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flit Datlji "JJrfss.
E. H. PUGHE, Publisher k Proprietor.
"pm-THS dau,Y~prhss 7s~l>ls-
Srituted Gratuitously sstry morning, sxerpt
Psnday, «*ronghont the enhrt OilM, thereby
unsnring tie LA HORST CUtCULA TION.
Aarortimmond luaerted
on IJbcrol Term.
rgf- OFFICE —Owner of Broad and
Mclntosh Strut*! ops—it, Pott- Ojfics, Up-
Stair*.
Furniture.
Furniture of All Descriptions.
PLATT BROTHERS
B J, I Formerly
C. A. PLATT A CO.
3,4 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, OA.
Here now the beet assortment of FURNI
TURE on hud that has ever been in this
market, ami constantly receiving—consist-
inf of Rosewood, Maioganv and Walnut
PARLOR SETTS, CHAMBER SETTS,
POTTAGE SETTS, BEDSTEADS,
CHAIRS, SOFAS, TETE-A-TETES, CEN
TRE TABLES, BUREAUS, etc., eto.
in oca
UPHOLSTERING DEPARTMENT
We have SHADES, We and Damask CUR
TAINS, CORDS, TASSELS, GIMPS,
LOOPS, CORNICES, BANDS, and all ne
cessary artielos required.
OUR MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT
is still in operation. Special Orders
promptly attended to. Repairing done in
all branches of the business.
IK OPR
UNDERTAKERS’ DEPARTMENT
we keep constantly on hand, COFFINS of
every quality and site. METALLIC
CASES and CASKETS of the most im
proved styles.
Undertakers ean be snpplied with all
kißds of TRIMMIIftIS. my2—tf
~ FURNITURE.
CSM THE undersigned have
on hand, and are receiving, a fine
SJEHCaassortment of
Furniture,
Which (hey offer at very Lore Figures !
Also, are prepared to make to order and
repair anything in our line of business at
short notiee.
Cane-Bottom CHAIRS re-seated at a liv
ing prioe, at 137 Broad, opposite Monument
Street. WEST A MAY.
jy2#—3m
noticeT ~
THE UNDERSIGNED HAS OPENED
a store at No. 350 Broad Street, near
the Upper Market, for the purpose of RE
PAIRING OLD F URNIT U RE; also,
MAKING NEW FURNITURE.
ll* is prepared to furnish COFFINS,
neatly made. He has lived in Augusta
eighteen years, and was in the Third Ueor
gia Regiment during the war.
Those wishing to have work well dona
will please give him a call.
ALBERT FALLEN,
m y24—] y -950 Broad Street.
FURNITUMf'T FURNITURE! !
WHOLESALE
AND
RETAIL.
DEGRAAF & TAYLOR,
87 and 89 BOWERY
AND
65 CHRISTIE STREETS
NEW YORK,
have the best assorted stock (ts Parlor,
Dining Room and Bed-Room
FURNITURE!
SPRING BEDS and BEDDING
IN THE CITY.
CANOPY and IIIGII 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
2627 - 262.
I. Kalin & Cos.
GREAT BARGAINS!
SELLING OFF AT COSTI
Call and see their new supply of
PBJNTS
AND
[bleached GOODS!
Which are offered at
■ NEW YORK PRICES!
B Store to be thoroughly REPAIRED and
HnLARGED for the
FALL TRADEI
I. KAHN * CO.,
I jyg_tf 262 Broad Street.
Straw Goods
ftn?Oß LADIES AND GENTS,
f SELLING VERY LOW
AT
I. KAHN & CO’S.
K j u ls—6m 262 Broad Street.
Daily Press.
VOL. I.
AUGUSTA, GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 11, 1866.
Snuff & Tobacco.
AUGUSTUS BOHNE^
OOA BROAD STREET.
(Opposite Planters’Hotel
Has always on hand a large assortment of
IMPORTED A DOMESTIC SEUARS
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, Eto.,
AT THE T.OWEST NEW YORK PRICES.
THE TRADE SUPPLIED ON LIBERAL
au4-lv] __ TERMS.
VIRGINIA
piNE CUT
TOBACCO,
AND
SNUFF.
I am now prepared to
FILL ORDERS FOR MY TWO BRANDS
“ THE SUBLIME ”
AND
“ VIRGINIA ORONOKO”
FINE CUT
CHEWING TOBACCO.
I have succeeded in reducing the
VIRGINIA LEAF
. - INTO
FINE CUT
CHEWING TOBACCO
By 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 Chew,
with all the natural aromatic flavor of the
Virginia Plug, different altogether from the
Western Fine Cut.
JAS. M. VENABLE.
PETERSBURG, VA.
jgas- ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED
RY
BLAIR, SMITH & CO.,
AUGUSTA, GA.
For sale by all the principal Tobacco
Dealers- jy4—2m
Plumbing and Gas Fitting.
C. H. WARNER,
PLUMBER,
GAS and STEAM FITTER,
In rear of 255 Broad street,
Augusta, Geo.
Pumps, Gas,Steam and r 7ater Pipes,
Rubber Hose and Ilose Pipes, promptly
furnished or repaired. ja2fl—tf
Gas and Steam Fitting and
Plumbing.
f'l A. ROBBE,
\ Having re-opened a Gas and Steam
Fitting and Plumbing Shop, in the rear of
272 Broad Street [Concert Hall place], is
now prepared 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 the country promptly at
tended to.
All work warranted. juß—3m
Brokers and Merchants.
JOHN CRAIG.
BANKING AND
EXCHANGE OFFICE,
269 BROAD STREET,
Augusta, Ga.,
BUYS AND SELLS
GOLD BULLION
GOLD and SILVER COIN
BANK NOTES
BONDS, STOCKS
BILLS OF EXCHANGE,
m y 4 ly Foreign and Domestic.
Light Cassimeres
CLOTHS-
For Gents’ and Boys’ Wear
Are selling at Reduced Prices, at
I. KAHN & CO.’S,
ju!7— 6m 262 Broad Street.
Jewellers.
johiT t clarE
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER
Would respectfully
inform the citizens
of Augusta, that be
jOf||- ff *||| is now prepared to
ZHML \ /y do all kinds of
sSidKWk WATCH J vo k RK ’
Shackelford’s. jy2o—lm^
Take Notice.
THE UNDERSIGNED
wishes to inform the citizens [turn
of Augusta and vicinity, .It jKSi
that he is prepared to repair jR. hikSn*
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry of all kinds, and
Sewing Machines.
All work neatly executed and warranted
to l>e doncfequtil to auy house in the South
ern country.
TIIOS. RUSSELL,
290 Broad Street,
iylT—ly Up Stairs.
Boots & Shoes.
Selling Off at Cost to Close
Business!
gfl GREAT BARGAINS
sftJt] SHOES, and
TRUNKS!
All in want of poods in our line will find
it to their advantage to give us a call, os
we are selling off our goods at cost. To
city and country merchants we offer great
inducements, as we will sell them goods
cheaper than they can buy them North.
Our stock is large and well adapted to this
section of the country. Call and examine
our stock and prices, as we are determined
to close the business as soon a s possible.
W. & C. H. CLARENDON.
.314 Broad Street. Augusta,
Nearly opposite the Planters’ Hotel.
,iy2l—tf
Just Received.
J KAIIN a co.
262 BROAD STREET,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED
A NICE ASSORTMENT OF
Ladies 9 Shoes!
They have a beautiful assortment of
DRESS'CORDS,
BUTTONS.
and RIBBONS,
Which attract the eve and please the taste
GOODS VERY LOW.
jel7—6m
Ice Dealers.
Ice! Ice! Ice!
CONSTANT SUPPLY OF PRIME
NORTHERN ICE
Will be furnished to consumers by calling
or sending their orders to the
AUGUSTA ICE HOUSE,
Opposite the South Carolina Rail Road
Depot, or at the Branch House on Campbell
Street, at the present reduced advertised
rates—viz.: $2 50 per CU TANARUS., and 30. RE
TAIL; and at all times as low as can be
furnished by any other dealer. •
ai.2—tf CALEB EMERY.
Come and See Us.
THE GEORGIA IOE HOUSE STILL
liws, and is selling ICE at as low rates
as anybody.
jy 17—1 m r,OYCK & DODD.
Ice Delivered Free
TO CUSTOMERS, IN ANY PART OF
the City, who will take TEN POUNDS
or MORE.
Our charges are—For LESS than FIFTY
POUNDS, THREE CENTS per pound. For
FIFTY POUNDS and OVER, TWO
AND A HALF CENTS
lee House, near the Bell Tower, one door
South of Greene Street.
WATERMELONS and CANTELOPES
ON ICE—Cheap.
iny29—3m PORTER A SEGO.
ICE.
rjpilE McINTOSH STREET
Ice House
(OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE)
IS NOW OPEN.
Prices for the present four (4) cent?
a pound, retail. For fifty pounds or more
three (3) cents.
R. A. HARPER A CO.
apl4—4m (colored).
Dissolution, Etc.
NOTICE.
WE HAVE THIS DAY TAKEN IN
partnership Mr. WM. B. DAVISON,
long and favorably known as a Commission
Merchant of this city. Hereafter the style
of the firm will he CHUMP, DAVISON
* CO. O- K- CRUMP * CO.
Augusta, Ga., July 28th, 1866.
GEO. n. CHUMP. WM. B. DAVJSON.
WM. A. WRIGHT.
Crump, Davison & Cos.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND
COTTON BROKERS. Also, dealers
in GROCERIES and LIQUORS, Tobacco,
Cigars, Bacon, Lard, Grain, Flour, Guano,
Bagging, Rope.
209 BROAD STREET,
jy2B lm Augusta. Ga.
Excelsior Fruit Jars.
1 flf! GROSS QUARTS AND
1 UU HALF GALLON
JAES,
For Preserving Fruits—the best in use.
For sale, at wholesale anil retail, by
MOSHER, THOMAS <£- SCHAUB,
jul7— ts Masonic Building
Dry Goods.
IMPORTANT
»po THE TRADING PUBLIC I
GREA T BARG A INS IN DR Y GOODS 1
SELLING ©FF
AT
UNPRECEDENTEDLY LOW PRICES!
To make room for a
LARGE FALL STOCK!
MERCHANTS, PLANTERS and OTHERS
Desirous of Purchasing
DRY GOODS
AT
EXTREMELY LOW PRICES,
FOR CASH!
WILL FIND IT VASTLY TO THEIR
INTEREST
TO CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOCK
BEFORE PURCHASING
ELSE WHERE.
As we have a regular Assorted Stock of
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
DRY GOODS
FANCY GOODS
NOTIONS
Etc., Etc., Etc.,
We will not attempt an enumeration of
the many articles now in store.
J. D. A. MURPHY & CO.,
314 BROAD STREET,
Nearly opposite Planters’ Hotel.
Augusta, Ga.
_ju24—tf
Selling Off at Very Low Prices !
T’HE entire stock of
DRY GOODS.
FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS,
CLOTHING,
LADIES’ AND GENTS’
FURNISHING GOODS,
Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes,
Trunks, Valises, Segars, etc., etc.
To make room for Goods constantly arriving
d ' THE FANCY BAZAAR,
No. 253 Broad street.
A FINE ASSORTMENT OF
LADIES’ WHITE GOODS
SILK BASQUES AND JACKETS,
HOSIERY AND DRESS GOODS
Just received, and for sole at a bargain, in
TIIE FANCY BAZAAR,
No. 253 Broad street.
THE LATEST
1 and BEST STYLES
OP
SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING
ABO
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS
At lowest price*, at
THE FANCY BAZAAR,
No. 253 Broad street.
Country Merchants
Will find it to their advantage before pur
chasing elsewhere to call at
THE FANCY BAZAAR,
juIO 3m No. 253 Broad street.
190 BROAD STREET 190
DRY GOODS
Os Every "Description,
.Egga Hoop Skirts.
EMPRESS
colored
uoop SKIRTS
Kress Goods,
In all Material used therefor.
LADIES’ HATS AND BONNETS,
WUITB GOODS
SHEETINGS AND SHIRTINGS
BRAIDS, TINSEL A PLAIN CORD
RIBBONS, COLLARS AND CUPPS
MANTILLAS AND CLOAKS
HOSIERY, GLOVES, PINS AND NEEDLES,
FANCY SOAPS, PERFUMERY
And every other Article usually found in a
First Class Dry Goods Store.
JSS-CALLAND EXAMINE GOODS'®^
NO. 189.
|r ess*
City Printer—Official Paper
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
SATURDAY MORNING Aug. Il7lßfl§
SCISSORS.
Philadelphia has a female Art Club.
—The New York Sun denies being
Radical.
—Cholera is more violent than ever
among the pilgrims at Mecca.
—Setchell, the actor, was not lost at
sea. He is playing in Australia.
—Send out your bad children to take
the air when there is a “spanking
breeze.”
—A man in Troy claims to be the
originator of the Atlantic telegraph en
terprise.
—The surest way Os reconciling a wife
to her husband is to get a third person
to abuse him.
—Dresses embroidered with needle
guns and pictures of dying Austrians,
are fashionable in Paris.
—Gen. R. B. Mitchell was inaugu
rated Governor of New Mexico at Santa
Fe on the 16th ult.
—Lady Anglers are suspected of fish
ing in the sea, with an eye to catching
somebody on shore.
—Meditation on the dead is ever sal
utary, there being no toneh so purifying
as that of a dead man’s hand.
—The ' eneral Theological Seminary
(Episcopal) in New York, graduated
this year a class of twenty-four.
—The graduating Theological class at
Princetown Theological Seminary this
year numbered fifty-two
—Miss Burdett Coutts has written to
Bishop Gray disapproving of the pro
posed course in consecrating anew
Bishop of Natal.
—Of the six Presbyterian Churches
in Baltimore, it is thought only two will
seeede, and even those contain a con
siderable protesting minority.
—Rev. W. S. Studley, having removed
from Boston to Cincinnati, has resigned
his position as an overseer of Harvard
College.
—W. H. Milburn, the celebrated
blind preacher, has accepted a call to
the temporary rectorship of the Trinity
(Methodist) Church in Chicago.
—A Buffalo city rail road company
petitioned, the other day, for authority to
increase its fare, on the ground that the
conductors stole the profits.
—The Russian Bear puts his fore feet
upon the new Continental map drawn up
at the Tuiileries, and says Jo Napoleon—
“ Paws 1”
—The latest fashion intelligence from
abroad informs us that short skirts are
coming into fashion—not merely looped
up skirts, but actual short skirts.
—A Western paper, in describing the
debut of a young actor, says that “be
broke ice lelicitously with his opening
sentence, and was immediately drowned
with applause.”
—Voltaire said of M’lle de Livry:
“She was so beautiful that I raised my
long, thin body, and stood befox’e like a
point of-admiration 1”
—Two Irishmen of Pittsburg, Pa.,
heariug that it would enhance their
friendship if they were to fight, pitched
in and heat each other badly.
—A Roman Catholic Church for the
exclusive use of colored people is to be
erected in St. Louis. A convent is to
be attached under the charge of colored
nuns.
—We have no complete religious song
remaining from the period of prosecu
tion, except the song of Clement of Al
exandria to the divine Logos, which,
moreover, caunot be called a hymn.
—Rev. Henry Boehm, one of the
early Methodist preachers in this coun
try, born in Pennsylvania in 1775, the
traveling companion for years of Bishop
Asbury, is still living at the age of 91.
—The honorary degree of D. D. was
conferred upon Rev. Elihn P. Marvin,
editor of the Boston Recorder, at the
late commencement at Dartmouth Col
lege.
—The Paris Moniteur announces that
a chapel is to be erected to the memory
of the thousands of persons whose skele
tons are piled up in stacks in the Cata
colnbs under the city.
—Jay Cooke has contributed $25,000
for the endowment of an additional
theological professorship at Kenyon Col
lege, Ohio, and has nominated Rev.
Dr. Brousom, rector of the Episcopal
Church in fill the chair.
®|it Bailtr -
booeTAND JoTpßla. •
or
EVERY DESCRIPTION
EXECUTED
IN THE BEBT MANNER.
The Fattest Power Presses, and Best of
Workmen enables us to do Superior JOB
WORK at Cheaper Rates than elsewhere.
Rail Road Scheduler.
Schedule of South Carolina Hail
Hoad Company.
JLV GUSTA DAY PASBKN6¥R TRAIN.
Leaye Charleston ........ 7.30 A. M.
Arrive at Branchville 11.20 A. M.
Leave Br&ncbville .....12.00 M.
Arrive at Augusta 5.10 P. M.
Leave Augusta 6.00 A. M.
Arrive at Branchville A. M.
Leave Branchville 12.00 M.
Arrive at Char1e5t0n................ 4.00 P. M.
COLUMBIA DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Charleston 7.30 A. M.
Arrive at Branchville 11.20 A. M.
Branchville ..11.40 A. M.
Arrive at Kingsville J....... 2.30 P. M.
Leave Kingsville 2.45 P. M.
Arrive at Columbia 4.40 P. M.
Leave Columbia 6.30 A. M.
Arrive at Kingsville 8.30 A. M.
Leave Kings ?il!e 8.50 A. M.
Arrive at Branchville 11.40 A. M.
Leave Branchville 12.00 M.
Arrive at Charleston 4.00 P. M.
H. T. PEAKE,
au.3—tf General Superintendent.
South Carolina Railroad.
South Carolina Railroad Company, )
Charleston, S. C., July 26, 1866. J
Through freight accommoda
tions from and to Baltimore, Phila
delphia, New York and Boston, to Augusta,
Atlanta, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans,
Rome, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville,
Memphis, and ail intervening points via
Charleston, S. C.
On and after August Ist, Shippers of
Freight from and to auy oftho above points
sending their Bills Lading to the Agent of
tlie South Carolina Railroad Company,
Charleston, will receive prompt attention,
and every effort used to give immediate dis
patch to all classes of Freight to destination.
They will also receive the benefit of a Through
Rate of Freight charges just arranged.
Freight Rates and general charges will at
all times be ns low via Charleston as via
Savannah from and to any of tho above
named Seaports. (Forwarding by South
Carolina Railroad free.)
11. T. PEAKE,
Gcn’l Superintendent S. C. R. R.
jy2B—SaTuThflw
Change of Schedule on Georgia
Hail Hoad.
cawßaagaaggpii
ON ANI) AFTER THURSDAY, AUGUST
2d, tlie Passenger Trains will run
DAILY, (Sundays excepted) as follows :
DAY TASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 5.30 A. M.
Leave Atlanta at 5.45 A. M.
Arrive at Augusta at 6.15 P. M.
Arrive at Atlantaat. 6.05 P. M.
NIGHT PASSENGER AND THROUGH MAIL TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 6.30 P. M.
Leave Atlanta at 5 30 P. M.
Arrive at Augusta ai 5.10 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta at 5.15 A. M.
Day Passenger Train will make close con
nections at Augusta with Central Railroad
for Savannah, and at Atlanta with M. A W.
and W. & A. Railroads. Passengers for
Athens, Washington and Mayfield, Ga., wi’l
take the Day Train from Atlanta and Au
gusta.
Passenger and Through Mail
Train will make close connections at Augus
ta with Trains for Savannah, Ga., Charles
ton aud Columbia, S. C., Wilmington, Ra
leigh and Weldon, N. C., Richmond and Pe
tersburg, Va., Washington, Baltimore, Phila
delphia, Boston, New York and other North
ern cities, and at Atlanta with Trains for
Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans, Macon,
Eufaula, Columbus, West Point, Ac , Nash
ville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Louisville,
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Ac.
Tickets for sale by Agents
at Atlanta and Augusta.
K. W. GOI.E,
au2—tf Gen’l Superintendent.
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
ON AND AFTER THIS
DAY Trains on the West
ern A Atlantic Railroad will run as follows :
NIGHT EXPRESS PASSENGER TRAIN—DAILY.
Leave Atlanta 6.30 P. M.
Arrive at Dalton 1.16 A. M.
Arrive at Chattanooga 4.00 A. M.
Leave Chattanooga 7.35 P. M.
Leave Dalton 10.25 P. M.
Arrivo at Atlanta 5.05 A. M.
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Daily except Sundays.
Leave Atlanta 7.25 A. M.
Arrive at Chattanooga 5.20 P. M.
Leave Chattanooga 6.30 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta 4.23 P. M.
KINGSTON ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.
Daily except Sundays. •
Leave Atlanta 3.13 P. M.
Arrive at Kingston 8.15 P. M.
Leave Kingston 4.29 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta 9.42 A. M*
JOHN V. PECK,
au3—tf Master Transportation.
Prison Life of Jeff Davis.
JUST RECEIVED—
Anew supply* of this work. Call
early and secure copies, at
QUINN’S
IS9 BROAD STREET.
THE MUTE SINGER, by Mrs. Ritchie.
JARGAL, by Victor Hugo.
THE APOSTLES, by Ronan.
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THE ART OF CONVERSATION.
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ALL THE LATEST
PUBLICATIONS, NEWSPAPERS
And PERIODICALS
ALWAYS ON HAND. jyll—lm
Dress Goods.
STYLES OF
DRESS GOODS,
ALL KINDS, VERY CHEAP, at
I. KAHN & CO.’S,
jul 7 —6ra 202 Broad Street.