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GO L UMBI A, S. G. j
Tues lay Morning, April 20. 1869.
The War Clo?*
Mr. Sumner's speech, iq;'executive ses?
sion on the 13th instant, is undoubtedly a
fair exhibit of tho losses the . Government
has sustained by the depredations of tho
Alabama, fitted out to prey upon the com?
merce of the United States in British wa?
ters. Mr. Sumner argues that tho damago
done ought to bo mot by Great Britain, and
states distinctly that the failure to do so is
properly ouusus belli^ _ And yob Mr. Sum?
ner j?akes no stand io favor of open rup?
ture 'r VI know it is sometimes said that war
betwoon us must come sooner or later. I
do not believe it. But if it must como, let
it come later, and then I nm sore it will
never come."
Whether this is a diplomatic declaration
of wat or not moy b? apparent to the men?
tal optios of a Chairman of the t'Committee
on Foreign Relations." It is not certainly
clear to tho vulgar vision. A mercantile
solution to. this problem is ?asily reached bj
counting tho cost of collection against tho
amount due. The question of a foreign
war between two great powers is not to bo
settled by obscure passages in senatorial
rhetoric, nor to be decided by overstrained
diplomacy.
Before wo talk war oponly, let us resolve
and prepare quietly. It is not yet quite
admitted "that the war flings of our pub
Hoists are tho "incarnate wisdom" of the
whole country. On the contrary, thevo is a
large class of American citizens who, in'tho
present situation of affairs, can ill-afford
the increased burthens of a foreign war,
added to the weight of our domestic taxes.
These aro by no means interested in repri?
sals of any kind; but they aro interested in
as light a publio debt as possible
Lot us look before we leap at thc real in.
terests of those whose wants have been,
through the process of making monej
classes, suffering, and, if the policy of the
Government is not changed, must suffer
more. It would be well to study the rela?
tions of war to repudiation beforo entering
the former.
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Thc Con st I tu? Ion.i illy of tin Reconstruction
Acts,
The celebrated McArdle case, in th<
Uuited States Supreme Court, has been de
cided, Chief Justice Chase delivering th<
opinion, dismissing the case "for want o:
jurisdiction." McArdle, it will bo rcmom
bered, was tho Vicksburg (Mississippi) edi
tor arrested by General Ord, tried by mili
tary commission, and imprisoned in 18G7
for printing "seditious articles" in thc
Vicksburg Times. On tho trial by military
commission, thc accused refused to plead
and a plea of not guilty was entered fo
him. The Uuited States Circuit Court ii
Mississippi grouted a writ of lutbeas corpus
The court held that the question presontei
involved tho constitutionality of the Act c
Congress, (thu Reconstruction Act,) in vii
tue of which General Ord placed McArdl
under arrest, and he decided that Act to h
constitutional, thus deciding that the pr
souer waa subject to arrest aud to trial bi
fore a military commission. Ho was then
fore remanded, and tho case came into th
United States Supreme Court bli an appe,
from this decision, with the result above.
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The Washington corespondent of tl
Baltimore Ouzelie, writing on* Monday, say
"While the political carnival is in progre;
iu _ Washington, and. Executivo favors ai
boing scattered broadcast among 'free Am
rican citizens,' a courier arrives from tl
far-off region pf Texas with official reporl
for the war Department. At tho litt
town of Jefferson, on tho head of Lui
Caddo, are now 1,500 United States sc
dier8, occupied in guarding thirty of tl
most respectable citizens of the town, wt
were arrested moro than four months sine
and who have never been allowed .. trial ?
hearing of any kind. No one of them h
over been informed of tho cause of his n
rest. The courier announced to tho W
Department that the soldiery have co
structcd a stockade surrounded with
ditch fifteen feet wide and twelve feet dee
and within tho stockade erected af rar
sh?d in which the prisoners ure kept,
guard is constantly on duty within t
stockade and another outside of the stoc
ade. No one, not even counsel, is allow
to speak to one of those prisoners, exec
in tho hearing of a file of soldiers. Ev
their wives and daughters are forbidden a
intercourse whatever, except in particn
cases, where a lady is occasionally allow
to talk to her husband, who is brought c
nuder a guard of eight mon to the entr?t
of tho stockade, bat all such interviews i
limited to fifteen minutes. The-so prison
have made appeal after appoal for a tri
but all in vain. The War Department
ceives and enters upon its files these rope
of 'freo American citizens' imprisoned, 1
says-'General Reynolds must attend
their .trial or releaso; it is no business ol I
War Department.' "
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Ice formed at Rome, Ga., on last W
Destiny. Tho thermometer stood at thii
tito degrees at day-light.
No. a.-Tho Cnunljana Townoi KciTbtny.
To ITS MBBOHANTS: We aro intensely
progressive. As Leather Stocking? boasted
of the purity of bis blood, ve prido our
SOIVCH that "bot one fogyish idea ever enters
or entered our minds. Progress is the
order of nature-she is.always advancing.
Tho history of man proves nnc?ntroverti
bly that he has ever been on the advance
Nations may rise and fall, but the world
goes on. In the langnage of Galileo, "it
moves." It is nonsense, it is absurd, to soy
that Newberry or the State is retrograding.
The dat tor of the cars, the click of tho tele?
graph, tbs march of science, the restless
rovings of tho wandering Ahasucrus of tho
age-the irrepressible Yankee-in search of
tho American eaglo on a specie basis, will
not allow it.
Newberry, to-day, is not what it was
forty-five years ago. To-day wo have a
railroad; ono of tho best cotton marts in the
State ?upwards of 200 stores, of greater or
less degree. In a brief period, wo will have
a telegraph, then another railroad. Forty
five years ago we raised comparatively, little
cotton, thero wero but fow stores and indif?
ferent stocks; the procuring of goods was
attended with diinculty and troublo, as well
as vast expense; thero were few of the com?
forts and conveniences bf life. Now the
facilities of transportation aro easy; we ooo
obtain in a day what required a week, and
at little expense.
The town of Newberry has been, next to
Charleston, for years one of the best cotton
marts in tho State. Previous to the war
thero was sold at Newberry Court House as
high as 27,000 bales of cotton in ono year,
whilo many of the merchants of those days
had magnificent stocks of goods, and dis?
posed of from $80,000 lo $150,000 per an?
num. During tho last year somo of our
merchants did a business of $80,000.
Such has been tho success attending mei>
chandising since tho war, that stores have
been opened all along tho streets of New?
berry, as if by the touch of some magio
wand, and they still continue to increase
not only in town, but all over the County.
The metalic and mineral treasures that lie
hidden in tho hills and fields und valleys of
Newberry are loadstones, attracting thc rest?
less spectator from every point.
Wo are not of that class who fear the
competition of other towns. It is what we
like to soo, because we wish the State to re?
vive. Noithor do wo believe that you care;
it is what you wish. If other towns prosper
and llourish, then Newberry and her mer?
chants aro obliged to prosper in an equal
degree. As the one flourishes, so fiourisheth
the other. Competition is tho life of busi?
ness. The town or tho merchant, which
and who is not able to sustain itself or him?
self must fall, give way, like ono hotel-keeper
to him who can.
It is said that you should havo better
stores; more concentration of business; but
this is all nothing at present. As water
rises to its level, ro timo will correct all
these evils. The ch dd munt crawl before it
can walk.
It has been thought that probably 3*011
might do a jobbing trade. Now, no totvu
in this Stoto, outsido of the city of Charles?
ton, can do it to uny extent. Merchants
from the up-country, no matter how small,
will ever and always proceed to New York,
Baltimore, Philadelphia or Boston to lay in
their stocks. It is to their interest to do so.
Wo would, our merchant friends of Ne^ .
berry, call yonr attention to our spociol sin
of the day-lawlessness or lawless selllshness.
The reign of every man's special interest, or
of whatever every man thinks his special in?
terest, in antagonism to that of tho species
in general, and of all and every other mon;
this you are as likely to bo affected by as
others. Ours is u day in which every man
does his work for his pay, and for no other
motive, in which excellence has ceased to be
desired or thought desirable; a day in which
men no longer caro what becomes of other
neighbors, bot centre all their thoughts on
themselves; ours is the age of trades unions,
of speculations, of societies which hold their
members and friends down to a dead lovel;
a doy in which a man's ability to govern in
any subject is proved by his making a
charge and remembering a date; a day of
fraudulent bankruptcies, of mercantile dis?
honesty, of rampant statesmanship. It is a
day in which money swamps merit and
falsehood; gets tho bettor of truth. It was
of such a time that tho Roman satirist
might well say:
"0/ Gives! Civcs.' ?ycuniaprimum quesenda
est
Vir tits post nammos!"
It is dillie ii lt, wo know, for men to lay
asido this spirit of selfishness; but if you
desire to advance your interest and build up
tho County and town of Newberry, consider
tho interest and welforo of tho town, the
interest and welforo of tho citizens of the
County. Your interests aro thoir interests;
it is identical with theirs. Lay in your
stocks to the greatest advantage; be not
over greedy or rigidly pressing; bo mode?
rate in your charges; extend overy accom?
modation; afford overy facility; offer attrac?
tive inducement-); be courteous, affable,
polite; make it to tho interest of tho farmer
and planter to soil his produce-givo tho
highest prices you can afford, which wo well
know you have and do; bo dignified,
straightforward and enorgitic, and mark, in
a fow years you will double your business,
the business of tho town and County, and
always insure their custom and patronage.
LEARCHUS.
i A band of negro burglars were discovered,
in Springfield, Tenu., last week, and seve?
ral of them arrested. They had perfected
plans for robbing all tho houses in the
town, and had robbed several boforc they
were detected.
XLi o QAl lt? m m .
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! THE COLUMBIA BIBLE Soct?Tv:-Al? fimm
ESTiNO C?L?BRATION. -Pursuant to a pre?
vious appointment, the Bible ?ooiety of thia
city celebrated its fifty-third anniversary, at
thc Baptist Church on Sabbath night last, in
the presence of a Tory largs audience, com?
posed of the representatives of all the various
protestant denominations of Columbia.
The exercises consisted of appropriate
hymns by a full choir, the roadiug of the
annual report of the society, (hereto ap?
pended) and eloquent and affective addresses
by Col. A. C. Haskell, Rev. W. W. Mood
und Rev. W. E. Boggs, after which a liberal
collection was taken up for the good cause.
An election of officers' was hold with the
following result :
President-Rev. George Howe, D. D.
vice-Presidents-Rev. Wm. Martin, Hov.
Wm. S. Plumer, D. D. LLD , Col. A.C.
Haskell.
Executive Committee-Rev. J. L. Rey?
nolds, D. D., Rev. A. R. Rude, Rev. S. H.
Browne, Rev. Wm. E. Boggs, Rev. W. W.
Mood, Hon. Robert W. Barnwell, Henry
Muller and R. D. Sonn.
Secretary-W. L. Reynolds.
Treasurer-Robert Bryce.
The annual report is ns follows:
The Executive Committee of the Colum?
bia Biblo Society present the following as
their first report since the reorganization of
tho society in February last:
Wo arc happy to soy that our efforts
duriug the year have been accompanied
with some measure ot success, if no't with
all wc havo desired.
We have beon able to distribute over 500
volumes of tho sacred Scriptures,^ or por?
tions of the same, among our people. Of
these, l-l Bibles and 45 Testaments were
sold at the depository; 29 Bibles and 227
Testaments and Testaments and Psalms, aud
28 copies of tho octavo edition of John's
Gospol, have been distributed to various par?
ties, to the Sunday schools'of the various
denominations, (both schools among the
white and tho colored,) to inmates of the
Asylum and convicts ii: thc Penitentiary.
Tho studeuts of the Theological 8eminnry,
at tho suggestion of Rev. E. A. Bolles, have
attempted ulso the re-supply of those who
might be found destitute in tho city of Co?
lumbia. For this purpose, families in the
several wards were visited, and 199 Bibles,
Testaments and portions of tho Scriptures
were given to lite destitute. This work was
arrested before its completion, the supply
of books being exhausted. Applications
were iuado in February last to the managers
of tho American Bible Society for a further
donation of books for this and other pur?
poses to tho amount of 300 volumes. This
request was cheerfully granted, and tho
books havo recently arrived at the deposito?
ry. The value of this grai . ia $107.13.
Tho whole number sent to tho Columbia
Bible Society during the year had been
1,250 volumos, 31 of which wore purchased
at a cost of $51.11, aud tho rest were a do?
nation amounting in value to $531.89. The
wholo number we have received since April,
18g5, is 3,381 volumes, tho valuo of which
at society's prices ia $1,470.28.
Tho contribution to the Bible Society
from Columbia during the year havo been
as follows:
Amount collected at tho annual
meeting in February, 1808.S 5G 18
By subscriptions obtained by Rev.
Mr. Bolles, and paid over to the
Columbia Bible Society . GI 50
Sales at tho depository. 17 99
Received by students of Um Theo?
logical Seminary during their dis?
tribution. 1 15
Making a totul to the credit of this
society of.$136 82
Besides this, Mr. Bolles has col?
lected for the American Biblo So?
ciety itself from various citizens.. GC 00
Received by him through Rev. Dr.
Plumer, from various persons (of
color) in Columbia. 3 10
Books sold by Mr. Bolles. 31 00
Making the additional sum of. 100 10
In all from tho city of Columbia... .$236 92 I
Of this sum there has been remitted
to tho American Bible Society, by
our Treasurer, Mr. Robert Boyce,
tho sum of. 110 00
By Rev. Mr. Boiler. 89 50
Expeudcd by Treasurer, for freight,
dray age, ?fcc. 3 50
Expended by Dtiflio & Chapman,
depositor}'. 3 00
Balance in hands of the Treasurer.. 5 33
Balance in hands of Rev. Mr.
Bolles. 10 GO
Bataneo in hands of Duffie & Chap?
man . l l 99
Making tho abovo sum of.$286 92
There hus been a regular increase in tho
contributious from South Carolina to the
American Biblo Society since 18GG. In tho
year ending April 1, 18G7, they amounted to
$318.70; for tho year ending April 1, 18G8,
they were $740.48, an increase of $421.78;
for tho year ending March 31, 1869, they
wero $1,830.80, an increase of $1,090.32.
Tho American Biblo Society has sent to
South Carolina, from April 1, 1865, to
April 1, 18G6, 18,573 volumes, valued ut
$7,521.36; from April 1, 1866, to April 1,
1867, 22,085, volumes, valued at $9,005.49;
from April 1, 1867, to April 1, 1868, 12,925-.
4,591.85 of these, 2,532 volumes, were pur?
chased at a cost of $1,218.81. 10,392 vo?
lumes wero given, valued at $3,373.04.
From April 1, 1868, to January 1, 1869,
3,616 volumes sent, valued at $1,393.59;
of which 504 volumes were purchased at the
cost of $386.31, aud 3,112 wore volumes I
given valued at $1,015.28.
The whole number vent into t' o State
previous to January 1, 1869, has been
57.201 volumes, valued at $22,512.28; of
which 3,037 volumes -were paid for at a cost
of $1,-602.12, and 54,1(17 were donated by
the American Bible .Society, at a cost of
$20,910.10.
W? Would acknowledge, with gratitude to
God, that He has moved the hearts of the
parent society aud its managers to aid so
generously in supplying our population
with the word of life, und that Ho has ena?
bled our people to increaso their own con?
tributions to this good cause which contem?
plates not only tho teeming millions at
home, but the universal diffusion of tho
sacred Scriptures over the wholo world in
the various languages of the human race.
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APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR.-Uuder
authority of tho Act passed by the Legisla?
ture at its recent session, (published some
days since and entitled, "Au Act to provide
for the enumeration of the inhabitants ol
this State,") Governor Scott has made tht
appointments hereinafter named. The
newly selected officiais aro charged with tht
duty of taking a complete census of th<
residents of tho State, with a view to tht
apportionment of representation inthcnexl
session of tho General Assembly, and atac
a full statistical report of the agricultura
productions of South Carolina on the samt
basis ns that in vogue in tho States of tht
"West, and which has been found by then
to be eminently serviceable in developing
and publishing their resources. The ap
poiutmcuts will be generally approved, am
wo hope that in tho discharge of their dut ie:
these officials will meet with every facility
which can be afforded by tho citizens of on
State.
Abbeville County-Hudson J. Lomax.
Anderson County-Samuel Johnson.
Bawnwell County-James N. Hayncf.
Beaufort County-P. E. Ezekiel.
Charleston County-R. C. DeLargo.
Clarendon County-E. E. Dickson.
Chester County-L. Wimbush.
Chesterfield County-Henry Shrewsbury
Colletou County-Henry James.
Darlington County-W. Welsh.
Edgefield County-To bo appointed.
Fairfield County-Henry Johnson.
Georgetown County-J. H. Raiuey.
Greenville County-J. B. Hyde.
Horry County-Frederick Buck.
Kershaw County-Frank Carter.
Laurens County-To be appointed.
Lancaster County-J. B. Cousart.
Lexington County-Henry Purvis.
Marion County-W. S. Collins.
Marlboro County-D. C. Odoin.
No wherry County-S. Montgomery.
Ocouee County-David Saunders.
Orangeburg County-Francis DeMars.
Pickens County-Moses Hendrix.
Richland County-Philip Epstin.
Spartanburg County-A. P. Turner.
Sumter County-H. Gardner.
Uuion County-H. W. Duncan.
Wiliamsbtirg County-Robert F. Scott.
York County-P. J. Oconnel.
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The May number of tho Galaxy has bee
placed on our table. Tho following is tl
table of contents: Put Yourself in H
Place; A Desultory Denunciation of Etij
lish Dictionaries; Pairs und Repairs; Eu j
lish Toryism aud its Leaders; Susan Fiel
ing; A Great Advocato; A. Choir of Song
ters; Tho Galaxy Miscellany; Drift-woo
Literature and Art ; Nebuho. Published 1
Sheldon Sc Co., Nos. 19S and 500 Brondwn
New York.
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DEMORBST'S " Youno AMERICA. "- Of
tho juvenile magazines, the child u n s
this is the best, and wo must say We agi
with them. Its bright colors and its tc
have the charm of being different frc
everything else, while the stories and oti
sketches aro exceptionally good, combini
thc useful with the amusing in a remarkal
successful manner. Terms $1.50 per annu
with a premium. Address W. J. Demore
838 Broadway.
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DEMOREST'S MONTHLY.-This magaz
has tho great merit of keeping up with 1
times every year, and almost every nomi
is an improvement on tho last. Its var
departments furnish exactly what ev(
ludy needs throughout tho country. 1
prominont features of patterns, tho "1
dies' Club," the music, etc., aro eaoh one
them worth moro than tho price of
book in the real value that they repres
to the subscriber. Terms, $3.00 per ye
with a premium. Address W. J. Demon
838 Broadway.
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BRAZIER'S AND SHEATHING COTTER.-'J
demand for this article is now supplied
wholesale, by Mr. Wm. Shepherd, a w
known Charleston merchant. See his
vertisement.
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Tira ODD FELLOWS' CELEBRATION.-'
26th of the present month is the day nj
which the fiftieth anniversary of the oi
will be observed throughout the countr
j TUM CITIZENS' SAVINGS BANK OF SOOTH .
CAROJUINA.-In publishing, officially, Sunday
lost, tho charter of this corporation, the fol?
lowing omission was made, to wit: At th?
end of the third section-"And the saidl
corporation shall have authority to estab?
lish branch officers at auch other points in
the State as they may elect."
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Tun UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT.-|
A preromptory call of the issuo docket of I
this Court will be made in Charleston on'
Thursday next, nt noon. Our legal friends!
will take notice, and govern themselves ao-l
cordi ngly.
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NEW ADYKKTISEMENTS.-Special attention
is called to tho following advertisements,'
published for the drat time this morning:
Wm. Shepherd-Brazier's Copper.
Johu C. Seegers-Smoking Tobacco, &c.
P. Kraft-Every Ono Read.
Knox, Daly & Co.-Auction.*
Meeting Columbia Lodge No. 108.
Meeting Independent Fire Company.
R. K. Scott-Blue Ridge Railroad.
Acts Passed by the Legislature.
R. K. Scott-Election Notice.
Broad Uiver Bridge Co.-Last Instalment.
Thomas J. LaMotte-Assignee's Salo.
Horses and Mules-At Aguew's Stables.
J. S. McMahon-For Rent.
H. D. Boozer-Chester White Boar.
E. & G. D. Hope-Bacon and Peas.
Campbell & Jones-Flour and Liquors.
P. W. Fuller-Beef.
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Some idea of tho manner in which the
Govern meut is swindled is furnished by the
developments concerning tho Brooklyn
Navy Yard frauds. For five years the Go?
vernment has been bled by these Brooklyn
sharpers of untold sums of money. The
facts concerning the building of the gun
park at Cobb dock, in the navy yard in that
city, aro really startling. The Now York
Sun states that in this contract advertise?
ments cnlliug for bids were inserted accord?
ing to thc legal form in nil the prinoipal
papers; and, after the bids had beec re?
ceived, they were opened by the board of
inspectors, appointed for tho purpose, ?nd
tho contract awarded, apparently, to the
lowest bidder. Tho lowest bid by any
honest man was 8390,000, as that was the
least, with a fair profit, thut it could be done
for. A certain contractor, however, offered
to do it for $300,000-less than the material
and work would cost oven him. But be
foro the contract had loft the bureau at
Washington it had grown by what is called
"creeping" to $355,375. On the plea of
extra unprecedented work, they oontrived
to obtain a second appropriation of $386,500
more, in a manner known only to the navy
yard ring. In this manner their bid, in?
stead of being the smallest, was immense;
instead of being $300,000, it waa $741,875.
Not only this but other large amounts of
Government property wera used io tho
work.
The Denver News gives statistics of the
products of Colorado during 18G8. The
shipments, not including reshipments, nor
those by private hands, were of gold,
$1,909,461; silver, $197,744; total, $2,107,
235. The number of acre3 in cultivation
was, in wheat, 7,410; corn, 10,834; oats,
barley, .tc., 3,709; potatoes, 1,966; total,
23,910 acres. The yield averaged twenty
eight bushels of wheat, twenty-five bushels
of corn, thirty-five bushels of barley and
oats, and 100 bushels of potatoes to the
acre. Several districts are not included in
these returns. The value of the agricultural
products was $2,633,840-exceeding that of
the shipments of bullion by $500,000.
Tho Agricultural Department repor's a
falling off in tho farm stock of tko country
in 1808, compared with 1867: Tho total
amouut of corn and wheat sold for export
was also less for 1867 and 1868 than for the
two years prior to the war; and now the fact
is reported from Cincinnati that the hog
crop of the whole country for the season of
1868-9 is a little more than over that of
eight years ago. If thia bo so we need not
wonder at tho high price of food. Whilo
the West has inoreased from fifty to seven?
ty-five per cent., in habitable area and popu?
lation, tho quantity of bread and meat raised
for salo has fallen off.
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PHYSICIANS USE THEM IN THEIR PIUOTICK.
It is almost universally the case that Physi?
cians coudemn what are genorally known os
"Patent Medicines." Although DR. Torr's
LIVER PILL IS NOT A PATENT MEDICINE, yet
its composition (tho resnlt'of years of study)
is known only to himself, and so palpable
aro their valuablo curative properties, that
very many of the first Physicians in the
South and West have adopted them in their
practice, and recommend them to their pa?
tients. A17 6
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Scrofula or King's Evil is a disease. Of the
blood, making its appearance in every year,
and when fully developed is characterized
by tho presenoo of sorofuloas matter in
Eruptions, Tumors, Swellings, &c. It is
really tho seed or germ of manv diseases
that are most fatal to mankind. Consump?
tion may follow from it and derangement of
the liver and digestion is a frequent result.
Rheumatism,Erysipelas, Disease of the Skin,
Female Weakness and Irregularity, Kid?
ney Affection, Dropsy, Paiu in tho Bones,
Head, Back, all como from a vitiated condi?
tion of tho Blood. Now, what is the remedy?
Time and experience has demonstrated the
fact that tho only sure remedy is Heinitsh'6
great medioine-the QUEEN'S DELIGHT-no
other medioine will do it; thousands attest
its worth, and tens of thousands are trying
it to-day, and upon tho recorded verdict ol
tho people, let it stand the wonder of mo?
dern medicines. To the afhioted we say try
it. For salo by FISHER <& HEIN min.
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