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POETICAL. —— etfa—— THE MONEYLESS MAN. Is theie no secret place on the face of the earth, Where charity dwelleth, where virtue hath birth ? Where bosoms in mercy and kindness will leave, And the poor and the wretched shall ask and re ceive ? Is there no place on earth where a knock from the poor Will bring a kind angel to open the door? Ah I search the wide world wherever you can, There is no open door for the moneyless man I Go look in your hall where the chandeliers’ light, Drives off with its splendor the darkness of night; Where the rich hanging velvet in shadowy fold, Sweeps gracefully down with its trimming of gold, And the mirrors of si'ver take up and renew In long lighted vistas the ’wildering view ; Go there in your patches, and find if you can, A welcoming smile for a pennyless man ! Go look in your church of the cloud-reaching spire, Which gives back to the sun his same look o red fire; Where the arches and columns are gorgeous within, And the walls seem as pure as a soul without sin ; Go down the long aisle—see the rich and the great, In the pomp and the pride of their worldly es tate, Walk down in your patches, and find, il you can, Who opens a pew to a moneyless mac ! Go look to yon judge in dark flowing gown, With the scales wherein law weighteth quietly down ; Where he frowns on the weak and smile3 on the strong And punishes the right, while he justifies the wrong; Where jurors their lips on the Bible have laid, To render a verdict they’ve already made; Go there in the court room, andfiud,if you can, Any law tor the cause of the moneyless man ! Go look in the banks, where Mammon has told His hundreds and thousands of silver and gold, Where, safe from the hands of the starving and poor, Lies pile upon pile of glittering ore— Walk up to the counter—ah, there you may stay Till your limbs grow old and your hair turns gray— And you’ll find at the bank not one of the clan With money to lend to a moneyless man 1 Then go to your hovel— no raven has fed The wife who has suffered so long for her bread— Kneel down by her pallet, and kiss the death frost From the lips as the angel your poverty lost— Then turn in your agony upward to God, And bless, while it smites you, the chastening rod— Bud you’ll find, at the end of our life’s little span, There’s a welcome above for the moneyless man I LAUGHOGRAMS. A taking paper—The Sheriffs war rant. “Long and successful reign”—The deluge. Breach of good manners—For ruin to stare you in the face. Why didn’t a dog want a place in the ark 1 Because he had a bark of his own. "VStTiat kind of essence does a young man like when he pops the question ? Acquiessence. A young man has recovered heavy damages from a tailor who sent him an insolent dun on a postal card. “C-ca-can that p-pa-parrot talk ?” in quired a stuttering young man of a Ger man. “Yen he don’t talk so gooter as you, I scliop, by tarn, his head off, mit his shoulders.” Says a .country parson : “After much reflection I have come to the conclusion that the soul is in the shape of a rightangle triangle and is sit uated somewhere in the small of the back.” An enthusiastic African, who had “spent de winter in Jamaky,” found it an earthly paradise. He said he could lie abed, and, putting his arms out de windy, pick oranges, apricots, pine apples and Jamaky rum right off of de trees.” “Mama, why don’t you wear a hush ?" asked little Johnnie of his mother, the other day. A hush ! said the lady, “what do you mean ?” “Why, I asked aunty, what that wac that made her baek stick out so, and she said, ‘oh hush, Jonnie.’ ” George, your sister is a nice .girl, 'but she does dress her head up so!” “Yes, JJ?.ut its the fashion—there is nothing in it, you know’. “Why do you set your coffee on the .chair, Jones ?” “It’s, so weak, Smith, I thought I'd let it rest." AGRICULTURAL. DESIRABLE QUALITIES IN A PIG. Of all the desirable qualities in a pig, a vigorous appetite is of the first impor tance. A hog that will not eat is of no more use than a mill that will not grind. And it is undoubtedly true that the more a pig will eat in proportion to his size, provided he can digest and assimulate it, the more profitable he will prove. The next desirable quality is, perhaps, quietness of disposition. The blood is derived, from the food, and the flesh is derived from the blood. Animal force is derived from the transformation of flesh. The more of this used in unne cessary motions, the greater the demand on the stomach, and the more food will there be required merely to sustain the vital functions—and the more frequent ly flesh is transformed and formed again, the tougher and less palatable it be comes. This quality—quietness of disposition —combined with a small amount of use less parts, or offal, has been the aim of all modern breeders. Its importance will be readily received if we assume that seventy-five per cent, of the food is or dinarily consumed to supply the vital functions, and that the slight additional demand of only one-sixth more food is required for the extra offal parts and un necessary activity. Such a coarse, rest less animal would gain in flesh and fat, in proportion to the food consumed, on ly half as fast as the quiet, refined ani mal. To assume that a rough, coarse, sav age, ill-bred, mongrel hog will require one-sixth more food than a quiet, re fined, well-bred Berkshire, Essex, or Suf folk, is not extravagant. HASTENING THE*RIPENING OF FEUIT. Acting upon the principle that renew al of the earth immediately surrounding the roots increases their activity and ac celerates the maturing of all parts of the plant, including the fruit, Mr. Stall removed the earth about an early pear tree, eight weeks before the normal pe riod of ripening, to a space 13 to 15 feet feet in dismeter, and to such an extent as to leave a depth of earth over the roots of only about two or three inches, which could be thoroughly warmed by the sun. He was surprised not only by the ripening of the fruit in the middle of July, but also by its superior juici ness and flavor. In another experiment the removal of the earth from the north side of a tree, alone, caused the fruit on that side to ripen several days earlier than that on the south side. Frequent watering was of course necessary in the above experiments. BALKY HORSE. Above all things, don’t whip your horse. If of a nervous, high-life nature, be kind to him, yet prompt. Let him know, as soon as you can, what you require of him. Never take him out of his position except by doing as you require. Be pa tient ; stay by him; keep every one else away. Never lead him; sit patently; sing or w’histle, as though nothing were the matter, and your horse will seem, as it were, to be ashamed of himself, and improve, and finally forget forever the tricks some dunce has taught him. REMEDY TOR RATTLESNAKE BITE. A Mr. Phillips, of Jacksonville, Flori da, who was engaged in removing a cou ple of rattlesnakes from one box to an other, w’as bitten on the hand by one of the reptiles. His assistant, without loss of time, immediately procured a beetle of whiskey and poured it into a bowl, and into this Mr. Phillips thrust his hand. The poison was thus effectually neutralised, and Mr. Philips experienced but little inconvenience from the bite. Philadelphia P. ess.] WONDERFUL MECHANISM. Shamokin, Pa., Aug. 10, ’73 Karl Ketter, a poor German miner of the Excelsior Colliery, which is situated within a few r miles of this borough, has exhibited a clock here during the past week of the most remarkable character. He had been three years constructing it —the first two years at intervals of time, and the last year he worked at it day and night, scarcely taking time enough to sleep and eat. He became almost a monomaniac on the subject. The clock w r as in his mind during his waking hours and in his dreams at night. He occupied alone a small wooden shanty, w’here he woiked, slept, and cooked his food. Whatever sleeping and cooking he did, however, w r as but little. It is thought that he w’ould have nearly starved but for the kindly interest which his neighbors took in him and his clock. They took him food and encouraged him in his labors. The clock, which was made with no other tools than two common jack-knives, is eight feet high and four feet broad. Its frame is of the Gothic style of archi tecture. It has sixteen sides, and is sur mounted by a globe, on top of which is attached a small golden cross. On the front of the clock there are four dial plates: one showing the day of the week, another shows the days of the month, another shows the minutes and fractions of a minute, and the other the horn- of the day. These dials are carved in the most unique manner, having emblematic figures upon them and around them of almost every imaginable description. Above the dial plates is a semi-circular gallery extending around about half the width of the[framework of the clock. Im mediately in front, in the centre of this semi-circular gallery, is the carved wood en figure of our Saviour. At the ends of the gallery on either side there is a small door opening into the body of the clock. Over the door, on the right hand side of the clock, as you stand facing it, is an eagle. Over the door, on the left hand side, is a cock. Twice a day—that is at 12.05 in the day and 12.05 at night—a sweet chime of bells begins to play, the small door on the right hand side opens, and the small wooden figures, admirably carved, of the twelve Apostles, appear and walk out slowly and gravely in procession, Peter in the lead. Advancing along the gal lery until they get opposite the figure of Jesus, each in turn, except Judas, slow ly turns round and bows his head to the Master, then recovers his former posi tion ; as Peter does this the cock crows. They continue to advance to the other side of the gallery and enter the small door on the left. As Judas, who is in the rear, with his right hand shielding his face and his left hand clasping the bag which is supposed to contain the thirty pieces of silver, comes in full view of the clock, the cock crows again. By a simple arrangement this procession can be made to come out and pass around the gallery at any time desired. On pedestals, at the extreme comers of the front of the clock, are carved wooden statues of Moses and Elias. In the rear are two obelisks of the Egyptian style, upon which are carved hierogliph ic characters to represent the ancient pe riods of the world’s history. The clock will run thirty-two hours without wind ing. Mr. Ketter, who is a native of Freidburg, in Baden, is very proud of his workmanship. He can scarcely bear to be away from it long enough to eat his meals. He lias been offered SIO,OOO for it by a person from New York, but he refused it. Mr. Ketter says he had often heard of the celebrated clock at Strasburg, but he never saw it, and he has no know ledge of how it was constructed; neither has he ever had any instruction in me chanics of any kind. His purpose is to exhibit it for a few months in this coun try, and then take it with him to Ger many. The recent test of Fire-Proof Safes by the English Government proved the superiority of Alum Filling. No other Safes filled with Alum and Plaster-of-Paris. MARVIN & co., . f 1 721 Chestnut St., Phila. SI-1860-X P PURELY A VEGETABLE PREPARATION, com. posed simply of well-known ROOTS, HERBS and FRUITS, combined with other properties-, whloh in their nature are Cathartic, Aperient, Nu, tritious, Diuretic, Alterative and Anti-Billions. The whole is preserved in a sufficient quantity of spirit (Tom the SIBAK CANE to keep them to any climate, which makes the PLANTATION Bitters one of the most desirable Tonics and Cathar tic. in the world. They are intended strictly as a Temperance Bitters only to be used as a medicine, and always according to directions. They are the sheet-anchor of-the feeble and debili tated. They act upon a diseased liver, and stimnlata to such a degree that a healthy action is at once brought about. Asa remedy to which Women are especially subject It is superseding even-other stimulant. Asa Spring and Summer Tonic they have no equal. They are a mild and gentle Purgative as well as Tonic. They Purify the Blood. They are a splendid Appetiser. They make the weak Strong. They purily and Invigorate. They cure Dyapepsia, Constipation and Headache. They act as a specific in all species of disorders which undermine tbs bodily strength and break down the animal spirit!. , Depot, 63 Park Place, New York. New Goods! New Goods! J. H. JONES & CO. Have just opened a beautiful assortment of PRINTS, SHOES AND CLOTHING New Designs, Latest Styles, Very Attractive. We cordially invite all t° call and see our Stock before purchasing. PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. A Tull Stock of Groceries and Provisions Always on Hand, TO WHICH WE INVITE THE ATTENTION OE PLANTERS. TEMPTING PRICES AT THE Southern Dry Goods Store 180 BROAD ST-, AUGUSTA, GkA._ OLD PRICES GIVING WAY TO NEW ONES. BARGAINS ALL OVER THE STORE. We are determined not to carry over any Spring or Summer Goods at all, therefore all persons in need of anything usually kept in a first-class Dry Goods Store should not delay calling on ls at once or send for samples. BARGAINS UV DRESS GOODS. Including Silks, Poplins, Grenadines, Japanese Cloths, Batiste Cloths, Muslins, Cambrics, white and colored 7awns, &c. BARGAINS In Hamburg Trimmings, Kid Gloves, Hosiery, Fancy Goods, Notions, &c. EXTRA BARGAINS In Lace Points—a beautiful assortment, from $2.50 to $75, and many other articles too numerous to mention. In all orders from samples sent we pay the express charges when retail bills amount to $lO or over. Before You Buy, Go To POWELL & MULLER’S, 189 Broad st. The People’s Clothing Store THE LARGEST HOUSE IN THE STATE, 268 Broad st., Augusta, W. A. RAMSEY, Agent. \\J E offer this season the largest line of Fine, Medium and Common Ready-made. Spring and VV Rummer CLOTHING for Men and Boys in the State. We have some of the most elegant goods that can be found, and every article of our own make, and equal to custou work, together with the finest line of FURNISHING GOODS in the city. HATS, CAPS, TRUNKS, VALISES, &c. New Goods constantly arriving. Large men or small will find no trouble in getting fitted. Boy* rom 2£ to 20 years old can be suited. No one should purchase Clothing before examining this mmense stock. ap 23 . W. A. RAJIISEY, Agent. NEW SPRING GOODS! coo come mm ! mE all i TO THE STORE OP S. D. BLA CKWELLI SON WHO ARE FAST RECEIVING A LARGE AND JUDICIOUSLY SELECTED STOCK OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE GOODS. SOMETHING WORTH REMEMBERING c On OUR BUYER (MR. KEAN) IS NOW IN NEW YORK, CULLING GEMS FROM ALL THE m LARGE IMPORTING HOUSES, in the United States, and feels confident that for Style, Quality & Cheapness HIS SELECTIONS WILL BE HARD TO SURPASS. Is coming in rapidly, and we cordially invite all to visit us daily, as there will be something NEW, ATTRACTIVE AAD NOVEL Every day, and it affords us pleasure to display them, whether you buy or not. We will sell to COUNTRY MERCHANTS at New York quo n tiotis Tor CASH. For approved City Acceptance we will sell on a credit to Ist October next, adding 1] per cent interest per month. Apply with perfect confidence in our willingness and ability to serve you as well as any house South, and you will not be disap pointed. Very Respectfully, KEAN & CASSELS. DOZIER.& WALTON UAI BROAD STREET, AXTGTJSTjA, GA. E. G. ROGERS, 14Y and 149 Broad Street. AUGUSTA, GA. I am now offering a very superior stock of FURNITURE Of all grades, comprising Parlor, Chamber, Din ing-room, Hall and office Furniture, in great va riety of style. My stock of Chamber Suites is especially varied, being the best in the city. UNDERTAKING-. My Undertaking department is now fully or ganized, and I am prepared to furnish Coffins, Cases, and Caskets in all the varieties, from the best manufactory aud of my own make. METALIC CASES from the most ap proved makers always on hand Experienced attendants. Calls attended at all hours. Apply at night, or on Sundays, in yar.d at rear of store at 102 GREENE ST., second honse below City Hall. [Myl4-3m FOE SALE. In Store and to Arrive. 100 Ilhds. Bacon SHOULDERS. 50 Buds. Bacon SIDES. 100 Hhds. Reboiled MOLASSES 20 Hhds. Cuba MOLASSES 20 luncheons Demarara MOLASSES 200 Barrels Reboiled MOLASSES 60 Barr. Is New Orleans MOLASSES 40 Hhds. New Orleans SUGARS 35 Hhds. Demarara SUGARS 150 Barrels Refined SUGARg 50 Tierces RICE 150 Tierces Choice Leaf LARD 150 Kegs Choice Leaf LARD 150 Boxes Pale SOAP 150 Boxes and half boxes Adamantine CAN DLES 100 Bags Rio, Java and Laguyra COFFEE. 325 Boxes Well-cured Bulk C. R SIDES 50 Boxes Well-cured Bulk SHOULDERS. Brooms, Woodware, Spices, Starch, Matches, Chewing and Smoking Tobacco, Twines, Wrap piug paper, at lowest wholesale prices. WALTON, CLARK & CO., Mch26 Augusta , Georgia. It. costs less than S3OO to make any S6OO Piano so!d through agents, all of whom make 100 ptr cent, profit. We have no agents, but ship direct to families at factory price. We make only one style and have butoneprice. Two Hundred and Ninety Dollars , net cash, with no discount to dealers or commissions to teach ers. Our lumber is thoroughly seasoned; our cases are Double Veneered with Rosewood", have front rouod corners, serpentine bottom and carv ed legs. We use the full iron plate with over strung bass, French Grand action with top dam pers, and our keys are of the best ivory, with ivory fronts. Our /’inno lies seven octaves, is 6 feet 9 inches long, 3 feet 4 inches wide and weighs, boxed, 955 pounds. Every Piano is fully warranted for five years. Send for illustrated circular, in which we re fer to over 700 Bankers, Merchants, etc., some of whom you may know, using our Pianos in 44 States and Territories. 11. S. PIAJVO CIO I>ll* A IVY, 810 BftmdiVi.y, N. V. 8®” Please state tcJicre you saw this notice. IS&tjBiAXJSS 4KSi ; * T vw2f ,t6E, ' l “- t SICIU “ g) HAIR Every year increases the populari ty of this valuable Hair Preparat ion; which is due to merit alone. Wo can assure our old patrons that it is kept fully up to its high standard; and it is the only reliable and perfect ed preparation for restoring Gray or Faded Hair to its youthful color, making it soft, lustrous, and silken. The scalp, by its use, becomes white and clean. It removes all eruptions and dandruff, and, by its tonic prop erties, prevents the hair from falling out, as it stimulates and nourishes the hair-glands. By its use, the hair grows thicker and stronger. In baldness, it restores the capillary glands to their normal vigor, and will create anew growth, except in extreme old age. It is the most eco nomical Hair Dressing ever used, as it requires fewer applications, and gives the hair a splendid, glossy appearance. A. A. Hayes, M.D., State Assay er of Massachusetts, says, “The constituents are pure, and care fully selected for excellent quality; and I consider it the Best Prepa ration for its intended purposes.” Sold by all Druggists, and Dealers in Medicines, Frioe One Dollar. Buckingham’s Dye. FOR THE WHISKERS. As our Renewer in many case 9 requires too long a time, and too much care, to restore gray or faded Whiskers, we have prepared this dye, in one preparation ; which will quickly and effectually accomplish this result. It is easily applied, and produces a color which will neither rub nor wash off. Sold by all Druggists. Price Fifty Cents. Manufactured by R. P. HALL, & CO., NASHUA, N.H. Prospectus for 1873—Sixth Yeax. The Aldine, An Illustrated Monthly Journal, universally admitted to be the Handsomest Periodical in the World. A Representative and Oham pion of American Tasto. Nol for Sal> in (tookor IV w St rrs THE ALDINE , while issued with nil the reg ularity, has none ot the temporary or timely in terest of ordinary periodicals. It is an elegant miscellany of pure, light and graceful literature; and a collection of pictures, the rarest specimens of artistic skill, in black and white. The real value and beauty of The Aldink w ill be most appreciated after being bound at the close of the year. The Aldink is a unique and original conception, alone and unapfiroached, absolutely without competition in price or character. The possessor of a complete volume cannot dupli cate the quantity of fine paper and engravings in any other shape or number of volumes foi ten times its cost; tind then there are the chromos, besides. Art Depart menf. The publishers, anxious to justify the confi dence bestowed during the past year, have ex erted themselves to the utmost to develop and improve the work; and the plans for the coming year, as unfolded by I he monthly issues, will astonish and delight even the most sanguine friends of The Aldine. T\je publishers are authorized to announce de signs from many of the roost eminent artists of America. A copiously illustrated Christmas number. Premium Ciiromos lor 1873. Every subscriber to The Aldine, who pays in advance for the year 1873, will receive, without additional charge, a pair of beautiful oil cliro inos, after J. J. Hill, the eminent English paint er. The pictures, entitled “The Village Belle’’ and “Crossing the Moor,” are 14 x 20 inches— are printed from 25 different plates, requiring 25 different impressions and tints to perfect each picture. The same Chromos are sold for S3O a pair in the art stores. These chromos wili be ound to surpass any that can be offered by other periodicals. The distribution of pictures of this grade free to the subscriber to a $5 periodical will mark an epoch in the history of art. in addition, The Aldine will reproduce exam ples ot the best foreign masters, selected witli a view to the highest artistic success and greatest general interest, avo ! ding such ns have become familiar, through photographs, or copies of aud kind. The quarterly tinted plates for 1873 will re produce four of John S. Davis’ inimitable ehily sketches, appropriate to the four seasons- They will appear in the January, April, July and Oc tober numbers, and they alone are worth ayear’s subscription The Literary Derailment will continue under the care of Mr. RICHARD HENRY STODDARD, assisted by the best wri ters and poets of the day, who will strive to have the literature of The Aldine always in keeping with its artistic attractions. TERMS,SS per year, In advance, with Oil Chromos free. The Aldine will hereafter only be obtainable by subscription. There will be no reduced or club rate; cash for subscriptions , must be sent to the publishers direct, or handed to the local agent, without responibility to the publishers, except iu cases where the certificate is given, bearing the facsimile signature of James Sutton & Cos. AGENTS WANTED.— Any person wishing to act permanently ns a local agent, will receive full and prompt information by applying to JAS. SUTTON & CO., Publishers 58 Maiden Lane, New York