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LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
AUaUSTA, C* A. t
SUNDAY MORNING July 1, 18*8
LETTER FROM DIXIE.
Dear Press: From nu occasional
poem flower in your vegetable garden
of advertisements, I judge that you
share that love of rhyme, common to
papers and readers.
A negro, alias freedman, alias Amor,
ican citizen, once thus learnedly dis
coursed on the art of musical numbers:
“Thar am a difference twixt poetry
and blank verse, thusly if I say
“Tumble ober mill dam,
Comes down ker slam,
“Dat am poetry, but if Isa
“Tumble ober mill dam,
Como down ker-splasb,
“Dat am blank verse.”
All of which is unanswerable as the
logic of the Greensboro’ cook : “Old
Missus is bound to be a hundred years
now, because she was nigh on to forty
when Mass Boby died, and that’s eight
years ago!”
Which is as sensible as the darkey
who beheld a balloon and its accom
panying aeronaut alight in the field
where he was at work, and the man
come out of the wicker car. All the
darkies scattered for life, and this one
cut a mule loose and broke for town.
He reached his master, halless, bare
back (mule), scared, and exclaiming.
“Oh, Master, Master, the Day of Judg
ment hab come, sartin, sure, right out
in the big field, fur an angel come
down from Heaven in a big bladder 1”
All of which has nothing to do with
poetry, which all people—especially
pretty girls—love in some of its various
grades.
As music has an ascending scale,
from the whistle of the contraband, and
“Mary Blane,” of the organ-grinder, up
to the Anvil Chorus and the Twelfth
Mass; so arises poetry from the Chero
kee doggerel—
“On wings of love away I’ll fly,
From Groceree to Groceri,”
Through the negro minstrel series—
“My darling Nelly Gray,
Up m Heaven there they say,
There shall never be parting any more,”
On, on, through the witchery of Tom
Moore
“The heart that once truly loves, nover
forget*.
But as truly loves on to the close,
As the sunflower turns on her god when bo
sets,
The seme amilo that she turned when he
‘rose,’ ”
Up, up, to Shakspeare or Milton, and
some immortal utterances like the la
ment of Eve—
“And must I leave the Paradise ’ Fit home
Os Gods, where I had hoped to spend
Quiet, though sad, tho respite of that day
Which must bo mortal to us both.”
Suppose, therefore, that I give you a
sample of the “Tumble ober Mill Dam”
and Raty Darling style, not aspiring to
the inaccessible peaks of song.
The following is a capital example of
the difference between sound and seuse,
for the original and the parody mean
the same thing, yet one is fine, the other
absurd :
“excelsior” rendered into plain
ENGLISH.
The shadows of night were cornin’ down
swift,
And the dazzling snow lays drift on drift,
As thro’ a village a youth did go,
A carryiu’ a flag with this motto—
Higher !
O'er a forehead high curled copious hair,
His nose a Roman, complexion fair,
O’er an eagle eye an auburn lash,
And fie never stopped shouting through his
moustache — Higher !
He saw thro’ the windows as he kept getting
upper,
A number of families slttin’ at supper,
But he eyed the slippery rocks very keen,
And fled as he cried, and cried while a
fleein’ — Higher !
“Take care, you there!” saidan old woman,
“ stop !
It’s blowin’ gales up there on top—
You’ll tumble off on t’other side !”
But the nurryin’ stranger loud replied—
Higher !
“Oh! don’t you go up such a shocking
night,
Come sleep oh my lap,” said a maiden
bright.
On his Roman nose a tear drop come,
But still he remarked, as ho upward clomb,
Higher !
“Look out for the branch of the sycamoro
tree,
Dodge rollin’ stones, if any you see!”
Bayin’ which, the farmer went homo to bed,
And the singular voice renlied overhead,
Higher !
About a quarter past six tho next after
noon,
A man accidentally goin* up scon
Heard spokeu above him as often as twice,
The very same word in a very weak voice,
Higher!
And not far, I believe, from quarter to seven,
He was slow gettin’ up, aud tho road bein’
uneven,
Found the stranger dead in the drifted
snow,
Still clutchin’ the flag with the motto—
Higher!
Yes, lifeless, defunct, without any doubt,
The lamp of his being decidedly out,
“On the dreary hills.de the youth was a
layin,
And there was no more uso for him to be
sayin, Higher.'
Are ydu horrified? Well, I will try
my own machine and grind out some
thing else—l do hot sa y—better. Here
goes.
ALECK rOKTIIY.
All poets love to dream of namof,
Ophelia, Alice, Mauao;
But in the Greensboro boquet,
The prettiest is Claude.
I am not going to write your praise,
Nor tell how good nor fair;
Why tell what everybody knows,
Who shares with you, thouir?
Besides, I do not like to praise,
Because the words I write,
Seem common place beside the theme,
And dull and cold and trite.
The flowers that in your garden bloom,
All claim you for a sister,
And when you leave ihe sunny walk,
All weop for tho disaster.
The violets lift their timid eyes,
Tho roses look with blushes,
And every little singing bird,
Its modest oarrol hushes,
And why do all the singers hush,
And why the flowers rejoice?
Perhaps they watch the parting lips,
And think to hear your voico.
But do not think I flatter, Qnccn ;
For that I would not do.
For even what I prize so much—
The kind regard of you.
“Forget mo not,” one flower says.
And “love me,” says tho rose,
And this is all tho Poet says,
Who only looks aud goes.
No-v another turn of the screw, and
the machine starts again:
FOH MV TKT.
There's a dear little name I love the best
Os all in this wide world,
A name I dream of ’neath the stars,
When the wings of the day are furled.
And I dream of the name when dawning
day.
Opens the doors of the East,
Until its dying glories sink
On the breast of the beautiful West.
The sweetest name on earth’s green sod.
The name of the Virgin Mother of God.
There's a beautiful child I have loved for
years,
And will love ’till life shall close;
And I watch her opening womanhood
As I watch an opening rose.
Bui nothing of all tho garden bowers
Do I love as I love her ;
And neither music, sunshine, flowers,
So charming over were;
Earth’s flowers bloom for frosts and fears,
But children’s, for the eternal years.
Tfie name and the child together blend
In a heart bouquet I will always keep,
’Till tho angels of God shout “harvest
home,”
. And the fields of the stars shall reap.
A part of myself, is the human flower,
Cherished long, to be cherished ever ;
’Till she and I together climb
The glittering hills of tho far, For
f.Ver
Where souls like flowers, for over bloom,
“ Beyond tho cloud and, beyond the
tomb.”
Ail of which I presume, is as charm
ing to you, as the mean face of the bi
ped animal called man, who walks about
Augusta depreciating tire Rational Cur
rency, and in the e times of depression
and distress, talks of raising rents that
are too high, or extorts them from the
merchant or the widow alike, in GOLD.
The days of 1837 and 1838, are com
ing again, when Broad street, stores
rented for two hundred dollars !
“Lord bless the Shylock skinflint,
Who speculates on distress ;
Who runs the people’s money down,
To buy it up for lets.
May his dollars hum his Angers,
And nothing give content;
Until his Divil master takes
The mean old soul for rent.”
“Believe me, if all those endearing
young charms.”
“Ever of Thou,”
***
Prentice and Browxi.ow.— One of
our exchanges thus sums up the fight
betweeu these two veterans :
“Greek meets 0 reek"—brother meets
brother,
Hurrah for one—well done the other!
Wide’s the field the heroes fight in,
That’s the thing they both delight in !
The truth they seldom told before,
But now they tell them by the score!
The sight’s between a devil and witch,
Either may whip, we don’t care which.
A Quarter of Twelve. —“ Ben, why
were you out so late last night?” “It
wasn’t so very late—only a quarter of
twelve !” “How dare you sit there and
tell me that ? I was awake when you
came, and looked at my watch. It was
three o’clock.” “Well, isn’t three a
quarter of twelve?”
—Powers’ friends are endeavoring to
have his statute ot “America” (which
has beet! boxed up in New York for the
last fifteen years) brought to Washing
ton, and set up in the centre of the
rotunda of the Capitol.
—An old man by the name of Hop
kins, living in Adrian, Michigan, has
just been made the happy father of
“triplets,” all girls. A young lady,
commenting on the wonderful prosperi
ty of this family, says she knows many
young married men who are not one
third as smart as old Mr. Hopkins.
The Rent Question.
Our City cotemporaries have at length
awakened lo the importance of this sub
ject, and have each devoted a small
space in their local columns to its con
sideration.
The Chronicle and Sentinel thinks
the present policy of the landlords very
wrong, and suggests that they adopt the
rents of 1860, with twenty-five per cent,
added, the tenant to pay Ihe taxes for
the current year upon the property
rented.
The Constitutionalist thinks that the
landlords are not to blame—that the
fault is with the tenants. The latter
rent a “corner store,” make lots of
money, and everybody sees it. Direct
ly, “old Zipporah” (that's the landlord,
we presume) is besieged by scores of
applicants for “that corner,” having
discovered that the secret of the mer
chant’s success is in “the stand.” Of
fers are made that astonish even “old
Zip” hiinseif; “aud landlords, like mer
chants, being selfish, will get ail they
can for that which they have for sale.”
Now there can be no objection to any
one’s getting all he can for his goods.
That is not so much the question, al
though we object to extortion too; but
the great objection is the charging of
rents at a rate of money NOT in
GENERAL USE!
Asa remedy for the evil complained
of, our cotemporary proposes that mer
chants inquire if Broad Street is the
only street “fit for business,” and men
of business and mechanics determine
that a suburban residence is preferable
to a house “convenient to business.”
Although the Constitutionalist does
not, in our judgment, take the proper
view of the subject, and the Chronicle
and Sentinel treats it very briefly, we
are glad that they have not ignored it
altogether. “In the multitude of coun
sellors there is wisdomand a free and
full discussion will eventually result in
good to the whole community.
Our proposition is for tin 1 >l’. >•’
to put the rents as low v . s i •
can; and establish the a fixt '
in currency, not at go! tV.,
tenant in doubt as tr
will be SI,OOO or $20,00-;i - , .
before the year is ou .
A card from Mr. 11. C
terdny morning's Cons I.
uounccs thathe will store i Cot in
other produce in another ware! e tha
his own, being compelled to vacate his
own on account of the rent demanded
of him for the ensuing year.
We have heard of other merchants
who are going to give up their stores or
leave the City. Indeed, the ruinous
policy of the landlords of this City, if
persisted in, will soon be apparent. Let
us hope that they will see the error of
their ways and correct them as soon as
possible.
An Unwelcome Guest.—lt is stated
that Ann Archy has returned to Mexico.
Special Notices.
CITY TAX ON GROSS SALES.
—The City Tax on gross amount of Sales,
and receipts for the quarter ending 30th of
June, is now due. Persons interested will
please have their returns ready when called
upon by the Assistant Collector, as he can
call but once.
J. S. PATERSON.
Assistant Collector.
July Ist, lSor>. jy 1 — 3
TIIE SOUTH CAROLINA RAIL
ROAD COMPANY having re-established
its Receiving and Forwarding Office, Mer
chandize and Produce consigned to its
Agent from the Interior to Northern Ports,
and from Northern Ports to the Interior,
will be cared for and shipped to ilie point
of destination without delay and free of
Commission.
Consignments to be forwarded by sea
must always be accompanied by Bills of
Lading, and letter of advice, with instruc
tions to insure if desired.
E. N. FULLER,
Receiving and Forwarding Agent.
ju2B—6
tfCSgr 2 ' I)R ’ J ’ P ’ H - DROWN, DENTIST
formerly of Atlanta), Office 220 Broad
Street, over Kersey’s Clothing Store. All
Dental Operations executed in the best,
neatest and most durable manner.
my 10—3 in-
Wanted.
WANTED
A SMART, ACTIVE BOY, WHO CAN
read and write well, to learn the Print
ing Business in all its branches.
Apply at
DULY PRESS OFFICE.
juSfl—
WANTED.
A YOUNG LADY WHO CAN COME
well recommended, desires a situation
as TEACHER of small children, in two or
throe families. Address
G. IV. W.,
ju29—lra Augusta, Ga.
Kid Gloves.
QNLY ONE DOLLAR A PAIR!
For the Best KID GLOVES, at
1. KAHN & CO.’S,
julj—Bm 262 Broad Street.
New Advertisements.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE NOTICE.
gATISFACTOKY ARRANGEMENTS
HAVING BEEN EFECTED WITH
BANKS AND BANKERS,
OF THE HIGHEST CREDIT,
IN GREAT BRITAIN,
AND
ON TIIE CONTINENT OF EUROPE,
Sight Drafts,
GA A' BE PROCURED OX
ENGLAND
IRELAND
SCOTLAND
GERMANY
FRANCE
SWITZERLAND
BELGIUM
SWEDEN
DENMARK
AND
OTHER COUXTRIES OF EUROPE.
INHERITANCES
AND
ALL OTHER CLAIMS
COLLECTED OX ANY OF TIIE
PRINCIPAL CITIES OF EUROPE.
LETTERS OF CREDIT
WILL BE ISSUED BY
> ! NEW YORK BANKERS
r CITY OF EUROPE
TO BE VISITED BY
v I< AN TRAVELLERS,
-N BE SECURED THROUGH
BRANCH, SONS & CO.,
RANKERS,
jyl—tf AUGUSTA, GA.
Prepare Your Advertisements
J7OR THE
“ GEORGIA CLIPPER,”
To be Published at
WARRENTON, GA.
- The SPECIMEN NUMBER of tho new
Series will bo issued in a few days.
Mr. ROYAL will call on most of our
merchants Monday or Tuesday.
jyl—it*
TAKE NOTICE.
JUST OPENED A FINE SELECTION
of Gold Masonic Jewelry, consisting of
Breast l’ins, Studs, Seals, Enameled Finger
Rings, Watch Keys, Charms, etc., to suit
every true Mason in every Degree. Also a
large assortment of Solid Gold and Silver
Watches, Rich Jewelry, Silver Ware, and
Fancy Goods of every variety, for sale low,
at A. PRONTAUT’S
Watch and Jewelry Establishment,
163 Broad street, below Augusta Hotel,
jyl—6t
TO RENT.
A COMPL F, TE L Y FURNISHED
A HOUSE, with six Rooms, and in a
desirable part of the City, will be rented
from now until Ist of October. To an ac
cepted party who will insure the Furniture,
it will be lot ou reasonable terms.
Address KEY BOX 71,
jyl :j Augusta, Ga.,
NOTICE.
THE SOUTHERN MEDICAL AND
SURGICAL JOURNAL, first Number,
for July, New Series, containing One Hun
dred and Eighty-Four Pages Reading Mat
ter, is now ready for delivery.
PRlCE—Single Copies...ONE DOLLAR
Per Annum...FlVE DOLLARS
IN' ADVANCE.
Orders respectfully solicited by
K. H. PUG HE,
Publisher,
ju3o—tf Augusta, Ga.
Mr. Robert Weber,
(Graduate of the Conservatories of Leipsic and
Berlin),
RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE
public that he gives instruction in
INSTRUMENTAL and VOCAL MUSIC.
jrJ@“Applieation may ho left at J. C.
SCHREINER A SON’S Music Store, Broad
stro ;t ju.3o—lm
To Gold Operators.
PARTIES WISHING TO BUY OR SELL
GOLD IN NEW YORK, can do so
through us, thereby giving or securing New
York prices.
jyl—2t. BRANCH, SONS A CO.
TURTLE SOUP !
Genuine green
TUR T L E SOUP!
AT THE “OGLETHORPE,”
THIS DAY,
’ From 11 to 1 o’clock.
Families supplied at One Dollar per
quart. 0 ju3o—tf J
New Advertisement*.
CHANGF OF BUSINESS.
JN VIEW OF
MAKING A CHANGE IN MY
BUSINESS,
I WILL SELL MY
ENTIRE STOCK
0 F
Millinery
AND
Dancy Groods
AT AND BELOW COST!
TIIE STOCK
CONSISTS IN TART OF
RIBBONS
FLOWERS
LACES
BONNETS
HATS
BELTS
BUCKLES
FANCY TUCK COMBS
LINEN, LACE, AND MUSLIN
COLLARS AND CUFFS
REAL LACES
WHITE AND BLACK
IMITATION LACES
SYMERNA LACES
LINEN CROCHET EDGINGS
SWISS MUSLIN
JACONET
NAINSOOK
CHECKS and STRIPES
Etc., Etc.
HAIR BRAIDS
CURLS
COILS
GLOVES—Kid , Silk, and Thread
LACE MITTS
BALMORAL AND IIOOP SKIRTS
WITH A GREAT MANY OTHER
FANCY ARTICLES
NOT MENTIONED.
L. G. FILLETTE,
~ 213 BROAD STREET,
jyl—2w
New Advertisements.
HATS ! HATS!
jyjENß’, BOYS’, AND CHILDREN’S
Straw, Leghorn, Felt, and Wool
HATS,
A fine assortment just received by
DAVIDSON A CO.,
jyl—l 210 Broad Street.
SHOES! SHOES!
A GOOD VARIETY OF LADIES’
Gents’, and Children’s
SHOES,
JUST OPENED,
by DAVIDSON & CO.,
jul—l 210 Broad Street
Kerosene Oil and Lamps.
WE CONTINUE TO SELL IN ANY
quantity the very best KEROSENE
OIL, Bedroom, Stand, and Parlor LAMPS—
improved Burners.
CHIMNEYS and WICKS of all kinds,
all at the Lowest Market Price, by ”
DAVIDSON & CO.,
jul—l 210 Broad Street.
Withdrawal.
MY CONNECTION WITH THE FIRM
of LATIIROP, MUSTIN A CO.
ceased on 28th June.
jul—3 S. S. LATHROP.
Auction Sales.
C. V. Walker & Cos.
AUCTIONEERS.
WILL SELL—
On TUESDAY, July 3d,
AT LOWER MARKET HOUSE,
TWO HOUSES AND LOTS
One situate No. 58 Walker Street, the
other No. 30 Fenwick Street.
For all particulars, apply to
G. H. MEYER,
ju3o—td 144 Broad street.
Day, Russell & Benjamin,
AUCTIONEERS.
YY7ILL "SELL—e
VV At LOWER MARKET,
On Ist TUESDAY in JULY NEXT—
At 11 o’clock A. M.—
1 Fine Large Work MULE
AI.SO,
10 ShAres National Express Company
STOCK.
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Stocks & Bonds ! Stocks & Bonds!
Day, Russell & Benjamin,
AUCTIONEERS.
YYTILL SELL EVERY
VV WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY
(In connection with their regular sale)
At 11 1-2 A. M* Precisely )
Bank Stocks
Kail Road Stocks
Loan Association Stocks
Factory Stocks
Bonds
Real Estate
Coupons
AND
Securities of every description.
All Stocks, Bonds, and Real Estate en
trusted to us will have our prompt personal
attention.
je!7— ts
Day, Russell & Benjamin,
AUCTIONEERS.
YYTILL SELL AT LOWER MARKET
VV FIRST TUESDAY JULY NEXT
AT II A. M , PRECISELY.
ONE HOUSE AND LOT
Situated on Fenwick street opposite late
depot South Carolina Rail Road ; fronting
27 feet on Fenwick street—running back
175 feet toward Calhoun street, bounded
north by Fenwick street, south by lot for
merly owned by Jas. L. Coleman, dec’d.
west by lot of A. P. Robertson, east by lot
of A. Simon.
Building in good repair.
Possesion given immediately.
Terms, Cash. Purchaser to pay for
papers. Titles indisputable.
ju!7—td
Wright & Gibson,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW,
Chronicle Sentinel Building,
Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
Having resumed the practice of LAW,
will attend promptly to all business in any
of the Courts in Richmond, Columbia, War
ren, Glasscock, Jefferson, Washington,
Burke, Screven, Emanuel, and Johnson
Counties ; also, in the Supreme Court at
Milledgeville, and in the UuUed States
Courts at Savannah.
A. R. WRIGHT,
ju2l—2m WM. GIBSON.
New Books and Music.
JVILL ARP, SO-CALLED;
TRISON LIFE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The popular Ballad—“ The Conquered
Banner,” anTl Robert Lee’s Orand March,
“Vignette.” Just received at
ju29—3 J. C. SCHREINER & SONS- _
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS
QOCOA & CANTON MATTINGS—
CARPETS—of all kinds made
WINDOW SHADES and TRIMMINGS
CORNICES, BANDS, Etc.
DOOR MATS, RUGS and DRUGGETTS
We have just received a large, new and
beautiful stock of the above goods, to
which we call the attention of our friends
aud the public.
JAMES G. BAILIE & BROTHER,
ju22—l2t 205 Broad street
Lime, Plaster, and Cement.
1 AHA dels fresh
i.OUU ROCKLAND LIME
50 bbls PLASTER
50 bbls Hydrulic CEMENT
Just received and for sale by
m> 29—ts CL4RKE & BOWE.
Dress Goods.
STYLES OF
DRESS GOODS,
ALL KINDS, VERY CHEAP, at
I. KAHN & CO.’S,
ju!7—Bm 262 Broad Street.