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Cf.ljc Constitutionalist. AUGUSTA, GA.: 4 ■- —- Tuesday Morning, September 7, 1875 V" i~.T. " '"1 i 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. | s 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.