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A Wonderful Cure.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
j* * y; : u;.—
‘‘Tick! tick!” went the clock, sounding as
softly as the August rain-Urops on a moss
fringed brooksidc; “chirrup, chirrup, chee
ee-ee!” twittered the canary-bird, as if it were
talking under its breath! Even the coals
clinked softly down upon the fender, as if
they had their doubts upon the likelihood
of disturbing somebody. The floor was
carpeted with Turkey pUe—the doors listed
—the'very light shut out from the windows
by crossing and intercrossing folds of silk
and lace and linen draperies, and there was
a faint smell of cologne and red lavender
through the room.
“Please, ma’am, here comes your tea,”
said a white~aproned attendant—and then,
and not ttfl then, a heat! became visible in
a perfect maelstroom of perfumed, lace
edged pillows.
“Jefferson, I wish you'd have the hinges
of that door oiled at once,” spoke a fretful,
complaining voice. ‘ It’s nothing but creak,
squeak, squeak, creak, the whole time! I’m
nearly wild with the noise.”
“Yes, ma'am, immediately, mu m,” assen
ted Mrs. Jefferson ‘*Try and sit up. now,
there's a dear, and have a little sup of \ux.
It'll do you all the good in the world! And
here** the wing of a broiled ekichen, and a
slice of toast beautifully brow ned, ma’am,
and a soft-boiled egg.”
“I couldn’t eat a morsel, Jefferson,” sighed
Mrs. Penfield. But for all that, she allowed
herself to be bolstered up,and was making
quite a respectable headway upon the toast
and chicken wing, when the offending door
gave a tremendous squeak, and in walked a
handsome blonde-mustached man of about
thirty, to wit, Mr. Pen field.
“Well, Deflyr cried out this visitor, stum
bling over a ioptstoo! in the eemi-darkness,
and knocking the sugar-bowl aiid two tea
spoons off the tray. 1 And how do you find
yourself this morning?”
Mrs. Penfield put her hand to her brow,
and sank helplessly back among the pil
lows. Nurse Jefferson Fifted a warning fin
ger.
“My mistress is dreadful nervous this
morning, sir,” she said, in the professional
sick room whine. “She passed a bad night,
sir ”
Bu t, ignonng the nurse, Mr. Penfield sat
cheerily down on the side ol the bsd, tak
ing one #f the little transparent hands in his.
“Don’t you think you could get up a lit
tle, Sis*? Such a lovely day as it is—all
winds and apple blossoms. A drive in the
park now—”
“Do you want to kill me outright, Wal
ter?” remarked Mrs. Penfield, jerking the
hand away fYorn him. and feeling w ildly lor
bottle
“No, but 1 begin to think you want to
kill yourself, Dell, in this hot, scented room,
and—”
“Men rrfiver did appreciate the delicacy of
a woman's constitution,” sighed Mrs. Pen
field, while Nurse Jefferson rolled up her
eyes and elevated both hands in the air,
behind her master’s back,
“I know you’re not strong, my dear,” said
Walter PenfieltLapologetically, “but I really
think you’d feel better if you wouldn't give
up to it quite so much.”
Mrs. Peniicld's only reply was an otfenja
ttnus sigh. Walter felt as if he was a brute
a ruffian.
“You will never believe that I am ailing
until they carry me out iu my coffin,” she
cried, hysterically. ‘Of course, i know I’m
only a care and an incumbrance, that—”
“Have I ever given you any reason to
talk so, Dellyf" the husbaud asked gravely.
And then he rose and left the room.
“0, dear, dear! ” sobbed Mrs. Penfield.
“Take away the breakfast tray, Jefferson— 1
I’ve no vestige of appetite left now! I do
think there never was a woman so tried in 1
all the world.”
“Men is all alike, ma’am,” sympathized
Mrs. Jefferson, obeying her mistress’s man
date. “They s’poses everybody is made of
cist-iton, like they is. lie nursed in a
many famiiutr ma'am, but never see one
where mure from her nerves
than you Pen field, ma'am.' 1
Meanwhile*going dejectedly
down stairs, met the doctor in the vestibule
—a brisk bright-eyed little man, with white
teeth, and a pleasant, confidential way with
him, which took Y ou quite by storm.
Ab* PinfWkl, good-dy!”said he. “How
is she, this morning?”
“Oh, much Jhe same as usual,” aswered
the patients husband, dolefully.
“I w ish we could get her to exert herself
a little,” said Dr. Maylie. “A breath of
freqh air now', a timely diversion of the
mind, a ray or so of sanshine from the outer
world—**
Mr Penfield shook his head.
“It’s no use trying,” said he. “She’s made
up her mind that she’s an invalid, and an
invfclrd she I ’* likely to remain. And that
odious old attendant makes it her business
to foster delmidh.”
‘•lt .-too good a place to give tip, I suppose,”
said Sr. .Maylie. laughing. “But I tell you
what. IPenfiokl, there are soma forts which
can be taken only by stratagem.”
i'KhJ.V Mr. I’enheid.
‘‘Once get her out of her room, and half
the battle is gained,” suggested the doctor.
“Yes; but how are you to do it?”
•‘Are you iu hurry to get dowu tow n
this morning?” queried Dr. Maylie.
“Not particularly. Why?” asked Mr.
Penfield.
“Then come into the breakfast-room and
iiti talk itovet. Because I really think
something ought to be done in the matter.”
Mrs. Penfield woke up the next morning
mon “vapory” and nervous than ever. Dr.
Mai e prescribed as usual—harmless pills,
ic*j (ter, colored the least bit in the world
to i] resent medicaments, and warm foot
ball .
‘i ? the wayi” said he "I wonder how Pen
liell fids himself to-day?”
“f here anything the matter with him?’
aski Mrs. Penfield, lifting her heavy eye
lidW
“I | hasn't been in to see me this morn
ings tow that I remember. Is he ill?”
•1 iI am told,” answered Dr. Maylie, pur
sinj up bis lips.
* st what is the matter with him? For I
oui ;to know!” persisted Mrs. Penfield, be
girt ng to be a little anxious.
“ ought to know, if he had done me the
hert rof consulting me,” said Dr. Maylie,
w well simulated spite: “but I haven't!”
THE DAILY TIMES.
“But surely he ought not to b without a
physician!”
“Oh. he is not. He has a physician—a
very beautiful ones I am told. I dent myself
believe in lady-doctors, bnt I am given to
understand tjiat they are very popular among
the gentlemen.”
“A lady doctor,” Mrs. Penfield sat up
among her pillows, and pushed back her
hair with both haipjs, “My husband! Oh!
the bold thing. How dare she come into my
house!”
“She Woutft’t unless she bad been sent for,
l suppose,” said Dr. Maylie,? dryly. “It’s
Dr. Nelly Barkef. She male* a specialty
of brain diseases, and is tolerably success
lul, as I have understood, in her practice.”
“Is—is she pretty?”
“Very. A brunette, with cheeks like
peiclieia, and big Spanish <tyes.”
(Mrs. Penfield herself was a blopde with
yellow locks, and a complexion as fair as a
calla-lilly.) And at the same moment, a
sweet, clear voice like a bird-whistle soun
ded in the hall, and a face like a rosebud
crowned with a jaunty black velvet hat and
plume, was thrust into the room.
“Oh! 1 beg your pardon,” said she. >1
mistook this for the apartment of my pa
tient. The servant told me l should find the
invalid here. Dr. Maylie, happy to meet
you. I shall be glad if you will come in
and consult with me.”
She withdrew in a graceful, off-hand sort
of way, and they could hear her light foot
steps tripping along the hall. Dr Maylie
rose and took his hat.
“I shall accept her invitation,” said he.
“By Jove, she's a prettier woman than 1
thought! I’ve half a mind to fall ill, and
send for her professionally myself. Good
evening, Mrs. Penfield; just keep on with
the tonic according to directions.
And he followed hurriedly in the wake of
the fair M. D.
No sooner had the door closed behind him,
than Mrs. Penfield sprang out ofbed.
“Get out my slippers, Jefferson, and my
quilted dressing-wrapper, quick!” she erica,
with red spots on either cheek.
“Ma’am, are you crazy?” demanded the
scandalized Jefferson.
“No; but I shall be, if I am to lie here,
and let my husband be tampered with by
black-eyed who pretend to a knowl
edge of medicine!” cried Mrs. Penfield, as
she hurried on a pretty blue cashmere wrap
per and thrust her fojt into a pair of azure-,
satin slippers, bordered with white fur.
None of Mrs. Jefferson's arguments could
dissuade her; and just as Dr. Nelly Barker
was leeiing the pulse of her patient, the
door swung open, and in walked Mrs. Petir
field, stately as Minerva!
Walter sat up on the sofa.
“Delly!” cried he in amazement.
Yes, it is Delly,” utiered she, indignantly.
“I am not s<> ill as you thought—as you per
haps hoped," 1 with a severe glance at the
dimpled M. D. “It is unnecessary farther
to trouble you, ma,am. If my husband is
ill it is my place to nurse him.”
“1 called merely in a professional capac
ity,” began the black-eyed doctor, “and— ”
“I don’t want you here in any capacity,”
sputtered Mrs. Penfield. “Walter, will yon
pay her bill, and tell her 6be needn’t call
again?”
‘•Oh, certainly, certainly, my dear,” said
Mr. Penfield, abjectly. “Just as you say.”
Dr. Nelly courtesied and withdrew, not
without a laughing glance toward Dr. May
lie, and Delly took her seat by her husbands
side.
“Walter! Walter!” she cried out, wistfully,
with a quiver in her lips, “did you think 1
had no wifely love lor you? Oh, Walter,
what must you have thought of me?”
Mr. Penfield’s illness dial not last long, as
our readers may mobably coujecturc, but
when he recovered Delly was his compan
ion. everywhere. Mrs. Jefferson . lost her
comfortable sinecure, and Dr. Maylie and
Dr. Nelly Barker congratulated each other—
confidentially, of course—upon the excellent
success of their novel mode of treatment.
But to this day Mrs. Penfield suspects
nothing. 1 f
A ItuvsinH Mar,
ICuKMinii Volnutcrra Pouring Into Nn-vlit
l*y Hundred* Every Huy.
London Times.
Writing before the fall of Zalear, I pointed
out that, almost avowedly, the war was pro
longed for no other purpose than that of tfie
Russian Slavonic Societies, whose object
was then, has been ever since, and is now,
to force Russia into the field of battle for
the destruction of the Ottoman Empire. In
reply to my anticipations, which I knew to
be shared by the most thinking and patri
otic Servians, it was urged that the Czar and
the Russian Government had resolved not to
depart fronybe attitude of neutrality which
!*U cornmoit*\vith the other guaranteeing
powers they had pledged themselves to ob
serve. Well, I have never written a line to
insinuate the contrary; but I could not shut
my eyes to the fact that as the fortune ol
war was declaring itself more and more
against the Servians, Russian assistance,
which at first was only manifesting itself in
driblets, was becoming every day more sub
stantialand ostentatious. Early in July the
Russian volunteers were only coming in
twos and threes; by the middle of August
they were arriving in twenties and thirties,
now it is a dies non which does not bring
them in hundreds, and we hear on excellent
authority that within another week we shall
have them in columns of thousands. It may
be that at an earlier stage of this armed mi
gration the Government at St. Petersburg
might have stopped it altogether; certainly
one would think that if any official disap
proval had been even intimated in respect of
it, so many Russian officers, some of them
belonging to the Imperial Guard, would not
have resigned their commissons in the Im
perial army to go to Servia with the expec
tation on their return they would bo restored
to their former rank, if not receive promo
tion. Perhaps the Russian Government
thought that the influx into Servia of offi
cers and men of the Czar's service never
would assume the proportion it now has as
sumed; .but, be this as it may, the danger
has arisen that the Russian Slavonic socie..
ties have in this matter of what is called ihe
Servian war become too strong for even the
Imperial power. I say what is called the
Servian war,because the title is now a “mis
nomer.” If the war is to be continued, and
everything points in that direction, it will
be a Russian war in Servia until it becomes
something more. There is a Russian Gen
eral performing the duties of a commandant
de la place- By him the Russian officer*
are received on their arrival; from him they
recieve directions as to where they are to
get their uniforms and to what place they
are to depart. The organization is admira
ble, and works without noise or eonfusion.
WEST VIRGINIA.
12,000 DEMOCRATIC.
Wheeling, W. Ya., Oct. 13.— Ohio
<x>unty gives a Democratic majority
of 189, on the vote for Governor. Re
turns from the interior come in slow
ly and generally show increased
Democratic majorities. West Vir
ginia Democratic majority will
probably be 12,060.
COLUMBUS, GrA., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1876.
AUGUSTA,
AMI HH'IIHOM* COI'KTY.
Awocsta, Ga., Oct. l'ith, 187 C.
Editor Times.—Augusta is the Cap
-1 ital of Richmond county Georgia. It
is the third city in size in the State.
To Oglethorpe are the citizens in
debted for the ntm being changed
from the l’Arlsh $f St. Paul to
that of Augusta, in honor of one of
the Princesses Royal of his day.
The city is built upon the southwest
bank of the river Savannah, in lati
tude S3 tic., 33 min; longitude 5Q do.
18 min. The plat of tits city is good;
the streets cross at right angles, all
but two are named for distinguished
men. The buildings are low, irregu
lar and squatty, not displaying much
taste or show of elegance.
titk t..tores
are, like most Georgia women, nota
ble for their beauty and sparkling
wit. The iuo3t distinguished, oom
manding-looktng woman in the oity
was born in Columbus. She is a
young matron of 24 years of age.
Her husband is now the exceedingly
popular chief clerk of the Globe
Hotel.
THE MIJUOHANTS
are mon of nerve, work and energy,
and uso all honorable efforts to se
cure the coast trade in their proper
radius in Georgia and South Carolina.
Tho trade for this fall has opened up
well, and the city presents a busy
appearance all along the cotton por
tion and wholesale houses.
THE CITY GOVERNMENT
is Democratic and well controlled in
tho interest of tho citizens. The lire
department is well maougod. Tho
police force is composed of good
men wliQ know their duties and do
perform them, without fear, favor or
reward.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS,
oourt house, Mogpnio hall, churches,
colleges, school houses, theatres,
town halls, llbarlcs, jail and market
houses, all chosen well—amply suf
ficient for the needs of tho city.
THE MANUFACTURES,
from tho cotton mills down to the
common blacksmith shops, arc pay
ing institutions, adding much to the
Income values of individuals and the
city.
THE CANAL
was commenced in May 1815, and tho
water let on the 23d of November,
1810. Cotton, flour, corn, wood and
truck arc brought to tho city by this
enterprise.
EMINENT MEN.
Richard Heftry Wilde, tho well
known author of a littleiwork on the
Love and Madness of Tasso, and that
beautiful poem, “My Life is Like the
Summer RoseW. H. Crawford,
General Twiggs, the Father of the
Mexican General, Watkins, Freeman
and Walton, tho Signer of the Decla
ration of Independence,nnd Abraham
Baldwin, commencod thebj. public
life in this place.
EARLY fißTLpitS*!
Roger De Lacy, Woodruff, Bug und
Murphy came to tho place before a
hut had been built.
ANCIENT AUGUSTA
was laid out by the Royal Trustees
In 1735; garrisoned In 1736; rebuilt In
1751; in 1752 gave up their charter for
the formation of a Royal Govern
ment. In 1761 this city was then Bt.
Raul’s Parish and was represented by
Barnard Graham and McGilvray in
the Colonial Assembly. In 1776 the
Legislature met in adjourned session
hero. Tn 1779, Col. Campbell, a
British officer, captured the town
and held it for five weeks. The
Chronicli' and daxntte were printed
at tills place in 1786;
RICHMOND COUNTY
Is bounded by Columbia, McDuffie,
Banks and Jefferson counties on the
Georgia side, and by South Carolina,
across the Savannah river, on that
side. According to tho House of As
sembly, in 1758 tho county was called
St. Paul’s parish. In 1777 the Legis
lature changed it to Richmond, in
honor to Charles Lennox, tho third
Duke of Richmond, a warm friend of
the rebels of 1776.*
NATUBK OF THE SOIL.
Along the Savannah river, and the
Butler, Mcßae, Boggy Cut, Head
stall, Sandy Run, Spent Rock, liae’s
Rocky, and Cupboard creeks, and On
other little streams, the soil is fine—
producing well. Rack to the west
part of the county the lands are poor.
MINERALS.
Brimstone, porcelain clay, novaou
lite, stealite, micaceous sand rocks,
mica slate, Sienite and granite are
said in Cotton’s report to be found in
paying quantities.
POPULATION
of the county is 20,000, an income of
less than 5,000 since the building of
the railroad in 18C1. The county is
Democratic, inteligent and refined.
CROPS
are good In quantity and quality;
the farmers well satisfied with the
yield. They are beginning to pay
attention to skilled labor and practi
cal farming. An intelligent farmer
told me that since Janes had been in
tho State Agricultural Bureau of
Georgia, he, Janes, had saved to the
farmers of the State over $1,000,000
on the single item of Fertilizers, by
instructing farmers not to buy the
worthless articles of commerce, but
induced them to make heme-made
manures. If this bo true, the Geor
gians should wear his likeness in
their breast-pins. This crop wiil pay
the most of Richmond farmers out
of debt. ;“B.”
THE TURKISH SITUATION.
RUSSIAN INFLUENCE SWAYING SERVIA.
SKUYIi KKJBCTN Till; AIOISNTH’E.
■tusslnn Military I'miaratlonx.
London, Got. 13.—The chief topic
of war correspondents is Russia’s
attitude. Assembled at Lyvadn are
the Czar, Prinoe Golschakoff, the
commander of tho Black Sea Squad
ron, the Ministers of War and Fi
nance and the Czarnwitoh.
Tho Times’ Vienna dispatch says
the Porte desires to stop the intlux of
foreign soldiers into Servia, and that
other provinces be regulated during
the armistice. This is stated not to
be a condition, but only a wish.
The Times’ Berlin dispatch says
the report is revived that the Czar
thinks of abdicating if wur is decid
ed upon.
Russian residents in Austria and
Germany, liable to serve In tho army,
are ordered home.
Tho Black Sea squadron is roady
to carry 96,000 men from tho north
ern to tho western shore.
Responding to Russia’s request to
co-operute, the Persian government
is sending troops to the Turkish
frontier. Reserves ore being called
out on some of the western provinces
of Russia. Troops have boon moved
toward the northern and eastern
frontier of GaJiea. 20,006 horse have
been placed on a war foottng in Rus
sian Poland. These preparations, it
is believed, are intended to force
Austria and Turkey to concede tho
independence of southern Slavonia
without war.
The Daily News’ Belgrade dispatch
says the proposal of Turkey goes to
St. Petersburg and thence to Levldin.
The Russian reply will go to St.
Petersburg and London. Hence, ton
days must elapse before definite
action can be taken. During that
time military ovents may change the
entire situation.
.The Times’correspondent at Bel
grade does not anticipate a favorable
reception of tho Turkish proposition
for an armistice. The ministers
would liko to accept, and tho reason
ing portion of the Servian popula
tion are sick of the war, but Russia’s
views will guide their action.
Servia has not yet received un offi
cial communication of Turkey’s un
swor.
London, Oct 13.—Reuter’s dispatch
from Sagusa dated 12tli, says that
the capture by the Turks of the Hill
ofßesoke on the 9th inst., Dervish
Pasha advanced in tho direction of
Danagrade on the Otor, und on the
11th inst. he defeated various small
detatchments of Montenegrans. In
one or the engagements tho Monte
negrans lost 800 men. On the 11th
instant, .however, sevral bands of
Montenegrans attacked and almost
surrounded Devish Paseha and sim
ultaneously attacked Budgariza with
5 bntallions. Dervish Paseha was
compelled to retreat with heavy loss
to Deiha.
Fighting continues between Mou
ska Paseha and the Montenegrins.
The former is unable to make any
forward movement.
London, Oct. 13.—Reuter’s dispatch
from Constantinople, stated that, in
addition to tho note specifying con
dll ions on which the Porte grants an
armistice, which were published this
morning, the Porte yesterday deliv
ered to tho ambassadors u note justi
fyihg its refusal to entertain peaco
conditions submitted to it by the
great powers, especially the auton
omy proposed for Bosnia and Her
zegovina.
London, Oct. 13 A Reuter Dispatch
from Belgrade, says the Servian cab
inet Council has decided not to ac
cept the six months armistice deter
mined upon by the Turkish extraor
dinary Council.
TELEGRAPHIC M .WMARY,
The Director of the Mint has fixed
the price of silver at 115 cents per
ounce, flue.
The steamboat Express Line, from
Fall River Mass., collided with a
local freight boat. One killed, sev
eral hurt.
In a riot on Westchester driving
Park, New York, four persons were
severely and sevoral slightly wound
ed.
Gov. Gaston has declined the Dem
ocratic nomination for Congress.
ComptrolierGreon has accepted the
nomination for Mayor of Now York,
tendered him by the into Cooper In
stitute meeting.
The New Orleans Crescent City
Riflo Club team lias won the inter
state match, making 1,507 of a possi
ble 1,800.
The creditors of Turkey have seized
292 guns which were being shipped
Antwerp for Turkey.
“Wore Troop*.”
Washington, Oet. 13.—Senator Pat
terson, with some persons claiming
to be from South Carolina, called on
Gen. Sherman, representing to him
that more troops were necessary to
secure a peaceful election in that
State. Gen. Sherman is of opinion
that no more are needed, as Gen.
Huger is in command, or has within
call a sufficient number of troops to
secure pekoe.
Persons purporting to be from Mis
sissippi called on the Secretary of
War, urging a like need of troops for
that State. The Secretary’s reply
has not transpired.
N|>uln und Culm.
London, Oct. 13.—Tho Times’ dis
patch from Barcelona announces
that 30,600 soldiers will, if nccossary,
follow tho 15,000 who start for Cuba
on tho 20th inst.
Gen. Quesadn has ordered the mu
nicipalities la the Basque Provinces
to immediately destroy all fortifica
tions not occupied bySpanish troops.
Barcelona, Oct. 13.—Gen. Campos
took leave of tho garrison Wednes
day. Joveiiar retains tho Captain
Generalship under the orders of
Campos as Communder-in-Chief. It
is believed Campos will induce tho
Insurgents to accept terms, and tho
more resolute leaders will leave the
islaud for pecuniary considerations.
AM ITALIAN UOCIKTY.
Memphis, Oct. 13—At a “triennial
session of the grand Union Society,”
Sooieta Do Foantillouga Italinia U.
S.” this A. M., a temporary organiza
tion was effeoted. The following
wero eloct officers of the Grand Un
ion for next term : A. Vncaro, Mem
peis, President; D. Banhano, N. Y.,
Vice President; M. Vicoroi, Balti
more, Secretary; A. P. Ghio, St.
Louis, Treasurer,
W, U. Telegraph In. Ofllrei-M.
New York, Oct. 13.— At a meeting
of tho Directors of the Western Un
ion Telegraph Company to-day, the
following officers for the ensuing
year were elected: President, Win.
Orton; V. P., Aug. Schelf, Hiram
L. Green, Harrison Durker; Secre
tary, 11. R. Brejver; Treasurer, I{.
H. Rochester; Executive Committee,
Wm. Orton, Jus. H. Banker, Alonzo
B. Cornell, Harrison Durker, Hiram
Greon, Jas. Hooker, E. D. Morgan,
Augustus Schell, W. K. Thom, C.
Vanderbilt, and Frank Work.
litttCHt from Indiana.
Indianapolis, October 18.—Returns
from 89 counties received which
givo a net Democratic majority of
4,578. The same counties in 1872 gave
a net Democratic majority of 845.
Throe counties to hear from gave
Hendricks 403 majority iu 1872.
UntllalraiilclKiw l'ever.
Savannah.— J. W. Lathrop. Presi
dent of the Cotton Exchange, died
at Greousboro, of yellow fever He
left hero a few days since to see a
dying son at that place.
O W. Thompson of Walter &
Thomson, chandlers, died lastnight.
Georgia Cam lielore llie Supreme
Court.
Washington, 13. —In the Supreme
Court the case of Terry vs. Bank of
Commerce,gSavanah, also Terry vs.
Merchant’s and Mechanic’s Bank
were heard to-day.
Von Arnliii’a Nentenre.
London, Oet. 13.—The Times’ dis
patch from Berlin says Count Von
Arnim’s sentenco of flvo years im
prisonment in the House of Correc
tion, involves the forfeiture of his
title and his property.
..
Tlie murk Militia.
How many stand of arms have
been distributed to tho negro militia
of this Stato wo do not pretend to
say. The Legislature once authoriz
ed the purchase of a quantity of
arms, and it is known that each
State is entitled to draw from tho
United States Government a certain
number of arras every year. This
source of supply was not overlooked.
Inquiries made at Washington re
veal tho fact that sinco 1808 South
Carolina lias received frotn the Gov
ernment SIOO,OOO worth of arms and
ammunition, and it is estimated that
this will cover the South Carolina
quota for 27 or 28 years. According
to this calculation, South Carolina
will not be able to obtain a musket
or a round of ammunition from tho
Government for twenty years to
come. One hundred thousand dol
lars worth of arras, besides thoso
bought and paid for by the State!
Where have they gone to ?
The Adjutant-General of the State,
in his last report to tho General As
sembly, accounts for 9,429 Remington
and Winchester Rifles, with 800,000
rounds of ammunition. This does
not by any means account for tho
whole number of urms received. But
it is enough to alarm the public
when the manner of their distribu
tion Is considered. The Adjutant-
General says that the arms were “is
sued indiscriminately to parties nut
connected with the malitia, but form
ing simply an armed body, without
any command, and many of said
arms have been lost or destroyed.”
Ia another place he says : “Many of
thoso obtaining arms from the State *
have distributed them to companies
not organized as required by law.
Thousands of improved rifles, ten
thousand or more, aro in the hands
of the colored militiamen; not in
armories, but in houses and cabins
all over the State. Tho possessors of
them, far from being “a well-regula
ted militia,” are passionate and cred
ulous Degrees, easily alarmed and
excited by their crafty leaders. With
the “State arms,” as they are called,
most of the deeds of violence in this
State have been done, and so long as
they are in the hands of the colored
people, so long as ten thousand rifles
are In the hands of tho black militia,
the whites must bo expected to bold
themselves in readiness to repel at
tack, and this cannot be effectually
done without organization and con
cert of action.
Tho Rifle Clubs have been, and aro,
a public necessity in South Caroliua.
There is nothing secret about them.
They have no oaths or pass-words.
Nor are their members, in some
counties, whites exclusively. The
Colored Club in Barnwell was one of
tho first to volunteer for duty at
Ellenton. And if the course of or
dinary justice were such that neither
areon, nor highway robbery, nor acts
more terrible, were to be feared, and
t.ho whole people could be confident
that every criminal, of whatever race
or class, would be arrested and pun -
ished, no citizens anywhere would
hang up their rifles or lock up their
pistols more cheerfully and gladly
than the members of the Rifle Clubs
in South Carolina.— Charleston News.
Origin ul the MplcFe.
Nutmeg is tho kernel of a small, smooth,
pear-shaped fruit, that grows on a tree in
the Molucca Islands and in other parts of
tho East. Tho trees commence bearing
in their seventh year, andcontlnuo fruitful
until thoy aro seventy or olglity yoarsold.
Around tho nutmeg or kernel is a bright
brown shell. This sholl has a soft, Bcar
lotcovoring, which, when flattened out
and dried, is known as maco. Tho bost
nutmegs are solid and omit oil whou
priokod with a pin.
Ginger is tho rootof a shrubilrst known
in Asia, and now cultivated in the West
Indies and Sierra Loono. Tho stem
grows throe or four foot High, jpul dies
every year. There are two varieties of
ginger—tho white and the black—caused
by tnkingmoreor less care in selecting
and preparing the roots, which are al
ways dug in winter, when the stems are
withered. Tho whito is tho bost.
Cinnamon ia the Inner bark of a beauti
ful tree—a mitivo of Ceylon—that grows
from twonty to thirty foot in height, and
livosto be conturlos old.
Cloves—nativo to tho Molucca Islands,
and so called from resemblance to a nail.
The East Indians call them "changkek”—
from tho Chinese “toohengkia” (fragrant
nails.) They grow on a straight, smooth
barked tree about forty feetjiigb. Cloves
aro not fruits, but blossoms, gatnored be
fore they aro quite unfolded.
Allspice—a berry so called because it
combines tho odor of sevoral spices—
grows abundantly on the beautiful alb
spice, or bay-borry tree, a nativo of Mouth
America and the West Indies. A single
troe ha* 1 boon known to produce one hun
dred and fifty pounds of berries. They
aro puplo when ripe.
Black pepper is made by grinding the
dried berry of a climbing vino nativo to
the East Indies. White pepper is obtained
from the same berries, freed from their
husk or rind. Red or cayenne popper Is
obtained by grinding the scarlet pod or
seed-vessel of a tropical plant that is now
cultivated in all parts of tho world.
A furious Apple Tree,
There is growing in Eochuok, N. J., an
applo tree which bears both sweet and
sour apples. Not only this, but sweet
and sour apples grow on the same limbs,
and some of these apples are both sweet
and sour. One can piok an apple and find
it intensely sour, then pick anothor from
next to it and find it exceedingly sweet;
still anothor can bo plckod from tiie same
audit will be both swoot and sour- one
half sweet thoothor sour. Over a quarter
of a century ago, one William Babb, now
deceased, in experimenting, took a bud
from an apple tree which boro greenings
and anothor from a tree which bore
sweet apples. Cutting them half, ho
placod the sour and sweet halves togother,
and, budding them to tiie troe, the above
lias been tho result. Some of tho apples
are entirely green in color, whilo others
have a yellowish east.
The Weather To-Day.
■Washington, Oct. 13. For tho
South Atlantic and Gulf States, fall
ing barometer and easterly to south
easterly winds, and warmer, partly
cloudy weather will prevail,
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MOA£Y AXD STOCKS.
Loudon, Oct. 13.—Erie 9#. Weather flue.
NEW YOIiK, Oct. 13.—Noon—Gold opened
9; stocks active and unsettled; exchange, long,
4.34; short, 4.85 ; Governments dull and steady;
State bonds dull.
NEW YOliK, Oct. 13.—Evening—Money easy,
ofl'erod at la2; sterling 4; gold steady 0. Govern
ments steady; States quiet.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 13.—Noon—Cotton opened
quieter; middling uplands 5 15-10d; Orleans 6
3*16(1.; sales 13,000; speculation and exports 2,000;
receipts 2,900; American 1,000. Futures weaker;
Boilers at last night’s prices uplands,low middling
clause, November and December delivery tb%d.;
December and January 6%d .; February and March
5 15-16d.; new crop, snipped October and Novem
ber per sail, 6%d.; November and December 5
29*32d.; January and February 513*32(1.
8:30 t. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, No
vember delivery 6%d.; new crop, shipped Decem
ber and January, per sail 6 15-lGd, Halesof Arueri
can 6,700.
3 r. m.—Futures dull.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—Noon—Cotton weak;
uplands 10 15-l(i;Orleans 11 ; sales 639. JFutures
opened easy; October II 19-32a10 31-32; November
11 1-32, December 11 5-32a1l 3-16, January 11
l-32all>;,February 11 9-10al9-32,March
April 11 15-16a12. #
NEW YORK. Oct, 13.—Evening—Net receipts
161; gross 1,246. Futures closed steady ; sales
16,600; October 10131-33} November 11 1-16a8*32;
December
11 21-32;March 11 27-32; Aprill2 l-32;May 12 7-32;
June 12 13-32; July 12 9-16a19-32; August 12 11-
16a12%.
GALVESTON, Oct. 13—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10; net receipts 16,907; gross 17,201;
stock 47,462; sales 14,585; exports coastwise 80,-
972.
NORFOLK, Oct. 18.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10?, ; stock 23,994; weekly net receipts
24,886; gross 24,578; sales 2,732; exports coastwise
16,173.
BALTIMORE. Oct. 18.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10%; stock 8.368; weekly net receipts
420; gross 2,677 sales 2,705; spinners- 1,020; ex
ports Great Britain 60; continent 160; coastwise
850.
BOSTON, Oct. 13.—Evening—Cotton steady;
jniddliug 11; stock 12,822; weekly net receipts
.1,888; gross 7,146; exports Great Britain 6,145;
France 1,834.
WILMINGTON, Oct. 13.—Evening—Cotton dull
and nominal; middling 10'a'; stock 10,794 weekly
net receipts 4,723; sules 985; exports coastwise
198.
MJILADELPHIA, Oct. — Cotton
qnct; middling 11; net receipts 1,582; gross re
ceipts 3,495; exports Great Britain 385.
RAVANNAII, Oct. 13. Evening Exchange
closed stock 65,862; weekly net receipts 18,090;
gross 18,696 sales 778; exports coastwisl 5,515.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 13.—Evening - Cotton
iu fair demand; middling 10J£; low middling 10^;
good ordinary O 1.,; stock 104,614; | weekly re
ceipts 35,761; sales 31,860. exports coastwise
1.945; Great Britain 0,622.
MOBILE, Oct. 13.—Evening—Cotton quiet and
easy; middling 10; stock 20,697; weekly net re
ceipts 10,177; sales 8,700; exports coastwise
5,249.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 13.—Cotton qnlet; middling
10>4; stock 15,212; weekly receipts 16,630; ship
ments 12,260;* sales 12,800.
AUGUSTA, Oct. 13.—Cotton dull and tending
downward; middling 9%; weekly receipts 8,000;
shipments 7,960 sales 8,155; spinners 164.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 13- Evening Cotton
quiet; buyers and sellers apart middling 10
stock 4,265; weekly net receipts 2,365 sales 12,300;
exports France 150; continent 1,649; coastwiso
0,912.
* MONTGOMERY, Oct. H.—Cotton quiet ami
steady; middlings 9%; weekly receipts 4,306;
shipments 8,411; stock 5,097.
PROVIDENCE, Oct. 13.—Weekly net receipts
609; stock 4,000.
PUOVIMOXS, &c.
LIVERPOOL. Oct 13.—2 p. m.—Breadstuffs
quiet.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—Noon—Flour quiet and
unchanged. Wheat firm. Corn quiet, Freights
heavy.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 13.—Evening—Oats easier;
Southern at 40a43. Rye firm 62*65. Provisions
quiet and unchanged. Coffee active and un-
NO. 182
changed. Whiskey qnlet 1 B}(. fium ftnq nd
unchanged.
NEW YORK, Oet. 13.—Event)!*- Flour still in
buyers' favor; superfine winter and Stato $4 40a
$4 90; Southern Hour quiet ami uuc&augetf.
Wheat la2c. higher for winter grades; about lc.
better for export*, now winter red western
$1 26a 1 28; amber western $1 23al 30 Job
lots, Sugar firm, but qnlet. Br.a9>,8 r .a9>, for fair to
good refining. Moiussss -dull but unchanged.
Tho Circular of the Liverpool uettrn brokers
says: Cotton wan iu very extensive demand
throughout tho woek and the supply continues
ample; prices have shown a hardening tendency
and quotations for reveral descriptions are
higher; “jTftrican has been in active request,
but being very freely offered lias only advanced
1-16 in medium grades. Sea Island continhaa to
bo neglected and quotations nominal. Tho
transactions iu futures have been large, tho quo
tations showing an advance of '^c.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 13.—Evening—Flour firm.
Wheat quiet at $1; 12. , Corn steady. -Lard dud.
steam KP*. kettle lOßall. Bulk meats dull
weak and lower; shoulders 7Rafi; clear rib BIR4
BV. dear sides 91,,. Bacon dull and lower; clear
rib 7?4'aß; clear sides 9*4 Whiskey iu good de
maud at $1,101,'.
LOUISVILLE, Got 13.—Flour active and fair
demand; extra $3.76a54.00, family $4.50a54.75.
Wheat steady and firm; rod $1.05a51.06. Corn
quiet; white 44; mixed 43. Rye lair demand 65.
Pork in good demand $17.50. Bulk meats iu fair
demand and higher; clear rib sides O’.CaOR;
clear Hides 9R. Bacon fairly active, shoulders
H, clear rib sides 10, clear sides 10‘4, Lard
in fair demand; tierces 11 >^l2*^; kegs
Whiskey in good dernaud.
U.I. WEEKLY COTTON STATEMENT.
Net receipts at U 8. ports for the week... 960,000
Total receipts sinco September 1 . 25.M6
Exports for the week 9,647
Epxorts to France 350
Continent 3.104
Sales. 7,177
Stock at all IJ. S. ports 385
Liverpool Weekly Statement.
Sales of week 101.000
Hales of American 60,000
Speculation am1jjexp0rt5.................. 16,009
Stock at Liverpool 658,006
Stock of American at. Liverpool 272,009
Actual exports 11,000
Cotton afloat for Great Britain 156,000
American afloat f 48,000
Receipts of week f 3.000
Receipts American 50,000
( ilßl J5X*! CAS?ETS jT
Two ply,fall wool, at 75c. handsome as
sortment of patterns in two ply, throe
ply and Brussols, at Kyle’s.
octß oodl w.
Zephyr Wools.
Large stock of Zephyr Wools in desira
ble shades. Ladles cart rely on getting
any shade of me. J. Albert Kirven,
<>cts eodtf No. 90 Broad Bt.
LIST OF LETTERS.
The following iB tho lint of letters remaining In
the postoflioe at Columbus (Ga.,) October lltli.
Bailini Madam V Johnson miss J
Bagley E Ketcliniu B F
lleall miss L A Kelly J
Bostick mrs 1! King miss O
Britton J L Lewis 8 (col)
Butler C Lockwood U D
Oabeard miss F Lnrtno mrs M
Carter mrs B Lockwood G D
Chambers H Lorrno mrs M
Crawfore miss M McCoy J T
Dixaon miss B Millor miss I,
Fagan k Bro Nance k Butler
Fenn mrs M A O'Neal R .St Son
Fletcher W A Partridge I
Forbbs B F Phillips, Bradshaw .k Cos
Fraukiin mrs E Phillips V
Futral WEB Kaboru W M
Gardner Netiy Sliarter miss S
Gardner Amelia A Smith miss L
Giles inr E Wadsworth Satn
Gossett T J Walker miss E
Grove mrs P Wall mrs L
Harris mrs T A Walker prof R J
Hamer miss M li Webb A
Hill O Wetson tnrs A (col)
Jacks on Abby Wigins J
Johnston rnißß G Woodard mrs N E
Johnson L Yearty Rachel
W. H. JOHNSON, P. M.
T_ X3CZ. ynne
. HAS UN HAND ‘ X
Two Horse Plantation Wagons,
-AJSTD
BUGGIES— Both Side and End Springs,
FOR SALE CHEAP.