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AUGUSTA. OrA-.z
Friday Morning. December 15.1876-
J. R. RANDALL, Editor.
The Oldest Democratic Paper in the
Slate of Georgia.
CURRENT TOPICS.
Gen. Huger was formerly a small law
yer in Wisconsin.
Governor Grover, of Oregon, is a native
of bethel, Maine.
•Jildge Black, a Washington correspond
ent notes, looks very much as he did twenty
years ago, except that his wig has become
thin and turned gray.
Eugene A. Cronin, the Oregon elector, is
a native of New York, and considered one
of the ablest lawjers on the Pacific coast.
President Grant says he will have peace
if he has to fight for it. Then, probably,
he will declare that the empire is peace.
Governor Grover, of Oregon, to Govern
or Kellogg, of Louisiana, greeting: “You
know how it is yourself.”— Brooklyn Argus.
If the Democratic House now proposes to
abdicate the power over counting which it
has exercised since 1820, let it immediately
say so, or say the opposite!— World.
As the matter now stands, the fiat of the
Electoral College is irreversible. Mr. Til
den has been constitutionally elected Pres
ident of the United States— Boston Tran
script, Iml.
Captain Bubnaby was asked by his Tur
koman guide, which an Englishman loves
best, his horse or his wife; but the author
answered diplomatically, "That depends
on the woman.”
Reavis, the inspired, defends Boss Tweed
and Boss Shepherd with this villainous
axiom: "Honesty will support a wife and
children, but it takes rascality to build
cities and nations.”
Nashville American: In the absence of
that coveted assassin, we would suggest to
Gen. Grant that he stab himself with a red
herring or cut his throat with a bar of
soap. There is not likely to be anything
more dramatic in the remaining eighty
two days of his administration.
New Orleans Democrat: Grant thinks
Gen. Hampton was guilty of impertinence
in declaring that he would do all in his
power to keep the peace, and at the same
time sustains the liar, coward and thief,
Chamberlain, with the army in a position
to which he has no right.
General Huger tries to make himself un
derstood when he says that the troops in
South Carolina are under the orders of
Chamberlain, and that they have been
placed under his orders by President
Grant.
Albany Argus: Tho blustering hotheads
and fanatics do not speak for the men
whose judgments will now decide the re
sult. The Tribune may as well cool its
heels in the law library of the Senate cham
ber. Its browbeating is unbecoming. A
paper which in no sense reflects the pre
vailing public sentiment ought to stop its
intemperate utterances. Reason will pre
vail ; not force. The Tribune may as well
beat its sword into a spike for one of Jay
Gould’s stolen railroads.
The Albany Argus breaks into indignant
rhvme:
Give us a King! No fumbling round
"Returning Boards,"and such like frauds,
But dash directly to the ground
Freedom and all her household gods.
The soawn of a star-chamber count:
Oh shame us not with hollow forms,
But let some proud usurper mount
Amid a revolution’s storms.
Columbia Register: Bigamist Bowen got
lour votes for United States Senator in the
rump, Elliott got six, the ex-Governor
took water and adjourned, and the Con
necticut civilizer, “Munchausen,” carried
off the prize! Now, we’d like to know what
sort of a showing South Carolina would
have in the Senate with any of that crew
and “Honest John” representing her?
Washington Union: A distinguished cit
izen, who has enjoyed the friendship and
intimacy of the best men in the best days
of the Government, is in the habit of speak
ing of events which took place before the
present party came into power as having
happened "in the days of the Republic.”
“And pray what, Mr. , do you call these
present evil times ? The days of the Em
pire.'’’ a friend. “No; the days of
toe vampire,” was the prompt rejoinder.
Baltimore Gazelle: The Eliza Pinkston
sensation was a failure. The “Northern
heart” did not “fire,” nor its blood curdle
at that clumsy and palpable fraud. It was
not possible to get at the facts at the dra
matic examination before the Returning
Board. But now Eliza Pinkston is under
judicial examination and cross-examina
tion. All the horrid particulars can now
be gotten at officially. The organs do not
■use them, however, because they wouldn’t
“lire the Northern heart” worth a cent.”
New Orleans Democrat: If Gen. Grant is
not addicted to lying, the army officers he
employs to do his dirty work in South
Carolina, are a set of fools. After Phil
Sheridan had tumbled the legal members
of the Louisiana House of Representa
tives out of their hall, Grant said that
Sheridan had misconstrued his orders,
but not being a lawyer, he was not ex
pected to know what he was doing. Now,
Grant says he never instructed Rcgek to
occupy the South Carolina State House
with troops, but that was the way Huger
understood the order. Are Grant and
Sheridan and Huger a trio of asses who
are unable to understand each other ? No
All three of them have been lying; they
know what they are doing, and they un
derstand each other perfectly.
Mr. Reid, the St. Louis gentleman,
whose extraordinary private letter from
Chas. O’Conor about Gen. Grant got into
the papers, rises to observe, in the way of
a personal explanation: The letter was
loaned by me to a gentleman, with permis
sion to show to his friend; and the viola
tion of the sanctity of conlidenee by its
publication was a culpable breach of honor
that is totally inadmissible of explanation
or excuse. There are opinions expressed
in private, both by Church and State, let
alone those of individuals, which have ever
been held sacred, in aecordance with the
principles of intrinsic integrity, from all
violation, though the real sentiment has
never been concealed. As the letter was
strictly private and never intended for the
public, the betrayal of confidence reflecting
on me is of far greater injury than the
publication of the expression of an opinion |
which has been entertained and reiterated
by thousands, and the responsiblity for
which, if there be any, must fall, to-day,
on a majority of 300,000 of the American
people.
Courier-Journal: Grant takes a pride in
his own ignorance, so it is not likely that
he knows who Cromwell was. He has,
nevertheless, succeeded in imitating that
soldier of fortune very closely in every re
spect, except an extravagant display of
piety. For instance, Hutchinson, the his
torian, says of Cromwell: “He at last
exercised such an arbitrary power, that the
whole land grew weary of him, while he
set up a company of silly, mean fellows,
c riled major generals, as governors in
every country. These ruled according to
their own wills, by no law but what seemed
good in their own eyes, imprisoning men,
obstructing the course of justice between
man and man, preventing right, through
partiality, acquitting some that we guilty,
and punishing some that were innocent as
guilty.”
Senator Randolph and Ulysses S.
Grant.
Senator Randolph takes up the
thread of the Presidential interview
where Mr. Hewitt left off, and leaves
Mr. Grant in a most pitiable plight.
We quote from the Herald report:
I had said to General Hampton
during my visit to Columbia that if I
could be of any service in bringing
about an understanding between the
Federal authorities at Washington and
the conservative branch of the Legis
lature that I would be glad to do so.
I saw from time to time, through the
public press, how matters were pro
gressing in Columbia, and on Wednes
day last I understood from Mr. Hewitt
that a majority of the constitutional
number of the South Carolina Legisla
ture had given their adherence to the
conservative body. I telegraphed Gen
eral Hampton during Wednesday as to
the political situation. His reply came
to me about six o’clock p. m., and was
in these words:
Hon. Iheodore', [F. Randolph, Washington,
D. G:
Everything is going well. We ask that
the troops be removed and the decision of
the Supreme Court be respected. This will
bring peace and harmony. If our House is
recognized all trouble will be over.
Wade Hampton.
Earlier in the day I had received a
dispatch from Gen. Hampton asknowl
edging the receipt of a letter writtfeu
to him on Monday, wherein I Had stat
ed that Mr, Hewitt’s understanding
with the President was that no House
would be recognized uutil sixty-three
members holding certificates of the
Board of Canvassers had gathered in
one body. Gen. Hampton closed this
dispatch in these words:
Try to get recognition from authori
ties. All going well.
With these two dispatches in my
hand, and with my understanding of
the President’s interview with Mr.
Hewitt on Sunday, I deemed it my
duty to call upon the President and
make known Gen. Hampton’s request
in behalf of the conservative Legisla
ture. As Mr. Hewitt had given me the
original information as to the Presi
dent’s interview, I requested him to go
with me, which he did. Senator Conic
ling happened to bo in the dining room
of the hotel at the time of my receiving
the dispatch quoted fully before. I
submitted it to him, and asked his
opinion as to submitting it to the Pres
ident. He quite agreed with me that
it was desirable so to do, and suggest
ed that I take with me the dispatch re
ceived earlier in the day, staring that a
majority of the constitutional members
had been convened in one House. It is
due to Mr. Conkliug to say that the
whole conversation with him occupied
but a minute or two.
Mr. Hewitt and I reached the White
House between seven and eight o’clock
and were shown into the President’s
private parlor, where the President and
his family and the Secretary of War
were assembled. I stated to the Presi
dent that we called to give him some
information which I had received from
South Carolina and to show him a dis
patch I had received from General
Hampton. Before I had read any por
tion of the dispatches he turned to Mr.
Hewitt and complained pretty warmly
of the misinterpretation of his, the
President’s, expression as given on
Sunday. This conversation lasted some
minutes, and when I supposed the
President and Mr. Hewitt had come to
an understanding as to what each had
said, I renewed the conversation as to
General Hampton’s dispatch. As soon
as I had read it to the President lie
said with much feeling; “Governor
Randolph, if I were to characterize
that dispatch at all I should say that it
was an impertinence.” To which I re
plied: “1 do not see, Mr. President, how
you could imagine a man of General
Hampton’s character seeking such
methods of offending you, His whole
course for months past has been one of
prudence, temperance and patience,
and it is hardly to be conceived that,
at this juncture of affairs, he would
seek to offend the Chief Magistrate,”
I also assured the President that I was
perfectly convinced that Gen. Hamp
ton’s purpose was to convey to me as
clearly as possible within the brief
limits of a telegraphic dispatch just
what the situation was and how the
public welfare might be promoted ;
that he probably had no idea I would
hand the dispatch over, and that I cer
tainly had no idea, as no one else had
who had seen the dispatch, that it in
tended to convey any covert meaning
or anything more than the solicit
ous expressions of an anxious man,
sincerely desiring to promote the pub
lic welfare. I also said to the Presi
dent that if he would bear in mind that
the dispatch was not to him, but was
one from one friend to another, he
would probably see that his interpre
tation of its spirit was not a fair one.
He replied that in this view of the
matter perhaps I was right. The con
versation turned upon what constitut
ed a constitutional quorum of the
Legislature, Mr. Hewitt and myself
contending that the Mackey House
could not possibly be recognized, inas
much as it did not have a majority of
members holding certificates either
from the State Board or the Supreme
Court.
The Secretary of War expressed the
opinion that a number less than one
half of a legislative body might, under
given circumstances, constitute a legal
quorum. I made reference to the fact
in talking to the President that the
Conservative House in South Carolina
not only had a majority of all the
members holding the certificates of the
State Board of Canvassers, the same
Board that gave the Hayes electors
their certificates, but that, in addition
to this, seven or eight members held
credentials under order of the Supreme
Court of South Carolina. To this re
mark the President promptly replied
that he did not think the Supreme
Court of South Carolina had anything
to do with the matter; that they had
overstepped their functions, and that
he did not propose to recognize their
authority in the matter. I expressed
some surprise, and said to him that if
the decisions of the highest court of a
State were not to be accepted in mat
ters pertaining alone to a State, I could
not understand where our anchorage
would be, and I therefore begged of
him to reconsider this opinion as to the
authority of the Supreme Court.
The remainder of the conversation
was as to the general election, the loy
alty of the Hayes States and disloyalty
of Tilden’s as has been substantially
stated in previous publications. The
President did not seem to have any
doubt as to the validity of the electo
ral votes of Florida and South Caroli
na. He was not so decided in his ex
pressions as to Louisiana, but thought
the report of the Republican commit
tee sent by him to that State would
carry great weight with the people of
the country.
A special to the Courier-Journal
from Washington represents that
Grant is eager for war, and that Til
den is unterrified. Mr. Tilden is no
coward or trimmer. Having been
called by the people to this position of
high trust, he is ready to go to the
front. He says he has not long to live,
and is willing to accept the personal
risks of defending the couise of the
people, and that if they are stricken
down by military despotism, it
shall not he his fault.
Grant’s latest slogan: “Let us have
war,”
A Disappointment and Its Author.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
admits that the Centennial year, with
the exception of the big show at Phila
delphia, has been a grievous disap
pointment. It began with a gush of
sentiment; it ends with bitterness and
distrust. Earnestly seeking the cause
of this calamity, the Republican editor,
who favored Haye9 during the canvass,
but abhors the trickery of Grant and
Chandler, thus fixes the responsibility.
“It is to Mr. James G. Blaine, more
than to any other man or hundred of
men, that the disappointment of a
whole nation, this year, is owing.
Congress met and the year opened in
serenity. But on the 10th of January,
Mr. Blaine, in full war-paint, stepped
iQto the arena with his Andersonville
speech. The country was astonished.
The speech was made under the cover
of an intent to extend the scope of am
nesty. But it was so worded, and, as
the event has plainly shown, intention
ally so worded, as to exasperate every
Southern man on the Congressional
floor. It was followed up by him with
speeches equally violent and hostile.
“ People wondered why. The oc
currences which have followed leave
no reason to doubt why. It was in
pursuance of a deliberate purpose to
revive political antipathies for personal
ends. It was an attempt to revivify ex
piring and almost buried enmities, that
Mr. Blaine might be borne by them
into the Presidency.
“And the scheme nearly succeeded.
The passions of the North were skill
fully calculated upon. The war-drum
beat and the bloody shirt waved. And
it was only by the breadth of a hair
that the Republican party escaped put
ting this man at the head of a cam
paign to whose whole subsequent
character he had given tone.
“And who is the man who camo so
near being the nominee, as he has in
fact been the real engineer of the era
of strife and virulence through which
we are passing? A man then and now
under investigation by the popular
branch of Congress for malfeasance in
the third highest office of the
nation. A man believed by mul
titudes to be proved guilty of such
malfeasance. A man who thousands
believe has sworn falsely again and
again in his own defense. A man who
many feel (if perjury be indeoil a
crime) would better adorn the stone
yard of Thomaston’s penitentiary than
Maine’s Senatorial chair.
“Among whatever other and various
causes may have contributed to the
disquiet and disappointment of this
year of which so much was hoped, it is
certain that the origin and spring of a
larger portion than any other is tracea
ble to the criminal ambition of one man.
It is seldom that a nation can see so
promptly whom to execrate for its un
happiness.
“Mr. Blaine has caused an anxiety
and disappointmentjwhich it is not of
ten permitted one man to inflict upon
a whole people. He has done an evil,
for which it is the extreme of modera
tion to say no good he can do can ever
possibly atone.”
If the Eastern and Western Dem
ocray have any grit, let them show
their teeth in indignation meetings.
The “rebels” in whom Grant has con
fidence are Longstreet, Mosby, et
al.
If Ben Hill really said that Hayes
would not be a bad President for the
South, he probably has an eye to that
position in Hayes’ Cabinet which Mr.
Lamar would not take.
One of the Columbus papers re-pub
liahes an account of the Delano Ban
quet, where Ben Hill said he was no
Democrat.
A Washington correspondent of the
Herald says Grant’s frank announce
ment that he “represents” the Republi
can party caused a feeling of disgust
on the Republican side. There are
men on that side who mean to use him,
but even they do not like him to speak
out so cynically.
The Springfield Republican, with a
quiet smile, announces that the “ex-
Coßfederate House” of “rebel briga
diers” passed the appropriation bill
providing pensions for Union, soldiers
and their families.
An intelligent gentleman, who ordi
narily takes very little interest in poli
tics, said to a correspondent, after
reading Grant’s statement, “Ho ac
cuses the rebels and the foreigners of
giving Tilijen 300,000 more votes than
Hayes received.”
We once heard a gentleman, who
knew Jim Bennett well, predict that
Mr. B. would never marry, in spite of
all rumors to the contrary. He gave
very potent reasons therefor.
Judge Bond has discharged the South
Carolina Board of Canvassers, on the
ground that the State Court had no juris
diction over them. But from what source
does he derive his jurisdiction to make the
discharge— N. Y. Herald.
He derives his authority from Grant,
who does not know any law and “does
not care a damn” for it.
The South has but to remain passive
and be justified by events. Our ene
mies are consecrating the war we waged
for Constitutional Liberty, by proving
that the conspiracy against the Union
was really North of Mason’s and Dixon’s
line.
A World correspondent writing from
Washington, says : “ The fact is, the
Southern members constitute to-day
the most conservative element in Con
gress. Few of them anticipate that
any disturbance will result from the
Presidential complications. They are
united in agreeing to leave ths North
ern Democracy to take the initiative-
They have no policy of their own to
carry out further than the maintenance
of peace and the upholding of the
laws. Great confidence is expressed in
Governor Tilden’s firmness and sa
gacity, and it is thought that the
Democracy could have no better
leader in a crisis like the present. In
this view the Southern Democrats are
sustained by the Western ami North
ern members.”
Bond knows as well as anybody that ho
has prostituted his court to the purposes
of Grantism, and that his work will not
bear revision on appeal. lie rests his hope
of reward on what is to conrt hereafter.—
Baltimore Gazette.
If he rests his hope on what is to
come hereafter, he had better buy a
linen duster and palm leaf fan. The
jurisdiction is pretty hot hereafter for
such chaps.
The Northern Democrats and the
foreign-born citizens, who helped crush
the South and make Grant President,
have the satisfaction of knowing that
Ulysses hates the one class worse than
he does “rebels,” and sneers at the
other class as something below the
negro grade.
The Herald rather concedes the in
auguration of Hayes. Whereupon, the
Eurpress wants to know if Bennett’s
§25,000 bet explains that ttop-ovor. The
Herald will be for Tilden, in a day or
two. It has been for and against
Grover, of Oregon, within a week.
Numbers of clever Radical writers
are now employed in attempting to
show that Hayes will abandon Grant
ism, if elected, and prove a good
friend to the South. The South is
much obliged, but she does not take
any more stock in Radical lies.
It is reported that Foster Blodgett
is preparing a detence of his Mayoralty
in Augusta, and claims that he left
matters in a much better condition
than they are at present. Probably
will come out simul
taneously with a similar document
from Boss Tweed.
The war against the Southern Con
federacy was „undertaken to bring the
revolted States br.ck into the Union on
equal terms. Now that a Democratic
President has been elected by the aid
of the South, Grant & Cos. propose to
falsify the objects and results of the
war. Ha! Ha!
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Social Lodge No. 1, F.\ and A.-. M.-.
A CALLED COMMUNICATION OF
Social Lodge, No. 1, will be field at Masonic
Hail THIS (Friday) EVENING, at 7%
o’clock, for the installation of officers elect.
By order S. F. Webb, W. M.
WM. H. CRANE,
and eel 5-1 Secretary.
Dividend No. 1, in Series No. 2.
Office Augusta Real Estate and )
Building Association. v
Augusta, Ga., December 14, 1876.)
A DIVIDEND OF SIXTEEN DOLLARS
per Share ou the capital stock in Series
No. 2 was declared this day by the Board
of Directors, and will be payable on and
after the 13th instant.
Also, a Semi-Annual Dividend of Four
Dollars per Share on the capital stock in
Series No. 1 was declared, payable on and
after the 15th day of January, 1877.
E. R. DERRY, See. and Treas.
decls-frsasuAtu
DIVIDEND No (35.
Georgia Railroad and Banking Cos. i
Augusta. Ga., December 12, 1876. j
A DIVIDEND OF THREE DOLLARS
per Share on the capital stock of tills Com
pany was declared this day by the Board
of Directors, payable on the 15th day of
January next.
No transfers of Stock will be made for
ten days from this date.
GEO. P. BUTLER, Cashier.
decl3-wef rsu&we
NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, )
Augusta, Ga , 9th December, 1876. j
An election will be held at this Bank on
TUESDAY the 9th January next, between
the hours of ten and twelve o’clock for
seven Directors to serve for the ensuing
year. G. M. THEW, Cashior.
declo-su4
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
AIR. EDITOR, PLEASE ANNOUNCE
Air. C. A. FLEAIING as a candidate for
Sheriff of Richmond county subject to
the ratification of the Democratic Conven
tion. MANY VOTERS.
decl2-td*
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
Dlt. ROBT. AI. McNAIli WILL BE sup
ported lor Tax Collector of Richmond
county, subject to the ratification of the
Democratic Convention, by
declO-td MANY VOTERS.
FOR OIIDI.VVRY KiOHNONU COUNTY
MAJ. A. H. AIcLAWS IS A CANDIDATE
for Ordinary, subject to nomination by the
Democratic Convention. nov7-tf
Mr. Editor :—PLEASE ANNOUNCE
JAMES T. BOTUWELL as a Candidate for
Ordinary of Richmond County. Subject to
the ratification of the Democratic Conven
tion. MAN V. FRIENDS.
MR. EDITOR: -PLEASE ANNOUNCE
JAMES E. HARPER, Esq., as a candidate
for Ordinary of Richmond County, subject
to the ratification of the Democratic Con
vention.
aug23-tf MANY VOTERS.
THE FRIENDS OF MAJOR WM. E.
EVANS desire his nomination by the Dem
ocratic party of Richmond County, for
Ordinary.
THE FRIENDS OF COL. C. V. WALKER,
desire his nomination by the Democratic
party of Richmond county for Ordinary.
aug6-tf MANY VOTERS.
THE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFULLY
announces himself as a candidate for re
election to the office of Ordinary of Rich
mond county. SAMUEL LEVY.
julyßo-td
THE NAME OF JOHN B. POURNELLE
is announced as a candidate for the office of
Ordinary of Richmond county, subject to
the nomination of tho Democratic party.
ang4-tf
WITHOUT DOUBT
Bright Prospects for the Future.
SAMUEL J. TILDEMF NEW YORK,
AS President of the United States, com
mercial conlldenee will be immediately
restored, and business of every description
will progress very rapidly; and with
TIBS. A. HENDRICKS, OF INDIANA,
As Vice-President, the population of Geor
gia will be doubled in the next four years,
as the Empire State can offer greater in
ducements to emigrants and capitalists
than any other Southern State, and as ad
ditional security, in having
Alfred H. Colquitt
As Governor, taxes will be reduced, the
credit of the State protected. In accord
ance with the above facts, Real Estate
offers the greatest inducements for invest
ments, the same having now touched bot
tom. Invest immediately, and in a few
years you will find yourselves millionaires.
Call and examine the large stock of valua
ble Real Estate I am offering for sale in
this State and South Carolina.
M. HYAMS.
decls-su&tulm Real Estate Agent.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Our stock of Medium and Low-Priced CLOAKS will be found to surpass
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For Fine Black and Colored Silks, Black ;and Colored Cashmeres, and
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Parties desiring to make handsome and useful CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
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300 BOXES
Fire Crackers
AND full assortment of Fireworks of
every description, at as low prices as
can be bought any where else in this city.
C. HUNEKEN,
254 Broad Street, Under Globe Hotel.
declS-frsuAtu
FOR SLAE.
GO ihD.
A LSI) Augusta Factory Stock. Port
A Royal K. R. Guaranteed Bonds.
WANTED,
Georgia R. R. Stock, Gas Company
Stock, Ice Company Stock.
All other securities bought and sold on
commission. Apply to
M. J. VERDEKY A CO.,
decls-2 47 Jackson Street.
STOLEN.
ALL pe* sons are warned against trading
for the Checks given by Messrs. Ben
son &, Morcier on the National Bank of
Augusta, dated December 13th, 1876, and
numbered as follows: Nos. 3,778, 3.779.
3,730. These checks have been stolen, with
a considerable sum of money, for which a
suitable reward will be paid.
J. C. Davis,
Lewis Chiles,
decls-2 Tom Robinson.
THE MERCHANTS’ AND MINERS'
Transportation Company!
ON and after 20th December steamships
of this company will ply between
Savannah and Providence, It. 1., direct,
taking freight ami pns9engers at low rates
to Providence, Fall River, Lowell, Boston,
Pawtucket, Lawrence and nil the manu
facturing towns of New England. Shippers
by this line avoid delay and the extra
handling of their cotton incidental to ship
ments by indirect routes.
All shipments should be consigned “Via
Merchants’ and Miners’ transportation
Company, from Savannah.” The steam
ships of this company plying with Balti
more will continue as heretofore, leaving
Savannah every Thursday.
JAS. B. WEST A CO , Agents.
174 Bay St., Savannah, Ga.
E. H. ROCKWELL, Agent,
decl4-lw Providence. R. I.
QS"! ) A DAY at home. Agents wanted.
Outfit and terms tree. TRUE i;
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THE
PIANO-HARP ORGAN!
A BEAUTIFUL and Charming Combina
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separately or in connection with either or
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MOUNT VERNON HOUSE.
FOR the accommodation of Transient
Boarders, 159 Walker Street, Near
Union Depot, Angusta, Ga. Meate can be
had at all hours. The best accommodation
to travelers, and those desiring to stop In
our city for a few days.
decl3-wfrsulm MRS. E. J. ELLYSON.
A Duplicate Invoice of the New and Fashionabla CLqak
which were Closed out Last Week, will arrive by E Xp
on Tuesday, which for Style, Quality and Cheapness
be Equaled in the City.
A Job Lot of “EUGENIE” 2 BUTTON KID GLOVES ha
just arrived, and will be Sold at 75 cents per pair->
offered before for less thin $1.25 —all the Newest and m
Desirable Shades. Also a full line of ALEXANDER’S l
2 BUTTON KIDS have just been received, at
MULLARKY BROTHERS,
262 BROAD STREET
nov26-ct
13 DAYS’ WONDEK!
—AT—
W. T. Anderson & Go’s
COMMENCING MONDAY MORNING, DEC. 11th. AND
ENDING SATURDAY NIGHT, DEC 23d.
WE WON’T give prices this time, though every one who h;.s visited our fer
ment heretoforet will know what we mean, viz: LOW PRICES Fv ■ V
mentioned is less than market value—Regular SLEDGE HAMMER PRICES.
Undervests, Corsets, Cuffs and Collars, Gents’ Collars
Buttons, Hooks and Eyes, Coat Binding, Ladies' Ho*- '
Pins, Ribbons, Note Paper, Misses’ R,
Needles, La.es, Envelopes, Gents’ Half H
Thread, EdgiDg, Hair Pins, Gents’ lies
Silk, Handkerchiefs, Linen Floss, Gents’ Scarfa
Hair Brushes, Velvet, Pocket Boots, Gents’ Glove-
Combs, Tooth Brushes, Bracelets, Cardinal Ties’
Braid, Embr’d Sacques, Gloves, Silk Hanike-' hief-
Tapes. Bootes, Collar Buttons, Balbrimran HoJ ’
Machine Needles, Wool Mits Cuff Buttons, Betts, *
Red 1 lannel, Bleached Shirting, Gingham, Cassi’meres
White do. Brown ishirting, Lindsey, Cottouades’
Twilled do, Bleached Sheeting, Drills, Dress Goods
Opera do. Brown Sheeting, Jeans, Alpacas
Plaid do. Mattress Tick, Kersey. Cashmeres
canton do. Feather Tick, Water Proof, lieLiines.’
Oil Clotu. Stripes, Italian Cloth, Silks.
Our celebrated Wamsutta Shirt, at 75c.
Furs, Muff and Cape at $1 95.
Harris’ Seamless 2 button Kid Gloves at $2.
Harris’ Donna Maria Kid Gloves at $1 25.
Jouvin’s Kid Gloves at Si.
Alexander’s Black Kid Gloves at 50c.
TO THE CASH TRADE,
W. T. A.\DERON & CO.,
nov26-tf 242 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA,
GREAT EXCITEMENT
EVERYBODY OX THE LOOKOUT!
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CHRISTMAS ALMOST HERE ! CHRISIMAS PRESENT
ALL THE GO ! THE PLACE TO GET THEM :
L.. RICHARDS’
AUGUSTA DRY GOODS STORE! 1
YITHERE you will find the most magniticent stock of Dry Goods and Notions in
” ▼ city. Dress Goods of ever description, from the linest to the cheap**?: in a,, ’
new colors. Black Goods-Crape Cloths, Bombazines, Henrietta Cloths, CV m --
and Alpacas —from the finest to the lowest prices. C.iiieoes. best make?, from 8
Miscellaneous—Furs from fine to $2 per set. Cloaks from fine to $2 each, .-haw..- _
fine to 23c. each. Ladles’ Neck Ties—a great variety—from the finest to beautiful
silk at 25c. each. Belts of every kind, from the tine Zone Belt to iu<>. each. Hand
chiefs. Embroidered Silk Hemstitched, from th * finest to the Jowe?t prices.
Neck Ties. Bows and Scarfs--the newest styles and colors. Gents’ Handker
Linen and Silk, from the old fashioned Bandana to the cheapest. Gloves fur G-:>.
Ladies and Children great variety. Gents’Cotton Flannel Drawers of the W mat
rial, made in s su(ierior manner. Gents’Merino Shirts and Drawers from hi.- to
each. Ladies’and Misses’ Merino Undervests and Pantelettes from fine to 3uc. :
Doyle sand Napkins from fine to 50e. per dozen. Towels from fine to 6 l 4 c. each, hi
Damask from line to the lower grades. ’Aurkey Red Damask, a superior art. .e, ‘
per yard. Turkey Red Table Cloths, beautiful designs, all sizes. Piao< Covci?. jm.' ■
fully embroidered, ail colors. Bedspreads from fine M reeilles to 75c. ea
Blankets from the finest to the lower grades. Flannels, all kinds and price. O:
Flannels fr< m the fine English to 10c. per yar* 1 . Cloths—Cassimeres, Waterpr • -
J, 01 ’ Fredericks Cassinii-res, at the lowest prices. The “Wencfe” l’erfuair?
i oilet 1 reparations. Extracts -Colognes. Florida Water, etc.—the lies' iu i:~*. 1
fumers and Atomizers. A Lady’s Toilet not complete without one Fancy Article.
Jewelry, Necklaces, Snuwl Pins. Scarf Pins, Hair Pias, Hair Brushes, Tooth Hr..-
Coinbx, Satchels. Pocket Books. Razor Steel Scissors. Machine Needles, aud tk -=a
of articles, all at the lowest prices All Domestic Goods at Factor *- Prices by the pi*
...... MOTTOi NOT TO RK UNDERSOLD! '
Ula friends anil customers from the countrv will please give me a call befor* c •
ing purchases elsewhere. I will guarantee U> do better by them than I could w.
conne ted with the Fredericksburg Store, as I am nowall alone aud expen- ? •> K-'
deal less. J hose at a distance, that cannot visit the city, send for samples, and ret
your selections irom the best stock in the citv, at the lowest prices. Will pay all L\; -
Charges to your nearest depot when your order amounts to $lO and over, at Retail
Cash, or the Goods to be sent C. O. D. Please send your orders direct, as 1 will tw
great pleasure in filling them, whether small or large.
RICHARDfS.
PROPRIETOR OF THE AUGUSTA DRY GOODS STORE,
’ 209 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA. GA.
~nvl ■ (next door to Jas. <4. Huili** A K r ' _
STAMHVU cm
$
OF THE
CITY COUNCIL OF AUGUSTA,
AND
BOARD OF HEALTH FOR 1876-7.
FINANCE—SibIey, Young, O’Donnell.
Clark.
STREETS AND DRAINS-Young, How-
TMAr Md, Stovall, Evans.
i.OLlCP—Howard, Evans, Stovoll Philin
HOUGHTON INS J IT UTE—Stovall, Young]
hompson, O’Donnell.
BRIDGE, RIVER BANK AND WHARVES
Hiompsou, U’Dounell, Bennett,
PI ™Sn A S D WELLS-Bennett, Thomp
son, Daniel, Clark.
ENGIN ES-Philip, Hill, O’Donnell, Thomp-
SOUTH COMMONS—Bennett, Sibley, Hill
Daniel. ’
TUKKNETT SPRINGS AND WATER
Daniel, Thompson, Hill,
llAl{ tovair EvanM ’ UowarJ . Bennett,
HEALTfllciark, Thompsorn, Daniel,
Sibiey, Evans, Bennett.
i a\ip Thompson, Daniel, Pniiip, Clark.
gaw* P t ~XP ung ,’ Daniel. Howard, Evans.
hospital lo va v’ l h,lip> . Evaus * sible >’-
Hoii^* Evan8 * Stoval1 ’ Bennett,
D °K“V’MJp, Evans.
MAGAZINE AND MILITARY- Daniel,
un ,,J uompeon, Young, Hill
SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS Hill
RAII i!iu a iK o uDvans, Bennett.
RAILROAD^—Howard, O’Donnell, Young.
SPECIAL WATER WORKS-O’DonnelL
~n iS ibley, Young, Clark. ’
O J D^r^ b,oy ' PhiUp < Stovall,
OOAIfD OF HEALTH.
1 Phili n IL Clark > Thompson, Dan-
FIRS m^ A S.L^; T ’ Bothwel1 ’ J ’ W * Dess-
SECOND WARI>— -Dr. T. B Phlni/v 7
John M. Clark.’ 2
1 “ DeS - Ford > R. A. Flem
-1 ° Dr Wm C °* lQ ’ W ' D - Bowen *
Win. Mulherin. declQ-3
O. W. HAKKIS FRANS BLAISDELL
HARRIS & BLAISDELL.
BROKERS,
NO. 219 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, GA,
rpRANSACT a General and StricUy C- v
X mission Brokerage Business.
Buy and sell Stocks, Bo ads and Reai
tate in city or country.
Make or change Investmrnts.
Loans, collect Notes, Drafts, Coupons, n •
Rents, etc., etc.
And attend promptly to all business -
our line entrusted to our care.
Doing business strictly for
enables us at all times to give our i
ers full advantage of best market prio r
We hare Correspondents at all 1
cities and points throughout the •
and solicit a share of the patronag
having business in our line.
BEFEB BY PKRMISSI OS W
W.E. Jackson, President of the Na> u
Bank of Augdsta, Ga. .
H. H. Hickman, President of the fl*®
Augusta, Augusta, Ga.
H. B. Plant, President of the Souther a
press Company. New York. u '
The Augusta Hotel
IWE undersigned having J 1 * %
. and well-known . Hotel Uro.'- j
Broad street, takes this occjision 1
his friends and the public at. larg' .
has thoroughly reiittsd. (■
enlarged the building, and will l
the reception of guests, on
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER ®
He flatters himself, that
and a faithful discharge of duw
guests, warrants him
will ever go away from his house
His terms shall be in acoon - u
the times. o .tela
tar Give the old Auguste 1
under the management.
C. R. ° propi wte'
dec3-U r