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Cf.ljc Constitutionalist.
AUGUSTA, GA.:
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Tuesday Morning, September 7, 1875
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A Financial Dead-Lock —Heavy Blows
to Mercantile Prosperity—The South.
The New York Tribune very recently
contained an advertisement offering to
loan 850,000 at 7 per cent, “on first
class real estate, salable to-day for
three times the money.” The Peters
burg Star quotes this and sarcastically
observes that “New York is the city,
you know, where money is lying idle in
the banks appealing for investment. It
is the city wherein, we are told, money
c m be had for from two to four per
cent. If money is so cheap and so
abundant in the ‘great money centre,’
perhaps somebody v.ill explain why it
Is that borrowers are compelled to ad
vertise for loans, when they are willing
to pay seyen per cent., securing the
same with salable first mortgage ?”
Mr. H. Y. Redfield, a well known
correspondent of the Western press,ex
plains some points which appear to be
mysterious to the Virginia editor. De
tailing a conversation with some per
son whom he had met in the course of
peregrination, he says:
I tpld him there was plenty of money in
the country—twice as much as before the
war—such as it was.
“Plenty, is there,” said he; “where is
it?”
“ Most any bank has money to loan,” I
said. “Ot course, you can’t get it for noth
ing, and never could.”
“ Well,” he replied, “that may be true.
I’ve heard that the New York banks have
fifty millions or so lying idle. Thinks I to
myself if this is true why are times so hard?
I met a friend from New York, and says I
to him, ‘The papers eay thero is plenty of
money lying idle in the New York banks;
now tell me, on the honor of a man, Is that
true?"
“‘lt is,’ said he; ‘they have got great
stacks of money doing nothing.’
“' Can a man borrow any of it?’ said I.
“ * Yes,’ said ho, ‘lie can.’
“‘Well,’said I,‘that’s business; I want
some money.’
“ ‘ You can get all you want in New York,’
said he, ‘if you have got one certain name
to endorse your paper with.’
“ Said I. * I’m pretty well known in this
country, and can give most anybody as se
curity; but what particular uame must I
have?’
“ I was getting interested, for I needed
money badly.
“Said ho, ‘the Lord’s name; for nobody
but the Lord can get money out of the New
York banks.”
This is a very striking way of ex
plaining how the trade of the United
States is paralyzed and why merchants
are driven to despair and poor men to
suicide, stealing or wretchedness unut
terable. Of course, if the currency of
the country does not circulate, traffic
dies, just as a stoppage of the blood in
a man, at the central source of life, kills
him inevitably.
The bankers and money lenders, on
the other hand, no doubt defend them
selves by the assertion that recent fail
ures, exhibiting an abysmal depravity
on the part of the mercantile world,
have dried up the sources of confi
dence and they are afraid to let
their treasure slip beyond their
grip, because even men who were
supposed to be irreproachable have
proven themselves no better than com
mon rogues and have surpassed or
dinary thieves in audacity and hypo
crisy. Take, for example, the case
of Stirling, Ahrens & Cos. Here
was a firm of gigantic proportions and
extensive credit. They had fairly mo
nopolized the West India trade of a
great and thriving city—of one of the
few cities in the Union that seemed to
be vital and progressive iu the midst of
almost universal lethargy. It is true
that the suicide of one of the mem
bers of that firm, some months ago, set
people to wondering"; but suspicious, if
any, were lulled, or did not go beyond
the unhappy individual’s case. And
now, when a competent investigating
committee have sent their probe into
the carcass of that rotten concern, we
learn that Stirling and Ahrens had
been for a long time “ wholesale rob
bers ; ” that they had presented false
balance sheets, and abstracted goods
belonging to stockholders in their en
terprises and applied them to their own
uses. The local press, commenting upon
this exposure, says:
There is a perceptible effect of the dis
trust among the banks noticeable in busi
ness circles, and what was heretofore
looked upon as good paper receives a mi
croscopic scrutiny before being accepted
for discount. A coffee merchant yesterday
said to a customer that ho would sell a bill
for cash at a certain figure, dwelling with
emphasis upon the word “cash.” The cus
tomer, with surprise, asked if his standing
did not entitle him to credit. The mer
chant replied by alluding to the difficulty
of convincing a bank president of that
fact. Another merchant said the banks
will lock up their money lor some time, un
til they get tired of keeping it. But he did
not believe anybody will learn a lasting
lesson from the experience of the hour. At
least the past did not show that such had
been the case.
What a dreadful condition of affairs
is that when bankers begin to hoard
their money, which is the life of trade
while circulated and its destruction
when withdrawn, because, with the or
dinary timidity of capitalists, men of
high standing have either been branded
as malefactors er else suspected of
swindling. It would seem from these
presentations of fact that the mercan
tile world of the East and West, as well
as that of the Pacific Coast, is fairly in
a state of dry rot, and may go to
smash at any moment. The men who
use money have, many of them, devel
oped enormous capacities for fraud,
and it cannot be wondered at that the
men who have money to lend should,
in the face of recent events, be
gin to believe that every man
is a rascal who applies for relief, or
else may grow into the proportions of
a villain at any moment. Alas ! what
a picture is this of the once glorious
United States ! How have the mighty
fallen ! Is it to be wondered at that the
people are getting restiff under such
abounding curses ?” And yet it is all a
legitimate result of the abolition war
which, to appease the so-called con
science of New England fanatics,
destroyed the solid accumulations of so
many prosperous years, broke up and
demoralized the wealth-producing la
bor of the South, struck at the social
prder of the whole country, and has
ended by making this great Union of
States the laughing-stock and derision
of the whole world.
The crops of the country have to be
moved and it takes money to move
them. Somehow or other the banks
must let their hoards pour out. Luckily
for the South she has crops which the
world must have and which can com
mand gold any day. Besides this, the
cotton crop is the main stay of regula
ting foreign exchange and upon it
principally the credit of the “nation”
depends. It may be that a combina
tion of foreign and native capital will
be able to put down prices to such a
figure as the planter will groan under ;
but if the planters would meet this
combination with smaller crops of the
great staple, a larger product of corn
and meat and a general practice of
economy and thrift, the South would
be in a much sounder financial con
dition, despite of her cruel wounds, in
sults and losses, than the boasted
West and East.
A Big Pow-Wow iu Prospect—Will
Talk Bring Action?
By a unanimous vote, the Currency
Committee of the Board of Trade of
New York have adopted the follo wing
preamble and resolution :
Whereas the currency question having as
sumed the most grave importance to manu
facturers, merchants, bankers, agricultu
rists and laborers of all kinds, it behooves
this Board to provide the means for such
discussion, investigation and reports as
may materially assist in shaping the future
financial policy of the Government and
country; and whereas it appears to the
committee that a series of public meetings
should bo held in New York, at which all
interested in our national progress and
"present financial and commercial diffi
culties should have the opportunity of
attending, and at which prominent pub
lic men holding opposite views on the cur
rency question should be invited to express
those views, and that subsequently a re
port should be published by the Board con
veying such recommendations to Congress
as shall be deemed advisable and expedi
ent ; be it, therefore,
Resolved, That the Executive Committee
of this Board be requested to take such ac
tion in this matter as will best give effect
to the suggestions contained in the pream
ble to this resolution.
It is stated that invitations will be ex
tended to Hon. John Sherman, chairman
Senate Finance Committee; Hon. W D.
Kelley, Senator John B. Gordon, Hon.
B. F. Butler, Senator Frelinghuysen,
David A. Wells, and others.
The “big guus” of Congress have
discussed this matter; the stump
speakers have ventilated it; the essay
ists have published pamphlets; the
newspapers have added their notes to
the grand chorus—and yet the country
is staggeriug along under a load too
heavy to be borne. We have not much
hope that Kelley, Gordon, Ben Butler,
John Sherman, and David Wells will
do anything more than present rehash
es of their already exhaustive and ex
hausting speeches or writings. How
many men are thero in the land who
have the candor and courage to tell the
exact the truth about the matter and
present the only remedy? How many
politicians, bankers, and essayists will
declare that the Radical-Republican
policy prior to 18C0-’6l and specially
since 1865-75, has been the abominable
cause of all of our money troubles,
as well as moral perturbations, and
that that infamous programme, no
matter whom it may hurt, and no mat
ter what great reputations shall suffer,
must be reversed, as far as possible.
If the hair-splitters and orators cannot
come down to that hard-pan of
truth, they may as well stay at home
and let the country find out through
the misfortune of its voting masses a
road to deliverance. We fear, we very
much fear, that little practical good
will spring from the discussion at New
York ; but if the parties invited do not
add anything valuable to the knowl
edge of the country, and do not make
money or trade either easier or more
prosperous, they can count upon plenty
of good wines and the best the market
affords while they are in the metropol
itan city. And a superb “feed” may be
about all the benefit anybody will de
rive from the Board of Trade or its
distinguished guests.
Exaggeration.— Many accounts given
of the California panic represent Flood
& O’Brien, D. O. Mills and other rich
men as the possessors of enormous
wealth, reaching high up into the tens
of millions. Alluding to these wild es
timates, the New York Times thus
speaks : “It need scarcely be mention
ed here that ordinary reports of the
property of individuals, especially of
those who are considered wealthy, are
apt to be greatly exaggerated. It is
no unusual occurrence, when a man
dies, to find, even in cases where his
affairs were not all complicated, that
his property is less than one-half, or
even one-fourth, what it was supposed
to be. And who that has had any op
portunities of observation in such mat
ters has not known many melancholy
instances of men who had been consid
ered very rich, whose widow and chil
dren, when the estate was finally set
tled, found themselves almost penni
less ? Cases sometimes, indeed, occur
of persons whose deaths disclose the
fact that they were much richer than
they had the reputation of being ; but
where there is one case of this sort,
there are, at least, twenty of the op
posite kind.” This is very true. When
Johns Hopkins, of Baltimore, was alive,
he had a popular credit of §20,000.000.
His estate barely squeezed out §8,000,-
000. The other day, W. H. Aspinwall's
property was estimated at several mil
lions. When his affairs were wound
up, and his debts paid, it is said that
his family had nothing at all, in a pe
cuniary sense.
Chamberlain.— According to Hon. I>.
T. Corbin “ the laudation of Governor
Chamberlain by the Charleston News,
the leading Democratic newspaper in
South Carolina, injures the Governor
greatly, aud tends to retard, rather
than aid, him in his endeavors to cor
rect the glaring abuses that have ex
isted. It deprives him of the support
of a largo class of Republicans who,
through shortsightedness and igno
rance, have become jealous and suspi
cious of every movement he makes.”
We dare say Corbin means that some
kindness is of the killing sort, and that
people sometimes get damned for the
best intentions.
A Candid Confession—What the Vice-
President Thinks.
Hon. Henry Wilson, whatever his
principles or his faults, has the candor
as well as the courage of his opinions.
He has been one of the pillars of the
Republican party, has served it unflag
ingly and pertinaciously, but does not
hesitate to criticise hfs friends with a
frank sharpness which must be gall and
wormwood to them. Last week, at
Saratoga Springs, the irrepressible in
terviewer tapped him and succeeded
in relieving him of several thoughts,
which are thus recorded:
The Vice-President is not in a sanguine
mood as to the national election next No
vember a year. He says people that pre
dict that the Democratic party will fall out
and not vote for the same ticket Fast and
West, do not know the cohesivene3#of that
party. “I know them,” says Henry; “they
see the patronage in the prospective, and
they never break when they see that.”
Wilson contrasts the condition of the Re
publican party now with what it was in
1872. He says: “We had thirty States and
a majority of hundreds of thousands. Now
we keep but twelve States out of the thirty.
We have lost eighteen States—a portent
ous, a momentous loss!”
Upon one point we hope and trust
Mr. Wilson is light, and that is the
eohesiveness of the Democratic party
on grand issues in 1576. However the
party may differ on the currency and
other topics, we believe that a common
determination animates every member
of it to rid the country of Radical dom
ination. Mr. Wilson does not indicate
expressly the cause of the disaster
that has swept the Republican ma
jorities from so many States, but he no
doubt attributes the calamity to the
President, between whom and himself
the bitterest antagonism exists. The
Vice President, at this late day, favors
a policy of kindness and conciliation, so
as to win over some of the people of
the South and draw back the Republi
cans who have cut loose from their reg
ular organization. Mr. Wilson’s scheme
is not feasible and too long delayed. No
doubt Grant lias done much to make
his party a stench in the nostrils of all
good men the land over, but he has at
least the satisfaction of knowing that
he has simply carried out rigorously
and to the letter the programme laid
down in tho beginning by Wilson, Sum
ner, Greeley & Cos. There’s where the
shoe pinches the Natick cobbler, and
we are inclined to believe that no
amount of patch-work will save his
cabal from the betrayed, bankrupted,
tax-oppressed and demoralized masses,
who are about to make their ballots
feit more terribly than their bayonets.
Rehm. — The defaulting Louisville
bank officer, Louis Rehm, is of highly
respected and wealthy German parent
age. He was noted for piety and tem
perance. Outside speculation was his
ruin. The Courier-Journal makes this
point: “It seems that, though his
responsibility as a teller and book
keeper was great enough to require
bondsmen and a bond, Rehm’s salary
was but 81,200 a year. This in some
sort explains the mystery of his crime,
and should boa warning against the
insufficient remuneration of subordi
nates, who are expected to be honest
under temptation. When one reflects
that twelve hundred dollars is a sum
paid to tho most ordinary of unskilled
employes and totally inadequate to the
style of living affected by Rehm, it can
hardly be wondered at that his better
nature gave way and that he fell.”
But ought not a bank officer to be
honest, even at §1,200 per annum ?
Treasure.— As New England agricul
ture declines, discoveries of rich mines
are being made in that region. The
Philadelphia Chronicle says:
The latest discoveries have been at Berk
shire, Vt., where large deposits of gold and
copper ore abound, yielding a larger per
centage of the former, it is said, than the
usual finds in other parts of the country
It will also be remembered that valuable
silver ore deposits have been found within
a year in Massachusetts, Ben Butler be
ing the happy projector of some of the
richest of them, though it was said by some
malicious fellow that the superior richness
of his mines was due to the fact that a por
tion of his New Orleans acquisitions had
been buried there.
It may be reasonably conjectured
that Ben Butler’s war-plunder has long
ago been invested in United States
bonds.
“Colonel.”— A new pang has been
added to the indiscriminate employ
ment of military titles. The Baltimore
Sun’s local column has this rich explan
ation:
The color question is always causing
some trouble with politicians. One of our
Towsontown contemporaries remind us
that Nathan P. Corbin, a member of Iho
Republican Executive Committee of Balti
more County, is not a colored man. It
seems that the name which followed Mr.
Corbin’s in the list had in our reporter’s
copy the prefix of “colonel” to it, which tho
Sun’s printers mistook for colored, and
fixed it on to the end of Mr. Corbin’s mine.
Hence the color question in this case.
That “Colonel” business will get some
body hurt or killed yet.
Centralization.— Numbers of editors
just now are ctying out that a town of
30,000 inhabitants cannot support two
papers. These quill-drivers either
have a monopoly already, which they
do not want disturbed, or else desire a
monopoly at somebody’s expense. Why
don’t some of these wiseacres put their
preaching into practice by “stepping
down and out?”
Hard Up. —The New York Graphic,
a L strong hard-money organ, confesses
that whon the Republican leaders in
Ohio abandon the currency issue for a
cry of “No Popery,” it looks very much
like the people were on Bill Allen’s
side.
Inflation.— The owner of the Malvern
Hill farm has some very inflated stocks.
He recently sold thirty cows and four
bulls for §56,000. One milky mother
brought §5,600 and another §4,000.
Fellows with plenty of “rag” money
can afford to indulge in those invest
ments.
Consolidation. Brother Willing
ham, of the Rome Tri-Weekly Courier,
thinks there are too many papers. Is
this an invitation to the Daily Commer
cial to give up the ghost, or does the
Courier mean to retire from the field ?
What does Mr. Nevin think about it ?
PERSONAL.
Duncan, Sherman <fc C jj. invested in the
Yuba Dam Canal. g
Marble, Wood, Stonq and Gould are
among the New York nefspaoet owners.
Ail the brass is in the interviewers.
The Rev. Mr. Le Lachefir, of the Metho
dist Church, at Hallowelf, Mo., preached
last Sunday asermon entiled, “Coats Off-
Feet Washed.” f
The St. Louis Repub Hart suggests that
as Grqnt can use but on 1 of the Bibles he
got from the Chataqua S| .inlay school, he
give the other to Delano. |
Mr. Henry Melton, the Englishman
who gave General Grant* a hat that “fits
perfectly,” ought to recede a Consulship,
at least, or an Indian contract.
Dean Stanley says of Westminster Ab
bey: “It is the cons*?era ed temple of re
conciled ecclesiastical er nities.” That’s
because tho parties are at dead.
There was a man dead ,a Rhode
Island with three pairs |>f trousers on.
It was thought that if had only had
two pairs on ho could hav| got in alive.
Leo N. Levy, the only .Jewish student at
the University of Vi recently won
the gold medal in an oratorical contest by
eight students selected if> represent the
whole college. J
“Who would have thought they would
take to lacing around th<l hips?” remark
ed a countryman in astonishment this
noon, as a “pin-back lad)*’ passed him on
tho street. 1
I
The Alfonsists, it seenn| made it a point
when they captured Sea dj Urgol to go for
the poor Bishop tho first tfing. This don’t
appear to be a very good jjbar for Bishops
in Europe, anyhow. I
“Sir,” said an old judgefto a young law
yer, “you would do well tij pluck some of
the feathers from the win* 3 of your imagi
nation and stick them in the mil of your
judgment.” #
Morton goes to Old Jrchard Beach,
Thursday. Wo don’t knclv about those
clam-bakes so far to the eastward, but oh,
that Morton would learn f |om the humble
clam the golden lesson of Isilence!—Provi
dence Press. i
"The habitual druukanf,” says a tem
perance writer, “can neverievtneo prompt
decision in an emergency.’* That may all
be; and still we never saw gheold toper yet
who could be made to “takj water.”
They make lots of fur| of George W.
Childs, of the Philadelphia Public Ledger,
about his writing obituary lioetry, etc., and
yet he goes right along Snaking SI,OOO a
day profits, year in and yeflr out. We wish
someone would poke fun aj U3.
A novel entertainments was recently
given at Cape May by Ret'. Dr. Newman,
ex-chaplain of tho United fcfates Senate. A
complete Japanese tea set?* was spread on
the fioo’, and the guests sit round in the
Japanese custom. Four ladles were attired
in elaborate Japanese costurios, and tea of
the superior quality that Is only used by
the Emperor and Mandarins was served in
dainty Japanese cups. Th|: tea had been
brought from Japan by Dr.JNewman.
Sheridan and his bride (reached Ogden
City, Utah, one day last we|k. As soon as
she learned that they we|e within Brig
ham’s dominions she aros| and, glancing
out the window, observed: | ; Aud so this Is
Utah. Hero’s where they lit a man have
as many wives as he waists. Dear, dear
me.” Then she took her usband by the
left ear, jerked him into oi e coiner of the
seat, and, piling bundle aftc • bundle on his
lap, until there was nothin* of him visible
but the top of his head, ei iphatically ex
claimed : “There now; I gu iss you’ll never
be a Mormon, will you, ly darling?”—
Brooklyn Argus.
A feature of the fashio lable watering
places in Virginia, this seas* n, is the female
bat bers. One of them has a i establishment
at the White Sulphur Sprin, s, and her skill
with a razor is only excelled by the fascina
tion of her person and her manners. The
other day, as a Baltimore 1* ly was passing
the shop, she met her liusbiad, who is per
fectly beardless, coming out and with such
a pleasant expression on hil face that her
indignation was aroused. I
“ What were you doing in there, sir?” she
savagely inquired. I
“Taking a shave, my del r,” he placidly
replied. j
“Taking a shave! Whyiyou barefaced
old prevaricator, you oouidl’t raise half a
dozen hairs on that brassy <|ieek of yours,
if your life depended on it!"i
“That’s very true, my dear,” replied the
incorrigible man, “but I likejoluve her feel
for’em!” J
POLITICAL Nojl’ES.
Let us weep, let us moui i, let us wail,
let us go into a sack and stu ' ashes in tho
crevices! Gov. Psalmbar: ofjdaho has
abandoned the idea of start ig the Atlanta
Daly Advance. To Montgomery he has be
come a permanent, oontlnuolis and regular
fixture. It is impossible fathom the
of Georgia. g
The Radical family of Akljaraa are not
getting along as smooth as A lass. A letter
from there says: Among Rip'Cleans the
air here is full of hatred, malice and all un
charitableness. Faction is iilht.ng faction,
and individual is charging |>ac faith and
deception upon individual, Intil Republi
canism here is becoming a ti -word and a
reproach. And there are tl|>s6 hero who,
from their action, lam sorrl tc say, seem
to think there is a difference 5 jet ween polit
ical and business integrity. |
The New York Tribune say%S:/s Senator
Morton “seems to haveforgftten the mis
erable failure of tho ‘outragJj’ campaign;
he dwells up n the disloyalty! ot tho South
and the return of the Coufecfi'rate officers
to Congress as though he rcadly hoped to
alarm the people with a sftnse of over
whelming peril, He forgets fhat his party
went to the people last year ilpon .just such
auappod, and was disastnlisw and efeated
on it. Ho could hardly make|i vorse blun
der than in undertaking at this time to re
vive the issue upon which his party took
an adverse verdict at tho last Selection. No
new evidence has been discovered, and the
people are tired of the story.
The only Radical sheet wlijhh lias dared
to defend the Georgia negrol conspirators
is Harper'B Weekly. The plotg.o indiscrimi
nately murder the white peoifoof nineteen
of our counties was too mucl for all other
papers save that. It tries hjjrd to throw
the blame all upon the white Sboople. The
negroes intended nothing w*jng. It was
the mean white race which gogup the devil
ish plot. There is not a mor(| unfair, or a
meaner newspaper published On the United
States. It makes its living |y slandering
and lying about the South. lift editors and
publishers are Puritanical hy plexites of the
Beecher school. There is, jowever, not
much else left of the lladicaljfparty. But
as it is, a polecat born is obligjd to smell to
the last. |
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Why don’t the Government |heP out that
silver, with which it is going Ij> redeem the
fractional currency, less livj or six per
cent, for adulteration? Is itS afraid that
tho coin will all be gobbled up ly the money
changers before the NovemLjT elections,
and the failure hurt “the pari y?" This is
what General Spinner says “The Gov
ernment cannot make a silv< r dollar that
will be equal to a dollar in gol without ac
tually resuming specie paj ments, for
which it has no preparations. ■ The present
silver dollar can never stand f< r a gold dol
lar, because it has no sue] [ equivalent
value.”
“ Yes,” said tho bluff old S inner, “the
poor people shall have silver, 1 |ie rich gold,
and the nation be further oppressed with
taxation to pay the bonded iudlibtedness.—
D—n such a party!” 1
SPECIAL NOTICES.
THE BOARD OF HEALTH,
Obdinaks’s Office, Richmond County, 1
Augusta, Ga.. August 21, 1875. )
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
the Ordinary, 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, Ac.
Sec, 12, Be it further enacted. That whero
any Birth or Death shall take place, no Phy
sician being in attendance, the same shall bo
reported to the Ordinary, with the supposed
cause of death, by the parents, or, if none, by
the next kin, under penalty of ten dollars, at
the suit of the Ordinary, as provided in Sec.
11 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 the Ist of August.
SAMUEL LEVY.
aug22-3ft _ Ordinary.
THE MAGNOLIA PASSENGER IIOEIE.
POUT ROY AI. RAILROAD, )
Office General Passenger Agent,
Augusta Ga., Aug. 0,1875. )
ROUND G’ltlU* TICKETS !
JLK in AUGUSTA to CHARLES- dift 40
4D TON aQ(I RETURN.
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 8:10 a. yi,
Arrive at Augusta 6:45 p. m.
Passengers en route to the “City by the
Sea,” and those seeking the salubrious cli
mate of Carolina’s Long Branch, Sul
livan’s Island, will find this a pleasant route
by which to reach their destination.
Tickets on sale at Planters’Hotel and Ticket
Office, Union Depot.
T. S. DAY ANT,
augo-lm General Passenger At-ent.
CARPETS.
ALTHOUGH CARPETS HAVE ADVANCED,
we are still offering our
BODY BRUSSELS CARPETS,
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS CARPETS.
3 PLY INGRAIN CARPETS.
At Reduced Summer Prices. We invite spe
cial attention to our stock of Body Brussels
which wo 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 wo are daily competing with New York
prices and quotations, we will sell in future
for cash or nett thirty days.
JAMES G. BAILIE A BRO,
augl4-eodlm 205 Broad Street.
GIN HOUSES INSURED
AT EQUITABLE RATES, IN FIRST-CLASS
Companies. Call at or write to my office,
219 Broad street, before insuring elsewhere.
C. W. HARRIS.
aug22-tf Gen’l Insurance Agent.
WANTS.
4®* Advertisements not over Jive lines wlli
be inserted under this head for fifty cents
each insertion, cash.
W/~ ANTED—TEN YOUNG LADIES TO
VV learn to make Artificial French Flow
ers. Those coming well recommended can
find constant employment by applying
carl v at No. 329 Broad street.
sep7-lt MRS. ELMIRA CHAMBERS.
OH IT UY. It Y.
‘‘As the sweet flower that scents the morn,
But withers in the rising day—
Thus lovely seemed our Maggie’s dawn,
Thus swiftly fled her life away.”
Departed this life on the Ist instant, at
her father’s residence near Union Point,
Maggie Belle Newson daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. D. A. Newson, aged 5 years I months
and 17 days. Her disease was dyptheria.
She was a most amiable, beautiful hnd
affectionate little girl—beloved by all her
associates.
“Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade,
Death timely came with friendly care,
The opening bud to Heaven conveyed,
And bade it bloom forever there.”
IN MKMORIAM.
Died, in Summerville, Ga., on the sth of
September, 1875, in the sixty-eighth year of
her age, Maky O. Eve, widow of John P.
Eve, late of Floyd county.
Tiie hand which was wont to smoothe
the feveiish brow is motionless;
The heart which beat warmly for the af
flicted is stilled;
The mind animated only with Christian
purposes is in darkness;
And the life devoted to good deeds is
ended.
May the legacy of her many virtues con
sole tlio bereaved friends she has left be
hind, F.
*
'NEW advertisements.
FINE TOBACCO.
-JJSE the Calhoun Chewing Tobacco, the
best ever sold In Augusta.
For sale by
G. VOLGER & CO.
sep7-tf
TO SINGLE GENTLEMEN.
JJOOMS FURNISHED, INCLUDING
Water aud Gas Privileges.
W. W. BARRON,
sep7-tu&suntf 185 Ellis street.
BAGGING, BAGGING.
1r f\d\ ROLLS and HALF ROLLS
3 *>Uy EXTRA HEAVY DOMESTIC
bagging. BALEg BOitNEO bagging
HALF BALKS EXTRA HEAVY
4-U GUNNY BAGGING.
Arriving to-day. For sale at lowest
market rates.
TERMS PROMPT, CASH.
blaik, smith & CO.
sep7-l _
J. J. PEARCE,
COTTON FACTOR,
And Commission Mi reliant,
JACKSON STREET. AUGUSTA, GA.
Sop7-d&c3m
THE SERENADING MINSTRELS
OF AIKEN,
WILL GIVE AN ENTERTAINMENT
AT LYCEUM HALL, AIKEN, S. C.
On WEDNESDAY EVENING, September
Bth, 1875.
CONCERT TO CONCLUDE WITH A HOP
Admission to Concert and Hop, 50c.
sep 7—2 t.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED,
5 000 SENSIBLE PERSONS * WITH
5 the CASH, to call and see me at
253 BROAD STREET.
sep7-4 JOSEPH A. HILL.
FOR SALE,
The “WADFOIID” MELON FARM, 16
acres, 4% miles from the. city, on the old
plank road. JOHN T. SHEWMAKE,
. sop7-l Attorney.
CHECK LOST.
ALL PERSONS ARE WARNED against
receiving check No. 246 on Commercial
Bank of Augusta for $3,979, drawn by Bar
rett A Caswell and payable to bearer. Pay
ment of said check has been stopped.
THOMPSON, HEIN DEL A CO.
sep7-lt
FERROTYPES.
Four for F'ilt.y Oents,
FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY, AT
Clark’s City Ferrotype Gallery,
148 BROAD STREET,
Augusta, Ga.
seps-lc2
FOR RENT,
THAI’ desirable COTTAGE on Twiggs
street, between Taylor and Hale. Con
tains seven rooms, with store-room,
closets and good kitchen. Water in the
house and yard.
Apply to D. H. DENNING,
45 Jackson st eet,
or at the corner of Mclntosh and Taylor.
sep7-tf
FOR SALE,
QNE FIFTEEN-HORSE ENGINE AND
Twenty-Horse Power Boiler, with Smoke-
Stack, &c., complete, ready for work. Will
sell cheap for cash.
THOMPSON, iuEINDEL A CO.
sop7-lw
EXCELSIOR
Coal ■'STia.i-cL
RED ASH, LORBERRY, Free Burning
WHITE ASH, EGG, NUT, STOVE,
VIRGINIA SPLINT, COAL CREEK, CA
IIABA and Blacksmith Coal will be kept
constantly at the above Yard.
Prices—from $8 to $12.50 per ton, accord
ing to circumstances.
Persons of an enquiring turn of mind who
wish to know the “circumstances” cm
find pleasure and profit by calling at 253
Broad treet.
sep7-6 JOSEPH A. HILL.
[No. 1262.)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
1 UNITED STATES F >R THE SOUTH
ERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
In the matter of JAMES R. )
WILSON, Bankrupt, North- In Ban’uptcy
ein District of Georgia, S. S. )
A warrant in Bankruptcy has been issued
by said court against the estate of J AMES
R. WILSON, of the county of McUuffie and
State of Georgia, in said District, who ha;
been duly ad judged a Bankrupt upon peti
tion of his creditors, and the payment of
any debts, and the delivery of any proper
ty‘belonging to said Bankrupt, to him, or
to his use, aud the transfer of any proper
ty by him are forbidden by law. A meeting
of the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove
their debts and choose one or more As
signees of Ids estate, will be held at a Court
of Bankruptcy, to bo hoi den at Augusta,
in said District, on the 23d day of Septem
ber. A. D. 1875, at 10 o’clock a. m., at the
Register’s office, at Central Hotel, before
Albert G. Foster, Esq., one of the Registers
in Bankruptcy of said District.
F. C. FOSTER, Madison;
JNO. G. REARDON, Savannah,
Solicitors for Pet’g Creditors.
W. M.H. SMYTH,
U. S. Marshal for said District.
sep7-2
Cl TATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND
C3 COUNTY.- Ignatius P. Garvin and Ar
misted F. Pendleton have formed a limited
parnership, under the firm name of “A. F.
Pendleton,” for conducting the business of
Booksellers and Stationers in the city of
Augusta, Ga. 1
Aru.istead F. Pendleton is the general
pai tner, and has advanced five thousand
live hundred dollars in stock, fixtures and
debts due the late firm of Quinn A Pendle
ton. ' Ignatius P. Garvin is the special part
ner, and has advanced five thousand live
hundred dollars in cash, to which amount
his responsibility is limited.
The partnership commenceson tl isfourth
of SEPTEMBER, Eighteen Hundred and
Sovonty-five, and is to continue to the first
of SEPTEMBER, Eighteen Hundred and
Seventy-eight.
Signed and acknowledged in presence of
JOHN S. DAVIDSON.
Notary Public Richmond County.
1. p. Garvin,
A. F. PENDLETON.
G 1 EORGIA RICHMOND COUNTY.—
T Tgnatius P. Garvin and Armistead F.
Pendleton being duly sworn, say each for
himself that the amounts stated in the
foregoing certificate, as advanced by them
respectively to their partnership fund,
have been actually contributed aud paid in
good faith.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
fourth of September,
JOHN S. DAVIDSON.
Notary Public, Richmond county, Ga.
I. P. GARVIN,
A F. PENDLETON.
G 1 EORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY.—I,
r Samuel H. Crump, Clerk of the Su
perior Court of said county, do hereby
certify that the foregoing is recorded in
Book DDD, folios 304 and 305, and filed in
said office September, 1875.
S. H. CRUMP,
Clerk Superior Court Richmond County.
Witness my hand and the seal of office,
this 6th day of September, 1875.
S. H. CRUMP,
Clerk Superior Court Richmond County.
sep7-lawow
COTTON FACTORS.
ANTOINE POULLAIN,
Cotton Factoi*,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Vi riLL continue the bus'ness at my fire-
V V proof warehouse, corner Jackson aud
Reynolds streets, and will give my person
al attention to the sale of cotton. Consigu
ments respectfuliy solicited. sep4tf.
M. P. STOVALL,
COTTON FACTOR
AND—
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
NO. 5 WARKEN BLOCK, JACKSON ST.,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
CONTINUES to give his personal atten
tion to the STORAGE and SALE of
COTTON and other Produce.
oar Liberal advances made on Consign
ments. sep4-satuth&e3m
BEALL, SPEAKS & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Commission Merchants !
HAVE REMOVED to Office and Ware
house formerly occupied by them.
Warehouse, No. C Campbell street; Office
and Salesroom, Ko. 177 Reynolds street,
Augusta,
NOTICE.
A-FTER this date my office will be at the
Store of BONES, BROWN & CO., where I
will be pleased to see my friends.
R. F. URQUHART.
Augusta, Sept. 4th, 1875. seps-sututh2w
ON CONSIGNMENT.
Bacn, lard, flour, wheat, corn
and OATS. Also, Tennessee Butter, Eggs
and Poultry, received daily by Express and
for sale low to the trade by
J. H. VANNERSON,
septs-3 144 Reynolds street.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NEW FALL DRY GOODS.
0
James A. Gray fc 00-,
Would respectfully inform the public that they are now receiving their Fall
Stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, which they offer to close buyers at re
markably low prices.
10 Bales Eagle and Phoenix tri-colored CHECKS AND PLAIDS.
10, 11 and 12-1-4 (All Cotton BLANKETS, a superior article at a very
moderate price.
50 Bales Domestic, all widths, and quality.
5 Cases very superior 10,11 aud 12-1-4 SHEETINGS.
A full line of CALICOES in ne.v and beautiful Styles.
KENTUCKY JEANS, TWEEDS, SATINETS, CASSIMERES, FLANNELS,
To all of which they respectfully envite the attention of the public.
THE BEST MATERIALS
CAN BE OBTAINED AT MY STORE.
I deal only iu the best make of
Varnishes, Turpentine, Window-Class,
BRUSHES of a!) Kinds and Price; ;
COLORS, Dry and in Oil;
READY-MIXED PAINTS,
By the Gallon, Half Gallon, Quart and Pint;
PARAFFINE OIL,
SPERM MACHINE OIL,
WEST VIRGINIA LUBRICATING OIL.
I guarantee my Goods to be THE BEST IN THIS MARKET, without exception.
CEO. D. CONNOR,
seps-sututhlw 53 JACKSON STREET.
SEED GRAIN.
BEG TO OFFER THE FOLLOW
ing varieties of
GRAIN,
Cai-efully sell eted for Seed purposes:
RYE,
WHEAT,
BARLEY,
BLACK OATS,
Red Rust-proof
OATS.
seps-lw J. O. M ATHEWSON A CO.
China Tea & Coffee Store.
LABORERS’ FRIGE LIST.
A Penny Saved is Two Pence Earned.
WE guarantee everything we sell, and
propose to offer special inducements
to all in want of Supplies for the next 30
days, previous to inventory, as our stock
is to be closed out to make room:
10 lbs. Good Brown Sugar $1 00
9 Its. Extra C. Sugar 1 00
8 Its. Crushed, Powdered or Granulated
Sugars 1 00
2 its. Oood Oolong Tea 1 00
2 Its. Green Imperial Tea |l 00
1 It. Extra Moyune Hyson,with Caddy, 1 00
4% Its. Choice Bio Coffee 1 00
3% “ ** “ “ Roasted 100
9 Its. Choice Piunes 1 00
8 Its. Good Raisins 1 00
10 Its. Zantee Currants 1 00
1 Its. Preserved Figs 1 00
25 bars of Soap 1 00
6 Its. of the Best Lard 1 00
16 Its. Soda Crackers 1 00
12 tts. Laundry Starch 1 00
ll its. Best Carolina Rire 1 00
8 Its. Ginger Snaps or Lemon Cream
Crackers 1 1 00
5 Its. Larrabee’s Nic Nacs 1 00
5 Its. Peeled D. Peaches 1 00
5 y a Its. Best A. B. Gum Drops 100
4% Its. Best French Candy 1 00
40 Good Five Cent Cigars 1 00
Also the Choicest Qualities of Fine Wines
and Liquors at Astonishingly Low Prices.
R. N. HOTCHKISS,
seps-tf Red Gilt Front, 143 Broad street-
REGISTRY LIST OPENED.
Office of Registry Clerk, )
Augusta, Ga., September 5,1875. f
ON and after MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
6th, 1875, the Registry List will be open
ed at my office, at the City Hall, for the
purpose of registering the names of the
legal voters of the city of Augusta, in ac
cordance with the Acts of the Legislature,
and the Ordinances of the City Council of
Augusta for carrying said Acts into effect;
the said List to be kept open until the fourth
Wednesday in November next, at 2 o’clock
p. m., at which time it will be positively
and absolutely closed.
Each and every applicant for registra
tion will be required to take the following
oath, or affirmation:
“ You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
you are a citizen of the United States; that
vou are twenty-one years of age; that you
have resided in this State for the lust six
months, and within the present limits ot
this city for the past six months, aud the
District or Ward where you now reside for
the past ten days; that you have consider
ed this State your home for the last six
months—so help you God.”
He will also be required to give the
location, and, where practicable, the num
ber of his residence.
Office hours, daily (Sundays except
ed), from 9 o’clock a. m. to 2 o’clock p. m.
G. W. BOUCHILLON,
seps-6 Registry Clerk.
YOU CAN FIN I)
AT
O. J. T. BAI^K’S
The best 6/ s c. BROWN HOMESPUN.
The best 9c. SHEETING.
The best 10c. DRILLING.
The best 10c. BLEACHED SHEETING.
The best 12%c. COTTON FLANNEL.
The best 20c. JEANS, for Pants.
The best $1 WATER-PROOF CLOTH.
The best OIL TABLE CLOTH.
The best $1 BLACK SILK.
The best 50c. CORSETS.
The best 50c. UNDERSHIRTS.
The best assortment of CASSIMERES,
The best 10c. BED TICKING.
The best assortment of CALICOES.
Look for No. 136 Broad street, below
Monument street.
C.J. T. BALK.
NEW CARPETS.
EDWARD MURPHY of the firm of
J. MURPHY & CO., will open in a few
days a large and well selected stock of
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, ROGS, MATS,
WINDOW SHADES, &C.„ &C„
And would very respectfully ask an ex
amination of the same.
Carpets, <fce., made to order by compe
tent hands.
244 Broad Street, over the Crockery Store
of J. Murphy & Cos, septS-tf
FOR SALE.
' Fowls, at $5.00 per jjair, or $7.00 per
trio. Address A. P. Hearing, Jr., Athens,
Georgia. sept4susweß&sul2
TO RENT.
FOR RENT,
RESIDENCE AND STORE at 236 Broad
street, opposite C. V. Walker’s auction
house. Apply to J. T. DERRY,
augl2-tf Or M. ill AMS.
TO RENT,
] FRAME DWELLING, with eight rooms,
. on the north side of Walker, fourth be
low Centre street. Apply to
JAMES G. BAILIE,
auglO-tf 295 Broad street.
TO RENT,
the Ist of October, the HOUSE
. next to Dr. Garvia’s, with five Rooms,
and double Kitchen in yard, water and gar
den. Apply at
_jyl4-tr NO. 84 WALKER STREET.
STORE TO RENT.
Store No. 290 Broad street, now occu
pied by P. G. Bururn.
For Terms, apply to
jy!s-tf H. H. D’ANTIGNAC.
TO RENT.
On Washington street, the TENEMENT
HOUSE, next door to Dr.'J. H. Eve’s.
Apply to
jy7-tf W. F. EVE
FOR RENT,
ONE-HALF of the first and second sto
ries of a large Brick Warehouse, for
merly occupied by Wheless A Cos., Rey
nolds street. Wll be rented low to a good
tenant.
aug3l-6 T. WHELESS.
TO RENT,
From the ist of October next,
that LARGE and COMMODIOUS
S TORE, No. 338 Broad street, at present oc
cupied by F. A. Timberlake A (Jo.
Apply to
j P. B. PRIM ROSE.
For Rent or to Lease.
riIHE WARRENTON HOTEL, newly fur
.L nished, and as desirable a location as is
in the country. Applications entertained
till September 10th next. For particulars
address Post Office Box No. 3, Warrenton,
Ga. aug2o-30d
TO RENT,
fJTHE OFFICE No. 3, Exchange Building,
at present occupied by Messrs. Beall, Spears
A Cos. Anply to
aug22-tf DANIEL & ROWLAND
TO RENT,
IT'ROM the First of October next, the
- dwelling on the North side of Broad
street (4th door from Mclntosh) now oc
cupied by Dr. J. P. H. Brown.
„ WM. A. WALTON.
No. 10, Old Post Office Range, Mclntosh
street, up stairs. aug7-tf.
TO RENT.
PART OF A HOUSE with water, K as anil
every convenience for house-keeping.
Price, $250 a year. Possession given Ist
September if desired. Also a suite of rooms
and a furnished lodging room. Location
central. Apply to
aug!2-tf M. A. STOVALL.
Rooms to Rent.
A. SUIT OF FIVE ROOMS TO RENT
over Dr. F. A. Beall’s Drug Store. Apply
to GEO. D. CONNOR,
sepl-wefrsu 53 Jackson SL_
TO RENT,
THE FIRST OF OCTCEF.It next
. the elegant and commodious STORE
209 Broad street, at present py jq,
S. Kean as a dry goods store. Apply to
„ H. F. CAMPBELL,
. _,, Or A. S. CAMPBELL,
jy29-tf 207 Broad street.
TO RENT,
the Ist of October next, D. F. Tan
ner’s RESIDENCE, situated iirst
house above Toll Gate, on Summerville
Railroad. House contains 8 rooms, double
kitchen aud stables, witii good wat>*r in
the yard. Also 4 acres of land attached.
All in good order. Apply to JOHN BRaN
SON, Augusta Factory, or JAS. G. BAILIE
fc BxiiO., Broad street. augl2-wesutf
TO RENT,
BY E. W. HARKER, No. 83 Broad street
below Lower Market, fine HOUSE
with Batli Room, &c. Rentlow ’
No. 18 Washington street, first door from
Broad street; has four rooms and four
kitchen rooms, aud large store
For sale cheap, 100 acres LAND in De-
Laigle s old place. aug27-lm
For Sale or to Rent.
HOUSE and lot on the south side of
Broad street, betwoen Centre and El
bert, known as No. 84, now occupied by
Gen. R. Y. Harris. The lot has a front oil
Broad and Ellis streets of 44 feet, more or
lees. The improvements consist of a com
fortable two story brick dwelling, a kitchen.
Georgia Railroad stock, at a liberal price,
will be taken in exchange, or long time
given, if desired, to an approved purchaser.
If not sold the property will be rented on
reasonable terms, and applications are so
licited- wm. a. Walton,
No. 10 Old Post Office Range,
auglO tf Mclntosh St., up stairs.