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(Efttonitti and Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY... .OCTOBER 26, 1876.
A BKt/RET.
It is not thst 1 prize tby love tbe leas;
And yet, amid tbe bline of being thine,
There fells e single dr.p of bitterness
Fer knowing thst, ere thou bedst met with
me,
Another held thst love, whose fosd caress
Had power to thrill the heart now wholly
mine.
Didst tbon not know, in those far. years new
fled.
That there aas one of whom thou wonldat
hare need ?
Not she who for a space reigned in my stead,
And careless took the love which was my
But one whose life of thine should be a part.
Whose er’ry thought and wish to thice be
wed.
1 cannot help tbe sense of loss 1 feel
In thinking of the love thou bast forgot—
Nor vain regrets that sometimes o'er me steal
For years wherein we knew each other not;
But since for evermore tbou'rt mine alone,
The coming years my e'en for this atone.
A J’KOVK.NCAI, SONG.
Under the hawthorns of an orchard-lawn
She laid her head her lover's breast upon,
Silent until the guard should cry the dawn.
Ah God! Ah God! Why comes the day so
• soon ?
I would the night might never have passed by!
So wonlds't thou not have left me, at the cry
Of yonder sentiy to the whitening sky.
Ah God ! Ah God Why comes the day so
soon ?
One kiss more, sweetheart, ere the melodies
Of early birds from all the fields arise !
One more, without a thought of jealous eyes '.
Ah God ! Ah God ! Why comes the day so
soon ?
And yet one more under the garden wall,
For now the birds begin their festival;
And the day wakens at the sentry’s call.
Ah God ! Ah God! Why comes the day so
soon ?
Ti* o'er! He's gone. Oh mine in life and
death!
But tbe sweet breeze that backward wandereth.
I quaff i. as it were mv darling’s breath.
Ah God ! Ah God! Why comes the day so
soon ?
Fair was the lady, and her fame was wide.
And many knights for her dear favor sighed :
But leal the heart out of whose depths she
’ cried,
Ah God ! Ah God ! Why comes the day so
soon? .
ADVANCE THE I.INES.
Awake, Americans, to glory!
Hark ! hark! your country bids you rue ;
Fair Freedom, with her bosom gory,
Beseeches you with tearful eyes,
To save her from the the thieves and spoilers,
Who trade within her temple doors,
Who drive the commerce from her shores,
a ni starve her host of honest toilers.
Advance the lines, advance!
The avenging ballot’s might
Khali slay the crew of cormo'rants
A ud vindicate the right.
Corruption, brazen, unmolested.
Stalks unmasked in the nooni ay e glare,
Her wild and shamelees faea invested
With charms to those who seek and share
The plunder wrung in cruel taxes
From men who famine's pangs endure;
While ou the grave stones of the poor
The ramjal chieftains whet their axes.
Advance the lipe, advanoe !
Tbe avenging ballot’s might
Shalt slay the crew of cormorauts
And vindicate the right.
The hundred years that b* feefimd you,
The hundred years f ha' riss ahold,
The patriot memories th.'t bind you.
The blood of all your mart/red dead—
Be these the monitors of duty
Your arms to nerve, your hearts to waTW)
Until the white flower of Keform
Shall blossom in perennial beauty.
Advance the lines, advance!
The avenging ballot's might
Shall kill the crew of cormorants
And vindicate the right.
DOVE IN A COTTAGE.
They may talk of love in a cottage,
And bower* of trellised vine—
Of nature bewitellingly simple.
And milkmaids half divine;
They may talk of ths pleasure of sleeping
Ip the shade of a spreading tree.
And a walk in the fields at morning
By the side of a footstep free.
But give me a sly flotation
By the light of a chandelier—
With music to play in the pauses
And nobedy very near;
Or a seat on a silken sofa,
With a glass of pure old wine,
And mamma too blind to discover
The small white hand in mine.
Your love in a cottage is hungry,
Your vine is a nest for flies—
Your milkmaid shocks the Graces,
And simplicity talks of pies 1
You lie down to your shady slumber,
And wake with a fly in your ear,
And your damsel that walks in the morn
ing
Is shod like a mountaineer.
True love is at home on a carpet,
And mightily likes his ease —
And true love has an eye for a dinner,
And starves beneath Bhady trees.
His wing is the fan of & lady,
His foot’s an invisible thing,
And Mb arrow is tipp'd with a jewel,
And shot from a silver string.
[N. P. Wn.us.
WAITING. ,
With waiting and wishing our courses we pave;
We wait for the port as we battle the wave;
'Tis waiting forever from cradle to grave.
Waiting for mom, so serene in its light;
Waiting for noon-day, so brilliant and bright;
Waiting at eve for repose in the night.
Waiting for zephyrs in Bpring time that blow;
Waiting for Hummer, and flowers that grow;
Waiting for Winter, and swift falling snow.
Waiting is ever the bosom’s refrain,
In moments of pleasure and moments of pain;
Waiting, though stricken again and again.
Waiting in childhood for youth's joyous time;
•Tm waiting,” says youth, “but I’ll certainly
climb
The top of the ladder on reaching my prime,”
In manhood awaiting the time when he may
Find rest on a calmer, a happier day,
When age shall lelieve from the worrying
fray.
Waiting when Fortune sheds brightly her
•mile;
When choice are the pleasures the pathway
There always is something to wait for the
while.
Waiting in poveity, auguish and grief;
Waitiug for Heaven to send us relief.
Telling the heart that the trial is brief.
Aye, waiting for joys that will never appear;
Waiting for voioes we never shall hear;
Waiting for moments that never are near.
Waiting when, sinning and worn in the strife,
With penitent throbbiugs the bosom is rife;
Wailing the dawn of a holier life.
Waiting at last for the spirits release;
Waiting a rest in the Dwelling of Peace,
•Where waiting and longing forever will
cease.
A TOUCHING ROMANCE.
I From the Ban Francisco Bulletin.)
More than a year ago the Bulletin
published under Jlis liead of a “Charm
ing Romance” one of tt* truest stories
of worthy love and laudable ambition
ever told. Briefly related the facte were
these; Lieutenant Philip Reade, ayowng
army officer, heard in a Topeka church
choir a voice so sweet and musical, so
tenderly sympathetic, that his soul was
touched to know more of the sweet sing
er. He sought her acquaintance, was
introduced, and found a young lady
straggling against the hardships of pe
enniary misfortune to make headway.
She was ambitious to go abroad and
atndy under great masters in the foreign
lands of poetry and song. Her genious,
her aspiration, and, more than all, the
nobility of her character and her modest
worth, found ready admiration in the
mind of the young offioer. He made
her cause his ‘ own, and so * readily re
sponded to every aspiraton of her young
life that he pledged his own fortune to
caable her to go to Italy and there finish
iier musical education in the best schools
f Florence and Milan. Poor in purse
bat rich is womanly pride, she declined
to accept tbe gift of so mnch money.
Alone and with Abe aid of money earned
m local eonoerts as4 private tuition,
cbe visited Boston and farther progress
ed toward the fame which she longed to
achieve. Her refusal to accept the
money increased rather than diminished
£he yonng officer’s regard for her, and he
renewed the offer of aid to Minnie Beals,
for such was her name, with a proposal
of marriage. They were married in New
York one .morning more than four years
ago. At noon on the wedding day the
bride sailed for Italy and the husband
atarted for Arizona, where he had been
ordered on military duty. Frequently
letters brought him tidings of her suc
cess. Her voice ;vas like a "string of
pearls,” said one renowned impressario.
Time wore ou, and she made her debut
in the finest theater of Florence to a
dense assemblage of music lovers. For
tune seemed to smile, and she secured
an engagement to sing in the leading
theaters of Enrope. Her singing in
Constantinople elicited the highes praise
from the press and the populace.
During the past year every letter ex
changed between the two referred to the
haDDiness reserved for the reunion. The
aim of their lives seemed to have been
realized, and they had by common con
sort centered every hope tud thought
in expected eojoyment of what had been
obtained at the cost of so many saen
and the peril of so many adverse
She bad fixed the date of her
Sj££*re fro “ lUdy n6 \‘ November.
Fstefixed it otherwise. A single sen
tence from strong
and broken down concludes the story.
Saw Dusoo. Can.,BoPt- £. 1876.
Minnie Reade died Ang. • Philip
**Mre.Reade died in Pans. Lieutenant
Beads has been stationed on the South
ern border for over a year, in charge of
the military telegraph construction
party, and is at present in San Diego.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Tuesday's Items.
The hickory nut crop is good.
Dalton wants a cotton factory.
Corn in Dalton, 30 cents per bushel.
Mr. J. O. Patterson, of Savannah, is
dead.
Gilmer connty is swimming in aor
phnm.
Hart connty gave Colquitt 628 ma
jority.
Mr. Hilliard will be beaten in the
Foorth.
The Atlanta eastern house is pro
gressing.
Hart connty has resolved to build a
new jail.
A Hartwell man caught ten ’possums
in one night.
Crawford wails for batter and a tola
graph office.
Tbe drouth has injured the small grain
crop in Whitefield.
banner counties are now as nu
merous as grasshoppers.
An Atlanta man offers to bet $50,000
on Tilden and Hendricks.
T. W. Teasley, Esq., has been ad
mitted to the Hartwell bar.
The Franklin girls have organized a
Henry R. Harris reading club.
Chicken thieves are among the first
refugees to return to Savannah.
The Timet’ belle editor reports two
marriages for Atlanta next week.
Rex and his crew will invade Atlanta
with more eclat than ever this year.
In the Georgia election, in Hart
county, last week, Wade Hampton got
two votes.
Colqnitt has six rising yonng men to
select from, for a Solicitor of the Atlan
ta Circuit.
There is a great rivalry among the
country towns as to which pays the most
for cotton.
Up to Tuesday night, the 10th inst.,
3,100 bales of cotton have been received
at Barnesville.
Dr. J. C. C. Blackburn, of Barnesville,
baa conclnded to beoome a candidate fur
Secretary of the State Senate.
The new Methodist Church in Elber
ton, says tbe Gazette, will be dedicated
on the first Sunday in November.
Two Elberton mules ran away with a
load of cotton last week and killed
Buck Brawner, the colored driver.
It appears that a young lady by tbe
name of Miss "Olla Podridge” get up
locals for the Washington Gazette.
The Elberton Gazette very naturally
attributes the low price of cotton to the
“concatenation of combined events.”
Judge E. H. Lindley, a former repre
sentative of Cobb connty, was killed by
the State Road collision last Thursday.
Mr. Robert Crump, a respectable citi
zen of Hart connty, was strioken with
paralysis in the left side last week.—
Sun.
John A. Moore, the courteous con
ductor of the Athens branch, is again on
duty. He now figures in two roles, we
believe.
Dr. W. C. McEntire, a Ben Hill man,
is announced elected Representative by a
majority of fourteen votes in Franklin
oonnty.
Whitehall street orossing is beooming
snch a plague jn Atlanta that they are
Jhinkiug of sending for Gen. Newton to
blow t up.
E lberton eleots the following Counoil
men : J. 0. Sanders, S. L. Carter, H.
C. Edmunds, E- B. Tate, Jr., and D. A.
Mathews,
“The whites end colored all pulled to
gether," in Milter county, soys the
Commonwealth. Gotynjtt, 461; Nor
cross, nix.
A Barnesville man, suffering from the
low price of cotton, has had “ Tilden ”
painted on his wagon and has stored his
crop until November.
The Elbert county negroes have ostra
cised Chaa. McCalla, a colored preacher,
for being a Deiu<Wsti and will not allow
him to occupy the pntytt.
Rev. Henry Tyler died on the |th
instant, t bia residence in Hart county,
after a lo? end painfnl illness, caused
from being thrown from his buggy.
Mr. James H. Garr.'rd, of the Signal
Service, U. S. A., who charge of
the office in Savannah last Sumthdr, died
Thursday morning of yellow fever.
The Oglethorpe Echo is the proprie
tor of the statement that an Angnsta
girl detained her sweetheart three hours
the other night, by sitting on his hat,
David R. Keith, a graduate of the
University of Georgia, comes highly en
dorsed by divines, scholars and states
men to Heard oounty,surveying aschool.
Amateur dramatio clubs for the yellow
fever sufferers still spring up in Atlanta.
If these things continue, subscriptions
for the Atlanta sufferers will soon be in
order.
The pin-back and anti-pin-back fac
tions are having quite an acrimonious
contest in Aowortli. Dr. Lovick Pierce
should stump the oonnty for the former
faction.
J. M. Smith No. 1, is Governor of
Georgia; J. M. Smith No. 2, is represen
tative eleot from Oglethorpe oonnty; J.
M. Smith No. 3, is a candidate for Or
dinary in Heard county. Next!
Elbert county tallies the first of the
season. A little colored boy left alone
to amuse himself by playing in the fire
was burned to a coal, so says the 1
Gazette. There remains 136 counties
yet to hear from.
A State Road freight train ran into
an accommodation train at loeville
Thursday. Two gentlemen who en
deavored to escape from the rear plat
form, ere the freight engine reached it,
were instantly killed.
The Atlanta Times, upon its own re
sponsibility, states that Georgia will
probably not go for Hayes and Wheeler.
This is a canard. Georgia will “go for”
Hasenwlieeler, with a Tilden majority
of some four score thousand.
Mr. J. Northoutt, not Noroross, was
slightly mashed while coupling 2 freight
cars in Aoworth. The latter gentleman,
we believe, was mashed by oonpling
himself with the Radical Nominating
Convention Home months ago.
The Pike a. nuty negroes, thinking
that they had elected tttett man, fired a
cannon upon the evening of tjip. elec
tion. The official returns next morn
ing, however, brought out tfie howitzer
with a Democratic prime. Tbe Barnes
ville Gazette immediately sent up for
one of Carey Stiles’ roosters to oomplete
the viatoiy.
Hon. H. H. Carßon is spoken of as
the next Speaker of fin: House of Rep
resentatives. A true and flunwstent
Democrat, a pure and incorruptible
member, an intelligent, high-toned and
liberal-minded gentleman we know the
Doctor to be. His election would not
only reflect credit upon that body, but
prove## Jjonor to our State.— Oglethorpe
Echo.
Wednesday's Items,
Robbers are billed in Albany.
The festive gate lifter still boards at
Covington.
Bishop Beckwith preached in At
lanta Sunday.
Steam cotton gins are in fall bust all
over the State.
Senator Norwood speaks in Atlanta
to-morrow evening.
Cuthbert has contributed $202 80 to
the yellow fever sufferers,
Hon. B. H. Hill will speak at Monti
cello, Fla., on the 25th instant.
Senator Norwood and John Robinson
both held forth in Rome yesterday.
Total receipts of cotton at Coiambus
during the past season, 51,893 bales,
Here is a good chance for a rising
man—Columbus has but 23 lawyers.
The Primitive Baptists held an asso
ciation in Jackson oonnty last week.
The railroad relief fund for the bene
fit of the fever sufferers amounts np to
$552 95.
The trade issue of the limes ohristens
Columbus “the leading manufacturing
city of the South”
’Possum hunters in 'Jackson county
are killing and soaring off the sheep in
the neighborhood.
Politios in the Seventh are getting
lively. The Cedartown Express is now
issued semi-weekly.
The Atlanta Street Railroad Company
is out of debt, and will soon pay a divi
dend of ton per cent.
A voung lad named Nash, while out
hunting near Atlanta, was accidentally
shot by Mr. Jos. Harper.
The famous (Jbas. Herbst has evi
dently brought the Mason Library np
to an unprecedented prosperity.
Rev. W. M. Hayes, former pastor of
the Blakely Methodist Church, is re
covering from an attack of yellow fever.
The Constitution says that the Demo
cratic rooster is dividing the honors of
the Centennial year with the American
eagle.
Mr. James B. Conyers, of Cartenmlle,
and Miss Lizzie Newton, of Athens,
were married in the latter city last Wed
nesday.
The Atlanta colored men have peti
tioned, says the Sunday Herald, to
establish a poor house for the benefit of
their race.
The Perry Journal says that Mr.
Gnaweroea magnanimously retired from
the Gubernatorial contest last Wednes
day week.
Mr. James F. Stapler and Miss Snsie
M. Ashley; William China and Miss Ga
brielis Gray have recently been married
in Valdosta.
The farmers of Gwinnett connty are
engaged in building new cribs as the corn
crop will be the largest made any year
sinoe the war.
The official record of death in Savan
nah in the month of September ia 715,
or more than three per cent, of her en
tire popnlation.
A colored man and his wife abdnetod
a three year old negro child from its
mother in Marietta and departed to
wards Atlanta.
Mrs. Warren, relict of Irwin Warren,
deceased, of Miller connty, died Friday
and was bailed in Blakely on Saturday
last —Blakely News.
Dr. J. H. Lane, of Wilkes connty, has
the finest field of ootton, the Gazette
thinks, in Middle Georgia. It is grown
from his prolific cotton seed.
The Gwinnette Herald is informed
that* a little boy, abont eight years of
age, was crashed to death by a syrup
mill on Monday, near Doraville.
The Cartersville Express rashly states
that ladies’ striped hose are coming
down; and now the Baitow county girls
justly demand 'proof, retraction or in
famy.” f
Bridges Smith tells the tale That tbe
Georgia editor who wrote “our esteemed
fellow-bnrgher” has discharged the prin
ter who accidentally made the word
“burglar.”
The whites of Col. Sawyer’s eyes were
turned np at the disgusting spectacle of
one or two white ladies in a rough and
tnmble political meeting in Borne last
Wednesday.
Oar State exchanges are filled up with
oounty fair announcements and district
electoral meetings. Let the good work
go on, even if it is pretty rough on “State
News” colnmns.
Atlanta has been visited by another
primary election. This time it was a
mnnicipal affair, in which Dr. Angier
was nominated for Mayor by a majority
of 89 in a total vote of 2,500.
Colonel Engenins Speer, of the Grif
fin News, now at the Centennial, has
written upon a private postal to Major
Alexander, that a good article of Bour
bon whisky will not make a man drnnk
—if kept in air-tight bottles.
The Augusta Medical College is mak
ing extensive arrangements for its Win
ter session. This is one of the oldest,
best established and most efficient medi
cal colleges in the South, and is equal
to any in the North. —Rome Courier.
The Cartersville city sexton, tired of
his grovelling life, climbed a chestnut
tree to enlarge his views. The mourn
ful sequel published by the Express in
forms us, however, that he fell from his
dizzy height and split his thigh in twain.
The official Gubernatorial vote
so far is. 137,756
Colquitt’s vote 104 980
Noroross’ vote 32,785
Colquitt’s majority 72,195
There are some tea counties still to
hear from.
We learn from the Atlanta Times that
Mr. Jonathan Norcross has gone to
the Centennial. And this suggests to
us the idea, says the Columbus Times,
that the great expedition ought to be
prolonged throngh November, to give to
the great defeated of that month an op
portunity to make a patriotio and re
cuperating tonr to the big show.
Owing to the wretched condition of
the roads, Colonel Christy, of the
Watchman, and Captain Stafford,of the
Forest News, thought of building a rail
route from Athens to Jefferson, Jackson
county, A. narrow gauge was first spoke
of, bat sinoe Colonel Obristy bad his
measure taken for anew Winter vest
the project has been abandoned.
Bridges Smith is amusing himself by
drawing some very funny cartoons of
Billie Markham, the Republican can
didate for Congress. In the event of
his ejection the Sunday Herald specu
lates as follows; And then wouldn’t
those post tails flap jn tuneful time to
the tramp, tramp to Washington I Yes,
indeed; and the young rose that orna
ments his lappel blush a deeper crimson,
and those lavender kids would swell with
unmistakable pride. Here’s a health to
you, Willie!
Covington has marjjet hQfjge.
Oandter speaks in Fojrsytff tq-uight.
The airens was in Atlanta yesterday.
Gordon aud Norwood are in Atlanta.
Toccoa City pines for a toroltore store.
Fort Valley holds a camp meeting
soon.
Fort Valley is to have ft double wed
ding soon.
A minstrel show broke out in Toccoa
City last week.
Governor Smith has ordered fill banks
to make returns.
General Stephen D. Lee, of Missis
sippi, is in Macon.
The revival of roller skating in Atlan
ta this Winter is talked of.
Monroe county corn is selling in For
syth at sixty cents a bushel.
The Baptist Church, in Athens, has
recently been greatly improved.
The Rnights of Honor is a ew order
that is causing considerable talk,
Noroross thinks Colquitt will do.
This is very magnanimous in J. N.
The next Legislature will have some
very important matters to decide.
Crawford oounty has an abundant
corn crop and a large supply of jags.
An Indiana man writing to Atlanta,
recommends Bon Rijl jpr the Senate.
Madison has a little girl two years
old who knows the alphabet perfectly,
It is reported that Henry Grady will
go npon the staff of the Atlanta Con
stitution.
Col. Carey Styles, of the Atlanta
Cffflifrf-Qnwealth, is a Smith man for the
Senate-
New life is being iiduscd into the Air
Line Railroad enterprise, trom
to Toccoa City.
John Robinson’s show appears to be
giving tfie Georgia Railroad towns the
go-by this season.
A ton year old negro boy took his
farewell peep into a pistol barrel at
Reynolds, Ga., last week.
Georgia editors are very bnsy just
now, revising and enlarging the infantile
eensns in the different counties.
■ The annual meeting of tbe stockhold
ers of the Northeastern Railroad took
plape in At tea .9 8 yesterday morning.
The Telegraph sayg IfraL thp funeral
of Mr. James o’Rrien, Sunday after
noon, was the largest ever seen jn Ma
con.
The Watchman reports the burning
of Booth’s store and Kendrick’s dwel
ling, with outhouses, near Athens, last
Mr* Wood of Hampton, fa
tally shot tbe town Marsbsj, Scarbor
ough, in an affray at that plane te-tt
week.
The Toccoa City Herald freely admits
that a ootton factory wonld not be too
mnch of a good thing for Habersham
Bounty.
Mr. Daniel E. Belly was married to
Miss Pinkey E. Reid, and Mr. J. G.
Johnson to Mies Alice Edwards, ip Cov
ington recently.
Mr* Henry C- Peeples, son of Judge
Peeples, was admitted to the practice
of law, in Atlanta, last week, after a
very creditable examination.
The gin house of Mr. John B. Pat
man, of Oconee connty, containing,
among other things, eighteen bales of
ootton, was burned last week.
A negro girl near Fort Valley was
bitten by a rattlesnake one day test
week and cored by pntting the fresh
blood of a chicken on tbe wound.— Mir
ror.
Franklin oounty bad a double wed
ding daring Coart week. This, how
ever, wae merely an affair adj earned
over from several anterior court weeks,
we presume.
Miss Mattie Philips, of Atlanta, came
■vary near being burned to death at Grif
fin, Monday evening. Her dress caught
fire, and was extinguished just in time
to save her life.
The Northeastern train now leaves
Athens at 10:30, a. m. and returns at
10:30, p. m., which will eause a deten
tion in Athens of passengers by the
Georgia Railroad.
The Early connty News claims the
Oolqnitt banner for Miller county. “Not
a single Radical ballot polluted the hand
or soiled the conscience of one of her
oitizens at the late election.”
The Calhoun Times reports that Dr. A.
Miller was married to Miss Snsie Mayes
in Sugar Valley last week. With such
saccharine surroundings, of course a
wedding tonr was oat of the question.
Forty Atlanta young men are trying
to settle the qaestion as to whether it is
better to hang around a city and do
nothing, ox to go between a pair of
plow handles for a$ honest living.—
Times.
Two Atlanta men on Peachtree street
had a little pistol practice Monday af
ternoon, and one of them succeeded in
bringing down an outsider very cleanly.
This way of settling a difficulty is pure
ly original with Atlanta, but is likely to
meet with great favor everywhere.
Hon. J. I. Turnbull was re-elected
from Banks county by a large majority.
This gentleman has won an enviable
reputation in the Georgia Legislature,
and his last triumph over Independent
oppoeition shows that he is appreciated
at home as well as honored abroad.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NKWB LEAVES.
Diphtheria prevails in Yorkville.
The fires of patriotism are not quench
ed.
Hampton electrifies Winnsboro Mon
day.
Tbe South Carolina game law expired
on the 15th.
Fairfield harbors a United States ar
tillery company.
A colored Democrat is wanted to teach
a colored school in Cberaw.
Prince Rivers is disgusted with the
Aiken connty Radical ticket.
A whisky row came near taking place
in Blackville last Saturday.
The Radicate in Horry county have
decided not to nominate a ticket.
Mrs. Wm. Bntler and Mrs. Sarah
White died in Edgefield last week.
A terrible sconrge has apppeared in
Charleston in the form of a “Republican
daily.”
The Anderson Connty Fair comes off
this year on the 25th, 26th and 27th of
October.
The Charleston Republican hardly
makes a decent journalistic flatter in the
campaign.
Chamberlain’s thieves are evidently
trying to steal as much as possible be
fore November,
A negro intimidator in York was sen
tenced to three months’ imprisonment
by Judge Mackey.
The sapper given by the Methodist
ladies of Johnston last week netted them
seventy-five dollars.
Mr. John Hanlon, an estimable citi
zen, died in Greenville, and wai buried
in Charleston Friday.
Charlie Stewart, an Anderson lad of
fifteen years,-picked 224 pounds of cot
ton one day last week.
The Anderson County Republican
Convention is said to have turned out a
first class Democratic affair.
The Anderson Intelligencer notes the
death of Mrs. Jesse McGee, Mr. Jacob
Martin and Mr. P. Hawkins.
The Charleston German Academy has
151 scholars, and in consequence the
rates will be reduced next month.
A grand barbecue and mass meeting
of the Anderson Democracy will take
place on Friday, 3d of November.
The Columbia Democrats conclnded
that after all a torch light procession
over Ohio wonld not be just the thing.
The Republicans find it very difficult
to get men to run upon their county
tickets. Chamberlain should look luto
this.
Coleman Beattie, a colored Democrat
from Columbia, delivered a very sensible
address in Blackville on Friday night
last.
The News and Herald says that a col
ored man named Willingham was
smothered to death in a bank of cotton
seed.
A little over three weeks and old
South Carolina will be free ! It makes
the Courier-Journal feel glorious ju-it
to think of it.
Bill Elliott, a Charleston negro detec
tive, aspires to the Legislature. Elliott
will soon become an honored name in
South Carolina.
Some fellow in a Camden Democratic
glorification carried a fox skin marked :
“Chamberlin’s hide—Captured Novem
ber 7th, 1876.”
The News and Courier reports an
attempted suicide by cutting the throat.
The unfortunate man was probably one
of Chamberlain’s chums.
Yorkville is studying phrenology. The
editor of the Enquirer thinks that he
would like to examine Chamberlain’s
skull for about two minutes.
The editor of the Anderson Intelli
gencer, who weighed a four pound
sweet potato in the balance, was found
wanting—a bushel more of them.
The Sentinel says that if every county
in the State will do its duty as well as
we know Pickens will, the redemption
qf Soqth Carolina is as sure as fate.
The Executive Committee of the Young
Men’s Christian Association, of Ander
son, have raised $Bl to be divided be
tween the sufferers from yellow fever in
Savannah and Brunswick.
It was rumored upon the streets, says
the Columbia Register, that a warrant
bad bepn issued for the arrest of J udge
Mackey, upon bis yetqrn* Let ’em try
it; somebody will see snakes.
A yonng man named Frank Miller, re
siding in Montague street, Charleston,
shot himsplf in the left shoulder yester
day afternoon, while laboring under
mental aberration, says th e Republican.
Twenty-four were added to the Lau
renhT'be Presbyterian Church, and
other converts vi”! 1 unite with the Metho
dists and Baptist Churches-all the
fruits of a protracted meeting, says the
Herald-
The gin house of Mr. B. R. Fleming,
of Laurensville, containing four heavy
bales of lint cotton, and about six hun
dred pounds in the seed, were destroyed
by fire on the 9th instant. Cause, acci
dental.
A negro man named Jim Smith was
killed by the train at the Pine House
Depot, on Tuesday evening last. He was
employed on a freight train, and fell be
tween the cars, wffiplf out ojf bolt; of his
legs.— Edgefield Advertiser '.
The Blackville News learns that on
Tuesday night last the store of Mr. G.
Lucher, situated on the Avenue, was en
tered from the rear by some unknown
party, and goods to the amount of about
forty dollars stolen therefrom.
Colonel F. E. Harrison, of Anderson,
has just returned from the Centennial
witß a machine for converting seed cot
ton into ya?n. JJe thinks that it will
prove a great blessing to fho producer,
and that in a few years the Southern
people will spin nearly all their cotton
before it is shipped.
The Yorkville Enquirer says that test
Saturday evening, while a train on the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad, loaded
witj; POtton, was on the way to Gastonia,
the cotton to qg of the curs caught ou
fire from a spark, and tlje etpr, with near
ly all the cotton it contained, was de
stroyed. Loss, about $1,200.
Robert McEvoy, the murderer of Col.
Gregg, attempted to jireak jail on Sun
day night last, but was foiled through
the watchfulness of the jailor, who dis
covered hi m as he was about to escape
through the window, the bars having
been cut off by a saw, which, with a file
and pistol had been furnished him by
his sister on the day previous— Courier-
Journal.
The Charleston Republican says that
the up night freight train of the South
Carolina Railroad rah off the track at
the seventy-five mile turnout on Satur
day night, crushing five platform cars,
seriously injuring the locomotive and
breaking the leg of a fireman named
Grenaway. An examination showed
that the sTfitob had been displaced by
some person unknown.
Thg Columbia Phcenix says that Gov
ernor Chamberlain h BS received infor
mation that on Monday night last, at 9
o’clock, the jail at Edgefield was broken
open by a party of 300 armed men, and
over 370 State arms, most of them
breech-loaders, were taken out and car
ried away so secretly that no one kuew
of it until morning; not even the United
States sentry 200 yards distant.
A wagon, two horses and about fifty
gallons of blockade whisky Were over
hauled a few miles above this place bn
Monday, the 9th instant, and turned
over to revenue officers to be dealt with
according to law, which generally means
to be drunk np by said officiate and ab
sorbed in costs, &c. The said property
was in the possession of a man by the
name of Ross, from North Carolina. —
Laurensville Herald.
As forty negroes were murdered in
Aiken and Barnwell, the Governor is de
termined to discover, arrest and punish
the murderers. — Union Herald• If this
is trpe the party allowing such whole
sale Ku-Elux murderers iq escape for
the simple want of blank warrants is
guilty of a criminal negligence, unpre
cedented and unpardonable. If this is
not true the extensive arrests which the
marshals have made are grossly tyran
nical and unjust. Yonr own dilemma,
Mr. Union-Herald, upon which horn
do you prefer to sit ?
A “Daughter of Garolina,” in the
Columbia Register, thus beautifnllv al
ludes to the suggestion qf a day qf fast
ing and prayer; “In our closets and
in our family altars, let ns daily pour
out our souls in prayer, and let us beg
onr bishops and clergy of all denomina
tions to respond to the wise and Chris
tian suggestions made by the Chairman
of the Executive Committee for a day
of humiliation, fasting and prayer on
bended knee, like the holy captive of
old, while sighing for tbe forgiveness
and freedom of his native land.
The Sumter correspondent of the |
Charleston Journal of Commerce, writ
ing of the grand display there on Satnr- ,
day narrates the following beantifnl in-1
stance of the sentiment in the State can
vass : A large crowd had collected at
the stand early in the morning. On the
seats provided for the ladies there were
grouped thirty-eight little girls, repre
senting the thirty-eignt States, who
strewed flowers in Governor Hampton s
nathway as he approached. At the
front of the stand a beautiful little girl
stood, clad in mourning habiliments,
and with ohains hung abont her. At
Governor Hampton’s approach, her
ehains and sable robes dropped from
her with a clank, and left her stending
bright and beautiful, clothed in pure
white.
WICKED DAN. •
Advice from a Philadelphia Journal.
[Philadelphia Times ]
Governor Chamberlain has at last
made a feint towards preserving the
peace in South Carolina. It is a step
not taken without consideration of n
certain kind. Patterson suggested it,
President Grant approved it, and Cham
berlain, not without a brief struggle
with his conscience, orders that the rifle
clnbs be disbanded. Only a week ago
the Governor did not share in the ap
prehensions of Patterson in regard to
trouble in South Carolina. On the con
trary, he 6aid most emphatically to a re
porter that he conld not believe that
either party would seriously contemplate
any over act which would lead to a col
lision, as such a conflict would neces
sarily be bad for both parties. He ad
ded : “Ti e Democrats have everything
to gain by pursuing a pacific course, and
, while there may be occasional disturb
ances, like the affairs at Hamburg and
at Aiken, I do not believe there will be
any general disturbance.” Since these
views were expressed South Carolina has
been quiet to a degree exceptional in a
political eampain. A sheriff’s posse
secured order in Barnwell and
Aiken ; the determination of the
white people to protect the color
ed Democrats from negro mobs
has maintained peace in the streets
of Charleston, and every day the report
has been that all was quiet on the Com
bahee. In fact, the only serious breach
of the peace that has occurred since
Governor Chamberlain returned to his
seat of government was the brutal whip
ping of Emanuel Robinson and other
negroes of Caw Caw township for de
claring their intention to vote the Dem
ocratic ticket, the lash being applied by
zealous Republicans of the same color.
What, then, has brought the Governor
around to Senator Patterson’s way of
thinking and led him to issue this war
like proclamation ? It is simply the
discovery that unless something be
done to break up the wonderful Conser
vative organization, and to stir up the
whites to resistance, General Wade
Hampton will be the next Governor of
South Carolina. A pretext for the inter
vention of the Federal Government
must be made, and Governor Chamber
lain has consented to do his part in this
direction. Another blood-letting like
that at Hamburg would be aGod-send to
him and his party. The object of his
proclamation is, therefore, not to pre
serve the peace, but to provoke war.
The nature of the rifle clubs, against
which Governor Chamberlain’s procla
mation is directed, may not be generally
understood in this section. These or
ganizations grew out of grossly partisan
legislation placing the entire militia of
the State in the hands of the negroes.
Nearly every officer and every man in
the South Carolina militia is a negro.
The whites would not serve under negro
officers, and they could not enlist with
out danger of their companies being as
signed to regiments commanded by ne
groes. Under Governor Scott’s admin
istration immense appropriations were
made for the purchase of arms and am
munition, and these were distributed
throughout the State with a lavish hand
until every negro was supplied, whether
enrolled in a militia company or not.
Naturally the whites saw danger to their
interests in this state of affairs. All at
tempts t r procure arms f;om the State
for independent companies proving fu
tile, they resorted to the organization of
sabre and rifle clnbs, composed of men
who bought their own uniforms and
arms. -o far from condemning this
step, the Conservative Republicans
looked upon it with favor, and, if we
mistake not, Governor ChamberlaiD,
among others, then of this class, was
elected to and accepted honorary mem
bership in several of the associations
thus formed. Further, he has even
spoken of them in the North as an hon
or to the. State. Such an association
is the Washington Light Infantry, of
Charleston, which has been foremost
in the advocacy of reconciliation and
peace, and the members of which
at Bunker Hill last year and at
Philadelphia a few months ago, mani
fested, at considerable personal sacri
fice and expense, their zeal in this
cause. For-five or six years these clubs
have been in existence, and no distnrb
acce of the peace can be traced to their
influence; on the cqutrary, there is rea
son to believe that they have been a
conservative force and served a good
purpose in keeping the armed negroes
from rash acts which might have
brought pu race conflicts. But the
trouble is that, being white, the mem
bers of these clubs are Democratic, and,
being thoroughly organized and discip
lined, they constitute a political power
which is used with great effect in this
campaign. Their disorganization would,
in Governor Chamberlain’s opinion,
break the backbone of the Democratic
party. If the edict of the Governor
should be resisted by force, an addi
tional point would be gained. Happily,
however, there is reason to believe that
the Governor has counted without his
host. The people qf South Carolina
have resolved to bear and forbear to the
utmost in order to elect the Reform
tioket. It is stated that the clubs will
formally disband, re aining their arms,
which, with the exception of two com
panies, are their owr* proper t y< The
authority of the State will be respected,
however unworthy its rPPteftehtettve.
Governor Chamberlain wjll to try
anew goad.
Perhaps it is as well that Governor
Chamberlain has thrown off hia mask.
Those who have had the most faith in
his professions of a desire for reform
were undeceived by his alliance with
Patterson and other corruptionists in
order to secure the Republican nomina
tion for Governor from the meD whom
he had denounced as the worst thieves
that ever disgraced a country. By his
present adoption of a revolutionary pol
icy the lie is given to bis professions of
a desire for peeqe and reconciliation. He
is playing into the hands of the worst
men iu his party, and tbe stake is an of
ficial position which lie cannot legiti
mately secure. Henceforth we may ex
pect him to be found where he was be
fore his pretended conversion—ip the
front rank of the plunderers pf the
State, whoso interests it is lffs sworn
duty to protect. In any honest and
earnest effort to maintain the peace, he
has always had the support qf the good
people of his own State, irrespective of
party, and the whole country has tried
to believe in him, great as was the ef
fort required. But such shallow de
vices of the political trickster as this
proclamation bring out his true charac
ter. Now, if the Conservatives of South
Carolina will but persevere in their
policy of patient submission for the sake
of the great good thus alone to be at
tained, the redemption of their State is
as certain as t}ie fulflllngent of the de
crees of fate.
THE HAVES PARTY’S DESPERATION.
Preparing to Carry Three Bouthern Stale*
With the Bayonet.
Washington, October 12. — The Re
publican leaders are preparing to throw
several thousand troops ito Soqth Car
olina, Florida, Louisiana and Missis
sippi to carry those States for Hayes in
November. They regard the election of
Tilden as certain, unless three of these
States can bo Made Republican by bay
onets, aud they mean to hesitate at no
thing to accomplish this result, T* l6
proclamation of Governor Chamberlain,
ordering the disbandment of so-called
rifle clubs, was the first step in this des
perate move, aud was taken before the
10th of this month, because it was ex
pected to have an effect on Ohio and In
diana, and with the further object of
preparing the way for desperate efforts
in the event of Indiana go>ng Demo
cratic. The arrangements have all
been made for more than a month
past to begin the bayonet work in
the Southern States above named
should Indiana be carried by the
Democrats, and within |ha next
ten days ‘lively times in Louisiana
and South Carolina may be expected.
The election of Tilden cannot be pre
vented in any other way, and it may be
taken for granted that the Radical lea
ders will not hesitate to mass lO.GQO
troops in Mississippi, Louisiana, and
Sooth Carolina. The Northern heart
has been sufficiently fired, they think, to
warrant this desperate resort to prevent
the “solid South” from obtaining po3-
SLSsion of the Government. Tho wav
ing of the bloody shirt has not been for
effect on Ohio and Indiana alone, but
was intended to arouse a sufficient war
feeling in the whole North to justify the
use of troops in the South in this whole
sale manner. Witfi all the Southern
States Democratic, except Louisiana,
Florida, and South Carolina, the Demo
crats have only to carry New York, In
diana, Connecticut, California, and Ore
gon, to give them a majqfity of the!
electoral votes. The Republicans regard
New York, Conneotiout, and Indiana as
certain to go for Tilden, with equal
chances that New Jersey will do like
wise. Hence their desperation.
The advices from all parts of Pennsyl
vania are vory favorable to the Demo
crats, and the Republicans will have all
they can do to prevent the Keystone
State from giving her electoral vote for
Tilden. The organization of the Demo
crats has been quietly and systematically
perfected daring the past six months,
and the campaign on their part will be
opened with great vigor and with very
flattering prospects of sweeping the
State in November. The German dis
affection, it is believed, will continue to
grow in the West, and jt is thought that
Wisconsin is pretty certain to vote for
Tilden,
HON. JOSHUA UILL.
Tbe Fall Text of Hla Letter of Declination.
Madison, Ga,, September 26.
Gentlemen I received yesterday
your complimentary letter informing me
of my unanimous nomination for Con
gress, by a Convention of Union Repub
licans of the Ninth Congressional Dis
trict, held at Gainesville, on the 20th
instant.
When I first heard of the nomination
I was quite surprised, not having heard
anything before then of such a Conven
tion. I had supposed that I was gener
ally regarded as being on “the retired
list” of politicians, and in good faith
had accepted the situation. However
well meant, this appeal to an old man’s
vanity is a questionable kindness. Ad
dressed to one of more sanguine temper
ament, it might arouse the latent de
sire for popular applause which lingers
so long in the breasts of those who have
once drank of the intoxicating draught.
As it is, I acknowledge myself not in
sensible to the allusions you are pleased
to make to my political history—and I
sigh to think that the zeal and devotiou
I have felt and exhibited for what I
still think was the welfare and happi
ness of my country, have availed so lit
tle. Soon the wave of oblivion will
sweep away their faintest traces, and
not a footprint will remain to show that
I was of those who lingered by the
stormy sea of politics, and watched and
prayed for the blessing of placid waters.
Events far beyond human control ad
monish me to abandon all hope or ex
pectation of re-entering the political
field. I thank Heaven that lam not af
flicted with the “sin by which the an
gels fell.” And I may say of a truth,
that I have no wish to return to the
busy scene, where I spent some of the
best years of my life. I feel oonfidenf
that the intelligent mind of the District,
in the main, will not regret to learn that
I decline the honor so flatteringly ten
dered.
Here I might well pause, and after
making my acknowledgements for the
handsome manner in which you have
made known the wishes of the Conven
tion, conclude this reply. But I am
tempted to say a few words in response
to your reference to my love of the
Union, and my devotion to the grand
old Whig party. These sentiments are
interwoven with every fibre of my
heart—and that “ heart will be as cold
as death can make it, when it does not
warm” to the memories of the Whig
party and its peerless leader, glorious
Henry Clay. He, moi;e than all other
men, inspired me with a genuine feel
ingly of nationality,and enthusiastic love
of the Union of our fathers, flow of
ten have I wondered that meu claiming
to be of his school should have become
the advocates or apologists of the most
stupendous folly since the revolt in
Paradise. True, we have not been
driven from “ our blessed abode,” as
were our first jiarents ; the fruitful
earth and genial clime remain to us
yet, but the ancient glory of the South
has departed. The sin of secession
took away half the joys of existence.
Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, a dis
tinguished jurist, and political writer
of rare ability, lately characterized
secession as “ not mere folly and mad
ness, but something much worse.” 1
have been blamed for so regarding it.
But Judge Black is a Democrat and I
am not, and that makes a world of dif
ference. If “ secession was something
worse than folly and madness," it fol
lows of a necessity that it must have
been absolute wickedness. Shall a
man be condemned for denouncing
crime'?
In the South is does not matter with
the great bocy of the intelligent or gov
erning class if a public man did oppose
secession, before it was accomplished,
'provided, he mude haste to defend it
afterward. This he may have done by
words or blows. To have done neither,
is still regarded as unpatriotic, and no
man is esteemed as a true representative
of popular feeling who cannot point to
a record of blood or bombast. This
standard of merit will be preserved with
a fidelity equal to that of the fanatical
Covenanters of Scotland, and their ad
miring descendants, who periled all “for
solemn league and covenants sake.” Po
ssibly a Democratic administration of
the National Government, supplemented
with a war with some foreign power,
may serve to tone down a passion to a
mere sentimeut, aDd the South again
become national. But I shall have to
content myself with the hope.
Bet it not he inferred from all I have
said that lam a bitter partisan. Noth
ing could be further from the truth. I
cannot help thinking that the oontest
between the two great parties is not of
vital importance to the nation. End as
it may, there will be an efficient opposi
tion in the two Houses of Congress, so
essential to the welfare of the Republic.
It is fortunate for the country that in
each of the great political diviisons
tin re is so much of individual worth and
wisdom. It would be deplorable indeed
if all tho virtue belonged jq qqp party
and all the vice jq ji’qq pther.
Ju (lopchmiou, allow me to thank you
for your expressions of confidence and
regard. Very respectfully, your obe
dient servant, Joshua Hill.
To Messrs. H. P. Farrow, Wm. T.
Day, Wm. T. Crane and others^
Committee.
PHANHUUH county.
Fall Term of the Superior Court—An Im
port uni Criminal Cause—The Verdict—'The
People and the Town—A Popular Paper.
[From Our Traveling Correspondent.]
Carnesville, Franklin County, Ga.,
October 13,—The Fall term of tie Su
perior Court convened here Monday,
Judge Rice presiding, and Colonel a.
L. Mitchell Solicitor-General. The fol
lowing members of the har were pres
ent from a distance; Colonels Em
ory Speer and S. P. Thurman, Athens;
J. F. Langston and J. B. Estes, Gaines
ville; J. M. Owens, Toecoa City; G. M.
Netherland, Clarksville; J. T. Osborn
and J. P. Shannon, Elberton- A. C.
Moss, Homer; Gabriel Nash, flaniels
ville; J. J. Turbpll, Homer. The local
bar comlisfs of Colonels J. S. Dortch,
VV. R. Little and B. F. Camp, Oarnes
ville. There was a small attendance
Monday and Tuesday, but on Wednes
day morning the 'people came in from
all sections of the county and the town
was crowded. Every one was axious to see
the State docket opened. One case,
at least, that of .Take flicks, a young man
raised in Franklin, and in jail and in
dicted for murder, created great inter
est. He has been confined in prison
four months. Last March of this year
he went to where was a negro
dance to hire spme hands fox his father.
There was a negyo man at the place who
threatened his life, and boasted that
“(}ld South Carolina," claiming it as his
State, never was run over by “white
rebels,” and he made at Mrf Hicks, who
met him, apd cut him to death. The
trial was called Wednesday morning.
The prisoner was brought into Court by
the gentlemanly and frfithful sheriff, J.
C. McCarter, who is love'd bv all good
citizens and feared by afl who do, wrong.
The prisoner nppeared as white as a
sheet from confinement. The Court
House was crowded as long as a man
could get standing room on steps, win
dows and doors. There was one day
consumed in getting all the evidence,
and when it closed it lookefi like there
was but little chapqe for Mr. Jake
Hicks not to be hung. But there was a
great mountain to climb, and that lay in
the fact that Colonel Emory Speer, of
Athens, was for the defendant, also 001.
Langston, who is a power ip a speech.
The State was represented by tbe able
Solicitor-General. A. L, Mitchell, and
J. p. Shannon. The second day was
spent in the speeches of the counsel.
Colonel Speer’s speech will ever be
remembered here in Franklin. His
words to the jury pictured the
fate of the prisoner and tore the
evidence of the State to pieces. One
moment you would think that paiqnel ?
Speer and tljfi jury almost ready
tq shed tears. His speech was two
hours long, and was listened to so at
tentively that yon could hear a pin drop,
and there was not standing room in the
Court House, so many peqple felt inter
ested. When Colonel Speer closed his
able and powerful speech, where there
looked but little chance in the be
ginning, there looked litre some
hope. But the closing speech was
to be that of Colonel A. L.
Mitchell, the Solicitor - General.
He closed, and for two hoars he
spoke for the State. His reasoning was
grand. He more than did his duty for
the State. Bat CoL Speer’s speech
had done the work. After aU the law
yers had closed their speeches and his
Honor Judge Bice had charged the jury
they retired to their rooms. In about
two hours the jury returned. The
Court House was crowded in a few
moments, The Judge ordered the
Solicitpr-General to receive the verdict.
The pale prisoner was brought in Coart
by the sheriff, and the verdiot was read,
as follows : “ We, the jury, find
Jake Hicks not guilty.” There was
applause in the Court room by almost
all, which his Honor Judge Bice rep
rimanded severely, and told them they
forgot where they were. Almost every
one left the Court House to congratulate
the prisoner as hd was set at liberty.
About one hundreq and fifty came out
tq shake bis hand and that of his able
counsel. His first promise when out of
the Court House was to name hig first
boy Emory Speer. I never saw such
universal joy. The old gray haired
father was overjoyed at seeing his son
ci liberty. Col. Speer was congratulat
ed one hundred times, as also was his
able assistant, Colonel Langston.
I found in Carnesville, as I stated in my
last letter from this plaoe, an intelligent
' reading class of people. There is no
place that I have visited that I have been
more pleased with than Carnesville. It is
both pleasant and profitable to yonr
traveling correspondent to visit snob a
place, for here I have a first clbsb hotel,
kept by Mr. T. J. Hnnt, proprietor of
the Franklin House, where almost all
the bar are, at least two-thirds of them,
and two-thirds of all that eome to
Carnesville stop with him. His clerk,
R. H. Burrus, will capture any one that
comes to Carnesville.
There is a good deal of excitement
about the election for eounty offices
here, but J. C. McCarter, the old Sheriff,
will be eleoted again, it matters not
who runs against him. Mr. S. W. Ran
dal, Tax Collector, will retain bis office
again. They are tried and found to be
true.
Among newspaper men, Col. Christy
was here, looking after the interest of
the Watchman. Colonel J. T. Bitch
was here looking after the interest of the
Athens Georgian. Rev. Mr. Crymes
was also here looking after the Toccoa
Herald. Mr. J. Wilson, of the Carnsville
Register, was busily engaged looking
after the Register. Mr. J. T. Wilson,
the popular proprietor of the paper, is a
gentleman, and wan once with the
Chronicle and Sentinel, and a true
friend to it now. Mr. J. R. Christy, the
efficient and worthy gentleman and
stenographic reporter of the Western
Circuit,, was here doing his whole duty.
The Brass Horns and McLean’s
Minstrels and Brass Band was here. It
showed two nights to orowded houses.
Mr. A. O. Lyon is the manager. Yourcor
respandeut was most handsomely enter
tained at a vocal musical entertainment.
There were some very fine singers, among
whom was a lady from Naeoochee Val
ley, who has the sweetest voice I ever
heard as many will say. Some young
ladies from Athens greatly assisted.—
Everything was grand and will long be
remembered. lam proud to say that I
have only lost two subscribers of all
that large list I got here last Spring,
and I send fifty new enes to make up
for those. Every one here of the large
number says the Chronicle and Senti
nel is the best paper in the State.
G. W. N.
THE COTTON CROP.
The Drouth, the Rust nntl Caterpillar—A
Low Averafte.
Washington, October 16.—Official—
The reports to the Department of Agri
culture indicate a reduction of the con
dition of the cotton crop during the past
month in the ten principal cot
ton States from an average of 923 to 827:
The October average for these States
was 88 in 1875 and 714 in 1874. The de
cline from September is slight in Geor
gia, Florida and Mississippi, greater in
Louisiana, Arkansas, and greatest in Ala
bama and Tennessee. > here is a small
advance in Texas. The figures for the
condition of States are as follows : North
Carolina. 84; South Carolina, 80; Geor
gia, 85; Florida, 80; Alabama, 70; Mis
sissippi, 83; Louisiana, 82; Texas, 93;
Arkansas, 86; Tennessee, 91. The im
pairment of the crop prospects has been
caused by the equinoctial storm in Geor
gia, the drought and rust in Georgia,
the worm and caterpillar in Florida and
Alabama and frost in Tennessee. The
caterpillar is confined to the southern
portion of the Gulf States. , Its depre
dation are most severe in Alabama and
in most of the infested districts its re
production was too late to destroy more
than the top crop.
A Coin Embedded in a Rock.
[From the Galveston News.]
People have read and heard of toads
having been found embedded in rock,
but now comes another curiosity to be
added to the list. Mr. John Adriance,
of this city, has a Mexican coin dated
1710, which was taken from, the centre
of a piece of rock found in' the bottom
of the Rio Grande. The gentleman who
sent the coin to this city, with the par
ticulars in connection with its discovery,
lives at Laredo, and not having a speci
men of the rock in which the coin was
found embedded, has been asked by
gentlemen connected with the Historical
Society, who are interested in the mat
ter, to do so, in order th it theories as to
tbe time the coin found its way to the
bed of the river may be deduced. The
finder of the coin writes that the rock is
very hard and almost transparent.
A Maine Woman’s Lonely Hide.
[ftrom the Augusta Banner.]
Mrs. E. W. Neal, wife of Dr. Neal, of
the Augusta Asylum for the Insane, took
“Pat,” the family horse, and the buggy
some week ago, and with her little boy,
four years of age, journeyed down
through Belfast and Ellsworth to Pem
broke, a distance of 178 mileft from Au
gusta, to visit her aged parents and other
relatives and friends. After four weeks
she returned over nearly the same road,
in the same, way, with her. Mother and
little boy. One evening, getting belated
in reaching the D'.aoe at which she de
signed to remain through the night, and
not knowing in the dark which of two
roads to take, she got ont of the carriage
and lighted a mateh, by the ray of which
she read the guide-board, and so wus
i able to proceed on her way to the place
of her destination.
Reefs of Enormous Width.
[From the London Times.]
The desire to construct the largest
single roof in the world was achieved in
the roof of the Midland Railway Station,
at St. Pancras,. which now possesses
that distinction, having eclipsed the
root of the Joapeml Riding School at
Moscow by a few feet, the span of the
former being 240 feet, and that of the
latter 235 feet. The roof to cover the
large new station at St. Enoch square
for the Glasgow Union Railway has a
span of 198 feet and a length ot 518 feet.
The roof of the new joint station of the
Midland, the Great Northern, and the
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Railways has a span of 210 feet.
John Adams, colored, was eleoted to
the Legislature from Lee county by a
large majority, but a few days after
wards, the county surveyor, in the course
of his rounds, found out that the Hon.
John lived exactly seventeen feet out of
the line, and hence could not take his
seat from Lee county. The Democratic
candidate, therefore, is elected, and the
Hon. John lacks just seventeen feet of
the State Capitol.
$600,000 I\ GIFTS!
NINEIY DAYS’ POSTPONEMENT OF THE
Kentucky Casli Distrilintion Cos
FOR A FULL DRAWING,
drawin~poshtyely
Thursday, Nov. 30th,
OR MONEY REFUNDED.
Fortune for Only sl2,
The Kentucky Cash Distribution Cos,
Authorized by a special act of the Kentucky
i Legislature, for the benefit of the Public
Schools of Frankfort, will have the first
of their series of Grand Drawings at Major
Hall, in the Citv of Frankfort, Ky ,
Thursday. Nov. 30, 1876, on which occasion
they will distribute to the tioket holders the
immense sum of
$600,000
The*. P. Porter. ex-Gov. Ky., Cen’l Manager
LIST OF GIFTS:
One Grand Cash Gift SIOO,OOO
One Grand Cash Gift s>,ooo
One GrandCaah Gift 25,000
One Grand Cash Gift- • • 20,000
One Grand Ouk Gift. 10,000
(is* GraftJ C*S Gift 5,000
SO Cash Gifts of *l,oooeach.... 60,000
100 Cash Gifts of 500 each.... 50,000
100 Cash Gifts of 400 each.... 10,000
100 Cash Gifts of 300 each.... 30,000
210 Cash Gifts of , .200 each.... 40,000
K> Cash Gifts of fOO each o,t 00
10,000 Cash Gifts of 12 each.... 120,000
Total, 11,156 Gifts, All Cash.... 600,000
TRICE OF TICKETS.
Whole Tickets, sl2: Halves, $6; Quarters, $3;
9, Tickets, $100; 27J Tickets, $300; 46} Tickets,
$500; 95} Tickets, $1,000; 100,000 Tickets at
sl2 each.
The Hon. E. H. Taylor, Mayor of Frankfort,
the entire Board of City Conncilmen, the Hon.
Alvin Duvall, late Chief Justice of Kentucky,
and other distinguished citizens, together with
snch distinguished persons as the ticket
holders present may designate, will superintend
the drawing.
The payment of gifts to owners of prise
tickets is assured. A bond, with heavy penalty
and approved security, has been executed to
the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which is now
on record in Clerk's Office of County Court tl
Frankfort, subject to inspection of any one.
This is anew feature, and will absolutely se
cure the payment of gifts.
lietaittaneeaoan be m*de by Express, Draft,
Post Office Money Order or Registered Letter,
made payable to Kentucky cash. Distribu
tion Company. „ .
All Communications, orders for Tickets and
applications for Agencies should bo addressed
to HON. THUS. P. PORTER,
Gen’l Manager, F;*u4t° rf . Ky.
octl7-tn3tn<feweseow*
M, P, Stovall,
COTTON FACTOR
-ANBr-
COURjISSIOK MERCHANT,
NOl 5 WARREN BLOCK,
AUGUSTA...- GEORGIA.
20NTINDE8 togiye his personal attention
to tho storage and sale of Cotton and .
u- produce. liberal Oaeh advances made '
on Consignments. .. .
September 17th, 1876. sepl7-d*wß
New Advertisements.
Good Goods at Lowest Prices
at—
MTJLLARKY BROTHERS’
Wholesale and Retail Dry Roods Honse.
WHERE there can be found a complete line of Caseimers, Jeans, Flannels, Drees Goods,
Black Alpaca, Hosiery, Towels. Corsets, Gloves, Ladies’ and Gents’ Undervests,
Blankets, Bed Tickings, Shawls and Cloaks, which will be sold at unprecedently low prices. At
wholesale we offer:
100 Bales Factory Sheetings and Shirtings.
50 Bales Factory Pjaid Ornaburgs.
v 10 Cases Fancy Northern Plaids.
50 Balos Faotory Stripes.
30 Cases Bleached Shirtings, aU grades.
600 Dozen Gray Mixed Undershirts.
250 Dozen White Undershirts.
100 Bales Sea Islands. All of these goods will be sold in accordance with the market
prices, and the buyer will be given the advanta ;e of any deoline which may take place.
Mullarky Brothers,
863 BROAD STREET.
octß-deodtw&wly
Christopher Gray & Co*
Desire to come to the fore and reiterate something they have made
familiar to the people of Georgia and South Carolina for the last twenty
five years, that they have always sold the Best and cheapest Dry Goods
offered in Augusta.
When we offer a drive or a bargain customers always find that we
have them.
We do not offer fifty cases or more of a certain goods.; and by 10. a.
m., be sold ont.
Humbug will not do. *
We now assure the people that we have never had more BARGAINS
than at present.
ootß-tf
JT. M. BIJRDELL,
Cotton Factor and Commission Merchant,
No. 6 Wiirren Block, Augusta, Ua,
~|~ advance made and strict attention to all Consignments, and Prompt Remittances.
w2n^^________
Grange Fire-Proof Warehouse,
No. 6 Mclntosh Street, Angusta, Ga.
1 HE PLANTERS’ UNION AGENCY oontinnes the business of sell in
COTTON AND GRAIN
At the same charges, viz; I BAGGING and TIES furnished to patrons.—
Commission for selling cotton, 50c. per bale. Grange seal or reference accompany orders.
Storage—First week 10c. do F. V. BURDELL,
do Each additional week. . sc. do | Superintendent.
Dray age >oc. do I sep23-w2m
Platt Brothers.
—o—
DEPARTMENT!!
A FULL assortment of METALIO CASK
ETS and CASES at all prices.
Rosewood Caskets and Cases.
Children and Infants Enameled Caskets.
Broadcloth and Velvet Covered Caskets.
COFFINS of every description always on
hand.
We have a Competent U ndehtakkr to take
charge of Funerals and attend calls at all
hours, day or night.
Orders during the week and Sunday morn
ings until eleven o’clock will bo left at tho
Store.
Sunday evenings and nights the orders l(,tt
with the Undertaker at his honse or. Ellis
street, directly in rear of the stort), opposite
the Factory, or at either of o ur dwelling
houses on Gveene street, tfilVmeet with prompt
attention,
All orders by Telegraph will be attended to
with dispatch. fjylfldt&w
M GILDER™ PILLS,
IF your head aches, take two or three pills
on goiug to bed.
If your liver is not aoting properly, and you
feel dull and drowsy, three pills at night will
clear the system of vitiated bile, and make you
feel like anew person.
If you have a pain in the side or back, it
probably arises from a torpid liver. Stir it to
action by taking a dose of these Liver Pills.
If your bowels are constipated, two pills at
bed time will set you all right.
If your food does not digest, take two or
three pills twice a week at bed time, until
three or four doses have been taken, and you
will find yourself entirely relieved of these
disagreeable symptoms.
If yonr complexion is sallow and your eyes
discolored, a full dose of these pills will impart
a roseate hue to your checks, and give your
eye the brilliancy of perfect health.
If you have Chills and Fever, take three
of the Liver Pills at bed time, after the chill
has passed off. If they should iot operate
thoroughly before breakfast, take one more
pill. During the day, take about 15 grains of
quinine, in doses of 5 grains each, at intervals
of two hours. Repeat the quinine for two or
three days. About the sixth night, take an
other dose of the Pills, and on the seventh day
take 15 grains quinine as before.
By following this treatment carefully, no
one need suffer from this distressing com
plaint. _ ..
In any and all diseases where a cathartic
medicine is required, these Pills will be found
the safest an i best remedy L efore the public.
I®-BARRETT A LAND are the General
Agents for the United 8 a I ss. oc ß-H
Sale of Valuable Property Id
Oglethorpe County, Ga.
BY virtue of an order from the Court of Or
din.ry of Oglethorpe county, aud by au
thority granted in the last will and testament
of Z H. Ciark, late of said county, deceased—
Will be sold, on the Ist Tuesday in NOVEM
BER next, within the legal hours of sale, be
fore the Court House door, in the town of Lex
ington, one tract of land, known _ae the Mill
Tract, containing 641 acres, ua which is situ?-
ted a good Grist Mill- The mill house was
built of stone aqd brick, within the lasi two
years. The inside machinery is all new, with
fov foot wheat mill and same size corn mill,
all propelled by a 20 foot water wheel. The
water power has a fall of 29 feet by actual sur
vey.
Terms One-half oash ; the balance on
twelve month- credit, with interest at 10 per
cent. Bond will bq given for title until last
payment is tu%dy. Possession given in ten
days from sale, and the purchaser will take the
unexpired contract with the present miller for
two months. JOHN G. OI tHON,
H. A. HAYES,
octl2-dtwl&w2 Executors.
The Georiia Cotton Gin,
MANUFACTURED BY
J. D. H. T. HAMMACK,
CRAWFORDVILLE, GA.
FOR over twenty years we have manufac
tured the GEORGIA GIN, and from, our
success with them, feel warranted in saying
they are equal to any Gins made.
We do not strive to get ap 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.
Every Gin warranted to perform well.
We oould give hundreds of certificates if de
sired, hut as that role is so common at this day
we omit them.
PKICKH OF GINS:
For 9 Inch Saws, per Haw - - $3 25
For 10 Inch Haws, per Saw - - 850
Old Gins repaired in the best style and at
reasonable charges.
Freight must be prepaid on them when ship
ped by railroad. , , .
Orders for New Gins solicited early, to in
sure prompt delivery for the ginning of the
next crop. Address,
J. D. & H. T. HAMMACK,
Crawfordville, Ga.
Or Messrs. BOTHWELL BROS.. Agents.
jyß-w3m Angusta, Ga.
ami STATIONARY
f
I WV' iSAW, FLOUR AND GRIST MKu>.
W Without Patterns.
:F im*Vßs DiiwNS. A SPECIALTY
'TURBINE WATER WHEEL )000iu use.
SEND FOf; CIRCULA-.'. , BALTIMORE, MO.
aps-wly
OYSTERS AND FISH.
ITEESH NORFOLK OYSTERS and all kinds
of Balt and Freeh Water FISH received daily
at E. LIEBSCHER’S,
ocl3-eodlm Corner Jackson and Ellis Sts.
Gfi Houses Insured
AT lowest rates. Also, Fire, Life and Ma
rine. Ottice, No. 282 Broad street, one
door from entrance to Central Hotel, Augusta,
Ga. GEORGE SYMMS,
0011-suAwetf Insurance Agent.
Mia Fp Lands.
mug Honn
IN
ORANGE COUNTY,
WITHIN
Three Miles of Railroad Transpor
tation.
Lands Unsurpassed For
FRUITS aiFARIRG.
Office South Florida Land Aqenct, 1
Fort Mason, Orange County, Florida. (
THE undersigned have entered into a busi
ness arrangement for the purpose of lo
cating settlers on the public lands (either
United States or State) in this and adjoining
counties.
Located in the most delightful portions of
Orange county, in a section of territory con
ceded by all to be the best adapted to the cul
ture of the oraDge and kindred fruits, and
thoroughly acquainted with all the lands in this
vicinity, we are better able to give information
concerning the lands still vacant than any
others engaged in the land business in this
county.
The railroad now in oourse of construction
connecting the St. John’s river at Lake George
with Lakes Harris, Enstis, Griffin, Dora and
the other headwater lakes of the Oclawaha
river, will furnish all the surrounding lands
with ample transportation facilities and plaoe.
settlers within easy distance of the Northern,
and Eastern markets.
THE CLIMATIC ADVANTAGES
Of this section of territory are so weli known
as scarcely to need recapitulation. Vegetables
and tropical fruits can be grown 'throughout
the year without danger from. oold. The
severest frosts of this Take region do not in
jure vegetation, as was proven during the past
Winter, when the frosts killed early vegetables
at considerable distances south of ns and left
this region untouched—not a blade of grass
being injured.
HOMESTEADS NEAR THE RAILROAD.
We are uow prepared to locate settlers on the
publio lands in dose proximity to the railroad.
One of the undersigned (Mr. John 8. Banes>
has just completed a thorough survey of a.
large traot of United States lands, situated at
from three to six miles distance from the rail
road. These lands are not only admirably
adapted to the cnltnre of oranges, but are also,
excellent for farming purposes, and can b*
easily brought into cultivation, tbe old settlers
in the vioinity raising an abundant supply of
oorn, cotton, sugar, etc., upon them.
GET A HOMESTEAD NOW.
Parties who propose settling in Florida will
find it greatly to their advantage to, obtain
their homesteads during tho Summer months
and thus avoid the rush of the Fn months.
Those desiring to looate near the railroad wili
obtain
ONE HUNDRED AND SIX xY ACRES FREE
If their entry is made bef ore the completion of
the road. After its completion, which will be
some time this coming Fall,they will not be per
mitted toenter more than eighty acres. Persons
locating daring the Summer can also get their
lands in readiness for a crop of early vege
tabloß next Winter, and thus be enabled to re
alize a profit from the lands immediately. We>
are now
PREPARED TO LOOATE SETTLERS,
Singly or in colonies, at moderate rates, and in
every case we guarantee complete satisfaction.
No lands will be located by ns until one of ns
have thoroughly surveyed them, and in aU
oases oar patrons shall be given the best tracts
of which we have any knowledge, withont
favoritism or partiality being shown to any
one.
STATE LANDS.
We are also prepared to locate, survey and
purchase any desired quantity of State lands,
and will perform this work either for a speci
fied price in money or for an agreed apon per
centum of land. We now have some choice
pieces of State land marked out on onr maps,
which have been surveyed by ns, and whioh
are among the best lands in this State.
FURTHER DETAILS
Can be obtained by addressing (with stamp en
closed for reply) the undersigned. Prompt at
tention given to all letters. Address
BANKS A ST. CIiAIR-ABRAMS,
Fort Mason, Orange eounty, Florida.
To My Friends in Georgia, Alstons
and South Carolina.
In response to many letters received by me,
I have entered into a business arrangement
with Mr. JOHN 8. BANKS for the pnrpose of
locating settlers on the public lands of this
and adjoining oonnties. Mr. BANKS is a prac
tical surveyor of many years’ experience, and
possesses a thorough knowledge of the public
lands, having been United States Begister of
Public Lanas in this State. We have ex
plored and surveyed a considerable tract of
these lands, and we are now prepared *o locate,
settlers on
CHOICE HOMESTEAD'S.
Many persons have written m.e expressing .
desire to move to this State during the presont
year. These I would advise, to OBTAIN THEIR
HOMESTEADS NOW. in the Fall months the
rush of Northern settlers is so great that it is
difficult to obtain choice homesteads; whereas
at present the (ravel is light, and one can se
lect a place with greater ease. In addition,
the largo tract of homlstead lands contignons
to tho ratooad, recently surveyed and opened
UP tor settlement by Mr. BANKS, if not en
tered this Summer will inevitably be taken up
, by the first influx of Northern travelers next
Fall. Ae my desire (withont prejudice to
Northern settlers) is to locate the numerous
citizens of the States above nam: and on choioe
Homesteads, while able to do so, I urge them
to make the selections at once, and thus se
cure valuable and eligible homes in this State.
ALEX. ST. OLAR-ABRAMS,
Fort Mason, Orange oounty, Florida.
jy2l-au&welmAw3m ___________
GEORGIA COTTON TIE.
FOB simplicity, efficiency and durability,
excelled by none. The Georgia State
Fair, held at Macon in Ootober last, gave to
this Tie a diploma as tbe highest award of ex
cellence over all other ties. For eale by
CLAGHOBN. HERRING A CQ.
sep9l-d2Awtf Agents, Augusta, Qa.
CASH AND CLOTH FOR WOOL.
THE Athens Manufacturing Company will
pay in OASH or OLOTH the highest mar
ket price for WOOL.
Enquire of PORTER FLEMING, at Augus
ta. or Agent at Athens for particulars.
B. L. BLOOMFIELD,
my2B-w6m Agent
