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Cljc Coiistitntionnlist. 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 i NESS STANDS. I SITUATED IN liik {MOST CENTRAL PORTION OF '|HE CITY. t With Fronts on Broadband Ellis, Between 4 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. aug24eow2m 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. —■ , o 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. 0 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. jelO-tf _ „ 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. aug2s-6 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. jyl-2m