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EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEMBER 18, 1868.
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Jan I al
PLANTERS' HOTEL.
- AUfiTTST^jGA^
Newly Furnished and Re Ott ed,
Unsurpassed by any Hotel South,
Was Roou?,-x ^ tko Public Oct. 8,1SC6.
T. S. NICKERSON, I*nt|ir??t?r.
Jan. 1. tf 1
THE
Corner Drug Store,
AT
JN"O. 1, 3?ark Row,
T. W. CARWILE.
I
HAVE just received a FRESH SUPPLY o?
GOODS pertaining to my line of business, con
sisting of
Tieinau's LAUNDRY BLUE,
Hurly's WORM CANDY,
Essence of JAMAICA GINGER,
Cottar's INSECT POWDERS,
Hosteler's STOMACH BITTER?,
H ill's Sicilian HAIR RENEWER.
Spear's FRUIT PRESERVING SOLUTION,
Mrs. Winslow's SOOTHING SYRUP,J
Rad way's READY RELIEF,
MUSTANG LINIMENT,
Effurvescin? Sol. CITRATE MAGNESIA,
PHILOTOKEN, or FEMALE'S FRIEN";,
Aver's CHERRY PECTORAL,
Sylvester's BENZINE, or STAIN REMOVER
Beckwith's Anti-Dv<puptic PILLS,
A. Q. Simmons' LIVER MEDICINE,
CONGRESS WATER,
CONSTITUTION WATER,
Gonuino Old PORT WINE,
SHERRY and MADEIRA WINE,
FRBNCH BRANDY,
Fine Family WHISKEY,
Bininger's Old London Dock GIN,
Fresh SEIDLITZ POWDERS,
CORN STARCH,
COOKING EXTRACTS-Lemon,Orange,Va
nilla and Rose,
Sulphate QUININE,
Sulphato MORPHINE,
Durkee's Concentrated POTASH,
NATRONA SAPONIFIER for making SOAP
Cox's SPARKLING GELATINE, ?c.
For the Hair.
Mrs. Allen's ZYLABALSA\:UM,
Barry'* TRICOPHERUS,
EUREKA HAIR IN VIGOR ATO R,
Antique HAIR OIL,
Bear's OIL and Cro?lo HAIR OIL,
Piiilocombe POMADE,
Pure OX MARROW, 4c.
For (he Handkerchief*
LU BIN'S GENUINO EXTRACTS-assorted,
BURNETT'S FLORIMEL,
Genuine BELL COLOGNE,
NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUS, ?te.
Fancy Articles.
Highlv Perfumed RICE FLOUR for the Toilet
Pure LILY WHITE,
Lubin's TOILET POWDER,
Fancy PUFF R?XES,
Bairn's SIIAVIN'G CREAM,
Military Shaving SOAP,
TOILET SOAPS of all kinds.
The very bet TOOTH BRUSHES.
Fino assortment of HAIR BRUSHES,
Hat and Clot hes BRUSHES,
Dressing COMBS, Fino Tooth COMBS,
Tooth WASHERS and POWDERS, ic.
--ALSO
Con.?tantly on hand a large assortment of
LAMPS. Limp CHIMNEYS, BURNERS, Ac.
PURE KEROSINE OIL,
NURSING BOTTLES, improved style,
PENS, INR. STATIONERY,
Faber's LEAD PENCILS, Ac., Ac.
rsir-All sold for the most reasonable price, but
STRICTLY CASn.
T. W. CARWILE,
At Sign Golden Mortar.
June 23 tf 2f>
Seed Wheat!
HAVE SELECTED with care different
varieties cf SEED WHEAT, which we offer
for sale.
BRANCH. SCOTT & CO.,
AUGUSTA, GA.
Sept 2S St 40
ROSE OF CASHMERE.
ANATURAL TINT OF THE COMPLEX
ION. For sale by
THOS. W. CARWILE,
At Sign Golden Mortar.
Oct 13 tf 42
CARPETS.
?AMES G. BAILIE & BROTHER
having finished tho improvements to their Store,
respectfully invite the attention of their custo
mers and the public generally, to their new and
large stock of CARPETS, ?c., which they have
j just received, and are now openiug, as follows:
English Brussels and Velvet CARPETS
Heavy Three Ply and Ingrain CARPETS
Venetian, Dutch and Vienna CARPETS
List, Felt and Hemp CARPETS
RUUS. DOOR MATS, BINDING and
THREAD
Woolen CRUME CLOTHS and WIDE DRUG
GETS
Stair CARPETS, Stair RODS and Stair CRASH
COCOA MATTINGS and Red Check and
Whito MATTINGS
CARPET PAPER, HASSOCKS, Ac, ?c.
We are opening a beautiful stock of
Curtain Goods,
REPS, SATIN, DELAINES, DAMASKS, LACE
CURTAINS
Gilt and Wood CORNICES and BANDS
PINS, TASSELS, LOOPS and GIMPS
MOREENS. TURKEY RED and Chintz CALICO
PICTURE TASSELS, CORDS and NAILS
Piano and Table COVERS and Table COVER
INGS.
Window Shades
Of new styles and patterns, and all sizes used, |
with necessary Trimmings.
Our Stock in this department is comploto in
NEW PATTERNS. In cur stock of
Waif Papers and Borders,
PAPER SHADES, FIRE PRTNTS and SIDE
LIGHT PAPERS, may bo found the latest pat
terns and a large Stock to select from, and the
prices low enough to please.
Floor and Table Oil Cloths.
Having purchased largely of thc?e Goods, we
aro prepared to offer in all
Quantities and widths ol FLOOR OILCLOTHS
And in all quantities nf TABLE OIL CLOTHS
STAIR OIL CLOTHS.and OIL CLOTH
GOODS.
A beautiful stock of theso goods at LOW
PRICES.
CA V PETS Made and Laid, WINDOW
SHADES Squared, Trimmed and -put up, and
OIL CLOTHS lr.id promptly.
JAMES G. BAILIE it BROTHER,
205 Broad Street. -
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 26 Gm 44
Oar ?Uolto t As Cheap as the Chcapesl !-.ls
Good as the Best !
. JAMES li. GLOYE?R,
WITH .
KUSEL &. BROTHER
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
-IN
PINE READY-MADE
otnmg.
For Ttlcn, Boys & Children's Wear,
FASHIONABLE HATS & CAPS,
A SD
GENTS' FURNISHf-MG GOODS,
ISTo. 250 Broad St.,
Under Globe Hotel,
AUGUSTA, GEO.
^acrTho very latest styles in SILK HATS
always on hand.
A call is respectfully solieitcd before purcha
sing elsewhere.
Augusta, Oct 12 3m 42
REMOVAL !
HAS REMOVED HER
MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS STORE
Fruin No. 22G to No/253 Broad St.,
TKO Doors aboce the old In* it ra ur* Bunk,
Where she has Oponed an Elegant and
Varied Assortment of
EATS AFB B0HHIT5,
OF ALL 1HE LATFST STYL?S,
Which she will sell :.t the LOWEST POSSIBLE
PRICES, Wholesale and RotaU.
Augusta, Oct 12 lm 12
No. 1
TVE ARE NO tv PREPARED to receive
Orders for No. 1 PERUVIAN GUANO,
which we are expecting direct from thc PERU
VIAN AGENTS, and which wo can GUARAN
TEE TO BE PURE, ani of-FRESH IMPOR
TATION.
Parties buying beforo its arrival, will bc al
lowed a LIBERAL DISCOUNT.
Wc would advise our friends to send in their
Orders carly.
BRANCH, SCOTT & CO.,
208 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, GA.
Oct 27 41
JAS. T. GARDINER,
MCINTOSH STREET,
AUGUSTA, Or A -,
DEALER IN
PURE
Peruvian Guan?
AND THE BEST
BONE SUPER PHOSPHATES,
And for which
lil ilnlcrs will Jicecivc Prompt Attention
AT THE LWEST CASH PRICES.
Augu.4.1, Oct2?? 6m 43
Kerosine Oil
JUST RECEIVED
I Bid. Standard White KEROSINE OIL
warranted to stand tl c test of heat 110 degrees
and is thcrefoyo non-explosive.
G. L. PENN.
Oct. 2? tf 44.
Old Times."
There's a beautiful song on the slumbrous air,
That drifts through tho valley of dreams ;
It comes from a clime where the roses wee,
And a tuneful heart and bright brown hair,
That wared in the morning boains.
Soft eyes of azure and eyes of brown,
And snow-white foreheads are there;
A glimmering Cross and a glittering Crown,
A thorny bed and a couch of down,
Lost hopes and leaders of prayer.
A breath of Spring in thc bi.*..:; woods,
Sweet wafts from the quivering pines
Blue violet eyes benoath green hoods,
A bubble of brooklets, a scent of buds,
Bird warblers and clambering vines.
A rosy wreath and dimpled hand, ?
A ring and a slighted vow
Three golden lir.ks of a broken band,
A th,y track on the snow-white sand,
A tear and a sinless brow.
There's a tincture of grief in tho beautiful song
That Sobs on thc slumbrous air,
And loneliness foltin tho festive throng,
Sinks down on the soul as it trembles ulong
From K clime where the roses were.
We heard it first at thc dawn of day,
And ii mingled with matin chime?,
Bot years have distanced thc beautiful lay
And us melod> fl iweth from far away,
And we call it now Old Times.
A Womaii'sConfession.
From tJic Picayune.
" A few days ago," .said Mr. F-,
"intelligence reached tis ! hat a Milan
banker had absconded with ari iinmen.se
amount of money. It was believed
that he had fled to this country and ta
ken refuge in New Orleans. A young
Italian.girl was thc companion' Jo? his
flight. Together -with a description of
the man was a1 miniature of this girl.
.She was very beautiful, and the inani
mate ivory pictured a face so winsome
iii itsyouth and innocence, so trustful,
so confiding, that my heart ached as I
looked at it.
''.Months went -by in the fruitless
search for thc criminal. If here, his
precautions were well taken, and his
concealment effectual.
" One night a report reached the sta
tion' that a- drowned woman had been
drawn from the river. She had -been
dead but a few hours, it was said, and
was elegantly clad, and young and
beautiful. . r .
" Why I could not divineat the time,
but I felt a strange desire to see this
girl.. I mentioned th?! fact to Mr. I-,
and we walked together to the river.
The body waa laid out on the pi cr, and the
lovely upturned face was magnetic in
its intense beauty. A wealth of black
wet hair fell back from the broad low
forehead, exposing a face rounded and
full in its fresh, spring-time beauty.
The lot i LT toshes ^drooped dnVkk- o voy
The palo uncter-iidsr'TrniT me" biuseleCr.
lips bad not lost their delicate curve
and crimson stain. The soft milky skin
showed beneath it the olive tint it had
worn in life. The clinging dress but
imperfectly concealed each rounded
limb and the exquisite outline ol' body.
I felt a strange attraction in looking
at this dead woman. She must have
been unsurpassingly lovely*1 when life
was instinct in the frame now so chill.
The warm sun of her native land could
not have been more lustrous than her
eyes were then. I felt that T had seen
her before. The conviction grew upon
nie as my eyes became rivited on her
features. The face haunted me. For
an hour my memory was at fault, but it
caine at last. Like a flash, recollection
returned.
S'/ie was ilie original of the picture.
Eagerly I bent forward and traced
again and again each outline of face
and figure. There could be no mistake
-the liniaments were the same.
On examining the body it was discov
ered thai she had been murdered. A
deep penetrating wound in her side,
made with a small Spanish dagger,
which yet filled the cavity, disclosed
the means of her death. This knife
bore the initials E. F. They did not
stand for her name nor that of her be
trayer. It was a costly weapon, for in
the handle was a brilliant of value. I
took the knife to a jeweler, and asked
him to examine it. The monogram ar
rested his attention at once, ile took
it and examined it closely. Then from
his desk he brought a jewel set in gold,
on which was a lettering precisely simi
lar.
"Where did you get this?" I asked.
" From a customer of mine."
" A lady ?"
"Yes."
'. Where is she to be found ?"
He showed me a direction. It was
that of a lad}' of fashion ; a^Cuban vis
iting in the city.
I went to her at once. On mention
ing my name she showed me evident
signs of uneasiness, ?md motioning me
to a private room, begyed with white
lips and a faltering utterance, the na
ture of my errand.
I detailed thc circumstances briefly,
I told her of the ciminal, the flight and
escape, of the dead body ; I showed her
the knife, ami the ring I had obtained
at the jeweler's.
" Madame," I concluded, " I must
arrest you for murder !'
"Oh, no ! no, no," she exclaimed, " I
will confess ?ill ; not mine the sin, not
mine the deed !"
She then told me who the man was,
where lie lived, and the circumstances
that occasioned the poor girl's death.
It appears from her statement that
some weeks before, the banker had
wearied of the young girl, and had
abandoned her. He had then paid his
court to her, and not knowing his ante
cedents, and judging of him by the sta
tion he held in society, she had consent
ed to marry him. That the evening
previous she had been walking with
him on the pier. Standing there in the i
moonlight, they had been approached
by a female elad as this one was. Up- '
braidings and angry reproaches follow
ed, and the girl, in the madness and
frenzy of her distress, threatened to re
veal iv secret. The words had scarcely
left her lips when the man struck her
with thc dagger I held in my hand.
She said he had taken it from hera few
moments, and was toying with it when ;
the woman came up.
'. When the blow was struck.'* she1
said, " thc woman reeled and fell into j
the river I saw her as she sunk beneath !
the water, and her white face upturned
in agony yet haunts me with its horror.
I screamed and fled. It was thc most
terrible sight I ever witnessed."
The woman told her story truthfully,
I could not doubt. But, as I supposed,
the man was gone. He was never heard
Df afterwards ; and this little memory
is all that is left of the wrecked and
ruined woman who died beneath the
flood.
Squirt-Guiis and Sardines.
A Western landlord, somewhat noted j 1
for his blunders, took it into his head ' ]
to get u?) a ball at his tavern. As he j i
intended to do the thing up brown, and i
?avc everything on the big auger plan, ! J
ie fancied that a few " store fixtures"
ivould be a great addition to the bill of
are of pork and turkey. He therefore!^
nade inquiry of his fiends, and- found
('.lat the only delicacy in market at that
i jason if the year was sardines; ac-1 j
..ordingly he sent tu rheu'earest city for : i
.wo dozen boxes sardines.
His chirography, however, was so
)ad as to make it read "two dozen
joxes syringes."
The night of the party came, and as
?upper time drew near the landlord
ooked anxiously down ho street for
he appearance of the stage which was
o bring the principal dish on the bill.
At last it arrived, and with a pack
ige for the expectant landlord.
Directly. there was a great outcry,
md a sound of cursing in the bar-room.
The-entire party rushed out to^sec
vant was the matter, and there stood
Boniface; as mad as a turkey-cock, puti
ng ami blowing with rage.
" See there !" said he, "sec there ! I
cut to Dubuque for two dozen boxes 'of
ardines for supper to-night, and the
nssed fool sent me twenty-three boxes
d' them ?I--tl pewter squirt guns, and
ays that's all lhere was in the market !"
- - ? ? - -
ALWAY? AN OBJECT OF CONTEMPT.
)ick Claiborne, when parish justice of
\ortlicrn' Louisiana, officiated willi a
lignity that wan slightly appalling to
he timid...
Among the multifarious duties and
towers of the parish judge was that of
uctionoer. He sold all thc property
>f succession in his parish;
It happened, on one occasion, iii soli
ng out the property of a deceased
;rocer. that an unruly parishioner dis
urbed the order of tho proceedings,
'inf judge lined him fifty dollars, and
enc him to jail for contempt of court.
An application was made to hini by
.n attorney to remit the line and re
eas? tho prisoner, on the ground that
r WHS no eurtienqt-m -vunrr,-rrs-rrnr
udge, when fulfilling thc oilicc of auc
?011001?; was not a court, and therefore
lot an object of contempt.
The judge immediately drew himself
\y> with all his dignity and conscious
tower, ami replied :
" Sir, I'll let you know that I am
udge of this parish-judge all the time,
rom the rising to the setting of the
un. and. as such, always an object of
ontcmpt !"
A PITTY SNOBBED.-The resemblance
if some people to dogs is thus illustra
ed:
Major T. was a paymaster in tho ar
ny, an old newspaper editor, a man of
.asl acquirements and brilliant abilities,
?e was on duty in Cincinnati during
he war, and for his amusement bought
t choice dog of some kind or other (if
herc is any choice among dogs.)
There was a young man of the genus
nippy, who had a great desire to cult i
;ate the major's acquaintance, much lo
he latter's annoyance.
As a kind of entering wedge to a
Vi (Midship, the young fellow hit upon
he felicitous plan of inquiring after the
najor's dog whenever he met him.
The latter boro it for six or eight
lays, until his patience gave out.
At last; one morning thc fellow came
ip with his usual salutation :
" Major, how's your dog?"
To which the major answered prompt:
?y: '
" Quite well, I thank you ; how are
ron ?"
The question was never repeated.
A TOUGH STORY.-There is a place i <
in Maine so rocky that wheivishe na-1 i
Dives plant corn they look for crevices
in the rocks, and shoot the grains in'
with a musket ; they can't raise ducks
there no bow, for the stones arc so thick
that the ducks can't get their bills be
tween them to pick out the grass-hop-.
pei's, and thc only way thc sheep can i '
get at the sprigs of grass is by grinding ! ?
their noses on a grindstone. But this '
ain't a circumstance to a place in Mary
land-there the land is so poor that it
takes two kildeers to cry " kildeer,"
and on a clear day you can see the
grasshoppers climb up a mulin stalk,
and look with tears over a fifty acre
field ; and tho bumblebees have to go
down on their knees to get at the grass ;
all the musquitocs died of starvation,
and thc turkey buzzards were obliged
to emigrate. But there is a county in
Virginia which can beat that-there
the land is so sterile when the wind is
northwest they have to tie thc children
to keep 'em from being blown away
there it takes six frogs to raise one
croak, and when the dogs bark they
have to lean against the fences-the .
horses are so thin that it takes twelve '
of them to make a shadow, and when !
they kill a beef they have to hold him ?
up to knoek him down !
A FOWL RETORT.-Fred (who has:
been sent down stairs to entertain the :
visitors while his mamma is arranging
her back hair.) "Do you keep cocks
and hens, Mr. Meekings ?"
Mr. M. " Whv do vou ask, my
dear?"
" Because my pa told my ma that
you was hen-pecked."
HAD ALL UK WAN', D.-" John ! '
John ! you flop-eared young scoundrel, i
what are you crying about? What do
you want?" aske-1 an indignant father
of Iiis young lie. d, who was making
day hideous with li is howls.
" I've got the bellor ache, that's what
I want."" 1
Th?ction of Gen. Grant.
W.?jjttke. a few extracts from our ex
fctiie result of the Presiden
mr:
[Fronrthe New York Times, Republican.]
untry may now look for that
Denefic^y^eace which has been the
.vatcluMr?l. of thc Republican party du
ring t?j^political campaign. General
jran&gpi?d have done the party no
?reatejfervice than by giving it this
dea ?Khi? word to inscribe upon its
janntMp-The turmoil of the iast eight
foar?^Bfcbecome intolerable. When
t w?^Kin the field, the people bore
t w|tlijrerong hearts and strone arms.
BufwlSLthis was followed by four
rears offlnolent political distractions
fiat constantly threatened a renewal of
fangninar^Nstrife, popular patience got
exhausted. ?And when, finally, the
Democratic pat^ty raised a revolutionary
jlatforra, from which we could see notti
ng but ? stormy'?u?ure and a tempest
?ossed country, there would have been
uglification for despair if no means of j
iscape had been opened up.. But the
;reat soldie-r who had formerly given
is peactjjjy his military genius, again,
tood fp?ward as the representative of
lenee in the storm of political passion.
L'he country felt the power of the sacred
vord,-a?id rallied round the leader who
buld give it hope.
. [From the Now York World, Domocrat.]
It" is not merely as the representative
il'a bea'ten party, pouring oil upon their
mounds, that we vindicate in this the
vi/^rrois of our misfortune, and as we
leheve tif the country's calamity, the
.rdor ami the courage, but thc desper
,tenes>J,(ulso, of our struggle. Rather
lo we i&ocliiim in this-most trying hour
-.speaking for a party serenely secure
?f .possessing the future of our country,
.nd of ajpuiding her magnificent des
iuics wh'en itself shall have been purg
id, andjiiouldcd for that Imperial task
-an unshakable confidence in its puis
ant ai?r" undying youth, which out of
lisastec will get discipline, out of mis
ortunei patience and unconquerable
ourage^ out of blunders wisdom and a
cttlei? will. To this great work, here
nd noj&;Upon a battle field which has
>ecn45sc5 do we invite, beneath undis
lonore? standards, thc youth, the man
lood o?our time.
[From tlie Now York Herald.]
The.flepublii.ans hold ihe field and
egain^tiie White House. The Demo
raticJW?ders flung their chances of suc
ess overboard when they made their
Lieble nominations in July last, and more
snecirtjfeyllen they brought prominent
peakcraTneu from the Southern States
teep?lt to thc lips in disloyalty to the
?bvernment, and fresh from ihe fields
diere thousands of our Union soldiers
aid down their lives to preserve the
i fe of thc nation. ' With thc candidate
he Democracy selected to carry their
tandard nothing but defeat was to be
xpected, and we suppose that not even
he most sanguine' member of the party
.nticipated any other termination to
he contest than the election of General
Tr?nt. <; Let us have peace" is his
notto. We look now to see these words
on verted into acts-to see the olive
?ranch substituted for the sword in the
Southern States, negro supremacy quiet
y superseded, and such measures adopt-,
id as will create harmony out of dis
lord in that genial and fruitful portion
>f our country comprised in thc States
low suffering from a mistaken and vin
lietive policy. We look also and hope
iilly to this-that after the fourth of |
pareil next there will be a check put
ipon the monstrous corruptions which
ircvail in all the departments of the
government, that economy shall succeed
extravagance in the disbursements of
he public funds, that the public debt
?hall be reduced as rapidly as possible,
md that the taxes which press upon
lie people shall be made more easy to
jear. The people expect that General
jrant will accomplish all this, and if he
'ails to do su he will not have compl?t
ai the purpose for which he is elected.
But we have great confidence in Gene
ral Grant.
[From the New York Tribune, Radical ]
This result has been achieved in spite
rf ?II the power pf the Federal Execu
tive and of the late slaveholding aris
tocracy of theSoul.li, aided by the most
gigantic fraudsiunaturalization, and by
roting tha-s?me men over and over till
thev we?l dizzy. General Grant is this
ilayvihet choice of a decided majority ol'
th? fegfi voters of every State in the
I'niqnjAve Kentucky, Maryland, Dela
ivar?6pd possibly Oregon. Every State
I hat "ros gone for Seymour outside of
thcse'S'Ss been so carried by coercion or
fraud/ We now look for the adoption
jf^mSpires that shall effectually pre
clude |i repetition of these crimes".
tjom the Journal of Commorco.]
l;Grant is not a Radical, and
the very highest authority for
ihat it is his purpose to separate
ffrop the extremists, and to rai
tt him a strong body of the bet
ter cl??fc.oitizens, who shall draw unto
Liiem.tjfeigenial allies from all quarters,
and-beTiome, as they would deserve to
be, th'f\*pariy of the country. He is al
so extremely anxious to verify his party
watchword, and to lead the country at
once to peace a renewed prosperity.
This is his purpose, and no one can deny
that it is a noble ambition. Not him
self a politician, and with but little ex
perience or skill in civil life, he does
not, Ms'we think, at all realize the diffi
culties in thc way of such success as he
covets. We do not say that he will
fail ; for he has undoubted pluck, and,
besides four years of patronage at com
mand, he will also have the advice and
practical aid of some strong friends who
do not usually intermeddle with public
affairs.
MUCH pf the water to be obtained
along the line of the Pacific Railroad is
strongly impregnated with alkalies.
A stage-driver observing a passenger
about to quail' some of it thc other day,
exclaimed, with a genuine Western
style of simile :
" Don't drink that, colonel, for it will
go through you like the ten command
ments through a Sunday-school.''
sayrfl
hims'
ly roi
Forty Acres ami a Mule.
The Sumter Watchman says : " Mr,
Wm. L. Brimson, whose lamented death
we notice on another column, bequeath
ed to his faithful servant Washington,
upon his death, forty acres of land, a
mule, a wagon, a cow and calf, a fine
stock of hogs and one-half the crop
grown upon the farm the present year.
Upon the coming of freedom, Washing
ton preferred to follow the fortunes of
his old master, remaining with him and
conducting himself with fidelity and
faithfulness, and so also did the wife
and family of Washington. During his
last illness, Mr. Brunson received un
ceasing attention from his faithful ser
vant, who regarded his old master his
best earthly friend and loved him with
the affection of a child for a parent.
This is but one of tens of thousands
of instances which would have occurred
in our country, Jjut for the poisonous in
fluences and wicked teachings of Radi
cal emissaries, by whom the colored man
has been lcd to suspicion, and to regard
as an enemy his former master, until, in
fact, an antagonism has been created
between tliein, which, in all probability,
can never bc obliterated. The colored
man has been seduced by these infamous
men from his interest, and his frith, and
is being steadily lured by the same in
fluence to his ruin. The Southern man
has cleared his skirts.
Pretty Good.
Many incidents of an amusing, char
acter happened during the late war
which have never found their way into
print, but which are too good to be lost.
The following, we believe, has not here
tofore met the public eye :
Wash Petty, a notorious bushwhacker
whilst foraging in Southwest Missouri
with his followers, rode up to a farm
house whose owner was known to have
ample provisions for man and beast, but
whose politics were best known to him
self. Petty and his men being dressed
in Federal uniform, were mistaken by
the farmer for " jay hawkers." He be
gan to declare most positively that he
was a " Union man. God never made
a better." Petty said " wc are hunting
your sort ; we arc rebel bushwhackers."
Whereupon the farmer chanced his tac
tics and declared just as positively that
he was a " Southern man." " Look
here, old man," said Petty, "you don't
know to which, side wo belong, and you
must take one side or the other, and
stick to it ; if you happen to take the
wrong side we'll kill you." This stag
gered thc man considerably, but after
thinking a minute, he said : "Well ; I
is?id. at the start I was a Union, man,.
amt J. ii SOCK tu IL u ic is it tr-a lil
lie was loft tb enjoy his peculiar opin
ions without further molestation.
MARRY HER FIRST.-Many years
ago, in what is now a flourishing city,
lived a stalwart blacksmith, fond of his
pipe and his joke. He was also fond of
his blooming daughter, whose many
graces had ensnared the affections of a
young printer. The couple, after a sea
son of billing and cooing, " engaged
themselves," and nothing but the con
sent of the young Indy's parents pre
vented their union. To obtain this an
interview was arranged, and. the typo
prepared a little speech to admonish
and convince the old man, who sat en
joying his pipe in perfect content. The
typo dilated on the fact of their long
friendship, their mutual attachment,
their hopes for the future, and like top
ics ; and taking the daughter by the
hand, lie said : " I am now, sir, to ask
your permission to transplant this love
ly flower from its parent bed"
but his feelings overcame him, and he
forgot the remainder of his oratorical
flourish, stammered, and finally wound
up with. " from its parental bed into
my own." Tho father keenly relished
this discomfiture of the suitor, and, re
moving his pipe and blowing a cloud,
replied : " Well, young man, I don't
know as I have any objection, provided
you marry the ?irl first."
? -?- ? -
Sr-EEcii OF BEAST BUTLER.-Gen.
Butler was greeted by about 3,000 of |
his fellow-citizens, in Lowell, Massachu
setts, to whom he made a brief speech
on the 5th. He had triumphed, he
said, under thc motto : Equality of all
men's rights under the law, by using
freedom's great weapon-the ballot.
He hailed tho glorious triumph of .Re
publican principles throughout the lund,
lie believed it would bring peace and
prosperity. We shall not long have
murder after murder and riot after riot.
Look at New Orleans, from which we
have reported 2,500 for Seymour and
276 for Grant. There was a time, he
remembered, when the people of that
city behaved better. [Applause.] He
felt confident such time would come
once more. Several Southern States
voted for Seymour, or are in doubt, be
cause men's lives were threatened if they
attempted to vote. When Congress meets
as it will in a short time, it will be our
purpose to find a remedy for this kind
of thing, and if Johnson dees not second
our eflbr-ts, though it may be late in the
day, we will try and provide for him.
[Applause.]
GOOD.-We understand that the ne
groes of Beech Island, S. C., and its
neighborhood, are calmly but confident
ly awaiting thc division of lands, mules
and other property now held by the
whites. They understand the election
of Grant to be equivalent to a home
stead, and nothing to do for the rest of j
their natural lives. When their expec
tations are realized and the titles to the
aforementioned property obtained, we
should like to see tin* bruni. The only
wav in which any of the poor deluded
creatures will ever become possessed of
property of any kind, which they can
hold under the light of day, will be by
the " sweat of their brow," and the time
is not far distant when this truth will be
sorrowfully, but sternly realized.-Au
I gusta Constitutionalist.
? #5V" Mrs. Eliza Garth, of New York,
1 aged seventy-four, has sued Richard
j Howell, of Flanders, N, .T., aged seven
ty-seven, for $5,000, a nd got it, for tri
I fling with her virgin ailee tiona and mar
' another girl.
Our Traducers?
Now that tlie election is over, and (he
country "saved," according to the Rad
ical " patriots," North and . South, we
may reasonably hope that the misrepre
sentations from which we have so long
suffered, may at last cease. How muop
this species of insidious-warfare has cost
the South.it would be difficult to esti
mate. We speak not now bf Uncle
Tom's Cabin which gave an immense
impetus to the Republican party,-nor
of the poems, essays and sermons, innu
merable, which were circulatedastiacts,
all over the North and West, and con
tributed their share in fomenting the
war; we refer more specially to the j
? wa rm of'lying newspaper correspon
dents, who were sent out here from the
surrender of General Lee up to the date
sf General Grant's election. Those men,
with very few exceptions, wei e obscure
Bohemians, ignorant, flippant, and ut
terly devoid of principle. They were
sent for a specific purpose, and knowing
that the surest road to favor with their
principals was to paint men and things
m the most glaring colors, they set to
it with a will, and spared not the
brush.
This line of action subserved its pur
pose admirably ; contributing nov mean
mare in strengthening the Radical ranks
in thc elections two years ago. The
oBcy of Mr: Johnson was condemned
y the " voice of the nation," as was the
fashionable phrase of that day, the four
teenth amendment was ratified. Next
caine the reconstruction acts, and with
them the great hegira of the carpet
baggers ; from whose ranks the staff of
newspaper correspondents was constant
ly recruited. A stronger motive was
now added-interest, ambition, cove
tousness. Three of the strongest pas
sions of the human heart goaded these
gentry to the perpetration of the gros
sest injustice on an innocent people :
the love of gain, the lust of power, and
ibject and cowardly fear; the latter
from a consciousness of the great wrong
they were daily and hourly inflicting
apon a people who harmed them not.
The object was to carry the Presiden
tial election, and now that it is over,
' let us have peace."
Not only were we traduced in the
Northern prints of every description,
the newspaper, the illustrated weeklies,
the literary magazines and reviews, and
thc pondeieus tomes, but their misera
ble caricature was accepted as a faith
ful portrait, by their own people, the
people of England, France Germany,
and the rest of the world. Mr. Adams
hr Irre rre<Mit-r^;cT^-rk tkiu upoLa
of "tins. Jle said that fie liad met peo1
pie from the South all his life, and they
were much like other men. Yet in his
schoolbooks he had learned they were
semi-savages ; in the village newspaper
he read of their cruelties and barbarism:
and though an intelligent and an edu
cated man, one who ought to have
known better, he confessed that these
con.'.tant iterations .produced their ef
fect, even upon his mind. lie gave us
the picture of the traditional Souther
ner, blustering, bullying, tobacco chew
ing, pistol brandishing.
Mr. Vernon Harcourt, ono of thc
leading men in England, better known
as " Historiens'1 of the Times, a few
week's ago, at the Social Science Con
gress, in Manchester, said :
14 Gentlemen who had travelled in the
Southern States have often seen persons
sit down to a peaceful dinner with a re
volver in each coat tail pocket. Of
course, it was only for the purpose of
self-defence, but then it very frequent
ly happened that before dinner was
over two or. three were shot."
In France and Germany, particularly
among the " Liberal" party, we find
the same ignorant prejudice against us.
Our immigrant agents have met with
little success in consequence. They had
not only to contend with the current
literature hostile in its tone, but found
yet more formidable obstacles in the
numerous paid agents from the North
west who spread infamous falsehoods to
our prejudice, in order to induce emi
grants to go to Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
?c., and not to South Carolina. We
hope that this warfare will now cease,
and that the hand of time may be per
mitted to break down this thick wall of
prejudice. A fair race-justice-is all
we ask. Wc claim nb exemptions, no
special favors ; only that which is our
rightful due.
We have been so long accustomed to
these calumnies, that we fear some of
our people have at last begun to accept
as truth the verdict of their detractors.
We arc glad therefore that Commodore
Maury, in a recent addref-3 before an
Agricultural Fair in Str-unton, Va.,
took pains to look into this subject, and
nobly vindicated the Southern peeple
from these foul aspersions.
He said there is nothing more com
mon than the assertion that the South
ern people lack energy. It is a mis
chievous error. The North is appar
ently more prosperous, because it is
manufacturing and commercial, the
South agricultural. In all manufactur
ing and commercial communities pro
ducts are concentrated, and there is a
show of life and activity never seen in
agricultural communities, because labor
is there diffused.
Another reason is, that the statistics
showing the rewards of labor at the
North and South arc not quite fairly
presented. For instance, suppose that
one of your neighbors, in giving you an
account of his earnings during tho year,
should tell you that he had housed so
many barrels of corn, which was worth
five dollars a barrel ; and killed so
many hundred weight of pork, that was
worth eight cents a pound : had so many
pounds of bacon, worth twelve cents ;
but when you come to catechise him a
little closer, you find that it had taken
all of his corn to fatten his pork, and
all of his pork to make his bacon.
Now, this is the way with the hay
crop of the North, which is worth as
much as the cotton crop of the South,
as Governor Scott said in his message
to the Legislature. In the last returns,
the hay crop ol' thc North is put down
at upwards of three hundred millions
dollars ; thc valu? of the live stock at a
little more, ami the value of the bittier
ami cheese at many millions, when tho
hay went to make lt all. There is still
another reason for this apparent greater
prosperity ol' the North, and the appa
rent show of greater energr and entcr
pri.se there. According to tho census of
1790, the population of tho United
States was very nearly equally divided
between the North ami South ; and ac
cording to the retnriisof the subsequent
census, the ratio ul" natural increase was
greater at the South than at tho North.
But notwithstanding this, tho popula
tion of the North, according to the cen
sus of 18G0, was, in round numbers,
eleven millions greater than at the
South.
Did it ever occur to you, says Com
modore Maury, when an emigrant comes
into the country, to calculate how mm h
he adds to the national wealth, not by
the money which ho brings, but By the
labor which he U able to perform ? For
that labor you will pay him, at ti.e
least, one hundred dollars a year, ile,
therefore, represents an industrial capi
tal of which a hundred dollars a year
is the interest, precisely in the same
way that a steam engine, by thc work
which it is capable of performing, re
presents an industrial capital. The la
bor, therefore, of a white man represents
quite as much industrial capital as the
labor ofJ a negro did before thc war,
which for an able-bodied man varied
from twelve to fifteen hundred dollars.
Taking old and young, male and female,
let us suppose that each emigrant rep
resents an industrial capital of fpiir
hundred dollars. And then we must
weigh these eleven millions of excess of
Northern population as the number of -
emigrants, and the descendants-c f emi
grant*', which have come into the coun
try since 1790 and settled at the North
rather than at the South. Multiply
that by four hundred and you have up
wards of four thousand millions of dol
lars, which the North has acquiied. not
from any superior energy of her people,
but merely by the influx of laborers aird
foreigners from abroad. Suppose these
eleven millions had settled in "Virginia,
what would not have been the wealth
of the State ?--Charleston Mercury.
ATROCIOUS MURDER.-On 'Saturday
last, two inoffensive colored men, Con
servative in their politics, came to Or
angeburg with a wagon, from the lower
'part of St. Matthews, sold their cotton,
and started on their return home that
evening, with the proceeds, partly in
i vested an supplies, in their wagon. Ar
> t.Mid uiai Yu nf-Hulea Dll?ge,-Uley
camped near the road-side, and after
building a large fire, went to sleep. In
the night one of them, Stephen Ladf
I den, was awakened by the report of a
gun, and a sharp shock, and saw some
one making off through the bushes. Ho
went to his companion, Frank Thomp
son, -and found that he had been shot
in the head, and was dead. Stephen
also was wounded in the arm.
No clue has been discovered to the
perpetrators of this barbarous crime. It
is supposed that the party or pari i es
who committed thc deed, having killed
but one pf their intended victims, fled
upon seeing the other rise up, (which
he did, shouting as he rose) in order to
escape detection.-Orangeburg News.
Affairs in Spain are not; yet quite
smooth. The revolutionary government
has been recognized by England. France
Prussia and Italy, but the managers have
.not yet succeeded in getting a head for
it. Ferninand is said to have declined,.' n
offer of the crown, and the men in whose
gift it is lind it difficult to cjet any one
to take it. The reason probably is that
it might, bc hard to keep when taken,
for it looks as though there might be
more hot work in Spain before long. Dis
turbances are reported in Malaga and
Grenada, and troops have been sent
from-Madrid to suppress them, with
what result is not stated. This is signi
ficant, but of course one set of revolu
tionists have a perfect right to put down
another set of-revolutionists, and hang
every man they can catch. Isabella's
throne would probably have been safer
if she had taken hold of the revolution
ists with a stronger grip than she gene
rally brought to bear on them.
SINGULAR' MOVEMENT IN WASHING
TON.-Wc clip tiie following from the
Cincinnati Enquirer of the 9th, giving
it for what.it is worth :
WASHINGTON, November 8, 1S68.-A
singular movement has been originated
by certain politicians, having in view
the castine; of the Democratic electoral
votes for Grant. It is urged it would
influence Grant to a conservative course,
to which he is undoubtedly inclined. A
circular letter on this subject has been
addressed to Mr. Pendleton, Governor
Stevenson and Gen. Preston, of Ken
tucky, A. H. Stephens, and prominent
Democrats of the North. The following
is the text of the lefter :
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 8,1868.
GENERAL :-In my judgment the wis
est thing the Democracy could now do
would be to throw their entire electoral
vote for General Grant, as an indication
of the fact that, should he pursue a lib
eral, generous and magnanimous course,
they will sustain him. It would also
have the effect of not leaving him alto
gether in the hands of tho adverse fac
tion, and would doubtless strengthen
any purpose he may entertain toward
the conservative sentiment of ?he coun
try. This vote can not possibly do Sey
mour any good, and thrown in the man
ner suggested would, at least, produce
a conciliatory impression.
Very truly, yours, &c.
j When a woman says another woman
has a good figure, you may be pretty
.-?ure that other woman is freckled. nV
that she squints, or that she is marked
with tho small pox. But if she simply
' says, she is " a gr od soul," you mav bo
morally certain that she is both ugly
' and ill made.
