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©je Constitutionalist.
AUGUSTA, GA.:
Saturday Morning, Sept. 18, 1875.
The Maine Election and Its Results—
What will Grant Do?
The Republican papers, through
their arithmetical editors, predicted
that Maine would give “an old-fash
ioned majority ” for their desperate
party. Well, the “old-fashioned ma
jority,” on a very large vote, did not
come to soothe the troubled souls of
those political worms. Indeed, it is
now surmised that had the undaunted
but often-defeated Democracy of Maine
only known how very strong they
were, and how very demoralized their
opponent, we should have had an old
fashioned majority on the side of anti-
Radicalism. As it is, the Democracy
nearly won the day, and it took all the
personal power of Mr. Blaine and the
backing of the Central Government at
Washington to keep the State in line.
Such victories will be the forerunners
of defeat. If Ohio and Pennsylvania
repudiate Republicanism, as we fondly
hope, even Maine, in the Presidential
contest, may catch the enthusiasm and
reverse the verdict of more than twen-
ty years.
There is one feature in the result of
this canvass and election which is worth
dwelling upon, and that is the complete
snubbing Morton and Blaine received
wherever they waved their “ bloody
shirts.” In Portland where the ex-
Speaker’s ensanguined undergarment
flapped in the breeze, like a Commun
ist’s red rag in a gale of wind, the
Democrats scored a majority of 115,
against a Republican majority of 163,
last year. In Bangor, the home of
Hamlin, the Republicans lost 900 votes
and surrendered to the Democracy. No
doubt Morton and Blaine confidently
expected that an exhibition of the
“ skinned nigger ” energetically backed
up by Gov. Ames “ outrages,” made to
order, would rally the masses and
make them roll up the “ old fashioned
majority.” But the sequel proved that
these politicians, both of whom are
hankering for the Presidency, are blind
to the true temper of the times, and
grievously miscalculated the effect of
“ played out ” campaign thunder.
Even the New York Hei'cild, which is
so busily engaged just now in pointing
out the chinks in the Radical armor,
puts in this keen thrust: “Mr. Blaine,
it is said, sent for Senator Morton to
shout ‘Murder !’ in the Maine woods;
but the people were not scared; even
the ex-Speaker could not frighten them.
Perhaps this will teach some of the
Republican politicians elsewhere a little
wisdom. The Northern people seem to
have made up their minds that the
war is now finally over; that the negro
has had, on the whole, a very fair
chance, and must k henceforth take care
of himself; that he is abundantly able
to do so, and only needs to be let alone
to get on as well as anybody else.
“The Maine election, following the
Democratic victory in California, is dis
heartening to the Republicans. Its
effect will be felt in Ohio, Pennsylvania
and this State. The people are tired of
old cries and of appeals to their fear of
the Democratic party. The election
this fall cannot be carried by the beat
ing of gongs. That begins to be very
plain.”
In days of prosperity, fictitious as it
may have been, nothing so roused the
Republican masses as slanders against
the South, especially on the negro
question. But the day of prosperity is
over and that of hard times has come.
What do Maine farmers, merchants
and mechanics care for the colored
people when they behold their own
misery ? They are beginning to dis
cover that money spent to ruin the
South and her industries has been
worse than squandered ; that it has, in
point of fact, gone to make sure their
own decreptitude and bankruptcy.
They begin to understand that Radi
cal domination is costly, not only to the
South but to themselves. So long as it
affected us and did not touch them, it
paid to vote that party in power; but
the Maine men, many of them, are hes
itating on that subject, and, next time,
they will probably help hurl from au
thority the Blaines, the Mortons, the
Wilsons and the Grants, who have
abused their trusts and made even
clam-bakes an exasperating extrava
gance. Doubtless, thousands of voters
will be turned in Ohio from Hayes to
Allen by the dubious victory in Maine.
Fellows on the fence, with a keen scent
for the winning side, will jump toward
the Democracy, not only in Ohio, but in
all other States.
It is said, too, that the wise men of
the Republican party regard this com
parative failure in Maine as a death
blow to Mr. Blaine for the Presidency.
Eaton, of Connecticut, last year, gave
the ex-Speaker his first great check,
and now the coup-de-grace is adminis
tered at home.
It is foolish to fight against the su
pernatural and equally so to contend
against a people who have been re
duced to financial and moral ruin by a
party in power. As the Wash
ington correspondent of the Balti
more Sun says, “all history show3 that
when the pressure of hard times is
upon the people they rebel against
their rulers. In monarchical countries
they can bo put down by the bayonet,
but in the United States, through the
silent agency of the ballot box, they
dethrone their rulers. A leading Dem
ocrat said that next year he expected
to see the same popular rising, only a
great deal more so, which drove Mar
tin Van Buren out in 1840. The idea
gains'much strength that Gen. Grant
will be brought forward as the hard
money candidate and that he will have
the combined support, as in 1872, of
what is called the money power of
the country. But it is not ex
pected that he will win, what
ever platform he may accept.”
The conflict is narrowing down at last
between the people and the money
rings. Luckily the people are in the
majority, and have not yet been yoked
to the chariot of C.esar. If Gen. Grant
wants to wind up his career as the
worst-whipped man ever known in
- American politics, and pass the bai
| ance of his days in chewing the bitter
cud of bafflod ambition and the con
tempt which always follows it, let him
head the hard-money bond-holding
Rmgr-publicans and prepare to be sent
whirling out of the White House. In old
days, Sylla, after dealing deadly blows
at the heart of his country, and enjoy
ing a long triumph, voluntarily aban
doned power and did not await tho
turn of fortune’s tide. It is true that
he afterwards gave himself up to such
debauchery that the grave worms in
fested his body before death; but Gen
! eral Grant, admonished by the past
fate of successful men, should be con
tent with two terms, leave the deluge
to somebody else, become temperate
in all things, and “fling away ambi
tion.” He has been one of the luckiest
of men; let him beware of the rebound.
A Raving Editor.— Because a New
Jersey Jesuit priest is reported to have,
very much out of place we think,
“ publicly denounced the Administra
tion and asked God to hasten its end,”
the New York Herald says :
If anything is calculated to make Gen
eral Grant the next President of the United
States it is declarations like this and from
men of this calling. Once draw this lino in
politics, once throw out the slightest inti
mation that it will be for the interest of tho
Order of Jesuits or the Roman Church that
General Grant shall bo defeated and we
shall have such an uprising of the Protest
ant sentiment throughout the East and
West as will compel his re-election. It d<>es
seem as if those who should feel the deep
est interest in the defeat of President
Grant are by some malign influence con
spiring to make his nomination inevitable
and to give his re-election every prospect
of a certainty. There surely never was a
luckier man in our American politics.
If one foolish, but enthusiastic,
priest, can make Grant President for a
third term, he is a much moro import
ant man than anybody supposed. It
would be a sad day for the United
States if any rash person, lay or
clerical, Christian or Pagan, Jew or
Gentile, could draw such a line as the
Herald raves about. It can not be
done. We think the overwhelming as
piration of this country, outside of
theological hatreds, is that God may
hasten the end of an administration
which has proven such a curse to th e
people of all classes and all creeds. No
sect should be judged by the indiscreet
utterances of one of its miuistry. How
would any of the denominations fare
if this were the case? Bigots and fa
natics exist in and out of the pulpit, in
many places, but the masses of this
country who have been ruined by Grant
and his party are not going to allow a
New Jersey Jesuit or a New York
Herald editor to draw any insane line
that will continue in authority the
causes of all their woes.
Ames.— The St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
a Republican organ, thus riddles Ben
Butler’s son-in-law : “If the Governor
i3 unable to maintain his authority ; if,
with all the prestige of possession, all
the influence of patronage, all the or
ganization of power and the support of
law-abiding citizens, he is still unable
to command obedience or to enforce
the law, then let him step aside and
wholly withdraw until the central au
thority has finally succeeded in doing
that which he has failed to do. It can
make but little difference to auy one
but himself when a man who is nomi
nally a Governor, but really a cipher,
is compelled to realize the existence of
that impotence which he has admitted;
and the direct relegation of an anarchic
State to military subjection would have
many advantages. It would remove
auy suspicion that the Governor had
had any improper motive in invoking
the bayonets, since he would thereby
unseat himself, and it would certainly
bring about a speedier settlement of
the difficulty. The old maxim, inter
arma ’ silent leges, expresses a very
deep-reaching truth; and infantry,
bayonets and injunction of courts are
things which do not mix well, but
which mix so badly that either one of
them is preferable to both. If we are
to have the bayonets, let us dispense
with the Governor; if we are to keep
the Governor, let us see if we cannot
do without the baynets.”
Why Not? —Justly denouncing the
farcical manner in which trial by jury
is conducted in some cities, the New
York Times grimly says: “It is, per
haps, too soon to look for the general
adoption of the system of professional
juries. Still, there is no doubt that we
are approaching the time when to be
a professional juryman will be a recog
nized and profitable business. We have
had professional bail for many years.
Professional Judges, who practiced
their profession to make money from
private litigants and grasping corpora
tions, have ornamented the Bench.
Why should we not have professional
jurymen also? It would only be one
more step in the direction in which our
courts of justice in certain States have
of late years been advancing.”
At last that humble coin, the penny, Is
being recognized in Georgia. The leading
houses in Columbus have ordered a keg
full sent for trade purposes.— St. Louis
Democrat.
We hope the time is not distant
when pennies shall freely circulate in
Georgia, as they do at the North. Rents
have fallen, salaries have been cut
down, securities have shrunk, trade is
dull, merchants are blue, but the price
of a soup-bunch in the market is still
ten cents!
Sherman. —And now Gen. Boynton
returns to the charge and claims that
Sherman has pleaded the baby act, and
was not writing history but only
amusing himself. If Sherman’s deeds
were only amusements to him, old Nick
will some day present the serious side
of that question. •
Outside of New Jersey, bats are said to
destroy mosquitoes; but the Jersey mos
quito thinks nothing of taking half a dozen
raw bats to whet his appetite for his hu
man supper.— N, F. World.
No bat has any chance down here—
either bull or base ball.
While real estate is depreciated, and
with no money to hire labor to till the soil,
how can taxes be paid -how can interest on
any kind of bonds be paid?— Nashville Ame
rican.
And when bonds themselves disap
pear, what then ?
Clam-Bake Catastrophes—Fred Doug
lass Rampant.
Unwarned by the fate of Pietro
Yiani, who ended a dramatic display
by suicide, after eating baked clams,
Frederick Douglass, the well-known
quadroon, has delivered himself of
much bile under precisely similar cir
cumstances. He was one of the great
powers called upon to help roll up the
“old-fashioned majority” in Maine, and
seems to have failed as dismally as
Morton and Blaine did. Here is his
clam-baking harangue:
I come here, he said, not so much to
make a speech as to be seen of men. I have
been assured that it was necessary to have
at least one negro at this show. I know
nothing of the great financial question.
What can I tell you of an economical ad
ministration? What do I know of national
honor? Not only a negro but formerly a
slave, never having had a day’s schooling,
it is a wonder that I can say anything to
you. I know nothing about banking,
though once the President of a bank. I
know nothing of currency, though one
thing I know—that this is no longer a
slave country, that no slave can be seen in
this land from the rising of the sun to the
going down thereof. The bloody stress of
the war is now overhand tho black man is
free. Tho country is safe unless by your
votes you give it back again into the hands
of that party which nearly led it to de
struction. I come before you to make an
appeal for my race, over which a great
danger impends. I know the effect of a
Democratic triumph, and I beseech you to
shelter us from the storm. The colored
people of the South, in case of Demo
cratic victory, apprehend their utter ex
tinction. All the malign elements of the
old rebellion are being stirred np in the
South and they propose to drive us forth
as Spain drove forth the Moor. They tell
you enough has been done for the negro. I
tell you all you can do for the next fifty
years will not atone for the wrong and op
pression of two hundred years. The He
brews took jewels away from Egypt; Rus
sia gave lands to her serfs. But the four
millions of slaves had no jewels and no
land. They were turned loose among a peo
ple which hated them. The old master has
said, “let them die.” And they did die,
thousands of them. But despite neglect and
destitution they have increased. We ne
groes are a permanent part of the countr y.
Who are the black people who ask your
protection ? They were the only loyal peo
ple to be found South of “Mason and
Dixon’s Line” during the war. Affliction
taught appreciation of us when tho front of
the loyal army was melting away like snow
in early Summer, when the recruiting ser
geant was marching up and down your
streets foot sore and weary, calling for
young men and strong women to go to the
front and fill gaps made by rebel powder,
when every village in the North was drapod
in weeds of mourning for your sons. When
the fate of the country trembled in the bal
ance you called upon this class. Abraham
Lincoln— Father Abraham— called and
we came full two hundred thousand strong
and with our strong iron fingers clutched
the musket, and side by side with you
marched upon the ramparts of the enemy
and gave victory to the Republican party.
We are now exposed to the hate generated
by chagrin that this people caused the de
feat of the Confederacy. We entreat you
who know something in the world dearer
than questions of currency or party, to
stand by and save us a few years more un
til the old rebels die out and we have a
chance to present ourselves to hands un
stained by treason.
Mr. Douglass did not show the Maine
Radicals a negro, for he is a quadroon.
His confession of imbecility on several
important points, however satirical,
was modest and refreshing, especially
as to banking —hi® connection with the
freedmen in the biggest swindle of the
kind ever known being proof positive
that he can escape the charge of
knavery only by the plea of invincible
ignorance.
It is true that there are no negro
slaves in this country, but Mr. Doug
lass must know that there are many
thousands of poor, white desperadoes,
once Union soldiers engaged in freeing
negroes, who are now outlawed and
branded as “ tramps.” It may sound
oddly to Fred Douglass, but wo do as
sure him that, under existing circum
stances, an overwhelming majority of
Southern men would not have the
blacks as slaves, even by a mandate
from “ these headquarters.” Where
have the negroes prospered as they
have in Georgia—Democratic Georgia ?
Where can they depend upon get
ting justice more surely, in spite
of gross provocation, than in
Democratic Georgia ? When this
man says that the old planters, as a
class, turned their ex-slaves off to die,
though these ex-slaves were engaged in
the nefarious attempt to fasten upon
the South the most accursed system of
despotism and robbery ever recorded—
when he makes such a slashing and
wholesale charge, he lies in his throat.
It is true that the unfortunate blacks
were not given by their old masters
either houses or lands, any more than
they were given forty acres and a mule
by the men they voted for, but the
great sum accumulated by them was
infamously stolen, not by Democrats,
but by Radicals; and Fred Douglass,
either by folly or rascality, helped to
make the fraud worse than it would
otherwise have been. Again, why did not
scalawag and carpet-bag rogues, who
profited by negro votes, share the spoil
of the Southern Egyptians ? Did they
make such a division ? Never! A few
black rogues in some of the States have
prospered in the reign of corruption,
for a little while, but the masses of the
colored people are worse off to-day
than they were in the days of slavery.
The danger of the colored people now
and in the future does not and will not
come from tho “rebels;” and Douglass
may eat unlimited clams and rave like
a lunatic, but the country at large has
made up its mind that the most alarm
ing enemy to white and black is the
the Radical monster with whom he is
joined as to a destroying idol.
Tilden. —The New Yorji Times thinks
Governor Tilden has “fixed” the party
in his State to suit his own purposes.
Well, we hope he has fixed it so as' to
non-suit Radical purposes.
The mode of punishing a criminal in
Thibet is rigorous, slightly. They bury
him to the neck in the earth so that all
movement is impossible, keep his mouth
forced open with a spike, and then drive
all kinds of horrible insects to take refuge
in the mouth, ears and eyes.
Anew planet was discovered yesterday
in the central heavens; the exact constella
tion and position not discovered. The dis
covery weighed 200 pounds, and was com
ing out of the market when she was inter
rupted by a watermelon rind. She named
it “Gosh!"
PERSONAIJ,
“Peanut, the war chief of|the Goshoots”
—how’s that for an Indian tjtle?
It cost Louis Napoleon to escape
from the Island of Ham in I|l7.
A baby without a spine just ventured
into the world by way of Eijst Haven, Con
necticut. I
Apropos of the marriage |of a deaf and
dumb couple, Quilp, of thl Boston Post,
wishes them much jaw. |
Mr. Card, said to be the man in
New Hampshire, has just tied, aged 100.
He must have been a trump;
A drunken, seedy tramp f as bitten by a
valuable dog in Schenectady the other day.
The dog bids fair to die. *
What’s in a name again? Hne author of
an obituary poem to the latq Mr. Ralston,
of California, is Frank Gassjway.
Mr. Ralston, having bthn about four
million dollars short, it’s jto wonder his
friends propose to get up a tnemorial owe
vation. j
Who was guilty of that en ormous lie that
Andrew Johnson had $350,0db of life insur
ance. He had not a penny. >
Gen. Myer’s delicate frjme may well
shake with envy to learn thlt tho English
“Old Probabilities" was rig*t in 78.2 of his
predictions in 1874 jj>
Miss Agnes Oldshue wasJjrecently mar
ried at Pittsburg. They thujw one or two
of her little brothers and sifters after her
as she started out on her bridal tour.
An exchange mentions J couple “who
have been lovers for twenty-jive years, and
are not married yet.” That why they are
lovers, stupid, I
“A bed post stuck tlmligh a cheese
box” is the way somebody! describes the
close-cut, high-collared youijg man of the
period. *
A South Brooklyn man fas hit upon a
happy expedient for getting j id of rheuma
tism. He crowded it dow> into two fin
gers and then had them amputated.
A Florida alligator wide* swallowed a
corset lately isn’t expected! to live, and
there wasn’t any woman |i the corset,
either. f
Fashion gossip from Tippjcanoo county,
Ind.: “Mr. Thomas Colemun, a wealthy
banker, bought three squarJ grand pianos
at one scoop iast week.” |
Printed signs of “Heavenfis our Home,”
may be hung in every roonJof the house,
yet a man will speak prorfptly and em
phatically when he can’t flm| a bootjack.
Says the Chicago Journal: The clergy are
coming home, and we take *the liberty of
advising Satan to take a vacation. We can
get along without him. Whifn did you over
try out there? J
His name was Nolle, his ijbme Reading,
and he thought a little coal would accel
erate combustion in lighting the kitchen
lire. The Coroner entered a Nolle prosequi
forthwith.
Change and decay mark the progress of
tho centuries. Empires totter, monarchies
are overthrown, customs, manners, and re
ligions pass away, but J.jtm B. Gough
comes to time as loud and preposterous as
ever. ' %
Ah, true. Hans Christian /ndersen would
have married if he could without breaking
the hearts of the hundreds o| other women
who wore in love with hinf. He thought
of the other hearts that woukl ache, simple
soul! f
i
Old Mrs. Boulay, of DallaJ, Texas, found
SIO,OOO in gold under her ifoor the other
day. It had been placed thtl-e by her hus
band, who had neglected tof tell her about
it before he died. ]
And now there’s Helmbolji turned loose
upon the country, and say he wasn’t
crazy. We think not. A m-m who could
advertise like him must be Equally sound
in mind, body and pocket, j
James Gordon Bennett luja beGn flirting
at Long Branch with the wlf > of Helttlbold,
the buchu man. Old Buchu has just got
out of tho insane asylum, ; nd is going to
make it warm for Rennott. !i;
Personal notices in the Brownsville Bee
are rated at a barrel of coin per notice.—
Style and length of notice Jsubject to the
discretion of the editor; but‘corn must be
shelled and sound.
I he marine editor of the |Chlcago Tunes
had his pocket picked last; Sunday while
attending religious services* on the dock,
and ho has given up the hjea of being a
good young man. j
How cheap those Stockbrldge coon hunt
ers must have felt the other .morning, when
daylight disclosed the fact tpat they’d been
watching a tree all night wherein was en
sconsed the family cat of or jo of the party!
There! we knew the da>M would come
some time. An Englishman has been sen
tenced to three months in |rjl for stealing
an umbrella on a rainy day! j And now—if
we could only find tho houjid that played
us the same trick a while ag|.
A Green Bay couple walSpd four miles
on snow shoes to get mrtirried, and it
probably won’t be over a mtnth beforo he
will tell her to split her owirj wood if s.ie
wants any. j|
A wealthy Philadelphian, ! who died re
cently, stipulated in iris wili iijhat his near
est relative should assassinaU the obituary
editor of the Daily Ledger if ijie made any
poetical remarks on tho subject.
j
A gentleman asked a wjig, tho otaer
day, the reason why so many of the tall
men were bachelors. Tho rejjly was, tiat
they were obliged to la y crr Jswisa in bed
to keep their feet in, and thaif a wife would
be in the way. .
POLITICAL NO'i|eS.
The “ Rag-baby ” is now tse enfant terri
ble which disturbs tho dreaijis of tho con
tractionists.—iNashvillo American.
The Brooklyn Eagle says of the Republi
can State ticket that It is “ tJi> feeble tobe
bad, too politic to bo representative, aad
too needless to bo elected.” ]
Hannibal Hamlin has a iironchlal dis
ease and can’t swallow, and |o the Detroit
Free Press, remembering v|ao increased
the postage on newspapers,. rejoices ei
ceedingly. I
ll
The time has come around* for “ mixirg
the schools” again,” and th*re is trouble
in the land from New York to|tfew Orleans.
When will people discover tliat black anl
white are antagonistic colors'
Moses Magruder, colored|a son of tie
original “Uncle Tom” of M*s. Stowe, s
living In Indianapolis, and is iOS years oil.
Moses was a slave for fifty wears, and has
often seen the late George Washington.
M. Emile Gikarpin denied tho right cf
the State or the indldual to f unish crinm
He says nobody has yet bedu able to dt
inonstrate whence it is and urge
that crime bo treated as disease.
A cigar manufacturer had entered tie
political field in Dubuque as kr
Alderman. He is said to hav-; some very
strong “backers.”—[Commercilil Advertiser.
And his friends are “puffing”? him a gool
deal, wo suppose.- [New Hifven Jourm-
And he’ll take the “stump,"f of course. -
[Boston Post. $
k
The Democrats of Maine hope every rea
son for congratulation and enlouragemeu,.
They have made a good :|ght against
Grantism and Blaineism, intrqached belt ini
apparently Impregnable defenses, and tha
result is a rout not less complete because
the no Luinal honors of the c ontest reman
with their antagonists. What was done ii
Maine will give courage to Democrats anl
Liberals throughout the lanif to continiß
the work until it is made per.'pet. confadert
that with such demoralization in the very
stronghold of Republicanlsm/its utter de
feat is assured.—lßoston Poslj.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Colonists, Emigrants and Travelers Westward.
FOB MAP CIRCULARS. CONDENSED
time tables 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 Albebt B. Wkenn, 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 i ilirs. household , goods,
st ck, and farming implements gene.ally.
All information cheerfully given.
W. L. DANLEY.
sepll-Gm G. P. & T. A,
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Obdinaky's Office, Richmond County, j
Augusta, Ga.. August 21. 1876. >
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 penalt/ of ten
dollars, to be recovered in any Court of com
petent jurisdiction in the State, at the suit of
the Ordinar". 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. &o.
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 the parents, or, if none, by
the next kin, under penalty of ten dollars, at
the suit of the Ordinary, as provided in Sec.
11 of this Act.
Physicians or other persons can obtain
blank forms for the return of Births or Deaths
at my office, and a blank form for the return
of Marriages will hereafter be furnished with
the Marriage License, the same to bo 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, beforo insuring elsewhero.
C. W. HARRIS.
aug22-tf Gen’l Insurance Agent.
WA.3VTJ9L
isir Advertisements not over five lines will
be inserted under this head for fifty cents
each insertion, cash.
WANTED-A COLORED GIRL between
ten and twelve years of age, for
light housework. Apply at This Office.
sepiß-6
ANTED—TO EXCHANGE, A COW
with Calf for a Milker. Apply at
This Office. sep!B-3
XITANTED, A SITUATION AS COOK.
W Can cook anything. Had an expe
rience of twenty years. Apply at Lexius
Hpnspn’s
sepls-4 LUCY MILLER.
WANTED— A competent NURSE. Ap
ply at 185 Broad street.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Abdominal Belt Drawers!
FOR
Sustaining the Weight of the
INTESTINES,
AN D to effectually prevent the Falling of
the Bowels, Rupture or Hernia. Made
to measure only by
FERRIS, EVANS & CO.,
Merchant Tailors, Augusta, Ga.
seplß-suAwedlrn
Bananas for the Million
| HAVE just received a choice lot of BA
NANAS, which I am offering at 50 cents
per dozen. E. A. MASSIE,
seplß-2 Jackson street.
NOTICE IO SHIPPERS AND
PASSENGERS.
THE magnificent steamship GEORGIA
will sail from Charleston on MONDAY
NIGHT at ten o’clock.
W. STEVENSON,
seplß-l Agent Steamship Lines.
TIIK ~ TEXAS
Cotton Worm Destroyer!
A Sure and Safe Remedy for the Destruc
tion of the
CATERPILLAR.
[T 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 the 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, costing only
about 25 cents per acbe. For particulars
as to price, Ac., apply to
I). 1!. HULL, Savannah,
General Agent for Georgia.
JVI, A. STOVALL..
Agent, Augusta, Ga.
Agents wanted through the Skate. jelß-3m
Retrospective and Congratulatory.
rpwo AND A HALF YEARS Experience
J 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, 'l eas, Coffees,
Sugars, Flour, Soap, Spicos, 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 A
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 boat. Look at the facts: In Sugars
I sell two pounds more for one dollar to
day’ than . ould 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 niy 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 lias 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.
YOU CAN FIND
O. .1. T. BALK'S
THEbM>tsc. NECK RUSHES.
The best 25c. Silk Scarfs.
The best 15c. Worsted Dress Goods.
The best assortment of Fall Prints.
The best 6%e. 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
spun.
The 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.
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COTTON FACTORS.
ANTOINE POULLAIN,
Cotton Factor,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
TX7TLL continue the business at my fire-
T T proof warebouse, 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 rACTOBS
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-3w
M. P. STOVALL,
COTTON FACTOR
—AND—
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
NO. 5 WARREN BLOCK, JACKSON SE,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
CONTINUES to give his personal atten
tion to the STORAGE and SALE of
COTTON and other Produce.
OS' Liberal advances made on Consign
ments. sep4-satuth&c3ui
0. H.. PHXNIZY. 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 011 hand a
large Stock of BAGGING, and are the hole
Agents for the
Beard Cotton Tie,
Winship Cotton Gin,
And the*
Peerless Guano.
Consignments and Orders respectfully so
licited.
aug!9-2n C. 11. PHINIZY &, CO.
A. M. BENSON. W. N. MERCIER.
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.
sep!2-d&c3m
J. J. PEARCE,
COTTON FACTOR,
And Commission Murchant,
JACKSON STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
sep7-d&c3m
NEW FALL GOODS!
NEW FALL GOODS!
—AT—
Tlie 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 6%, 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
75e.; Kentucky Jeans at 15, 20, 25, 35, 40, 45
.*nd ooc., Tweeds and Casslmeres at 00, 00,
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 12j4c.;
other ma kes 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 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, will do well to ex
amine our wholesale stock, and we respect
iully invite them to do so.
V. RICHARDS & BRO.,
Corner by the Planters’ Hotel,
301 Broad street.
aug24-tuwethsutuw&clm
NEW AND NOVEL LOTTERIES
$12,000 for $ 2 00
$12,000 for 2 00
$30,000 for 5 00
$30,000 for 5 00
Missouri Slate Lotteries.
On the 15th day of each month during 1875.
will be drawn the $2
Single Number Lottery.
Capital Prize, - - $12,000.
10,290 Prizes, amounting to SIOO,OOO.
TICKETS, ONLY
Try a Ticket in this liberal scheme.
$250,000 IN PRIZES.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $30,000 !
10,290 Prizes, amounting to $250,000.
A Five Dollar Single Number Lottery
Will be drawn on the 30th day of each
Month.
Whole tickets, $5; Halves, $2 50.
Prizes payable in full and no postpone
ment of ax'awings take place. Address, for
Tickets and Circulars,
MURRAY, MILLER & CO.,
may-25sa&cly P. O. Box 2440, St. Louis, Mo
MANSION HOUSE
PORT ROYAL, 8. C.
SITUATED AT THE TERMINUS OF
the Port Royal Railroad, where connec
tion is made with the fast sailing, first class
steamers Montgomery anti Huntsville,
sailing to New Xork every Friday.
Round trip from Augusta, S3O.
This is au entirely now 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, ana 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, fish, veg
etables and fruits in their season.
Best of Cooks and Attendants.
Terms liberal.
C. E. WARREN,
]e2G-tf Proprietor.
NOTICE. ,
A LL persons having left Watches, Clocks,
A 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.-
Communications.
§SO TO S}O,OOOM~
ilegoß,and paid9oo per cent, profit. “How
Wall Btreet Bent free.
TU MB RIDGE A CO.. Bankers, 2 Wall St,
N. X. iei9-<Uc3m
TO RENT.
TO RENT,
HMHE large STORE in front of the Opera
X House, at present occupied by Messrs.
Myers & Marcus. Possession given on the
first of October.
Apply on the premises, or to Wm. A. Wal
ton, Law Range, or to
seplO-tf I. P. GIRARDEY.
TO RENT,
FROM the Ist of October next, that eligi
ble STORE, No. 297 Broad street,
third tenement below the Planters’ Hotel,
and the STOREHOUSE in the rear, will be
rented together or separately. Also, the
desirable DWELLING over said store.
Apply to JOHN CRAIG,
Corner Telfair and Kollock streets,
seplO-tf
TO RENT,
rjIHE DWELLING AND STORE, No. 130
Broad street. Apply to
sepß-tf A. D. PICQUET.
FOR RENT,
RESIDENCE AND STORE at 236 Broad
street, opposite C. V. Walker’s auction
house. Apply to J. T. DERRY,
augl2-tf Or M. HYAMS.
TO RENT,
From the ist of October next.
that LARGE and COMMODIOUS
STORE, No. 338 Broad street, at present oc
cupied by F. A. Timberlake & Cos.
Apply to
Jy3l-tf PJ, PRIMROSE.
For Rent or to Lease.
fTIHE WARRENTON HOTEL, newly fur-
X nislied, and as desimble a location as is
in the country. Applications entertained
till So, tember 10th next. For particulars
address Post Office Box No. 3, Warrenton,
Ga. aug2o-30d
TO RENT,
rjIHE OFFICE No. 3, Exchange Building,
at present occupied by Messrs. Beall, Spears
& Cos. Aoply to
aug22-tf DANIEL & ROWLAND
TO RENT,
175 ROM the First of October next, the
dwelling ou the North side of Broad
street (4th door from Mclntosh) now oc
cupied by Dr. J. P. H. Brown.
WM. A. WALTON.
No. 10, Old Post Office Range, Mclntosh
street, up stairs. ang7-tf.
TO RENT,
IMIAME DWELLING, with eight rooms,
on the north side of Walker, fourth be
low Centre street. Apply to
James g. bailie,
auglo-tf 205 Broad street.
TO RENT,
FROM the Ist of Octobor, the HOUSE
next to Dr. Garvin’s, with live Rooms,
and double Kitchen in yard, water and gar
den. Apply at
jy!4-tf _ NO. 84 WALKER STREET.
STORE TO RENT
Q
I J I’ORE No. 290 Broad street, now occu
pied by P. G. Burum.
For Terms, auply to
jy!s-tf __ H. H. D’ANTIQNAC.
TO RENT.
PART OF A HOUSE with water, gas and
every convenience for house-keeping.
Price, $250 a year. Possession given Ist
September if desired. Also a suite of rooms
and a furnished lodging room. Location
central. Apply to
aug!2-tf M. A. STOVALL.
TO RENT,
171I 71 ROM THE FIRST OF OCTOBER next,
' the elegant and commodious STORE,
2u9 Broad street, at present occupied by’ M.
S. Kean as a dry’ goods store. Apply to
H. F. CAMPBELL,
Or A. S. CAMPBELL,
jy29-tf 207 Broad street.
TO RENT,
JjMNE OFFICES AND SLEEPING ROOMS
centrally located. Apply to
WARREN, WALLACE & CO.,
*
sep 8-wedfrisat3 Cotton Factors.
TO RENT,
NO. 18 Washington street, first door from
Broad street; has four rooms and four
kitchen rooms, and large store
For sale cheap, 100 acres LAND in De-
Laigle’s old place. aug27-lm
For Sale or to Rent.
HOUSE and lot on tho south side of
Broad street, between Centre and El
bert, known as No. 84, now occupied by
Gen. It. Y. Harris. The lot has a front on
Bioad and Ellis streets of 44 feet, more or
less. The improvements consist of a com
fortable two story brick dwelling, a kitchen,
&c.
Georgia Railroa I stock, at a liberal price,
will be taken in exchange, or long time
given, if desired, to an approved purchaser.
If not sold the property will be rented on
reasonable terms, and applications are so
licited. WM. A. WALTON,
No. 10 Old Post Office Range,
auglO-tf Mclntosh St., up stairs.
FOR. SALE.
FOR SALE.
SEED WHEAT,
SEED ItYE,
SEED BARLEY,
SEED OATS,
Also 200 bushels COW PEAS.
MILLER & BISELL.
sepl2-lw
FOR SALE!
A WINDLASS, with, a Brake attached,
built by Mr. George Cooper, of this
Also, a Ruggles PAPER CUTTER, which
cuts 26 inches wide. All in good order.
The above mentioned Machines will be
sold CHEAP FOR CASH. Apply at
THIS OFFICE.
jylß-tf
FOR SALE,
The Edwards House,
AT SPARTA, GEORGIA.
rjIHE above capacious Brick Hotel is of
ferod for sale on reasonable terms. At
tached to the Hotel is a fine Stable that will
accommodate forty to fifty horses. For in
formation apply to
COTHERN & WATKINS,
Sparta, Ga.
Or J. 0. MATHEWSON & CO.,
sop l s-lm Augusta, Ga.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
I HAVE given Mr. Jas. Daly an interest
in my bus ness; the style of the firm
from this date will be JAMES A. GRAY &
t „ . JAS. A. GRAY.
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 26th, 1875.
au2B
RAILROAD HOUSE,
THOMSON, GA.,
liy Henry McKinney.
/CONVENIENT to Railioad Depot. Pas
sengers by Day Down Train take din
ner at this place. sep2-tf
Notice to Shippers.
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD, i
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-lm Agent.
* NOTICE.
ONE MONTH AFTER DATE (my hus
band consenting) I 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.
sepl4-lm
COAL! COAL ! COAL I!!
* *- " ’.'UT' " • —~aHKL-IfIfcSHCTS. SIILZ
CEO. S. HOOKEY,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
Coal Creek,
Anthracite,
And
Blacksmiths’
O O A. JL, !
I HAVE NOW ON HAND, (Fresh from
the Mines,) & full supply of 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.
sepls-tf
mmi HulMlTs
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 large lumps, is hard
in texture, ignites readily, burns freely,
makes little or no cinders, soot or dust, and
creates less ashes than other Coais.
GENUINE “COAL CREEK,” well known
in this market.
Ail of the above fresh from the Mines.
F. M. STOVAI L,
sepl2-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 ail
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 lovees. He will sell
coal to any of you
WHO HAVE THK CASH.
regardless of color or previous condition
Don’t any be modest ahout calling. He
will be glad to see anybody with the Cash.
JOSEPH A. HILL.
sepl4-lw
MISCELLANEOUS.'
Seed Rye and Barley,
On CONSIGNMENT and for sale by
J. H. VANNERSON,
sepl6-3 144 Reynolds Street.
Fruit land Nurseries, Augusta, Ga.
PJ. BERCKMANS, Proprietor. Orders
• for Trees, Plants, Bulbs, Seeds, etc.,
etc., left with the undersigned will be proud
ly attended to.
GEORGE SYMMS, Agent,
No. 221 Broad Street,
septl-Gm Augusta, Ga.
WIRE HAY BANDS.
JOEING AGENTS for the EXCELSIOR
WIRE BANDS, we will always have a full
supply at lo v figures.
PRINTUP BRO. A POLLARD,
Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants
sepll-lm
NOTICE.
ffIHIRTY DAYS after date I shall become
1 a PUBLIC or FREE TRADER, in ac
cordance with provisions of Section 1760 of
theCooeofGe rgia.
SARAH RICH.
I hereby consent to my wife becoming a
Public or Free J rader. J. RICH.
Auguste, Ga., August 6th, 1875.
aug6- 30
Cotton (iins and Presses.
'ITT'E CALL tho attention of parties wish-
VV ing to purchase a GIN or PRi-SS
to our Noblett A Goodrich Gins and Smith’s
Improved Presses,
PRINTUP, BRO. & POLLARD,
Cotton Factors and C mmission Merchants
sepll-lm ,
NOTICE.
IfIROM THIS DATE Mr. GEORGE W.
CALVIN becomes a copartner of the
undersigned. The firm name will remain
as heretofore.
CALVIN & JONES.
September Ist, 1875. sepl-tf
JUST RECEIVED!
SEVERAL cases beautiful FALL CALI
COES. Several cases of KENTUCKY
JEANS, cheap,and a variety of seasonable
goods. Cheap for CASH.
sep2-thsatu-2w M. S. KEAN._
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, where no other oat ever matures
seed, as well as on high ands.
Grown expressly for seed, and for sale by
EDWARD BANCROFT,
_ Athens, Ga.
For sale by
C. H. PHINIZY. & CO.,
auglS-lin* Auguste, Ga.
Notice to Consignees.
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD COMPANY, I
Augusta Agency, Sept, 10, 1875. t
ON and after this date consignments of
Cotton from Way Stations to Auguste
will only be delivered upon surrender of
receipt issued by Agent at shipping point.
Receipts issued for cotton consigned to
t rder must be properly endorsed by ship
per beforo ootton will be delivered.
Shippers and Consignees will please be
governed accordingly.
W. H. TREZEYANT,
sepll-12 Agent.
FAIRBANKS
THE STANDARD!
Also, Miles’ Alarm Cash Drawer.
Coffee and Drug Mills, Lotter Presses, Ac
Principal Scale Warehouses:
FAIRBANKS & CO.,
31) Broadway, N. Y.
Fairbanks <fc Cos., 166 Baltimore st., Balti
more, Md.; Fairbanks & Cos., 53 Camp st.,
New Orleans; Fairbanks *& co., 33 Main st.,
Buffalo N. Y.; Fairbanks & C0.,*338 Broad
, S fS&y, *i.Y. ; Fairbanks &Cos 403
St. Paul’s st., Montreal; Fairbanks 3c Cos.,
34 King William st., London, Eng.; I air
banks, Brown & Cos., 2 Milk st., Boston,
Mass.; Fairbanks & Ewing, Masonic Hall,
Philadeldhia, Pa. ; Fairbanks, Morse & Cos.,
11l Lake st., Chicago; Fairbanks, Morse A.
Cos 139 Walnut st., Cincinnati, O.; Fair
banks, Morse & Cos., 18a Superior st., Cleve
land 6.; Fairbanks, Morse & Oo„ 48 Wood
at Pittsburgh; Fairbanks, Morse & Cos.,
sth and Main sts., Louisville; Fairbanks &
Cos., 302 and 304 Washington Av., St. Louis;
Fairbanks & Hutchinson, San Francisco,
Cal. For sale by leading Hardware Deal
ers. jy4-satuth&c3w