Newspaper Page Text
CP)C Constitutionalist
AUGUSTA, a-A,:
Tuesday Morning, Augnsst 31, 1875.
The San Francisco Smash.
Wo did not err in the supposition,
when the telegraph announced the
panic on the Pacific coast, that the
bonanza madness of last year was the
prime cause of the financial collapse in
the hard money State of California. It
seams that Ralston, the President of
the Bank of California, was another ex
travagant developer after the manner
of Jay Cooke in the East.
He rivalled Monte Christo in daring
adventures and personal extravagance.
The Richmond Dispatch says: “He ex
celled princes in the grandeur and lav
ishness of his life and the gilded and
boundless hospitality of his two homes
in San Francisco and the country.
Guests were conveyed by hundreds
twenty-five miles from San Francisco
to his country residence at his expense,
eithor by rail or by his incomparably
equipped teams and vehicles, and thoro
feted in a way unequalled in the land,
aud either returned to town at night,
or lodged and breakfasted before they
were sent off rejoicing, full of good food
and good liquor, singing the praises of
the wealthy and generou3 Californian.”
When the President of a bank pours
out money in that reckless fashion ho
is very apt to begin with his own pri
vate fortune and end with the employ
ment cf other people’s money. This
appears to have been the case with the
unhappy man, whose brilliant but mis
erable career ended in suicide and dis
grace. The Dispatch, on this point,
truly states “that no bank, although it
“ be at tho very door of the cave of
“ Midas, where the gold kegs and bags
“ are brought out by tons, and al
“ though its president be another Crce
“ sus, can have an immunity from sus
“ pension. No, no ; that is a thing all
“ wealth and all grandeur must submit
“ to. Were it otherwise it would
“ amount to a subversion of tho Provi
“ dential law—it would make man in
“ dependent of that law, and soon his
“ arrogance would grow out of all
“ bounds. If any bank could stand
“ out against the pressure that flows
“ from events beyond human control
“ and continue to pay gold under any
“ aud all conditions (and that’s what
“ the foolish hard-money men seem to
“ demand) it would bo above Provi
“ dence aud above God Himself! There
“ fore, let our hard-money lunatics take
“ this shining lesson from California
“ to heart, and humble themselves in
“ the dust.”
And now, what will the Republican
Senate do about it? From the present
prospect Mr. Sherman’s financial bill
and its forced resumption clause must
be repealed, or else the ruin so rapidly
overtaking the country will grow deep
er and wider, until a general collapse
becomes the grand finale of the insani
ty. We see no hope for the masses of
the United States and tradesmen of all
classes but the Democratic effort to
make greenbacks as good as gold, by
compelling bondholders to take paper
for their blood-money Interest, and the
Government itself to receive the cur
rency it seeks to repudiate as cus
toms dues. If to these could be add
ed something like free trade and
a cessation of Southern proscrip
tion, a rainbow of prosperity might
dawn upon tho land. If, on the con
trary, the same old policy be pursued,
whereby the many are taxed to support
the few in extravagance ; and Europe
is permitted to drain us of all our gold;
and a blighting curse laid upon the
agricultural West and South—the hor-
rors of the present ami the past are as
notiiing compared with the dangers of
the future. From recent developments
ft would seem that Gov. Allen ought to
have a prodigious triumph in Ohio, de
spite the Know-Nothing slogan of Mor
ton, the religious agitation of Harpers'
Weekly, the defection of pin-back Dem
ocratic presses in various parts of the
country, and the numberless devices of
desperate Radicalism to beat the Tri
buno of the People down. If such les
sons, however, go unheeded, Grant
can usurp tho Government, become
perpetual dictator and smoke his Par
tagas cigar in profound peace.
Fractional Currency. —Gen. Spinner
writes to a friend that the substitution
of silver for fractional currency is a
transparent humbug. He asserts that
every dollar thus paid out will simply
go from the Treasury to the melting
pot and crucible; that silver coin is
worth to-day but little, if any, more
than paper fractional currency; that
all European Governments have long
since discarded silver as a measure of
value, and the result will be, if the
act is carried out, that both silver and
fractional currency will go out of circu
lation and the people will be compelled
to resort, as once before, to postage
stamps as currency to meet the require
ments of trade. The General charges
that the passage of the act in question
was secured or promoted by the silver
miners, prominent among them being
Jones, of Nevada, who had great influ
ence with the President and Secretary
Bristow. ____________
Rather Blasphemous. —We find the
following paragraph in the Chicago
Tribune :
A characteristic Southern custom is the
blessing of the first bales of cotton. Each
city celebrates for itself. St. Louis and
New Orleans had their first bales some
time ago, and Memphis received hers lastr
Sunday. One of the Memphis bales came
from Mississippi and the other from Ar
kansas. They were sold at public auction,
Monday, at the new Cotton Exchange. The
ceremony was a queer mixture of poetry
and prose. The auctioneer began by break
ing a bottle of wine over the cotton, and
saying: “I baptize these two new bales in
the name of Furstenheim & Cos., and
Sledge, McKay &, Cos., wishing thorn all
prosperity and success, and the people of
Memphis the same blessing.”
It does seem a little out of order;
But cannot bo quoted as exclusively
Southern. The fact is there is a strong
tendency to mockery of religion all
over the world. Rationalism in Europe
and indifferentism in America are bear
ing large crops of crime.
Eag Barvv—As this country is still
in its infancy, a “ rag baby ” will do to
commence with.
Another Expensive Fizzle —The Hoosac
Tunnel.
Pennsylvania having contributed the
champion steamship fraud of the uni
verse, it seems that canny Massachu
setts must be credited with the most ex
travagant bore—the Hoosac tunnel.
Somebody started the idea that a tur nel
under the Hoosac mountain would be
one of the most stupendous and valua
ble achievements of the age. As all
the fools are not dead, and as some
moneyed men display betimes an
amount of folly almost incredible, this
prospect was instantly caught up, and
a clever subsidy ring formed to carry
it forward. One way of getting the
necessary funds was that cheap and
good old dodge of making a low esti
mate. The ingenious and scien
tific men got . ink, pencils and
paper, and after elaborate figuring and
measuring, surveying and hob-nob
bing, they proved beyond the possibili
ty of doubt—for science never lies—that
32,000,000 would be an ample outlay to
complete the work, and that only two
years—for science never lies—would be
required to make daylight shine
through the bowels of the mountain.
But, alas! for so-called science, and
alas! for the stockholders. It took $14,-
000,000 instead of $2,000,000 to finish
their undertaking, and ten times two
years passed away before tho (put up)
job was really and entirely done. If
Massachusetts had anything to brag of
when her $14,000,000 had gone to the
demnition bow-wows, it would not be
so bad. But what she really has in
the way of a Hoosac elephant, let the
New York Nation describe:
But assuming the tunnel to bo ready for
use, what is its present situation, and what
are its future prospects ? The hole is in
deed through the mountain; but who will
go through the hole and pay for the privi
lege of so doing? This Is a vital quest on,
and only as it is successfully answered can
the tunnel enterprise be saved from fail
ure. At present, one terminus of the tun
nel road is at the country village of Green
field. The other terminus is not even at a
country village, but at a State lino. If the
tunnel be likened to a bridge, it is a bridge
with no roads leading to it, and with no
people who care to cross it. Concerning it,
the expression is almost true that it begins
aud ends nowhere. A host of ludicrous
images is unavoidably suggested by the
present attitude of Massachusetts in ref
lation to the tunnel. The tunnel was built
too soon. Whatever may be the call of the
future, there was certainly no demand for
it when it was begun, nor is there any real
necessity for it to-day. At present, the
tunnel road can do nothing whatever w.th
out the help of the Troy aud Boston Road
upon the one hand, and the Fitchburg
Road upon the other, for its local traffic is
insignificant. But those two roads are. for
the most part, only second-class, single
track roads, with iron rails, and any at
tempt to do over them the enormous busi
ness of- a through line would result in
pounding them to pieces in less than six
month’s time. But the tunnel was built to
serve as part of a through road, and only if
used as such can its great cost ever be re
paid. These tvo connecting roads, there
fore, must be almost entirely reconstructed
or new roads built before the tunnel can
begin to fulfill its mission.
Competent as many Massachusetts
financiers, publicists aud political econ
omists are, in their own conceit, to
show how the United States can re
sume specie payment—they are utterly
ohfuacatcd when asked to indicate how
the Hoosac tunnel may be made to pay.
It is said that while fruitless pow-wows
are going on “the rocks are beginning
to fall aud the water to ooze in, and the
Hoosac tunnel in its present shape
must be set down as a gigantic fail
ure.” In the history of this tunnel the
South can understand where the Skcw
hegan carpet-baggers,who infested this
region after the war,drew their railroad
and developing proclivities. Wo now
know ivhere “air-lines” from some
where tc nowhere, or from nowhere to
nowhere, were matured. do we
comprehend that “State aid” was a
Massachusetts brigandage before it rob
bed the Southern satrapies. Now that
Massachusetts has her tunnel,
and does not know what to
do with it, and Pennsylvania has her
City of Peking, and will break if she
keeps her afloat, it might not be a bad
idea for the Bay State to relieve her
Keystone sister of the iron steamer,
break the vessel into a million frag
ments, and choke the accursed tunnel
which has swallowed gold galore. An
excursion train on the 4th of July,
187 G, from the Philadelphia Centennial,
would help pay tho expenses incurred,
and, on that hundredth birthday, we,
for one, would willingly spend a dollar
or two to behold wdiat the Republican
party has accomplished in the “protec
tion of American industry” by subsidy
steals and commercial depravity.
The Crops—They Can Stand Anything.
The Journal of Commerce thinks that
tho American is to encounter the pra
dicament of Punch’s British Farmer,
who had so large a crop that he had
uot barns enough to store it in. Says
the editor:
For about the fifteenth time within a
month we road in the telegrams that "po
tatoes and corn are more or less injured,”
‘‘most of the small vines killed,” “three
quarters of the corn crop killed,” “tobacco
totally destroyed,” etc., etc.—all in the
well known dolorous pitch of the prophet
of evil. The damaging frosts so far re
ported are said to have occurred in lowa,
Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. In some
parts the visitation was quite severe, to
doubt; but in all probability the total inj cl
ous effect is much exaggerated. We may
properly be cautious in accepting rumors
of great damages to the crops from any
one natural cause, when we have seen them
come out so little harmed from so many
agencies of threatened destruction.
There is a deal of truth in this sly
satire, and it may be asked, without
impertinence, who are the powers be
hind the telegraph who flood the coun
try with such “roorbacks ?” Is it ig
norance, accident, or a deep laid scheme
of speculators ? We make no charges,
but simply ask for information. If the
New York Graphic is to be credited,
Jay Gould will, by the Ist of October,
control the telegraph and, to a large
extent, by that tremendous agency, the
presses cf the country. Now, this
prognostication would imply that Gould
will supersede somebody else. Must
we wait until October to find out the
name of that mysterious individual ?
Strapped. —ln consequence of a Con
gressional oversight, the Navy Depart
ment is “ desperately short ” of funds.
Banditti.— The Courier-Journal states
that some resurrectionists tried to
steal the body of John L. Sheridan,
Gen. Phil Sheridan's father, from its
grave in the Catholic cemetery at So
merset, Ohio, a few day ago. They
were surprised, just as they had reach
ed the coffin, aud fled. This is bandit
ism with a vengeance. It is supposed
that, as the body was not fit for dissec
tion purposes, the robbers wanted to
get a reward for restoring it. Now the
Sheridans might have been a longtime
in Louisiana without an experience of
that kind. Gen. Sheridan must stay
at home. ______________
The “hard times,” of which the Constitu
tionalist speaks, have taught the people
“some saving lessons”—one of which is,
not to trust a second time those who have
proven unfaithful, and that lesson they are
not likely to forget. The people also re
alize that the “hard times” are the result
of a Democratic war against the consti
tuted authorities.—[ Washington Chronicle.
The Abolition war and the war
against society since 1865, by the Radi
cal politicians, have brought the coun
try to the verge of destruction, finan
cially and morally. If the people trust
the Radicals a second time, they de
serve to perish.
The correspondents of the Augusta pa
pers have invented a negro insurrection in
Barnwell county. Our Georgia contempo
raries are enterprising fellows, but tins last
is “too thin.” All the Governor would have
to do to put down an insurrection would be
to order out the officers who acquired staff
rank under his predecessors, and reinforce
them by the Major Generals. Should the
exigency arise, a brigade of such will leave
Columbia alone.—[Union-Herald.
Methinks we see a brigade of that
kind moving from Columbia, with Maj.
Gen. Bombastes Furioso Masaniello
Rivers in command.
Here are scores of capitalists walking
about with their pockets full of money that
they do not know what to do with, and fear
may turn to rags in their purses.—A. Y.
'lVibune.
Strange, isn’t it? They should follow the
example of Jay Gould, and buy a tali
tower, set up a rum shop, and hire a young
editor with a Powerful Mind.—A r , Y. Sun.
Or go to California and buy bank and
mining stocks. If this does not suit,
send tho rags down here and receive
the “prayers of the congregation.”
Hard Money. —The Richmond Dis
patch draws blood with this lick:
“And now the banks in Lima—the capi
tal of a gold-producing country —have
suspended specie payments, as well as
the great California Bank. ‘Should
such things be and overcome us like a
Summer cloud aud not excite our
special wonder?’ How now, Hard
money ?”
The old leaders of the Democratic party
in the North were as much traitors in heart
as their Southern Brethren were in deed,
and, we regret to believe, are no better
still. It is because the country feels this
that the people refuse to place them in
power.— Washingon Chronicle.
How about that “tidal wave” and tho
lower House of Congress ? What party
is “in power,” by a popular vote, in the
House of Representatives ?
It is not true that the armies of tho North
were largely composed of Democrats, if,
by this remark, it is intended to assert that
the Democrats of the North contributed
more than their share of recruits to the
armies of the Union.— Washington Chron
icle.
Well, we admit that they were rather
poor Democrats, and further that the
foreign element predominated—men
who had no politics at all, and went in
for pay.
...
Ireland. —According to the corres
pondence of the Now York Herald, the
influence of the priests over the Irish
masses is rapidly being weakened, and
an insurrection may break out at any
moment. Tho recent revival of Fenian
ism in this country and the threatened
disturbances at the O’Connell centen
ary are cited as evidences of impending
danger.
Explained. —The suicide last Spring
of G. A. Ahrens, of the firm of Stirl
ing, Ahrens & Cos., the broken mer
chants of Baltimore, was involved in
mystery. The recent exposition of the
Arm’s affairs.throws a calcium light on
that transaction. The poor young man
probably know too much for his peace
of mind.
Morton. —The paralytic Senator of
tho ensanguined undergarment, having
started anew Know Nothing party in
Ohio, is busily engaged in gory gush
ings in Maine. He seems to have been
afraid to stand up before old Bill Al
len, who is just about warming to his
work and getting the “fog horn” to
concert pitch.
The Reason Why. —The Detroit
Greenback Convention proved a failure
because it “was understood that the
secret purpose of the managers of the
Convention was to establish anew
party; and new parties in these days
are perilous things.” But how about
the Bank of California ?
A. J.—The Charleston News and
Couriei' started the report that An
drew Johnson’s life was insured for
§350,000. That set his family on a
general search for the documents, but
they did not appear. May be they
were wrapped in the American flag or
only existed in imagination.
Ames. —We read that Hon. Oliver
Ames has built a fine stone church and
given it to a religious society at North
Easton, Mass., with which the Ames
families are connected. It contains a
memorial window to the late Oakes
Ame3. What an incentive to Credit
Mobilier saints !
Duncan’s Stable. —At a recent sale of
Wm. Butler Duncan’s horses and car
riages, animals which cost §I,BOO were
sold for §500; and a carriage, good as
new, worth originally §2,000 was knock
ed down at §475. Considering the
shrinkage of values these prices are
pronounced “good.”
Adjectives. —And now comes a
Western paper and accuses the bril
liant and witty Watterson of not
knowing an adjective when he sees it!
Pho!
Baltimore.— According to the Gazette,
Baltimore is wresting from New York
the bulk of the South American trade.
The mail service has been transferred
from Gotham to the Monumental City.
PERSONAL
Ned O’Baldwin measures 6 feet 5%
inches. |
Fernando Wood entered Congress in
1841. i
Senor P. C. Abmiji, of New Mexico, owns
nearly 2,000,000 head of sheep.
Mlle Tietjens isn’t afflicted with “sud
den indisposition” like most singers.
A newspaper speaks of a : distinguished
politician as “comparatively ” honest.
The Convention of Dentists at Long
Branch adjourned without getting into a
jaw.
A young man in Indiana was excused
from serving on a jury in a case because he
had been married but two days.
Mr. Munchausen makes soap in Mon
treal, and of course everybody under
stands that he furnishes his own lye.
The reason A. T. Stewart opened a store
at Saratoga was the heavy betting done
among the lofty in kid gloves. His daily
sales are 171 dozen.
The Woodbury Press is defending the
Legislature, and the question arises: “Who
will defend the Woodbury Press?”—[Fa
yetteville Express.
Mr. Neptune, of Carleton, Canada, acci
dentally put a bullet in his own head, but it
assimilated with his brains, and merely
gives weight to his opinions.
Stewart says all women want to boat
down the clerk or ask for cijidit. His prices
ate evidently too high, lilo his sewing
girls’ co-operative refuge. |
Miss Carrie West, of Pain, yra, Wis , chal
lenges any man west of Ne\y York to swim.
A bathing suit is one of tho things he’ll find
necessai y to carry West.
There’s a talk in Minnesota of levying a
special tax to provide Gov. Davis with a
ton or two of chewing tobacco per diem. It
will be cheaper in the end. |
Archbishop Dupanloup, >f New Orleans,
thinks he will be made a Cardinal because
he rises at 4, Summer and Winter, and ab
stains from wine—[Chicago Tribune. He
is Archbishop of Orleans, Fiance.
Eli Perkins stole an epigram from an
old writer and wrote, “We thrive by thrift.”
The compositor recognizel the writer’s
chirography and amended tho sentence to
read, “We live by theft.’’ 1
“L. Q. W.,” of tho Louisville Courier-
Journal, doesn’t think very much of Eu
rope. They seem never to ‘ have heard of
him before, over there, andf treat him just
the same as other folks.
Joaquin Miller and Buffalo Bill agreed
to cut their hair. Joaquin cut his hair, but
Bill backed out. Now Joaqifin pathetically
writes: “Such writers as Buffalo Bill bring
the lauguage of Nature Intel disrepute.”
The centennial of Bartojomeo Christo
fori will be celebrated in {Florence next
May. And do you know mjio Bartolomeo
Christofori was ? He was tie inventor of
the piano forte, so the Florentines claim.
Se iaton Morton, of Indisfta, is fifty-two
years old. He learned thejhatter’s trade
in early life, but didn’t lik|i hat making
well enough to mako it hip business, and
took up tho study aud practice of law in
stead.
An actress has horsewhipped Laura l)e
Force Gordon, a California editress, aud
got tho worst of it, It it easy enough
cow hiding the stern sex. butt whoa it comes
to the other, there are hoo;*s and bustles
that one knows not of.
A cable dispatch announces the death ol'
the wife of Garibaldi. Garibaldi’s real wife
died some years ago, and hq then married
another woman, but never fived with her.
The person whose death is announced was
his wife only by a sort of a morganatic ar
rangement. f
Chicago is enjoying the Jensatlon of a
full-blooded Indian holding gospel meet
ings, after the Moody style/aMr. Talamas
mio-o should prooood to the |)epartment of
the Interior, at Washingtoji, and hold a
few meetings in Delano’s cglice.—[Courier
Journal. f
Sophie Tessmann, of Plynj >uth, Mich., a
girl of seventeen, was playing croquet with
soruo companions, contrary to the orders
of her father, who came ouij and lifted las
foot against her save in thi way of kind
ness, so she went into the jpuse and poi
soned herself with Paris gre^n.
Mme. Rattazzi is the latest:, victim of the
anecdote mongers. They *?ay she was
found not lorig ago subbing hysterically
over a volume which was lying in her lap,
and which was neither poem:; nor romance,
but a prosaic city directory. \ Alas! it con
tained the names of a number of men who
had never been in love with ber.
■ ... L
POLITICAL Hoi’ES.
Gen. L. Pope Walker, (|y-Confederate
Secretary of War, has beei. suggested as
President of the Alabama Constitutional
Convention. 1
And the specie-paying, harl-money Stato
of California was the first! to get up a
panic. The gold bank failei? for fourteen
million. ’Tis understood, t<i>, that times
were not particularly hard if! that State.
The Courier-Journal says 4‘there is little
in American politics but scoijidrelism . tho
average American voter beii|' a purchasa
ble wretch without intelligence, without
patriotism and without hono*.”
The Springfield Republican denies the
charge of the Courier-Jour ml that Mr. La
mar was treated like a dog wjien he was in
New England. The Courier-Journal replies:
“It was tho public reception fv'hieh was ex
tended to both Gordon and Lamar which
wo referred to. Tho Republwxn need [only
refer to the newspaper cm lments upon
the appearance of the two ex Confederates
in New Hampshire to see thei stigmatized,
not because they wero Demr ;rats, but be
cause they had been rebels.” J
The now constitution of Jlissouri has
some new features. Tho Legislature shall
meet once in two years, canjiot have ad
journed sessions, and if it J3 in session
longer than seventy days e|>ery member
loses $1 a day from his pay# which in the
regular session is $5. Ever, amendment
must be incorporated wdth the original
bill, and printed with it bef< re any action
is taken, and no motion to re<: insider at a
future time can be entertainel if a bill is
lost. The necessary expense;# of the State
government, interest, schoc?, charitable
and other funds must be presided for be
fore money is voted for anything else.
In the palmy days of Thulilow Weed,
when the anti-Masonic feeling was carried
into politics, there used to £>o some re
markable scenes at the votiri' places, li.
H. Stevens says, in a letter t\< the Buffalo
Courier: “In order to inllanfc the minds
of the common herd, every device was re
sorted to. Lambs were bnjaght to the
polls having their “ throats (Sit from year
to year,” with the approbatioji of the anti-
Masonic chiefs, claiming tha' ? these lambs
were so boin; that the haril of the Al
mighty had wrought this U* intimate to
mankind the fate of Morga|i, rendering
the mob almost as infuriate >is they were
while Mark Anthony was sneaking over
tho dead body of Gesar. leveed, I have
seen Thurlow Weed tie a around the
neck of a jackass, put a vote <jr ballot into
its mouth and lead it up to the boiling place
and shove its nose into the window, all of
which was done by this would-be states
man to blackguard all decenti young men
whom he was pleased to ci* 1 “ Mason’s
Jacks.” I have seen men ab|ut the polls
holding shears in their hand *, motioning
as if to cut off the ears of t.ie aforesaid
young men, calling out “lomjears.” All
such and many other detestfjble devices
were resorted to by these 4nti-Masous,
and no act was too degrading! provided it
tended to add strength to theiii party.”
SPECIAL NOTICES.
THE BOARD OF HEALTH,
Ordinary’s Office, Richmond County, )
AUGUSTA, Ga.. August 21. 1816. i
THE FOLLOWING TWO SECTIONS OF
the law creating the "Board of Health of the
State of Georgia” is published for the infor
mation of all parties concerned •
Sec. 11. Be it further enacted. That all Phy
sicians in the practice of Medicine in this
State shall be required, under.penalty of ten
dollars, to be recovered in any Court of com
petent jurisdiction in the State, at the suit of
theOrdinarv. to report to the Ordinary, in
the forms to be provided, all Deaths and
Births which come under his supervision,
with a certificate of the cause of death. &c.
Sec. 12, Be it further enacted. That where
any Birth or Death shall take place, no Phy
sician being in attendance, the same shall be
reported to the Ordinary, with the supposed
cause of death, by tho parents, or, if none, by
the next kin, under penalty of ten dollars, at
the suit of the Ordinary, as provided in Sec.
ll of this Act.
Physicians or other persons can obtain
blank forms for the return of Births or Deaths
at my office, and a blank form for the return
of Marriages will hereafter be furnished with
the Marriage License, the same to be prop
erly filled out by the officiating minister or
officer and returned to this office.
Physicians are required to make their re
turns from tho Ist of August.
SAMUEL LEVY.
aug22-3> t Ordinary.
GIN HOUSES INSURED
AT EQUITABLE RATES, IN FIRST-CLASS
Companies. Call at or write to my office.
219 Broad stroet, before insuring elsewhere.
C. W. HARRIS,
ang22-tf Geii’l Insurance Agent.
CARPETS.
ALTHOUGH CARPETS HAVE ADVANCED,
we are still offering our
BODY BRUSSELS CARPETS,
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS CARPETS,
3 PLY INGRAIN CARPETS.
At Roduced Summer Prices. We invite spe
cial attention to our stock of Body Brussels
which we are closing out very low. Also, a
full stock of
THOROUGHLY SEASONED FLOOR OIL
CLOTHS. New and Beautiful WIN
DOW SHADES, WALL PAPERS
AND BORDERS.
As we are daily eomneting with New York
prices and quotations, we will sell in future
for cash or nett thirty days.
JAMES G. BAILIE & BRO,
augi4-eodtm 205 Broad Street.
filE MAGMJLIA PASSENGER ROUTE.
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD, ]
Office General Passenger Agent, V
Augusta Ga., Aug. G, 1875. )
ROUND TRIP TICKETS !
JjfC ill AUGUSTA to CHARLES- *5 If)
4U TON and RETURN. v*L4U
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE ROUND
TRIP TICKETS will be sold, via Yemasee
from Augusta to Charleston, for $5.40. good
until October Ist, 1875.
DAILY SCHEDULE.
Leave Augusta 8:00 a.m.
Arrive at Charleston 4:15 p. m.
Leave Charleston 8:10a. m.
Arrive at Augusta 6:45 p. m.
Passengers en route to tlio “City by the
Sea,” and those seeking the salubrious cli
mate of Carolina’s Long Branch, Sul
-I.van’s Island, will find this a pleasant route
by which to reach their destination.
Tiokeis on sale at Planters’ Hotel and Ticket
Office, Union Depot.
T. S. DAVANT,
augG-im General Passenger Agent.
WANTS.
to tar Advertisements not over Jive lines will
he inserted under this head for fifty cents
each insertion, cash.
WANTED.— A FIRST-CLASS EXPERI
ENCED TEACHER, to take charge
of the Baptist Middle Association High
School. Address Trustees, at Lawtonville,
Burke county, Ga. aug3l-st*
WANTED-A LADY WHO UNDER
stands the MILLINERY an 1 DRESS
MAKING business. Good references re
quired.
For particulars applv to
J. O. BOAG,
aug26-thsatuS* Winnsboro, S. C.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Payment Upon a Note
/'-11VENBYJ. W. CRAWFORD and A. J.
IT CLINKSCALESto WM. PERRY, dated
August 19th, 1875, and payable at the Na
tional Bank of Anderson, after sixty days,
b refused by them. Persons are advised
n )t to take it up. aug3o-3
NEW SILVER GRAY CALICOES,
AT THE ONE-PRICE HOUSE.
HENRY L. a. BALK, 172 Broad Street.
I iiavo received to-day more New
Style Calicoes for Fall; New Style Alpaca
Finish for Mourning; New Stylo Grecian
Grays, Checks, Stripes, Shirtings, Sheet
ings, Drillings, at very low prices, whole
sale and retail. HENRY L. A. BALK,
aug3l-l* 172 Broad street.
To-Day is the Last Day
171 OR the sale of CIIROMOS, WINDOW
T SHADES and HASSOCKS at
H. W. MORAN’S,
315 Broad street.
Come and got a bargain.
nug3l-l
DIN MB INIIII
-IN THE—
Insurance Company Norih America,
ORGANIZED 1794. ASSETS, nearly
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.
Virginia Fire & Marine Ins. Cos.,
ORGANIZED 1832. ASSETS, FIVE HUN
DRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Lowest Adequate Rates. Apply in per
son or by letter to
J. V. H. ALLEN & CO.
Insurance Agents,
aug29-tf 227 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
OO^l^u
rjpHE undersigned having effected favor
able arrangements for the coming season,
will keep on hand a full supply of tho fol
lowing Coals:
THE CELEBR ATED CAHABA, RED ASH,
of Alabama;
GENUINE COAL CREEK, in large lumps;
BEST ANTHRACITE, egg and nut sizes.
I will sell at the lowest cash prices, by
car load, single ton, or In any quantity to
suit consumers. Yard at Georgia Railroad.
Office, until further notice, at ivl. A. Sto
vall’s, NO. 1 Warren Block.
aug29-tf F. M. STOVALL.
ANOTHER GREAT SALE!
OF LANGLEY FACTORY SHEETINGS,
Shirtings and Drills. Avery large
lot of Bleached Shirtings and Fail Calicoes
at
C. .1. T. BALK’S.
This great offering will open on MON
DAY, August 30th, and continue from day
to day until all these Goods are closed out.
Call early, bring all the money you can
spare, and you will be astonished at the
quantity of goods you will receive for a few
dollars!
Look for No. 136 Broad street, between
Monument and Centre streets.
C. J. T. BALK.
aug29tf
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Dennis’ Georgia Sarsaparilla,
THE PUREST AND THE BEST, in large
bottles. Those who try it will find this
the best medicine to purify the blood
grown in the woods at the South. Phy
sicians who condemn it without giving it a
trial will find themselves behind the times,
and not acquainted with our best and most
natural remedies. Orders from Druggists
put in P. O. box 410 will be attended to.
aug29-2
„MOLASSES !
lO Hhds. Clr dee Porto Itieo MOLASSES.
40 Hhds. Reboiled MOLASSES.
200 Bbls. Reboiled MOLASSES.
For sale low for CASH.
aug29-3 BLAIR, SMITH & CO.
BAGGING, BAGGING.
1 000 GING B DOMESTIG bag ‘
2 ’ t RIA HALF ROLLS DOMESTIC
,UUU BAGGING,
7 BALES BORNEO BAGGING,
JQ BALES INDIA BAGGING,
In store, and to arrive. For sale to the
trade at Lowest Market Rates. TERMS,
c ASH.
131 aii* 9 Smitli & Cos.
aug29-3
A PROCLAMATION.
f i EORGIA—BY JAMES M. SMITH,
\JT Governor of said State.
Whereas, official infortnation has been
received at this Department that Jos: ph
Mokkis, a colored man, has committed the
offense of “an attempt to incite insurrec
tion” in the counties of Burke, Washing
ton, Jefferson, Laurens, Johnson and Wil
kinson in this State, and that he has lied
from justice an i is still at large.
I have, therefore, thought proper to issue
this, my proclamation, hereby offering a
Reward or Five Hundred Dollars for the
apprehension and delivery of said Joseph
Morris to the Sheriff of either of said coun
ties.
And I do, moreover, charge and require
all officers in this State, civil and military,
to be vigilant in endeavoring to apprehend
the said Joseph Morris in order that he
may be brought to trial for the offense with
which he stands charged.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of
the State, at the Capital, in Atlanta,
this twenty-sixth day of August, in the
year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred
and Seventy-live, and of the Indepen
dence of the United States of America
the One Hundredth.
JAMES M. SMITH,
By the Governor: Governor.
N. 0. B ARNETT, Secretary of State.
*s* The Macon Telegraph and Messen
ger, Savannah Morning Nows and Adver
tiser, and the papers in the counties men
tioned above, will publish three times.
aug29-3
MANSION HOUSE
PORT 3rtO Y AL, S. C.
QITUATED AT THE TERMINUS OF
lO the Port Royal Railroad, where connec
tion is made with the fast sailing, lirst class
steamers Montgomery and Huntsville,
sailing to New York every Friday.
Round trip from Augusta, S3O.
This is an entirely new and elegantly fur
nished house. Situation unsurpassed, sur
rounded with magnificent live oaks, com
manding a splendid prospect of the sur
rounding country, the Beaufort and Port
Royal Rivers, and offers unusual attrac
tions to travelers or to parties who desiro
Board or to spend a few days near the salt
water.
Table supplied with everything the mar
ket affords. Fresh milk, butter, lish, veg
etables and fruits in their season.
Best of Cooks and Attendants.
Terms liberal.
C. E. WARREN,
je26-tf Proprietor.
“PURE SEED”
“ RUST PROOF OATS.”
PRICE $1.25 CASH, PER BUSHEL. Sown
in August or September, the most cer
tain crop raised—succeeding on the Sea
coast, where no other oat ever matures
seed, as well as on high’ands.
Grown expressly for seed, and for sale by
EDWARD BANCROFT,
Athens, Ga.
For sale by
C. 11. PHINIZY, & CO.,
aug!3-lm* Augusta, Ga.
FOR SALE!
A WINDLASS, with a Brake attached,
built by Mr. Geoi'ge Cooper, of this
c.ty.
Also, a Ruggles PAPER CUTTER, which
cuts 21! inches wide. All in good order.
The above mentioned Machines will be
sold CHEAP FOR CASH. Apply at
THIS OFFICE.
jylß-tf
Pay your Stale, County and
School Taxes.
IMIE TAX DIGEST for 1875 has been
. placed in my hands for collection. My
instructions are to collect without delay.
Owners of Real Estate and Merchandise, as
well as other property, together with those
who are liable to the Poll Tax, had best
come forward and settle.
JOHN A. BOHLER,
Tax Collector Richmond County.
augls-30d
DANCING SCHOOL.
NEW SESSION.
MONS. BERGER will open a New’ Ses
sion at Masonic Hall, on TU ESDAY,
August 31st. To the citizens of the Sand
Hills: Mons. Berger proposes opening a
DANCING SCHOOL at the Academy of the
Sand Hills, on the 15th of September, pro
vided a sufficient number of pupils are ob
tained. Names of pimils can bo left and
particulars had at A. Prontaut & Son’s.
aug2B-l&sepl&4*
NEW FALL GOODS!
NEW FALL GOODS!
—AT—
The Fredericksburg Store.
WE AIIE NOW RECEIVING our Stock
of Fall and Winter DRY GOODS,
and which will soon bo complete in every
department. Wo now have m stock choice
styles of new Calicoes at 6%, 8 and 10c.;
black Alpacas at 25, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60. 65, 75,
85, $1 and $1.25 to $1.50; black Mohairs
from 45c. to $1.50; black Cashmeres, Hen
riettas and bombazines from 75c. to $1.50;
beautiful Colored Dress Goods from 25 to
75c.; Kentucky .Jeans at 15, 20, 25, 35, 40, 45
and 50c.; Tweeds and Cassimeres at 60, 60,
75, 85c. and SI to $1.50; Kerseys and Sati
nets from 40 to 75c.; New York Mills and
Wamsutta Bleached Cottons at 15c.; Fruit
of the Loom and Londsdale do. at 12%c.;
other makes of bleached Cotton at lower
prices.
Purchasers will do well to examine our
stock, and we particularly wish them to
notice the superior black and finish of our
Alpacas, Mohairs, Cashmeres and Bomba
zines.
To those of our country friends who can
not pay us a visit we will, upon application,
sena them samples of any Goods we keep
that can be sampled. Also, a Price List of
all the leading articles we keep.
We are agents for the celebrated Domes
tic Paper Fashions, and will, upon applica
tion, send Catalogue with Prices and De
signs, and upon receipt of the price of any
Pattern, will forward same by mail or
otherwise.
Country merchants who buy close for
cash, or city acceptance, will do well to ex
amine our wholesale stock, and we respeet
lully invite them to do so.
V. RICHARDS & BRO.,
Corner by the Planters’ Hotel,
301 Broad street.
aug24-tuwet'isutuw&clm
PUBLIC NOTICE.
I HAVE given Mr. Jas. Daly an interest
in my bus.ness; the style of the firm
from this date will be JAMES A. GRAY &
Cos. JAS. A. GRAY.
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 26th, 1875.
au2B
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
OFFICE OF THE
Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company,
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA,
August 27th, 1875.
To Our Friends and Policy Holders in South. Carolina and Augusta, Ga.:
We have arranged with Wm. M. Hutson, Jr., lately of South Carolina, to take
charge of our Agency at Augusta, Ga., and control the business heretofore conducted by
M. A Ransom as our Agent.
We beg to assure you of the continued prosperity of vour Company, and to ask your
earnest assistance in advancing our mutual interests by increasing its business.
We commend to your courtesies our new Agent, and would cite the con ection of one
so worthy and experienced In Life Insurance, as a substantial evidence of liow high your
Company stands with those best qualified to judge. ...
Mr. Hutson can give you all needed information as to your interest, or by address
ing the Home Office, at Richmond, Va., your correspondence will receive prompt atten
tion. Very Respectfully,
AW C. CARRINGTOJI, Presldtnt.
O
AGENCY OF THE
Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company,
AUGUSTA, GA., August Uli, 1875.
Referring to above Card, by which your attention is called to my appointment as
General Agent of the PIEDMONT AND ARLINGTON LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
at their Augusta Office, i think it proper to state to you that you may rest assured all
your interests wit h Company will be well cared for by me; you wiU be duly notified, al
ways before the time, when your payments on policies becomes duo, which payments
you will please either make personally at my office, or send to me by Post Office Order,
by Sight Draft, or in a Registered Letter, or by Express, upon receipt of which you will
have sent you promptly tiio Company’s receipt for payment.
To my friends in South Carolina, known through my connection with Security Life
Insurance Company, of New York, since 1871, I would commend most heartily the Com
pany I now represent as General Agent. While not detracting from well deserved mer
its of the Security Life, I would ask your liberal patronage to the PIEDMON T AND
ARLINGTON LIFE, a Com pan v so well known to you for Its solidity and strength, as
well as ils conservative and able management,as to ne.d at my hands no recommenda
tion.
I will, as soon as possible, visit the different Counties of my Agency, and rqake local
arrangements for the convenience of our Policy Holders in paying their premiums.
Very Respectfully,
W. M. HUT SO IN, .Jr.,
General Agent Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Cos .,
aug29-tf AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
EDUCATIONAL.
ST. JOSEPH’S ACADEMY,
SUMTER, S. C.
CONDUCTED BY THE SISTERS OF
MERCY. The Exercises of this Acad
e uy will be resumed on the FIRST MON
DAY in SEP I EMBER. The scholastic
year is divided into two sessions of live
monts each, commencing September Ist,
and February Ist. Pupils will be received
at any time, and charged from date of en
trance.
For information regarding terms, Ac.,
apply to the Directors of the Academy.
aug27-frsnwe-lm
SELECT SCHOOL.
JVxRS. WM. C. DERRY’S Select School for
girls will bo reopened on Monday, Septem
ber 20th 1875. Rates of Tuition, $lO, $8 and
SG, per Term of eleven weeks.
aug2swfcstilsept2o
Academy of Richmond Cos.
mHE EXERCISES of this Institution will
A. be resumed on MONDAY, 13th of Sep
tember, 1875. It is important that pupils
should be present at the opening of the
session.
J. T. DERRY,
aug22-3w Secretary of Faculty.
SOUTHERN MASOxMC FEMALE COLLEGE.
IYHE next session opens September Ist
This Instution is m successful opera
tion under who.lesomo discipline, and
affords lirst class training for j T oung ladies.
Rates for Board and Tuition moderate. For
particulars, send for catalogue.
J. N. BRADSHAW,
President.
Covington, Ga., Aug. C, 1875.
au g2O-d <fce2w
St Jollll’s.
ASelecl Boardinq School
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
IN ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
L and healthful districts of Western Mary
land.
Parents and gua dians who desiro a
pleasant and attractive homo for their chil
dren or wards, with iirst-class educational
opportunities, will please address
Rev. GEO. LEWiS STALEY,
Knoxville, Frederick county, Md.
aug3-2tawitt f ri-wlm
DANCING SCHOOL?
MONS. BERGER, Professional Teacher,
informs the Ladies and Gentleman of
Augusta that he will open a First-Class
DANCING SCHOOL at the Masonic Hall
He wi 1 be there on Thursday, the 24th
June, from 4 to 6 o’clock, to receive pupils.
Mons. 8., being an Artist, teaches what is
really Dancing. He teaches ail the new
dances as well as the old ones, which com
bine the harmony of bodies and the poetry
of motion. Mons. BERGER is well known,
and can give the best reference here and in
Charleston.
For circulars, etc., apply at A. Prontaut
A Sox. je2o-tf
MADAME SOSNOWSKFS
HOME SCHOOL
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
CALENDAR.
]MIE scholastic year is divided into 2 ses
sions. First session commences Sep
tember 15th; second session February 7th.
Closing Exercises occur on the last
Thursday in June—preceding two weeks—
devoted to private examinations.
Terms (per session), payable in advance.
Board, with use of fue SBO 00
English Department 3i) 00
Music—lnstrumental 30 00
Music—Vocal, Extra Lessons 30 00
French Department 15 00
German Department 15 00
Drawing 10 00
Painting, in Oil and Pastel 30 00
Use of piano 5 00
Each pupil is required to furnish her own
bed linen, towels and lights.
Washing can bo secured at moderate
rates. jyl-tf
NOTICE.
rpHIRTY DAYS after date I shall become
1 a PUBLIC or FREE TRADER, in ac
cordance with provisions of Section 1760 of
the Cos :e of Go rgia.
SARAH RICH.
I hereby consent to my wife becoming a
Public or Free Trader. J. RICH.
Augusta, Ga., August 6th, 1875.
aug6- 30
FOR SALE,
8 HORSE PORTABLE ENGINE, Shap
ley’s Patent Safety boiler. Perfectly
safe from lire and explosion. Took first
premium at Now York State Fair. I
bought it on the ground. It is now running
my Plaining Mill, at Harlem, where it caii
be seen at any time for the next ten days.
I am putting in a 30 horse engine and have
no further use for this one. Warrented in
perfect order and to give perfect satisfac
tion. Come and look at it and buy it if you
want the Best Portable Engine in the World
at a bargain.
H. A. COOK,
aug27-lw Harlem, Ga.
0. H. PHINIZY. P. B. PHINIZY.
C. H. PHINIZY & CO.
COTTON FACTORS
AUGUSTA, CEORCIA,
Make liberal advances on con
signments, buy and sell Cotton for fu
ture delivery in New York. Furnish Plant
ers with supplies. Keep always on hand a
large Stock of BAGGING, and are the Sole
Agents for the
Beard Cotton Tie,
Winship Cotton Gin,
And the
Peerless Guano.
Consignments and Orders respectfully so
licited.
augl9-2m C. H. PHINIZY & CO.
FAIRBANKS
SCAIjES
awpg*U 1 • -i
THE STANDARD!
Also, Miles’ Alarm Cash Drawer.
Coffee and Drug Mills, Letter Presses, Ac
Principal Scale Warehouses:
FAIRBANKS & CO.,
81l Broadway, N. Y.
Fairbanks & Cos., 16G Baltimore st., Balti
more, Sid.; Fairbanks A Cos., 53 Camp st.,
New Orleans; Fairbanks & C0.,93 Main st.,
Buffalo, N. Y.; Fairbanks & Cos., 338 Broad
way, Albany, N. Y.; Fairbanks & Cos., 403
St. Paul’s st., Montreal; Fairbanks & Cos.,
34 King William st., London, Eng.; Fair
banks, Brown & Cos., 2 Milk st., Boston,
Mass.; Fairbanks <fc Ewing, Masonic Hall,
Philadeldhia, Pa.; Fairbanks, Morse A Cos.,
11l Lake st., Chicago; Fairbanks, Morse &
Cos., 139 Walnut st., Cincinnati, O.; Fair
banks, Morse & Cos., 182 Superior st.., Cleve
land, O.; Fairbanks, Morse A Cos., 48 Wood
st., Pittsburgh; Fairbanks, Morse & Cos.,
sth and Main sts., L misviile; Fairbanks A
Cos., 302 and 304 Washington Av., St. Louis;
Fairbanks <fc Hutchinson, San Francisco,
Cal. For sale by leading Hardware Deal
ers. j y4-satuth Ac3m
THE TEXAS
Cotton Worm Destroyer!
A Sure and Safe Remedy for the Destruc
tion of the
CATERPILLAR.
XT DOES AWAY WITH THE USE OF
J_ Paris Green and all oilier poisonous ar
ticles; is more effectual, less dangerous,
and much cheaper than any aiticle ever of
fered for sale. Having been extensively
used in Texas during ihe past year, is said
to be by some of the best planters in the
State the only article ever used that will
entirely destroy the CATERPILLAR with
out injury to the plant. It is easily applied
and no danger in its use, costing only
about 25 OLNTS per acre. For particulars
as to price, Ac., apply to
X>. B. HULL, Savannah,
General Agent for Georgia.
M, A. STOVALL,
Agent, Augusta, Ga.
Agents wanted through the State. jelß-3m
THE MOST PERFECTMADL
\' r *ADEW 'III
LEMON SUGAE, ETC.
c@NETMRDIS SAVEDp
in quantity by their pert*. purity and great
strength; the only kinds made by a prac
tical Chemist and Physician, with scientific
care to insure uniformity, healthfulness, deli
cacy and freedom from all injurious substan
ces. 1 hey are far superior to the common
adulterated kinds. Obtain the genuine. Ob
serve our Trade Marks as above, “Cream''
Baking Powder, “Hand and Cornucopia.”
Buy the Baking Powder only in cans securely
labelled. Many have been "deceived in loose
or bulk Powder sold as Dr Price’s.
Manufactured onlv by
STEELE & PRICE,
Chicago , St. Louis and Ciricinnatu
me,hlß-tuthsasutly
ASSIGNEE’S SALE.
BY BIGNON & CRUMP, Auct oneers.
BY virtue of an order from the Register
in. Bankruptcy, will be sold for cash,
ax public out-cry, at the Lower Market
wcjtv, Oli the FIRST TUESDAY
IN SEPIEMBER next, betweon the usual
hours of sale, the doubtfuli and insolvent
notes and book accounts, (amounting: in the
aggregate to about $4,000), of the late firm
of Hvams <fc Neufville, Bankrupts, subject
to all equities, set-offs and defenses. A list
or said claims can be seen at the Court
House, store of Bignon A Crump, and the
office of 1. & J L. Oakman, No. 2 Warren
Block JULIUS L. OAKMAN
Assignee of Est. Hyams & Neul'vilie
Bankrupts. __ au2B-tsep7 ’
z. W. CARWILE, JR.,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
AND GENERAL MERCHANDIZE
BROKER,
124 Front Street, (near Wall),
jel-tilaepl NEW YORK.
LACE CURTAINS
CLEANED AND WHITENED,
AT
123 BROAD STREET.
aug27-12 JAS. H. HULSE.