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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.