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H BY E. H. MURRAY & CO. _ ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24. 1881. VOLUME XVII.-NO. 20. WHOLESALE nud RETAIL FURNITURE WAREROOMS. ays the Leader of Low Prices in Furniture in this State, W announces to the public U?athe ha? greatly enlarged Iii? Wardrooms. and ia rriubletl to carry Hie LAUGEST STOCK OE FURNITURE TH iqIN mirnv LESTON. I have on hand, and em still receiving S^tSStO^JSStS? .undturo of all dcacriptions, winch I guarantee to Nell rhrnncr (hun aye in stock OOO RcdHfeatlN of different kinds, and good Bedsteads ca-, be t from me, with Slats aiid Castors complete, at ?1.75 apiece, ami upward?. OOO ra and Rocking Chair*. Tho celebrated Rattan beat Chair, nicely painted 5 bought from me at 70c.. apiece. Fine Cane ?-?eat Chnlrs|at Bl .75 per ?et. Cun? ?u.i Cane Back Rocking Chairs at 91.80 apiece. 1O0 Ilureans. of all atvles (US, With arch standard, large frame and ?lasa, at 1V7.G0 and upwards ' RON of all styles and descriptions, from a Suite consisting of French Bedstead Bu pwiih arch standard and glass pl..??', four lane Heat Chairs, one Cane Hu?t' and Blocking Chair, one lowclend Washstand with Drawer and one Table at SIS SO fiMKO und evervthnm oise in nronnrtinn. Tin finley,, two doors and drawer s. Wash tresses, Par v arrltirrcH, mid everything kei.t in a lirst-class furniture Store. <jn hand a line lot of COF _ and CASKETS, from a ?to.OO Collin to the finest Glas-s Casket at C100 [almost lifetime experience, and buying for Cash, and from ti rat hand? enables me y that I CANNOT ANO WIM, NOT BE UNOER?O?D. yfS!?u& S DEPOT STREET. Come and yee me and he convinced ich 10, 1880 EMBODIED IN THE NEW REMINGTON SEWING MACHINE. (ts tensions are perfect, and do not vary with different rates of speed. HMBt does work nt u higher rute of speed than any other Shuttle Machine. rt has no springs in its tensions. Un tensions do not vary wheo using aneven thread. nmEgts needle is self-setting and .securely held in place hy a grooved clamp. mBt will not skip stitches. It will never break a needle with ordinary care. HMBt hus an accurate gauge by which to set a needle. Hit lins tho only perfect thread controller, making the "perfect lock etiteb." ?HHRt never "loops stitches on the work. [t sews over heavy seams with tho greatest case. BHtt will sew and feed work nt thc extreme edge in commencing, fflHSls stitch may he lengthened or shortened while running at its highest speed. BDHI hos a most convenient spooler. |gts shuttle is self-threading and carries a very large quantity of thread. BQfcs shuttle is carried in un adjustable rac?, ensuring accuracy without friction. Bits driving belt can be tightened instantly without cutting." Blt sews all grades of material with least change. SBTC|t never has "fits" and cannot get "out of onie.." BBJntR motions being positive, it cannot get "out of time." ?fit is most accurately adjusted in const, uction. Hts parts ure interchangeable, and cur be duplicated at a trifling ?oat. nSlts wearing parts are made of hardened steel. Bat has but few bearings, consequently hut little friction, t rims more lightly than any other Sewing Machine. Ht runs more quietly than any other Shuttle Machine. Hgt has uo "cog gear wheels" to run hard and noisy. Mt bas no "roller cams" to run slow and heavy. it has no "lever arms" to increase friction and wear. BHt is more conveniently arranged for oiling and cleaning. HRt requires but little oil, and will not gum up and run hard. BSBte tahle is lc wer, giving more perfect control over the work. Hts treadle motion being evenly balanced, will not fatigue the operator. Bjta feed can be more easily raised and lowered. BBt is more symmetrical in all its proportions. 'J attachments are moro easily adjusted. Rs bus a stop-motion for winding bobbin without removing tbs work. Hftt bas fewer parts than any other Machine. HBJta parts are BO adjusted that all wear may be taken up. ??t has superior woodwork to any other Machine. ? ALL MACHINES WARRANTED IN EVERY RESPECT. McCUIiLY & TAYLOR, lijontn for tho Nev/ Remington Sewing Machines, Attachments, Needles, Ac, ANDERSON, S. C. ?WE are also in the market with a large and well-selected stock of GENERAL IIANDIZE, comprising all the Goods needed by the average consumer of our These Goods have been selected at thc principal markets of the United States, low as the lowest, and we are fully prepared to compete with any house in the ntry. We are JiARGE CASH BUYERS OF COTTON, and are paying full 'or all grades of the staple. Barties indebted to us for SUPPLIES, GUANO, MACHINERY, or otherwise, hided to coll and settle their obligations, as it is our intention to bring nil out : claims to a settlcmeul. McCULLY & TAYLOB. 1881 IS ICE SALES AND SMALL PROFIT ). DESIRE to coll thc attention of our friends and customers TO OUR LARGE STOCK OF GOODS, consisting, in part, of a FULL LINE OF DRY GOODS, ?.bed and Brown Shirtings and Sheetings, Prints, Worsted Dress Goods, Jeans, Vircinia Cassimercs, Flannels, A SPLENDID lot o. BLANKETS, LADIES' CLOAKS, The best Shirts and best fitting. Call aud see them. A. FULL LI IVE OF HARDWARE. Carpets, RI itt s aud Rnge, tATS, CAPS, SADDLES AND BRIDLES. Shoes ariel Boots. ?ll particular attention to our "Bay Stato" Boots and Shoes, and T. Miles ic 80ns ad Shoes. We warrant every ; .ir. Give them a trial. CROCKERY, CHINA AND GLASSWARE. GROCERIES. ' . -, Coffee, Molasses, Bacon, Lard. The finest Tea in the market. Mackerel. A ?of Fancy Groceries. Oat Meal. Try our Roasted Coffee Wa keep the HIST ? that is made. ! Skins, Sol? Leather and Lining Skins, Woodenwars TruuliBj 1111 tl VttliBOH. i keep GOOD GOODS, and we desire to show them. We think we can aatisfy icea and Quality. Please give us a call before buying. A? [3, TOWERS & CO., No. 4 Granito How. IMPORTANT I It is important, that persons owing ES for GUANO and other SUPPLIES should i their Cotton und settle promptly. This ia important, as it will enable us to pay S owe. HaJko o note of tni*f ?nd remeuibor^it.0WgR8 A o B. CLARK & SONS, MERCHANT TAILORS, AND DEALERS IN KINDS OF GENTS FURNISHING GOODS. Jeairc to call the attention of thc public to tba feet that wo bava th* largaat stock ?f GeutlemenB1 Goods we ever had AND ARE SELLING THEH AT HARD TIME PRICES. ?ve a beautiful line of English Diagonals and Woratod Goods. Also, Broad 1 great variety. Our lino o> Foreign and Domestie Suitings and Pauta Goods I cquutlcd this sido of New York. _. _. .... . fully prepared to CUT AND MAKE UP CLOTHING in the very latest '^TVON AND UNDERWEAR DEPARTMENT, auch as Suspenders, Col 's, Neck Tiwi and Scarfs, Fiuo Dress Shirts, both lauudried and unlaundrieU, j, &c., is complete. ... . . . I-We have a largo and very pretty stock or Hats, of the very latest sty lea. READY MADE CLOTHING. fould ask all In soarcb of a Suit all ready made to bo sure to call and s^ oui I this lino baforo buying. You can buy a Suit at any pneo you waut. uv Mt* Bu great variety. ., , Wl larantee satisfaction in every instance, and will sell aa low as tho lowest. W* [WHAT WE SAY. ,IN THE CENTENNIAL BUILDING. 1UM LB THE BRIGHT SIDESOF CRIME. Visit tu a Couplet Vurtu Nour Charleston. iVctii and Courier. Since tlic adoption of thc plan ol util izing thc couvict labor of the State under authority of an Act of the General As sembly, there has been a general and continuing desire to know how tho con victa are hired out and how they are treated. Tho fact that convicts o*e leaned to railroud corporations, are usu j as farm bauds by the ?State, and are be ing hired out U3 phosphate band? is gen erally known, but a knowledge ol' tho revenue derived by tho State, aud tho condition and treatment of the convicts, ?B of necessity much more limited. A stair reporter or' the AVir* ami Courier, in order to make u personal examination of the mean? employed to insure the safety, health and reasonable comfort ol' such of tho convicts us are employed in dig ging phosphate rock, paid a visit a few , day? ago tr? tho stockade of Mr. lt. S. , Pringle, on Gregg's works, near thc Ash j ley River ubout twelve milos from the town of Summerville. Thc CONVICT CAMI', ! which is generally recognized as a model ; of ita kiud, aud has been highly com mended by the Superintendent'of the Penitentiary, is located on a high niuo ? ridge about live miles from the Aohley ; Kiver, the spot having been selected by t Dr. Trezevaut, tho late physician to tho ! Penitentiary, in view of its perfect i healthfulness. Tho camp was reached I by buggy from Summerville in about two hours aud a half and presented a pic ; tureaque appearance as first seen through 1 the trees, looking bright and clean with : its enow white buildings and fcuces. A j clo ,or viow of TUE STOCKADE i shows it to bc couBtructed very much ou '.lie plan adopted by tho frontier settlers as a means of defence against the Indians, ! with the difference that tho wall sur I rounding the building is built smooth on ? the inside to proveut the escape of the j iumales. The wall, or fence its it may be j called, is twelve feet high and encloses a square acre. There is one largo gato j which opens inwards and is securely i locked aud bolted. The top of the fence ! is covered with spikes. At each corner I of the square is a miniature tower, iu which is stationed n guurd, each guard from hi? position being able to command a certain portion of the inclosure. With in this Equare are located the buil lings for the Bleeping accommodation o? the convicts, a kitchen and mess hall, a guard-room and commissary. The slcep ?ug houses, three in number, aie built of heavy hewn timber, and measure thirty two feet long by eighteen feet wide. The interior is titted up with bunks three tiers high, which are supplied with com fortable straw mattresses and blaukets. As Boon as tho weather is cold e> Augh a I large etove with long pipes anniug through the building is to be i ;cted in each ouc of the sleeping-rooms, and the chinks between the logs in the side walls, which in summer are left open for the comfort of the convicts, will he closed to keep out the sharp winds of winter. The roof, which is shingled, forms a loft, j which has openings at the front for von ( tilation, aud thus affords a free passage ol ] air from the interior. Buckets of watet and private conveniences are kept for the accommodation cf the convicta during the wight. Each convict is. when bi enters the Penitentiary, shackled with nc iron ring around each ankle, from whicL two chm ns pass to a third, which is fas teued with a belt around the waist. It ii the custom with some of tho lessors o convicts to pass a long chain through i ring ut the back of each convict, and b\ locking this chain to the door ut night keep all the convicts chained together Mr. Pringle bus found th M unnecessary and utter the convicts eat jr the aleepiuj apartment uud the door is locked on tin outside with huge bolts, ?oey aro allowee perfect freedom of move x ont. This plai is found to conduce greu.ly to the he:.Ul of the men, and, as a closo night guan is kept, ibero is absolutely no chanco o escape. THE BLEEPING APARTMENTS are held together by iron rods, and a attempt to cut an exit would be the wor of many boura, even with ubundant tool Passing from these three buildings th next building for the use of the cou vie! is the mess hall and kitchen attacha The mess ball is 87 feet long by 20 fe* wide, aud contains twenty tables, eac capable of accommodating eight person The cooking, which is performed by t\v convict cooks, is done upon a lar?) stove, and is excellently done. Tho aaa cooks who prepare tho meals for tb convicts prepare the meals for tl guards, and there is no room to comptai of the style of tho cooking in either ii stance. TIIE MENU. The convicts are given three meals day. AL breakfast thfty ure givon coi bread, bacon and coffee. For din ni thoy get corn bread, bacon and one veg table, which is changed from time to tin to promoto health. On each Wednesdi and Saturday they are given rico ai fresh beef for dinner. At supper th? get corn bread aud molasses. Each mt gets a plug of tobacco every Sunda The head-cook ' a colored ufan nunn Peter Crawford, from Cheater, who February noxt will have served out G years of a term of seven years. He is well pleased with bia treatment at tl stockade that ho says with a broad gr that he is going to Blay where he is win his term is out as ho knows u good thii when he gets it. Thia man, however, near the flesh pots, and ia not a fair su ject to get an expression of opinion froi Others, who work every day in the min and uave no sinecure positions, were i torviowad, however, and their ?Internet will be giveu hereafter. TUE UOSl'ITAL is a departmont of the oncamprnc which is rightly considered of great ii portanco, and is provided with hoi medicine.;, a nurse and an apotbeca and ia visited each day by Dr. C. White, of Summerville, who is the ro{ lar physician employed. Aa soon ai man gets sick ho is sent to the bospi and ia placed immediately under t treatment of the phyaiciau. During 1 summer mouths, aud in fact up toa frc all tho men are given three grains quinine every night. It is a notowort tact, in view of tho recent discussions The News and Courier as to thc- eflicacy quiniuo aa a prophylactic, tha^t nineo 1 use lias been adopted by Mr. Pr.'u fever among the handa hos been very r, ' and when it has occurred boa been v , light, while among thc free laborers v sleep io their cabiiu and toko caro themselves fever is vtr> prevalent dur tho summer and fall. A striking ill trillion of this fact ia furnished by F cher Maddox, one of the men convie of burniug the Greenville Opera Hot : He was first, undor a commutation - sentence, placed iu tho Penitentiary, i WAS leased among others by Mr. Prin * AB long as he remained in the stock and was given quinine daily he kepi good health. When he was pardo and converted into a State's wttnes? returned to work as a free hand for Mr. (Jrflgg, and in a very ?hort lime waa taken down with fever and came near . losing his life. HOW THE CONVICT* A KI' HIKED. Having giveu au idea of the construe* ' j lion of the stockade and the means cm ? ployed to insure the safety and health of : the convictos, it may be well just here to ? tell in brief how the particular convicts I alluded to have been hired. Mr. Win. j Gregg, an everybody knows, is workiug one ol' the largest phosphate mines iu the I State and employs a very large number > pf hands. Mr. lt. S. Pringle has for ?ev : eral years past been connected with Mr. I Gregg in business. Finding that labor 1 j could nolbe procured sufficient to meet : the demand. Mr. Pringle alter several : months' labor succeeded in obtaining , j oue !i und red and twenty-live convicts '. i from the State under a lease for one year from February last. Mr. Pringle under : the leuHo pays ?10 apiece per month to ; 1 ? tho State for the convicts, and clothes ? them, feeds them, furnishes medical at ! tendance, medicines and guards them. Mr. Gregg, in turn, employs them from I ' iiim. Two out of the whole number have died, OMI of consumption and the : ? other of epilepsy, both chronic diseases, i ' Three have escaped, but the.?e escapes j , occurred shortly after the convicts were ! first obtained and before an full means had been provided to guard against es- j ' cape as are now in force. Mr. Pringle, i under the lease, givos a bond of $50,000 ! to the Slate for the safe-keeping of the ; 1 convicts. ; ] THE PRICE PA 11) I 1 tile State and the cost of taking care of j them really amounts to more than free 1 labor eau be produced for, the advantage 1 1 in the convict labor being, however, that ' it can be relied upon when it is needed. The testimony of all the gentlemen en- ! gaged in pbosbate digging goes to show that tho free laborers rarely work more ' than three days out of a week, having 110 ] ambition beyond making enough to keep them with a plcuty to eat. Tho main j 1 cost of keeping the convicts, next to their j food, is thc cost of guardiug them. Mr. Pringle employs .sixteen guards, all j young white men, under command of a captain, assisted by a sergeant. These 1 men all get salaries and arc lcd and j housed. THE LAW AS IT STANDS directs the board of Penitentiary Direc- I tors to lease out tho convicts to the high- < eat responsible bidder, whether within or 1 without the walls of the Penitentiary. I The phosphate industry bas as eau med 1 such gigantic proportions ns to render i the usual supply of labor inadequate to 1 meet the constancy ircreasiug demand, ] and as il ia not practici.olo to employ all ] the convicts within tho walls of the 1 Penitentiary, it will bo Reen f.t a glance 1 that there is, perhaps, no euiyloyment in < which they could be engaged that would 1 yield tho State a large net rovonuo, and 1 in the case of the convicts leased by Mr. 1 Pringle, they could not L>B treated more 1 humanely under tho circumstances. 1 They work ten hours u day, and are well '. clothed und fed, as above shown. Mr. 1 Pringle bus just obtained a largo lot of heavy clothiug, which will bj given out 1 as soon us the weather warrants it, togeth- 1 cr with wooden-aolcd and irou-soled 1 shoes for spadiug. THE CONVICTS go every morning from the atoekado to the rock nelda, which lie between tue Blockade and the washers, which aro Qvo miles off, on tho banks of the Ashley j River. Mr. Gregg expects to wash 1 22,000 tous of rock this year against 12,000 lons last year. Ho employa 470 hunda, 350 of whom are free laborera, and 120 the convicts leased to Mr. Priuglo. Among the convicts, who ure all negroes, are Rcveral Charleston negroes, convicted at different times for various oflTcneea. The familiar names of Seabrook Mill?, Deury Davunt, alias Vicky, Allon Brown, Jim Small?, appear on the roll, and they are all fat and hearty, and much moro comfortable than when they sought a livelihood by petty btoaliug about tho streets of Charleston. In couveraation with these men aud others, they ult said that while they had to do a squaro day's work, tliey had nothing to complain of so far aa their treutment was concerned. They all unid they were comfortably housed, and bad an abunuauco of good, healthy food. Many of them expressen tho intention of remaining ct Ibo sumo kind of work when their terms had ex pired. A NOVEL BIGHT. Thia account would bo incomplete with out a lino or two descriptive of tho ap pearance and treatineut of tho convicts on Sunday when they aro all kept within tho stockade. They aro first compelled to bathe freely ali over. They are thou givon clean underclothes, two mou being employed all tho timo in washing for tho encampment. Thoy are then given breakfast and aro ?illowed to amuse themselves as they seo Gt. There aro among the convicts Gvo duly commis sioned miuiaterd of tho Gospel, who hold service, preach Hermons and exhort their fellows to soek salvation with great unc tion. Last Sunday the Rev. Samuel Wright (convicted of grand larceny at Columbia a yoar ago) preached the ser mon from the text : "Go to the ant, thou iduggard." After service ho was called up by Mr. Priuglo aud asked what he had huon sent to the Peuitoutiary for, aud he replied "I was s'cused of cottou, sab." It wu a aubaequeutly sbowu that a sur prising number of them hud been "s'cused of cotton." lu tho evening a ? number of them bavi:'*? good voices aid some very good singing, and altogether ibey aeouieu as happy aud coutentcd os they could be. TUE VISIT ru ...e works was a very pleasant ono and established very clearly tho fact that con victa can be employed with probt to tho State, and at tho aamo timo bo treated not ouly humanely, but kiudly and com fortably. TUE LADY OE TUE WHITE 11OV?K WELL KNOWN IN EDGEITELD.-"Pres ?dent Arthur's maiden sister its to presid?; over the Wbito House. Mi.-:?J Arthur was beforo the war a teacher in the fam ily of Mrs. Tillman, the mother of Con gresbinan Tilmau of the Otb District." Wo iiud this item in tho Newborry Herald, and upon inquiry ascertain that it is true. Some twenty or twenty-Gvo years ago, it seems this Miss Arthur was a governess in thc family of Mrs. Sophio ; Tillman, and afterwards taught at Curry 1 tou. And certainly thia is a very striking i example of the ups and downs of human i life. A woman toiling in her youth in a ?Irang^ laud, and in ber mature year? i occupying tho highest social position in r all America. We do not know that any ; Mich ?iater of Presideut Arthur is to . preside in tho White HOUHC ; but if so . we would strongly advise our honored ' friends, Mrs. Swearengen and Mrs. . Simpson, sisters of Jtho Hon. G. D. Till? f man, to repair to Washington and renew I acquaintance with their old'preceptress. . Sho could 8ecuro them many advan J tages. And their own i.-.inds and i manuera would make them at homo in I Washington's highest and best circles. ) Edgefield Advertmr. KN (.LAM) AND THF. SOUTH. I.oulil-.i|f to the Southern Stitt?'? for Prom i?ins investment*. J. /.. Jennings in the Xetc Vor/; World, LONDON, October 27. A friend of mine, of much experience in Wrtll Street, wa? recently in London, aud while here lie was asked in what part of the United Stales he would bo disposed to look for good and promising investments. He answered at once, tho South and South weat. Those sections of tho country, he said, had Lng ben neg lected from many cause* ; the war had thrown them back many years ami tho exclusivo spirit of the Southern iie.iple had prevontod real progress and tho in flux of new capital. "ms neglect had fallen upou some of the moat rich and fertile teritory in thc United Staten, but according to my New York friend, this itato of affairs is likely to become as much a thing of the paid IIB thc war itself, and in the courso of n few years the South may bo as great a course of wealth to the whole nation ns ibo East or the West. It was. in fact, lo certain railroads running through tho South that ho recommended the person whom ho waa addressing (a London hanker) to turn his attention if ho wished 10 recommend investments likely lo prove profitable in the future. TUE DEVELOPMENT Ol* TUE SOUTH. Whether thia suggestion was a wise jue or not I cannot say, for 1 do not know very much about Southern rail ronda. Hut that tho South will uot 11 ways remain a hundred yea?-* behind the rest of tho Uuion may safely be taken for grauted. Tho lido of foreign ?migration will flow in that direction, so far as climatic conditions will permit, iud manufactures will take root and Hourish, nt least as well as they have 3vor doue in the Eastern States. " Expe riments like that for which Mr. T. Hughes ia responsible in Tennessee must necessarily do moro harm thau good, by jiving people an erroneous impression of tho couutry ami the conditions of life. Mr. Hughes is a well-meaning mau, but bo is also a very visionary and obstinate me, uot at all fitted to give advice on a matter requiring so much practical knowledgo und experience as that of founding n new settlement. The "Itug byltee" tire writing doleful letters home Lo tho newspapers and telling their countrymen not to think of trying their Fortunes in tho South. And yet, from thc very first, inauy of them were warned that .Mr. Hughes was about tho last man in the world whom it would bo safe- to adopt as a leader in an enterprise of this kind. Thoy thought he must necessarily know all about founding a settlement, because he had written a popular book, Lmi authors are by no menus wisest counsellors in tho practical uflaira of life, even when tho difficulties involved ire far less great than those which must necessarily surround tho formation of a new colony-for to nothing less thau that did Mr Hughes aspire. Tho fate of Rugby, however, will have uo offoct upon tho future fortunes of tho Southwest. It may, perhaps, reudor people more cautious of buying lund in a distant couutry without knowing anything nbout either the land or the seller thereof, but legitimato schemes of emigration will not be discouraged. There was consid erable speculation going on nt ono time here even in tho Ilugby lands, and some of tho original promoters are reported to have sold out early at a good profit. The fact is that stories about the great future before the South have reached this country in many forms during the last two ar three years, and they aroused iu a cousiderable eins? a strong desire lo cast in their lot with that future when ever they fouud a chance. There is plenty ot English money to be had for auv enterprise in tho United States which holds out a moderate pros pect of success, and aftor tho experience which English investors have had of Erie aud other railroads they are not in clined to fear that they would fare worse if they cast sonio of their bread on Southern waters. What would attract more attention than any other undertak ing is that which will inevitably be heard a good deal of by and by-tho es tablishment of cotton mills in thc most favorably .jituatod Stntes. Already, as I have underHooti, that industry is rap idly extending from tho East to tho West and South, and in course of timo not much cotton will be sent ovor tho Atlautic for manufacture. It wdll bo madu up on tho spot where it is grown, und the chief mart for cotton goods, as well as for raw cotton, will bo the United Slatea. This is certain to bc the course of even ta in that particular branch of commer 9, and capital enough will pour in when tho Southern people oro prepar ed to make good uso of it. People are always ready for something new, and it will be decidedly something new to hear of an industrious, activo, pushing sud thoroughly "reconstructed" South, That is the noxt "boom" which weare looking for. Tho old combitations of familiar names begin to lose their attractiveness -Vanderbilt, Gould, Keene, people have heard of long enough, and now it is: time for some new genius to appear upon thc. scene. It takes capital, however, to bring capital, and whoro that is to come from in tho South it is hard to conjec ture. Theso are matters on which you have far bettor meaus of gaining infor mation than anybody in Loudon, and 1 contout myself with pointing out the fact that public curiosity and expecta tion aro a good deal directed toward* the Southern States at this moment, apart altogether from the speculation in Confederate bonds which was started in eomo back room in tho city and which ia spoken well of in thc city article of yotii comtemporary, the World, und nowhere elso that I am awaro of. THE CONFEDERATE RON Its "ilOOM". You wil probably be surprised to find that tho writer of that article quotes you this week aa authority for the hnpp> tiding? that there is a fund of "a million of pounds sterling or so" still lying ir the Hank of England to the credit of tin "Confederates." No nusoiciou of tbi; Eldorudo waa previously entertained here, tho revival of the speculation in Confederate bonds having had nothing whatever tangible to support it-nothing but the assurance of some adroit old campaigners in the city th.ii tho "Amor icans" would bo suro to "make it righi eomo day or other." Lut now it ia nc < longer a case of building castles in tin I air. There is a million of pounds to bi scrambled for and tho adventurers of th? Stock Exchango would bo a miserably degenerate set if they could not get up t tolerably brisk scrambio for such a sun as that. In fact the city editor of you namesake has m.\do your million inti two, and ho sees the way perfectly clea to paying off ali bonds iu thc form of ai annuity at 4 per cent, for twenty years You havo "chaffed" thc buyers of Cou federate bonds, but even that trcatmen your contemporary accepts with thank fulnoss and regards it as a favor. "It i better," he says, "than flying Into a pas sion, and it places tho speculation ii Confederate bonds ou a footing of equal ?ty with tho muliitudo of Wall .?treet op orations." Thus you perceive that th smallest ?ign of r?cognition, even though it como in tlie form of it kick, will bi thankfully received anil gratefully nc? knowlcdgcd. In vain, however, will you search tho other London papers fur any notice whatever of this precious scheine. There was a time, n . doubt, when the leading dailies were in the mood to be lieve tn Confederate loans and to recom mend them to their reeders, especially at moments when United State* bonds were very buy in the market -the 'sixes," if 1 recollect aright, were not much above G5 or 70. Thal was the time when Mr. Peabody, as 1 have often heard him say, .?vas putting every shilling he could lay his hands upon in what was then culled, by way of distinction, the "Federar' loan, while most English {?copie, misled by their gifted advisers in (he press, were rushing into "Confederates." Mr. Pen body wa? no loser by his faith in his country, as we all know, and that the in ventors on tho other Hide were ?io gainers is equally notorious. PLAYING ox rrr.i.h- rnKnri.iTY. Hut they aro not satisfied - that is, tho persons who have como into pos>o-Mon of their bonds are not satisfied, for of course the original holders gave up their hopis and threw away theil worthless paper long ago. The persons who are r.ow talking about their "claims" are the curbstone brokers and their satellites, who bought Confederate bonds a' so much tho cartload ami are now try! :?_, to ncr Buade the publie to take them oil" their hands at a fancy j.rice. Kven if the original holder.-?, who actually put down their money to an amount at least bear ing some relation to the value inscribed upon the bonds, were now pressing their demands for repayment, no one would bo inclined to waste any .sympathy upou them. They chose to take a risk willi their eyes opon, and many (d' them sim ply went into the speculation by way, in sporting phrase, ol' backing up their opinions with their money. They lost and said nothing moro about it. Then for years no one beard any more about thu Confederate bonds, nor should wc bavo heard ol' them now but for tho tricks of sonic needy parasites of tho Stock Exchange, who think that if they make noise enough there will at least bu some discussion ot their claims, and that the "country parson" will then como forward with his liltlo hoard and buy the rubbish which they have prepared for him. Tho whole thing is simply an impudent utlcinpt on tho part of a gang ol'gamblers to impose upon tho public au attempt liltlo better, in some ol' its phases, than an arrant swindle, ''".o ringleaders are perfectly well a,varo that no one within thc United States could or would reeognizo tho Confederate loan, or any part ol'it, but they calc?lalo, anil rightly, that the bulk ol the publie may not bo so well informed, and that tho ?imple ones'will step forward with their accustomed docility to have their pockets picked. This anticipation may, perhaps, bo realized, especially ns no one hore secii'j disposed lo take tho trouble to warn the dupes against thc trap which has been sot for them. If, however, a million ol'pounds ir in the Hank ol' Eng land belonging to the Confederates, is not tho proper owner easily to bo found? Sir l'age Wood, when viee-churicellor,do ctded that the United States were legally the heirs of tho Coufederacy. In that cuse are they entitled to the money, sup posing it to exist? Confederate dobts have been disposed ol' by au amendment to the Constitution, but the clause does not say that money belonging to the ex tinct Coufederacy shall noverlie returned. If then the ulleged million is in the cof fers of the batik, what ia to prevent Mr. Lowell from stepping up to tho counter and asking for il ? " Religions Snobs." Il is easy to name them iu any com munity where ono denomination de cidedly predominates iu numbers, wealth and social influence. Commonly, how ever, it is social respectability alono that turns the scale. However numerous and strong otherwise a denomination may he, if its members are not among the leaders of "society," there will be desertions by those who must have that precious arti cle at whatever cost. We have known instances which really moved our pity people whose origin was of the humblest, whose occupations in early life had been hardly respectable in any sense, but who, having acquired wealth, were biruggling with au eagerness pitiable to witness to get up a lew rounds on the social ladder, sacrificing truth and stilling conscience in tho desperate effort. A change of church relationships is usually among tho curliest methods adopted, if it hap pens thal the form ol' religion already professed is not fashionable. And it is hard sometimes to conceal tho contempt with which ono listens to tho explana tions given of such changes, intended, all in vam, to hide tho real motive. It would bo a wholesome lesson for those aspiring changelings if they could know what is sometimes said of them by those to whom they have sought to attach themselves socially through the instru mentality of church fellowship. "Why evorybody knows she did it only to try to get into society." Just that was thc remark mude not long ago by a lady ol a fashionable congregation concerninjj another lady who had recently removed her membership to that body. We do not doubt that in some in stances persons are led by conscicntioui convictions to renounce one set ol' de nominational principles in favor ol' an other, and thc man or woman w ho wouhi not chauge at the bidding of conscience after diligent and prayerful effort to know the will of the Lord, is a moral cowurd Hut it ought to be well understood thai such changes are always regarded wit! suspicion, unless the character of Hu party, as one of steadfast, humble godlt ness, is so well known that tho purity o [ j thc motive cannot be questioned, lt i: I I undeniable that in the majority of case, where tLe change is from a less to a mon popular church thoso who remo/u an looked upon by those to whom they go as well as those whom they leave, a "religious snobs.''-Baptist Courier. - Dr. Wm. A. Hammond has ex pressed a very strong opinion regardim, cigarette smoking. Ile believes tba cigar smoking is beneficial to adults afte eating, or when the labors of the day ar over, but the use ol' tobacco iu any forti is highly injurious to young persona am women. Ile says parents should proven their boya from smoking cigaretts, whicl arc worse than cigars, aa the paper ab sorba the nicotine. Tho effects upo growing boya aro to destroy their appc titea, stunt their growth, injure thei voices and affecl their memory. - A Rockland mon saw advertised " ? sure cure for drunkenness." Ho foi . warded the necessary dollar, and soo J received, written on a valuable posh ; card, in beautiful violet ink, tho magi j words --"Don't Drink !" Tho Des Moines (Iowa) 77i- Wee/A j Tribune, says: "A Harrisburg, Pa.,jou; nal mentions that Mr. 1). Bensiuger, N< I 4 Market Square, that city was cured h ?St. Jacobs Oil of a violent attack i ; i rheumatism". T!n> Klse und Fall of V. J. Moses, .lr. ftvin f/ic Xcu> York '/Vine.-, lhere appeared recently in the Jener m Market Police Court, to answer lo the charge of obtaining money on false pretenses, a man who lind bold many offices in his day, from Judge to Governor >l a great. State, and who is now a beggar md a penniless vagabond. There was n time when he had control ol' almost Uti? limited ' eal tb, rolled in luxury and snorted with wantons and libertines with thc profuseness of an Eastern Prince. To day he has hardly n friend in the world, and, broken, gray and seedy, he ekes out a slender subsistence by his wits. If a novelist were to weave into a romance tho main incidents of the career of Franklin J. Moses, formerly Governor of South Carolina, people would say that his story was "sensational,'' but somewhat improbable. The life of Moses furnishes a capital example of tho ease with which a bold and reckless man may seize on power and pelf in times of political un settlement ami revolution. The period of reconstruction in the South was Moses' opportunity. His tall was the natural consequence of his ill-spent life, not of the end of the era in which he nourished. It wns said of Moses long ago, by one who knew him well, that "he was a nohlc licitrtcd man, with paralysis on the moral side." Exactly what constitutes a noble hearted man, however, is not cnsily de termined. As long as Moses bad money ho scattered it like chair. Hut that which he tossed about him with prodigal hands was not his own, and thc creatures who lived on his bounty never gave him credit for genuine generosity. So when tho day came when he, like one of old, "would fain have lilied his belly with tho husks the swim.' did eat," his fiuo weather friends had all forsaken him and lied. The man who made thc streets of tho capital of South Carolina resplendent with cosily equipages, jewels and goy unite, wa: brought down so low that be stole un overcoat from au ollieo into which he had gone on a pretended errand of business. Where were his boon com panions, the nu n whom ho had enriched, the favorites of his brief and brilliant career, when he was reduced and humil iated ? Horn ol'a good old Southern family of Jewish descent, and gifted with rare per sona! and mental qualities, Moses might have made for himself a name of which South Carolina would have been proud. The rapidity with which he ran thc wholo gamut of ordinary ambition proved Iiis native genius. At tho close of the war, although he had thrown himself heart and soul into tho Confederate cause, ho saw, as but few others did, that tho leader ol' the newly enfranchised freedmen was sure of power; aud he took up their cause with an enthusiasm that seemed almost reul. His sagacity mid audacity weru rewarded. Speaker of tho Assembly bo engaged in a career of corruption, bribery and robbery which had no par allel in this country, lio "mndo no bones" of his rascally intentions. If he wanted money, howes, or any species of property, he demanded these of tho men who sued for his influence in tho passage of bills in which they .vero interested, ile procured the enuc.ment of a law which gave him, as Speaker, unlimited power to draw upon tho Stale Treasury, and from that day his warrants, taking precedence of all other demands, were plentiful as the leaves of tho forest. Ho owned a money mill. Having issued nearly two millions of1 dollars in "pay certificates," as Speaker, it was obvious that Governor Moses would rule the State with all tho profli gacy and extravagance that he had shown in his influential position. There was almost no limit to thc man's recklessness. Ho seemed utterly devoid of moral sense. He levied toll on every public and private legislative measure "with money ir, it" which required his signa ture. It is a mutter of record, for ex ample, thal a valid claim of $100,000, held by a banking company against thu State, could not be paid until $25,000 was banded over to Moses, He involved one of his underlings, Humbert, in a scheme by which the State was plundered of $20.000, mid what seemed to be a grand lurccuy was attempted against the State, and when her otlicers went to ar rest bia Excellency they found him en trenched in his palace, guarded by tho Stale militia. He gave away pardons like holiday baubles. Pimps, blacklegs, criminals of every complexion, were pardoned by telegraph, by letter, by verbal orders to jailors, and with a free dom which promised immunity to crime so long as the offender owned in Moses a friend. A spendthrift, Moses laid up nothing for ibo proverbial "rainy day." Ho ran his brief career, and, in two or three years, out of power, out of place, and out of money, he drifted to New York. His lifo in South Carolina, after ho had emerged from tho rebellion, was crowded full of exciting episodes. Ho lived a lifo of debauchery, intrigue aud sensuous excitement, iio schemed and plauned, but ho never built for tho future. While il lasted tho golden stream that flowed I I through his hands was royally speut. i While he had the opportunity he schemed j.! to some purpose, and his plans for gain ; ' ing possession of "the potentialities of j great wealth" by unlawful means were ' . admirably laid. Hut tho end came ut j last. His term of office expired. His chancea 1 ! for gain were gone and he had saved ' j none of his plunder. He had contorted ? willi lewd persons and his own wifo and I family were forced t;; shake him on". Tho downhill road is rapidly traveled. Thc brilliant South Carolinian, the curled darling of fair women and tho successful adventurer, has come down from a Governor's chair to skirmish with vulgar thieves and imposters. Under au nssumeil uamo, tho ox-Governor of South Carolina flits in and out of the Police Courts. No need to point the moral of his sorrowful tale. - One of tho surgeons who attended tho late President is quoted as saying that neither ho nor his associates ever thought of sending a bill to Mrs. Gar field for services rendered. "If Congress appropriates money to pay us," said he, "we shall bo glad, but wo shall never ask Mrs. Garfield for a dollar." This is sound seuso, and the people will sustain Congress in paying tho physicians gen erously. - Judge E. St. Julien Cox, of the Minnesota Supreme Court, is to be im peached for drunkenness, making a broad farce of justice by going on specs with criminals who are to bo bo tried before bim. One of Cox's most flagrant acts was to force the acquittal of a handsome and unquestionably guilty woman, and afterwards to take board in her house. - A man turned ?up in Troy whe claims to bo the father of forty-four ch i I dren, and to have had .eight wives. Hil name is John Pasco, and he nvors thal he is ninety-nine years of ago. Anybody can catch a cold now. Thc trouble is to let go, like the man whe caught the bear. We advise our rcaden to keep a bottle of Dr. Hull's Oougti Syrup handy. KILLI:? WITH AN AX, <% Terrible Crime Committed In K.ltirrl County. Elberton .Yew South, lu that portion of Goosepond district, Oglethorpe^county, lying near Broad river, on Monday night of last week, there ?vas a ?celie too horrible to depict, and certainly,fearful enough to freer.e thc blond of the beholder. There and then a bloody decd^was douera soul sent unbid den before his maker, und the body partly burnell to ashes. Last year a man named Dunsen, hailing from Harmony Grove, became [ti tenant of .lohn Eber hail's in this section nf Oglethorpe. Ile stayed thc year out and titi? year became a tenant of Jaque Kber heart, bul ns the crop progressed he sold out to Wesley kidd, and induced him to move into the house with his family. There bndjbeen some improper intimacy between Mrs. Kidd and Dun son, reports which had reached Dunson's wife and when the Kidd family moved in she left and.it isjtuppnsed, went back to Jackson county. After staying around here some lime Dunsen went off-to Macon it is said-and had been in thc neighborhood bul a short time when thc unfortunate affair occurred. It is reported he had been on a spree and had not sobered off when, on Monday evening he called at Kidd's. One account ia that Dunsen mel Mrs. Kidd in her garden and told her ho wanted her to sell out and go to Macon, and that sho would not consent ; that abe went into the house and he followed her, Kidd beingipresent, and lhere ho continued to abuse her, and finally atrtick her, and striking at her a second lime, hit the child which'she had taken ; she then left tho house to go to ber father in-law's house, about a mile distant. Another accountgives mi quarrel between Dunson and Mra. Kidd, and that Kidd told his wife to go to his father's. If quarrel lhere wns, however, and blows given, Kidd heard the one and Baw the other without resenting either. Both accounts agree that when Mrs Kidd waa about '2U0 yards from the house abo turned and saw Kidd and Dunaon quiet ly Hitting down nnd facing each other, p.nd that waa the last look she was ever to lake of Dunson. Between ? and 10 o'clock at night a fire appeared in the direction of the house occupied by Kidd, and Eberhurt waa the fust to reach it and find tho housu nearly const .med, and could sec the head of a man protruding from what appeared to be burning bea ding. And this was the condition of affairs until the next dny when the heal hud ao far died out as to permit an inves tigation. Thia investigation developed a human body, lying under bedding which had burnt lo a crisp, the mass of half-burnt bedding protecting the breast from being destroyed by tho consuming clement, but the lei/a, arms and head, being oxpoaed to the li?mes, were almost burnt to ashes. Cloao examination developed tho fact that the mau had been killed. The lick of an ax was discovered un tho left side of tho bead, just above tho eye, and I another blow with the blade ol' thc ax, the point falling just above the root of the teeth of shu upper jaw in front, several teeth being cut out (found on tho ground by tho skull), and cutting oil'a portion of the lower jaw. Lying on tho body waa discovered t?l.G5 in specie, knife and mem orandum book, tho contenta of the latter real i II g thc fact that this was all there was of the human body of poor Dunson. The coroner'? jury rendered a verdict that deccaaed carno to bia death by vio lence at the hands of Wesley Kidd. Some difficulty was had in sec*. *i lg in terment for tho remain?, but a gentle man finally volunteered to perform tho act, and a hole was dug, the body rolled up iu a quilt and tossed in the bole, and thus the ritei; of Christian burial were giv en ! It was thought a Itt'lo singular that although all tho people in tho neighbor hood turned out to tho fire, not a mem ber of the elder Kidd's family put in an appearance, although they lived as near nu most of those who were there. Wesley Kidd waa not nt the scene of tho burning and had disappeared from the neighbor hood. On Friday lust he put in us ap Eouranee, however, and admits that he illcd Dunson, and gives hi? vernon of the affair. Ho reiterates the account given of thc scene between Dunson and bia wife; that ho abused her because sim would not consent to go to Macon ; that he (Kidd) did uot r?sout Dunson's con duct because bc was atraid of him. Ho then states that after Mra. Kidd left the liouse Dunson followed her awhile and then commenced raving about tho room; then began to throw tho bedclothing in thc lire ; that bo then told Dunaou ho must behave himself or leave the house ; that Dunaon made an impertinent reply, whereupon he seized an ax and hit him on thc head with it. Tho first blow was followed quickly by a second. Tho blows of the ax had knocked tho mau under the bed, but he saw that he had killed him and became so frightened ho did not kuow what to do, so ho ran away. He was now ready to give him self up. Suppose thc lira was the result of tho burning bedquills, which was partly thrown in tho fire by Dunson, some of tho eucla or corners reaching out to the floor. How craven the man who permits an other lo insult and abuse his wife and strike her and her babe, without resent ment, and ia then rouaed to murderous indignation at thc burning of a bcd quilt ! WAY DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE.-Dan Emmett, tho old time negro minstrel-, who was in Augusta last week with Leav<lt's show, is still a good performer. He ia the author of "Way Down South in Dixie," which was first a "walk round" chorus, written in 1859 for Bryant's Minstrels, then at Mechanic's Hall Broadway. Emmett lately said lo n Ctn cinnti Enquirer reporter : "I wish I was in Dixie was a northern circus expr?s . sion, aud not a Southern one, as many have supposed. I bad traveled a great many years with circuses in my younger days, aud thc South was then considered all that portion of the country below Mason and Dixon's line, called for short "Dixie" by sbowmeu. In tho early fall of the year, when the frost would some times overtake a south bound circus still in tho North, the boys would think of tho genial warmth of the section they weie nonding for, and many'a lb 3 time on such an occasion have I heard them say, "Well, I wish I was in Dixie's land ' now." It was this that gave rae the "catch lino" for my song. Two years afterward the war broke out, and Em mett's air, which bad become popular in 1 the South, was made the representative 1 tune of Southerner. Tho author says tba j work has paid him about .fSOO. - The idea of chloroforming a dog ? and stowing him away in a bureau draw . cr to prevent his giving an alarm is lbs i latest device of the Chicago burglar, t Tho same enterprising person then pro ceeded to chloroform a whole family and robbed tho bouso at his leisure. i It is useless to groan with rheumatism i when a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil will cur? i it, as everybody knows.- G>lumbut ( Ohio) Daily Times,