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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. aug2Q-tf 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. gepl2“d2w 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. aug29-suwe fr &c 2 w ‘‘ 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