Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

AUGUSTA, C3-.A-.: Friday Morninjr, September 17, 1875. Throwing Tubs to the Whale—A Veri table Job’s Comforter. The New York Herald keeps up its paternal interest in both the great po litical parties of the Union. It would be hard to say how the scale of prefer ence inclines, since the Herald has a charming way of trying to please every body and turn an honest penny as the organ of those who want a weather cock, no matter how eccentric. Still, the great New York paper seldom fails to make a sensation, and generally mingles much wit with a deal of incon sistency. Just now, the Herald is twitting the Republican party leaders with having made asses of themselves since 1860, so far ao their Southern policy is concern ed. It is shown that the result of the Sumner, Tiiad Stevens and Greeley prescription has been the destruction of the Radical organization, even in the South. We quote: “In 1868-’69 it ruled in every Southern State, and it counted among its members a number of eminent Southern public men aud many thousands of Southern whites. To-day it can count only on South Carolina and Mississippi, and not certainly on those. In the rest of the cotton States the party is to-day composed almost exclusively of the negroes and the Foderal office-holders. In Arkansas the Republican party has been overthrown, and will hardly be re organized. In Alabama it is hopelessly demoralized. In Louisiana it was fair ly beaten in the last election, and is sustained to-day only by the Federal power. In Georgia it is in a hopeless minority. In North Carolina it has squandered a large majority, and it is doubtful whether it can recover its ground next year. Even in Mississippi and South Carolina, States which have overwhelmningly large majori ties, the party is in danger. We need not speak of Tennessee, Kentucky, Vir ginia or Missouri. In all the cotton States the Republican policy has re sulted only in arraying the mass of the white voters against it. In Louisiana, in 1874, not more than five thousand white men supported the Republican ticket, and these were the office-hold ers and their friends. In Georgia, to take another State, less than five thou sand white voters belong to the Re publican side; and again, these are mostly Federal office-holders and their relatives and friends.” This is the Southern picture. The rule or ruin party is not any the less battered at the East and West. If the office holders and negroes were elimi nated from this faction it would die by looking into a mirror—so hideous and so shrunken is its aspect. The Herald thinks it was wise in the Saratoga Convention to speak softly of the South. Wise, perhaps, but too late. Such words would never have been drawn from the Radical wire pullers had not the whole country turned against them, and had not men clamoring for bread and work men aced the architects of their country’s and their own ruin with a tremendous overthrow. The Herald truly declares that the policy carried out by Grant has not only alienated the South but smashed the Republican party. Alluding to the displacement of Southern brains and influence from power, it says ; The administration since 1868 has united them all in the same condemnation. It has not asked their advice, or sought their help, or offered public position and its ac companying influence to any of them. It has reserved all its places of trust and honor in the South for strangers or for natives of no political influence, and mostly of no character. Now, suppose the Presi dent, carefully watching the course of events, the important changes of opinion in the South, had seized the opportunity in each of those States of offering, say two years ago, important Federal appointments to some of the really prominent and influ ential men in it. Suppose he had chosen from the foremost of the Southern leaders one or two Cabinet officers, aud put upon these and their political allies the work of organizing a real Republican party in the South, allowing them to put in the Federal offices there such real leaders of the white people as they would have known how to choose. Of course he would have had to allow to these Southern men a just and large influence in his councils. They would have altered his policy in many important respects. They would have de manded the repeal of the enforcement acts; would have crushed the civil rights bill; would have stopped Federal interfer ence in local affairs, They would certainly have turned out the corrupt men who have robbed Louisiana and other States. But no man can doubt that they would have suc ceeded long ago in dividing the white vote; in bringing permanently to the Republican side in those States a large part of the brains, intelligence and wealth; and this, iu itself, would have insured peace and rest for all, and absolute and permanent securi ty for the colored people. The South has been, for at least three or four years, ripe for such a policy, and It is the gravest blunder of the Republican administration that it has utterly refused to recognize its opportunity aud has continued to rule only by harsh, repressive measures, by violence and the exercise of brute force. It may be said in response to this that grave difficulties lay in the path of Grant had he attempted such a pro gramme. Very few, if any, prominent Southern men would • have accepted the gift of high office at his hands, and the very offer of such positions to pro nounced ex-Confederates would have, some years back, placed the President between the upper and the nether mill stone. It may be admitted that ‘he has killed his party; but how? We answer unhesitatingly, by pushing the Radical idea to an extremity and there by showing to the country what the doctrines of Wilson, Sumner and Gree ley really are when carried into vig orous execution. He entered office with a pledge beforehand to obey the ordinances of the men who made him. He has done so, and Mr. Wilson need not claim exculpation, when confronted with the consequences of his own sin. W are of those who believe that if the Republican party is ready for a rupture with Grant, he will accept the challenge and make the work hot for his rivals or would-be usurpers. On this point the Herald remarks: It is creditable to the Vice President s po litical sagacity that he was the first among the Republican leaders to perceive the seri ous blunder which his party was making. Of late we notice some indications that other leading Republicans begin to see it too. They are ready for a change; but they do not know how to bring it about. They are afraid of the President; and he is not in the least afraid of them. Indeed, it may be said that he has a genuine an I scarcely concealed contempt for the Re publican leaders. He does not advise with them; he does not care to know what they think; and for the present, as during the war, he “fights it out on the same line.” Meantime they praise him in conventions and talk spitefully about him in private. And if they are not careful he will some day change his base and leave them all “out in the cold.” If he should suddenly determine on a radical change in his Southern policy and make conditions with the Democratic leaders, binding thorn to give up inflation on condi tion that ho would do justice in the South and rout the robbers there, might he not say that he had once more savod the coun try from a grave danger; that he had stepped into a gap which no one else could fill ? It may be that he is incapable of such a stroke; but he would not bo withheld from it by feelings of affection for the Re-' publican leaders, or care for their comfort or future. The fact js, no one can tell what this Sphiox-like Man of the White House will or will uot do. One thing is cer tain : he is a fighting man. If his quondam followers strike him, ho will strike back with compound interest iu every blow. The South may be acting a wise part if she gazes upon both an tagonists, and remembers that circum stances may compel the one she deem ed her bitterest foe to become her friend, however reluctantly and with whatever indirection. Grant, in carry ing out Wilson’s theories, has killed his party. Nothing should be done to prevent him from burying the corpse. A £oul Chimney Burning Out. Since Mr. Nordhoff has contrived to make out that the Reconstruction Acts have very nearly, if not quite, reduced the Southern States to bankruptcy and degradation, he ought to roam around Chicago and New York and tell the country the truth about those trade centres and how they like the “results of the war.” Let us hear from this man of facts and figures how many men and women are out of employ ment in the “prosperous” sections of the Union; how many are toiling at starvation wages and in daily fear of losing even those; how much real estate and other property has shrunk; how very dull trade is iu all branches ; how gigantically crime stalks abroad in the “ land of plenty !” As Balzac, the novelist, endeavored to give iu his books every phase of French life, Mr. Nordhoff might spice his “ro mances founded on fact ” by drawing a faithful picture of the East and West as a complete offset to his South ern charcoal sketches. Let him give us the “ true inwardness ” of Tramp land, and let us know how the mer chants and clerks, and laborers of the North feel about the Abolition war— the war of Reconstruction aud “things generally.” To assist him somewhat, wo call his attention to the following quotation from a commercial report published at Chicago, September Bth, 1875 : The Buffalo Express says that notwith standing the protestations of shipowners at the beginning of the year that if freights went lower than in 1871 they would not fit out, nearly all the lake fleet have fitted out sooner or later, and freights are now lower than ever, as will be seen from the follow ing statement of the average freight on wheat and corn from Chicago to Buffalo by lake, and from Buffalo to New York by canal, for the month of Augustin the years named: • lake——. canal Wheat. Corn. Wheat. Corn. Year. cents, cents. cents, cents 1866 10.3 8.8 15.7 13.3 1867 5.5 4.1 13.7 11.7 1868 7.8 6.6 14.1 11.6 1809 5.0 4.8 14.0 12.0 1870 5.0 4 7 9.4 9.2 1871 6.2 5.7 11.8 10.8 1872 9.6 8.8 12.0 11.0 1373 6.5 5.6 10.6 9.6 .1874 3.1 2.1 9.0 8.0 1375 2.5 2.2 8.1 7.3 The average rate on wheat by lake last month was over %c. below that for the cor responding month in 1874, while the aver age by canal is nearly lc. lower. It will be seen by the exhibit that the ruling prices this year are without a parallel. A freight of 2% cents makes a very poor showing as compared with 10-3 cents, the average for August, 18C6. By canal the average last month was only a trifle more than one-haP of that for August, 1866. Scores of vessels which went into busi ness have again gone out of commission. At Chicago the harbor Is so full of vessels laid up that those in business find difficulty in moving about from one dock to anothor. A schooner, considerably above the aver age as a -carrier, not long ago .was unable to procure any kind of jf, cargo at Chicago that would even pay her expenses down, aud she came all the way through the lakes to Cleveland flying light. Such a thing was never heard of before. Another vessel brought down a load of corn at l?ic. per bushel. The contract was reported as on private terms, but this ruinous rate was all she got. That tells its own story and is yet only a faint illustration of the funeral pall that hangs this day over New Y'ork and Chicago. We believe the Georgia farmers, on their old red hills, are to-day much more secure of the future than the people of the East or West, and the developments of the next twelve months will prove the truth of this assertion. Spoils of War.— The notorious “ Brick ” Pomeroy has been lecturing in Baltimore. Here is a specimen of his talk: He had said bitter things and bitter things had been said of him. He had said that there were cross-eyed generals in the army, who with one eye looked for ambi tion, and used the other to hunt for spoons [Applause.! At Cairo he saw a coffin which was supposed to contain the dead body of a lieutenant in the army being sent home for burial. The coffin was broken open by accident, and it was found full of silver ware stolen in the South. A piece of raw meat was on the top of the silver, which emitted the offensive odor expected from a corpse. That is a companion piece to the story of a man who waited for a stove to cool in order to steal it. Augusta has provided free transporta tion for her paupers from the city, and it is said many of them are heading in this direction. This is the poorest place in the world for them, and we would advise the poor creatures to stay in Augusta, where they can fish in the river.—[Commonwealth- Herald. They are tired of fishing in the river, and want to wet a line in your new wa ter works. Fall Trade. —The New York World tries to think matters will mend, after a bit. It says; There is, indeed, no indication of a sweep ing revival of trade with incidental flush times in the near future, but what is per haps better than the promise of flush times, there is the certainty that the coun try is steadily recovering from the collapse of 1873, and that business is steadily getting on its feet again. Buyers from the South and West are already here in good num bers, and though few of them made large or extravagant purchases, most, if not all of them are safe and valuable customers. Single orders are comparatively small in nearly every branch of trade, but they are sufficiently largo to make a good if not a brisk season. The most notable and by no means tho least encouraging feature of the business situation is the increase in the number of buyers from tho South with cash or good credit. Wo are told by a gentleman just from New York that he never before saw such stagnation thero at this sea son of the year. Ordinarily, on former occasions, he found it a difficult matter to get one clerk to wait on him. The other day he was besieged by ten or more. Buyers from the South may be good customers, and doubtless are, but they are very scarce and very pru dent. New York is getting her dose for furnishing men and money to ad vance Puritan ideas and destroy the South. The people of the North have freed the negro and enfranchised him. Behold the cost! Pierrepont.— lt does not surpriso us to learn that the Radical-Republi cans “are laying ropes for a formidable raid upon Attorney-General Pierre pont. They find fault with him for the deliberation with which he has pro ceeded in the Mississippi affair. They assert that he ought at once to have advised compliance with Gov. Ames’ requisition for troops.” Every re spectable man in the country, on the otaer hand, praises Pierrepont for his “wisdom, moderation and justice” in the j lississippi affair. Wo see it rather rashly stated that tho Washington newspapers are organs of Grant. If so, he has recently, through Mr. Pierrepont, gone diametrically against his so-called “organs.” We believe the Sphinx, though ho does not take the trouble to say so, has only one organ, aud that is himself. “Reform.” —At Edwards, which is situated in Hinds county, Miss., tho scene of the recent “outrages,” a very large Democratic rally took place on Saturday last, at which a large number of negroes were present. They walked in'procession with the white Conserva tives and dined at the same tables. At another meeting, in order to complete the picture, the Democratic whites should wait on their colored friends aud help them to the barbecued hog, the peppery pig hash, aud the soul-inspir ing whiskey toddy. De Puofundis. —The late Andrew Johnson was wont to dwell with much pride upon the fact that ho rose from a City Alderman to be President of the United States. Had he lived long enough he might have retraced his steps from a President to a Council man. But A. J.’s record was not more stunning than that of Pinchback. Here it is: An ex-slave, a gambling house porter, a faro dealer, an inmate of the city Workhouse, subsequently an in cendiary State Senator, and at length the Lieutenant Governor and acting Governor of the State. Caution. —All our advices from Eu rope and this country indicate that the supply of first-rate wheat is very limi ted. People who use flour should re member this. It is much better for our readers, for example, to deal with millers at home whose reputations are above reproach than take the chances of having their health ruined and their pockets not at all benefited by pur chasing flour made from low grades of Western wheat. Meat.— The working classes of Eng land do not get near as much meat to eat as tho commonest toiler, black or white, iu the South. Col. Donn Piatt says the butchers sell it by the ounce and only very rich persons can afford a substantial chunk. What a country this would have been had fools and fanatics never stirred up strife where none should ever be! Damages.— The Nashville American says “it is believed that Sam Randall has been materially damaged in his candidacy for the Speakership by his failure to prevent the adoption of an out-and-out greenback platform by the Pennsylvania Democracy,” We should think that would help Sam, if even burnt brandy could do it. Ohio.— Gen. Ewing thinks Allen will be elected by at least 40,000 votes, and, but for the Know-Nothing bugaboo, the State would have been good for 60,000 majority. It is admitted by many prominent Republicans that old Uncle William is bound to win, but they whittle his majority down con siderably. Apologetic.— lt is said that General Sherman has written a letter to Col. JohnS. Sutter appologizing for speak ing of him in his memoirs as “tight” on a certain occasion. He writes that he has instructed his publishers to substitute the word “enthusiastic” for tiie word “tight.” Why not “tightly enthusiastic?” Consoled. —The St. Louis Globe-Dem oci'at (Rad.) is preparing for defeat. It consoles itself, however, with the re flection that Republican newspapers will have no end of sport criticizing, abusing and spying out tho real and fictitious weak points of a Democratic Administration. When the Democracy elect .their President, nobody will ob ject to the rage of the heathen. Wisconsin. The Chicago Tribune guffaws over the fact that a “Conven tion of the Democratic party in the State of Wisconsin have adopted a platform which is, as a whole, the best and clearest expression of the senti ments and opinions of the Republican party that has been recently put forth in any quarter.” No wonder the Trib une laughs. Xerxes X. Crum is an Illinois school teacher. PERSONAL. Keely, the motor man, wea *‘B diamonds. Jeff Davis is seventy years old, and still he is not happy.—[New York Herald. He is only 68. Extraordinary item in New: Orleans city accounts—“L. Duffy, poisoned, sausages, as per contract, $2lO. | Mr. Wourall, in a late speech in Old ham, England, said that God in these last days had designed to make the United States and that country dependent upon each other. A Muscogee man said to a! Biblo agent: “I’m a Christian, but I’ll bti blamed if I don’t have to grit my teeth when the rust is destroying my cotton.” Not for twenty years has the School of St. Cyr had suefi a triumph as that on tho examinations of August 31st. All the can didates passed, and the army receives 270 sub-lieutenants trained to the highest point, according to the French system. The Fitch-Slierman necklace, presented by the Khedive of Egypt, is said to remain in the Now York Custom House, awaiting the payment of duties. Rochefort has had an escape from drowning at Geneva. Out with his daugh ter on Lake Leman; squall came; upset boat; timely assistance; saved. Since the Pennsylvania Democratic Con vention the song goes: Tho elephant now goes ’round, The band begins to play, The boys about the bullion house Had better keep away. : Gone to join Bill Allen, Fischietto, of Turin, reports that the King of Holland, who has a villa by Lake Leman, enjoys a cigar in the open air—and enjoys it more particularly when his costume is so light as to be called semi-Adainitic; but that the English ladies who g ) boating ob ject, and so the Swiss Government has had to request his Majesty to dissimulate his line proportions in more tailor’s trash. In the churchyard at Tollaqd, Cornwall, 8,000 bodies have been interned in half an acre of ground. Repeated burials have raised the soil till the church appears to be situated in a pit; a horrible slime oozes from the graves in the higher part of the yard aud trickles upon the floor of tho church; disinfectants have to be provided for the bell-ringors, and on several occa sions the congregation has had to with draw, so fetid was the atmosphere. William A. Beach, the lawyer, has played seven-up with the teamed pig, Bon, at Saratoga, and has been beaten. He heard of the wonderfully trained brute, and went to tho show tent fate at night, when his party were the only visitors. Ben was aroused from a sound sloop. They cut for deal, Beach in the usual way, and Ben with a sidewise poke of his sn >ut. The hog cut highest and the lawyer dealt for him. Beach passed, and Ben. after having his cards shown to him, picked- up a bit of pasteboard inscribed “Yes,” which meant that he “took it up.” Iu that way the game was played, the pig winning. Not long since a Chicago lawyer brought suit in a justice’s court on a clear and hon est claim for S6O. Tho defendant’s attor ney trumped up a false counter-claim, and tho conscientious jury brought in a verdict of $l5O against tho plaintiff. The latter’s lawyer remonstrated with tiro constable who had selected the jurors, and more than tinted at foul play. The con stable i elated tho caso with refreshing frankness, iu those words: “ I told Mr. So-and-So (the plaintiff) that he could have a jury to suit him for $5; ho wouldn’t give me a cunt, and I got up a jury for the other side.” In a conversation with a correspondent of the New York Times Judge. Pershing, the Democratic nominee for Governor of Penn sylvania, declined to admit ho ever had any hard-money views. He did, however, have very decided opinions about tho Republi can legislation last winter, under which the faith of the nation was pledge! to re sumption in 187 G. He thought that meas ure was “hasty, unwise and immaturo,” and on the whole did not believe that a re turn to specie payment was possible at the date appointed. Judge Pershing is disin clined to take tho stump to work for the election of tho ticket which he heads, pre fering to imitate Judge Belle, of New Jersey, in quietly waiting to be called from the Bench to the Gubernatorial Chair. Philadelphia possesses ah old woman who has for years been sick, whom a doc tor offered to cure for three hundred dol lars. This sum of money the woman was unable to get, so the doctor informed her that for one million cancelled postage stamps he would effect the cure. The old woman at once set about procuring the stamps, and, it coming to tin eaig of the boys and girls of the high scb.ool in Mana yunk and Germantown, they began to help in the attainment of this much desired ob ject. One girl lias already nanded over thirteen hundred, and others are even ahead of that figure. The one million stamps, when collected, are to.be pasted on a pedestal and exhibited at the Centennial. So says the ingenious paragraphist, who has not reflected that one million postage stamps would about cover oho side of a pedestal 110 feet square. POLITICAL NOTES. Ex-Gov. Letcher has boon nominated by the Democrats for the Virginia House of Delegates. The Democrats seem to recognize ex- Gov. David S. Reid a3 their leader in the North Carolina Constitutional Convention. The Louisville Courier-Journal urges th at tho South, having conceded tire Speaker ship of tho House to the North, should claim tho Clerkship, and presents Hon. G. M. Adams for the position as the etioiee of the Kentucky delegation. Senator John B. Gordon, of Georgia, has written a long letter, in which he In sists that tho financial question must be left out of the issues of the next national campaign. He says that the full and com plete restoration of the Government to constitutional metlied and honest admin istration should bo the one prime issue in the contest. Mr. William Lloyd Garrison has writ ten a letter to one of the Com rnittee Labor- Reformers, in which he bluntly tells him that he has no fears of any bloody strug gle so long as the people make their own laws, repudiate a uuion of Church and State, exercise liberty of speed- and of the press, make their own contracts, ai.d buy and sell according to the law of supply and demand. A London street is called after Shakespeare, and a Boston paper thinks it should an Avonue. J Perhaps the Englishmen who are bragging over their $25,000 bull never heard of our $40,000 cow. _ The most economical time to buy cider is when it is not verv clear, for then it will settle for itself. ‘ How to make the largest census re port with the smallest numNer of peo ple, is the study of the age. i Richmond is getting rich. The penal ties for profane swearing on Sunday are a source of big revenue. An Indiana infant coughed up a brass padlock the other day. The rest of the tools are still in its chest. Au Indianapolis man had his brains beaten out with a wrench. He must have suffered ex-screw-ciatiagly. A wicked generation, seeking a sign, will find at Gornwall inscribe and: ‘Bear up & Carraher.” Zenabe is dead. She was he daugh ter of the Khedive of Egypt and head wife of Ibrahim Pacha, SPECIAL NOTICES. Colonists, Emigrants and Travelers Westward. FOB MAP CIRCULARS, CONDENSED timetables and general infor ation in re 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 Albert B. Wbenn, 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 fa r ilies. household goods, st ck, and farming implements gene: ally. All information choerfully given. W. L. DANLEY, sepU-Gm G. P. & TANARUS, A. THE BOARD OF HEALTH, Ordinary’s Office, Richmond county, 1 Augusta, Ga.. August 21. 1875. J 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- See. 11. Bo It further enacted. That all Phy sicians in the practice of Medicine iu this State shall be required, under penalty of ten dollars, to be roeovered in any Court of com petent jurisdiction in the State, at the suit of the Ordinary. to report to the Ordinary, in the forms to be provided, all Deaths and Births which come under his supervision, with a certificate of tho cause of doutli. &o. Sec. 12, Bo it further enacted, That whore any Birth or Dqath shall take place, no Phy sician being iu attendance, the same shall ho reported to the Ordinary, with the supposed cause of death, by the parents, or. if none, by the next kin, under penalty of ten dollars, at the suit of the Ordinary, as provided in Sec. 11 of this Act. Physicians or other persons can obtain blank forms for tho return of Births or Deaths at my office, and a blank form for the return of Marriages will hereafter be furnished with tho 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. aug22-tf Gon’l Insurance Agent. Wants. jear Advertisements not over Jive lines wUi be inserted under this head for fifty cents each insertion, canh. _ 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. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NEELY INSTITUTE, FOR, GIRLS, Opens MONDAY, Sept., 20,1875, AT THE OLD ROOMS. sepl7-G Dissolution of Copartnership. VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT iM the partnership existing between J. Murphy & E. Murphy was dissolved on the Ist day of August last by mutual con sent. J. MURPHY, E. MURPHY, Having purchased the entir e interest of J. Murphy, of tho firm of J. Murphy & Cos., 1 will continue the CROCKERY BUSINESS in all its branches at the same store, No. 244 Broad street, Masonic Hall, and in ad dition to the above I have just opened a CARPET DEPARTMENT, and would invite our former patrons and the public general ly to call and examine. EDWARD MURPHY. In retiring from the firm of J. Murphy & Cos. I take great pleasure in recorn mending my successor, Mr. Edward Murphy, to the former patrons and the public generally, and ask that any business favors hereto fore extended to tho late firm may be con tinued to him. J. MIJRPHY. sepl7-fri,sun&wod FINE TOBACCO. U 3B the Calhoun Chewing Tobacco, the best ever sold in Augusta. For sale by G. VOLGER & CO. sep7-tf Til E ’J’EX A. IS Cotton Worm Destroyer! A Sure and Safe Remedy for the Destruc tion of the CATERPILLAR. IT DOES AWAY WITH THE USE OF Paris Green and all other poisonous ar ticles; is more effectual, less dangerous, and much cheaper than any article ever of fered for sale. Having been extensively used in'Texas during (he past year, is said to be by some of the best planters in the State the only article ever used that will entirely destroy the CATERPILLAR with out injury to the plant. It is easily applied and no danger in its use, costinci only about 25 cents per acre. For particulars as to price, &c., apply to D. B. U ITLI,, Savannah, General Agent for Georgia. M, .A. STOVALL.. Agent, Augusta, Ga. Agents wanted through the State. jelß-3m 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 aud as it is at the present writing. ’l eas, Coffees, Sugars, Flour, Soap, Spices, and in short nearly all the necessaries as well as luxu ries of life, are now sold at a closet 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 the facts: In Sugars I sell two pounds more for one dollar to day than could be bought at retailor 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 the purchaser. Revolutions never go backward! What one year has accomplished anothor 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, sep!2-tf Red Gilt Front, opp. Fountain. NOTICE. ALL persons having left Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Guns 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, &c., 25 per cent, below cost till September 29th, to close business. JACOB KAPLAN, 150 Broad street. Augusta, Ga., August 26th, 1875. aug26-30 I\# P Ski To agents and others, male wl I w Cii I w and female, a SSO secret and beautifully illustrated luo- A \A# AA/ page Novelty Catalogue. R. ww ¥ F. Young & Cos., 38 Brcrfi way. New York. iy29-iawly COAL! COAL ! COAL !J! GEO. S. HOOKEY, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Coal Creek, Anthracite, And Blacksmiths’ C O A j_. ! I HAVE NOW ON HAND, (Fresh from the Mines,) a full supply of the above COALS, and will take pleasure in tilling 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. sepls-tf SPECIAL INDUCEMTS To Early Purchasers. I AM now offering the following COALS at LOWEST PRICES, by car load or single ton: ANTHRACITE, of Best Quality. GAHABA RED ASH, of Alabama. This Coal comes in large lumps, is hard in texture, ignites readily, burns freely, makes Jittjo 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. STOVAI L, sepl2-tf No 1 Warren Block. BLACKSMITHS CAN GKT THE VEHY 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 bo 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 any kind. Everybody is invited to attend his levees. He will sell coal to any of you WHO HAVE THE CAHH, regardless of color or previous condition Don’t any bo modest about calling. He will be glad to see anybody with the Ca-h. JOSEPH A. HILL. sepll-lw F O R W A f I THE MONTOUR Cotton Mills, SPARTA, HANCOCK, CO., CA. On THE LINE OF THE MACON AND Augusta Railroad for the manufacturing of Sheetings, Shirtings, Osnaburgs, Cotton Yarn and Cotton Rope. The main building is of brick, four stories and thoroughly well built, 55 feet wide by 141 feet long with two svings 26 feet long. Engine and Picker Room 21 feet long, the Boiier Room making 55 by 188 feet full length. First floor of main building contains 96 Looms, Folding Machine, Cloth Shearer and Brusher, Sewing Machine and Rope-Room, with all necessary machinery for making Rope. Second floor contains 40 Cards 36 inches and all necessary machinery for making Roping, etc. Second floor over En gine Room contains 3 Pickers. Third floor contains 32 Spinning Frames. 160 Spindles each, making iu all 5,120 Spindles. Fourth floor, Sizing Room, Beaming and Reeling Room and Packing Room, and all necessary machiney for doing good work. The Steam Engine is 150 Horse Power and in flue order, with all necessary Out Houses, Machine Shop, Blacksmith Shop, 2 Cotton Houses, Wood Shed and Stables, Waste Houses, Oil House,etc., 37 Operative Houses, 51% Acres of Land, etc. For information apply to GEO. W. WATKINS, Agent, Sparta, or J. O. MATHEWSON ft CO., seplseod3m Augusta, Ga. Seed Rye and Barley, On CONSIGNMENT and for sale by J. H. VANNEItSON, seplG-3 144 Reynolds Street. Fruitland Nurseries, Augusta, Ga. P.T. 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. IJEING AGENTS for the EXCELSIOR WIRE BANDS, we will always have a full supply at low Figures. PRINTUP BRO. ft POLLARD, Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants scpll-lm __ TO SINGLE GENTLEMEN. JJOOMS FURNISHED, INCLUDING Wate.i and Gas Privileges. W. W. BARRON, sep7-tuxsuntf 185 Ellis Street. NOTICE. miIIRTY DAY'S after date I shall become J. a PUBLIC or FREE TRADER, in ac cordance with provisions of Section 1760 of the Code of Ge ;rgia. 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 ft CO., where I will be pleased to see my friends. R. F. URQUHART. Augusta, Sept. 4th, 1875. seps-sututli2w Cotton (tins and Presses. WE CALL tho aitontion of parties wish ing to purchase a GIN or PR hSS to our Neolett it Goodrich Gins and Smith’s' Improved Presses, PRINTUP, BRO. ft POLLARD, Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants sepll-lm Communications. SSO TO SIO,OOO MSlk'p??, 1 : ilegos, and paid (too per cent, profit. “ How to do it.” A book on Wall street sent free. TUMBItIDGE ft CO., Bankers. 2 Wall St. N. Y. ’ iein-dacam STOCK PRIVILEGES. $lO. SIOO. SSOO. SIOOO. Often realizes immense profits when in vested in STOCK PRIVILEGES. Circulars containing full explanation of the mode of operating, and quotation prices of all Stocks dealt in, at the New York Stock Exchange, sent FREE on application to SIMONSON, BARREIRAS & CO., Bankers and Brokers, No. 6 Wall street, Opp. N. Y. Stock Exchange. New Yoke. je!s-tuthsalv NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. THE GREAT GEORGIA STATE FAIR i a 73. The Annual Fair for 1875 of the Georgia State Agricultural Society will be held in M AGO IST, C3r E! O m At the Beautiful CENTRAL CITY PARK GROUNDS, BEGINNING MONDAY, O C r O BE I* 18, AND CONTINUING ONE WEEK A Large, Varied and Liberal Premium List, covering all Departments of Industry, is offered Half-Fare Rates Over all the Railroads in Georgia, for visitors and articles for exhibition coming to the Fair. Also. Excursion TicKets From New York, Baltimore, Boston and Philadelphia, both by all rail and Steamship Routes. Articles for Exhifrtion Should be iu Macon by SATURDAY, Kith OCTOBER,' And where shipped bv parties who do not expect to attend the Fair ii person, should be addressed, "TO THE SECRETARY, GEORGIA STATE FAIR, MACON, GA." The Best and Largest LIVE STOCK SHOW ever held in the State or the South. More and Finer HORSES, MULES, CATTLE, SHEEP, SWINE and POULTRY lhan ever before Exhibited. Parties wishing Fine Stock, as a Fine Harness or Saddle Horse, Milch Cow, Thor oughbred Bull, trio of Chickens, etc., will lind tho occasion of this Fair a rare opportu nity to secure them. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. Many distinguished gentlemen, of national reputation, from the Northern, Western and Eastern States will be present, among them Senator Thurman, Hon. Geo. H. Pen dleton, and Mr. F. Hassaurek, of Ohio; lion. 1 ho mas A. Hendricks and Hon. D. W. Voot hees, of Indiana; Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware; Hon. William D. Kelly, of Penn sylvania ; Hon. Fernando Wood, of ISew York; Hon. Luke P. Poland, of Vermont; Hon. J. P. Christiancy and Hon. Qeorge Willard, of M iehigan; Dr. George B. Luring, of Bos ton; Gen. Joseph It. Hawley, President United (states Centennial Commission, and a full delegation from the Centennial Board. . Several of the above named gentlemen will deliver addresses on different days of the Fair. Hon. Jefferson Davis, Charles Francis Adams and others have replied to the invita tions to be present, but are uncertain as to being able to attend. # Send to the Secretary, at Macon, for Premium Lists, embracing a full schedule of the Premiums, Rules, Regulations, etc. Also, for all information regarding transporta tion facilities, entries, etc. A. H. COLQUITT. President. T. G. HOLT, General Superintendent. scpl7-sututh-toctlß MALCOLM JOHNSTON, Secretary- Superb Black Silks. o We have just received by Express a full Line of Lyon’s MANUFACTURED BLACK SILKS. 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 CL 01 ITS and BOMBAZINES, bur 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. CRAY & CO. COTTON FACTORS. ANTOINE POULLAIN, Cotton Factor, AUGUSTA, GA., \\T ILL continue the bus ness at my fire l V proof warehouse, corner Jackson ami 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; Office and Salesroom, No. 177 Reynolds street, Augusta, Ga. sepl-8w 0. H.. PHINIZY. F. B. PHINIZY C. H. PHINIZY & CO. COTTON FACTORS AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, Make liberal advances on oon signments, buy and sell Cotton for fu ture delivery in New York. Furnish Plant ers with supplies. Keep always on hand a largo Stock of BAGGING, anu are the Sole Agents for the Beard Cotton Tie, Winship Cotton Gin, And the Peerless Guano. Consignments and Orders respectfully so licited. aug!9-2m C. H. PHINIZY A GO. A. M. BENSON. W. N. MEBCTEB. BENSON & MERCIER, /COTTON FACTORS AND GENERAL L COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 8 Warren Block. Augustob ”nd make cash advances on Cotton m store. ana hold in first class tire-proofstoragofoiin detinite time, at very low rates of interest. sepl2-dftc3m J. J. PEARCE. COTTON FACTOR, And Commission Merchant, JACKSON STEEET. AUGUSTA, GA. sep7-d&c3m MANSION HOUSE PORT ROYAL, SS. C. SITUATED AT THE TERMINUS OF the Port Royal Railroad, where connec tion is made with the fast sailing, first class steamers Montgomery and Huntsville, sailing to New York every Friday. Round trip from Augu-'ta, sm.‘ 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, the Beaufort and Port Royal Rivers, and offers unusual attrac tions to travelers or to parties who desire Board or to spend a few cays near the salt, water. Table supplied with everything the mar ket affords. Fresh milk, butter, fish, veg etables ami fruits iu their season. Best of Cooks and Attendants. I Terms liberal. C. E. WARREN, | je26-tf Proprietor. NOTICE. From this date Mr. george w. CALVIN becomes a copartner of the J undersigned. The firm name will remain I as heretofore. CALVIN ft JONES. *' September Ist, 1875. sepl-tf j JUST RECEIVED! SEVERAL cases beautiful FALL CALI COES. Several cast's of KENTUCKY JEANS, cheap,and a variety of seasonable goods. Cheap for CASH. aep2-thsatu-2w M. S. KEAN. ••PURE SEED ” “RUST PROOF OATS.” PRICE $1.25 CASH, PER BUSHEL. Sown iu August or September, the most cer tain crop raised—succeeding on the Sea coast, where no other oat ever matures seed, as well as on highlands. Grown expressly for seed, and for sale by EDWARD BANCROFT, Athens, Ga. For sale by C. H. PHINIZY. ft CO., auglS-lm* Augusta, Ga. Notice to Consignees. PORT ROYAL RAILROAD COMPANY, Augusta Agency, Sept. 10, 1875. £ ON and after this date consignments of Cotton from Way Stations to Augusta will only be delivered upon surrender or receipt issued by Agent at shipping point. Receipts issued for cotton consigned to (.refer must be properly endorsed by ship per before cotton will be delivered. Shippers and Consignees will please be governed accordingly. W. H. TREZEVANT, sepll-12 Agent,