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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1876)
gftronictg anb £mtmri. 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. nov2-wlm 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. [ amF.VGINEIBTIA>[BOI L m. 1 \WTmIHMI MILL GEARING MADE mQmEmaxsEtnnim AND HANGERS Mil 11111II 111 ■IIIIMIIIM [The1 UNEQUALLED JAS. IEFFEL DOUBLE Address, POOLE & HUNT. aps-wly 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. sep6-3mw 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. IN a* w A dyertlseuientit. 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 novs-d*w&w ’ 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. octß-deodtw&wly 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. novl3-tf 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 nov!2-dtriwAw ■ 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. sep9 d2awlm<fcw2m —-■ 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. sep23-w2m
