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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. XTTANTED—SITUATION—By a .young f V man who is an experienc'd Clerk and Book-Keeper. Best reioronco given. Ap ply at this offlCß. sep‘2G-tf 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. sepß-wth&su 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