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Ci)C Constitutionalist.
Oldeal Democratic Pape*' in Georffia.
J. r7raNDALL, Editor.
AUGUSTA. Or A..-.
I
Friday Morning, January 12, 1877.
CURRENT TOPICS.
About half of Boston’s $500,000,000 of
property is said to be mortgaged.
Xne fashionable theatre of Boston, the
Globe, is closed on account of bad business.
The Alexandria Gazette says that the in
fluence of the whipping post as a punish
ment for petty crimes has been so benefi
cial in Virginia that its use has spread to
nearly every county in the State.
I do care for the poor colored man of the
South.— [Gov. Hayes.] You want to put
him up another bank; don’t you Governor?
Mackey appears to represent nobody
save the members of Hayes’ “Southern al
liance.” When he tells the people that
“Hayes loves the South” It is very evident
that he is either an innocent dupe of the
Ohio tax-sharp or an oily agent of the Re
publican conspirators.— Courier-Journal.
Gen. West, of Wisconsin, says; “When
1 hoar a soldier say that he voted as he
shot, I set him down as a narrow-minded
bigot, a hospital bummer, or a fellow who
shot himself to the rear at the first sound
of conflict.”
Ex-Governor Kellogg sent; for: dinner
He pMC lor enough for seventy. It was
awaited anxiously. Seventy noses were
pressed against the window panes and
seventy pairs of anxious eyes watched the
street along which the dinner must come-
At last it came in sight, borne along by a
dozen waiters. Joyful smiles lighted up
the faces of the watching seventy. But
alas! their smiles soon faded out. The
crowd saw the waiters approaching with
the dinner. They spotted it, as Radical
grub, and proceeded to confiscate it im
mediately. They disposed of that dinner
in short order. The unhappy seventy were
compelled, along with the rest of those im
prisoned in the State House, to dine upon
pies and peanuts.— N. O. Times.
fctewed hare ala mode: Skin, trim, draw
and cut in pieces two hares, saving the
blood; insert small seasoned shreds of
larding in the pieces; put in a stewpan
four ounces or butter with four ounces of
salted pork cut in squares; fry five
minutes, add the hare, fry five minutes
longer, drain off most of the grease, add a
pint of red wine and a pint of broth, and
salt, pepper, a bunch of parsley and two
bruised cloves of garlic; garnish with two
carrots cut in small piece* and a dozen
small onions browned in frying-butter;
then boil, cover and simmer gently until
thoroughly done, when, with a skimmer,
drain and dish up the meat and garniture;
free the gravy of its grease, thicken with
the blood (if you prefer, use a little flour),
and add a few small bits of butter; mingle
by tossing the stewpan vigorously, at the
side of tho fire; add a few drops of vinegar,
boil no more; pour over the meat and serve.
Manchester Guardian: Edinburgh has
been put “under the microscope” by a com
mittee of the Established Church Presby
tery, with a view to ascertain the extent of
drunkenness in the city, and what mea
sures the Church ought to adopt as a re
medy for the evil. They have ascertained
that in 1875, out of a population of 200,000,
2,152 persons were arrested for being drunk
and incapable, and 4,972 persons charged
with crime were drunk. Whon apprehended.
'XUo tou.l tur U,e year was 6.821. nt wh'oh
number 4,070 were men and 2,748 women.
They further state that during the last live
years drunkenness among women had in
creased in Modern Athens 36 per cent., and
among men 33 per cent., while the number
charged with crime and found drunk when
apprehended was greater last year than at
any former period In the history of the
city. But their report is not all shadow,
and to relieve the gloom of these figures
they assert that they had found no proof
of an assertion sometimes made that a sys
tem of tippling during the day, both among
men and women, was on the increase; and
they state also, as a favorable circumstance*
that drunkenness among skilled workuidh
was much less prevalent than it was fifteen
or twenty years ago.
Lucy Hooper : Americans, whether resi
dents of Paris or passing sojourners, are
seldom or never admitted to the charmed
circle of the Foubourg St. Germain, unless,
indeed, some American heiress expend
some large portion of the paternal savings
in purchasing a title with a husband tacked
on to it; the most wretched use, by the
way, to which a wealthy American girl
could put her money. If she has managed
to secure that very costly article, a repre
sentative of one of the great old families
of France, she forthwith disappears into
tho depths of the hallowed race of which
she has become a member, and Yankeeland
and its scions know her no more. Of these
marriages—these barters of French coro
nets for American coin—a sad chapter
might be written. One of the oldost of the
American colonists recently remarked that
lie had known thirteen marriages of that
nature, and that not one had resulted in
happiness for the wife. In several instances
there was a second establishment to be
kept up out of the wife's dowry, and as
American ladies are not used to that style
of proceeding, a certain amount of “on
pleasantness” immediately ensued. So I
would say to all American women of inde
pendent or prospective fortune, buy paint
ings, statuary, diamonds, laces, poodle
dogs, parrots or trained cats if you will,
but do not, oh! do not, lay out any portion
of your wealth in the purchase of a nice
little French nobleman with a curly mus
tache and black eyes, and a divine way of
putting on his gloves and of twiddling his
cane. Any respectable American who can
bring to the altar a heart full of honest love
for his future wife,as well as lifelong habits
of chivalrous respect for womanhood in
general, Is worth a whole army of counts
and barons, ticketed, “For sale to the
highest bidder.” Ay, even though he may
t.hew tobacco, talk through his nose and sit
with his heels higher than his head on oc
casions. He, at least, would never remark,
as a certain noble marquis was once pen
eively heard to say, “An heiress in the last
stages of consumption-what an exquisite
> ision! And the dear creatures have at
least one merit-they are not in the least
lypocritical or reticent in expressing their
views. None of them profess to be madly
enamored of their future brides; on the
contrary, the amount of the dowry, and
the nature of the securities in which it is
invested, and the prospects of the lady’s
future inheritance are all minutely can
vassed and rigorously settled beforehand.
enerally the noble bridegroom stipulates
that a certain amount of income shall be
allotted to him for his own use, independ
ent of his wife, said arrangement being
very convenient to facilitate to support of
the second establishment to which I have
already alluded, and which forms so prom
inent a feature in the domestic life of the
upper classes of France. Sometimes his
countship insists on an ample income being
settled upon him, in case of his wire dying
jofore him. for the term of his natural life.
And invariably, the bride has to pay very
dearly for her new title and a life of pros
pective wedded unhappiness. But, then
what bliss to wear a coronet on one’s hand
kerchief, and to have the liKe embossed on
visiting cards and note paper, and to hear
one s-seif cafied “Mme la Comtesse” or
Mme ! a Baron ne” by lackeys and trades
peopie? Surely, if there be any lot on
Tf h A h . at Bensible woman ought to covet,
iit is this—it is thlsJ”
Stand up for the Right.
The leaders of the Southern Democ
racy are anxious for peace and averse
to war, but they love liberty more than
office. They are for peace, if peace
cin be secured and the rights of the
States maintained; but they are not
willing to promise in advance that, un
der jio circumstances, would they join
ia resisting the foul conspiracy to
usurp the Government and destroy
Republican institutions. In all the
earnestness of their nature, these
leaders proclaim, as the Constitution
alist has done over and over again,
that no greater blunder was ever com
mitted In politics than to embolden the
Revolutionists and discourage our-
Northern allies by the assevera
tion that, under no circumstances,
could we be brought into the conflict.
We are dealing with a band of despe
radoes who mean to usurp all power,
unless they are made to understand
that it is not safe to attempt it. It is
not the duty or part of the South to
urge the fight; not ours to inaugurate
or instigate it; but it certainly is nei
ther our duty nor our policy to invite
our friends of the North to a degrad
ing submission to the most gigantic
wroDg ever attempted in a country
where the ballot was allowed. What
pen can depict the folly of inviting ag
gression by giving notice in advance
that we are prepared for submission ?
No people ever deserved or perpetuated
their liberties by such untimely abdi
cation of their rights.
Let us not be misunderstood about
this.
We do not favor the South’s leading
in the matter of resistance, if resistance
must come ; but we certainly do not
endorse the suicidal policy of discour
aging our friends who are ready to re
sist, if necessary, the overthrow of
Constitutional Liberty. We would not
have the South itself aggressive ; but
we would avoid the responsibility of
emboldening the bad men at Washing
ton, led by Camebon, Chandler and
Morton, by putting them upon notice
that they can safely consummate their
uefarious purposes.
We learn that as soon as it was
doubtful where the South stood, the
conspirators took new courage. If the
South would not support the Demo
crats of the North, why should those
Democrats insist upon Mr. Tilden’s
inauguration at all hazards? If the
South is to stand coldly by and see the
men who aided us in securing political
triumph overwhelmed and defeated,
well might the Northern Democracy
hesitate and the audacious Republican
leaders take fresh courage. Let our
people be calm, but firm and united.
In this connection it is opportune to
quote the ringing words of George W.
Julian, ia a speech on the Bth of Janu
ary before the assembled freemen of
Indiana. He said:
“Are we to sit quietly by while the
Republic is Mexicanized by the Sena
torial junto ol mallgnants who have
so lonct kept, themselves In the front by
making the lato war tho harlot of their
ambition? Shall we patiently submit
to an act of open lawlessness, and seek
our relief in its moral effect upon the
people in sweeping the Republican
party out of power four years hence?
If we cravenly tolerate this rape of
American liberty to-day, shall we have
the manhood in 1880 to confront the
kindred outrages it would certainly
provoke ? Why wait four years for a
remedy when we hold it in our hands
now, through the Congress of the
I nited States ? Why talk about an
appeal to the ballot for the redress of
our wrongs hereafter, if we allow it to
become a cheat and a lie to-day?
Shall the people’s will, constitutionally
expressed, be defeated and defied by
an organized crusade against the very
principles of Republican Government ?
These questions can neither be post
poned nor evaded. The crisis compels
us to ponder them in seeking an hon
orable way out of the dreadful dilemma
in which the country is placed. Not in
submission to flagrant acts of tyranny,
but in resistance, must we expect our
deliverance. Senator Morton and his
fellow-conspirators tell us that the
President of the Senate will count the
electoral vote and declare the result,
and that, if need be, it will be enforced
by the army and navy. This is simply
a threat of revolution. Aie we ready
to avow our willingness to acquiesce in
it for the sake of peace, and thus in
vite the very mischief we deplore, by
offering it impunity ?”
Mr. Julian puts the case fairly and
squarely before the American people—
more especially the Democracy’of the
East and West. The true response of
the South may be found in tho letters
of Gov. Brown, Senator Gordon and
the message of Gov. James M. Smith.
The mass-meeting in the city of
Washington, on the Bth inst., was but a
forerunner of greater thunder. Tho
people of this country who elected
Tilden President mean that he shall
be inaugurated on the 4th or sth of
March.
The Baltimore Gazette welcomes
Lonqstreet back to the cause of hon
esty and decency, whence he has so
long wandered astray.
All who desire some very interesting
and lively reading may wade through
the Supreme Court reports published
on our first page.
i ■ m
Captain Eads, having opened the
mouth of the Mississippi, the New
York Sun suggests to him, while en
gaged in that section, to try if he could
not “manage to open the mouth of J.
Madison Wells and make him tell
how much he and his associates have
been paid by Zach Chandler for
counting in Hayes.”
—
Anent the trip of Mr. Wheeler to
Ohio t© talk the matter over with Gov.
Hayes, the Philadelphia Times says:
“What a blessing It would be if, after
putting their heads together in prayer
ful consideration of the situation, they
should reach the conclusion, in which
they have been anticipated by the
great body of the people, that they
have not been elected. Should they
come to *this determination, they
would be happier and better men and
the country would soon be at peace.”
The Political Situation.
Mr. Watierson, M. C., from Ken
tucky and editor of the Courier-Journal,
has written a remarkable letter to his
paper from Washington. He sketches
the Radical conspiracy and its master
spirits with graphic power, showing
that the plot has lost nothing of Its
vigor and the movers of it none of their
determination. Indeed, some recent
events at the South have given aid and
comfort to the enemy. We give Mr,
Watterson’s conclusions a conspicous
place. They are as follows :
“The people must act for themselves.
Without their support the House of
Representatives is powerless. A cor
poral’s guard may disperse it. The ar
rest of half a dozen of its members
would demoralize it. Anything, every
thing is possible to those who oppo3e
themselves to the conspirators. But
"nless the people act there will be no
ueed of violence on the part of the
conspirators. They will proceed with
out regard to precedents or facts with
their plan to put the defeated candi
date for President in the White House,
leave Congress to pursue its policy of
impotent protest, and, having weather
ed the sth of March, say with compla
cency to such a question, ‘What are you
going to do about it?’
‘.‘ls there no peaceful remedy? I
think there is. There is the right of
petition, which, adequately presented
and urged, becomes a power. The Dem-
ocrats do not Include civil war in the
list of their resources. Civil war is not
a red-tape affair. It does not come in
the regulation way. Nor is it likely to
happen ever until all the peaceful meth
ods for the redross of grievances have
been exhausted. The Democratic party
plants itself upon the law and the facts.
It declares that the vote of no State
shall be counted without the consent
of both houses of Congress. No State
vote has ever been or ought to be.
Since the foundation of the Govern
ment to the present time, including the
evidence furnished by the Republican
leaders themselves, all authority sus
tains this position. On it the Demo
cratic party plants itself, and means to
stand until it is driven off at the point
of the bayonet. It is for our peo
ple to determine, therefore, whether
this shall be done. If they will
rise in their might, and, exercising the
peaceful right of petition, memorial
ize the Senate to do its duty, to do
that which every Republican member
of the Senate is committed to, and will
send a hundred thousand petioners to
Washington on the 14th of February
to present the memorial in person,
there will be no usurpation and no
civil war. The conspirators will be
thwarted. There will be Republicans
enough in the Senate to defeat them,
and we shall have the Presidential
result settled by well-established Con
stitutional methods. Otherwise those
Republican Senators who wish to do
right, seeing that the country ia going
to submit too, and we
shall drift into anew era of popular
discontent the end of which no man
can see.
“ The Convention called to assemble
in Louisville on the 18th should con
sider these things. There is little com
plexity whatever in the situation. All
that I have written here may be re
lied upon with absolute assurance. It
is no pleasure to write such things ;
but they should be written simply and
distinctly. If the Convention wishes
to do something, let it take ground
firmly, not noisily, for the joint right of
the two Houses, fortified as it is by all
precedent; and having thus memoral
ized the Senate, let it provide for the
presence of at least ten thousand un
armed Kentuckians in this city on the
coming 14th of February. Less than
this will be of no avail. So much,
supplemented as it will be by other
States, will secure through civil agen
cies the peaceful settlement of the
most dangerous issue that ever men
aced the existence of a free govern
ment.”
Explanatory.
The publication of tho Governor’s
message, and the editorial concerning
it, yesterday morning, was in direct
contravention or misapprehension of
orders. The editor of this paper feels
bound to say so much, in justice to
himself and Governor Smith, as well as
in fairness to his contemporaries of tho
press. Wfiile we believe in enterprise,
we do not wish to claim it in an im
proper way.
Some of the Washington correspon
dents predict that Grant contemplates
a patriotic stroke in favor of justice,
which will disconcert the Radicals
The Richmond Dispatch viewing Grant
as an enigma says :
“The extraordinary man has not yet
finished hiosketch of himself. The un
finished part may have surprises. We
believe that the ingratitude of his par
ty will assist to fill up the measure of
his future mortification. But. what do we
know about him even now ? He is ma
licious; but he is resentful. There is
no telling what he may or may not do.
Even now we believe that if General
Grant was convinced that the party
for which he has borne and usurped so
much—the party which he has abso
lutely kept alive—were ungrateful for
what he has done, and had no respect
for him, he would do something before
he parts with power that would re
venge him thoroughly for the mon
strous manner in which he has been
requited. And yet we shall not be
surprised at anything he does or does
not. His conduct cannot be forecasted
from any rule of life that is applicable
to him.”
In the House of Representatives, the
other day, Mr. Mills, of Texas, offered
as a resolution the plank In the Re
publican platform of 1860, which as
serts the right of each State to self
government, and denounces “the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil
of any State or territory, no matter
under what pretext, as the gravest of
crimes.” No less than 82 so-called Re
publicans voted against the resolution,
thereby preventing its passage. The
Radicalism of to-day seems to be dif
ferent from the Republicanism of 1860.
Prof. Orr, Slate School Commissioner.
Among the duties of the present
General Assembly will be that of elect
ing a State School Commissioner, the
term of Prof. Obr ending the present
month. We believe it is the wish of
the entire people of the State that he
should be reappointed. He is one
most earnest and intelligent workers in
the cause of education we have ever
had in Georgia. He devoted eight
months of last year to the business of
travelling from point to point making
public addresses to the people aud
thereby removing many prejudie?&
and objections urged against public
schools. He has developed the sys
tem so that it is now worthy ’of
support, while his plans for the
future will add greatly to the success
of this important matter. It seems to
be generally admitted that his expe
rience and qualifications for the place
are superior to those of almost any
one within our limits and we express
the wish of all we have heard give ex
pression to their opinion, in sayings e
confidently hope for his re-appoint
ment.
The Presidency of the Senate and
Speakership of the House could not
have been more worthily bestowed
than upon Rufus E. Lester and Augus
tus O. Bacon.
We had a most pleasant call yester
day from Captain E. G. Dill, managing
editor of the Charleston Journal of
Commerce. Captain Dill is a thorough
journalist and will make his paper a
grand success. - -
MARRIED,
On the 4th instant, by Rev. Robt. Irvine,
D. 1)., at the residence of the bride’s father,
in Oglethorpe county, Ga., Mr. Wm. Stew
art, of Augusta, Ga., and Miss Julia E.
Callaway.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Social Lodge No. 1, F.\ and A.*. M.‘.
1 THE REGULAR MONTHLY Commuica
tion of Social Lodge No. 1, will be held at
Masonic Hall THIS (Friday) EVENING, at
7% o’clock.
By order C. W. Harris. W.\ M.\
WM. H. CRANE,
_ i anl2 -l Secretary.
Make Your City Tax Returns.
CITY ASSESSOR’S OFFICE,)
January 2d, 1877. j
ALL PERSONS LIABLE FOR CITY
taxes are requested to come forward and
mako return of their property.
The Ordinances requiring returns to be
made before tho Ist of February will be
strictly enforced. , *
Office hours for taking returns from nine
o’clock, a. in., to one o’clock, p. m.
J. S. PATTERSON,
jan3-tf City Assessor
Sch. neck’s Pulmonic Syrup, Sea AJTeed
Tonic, * i.
AND MANDRAKE PILLS.—THESE DE
servedly celebrated and popul ujwnedicines
have affected a revolution in the heal
ing art, and proved the falla zy of several
maxims which have for many years ob
structed the progress of medical science.
The false supposition that “Consumption is
incurable” deterred physicians from at
tempting to find remedies for that disease,
and patients afflicted with it reconciled
themselves to death without making an ef
fort to escape from a doom which they sup
posed to be unavoidable It is now proved,
hr.wever, that Consumption can be cured,
and that it has been cured in a very great
number of cases (some of them apparently
desperate ones) by SCHNEOK’S Pulmonic
Syrup alone; and in other cases by tho
same medicine in connection with
SCH NECK’S Sea Weed Tonic and Man
drake Pills, one or both, according to the
requirements of the case.
DR. SCHENCK himself who enjoyed un
interrupted good health for more than
forty years,was supposed at one time to be
at tho very gate of death, his physicians
having pronounced his case hopeless, and
abandoned him to his fate. He was cured
by the aforesaid medicinos, and, since his
recovery, many thousands similarly affect
ed have used Dll. SCHENCK’S prepara
tions with the same remarkable success.
Full directions accompany each, making
it not absolutely necessary to personally
see DR. SCHENCK unless patients .wish
their lungs examined, and for this purpose
he is professionally at his principal office,
corner Sixth and Arch streets, Philadel
phia, every Monday, where all letters for
advice must be addressed.
SCHENCK’S medicines are sold by all
druggists. jan3-we-frl&suntiilfebl
noticl:,
Augusta, Ga., January 2,1876.
I HAVE this day disposed of my entire
stock of DRUGS, MEDICINES and
8 TORE IIXIURES to Messrs. BARRETT
it LAND, to whom I cheerfully recommend
my friends and former patrous.
F. D. KENIUCK
HAVING purchased the stock of Medi
cines and Fixtures of F. D. Kenrick,
wo propos; conducting a first-class
RETAIL & PRESCRIPTION DRUG STORE
At hi? old stand, opposite tho Planters
Hotel, where we wili keep constantly on
hand a full supply of Pure Drugs, Medi
cines and Chemicals.
Special attention will be given to the Pre
scription Department, and the public can
feel assured of having their Prescriptions
carefully prepared of pure Medicines and
of full strength.
We have placed Mr. F. D. Kenrick in
charge of our business at this store, feel
ing that his long acquaintance with the
business in all of its details will insure a
liberal pat ronage.
Prescriptions prepared at all hours, day
and night, and on Suuday.
jan9-tf BARRETT A, LAND.
war AMHOOB
HI RESTORED.
gl Hi Victims of youthful imprudence, who
have tried in vain every known remedy,
BB H will learn of a simple prescription, FKKE,
M Ha tor the speedy euro of nervous debility,
■ decay, lost manhood, ana ail
1 I ■ ■■idisorders brought on by excesses. Any
druggist has the ingredients. Address
DAVIDSOiV A: CO. 8G Nassau St,, N.lf.
CHEAP HOMES.
Desirable so-acre farm, situated
at Belair, eignt miles from Augusta
and one and a quarter miles from Georgia
Railroad. Fish pond of 2 acres, 7 acres in
wood, 8,000 strawberry plants, 300 young
fruit trees, a large vegetable garden, house
with one room, kitchen with two rooms,
log house 21 x 19, with shed and stables.
Also 25 acres of wood land adjoining tho
above. For further to
jan7-su&tulm Real Estate Agent.
TO THE PUBLIC T
IT Is not generally known that we are
prepared to do a general RETAIL BUS
INESS- We beg leave to announce to our
friends and the public generally, that we
are fully prepared to fill any order that we
may receive, and will do so promptly and
on the best of terms. In our stock will be
found every ar tide wanted by the house
wife. farmer, planter, physician—in fact,
complete.
BARRETT <ft LAND
dec3l-tf 270 Broad street.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
AN ORDINANCE
TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE FIXING
THE SALARIES OF CITY OFFICERS
FOR THE YEAR 1577.
SECTION I. Be it Ordained by the City
Council of Augusta, and it is hereby or
dained by the authority ol the same, That
from and alter the passage of this Ordi
nance, the Ordinance fixiDg and regulating
the salaries of city officers lor the year
1877 be amended by striking out the words
“Twelve Hundred Dollars” alter the words
“City Sheriff nnd Assessor of*ihe city or
Augusta,” and substituting in lien thereof
the words ‘Five Hundred Dollars per an
num, and the fees allowed by iaw to the
City Sheriff.”
Bec. 11. And be it further Ordained, That so
much of all Ordinances and parts of Ordi
nances as are in conflict with this Ordi
nance, be and the same are hereby repealed.'
Done in Council this 10th day of January,
A. D., 1877. JOHN XL MEYER,
Mavor C. A.
(L. S.) Attest: L. T. BLOME,
jan!2-l Clerk of Council.
AN ORDINANCE
TO AMEND AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED
“AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE
LVlth CHAPTER OF THE CITY CODE
OF AUGUSTA.”
Sec. I. Be it Ordained by the City Coun
cil of Augusta, and it is hereby ordained
by the authority of the same. That from
and after the passage of this Ordinance,
the Ordinance eutitled “An Ordinance to
amend the LVlth Chapter of the City Code
of Augusta,” adopted January Ist, 187<, be
amended by striking out the word ‘next,
after the words “Second Saturday in Jan
uary,’’ and adding in lieu thereof the words
“Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-seven,
so as to provide that said Ordinance shall
go into effect on and after the second Sat
urday in January, 1877. „. .
Seo. 11. Andbe it further Ordained, That so
much of all ordinances and parts of oidi
nances as are in conflict with this ordi
nance, be and the same are hereby repealed.
Done in Council this loth day of January,
A. D., 1877. jno. U. MEYER, *
Mayor C. A.
(L. S.) Attest: L. T. BLOME,
jan!2-l Clerk of Council.
AN ORDINANCE
TO AMEND AN ORDIN ANCE ENTITLED
“AN ORDINANCE TO ABOLISH THE
OFFICE OF CITY ASSESSOR.”
Seo. I. lie it Ordained by the City Coun
cil of Augusta, and it is heieby ordained
by the authority of the same, That from and
after the passage of this Ordinance, the
Ordinance eutitled “Ail Ordinance to abol
ish the office of City Assessor," adopted
January Ist, 1877, be amended by striking
out the word “next” after the words
“Second Saturday in January,” ann insert
ing in lieu thereof the words “Eighteen
Hundred and Seventy-seven,” so as to pro
vide i hat said Ordinance shall go into ef
fect on the second Saturday iu January,
1877.
Seo. 11. And be it further Ordained, That so
much of all ordinance and parts of ordi
nances as are iu conflict with this ordi
nance be, and the same are hereby re
p6ftl6(l
Done in Council this 10th day of January,
A. D., 1877.
JOHN U. MEYER,
Mayor O. A.
(L. S.) Attest: L. T. BLOME,
janl2-t Clerk of Council.
ANNUAL ELECTION
—OF—
CITY OFFICERS.
OFFICE OF CLERK OF COUNCIL, I
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 10, 1877. j
THE ANNUAL ELECTION of City Offi
cers will take place at the meeting of
Council, to be held on SATURDAY, Jan
uary 13th, 1877, at 7:30 o’clock p. m.sSThe
following officers are to be elected:
Assistant Collector and Treasurer..... 1,000
Chief of ‘Police* 1,200
First Lieutenant of Police 1,000
Second Lieutenant of Police 9 )0
Orderly Sergeant of Police 780
Four Sergeants o* Polio (jeach) 720
Thirty P. ivates of Police, at the rate
of SSO per month each (aud to pay
for then uniforms by. monthly in
stallments.
Two Bo 1 Tower Men, at the rate of
$45 per month each.
Two Mounted Men for the New Terri
tory (to be mounted and uniformed
at their own expense), at the rate of
$67.50 per month each.
Cemetery Watchman, at the rato of
SSO per month.
Keeper of the City Hall TOO
Keeper of the Jail (with his Turnkey) 800
Keeper of the Powder Magazine anil
Basin Guard*. COO
Keeper of the Bridge and WhaiTingei* 1,000
Keeper of the City Clock, payable
quarterly 150
City Sexton. Cemetery Keeper and
Brick Mason 1,000
Assistant Keeper of Colored Cemetery 450
Superintendent of Streets and Drains 1,000
Superintendent of Freedmeu’s Hos
pital 500
Clerk of the Lower Market, (with liis
Deputy)* 1,000
Engineer of the Augusta Water Works
and City Surveyor* 1,000
Assistant Engineer and Superinten
dent of Pumps 600
Two Lamplighters (First and Seoond
Divisions) each* 1,000
Superintendent of Canal (with use of
dwelling) 400
Canal Wharfinger* 500
City Sheriff and Assessor of the city of
Augusta SSOO per annum, and fees allowed
by law to the City Sheriff.!
City Attorney 1 000
Inspector and Measurer of Wood* ...Fees
JWF-Vendue Masters will bo elected at the
same time.
*s*Those marked with an asterisk (*)
are required to give a bond.
#*Candidates must hand in their appli
cations by 12 o’clock m. of the day of elec
tion. L. T. BLUME,
janil-3 Clerk of Council.
“TO LOAN,”
SIO,OOO. SIO,OOO. SIO,OOO.
APPLY TO
M. HYAMS, REAL ESTATE AGENT
janll-2
“HOUSES WANTED.”
REAL ESTATE OWNERS having prop
erty not rented, can procure good pay
ing tenants by commuuicating with the
undersigned, who has considerable num
qer of ordors for Houses in all parts of the
city. M. HYAMS,
janll-5 Real Estate Agent.
FIRE INSURANCE !
CAPITAL AND A5E1110,000,000.00.
Full ludeinuity Agaiibt Loss to Policy
Holders iD
Aetna Fire Insurance Cos.
OF HARTFORD.
Phoenix Fire Insurance Cos.
OF HARTFORD.
Girard Fire Insurance Cos.
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Howard Fire Insurance Cos.
OF NEW YORK.
Amazon Fire Insurance Cos.
OF CINCINNATI.
State Fire Insurance Cos.
OF NASHVILLE.
Union Marine & Fire In. co.
OF GALVESTON.
RISKS written on Mills, Factories, Build >
lugs. Merchandise and Cotton, at
fair and Equitable Rates. Call for infor
mation, on
D. R. WRIGHT,
Insurance Agent,
14 Jackson St. opposite Warrenßlock,
aug!s-6m
JUST RECEIVED,
A. FRESH Supply of Pickled PORK and
FULTON MARKET BEEF, by
declO-tt JAS. G. BAILIE <fe BRO.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
a year, agents want-
ED on our Grand Combina
tion Prospeetus, representing
150 Distinct Books
wanted everywhere. The Biggest Thing
ever tried. Sales made from this when all
single Books fail. Also, Agents wanted on,
our MAGNIFICENT FAMILY BIBLES.
Superior to all others. With invaluable Il
lustrated Aids and Superb Bindings. These
Books beat the World. Full particulars
free. Address JOHN E. POTTER & CO.,
Publishers, Philadelphia. ___
a week in your own town. Terms
toOO and ssoutfit free. H. HALLET <&
Cu., Portland, Maine.
ADVERTISING in
CANADIAN NEWSPAPERS
SI for 25 cts.
SEND FOR OUR CATALOGUE
ON THE LIST PLAN.
For information, address
GEO. P. ROWELL & CO. 41 Park Row
__ NEW YORK.
dtjl 4) A DAY at home. Agents wanted.
Outfit and terms free. TRUE &
CO., Augusta, Maine.
Y EXTRA Fine Mixed Cards, with
AlO name, 10 cents, post paid. L. JONES
& CO.. Nassau, N. Y.
vUi \ Cl a Week to Agents. Sam
i pies Free. P. O. VICK
ERY, A ugu&fcL, Maine.
A MONTH to active men sell
v/V/ ing our Letter Copying Book.
No press or water used. Sample copy
worth $3 00 free. Send etamp for circular.
EXCELSIOR M’F’G CO.. 99 Madison, and
132 Dearbon street. Chicago.
)A P er day at home. Samples
IMOO Kpiiiv/ worth $a free. STINSON
A CO., Portland, Maine.
Newspaper Advertising Agents.
10. P. ROWELL & CU.,
II PARK ROW, N. Y.
rriHEY have the satisfaction of controll-
X ing the most extensive and complete
advertising connection which has ever
been secured, and one which would be
hardly possible in any other country but
this. They have succeeded in working
d-.wn a complex business into so thorough
ly a systematic method that no change in
the newspaper system of America can es
cape notice, while the widest information
upon all topics interesting to advertisers is
placed readily at the disposal or the pub
lic.— Extract from New York Times, Jane
14, 1875.
Send for n Circulnr.)
janlO-tf
FORTUNE FOR SMALL AMOUNT.
Texas ! Texas ! Texas !
Best land in the world i 640
Acres, 040 Acres for $125. Texas Land
Warrants. Absolute titles, allowing six
teen years to locate same. For further
particulars apply to M. HYAMS,
deelO-suJktulai Real Estate Agent.
PRICES REDUCED
—AT—
C. J. T. BALK’S,
No. 136 Uroml Street,
Half Block above the Lower Market.
IN order to close out all my winter goods
I have reduced the prices on many
goods ta about one-h ilf their former value.
The sale will open on Monday morning,
and continue until all such goods ap I wish
to dispose of, are closed out
No samples will bo given during this
sale. Come early and often and bring all
the money you can spare and invest it
in the best real bargains in Dry Goods ever
offered in this city.
Printed Worsted Dress Goods, a splendid
article for ladles’ hou-e dresses, at
woith 25c.; double width Water Proof
Cloth, in black and brown, at 50c; White
Union Flannel at 15c; yard wide Shaker
Flannel, very heavy, at 30c. and 40c ; heavy
Cotton Flannel 10c.; plain colored Cash
meres ami De aines at 20c.; Black Alpaci
at 25c.: Fine Silk Finishes Black Alpaca
at 35c. to 50c. per yard. Blankets and
Shawls at a great sacrifice; row style La
dies’ Trimmed Hats at half price; Calicoes,
fast colors, from Ode.; II mespuns, in
bleached and brown, from sc; remnants of
all kifds nearly given away. A call at No.
136 Broad Street will satisfy you that this
is no humbug.
C. J T. BALK.
jan7-tf
s ai d eti B S ddi
KjTD. M. FEBBY i CO., Detroit) Mich.
Abridged Priced Catalogue FREE to all Applicants.
decz4-iast wDeclreoaziiwJaiiMur.
NOTICE TO GRANGERS.
THE Savannah River Association. P. of
H„ will hold its regular semi-annual
meeting at City Hall, iu Augusta, on
Wednesday, 2lth inst All Grangers in'er
ested will send delegates.
EDWARD A. CARTER,
Sec’y Sav. R. Ass’n, P. of H.
_ jans 2taw3wd-w3w
The Augusta Gilding.
Looking Glass & Picture Frame Factory
Old Frames Regilt to Look Equal to New.
Old Paintings Carefully Cleaned,
LINED AND VARNISHED.
NO. 40 JACKSON STREET.
PICTURE FRAMES made at reduced
prices. Have reduced the price as low
as any place in the United States. Regild
ing old Picture Frames a specialty, at one
half the old price. Old Oil Paintings
carefully restored, cleaned and varnished.
J. J. BROWNE,
mhs-tf Agent and Manager.
Opportune Pactiones
Emoluments Parva.
Those who wish a good Piano,
Finished in the latest manner.
Go to Oates’ Music Hall,
He has styles to please you all.
THE Subscriber has just returned from
the Northern cities, where he has
made an inspection of the principal Piano
Factories and he has completed arrange
ments whereby he can furnish PIANOS,
with makers’ name attached, at as LOW
PRICES as can be sold by any one for the
sameclass of instruments. All assertions
by various dealers that they can or will
sell PIANOS at SSO to SIOO less than others,
is all stuff. All he asks Is a trial. Terms
cash or approved acceptance. Pianos sold
in the country will be delivered free at the
nearest depot, and a competent Tuner sent
to put them up and leave in good order.
Those sold in the city kept in tune one year
fiee of charge. Every Piano warranted.
An assortment of first-class CABINET OR
GANS always on hand. Pianos Tuned and
Repaired. Orders from the oountry punc
tually attended to.
GEO. A. OATES,
240 Broad, St., Under Central Hotel.
declO-tf
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
PACIFIC GUANO CO.
CAPITAL, • $1,000,000!
o
Soluble Pacific Guano
AND
COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE!
FOR COMPOSTING WITH COTTON SEED,
HE CHEAPEST AND MOST POPULAR FERTILIZERS IN USE
INTRODUCED IIV 1805.
o
PRICES IN AUGUSTA, GA.
Soluble Pacific Guano, Cash, ----- - $48.00
Soluble Pacific Guano. Time, with. 13c. Cotton Option, - 00.00
Compound Acid Phosphate, Cash, ----- 30.00
Compound Acid Phosphate, Time, with l3c Cotton Option, - 42.00
Delivered at any Boat or Depot in the City Free of Charge.
Time Sales payable by the Ist of NOVEMBER, 1877, without interest, with options
of pa\ ing in Cotton of a grade not below Middling, at IS cents, delivered at your Rail
road Depot, or any Warehouse of Augusta, Savannah or Charleston.
j'.O. MATHEWSON & CO.,
janl2*3m GENERAL AGENTS. AUGUSTA, GA.
MULLARKYBROTHERS
Are now offering the GREATEST BARGAINS ever seen
in the City in
BLACK SILKS, BLACK CASHMERES,
AND ALSO
BLACK ALPACAS,
250 pieces of wliich we will sell at 25c. per Yard.
O
These goods must be seen to be able to find out their full value. No reduc
tion will be allowed to parties purchasing large quantities, as they have already
been marked at the lowest price—loo pieces eaeh at 40 and 50c. per yard—
which, for quality and finish, cannot be equalled in the city. These goods are
what we advertise them to be—a BARGAIN ; and we would ask all who wish
to purchase such goods to call and examine them. We have just received
25 Cases LADIES’ H ;SE, and also
25 Cases GENTS’ HALF HOSE,
From an Auction Sale in New York, which we will sell at 25 per cent, less than
the same goods were offered a week ago.
MULLARKY BROTHERS,
262 BROAD STREET.
janlO-ct
- ” ” P 'A"’- "I 1 ' 11 ’ . ‘Mm
From this date we will sell CLARK’S SIX
CORD SPOOL THREAD at 65c. per doz., Cash.
W. T. ANDERSON & CO.
SPECIAL AGENTS, AUGUSTA, GA.
Let all Dealers regulate prices accordingly.
SPECIALTIES THIS WEEK:
100 Pair Blankets, $1.25 a pair.
90 Pair Blankets, $2 and $2.50 a pair.
150 Pair 10-4 White Blankets, $2.25.
200 Pair 10-4,11-4and 12-4 Blankets, $2.50 and $3.50, to $lO.
o
5,000 Farmers’ Jeans, prices, 10, 12, 16, 20, 25 and up.
6,000 Yards Canton Flannel, 8,10 and 12c.
7,000 Yards Bed Tick, 8,10, 12, 15c, and
10,000 Bordered Handkerchiefs, 4c each.
8,000 Boxes Anderson’s 242 Soap, 40c dozen.
1,000 Dozen Wamsutta Shirts, 75c each.
200 Sets Alaska Furs, $2 set.
Come Along, Now is Your Time—To the Cash Trade.
W. T. ANDERSON A CO.
deeffi-tf 242 BROAD STREET. AUGUSTA, GA
BUY YOUR
FURNITURE
AND BEDDIKTG
l)e tmvaaps,
147,* 147)£ aQ d Broad Street, Augusta, Ga,
UNDERTAKING
In All Its Branch.es.
Sunday Morning Call at the Store—Sunday Afternoon and Night Calls, 102
Greene Street.
dec3-ct-3m
THE PROPRIETOR OF THE
NEW ST ORE,
H. W. LANDRAM,
NO. 268 BROAD STREET,
. Wishes his many Friends and Patrons a very pleasant Christmas, and this being
the lust greeting for the old year, he returns many thanks for the liberal patronage
given him the past three months and will say that in the future as iu the Daet he will
do all in hisoower to please and give satisfaction.
. , After Monday, he will he r ceiving many new and desirable goods for the season,
which ho will be prepared to sell at prices to please.
j st received, and will open out, on MONDAY MOUSING, lots or New Goods
buitable for Christmas presents, a few of which we will name. 0(13
100 Beautiful New Cloak late styles ad low prices
100 Setts Furs, from cheap to fine, at prices to please
50 Pieces Black Alpacas, Mohairs. Cashmeres, and other new Black Goods
at right prices.
20 Pieces Beautiful Black Silks, the best In the market
50 Pieces New Fancy Dress Goods, at ait prices.
5,000 Yards Cotton Flannels, from 9c. to the best.
5,000 Yards all Wool Flannels, white, etc., from 20c ud
15,000 Yards 10-4 Sheetings, at ail prices.
SPECIAL.
Lots of Notions, Fancy Handkerchiefs, Holsery, Corsets. Ribbons, Beautiful Scarfs
and Fancy Shawls for the neck, and at all prices. ’ 004115
100 Pairs 10-4 Blankets from $2.25 up to the Best.
SPECIAL.
' 10,000 Yards New Prints, from up to the best, at 8a
50,000 Yards Check Stripes, Brown Sheetings, at low prices by tho Dioce
'50,000 Yards Bleach Shirtings, from sc. up to tho best. P
130,000 Yards Kentucky Jeans, from 10c. up.
MERCHANTS will do well to call and seo the above GOODS. All the abovo GOODS
hare been bought at low prices, for cash, and will be sold the same wav
Lookout the coming week for the NEW STORE before buying elsewhere.
H. W. LANDRAM,
dec!7-ct