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The Romance Of tn. plv,ur.R.,,.

John G. Green, OF Buffalo had the rem.
tatlon of being the best diver on the lakes
and there are few sailors who have not heard
OF him, and his feats. A few days since be
committed suicide, and the Buffalo Erpress
relates an incident in his life as follows:
John G. Green, the diver whose unhap-
py death by bis own hands we chronicled
Yesterday, was 10 bis time the principal actor
10 little drama, the story Of which is an
illustration Of the fact that we uuconsciousy
tread every day on the graves of past gems
erations, so We daily meet in every walk of
life those whose hearts are the living tombs
Of buried hopes. Early in life be became
deeply attached to young lady in Chelsea,
Massachusetts,, the beautiful and accomplish
ed daughter Of wealthy citizen. The at.
taohment was reciprocated, and although
while the father of the lady looked with no
favorable eye upon what he considered an
unequal engagement be wisely forbore from
active opposition. 10 return Green pledged
himself never to claim the hand of his
athanced until he had accumulated sufficient
to enable him to retire from a vocation SO
full of peril in its nature and uncertain in
its results. Lighted on by the star of hope
he became the most daring and enterprising
submarine operator of bis time, now plugging
down among the weird yet strange caves
OF the tropical seas, which held the wrecked
galleons of Spain, and then exploring the
bottom of Lake Erie for the sunken treasures
OF our inland commerce. Such enterprise
brought its reward, and he was enabled to
look upon the consummation of his hopes as
very near at hand. When he undertook to
rescue the treasure from the sunken steamer
Atlantic he meant that it should be his last
job of diving, and he communicated this fact
with radient face to the few friends who
shared the cherished secret of his life He
entered enthusiastically upon the task, and
this very impatience proved his ruin. Dur
ing the progress Of his work he imprudently
insisted on descending while warm against
the remonstrance of his comrades. The re-
suit is well known. He was seized with paral>
ysis and dragged to the surface more dead
than alive. From that attack he never re
covered. He dragged out the miserable rem
nant of his life a melancholy wreck in health
and hopes. Moody and disconsolate he
sought in the intoxicating glass temporary
relief from the sorrow which oppressed him.
AT length he rashly ended his misery and
life altogether, and found in the suicides
grave the peace he vainly sought elsewhere"
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"So now, gentlemen, l hope your minds
are quito satisfied; and, after reading that,
your oonscienoes, l think, may be easy,
when | offer you the very identical bird"
Inundated as felt at my p|recipitate
injustice, | could hardly decline, moro es-
p%eeially as both Quiltvr and Palette de-
clared at once, with marvellous unanimi-
ty, that nothing could be more honorable
than Mr., Bobsby's behavior, and that the
only way | could possibly atone an inyol-
untary wrong was by accepting the turkey
in the spirit in which it was offered. So l
did accept and a very capital dinner we
made of it. TO my wife, | think, it was
tainted by the a~rrisre psnses, that it
might bridge the gulf that had hitherto
been fixed between her and her vulgar
dressy neighbor. She need not have trou-
bled herself on that score. Henceforth
the repulsion seemed to be on Mrs. Bobs-
by's side and at next term Bobsby's
little house was to let. Doubtless his wife
had learned that We were privy to the IA
tai secret, and so took the precaution of
carrying it away to hide it elsewhere.
And, after all, no friendship with the Bobs-
bys followed on tho episode of our Christ
mas turkey.
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Novel Divorce.

In the State of Maine q couple got tired
of welded life and decided to separate, but
being rather short of this worlds goods,
they hardly felt like paying out the money
necessary to obtain a divorce. So they
went to the old gentleman who had joined
them inthe bonds of matrimony some years
ago, and desired him to unite the knot.
The worthy old squire scratched his head
and thought a moment, and told them
there was no way but to 90 to court.
"But hold" said he, "Ihayo it. You
promised to live together and be true to
each other until death should you part.
Come into the yard"
Then selling q cat that sat in the door,
way, he directed John to take her by the
head and Jane by the tail, and to pull
apart. Then lifting a sharp axe, he said,
"Now death doth you part"
The oxc fell, and the couple were di-
yorced.
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A.. Bacome, vs.. James NJ. Toomcy, surviving
Partner of the firm of Toomy & Chestnut.
tn this cause it appearing, by affidavit, that
L the defendant, James NJ. TOOmy is anon-rcs-
ident, so the ordinary process of law cannot be
served upon him, and an original attachment hay
ing been served on his property. 1t is therefore
ordered that publication be made in the Sweet
water Enterprise, a newspaper published in the
town Of Sweetwater, Tenn, for four consecutive
weeks commanding the said James N. Toomy,
to appear before me at my Office in the 4tb, civil
district of Monroe county Tenn, on the 18th day
Of January, 1870, and make defense to said suit
against him ori will be proceeded with ex parte.
Nov. rs 4w* J. J. SWIMMER, j. P.
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A Book for the Million,
u 6 ID ssEsssSgIIIEll5

PRIVATE CoUNsELL0R TO THE MARRIED or
~ those about to marry, male or female, in
all that pertains to the physiological mysteries
and revelations of the sexual system, with the
latest discoveries in producing and preventing
offspring, how to preserve the complexion in all
its attractiveness and beauty, &c., sc.
This is an interesting and important work of
over hundred pages, written in plain Ian
guage, with numerous diagrams and engravings,
and contains all that valuable information that
every person who is married or contemplates
marriage ought to have, yet, which SO few really
possess. 1t ~unravels mysteries and d~iscloses
secrets that everybody should know; still it is a
book that ought to be kept under lock and key,
and not laid carelessly about the house. 1t en-
braces everything on the subject of the genera
tive system that is worth knowing, and much
that is not published in any other work.
This invaluable work will be sent to any one
free of pOstagel on receipt of Fifty cents.
Address: Dir. Butts Dispensary, N. W. corner
Fifth and Market streets, st. Louis, Mo.
Notice to the Afflicted & Unfortunate.
Before receiving treatment from any of the
notorious quacks Ofthis or any other place, who
advertise in the public papers, or using any Of
the almost numberless Qudcbr remedies, carefully
peruse DR.. Butts work. No matter what your
disease is, or how deplorable your condition, re-
member that while it cost you fifty cents to have
it with its valuable information, it may cost YOU,
as it has many, a life ofhopeless misery, and re-
greet not to have it.
DR.. Butts can be consulted personally or by
mail on any of the diseases mentioned in his
works. Office N. W. corner Fifth and Market
streets, Opposite Court House,0 st. Louis, Mo.
aug. 26-ly.
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$40 WATCHES. 80

The Great Trade Improvement Association,
incorporated by the State) sell fine Gold and
Solid Silver Watches at $40 each.
10000 Engravings, fully illustrating and de-
scribing all our Watches, are placed in sealed en-
ordered are mailed, post paid, at the following
prices Single Engraving, so cents. Twelve
and rich premium, So; Twenty FIVE and elegant
Silver Hunting Watch as premium, SO Every
engraving entities the holder thereof to q Watch
worth from s25 to $3.50, irrespective of value,
for $40. Nothing can be lost by this Investment,
as no article in our stock is worth less than the
money asked, while the buyer may obtain a
watch worth $3.50. Circulars free. Just Try
it once before hastily condemning us.
Address MIcHELIN g. Co., Managers,
dec2-3m. 206 Broadway, cor. Fulton St., N. Y.
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IIENRYS'
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS;

'DocToR: l was vaccinated at Yicksburg in
the Hospital. was never sick before, but since
then | was full of sores until Mr.. Willard, of Eu-
taw, Ala, sent me a bottle of your remedy. All
0 fmy sores are well except n mall one on the
calf of my left leg, and that is getting we'll so
fast. l need only one more bottle of your econ
-]stitution Renovation"
eyes yes, | may well say your medicine has
given me relief. Enclosed find 5 dollars for 6
bottles. They are not all for me, but two fami-
lies here want to try it,"
\ lady writes: "Aud my skin, thanks to your
Constitution RcnOvator, is as fair as Il babes. -
''No more Rheumatism, Professor, your two
bottles Of 'COnstitution Renov0tOr' have knock
ed it dead as a mink"
We have room for no more of these extracts.
But all you have to do is to ask your neighbor
about our RenOyatOr. Nine cases out of ten he
knows of its wonderful curative powers. 1t is
prepared in vacuO in the form of d beautiful symp
and is greedily taken by men, women and chill
dren.
Patients, in ordering, will please state how
long they have been sick, whether male or fe-
male, and give a general account Of their condi-
ton. Directions accompanying every bottle, but
frequently people prefer to write to Headquarters
Owing to u stringent law now in vogue in New
York Post GEice, every letter must have The Box
mentioned on it. Address as follows:
PROF. NJ. L. Henry, A. NJ, II. D.
Box 5212, Post OhEce, -
New York.
Constitution Rcnovator is 81 per bottle, or six
bottles for 50. Sent anywhere on receipt Of pricc,
sept23, lc69-ly.
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]. u. ZLLLNNN IL. Wholnsalc n~rnrrists.

J.. II. TLITNN 3 T0., Wholesale DRUGGISTS,
Macon, GA, Aug. 10, 1869.
Your Medicines, Mlgqiel's Pills and Salve are
popular here, We sell more Maggiel's Pills
than any other PTl-yo5, more tl,an any two
others you can name combined. The MIaggiel
Salve sells as much as Dr.. L.; but for
Maggiel's Pills we have extraordinary demand.
Respectfully yours,
j III. XELTNN go.
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FAYErTE COURT House., fla, July, 1869.
GENT We are entirely out of Maggiel's Pills.
Send us asupply by Express, at once, for Bill
Gus Diseases. Your Maggicl's Pills work Won
ders. They gain in popularity every day.
Fnyette, Ala. "WATUHMAN."
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Z { Z I Z Z { { Z Z

TO THE WORKING CLAS5.-We are now
prepared tic furnish all classes with constant en-
%ployment at home, the whole of the time or for
the spare moments. Business new, light AMI
profitable. Persons Of either sex easily earn
from SOC. to s. per evening, and a proportional
sum by devoting their whole time to the business.
Boys and girls earn nearly as much as men.
That all who see this notice may send their al
dress, and test the business, We make the I'M
paralelled offer: To such as are not satisfied, we
will send 81 to pay for the trouble Of writing.
Full particulars, a valuable sample, which will
do to commence work on, and a copy of The Peo-
ple's Literary Companion-one Of the largest
and best family newspapers published-all sent
free by mail. Reader, if you want permanent,
profitable work, address E. c. ALLEN & co.,
Augusta, Maine. dec g-3m.
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To the reader we will briefly say, that for the
purpose Of letting those whose circumstances are
not of the best try these medicines we will send
Free Of Expense, One Dollars worth of Maggiel's
Pills, on receipt Of Is cents. Address,
M|AGGIEL1S PILL s. SALVE WORKS, Box
5272 Post Office, New York. sept. Fly.
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READ f! !
READ!!!
This is from the Hon. A.. II. Stephens.
LIBERTY HALL,
,,--c1.s1Ia n. IL I % IppN

Charlottesville, Ga, July Is, 1869.
MAGGIEL'S Pill AND SALvE Works. New YORK.
GENTLEMEN: 4 + = 4 And ] also say that
l will most cheerfully accept the medicines
Nlaggiel's Pills and Salyc) you purpose to send,
an from The reputation of their Uirtues will try
them with hopes of much benefit, Yours truly,
HEX. II. STEPHENS.
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Office l.. E. & HE. wrLcu, Wholesale Druggist.

VTlcc Z. F. It. u. ELIN, " NOTES.-The Druggist.
Albany, Ga, July IA, 1869.
Gentlemen We cheerfully say that DR..
Magsiols Pills and and Salve sell we'll, and
give Great Satisfaction. Our customers speak
in the highest manner of them. We have fire.
qucn,Iy SHOWN them 70 cure Chills and Fever.
Respectfully,
H.. T.. & II. Il. WEIGH.
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Cash Prizs, Silver Ware, &c, valued at 81 ,000, 0O0.
A chance to draw any of the above Prizes for
Csc. Tickets describing Prizes are sealed in En-
yclopes and well mixed. On receipt Of Csc. a
Sealed ticket is drawn without choice and sent
to any address. The prize named upon it will
lie delivered 20 the tickct-holdar on payment of
one Dollar. Prizes are Immediately sent to any
address by express or return mail.
You viii know what your prize is before you
pay for it. Any prize exchanged for another of
same value. No Blanks. Oar patrons can de-
pend on fair dealing.
REFERENCES We select the following from
many who have lately drawn Valuable Prizes
and kindly permitted us to publish them: An
drew J. Burns, Chicago, $40, 900 Miss Clara S.
Walker, Baltimore, Piano, $500; james NJ. Mat
thews, Detroit, $1,000 John 7. Andrews, Sa-
%yannah, S $1,000 Miss Agnes Simmons, Charles
ton, Piano, 5000. We publish no names without
permission.
Opinions ofThe Press 1.-THE firm is reliable,
and deserve their success. Weekly Tribune,
May s. ave know them to be fair dealing
firm.-N. Y. Herald, May 28. ga friend Of
ours drew a $500 prize, which was promptly re-
ceiycd."-Daily News, June 8.
Send for circular. Liberal inducements ia
Agents, Satisfaction guaranteed. Every package
Of sealed Envelopes contains one cash gift. Six
tickets for 81; IS for 50; 35 for So; 10 for sl5.
All letters should be addressed to HARPER,
WILSON & CO., 1875 Broadway, MY. 3m.
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~PTsTCEs---A Fnir Offer.

Send the retail price, Washer si4, Extra
Wringcr 50, and We will forward either or both
machines, free Of freight, to places where no
one is selling; and so sure are We they will be
liked, that We agree to refund the money if any
one wishes to return the machines free Of
freight after a months trial, according to direc-
tions. No husband, father Or brother should
permit the drudgCry Of washing with the hands,
iifty-two days in the year, when it can be done
better, more cXpsditiOusly, with lcsa labor, and
no injury to the garments, by q Boy Clothes
Washer, and Il Universal WriHgor. Canyas.crs
with exclusive right Of sale make money fast
selling them. Sold by dealers generally, to
whom liberal discounts are made.
r. G. BROWNING, OK L. AGNr, 80 Cortlandt
ST., New York. aug. i2--5m.
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~
Improved with RouclnS Patent Double Coz
Wheels, and the Patent Stop, are now unques-
tiOnably far superior to any apparatus for
washing clothes ever invented, and will save
their cost twice a year, by saving labor and
clothes.
Those who have used them give testimony as
follows
We like our machine much could NOT be per-
suaded to do without it, and with the aid of
Doty, we feel that We arc masters OF the posi-
tiOn.-Rey. L. Scott, Bishop NJ. T.. Church. 1t
is worth one dollar a week in every family.-N.
Y. Tribune. In the laundry Of my house there
is a perpetual thanksgiving on Mondays for the
inycnt;ou.-Rey. Theodore L.. Cuyler. Every
week has given it a stronger hold upon the af-
fectiOns Of the inmates Of the laundry.-N. Y.
Observer. | heartily commend it to economists
of time, money, and contentment.- Rev. DR..
Bellows. Friend Doty-Iour last Improvement
of your Washing Machine is n complete success.
| assure you cur Machine, aitor q years use, is
thought more Of to-day than ever, and would not
be parted with under any cirtUmstancCs.-SOlo
Robinson. Your Washing Machine has been
in daily use i'll our laundry, and the house,
keeper expresses herself as highly pleased with
it. 1t certainly accomplishos a greater amount
of work, with less labor, and does not wear The
clothes near so much as the old fashioned wash
board. BY using it, one lOuudrcss is dispensed
with.-Wm, NJ. F. Round, Superintendent of
Infant Department Of st. Cathariue's Nursery,
N. Y. City.
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NOTORIOUS FACT.

The life blood of the South in its children aud
young mcn is thus being sapped with woiul celc-
rity. One Of you who read this can determine
whether we are right or wrong. Agreat danger
always creates a great remedy. Here is Il rene
dy where success is wonderful and great,
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Great Distribution
BY H
METROPOLITAN GIFT COMPANY.
Cash Gifts to the Amount of $500, 900.

EVERY TICKET DRAWS A PRIZE.
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We all know that the promiscuous vaccination
that was INDUCED in during the late war, bred
the most villainous diseases. Thousands of the
bravcst men Of the South had their pure blood
filled with S~crofula, (not to speak of worse dis
e0seS) by the cruel haste and incapacity of the
Army Surgeons. liza vaccine scabi is taken from
the body OF person, otherwise in sound health,
vaccination is Il worldwide benefit. But vac
cine matter was taken from the arms of negroes,
Syphalitic and Scrofulous white men, and placed
in the blood of people who knew not what Scrof-
ula was. This is a
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-05

THE address of Col. JNO. S. KERR,
upon the occasion Of a barbecue at
Big Spring in Shelby county, pub
lished in pamphlet form at the Ledger
office, has been laid on our table. The
following paragraph expresses the
common feeling of white men:
'sThe black man has nothing to fear,
but all to hope for, in seeing the real
citizen, the true men of the State,
come into power and assume the di-
rection of public affairs. They are his
real friends, and time and facts viii
prove it. None others can be. Not
the stranger, the alien, the adventu-
rer? How could they, except so long
as selfish interest can be subserved?
They who pretend it are hypocrites,
false, wolves in sleeps clothing, and
the events of a very near future will
attest it. In every true Southern
heart there lives an ever fresh and
warm impulse of gratitude and pecu-
liar regard for that black man to whose
fidelity and good conduct, during the
terrOrs of the bloody years of war, the
mother, the wife, the sister, the
daughter, owes her home, her purity
and her life. Whilst their natural
protector was breasting the storm of
battle far away, the trusty servant
kept a faithful vigil over the helpless
ness of infancy, the decrepitude Of old
age and the weakness Of ~defenceless
woman. And manya sick and woun-
ded Confederate owes his escape to
that firm devotion which prompted
his attached servant, even at his own
peril, to give a warning signal of the
approach of the enemy, whom he had
probably been watching through long
days and dreary nights of cold and
rain. God bless the faithful black man
who in such times stood by the South.
ern white man."
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-05

THE following is a special dispatch,
sent by some one from Nashville to
the St. Louis (Mo.) Democrat:
NASHVILLE, August "A letter
from Memphis shows premeditated
and determined fraud in the election
about to take place. Gov. Senter's
Democratic Registrars have not ap-
pointed a single clerk or Judge from
amongst the Republicans, although
heretofore the officers of election have
always been equally divided between
the parties. No separate polling places
have been provided for colOred voters,
although the law requires there shall
be. The intention of this is to keep
the cOlored men from voting, and
blOOdshed may result. The Republi-
cans of Memphis are united to a man
for Stokes.
The letter from Memphis may
charge fraud, but it /" shows no such
thing, for no fraud has been practiced
or contemplated. The clerks and
judges are so sufficiently and fairly
divided amongparties, 80 far as Shelby
county is concerned, as to secure all
necessary supervision Of both parties,
as to the interests Of each.
In ali the wards except three. sepa-
rate polling places have been provided,
and in those the exception was made
to save the expense, and because there
was no necessity or use for them.
There IS no intention to keep any COL
ored man from voting once who is en-
titled to vote at all. The Republicans
Of Memphis are not "united TO a man
for Stokes" The whole dispatch is
a partisan misstatement, an unmiti-
gated falsehood, and a purposed lie.
from beginning to end. If 3" blood
shed" is intended, II Is not by the
Conservative party, or the supporters
OF SENTER, who intend the peace.
and intend 10 ,keep the peoce, at the
proper cost. If bf5odshed may re-
suit" it is because it may be ingti-
gated by white men, as INSCRIPTIONS
as the writer Of the above letter. We
ask an efficient police Of the whole
in the interest of peace and our
peaee-loving citizens. We ask a fair
election, and that every man, black or
white, who attempts a fraudulent vote
or a second vote may be promptly ar
If the law-breakers want
blood bad enough to begin the fray,
the peril be on their own heads, and
the consequences. Forewarned Is
forearmed.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-05

If the Conservatives had power-if
their control of the State was COM
plete, instead of initiating or counte-
nancing the injury or oppression of
any body, their control would be found
kind and ~benefcent to all. That pro-
lection given to poor whites before
the war, now that slavery is abolished,
would be assured also to the blacks, as
TO all their rights of life, liberty and
property, and every thing they need
which may eonduce to their happi-
ness. Nc candid and sensible man
can doubt that. As it is now to be
hoped that the northumberland of
the whites and the day of justice is
drawing near, we suggest an error of
Radical legislation which ought to be
remedied at once The laws passed
by the Radicals are TOO seUere on the
negroes. They ought not to be pun
ished for petty larceny and for the
more trivial offences especially, if for
any, 20 severely as white persons.
They do not so well know the extent
OF their offences, and therefore do not
deserve the same penalties as the
whites. To send them to the peniten-
tiary, for an offence which only cost
them a switching before the war.
is to surprise them, to punish them in
a manner the majority never dreamed
or conceived until perchance the pen
atty is inflicted. This is unjust and
cruel. 1t is impolic withal, and we
protest against it. 1t is on the GER
tainty, not on the severity of punish
ment that we should rely to suppress