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| v l From the Columbus Times , 1 5th inst ]
Montgomery and Weit Point Railroad.
We are indebted to Samuel G. Jones for a
copy of the Report of the President and Direc
tors of this Railroad, at their annual mreting in
April last.
Receipts foe the year ending Ist March,
1854.
From Passengers, $133,393 81
“ Freight, 72,314 80
“ Mail pay, 24.337 44
? $230,046 05
Expenses for the same time
For working road and
repairs, $122,950 77
For interest paid on
loans, 26,547 70
5149,498 47
Leaving as the nett income for the
teas of nine per cent on the
capital stock. $80,547 58
Th>- company will have to pay $300,000 due
by bonds in three year*, which will consume
the nc f t income of the road for that time.
' A \ ery large increase of freight and tiavel is
anticipated on the completion of connecting
roads. Tto-se are the Opelika Branch Road, the
Alabamawid Florida Road, and the Montgom
ery and Selma Road. The completion ot the
Opelika Road has been delayed by encountering
in seveial cuts compact beds ot gneiss of hardest
quality, but, notwithstanding, the Engineer says
it would have been completed, by the close of
the year, but for the obstructions thrown in the
A # way by the city of Columbus. As these have
all been removed we may hope there will be
no delay in the completion of the work. The
/ preparation of the road bed is si far advanced
as to leave no room tor apprehension that the
track laying, which has been already com
menced, and is progressing at the rate of a mile
per week, will be retarded by unfinished gra
ding.
In the Engineers Report, a serious charge is
, made upon the good faith ot tha City of Colum
bus He says*.
“When the project of constructing the Opeli
ka branch was as rated, the aid of Columbus to
the extent ot $50,000, at least, was confidently
relied on, and it was only on the strongest assu
rance that a generous subscription would be
given, tnat the consent ol trie stockholders to the
undertaking was yielded.”
If the city or citizens of Columbus have given
such assurances, they are bound in honor to
stand up to them. Indeed, the Opelika branch
road will prove more advantageous to Columbus
than to Montgomery, and it is as ungenerous as
it is unjust for us to leave others to bear the
burthen of opening channels of trade and travel
for us.
Marvellous Btories—Astounding Develop
ments.
It is astonishing how much better informed as
to the plans and purposes of the South are some
of the Washington correspondents of the north
ern Free Soil newspapers, than are the southern !
men. themselves. One ot these Solomons, the
correspondent of the Philadelphia (gazette, gives
the tollowing as a list ot objects which the South
is determined to accomplish :
“Ist. The acquisition of Cuba, and its annexa
tion to the Union as two slave States.
“2d. The conquest of Hispaniola : the reduc
t tion of its millions of inhabitant to s'avery, and
H the introduction of Dominica and Hayti into the
Ifc. Union as slave States.
W. “3d. The admission of Porto Rico as a slave
- State.
“4th. The conquest or purchase of Mexico,
and its admission as slave States, to the number
of ten or twelve.
“sth. The re-establishment of the African
slave trade.
“6th. The passage of a sedition law by Con
gress which will prohibit public discussion on
the subject of slavery.
“7th. The repeal of all laws ot the free States,
prohibiting the taking of slaves and holding
them there by citizens of slave States. This
object would be accomplished by a deciee of the
Supreme Court, in the Lemon case, affirming
the claims of Virginia and Georgia 1n that case.
Bth A destruction of the democratic element
in the government, as incompatible with the
safety and the interests of the South and her
institutions. This proposition involves the ab
olition of the House ot Representatives.
“9th. An extension of the powers of the
Sena‘ e < and a limitation of tbe number ot Sen
ators by cutting off the representation of part of
the States.
“10th. A modification of the form of govern
ment as will assimilate it to that of Venice, in
which toe patricians, represented by tbe Senate,
shall exercise legislative and executive power.”
This same sapient writer declares that he nas
beeu informed by a distinguished democratic
member of the House of Representatives, that,
after long and anxious observation and reflection
upon tbe events ot the last four years, and more
especially upon those of the last tix months, he
was satisfied that ‘nothing could now avert a
civil war or a dissolution of the Union.”
These Munchausen tales are coined here with
out stint or limit, and are profusely scattered
over tbe whole North, with the view and pur
pose ot producing excitement against the South.
The abolitionist has the stomach ot the ostrich.
The latter can swallow brick-bats, the foimer
can swallow the most absurd, improbable tales,
aad fatten on them. It they confined themselves
to the truth, they would fall off terribly Wash
ington Sentinel.
Line Between Georgia and Florida.
Our readers are aware that Commissioners
have been, appointed by tne respective Govern
ors ot these two States, who are instructed to
meet at White Springs, to consult and pro
“'T ceed to collect such intelligence and data, in re
lation to tbe Boundary line as will enable
the Court to determine, where the line should
be est.ibiisbed, in accordance with the treaty
with Spain.
The treaty, says the Fla. Republican directs
that a tme should be lun from tbe head waters
of St Mary’s river, to a point on the Chattahoo
chee, in north latitude 34 degrees.
Eilicott, acting under instructions from toe
United States, met a like commissioner on
the part ot Spain, who entered the St. Mary’s
at its mouth and traversed it up to what they
supposed to be the head waters of the river;
here, afier spending upwards of two months
io surveying and in astronomical observations,
they settled upon the latitude of an inaccessible
point, around whica they drew a circle, adopted
■ tbe centre as the point of beginning, and as
being tbe source of the St. Mary’s river ; and
by a calculation, ascertained that by running a
a line IOC miles noith, 80 deg. 30 min. west,
the boundary between Georgia and Fiorida
would intersect the Cbattahoocbee in latitude
- . 32 deg. noxtb, the present terminus ot the south
"'aSS boundary of Alabama; but before their duties
could be compie ed, an outbreak ot the Indians
occurred, by which they were prevented from
further progress.
Subsequently, McNeil was instructed to pro
ceed in running the line fiom the Chattahoochee,
as indicated in tbe notes ot Eilicott and the
Spanish engineers, to the point established by
them as the head waters of the St. Mary’s river,
which he did, and that line is now the prese.it
boundary between Georgia aud Florida.
But his operation was notsatisfacto-y to Geor-
Ekt It s;ems that in proceeding east, he di-
Pg essed north, and in making out the Jine.found
be was more than one and a half miles north
of tbe centre of the inaccessible point reieried
to a'oove.
This error Georgia refused to allow, and
o’feims that Eilicott aud the Spanish surveyors
erred in determining the source of tne nnth
branch of the St. Mary’s as being prop rly the
* k ea£ j waters of the river, and assume that the
nver takes its rise much tarther south ; th it the
Cr-aiream, common'ly known as the south prong «f
f£r~ m. Mary’s, should be considered as tee princi
pal branch of the riven. Florida, on tan otb« r
land claims that the point established is not
ffltbe head waters of the river, but that its rise is
farther north: that Georgia now holds a large
po,tion of land which, ot right belongs to Flon
llk So great has been the difference of opinion
as to where the boundary line should be estab- j
lished, that every effort by the States to settle ,
the matter has proved fruitless.
Now, however, it may be expected that the
recently appointed commission will collect such
facts in relation to the whole matter, as "will en
able the Court to settle the boundary upon
equitable principles.— Sav. Cour., 15 thinst.
[From the Savannah Georgian , 18fft inst.\
Appropriation for Savannah River—Hon. J.
L. Seaward.
Washington, July 13, 1854.
Editors Savannah Georgian,
Gentlemen :—A bill has this morning passed
the House of Representative, in which seventy
thousand dollars have been appropriated to the
improvement of the Savannah river. The ap
propriations in this till are all founded upon esti
mates lrom the War Department, and the im
pression is. that it will receive, unless placed in
a more objectionable form by amendments in
the Senate, the signature of the President, and
become a law. I trust it may, for I learn from
the best Democrats that in its present form it
may well receive the support of the strict con
structionists. Savannah is deeply indebted to
the exertions of Col. Seaward, if she should pro
cure this sum of money. I was gratified, and I
confess surprised, at the high position which
your Representative occupies. He is esteemed
by all, and the District could not have a moie
able, or Savannah a more vigilant Representa
tive. He is ever at his post, watching some op
portunity to serve his constituents, without re
gard to the section of the district in which they
may reside. Yours, truly,
Georgia.
Florida Democratic Convention. —A gen
tleman who arrived here yesterday, by the
southern boat, informs us that the Democratic
Convention, which met at Madison last Monday,
tor the selection of a candidate to represent Flo
rida in the next Congress of the United States,
unanimously nominated tha Hon A. E. Max
well, on the first ballot. Our informant, who is
well acquainted with Florida politics, expresses
no doubt of the re-election of Mr. Maxwell by a
handsome majority. He thinks Mr. Yulee’s
election to the United States Senate by the Flo
rida Legislature, next winter, as successor to Mr.
Morton, equally certain.— lb.
Senator Douglas and the * Know-Noth
• ings.”
On the fourth of July, Senator Douglas deliv
ered a speech in Philadelphia, which is chiefly
notable because the speaker took occasion to
handle rather roughly those mysterious people,
called “Know-Nothings.” We quote a few sen
tences from the speech as reported in the Phila
delphia Bulletin :
The opponents of Democracy—continued
Judge Douglas—are allied under t ames you
don’t know, under principles they are ashamed to
confess, and when hard pressed all they can say
is, “/ don't know,"
Tna speaker referred to the differences of re
ligious cieeds and opinions. He had heard them
all preach against other, and had never
beard two who agteed. He had studied history,
and he had tound that religious fanaticism de
generating into war had caused more bloodshed
and made bankrupt more treasuries than all oth
er causes combined together.
The Pilgrim Fatheis, from whom he descend
ed, gone from England to Holland to escape
persecution, and had finally landed at Plymouth
to enjoy religious liberty. Glorious old Wm.
Penn had founded Pennsylvania as an asylum
tor tbe oppressed of his sect; Lord Baltimore
had tounded a colony on the Chesapeake as a
place of refuge for proscribed Catholics, and the
gaiiarit Cavaliers who had stood by the hapless
Charles the First, had gone to Virginia when
driven from their native land by the bayonets
of Cromwell, and had established the Church of
England there. People had settled in all parts
of America in order to worship God according
to tbe dictates of their own conscience.
The determination to invade these sacred
rights had brought about the American Revolu
tion. and civil and religious liberty had been es
tablished by the struggle. The people having
accomplished this great object, adopted a Consti
tution, thus securing the rights for which they
had battled. All, the speaker said, were sworn
to support that Constitution, and it was a viola
tion of the instrument to prescribe any religious
test for office. There was a secret organization
to do this, and he rejoiced that they call them
selves “Know Nothings,” lor they hnow not
what they do; they know not the cbligations
they owe to the Constitution, to the laws, or to
their fellow-men. %
[At this point there was considerable distur
bance in the crowd—several persons expressed
their disapprobation of the speaker’s remarks;
there were cries of“ Let him go on in his own
way!” “Turn him out!” &c.j
European Crop Prospeots.
The London Shipping andjMercantile Gazette
of the Ist inst. has the following remarks on
the crop prospects:
“ Thus far no mischief has been done by the
wind and rain, except in as far as it has inter
fered with hay-making, but we have certainly
had quite enough of wet, and a longer continu
ance of the same would be very likely to give
rise to teeling of uneasiness in regard to the pro
table result of the harvest. The accounts from
the agricultural districts are, up to the present
time, of a favorable character; here and there
symptoms of blight are said to be apparent both
in wheat ar.d Spring corn, but the injury likely
to result from the same is not considered serious;
and farmers generally express Utemselves pret
ty well satisfied with the aspect of the fields.
“As to the future range of prices of corn,should
no I hing occur to cause apprehension or uneasi
ness in respect to the growing crops, we shall
probably see prices of wheat lower, but we are
inclined to think that the fall would not be ma-
J terial, as it is almost certain that the, icnpmta
! tious (which have thus far been wonderfully well
kept up) will be comparatively light during the
time which must yet intervene before the new
crop can possibly be rendered available. Unfa
vorable or even threatening weather would, on
the other hand, be very likely to cause consider- j
able excitement, as stocks of old wheat are un
questionably small, not only in Gieat Britain, but
all over the world.
“ By the most lecent advices from the north of
Europe v\e learn that the flat accounts from
hence, and the generally promising aspect of the
growing crops, had caused a slight reduction in
prices. Stocks are, however, reduced into a ve
ry narrow compass in that quarter, and scarcely
any supplies were being brought forward by the
growers In France, the weather, after having
for some time been wet and ungeniai, had under
gone a favorable change, the consequence cf
which had been a sudden and rather important
drop in prices of wheat. That, however, all ap
prehensions as'to the possibility of a scarcity had
not been set at rest, is proved by the fact that a
decree had been issued to extend the period of
the prohibition ot expoits.”
Toll Gate Items.
We extract from the Edgefield paper the fol
lowing advertisements :
Notice. —Application will be made to the
Legislature of South Carolina, at its next session,
by various sufferers, praying the refunding lrom
the State Treasury the amount of toll exacted
lrotn them at a Toll Gate erected by Jones and
Kennedy, in one of the Stieets of the town oC
Hamburg, near the Augusta Bridge, believing
such collection of toils to be unjust, oppressive,
and unnecessary.
Notice. —Application will be made at the
Legislature at its next session, by sundry credi
tors of tbe late Henry Shuifz, to amend the
Chaiter of the Augusta Bridge to Jones & Ken
nedy, as to require the tolls received by them to
be divided among all the Creditors, instead of
preferring the present holders of the Charter.
The opinion has already been expressed, that
the vessel seen on tire off Cape Hatteras. the
night ot the 9th inst, was the steamboat “D. L.
Adams,” bound from Savannah to New York.—
While we hope this conjee ure may prove erro
neous, it may not be amiss to say that the D.
L. A belonged to the “ Georgia Steamboat Com
pany”—that she was valued at twenty to thir
ty thousand dollars, and that there was no insur
ance u;x)n her. She had been sent to New
York to be sold, and had a crew of sixteen or
eighteen. The following is a list of her of
ficers.
Captain Martain, who came out from New
York to take her on ; first mate, Wm. Crom
well; second mate and carpenter, name not
known; first engineer, Wm. Kolb; second, John
| Williamson; third, Joseph Lombard; fourth, B.
Dye.—Sam Rep s \lth\ntt.
» |
Chamber of Commerce —ln accordance with
the call previously notified, a special meeting of
our Chamber ot Commerce was held at 1 P. M.
yesterday in the Hail of the Charleston Insur
ance and Trust Company.
Ihe Piesident. H. Gourdin, E s q , briefly ex
plained the objects and purposes of the call, which
referred to the Warehousing System in our port.
The specific difficulty was in the construction
placed on the Treasury Circular of the 17th Feb.,
1849; the construction varying at different ports,
and as it was believed, operating here compara
tively and relatively to the injury of our impor
ters and the neutralization in great part of the
benefits intended by the Bonded Warehouse Sys
tem. No public Warehouses or storage rooms
are provided here, and importers thus incur the
expenses of interest, rent, and in addition to the
storage dues, while the latter are based on a tariff
established by A. D. 1788, which in important
items has long been essentially reduced by mer
cantile usage.
M. C. Mordecai, Esq., occupied the attention
of the Chamber next, in showing the grievances
under which we were now laboring.
Col. A. O. Andrews followed, and asked leave
to submit a memorial which he believed em
bodied a statement of the greivances, to which
they asked the attention of those having authori
ty to remove them, which having been read,
was unanimously adopted, and a Committee or
dered to be appointed by the President to pre
sent the same to the Collector of the Port.
Whereupon the Chair appointed Messrs. A. O.
Andrews, M C. Mordecai, G. A. Trenholm,
Wm. Revenel, B. G. Wilkins.
Arid on motion of Mr. Mordecai, the Presi
dent of the Chamber was added to the Com
mittee.
The special matters embraced in the call having
thus been disposed of, President Gourdin inform
ed the Chamber that at his request, an official
copy of the report ot the late Commission ap
pointed to examine the Charleston Bar and
Harbor, had been kindly furnished. The docu
ment was ordered to be recorded on the journals
of the Chamber, and also to be printed. We have
the pleasure of laying it before our readers else
where in our columns, this morning, and feel as
sured that it will rece.ve their earnest attention.
Its length, far from deterring, should rather ex
cite perusal, for on such a subject we need full
ness, minuteness and accuracy of details, all of
which are combined in the able report of the ac
complished and eminently practical Board to
whom this important task of examination was
referred.— Ch. Cour. 18 th inst.
The Carolina and the Bay Route. —The
steamer Carolina, Capt. Coxetter, will leave
Southern wharf for Wilmington, N. C., at two
o’clock to-morrow afternoon. The Carolina is
an excellent sea boat, and her accommodations
theol a most superior descripion. Her speed,aiso,
is such that there is no danger of her failing to
connect with the morning train from Wilming
ton for the North. Those taking this convey
ance to-morrow, and booking themselves at
Wilmington by the Bay Route, will be fortunate
enough to meet that floating palace at Ports
mouth; the North Carolina, which leaves for
Baltimore on the arrival of the cars. All who
have travelled from Weldon on the Portsmouth
railroad, will join us in commending the admi
rable arrangements of the Company, and the
courtesy and politeness of Capt. Alien, the very
attentive cenductor. The North Carolina is too
well known to require any encomiums from ns.
Her accommodations are most excellent, her of
fices most attentive, and Mr. Asprill, the courte
ous clerk, always on the qui vive to insure the
comfort and convenience of passengers.— lb.
Artesian Well. —The Augur was stopped
yesterday by a rock—making the fifty-eighth in
stance thus tar in the whole progress of 1177
feet, of which 300 feet on the aggregate, or
more than one fourth, have beeu through rocks.
—lb.
1 From the Washington Star of Wednesday .]
The New Aria.
Very recently, the army and navy ordnance
bureaus have caused experiments to be made by
boards of army and navy officers with the
“Perry” arms, and American invention, now in
course of being patented in this country, by the
inventor, arr ingenious American, who has es
tablished {i factory for them in Newark, New
Jersey. Commodore Skinner was at the head of
the naval experimenting commission, and Major
Mordecai at that of the army board. Accordtng
to both reports, this new invention proves to be
likely to excel, for practical use, any other de
sciiption of fire arms now in use in either hem
isphere, not excepting the world renowned
Minnie rifle. The naval commissioner witness
ed the firing of one of the carbines, seventy-five
times in seven and a half minutes, without the
slightest baulk. These guns load in a vibrating
breech cylinder, working in an arc of a cylinder.
They are self priming, and when the cylinder is
brought into position to receive the cartridge, it
receives the cap which (fifty of them) is previ
ously placed in a tube passing through the breech
of the gun, by being emptied or turned in from
another tube. In the course of the experiments
to which we allude above, and others subse
quently made under the supervision of Major
ifahngreen, of the ordnance corps, at the navy
yard, where there is a testing ground with a
range of a thousand yards, the Perry carbine,
carrying a half ounce ball, and weighing G£
pounds, at fifty yards, fired through twelve inch
boards placed in a frame one inch apart, and
also threw balls quite a mile. In the experi
ments at the navy yard, the Perry rifle was fired
against the Minnie rifle. With the back sights
of the former raised but one inch, it threw the
ball quite as accurately eight hundred yards, as
the Minnie gun, with back sight raised three
inches, threw its ball one thousand yards. This
ptoses conclusively that its range is much grea
ter than that of the Minnie ; or, according to ord
nance calculations, that with the hack sights
raised but two inches, it will be quite as accurate
and deadly at one thousand three btwdre<l yards,
as the celebrated Mia me w ith the back sight
raised an inch higher at a thousand yards ! the
Minnie heretofore being regarded as the most
effective fire arm known that can be handled by
a single person.
(From the N. O. Picayune , 14//i inst.)
Death oi Capt. Scarritt, U. S. Engineers.
In our obituary column this evening will be
found the melancholy record of the death ot Capt.
J. Mason Scarritt, of the U. S. Corps of Engi
neers, an office well deserving of his country,
and admired and esteemed by a host of friends.
The event took place at Key West on the 22d
ult. The news was brought to us by private
letters via Mo: ile, at which the schooner Gov.
Andrews arrived yesterday. It is painful intel
ligence in this region, where he has residee many
years, and won universal regard by his fine
qualities and gentlemanly bearing. His early
death—tor he was not yet thirty eight,leaves an
amiable family disconsolate. Our correspondent
sends us a brief memoir ot the deceased, from
which we learn that he graduated at the West
Point Academy in 1838 ; served in Florida, un
der Gen. Taylor ; was afterwards assistant Pro
fea-or of Mathematics at West Point; and in
1841 was ordered to Pensacola as an assistant to
Major W. H. Chase, where he remained until or
dered to join the army of observation at Corpus
Christi. He was in the battles ot Palo Alta
and Reseca de la Palma, where his gallant con
duct received the notice and commendation of
Gen. Taylor, and rendred important services in
tbe siege and capture of Monterey, for which
the brevet of captai i was conferred on him by
the President, and the Legislature of his native
State (Illinois) presented him with a sword.
Declining health, caused by exposure, privation
and an unhealthy climate, compelled him to
leave the army at Monterey, and he returned to
his family. Still suffering from ill health, and
without waiting tor orders, he again started to
rejoin Gen. Taylor’s forces, when he was met at
New Orleans with tidings of the great battle
and victory of Buena Vista.
In obedience to orders, in 1847, l.e relieved
Major Ogden of the charge of Fo ts Morgan
and Gaines, in Mobile harbor, where he re
mained till relieved by Capt. Lfadbetter, in
May, 1853—he taking charge of the contraction
of Fort Taylor, at Key West.
Captured at last.— ln 1851, we published
an account of the whaleship Ann Alexander,
Capt. Deblois, of this port, being attacked and
stove by a sperm whale. The whale was com
ing at the rate of 15 miles an hour, and the ship
going about 5, at the time of the collision. The
whale came with full force against the ship’s
bows and stove in several teet square, alrroit
instantly sinking the vessel, and h»rdly giving
those on board an opportunity to escape. The
Honolulu Friend c! May 6, states that about
five months subsequent to the catastrophe, the
same whale was taken by the Rebecca Simms,
of this port. Two harpoons were discovered in
him marked “Ann Alexander.” The whale’s
head was found seriously injured, and contained
pieces ol the ship’s timbers. He had lost his
wildness and ferocity, being very much diseased ;
but upon being taken, yielded seventy or eighty
barrels of oil. —Neiv Bedford Standard.
Ajjt-rU JS’jl’A., It A..
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1854.
Georgia Home Gazette.
We call the attention of our readers to the
advertisement in our “ Special Notice” column
in relation to the Georgia Home Gazette. But
lately we have been called to mourn the untime
ly death of one of its editors, the talented and
amiable Robert A. Whyte.
The “ Gazette” will hereafter be conducted
under the able Editorial supervision of the sur
viving partner, James M. Smythe, Esq. The
talents and experience of Mr. Smythe as an
Editor are too well known to the public to ren
j der any commeht on our part necessary. “ The
i Gazette” will henceforth be conducted with
| the same ability that has worked its former
career. As a literary and family paper and
'Southern Journal, it deserves, and ought to re
ceive a large share of public patronage.
Hard Times—Sound Advice.
As honey may be extracted from flowers the
most poisonous, so from the most rabid abolition
sheet occasional gleams of good sun and practical
philosophy may be obtained, on questions not in
volving its preculiarism.
Just such specimens we find in a recent num
ber of the New York Tribune, which people of
all shades of political sentiments, in New York,
may read to advantge and profit by its sugges
tions. Many of them in fact have more than
a local application. We think we may venture
to commend them to sections of country not
I wont to receive advice from such sources. Even
in the cities of Georgia there may be some who
might be the better off by those suggestions,
i We especially invite atten ion to those con
i tained in the concluding paragraph in reference
! to small debts.
Hard Up. —Yes, it is the sober, prosaic, literal
truth, that we are nearly all of us hard up. We
either owe money, and don’t know where to get
it, or are subject to “calls” for installments on
unpaid Railroad or other subscriptions, or are
doing a heavy business which requires large dis
bursements weekly or monthly and brings in no
corresponding returns. Many of us are shinning
from day to day, and find the work grow harder
and harder, though we live in constant hope,
with Micawber, that “something will turn,up.”
Meantime property, unless it can be eaten or
drank immediately, is very hard to turn into cash,
while borrowing is well nigh impossible. The
Banks cannot abate the pressure. There are
doubtless some among them that are too timid,
while others are extended more widely than
they should be; but, taken as a body, they have
done and are doing about as well as they could
or can. They have not, but the great mass of
their customers have, eaten and drank and worn
too many costly luxuries and built too many
grand bouses. Money is very hard to get, simply
because as a community we have promised to
pay far more of it than we have or can readily
procure. The rare wines we have drank, the
costly silks and laces we have worn, the gems
and jewels we have bought, the iron we have
laid down or used up for some years past —nearly
all imported and much ot it bought on credit—
now rise up in judgment against us. We are
like the fast youth grown oider, and suffering
from gout, dyspepsia and other maladies which
result from hard living; who grumbles that he
should be affiicte now, since he has abandoned
his evil habits, when he had never a twinge
while he was absorbed in them. But the aveng
ing bolt falls when it will, and doubtless at the
very best time.
No palliative, no nostrum, will relieve us. We
can only recover by desisting from the wrong
and returning to the right. We must live in our
old houses or build more frugally than of late,
buy fewer and cheaper new dresses, drink more
pure water and less cos ly liquors, commence no
more railroads relying on future subscriptions of
stock or sales of bonds to eke out the cost of their
construction—in short, we must take in sail gen
erally. We must lay out fewer streets and clear
up more farms; sow more acres to grain and edi
ble roots, while we spend fewer thousands on
stage-dancers and race horses; undergo fewer
ten-doiiar balls and five dollar dinners, and not
be ashamed to be seen wheeling a barrow or
carrying a package. The change will be trying
for many, especially for wives and daughters
reared in indolent luxuary, whom the bankruptcy
and consequent death' or flight of husbands and
fathers will leave suddenly destitute; yet, since
we were all intended to do something for a liv
ing, and not to live uselessly on the labor ot
others, it will be best in the long run even for
them Many a noble character has been de
veloped by adversity, which would have remain
| ed unmatured and unsuspected had the possessor
' been dandled through life in the lap of prosperi
ty; and the widow Jwho in poverty and obscuri
ty trains her orphans to lives ol industry,frugali
ty and usefulness, is pursuing a nobler and holier
career than it leading them giddily through the
mazes of Fashion amid the snares of Wealth and
Pleasure.
We shall pass through the existing pressure,
and be the better for it in the end. Many of us
will be weaned by it from City ways for ever,
and drawn away into the broad, green Country,
where a man may sit down to his dinner without
feeling in his Docket to be sure he has the where
withal to pay for it. and sleep through the night
untroubled by visions of notes that must be paid
to-morrow or he is ruined. From the purgatory
of shinning and the nightmare of bankruptcy,
this pressure will liberate many of us for ever.
There are City l ai ] s now attending expensive
boarding-schools whom this pressure wild trans
fer to Illinois corn-fields and Minnesota sawmills,
and who will live to he thankful tor the change.
“This sickness is not unto death but unto life,”
and if our people ever learned anything from
disaster or were weaned from folly by suffering,
it would be an excellent thing tor us. Yet, at
this very hour, when it is morally impossible
that we should pay lor the imports already con
sumed, there are many more coming in than we
ought to buy, and no immediate prospect of a
falling off. Either th* importers or the buyers
must lose money by them: we hope it may not
be the latter. It we cou'J only reduce our Im
ports decidedly below our Exports, so as to pay
off one quarter of our Foreign Debt within the
year, we should be ail right by Christmas, and
might resume the construction of our suspended
Railroads; but the present tendency is toward a
reduction of the Tariff and a consequent influx
of more Foreign Fabiics. Let our people buy
no more than they are really able to pay for,
and we shall have an abundant reduction of the
Revenue without any diminution of the rates of
duty.
As yet, the country has scarcely felt the pres
sure which bears so heavily on tne City. The
farmers are obtaining good prices for whatever
they have to sell, and the general harvest pros
pect is good. Probably no (aimer crops ever
exceeded tho'se now in the ground, while the
prices of most laim products are very good. They
will be lower before December; but Labor also
will be lower; so will Goods; and the farmer
wb »is out of debt can buy as much of whatever
he wants with his crop as he eves could. And
so long as the earth yields abundantly and the
majority of our countrymen are neither afraid
nor ashamed to till it, the report of pressuies and
panics will visit most fireside only as the vague,
fantastic recollection of a dream.
We close with a word of homely advice, which,
if generally followed, will do much to mitigate
the seventy ot the pressure. People are too apt,
in an emergency like this, to button up their
several pockets and only pay out money when
they have no alternative. In other words—they
apply to the discharge of existing obligations a
rule which is rightfully applicable only to the
incurring ot new ones. But let every man who
has some money devote it to the prompt satis
faction of his liabilities, no matter whether rna- ,
tured or otherwise, and we shall have better
times foithwith. If he who has a thousand dol
lars in bank would at once pay off his tradesmen,
or pay as far as it would go, anticipating his pay
ments in their proper order, the money thus put j
iu circuiat on wouid probably passthrough n any
hands, pay many debts, release some collaterals,
ren ovj sundry embarrassments, and be all back !
in bunk again within three days— in fact, many I
do this good without ever leaving bank at all. j
Thus a few men in our City, who happen to be
in easy circumstances, would benefit all the rest
by simply buying up up their own paper or pay
ing off their bills which would naturally run till
Christmas. We know no cheaper way of doing
extensive g x>d.
New and Valuable Book.
Thirty Years View ; or, a History of the
WORKING OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
FOR THIRTY YEARS, FROM 1820 TO 1850.
Chiefly taken from the Congressional debates,
the private papers of Gen. Jackson, and the
speeches of Ex-Senator Benton, with his ac
tual view of men and affairs, with Historical
notes and illustrations, and some notes of emi
nentdeceased cotemporaries: By a Senator
of thirty years—in two Volumes—Vol. 1.,
New York. Published by D. Appleton & Co.,
London, 16 Little Brita n.
Messrs. J. M. Cooper & Co., Savannah, Agents
lor the State o* Georgia, favored us.through
the hands of Messrs. McKinnie & Hall, with the
first volume, of the above valuable and interest
ing work.
I he name of Thomas H. Benton, is so closely
identified with the history of this country, for
the past thirty years, that no man could be bet
ter fitted than he to wri e “ The Thirty
1 ear’s View.” Distinguished for his talents, his
learning and his statesmanship, Mr. Benton has*
for a long period, occupied a high place among
those into whose hands are committed the legis
lation of our country. The present volume
opens with a retrospective veiw of the condi
tion of the country, from 1815 to 1820. The
work then commences with the exciting times
of 1820, when the question of the admission of
the State of Missouri was agitating the coun
try. Tne first volume closes with the com
mencement of the administration of Mr. Van
Buren.
Every one who wishes to become acquainted
with the history of our government, for the past
thirty years, should read this work; it is replete
with information for both young and old. The
writer, both from his own experience and having
in possession many of the papers of deceased
Statesmen, is eminently qualified for the task he
has undertaken, and he declares that his object
has been to write ‘“in the spirit of truth.” His
‘ambition has been to make a veracious work,
reliable in its statements, candid in its conclu
sions, ju?t in its views, and one that his cotem
poraries and posterity, may read without fear of
being mislead.”
A Rogue Caught.
On the 4th of April last, A. J. Nichols, of
Clarksville, Ga., stopped at the Eagle & Phoenix
Hotel in this city, on his return from Charleston,
having a trunk containing ladies’ shoes, valued
at S6O, which was taken from the Hotel and an
old trunk left in its place, which was marked “B.
Hamburg, No. 0, Central Railroad. Ga.” The
old trunk was subsequently opened by Lewis
Levy, Esq., and others, and found to contain
some articles of old clothing and some bills of
goods bought by said Hamburg of Savannah
merchants. It was ascertained that Hamburg
had gone to Wilmington, N. C., whither he was
pursued by Mr. Levy, and arrested, when he
confessed having taken the trunk by mistake,
whieh was not discovered till he reached Wil
mington, where he sold the contents to his broth
er, Charles Hamburg, which Charles admitted.
Bernard Hamburg was committed to jail and has
since been, by a requisition of the Governor of
Georgia, transferred by Mr. Levy to the jail in
this city. Charles, however, fearing the conse
quences of buying stolen goods, knowing them
to be such, took “ French leave,” and is now
supposed to be lurking about Marion, South Car
olina.
While in Wilmington, Mr. Levy found in the
jail a runaway mulatto boy, who gave his name
as William, and stated that he belonged to Mr.
Hoops, of Augusta, but who proved to be John 5
a boy belonging to B. W. Heard, near Washing
ton, Ga. Mr. L. brought him along as a com
panion for Bei nard Hamburg, and he is also in
the jail of this city. John had two passes, one
to pass him to Wilmington, N. C., and the other
from Wilmington to Philadelphia; but the Rail
road Agent at Wilmington suspecting something
wrong, instead, of sending himjforward, sent him
to jail. John gives different versions as to how
and from whom he procured the passes.—Chron
icle £/■ Seutinel, IS th inst.
The New Hotel. —The Milledgeville Fed
eral Union of the 18th inst. says ; “ The ground
for the location of the new Hotel was broken
last week. It is to be erected on the corner of
thejburnt District, fronting on Wayne and Greene
streets, 210 feet on the former, and 150 feet on
the latter. The work is the hands of a compe
tent Superintendent and will be vigorously pro
secuted. The Hotel will be three stories h'gh
and cost Fifty Thousand Dollars. The public
may rest assured that Milledgeville will soon be
able to boast as large and handsome a Hotel as is
to be found in Georgia. It will be an ornament
to our city, and a worthy compliment to the
people of the State at large, for whose conveni
ence it will be erected.
Great Rifle Match. —The Mobile Register
gives the following result of the S2OO rifle match,
between two gentlemen of that city :
Mr. S. No. Inches. Mr. E. M. No. Inches.
13 1 « : 16th.
2 4 : 16th. 2 £ : 16th.
3 4 : 16th. 3 l : 16th.
4 3:l6th. 4 ft ; ICth.
5 { : 16th. 5 i : 16th.
6 1 : Bth. 6 1:4.
Bets were high. Mr. S. was again declared
the winner, by three-eighths of an inch. The
issue would have been different, if the parties
had agreed to measure from centre to centre; as
it was, they measured from the break of the balls,
and Mr. S—’s gun carrying about fifty to the
pound, while his oppon ?nts carrying double that
number, gave him decidedly the advantage.
Connecticut Games. —The Legislature of
Connecticut recently passed a law that Pro
prietors of Menageries should give previous
notice of wild animals on the road. The law
was partially carried out by some jokers in
Hartford on the night of the Fouth. They put
a jackass in a truck wagon, a colored man on
the jackass, and a live woodchuck, caught for the
occasion, on the baek t of the colored man. This
imposing tableau—drawin by a splendid black
gelding—was preceded—according to law, by a
strong lunged man, blowing a fearful horn, to let
the sleepers know that the wild animals were on
the road.
Thirty-five mammoth iron buoys have been
sent from Washington Navy Yard for New York
Bay, Charleston, S. C., Mobile Mouth of Missis
sippi, &c., within the last few days. There are
the first of the kind ever 'used by this Govern
ment and embrace all the latest improvements.
“Now a-days ’ —The New Orleans Picayune
says: What is that “ now-a-days” which we see
“only that and no more,” in the advertising
columns of the press here and there throughout
the country ? Most people seem to Know-
Nothing about it.
Sudden Dea’iii. —lt is with sincere sorrow
that we announce the death of a member of one
of Abbevill’s most respected families. Mr. Ed
ward Allen was suddenly stricken down on
Wednesday morning last, with a neuralgic at
tack, and died about 8 o’clock iir^b^evening. —
Press.
Weather, Crops, &c.— Louisiana. —The
Caddo (Shieveport) Gazette, of the 6th, says :
The crops are beginning to suffer somewhat
from drought.
The Concordia (Vandalia) Intelligencer, of the
7th, has these items :
All good planters have succeeded during the
late scorching weather, in getting the grass un
der. The cotton looks fine, is out of blossom,
and the formation of bolls seems good and prom
ising. The crop, is, however, backward, owing
to the Lteness of the spring, and the remainder
of the season must be very favorable to secure a
crop, even equal to that of last year.
In the shade, for a week past, the thermome
ter, during the hottest part of the day, ranged
from 80 to 92 deg. In the sun the thermometer
went up nearly as high as it could get.
Dr. Gibbs who was lately rejeetedjas Professor
ot Chemistry in Columbia College, in conse
quence of being an Unatarian, has been elected
to the Chair of Chemistry in Antioch Col
lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
The Jail. —We notice that several of the
Districts are boasting of the morality of their
people, that their jails are empty of criminals,
and truly it does speak much for the people ot
those Districts, and is worthy of notice. When
this is the state of things, why do we want any
liquor law to prevent crime ? Our prisons are
empty. Our people are sober. Yes, vve know
that the number of criminals in South Carolina,
will compare favorably with any State that has
had in force the liquor law tor years. We think
we speak the feelin>. of the people of Barnwell,
when we say they require no liquor law to pre
vent crime, for we are as free of it now as we
will ever be. Barnwell jail is empty, not a hu
man being, white or black, not even a runaway
slave looks out through its barred windows, long
ing to be free, no one breathes the confined and
sickly air of the prison of Barpwell. Oid Barn
well is not to be outdone by her sister Districts
in good morals. —Barnwell Sentinel , 1 5th inst.
Finr Printing Paper.—We have been shown
a handsome specimen of Printing Paper, manu
factured by the South Carolina Paper Company,
of one-half raw r cotton, the other country rags.
It is of beautiful color, firm texture, and elegant
finish, and is a highly creditable evidence of the
skill which the mill has attained, during the
comparatively short time which it has been in
operation. Messrs. Walker and Willman (East
Bay) are the Agents.— Ch. Mercury , 17 th inst.
Arrivals at the Stone Mountain Hotel,
July 16, 1854.
Clark & Hitchcock, Proprietors.
E.H. Shackelford,Charles- I R. W. Colcock, S, C.
ton, S. C- | J. T Smith, New York.
E. BacoaA il I W. A. G. JEvans, La.,
W. J.
A. G. La Taste and Lady, I a. W. Cheek, “
Augusta, Ga. ' | W. Williams, “
F. T. Bentecast, Charles- I H. Burns, Florida,
ton, S. C. |W. H.Boyed, “
J. G. Merrick, Georgia. |
FUNERAL NOTICE.
The friends and acquaintance c-f Airs.
Sarah McTyre, are requested to attend her fu
neral from her lato residence. Ten miles Irom
Augusta, on the Patterson Bridgo Hoad,this day,
at 11 o’clock. jyl9
/■■mnigTWfii'i mhw—wrni'i nwiwwsm i»—n mtmmmmmmammmtmmmmnmt
MARRIED,
On the evening of the 13th July, by
Saxon, Esq, Mr. Daniel Gt White and Miss
Sarah Lewis, all of Burke County.
On the 15th inst, by Rev. G. H. Cliett, Mr. Jes
ferson Bridwell and Miss Sarah Little, all
of Richmond county.
DIED.
At Americus, of Typhoid fever, on Sunday, July
9th, Mrs. Louisa, wife of Prof. C. W. Lane, of
Oglethorpe University in the 30th year of her age.
Cammrrnal.
Augusta Market, July 19.
COTTON.—In the early part of the week, we had a
good demand, caused by favorable Foreign advices, and
holders, owing to the light offering stock, were enabled
to get higher prices, particularly on the better grades,
whio i are scarce On Monday, and Tuesday, (yester’
day) the business tsansacted Ins been limited, sellers
asking prices which buyers refuse to give. In this state
our market closed at about the quotations given below,
dull. The off ring stock is light, as are also the re
ceipts.
Ordinary to Good Ordinary, stained ... 7 @8
Low Middling to Strict Middling
Good Middling
Middling Fair .... 9
Fair No sales
RECEIPTS OF COTTON,
From Ist September, 1853, to the latest dates received •
1854. 1853.
Savannah, July 13 306,869 338,947
Charleston, July 13 384 079 441.775
Mobile. July 7 498,281 518.150
Nevr-Orleans, July 7 1,353,949 1.597,794
Florida, July 1 154.305 177,826
Texas, July 1 93,420 79,372
Virginia, June 1 12,312 18.172
North Carolina, July 1 9,024 18,625
Total 2,812,229 3.190.661
2.812,239
Decrease 378,422
STOCK OF COT CON.
Re iaiiiint: on hand at the latest dates received.
Savannah, July 13 5,772 11.287
Charleston. July 13 11.531 25,700
Mobile, July 7 148,558 69.822
New-Orleans, July 7 74,061 20,7 91
Florida, July 1 4.744 6^551
Texas, July 1 15,260 7,343
Augusta and Hamburg, July 1... 18.199 17,534
Macon, July 1 5,741 5,521
Virginia, June 1 400 400
North Carolina, July 1 450 .400
New-York. July 11 37,445 34,894
Total .322,151 200,243
GROCERIES.—There is but a liinite 1 business doing
in the Grocery line, and the only change we have to no
tice in the leading articles, will be found below.
BACON.—There is a fair demand for this article
and sales are making by the hog round at 7j@7jc.
—the latter price for a good article. Ribbed Sides still
command 7J, and clear 8 cents. Shoulders are dull of
sale at cents. There are several lots of inferior
on the market, which can be purchased at lower prices.
CORN. —This article is very scarce, and prices are
tending upwards. In the early part of the week sales
were made by the 200 bushels and upwards at 95 cents i
But within the last two or three days holders are asking I
and have obtained SI,OO per bushel, which we now"
quote as the market price, with the remark, that should
la- s e receipts come to hand during the next week, we
do not think this price could be obtained. Retailing
from stores at sl,lO. Peas are scarce and in demand.
Selling by the quantity at $1 25 per bushel, and at re
tail at $1.50.
LARD.—Good is still scarce, and is worth 10 cents in
bbls., 11 cents in kegs, and 12 cents in cans.
BEEF and HOGS—There is still a good supply of Grass
fed Beef in market, which is selling at 4l@sc. Shouts
contiuue scarce and are in demand at 7c. There is
a good d eta aml for Sheep and Lambs, and good fat
Lambs bring $2 per head.
FLOUR, — Stock very light, and boilers are asking $8
for City Mills superfine, ground from new Wheat, and
$lO for extra Family. No Country in market.
WHEAT—Comes to hand sparingly. A lot of good
Red would bring $1.25 per bushel, and choice White
$1.50.
COFFEE —Stock on hand fully equal to demand
Retailing from stores at 12 a 12j for a good article.
MOLASSES—Cuba is dull of sale, and is purchased
only in small parcels for immediate wants. IVe quote
Cuba from stores at 25 a 26 accordiug to quantity and
quality, and New Orleans at 26 a 30.
WHISKY.—Fair supply, and prices a little stiffer. —
We quote 34@36 cents.
SALT.—Holders are stiff, and there is little or none
offering from first hinds. Retailing from stores at $1,50
psr sack.
NAILS.—In consequence of an advance in Northern
markets, holders are aow asking cents p jb
held principally at the latter price.
BAGGING —The demand is on the increase In small
lots it is selling a J —retailing at
ccording to quality.
ROBE.—Selling at 11J a l?i cents from stores.
FEATHERS. —Prices are easier, and we note sales
this week, by the quantity, at 40 cents. We quote as
extremes 40@43 cents.
EXCHANGE. —We have no change to notice in rates
Our Banks continue to draw on N-w York and other
Northern cities at per cent. prem.
FREIGHTS. —We now quote the, rate to Savannah at
50c. p bale. To Charleston, per rate Is
20 cents p 100 lbs. River is in fair beating order.
SAVANNAH, July 17.— Cotton. —We have *0 sales to
report. • •*
BY TELEGRAPH.
New York, July 17.
Cotton.—The market is active and firm.—
Fair Orleans 12J, Middling 9|; Middling Mobile
9}; Middling Uplands 9J cents.
CofFee firm at_lo to 10i cents. Flour has ad
vanced 12 to 25 cents.
Cholera.
At Brooklyn the deaths by cholera, for the
week reach 84.
Congress.
In the Senate the Homestead bill was still un
>.er discussion. Sharp words had passed between
Messrs. Dodge and Clayton on Nativeism. The
latter offered fight.
The House was occupied with the proposition
to abolish Military Superintendence in the Ar
mories, but up to the close of our despatch, no
vote was taken.
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_ _ -Skipping JntfUigc. re. ,
SAVANNAH, July 17.—Arrived, B, g Monica, Rol
lins, New 1 ork ; Schr. S. J. Waring, Neff, New York.
arrivals from charleston.
Brig G. L. Abbott, Cole, New Orleans.
Brig Mary Ann, Vincent, Newport, (Fla.)
Schr Alvarado, Joy, Sc. Johns, (N. B.)
Schr Gen. Taylor, Spencer, Kingston, (Jam.)
CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON.
Schr. Mercer, (Old.) Chovertza, at New York.
Sclft. J. P. Brown, Collett, at Philadelphia.
VP FOR CHARLESTON.
Brig Nercus, Small, at Boston, g
CHARLESTON, July 19.—Arrived, steam ship Marion
Foster, New York; brig Clinton. Thompson, N. York:
schrs'Trader, Wheeler, New York; Francis Satterly,
Jackson, New York; TruthGambrili, Alexandria, (Va.)
Cleared, brig Elyira Mas, Barcelona
Went to Sea, brig Matanzas, Trefethen. Boston; schr
Aid, Adams, West Indies.
Special IMiua.
ftP"' City Hank,—ln pursuance of notice
published, the 17th of May, the third
instalment on subscriptions to the Stook of this
Bank, is payable Friday the 21st instant.
J. C. Fargo,
_jyl9 d 2 Cashior.
Extra Soda Water.—l put forth some".
«*•*■- thing extra to-day, and reccomcnd
all those who are desirous of tailing a prime article
—cold as Greenland and strong as Caesar, to call
and “ try it. !! WM. 11A INKS,
jy 19 4 City Drug Store.
Corns.—Bunions, imperfect nails, nails
growing in tho flesh, Ac., effectually
eradicated and permantly cored.
Dr. A. Painter, of Charleston, S. C., rospectfully
announces to the citizens of Augusta, that he will
remain here for a few days, for the effective prac
tice of his profession in all its branches. He can
be consulted, and his service secured at any moment
at the Planter s Hotel or will attend at residences.
Relers by permission to S. 11. Dickson, M D; A.
Gindrat, M. D.; Elias Horlback.M. D. ; lt V Toomer
M. D.; Alford Raoul, M. D.; T Y. Simons, M D; M.
11. Fitch, M D.; R. M. Brailsford M. D; Col. J 11.
Taylor, B. Ada rs, Esqr., ft Anderson, Esqr. S.
Ilart, Sen’r. T. S. Nickerson, i Proprietor Mills
House. Charleston.
j.vlS
Notice.—Any person who will act as
-vja an Agent, and obtain subscribers for
the Georgia Home Gazette, a Literary and
Family Paper, published in Augusta. Ga., will be
furnished the Paper at the lowest club prices. —
lhe Cash must accompany the names, and may
be sent through the Mail at our risk.
Club Prices.
Two Copies $3 50
Three Copies, 5 00
Five Copies, 7 50
James M. Smythe,
.’■yl9 2d3c _ _ Proprietor.
Clinch Loan Association Stock..—
Ten Shares of tho abovo Stock for
sale Apply at this ofliee. ff je22
Paid io r~W <)OLL i.N, LINEN;
and SILK RAG S. hv
E. CAMPFIfiLD,
ian 20 ts Corner River and Jackson st
I Cool.”—J. M. Newby A Co.
! have a few Coats, Pants, mad Vests left
to suit the thermometer at 90 97 and 98. jyl
| W r Neuralgia.—This formidable disease,
| which seems to baffle the skill ot phy
sicians,, yields like magic to Carter’s Spanish Mix
I ture.
| Mr. F. Boyden, formerly of the Astor House,
New York, and late proprietor of the Exchange
Hotel, Richmond, Va., is one of the hundreds who
have been cured of severe Neuralgia by Carter’s
Spanish Mixture.
Since his euro, ho has recommended it to num
bers of others who were differing wi'h nearly eve
, . -y form of disease, with tho most wonderful suc
cess.
Ho says it is tho most extraordinary medicine he
has ever seen used, and tho best blood purifier
knowu.
lL?’ - See advertisement in another column.
__ jyl lin
We have commenced drawing Soda
Water at our Counter.
apr22 D. B. PLUMB A CO.
ZP TYLL3? *?,inen Coats ior Men and Hoys.—-
fir-*—Just received and for sale, an addition
al suj ply of Linon Coats. Also, a splendid lot of
Bjy ,j Linen Jackets, to fit ages from 8 years old to
16. Call and supply yourselves at
Clayton A Bignon’s,
jyl Under the Augusta Hotel.
Wanted—Cotton, Linen, Silk
and Woollen Rags Wanted. Also, old.
Rope, Bagging, Wrappers, Suit Sacks, and other
paper maker’s stock. The highest cash prices paid.
jy!B WM. H. PRITCHARD.
■** p * '* atl Voorhis has returned to
Augusta, and may be found at his of
fice in Constitutionalist Range, Mclntosh street, at
all hours of the day or night, when not profession
j ally engaged nov 4 ts
Dr. A. B. Montgomery offers his
j Professional services to tho citizens of
J Augusta and vicinity. Ho may be found at the
; office of Dr. Ford, when not professionally engaged.
ma\9 ts”
A Warning.—Delay not; harbor
not in your mind that sentence of fool’s
philosophy, that a diseaso will get well of itself,or
that you can cure it with certain medicines for a
few dollars. Beware how you tamper with your
goneral welfare.
j Ye wild and vicious youths, why will ye persist
in dosing with the filthy, nauseating compounds
daily proffered, thereby impairing your appetite
and digestion, and destroying you mentally as well
as physically, when you can be cured with a few
doses of pleasant medicines?
Yo rakes of every age and condition, why will
yo suffer and repine and drag out a miserable ex
istence, unfitted for the enjoyment and even ordi
nary pursuits of life ? You who are thus annoyed,,
and wish to be restored to health and vigor by a
treatment at once pleasant and effectual, should
consult Dr. Morris, llis success in chronic dis
eases has been greater than that of any other phy
sician of his day. Many who have been for years
afflicted with disease or consequences resulting
from excess have been restored to health and vigo r
under his really scientific treatment.
Should a personal interview be objectionable,
state your disease in writing—enclose five dollars
—address Dr. W. H. Morris, through the Posts
Office, Nashville, Tenn., and a package of Medi
cines, securely put up, wili be sent privately, and
with dispatch, full directions therewith, and no
questions asked.
Persons living at a distance, and afflicted with
Scrofula, Old Ulcers, Tetter Cancers, Piles, Fistula
In Ano. Gravel, Strictures, Gleets, or any diseaso
iwhatever of an aggravated 01 malignanteharaoter,
can be cured at home by consulting Dr. Morris,
by lettor, post paid, enclosing a fee. These Medi
cines. pleasant and safe, can be sent per mail to any
part of tho United States.
Particular attention given to the treatment ot
female complaints. Ladies who may be afflicted
with irregularities, Flour Albus or Whites, Pro
lapsus Uteri or Falling of the Womb, would do
well to lay aside all false delicacy, and promptly
consult tho Doctor. Cures Warrauted.
Office over Mutual Protection Insurance Office,
Cedar Street, near Post Office. Room, No. 14, up
tairs. dly dec 25
Mrs. E. O. Collins is anxious to dis
toF's-JiSi pose of her entire s.oek of GOODS be
fore puachasicg Fall supplies, and will offer them
at very reduced prices for cash. AH that wish to
get bargains, will do well to call. Among them
will bo loußd handsome Hair Lace; Straw, Silk
Lace, Crape and Lawn Bonnets; Plain and Fancy
Dress Caps ; Embroidered Lace and Muslin Caps;
Embroidered Silk and Applique Mantillas, some oX
them very e'egant; Lace Shawls and Veils; Em
broidered Handkerchiefs, Collars, Sleeves and
Cuffs; rflk Fringes; Egyptian Mitt ;-Ribbons;
Flowers; Hair Braids; Curls; Toilet Powder
Powder Boxes and Puffs; Perfum<*jes; Soaps, Ac.
AH orders from the co ntry carelully attended to
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