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di>f *laiU City Printer— Official Paper LARSKSTTUn CIKHUTIOX. A UirtlHl’A, OA-. SUNDAY. MGKNIXtt .-J“- **• TO BUSINESS MEN *KB TUB AdverUainf Commccitr Generally. Tin DAIM PHKM »«fcl!•••«'• «*• Official Mat of I.rticra rc.ualnlii« In the Aafaiia Pnatntflcr, •« the end nf each week, nEreenhljr ta the »ollnwln«*eeUan •* the *ew Paet affire taw, «» *he Wewepnper httvtnc the tnnfeat ClrenlntiaM . Sacrioe 5. And to it fnrthmr marled, That tUte of Utter, rntaintng nntm lied for »■ «»5 PbeteMm, in any city, town or r ßtoye, where a nnjnpaywr ekall to printed, ‘kail kereafler to pntoUM «•« «/» in lie orv.p«p»r et.c*, being pnklUkmi weekly or often rr, ,knll kart tk* x-iLttanrt ci«crt,*rto« witton rang, of detierry of tk* eaiii < f.ce. The PAII.T PRESS Is alao the Official Paper of the t’ity of Aufa«ta, hatlnff been elected the City Council as their Official Organ, Perverted Philanthropy. The ill-educated or perverted philan thropy which has disrupted the patri archial institution of the South and consigned-a simple race to certain anni hilation on this continent, have a simi lar pursuit in the large towns of the North. It is, to unsex the young women, on the pretext of finding em ployment lor them. For this purpose the employmeuts usually reserved to men are invaded on every possible oc casion, until there is searely a branch of mechanics, within their strength, in which women are not now employed. This, too,when men with families are idle, and reduced to dire straits ; and when women cannot be induced to engage in household labors to the relic* of over burdened wives. No household servants can be employed in this city, except the dirty, thieving Irish girls, who look upon their employers as their helpless victims. In the perverted taste that prevails, the most intelligent unmarried women seek employment iu shops, and latterly it has been found necessary Jo employ meu as cooks and waiters in private families. Women do not suc ceed as clerks except where customers are entirely men, for women will avoid a “store” where the clerks are women. The young women who have worked in shops become, iu a lew years, com pletely uusexed. Bold ami “slangy,” entirely ignorant ol household duties— ; knowing less of details than most lads brought up at home—men might as well marry each other for “help-mates.” Used" to the “shop,” when they marry, the restraints of home soon become irksome, and the most scandalous prac tices follow. They learn to procure abortions, and in a short time become mere wrecks, physically and morally. More unlovelv beings than the “shop girls of New York” it is impossible to conceive; and the amount of discomfort and unhappiness which follows directly from the agitation for “employment for women” would be difficult to estimate. In the good old times, when the daughters of the common people were not considered too good to learn to do what their mothers had learned, and what they would find it most important to know on'marrying, housekeeping was not discomfort embodied as now. Verily, the times are out of joint. W ILLOCGHBY. The foregoing is from the New York correspondent of one of our City papers, and contains an uncalled for and unde served attack upon the girls of Irish birth who are so unfortunate as to have to work. We do not know who “Willoughby” is, nor do we much care ; but we can not staud idly by, and see any class of while women ruthlessly and wantonly assailed, without entering our protest against it, and denouncing the libel. There is, in the letter from which we haye quoted, no exception. The unfortunate girls and young women who have to labor in menial services, are called “dirty thieving Irish girls,” “who look upon their employers as helpless victims.” Is there no honest, virtuous Irish girl? Are there no “dirty, thiev ing” American, French, *or German girls ? Surely, such an attack is as unjust as it is ungenerous. There may be “dirty thieving frish girls”—but there are meau people of all nationalities : and there can be no greater slander or libel than to attribute laults to any people because of their nationality. And as for the Irish girls, we can say, fearless of successful contradiction, that there is no class of people more honest, more virtuous, or more trustworthy than they are. The “dirty, thieving” ones are the exceptions —exceptions which can be found among all nations and all com munities- ■To the credit of the “Irish girls” be it said, in their class, they are but rate exceptions. The libel should be promptly repudi ated, and its author should as promptly retract it. This much is due to an in jured class of women, and should be promptly given. Thb Reason or it. —The popular vote in the election of 1864 was as follows: Lincoln, 2,223,035 ; McClel lan, 1,811,754. If we added to the popular vote lor McClellan, the whole voting population of the South, esti mating it by the vote in 1860, of ten Southern States, we shall have the exact strength of the opposition to the Radical party. The vote of these States in 1860, was 750,035, which, added to the popular vote for McClellan, gives an aggregate ants-Radical strength in the United States of 2,570,889. and an anti-liadieal majority of 347,854. South Carolina, whose Presidential elec tors were chosen by her Legislature, is omitted in this estimate. These facts uud figures explain the patriotic solici tude of the K'tdical party to keep the Southern States out of the Union. Long ago in MassocbustrUs, it was the custom for a person to go about the meeting houses during divine service and wake the sleepers. “He bore a long wand, on one end of which was a ba 1, ant) on the other a fox tail. When he observed the men asleep, lie rapped them on the head with a knob, and roused the slumbering sensibilities of the ladies by drawing the brush lightly across their faces- Our Position, Oar Danger, and Oar Duty. HUMUS* VI. Editor of the Jfaihf Prtu: Ths disposition to tmk* for granted that we have no means of esespe from the calamities which Mem to threaten us. and that nothing wa can do can poasi bly mitigate the ills by which we are surrounded, is a moat pernicious error, because its indulgence is the moat cer tain way to precipitate those calamities and aggravate those ills. To create for our-e res an ideal standard of political, social, and material prosperity, entirely irrespective of the circumstances of our situation, and fold our hands in despair or sullen ness, because we find that standard unattainable, is unworthy of the good sense, courage, and fortitude for which the Southern people are dis tinguished. We set our lives upon a esst, and are bound to “bear the hazard of the die.” We have lost our wealth— the accumulated capital of three quar ters of a century, and however we may regret it, however unjustly or wrong full; we may think we have been de prived of it, it is gone, and we canno 1 possibly get back any part of it but by our owu exertions—by hard work, clieer lully and hopefully undertaken. Our whole domestic system has been over turned. We can no longer command our labor? We must engage it by the day, month, or year, aud take the chances whether it is good, bad, or in different. We may deplore the change, and be as convinced as we are of our existence, that the former system of domestic slavery was economically, so cially, morally, and religiously the best for the whites, as well as for the blacks. But it, too, has gone, and can never be re-established. We must make the best of the present system, and, by justice and kindness, firmness and generosity, endeavor to make the negro as indus trious, moral, and nseful as possible. Whatever we may think of our politi cal rights under the Constitution and laws of the United States, practically those rights are in abeyance, and the most sanguine cannot see the least pros pect of their being restored to us until the ruling majority at the North aban don their present opinions, and, yielding to a sense of justice, the force of con stitutional argument, or a more enlight ened and comprehensive view of the good of the Republic, acknowledge our claim to perfect political equality and the right to regulate our domestic af fairs, subject only to the supreme law. It is worse than idle to expect that either the present or the next Congress will change what the majority call their policy of reconstruction. They think that if we were free to exercise our right to a share in the Government our strength added to the opposition at the North would deprive them of power, patronage, aud emolument; therefore, their direct interest, apart from the vin diclive hatred and angry malevolence which control many of them, prompts them to keep us out of the Union, po litically, at least, until they Recure a renewed four years’ lease of power by electing a President who belongs to their party, and is bound to obey their behests. Legally, wp have an indefeasi. ble right to perfect equality in the Gov ernment, but practically, we are at the mercy of the ruling majority. Legally, that majority has no more right to dic tate what we shall do or leave undone, as long as we obey the Constitution and all constitutional laws, than they have to dictate how many wives the Sultan ot Turkey shall marry, or to forbid patri otic Japauese from disembowelling themselves, in order to gratify the Tycoon. But, practically, and with all the active effect of indisputable legality, they exercise the right to govern ns as they please, whether we will or not, subject to no limitation or restraint but what they think the Constitution ordains, or ought to ordain. The only issue from this political bon dage is through an altered public senti ment at the North. To bring about this change by calm reasoning, sound argu merit, dispassionate representation of facts, moderation of language and action, and a readiness to advance half way in the path of conciliation, is as evidently the duty of every one of us as it is our duty to go to work to provid e for our wants and recruit our fortunes, or to do the best we can with the labor system which has been forced upon us, and the inferior race which has been suddenly let loose amongst us. “Help yourself and God will help you,” is true of nations as of individuals. As I said in my first letter, let our people ask the North for a definite and authoritative expression of the terms upon which alone it will consent to peace with us. Let us show a disposi tion to treat and “argufy” with good feeling and good sense, show the North ern people how cruelly they misappre hend our acts and misjudge our feel ings, and prove to them how much bet ter and wiset' it is for both parties, with out sacrifice of honor, self-respect, or manly independence, to shake hands and be friends, have faith in one an other, and, both united, make a fresh start on the way of national greatness, power, and progress. The Philadelphia Press and the New York Independent , and other radical papers, under the inspiration of Forney, Stevens, and Wendell Phillips, are now the only sources from which the Northern people derive their information iu regard to us. Let us he our own interpretors. Let us speak for ourselves. Let us expose the falsehood and malice of these worthies and their followers, anil tell our owu tale in our own way. Many Northern men honestly believe at this moment that a conspiracy to overthrow the Union and reestablish the Confede rate States, murder and persecution of Union meu and Northern citizens, aud torture and assassination of freed men are oar constant occupation aud pastime. It is told them by the thousand issues of radical papers, every day in the week, and they never hear any contra diction of it, Wq can lighten this dark ness and make the truth to shine. But if we keep our seats, and refuse to move or speak, in the conviction that we will be drowned and nobody shall save ue, the darkness will grow so dense that it will become impervious to truth. Xylon. Toleration. In theory, individual liberty, so far as it may be consistent with the well being of society, is the fundamental principle of our Government. We boost that we alone, of all the nations of the earth, allow freedom of opinion on all subjects, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. In theory, our laws maintain and defend otir citizens in the unre served expression of any sentiments in speech or in print, so that they keep within the law of slander and libel; and the very nature of our institutions ne cessitates the most thorough discussion of political measures, and of the quali fications of political aspirants. We hold up this, our theory of freedom, to the world, snd bid its nations follow onr example. “Columbia, land of free,” is n theme for songs now somewhat out of fashion, and the subject of Fourth-of- July orations also become unfashionable. It is very common to hear the expres sion, “this is a free country,” and per haps the vaunt may once have been true, but not in our day. We may confidently affirm that no civilized people are leas free, in the very points on which we boast, than we are- We are slaves to each other’s opinions. The vox povuli rules this land with a sway more autocratic than that with which the Czar rules Russia ; and, from the highest stations to the lowest—from the President to the Constable—all quail before it. Other forms of government appear to be, nay, really are, more stable than ours, because there are po sitions in which the men holding them, responsible' only to one superior, have no need to compromise wliat is right for what is popular ; have nothing to ask from that popular lavor, too olten gained without merit, and lost without a crime; nothing to fear from popular condemnation. So long as a man in such a place does his duty, his position is assured. He may hold it at the will of a despot, but no despotism cau be more capricious than that of the multi, tude. Men in such positions are always and necessarily conservative, and form one of the great elements of stability so much needed among us. They are bal ance wheels to prevent sudden aud de structive changes in the progress of the governmental machine. Having nothing to gain by the proscription of those who differ from them in opinion, they are tolerant; having nothing to fear from persecution, they will not persecute. It is not so with us. There is no place among us from which the occu pant does not expect to climb to some thing higher in the gift of the people, or which he does not hold by the will of his party, whose favor can be most easily acquired by virulence towards oppon ents. But persecution for opinion’s sake, though it may temporarily sub serve the interests of party, is a bane to tbe welfare of the country, and some times warms into life and mighty force ideas that would otherwise perish. It is au old maxim that the "blood of tbe martyrs was the seed of the Church and there has been no lack of martyrs in politics as well as in religion—in erroneous as well as in good causes. Persecution may deter the timid from following the courses their inclination or conviction dictates, but it only strength ens the bold and resolute in their opin ions and designs, whether they be right or wrong, and forces them inlo extremes. It is generally thought that the men too ultra for the majority are not to be feared, because they appear to have few followers, but at one time or other the world comes up to them. They are but the advance guides, and sooner or later the great, never-halting army of man kind advances aud ailigns itself with them. Thus, to adduce none of the many examples in religious and political contests, in other times and other coun tries, in our own day the Abolitionists were at first but a weak and insignifi cant handful of fanatics, odious North as well as South, but they proved to be only a little in advance of their time; and we who saw them once mobbed and persecuted, even in Northern cities, have lived to see the whole North come up to their stand-point; have seen South eru men pardoned and amnestied on condition that they shall swear to main tain their success in the abolition of slavery ; and have seen the Abolition societies dissolved because their object was attained, and there remained no more work for them to do. We can see, now it is too late, how persecution mag nified their importance and subserved their ends. So in the case of secession. Teif years before the war broke out, Howell Cobb, by a majority of 18,000, was elected Governor of Georgia upon the rallying cry of “Save the Union.” although his opponents indignantly de nied any designs against the Union, and professed that they desired only to seek their rights in the Union. A great" party mustered uudera banner inscribed “The preservation ot the Union is the paramount good.” No candidate could bo elected to any office who was eveu suspected of infidelity to the Union. A few men here und there —more, perhaps, outside of Georgia than within it—be lieved thut the Union was uu evil, op pressive to the South and dangeioue to her institutions. They were scarcely tolerated in private, never in public positions, if they preached tbeir belie openly; yet, within a few years, we saw almost the whole population of the South suddenly rushing np to the side of these men, repudiating old aud long cherished opinions, adopting in their stead those formerly so unpopular, and asking in their vindication, with the Gery zeal of aew converts, a bloody and ruinous war. The Union men who had persecuted became the proscribed— with the measure they meted was retal iation meted out to them, heaped up, pressed down, and running over. Whether the people were right in 1830, or right in 1860, has nothing io do with our present purpose. We intro duce the fact that a great change took place in the interval, without any appa rently adequate cause, as an illustration of the influence of extreme men and extreme opiuions, and of that trust in the human mind which causes it, like a moving pendulum, to react past the middle point to the extreme; therefore, it is not safe or politic to denounce those who are too slow or too inert to follow the swing of the popular miiul in its mighty vibrations. The time is sure to come when the popular pendulum, stopping for a moment at one extreme, will rush with accelerated velocity to the other; and the ultra man of one day may be up with, perhaps a little behind, the political advance of the next. In tolerance makes martyrs, and martyrs are the seed of political parties as well as of the Clinrch. Error dies when it ceases to be nourished by the sacrifice of its disciples, and when persecution cease to arouse, in sympathy with its victims, that chivalrous sentiment in almost every man’s heart which prompts him to side with the defenceless and proscribed. The policy, therefore, is suicidal which prompts editors and the public to denounce ami vituperate all \vho speak, vote, or act at variance with their opin ions, or those of the majority. A measure, a political course, an expressed opinion, or a vote which this year may seem to be utterly obnoxious, may next year appear to be of the highest wisdom and prudence. We should at least re frain from persecuting its advocate, if we believe him in error, lest we make the error dangerous by making him more obstinate in it. We have lately had an instance in point. Tne whole Southern press, with one or two insig nificant exceptions, have denounced the “Constitutional Amendment,” as it is called, as infamous, without deigning to point out wherein its infamy consisted ; and you, Mr. Editor, of the Augusta Daii.y Press, have affirmed that it was very properly rejected by the Legislature. The propriety or impropriety of that rejection is not in ques'ion at present) though a hint may be allowed that if your journal and others had permitted us to know what the “Constitutional Amendment” was, we should have been better qualified to judge of the pro priety ol its rejection. The point at issue at present is, are you brother journalists wise aud politic in “damning to everlasting fame” the two members of the Legislature who voted in favor of the Amendment. Personally I know nothing of the two gentlemen, but their position is prima facie evi deuce that they are honorable and upright men. AVhy, then, can we not give them credit for honesty and sin cerity in casting their votes ? It is true they were from the mountains, whose people are, for some unaccountable reason, supposed to he inferior in intel ligence to the inhabitants of the “Black Belt,” which has heretofore claimed most of the “smartness” extant in the State; but when those mountaineers come to claim the weight due to their numbers in this Government of uum bers, the impolicy of having driven their meu ofinfluence into extremes, by ill-judged criticism, may be made mani fest. It is to be hoped that, for the interest and character of the South, the days of mob law and vigilance committees, and all the other iniquitous machinery o* popular despotism, are passed for ever. Let us also hope that the time isathand when persecution for opinion’s sake, in any shape, may he unheard of, and when ali questions may be discussed with no other res'raint than that argu ment shall not degenerate into vitupera tion and personalties. Quintus. Masquerade Parties. This is a queer subject for an edi torial, but in these strange times scarce ly anything is surprising. Ab Josh Billings says, “In the good old daize ,” this species of innocent amusement was greatly in vogue among the elite of the land, hut being liable to abuse, it gradually became more general until it degeuerated under the patron age of those whose depraved tastes found a cloak under the “Mask and Domino.” We are pleased, however, to note that time has appeased the latter class, and that the descendants of those whose purity of thought and pur pose projected the “Bal Masque,” have resuscitated this time-honored custom, and that, divested of its objectionable features, the Masquerade has again be come the happy and pleasant pastime of the better class of society. It is an old custom, and practiced to this day among the people of Rome, who give themselves up to merriment and fun during what is termed the “Carnival' k week, preceding the sacred season of Lent. In New Orleans, the Roman enstom is followed, and “Shrove Tuesday” is devoted by almost its entire population to the festivities of “Mardi Gras.” Mobile, New York, and other cities, are unusually brilliant at this season with private masked parties, aud wu are glad to learu that, in our own City, this unobjectionable amusement will soon he inaugurated/ With tbs proper supervision, these parties can he made a sourco of great pleasure and amusement to its partici pants, and will successfully tend to renew the social relationship so un happily disturbed by the late war. GEORGIA ITEMS. Th* Atlanta Eryt freight tehed ulcs are, being arranged via Montgomery and Mobile, and also via Chattanooga and Memphis, with New Orleans, which will restore the old trade relations with the Crescent city which existed before the war. The total value of taxable property in Fulton county, according to the last assessment, is $9,343,376. An appropriation of SIO,OOO. was made ty the last Legislature to enlarge the State Lunatic Asylum, at Miliedge ville, for the purpose of receiving insane negroes. The work will be let to builders, and sealed proposals will be received by Mr. Green, the Superinten- dent, until the 15th of February. Hon. Turner H. Trippe, a leading member of tbe Upper Georgia bar, died at Cassville, ou the 20th instant, of apoplexy. Hugh Croft, Esq., for many years a merchant in Milledgeville and Macon, died recently at Holly Springs, Miss. The Dawson Journal says that the freedmen of that section are setting out in the right way to prove themselves of the right stamp. The editor does not believe there are a dozen idle freedmen in tbe county. According to an act of the last Legis lature, in districts where there is no choice for J udges or Solicitors, the Gov. ernor will order a new electiop. MARRIED, On the 14th inst., in Jefferson county, by the Rev. S. Landrum, Capt. Charles C. Hardwick, of JSavannah, and Miss Ann P- Johnson, daughter of ex-Govcrnor 11. V- Johnson. FUNERAL NOTICK <©"* Ihe friends and acquaintances of Captain GILBERT G. HOLLAND, and of Mr. Jacob R. Davis and family, are in vited to attend the funeral of the former, from the Cemetery Chapel, THIS (Sunday) AFTERNOON, at 3 o’clock. Special Notices. Consignees per Central Railroad, January 27.—C AW A Cos, A Bleakley, M Cohen, Barry A B, Beal A H, Mrs Fred erick, Richards A Bro, R F Urqubart, G F J, C II Warner, Cook A M, J K A Bro, Platt Bros, F Cogin, II E Clark, Conley F A Cos. W S S, J 6 B A Bro, W E J, Phillips A Cos. Levy A J, liA Cos, Beall & Cos, E O’D, C F McCay, J Danforth, T A S, JOMA Cos, G R R, Davidson tk Cos, Wyman A M. WEBB’S LODGE, NO. 166, F.\ A A.-. M.\—Tho Regular » Monthly Communication of this Lodge will he held at the Lodge f\S\ Room (Masonic Hall) TO-MOR ROW (Monday) EVENING, the 28th inst., at 7 o’clock. By order FRED. E. CRANE, S.-. W.\ Wm. R. Davis, Secretary. ja27—lt SOCIAL LOLGE, NO. 1, F.\ A A.\M.\—A Called Communica- & tion of this Lodge will be held the Lodge Koom, Masonic THIS (Sunday) AFTERNOON, at 2*o’clock, to pay the last Masonic tribute of respect to the memory of our late Brother, Captain GILBERT G. HOLLAND. The Members of Webb’s Lodge, and tran sient brethren in good standing, are ear earnestly requested to unite with us. By order of S. D. Heard, W.\M.\ WM. H. CRANE, Jr„ —lt Secretary. MRS. PICQUET WOULD IN- FullM the Ladies of Augusta that she is prepared to dc Dressmaking, Plain Sewing, and Braiding, and desires a liberal share of their patronage. She can be found at tho corner of GREENE and CEN’JRE STS., No. 96. ja23—tf TO DENTISTS.—WE HAVE just received a good assortment of DENTAL MATERIAL TEETH, FILES, FOR CEPS, DRILLS, EXCAVATORS, CORUN DUM WHEELS, etc., etc. We sell at Manufacturer's prices. Cash must accom pany the orders. ja23—6t PLUMB tk LEITNER. Augusta, Ga., January 1, 1567. g@“TIIE UNDERSIGNED, Mastor Mechanics and Buiiders, in the City of Aagusta, mutually agree that TEN HOURS shall constitute a Day’s Work and that all employees, under them, shall hereafter only be paid in proportion, for a less number of hours worked in a day’s labor. WM. H. GOODRICH A CO., DENNING A TUTTLE, WYMAN A MAY, PLATT BROTHERS, GEO. COOPER, SCHOFIELD, WILLIAMS A CO., BARROW tk COFFIN, WHITE A LORD, MACMUItPHY A THOMPSON, FRANCIS E. TIMMONS, JESSE OSMOND, • R. J. BOWE, ja!B—l2t DENTISTRY.—DR. D. S, WRIGHT, successor to his , brother, the late Dr. Chas. M. Wright, will continue the business, in all (he branches of the Profession, at the old Parlors, No. 258 Broad street, two doors above the Globe Hotel. jal7—tf iJliilliaL 212 BROAD STREET, AUGUST A,IGA. jalO—tf New Advertisements. 6UANO AND PHOSPHATES. X(\ TONS GENUINE OkJ PERUVIAN 6AUNO. 10 Ton* ZELL’S RAW BONE PHOSPHATE. 10 Tons ZELL’S SUPER PHOSPHATE OF LIME. For sale by STOVALL A EDMONSTON, ja2B—lw No. 2 Warren Bloek. MA’KS AND DOMTNOET IYJADE TO ORDER AT MRS. FANNY SMITH'S, 134 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. j*2/—2t Look! Look! AT WHAT P AT E. 11. SUMIUERS’ STOCK OF WATCHES, JUST RECEIVED FROM NEW YORK. 184 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. ja27—it PIONEER SOAP. GIVE IY A FAIR TRIAL, This c*oap requires only to be used to prove its superior quality. Use it as you would any common Soap. TRY IT, And you will be convinced that it is supe rior to any other article in market. For sale by Grocers generally. Manufactured by TAYLOR A YOUNG, 186 Front Street, New York. Trade supplied at Manufacturer’s prices by JOHN D. BUTT A BRO., Ag’ts, No. 266 Broad st., Augusta, Ga. ja27—6m PIONEER LADIES, USE THIS AND NO OTHER, And with your Pastry you will have no bother; At every grocer’s you can get it, Try a box and you will ne'er regret it. This Yeast Powder is used by all first class Hotels and Restaurants through the country, and is finding its waj T into every household where good Yeast Powder is ap preciated. SamplesJFree. Every box war ranted to give satisfaction or money refund ed. Manufactured by TAYLOR & YOUNG, 186 Front Street, N. Y. Trade supplied at manufacturer’s prices by JOHN D. BUTT BRO., Ag’ts., 266 Broad street, Augusta, Ga. ja27—6m J. J. BROWNE, QARVEK AND GILDER. LOOKING GLASS'And PICTURE FRAMES CORNICES, . BRACKETS, CONSOLE TABLES, psSU Made to Order"®*}. Old PICTURE and LOOKING-GLASS FRAMES REGILT, and OIL PAINTINGS RESTORED, LINED, and VARNISHED At 135 BROAD STREET, Auyunta, Ga. Old CHANDELIERS made to look EQUAL TO NEW, at a moderate price. ja27—lt ESTABLISHED IN 1850. Extensive and attractive sup plies of Rich Jewelry, Gold and Silver Watches, aud solid Silverware of every de scription, Diamond Rings and Pins, Ladies’ , .Gold Leon tine and Chatelaine Chains, Gent’s Guard, Vest, and Fob Chains, Wedding Rings, Bridal Setts of Pearls, ALSO, STEBLIXCi SILVER FOR BRIDAL PR US T NTS AND A GREAT VARIETY OF FANCY ARTICLES. Fine Watches and Jewelry repaired at A. PRONTAUT'S OLD STAND, 168 Broad street. One door below Augusta Hotel. jn27—tf Meats and Provisions. New Meat House, CORNER GREENE & CAASPBELL STS TIIE UNDERSIGNED HAS iISmSh °P eiie< L f° r fo e accommodation \]*7v of those Families who can Dot go to Market, a MEAT HOUSE, where l.e will keep constantly on hand, the finest BEEF MUTTON PORK SAUSAGES and SAUSAGE MEAT Ever brought to this market—hoping, by strict attention to business, to claim the patronage of the Citizens of Augusta. Remember the place— CORNER OF GREENE AND CAMPBELL STREETS, AUGUSTA, GA. JOHN FAY, ja24—3m Proprietor. Alexandre’s Kid Gloves English iiose And HALF HOSE— And a variety of other Goods. Just receivod by ja22—tf D. R. WRIGHT A CO. Tax Notice. CLERK OF COUNCIL’S OFFICE,) Augusta, Ga., Jan. 18, 1807. J ALL PERSONS LIABLE FOR CITY TAXES (except those who are re quired to make Quarterly Uoturns), aro boreby notified that tho.CITY TAY DIGEST for 1807 is now open, at n>y office, and will remain open until the first day of March next, by whioh time all returns must be made. All those who fail to return by that tfmo will be returned for double taxation, aud a fine of not less than $lO per day for each day of such failure to return. Office hours from 9 o’clock, A. M., to 1 o’clock, P. M.; and from 3 o’clock, P. M., to 5 o’clock, P. M., ‘daily (Sundays exceptod). L. T. BLOME, ja!9— td Clerk of Council. Amusements. C oncert Hall. P I F T H ° WEEK And unabated success of tbe Great Public Favorites, tbe distinguished artistes, Mr. and Mrs. H. Watkins. who will appear in anew and brilliant suc cession of new ''' DRAMAS COMEDIES, FARCES. YaudcriUe’s Insbarogeu, or, Ireland in '9B. Serious Family, Bride of an Evening, Peasant Peeress, Mated not Matched, Ire land As It Was, A Cap of Tea, Too Late for the Train, ete. Seats secured at Schreiner* Music Store. ja27— lw Dissolution. I HAVE THIS DAY SOLD MY INTER EST. in tbe firm of WILLIAMS, CO VERT A CO., to Mr. D. R. WILLIAMS. HENRY C. COVERT. Angusta, Ga., January 16, 1867. Copartnership Notice# The undersigned will continue the HAT, CAP, STRAW, and MILLINERY GOODS BUSINESS, at the old stand, 233 Broad street, under the firm of D. R. WILLIAMS A CO. D. R. WILLIAMS, GEO. A. JONES. Augusta. January 25, 1567. ia-6—fit ZELL’S RAW BONE PHOSPHATE AHD Super-Phosphate of Lime. WE ARE AGENTS FOR P. ZELL A SON'S celebrated PHOSPHATES, and are prepared to furnish it to Planters on liberal terms. Tho Phosphates arc well known, having been used for many years in Maryland and Virginia. Pamphlets with analysis and directions for use furnished. It will cost, laid duwn in Augusta, between S6B and $72 per ton. We will also forward orders for CORN and other Grain. ja26— 1m JOHN D. BUTT A BRO. I3alzeau’s HAIR TONIC, FOR DRESSING HAIR, ERADICATING DANDRUFF, ALLAYING IRRI TATION OF SCALP, ETC., ETC. Balzean’s marine Water FOR PREVENTING THE HAIR FROM FALL ING OUT, AND PRODUCING A LUXURIANT GROWTU. The above are manufactured by C. BALZBAU, from France, who has had twenty-five years’ experience in the Hair-Dressing business, and who thor oughly understands all Diseases of the Hair and Scalp. Consultations given gratis, both for ladies aud gentlemen, at his Booms, Broad street, four doors abore the Daily Press Office. ja26—tf BOWLING SALOON. Rare opportunity for those who wish to engage in the healthy exercise of Rolling Ten Pins! At the well known ALLEY at tbe EX CHANGE SALOON, on Broad street. A Prize of a magnificent Hunting Case Patent Lever WATCH will be awarded to the person who rolls the best game from the present date until February 16th next. January 24th, 1856. ja2s—lw* SI,OOO REWARD!!! HUNTER'S SPECIFIC, THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY! A SPEEDY CURE FOR GONNOR IKEA. GLEET, SYPHILIS, SEMINAL WEAKNESS, DIABETES, PAIN IN THE BACK, EFFECTS OF MERCURY, DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER! It requires no change of diet! It cures iu five to eight days! JSssJ“ It has full directions 1 It is not disagreeable to take ! It gives tune to the whole sys tem 1 Stay It removes impurities of the blood ! For sales wholesale and retail by W. H. TUTT, jalS—2w Sole Agent. 1867. 1867. DRY GOODS AT WHOLESALE! D. R. WRIGHT & CO., (Globe Hotel Building), 250 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. WK BUY FROM FIRST HANDS— MANUFACTURERS, AGENTS, and IMPORTERS. Goods arriving almost daily. COUNTRY MERCHANTS need go no farther. We are prepared to show them a very complete aud choiee assortment of STAPLE AND FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, Etc., Etc., Etc., at prices as low as they can lay them down, bought of Northern Jobbers. For proof, EXAMINE OUR STOCK! jalS—2m ft’OSTJPOAEO Administrator’s Sale. T. THOMPSON, AUCTIONEER. WILL BE SOLD, BY PERMISSION of the Court of Ordinary of Rich mond County, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN FEBRUARY NEXT, at tho Lower Market House, in the City of Angusta, within the legal hours of sale, that most desirable House and J.ot, on tho east side of Twiggs’ street, nearly opposite Oglesby’a Mill. The Lot frouts on Twigga street 40 foet 3 inches, running batk 296 feet. It ia a very desirable stands for a Groocry. Sold as the property of J.'C. Carpenter, deo’d. Terms cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. WM. L. FELDER, ja23—td Administrator. Auction Soles. J> A Y i 111 AX. AUCTIONEERS. WILL SELL— Ob TUESDAY.. sth day of February next, At the Lower Market, at the ureal Low of eales— ’ An excellent pair of CARRIAGE warranted sound, fast, and g ttn £ Work also in tingle barneas ; p* r f wl r safe, and good aaddle animals. g t , for no fanlt. sue, ONE FINE CARRIAGE AND HARSijs in good order. ja2s—tj’ 1 Desirable Building Lots. DAY ft I X MAX, AUCTIONEERS. VI7ILL SELL, ON THE FIRST TFEr. W DAY IN FEBRUARY NEXT, K the Lower Market, the following BCILii. ING LOTS, via.: Nos. 93, 94, 95, 96, and 122, f Ion& fifty feet on Mange street. iUO, Nos. 142, 149, and 159, fronting therer. deuce of Dr. Marks, on Sonth Bound.•, street. Tsrxs—All earns over S2OO, one-h«“ cash, and balance in six months, secured h mortgage on premises, with interest fa, date of sale. ja2s—td Attention the Fublic DAY & INMAX, AUCTIONEERS. WILL SELL ON FIRST TUESDAY IS FEBRUARY next, at the Lo*j Market House, at 11 o’elock, A. M., tin valuable property, formerly owned occupied by F. A. Mange, as a Nursert situated on tbe most eligible part of 8o«ti Boundary street, first out of thdiCity limit, viz: The Residence and Large Garden hatit,! a front of 197 feet on Marbury street, wf running through 174 feet 9 inches on Koi.l lock street, with all necessary Out Kitchen, Carriage House, Serrants’ Root,:' Stables for Horses and Cows, and a iu Hot House for Plants, and an excelfo; Well of Water in the yard. All has recently improved fcv the preseut proprio tor. Terms, one third cash ; balance ; six and twelve month notes, secured M mortgage on premises, with interest. ja2s—ld Executor’s Sale, By G. A. PABKEB, AUCTIONEER. \T7ILL BE SOLD AT TIIE LOWEF VV Market House, in the City of gnsta, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN FEE. RUARY NEXT, within the legal hours ts! sale, the following property, belonging!:! tbe estate of Foster decea.edi to-wit: That valuable Lot, between Elbert ani Lincoln streets, fronting on Telfair street 120 seer, more or less, running samewidti! through to Walker street On said Lot, oJ Telfair, is the residence of the late Fosur| Blodgett, consisting of a fiue large tit story Dwelling, Kitchen, Wash House,sail stable. On the same Lot, on Walker street,| there is a neat little tenemeut House, acdis Kitchen—the whole renting this yearfel twelve hundred and forty dollars. Also, at the same time and place, will be i sold two vacant Lots, on Walker street. | just below Lincoln, fronting 50 feet mi on Walker, running half way same width, to Telfair street 165 feet. Oil these two Lots, there is a largo three stoi? frame Smoke House, which will be sold a| the same time. Sold for the benefit of the heirs asi creditors of said estate. Terms cash. Purchasers to pay for papers. THOMAS R. RHODES, ja24—td Executor. Seventy Five Bead FINE YOUNG MULES AND HORSES AT rUPLIC AUCTION. UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAI it is practicable to sell stock throngi: the agency of an Auction, and with a viei to establish regular Public Sales, I will] sell, without reserve, in front of the Pal&ffl] Stables, Angusta, Ga., on WEDNESDAY, 30th JANUARY, 1567, SEVENTY FIVE HEAD FINE KENTUCKY Horses and Mules, viz.: 35 HEAD HORSES AND 40 HEAD FINE YOUNG MULEM .Among the Horses may be found sooe | adapted to almost any purpose for whicc g»od, reliable Horses are used—tho Saddle, the Plow, or Harness, or general family purposes. The Mules are all young, none of the lot over Six, or under Three Years old. broke and others unbroke, and all rate stock, ranging in size from 14 to Ml hands high. The especial attention of Planters | called to this sale, as I aro sure they will jj find here the necessary horse and mu' B power to make Corn and Cotton. T* lß l fullest guarantee will be given that w* | stock sold shall be as represented. having stock for sale, and desiring to avail themselves of the benefit of these sales. do so for a small commission, and ate re quested to send the same iu a few aajs ; prior to the day of sale. TERMS CASH. M. A. DEHONEY, Proprietor Palace Stables. Jan. 20, ISC7. Charleston News and Savannah Advert'.** please copy, and send hill to M. * Dehoney. ja2o—td Valuable Residence For Sale' BY C. V. WALKEB, A UCTIONEER. ON THE FIRST TUESDAY IN FEB-M U UARY NEXT, will be sold, at Lower Market Bouse, ia the city ot Aug"-'® - the premises on the north side of Hrtapjj street, in said city, now occupied kv I* § 0. A. Rodgers. It adjoins the resident* : Judge Abner P. Robertson, on the east. »*• Daniel Kirkpatrick, Jr., on the west, opposite tlio Lower Market The lot is®* of the most desirable localities in then 1 ! fronting 82 feet 6 inches on Brood (It” 1 and running back 220 feet towards H f .f nolds street. The house is two storirf with four roams on the first floor and tic above. There is a tlydrßnt in the y ,r * and all necessary outboiliugs. Title ß disputable. Terms cash. Purchasers pay for all requisite papers. j«lß—td —* I DANCING SCHOOL. AT MASONIC HALL F. T. S Til A WIN SKI. | Is now open, and Pupils recei’jj tn form Now Classes, on every Mens. , and Wednesday from 3 to 6 o’clock, P jal2—tfebl