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CPjc Constitutionalist
AUGUSTA, GA.:
Thursday Morning, Sept. 16, 1875.
Mr. NordhofFs Second Letter—Geor
gia and ller People.
It seems, frotn Mr. Nordhofe’s sec
ond letter, published on our first page
this morning, that his estimate of the
negro exodus from this State —25,000 —
was mainly drawn from what a colored
man told him at the Atlanta depot.
The value of such information is su
premely farcical. If Mr. Nordhoff
had prompted the man to say 50,000
he would have done so; for, as a gen
eral rule, a negro, in spite of what he
may really think, chimes in with the
white man’s views and verbally en
dorses them. This is the cunning of
his character and a natural repug
nance to opposing the assertion of
a dominant or superior race.
We dare say some of the negroes have
prospered by removal. The tropicoid
regions of the South are nearer to their
race-centre, and the drift of the blacks
will be in that direction wears
on. Gradually the up-country will be
relieved of them as a dense and po
litically hostile element. The more
the negroes move out of Georgia, the
more must white people move in. But
it will be many a year before the State
will experience any considerable want
of that kind of labor, and it may be set
down as a certainty that, while the
country will never have such “hands”
as were the slaves and are the frecd
men of the better class, it will grow
wealthy under the stimulus of small
farms and small industries.
The report of the Georgia negro’s
progress, or the lack of it, quoted from
the National Republican, of Atlanta, is
very striking. Morally speaking, the
colored people are worse off than they
were in the days of slavery. With
freedom, they acquired a license un
known before, and, while a few have
imitated the virtues of the whites, the
great majority have only too success
fully patterned after their vices, espe
cially those of unchastity, gambling
and intoxication.
Mr. Nordhoff, as a good Republican,
quotes from some planter, who may
have sunk very low in the social scale,
as sometimes happens the world over,
to prove that “social equality” is a
mere bugaboo after all. Ideally, no
doubt, Mr. Nordhoff is satisfied on
this point; practically, he would no
more allow it than any of the doctrina
ires of the Republican party. It is
useless to dwell upon this theme. God
Almighty oas made the distinction, and
until Mr. Nordhoff shall have attained
supernatural and omnipotent authority
the race-line will endure.
Mr. Nordhoff affects great surprise
that the old slogan of “forty acres and
a mule” still retains its potency in the
South. Mr. Sumner was not known;
Wendell Phillips is a “barren ideality;”
Garrison Is totally ignored, and Gree
ley broke his heart when he found the
blacks for whom he spent his life
neither knew him, cared for him nor
would yield their ballots at his shrine.
But to these simple and confiding
creatures, Grant and Butler are pre
sented on the field of their imagina
tions as colossal figures. They were
the men who had the acres and mules,
something supposed to be tangible.
They were the men who made the
Rebels howl and against whom the
South was specially directive of attack.
The non-arrival of the mules, the un
occupation of the acres could not shake
the fidelity of tho black masses. They
believed in their final coming as some
of the English are said to await the ad
vent of King Arthur. One year after
another rolls away, and while there are
many asses, the long looked for mules
do not arrive. Still the austere figure
of Grant, who has no unlimited mules
to give any more than the devil owned
principalities to bribe the Son of Man
—still, we say, Grant looms up, to the
utter oblivion of the original apostles
of Abolition, as the Mysterious
Power by which the Southern
freedmen are to be enriched
and conducted to a beatitude in this
world, if not in that to come. Some
idea of this subtile spell may be con
ceived by the relation of a “ little an
ecdote.” Just after the war, a negress
came across the bridge from Hamburg,
wildly gesticulating and exclaiming in
ecstasy that she had seen the Lord.
Being questioned as to how the Lord
looked, she promptly responded : “ He
had on a blue coat and brass buttons,
and wore a big sword by his side.” The
poor creature had seen a Captain of
y. S. volunteers. If a petty Captain
had such tremendous importance, let
Mr. Nordhoff imagine the Titanic pro
portions of Grant, the Unseen but Felt,
in the fertile fancy of some 900,000 cit
izens, by the grace of Congress.
Twin Curses. —The Watkins Express, j
picturing the pleasant relations be
tween armoth and Kellogg, who are
at the same hotel in that place, says:
The pacific atmosphere completely dissi
pated all belligerent feelings that they may
have entertained, and sitting at the same
table, the whilom rivals ate, chatted and
joked as cheerfully, or in the bowling alley
played ten-pins with as much zest and good
humor as if they had not been, a few
months ago, engaged in a deadly strife for
the mastery of a State.
The struggle in Louisiana between
these men was simply between Dick
Turpin and Jack Shepperd— it was the
Improbable case of “dog eat dog.”
And yet, to think that the honest, the
high-minded, the intelligent people of
Louisiana formed an alliance with the
base wretch who was the author of
their most grievous calamities, the in
ventor of every system that tortured
and degraded them, and who is now,
with his ill-gotten gains, chuckling with
Kellogg, a smaller scoundrel, over the
nice little game they both played, for
their mutal benefit. Into terrible straits
and unhallowed depths have tho so
called policy-mongering, expediency
“leaders” driven their trusting follow
ers at the South!
North Carolina.— The popular ver
dict against the North Carolina Con
vention is summed up in these words—
foo much tinkering.
Alcorn’s Note on the Situation—Th 3
Devil Turned Precisian.
The Western papers are full of spe
cials from Washington with regard 13
Mississippi and what Senator Alcorn,
the black flag man, has to say about
that matter. The Senator speaks in
high terms of the majority of his fel
low-citizens who happen to be white,
and out of whose bodies politic he has
not, by negro assistance, quite kicked
the breath. He deprecates Federal
military intervention, well knowing,
perhaps, that while, on principle, tht
whites of the South are opposed to bayo •
net introduction, during a State election,
they are satisfied that the presence o'.
the boys in blue is no hindrance to it
Democratic victory, and, if anything,
of late years, a help to it.
Senator Alcorn truly says that the
great masses of the blacks are not pug
nacious ; that they will not fight unless
provoked to do so. He might have
added that they would always have
been peaceful and so would the whites
if it had not been for men like himseli
and Ames, backed up by the powers at
Washington, the Grand Army of the
Republic and the Loyal Leagues.
Wo are told by the Senator that the'
“whole trouble arose upon the act oi
Gov. Ames in absenting himself fion
the State, leaving the colored Lieuten
ant Governor in charge of affairs. The
latter is charged with being very cor
rupt, selling offices and pareloning
criminals for a pecuniary considera
tion. He cites an instance where a
man, feeling aggrieved because a wo
man had spoken against his sister,
Went to her house, dragged her into
the woods, hung her up by the heels,
and fired six shots of his revolver into
her body. The murderer was caught
by the citizens and put in jail, but re
leased by Lieutenant Governor Davis
without even a trial, SBOO being, it is
alleged, paid for his release. In an
other instance a Sheriff conveyed a ne
gro prisoner, sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary for stealing from
another negro, to the Jackson peniten
' iary, and the negro was released and
returned home om the same train with
the Sheriff.”
Ah! the trouble dates farther back
than the corruption of the Lieutenant
Governor. It dates back to the time
when James L. Alcorn and men like
him held the Democracy down and
called upon the negroes, including that
Lieutenant Governor, to kick them to
death. It dates back to the betrayal
of the white people by this scalawag
Senator, who made the same compact
with Ames and his carpet-bag asso
ciates that Blifil made with Black
George.
The learned Senator winds up as
follows: “All confidence in the in
tegrity of the State government has,
been destroyed. The young roughs
know that they may commit any
crime and escape punishment for a
money consideration. The result
has been to change the State
which elected him (Alcorn) Governor
by thirty thousand Republican majori
ty to a Democratic State this fall.” —
The election of Alcorn only paved the
way to the election of Ames. The
one is simply the outgrowth of the
other—just as Marius sprang from the
Gracchi, just as Greeley’s doctrines
flowered into Grant’s despotic acts. We
trust Mississippi may become a Demo
cratic State, and when she does, let her
say to Alcorn and Ames alike : “ Get
ye gone, degenerate men ! To perdi
tion if needs be—but begone from the
sight of honest people whom ye have
insulted and betrayed !”
Doctor Sangrado. —The Vice-Presi
dent, like a humane man, is trying to
keep his party from dissolution, but
he knows it is a farce to attempt it. He
tells the leaders they must become
“honest,” and that wayward children
must be brought back. When the Re
publican party becomes honest it will
no longer be the Republican party, and
what inducement the leaders can offer
hungry men to come back to their fold
we do not exactly see. As the Philadel
phia Times jpvell remarks: “To expect
honest men to share the vicissitudes of
thieves, when the hour of the latter’s
extremity has come, is to expect the
impossible.” Mr. Wilson’s vanity would
suggest that his nomination for the
Presidency might save the party. We
do not want to break that old fanatic’s
heart, like Greeley’s was broken, but
it would be a great pleasure to have
him slaughtered at the polls in 187 G.
The Reason Why.— Uncle Wm. Al
len has made another speech. He
said, among other telling things, this:
“Now, the reason why the money is
piled up in the banks so strong is just
that the less money there is among the
people the more their farms will de
preciate in value, the more cheap labor
will become; and when they have the
money ready, and when the farmer’s
tarm drops down to about one-fourth
its real value, they will be ready to buy
it of you, and so with everything else.
The scarcer they can keep money, the
lower the laboring value of the people
will depreciate, and so the greater their
profit when the people are compelled
to sell their property in order to live at
all. That is the reason of it.” If that
idea gets well fixed in the Ohio man’s
mind, look out for 50,000 Democratic
majority.
Prudence. —One violent and drunken
man can do a vast deal of harm, much
more than the efforts of a hundred
good men can easily rectify. The fol
lowing extract from the New York
Herald, in relation to the Clinton (Miss.)
troubles, is opportune :
We advise the decent white people in Mis
sissippi to keep an eye on the blackguards
of their own color, and try to restrain the
lawlessness of these creatures somewhat.
There is no doubt at all that the great mass
of the Mississippi whites are honest, law
abiding citizens; but there is no doubt
either that they have among them a num
ber of swaggering, whiskey drinking, pis
tol shooting bullies, and that they give to
this ruffianly class a great deal too much
license.
The South has no worse friends or
greater enemies than idle, intemperate
white men, who frequent negro politi
cal meetings and jeopardize the welfare
of whole communities.
A Republican Wail.
The New York Times is losing hope
of a Republican triumph in 1876, and
consoles itself with the reflection that
the Democratic policy of “ inflation,”
which is so popular now-a-day is a
drift toward repudiation. We know not
how this may be, but the Radical pro
gramme carried out for the last fifteen
years has invited just such a state of
things as the New York paper deplores.
The war upon the South, by repudiat
ing Constitutional obligations, is be
ginning to plague the tormentors of
this section and the violators of faith.
But listen to the Times :
It used to be said that there was no poor
or discontented class in this country. It
was useless to attempt to try to sow the
seeds of hatred between ‘ rich” and “poor,”
because in reality no such division of the
people exist! ’ We cannot say this now.
As the country has grown, tho evils which
many persons thought were peculiar to the
Old World have grown up with it. Poverty
exists among large masses of the people,
and fills our cities with crime. At
this moment great distress presses
upon tens of thousands of mechanics
and laboring men, and they can
see no prospect of better days. At such a
time, the Democratic candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor of the great State of Ohio
comes forward to tell them that it it is a
political party which has brought this suf
fering upon t hem. It has created a “mo
neyed aristocracy.” The poor are taxed
for the benefit of a small minority of
“bloated speculators” and “coupon clip
pers.” When Gen. Grant vetoed tho infla
tion bill Inst session, he did it to “save the
nests of thieves, and to give them anew li
cense to plunder this great people”—we
quote from the speech of this Democratic
candidate. “Mechanics, miners, mill-men,
laborers.” said this speaker, “what advice
can I give you? May God have mercy
upon you and your dependent families;
your and their destitution will defy de
scription.” “What lam complaining of is,”
Mr. Cary said only a few days ago, “that a
gieat political party should create such an
infernal and damnable system of robbery.”
Put all this is sheer bluster and rant, de
ceiving nobody ? Is it ? We confess wo are
far from being sure is not at this
moment becoming very popular. Two
great Western States havo constructed
platforms based upon it. And now Penn
sylvania has gone the same road. Is it to
be supposed that there is no popular
strength whatever behind such a move
ment as this ? Mr. Hendricks, in Indiana,
could not prevent his party from heading
straight toward inflation and repudiation.'
Mr. Thurman, fin Ohio, found himself in
the same plight. And now Mr. Pershing,
in Pennsylvania, has been overwhelmed
by the onward rush of the inflation
ists. The leaders are everywhere be
ing swept away before the masses.—
New York may stand firm, although the in
flationists will not be kept down without
difficulty, even here. But It is the West
which rules the Democratic party, not New
York. It may rule something more than a
party before all is done. We may be told
that in 1868 the inflationist issue was sub
mitted to the people, and decided. So it
was, partially; but a great many things
have happened since then We have had
two great panics, throwing large numbers
of men out of employment. There is more
distress abroad now than then; the pinch
of want is ielt in many more households.
Every day the work of good government is
beset with increasing difficulties, and the
troubles of other countries are repeating
themseles here. Whether the people wish
to keep a cheek upori the the issue of paper
money, and to pay the national creditor
what belongs to him, are questions which
must be submitted to another vote before
we can pronounce them settled. At present
they ar§ in doubt. The Republican Party
must and will stand firm, come what may.
But the Democrats are, in our opinion,
making rapid progress, and it is quite
possible—we will even say probable—that
they may gain possession of the Govern
ment next year. They will do so beyond a
doubt if the people are prepared to try the
financial policy so enthusiastically re
ceived in Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
And we are not so confident as som e of our
Republican friends that the people do not
intend to try it.
Lateau. — Some time ago, the politi
cal ami scientific world was much exer
cised over Louise Lateau, a Belgian
peasant woman, who was said to exist
solely on the Eucharistic wafer and
bore upon her body, at stated times,
the Stigmata, or crucifixion marks of
our Lord. If the New York Herald
may be credited, this girl is no longer
regarded by the clergy as a saint. She
has had typhoid fever, and upon her
recovery ceased to present tho phe
nomenon of the stigmata, and became
an awfully commonplace person, with
“an appetite like an ogre.”
Blood-Hounds. —The Chattanooga
Commercial (Rad.), alluding to the re
cent treeing of a negro fugitive by a
bloodhound, says the animal is “ evi
dently a dog of tho ‘ good old times,’
and uninformed of the Thirteenth
Amendment.” Whereupon the Nash
ville American retorts that the darkies
now should contract for that dog, and
put him on the track of the fellows
that got away with that Freedman’s
Bank money.
Gospel Truth.— The Nashville Ameri
can indites this epistle to Young Amer
ica : “If every young man in Tennes
see would contribute his pocket pistol
to the Centennial fund it would make
quite a respectable sum, eveu if sold
for old iron. Then if they did not walk
the earth with lighter hearts, they
would be a trifle less heavy at the
waistband.” Write in place of Tennes
see any other State, and the gospel
truth remains.
The Latest.— Since the Beecher
trial infuriated husbands have insti
tuted a novel punishment for their
white-souled wives. They throw them
out of the window, and, after that pro
ceeding, these Elizabeths look for all
the world like marble statues such as
the Plymouth pastor saw in Europe.
Now, for diversion, let the women have
a turn-about and precipitate their Til
tonian spouses from the front steps.
Stanton. — Edwin M. Stanton, the
Charleston Democrat asserts, was not
a native of Steubenville, 0., but was
born In sight of the town of Beaufort,
N. C., and left that locality when he
was seven or eight years old. He now
has several relatives living in Carteret
county. Well, St Patrick drove the
snakes out of Ireland, but that did not
prevent Lord Castlereaoh from being
born in that island.
Gone Glimmering. —And now we are
informed by the knowing ones that real
estate has depreciated on Manhattan
Island (New York) four hundred mil
lions of dollars, or forty per cent, since
the panic of 1873. “ Results of the
i war,” gentlemen!
PERSONAL.: I
Charles J. Jenkins, of Geo: |a, is stay
ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel |
The Marquis of Lorne has <; | ployed the
intervals of snubbing by his * rothers-in
law by writing 3,000 lines of p. : f .ry.
Why don’t they put ol 1 Tw< |i out of his
misery ? Let him be sentenc * to marry
Dr. Walker and be done with’ >.
“Any letters for Mike How; asked an
Individual of a clerk at a Pi Suffice win
dow. “No letters for anybod cow.”
Say what you will against c .urow skirts,
it is easier for a lady and fintleman to
walk under one umbrella than t used to be.
A woman in Huron county, j|icb , weigh
ing eighty-five pounds, recenigjj’ gave birth
to 20 per cent, of her weight i twins.
A petrified plug of tobaccc i ately found
in Colorado, is thought by son antiquaries
to show the habits of primey 1 man.
Now the mail e ~f3 r reje ;eth in his
heart when he soeth in the ex! langes a fa
miliar poem beginning, “ Th Melancholy
Days.”
The too-sensitive Chief of I lice in Port
land resigned because a robi r whom he
“ wanted ” not only eluded h i, but broke
into and robbed his house.
At the present time more re going to
heaven through the aid of reen apples
than by all other means pui together.—
[Cape Ann Weekly.
Alexis.—The Grand Duke Alexis of
Russia, who incurred his fiber's dis
pleasure by a secret marriage as been di
vorced from his wife, and is n> v happy in
the imperial forgiveness.
There is a man in Montgo icry county
who can honestly hold up his i md and say
that he never opened another; [nan's letter
by mistake. We refer, of cc Irse, to Mr.
John Pfafaelkaeffingar.—[Sun ! :am.
A Missouri man tried to i idea mule
across a creek thirty feet dei . The man
was drowned, but the muk crossed in
safety, walking on the button md breath
ing through his ears.—[Monta American.
Mehemed Ali Pasha, the new com
mander of the Turkish forces Bosnia, Is
well ki own in Vienna. He is i R ussian by
birth, irom the city of Madgel rg, and em
braced Isiamism, like Dervish -’asha, who
is a native of Austrian Croatia
Mr. Jones curries his mone : in his hat,
and the other day, when he s. v the entire
supply going off on the wind of heaven,
he bitterly remarked, “lhat what you
get with your infernal inflatioi ’
A tramp printer swindled itch out of
fifty cents, (just enough to ge * three nips
and a cigar) and Fitch is mad ; out it. Ho
got the money by saying he iadn’t had
anything to eat in a month, bS; unfortun
ately there was a beer room j 'tween him
and dinner. 1
During this week the secre service di
vision has arrested twenty-tv > men en
gaged in dealing in countei fit money
The labor extended from Mail; to Texas.
Among them were two porso: 3in clerical
positions, who transacted busk :ss at their
tables after grace.
The happiest moments in a Oman’s life
are when she is making her w deling gar
ments; the saddest, ■when 1 r husband
comes home at night, and yells to her
from the front steps to thp vv him out
some key holes, assorted siz u—[Detroit
Free Press.
They thought there were mi ions In it t
but when they called at tho ba k Col. Sel
lers Ralston only smiled and sa I: “There’s
nothing in it,” and then thej went, and
Ralston went out and drowned itnself, and
his funeral was “perfectly lovely.”—
[Richmond Enquirer.
The Republican papers of Oif o say that
Sam Cary is a very weak caf didate for
Lieutenant Governor, but th l Cincinnati
Examiner notices that whenov< j lie heaves
in sight they all go for him w h wonder
ful viciousness and vehemencj and infers
from this fact that they deem ? m a formi
dable candidate.
The Ignorance of foreigners i something
superb. Dumas has written a? American
novel, in which a coon chases . couple of
young United States lovers uf a tree, and
tries to get them by gnawing trough the
trunk. Dumas says the Virgin coon is as
largo as a yearling calf.—[N. Y. ommerclal
Advertiser.
Bowing and smiling she crosse the street,
With a love of a tie-back on
A melon rind glided from under ;i,.r feet,
And then her lied-back was (one.
She rose from her seat with an .rtyrodair.
And gathered tho things shi wore;
She looked like one that war willing to
swear,
But then she never sworo.
The census-taker of Winchenc in, Massa
chusetts, has encountered a woi an 25 years
of age, who was married at j years old,
has ten living children, the eldc t of whom
is 13 years old. If woman ) ,s not the
nerve to steal more than $2, as Jon. Spin
ner says, she can lie with an at acity and
serenity which must ever roma : to excite
tho envy of the other sex. a
Sam Cary, of Ohio, account for provi
dential dispensations by sayi r that the
reason the rich are not blesse with chil
dren is because their young w< id “ grow
up to bo drones,” while the po( are favor
ed because mechanics are went 1. The In
ference is that Sam’s father wa rich.
Ex-Senator Geo. E. Pugh, o; Ohio, who
at first took ground against the ‘emocratic
ticket, has become so much pro’ ked at the
conduct of the Republican ora rs in that
State, that he has concluded > vote the
Democratic ticket, State and c<: nty, with
out exception. So he writes t< die Chair
man of the Democratic State Executive
Committee.
Frank Grinnell, son of Geo re B. Grin
ned, of New York, died at the isidence of
William D. Bishop, Bridgeport, Clean., last
night, from the effects of an in lry receiv
ed on Wednesday last while p! ying base
ball. Young Grinnell was stru aby a ball
on the hoad immediately behin the right
ear, which rendered him insensi le. He re
mained in that condition nearly (1 the time
after tho accident until his deat .
Lord Houghton (Monckton ' lines) has
reached St. Louis and given hin elf over to
be interviewed and described, th* last to the
effect that ho is rather stout I lilt with a
rubicund face, underlined with jrey whis
kers, and apparently between sixty and
seventy years of age. Hisap earanco is
rather that of a sturdy farme on a trip
with a load of grain for sale th l a peer of
the British realm. He reached ;. Louis at
the time that Jefferson Davie ras in the
place, and remarked of him t it he met
Mr. Davis in London, where 1 . on
Lord Houghton the impression fa gentle
man of fine manners and cultivfpion.
POLITICAL NOTE
The Democrats have major! es in the
Congressional delegations of ;
States, the Republicans in th teen; one
State (Louisiana) is evenly divk id and one
(Mississippi) elects Represental .es in No
vember.
In two years the Democratic (ministra
tion of Ohio has saved to the ta payers of
Ohio $1,939,178, the items being s follows:
County fees and salarns, *2Bc 97; State
levy, $1,106,000; appropriation $523,981;
session of Legislature, $21,000.
Newton Booth must now t|ie a back
seat. Though he has nearly Is! e years of
his Senatorial term to serve, he; i shorn of
his Influence. The people of; California
havo repudiated him. The mi k of his
pretensions has beeif torn aw ft and the
Sodom’s apples of his rhetoric tempt no
longer. From the position of tl Moses of
anew political faith ho must ink to sue
for the place of camp-follo*wer t< me or the
other of the great political pa lea [San
Francisco Post.
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FOR MAP CIRCULARS. CONDENSED
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gard to transportation facilities to all points
in Tennessee. Arkansas, Missouri, Minne
sota, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, lowa, New
Mexico. Utah and California, apply to or ad
dress Albebt B. Wrenn, General Emigrant
Agent Office No. 2 H. I. Kimball House. At
lanta, Ga.
No one should go West without first getting
in communication with the General Emi
gra’t Agent, and become informed as to su
perior advantages, cheap and Quick trans
portation of faTilies. household goods,
st ek, and farming implements gene ally.
All information cheerfully given.
W. L. DANLEY,
sepH-6m G. P, & T. A.
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Ordinary's Office, Richmond County, )
Augusta, Ga.. August 21. 1815. i
THE FOLLOWING TWO SECTIONS OF
the law creating tho "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 penaltof ten
dollars, to be recovered in any Court of com
petent jurisdiction in the State, at tho suit of
the Ordinary, to report to the Ordinary, in
tho forms to be provided, all Deaths and
Births which como under his supervision,
with a certificate of tho 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 death, by tho parents, or, if nono, by
the next kin, under penalty of ten dollars.,at
the suit of the Ordinary, as provided in Sec.
ll 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.
aug22-3't Ordinary.
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.
ang23-tf Gen’l Insurance Agent.
WANTS.
Advertisements not over Jive lines wlli
be inserted under this head for fifty cents
each insertion, cash. _
WANTED, A SITUATION AS COOK.
Can cook anything. Had an expe
rience of twenty yeArs. Apply at Lexius
Hensen’s.
sepls-4 LUCY MILLER. .
WANTED— A competent NURSE. Ap
ply at 185 Broad street.
sepß-wth&su
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Seed Rye and Barley,
On CONSIGNMENT and for sale by
J. H. VANNERSON,
sepl6-3 144 Reynolds Street.
Bananas ! Bananas !!
—~.—■ —-
ONE HUNDRED BDNCHES OF BAN
anas arrived and for sale by
E. A. MASSIE,
Jackson street opposite E. H. Pughe’s
sep 16—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-6m Augusta, Ga.
WIRE HAY BANDS.
TOEING AGENTS for tho EXCELSIOR
WIRE BANDS, we will always have a full
supply at loiv figure*.
PRINTUP BRO. & POLLARD,
Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants
sepll-lm
TO SINGLE GENTLEMEN.
JJOOMS FURNISHED, INCLUDING
Watea and Gas Privileges.
W. W. BARRON,
sop7-tu&suntf 185 Ellis street.
NOTICE.
rpHIRTY DAYS after date I shall become
JL 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, Ga., August 6th, 1875.
aug6- 30
“notice.
A.FTER this date my office will be at the
Store of BONES, BROWN & CO., where I
will bo pleased to see my friends.
R. F. URQUHART.
Augusta, Sept. 4th, 1875. seps-sututh2w
Cotton Gins and Presses.
WE CALL the at tention of parties wish
ing to purchase a GIN or PRbSS
to our Neblett it Goodrich Gins and Smith’s
Improved Presses,
PRINTUP, BRO. A POLLARD,
Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants
sepll-lm
FOR SALE,
The Edwards House,
AT SPARTA, GEORGIA.
rpHE above capacious Brick Hotel is of
fered for sale on reasonable terms. At
tached to tho Hotel is a fine Stable that will
accommodate forty to fifty horses. For in
formation apply to
COTHERN & WATKINS,
Sparta, Ga.
Or J. O. MATHEWSON & CO.,
sep l s-lm Augusta, Ga.
YOU CAN FIND
AT
C. J. T. BALK S
The best sc. NECK RUSHES.
Tho best 25c. Silk Scarfs.
The best 15c. Worsted Dress Goods.
The best assortment of Fall Prints.
The best 6%c. Brown Shirting.
The best 9c. Brown Sheeting.
The best 10c. Bleached Shirting.
The best 40 and 50c. Black Alpaca.
The best 20 and 25c. Jeans for Pants.
The best 10 and 12%c. Checked Home- 1
spun.
The best 12%c. Cotton Flannel.
The best 10c. Heavy Brown Drilling.
Tho best bargains In all kinds of Dry
Goods.
Be sure and look for No. 136 Broad.street,
below Monument street.
C. J. T. BALK.
eepl2-tf
TURNIP SEED!
TURNIP SEED, TURNIP SEED,
OP EVERY VARIETY and of the same
reliable quality that has always given
satisfaction. Call before you purchase at
our Drug Store, where you can also be sup
plied with our
TURNIP FERTILIZER.
This article has never failed to produce
the largest Turnips and most abundant
crops. We refer to all the farme rs in Rich
mond county, who have used it.
For sale in any quantities at the Drug
Store of EDWARD BARRY & CO,
jy23-frßuwclm 288 Broad street.
COAL! COAL ! COAL !!!
CEO. S. HOOKEY,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
Coal Creek,
Anthracite,
And
Blacksmiths’
OO A !
I HAVE NOW ON HAND, (Fresh from
the Mines,) a full supp'yof the above
COALS, and will take pleasure in filling or
ders for any quantity desired, and at prices
as low, if not lower, than can be purchased
in this city.
Office Over 210 Broad Street.
sep!s-tf
SPiCiAL INDUCEMENTS
To Early Purchasers.
I AM now offering the following COALS
at LOWEST DEICES, by car load or
single ton:
ANTHRACITE, of Best Quality.
CAHABA RED ASH, of Alabama.
This Coal comes in large 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 Mines.
F. M.STOVAIL,
sep!2-tf No 1 Warren Block.
BLACKSMITHS
CAN GET THE VERY
BEST COAL
For their purposes, in quantities to suit
their purses, at the Lowest Prices at my
Coal and Wood Yard. I have employed Mr.
W. B. Fitzsimmons to take charge of the
Yard, and he will be found there at all
hours, from sunrise to sunset. It will give
him the greatest pleasure to swap coal or
wood for your greenbacks. If you are
conscientious about passing greenbacks
he won’t object to taking gold or silver in
exchange for fuel of auy kind. Everybody
is invited to attend his levees. He will sell
coal to uny of you
WHO HAVE THE CASH,
regardless of color or previous condition
Don’t any be modest about calling. He
will be glad to see anybody with tho Cash.
JOSEPH A. HILL.
sepl4-lw
Geo. T. Jackson. John T. Miller
Walter M. Jackson. Marion J. Verdery.
m, t. mm & co
PROPRIETORS OP THE
GRANITE MILLS,
AND
General Produce Mercli’ts.
dealers in
FLOUH,
MEAL, GRITS, HAY,
CORN, OATS,
PEAS, CRACKED CORN,
PEA MEAL,
Bran, Middlings, Etc.
er Orders are respectfully solicited,
and prompt attention promised.
apr2s-tf
RAILROAD HOUSE,
THOMSON, GA.,
By Henry McKinney.
CONVENIENT to liailioad Depot. Pas
sengers by Day Down Train take din
ner at this place. sep2-tf
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. sep 12-12,19,26&0ct3 _
I)R. I’UTT’S HAIR DYE
POSSESSES qualities that no otner dye
does. Its effect is instantaneous, and
so natural that it cannot be detected by the
closest observer. It is harmless and easily
applied, and is in general use among the
fashionable hair dressers in every large
city in tho United States. Price, $1 a box.
Sold everywhere. Office, 18 Murray street,
Now York. jel3-SuWdFr&cly
GEORGE Gr. HULL,
PROPRIETOR OF THE
EXCELSIOR MILLS
(Formerly Stovall’s Excelsior Mills),
AUGUSTA, GA.,
MAFUFACTUREB FLOUR in all grades.
The old aud well known EXCELSIOR
BRANDS
PRIDE OF AUGUSTA,
GOLDEN SHEAF,
EXTRA,
LITTLE BEAUTY,
Always on hand, and their well earned
reputation will be faithfully
maintained.
CORN MEAL,
CRACKED CORN,
CRACKED WHEAT,
GRAHAM FLOUR,
MILL FEED,
BRAN, Etc.,
Constantly made, and orders promptly
tilled at the
LOWEST RATES.
je23tf
MANSION HOUSE
rOR/r KOYAI,, s. O.
SITUATED AT THE TERMINUS OF
the Port Royal Railroad, where connec
tion is made with tho fast sailing, lirst class
steamers Montgomery and Huntsville,
sailing to New York every Friday.
Round trip from Augusta, S3O.
This is an entirely new and elegantly fur
nished house. Situation unsurpassed, sur
rounded with magnificent live oaks, com
manding a splendid prospect of the sur
rounding country, tho Beaufort and Port
Royal Rivers, and offers unusual attrac
tions to travelers or to parties who desire
Board or to spend a few days near the salt
water.
Table supplied with everything the mar
ket affords. Fresh milk, butter, tisli, veg
etables and fruits in their season.
Best of Cooks and Attendants.
Terms liberal.
C. E. WARREN,
je26-tf Proprietor.
NOTICE.
171 ROM THIS DATE Mr. GEORGE W.
' CALVIN becomes a copartner of the
undersigned. The firm name will remain
as heretofore.
CALVIN & JONES.
September let, 1875. sepl-tf
COTTON FACTORS.
A. M. BENSON. W. N. MEBCIEB.
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 first class fire-proof storage for in
definite time, at very low rates of interest.
sepl2-d&c3m
J. J. PEARCE,
COTTON FACTOR,
And Commission Merchant,
JACKSON STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
sep7-d&c3m
POULLAIN,
Cotton Factor,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
\X7TLL continue tho bus ness at my fire-
Y ▼ 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, SPEAKS & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Merchantts !
HAVE REMOVED to Office and Ware
house formerly occupied by them.
Warehouse, No. 0 Campbell street; Office
and Salesroom, No. 177 Reynolds street,
Augusta, Ga. sepl-3w
0. H.. PHINIZY. p. B. PHINIZY
C. H. PHINIZY & CO.
COTTON FACTORS
AUGUSTA, CECRCIA,
Make liberal advances on oon
signments, buy and sell Cotton for fu
ture delivery in Now York. Furnish Plant
ers with supplies. Keep always on hand a
large Stock of BAGGING, and are the Sole
Agents for the
Beard Cotton Tie,
Winsliip Cotton Gin,
And the
Peerless Guano.
Consignments and Orders respectfully so
licited.
augl9-2m C. H. PHINIZY & CO.
M. P- STOVALL,
COTTON FACTOR
—AND—
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
NO. 5 WABREN BLOCK, JACKSON ST.,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
CiONTINUES to give his personal atten
) tion to the STORAGE and SALE of
COTTON and other Produce.
Eiberal advances made on Consign
ments. sep4-satuth&c3m
Copartnership Notice.
Mr. HUGH 11. PENNY having bought
the half interest in the Foundry and
Machine Shops, Tools, Machinery, Material
and Fixtures, movable and immovable,
known as the Pendleton &. Boardman Iron
Works, the business will'be conducted un
der tho firm name of
Pendleton &, Penny-
Tliankf ul to the public for past patronage,
with ample means to carry out all contracts
for Iron and Brass Castings, and Machinery
of all descriptions, with dispatch and good
stylo, we hope to merit a continuance of the
same.
WM. PENDLETON, HUGH H,PEN NY
seps-~uthlra
FAIRBANKS
SCALES
eFAIR^fICS.
THE STANDARD!
Also, Miles’ Alarm Cash Drawer.
Coffee and Drug Mills, Letter Presses, Ac
Principal Scale Warehouses:
FAIRBANKS & CO.,
fill Broadway, TV. Y.
Fairbanks & Cos., 166 Baltimore st., Balti
more, Md.; Fairbanks fc Cos., 53 Camp st.,
New Orleans; Fairbanks & Cos., 93 Main st.,
Buffalo, N. Y.; Fairbanks & Cos., 338 Broad
way, Albany, N. Y.; Fairbanks A Cos., 403
St. Paul’s st., Montreal; Fairbanks & Cos.,
34 King William st., London, Eng.; Fair
banks, Brown & Cos., 2 Milk st., Boston,
Mass.; Fairbanks & Ewing, Masonic Hall,
Philadeldhia, Pa.; Fairbanks, Morse & Cos.,
11l Lake st., Chicago; Fairbanks, Morse &
Cos., 139 Walnut st., Cincinnati, O.; Fair
banks, Morse & Cos., 182 Superior st., Cleve
land, O.; Fairbanks, Morse & Cos., 48 Wood
st., Pittsburgh; Fairbanks, Morse & Cos..
sth and Main sts., L misville; Fairbanks &
Cos., 302 and 304 Washington Av., St. Louis;
Fairbanks & Hutchinson, San Francisco,
Cal. For sale by leading Hardware Deal
ers. jy4-satuth&e3m
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,
sepl 1-1 m Agent.
Retrospective and fongraiulatory.
rnwo AND A HALF YEARS Experience
J in Augusta, as a grocery man, gives
rise to many reflections in glancing over
the situation here as we found it and as it
is at the present writing. 'J oas, 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 tho victim of anoth
er dead beat. Look at tho 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 nail 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 oven now, as 1 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.-It is
no longer necessary to risk having this de
licious bevei’age 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
the 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 distaut 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,
sop!2-tf Red Gilt Front, opp. Fountain.
Communications.
diltA r|iA A AAA Has been invest-
IU 1 ed in Stock Priv
ileges, and paid 900 per cent, profit. " How
to do it.” A book on Wall street sent free.
TUMBRIDGE & CO.. Bankers, 2 Wall St.
N. Y. iei9*d*c3m
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. We now have in stock choice
styles of new Calicoes at 8 and 10c.;
Black Alpacas at 25, 35, 40, 45, 50, GO. 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 Jo ins at 15, 20, 25, 35, 40, 45
and 50c.; Tweeds and Cassimeres at 50, GO,
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 aud Bomba
zines. ... ,
To those of our country friends who can
not pay us a visit we 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, wiil do well to ex
amine our wholesale stock, and we respect
lully invite taern to do so.
V. RICHARDS & BRO.,
Corner by the Planters’ Hotel,
• 301 Broad street,
au g24-tu wetlisu tu w&cl m
JUiST RECEIVED!
SEVERAL cases beautiful FALL CALI
COES. Several cases of KENTUCKY
,j EANS, cheap, and a variety of seasonable
goods. Cheap for CASH.
sep2-thsatu-2w M. S. KEAN.
LACE CURTAINS
CLEANED AND WHITENED,
AT
123 BROAD STREET.
aug27-12 JAS. H. HULSE.
Notice to Consignees.
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD COMPANY, I
Augusta Agency,'Sept. 10, 1875. {
ON aud after this date consignments of
Cotton from Way Stations to Augusta
will only be delivered upon surrender of
receipt issued by Agent at shipping point.
Receipts issued for cotton consigned to
<,rder must be properly endorsed by ship
per before cotton will be delivered.
Shippers aud Consignees will please be
governed accordingly.
W. H. TREZEVANT,
sepll-12 Agent.
“PURE SEED ”
“RUST PROOF OATS.”
PRICE $1.25 CASH, PER BUSHEL. Sown
in August or September, the most cer
tain crop raised—succeeding on the Sea
coast, wnere no other oat ever matures
seed, as well as on high auds.
Grown expressly for seed, and for sale by
EDWARD BANCROFT,
Athens, Ga.
For sale by
C. H. PHINIZY, A CO.,
augl3-lm* Augusta, Ga.
A Complete Stock ot
BLACK IRON BEREGES!
Embracing all the different makes and
qualities, fust 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 BROS.’
Every quality and pattern in Striped and
Figured
French and English Pique,
and a variety of qualities iu French Welt,
or Cord Piques, just received at
MULLARKY BROS.'
Cassimeres in Hew 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.,
■HU2 BROAD HTREET
jru>4 r r RECEIVED
New mid Beautiful Styles,
IN Hamburg Embroideries, Imperial
Trimmings in pretty designs, Patent
Valenciennes Edgings, latest patterns;
Linen Collars, Cuffs, Ruehings and Neck
Wear in a great variety of styles.
TUCKED LAWNS, TUCKED CAMBRIC
and REVERE CORD MUSLIN’S, suitable
for BIAS TRIMMING, at
MULLARKY BROS.
THIS WEEK.
Misses and Children’s SPRING STYLES,
in Striped Cotton Hose, colors new and
pretty, aud prices lower than heretofore.
Also, a full lino in all qualities of Ladies’
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
ton Diapors and RICHARDSON’S CELE
BRATED
IRISH LINENS,
Will be offered THIS WEEK at prices to
suit the times.
MULLARY BROS.
mh7-suthtf 2G2 BROAD STREET.
NOTICE?
A LL persons having left Watches, Clocks,
Jewelry, Guus or Pistols for repairs at
J. Kaplan are hereby notified to call for
them within 30 days from date, or they will
be sold at auction to pay expenses.
I will sell my stock of Clocks, Watches,
Jewelry, Fancy Goods, Pistols, Musical In
struments, Ac., 25 per cent, below cost till
September 29th, to close business.
JACOB KAPLAN,
150 Broad street.
Augusta, Ga., August 26th, 1875.
NOTICE.
ONE MONTH AFTER DATE (my hus
band consenting) 1 will become a free
trader, and do business in my own name.
MARY L. SMITH,
Augusta, Ga., Sept., 13. 1875.
The above notice is given with my con
sent. H* SMITH.
sep!4-lm ___
J. W. NELSON,
RETAIL GROCER, No. 3f4 Broad Street,
(old stand of John Nelson & Son,) has
opened a First Class Grocery Store. He
w'ili keep constantly on hand choice GRO
CERIES of every description, and hopes,
by close attention to business, to merit the
prtronage of his friends and the public
generally. Having secured the agency for
Fairbanks’ Standard Scales, he is prepared
to furnish these celebrated Scales to all.
Scales promptly repaired. sepS-guthtX