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Ifef P ;iil K V'™- HyiilQHE. Pnblinher A Proprietor. DAILY PRESS IS U IS- Vmlvitonmly **rry n.,rmn i, -rfrf-l (A« 'Vly, Inrrcbf - r .Ku (*« LA LOSSY CIR('I).ATIUS. BihfitUaiH-utK liiserL<l ■Liberal Terms. OFFICB—Comer •/ ««-/ Post-Office, Ip gT Furniture. Huruiture of All Descriptions, | I’LATT BROTHERS, IK jk 1 Foftnerly 81l C. A. PLATT A CO. ■MHkv . 'Jp " Jl4 BttOAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. now the best assortment nfFVRNT- on hand that tins ever boeu in this and constantly receiving—consiat . Rosewood, Mahogany and Walnnt SETTS, CHAMRER SETTS, OIHtAGE SETTS, BEDSTEADS, jQMtRS, SOFAS, TF.TE-A-TETES, CEN RIH’TABLES, BUREAUS, etc., etc. |-;£fq|'! ' ,* v in our DEPARTMENT SH AIiKS, Lace and Damask CUH ■Fs, CORDS, TASSELS, GIMPS, CORNICES, BANDS, and all ue- articles required. „ jHj MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT in operation. Special Orders attended to. Repairing done in of the business. B IN OUR •' ■dF.RTAKERS’ DEPARTMENT constantly on hand, COFFINS of 1 quality and size. METALLIC <HgS and CASKETS of tho most ira- can bo supplied with ail TRIMMINGS, my2—tf FURNITURE. Kgg? THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE on hand, and aro receiving, a flue assortment of ■ Furniture, they offer at very Loir Figure:-! are preptrol to make to order and PBr anything in our Hno of business at notice. CHAIRS re-seated at a liv llßriee, at 137 Broad, opposite Monument WEST a may. -3m 11b '7 - NOTICE. , & undersigned has opened '1 at No. 350 Broad Street, near Market, for the purpose of RE "(■ftlNG 1 OLD FURNITURE; also, com**. SKS I’Tf during the war. jKose wi#ulug to have work well done " give him a call. ■ ALBERT WALLEN, lv 350 Broad Street. BINITURE! FURNITURE! ! WHOLESALE and RETAIL. • BDEGRAAF 4 TAYLOR, Bd 89 BOWERY ANI> Us 65 CHRISTIE STREETS Ww : NEW YORK, beat assorted stock of Parlor, ini tig Room and Bed-Room ■JRNITURE! Big beds and BEDDING IN THE CITY. and HIGH POST BEDSTEADS. • • Expressly for Southern trade. BtIRIIS AND HOTELS FURNISHED prices. Vpie:‘~' KNOCK DOWN CANE WORK ■■ ajßturned POST BEDSTEADS, in cases. ■(YORK GUARANTEED AS REPRESENTED. HBr Fai'ilitie, for manufacturing dofy ;»>yi -iy p, _ 262. tKahn & Cos. BREAT BARGAINS! BfcLING OFF AT COST! and see their new supply of |j>HINTS AND HEP GOODS! [ Which aro offered at tjftEW YORK PRICES! '■ to bo thoroughly REPAIRED and i ■tC.ED lor the B FALL TRADE! I. KAHN & CO., 262 Broad Street. K ■ Straw Goods AND GENTS, ■ SELLING VERY LOW AT I. KAIIN &-COS, 262 Broad Struct. - .*iiJ JRlGßil'jev. Y Yl hi Daily Press. vol. I. AUGirSTA, GA.. SUNDifli MORNING, AUG. 26, 1866. - - : i/ • 7 ■, Snuff Sl Tobacco, i U P. HANSBERGER ft CoT CORNER BROAD A McINTOSH STS. (Opposite Post Office.) WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS AND IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS HAVANA AND DOMESTIC SSOARS CHEWING AND SMOKING TOBACCO! EVERY BRAND £ QUALITY. BEAUTIFUL I’TPES, OF ALL KINDS. Rappee, Maeaboy and Scotch SNUFFS, etc, null—ly AUGUSTUS BOHNE, DQA broad STREET. GawW (Opposite Planters’ Hotel ‘ Has always on hand a large assortment of IMPORTED A. DOMESTIC SUGARS Chewing and Smoking TOBACCO Loriiliird’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. ' THE TRADE SUPPLIED ON LIBERAL au4-Iy} TERMS. VIRGINIA Ff* B CUT TOBACCO AND (j SINT LUFF. lam now prepared to ! nCr u FILL ORDERS FOR MY TWO BRANDS “THE SUBLIME” T ,■ ,V . ' ..NS.aaV 'I V) AND / a u.ivir. ■ ,un/ “VIRGINIA ORONOKO” .vrrj e.::ir ki FINK CUT'.MiiAi on 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 UF PURE TOBACCO, THE FINEST ARTICLE { ) EVER PRODUCED IN THIS COUNTRY. THIS TOBACCO Gives a durable and substantial Chew, wi'h all tho natural aromatic flavor of the Virginia Pfug, different altogether from the Western Fine Cut. JAS. M. VENABLE, PETERSLURG, VA. JBE- ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED nr BLAIR, SMITH & CO., AUGUSTA, GA. For sale by all tho 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. Gas, Steam and Water Pipes, Rubber Hoso and Ilose Pipes, promptly furnished or repaired. ja2fl—tf Gas and Steam Fitting and Plumbing. CA. robbe,; • Having re-opened a Gas and Steam Fitting and I‘luxnbing Shop, in tho rear of 272 Broad Street [Concert ITall place], is now prepared to do all kinds of work con nected with GAS, LIGHTINCx, 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 "" " *T’ —■ ■ ■ f '7 Ice Cream and Sherbert! CA N D I E S AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL AT THE FRENCH STORE,- j a ]o Iy 200 Broad street. Jewellers. IMPROVE TOUR SIGHT. JUST RECEIVED— A fin. aasortment of Gold, Silver, and Steel SPECTACLES, of fine French and English Glasst.,and Brazilian Pebbles. Alsp, BANK NOTE DETECTORS, Eye- Reading, Opera aDd Spy Glasses, Micro scopes, Spectacles, Cases, etc., at A. PBONTAUT’S Watch and Jewelry Establishment, No. 163 Broad Street, aulfl—tf Below Augusta Hotel. Take Notice. THE UNDERSIGNED wishes to Inform the citizens of Augusta and vioinity, (jc*** _jfro that bo is prepared to repair Watches, Clocks, Jewelry of all kinds, and Sewing Machines. AH work neatly executed and warranted to be dono equal to any bouse in the South ern country. THOS. RUSSELL, 2'.Ml Broad Street, jylf— ly Up Stairs. Boots &. Shoes. Selling Off at Cost to Close Business! p=] GREAT BARGAINS BOOTS, SHOES, and ; - TRUNKS! All in want of goods in our line will find it to their advantage to give us a call, a« \ve t aro idling 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 largo and well adapted to this section of the country. Call and examine our stock and prices, as wo aro determined to close the husinoss as fsoon as possible. WY & 0. 11. CLARENDON. , 31|4 Broad Street, Augusta, Nearly opposite the Planters* Hotel: :;il ».‘ .wit* ' Just Received, i- Hi J KAIIN & CO. \tf V iITIOAD BfBEF/T, HAVE JUS*r RECEIVED A NICE ASSORTMENT OX Ladies’ I Thry hnvo a beautiful assortment of > DRESS CORDS, ’' 7J ! BUTTONS. a. : and RIBRONS,' Which attract the eve and pieaso the, taste -GOOPE VERY. LOW. jel7—flm j „ dissolution, Fte. 2 ‘ NOTICE. WE HAVE THIS DAY TAKEN IN VV partnership Mr. IVM. B. DAVISON, long and favorably known as a Commission Merchant of this city. Hereafter the style of the firm will be CRUMP, DAVISON A CO. and. R. CRUMP 4r CO. Augusta, Ga., July 28th, 1566. geo. r. enrur. wm. b. davison. wm. A. WRIGnT. Crump, Davison & Cos., COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND COTTON BROKERS. Also, dealers in GROCERIES and LIQUORS, Tobacco, Cigar,, Bacon, Lard, Grain, Flour, Guano, Bagging, Rope. 209 BROAD STREET, jy2B—lm Anmi»». Notice to Merchants. A. J - SKTZE> OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, PURCHASING AGENT, (WITH JOHNES, BERRY & C 0.,) Importers and Jobbers OF SILK AND FANCY DRY GOuDS WHITE GOODS RIBBONS, Etc., No. 621 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA. ami —J m JNO.4!. SCHRBTXER * SONS, Mncon.Ga. JNO. O. SCHREINER 4 SONS, Savannah, Ga. J. C. Schreiner & Sons, NO. 199 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. BOOKS, STATIONERY, h MUSIC, and FANCY GOODS. Keep constantly on hand a choice selec tion of the above articles, All orders from the Country promptly attended to. THE BEST OF ITALIAN VIOLIN and GUITAR STRINGS. AGENTS FOR Rtoinway & Sons’, Socbbelcr & Schmidt’s, and Gale it Co.’s CELEBRATED PIANOS^ fed—ly ’ l ' '.. ~ MUSIC AND LANCING. PROFESSOR STIIAWINSKI IS PRE PARED to receive a few pupils in MUSIC. The Piano and Guitar will be taught. Later in the season, he proposes to inaugurate Daneinjf Reeses. Liberal arrangemeffts' will be made with Schools. Any persons desiring his services wilt please leave their address with Messrs. Jno. C. Schreiner L Sons. REFERENCES. Col. .T,vs. Gardner, Dr. 11. A. Eionon, T. P. Stoa-ai.L, Esq., F. C. Barker, E*q. an 12—tuthfr2w» Dry Goods. IMPORTANT THE TRADING PUBLIC! GREAT BARGAINS IN DRY GOODS! SELLING OFF AT UNPRECEDENTEDLY LOW PRICES! To make room for a LARGE FALL STOCK! MERCHANTS, PLANTERS and OTHERS Mdl i. c, - .•• ... o.’. ft .. ~ • e, JAcsirow of Purchasing DRY GOODS A T ■ noO dt i EXTREMELY LOW PRICES, FOR CASH! I ' i; WILL FIND IT VASTLY TO TnEIR INTEREST TO CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOCK - BEFORE PURCHASING j .otS MOAI .BOHlOffff ELSE WHERE. As ’we have a regular Assorted Stock of FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC LKY GOODS FANCY GOODS a, NATIONS,;- Etc., Etc., We will not attempt an enumeration of - I'td i the many artioles 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 ! rDHE ENTIRE STOCK OF 1 DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, CLOTHING, LADIES’ AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, Hats, Caps, Boots and Siioes, Trunks, Valises, Segars, eto., etc. To make room for Goods constantly arriving at 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 sale at a bargain, in THE FANCY BAZAAR, No. 253 Broad Street. rPHE LATEST 1 and BEST STYLES OF SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING AND GENTS’ FURNISHING- GOODS At lowest prices, at THE FANCY BAZAAR, No. 253 Broad streot. Country Merelmnfs Will find it to their advantage before pur chasing elsewhere to call at THE FANCY BAZAAR, julO—3m No. 253 Broad street. 190 BROAD STREET 190- DRY GOODS Os Every Description, Hoop Skirts. 4= V: \ EMPRESS iSg ■ 1 t. v 4 COLORED G--V-T I-. i--j HOOP SKIRTS Dress Goods, In all Material used therefor. LADIES’ HATS AND BONNETS, WHITE GOODS SHEETINGS AND SHIRTINGS BRAIDS, TINSEL & PI.AIN CORD RIBBONS, COLLARS AND CUFFS MANTILLAS AND CLOAKS HOSIERY, GLOVES, TINS AND. NEEDLES, FANCY SOAPS, PERFUMERY Anti every other Article usually found in a First Clans Drif Goads Store. CALL AND EXAMINE .GQODS-S^ NO. 202. (?!)f Dai in |)tfss. City Printer—Official Paper LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. SUNDAY; MORNING A«^T2677566 SCISSORS. —Tlicre are 500 insane persons in New'Hampshire. —St. Louis was 100 years old last Saturday. —Brazil will open an Industrial Ex position, Oct. 19 th. —-A child, five years old, died In Lon don from intoxication. —The anti-rent troubles have again broken out iu the Helburg District, near Albany. —Two and a quarter million pounds of grapes were shipped from (Sandusky, iu two aud a half months, last Fall. —ln private watch your thoughts. Iu the family watch your temper. In com pany your tongue. —Quq steamer with a cargo of 39,000 watermelons, left Norfolk re cently.. —A letter to “The prettiest girl in Detroit" is awaiting a claimant in the post office in that city. —Why is a restless sleeper like a lawyer. ? Because he lies on one side aud turns and lies on the other. —A large proportion of the children of the working classes in England now being christened are named “Glad stone.” —The Viceroy of Egypt has abolished polygamy, and henceforth will content himsell with one wife. Family cares are too much for the poor man. —A yearly taxation of the English people is now $76,000,000 less than in 1851, a continued yearly reduction having been made since that. time. —Of all European nations, France shows the slowest rate of increase in population. The 28,000,000 of 1801 had only increased by 9,000,000 in 1851. —The census of Huntsville has been completed. It shows the total popula tion of the place to be 3,213 whites, aud 2,248 blacks. A Richmond paper thinks there should be anew cabinet officer, called the Secretary of the Exterior, and ap pointed from the South. —There are 7,440 Odd Fellows in California. They own thirty valued at $300,000, and other property valued at $500,000. —The “enamelled face” is the latest novelty at Newport. The work, which is done in Paris, costs SI,OOO, and will last four years with proper care and a placid expression of countenance. —Last year, in Massachusetts, 25,026 persons were married, of whom 7,574 couples were purely American, and 4,839 were either foreigners exclusively, or “mixed.” —The man who first introduced the [aiming mill into Scotland was derided as an atheist. He was getting up gales of wind when Providence willed a calm. —“They don’t make as good mirrors as they used to,” remarked an old bach elor, as he observed a pair of sunken eyes, wrinkled face and livid complex ion iu a glass that he usually looked into. —The Cunard mail contract expires next year, and it is anticipated that the postage of the letters alone will be suffi cient to maintain the service, the shilling rate being reduced to sixpence, and all the letters being sent to New York. One half of the letters now go to Boston. —-“How i3 it,” said a man to his neighbor, “that Parson M., the laziest man living, writes these interminable long sermons ?” “Why,” said the otheri “he gets to writing aud is too lazy to stop.” —A man stopping his paper wrote to the editor: “I think fokes ottent to take papurs ; my dady dident, and every body says lie was the most iutelligentest man iu the couutry, en hed the smartest fam ily of bois that ever digged taturs.” —The people of Jackson county, Fla., will make application to the next Gene ral Assembly of that State for a charter to build a railroad from St. Andrew’s Bay to a point on the Chattahoochee river at the crossing of the Atlantic aud Gulf Rail Road. -j-Rechntly, in Boston, the largest diving bell ever made in this country was cast, and it has been successfully tested in deep water in that neighbor hood. Tho bell weighs 15,000 pounds, and is of a capacity sufficient to allow lour meu to work iu it at one time. gailir |)rfSs. BOQX. A .HD JOB PBIHTIHO 09 EViltt ttUtSCIfIPTION EXECUTED IN THB MANNER. The Fastest Power Presses, and Best of Workmen enables us to do Superior JOB WORK at Cheaper Batts than elsewhere. Charter Oak COOKING STOVE! THIS STOVE, SO favorably known in Mobile, New Or leans, St. Loois, and other Southern cities, is now being offered to the citizens of Au gusta, as one of the best and cheapest first class Cooking Stoves in the market—its baking qualities are unsurpassed, which is acknowledged by all who have used it. Tho draught flues are so constructed as to ensure a perfect draught, while nhnt air flue which surrounds the oven insures the baking and roasting of bread and meats, to entire satisfaction. We warrant the perfect baking of every Stove we sell. In our stock will be found TOILET SETS, CHURNS, TUBS, COFFEE MILLS, SCOURING BRICKS, TEA TRAYS, SAD IRONS,. CAKE CUTTERS, JELLY CAKE PANS, etc. D. L. FULLERTON, 159 Broad st., corner Washington. anß—lm J - Brokers and Merchants. C. E. Clagiiorn, W. F. Herring, Philadelphia, Pa. Augusta. Ga. CLAGHORN ft HERRING, JJAVING RK-RENTED THE COMMODIOUS STORE KNOWN AS No. 7 WARREN BLOCK, WITH WAREHOUSE IN REAR, AUGUSTA, GEO., Will continue to give their personal atten tion to CONSIGNMENTS TO THEM, EITHER AT AUGUSTA, GA., OR ■■ I*l - *»• - . *T '■* I -I-...-'' PHILADELPHIA, PA. Particular attention given to the STORAGE, SALE AND PURCHASE OP Cotton, Yarns, AND DOMESTICS. Consignments and Orders Solicited. Liberal CASH ADVANCES made on Consignments. NORTHERN EXCHANGE FOR SALE AT MARKET RATES. On Ist October Mr. A. M. JACKSON will be admitted as a partner and the firm will he changed to CLAGHORN, HERRING * CO. au’9—6w JAMES T. GARDINER, ARE II OUSE AND COMMISSION ME R C IIA NT, Mclntosh Street, Augusta, Ga. Will give his personal attention to tho STORAGE AND SALE OF COTTON And such .other Produce as may be sent him. Cash advances made on Produce in Store, au 11—6 m JOHN CRAIG, Banking and EXCHANGE OFFICE, 289 BROAD STREET, Augusta, Ga., BUTS ANl> SELLS GOLD BULLION GOLD and SILVER COIN BANK NOTES ..a BONDS, STOCKS BILLS OF EXCHANGE, tny4—ly , Foreign and Domestic. PETER DAVEZAO WILL PAY THE HIGHEST PRICES for Cotton Rags, Waste, Old Bagging, Rope. Also, Copper, Brass, and Lead. Wagons to call at any part of the City, Office and Warehouse, Northeast Corner of Fenwick Aud Washington streets, Augusta. Geqrgia.- jyS—3m» Dress Goods. STYLES OF DRESS GOODS, ALL KINDS, VERY CHEAP, at I. KAHN & CO.’S, pi 17—6 m 262 Broad Street. Peach Orchard Coal, tVrOW BEING DELIVERED FROM I ’ Rail Road to customers. Having had long experience in the business, the sub scriber is enabled to make the best selec tions from the different Mines for this mar ket. a. S. HOOKEY. au4—lm