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®|t ttotin j^ltcss. THE URGEST CIRCILATION. AUGUSTA, » A..: FRIDAY MORNING March 23,1586 Job I’rinliiiH In Plain and Fancy Colors, neatly, cheaply ami promply executed at this Office. Having fast power presses, the best material, and skilled workmen, enables us to do Job Work at the lowest figures aud best manner. • Letter from Dixie. Dear Press :—For my double dis course of to-day, I have only one text— The Dead. Day after day, week after week, I have seen notices of Tableaux, Concerts, Sabbath School resolutions, meetings of Committees; all for the purpose of rear ing a monument to the dead who have died for us. What kind of a monument ? Will it be one to please or benefit the dead ? They who walk in spirit the happy hunting- grounds of the Hereafter, or who— “ Summer high iu Heaven Upon the hills of God,” have probably seen grander and more glorious things among the stars than will ever be reared iu our City of the Dead ? Will it be to the living who mourn husbands, brothers or lovers, gone lo the other shore? Alas! the blended dews ot Calvary and of Lethe can alone cause flowers to grow again where hopes have withered; and the God who gave and took away can only heal the scars ol memory. Should it be to benefit the children of the dead? Yes. Let Georgia adopt the orphans of her dead; let every father seek to supply the place of those whose strong arms nnd true hearts mingle with the dust of all the fields of glory. Let every mother look for, and care for the fatherless little ones, w hose mothers gave husbands for the South; whose clothes are old and poor; whose feet are bare ; whose hearts are chilling as the cold wind blows, and no father's love gives shelter; whose souls are pure, but will not stay so, if assailed by the temptations of hunger poverty and poor clothes. That little boy, who lost his sire at Petersburg or Malvern Hill, might have j made a good man or a great one; is it too late ? That little beggar girl might 1 have become a lady: what will she be? If there were a Congress of the dead in your City Hall to-morrow, what sort of a monument would they vote them selves ? Not a marble shaft, noratablet for their names, but each brother would vote to build a home for his little brother or sister, or those of his comrade in arms; and each father would want an Asylum for his orphans, if they were poor, or hungry, or naked, or cold, or ignorant. Let the women of Georgia ami the men, build two orphan asylums. One for girls in Augusta; one for buys in At lanta. Not mere pens into which a few hundred frightened children are t) he put, and given coarse clothes and poor food, and with fools or brutes for teach, ers, who will whip them when they cry for the heroic dead, or grow stupid over the lesson a father could have taught so easily! There are enough child purga tories that pretend to be homes—build asylums. Give the boys a chance to he some thing better than street vagabonds; or even apprentices. Let the girls hope for a future beyond house-maid or hu man sewing-machine. Keep the already" bad from making the only ignorant so. The ignorant from the better bred; but improve all. Christ took little children in his arms and blessed them—and the little brats may have been as ragged and dirty and freckled as the scores who exist in the by-lanes and hovels of every Southern city. Georgia! old Empire State! Will you take a few and bless them ? Macon talks of sixty thousand dollars for an opera house. Will she give that for a home for the children of her dead defenders? Will Augusta? Will Sa. vannah ? WilljjAtlanta ? Build your monuments, but if you want the wings of the holy dead to fan its summit; if you want hero eyes to turn from the face of God to behold your work; if you want the martyrs of the Revolution to bless each stone with a prayer for you, aud crown the holy labor with a benediction on the builders; then fill it with their children 1 Put therosy boys and girls, or the pale and ragged ones of the dead, inside ; and if spirits can come back, you may listen for a rush of angel wings, and hear a chant iu the midnight air— “ Sweet as the hallowed anthem sent to hail Bethlehem's shepherds iu the lonely vale; When Jordan hushed his waves aud mid night still, Watched ou the holy towers of Zion’s bill.” I see that those blessed little girls,-the Queen Bisters, have given a concert to help the Sisters of Charity. If Miss Laura and Miss Fanny sang the song they sing so w 11—“Charity"—it was worth a dollar to every one who went. “Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the blessed three; Turning sadness into gladness— Heaven-born art thpu, Churity. I’ity roigneth in thy bosom, Kindness reigneth o'er thy heart, Gentle thoughts alone can sway thee, Judgment hath in thee no part. “Hoping ever, failing never, Though deceived, believing still; Long abiding, all confiding, To thy heavenly Fathor’s will. Never weary of well doing, Never fearful es the end ; Claiming all mankind us brothers, Thou dost all mankind befriend.” The Sisters need more money, and need a much larger house. They want a Convent to malch that big line Catho lic Church. * I have got a little girl in the care of those same Sisters, and if they are as kind from charity as they are from pay, the little poor girls they take have a good time. They don’t whip children, and Christ did not either 1 I expect the Legislature gave Governor Jenkins some funds for the children. Get the ladies and the Monument and him to. gether. Press. But I have been talking of the chil dren-of the dead ; aud sometimes even children die. It is bad to see a soldier die ; for a sword on the wall, and a name on a plank on the battle field, is not half so nice as the live man would be, with kind eyes, and beard just in the way of kisses. When a good woman or an old man dies, we miss the long familiar tone, and weep from that hunger of the heart, that bread cqn not satisfy. But chil dren die 1 Thank God, that the dead “die not for ever," but bloom again iu God's great flower garden and bloom for ever ! A late letter tells a sad tale in a few disjointed words ; “Ida H. Ould, youngest daughter of our friend, Samuel Thomas Britton, so long known to all who travelled to our 1 sister State, Carolina, born July loth, j 1847, died Jan. 18lit>, Sunday, 7 A. M.,” and I never heard of it til! yes- I terday. The child of religion but not profess ing it ; one of the five hundred who sang of Jesus at St. James'; and one of the many from there who have since seen Jesus and heard the angels sing. Every once and a while I see a nanio J know on a head-stone, or get a letter that tells me of a sweet face and loved voice gone for ever. Yet not for ever, for the great bouquet of God has many a flower I know, and the cool drops of th e water of life will keep the blossoms fresh till 1 come. I am not so good a boy as'so old a one should be ; but if all the children 1 know up there (and one of them is mine),were to tell God they wanted to see me, 1 reckon He would let me in. May be they will some day. I think I should know Ida there, and ex pect I would find lots of friends, from nineteen years old to three or four. Little friends refuse to stay little, and sometimes turn angels. Hope we all will some day. where “Beyond these voices there is peace.” Press, you never heard an angel sing, did you? Well, Tom Moore came pretty near it once, when he came across that little heathen or Mahometan angel —his Peri. Tlou and I had best get up such a tableau as he described ; it will be better for us when the “boatman pale” comes to ferry us over the “silent river.” “ Behold him kneeling there, By tbo child’s side, in humble prayer, While the same sunbeams shines upon The guilty and the guiltless one, And hymns ot joy proclaim thro’ Heaven, The triumph of a Soul forgiven.” But I am forgetting the Peri sonw; “Farewell, ye odors of earth that die, Passing away like a lover's sigh ; My feast is now on the Tooba Tree, Whose breath is tbo breath of Eternity.” “Farewell, ye vanishing flowers, that shone In my fairy wreath so bright aud brief; Oh ! what ore the brightest that ever have blown, To the Lote-tree, springing by Alla’s throne, Whose flowers have a soul [in every leaf.” Perhaps the lair girl we knew now sings in heaven the closing words of that immortal song : “Joy, joy for ever! —my task is done— The Gates are passed, and Heaven is won !” Novissimus. A. I) PICQUET, ESQ., WILL be supported for COUNTY' JUDGE at the election on the second Wednesday in May next, by mh2"—td MANY VOTERS. New Advertisements. Is. G. FILLETTE, JJILLINEEY AND Groocls, No. 213 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. CONSISTING IN PAItT OP Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s HATS and BONNETS in Straw, Silk, Crape and Lace. Spring and Summer RIBBONS Ladies’ Black Silk CIRCULARS Ladies' Black Silk BASQUES Ladies’ Zephyr Wool CLOAKS Ladies’ Zephyr Wool SHAWLS Ladies' Angola SHAWLS Ladies’ Point Lace COLLARS and CUFFS Ladies’ Val. Lace COLLARS and CUFFS Thread Lace COLLARS and CUFFS Cambric COLLARS and CUFFS Embroidered L.C. HANDKERCHIEFS 11. S. 1.. C. HANDKERCHIEFS Tape Border HANDKERCHIEFS Swiss INSERTING and EDGING Cambric INSERTING and EDGING Vallencienne and Thread Lace INSERTING and EDGING Cotton Cambric and Jaconet INSERT ING and EDGING Checked and Striped NAINSOOK Checked and Striped Swiss MUSLIN Plain and Figured Swiss MUSLIN Fine White FRENCH LAWN Fine White FRENCH MUSLIN BYADENE SWISS MUSLIN PUFFED JACONET for Spensers BALMORAL STRIPES FLUTED FRILLING for Balmorals Swiss and Lace SPENSER WAISTS Black DRESS SILKS Black SILK GRENADENE Black BAREGE GRENADENE Black CRAPE MARETZ Black TAMARTINE Black TAM IRE Black and white SILK GRENADENE Black and Purple GRENADENE Black French CAMBRIC Black French LAWN Black LACE VEILS Black LOVE VEILS Black CRAPE VEILS Black, Brown, Blue, Purple aud Green CAUSE VEILS Colored VEIL BAREGES Black and Col’rd BUGLE TRIMMING DRESS and MANTILLA SETS, iu black and colors Black and Fancy DRESS BUTTON’S Ladies’ FANCY NECK TIES Large lot White BRILLIANTS Ladies’ White COTTON HOSE BRIDAL ILLUSIONS BRIDAL WREATHS. AI.HO Pina, Needles, Hair Pins, Spool Cotton, Hooks and Eyes, and many other desirable and necessary articles not enu merated. JB*3“Thfi attention of the Ladies is invited to tin: new goods, which will be sold low for cash. mh23—lm BaUer, Cheese, Fruit. Q CHURCHILL, CORNER Mcixrnsil A ,Y/> RE YXOI. RE STREETS, HAS JUST RECEIVED 1C firkins choice GOSIIEN' BUTTER 12 large fine Factory CHEESE 30 buxea fresh ORANGES 10 barrels' APPLES in fine order TO barrels Planting aud Bating POTATOES i> barrels pure old CIDER VINEGAR I ALSO A fine assortment offresh GARDEN SEED, together with many other article* for sale lew. t mu 23—Ot IS. CAl’i'l.Y, M3 BROAD STREET, Wishes to dispose of his stock, consisting of 301) COFFINS, Mahogany, Poplar, Covered, and Pine. Also, OLD FURNITURE, LUMBER, ttc. mh 23-1 » For Sale. \ PLANTATION, WITH ALL Li. the appliances for making a crop, for sale low ; or will he exchanged for mer chandize, etc. For particulars apply at the Daily Press office. mh23— l2t« Sew Goods! Latest Styles! ■yy HITE GOODS DRY GOODS DRESS GOODS LADIES’ AND MISSES’ HATS LADIES’ BONNETS MANTILLAS HOOP SKIRTS SUNDOWNS ALL KINDS OU BRAIDS, TINSEL CORDS, HAT and DRESS ORNAMENTS And every article required by Ladies in their Wearing Apparel. For sale at very moderate prices, by MRS. PUGHE, 190 Broad street. FOR CHIARI.ESTOIS ypA SAVANNAH. The new and elegant fast Steamer, “Z. R. VANCE." J. J. GUTHRIE, Commander, Will have quick dispatch for the above Ports. For Freight or Passage, having elegant State Room accommodation, apply to H. EDMONDSTON <fc CO.. mb"l ts Agents, Jackson street. New Advertisements. Kew Sprint? nnd Summer Goods. T AM NOW RECEIVING, AT THE J old stand of MILLER & WARREN. the largest, must carefully selected, aud cheapest stock of SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS That I have had the pleasure of showing my friends and customers for some timo. My GOODS were bought for cash, when at their lowest figure, and I intend selling them AS LOW AS THE LOWEST. All I ask ot my friends and the public generally is to give me a call, see and price for themselves. Don’t charge anything for showing GOODS. My stock consists of all the latest styles of DRESS GOODS, Plain GRENADINES Brocade GRENADINES POULT DE SOU IE TWISTED SILKS ROBES ALEXANDRA BAREGE D’ANGLIEIt BAREGE HERNANM Black Iron BAREGE, plain and second mourning Crepe MERtTZ, Printed LAWNS ORGANDIES and MUSLINS, of every description A largo stock of WHITE GOODS. IRISH LINENS, LINEN SHEETING PILLOW CASE LINEN, Blea and Brn SHEETING 10-4 and 11-4 LINEN DAMASK And Bleached GOODS of every style at LOW PRICES My stock of COVERINGS Cannot be surpassed. Amongst them can he found SHAWLS, LACE POINTS, SILK SAQUES LACE ROTUNDS, something entirely new, Barege and Linen SAQUES and DUSTERS of every style. FOR GENT’S AND BOYS’ WEAR I have a very large stock of FRENCH CASSIMERES LINEN DRILLS LINEN DUCK FANCY LINENS White Linen DRILLS, COTTONADES, And everything to he found in a first-class DRY GOODS HOUSE, All of which I intend selling at a very SMALL PROFIT. I shall he pleased to see all my old friends and former customers. COUNTRY MERCHANTS Will find it to their interest to examine my stock before purchasing elsewhere, as I shall offer great inducements to WHOLESALE BUYERS. DUTCH BOLTING CLOTHS Os every number. .VNotes of Georgia Railroad ,fc Bank ing Company. Central Kail Road, and City Council of Augusta, will be received at par. JAMES MILLER, mh23— lm Opposite Globe Hotel. Gold ! Gold !! Gold !!! F IS Iv GILDS FINE SIGNS, FANCY GLASS CARDS Or anything else—“so called” PAINTS FURNITURE, SIGNS, FANCY ARTICLES, TIN WARE, and LETTERS TRUNKS, UMBRELLAS, Etc., F.te., (OPPOSITE POST OFFICE) Mclntosh St. AUGUSTA, GA. in tn-22—ts l udei'Hootl’s Cans. ‘tLAMS, QUAIL, TURKEY’, CHICKEN AND MUTTON. FRESH FIGS, Half Barrels BEEF, and LABRADORE HERRING. mh22—3t MAUDE A WRIGHT. J. J. BROWNE, WILDER, LOOKING GLASS A XI) PICTURE FRAME MAKER. OLD FRAMES RE-GILT, TO LOOK EQUAL TO NEW, OLD 1 AWTI 70S CAREFULLY CLEANED, LINED AND VARNISHED. ALL WORK WARRANTED, AND DONE AS CHEAPLY AS AT THE NORTH. 1.17 BROAD STREET, rnhlG-fim Acgvsta, Ga. I Want*. WANTED. JMGHT PER CENT. CONFEDERATE BONDS, Wanted by BRANCH, SONS k CO. mh2o-6 HOARDERS WANTED. Fifty boarders CAN BE ACCOMMODATED, With or without Lodging, at the BLENNERIIASSETT RESTAURANT Corner Campbell and Walker streets, OPPOSITE GEORGIA R. R. DEPOT. The terms are the most favorable of any House in the city, when the character of the fare is considered. ISAIAH DAVXS, Proprietor. THE BLENNERIIASSETT SALOON Is still conducted by the old proprietor, who takes pleasure in commending Mr. Davis to his friends and the public generally. rahlO— ts E. B. PURCELL. Southern Medical & Surgical Third series— EDITED BY JOSEPH JONES, M. D. Professor of Medical Chemistry in the Medical College of Georgia, at Augusta; and formerly Surgeon- in the Provisional Army of t/ie Confederate States. The SOUTHERN MEDICAL and SUR GICAL JOURNAL, of Augusta, Georgia, was established in 1836, by the late Professor Milton Antony, the illustrious founder of the Medical College of Georgia, and bus al ways commanded the respect and patronage of the Profession, not only as one of the oldest and largest American Periodicals, but chiefly by those valuable original com inunicatio is, contributed by the most emi nent, scientific men and practitioners of the Southern States, which have enriched its pages during the past thirty years. The volumes already issued, embrace over six teen thousand closely printed pages, con taining more than six hundred original communications from professional men throughout the Southern States, besides an immense number of valuable articles, select ed from its ample list of American and foreign exchanges. During the recent"civil war, the publica tion of the SOUTHERN MEDICAL AND •SU RGICAL JOURNAL was necessarily sus pended. At tbc close of a bloody and dis astrous war, which has ended in the destruc tion and surrender of the Southern armies, aud iu the destruction and capture of the archives of the Confederate Government, and of the immense stores of medical facts nnd observations accumulated by the Medical Officers of the Confederate Army, under the direction of their intelligent and efficient Surgeon General, it is believed by medical men of the highest standing in this section of the Mouthy that it is important to estab lish at this time a Medical Periodical «f sufficient size to furnish ample room for the publication of the valuable experience of the Medical Officers of the late Confederate Army. It will be tbo earnest effort of the Editor to sustain the former usefulness of this Journal as a medium for the communica tion of the discoveries and advancing doc trines of science and of all the departments of Medicine, and of the facts and discove ries tending to develop the material pros perity of the South, and especially of the valuable Medical statistics and observations of the recent disastrous revolution. In view of the good accomplished in times past by the publication of the SOUTHERN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL, the Editor feels no hesitation in urging its claims upon its former patrons and friends. The SOUTHERN MEDICAL AND SUR GICAL JOURNAL will be issued every TWO MONTHS, commencing Ist of July, ]S<>6, and each number will contain ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX PAGES of printed matter, (octavo) : the yearly publication will therefore number Odc Thousand and Fifty-six pages, and be equal iu size to the largest American and Euro-* pcau Journals. TERMS— Five Dollars Ter Annum, in Advance. Subscribers arc requested to send forward their names at once, as it is important that the Publisher should have some idea before hand of the number of copies to be printed. The Publisher would respectfully call the attention of Druggists, and of the Import ers and Manufacturers of Drugs, Chemicals and Philosophical Apparatus, and of Book Publishers and Sellers, and of Busiuess Men generally, to the SOUTHERN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL as the best means of Advertising in the Southern coun try terms of advertising. One Third Page, per annum S2O Oft One Half Page, per annum 3ft 00 Whole Page, per annum JO 00 Transient advertising inserted on special contract. All Exchange Books for review and Com munications relating to the Literary De partment of the JOURNAL should be sent free of expense, and addressed to the Editor, Dlt. JOSEPH JONES, 117 Telfair street, Augusta. Ga. Communications on all Business connected with the SOUTHERN MEDI CAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL, must be addressed to the Publisher. E. H. PUGHE, Publisher and Printer, u Daily Press” Establishment, mill—ts Augusta, Ga. SCREVEN IKOVSE. g A VANN AII, GEORGIA, THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL Having been renovated and newly furnished, is now open for the reception of the travel ling public. GEO. McGINLY, Proprietor. mhl6—6m A. J. SETZE, OF AUGUSTA. GA., WITH JOIINES, BERRY <fc CO., Importers and Jobbers of Silks and Fancy Dry Goods, No. 527 Market street, Phila delphia : will purchase for Southern Mer chants, and others, all kinds of Goods, charging the usual commission. Orders so licited. a. J. SEIZE, Horse Stolen. Last night, my blind horse was stolen from my stable. He was a Sorrel Horse, about sixteen hands high, with a white blaze in the face, and a white place on his mane* A suitable reward will be given for him. mh22—i>t* L. ROLL. Auction Hales* By Bell, Wylly A Christian AUCTIONEERS. AI'CTIO.I SALE. QTEAMKR AMAZON.—WILL RR sold for cash, at public outcry, a&(Tt/> the highest bidder, in front of the Ex>:h ln „ in the City of Savannah, at 12 o’clock finely, on WEDNESDAY, 28th March, 18« the Steamer “AMAZON,” as she now in the Savannah River, about four mil„ below this city. Sold per order of Board of Survey, on account of and for the benefit of all concerned. BELL, WYLLY A CHRISTIAN, Auctioneers, mh2o—9t Savannah, Os. T. Savage Ileyward A. Sons A UCTIONEERS, iLL SELL EVERY MONDAY WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY We hold ourselves RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL GOODS ONCE IN OUR POSSES SION—if stolen, lost, or in any way nit forthcoming. L/bsS BY FIRE EXCEPTED. mhß—tf Sale of Government Property AT MACON, GA. By direction of the SECRETARY OF WAR, ALI, THE BUILDING MATERIALS, STEAM ENGINES, MACHINERY, TOOLS. IRON, COPPER, LUMBER, And Stores of Various Kinds, which were collected at Macon, Ga., by the Confederate Government, for the erection and permanent operation of a large Armory, Laboratory, aud Arse ual; and also TOOLS, MACHINERY, AND MATERIALS collected from Iron Works and Armories in the States of Alabama and Georgia, will be sold at PUBLIC AUCTION. Among the articles to be sold, are:— ‘l.ftOO lbs. COPPER—pigs 42,000 lbs. COPPER—round rod 38,000 lbs. COPPER—bat -20,000 lbs. COPPER—sheet 200,000 lbs. WROUGHT IRON-bar and rod 500 tons PIG IRON 750 tons CAST IRON—unservice able shells 54,000 lbs. LEAD—pigs 45,000 lbs. TlN—block and sheet 4,000 lbs. CHAlN—crane and cable 15,000 yards CLOTH—Cotton, Eng lish Serge, oiled, and enameled 32.000 lbs. POWDER 8,000 feet BELTING —gum and leather, assorted sizes 200 MACHINES—DriIIs, Planers, Milling, Screw-cutting, Steam and Trip Hammers Besides— Harness, Saddles, Horse Equipments, Infantry ami Cavalry Accoutrements, Blankets, Wayon and Gun Carriage Irons, 35 unserviceable Cannon—irvn and bronze, 80 broken Gun Carriages, Laboratory Stores and Materials , Separate Farts (new) for Springfield Muskets and Colt's Revolvers, and an assortment of Paints and Oil*. Ihe attention of Northern buyers is called to this sale, which is a large one, and ot valuable property. 1’ ull printed Catalogues of the prop erty to be sold, can be obtained from the Chief of Ordnance at Washington, D. C., and from the Commanding Offi cer of the Augusta Arsenal, Georgia. The sale will commence on WEDNESDAY, April 4, 1866, and- continue every day until all the property is sold. Terms cash, in U. S. currency. D. W. FLAGLER, Capt. Ord. Brev. Lt. Col., mh9-td Com. Augusta Arsenal. Paper! Paper! Paper! JHtANCIS M. STONE, MANUFACTURER AND WIIOLKSALE DEALER IN WRITING PAPER, RULED AND I'LAIX, NEWS, BOOK, axd WRAPPING, PRINTERS CARDS, INK, BRONZE, ETC., ETC. BLANK BOOKS, ENVELOPES, and STAPLE STATIONERY 141 WALNUT STREET, CINCINNATI, OHIO. Particular attention given to mail orders. Paper of any size and weight mads to order. mh2o—lra J. F. HEUIBLER. C. H. BRADY. Ileuislcr & Brady, jjMJRNITURE REPAIRERS, VARNISHERS AND POLISHERS. PAPER HANGING AND WALL COLORING Reasonably and Promptly Done. All kinds of COACH and CARRIAGE PAINTING Faiths ully and Cheaply Executed. Mclntosh Street, Corner Ellis, mlil6-6w AUGUSTA, GA.