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AUGUSTA, GcJ^.z
Saturday Morning, Sept. 25, 1875
Hon. Win, D. Kelley and the Financial
Situation.
At the express request of Col. R. A.
Alston, of the Atlanta Herald, Hon.
Wm. D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, has
written a letter on the financial situa
tion which we reproduce in this day’s
issue of the Constitutionalist. It is a
powerful document. Judge Kelley
treats his subject as a master, and with
iron logic. It bristles with facts, fig
ures and argument. All attempts at
fine writing are discarded. The inter
nal evidence of this letter is that Judge
Kelley, though an old abolitionist and
latter-day Republican, has learned
some wisdom from events and does
not hesitate to leave the Administra
tion wing of his party on a question
which so vitally concerns the country
at large.
Upon this subject, the New York
Freeman's Journal has an article so ap
posite, that, we quote it, conspicuously
as a companion piece to Mr. Kelley’s
trenchant epistle. Commenting upon
the New York nominations and plat
form, it says:
“The Platform, a string of ‘Bun
combe ’ propositions, is what has been
dictated by the bondholders—mostly
foreign—and the national bank inter
est. It obscures knowledge by a cloud
of big words. It endorses the financial
policy of President Grant’s adminis
tration by urging ‘a speedy return to
specie payment’—‘steady steps toward
specie payments.’
“The administration of President
Grant has been driving us thither—to
the paralysis of all business, and es
pecially of all industries of business
men with small capitals, at a rate that,
in six years, has shut up hundreds of
thousands of homes, under foreclo
sures, or executions of judgments, and
has put on the streets, without a dol
lar, or the means of earning a dollar,
many tens of thousands of men capa
ble and desirous of being engaged in
legitimate and honest occupations.
“Gov. Tilden’s Syracuse Convention
has, we are under the impression,
thrown off some vague words—such as
office-seekers use against opponents —
against Grant’s Administration. But
it has endorsed the financial policy of
that Administration.
“Would it not be a thing, to see, next
year, Democrat and Republican for
gotten as political nomenclatures—to
see the Bondholders, and National
Bankers, and Watered Stock Railroad
Companies, throwing Grant overboard,
and taking up Tilden, as one expe
eienced in making victims pay full
value for depreciated paper! And then,
to see some such real leaders of the
people, as now and then come up, sud
denly, and with irresistible force, tak
ing up, as their champion, against
Rag-debts seeking gold payment, Grant’s
next and best friend, Elihu B. Wash
burne, now American Minister to
France!
“ This very thing is ‘ on the cards,’
and, therefore, it is not impossible that
it may appear in full play. It would
be difficult to find a man, possible for
next President of the United States,
holding in his hands so many, and so
utterly diverse, threads that lead to
ward success. Were the impossible
to occur, in the nomination of Tilden
for President, Washburne, named
against him, however the opposing
parties might be named, would have
an easy ‘ walk over.’
“ But what is of immediate interest
is the plea of bankers and money
lenders, that the rag bonds they have
in hand ought to be paid in gold coin.
Y/hy these Shylocks put on moral airs
and talk of good faith !
“Yet they know that every Five-
Twenty Bond issued was made payable,
as to the principal, in Legal-tender
greenbacks. They cannot deny this.
“It is altogether a matter of prudence
and foresight as to the general good,
whether those Bonds, so far as yet out
standing, should not all be paid, and at
once, as they are past due, in green
back legal tenders.
“Asa matter of prudence, in order
not too severely to disrupt values, a
great care ought to be used. But when
these holders of Bonds, bought at
forty cents, demand a dollar, in the
name of good morals, we are quick to
tell them:
“Honest debts should be paid in
honest money.
Gold debts should be paid in gold.
Hag debts can justly be paid in rag
money.
“Mr. Tilden’s Convention has pleas
ed the Bankers and money-lenders. It
lias cast a deep discouragement on the
hundreds of thousands of honest peo
ple, cast out of work by the contraction
0/ any circulaiinff medium.
“ Perhaps these workmen, in the State
of Xaw York, will vote the ticket pro
posed for them by Gov. Tilden, in fa
vor of the money-lending classes. It
will not be the first time that they will
have voted for their own degradation.
“The Ohio platform, adopted by
Pennsylvania, offered a compromise. —
It was to stop further contraction of the
currency; and especially, to abolish the
circulation of those vampire National
Bank bills, which, without any compen
sation to the public, draw, on the one
hand, over twenty millions of gold as
a subsidy; and, on the other, make the
line of money twice as costly, to honest
borrowers engaged in business, as it
would otherwise be.
“ Mr. Tilden’s Convention, at Syra
cuse, has rejected this overture of com
promise. it has stigmatized it as in
flation of the currency, and repudia
tion of the Rag-debt of the United
States. Mr. Tilden’s Convention has
acted foolishly. It would be a sorry
day when the suffering people of the
West and of the South—where they
have values —but not Rankers values
where they have houses and lands,
that New York bankers will not touch
at any price, because they cannot “real
ize” on them “on call” —but that, all
the same, are real and true values—it
would be a sorry day, we repeat, when
the people of these wide regions, on
Which the existence of the commerce
of New York depends, will find their
good in combined antagonism against
the handful of rich bankers in New
Y' .rk! From the days of the old, and
of the Tyre of the East, to the
days of Venice, and of the once moneyed
centres of Italy, history bristles with
examples of what has happened to
Commercial Emporiums grown over
confident in the power of their wealth.
“To the bankers and money-lenders of
New York, whose fingers were tightly
pressed on the lips of the delegates who,
in a large majority, did not accept
their money brokers' platform, cannot,
long, control the action of the suffering
people in the very State of New York!
We are not inciting—we are only fore
casting the fierce conflict that is coming
on us ! When, in 1855, we predicted the
bloody war that broke out in 1861, we
were laughed at. But the elements of
our wretched inter-State war were in
existence, and hatching, in 1855. The
eggs of a far more fatal war, not be
tween States, but between classes of the
population, are now, again, hatching.
The United States, till now, have been
too young a country to know what a
formal and set antagonism of this kind
means. Our wish, but scarcely our
hope, is that it may not have to learn
the lesson.”
City Politics—ls There to be a New
Deal?
We have heard it intimated that
Mayor Estes has become weary of the
Mayoralty and earnestly desires that
some competent person shall succeed
him. It may be requiring too much of
him to ask from his own lips a true
statement of the case, and he would
very likely imitate Grant and say it
would be time enough to decline a
nomination when such a thing is offered
him. We dare say he could get it, if so
disposed, and, in case of opposition, he
would be hard to overthrow, for few
men in Georgia better comprehend the
mysterious ways of political engineer
ing, and he is a man who would
be up and at work, where he could
effect the most good, when an or
dinary opponent was turning over
iu bed. Our people seem to be di
vided on this subj ect. Some think that
as Mr. Estes has undertaken such
gigantic schemes he should continue
them, as the chief responsible party,
to the bitter or beneficial end. The
same persons shake their heads gloom
ily and say that the city has got into
such a mess that nobody wants to as
sume the risk of extricating it. Right
there, whether intending or not, they
pay a tribute to Mr. Estes, who is as
bold as a lion and would not hesitate,
we firmly believe, to push his schemes
to completion and trust to the future
for a perfect vindication of his course,
more particularly as the people have
voted upon the biggest of them all—
the canal to-wit. Other people take
the ground that candidates are not
wanting at all, and capable ones at
that. We think there is considerable
truth in the statement that candidates
are plentiful enough. The day that
offices of any sort go begging in
this country will be an unmistakable
signal to the Angel Gabriel that he
need no longer delay the sounding of
his trumpet. Besides, in every com
munity, there are ambitious men who
either have held public positions or de
sire to hold them. These men, very
naturally, believe that they can take
the municipal helm and bring order
out of a supposed chaos. Whether
they can do so or not remains to be
seen ; and it also remains to be seen
whether they will have the chance of
such endeavor.
Now, we take it as a granted pro
position, that the most popular candi
date will be that man who can substan
tially promise a lowering of taxes, or
rather a diminution of the assessment
upon which taxes are levied. But who
can safely promise anything of the
kind ? We presume that the present
tax estimate barely carries us through
from one fiscal year to another ; and,
judging from a recent transaction, by
which the city has met with grievous
loss and may be compelled to part with
some of its most valuable securities, to
fill the great gap made by the Cohen
failure, that taxes and assessment are
about as low as we shall see
them for years to come. It may be,
and upon this point we should be glad
to have outside opinion, that a stop
page of work on the canal would help
us somewhat, if such a thing does not
become impossible by outstanding con
tracts. We should like to hear from
those who know, if there are not cer
tain expenditures that could be lopped
off. We very much fear that this lop
ping off, if attempted, would bear hard
upon men who depend upon their
daily labor for support. That is a del
cate matter to handle, and it is also
a political matter, somewhat like
the goat question, But if sacrifices
are to be made and loppings off to be
the order of the day, all to make up
for the serious mistake of the Finance
Committee, we ask, in the name of the
people, that the reform shall commence
at headquarters. Let the ordinance
increasing the Mayor’s salary be re
pealed as soon as possible. By doing
this Council will show that entrench
ment is not to touch one class of the
city government alone but all classes.
There must be a “fair tote” all around,
or else the people will know the
reason why. If any man, com
manding public esteem and con
fidence, can come forward and de
monstrate that he has the ability to
lessen our city expenses and is not
afraid to lead a reform movement, if
one be necessary, let him present
himself without hesitation, and, unless
we are very much mistaken, he will be
the next Mayor, provided, as we have
been led to believe, Mr. Estes has de
termined to retire and look after his
private affairs which must have suf
fered somewhat during his energetic
and long-continued administration of
the city government.
Another Bonanza.— Our indefatiga
ble contemporary of the Chronicle and
Sentinel has unearthed another “ great
European fortune.” We trust this one
will prove something more than a “bar
ren ideality.” All the others were not
worth a —Damm.
Important Cotton Figures.
We have received from the compiler,
Mr. S. J. Cary, a copy of his first an
nual issue of tables showing the prices
of cotton ruling daily in the Augusta
market during the season of 1874—*75;
crops of each year since 1823; the high
est and lowest prices of cotton in the
New York market for each year since
this article became prominent as one
of the staple products of the Southern
section of the United States. The
average gross weight of bales is also
given for the years comprised In the
war period—from 1859 to 1865—and
for a number of years since—in addi
tion to other important information.
This chart will prove to be of great
value to our cotton merchants, as well
as to all planters of cotton in the sec
tion immediately tributary to the Au
gusta market. The compiler, Mr.
Cary, was for a number of years since
the war, and up to a short time ago,
commercial reporter of the Constitu
tionalist, and hence is thoroughly con
versant with the matter he has taken
in hand. He proposes to issue these
reports annually, at the close of each
cotton season. Wo are assured that
Mr. Cary has made every effort in com
piling his tables—especially the prices
of cotton in Augusta—to have
them as correct as possible, and
our merchants and friends out
of Augusta can assuredly use
them with perfect confidence in com
paring them with the figures that are
to rule in the season upon which we
have just entered.
We are glad to learn from Mr. Cary,
that he will, next year, issue a much
more extensive report of prices of cot
ton by which comparison with previ
ous years can be made. We will make
copious extracts from this chart and
give our readers all the information
that can be gleaned from it. It is a
very neat specimen of printing issued
from the job office of the Constitution
alist under the superintendence of our
efficient foreman, Mr. John M. Weigle.
The Kentucky Plan. —A Louisville
Muddle.
A city election for Mayor and Coun
ciltnen is soon to come off in Louis
ville. Matters are very lively in that
municipality. Bribery and corruption
are openly charged, a newspaper is ac
cused of being bought by one of the con
tending parties, and any one would
suppose that a city government was
nothing better than a scramble of
rogues for the spoils of office. It would
seem, too, from the fierceness and vi
tuperation engendered that it pays to
be Mayor and Councilman in many
towns, taking Louisville as a type of
the average Eastern or Western city.
The South, under Democratic rule,
has been comparatively free from such
imputations, and Augusta should re
joice that no such aspersions have been
made in her midst, and that she has so
many men willing to serve her, not for
gain, but to the serious detriment of
their private business.
Office Holding.— The Now York
Journal of Commerce commends the
Constitutional Amendment of that
State for prohibiting double-office
holding. So did and does the Consti
tution of Louisiana, but every Radical
of eminent rascality, white and black,
held as many offices as he could grab,
the pay for the same being enormous
ly raised during the Warmoth regime.
The Federal officials [kept the best
places for themselves, and one of the
most prominent was Lowell, default
ing Postmaster of New Orleans, who
was Speaker of the House, at tho same
time. The crimes committed and per
mitted, during Reconstruction, were
monstrous beyond all record, and it is
but simple justice that the rascals who
perpetrated these frauds shall be
eventually driven back to their lairs in
regions remote from this.
Too Plastic.— Alluding to the Ala
bama Convention, and one of its most
extraordinary freaks, the Richmond
Dispatch says: “We do not see why
Montgomery or Alabama should take
the trouble of repudiating secession.
That was done by the result of the
war, and that result is fixed by power
beyond the peradventure of the resto
ration of secession to life. It was not
necessary for Alabama to kick the dead
lion; and having been once cherished
by her, she might have had that proper
respect for it that should have saved it
from being spurned by her. But we
forget it is, we suppose, not Alabama
that now speaks. Were her sensible
and capable citizens to be guilty of an
act so entirely superogatory, and which
had so much the character of self
humiliation, we should think far less
of them than we do.”
A New Book.—Mrs. Harrington De
slonde, of New Orleans, La., has in
press a novel called “The Miller of Sil
cott SilL” This lady is one of the most
accomplished and talented of Southern
womanhood, and her experiences in life
have been of the most romantic, thril
ling and varied character. It was our
good fortune, some years ago, to look
into the MS. of this forthcoming work,
and we were struck with the extraordi
nary cleverness of the plot and the purity
of the style. Few of the gentler sex un
derstand the resources of tho English
tongue better than Mrs. Deslonde, and
wo should say that her venture into the
field of letters would be profitable to
her in every way.
Sententious.—The Pittsbarg Post
eplgrammatically says : “ The people,
as it happens, before they can get con
trol of theL own financial affairs, must
first put the Radical rogues out of of
fice. That’s where the financial issu e
comes in, and that’s what the people
will do.” True as preaching ; but how
are the Democracy to help themselves
by adopting, as New York has done,
the policy of Grant’s administration.
The Wheat Supply.—Alexander Del
mar estimates this year’s requirement
of wheat in Great Britain and Ireland
at 188,000,000 bushels, and the home
supply at 81,000,000 bushels, leaving a
deficit, to be made up by importations,
of 107,000,000. The average deficiency
is about 95,000,000 bushels.
PERSONAL. %
The name of Miss -Bismarck's intended
is Wend-zu-Eulenbarge. Whittle it.
The new Bishop of Illinois is an ex
editor, which accounts for his
tendencies. f
Mrs. Day, of lowa, is the mifdier of trip
lets, and her husband sadly remarks that
no one can tell what a day whirring forth.
The new “Encyclopedia Bn!*annica” de
votes two pages to “angels” ami twenty to
“apes,” and that is about tlje way they
average in the human family. *
The influence of bad recent
ly strikingly displayed at St * Genevieve,
Mo. Mr. Mathis was milking a cow, when
the cow fell dead; he untied tl j; rope from
her horns and fell dead also, i
The St. Joe Herald would fpubUsh tho
young lady’s poem if it eoiid possibly
mako “rhinoceros” rhyme vjjifch “Queen
Elizabeth,” or “gazelle” with “'f-ashing ma
chine;” but it can’t—not even “t>y the wild
est processor versiiication.”
8. C. Silliman, of Chester,Conn., re
joices in the possession of a pk|se of Modoc
Capt. Jack’s skin, taken off afif>r his death
by Dr. Sherdon, an United States army sur
geon, and tanned. |
An Ohio woman couldn’t fiiil the peck
measure, and she called to her ,[.oy: “Here,
Tom, take my bustle and give the preach
er’s horse all the oats it will hold.”
A Milwaukee man paid an ;]ndortaker’s
bill the other day which haq stood for
twenty-eight years, but it is duj> to him to
explain that he didn’t pay until | after being
sued. J
No economical man will stealJ.iis Thanks
giving turkey now, as the birijl would eat
up twice its cost before wantej.. And the
nights will be much darker L; October.—
[Detroit Free Press. ;
The monument of the la Ip John R.
Thompson is app caching coirwdetion. It
is of Carraran marble, and is $o stand 17
feet high, and is to be erected <|n the grave
in Richmond, on the 23d of Oetfber, which
Is the birth anniversary of MiOThompson.
Longfellow, slightly parapifised to suit
the times:
And the night shall bo filled with burglars,
And thieves that Infest the
Shall pack up their traps libegpeddlers,
And carry the spoons awayj
ILockpriirt Times.
San Francisco editors getilittlo notes
like this In their mails: “Editors Post—
You report me as heading a Csjoseent Pro
cession on .Monday evening, the
willful and malicious LIE, orpi|3pare your
self for a first-class cowhiding,l
“AV WASON.”
Travers Theophilus Henb?: Hastings
has passed away. He was E|rl of Hun
tingdon, and Robin Hood wai; one of his
ancestors. His younger brother, who still
lives, is known as Francis J’lantagenet
Robin Hood Hastings—a mi|.'h prettier
name than Travers TheophilussHenry.
Here is a good little storyf that comes
from Massachusetts: Mr. William M Hunt
was recently in the vicinity c* Newbury
port, in company with a fellow artist,
when a curious Irishman ,appn>ached and
inquired, “Who are yez, anjfehow?” He
was told that they wero painters. “Paint
ers, is it? Maybe thin ye arft the fellers
that painted ‘Ward’s Ink’ on 2 the side of
me cart, bad cess to ye!” j
A sweet poet says: “If w! knew the
cares and posses crowding ground our
neighbor’s way; if we knew theflifctle losses
sorely grievous day by day; wcjhld we then
so often chide him, for his l.|ck of thrift
and gain, leaving on his heau, a shadow,
leaving on our lives a stain r? Probably
not. If wo knew how much *>f his hard
earnings he had contributed ;u tho past
ten years toward building tha> new live
story brewery, and if wo kneWhow often
he had faced the treacherous kqr.o with his
little salary, we should undonKLedly scorn
to mention the little amount jj.hat he will
never pay. There ought to be i|tore poetry
in this world.—[Courier-Journal*
There’s nothing that so Interferes with
tho heroic as the There is
danger, therefore that Garibaldi must be
dismissed from me roll of heifies proper.
During his recent excurson he ioceupied a
villa with his family at Civi|a Vocchia,
where he was supposed to be lodged and
boarded at the public expense fir a month.
The settling of the bill reveals tlie fact that
the General, hitherto described ns so Spar
tan in his tastes, consumed witllhis friends
during that time 18 bottles of ijme and 80
pounds of ice daily, to say nothing of other
things in proportion. 80 nassep away one
of tho ideal perfections of a grei& man.
POLITICAL NOTES.
—i
It isn’t the colic that miked that rag
baby scream. It’s tho sharp ijbint of the
gold napkin fastener in his llttlj) pin-back.
[Nashville American.
Our “Great Father” of Lo|g Branch
has gone toward the setting sum. Now let
“ Man-Afraid-of-his-Jackasses ”|hide out in
the Black Hills.—[Nashville American.
The “ Reverend ” Mr. Copeland, who
was tarred and feathered some weeks ago
at Knoxville, thinks that ho ‘jean make
much money this winter out o; this out
rage by lecturing.” 5
The New York World is authority for the
statement that the bloody-shidt business
originated with Joseph’s brethren, and
there has boen a good deal of 1 jing in the
trade from t .e beginning. f
French newspapers, like all others, are
full of Herzegovina in these dajjk and Mr.
Herz writes to one of them to lay that he
hears a great deal about I/enfet Govina,
but that there is no such firm, rSpd that he
is unacquainted with any periim named
Govina. <
Some strong reflections are ca. t on Secre
tary Belknap for using the official patron
age of the War Department to farther liis
Senatorial aspirations in lowa. ? Long ad
vertisements in the country pa dors is the
form which his canva-siug has aj.suruod.
Tue man Grant who kanged fiitnsol! ;n.
New England a few days ago wfs not tho
President of that name. Thougli the latter
has not been seen in Washingpo.4 for some
time, ids health was never bettor! than it is
now.-[Courier-Journal. |
Governor Allen says that <|rant not
only wanted a first and second {.erm, but
will want‘‘a third term, a fourliu term, a
fifth term, a sixth term, until life office
will be established by precedent;and then
you will have no more occasion for any
bai lot-box in this country. |
We suspect that John Cochra:;e’s party
at Albany wouldn’t seriously lament the
nomination of Tilden for President Jn 1870.
Meanwhile, tho fog-horn of tint ancient
Buckeye still echoes the length a;jc breadth
of the Mississippi Valley. *
Another argument for inflation is pre
sented by tho Nashville American T- “ Farm
ers and and harl-workiDg
tradesmen, do you know the inianing of
these cabalistic terms of the bor fl-holders,
‘five-twenties,’ ‘seven-thirties,’ find ‘ton
forties?’ Why, simply this in eliject—that
you shall get up at 5:20 and not jfuit work
until 7:30, so that the bond-holders need
not get up until next day at 10:4o| ”
The editor of the Fayette (Misi.) Vindi
cator is disgusted with the Republicans who
couldn’t read and those who wovidn’t read
his paper, and so has suspended |ts publi
cation with the remark, moie than
in sorrow: “We are constrained say tho
Republicans of Jefferson county <*o not de
serve a paper. The subfecripticjjr to tho
Vindicator is only $2 a year, add yet we
have not, out of quite a large circulation,
one dozen Republican subscribers,j|and only
three or four of those have paidf! For all
that this county boasts of 1,800 Republican
majority.” ?
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Colonists, Emigrants and/fravelers Westward.
FOR MAP CIRCULARS, CONDENSED
timetables and general infor ation in re
gard to transportation facilities to all points
in Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Minne
sota, Colorado. Kansas, Texas. lowa, New
Mexico. Utah and California, apply to or ad
dress Albeet B. Wkenn, General Railroad
Agent Office Atlanta, Ga.
No one should go West without first getting
iu communication with tho General Rail
road Agent, and become informed as to su
perior advantages, cheap and quick trans
portation of fa 1 ilie3. household goods,
st c-k, and farming implements gene:ally.
All information cheerfully given.
W. L. DANLEY,
sepU-6m G. P. & T. A.
GIN HOUSES INSURED
AT EQUITABLE RATES, IN FIRST-CLASS
Companies. Call at or write to my office,
219 Broad street, before insuring elsewhere.
C. W. HARRIS,
aug22-tf Gen’l Insurance Agent.
WANTS.
4®" Advertisements not over five lines will
be inserted under this head for fifty cents
each, insertion . cash .
OARDERS WANTED.-A GENTLE
MAN and wife can obtain a pleasant
room and board on Gieene street. Also
from four to six Day Boarders will be
taken. Apply at This Office, or at the
southwest corner of Cumming and Greene
streets. sep24-fr&su
WANTED— A competent NURSE. Ap
ply at 185 Broad street.
sopß-wth&su
FUNERAL NOTICE.
THE FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Roberts are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral of their
infant daughter, Claudia A., from Kollock
Street Baptist Church, THIS MORNING at
ten o’clock.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
BOARD.
QNE OR TWO GENTLEMEN can bo ac
commodated with BOARD in a private
family, at No. 134 Broad street. sep2s-2t*
FINE MEAT!
T OFFER FOR SALE, AT PRICES TO
1 SUIT THE TIMES, tho finest
BEEF,
MUTTON,
LAMB, and
PORK SAUSAGES.
COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES
T. E. LAWRENCE,
Stall No. 1, Lower Market,
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AT J. H. ALEXANDER’S
DRUG STORE.
312 Broad street,
A COMPLETE STOCK OF
Drugs and Chemicals,
Pharmaceutical Preparations,
Perfumes, Toilet Powders, Soaps,
Brushes, Combs, Pomades, Oils,
Spices and Flavoring Extracts,
Patent Medicines, best of all kinds,
Paints, Oils, Paint Brushes, and
All Painters’ Goods.
Good assortment of all the innumer
able articles usual to Drug Stores.
Surgical Instruments and Appliances,
A Neat Assortment.
Prescriptions Filled Promptly
By Highly Competent Hands.
Business done quickly and with re
ference to the interests and wishes of
customers. No pains spared to please.
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RAILROAD HOUSE,
THOMSON, GA.,
By McKinney.
CONVENIENT to Railroad Depot. Pas
sengers by Day Down Train take din
ner at this place. scp2-tf
Seed Rye & Rust Proof Oats
FOR SALE BY
PETER Gr. DURUM,
290 BROAD STREET.
sep23-3
T. J. MURDOCK & CO,
NO. 158 BROAD STREET,
-AriUGJ-TJsSTA.* GA.
Upholsterers & Matress Manufacturers.
KEEP constantly on hand Curled Hair
Matresses, Cotton Matresses, Jenny
Lind Matresses, Shuck Matresses, &c.
Feather Beds made to order. Pillows,
Bolsters, Pillow Slips, Mieets, Towels, <fcc.
Special attention given to repairing.
sop 23-6
FINE TOBACCO.
the Calhoun Chewing Tobacco, the
best ever sold in Augusta.
For sale by
G. VOLGER &. CO.
sep7-tf
SEED WHEAT.
JIULTZ’S CELEBRATED
SEED WHEAT,
For sale by
sepl9-lw Z. McCORD.
"city licenses !
PERSONS or firms who are yet in
arrears for License for the year
1875 are hereby notified that Execu
tions will be issued against every one
in default on the 10th of Octobor next.
sep23-3 I. P. GARVIN.
YOU CAN FIND
AT
C. J. T. BALK’S
TIIEIXS6tSc. NECK RUSHES.
The best 25c. Silk Scarfs.
The best 15e. Worsted Dress Goods.
The best assortment of Tall Prints.
The best t>%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. Joans for Pants.
The best 10 and 12%c. Checked Home
spun.
The best 12%c. Cotton Flannel.
Tho best 10c. Heavy Brown Drilling.
The best bargains in all kinds of Dry
Goods.
Be sure and look for No. 13G Broad street,
below Monument street.
C. l. T. BALK.
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COTTON FACTORS.
ANTOINE POULLAIN,
Cotton Factor,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
TT7ILL continue the bus ness at my fire-
V V proof warehouse, corner Jackson ana
Reynolds streets, and will give my person
al attention to the sale of cotton. Consigti
me ntsrespectfully solicited. sep4tf.
C. H.. PHINIZY. F. B. BHINIZY
C. H. PHINIZY & CO.
COTTON FACTORS
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
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.
augllf-2m C. 11. PHINIZY & CO.
A. M. BENSON. W. N. HERCIER.
BENSON & MERCIER,
/dOTTON FACTORS AND GENERAL
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 3
Warren Block, Augusta, Georgia. Will
make cash advances on Cotton in store, and
hold in liist class fire-proof storage for in
definite time, at very low rates of iuterest.
sepl2-d>fcc3m *
J. J. PEARCE,
COTTON FACTOR,
And Commission Merchant,
JACKSON STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
sep7-d&c3m
M. P. STOVALL,
COTTON FACTOR
—AND—
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
NO. 5 WARREN BLOCK, JACKSON ST.,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
C CONTINUES to give his personal atten
) tion to the STORAGE and SALE of
COTTON and other Produce.
tse~ Liberal advances made on Consign
rnents. sep4-satuth&c3m
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
JOHN S. & WM. T. DAVIDSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
W r ILL practice in the Btate, and United
States Courts of Georgia.
OFFICE NO. 1 WARREN BLOCK.
jel7-ly 2.
W. T. GARY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AUGUSTA, GA.
ar Office No. 206 Broad street, Over
Brahe’s Jewelry Store.
Will prac'ice in all the Courts of South
Carolina and Courts of Georgia.
Special attention to collections.
auffl2-su£th. ly
NOTICE.
ONE MONTH AFTER DATE (my hus
band consenting) 1 will become a free
Liader, and do business in my own name.
MARY L. SMITH,
Augusta, Ga., Sept., 13, 1875.
The above notice is given with my con
sent. 11. SMITH.
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MANSION HOUSE
PORT ROYAL, BS. C.
SITUATED AT THE TERMINUS OF
the Port Royal Railroad, where connec
tion is made with the fast sailing, first class
steamers Montgomery and Huntsville,
sailing to New York every Friday.
Round trip from Augusta, S3O.
This is an entirely new and elegantly fur
nished house. Situation unsurpassed, sur
rounded with magnificent live oaks, com
manding a splendid prospect of the sur
rounding country, the Beaufort and Port
Royal Rivers, and offers unusual attrac
tions to travelers or to parties who desire
Board or to spend a few days near the salt
water.
Table supplied with everything the mar
ket affords. Fresh milk, butter, fish, veg
etables and fruits in their season.
Be.-t of Cooks and Attendants.
Terms liberal.
C. E. WARREN,
je26-tf Proprietor.
Dissolution of Copartnership
Notice is hereby given that
the partnership existing between J.
Murphy <fc E. Murphy was dissolved on
the Ist day of August last by mutual con
sent. J. iViURPHY,
E. MURPIIY,
Having purchased the entire interest of
J. Murphy, of the firm of J. Murphy & Cos.,
I will continue the CROCKERY BUSINESS
in all its branches at the same store, No.
244 Broad street, Masonic Hall, and in ad
dition to the above I have just opened a
CARPET DEPARTMENT, and would invite
our former patrons and the public general
ly to call and examine.
EDWARD MURPHY.
In retiring from the firm of J. Murphy &
Cos. I take great pleasure in recommending
mv successor, Mr. Edward Murphy, to the
former patrons and the public generally,
and ask that any business favors hereto
fore extended to the late firm may bo con
tinued to him. J. MURPHY.
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STOCK PRIVILEGES.
$lO. SIOO. SSOO. SIOOO,
Often realizes immense profits when in
vested in STOCK PRIVILEGES. Circulars
containing full explanation of the mode of
operatii ?, and quotation prices of all
Stocks Ucalt in, at the
New York Stock Exchange,
sent FREE on application to
SIMONSON, BARREIRAS k C 0„
Bankers and Brokers, No. 6 Wall street,
Opp. N. Y. Stock Exchange. New York.
je.ls-tuth.sa.lv
TO SINGLE GENTLEMEN.
JJOOMS FURNISHED, INCLUDING
WateJ and Gas Privileges.
AY. W. BARRON,
Bop7-tu&sunlf 185 Ellis street.
J. VV. NELSON.
RETAIL GROCER, No. 3C4 Broad Street,
(old stand of John Nelson & Son,) has
opened a First Class Grocery Store. He
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.
Scales promptly repaired. seps-suthtf
Copartnership Notice.
MR. HUGH H. PENNY having bought
the half interest in the Foundry and
Machine Shops, Tools, Machinery, Material
and Fixtures, movable and immovable,
known as the Pendleton <fc Board man Iron
Works, the business will be conducted un
der the lirm name of
Pendleton & Penny.
Thankful to the public for past patronage,
with ample moans to carry out all contracts
for Iron and Brass Castings, and Machinery
of all descriptions, with dispatch and good
style, we hope to merit a continuance of the
same.
WM. PEN D LET ON, HUGH H .PENNY
seps-:Uthlm
TO BENT.
TO LETT
FOUR DESIRABLE ROOMS, suitable
for Offices and Sleeping Rooms.
Apply to BARRETT & CASWELL,
sep24:-tf * 296 Broftd street.
TO RENT,
OR s3so—a nice house on Reynold street,
containing four good rooms and large
hall, with veranda in front, large yard, a “
necessary outbuildings and good hydrant.
The house lias just been thoroughly repair
ed, ail the rooms newly plastered, and is
being painted inside and out. It will bo
ready for occupancy by October Ist. Ap
ply to PAUL R. SLEDGE.
At S. C. Depot or at residence, 127 Broad st.
sept22-tf
TO RENT.
The DWELLING over store occupied by
N. W. & E. J. Peacock, No. 130 Broad St.
Apply to
seplO-tf A. D. PICQUET.
to rentT
IYHE large STORE in front of the Opera
House, at present occupied by Messrs.
Myers & Marcus. Possession given on tiie
first of October.
Apply on the premises, or to Wm. A. \Y al
ton, Law Range, or to „
seplO-tf I. P. GIRAItDEY^
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 Kolloek streets,
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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.
lUIE AVARRENTON 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, AVarrenton,
Ga. aug2o-30>l
TO RENT,
rjAHE OFFICE No. 3, Exchange Building,
at present occupied by Messrs. Beall, Spears
& Cos. Apply to
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. 11. Brown.
AVM. A. AVALTON.
No. 10, Old Post Office Range, Mclntosh
street, up stairs. aug7-tf.
TO RENT,
IMtAME DWELLING, with eight rooms,
1 on the north side cf AValker, 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
JyMdf NO. 84 AVALKER STREET.
STORE TO RENT.
p} TORE No. 290 Broad street, now occu
pied by P. G. Burum.
For Terms, apply to
jyls-tf EL 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. A iso a suite of rooms
and a furnished lodging room. Location
central. Apply to
aug!2-tf M. A. STOVALL.
TO RENT,
171 ROM THE FIRST OF OCTOBER next,
_ tiie elegant and commodious STORE,
209 Broad street, at present occupied by M.
S. Kean as a dry goods store. A ppiy to
H. F. CAMPBELL,
Or A. S. CAMPBELL,
jy29-tf 207 Bi'oad street.
TO RENT,
NO. 18 AVashington street, first door from
Broad street; has four rooms and four
kitchen rooms, and largo store
For sale cheap, 100 act os LAND in Do-
Laigle’s old place. aug27-lm
TO RENT,
XjAINE OFFICES AND SLEEPING ROOMS
centrally located. Apply to
AVARREN, WALLACE & CO.,
sep 8-wedfrisal3 Cotton Factors.
Rooms to Rent.
A. SUIT OF FIVE ROOMS TO RENT
over Dr. F. A. BeaU’s Drug Store. Apply
to GEO. D. CONNOR,
sepl-wefrsu 53 Jackson St.
TO RENT,
171 ROM the Ist of October next, D. F. Tan
; ner’s RESIDENCE, situated first
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 front on
Broad and Ellis streets of 44 feet, more or
loss. The improvements consist of a com
fortable two story brick dwelling, a kitchen.
&c.
Georgia Railroa<l 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-
Med. WM. A. WALTON,
No. 10 Old Post Office Range,
auglO-tf Mclntosh St., up stairs.
FOR SALE.
“FOR SALET^
A WINDLASS, witli 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 abovo mentioned Machines will bo
sold CHEAP FOR CASH. Apply at
THIS OFFICE.
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FOR SALE,
The Edwards House,
AT SPARTA, GEORGIA.
rjIHE above capacious Brick Hotel is of
fered 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. O. MATHEWSON & CO.,
sepis-lm Augusta, Ga.
Fourth Ward Public Schools
11HE Schools in this Ward will onen on
. MON DAY, the 27th inst. P on
An election for Teachers in all the School*
of the Ward will be held at the oflico of F
Cogin SATURDAY, the 25th insL. at four
o clock p. m. Applicants will hand recom
mendations with their applications to
either of the Trustees of the Ward before
12 o clock of that day. sep23-tf
COAL I COAL ! COAL !! !
A Word to the Wise !
On AND AFTER the First day Oct)-
ber my CHEAP CASH TERMS for
CoA L !
Will cease. Those persons who paid thei
bills promptly last season can get Coal on
the SAME TERMS they'did then. Thoso
who “BOTHERED” me 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.
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CEO. S HOOKEY,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
Coal Creek,
Anthracite,
And ...
Blacksmiths
O O jlj l
I HAVE NOW ON HAND, (Fresh from
the Mines,) a full suppyof the above
i 'GALS, 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.
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STATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND
COUNTY.—lgnatius P. Garvin and Ar
misted F. Pendleton have formed a limited
parnership, under the firm name of “A. F.
Pendleton,” for conducting the business of
Booksellers and Stationers in the city of
Augusta, Ga. ,
Armistead F. Pendleton is the general
partner, and has advanced five thousand
five hundred dollars in stock, fixtures and
debts due the late firm of Quinn <fc Pendle
ton. Ignatius P. Garvin is the special part
ner, and has advanced five thousand live
hundred dollars in cash, to which amount
his responsibility is limited.
The partnership commences on tins fourth
of SEPTEMBER, Eighteen Hundred and
Seventy-live, aud is to continue to the first
of SEPTEM BER, Eighteen Hundred and
Seventy-eight. ~ * .
Signed and acknowledged in presence of
JOHN S. DAVIDSON.
Notary Public Richmond County.
I. P. GARVIN,
A. F. PENDLETON.
r\ EORGIA RICHMOND COUNTY.—
VJ Ignatius P. Garvin and Armistead F.
Pendleton being duly sworn, say each for
himself that the amounts stated in the
foregoing certificate, as advanced by them
respectively to their partnership fund,
have been actually contributed and paid in
good faith.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
fourth of September,
JOHN S. DAVIDSON.
Notary Public, Richmond county, Ga.
I. P. GARVIN,
A F. PENDLETON.
r\ EORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY.—I,
\JT Samuel 11. Crump, Clerk of the Su
perior Court of said county, do hereby
certify that the foregoing is recorded in
Book DDD, folios 304 and 305, and filed in
said office September, 1875.
S. H. CRUMP,
Clerk Superior Court Richmond County.
Witness my hand and the seal of office,
this 6th day of September, 1875.
S. H. ( RUMP,
Clerk Superior Court Richmond County.
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BARRETT & LAND,
WHOLESALE DRUCCISTS,
NO. 270 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA,
OFFER to the trade a large aud varied
stock of
Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Drug
gists’ Sundries, &c.,
At prices as LO W 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 largo
and complete stock in store and arriving—
all bought at the very lowest prices.
BARRETT & LAND.
Georgia Hair Dye is iiistautaneous-tho
best in the world.
Gilder’s Liver Pills never fail.
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L. H. MILLER. \ \ ESTABLISHED 1857
MILLER’S
Safe and Iron Works,
BALTIMORE.
Salesroom, 265 AV. Baltimore Street, One
Boor Above Hanover Factory. Sqaure
Bounded by Henrietta, Clark, Fre
mont and Warner Streets.
Evm variety of the Best FIRE anil
HUROLAR-I’KOOP Safes, bank
iinta OHLS IS Improved Koy and Combi-
DOOKS LOCI * S * VAULTS and
gl™ B - jap3o-6m
REOPENED!
HAVING again engaged in the STEN
OIV business, I notify my old pat
rons and the public in general that I am
prepared to cut all kinds of Metal Brands
for T°P per ’ Tin and other metals,
ufLturers, o etc. tS ’ Merchants > Aiders, Man-
All work executed at short notice.
guaranteed oll I>rico workmanship
E. W. DODGE,
16 Mclntosh street, between Broad and
Reynolds streets,
sepl9-lm AUGUSTA, GA.
A CARD.
MRS. E. BROWN would respectfully in-
TV d'iendsand the Ladles
citv’ Hhe ha3 Just returned to t he
S’ preparing to resume busi
?fLaru h H Augusta Hotel, in Room No.
•ilso F o vf* U , PP ?F entrance. She would
tion In i^ he *H a nd \ es * f entire satisfac
' Point of style and promptness.-
Several good hands wanted. sopl9-lw
SEED WHEAT.
Choice Kentucky white seed
WHEAT, BARLEY and RYE for sale by
sep22-tf BARRETT & CASWELL.
Communications.
SSO TO $lO 000 Has boon invest
<PGvr iu edin stock Priv
fieges, aud pani 'l°° per cent, profit. "How
TirSniirnnu Pi? Wall street sent free.
TUMBRIDGE A 00., Bankers, 2 VValf St.
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