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Cfmnucie and j&mtfntl.
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 4, 187*.
IF YOU LOTS HE, TEU ALB SO. j
If yon love me, tell me so,
Wait not till ths Sommer do*
Fade* to AOtomn n chaugefol light
Amber eland* and pnrple night;
Wait not till the Winter hour*
Heap with enow drift* all the flower*.
Till the tde of life run low—
If you love me, tell me am
If you lore me, tell me so.
While the river's dr-amy Bow
Hold* the lore-enchauted hoars
Steeped m marie crowued with flowers;
Ere the Sammer’e dreamv dart
Fade in myetio, parole haze—
Ere ie hashed the moan flow—
IT you lore me, tell me so.
If you lore me, tell me so,
Let me hear the eweet words low,
Let me. io life'* morning fair,
F~el your kiaeee on my h ir.
While in womanhood's flrat bloom.
Ere shall come dark days of gloom;
In the first tab morning glow—
If yon lore me, tell me no
. Inui Lilias Whutso.
REMEMBER NOT.
Bemembernot. The gloriee past
Can ever bloom again;
The strife to bold them fond and fast
Will only yield ua pa n.
They were life’* gift, but wisdom eaw
That they mue faint and fade,
And he who seeks to hold them now
The present has betrayed.
Be member not. Time brought us pain
Which never will return
If we orget oar griefs to rain
Upon its Lnrial urn.
To cling to sorrow and to blight
Makes hope a speotre vain;
amt memory hinder* with the might
Of fetter and of chain.
Remember not. There is no past;
That which it was is dead.
Mot leas to a* are leave* that fast
Drift by as. wisely ebed.
Than vanished days. The future shine*
O i no are ted brow,
And he lirea beet whose life inclines
Toward it, fall of now.
VANISHED.
Out of the wild and weary night
I see the morning softly rise,
Bat, O! mv lovely, lovely eyee!
Tha world is dim without your light.
I see the young bnda break and start
To fresher life when front* are o’er,
Brt, O! my rose-red mouth ! no more
Will kina of your* delight my heart.
The worm that know* not hope, nor trust,
C ms* forth with glorious wings dispread.
But, O! my little golden head
I see yon only in the dust.
I hear the calling of the lark
Despite the cloud, despite the rain ;
But. O! my snow-white bauds, in vain
I search to find you through the dark.
When the strong whirlwind’s rage is o'er.
A whiaper b d* the laucLrejoice ;
Bat, 0! my gentle, genii • voice,
Your masio gladdens me no more.
But though no earthly joys dispel
ThU gloom thai fiUgmv life with woe.
My sweetest and my beet I I know
That yon are still alive and well.
Alive and well: O ! blissful thought!
In som* sweet ci-me, I know not where ,*
I oniy koow that yoa are there,
And aickneas, pain and death ar > not.
[Alice Caskt.'
FAR APART.
Beneath the quaint old bridge you hear.
The wave* make m >#ic as they pass ,
And winding to the elm tree near.
You see the pathway through the grass,
Where we were wont to walk, alas .
The r ver wanders as of old
Beneath the shade of willow tree*;
The aan-lit waters gleam like gold,
And ripple to the gentle b eeze ;
But I am far from thee and these !
The akv bends over broad and blue,
And in the soft and mellow 1 ght,
You t ead the lane onr foot-tepi knw
In former days, when days were bright,
Do these d*ys bring such sweet deligh. ?
And still that lane with grass is green;
With fragrant fljwers the ba ks are fair;
In golden gloss and silver sheen
Ins be* still haunt the balmy air ;
But you will fail to find me there.
Again, perchance. I may not see
The rustling rows of willow trees
(Wbioh lent a leafy canopy
Whan we strolled underneath at ease,)
For I am f*r from thee and thase.
Our Joys forsake ns, soon does Spring
Pars by and for the Hummer oa.l;
Boon do the birds loee heart to sing,
When fading leaves in Autumn fall,
And Winter is the end of all.
M MO THKY WROUGHT ON.”
She stood at the clumsy loom,
And wove with a careless song,
For her task would soon be done,
And the day was bright and long,
go she worked at her pattern, roees red.
And trailing vines, but ehe thought instead
Where the sweetbriergrew in the dis ant wood,
and of pleasant shade where the old oak stood
She stood at the stately loom,
And wove with a girlish graoe ;
And her eyes grew tender and sweet,
As abe wrought in the web apace
Strong men mounted, with lance and spear,
Than a chase with hounds and a frightened
deer;
But she thought the while of her lover-knight,
Ani whispered softly, "He comes to-night.”
She stood at the tireless loom,
And wove with a steady band,
And a watohfnl eye on the twain
Without, at play iu the saud.
Mtripss of r arm. dark colors sii* wrought,
Ana every thread with a hope was fraught:
Some day, she thought, mv lad w II be great,
And my bonuie girlie a nobleman's mate.
She stood at the dusty loom,
Bant and wrinkled, and old,
But the shuttle she feebly plied,
Dropped from her nerveless hold.
“Ah, we 1! whom have Itowo k for now ?”
The old dame said, with sh de l brow.
•‘But I’ve seen the time when I worked with
the best."
And she dropped her chin on her wrinkled
breast.
At a silent, invisible loom,
Always, morning and i ight,
With tender oare, wrought one
Who was hidden from knman sight,
Tangled an t brok-n thread- wrought he,
And his finished web was fair to see,
For he gathered the hopes that were broken
In twain.
And wrought them into his web again.
AUTUMN.
They have oome —the Autuinu days,
Whan the red sun's chastened rays,
In the wood,
(Dimmer bright on shade and hue
That the Mummewnever knew,
And pierce the thicket through
Where I stood.
In the Spring, content to greet
All the beauties at my feet,
And to stay,
Never caring what beside
Nature's verdant vail might hide
Far away.
Ah 1 the view ie clear now ;
Dead, the tendril on the bough, *
Sunk, the veil.
And the ocean is in sight.
Spreading gloom, and fla'shing light,
Where the sun will sink at night
Dim and pale.
It had oome—the Antumij time
Paaaed the Hummer and the prime
Of my days.
Careless I, of joys or fears,
For the sod was dark with tears :
Withered fell the hopes of years i
In my gaze.
When the magic of thy love
Let the sun in from above.
Soft and bright.
And I saw with altered mind
That toe Autumn, too, was kind
In its light.
For, just as a brighter sheen
Glorifies the passing green
Of tha leaf.
And the vistas op'ning clear
Let the wider sc nes appear
Free from grief.
Be might it be in life.
When the glory and the strife
Of it* June
Had ahrd the r flowers and fruits,
From pure or poisoned roots.
Late or soon.
We may find a grander view.
With a wider passage through
To onr rest.
And that love which blossoms last.
Whan pa-sion' dream is past.
Is the best.
[Temple Bar.
JVDQU MACKEY FOR HAMPTON AND
REFORM.
ICorrespondence of the Journal of Commerce ]
Chbbtkb, S. C., September 23 —This
wveuing, Judge Mackey, by invitation,
addressed the Tilden and Hamptot
Club. He bitterly denounced the nomi
nees of the Republican party in Sontb
Carolina as a corrupt baud of robbers,
who looked upon onr State merely as a
camping ground to plunder. He severe
ly animadverted upon the coarse of
Chamberlain, who had deserted the
State in the hour of trial. He had ap
pealed to the Governor in the cars, and
told him that it woald reflect more
lustre upon him to save human life than
all the political trinmpb* he could ever
win, but he turu'-d a deaf ear to these
appeals, and said he had to leave for hie
family in Massachusetts. He said that
the money that bad been stolen iu the
State of booth Carolina daring the past
>ight years would be amply sufficient, if
now m the Treasury, to run the State,
free of expanse, for eight years to eome.
He declared tr at, while he was a Re
publican and woald sapport Hayes and
Wheeler, he intended to support Wade
Hampton and the entire Democratic
State ticket with all the ability in his
power, and that he would etnmp the
State from the Blue Bulge to the .Atlan
tic in behalf of Wade Hampton and re
form.
It is somewhat singular that when a
young lady and gentleman have a con
troversy about kissing, they generally
pat their heads together.
HELL GATE GONE.
DYNAMITE DOES THE BUSINESS
WITHOUT DANGER.
Tbe GitMu Sunday Evening— Aa Infant
Fires the Charae—lmmense Number nf
syKtatsn-Otcat Excitement Science
Successful—Ne Damage Done-Th* Palsa
tians of An Eartbnnkr, But No Peril.
New York, September 24.— During
the forenoon, despite the stormy weath
er, thousands of citizens took their way
to tte New York and Long laland sid
of East river, sod hours before the ex
plosion occurred there were vast crowd*
assembled at every available point,
waiting patiently, jetnot without anxte
ty and some dread, for the critical mo
meat. The crowd on the New York
tde extended almost from 60th street tr,
Harlem, every pier being occupied. Ii
i estimated tht there was at learn
lUO.OOO people who witnessed the explo
sion. As the hoar approached the el
citement increased, and the rain begai
to fall heavily, but the vast crowo
heeded it not The arrangements mad*
by General Newton for keeping the river
dear of all vessels within a certa ; n dis
tance of Hell Gate reef daring the day
worked very satisfactorily; beyond tb
line indicated, however, there was quite
a number of boats, togs, Ac , with spec
tutors on board. Io Astoria many dwell
logs nearest tbe river were wholly oi
partly deserted for the time being, and
indeed this feeling of timidity was no>
confined to Astoria, for in Long Island
City, Yorkville, and other places in com
partitive proximity to the scene of tin
proposed explosion, many residence,
were temporarily vacated and fnrnitnr*
secured as a measure of precaution
Many people suddenly found out tha*
their ceilings were bad and would bt
sure to fall, and, therefore took Gen
eial Newton’s advice and removed then
valuables and themselves to a safe dis
tance. There was quite an exodus ii
Astoria and vicinity among the mor.
timid daring tbe past few days.
The Last Inspection.
General Newton and staff were at tin
works at Hell Gate all day, and saw tha'
everything was in proper condition, test
mg the wires and batteries for the las'
time. By noon their work was through
ind there only remained to be done the
attaching f the exploding cartridge am
tbe wires of tbe fuse to General Newtcu’*
auxiliary battery. Before txplodim
the mine this was accomplished, and tht
last touch to the closing of the electro
current was now all that remained to b*
done. While the engineer and hisassist
sntswerothns preparing for the grand
clim -x the crowds were waiting patiently.
At 2 25, p. m , the firs signal gun wa
fired, and expectation became rampant;
watches wer looked at eagerly, and th. '
minutes cnnnted nntil the great explo
sion should occur. At 2:40. p. m., tb
second gun boomed forth its warning,
leaving only ten minutes How to wait
The exci'ement was at fever heat; tin
minutes crept slowly by ; the eyes of *
hundred thousand spectators wereturned
toward the Hell Gate reef, and the ean
of probably over ore bnudred thousand
people were earnestly inclined to catcl
the first sound of the impending explo
sion.
Ttie Explosion.
At two hours forty-eight minutes
thirty seconds a roaring, reverberating
sound was heard/ taking every one b\
*nrprise. Avery (palpable vibration o'
the earth followed, lasting about tw<
seconds, a streak of watersuddenly shot
up at Hallett's Point, to thirty or forty
feet in height, and was succeeded by *
massive ooltimn of black water, full o f
stones, loose rock and dirt, which ros>
to the height of ton or fifteen feet, many
pieoes of rock being thrown s venty feet
high. There was no pnralyziDg shock,
no earth convulsion, and none of tht
spectators experienced the grand terri
fviug spectacle they had expected. A1
was over inside of three seconds at tbe
further st. As the waters subsided, a
huge wave of dark, muddy water rolled
from Hiliett’B reef towards the New
York shore, but its foree was soon spent,
und before it reaohed the shore it was
incapable of damage. The spectators
were so surprised at tbe apparent in
significant result that many were inclin
ed to believe that only a portion of th
terrible dynamite had exploded, aud
that their ears would yet be stunned by
the deafening report of a greater explo
sion, but no further noise was heard,
the mine had indeed been fired and tbe
work of seven years had culminated
The crowds, however, still Huge ed ex
pectantly, their eyes turned in the di
ration of the spot where the oloud ol
white foaming water had risen a few
minutes pr< viously.
TUe Efleets of the Explosion
Was felt but very slightly ou the steam
era and tugs. It was sif they had
struck a log and experienced a trifima
shock, ©n Ward's Island and Black
well, where the city officials and invited
guests were assembled, the shock war
very distinctly felt, but no damage wa*
done. Four guards had been placed at
various points on the river to keep the
channel clear, aud the spectators on
these boats felt the tremor very
slightly. There was no palpable shock
after tiie explosion, and after some little
display of enthusiasm, the crowds be
gnu to dispurse, the oars and carriage*
that had conveyed them to the scene
were again filled to suffocation and tilt
various river steamers were also crowd
ed. Many persona took tbe boat to As
toria, as it was expeoted that the sfver*
shock would be experiened there Prob
ably the best point of observation, and
one that was well patronized by specta
tors, was o the shore if East river, a'
the foot of 92 1 street. From this poim
of view, immediately after tbe firing o'
the mine, the spectators saw a long
ridge of seething foam suddenly rise,
and from its centre a column of water
ascended to a he ght variously estimat
ed at from forty to seventy feet, which
was almost immediately followed by a
i still greater body of water, intermingled
! with fragments of the rook, shattered
I timber and mnd. The jar to the grouun
was distinct, but not so severe as t<
cause any alarm; in fact, from first to
{ last tii- w’bole affair passed off so safely,
i and with so little of the outward ele
j mouts of danger, that the spectator*
were astonished, and so expressed them
uo{ XT AST
Tbe Sllcfat Report,
As heard from the city, the cxpjosioD
; sounded something like a volley of mus
ketry at a considerable distance; uocom
-1 motion of the atmosphere was felt. A
slight tremor of the earth, wbioh was
most prominently marked on the high
! ground, was experienced Thousand*
> occupied places on the roofs and lofty
buildings up town on the cast side, but
saw nothing, owing to the atmosphere
being thick with failing rain. Others in
different parts of the city waited
anxiously, watch in hand, for the explo
! sion, and all were astonished at tbe
slightness of the shock and the low re
■ port. From 84 h street up every wharf,
aud the roof of every house, was crowd
,ed with people. Beyond 70th street the
crowd* were so great that the police had
! difficulty in pre-erviug order. On a
large vacant space beyond 88th street
at least 10,000 people were gathered
• Driukiog gardens and other places of re
etjrt aloDg the river side did a very
prosperous business in letting oat seats
to spectators at profitable prices.
Gen> ral Newton’s daughter, Mary, a
child aged three years, touched the key
which exploded Hallett’s Point reef.
History of the Work—Hell Gate and IU
Dangers Described—*een Year* ot wteady
Labot —t'harueier and General Finn of
tbe Operations— Tenuel# Under the Sea—
Genpewder, NUre-Glyreruie, Dynamite
and Electricity.
The reef at Hell Gate, or Hallett’s
Point, is a ledge of rock running from
the shore of Long Island oat into the
channel. It rnus from the upper end
of Blackwell’s Inland, under the channel
in a northeasterly direction, and makes
its appearance at Hallett’s Point, As
toria. It is at this point that the
enormous excavations in the bowels of
the rock have been going on for the
past few years. The reef is a strat fled
gneiss rock, possessing a considerable
degree of hardness, and the work of
mining through it has been conducted
with considerable difficulty. The ebb
ing and flowing of the tide oause a
furious current to fi >w through the
pass, and that together with the shallow
depth of water over the rock ia the
canse of the danger to the shipping
that pass to and fro from the harbor to
tbe Sound. These currents are created
by a difference in the rime, and con
sequently of the level of the tides in
New York Bay and Long Island Sound
The obstructions presented by the rocks
and narrow chanueis of the East river to
of the tidal wave from the
ocean pause an accumlation of water iu
the basin of the lower Hudson and New
York harbor, which reaches its maxi
mnm level folly two hours and a half
before the same condition is reached by
the tidal wave at toeil Gate Thus,
when it is high water at Sanay Hock at
8:25, p. ns., it will be 9:10, p. m , at
Governors Island apd 10.55, p. m., at
Hell Gate before tha highest level
is reached, and vice verm. This
causes a sort of oscillation or a!
ter at ion of levels, which pro
duce a furious current over the rocks,
and through Hell Gate channel. Jx has
been observed that the variation ot the
current directions are caused by tbe
conditions regulating their flow each
as the tides being spring or neap
tides, the direction and strength of the
Winds, etc. The depth of the channel
over the J-dge varies from a few feet up
to 26 or 82 fast. The rook shelves off
gradually, but the excavations are not
carried out beyond tbe iins of the 26
feet soundings. Tha danger of Ups tfiQt
is thus described by General Newton :
“Beside the risk of striking the reef, ft
produces eddies on both sides of it ac
cording to the direction of the tidal enr
sents, and is mnob in the way of ve*sele
comi g down with the ebb, in tbe rffiort
to hag tbe shore and thus avoid being
thrown on the middle reef. It ia equal
ly in the way of large ai>d small vessels,
and its removal is an essential element
in the improvement of the channel.”
Bcilixi** the Work.
The necessity of removing this ob
struction has always been felt, and in
1848, Lienten nt Commanders Davis
and Porter made a survey of Hell Gate,
by which a complete knowledge of tbe
hydrography of the pass was obtained.
In 1851. under tbe direction* of M.
Moillepert, the experiment of surface
blasting was made, the money therefor
being contributed bjr New York mer
chants, bnt the plan did not suooeed
very well. Surface blasting is done
by means of a cartridge, filled with ex
posives, Jaid upon the surface of the
rook, and the superincumbent water
acts as a tamp. The plan worked very
well with sharp pointed rooks and
iedges, which shelved on rapidly into
deep water, bnt where there was a
broad surface it did not operate very
well.
I'n 1866 Brevet Major-General John
H Newton took charge of the operation
xnd they have been coDduoted under bis
lupervision np to the present time. By
he aid of drill scows he has removed a
• nmber of reefs and rocks in the E st
iver channel from Governor’s Island to
Ballett’s Point. It was found by experi
ment that, owmg to the peculiar forma
non of the ledges, no impression conld
oe made opon the Hell Gate reef, and it
was then determined to resort to t e
mere tediois and elaborate method of
mining under the ledge from the shore
and blowing the whole thing into the
or. The ledge extends out into the
channel iu a northeasterly direction
(bout 400 feet, bnt th’ longest tunnel or
ueading only extends out 296 feet. This
s the first instance of sab-marine tun
aeling to remove obstructions in the
channel. The general plan of such ope
rations was devised by the late Mr. G
0. Reitbeimer, and the system was
idbpted by General Newton, with tne
-pproval of the other Government engi
neers. So far as the operations at Hell
Gate have been developed, there has
been no reason to regret the adoption of
the plan.
Tbe Overalien*.
The reef, according to General New
ton’s report, is “in shape an irregular
-temi-eolipse, the longer axis, wb'oh lies
• itxt to the shore, bemg 720 feet in
length, and the shorter semi-axis pro
jecting into the channel about 300 feet.
he cubic contents above the depth of
2(1 feet at mean low water amoun'ed, be
fore any excavation was made, to 51,000
•übio yards.” So much for the nature
of the rock upon whioh they were to
•cerate. Work was begun in July,
1869 The first thing in order was ttn
jonstruotion of a coffer dam upon tbe
■dge of the reef adjoining the Long I1
<nd shore. It is in the form of a poly
gon, its longest diameter parallel with
the shore being 145 feet, and the short
est out on the retf 90 feet. Inside of
. this ci ff-r dam a shaft, having the form
•fa trapezoid, was snQk to a depth of
33 feet below low water mark. Its di
ameter is somewhat less than that of the
differ dam. When the bottom had been
reached the work on the headings or
unnels was oommenoed. These are ten
n number, and lead off into the rock on
a grade conforming to the slope of the
bottom above. They tary in length
from 296 36 feet to 185 76 feet, and ra
diate out from the central shaft like
-pokes from the hub of a wheel. As the
distance from the central shaft, or
“hub,” increased, the spaces between<
the headings were pieroed witn supple
mentary tunnels or headings, varying in
length from 163 feet to 30 or 40 feet.
Chose were connected with each other
md with the main headings by a series
of transverse galleries, uutil the whole
ledge was boueycombed with caverns,
ind the roof only supported by rock
tolumns left for the purpose. The tun
uels average 20 feet in height at their
portals, and 10 feet in width. There
ire 8> tunnels and 11 transverse galle
ries, forming a complete net work an er
the channel, the ground plan of which
is not nnlike a fan in shape. Around the
“breast,” or further oironmfereDoe of
'beheadings, ruusaditoh which collects
the water that leakes through the fis
sures of the rock roof, and is pumped
out by steam pumps,. In some p.aces
the roof is not over four feet thick. The
rook has been shattered to a certain ex
tent by the explosives used in blasting
out the tunnels, aud consequently, there
are numerous leaks in the rocf that ad
mit considerable water. This roof iB
supported by J. 72 columns, and now the
work forms a net Worfc of caverns under
the channel, which seems like the haqnts
of the genii of the deep. About 50,000
cnbie yards of rock have been i amoved,
md up to he present time tbe work has
cost a little less than $1,000,000. The
woik of drilling has been performed
with Burleigh drilling machines, ope
rated by compressed air, the air com
pressers being located iu buildings on
the bstik The compressed air was oon
luoted to the drills through India rub
ber tubes. The explosives used were
uitro-glyoerine, dynamite, vuloan pow
der, reudrook and gunpowder, accord
ng to tne nature of the blast aud the
ebaraoter of the rock. Great oare had
to be used in making the discrimination,
and i;lpo not to charge the holes too
heavily, too great an explosian mi ht
have broken through the poof, letting in
the water and drowning ru£ tbe work
men. As it is, there is considerable
water leaks in, and the pumps are kept
constantly at worjp.
Daring tbe seven years that the work
ha* been in progress there have been fre
quent delays from the exhaustion of the
appropriations made by Congress for river
and harbor improvements, bnt at last
the fi al stage of the work has been
reached, and the work of mining the
piiUrs and roof is Agoing on and will
probably |>s completed to-day or to
morrow. Holes bsfyo been drilled in the
-npporting columns apd ip the r°°f-
These holes are 3.678 in number and are
arranged in groups of 20, and each one
is closed with a white pine plug bear
ing on the end the number of the hole.
All tbe plugs iu a group are oonneoted
by strings, and thus pppfnsiou is avoid
ed. These holes are charged with the
cartridges, which are tin cans, from If
to 2) of an inch in diameter and about 22
inotußS long.- 1 here are three classes ot
these cartridge*, p§ph class being filled
with an explosive material of a different
strength. They are delivered paekefi in
boxes a ioof square and two feet long
Tbe manner of
Is as follows: A plug is withdrawn from
the bole and a cartridge of tbe least ex
plosive power is inserted and pushed
into position with a long stick. Another
of the next higher explosive grade is in
serted and that is followed by another
still higher. The plug is then returned
to the hole until such tijpe as the work
men are ready to put ia the exploding
cartridges, which are filled with dyna
mite with fulminating caps. AH the
caps in a group will be connected with a
wire running from one to the .other and
the ends of these wires will be eocuept
ed with two wires running thorough the
ohamberp) and which are called “lead
wires ” Tiiewe prill connect with the
electrio battery which it lopated in a
bomb proof structure on the hang near
tbe edga of the shaft. The mine will be
fired by General Newton, in person,
from a position on a high point of land,
back of tbe mine. By means of a wire
connecting with a small torpedo on tbe
top of the bomb proof structure he will
send an electric spark from a small bat
tery, which will explode the torpedo and
sever the string by which the plates of
the battery inside the building are sus
pended. They will fall into the fluids
of the battery, aud sec tile electric cur
rents io motion along the wires that lead
to the etiambers of th* mine. In an in
stant every charge ip ro< f or pillar will
be explode i simjuijtaueo#siy, and the
surf nun of the reef will fall in. ft should
be stated that after tbe charges have
been placed in position, the shaft and
chambers will be fitted with wat*r, by
means of a large syphon. This will take
about a day. Tbe water will act as a
tamp, increasing the force of the explo
sion. About 40,000 pounds of nitro
glyaerice and other explosives have been
used in charging the holes.
There has been a great 4<°al of expec
tation and conjecture as to the effect of
the explosion. Many suppose there
will be a grand display and that tons of
rock and enormous jets of water will be
burled into the air, and some enterpris
ing individuals have been creating
stands and seats on the opposite shore to
witness the explosion, but General New
t n says they are all doomed to disap
pointment He would like to give the
poblio a show, but pe cannot The
charges are so distributed that the force
of ibe blast will e mply disintegrate and
. shatter the rock, crumbling it to pieces,
|as it were. The change in depth will
> not be very great until the mass of rock
which f illp into the caverns is dredged
j out. So far as the force of the explo
i sion is felt ou the land, General Newton
’ thinks that beyond the possible break
ing of a few window panes there wilt be
no damage, and he advisee peop e near
the work to leave their doors and win
dows open when the explosion takes
place. He thinks a Might shock majf be
felt along the shore fur about a half a
mile each wag, bnt does not believe that
the nononsslon, either in the si? or tfie
earth, will be felt in the city. After Hie
explosion tbe dredging opt of the rock
will commence, and the speed with
which this work is pushed forward will
depend altogether upon the amount of
money there it to expand upon it.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A REVIEW OF THE RECENT
TROUBLES.
A Fall aad Impartial Aeeaaat f tha Late
Piatarhaare The Nearaaa tha Aegreasara
Thranghaat —Tha Whites Aetiag Hlaplr la
BelGDefeaM—The Caadaet ef the ‘-Coneti
tetlooallst” CmlaunUA Werd to the
•HMdeet Democratic Paver-” *
[Special Correspondence Ouroniete and Sentinel. J
Bbowk's Hill, Arm Countt, 8. C.,
September 22.—1 t is well known that
onr people have submitted tb more in
dignities, outr igee and oppressions than
any civilized and enlightened people in
the world’s history. We are taxed with
out representation; ignorance stalks
forth in our legislative halls; the judi
ciary is bribed; trial by jury is a mere
farce; officers high in authority rob the
poblio treasury; petty offioeholdeis steal
the hard earnings of the poor; the widow
an 1 the orphan have been robbed;
frauds have time and again been perpe
trated upon the jury box, those who are
selected to vindicate both pnblio and
private rights, upon the preservation of
which depends the very existence of so
ciety; our people have been murdered;
nameless outrages have been pe pe
trated npon our wives and daughters;
onr gin houses and barns have been
burned; onr store rooms and meat
houses entered, and our supplies Btolen;'
our hogs and cattle killed by the hnn
dreds, nntil even now many families
have not had meat or milk daring the
past Summer, and yet all these have we
submitted to —yea,‘more, in hopes that
something would turn up to relieve us
from the wrongs under whioh we were
groaning, and which we had so long and
so patiently endured, that tbe sober sec
ond thought would return to the people
of the North, our oommon kindred, and
the cry would have been heard long
ere this, shame! shame 1 aha e 1 It
would ocoupy too large a spaed in your
valuable paper to enumerate tbe many
outrages our unoffending people have
been made to Buffer, many of which
would make the blood ourdle in tbe
veins of every true Southron, and I
therefore forbear for the present.
I do hope our papers will not give pub
licity to the thousand and one idle ru
mors aud reports from persons of over
excited and imaginative minds. I w s
present from the inception to the close
of the recent riots in Aiken county. I
now propose to give yonr readers a suo
oinct statement of all I know in regard
to this much to be regretted but fotoed
remedy of Radical misrule. Your read
ers have already been inf >rmed of t)ie
attempted assassination of Mrs. Harley
and her little bod, and the shooting of
the negro Peter Williams. It has been
known to ns for some time that the ne
groes have been drilling and organizing
for the purpuao of making an advanoe
on the whites, and not only with the
sword but with tbe toroh, ana we have
been informed from time to time of
their movements, and the only reason
there diabolioal threats have not been put
into execution long Binoe, was they were
too poor to pnrohase ammunition. Tbe
killing of Williams, the negro, only pre
oipitated tbe coiiflbt between the races
a little too soon for them, and jnst
in time for us. Information was
communicated to us the day after the
shooting that Miok Holland’s cohorts
would arrest a number of gentlemen,
[this we obtained from a faithful negro),
and we determined that it should not be
done unless it was done legally, for we
felt sure they only wanted an opportuni
ty of murdering them. So on Saturday
night we placed ont pickets, guarding
the roads leading from Ronse’u bridge.
Daring tbe night tbe negroes made an
advance, but finding our men, fell back
to the bridge. Next morning (Sunday)
we determined to advanoe with onr little
foree. Two men were sent in advanoe
so as not to oreate any unnecessary ex
oitement, and to know from them what
they proposed doing. They were in
force, and when the two gentlemen ap
proaohed they were surrounded on all
sides with sixteen-shoote sand all sorts
of arms, cocked and presented at
their breasts, and only their coolness
saved them. Oar men turned to leave
followt and by an infuriated baud of sav
ages as fieroe as ever inhabited the Blaok
Hills, cursing and swearing vengeance
on the whites, and when our men had
reached within one or two hundred
yards of us they were fired on. The fire
was returned and some few of the ne
groes wounded. Even then we drew off
.nr foroes, preferring to prevent, if
possible, the effusion of blood. We
then procured the services of a negro
woman and sent to them, saying that we
would send two of our men to confer
with two of theirs. The woman soon
retnrned and said they would meet us
eqni-distsnt. Our menjjwent, bnt they
did not oome. We again sent the wo
man, but they kept her as a prisoner,
and, after waiting several hours, a gen
tleman who resided in the neighborhood
proposed that he would go and try and
reconcile them. After a time he re
turned, and informed us that six of their
leaders would meet a like number of us.
The conference was had, and the result
was that each force should immediately
disband and return to their homes.
While they reiterated again and again
that they would comply with their part
of the agreement, we oould see in their
and the expression of their
countenances an undercurrent which
ere long would bnrst forth with ten fold
more fury— the teachings of suoh men
as Palmer, Elliott, Lee aDd others.
We had proceeded about a miie in
the' direction of onr homes when a gen
tleman overtook us and said that they had
not disbanded, and that it would be en
dangering tbe liyes of the people in the
vicinity to leave, so we deter ined to
send three discreet men, and flay to them
we were on onr May home aud had com
plied with our part of tbe agreement
After waiting for a time, they returned
and informed us that four negroes had
presented their double-barreled guns,
oocked, at their breasts, and that it wa*
with the greatest difficulty they oou and
save their lives. Under all these pro
vocations we forbore to strike. Many
of us had not reached our homes when
a courier arrived, giving the news that a
party pf paep. who had parted with u*
but a short time, had peep bushwhacked,
some wounded and several snpposed t<
he killed. The rest is known. Tearingop
tbe railroad track, marohiug into Ellen
ton next morning,bidding defiahoe to all.
and threatening the lives of many citi
zens, the e have already been published
in your paper.
Now we desire to tarn oar at
tention to the “oldest Demooratii
paper in Georgia.” The editor in
his comments of the letter on one color
ed man, Jefferson, stigmatizes the peo
pie of Booth Carolina as murderers, and
'pat the better thinking classes of both
races of yopr State pad concluded to lei
S nth Oarolipa alone. Now to say the
least pf it, it was unkind, it wa* duel to
make such false accusation against the
good people of oar Btste, when the'
editor and proprietors get a large share
of their pap from the accused murder
ers, and J am sure the good citizens ol
this State will let alone the “oldest
Daopgratio paper in the Georgia,” and
give onr supped Jo those papers who
uphold right against wreug. Thank
God there are thousands, noble, gallant
spirits in your State who will assist nt
if we used their services, without the
aid or assistaxiiAe of the editor or the
proprietors of that paper. Blot out
from history South Carolina and yon
blot out one of the brightest page*
which' sdojrps A mer i° a - 6 never
would have thought that we would
have lived to hear on the bundredtL
year of our existence as an independen'
Republic onr people characterized as as
sassinß—tbe home of Lowndes, Rutledge,
Marion, Sumter, Hampton, Calhoun and
many other noble, gallant, shining
lights. We have always believed out
men as brave, onr statesmen as intel
lectual, and onr people as honorable as
any in this Union, and were not aware
that her fair escutcheon bad ever been
stained by innooent blood nntil inform
ed by “the olfie f Democratic paper in
Georgia." If this bp Democracy, away
with it; it is not the school in whioh w.
were taught. If resistance to armed
bands of savages who rob, murder and
commit all kinds of depredations be
marder, then we are murderers, and bid
oefianoe to “the oldest Democratic pa
per in Georgia" and its teachings. B.
Tha Sommer Hill Democracy—Determined
to Protect Colored Democrat*—Col. A. P.
Batter’* Speech.
IStteoial Correspondence Chronicle and SentineLl
Hmiiriw Hill, 8. C., September 25
The intimidation of negro Democratic
voters oontinnes in our midst; so alarm
ing has it become that at a recent meet
ing of the Summer Hi* l Democratic
Clqb the following resolution was offer
ed and unanimously adopbd:
Resolved, That if any member of this
Clnb on account of his connection with
it should be ]pilled r we will oonsider it
not only pur duty, bgt onr highest
privilege tolpaje for tfcnee who were de
pendent upon him. CpL A. P. Botler
warmly seooude the resolution, aud in
his remarks, advocating its adoption, he
pointed to an old negro and said: “We
were boys together; my happiest day*
were spent in climbing the hill sides,
and roaming the woods with him ;
his fight was my fight; but at
last a change eama upon us— he
and his color became estranged from
me and chine. He was my bitterest ene
my. No* why was this ? The answer
is easy; their mipdgware poisoned; they
were told that we thirtted for tbpir
blood; that if we were again placed in
oontrpf of the government that we wou;d
make slaves <4 them, god anbject them
to the severest torture; they wpro igno
rant and naturally belleyed what they
heard. Now after years ot delusion and
suffering they are retomiaf to Ike 4y
friends they have, their old masters, and
the unscrupulous carpet-baggers and un
principled men of their own color are
realizing that tbe only way they have of
retaining control of the negro and. his
vote is to practice intimidation, and I
pledge myself and every white member
of this Club to shed 'the last drop of
blood in onr veins if necessary in their
protection.” -
The negroes thanked him for his
promises and expressed their determina
tion to stand by the Democratic ticket;
and othere who have been too badly
frightened to unite themselves with ns
are now asking the privilege of joining
the Club. A resolution has been adopt
ed by the Club to furnish tbe colored
members with Tilden and Hampton uni
forms, and it will soon be done. B.
A MINISTER’S PARROT.
Shwta Haw Bleaaad It to Sometime* to
Recant Good far Evil.
[Chicago Tritnene ]
There is an editor on Harvard street
who never gets home till loDg after mid
night, and he has a neighbor who is a
clergyman, possing a parrot that has a
voice like a planing mill. The parrot’s
cage is hung out about daybreak, and
just as the long-suffering editor is get
ting his first sleep and drea iiug that be
has scooped all the other papers on a
big Indian battle, the parrot gives a
war-whoop that makes all the window’s
in the ward rattle, and then goes off into
a series of shrieks, whistles and yells
enongh to torn the milk sour in Oioero
and set the teetll of all hands on edge.
The performance lasts till about nine
o’clock, and whenever it shows any
signs of flagging the clergyman oomes
ont and with an almond or lamp of
sugar stimulates the accursed bird to
new frenzies. At least, this is how
things used to be. They are changed
now. One evening in June, when the
editor went home to dinner, hiß wife
said : “George, I have some news fur
yon.” “Ah, my love is it exclusive?”
“Our neighbors are going away for the
Summer to Perry Springs.” “I hope
they are going to take that parrot with
them ” “No; and wliat da you thiuk?
They had the impudence to c use and
ask'if we would take care of the bird
for them while they are gone. Did yon
ever? I’d like to wring its neck for
them while they are gone.”
A smile that was horrible to see illumi
nated the editor’s face as he hissed in a
Iqw, concentrated voice : “ My dear, we
should always try and retnrn good
for evil. I will take oare of that bird.”
Next day the minister went away, and
tbe editor set himself assiduously to
train the parrot in the way he should go.
He had a room padded and the walls
deadened, and he bang the cage up in
it. Then he went and hired two A. D.
T. messengers and bought a horse sy
ringe and a water barrel, and installed
the boys in charge of the parrot. “My
sons,” he said, “little parrots that
shouldn't sing, bnt will sing, must be
made not to sing. Whenever that bird
lets off a oheep syringe him with ice
water.” The boys earned out the in
strnotiens so faithfully that in less than
a week the bird was silent as the tomb.
“Aha I” said the editor, “his mind is
now a ‘tabula rosa,’ and prepared to re
teive proper instruction. He must now
be taught, and first I shall attend to his
musical education.” Accordingly he
hired a man from a variety show on
Canal street to teaoh that parrot to whis
tle all the popular airs of the day, such
as “Yum I Yum 1 Yum I” “Saw my leg
off 1” “As I was going ever the bill 1
saw a maid milking a billy goat.” Then
the vocalist taught that parrot all the
cries of the street peddlers, and how to
swear in fine |!>rint without tbe use of
glasses. “No,” said the editor trium
phantly, "if I can teach him the value
of time I shall be well repaid.” By
dint of syringing the bird with ioe water
when he offended and comforting him
with almonds, he reduced the bird to
the status of a feathered alarm clock,
set to go off with unerring regularity at
11:30, p. m , and 10:30, a. m., and war
ranted not to ran down nntil the whole
peiformance had been gone through
with according to programme. The
parrot’s education had cost him a heap
of money and much trouble, but he did
not regret it.
A week ago yesterday the minister re
turned by the 7:30, p. m., train, and re
oeived his precious bird. The editor
went home on the 10:30 car, lit his ci
gar, opened the window, and with a
calm smile of expectancy, listened. The
clock had just strnck 11:30 when there
oame a yell of “fire!” that probably
startled everybody in the block except
the editor. “Lie still, my love,” he
said calmly to his wife, “it is only the
parrot. There is no danger.” The fear
ful cry was repeated, the editor heard
sounds as if the minister and all his
family were jumping out of bed, theD
windows were opened on all sides, and
he had the pleasure of seeing the man
who kept the key of the signal box (and
wasn’t insured) tear along the stree* in
his Slippers and turn in %n alarm A
few minutes afterward the fire bells
rang, and the engines came tea ing up
to tbe house, whence shouts of “Fire !”
were issuing. The minister had to go
down and explain, and one of the dnv
ers remarked audibly that he’d punch
the old snoozer’s head off for a nickle
Meanwhile the parrot kept on yelling
“Police I" “Fire l” “Ripe peaches 1 flf
teen cents a peck!” “Stror 1” “Ap
pools I” and the like, till about 2:15, a.
m. The editor, with a sweet smile, fell
asleep, leaving word to call him at 10
It was the blessed Sabbath, a bright,
*uany morning. The street was crowd
ed with churchgoers. A number of dea
cons had palled to welcome their pastor
homeand oonduot him to theoburch. The
parrot had been do*>ug on perch in
the son, but as the church bells, one
after another, began to chime, he began
to get exoited. Presently the 10:30 bell
struck its first note, and, punctual to
the second, tbe minister, his fam'ly and
friends appeared upon the piazza. Punc
tual to the second, also, the parrot above
them yawned, scratched his ear and re
marked, “Q Erebus 1” (He said it in
English.) General attention was at
once riveted, and he continued in a
honeyed to:>e, “How’s El zibeth ? ’ then
bnrst in a clear, melodious whistle.
“Yum I Yum 1 Yum l” then exhorted
everybody in his hearing (calling them a
set of to gp to
and be I An immense sensatioD
was created, apd the police papie up and
said the minister mast stop the bird.
,and not oreate a publio nuisance, or he’d
have to come along.
Finally the minister got the bird into
the woodshed and put a lot of old car
pets over him, but his hair had nearly
'nrned gray; and after a terrible day and
night, he. went to the Tribune office
early on Monday and inserted thp fol
lowing :
FOR SALE—A valuable Parrot, speak? aud
whistles fluently. Owner only parts with
him on aegnant of ill-health. Pr.oe lew. Ad
dress, X, 999 Tribune office.
MAX ADELER’S “RECORD.”
He Determines to Ran for the Preeideney,
and Defend* Hl* Put Act* of Fiendtohne**
—He Will btanda Upon the Facto.
We are sorry to say that Max Adeler
has determined to rqu |°? the Presiden
cy. His platform is thus announced in
the New York Illustrated jPeeAty.’
I have pretty mnoh made np toy mind
now to run for the Presidency. What
the country wants ifl who
cannot be injured by investigation of his
past history, so that tbe enemies of the
party will be unable to rake up against
him things that nobody ever heard of
before. If yon know the most aoout a
candidate, to begin with, every attempt
to spring things on him will be check
mated. Now I am goiDg to enter the
field with an open record. lam going
to own up in adyancp tq all the yri°ked
ness I have done, apd if any Congres
sional Committee is disposed to prowl
around my biography, in the hope of
finding any dark and deadly deed which
I have sepreted.why PlhWl-
Iu the first plspe, I admit that I d|d
tree a rheumatic grandfstb er cf mine in
the Winter of 1850. He was old sod re
export in climbing trees, but with a
heartless brutality that ia characteristic
of me, I ran him ont the front door iD
his nightshirt, at the point of a shot
gun, and caused him to bowl np a maple
tree, where he remained all night while
I emptied shot into his legs. I did this
because he snored. I will do it again if
[ ever have another grandfather whd
snores. I am as inhuman how as I
ever was in 1359. No rheumatic person
*hall snore in my house.
I candidly acknowledge that I ran
away at the battle of Gettysburg. My
friends have tne4 40 smooth over this
fact by asserting that I got behind a
tree; that I did so for the purpose of
imitating Washington, who went into
the woods at Talley Forge to say his
orayers. It is s miserable Bgbtfrfage.
I cut s straight line for t{ie Tropic of
Caneer umrsty becaare I was scared.
I wanted my c nntry saved, but I pre
(erred haring somebody pise paye her.
I entertain that preference yet. If the
bubble reputation can be obtained only
at the cannon mouth, I * W*U>P§ t° g°
there for it, providing the cannon is
empty, ff is is loaded, my immortal
and inflexible purpose ts to get sudden
ty oyer the fence and go home. My in- j
variable practise in war hsa been to
bring ont of any given fight two-tbirds
more men than I took in. This seem*
to me to be Napoleonic in its grandeur.
The last time | r*B for the Presiden
cy there was some unpleasant talk about
my implication ia a transaction with the
Widow Pollock’s duck*. Tbe matter
was hashed op; but I have no objection
to admitting the troth respecting it. I
have always had a taverito theory that
roast riuoks were conductive) to hysteri
cal symptoms, and as every instinct of
my nature prompts me to protect the
widow from the- ravages of hysteria.il
entered the coop in the garden and re
gretfully but firmly removed those
duck. The fact that she began a prose
cution against me is not a matter of
oonßequeoca.* It is the fate of the phi
lanthropist to be misunderstood. Bnt
duty iircny guiding star, and if it leads
me to ducks or destruction I shall fol
low it.
My financial views are of the most
decided charaoter, but they are not like
ly. perhaps, to inorease my popularity
with the advocates of inflation and
contraction, I do insist upon the special
supremacy of rag money or hard money.
The great fundamental principle of my
life is to take any kind I can get.
The rumor that I buried a dead aunt
under one of my grape vines is founded
on fact. The vine needed fertilizing,
my aunt had to be buried, and I dedica
ted her to that high purpose. Does that
unfit me for the Presidency ? The Con
stituteof our country does not say so.
No ether oitizeu was ever considered
unworthy of the offioe because he en
riched his grape vines with bis relations.
Why should I be selected as the first
victim of an abused p ejudioe?
I admit, also, that I am not a friend
of the poor man. I regard the poor man,
in his present condition, as so much
wasted raw material. Cut up and prop
erly canned he might.be useful to fatten
the natives of the Cannibal I-lands, and
to improve onr export trade with that
region; I shall recommend legislation
upon the subject in my first message.
My campaign cry will be: “Dissicate
the poor workingman! Stuff him into
sansges 1”
These are about the worst parts of my
reoord. On them I come before the
couutry. If my countrv don’t waut me
1 will go back again. But I recommend
myself as a safe man—a man who starts
from the basis of total depravity and
proposes to be fiendish to the last.
E.UOK.Y COLLEGE.
Anniversary ot the Phi Gunns Society.
tyVom an Occasional Corrssponde ni l
Oxford, September 25.—0 u Friday
last the Phi Gamma Literary Society
oelehrated its thirty-ninth anuiversaiy.
At 10J o’olock, a. m , Mr Dußose, % of
Washington, having donned to satisfac
tion his purple robes of state, ascended
the President’s chair and called the
house to order. His stately bearing,
“backed” by. his good looks, soon se
cured the attention of ladies and gentle
men, when he auDounced th t the house
would he opened with prayer by Dr.
Haygood. Mr. Ansley, of Qriffin, then
introduced in an eloquent speech Mr.
Akin, of Oartersville, the anniversarian
of the occasion. Mr. Akin very soon
gained the attention of his andience
and, by the beauties of his speeoh and
soundness of his logic, retained it for
forty-five minutes. He stated to his
bearers that though some of them had
for thirty-eight years— the
young (?) girls, of course— heard anniver
sary speeches iu Oxford, yet some glean
ings had been left for him, and very
soon demonstrated the truth of this
statement to the delight of the beauty
and genius before him. His theme was
the South, and while discussing her
politios, past and present, in a manner
which many of the present politicians
would have been proud of, he also laid
at the foot of the Lost Cause many beau
tiful flowers; here, of oourse, he suc
ceeded, for be excels many of the beaux
of our city in attentions and tributes to
the beautiful ladies. He discussed the
questions i aised impartially, and advo
cated unity between the North and
South. HA reviewed the South physi
cally and financially, and paid touohing
tributes to her patriotism. His speech
was replete with convincing logic, per
fect rhetoric and able suggestions, which
I have not time here to enumerate. His
declamation was exceedingly good,
though he stated that he was troubled
much with an affection of the he-a r-t,
1 mean throat. His gestures were beau
tiful, and oe especially riveted the at
tention of three of Oxford’s beauties.
He retired under the merited applause
of his audience, and a beautiful bou
quet, which seemed to relieve hi# above
mentioned affection, for the way he
bowed was a sin. There is no telling
what bouquets can accomplish when the
ladies make and send ‘them. Among
these who enthused Mr. Akin by their
august presence were Messrs. Garrard—
who intends to visit “ ma and them ”
soon—Muuroe, of Florida; Walker, of
North Carolina, T. C. Mason, who has
just recovered fro a an attack of the
heart disease, and the faculty—l don’t
mean from an attack of the Faculty—no
insinuations wh tever intended. Misses
Branham,E. and K. Stewart and Miss S.
Stone enlivened the audience The
Few Anniversary comes off next Friday,
and shall be reported in due time.
Incognitos.
COLUMBIA COUNTY.
Court Week—Enthusiastic Meeting of tbe
Democracy—Speeches From Capt. Eve,
Gen. Dußose and Judge Twiggs.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Senlinei.]
Appling, September 25 —Court met at
10:30, am., Judije Gibson presiding.
The visiting bar was well represented by
Judge Snead, Maj G. T. Barnes, Gen.
Thad Oakman, J. P. Verdery, Warren
Mays, Leonard Phinizy Solicitor-General
Jackson, Judge H. D. Twiggs, from
Richmond oounty; Reese and Gen. Du-
Bose, from Wdkee; Messrs. Tutt, Coll v,
Roney and Hudson, from McDuffie;
Messrs. Shockhy and More, of the local
bar. As soon as the grand jury was or
ganized and a special jury struck, Court
adjourned for the purpose of beam g
Gen. D. M. Dußose, Presidential Elector,
from the Eighth Congressional District
<*n the political issues of the day
Capt. F. E. Eve, Alternate from the
Eighth Congressional District, intro
duced the General in the following man
ner :
Fellow Citi*bnß— The pleasing duty
has devolved upon me of introducing to
you, if it be necessary, the Hon. D M
Dußose, e* Member qnd Presidential
Elector (row this Congressional Dis-
and one entitled to the proudest
distinction of all, one of the much con
temned “Confederate Brigadiers.”
Shades of th- immortal Lae and Jack
son ! think how the mighty have fsllep.
In pbrsuit of that sueered at title how
many gallant souls are now in that dread
hereafter, and the bones of how many
thousands are now rapidly assimilating
with tbe dust from the bieak banks of
the Susquehanna to the magnolia
skirted line of the Rio Grande, wffo
dared all to gain fhat “bubble reputa
tion,” as theif vacant places by the fami
ly hearthstone hear sttd evidence.
"Per them (to more the blazing hearth shall
burn.
Or busy housewife ply her evening care;
No ohildr. n run to U>-p their sire’s return,
Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.”
Though all the proud hopes that ani
mated us when first we buckled on our
sabre, or shouldered our musket, have
long been extinguished, yet, as we
reckon the grevions disappointments
and sad losses that have befallen us; as
we look upon these desolate fields but
half tilled, on'cp so yerdant, these resi
dences, once so well cared for, now
gradually mouldering away; as we see
the want, the cares, the misery depicted
upon faces scarce a score of years ago
beaming w' th hopeful joy cpd happi
ness; as WP look forward to a future,
although “hope springs eternal in the
human breast,” the question naturally
arises, upon what can we base that
hope ? And shall we not, brother sol
diers, retain the prond consciousness of
having vindicated our self-resptct? Has
not our manhood been proven on many
a hotly contested battle field, as onr
| Northern brethren, “sometime our foe,”
! can testify? Are oqr 'scars, that we
once showed wjth so much pride, now
to be concealed and referred with
bated breath, ag if wp shamed
to acknowledge tfie justice of the
caqse ip which they were received. “He
jests at scars that npypr felt a wound ”
Has the Confederate soldier forfeited
all claim to take position under this
Government ? Is it your will that
naught should be left us but “to shoul
der our crutch and show how fields were
won.” Disbelieving that any such sen
timents can obtain in tbe pf any
true man in tfcia secern blage, I present
to you Meßeral’pudley Iff. Dußose.
The General spoke in his usual felici
tous manner. Your reporter being so
much interested he neglected to
notes. Reform of course was (fip fcey-note;
speaking of ffie appropriating propensi
ties ai Grant’s Cabinet, and how Belk
nap concealed bi rascality under the
shadow of his wife’s petticoat, it being
more efficacious than old “Mother Eve’s
fig leaf apron.” After a brief but yery
pointed speech, he tp (fudge If.
DD. Twjgss, (produced by Captain
live, who certainly exceeded anything i
have heard on this campaign. If the
Judge acquitted himself as well pi
beuil Qall, he deserypz alt (be praise he
received fi'nm the Boston journals. Hi
fi iwery tropes of speech, bis apt poeti
cal quotation*; biz resounding voice
made a flue impression oo Colombia De
mocracy which Will long be remember
ed B. C.
Albany, September 26 - — The Green
back < onvention resolutions heartily
end re tbe principles of tbe Indianapo
iis Convention, and heartily support
Cooper and Cary. There can be no busi
ness prosperity until ail property is
equally taxed, and demand that bonds
auall bear their just share. Nomina
tions : For Governor Bichard Mont
gomery Griffin; for Lieutenant-Gover
nor, Thomas Armstrong, and a lull State
tMknh
GEN. HAGOOD’S “POSSE”
A REPORT OF OPERATIONS ON
THE AIKEN LINE-
The Chteena Called Oat by Judge \Vl**in
Hageed la Chorge—The ‘Bally of the Col
ored Democrat*—ln the Field—The Killed
and Waanded.
The following report was forwarded
by Gen. Johnson Hagood to Judge 'Wig
gin, on the 23d instant:
Barnwell, S. 0., Sept. 23, 1876.
Bon. P. L. Wtggin, Judge Second Cir
cuit &outh Carolina : •
Sir —Information having been received
at this place, at 4, a. m., on the 19th
instant, that the riot said to have origi
nated in Aiken oounty from the armed
resistance of negroes to the arrest of a
negro by a colored magistrate, upon the
charge of brutality upon a white woman,
had extended into the upper portion of
this oounty, some thirty miles hence,
and that oertain white citizens, riding
upon the highway, had been bush
whacked by negres, one being killed
and three wounded, you, before adjourn
ing Court, directed me, with such men
as I could control, to proceed tb the
disturbed section and act as tbe posse
comitatus, under the orders of' Mr.
James Patterson, the county sheriff, in
suppressing the riot and arresting the
ringleaders. lat oncedispatohed couri
ers to the white oitizens nearest the
scene of the disturbance to act ln the
matter, and to others from remote sec
tions of the county to meet me at an
appointed rendezvous, the sheriff ao
oompanying me to the same. ?
While awaiting the asseu bly of, these
at the rendezvous, Mr. Patterson, ‘ with
out my knowledge or consent, but ac
tuated by the laudable desire to sup
press the trouble without risk of blood
shed, went forward to the disturbed dis
trict While riding along the highway
in his buggy, some eight miles in ad
vance of me, he was fired upon three
negroes, who immediately fled. They
were bid in the bushes by the roadside,
and did not challenge him. His first in
timation of their presenee was a volley
of slugs (ragged and broken bits of lead)
fired. He is very seriously wounded,,
but I trust will reoover.
At daylight next morning the oitizens
whom 1 had directed to meet me having
reported, some of them having ridden
forty mites the previous night, I moved
forward'iuto the disturbed district, and
thoroughly sooured that portion of it in
this county. At Mr. Joseph Ashley’s
pluce I found Mr. Patterson, and hud
his wounds attended to by a surgeon
who accompanied me, he having beeu
unable to procure medical assistance up
to that time. Mr. Patterson deputized
Mr. John W. Holmes to discharge the
duty he was now disabled from perform
ing, and that gentleman aooompanied
me from Mr. Ashley’s.
I found that the white citizens from
the vioinity together with those resident
in the locality had completely suppress
ed, for the present, at least, the riot;
tbat the evil disposed negroes had fled
to the swamps, and were then dispersed
and disorganized. I made several ar
rests, but in every Oase became satisfied
that the parties were unjustly accused
of participation iu the riot, and dis
charged them.
Deeming it undesirable to keep the
oountry iu an unnecessary state of ex
citement, I dismissed the citizens who
had accompanied me to theiiphomes;
and directed Mr. W. J. Wood and Mr.
M. A. Rountree, reliable citizens of that
section of the county, at once to procure
warrants against four or five men whom
I was satisfied had been ringleaders, and
arrest and send them to Barnwell jail
for trial upon their emergence from the
swamps. Four hundred and seventy
five citizens of the county mounted and
armed responded, within thirteen hours,
to the oall to preserve its peace; among
whom I am pleased to memtion the
Barnwell Cojfcred Democratic Club. Bo
many exaggerated rumors have beeu
rife in this matter that perhaps it may
not be improper for me to give yeu what
I think an approximation to correctness
in the number of casualties. Only two
white men have been killed; one seri
ously and three slightly wounded. The
number of negroes killed including the
fighting in Aiken county, is probably
thirty. There wks #ome incendiarism,
and injury to the railroad, committed
by the rioters.
Respectfully,
Johnson Hagood.
Ad Admirable Speech by Jsdflfe Cooke—The
Noisy Radical* Rebuked—Senator Smith
Strikes a Blow for Hampton.
Dispatch to the News and Courier. J
Columbia, September 25. Judge
Cooke was serenaded here to-night at
the Wheeler House, and at the earnfest
request of a number of citizens deliv
ered a telling speech in behalf of Hamp
ton and Reform. He was very earnest,
and was listened to by a large crowd of
both raoes. Some of the negroes were
very noisy and offensive, inteirupting
him ft*quently during his speech with
shouts and cries, making it difficult at
times for him to make himself he Yd.
He gave them a scathing rebuke, saying
that their oonduot convinced him further
that he had acted wisely and well iu
leaving their party, and advised them to
make tbe most of their time now for
such rioting, as they would have no
more opportunities after the 7th of No
vember. The disturbers were not inter
fered with by the police or crowd,though
the latter were very indignant. Senator
Smith, of Barnwell, who has recently
declared for Hampton, also spoke.
0. MoK.
A QUEL TO THE DEATH.
[ Correspondence of Vis DenverCVewt ]
Colorado Springs, September 11.—
A most fearful and startling tragedy oo
curred in this vicinity on Sunday after
noon. Dr. Solly was told in the morn
ugby a Mr. J. A. L Sclilessinger to
oall at the post office at 3:80, and get a
letter he was expeotiug from France;
tbat the letter would contain matters of
importance, which he wished the doctor
to telegraph to him at Pneblo, whither
he was going on the two o’clock freight
train. Dr. Solly called at the appointed
time, but found no letters for young
Sohleaainger, but two for himself from
the*\oung man. One apologizing for
the deceit, blit stated his object to get
him (Solly) to the' office, the other,
marked private, saying that h was going
to fight a duel that afternoon, that fie
expected to fall, am? desiring the doe
tor, if not back by 4 or 4:3ft p. m.. to
Hend to Lawson’s ranch for his body.
By the lateness of the mail these letters
were not seemed till after 5 o’clock —
Dr. Solly consulted with some friends
and decided to ride out to tbe point in
dicated. In company yith Mr. Risely
and Mr. Weitbock they proceeded to
tbe ranch, forgetting, however, to pro
vide lights, or even matches, and so they
had to wait the rising of the moon to
further their investigations.
Some thirty yards from the ranch is a
deep ravine, where the water rqahos in
the wei|season, butleaving a smooth sur
face when dry. Iu this they found the
deal body of the young man, with a
pistol shot wound entering the right
breast aod passing entirely through the
body. He had evidently fallen ip his
tracks. A line was (parked opt ou the
sand, as if by the heel of a boot, and on
it lay the stiff, cold body. Further
search (revealed a similar line twenty
five feet to the south, on which were
distinctly traced the marks of a man’s
feet. The letter stated to Dr. Solly that
if he fell his opponent wonld never be
known; that all plans were matured for
his escape from the country, apd that
similar plans for himself were also per
fected shonld th® Other die, in which
case be (Solly) was to destroy the let
ters, as the only evidence that could
trace the crime hack to bjtr.
The letter also (pld of a sealed pack
age at fils room, which, if he fell, the
doctor should destroy. The opening of
this sealed paper or papers this after
noon be ore tbP ooroner and jury may
reveal other faots, and be the key to un
ravel the whole mystery. A jury, con
sisting of Major McAllister, Major
Wagoner, Dr. I. K. Jiahber, Captain
D’couroy, B. JV Cfruvell and William
McComb'r, was empannctled end is now
receiving testimony.
Youpg iichleßsinger came here last
April with General W. J. Palmer, Pres
dent of the Denver and Bio Grande
Railway, and has since acted gs bis pri
vate Secretary. No possible clew has as
yet beep obtained as to the mnrderer,
but it is confidently believed that the
sealed paekage confided to Dr. holly will
reveal enongh to put tbe officers on his
track.
njL GILES’
■Hpuniment
IODIDE OF AMMONIA
Cures Neuralgia. Face Ache, Ktoeuma
ti m, Goat, Frosted Feel, Chilblains,
*ore Thro t, Erysipelas, Bruises or
Won ds of every kind in man or ani
mal.
Giles’ Liniment lodide of Ammonia
bu been used by myself and family with sat,s
--f notary results 1 recommend it to all p-rsouc
suffering with pains or aches of any kind. It
enrpaates anything I have ever used.
O. H. MILTER.
President Real Estate A Savings Bank, Balti
more Md.
Sold by all Druggists. Depot No. 451 Sixth
Avenue, N. I. Only W
agSG-dAwlm Agept.
Hides, W 001, Wax, Ac.
The highest oaah price will b Paid for
sr&w °'
dSWtf 141 Reynolds Street.
THE WHITE FLAG.
Hie 1 is Cast, Hie Dogs of ffarLel Loose.
THE PANIC OF ’57 DON’T EQUAL THIS!
EVERY WEEK! Read these Matchless Prices, from the Sheriff, the
Bankrupt, the United States Marshal and the Assignee:
THREE Million Yard* of EDGING. at lo. t 2o and 5o a Yard.
4.500 Yards LIMERICK LAOE. All Linen, at So. a Yard
- 2,750 ROMAN TIES, one yard long, at 10. Ea< h.
700 Pieosa VAi.ENi.IENN tS LAOE, at 20. and 40. a Yard.
Money is King, hat the power behind tha throne Pluck, Ambition*
Brains and Energy these mike up the world’s history and make the few
names that never die.
Elegant WHITE FLANNELS, at 200 per Yard.
IMPERIAL BERGKS. CASHMERE and BROCADED LLAMAS. at 900. and 250 nor Yard
Beautiful SILKS, all oolois. at 350. per Vard. P
In BLACK SiI.KS, we o <n at this date beat the man tint made them.
100 DoeenTOWELS, ]$ yards long, at 100 Each.
600 Doaen TOWELS, 1 yard long, at 6fo Each.
1,000 HUCKABACK TOWELS, all pure Linen, If yard* long, at 250. Esoh. These Towe Is
are Spotman A Go ’s, of Eelfast. Ireland, who bursted for £3O 000 000
2.000 Dozen L\DlEb’ LINEN COLLARS, at lo Kaoh.
600 Dozen SO AP. known as 0 0. C„ at 2c. a (. aka.
6 0 D, zen KUCHING will arrive Tuesday, at lUo a Dozen.
600 Dozen KID - LOVES, Two Button, at 60 . per Pair.
75 Pieors I.O'SDAI.E sHInTtNO, at 90. a Ya and.
Beautiful GRAY bli.K GLOVEB, at 1 Jo per Pair.
Thousands of TOOTH BRUSHES, at 6c and 100. Eaoh,
Millions of COMBS, from io. to 100. Eaoh.
Twenty-six mouths ago we unfurled onr banner from the ramparts,
unknown, unaided and unsung, and to-day we are pushing close for a'
quarter of a million sales.
450 Pairs 10-4 BLANKETS, soiled onlv on edge, at t" 1 40 per Fair, worth 94 60.
26 Pieces BROWN TABLE DaMANK. yards wide, at 260. a Yard. Spotman k Co.'a
Good-, of Belfast.
600 Dcs *n woven. Dimmed with Laoe. at 600. Each.
3iX> Dozen Superfine BRIITSH HALF HOSE, at 25c per Pair.
200 Dx *n Gents' LC. HvNDK 1 RCHI' Fd, at 26e. Eaoh, cost 890. god to import
We still hold Schopper’s 90 B HO3 4 at 500.
90 Dozm SHIR 18. for the P >nr Ma'n. at 35c. Eaoh.
HAIR PINS, lo a Paper; COMBS, 10. Eaoh.
BLACKING. 2Jo. a Box. -
6-4 MELTON, at 60a. per Yard.
60 Pieces ALL WOOL OABcI 11EBES, at 800. per Yard.'
Renee it is folly to talk of competing with such men as WHITE & CO.j
it is worte than folly; it is waste of time, which no money can hay.
J. B “WHITE & CO.
JT. M. BURDELL,
Cotton Factor and Commission Merchant,
No, 6 Warrou Block, Augueta, (in,
J~ advaooe made and strict attention to all Consignments, and Prompt Remittanoee.
ser9 d9aw’mA'v9m
Grange Fire-Proof Warehouse,
No. 6 Mclntosh street,; Augusta, Ga.
PLANTERS' UNION AGENCY oontinuoz the business of seU iu
COTTON A.ISTy GRAIN
At the same charges, viz: BAGGING and TIEB fn nished to p trons.—•
Commission for selling cotton, 60c. pe.r bale. Grange seal or reference accompany orders.
Storage—First week 10c. do F. V. BUKDECL,
do Eaoh additional week.. 6c. do Superintendent.
Drayage no. do sep23 w3m
PLANTERS LOAN AND SAYINGS BANK,
823 Broad Street,
CAPITAL, - - - SIOO,OOO, WITH STOCKHOLDERS LIABILITY#
Interest Allowed on Deposit*,
T. F. BRANCH, President. J. T. NEWBURY, Oashior.
DIRECTORS:
THOS. W. COSKERY, GEN. M. W. GARY, JAMES L. GOW, !
JUDGE WM. GIBSON, E. H. ROGERS, M. I. BRANCH.
jn2o-tf
tilli'NTal We have In prus anew campaign
laW Ml 1 J bo o z by a College Pres L. L. D. Big
pay, 60cta. will ecure outfit ana territory.
E, B. Treat, Pob., 806 Broadway, N. Y. agUMa
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It sella faster than any other One A Rent
sold 61 copies in one day. Send for o r extra ter ub
to Agents. Add ea - National Publishing 00.,
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Men are earning S4O to $l2O per week ! ! Selling
Onr Country
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years, aleo of the Great “Exhibition,"—and in d>-
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and our e andark “LIFE OF LIVINGSTONE,”
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tions. Haa no equal. For extra tormx write to
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Stimulates the secretive organa, thus p"rtf)iag the
biota and st. Iking st the root of disease. It is the
medicinal ext act of the laut of th t ’ a-re fin 1
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p aoiicenythe p yslctans of that and other coun
it will rake the Llvr active, aa-i t Digestl n
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and Is a car al l emedy for all diseases of a Sor ful
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ilinninnitu A ten dollar bill of 1778 sent
braSliyOorrka M A a d uT
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Real Bargains
IN
#EI FAI L AND TOTE El DEI (WOODS
IT C. J. T. BILK’S,
No. lfifi Broad St., Near Centre St.
GOOD Cotton Flannel 10c; beet heavy Drill
ing lOo; floe, yard wide Sea Island Home
spun 8o; fine [ wide Bleached Horn spun 6}o:
good f Bleached Homespon at 6c; fine yard
wide Bleached B 'Uteepun 8o; beet Fruit of tbe
Loom, Bleached 12(0; Brown, Gray and White
Blanket* at $1 tO, S2 and *8 a pair- about half
last year’e pr oe. Tbe laigesi assortment of
new Fail and Winter Oaliooes, Curtain Ca'ioneK
at 50, a yzrd. Splendid quality Black Al acae
at 26e. a yzrd. Plain and Fancy Drew Goods
from 124 c., up. Lineeys and Flannels fi;oW
1210. to 40c. Jeans for pante Irom to
6c. Caetimera from 36c. to #1 40- Double
Width Waterproof Clo h iu Seal Brown. Navy
Blue and Black at 750. Splendid Felt Skirts at
76c. Good DouWe Width Table < loth at 8- c
Shaker Hats, suitable for children’s sobool bate
at 10a New et le Felt and Straw Hat* at 60c
new style Tips, Plumes, Fancy Feathers aid
Flo were in great var ety at about one hall
I their usual price#. Hamburg Edgings at 6c
Handkerchiefs at 36c. and 50c. d-z -n. and
many other good# this weez at extraoi dinary
low prices. Wholesale buyers aie invited to
inspect my stock- C. J. T. BALK.
eep24 tf
Tie Georgia Cotton Gin,
MANUFACTURED BY
J. Ds A H. T. HiMMICK,
CRAWFORD VILLE, GA.
FOB over twenty years we have manufac
tured the GEORGIA GIN, and from our
sceoesa with them, feel warranted In saying
thev are equal to any Gins made.
We do not at ive to get up a fancy article for
exhibition at Fairs, but put up good, durable
work of first class material.
We offer them as low as any good Gins can
be afforded.
Fvety Gin warranted to perform well.
We oould give hundreds of c rtiflcates if de
sired but as that role is bo common at this day
we omit them.
PRICED OF GINS:
For 9 In eh Baws, per Barr
For 10 Inch Saws, per haw • • 860
Old Gins repaired iu the best style and at
reasonable chargee* , , .
Freight maut be prepaid on them when snip
tor New Gins solicited early, to In
sure prompt delivery for the ginul g of the
next crop. Address,
J. D &B- T. HIMMMK,
Craw’ordville Ga.
Or Messrs. BOTHWELL BBoS Agen s.
J 8 wßb> Augusta. Gs.
MILL GEARING'MADE
AND rangers
IgSgigß
ilFloriia Free Lands,
j choice mms
;l in
ORANGE COUNTY,
WITHIN
Three Miles of Railroad Transpor
tation.
Lands Unsurpabsed For
FRUITS aMFARMING.
Office South Flohida Land Agency. i
Fobt Mason. Orange C unty, Florida, j
THE undersigned have entered into a bnsl
ness arrangement for lhe purpose of lo
cating settlers on the pub io lands (* ither
United States or State) in this and adjoining
counties
Lnoated in the most delightful portions of
Or>-nge county, in a xeoliou of territory oon
o- ded by all to be the bent adapted to the cul
ture uf the orange and kindred fruits, and
thoroughly acquainted with all the Jaml in this
vio mty, we are better able to give information
c> noeruing the lands still vacant than any
others engaged in the land business in this
comity.
The railroad now in oourse of construction
connecting the Bt. John’s river at Lake Georgs
with Likes Harri-, Eustis, Gr fflu. Dora and
the other headwater Jakes of the Oclawaha
river, will furnish all the surrounding lands;
with ample transpoitarion facilities and plao
settlers within easy distanoe of the Northern
and Eastern markets.
THE CLIMATIC ADVANTAGES
Of this seotioT of territory are so well known
as icaroelv to need rvo<pi(ulaiion. Vegetables
and tropieal frui s can b > grown throughout
the yo r without dang> r from cold. Mbe
severe-t frosts of this Jake region do not in
jure vegetation, as was proven during the past
Winter, when the froi-ts killed early vegetables
at considerable distances south of us and left
this region untouched—not a blade of grass
being injured.
HOMESTEADS NEAR THE RAILROAD.
We are now prepared to locate settlers ee the
public lands in close proximity to the railroad,
(ineef the undersigned (Mr John B. Banks)
has ju*t completed a thorough survey of a
large tiact of United Stales lauds, situated at
from three to six miles distance from the rail
road. These lands are not only admirably
adapted to tbe culture of oranges, but are also
excellent for farming purposes, and oan be
easily brought into cultivation, tbe old settlers
in the vioiulty raising an abundant supply of
corn, ootton, sugar, eto , upon them.
GET A HOMESTEAD NOW,
Parties who propose set-ling in Florida will
find it greatly to their advantage to obtain
their homesteads during the bummer months,,
and thus avoid the rn°b of ihe Fall months.
Those desiring to looate near the railroad wilt
obtain
. ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES FREE
If their entry it made before the completion of
th. road. After its eomAetion, which will be
some time this comiug Fall.they will not bo per
mitted to enter more than eighty acres. Persons
locating during the Summer oan also get their
lands iu read pees for a crop of early vege
tables next Winter, and thus be enabled to re
alize a profit from the lands immediately. We
are now
PREPARED TO LOOATE SETTLERS,
Sirgly or In colonies, at moderate rates, and In
every oase we guarantee complete satisfaction.
No lai ds will be looated by us until one of us
have thoroughly surveyed them, and in all
ca.es our patrons shall be given the best tracts
of which we have any knowledge, wiibont
favoritism or partiality being shown to any
STATE LANDS,
We are also prepared to locate, survey and
purchase any desired quantity of State lands,
and will perfoim this work either for a speci
fied price in mon> y or for an agieed upon per
centum of land. We now have some cboioe
pieces < f Siate land marked out on onr maps,
which have been surveyed by us, and whioh
are among the best lands in this Stato.
FURTHER DETAILS
Can he obtained by addressing (with ktamp en
dured for reply) tbe undersigned. Prompt at
tention given to al> letter*. Address
BANKS & NT. Cl AIR-ABRAMS,
Fort Mason, Orange couzly, Florida.
To My Friends In Alabama
and bomb Carolina.
In response to many letters received by me.
I have entered into a bus ness arrangement
with Mr. JOHN 8. BANK-1 for ibe purpose of
looat ng settlers on the public lanls of thi*
and adjoining counties. Mr BANKS is a prac
tical surveyor of many years’ experience, and
possesses a thorough knowledge of the public
laHds. having be- n United Si a oh Register of
Public Lands iu this State. We have ex
plore and and surveyed a considerable tract of
these lands, and we are now prepared to looate
settlers on
CHOICE HOMESTEADS.
Maßy persons have written me expressing a
desire to move to this state during the piesent
year, these I would advise to OBTAIN THIIR
HOMESTEADS NOW. Jn the Fall moDths the
ru-h of Northern settlers is so great that it is
difficult to obtain choice homesteads; whereas,
at present tbe travel is light, and one can se
lect a | lace with greater ease. In addition,
tbe large tract of homlstead lands contiguous
to the -ailr iad, recently survived and opened
up for settl- mi nt by Mr. B INKS, if not en
t.rd this bummer will inevitably be t.ken up
ly (he first mfiux of Noitbein travelers next
Fad As n y de.ire (without prejudice to
Nor-hern settler )is to ocate tbe numeroua
oitizeus of ih- mates above nam and oo choice
Homesteads, while able to do bo, 1 urge them
to make the selections at once, and 'hus ee~
jure vaiuab.e an# eligible homes in this btate.
ALEX“dT. < L .R-ABttAMH,
Fort Mason, Urange county, Florida,
Jy2l->uAwelniAw3m
CASH A.\l) CLOTH FOR WOOL.
THE Athens Manufacturing Company will
pay iu C H or CLOTH tbe highest mar
ket price for WOOI,.
Enquire of t OtiiEß FLEMING, at AugM
.a, ot Akent at Athena for particulars.
AL. BLOOMFIELD,
myfig-wfim Ageo.