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-A-TJQUSTA. C - Tuesday Morning, November 30,1875. Matrimony Again. We have been promised by a gentle man and lady of this city, who have made very close calculations, the prob able cost to a bachelor of good stand ing in society contemplating matri mony. A rough draft of these esti mates has been already shown us. We think the gentleman’s bill of particu lars rather too high and that of the lady too low. When we get their revised facts and figures before us, it is our intention to strike a happy me dium and endeavor, for the good of mankind, to arrive at something like accuracy. The statistics we refer to are not only applicable to the mere act of getting married, but also Include the “consequential damages.” With patience we await the details, and their publication must go very far toward enlightening the youth of both sexes who rarely count the cost of embark ing upon the voyage of life in partner ship. There is another phase of matrimony which has of late been prominently brought forward in a divorce suit in California, involving the exact respon sibility of a man’s promises when a lover and non-fulfillment as a husband. "When a man is paying his attentions to one of the fair sex, as a lover and an accepted one, he is generally very pro fuse of pledges, which ordinarily vanish after handing the minister his fee for ty ing the connubial knot. The New York Times puts the case thus: “A man may say to his intended wife, ‘Marry me one month hence, and I will give you a carriage and pair.’ When the wedding day arrives he virtually says: ‘Marry me and I will love, cherish and protect you.’ In both cases the consideration is precisely the same. And yet were the wife to apply to a court of equity for a decree of specific performance in the matter of the car riage and pair, she would be laughed out of court; while on the other hand the snme court would be ready to de cree that her husband should love and cherish her to the extent of a certain fixed sum per week. The law is in great part made up of mysteries which no man can solve; and the reason why it makes this sharp distinction between the promises of lovers and those of husbands is not the least of these mys teries.” The great trouble, in the modern world of what is called high-life, whether there be property or not, is the mercenary nature of the matrimonial market. The heart is relegated to a second place by girls of an arithmet ical disposition, and they will hang on to maidenhood a long time before accepting a man for a husband whose prospects are problematical. We do not mean to say that this is altogether wrong, especially if they have quali ties worth the purchase, and more pa. dcularly as the number of really ex cellent candidates for husbands grows small by degrees and painfully less. But let us return to the main object of our discourse this morning—the validity of ante-nuptial promises. The California case, above adverted to, is that of a wife who has sued for divorce on the ground that her consent to marriage was obtained by the man’s promise to abandon tobacco. The wretch, after marriage, failed to keep his word, and hence these tears. The suit has not yet been decided; but if it should be in favor of the woman, we ad vise young men to be very chary how they make rash promises, and if every female who has been the victim of misplaced confidence should follow the precedent we presume to be establish ed, woe to the unfortunate army of married men who no doubt won their wives with dowers of moonshine and failed to make a conveyance in fee sim ple, when their imaginations were dwarfed to the true proportions of their ability to pay. The Times, commenting upon the California case, sums up in this fright ful fashion : “We may assume that every astute young woman will, in the event of a judicial recognition of the binding na ture of lovers’ vows, at once begin to collect evidence which will either secure for her the fulfillment of her lover’s promises, or will be very handy in case she should desire a divorce. When an ardent young man promises to go through fire and water to please her, she will quietly make a memorandum of the promise, with its date, and the consideration—probably of an oscula tory nature —on which it was based, and file it away for future emer gencies. There may come a day when that unhappy young man will be asked either to fulfill his rash contract, or to resign his position as a husband, and he will find no escape from so unpleasant a dilemma. Pru dent girls will be careful to extort from their lovers promises to the effect that no sewing on of buttons, or building of fires, or efforts to rival the legendary skill of their future mothers-in-law in the preparation of clam fritters, will ever be required by them. Men, if properly approached on moonlit balco nies, can be made to promise anything, especially if they Imagine that they cannot be enforced at law. What will be their surprise and horror when, on returning from the wedding trip, they are confronted with their thoughtless promises, strung together in the shape of a bill of particulars, and find that they have pledged themselves to a life of abstinence from tobacco and latch keys, and of uncomplaining activity in respect to putting up stove-pipes and putting down carpets. Moreover, it should not escape notice that the success of the divorce suit brought by the California wife would bring about a panic in the tobacco trade and seriously diminish the internal revenue of the United States. There are at the lowest estimate probably half a million of young men now in this country who have in moments of bliss, in the back parlor, promised their future wives never to smoke again. If such a prora te i* held binding by a California court, the Government will have to de vise some new impost, or the next Treasury balance sheet will show that we are drifting into national bank ruptcy. If the California husband is wise, and if he cares a straw for the interests of his fellow husbands, he will promptly put in the defense of in sanity. Let his counsel claim that a lover is temporarily a lunatic, and hence is unable to make any contract whatever. Such a plea would have a fair chance of success if urged before a jury of married men, and it might very probably counter-balance the ruling passion of Western courts and juries for making innovations upon the laws of marriage and divorce.” The above remarks appear to us pure and unadulterated words of wisdom. That they will have the effect intended we seriously doubt. The rarest thing in American life is a sensible and worthy marriage. Even the most ex perienced men, when widowers, fall into traps, and the only candid excuse we ever heard given for another marriage by a man of society was that he had tried the experiment for the second time to do penance for the first. The only safe plan is for parents to rear their children to industrious habits and clean lives. When marriage comes to those who approach it with rever ence, prudence and virtue, the chances of happiness are considerable. In all other cases, the prospect of bliss is about equal to the selecting an eel from a bag of vipers, or escaping Im portunate creditors by buying a lot tery ticket in the expectation of winning the capital prize. Poetical. —The Charlotte Observer says: A young friend of ours has written off fur us the which wil be found be low. They were never published, but the genius they display is almost sufficient to immortalize the author. The poetry was an impromptu effort of a college mate of our friend, and was written one day while the author’s brain was inflamed by drink. It is a poetic gem which is worthy a place in every scrap book in the land: MUBDER ON THE BOAD. On the road, the lonely road. Under the pale cold moon; Among the ragged trees he strode, Whistled and shifted his weary load, Whistled a foolish tune. There was a step timed with his own. A form that stooped and bowed; A broad white knife that gleamed and shone Like a splinter of daylight downward thrown— And the moon went under a cloud. But the moon came out so broad and full, That the barn-fowl waked and crowed; While the brown owl whispered to its mate in the wood, And cowered down among its brood, That a man lay dead on the road. The above poem was written by Will Wallace Harney, once editor of the Louisville, Ky., Democrat, and we saw it published under his name, in a Northern magazine or weekly, about one year ago. We venture to say that he wrote it like a sober scholar, and the young man “inflamed by drink” had nothing to do with it originally. California. —lt is said that California comes nearest the mark of any com monwealth in the world as a State virtually without debt. A recent writer shows that nominally the State debt is nearly four millions, but of this sum she owes three millions or so to herself. She bought up her bonds and keeps them in trust for her schools, the uni versity and other objects. The actual debt is only about $700,000, and for this she has the State Capitol, a very expen sive building, paid for ; the original In sane Asylum, Normal School, State Armory, and State Prison, etc. In the same connection, it is stated that the county of San Francisco does not owe one cent. The city of San Francisco owes $4,000,000, while New York, with only four times the population there, owes forty times as much money. ——i n Jeff Davis.— The dramatic hand shaking of Beauregard, Johnston and Sherman hardly compensated for the insult offered Mr. Jefferson Davis, at the St. Louis Railroad Convention.— Jeff Davis was no more blamable during the war than any other promi nent man, and so long as discrimina tions are made against him, the sin cerity of “shaking hands over the bloody chasm” may well be doubted. At the same time, it Is folly for Mr. Davis to keep himself always before the public eye and thus become a red rag to mad bulls. The Dancing Line. —To a lady cor respondent and anxious inquirer, an expert in moral etiquette writes : “You may dance with your son or lady friends, but dancing in the middle of a crowd, with low dresses, up to late hours, involving a good deal of ap parent embracing of the opposite sex, is thought to be objectionable in taste if not principle.” Sad.—A German named Lilienthal, a professional accountant, highly edu cated, most respectably connected and the master of several languages, was recently sent to the New Orleans alms house, at his own request. He could get no work in spite of his accomplish ments, and came from Germany be cause he thought the United States an El Dorado. Shrunk.— Since Ralston’s failure, the Virginia City fire and decline of min ing stocks, the two residents of San Francisco, Sharon and Jones, who rep resent the rotten borough of Nevada in the United States Senate, have visi bly declined in public estimation. ■ ■■ * Logan. —The Springfield Republican puts it thus : “John Logan says he never, so help him, had anything to do with distillers, and is $40,000 or so poorer to-day than when he entered the Senate. Why, John ! Such a good player as you used to be 1” Somebody, with a view, possibly, to our ultimate conversion, has sent us an illustrated newspaper containing por traits of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. For which, thanks. We hope, though, for the sake of vital religion, that these portraits are not correct like nesses of the originals. If they are, then why Brother Moody wasn’t long ago hanged upon a suspicion of piracy and murder upon the high seas, and Brother Sankey has never been victimiz ed by some vigilance committee,as a sus pected horse-thief, is a mystery scarce ly les3 bloody than profound l—Courier- Journal. Planting and Farming. The Gainesville Ragle tells, in one epigrammatic senten ce,what the cotton mania has done for Northeast Georgia, which is so admirably adapted for the raising of small grains and diversified husbandry. It says : “Nearly all our farmers have foolishly invested largely in commercial manures, and Northeast Georgia is, to-day, in no better condi tion than the cotton belt. They have planted corn and neglected their grain crops, stock and farms, until every thing is run down. They have but little money, and nearly all are, more or less, in debt.” Why the Southern planters persist in their suicidal policy, year after year, passes comprehension. The upshot of this madness, for it seems to be nothing else, must be disastrous to the whole commercial fabric. The Macon Tele graph, which has struck some heavy blows at false systems of agricul ture which pervade so many States of the South, gives in a late issue the subjoined example of the success at tendant upon a different plan of opera tions. It says : A gentleman who resides in Macon runs a four mule farm a few miles down the river. There have been no other mules upon the place nor any horses during the season. His crops have been 2,500 bushels of corn, 25.000 pounds of fodder, Bnd 30,000 pounds of Bermuda hay. The latter was all cut from five acres of ground. The same mules which were used in cultivating the land have, during the season hauled 100 cords of wood in the city. The gentleman has sold wood and fodder enough to pay all the expenses of cultivating the land. He pays his hands the cash for their work every Saturday night, consequently has no trouble in employing and keeping hands. He estimates that his farming operations this year will clear him $2,000, which is a good showing, and no cotton to mar the picture. There is not on the globe a country with greater natural advantages than Georgia, and yet, year after year, com plaints are general that this magnifi cent inheritance is not a mine of wealth to its comparatively scanty population. That much of this distress is due to the war and its legitimate and illegiti mate results cannot be questioned; but we fear there is some thing lacking in the present genera tion of people which is even more fatal in its effects than Abolition and Reconstruction. It seems a monstrous paradox that a brave and sturdy race like the men of Georgia, who have re deemed themselves from the yoke of alien oppression, should find it almost impossible to free themselves from a false idea of agriculture, which ap pears to be so tenaciously adhered to, that nothing short of death can re lieve the individual incubus. Ladies’ Fashions. In hoisery, extravagance is exhibited. Stockings of silk and French cashmere wool are brought out in gay designs. For evening wear they are either open worked or embroidered with gold and silver, and in colors. Butterflies are a favorite design, and are worked in gold threads in the clocks of black and red silk stockings, and in silver on the pale blue ones. Navy blue stockings are frequently decorated with the de sign of anchors done in silver. Blues and cardinal reds are favorite colors ill 0.11 (jroiloa ofi preferable in the solid colors with clocks of some contrasting color. A novelty in these last is given in striped stockings, showing two shades of the same color. For those who do not in cline to the present furore for gay colored hosiery are given the solid and open-work stockings of flesh, cream and white. The expensive stockings are often made doubly expensive by the costly garters that are worn to keep them in place. These are made of shirred satin ribbons and silk elastic ribbon fastened with bows of ribbon and real lace; also of beautifully embroidered bands of velvet and silk clasped with buckles of gold or silver; in fact, garters come in a variety of material. For carriage and house wear, shoes with the straps and bars across the instep, and reaching high up the leg, showing the stocking beneath are in style. Black satin shoes, with jet but terfly bows, are another mode, as are black velvet boots, trimmed with three bows, fastened on with jet ornaments and velvet boots buttoned up with plain silver buttons. For house wear slippers are also popular, as they show to advantage the handsome stockings so largely worn. All fancy shoes are made with pointed toes and French heels, but walking boots show toes but slightly, if any rounded, and have the low English heels, and in many cases the broad extension soles. The winter style in gloves is as fol lows: Gants de Swede are not con sidered suitable for winter use, and the fine soft chevreau glace is only worn for fall dress. There are in Paris gloves made specially for this season. For morning wear the worsted glove called Kashmeere is convenient, warm and easily drawn off and on; it comes with as many as four buttons. For half dress, the Castorine, which is of undressed kid and very strong, is economical. This glove is suitable for wear with suits of cloth, cach emire, vigogue, uattc, etc., as it is only made in dark shades, such as dark-green, plum, purple, brown and gray. The gant rusee is the full dress winter glove, worn with the most elegant velvet suits trimmed with fur ; they are very warm, though made of handsome fine chevreu. These glove3 are lined with silken fur, which does not enlarge the hand, but protects it and keeps the skin white and soft in the coolest weather. They are also made in dark colors. The black and gray gloves are lined with purple silk and are used for half mourning. The green ones are lined with red and the havane with blue. They are rather expensive, but so durable that they finally prove quite cheap. A Legal Point.— “De decision being left for me to decide,” said an aged colored man at the Central Mar ket the other day, “I will say data man has de light to keep a watch dog.” At this there was a murmur of dis approbation from the six or seven others, and the old man pounded on a board to restore order and continued : “But, I also remarks and agrees, dat de man who keeps chickens and a watch dog too hasn’t de fust principles of humanity in his busum !” And the crowd said, “ ’Rah! ’Rah !” “When Tomasco Salvini came to America, rumor had it that his proper name was Thomas Sullivan. Tom Karl, the tenor, it is insinuated, Is like wise a Hibernian, whose rightful cog nomen is Thomas Carroll. The latest development, so says a facetious con temporary, is that Signor Carlo Rossi is Charley Ross in disguise,” A wild goose flew into Oregon, and its crop being opened revealed anew kind of grain. From the seed forty bushels have been raised, and the Oregon farmers are sitting on the fences with their elbows on their knees wondering what they shall call the new kind of whiskey they will make from it. FUNERAL NOTICE, THE FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Bassford and Mrs. A. E. Usher and families, are respectfully In vited to attend the funeral of the former, from his late residence, corner of Twiggs and Hall streets, at 10 o’clook a. m., TO DAY. SPECIAL NOTICES. REGULAR DEMOCRATIC NOMINA TION FOR MAYOR. Dr. Lewis D. Ford. At the Democratic municipal convention, held at the City Hall on Monday night, November 29th, 1875, Dr. Lewis D. Ford was unanimously nominated as the regular Democratic candidate for Mayoi of the city of Augusta, Georgia, at the election to be held on Wednesday, December Ist, 1875. At the same convention the undersigned were appointed a committee to place the above nomination before the citizens of Augusta, and urge upon them to furni&h a hearty and united support to the regular Democratic nominee in opposition to the Independent candidate now in the field. In presenting the name of Dr. Lewis D. Ford, in compliance with these instructions, the committee need indulge in no eulogy. As an old and honored citi zen, as a former chief magistrate of Au gusta, as a man of great intellect, un blemished reputation and well-tr ied worth, Lewis D. Ford is too well known to the community he has illustrated so long tnd so well to now require recommendation and endorsement. He is emphatically the man for she place and for the times, and is heartily com mended to the cordial support of evtry citizen interested in the welfare of this community. A further matter given in charge to the committee was that they should express the unfeigned regret of the convention that our Democratic brethren of the First and Third Wards were, from a temporary failure in the operation of the usual party machinery, unable to meet us in Council; and to invite them most heartily and cordially to unite shoulder to shoulder with us as friends, neighbors, fellow-citi zens and fellow-Democrats to support the regular nominee with all theirJold-time zeal, discipline and courage, and so secure to this now misgoverned, over-ourdeoed and tyrannized city a return to all the blessings of good local government. M. A. Stovall, Chairman. P. M. Mulherin, C. H. Johannsen, John Phinizy, Salem Dutoher. Webb Lodge, No. 16Q, F.-. & A.-. Bt.\ THE MEMBERS OF WEBB LODGE, NO. 166, are hereby ordered to meet at Lodge Room (Masonic Hall), at 9%;o’clock (sharp), for the purpose of attending the funeral of Brother S. L. Bassford. of A. J. Miller Lodge, No. 204, Thomson, Ga. The ser vices to be performed by request of W. M. Irving, of said Lodge. Brethren will take due notice and gov ern themselves accordingly. Members of Social Lodge, No. 1, and transient Brethren are invited to attend. By order of John S. Davidson, W. M. GEORGE ADAM, nov3o-l Secretary. Cavalry Survivors’ Association. MEMBERS OF THE ABOVE ASSOCIA tion are requested to assemble at their rooms, corner Broad and Campbell streets, THIS (Tuesday) MORNING, at 9% o’clock, for the purpose of attending the fpner&l of our deceasou uromer meuiuei, u- ;u. xjahs- FOBD. ; All Cavalrymen, not members.; are re spec fully invited to join us on the occa sion. : By order President Young. JAS. F. THOMPSON, nov3o-l Secretary. MASS MEETING. AMASS MEETING OF THE CITIZENS of Augusta will be held at the C ity Halt TO-NIGHT, at 7 Y, o’clock. Addresses will be made by Dr. .Lewis D. Ford regular Democratic nominee for Mayor, and other distinguished citizens. I nov3o-l FOR MAYOR. HON. CHAS. ESTES. FOR MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. Ist Ward. J, U. MEYER. G.R. SIBLEY, J. F. THOMPSON. Qd. Ward. J. K. EVANS E. O’DONNELL. J. B. POURNELLE. 3d Ward. A. PHILIP, W. B. YOUNG. WM. BENNETT. 4th. "Ward. M. E. HILL, C. V. WALKER, DR. W. H. FOSTER. nov2B-3 Southern Porcelain Manufacturing Company. A MEETING OF THE BTOCKHOLEERS of the abovo Company, for the purpoie of amending its By-Laws, will be held on FRI DAY MORNING next, December 3d, it n o’clock, in the rooms of E. R. Schneider, corner of Broad and Jackson streets, JAMES HOPE, nov2B-5 President. THE PEOPLE’S TICKET FOR OOUKCIL in the Fourth Ward: BERNARD DORIS. Dr. M. J. JONES. C. V. WALKER. nov2o-tdeci* A CARD. TO ALL WHO ARE SUFFERING TROM the errors and indiscretion of youth. ne*vous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood etc.. I will send a recipe that will cure you, fREE OF CHARGE This great remedy wiu dis covered by a Misionary in South Amerca. Send a self-addressed envelope to 1 ie REV. JOSEPH T. INMiN. Station D. Bible House, New YorisDity. nov23-tuthsa*c3m DENTAL NOTICE. DR. ZEKE CALLS THE ATTENTION C’J HIS friends and the public to his meaod of Filling Natural Teeth with Go,© and other material for their preservation. Office Northeast Corner of Greene and Gmpbell streets. ?t,24-tf Colonists, Emigrants and Travelers Wetward. FOR MAP CIRCULARS. CONDENSED timetables and general Infor ratio; In re gard to transportation facilities to al points in Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Minne sota, Colorado. Kansas, Texas, law. New Mexico. Utah and California, applyh or ad dress Albert B. Wbenn. General lailroad Agent Office Atlanta. Ga. No one should go West without flrpj getting in communication with the Genoa! Rail road Agent, and become informedfis to su perior advantages, cheap and qu!4 trans portation of families, household goods, st)ck, and farming Implements All information cheerfully given. I W. L. DANLi'.f, sepU-Stn G. P, i T. A. (T\ I \t p ft! |To agents anu ota<r- , male ■ w ■■ iw and female, a ssosK::etand beautifully illustrated 100- m am# m I page Novelty Caiaiofeue. R AW A ■ F. Young <fc Cos. $ Broad, way, New York. JjSD tawly NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. GIRARDEY'S OPERA HOUSE. THURSDAY, FRIDAY ~MD SATURDAY, —AND— GRAND JAP MATINEE, SATURDAY, AT 2 P. M. DECEMBER S, 3 and 4. ATTRACTION EXTRAORDINARY. GIAN OEROS GREAT AND UNRIVALED ROYAL YEDDO JAPANESE TROUPE! Under the Management of the Celebrated Berger Family. THIS unequaled Combination of Jug glers, Sorcerers, Necromancers, Ori ental Samsons, Yokahama Wrestlers, Niphon Acrobats, Yeddo Contort onists, Kiusiu Rope-walkers, marvelous Top- Spinners, beautiful Balancers, feariul Sword Manipulators, and Japanese Mas ters of the occult sciences of Tisrnah and Totekamah, will give one of their Unique and Extraordinary Entertainments as above named. CARD.—The management lake pleasure in announcing to the citizens of Augusta that they havo made an engagement with the Celebrated and Wonderful ROM YEDDO JAPANESE TROUPE, For a professional tour throughout the South, feeling confident that in so doing they are enabled to at once present to their many friends and patrons an Entertain ment so new and novel, so varied in its performance, so chaste and refined in its character, that it cannot fail to please and delight all who may favor it with their patronage. Admission —sl.oo Gallery 50c. Seats now on sale at George A. Oates’ Book Store, without extra charge. FRED G. BERGER Proprietor. CHAS. H. PRATT Manager. B. MoCORMICK Agent. nov2B-6 ‘TN FELICE,” By MRS. AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON. Just received at GEO. A. OATES’, nov3o-l 240 Broad street. WANTED, AN ENERGETIC MAN to control the sales in this district of a staple article in the grocery line. An active man may secure a permanent cash busiuess and a monopoly that can be made to pay $5,000 per annum, by addressing, with stamp en closed for answer, MANHATTAN M’F’GCO., 147 Reade St., New York. novßo-3tw2 FRANK J. MOSES, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Soaps, Etc., NO. 080 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. TYR. MOSES begs to inform the citizens JL/ of Augusta and vicinity that he has UpfilcU a a/ two nftvYiiTt, —a. nQri found always on hand a Complete and Fresh Assortment OF MEDICINES OF ALL KINDS, AND ALL THINGS INCIDENTAL TO A FIRST CLASS Pharmaceutical Establishment. Lubin’s, Coudray’s and Chardin’s HAND KERCHIEF EXTRACTS; Caswell & Haz ard’s, Wenck’s and other COLOGNES. A fine stock of TOILET ARTICLES can bo found. He has as fine a line of HAIR BRUSHES, COMBS, TOOTH BRUSHES, etc., as can be found in the State of Georgia. A choice selection of the best FRENCH CANDIES alwavs on hand. The COMPOUNDING OF PRESCRIP TIONS will be made a speciality, as Dr. Moses is assisted by a first class Phar maceutist. nov2B-3 ASSIGNEE’S SALE. By RAMSEY & D’ANTIGNAC. Auctr’s WILL b 6 sold at the Lower Market House, in the city of Augusta, on the FIRST TUESDAY in DECEMBER, 1875, between the legal hours of sale, all the insolvent Notes, Accounts and Judgments which were assigned to me by J. W. Apel. List of vame may be found posted at the Lower Market and at Office of the under signed. Claims sold without warrantee of any kind. A. BRAND L l , nov9-law4w Assignee. FOR SALE. WILL be sold, on the FIRST TUESDAY in MARCH, 1876, before the Court House door, in Sparta, Hancock county, Georgia, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m., if not disposed of sooner at private sale, THE Montour Cotton Mills, LOCATED AT SPARTA, On the lin of the Macon and Augusta Rail road, for the manufacture of SHEETINGS, SHIRTINGS, OSNABURGS, COTTON YARN and COTTON ROPE. The main building is of brick, four sto ries, and thoroughly well built; 55 feet wide by 141 feet long, with two wings 26 feet long; Engine and Picker Room 21 feet long, the Boiler Room making 55 by 188 feet full length. FIRST FLOOR of main building contains 96 looms, Folding Machine. Cloth Shearer and Brusher, Sewing Machine and Rope Room, with all necessary machinery for making Rope. SECOND FLOOR contains 40 Cards, 36 inches, and all necessary machinery for making Roping, &c. Second floor over En gine Room contains 3 Pickers. THIRD FLOOR contains 32 Spinning Frames. 160 Spindles, eacn making in all 5,120 Spindles. FOUKTH FLOOR—Sizing Room, Beam ing and Reeling Room.Jand Packing Room, and all necessary machinery for doing good work. THE STEAM ENGINE is 150 horse-power and in fine order. All necessary Out houses, Machine Shop, Blacksmith Shop, two Cotton Houses, Wood Shed and Sta bles, Waste Houses, Oil House, Ac., 37 Op erative Houses, together with 51% acres of Land, on which said buildings are situated. Also, 615 acres of LAND, known as part of the Bryant tract, near Mt. Zion—Bß acres adjoining Turner and others, pur chased from B. T. Harris’ estate; 106 3-5 acres adjoining Pardue <fc McCray, also purchased from said estate; 195 acres ad joiaing Twiliey, Knowles and others, pur chased from M. A. Sasnett; one Lot In Sparta, on corner of square on which C. W. Dußose’s residence is situated, containing % acre; one lot between said corner lot and said Dußose’s residence, containing % acre. AH said Lands lying in said County, and all other property belonging to said Mon tour Company. Terms—One-half cash; the other half credit 12 months, with mortgage on pre mises; interest at 10 per cent. GEO. W. WAI KINS, E. F. COTHERN, SAMUEL A. PARDEE, nov6-tilmarl Stockholders. CHEAP CARPETS 1 nnri YARDS NEW and BEAUTI- X.UUU FUL INGRAIN CARPETS, just opened at 50c. per yard. 1 AAA YARDS NEW INGRAIN CAR- AjYNJV/ PETS at 60c. per yard. Handsome, CARPETS of all other grades at prices to suit the times. NEW WINDOW SHADES -AND WALL PAPERS 1 AAA NEW CLOTH SHADES of all LjV/A/v/ the latest designs and colors, and of all sizes, at prices from $1 upwards. 5 AAA rolls new wall pa jUUU PERS, just opened, Hand some and cheap, from 12%c. to Fine Golds, so low as 50c. Call early and select, at JAS. (i. BAILIE & BRO.’S, SOS Broad Street. nov2B-tf APPLETON’S AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA NEW REVISED EDITION. ENTIRELY REWRITTEN BY THE ABLEST WRITERS ON EVERY SUBJECT. Printed fro m New Type, and Illustrated with several Thousand Engravings and Maps. The work originally published under the title of THE NEW 'AMERICAN CYCLO PAEDIA was completed in 1863, since which time, the wide circulation which it has at tained in all parts of the United States, and the signal developments which has taken place in every branch of science, literature and art, have induced the editors and üblishers to submit to an exact and thoro ugh revision, and to issue anew edition en titled THE AMERICAN CYCLOPAEDIA. Within the last ten years the progress of discovery in every department of knowl edge has made anew work of reference an Imperative want. The movement of political affairs has kept pace with the discoveries of science, and their fruitful application to the indus trial and useful arts, and the convenience and refinement of social life. Great wars and consequent revolutions have occurred, involving national changes of peculiar moment. The civil war of our own coun try, which was at its height when the last volume of the old work appeared, has happily been ended, and a new course of commercial and in dustrial activity has been commenced. Large accessions to our GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE Have been made by the indefatigable ex plorers of Africa. The great political revolutions of the last decade, with the natural result of the lapse of time, have brought into public view a multitude of new men, whose names are in every one’s mouth, and of whose lives every one is curious to know the par ticulars. Great battles have been fought and important sieges maintained, of which the details are as yet preserved only in the newspapers or in the transient publications of the day, but which ought now to take their place in PERMANENT AND AUTHENTIC HISTORY. 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I have pur chased an unusually complete stock’of MEN’S AND BOYS’ CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS, HATS, CAPS, TRUNKS, VALISES, BOOTS, SHOES, And evervthing pertaining to a first-class Clothing‘Store, and propose to keep my already well earned reputation of being the Leading and Cheapest Clothing House in this section. Yours, truly, H. BROOKS, Oct3o-tf 182 Broad street, Augusta. INSURANCE. EO. BYMMS, Agent, represents the fol \JT lowing Companies, viz: Commercial Union Fire Assur ance Company of London, England, Gross Assets $17,714,578 06 Connecticut Fire Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn.... 877,594 58 Manhattan Fire Insurance Company, New York City.... 700,885 36 New Orleans Fire Insurance Company, New Orleans, La.. 645,566 56 Home Protection Fire Insur ance Company, Huntsville, Ala .. 121,21115 John Hancock Mutual Life In surance Company, Boston, Mass 2,750,000 00 $22,809,835 71 GEO. SYMMS, Agent, No. 221 Broad Street, septl-6m Augusta. Ga. NOTICE. TlfE Arm of S. D HEARD & SON was dls solved on the 18th Inst, by the death of S. D. Heard. The affairs of the firm will be settled by R. W. Heard, surviving partner, who will continue the business in all its branches. nov2B-tf NEW ADVERTISEMENTS!. . _ Splendid Holiday Presents. 11. A. 38R.-A.HE, Successor to F. A. Brahe A > Dealer in "Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silver Ware and Fine Fancy Goods, 306 BROAD STREET, (CORNER OF McINTOSH STREET.) HE has just received, of his own importation, a magnificent line of ENGLISH WATCHES, in gold and silver cases, suitable for Christmas Gifts. An elegant assortment of STERLING SILVER WARE, either In Sets or Single Pieces. _ Beautiful Sets of JEWELRY in the very latest designs, set with CAMEO, DIAMONDS and PEARLS. Avery full assortment of the latest fashion of SILVER JEWELRY worked in charming styles. FRENCH CLOCKS, GOLD-HEADED CANES, STATUARY, BRONZE MANTLE ORNAMENTS, etc., in great variety. A choice selection of JET GOODS. He has a very large invoice of GERMAN FANCY GOODS on the way, which will be the handsomest assortment ever shown in Georgia. nov‘2B 0 BLANKETS!! THE MOST MAGNIFICENT STOCK or BED BLANKETS Ever Shown in Augusta is nowjm Exhibition at JAMES A. GRAY & CO.’S. nov24-tf NEW GOODS AT PANIC PRICES!! OUR BUYER has just returned from New York, where, in consequence of the dull ness of the times and the anxiety of Manufacturers and Importers to reduce their stocks, he h is bought Goods at prices that have no proportion to the cost of producing them. Never before have we been able to offer such a VARIED ASSORTMENI' of DEW AND DESIRABLE GOODS and we have marked them at PRICES THAT PRECLUDE COMPETITION. Wo will offer THIS MORNING: 10 Pieces Heavy Gros Grain Black Silk at $1.60, never before sold under $3.50. 25 Pieces Black Silks from 90c. to $4. 50 Pieces Colored Silk3, including Seal Brown, Navy Blue, Dark Slate and all other desirable shades. These are extra fine quality, and we offer them at prices heretofore unknown for such goods. 600 Pieces Colored Dress Goods, all New Styles, i elud ing Cashmere de Baiges, Picardy Suitings, Melange Suitings, Serges, Diagonals, Plaids, Alpacas, etc., in all colors, at 25c. per yard, worth at least 45c. Seal Brown, Navy Blue, Dark Slate and all other desir able shades in Cashmeres, All Wool Serges, Diagonals, Mohairs, etc A splendid line of New Plaid Dress Goods, in the moat desirable colors and patterns. JAMES A. CRAY & Cos. nov2l-tf (april 27ctly) "-■I.V.L'rTTL . * -g' , ■■■i-_ 1 - 9- - - im WILLIAM PENDLETON. HUGH H. PENNY PENDLETON & PENNY, PROPRIETORS OF THE PENDLEIUM BOARDMAN FOUNDRY MACHINE Augusta, Georgia. Patentees and manufae- turers of the Georgia Cotton Press, furnish to order Steam Engines and Boilers, Saw Mills, " ° list Mills, Flour Mills, Horse owers, Tin esh- ” ing Machines, Pumps, Iron Railing, Water nii liiii iiii* i'Whee 8, Gin Gearing all sizes; Cotton Presses for Hand, Horse and Water Power. Repairing neatly executed in any part of the country. sep3o-thsattu3m S SAVINGS BANK, IV O. 233 BROAD STREET, Cash Capital SIOO,OOO (with Stockholders Liability v TRANSACTS A General Banking, Exchange and Collection Business. 5 Per Cent, allowed on DAILY balances, (Subject to CHECK AT SIGHT. Inter est allowed on Time Deposits as may be agreed upon. T. P. BRANCH, President. J. T. NEWBERY, CA.SH LER. N. B.—Draw SIGHT DRAFTS on Great Britain and Continental Europe n sums of £1 and upwards janl2-ly* Patronize Enterprise. J AM PREPARED to build to order, and will keep In stock— One and Two Horse Wagons, Carts, Drays, Cotton and Grocery Trucks, One and Two Horse Harrows and Wheelbarrows. Also, One and Two Horse Wagon, Cart and Dray Harness. One Horse Wagons a Specialty; And have now in store THE LARGEST AND BEST STOCK of the above ever offered In the market, all of which I will sell as LOW or LOWER than the same class of Goods can he laid down from any other market in the country. I desire to call the attention of Builders to the fact that I am prepared to furnish Wood Work for the above at short notice and low prices Give me a call before buying. J. 11. LOWRY, nov9-tf Corner Campbell andJEllls streets. J AMES W. TURLEY, ILL OPEN TO-MORROW FOUR CASES OF NEW PLAID CALICOES, A FRESH LOT OF GERMAN BEAVER CLOAKS, And a New line of Ladies and Gentlemen’s UNDERWEAR. And would respectfully solicit his Country friends to call on him when thev visit Au ffik sr/eilr that theywUl ,eoel '’ e better valua ,or tbei ssiif v ha i &p' ’ OctSl-sutu&th iSeptia-rtte)