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AUGUSTA, a-A.:
Wednesday Morning, Sept. 1, 1875
CURRENT TOPICS.
The Failure of Juan de Mier & Cos.
1 his was a concern in New York engaged
in the South American trade, manufactur
ing and shipping soap to wash the natives
of New Grenada chiefly, and receiving in
return hides and other spontaneous (they
never have anything else) produ ts of that
country. New Grenada and Colombia got
up a war the other day, and Mieb & Cos.
took that as a pretext “to bust.” But that
war had little to do with it. We find tho
real cause in the following little paragraph
in the New York Times : “Mr. De Mieb is
a large owner of real estate in this vicinity.
He has property in Trenton, N. J, for
which he refused $300,000 two years ago,
asking half a million. For another piece of
property on Fifth Avenue, in this city, ho
refus and SIOO,OOO about the same time. The
decline in real estate has been such that in
a recent attempt to realize on the Trenton
estate he could not do better than $120,000,
while for the Fifth avenue property he was
offered only $75,000. Under these circum
stances he thought it best to make an as
signment, which he did on the 2uth inst. to
Mr. William Lientz, of No, 165 Maiden
Lane, lhe liabilities of the firm are va
riously stated at from $300,000 to $500,000,
but no information could be got on this
point from the firm, the books not having
yet been made up.”
Here we find in the shrinkage of real
estate in and around New York one “of the
results” not of tho South but of the North
American war. Tho depreciation in two
years of SIBO,OOO on one piece of property,
worth only $300,000, is a startling fact. And
this is but one instance of the general col.
lapse in values all around New York. Up
and down the Hudson the gilded castles
built by merchants and tradesmen in d.iys
of prosperity “when their sails whitened
every sea,” and when tho South poured a
stream of trade into their stores, have now
gone like beautiful soap bubbles, and in
their place they have those planks In the
Republican platform, “knocked the shack
els from the wrists of four million slaves
and crushed the great slaveholders’ rebel
lion.”
The Insurrection —Nary Grist for the
Slander Mill.
'I he Philadelphia Chronic le says “ the
Georgia negro insurrection, which at one
time wore a most threatening aspect, but
which, thanks to the judicious course of
the Governor of that State and the modera
tion ol the whites, was squelched without
bloodshed. Had it been in the hands of the
Republicans, it would have been used with
as great effect as were some of tho trivial
disturbances in the South by Attorney
General Williams and his trusty Lieuten
ant, Ananias Hayes. The Georgia Dem
ocrats are poor politicians or they w'ould
have magnified the affair until it had as
sumed three-fold the proportions it was
permitted to have. However, we are glad
that the matter has turned out as it has.
The golden apples the Republicans gath
ered from their outrage tree turned to
ashes on their lips, and such would have
been the case had the Georgia Democrats
followed their examples.” The Nation
touches the subject sarcastically as fol
lows :
“Mr. Geoboe H. Williams must feel, if I
he preserves any of his old interest in the
fortunes of the oppressed negro, that the
whole business has been shockingly mis
managed. Here is an insurrection of ne
groes ground down and oppressed by Dem
ocratic tyranny, in a part of the South
where Republican sentiment is much need
ed, and in a part of Georgia where the ne
groes outnumber the whites, and yet, on
the eve of a Presidential year, no sort of
use is made of these promising materials
by the Department of Justice. With a few
troops and an enterprising commander
sent down from Washington, the insurrec
tion might not only have been kept going
for a month or two, but it might easily
have turned out that a searching investiga
tion would have shown it to be not a negro
uprising, but a Democratic plot to murder
the negroes; and with a little court-mar
tialing and telegraphing, the Northern
heart might have been once more fired to a
point at which the lepeal of the habeas
corpus next winter would seem the chief
necessity of these awful times. And all
this thrown away by the sluggishness of
Mr. PiEBBEPONf and Gen. Gkant.”
The New York Herald’s Georgia Cor
respondent.
The Kichmond Enquirer pays the follow
ing compliment to the correspondent of the
New York Herald in Georgia:
The New York Herald has a correspond
ent in Georgia, and a most sensible one, too,
with instructions to give-the recent insur
rection a searching investigation; and this
gentleman, by his letters published in that
paper of Friday, has shown himself equal
to the intelligent and impartial perform
ance of ids duty. They lay the full facts
before the world, and these are sufficient to
nail every liadical slander and misrepre
sentation to the counter. The magnitude
of the intended uprising and the murder
ous intentions of the deluded negroes of
the rura l districts were not exaggerated in
the first instance, but the earlier reports
rather fell short of the truth. The Herald,
in its editorial columns, praises the pru
dence and self-possession of the white peo
ple, and is warm in its commendation of
Gov. Smith and others in authority, whose
prompt action prevented a collision, and
saved the country from the horrors of a
bloody encounter. It calls for a thorough
investigation of the facts, and the punish
ment of those miserable miscreants, the
fanatical and designing leaders of the in
surrection, if proved guilty of the charges
against them.
Job’s Turkey.
We never could see why people constant
ly aecisod Job’s turkey of extreme pover
ty. “Poor as Job’s turkey” is applied to
every lout in town. There is nothing re
c >rded that his domestic fowl didn’tscratch
around the house and get plenty to ea t re
gardless of the empty smokehouse and
crib of Job. The relations of amity and
commerce between that turkey and its
master were obliged to be the same as we.
find these days. Whilst Job was lying up
in the house applying poultices and mus
tang liniment to his bolls, the turkey was
in the woods catching bugs and worms and
flying over into the neighbors’ corn-fields
and helping hims.-lf, caring not a button
whether Job had one affliction or a thou
sand. Besides, Job never had a turkey af
ter he went into bankruptcy.
The programme for the obsequies of the
late ex-President Johnson in Nashville, on
October 2, has been arranged. The bells of
the city will be tolled at sunrise for thirty
minutes, guns will bo tired at intervals
through the day, business will be suspend
e 1 between 10 a. m. and 3 p. m., and an im
posing procession and an oration will be
features of the‘occasion. Gen. Pennyback
eb will act as Chief Marshal of the Day,
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has another
case coming up in Washington next month.
She has tiled her answer to Caleb Cush
ino’s bill for services as counsel in her pro
tracted litigation, and says that he is en
titled to no commissions on the suits be
cause he deserted her cause.
Mb. Joseph T. Derby s letter from Ma
rietta, published this morning, is a most
welcome addition to our correspondence.
It is beautifully written, and we shall al
ways be glad to hear from him, whether at
flume or abroad.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
The daughter of Mr. O. N. Dana, a well
known printer of Macon, died on Monday.
Irwinton Southerner records the deaths
of Josiah Whitehurst in his 85th year.
The Favette county negro who commit
ted an outrage upon a white lady has been
sentenced to hang.
The Fair Grounds at Macon have been put
in perfect order for the State exhibition,
which begins there on the 18th of October.
Savannah News : Hon. John C. Nicholls
met with a very painful accident, at his
home in Blackshear, on Sunday. He had
climbed a small tree, for the purpose of
picking some grapes from the vine, which
ha i run on the tree, and, losing his hold,
fell to the ground, dislocating his right col
lar bone.
Barnesville (Aug., 27' dispatch to tho At
lanta Oonstilut.on: Last night an. infamous
attempt w T as made to assassinate Mr. John
Aiken a respectable farmer living just with
out the incorporate limits of this town. He
was shot at w hile nursing his babe by some
unknown ruffian but fortunately without
damage. This is twice the attempt has
been made within the past few months.
Atlanta Constitution: “Georgii import
ed direct in July just $3Ol in goods. This
immense amount came through the port
of Savannah. The port of Augusta is not
mentioned in the July tables. Did the Sec
retary of the Treasury omit that import
ant port from malice, or from its utter
want of business ? ” And pray, how much
did the “port of Atlanta” receive? The
last we heard of that port it had been de
clared a country court house.
Correspondence of the Macon Telegraph:
At Gainesville, on the Air-Line Railroad,
your correspondent met the greatest liv
ing Captain, Lieut. Gen. James Lcngstreet.
He is physically considerably much dis
qualified, scarcely able to use his right
arm, the effect of wounds received at the
post of danger. Age and the wounds re
ceived are beginning to tell. His hair has
grown gray, and those of us who used to
see his manly form and soldier-, ike bear
ing, when tho conflict of arms raged fear
f u.ly, can scarcely realize the change.
A postal card received at this office yes
terday afternoon reads as follows :
•SI'ABTA, Ga., August 31, 1875.
A difficulty occurred at a negro camp
meeting at Dixie, one mile from here, on
last night. It seems that a negro named
Anderson Winn and a negro, name un
known, became involved in a quarrel,
when a negro named John Bruce tried to
quiet them, when Winn stabbed him twice
in the region of the heart, causing instant
death. Bruce was a steady, orderly negro,
and a barber by profession. No arrests up
to this time. J. A. C.
Macon Telegraph: Quite an animated
shooting affair occurred at Hawkinsville
Saturday evening, but we are glad to state
that it did not result fatally to auy one.
though two men were shot. It seems that
there was a difficulty betwee i two men,
named Carroll and McNeill, In which pis
tols were drawn. A young man named
Fate rushed in to part them and received
a pistol shot in the shoulder. Carroll then
tired two shots at McNeill, one of which
took effect in his hip and thigh and the
other in his loins. We did not learn the
cause of the trouble.
i rop statistics of Monroe county: Num
ber of acres planted in corn, 14,768; wheat,
3,816; oats, 2,555; rye 132; barley, 40; rice,
%; peas, 5,316; clover and grass, 64; cotton,
l6,u‘J6: tobacco, 1%; sugar cane, 17; sor
ghum, 41; ground peas, 33%; sweet pota
toes, 324; Irish potatoes, 29%; melons, 107;
acres in gardens. 129; number cf apple
trees, 11,112; number ol peach trees, 50,223;
pear trees. 925; acres of grape vines, 8 4-5;
horses and mules, 1,358; number of hogs,
3,643; number to be killed, 2,077; number of
sheep, 612; number of goats, 253; number
of dogs, 70,030; number of sheep killed, 11.
The Griffin News says “there are a num
ber of strange people traveling through
the country at this time, and their mission
co Id not be divined. He had heard fiom
some other sections, and similar reports
were brought. What it means, is guessed
at. They are bent on devilment of some
kind, and the amount of mischief going on
would seem to give coloring to these sus
picious They are not that class ol men he
thinks—as you can generally tell what a
man is from style—but look like mischief
making fellows.” They are emissaries of
the Union League, just started up afresh
at Philadelphia. You see the Georgia ne
groes will soon be selling their cotton and
will have money, which they are after.
The Irwinton Southerner gives the fol
lowing sketch of “Gen. Joe Morris and
staff”: While residing at Gordon, teaching
school, his spare moments were devoted to
this subject, and by his fanaticism and ner
vous enthusiasm he gained complete con
trol of the minds of the worst negroes in
that neighborhood, and fired the hearts of
his followers and retained his hold hold
upon them by his midnight harangues and
his published manilestoes against the
whites, which on several mornings were
found posted upon fences and houses in
that village. Gov. Smith, in his speech in
Sandersviile, said that he had received nu
merous letters from him while he resided
in this county, in which ho warned him
that if he did not furnish him guns to arm
his felloiv Africans, the bones of the negro
race would rise up in judgment against
him. Gov. Smith didn’t scare, and Morris
abandoned that line, and entered the poli
tical arena in 1872, as a candidate for the
Legislature, against the Hon. W. O. Adams,
the Democratic nominee of Wilkinson
county. We have not the election returns
to refer to, but believe that Mr. Adams beat
him about six hundred votes. This defeat
caused him to retire to Gordon’s suburban
African villa yclept Jacksonville, where he
brooded over his misfortunes and lived by
levying a tax upon the negroes, which was
paid with astonishing promptness. He re
sided at that place for some time a perfect
reclufe, refusing oven to come out of his re
tirement to w’ork the road.
Irwinton Southerner: Near Lightwoodknot
Bridge, in this county, there has reside 1
for years a respectable aud well-to-do far
mer, named Wm. Whitaker, aged about 57
years. Several years ago a cancer app ar
ed on his head near the temple, whicti has
baffled the skill of the most expert doctors,
and from tho effects of which he has for
some time been unable to attend to his
business. During this time he lia3 been
subject to spells of great mental depres
sion, and from conversations held with his
wife on the subject, has frequently con
templated self-destruction. On Friday
morning last, at his request, his wife
and son went to the creek near by to
eatcli a mess of fish, leaving him at home
with two grown daughters. He occupied
his time as usual until near noon, nothing
unusual occurring to make his daughters
believe that he contemplated committing
the terrible deed which hurried him from
this world. At 12 o’clock m., while
daughters were in the kitchen preparing
the noon-day meal, they were start..e i by
the sharp report of a rifle. They hurried
into the house, and dashing open the door
of a room they beheld a sight that almost
petrified them with horror. Sitting on the
floor, with his back against the walls of
tho room, was their father, a rigid corpse.
He had shot himself with a short rifle be
tween the eyes, the ball passing through his
head and lodging under the skin at the
back, producing death instantly. He still
held the deadly weapon in his rigid grasp,
the barrel having fallen to his breast and
his right hand was still on the guard that
surrounded the trigger. Everything indi
cated that death had been in tautaneous.
From the wound in the head the brain was
oozing and falling upon his person and the
floor of the room. “Unhouseded, unan
ointed, unannealed,” he had gone to hts
God, $0 instantaneous was his death that
the prayer he would have breathed had
there been an Interregnum between the
shot and his death was not syllabled. Let
us hope that the God of mercy will receive
him, and that his death has ended his
troubles.
A Grave Yard Washed Away,
Waynesburg, Fa., August 21—On
Friday morning last a mill dam on
Templeton’s creek burst, and the great
volume of water rushing down burst
the other dams above Jacksonville and
almost submerged the latter place,
The Jacksonville meeting house was
carried away ; tombstones were torn
out and carried off; ghastly remains
were washed out and Left high anc. dry ;
skulls, bones, masses of hair, etc., ware
lying around in masses which were
sickening to your correspondent., who
visited the scene of disaster. Altc gath
er it is the most destructive flood
Greeno county has witnessed for years,
and shows clearly the great importance
of constructing dams properly, and In?
specting old ones, in order that the
lives and property of the inhabitants
may be secure.—[Cor. Alleghany Mail.
Jane has got a very nicely turned
ankle, hadn't she?” said John to his
wife the other day. then John
noticed a strange, unearthly gleam ih
the eye of his spouse, which made him
feel very uncomfortable —he knew not
why. But the next day the place which
Jane had tilled in the domestic econo
my of the household was occupied by
a middle-aged woman with ankles like
those of a Mullingar heifer. —[Milwau-
kee News.
A Michigander has left SIO,OOO to his
mother-in-law.
PAPER TS. COIN.
LEGAL TENDER NOTES.
Letter from Wendell Phillips on Cur
rency—“ The People Stand Behind
Them.”
The following letter from Wendell
Phillips has been addressed to Mr. Eu
gene Beebe, Secretary of the Legal
Tender Club. It gives in forcible lan
guage that gentleman’s views on the
delicate question of a circulating me
dium, and will be read with interest by
all who have money or want it:
August 23, 1875.
Mr, Eugene Beebe, Secretary of the Le
gal Tender Club:
Dear Sir — l appreciate the great im
portance of your agitation to prevent
further contraction of the currency,
and am sorry I shall not be able to at
tend your meeting in September. It
It seems to me there are but two ques
tions to be considered touching the
currency:
First—Upon what basis shall it rest?
Second—How much of it shall we
have ?
A long time ago there might have
been a third—of what shall it be made,
gold and silver or paper ? But the ex
perience of business men long ago
answered that inquiry and settled it
beyond recall, that throughout Christen
dom the currency must be paper. It is
idle to talk to-day of a specie basis.
That gentle hallucination has been en
couraged to quiet timid men and de
lude the masses. But the thing itself
has not really existed for fifty or a
hundred years. Great Britain, where,
if anywhere, such a basis could be
maintained, has to-day fifty cents of
coin to SIOO of paper. (Patterson,
Science of Finance, pp. 5, 6, 27, 28, 37,
38. Edinburgh, 1868.)
Any individual may have that fifty
cents, provided he does not need it,
and provided there is no special reason
why he should have it. If at any time
his business absolutely requites that
he should have that fifty cents of coin,
at that time he cannot have it. A specie
basis of fifty cents coin to support SIOO
paper! It reminds me of that Irish
six-bottle toper who always sat down
to drink with a small bit of a straw
berry at the bottom of his wine glass
and kept it there through the evening
—“ it gave so fine a flavor to the wine!”
Doubtless that fifty cents coin gives a
strong specie flavor to the vast system
of British paper and makes Bull feel
warm and comfortable.
Political economy settles very few
points by theorizing. Now and then
experience decides a question, and it
passes into accepted and undeniable
truth. In this way business experience
has decided that currency, in civilized
and commercial nations, must rest on
credit and consist of paper. Thus ex
perience answers our first question;
the currency does rest and must rest
on credit. Whose shall that credit be?
Shall it be the credit of banks and
their customers or the credit of the
nation? This question also experience
has answered. Before the war we
had banks resting each one on
its own credit. We all remember the
result. The bills of a bank ceased
generally to be current a hundred miles
from its counter. You lost ten per
cent, in changing those of the South
and West for Eastern bills; and Horace
Greeley demurely told the committee
who paid him a handful of Western
bills, “If convenient, I should much
prefer a well executed counterfeit on
some Eastern bank.” What makes
our national bank bills good, and
equally good, everywhere to-day? The
nation stands behind them. Such
notes pass every where, and everywhere
at the same value, because the nation
guarantees them. All the note cur
rency we have rests on national credit,
directly or indirectly. No man can
give a reason why they should not all
rest directly on national credit; why all
bank bills should not be withdrawn and
legal tenders supply their place.
In building a house you do not put a
platform between the house and its
foundation. Certainly not. Your walls
rest directly on your foundation. To
day the nation pays the banks $20,000,-
000 or more to allow them to play the
useless part of standing between it
(the nation) and its own currency. Dr.
Franklin’s hero, who asked his victim
to pay for heating the poker, was a
most reasonable person and a Solomon
compared with ourselves in this mat
ter. I have heard of au incompetent
man put under guardianship and
obliged to pay trustees liberally for
taking cate of his property, but I never
heard of one put under guardianship
and paying his guardian liberally and
then obliged to do all his own business
besides, which is exactly our case. We
furnish the credit that supports these
bank bills and then we pay the hanks
for using that credit.
Bagehot, the highest authority iu
Englaud, says the public takes Bank
of England hills without inquiry or
hesitation, because it knows that iu
any emergency tho Government will
sustain the bank. Here our bills pass
because the Government is distinctly
pledged to do so. The two great com
mercial centres have drifted into a cur
rency based, in fact, on Government
credit, and they deliberately accept the
situation.
Our first question—(Oq what shall
our currency rest?) —is fully answered
by facts. Iu commercial nations it
rests, and must rest on Government
credit.
Second—How much currency shall
we have ?
No single man, officer or institution
can decide or ever did decide this ques
tion. Currency made up of bank bills,
deposits, notes, bills of exchange, &c.,
is like any other article of manufac
ture —we make as much of it as we
need. The business of a country, when
not interfered with, always settles the
amount of its currency. Business
creates, everywhere and at all times,
just such and just so much currency as
it needs. Banks and secretaries of
treasuries imagine they determine the
amount of the currency. As well might
Old Probability claim that he de
termined the weather. He and they
only record what mightier forces
do. Hats, shoes, wagons rails, cloths,
cotton, wheat—one year we want more
the next year less —who decides ? The
dealers In the article and the users of
it. Does anybody advise f oing back to
other days and having some board of
wiseacres decide bow much wheat shall
be planted and how much cotton, how
many loaves or wagons made ? No
such dreamer obtrudes himself on the
public. But thousands clamor for al
lowing bank directors, and them alone,
to settle the amount of the currency.
And they are alloweij more control
than any other agency. The N e w York
City banks alone increased the cur
rency $3,000,000 ($2,957,200) iu one
month, September, 1871, apd increased
it $5,000,000 in one week pf March,
1875. This aristocracy iu the money
manufacture }s an pdfous monopoly,
alien to opr institutions and harmful
to our prosperity. What sboulcj we
say if 500 men and such friends as they
chose were allowed to plant wheat and
mine iron while every one else was for
bidden ?
Ijfet ffljs is but another name for our
presept bpnh system.. Let us cease,
then, to have any pjap either t° en
large or contract the currency. Let
the Government stand ready to issue
$1) the currency any business man
wishes and pup give good security for,
at low interest and convertible into
long bonds. If necessary, iu order to
conciliate existing prejudice, let the
capital of these bonds, having long
terms to run, be payable in gold. Make
greenbacks legal lender for all t pur
poses, customs a|d all Government
dues included. Triere is every reason
why this should lie done. History is
repeating itself. England never knew
more prosperous yjpars than from 1800
to 1820, during jlwhieh sho neither
had gold, nor wiejied to have it, nor
promised to pay g(fld to any one what
ever. All that whi|a she extended and
contracted her currency without any
regard whatever ip gold. Her enor
mous trade aud expenditures were all
paper aud only paphr, resting on credit
and nothing else. *Ve had similar pros
perity during the v>ar and after, on the
same terms. In 18fc0 England, yielding
to theorists and dreamers, tried to put
this new wine int{ old bottles, and
dragged her business back to methods
a century old—to s'ecie. Bankruptcy,
the very history off which makes the
blood cold to-day, i lighted the Empire.
It took half a geiferation to recover
from the mistake. §N T o man can to-day
begin to show that jmch suffering was
necessary; that it achieved any good
or that it effecteu t*ay changes which
could not have beer* 'ell made with
out it. Wo entered that same valley
of the shadow o® death when, in
1865, McCulloch IJegan contraction.
We are hurrying last to England’s
1820; property sui|k to half its for
mer value; the streets crowded with un
employed men fast£ rotting into crimi
nals; grass growing on the wharves,
machinery rusting*, wealth alarmed,
poverty starving, yoe to the political
party which the qation shall finally
pronounce responsible for this fatal
mistake ! No previews merits will avail
for its pardon. It. ;? leaders will he
buried in curses, as men whom neither
history nor their owp experience could
make wise. 4
We lament, as vtsll as we may, the
widespread corruption of business men
and office-holders. J But where such
corruption in high places steals a dol
lar, contraction—tbjs well meaning
ignorance of bullioniots—robs the peo
ple of thousands, lathis generation is
ever bankrupt, its bankruptcy will not
be the work of kna\i?s, but of honest
men following a ja* k o’ lantern and
dragging us to ruin.) Yours,
Wendell Phillips.
Even the Baptist c|mp meetings find
it damp. t
CITY PROPERT'f FOR SALE.
PEREMPTORY SALE
&
AT AUCTION BY CONSENT OF PARTIES
On Easy Terms aijd Long Credit
op M(Lt
Permanently Valuably and Productive
CITY PR4PERTY,
The Lafayette Hall (|nd Opera House
Containing Spacious |tores, Oflicess and
Salooi|3,
ALL SUCCESSFUL AND POPULAR BUSI
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NESS STANDS.
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SITUATED IN liik {MOST CENTRAL
PORTION OF '|HE CITY.
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With Fronts on Broadband Ellis, Between
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Jackson and Canjpbell Streets.
BY C. V. WALKER— Auctioneer.
1 TUESDAY, the 7th September, 1875, at 12
. o’clock, m., in fifint of the Opera
House Arcade, in this efty, will positively
be sold, at public auction, by consent of the
parties in interest, the t'flowing described
and very choice commercial aud invest
ment property, to-wit : I
That centrally situ&led, substantially
built and very productige property popu
larly known as the Lafayette Hail and
Opera House, situated In the city of Au
gusta, county of Richnfuid, and State of
Georgia, and in the scluare bounded by
Broad, Ellis, Jackson ant Campbell streets.
The portion of ground *>n which they are
built measures a total! front on back of
Broad and Ellis streets|6s feet, by an ex
treme depth between pAallel lines and ex
tending from street to Ureet of 271 feet'C
inches, said measuremei|t all being more or
less, lhe said properly, if not sold in
block, will be sold subdivided into lots, des
ignated by the Nos. 1, 2 End 3, according to
plans of J. F. Braun, arcfiitect, to be exhib
ited on the day of sale. The said lots
measure as]follows: Ilits Nos. 1 and 2
front on the south sidif of Broad street,
having each 26 feet six iigphes thereon, by a
depth between parallel jliuos of 126 feet in
depth towards Ellis strejt.
Lot No. 1 is improvedswith the Substan
tial Three and Two-stortt Brick Buildings
known and designated, by the No. 272
Broad street. The lowif- eiory contains a
spacious and commodious Store—one of
tho finest business stanfis in the city and
arranged and adapted ft}’ Offices or Dwell
ing above. With Lot to. 1 and the im
provements thereon wil| be sold the Tene
ment east of th Arcade if entrance, erected
immediately above the sftme. subje t to all
the conditions of servitude hereinafter
specified. 1
Lot No. 2, west of he A-'cade or entrance,
measures 20 feet 6 inches |ront on the south
side of Broad street bj? a depth between
parallel lines of 126 feet towards Ellis street,
together with all the iin*rovements there
on, known and designated by the No. 274
Broad street, and compiling tho substan
tially built three-story B|ick Building with
a spacious two-story Btiek Btore in the
rear. The main building contains that
splendid Store and chove business stand
occupied by Messrs. MUers A Marcus,
wholesale dry goods dealers. The upper
portion is arranged for duelling and adapt
ed for offices. The for|goiug described
property is leased to an} occupied by the
well known wholesale dealers in dry goods
and clothing, Messrs. Mvers & Marcus, L.
Sylvester aud others, until the Ist of Octo
ber, 1875, yielding an aggregate rental of
$6,400 ner annum. ;
Lot No. 3 comprises tho ’ emainder of the
property, measuring a tofal front on Ellis
street of 65 feet bv a dept* between parallel
lines of 145 feet 6 Inches, from which point
it contracts to a widtli ol 12 feet, and ex
tends to and fronts on So* th Broad street.
This said extension is kjown as the Ar
cade, or entrance from Bt|>ad street to the
Opera House. Also, thelpresont existing
alleyway, of 7 feet width, opening on Ellis
street—Lots 1 and 2 to hive the right, in
common with Lot No. 3, use, but not to
obstruct, the said Arcails or alley way—
together witli ail the implivemeuts there
on, comprising that extfnsive, capacious
and subst ntially-bu It bijek Opera House,
covered with slate, coppe}gutters, cement
ed basement throughout, swell lighted and
ventilated and provided! with ample en
trance and < xit arrangi'mfnts and accom
modations. The stage is *1 feet depth, the
auitorium has a parqiUt, dress circle,
gallery and a seating capacity of about one
thousand—has contained 1,400 persons. The
basement is adapted for f-aloon purposes,
lighted with gas throughout, and the only
establishment of its kins in the city for
public entertainment. With ordinary care
and small expense this Iroperty alone is
susceptible ol producing § large and cer
tain income. It lias yiel(f:d in ordinarily
prosperous soasons over sii.ooo per annum.
The above decscribed pleperty, compris
ing, as it does, the most t-J tensive and cen
trally located property in|the city of Au
gusta in market, is well worthy the atten
tion or capitalists seekiijj; safe, reliably
productive and t ermanenSly valuable city
property for u. vestment. As business
stands, adapted for either! the wholesale or
retail trade, banking or insurance business,
no property can be more (desirable. It will
be sold free from all incuiibrance whatso
ever, the whole according |to plan of J. F.
Braun, architect, to be oxljbited on the day
of sale, and qn the foilfwing favorable
terms apd conditions: J
One-third or one-half ca jh, at the option
of the purchasers; the rlmainder at one
and two years’ credit for |otes of the pur
chasers, specially secured*by mortgage on
the property, bearing interest at the rate
of eight per cent, per anmiin from the day
of sale until final payment* said interest to
be p§i4 flaß yea 1 ly from i:\te, and the pur
chaser to keep the itppro ’ements insured
lor tht ir value, and to tra isfer tho po icies
thereof to the holders o the notes; the
notes, if required, to be 1 drawn for such
amounts to suit the partie 1 in interest, and
the acts of sale at the exjimse of the pur
chasers, before Wm, A. 'Falton, Esq., No
tary Public. The rentals olali the property
are reserved up to the 30ji of September,
1875. 5 jy2s-td
SiTTB SAYINGS BANK,
INTO. 353 BROAD STREET,
Cash Capital SIOO,OOO (with Stockholders Liability *
TRANSACTS A
General Banking, Exchange and Collection Business.
5 Per Cent, allowed on DAILY balances, subject to
CHECK AT SIGHT.
Interest allowed on Time Deposits a3 may be agreed upon.
T. P. BRANCH, President.
J. T. NEWBERY,
CASHIER.
N. B.—Draw SIGHT DRAFTS on Great Britain anil Continental Europe
in sums of £1 and upwards. janl2-ly*
AUGUSTA TO NEW YORK
VIA.
PORT ROYAL, S. C.
The following Comfortable and well-known Steamships,
Montgomery, 1,500 Tons, Capt. Faii'dotli,
Huntsville, 1,500 Tons, Capt. Oliester,
Are appointed to sail from PORT ROYAL for NEW YORK, direct, on FRIDAYS of
each w ek, afte • arrival of Morning Passenger Train from Augusta.
The following reduced rates of Passage are offered the Travelling Public:
Augusta to New York Ac Return, S3O
Augusta to New York, Straight, S2O
Augusta to New York f
Which secures Accommodations in all resp cts equal to those of other lines.
STATE ROOMS AND BERTHS
Can be secure 1 by application to
RICH’D. P. RUNDLE, Agent,
, Port Royal, S. C.
Or to the undersigned,
T. S. DAVANT, G. P. A.,
Augusta, Ga.
Tickets on Sale at Planters’ Hotel anil Ticket Office, Union Depot je4-3m
DOZIER, WALTON & CO.
OOTT OIV FACTORS, AGENTS,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
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TH E GUE AT
GEORGIA STATE FAIR
18 75.
The Annual Fair for 1875 of the Georgia State
Agricultural Society will be held in
O O IST, Gr 0.,
At the Beautiful CENTRAL CITY PARK GROUNDS,
BEGINNING
MONDAY, OCT OBER 18.
AND CONTINUING ONE WEEK.
A large, varied and liberal Premium List covering all Departments of Industry, from
which the following are extracts:
Field Crop Department.
For the best and largest display in merit and variety of sample products from the
Held, garden, orchard, dairv and apiary—the contribution of a single farm SIOO
For i lie best six stalks of cotton—to become the property of the Society 50
For the best live bales, crop lot of short staple cotton, by one exhibitor 150
For the best single bale of short staple 50
For the best single bale upland long staple 50
Horse Department.
Best Thoroughbred Stallion SIOO
Best Walking Horse 5C
Best Saddle Horse or Mare 75
Best Single Buggy Horse or Mare 75
Best Combination Horse or Mare 100
Best Doub e Team, owned by one Exhibitor 100
Best Georgia liaised Mule •
Best Mule, open to tho world 50
Cattle Department.
Bost herd—one Bull and four Cows or Heifers—all to bo of one breed and owned
exclusively by one exhibitor SIOO
Best Milch Cow ’■ 50
Cow giving the Richest Milk... 50
S4O and S2O for the Best Bull and Cow, respectively, of each of the following breeds:
Alderney, Ayreshiro, Devon and Durham.
Best Sow and Pigs undor six mouths old GO
Poultry Department.
For best trio of each variety $ 10
Best and largest display in merit and variety of Domestic Fowls, raised in Georgia.. 50
Best and largest display in merit and variety of same, open to the world 50
Best display of Pigeons 20
Best display of Rabbits 10
Horticultural Department.
Best display of Garden Vegetables, grown by one person $25
Home Industry Department.
Best collection of Jellies. Preserves, Pickles, Jams, Catsups, Syrups and Cordials,
made anil exhibited by one lady SSO
Best display of breads by one lady 25
Ornamental Needle Work.
Best display in merit and variety of Female Handicraft, embracing Needle Work,
Embroidery, Crocheting, Knitting, etc., by one lady SSO
Fine Art Department.
Best Oil Painting, (any subject) $ 25
Best Portrait Painting ,• 20
Best Painting in Water Colors 20
Best display of Paintings and Drawings by one exhibitor 25
Best collection of Drawings by a girl under sixteen vears of age 25
Best display of Paintings and Drawings by the Pupils of one School or College 50
Best display of Photographs Silver Medal and 25
Best display of Jewelry, Silverware, etc Silver Medal and 25
Merchants’ Displays.
Best display of Dry Goods SIOO
Best display of Fancy Groceries 100
Best display of Glassware and Crockery 50
Best display of Clothing 25
Best display of Millinery 25
Special Premium for Granges.
To the Grange in the State making the largest and finest display in merit and va
riety, of Stock, Products, and results of Home Industries, all raised, produced or
made by the members of that particular Grange $l5O
THE ABOVE ARE BUT SPECIMENS of a comprehensive list of large MONEY Pre
miums.
THE BEST AND LARGEST LIVE STOCK show ever held in the State or South. More
and finer Horses. Mules, Cattle Sheep, Swine and Poultry than ever before exhibited.
Parties wishing fine Stock, as a fine Harness or Saddle Horse, Milch Cow, Thoroughbred
Bull, Trio of Chickens, etc., will find the occasion of this Fair a rare opportunity to
secure them.
SEVERAL EMINENT and representative men from the North an l Northwest, have
been invited to deliver addresses at the Fair, and many distinguished visitors through
out the whole country are expected.
THE PUBLIC will be kept posted of the progress and developments of the Fair in
future advertisements.
SEND TO THE SECRETARY at Macon for Premium Lists, embracing a full schedule
of the Premiums, Rules, Regulations, etc., and containing two engravings of the beau
tiful and magnificent Fair Grounds.
A. H. COLQUITT, President.
T. G. HOLT, General Superintendent.
jy4-sututh&ctoct!B MALCOLM JOHNSTON, Secretary.
The Kitson Machine Comp’v,
LOWELL, MASS.,
RICHARD KITSON, President,
SAMUEL E. STOTT, Treasurer and Agent.
BUILDERS OF
PATENT COTTON OPENERS
AND
LAPPERS, WITH RECENT VALUABLE IMPROVE
MENTS, SHODRY and WASTE MACHINES and
RAG DUSTERS, NEEDLE-POINTED
CARD-CLOTHING, Etc., Etc.
Kitson’s Patent Compound Opener Lapper.
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THE cotton is spread on this machine from the bale, and is made into a verv even
lap, at the rate of 300 to 400 pounds per hour. The laps are then finished on a
TWO-BEATER LAPPER,
WITH
KITSON’S PATF.INT EVENER
Attached, and owing to recent improvements in this Evener, the laps when ready for
the card, only varies one quarter of an ounce to the yard. The cost of picking by this
system is only about one mill per pound on the cloth produced, and the picker house is
safer from lire than the card ro. >m.
s*There is al- o a great saving of room and power over tho old system.
These Machines may be seen at the mills of the Augusta Factory, Langley Manufac
turing Company, and at tho bost mi is at Lowell, Lawrence, Fail River, Manchester
Lewiston, Providence, Richmond, Baltimore, etc., etc.
The following are a tew among many testimonials whicn wo nave received:
AUGUSTA FACTORY, Augusta, Ga., JulyG, 1875.
The Kitson Machine Comprng, Lowell, Mass.:
Gentlemen: We have been running your Compound Opener Lappers and Finisher
Lappers, with Eveners, tor more than one year, and frankly say that they have given
the most eminent satisfaction. We have no hesitancy in giving you our unquaiitied en
dorsement, and cordially recommend your Machines.
F. COGIN, Superintendent.
o
OFFICE LANGLEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY. /
Langley, S. C., April 14, 1873. (
The Kitson Machine Company, Lowell, Mass.:
Gentlemen'. I nave been running your system of Compound Opener Lapper’; and
Finisher Lappers, wita Eveners, *<>r mmo tli t years on tat tit' O tton Mill m tno
Langley Manufacturing Company, and I have found it to work the mo-t satisfactory of
any opening anil picking arrangement 1 have ever seen, we have not weighed a pound
of cotton upon the picker apron since starting, yet we have had <a remarkable regularity
of numbers. The staple is not injured by over beating, and it leaves the picker without
being curled or knitted; the seeding and cleaning is very complete. Over forty per
cent, in labor in this department is saved over tho old system. One of the greatest con
siderations with this arrangement is its secur ty against lire.
Yours, &e., M. F. FOSTER, Superintendent.
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OFFICE MASSACHUSETTS COTTON MILLS, I
Lowell, February 20, 1874. f
The Kitson Machine Company, Lowell, Mass.:
Gentlemen : This Company have now in use twenty of your Finisher Lappers, with
Eveners, and ten Compound Opener Lappers. Some of these. machines have been at
work for ten years or more, and have always given us satisfaction, doing a largeamount
of work, doing it well, at a low cost for labor and repairs. In our ‘ Prescol t Mill,” where
we have two Compound Opener Lappers, and four Finisher Lappers, we have averaged
the past seven weeks 39,267 lbs. Cloth weekly. Yarn averaging about No. 22. Costone
14-100 mills (.00114) per lb. of cloth. We consider them a lirst class machine in all re
spects. Yours very truly,
p k F. BATTLES, Agent.
MERRIMACK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, t
Lowell, January 23,1874. j
The Kitson Machine Company, Lowell, Mass.:
Gentlemen : We have been using some of your Compound Opener Lappers and
Finisher Lappers, with Eveners, for nearly three years, and at present are passing all
our cotton through them. The machines have proved satisfactory, anil both in quantity
and quality of their work have answered the expectations formed of them.
Yours respectfully, J OHN C. PALFREY, Superintendent.
(The above Company have in use eight Compound Opener Lappers and sixteen Fin
isher Lappers, with Eveners; ordered at different times.)
Send for a Catalogue to THE KITSON MACHINE CO UPANY.
SAMUEL £. STOTT. Treasurer,
jy6-3m LOWELL, MASS.
jflL. O "KT
IRON GRENADINE,
SO CENTS,
WORTH ONE DOLLAR!
The best in the world., for the price, just received from
AUCTION, at
JAMES A. GRAY’S.
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ATTENTION ! PLANTERS.
We are general agents for the
PRIDGEON COTTON PRESS.
Which is highly recornmemleil for its simplicity and very moderate cost, $125
complete.
Planters in need of a PRESS should examine this new invention.
SIBLEY & WHELESS,
COTTON FACTORS, AUCUSTA, CA.
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THE GREAT SUMMER ROUTE NORTH,
VIA
AUGUSTA, WILMINGTON. PORTSMOUTH,
: _v.Vr ;
AND
The Magnificent Sidewheel Steamships
OF THE
OLD DOMINION LINE!
WHICH leave Portsmouth, Va., upon the arrival of Trains via the Atlantic Coast
Line, at 7:30 p. m., in the following appointed order:
Steamship ISAAC BELL, I,COO Tons Capt. BLAKEMAN. Monday.
Steamship WYANOKE, 2.040 Tons Capt. COUCH, Wednesday.
Steamship OLD DOMINION, 2 210 Tons Capt. WALKER, Saturday.
And upon the above named Schedule during the entire Summer and Autumn. The su
perior accommodations, luxurious tables any absence of all unpleasant and dangerous
ocean navigation, commend this Line to the attention ot North-Bound Travelers as the
moat pleasant Excursion Route to Now York, and within six hours of all rail time.
State Rooms and Berths engaged by Telegraph upon application to all Agents of the
At antic Coast Line, and Through Tickets sold at all Railway Ticket Offices.
Baggage checked to destination, and equal facility of transfer and delivery in New
York as by other Transportation Lines.
W. 11. STANFORD,
Secretary Old Dominion S. S. Company, No. 197 Greenwich Street, New York.
W. M. TIMBERLAKE, Agt. Atlantic Coast lane, Augusta.
B. F. BROWN, Ticket Agent, Planters’ Hotel.
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