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i-"i- 'i i- ? ta /af. MOM .?. li \i .' !?) ?l.l'.l'>l"ll"l,' l,|^,l|>l<t,'?.l>o,?l"il'4,Mu'l|llllMlll..'l.'.H<l|l BY D. R.MRISOE. ..p..M.......,...u??.?..M.."..v.,n^.,........'.......^.........??u,n,*?,w^~*>~?**<~^>T*n>'**^ ."fy*.?...?..........?...?..........,............ EDGEFIELD, S. OKTOBER 16. 1873. ."".."."...,"....,...^"..?...?..M..,.^,....W...^..,..^.H.?...'"..Junjn^Jurmmntnm VOLUME HXVni.-No. 4 AUGUSTA, GA., ,? "Desires to announce to the people of Edgefield that he has returned from New York, and is now in possession of an un surpassed Kaili & Wint er * Stock, Bought during the late Gold and Bankrupt Panic, at Greatly Advantageous Prices. Amongst other Novelties in the Dress Goods Department ' will be found d?i*4 **a? ? -Jmi. ." i SERGE CLOTHS, DUCHESS CLOTHS, SATINES, SERGE CASHMERES, In all the Latest Styles and Colorings for Ladies' Suits. .And Redingotes. Ottaman Velour SHAWLS and SCARFS at fabulously low prices. And English Walking CLOAKS and JACKETS of the latest modes. In FANCY GOODS, I have everything New and Desirable, and in NOTIONS, a Mammoth Stock to select from. EiT* Country Store Keepers will find more things io do them good, and that will Sell Fast, than can be had elsewhere. So don't fail to examine. EIP An Immense Stock of DOMESTICS always on hand at Factory Prices. JAMES W. TTJ3LEY, Third House Above Globe Hotel, AUGUSTA, GA. Sept. 24, 3m 40 H. S. JORDAN'S CLOTHING AND HAT HOUSE, 238 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.; IS again filled to its utmost capacity with the LATEST STYLES and FABRICS, from a'Jeans Suit to the finest Cloths and Diagonals, of the very best material and workmanship, which cannot be surpassed. A splen did Stock of . .A -ii-* Furnishing Goods, of the Best Quality. Persons wishing anything in.the way of Mens', Youths', or Boys' Cloth ing, Hats or Ca; s, will do well to give him a call. Prices guaranteed satis factory1. '1 ' Thanking my Edgefield friends for favors in the past, I respectfully so licit a continuation of their liberal patronage. Mr, H?ETON H. JORDAN is now with me, and asks a call from hio friends,-and he will give them fits. Augusta, Ga., Oct. 1, om 41 W. I. DELPH & CO., ?J fi .... -TM lr. - - x<| Ut . V-.-,v: 324 Broad St.* Augusta, Qa.. -DEALERS IN COOKINGSTOVES Heating Stoves, Hardware* Tinware, Woodware, And Finishing Goods Generally. r '<*fhey have in Stock th? justly celebrated !'. to .' li COTTON PLANT" COOKING STOVE Manufactured by Abendrc-th Brothers, New York City. It is a first-class, '?^ciare-top four-hole Stove ; the Oven- is large, the joints are filed and fitted With great care and exactness; the beauty of its finish cannot be surpassed. THEY HAVE THE " BARLEY SHEAF," Manufactured hf Stuart, Peterson & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., This is also a first-class', four hole square-top Stove, with a large Oven, Doors tin-lined. Their stock of Prem:um or Step Stoves in complete. Each Stove seut out is warranted to give perfect satisfaction. They manufacture Tinware in all it-s varieties. Wholesale orders solicited. Job Work done with<neatness and dispatch. All Goods, ?old at reasonable price?. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 24 W. I. DELPH & CO. Opposite Planters Hotel, 324 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. 3 m 40 Bi. T. J. TEAGUE, DRUGGIST, " JOHNSTON'S DEPOT, S. C. ^ HAVING just opened a Drng Slore at this place, I take this method ''.^informing my friends and the public generally that I now have iu Store . ?a f?ll line of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, . ' GLASS, PUTTY, KEROSENE OIL, Tobacco. Segara, In fact everything usnally kept in a Drug Store,-all new and warranted \^jgenmne. My prices are aa low as such Goods can be sold in any market m the ^quantity.- T. J. TEAGUE. Johnston ? Depot. F.t 19 _ly ? ?j 1IIIIH I' "_ -.--'^-- - '-- -? uTtiose Who Suffer with Headache and Deranged Liver v MAY be relieved hy calling at the Drug ?rore of G. L PENN & SON, snit purchasing a Bo* of No.37. Warranted to cu ?e. No HI rp. no pay. PrU,-25 cte . G. L, PENN & SON. Aog2B tf . 36 EXECUTORS' SALE BY Virtue of an order of the Hon. D. L. Turner, Judge of Probate, we will offer for sale at Edgefield C. H.. on the first Monday in November next, the undivided interest of Bailey Corley, de ceased, (being one moiety of the same,) in the following Tracts of Land, situate in Edgefield County : ' Tract No. 1, containing 108 Acres, more or less, bounded by lands belong ing to the Estate of the late Major John H. Hughes, dec'd., and L. Corley. Tract No. 2, lying on Log and Dunn Creeks, bounded by lands of Messrs. Samuel Hughes, Robert Hngfies, L. Har ting and others, containing 397 Acres, more or less. i, On the following day we will expose for sale on the premises of the deceased, ALL OP THE PERSONALTY belong ing to said Estate. Terms of Sale of Real Estate, one-third Cash ; balance in twelve months, with interest from day of sale, secured by bond and mortgage of the premises ; and Cash as to the personalty. Purchasers to pay for titles, <fcc L. CORLEY, # BAILEY CORLEY, . Ex'ors Estate Bailey Corley, dec'd. Oct S it 42 SAL? OF RRHIRDSOWILIE PLANTATION. UNITED STATES OP AMERICA, SOUTH CAROLINA DISTRICT.-IN THE CIRCUIT COURT. UNDER and by virtue of the orders made in a certain cause pending in said Court, entitled the Unitea States vs. Jno. Frazer & Co, the undersigned will sell at Edgeiield CH, on Monday, the 3rd day of November, 1873, at 12 o'clock, M , all that PLANTATION OR TRACT OF LAND, situate lying and being in Edgefield County, cn both sides of Red Bank Creek, waters of the Saluda R'ver, known as RICHARDSON VILLE, con taining 1501 Acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of J??imes M. Richard son, Mrs. Mary B. Jolinson, Jame? R. Hill, Ira Crouiloy/and others, reserving thefamily graveyard and onecer? around the same. TERMS-One third Cash, payable on the first day of January, 1874, with in terest from the day of sale, at the rate ol' seven per cent, per annum. Balance on a credit of one and two years, to be se cured by bond of the purchaser, card ing interest from the day of sale at the rate of seven per cent., and payable in one and two vears, and a mortgage of the premires. .Thc purchaser will be let into posses sion immediately after the sale, but titles will not be made until the payment of | the cash portion of thu purchase money, and the execution ol' the bond and mort gage for the balance. Purchaser to pay Referee for papers. SAMUEL LORD, Referee. ^ir*The Augusta Daily Constitution' dlist will copy twicea week, and the New - berry Herald weekly until day of sale and forward bill to Samuel Lord, Referee, Charleston, S. C. Oct 7, 4t 42 Land Sale. CANEBRAKE, or the DEARING PLANTATION, situat? " ; T Itt?o Saluda River, Edgefield Cou' ing 1200 or 1300 acres, uplar toms, best quality. A Magui? dence, and other improvemen] The said Lands will be sok tation, or in lots to suit pun Edgefield CH, on the first ytlTUIlHjl! 1U.I? .>4w TERMS.-One-third cash ; the bi on ono, and two years time. Note. interest from date, with Mortgs; premises for security. L. CHARLTON, Ag Ridge, S. C., Oct. 1, Ot 41 INSURE AGAINST FIRE! DELA YS AHE DANGEROUS! Incorporated, 1859. Capital and Asset ts, Over $600,000. 'THE Georgia Home Insurance Com pany insures property against loss by fire at the National anti State Board rates. The "Georgia Home" is agood and re liable Company-pays all losses prompt ly-and is worthy of the confidence and patronage of the people of Edgefield. Call on the undersigned and secure a Policy on your Dwelling, Furniture, and Merchandize. Insure nt once! O. lt. OL'? I so E. Agent. Mr. J. H. HUI ET, at Batesville, and Mr. SAM. C. CARTLEDGE, at Ridsre Spring, br Mr. ELIJAH REESE, will furnish Applications ?md give all neces sary information to partie* wishing to insure in the "Georgia Home." Call on them. Sept. 24, 3m 40 J.J.Pearce, D.E.Butler, rhos.A.Pearce J, J. PEARCE, BUTLER k CO Cotton Factors AND Commission Merchants, Jackson Street, AUGUSTA, GEOIi&JA. BAGGING, TIES and FAMILY SUP PLIES furnished customers. Commission for Selling Cotton, II per cent. Aug 26 3m 88 Notice I APPLICATION will bo made at next Session of the Sontb Carolina Leg islature, to create a new Judicial and Election County, from that portion ol' Edgefield known ss the Saluda Regi ment. MANY CITIZENS. Aug. 25, 1873., 8m 8? lYOTirE IS hereby given that application will be made by the citizens of Johnston's Depot, for an Act of incorporation for said Village, at the next Session of the Legislature. MANY CITIZENS. July Iff 8m 30 Notice to Planters >UY your BAGGING and ARROW TIES at Augusta prices. I will guar antee the prices to be as cheap "as in Au gusta. 5000 yds. METHEWAN BAGGING, 2$ lbs. to the yard, at 174 cts. 300 Bundles ARROW TIES at 10 cte. per lb. ' O. F. CHEATHAM. Ang 2Q ,_ tf_35 State of South Carolina EDGEFIELD COUNTY. NOTICE is hereby given that the un dersigned will make application to the Judge of the Probate Court for Edge field County, oh Thursday, the 20th of November next, for a Final Discharge as an Executor of tho last will and testa ment of Zedekiah Watkins, dec'd. S. T. EDWARDS, Ona of the Executors. Oct?, lt 42 A LOAFER'S SOLILOQUY. Seth Grimes and I were classmates once, And I was rich and be was poor ; I had; alas, it was my bane, The wealth a father left in store. ' Seth toiled at morn, and noon, and night, Until his hands were hard and brown, Topay his hoard and tailor's bills, While I was lounging round the town, But mostly in the dry-goods store, To see the pretty girls come in, Or smoking with my jolly peers, Who were the fools of auld lang syne. The village belles looked proud and fierce If Seth made e'en the least advance ; And none from Inez down to Poll, Would be his partner at the dance. But L half drunk with sparkling port, Waltzed with the direst of the fair ; And high-born Inez's proud papa Oiice asked what my intentions were. Thus stood Seth Grimes and I at school, And yet on exhibition day, Although the ladies praiser! rae much, He somehow bore the prize away. In brief, through long and weary nights, He stored his mind with knowledge rare, And I-learned how to guzzle wino, And how to pick a good cigar. Some three and thirty years have passed Since we on life's great sea set sail ; And lo, the beam is sadly turned In fortune's strange, uneven scale. My vaunted wealth has taken wings And flown away to parts unknown; Indeed-with sorrow be it said I'm on the poor list of the town. While Seth who toiled to pay his way, Until his hands were hard and brown, Is now receiving his reward As Senator at Washington. Falling from the Clouds. WAFELLO, IA., September 26. The managers of the Agricultural Fair, now being held at this place, extensively advertised an extraneous attraction in two balloon ascensions by' Professor J. H. Bo ley, the original date for the first. being the 24th. The professor was a practical aeronaut, living at Aledo, 111., but spend ing the summer months each year.in mak ing ascensions at We3tern State and coun ty fairs. On the appointed day a heavy rain enforced a postponement, but yester day was bright and clear, and arrange ments for the event proceeded under the eyes of a vast attendance. The balloon used was not filled with gas, but was a large Mongolfier, consisting of A BAU FOP. HOLDING HOT AIR,' to which was attached by ropes a light trapeze. These balloons are regarded by aeronauts as extremely dangerous, because of their aptitude for catching fire or mak ing rapid descents when the air in the bag cools too suddenly. None but reckless operators use them. A wind sprang up in the afternoon and threatened to neces sitate another adjournment, bat at 4 o'clock it had so nearly subsided that, unwilling to disappoint the spectators, Boley pre namd to mak< . ~ T,,?i folds of THE BALLOON WAS OX FIRE. It had caught from the ilame used to in flate it, and the rush upward through the air had the effect of a tremendous draft, sending the jets of lire down the ropes which held the trapeze. The doomed man instantly saw his peril, but could do noth ing. Hot air balloons are not furnished with valves, or with any apparatus for regulating their flight. They rise until th? air within them cools, and then drop more or less rapidly, the Bpeed depending upon the state of the outside atmosphere. Boley was not more than three hundred feet from the ground when the flames were discovered, und thc breeze was car rying him to the northeast. The heat of the flames seemed to send the balloon higher with increasing rapidity, until an altitude of not less than twelve hundred feet was reached. To avoid falling while performing his usual gymnastic feats on the trapeze, he had attached a strap from his belt to the bar. Upou first discover ing THE TERRIBLE PLIGHT he had apparently tried to disengage him self from this, intending, probably to drop to thc ground ; but before he had got him self loose from the strap, the balloon had reached such a height that a fall would have been moie certain death than to cling to the balloon. Meantime, the bal loon was being rapidly consumed. One of the ropes from which the trapeze was suspended burned off, but Boley still held on. Then the other gave way, and he tell. He struggled impotently at first in his frightful descent, but kept a nearly erect position. Then he turned on his side, but a piece of the burning canvass still hanging to the piece of rope, and presenting a sort-of resistance to the at mosphere, he was straightened up again as he clung to it. Although he struck more than a half mile away from the starting place, the spectators, now breathlessly si lent,.distinctly heard the ?-bud as his body struck the ground. A stampede to the spot ensued, which waa joined in by the aeronanut's wife, who had been a horrified witness of the ascension and its end. The body was found DRIVEN TO THE KNEES in the ground, having struck squarely on the feet, then falling forwards on its face. The leg bones were broken off and driven into the body, and scarcely a bone of any kind remained unfractured. The body was like a mass of jelly, so terribie had been the concussion. Several men who reached the spot immediately after the fall, having followed the course of the balloon on horseback, say that no signs of life were then visible. Mrs. Boley started for home this morning with the body. Too BAD.-An old lady as far down the decline of life us seventy-nine, like people generally about that age, was con stantly worrying herself about something or other. She lost her spectacles on one occasion. These were replaced by anew pair out of ^hich one of the glasses soon tollowed the former missing pair. While the latter were being repaired, the other pair were found. Finally both pairs cam? home, and her indulgent son, on the same day, presented her with a pair of gold spectacles. On receiving the whole three pairs of specs in good-looking order, the old lady, m a subdued voice, exclaimed with a long-drawn sigh, " Oh dear 1 what have I got to worry myself about now ?" A Hard-shell Baptist minister over in Indiana, who mai ried a fortnight after his wife's death, made the following satisfac tory explanation in the pulpit the Sunday following : " I searched the Scriptures from Ginisees to Riverlations and found plenty of promises to the widder, but nary one to the widderer.'; And BO I took it that the good Lord didn't waste sympathy on a man when it was in his power to. com-1 fort himself, and havinga first-rate chanco to marry in the Lord, 1 did so, and would do so again. Besides, brethren, I consid er that poor Patsy was just as dead as she ever would ba." i* Taxes ! Taxes ! 'The Missouri Cat the Tax Question, jg But Taxes !" s aroused on out manly ilks and truthfully, after [Caucasian style, as follows. His is tl ed tax-payer weari posed upon him, an substance month ai after year to th? so? bers in office-on hibits a determinatioi of the oppress the burden im, of giving his ion th and year [thieves and rob lo already ex long to resist ; with his strong rightfand trusty mus ket the' uneudurab mands of the oppr all come'to the same sions, the tax com day grow more ex plunder and robbery This year it is sai a tax of Twenty-fiv the dollar. Can we tice to those who ar for bread and rai1 dastardly submit to extortion? Or alu td constant de And until we but just conchi ta: will day by in their base e people, will have to pav 'hirty Mills on this tax in jus endent. upon us And shall we crowning act of ? like men who know our rights andre maintain them, strike defiantly am " Honest Governnu the Thieves and Usi Read the followil Caucasian,-and will for an Down with r .tracts from the ill think with us that it is high timejthe outraged tax payer to be burniBn"'^' his armor : All over the lan<pu|f Maine to Mexi co, from Florida tiimesota, from the codfishy shores ofjstychusetts to the golden vals of Ca??iaZ hear the groan ing and the moanipf a people crushed beneath their goviental burdens. On every band, at er tiirn, from every hillside, plain am?eyf-.hear the sigh ing and the wailirj-oni long, vast, uni versal note of ? vfone} bitter, endless, heaven piercing c ?f. national lamenta tion. .' TAXES ! XES? NOTHINU %JUT TAXES !" A tax ;hei>oor mau has the right to labor-T cajj it a license, or a poll. A tax on tooli? with which the poor man labors tey ??call it manufuc tur?is' tax. A onjftbe poor man's hard earned pitts-TSey call it income j tax. A tax on (7 b*K that out of the ' scanty remnant iis webly-taxed earn ings, the' poor rn; mys!to eat. A tax on every rag he 3 toivrear. A tax on everything he si tand| or lies upon. A tax on everything touches, tastes, sees, smells.or handle "om-jibe lace cap his babels christen n, .-tithe bed he dies on, and the .>hroand(jbox he's buried in. He^pays fea taj^s-He pays state taxes. He payspnty^|axes. He pays city taxes. He ls rcvanue taxes. He pays dirt-road pays railroad ""ool "tuxes, ile He pays poll taxes. He paysiire pays nigger soho taxi taxes, and in macase^ jets kicked from the polls. He ya omet taxes. He pays indirect tax * iiLwi'i' * i i n rrl i n r m08t llOlTlUle Cl USUUC Ol rouueij aim mt der, that ever befouled the face of Got beautiful earth, with fratricidal, nigg_ freeing blood !-$150,000,000 a year, ; gold;-$12,500,00U, every month;-& ?8-1,(315. every v ,-ek :-$412,088, every di -$17,170, every hour;-|28G tn gold et ry minute;-in rain and iu sunshine, sickness and health, in prosperity ai adversity;-wrung from the toil-harden hands of honest industry, and cast in the remorseless treasury-maw of the " bc government the sun ever shone on," pay the interest on a debt of blood ai outlawry, perjury, .thievery, fraud ai riotry ! Two hundred and eighty-six d( lars. m. gold, every minute !-Hear "oliuk ! clank!'' as ir, falls into the sw< len and ever-swelling chests ol' yank plunderers and usurpera ! "Clink ! clank Gold! gold! It tells a tale of ruthless e; tortion and dastardly submission-of rit ous revelry and soul crushing poverty of insolent lordlings and cowering ser " Clink! .clank !" There goes the widow mite, the poor man's dole, the orphai penny. " Clink ! clank f* That's the te of the sewing-woman, the righ of tl fatherless, the groan of the destitu? coined into gleaming gold, and gone swell the annual, tribute of a subjugat ?eople, to their MASTERS ! Taxes ! Taxe limitless taxes !-To elevate niggers, ai trample down white men ! Thank God ! the tax-gatherei's visi are doing what logic, eloquence, prayei entreaties and expostulations have alffai ed to accomplish ; and the scales, big blacking-box-lids or donkey-ears, have last, at Tong, long last, begun to fall fro the eyes of the toiling, hard bande sweaty browed masses. The fanners, fro ocean to ooean and from the great lak to the gulf, are handing together to swei away the dominion of pick-pockets ai pirates. They've begun to see the giga tic iniquity, which is crushing their ve souls out through their ragged trousei seats. And knowing this, is it strang that the ruffianly fanatics and pillagers yankeedoodletlidledom, and the oath-bom Conspirators of thc Capitol, whenev finances and reform are mentioned, sriun like a nest of vitriol-sprinkled vipers? it strange that they are ever skulking ai dodging the Tariff bills, the Funding bil and the innumerable . Infernal Rtven bills, which their villainy has render necessary ? Not a bit of it. Iankcedon weakest spot is its Treasury? Their fes are well-founded. On, on, ye robber fattened hellions ! On with tlie dance, revelers in a nation's miseries! ( with your deviltries. ? * ? - * * Pass your bills taxing white men to fi nish spelling-books, ballots, arms and < fices, to three million? of stench-persp ing niggers. (United States muskets a' cartridge-boxes distributed to three coi panies of nigger militia in South Carolir lust week) Koli on ! Roll on ! Ric Squander ! Feast ! Steal ! Ravish !-Wh you may! But ah! there is an end to au atrocities-There is a limit to even Ami icah dastardliness, submissiveness, slavis ness-Somewhere-Sometime ! THE TI PLE-the long-suffering, patient, but o KiPOTENT PEOPLE-the - laboring men, t farmers, mechanics, merchants and ar sans, the hod carriers, donkey-drivers a editors ; the one legged, defrauded soldie the men who till the soil, build' tho cit and do thc fighting-will ore.long, ral ing around the glorious banner of " STA SOVEREIGNTY, WHITE SUPREMACY, A: A UNIVERSAL OVERTHEOW OF USURPE AND THIEVES," sweep you, and all ye nigger exalting, state-destroyiug, boc holder-enriching, poor-whi<e-man-beggi ing-and-crushing deviltries, back-pay gre and credit niob-oMiars, to- a. figurati hell, as endless and -bottomless as the 1 eral'perdition, to; which, if there is a justice in the Universe, ten thousand your loyal-i&simest leaders, your bright exemplars, your sublimest chieftains, i inevitably bound ! He's a fool who doul it ! THE PEOPLE ABE MoyiNor! _i 'ion . ty Laziness ia a good deal like mon -the more a wan has of it the more South Carolina Monument Association. The Board of Directors of the South Carolina Monument Association desire again to bring before the people of the State the work in which they are engaged. They have bought and paid for a most eligible site in Columbia for the erection of the monument-that commanding em inence so well known as " Taylor's Hill," and have entered into a contract with an artist in Louisville, Kentucky, for the construction of the monument ; the granite to be furnished from our own State quar ry, and the marble from the famous quar ries of Carrara, Italy, where the marble part of the work will be executed. In April, 1874, the corner-stone of the mon ument will be laid, and then the Board will feel that a large part of their labor bf love has been accomplished. There re mains, however, $6,000 more to be raised before ?he work can be completed, and it is earnestly hoped that this sum will soon be made up, and this last tribute paid to our honored dead and the principles for which they died. The women of South Carolina, who have assumed this sacred task, do not feel that this work conflicts in any way with the duty they owe to the widows and orphans of our fallen heroes; indeed, the Monument Association is, in a great measure, composed of these bereaved ones, and there is scarcely one member to whom the Southern cause is not doubly sacred from its having cost her the life blood of her dearest and best. While, therefore, they feel it a proud privilege to assist, the widow and orphan of the Con federate soldier, they know that this is a privilege, in its very nature transitory, and they would, in the enduring granite and marble, place on record, before com ing generations, their undying fidelity to the principles of South Carolina, in "her best days, and their gratitude to the men who died to maintain them. Confidently, then, the Board of Directors appeal to the women of the State to rally once more to their aid, $200 from each District will give them the required sum. Surely, for this small sum, they will not appeal in vain. The ladies of Columbia will again open a bazaar, during the fair, in that portion of the fair building allotted to them bv the courtesy of the officers of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Association. Contributions of any kind will be gratefully received, and may be sent to either ot the following Board of Directors : Mrs. William Wallace, "Mrs. John T. Darby, Mrs. William Martin, Mrs. W. H Gibbes, Mrs. J. L. Reynolds, Mrs. Geo. Howe, Mrs. John Fisher, Mrs. John McKenzie, Miss Stark, Miss LaBorde, Mrs. C. MacFie, Mrs. W. K. Bachman, Mrs. John Walks, Mrs. Samuel Fair, Mrs. R. C. Beck, Mrs. Alphonse Dargan, Mrs. Coleman Walker, Mrs. B. E. Levy, Miss Hampton, Miss Wade, Miss Martin. The Strong Platform of the New I'ork Democracy.. UTICA, N. Y., October 2. The Democratic State Convention met at ten o'clock this morning, when the committee on resolutions submitted the platform as follows : il as at ni ii, m es IS n ry rs ;e. of id er ra Is ad ls, ue ed j's ira y ir jf ir rid n ia, ?t! ile rh ?T in ic ie he ti mi rs; ?es ly rs ND fas iur td ir ibs ve it> ny of est ire hts i's that the Customhouse ?CV?? ?f gol from low, and, therefore, produeti in duties on a lew articles, not from big 2.. and, therefore, less productive duties i ?vv two thousand articles. We demand a r ?e'. turn to specie payments, and that the pc in icy of paper inflation, protective tari If ai url government subsidies shall be abandon ed to the half-civilized nations and ages to which it is a relic, because it plunders t' ?st farmers of the United States both in tl to income and outgo ; it converts our foreij id commerce into an unsafe speculation, ai id our domestic trade into a game of chane ,1- it breeds extravagance in our homes, ai dishonesty in public and private trusts ; fosters corrupt combinations o? section interest, and it is the prime cause of tl late financial dis;isters. We point tl country to the true remedy in the tri? and historical principles ol' the old Dem eratic party, applicable throughout to oi National, ?tate and municipal life, wbi< limit and localize most jealously the po< ors entrusted lo public'servants; whi< eiifwrce honesty and frugality ii; public ai private uliiiirs ; which piv*rib? equal ta. ation lor alb and u currency as good ; gold, ami we hold om to tho farmers the United States the righthaiul of hean fellowship in their just resistance to tl exactions of monopolists, and their ju demands for these great reforms. Jiesulced, That those wn 'tie vestutl 1 our laws with the appropri?t! ?iud e: penditurn of the public money,. Md I subjected to the same restrictions am. ~ej ulations that are imposed upon tia; ta. payers and collectors, who should, in lil manner, be required to keep such accoun of their business affairs as are demand? of merchants end manufacturers, so th; an examination of their books and tran actions will show any frauds and corni] lion in their official business ; that lin shall take and subscribe to official oath at proper periods, that they have not any way been unlawfully benefited I their official action. Resolved, That we recognize in the Li eral Republicans worthy coadjutors, ai we cordially invite them to unite with i in our effort to restore a pure governmei in our State and Federal administration. The resolutions were unanimously adop ed. The convention then proceeded nominate a State ticket, and after consi erable discussion of the other candidat Deideych Wilmers, Jr., of Seneca, w nominated for secretary of State ; Thom Rains, a Liberal Republican and the pre ent incumbent, was nominated for Sta treasurer; Sylvans H. Sweet, for Sta engineer; Ash ur P. Nicholls received t nomination for comptroller. The nomin tion for attorney-general was next in c der, and Daniel Pratt was selected. Jam Jackson was nominated for canal coiutni sioner. The nomination of Rains, a Li eral Republican, for treasurer was greet with great applause. Geo. W. Millsuauj received the nomination foe Slate I'risi inspector, thus completing tho ticket. A LABOK RATTLESNAKH.-A rattl snake two foot in circumference, six ft long, and with eighteen rattles, was kil ed tho latter part of last week, on Jud| J. M. Roberts' place uear Warrento Thirty-six small snakes from eightei to twenty inches long, crawled from tl body ol' the dead reptile.-Chronicle Sentinel. That story settles the big snake que tion-and the Albany News snake mi might aa well subside at once. "Til feet in circumference I" W-h-e-w ! If all the railroads in the United Stat had been built and paid for by tho se tiona ten miles wide through which th passed, and the first cost had boon aun the increaso in tho valu? of the lai would bo doublejhe loss. It is not what people eat, but what th digest, that makes them strong, lt not what they Rain, but what ?hey nai j that makes them rich. It is not wi they read, but what they remember, tl >ey makes them learned. It is not what'th he profe?s, but what they practice, tl makes them righteous. .': I ?iVU'?H'-f ;.t)i/:.l i For the Advertiser. Lines in memory of DAVID YANCEY HAMILTON, infant child of Mr W. M. and Mrs. CHAKLOTTM HAMILTON, who died the 28th July last, aged throe years, three months and three days. Decked in bright robes of spotless white, And in the land where there's no night, Verging the pure crystal stream, Is our dear little Yancey now. Dear ma and pa he sweetly sings, You know my voice with music rings; As round the Savior's throne I fly, Not hid from His all-seeing ?ye. Come, O come, to this happy landy Emmanuel here in glory stands ; You know He's ready to impart, Holy Rest to the pure in heart. A river whose pure waters shine, More than supplies this soul of mine ; It is a stream that noes impart, Life, health and strength to every heart. The Savior hero doth reign supreme, Over all His own precious ones ; Nor would they leave this blest'abodo. A FRIEND. A Life Insurance Company Busted. At St. Louis, Mo., on the 7th, the State Superintendent of Insurance tiled a po tition in the Circuit Court asking for an injunction to restrain the St. Louis Mu tual Life Insurance Company from trans actingany further business, and espe cially from issuing new policies, reinsur iug any of its risks or paying out any money whatever. Tho petition further asks for the appointment of a Receiver and a decree- dissolving the Company and winding up its affairs. The petition is bas^d upon the fact, as the Superin tendent alleges, that an examination of the affairs ol' the Company discloses its liabilities to exceed its assets by ?904,955 exclusivo of tho $ln?,000 capital stock. Tho writ of injunction was granted. Brevities and Levities. %3r The lady who tapped her husband gently with her fan at a party the other night and said, "Love, it's growing late, I think wc had better go home," is the same one who after getting home shook the rolling-pin under his nose and said, "you infernal old scoundrel you, if you over look at that mean, nasty, calico laced, mackerel-eyed thing again that you looked at to-night, I'll bust your head wide open.'' L?f*" A Detroit woman called upon a family in that city the other day, and in troducing herself began a conversation. Suddenly she was taken dreadfully ill. yhe said that she had no money and could not go to tho hospital, aud they would have to keop Uer through a runxtf fever. They gave her $3 to crawl out and try to reach the hospital ; alter which she re I covered with astonishing rapidity and bought a new blue sash. ve 311 e A 3d eil ot be ie 5? id e; ld il al ie ne id o ur di tn ili id le tts of ty ie ts Hi lt S [) >y iu jy b id us nt l to d es as as !S ?0 tte lie a ir es ta b ed ?" ^Eff It is not enough that you are pra ed by the good ; you have failed son where in your duty if you are not curs by tito bad. ??r- There is a "strike*' among t Doctors in one of the Swiss Cantons. T people are exceedingly rejoiced, and last accounts all of them were in perft health. /CSf " You havo played tho deuce wi my heart," said a gentleman to a lat who was his partner in a social game whist at au evening party. ''Well,'.' i plied thc lady, with anarch smile, ' was because yon played the knave." USP It ia singular what a little ihii will put a man out. A Jersey? City la1 y er "was making a high-flown speech t other doy, telling about angels' teat weeping willows, nnd Silent tomb stout when His Honor said: "C lue ?yo remarks to the dog-tight cn "hula' vcr s:st down, .r-?C?- The proprietor o' jewelry establishment' eonlly hy an hidivh' know if ?ie oui'1 engraved on hi.. .-lt ease. jsf?~ A, well known authoress gives as a secret of domestic felicity that a hu band should be absent from homo least six hours even' day. Then wi .-itch a mw if he chooses to select tl time to suit himself-say in thc eveniu .?i?" "The verb to love," says a wick French writer, "is au' active verb whit runs until it sinks exhausted into ll easy chair of matrimony." ? A YOUNO GU:]. SCALPED ALIVE. While Amelia il runnel, a young girl, w working last week in a shing?e mill Oshkosh, Wis., under a shaft which w going at thc rate of 200 revolutions .[ minute, her hair, which was very lor caught in the knuckle joint, and iii an i ?taut it was torn entirely ?rom her hes taking with it all the llcsh and muscles her head. " From a line," says a local j. pr-, " drawn around from each eyebro lier skull was lett white and bare, witho a trace of blood or flesh. The slrangi part of the accident is that she felt lu or no pain, declaring that when it was I ins torn oil" all that she realized was tickling sensation in her head. She cool walked out of the room and waited \ tiently for a buggy to take her hon Her only regret was the fright it wou give her mother. The. scalp, with its bea tiful long locks of hair, was curled a entwined around the shaft at the joii and when tho mill was stopped, it w taken down, but no one had suflicio presence pr mind to place it noun li head. It is hearty perfect, and the dc tors have determined to tan it with t hair on, so that if thc girl recovers, it nv bc used as a wig. The case is one of t most remarkable on record." Galosburg, lil., has fortified the i nown which she retained in former yea as a ** Blaok Abolition Hole." She nc rofuses to admit colored children to li public schools. She refused last Frid to lend the colored citizens an Americ flag to carry in the procession. Ont same day a respectado colored man i tempted to procure a cup of tea or cofi there, but he was repulsed from three four restaurants and eating-houses account of his color. The Montgomery Slate Journal rejoi over the completion in its city of a A sonic Temple costing- $100,000. It ia thing of beau tv and uspfolness, no dou But suppose the $100,000 had been t, vested in a cotton factory, says the ( . ! lumyus Sun, wherein , would tho invfl ?y ? nient have fallen short, either as a < penser of benevolence or a promoter the prosperity of the city ? , >t.i.- ttfuitft .-fe--;-.;* *\/.;'. - , CAJ^JL. AT 220 Broad St., Augusta, Ga., MERCHANT TAILOR, And Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Pine Heady Made Clothing, lien's Furnishing Good?, t ; HOSIERY, G-LOVES, UNDERWEAR, &c., And Examine his . IMMENSE VARIETY OF FINE GOODS, AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES, Which are now ready for the Present and Coining Season, Uni ?Yalicd in Every Particular! Witb increased facilities, and a determination not to ba under sold, enables bim to guarantee prices as low at all times as can be obtained in i anv City North or South. WEDDING ?UITS OF HIS OWN MAKE, AND ENTIRE OUT FITvS always on band, and made to order, in the late?t and most fashiona ble s:yles. Bout Forget 22? Broad Street Augusta, <*a. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 24 ' 2m 40 ? ""Ipi E. BENSON, 229 Broad Street, Opposite Masonic Rall, HAVING received his FALL AND WINTER GOODS, and secured the services o. a FIRST CLASS CUTTER from New York, he is fully pre pared to compete with any House in the South. With many thanks to the people of j-Jdgefield for their liberal patronago heretofore extended to the old firm of Whitman & Beuson, he,, as their successor, earnestly solicite a continuance of the same. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 24 -3m 40 . S. HOWARD, JR., W:TH ;s, PMaizy & Co., Wholesale Grrocers -AND KGIT?? IB, 1S ic Cd he he at jct th ?ly of Bacon, Corn, Flour, Molasses, Sugar, Coffee, Wines, Liquors, Segars, Tobacco, Bagging, Ties, Pickles, Can Goods, fica, ALWAYS j ON HAND. JBSr'Orth-rs receive prompt attention. W. g. IfiOWARW, Jr. Augusta, Sept 2 3m. 87 BOOTS,. SHOES AND HATS, -FOR THE H Fall & Winter Trade. as in ns teri 'g. n t?i, on a w, ut .st ile >e a Hy >a ie. lld li nd nt. ir v li aro now receiving I'roui i- i RST li N DS .mi Fall and Winter Stock or 1 . ' ?? . BOOTS, SHOES, im AND TRUNKS, Which we u'il!jS<'!l to the Trade at MAKYELGl SLY LOW I?K!CE^! Our Stock is the LARGEST that hus ever been offered in this Market, .iml to the Wholesale Trade we are determined that Ko 2ioil?c IVorlli Shall ?nclers? ll ns. Our Retail Department Is supplied with a full line of the BEST PHILADELPHIA and BALTI MORE GOODS, , . Made to Our Own Order and Warranted to Give Satisfaction Prices in this Department ?ire always As L.OH* as the Lowest. GAIiL?HER & MULHERIN, 280 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA. Augusta, Aug 27 . 3m 36 3E3E? 33 3R. JA. 1ST iO 1?9 BOOTS, SHOES, HATS. Trunks and Umbrellas, s 222 Broad St-, Opposite National Bank; < Augusta, Ga. Sept 24 , . -, 3m 40 ces ia i a ht. inj Jo st US of JONES, NORRIS & CO., -DEALERS IN Groceries and Plantation Supplies, 164 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. O?R friends in Edgefield County, and the public generally are respectfully invited fn give'us a call.- We are prepared to offer First ilass Ar ticles at as LOW Prices as can be found in-the market, w Thanks for'the liberal patronage-hcretofore bestowed, and* assurances of satisfaction in the future, to all who give ns their trade. . .Augusta, Aug 27 ?> 3m , 86