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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. JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH. HABITS OF GOOD SOCIETY. THE ART OF CONVERSATION. LOVE L’AMOUR. MACKENZIE'S 10,000 RECEIPTS. 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.