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BY ANDREWS & COLLEY. RESTAURANT! i il il Aunt Nance's House, NEWLY FITTED UP FOR THE FALLSEASON Board Per Month. $15,00. Board Per Day, $1,50. WiR ft)so keep constantly on hand ft geneitl assortment of Family Supplies, Confectioneries, Fruits, Etc., DUEING THE SEASON. *epts-6m New Spring’ Goods. JAS, G. BAILIE & BRO Respectfully ask your attention to the following Desirable GOODS offered by them for sale: English and American FI.ODH OIL CLOTHS 24 feet wide, and of the best quality ot goods manufactured. Do you want a real good Oil Cloth? If so, come now and get the very best. Oil -Cloths cut any si/e and laid promptly A full line of cheap floor Oil Cloths from 60e. a yard up. Tablu Oil Cloths, all widths and colors. (CARPETS Brussels Threeplv and Ingrain Carpet* of new designs. A full stock ot low-priced Carpets from 30e. a yard up. Carpets measured for, made and laid with dispatch. E H E CLKTtU'A Ffeucli Tamboured Luce. Kxquisita. Nottingham L ife, B lUtffu). Huftliu, tluraltUuDljl.cln ajg, from*s2,so pair upwards. CORNICES Uni) BA A 05. Rosewood and (Jilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut and Gilt Cornices, with or without eenties Curtain B inds, Pins and Loops, Cornices cut and made to lit windows and put up. WINDOW SHADES. 1,000 New -Window' Shades in all the new tint! of color. Beautiful gold Band Sh ides. $1,50 with all trimmings. Beautiful Sh ulnsdOe. each. Store Window Shades, any color and size. Window Shades squared and put up promptly. Walnut and Painted Wood Shades. RIM and DOOR MATS. New and He-mti fa I Rugs. Door Mats from -ah', up to the best English Cocoa, that wear three years. 100 sets Table Mats, assorted. M ATT! ACS. New Mattings.'plain and fancy, in all the different rfblftf* made. Mattiaga-Uid with dispatch. WILL PAPERS and BORDERS 3,500 rolls Wall Papers and Borders in ncw'jfctlicrdK. in gold, punnets, hall, oaks, marbles, chintzes, Ac., in every variety ot color—beautiful, good and cheap. Paper hung it desired. HAIR CLOTHS In ail widths required for Upholstering. Buttons, Gimps and Tacks for same. CURTAIN DAMASKS. Plain and striped French Terrys for Cur tains and upholstering purposes. Gimps, Fringe, Tassels, Loops & Buttons. Moreens and Table Damasks. Curtains & Lambraquius made & put up PIAAOanU TABLE COVERS. EngSih Embroidered Cloth Piano and Table 1 Covers. Eipbofsed Felt Piano and Table Covers Plain & gold band flocked Piano Covers German Fringed Table Covers. Cramb Cloths and Druggets. New patterns ii any size or width wanted. To all of which we ask your attention. All work done well and in season, by James G. Bailie & Brother. april4-ly C. W. TERRY, GENItfAL INSURANCE AGENT, WASHINGTON, GA. insures Gin Houses and Cotton. Nov. 1, 1872-1 y ' BLAVK^ Os all descriptions neatly executed at this office. PORTER PLEMIHG COTTON FACTOR AND COMMISSION MERCHANT. JACKSjQNi ST., AUGUSTA, GA. Commission for selling Cotton 1 j pr. ct. aug22-3m pje iWael)imjitan (lunette. CHANGE OF SCHEDUEE- I '' v : V V i Superintendent’s Office, Georgia and Macon and Augusta R. R., On and after Sunday, May 10th, 1872 the Passenger Trains on the Georgia and* Macon and Augusta Railroads will run as follows: GEORGIA RAILROAD. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN WILL Leave Augusta at - - 8.4 \ a. m. Leave Atlanta at Arrive at Augusta - S *ls, |> in. Arrive at Atlanta - - 5.45 p. ro. NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN Leive Augusta at - - 8.15, p. m. Leave Atlanta at Arrive at Augusta - - - 4.00, a. in. Arrive nfr Altai 6.05. a. ui. * MACON AND AUGUsT A RAILROAD. DAY PASS!: NT.EII TRAIN,. L«’ave Augusta a; - - 8.40, a. m. Leave Camnk at - - - 1.10, a. in. Arrive in Macon at - - ~ 5.25, p. in. DOWN PASSKKGI’.K TRAIN. Leave Macon at - - 6.3(). p- m. Arrive at Oamak - - - 10 45 a. in. Arrive in Augusta at - - 245a, m. Passengers from Athens, Washington, Atlanta, or any point on the Georgia Rail road and’ Branches, by taking the Day Passenger Train, will make connection a Oamak with trains for Macon. U" ]'ALACK Sleeping Cars on all Night Trains. S. K. JOHNSTON, Superintendent* X :-w'- ' THE KEN NCSA W ROUTE. Western & Atlantic R. R.& Connections SCHEDULE IN KKKKCT MAY 95th, 1873. j NORTHWARD. ■Vo. / / -Vo. :i No. l Leave Atlanta p hi. 8::jo am. 10: .0 p ni. I Arrive <\irtcr»villo, 8:15 p ni. ll:0fl a in. l‘i:80 a in. “ Ktognton, 8:41 p hi. ll;45 am. 1 ;t»:i u ui. I “ Dalton, 10:3u pm. TM pm. 3:00 am. ! ** Chatt&uuooga 4:23 pm. s:oUuui. SOl'Til WAR!). No. 2. No. 4. Vrrive Atlanta, 10:00 a. m. 1:45 I*. >r. “ ('artersville, H:l6 P. m. 10:51 a. m. il Kingston, 7:44 p. m. 10:12 a. m “ Dalton 5:85 i*. m. 8:00 a. m. Leave Chattanooga, 8:45 p. >l. 5:45 a. m. Pullman Palace Cars on Trains Nos. 11 and 2 to Lynchlntig and Now Or|ean». Pullman Pahtr e Ca rs oil Tmiii* 1 cc 2 lor Atlanta ami Chait iH iogu! XO ClllNiii: New O rfeatf* v to Lv ne !f*>n tg--v 5A Sfl vrir goinery, Atlanta, find Dalton. 0x1: auxGJ ; Atlanta to St. Louis—via Chattanooga. 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PLUMB ALKITXKR, decl- Druggists, Augusta, Ga. Qumf-& Pendleton" (Successors to I). Quinn.) Book.eitcr., Stationers finale and Periodical Dealer-. ISB BHD ID ST., AUGUSTA, GA. J > I’.G to announce to Dealers, Teachers 43 and the public generally, that owing to their increased capital anil long expe rience in business, they are now prepared to transact a first-class business intelli gently. They will guarantee to all cus tomers promptness and dispatch in all business engagements, and solicit a lib eral patronage. They keep everything to be had at a first-class bookstore. Below they give a partial list of the same: Blank books, all sizesanrl styles; pass books, memoranda books, pens, inks, mu cilage, envelopes, note letter and foolscap paper, photograph albums, Bibles, Testa ments, Catholic and Episcopal prayer books, Methodist, Baptist and Presbyte rian hymn books, and a full line of the American Sunday School Union Publica tions. 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All bills for advertising iu this paper are due on tho first appearance of the ad vertiseinent, except when otherwise ar ranged by contract, and will be presented when the money is needed. — —— 1 A THOUGHT. BY FATHER BY AN. The summer rose Hie sun lias flushed With crimson glory may bo sweet— ’Tis sweeter when tho leaves are crushed Beneath the wind and tempest's feet. The rose that waves upon its tree, In life sheds perfume all uround— More sweet the pcrlume floats to me Os roses trampled on die ground. The waving rose, with every breath Scents, carelessly, the pummer air— The wounded rose bleeds forth in death A sweetness laT iifoii fi.'li anfl rare. It is a truth beyond our ken, And yet n truth that all may rend , JJ. ij; udtjrrqscsjis with men ; The Sweetest. iHfarK'itw ftm.gftl hat bleed The flower which Buthlchcin saw bloom Out of a heart all full of grace, Gave never forth its full perfume Until the cross became its base. OUR SUSSRT ON THE IIILL. The wind’s low voice was silent, The whispering trees were still, When last we watched the suuset, love, Our sunset on the hill. Von said its glow was shedding Its crimson on my cheek, And that my hair was tangled in Its last, great golden streak. Then, in some sudden impulse, You diew me to your heart, As if ’twere heaven to hold me so, As if ’twere death to part. Low sank tho sun and lower, And dark begun to creep; It stole the gold fionr out my hair, The crimson from my cheek. Yet there together standing, With hand now clasped in ham), We watchel the solemn night descend O’er all the quiet lind. I called ynur eyes the starlight, Because the sun had flown— (IIow selfish to lie wanting, dear, A starlight of my own.) And then, like happy children, Still clasping hands we went, With love’s too slow, unwilling steps, Adown the hill’s descent. O! life’s one golden evening ! I live to bless it still, When last we saw tho sunset, love, Our sunset ou the hill. •‘Sam,” said a darky to his ebony broth er, “how am it dat dis yaa telegraf car ries de news froo dem wires ?” “Well Orcsar, now s’pose dur am a dog free miles long.” “Ncbber was such a big dog; don’t b’llieb dat!” “You just wait a ininit; I’se only illus tratin’, you stupid nigger. Now, dis yaa dog, you see, jess puts his front feets on de Hoboken sho’, and he puls his behind feets on de New York sho’. “Yessor.” “Now, s’pose you walk on dis yaa dog’s tail in New York " “Ycsser.” “He’ll bark won’t he?” “Yesser.” “Well, where will dat dog bark ?” “In Hoboken, I calc’late.” “Dat am jest it. You walk on do dog’s tail in New York, an’ he l ark in Hoboken; an’ dat’s de way de telegraf works.” “Yesser ; dat so—dat so I You’s right, by golley.” A dby goods clerk went to see his girl the other night, and got fighting mad at her because he found two warm places on the sofa. The gretn-eyed monster has full possession of that chap. Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.] WASHINGTON OBSERVA TIONS. The Fair in “Old Wilkes”— Fine Cotton Crops—Gloomy Financial Outlook—General Items or Interest. Washington, Ga., October 14, 1873 Mb. Editor : To-night finds us, pencil iu hand, ready with what news we were enabled to collect this morning, to commu nicate with you. Report had led me to hope that a Fair budget of news would be at my disposal, but reality decrees otherwise. To-day was the opening day of the fair but nothing transpired of any interest on the ground. Few, or no visi tors, contributed their presence to enliven the scene. Nothing but entries were ac complished. This, tho first day, though we arc told the ensuing days will be oc casions of interest, profit and encourage ment to all. This information was cer tainly refreshing, especially to one who had already begun to wear upon his face —the graveyard look of disappointment. It is said that while the pecuniary pres sure is a most important drawback to many wishing to attend, still, the entries in all tho departments have been many and fine, and success promises to crown the efforts of the energetic Washingtoni ans. But why waste our time ? If there is nothing doing at the Fair Giouud of public interest, if no incidents are tran spiring which are worthy to lay before your readers why shall wc not take a stroll through the town and confer upon the circumstances of Washington. Washington is the Mecca of Wilkes county, and wc have been assured most solemnly by the Washingtonians that there is not upon all this green earth another equal to Wilkes county. Now, we cannot but admire the fervor ot pa triotism which prompted such an asser tion. But come, let us approach you bulky, bustling man, lie is one of the leading merchants of the place. As his distinguished characteristic is modesty, he does not wish his name mentioned, therefore to extinguish him, we will call him Smith. As he observes us coining up he straightens himself, takes out his hand kerchief, rubs it over his face several times and returns it hurriedly to his pock et, clears his throat, spits, and is then prepared for our onset. The usual salu tations nro gone through with, nnd after a short rambling conversation upon vari ous subjects, we venture to tread upon •local ground. “How are cottou crops in Wilkes this year Mr. Smith ?” “Never finer sir, the stalks are small but the fruitage is very heavy. We need hands sir, to pick it.” “llow does the money stress affect you ?” “Very uncomfortably, sir. Wc can all sell any quantity of goods, but can’t col lect pay for them. The people all want to buy, but they want credit. The farm ers are holding their cotton for twenty cents, I presume. The great decline in prices in the Augusta market has spread dismay through all their hamlets. Still they are determined and vow they won’t bring in their cotton till they can get more than fifteen cents. Matters arc gloomy and dark, and what’s worse, wc don’t know when to look for the genial sunlight again. The clouds are thick and heavy, and wc can only trust and priy that God is mustering a force that will waft them from our Southern homes.” There are many items of interest to the observer in Washington. The young ladies ot Washington ere pretty, attractive and accomplished and understand well the art of pleasing. They therefore,unconsciously perhaps, make ir resistablo war upon the citadels of the affections of the sterner sex. Wc saw a deaf and dumb man who lias been of late infecting the streets ljerc. lie is thought to be, by some, an imbostor but the hues of popular sympathy seem to converge and concentrate in him. Where he is originally from, or where his home is, no one knows. Some new and commodious buildings are being erected tor busineaWpurposes at present; and, indeed, we think, from ap pearances and from the expressed opin ions of many Washingtonians, that Wash ington is destined to be a targe nnd im portant place at no distant day. Observer. Mr. Hazard, in his speech before the Transportation Committe, at Buffalo, N. Y., says that there arc lake-going vessels with a carrying capacity of 70,000 bush els of wheat; that the price now being paid is fifteen cents per bushel from Chi cago to Buffalo, being $10,500 per cargo for a single trip ; that six cents per bush el would pay fair interest on investment, cost, risk, wear and tear, etc. Hence the producer is swindled out ot nine cents per bushel, or $0,300 per cargo. Some polyglott editortries to frighten tender consciences by asserting that when young ladies exclaim “Dear me 1” they are cursing like troopers. Such is the fact, this common phrase being a corrup tion of the Italian Dio Mio, My God, but the “dears” dont know it. A little girl was walking in a ceme tery and reading one after another the praises upon the tombs of those who slept beneath, suddenly exclaimed : “I wonder w here they bury all the sinners.” The Financial Remedy I'or the South. While we write, we read in Northern journals that, to obtain currency for cot ton sold in New York, the services of a broker must be obtained and a premium of four per cent, must be paid. This is nstonnding. The currency itself is only a local promise of pay. It possesses no natural value, its sole value is that a part is made a legal tender by a law care fully based upon a war-making power, and the remainder redeemable in an irre deemable legal tender engraved note. And yet, withal, we have a financial crash. The Government “suspended” when it issued greenbacks. The national banks suspended when they issued first notes redeemable in an irredeemable curren cy ; and they suspend now for want of that currency. It is agreed that the volume of currency is more than double the commercial necessities of the country; but just at that time when it is more needed to move the crops, it unfor. tunately always happens that it is not available; and when currency becomes scarce, prices go down, the farmer al ways gets less for bis crop, than the price which the natural law of supply aud de mand would warrant. Now, it is just as well known in Liver pool and New York that cotton growers have given their obligations puyable in November, to carry on their planting ope rations, ns it is known by the farmers themselves. It is equally well known that the cotton lias to be sent forward to pay these advances. And further, it is per fectly well known that the bunking capi tal of the South is utteily insufficient when compared with the two hundrerl and fifty millions required to pay for the cotton crop. This is a true picture of the financial situation, of which cotton buyers arc thoroughly advised and of which they calculate to tako the advantage. Now, what remedy lias the cotton planter? There arc no banks to come to his relief. He is at the mercy of the nioney-lender, and the Manchester spinner and the Low ell spinner, unless some mode of relief can be devised. Can any sucli bo devised ? Yes: Get out of debt—keep out of debt. This is the remedy, and the only one which can be devised in the present con dition of the South. The farmer nut of debt can hold or sell. The farmer to b.e out of debt must grow his own corn and meat. Tho farmer out of debt, with corn and meat, can hold his cotton a much longer period than the spinner cau afford to let his machine lie idle. Iloro is good work for flic Granges. It is idle to talk about effecting an organi zution which will possess) a money pow er adequate to the purchase or control of a cotton crop of the value of two or three hundred millions. But that combination which can induce cotton planters to keep ont of debt, will most effectually do that which no artifi cial moneyed corporation could ever effect. Let the Granges adopt as their mottoes. Buy for cash. Buy nothing that can be raised on the plantation. Buy nothing upon credit. Conititu tionaliat, li Uh. The Rivers of China. From time immemorial the rivers of China have been united by cunals: and there is no country on the tnec of the globe where the advantages of such a net work of canals arc so manifest; for these canals, with the natural water communi cations, render the touage of that coun try but a little less than the combined tonnage of the rest of the world. The Grand Canal of China is the most stupen dous work of the kind ever executed. It was commenced in tho tenth century of our era. It is nearly seven hundred miles in length, and extends from Ifung-choo foo to Van-liang river, forming an un broken connection between fifty cities. It joins the great rivers Tang-tse-kiang, two thousand nine hundred miles long, and 110-ang-ho, two thousand miles. This and other Chinese eanuls urc not con structed upon the same plan as the canals ot Europe and America, nor composed like them, of standing water, fed by res ervoirs, elevated and lowered by means of locks. The want of locks obliges the Chinese to conduct their canals around the different elevations encountered, and to lift the boats by means of chain and capstain. The irrigation supplied by the Grand Canal renders the country through which it passes exceedingly tortile, and in proportion to its size, the most popu lousspot in the world. Apple and Fear might. Mr. Phoenix writes in regard to apple and pear blight: The surest thing against it with us seems to be root-pruning—or, with nursery trees, running the tree dig ger under the rows. We find it here most troublesome on Siberian crabs, and in many cases wc have, in digging, run the tree digger under more rows than would be taken up. In every case where the uncut trees would blight, the rows immediately adjoining that were cut, would not blight at all. This confirms Dr. Hull's theory of root pruning ugainst blight, and seems to prove that the blight (may we not say invariably attacks) or prefers vigorous growing trees. Can we regard it as at least one probable fact about blight—and, so far as I know, the only one—that is. if it shall prove to be a fact, that undisturbed growth, a free flow of sap tends to blight, while a thor ough disturbance or check, ns by root pruning, is a specific ngainst it- ? VOL. VIII NO. 24 The Cotton Situation. The New York Financial and Commer cial Chrouicle, of the 11th, reports that for the Beven days cndinig last Friday night, the receipts were 45,740 hales against 52,676 bales last week, 40,629 bales the previous week and 23,673 kales three weeks since, making the total re ceipts since the first of September, 1873, 182,784 bales, ngainst 318,028 bales tor the same period of 1872, showing a de crease since September 1, 1873, of 135,254 bales. The interior port receipts for the same time were 16,163 tales, against 28,225 same week last year. The shipments were 13,066 ngainst 23,490, and the stocks were 32,860 hales agninst 22,686 at tho same time last year. The Chronicle’s visible supply table toots up 1,664,823 bales against 1,977,827 last year and 1,743,751 the year before, showing a decrease, respectively, of 313,- 004 and 78,928 bales. The Chronicle's weather reports were generally favorable for gathering the crop, hut sickness and a general indisposition to sell retard the forward movement of ti e staple. The mercury averaged 74 at Galveston, 67 at Montgomery, 68 at Mobile, 72 at Selma, 67 at MpCon, 68 at Columbus and Savan nah and 60 at Memphis. Several frosts are noticed, but none to affect the life of the plant. The Chronicle complains that owing to the financial panic, sickness and anticipa tion of higher prices, there is no free movement in cotton, but argues that just in proportion as the natural movement is cheeked from these causes, will it bo un naturally increased when these obstacles are removed, and large receipts will en courage extravagant estimates of the crop and bring lower prices. Then, also, the excessive influx ot American cotton will have to contend with heavy receipts from India, nil the authorities agreeing that a very considerable stock remains in Bom bay. Adds the Chronicle: 8. Let us go a step further, for no one can act intelligently without having before him all the possibilities. Suppose the idea of the crop in the United States which has been issued by the Agricultural Department should prove to be the right one, that is that the yield is to be stune thing in excess ot four million bales. We do not express the opinion that such is to he the case, for wc have not received the necessary returns to base an opinion upon ; and besides until we have had n killing frost ft. does not stike us that any esti mate is worth much. No one, however, after last year’s experience eau say that such a result is not at least among tho possibilities. So long then as it is possi ble, in what estimation can we hold ad vice given to planters to hoard their cot ton at this early date? Let the hulk ot a four million crop, or a crop that approach es four millions, coinc on the market at the height ot a considerably enlarged In dia movement, and it does not require much of a prophet to foretell the result. Purse Pride. A toss of the head, or turning up of the nose does no one any special harm, while it seems to do those who indulge in such childlike expressions of emotion, a good deal of good. So who cares if tho proud and lofty, the spiteful and disdainful, or the showy and shallow headed signify tlioir innocent disapprobation in that way 1 Nice people never do such things. The nicer a person is the less inclined is lie or she to look down upon anybody, even the humblest and most ignorant. The least creature serves some purpose in the world. It happens occasionally that people who appear most important and imagine themselves indispensable to the chosen few nice and the most favored beings, are of far less account than those they look down upon. A small amount of money, with largo debts added to, a short allowance of brains, in u little while constitutes a most supercilious creature of one, who as a poor woman might have been agreeable and obliging. Good fortune is so trying to tho miml that few can withstand its ruinous effects. Money spoils so many pleasant people that it is almost a pity that everybody are not purse poor. Any one who estimates character inde pendent of its surrounding, is sorry tor the feeble efforts of snobbish people who set themselves above real merit merely on account of money. However the starched shirts of self-ap pointed, nice people will be drawn aside to avoid touching the garments of those not happening to have studied good man ners and moral excellence from the same chatechism ; and there is no help for it, until everybody strives as hard for com mon sense as they do for money. —Elm Orlu. Ik you want to put your better half in fine trim for a Caudle lecture, tell her that you have gone to Lake Chaugogma gogagogbunagoggungogsaygogyigoggag- goghegogrogoggegogmaug, and tell all your friends to call on her duting your ab sence and ask where you have gone. T*he New Orleans Times has received the following poetical gem from a gifted correspondent; O, wunut I laved souther gsl her name it wuz msrier: but betsy dere my luv far you is 40 timee more bier. yurs forever, Bam Bisks. A Missouiti clergyman was lately called upon to marry fourteen couples in one day, and his fees amounted to fifty pounds of dried apples and a due bill for eighteen bushels ot buckwheat.
