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WE PNESDAT. NOVEMBER 22. 1876
I’XLOVED AND ALONE.
BY JOAQUIN MILLE*.
The see dove some twin shadow has,
The lark bae lore# in eeae of grass.
The wild heart trumps** back hia tow.
The fqnirrel laagha a.ang hie bough ;
Bat L I am aa lone, alee !
Ae yon white moon when white cloode paaa.
Aa lonely and unloved, alae!
Aa clou da that weep and drop and paaa.
Oh! maiden, ainging ever aweet
At cabin door, in field of com—
Where woodbine* twine for thy retreat
sing aweet through all thy Sommer morn,
For loTe i* landing at thy feet,
In that fair isle in aeaa of com.
But I, I am unloved and lorn,
Aa Winter winda of Winter mom.
The ahipe, black bellied. c!imb;the aea;
The seamen seek their lovee on land.
And love and lover, hand in hand,
Go ainging, glad as glad can be.
But nevermore ahall love aeek me
By blowv aea or broken land.
Bv broken wild or willow tree.
Nay, nevermore ahall love aeek me.
REMEMBERED DAYS.
I remember a mom behind the mill,
When blackbird* sang.
And sheep-Delia rang.
Far off. and all thing* el**; were still.
Bat the rteing bream
In the pictured atream,
And the noie of water about the mill.
I remember a maid in her aweet youth,
Whose gentle days
In village ways
Were passed in simple work* of troth;
The Summer’* day
Sped fast away
In a dream of love, in a time of youth.
I remember the Spring in garb of green,
The light heart glee
That cam* to me
With the amile of my love at seventeen;
Her laugh that went
Like woodland scent
To my soul—that time on the daisied green.
And though I know the days are spent,
That love was lost
When came the frost
At Slimmer’* close of my content;
Yet some ioy stays
In Winter day*,
And bring its joyous complement.
— Chamber’a Journal.
MOBT DEM FEUILLEM.
I.
Who can be glad when the rose* are dying ?
How can we be gay When the voice of the
Is tuned to the sobs the spirits are sighing,
While blighting the flowers stripping the
trees.
n.
Ho hectic and wierd, and all flushing to die.
The leaves are suggesting sad thoughts to
the mind.
How bleakly the hills in their lenesomeness he,
And crouch to the withering breath of the
wind!
111.
We thought not when spring with its promises
fair.
Gave birth to the flowers and songs to the
grove,
That the freshness and beauty gathering there
Could ever be lost to the garlands of love.
IV.
The budding of hearts iu th* spring-tide of
youth,
Full-blown into bliss under summer s warm
breath, ,
Must yield to the sternness of autumn s oold
truth, ....
And come to the gamer of winter and death.
V.
The spirit when leaving the precincts of to-day,
And mounting the air to its home in the sky,
Would long to be borne on the breezes of May,
To live with the rosos that bud not to die.
VI.
Who would depart when the roses are dying ?
’Twere sad to he borne on the wings of the
breeze,
That beat to the sobs the spirits are sighing,
While blighting the flowers and stripping the
trees.
Here is a song which we commend to Hem
ocre ic jollification meetings :
“Go, Grant, Go.”
Tune—" Old Black Joe."
Gone am de days
When G ant was young and gay ;
Gone am his friends
From do old White Housa away;
Gone am de thieves,
All t eir heads are bending low
And now 1 hear the people calling,
"Go, Grant, go! ’
CHORD*.
Tilden s coming, Hendrick'* coming,
Dey will strike de fatal blow ;
I hear de peop e's voices calling,
"Go, Gran’, go !”
Gone am de pride
Ob is great republic, too;
Gone am de Schencks
And da Belknap's plundering crew;
Gone all de money,
Bo Tr asnry is low,
And now I bear the people ealling,
"G> , Grant, go!”
Chorus.
Gono am de pay
Cb de working mon, I know;
Gone am de rebenue,
And business wheels run slow;
Gone am our credit,
While oi r debts enormous grow;
And now 1 hear the people calling,
“Go, Grant go !”
Chorus.
G ne am de Hayes
Ob de State of Ohio,
Gone am de hop *
Of hi* Chandler, Blaine A Cos.;
Gono am their rower.
And the people joy ’tis so.
To- ay, North, South, East, West, they’re
calling,
"Go, Grant, go!”
M. Cohen.
NATIONAL CROP HEPORT.
Fine llarvemlnc Season—Clean Fibre Re
ported—Kain Storm** Frost and 801 l
Worm*—Karly maturity—Falling Off From
Lut Crop.
Washington, November 15.—Official
reports to the Department of Agricul
ture indicate thet the season has been
extremely favorable for gathering cot
ton, exoept in some portions of North
Carolina. Frost has injured the top
crop iu the northern belt, notably iu
Arkansas. The fibre is cleaner thau
usual and of superior quality in the
southern belt; drouth in the Gnlf States,
rain storms in the Carolinas, the boll
worm in the Southwest, aud the eater
pillar in certain locations near the Gnlf
coast, are the chief causes of injury to
the crop. The harvest will be complete at
a much earlier date than usual. The orop
must be smaller than last year, however
favorable aud loßg the remaining sea
sou for gathering. In the oompansou
with the last orop, the per centages of
the Atlantic Coast States are relatively
larger by reason of the poor returns of
1875, and smaller in the southwest.
From the comparison with the remark
able yield of that region, they are as
follows; North Carolina, 92; South Caro
lina, 99; Georgia, 110; Florida, 100; Ala
bama, 77; Mississippi, 78; Louisiana,
83; Texas, 100; Arkansas, 74; Tennessee,
101. The average is 88 aud 89, indicat
ing, without referenoe to the remaiuder
of the picking season, nearly nine-tenths
of the orop of 1875.
A Fight Between Texas Cow Bots.—
Two cattle drivers iu the employ of Mr.
Slaughter, named Rock and Neil, had
some difficulty on the road, and had al
most come to blows, bnt through the in
tervention of friends had quieted down;
bat on the night of the killingboth were
in the saloon attached to Mr. Jacob’s
store, along with some colored soldiers
and citizens, when Rock asked some of
the soldiers to drink, asking Neil at the
same time. Neil replied that he did not
drink with negroes, and pulling out a re
volver, commenced striking some of the
soldiers over the head with it. Rock,
thinking Neil’s intention was to raise a
quarrel with him, drew his revolver also.
On Neil’s discovering it he put his pistol
against Rock's breast and ordered him
to pat the weapon up. Rock replied, “I
am your friend and want to assist you.”
Neil again ordered him to put it np.
Rock started to comply, and was in the
act of shoving his pistol in the holster
when Neil fired, hitting him in the left
side, above the last rib. “If that is yonr
game, I am your man,” said Rock, draw
ing his pistol and shooting Neil in the
breast. Neil fell, and Rock, saying, “I
am shot in the bowels and will die, so I
will give you some more from principle,”
staggered np and fired fonr more shots
into Neil’s head, killing him instantly.
Rock lived five hoars after the shooting.
—Fort Stockton Telegraph.
Savannah Benevolent Association.—
The Savannah correspondent of the
Iridh American, of New York, in its is
sue of the 11th instsnt, nses the follow
ing well merited remarks in reference to
the above association:
The Savaunah Benevolent Association
announces that the visits of the commit
tees have ceased, though the association
atilt holds forth prepared for emergen
cies; and if ever a suffering people owed
prayers to benefactors, our people owe
them to the gentlemen who composed
those committees; one—a noble, true
and tender hearted man—Mr. John D
Carter, a native of Virginia, died at his
post; and each and all of them risked
their lives —in contact with the sick and
dying—every moment of the day. The
gentleman who visited my family, on
seeing my two children dead, shed tears
and showed a sympathy-far more tender
than many of my own countrymen wonld
show; with a heart as gentle as a
woman's, yet as brave as a Bayard; a
man of strict, unbeL ding rectitude, in
whoa justice, promptness, integrity and
honor are combined, such was our daily
visitor, Colonel Charles H. Olmstead*,
another also, the genial and warm heart
ed Mr. B. W. Woodbridge, son of Wyl
ly Woodbridge, Esq., whose beaming
countenance brought sunshine wherever
he visited, and whose hopeful words
cheered many an aching heart.
RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR.
MARK TWAIN EXPERIENCES A
*’CAMPAIGN” OP BLANDER.
A Oace Deceit Mao Branded as “Aa Infa
aiaao Peijarcr, a Maataaa Thirl, a Badj.
Sialdwr, a I’.onkard, a CarrapGealsr,”
ir., Ate.
A few months ago I was nominated
for Governor of the great State of New
York, to ran against Stewart L. Wood
ford and John T. Hoffman, on an inde
pendent ticket. I somehow felt that I
bad one prominent advantage over these
gentlemen, and that was good character.
It was easy to see by the newspapers
that if they had ever known what it was
to bear a good name, that time had gone
by. It was plain that in these latter
years they had become familiar with all
manner of shamefnl crimes. Bat at the
very moment that I was exalting my ad
vantage and joying in it in secret, there
was a mnddy undercurrent of discom
fort “riling” the deeps of my happiness
-and that was the having to hear my
name bandied about in familiar connec
tion with those of such people. I grew
more and more disturbed. Finally I
wrote my grandmother about it. Her
answer came quick and sharp. She said :
“You have never done one single thing
in all yonr life to be ashamed of—not
one. Look at the newspapers—look at
them and comprehend what sort of
characters Woodferd and Hoffman are
and then see if yon are willing to lower
yonrself to their level and enter a public
canvass with them.”
It was my very thought! I did not
sleep a single moment that night. But
after all I could not recede. I was fully
committed and must go on with the
fight. As I was looking listlessly over
the papers at breakfast I came across
this paragraph, and I may truly say I
never was so confounded before :
“Pebjcby.—Perhaps, now that Mr,
Mark Twain is before the people as a
candidate for Governor, he will conde
scend to explain how he came to be con
victed of perjury by thirty-four witnesses
in Wakawak, Cochin Cbiua, in 1863, the
intent of which perjury was to rob a
poor native widow and her helpless fam
ily of a meagre plantain patch, their on
ly stay and support in their bereavement
and their desolation. Mr. Twain owes
it to himself, as well as to the great peo
ple whose suffrage he asks, to clear the
matter up. Will he do it?”
I thought I should burst with amaze
ment ! Such a crnel, heartless charge—
I never had seen Cochin China ! I never
had heard of Wakawak ! I didn’t know
a plantain patch from a kangaroo. I
did not know what to do. I was crazed
and helpless. I let the day slip away
without doing anything at all. Ihe
next morning the same paper had this
nothing more:
“ Significant. —Mr, Twain, it will be
observed, is suggestively silent about
the Cochin China perjury.”
[Mem. —During the rest of the cam
paign this paper never referred to me in
any other way than as “the infamous
perjurer Twain.”]
Next came the Gazette with this:
“Wanted to Know,—Will the new can
didate for Governor deign to explain to
certain of his fellow-citizens (who are
suffering to vote for him !) the little cir
cumstance of his cabin-mates in Mon
tana losing small valuables from time to
time, until at last, these things have
been iuvariably found on Mr. Twain’s
person or in hia 'trunk’ (newspapers he
rolled his traps in), they felt oompellpd
to give him a friendly admonition for
his own good, and so tarred and feath
ered him and rode him on a rail, and
then advised him to leave a permanent
vaecum in the plane he usually occupied
iu the camp. Will he do this?”
Could anything be more deliberately
malicious than that ? For I never was
in Montana in my life.
[After this, this journal customarily
spoke of me a* "Twain, the Montana
thief.”]
I got to picking np papers apprehen
sively—much as one would lift a de
sired blanket which he had some idea
might have a rattle-snake under it. Oue
dav this met mv eye :
“The Lib Nailed) —By the sworn
affidavits rif Michael O’Flanagan, Esq.,
of the Five Points, and Mr. Kit Baris
and John Allen, oi Water street, it is
established that Mr. Mari: Twain’s vile
sentiment that the lamented grandfather
of our noble standard-bearer, John T.
Hoffman, was hanged for highway rob
bery, is a brutal and gratuitous lie,
without a single shadow of foundation
in fact. It is disheartening to virtuous
men to see such shameful means resort
ed to, to achieve political success, as the
attacking of the dead in their graves and
defiling their honored names with slan
der. When we thiDk of the anguish this
miserable falsehood must cause the in
noceut relatives and friends of the de
ceased, we are almost driven to incite an
outraged and insulted public to sum
mary and unlawful vengeance upon the
traducer. But no—let us leave him to
the agony of a lacerated conscience—
(though if pession should get the better
of the public, and in its blind fury they
should do the traducer bodily injury, it
is but too obvious that no jury could
convict and no Court punish the perpe
trators of the deed )”
The ingenious closing sentence had
the effect of moving me out of bed with
dispatch that night, and oat at the back
door also, while the “outraged and in
sulted publio" surged in the front way,
breaking furniture and windows in their
righteous indignation as they came in,
and takiDg off such property as they
could carry when they went. And yet I
can lay my hand upon the Book and say
that I never slandered Governor Hoff
man’s grandfather. More, I never even
heard of him or mentioned him up to
that day and date.
[I will state, in passing, that the jour
nal above quoted from always referred
to me afterward os “Twain, the Body-
Snatcher.”]
The next newspaper artiole that at
tracted my attention was the following;
“A Sweet Candidate. —Mark Twain,
who was to make such a blighting speech
at a mass meeting of the Independents
last night, didn’t come to ti ne ! A tele
gram from the physician stated that he
had been knocked down by a runaway
team and his leg broken in two places—
sufferer lying in great agony, and so
forth and so forth, and a lot more bosh
of the same sort. And the Independents
tried hard to swallow the wretched sub
terfuge and pretend that they did
uot know what was the real reason of
tbo abseuce of the abandoned crea
ture whom they denominate their
stand-bearer, A certain man was seen
to reel into Mr. Twain’s hotel last night
tn a beastly state of intoxication. It is
the imperative duty of the Independents
to prove that this besotted brute was not
Mark Twain himself. We have them at
last ! This is a case that admits of no
shirking. The voioe of the people de
mands in thunder tones: ‘Who is that
man ?’ ”
It was incredible, absolutely incredi
ble, for a moment, that it was really my
name that was conpled with this dis
graceful suspicion. Three long years
had passed over my head since I had
tasted ale, bear, wine or liqnor ot any
kind.
[lt shows what effect the times were
having on me when I say that I saw
myself confidently dubbed “Mr. De
lirium Tremens Twain” in the next is
sue of that journal without a pang—
notwithstanding I knew that with mo
mentous fidelity the paper woald go on
calling me so to the very end,]
By this time anonymous letters were
getting to be an important part of my
mail matter. This form waa common :
“Huw about that old woman you
kicked off your premises which was beg
ing. * Pol Pby.”
And this;
“There is things which you have done
which is nnbekuowens to anybody but
me. You better trot out a few do!s. to
yours truly or you’ll hear thro’ the pa
pers from Handt Andt,”
This is about the idea. I could con
tinue them until the reader was 'Sur
feited, if desirable. Shortly the princi
pal Republican journals “convicted”
me of wholesale bribery, and the lead
ing Democratic paper “nailed” an ag
gravated case of blackmailing to me.
[ln this way I acquired two additional
names—“ Twain, the Filthy Corruption
ist,” and “Twain, the Loathsome Em
bracer. ”]
By this time there had grown to be
such a clamor for an “answer” to all
the dreadful charges that were laid to
me, that the editors and leaders of my
party said it would be political ruin for
me to remain silent any longer. As if
to make their appeal the more impera
tive, the iollowing appeartd in one of
the papers the very next day :
“Behold the Man !—The Independent
candidate still maintains silence. Be
cause he dare not speak. Every accu
sation against him has been amply
proved, and they have been endorsed
and re-endorsed by his own eloquent
silenoe, till st this day he stands for
ever convicted. Look upon your can
didate, independents 1 - Look upon the
Infamons Perjurer ! the Montana Thief 1
the Body-Snatcher ! Contemplate your
incarnate Delirinm Tremens! your Fil
thy Corruptionist 1 your Loathsome Em
bracer ! Gaze upon him—ponder him
well—and then say if you can give
your honest votes to a creature who
has earned this dismal array of titles
by his hideous crimes, and dares not
open his mouth in denial of any one
of them 1”
There was no possible way of getting
out of it, and so, in deep humiliation, I
set abont preparing to “answer” a mass
of baseless charges and mean and wick
ed falseb ods. But I never finished the
task, for the very next morning a paper
came out with anew horror, a fresh ma
lignity, and seriously charged me with
bnrning a lunatic asylum, with all its
inmates, because it obstructed the view
from my house. This threw me into a
sort of panic. Then came the charge of
poisoning my uncle to get his property,
with an imperative demand that the
grave should be opened. This drove
me to the verge of distraction. On top
of this I was accused of employing
toothless and incompetent old relatives
to prepare the food for the foundling
hospital when I was warden. I waa wa
vering—wavering. And at last, as a due
and fitting climax to the shameless pros
ecution that party rauoor had inflicted
Xi me, nine little toddling children of
ibades of oolor and degrees of rag
gedness were taught to rash on to the
platform at a public meeting, and clasp
me aronnd the legs and call me "Pa!”
I gave it np. I hauled down my col
ors and surrendered. I was not equal
to the requirements of a Gubernatorial
campaign in the State of New York, and
so I sent in my withdrawal from the
candidacy, and in bitterness of spirit
signed it, “Truly yours, once a decent
man bnt now * Mask Twain,
“L P, M. TANARUS., B. 8., D. T. f E. C„ and
L. E.”
GENERAL TOOMBS.
Another Letter From Him In Favor of Dr.
Felton.
[Borne Courier.]
Washington, Ga., Sept. 22, 1876.
Julius A. Peak :
Deab Sib— Yours of the Bth instant
has been duly received. I do not ex
pect to stump yonr district, or any other
in the State, but I am friendly to the
election of Dr. Felton. I thiDk him an
able and upright man, and that he is
fully equal to his competitor. Not
agreeing with either or any other who
stands upon the Democratic, so-called,
platform on many vital points, I prefer
Dr. Felton, because his elecion would
aid in breaking down the absolute au
thority of party conventions, which are
rapidly putting the State and country
into the hands of men of small capacity,
wholly destitute of principle, who are
seeking power and place for their own
selfish ends. We have tried this gang
of conventions when they put Greeley
on ns. They aak us again to try them
with Tilden. I decline the offer now as
I did then. I am not devoted to the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendment. I
am not in favor of internal improvements
by the General Government. lam
against all National Backs. I am against
enlarging the army to show my loyalty;
against lavish appropriations to the 4th
of July barbecue. lam utterly opposed
to negro suffrage, and shall be as long
as I live. R. Toombs.
HOW A MAN’S SIGNATURE MIGHT BE
SENT 1,000 MILES.
[Philadelphia Letter.]
There is now in operation between
the signal service section of the Centen
nial Exhibition and the Chief Signal
Officer at Washington, on a circuit about
150 miles long, an instrument which
transmits by telegraph the weather
maps of ihe Signal Service, heretofore
produced only in Washington. This in
vention reproduces the map entire, with
its lines and figures. The map or mes
sage to be sent is first written upon or
dinary paper with ink ? in which a little
glycerine has been mixed; then, before
the ink is dry, it is sprinkled with some
powdered shellac, which adheres to the
ink. The manuscript is then passed be
tween rollers with the face against a
piece of hot zinc; the latter takes up the
best non-conductor of electricity, upon
ziDc, a good conductor. . This plate is
then bent around a cylinder, whiph is
rapidly revolved, while a metallic point
connected with the conducting wire is
held to its surface by a spring, and
makes S spiral line over the face of the
oylinder. At the receiving instrument
a similar point traverses tho surface of a
similar cylinder, upon whioh is placed a
pieoe of chemically prepared paper. As
the transmitting point comes to the line
of writing the receiving point makes a
dot on the paper by decomposing the
chemically prepared paper, and, as
every portion of the writing is tonched
by the transmitting point, the result
will be a fac simile of the original writ
ing or device. To produce this result
ic is necessary, of course, that the two
oylinders should revolve exactly to
gether, as, if ono should BO faster than
the other, tho discolored paper would
be a confused mass of dots. In this
oonsists the great novelty of the inven
tion. Isochronous motion of the cylin
ders is secured to a magnet at the re
viving station, which at each revolution
of the transmitting cylinder accelerates
the motion of the leceiving oylinder if
too slow, and retard* it if too fast.
THE COTTON CROP,
Reports From Alabama and Mississippi
Counties slight Frosts Fine Picking
Weather—Clenn Cotton—Yield Less Thau
Last Yoag—Early Maturity la Carolina.
Mobile, Ala., November J3. —Fifty-
six counties, giving 104 replies, state
that the weather is reported as having
been more favorable for gathering the
crop than last year. There have been
light frosts all over the Dtate, lint no
damage has resulted therefrom. Nearly
all report that picking is about finished,
and the crop will be entirely harvested
by the 15th instant. The yield, as com
pared with last year, is estimated to be
34 per cent, less in 14 prairie and bottom
land counties, and 10 per cent, less in
32 upland or sandy land connties. The
crop has been gathered much more
cleanly than last year, making the grade
much higher. Many of our correspond
ents state the yield of-lint to a given
number of pounds of seed ootton is less
than last year.
Missiesippe—Nineteen counties give
49 replies, stating the weather has been
dry and more favorable for gathering
the crop than last year. There pave
been light frosts, but the damage there
from has been very slight. About 76
per cent, on the average of the orop has
been gathered, and pieking will be com
pleted from 15th instant to Ist Decem
ber. The yield as compared with last
year is estimated on the average to be
24 per cent. less. The.same conditions
as to dearly gathering and yield of lint
as stated in the Alabama report, apply
to this State. The crop report of the
Charleston Exchange for October is
based upon 71 replies from 74 counties in
Sonth Carolina. The weather dnriDg the
month has been generally dry and fa
vorable for picking. Forty-fir, report
it more favorable for gathering the crop
this year than the last. Eighteen about
the same and six as less favorable.
Eighteen replies report killing frost
from October, and to fifth, thirty-five
abont the 15th ; seven from the 20th to
25th. and seven that there has as yet
-been no killing frost, From 76 to 89
per cent, of the orop was gathered on
the Ist: thirty-seven answer that pick
ing will be finished about the 15th, and
twenty-fonr say by the 30th. The yield
in twenty-four counties heard from show
a falling off of Ilf per cent, compared
with last year.
The Manta Live Lena.
He has a proper and well proportioned
stature, without, however, being too
tall. He is rather of a middle size and
somewhat thick set. Hia complexion is
not too florid at any rate; too mnch
ruddiness in youth is not a sign of
longevity. Hia hair approaches to the
fair rather than to the black. Hia skin
is strong but not rough. Hia head is
not too big; bis shoulders are round
rather than flat; hisneek is not too long;
his abdomen does not projeot; hia bands
are large, but not too deeply cleft; his
foot is rather thick than long; and his
legs are firm and round. He has a broad,
arched chest, a strong voice, and the
faculty of retaining hia breath for a long
time without difficulty. There ia har
mony in all his parts. His senses are
good, bnt not too delioate; hia pnlse is
alow and regular, hia stomach is
excellent, his appetite ia good and
digestion easy. The joys of the ta
ble are to him of importance; they
tone hia mind to serenity, and his
aonl partakes in the pleasure which
they oommnnioate. He does not eat
merely for the sake of eating, bnt
eaph meal is an hoar of daily festivity.
Ha eats slowly and has net mnah thirst,
the latter being always a sign of rapid
self-consumption. He is serene, loqua
cious, active, susceptible of joy, love
and hope, bnt insensible to the impres
sions of hatred, anger and avarice. His
passion never becomes violent or de
structive. If he ever gives way to anger
he experiences rather a useful glow of
warmth, an artfivcial and gentle fever,
without an overflow of the bile. He ia
also fond of employment, particularly
calm meditation and agreeable specula
tion . He Iff an optimist, a friend to
nature and domestic felicity. He has
no thirst after honor or riches, and
banishes all thought of to-morrow.
The Florida Election. —A private
letter dated Lake City, Fla., November
12, says: “We have carried the State
for Tilden, and the whole State ticket is
elected, giving us a large majority in
the Legislature. Our majority in the
State now is over 1,700. It will be over
2,000. Troops are here, but the people
are too vigilant and determined to be
cheated, provided, however, Tilden will
ol.itn his share. Such pains have been
tftn that tire destruction of canvassed
votes will not avail. We hope for a
peaceful surrender. Thank Heaven for
South Carolina’s glorious victory.
“There are bnt three counties to hear
from. Democratic majority, so far,
1,668. Those to hear from probably give
300 more. They are all white counties.
There will oertainly be three, probably
five Radical precincts thrown out, with
600 at 800 votes. Females voted in men’s
attire.”
GERMANY.
COUNT YON ARNIM AND THIERS’
AUTOGRAPH LETTER.
Tke Caaat’a Defense—Tke Trial—Thr Verdict
—The Sentence —The Criminal.
Berlin, October 24. —Two years have
already elapsed since the arrest of Count
Arnim on his estate, Nassenhelde. The
sensation produced on hearing that the
celebrated statesman and personal rep
resentative of the Emperor, who only a
short time previously had occupied such
a prominent place in his country’s his
tory, had been treated like a common
criminal and condncted to the metropol
itan prison, was immense. Several
weeks passed by before preliminaries
were closed aod Count Arnim indicted.
The dingy hall in which, under the
Presidency of Judge Reich, the trial in
the first instance took place became a
resort of the fashionable world, and who
ever could obtain an entrance came to
see the Count, who, unbroken and not
without dignity, stood before his Judges.
When, finally, the dire December even
ing arrived on which the verdict was to
be pronounced, the Molkemnarkt and
adjoining streets were densely filled
with a curious and excited crowd, only
prevented with difficulty from forcing
an entrance into the Court. Scarcely
was judgment passed than the news
ran like wildfire over the town and was 1
speedily spread over the whole world
that the Count had been found guilty.
Sroce that memorable evening when pub
lic interest in the Arnim case had
reached its climax it has so
declined that when yesterday the
High Court of State assembled
to hear the charge of treason
raised against Count Arnim, with the
exception of his only sod, who has
throughout displayed the most devoted
love to his father, only some barristers
and representatives of the press had ap
peared, although highly important po
litical aDd personal question were at
stake. The charge of high treason
against Count Arnim has absolutely
nothing to do with the suit for the pur
loining of official documents for which
the ex-Ambassador was condemned to
nine months’ imprisonment. The pres
ent proceedings, only instituted against
Count Arnim, after appearance of the
pamphlet “Pro Nihilo,” universally as
cribed to him, is based on a charge of
publishing official documents in his care,
thereby endangering public peace, and
an accusation of having neglected the
interests of government in diplomatic
negotiations, wherewith he was intrust
ed. Against both these points Count
Arnim minutely defended himself in
writing by appealing to the testimony
of trustworthy persons. At the first
hearing of the case, on the 11th of May,
the Court of State seemed to be in favor
of the Count, and adjourned the trial
with an understanding that President
Thiers should give evidenoe on the ne
gotiations for the treaty of evacuation,
and several other persons from Switzer
land, for refutation of the depositions of
Mathial, the compositor, who swore to
Count Arnim’s authorship of “ Pro
Nihilo." Adverse influences, however,
seem in the meantime to have been ex
erted on the Count, for after declaring
the testimony of President Thiers im
material, a most hostile attitude was
adopted toward the Count.
The Trial.
The sitting was opened at nine o’clock
precisely The Court, consisting of ten
judges, was presided over by Herr von
Muhler, a brother of the late deceased
Minister of Public Worship. The pub
lic prosecution was conducted by Herr
von Luck, who had officiated already in
a similar capacity in the first trial be
fore the Court of Appeals. The defense
was undertaken by M. Munohel, the
usual legal adviser of the Court, and
Herr Quenstedt, who had so brilliantly
defended his client before the Discipli
nary Court. On the opening of the sitt
ing the fact of Count Arnim’s non-ap
pearance was established in due form by
the crier of the Court three times calling
the accused. His counsel submitted to
the Court two medical certificates attest
ing the severe indisposition of the Count,
who was detained at Ouchy, and request
ed on this account another postpone
ment of the suit. After short delibera
tion the Court decided not to respond
to this motion, since the certificates
merely stated that incarceration would
be fatal, bnt not that a journey to Ber
lin was impossible. With unusual se
verity the presiding Judge, in fulfilment
of an old statute, forbade the counsel,
in absence of their client, further to ad
dress the Court, and requested them to
leave the seats reserved for the defense
and take their stand among the public.
A verbal protest against such extraordi
nary conduct was attempted, and on Jae
ing repressed it was delivered in writing
to the Court, together with some docu
ments intended 40 weaken the charge.
Before beginning his plea the Public
Prosecutor, owing to State secrets being
perhaps alluded to, moved for an exclu
sion of the public, which was so literally
carried pqt'tbst even the officers of the
Court were obliged to quit the hall.
The Verdict,
After three hours’ deliberation the
sentenoe was pronounoed, but it will on
ly be made publio some days hence by
being publicly placarded. It is report
ed that Count Arnim is found guilty of
high treason, and condemned to more
than two years penal servitude. An ap
peal from this sentence is inadmissible,
bnt if Count Arnim voluntarily places
himself within jurisdiction of the Court,
the former sentence becomes void, aud
anew trial will have to ensue. The pro
ceedings of the High Court of State
which, under an exclusion of the public,
condemns a man whose attendance is
prevented by illness, without even allow
ing him a defense, is universally cen
sured, and real satisfaction must be ex
pressed that this exceptional Court, a
kind pf medieval Star Chamber, will,
on introduction of the new imperial law
reform, be abolished. The condemna
tion of the Court excites in legal circles
just concern ; for, besides the fact of
Count Arnim having written “Pro Nihi
lo,” being in no way proved, his defense
has repudiated the other charges refer
ring to the negotiations for the treaty of
evacuation by M- Thiers’ testimony and
the presentation of exonerating official
documents. The most interesting parts
of M. Thiers’ autograph letter to Count
Arnim, handed over to the Court and
kindly placed at my disposal, read as
follows ;
M- Thiers’ Autogrnph Letter.
Sib— ln reply to your questions lately
addressed me concerning negotiations
carried on in 1873 for the evacuation of
French territory, I beg to state as far as
I am concerned, I remember most de
cidedly that from the beginning of con
versation on the subject the difficulties
of the negotiations were discussed on
both sides to their full extent, especial
ly with regar4 to tort, the speedy
evacuation of which was of paramount
interest to France. When J first insist
ed on its evacuation you declared you
were not invested with the necessary au
thority to satisfy my claim, and that on
transfer of negotiations to Berlin the
question would be discussed and settled
there. Accept, dear sir, the assurance
of my esteem,|&c., Ac.,
Adolphe Thiebs.
The Treaty of Evacuation.
The last charge at Copnt Arnim—hav
ing delayed the conclusion of the treaty
of evacuation, contrary to the Emperor’s
special orders—is contradicted by the
following statements of the defense:
Count Arnim received already, at the
beginning of March, a of -he con
vention from Berlin, TltP Ambassador
translated its most important points and
drove therewith to Theirs, whom he
fonnd ill, and unable to transact busi
ness. In expectation of the President’s
recovery, Arnim left the draft trans
lated by him on the President’s table,
and reported to Berlin the cause of de
lay. In the meantime the Ambassador
had already reoeived from his chief a
telegram on the matter, which ran as
follows:
Jo Count Arnim:
Our conditions are a prendre ou a
laisser. I have already informed the
French Ambassador of their principal
conditions, and I do not donbt their ac
ceptance. If not, I don’t care. (“ Wenn
nicht, denn nicht") We can wait.
Bismarck.
The words “we can wail,” on which
the whole deduction revolves that Count
Arnim had carried on the negotiations
with less haste than Bismarck desired,
strange to say, were omitted in the Pub
lic Prosecutor’s charge. Connt Arnim,
apparently, seems to have anticipated
the unfavorable tenor of the Court’s
verdict, for to avoid any disagreeable
consequences, especially sequestration
of his estates, he has either disposed of
them by sale or by transfer to his son.
The Sen.
No thoughts can be entertained what
ever of a literal application of his pun
ishment. Medical authorities of the
highest standing have already declared
that any confinement would be fatal to
him. Nothing will, therefore, remain
to be done on the termination of the
still pending trials, if the Emperor does
not exercise his prerogative of grace, ex
cept to transmute the sentence of im
prisonment to a fine. A condemnation
to penal servitude, attended with with
drawal of all titles, will be a heavy blow
for the sorely tried Count and his fami
ly. His undeniable services as states
man and diplomatist ought to have
spared him this ignominy. Already the
former punishment so weighed him
down that even Bismarck, his bitterest
enemy, ought to have desisted in his
persecution. But the “Iron Prince,”
for whose reputation the Arnim affair
will be anything but honorable, seems
to know no mercy for a fallen foe.
Count Arnim, who certainly merited
punishment, can scarcely sink deeper in
the eyes of the world than he already is,
and a continued persecution will so in
c.ease the awakening sympathy that he
will finally be looked upon as a political
martyr.
_ANOTHER HERO FALLEN.
[Afaean Telegraph and Messenger.]
Not o ly the city of Savannah, but the
medical profession of Georgia, society
and a wide circle of friends have expe
rienced a heavy loss in the sodden death,
from yellow fever, of Dr. Juriah Har
ries, who expired on the seventh inst.,
amid the wild excitement of an absorb
ing Presidential election.
This estimable gentleman came from
the vicinity of Augusta, and was a near
relative of the learned and venerable
Prof. Dugas, M. D. For twenty years
be has made his home in Savannah,
where, by extraordinary skill, unblem
ished integrity, courtly manners and un
tiring industry, he had succeeded in
building up a medical practice and repu
tation unsurpassed in the State.
He was emphatically a lover of science,
and devoted to his profession. Many of
the numerous papers contributed by Dr.
Harriss to the various scientific bodies
with which he was honorably associated
reflect the highest credit upon him as an
acute writer, able logician and skilled
expert in medical science.
For a long period too he was identi
fied with the Savannah Medical College
in the capacity of Professor, Dean, etc.,
and ever discharged his duties with abil
ity and conscientious fidelity.
Asa physician, he enjoyed the unlim
ited confidence of his many patrons,
and was regarded by scores of the best
families as their confidential frieDd and
adviser. Quiet, self-possessed and mod
est in demeanor, while bold and deter
mined in the peculiar exigencies of his
profession, all were forced to respect and
admire this exemplary physician and
gentleman, and many were devotedly at
tached to him.
After passing through several fearful
seasons of the epidemic, which finally
claimed him for a victim, and without
respite laboring for long years m the
arduous duties of his ealling, at length
a vigorous constitution was forced to
succumb, and last Spring he was stricken
down with typhoid fever and acute
rheumatism, and when able to travel,
forced to seek the genial climate of
Florida.
There lingering, aid a sufferer for
several months, and only partially re
lieved, he returned to his home. Bat a
more decided change was found neces
sary ; and, accordingly, with his family,
he passed the Summer with great benefit
at one of the Virginia springs. While
sojourning there the terrible lever ap
peared in Savannah, and, obeying only
the instincts of duty and a chivalrous
nature, he insisted against all advice
and expostulation in returning to that
afflicted city alone, and without the
presence and comforting ministrations
of his beloved family. And yet he was
himself still an invalid, and physically
disqualified for this arduous service.
All will bear witness, however, even
against the injunctions of the Mayor,
how he devoted himself to the sick and
dying.
The season sped on apace, and jnst
when cool weather and an invigoratiflg
atmospbere began to give assurances of
safety, this noble philanthropist and
gentleman was seized with the dreaded
malady, and offering but a feeble re
sistance to its fearful inroads, sank rap
idly and expired, we greatly fear before
receiving the last fond caress of the wife
who had been summoned in haste, and
whom he loved so fondly.
This is a sad episode in the history of
the fever, but it at least reveals the
grateful fact that human nature is not
utterly selfish, and the death of this
martyr to an almost knight-errant re
gard for principle and duty, the good
and true will applaad, and his stricken
wife and children imbibe comfort and
consolation from the beroie devotion of
that loved husband and father, to wbat
he regarded as a great and solemn obli
gation.
To that mourning family group we
can only say, may your God, and the
God of your fathers, and the blessed
and compassionate Saviour of mankind,
give all the help and comfort and suc
cor, so much needed in this sore trial,
and which man is impotent to afford.
AMERICA LIBELLED.
Text of the Hhnuieful Documents Published
in the Paris Figaro—Attacking the Centen
nial Commissioners and the People of the
United States.
The following is the communication
printed in the Figaro, oi Paris, Octo
ber 27, attributed at first to the French
Centennial Commissioner, M. Du Som
merard, but whioh that gentleman sub
sequently declared to be a forgery. *lt
is dated at Vienna :
I must call your attention to a Utter
from M. Du Sommerard to one of his
friends in Vienna, Baron , which
has been published in German in one of
the Vienna papers, and which I have
translated for you as accurately as pos
sible. M. Du Sommerard is the Com
missioner General of France, of all ex
hibitions, having represented France in
that capacity at Vienna as well as at
Philadelphia. This letter explains the
reasons of his retirement, and of his ab
stention from all matters having refer
ence to the Exposition of 1878. I send
it to you entire. Perhaps you will re
duce that part which criticises the com
ing exhibition. In any case yoq will
read with interest al] that I send you
about t]ie abortive enterprise at Phila
delphia. The letter is as follows :
October 1, 1876.
My Deab Fbiend —l am at * * *
the house of my cousin, the Marohioness
de Talhonet, ope cf the most beautiful
chateaux in Franpe. I hunt, fish and
stray just where I please among my
friends, and briefly I avail myself of this
bewitching visit to convey to you a sign
of life—to say that I am still in tfie land
of the living and not dead, as perhaps
you might and to heg your in
dulgence for not giving you any account
of myself for so long a time j but I was
so taken up with this cursed Philadel
phia Exhibition, and it is but recently,
to my utmost satisfaction, that J have
been able to get a brief release from the
attending oares.
As is|well understood, 1 refused to go
to America in person, and I am convinc
ed that you approved of my resolution.
I had a special commissioner appointed
in my stead, who has enjoyed and still
enjoys all the tediousness of those amia
ble Americans whom we have always
been desirous of accepting as models.
I thank my stars that I resisted the al
lurements that were put forward to in
duce me to cross the ocean. Ido not
know what tho Austrian Commissioners
there say, but the reports wlpph iqy rep
resentative maizes to jpe ate simply dis
tressing and enable ps to form a just
idea of the greediness of Americans’ J
did all J could to prevent bur Govern
ment taking any part in this Exhibition,
but the vagaries of certain American en
thusiasts in the Chamber of Deputies
overcame my personal views ; and if I
had not taken extreme measures to cov
er our responsibility I think we should
have had to pay pretty dearly fpr our
interest in the pentpnnja( of the United
States.
The Americans themselves set fire to
the building which contained our empty
cases, hoping that our exhibit would be
entirely destroyed, in case their good
star should will the fire to extend as far#,
as the galleries, The firemen went to
work, however, and ciroumscribed its
limits. On the 9th of last month there
was another fire in the stores and tav
erns adjoining the Main Building. Hap
pily, the wind veered round to the north,
so that only the stores were destroyed.
Bat will it be so a third time? The
worst is that the Inhibition ptilioe is
composed of the very worst elements of
the United States ; that the watchmen
steal, and that the judges discharge
them again for want of witnesses ; and
what is, perhaps, the worst of all, the
thieves count upon the judges them
selves to tell them when to commence
the pilfering. All this is so singular
that I have considered it a duty to send
over there a corps of our police to watch
the goods of onr exhibitors. The Eng
lish have also sent out twenty-five men.
These were followed by others from
Spain and Belgium. They may, at
least, find some compensation in the
homes of the Philadelphia women ; but
it appears that the American women
whom we admire so much in Paris are
chosen expressly for this object, and
that they are not worth une charge de
poudre.
Our Government, always ready to sec
ond the desires of the great masses,
granted an appropriation oi 100,000f. to
send working men ever there. It se
lected the men with the greatest care.
Many manufactaring towns sent a cer
tain nnmber of men at their own ex
pense, men well worthy to “toast” with
their brethren of the New World. But
all these have returned greatly discon
tented, and the same may be said of all
the members of the jury, some twenty
of whom were chosen from the highest
circles of science, art and literature —all
these tell me on their return that they
would not care to go back there again.
Du SOMMEBABD.
Felt bonnets are bound to be fashion
able; they come in all shades, even red.
Scotch soled shoes are the most de
sirable for walking this mnddy weather.
Don’t turn up your nose at light
things. Think of bread and taxation.
Beal estate has advanced since Til
den’s election. .
THAT iJUGGLING BOARD!
THE PRETENDED STATE CAN
VASSERS “FUNCTUS OFFICIO.”
Lawful Powers ol a Lawful Board—No
Bight to Touch An; .Matter Concerning
Governor and Members of the General As
sembly—The Present Board WUhont I.egii*
Existence.
To the Editor of the News and Courier:
Iu your article on the Governor and
Legislature, in Saturday’s iesue, you
show that the election returns for mem
bers of the General Assembly shall be
judged by each House, and you say that
with such returns the canvassers have
nothing to do except to report the num
ber of votes cast; and so, with regard
to the election of Governor, you show
that the Constitution provides that the
election returns are to be forwarded by
the managers of election to the Secreta
ry of State, who is required to deliver
them to the Speaker of the House at the
next ensuing session, and that during
the first week the Speaker shall open
and publish them in the presenoe of
both Houses, and you say : “ and here,
again the canvassers have no work to do
except to report the number of votes
cast. ”
Permit me to take issue with you : I
deny that the Board of Canvassers have
anything at all to do with the returns of
the election of the members of the
General assembly or of Governor or of
Lieutenant-Governor.
The Constitution expressly provides
that each House shall judge of the elec
tion returns and qualifications of its own
members. Each House is thus the ex
clusive judge of the election returns of
its members. No other body has the
right to step in between the electors,
the people and their representatives.
Upon the subject of its composition
each House is uncontrolled and uncon
trollable by anything but the Constitu
tion. No act of one Legislature can
trammel the judgment of a subsequent
Legislature as to its composition. To
permit one General Assembly to set up
a body of its own creation to decide upon
tbte election of the members of that
which is to follow it, is to allow it to
perpetuate itself.
But it is said that the Board of Can
vassers merely count the votes and give
a prima facie right to those it declares
elected, which each House can after
wards set aside—that even under our
old system, the certificate of the man
agers of election was received as
the prima facie title of the per
son claiming a seat. There is an
obvious difference between the cer
tificates of the persons who actu
ally hold the election and the
Board of Canvassers. The managers of
election form no interposing body be
tween the electors and the General As
sembly. They hold the election in each
county separately, and without confer
ence or combination declare not who
shall compose the Legislature, but sim
ply who received the highest vote in
the respective counties. But this Board
of Canvassers interposes itself, and in
the first instance usurps the right to say
who shall ofganize the Houses of As
sembly, and thus having seated their
own partisans, the exclusion of all op
position is already accomplished. To
acknowledge the right of this Board to
say who in the first instance is entitled
to sit in the General Assembly, is to ac
knowledge fihat the Republican party
have by an act of legislation subverted
the Constitution, and effectually per
petuated themselves in power. If we
shall submit the prima facie of the
election of the members of Assembly to
this Board, our labor has all, indeed,
been in vain, till stronger even is the
case in regard to the election of Gov
ernor and Lieutenant-Governor.
Section 4, Article 111 of the Constitu
tion provides that the returns of the
election of Governor shall be sealed up
by the managers of election in their re
spective counties and transmitted by
mail to the seat of government, direct
ed to the Secretary of State, who shall
deliver them to the Speaker of the
House of Representatives at the next
ensuing session of the General Assem
bly, who, daring the first week of the
session, or as soon as the General As
sembly shall have organized, shall open
and publish them in the presence of
both Houses.
Section 5 provides that the Lieuten
ant-Governor shall be chosen in the
same manner. Here then the Constitu
tion expressly requires that the returns
of the election of Governor shall be
sealed up by the managers and sent to
the Secretary of State, who shall deliver
them to the Speaker, who shall open
and publish them. What right then
have the Board of Commissioners with
these returns ? How can that Board
count and report the number of votes,
the returns of which the Constitution
provides shall be sealed up aDd not
opened until the meeting of the Legis
lature ?
Now that I am on the subject, let me
suggest that six of the seven members
of the Board of Canvassers are functus
ojjlcdo. The Board is to be constituted,
by the act, of (1) the Secretary of State,
(2) Comptroller-General, (3) Attorney-
General, (4) State Auditor, (5) State
Treasurer, (6) Adjutant and Inspector-
General, (7) Chairman of the Commit
tee of Privileges and Elections of the
House. Of these the Secretary of State,
Hayne, and Treasurer Cardozo were
elected on the 16th October, 1872, for a
term of four years under the 23d sec
tion, article 3d of the Constitution. Jn
1873, the Constitution was amepded so
that the elections pfe paw on the
first Tuesday following the first Mon
day in November, but there was no pro
vision made in the amendment for the
holding over of the officers, whose ten
ures had commenced in October, 187&
The Constitution provides thqt the Gov
ernor and Supreme Court fudges shall
hol4 oypr until their successors are
chosen and qualified. But as there is
no such general or special provisiop far
these officers, their terms expired an the
16th October last. of them, the
Secretary of State nor the Treasurer,
can sit upon the Board.
Both by the Constitution as originally
passed, and as attended in 1875, the
Coraptroller-Generai is to be elected by
the qualified voters of the State 5 and,
by the amendment of 1875 the Attorney-
General is likewise to be elected by the
peoplo. It will be recollected that the
Comptroller who was elected in 1872,
Mr. Hoge, resigned, and that thereupon
Mr. Dunn was elected by the legisla
ture, and that upon Mr. Melton's resig
nation as Attorney-General, last Spring,
the Governor undertook to appoint Mr.
Stone his successor. There is no pro
vision for such electron and appoint
ment, and neither Mr. Dunn nor Mr.
Stone can sit upon the Board. The
office of Auditor, which was not a con
stitutional office, was abolished in 1872
by act of the and there is
qpo* go Auditor to sit.
By the Consritution, section 13, artiole
11, the terms of the newly elected mem
bers of the General Assembly shall com
mence on the Monday after the election,
that is to-day. Hence Mr. Hirsch, who
was the Chairman of the Committee of
Privileges and Elections, is out qf office
to-day, and he can sit ng more. The act
provides that in ps<te °f the failure of a
majority pi the Board to attend at the
time, that the President of the Senate
shall, upon notification, act, but he,
like Mr. Hirsch, is also out of office this
morning. This leaves but a single of
ficer who can, with any show of right,
claim to act upon tha Board, namely,
the Adjutant and Inspector General. The
apt establishing the Board requires a
quorum of four, and henoe there is no
B'- :d to sit.
as a citizen then I protest (1) against
any action on the part of the Board of
Canvasssers (if the Board was properly
constituted) in reference to the election
of members of the General Assembly,
Governor or Lieutenant-Governor, and
(2)that the Board as at present organi
sed has no right to act in any case what
soever. Edward MoCrady, Jr.
Pin Howes Burned.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer, of the
7th instant, says:
“We have carefully looked over files
and find recorded since September 1,
forty three gin houses burned, Of these
twenty-nine were in Georgia and four
teen in Alabama. They must have aver
aged five hundred dollars each, so as to
make the total loss from houses alone
821,000. Of the twenty-nine burned in
Georgia, we find with them were de
stroyed 200 bales of cotton, worth now
SIO,OOO. So we find that with the houses
the loss in Georgia in less than two
months has been $24,500. Of the twen
ty-nine houses destroyed in Georgia, of
eight, the precise losses in cotton are
not given. This will make the total loss
greater. Of the Alabama houses we
have no losses of cotton, but it is safe
to say the losses from the two States
have fully amounted to $75,000 which
have gone up in smoke. Is it not bet
ter to spend some money in insurance ?
These losses are not the results of de
signs, but the larger proportion of acci
dent. Grit in the saw, a match acci
dentally dropped—a rock—almost any
thing may cause a conflagration. Some
times no cause can guard against it. ”
A country negro who wanted to vote
the Democratic ticket came in town for
a policeman to go to the polls with him.
Don’t be too sentimental. A dead
heart properly cooked will make a savory
m in'tbe midst of this exciting Presiden
tial campaign the St. Louis Republican
finds time to remark: “The oyster
dosen't say much, but how tenderly he
does look one in the eye.”
WHAT IS JUSTICE t
To the Editor of the News and .Courier:
For three months this community has
been under daily apprehension, and not
without cause. Children are kept from
sohool because of insult and ruffianism.
Our citizens are maimed and murdered
in enr streets, and arms-bearing white
citizens, ready to strike a blow for peaoe
and good order, are restrained to serve
a political necessity. When the King
street riot left its bloody marks on the
6th of September, the Republican lead
ers, admitting that they controlled their
followers, gave a formal pledge that they
could and would command peace, and
the publicly announced penalty of a
violation of the peace was the lives of
those who broke the pledge or permitted
it to be broken. The Cainhoy massacre
comes and goes, and no retributive jus
tice follows. Nay, more than this, Re
publican leaders, conspicuous in this
bloody affray, are permitted to speak at
Democratic meetings, and deceive the
community as to their ulterior purposes.
The election comes, and the polls are
dominated by hundreds of roughs, the
political friends of Cunningham, Bow
en, Mackey and of United States Mar
shal Wallace, who carry intimidation to
its mo3t complete result. On Wednes
day afternoon a riot is participated in
by the regular police of the city, who
fire, from the very guard house win
dows, on passing and unoffending citi
zens; others emerge from the; station
house, with breech loading rifles, and
fire upon gentlemen on'their way to
their counting houses. A newly sodded
grave in Magnolia marks the resting
place of one of the victims.
What has become of the formal noti
fication, in September, that if another
life was lost retribution should follow ?
One life has been flagrantly taken !
Mr. Walter was killed by the police.
Cannot somebody be held responsible
for this life ? The Mayor of the city
and the officers of the police must hold
the information as to who killed Mr.
Walter. The roster of the police on
duty that afternoon who were in the
guard house at that firing; the officer of
the day ought to know by whose order
policemen are armed with loaded Win
chester rifles and ordered into the street.
If “King street” and “Cainhoy” were
in the natnre of promiscuous crowds,
among whom responsibility has been
difficult to fix, here is a case in which
responsibility can be fixed. Is there not
will and power enough in tflis city to
make and enforce a demand for these
lawless men who have, in the garb of
peace officers, killed and wounded our
citizens ? Will that demand be made?
It will not do to evade this plain duty,
directly or indirectly. Self-appointed,
and, no doubt, well-meaning commit
tees of citizens, but perhaps only repre
senting themselves, timidly negotiating
for new promises from leaders who keep
no pledges, do not meet the demand of
the hour. The murderer of Walter is
on the roster of the city police. The
men who fired Winchester rifles up and
down our streets without provocation,
wounding our citizens, are on that roll
call.
There is but one thought in the com
munity, and that is the irrepressible
sentiment for stern justice. Unless it
takes definite shape and leads to action,
let us hear no more threats of retribu
tion, but rather let us go to our homes
and inscribe over our firesides :
“The fault is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
William A. Courtenay,
96 East Bay
JUDGMENT OFTHE PUBLIC,
During the past five years the public have
carefully observed the wonderful cures accom
plished from the use of VEGETINE. Prom
its use many an afflicted sufferer has been re
stored to perfect health, after haviDg expend
ed a small fortune in procuring medical advice
and obtaining poisonous mineral medicines.
Its medical properties are Alterative, Tonic,
Solvent and Diuretio. There is no disease of
tho human system for which the VEGETINE
oannot be need with perfect safety, as it does
not contain any metallic or poisonous com
pound. It is composed exclusively of barks,
roots and herbß ; it is very pleasant to take;
every child likes it. It is safe and reliable, as
the following evidence will show :
Valuable Evidence.
The following unsolicited testimonial from
Rev. O. T. Walker. D. D., formerly pastor of
Bowdoin Squar ■ Church, Boston, and at pres
ent settled in Providenco, R. 1., must be deem
ed as reliable evidence. No one s'.ould fail to
observe that this testimonial iB the result of
two years’ experience with the use of VEGE
TINE in the Rev. Mr. Walker’s family, who
now pronounces it invaluable :
Providence. 11.1., 164 Tbansit Street.
11. Ji. Elevens. Esq.:
I feel bound to express with my signature
the high value I place upon your VEGETINE.
My family have used it for the last two years.
In nervous Mobility it is invaluable, and I re
commend it to all who may need an invigorat
ing, renovating tonic. O. T. WALKER.
Formerly Pastor of Bowdoin Square Church,
Boston.
A Walking Miracle.
Mr. II It. Stevens, Esq.:
Dear sir—Though a stranger, I want to in
form you what VEGETINE has done for mo.
Last Christmas Scrofula made its appearance
in my system—large running uieers appear
ing on me is follows: One on each of my
arms, one on my thigh, which extended to the
Beat, one on m.v head, which eat into the skull
bone, one on my left leg, which became so bad
that two physicians came to amputate the
limb, though upon consultation concluded not
to do so, as my whole body Was so full of
Scrofula; they deemed it advisable to out the
sore, which waß painful beyond description,
and there was S quart of matter run from this
ones re,
The physicians all gave me up to die, and
said they could do no more for me. B th of
my legs were drawn up to my seat, and it was
thought if I did get up again I would be a crip
ple for life.
When in this condition I saw YE3ETINE
advertised, and commenced taking it in March,
and followed mi With it until I had used six
teen bottles, and this morning Ii m going to
plow corn, a well men. All my townsmen sav
it is a miraele to see me round walking and
working.
In conclusion I will add, when I was endur
ing such great suffering, from that dreadful
disease, Scrofula, I prayed to the Lord above
to take mo out of this world, but as VEGE
TINE has restored to me the blessings of
health, I desire more than ever to live, that 1
may be of some service to my fellow-men, and
1 know of no better way to aid suffering hu
manity, than to inolose you this statement of
my case, with a earnest hope that you will
publish it, and it will afford me pleasure to re
ply to any communication Which I may receive
therefrom.
I am, sir, very respectfully.
WILLIAM PAYN.
Avery, Berrien Cos., Mloh., July 10, 1872.
Reliable Evidence,
Mr. If. ft. Stevens :
Dear Sir— l will most cheerfully add my
testimony to the great number you have al
ready received in favor of your great and good
medicine, VEGETINE, for I do not think
enough can be said in its praise, for I was
troubled over 30 years with that dreadful dis
ease. Catarrh, and had suoh bad coughing
spells that it would seem ns though I could
never breathe any more, and VEGETINE has
cured me; and Ido feel to thank God all the
time that there is so good a medicine as
VEGETINE, and X also think it one of the
best medicines for coughs and weak, sinking
feelings at the stomach and advise everybody
to take the VEGETINE, for I can assure
them it is one of the best medicines that ever
was. MBS. L. GORE,
Comer Magazine and Walnut Streets, Cam
bridge, Mass. m
Prepared liy F.R. Stevens. Boston, Mass.
Vegetine is Sold by ail Druggists.
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Sale of Valuable Property in
Oglethorpe County, Ga.
BY virtue of an order from the Court of Or
dinary of Oglethorpe county, and 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 as the Mill
Tract, confining 641 acres, on which is situa
ted a good Grist Mill. The mill house was
built of stone and brick, within the last two
years. The inside machinery is all new, with
four foot wheat mill and same size com 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 cash ; the balance on
twelve months credit, with interest at 10 per
cent. Bond will be given for title until last
payment is made. Possession given in ten
days from sale, and the purchaser will take the
unexpired contract with the present miller for
two months. JOHN G. GIbSON,
H. A. HAYES,
octl2-dtwl&w2 Executors.
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\WTmIHMI MILL GEARING MADE
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AND HANGERS
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[The1 UNEQUALLED JAS. IEFFEL DOUBLE
Address, POOLE & HUNT.
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ANTOINE POULLAIN,
Cotton Factor,
AUGUSTA GEORGIA,
WILL continue the business at his Fire-
Proof Warehouse, corner of Jackson
and Reynold streets, and will give his strict
personal attention to the sale of cotton con
signed to him.
Consignments respectfully solicited.
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DEDUCED TO A CERTAINTY*.
Chance to Cain
$50,000
INTO RISK..
Send lor circular at once. No Erne to lose.
Reap A Cos., Bank, re, 71 Maiden^c^^
(KC o $79 Week *■* Agents. Sample. FREE.
fdJ £ #4 I p. O. VICTORY, Augusta, Maine.
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Bottom, Bottom, Bottom.
L. RICHARDS
Proprietor of the Augusta Dry foods Store, Has Commenced His
Business Life Anew Bight at the Bottom.
IN answer to the many questions asked concerning the AUGUSTA DRY GOODS BTOBE ha
would state that it is NO LONGER A BRANCH of the Fredericksburg Store, as manv think
It stands ALONE, ON ITS OWN BOTTOM. And that he hasfio interest in the Fredericksburg
Store—SAVE IN NAME. A NAME wbicb be and bis two brothers. V. and F. Richards spent
thousands of dollars an t their BEST DAYS TO ESTABLISH. Twenty-five years ago L. Rich
ards. with his two brothers, V. and F. Richards, commenced the Dry Goods Business in the old
town of Fredericksburg, Virginia. BIGHT AT THE BOTTOM. The film was V. Richards A
Bros., consisting of V.. F. and L. Richards. They worked together as brothers. SHOULDER to
SHOULDER, until the war, which broke them up for four years.
In the Fall of 1865 they, clinging together as before, commenced their business career in
Augusta, Ga„ RIGH F AT THE BOiTOM. Since then the old firm of V Richards Ate hu
been shivered. Such is Life. We pasß away and others take our places. F. Richards having
left some years. * 6
And now under circumstances of which he will not here mention.
L. RICHARDS,
Commences His Business Life Again Where He Did Twenty-five Tears Ago.
To lie His First W ork Over—RIGHT AT THE BOTTOM,
AT THE AUGUSTA DRY GOODS STORE,
Where he will be happy to meet and serve all his old customers and friends, who so liberally
patronized him while in the old Frederick-burg Store. He has recently returned from New
York with a MAGNIFICENT STOCK OF DRY GOODS, all bought at BOTi OM PRlCES— every
article usually kept in a First Class House. Will guarantee the price—his motto being J
Not to He Undersold.
His advice is: READ all the advertisements, get posted in prices. Then come to the AU
GUSTA 81 ORE and make vour purchases, for there vou will find every article adverlised bv
others at SAYIE PRICES for the SAME ARTICLES —HIGHI' A f THE BuTl'OM. ’
SAMPLES AND EXPRFSSAGE to friends at a distance. Send for Samples and make your
own selections at prices RIGHT AT THE BOTTOM. Will pay oxpressago on all orders for Goods
at RETAIL amounting to Ten Dollars and over, c sh, or the goods shipped 0. O. D.
Is Agent of the Domestic Paper PATTERNS. Is Agent for the Revzer Steel SCISSORS— best
used. Is Agent for Sewing Machine NEEDLES, 6 for 25 cents.
L. RICHARDS,
NEXT DOOR TO JAS. O. BAILIE A 880., 209 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA GA
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Good Goods at Lowest Prices
at
MULLARKY BROTHERS’
Wholesale and detail Dry Goods House.
WHERE there can he found a complete line ef Cassimers, Jeans, Flannels, Dress Goods,
. T® , A'paea, Hosiery, Towels, Corsets, Gloves, Ladies and Geuts’ Undervests,
Blankets, Bed Tickings, Shawls and Cloaks, which will be sold at UDpretcduuUv low prices At
wholesale wo offer :
100 Bales Factory Sheetings and Shirtings.
50 Bales Factory Plaid Ornaburgs.
• 10 Cases Fancy Northern Plaids.
60 Bales Factory Stripes.
30 Cases Bleached Shirtings, all grades.
600 Dozen Gray Mixed Undershirts.
250 Dozen White Undershirts.
100 Bales Sea Islands. All of these goods will be sold in accorlanco wit h the market
prices, and the buyer will be given the advantage of any decline which may take place.
Mullarky Brothers,
563880A.D HTKEET.
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Cloaks, Silks and Dress Goods.
i
JAS. A. GRAY & CO.
Desire to call special attention
this week to their Stocks of Cloaks,
Silks and Dress Goods, which for
variety, styles and cheapness sur
pass anything ever offered in the
city.
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.
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The Election is Over!
LET US HAVE PEACE !
And now FOR BUSINESS AT THE OLDFKEDEhIUKSBURG DRY GOODS STORE, on
the Corner by the Planters’ Hotel. Augusta, Ga. READ: Splendid Cloaks and Sacques
from $1 and upwards.
Shawls in every variety, in Striped, Plaid, Gray Black, Ac.. Ac., from the Shoulder Shawl
25c up to the Finest and Nicest Goods ever brought to this city.
Beautiful Furs, iu all the New Styles, from $2 50 per Set up, Elegant-Goods at $5, 16 and
per Set.
Thousands of yards of Dress Goods of every description, from 10c per yard up to the Finest.
Every variety of Calicoes from the very low priced up to the Fine Yard Wide Cambrics at 1
and 10c per yard.
Never had we such an assortment of Jeans, KerseyH. Casßimeres, Flannels, Lin
seys, Plaid and Striped Cottons, Bt and ’J icks, Table Linens. Napkins and everything else in the
domestic line as now and so cheap. We are selling a Great Big Huckbaek Towel at 6}c.
Blankets from 25 per Pair np to the Finest and Largest that are mado. and at about half
former prices. Some of them large enough to cover Brigham Young and a good number of bis
tamily for only $2 50 per Pair.
Ladies’, Children’s and Gents’ Undervests at any price, and an elegant assortment of Jets
and Fine Jewelry; also. Chains for the Neck.
In Black Goods, for Mourning, we have the choicest and best makes, and at the lowest down
prices; also, Crapes, Crape and Love Veils, and everything pertaining to the Mourning De
partment.
In Ribbons, Hosiery, Glovos, Worsted Fringes, Buttons and Trimmings of all descriptions,
the assortment is not surpassed by any house in the city. Home houses, by advertising the
prices of a few Cheap Goods, try to make an impression that no other house can come in com
petition with them. You will notice a few of our prices, and they are not for Auction Goods,
or Goeds saved from fires in a damaged state, but purchased from good, solid merchants, at
low down cash pri.es.
WIT NAME:
500 Colored Bed Spreads at $1 25 each, recently sold for $2; Gents’ Merino Undervests at 350
each, or three for sl, worth more than double: Gents’ All-Finished Shirts at 60c; Bed Twilled,
All Wool Flannel, 25c; Gents’ Half Hose at 75c per dozen; Ladies’ Balbriggan Hose, two for
25c, worth more than that for one pair; Ladies’ Merino Hose at 10c; hundreds of Pocket Books
from 10c up; twelve Papers Adamantine Pius, 280 Pine to the Paper, 20c, or about ljc per Pa
per; Adamantine Hooks and Eyes at 5c per Box, or less than 1c per Card, two dozen on a Card.
'J’oilot Soaps, enough to last you a year, for 10c; two Papers Needles, all Sizes, for sc: Knitting
Needles, 60 a dozen; 2 n o Yard Spool Cotton, two Spools for sc; Ladies’ and Children’s Carters
at 60 per Pair; Gentß’ Large Handerchiefs for lOd cash; Ladies’ Handkerchiefs, three for 10c;
six Papers Hair Pins for sc: Gents’and Boys’Neck Bows at sc; Twilled Cotton Tapes at 2o per
Boll; Ladies’ Woolen Shoulder Shawls at 25c and 35c each; Good Note Paper at 5c per Quire;
Envelopes at 5c per Pack; Lead Pencils at lc each, or 10c per dozen; hundreds of Fine Combs
at lc each, or 6c per dozen, the same that some advertise at double the price, and say that they
can beat the world selling Goods, when at the same time they are making a hundred or more
per cent, on what they sell, and would make you believe no one else had any money but them
selves to buy Goods with, and that all other houses were shaky except their own; and so we
might go on enumerating hundreds of other articles at these exceedingly low prices, which we
keep, but come and see us, And you will be waited upon pleasantly, and not urged to buy that
whioh you do not want; and remember we only advertise that which we have.
It is perfectly wonderful to go through onr immense Stock from the basement to the fourth
story, and hear the lw prices at which we sell Goods.
Merchants who buy close for cash or on short time, with approved city acceptance, yill find it
to their interest to examine our'Stock.
To our customers at ad stance who cannot visit us, we will, upon application, send Samples
and Price List, and if an order is sent us to the amount of $lO or over for Goods in our Retail
Departments we will pay the expressage on the package. If you would save money, save time
and have a laige Stock to select from, visit the Old Fredericksburg Store, on the corner by the
Planters’ Hotel.
V. Richards & Bro.„
301 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga
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■ BUY THE BEST.
TEWETT’B PURE WHITE LEAD AND
J Jewett’s Pure Linseed Oil, at Whole
//LvtV'Ju N\ sale and Retail. By
// w* * \\ <L H. ALEXANDER,
//Ay \\ 212 Broad Street.
// ft* A? w.y* \\ X EWETT’S WHITE LEAD, is sold UN
II fij VS VJU eJ DEK GUARANTEE, anbject to any
** *** analysis or test for PERFECT PURITY.
U IjTi H? ll* // Messrs, John Jewett & Sons have made no
\\ Jh iJ A // other grade or quality of Lead than this
A AJ II STRICTLY PURE for nearly twenty years.
at // Their braodis a guarantee on every package
Buy the Best.
* Sm V* FOR WHITENESS AND DURABILITY
an d COVERING CAPACITY, it is excelled
by none and equalled by few. Over one hundred tons of this Lead used in Augus
ta in the last three years. No purchaser has ever been disappointed. Abundant
references given, .nquire for JEWETT’3 WHITE LEAD and PURE LINSEED
° IL icW-;“ F *“‘“'" ! M * M *‘* 1 *' *' ALEXANDER'S Hn Bte.
J. 31 . BURDELL,
Cotton Factor and Commission Merchant,
jy 0t 0 Warren Block, Augusta, Ga,
advance made and strict attention to all Consignments, and Prompt Remittances.
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Grange Fire-Proof Warehouse,
6 Mclntosh Street, Augusta, 6a.
PLANTERS’ UNION AGENCY continues the business of sell in
COTTON AND GRAIN .
At the same charges, via:
Commission for selling ootton, 50c. per bale.
Storage—First week 10c. do
do Each additional week.. sc. do
Drayage 10*. do
BAGGING and TIES furnished to patrons.—
Grange seal or reference accompany orders.
F. V. BURDBLIo .
Superintendent.
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