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(Hjc Constituiionnlist. 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, sep24-tf 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. sep23-G 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. sep!2-tf 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. sepH-lm 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. sepl7-fri,sun&wod 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, seplO-tf 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. jy!B-tf 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. sep22-dlw 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. 15 ~ tf ---m 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. sep7-law6w 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. sepl9-tf 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. *• iei9-d*c3m