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Eljc Constiliifionnlist
AUGUSTA,
Tuesday Morning, September 28, 1875.
The Money Question —A Democratic
View.
By cunning devices and misstate
ment the Democratic party is accused
of favoring a wholesale inflation of the
currency, and that such inflation will
rapidly make greenbacks as worthless
as Confederate money in 1861. The
truth of the matter is that the Demo
cratic party, in the main, require the
repeal of the resumption act, the pay
ment of duties in legalized paper
money instead of coin, and that, in
other respects, matters shall remain
undisturbed. The Democratic leaders,
in favoring this scheme, are actuated
by patriotic motives. They are not re
sponsible for the currency we have, but
they shrink from bringing about the
ruin of hundreds of thousands of peo
ple by a sudden and inopportune
change of the financial status from a
discount below gold to a par with it.
The Democratic party is taunted with
having deserted its grand old doctrine
of “hard money.” That bold and out
spoken paper, the New York Day Book,
retorting upon those who make this
accusation, puts the case strongly, and
perhaps extremely, thus :
“Of all hell’s inventions, paper money
based on public debt has worked most
evil to mankind, and compared with
which kings and standing armies are
mild and gentle deviltries. But con
traction or inflation is not the real
question with the Western Democ
racy—it is taxation, debt, overwhelm
ing debt, that is bringing all business
to a stand still, and reducing the work
ing classes to poverty and slavery.
The ruin of the South has recoiled on
the North, and this seeming demand
for more paper money simply means
Southern restoration of production or
repudiation of the Northern debt. Let
Messieurs the bondholders, therefore,
take their choice—remove all Northern
rule and permit the South to recover
its productive powers, or prepare for
repudiation of your ‘pound of flesh.’
It is rather a cumbersome process, but
such is the popular tendency ; the pa
per money system through which you
ruined the South is the chalice now
offered to your own lips, and the only
possible way to avoid it is to repent of
your enormous crimes in backing up
the abolition lunatics while ruining the
South.”
There are many persons who shrink
from such plain speaking; but if there
ever was a people who needed just such
reminders it is the people of this coun
try. What is the sense of disguising
the truth? Every sensible man is will
ing to concede that there can be no
real prosperity until our true standard
of values is restored; but no more
serious error ever existed than that
which supposes the mere determination
to resume specie payments, without
any adequate supply of specie and a
European drain of gold, can restore the
decrepid trade of the United States to
health. Men may theorize as they
please, but the fact remains that so
long as the South is hampered in her
production, cursed with special legisla
tion, paralyzed by bad laws, conspired
against in her social order and made a
political hell, there never will be genu
ine prosperity in this country, and a
continuance of such wickedness will so
overwhelm the North that a repudia
tion of the debt is as certain to come as
the Day of Judgment.
As to the Allen platform, we have
seen no such luminous explanation of
it as that given by Judge Ranney, in a
speech at Akron, Ohio, the other day.
He said:
I will say to you for myself that there is
not a man in the country that more ar
dently desires the return of the day when,
consistently with the great business inter
ests of the country and with its resources,
the Government can treat all its creditors
alike and can return to the payment in that
Constitutional currency which is the cur
rency of all the commorclal nations of the
earth. Nobody moro deeply deplores the
fact that corruption and misrule have made
any such return, at present, impossible.
And I believe it will continue to be impos
sible until there is a total change in the in
sane policy which this administration has
been pursuing in respect to the business
interests of the country. However ardently
I desire to see the country back to gold
again, I am not fool enough to Imitate the
silly fellow spoken of by iEsoP, who killed
the hen that daily laid the golden egg In
the hope of finding a basket full of them.
There is no double-dealing in that
and no subtle metaphysics. We have
a respectful regard for what bankers
may say to the contrary ; but we do
not recognize their views as the preva
lent opinion of the people. An over
whelming majority of the voters of this
country will, if they are not corrupted
by false issues and false leaders, agree
with Judge Ranney and endorse his
doctrine at the ballot box. The Radi
cal administration has brought all
the trouble upon the country, and
the first and most important duty
is to drive it from power and
hurl after it, In ignominy, all the
special legislation which has cursed
the land for so long a period. A con
tinuance of such a policy as that which
has bankrupted the South and is about
to bankrupt the East and West will
end in disasters unparalleled and in a
conflict compared with which the “late
unpleasantness” will be a game of
boys. It is the desire of good Demo
crats to spare the countiy such a ca
lamity, and we believe the people are
rapidly awakening to that important
truth.
A Strange (Confession.—The Evening
Journal, of Richmond, Va., a Republi
can organ, makes this singular admis
sion: “There is no opposition to
Northern men in Virginia because of
their being born in that locality, nor is
there any to colored men because of
their color. If there is any, it is insig
nificant. They are both opposed when
they combine and seek to control pub
lic aflairs, for the reason that the na
tive white element fear to experiment
in such matters by entrusting to an un
fettered race the control of their State,
and thev never mil do it, and cannot
be censured on that ground by rea
sonable people.
“Poor Henry’’—The True Inwardness
of Wild Cat Banking.
We read in our Northern exchanges
that there were lively times among the
creditors of Henry Clews & Cos. at a
recent meeting called to show why the
bankrupts should not be discharged
from all theirdebts. TheNew York Tri
bune says: “The feeling among the credi
tors present was not very favorable to
Mr. Clews, and some of them in private
conversation sharply criticised his con
duct and condemned in severe terms
many of his operations which have
been brought to light in the progress
of the suits and the examinations made
under the bankruptcy proceedings.—
The alleged transfer of worthless col
laterals from the old firm to the new,
by which, under color of a loan, the
money of the depositors of the new
Arm was used to pay off certain credit
ors of the old firm, was commented on
in strong language. One creditor
stated that the bonds of the State of
Georgia negotiated by Clews & Cos., to
the amount of 51,800,000, had been re
pudiated by the Legislature of the
State. There were many expressions
of bitter feeling that the accounts and
books of the firm did not show clearly
the nature of the transactions between
the firm and officials of the Southern
States, the bonds of which were put on
the market by Henry Clews & Cos. as
their fiscal agents. Several persons ex
pressed the belief that the securities of
Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama
and Mississippi held by the firm might
be made valuable and be acknowledged
by the authorities, if the books and
vouchers of the bankrupt firm showed
a clean record and a valuable consider
ation received for them. A protesting
creditor stated that at the time of the
failure the Southern securities held by
Henry Clews & Cos., State bonds and
railroad bonds guaranteed by the Leg
islatures, amounted in the aggregate to
nearly $4,000,000. Those bonds, it was
stated, were given to develop the in
dustries of the States, and if the mon
eys received from the sales have been
honestly paid into the State Treasu
ries, there cannot be any valid defense
against the redemption of the bonds
with interest. Great doubt was ex
pressed whether the books of the firm
would be of any value to aid the
creditors in recovering this money.
The payment of the bonds and
securities referred to, it was esti
mated, would make a handsome divi
dend and pay three-fourths of the in
debtedness of the bankrupts. It was
reported that about thirty creditors
will interpose objections to the dis
charge of Mr. Clews on various grounds,
each involving allegations of fraud. It
was asserted that evidence would be
forthcoming—4hat testimony had, in
fact, already been given in a Georgia
court that the accounts of Clews & Cos.
had been falsified. Instead of the as
sets being sufficient to meet the liabili
> ties, it was asserted that they would
not pay the trustees’ expenses in clos
ing the concern. It was also claimed
that several creditors who refused to
consent to the extension, and who
threatened bankruptcy proceedings,
had been settled with privately.”
If the creditors of Clews & Cos. ex
pect to get a dividend out of the State
of Georgia’s redemption of bogus
bonds they are the most gullible of
men. The revelations made of wild
cat private banking are very edifying.
It is very plain that the creditors of
“poor Henry” regarded him, from evi
dence submitted, as a first-class
swindler and yet were powerless to deal
with him as his crimes deserved. The
most remarkable statement is that the
books of the concern were valueless
to aid creditors in tracing or recover
ing their money. Hitherto the public
have been under the impression that
brokers and private bankers kept their
accounts in such a way that a pupil
of a commercial college could tell at
a glance how securities were negoti
ated, where they went, to whom sold,
and, in a word, that day-books, led
gers, etc., were true histories of the
financial career of a private banker.
But this seems to be the grossest delu
sion. We find that a banking house
which once stood very near the head
of such concerns, and was entrusted
with Government business, kept its
books not to indicate the truth bnt to
conceal it. This ugly demonstration of
a startling fact may well make men who
have money to deposit or securities to
sell distrustful of such bankers as
Clews & Cos. How many more estab
lishments are in this fix; and is it the
peculiar privilege of a broker and
banker to have his books kept to sup
press evidence? It would be a good
thing for the country if this conun
drum could be satisfactorily solved.
Meanwhile, somebody should ascer
tertain if Heney Clews is living in ex
travagance, and, if so, it will not bo dif
ficult to conjecture where the money
came from, though particular creditors
will never get any direct satisfaction
from the books of the concern.
Failed. —The Laily Witness, a reli
gious paper, published in New York,
has failed. The Sun explains the mat
ter thus: “It gasps in death not be
cause there is not plenty of religion in
New York, but because people do not
like to have ostentatious piety stuffed
down their throats, nor do they relish
a daily paper which is a cross between
a tract to pluck them from the burning
and a bulletin of the latest news in the
world of politics and business. The
World was first started as a religious
newspaper, but did not long fling forth
that flaunting banner of self-righteous
ness; though we have no doubt that
Mr. Marble and the corps of talented,
learned, dexterous, and pungent writers
whom he leads, still govern their course
by high religious principles; and we
can ask no more of them.”
Retrenching.— How many laborers
have been discharged from the employ
ment of the city recently, in order to
curtail expenses ? A repeal of that or
dinance raising the Mayor’s salary is
now in order, and, as rents, wages, gas
and many other things have contracted
outside the municipal government, a
little cutting down in high quarters as
well as in low quarters would not come
I amiss. Tote fair, gentlemen.
International Co-operation—A Gi
gantic Scheme.
We have read with much interest
the prospectus of the Mississippi Val
ley Trading Company, which, being a
combination of Southern and Western
people, with English co-operative
unions, will not fail to revolutionize
commercial relations in this country
and realize a dream of true independ
ence for this section of the Union
more particularly. By a perusal of
Dr. T. D. Worrall’s speech, which we
have had specially reported for the
Constitutionalist, it will be seen that,
from the smallest beginnings, the
British Co-operative Societies have
grown to be among the most
powerful, wealthy and beneficent
institutions In the world, and
to the poor man, more especially, a
blessing and a comfort. We can easily
comprehend why the men who have
been systematically robbing the South
and West should stand aghast at this
scheme for balking their absorption of
profits, but it is difficult to understand
how any man or set of men having the
good of this section at heart could em
barrass the project and attempt to
ruin any one speoding it to a happy
consummation. To many persons, in
the city and country, thi3 Rochdale
Co-operative Union will, as explained
by Dr. Worrall, be a revelation
as novel as it is astounding. And yet
how simple it is in all its parts, and
what glorious possibilities it opens up
for our beloved South! Read, ponder
and digest the really wonderful state
ments of Dr. Worrall, which have be
come hard facts in Eugland and we
sincerely trust will grow with the
growth and strengthen with the
strength of this section.
Small Points. — Our Georgia journal
ists are squabbling over the credit of
introducing “State News” into their
columns. We dare say it is an old, old
trick, known to our grandfathers. But
if any of the craft really want to in
troduce something quite novel, in this
Commonwealth, we suggest a study of
the following specimen from the pen of
a Hayti editor, who also runs a store:
Ex-Deputy C. A. S., of Corail, is request
ed to pay me the few hundred dollars he
owes me since 1863. Mr. I. G., of Petit
Goave, is requested to settle for the S7OO
he has to my credit. Mr. M., of the Cape,
will please tell me if I ought to lose the
$3,0001 paid him for his house of Mourne
a-Tuff, besides the lawyers’ fees. Their
names shall all appear in full within fif
teen days, unless they settle their ac
counts, and there shall also be given the
initials of other tardy payers, and amounts
due for subscriptions to Le Pt uple, and the
names of men owing me $15,000 foi goods.
There is an immense amount of ma
terial to work up, and the editor who
is bold enough to conduct his paper,
in Georgia, on that really novel plan,
would either bo the best paid, the
worst broken or the most savagely ku
kluxed man in America.
Pershing.— The howling idiots of the
bloody shirt faction declare that Judge
Pershing “was an uncompromising cop
perhead throughout the late struggle
for the National life, and did all he
could to weaken the hands of the loyal
men of the country, and to aid and en
courage the rebels. Whenever the
Democratic party has had the opportu
nity it has never failed to elevate such
men to power.” Wo are sorry for the
howling idiots, but the majority of men
in the North are beginning to wish that
there never had been a war or that the
“results” had been more agreeable to
their pocket-books. If Judge Pershing
should carry Pennsylvania by 20,000
majority, as he bids fair to do, what an
immense number of “copperheads” will
be developed ?
Plain Talk. —If the present members
of our City Council are not suitable to
a majority of the people, why are not
steps taken to look out for proper men
to take their places at the next elec
tion? The people are complaining;
now let us see who will “ take the bull
by the horns ” and bring order out of a
supposed chaos?
Chin Music. —All of the Northern
papers are commending Hon. Ben Hill
for keeping still, and many of them add
that “it would be a good thing for the
South if more of its leading men could
get that idea into their heads.” A
similar strain of advice would apply to
a good many leading men at the
North.
Judge Lynch. —The man Shell,
lynched a few days ago at Bellefonte,
Ohio, was a demon incarnate. If any
thing could justify mob law it would be
deeds such as he perpetrated. By the
way, these little matters are getting
quite common in the country beyond
us. Perhaps this is what makes
“Southern outrages” rather stale.
Oho !—Gen. Banks, of Massachusetts,
said last week in Boston, that the re
cord of the Democratic party was a
“grand ” one ; the Southern people are
working their farms on shares, and un
less the New England and Northern
people do the same, they will inevi
tably go to the “ demnition bow-wows.”
Bonds. —We understand that one of
the banks of this city would have nego
tiated Augusta bonds without charging
commission. Is this so ? If so, why
was not that commission saved ? If
the Finance Committee were not aware
of the fact, we drop them this hint for
future guidance.
Reform. —There is great outcry in
Augusta about reforming the city gov
ernment, but growling will not mend
the matter. If reform be needed, let
somebody start the ball. It will not
start itself, that’s certain.
Maine’s vote is not one of tendency
merely; it Is a decisive one. A 2,000 minority
in an aggregate vote of 100,000, against an
11,000 minority one year ago, is no result
of chance, but the plain fruit of resolute in
tention. It will have the same influence,
both at home and abroad, that a clear vic
tory would have had. Upon all voters in
this time of general judgment its effect
will be unmistakable. Massachusetts will
answer to Maine in the same strain in No
vember. —Boston Post.
The aims and the purposes of Republi
cans are as pure and worthy now as they
ever were.—[Boston Advertiser. Just about.
—[Boston Post.
PERSONAL.
Gortschakoff is in his sev nt; -fifth
year.
“Shingle weddings” take p ;ce when
the first-born is old enough ! o * oank.
Bets on the reunion of The; doj e and
Elizabeth have dropped to and en since
Moulton’s letter. ; f
“What is home without a; mother?”
In the first year of married ; ffe ft is a
very nice sort of place. j i
A St. Louis widow has dyed 'he 1 Spitz
dog black for the purp-ose of ex Teas
ing her grief.
The prospect of an unusua- a: lount
of peach brandy this seasor is what
has given Dio Lewis dyspeps i.
A Rhode Islander present and man
with a watermelon as a rewai i fcjr sav
ing h’m from drowning. |
Tom Thumb and his coterie of; prites
are again in the show busiiu ss ; n the
towns of New England. ;
The season is getting so; Jai > that
they call it drunk instead of si ast oke.”
[Detroit Free Press.
There was a Republican ga n c nine
in a Maine town called Perki) s. : roba
bly some base ball club wajt p .ssing
through. I
The ladies will now wear strip-; and kid
gloves. It is said that the iop stripe
will match that on the stocl|ng|, but
you can’t prove it. 1* |
A woman fell under our ol ieriation,
yesterday, owing to a strip If ijrange
peel on the pavement, and tlnitop stripe
was certainly black. |
The price which Spotted irai puts
on his Black Hills property pf ov s him
to be a person eminently qvfalh ed to
own corner lots in Chicago.
A year old girl at Westrielc , V,.,
weighs 111 pounds, is 42 inch )8 t :ound
the waist, 36 inches around th< chest
and 22 inches around the he. and.
Mrs. Partington, who was )ve y day
prevented from going out bj sh Iwfcrs,
said: “This promiscuously i, me irring
rain is enough to irrigate an mg'
“Man proposes and God iisi oses,”
says Papa Spinner in his le te: of ac
ceptance. We suspect that tl e De
mocracy will do the “dispo; ing this
time.
Miss Hulott, the Chicago k! wyj ;r, will
not move in a divorce case be i.eving
that “any woman who wiiii m ,rry a
man ought to be forced to lb; 3 with
him.”
The hard times have in; le grave
stones so cheap in Vermont tl at hrifty
people there are dying off ra id /, just
to take advantage of the rgains
offered.
There are preparations wh. :h rill re
move freckles, but they lea' 3 ’lie girl
so limp and lifeless that a oz n pic
nics might be held behind : lie house
and she wouldn’t have the lea i interest.
An immense bank Oi pin! go jal has
been found on the coast of do !y, and
the coral fishers have great i;q! ! abbles
over it, fighting frequent naj al itattles
in miniature.
“My son, put away that ba 1. Do
you know where the wicket b ys go
who play base ball on Sunday, ” * Yes’m;
they go down by the fair g; )u ds.”—
[Vicksburg Herald.
Massachusetts thugs are gc ng for
the doctors. They cali the! sa vbones
out to see a patient, and th<. a "hloro
form him and go through his ga Tnents
in tho most irreverent mann- r.
A Buffalo physici n who I is under
gone the operation which wa e > accu
rately described in tho car v of Clara
Morris says it is absolute!: painless.
Iron at a white heat produce - nferolya
tickling sensation on the fit; ;h.£-[Chi
cago Tribune. |
A Danbury mother has C stcfmined
to frown down sh h excess!,"e lolly in
fashion as striped stocking *!nd the
like. She says her son “sha'J nit keep
company with any girl who|m|ikes a
circus of her legs.” I I
The Telegraph states thfl tlfe Ser
vian “Skupochtijna” has Lpbed to
Prince Milan’s speech, but d<*isff’t state
whether the “ skupochtijna f |s best
with Worcestershire sauce, hr Is itself
or some kind of a dressing. \ I
When a man goes to a quiMni' party
about tea time, and sits dow oil a ball
of wicking, with a long dart up# needle
in it, he will think of more t ; linijs con
nected with darning in a mi luijj than
he can mention in two hours. I
John Thompson, of FanrHngton,
Mass., has found a pair of |;pt?Jtacles
that he lost four years agclim|)edded
in an early rose potato, gt rnjag in a
field he has plowed and harr wifi three
times since he lost ’em. i
A London woman, who ha ajgrudge
against a neighbor, paid t fjff the
other day by throwing ho vjiter on
her cat ; the society for the retention
of cruelty to animals prose uti'd her,
and she had to pay a couple j >f founds.
Imagine the horror of ar ul> town
mother, whose three-year-oh : and ugh ter
addressed her with, “Mamin; , n 'y doll’s
played out, and I don’t wan; a; y more
rag dollies or china dollie-. ; j went a
meat baby.”— Easton Free /V ?ss|
“He builded bettor than ho, cni-w,” re
marked a shoemaker’s wife; abput two
o’clock in the morning, as sh: > nervous
ly grasped one of his pegged sole boots
in her right hand and patio t fcly waited
for the sound of his foot!'. 11 on the
stairs. i
The editor of the Bellevili Enterprise
says: “Editing a newspap rfs fun —
most anybody can do it, bu t 4 sit up
all night and bustle around j retty live
ly, is no fun.” But he needa t =“ bustle
around ; ” his lady subscril ?rl will do
that with his paper. \
They say that the ladies ."Ire* now
wearing st ockings that cost, ;!3|* a pair.
We have often noticed the exquisite
quality of the stockings that a e fallen
under our observation, but ever hav
ing thought, in the hurry c ? the mo
ment, to inquire their cost wo really
can’t say whether the rep< :t be true
or false. f
The Miss Dickinson who hid tho un
pleasant adventure with Col V. Baker,
is not our Anna Dickinson, as some er
roneously supposed. Anna* travelled
18,000 miles this year, and a man
even looked as if he would Ikb to kiss
her. And if they did, do yclt uppose
Anna would retreat to the jack plat
form? *
The delightful youth know*ilf the un
ripe fruit, with which our iifskmother
tempted our first father, un*il> lo and
behold an unpleasant pain fliited him
beneath the girdle, and causlt. lain to
shed tears of repentance, jwhile he
cursethhis first parents for r&f .devour
ing the entire lot of fruit and seed.—
[Whitehall Times. i
The valuable life of Capt. ’f r <|bb, who
swam across the British mufnnel, is
said to be in danger. If >b, the
swimmer, Bogardus, the
and one or two of the vara ug pedes
trians who can walk a thous ill miles
in a thousand hours, weie t < fcliddenly
drop off, there would be li Lip left in
this world worth living for, u ilfiss, per
haps, it might be the p*i of
standing on the sidewalk |nce in
awhile and seeing a base ball fine go by
in an omnibus. \
A gentleman on Broadway op Satur
day, noticed a pigeon entangl clir some
string on a tree so that it cor j not ex
tricate itself. A number of ujys were
throwing stones at it, but the' 4od man
rebuked them for their cr e,ty, and
drove them away. Then he at a lad
der and tenderly took the ' ibhtened,
fluttering little creature in h s hand,
and the next day ho obser < and that it
made one of the best pies h jad ever
eaten.“[Norwich Bulletin. *
SPECIAL NOTICES.
PAY YOUK STATE AND COUNTY TAXES.
THE TAX DIGEST FOR THE YEAR 1875
will bo closocl on November First, and exe
cutions issued against all who are in arrears.
Tax Payers will save themselves costs and
me an -,npleasant duty by coming promptly
forward and settling.
I will attend the Country Precincts upon
their respective Court Days.
JOHN A. BOHLER,
Tax Collector Richmond County.
sep2G-30t _
Colonists, Emigrants and Travelers Westward.
FOR MAP CIRCULARS, CONDENSED
timetables and general infer ation in re
gard to transportation facilities to all points
in Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Minne
sota, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, lowa, New
Mexico. Utah and California, apply to or ad
dress Albert B. Wrenn. General Railroad
Agent Office Atlanta, Ga.
No one should go West without first getting
in communication with the General Rail
road Agent, and beeomo informed as to su
perior advantages, cheap and quick trans
portation of fa i ilies. household goods,
st ck, and farming implements gene; ally.
All information cheerfully given.
W. L. DANLEY,
3epU-6in 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,
ang22-tf Gen’l Insurance Agent.
WANTS.
&S~ Advertisements not over five lines wlli
be inserted under this head for fifty cents
each insertion . cash.
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Book-Keeper. Best reioronco given. Ap
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OAItDERS WANTED.-A GENTLE
MAN and wife can obtain a pleasant
room and board on Greene street. Also
from four to six Day Boarders will be
taken. Apply at This Office, or at the
southwest corner of Gumming and Greene
streets. sep24-fr&su
WANTED— A competent NURSE. Ap
ply at 185 Broad street.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NEW STYLE CALICOES^
AT THE ONE PRICE HOUSE-llenry L.
A. Balk, 172 Broad street. I have re
ceived to-day New St vie Calicoes, Calicoes
for Mourning, Dress Goods, Alpacas, Ken
tucky Jeans, Cassimeres, &c., at very pop
ular prices, wholesale and retail.
sep2Bl* HENRY L. A. BALK.
TAKE NO TICK
ALL PERSONS ARE FOREWARNED
from hunting or trespassing upon our
grounds. Violators of the above will be
dealt with according to law.
JAS. C. WARREN, .
EDWARD PERRIN.
sep2B-tf WYATT CHAMBERLIN.
FOR KENT,
rIMIE DESIRABLE STORE now occupied
L by Mr. W. S. Royal, next to Messrs.
Jas. A. Gray & Co.’s, at SBS per month.
Would prefer renting it from iirst October
to first o uly next. Apply to
sep2B-3 E. F. GALL A HER.
NOTICE.
A MEETING of tho Augusta Jockey Club
will be held on THURSD AY, the 30th
instant, at 12 o,clock, m., at tho Augusta
Club Rooms.
A full attendance of members is earnest
ly requested, as business of importance is
to be transacted. LEWIS JONES,
sep2B-2 _ Secretary.
THE MISSES SEDGWICK’S INSTITUTE,
—CORNER OF
Greene and Washington Streets.
XHE duties of this Institute will bo re
sumed MOND \Y, OCTOBER 4th. For cir
culars and terms appy at
sep2B-lw 310 BROAD
House and Lot on Washing
ton Street at Auction.
BIGNON & CRUMP, Auctioneers.
"\T7TLL be sold at the Lower Market
VV House, on TUESDAY, October slh,
a desirable two-story House and Lot, situ
ated on Washington street, between Walker
and Watkins. Lot fronts 50 feet on Wash
ington street, and runs back to Twiggs.
House contains 8 rooms.
Terms—Cash; purchaser to pay for pa
pers. sep2B-tusu<fctu
FINE FRUIT.
J UST received a largo lot of SICKLE
PEARS, at 20 and 25 cents per dozen.
Northern APPLES, a large and varied lot.
Pure FRENCH CANDIES, at £0 cents per
pound,at
E. A. MASSA’S,
sep2B-l 36 Jackson street.
Mansion house
PORT ROYAL, S. CL
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 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 tho 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.
CITY TAX—IB7S.
Last Notice.
IN conformity to the City Ordinances,
Executions will be issued, with 10 per
cent, and costs added thereto, on Ist of Oc
tober next, on ail Taxes for 1875 unpaid on
that date. „ „
sepl4-dtoctl I. P- GARVIN, G. T.
NEW CAKPKTS.
liiittAiiFiiiiim,
(Successor to J. Murphy & Cos.)
WOULD respectfully call attention to
his NEW STOCK of elegant
CARPETINGS,
MATTINGS,
OIL CLOTHS,
RUGS,
MATS
and WINDOW SHADES, &c., &c.
Carpets made up and laid by competent
hands.
ALSO.
On hand and receiving a large stock of
CROCKERY,
CHINA
and GLASS WARE.
244 Broad Street, _ . _ „
sep26-sututh&9a Masonic Hall.
Fourth Ward Public Schools
rriHE Schools in tills Ward will open on
X MON DAY, tho 27th Inst. . „ .
An election for Teachers in all the Schools
of the Ward will be held at the ofhce ot P.
Cogin, SATURDAY, tho 25th hist., at four
o’clock p. m. Applicants will hand recom
mendations with their applications to
either of the Trustoes of the W ard before
12 o’clock of that day. sep23-tf
NOTICE.
DR. SAMUEL MULLER, of Columbia
county, is a member of the firm of
Powell Ar Muller
from this date. Hereafter the business will
be conducted under the name and style of
W Powell & Cos. <
W ‘ POWELL & MULLER
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 1,1875. sep26-2t
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
”<& BAND
PTOmje DISPLAY!
On Thursday Evening,
31st OP OCTOBER NEXT.
DURING the week of the State Fair there
will be given
On the Fair Grounds
A Grand Pyrotechnic Display, for the pur
pose of obtaining money with which to
erect, in the city of Macon,
A. MONUMEN l 1
In honor of the acts and valor of our dead
Confederate soldiers.
This Exhibition will commence at 8
o’clock p. m., and will comprise
Forty Different Scenic
REPRESENTATIONS.
The preparations for this
Dazzling and Magnificent Display!
Of Fire and Color is now being prepared by
the large house of Mr. George Parsons, of
No. 12 Park Place, New York i ity.
Mr. II ad field will come from New York to
this city for the express purpose of proper
ly representing and managing the Exhibi
tion.
J his display is being prepared at a largo
cost, and
WILL EXCEL ANY REPEESENTATION
Of like character ever before given in this
section of the United Stales.
Attached hereunto is a
PROGRAMME OF THE SCENES
To be represented before the people—pic
tures whose brilliancy and beauty will
strike all -who behold them with wonder
and delight.
S O E IV UTS .
1. Colored Illuminations.
2. Signal Rockets.
3. A beautiful set piece, opening with a
vertical wheel witli crimson and green
tires; changes to a scroll wheel in brilliant
jassarnine and radiant fires, with revolving
scrolls, formed of jets of colored flame, dis
playing e.ch instant anew and pleasing
figure forty feet in diameter.
4. Bombshells of golden rain.
5. Mine of serpents.
G. An elegant and beautiful Illustration,
consisting of a chameleon wheel, introduc
ing an illuminated device, the cross of the
Grand Templars, in silver lance work,
adorned with colored specks, representing
rubies, emeralds, amethysts and other pre
cious gems, concluding with a radius of
brilliant fire.
■. Rockets, with emerald meteors.
8. Battery of streamers.
9. A curious and wonderful mechanical
piece, commencing with a horizontal wheel,
which changes to a vertical globe, which,
by their combined motions, represent the
annual and diurnal revolutions of the earth
upon her axis, showing the various lines in
scarlet, green and purple fires.
10. Silver cloud, with crimson meteors.
11. Battery of colored stars.
12. The glory of Persia, beginning with
rainbow whoel in crimson and gold;
changes to the glory of Persia, consisting
of Rayonnent brilliant lire, decorated with
flames of every hue in color of the rainbow.
Concludes with a sun of Chinese fire up
wards of sixty feet in circumference.
13. Bombshells forming chandelier ia the
air.
14. Rockets with asteroid stars.
15. The Peruvian Cross, introducing a
double vertical wheel in purple and golden
tires, changing to the Peruvian Cross, dec
orated with .Saxon flyers and cross-cut
fires, forming a piece upwards of forty feet
high, and twenty feet wide, with brilliant
fires repeated.
IG. 1- tight of aerial wheels.
17. Crimson illuminations.
18. An elaborate design, representing the
coat of arms of tire State of Georgia in sil
ver lance work, surmounted with a brilliant
sun and surrounded by batteries of colored
lire pumps, throwing out every conceivable
colored tire, ttiirty feet liigti and forty feet
wide.
19. Nest of serpents.
20. Mosaic battery.
21. Grand revolving sun piece; opens with
a large scroll wheel in colored flames,
changing to six variegated suns in crimson,
green, orange, purple, yellow and blue
tires. Concludes with a magnificent revol
ving sun, seventy feet in circumference.
22. Flight of Torbillons.
23. Bombshell of variegated stars.
24. The flowering aloe, commencing with
a wheel on anew construction, changing to
tht> flowering aloe, which again changes to
a flaming tree, with Chinese fivers, forming
beautiful flowers in ever” variety of color,
concluding with a disenarge of brilliant
tire, forty feet high aud thirty feet wide.
25. Green illuminations.
2G. Crimson reflection.
27. Kaleidoscope, an extensive mechanical
piece, composed of two curious figures,
whieli revolve on the same axis, and as
sume a number of pleasing and olegant
changes. Concluding with a Guilloche or
waved work.
28. Flight of colored meteors.
29. Battery of variegated stars.
30. An allegorical piece, representing a
memorial monument dedicated to the mem
ory of the Confederate dead. On the base
is 'inscribed the motto, “Our Confederate
Dead,” surrounded by a wreath of laurel.
A weeping willow will spread its foliage
over the whole piece, giving it a mournful
yet pleasing appearance.
31. lombsheils of golden showers.
32. Aeorlites of various colors.
33. Algerine thunder wheel, with changes
of red, white, green and Chinese fires, ex
hibiting in its centra the corruscations of
the electric fluid, of dazzling beauty.
34. Colored battery.
35. Discharge of snakes.
3G. Saturn and his satellites; commences
with a brilliant sun of radiant Ctunese tire;
changes to Saturn and his satellites, com
posed of brilliaut colored Saxons, brilliant
Chinese tires, extending rays over fifty feet,
and ending with maroon reports.
37. Display of serial fires.
38. Mine or Pot d’Aigrette.
39. Paraehotte rockets.
40. Concluding piece, designed expressly
for this occasion, representing Science, Art,
Agriculture and Mechanics. This piece
will express by figures the emblem of the
figure of Science holding a wreath in her
hand, and pointing with the other to the
emblem of Industry and Art. It will be
further embellished by accessories in tho
form of trees bearing colored flowers, and
tire pumps casting balls of red, blue, green,
orange aud purole lires in every direction,
forming coup u’oieL of magnificence and
splendor, fifty feet in height and width.
TICKETS OF ADMISSION.
WHITES (grown persons) $1 00
CHILDREN, under 12 years 25c,
COLORED—(grown persons) 50c.
CHILDREN, under 12 years 25c.
Tickets can bo purchased at the gate of
the Fair Grounds, or at several prominent
places in the city.
L. N. WHITTLE,
JOHN P. FORT,
J. F. GREER,
I. B. ENGLISH,
T. D. TINSLEY,
JOHN C. CURD,
WM. R. ROGERS,
Committee o? the Memorial Society.
sep2B-toctiß
T. J. MURDOCK & CO.,
NO. 158 BROAD STREET,
' AUGUSTA, 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, sheets, Towels, Ac.
Special attention given to repairing.
sep23-6
FINE TOBACCO.
the Calhoun Chewing Tobacco, tho
best ever sold in Augusta.
For sale by
G. VOLGEE & CO.
sep7-tf
SEED WHEAT.
-pULTZ’S CELEBRATED
SEED WHEAT,
For sale by
scpl9-lw Z. MoCORD.
MISCELLANEOUS.
E. W. DODGE’S
Augusta Stencil Works,
NO. 10 McINTOSfI STREET,
Augusta, Ga.
NAME PLATES for marking Clothing
with Indelible Ink.
UMBRELLA TAGS and KEY CHECKS
STAMPED with name and address.
QTFYPII TIDIYIW For marking Cotton,
olulMlb lmAiulo Barrels, Boxes, Bags,
&c., made to order at short notice.
JUST RECEIVED
Afresh supply of underwood’s
Hazard’s and other celebrated CAN
GOODS, expressly put up for family u e,
such as Fresh Tomatoes, Asparagus,
String Beans, Mushrooms, Green Peas,
Salmon, Mackerel. Lobsters. &c. Sauce and
Piekels of all kinds. Mangor and Webster
Peppers in 2 gallon Kegs, especially recom
mended to house-keepers.
Also, fine Wines, Brandies, Gin, Rum and
Whiskies, Bass English Ale, McEwan’s
Scotch Ale, Byas’ London Porter, Guinness’
& Dai coy’s Dublin Porter, St. Louis Lager
Beer.
Fine Imported and Domestic Segars
and Tobacco.
Freidriehall Bitters, Vichi and Seltzer
Mineral Water
For the convenience of my friends and
customers in the lower part of the city, I
have opened a branch store, No. 161 Broad
street, corner of Washington, where orders
will receive prompt and careful attention.
IC. 11. Schneider.
aep26-3
Fruitlanii Nurseries, Augusta, Ga.
PJ. BERCKMANS, Proprietor. Orders
• for i rees, Plants, Bulbs, Seeds, etc.,
etc., left with the undersigned will be promt
iy attended to.
GEORGE SYMMS, Agent,
No. 221 Bread Street,
septl-6m Augusta, Ga.
NOTICE
From this date Mr. george w
GALVIN becomes a copartner of the
undersigned. The Arm name will remain
as heretofore.
CALVIN & JONES.
September Ist, 1875. sepl-tf
Notice to Shippers.
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD, i
Augusta Agency, September 10, 1875. j
ON AND AFTER MONDAY, September
13, 1875, Freight for Local Stations on
line of this road will not be received after 5
o’clock p. m. W. H. TREZEVANT,
sepll-lm Agent.
WIRE HAY BANDS
JOEING AGENTS for the EXCELSIOR
WIRE BANDS, we will always have a full
supply at low figures.
PKINTUP BRO. & POLLARD,
Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants
sepll-lm _____
Cotton Gins and Presses.
TTfE CALL the attention of parties wish-
VY ing to purchase a GIN or PRfSS
to our Neblett JcGoodrich Gins and Smith’s
Improved Presses,
PRINTUP, BRO. & POLLARD,
Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants
sepll-lm
SANDHILLS DANCING SCHOOL.
MONS. BERGER will, according to
agreements open a DANCING
SCHOOL at the Sand Hills Academy, on
the 29th SEPTEMBER. Persons wishing to
join will please meet at the Academy at
o’clock.
AUGUSTA DANCING SCHOOL
MONS. BERGER’S Fall session will com
mence at Masonic Hall on TUESDAY, OC
TOBER sth, at 4 o’clock, for children.
Classes for Grown Young Ladies and Gen
tlemen will be at a different time. Private
Families and Boarding Schools attended to.
Apply to A. PRON TAUT A SON’S.
E. ANIIEUSER & CO.’S
Louis
BOTTLED LAGER BEER.
The Best, Purest and Healthiest Beer
in the Market.
IT HAS HO EQUAL.
Recommended by the highest medical au
thorities in the country.
SOLD BY ALL LEADING GROCERS.
sep 26-1 w
WATSON’S HERB IONIC.
\ r O medicine known approaches it for
IN the cure of CHILLS. AGUE and
FEVER. Not pills or any bitter nauseating
compound, a simple preparation entirely
vegetable. Not in the least unpleasant to
taste. At A. J. PELLETIER’S.
sep26-sutnlm
ON CONSIGNMENT,
A LOT OF CHOICE EARLY ROSE AND
RUSSETT POTATOES just received and
for sale by
D. H. & J. T. DENNING,
sep2G-3 45 Jackson street.
AGENCY FOR ANHEUSER’S
ST. LOUIS LAGER BEER,
NO. IGI and 256 BROAD STREET.
sep26-3 _______
“ BARRETT & LAND,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
NO. 270 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, G-JL..
OFFER to the trade a largo and varied
stock of
Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Drug-
gists’ Sundries, &c.,
At prices as LOW as any house in the South.
All the popular Patent Medicines ot the
day always on hand.
Retail Department.
We have set aside a part of our store for
Retail purposes, and will be glad to servo
all in want of Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery,
etc., at any and all times, at reasonable
prices.
STOCK COMPLETE.
One of our Arm has just returned from
the Eastern markets, and wo have a large
and complete stock in store and arriving
all bought at the very lowest prices.
BARRETT & LAND.
Georgia Hair Dye is instantaneous—the
best in the world.
Gilder’s Liver Pills never fail.
sepl9-tf
Special Notice to Passengers and
Shippers via Charleston.
DURING the pressure of inward freights
wo will be compelled to sail for New
York without regard to days, as formerly,
say Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
but will endeavor to advise Passengers and
Shippers twenty-four hours in advance.
The CHARLESTON, Captain Berry, will
sail TO-MORROW MORNING, at 8 o’clock.
Passengers from Augusta and vicinity will
Breakfaston board. Tho GEORGIA will
follow and sail on TUESDAY, p. m. For
Through Tickets, State Rooms and Freights
apply to W STEVENSON,
sep2-tf Agent Steamship Line.
______ TO RENT.
TO RENT”
PART of the first floor of a Broad street
Residence, consisting of live rooms,
suitable for house-keeping; centrally lo
cated. Terms, S2O per month.
Also, a Lodging Room, with or without
Furniture. Apply to
sep26-tf M. A. STOVALL.
Cottage to Rent.
NO. S> BROAD STREET,
Apply to GEO. A. BAILIE.
sep26-tf
TO LET!"
FUUIt DESIRABLE ROOMS, suitable
for Offices and Sleeping Rooms.
Apply to BARRETT & CASWELL,
sep24-tf 296 Broad street.
TO RENT,
FOR $350-a n ! ce house on Reynold street,
containing four good rooms and large
hall, with veranda in front, large yard, ail
necessary outbuildings and good hydrant.
The house has just been thoroughly repair
ed, ad the rooms newly plastered, and is
being painted inside and out. It will be
ready tor occupancy bv 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. NV. E. J. Peacock, No. 130 Broad St.
Apply to
sepl9-tf A. D. PICQUET.
TO RENT,
THE large STORE in front of the Opera
House, at present occupied by Messrs.
Myers & 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 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 Koilock streets,
seplO-tf
TO RENT,
171 ROM 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.
TO RENT,
fJJHE OFFICE No. 3, Exchange Building,
at present occupied by Messrs. Beall, Spears
& Cos. Anply 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. H. Brown.
WM. A. WALTON.
No. 10, Old Post Office Range, Mclntosh
street, up stairs. aug7-tf.
TO RENT,
IfiRAME DWELLING, with eight rooms,
1 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
NO. 84 WALKER STREET.
STORE TO RENT.
TORE No. 290 Broad street, now occu
pied by P. G. Burnm.
For Terms, aoply to
jylS-tf H. H. D’ANTIGNAC.
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. CAMPBELu,
Or A. S. CAMPBELL,
jy29-tf 207 Broad street.
TO RENT,
\TO. 18 Washington street, first door from
1* Broad street; has four rooms and four
Kitchen rooms, and large store
For sale cheap, 100 ac. es LAND in Do-,
Laigle’s old place. aug27-lm
For Sale or to Rent.
HOUSE and lot on the south side of
Broad street, between (Jen; re and El
bert, known as No. 81, now occupied by
Gen. >i. Y. Harris. The lot has a front oh
B oad and Eliis streets of 44 feet, more or
less. Tho improvements consist of a com
fortable two story brick dwelling, a kitchen,
Ac.
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! =
A WINDLASS, with a Brake attached,
xjl built by Mr. George Cooper, of this
City.
Also, a Ruggles PAPER CUTTER, which
cuts 20 inches wide. All in good order.
The above mentioned Mathiues will be
sold CHEAP FOR CASH. Apply at
THIS OFFICE.
jy!B-tf
FOR SALE,
The Edwards House,
AT SPARTA, GEORGIA.
rjdHE 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.
NEW AND NOVEL LOTTERIES
$12,000 for $ 2 00
$12,000 for 2 00
$30,000 for 5 00
$30,000 for 5 00
Missouri State Lotteries.
On the 15th day of each month during 1875.
will be drawn the $2
Single Number Lottery.
Capital Prize, - - $12,000.
10,290 Prizes, amounting to SIOO,OOO.
TICKETS. ONLY HC.OO.
Try a Ticket in this liberal scheme.
$250,000 IN PRIZES.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $30,000 !
10,290 Prizes, amounting to $250,000.
A Five Dollar Single Number Lottery
Will bo drawn on the 30th day of each
Month.
Whole tickets, $5; Halves, $2 50.
Prizes payable in full and no postpone
ment of drawings take place. Address for
Tickets and Circulars,
MURRAY, MILLER & CO.,
may-25sa&cly P. O. Box 2416, St. Loui a, M