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*. * li*. ? lt .? . ^ktr^g H ? c - ? * ? I : #UM.HWM.^WM^<U>>H<.IW<U<UHU<W<WMH>.I<U<IU<.I>I,>IUM.'.<MU,H"I"H..MnaKu-llllu'hl-WM..H..n1l.?''.l'.,'.1.V..?.'......>W.U BY Di R? DUR?SOE. ..,"."..un?.??u^aW.uHW..?.o.u..?'..MuM.?..M....?'..?.P?.?-?.'un?M?u?M^uH?.u.?i .^.u>?ru,iH<i>ni?MiMuntiiiafiii>?>iii<uiui<<it?tiu>iiuiUf<i* EDGEFIELD, S. C., SEPTEMBEK 21, 1871. VOLUME Xm.-Ko. 39, Piedmont ? Arlington LF? INSURANCE COMPANY. Home Of?i?e, [Richmond, Va. Annual income^ 1st Jan'j. 1871, $1,440,954,94 ! Policies Issued to 1st January 1871, - - 13,345 ! ALL CASH PREMIUMS, REDUCED BY ANNUAL DIVIDENDS, ON THE ? CONTRIBUTION PLAN." The Largest Southern Company. STATE DIHBCTORS : J. P. THCMAS, JOHN MCKENZIE, R. W. GIBBES, W. B. GULICK, DR. ISAAC BRANCH, JOHN T. SLOAN, THOMPSON EARLE, T. C. PERRIN, JOHN S. PRESTON, DR. H. R. COOK, EX-GOV. M. L. BONHAM |3^**Active Uanvassers Wanted. LEAPHART & RANSOM, ' General Agents,--Office: Columbia, S. C. -JBL-KEESE,. Canvasser and.Collector. Capt. B. M. TALBERT Canvassing Agent for Edgefield District. Ex-Gov. M. L. BONHAM'S position in connection with this Company remains,the same as before thc withdrawal of Capt. E. E. JEFFERSON. July 5 .; ; ; ly li ; 48 JOSIAH SIBLEY, S. H. SIBLEY, GEO. R. SIBLEY, ROBT. P. SIBLEY. J. SIBLEY & SONS, Cotton Commission Mercha'ts -AND t'<thm?? %?i??Minitr? '?il'?? U?*?i . \?T\ . . ;. ? DEALERS.-IN GUANOS, No. 159, Reynold Street, AUGUSTA, GA. .attics SGG bas adtQlobsc S ??s We again offer our Services in the WAREHOUSE BUSI NESS to the Public. - LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES made on Cotton in Store. ORDERS for BAGGING and TIES promptly filled. Sept 5 3m 37 COTTON STATES Life Insurance Company, X vj goa i Principal Office, Itlacon, Qa. Ti EE business of this STRICTLY SOUTHERN and HOME CO}l?A NY is confined by law to legitimate Life Insurance alone. Policies issued on all the approved Mutual plans. It also issues Policies at Stock rates, 25 per cent, under the mutual rate. But it does not advise its patrons to insure on the Stock plan, that-plan being very expensive in the Jong run. ?t is known that dividends in a good Mutual Company will average about 65 per cent., especially at the South and West, where investments bring good returns. 90 per cent, of profits on the Mutual business divided annually amongst all the Mutual-Policy Holders without exception. One-third Loan on Premiums given when-desired. Interest charged only upon first loan. Where all Cash is paid, Policies will become self-sustaining; that is, pay out, and have 50 per cent, added to their faces, which is one-third more than the original sum insured. Ample provision against forfeiture of Policies in the expressed terms of the contract. The Company will always purchase its Policies at their Cash value. We offer the people of the State the same financial security as Northern Companies, the accumulating premiums of the insured, and in addition thereto a Capital commencing with $500,000 ! Millions of dollars have annually hitherto been-lost to the active circula tion of the South, in payment of premiums in Northern Companies. In benefits derived from the investments made by these Companies in Northern real estate and securities, our people can never share on equal terms. Let then sustain our own Life Enterprise, and thus keep our money and the profits too at home. Officers at 3Iacon, Ga : LffiM. B. JOHNSTON, President. WM. S. -HOLT, vice-President, GEO. S.'OBEAR, Secretary. JOHN W. BURKE, General- Agent. C. F. McCAY, Actuary. W. J. MAGILL, Superintendent of Agencies. JAS. MERCER GREEN, Medical Examiner. J??Hfhe Cotton States Company is a Georgia and South Carolina enter prise, is a good Company, and is now fully identified with the interests of our people. This State is ably represented in thc general management by South Carolina Directors. LAYALL & ABXEY, ' General Agents for North and South Carolina. WM. J. LAVALL, Esq,, Oiiice, Columbia, S. C., ] M. W. ABNEY, M. D, Edgefield, S. C. / JuneT ";: ' tf 24 PETER KEENAN Again sajutes^he Good People of Edgefield, and the many readers of the /' Advc-riiacr, and invites them, when tiny are in want of Boots and Shoes, To call at his Reliable House,' next dcor to James A. Grav & Co., where they-will find NOTHING EUT THE BEST WORK ! And all made to order, in Baltimore aftdVPhilade?phia. Having made a flying (tip io the .-.hove cities, and taking advantage of the u^rh times,prevail in g\\ th r?re, I can conscientiously say that I have The Best (foods Ever Brought io this Market i /ind every style %f-Gen tl em en 's ILnd-Sewed Shoes, at $5 per pair! Low-,Strap?hoes-Prince AlbertV- made ot Morocco and Calf, with and jLj- ' without Box-Toes. And Every Other $ty!c Known to the Trade! Nothing will be left undone to merit the confidence of my Fellow-Citi zens. I would just as soon force a paper, as beguile the public with any thing other than Facts. PETER KEENAN, 2S0 Broad Street, Under Central Hotel, AUGTSTA, GA. Aug 8 tf 33 SALUDA HOUSE. IVIRS. R, B. BOULWARE respectful ly announces to the Edgefield public that she has opened tho SALUDA HOUSE, and will use every exertion io please all who may favor her with their patronage. She solicits the encouragement of her friends. Board by tho Day, Week or Month it as low figures as cnn possibly. be af forded. . > . - Edgefield. May 80 tf 23 FRESH ARRIVALS AT W. H. BRUNSON'S. 1 CASE NEW FALL PRINTS, 10 Pieces Domestic CHECKS, 10 " " STRIPES, 1 Bale Graniteville HOMESPUN, Ball Sewing Thread, Soda, Starch, Soap, Smoking and Chowing TOBACCO, A choice lot of SEO ABS, AU for sale low. Sept 0 tf 37 NEW GOODS! M Crts, taTtt^T fj UST Received FIFTY Pio<-?s FALL | "??T PRINTSfOjl style?. j I VV E can furnish these OATS, deliv Si) Doz. COATS' COTTON, *I per doz. : ered itt th" T><?po?. Siwkn included, ut 1 Bale BROWN SHIRTING, 13 ct?. -31,25 ,x>r Bushel of 32 tibs. Apply by nm- Y a rd. Cash order to r * , J. H. CHEATHAM, | T. C. LIPSCOMB A SON, Ninety-Six, G. <fc C. R. 14. At Sullivan's OW Stand. Aug 30 8* Sept 5 im 37 Creed. I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids when Hie Cold, dead, and numb to all the world contains, The folded orbs would open at thy breath, And from its exile in the aisles of death Lifo would come gladly ' back' along my veins. RKI ' .' '. I believe if ? wera dead, And you upon my lifeless heart should tread, Not knowing what the cold clod chanced to be, It would find sudden pulse beneath the touch j Of him it ov?r loved in life so much, And throb again, warm, tender, true to thee. I believe if on my grave, Hidden in woody deeps, or by the wave, Youi eyes should drop some wann tears of regret, From every- >salty Beed of your dear gi grief r Some' "fair -sweet blossom would leap into leaf, To prove death could not make my love forget. I believe if I should fade Into those mystic realms where light is made, And you should long once more my face to seo, I would come forth upon tho hills of \ night, And gather s tai a like faggots, till thy sight, Lcd by tho beacon blaze, fell on mo! [. ' I believe my faith in thee, Strong as my life, so nobly placed to be, I would as soon expect to see the sun Fall like a dead king from his height sublime, His glory stricken from the throne of j Time, As thee uuworth tho worship thou hast won. I believe who has not loved Has half tho treasure of his lifo un proved : Like one who with the grape, within his grasp, Drops it, with all its crimson juice un ?ressed, all its luscious sweetness left un ; guessed, t Out from his careless and unheeding clasp. I belicvo love, pure and true, Is to tlic soul a sweet, immortal dew That gems life's petals in its hours ol'| dusk ; The waiting angels Seo and recognize . The rich crown jewel love of Paradise. When life falls from us like a withered husk. MT BLIND WIFE. MY one-and-twentieth birthday came during the.periud of my meander- \ ings. I am ? steady-going old fellow t enough now,-,but in youth my life'was i crowded with adventures. At eigh* teen I broke through the limitations of the old homestead, deserted my J f father's farm, and became a rover. - There .must have been nomadic blood in me. As a child I was rest- f less and enterprising. My grand- i lather, narrowly observing me, said a that I just escaped being a genius. I c hope that this view of my possibili ties reconciled my father to my ter- t rible delinquencies in farming, but I *f do not think that it ever did. I was 1. the black sheep of the family, and finally allowed by my parents-more in sorrow than anger-to go ruy own | 1 ways, which were many and diversi fied.. The night befove ray final depart ure, my mother c-tuie up to my ?oom, after I had gone to bcd, and sitting down by my pillow, put her gentle I I hand on my head. I o " You are not asleep, Jack ?" " No, mother." " I have something to say to you, I dear, which I could not say before the others. I have never been an cry s with you because you did not bke I farming, as your father has been- \ only a little disappointed, because a farmer lives a safe and virtuous life, ? and I hoped to see all my boys settle ii down around me, to support and comfort my old age. But 1 think I 1 see that you were not made for a 1 farmer." \ " No, mother ; I am certain that I I was not ! I am heartsick of the r monotonous routine of drudgery thal leads to nothing but eating and lyin down to rest. The singing of thc \ insects in the fields chafes and frets t me. Something from a distance scorns calling me, and my strength and courage are equal to anything Don't fret about me, little mother; 11 you shall be proud of your scape grace son yet." " 1 am proud of you now, Jack and .shall only be more so, if, after a 1 few year? out in the world's templa- 1 lions, you bring back to me your un tarnished self-respect and bono Keep out of evil, for my Bake-for mother's Rtke, Jack;" and she laid her pale cheek down to mine. " I will, mother ; trui-t me-don't 11 worry." A few more last words, and then she kissed me good-night. I rolled over in the darkness, vowing, as never had vowed before, to kee] straight, for my mother's sake. A week later I was far down the Missouri River. I had my own way to work in the new life Iliad chosen, and at New Orleans I fell among thieves, figuratively, and received my first lesson in human depravity. On my way to Mexico I had yel low fever, but recovered. At Mon tezuma I fell in love with a Spanish girl : also recovered.. The next win ter I was in Florida, from whence I worked my way West. I had reasons for wishing to go to Omaha. It was then little more than a military outpost. From St Joseph I went on a buckboard as far as the headquarters of the most re mote Indian agencies, and when com pelled, procured a pony, and contin ued my travels, alone, over a most dangerous portion of the country. I know no*? the course I took was simple madness, and the wonder is that I escaped with my life. The Indians, different tribes of which coursed the plains in every direction, were, one and all, hostile to the whites. But indifferent to all warn ing, I went forth, anticipating no trouble, fearing no evil, though I carried an unusually fine scalp. With my gun slung across my shoulder, I sung to myself as my pony galloped over thc plains, then brilliantly green with May verdure! -skiping soundly at nighty wrap- . ped in tny blanket, upon the ground -and.'happy as the day was long, for three daj.; I pursued my way prosperously. ? ? Upon the evening of the fourth, I j i stopped at a spring, welling like 11 crystal from the' ground, to let my horse drink. The pony, though thirs ty, sniffed the ground and gave voice to low whinnies; which was explain ed when T suddenly discovered hoof tracks and moccasin-prints in the mud around the spring. I turned in alarm to mount, when there* was a rush through the hushes a chorus of yells, and I found., my self surrounded by Indians7J Their camp was close af hand There were thirty of these men women and children. Their wig warns were among the bushes, and here their ponies grazed, their dogs quarreled, and the filth of their Jiving gathered around them J expected, as a great hideous sav age laid hands on me, to be instantly killed and scalped ; but after depriv ing me of my gun, and binding my hands and feet with deer-thongs, they carried me into one of the wigwams and laid me down upon a bed" of skins. It was evident that they did not mean to kill me immediately. For twenty-four hours, without meat or drink, I was left to wonder what they did mean to do with me My lashings had become very an noying, for I was bound with unne cessary tightness. The rude leather compressed the flesh upon my wrists and ankles, and rendered my hands and feej; almost numb and very pain ful. The pain gradually extended through my whole bodyj and . no words can tell what I suffered. I think, upon the second day, I must have become somewhat delirious, for I had forgotten where I was, when I saw two* faces turned atten tively upon me. One was dark and repulsive-the >ther fair and delicate. I turned be ?eeching glances* upon .tkfrm. :"aijjd tried to speak. I don't know what I succeeded in saying ; but the dark face was distor ted with a horrid grin. To my as tonishment, the other murmured, in English : " Poor fellow !" My senses cleared a little "Kill me at once," I said. "I lad rather die now than bear ah lour more of this suffering!" As I looked at the one who had ipoken, I saw that she was a young vhite girl. She was wrapped, like he other, in skina and furs, wore noccasins upon her. small7 feet, and md a string of tawdry ornaments ibout her n?ck ; but her hair flowed, air, fine and silken, upon her slender moulders. She could not "have been more than ourteen years old. I looked at her n wonder- as she knelt down by me md passed her small fingers lightly iver my lashings. Something in her manner of doing bis made me look narrowly into her ace. She was blind i Her-lovely due eyes did not see me at all. She rose np and .-poke to the quaw who accompanied her. The atter replied by a harsh laugh. The conversation was continued n a language I did not understand ; ?ut. 1 sav; thai thc- young girl assum d something of authority. Shoseeinedto-demand something for oe, to which thc oilier gave no CH OU ragement. She was an oki hag, stolid and udeou.sly ugly, yet, as she pleaded saw the sweet young girl put bel ittle hand, on her shoulder, and troke her tawny cheek. Finally, as '. watched them in agonizing sus >ense, both left the wigwam. In vain I waited for their return Che terrible hours went bv unbroken, .nd daylight began to fac?e. Through a half delirious slumber I leard the voices of my captors, heard torses neigh, and knew that they vere going to and fro around me nit none of them brought relief to ny protracted agony If they had not taken my knife, ind I could have got my hand to my locket, I think I would have cut my h roa t. It was nearly, if not quite, dark, vhen I half realized the sound of a tep beside me, and tlfen water leavens ! how refreshingly cold and ?weet !-was held to my lips "Who is it?" I asked, for thc ?kin at the entrance of the wigwam ind fallen and shut ont what little ight there was. "Hush!" whispered a soft voice. There was a light retreating step, md I felt that I was again alone. But the water had revived and ?Irengthened me. A wild plan of ?scape darted through my head, and [ fell to gnawing the thongs upon my ?vrists. I must have worked for hours. A.t length the thong, worn to a shred, separated. My heart bounded with joy. Though my hands and arms were much swelled, and acutely sore, I managed to use them sufficiently to intie my feet. At first I could not stand, but by nibbing my limbs, and urging them gradually to the task, I was at length ible to walk about the wigwam. Af ter a little of this exercise, I lay Jown to rest again, and consider the possibilities of my escape. I felt that my danger was now greater than before. I was weak and ill, and suddenly the great tears welled up to my eyes. In the dark ness I seemed to see my mother's face, with its mild eyes and chasten ed cheek. The touch of her hand was on my brow. I wept bitterly. The paroxysm passed, and I grew calm, and resolute of spirit. I would make an effort for my life, at least. I rose to my feet, and listened. All was still. I could hear no oound but the running of water, and the hooting of owls. Moviug cau tiously to the door of the wigwam, I pulled aside the skin, and looked out. I could see absolutely nothing. It was a pitch-dark night. I never since have seen so dark a one, I think. And in the silence'I seemed utterly alone. . But I knew only too well' that I was not alone. I dared not stir forth a step for fear of falling over Home guard-Indian or dog. I. wait ed, ami listened. T, Soddenly some hing touched me. ? It wag,a light, but firm ano!, magnet- \ w ir ni ci w ri le m r? m A tl re w cc in of w it d< tli Pi il re in ot sh In et h: rc al Ti y< y< cc re di di st bi di at ti fii ti bi d< hi si ai tl ri oi w c hand. My instinct taught me .o be afraid. " Come on, quietly," said a 'dice-the same that had epo vhen I received drink. I had < duded it to be the blind girl. The little hand grasped m ind led me forward. There was i ray of light, but she drew me vard with a speed and prompti hat bewildered me. Suddenly leard the low whinny of my hoi t was peculiar ?nd unmistakable. ?ut out my hand, and touched ,nimal. The next minute we mo' rn, and I found that my compan ras leading him. "We must have proceeded in t ray for several hundred yards, wi re heard the distant sound of eaj nd confused voices. I sunni! hat my escape was discovered. 3 ompanion stopped, and I felt 1 and close nervously upon mine. " Where is the horse?" I sa I will mount him, aud run for it! " No ; it istoolate," she whisper! Come with me." Turning sharply, she proceeded nother: direction-H?till leading t ony, who paced along briskly to o eadlong speed. It was a stran ight, for it.was I 'who seemed t lind one. I felt that we we ireading our way through the trun f trees, but I passed them all Bafel uided by the small hand whi rew me unhesitatingly on. Tl arkness, which would have baik( iv course unaided, was no difficul ) one to whom it was always rayle ight. With one hand in mine, tl ther holding the halter of the pon ie must have avoided the trees e rely, without touching them, ar Lerely to have feli their propinqu r. At length we commenced a rap; escent. Suddenly the pony slippe od rolled to the bottom. Forti otely he was unhurt. He rose look himself-and sagaciously awai 1 our arrival. Again securing hin e moved on. The air around me was dense an arm, and I suspected that we wei i a ravine or crevasse. " Stop, now, and be careful," sai y companion ; and I found that w itered a ca ve,,tho bosom of wilie as strewn witLdxied leaves whic istled loudly beneath our feet. A ngth we paused. " You must stay here now," sail y little guide. "Lie down am at.. : I. will watch." In my weakness I did as she com anded. The pony also lay down s for herself, she took up her sta on at the monti); of the cave, am tmained mute as death. "Will they come here?" I asked hen, after a few moments, I had re ivercd from .my exhaustion. " No," she answered, after listen g an instant. " They do not know ' this place." - I was literally starving, and t-wc oak to .speak. I fell into a light ia dod slumber at last-weighec )wn by a sense of misery rathei inn which, death would have beer referable. When I awoke, the hoi !ay sunshine penetrated oven to om treat, and the voung girl was com g softly into the cave with a brace ' small birds. She showed me that io had woven in thc night a lair ol ?r own soft hair, by which she had 'trapped, them at daybreak. She ul also a handful of succulent ?ots. When I realized that she was inciting a tire, in order to cook these lings as food, I raised a faintrenion rance : " They will see the smoke ?" " No," she answered. " They have 1 gone west. I heard them go. hey think that you rodo away on mr horse, and expect to overtake )U." She requested me to watch the toking, while she went out, and turned with other birds, which she messed and hung in thc smoko to I ate, and rested all day, while ie cooked for me, and dried the tiny rds-for which she kept a fire all iy and night, I suspected, for I fell ?lecp at dark, and knew nothing un 1 the next morning. Then, for thc rst time, I felt equal to the situa on. I sprang up. '. Rest now, and I will cook your reakfast," I said. She crept into thc leaves, ?and lay awn like a little child. After she ad fallen asleep, I saw that she lowed traces of her efforts for me, id looked worn and weary. I felt lat I had been selfish and inconside ite to depend so far on the strength ? a delicate girl, disabled though I as. In a few hours she awoke, and ime to the mouth of the cave. She ;e a little, and then commenced bringing the dried birds upon a loop f grapevine. " These will last you four days," ie said. " In that time you can nd your way back to the frontier, "ou must go back. If you try to go n, some of the Indians will kill you. hey are all your enemies." " And you ?" I asked. " I can find some of the tribe to hich my friends belong. Through lem I shall finally find my foster lother. v Who is she ?" " Old Nesho, whom you saw." " How did you como to be with ie Indians?" " I was captured by them, from ae people I lived with, long ago. I ras an orphan child, whom some ood people adopted, from an orphan sylum in an eastern city, when I ras very small. They came West, nd settled upon the frontier. The ndians made an attack upon them, urned their cabin, killed them, and ld Nesho saved me from being scalp d, and protected me. All the tribe now me; I have been''among the ndians for eight summers. I have ot forgotten my English, and when hey have any dealings with white len, they make . me interpret for hem." " Are you happy?" She smiled slowly. '. I have no other friends but thom. Vhcre could I go to bc better off ?" ? he asked. ,. . , "At my home," I said, readily. " I have a good mother, who will take care of you, and teach you all you ought to know, when she learns that you have saved my life. You will have there friends and books, and society. Will you go with me?" She assented readily. In brief, I traveled home, and left "Sunshine," as she said she was called, with my parents. I had no need to urge her adoption, when they learned what she had done. My good mother rechristened her Mary, for my little sister, who had died. But when, after two years more of travel, I returned home-having en gaged in a prosperous business in Cincinnati-I fpund my protegee more suited than ever to her old name, and I chose to call her by it. Never was a sweeter, happier little maiden Though she was still blind, she was always busy as a bee. She had grown very beautiful, and was everybody favorite. My good mother thought that she had a household pet for life, and was astonished when I told her that Mary and I loved each other, and were go ing to be married. But I would not be gain-said, and took my darling with me to my new home. There me abides, lovely and beloved-my blind wife. I have been told that people com passionated me. They have wonder 3d that I chose to marry a girl who was sightless. They do not dream that I was saved from a horrible death through this very blindness-that with the instinct bred from her mis Fortune, my wife saved my life. Whose should it be, if not hers? I have been contemplating the character of little Nydia, in BuTwer's ' Last Days of Pompeii." The story is not stranger than my own, nor was die more heroic than my Sunshine. The Wages of Sin. The Memphis Avalance, of Wednes lay, gives the following particulars jf the killing of Captain J. Theodore Adams, of which mention has been nade by telegraph : The eau se of the shooting^ was the illeged seduction of Mr. Brown i's laughter Millie by Mr. Adams. The atter gentleman last Monday spoke ;o one of his brother clerks, and said ;hat he was in trouble. Asking him vhat was the matter, he replied that Vir. Browne had said he must marry lis daughter, to whom he had been >aying attentions for sometime. He laid he had had criminal knowledge >f the lady in question. Mr. Browne has made the foliow ng. statement : Friday last I first discovered my laughter's condition, but never learn ?d its author until yesterday morli ng. As soon as I learned of it, I vent immediately to Mr. Adams, who vas staying in Seesel's, and told him hat ha must marry my daughter, rbis was about eight o'clock, and he old me to go away, and he would neet me at my store, No. 315 Second ?treet. I went away and waited at ny store until about half-past ten /clock, when, he not coming, I again vent to Seesel's. Going up to liim '. asked him why he had not come to ny store, according to promise. He nade some frivolous excuse about onie one being sick, and that he could . o lot neglect his business. Telling me ! 1 o come around to a certain store on Inion street, he went away. In corn tony with my son I did go around, nd there met Adams. He said that ie could not marry my girl because ie had no money. I told him that vhile I did not have much, I could md would help him along all in my jower. My daughter was willing to narry him, and 1 had nothing to say Jpon his again flatly refusing I said ' I will go unarmed to-day, but if rou do not marry my (laughter this lay, you take your own life in your lands." He laughed atme, and said hat was a game two could play at ind that he could pull and shoot as fuick as I could. Coming on on the ddewalk, he said : " Well, I supli?se rou will not take any advantage ol ue. You will give me a show." Says ! : " What sho .v did you give me ? iVhat show did yon give my daugh er? I will take any and every ad vantage of you that I can, as you lave done the same with me." We then separated, and I return sd to my store, where Colonel DuBose :ame with John D. Adams about Avelve o'clock to see me. Colonel Du bose said that he had come as a nutual friend, to see if this thing :ould be arranged amicably. Says I, ' This is no child's play ; I am terri fy in earnest, and that man must narry my daught.-r." That was the ast talk I had with any of them. When I returned home last night I net my daughter and questioned her. She told me that Adams had asked 1er if I was a Mason. She told him 1 Yes ;" and he said that he also was i Mason, and that Masons were un 3er obligations to protect each other's families, and that whatever they did that way was all right. By this kind if talk he succeeded in effecting his purpose and ruined my daughter, well, this morning I got up and told jonie of my folks that I was going af ter Adams. I had some trouble in getting a gun, but finally hired one for three days, telling the man I was joing a hunting. I just walked into the store and had the gun pulled down Dn him before he saw me, when he iropped as if shot behind the coun ter. I ran around some ladies who ivere in the store and shot him. I jave him every show, but he would not repair the damage he had done me, and this is all that was left me to Io. While making his statement Mr. Browne evinced much emotion, at times half suppressed sobs welling ap in his throat so as to stop his 5peech, while his eyes filled with tears. Famine and cholera are marching hand-in-hand through Persia. From last accounts, the inhabitants were in dismay and flying like sheep' to 11 sscape their assailants. The famine j c in the Southern provinces appears to \ \ have become far worse than was at1 ^ first reported. In Khorassan one- t third of the whole population is said a to have perished from it. At lapa-. han twenty-seven thousand have died of hunger. Meanwhile, in many quarters where rice is the staple of hie, the drought has dried up the swamps, and caused a total failure of the rice crops. Ever since the Shah's visit to Kerbela, says the Levant Herald, a great curse has weighed over Persia. Cholera, typhus, small-pox, famine and cattle-plague have com bined to ruin the country. The great er part of the oxen and buffaloes are said to have died, and substitutes in the way of food have been sought for in vain. A Most Horrible Tragedy. The AVabash (Ind.) Republican contains the following account of the horrible affair mentioned in our des patches Thursday : " Yesterday morning, Mrs. Mary M. Finley, living on the Chippewa Gravel road, about five miles north west of this city, in a fit of insanity, murdered her three children by cut ting the throats of the oldest two, iged six and eight years, with a Dutcher-knife, and crushing the head )f her babe, aged some two months. The oldest waa a girl, the other two joys. Last spring she buried her ?usband, and her neighbors have at ;imes since thought her mind unset ;led, but regarded her as inoffensive. " She had recently made an occa ;ional remark that these neighbors low see the horrible act which yes ,erday morning she perpetrated. Sven with her there was a method n her madness, for she sent away a itep daughter older than ^.tho^other ihildren, on some errand, before pro :eeding with her bloody work. No iffort at concealment of her crime vas made by the murderess. The )ody of the infant was found in the ront-door yard, and those of the wo other children in the road, about ifty yards distant. The girl at empted to escape, but was overta :en and beaten down with a club >efore the knife was used. " Mrs. Finly was arrested ,'and (laced in the county jail last eve ling. She expresses no regret for ke crime, but thinks it was her duty o commit it, as they 'were all devils." 1 " A coroner's jury wasempannelled , nd au inquest held yesterday, but io official report had been made up. o the time of going to press, although . hey found the facts substantially as j tated above." INHUMAN OUTRAGE.-An outrage, . lendish in character, was committed \ ome time ago by a one-armed color- . d man named Tom Butler, who keeps j . small store in Beaufain-street, upon , colored child, Dora Williams, twelve - ears old. He was standing in his tore door when she chanced to come . ?y, and he enticed her in. As soon s he found that he had her ?in his tower, he seized her, carried her into he yard in the rear of an outbuild- * ng, and there, while ? she screamed or help, sated his inflamed passions n her. She managed to cr^wl out nd inform her mother of the suffer ngs she had undergone. A physi ian, one of the most prominent of he city, was called in, who declared hat she had undergone pangs that j irould have tested the strength ol' ne of maturer years. She has been vi ng since, until yesterday, when, Dr the purpose of having the fiend ommitted for trial, she was carried o a Trfal Justice, who sent the mon ter to jail in default of heavy bail ? o stand trial on a charge, the details f which are heart-rending. As soon d Butler was brought into Court he ..as recognized by the child, who de lared, with a weakened voice, that he was the man who made her We would not wish it, but it does eem that the vengeance of the Al mighty would justly fall on such a reatare.-Charleston Courier, 13th. ?id Gen, Butler Steal a Negro? < The full text of General B. F. But- ' srs's last speech in advocacy of his ( laims to the governorship of Mas- | achusetts, as reported in the New ? Tork Tribune, contains the following I ignificant passage, which is as near o candor as could be expected. Gfen al Butler says : " I did not love slavery much bet er than men who prated much loud r about it. I see that I am told by very Springfield paper that I voted hirty-seven times or fifty-seven times or Jeff. Davis. I did-to preserve he Union. They tell you that eve ?time, but they don't tell you at the boat on which I came away rom Charleston had a ?ugitive slave." It is evident here that General Sutler wishes to make capital for limself in a quarter where he thinks he violation of law in connection nth a then existing domestic insti ution of some of the States was re eded as a tolerable if not a noble hing. He takes care not to assert latly that he himself did run off a lave ; and perhaps it is well that he Ices not so assert, for there are few hat would believe that he had eith ir the courage or the feelings in op losition to slavery that would have nduced such an act at that time. 3alt. Sun. A KICK AT CIVIL RIGHTS.-The Washington Chronicle has the follow ng card : To the Editor of the Chronicle : On the 31st of August, 1871, Hon. i. B. Elliott dined, by invitation, vita a gentleman, at the place known LS "Tho National Dining Saloon," on Cwelfth-street. A man ny the name if Samuel R. Clark, of Ohio, now a Jerk in the Postoffice Department, : :aUsed considerable disturbance about ; he matter. Said Clark claims that L " nigger" has no right to dine at a estaurant where he takes his meals ; : md also stated that if he (Clark) j ' had $300 in bis pocket to purchase 1 he Court with, that he would take a 1 hair and break tht d-nigger's lead." I am informed that Clark 1 ras dismissed from the Treasury De- 1 ?artment on the ground that he was ( i Democrat of the worst sort. ONE WHO WAS PRESENT. ? Bow the Money Goes. A correspondent of the Central Baptist, after visiting President Grants ; farm a few miles from St. Louis. Mo., says he " was received by Mr. Eldred, a relative of the President, who is i intrusted by him with the superin tendance of property valued at not leas than $300,000. The Jarm in-j eludes, with recent purchases, 809 acres, mostly rolling land." Refer ring to this statement of the Central Baptist, the Brooklyn Eagle says : " President Grant went into the army not worth a cent, and has lived quite freely ever since. His horses, equipages, etc., are the theme *f ad miring descriptions from correspon dents not only at Washington, but at Long Branch, and wherever else he takes up his temporary abode. It is, therefore, quite consolatory to find that out of his not excessive salary, first as General and now as Presi dent, he is able to keep $300,000 of blooded stock and such like property idle on a Missouri farm. * * * * These boss politicians, whether called Supervisors or Presidents, contrive to live at the highest point of luxu ry, and on moderate salaries, and yet to roll up riches." Then there is the State Treasurer of South Carolina, Mr. Parker. He refuses to allow his book to be ex amined. The Charleston News says of him: " Three years ago he was little bet ter than a beggar. W hen elected State Treasurerhe was in the depth of destitution. Now he drives last horses in gold mounted harness, buys fifteen thousand dollar diamond pins, and has the reputation of being worth a cool quarter of a million. AU this in three years upon an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars." Another bit of romance is related by the New York Sun : " A follower of Wesley and a preacher of righteousness came to the Senate from a Western State, pious and poor. Serving first in the North wing of the Capitol, then in the Department of the Interior, and then again at the Capitol, he waxed rich and dwelt in his own lavishly garnished brown stone mansion, and kept a carriage which the Archbish op of Canterbury would have envied.'' SHAEP AND DECISIVE TALK FEOM HOEACE GEESLEY.-Mr. Greeley was j recently in the West attending agn- [ cultural conventions, but he, never theless, did not leave his politics at jt] borne. In passing through Chicago j r be was met by Mr. Wentworth and Mr. Grinnell, formerly member of j Congress from Iowa. In reply to 3ome personal suggestions from the latter, he is reported to have said : If we nominate Grant we shall cer tainly be defeated. The public will ?tana no more horse jockey and pres-11, ent-taking Presidents ; we have had | a enough of them. I tell you, gentle men, we must take- a new departure ; and I can assure you that we of the East are determined that it shall be :lone. I have been rather quiet about it so far, but I a-ant everybody now to understand what I think. When we take hold of Grant it will not be with silk gloves on our hands. It lias got to be done. We must throw Grant overboard, or we shall be de feated. All I want ie te have a good man nominated, who, if elected, will con sent to give up the office at the end, )f his term. Besides, I want to nom inate a man who, if elected, will ele vate the office to where it was in for mer days-a man who will not take ^resents or me the military or his o?-1 [i lice-holders to advance his own aspi rations for a second term, and, iii the meantime, neglect the interests ol those whose ruler he is. Besides, I want a man who is above m^re pleas ure-hunting; a man who will not lawdle away one-fourth of his term tmid the follies and frivolities of a watering-place, and one who, when jailed upon lor an expression of his n views on political and other subjects jj. of national interest, can give them in p ?lear, comprehensive language. That's \ ihe kind of a man the people want, md (bringing his fist down on the n table) that's the kind of a man we tl haven't now. I want you, gentlemen, to tell your people here in the West that w are going to fight against Grant to the extent of our ability. We will not remain passive or indif ferent, but, to use his own words; j / "we are going to fight it out on this line." Brevities and Levities. 'Why is the root of the tongue like a dejected man ? Because it's down in the mouth. ' Two twin brothers in London are so much alike that they frequently bor row money of each other without knowing J it. ?3ST A Terre Haute paper wants a nocturnal accord?on player to change his tune, or else sit where he can be scalded when the engine has steam on. B??* A Kansas paper speak* of a young ( lady who " appears as fresh and buoyant as the budding rose after passing throng!) ( the dew gilded sieve of a fragrant dawn.'' JSSfA young man who has tried it un til he knows, tells us that if you go t ? call on a young lady, and she sews dil:- o gently all the evening, and only fays e " yes" and " no," you can go o way about " nine, or a quarter past, without anybody ^ feeling bad about it. " What would make a good leading ar-1 F! tide for me to-morrow?" asked a wicked I * editor of a wit. "A halter," was the sententious reply. 16?" A hr.t and robe dealer of Detroit r advertises pome handsome buggy lap-dus- l| tors for sale ; but whether he sells them j tiny cheaper for being buggy is not set forth in the advertisement. JB^"Thc quiet breakfast of a family in Lowell, Mass., was rudely interrupted a few mornings ago by the laundress, who bolted into the room with the exclamation. " An' sure, Missis, I thought I'd come and tell yez that I couldn't wash for ye this mornin', as me boy is sick with the small- F pox, and is black as mc old man's hat." d She was allowed to depart without further apology or explanation. JOT Up in Boston, where they have a prohibitory liquor law, and so" many J good people are total abstinents, they are very fond of " teapunch." The ingredi- ( ents thereof are one bottle of champagne, one of whiskey, one of rum, two of claret, a lemon, and a tablespoonful of black tea! The Sparenburg, Laurens and Augusta Railroad. In another column we publish the resolutions of a meeting held at Lau rens Court House on last Salesday, for the purpose of setting on foot the project of building a Railroad from this place to Augusta. We are glad to see that our Laurens friends ap preciate the advantages of a connec tion with Spartanburg, and that their meeting was characterized by so much '.eal and unanimity. We pledge to he Committee appointed, our most rearty and cordial co-operation in mushing forward this enterp iso. The importance of a Railroad line rom this point to Augusta, via Lau ens, Ninety Six and Edgefield Court ?ouse, can hardly bo overestimated, [t would make the distance to Char otte, N C., from. Augusta about ten niles shorter than by Columbia, and is soon as connection is made from his place with Cincinnati, it will horten the route from Augusta to hat city, some three hundred miles. 5ucha road will give the cotton danters of Laurens, Newberry, Ab >eville and Edgefie'd, all the Rail oad facilties they could desire. It vould enable them to send their cot on direct to the best markets, and nable them to draw their supplies rom the cheap and abundant stores if the Northwest. The people- of Spartanburg, also, lave a deep interest in this project; G will run through the wealthiest .nd most productive portion of our district, a distance of some twenty r twenty-five miles. It will add -astly to the importance ?of our own and the number of its inhabi ants, and thus indirectly, benefit the yhole District. Let us havea rousing meeting on lext Salesday ' and put the ball in aotion at once. We commend the latter especially to our friends on .Vger, in the neighborhood of Wbod ufi's and Cross Anchor.-Spartan urg Spartan. iii fwm Cotton Faetors, AND Commission Merchants, Office Xe. G, McIntosh Street, AUGUSTA, GA., ILL give their strict lttention to ie Storage and Sale of Cotton and other 'roduce on Commission. Will furnish Planters with Groceries, ?agging, Ties, tte, at market rates. And will make the usual advances on, roduce consigned to us. W. GRAHAM, O. N. BUTL?R. Sept 6 3m 36 ggf Abbeville Press & Bann5r and AurensvUle Herald will copy 3 mouths, nd forward account. STAPLE Mm LOGO Rolls Domestic Jute BAA - ING, 100 Bales Host Gunnv BAGGING, 50 Bales Romeo BAGGING, 100 Bundles Arrow TIES, 500 Bags Rio, Java and Laguayra COi - EEE, >00 Barrels Relined SUGARS, 50 Hhds. Porto Rico and Demarara SU GARS, >00 Bbls. Reboiled MOLASSES, 100 Hhds. Reboiled MOLASSES, 200 Boxes Bar SOAP, 100 Boxes and Half Boxes Adamantine CANDLES, 50 Casks C. R Bacon SIDES. 20 " Bacon SHOULDERS, PEPPER, < ; INGER, STARCH. SODA WOOD WARE, and ether Goods usu ly kept in our line, at Lowest Prices to HORTON & WALTON, 302 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA. Sept G 3m .'?7 Card. L WOULD beg leave to respectfully iform my friends (particularly tho la ics,) and the public generally, in Edge cld, that on the 1st August, and thencc ?rward, I will be found at the popular ?ry Goods Establishment of V. RICH? .RDS ct BROS.,-the"Fredericksburg toro,"-Augusta, Ga., where I will bc lost happy to sec and serve them, giving lem perhaps as advantageous bargains i every respect as m:iy !>c obtained in ie City. . HUGH B. HARRISON. Augusta, July 26, Lm31 \UGUSTA HOTEL! IURP?IY & MAY, Proprietors. take this opportunity of returning our ?anks to th<? citizens of Edgefield for their ist kindness to us. Our ?OUKC is thoroughly renovated for SU 31 1ER ACCOMMADATIGXS-Rioms large nd airy, and Tnh!e always supplied with tho L-i-t thc market affords. We will bc pleased to wclcor.io our Edgefield .iends and customers, cud wi:l uso every (Tort to render their j-journ with us pleas nt and agreeable. tngnst?, Mar 29 3ml4 ?corgia Lime & Fertilizer Co. 3FEER their "SHELL LIME"' to the Planting public in full confidence of ts excellence asa Permanent I?Ianure. It was extensively used the past year n Wheat, Corn and Cotton, ana has giv n entire satisfaction, as is shown by a umber of certificates from some of tho est planters in Georgia and So. Carolina. Our XXX LIME is equal tc any in the Harket for all Mason's purposes, and rom its whiteness, superior to any other jr whitewashing and for hard-finishing .alls. Our price for Fertilizing Lime is $15,00 er ton. Cash, put up in Casks or Bar els, delivered in the City of Augusta, or t any landing on thc Savannah River. Tic prieo of XXX or Mason's Lime is 2,00 per Barrel, delivered os above. COLES & SI2ER, No. 14, McIntosh Street, Augusta, Ga. AGENT: M. H. MIMS, Johnson's Depot Aug 8 6m 33 Surveying i rHE Undersigned offers his services to the public Lands Surveyed and .iatting neatly done on short notice. Ad ress mo at Mino Creek P. O., 8. C. JAMES M. FORREST. Aug 30 lm 36 SAVE YOUR MONEY \j Preserving your Harness 'SALL and get a Can of tho Colebra.ed O VACUUM OIL BLACKING, war mted to give satisfaction. For salo at G. L. PENN'S Drug Store. Sept 7 tf