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Tax Qiuun aro m Soctb.—l .i j
SAf* tba moat encouraging sign for our
aturo it to bo found m tfaa fact that ibo
fenaons atom at laat thoroughly aroused
to tba advantage) presented by Um South
to Uto thrifty and iadoetriooa immigrant.
Wa aaa it atatad that Raubea Golding,
of Stokaa County, North Carolina,
baa oold hit forge, situated on Dan Hirer,
with about ona thouaand two hundred
•cran of buid attached, to- a company of
Garanin capitalist*, who intend twinging a
colony of German) to that county. It ia
tba intention of the company to go large
ly into the manafabturigg buaineaa. In
Hamburg they bare formed a atocfc com
pany, with a capital of $260,000, for
•totting a German colony in Florida. It
ia expeotad that twenty thousand North
German* can be directed thither in the
flours* offitwo years, which would make
the (peculation an exceedingly successful
one. The German* in Texa* are over
mxty thouaand in number, and it ia esti
mated that at least three fourths of them
era engaged in agricultural porauitt. Care
ful and intelligent observer* believe that
at least one third of tbe whole cotton'crop
of Texas is now planted and secured by
tbalr labor.
Tba aommitUs appointed by th* House to
investigate the charges of corruption mode
against certain Sen store in oouoaatioo with the
impeachment trisl hss been punning its labors
through the week, end mads its report, through
Mr. Butler, su Monday. Owing to tbe feet to
which w* drew stt ntion lest week, that only
en* side i* represented on tba commute*, all
paiaool opposed to imptaobmoirt being exclu
ded from it, and tbot it i) composed exclusively
•f gentlemen whose political fortunes and rep
utation are dependent in a grant measure on
His President’s cooviotion, and whose passions
a* against him, and all bis friends and suppor
»*#*, have bean strongly excited by the events
us tbo last few weeks, th* inquiry Is waiting
in all th* eharaeieristics of a judicial inve-ti
gation. There has been no erect-examination
of tho witnesses; tbs syidonoo to be produced
has all boon selected by Mr. Butler end these
Who feel with him. Ho has seined the tele
gram* In tbs Washington offices, produced such
us he pleased, and suppressed such as he
pleased, and has, in fact, in bis report, regal*
tod th* light thrown on lb* evidence iu such
manner a* suited him. Wo say this not for
th* purpose of ioainnallng that he has not dis
covered any foots of real importance, but for
tba purpose of preventing the public from oven
allowing him to suggest inferences. He is to
b* trusted jut as far as bia facts go, end not
•no hair’s breadth further. ll* promised raon
atrwus revelations with regard to Mr Johnson’s
•Simvs, Whsp th* great impeachment investi
was set on foot a yosr ago ; but, m our
tsador* n»y remember, when the report mode
its appotrstitc, h« hints and insinuations wars
found to b* quit# busiasn-JParion {Radio,! )
A Rartßuoax Foxtt or (iovxanuxm.—lt bos
general!, been considered that tbo** who sway
th# destinies of • country should have sum*
ufoku iu that country, tot us set bow it la, in
this riaw, with th* bogoa Slot* officers of ra
oonstruct.d South Carolina. Annexed ia H a
Bast with the taxes paid by taoh i
•ffiliUto—R. X. Hcott, Ohio SOO 00
limUanoal- (taverner—L. Boosor. is 99
flsersfary qf Biota— P, L. Cordoss, negro 00 00
OomptroUor-Oonotal—}. Q. N eagle, N. 0.00 00
JVaaenrer—F. 0. Parker, Mau 00 00
AUrty-Qow— I). H. Chamberlain, Mass. ,00 00
Boft Education—}. K. Jlllson, Maw... .00 00
A. and I General—F. J. Musas, Jr 00 00
I ' sl6 09
Coder thsrsuanstrucled ooustitution of South
Carotins, the annual taxea will be $8,116,912
•gainst $860,000 in unrsooostrueicd times—and
•f tha above sl6 99 are represented by the
attenuated decimal .0000O80S M, ao thai, if it
may pitas# (ha arithmetical reader th* eight
higbeet uffioers of tho reounstrueted State of
South Caruliua pay to the aoppnrt of th* gov.
ornmant avor which they preaid* an average
tax *1 on* hundred thousandth part of a mill
par annum.—Afar y or * World.
Tun Cntosuo Ptei-roau sue thi Fmaxoui
Qv tenon —A correspondent asks ue if wa
think that tha committee who prepared the
resolutions at Chicago "intended to dodge tho
quootion as to tba payment of the government
bonde jn gold t" Fortunately w* can present
1* reply something more than onr mere opin
ion. A discussion between th* Now Haven
Register and th* Journal of that city baa
biwoght out th* fact, admitted by the Repub-
Be*U paper, whoa* editor had a first rate op
portunity to koow, that a resolution was pre
pared in tha committee pledging payment of
tba bonds in gold, and it waa voted down, tho
•••W* commented on being anbetituted.—
That Celtics the question, w* think, beyond
dispute.— y. T. Journal of Commerce.
Onrnon ox Colfax » TH* W*st._Th*
Clssvelsnd • Plsindosler" soys of Colfax that
h* I* "a politician by trad*, and is notorious in
Indiana as a ohronio office-beggarthst ho
M wa# elected to Coogrvst in 1854 by tho ‘Know
Nothing’ party, and ha waa one of the moot
biller, loud mouthed dofamera of onr foreign
born lellow-citiaens iu that memorable eam-
P»4W" and that “he ia bast known as a mere
partisan intriguer, a* fall of Radical bitterness
as old Thad himself, nod possessed of neither
strength or eomproheotiveoesa of mind, nor
generosity of disposition."
Oresiy i* now for Grant, says th* New York
JfogJtoo*, hut b* wasn’t whan ha wrote th*
following f “Mors soldier* war# uselessly
slaughtered iu the lata war through th* blon
dors of drunken officers than by tho bo Hot* of
the foa." When th# editor of tbo Tribune
dealt Grant thia blow between th* eyes ho
Wa* for Cbm*; hot having gone over to Grant,
wa demand to keow whether th* Tribunt
•hang* baa alta mad* Gran tony lees a butcher
or drunkard; will tha Tribute* answer this po
lite question.
India Rubber which ordinarily ia
cot with so mnoh difficulty with a
knife, may bu quite readily severed if
th« operation ia performed under
water.
CtXAimro Knxvm—A correapon-I
ient of the “Country Gentleman’' j
-ays: A small clean potato, with tba
und cot off, ia a convenient medium of
applying brick dost to knivea, keep
it about tbe right moiatore, while tbe
j«ice of the potato aaaista in remov
ing ataina from the surface. We can
get n better polish by this method
than by noy other we have tried, and
with lose labor.
No ona who wishes that conversation
should be pleasant to hi* neighbors as well
as himself, should apeak more than two or
thraa sentences at once. However much
be may have to say, it will be all tba more
agreeably said for giving otbera the op
portunity of aaaenting, illustrating, quali
fying, or even contradicting. Tbe ball
needs to b# returned by the opposite player
to make a lively game.
New Wax at. —Th* planter* in thia oounty
will aomuenea harvesting thi* w**k. Tn* in
dication* art that tba yield will not b* large, in
proportion to th* breadth of laud sowo, but of
excellent quality. Th* pric* in thia market
will open probably at $2 a bush*!, but th* ex
pectation ia that it will deelin*. We would
again suggest that parties will anboerv* their
own interact* by getting their wheat into mar
ket •• toon as possible. —Romo Courior.
Cxoaaia.—The Macon, Georgia, ToUgraph,
of May 17, pablltht* a list of- th* names of th*
members of th* Georgia Legislator*, designa
ting their politic* as follows!
.Senate—radical* 19; negroes 8 ; total, 22.
Houae—radicals 66 ; negroes t‘J ; total, 78.
H PIITII,
T IEBIG first promulgated the fact* in relation
U to GENUINE SUPERFHOHPHaTK OF
LIME, aud Ilia discovery is considered 'The
Great Agricultural Improvement of th* Age.”
LISTER BROS*
BOJtrxi
Super-Phosphate of Lime
la now before th* publie. Let the Planter glv#
it a FAIR and IMPARTIAL TRIAL, and cum
mnnicat* the result* to us. W* mak* no olaim
to being “publio benefactors," but w* do olaim
onr artiol* to ba
GENUINE
BONE MANURE,
And nothing else, and therefore just what th*
Agriculturist* want "to giro tho plant food,
and improuo th* toil.
W* remain your* truly,
LISTER BROTHERS,
159 FRONT-ST.,
v NEW YORK.
OTXB AGENTS ARE:
WM. M. LAWTON, Charleston, 8. O.
R. H. COWAN A CO, Wilmington, N. 0.
ANTOINE FOULLAIN, Augusta, G*.
March 18, 1868 47—6 m
W. A. RAMSEY & CO.,
GSQR&XJL,
GROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
THE largest and beat assorted stock of Groceries, Liquor*, and Planter*’ Snpplie* generally
in thi* market. ,
270 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
# ■ !
Oot It, 85—12**
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE ON THE GEOR
GIA RAILROAD. .
ON and after Thursday, Oot. lQth, 1867, th*
Passenger Trains on th* Georgia Railroad
will run at fallow*:
»*T passxnoxs txaih.
(Daily, Sunday* Excepted.)
Leave Augusta at... .....7.80 a. m.
Leave Atlanta at 5.00 s. m.
Arriv* at Augusts at..... .8 so p, m.
Arrive at Atlanta at ..6.80 p. m.
NIGHT ratSXNeil TSATN.
Leave Auguste at 8.15 pm-
Leave Atlanta at.. ...8 45 p. m
Arriv* at Augusta at 8.00 a. m.
Arrive at Atlanta at ....6.45 a. m.
xamxxLU rxssxNGca tk*in.
Leave Auguste at..... ......4.00 a. m.
Leave Beitelie at. .....7 10p.m.
Arriv* at Augusta at .8.50 a. m.
Arriv* atJßerxeliagat 6.45 p. m.
Passengers for Sparta, Washington and
Ahens. G*., must take Day Paeaanger Train
from Augusta and Atlanta,
Pamengeri for West Point, Montgomery,
Selma, Mobile and New Orleans, must leave
Auguvla on Night Passenger Train at 8.15 p. m.
to mak* close connections.
Passenger* for Neshville, Corinth, Grand
Junotion, Memphis, Louisville, aod St. Louis,
in teke either train and mak* olos* connec
tion*
Through Ticket* and Baggage Checked
throagh to th* above plaee*.
Fullmen’e False* Bleeping Gars en all Night
Paanogor Trams.
K. W OOLB,
ffiaaaral dope randan k
Nsv.il, 699, M,
NEW SPRING
DRY GOODS!
JAS.A'GRAV&CQ.
228 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
BEG TO INFORM THE PUBLIC THAT THEY ARE
NOW RECEIVING THE
LARGEST SPRING STOCK
4
STAPLIII HI DRY (tH
Which has been received at this Establishment for the past
twenty years. *
These Goods been purchased EXCLUSIVELY
FOR CASH from the most eminent Importers of the
United States, from the Manufacturers’ Agents direct, and
in large quantities from the recent celebrated A uction Sales
ordered by Messrs. Benkard & Hutton, ono of the very
largest Importing Houses in New York.
Having fall access to the very best Houses in the world,
and purchasing side by side with the largest Jobbers in the
United States, we can confidently and truthfully assure
our friends that
WE CAN SUPPLY THEIR DEMANDS FOR DRY GOODS,
EITHER AT WHOLESALE OR RETAIL,
# * V"" _ ,
As cheap as they can purchase the same in New York.
Merchants visiting the city will please make a note of
this fact, examine our assortment and judge for themselves.
We would respectfully invite the closest examination of
both styles and price.
JAS. A. GRAY CO.,
228 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, GA.
April, A 1863, SO, t
REMOVAL.
Ki DRY GOODS DODGE.
MULLARKV BROS.,
262 262
§ WHOLESAL# AND RETAIL DEALERSJIN
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
HAVE moch pleasure in informing their friends and the public, that they hare
withdrawn from the late firm of GRAY, MULLARKY A CO-, and established
themselves at 262 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.; therefore we shall be pleased
at all times, to see our old patrons and the publio generally, at our New Stand, where
we will take great pleasure iu ahowiug them our Goods and prices.
WE HAVE NOW IN STORE
ONE OF THE LARGEST,
MOST DESIRABLE AND ATTRACTIVE
wmi m mi mm
EVER OFFERED TO TEE TRADE
BY ANY HOUSE IN THIS CITY.
ALL OF WHICH ARE ENTIRELY NEW, AND HAVE BEEN
PURCHASED EXCLUSIVELY FOR CASH, BY MR. J. H.
MULLARKY, WHO IS NOW, AND WILL RESIDE,
IN NEW YORK. AND WILL DEVOTE HIS
UNDIVIDED ATTENTION TO THE
PURCHASING OF OUR
GOODS.
PREPARED AT ALL TIMES WITH
AMPLE CASH CAPITAL,
To take eveiy Advantage of a Declining Market,
WARRANTS US IN BAFELV SAVING TO THE PUBLIO,
THAT NO HOUSE INI THE ‘TRADE CAN OFFER
GREATER INDUCEMENTS
THAN WE ARE AT PRESENT PREPARED TO DO.
THE PUBLIC ARE EARNESTLY SOLICITED TO
EXAMINE FOB THEMSELVES.
WE TAKE PLEASURE IS SHOWING OUR GOODS.
CHEAP FOR CASH!
to wiuM hYhcmts.
We have a Separate Department especially for their trade ; something which
has been long required, and which *we are determined to build up in this city.
WE HAVE NOW IN STORE,
AND WILL ALWAYS KEEP
A LARGE AND WELL ASSORTED
-WARXEtW OKT<
DOMESTICS,
AND OTHER GOODS ADAPTED TO THE WHOLESALE TRADE,
WHICH WE WILE SEEE .A.T THE
CLOSEST JOBBING PRICES.
ALL ORDERS ENTRUSTED TD OUR ARE
SHALL HAVE OUR PERSONAL ATTENTION,
AND MEET WITH PROMPTNESS AND DISPATCH.
MULLAEKY BEOS,
262 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, GA.
April V, Mjfc**. ts