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.■...EiailS frcss. 'rßtPublisher &. Proprietor. V' ’K» A I PRESS IS MS rrrrj, ».>f~ r„(.-r < V», Keuti-iit* 1 nwei t«‘d >,«* $ Teniift **-* of Hroa’l nmi PM-Jtßl, ~t y o«te I r Sry Goods. • ' ■ Vat Very Low Price* ! T.4IH MrE STOCK OF dry goods, ~ Mg, NOTIONS, , CLOTHING, GENTS’ ~ ■FURNISHING GOODS, ami Shoes, ' "'■ ■ ofpiLks, vdiJM, s-gar-. t,<- • Goods vuu.tar.tly arriving ** ifi FANCY BAZAAR, . »* No. 253 Broad street. h 'u\; Bssortment of SL '■» DIPS' WHIT K GOODS UMf teMS AND JACKETS, }|MEKY AND DRESS GOODS t , for sale st a bargain, in ’ Kk fancy bazaar, No. 253 Broad street. wm ,lsf Jp* and BF.ST STYLUS mb sr.MM!;; < i M AND ') URNISIIING GOODS ' He fancy bazaar, Sgtev, No. 253 Broad street. Hry Merchants 5, A .jjKto ir advantage bef.irc pur to call at ■ill’. FANCY BAZAAR, No. 253 Broad street. HpPORTANT . •••:• pRADIXG PUBLIC! Wm&fr mm AIXS lx I>R 5 G001)8 1 - rat IN G OFF AT {HSSSMajBTKDLY I.OW HUCI’S! room for a FA l L STOCK ! i , iV S '-'m'i ' I'1:- >••• nr of Purchasing BP’jr GOODS 4t <- B at " Ifetf ? 'OW J'.t • M VASTLY TO THEIK Bwlteukst I’D SAG- oSn&AMINE OUR STDt K '■Jt'iMmi f 'fUBCHA sing Hn OH'; Assorted Stock of N AND DOMESTIC FANCY BOOBS Im* NOTION'S , In, • . sere., Etc., / We wilt ft»t *tii«pt an enumeration of store. £■s,**. MKSaroAD street, M»o»lt»®l«Dterß’ Hotel. (iA. STREET 190 *)ODS IHMKiiiii'os! Hoop Skirts. ' r ’JeL <IIABK EMPRESS g..fcfeyjigk TRAIL GORE * lSf-“f g PLAIN AND ? SgrPi - ; ' HB COLORED I < Wpiiuor SKIRTS • '-Jj 'tiilf there/or. ; Bd BONNETS, ' BSS#W“ t,ngr ■ jj# L * ‘ ,la,n r >JHg'OUFFS :•! L AW* CI-OAKS SUsS'rsifiA. wMiVKS, Bp ami NEEDLES, PAXCY gUAflfiMpF' 1 HfHt.//// found in $$QO(l» Store. mUsE GOODS'^ Daily Press. VOL. 1. AUGUSTA, GA.. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1866. Furniture. Furniture of All Descriptions, i-p-i PLATT BROTHERS, J C. A. PLATT A CO. 214 BROAD STREET, CBUj AUGUSTA, GA. Hare now the beat assortment of FURNI TURE on hand that has ever been in this market, and constantly revolving—consist ing of Rosewood, Mahogany and Walnut PARLOR SETTS, CHAMBER SETTS, COTTAGE SETTS, BEDSTEADS, CHAIRS, SOFAS, TETE-A-TETES, CEN TRE TABLES, BUREAUS, etc., etc. IN OUR UPHOLSTERING DEPARTMENT We have SHADES, Lace and Damask CUR TAINS, CORDS, TASSELS, GIMPS, LOOPS, CORNICES, BANDS, and all ne cessary articles required. OUR MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT is still in operation. Special Orders promptly attended to. Repairing done in all brunches of tho business. IN OUR UNDERTAKERS’ DEPARTMENT we keep constantly on hand, COFFINS of every quality and size. METALLIC CASES and CASKETS of tho most im proved styles. Undertakers can be supplied with all kinds of TRIMMINGS. my2—tf NOTICE^ The UNDERSIGNED HAS OPENED a store at No. 350 Broad Street, near the Upper Market, for the purpose of RE PAIRING »D FURNITURE; also, MAKING NEW FURNITURE. He is prepared to furnish COFFINS, neatly made, lfh has lived in Augusta eighteen years, and was in the Third Geor gia Regiment during the war. Those wishing to have work well done will please give him a coll. ALBERT WALLEN, my24—ly 350 Broad Street. FURNITURE! FURNITURE! ! WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. DEGRAAF. & TAYLOR, 87 and 89 BOWERY AND 65 CHRISTIE STREETS NEW YORK, have the best assorted stock of Parlor, Dining Room and Bed-Room FURNITURE! SPRING BEDS and BEDDING IN THE CITY. CANOPY and HIGH POST BEDSTEADS, Expressly for Southern trade. STEAMERS AND HOTELS FURNISHED A T WHOLESALE PRICES. KNOCK DOWN CANE WORK AND TURNED POST BEDSTEADS, in cases. ALL WORK GUARANTEED AS REPRESENTED. . . Onr Facilities for manufacturing defy competition. ■ myl—ly Plumbing and Gas Fitting. C. H. WARNER, PLUMBER, GAS and STEAM FITTER, In rear of 255 Broad street, Augusta, Geo. Gas, Steam and Water Pipes, Rubber Hose and Hose Pipes, promptly furnished or repaired. ja2o—tf Gas and Steam Fitting and Flumbing. CA. ROBBE, • Having re-opened a Gas and Steam Fitting and Plumbing Shop, in the rear of 272 Broad Street [Concert Hall place], is now propared to do all kinds of work con nected with GAS, LIGHTING, STEAM HEATING, and WATER SUPPLY, On reasonable terms and at short notice. Orders from tho country promptly at tended to. All work warranted. juß—3m JNO. C. SCHREINER A SONS, Macon, Ga. jnu. 0. SCHREINER A SONS, Savannah, Ga. J. C. Schreiner & Sons, NO. 199 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC, and FANCY GOODS. Keep constantly on hand a choice selec tion of the above articles, All orders from tho Country promptly attended to. ’i THE BEST OK ITALIAN VIOLIN and GUITAR STRINGS. AGENTS FOR Steinway & Sons’, Soebbeler* Schmidt’s, and Gale Co.'s CELEBRATED PIANOS. fe4—ly Snuff & Tobacco. VIRGINIA I’INE CUT TOBACCO, AND SISrUFF. lam now prepared to FILL ORDEBS FOR MY TWO BRANDS “THE SUBLIME” AND “VIRGINIA ORONOKO” FINE CUT CHEWING TOBACCO. I have succeeded in reducing the VIRGINIA LEAF INTO FINE C.UT CHEWING TOBACCO Pi)j my own Original and Peculiar Process. I can now justly claim to present to the LOVERS OF PURE TOBACCO, THE FINEST ARTICLE EVER PRODUCED IN THIS COUNTRY. THIS TOBACCO Gives a durable and substantial Cb«w, with all itre natural aromatic flavor of the Virginia Plug, different altogether from tbe Western Fine Cut. JAS. M. VENABLE, PETERSBURG, VA. JBS3- ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED nv BLAIR, SMITH & CO., AUGUSTA, GA. For sale by all the principal Tobacco Dealers. jy4—2m AUGUSTUS BOHNE, QOH BROAD STREET. O&\J (Opposite Planters’Hotel' Has always on hand a large assortment of IMPORTED & DOMESTIC SEGARS Chewing and Smoking TOBACCO Lorillard’s SNUFF Fine Meerschaum PIPES AND CIGAR HOLDERS, genuine and imitation ALSO, Rubber, Briar, Rosewood, and Clay PIPES, PIPE STEMS, SNUFF BOXES, Etc., AT THE LOWEST NEW YORK PRICES. TnE TRADE SUPPLIED ON LIBERAL my2-3m] TERMS. P. HANSBERGER & CO., CORNER BROAD A M’INTOSH STS. (Opposite Post Office.) WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN And Importers and Manufacturers of HAVANNA AND DOMESTIC SEGARS CHEWING AND SMOKING TOBACCO, Pipes and Tobacco of all kinds, Lorilllard’s, Rappee, Maccaboy, Scotch SNUFFS. ETC. mys-3m Dress Making. Mires. SEGINS’ J'RENCH MILLINERY AND DRESS MAKING ESTABLISHMENT 142 GREENE STREET, (Near Bell Tower.) DRESSES, MANTILLAS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Cut by S. T. TAILOR’S system and finished in the neatest manner. MILLINERY GOODS, TRIMMINGS, FRENCH CORSETS, etc., constantly on hand. my 12— 3m PETER DAVEZAC WILL PAY THE HIGHEST PRICES for Cotton Rags, Waste, Old Bagging, Rope. Also, Copper, Brass, and Lead. AVagons to call at any part of the City. Office and Warehouse, Notl beast Corner of Fenwick and Washington streets, Augusta, Georgia. jyß—3m* JADIES’ AND MISSES’ HATS J AT MRS. PUGHE’S, mo Broad Street. HOOP SKIRTS, GORE SKIRTS, And all other stylos, at MRS. PUGHS’S, 190 Broad Street. Jewellers. Established in 1850. SUBSCRIBER RESPECTFULLY A informs the citixens of Augusta and vicinity that ho keeps a special establish ment for the Repair of Fino Watches and : Jewelry. All WORK entrusted to his care will be executed promptly, neatly, and war ranted for one year. At his Store will be found one of tho largest Stocks of FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY and SILVER WARE in the Southern States. A. PRONTAUT, Practical Watchmaker, 163 Broad St., below Augusta Hotel. jy22—tf ~ JOHN T. CLARK, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER Would respectfully inform the citisens » { S 1(V of Au * u,ta > ,hat he AftM- CT “111 is now prepared to fjjfiym' \ a/ r do all kinds of fgawk* .ujfeka WATCH WORK, at No. 25 Jaokson Shackelford’s. jy2o—lm Take Notice. THE UNDERSIGNED (urn wishes to inform the citizens of Augusta nnd vicinity, that he 1s prepared to repair M atches, Clocks, Jewelry of all kinds, and Sewing Machines. All work neatly executed and warranted to be done eq .ii . > any house in tho South ern country. TIIOS. RUSSELL, 290 Broad Street, jyl7—ly Up Stairs. Painting & Gilding. FISK, Nearly opposite the POST-OFFICE I* undertaking HOUSE, SIGN, AND ORNAMENTAL Fainting IN ALL ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES. jy!7—tf J. J. BROWNE, Q.ILDER, LOOKING GLASS AND PICTURE FRAME' MAKER. OLD FRAMES RE-GILT, TO LOOK EQUAL 10 NEW, OLD PATWfINOS CAREFULLY CLEANED, LINED Aren VARNISHED. ALL WORK WARRANTED, AND DONE AS CHEAPLY AS AT TIIE NORTH. 137 BROAD STREET, mhl6-fim Augusta, Ga. PAINTING, GLAZING, Etc. ALL orders connected with the above branches promptly executed in the neatest manner, on reasonable terms. SHOP NO. 48 JACKSON STREET, Near the Bell Tower. The best quality of PAINT used, and GLASS of all sizes (obtainable) set to order. fe2o—tf WILLIAM BARROW. Hotels, Restaurants. Central Hotel, GEORGIA. My friends and the travelling public gen erally are notified that I have taken anew lease on this House, and will be glad to serve them to the best of my ability on all occasions and at all timos. N. B.—Believe no reports from any quar ter whatever that I have given up the Hotel, or that I intend doing so. My cal culation is to be permanently located, and my friends may rely upon finding me at home, and pleased to see and Serve them. jy!3—3m WM. M. THOMAS. S. M. JONES, I WM. A. WRIGHT. AUGUSTA HOTEL, J f Augusta, gsorgia. This popular Hotel has been reno vated, painted, and put in complete order, and opened on June 20th, 1866, with a de termination on the part of the present Pro prietors to make it a FIRST GLASS HOUSE. Mr. WM. A. WHIG UT has cjiief control, and will be recollected by our Southern friends as the former Proprietor of tbe American Hotel, during the war, in Richmond, Va., and will be glad to see his old friends, promising them a “Virginia welcome.” Every effort will be made to give entire satisfaction. A call is solicited. “Terms, reasonable.” 'feguCoL. GEO. H. JONES, Chief Clerk, formerly of Globe Hotel. WM. A. WRIGHT & CO., felß—ly Proprietors. SCREVEN HOUSE, g A VANN AH, GEORGIA, THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL Having been renovated and newly famished, is now open for the reception of the travel ling public. GEO. McGINLY, Proprietor. mhlfi—6m Just Opening, COMPLETE STOCK OF SEASONABLE GOODS AT THB WELL-KNOWN STAND OF I. KAHN & CO., ju!s 262 Broad Street. sro. ne. gailjr stcss. City Printer—Official Paper LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. FRIDAY MORNING July 27, 1866 SCISSORS. —Fake calves (ladies’ definition) — deceitful lovers. —Sweeny, Spear and Mahoney, Fe nians, have been released on bail. —Ex-President Lincoln’s family horse was sold at auction in Chicago recently. He was bid in by the owner at $65. —The shore end of the Atlantic cable was successfully laid at Valeutia on the 6th inst. —A Louisville photographist has taken some wonderful views of the Mam moth Cave with the magnesian light. —Reports from Northern Ohio state that the season has been decidedly un favqrable for the grape crop. —The proposition to exchange seven thirties for five-twenty bonds of 1865, does not meet with the success at first anticipated. —A Connecticut man receives a sal ary of $30,000 in a New Y’ork dry goods house. —lt has been decided in Indiaaa that the stock of National Banks is not sub ject to State or municipal tax. —A “League of Honor” has been formed in the Valley of Virginia. Its main object is charity. —The agitation of the Church ques tion in Peru has resulted in street dis turbances. —The cotton crop in Indiana, where cotton raising is au experiment, is very promising. —The first lot of new wheat in the Alexandria (Va.) market sold for $2.40 per bushel. —A handsome young woman has been swindling the New Yorkers. She col lected money to “bury her father.” —Maury, it is said, is about to be at tached to the French navy as chief of tbe meteorological department, —A p»» wh» a wire 0 , sweet heart named Lize is not to be believed in anything, for he's always sure to tell Lize about everything. —E. G. Ross, editor of the Lawrence Tribune, has been elected to fill the va cancy in the U. S. Senate, occasioned by the death of Lane, of Kansas. —Prentice says of an Abolition editor who “smelt a rat,” that if he did, and the rat smelt him, the poor rat had the worst of it. —lt is authoritatively denied that any alliance has been formed between Co lombia and Chili, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. —The last will and testament of Gen. Cass was admitted to Probate, in De troit, a few days ago. The estate is valued at one million dollars. —A bureau is needed in Massachu setts. Children there do not get enough to eat, and their mothers put brown sugar in their coffee. —A man out West attempted to reju venate himself with hot baths, and was found dead one morning, the flesh ffjjon his limbs being literally cooked. —One hundred and nineteen emi grant vessels have arrived at New York from the Ist of June to the 17th of July, inclusive. They brought 50,952 emi grants. —Vera Cruz dispatches, dated the 12th, state that the Empress Carlotta was expected to leave that port for Eu rope on the 13th. —Geo. Peabody intends to bestow $50,000 each upon Hanard, Amherst and Williams’ colleges, and the sum of one million upon Boston for homes for the poor. —lt is bewailingly reported that while the ladies at the Saratoga “hogs” are in full dress, the gentlemen are gene rally clad in that counting-room abomi nation of a coat denominated a “bob ’’ —Hon, Jas. S. Thorn and Mr. Abram Fonda, associate editors of the Troy, N. Y., Times, died on the 21st instant, the former of consumption, the latter from injuries received iu a fall from the third story of the Phcenix Hotel at Lansin burg. —A young man, named Frank Quinn, formerly a lette r-carrier, was sentenced in Boston on Saturday, to ten years’ im prisonment in tbe Cambridge jail, for abstracting money from letters while taking them from the letter boxes to the post office. He had stolen Borne $2,000 altogether, aud when arrested refunded about $1,200. sj)t gail]) frtssri BOOK AND JOB PRINTING »r • )i0 EVERY DESCRIPTION' aXECVTBD IN THE BEST MANNER. The Fatlmt Pomur Prune, and But »/ Workmen enable* us ta do Superior JOB WORK at Cheaper Rates than elsewhere. ■■■ . ■■■■ ■ f * y—'—i wrnm Miscellaneous. 262.- _ 262. I. Kahn & Co* GREAT BARGAINS I SELLING OFF AT COST.I Call and see their new supply of PHIISTTS AND BLEACHED Which are offered at NEW YORK PRICES! Store to be thoroughly REPAIRED and ENLARGED for the FALL TRADE! I. KAHN & CO., ' t;, jyß—ti 262 Broad Street. IST. B. WE ARE RECEIVING, DAILY, IN addition to our present Stock— THB LATEST STYLES OF CLOTHING! FURNISHING GOODS, 1 HATS, Etc., FOR SUMMER WEAR CONSISTING IN PART OP a BLACK CLOTH FROCK, and SACK COATS % -I BLACK and COLORED CASSIMERfe SUITS BROWN and WHITE LINEN SUITS BLA CK. B’Bte BLACK and COLORED CASSIMERE and LINEN PANTS BLACK ALPACA AND LINEN / SACKS ALL LINEN AND LINEN BOSOM SHIRTS JEANS AND LINEN DRAWERS CROSS-BARRED MUSLIN UNDER SHIRTS. ALSO, TIIE LATEST STYLES OF BLACK AND COLORED Felt Hats, To which we call the attention of THE PUBLIC. We are prepared to sell as LOW AS ANY HOUSE IN THE STATE I W. M. D’ANTIGNAC * CO# .'■- 1 • ’ Post Office Corner, ju2B—lm Augusta, Ga. The Augusta Wholesale & Retail Emporium. 2Q2 i-kahnaco., 262 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS in Foreign and Domestic DRY GOODS FANCY GOODS NOTIONS BOOTS SHOES HATS AND STRAW GOODS 262 BROAD STREET. jul7—6m Excelsior Fruit Jars. 1 OH GROSS QUARTS AND 1 WVJ HALF GALLON JARS, For Preserving Fruits—the beet in use. For sale, at wholesale and retail, by MOSHER, THOMAS & SCHAUB, jnl 7—ts Masonio Building- Kid Gloves. QNLY ONE DOLLAR A PAIR! For the Best KID GLOVES, at I. KAHN & CO.’S, j u 16—6 m 262 Broitf Street.