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.83??T ^,,flJ."Wu,,,n._"_u^^M^.M-!-^U^.-^.,^..,.^...^-^,^.WW.-VM^ Bf D, R.B?RISOE. EDGE?IELD, S,r C|;. JUNE 8, 1871. S^^^^UM^H^N^^*^^^ '-"M VOLUME XXXV.-So. 24. Mow Spring Dry Goods ! J a m e s W. T u r i e y, BBO?D STTKEET, AUGUSTA, GA* MMM IN FIBST-CLiSS DRY GOODS, flAS JUST RETURNED FROM NEW YORK, and ia now fully pre pared,to. offer to the public a completely assorted Stock of SEASONA BLE FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS. Great care has been taken to., supply each Department with EVER Y TKING NEW; AND FASHIONABLE, as well as the more staple j articles of the Trade. . . The Cash System will be Strictly Adhered to, and it ?3 much-cheaper to pay 25 per cent, for money, and buy your Dry Goods for Cash, than to buy them on time. The bet? judges,o? Dry, Goods, ;anc| the closest buyers, are particularly requested w examine my present schedule of prices. .hflfiJtS uiKj F??vU??iC JAMES W. TURLEY. M?r;29_J_... . tf._tt;v "SPRING AND SUM M ER 'supp L IET~ . Oil I J - 1 Cj i V W h ote sal e Gr oi ce r -?'''hizo SKOH \-. v;. ii. Siete y. ii v . . .\ -AND Commission IVEeroli'nt 283 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga., HAS NOW ON HAND a Edi GROCERIES and PLANTERS the following : 100 Hhds. BACON, 50 Bbls. LARD, 500 " FLOUR, all grades, 50 Hhds. SUGAR, 300 Sks. COFFEE, . 300 Boxes SOAP, 200 " CANDLES, 100 ' " STARCH, 100 " SODA, 5000 Bushels CORN, 3000 . " OATS, 500 Sacks SALT, 100 Cases LYE and POTASH, and Complete Stock of CHOICE FAMILY SUPPLIES, among which may be founr1 10 Bbls. COGNAC BRANDY, 30 Bbls. CORN WHISKEY, 100 " " RYE WHISKEY, 10 " APPLEBRANDY, r20 ? GIN and RUM, '20 " SHERRY & PORT WINE 2003M. 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 tow. Give me a Call. May 2' tf . 19 Fashionable Clothing A. T. GRAY, 229 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia, Has Received, and is Teady ta show the public A. Choice ?took ir re fi ; . . ' i i f k >' -OF uJbl] X XXlli u3 I3? FI3STE A.]ST7> MEDIUM GB?.DES. ,YA(I sn Also, a very well selected asrortment of EVERY KIND . -OF .*>I*I??<;?O ) Ai fri dente' FurnisJimg Goods ! In drawing attention to the above, I desire to assnretIio.se who have dealt whh me, and those who have not, that I will sell as low as any one, and misrepresent nothing. Every one is invited to examime my Goods before purchasing elsewhere. A. T. GRAY, Opposite Masonic Hall, * AUGUSTA, GA. Olav 2. 2m 19 I I^resli A_rrivals OF um jmm .- SUMMER MILLINERS S. LECKIE AVOlXD:Bospp?tfuUv m?onh the Ladies ofEdgeficld that she has just received a SECOND CArtG?TrOTT)F SPRING AND SUMMER MILLINERY GOODS, consisting in part'of Rich and Elegant PATTERN BONNETS, i Ri^h and Elegant PATTERN HATS, And another Lot of those HANDSOME LEGHORN HATS which are so much called.far/ and could onlv be found, when the Season opened, at this Establishment. SASH RIBBONS of even- kind, and at ven- low prices. . -GILT and JET JEWELRY, Lace COLLARS, j "And a few of those stylish GILT FANS, so very fashionable at present. i C alcan? ?i?min?th? Goods to be found in this the Largest Store of tue kind South of Baltimore. MRS. LECKIE, t71 BROAD STREET, UNDER THE AUGUSTA HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GA. j Apy2C- i.. 2ml8 fiiiS'sliciJy Lemon Sagar." fiiiiiii? imira A ;if?PENDID Preparation for making OALUIIA SixJldL, JTJL Lemonade.. , Sold at . / "\ rr ,Q. lu PENN'S DRUG STORE. IVJLRS. R. B. BO?XWARE respectful May _ tf_~Lz ly announces to the Edgefield public that . : Notice. she has opened the SALUDA HOUSE, ON SATURDAY, the 1st July next, and wiU use overy exertion to plome all we will make application in theofhec KI- *A*U /ut \ _ of D.tT. Turner,. Jnag? of Probate, for a who. mRy mor her ^ fcelr patronage. Final Discharge as Administrators on the Sho solicits the encouragement af her FstateofaflAl^EiHOJWti?.aoc^. All friends. . persons '^S?m??M^SS!?iS^lJ!^ ^Board by tlxc Day, Week or Month antP?WVerh ?hemA?lvt?? accorthng?v. fr^\ J ? SHEROD &M I^gpt?rLM?8;; atas low figures 88 <*n Possibly be ?tV Hy} ?' .'. .*.'..* '-..*?"?.. * " A'i'i>rs. forded;? . MsyZl 4t ?f j Edgefield, May W tf 25* Backbone. When you see a fellow mortal Without fixed and fearless views, Hanging on the skirt of others, Walking in their cast-off shoes, Bowing low to wealth or. favor", With abject, uncovered head, Ready to retract or waver, J . Willing to be drove or led ; Walk yourself with firmer bearing, Throw your moral shoulders back, Show your spine has nerve and marrow Just the Ikings which bis must lack. A stronger word Was never heard In sense and tone, Than this, backbone. When you see a theologian Hugging close some ugly creed, Fearing to reject or question Dogmas which his priest may read, Holding back all noble feeling, Choking down each manly view, Caring more for forms and symbols Than to know the Good and True ; . Walk yourself with finner bearing, Throw your moral shoulders back, Show your spine has nerve and marrow Just the things which his must lack. A stronger word Was never heard In sense and tone, Than this, backbone* When you see r. politician Crawling through contracted holes, Begging for some fat position, In the ring pr at the polls. ' With no sterling manhood, in him, Nothing stable, broad or sound, Destitute of pluck pr ballast, Double-sided all around ; Walk yourself with firmer bearing,. Throw your moral shoulders back, Show your spine has nerve and marrow Just the things which his must lack. A stronger word *W as never heard . In sense, and tone, Than this, "backbone. A modest song and plainly told The text is worth a mine of gold ; For many men most sadly lack A noble stiffness in the back. CAPTAI? TOM. --0-, NOTHING to eat-nothing, absolute ly nothing. Not a morrel of bread, nor a, cup of milk, nor a bone, nor a potato ! Not a penny to buy anything with, and not a thing to sell that any one would buy I She might as well have been upon a desert island-one where, unlike the desert island of the novels, there are no delicious wild fowl and no delicious edible roots to be had for the shooting and picking ; no chest floated ashore, with carving knives and forks and grid-irons in them; no conveniences of all kind on hand ; and no suddenly-acquired faculty of knowing just where to dig for' what you want bestowed upon the unshipwrecked-a desert island pure and simple, all rock and sand, and weary wash of waters, and noth ing else. Yet London is not a desert of any kind, and in the very heart of Lon don lived Lily Vane. She had been a singer, with a good mezzo-soprano voice, and so had earn ed her living; but she had never been pretty, and had never made a furore anywhere. Still, she had had a lover, and a true one ; and they would have been married one bright midsummer-day, but that on its eve he died-dropped at her feet just as he had taken her hand in his to say adieu. Something the matter with his heart the doctors said. No one who heard it ever forgot the scream Lily gave then. With it her voice went-she never sang again. After that she taught the piano in an humble way-bade adieu to her am bition, as she had to her love, for ever ! They were part of each other. The laurel-wreath she longed to win was to have been laid at his feet who trod earth no longer. And now Lily vane lived alone, as she had for years. She was poor as she was plain, and she was no longer young. Her little savings had been hoar ded in a bank which proved to be only a swindler's trap for honest peo ple's money. It was gone, every penny of it ; and Lily had a fever and been near death's door, and so had lost her pupils. And now the autumn had passed, winter was at hand, and she was starving. She was a patient woman ; suffer ing had made her so. She was proud, too, in her quiet way. It seemed easier to die than to beg ; and between herself and beggary lay just one thing-the plain gold ring upon her finger-her mother's wedding ring that she could not sell ; but she might pawn iL What they would lend her upon the little circle of gold she did riot know; nor did she know how people went about such things-but she had seen the three golden balls at the door of a dingy shop, in a wretched street hard by, and by slow degrees made up her mind to pass tinder them. So, as the clock struck twelve, she wrapped herself up in a shawl and hood, and slipped out. The rain beat down upon her head. The slush lay ankle-deep along the pavements. There were few people abroad. One wpman, with a slopping pitcher of beer in one hand, passed her ; no more, until the light glow ing behind the red curtain and the glimmer of three golden balls told her she was at her destination. The old man sat. smoking beside the fire ; no other customers were there. The business was sopn dis patched, and the few shillings counted into Lily's hand, she was turning away when the door burst open and ? a jovial face was thrust in, and a loud voice, thevoice of a seafaring man .used to shoutjug orders above the roar of wave and the dash of wind, cried : " Halloa, messmate ! am I right for the Kensington road ? I've lost my bearing somehow, and don't know which way to steer. " The first turning to the right and then straight on," said the pawn broker, and the man, with a " Thank ye," plunged out into the dark again. A ruddy man', tall and broad of breast, with glancing jet-black eyes, and hair that clustered in a mass of ring lets about his temples. A smile too, that was all goodness. No false glit ter in it, but pure gold. Lily in the glimpse that she caught of him, saw, or thought she saw, that he had a kind heart, also that he re sembled her own lost lover. A thrill went through her,. ..half of joy, half of sorrow,, and she followed him out of the dismal shop with slow steps", and began to retrace her way to her own wretched den aa best abe might. She had felt her heart beat as it '. not for years, as his cheery voice r ont, but she stifled the feeling wit sigh. ; "No good can come to me death," she sighed, but 'just tl stood still, filled with a vague, ind hite horror. ; She had txrned a corner, and 1 in the shadow of the blind wall o church. Just before her stood t men, whispering to each other. " He has money about him ; I s him changing some in the Th Woolpacks." "Hes lost his way, There, 1 wrong way, by luck-just where w< have him best." And then, close against tBe w they hurried on. Lily followed "the Beyond the light of the corner lan she saw the seafaring man trudgi through the mud. The next insta there was a cry, and three dark for; struggled together on the grour Lily was a timid woman by natui she never knew- what inspired 1 with courage that night; but son thing did. ' ' . She rushed forward without a n ment's hesitation, and did witho thought, the best thing thinking cou have told her to do. . " The policemen are coming 1" s] cried-" the policemen-save you selves." The words were not out of h mouth when one ruffian dashed awi from his victim and rushed up tl street, and the other, with wh seemed a parting blow, followed h example. The seafaring man lay prostra where they left him. Lily, bendir over, him, saw blood trickling fro: his temple. She bound it quietly VJ with her handkerchief, and tried h( best to raise him. Not a policema was in sight, no other help came, bi in a few moments the man lifted h head, and with Lily's help staggere to his feet. " You are a blessed woman, whc ever you are," " What made yo brave enough to do that? They' have killed me, not a doubt, and lil tie Jennie would have cried her eye out. You see it was two to one an a regular ambush. Well, heave bless' you. Is that your handkei chief? Tell me who you are. It' a lauy's voice and a lady's hand Tell me, won't you ?" "I'm only a poor womant" sai< Lily. " If I've done you any good I'm thankful. Are you stroilg. Ar you strong again ? You can walk, see. You ought to have gone th other way. Good-by." " But stop," he cried ; *' I-" But Lily hurried on. Not until she was in her own dari room did she know that she had los the money the pawn-broker had givei her. She crept into her poor bed, and tried to drown her hunger rn sleep but the relief carne tardily. She hac been terribly excited by the scene ir which she had taken a part, and moreover, the face and voice of th? handsome sailor haunted her. Jenny, who was Jenny ? His wife, doubtless, his young wife, who wait ed somewhere for his coming. Oh, happy woman, to be so dear to any one ; and lonely Lily Vane shed more of those hot tears that had mingled with the rain drops outside the pawn broker's shop. People do not starve so easily as they think they will, and, moreover, at the latest hour of the long hungry day, the neighboring tailor's good natured wife sent a piece of cake and a glass of something hot to the "lone some little body in the next room," and Lily Vane lived and found some further means of earning bread, and dragged on her lonely life somehow until the winter ice was gone and spring revisited the earth. It was in May-she never forgot the month-that she went sadly into an office, where places were found for teachers, and teachers for places, and, hopeless of any great good coming to her, put some questions to the pro prietor. Music ? Yes, and no doubt she understood it . very well. But there were so many teachers. How ever, would she give her name and her address ? If anything offered he would send her word. "My name is Lily Vane," said Lily. "An odd name," said the man. "How do you spell it?-Vain or Vane ?" And then a lady whom she had never seen-^a plump, pretty little woman, with black curls and blacker eyes-ran forward from a seat near the stove, and, with a smile at Lily, spelt it for, her. " Right?" she asked. Lily astonished, assented ; she could do BO more, for the name was not so very odd, after all. " And if you ave JMf Vane," said the lady, " and if you will come to me, there's a permanet place for you, and two good little pupils, who will love you dearly. On, don't say no ? I've been looking for you for months, and I'm so glad I've found you ?" " Some of my . old pupils, I sup^ pose?" faltered Lily.. But at that the lady shook her head." " No matter how I know you," she said, ''?nlv come." And Lily was glad enough to take the sugar-plum fate frac) dropped into her mouth, without mors questions. Sho was too weary, too worn, even to feel great astonishment. Slip had been a careful teacher, and some one had recommaned her that Was all, But when Lily Vane was actually installed in her new position-gover ned to two docile children, their mother her kindest friend, a pretty room at her service, books, music, pictures, and pleasant company about .her-she began to wonder about ma ny things of ali, why the black-eyed lady's face was so familiar to her, when he knew she had never before seen it. What was the secret, too a ki ad one, surely-that they kept from hep ? Why were there so many smiles and dimples, and sly looks, es pecially when they spoke pf Uncle Tom? Why, when certain letters came with greatred s^als and strange postmarks, uid the little lady catch Lily's face between her two small palina, and dance about her and say ; " Oh, Lily .Vane/?m 30 found you? There was a mystery, in al but a very pleasant on*".. ; Lily waa very hapjjy. He frew "brighter, her cneeks ro er. lips red, and littleJ?nks of long vanished from Hear nair, into its masses again^,. She 1 ten years younger.. Sometimes, pretty Mrs. Andersonj;xan int husband's arms at hisi3iome-co qr tossed her baby ovej?fler hea thought of what "niigfct havel saddened' Lily's hearJtaa little very sweetly; andr her one p was that she might never lose kind friends ? who made life ? thing for lier. So summer passed and antumi winter came, and with?it one of red-sealed letters, which i black Mrs. Anderson read Minore rn? than usual, and theh^^cried ont Tom; was coming hom?'j and her band, merry as shs was1 herself, something in an "undertone ; an< dhildren,'dancing-with.glee, call the cook in the kitchen that I Tom w \a coming home ; and the caine from the depths, ladle anc and said : " Bless my heart ! is that true And the little . wife and mc ended all by dancing round Lily, singing, half-a-dozen time's : ' " Oh, Lily Vane, kjw. glad I f found you !" ] s .."' "And what had tbjat to do 1 Uncle Tom's coming?" Lily asked herself. Then there were no. more les for awhile,, but all were busy for Uncle's return ; and Tom's room made fine, and Uncle -Tom's pres made ready, and cakes baked Tom liked and, all mixed up D teriously with Lily. Vane, wno to much puzzled to understand ? thing. And so the eventful day came ; Lily with her dress qn-not the j Lily of a year before; -but rosy comely-stood before the mirro: her own room, brushing her br< hair, when down below she heai shout : " Tom's come ! Tom come!" and a bow-wow-wow fi the dog, that said as plain as voices did, " Tom has come?" A why she did not know, the brush out of Lily's hands, and she begar tremble as before the dawning of sc mystery, and not a step could she s but stood quite still, hier heart be ing fast and furious, when the d opened, and Mrs. Anderson rusl in and seized her about the wa and pushed her and hustled her do the stairs and into the parlor, whe tinder the gaslight, stood a m black-haired, blacfcejgd, with a s faring look about" lum, who tun and held out both hands towards h " It is your Lily Vane !" And then he said, " It is my L Vane, and no one else I" And Lily kne.w the man she h met and parted with a year befe that night. " She don't look like it, does she said the sailor. " A little craft li that to board the pirates and'fright them away from agreathnlklikem but she did it better than a troop marines. And if she hadn't tied h handkerchief about my head, and her name hadn't been on it, I,d nev have known she was my Lily Var and you'd never have found her f nie, sister Jenny." " But I found her," said Jeni Anderson. " I found your Lily Van and here she is." And in a moment more the tv were alone together, Lily and Capta: Tom. " I've had that handkerchief ne: my heart all this while," said tl captain, taking Lily's hand. " I've said the name over and ove when only the angels heard me. Ti thought of the sweet face, and tl kind touch of the soft hands, unt the sea seemed too wide that kept rc from them; and I never have forgo: ten them for one moment, and neve shall. I had to sail next day, bu Jenny swore to me on the hy mi book-for I made her-to find Lil Vane for me, and she did. Was j for me, my dear, and may I hop that?" And he drew Lily closer to hin: and she looked away, The thought that had come into her heart wnei the black eyes first met her, crep back again. The hand he held flut tered, ner lashes dropped ; no gir ever blushed more brightly. . "Was it for me, Lily Vane?' .asked the captain. " Is the faci mine, and the dear voice, and thi kind heart." " It's not a pretty face," said Lily " nor a young ene. ! " There's more than beauty in it,' said the captain. "More than beau ty ; ?nd I'm no boy, myself, my dear and the heart?"? And then Lily Vane knew-knevi best, b.ecauae she . could not answer nor look at him, npt do anything but sob upon hisbosom^thatthe thoughts the black eyes, and merry smiles bad been strengthened by the long, long talks about Uncle Tom, and Brothel Tom, and Mr Tom'; and that in all the world there was nD'one so dear tc her as that same Captain Tom. " And the heart ia mine?" asked Captain Tom ; and by way of answer she let him fold her to his own. So the wedding'bells soon rang out a. merry chime ; and she who one year before had starved, body and heart alike, was % happiest woman the sun shone oe' . And little ?Jenny Anderson danfre.4 jn her wedding finery about her great sailor brother and about'hie bride, and cried to one and to the other, "Oh, I'm so glad I found you, Lily Vane !" And the'children prattled it, and their father smiled it : and the cook. ?without her ladle; and in her best bonnet, approved of it; and Lion, the great dog, barked in hie- ecstacy until he frightened the kitten np thi chimney, and said; with voice and tail as plainly as ? dog might : .. Oh, I'm so jglad you!ve found your Lily Vane !' A singular case of generosity, if true, Li that of a Mr, Derby, of New York, who has beoueathgd h is ^states in Eng land, valued ot ?lLjQ0O,0OO, under certain 'condition? io fife ?. B,goyornnaeofr. President Davis ('Accepts N lng." Hon. JEFFEESON DAVIS was ei elastically received in Atlanb Saturday. At night, ?a welcoi speech was delivered at the Kin House, by Gen. Garlington, about thousand persons attending. I sponse, according to the Era, .Davis said substantially : Looking down Upon the he faces before Kui he experienced i 'culiar pleasure as he r?alized the that the complimentary tribute to him was an expression of s< ment on the part of the peopli Georgia. Georgia had a proud rec Beginning with Oglethorpe, and g cing at the old Colonial times, speaker remarked that the princi for which Georgians fought in late war between the States were same they contended for in the r< lution of 1776, and in the wai 1812. He felt animated and i tained by the conviction that Geo: would yet recover her ancient lil ties and be a great, prosperous i sovereign State. When first he i .Atlanta it was simply an old fieh stubble. Again he saw it just a; the F?d?ral army had swept ovei marking their course by a vandal: far blacker than anything that 1 ever stained the fair fame of Turei as a soldier. A third time he saw and then the blackened ruins 1 disappeared ; the evidences of desc ti on had been swept away to mi room for the stately structures wh now ornament the city. Dwelling some length upon the ?nterprise a energy ?isplayed by the people Georgia, under so many adverse < cumstances, the speaker. alluded the important work which the you men of the State had- before the He did not propose to discuss politi He had shaien hands with politi and had dorie with them forever. ] trusted that every one in the aui ence would agree with him on tl point. But wnile he did not care make a political speech,, he felt tl he ought to express one or two opi ions in reference to the best policy be pursued by the South. He referr only to the present-the future mig take care of itself. He dared n say all that he would. It would used against the Southern peop! and they would be compelled to be the responsibility of his utteranci There was a good deal of talk abo " accepting the situation," but, as f as he was concerned,' he would "a cept nothing 1" These miserable phr ses about " accepting the situatioi because our rights had been submi ted to the abitrament of the swoi and lost, were the excuses of dunc and cowards. No one had any rig] to submit the liberties of a people the abitrament of the sword. Tl representatives of the Southern pe pie had never been authorized to c anything of the kind. As their Chi Executive, he had never been so ai thorized, nor did he ever claim to bi He.did not Jike tobe understood? advocating resistance. On. the cor trary, he counselled submission to e: istiug laws. He knew very welltlu the conquerer was too powerful to b successfully resisted by the South. 1 was the duty of Georgia, and of th other Southern States, to keep aloe from politics, and to attend to the di velapnient of their internal resource! This- was all that could be done a present. It was useless for the Souti to attempt to take a controlling par in the politics of the country. A matters now stand such action wouh only -delay the day of deliverance He was firmly convinced, and intendec to live and die believing that Georgi and her sister States would again bi prosperous, free and sovereign. Un less this was again the case the Be public was a failure. But there wen great numbers of freemen in th< North who sympathized with us .They would never submit to be de prived of their liberties, and wher they felt the danger at home thej would then need the aid of the South Thus by quietly holding aloof the South could become a political bal ance of power on this continent. This desirable result would be accomplish ed by waiting until they divided at the North, and then it would be the policy of the South to act with the party having'the best candidate and the best platform. In conclusion, Mr. Davis made a few humorous remarks about the life insurance business. He preferred to discuss that instead of politics. It would afford him pleasure to insure the life of every man present, and guarantee one hundred years exis tence. Again expressing to his au dience h's heartfelt appreciation of the demonstration rn his honor. Mr. Davis bade them "good night," and retired amidst enthusiastic cheering. Gail Hamilton insists," in a recent number of Harper's Bazaar, that men have nQ right to disinherit; or cjispwn their eons tor any offence whatever ; that a wayward child may be separa ted from the other children, and his portion may, if necessary, be held in trust, its delivery depending on re formation, but that no person caji commit against society so great a crime as a father commits who is thus false to the trust which he himself has imposed-who thrusts off from himself the soul which he called into being. A father should be governed by no motive but his child's bes{? interests, and a chic's best interests pan never be seryed hy anythjng but his father's constant and loving care." Selfishness, by its own law, not only moves in simple circles, but is shortlived. What men do for them selves is soon expended, and is soon forgotten. Even the monuments which men ostentatiously build for them selves refuse to carry their name, and often subject them to contempt, rather than to praise or to memory. Only that part of a man's life which in cludes other men's good, and espe cially the public good, is, likely to be felt long after he himself is. dead. One ought every day, says Goethe, at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, Bee a $ne picture,, and if it be possible, to speak a few reasona ble words. A Rotten State of Affairs. The grand jury for the May term of Coart in Newberry County have made their presentment-a well con-, sidered and able document. They pronounce the jail ins?cure, as not j being in such a condition as to pre vent the escape of prisoners.- The other public buildings were found all right. The probate office was not ac cessible, Mr. Leahy, the-present judge, being absent from tdwni ' Treasurer's office all right, books " properly bal anced." Trial Justices Furmans and Peterson's books and papers, upon examination, proved all right. From the following pen picture, Trial Jus tice Long seems to be a candidate for the championship in South Carolina. The grand jury says : : . " As to Trial Justice Long, the keeping of his books, and his ability as an officer, it is with the deepest-1 humility that they ar? constrained to make such an unfavorable report. As an officer, they unhesitatingly pro nounce him utterly incompetent in every respect. He can neither read nor write sufficiently to be intelligi ble to any one but himself ; and, as a natural consequence, ' his books are in no. order, or, m other words, are not kept at all. They find that he has received fines, but has neither turned them over to the c?unty treasurer nor otherwise accounted for the same. They, therefore, unhesitatingly, for the peace, dignity and prosperity of | the community, recommend his spee dy removal."' Bad as this is, the grand'jury does not reach the climax till they'get to the county commissioners. Of all the offices inaugurated by the new regime, this would seem to be the best. Here is unlimited opportunity for stealing, and we feel in all candor bound to say that these opportunities do not always remain unimproved. The grand" jury says: " In the present board of county commissioners they find, after a care ful,investigation, a system of corrup tion, bribery and theft stupendous to behold-a system of wholesale rob bery which was to them almost pre posterous. In examining the books, papers, Seo., of the old board of coun ty commissioners they found indubi table evidence of perjury on the part j of one Samuel Dogan and Thomas. M. Jenkins, by probating and paying the same account twice. Dogan has sold the proceeds of the" poorhouse farm and has never accounted for the moneys arising from such sale, and also sold a norse belonging to the same institution, and has likewise not accounted- for the proceeds of such sale. And as to the new board, they find that they indulge in all species of fraud and corruption, and as the grand jurors are informed, this board of commissioners have never visited the poorhouse to examine into the condition of its ' unfortunate in mates, as has always heretofore been the custom. Simeon Young, one of I the aforesaid board, has had himself | elected superintendent of the poor house, with a-salary of five hundred dollars, and sub-lets the same for two hundred dollars on his own account, the same being paid by the treasurer of the county, on recommendation of Young. They also found a check for one hundred and twenty-five dollars in favor of Simeon Young, passed and approved by the board of which he is chairman ; said check was given for no consideration." And so on, ad infinitum. The presentment go?3 on to say : " Finding such corruption, venality and robbery to exist in the aforesaid board of commissioners, the grand jurors feel it their privilege; and their sacred duty, to denounce the same, and respectfully recommend to this honorable court that such speedy measures be taken, that this gross and manifest evil may be forthwith removed. The poorhouse the grand jurors find in a dilapidated condition, the fences down, inm-vtes dissatisfied, badly clothed, and a general discon tent prevalent. As to-the roads and highways in the county, the grand jurors find them, /with a few excep tions, in a veiy bad condition. They would likewise say that they regret ? to find that their county has been the i scene of violent disturbances, by dis- i guised parties, commonly called Ku Klux. That tney raise their voices j < against all violence by whomsoever 1i committed. Wrong can never restore right. And they nold that it is the duty of all good citizens to rebuke all'wrong, expose all corruption, and endeavor by. peaceable means to achieve that restoration to purity, economy and an hortest and equal ad ministration of the laws, which is es sential to the security and prosperity of their beloved' State. And they further distinctly declare that their findings and investigations have not been dictated by any partisan spirit, and they can show ample and plain proof of all their findings, whether | against crime, fraud or corruption." The above is a mere outline of the Sresentment. The grand- jury have ona.their work thoroughly, and we hope when the Congressional com mittee comes to this State to investi gate " outrages," they will not pass Newberry by. ^hey should by: all means suiumou this same'grand jury, wno could enlighten them on sundry faots which the committee ought by .all means to know. How TO KEEP PEETTY.-A writer I in the Land and Water States, on the authority of celebrated Diana of Poio ti'er's perfumer, that she owed the re tention of her charms, when at an advanced age, to thc habitual use of J rainwater, which ba?, it seems, an ex traordinary salutary action on the skin. How delightful to think that it is within every woman's power to' keep, so easily and cheaply, what she has! Charity is never lost, but it may be of no service to those it \s bestowed j u,pon, yet it'ever does a work of b?au-.J, ty and grace in th? heart of the ?ver. A Stricken City. The New York Herald's Montevi deo correspondent writes as follows of .the ravages of yellow fever in Buenos Ayres: " Families are broken up and scat' tered ; husbands abandon their dying wives ; mothers leave their children to die alone, and in some cases entire families are swept away. As many as five or six corpses have been dis covered in a single house, and there is a lack of laborei-s to perform the duties of removal and sepulture of the dead. ' -There is also, as might naturally be supposed, a scarcity of physicians and nurses .to attend the sick in the various hospitals, and where almost every inhabited house is a miniature hospital in itself, the extent of the suffering must be in deed dreadful. Several of the. most eminent physicians of Montevideo volunteered to the succor of- the stricken Buenos "Ayreans, and have labored with a zeal in the face of an imminent and terrible death that stamps them as heroes and philan thropistg second to none in the world's history. Rich and poor are alik stricken with the malady, and it is doubtful whether yellow fever ever before, at least in the New "World, held such a ghastly carnival among mankind. "Anew cemetery to receive the fever victims has been opened in the campo South of the city, towards the Riachulea, the old pantheons being inadequate. A tram railroad also been laid from the city to this new necropolis, and the bodies are camed out on the trucks like so much packed freight. There is no time to construct coffins or burial cases. The stock on hand waa long since ex hausted, and the undertakers have in some instances fled from the terrible harvest of business that has sprung up. " About 150,000 persons have fled the city, some taking refuge in Mon-, tevideo and the towns up the river Parana, but by far the larger portion are in the campo, within a . distance of from ten to fifty miles from Buenos Ayres. Peasants and gauchos living in miserable mud-walled huts, with straw roofs, have been besieged with importunate tenants from among the wealth and aristocracy of the repub lic, and, in scores of cases, are receiv ing as much as $250 to $500 per month rent for their squalid abodes Familes 'who lived in superb sj^le two months ago are now cowering among the huts on the plains ancl sleeping on beds laid upon the floor or earth." A Alan Remarries His Wile Alter Twenty-Six Tears Separation. An Iowa paper, the Mount Pleas ant Journal, has this account of a ro mance : Twenty-six years ago the beautifu ?ty of Salem, as now, was peopled with some of the best families in Iowa Here resided the family of James McWhorter, and James and his wife were happy. After a while there jame the news of gold discoveries in California, and stories of how men iould find fortunes. James hearing ?bes? stories, decided to bid adieu to lis wife for a short time, fill his pock ets with the glittering metal ; and ;hen return to his Rebecca. The :arewell was said, and wife and hus band parted. McWhorter went to California. The letters came and vent as fast as Uncle Sam's carriers ;ould take them. As the novel-wri :er8 say, " time wore on apace ;" the .veeks walked off into months, and ;he months galloped into years, and, is the story comes to us. James Mc Whorter and his wife were separated Dy the Wilful malicious lying and nisrepresentation of evil doers. Word was soon sent back to the vi fe that her husband was the hus 3and of another. Letters ceased to io to and from ; the separation be jame apparently permanent, and vound up with a divorce. Mrs. Mc Whorter in time became Mrs. Abbott, ind after a time, her husband died, caving her a widow. Some two years igo a gentleman came from California, lirect from the place wh --re Mr. Mc Whorter resided, and he denied all he reports that had been circulated concerning that gentleman, report ing him to be an honorable and jpright man, doing well and prosper ,ng in worldly matters. After his return to California a reconciliation tvas commenced, letters bearing words )f love again commenced to pass to md fro, and on last Friday J.tmes McWhorter and Rebecca Abbott vver? igain joined in the holy bonds of wedlock. This is the story as it came to us. The discussion of the bill incorpo rating the Provinces of Alsace and Lorraine with Germany was the oc casion of'an important speech by Prince Bismarck in the German Parliament. Ho opened by declaring that, ten months ago, Germany de ?ired peace, and that, after the war was forced upon them, the Germans were determined to secure guarantees of a mote peaceful future. These guarantees must be territorial, for the [guarantees of foreign powers cannot help Germany. It was first proposed to make Alsace and Lorraine neutral territory, by whjoh Germany and France would be separated from the North Sea ' to the Swiss Alps. . In this way, said Bismarck, there waa ao possibility that Germany would attack France, for Germany respects treaties cf neutrality; but that would not prevent France from sending a fleet to attack Germany, and as the naval power of the latter is not equal to that of its adversary, Germany would be protected only so long. as these provinces observed thoir . neu trality, which would not be long in the case of Alsace. Therefore their absorption by Germany waa required. Bismarck closed by promising Alsace and Lorraine .the power of self-a.l I ministration, and hoped to overcom i ijh'e aversion of the "inhabitants " ]> . I means of Teutonio patience andlovc. '* | CT* He who Hyes by tho sword abai fi perish by the sword; and the party that thrives by the Ku-Klux shall perish by ] the Ku-Klux. Sumner said that Grant j i was the leader of the band. K Which is True? Take these facts: When Mr. Johnson waa President he sent General Grant .to examine into the feelings and condition of tlije Southern population. Grant came back and reported fiat everybody was quiet, that peace reigned supreme, and the laws were executed without obstruction ; that life was safe and the people disposed.to adapt them selves to the new conditions imposed upon them by the results of the war. Since then he has called for and obtained a bill to crush out outrages against the law, to subjugate the peo ple over again, to quell another revo lution and maintain peace in the Southern States. When did Grant tell the truth? To Johnson in his report, or to Con gress in his message ? He could enly tell the truth once on those two occa sions, and he had to tell a lie just as often, for his message is totally differ ent from his report. General Sher man, who in fact brought the war t? ;i close, by cutting off Johnston's ar my from Lee's assistance, and who by right should be thoroughly hated by the ex-rebels, has traveled through that country, rested in hot and dan gerous New Orleans, and no Ku-Klux Eas disturbed his slumbers or impeded bis progress, and has said so, going farther and denouncing the usurpe rions of Grant, and giving a flat con tradiction to the pleas for unlinked power in his message to Congress by which th? Ku-Klux bill was enacted. And the Southern hater, par excel lence, Mr. Greeley, has been flourish .ng in Texas, stopping at New Or leans, has been dined in'that city md feted at Galveston, and no raw- . lead and bloody b.ones has distressed lim by its presence, unless it was his )wn conscience, which is very likely, md he too proclaims that Grant's itatements are false. The people nust pause while they are paying ;axes right and left, and ask, why has General Grant made two such differ mt statements with' regard to the South? One or the other must be intrue ; both cannot be correct. The lubject involves the personal liberty >? all.-Pomeroy s (N. Y.) Democrat. Read! Read! -o The place to find something EURE ind GENUINE in the way of CHAMPAGNE WINES and BRANDIES, is at the Drug Store of MARKERT & CLISBY. If you wish PURE COGNAC 3RANDY for Medical purposes, go to * MARKERT & CLISBY'S. If you want a PURE ARTICLE of SHERRY or MADEIRA WINE, go . MARKERT & CLISBY'S. If you desire a good article of )LD JAMAICA RUM or HOLLAND HN call at the "Drug Store .of MARKERT & CLISBY. We will also state that we have a ew gallons ofthat GOOD OLD RYE .nd CORN still on hand. MARKERT & CLISBY. If you wish a superior article of SHERRY for Cooking purposes, very heap, call at the Drug Store of MARKERT & CLISBY. To gentleman who indulge in the uxury of Chewing and Smoking, we espectfully announce, (and,, do so oncientiously,) that we have, and re determined to keep on hand, the JEST brands of Chewing and Smok ng TOBACCO and SEGARS. MARKERT & CLISBY. Mar 15 tf 12 -m-, , . M. NEBLETT. I W. K. GOODRICH OottonGrin MANUFACTORY. rHE Undersigned respectfully an nounce to thc people of Edgefield nd adjoining Counties, that they are still ngaged in the manufacture of Cotton 61ns. >f thc well-known and highly approved ?GLESB Y ? PATTERN. MR. NEBLETT, who has fourteen ears' practical experience in making hose GINS, will gi .e his personal atten ion to the business, and wc feel confi iont of giving entire satisfaction to those ivoring us with their orders. EVERY GIN WARRANTED. Old Gins RENOVATED or REPAIR SD in the best manner. NEBLETT & (?G0DRICII, At Goodrich's Machine Works. . .???Cnpt. LEWIS JONES, of Edge icld, is our authorized Agent, and all or lers receivbd by him will meet with >rompt attention. May 2 . 5m 19 I. PARKER. B. H. TEAGUE. PARKER & TEAGUE, DENTISTS, ' EDGEFIELD, S. C. OFFICE next to Masonic Hall on West fide. Mar 15 f<m 12 JOHN BATJSKETT, Morney and Counsellor at Law, COLUMBIA, S. C., a WILL Practico in Edgofield, Lexington, Jarnwoll and Richland. Columbia, Mar 8 ly ll Peas ! Peas 100 BUSHELS PEAS-Speckled, Jlino p^id Red Ripper-now In Store, and [>:. sale at $1,40 per bushoL [ R. O. SAMS. May 31_tf 23 WANTED, A A YOUNG MAN as a Salesman in ?1 a First Class Clothing and Firnish ng Goods House. Must come reell re lommendedj and able to influenre a good rade. Good Salary given. Address " MKBCBTANT," Augusta, Ga. 23 ' lui 22 California Brandy. GALS. PURE OLD CALIFOR NIA BRANDY,-a superior article, and lighly commended for M?dicinal purpo jes. MARKERT & CLISBY/ May 17 tf 21