wholesale furnishing honse
aDd a Chinese laundry, her mate only
asks two clean shirts, a cork-screw, and
a handkerchief.
Debit and Credit.
Whether or not the Government, is a
disciple of Dr. Dix and the “Celibacy
of the Clergy,” it certainly insists on the
celibacy of its female employees. A
woman who marries loses her place in
the departments. A lady clerk, receiv
ing a salary of §1,600 a year, abandoned
the position for the sake of marrying a
man who earned bat 81,400. That step
might be numerically expressed for the
edification of anti-matrimonial cynics:
Single blessedness, female,
=81,600
Single blessedness, male,
= 1,400
Common sense =83,000
1,600
Fatuity =1,400
Married bliss = 700
C. S.: M. B. : : 83,000 : 700
Mrs. E. D. N. Southworth.
Those who have hung with bated
breuth upon the thrilling pages of the
“Missing Bride” and the “Lost Heiress”
will be interested in a word concerning.
Mrs. E. D. N. Southworth. Erolific
coiner of horrors and impossibilities,
she is herself a dire slave to that most
fearful of curses, opium. Her wild
pages are lmt faint colorless reproduc
tions of the visions that burn in her
brain, and throb in her heart, fed al
ways by the consuming drug.
“Prospect Cottage” on Georgetown
Heights, overlooking the Potomac and
the Virginia shore, is Mrs. Southworth’s
home. Her unpretentious house, in
l ather a desolate looking spot, but here,
every Winter, she holds her receptions.
Few visitors of any State or clime fail
to pay a visit of interest or curiosity to
this singularly endowed personage. In
appearance, she is an aggravated like
ness of the Witch of Endor. Dark and
sallow in the extreme, with wild black
eyes, and that painful look of irrespon
sibiliy and excitement so fatally indica
tive of a diseased mind, she is, withah
a lively talker, and a consummate egotist.
Her own works, their praises, and the
celebrities who have swelled her fame
by their presence, form the chief theme
of her discourse. Following distinguish
ed literary predecessors in connubial in
felicities, Mrs. Southworth is separated
from her husband. Whether, in the
confused phantasmagoria of her dreams,
she mistook him for one of the “deeply
dyed villains” in her stories and endeav
ored to Bubserve the ends of justice by
cutting his throat, history does not re
cord; but it is certain that the gentleman
resides in New York.
Mrs. Ann S. Stevens,
The author of “Fashion and Famine,”
and other novels, is among the notables
of Washington. The National Hotel is
the scene of her social triumphs, where
she is the centre of a large and enter
taining circle. In appearance she is
large and masculine, rather loud in
voice, and opeu to the criticism of be
ing somewhat boisterous in manner.
A colored man, who was lately resusei
-1 tated from what seemed death, but was
| only catalepsy, was entertaining his
•-lends with the sights he beheld in the
other world, “Plenty colored bredren
in Heaven, I "Pty. ‘‘? h :, yes ! ”
said Tom. how about lieu—any
down there ?” askeA another interbjpn
tar. “Oh, yes ! massa, plenty of dem
der too.” “Any white fols?, I°*° ■
"Lord save ns, der ain’t no end on
but by gosh, massa, ebery white man
done got a nigger boldin’ between him
and de fire !”
O, shades of Abraham Lincoln, of
Charles Sumner, are ye so taken up with
the beatitudes of your celestial abode
that your hearts are not wrung by the
wrongs of “ man and brother ?”
Tlie War Secretary,
Under the green sod of Oak Hill,
marked by a lofty shaft of white grani
ato, lies the mortal remains of Edwin M.
Stanton. Only his name and his wife’s
are recorded ou the tomb. No laudatory
epitaph challenges the credulity of the
beholder. His fame is seared into his
tory with the mighty throes of the great
struggle which furnished “ the hour and
the man.” Ho sleeps his last sleep on
a lofty eminence that overlooks the
splendid city that was the scene of his
triumphs, and the proud Capitol dome
that crowned alike liis good and evil
deeds.
A Christian’s Grave.
Not far from the grave of the Secre
tary a plaiu, gray, weather-stained tab
let, framed fiat in the velvet sward,
bears this curious ami suggestive in
scription ;
The Repository
of
Lorenzo Dow,
Horn in Coventry, Connecticut, 177Jk :
died 1834;
Aged, 56.
A Christian is the highest style of man.
He is
A slave to no sect, takes no private road.
But looks through Nature up
to Nature’s God.”
But your patience is ebbing, so adieu
for the present. C. M.
Interesting Internal Revenue De
cisions—The Deputy Internal Revenue
Collector of Quitman, Ga,, has received
the following letter from the Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue, containing
decisions and rulings of the Depart
ment, of importance to all dealers in
spirituous liquors:
Treasury Department, )
Office of Internal Revenue, >
Washington, September 24, 1875.)
Sir—ln yonr letter of the 17th instant
yon ask the following questions;
“Can a Granger or a farmer who has
bought a barrel of spirituous liquor for
his own use sell it at retail without tak
iug out the retail license, or at whole
sale withont taking ont the wholesale
license ?”
I reply that he cannot make such sales
withont incurring liability to pay spe
cial tax as wholesale or retail dealer, or
both.
You ask again: “Cau a retail dealer
clast' out his stock at wholesale without
taking out a wholesale license ?”
I reply that this office formerly held
in snch a case that the retail dealer did
not incur liability as a wholesale dealer
by disposing of his entire stock at one
sale (see page 169, Yol. X. Record).
But it has been decided by the Court
(.Judge Krekel), in the eases of the
United States vs. A. M. Rhoades and
United States vs. Baneriy, that a retail
dealer so selling (the quantity, of
! course, consisting of five gallons or
more) became liable as a wholesale
j dealer. That is the present ruling of
this office.
You ask further: “Can a retail dealer,
whose license has expired soon there
after, or at any time thereafter, close
out a’ stock of liquors without license ?”
I reply that he cannot But he might
transfer" said liquors to some liquor
dealer who has paid the tax, to sell for
him on commission, without further li
ability on his part Sueh dealer, how
ever "should be careful not to violate
the provisions of section 3319, Revised
S Statutes of the United States. Very re
spectfully, RATT ’
r Commissioner.
To Edward C. Wade, Esq., Deputy Col
lector Internal Revenue, Qnitman, Ga.
The proposed Democratic Convention
in Louisiana is discountenanced by near
ly all the leading Democrats of the
State, and it is probable that the pro
ject will be abandoned.
The Preston property in the city of
Columbia, containing four acres, with
ail the improvements thereon, asi the
property of Emma R. Moses and F. J.
Moses her husband, was sold by the
sheriff to the South Carolina Bank and
Trust Company, per T. 0. Pune, receiv
er, for $24,000, subject to mortgages
amounting to $16,000.
GEORGIA AM) FLORIDA.
[Special Corre*j>otvlence Chronicle awl Sentinel.]
En Route, September 29th.
You would hardly believe it, but the
run from Savannah to Jacksonville by
rail is seventeen hours, the former be
ing left at 4 o’clock in the afternoon and
the city ou the St. John’s reached at 9
o’clock the next morning. Though thus
extended the tour wan not disagreeable;
the coaches ever lazy-going. Captain
Wright proved himself a most courteous
conductor, and not a few happy circum
stances combined to give swift wings to
the hours for one who for the nouco
subscribed to Byron’s poetic fancy that
“night was not made fur sleep.”
Consumptives Coming.
When one’s tongue has a turn for
wagging it is not often that some victim
wont be found ou whom it can wreak its
expressions; and aboard were Captain
John R. Triplet, of the Thomasvilte
7V men; Col. Dyke, of the Tallahassee
Floridian, and Col. F. B. Papy, the
genial general agent of the line of rail
road from Jacksonville to Mobile—the
latter two gentlemen returning homo
from the North where the thermometer
at 46 degrees had mndo them sigh and
long for the more hospitable skies of
onr snnny clime. Not only these hearty
representatives of the Land of Flowers
had been tonched with feeling of their
infirmities by this unwonted crispiuess
of the frosty mornings of those higher
latitudes, but others to t!t manner
■there born wore also hieing southward
with the first homeward flight of the
swallows—these others being some of
the frail men and women on whose
wan cheeks the tinted death-flag
of consumption has been advauced
far. At this writing, my ear
catches the sound of hollow, hacking
coughs that tell this sad story. And
this reminds me that Ponce de Leon’s
romantic search for the “Fountain of
Youth” amidst the glsasy lakes, moss
draped forests and flowering loveliness
of beautiful Florida, seems to have
found a significant realization in these
later days; for how many are yenrly
seeking on this blooming peninsnla the
breezes that bear healing on their
wings and the reviving waters of life
that bring back vigor and health, if
they do not impart the magic power to
hold perpetual youth ?
Turpentine Farms.
Along the line of the Atlantic and
Gulf Road a wealth of woods meets the
eye—endless pine forests which are be
ing converted into turpentine farms by
our own citizens and the enterprising
sons of the Old North State who, aban
doning the exhausted forests of their
own Carolina, have found here in South
ern Georgia countless virgin trees that
bring forth generous treasures of tur
pentine and rosin in response to the ca
resses of manly energy and muscle. The
magnitude of this industry in this sec
tion is scarcely appreciated elsewhere
in our State; and each season, under
the fostering management of Col. John
Screven, the able President of the Gulf
Road, who has reduced freight tariffs to
encourage this production in sections
controlled by his lines, it is increasing
most rapidly and satisfactorily. A tur
pentine farm embraces hundreds of
acres of pine forest. Each tree is bark
ed on its four sides, and at tbe base of
each side a cup or reservoir is cut ont
in the tree into which the turpentine
drips down. The trees are visited once
a month or more frequently, and the
cups or reservoirs relieved of their con
tents. The first or virgin dip makes the
finest article. A farm will last a num
ber of years, and when exhausted the
trees are available for timber, thus after
yielding rich annual returns for a long
period at last paving as valuable iu
this respect as if they had been felled in
the first instance.
Truck Raising.
Another admirable and public spirit
ed feature in the policy of the Gulf Road
is a similar freight reduction upon ship
ments of fruits and vegetables. This
arrangement first obtained, we believe,
last year, when experimental shipments
were made over the Green Line to Chi
cago and other Western marts. In con
versation with Mr. Elliott, who, as repre
sentative of the Gulf Road, devotes spe
cial attention to this department of its
interests, we gleaned some not uninter
esting data upon this subject of fruit
culture and vegetable farming in this
section. Early in the season cucumbers,
which yield from 300 to 600 bushels per
acre and average 400 bushels, command
ed ready sale in Chicago at 811 per
bushel, only dropping to 83, the lowest
price, when Northern truck came in.
Okra brought 816 per bushel, and may
be raised easily and in immense quanti
ties. Melons yield 1,000 to the acre,
and were wholesaled at from 40 to 75
cents a piece, bringing to the retail deal
ers 81 and 81 50 each, and realizing a
net profit on the shipment of 10 cents
each, thus proving a much more lucra
tive orop at SIOO per acre than cotton at
two or three or four acres to the bale.
The beauty about these crops is that
they are cultivated and marketed in the
pleasant season of Winter and early
Spring, leaving the land for other uses
i;i Summer and relieving the planter of
outdoor labor beneath the melting rays
of our Southern Summer suns. Some
one has fitly compared the United States
a well regulated farm, with its shops
in tLe £ast, its smoke houses aud grana
ries in the West, and its garden—with
out which no farm is complete—in these
prolific districts of the South ; and en
ergy and work are only needed, it seems,
to most richly fill Uj, .our side of this
striking picture.
Georgia and Florida;
There is a strong feeling among the
people of this part of Georgia to make
a pull all together to tap the Jackson
ville, Pensaoolla aud Mobile Railroad at
Monticelo with a short lino connecting
at Thomasvillo. The design is to build
up the latter place with the added busi
ness of northern and western Florida
and to control the entire trade of that
portion of the Land of Flowers for the
benefit of this little metropoiisof South
ern Georgia. The mauagers apd friends
of the .Florida line, however, are ap
parently wideawake to this threatening
danger, which imperils a large part of
their already sufficiently small revenues,
nud a lively and tough fight may be
anticipated when tfie tocsin of this rail
road war is really sounded- As Geor
gians, we could but wish hearty suooess
to this projeoted feeder of the Atlantic
and Gulf line and developer of a fine
and flourishing scope of territory whose
treasures of commerce would almost
entirety pour into the laps of our mer
chants. Ravannah, as well as Thomas
ville, would reap benefit from the con
nection, as she would be thereby Jinked
yet more closely and directly to her
large Florida trade; and for this reason
it might be supposed the Forest City
would herself be alive to this enterprise.
J. P, C.
Centennial Lodoinq House Aoency.
—The question of how strangers should
be entertained iu Philadelphia during
the continuance of the Centennial Exhi
bition has been the cause of much at
tention and discussion. The hotel ac
commodation is entirely inadequate, and
even with the increased room which will
be furnished by the additions which are
being made to the present hotels, and
by the erection of new ones, it will still
be very deficient. There are twenty
thousand daily visitors who must be ac-s
commodated in the private houses of
the city, Upon careful examination of
the resources of the city in the way of
space accommodation, it is believed and
estimated that the city oontains spare
rooms in private and boarding houses
sufficient to entertain five times the
number of people expected there. To
utilize and organize this vacant accom
modation —to bring it under intelligent
supervision, so that itcan be made avail
able to the traveler and visitor—an or
ganization has been formed, composed
of business men familiar with the city
ami with the lines of transportation
leading to it, and who are specially in
terested in carrving largelnnmbers to the
citv and having them properly oared
for, under the title ol the “Centennial
Lodging House Agency, Limited.” A
system has been arranged whereby tick
ets will be sola in all the important
cities in this country and Europe, which
will guarantee to the holders the accom
modations this agency will provide, and
previous to their arrival at Philadelphia
they will be met and directed to the
lodgings assigned them.
Yiee-President Wilson has been ad
vised by his medical advisers to aban
don bis lecture programme.
Is the Hon Henry L. Dawes, Senator
from Massachusetts, a trimmer after
all? The Boston Globe sarcastically
says that he should trim his whiskers.
“It must be humiliating not to be rec
ognised by the chair.”
The Springfield fieptMiean remarks:
“Nominating Adams, the Republican
party of Massachusetts would have lift
ed itself. Nominating Loring, it would
have gone down. Nominating Bice, it
simply stands still—stavs where it was.”
Then it adds, consolingly: “It is always
a big undertaking for a party to lift it
self.” So we bare observed.
Here a few of the Boston fosft ejacu
lations on the Republican Convention;
The candidate is Rice; the platform is
grueL The Prohibs don’t take Rice in
theirs. Rice and Knight. Good ticket
—to beat. Butler was among the “scat
tering.” The Adams movement didn’t
move. There was a good deal of noise
and unpleasantness at the funeral yes
terday. The Republican prospect in
Massachusetts isn’t on the Rice.
OBITUARY.
The people of Taliaferro connty are in
sorrow and mourning for the loss of two
of their most esteemed and worthy
fellow citizens.
Nathan Gilbert and George W. Mit
chell are numbered with the dead, and
“tbe places that once knew them well
know them no more forever.”
The announcement will cause pangs of
grief to many friends, acquaintances,
and relatives, in this, and other States.
Nathan Gilbert died at his residence a
few miles oast of Crawfordville, on the
28th September juat passed. He was
born tbe 9th of April, 1808, in the county
of Houston, Georgia, and was educated
at Mount Zion, under the tuition of the
celebrated Nnthan S. Beman, D. D.
His mental training fitted him for suc
cess in almost any professional careerT
bnt with that unassuming modesty,
which characterized his nature, he pre
ferred to devote his life to agriculture,
and acts of usefulness in other spheres.
Having married the daughter of Gerard
Burch, a very distinguished citizen of
the State, in his day, "Mr. Gilbert
restrained jbis aspirations to those
pleasures which come from the
domestic circle, and from conferring
benefits upon his neighbors in his
own unostentatious way. Besides his
attention to hip farm, he performed
the duties of Justice of the Peace
and occassionally taught school for the
improvement and instruction of the
children of his community. In this
sphere lie had fow superiors. For many
ye aHI ho was a member of the Baptist
Church. The war left him with greatly
reduced means, but even in his old age
he deemed it no discredit to be seen fol
lowing the plow and turning the furrow.
Last Saturday, when iu usual health
and vigor of body, he took a chill while
in the field. It caused neither him nor
his family any uneasiness. Sunday i.nd
Monday, he was up. But Tuesday
another chill came on, which proved to
be of a highly congestive character, and
which ended in his death in a few hours.
Thus suddenly and unexpectedly passed
away one of the most exemplary citizens
otTaliaferro. He left an afflicted widow
anil eight children, with several grand
children and a whole county who knew
him and appreciated his virtues, to
lament his loss.
George W. Mitchell, one of the most
prominent merchants in Crawfordville
survived his friend and brother in the
chflreh but two days. He had been suf
fering from an attack of what was
thought to be typhoid fever for nearly
eight weeks. From the time lie was first
taken he was deeply impressed with the
conviction that he would die, and made
preparations for that event, so far as
concerned his worldly affairs, by the
due execution of his will. Strong hopes,
however, were entertained by friends at
intervals during his long and lingering
spell that he might ultimately recover.
These were all extinguished on the
night of the 29th, when he commenced
sinking rapidly, and expired early on
the morning of the 30tli of September.
Mr. Mitchell was born in Spottsylva
vania county, Virginia, on the 4th of
July, 1819, and moved to Georgia, with
his widowed mother and her family, in
1835, when lie was 16 years old. He
was raised a farmer, and his early man
hood was devoted exclusively to agricul
ture. With a good English education,
and a high moral training under the ma
ternal roof, accompanied with energy,
industry and ujAightness, he was thrifty,
and acquired a considerable estate, con
sisting of lands and slaves. In 1850 he
pat his surplus means iu merchandise,
and set up a store in the village of
Crawfordville, which he successfully
conducted until his death. In 1855 he
married Miss Corynthia Hardin, of Co
lumbia county—a most amiable lady.
She soon became a victim of consump
tion, leaving but one child, George
Hardin Mitchell, now a member of the
senior class in the State University. In
1868 he married the accomplished Mrs.
Catharine C. Trippe, nee Edwards, of
Crawfordville. This most estimable
lady died the 30th of May last, leaving
to Mr. Mitchell one son, little Frank, by
his second marriage.
In his dealings with men Mr. Mitchell
was exact, upright and just. He had
the confidence of all. But the most
striking features of his character were lib
erality and charity. In his own prosperi
ty he forgot not the destitute, either in
war or peace. Few that were ever born
of woman conkl exclaim with Job, so
truly as he could : “When the ear heard
me then it blessed me; and when the eye
saw me it gave witness to me; because I
delivered the poor that cried, and the
fatherless, aud him that had none to
help him; the blessing of him that was
nearly ready to perish came upon me ;_
and I caused the widow’s heart to sing
for joy. * * I was eyes to the blind
aud feet was Ito the lame. I was a
father to the poor, and the canso which
I knew not I searched out.”
His generous credit to destitute labor
ing colored people since the war iu fur
nishing then: supplies to run their
farms without liens or other security
than their word, is, perhaps, withont
a parallel. It is to be hoped that they
will prove as true to their word in meet
ing tbeir obligations to his estato as
he proved himself to bo their true
“friend indeed” by aiding them in
their “greatest need.” Mr. Mitchell had
been a most exemplary member of the
Baptist Church for over thirty years.
His whole life was a shining example of
Christian virtue.
He was buried yesterday in the ceme
tery in this place with Masonic honors.
His funeral was preached in the Baptist
Church by the pastor, Rev. Q. L. R.
Jennings. All in the country as well as
in town, who could, attonded these last
solemn ceremonies and rites due to his
remains and .memory. Indeed a deep
gloom rested upon the village from
morning until uight. Every countenance
black as well as white, showed the uni
versal fee!jpg that the town and coun
ty had lost ope wbpse place will never
bo filled. S.
Crawfordville, Ga., October 2, 1875.
STEAM VS. WATER POWER.
f, Gogin, -Esq., Superintendent :
De4B Ser —To my inquiries of the
27th ult. yoq make no reply. You
caipe before the public with certaiu
statements. Your position gave weight to
these statements. They gravely effect an
important public undertaking, one which
you are reported to have encouraged
und when asked for the proof yon took
no notice of my request. Am I to un
derstand that a “sober second thought”
has convinced you of your being a little
ahead of the music.
Of steam pewer J have had no exper
ience for the last thirty-live years.
When employed by me it was not profit
able, the expenses invariably exceeding
Uie most liberal estimates. I know that
pear Baltimore a manufacturing es
tablishment used stpßff? l!i an annual
cost of $9,000 for fuel,
For a water powGr in the neighbor
hood estimated as sufficient to drive this
machinery, they gave the sum of eighty
thousand dollars, and the further ex
pense of supplying Hip water was much
dearer in fact in Patterson ik"!} iu At
lanta? Why is all the water power iu
old England and New England utilised
at a heavy cost and nigh rental is not so
high. In England at the present price
coal for steam power is quoted at four
shillings "a tou, which is cheaper than
Atlanta and still they uap all the water
power they possibly can.
* I hare been engaged in manufactnr- i
ing in Georgia for many years. For
twenty-five years this machinery has
been run at a yearly cost of not over
three cents a spindle, and this includes
every charge for water power, gearing,
dam, and every charge pertaining to the
power; this is not guess but the record,
and daring that time not five days in all
faavp been lost from high water or from
want of wate?.
Hundreds of snob locations can be
had in this State aud at low figure*, and
what has been done can be done again.
I hazard the opinion that a water power
in the hands of a man who knows his
business—how to secure and apply the
power, say for 10,000 spindles—can be
operated for two months for n cost not
exceeding what a steam power of the
same capacity would be for oil and en
gineer’s wages. I make the issue, and
ask to be corrected if wrong.
I have heard of a man who lit up his
store, dosing the windows, concluding
that gas light was cheaper than the light
of the sun. He remained of this opin
ion only till the quarterly bills were pre
| aented,
No one will rejoice more than I to see
yon build up Atlanta, bgt depend upon
it, if the capital you say could be Lad
from the North be the property of prac
tical men, I doubt your ability in per
suading, far less proving to them that
steam is as cheap as water, if coal can
be had at $3 0} per ton, or even for
nothing. Why did yon not use steam in
your increase of machinery at the Au
gusta Factory ? You had maDy solid
reasons for so doing—yoa preferred wa
ter.
J write this mainly to do away with
any injurious effect your opinion may
have on an important interest to Augus
ta, present and future.
Very respectfully,
Ax Old Manttaotcreb.
Two new Democratic Congressmen
from Illinois, Messrs. Harrison and
Caulfield, announce themselves hard
money men. Both of tnem told a re
porter of the Chicago Journal, recently,
that tfiey were opposed to inflation, yet
they were not in favor of contraction
until the value of greenbacks was nearer
on a par with gold. Neither of them be
lieve the resumption act of 1879 can be
carried out.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
The fnnil for an equestrian statue of
Gen. Lee at Richmond now amounts to
820,000.
Peter Bentley died in Jersey City last
Sunday. He was known as the lawyer
who never had but one case which last
ed twelve years, and ended in victory for
him, and a fortune of 8250,000.
The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion says
“the testimony in the Clinton riot shows
that it was a lieudish and premeditated
plot to massacre every white Democrat
and Conservative on the ground.”
Edwin Booth tells a Herald reporter
that it is impossible to say when he will
appear on the stage again. His left
arm, which was broken, is utterly
powerless, and shows no signs of ever
.being any better.
The Marquese de Chambrnn, the
grand-daughter of Lafayette, now resi
dent in Washington, has iu her posses
sion a set of pearls given her grand
mother by Maria Antoinette, at whose
wedding that lady acted as bridesmaid.
The Alabama Constitutional Conven
tion proposes to allow a mere majority
vote of the Legislature to override a
veto by the Governor. Elections are to
be held ou the first Monday of August,
1876, and thereafter on such day as may
be provided by law.
The Constitutional Convention iu
North Carolina proposes to reduce the
Governor’s term of office from four
years to two, to pay him $3,000 per
year, to abolish the office of Lieutenant-
Governor, and to limit the pay of tbe
members of the Legislature to 84 per
day for sixty days.
We learn that Rev. Dr. A. G. Hay
good, of Oxford, formerly a resident of
Nashville, and well known as an able
and vigorous writer, has accepted Ihe
position of corresponding editor for the
Southern Christian Advocate. He will
prove a valuable accession to that excel
lent religions journal.
Secretary Delano’s Investigating Com
mission would do well to follow his ex
ample, and resign without delay. No
body cares about their report. Prof.
Marsh has the country with him in sup
port of his charges, and whatever the
Commission of the accused may say will
not have the slightest weight one way or
the other.
1 There will soon be a Death column in
The 'newspapers, headed “Gone to Ohio,”
and from present appearances at least cue
promising public man will take his place
there every 24 hours. Just now Andrew
G. Martin and Gilbert G. Walker are
mourned by sorrowing friends. Bnt
our loss is their gain. They are forever
in Bill Allen’s bosom.
The Chicago Tribune has information
that all the Missnri Congressmen are
pledged to vote for Hon. M. C. Kerr for
Speaker, and that, with the votes pledg
ed to him iu that State, Illinois, Ken
tucky, Indiana, and other Western
States, combined with the big Eastern
vote which he is certain to get, his elec
tion is already assured.
This excellent suggestion concerning
the future career of the late Secretary
Delano is made by the Cincinnati Com
mercial : “ Delano being vindicated,
resigns./ He should now go into the
cattle raising business. The ability of
the Interior Department to sell a calf for
an ox to the Indians might, carried into
ordinary business affairs, prove extreme
ly profitable. ” ®
The St. Louis Times tells President
Grant that he has just thrown mvay a
more than golden opportunity. He and
Jeff Davis happened to be in that city
at the same time, and the Times says
that if President Grant had only called
on Mr. Davis and extended to him t lie
hand of hearty good will and fellowship
it would have become him (President
Grant) “better than his crown.”
Every idiot in Ohio who offers to bet
on the result of the election is promptly
utilized by the partisan press of the
State to show how the cat is going to
jump. If he bets on Hayes, he is dis
played in the Bepubliean organs; if he
bets on Allen, the Democratic papers
snap him up. Meanwhile, the feeble
minded person who goes through the
cars is taking the vote of the people who
are passing through the State.
The World’s opinion of the Adams
movement : “Nobody outside of the of
fice of independent newspapers, where
they will believe anything, has believed
that the Republicans would nominate
him, except in a panic. It would have
been an expedient thing to do all the
same, because Mr. Adams is the only
man who still calls himself a Republican
in Massachusetts who would have kept
the votes of the meu who have about
done calling themselves Republicans. ”
The Constitutional Convention of
North Carolina has refused to remove
the disabilities of ex-Governor Holden,
now postmaster at Raleigh, who was im
peached and expelled from the Guberna
torial chair. This deprives the Repub
eaus of one candidate for Governor, and
keep3 ont of office a friend to Grant,
who wants the President to be President
again. Duriug Holden’s administration
the State debt ran up to $35,000,000, and
few good citizens of North Carolina will
mourn because of liis continued exclu
sion from places of trust.
The resolutions of tbe State Conven
tions thus far held upon the currency
may be thus classified: Republican, for
hard money—Maine, Minnesota, lowa,
Wisconsin, New York, California, Mary
land and Massachusetts, eight; for in
flation, or non-committal —Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Nebraska and Kentucky, four.
Demociatic, for hard money—Blaine,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, Cali
fornia, Maryland, Nebraska and Massa
chusetts, eight; for inflation, or non
committal—Ohio, Pennsylvania, lowa
and Kentucky, four. It is pretty much
of a muchness.
The New York Tribune says of the
Republican candidate for Governor in
Blassaehusetts; “He is well-bred, culti
vated, a man of affairs, with consider
able experience of public life; his ability
to discharge the duties of the position
for which he is named is unquestioned,
and his personal character is above re
proach. With all this it must be said
that he represents at this time what is
most inopportune and least to the pur
pose, to-wit; that soft sort of conserva
tism that delights iu being respectable
and never saying anything out loud for
fear of disturbing somebody, and never
doing anything that has earnestness and
manhood in it, lest it may break the
stagnant harmony of a party covered all
over with greet! scum,”
The names of Senator John J. Batter
sou and Adjutant-General 11. W. Purvis
still adorn the advertising columns of
the J Tnion-JJerald, of Columbia, S. 0.,
and stil} far tfyp orjgingl reason, tjppq.use
the household goods of the former and
the war horse of the latter are for sale
by the sheriff. It is just barely pos
sible that the ' money value of the pranc
ing steed, and perhaps of the household
goods, has all been,taken up in adver
tising them equip time ago, put i.o long
ns the pash paid for advertisements only
comes out of the pockets of the people
of South Carolina, Patterson and Pur
vis don’t care, and tlie sheriff and the
Union-Herald man are happy. What’s
the difference ?
ilcsgjire D. Conway has been passing
the first few week qf l;i“ stay ill this
country in the house of his father, who
is a banker iu Fredericksburg, Va. The
nliarp differences arising from his radi
cal anti-slavery views Ipd to an unhappy
separation between Mr. tlonway and his
friends and relatives in Virginia before
tiie war, 41} that has passed away with
the war; and they now “welcomed him as
a Virginian with true Virginia cordiality.
Mr, Conway reports public opinion in
his native State in a healthy condition.
The representatives of the families
which have most influenced the com
munity in the past still occupy controll
ing positions; auff both wniiea anil
blacks testify that the feeling between
the races is all that could be desired.
Ex-Governor Brownlow has been ex
pressing his viewy with biu ffsual. pun
gency to a reporter of the Cincinnati
Gazette. He thinks the country is
threatened with a worse danger than the
war, namely, the restoration of the
Democracy to power on a repudiation
platform. He says the Southern Demo
crats are unanimously in favor Gf infla
tion because they know it means infla
tion, and believes Ohio would go Re
publican by 50,000 majority if people
there comprehended the baleful effect
which the re-election of Governor Allen
would have. 4s fo* General Cajy, the
“Parson” has traveled with him, and
seta him down as a “mountebank, a
political pirate and prostitute. bena
! tor Seknrz, in Mr. Brownlow’s opinion,
is one of the most “brilliant aud re
markable men of the day,” and his ean
vass in Ohio will be of “incalculable
service to the Republican party.”
Ex-Senator Harlan is a wonderful
1 orator. He spoke at Kossuth, lowa, the
! other day, and when he -stopped there
1 was nothing left to be said. He gave a
minnte description of the political situa
tion at the dawn of the Christian era,
and traversed with great care down to
the present time, leaving hardly a single
event unmentioned. He explained com
pletely away every shortcoming that
had ever been charged to the Republi
can party. Beneath his master hand
I the Credit Mobilier scandal vanished in
! to nothingness, although he strangely
! forgot to mention the two $5,000 checks
j which fell to his share. The salary
' grab, Indian frauds, Sanborn contracts,
| and jobbery of all kinds were knocked
: completely out of history, and this neat
jab attended to, the course of the Re
publican party on the finances was
shown to have been the wisest and best
the world had ever seen. It is safe to
say no such speech has ever been de
livered before anywhere.
K LEGEND OF LEGS.
[New York Times.]
There was present at a camp meeting
held at Ocean Grove last Summer a Me
thodist minister with an unusual leg.
Precisely what was the matter with this
leg cannot as yet be positively affirmed,
since the authorities upon the subject
differ —some claiming that the leg was
paralyzed aud others that it was merely
stiffened in consequence of early break
ages. Indeed, there is also another form
of the story in which the minister
is represented to have had two abnormal
legs, out of neither of which could he
obtained any sort of real satisfaction.
Whatever may be the exact truth ns to
the details of the story, there is no doubt
that the minister in question was very
unfortunate in point of legs, aud that no
physicians had been able to put any
substantial aud permanent repairs upon
him.
As this unfortunate minister was sitting
in his sea-side tent, and perhaps enter
taining gloomy doubts as to the univer
sal propriety of the system of an itiner
ant ministry, he was visited by a Method
ist lady accompanied by a band of sym
pathizing friends. The lady announced
that she intended to try her skill upon
the leg—or legs—which the medical fac
ulty had abandoned as being beyond re
pair. She therefore laid her hands upon
the leg—or legs—(and we might as well
assume that the minister’s entire set of
legs was practically useless) —and with
the aid of her body-guard of friends
prayed long and fervently. The prayer
being ended, the minister was ordered to
arise and walk, which he promptly did,
and which he has every since continued
to do. Indeed, he has recently risen to
explain, in a pamphlet of considerable
length and much exultation, that his
legs are now everything that a Christian
minister could reasonably ask for unless
he intended to walk for heavy wagers,
and that the sudden cure which ho has
experienced was clearly a special and
genuine miracle.
It was the publication of this pamphlet
which aroused the strong disapproba
tion of certain other Methodist minis
ters. Had the minister who was cured
of lameness gone home and enjoyed his
legs in silence all would have been well.
When, however, he publicly insisted that
he had been the subject of a miracle, he
called down upon himself the •stern
disapprobation of those of his brethren
who hold that modern miracles come
under the general head of ropisli prac
tices, and are hence to be sternly op
posed. At a meeting of the Methodist
ministers of this city, last Monday, a
particularly aggressive minister read a
long paper on the Ocean Grove miracle,
in which he maintained, first, that the
legs in question were never useless, and
secondly, that they had not been cured,
since their proprietor still entertained
fears that he might be again reduced to
crutches.
It was a pity that, having thus cover
ed the whole ground by an argument as
broad as that of the borrower of the
legendary kettle, who .denied that he had
ever borrowed a kettle, and moreover
asserted that the kettle had a hole in it
when it was loaned to him, the decrier
of the miraculous legs went on to show
that cures are frequently effected by the
imagination. He himself, so lie asserted,
had once cured a certain loud-voiced
public singer of a severe headache,
which would otherwise have prevented
him from singing at a concert, by press
ing a silver dollar to his forehead ; and
that on another occasion he had instan
taneously cured a confirmed case of in
flammatory rheumatism with a pair of
steel knitting-needles; though whether
the knitting-needles were administered
internally or applied as a salve he omit
ted to state. How he reconciled the
healing of the singer with his duty as a
Christian philanthropist is a question
that will puzzle the unfortunate people
who were present at the concert which
the minister’s machinations with a sil
ver dollar rendered possible. It will
also occur to moat people that to repre
sent knitting-needles as a specific for
rheumatism savors somewhat of the vain
tricks of the quack physician. Still, it
may be conceded that liis motives were
good, and it is quite certain that he has
demonstrated, what really needed no
demonstration, that extraordinary cures
have frequently been wrought solely
through the patient’s imagination.
There is probably no reason why we
should not accept as true the main points
which the Ocean Grove minister has pub
lished in his history of his personal ldgs.
Yerv probably they were originally a
very wretched pair of logs, and very
probably they became useful in conse
quence of the scene which took place in
his tent. Still his doubting brethren
arc light in declining to believe that a
genuine miracal was wrought in his case.
The cure was precisely like the cures
which there is no reason to doubt that
the Zouave Jacob really preformed in
Paris some years ago. Pious Protestants
will scarcely be inclined to admit that
the Zouave worked miracle, and until
it is showed that Methodist legs are
intrinsically difficult to cure, we need
not suppose that any greater power was
expended on the Ocean Grove minister’s
legs than was lavished on the irreligious
legs of Jacob’s Parisian patients.
A Curious London Bank.
The London correspondent of the
Liverpool Journal says: There has late
ly been a considerable commotion in one
of the most curiously conducted business
concerns in London, or perhaps in the
world. I mean the bank of Childs & Cos.,
in Fleet street, This, as your readers
may have heard, is the establishment
which I suppose, for more than a hun
dred years, has used the upper part of
Temple Bar as a muniment-room, room
where many noted autographs and ac
count books having historical associa
tions were to be seen by the curious.
The singular thing about the bank,
however, is its constitution. Originally
it was founded by the Jersey family and
the head of that house has, X believe,
always retained partnership, but the
other partners are taken from among the
clerks on a sort of tontine principle, so
that every clerk who enters the bank
must, if ho lives long enough, become
a partner. As this is a step from hun
dreds a year to thousands, one might
suppose the effect would be somewhat
remarkable. Human nature is, perhaps,
bad enough to warrant one in supposing
that the clerk next in succession might
be tempted to place the partners as much
as possible in cold draughts, or to beguile
them into unhealthy ways of life. At
the very least there must boa rather
morbid interest in the bodily state of
these old gentlemen and when one of
them is absent on account of ill-health,
the throbbing of expectancy must be
come almost unbearable. Of late there
have actually been, either by death or
removal, four successive retirements
from partnership, following each other
very closely. The glee of the juniors
under such circumstances must have
been well ;rigu uncontrollable. Any
one who was privileged to tell the secrets
of the bank might make a very good
magazine article cmt of its various old
fashioned ways, it is only comparative
ly lately that engraven checks were in
troduced. Until then it was always usu
al for ladies and gentlemen who had ac
counts at the bank to write their drafts
on plain paper. There am probably few
business accounts kept at such an estab
lishment, and I daresay old-fashioned
and aristocratic connections of the bank
like it all the better for its Old World
peculiarities.
Occidental Munificence,
A correspondent of the Hartford Timex
says: One of the California princes was
casually strolling with his wife through
Tiffany’s jewelry establishment in New
York. The wife called her husband’s
attention to a fine opal thqt was no? yet
set. It was taken out of the ease, and
the value, $7,000, was named as the
price. It was purchased in London and
had belonged to Eugenie’s collection.
The lady sajd it wtiifld m fl ke a handsome
brooch set with diamonds. His atten
tion was attracted by something else,
and she passed on. Her husband then
conferred with the clerk as to the beau
ty of a necklace and ear-rings in addi
tion to the brooch. The clerk was au
thorized to drr.w a design for an entire
set of opals and diamonds. The design
when submitted was accepted, and the
wife received a surprise present from
her husband of the finest set of opals and
diamonds in the country. Tie 00-e was ;
a mere trifle—ss47,ooo. It was a slight j
addition to the collection she already !
possessed of a large set of diamonde j
which were too valuable for her to bring !
with her to Saratoga. She. however, j
felt no risk in. sealing emeralds and *
diamonds mat excited the ecyy 0 f those j
whose chief deling consists in the di3- j
play of gems that cannot be rivalled.
Her coral set cost a thousand dollars,
and there were other sets as valuable.
She is handsome, and her laces and
emeralds were the astonishment of Con
gress Hall ball room.
Massachusetts has had some oid Gov
ernors. Samuel Adams became Gover
nor at seventy-two, and retired at seventy
five. Goy. Strong was in his sixty- ;
eighth year wheh he was chosenjin 1812, j
and he remained in office four years, j
Gov. Brooks was sixty-four years old i
when he was chosen, and he remained ;
in office seven. Gov. F.ustis was seventy
years old when he entered office.
Tne proposed woman’s suffrage and
equal suffrage amendments to the Con
stitution of lowa are not to be voted
upon this Fail. The coming Legislature
must pass upon them favorably as the
last did, before they can be submitted
to the people. The woman’s cause has
once before been as far along in lowa as
now, but the second Legislature ungal
lantly killed it for the time beiDg.
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dress T. WILLIAM & CO.,
sep22-4w Publishers, Philadelphia.
Pleasant and Profitable Employment.
“Beautiful!” “Charming!” “Oh, how lovely!”
“What are thev worth,” &c. Such are the exclama
tions of those who see the large, elegant new Chro
mes produced by the European and American Chro
mo Publishing Cos. Every one will want them. It
requires no talking to sell the pictures, they speak
for themselves. I 'auvassers, agents, and ladies and
gentlemen out of employment, will find this the best
opening ever offered to make money. For full par
ticulars send stamp for confidential circular. Ad
dress F. GLEASON & CO., 738 Washington Street,
Boston, Mass. sep22-4w
VEGETINE
PURIFIES THE BLOOD. RENOVATES AND
INVIGORATES THE WHOLE SYSTEM.
ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE
Alterative, Tonic, Solvent aud
Diuretic.
VEGETINE is mado exclusively from tho
juices of carefully selected harks, roots aud
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
lthenm, Syphilitic diseases, Canker, Faintness
at the Stomach, aud all diseases that arises
from impure blood. Sciatica. Inflamatory and
Chronic Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gout' and
Spinal Complaints can ouly be effectually
cured through the blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptive Diseases of the
Skin, Pustules. Pimples, Blotches, Boils. Tet
ter, Scaldhead 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 aud General Debility, VEGETINE
acts direciiy upon the causes of those com
plaints. It invigorates and strengthens the
whole system, acts upon secretive organs, al
lays inflammation, cures ulcoratiou aud regu •
iatos the bowels.
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costive
ness, Palpitation of tho Hoart, Headache,
Piles, Nervousness and General Prostration of
tho Nervous System, no medicine has over
given such perfect satisfaction as the VEGE-
T'INE. It purities 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 proscribe and
use it iu their own families.
In fact, VEGETINE is the best remedy yet
discovered for tho above diseases, and is the
only reliable BLOOD PURIFIER yet placed be
fore tho public.
Ai’e not the many testimonials given for the
different complaints satisfactory to any reason
able person suffering from any disease men
tioned above, that they can be cured ? Read
the different testimonials given, and no one
can doubt. In many of these cases the per
sons say that their pain and suffering cannot
be expressed, aB 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 such great cures ? It
works in tho blood, in the circulating fluid. It
can truly be called the GREAT BLOOD PURI
FIER. 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 putiid humors, cleanse the
stomach,- regulate the bowels, and impart a
tone of vigor to the whole body. The convic
tion is. iu tho public mind as well as in the
medical profession, that the remedies supplied
by the Vegetable Kingdom are more safe,
more successful iu tho 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 liesitato to try il. —
You will never regret it.
WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT
VEGETirVI'I
FOR TEN TIMES ITS COST.
The great benefit I havo 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 tho Spring
and Summer seasons.
I would not be without it for ten times its
cost. EDWARD TILDEN,
Attorney aud General Agent for Massachusetts
of tho Craftsmen’s Life Assurance Com
pany, No. 4!) Sear’s Building, Boston, Mass.
VEGETINE IS SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
au27-4w
M. L STOVALL,
Warehouse & Commission Merchant,
No. 1 Warren Block, Augusta, Ga.
r | THANKFUL for the liberal patronage hero-
X tofore bestowed, would take this occasion
to notify tba planters of Georgia and Carolina
that. lie continues tbe Commission Business in
all its branches (except buying and selling fu
tures), and solicits consignments of Cotton for
sale or storage, lie will give the selling of
cotton his personal attention. 110 is, as here
tofore, Agent for tbe justly celebrated Patapsco
Gnano and Grange Mixture.
ang!s-w3m M. A. STOVALL.
'!’HE
Double Turbiiut Water Wheel.
Sluiiiuacturea oy
#• # rC01.13 & EU2IT,
XSL itaiiiaiope, Mi!.
t,009 AO ,K J X (Si;!
r, Pimple, throng. Durable,
always reliable and tatis-
Alaiiufactnreis.aiso, o!
Portable & btationaiy
Engines, Steam Boilers,
Saw & Grist Mills, Mia.
iug Machinery,Gearing
tor Cotton MiUa, Flour,
Paint. White Lead and
i if JEiIl Machinery, Hydraulic and other
Presses,&c. Shifting, Pulleys and Hangers
a spec’iltv. HachiiiQ made Gearing; been
fate and of very best finish, tend for Circulars
CLAGHOKN, HERRING & (0„
COTTON factors
AND
COMMISSON MERCHANTS,
- No. 7 Warren Block,
Augiißt<i, (Jcorgitt,
Q 9LICIT Consignments of COTTON from
IO Planters and Merchants. Make Liberal
Advances on Cotton in Store, and buy and sell
Cotton for future delivery in Now York and
Liverpool.
CHARGES REASONABLE.
Will aiso make Liberal Advances on Cotton
consigned to their friends in Liverpool.
Sterling Exchange for sale in sums to si\it
purchasers.
Also Agents for
WHANN’S RAW BONE SUPER-PHOSPHATE
and
BAHAMA SOLUBLE GUANO.
sel4-d&w2m
Joseph T. Smith,
COTTON FACTOR,
NO. 9 McINTOSH STREET,
AUGUSTA, GEQKGIA.
Bepll-d&wlm
ESTABLISHED IN 1817.
MELVIN HARD & SON,
WHOLESALE PAPER WAREHOUSE, |
20 BEEKMAN STREET,
NEAR NASSAU STREET. NEW YORK.
AGENTS for Owens, Jossup & Laflin. L.
L. Brown & Cos., Byron Weston’s, Ben
nington, American, Mt. Hope, Mamrnonth
Elver and Salmon Eiver Mills, and Crane’s
Bond Papers. Sole Agents for Carson’s old
Berkshire Mills, estifiiU3iad in 1801.
je22-dkV„ly
REMOVAL,
W. S. Royal & Cos.,
DEALERS IN
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HAVE moved to the LARGE IKON
FBONT STOBE four doors below their
old stand, opposite tbe Express Company, and
first door below Gallaher’s Dry Goods House.
We intend to keep strictly a PIBST CLASS
HOUSE ; also a LABGE ASSOBTMENT for
DOMESTIC PUBPOSES.
Our Goods will be sold as LOW AS ANY
HOUSE IN THE CITY. . octti 6
COPYING INKS,
FOB THE USE OF
JOB PRINTING I
LETTEB HEADS. INVOICES, COTTON BE
CEIPTS, BILLHEADS, LISTS, Ac.,
printed in copying ink at this office. Also, a
fine stock of Papers, Envelopes, Tags, Cards,
etc. All kinds of Job Printing and Book Bind
ing executed at reasonable prices, in a satisfac
tory manner. WALSH A WRIGHT.
mur2s-tt
N e 'W A nri o u t
YOUNG X HACK, '
CMOCEBS,
JJAVE REMOVED TO
296 BROAD STREET, CORNER OF CAMPBELL.
WE HAVE CONSTANTLY ON HAND A FULL STOCK OF THE BEST
GROCERIES AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES
And respectfully invito our friends and customers to call and sec us before they
purchase. YOUNG & HACK,
oefi—dl2Aw4 •
Important to the Boot, Shoe and Hat Trade.
-TTTE ARE NOW PREPARED TO SUPPLY OUR FRIENDS AND THE
W TRADE GENERALLY WITH
Boots, Shoes, Hats and Trunks
AT
GHE A/I LY KEDU CEL) PH ICES.
OUR WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT
. IS COMPLETE, AND WE WILL SELL TO THE TRADE AT
New York Jobbery Pri<?os.
OUR RETAIL DEPARTMENT
IS WELL SUPPLIED WITH MILES & SONS’ BOOTS. SHOES AND GAITERS; ZEIGLER
BROS. LADIES' BUTTONED AND LAOE BOOTS, SHOES AND GAITERS ; DUNIS YRR A 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.
(jALLiIIIKR & lIILIISIMI,
Hcpf)—HUtnlliA-\vlmn giffl BROAD STREET.
NEW AND ELEGANT
FALL DRY GOODS.
The people’of Augusta, especially the ladies, are respectfully informed that we
have now on hand the largest and best assorted stock of
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
Suitable for Fall and Winter use, that has ever been shown iu this city.
•
Having bought largely at the recent auction and slaughtering sales of the
largest houses iu New York, and buying all our goods exclusively for CASH, we
are prepared to offer more
SUBSTANTIA I BARG A irVS
Than have ever been seen iu Augusta, even when cotton was 4e. per lb. aud gold
the currency of the country.
We are fully aware that uo lasting benefit results from exaggerated statements
in advertisements, and it is with the most implicit confidence in our ability to
do all wo claim in the above, that we invite the people of Augusta to call and
examine our goods and prices and convince themselves.
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.
oc-3
WHITE SHIRTINGS.
VY E HAVE RECEIVED TWENTY CASES OF YARD WIDE BLEACHED SHIRTINGS,
WHICH WE WILL SELL AT 10c,
Those Shirtings have boon ackowledgod by all our customers to bo SUPERIOR to FRUIT
OF THK LOOM, LONSDALE and HILL’S SEMPER IDEM.
There is no use in paying 15 per cent, extra on Blurting merely for a name or brand. We are
therefore determined to sell these Goods on their merits and by that, moans save tho consumers
15 per cent., and at the same time supply our ustomers with a superior grade of Goods.
CHRISTOPH ICR URAY & 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.
Wo call special attention to live pieces of that famous Black Silk at $2 00 par yard. So cheap
that most people thought it was smuggled.
We have plso received a full stock of BLACK DRESS GOODS at prices much lower than
last year. Bombazines, Caclimeres, Alpacas, Mohairs, Ac.
Wo offer tho best TOWEL ever sold in Augusta at the price, 25c.
Fine TOWELS and iIINEN GOODS generally in largo quantities.
CHRISTOPHER GRAY &. CO.
selO-tf
FASHIONS and GOLD COIN Presents!
nhionable Manner, draws **n same, or Ribbon/Rcquircs lifyardsof 27-
iiiJ r in I mSe? t i'taCos®tfTi 8 n™ 0 K 3723; pattern, with cloth model,'2scts. N
changed from One Dress to another. No. of overskirt, 3721; pattern, with agjpi^#
Price, 45 cents each. Mailed, cloth mode l, i>s <!. No. of underskirt,
OR the Patterns mi l Cloth lilodflN f* ilm BNTIItE
SUIT will be GIVEN FREE n PRE.HIU.tI laony person
VT'l'Ellw ° lie yeai a lo tlio
A A. BURDETTE SMITH’S
loiiy“forli of Fas Mon,” /MimmA
FINE ARTS and POLITE Literature. Jji
premium of Two DoHars’\vinthof paUovns live to each '
The “ MONTHLY
OP FASHION,!! tbe very finest,j * 1 *
r. imm Wttt,
begins with Inking It, will .MtVK.lt disron- I Subsorip'ion Price, $1 1(1 a year, post paid.
, , ... , , , . I One Dollar's worth of Patters given to each sub
tin tie it while il 1* published. j Bcr jber FREE as premium.
$4,500.00 IN GOLD COIN TO. GIVE MY!
WE WILL GIVE f.1,000 in GOLD COIN to 65 We WILL OIVE $2,500 in GOLD COIN to 13:t
persons who send us the largest number of sub- pers ns wli send ns the largest number of sul>-
soribers to our “WORLD of FASHION,” at $3 e ieO, scribers t > our “BAZAAB,” at $1 10 EACH, be
befnw MARCH 5, 1876. fore MARCH 1, 1876.
AS FOLLOWS: TO XIIE GETTER-Ul' OF THE AS FOLLOWS : TO THE OETTER-UP OF THE
Large-t Club S3OO (Hi in Gold Coin. Largest Club .$1(1 0 * in Gold Coin.
2d Largest Clot. 200 00in Oold Coin. 2d Largest Club 200 00 in Gold Coin.
3d Largest Club 150 Klin Gold Coin. 3d Largest Club 150 00 In Oold Coin.
4tb Largest Club 13) 00 in Gold Coin. 4th Largest Club *125 (.0 in Oold Coin.
sth Largest Club 120 (Win Gold Coin. sth Largest Chili 100 00 in Oold Coin
6th Largest Club 110 (Win Oold Coin. 6th Lenient Club 75 00 In Oold Coin.
7th Largest Club 100 00 in Gold Coin. 7th Largest Club Oil 00 in Oold Coin.
Bth Largest Club 75 00 in Go and Coin. Bth Largest ( lull 25 00 in Oold Coin.
title Largest Club 50 00 in Oold Coin. oth Largest Club 2", 0 ) In Oold Coin.
loth Largest Club 35 00 in Oold Coin. 10th Largest Club 25 00 in Gold Coin.
11th Largest Club 25 00 in Oold Coin. lltli Largest Club 25 00 in Oold Coin,.
and soon to the6s!h Largest Club. and so on to tbe 133d Largest Club.
YOD get a premium for EVERY subscriber you send us. AND every subscriber gets a premium.
BOTH of these OOLD COIN PRESENTS oilers will lie found at full length in tbe SEPTEMBER.
NUMBEH, BESIDES tlio names and P. O. addresses of 102 persons to whom we have JUST PAID
$2,135 in Oold, according to our previous OFFERS. Yon can write to ONE or ALL of them, and they
will tell you that we DO EXACTLY AS WE PROMISE. .....
■ Ki| T [l |\ llnrri way Is to send your own subscription to ' Iter of our Magazines, when you
1/ I'll If If If Vf 1 will B et ffi® first number and your Cirtificates of Premiums, which you can
I 111 l| II Hill I show, and at once begin getting anbsoribers, or send 25 cents for one copy.
IHU II) UIJU 1 BEND rO R FASHION CATALOGUE.
A. BURDETTE SMITH.
I*. !( .BOX 5053. BRtUBWAV, NEW 1 011 K CITY.
Hfrp22-4\T
THI>I P I OVEI >
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.
8100 EACH AND UPWARDS, according to style of Press wanted.
EVERY GIN AND PRESS WARRANTED.
For further information and terms, apply to
c. H. PHIMZY & CO., Agents,
jyl—w2m AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
Goldsmith’s Patent Cotton Ties.
npHE undersigned has now on hand and will receive a full supply of GOLDSMITH’S PATENT
J. COTTON TIES. j Bnndles Wedge Ties, patented 1873
3000 Bnndles T Ties, patented 1874.
a’oOO Bnndles Spliced Ties.
Purchasers are invited to call and examine boso Tios and Price Lißt before ordering olse
where J. H. OPPENHEIM, General A-ent,
144 ReynoldN Street.
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