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<gs* Constitutionalist
AUGUSTA, GA,:
Sunday Morning, September 12, 1875.
Hot Weather and Short Sermons.
One of the very best men we ever
knew, invariably and with deliberation,
slept through what he felt satisfied,
by long experience, would be a tire
some sermon, because of its extreme
length. This man was a faithful hus
band, a devoted father, a substantial
friend, a liberal steward of the Lord,
an honest merchant, a church member
who clung to his faith and that faith’s
principles with unflagging tenacity. No
bad weather ever frightened him away
from his Sunday duties, no sacrifice
within reason or human possibility,
save one, ever daunted him in his rigid
code of morals and the correctness of
his daily walk in life. That one excep
tion was a refusal to keep awake during
a minister’ attempt to split theological
hairs, during an hour and a half —a
dreary, dismal boring for oil, when, as
Josii Billings says, “the ile were’nt
thar.” We have, from our gallery
perch, watched this really good man,
who was all attention and devotion up
to the time the congregation settled
down after the reading of the preach
er’s text—watched him, we say, whip
out his handkerchief, make a soft pil
low of it, nestle his head thereon, and,
in a twinkling, be sound asleep, with
his mouth wide open, just as Horace
Greeley once described ten of the
Mormon twelve apostles under the
soothing-syrup drawl and dogma
tism of Brigham Young. With the
long-delayed amen of the discourse,
our pious friend arose as from the
dead. The minute the pulpit-service
ceased he was a changed man. Du
ring the residue of the service,
as before the sermon, his attention
to sacred things was fixed and edifying.
His life, in and out of the tabernacle,
was blameless, and if perchance he
committed, in the eyes of the purist, a
venial sin, the good God must have for
given him on the instant. We had the
curiosity once to draw his attention to
these facts, and, knowing him to be so
thoroughly a Christian man, asked an
explanation of them. He substantially
replied that if he had nothing more
grievous on his conscience than those
ecclesiastical naps, his salvation was
secure beyond peradventure. “ You
perceive,” he said, “ the weather is
extremely hot, far up into the nineties.
The services are, exclusive of preach
ing, quite lengthened. I know that
the minister will not let go his grip
upon some doctrinal theme—-the sub
stance of which I have heard from
early boyhood—under one hour and a
half. During the week my mind is in
tensely occupied. On Sunday it natur
ally relaxes and gets drowsy. The close
atmosphere of the church and the mon
otone of the singing have powerful
tendencies to make me sleepy. With a
prodigious effort I contrive to resist
this feeling during what I consider the
essential parts of the service. But the
sermon acts like a soporific. It is laud
anum and morphine combined. If
any guarantee could be given that
the discourse would not bo prolong
ed beyond ten or twenty minutes, I
would endeavor to keep awake; but
when I feel confident that, on a swel
tering day, in a poisoned atmosphefe,
the preacher will turn his text inside
out during an hour and a half, my hu
man nature cannot stand up against
the infliction, and I commit less sin, if
any bo committed, in a state of somno
lency than in an irritable and
distressful condition of drowsiness,
which is neither sleeping nor
wakefulness. Besides, as you must
have noticed, the church is built upon
architectural principles, or tho want of
them, which defy all the laws of
acoustics. Not ten persons hardly, out
of a membership of two thousand, can
understand what the minister is talk
ing about. The Angel Gabriel himself
would utter an unintelligible jargon if
he undertook to preach in that pulpit.
These are the reasons why I invariably,
in tho Summer time, lapse into an in
nocent unconsciousness during a
sermon which would be intolerable on
account of its length if it were not in
comprehensible because of tho pecu
liarities of the edifice.” In spite of the
ingenuity of this apology, and tho
slender thread of sophistry, not in
tended to be such, that distinguished
it, we could not find fault with that
excellent man. It even seemed
to us, when we sat under similar min
istrations, that he had really chosen
the better part; that, asleep, he was
really better morally than a great many
who kept awake, in a perpetual fidget
and augry protest, or made amends by
ogling the pretty women in the choir
or those in tho main aisles of the tem
ple.
Lest we should be considered singu
lar as well as heterodox in this matter,
we propose to show that even the god
ly recognize the great truth of our pi
ous friend’s complaint, and, in his own
experience, a preacher of the Word
gave no cause for anybody to saddle
upon him the fault of dereliction. Rev.
Hyatt Smith, in tho Baptist Union ,
gives this anecdote of his career :
It was a summer Sabbath morning. The
mercury was high up among the nineties.
My house was well filled with my warm
friends. At the close of the introductory
service, which was unusually brief, I said
to the suffering assembly, “Dear brethren,
I do not believe that the Lord is pleased
with our attempt to obey one law of His
ordaining by the violation of another. It
seems to me that the law written upon tho
fleshly tablets is as binding as that which
was engraved upon the tables of stone. I
will not preach this morning. I recommend
that you each go to your house, and in the
briefest time take your place in the bath
room, and turning on the cold water, sit
down and quietly meditate upon the good
ness of God. Receive the benediction.”
I am confident that I never, preached a
more popular sermon. It was a moving
discourse. There was no religion in their,
“suffering the word of exhortation.”
Now in spite of what the hypercriti
cal may style the levity of this admira
ble and timely sermon, wo cannot for
bear applauding Rev. Hyatt Smith ;
and it would be well for the world, per
haps, if he were not in so hopeless a
10 Never" was there a greater mistake
than the supposition that long dis
courses of any sort, in or out of the
pulpit, are the most effective. It is re
lated of the celebrated Cheverus— who
was a holy man if God ever made one
—that he won all his spiritual victories
over the vilest passions of men by an
affectionate charity which surpassed
even the heavenly sweetness of Fene
lon. When he was a Cardinal he con
sented, with great reluctance, to preach
in the Cathedral of Toulouse a sermon
on “Hell and the Final Judgment.”
M.any thousands of people thronged
that vast pile to hear him. He
ascended the pulpit steps, appeared on
the platform, read a text appropriate
to his theme, gazed wistfully over the
mighty multitude of eager listeners—
burst into tears and rapidly left the
place without uttering a single word.
The effect was electrical. As if by di
vine Inspiration, the congregation un
derstood why that eloquent tongue was
silent and why that heart overflowing
with love for all mankind could not
speak a word of harshness or of terror.
Thousands were touched by that un
spoken sermon far more than if they
had been harrowed by pictures of the
burning lake, the wail of lost souls,
the yell of Pandemonium and the aw
ful sentenco of" the Judge who cometh
in a cloud of glory to reward the faith
ful and brand with an .everlasting
curse the renegade and infidel. And
when this good Cardinal was asked why
he had acted as he did, his reply was
not less wonder-working and full of
grace than his extraordinary conduct
in the pulpit. He said: ‘%hen I gazed
upon that immense congregation and
thought of the possibility of one sin
gle soul’s being lost, my heart was
broken, my tongue clove to the roof of
my mouth, my speech was drowned in
tears. I loved my people so that I
could not utter a word that would give
them pain.” And, yet, his sermon with
out words, like the unvocalized songs
of Mendelssohn, surpassed in potency
and good results all the vociferous de
nunciation of voluble and stentorian
common-place men. Blessed, indeed,
is that man who knows when a judi
cious silence is more eloquent thaa
speech!
Hon. George H. Pendleton’s Idea of
the Blight of Contraction.
The man who reported that Gov.
Allen characterized the speeches of
Mr. Pendleton on the currency ques
tion as “barren idealities” must have
drawn largely upon his faculty of men
dacious expression. Even the veteran
Governor has not surpassed Mr. Pen
dleton in forcibly and practically ex
emplifying what contraction of the cur
rency really means. In proof of this
assertion, read these extracts from a
recent address of that distinguished
orator:
Have any of you bought a lot and paid for
It, erected a building, put in machinery,
paid for them all, employed your hands,
from the laborer to the skilled mechanic,
and gone into the market and bought the
raw material, and given your notes at
three or four months, and then found when
your articles are for sale that they would
not bring enough, not only not to pay the
interest on the cost of your lot and build
ing, and machinery, but not enough to pay
your outstanding notes for the raw ma
terial, and then seen your stock,, your
building, your machinery gone, and lot
sold by the sheriff ? That man knows what
contraction is.—[Sensation.]
Has any laboring man here, when wages
wore three dollars a day, bought a lot and
house and agreed to pay one hundred dol
lars a year—thirty-three days’ work would
pay it? His wages have fallen to one dol
lar and a half a day. The hundred dollars
—the notes and mortgage—remain the
same. It takes the wages of sixty-six days’
work to pay the hundred dollars. [My God,
that’s so.] Contraction! Need I tell you
again what it is? Language has been ex
hausted. Others more facile with words
than I have said it blights as tho frost. It
destroys as the mildew. It eats as the can
ker-worm. Like tho cold blasts of Winter,
it shrinks and shrivels all things within its
influence, and finally locks them in an icy
and death-iike inertness. It passes like the
angel of death, so that there is no house in
which there Is not one dead. Macualay
has painted its effects in England two cen
turies ago. Allison found his glowing
words too tame for its description in the
first quarter of this century. You, y our
selves, see its influence all around you.
Will you have more of it? And yet this
is the only remedy tho Republicans have!
Mr. Pendleton did not stop with this
dark and truthful picture of the woes
of the country, but indicated the reme
dial agencies necessary. He said:
“The country is new. Its agricultural
and mineral wealth is incalculable.
They are undeveloped. The variaties
of soil and climate (and people) gh o to
it an infinite power of production. Its
great want, its pressing necessity, is an
entire freedom for labor—the absolute
removal of every obstacle, the positive
presence of every aid. Falling prices,
uncertain markets, precarious rewards,
public debt, and high interest are ob
stacles. Fair prices, steady markets,
ready sales, are aids ; and to secure
Urese a sufficient sound currency and
low interest are indispensable. These
will put in motion the vast and compli
cated machinery of producing and con
suming industries. And if there be
superadded low taxes, rigid economy,
simplicity of government, purity of ad
ministration, that motion will be con
tinued and accelerated.”
The reversal of the whole Radical-
Republican policy will, if anything- can,
save the people of this Union from
despair and bankruptcy. Deep in the
hearts of the masses that great fact is
.being understood, and stupid Indeed
will be the Democratic leaders If they
ignore or betray the confidence re posed
In them by the majority of voters, who
have become convinced that Radical
ism continued in power means c.egra
dation, poverty, suicide and shame.
That is an ugly story the British consul
brings from the East about seeing the Her
zegovinian insurgents roasting little chil
dren. If they go on in this way thsy will
not long retain the sympathy of the Chris
tian world in their strugglefor indepen
dence—Richmond Enquirer.
True, friend. But how would it do
to let out to the Herzegovinians that
contract for supplying appropriate food
for the Fiji Islanders, who are expect
ed to visit the Philadelphia Centennial,
and who must be supplied with man
steak or shark soup ?
Bayard Taylor’s ode on Goethe has
been put into German verse by Carl Thedor
Eben.
Edgar A. Poe’s Monument.
We see the following paragraph go
ing the rounds of the press :
The monument to be erected over the
grave of Edgar Allan Poe in Westmin
ster Church yard, Baltimore, has been fin
ished. It is of white marble, and stands
eight feet high, resting on a granite base
six feet square. The design is simple and
chaste. On the granite slab are two other
bases of marble. On these rests the die
block, three feet two inches square, sur
mounted by a heavy cap, carved with an
ornamental lyre in the centre of each face.
On the front of the die block is a beau
tiful chiseled medallion of the poet, carved
in the purest Italian statuary marble,
after a plaster cast of Volok, the sculp
tor, from a photograph in the possession of
a member of Poe’s family. The likeness in
marble Is sain to be correct. The memorial
will probably be dedicated early in Octo
ber. Invitations have been sent to Henry
W. Longfellow, William Cullen Bry
ant, John G. Whittier, Oliver Wendell
Holmes and John G. Saxe. They have all
sent letters In reply, but It is not known
whether any of them have indicated an in
tention of being present. Two poems have
been composed for the occasion, ono by a
lady in Baltimore and the'other by a poet
of a Northern State. Prof. Shepherd will
deliver the oration.
This recalls a little history. Some
years ago, Paul H. Hayne wrote for
the Constitutionalist an article de
scriptive of Poe’s grave and the dis
graceful neglect that had befallen it.
The editor of this paper agitated this
question to the best of his ability and
Mr. Hayne’s masterly communication
was copied everywhere. It fell into the
hands of Mr. J. C. Derby, who fills an
important official position in the house
of D. Appleton & Cos., of New York.
Mr. Derby at once sent it to George W.
Childs, of Philadelphia, whose wealth
is only equalled by his philan „'nropy.
Mr. Childs promptly offered to defray
all expenses of a suitable monument to
Poe and so informed the proper parties
in Baltimore. Whether his offer was
accepted or not we do not know; but
we do know for certain that anew im
petus was given to the project and the
result is related in the paragraph copied
above.
We are told that tho committee have
extended invitations to certain of the
Northern literati, especially those of
Boston, whom Poe hated cordially, and
quietly and, as if contemptuously,
ignored the men of letters living at the
South. Lest there should be some mis
understanding in the case, the writer,
in all humility, may be allowed to say
that he feels no personal grievance in
this matter. Though born in Baltimore
and once supposed to be a poet,
his long absenco from the place
of his nativity has naturally weakened
whatever hold such an accident may
have had upon his destiny. It may be
added, too, that he makes no claim to
be ranked with the Boston bards.
Long ago he.forsook the Muse and ac
knowledges that his day is over as a
writer of verse—
“ The grass above his grave will grow as
long
And sigh to midnight winds, but not to
song.’ ’
But, leaving the writer of this article
out of the question, was not Mr.
Hayne, who, to his lasting honor be it
said, has never abandoned his art,
entitled to an invitation? Is the
entire demonstration at the unveiling
of Poe’s monument to be a
New England affair? Are there no
Southern men of letters worthy of
standing by the grave of a Southern
poet? We are not surprised at the
turn the affair has taken. The South
i3 her own deadliest foe In some par
ticulars. "We will not specify them.
Let them bo guessed. But it may be
permitted for one who loves her dearly,
despite her faults, to say, that when
she respects her own children more,
the more will she be respected at home
and abroad.
Two Pictures.— Now they see it:
The White League ruffians of Mississippi
are still reveling in their carnival of blood.
—Chicago Inter- Ocean.
And now they don’t see it:
The assassination of men who have be
come obnoxious to the miners has assumed
the form of a regular business in Schuyl
kill county, and the uncertainty of life has
become so great that the people are talking
about organizing Vigilance Committees for
their protection. That ought not to bo
done except in the very last extremity. It
is simply scandalous that the authorities of
the county are not able to do something to
check this murderous business, and they
should be held responsible for their inac
tivity or incompetency.— Philadelphia Bul
letin.
Jeremy Diddler.— Senator Alcorn
says the Democrats helped elect Ames
Instead of himself. True; they were
between the devil and the deep sea.
Ames Is a first-class demon, but the
renegade Alcorn is worse than ten
Turks. The Democrats revenged them
selves on Alcorn because he once told
the negroes that he had the Democratic
stag down by the horns and they could
come in and kick it to death. The stag
escaped and kicked the wind out of
Alcorn. Ames’ turn will come next.
Bosh. —Senator Alcorn “thinks the
bloody chasm business does not fill up
felicitously, and that the people of the
North are no more prepared to receive
complacently lectures from Lamar, Gor
don and Jeff Davis than those of the
South would be to hear Phil Sheridan.”
Send Sheridan along. We would like
to hear his opinions on matrimony, and
especially what he thinks of Illinois
bandits who desecrated his father’s
grave.
Ominous. —The latest discovery in
Nevada is a mountain of sulphur—a
solid mass of brimstone. That’s where
the bonanza kings are going some of
these days to find those who have gone
before.
Profitable.— The head cook at A. T.
Stewart’s Grand Hotel gets SI,OOO per
month. We have always Insisted that
cooks and circus actors were better off
than literary men. Mothers should
make a note of this.
Alcorn and Ames. —Senator James L.
Alcorn blames Governor Ames for re
cent disturbances. Had there been no
Alcorns there would have been no
Ames.
To have rivals is to feel our power.
To be without them makes us feel our
incompetency.
PERSONAL. I
Mrs. S. S. Mutton, of Toroibi is like
Mary—she has a little lamb. f
John Bunyan was a tramp late* warned
ut of a Connecticut town.
Ida Lewis has been married ami ivorced,
but she saves drowning men all Ihe same,
nevertheless. J
On Monday 130,000 childreis resumed
their studies in the public acboc|-, of New
York aud Brooklyn.
A Chicago barber cleared SB,OOI Last year.
They say he employed mutes, a ,i did not
try to sell his customers his “ ] dr Invig
orator.”
A man in Leavenworth, Kansa: ijith four
marriageable daugkers, has “Furnish
your own kerosene,” inscribedf upon his
front door. j§
Jeff Davis has made a speffii and de
clared in favor of inflation. Tii will not
help much.—[N. Y. H Jald. Nor
harm it, oither. s
Thiers complained that thfl sunshine
hurt his eyes and a friend prs)osed blue
spectacles. “Change the color • ' my spec
tacles!” said the veteran. ), no! the
country would bo agitated for a aonth.”
A veteran toaster, thirty yea 3 ago, de
livered tho following: “Old Bachelors:
Like sour cider, they grow m re crabbed
the longer they are kept, and when they
see a little mother they turn t viuogar at
once.”
The costliest dog in EDgiam belongs to
one A. S. D. Fivas, who wants :j >O,OOO for it.
The name of tho beast Is Gr idy, and if
some person were to throw it 8 button one
of these dark nights the happii ss of Fivas
would be completely wrecked.
An odd thing has happonod t a Paris re
porter. While looking up the -particulars
of a murdor he got into tho w >ng apart
ment and was nearly smothere with kisses
by an emotional old pair who iistook him
for their returned.son, who ha> been absent
twenty ye&rs.
Russia, is convinced that Y koob Khan
was the instigator of tue Kh land rebel
lion. We tremble for Yakoob. ! The Czar is
going for him; and he is a-i shin'. Few
men can stand the butt of ti Czar, but
maybe Yakoob Khan—Brook! n Times.
The enterprise of true jouri ilism is il
lustrated by the case of the e itor of the
Daily Index, published at B Ividere, 111.,
who, on being horse-whipped got out an
extra containing a full accou cof the af
fair, and sold papers enough 1 pay for the
arnica and plaster.
Those who believo that t o Lord sent
Miss Moreman to euro th< legs of Dr.
Platt make a very poor sho- in laughing
at the water of Lourdes,tho he uitage fth
cure of Ars, or even at the gi tto of Loret
to. Is Miss Moreman readj to enter the
field against Tyndall!—[St. L lis Globe.
Harpfrs’ Weekly thus pronounces
against Grant as a candid ;e: In]t*>ery
point of view, therefore, in p rfect remem
brance of the President’s pas services, and
tho most grateful respect or them, -he
seems to us unquestionabk the weakest
and not the strongest. Rep blican candi
date.
Governor Leslie, of K tucky, is re
ported to have given tho titlcpbf colonel and
a position on his staff to hi.ynephew, aged
six months. Perhaps there is no salary,
and it may be only the G< ernor’s little
joke—an intimation that tha eort of officer
is just as useful to a Goverm as any other,
Of the late Gov. John B. \ filer, of Cali
fornia, the following is re .ted: Ho was
once unfortunate enough to 1 ‘ shipwrecked.
Arriving at San Francisco h was asked by
a sympathizing friend if he ad lost much.
“Lost everything, sir,” said 1 eller—“every
thing but roputatlon.” “Governor,” said
the friend, “you travel witljjSloss baggage
than any one 1 ever saw.” F
Long John Wentworth §•> eithor a little
irreverent or very much e Jumnlated. A
jocose friend insists that orE day in church
when he had volunteered t® carry around
the contributioniplate, ho Shopped before
a “sporting gentloman” seal'd in tho stran
gers’ pew, when the following colloquy
took place: f
“How much is in the pool?
“Fifteen dollars and a ha
“What’s the favorite ?”
“Tho heathen.”
Judge Hersohel V. Joh ;on is warmly
commended by all the No hern newspa
pers for his impartial an dignified con
duct of tho recent conspira> ’ cases In Geor
gia. His work is all the in go valuable, as
it tends to establish Northwa confidence in
the fair dealing of Southern courts gen
erally, and thus to romjro ono of the
greatest obstacles to th<l restoration of
cordial commercial realms.—[Chicago
Tribune. S
POLITICAL nItES.
If you wish to know fifaat an ass tho
Governor of Mississippi ;i|id son-in-law of
Beast Butler is, read his illy telegram as
elsewhere printed. A poi&o court lawyer
in Virginia would havo kfcnvn better than
to ask such a question. Ifowever, Ames
seems to be as good a ilvyer as Grant,
who had to ask his Attorney General how
the question ought to be siswered.—[Rich
mond Dispatch. I
Deacon Smith, of the Cincinnati Qazette,
says: “We shall elect E§Lyes by twenty
thousand majority, and 6. will bo solely
owing to the school quel ion. If we had
stuck to the currency isstfi we should havo
been beaten by thirty o:sforty thousand.
But we have abandoned ss, and shall now
confine ourselves chieflyj|x> tho Catholic
aspect of the contest, anepwe shall certain
ly carry the State by twe sty thousand.”
A Tennesseean Is piou:?inderall circum
stances. Ono of the part * who lynched the
negro Woodson, near Miilfroesboro, says:
“After arriving at the fft.ee of execution
we were told that it was £ solemn and se
rious duty wo were aboipjto discharge, so
much so that it was thouftit advisable that
wo should implore the m g ey, blessing and
counsel of God to attendfi s; consequently
the entire company ktffeled down and
prayer was offered in b 2 ialf of tho mur
derer, and that our deli’grations and acts
might be controlled by in all-wise God.”
And then they hanged Woodson, and for
foar that would not be effective they fired
about twenty shots into 'l'm.
The New York Heroic says: “We have
beforo us as we write a p ; vate letter from
a Mississippi Ropubllca , who complains
of the reckless corrupt! ( n of those who
control the Republican os , anization there,
but asks how he and th< '.a who feel with
him can go to the Dem< -ratic side, when
they are constantly der > unced as ‘scala
wags’ or ‘carpet-baggers 'rind covered with
insult. These Mississii ;;1 Democrats are
just now doing a goo * deal to make a
‘third term’ possible, anc§to cause a reac
tion at the North to walls the extremest
measures of the Radical Republican policy.
In fact, they could not d< -:nore if they were
hired and paid by Senate > Morton.
Gov. Tilden, of N.Y.,| l a late address,
draws attention to the s iking inequality
of human justice which ij mvails at this day.
He says: “I have frequQfily been followed
by persons asking for tlf tr friends and for
those in whom they are!iterested pardons
from the prison and pengenttarics. I have
been compelled to look i| ,o such cases and
see who are the inmates *1 such institutions
and of what they have b n accused—to see
what it is that const*tut| ', the wrong to so
ciety of which they haie been convicted.
When I have compare! their offences in
their nature, temptat|ns and circum
stances, with the crimet jjf great public de
linquents who claim to fland among your
best society, and are coijf 'ssedly prominent
among their fellow-cftzens—crimes re
peated and continued Hear after year—l
am appalled at the of human
justice.” y
SPECIAL NOTICES.
AUGUSTA REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING
ASSOCIATION.
THE REGULAR MONTHLY INSTAL
ment of $2 per share of the Capital Stock
of the Association will be payable to the
Treasurer, at his office, on TUESDAY, 14th
inst. E. R. DERRY,
sepl2-2 Sec'ty and Treasurer.
THE BOARD OF HEALTH,
Okdinabv's Office. Richmond County. )
Augusta, G a.. 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 como- under his supervision,
with a certificate of the cause of death, &c.
Sec. 12, Be it further enacted. That where
any Birth or Death shall take place, no Phy
sician being in attendance, the same shall be
reported to the Ordinary, with the supposed
cause of doath, by the parents, or, if none, by
tho next kin, under ponalty of ten dollars, at
the suit of the Ordinary, as provided in Sec.
ll of this Act.
Fhysicians 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 furnishod 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 istof LEyy>
aug22-3 t Ordinary.
GIN HOUSES INSURED
AT EQUITABLE RATE'*, IN FIRST-CLASS
Companies. Call at or write to my office,
219 Broad street, before insuring elsewhere.
0. W. HARRIS.
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WANTS.
469“ Advertisements not over five tinea wlli
be inserted under this head for fifty cents
each insertion, cash. _
WANTED— A competent NURSE. Ap
ply at 185 Broad street.
sepß-wthfcsu
W~ ANTED-A PURCHASER FOR A NO.
1 Iron Safe. Will bo sold cheap. Ap
ply at 313 Broad street. *
FUNERAL NOTICE.
THE FRIENDS, RELATIVES AND Ac
quaintances of Mr. and Mrs. John McAdam
are respectfully invited to attend the
funeral of their infant daughter, from St.
Patrick’s Church, at 9>£ o’clock, a. m„ Sep
tember 12th, 1875. *
111 11 _ i
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
FOR SALE.
SEED WHEAT,
SEED RYE,
SEED Bt RLEY,
SEED OATS,
Also 200 bushels COW PEAS.
MILLER & BISELL.
sep!2-lw
THE MISSES SEDGWICK’S INSTITUTE,
—CORNER OF
Greene and Washington Streets.
THE duties of this Institute will bo re
sumed MONDAY, OCTOBER 4th. For
circulars and terms apply at
sepl2-su&vve4t 310 BROAD STREET.
GRAND
Simmer-Nights’ Festiva
GIVEN BY THE
Deutsclier Schuetzen Club,
AT THE SCHUETZEN PLATZ,
Wednesday, Sept. 15th, 1875.
ILLUMINATION of the Platz at 7 o’clock.
Dancing commencos at 8 o’clock. Music
by the Columbia Post Band.
Admission for Gentlemen, $1; Ladies free.
Tickets for sale at J. H. Meyers’, G. Vol
ger & Co.’s, H. A. Brahe’s, Fchneiker &
Meyer’s. sep!2-su&wd2
FERROTYPES.
4 For Fifty Cents,
FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY, AT
Clark’s City Ferrotype Gallery,
148 BROAD STREEP,
Augusta, Ga.
seps-lc2 _____
EMBROIDERY
OF ALL KINDS DONE. Have now on
hand samples of work, which Ladies
are Invited to call and examine, feeling
assured that entire satisfaction will be
given. I will also teach or give lessons in
Embroidery.
MRS. M. E. RILEY,
Watkins street, between Centre and Elbert
streets. sepl2-12,19,26&0ct3
CORN. CORN.
1,600 SAOKS
choice: white corn.
For sale by BLAIR, SMITH & CO.
I WILL teach a class of Young Ladies at
the Academy every afternoon at Half
past Four o’clock, commencing on Monday,
the 20th of September.
I will also teach the Classics and Mathe
matics to such Young Gentlemen as may
desire to pursue these studies on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday nights, commenc
ing at i 'eht o’clock on the evening of the
20th. J. T. DERRY.
sepl2-suwe&we.
spfiim iMiiMITS
To Early Purchasers.
I AM now offering the following COALS
at LOWEST PRICES, by car load or
single ton:
ANTHRACITE, of Best Quality.
CAHABA RED ASH, of Alabama.
This Coal comes in largo lumps, is hard
in texture. Ignites readily, burns freely,
makes little or no cinders, soot or dust, and
creates less ashes than other Coals.
GENUINE “COAL CREEK,’’ well known
in this market.
All of the above fresh from the Minos.
F. M. STOVALL,
sep!2-tf No. 1 Warren Block.
SELECT SCHOOL.
MISS DEARING, assisted by a compe
tent corps of Teachers, will open a
SELECT SCHOOL for Children and Young
Ladies, on MONDAY, September 27tn, cor
ner of Telfair and Washington streets,
where they will be pleased to receive pupils
upon reasonable terms.
Tuition to be paid quarterly, in advance.
No deduction for absenoe, except in cases of
protracted illness.
The course of instruction will be thor
ough and complete.
Besides the primary studies, all the high
er branches of English, including the high
er Mathematics and Natural Sciences, La
tin, Modern Languages, Music, both vocal
and instrumental; Drawing, Painting, in
oil and water colors; and Fancy Needle-
Work will be taught.
It being essential to a practical education
to understand fully Natural Sciences, Lec
tures will be delivered by able instructors
during the course of these studies.
The Musical Department will be under
the supervision of Dr. L. H. Southard.
The teachers respectfully refer to the fol
lowing gentlemen:
Dr. L. D. Ford, Dr. H. H. Steiner, Dr. Jos.
A. Eve. _ „
Rev. Wm. H. Clarke, Judge J. S. Hook,
and GenJM. A. Stovall, of Augusta.
Rev. George Patterson, of Wilmington,
N. C. '
Rev. K. H. Phillips, Principal of Virginia
Female Institute, Staunton, Va.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Car Load of Houses & Mules.
RECEIVED yesterday one car load of
HORSES and MULES—most of them
suited for Dravlng purposes.
Will be sold LOW for CASH.
G. H. KERNAGHAN,
sep!2-3 Planters’ Stables.
MISS FLEMING’S SCHOOL,
A.T SUMMERVILLE, will open on
WEDNESDAY, the Ist day-of October.
sep!2-12&19
FERROTYPES !
A LA CARD PHOTOGRAPH.
4 FOR 50 CENTS
Fora F<w Days Longer. CLARKE’S
CITY FERROTYPE GALLERY, 148 Broad
street. sep!2-l
YOU CAN FIND
AT
C. JT. T. BALK’S
The best sc. NECK RUSHES.
The best 25c. Silk Scarfs.
The best 15c. Worsted Dress Goods.
The best assortment of Fall Prints.
The best 6%c. Brown Shirting.
Tho best 9c. Brown Sheeting.
The best 10c. Bleached Shirting.
The best 40 and 50c. Black Alpaca.
The best 20 and 25c. for Pants.
The bestAOand 12%c.*Checkod Home
spun.
Tho best 12%c. Cotton Flannel.
The best 10c. Heavy Brown Drilling.
The best bargains in all kinds of Dry
Goods.
Be sure and look for No. 136 Broad street,
below Monument street.
C. J. T. BALK.
sep!2-tf
A. M. BENSON. W. N. MERCIEB.
BENSON & MERCIER,
COTTON FACTORS AND GENERAL
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 3
Warren Block, Augusta, Georgia. Will
make cash advances on Cotton in store, and
hold in fir st class fire-proof storage for in
definite time, at very low rates of interest.
sep!2-d£c3m
Houghton Institute.
THE INSTITUTE will be reopened for
the reception of Pupils, on TO-MOR
ROW (Monday) MORNING, at 9 o’clock.
Parents are requested to enteutheir chil
dren as early in the session as possible. No
child under six years of age will be re
ceived as a pupil. Teachers and pupils are
requested to assemble promptly at the
above named hour.
J. OUTHBERT SHECUT,
sep!2-tf Principal.
Retrospective and Congratulatory.
TWO AND A HALF YEARS Experience
In Augusta, as a groceryman, gives
rise to many reflections In glancing over
the situation here as we found it and as it
is at the present writing. Teas, Coffees,
Sugars, Flour, Soap, Spices, and in short
nearly all the necessaries as well as luxu
ries of life, are now sold at a closer margin
than ever before.
The establishment of the CHINA TEA &
COFFEE STORE, the Pioneer Cash Grocery
of Augusta, has changed the whole ruinous
system of buying goods on long credit, thus
paying twice their value to keep some poor
merchant from ruin as the victim of anoth
er dead beat. Look at the facts: In Sugars
I sell two pounds more for one dollar to
day than could be Bought at retail of any
merchant in Augusta one and a half years
ago—and Sugars are higher now in market
than previous to my advent among you.
I sell a better article fifty per cent, less
than was sold then, or even now, as I am
prepared to prove.
My Teas are imported direct, and the
quality is guaranteed, thus saving many
profits to the consumer.
In Coffees, look also at the change.—lt Is
no longer necessary to risk having this de
licious beverage ruined by the experiments
of any would-be cook of the fire, as I have
a complete assortment of all grades, care
fully roasted by steam and ground fresh
on the premises, in any quantity to suit
tho purchaser.
Revolutions never go backward! What
one year has accomplished another can im
prove and perfect; and I only ask, as a re
ward for laboring for your interests in the
past, that you should continue to cheer
and encourage me, and I trust the day is
far distant when any resident of Augusta
or vicinity will regret having made my ac
quaintance or of giving to me their gener
ous patronage.
The public’s obd’t servant,
R. N. HOTCHKISS,
sepl2-tf Red Gilt Front, opp. Fountain.
Bfack Hawk Morgan Mares.
IDENTICALLY matched, thoroughbred,
jet black, perfect beauties.
G. W. CONWAY,
Kentucky Stables,
sep!2-3 350 Broad street.
ANOTHER CAR LOAD OF
Kentucky Horses and Mules.
JUST RECEIVED, another bar load of
nice HORSE* and MULES—among
them some blocky Saddle Ponies. Persons
wishing to purchase for either Draying or
Plantation service are specially invited to
call and examine this lot. For sale LOW.
G. W. CONWAY,
sep!2-3 Kentucky Stables, 350 Broad St.
BACON.
HALF CASKS BACON C. R. SIDES.
For sale at market price.
BLAIR, SMITH & CO.
sep 12—It
Fruitland Nurseries, Augusta, Ga.
PJ. BERCKMANS, Proprietor. Orders
• for Trees, Plants, Bulbs, Seeds, etc.,
etc., left with the undersigned will be promt
ly attended to.
GEORGE SYMMS, Agent,
No. 221 Broad Street,
septl-Gm Augusta, Oa.
WHISKEYr BEAITdyT GIN, RDM."
J£TTE have a large lot of Low Priced
W LIQUORS which we will sell cheap.
GERAIY & ARMSTRONG,
Soptl2-lt 291 Broad St.
Notice to Shippers.
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD, )
Augusta Agency, September 10,1875. j
ON AND AFTER MONDAY, September
13,1875, Freight for Local Stations on
line of this road will not be received after 5
o’clock p. m. W. H. TREZEVANT,
sepll-im Agent.
WIRE HAY BANDS.
gEING AGENTS for tho EXCELSIOR
WIRE BANDS, wo will always havo a full
supply at low figures.
PRINTUP BRO. & POLLARD,
Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants
sepll-lm ,
Cotton Gins and Presses.
WE CALL the attention of parties wish
ing to purchase a OIN or PRkSS
to our Neblett & Goodrich Gins and Smith’s
Improved Presses,
PRINTUP. BRO. & POLLARD,
Cotton Factors ana Commission Merchants
sepll-lm
SEED GRAIN.
“yyK BEG TO OFFER THE FOLLOW
ing varieties of
GR AIN,
Carefully selected for Seed purposes:
RYE,
WHEAT,
BARLEY,
BLACK OATS,
. Red Rust-proof
OATS.
seps-lw J. O. MATHEWSON & CO.
NOTICE.
THIRTY DAYS after date I shall become
a PUBLIC or FREE TRADER, in ac
cordance with provisions of Section 1760 of
the Code of Georgia.
SARAH RICH.
I hereby consent to my wife becoming a
Public or Free Trader. J. RICH.
Augusta, Oa., August 6th, 1875.
aug6- 30
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Superb Black Silks.
0
We have just received by Express a full Line of Lyon’s
MANUFACTURED BLACK SILKS.
o
These Goods are of BONNETS & JAUBERT ANDRA’S
make, and Excel all Others in Richness of Finish and Dura
bility. Made Entirely of PURE SILK. They are Guaran
teed to give perfect satisfaction.
ALSO
A full Line of Lupin’s Superior 6-4 BLACK CASHMERES,
Lupin’s HENRIETTA CLOTHS and BOMBAZINES, Tur
ner’s Superior BLACK MOHAIRS and ALPACAS.
NEW FALL GOODS ARRIVING DAILY",
All of which we are Offering at the Lowest Prices.
Call, Examine and be Convinced-
JAMES A. CRAYJ^CO.
W. DANIEL. I °* A - ROWLAND
Daniel dks Howland.,
COTTON FACTORS,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, and agents for tho Celebrated Etlwan, Wando Busey’e,
and Cotton Food Guanos, corner of Jackson and Reynolds streets, AUGUSTA, GA.
Consignments solicited. Commissions for selling Cotton, $1 per bale. sepl2-lmd&o
carpets! cArn'iiTS!
Our Senior having visited New York and purchased a full stock of all
Goods embraced in our line and at prices cheaper than we have been able
to obtain sine l * the war, we now offer to the Public a great many leading
articles at ante-bellum prices, namely:
BRUSSELS CARPETS at $1.60 to SI.OO per yard.
BODY BRUSSELS at $1.76 to $2 per yard,
THREE PLYS at $1.35 to $1.50 per yard.
INGRAINS at 50 cents, 75 cents, $1 and $1.25.
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS from 50 cents per square and to the Finest Im
ported English Goods.
A full assortment of WINDOW SHADES and in all sizes and colors for
private houses and store use from $1 to $5. Also to hand, and now open,
the largest stock of WINDOW, CORNICE and PICTURE FRAME MOULD
INGS ever exhibited in this city. Also, anew stock of NOTTINGHAM
LACE CURTAINS in endless variety of New Patterns, varying in price from
$2 to sls each Window.
Call early and make selections.
From this date our price for making and laying Carpets will be 10 cents
per yard.
JAMES (x. BAILIE & BRO.,
205 BROAD STREET.
sep!2-tf •
DRY GOOODS. ___
NEW FALL GOODS!
NEW FALL GOODS!
—AT—
The Fredericksburg Store.
WE ARE NOW RECEIVING our Stock
of Fall and Winter DRY GOODS,
and which will soon be complete in every
department. Wo now have in stock choice
styles of new Calicoes at 6J4, 8 and 10c.;
Black Alpacas at 25, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60. 65, 75,
85, $1 and $1.25 to $1.50; Black Mohairs
from 45c. to $1.50; Black Cashmeres. Hen
riettas and Bombazines from 75c. to $1.50;
Beautiful Colored Dress Goods from 25 to
75c.; Kentucky Jeans at 15, 20, 25, 35, 40, 45
and 50c.; Tweeds and Cassimeres at 50, 60.
75, 85c. and $1 to $1.50: Kerseys and Sati
nets from 40 to 75c.; New York Mills and
Wamsutta Bleached Cottons at. 15c.; Fruit
of the Loom and Londsdale do. at 12>£c.;
other makes of Bleached Cotton at lower
prices.
Purchasers will do well to examine our
stock, and we particularly wish them to
notice the superior black and finish of our
Alpacas, Mohairs, Cashmeres and Bomba
zines.
To those of our country friends who can
not pay us a visit wo will, upon application,
send them samples of any Goods we keep
that can be sampled. Also, a Price List of
all the leading articles we keep.
We are agents for the celebrated Domes
tic Paper Fashions, and will, upon applica
tion, send Catalogue with Prices and De
signs, and upon receipt of the price of any
Pattern, will forward same by mail or
otherwise.
Country merchants who buy close for
cash, or city acceptance, will do well to ex
amine our wholesale stock, and we respect
fully invite them to do so.
V. RICHARDS & BRO.,
Corner by the Planters’ Hotel,
301 Broad street.
aug24-tuwethsutuw&clm
A Complete Stock o t
BLACK IRON BEREGES!
Embracing all tne different makes and
qualities, just received at
MULLARKY BROS.’
LATEST AND MOST FASHIONABLE
STYLES IN
Parasols and Sun Umbrellas,
with handles in new and pretty designs
just received at MULLARKY BBOS.’
Every quality and pattern in Striped and
Figured
French and English Pique,
and a variety of qualities In French Welt,
or Cord Piques, just received at
MULLARKY BROS.’
Cassimeres in New Spring
Styles,
And at Greatly Reduced Prices. Also, a
great variety of Choice Shades In Doeskin
Cashmerett, an excellent material for boys
and Men’s Spring Suits, just received, and
will be offered 25 per cent, cheaper than
heretofore. MULLARKY BROS.
A Large and well assorted Stock of
Cottonades & Rodman Jeans,
in good styles and colors, just received at
MULLARKY BROS.,
53 0 2 BROAD STREET
JUST RECEIVED
New and Beautiful Styles,
IN Hamburg Embroideries, Imperial
Trimmings in pretty designs. Patent
Valenciennes Edgings, latest patterns;
Linen Collars, Cuffs, Ruchings and Neck
Wear In a great variety of styles.
TUCKED LAWNS, TUCKED CAMBRIC
and REVERE CORD MUSLINS, suitable
for BIAS TRIMMING, at
MULLARKY BROS.
THIS WEEK.
Misses and Children’s SPRING STYLES,
in Striped Cotton Hose, colors new ana
pretty, and prices loWer than heretofore.
Also, a full line in all qualities of Ladles’
and Gents’ Hosiery, at
MULLARKY BROS.
A. SPECIALTY.
Consisting of a well assorted Stock of
Bleached and Unbleached Table Damasks
Towels, Napkins, Doylies, Linen and Cot
brateB 618 and CELE ‘
IRISH LINENS,
suit the tlmesT* THIS WEEK at to
MULLARY BROS.
mh7-suthtf 262 BROAD STREET.
COTTON FACTORS.
J. J. PEARCE,
COTTON FACTOR,
And Commission Mtrchant,
JACKSON STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
sep7-d&c3m
ANTOINEPOULLAIN^
Cotton Factor*,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
WILL continue the bus'ness at my fire
proof warehouse, corner Jackson and
Reynolds streets, and will give my person
al attention to the sale of cotton. Consign
ments respectfully solicited. sep4tf.
BEALL, SPEARS & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Commission Merchants!
HAVE REMOVED to Office and Ware
house formerly occupied by them.
Warehouse, No. 6 Campbell street; Offlco
and Salesroom, No. 177 Reynolds street,
Augusta, Oa. sopl-Sw
0. H.. PHINIZY. F. B. PHINIZY
C. H. PHINIZY & CO.
COTTON FACTORS
AUGUSTA, CEORCIA,
Make liberal advances on con
signments, buy and sell Cotton for fu
ture delivery in New York. Furnish Plant
ers with supplies. Keep always on hand a
large Stock of BAGOLNG, ana are the Sole
Agents for the
Beard Cotton Tie,
Winship Cotton Gin,
And the
Peerless Guano.
Consignments and Orders respectfully so-
Ueited.
augl9-2m C. H. PHINIZY & CO.
• M. O’DOWD,
Cotton Factor, Grocer and
Commission Merchant,
283 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
UaVING recently returned from the
Northern Markets, after having purchased
a large and very carefully selected stock of
Groceries, etc., of the first quality, I am
now prepared to offer to my patrons and
the trade generally, the following at lowest
prices, and of which I shall make a special
ity, viz:
Sugar, Coffee, Bacon, Lard,
Flour, Butter, Cheese,
Molasses, Syrup,
Pickles and Canned
Goods, Brooms, Buckets, Etc.
My stock of TEAS aro superior to any
e\erbrought Into this market, and which
I offer at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES!
A trial is respectfully solicited.
SPECIAL PERSONAL ATTENTION will
be given to all consignments of Cotton. Ac.
Commission for selling Cotton, 50c. per
bale; storage, 25c. per bale.
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‘‘ PURE SEED ”
“RUST PROOF OATS."
raSSiSS*
K. tw l3f^VlS| r hA ,, ' ,er
Grown b,
For sale by Athens, da.
auvl3 lm H * PHINIZY . * CO.,
-ML™!— __ Augusta, Ga.
BAYBIDE SOAP LIQUID!
BKS2 artlol ° made
JjWS™* b Y Its use—so per cent. If
humbug CaU U at 80016 &nd try lt ' Xt is uo
BROADHURST’S NOVELTY SHOP
_Bopß-iw Jackson street.__
RAILROAD HOUSE,
THOMSON, GA.,
Henry McKinney.
UtONVENffiNTto Raihoad Depot. Pas-
PY E'ay Down Train take din
ner at this place. sep2-tf