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LU 1. i JJ ? B ' .V' BT Di R. DfRISOE. ? 3 VOLUME XXXVHI.-No. i?. James W. Turley, Augusta, Ga., HAVING returned nonie '??er sev?ra? weeks in New York? is now Exhib iting his unsurpassed selections in S His numerous Patrons in Edgefield may rely with confidence on having j special and particular attention paid to their orders, whether given in per son or by letter. In future as in ?the past, Convincing: Low Prices and First Class Goods will rule the transactions of this House. The Fancy Department will contain the LATEST CREATIONS OF FASHION, And careful attention is asked to the perusal of the following paragraphs ?LACK SILKS. Warranted Lyons all Silk ;in Gros Grain and Taffeta, Super to Sublime quality, at popular low cash prices. low opening. J. W. TURLEY. POLKA SPOTS FOULARDS. The newest thing known to Fashion, in great variety. Now opening. _J. W. TURLEY. JAPANESE SILKS, In Rich Jacau?red* Stripes and Brocades. New*," elegant goods. Im mensely cheap. J. W. TURLEY. BLACK GRENADINES, Fine to sublime quality in plain. Satin 8ixiped and Laq'e striped. More popular this season than ever before. Now on sale. J. m- TURLEY. MEDIUM* PRICED DRESS GOODS. In many new qualities and colors, in great variety. J. W. TURLEY. "LLAMA LACE JACKETS, New styles. Now on sale. J. W. TURLEY. LLAMA LACE FICHUS. The newest production. On sale. J. W. TURLEY, i LLAMA LACE POINTS, lu variety. .j; W. TURLEY. NEW SASH RIBBONS, Very fashionable. Very cheap. J., W. ?TURLEY. PARASOLS. All the novelties of the season, un equaled in variety and low in prices. J. W. TURLEY. BLA?K FLORENTINE. Very superior- quality only. . J. W. TURLEY. BLACK TAMARTINE. Very.useful. Very cheap. J. W. TURLEY. LLAMA LACE CAPES All sizes. Now opening. J. W. TURLEY. Augusta, April 1, . WUITE GOODS.* Striped and Checked NAINSOOKS Striped and Checked SWISS, Plain SWISS, Bishop and Victoria LAWNS T'ARLETONS, JACONETS, &c. HOUSEKEEPING GOODS. Table Cloth DAMASKS, Damask NAPKINS and DOYLIES, Colored Damask and Napkins, Diapers, Crash es, Towels, Sheetings:, Shirtings, &c, in large supply. J. W. TURLEY. ~ NOVELTIES. Standard Trimmings, Hamburg Embroideries, Collarettes, Ruches, Sappetts, and a full assortment of I FANCY GOODS just opened at J. W. TURLEY'S. ti 15 NOTICE U TO THE CITIZENS OF EDGEFIELD Wi Eare receiving our SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, consisting of all the Novelties of the Season. Our Stock is much larger than usual, and never mote complete. Close buyers will save money by giving it an inspection. Also, full line of FURNISHING GOODS on hand. WHITMAN & BENSON, 229 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga., Opposite Masonic Hall. Augusta, Ga., April 2 3m 15 DRUGGIST, JOHNSTON'S DEPOT, 8. C. __AVING just opened a ?rug Store at this place, I take this method of informing my friends and the public generally that I now have in Store a full line of * Drugs, Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, GLASS, PUTTY, KEROSENE OIL, Tobacco. Segars, In fact everything usually kept in a Drug Store,-all new and warranted genuine. My prices are a? low as such Goods can be sold in any market in the same quantity. " T. J. TEAGUE. Johnston's Depot, Feb 19 * ly 9 i-v- -;i A' x --.-*.._ MILLER, B?SELL ? EURUM -AND Commission Meroli'ts 175 aud 177 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. WE arc now in receipt of our Fall Stock of GROCERIES, consist ing in'part of Bacon SIDES, Bacon SHOULDERS, Dry Salt SIDES, ' SUGARS of all grades. SYRUPS-New Orleans and New ?York Drips, MOLASSES.'Rio, Luguvra and Java COFFEE, . TOBACCO. SALT, P?PPER, SPICE, Crackers, Pickles. Cove Oysters, CANNED GOODS consisting of Peaches, Blackberries, Tomatoes, &c. MACKEREL in Barrels, half and quarter bois, and Kits, Seed WHEAT, Seed RYE, Seed DATS, Seed BARLEY, Case Liquors of BRANDY, WHISKEY, GIN, We are also offering the most complete and largest stock of BARRE LIQUORS of any House in the City, and selling at prices that will indue buyers to purchase nearer home than in Eastern marketa. To the Planters and Merchants of Edgefield we would take this occasion to expresa our thanks for their past liberal patronage, and respectfully re quest a continuance of the same. . 1 ffi?KBuying our Good? for CASH, we are prepared to sell as low, and oft times lower, than any other House in the City. Augusta, Oct 9 . tf 42 PILAN TER S should examine the above-nametl old and reliable Gin before having any? other, lt combines the required qualities of Simplicity, Strength and DuraMUtv. It glu* laut ; and clean, makes excellent lint (often ' brin jipg l-4e. to l-2c. per lb. above " market,) and is universally admitted to j be the lightest running gin made. We havei had thirty years' experience in the business, and warrant every gin perfect. I Gins, constantly In the hands of our agerits,.to which we invite inspection. Circulars, with testimonials and full particulars, m?v'bo hdd'Bv addressing, - ISRAEL V. HllOWS, WejidcBt, Brown Colt >u Gin Co., : New London, Conn. ?FitbS? 4m JO BANK OF CHARLESTON. NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCI'N. \ " CHARLESTON, S. G., Feb. 20,1873. J On and after the first day of March next, this Bank will be prepared to Con solidate the Stock of the'Bank of Charles ton into that of tho present organization. One share of the latter, pat value ($100) one hundred dollars, will bo issued for five (5) whole or ten (10) half of the former. Futuro dividends will bo paid upon the Consolidated Stock" only; those ac- j cruing upon the unconsolidated will be : reserved until consolidation of the Same shall bo effected. The Booka of Transfer will be closed from March 1st to April 1st. WM. B. B?RDEN, Cashier* L'harleaton, Fuh.34, 3m IO ' THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS ARE AWAKING! They are springing from the valley, Prom the hillside and the plain, O'er the lawn, the lane, and garden, The sweet flowers have come again ! ?'Mid the chilly.blast of autumn . . They drooped their-heads and died ; All the heaven-tinted leaflets Were scattered far and wide ; .Buried 'neath the snows of winter, j They slumbered in the tomb ; But spring brings its resurrection, And again they sweetly bloom I Welcome ! Welcome ! Fair evangels, . Ye messongers of love, Awaking in our bosoms Sweet thoughts of friends above ; - ' Who withered, drooped and left us For more congenial bowers, Where life is naught but spring-time 'Mid ever blooming flowers! Where no sickness, trials,.anguish, Ever enter or annoy; ..-. The future fraught with happiness, Pleasures without alloy. Where dear ones shall unite again, Around the eternal throne, Earth's blood-washed heirs with Jesus God's dear annointed one Who .died to save a world from sin Atonement not in vain He burst the bars of death, and rose, That we might live again 1 Sweetflowers1 once more they come to us In all '{heir heavenly bloom, To ohe?r*our hearts with hopes anew, Ot lifo beyond the tomb ! Bavj Jones, toi or. . * ?? "?..-,? ? ... L Although they admitted that she might, possibly, by some people, be accounted " pleasing," Miss Nancy's friends always said of her " that she was certainly not pretty," for, as they were good enough to .explain, " she had.?iot a feature in her face." The observation was not, of course, to be interpreted literally. It was iudis putable that M'ss Block was in pos session of certain lineaments which answered sufficiently well all the pur poses which features are presumed to serve, and are ordinarily applied to, albeit they might not satisfy the critical requirements of the friends, nor accord completely with their ideas on the subject of abstract beau ty. But our friends, it may be noted, are, as a rule, a little exacting in this and some other matters. They are disposed to constitute themselves our critics, and to judge us by rather su perior standards. They are fond of holding the scales concerning us, our mental and bodily endowments, -and they hold them up a little too high sometimes. It is ohe of their privileges to pronounce freely and frankly upon our defects and short comings ; and the privilege, so far as . one can see, is not likely to suffer abatement from falling into disuse. Miss Block's friends snoke tlipir minds in regard tb candor' that was. ex? . .. . . ! most disagreebly . and is one of those goo.: the proverb notwit have too much. point of view, she '' a reflection of ave; ? person. Insomuch I labors to persuade she might be " ti . . certainly not " pretty," were, upon the whole, in the nature of that un profitable toil which we associate with the fable of Sisyphus and his 1 stone. Her figure, her friends decided, . was unformed, and therefore, not worth considering. (They were, plainly, people who would disparage : a rosebud because it was n't a full blown ros!.) As for her mind, Miss 1 Block's friends glanced upward and raised their hands : their looks and gestures signifying hopeless despair. ? ' She had no mind, they affirmed ; none whatever! For her disposition, : poor thing ; well, perhaps it was not so much her fault,-she had been badly brought up,-thoroughly spoil ed by her absurdly indulgent old father. Mr. Block's daughter, if she instill living, (and I am not certain whether j she is or not,) must be now a very old lady yt though, I will venture to say, a very nice-looking old lady, "what- ' ever may be asserted to the contrary ;. remarkable, 'at any r?ite, for that 1 goodness which is the chief beauty of old age,- and an irresistible attraction at all times. For it is now more than j half a century since Miss Block was in her teens, "pleasing but not pret ty,"'and when the circumstances oc curred which I am about.to narrate. : Mr. Block styled himself " a ship- : breaker;" that is to*say, he pur chased the hulls of eld 6hips of all ; shapes and sizes, and broke them up in order to'sell again, piecemeal, the wood and iron of which they were ! constructed. His wharf was on the south bank of the Thames, in the parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe. In those days traders made it a rule to live where they carried oh their busi- . ness. Mr. Block lived in a small but ' comfortable house . attached to his 1 wharf-premises', andlookihg cn to the river. He traded under the name of " Block '& Co. j" and had lately taken f into partnership a youngman named ! Godfrey Starkie, who had been of ; much service to him a's clerk, book keeper, and general assistant. Mr. ' Block was regarded by his neighbors ? as a prosperous, " well-to-do" man. He was about sixty years of age, remark ble in appoarance for his clean, fami- > ly complexion, and for the silvery whiteness o/ his hair. He was amia ble and ben?volent, and it had been ( said of him that his only enemy was" himself. He was fond of his ease 1 and of good living ; indeed tq his ' excessive partiality for port wine and 1 punch, the ailing health to which of , lato he had been liable was very gen- '? erally attributed. ? His wife had been ' dead some years. His only child ( was the Miss Nancy Block of whom ; some mention haa already been made, and $o whom he was tenderly at tached. His estatyishment consisted of one female servant,- who acted as '' cook and.housemaid, and who, having originally been Miss Block's nurse when that young woman was an infant in armst had of course been many ' years iii the service of the family, and obtained its entire confidence . and regard. ; and an apprentice, one David, or, as he was more often called, Davy Jones, a workhouse lad, .deserted-by his parents, * and brought: up, therefore, 7by that unpleasant' step-moj&er, the parish. His appel- , l?tiro, ii maj ka skated, was due to v. . ' m ii the active and somewhat jocose fancy qf the bead e of St. Mary's, Rotber hithe, who was pleased to discover in j the swarthy littra imp. of a child left naked at the workhouse door;: some resemblance to that arch, enemy of mankind,-an old offender with many an alias,-who has oftentimes an swered to the sobriquet of Davy Jones among other nicknames; nicknames being quite the right word to use un der all the circumstances of the case. It was a real misfortune to the boy that he .was' thus designated. He was in truth a dog with a bad name ; and many poople were found to pre dict for him the customary fate of dogs so circumstanced. If he neg lected his duties in any way (and in times past an apprentice's duties were very multifarious ; he was of tentimes an additional domestic ser vant quite as much as an apprentice,) if he broke a -plate, or a window, or neglected to clean the knives, or his master's boots, the question was in variably, asked what -else , could be expected of a boy named Davy Jones ? Yet it was hardly the boy, s fault that he waa thus called. Certainly he- did not choose his own name ; in was given him at a time when he had no will of his own in the matter, or any khowl?clgei at all; of whet >was hap pening to him. t?owever, he had to make-the best he could of it; rathfr , hard work, because everybody else would persist in making the worst they* could of it. But he never knew any other name. His parents never oame forward to claim nim. If any : romantic incidents were connected . with his birth, they were never ? brought to light. Probably there was no poetic character* about the affair j at all ; it was very plain prose, most J likely. Such an everyday common- ! ( place matter as sin and suffering and ? destitution. He remained Davy Jones ? to the end of the chapter. j He was a small, spare, black-haired, ? dark-eyed lad, still? very swarthy ; . and his natural dinginess of hue was heightened artificially. Grim from the ] saucepans, from the blacking brushes, j from the kitchen grate, from up the ( chimney, always seemed to find a \ home and a resting-place on Davy t Jones's face. His hands were forever t soiled wit)) the mud of the river, or \ the clay of the wharf, the rust of old j iron, or the pitch and tar of the j shipyard. He carried about with him incessantly, visible signs of his visits to the coal-cellar. Certainly he was a dirty boy. And he was ; said, moreover, to be mischievous and ill-tempered, sullen, and disposed to j, evil. But hie r?putation in those re soeetK might have been born bf his ,, ' lou M ba Jii-iv. V: .*? . if these boot* . . clean, I? J ff T.** 7* thvi toy said, '" Don't call me ' Miss Nancy.' You mould say Miss Block. You're al ways grumbling about the boots you've got to clean. What a discon tented boy you must be !" " No, i'm not a discontented boy, Miss Nancy,-well, Miss Block, then. I'd go on cleaning' your shoes till I iropped,-you know I would ! And the master's too,-I'm not afraid of work. But for the Starkie's shoes, -I should like to chuck them in the river!" And ina lower voice, he addtd, "And him after them?" " You 'don't like Mr. ritarkie ?" "Say I hate him,-that would be Dearer the mark." <; You should n't hate anybody, Davy, it's very wicked and nn-Chris tian," and Miss Block shook lier head gravely and held up a warning fore finger, after a fashion much favored in the pulpit. "You should n't hate anybody.'' " Well, I don't 'hate everybody," saioj Davy, as though that signified much the same sort of thing,' and was as decent an approximation to goodness aud Christianity as could be expected of a boy in his situation and of his character. V But as for that Starkie, with his white face, and his white hands, and his white stock ings.-" " You hate him because he's clean and you're dirty, Davy." " Perhaps so. But I'm not his servant. I was bound to the master, and not to him; yet he treats me like a dog. He never gives me PO much as a good word." " Well, do I ever give you a good word, as you call it?" " You're forever giving me good looks, Miss Nancy; jem see, you san't help doing that." . Miss-Nancy smiled. " Fm not a fine gentleman as he is, and never shall be; of course I know that,' the lad continued ; and then be added, glancing curiously at his master's daughter aa* he spoke, " and o? course you'? never let me kiss your hand, ag you let him. Not if I lived for a thousand years yon wouldn't.. It isn't to be expected you would ; is it now Miss Nancy ?" "You wjeked boy!" cried Miss Block, blushing and angry. "How dare you say such things ?" " He eftd kiss your hand, because I 3aw him do it," Davy Jones said, sjnlply ; " I was looking through the Drack of the door." " How could I help his kissing my hand ? He would do it. Ididn't want him to. I'd much rather he hadn't done it. It was very rude of him. And-and it's very mean to look through the cracks of doors, and to watch people, anet to play the spy upon them, Davy." Miss Block was altogether very much distressed. " I couldn't help it, Miss Nancy. I didn't intend to be playing the spy upon you; but do what I will, my eyes seem always to J>e following you about. They're never tired of going in search of you ; they're never so I jj happy as when they're resting on you. f I'm sure I didn't want to see him kissing your hand. It made my heart ; ache sorely ; and if you'd but given t the word, Td' h&tr? hafl him on the, I floor in a minute,* and given his white' a neckcloth a twist he w??ldn't have ' ! liked. Anything rather tnfcr that [ such a fellow as that shojpd have kissed such a hand as' you* ..liss Nancy." iy *> . Did Davy Jones com?'of l?&h pro genitors ? But it avails ?ot tbjfck'the question, for no.answ?r can h? given to it. ' Perhaps an Irish nuise had tended his infancy in the worMouse. Certainly there was a swfet and touching and especially IrisKplain tiveness now and then in .11 voice and manner when he a4fl?e Ked his master's daughter. " There's sixpence for you^?Davy," said Miss Block, in a .soften] fl tone, as she drew the coin from Ber long purse. . .." Don't you ever till any one what you saw through tab crack of the door, there's a good boy. You won't see me again for somjB; little time, though you look thrcftgh the cracks of doors never so mujb. ; nor I shan't see Mr. Starkie. W^'re go ing to Margate, father and l|are, to morrow, by the., hoy. I hope the change will cure poor father siasthma, and make him well again.- Mind and behave properly .whil? we're away. Don't get quarreliife with Mr. Starkie. Do you hear.?Davy ? No good will come of your Quarrel ing with Mr. Starkie, but onlyj-harm." " I wbp't quarrel with him* if he won't quarrel with me," saidf'Davy. " And If you'd only be a little more tidy and wash your face, Dafy-" "Well, what then, Misslfancy the boy demanded, eagerly. . , " Why, you'd look ever "lo much nicer and cleaner. What ?id you think I was going to say rf And tripped away from him with ?-laugh. ?David remained speechless and irfoxionless for some time. Sfcen he kissed the sixpence, tossed ifc?in the ur, as though'he weru having?iittle solitary gambling with it. finally, liter much trouble, he bored a hole ,n it with a brad-awl, andi tied it round his neck, under his shirt, with t bit of string. On the next day Miss Block and ter father, accompanied by their fe nale servant, drove in Affiart to ?reenwich, and th?re embarked in he hoy for Margate. Mr. Bjock was laid by his friends to be by no means he man he had been, but to ?be lbok ng very ailing and feeble^indeed.' Ill hoped his trip to the sea might .estore him to health. IL Adjoining Mr. Block's wharf stood he well-known, old-established, river ide tavern, " The Traveller^ Joy," :ept by one Mrs. Barford, ii widow /oman, much respected in th j neigh iorhood. It was a well . ?quctsd .9 : ita tap room much frquented . . ?m?? xa : i ?i?R5 *~A muy- CTO.! :l r?.^?.!*?n * lines sam thereabouts that Hrs. Bar? 3rd managed her hostelry os well as S( ny mun could,-better, if anything. e' 'here had hardly ever been anything H ike disturbance ur discomfort known 'j p. the house., i . Some days had passed since Mr. [' Hock's departure tor Margate. It ^ /as an autumn night, cold for the f ?me of year. A thick, un wholesome a. list hung about the river and its <anks. Mrs. Barford was very busy ?j a her bar, for her customers made requent demands upon her for warm a' nd cordial glasses with which to V ounteract the unpleasantness of the /eather. In the tap-room it was unan- ~ mously agreed that it was " an un- H) ommou nasty night, to be sure." w .'he parlor-was of opinion " that we n hould'have Christinas upon us now ni efore we know where we were." 01 irs. Barford, a stately woman, with , glowing, face, tall as a grenadier, . nd almost as muscular, was equal o the occasion. In truth, she was cc qual to most occasions. She stirred ?| he bar-fire till the kettle sang again, he replenished glasses, she pounded ugar, she squeezed lemons, Her unch had seldom been so hot or so trong, or so thoroughly admirable ?, ltogether, as on that .disagreeable nd unseasonable autumn night. A man entered hurriedly, and stood A )r a moment irresolute in the passage 2 f "The Traveler's Joy.". 0 "Why, mercy on me, Mr. Starkie, ow white you look !" exclaimed Mrs. larford. " He's white at most times, ou know," she said to Betsy, her as- jp istant handmaid in the bar, '< but I Iii ever saw him look so white as he ai )oked then." P< The new-comer was tall and well sa roportioned. ' He was said generally ? 3 be "a fine figure of a man." His ti ?atures were very regular, handsome, se nd clean cut, and from his complex- w >n being so colorless there was a hi )ok as ot an ivory carving about his 1 ead. As he lifted his broad-brimmed ? at (the hat was then in a transi- * ifnal state; having abandoned its w ld three- cornered form, it was on its w ray tb the chimney-pot pattern of C ur own times, but its crown was as P et low and undeveloped,) his hair Sl ras seen to be carefully combed and al rested on his forehead, after the JJ ishion then prevalent. His dress ec ras of a sober kind, yet it wast worn n< rith a certain air of pretence. His coat cc ras of snuff-colored cloth, double ?* reasted, high in' the collar, and af domed with close rows of bright Jj ewter buttons. His waistcoat was Q. f a broad striped taffeta. His rib- mJ ed cotton stockings were spotless SJ nd w?ite as his cambric neckcloth, cl Iis shoes were brilliantly polished. P< t seemed as though he were proud, ?{ s he had some reason to be, of his cj hapely legs and small feet. A broad ^ reen silk w itch ribbon, with a cius- s? er of seals and keys attached, de- bi ?ended from his fob.' Altogether he cl aoked somewhat superior to his real fe oaition, which was simply that of tinior partner in the firm of Block & ?j Jo., Ship-breakers. tl " Did you not hear the report of S re-arms?" he inquired anxiously of jc he landlady of " The Traveler's Joy." ?J Iis voice trembled somewhat as he j jj "When? Just now? Two min-'t, I utes ago ? Well, ?; did hear some thing. But I was so busy, I'd hardly time to give it a thought. Yes, I re . member now, I heard a gun go off. I thought, it must have been fired from some police-boat on the river, in chase of smugglers. But then the parlor .bell rang-" , "It was fired at me," said Mr. Starkie, gravely. "You never mean it, Mr. Starkie, that you don't." " It was fired at me as I sat alone in Mr. Block's jJarlor facing the river. The bullet passed close over my head and lodged in the wall behind, me. It was well aimed. An inch or two lower, and I had been a dead man." Whom did he suspect? He did not know whom to suspect. He could not think that the shot had been in tonded'for him. He had no enemies that ne knew of. He .was inclined to think that the shot must have been intended for Mr. Block. "But why for Mr. Block?" asked the landlady.- "Surely Mr. Block had no enemies either. No one could dream of attempting the life of good old Mr: Block." That was so, certainly. Mr. Star kie confessed himself wholly at a loss to understand the matter. But Mr. Block .was in the habit, it is weil known, of sitting at .night in the par lor facing che' river. If .any one "had fancied himself aggrieved by the firm -it could be but fancy, yet who could iccount for fancy ?-he would surely jeek to avenge himself upon the aeni jr member of the firm rather than me junior,-who had until quite re :ently been simply Mr. Block's clerk ind servant. It was by the .merest :hance that he, Mr. Starkie, had been n the parlor at all. He had been ;aking care of the house and man tling the business in the absence of ur? Block at 'Margate. He was quite done in the house at the time. " Quite alone?" repeated Mrs. Bar brd. " Where then was the lad Da ry Jones?" "Was he not at "The Traveler's "oy?"' Mr. Starkie asked in some urprise. Ho had sent the boy ? out orne twenty minutes before, to get wo dozen oysters and some ale, for lis (Mr. Starkie's) supp'er. He ad litted that he had some words with he boy,-who was a very idle, and ll-behaved boy. Mr. Starkie 'had reqnently had occasion to reprimand im for his carelessness and inatteu ion and neglect of duty ; and Mr. Slock was constantly complaining of im. " A young limb, if eyer there was ne, it's well known," Mrs. Barford Dmmented. . Yet still Mr. Starkie couldn't be eve that- the boy had any hand in ? upon his life4. Tt wo . . ' . . . Mr, $*irfc>' t.. ?ired to do :n ?e.~-i II.;. B .;.'.?*.. s bouse. A ?i.LlC gf?riD USG bv t?'i.? i-i;-:e as- ' ;mbled in the passage ot " inc Trav ler's Joy." There had been a sus ension in the supply of drinks, and ie thirsty had emerged from both ie parlor and the tap-room, to make ersonal inquiry why their necessi es were not heeded. But they for ot the object with which they had pproached the bar, as they found ?emselvea auditors of the interesting diverse between Mr. Starkie and ie landlady. Presently they were greying that thingslooked very black ideed as against Davy Jones; and [rs. Barford's solemn denunciation, -" Depend upon it, that young limb's b the bottom of the mischief,"-met ith general support. It was the niversal opinion that the boy had ot been called "Davy Jones" for 3 thing. Just then tho door opened. . The oy himself entered, carrying a dish "oysters. He walked to the bar as )olly and unconcerned as might be, id ordered a jug of strong ale for [r. Starkie. TO BB CONTINUED. Thc Noble Chief. Tho following beautiful and truthful nos are from the pen of Father Ryan : Xever hand drew sword from stain as free, nd never sword led braver band,, r braver bled for a brighter land, r brighter land had a cause so grand, r a cause a chief like Loe." Cesar Slapped. NEW YORK, April 16.-The Eoening 'ost, in its editorial columns to-day, pub shes a paragraph from one of . Mr. Bry it's letters relative to the change of the jstmaster at Charleston, in which he ys : " In all my intercourse with the ioplc of the South, although it has not ;en very extensive nor of very, long con nuance, I have heard only the expressed use of a desire i?o be on friendly terms ith us of the Northern States. Especially is this been the case in Charleston, where saw more than elsewhere of the people the place. "I have never, since I cross l Mason and Dixon's line, heard a single :pression of bitterness or malignity to ards those who lived North of it. It as but the other day that the people cf harleston sent a formal invitation to the resident of the JJnited States to visit >uth Carolina. He declined the civility id at the same time ho removed the post-J aster of Charleston, Mr. Trott, who was" ghly esteemed. In his place he appoint I a'colored man, who, whether justly or )t, lies under the odium of being with irrupt fellows who have for several years ?en pillaging the State. This was like ?swering an invitation to dinner with a ap'in the face, and was a gross blunder, i say the least." The Post comments pon the action of the President in re eving Mr. Trott, in a similar strain, and Lys that, while unbending amid popular amor, Grant frequently yields to the im munities of the politician, and bends jfore a Concessional bore. The Post includes aa follows : "In the present in ance, probably, he took counsol with imo one in authority among the profes onal politicians, and under this influence ?aped contempt upon the people. The large that the p?rson appointed is unfit ir the place, puts the President's action i low in respect to morals as it is in res set to manfiers. It is a poor return for ie revival of a love of our common coun y among the people of the Southern tates to find that the Administration lins hands with those through whos? ig orance and dishonesty -the burdens of a ad government have been added to the readful losses of the late war., A? Mr, j ti .ryant says, President Grant has commit-, if ??a gross blander." . 'y '. .... . .ui ?.U?iiM ? ...;?lii?i Notes o? Travel ou a Recent Trip fu tw? li Texas. BY DR. W. H/ TIMMKKMAN. . At 0} o'clock nest morning we ?cave Longview-tajee. Southern Pacific road for Shreveport, La. Hallvillo and?ilar shal are places of note on the way; the former is a n?w town ; the latter a com paratively old place, tbut still growing. Here were seen twelve oxen drawing ono plow-excavating a placo fco build a rail road machine shop. Weskin i3 tho last station in Texas on this road. It may now be asked, what of Texas? In a general way we would say that wo are pleased with the State. The sectiou of the State through which wo passed, embracing chiefly Central Texas, we found somewhat different from what we had imagined as to its general appear ance. The lands are>generally sandy, with post oak and black jack growth on up lands, which present the appearance in the distance ol being covered with sleet These post oak ridges and flats are said to bo good cotton lands, producing from 600 toJL,000 lbs. seed cotton to the acre, and from 10 to 25 bushels corn per acre. We saw but little small grain sown in the State, and in fact anywhere on our whole rout*}s though 2iorthern Texas is noted for its. small grain. These uplands of which we speak are, when improved, worth from one to five dollars per acre, and are of easy : cultivation-the soil be ing light and sandy. On the creeks and rivers the lauds are moro productive the forest growth is much larger and more diversified. Cedar is commonly found growing to the height of the red oak and poplar, and is used for rails, posts, levees, Ac. We saw land on Caney ureek which produced last vear forty bushels of corn per acre, with bad sea sons and poor cultivation. Those creek .ands rato variously from three to ten lollars per acre improvc-.i, and on Trinity md Brazos rivers from five to fifty dol ars per acre, where they produce ono to ?wp bides cottpn (500 lbs.) to same, and orty to sixty bushels of corn. There is "..great deal of prarie laifd in Middle Tcx and much greater quantities in West on, with nothing growing on it but grass, fields from fifty to one thousand acres n a body, of that quality, can be had all .ver the couutry, aud you havo nothing 0 do but to leuce it: and break it tip with , two or four horse plow.' There is some dilheulty in getting ti in fer to fence the.su prarie? in many places. lails eight feet long (that is tho usual cngth) are worth fi om twelve to twenty lollars per thousand for tho splitting. parm hands command from' fifteen to wenty dollars per month.'- They work enerally on the share system of one alf. There is but little attention paid 3 fruit raising. 'We saw only two apple reliards in tho State, which we remem ber ; the O!io was near Marshall, tho oth r in Loon county. Ti- , ?figi fi >? t?lft?e1 fr <rMi, and !&?e \tl . / 1 g gS?U .... *. .:. !?-='.;.? .:">.;. :?%}'? :.: t. :n..r ba* w- 'nnjs ....va?. "T?Srow i c' iv i.Ut -;-!-lH^?? C'i'^r;{ . ?. '?' 0-., J" ' ?X?.i?'X . . . ,. i^~???$& .?? .'? . .. r ? :.?ff, . .'i T?iey tire vt?! ???i *r>?-X:'t Cnn '. ition now. Water is generally not so good as here.' 'istern water is largely used. Observa on loada us to believe, that society is oller than wo have often hearxi repre mtcd. Texans boast of their State Gov rnmeiit. They have a Democratic Leg ilature that makes Gov. Davis walk a ?alk liue. Texas is evidently on tho road to pr.os erity ; her extending rail roads, which ill soon link every important city and iwn in tho State; her institutions of (arning, Colleges and Universities; hor (?nial climato ; her variety and fertility f soil; the influx of population; her ast internal resources ; her fast rising illagosand towns, all bespeak her lu ire greatness. ..A Tox.-w> paper says: "H estimated that one hundred^thousand arsons have mado.thoir homes Jin Texas ithin tho last year. Over twti hundred ul twonty-livohousoshave been eructed 1 Slionnan in ninety days." There is dd to bo a demand for Preachers, pou ira, and t?chool Teachors in many parts I tho State. And to young men of in ustry and* energy, as well as to capital Is, tho " Lono Star Slate" oilers many 1 vantages and inducements. But after all wo have said, we still pre ir old South Carolina in her humiliation -misruled, debauchod and pillaged as io is by her publicofficials-toany State 0 liave yet seen. There is for her, too, futuro. Ignorance andsirporstition will ot always rulo, nor vice ever sit sn-, remo ; but must soon sink beneath the sing power of virtue, intelligence and lorality. Such has evor been the histo 1 of the past ; such will bo the history f the future.. But we have left for Shreveport, La., hich city wo reached in due time this lorning. Shreveport is a thriving busi ess city, situated immediately on Red iver, "by winch shohas freo and easy mimunication with Now Orleans, and :her points below, as wall as .with other laces above. It is the muddiest city Wo ?wo ever ^ecn, requiring two nudes to nil an empty dray through some of tho .reeta. The walks are, howover, com iratto'ely dry, and we wondered why it as that tho streets were not uiacadamiz 1, or filled with stones, as the apparout ealthof thoplacesurelyjiiBtified. .There a gap of eighty miles in tho Vicksburg Shreveport Rail Road incomplete, and (is at present staged. So the choice of stting to the former from hore lay be veon tho stago route and that of river. le chose tho latter, and accordingly this 'ternoon, April 6th, went aboard tho !enry Tete, and enquired of her clerk hen she would leave for New Orleans, ho informed us that she would leave ?-nightor to-morrow morning, andas ie Texas would go out to-night, said lat the Tote was so much faster, that we ould beat her to mouth of river, if Tete id not go out till morning ; so we regis ired, paid our fare to mouth of Red riv :, and took our berth on said boat; but tour disappointment she did not get ?vay for below till the Mb, at midnight, aving, in the meantime, goije Up the ver to Twelve Mile Bayou and gotten io passengers (about thirty) and part of irgo of cotton of tho Rapides, .which ad broken her wheel, and towed her to ie city. Rapides had on.,1450 bales of jtton, of which Henry Tete took 1325, r at least enough to. make np her cargo ) that number. SH?, steamed for the. rescent City at the time1 above mdica ?d. fifty passengers aboard. Boat par ir was adorned with..Piano. Besides a bung lady--^tio8 Morris of T?xW-who I played and sang beautifully, there was a German who performed about tho half: of ev?ry day, who seemed to enjoy his own music more than any ono else. These persons, and an old man who had i his beard platted and tied up as a drover I would tie th? tail Or* a fancy horse, were: from the dis?bfod steamer Rapides. The ; next day was Sunday,-boat bridged j across tho river at ll o'clock AI M ; re mains there si* hours before getting lc#e; | had a heavy rain in tho meantime. As we move down this v?ry meandering river wo discern in some places new levees, new cabins, hew lands cleared, now Kin houses, <fec.,-whilst in .others the levees are gone, plantations gone to rack and out of cultivation. Pass Cou shatta-look out and soe tho sign Abney <fe Laye over a store, which. reminds us of Edgefieldfolks: see the Court House some distance from river,-its observa tory attracted our; attention ; sapped here to, hours. Gripp's bluff,"the inost. ele ya.ted pjoint as yet passed on tho river, with a pretty dwelling immediately, oh tho highest bank,-the occupants certain ly have po children, else they. wouid be; in continual fear ol' their tum hiing down that)perpendicular ,'bank into the river noticed some piney woods,.back of this bluff, and again at C?mpti. This latter place was partly 1-mrued down iast_year. There was alsqa failuro in crops in'tbis section;.,corn now worth, we were in formed, ?1.75 per bushel, with a proba-, jility ol' it commanding ?2.50 per bushel.^ jofore July. ; TO ?BE CONTIJ?U?lJ. -:- . '. Brevities and Levities. . '. .. li' . ?:rT- "! ' w ? . . t?'An exchange has the. following ?bservation: "We always, get mad. vhen we walk along a street about V ('clock at night, and passing a shaded )orch where a young man is bidding his toloved a good-night,, hear the girl ex hum, in a,loud whisper-"Oh, stop," reorge ; you haven't shaved !" ??)~ "GiovanniBatistaFalci?ra" looks.| iig on the theatrical bills, and that's ..hy Kichard ?. Jones adopted it. ' As >icl? Jon es he wouldu't amount to shucks. p?" A peaceably disposed-citizen of j 'oxas was arrested recently for carrying oucealod weapons. When searched he ad two six-shooters, one derringer and pair ol' brass knuckles in his belt, ahd,| poker Hush in his coat sleeve. I ;Z2r* A colored finn of Newark, hav ig Buffered some pecuniary embarrass lent, recently closed business, and the sniqr member gavo the,public tho fol )wmg "notis:" "Dedislution bf co arships herefore recisting twixt me and loses Jones in the barber profession, m hereCoibro. resolved. Pussons who se must pay de scriber. Dem what do rm oso must call on Jones, and de firm i involved." ?Fff-Says the Lake Charles Echo: Wild turkeys are in season. We sot l tho table, with a "Smile that was child ko and bland, yesterday, behind one rpighing 21? pounds." . . " Your children may never have ealtli," observe.! a neighboring cler yman to his congregation, "butwhen icy grow up it will bo something for lem to boast that'their father? wcye h ti i. -. on.?u ne-btstr 03 nine year^ c .. ii; m service in tho ate-jjttiiii 'ilia fy? V, ,tv>y;i! ld1..:- oe thc- Sand* ich Islands,. Mark Twain said: "In fly years the native race will be extinct, heir color is of a rich dark brown. !ie\r are not in the least vicious, but mtlc and harmless. Tho women wear single loose garment 'that falls straight. om tho neck to tho heels. In the up-1 Ni ;r country tho men wear-well, usually ey wear a .smile, or a pair of spectacles, ? something of that kind. They are Tl )i proud ; do not care to make anv dis- C ay." ff< p?i" A negro was put upon the stand a witness, and the Judge inquired if ? understood th?.nature ol' an oath For certain IJOSS," said thc citizen, " If swear to ?lie I must stiele to him! 10 darkey had evidently been? follow g up the Credit Mobilier investigation JCS?" A Dutchman, in trying to reach 0 ferryboat, fell. into tho water. His st exclamation on being hauled out, is : " Mino Gott, let's have a pridge !' ait- John Van Dali m, of Fort Wayne ya tho Clcavclaml leader, was playin lill a pistol iii lii-s house, the oilier day lien is-went OJI ami made an cvole lie in his hip. If ho was named.Jo?e 1 might bo called a Jones fool; if, his imo was Smith ho might bo called nitii foul ; but unhappily his is auother me. ?Si" ? spiteful contemporary', ovident cdiloil bf a bachelor, uses thc follow s'olabotato metaphor: "I liavoseen voca look into each oth?r's oyes Ith that sublimely silly expression aracteristic of such unfortunates, some int like the piteous, appealing'look 0 forlorn calf going home through tho in." This expression has been pa ited. *15T A Yankee in Paris, who was list ing to the boasts of * lot of English d French artists about the wonderful nius of their respective countrymen last "Itroke out" and said, "Oh haw! Yeou git cont! Why, there's 11 Devine, of our village, whokin paint piece of cork so ;zackly like marbi? at thc minute you throw it into the xter it will sink to the bottum kuli .ug, jcs ?ike a stone." ;- " COTTON- FUTURES DECLARED GA??H KG.-For two days last past, the United ates Court, Judge Busteed presiding, has en engaged in a case of considerable in rest to dealers in cotton, and especially emulators in '. futures." The case arose ?tn the application of Lehman Bros. ti .ve A. Strassburger declared a bankrupt The petitioners claim that A. Strassbur t owed them 540,000, as evidenced by ir notes of $10,000 each-^aid notes ving been given in part payment of an en account due them by A. Strassbur r. lt appeared in evidence that the ?ount due was from losses upon cotton msactions called " futures." The Judge arged the jury thatif from the evidence ere was no intention upon the part of her of the parties to delivr the acttial Lton, but that the contract was to be ;tled by either party paying the diff?r ?e between the price as contracted at, d the market price upon the day of tho ntract falling due, then the contract was id, and therefore A. Strassburger had t committed any act of bankruptcy as eged. Thc jury retired a short time, d brought in their verdict, that in their inion there was no intention of . either rty at the time of making the contract deliver the actual cotton, but merely to ;tle the difference in currency. I There on, the petition of Lehman Bros. to ye A. Stras?burger adjudged a bank ptwas dismissed. -Thecase, Iiis un rstood, will be carried up on appeal, no e having been given to that effect. ontgomery Journal, 13th. " Hi th ST an M ttl nf M / M on in to of li S otl VANZANDT <fe POLLOCK'S Florida Water. LN Elegant and cheap Perfume. For sale by A. A. CLISBY, Druggist. Kar 26 . ' 'tf 14 Fresh Lemons!. " > -Boxes Fresh LEMONS, fer sale by J A. A. CLISBY, Drnmrist. Mar 28 ~U? tf 88 14 fl%0 -. '.-?. ti .". ? . ,XV-.L . ?11% J Oll( sic in - SU] for thc th? coi a.. GRIFFIN & BUTLER. THE Undersigned -have formed i Co-Partnership ip. tho Practice of La\; in Edgefield County. S. ?S. GRIPPIN, . ' M. 0. BUTLER, Feb 10 ? j tf .;,8 . NQW Law I^irm. JOHN E. BACON. THOS. J. ADAMS. BACON & ADAMS* . Attorneys at Law, Will Practice.inthe Courte of the State, and United States Courts fox South Cajo lina. Former Office of Carroll & Ba?in anti Bacon & Butler. Jan 18, 1872._ If_5_ LcROY F. YOUMAIVS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbia, S. C. Office, Law Range, .'Bauakett's Build ing, up stairs; Sept 4 j ? . ? ' tf- "ZI , W. H. SHAFFE, Dentist, HATING located at Edgefield offer* his Professional services to the cit izens and surrounding eountry. Office at me late residence of S. S..Tompkins, Esq. Feb 28 ; , tf " 18 ? PMTT BR?TBM ; Aro continually receiving LARGE AND COMPLETE S*50CK3 -Of New Furniture ! Comprising all the LATEST STYLES AND PATTERN .' '-bf-;/ 'arlor, Chamber, Dining Room And OFFICE FURNITURE ! FROM THE HIGHEST. GRADE I TO THE LOWEST. Lnd'consists of every article of FURNI TURE required to furnish a House or Office complete. Call and examino at our Ware-Ropma. -o Undertaking ! Always on hand, at tho lowest prices, Beautiful Caskets and Cases, . Of our own manufacture. PLATT BROTHERS, * 2?2 and 214 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. July 2 ly 2$. Universal LIFE INSU ANCE COMPANY. . . , ! : : i . : ?\if& ?.Att: ?IHW, ?J Liberty Street, NEW YORK. irticipation in Profits ! With Low Cash Premiums Bw Business Insured in 187!, $5,275i.090 \e largest absolute Increase of any lompauy, doing business in New York. jw Business of 1872, so far, Uo???e that cf Last Year? GEO. B. LAKE, General Agent Dec 4 tf 50 ome Shuttle Sewing kachina. ONLY ?25.00. . HIS is a SHUTTLE MACF :NE. bas a UNDER FEED, and makes.,tho "LOCK ITCH" aliko on both sides, [t is a standard First Clmis Machine, d thc only low priced " Lock Stitch" achine in'tho United States, rbis Machine received the Piplo;::a at e Fair of thc two Carolinas, ?in thc city Charlotte, N. C., in 1S71. The s.'iove achine is warranted for five yean ! < MACHINE FOR NOTHING. Any person making up a Club for five ^cliines. will bo presented the Sixth e as commission. Agents Wanted-Superior induce cnts offered. LiberaTdeductlonsoiade Ministers nf-tho Gospel. 3ond .Sunup for Circular, and sample? Sewing. Address Kev. C. H. BEBN EIM, General Agont, Concord, N. O. Doc 4 lj_?J 'OLD at corresponding prices with ter First Class Machines, and is cheap than-any other because more complete. W. H. SHAFFER, Agt Sdgefield, Oct 2 ly, 41 AUGUSTA HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GA. TAKE, this method of informing my friends and customers, that I nave t had this weil known- Hotel thor ?hly renovated and. painted, bothin e and out Cleanliness is my motto every department., My tables will be mlied with everything the market ai ds. No pains will bo spared to make ) Augusta Hotel a pleasant home for i traveler. My Edgefield fnendsare dially solicited to give me s call. P. MATT, Proprietor. Ugusta, /iprillS, . tf 17 Hagan's Magnolia Balm 1?R Beautifying the.Compiexion. Fk? sale at CLIBBY'S DRUG STOBfi. tfar2tt tf t?