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gjjc Constitutionalist
AUQUSTA, GA,:
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Wednesday Morning, Sept. 22, 1875.
A Grave Concession—Revolt of the
People—Wm. Allen.
Not long ago, we quoted from the
New York Times a very significant ar
ticle, which admitted the likelihood of
the Democratic party obtaining posses
sion of the Government next year. The
Times said: “ They will do so beyond
a doubt if the people are prepared to
try the financial policy so enthusiasti
cally received in Indiana, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. And we are not so con
fident as some of our Republican
friends that the people do not intend
to try it.”
There must be some deep-seated and
powerful cause behind all this commo
tion in several great States of the
Union hitherto strongly Republican or
doubtfully Democratic. The industrial
classes are abroad, and they have
votes. They are fearfully in earnest,
and will make themselves felt, East
and West. Some may be bought out,
some are driven to murder, robbery,
vagabondage and suicide, but the vast
majority are patiently and hon
estly awaiting the day of reck
oning with their betrayers. These
masses of men look around and behold
not only that the means of living are
wrested away or blighted, but also
that the country is drifting into a
devil’s dance of immorality, socially,
financially and politically. They dis
cover that the rascals hope to profit by
this condition of affairs, and they see
that, unless checked effectually by
honest votes, the future will be infi
nitely worse than the present. Winter
is coming. It has even come, in some
sections of the Union. Frost and snow
are heralded; but business has not re
vived, and to hundreds of thousands
the grip of the Ice King means misery
ineffable, because they have no work
to do, no money to buy clothes to pro
tect their nakedness or coal or wood to
keep them warm. The Now York Day
Book, which is a bold and outspoken
journal, attempting to solve the cause
of so much distress in a country of
such boundless resources says: “It is
the fruit of the great national curse,
the public debt of §2,300,000,000. The
masses have carried this debt in its
present shape as long as they can. Tax
ation has set them frantic. They are
undergoing the horrors of the Spanish
Inquisition, through the results of that
huge curse, the public debt. The pecu
liar relation that debt bears to the masses
is to be changed. Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Indiana recognize this. White
slavery to greedy bondholders is to be
abrogated. The attempt to get the
pound of flesh has brought with it big
drops of blood, and the awakening
of the three States of Ohio, Indiana
and Pennsylvania warns the organs
of the bondholdiDg party of what
is to follow. This nation will bleed to
death under the specie depletion,
through coin interest on the debt paid
to Europe. This yearly drain has kill
ed the “specie basis” of banking, and
the South and North mean “business”
in the line of a radical change which
will give national relief. The Times
sees that the Republican party must
go down under the big earthquake
wave now coming, and so hints to its
miserable followers. Democracy is
awake ; that “corpse” is stalking over
the land, and has a big work before it.
God bless Old Cincinnattjs, who struck
the first stout blow in 1873, and makes
the next huge and successful attack
upon the shattered stronghold of nig
ger Republicanism, on Oct. 12. He has
brave soul3 with him, but truly he is
the noblest Roman of them all.”
Ay, “God bless old Cincinnati’s !” He
was the first of the public men at the
West to come forth from retirement
and proclaim that the virtues, princi
ples and practices of old times were
the only ones worth having, and that
the country must be saved by restor
ing to power the men who were “Bour
bon” and “old fogy” enough to prefer
the slow and sure methods of the past
to the headlong “progress” of the new
epoch which means, in its last analy
sis, war, assassination, defalcation,
debt, taxes, self-slaughter and the
overthrow of the social fabric, by the
recklessness of men and the depravity
of women. He shows the people that
they have been the victims of special
legislation, which is legalized rob
bery, and that the tax-gatherer comes
to them yearly and monthly, not for
the purpose solely of “running the ma
chine,” as Mr. Lincoln expressed it,
but to keep a party in power, to or
ganize theft and to enrich the few at
' the expense of the many. In his latest
speech Gov. Allen thus illustrated the
true status of the people:
You know that there are in the United
States a full million of men, honest labor
ing men, seeking employment, who cannot
get it. You know that a large portion of
your manufactories are stopped and the la
borers turned out of employment. You
know that breakings are going on. Banks
and merchants are failing. In a word, you
know that there is a universal stagnation
of business in the land, and you know that
the eauso of that stagnation is the want of
money. Without a sufficient circulating
medium it would be just exactly like a far
mer who had a farm to cultivate and had
only half enough plows to cultivate it. It
is just like one of these manufactories that
only have half enough material to keep
them running, and, consequently, for the
want of this circulating medium this de
pression exists among the people and all
the forms of human industry in the coun
try. These men, nevertheless, go about
and cry there is too much money in this
country. I wish to God we could find some
of it. [Laughter.] They say it is in the
banks. Is it? It might just as well, for
the purposes of money and currency, be in
the bottom of the Pacific ocean, for if it is
not in circulation it is no more money than
so many cornstalks would be. To be money
it must circulate as a medium for carry
ing on the exchanges of the country.—
I don’t mean exchanges with foreign
countries. We see an immense amount
about exchanges from foreign countries
in the papers—that the exchange is so
much in favor of England, in consequence
of the inequality in the balance of trade,
and they will put this down in figures and
think they are talking about something
big. Now, the domestic exchanges of the
people in the business of their daily life is
a thousand times greater than the foreign
exchanges in this country, and it is the
want of money to carry on these millions
of cases where men make bargains, buy
and sell things all over the country, day
and night, from a mug of lager beer up to
a farm or a great factory. Here is domes
tic exchange that requires an immense
amount of circulating medium, and If the
Government has not furnished it, and no
body else has the power to furnish it, it
seems to me that your Government is act
ing the fool. [Applause and laughter. 1 Un
fortunately, of late years the people have
become somewhat strangers at Washing
ton City. The Government has been sur
rounded by a parcel of fast fellows there
that have grown rich by public plunder.
They dash and whirl about and call them
selves fashionable society, and the Presi
dent never looks over them and sees the
millions and millions of men hard at
work upon their farms and in the work
shops. * * * The Democrats
passed a platform which signified
that there was not quite enough money in
the country and that there ought to be
more. The other side bristled up and
thought they had us; they went about
through the country, and they found every
man they met, from the largest manufac
turer down to the smallest retail dealer,
told them, ‘I should like to have a little
more money. [Laughter.] I can’t carry
on my business witho>'+ some more.’ When
they found that the whole country had
gone against them, they looked around and
said; ‘Well, there is nothing more but to
attack the Catholics and tell lies.’ [Ap
plause and laughter.] And that is what
they are about. But see how'tnith travels.
It is a great way to California, up past the
Rocky Mountains; but truth has got there.
We sent it by the wires and by mail from
Ohio. It has got over there, and the con
sequence is that California has flopped over
to the Democratic Party. In Pennsylvania,
renowned for many years as a tariff State
and called a hard money State, their poli
cians, about a month ago, were laughing at
the Democracy, scoffing at them, calling
them nurses of rag babies. [Laughter.]
But the Ohio people continued to argue at
them. We gave them reason for their
abuse, and finally they found that it was
they who deserved to be left out, and not
us; and here, in the convention of the|great
State of Pennsylvania, .the other day, lo
and behold, their State flops over and
adopts Uie Ohio platform. [Applause.]
And so they will continue to do. It is a plain
ease. Why, these fellows come arguing
about to tell the people they have got too
much money or got enough. It is just like
a man going into the house of his neighbor,
and seeing him writhing on the bed with a
toothache. The poor follow is nearly crazy
with the pain, but the neighbor undertakes
to persuade him that there is nothing the
matter with him. “ Oh, my good fellow,”
he says, “you have got no toothache.”
“But I have got a toothache.” “O, it can’t
be possible! Let me look at your tongue!”
[Laughter.] Can you persuade a hungry
man that he don’t want bread? Can you
persuade the man whose factories are clos
ed, the farmer whose produce sells for eo
more than what pays his taxes, can you
persuade the unfortunate thousands that
are seeking bread, and for its sake seeking
labor, can you persuade them that nothing
is the matter? I don’t think you can, and
that is the reason why I count upon the
State of Ohio coming up to the work next
month, and tolling out a majority of from
thirty to ninety thousand on the Democra
tic side. [ Applause.] That is what we look
for. We know very,well that when a na
tion is distressed, like when an individual
is distressed, it will seek relief from that
distress. But these people who are asking
you to renew their lease of power do not
promise you any release. Not a bit of it.
They tell you there is too much money in
the country already, but they do not tell
you how you can get it. Now, the reason
that money is piled up In bank so strong is,
because the scarcer the money is among
the people the more their farms will depre
ciate in value, the more cheap labor will
become; and when they have the money
ready, and the farmer’s farm gets down to
about one-fourth of its value, they will
be ready to buy of you. So with every
thing else. The scarcer they can keep
money the lower the labor and property of
the people will depreciate, and the greater
will be their profit when the people are
compelled to sell their property in order to
live at all. Well, we have got them this
time. [Laughter.] And we will hold them,
and we will run this Government, if we get
it in our possession, in the interest and for
the benefit of the entire people. We will
not run it to form cliques and rings, not
run it fi>r this class or for that class, but
for all the people. Did you ever hear this
word “ring” four or five years ago ? That
is an invention. The next dictionary that
is printed of the English language ought
to explain what that word “ring” means.
Defalcation and public plunder had become
so common that it became a regular branch
of business. They could not, I suppose,
get out of Congress, without it was in some
night session, a charter to authorize rogues
to do as they pleased, and steal as much as
they pleased, and, therefore, a partnership
of rogues was formed, and they denomi
nated themselves “rings.” So there are
rings of rogues ranged around a pile of
money placed in the centre, and they are
all trying to get at the money. These are
rings. Well, we will have none of them.
We will have general laws that shall act
like the laws of nature upon all men alike.
We will not charter two thousand bankers.
We will not levy four or five hundred mil
lions of taxes upon the people to pay bond
holders in gold, when upon tho face of the
bonds they are entitled to be paid in paper
alone.
The extract is a long one ; but how
much truth and sense it contains ! It
is a genuine and not overdrawn picture
of the condition of the people. It is
just the kind of talk they should under
stand and appreciate. It is the key
note by which the Democracy can
march to such a triumph as was never
before known. Woe to the country
and the pariy if the Manhattan Club
loungers and policy-mongers succeed
in beclouding the true issue and induce
the people to desert their best and
bravest champion!
Disloyalty.— The National Republi
can, of Washington City, charges that
the South is “disloyal,” and proves it
by an extract from Col. Lamar’s latest
speech, in which he said :
“That the South was more oppressed
than any civilized people of our age ever
have, been; that the Government of the
United States had used the ignorant negro
as an instrument to oppress the white peo
ple of the South, and that it had found
leady tools in men of Northern birth set
tled among us to play upon tho passions
and excite the prejudices of semi-barba
rians, degraded and brutralized by loag
ye~rs of servitude.”
If “disloyalty” consists in speaking
the truth, then are Col. Lamar and the
South amenable to the charge. If
Col. Lamar were called before God’s
judgment seat, he would not have oc
casion to blot out one word of his
speech.
Pierrepont. —Attention is called to
the Attorney General’s tom-foolery
about “lawless traitors to human
rights.” He is reminded that “official
documents and legal pleadings do not
admit of florid adornments.” We dare
say he wrote that nonsense to quiet
the howling idiots, with his finger on
his nose.
Bubble Concerns —An Old Merchant
on Commercial Sharpers.
An old East India merchant solves
the knotty problem of financial chaos
in many parts of the world. Writing
to the Pall Mall Gazette, he says: “I
“ confess that what puzzled me a little
“ was while I was cutting down my ex
“ peuses, seeing how narrow the mar
“ gin of profit had become, and endeav
“ ing to avoid all doubtful transactions*
“ men neither older nor better inform
“ ed than myself in comparatively new
“ firms were living at a rate that I could
“ not begin to emulate. But what
“ puzzled me still more was that, al
•* though I knew by careful and per
“ sonal examination that we traded as
“ close, both here and in India, as any
“ one, although our bills were always
“ sought after, and, having capital, we
“ were in no hurry to realize, and could
“ afford to be content with a moderate
“ percentage, we were, nevertheless,
“ undersold at prices which we could
“ not pretend to compete with except at
“ a dead loss. I have positively known
“ certain classes of goods consigned by
“ houses here sold in Bombay
“ at less than the whole
“ sale price by contract in the
“ city where they were manufactured—
“ and this not as a single Instance.
“ There Is no money to be made at that
“ game unless it be other people’s. In
“ deed it required the greatest care on
“ our part to avoid being ruined alto
“ gether by such systematic flooding
“of an already glutted market. When
“ the end of the beginning of the end
“ came, as it has come within the last
“ few weeks, the whole thing became
“ clear enough. These benefactors of
“ their species who sold cheaper than
“ anybody else could buy, sinking
“ freight, interest and commission, had
“ really little or nothing at stake in the
“ matter, and could well afford to sa
“ crifice profits so long as they could
“‘float’ their paper. More than one
“ Board of Directors have found out
“ by this time that the lucrative part
“ of that business is not done by the
“Jbanks. Indeed, if the four rules of
“ arithmetic can be relied upon to give
“ absolute results, they have not fin
“ ished their lesson yet. Meantime,
“ steady-going folk like ourselves have
“ been the sufferers for the credulity of
“ some of * the ablest men of business
“ in the city of London.’ ”
Jay Gould.— The New York Sun
says: “We learn that Jay Gould is
making an extraordinary effort to get
control of the Western Union Tele
graph Company in the annual election
which occurs early in October. To do
this it is not necessary for him to buy
a majority of tho stock, a sufficient
mass of proxies will be qiute as effec
tual. For this purpose 1 . is employ
ing an ingenious novelty, believed to be
of his own invention. A great propor
tion of the company’s shares are in the
hands of brokers, who have advanced
money on them to speculators by whom
they have been purchased. For the
transfer of such shares Mr. Gould, as
we are informed, is now paying a neat
commission. The shares after being
transferred are at once handed back
to their holders, so that they are
in no danger of being sold by the
new ostensible owner, and can be
transferred back again upon the books
of the company after the election.—
This secures to Gould or his repre
sentative the right to vote upon these
shares, and, should he succeed by this
means in getting command of the com
pany and electing a board of directors
to suit himself, he will thus gain the
power of distributing, after the old
Erie fashion, that immense part of the
company’s stock which is held by it as
a reserve.” To which the New York
Herald adds: “Now, to put such a ma n
in charge of our telegraphs is to give
him a dangerous control over our busi
ness and commerce, our private, politi
cal and social life. The telegraph sys
tem is only another phase of the postal
system. It is the improved post office.
The time must come when we will have
to consider whether it is not necessary
for the good of the people that the
Government should control this great
machine. The surest way to bring
that time about is to allow it to fall
into the hands of a rapacious and des
perate gambler like Jay Gould.”
A True Evangelist.— The Rev. Dr.
Cuyler writes a short but marrowy
sermon for the Independent, concerning
the sort of revival that is most needed
just now. Here it is:
The revival we need is not only a revival
of sounder scriptural preaching, but a re
vival of true Christian living. We have
had quite a surfeit of the religion which
luxuriates in the devout fervors of the
prayer meeting and the camp ground,
which sings sweet hymns and applauds
sweet sermons, and then goes straight off
to Its money-grasping and its pleasure
seeking, and its panderings to self and sin.
God forbid that we speak lightly of true
spiritual emotion. But the Christianity
which Christ demands is something deeper
than a song or a sermon or a sacrament.
It is the holy and humble imitation of
Himself. The revival, then, which we need
Is a .revival of the religion which keeps
God’s commandments; which tells the
truth and sticks to its promises; which
pays twenty shillings to the pound; which
cares more for a good character than a fine
coat; which votes at the ballot-box in the
same direction that it prays; which denies
ungodly lusts, and which can bo trusted in
every stress of temptation. A revival
which will sweeten our homes and chasten
our press and purify our politics and
cleanse our business and commerce from
roguery and rottenness would be a boon
from heaven. A revival which will bring
not only a Bible knowledge but a Bible con
science to all is what the land is dying for.
The world’s sorest want to-day is more
Christlike men and women. The preaching
it needs is—more sermons in shoes.
Adams. —Some of our contemporaries
have been persuaded that Mr. Charles
Francis Adams, in his recent letter, de
clined the Presidency. When will they
learn that Mr. Adams, like Charlotte
Cushman and the Ravels, have been
playing “ farewell engagements ” for
half a century ?
Snappy. —The Nashville American
gets off these good hits: Carl Schurz
is too late, and Bloody Schurz too stale
to do any good in Ohio now.
Hand writing on the wall for the
Radical Belshazzar: “Maine, Maine
tekel upharzin.”
PERSONA*!*.
One lady at Saratoga had: 50 dresses with
her.
lowa has 2,032 Grange Lodges, and Mis
souri 2,031.
Springfield, 111., has .? female base ball
club; nine blondes, nine brunettes.
Whenever the President appears in a
saloon the -waiter sings dut, “ Ale to the
Chief.” |
A French scientist says; beer is the least
offensive and most thirfst-quenching of
drinks. ,fj 8
Ham is the name of a boy arrested in
Hudson for stealing egg;:. They usually
go together.
A Council Bluff doctor hangs out a
sign inscribed, “Dr. H. O.Greeno, Medico
Electricio.” O! *
The Graphic reminds Mejsrs. Moody and
San key that the “revival most needed is a
revival of business.” Naughty but nice.
Prof. Proctor4s almost: ready to pub
lish the census of Jupitef and Mars, so
fully doos he believe in their habitable
ness.
An Aberdeen girl supposes that the rea
son she has never kindled a flame in any
man’s heart is because s;-e is not a good
match. :
The Pottsvillo Miners’ Journal is tho pa
per that nominates Gen. ti. F. Butler for
next Governor of Mississippi, to succeed
his son-in-law. C
Gov. Ames’ cook having given warning
that she intends to leaves his sorvice, he
has applied for United Stages troops to re
sist her purpose. ;
Bismarck has two vKlous boys who
cause their father unerasing anxiety.
That’s why he was so thankful for that
cane which Mark Muckle Rent him.
A man, who broke jail in Texas, was run
ning away beautifully, whs a he was bitten
by a rattlesnake, and, being obllgod to go
to a doctor for treatment, was restored to
liis old quarters.
Bev. Hamill C. Rogers has sued the
Bonham (Tex.) Christian Messenger for
$25,000 for saying that he had been “en
gaged in tho Beecher business in his flock
at Farmsville.”
The Duke of Edinburgh oh visiting Nijni-
Novgorod was presented by the mercantile
community with a small Laf of bread and
a few ounces of salt in of friendship
and hospitality. The gift was presented on
and with a silver salver wc’th $1,400.
A Wisconsin woman says sho will quit
wearing pull-back diesses’when the men
quit drinking and chewing and swearing.
She’s an old maid, of course, and don’t
know how necessary it L for a married
man to cling to his constitutional privi
leges. •
Mr. Carrington, Assistant District-At
torney at Washington, alludes in a card to
a city editor as “a youfg scoundrel, a
pusillanimous puppy, a lipeler, a black
guard and a white-livered upward.” In St.
Louis men have exchangedihlgh lino shots
and embraced for less.
A Tennessee woman hanged herself the
other day while her husband was at church,
the cause of her suicide beigg that this ex
emplary gentleman had struck her just
before .departing to attend his religious
duties. ; *
Victor Hugo replied thus to an invita
tion from the American Rifle Team to be
present at the Centennial Celebration: “I
cannot say whether I sh ,11 be able next
year to accept your honoi&ble invitation.
I hope so, and most sincerely. I should be
happy to salute with you he grand date.
July is an illustrious month—it saw the
Bastile fall In France and the Republic
born in America. I thank y ;u most heartily
and shake your cordial hands.”
POLITICAL NOTES.
Nuxt elections—Ohio and lowa, October
12.
“Let no guilty man escape, if it can be
avoided,” said Mr. Grant, whereupon Mr.
Wilkinson, Collector of St. Joseph, Mo.,
third-term editor and Influential politician,
having proved $15,000 shore, and finding it
could not bo avoided, escaped.
The Columbia (S. C.) Union-Herald, is call
ing upon the Republican leaders in that
State to realize that public opinion In the
North and West has become fixe upon the
fact that State Governments which cannot
exist save when surrounded by Federal
bayonets are not worth preserving.
We learn from the Auidurn Advertiser
that a retired produce merchant and prom
inent friend of ex-Secretary McCulloch,
from Indiana, who is visaing that city,
brings tho Important information that the
Indiana Republicans consider Senator Mor
ton the coming man for ijie Presidency,
and ox-Speaker Blaine thy coming man
for the Vice-Presidency, unless the Conven
tion shall take Senator Boo’ra, of Califor
nia. Well, well! <
The Boston News, no doubt, hits the nail
on the head when it says “ t,hat the people
of Maine are tiring of the management of
the Republic in party. There is the Blaine
faction and the Hamlin faction and the
Morrill faction, all quarreling for ascend
ancy in the party. The people have little
interest in mere men, and where principles
are made a secondary consideration, and
the success of certain schetiling politicians
is the main object, there inevitably grows
up a feeling of disgust and a disposition to
kill off all the and to start
anew, with principles rather than men as
tho main object at Issue.” *
A prominent and well-known gentleman
of Connecticut writes us as f 'Hows: “Eight
years ago I was a thorough-going Republi
can. To-day I am one of the most ‘de
moralized’ Republicans in the State. I have
advised my son to take a stand with the
Democratic party.” This excellent advice
is identical with that which tho late Rev.
Dr. Joel Hawes said ho would give to a
son of his, had he a son about entering
upon his majority.—Hartford Times.
Vice-President Wilson cultivates the
arts of popularity as constantly as Cincin
natus cultivated cabbages, and we can
hardly say that we arc surprised to learn
that he recently took the high moral
ground of paying his fare m a Brooklyn
horse-car. He had, in fact, paid it before
his identity was discovered by the conduc
tor, who immediately came: and engaged
the distinguished but tedious statesman in
tho toils of amiable speech, striving to per
suade him to take back the five cents. But
It was unavailing. He always paid his
fare, he said, and was opposed to dead
heading. And with this slur on the Ad
ministration and the consciousness of five
cents’ worth of rectitude under his waist
coat he disappears in the mi >t of the local
chronicler and'fades over the horizon of
Bay Ridge.—[N. Y. World.
From Mr. Bayard’s Baltimore speech
the other day we quote as follows: “Mr,
Bayard alluded to the condition the coun
try had been brought by tho party in pow
er. He did not believe thero over had been
such depression and stagnation of indus
tries, lack of occupation, an Lapprehension
of danger as now In this country. The
losses of the war were set down at $12,000,-
000,000, the accumulation of a century,
which will require years to recover. Tho
Republican party does not Bbind upon the
issues of the last ten years. Their cries of
Southern outrages have been exposed, and
their slanders of honest men must cease.
They have shifted the issues, and now ad
dress themselves to the lower passions and
bring up the gaunt spectre of Know-Noth-
Inglsm. They raise the issue of religious
intolerance. It is proclaimed dn the land of
George Calvert, upon a street bearing
his name, that men shall be proscribed for
religious opinions. Of all p aces on the
eartli this was the last from which such
proscription should come.” [Applause]
SPECIAL NOTICES. \
Coloni ts, Emigrants andjTravelersjWestward.
FOR MAP CIRCULARS, CONDENSED
time tables and general infor i ation in re
gard to transportation facilities to all points
in Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Minne
sota, Colorado. Hanses, Texas, lowa, New
Mexico. Utah and California, apply to or ad
dress Albert B. Wbenn, General Railroad
Agent Office Atlanta. Ga.
No one should go West without first getting
in communication with the General Rail
road Agent, and become informed as to su
perior advantages, cheap and quick trans
portation of fa, l ilies, household goods,
st ek. and farming implements geneially.
All information cheerfully given.
W. L. DANLEY,
sepl4-6m Q. P. & T. 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 the "Board of Health of the
State of Georgia’Ms 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 reaulred, under penalty of ten
dollars, to be recovered in any Court of com
petent jurisdiction in tho State, at the suit of
theOrdinarv. to report to the Ordinary, in
the forms to bo provided, all Deaths and
Births which come under his supervision,
with a certificate of the cause of death. Ac.
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
tho next kin, under penalty of ten dollars, at
the suit of tho 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
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,
aug2Dtf__ >i-ii _^^GenUinsurance^Agentj^
WAJXTJ-i.
&£• Advertisements not over Jive lines wlli
be inserted under this head for Jifty cents
each insertion , cash.
WANTED— A situation as a Salesman in
a grocery house. Had six years’
experience. Can give unquestionable refer
ence. Would assist in the correspondence
and books. Address, Box 307, P. 0.,
sep2l-3t. Augusta, Ga.
WANTED-A COLORED GIRL between
ton and twelve years of age, for
light housework. Apply at This Office.
seplß-6_
WANTED-TO EXCHANGE, A COW
with Calf for a Milker. Apply at
This Office. sepl3-3
WANTED— A competent NURSE. Ap
ply at 185 Broad street.
sepß-wth&su
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Oranges, Lemons, Peaches
and Apples.
I HAVE just received a lot of fine OR
ANGES, LEMONS, PEvCIJES, and 20
barrels of fine NORTHERN APPLES. Al
so, one case of PRIZE UNDY.
JOHN F. QUINN,
sep2?-l 48 Jackson street.
New Goods for Fall!
AT THE ONE-PRICE HOUSE. HENRY
L. A. BALK, 172 Broad street.—Again
I have received more New Stylo Calicoes,
Calicoes for Mourning; Jeans, Cassimeres,
Checks, Shirtings. Sheetings, Flannels,
Blankets, <fcc. Prices cheaper than ever
offered before, at wholesale and Retail.
HENRY L. A. BALK,
sep22-l* 172 Broad street.
TO TEACHERS^
rnHE TRUSTEES OF THE COMMON
JL SCHOOLS, First Ward, will elect
Teachers on THURSDAY, 23d inst., as fol
lows :
A Principal and a Primary Teacher, each
of the white and the colored schools. Sala
ry, respectively, SSO and S4O per month.
Leave written application, with certificate,
at JAS. G. BAILEY & BROS.’, by 12 in. of
above day. sep22-2t
SEED WHEAT.
Choice Kentucky white seed
WHEAT, BARLEY and RYE for sale by
sep22-tf BARRETT & CASWELL.
“ TO RENT,
FOR s3so—a nice house on Reynold street,
containing four good rooms and large
hall, with veranda in front, large yard, ull
necessary'outbuildings and good hydrant.
The house has just been thoroughly repair
ed, ail the rooms newly plastered, and is
being painted inside and out. It will be
ready for occupancy bv October Ist. Ap
ply to PAUL R. SLEDGE.
At S. C. Depot or at residence, 127 Broad st.
sept22-tf
A Word to the Wise!
On AND AFTER tho First day of Octt
ber my CHEAP CASH TERMS for
COAL!
Will ceaso. Those persons who paid their
bills promptly last season can get Coal on
the SAME TERMS they did then. Those
who “BOTHERED” mo will have to pay
CASH AT THE DESK,
Or freeze as far as lam .concerned. They
can afford to be pretty cold in this world in
consideration of their prospects in the
next.
JOSEPH A. HILL.
sep22-dlw
LOST KEYS.
IN glancing over tho columns of this
journal, of yesterday’s issue, I saw a
notice of a lost bunch of Keys, and where
the owner offers a suitable reward to the
finder for the return of the same. Now, in
order to save you $1 for advertising, call
at No. 16 Mclntosh street and have a KEY
TAG stamped with your name and address
for 25 cents, which will not only guarantee
the return of your Keys, but acts as an or
nament, and saves you the expense of ad
vertising. E. W. DODGE,
Practical Stencil Cutter,
16 Mclntosh street, Augusta, Ga.
sep22-l
DRY SALT C. R. SIDES
AND LARD.
1 CAR D. 8. C. 11. SIDES.
50 TIERCES LARD.
On consignment and for sale by
J. H. VANNERSON,
sep2l-3 No. 144 Reynolds street.
Corn, Oats, Rye, Barley, &c.
3 CARS WHITE CORN.
1 Car WHITE OATS.
2 Cars MIXED OATS,
SEED RYE and BARLEY.
On consignment and for sale by
J. H. VANNERSON,
sop2l-3 144 Reynolds street.
FOR SALE.
A VALUABLE STEAM GRIST and SAW
MILL, with good surroundings, in
cluding five or six acres of Land and two
framed dwelliug houses on same. Said
property situated at Gunn’s Mills, on the
Georgia Railroad, and will be sold low for
the CASH. For further particulars,
Apply to
Bepl9-wlmo* A. M. MASSENGALE.
COTTON FACTORS.
ANTOINE POULLAIN,
Cotton Factor,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
'IT TILL continue the business at my fire-
Tf 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
Commissiou 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
0. H.. PHINIzr. 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 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,
Winship Cotton Gin,
And the
Peerless Guano.
Consignments and Orders respectfully so
licited.
aug!9-2m C. H. PHINIZY fc CO.
A. M. BENSON. W. N. MHRCIEB.
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 tire-proof storage for In
definite time, at very low rates of interest.
sepl2-dAc3m
J. J. PEARCE,
COTTON FACTOR,
And Commission Mf reliant,
JACKSON STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
Sep7-d<fcc3m •
RAILROAD HOUSE,
THOMSON, GA.,
By Henry McKinney.
CONVENIENT to Railroad Depot. Pas
sengers by Day Down Train take din
ner at this place. sep2-tf
" REOPENED !
HAVING again engaged in the STEN
CIL business, I notify my old pat
rons and the public in general that I am
prepared to cut all kinds of Metal Brands,
on Copper, Brass Tin, and other metals,
for Tobacconists, Merchants, Millers, Man
ufacturers, etc.
All work executed at short notice.
Satisfaction in price and workmanship
guaranteed.
E. W. DODGE,
1G Mclntosh street, between Broad and
Reynolds streets,
sepl9-ltn AUGUSTA, GA.
LACE CURTAINS
CLEANED AND WHITENED,
AT
123 BROAD STREET.
aug27-12 ___ JAS.II. HULSE.
BARRETT & LAND,
WHOLESALE DRUCCISTS,
NO. 270 BROAD STREET,
AITOUmTA,
OFFER to the trade a large and varied
stock of
Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Drug
gists’ Sundries, &c.,
At prices as LO T V as any house in the South.
All the popular Patent Medicines of the
day always on hand.
Retail Department.
We have set aside a part of our store for
Retail purposes, and will be glad to serve
all in want of Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery,
etc., at any and all times, at reason ible
prices.
STOCK COMPLETE.
One of our firm has just returned from
the Eastern markets, and we have a large
and complete stock in store and arriving
all bought at the very lowest prices.
BARRETT & LAND.
Georgia Hair Dye is instantanoous—the
best in the world.
Glider’s Liver Pills never fail.
sepl9-tf
Attention!—School Books
School BOOKS fian be bought at OATES’
BOOKSTORE as cheap as anywhere in the
city. A liberal discount to Teachers and
Merchants. sep2l-2
TO SHIPPERS
By the Short Sea Route
VIA CHARLESTON !
COTTON delivered in New York within
NINETY HOURS from Augusta. The
Steamship MERCEDITA will sail on FRI
DA V NEXT at 12 m. The OH AMPION will
follow and sail on SATURDAY, 25th inst.,
at 4 o’clock p. m. Dispatch and freight
room guaranteed
W. STEVENSON,
sep2l-2 _ Agent Steamship Lines.
J. W. NELSON,
RETAIL GROCER, No. 3C4 Broad Street,
(old stand of John Nelson & Son,) has
opened a First Class Grocery Store. Ho
will 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.
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
Slocks 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.
jels-tuthsaly
TO RENT.
TO RENT,
.A. SUITE ot three very desirable ROOMS,
centrally located, on Broad street.
Apply at
NO. 213 BROAD STREET,
or Address Glass Box No. 589.
sep2l-2
TO RENT.
1 HE DWELLING over store occupied by
N. W. & E. J. Peacock, No. 130 Broad St.
Apply to
sepl9-tf A. D. PICQUET.
TORENT~
THE large STORE in front of the Opera
House, at present occupied by Messrs.
Myers A Marcus. Possession given on the
first of October.
Apply on the premises, or to Win. A. Wal
ton, Law Range, or to
seplO-tf I. P. GIRARDEY.
TO RENT,
FROM the Ist of October next, that eligi
ble STOKE, 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
FOR RENT,
RESIDENCE AND STORE at 23G Broad
street, opposite C. V. Walker’s auction
house. Apply to J. T. DERUY,
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 P. H. PRIMROSE.
For Rent or to Lease.
THE WARRENTON HOTEL, newly fur
nished, and as desirable a location as is
in the country. Applications entertained
till September 10th next. For particulars
address Post Office Box No. 3, Warrenton,
Ga. aug2o-30d _
TO RENT,
rjAHE OFFICE No. 3, Exchange Building,
at present occupied by Messrs. Beall, Spears
& Cos. Ar.plyto
aug22-tf DANIEL & ROWLAND
TO RENT,
FROM the First of October next, the
dwelling on 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. aug7-tf.
TO RENT,
IMIAME DWKLLING, 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 October, the HOUSE
next to Dr. Garvin’s, with five Rooms,
and double Kitchen in yard, water and gar
den. Apply at
jy!4-tf NO. 84 WALKER STREET.
STORE TO RENT.
Store No. 290 Broad street, now occu
pied by P. G. Burum.
For Terms, apply to
jy!s-tf _ H. H. D’ANTIGNAC.
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,
From the first of October next,
the elegant and commodious STORE,
209 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,
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-
Laiglo’s old place. aug27-lm
TO RENT,
JMNE OFFICES AND SLEEPING ROOMS
centrally located. Apply to
WARREN, WALLACE & CO.,
sep 8-wedfrlsat3 Cotton Factors.
Rooms to Rent.
A. SUIT OF FIVE ROOMS TO RENT
over Dr. F. A. Beall’s Drug Store. Apply
to GEO. D. CONNOR,
sepl-wefrsu 53 Jackson St.
TO RENT,
FROM the Ist of October next, D. F. Tan
nor’s RESIDENCE, situated fir3t
house above Toll Gate, on Summerville
Railroad. House contains 8 rooms, double
kitchen and stables, with good water in
the yard. Also 4 acres of land attached.
All in good order. Apply to JOHN BRAN
SON, Augusta Factory, or JAS. G. BAILIE
& BRO., Broad street. aug!2-wesutf
For Sale or to Rent.
HOUSE and lot on the south side of
Broad street, between Centre and El
bert, known as No. 84. now occupied by
Gen. R. Y. Harris. The lot has a Iront on
Broad and Ellis streets of 44 feet, more or
less. The improvements consist of a com
fortable two story brick dwelling, a kitchen,
&c.
Georgia Railroad 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 RYE,
SEED BARLEY,
SEED OATS,
Also 200 bushels COW PEAS.
MILLER & BISELL.
sepl2-lw
FOR SALE I
A WINDLASS, with a Brake attached,
built by Mr. George Cooper, of this
city.
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.
j ylB-tf
FOR SALE,
The Edwards House,
AT SPARTA, GEORGIA.
rpHE above capacious Brick Hotel is of.
fered for sale on reasonable terras. At
tached to the Hotel is a line Stable thatwii]
accommodate forty to fifty horses. For Jq.
formation apply to
COTHERN & WATKINS,
Sparta* tia
Or J, O. MATHEWSON & 00,
sepls-lm Au#u3ta,(j a-
COAL! COAL! COAL II!
CEO. S. HOOKEY,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
Coal Creek,
Anthracite,
Blacksmiths’
C O .A. Z-. !
I HAVE NOW ON HAND, (Fresh from
the Mines,) a 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’eity.
Office Over 210 Broad Street.
sep!s-tf
SPECIAL IWCEMTS
To Early Purchasers.
I AM now offering the following COALS
at LOWEST PRICES, by car load oi
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 Jittle 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 W arren 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 tlio
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 any kind. Everybody
is invited to attend his levels. He will sell
coal to any 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 the Ca-li.
, JOSEPH A. HILL.
sepl4-lw
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 bo complete in every
department. We now have In stock choice
styles of new Calicoes at 6%, 8 and 10c.;
Slack Alpacas £t 25, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60. 65, 75,
85. $1 and $1.25 to $1.50; Black Mohairs
from 45c. to $1.50; Black Cashmeres, Hen
riettas and Bombazines from 75c. to $1.50;
Beautiful Colored Dress Goods from 25 to
75c.; Kentucky Jeans at 15, 20, 25, 35, 40, 45
and 50c.; Tweeds and Cassitneres 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 15e.; Fruit
of the Loom and Londsdale do. at 12>tc.;
other makes of Bleached Cotton at lower
prices.
Purchasers will do well to examine our
stock, and we particularly wish them to
notice tho 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,
sent! 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 Papor 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 respeet
lully invite them to do so.
V. RICHARDS * BRO.,
Corner by tho Planters’ Hotel,
301 Broad street.
aug24-tuwethsutuw&clm
YOU CAN FIND
AT
C. J. T. BALK'S
The be&t sc. NECK BUSHES.
The 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 Checked Homo
spun.
The best l2)/ a c. Cotton Flannel.
The best 10c. Heavy Brown Drilling.
Tho best bargains In all kinds of Dry
Goods.
Be sure anc look for No. 130 Broad street,
below Monument street.
gep!2-tf BALK.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
JOHN S. & WM. T. DAVIDSON,
-ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
unitoi
jelMy lG£ Mo * 1 WAI BLOCK.
W- T\ GABY.
attorney at law,
•AUGUSTA, GA.
Office No. 213 Broad street.
A\^ l !’ar r ohna°i? lf i all p the F ourts of South
Special Notice to Passengers and
Shippers via Charleston.
D l se I Slii 1 V e p 1 P n eßßur ?, of inward freights
York without regard l to Bal i for ew
say fuesdHvu ,p^ ul to days, as formerly
gif will endeavortoad visa Saturda >*’
jm!to.^{SSiPmV)Sß&6
Passengers from Anm,ot v.> clock.
Ireakfaston b “rd 8 The wiU
f? iow and eall on TIJFsm v ORGU will
Through Tickets iVnrV P- For
apply to L ‘ Stot ßoomsaudFreights
sep2-tf A I E VENSON
r_ Agent Steamship Line.
CHEAP PRINTING;
A market <&• are m tho
to discount their nrlJw lioV?A lnflr * we offel
anyJob, dowork P a q in 10 p ? r <*nt for
ceived tho' 1 money re
ufg!*
- __ = Co]nmun i cations.
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