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VOL IV.—No. 112.
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Another Hancock Republican.
George Wilkes Reviews the
Analysis o f Grant’s Character—He Will
for Hancock—A Strong Letter, otc.
Mr.. William M Hall, of
Oonnecticnt, has received the
letter fcpmGeorge Wilkes, dated
Jul J4y 18£jt880: Dear Hall I have been
:
for a week, and your laet letter
lain on angered topics so long that I
JU to express
incation at , th*
of general Hancock.
Garfield pleased Collapse me, because of horrid his,
rose opon toe a
ty® to ita v&flfyW,,th jii B
varV marrow n nic cr c.
tb* m duty, who
nothing but his and will be
to leave the people unhampered
"policies,” to theory their own of free will.
ia the true the
institution.
I have been hankering to
Democratic ticket for over ten
past, because it iea fixed principle
me that no party whatever is fit
wield tho government, its army
ite purse consecutively for over
yearB ; certainly not for twenty.
ties, like certain dishes, need to
tamed over once in a while to suit
public palate, nay, knows the public
aud heaven our gorged
loathing country Bat the needs a change
present. Democratic management ot
party has been so
tent for the last ten years, so
ed with cussedness in its
that I felt forced, in spite of my
ciple. to adhere to, the more
rogueries of the puritan Republicans.
Hancock, however, fills tbe bill.
is "a bold soldier boy,” with
name; and though since
son the military idea has not been
Democratic fancy, it is not for the
publicans to come out of their
of sabres to reproach us with it
They surely cannot clamor with
cess about the Mrs. Surratt
Aooe-of Hancock's boonden duty.
necessary tragedy has been
discounted by applauding stalwarts,
-tilfog always proved to be one of the
appeals to Republican
ism during the laet four
campaigns; and I am much mistaken
my estimate of human nature if
same painful incident, with au
but sorrowful soldier as its
figure, does unpolitical QOt again powerfully
ence the portion of
Amenbftn I peOpl Hancock, e.
know and I like
He is a man of sound ability, aud
wear well; and though, as you
I never fancied West Point much,
must bear it this important
Throughout the war, on both sides,
one steal. ' of Ifce.tKgular It brand always was
to was not so with
amateur experts of the volunteer
vie* There are two illustrative
tmiats.tbat now -pass across my mind
nn.- need^St . • •
speculator J ’, whom I f
» l: r* i i
John B. Wider, whom )? I
5? 1 VLi L l i ! C " r r 08 p0n a
the head Df btB legion® over * the
mgeward of Texas looking and, like
<rf the paladin* of old, as I
add, With millions of money-had
been so miuded-—springing to Lis
from the clover at his horee e hoofs.
gel remember how he stayed .
an, anJ 40000 of the flower of
Nqr^drn youth under the leader,
fkl&tj* month at \orktown, with
9,000 men, leaving behind him in the
abandoned walls not a wagon not a
side of bacon, nor a man.
Right well also do I bear in mind,
when he found his retreat discovered
and disputed by those instinctive sol¬
diers, Hooker, Heintzlemau, and Kear¬
ney,. he had stomach to give battle to
the three on the road at Williamsburg,
and to pass through the toils that en¬
vironed him, by the fire of his sword,
and the glory of a new Moreau. What
has Grant done that was better than
that? Indeed, Magruder was a grand
old soldier, but he died without means
enough to bury him—a funeral that
became a hero who knew how to make
war, but did not know how to make
money. Now, Grant was a different
kind of hero—a soldier doubtless, but
not so much of one as his blind wor¬
shippers would have us think—a silent,
crafty, money making man, with al¬
ways an empire to windward, and keen¬
ly comprehending that the first step of
the founder of a dynasty is to make
himself and family rich, aye, to the ut¬
termost generation. Our friend Ulysses
began his climb to power logically, strength by in
taking presents, absorbing and form of
stocks and houses, every
property, and by distributing fortunes
to liis relatives, from the Corbins to
the Dents, his last and most clever
coup in that way being the recent side
stroke of two or three millions in Cal¬
ifornia for the family fund, in the way
of marriage through the cockey and in¬
spiring young Prince Fred. Indeed,
from the day of the accession the of Ulysses
to what is practically throne of the
United States (with its more than regal
patronage) he. has never, so far as my
observation-goes, refused a rich man’s
invitation to dinner nor sat at a poor
man’s table. If it were;my desire to
wound him,I would refet to sumptuous
boards where he has carelessly allow¬
ed himself to patronize that were not
entirely worthy even of his own hum-*
ble start in life.
Presently, when he recovers from the
’stupefaction of the recent slower staggering
Wow at Chicago, he will uncoil
Itfr^tch out sgafin for profit* Presidential f,
But to return to the
question. I was always of the opinion,
after what had happened in 1876, that
i inmiliiiii he lii/T 1 1*r
neve would } . have bean elected—
first, because the people throughout the
fond were yearning for a change.
We have Been that mysterious public
sense lately work in England. But
ltea<*y eyoad th. impulse of this s,o W and
revolution against the Republi
can party, and transcending the force
of all other forces put together, came
in the nick of time the audaffiOuir at
tempt of a set of political highway
men at Chicago to plant their throttle knees
upon the public breast and it
of its voice, in order that they might
establish a permanent government for
their political master and themselves.
They were mad with spoil and drunk
with arrogance and power, and did not
know to what a great extent they were
, unmasking themselves till it wae too
a , e
Was evereuch a sight? Their leader,
Svith his private wire, most blind and
mad of all, had "Waded into his fate
from a primary declaration that he
would accept-a- nomination only if
unanimously pressed upon him, and,
after a six-day fight, died with hie jaw
upon the bit at 306T
That wbb the moment at which the
country took fire, or, to use our Ameri
can phase, “got mad.” At the same
moment had a panic seized the braves who
been forbidding honest men to
speak. The siege of liberty was raised
The by the desperadoes lifting of Garfield’a banner.
endeavored to make
tbe best ot their discomfiture; but they
had gone too far. The people the^insults now
had taken the bit, aud
these Republican dictators had put
upon their respected representatives
in the convention burned every honest
eheek in the land. From that moment
the election of any Democratic candi
date who might be named
nati was certain.
But the Let man was chosen, and I
diet rejoice ia h e select butt ibn. Ido not rre
anything, believe General
Hancock will be invited to the White
House, in large part by the very same
patriotic men who sent honest Abra
ham Lincoln there for two terms I
shall take great pleasure incaating my
vote for him as a man without stain
and equal to the Presidential station.
; For that purpose I will be found at
th * F° il8 m New York a t the election
' j in November.
George Wilkes LKES i
B » d X*™* — ' i
' T, If you wiiutop V* a all n your extravagant
and wrong notions in doctonug
.sell and
or humbug cure-alls, that do harm al
ways and use only nature’s simple
remedies for a your ailments-you
will be wise, well and happy, aud save
great expense. The greatest remedy
this, the great, wise aud good will
j tell y^u, is Hop Bitters reiy oa it.
another column.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1880.
A Short Novel.
Mr. Froud sends us a little novel,
which we print with pleasure, and
small type, as it is paid for by the
foot ;
It was autumn.
Yes, merrry, golden tinted autumn,
T? e sun poured down its mellow rays
OU the laughing field of grain, and all
nature seemed to rejoioe in the glad- little
ness of the ample harvest. The
birds twittered and sang their sweet
est and cheeriest notes in the branches
of the oak trees that skirted the foot
of the cloud-tipped hill, while the big
bugs sat still and looked at them. Far
away to the right lay a vast marsh, in
which water-crt sses, sweet sedges and
bullfrogs generally mingled.
Don’fc you forget it that it was a
pretty sight. shooting
Suddenly a boat banks is seen that encircle
from the mossy
marsh like a chaplet of laurel. In the
little craft are seated a young man
maiden; he strong limbed and hand
some, his face bronzed by the kisses
the burning sun and scent laden
breezes; she fair and delicate like the
lily, or a Chicago baseball club.
With powerful strokes he sends the
boat shooting through the water,
the ripples fall away on either side,
Suddenly the maiden utters a
shriek, and a pallor o’erspreads
lovely countenance. bullfrog.
She has seen a
One hand drops nerveless by her
side, and from it fell her hat—a
ty thing of straw and canvas, trimmed
with flowers. The young man at once
plunged The into cruel the water closed to recover the
hat. waves over his
fair young head, the last thing seen
being the part in the middle of it.
But he omitted to come up again.
After waiting until it was a
point that he had gone to stay, the
maiden rose in the boat and gave a
despairing shriek.
“Dead, dead for a duck hat,”
moaned and fell over the starboard
side, never knowing that she had got
off That a good thing. little
night the sexton in a
lage near the lake laid down poker one pair,
and he was not playing either.
The pair was t he two layers who had
uC&jA ra!im™-IWuiug.
‘ But where was the bullfrog
caused this calamity ?
Oh, where, indeed?
™ E “°“ S,, ’
T „ bere . 18 a certaia . y^g lawyer 1 in
T> K . l£ ffiuiond, l _ Va., who j 8 going to look
sba JP b ? f ° re b ® gives any more advice
? f fraudulent intent. He was consulted
b y a merchant whose creditors wanted
m ? re tba “ be cou ^ & 1V ® them, and
who was trying to save §1000 worth of
personal property ?he from impending judg
m ent8 * lawyer advised the mer
c h u ™\ to * ak f tbe b ® n ® fit ol tba bom e f
L tead law > and at / eDded to considerable . L
other basin ess for him. Subsequently
be called for hie fee, and was told by
f be m ~f cb an ^ ^ bft t l 16 knew his condi
tion. the , lawyer answered : 1 es, J
know ‘ hat 8«»tlenien in your situation
are not presumed to have any money,
and 1 »“ wlIUn 8 wait t bttt ln f be
can «‘ 7e “ e y° or a “f,
bill with . waiver of poor homestead
^ advise e . merchant me never netted to : give Did any you one not a
homestead waiver note? The lawyer
answered; "Yes but that referred fo
debt8 that you did not wish to pay.
Now * lf 7 oa wish to P ft / me ‘. y° u need
Q ° 6 « ire the wa lver * ,, (>1
me, must particularly fol !°^ tbe adviC0 as you whl , told S L y0U me g that f V(5
homestead ™ intended for the
beneflt of my family, and it would be
couldn an t see °* ^jn it worth 8 ^ 100 a cent. them. It was He
a P°? r rul « .didn t work both ways
? nd for i® 11 creditors, and that young
^ w y er bas learned a bigger lesson
tban an 7 one lessoa he ever learDed
before -
"* * “
„ ast .
before the martins appeared, a family
of sparrows took possession of a house
, hich they had used, and built their
w
n08ts 1Q fr* 0ne day the martins
and finding , their quarters
cam e, oceu
F ed > beg* 0 a pitched battle for posses-
8 ^ on ’ The fight ended in a victory for
tbe marfc fr 8 » w bo drove the sparrows
awa y and turne< * *keir nests out upon
tbe ground. Next day the sparrows
retQ rned strongly reinforced, and re—
n*wed the battle. Thia time they were
the Actors, and the martins were driv
en away. But on the following day
the martins returned with abundant re
inforcemeuts, and once more the con
flict was renewed. This time it lasted
all day. with greatXnry, and at night
the battle was a 4raWn one. At this
ofaffaira a comnromise was effect
ed. The martin house is »a- two stories,
and, as if by mutual storylnd agreement, the
martins took'one Le spar
rows the other. On’the following mora
mg nelte both tribes respe“fve began building their
iu their , tones, where
have continued to dwell peace
ably ever since.
An Illustration of Gratitude.
The San Francisco News Letter tells
the “A iollowing story:
certa : n stock broker in this town
had a landlady, a pleasant sort of
woman, but who had an eye to the
main chance. One evening the good
lady became lachrymose, ‘What ails
you, Mrs. S?’ sympathetically asked
the plied big-hearted broker. ‘Oh, eir,’ re
the dame, ‘I’m in aheap oftrou
ble. I do wish I was rich.’ ‘That’s
a very common disease. How much
now, would you call a comfortable in
dependence?’ ‘Well,’ said the lady,
‘if I had two thousand dollars I’d be
a happy woman.’ The broker reflected,
He wanted to make the old woman
happy, and so he invested in Gonsoli
dated Virginia to the amount of twei>
ty shares, which gave a profit of
§4,000, which he instantly handed to
Mrs. S., with his best regards. The
lady was overjoyed. She wept on his
waistcoat; she called him her p-reser*
ver; she would have kissed him, but
he wouldn't let her At last, when
her transports had somewhat subsided
the instinct of money-making began to
show itself, and shtf requested the
broker to re-invest the whole sum on
her behalf. He demurred; he objected;
he begged of her to be content with the
profit she had made. He knew the
uncertainty of stocks; but all in
vain. Mammon reigned triumphant
in the old woman’s breast. She insist
ad; he yielded, and lost half the invest
ment. The lady had §2,000 left, but
was she satisfied ? No ! She actually
sued the broker for the remainder!”
An Unexpected Tenant of a Squir¬
rel Trap.
A farmer near Cherokee has in his
employ four or five Italians engaged in
ckoppiug wood. Ground squirrels be¬
ing the very plentiful in the neighborhood
of camp ot these men, and being
very destructive, the Italians set their
wits to work to discover a mode to
capture them; and th ; s was the plan
they adopted: They found the holes
in which the squirrels burrowed, and
drove a stake close to the mouth of
each hole. They then took a piece of
small-sized wire and fastened one end
sectntely of slip-noose to -each the aA»ke,.jnaking other a sort
at end, mouth which
they placed directly in the of
each bole. The result wa9, when a
squirrel hiding-place attempted he would to emerge rUir‘*hfs from head his
airectiy into the noose. As many as
eighteen of the Tittle animals were
caught iu this manner in one day.
The trappers, however, discovered an
old chap, ai they thought, who bafffed
their ingenuity, and for the purpose
of ensnaring him they rigged up three
of their uooaes and put them into
the hole occupied by the wary aninaah
thinkiug t-bat them if lie would pa-sed through taught
one or t wo-of he be
by the third one. finding Judge of thei^ as¬
tonishment on securely fastened
within two of their nooses, instead of
a squirrel, an immense rattlesnake,
wearing sixteen rattles,— San Juan
(New Mexico) Times.
The rm c Swed'sh custom house officers
were badly fooled rjceutly by an im
porter of laces and alike, on which they
too have a heavy duty. Thte man re
pentediy smuggled them throngs by
loading them on fi young man so as to
give him the appearance of being
humpbacked. At last the custom house
people remarked that the number of
humpbacked travellers was largely in¬
creasing, and begap to smell a rat, so
back tbev ordered that every alleged hump¬
be examined. The first genuine
humpback who came along had a rough
time: They punched him all over the
back with a sharp probe till bis yells
convinced them that his misfortune
was genuine.
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Tbe re waa a man Memphis, Tenn.,
woo , chastised u his wife regularly.
neighborsi would hear her screams,
to in.erfere. A fe.. da}-o a S°
however, the.sound of blows was change
|ed to substituted that of a pistol for the shot, and a groan Ine
was screams.
; neighbors this went The hus
time in.
band was lying on the floor with a
bullet in his head, while the wife stood
by flourishing an empty pistol, I
concluded that I’d ^ stood it long
enough,” she said, “and, ob! my, wasn't
he surprised when I hauled out my
i pistol and popped at him.”
Out of 76,117 cattle imported into
England daring the coarse of the year,
only 137 were found affected with
pleuro-pneumonia, of which the BrL
tish graziers profess to be so much in
dread. This does not look as though
American beeves were diseased to any
extent ’
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The Virginia Bible Society is
to canvass the entire State with the
view of supplying every family with a
copy Retire of the Holy Scriptures. F Nearly
mea will be e ?r !oyed iu
jibe work at a salary of ^25 a month
‘and expenses.
A New Medicine Man.
A Chinese doctor has raised his sign
in New York. He is the type of a
new and, to this country, decidedly
original school. His name is given as
Dr. Joe Bak San. He states there are
no medical schools in the land of hiero¬
glyphic-covered tea boxes, but the
professions are transmitted from father
to son through generations. So de¬
scendants learn the theory and practice
of medicine. Dissection and demon¬
stration of anatomy are unknown to the
Chinese, and hence they have no grave¬
yard robberies. They do not use the
knife. The Chinaman is feed to keep
people well. The Chinese doctor takes
charge of all the families he can get,
and agrees to keep them in health. He
gets paid for their healthfulness, and
receives nothing when they sicken and
die. Sometimes he has even to indem¬
nify ^he mourners for their losses. It
is therefore the interest of the Chinese
doctor to permit no sickness in the fam¬
ilies of his patrons, and this is the gen¬
eral direction of his practice, which
looks worthy of imitation. Instead of
cutting off broken limbs, as is often
done by our surgeons, the Chinese treat¬
ment is to save them, and they nearly
always succeed. This mode of doipg
thing certainly has its advantages. The
Chinese doctor does not hesitate to
advertise his skill, and if he has a spe¬
cialty to permit the world to know it.
The ancient race may be able to teach
our enterprising-moderns excellent doc¬
trines. That idea of being paid only
when health is continued is admirable,
but then the patient must do what the
doctor says, and not as his fancy wills.
Man vs. Horse.
The question of relative endurance
between horses and men is an open
one, but the opinion preponderates
that no horse could go 550 miles in
six days. In a San Francisco test,
not long ago, the horses won, but had
to travel only 450 miles to do so, their
human competitors O’Leary not being of the
best. Daniel has now ar¬
ranged for a race between six horses
and as many men as choose to enter,
at Chicago. He says: “It is bat a
comparatively short time since 450
miles in six days was considered an
extraordinary performance, while now,
in order to command the attention of
the public, a man must oover 550
miles or more; and the day is not far
off when some one will go the 600.
Now, taking the greater speed of
horses find as compared to men, the horse
can longer periods of rest, and it
becomes a simple matter of experi¬
ment and proper training and hand¬
ling to make horses go the greater dis¬
tance of the two.” The conditions of
the contest allow two riders to each
horse, and the animal may be either
ridden or led.
Hafpy to Hear You — “Make a
fight in the South,” say the Republi¬
can organs. Well, rejoius the Courier
Journal t make the effort with your
speech©*, denouncing Southern men as
“traitors,” “rebels,” “conspirators;”
with your foul Blander of pure South
era men and women; with your bold
8 ,i TOCacy / 0 f ceutraliadioo; with your
ridical ot Southern efforts to recover
prosperitf F ^ . wilh yocr ehan-ss of whole
B sle uraoJ „„ gl . a torlure. Make
tUe spMchM wU ich yon make in the
North, Republicans, and see if yon can
carry a single Southern State. Wii^t
is Republican doctrine in the North
ought certainly to bo pre-icned wher¬
ever it is intended to make known that
doctrine. Try it, Republicans. Let
Mr. Hoar and Mr. Blaiue repeat their
infernally slanderous speeches in the
South which they deliver in New Eng
land. Proclaim Republican doctrine
the South, and you will make the
largest Democratic vote ever cast.
Another fraud has been fooling folks
b pending to be a preacher. He
himeeIf ^ Frank
an j i n trodnced himself to the Baptist
of Fairland, Ind ,
credentialBi winning them
b his good looka alld oj] t0D pketor. - ne to
i nduce them to make him their
TheQ he W£m the affections of
daughter of the wealthiest resident,
and the wedding day was appointed.
Shortly before its arrival, while he was
at a social gathering, he was confront¬
ed by his wife and child, whom he had
deserted in Ohio. One of the deacons
made him ki93 her, then he had to skip
the town with her.
A Happy Restoration.
J can truly say that ., I T owe mypres
existence and happy restoration to
the hopes and joys of life, to the use
of Warner s Kidney and Liver
F from ure * any a ’ d manner 1 bd >' to of kidney, 0De liver or
ur ‘ nar recover y tr0l : b!tf ’ “p W 88 E. tbl8 Sanford. remedy
K, Feb.^>, 1 S8Q.
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^ jriv V- lt y increased $9,000,000
six months ending July-1.
PRICE THREE CENTS.
Business Cards.
JAS. McGINLEY,
CARPENTER
YORK STREET, second door east of Bull.
famished Jobbing promptly attended to. Estimate*
when desired. jeU-6m
BIJEF, VEAL AND LAMB.
JOS. H. BAKER,
BUTCHER,
STALL No. 66, Savannah Market.
A LL market other moats rates. in Orders their season promptly at lowest tilled
and delivered. Will victual ships throughout.
Give him a trial. oc31-tf
ANDERSON STREET MARKET
AND ICE HOUSE,
J. F. PHILLIPS, Butcher, and dealer In ul
kinds of Meats, Fish, Poultry and Mar¬
ket Produce. **» Families supplied at their
residences, and dispatch. all orders executed with
promptness and Satisfaction guar¬
anteed. ap6 6m
C. A. COBTINO,
Bair Cutting, Bair Dressing, Curling aai
SHAVING SALOON.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
166V£ Bryan street, opposite the Market, un
dor Planters’ Hotel. Spanish, Italia**, Ger
man . And English spoteon. Reld-tf
’ W. B. FERRELL’S Agt.
RESTAURANT,
No. 11 New Market Basement,
(Opposite Lippman’a Drug Btore,)
tanlStf SAVANNAH, GA
Plumbing and Gas Fitting*
CHAS. E. WAKEFIELD,
Plumbing, Gas & Steam Fitting,
No. 48 BARNARD STREET, one door m>itil
0 1 South Broad treet.
.. Bath Tubs, Job Water Closets, Boilers, Rangeai
Ding Promptly attended to.
Also, Agent of “ BACKUS WATER MOTOR*;
McELUNN & McFALL,
PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING.
Na.46 Whitaker street, corner York st. Lane
N.B. Houses fitted with gas and water at
Short and all notice. work guaranteed, Jobbing promptly attended to
at low prices. sepTtl
W.H. COSGROVE,
Cast side of Bull street, one door from York,
Practloal Plumber and das Fitter
JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
All work guaranteed to give satisfaction.
49* Prices to suit the times. mh7tf
Paints, Oils and Class.
John <i butlek,
WUbleaale aud Retail Dealer ia
WiflTE LEAUkS COLORS, OILS, GLASS,
VARNISH, ETC.
Emdy Mixed Pal n ts, Railroad. Steam or and
Mill bupplies. Solo Agent for Georgia Lime
Calcined Plaster, No. 32 Drayton Cements, Hair and Land
Plaster. street,
Janl6tf SAVANNAH. GA.
ANDREW HANLEY,
—Dealer In—
Soars, Sdies, Blinds, Mouldings
. Lime, Plaster, Hair and Cement,
STEAMBOAT,
Railroad and Mill Supplies,
paints, oils, varnishes, glabb, &o.
No. 6 Whitaker & 171 Bay St.,
SAVANNAH, GEORGlr
myan-U
JOHN OLIVER.
— Dealer In —
Stead) 0031 , [jaj| RlffiQ 300 Mill SUPPlltf| Ir
PAINTS, OILS, (JLA&S, &C.,
doors, bashes, blinds, moulding
Balusters, Blind Trimminqs, ho.
No. 5. whl taker bt.,
SA VANNAE, QF.ORQ 1 A
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