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EMBa fwryore!' bow low. •■*•
,s ! ifctw soft the word*; and *ll tbo wtiilo
Her blank u rippling with * MW, •*< -’
Like Humr *ftw now.
“A oau foi memory!” - .
op most drain stone,
White Aotua-wind* ora up and moan
Acroes the barren aea.
flop*. memory, low;
Hof;* for lair mom and lor* for day;
And m- tuory for the evening gray
„ And eolitary dove. —Christina Arath.
■MHERON* OK ELMWOOD.
w . LOSOFELLOW.
Warn and si ill is the Summer night,
: a* Uere by the river’s bank 1 wander;
Whuii overhead are the etara, and white
The gbmmering lasi pc on the hill-aide j
yonder.
Sdent are ail the seunds of day;
So’hir-S 1 heir bat the chirp of crickets,
Ai a .be c.r of the heroaa winging their way
tl'er the poet's boose in the Elmwood thickets.
Call to him. herons, as slowly yon pass
To your roost* in the haunts of the exiled
thrtuhn j
Sing him the song of the green morass.
And the tides that waters the reeds and
Sing him .ue song of the mystical hern,
And tbs secret that baffles onr utmost seek
ing-;
For onlv a sound of lament we discern, "
And can-o: interpret tlie words yon arc
speaking.
King of the air. and the wild delight
Of winds that uplift and winds that hold
you.
The joy of freedom, the raptors of flight
Through the drift of the floating mists that
enfold yon.
Of the landscape lying so far below,
With its towns,'and rivers, and desert places;
And the splendor of light above, and the glow
Of the limitless, bine, ethereal spaces.
Ask him if songs of the Troubadours,
Or of Minnesingers in old black-letter,
gonnd in bis ear* mope sweet than yours,
And if yonre are not sweeter and wilder and
better.
Bmg to liim, say to him, here at his gate,
Where the In* glut of the stately elms are
meeting,
ttcmo one hath lingered to meditate, . '
And send him unseen this friendly greeting:
T*iat many another hath done the same
Though not by a word wae the silence
broken; *
The surest pledge of a deathless name '
I* the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
—ln January Atlantic.
TKVINCI TO NaTE A IJFE.
Hn* wirnsKfln* for Hoorn t# Prevent Their
Father Pros* HoicHe.
Louise Bomise,. a German silverplater,
with his wife and children, settled in the
outskirts of Newark several years ago.
Remise was honest, hard working, skill
ful in his trade, and temperate, except
for a national liking for lager beer. He
was able to make from $25 to S3O a week
by job work in New York. He saved his
money, got a home for his family at 425
New street, Newark, and amassed a
small property in real estate. He was a
kind and loving husband and father, and
bis home was a ltuppy and pleasant one.
But a year or two ago he began to drink
n good deal, and frequently came home
intoxicated, and committed acts that he
was ashamed of after he had become so
ber. About the same time the hard
times began to press upon him. He
found himself burdened with his unpro
ductive property, apd unable to pay the
taxes upon it. The little hoard he had
laid by began to. dwindle away, until he
•had lost from $1,200 to $1,400 —to him a
fortune. His losses and troubles seem
ed to prey upon his mind, especially
when he was under the influence .of li
quor. His intemperance grev worse,
and his, violent conduct while he was
'PPy homo a pan
■rfTik nod to kill him
■omouium. He tUreate^, on an( j jj ia
Rdf, Iris wife, and his nTT -
Bvhoiu family were terrified by nWre^;> o
Breaks and murderous threats. His wlttii
laid little children trembled when they
iioard hia drunken steps and maudlin
r; • ses.
Last Wednesday morning Bomise
went from his house, telling his wife
that he wus going to New York to col
lect soma mojuey- He did not return
until two o’jrtrok the next morning. The
whole family, consisting of the wife and
eight children, two of them young men,
_a- luiiae. The wife heard her hns-
Biand coating, stumbling through the
■lark, and her heart misgave her. She
■ aew he was drunk, and that he would
kJiiyltf some act of violence. He eu
gjftfectiy crazed with drinks and
loud threats against himself
wife. Seizing a shot
UgLil swore lie would blow his brains
if tl resting the stock on the floor
the muzzle against his head
in|)ted to pull the trigger with
lint ho was too drunk to stand
long 'enough to fire the gun, and
staggering about the room with it,
it fur a large batcher
with which he attempted th kill
■ML His wife's attempts to soothe
seemed to infuriate him the more,
■fished at her in a tage, trying to
Hb r. Then he threatened to cut off
■towl of his little girl who stood
with terror.
wife mid little girl fled up swtira
the two grown-up sons slept.
Hltesc boys went down and took the
from their father, who at times was
quiescent. The boys made ooffee, and
got their father to drink it, thinking
that it would'dissipate the fumes of the
liquor, and clear his brain of the terri
ble madness.- He did remain quiet for
a while, and then suddenly starting np
in a furious state, he once more threat
ened to take his life, and seizing a hand
ful of friction matches ate the heads off
of them to poison himself. The boys
got the matches away, bnt the infuriat
ed man threatened to kill them if they
intorferred, and after striking at them
with a large knife, in a fit of passion he
threw the knife at them. Lnekilv the
weapon missed its mark, and Btrnck into
the opposite wall.
Then, with desperate hearts, the two
bovs held their father down and by main
force kept him from taking his life and
theirs. He promised to be less violent
and they let him sit np. Soon his fury
returned and the struggle recommenced.
Thus for four long hoars, in the dead of
night, with the mother and smaller
children looking on with fast beating
hearts and quaking with fear at the
dreadful sight, these two young men
fought to prevent their father from kill
ing himself. The house is a detached
one, and there were no neighbors near,
at that time of night, to come in and aid
in the struggle with the maniac.
About 6 o’clock on Thursday morning,
after a period of partial quiet, the des
perate man again sprang to his feet,
: ud rushing to a closet, close at hand,
be tore open the door and seised a bot
tle of solution of nitrate of silver,
tiwef ring to kill himself sure this time.
He fought off bis sons when they tried
to interfere, and swallowed the burn
ing liquid. Then he fell back in agony
upon a lounge. Before a physician.ar
rived Bomise died in torments. He was
fifty years old. County Physician Ward,
of "Newark, heard the evidence in the
case and granted a certificate of burial.
When a *S> reporter called on Mrs,
Bomise yesterday, she at first regard
ed him with a troubled face, thinking
that, one of her husband’s creditors
was come to drain her almost empty
purse. Wiping tears from her eyes,
she said in broken English, “It was ait
the work of drink. He wouldn’t have
doue.it if he had ieen sober,”
A lIMUr Trn*C4*_v in
We have- received a letter from one of
onr friends who writes us in regard to an
awful double tragedy that transpired a
f.'W days ago near Columbiana, Ala. It
appears that a man by the name of
Thomas Fallon bad a difficulty with his
jvife, and in consequence of it, they
separated. The wife then went to the
Into** of Mrs. Thomas Nelson, who is
L r motfapr. Fallon went to Mrs. Nel
son’s and *;nght an interview with Ilia
wife, which was refused. He called
agaia and was not permitted to see her,
thereupon, he attempted to shoot his
wife’s mother, Mrs. Nelson, bat was
ill w." od ia his purpose. He then de
libetiAtelv shot his wife, who expired in
about two hours. Asa fitting termina
tion of this tragedy, he shot himself and
died urgently.
It io probably untrue that’Col. Eugene
gpeer a4 Sen Hill hue formed a
ticket k sweep through the next Leg
jalature. *
A girl has discarded her
lover becai&e lie refused to drink with
her father, pddiu’g the cruel words:
“Ketch me a umiu\i mac who can’t
stand a drink of
The Covington Star has the follow
ing: Mme. Gemma Menelii, formerly of
Covington, G# jTyi uowjdne of the bril
liant starmSkcHtti's theatre, New Tori,
She is awrSUltr%f <t M, f. College,
and has feaLVd a national reputation
ou aecouft ot her beauty and wonderful
musical talents, during the past two
—
The Sisters of Mercy of St. Joseph's
■Convent,, of Dalton, adorned Trevitt
Hail with a beautiful Christmas Tree bet
evening.
•
~B|pER FAMIQSiS.'
SOM* mHWONFTIONS WHAT *
Ifl ABOUT TO BE KN KKOLE.
i Lit reduction at New Oeats ud Wlwwlet
Ante at CmCmmnm, Bennet*. nmd
- AU,yiyrre.
The aim of designers and engmws ,
~ for jewehijrare done in n~
The desire for efiuge has In
trd9fes jewelry fashioned of rich
atoXppke Labrador feldspar, azure
blmppPine. It takes an exquisite pol
tab, its chatoyant reflection making it
extremely popular. Artistic examples
mav bdseeu iu various designs for orna
infet, as well as in table tops and *rfi
dre It is bine, bronze-red,
yelJirß, .'itoue-green or purple. An-
Nlllia'Oilfft is the Oriental chrysolite,
of a greeutah yellow, with brown tinges.
When translucent with opal-changing
hues, it is called cat’s-eye. The value
of this atone depends upon the play or
refraction of light. A fine specimen, an
heirloom of an old family, has recently
lieen-set as a ring in large diamonds.
These and other stokes and gems are
set in gold decorated with colored
enamels in relief. A superb intagli, of
Marguerite ef Parma, is cat in what ia
called false “topaz,” a species of cairn-
I gorm assuming the deep red orange line
of the jadinth. Among the minerals
now fashionable for jewelry are porphy
ry, jasper, amethystine quarto, labrado
rite, and agates cat and polished. Some
beautiful necklaces are made of beryl,
game charming sets of jewelry which
will be fashionable are made of many
colored topaz, pale bine Brazilian sap
phire, aqna marine pink, Brazilian ruby,
j and the pale yellowish green Brazilian
; chrysolite. Lapis lazuli is set for pen
dants, earrings and necklaces, both in
the costly Persian stone and the French
imitation. All of these stones are set
in colored gold, Oriental fashion, with
pearls in various pretty oonoeits, sneh
*i, i i n
as true love lovers knots, Greek arab
esques, intertwined rings, crosses, stars
and arrows. A dark antique onyx is
wonderfully carved in the shape of a pri
son window, the bars being formed of
the upper myer ir dark brown, entirely
detached from the window, while behind
the bars Cnpid is a prisoner, chained to
a block. On others are carved Mary
Tudor, Marie de Medleis, Ulysses,
Achilles, Hagar and Ishmael, Guido’s
Aurora. What can be more exquisite,
than these perfect carvings upon the
idark brown of onyx, the pale pink of
chalcedony, the delieate green of the
chiysopr&se, the pink of the sard, the
! violet glinting of the amethyst ? There
are many superb specimens of the opal,
its living fires contrasted with the costly
settings of large diamonds in pendant
and brooch.
The last fashionable openings of the
present season prove that, notwithstand
ing the introduction of vivid oolors,
women of taste comprehend the stricter
propriety, if it may be so termed; of
preferring back costumes for street;
wear. Black silk is combined with
black velvet, cashmere with silk, plain
velvet, and embossed velvet, and one of
the most elegapt costumes of the season
at a late opening United excessive rich
ness and quiet elegance. Intended for
carriage and visiting wear, the skirt,
demi-troined, of rich black gros grain,
had a wide flounce of black velvet,
headed and completed by a velvet knife
pleating. The-velvet overskirt, on one
side had a revert of black satin, and on
the other side an elaborate trimming of
united satin and velvet formed the back
drapery. The basqne, of cuirass shape,
was made of black silk, with velvet
sleeves, trimmed with wide silk fringe
and mossy heading. Another equally
elegant dress of black gros grain was
combined with rich matelasse, and yet
another was composed of black
.velvet and blood satin, with trim
mings of velvet looping, oocks* and
ostrich feathers. Less costly dresses
were of black silk, demi-train, and trim
med with knife-plaitings and trippleand
doable box-plaited flounces. The polo
naise iav extremely simple in design.—
Some of the dresses Iwtd which oofoTrs
more or leis introdnoed show extremes
in contrasts. An imported dress of djeli
oate bine gros grain has an overskirt of
TV. damasse, while all of the facings,
knots of ribbon, mfe deep
m y\ tle green
of silk and dSSSSs2£k 8 bright
additions; and more>q ,ießtld ®hle in
taste is a superb hunter’s - greenl velvet,
worn with polonaise of hair,
dotted with celestial blue, life xery
elaborate garniture consists of facings
and trimmings of green silk and blue
silk, and fringe of the two oolors United.
There are some extremely rich eostomtas
of damask camel’s hair, thick and soft
and on the dark ground are designs of
an oriental nature in lighter shades of
ferns, allantus, and palms. They cost,
double width, |$ a yard. Bagdad wool
fabrics are made gav with silk or wool
tufted knots and dots woven in gay
Turkish colors on a dark ground. They
are made up with silk pipings to match
the most prominent of the bright spots.
Most exquisite ore the for
evening dresses (to be worn* as over
dresses), called gauze grenadines, of
different styles. Borne are open lace
work, transparent as a cobweb, others
are quite covered with damask and rich
brocade figures. The oolors are exceed
ingly delicate—pale water-green, apricot
pink, cream color, and several tint? of
rosy lilac. A charming evening toilet is
made, of water-grehn gros grain and da
masse, with trimming of rich chenille
fringe. The decollete basqne is cut
square in front and is withont sleeves; a
narrow flouncing of point lace f%Hs oyer,
the armhole and trims the neck; Flow
ers have never been more extensively
used for the decoration of dressesi
There are large clusters of the red and
white Dnbarry rose, the magnificent’
Tender a mine, the psJe straw color,
the Reine Marguerite, and orosifflMea
rose; long garlands of graceful passtou
flower, heliotrope, snd ferns, paurereq
of gorgeous cacti mingled with foliage
plant and salvia; garlands of vivid Au-j
tfitnn leaves, grapes and hops; clusters
of white jassimine spires and lilao, scar
let tropical bads, half hidden in moss.
Entire overdresses are made of flowers
plaosd lengthwise in garlands on a trans
parent foundation, and boquets are
placed indiscriminately wherever there
may be looping of drapery or wherever a
capricious taste may dietsto. To oor-
I respond with the floral garnituresre sets
of jewelry (so oalled) made up of the
brilliant top of a humming bird’s head,
finished with the tiny foot and claws,
others of opalescent little Brazilian
shells, the light green tropical bug,
pretty porcelain- flowers made in Prague,
purple violets, doable pinks, roses, lily
cups sncMily of the yailey; and there
are amber-flies and bags and oostly ear
i rings of butterflies formed of the rarest
gems set in gray piatina.
The last openings disclose some new
shapes in bonnets. The daintiest and
most conspicuous is on® of velvet and
tine French felt, ft heeds very little
trimming except the bwdeau, or loop
of velvet and silk ia front. Some have
a bordering of far on tile edge of the
brim. Black velvet bonnets, of what
ever shape, ate ooneldered more fasbfon
abk, but there are many elegantly
colored hats imported of abh colors
combined as green and am be**- mulberry
and bine, purple and dark poppy red.
del blue and hunter’s green. Seal
sacques are quite aa popular as ever,
and are made more easy and graceful
by the seam in the back, and are ao ex
tensively patronized by ladies who like
to show what Mrs. Mantilini calls
“their outline. ” They are
Last year’s Bacqnes can be lengthened
by a bordering of far of black beaverjj
silvery black martin, chinchilla, uu*
plucked otter, fisher tail and sea otter.
Sets of muff and boa of mink and Alaska
sable are the handsomest of inexpensive
furs, ranging in price from sl6 to S9O.
The beautiful blue fox is ar fashionable
as ever, but cannot etand a wear of more
than one season. The costly Russian
sables are beooming each year more
desirable as they are more scarce. Boas
are longer than those of last year. Chin
chilla takes a high place this season in
fashionable regard. The beantifnl Africa
chinchilla is exquisitely soft and vel
vety, of a dark gray. It is made np into
sets, into saoqnes, to* trimming and for
lining Bacqnes and cloaks, and in this
shape is very costly. Large dolmans
and sacques with loose, hanging sleeves
are a feature of this season, but are
scarcely fitted for an American Winter,
exoephng for carriage wraps. There ia
an infinite variety shewn in dolmans,
short and long sacques, cloaks with form
seams, and luge circulars, all lined with
various kinds of for. These come in
plain groa grain, figured Simllienne, and
silk damask. They are lined with gray
Siberian squirrel, the squir rel-lock, ana
many are trimmed with someone kind
of the legion of fancy fan tot which
there exists so great a demand. Hod
son’s Bay tail trimofinga are sl6 a yard;
fisher tail bands are from sl6 to S9O; the
finest chinchilla <?JJa for $6; brown sea
otter from $lO to $25, and ehtwper bands
o# the pretty black jeannette, black mar
ten, black hare and lynx, range from $1
up to $5.
Bafc lasenwU’a Deetrtee.
Ifrtma BtcmU Speck at Peoria, J7L\
l am m fare* of trying these white;
lincrv-tbese bulldozers. H anything
Republic, i want to see Jiber^M
inland bots. -
. *—
Opr CUnxoWmateat o the Httw ul Weet
eak KmiAhlkMUMi*, BtracfOlle mad
Mhiwi The FeeFto ahd the FWpere-Hew
the ChreeW-le aid etehttee) h Aitrmhlil.
[from Onr Tratobjw CorreipondnLJ
Tbomawton, Unas Cos., Ga , Decem
ber 16.—The sdjonrned harm of Upson
Buperiof Court convened 'here Monday
morning. Hon. John L Hall presiding.
ablest. *Col. J. A. Hunt, SoUcitor-Gen
eral pro fcm., makes a good officer; will
look aftertfce State's business welL The
following attorneys were here from other
places: Judge A. M. Speer, Griffin; Cel.
B. Willta. Tnibotton; Col. W. Wallace,
of Butler. The local bar is oom
posed of Colonel Sandwich, W. X Beall,
rrCotton, T. Beall, W, T. Weaver,
A. C- Green, and J. Y. Allen. Thomas
ton is sixteen miles from the main
branch of the Macon and Western Bail
road. It ia a place of eight hundred in
habitants; two churohes, Methodist and
Baptist; two schools, male and female,
ana a musical school. It thus has every
advantage, and the inhabitants are in
telligent and generous. There are
at present about twenty business
bouses, all Are doing a good business,
one good hotel, a weekly paper, the
Thomas ton Herald, with an able pro
prietor and egutor in the person of Col.
J. C. McMiOhael. The Brass Band,
which I had tfig pleasure of hearing one
night, is composed of several very fine
pieces. The crowd attending the band
called for Jndge'Speer to speak to them
on the “situation,” The Jndge politely
ret tern ed his compliments and begged
them to exense him, as he was not welt.
I send yon of thirty-two new sub
scribers to the Chboniclk and Hbnti
nxl for Thomaston and Upson county.
Almost every business man in the place
subscribed. They only regretted that
they could not get the daily the same
day of its publication. The Chbonicue
and SxNTisEii has many warm friends in
this part of Georgia. This week I have
visited several towns on the Ma
con and Western Bailroad, Monroe and
Barnes villa, Pjke county. Barnesville
is qnite a lively town, does a fine busi
ness, and has a good weekly paper. The
Berneeville Gazette, proprietor and edi
tor, Colonel f, O. MeSfichael. Mr. Mc-
Miohael is an able man and much es
teemed by aIL He has found ont that he
could pot get along alone, so a few weeks
he was married to one of Thomaston’s
sweetest and most charming yonng
ladies, Miss A. M. Sandwich. He had
two good papers before, bnt all of tbe
subscribers will now find that their
papers will vastly improve. Suoeess
to them. While at Barnesville I was in
troduced to-Prof. O. E. Lambdin, A.
M., of the Gen. J. B. Gordon Institute.
The building is new and well arranged.
Last session the sohool had one hundred
and seventy-five scholars. I learn from
the Profesor that he has employed Miss
Bailie Candler, of Gainesville, Hon. A,
D. Candler’s sister. The Professor has
made a good selection by employing
this accomplished lady. May Gordon
Institute flourish as it shonld, for the
principal spares no expense in getting
the best teachers in the State.
Monroe, Forsyth oonnty, Georgia, is
a town twenty miles from Maeon, does
a large trade to be so near Maoon. It
has a good beckly paper, the Monroe
Advertiser, edited by an able and cour
teous gentleman, Col, Henry Cablness.
Mr, King ia the publisher. Monroe has
two good hotels; one .is known as the
Green House; it is well kept. -
I send a list of 45 new subscribers,
got on the Macon and
between Maoon and
MOUTH CAROLINA.
Addreu *r the State Democrat!# Executive
Committee.
Columbia, December 15.—The follow
ing address was issued to-day by the
State committee :
Boom Stmx Executive OoitmnrKE,
2b the Demoaraiio Party of South Car
olina :
The inauguration of Gpvernay Hamp -
Simpson
concluded the labors which the recent
campaign devolved upon the State Ex
ecutive Committee of the Democratic
party, and we take oooasion to express
our gratitude to the Democracy of South
Carolina for its unwavering support of
every measure proposed, and our admi
ration of that spirit of forbearance, sub
ordination and fortitude which has sc
oured universal praise. Amid the ex
citing and aggravating incidents of a
most momentous struggle, enthusiasm
heen tempered with prudence, zeal
with calm juugE’? ll *' an< * ' we ftre oonfi. j
dent that the sublime Hence so sorely
tried by the events of the--last eight
years will still be exeroised until -Abe
end. The fruits of onr viotory are
Bonghttoo *be wrested from onr grasp,
and an iisarping body whose only prop
is Federal bayonets seeks to control !
the State. We feel assured that our
government, which represents the will
of the people and is based upon the con
sent of the governed, will speedily be
come the recognized government in the
State, as we firmly believe that the in
dignant protest of ...the entire people of
these United States, who are not slaves
to party prejudices, will sustain our ac
tion and vindicate onr cause.
Our oampaign has been oondnoted
upon the basis laid down by onr honor
ed ohieftain at the outset, and through
peaceful and lawful agencies we won the
victory, acknowledging the legal and po
litical rights of all classes, and pledging
ourselves to maintain them inviolate.
We know that every pledge of the party
will be redeemed. With kind feelings
for the masses' of the opposition, we
toast exercise magnanimity towards
|hem. Generosity demands that pro
scription shall not be visited upon the.
‘rank and file of the opposite party, sad
earnestly reoommend that steps be
fakeivsi once to guarantee protection to
laborers in every county of the State.
Governor Hampton heartily concurs in
.ibis recommendation, and ge hare his
authority to make it known to the
pnblio.
Under the revere trials of the present
hoar let fortitude mark the conduct of
our partyPmd we urge every Oaroliniao,
witoqak regard to past political affilia
tionff/Btrictly to refuss aliegianoe to the
monsltous usurpation claiming to exer
cise the functions of the State govern
ment, firmly resolving never
tribute on# dollar of taxation for J%ns
tenanoe, and steadily maintaining the
verdict of the people at the ballot box.
Every interest of the present and every
hope of the future age, the peace, pros
perity and happiness of the State for
generations, demand a Arm, unwavering
and persistent determination never, un
der any cirotiiastences, to recognize the
pretended authority of a degraded and
disgraced man whose slander and vitu
peration of onr people will always be re
membered as the emanations of a vin
dictive aud bafied politician and adven
turer, thwarted ia an unholy ambition.
The issue most be made, and to yield is
to seal tbe political fate of a brave peo
ple.
In coacidaion, we urge every one to
resume the Ordinary routine of business,
and seek to widen the avenues of ma
terial prosperity, confiding their cause
to the wisdom ansi conservatism of our
beloved Chief Magistrate, whose course
has ami Ilm iwMWnnwi trail fiwnitud thti
admiration of toe civilized world. : Un
der his guidance and protection,’ the
issue will eventnata in the complete
freedom of onr- hopes, and aspirations,
unless Constitutional Liberty has per
ished in America. • ■
A. 0. Haskell, John D. Kennedy, Jas.
,A. Hoyt, T. B, Fraaer, John Bratton,
JR. O’Neale, Jr., J. Adger Smyth, State
Executive Committee.
THE UREAT REVIVAL.
Twe Thensud Ministers at the Feet el an
Unedseated Man.
[Fromtim Gongregationalizi.}
Chicago, November 28. — The Mass
Christian Convention in connection with
Mr. Moody’s work in this city has been
held, dgvitations to be present by pas
tor and delegatee -had been sent to all
the Evangelical Churohes in the North-*
west, and the response was very general.
There were present abont two thousand
ministers, quite as many delegates, and
an equsJ number of toe “home guard.”
Promptly at 3 o’clock in the afternoon
of Tuesday, November 21,’ Mr. Moody
stepped into his little box platform, and
the first session of toe Convention had
begun. G&e hour spent in prayer and
praise prepares toe Convention to listen
to a lecture from Mr. Moody on “How
to Study the Bible.” It ires a novel
sight—two thousand ministers sitting at
the feet of an .uneducated man, and
learning from him how to study the
Bible 1 They evidently enjoyed it.
At all the meetings Mr. Moody pre
sided, anfl nowhere is bis tact brought
out better than hare. Re takes a meet
ing tight np into hia aontrol, apd newer
lets go of it until he is completely
through. Woo be to any man who
either by long-windedness or inooher
enev of remarks undertakes to interfere
with toe meeting. He would soon be
given to understand, politely, indeed,
Bnt decidedly, Uiat he was talking in toe
wrong place. The sessions were all very
interesting, the Four given to the “ques
tion box’” beia* particularly so. Mr
frnwla questions were
quick { teqnently
Introverted;
m&L ooe f
jfejO,:
is; '
BEN HILL ON THE SITUATION.
The Kecrflui Exprewee* HU View* *■ CSer.
the Coming Political Difilcul
tie*—The Meath I* Ter Peace anS Will
■ Stand By the Uaiear
Washinoton, December 13.—Ben Hill,
being asked by a correspondent his opin
ion of Gov. Hayes, and of the temper of
the Sooth, in regard to tbe present con
dition of affairs, said :
“I regarded Gov. Hayes’ nomination
from the"beginning as a victory over the
altruisms of the fiepnblicsn party. It
was a defeat, in my judgment, of the
militaiy element to be dreaded in the
civil administration of all free govern
ments. It was also a defeat of the
political belligerent element of the Be
pnfflican party, which seems to have no
place for statesmanship or policy, ex
cept to foment sectional bates ’and pas
sions. The South, above all things,
wants an honest administration of the
General Government,' according to the
Constitution. I do not know Gover-,
nor Hayes personally, bnt simply from
the information I get concerning him, I
believe he is an honest and a fair man.
Being a lawyer, he is also familiar with
civil matters, and will natnraily have re
spect for the Constitution and civil
methods. These things being true, he
must necessarily discontinue unwarrant
able interference in the affairs of the
South. He will also naturally desire
the co-operation of the best men in the
South. If this is true, his administration
will be a great gain and improvement
to the Southern people. The Southern
people have no desire to resist the Fed
eral Government, but they do desire to
be regarded as a portion of this com
mon country, and entitled to adminis
tration in the South, exactly as that ad
ministration is extended to other por
tions of the country; and if she can get
this plain, honest administration, and
her best people can be recognized by
the Federal Administration as the prop
er of the Southern in
terest and sentiment, the whole country
will perceive at once that tbe oitraisms
charged upon the South will have no
foundation in fact.
“One thing is certain, the Southern
people want peace. They knew well
what war means. They know that civil
war is a remedy for no wrong, but an
aggravation of all wrongs. Their repre
sentatives in Congress will nse all their
best exertions to seenro a peaceable so
lution of all their troubles. The South
ern military representatives feel, and
feel keenly, the embarassmsnts of their
situation. They are subjects of suspi
cion. This suspicion may be considered
as somewhat natural. As the resalt of
this feeling, they are n*t inclined to
make themselves prominent or conspicu
ous in directing events, bnt yon may
rely upon it, that they will be calm, self
possessed and determined to do what
ever they can to secure a peaceable so
lution of the present difficulties. If war
most come, it wiU not be their fault, and
now let me add; emphatically, that come
, what may, tbe Southern people will re
mam in the Union, and true to the
Union. They have tried seccession, and
, they know it bore no fruit .but bitter
ness. They will never try it again.”
BCHLIEIHANN AND HIS WORK.
What the Learned and Unlearned Think ef
Him and It—A Brief Sketch ef Hi* Discove
ries on the Hite ef Aneient Troy.
YU hen, in 1874, Dr. Heinrich Schiie
mann’s book appeared, entitled “Tro
janische Alterthuemer”—that is, “Tro
jan Antiquities”—it called out a world
of ridicule, criticism and enthu
siasm. As it purported to be a i
account of the discovery of Homer’s
Troy, the learned scholars of the
land of Strauss laughed at it with
mneh satisfaction, and the comic papers,
taking the hint from the universities
abused Dr. Schlitmann in the heavy,
lumbering way of German wits, repre
senting him, for example, as standing
with a skull in his haud and singing that
he knew it was Hecuba’s bj its false
teeth, or with a helmet faljj? recognized
as having been wots by Jlneas, be
cause that illiterate gentleman hadn’t
written hiS'fififiie in the crown. Most
of the best scholars of Europe had long
looked upon Ilion as having bat a my
thical existence, in much the way in
which old Eratosthenes remarked that
lone might trace the wanderings of
Ulysses when he had succeeded in dis
covering the name of the cobbler who
stitched the bag of the winds. They
had, and have very good grounds for
their belief, Dr. Sohliemanu to the con
trary notwithstanding. Bnt the com
mon and unlearned eagerly believed
that old Troy had been found. The man
i who had discovered it was, too, one of
themselves, for the Doctor—he is said
to have received his degree from Got
tingen, hated of Heine—was of an orig
inally poor family, and though he had
always shown great desire of learning
Greek —mainly because of a tipsy schol
■ar who need to recite Homer’s resound
ing verse ink's nresence—he had gained
no knowlege of that most beautiful of
tongues till he was wei,’ .on in years. As
a man he entered a mercantile house,
for which he traveled some years, and
finally, a rich merchant himself, st
abont to look up Troy—the myth—and
prove it a reality. Meantime he had
mastered a good deal of Greek, bnt not
sufficient to prevent him from insisting
that the then glaukofis Athene of col
lege days meant not the “glancing-eyed
goddess Athene,’’ but the “owl-faced
goddess,” an assertion for which Pro
fessor Max Mailer was not long in drop
ping on him from the oolninns of the
London Academy. Grown rich, be de
termined to seek in the Hill of Hissar
lik, which stands just at the junction of
Uie East and West civilizations, in the
region where a connecting link is found
between the primitive Greeks of Asia
and Europe, answers to the type of a
Greek city, and presents the type of the
primeval capital of the East. The weight
.of ancient testimony, as well as much of
the modern, pointed to thit as the site
of Hion. Both Schliemann and his op
ponentj| agreed that Homer never saw
the city, the only difference between'
them being that the Doctor held the
reason to be that in Homer’s day the
city was covered from sight, while the
objectors held it to be that there never
had been any snob oity. Whatever the
final verdict may be, it is eertain that
Sohliemann’s work throws much light
on antique life, and if it is not Troy that
he has found, whence comes that light ?
what was toe buried oity ?
In 1870 Dr. Schliemann began some
preliminary excavations at Hissarlik,
bnt soon after, having obtained a firman
from the Turkish Government—which
did not, however, prevent him from
meeting with many difficulties, placod
in his way by sordid and stupid officials
—he set at work iu earnest, and was
rewarded most richly. From 1871 to
1873 hia researches were systematic;
they were not like Layard's at Nineveh,
bnt oonsisted of borings and trapsversei
cuttings whioh laid open too various
strata below the present surface. The
high antiquity of his finds was attested
by so high an authority as Mr. Charles
Newton, of the British Mnseum, who
went to Athens to examine them; and it
may be added that among those who be
lieved in his general theory was Dr.
Eokenbreeher, the German archaeologist,
who was quite capable of appreciating
at their fall valae the adverse criticisms
“Wftortfae-cohnansDf toe supplements of
the profound Augsburg Allgemeine Zei
tung nsed to be filled week after week.
Many who believed in the reality of old
Troy had held that its trne site was at
Bnrnarbashi, but this the Doctor dis
proved by excavating at the spot and
finding nothing. It seems fair to say
that if tbe windy Troy” ever existed,
the Hill of Hissarlik was the right place
in whioh to seek for ft. Among the first
of bis discoveries was the fact that Ilion,
if there it bad been, had sank to decay
before the time of Constantine the
Great, as, though later coins of his day
were found neqr the surface, none of
Constantine were found further down.
The top of the hill was Greek, then
came puzzling transitions to a sort of
“stone age,” bnt between forty and fifty
feet beneath toe surface the Doctor
found—Troy, as he, without tfa slight
est show of reholarjy hesitation, ““fj 18 '
The whole hill was, in his o#s * or “f’“
“oornuoopi®” of treasure/ch in terra
cottas, bnt many of thqp beanng not
toe remotest resemblanf to worksof
Hellenic art The fi# settlers of
the Hill were e-nflntly ot Ar
yon origin, as was r wa * b
symbols. The of 1878 prov
ed, to the on. t
Homer’s Trojans mty on
the debris ofthe J r town. Here he
found, at from #ty-tbrre to ttorty-
surface, much of
red ashes of toe GreS
ten feet -f oove toe ureal
Tf 01 US'™
bowels of the far
fLed woJThorsc °f toe treacherons
Jwkß-dEresan Gate, and the “great
, which, says Homer, was
to, Apollo, and “rose
i .wtoßsTennyßoutells ns, “to amu-
Loathed.” The illustrations
I of tiJwot in I>r. Schliemann’s book
, ?v.aiP*at, in the one case, music had
njJry worthy architectural powers,
; .jßnthe Other, that Poseidon and
, Mio were not doing their utmost to
JBifa, gods in the construction of the
fcLJThe Baibas of toe Latin readers *
if obably built walls much bettor. The
f led ashes, wfth other evidence, show
fchatthe mtvjraa destroyed by some
gtoat ot%fctian. and that it was de
stroyed bv’enemias in war is shown by
tbe great cumber of skeletons with hel
mets found deep down in the “Temple
of Athene,” and this goddess was, ae
oaxding to Homer, the divinity ;
of Troy. Treasure of great value wan
alao found, as if abandoned in haste,
ibis treasure was discovered in the
large inclosing wall by toe palace. • That
Dr. Schliemann, who believes this toi
have been the site of* Troy, from _ the
agreement of its details with those given
by Homer, is somewhafSiazzled by his
enthusiasm is well shown by his remark
that “the city had no Acropolis, and
that the Pergamus is apnre invention of
Homer,” simply because tbe excava
tions bring to light nothing of toe sort.
In the Trojan debris wore layers of
splendid pottery and some fonr-stringed
lyres.
His discoveries at what be believes to
be the site of Troy are highly valuable,
bnt inconclusive in the establishment of
his thesis. Bnt his views may very well
be shown, with their strength and weak
nefs.combined, by the following quota
tion from his book : “ I cannot, of
oonree, prove that tbe name of this king,
the owner of this treasure, was really
Priam; bnt I give him this name be
cause he is so called by Homer and in
all the traditions. All that I can prove
is that the palace of the owner of this
treasure, this last Trojan king, perished
in the great catastrophe which destroy
ed the Hcfflan Gate, the great surround
ing wall, and the Great Tower, and
which desolated the whole oity.”
Dr. Schliemann’s recent discoveries at
the site of Myceme, not having the great
doubt in regard to the site of a real city
which may fairly be thrown upon the
finding of a city believed by most schol
ars, and on good grounds, to be a myth,
are more welcome. The little oity of
Argolis surely existed —but as to the
discovery of the tomb of Agamemnon,
let ns not be too enthusiastic. The
Doctor ia too ready to give names to
things, and that is his only trouble. His
funds will be of incalculable value to
arebmologists and the general world
which cares for antiquity, and he should
have fall credit for them. .
STATE. .
HOW FLORIDA WAS STOLEN.
Report ef n. Massachusetts Democrat Ou the
Evils of Caret-Ba* Role ia the Alligator
State.
[By Telegraph, to the HeraSt J
Boston, December 16. —Colonel Lev
eret Saltonstall, one of the distinguished
visitors from Massachusetts to Florida,
gave an account of his visit before the
Boston Democrats this afternoon. Af
ter allnding to the natural beauty and
wealth of Florida and the evils carpet
bag government have wrought there, he
said: Governor Stearns has the appoint
ment of 796 officers, as I see by the
papers I hold in my possession. Every
officer in the State, excepting constables
and members of the Assembly are ap
pointed by this Governor. He has the
bestowal of every privilege in the State
of every-name and nature. The whole
political machinery in the State is in his
power, and he holds his power for four
years. There is nothing like this any
where to be found, except, perhaps, in
some of the Republics of Central Ameri
ca. Let me tell you what this power
giveg him in the matter of an election.
The County Commissioners have the ap
pointing of the precincts where the bal
loting is carried on; they can establish
two precincts at a eertain point, and.not
another within fifty miles. This prac
tice has been very conspicuously fol
lowed for the purpose of polling a
larger Republican vote in Republioan
districts, which are the negro districts of
the State.
Ne White Republicans in the Slate.
1 do not believe there is in the State a
white maxi who ta a Republican, unless
he is connected with Governor Stearns’
administration. My reason for believ
ing this is that wl>;fe we were holding
these importftfit hearingii upon the can
vass of returns there were men who
can}6 to ns from every portion of the
State—lawyers, politicians, business men
and private citizens —some of the most
respectable people in the State—who
showed intense interest and a firm belief
in a Democratic result. The Republi
can side had to be carried on entirely
by the Senators who were sent there by
the administration at Washington. The
poor blacks are worse slaves to-day than
in the olden times—the slaves of Gov
ernor Stearns and his political asso
ciates. They have been compelled to
do whatever Stearns and his associates
desire, be that what it may, or they go
down bill with the poor white to starva
tion.
Enormous Taxation.
The government of the State has
been so infamous, in every respect, tha|,
the value of the property of the State
was taxed three or four times since
1860 withont making any exception of
the property of the slaves. I refer to
valuation of real estate and personal
property. Notwithstanding this the
taxation has been quadrupled ; ay, in
eases made six or eight times greater,
and the taxation of Florida to-day is far
larger than its annual produce of crops;
In other words this rich, magnificent,!
fruitful soil does not produoe, under its
present government, enough to pay the
tax&3 of the State. The men who hold
toe power, whom I have alluded to, are
determined never to give it up. They
have framed a constitution for their
own pit.poses, as yon see ; but, gentle
men, when some of onr kind hearted,
sensiblevmen tied fault with us for go
ing to Florida and say “ WHat have
strangers to do with the canvassing of
the State returns ?” let me tall them
we went there at the earnest appeal and
solioitatioD of the tried men of Florida.
They were the ones who appealed to'nr,
in the strongest ten s to go down there i
and give them countenance and support. |
CauntinK Ont” That Fays.
In 1878 eight whole counties were
conn ted out by the Returning Board,
which, ha'd the total vote polled in then},
been allowed, would have overturned the
government of Stearns by a large Demo
cratic majority and placed tbe adminis
tration of the State in the hands of its
own citizens. From that time to this
the returns have been manipulated by
canvassing boards, so shamelessly, too,
that they have never made any effort to
conceal the fact that they did this for
their own purposes, The Supreme
Court of Florida, I am happy to say, is
represented by three honest men, Chief
Justioe Randall and his two associate
justices are the exceptions to the great
rule of the office Waders of Florida.
A IHoektKr of Justice.
All the lower Coupts ate represented
by men of the lowest possible order.
For example, the one Uircttfc Judge who
came into the ofljee of toe Returning
Board day after dayjdfho. when arrested
for drunkenness iifffie streets sMd com
mitted to the lock opr, brought a writ of
habeas corpus; returnable to himself,
for the return of his own body. [Roars
of laughter.] One gentleman told me
that there had bpen in his county ten
murders—murders of mpn and of
negrops—and bh* a single ope of the
perpetrators, though they were all
known, was ever brought to Court or
convicted or in any way punished.
Despair of tbe People#
At all times of the day, and pretty
much all night, these poor people came
to ns and poured ont their tale. of woe.
Thgf asked me : “What do yon tell us
to ao if this conspiracy is carried out in
Florida —if this carpet-bag government
is returned again after the immense ex
ertions we have made to everthrow it ?”
I told them they must rest apon their
old Anglo-Saxon privileges, be patient
and wait and try to reform their govern
ment, that the time would come when
they would obtain redress. Their an
swer was : “We cannot exist four years
longer, gur people cannot lire another
four years without change of govern
ment,” and J believothpif story to be no
exaggeration. Remember, my friends,
I was not in the better portion of the
State, on the eastern shore,, at Jackson
ville, and on the St. John rjyer, where
the Northern people pass toe Winter
and leave their money behind them. My
experience was in the western central
part of the State, in and near the Capi
tal, Tallahassee—a place which, one can
see, mast have been very beautiful with
its handsome houses and its charming
gardens; bnt now, alas ! toe bouses are
closed and crumbling to decay. In
many instances the gardens are overrun
with weeds, moss covering the veran
dahs, and everything bearing the im
press of neglect snd desertion.
Hw the Freeds Were Perpetrated.
Yon will ask me abont this question
of toe returns, and how I claim this
fraud was carried ont; for that the re
sult was reached through fraud no hon
est, fair-minded man will donbt. I can
only say that fraud was everywhere to
be seen. In trying to. tell yon how I
claim'that the country was swindled
ont of a good, honest majority thrown
for Mr. Tilden, and a still larger ma
jority thrown for Mr. Drew, the Demo
oratio candidate for Governor of Flori
da, I know hardly what first to specify.
From the beginning it was the deter
mination of the Canvassing Board to
have ton vote of tbe State counted for
the Republican candidates. We oalled
on Governor Stearns and said : “Tbe
whole people of the United States are
intently interested in this question,
and we Nape yon will proceed with
Urif canvass: Yon have the returns
froift the grefter part of the oonntiee,
and we hope the Betiyning Board may
be fngttßCtod ito proreed immediately
to caisVaas there returns. ” He was non
commitai, and skid that “perhaps they
would and perhaps they would not”—
We asked-hum a number of other ques
tions, and he answered in mneh the
sam© tn^wiri^K.
Dennis, the Utility Man. .
. There is a man in Florida named Den
nis, who represents the brains ol the
Administration; if any affidavits were
wanted: Mr. Dennis would disappear, and
in a short time fifty affidavits would be
brought up; if a witness was intro
duced on the part of the Conservatives
he was always on hand ready to creep
up to the side of the witness and whis
per something in his ear, and if it was
possible put something into his hand.
Every officer in AUachna county is ap
pointed by Mr. Dennis, and, therefore,
these people are entirely under his con
trol, and off go their heads if they do
not toe the line. He is a sample of the
sort of men you see around the Gover
nor of Florida.
Tile Returning Board.
The Canvassing Board, consisting of
the Secretary of State, Mr. McLin;
Comptroller Cowgill, and Attorney-Gen
eral Cocke, all gave a hearing. The At
torney-General I “thought a fair man.
He is a little slow, and becomes at times,
I think, a little eoDfused, but. a man of
strict integrity. He wished to do exaot
ly what was right. Mr. McLin is not so
good appearing a man; he is editor of
the Tallahassee Sentinel, a Radical par
tisan paper; he gives one the impression
of a very violent partisan. Mr. Cowgill
seemed anxious to do right, but he cer
tainly in the canvassing of this ease
veered to the other side very strongly.
His decision was unaccountableand out
rageous. Ido not know what influenced
him at the last, but I was certainly dis
appointed.
Routine of the Returns.
The County Clerk receives from the
various precincts the returns. He is
obliged to make up the returns of his
county from these precincts, and to for
ward one copy to the Governor or the
Secretary ol State and file one in the
office of the Clerk of the county. The
Democratic committee, who, by the way,
are an earnest, excellent, most disinter-*
ested set of men—Messrs. Passooe, Ro
ney and others. This oemmittee re
ceived from these counties certified
copies ol the returns in the County
Clerk’s office, so that we know what the
returns on their face ought to be. They
read precisely as our returns read until
they come to the county of Baker,
which they manipulated in this way. It
was an utterly fraudulent return. There
can be no question that the administra
tion of Florida was bound to compass
its ends, to manipulate the vote and
staff the ballot boxes, if that were
necessary, in order to succeed; but the
people of Florida had risen in their
might and labored night and day to
overthrow the government of Stearns.
Hard Democratic Work.
' One gentleman told mo he had ridden
2,500 milles daring the time between the
National Convention and the day of
voting. I refer to Colonel Calla, the
Democratic candidate for eleotor. By
this work and sacrifice of their time
they carried the election for the Tilden
electors by a cleat majority of ninety
five, according, to the face of the returns.
Now, then, while the Board carried on
the hearing with a great show of fair
ness, they actually threw out Manatee
county giving a Democratic majority of
236 votes, a county as regularly returned
and enrolled as any in the State.
The only Republican votes out off were
sixty from Jefferson county, the election
not being held at the appointed place.
There was a net abstraction from Tilden
electors of 1,068 votes. In the case of Ala
chua county they accepted a false return
from Archer pricinot, which was proven
beyond all controversy to have been
substituted for the geaise retur£r'au(!
JVhicfc increased the total vole of the
preoint from 326 to 535; and the Repub
lican majority from 44 to 278 after the
final hearing. It was reported among
the resident managers of the place that
Governor Stearns had said that he
wonld never sign the returns of Hayes’,
electors unless they were sufficient to
carry him into effioe.
Determination.
It was a conceded faot that Stearns
was not elected; that the Republican
Congressmen were not elected. People
said “Oh, well> he cannot do that.” But
it was done. On the morning of the 6th
of December we were informed that
they had carried the State by a majority
of 1,068, whioh put (Governor Stearns,
with his carpet-bag officers, into power
again, and sent the Republican candi
dates to oohgresß. Now, then, let me
tell you a little incideut connected with
the way in whioh this thing was carried
on by the gentleman representing the
administration, Mr. W. E. Chandler.
He boosted the day before in the office
bf the hotel that he had received from
Louisiana a message giving account of
the, majority for Hayes eleotors of over
3,00. It was so incredible that he was
accuse! of stating an nntrnth. I was
afterward informed that a similar dis
patch wjts sent to Louisiana showing a
Republican majority in Florida of 1,000.
The wires were then cut in three places.
This yfde done to enable the country to
read ih the papers that Florida and
Louisiana had gone Republican by those
large majorities, and to prevent us
from telling how it was done, or sending
any contradictory message. The wires
were mend y.l in the night and again out
in morning. I was a witness to the
whoie of the iniquity of the Florida
government Every time that any thing
was i one b? the managers -f was pres
ent. I say the affidavits that were
brotfc ht infby the bushel by the Repub
lican , affidavits of men who could not
sign - aeir own nacres, written in one
handwriting ; they had the names of
dead men upon i them ; they had the
same dames two or three times repeated
ion an affidavit l they bad the same
frames on diStyjmt affidavits. These
My/dniits were bqmght in by fifties, by
Hjkdteds, as whereas our evi
all cases a testi
-1 >
story o i m -
i u: ■
draw jjjr’i
the tiruWß gf- •••'
oifHHm word
t eunsid. jHHtjfe . dsi‘ country
,ny i.n, JgF -Mam- lias
oar V; is 1 1 *-_* .jdUKptjg- ‘* ’JjWkert hro w
the 'hoi ‘V-1.-
Hon ■'■tc-o
so at (
our country, tlf.-'
all that, the peoplcpMplk'’ ’• if GifSalljt
regard with
the great, pillar of *
ministintiori which hilH ,
enty ard ignorance
landau. ;iy td the vergejß
stMTUII ‘fOIiTOV-.
N . W IlfM topiiK Ills ill 1 111-
r> I I (Mini in liases l ,V \ v
mi ImpemliiiK llcmucmtic
•Hem Out. .
Washington, December
can be no question of Senator M^H
uncommon proficiency in briuf
hood to the birth and promoting
cessful delivery, and Washi
been rife all day with a curionslywß
sistent story which explains SenaflH
Morton’s hasty departure last night
the necessities of a gigantic
the able lieutenants of the Indiana benl
ater finds themselves unequal. Signs of
ebbing popular favor at every point in
the Republican campaign have been met
by the invention of some new scandal or
the discovery of some fresh falsehood
About the Democratic party. Since the
election, pretty steady lying has been
pretty steadily kept up by a lot of men
of rare experience and proficiency to
convince the Nor‘a that anew rebellion
was then, had been, ar would be in
progress at the South, Within a
week past letters have been re
ceived by Southern Democrats in Con
gress asking advice as to the approach
ing organization of armed forces, letters
which have been uniformly traced to
Republican sources and were intended
to lnre men into nnwiae and hasty ex
pressions. Circalars to the same end
have gone th rodgh the South, forged by
Republicans and sent to Democrats in
the vain hope that men who could not
be forced by violence to violent meas
ures might be trapped into equivocal ut
terances, 4H this has failed. The mar
vellous self control of onr fellow-citi
zens at the South, the singular self
possesaion of their leaders and the men
they led have blighted these lies at the
birth. They have fallen still-born, and
as public confidence retorns, the despe
rate gamesters, whose desperate game
can succeed only by a breach of the
public peace, are altogether like
ly to invent disturbance at the
North, and lie about anew re
bellion at the Sentb. There are diffi
culties in the way. The story must de
ceive Northern men, must be told of
Northern men in Northern papers by
Northern politicians. It is currently
believed that Morton, and only Morton,
is equal to the task. He has his whole
story to invent, and it is churned that he :
has gone to Indianapolis to produce the
gigantic and rounded lie. A great or
ganization will be discovered, with
books and lists and passwords and grips
and other blood-curdling secrets of a
more frightful riot. The recent meet
ings at Indianapolis had to do with it; ’
the meetings of next January have more. 1
The Cabinet meeting to-day actually
spent its time in listening to reports on '
the stildect, and tfifl-country is shortly ,
expected to spend its tim e'in listening to 1
the same report, with the trifliagdiffer- }
ence that while the Cabinet cannot be '
expected to believe the liesof itsfrieinjs,
the Cabinet will expect the country ftt
believe the Hfl of its friends. Senator
Morton among them. A hasty confer
ence was hl4 yesterday at the Capitol
between Ohanorer, Cameron and Mor
ton. It may or may not have its bear
ing upon Senator Morton’s trip and the
reports in to-day’s Cabinet meetings,
bat whatever their bearing, there ean
be no question that for the coming
weeks no effort will be spared to put the
Democrats in the wrong by count, sug
gestion, plot, and open and audacious
lying, first and chiefest from the State
of Indiana. Meanwhile no scintilla of
evidence exists to support these false
hoods, and no ohecks will be given by
them to the consistent and constitution
al agitation for the rights of the people.
Ohio is soon to follow the example of
Indians..
vegetTne
PURIFIES TIE BLOOD,
Renovates and Invigorates the
Whole System.
ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE
ALTERATIVE, TONIC, SOLVENT
AND DIURETIC.
VEGETINE i made exclusively from the
juices of carefully selected barks, roots and
herbs, and so strongly concentiated that it
will effectually eradicate from the system
every taint of Scrofula, scrofulous Hu
mor, Tumors, Cancer, Canceious Hu
mot, Evysipela . Salt Reuui, Syphi
litic Diseases, Canker, Fa ntness at
the Stomach, and all diseases that arise
from impure blood. Sciatica, Inflamma
tory aud Chronic Rheumatism, Neu
ralgia, Hunt and Spinal Complaints,
can only be effectually cured througb the
blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptive Diseases of
the Skin, Pustules, Pimples, Blotches,
Boils, Tetter, Scald-head and Ring
worm, YEGETiNE has never failed to effect
a permanent cure.
For Pains in the Back, Kidney Com
plaints, Dropsy, Female Weakness,
Lencorrhcsa, arising from internal ulcera
tion, and uterine diseases and General De
bility, VEGETINE acts directly upon the
causes of tnene complaints. It invigorates and
strengthens the whole system, acts upon the
secretive organs, allays inflammation, cures
ulceration and regulates the bowels.
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual
Costiveness, Palpitation of the Heart,
Headache, Piles, Nervousness and
General Prostration of the Nervous
System, no medicine has given such per
fect satisfaction as the VEGETINE. It purifies
the blood, cleanses all the organs, and pos
sesses a controlling power over the nervous
system.
The remarkable cures effected by VEGE
TINE have induced many physicians and apo
thecaries whom we know to prescribe and use
it in tbeir own families.
In fact, VEGETINE is the best remedy yet
dieoovered for the above diseases, and is the
only reliable BLOOD PURIFIER yet
placed before the public.
THE BEST EVIDENCE.
The following letter from Eev. E. 8. Best,
Pastor of M. E. Onurcli, Natick, Mass., will be
read with interest by ma.iy physioians. Also,
those suffering from the same disease as af
flicted the son of the Rev. E. 8. Best. No per
son can doubt this testimony, as there is no
doubt about the curative powers of VEGE
TINE :
Natick, Mass., January 1, 1874.
Mr. H. R. Stevens : Dear Sir—We have good
reason for regarding your VEGETINE a medi
cine of the greatest value. We feel assured
that it has been the means of saving our son's
life. He is now seventeen years of age; for
the last two years he has suffered from necro
sis of his leg, caused by scrofulous affection,
and was so far reduced that nearly all who saw
him thought his recovery impossible. A coun
cil of able physicians could give us but the
faintest hope of his ever rallying, two of the
number declaring that he was bejond the
reach of human remedies, that even amputa
tion could not save him, as lie had not vigor
enough to endure the operation. Just thou we
commenced giving Inin ViyujiiTlNE, and tiOUi
that time to the present he has been continu
ously improving. He has lately resumed hiH
studies, throwiyaway his crutches and oane,
and walks about cheerfully and strong.
Though there is still some discharge from
the opening where the limb waß lanced, we
have the fullest confidence that in a little timo
he will be perfectly oured.
He has taken about three dozen bottles of
VEGETINE. but lately uses but little, as be
declares that he is too well to bo taking medi
cine. Kespectfullyyours, E. 8. Best.
' Mbs. L. O. F. Best.
ALL DISEASES OF THE BLOOD.
If VEGETINE will relieve pain, cleanse, pu
rify and cure such diseases, restoring the pa
tient to perfect health after trying different
physioi'ins, many remedies, suffering for years,
is it not conclusive proof, if you are a suff ror,
you can be cured ? Why is this medicine per
forming such great cures ? It works in the
blood, in the circulating fluid ? ‘lt can truly be
called the GKIiAT BLOOD PURIFIER. The
great Houroe of disease originates in the blood,
and no medicine that does not act directly up
on it, to purify and renovate, haß any just
claim upon public attention.
Recommend it Heartily.
South Boston, February 7, 1870.
Mu. Stevens ; Dear Sir—l have taken seve
*al bottles of your VEGETINE, and am con
vinced it iB a valuable remedy for Dyspepsia,
Kidney Oomplainr, and general debility of the
system. .
I oan heartily reoommend it to all suffering
from the above complaints. Tours, respect
fully, Mrs. Monroe Parker,
386 Athens Street.
Prepared by H. R. STEVENS, Boston,
Mass.
Vegetine is Sold by ill Druggists.
uovl9—wlm
MAKE TOUR_ FORTUNE!
GRAND Ki.TRA DRAWING,
LOUISIANA
STATE LOTTERY COMPANY,
ItJCOBIvaATED 1868. CAPITAL, $1,859,000.
At W Orleans, Monday, Dec. 4tb. 1876.
NO SCALING I
NO POSTPONEMENT!
CAPITAL PRIZE $50,000.
Only 30,000 Tickets at S2O Each.
FRACTIONS IN PROPORTION.
of Prizes.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE $50,000
1 “ 20,000
1 “ “ 10,000
10 PRIZES AT SIOOO 10,000
25 “ 500 12,500
100 “ 300 30,000
200 “ 200 40 000
500 “ 100 50,000
2000 “ 20 40,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
Approximation Prizes of #300... #2,700
200... 1,800
H. 100... 900
Prizes, amounting to $208,900
must be made by express or
letter.
orders foittmXets or requests for fuller
Hroroatiou to Mhade to
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| NEW ORLEANB.
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V THE FIRST REGULAR
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.STEAM ENGINES !
HI More effective and more
eomplete, and more readi
ly adapted to the various
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WOOD, \ TABER A MORSE,
EATON. MADISON CO., N. Y.
Christmas Imm
C, J. T.
136 Broad Stre^j
Between Msßimient jnd Centre SPts,
New SHAWLS from 80e. up to $lB- \ j
New FELT SKIRTS from 3fe- to SB. '
Mew FELT CLOAKS for children. \
Plain and rlaid DRESS GOODB. V
Silk SCARFS, SiUt Pocket HANDKERFB.\
WFi/ra COLLARS and CUFFS. Etc., m!
great variety and AT VERY LOW PRICES.
For the accommodation of those who can
not welt come in the day time, I wUI keep
my establishment open JEVERitoNIGHT THIS
WEEK UNTIL NINE O’CLOCK^
1. J. T. BALE.
New A dvertleem entn.
: c l q_A k sT
We will open to-day the most
i magnificent line of Extra Long Mate
' lasse, Basket Cloth, and Fine Beav
er Cloaks ever shown in the city.
Our Stock of Medium Low-priced
Cloaks will be Found to Surpass
anything yet offered.
For Fine Black and Colored Silks,
Black and Colored Cashmers, and
Dress Goods in General, Damasks,
t Towels, Napkins, Doilies, Hand
kerchiefs, Hosiery, Gloves, &c. Our
Stock Excels any in the South in
I Variety and Prices.
Parties desiring to make hand
; some and useful Christmas Pres
: ents will find it to their ‘interest to
; examine our Stock before purchas
: ing.
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.
defi!2-tf
GREAT EXCITEMENT
ETBiDf OH TflE WBOI!
CHRISTMAS ALMOST HERE
l f—
; CHRISTMAS PRESENTS “ALL TIE SO.’’
THE PLACE TO GET THEM,
1.. mCHABDS'
AUGUSTA DRY GOODS STORE.
WHERE YOU WILL FIND THE MOST MAGNIFICENT STOCK OF DRY GOODS AND
Notions in the city. Dress Goods of every description—from the fineßt to the cheapest,
in all the now colors. Black Goods—in Crapo, Olotlis, bombazines, Henriettas, Cashmers ,nd
Alpacas, from the finest to the lowest prices. Calicoes—best makes, from 8 cents to 6 cents a
yard. Miscellaneous—Furs from fine to $2 a set. cloaks from fine to $2 each. Shawls from
fine to 25 oents each. Ladi s' Neckties, a great variety, from the finest to beautiful, all silk, at
' 25 cents each. Belts of every kind, from the finest Zone belt to 10 cents each. Handkerchiefs
—Embroidered, Silk, Hemstitch, from the finest to the lowest prices. Gents’ Neckties, Bows
and Scarfs, the newest styles and colors. Gents' Hnndlierchiofs in linen and silk, from the old
Bandana to the cheapest. Gloves for Gents, Ladies and Children—a great variety. Gents’
l Cotton Flannel Drawers oft he best material, made in a superior manner. Gents’ Merino Shirts
and Drawers from fine to at) cents each. Ladies’ aud Misses’ Merino Undervests and Pautalettß
from fine to 50 cents each. Doylies and Napkins, from flue to 50 ceuts a dozen. Towels from
i fine to 6J oents each. Table Damask from flue to lower grades. Turkey Bed Damask, a supe
-1 lior article for ill a yard. Turkey Bed Table Cloths, beautiful designs, all sizes. Piano Cov
ets, beautifully embroidered, all colors. Bed Spreads from fine Marseilles to 75 cents each.
Bed Blankets from the finest to the lower grades. Flannels, all kinds and prices. Cotton
Flannels, from the fine English to 10 oents a yard. Cloths—Cassimers, Waterproofs, Jeans.
The Fredericksburg Cassimers, all at the lowest prices. The "Wenck” Perfumes and Toilet
Preparations, Extracts, Colognes, Florida Water, etc., etc—tho best in use. Perfumers and
Atomizers—a Lady’s toilet not complete without one. Fancy Articles—Jet Jewelry. Necklaoes,
Shawl Pins, Soar! Pins, Hair Brushes, Tooth Brushes, Hair Pins, Combs, Satchels] Toy Trunks,
Pocket Books, Razor Bteel Scißsors, Machine Needles and thousands of articles, all at the low
est prices. All Domestic Goods at Factory prices, by the piece. Motto : Not to he Undersold.
Old friends and customers from the country will please give me a call before making purchases
£lßc~hete. T wi” guarantee to do better by them than I could while connected with the Fred
ericksburg Store, as lam now ALL ALONE, and my expenses a groat deal leas. Those at adis
i tance that oaonot visit the city Bend for and make your selections from the best stock
in the city at the .owest prices. Will pay ail Express charges to your nearest depot, when your
order amounts to $lO and over at Retail per cash, or the Goods to be sent C. O. D. Ploaso send
i your orders direot, as I will take great plcasuro in filling them, whether small or large.
L. RICHARDS,
declo-tf 209 Broad Street. N“xt door to Jas. G. Bailie A Bro’s Carpet Store.
D**y Goods! Dry Goods!
P. & M. GALLAHER
HAVE just received their Fall and Winter Stock of DRY GOODS, consisting
elegint line of of an
Dress Goods in All ike New
A SUPERB Stock of MOURNING GOODS, such as Bombf • u .
Merino, Henrietta Cloth, etc. A complete Ktock of l*
Linen, Towling, Napkins, Doylies and Marseilles Quilts. BLACKS uS aWt a St Irish
Kbbo B nT baZill6B ' NOTIONB ' ° orßetS ’ Ki “ G,OVeB N^B2^BSiSS^d
West-of-England Broadcloths, Doeskin g egt p re iach and
American Cassimers, a lull Stock of
kentack^£aiig,
ALL OF AT BOTTOM PRICES.
P. & M. GALLAHER,
Just the Things for Christmas
AND
New Year’s Presents !
Another Assortment of Black Silks, similar to the one just solo out, will
arrive during the first part of the week by express, and will be sold a t
prices that will astonish those desirous of purchasing such Goods.
Also, anew selection of Handsome Cloaks will be displayed on Monday
morning, at
MULLARKY BROTHERS’,
2<U BROAD STREET.
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An Immense Auction Sale.
$1,500,000 WORTH OF DRY~~GOODS~SOLD IN FOUR HOURS!
The Leaders of I Prices,
J. B. WHITE X CO.,
LIMITED. w
aLORIOUS BARGAINS for tho People, Terrific Panic and Everlasting Tumble in Dir
Goods; the Auction Rooms of New York overloaded every week smashing up. SPLEN
DID CHANCE FOR REAL CHEAP BARGAINS from oor buyer in New York City attending
every Auction S&les. Every failure, by bia connection with the Sheriff, the Assignee and the
United States Marshal, we are able to offer bargains heretofore unkown to the people, and
whioh will attract the masses from every quarter, embracing many Rich and Costly Goods
thrown away to meet the dreadful emergencies of this terrific political storm.
READ THE STORY-EVERYTHING THE BEST
100 sets Children’s Furs at sl, $1 25 and $1 50.
600 sets Ladies’ Furs at $1 7b, $2, $2 50, and up to $35 a set.
300 large Shawls at 20c. each.
500 large Shawls at 60c aud 753 each.
20 yards American Cambric for sl.
1,000 dozen Children’s Striped Menno Hose at 5c per pair.
SO pieces Elegant Flack Alpaca at 25c to 40c —Goods always sold for 40c and 75c.
25 pieces CarpetiDg at 18c.
100 dozen Towels at 6jc each.
20 pieces Colored Silk at 76c per yard.
300 pieces Lonsdale Shirting at 9]c.
50 dozen Ladies’ Undervests at 650, worth $1 25.
250 pairs Blankets, slightly soiled, in 10-4 aud 11-4, at $2 40 and $2 50 a pair.
60 pieces Canton Flannel at 80, 9o and 10c.
700 Sets Pars, from $1 to $35.
250 Beautiful Cloaks at a sacrifice. *
300 dozen Felt and Chivot Bhirts from Ssc to sl.
600 pieces Oassimeres and Jeans will be cleared out regardless of valne.
Ribbed Cassimere and Wool Jeans at 26c and 35c per yard, worth 60c and 65c.
20 pieces Brown Table Eamajk at 25c per yard.
20 pieces Black French tWishmere, all Wool, at 65e.
10 pieces Black French Cashmere, all Wool, something elegant, at 900 and sl.
300 Amer can Shawls at 60c eaoh.
100 AAA American Shawls at 250 each.
200 pieces Bed and White Flannel at 20 to 35c.
6 Beautiful Paisley Shawls must be cleared. .
We believe in selling cheap Goods and baying from forced sales, where
Goods scarcely ever bring 50c. on tbe sl, this enabling ns to offer
Goods to tke people at much less than the slow coaches and regular old
fogies can buy them.
100 dozen Spool Silk, 20 yards, for lc each.
600 dozen Best Black Spool Silk, 100 yards, 4 for 2So,
600 dozen Ladiee’ White Cotton Hese at 10c.
300 dozen India Ties at lc each.
5,000 Ladies’ Linen Collars at ie each.
60 dozen Hip Gore Corsets at 26c each.
100 dozen Corsets, something vtry good, 50o: Pins 2c a paper; Needles, s paper; Hair
Pics, lea paper£Hftir Brushes, 12Jc; Blacking, 2}e a box; Handkerchiefs, 3ot h.
300 doen Two-Button Kid Gloves at 50c a pair.
The Celebrated Harris Seamless Kid Glove, $1 60 and $2.
100 dozen Best Uulaundred Shirts made at $1 each.
200 dozen Finished and Landred Shirts at 50o.; 100 pieoea Sheeting 10-4 aud 11-4 at 18c, 200
and 250 a yard, bonght at Stewart’s big forced sale.
Here is our battle ground, and from these ramparts we invite and defy opposition, compe
tition and monopoly, and we call upon the people to examine mat'dilese Gooods and matchless
prices. Submitted to the people by the manager of *
J. B. WHITE & CO., Limited.
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PLANTERS LOU AID SiWS BANK,
v 883 Broad Street,
CAPITAL, -1- - SIOO,OOO, WITH STOCKHOLDERS LIABILITY*
Interest Allowed on Deporite,
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