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MISOB TiTiANY A Grave-yard ?nd it* Contents. There lie levellers levelled, duns done up in themselves, There are booksellers finally laid on their shelves; Horizontally there lie upright politicians, Dos-a-dos with their patients sleep fault? less physicians; Thero arc "slave-drivers quietly whipped under ground, There book-biudcrs, done up in boards, are fast bound; There the babe that's unborn is supplied with a berth, There men without legs got their six feet of earth; There lawyers repose, each wrapt up in bis case, There seekers of office are sure of a place; There defendant and plaintiff are equally cast, There shoemakers quietly stick to their last; There brokers at length become silent as stocks, There stage-drivers sleep without quitting their box. Bill A rp Addresses Artemas Ward. ROME, GA., Sept. 1, 18G5. Mr. Artemus Ward, Shoicinan-Suit: The reesun I write to you in pertikler, are jbekaus you are about the only niau I know in all "God's country" so-called. For sum several weeks ? hav been wantin tu say sumtbin. For sum several years we rebs, so-called, but now late of said county deceased, have been tryin niity hard to do sum thin. "We didn't quite do it, and now its very painful, I assure you, to dry up all of a sudden and make out like we wasn't thar. My freud, I want to say sumthin. I suppose there is no law agin thinkin, but thinkin dont help me. It dont let down my thermometer. I must explode myself generally so as to feel better. You see I'm tryin to harmonize. I'm tryin to soften down my feelins. I'm indeavoling to subjugate myself to the level of sur rounclin circumstances, so-called. But I can't do it until I am allowed to say sumthin. I want to quar? rel with somebody and then make fronds. I aint no giant killer. I aint no Norwegian bar. I aint no boar-constrikter, but I'll be horn swaggled if the talkin and the wiitin and the slanderin has got to be all done on one side any longer. Sum of your folks have got to dry up or turu our folks loose. It's a blamed outrage, so-called. Aint your editors got nuthin else to do but to peck at ns, and squib at us, and crow over ns? Is every man what kan write a paragraf to consider us as bars in a cage, and be always a jobbin at us to hear us growl? Now you see, my freud, that's what's disharmonious, and do you jest tell em. one and all, e. pluribus un um, so-called, that if they don't stop it at once or timi us loose to say what we please, why we rebs, so-called, have unanimously and jointly anti severally resolved to-to to-think very hard of it-if not harder. That's the way to talk it. I aint agwine to commit myself. I know when to put on the brakes. I aint agwine to say all I think like Mr. Etheridge, or Mr. Adtlerrig, so-called. Nary time. No sir. But I'll jest tell you, Artemus, and you may tell it to your show. If we aint allowed to express our sentiments, we can take it out in kulin; and hatin runs heavy in my family sure. I hated a man so bad once that all the hair cum oft' my head, and the man drownd himself in a hog-waller that night. I kould do it agm, but you see I'm tryin to har? monize, to acquiesce, to bekuru kalin and screen. Now I suppose that, poetikally speakin, 1 ' lu Dixie's fall We sinned all." But talkin the Ava' I see. it, a big feller and a little feller, so-called, got into a fite, and they fout and font and fout a long time, and everybody all round kop holloriu hands off, but kep helpin the big feller, un till finally the little feller caved in and hollered enuf. He made a bully fite I tell you, Selah. Well, what did the big feller do? take him by the hand and help him up, and brush the dirt oh his clothes? Nary time! No, sir! But he kicked him arter he was down, and throwd mud on him, and drug him about and rubbed sand in his eyes, and now he's gwinc about liuntin up his poor little property. Wants to confiscate it, so called. Blame my jaket if it aint enuf to make your head swim. But Fm a good Union man-so called. I aint agwine to fito no more. / shan't vote for the next war. / aint no gunilla. I've done tuk thc oath, and I'm gwine to keep it, but as for my bein subjugated, and humhyated, and amalgamated, and enervated, as Mr. Chase says, it aint so-nary time. I aint ashamed of mithin neither aint repentin-aint axin for no one horse, short-w inded pardon. Nobody needn't be pinyin priest around me. I aint got no twenty thousand dollars. "Wish I had; I'd give it to these poor widers and orfins. I'd fatten my own numerous and interestin offspring in about two minits and a half. They shouldent eat roots and drink branch warter no longer. Poor, unfortunate things! to cum into this subloonary world at sich a time. Theres fotir or five of 'em that never saw a sirkus nor a monky show-never had a pocket-knife, nor a piece of cheese, nor a reesin. There is Bull Bun Arp, and Harper's Ferry Arp, and Chikahominy Arp that never seed the pikters in a 8pellin book. I tell you, my friend, we are the poorest people on the face of the earth-but we ar poor and proud. We made a bully fite, Selah! and the whole Amerikin nation ought to feel proud of it. It shows what Amerikins can do when they think they are imposed on-"so-called." Didn't our four farthers fite, bleed, and die about a little tax on tea, when not one in a thousand drunk it? Be kaus they snkseeded wasent it glory? But if they hadent I suppose it would have been treason, and the j would have been bowin and scrapin round King George for pardon. So it goes, Artemus, and to my mind, if the whole thing was stowed down, it would make about a half pint of hum? bug. We had good men, groat men, Christian men, who thought we was right, and many of 'em have gone to the undiskovercd country, and have got a pardon as is a pardon. When I die, I'm niity willin to risk myself under the shadow of their wings, whether the climate be hot or cold. So mote it be. Selah! Well, maybe I've said enuf. But I don't feel easy vit. I'm a good Union man, scrtin and shure. I've had my breeches died blue, and I've bot a blue bucket, and I very often feel blue, and about twice in a while I go to the doggery and git blue, and then I look up at the blue serulean heavens and sing the melankolly choryus of the Blue-tailed Fly. I'm doin my durndest to harmonize, and think I could succeed if it wasent for sum things. When I sec a black-guard goin around the streets with a gun on his shoulder, why right then, for a few minutes, I hate the whole Yanky nation. Jerusalem, how my blood biles! The institution that was hand? ed down to ias by tho heavenly king? dom of Massachusetts now put over us with powder and ball! Harmonize the devil! Ain't we human beings? Ain't we got eyes and ears and feelin and thinkin?* Why the whole of Afriky has come to town, women and children, and babies and baboons, and ail. A man can teil how fur it is to the city by the smell better than the mile-post. They won't work for us, and they won't work for them? selves, and they'll perish to death this winter as shore as the devil is a hog, so-adled. They are now baskin in the summer's sun, livin on roastin ears and freedom, with nary idee that the whiter will cum agin, or that castor oil and salts costs money. Sum ol' 'em, a hundred years old, are whinin around about gom to kawlidge. Th? truth is, my frend, sunibody's badly fooled about this bizness. Sumbodv has drawd the elefant in the lottery, and don't know what to do with him. He's jest throwin his snout about loose, and by-and-by he'l hurt sum body. These niggers will have to gc back to the plantations and work. 1 aint agoin to support nary one of 'em, and when you hear anybody say so, you tell'em "its abe," so-called, j golly, I ain't got nuthin to support myself on. We font ourselves out o] everything exceptin children and land, and I suppose the land are to be turned over to the niggers for grave yards. Well, my friend, I don't wane mach. I ain't ambitious, as I used to was. You all have got your shows and monkeys and sirkuses and brass bands and orgins, and can play on the pe trolyum and the harp of a thousand strings, and so on, but I've only gol one favor io ax of you. I want emil powder to kill a big yaller stump-tai dog that prowls round my premises al .^o-Vf Pnn fi rvrfyr T non't ?".bftftt ni mfrlll: X. un ?vu^., - -? O^v,.-- ... anything blue or black or mullater. Will you send it ? Are you and yotu foaks ?JO skeered ol' me and my foaks., that you wont lot us have any amy nishun ? Are the squirrels ami crow; and black rakoons to eat up our pooj little corn patches ? Are the wile turkeys to gobble all around us wi tl impunity ? If a mad-dog takes tin hiderfoby is the whole community te run itself to death to get out of th* way ? I golly ! It looks like you: pepul had all tuk the rebelfoby fo: good, and was never gwine to gi over it. See here, my friend, yoi must send me a little powder and i ticket to your show, and me and yoi will harmonize si'rtin. With these few remarks 1 think \ fcel better, and hope I haint m adi nobody fitin mad, for I'm not on tba line at this time. I am trooly your friend-all present or accounted for, BILL ARP, so-called. P. S. Old mau Harris -wanted to buy my fiddle the other day with Con fedrik money. He sed it would be good agiu. He says that Jim Funder buk told him, that "Warren's Jack seed a mun who had jest cuni from Virginny, and he sed a mau told his cousin Mandy that Lee had whiped 'em agin. Old Harris says that a fel? ler by the name of Mack. C. Million is coming over with a minion of men. But nevertheless, notwithstandin, somehow or somehow else, I'm dubns about the money. If you was me, Artemus, would you make the fiddle trade ? B. A. New York Advertisements. John W. Caldwell, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT, JfJaJ VV YORK.. THE undersigned, having established himself in the city of Now York, solicits from ide. friends orders for MERCHAN DIZE and consignments of COTTON, RICE and other produce. Particular attention will he pain to the purchase- and sale of Southern Securities, bank Bills, ??fcc. Oct 25 wf9* _JOHN VT. CALDWELL. BATCHELUfi'S HAIR BYE! THE Original and liest in the World: The only true and pei fact HAIR DYE. Harmless. Reliable and Instantaneous. Produces immediately a splendid Black or natural brown, without injuring the hair or skin. Remedies the ill effects of bad dyes. Sold by ah Druggists. The genuine is signed William A. Batchelor. Aiso. RE? GENERATING EXTRACT OF MILLE FLEURS, for Restoring and Boautifviii},' the Hair. CHARLES BATCHELOR," Oct 2? Iv_New York. ORNAMENTAL MIR, Curls, cBr^S, iiiqicrffjils, Qqnh, i?ias, ?f qlf ?Jic*s, &c, ' "IXTHOLESALE, at the lowest possible i Y V price of Importation, for Cash. W. R. CAMERON A Co.. i Importers of Hair and Manufacturers, No. 313 Fulton yt., Brooklyn, near New York. Large and small order? punctually at? tended to. Oct ?J? lino DEVLIN & CO., C L Oi?? fl 0 AT AND REIT Alli ! *\XTE open the season with a larga stock VV of elegant CLOTHING and FUR? NISHING GOODS in our Ready-made De? partment. Wc have also secured the ser? vices of lirst-class artists in our Custom Department, which is likewise supplied with the FINEST and BEST FABRICS of the Home and Foreign Markets. To those who wish to order bv mail, will be sent (on application) SAMPLES OF GOODS, with directions for measuring, which, if correctly followed, will seeure a tit in all cases. DEVLIN & CO.. Broadway, cor. Grand street, New York. Broadwav, cor. Warren street, New York. Sept 29 Imo FENNER, BENNETT & BOWMAN, (Suc'sors tollotehkiss, Fenner A Bennett,) OOM. MERGH?NTSt 40 VESEY STREET, KEW YORK, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. Tnos. FENNER, H. BENNETT, D. W. BOWMYN. "!\/fR. T. A. TOBIN, who was for a length -i-T-X. or time connected with tue oin timi of Hotchkiss, Fenner A Bennett, bas an inter? est in the present Arm, and will devote his attention principally to the State of South Carolina. His address will be Clinton, Laurens District._Oct 3 Imo LAWRENCE. BALDWIN & CO., BANKERS AXD BROKERS, NO. 70 WALL STREET, NEW YORK. COVEHNMENT SECURITIES AND other STOCKS, BONDS, Ac., bought a.id sold on commission. DEWITT C. LAWRENCE, member N. Y. Stock Exchange. 1IMEON BALDWiy, JR., *nember N. Y. Petroleum and Mining Board. CYRUS J. LAWKENCE. WM. A. HALSTED Sept 4 Cm y Burning G. ae Museum. LETTER FROM MR. BARNUM. NEW YOKE. July 14. 1865. MESSES. HERRING SC CO.-GENTLEMEN: Though thc destruction of the American Museum has proved a serions loss to my? self and the public. I am happy to verify the old aclare, that "lt's au il" wind that blows nobody good," and, consequently, congratulate you that your well known safes liave again demonstrated their supe? rior fire-proof qualities in an ordeal of un? usual severity. The safe you made for me some time ago was in the office of the Museum, ou the second floor, back part of the building, and in thc hottest of the lire. After twenty-four hotirs of trial, it was found among the debris, and on opening it this day has yielded up its contents m very good order-books, papers, policies of insurance, l ank bills, ah in condition for immediate usc and a noble commentary on the trustworthiness of Herring's Fire? proof Safe. Yours trulv, ' P. T. BARNUM. Herring's Patent Champion Safes. 27?? Most Reliable Protection from Fire now Known. HERRING A CO.'S PATENT BANKERS' SAFES, with Herring A: Floyd's Patent Crystalized Iron, thc Best security against a burglar's drill ever manufactured. HERRING & CO., No. 2~1 Broadway, cor. Murray street, New York. I FARREL, HERRING & CO., Philadelphia. Oct 2d th,io HERRING .t CO.. C hicago. To the Citizens of South Carolina. The termination of a sanguinary contest, which for the past four years has presented j.n impassable barrier to all social or com? mercial intercourse between tho two great sections of our country, having at length happily cleared away all obstacles to a re? noval of those relations which formerly bound us tog? tber in a fraternal union, I take tho earliest opportunity afforded me by this auspicious event, to greet my South? ern friends, and to solicit from them a re lewalof that extensive business connection rhich for a quarter of a century has been uninterrupted, save by Hie great public calamity to which I have adverted. It is scarcely necessary, on the threshold of a business re-union, I should repeat the warning so often given to my friends-to beware of all tho^o spurious and deleteri? ous compounds which, under thc specious and false titles cf Imported Wines, Bran? dies, Holland Gin. Liquors, &c., have been equally destructive to the health of our citizens as prejudicial to the interest*of the legitimate i;n port fer. Many years of my past life have boen expended in an open and candid attempt to expose these wholesale frauds; no time nor expenso has been spared ..o accomplish this salutary purpose, and to place before my friends and tho public generally, at the lowest possible market price, and in such quantities as might suit their convenienae, a trniy genuine imparted article. Twenty-five years' business transaction? with the large-t and most respectable ex? porting houses in Franeo and Great Britaiu have afforded me unsurpassed facilities for supplying our homo markot with Wises, Liquors and Liqueree of the host and most approved brands in Barop?, -.a addition to my ?vu distillery in Holland for the manu? facture of the "Schiedam Schnapps." .. The latter, so long tested and approved by the medical faculties of the United States, West Indies and South America as an invaluable Therapeutic, a whel?some. pleasant and perfectly safe beverage in ail climate? and during all seasons, quickly excited the cupidity of the homo manufac? turers and venders of a spurious article nuder the same came. I trust that I have, after mneh toil and expense, surrounded all my importations with safeguards and directions which, with ordinary circumspection, will insure their delivery, a; I i **cive them from Europe, to all ir>v customers. I would, however, roeommend, in all cases where it is possible, that orders be sent direct to my Depot, 22 Beaver stfcct, New YorV .-. ;v?t purchases bemad? of aiy accredited agents. In addition to a largo stock of Wines, Brandies, Ac., in wood, I have a consider? able supply of ?ld tried foreign Wises, em? bracing vintages of many past years, bot? tled np before the commencement of tho war, which I can especially recommend to all connoisseurs of these rare luxuries. In conclusion, I would specially call the attention r>f my Southern customers to the advantage to bo derived by transmitting their order.- without loss of time, or calling personally ;it the Depot, in order to insure the fulfillment of their favors i :om the pre? sent large and well selected assortment. UDOLPHO WOLFE, Oct 3 Imo 23 Beaver st., New York. [ESTAIU.ISUED ix 1818.] WS, SMITH BROWS & GO., WHOLESALE IJEALERS IX No. 53 Ch imbers St., New York. XT TM. SMITH BROWN will receive con VV signments of COTTON for sale on commission, and make cash advances on shipments. His arrangements are such as to insure faithful attention to the interest of the consigner. Sept 172rao (FORMJU?LY FOOT Je S CLAM ?I CM MS, ) WHOLESALE and BETAIL BEG W> inform the oitKens ef Columbia and the peupla of th* neighboring .onntry, that they are now recuring, and have recorred, a ?real, variety of Dry Goods AND GROCERIES Of all descriptions, suitable to ali season? and all manner of persons. They have, anion;,'many c.lier articles, fresh supplies of the fl illowing: GROCERIES. COFFEE, TEAS, (Green and Black. SUGAR, (white and brown. MOLASSES, (New Orkans. CHEESE, MACKEREL. CLARET WINE. CANDLES. Sperm, Tallow and Adam'ti Crackers, Wine, Soda, Sugar, Boston. Candies. Almonds. Brazil, Walnut and other Nuts. Soaps, Toilet, Castile, Fancy. Common. With every variety of Grocery. Copperas, Soda, ?lue Stone. Jfcc. Spices-Cloves, Cinnamon, Allspice, Gin? ger, Nutmegs, Ac. Shoe Blacking. Brashes, Curry Combs Horst- Brushes, Ac. Knives and Forks, Matches. Starch. Mustard. TOBACCO md CIGARS. Best SMOKING and CHEWGTOBACCO. Spanish and American CIGARS. Of Tobacco for chewing, the best Ander? son's, Solace and Honey Dew; all varieties. my S??BS For ?iadies. A fine variety, to which thc attention nf the ladies is particularly requested. Wc have a fine assortment of Bleached and Brown HOMESPUN. MOUSSEL1N DES LAINES. English and American PRINTS. Cambric, twilled and plain. Hoop Skirts, Corsets,Xongclotb. Calicoes, Worsteds, Coburg, etc.. suitable for fall and winter. Alpacas, black and colored. Comba and Brushes, Tooth Brashes. Perfumes of every varietv. Chalk Pearl Powder. Ladies'Shoes, Bootees and Ties of all de? scriptions and the latest fashions. Tuck Combs, Hair Nets, Waterfalls-all of the very last styles and patterns. Collars, Wristbands, Ribbons. Hosiery of all descriptions. Eugiish and Araencnn Glov?s of th prettiest style. Hem-stitched Handkerchiefs, Thimbles. Needles, Thread, spool, silk and cotton. Hooks and Eyes, "Veils. Ladies' Billet'and Letter Paper, ruled. Skirt Braid of all colors. Lastings, Whalebone. Belts and Belt Buckles and Ribbons. Pearl and other Buttons, fancy,dress and common. Scissors, Pins. Hair Pins, wire and gutta percha. Misses' and Children's Shoes. Round Combs, Wadding. Table-cloths. Ginghains, Lace and Trimmings. Working Cotton,Velvet Ribbon, Elastic do. Gentlemen's Variet's. Coats, (dress and frock,) Pants, Vests. Shirts of all descriptions, over and under. Flannel and Fancy Shirts. Drawers, lamb's wool and cotton. Hats, Stockings, Sock?*, Gloves-a great variety. Collars, linen and paper. Wristbands, Playing '.'ards. Fine Tooth and Pocket Combs. Buttons, for coat, pants, vests; Buckles for do.; Tooth Brushes. Boots and Shoes of all styles and the best qualities. Pocket and Neck Handkerchiefs, silk ana cotton; Neck-ties of thc latest styles. PocketBooks. Fancv Pipes-American Jleerschaum. Pocket Handkerchiefs, linen, silk and .otton; Hats; Fen and Pocket Kmvc - Razors and Razor Strops. Suspenders of all styles. Tobacco, French and English style. Shu t Bosoms, Boy's Shoes. 8H5?E.LLA?E0US, Best Kerosene Oil, Watch Keys, Taylor's Twist, Glass Chimnies, b< st Ink, Gm Caps, Tobacco Bags. Shoe Laces, Slate Pencils, Umbrellas, Children's Gloves and Hose, Violin and Guitar Strings, Lotter Paper ana Envelopes and a vast variety of other arti? cles, desirable to both sexes, which we have not thc space to enumerate. Apply at thc old stand, in Assembly street, to Sept ll SULZBACHER & CO. Cotton Wanted. THE highest prices paid for COTTON and for all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE. Farmers and country merchants will find it to their advantage to call and see. Sept ll " SULZBACHER i CO