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SP 5 ; .;.M.i?.-.-.?.H.?u.un., -..A V> t???i:'I -00 L' (.Kl '?ir^?3 'aol it ? ? : f. . . :. ! : -J.' J- . BY D. R. D?RISOE. * ^.,.u....u...5w?..-<.^.,.b.,,.",.,"w,,,M...u.-.u.M..?.-.-.?.-.-.-.-.u.r^rrr. EDGEFTEL'D, S. .??MARCH % 1871. VOLUME XXXV.-No. 10. ESTABLISHED 1828. W. -H. BARRET, ?R.~Hr LAND. S. H. SHEPPARD. DRUGS, CE ?KA, tm* r?WM_v_j;PAIIIT^ OILS, GLASS AND DRUGGISTS' GLASSWARE, 291 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga., OFFER the following at lower figures than the same class of Goods can be bought elsewhere : GUM OPIUM, SULPH. MORPHINE,. QUININE, Bromide POTASH, Iodide POTASH, ALUM, Gum CAMPHOR, COPPERAS, BLUE STONE, Refined BORAX, S. & C. WOOD MATCHES, MACCABOY SNUFF, BITTERS of all kinds, PEPPER, Sifted, GINGER, SPICE, ; Augusta, Feb 7 CLOVES, W..B. POTASH, Concentrated LYE, LINSEED OIL,. SPERM OIL, LARD OIL, -.-TRAIN OIL, "SPINDLE OIL, . MACHINE OIL, CASTOR OIL, SWEET OIL, OLIVE OIL, KEROSENE OIL, i ASTRAL OIL, WHITE'LEAD, COLORS, &c. T inn. om Bargains! Bargains ! AT W. H. BRUNSON'S. IN order to raise money to meet my engagements, I will, from this date, offer my STOCK OF GOODS at a GREAT SACRIFICE ON ALREADY REDUCED PRICES I My Stock is LARGE and COMPLETE, rendering an enumeration of arti cles unnecessary,-ENTIRELY NEW, bought this Fall and Winter at the LOWEST PRICES in New York and Baltimore. I have a Splendid Line of LADIES' DREsS GOODS,'SHAWLS, HOODS NUBIAS, BLANKETS, LADIES TRIMMED HATS, and GENTLEMEN'S READY MADE CLOTHING, at only a fraction above NEW YORK PRIME COST! Owing to the low price of Cotton, and the scarcity of money, I am determined to close out my Stock at prices that cannot be undersold by any House in the Retail Trade,"FOR CASH ONLY. My thanks are hereby tendered to the friends and customers who have so lib erally patronized the late Firm. And I beg to assure them that no effort on my parc will be spared to merit its continuance. W. H. BRIMSON. Dec 23 ti M. O'DOWD, Wholesale Crecer -AND Commission TvJIeroliant, 283 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga., HAS NOW ON HAND a Full and Complete Stock of CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES and PLANTERS SUPPLIES, among which may be found the following : 50 Hhds. BACON, Sides & Shouders 30 Bbls. LARI), 200 " FLOUR, all grades, 20 Hhds. SUGAR, 300 Sics. COFFEE, 300 Boxes SOAP, 200 " CANDLES, 100 " STARCH, 100 " SODA, 2000 Bushels CORN, 1000 " OATS, 500 Sacks SALT, 100 Cases LYE and POTASH, 10 Bbls. COGNAC BRANDY, ' 30 Bbls. CORN WHISKEY, 100 " RYE WHISKEY, 10 " APPLE BRANDY, .20 " GIN and RUM, 20 " SHERRY and PORTWINE 200 M. SEGARS, various grades, 150 Boxes TOBACCO, 200 Doz. BUCKETS, 50 Doz. BROOMS, . 50 Nests TUBS, 50 Hhds. MOLASSES, 100 Bbls. SYRUP. ALL GOODS WILL BE SOLD VERY LCW. GIVE ME A CALL. Jan ll 3m E. E. STVENS. M. C. STEVENS. F. E. STEVENS & CO., Gr:rooo:rs -AND Commission IVTeroliants 259 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga, NEXT DOOR BELOW F RE DERICK SB U Ra STORE LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE ON SHIPMENTS. Prompt attention given to HANDLING PRODUCE and FILL ING OF COUNTRY ORDERS. Cotton received for SALE and STORAGE, or for SHIPMENT to Liverpool, New York, or Philadelphia. Will make LIBERAL ADVANCES to parties desiring to Store or Ship. F. E. STEVENS & CO. Oct.. 25 . tf 44 CHARLES BAKER. EDW. T. MILLER. LEWIS F. GOODRICH The Planters' Grocery House! BAKER, MILLER & CO., SUCCESSORS TO BAKER, PORTER & CO., 267 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. JEEP as usual a LARGE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK of Choice Family Groceries and Provisions, which will be sold on the most reasonable tcrra3. They respectfully solicit from their Carolina friends a continuation of the liberal patronage heretofore extended to the old Firm. In addition to our full stock of FAMILY GROCERIES, we have on hand Choice ORANGES, APPLES, CITRON. CURRANTS. RAISINS, FIGS, CANDIES and CAN FRUIT of all kinds, LIQUORS and SEGARS, &c, &c. Mr. W. S. HOWARD, long and favorably known with Fleming & Rowland and Baker, Porter & Co., will continue with the New Firm. Augusta, Dec 14 3m 51 Meal and Grits. mTOWon hand 100 BUSHEL* MEAL ?nd JY GRITS. Meal $125. Grits $1 50. 30 SACKS of FLOUR, of the best brand, at low ?tes. W. A. SANDBRS F?b. 15 tf 8 Florida Syrup. TuST recoived SEVEN BARRELS FLORIDA SYRUP. A Fplcndid articlo. For aale cheap. W. F. DURISOB, Sr. Winter Rain. The rain, tho desolate ruin ! Ceaseless and solemn and chill ; How it drips on the misty pane ! How it drenches tho darkened sill ! Ob, sceue of sorrow nnd dearth, I would that tho wind, awaking To a fierce and gusty mirth Might vary this dull refrain Of tho rain, the desolate rain ; For the heart of heaven seems breaking In tears o'er the fallen earth j And again, again, again, We list to the sombre strain, The long, low mon?tono (Whose soul is a mystic moan,) Of the rain, the rain, tl rain, The low, despairing rain ! Tho rain, the mournful rain ! ? Weary, passionless, slow ; 'Tis tho rhythm' of settled sorrow, 'Tis the sobbing of curoless woe; . And all tho tragic of life, The pathos of long ago,. . Come back on tho sad refrain Of thc rain, the mournful rain, Tho desolate, dreary rain,' Till the graves in my heart unclose, And the dead who are buried thoro From a solemn and weird reposo Awake ; bet with eyeballs drear, And voices that melt iu pain, On the titft of thc plaintive rain, (Tba yearning, hopeless rain, With its passionless! slow refrain,) - Of tho dim, funeral rain, Tho'J?ng.'low, whispering rain! Paul ff. Hoyne in Appleton's Journal. Brevities and Levities. ! - fi j ?.y If a man who makes a deposition is u de positor, doos it necessarily follow that a man who 'makes an allegation is amilligator ? ?&~ A young lady in Terre Ilautc, recently swapped her engagement ring for a new bonnet, i ?&" Horace Groolcy's birthday hus been cele brated in Ohio. He wasn't there, but sent a let ter which no ono could read, j #S&~ An anti-kissing society has been formed !by the Galena, Illinois, girls. "Ko kissing be fore marriage," is their motto. $?3~ ? New Yorker was informed just before his marriage that his bride bad fallen heir to $30.0,000, but ho let tho ceremony go on just, tho samp. ??S~ " Women are like horse;-the gayer thc harness they have on, the better they fool." Wc got this from an old bachelor who was carly crossed in lore, and afterwards went into the pawnbroking business with a crossed assistant. ?3t~ A writer in thc'Ncw Castle Constitution alist says : "Tho human heart is a curiously wrought instrument, wLich may be mode lo give forth sounds inharmonious-but when touched by tho gentle hand of sympathy will give forth music so sweet that even angels will lean upon their golden harps in rapturous silcuco." %?t~ Thcro is one thing worie than ignorance, and that is conceit. Of all iutract bio fools; an over wiso man is the worst. You may cause idiots to philosophize ; you may coax donkeys to forego thistles ; but don't think of ever driving c 'ramon scusc into the head of u conceited per 8 m. *, . . ??f A man named Wilson confered on his death bcd, a few days ago, that ho was. ono of thc murderers of the Supervisor nf the town of Spaulding,-in Saginaw county, Michigan, in Feb ruary. -lSo-t, and that in September of thc sumo year he also killed his accomplice in that murder, because be Tefuscd to divide the booty then ob tained. "Mick," said a bricklayer to his laborer, " if you meet Patrick, tell him to make ha<to hs weare waiting for him." "Shute an'I will," replied Mick ; but what w?l I teil him if I don't meet bim ?" Somebody who has got n lot of Ia:d to sell in Wisconsin publishes an item that violets arc in bloom in that State. " His go? d fea'ures, good .?mil?-, and be-triy Middle-State address," tire what George .Mfr d Townsend admires about Forney. ?SS~" Well, there'd something in that :" us the man said when he tried to pu', his boot on with a kitten in it. gSr* Four little Baltimore girls went to be Angels because they tried to make oranges and cheese mix in their stomachs. Those two bever ages arc deadly enemies. $3)- " Thc Old Man's Drunk Again," is the title -f the latest temperance song in San Fran cisco. ??r~ Mr. Gray, an ingenious gentleman of Sussex County, Delaware, invented a new, non explosive burning fluid, anti invited hi? friends to como and witness a test of its qualities. Ile gathered a select circle an ?und a barrel of the Quid in a garret, and to provo how non explosive it was he stirred it with a red hot poker. In six seconds the inventor and his friends wore seen to emerge from the roof. $!Si~" Very good new? foi husbands ard fathers comes to us from Washington," suys the Phila delphia Enquirer, " Au undoubted feminine au thority sends us assurance that the belle of Wash ington society hus appeared at three grand eve ning parties this season in the samo costume. Furthermore, that ladies high in tb" .oeinl firma ment of the national capital have gone to great receptions and select soirees in thc dresses they wore last Winter. This is a sensible as well as economical innovation." ?gf Marriage is thc sunshine of life-beneath its genial influence ?pring up the best hffccli"' ; and the noblest vir ues of man, M hieb in thc sto rility of selfish celibacy would have lain dormant and useless. It is thc -source of virtue and pleas ure in youth, and the la'm nnd sol.-cc of o d ago. The height of irreverence has been reach ed by a gtntliuian of Ohio, who stole thc hluck gown of an Episcopal minister to wear QS n mas que ride co?:ume. I&BT Mr Henry Benecke, of Chicago, left a note for the Coroner, explaining that his suicide was an act of considerateness for his wifo, who was " in great want of another husband." p&r A littlo girl joyfully nssured her mothor, the other day, that she had found out where they made horsos-sho had seen a man in a shop finishing ono of them, for ho was nailing on his last foot. ??f A story is told of a yung man in Free port, III, who was crossed in love and attempted suicide recently by taking a dose of yeast pow ders, lie immediately rose above bis troubles. jj&T- At a wedding, recently, when the officia ting priest asked tho lady, " Wilt thou have this man to bo thy weddod husband?" sho dropped the prettiest curtsey, and, with a modesty which lent beauty an additional grace, replied, "If you please" ggf- Why are there nc eggs in San Domingo ? They banished tho wh!tcs, and cast off their yoke. Tho author of this ls now Joad-died in loss than forty minutes cf brain fever. pgtr The Carolina Spartan says that Horace Greeley, of the New York Tribune, in company with others, has purchased the Warm Springs property in Buncombe County, North Carolina, for $30,000. rp3S~ An exchange says, that "onion poultices" aro recommended for " felons" and suggests tho application of one to Ben Butler. The Ku Klux Klan. A correspondent of. the Char UYewi writes as follows of the and aims of this 'mysterious org? tion. The letter is dated Union ? February 16 : The' mystery which surrounds movements of the Ku Klux Klan led the superstitious to regard tin spirits, of the disembodied, whil( educated, beyond the field of opera have believeathe whole story to myrth. But of their existence, organized body of living men, we, have seen them, entertain no doub their numbers and extent, it is ic sible to speak. There must be 3 in a day's march of Union. You them, no doubt, in Charleston and certainly can be found throughout ( gia, North Carolina, and Tenne 'They occasionally leave behind 1 letters explanatory of'their purp Those of them who : operate in S Carolina, say that they want peace, must have justice-;: that the courts gaided by Wt?ak judges'; and juries ( 'posed of ignorant negroes; that a t] 'convicted with muchcoBt of time, E ey and labor to the prosecutor, rem at the penitentiary scarcely a week, then returns home with a pardon, pared to steal again. They say ; when-their race have justice, and no longer robbed by public tirie their mission will end ; b There are some erroneous opin; entertained as to the feelings of ?people of upper South Carolina towt ?the Ku Klux. They are not a bani ?cut-throats and desperadoes, as s< suppose ;-nor, on the other hand, they universally approved of by white people here. They are men firmness and nerve, who strike beca they believe it necessary for the j tection of their life, property and . erty; they, strike .at night, because i cumstances render it imperative. ] very many citizens disapprove and c (lenin the acts of violence committed the Klan. Wc feel the oppression the present State Government, but would not have it overturned with ^ lenee. We might indulge in hard wo: against the Ku Klux, but we find tl they despise our strictures, and Stale officials believe all of us to members of thc band, no matter h much we abuse it. Now, sir, before we can successfu oppose and end this evil, we must J predate* the causes. It is bad prac I to administer a remedy before we ma a diagnosis. If we went back to fii causes, we would indicate the rece ctruotiun Aft?, the greatest politii blunder of the century, as, the meit ol' the Ku Klux. In our State, ho ever, the organization would never ha taken root if we had bei n spared t late iniquitous election laws, the ar; iiiy of negroes with guns and cadridy (the latter being unnecessary for pi poses of di ill,) the gross frauds of t election in October, the numerous pi don* issued by the Governor, and t wholesale robbery by Stat J officials money wrung from our people by enc mous taxation. And again, it is w< known that Joseph Crews, prominent connected with the State Governmei honored by- the Speaker of thc Hont hud the traveling companion of oi Governor, in effect encouraged murdc arson and rapine, last summer, in'La rens. What might have been the co [sequences of that-advice, it is fearful con template. He may be more succ?s ful next sumiller. In September or-October last, Jiu Mobley, membenof the Legislature, ii formed his negro friends that ten whi men should be killed for every negi murdered. Little did June then ?au that his threat against our race won] so literally be fulfilled against lu's owl The a nt tuns ot the black race, and the advisers towards the white people, ma be also gathered from the muideiot plans ol Crews and others, (then au now Stale officials,) towards citizens < Union and Laurens, so recently expose through your columns by Kerrigan an his: men. It was only a further pro< of what we already felt, that thc whit race wot?ld be taxed out, driven out c killed ont-by negroes and their alli? -if possible. Here were the causes which operate to plant the Ku Klux in South Carolin? The murder of Mat Stevens gave thei great strength. It was a foul munie -the foulest, ever known in this Stat? A one-armed, inoffensive white man, c good character, who toiled honestly fo His daily bread, and did harm to n one; he was waylaid and cruelly mur tiered because he had a " whits skin. The murderers were a botty of ncgr militia, at least twenty-five and mor probably forty in number ; instigated the white people of Union believe, am may, in time, be able to prove, by El lick Walker, captain of militia, ant June S. Mobley, a legislator. Bad a this murder was, it was a sign of wors things, to Ree the entire negro race o Union in active sympathy with th murderers. Had it been left with the ne groes, not one of them would havebeei arrested, although they proclaimed thei guilt wherever they went among thei; own people. It is within bounds to as sert that 200 negroes in Union Count] wore accessories after the fact to thi muller of Stevens, and that there an not two dozen of that class who woulc I have refuged to shield the criminals Ten prisoners have been taken, out o the jail by the Ku Klux and killed nine of whom were murderers of Ste vens; the tenth was the negro who shol the constable (Smith) on tue 1st day o January. We condemn the act as un lawful and criminal, but for the victim! we have no sympathy. The negroes on tho contrary, regard with incliner ence the deed in the abstract ; their onl) ! feeling is sympathy for the murdered I prisoners. i The manifesto left here by the Kn ; Klux sufficiently explains the immedi ! ate cause of the last raid on our jail. I To take these prisoners-two of them ' red to the elbow with the blood of Stc I vens-to Columbia, where the Legisla ture was in session, composed, it was 'i bM??ved, of men-in active symp ;l with'the murderers,- was thought I : tan&mount to a release. It was u I f?i&te that Judge Thomas did no : j de?ihe return . .tothe writ of' he - : ckrfms to be made before him at Ur or at his home, whichfitis presui i?jH&in the limits of his circuit. , ??'ttfr bf the Judge indicates thai would sacrifice the peace of society ! anH furn the prisoners loose, to ? ?aMffice. The Zu Klux thought escape of the' prisoners would be i ev$tcompared to which the loss ; ig?fcet Thomas, to the bench of SStn " Circuit would 'be insigrific Such escam.wojulpl^be^a wrong tb I .rac?, arid one of those wrongs wi c?\?fl?f?iid redress Only from their bs were-under another name vi^khoe committee, with this dr! ? jerlj&fr--vigilance committees generi haWthe tacit approval of their gove ;nie0fcf th?Ku Klux operate upon crii corninitted by a.class of citizens s 'cia}& protected, befxie'uded and hou ecj^y/our State. .'The vigilance. ct rni^e.if-j however,.an unlawful orga f" Q-?o is the Ku Klux. The a e-.one find, an exact counterpart fche--; for, so far as known,, i vicips'of the Ku Klux have.been 1 jmen-dangerous citizens and well-kno murderers. - * "'Wefare no apologist for'the Ku Ki |jNrjtfa'^ig Here written is an'apoloj jTnV.Teader who so construes this let finds'excuse sufficient iii what we hs ?eiiomerated .simply as causes. "We ci iir^e'xciise these' s?lf-constituted av< !ge$J?? white men's wrongs. "OL ibegets'crime, but'does not excuse it. kilima murderer is murder. To be pro: bjjffar, judge, jury and sheriff, is a fe? jf?.1 ?in-a sin legally and morally, a: !a.jgin i.n His eyes to whom belonge Vengeance. We.may have no justii jbiit better to suffer and to wait. A b government is better-than no gover :m?Bt-'at;itll. Injustice is better th anarchy. Negro militia can never st theevil, no matter how strong in nui hers. The Columbia inion advises th jtlie-y be sent, and- the County taxed pay for them. We advise the Uni to make a calculation of the cost maintaining a thousand soldiers for year, and compare it with the assess* value of property in this County. Tl proposition is ridiculous. Negro mi tia are powerless against them. Tin may be stopped, but only in one way remove the causes which made the fancy their organization a neeessit} resior-egood government ; give the Sta upright and able judge's and honest of ciak:..stop the frightful expenditure |TntrTTc' inonuy j rj_ Col n rn "Kia : jn-oseeut indict and bring to trial such men ? Neagle, Parker and Crews; disband tl negro militia ; give the people intell gent jurors, ancTlet convicts be punisl ed,'and then will the Ku Klux be tli'ng of the past. But let the Legish ture and thc Stateoilicialsgo on as the have gone on, and the time will soon t when raids into Columbia, and aroun that oapitol building, will cause oti highly virtuous and in eiligent Legish ture to forget U mon a nd Union mui derers. One more word. V?'care all suspeel ed of active sympathy with the K Klux, because we do not bring them t trial. The thing is impossible. The; ehroud themselves in a mystery whie no one can unravel. Wheuco they come and whither they go, no one knows Their vuiue's are not recognized ; thei horses are not known. They are neve seen in day-light ; only in night. I would seem that negroes would knov when their masters felt home, and tool their horses ont of the stable ; wouli sometimos sec their disguises, nolici the jaded appearance of man and horsi after a night ol' wakefulness and han riding. But it is not so. No negri knows asin^le member pf the band ; il s< they would tell it, if not here for fear at any rate in Columbia. The whoh negro race desiro tho suppression of the Ku Klux ; but they can make no dis cov'erics. Is it singular, then, that tin whit - man, who spends his evening a home-whose opportunities for detec tion are so much less-should fail tc find out names? We do not say tba' all condemn the Ku Klux. Many set the immediate good, and think noto the consequent evil. But many, veiy many, oppose and abhor these deeds committed without any legal sanction and they express their abhorrence ir unmeasured terms. This letter has been made too long We wrote, howevor, to show that thc Ku Klux wor-e combating evils as dan gerous to thc peace of society as thc counter evils they perpetrate ; anti that these fearful counter evils were not approved of by all the people ol upper South Carolina. BRUTUS. A YOUNG LADY OF SAVANNAH BURNT TO DEATH.-Information was received in Savannah, on Thursday last, of the death, by fire, at 'Fernandina, Fla., ol Miss Sarah Colo, daughter of Colonel A. H. Cole, of Savannah, who was in attendance as a pupil at the St. Mary's Priory, or Episcopal School, at Fernan I dina. But few particulars of the- mel ancholy and heart-rending event have been received. Beyond the fact, com I municated by telegraph, that she was i reading iii bed, Wednesday night, when ! the clothing, by some accident, took fire, and she was so severely burned that she expired yesterday, nothing is known. Miss Cole was the only daugh ter of her parents, about seventeen years of age, and was regarded as among the most beautiful and interesting young ladies of Savannah. r BOWEN'S CASE IN CONGRESS-Tho Washington correspondent of the Prov idence Journal says : The narrow escape of Congressman Bowen from conviction of bigamy cre , ates r?nite a stir in the House, and there is a very strong impression there, as it seems there was on the minds of the jury, that he is not only guilty of biga my, but of bribing a man to perjure1 himself, so that Bowen might escape punishment. There is t alk among some members of the House of an 'atter to expel him from the House, not' the charge of bigamy, but for thi which he admitted during the tr but the session is sd short that subject will probably Be allowed pass. Has the Fifteenth Amendment bc legally Ratified. The New York Timcafo? Mondi the 13th instant, says : An important case as to the constil tionality of the new election law ; Congress in' reference to. interfer? with electors, promises- to come befe the United States Surpreme Court, a; it may also involve the question as the constitutional ratification of t Fifteenth Amendment. At the Co gressional election in Newton Tow ship, Camden County, New Jersey, November last, it will be remember the colored voters were prevented fro voting, and a riot was created, the bc lot box was smashed, and the sheriff the county was compelled to quell tl ^disturbance. The alleged assailan were at once arrested ana indicted, ar at the present term of the United stat District Court at Trenton one Franc Souders has been found guilty of ." ui lawfully interfering by force with qual fied; voters (colored) fro.ii freely exe cising the righ>t of suffrage." The coui sel for the accused are two prominei legal Gentlemen, Messrs.. Browning, < Camden, and ex Chancellor Williamsoi of Elizabeth, who, on Thursday nex February 15, will argue the constiti tionality of the Act under which Soud ers was convicted. One point of th argument, it is understood, is that th Fifteenth Amendment to the constiti tion was never legally ratified, and i case of an adverse decision they wii carry the entire matter to the Suprem Court.. The Senate of the State of Indiana few days since declared that the ratifi cation of the amendment by that Stat was not legally made, and it is claimei that without that State the necessar; number of States was not obtained fo a legal ratification. The New Jerse; Legislature, however, has just ratifi?! the amendment, so that in case th claim of Indiana should be sustained the required number of States'will stil hz on record, but whether a newprocla niation should be needed will be a sub ject for thc Court. In the meantime, a; ?his is the first conviction under tin new Act, the result will be looked for ward to with much interest, as not onh establishing the legality of the Fifteentl Amendment, but also as formally de daring the right of the colored man tc nil fcbo"logul-privileges and prolecti?r given to thu white. To FARMERS.-Of all the drearj places, deliver us from the dreary farm houses, which se-many people call home Bars l'or a front gate ; chickens wallow ing before the door ; pig pens elbowing the house in the rear; scraggy trees never cared for, or no trees at all ; nc cheering shrubs ; no neatness ; no trim ness. And yet, a lawn, and trees, and a neat walk, and a pleasant fence around it, don't cost a great deni. They can be secured little by little, at odd times and the expense hardly felt. Aud if the time comes when it is best to sell the farm, fifty dui lars so invested, will often bring back five hundred. For a man is a brute, who will not insensib'y yield to a higher price for such a farm, when he thi mes of the pleasant surroundings it offers to his wife and children. Farm ers, beautify and adorn your farms; set out orchards, shrubbery, shade trees ; lay oil' lawns : build good fences ; put up good gates, and paint or whitewash your outhouses and fences. Shocking Suicide in Brooklyn* A suicide, W.hieh is shown by the evidence to have been a very shocking case, came to the knowledge of Coroner Jones on Friday. The Coroner was notified in the usual way that a young man had committed suicide at his resi dence in Pacific street, and that it would be necessary for him to hold an inquest over his remains. The Coroner visited the house in question and found the body of the u% fortuna'c victim, Mr. Frederick D. Og den, stretched across the doorway in the basement, and thc floor covered with blood, which had gushed from a ghastly wound in his throat, Coroner Jones said he never- sftw a more shock ing spectacle. The deceased was about twenty-eight years of age and resided with ins mother and sister. He was a yerv intellectual young man, but was at times subject to fits of melancholy. He was the nephew of Judge Edmond's, the great Spiritualist, of New York, and who has been engaged as counsel for him in some real estate transactions. The loss of some property appeared to affect the mind of the deceased to such an extent that it'became apparent to his relatives and, friers that his mind was deranged. The best phy sicians were summoned, and they ad vised him to travel. He did so for some months, but it did not have a beneficial effect, and he reached home even more melancholy than when he left it. His mother and sister deemed it advisable to keep all sharp instru ments beyond his reach. On Friday his sister requested him to get some coal from the cellar. On reaching the basement he found his. mother cutting some bread with a large knife, and im mediately made an attempt, to take it from her. She clung to it with all the strength she possessed and screamed for assistance. Being unable to get the knife from her he got the blade in such a position that he could draw his throat across it, and did so, despite.h?>r efforts to prevent him. He pressed his throat upon the blade with such strength that it cut his head half off. His sister, hearing the cries of her mother, ran down stairs and raised his head up, when the blood spurted over her mother and herself. He fell upon tho floor and floundered about until he reached the doorway ; where he stopped, and after lying a few moments he breathed his last. i HURRICANE IN BAKER COUNTY.-The Albany Netos contains an account of a terrible hurricane in Baker county last week-the second one in this month. The first one was southwest to north west, and about five hundred yards in width. One of Mr. B. H. Hill's places was stripped of buildings, sheds, fences and timber, and several mules wore badly injured. It passed over Col. Fluellyn's place, sweeping ev?ry-thing before it, and killing five mules and in juring aa many more. The direction of the last was the same, but in the width only about two hundred yards. It literally swept eve rything before it. Hon. Reuben Jones had twenty-five houses, including sheds, blown down. No lives were lost-the negroes having fled in terror from their houses. A young man of the name of Joseph recently tickled a young lady in church on North Bars Island in Ohio. The lady squealed, and the preacher hared his arm and sailed into the worshippers "powerful." He said women and men should no more sit together under the dropjiings of his sanctuary. But, even with the possibility of being tickled before their eyes, the ladies refused to be separated, and on the very next evening all sat together. The preacher ..vas indignant, and brought the male portion of his congregation before a justice of the peace. A jury was de manded, and no juror should be a mem ber of the church. Three days the trial lasted, but at last the oppressed went free, and now in church they tickle each .other as of yore, to keep awake in an amusing manner. WINCHESTER GRAHAM, ~ Cotton Factor AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, AUGUSTA, GA. OFFICE at the Warehouse of Messrs. WEE LESS k CO., No. 144, Rejnold Street. Will devote his strict personal atten'ion to thc STO RAGE and SALK OF COTTON and OTHER PRODUCE on Commission only. LIBERAL ADVANCES uiadt on Consign in en ts. C' nsiguments solicited. Also, Agent for tho sale nf tho ATLANTIC .PHOSPHATE, a Fertilizer manufactured at Charleston, S. C , under the direction and super intendence of Or. St. Julien Raveuel, and re commended as a first-class article. Call or send for pamphlet containing the analy sis of tho Phosphate, price and torms REFERENCES.-J. T. Bothwell, Esq, H.H. Hickman, President Savings Bank. Augusta, Feb 7 2m 7 Notice. OAPT. WTXiTTTATrf TfTTRK^TW-taj unlj wfty ?zed Agentin the S.'a'c of South Carolina; and all receipts or credits given hy him oi claims in my favor, will bo approved of by mc. Parties in Edgcfield indebted to toe for Goods furnished in IS70, or years preceding. aTc earnest ly requested t > settle up promptly when calico upon by Capt. SriRBS. Whilst I am profoundly grateful for the liberal patronage bestowed on mo by tho good people ol' Edgcfield, at thu same time I respectfully claim that thc timely indulgence I have hitherto ex tended to my p-itrous, should prompt them to liquidate my demands against them at the earli est possible moment. M. O'DOWD. Augusta, Feb. fi, 1871 Im 7 Sheriff's Sale. J. H. Glover k Barney Lamar, Ad'ors. vs J. J. Glover. BY Virtue of sundry Exocuiions to mo direct oil , in the above slated case, I will sell at E lirefiold C. H.. ou the first Monday in March next, the following Real Property belonging to the Defendant, to wit : ONE TR ? CT OF LAND, containing Two Hundred and Sixty Acres, more or less, adjoin ing lands of Alfred Molloy, Estate of Amanda ll div au*) lands of others. Terms Cash. Titles und Stumps extra. JOHN H. MoDEVITT, S.E.C. Feb 11 4tc 8 Sheriff's Sale. E. R. Whatley, 1 vs I A. W. Atkinson, Maria Atkinson J BY virtue of an Execution to mc directed, in the above itatod case. I will proccea >o soil at Edgcfield C. H., on thc first Monday in March nexr. tho following Real Estato tho property of A. W. Atkinson, to wt: ONE TRACT CF LAND, containing Five Hundred and Ninety-three Acres, more or less, .idjoining lands of T. W- Whatley, S. Sturzeneg gor, John Westbrook and oihers. ?Sr" Terms Cash. Titles ?nd Stamps extra. JOHN H. MCDEVITT, S. E. C. Feb ll 4te 8 Sheriff 's Sale. Nni.-cy E. Andrews, ") vs. \ Fi Fa. Ephraim Andrews, J BY virtue of a Writ ol Fi Fa lo me directed in the abovo stated case, I will proceed to sell at Edgcfield C. H., on the first Monday in March next, the following Real Estate, levied upon as belonging to the Defendant, to wit: ONE TRACT OF LAND, containing Thirteen Uundred Acres, more or less, adjoining lands of E. Devore, Suabron StnlnaUor and c hera. Terms Cash. Titles and Stamps extra. JOHN H. MCDEVITT, S.E.C. Feb. ll 4te 8 State of South Carolina, EDGEFIELD COUNTY. IN PROBATE COURT. Enoch WaPon et al, "J vs \ i Rice, Ad'or. et al. J _ Pet'n for Par'n. Larkin BY virtue of an Order from the Hon. D. L. Turner, in this causr, I will sell at public outcry, to the highest biddor, at Edgefield Court Hou.-'e, on the fiist Monday in March next, THE TRACT OF LAND described in the pe tition, containing One Hundred Acres, more or less, it being the Real Estate of WILLIAM WALTON, dee'd , late of said County, a' joining lands of Michael Witt, Mrs. Sadler, Marlin Witt and others. Terms Cash. Titles and Stamps cxlra. JOHN H. MCDEVITT, S. E. C. Feb. 11 4to 8 Sheriff's Sale. George M. Thew, Cashier, Fi Fa The Southern Porcelain Manufacturing Company. J BY Virtue of a Writ of Fi Fa to me directod in the above stated case, I will proceed to sell at E IgefieM C. H.. on the first Monday in March next, the following property, to wit: ONE TRACT ~*F LAND, containing Seven Hundred Acres, more or less, adjoining lands ol the Paper Mill Company, Mrs. Mary B. Lamar and others. Terms Cash. Titles and Stamps oxtra. JOHN ii. MCDEVITT, S.E.C. Feb ll ' 4.te 8 NEW GOODS TOR . . SFZRIJSTO-,,. 16711 H. L. L 3 WHOLESALE AND RETATL DEALER DEY GOODS, A S A SPECIALITY THIS SEASON, I OFFER A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF NEW STYLES OF IMPORTED DRESS GOODS, AT PRICES AS LOW AS BE FORE TUE WAR. n. L. A. BALK, Augusta, Ga. IN PRINTS fer Drews and Shirts. I have opeftf-t! a. treat variety of choice selections of popular make?.. H. L. A. BALK, Augusto, Gi. IN CASSIMERE AND JEANS, FOR Genis and Boys' wear, a. carefully selectu i Stock ?.1 (dieted at popular prices. II. L. A. BALK, Augusta, Ga. j&SSTKolice. is hereby given that 1 hare added a Department .nf BO O 'J1 S and SHOES, where a fvll assortment trill al ways bc kept at New York prices. H. L. A. BALK. Augusta. Ga. t?s?' MY STOCK IN BROWN AND BLEACHED SHEETINGS, SHIRTINGS, PLATD AND STRIPED HOMESPUNS, AND WOOLENS, IS VERY FULL, AND OFFERED AT FACTORY PRICES.. H. L. A. BALK, Augusta, Ga. . G HEAT BARGAINS ARE OFFERED IN SHIRTS A ND SHIRT FRONTS, QUILTS. TABLING DAMASKS, TOW ELS, LINENS, TICKINGS, SUSPEND ERS, HOSIERY, &c. H. L. A. BALK, Augusta, Ga. My fadiities enalbo me to buy vrlciu Good.* *ro ch- a;?C:t. -LLJ^L-BAjJLJVuiru.>in, Ga. j?a-1 SELL AS LOW AS TEE SAME GOODS HAN 3E SOLD ANYWHERE. H. L. A. BALK, Augusta, G?. j?:Sr*I Ask Owly One Price ! H. L. A. BALK, Augura, Ga. ALL GOODS WARRANTED TO BE AS REPRESENTED. H. L. A. BALK, Augusta, Ga. ?2?"A1I cr ier-., io ir sure a prompt and careful attention, Rho lld bo adiVessud to II. L. A. BALK, Augusta, Ga. Feb 15 ot* S REEDER & DAVIS, COTTON FACTORS, AND Genera I Com mission H ercha lils, ADO EU'S'WHARF, Charleston, S. C. OSWIIM. RKKDKK. ZIMMTRMAN Pt ri?. (Jet 17 lim 4:1 WM. SHEPHERD & CO., No. 24, Mayne St., Charleston, S. C., DEALER IN COOKING STOVES, Ranges, ami Heating Stoves. zj^'Pictures of Steven, with Prices and De? oription. will "he sent upon application. Charleston, June 30 ly 27 OILS. OILS. OILS. M ACHINE OIL, LINSEED OIL, LUBRICATING OIL at 80 rta., for Heavy Machinery, CASTOR OIL, SWEET OIL, KEROSENE OIL .:: *0 ct?, per gallon. By thc five gallon?, .SO et?, fer gallon. SEWING MACHINE OIL, very fine. For sa!? l>jr ?. L. PENN Dru.iiit. Feh 23 _tf_s?__ Hamilton's compound Troches cf Buchas FOR N- n-r'??-niioa or ince* tin<n.-n of Urine, irrita'i n. inflamtnatinn or ulcer : ?ion ot' th? Bladder <>r Kidney, disease-- ot" t!:?; pro*'ntl? glands, sto'iu in ibo bladder, ?travo!, Dropsical Swellings, and all diseases incidental to female*, for weakness arising from exces.-es or inditcre tim, and all diseases of the urir try organs in either rex. For FHle by G. L. PENN. Dru^i-H Feb 22 _ tf 9 A Chance for a Bargain. WE will .?ell at pubi c outcry, cn Salet-day in March next, a' Edgeiield C. ll, tbat VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND on which Wm. T. Mathis now reside?, containing about Twq Hun dred and Fifty Acre.?". This Plantation < r Tract of Land ia situated in Edgefield County, about 12 miles N. W. of C urt House. Persons deming to purchuse will consult their interest by exam ining the p ace. Titles guaranteed. Terms made known on day ot r-alo. WM. T. (JARV, H. W. ADDISON. Feb 15 _St S Notice. ALL persons indebted to tbc Estate of Mrs. N. M. MORRIS, dee'd., will nuke p -yin .nt on or hy tho lfith day of March, 1S71, <o the under signed ; and nit those having dem: n ls against said Estate will present thom, properly attested, on or by tho day above mentioacd, or they will be barred by law. ARTEVESA MORRIS. \ ... CORNELIA COSLEY, j **ors Feb. 15 ' 4f_S__ Lamps and Chimneys. ALARGE Aasortmat t jolt received, by G. L. P?NX, Druggist. Feb 15 _ tf_8 Henry's Sewing fi)achino Gil. SOLD by G. L. PENN, Druggist,