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CON HTIT U TION ALIST.
ATJGHJSTA. QA.
THUKSDAY MORNING. JAN. 20,1870
HOW THE TEST MAY BE MADE.
The consummation of Reconstruction in
the South is very desirable. So long as
the South remains as food for the monster
of Radicalism, he will never try his fangs
upon the North. When the South shall
have ceased to furnish any more nutri
ment, necessity will compel aggression
elsewhere, and then the i*eal danger of the
dominant party will begin. Mr. Sumner
and the extremists knew very well that so
long as Reconstruction remains as an open
question in the South, the Radical party
will continue to thrive. While disruption
is maintained, the issues of the war and
the everlasting slogan of “loyalty” can
be used with tremendous effect among the
ignorant, stupid and sensitive masses
East and West. Hence it is the ultra wing
of Radicalism has never yet made an hon
est effort to restore the Union, and never
will. The leaders of this ultra wing do
not wish to push their experiment into the
loyal States if they can avoid it, and they
do not intend yielding their grip upon the
South while she can be made useful as a
sort of target at which to fire their arrows
of loyalty. Just as Bullock keeps up agi
tation in Georgia in order to subserve his
own selfish schemes, and the schemes
of the men whose emissary he is, so
the potential Radical chiefs perpetuate
chaos over all the South iu order to blind
the people to their evil designs. Now It is
getting important to us that Southern Re
construction should be finished up. We
confess to a longing to see the job finally
•ettled, so that the beast which has been
ravening upon us shall be forced to seek
victims in other States beyond. This he
will be obliged to do sooner or later, and
the sooner the better for everybody. When
he shall have laid his claws upon a State
unused to such vileness, the drama will be
come interesting indeed, and the end of
beastliness or the end of liberty will soon
be brought, lo a solution. Senator Mor
ton, in anticipation of this time, has
already enunciated his doctrine iu the
premises. He reduces it to a maxim, thus:
“ The power of Congress to establish republi
can institutions in the insurrectionary States
of the South is not les% than the power to pro
tect republican institutions all over the Union."
So, When Kentucky, Maryland and New'
York are to he taken in hand, we .shall not
hear of the “establishment of republican
institutions,” but the “proteetion of repub
lican Institutions.” This “protection”
will probably take place in case one of the
States of the North refuses to abide by a
bogus XVth Amendment ratified by fraud,
force and infamy. Speaker Httohman, of
New York, lias already dared Congress to
count New York among the ratifying
States', and, from the following extract of a
speech delivered in Congress December 20,
by the Hon. John T. Bird, of New Jersey,
we have articulate mutterings which may
swell into a storm. Mr. Bntn said :
“I tell the majority not to suppose that
their unholy purposes are accomplished
when they have passed this bill and com
pelled poor Georgia to go under the yoke.
Thiuk not. that all others will fear the grim
visage of Radicalism and also bow the neck
in humble submission. No ; if I under
stand the temper of the people, this strange,
unnatural, and outrageous interference with
the rights of a free people will never he ac
cepted by those who sincerely love a con
stitutional form of government honestly
and faithfully administered. You may ap
pend this change to the Constitution, but
the people of many States will neither re
spect nor obey it. It will be denounced as
illegitimate, and those who stand as its
sponsors to-day will in the hour of its peril
flee from its vindication. It will be
and resisted. Great and sovereign States
will not yield to an Intolerable degradation
at the dictate of force, whether it he aimed
at them through a Congressional majority
directly or through the action of afar off
State.”
Let. us suppose the XVth Amendment de
clared ratified. Suppose Kentucky, for
example, in spite ofit, should refuse to per
mit her negro population to go to the polls.
Some of these debarred blacks may make a
case. Then the Courts of Kentucky will
pronounce the Amendment unconstitutional
and void. Congress, in such an event, must
perforce “ protect republican institutions ”
in the State of Kentucky. Troops must
be sent there aifd Kentucky must be
coerced. When the Federal soldiery have
to protect republican institutions in
every reluctant State there will be a
high old time in tins country. The mo
ment any loyal State has to be overrun
with bayonets there will happen one of
two things—an “ unpleasantness” which
will end in sweeping Radicalism and all
its deviltry from the face of the earth, or
an abject submission to tyranny which
will ultimately prove the South’s aveuger.
Hence, in order that the test may be made
in another locality, and, in order that, being
made, it shall have the prompt effect of
causiog a revolution or an universal des
potism, we are anxious that Reconstruc
tion shall he, as soon as possible, a finished
thing in the South. Had we fctood aloof
since the close of the war, the test would
have been made long ago and the whole
matter concluded. Our puny, piddling in
terferences have played into the enemy’s
hand and furnished him his best ammuni
tion. Now, let the good men of the State
stand clear from a villainy they cannot
prevent. When all is doue here, and there
Is nothing more left for loyalty to fatten
upon, let those growing boys, who so
frighten Beast Butler's dreams, put their
ears to the ground and listen for thunder
on the border.
Eligibility of Georgia Legislators.
—One of the Senators of the Georgia Legis
lature, whose eligibility is contested, has
submitted to the military board convened
to inquire into the facts his protest against
such inquiry, on the ground that it is not a
legally constituted body ; that it has no
legal jurisdiction over the question, which
belongs to the civil courts alone, and that
because of his having been registered a
voter and declared such by General Meade
his eligibility to vote and hold office was
recognized and admitted by the Govern
ment of the United States. The protest is
quite lengthy and is very forcibly written ;
but it will avail nothing. It is a great pity
that reconstruction in Georgia cannot be
successful!v consummated without resort
to military tribunals. The Governor of the
State and his clique are not satisfied with
the political complexion of the Legislature.
They are determined that the majority
shall consist of men who will do just as
they demand without question. Thus it is
that we find a board of military officers in
quiring into the qualifications of members.
It is a somewhat significant fact, though by
no means a remarkable one, that all of the
representatives whose eligibility is ques
tioned are either Democrats or are Repub
licans opposed to Governor Bullock and bis
followers. —New York Herald.
All Right. —The Atlanta Constitution
savs that Bullock and his gang are “ ex
tremists ” whose overthrow it advocates.
Upon that, we strike
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, January 17,1870.
Among the most notable political occur
rences of the week is, of course, the action
of the House of Representatives in the case
of Virginia, and this is not so remarkable of
itself as the fact that the entire Republican
press of this city sustaiued the minority of
Republicans, who acted with the Dem
ocrats, and thus made a small majority of
the House. The Radical Tribune, the
moderate limes, and the Conservative Post
and Commercial Advertiser , were a unit in
opposing the efforts to longer exclude the
“ Mother of Statesmen and or States” from
her representation in the Federal Congress.
Nothing can exceed the inconsistency of
the Federal Administration with respect
to Virginia. But let that pass. Anew
day dawns upon her.
Does not the easy victory which has
been gained iu this matter over the extreme
Radicals carry us hack to 1865 and 1866,
when President Johnsou attempted to turn
hack with violence the triumphant Radi
cals? Could not power and patronage,
wisely exerted then, have guided and con
trolled, when it was certain to be over
whelmed in a more decided effort? Does
it not now teach the men of the South this
lesson: Never cease the effort to reach
your true position, hut be careful to gauge
each particular struggle to what is practi
cable, rather than to what you may think
just. By consenting to accept temporarily
less than you claim, you do not forfeit any
portion of what may remain. The time is
rapidiy approaching when the South may
take a higher ground*than it has been able
to since the close of the war. Civil rights
restored to her people, and the military sa
trapies abolished (it scarcely matters how
or in what form), parties may be construct
ed on the basis of the public debt aud
finances, iu the course of which the old in
habitants of the South, white aud black,
will be drawn together by an irresistible
impulse.
Another notable development of public
opinion is the utter indifference with which
the Republicans regard the exploits of
your “ Gov.” Bullock. They are scarcely
alluded to except iu the brief telegraphic
dispatches, and the detection <t of Mr. Bry
ant, in your House, is barely mentioned.
It is evident that Bullock’s schemes have
no sort of sympathy among any considera
ble portion of the community at the North,
although the party whip carried them
through Congress. Within a short time
there have been efforts to resuscicate the
credit of carpet-bag bonds, issued in the
name of several Southern States. The pur
pose expressed regarding those of South
Carolina, to pay interest in gold, is noted,
and some spasmodic efforts ,at economy
and deceucy in North Carolina are paraded
before the public. They have somewhat
stimulated the demand for their bonds.
But the improvement appears to be spas
modic. There is little faith in the general
public in these securities. The expedients
above noted are believed to have been re
sorted to for the purpose of enabling hold
ers to sell before the final collapse of car
pet-baggers.
The Federal securities, issued to raise
means for the prosecution of the late war,
must he regarded as au injury by most
Southern people, and yet many men of pro
per spirit and honorable character may
think it best to submit uncomplainingly
to an injury; but the carpet-bag
bonds of the Southern States are believed
with us to he an insult, as well as injury,
to the Southern people, which they will
throw off and resent at the earliest possible
moment. This is why they are so much
distrusted; and it Is almost uniformly
believed that the Southern people, in repu
diating them, will perform a most natural,
if not commendable act. Georgia bonds
have been well regarded, as are those of
Maryland, Kentucky, and all other States
which have escaped the thrall of carpet
baggers ; but the schemes of Bullock and
their possible success have a depressing in
fluence upon them. I annex latest quota
tions for leading Southern securities.
OfTd. Ask’d.
Tennessee G’s, ex coupon 54 54%
Tennessee 6’s, new bonds 48%
Virginia 6’s, ex coupon 53 53%
Virginia 6’s, new bonds 60 60%
Georgia 6’s Bl
Georgia 7’s, new bonds 89% 91 %
North Carolina 6’s 40 42
North Corolinas, new bonds 22% 23
South Carolina 6’s 79 82
South Carolina, new bonds 77 79
Missouri 6’s 87% 87%
Louisiana 6’s 69%
Louisiana 6’s, Levee bonds 64% 66
Louisiana B’s, Levee bonds 80 80
Alabama s’s 63 —-
Alabama S’s 93 95
The affair of Cooke, the reverend abduc
tor of a child of his congregation, has as
sumed a phase of interest in its relation to
the press. He visited the World office and
made an assault upon Mr. Croly, its man
aging editor, in resentment of some publi
cations made respecting his former life.
The assaulted editor has been treated by
his contemporaries in other journals very
much as is a wounded monkey by its com
panions ; set upon with every manner of
personal abuse and contumely. The posi
tion of managing editor of a great New
York daily is a very thankless one ; hated
and feared as he must be by nearly all
newspaper subordinates, they eagerly make
the most of his misfortunes.
The commercial community of New York
have for years suffered from the deprecia
tions of organized gangs of robbers To an
extent involving an annual loss of about
$500,000; these robbers confining their
operations exclusively to the different
wharfs and piers ; one-third of the estimated
sura, however, going into the pocket3 of
the police and also of the watchman paid
to protect especially this class of property.
The watchmen, indeed, are but illy paid,
when the risk and exposures of their calling
is taken into consideration; so much so
that there is to them but little stimulus
for auy great exercise of integrity; they
receiving scarce even more than a couple
| of dollars per night, if so much, while, how
ever, the company by whom they are fur
nished, “ The Merchants’ Police,” is paid
by the merchants at the rate of from three
to four dollars per night. Thus tempted,
the watchmen not unfrequently are unfaith
ful, arc conveniently out of the way just
when their guardianship is most needed,
etc, etc.; or, if a watchman be found who in
his charge is incorruptible, instances have
not been wanting where he has been ruined
by injurious reports, or frightened away by
anonymous letters, and other devices of a
like nature.
These river thieves have a regularly or
ganized system of government, ivith Presi
dents, Secretaries, Treasurers, and Execu
tive Committees; hold stated meetings,
work on the co-opernth r e system, and have a
large contingent fund set apart for different
uses, particularly for feeing counsel in case
oneof their number gets into difficulty. The
arrival of vessels containing valuable car
goes is often known to these gangs as soon
as to the consignees or the owners, and
measures taken to secure a portion.
The class who reap perhaps the greatest
reward from these robberies are the junk
men, who, for instance, pay about six dol
lars for a bag of sugar worth sixteen dollars,
fourteen dollars for a bag of coffee worth
forty dollars, and so on in that proportion.
They realize thus an enormous profit on the
goods obtained, and tvhieh they sell in jnnk
stores established in convenient localities,
aud soon grow rich. Some few honest
junkmen there are, but fewand farbetween,
and quite unable to complete with the ma
jority of their class.
A branch of the robbers are denominated
the “coffee milkers,” whose special avoca
tion it is to visit, in a surreptitious way,
the lighters loaded with coffee, and open
ing one bag after another, extract from
ten to fifteen pounds from each, and one
bag being filled in this way, it is dropped
down to the boat in waiting below, and
another and another is in succession filled,
the process continuing until the approach
of danger, and the watchman, meantime,
being most conveniently fast asleep. A
“coffee milker” is discontented if his gains
per night do not reach as high as from
$l5O to *3OO. Each lighter has a captain
and two’or three men, and it has been said
that eight out of ten are directly or indi
rectly engaged in the profitable business of
“ milking” their own sacks.
Another class of river thieves, who work
principally by daylight, are denominated
“ wharf rats,” and are composed chiefly of
old women and little girls and boys. These
are provided with bags, baskets, or capa
cious pockets, and are ip the habit of saun
tering near bags of wool or bales of cotton ,
snatching up a handful and stowing it
away; and it may be supposed that any
other articles which may come in their way
are by uo means amiss, ancl though some
times detected, yet the value of what they
have stolen is usually so small that the
owner does not take the trouble to prose
cute. The total of these robberies, how
ever, is by uo means insignificant, and we
have heard of an old woman vrbo employs
regularly twelve little boys and girls in
this wav, and has grown comparatively
rich on the profits.
Henry Ward Beecher’s congregation
seem not only most fully to endorse the
free love doctrines of which he was the ex
ponent in the recent McFarland and Rich
ardson affair, but even generously to re
ward the same, as they have very lately in
creased his salary, which already reached
the sum of twelve thousaud five hundred
dollars, to twenty thousand, by an addition
of seven thousand five hundred. Mrs
Stowe’s latest production, also, though pro
nounced by all as only a weak and verbose
repetition of former statements, aud quite
destitute of anything in the way of proof,
must bring her doubtless, however, a large
sum of money, as it is having a large sale.
It is advertised everywhere under the title
of “ The True Story of Lady Byron.”
The legitimate drama, of which there
seems to have l>een a bona fide revival,
flourishes most at Booth’s and at Niblo’s,
which, for three years past, has been given
up to the spectacular and sensational. Here
Mr. Fechter has made his debut in “ Iluy
Bias,” which play is still being presented,
aud in which he is supported by Mile. Car
lotta LeClercq, who impersonates the char
acter of the Priucess. In a musical way,
however, there is scarce anything to at
tract, there being no opera of any sort, and
no singer of celebrity before the public in
auy other way. The artists are all absent
in other cities, but doubtless will return
for a Spring season, when there will be a
sufficiency to gratify the popular taste.
Willoughby.
Taking the Oath.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Commercial gives the following
picture of “ Taking the Oath ” by the nigs
and scalawags:
Since the war the human intellect has
beeu racked in attempting to produce
oaths that would make loyalty to bloom
and blossom in the savannas and swamps
of the South ; that would cause a man to
fall down and worship the flag that he
hates, and kiss the band that smites him.
But of all the oaths yet manufactured
sent down here, the tightest one is that
which accompanied the Georgia bill, aud
which each member of the Legislature
must swallow before he can take his seat.
Ben Butler and Bullock are said to have
spent many a weary hour in its manufac
ture, and to have rejoiced with exceeding
great joy when they contemplated the
thing after all its finishing touches had been
put on. In addition to other matters, too
numerous to mention, a man must swear
that he never held any sort of an office un
der the State- government whiie Georgia
was out of the Union. With one sweeping
clause, it includes all officers from Gov
ernor down to a freight car brakeman on
the State Road.
I went up this morning to the room of
Major Williams, at the Capitol, who is en
gaged in administering the iron clad frog
to all members who have the nerve to
take, it.
One of the Solons was present, looking
at the thing through his spectacles, and oc
casionally stopping to clear out his throat.
It was evident, that he contemplated mak
ing way for it to go down. After reading
it two or three times, he made the observa
tion that “ she: was pretty tight.” Never
theless, he took it, and his name was duly
recorded with a great deal of solemnity, iu
a half dozen books, where it will be handy
for the Radical smelling committee aud
their omnibus load of lawyers whom they
have employed to prosecute all cases of
perjury under the act.
“ How many have taken it?” I inquired
of Major Williams.
“ Only about thirty, and some of them
negroes.”
“ Do the negroes take it without much
difficulty?”
“Oh, yes; they will take anything.—
There can’t he no oath fixed up that they
won’t lake, if you give them a chauce.
They love to swear.”
From the room where the frog is admin
istered to the Governor’sjreception apart
ment the route is easy, but one door being
between. In fact, the only way to reach
the frog is to go through the reception
room. Here were collected a miscella
neous throng, without distinction of race,
color or previous condition. A bevy of
clerks, with their heads nicely combed,
their clothes nicely brushed and their boots
nicely blacked, were dodging about, mak
ing a great bustle, and not accomplisliintr
anything particular.
Two burly negroes, with no white blood
of consequence in them, were seated at a
table, each with a mammoth pen and holder
behind Ids ear, after the manner of a fash
ionable hotel clerk. One was reading the
morping papers, and the other was writing,
taking care however not to use the pen be
hind his ear, but another one, that behind
the ear prohably being exclusively for or
nament as an honorary distinction.
Presently a small swarm of colored mem
bers came in—full fifteen thousand dollars’
worth, if we were back in good old Dem
ocratic times Among them was Senator
Bradley, from Savannah, who has the repu
tation among the Democrats of being a
“ mean nigger.” The Senator was well
dressed, wore a plug hat, sported eye
glasses, carried a cane, and had his hands
closed In kid gloves. He certainly has the
address and manners of a gentleman.
The returned prodigals—not exactly
prodigals either—were in the jolliest humor.
“ Didn’t I tell you Ave’d meet again. Ah, I
knoAv’d it,” to which another replied by
Wondering wliat the “ Democrats think
now.” After a great deal of hand shaking
and general jollification, they adjourned
into the frog room to swalloAv that animal.
Bradley was sworn first, and seemed to
take down the thing with a relish which a
Democrat would have envied. He signed
his name iu a plain, bold hand, in a man
ner indicating that he Avas accustomed to
the use of a pen. It was much better than
Horace Greeley could have doue.
f Kioto tbe New York Evening Tost, January 12.
A Note of Warning from a Radical Or
gan.
In April, 1805, the last insurgent against
the United States laid down his arms, and
in January, 1870, nearly five years later,
the United States House of Representatives
refused to admit Representatives from Vir
ginia, on the ground, the sole ground, that
Virginia is a rebel State. Duriug these
five years the Republicans have had an
overwhelming majority in Congress; have
passed Avhat laws they pleased ; have even
caused the adoption of such amendments
to the Constitution as they thought neces
sary ; and yet, with all this power, after
nearly five years of .peace, they have not
been able to get all the States represented
in Congress. Do the Republican leaders
believe that this is to their credit as states
men ? Does it never occur to them that
the most desirable of all things, to the aver
age citizen, is it to see all the States repre
sented in Congress; and that a man who
voted yesterday to keep Virginia out still
longer helped to give the nation another
disappointment? “Bull believe Virginia
is not tit to enter Congress,” says such a
Congressman, to his complaining constitu
ents; “ surely, if it is dangerous to the
Union to admit her, you AA’onkl not have
me vote to let her in ?” ”No,” is the reply;
“ but how much longer Mdll it be danger
ous ? How many .many more years will
you gentlemen require, before you have
adopted safeguards enough? And, more
over, did it never occur to you that it may
be as dangerous to the Union—it even may
be more dangerous to the Union—to keep
Virginia out, Ilian to let her in? The men
in Congress who yesterday voted to keep
Virgiuia out of Congress act as though
they believed the people would grieve over
a thoroughly rfistqped Union. Bat, pn the
contrary, no one thing would to-day give
the people of the whole country more satis
faction ; for nothing would they sp quickly
and universally light up th«ir houses, and
make a holiday, as for the event the con
summation which was yesterday once more
indefinitely postponed—the return of all the
States to Congress. On questions of states
manship men may reasonably differ; and
we will uot doubt that those who yesterday
voted to keep Virginia out did so from a
siucere conviction that they thus best serv
ed theircountry. But to such a man it can
scarcely fail to be a melancholy reflection,
that he can only serve the Union by per-
petuating disunion?'while to.a politician
acting thus, it must be disagreeable to
know that while he keeps the States out, he
ruins his party.
Georgia State Letter v.
FOH TUB BSSSriT OF T-HK
Orphan's Hora, ;and Frfe School,
J.JQO fo!'owing were th« 'iiraw n numb ts, in the Map.
plementaiy §cLe?m\ «Irawr> r.i Angunta, Georgia,
January 19.
MORNING DRAWING-Class 31.
35 11 75 74 60 43 35 7 6 1 56 7 33 68
13 Prawn Numbers-
EVENING DRAWING -Glass 32.
O 30 63 33 30 36 44 43 t 3 11 29 38
12 Prawn .Numbers,
fan 20-1
SPECIAL NOTICES”
War A MEETING OF ENOCH LODGE OF
PERFKC lION, No. 1., A. and A. SCOTCH IUTE,
will be held at the 8. V., THIS (Thursday) EVEN
ING, January 20th, 1870.
The Tenth and Thirteenth Degrees will ba con
ferred.
WM. R. SCHIRMKR,
A PROCLAMATION.
GEORGIA:
BY RUFUS B. BOLLOCK, GOVHRNOR Off SAID STATE.
Atlanta, Ga , December 22, 1869.
Whereas, Official information has been received
at tlii* Department that a murder was committed in
the county of I’u'a-ki, in this fct.no, on the 2Sth Sep
tember, ISG9, upon the body of Wilber F. Mason,. by
Sandora G. Goo Non, and that the Grani Jury of Pu
lsski county have since prepared a bill < f in-'ictment
against tbs said Ocolsbn, charging him wit h the mur
der, and that be lias rt -d from justice' :
I have thought prt per, therefoie, to issue this my
Proclamation, hereby offering a Reward of One
Thousand Dollars for tho apprehension rnd delivery
cf the said Handers G. Oooltor, with evidence suffi
cient to convict, to the Sheriff of said county and
State.
And I do moreover ch.irwe and require all officers
of this State, civil and military, to be vigilant in en
deavoring to apprehend the said Sanders G. Coohon,
In order that he may be brought to trial for the offense
with whielrhe stands charged.
Given under my hand and the great seal ol the State,
at the Capitol in Atlanta, this 13. h day of January,
in the year of our Lord E ghteen Hundred and
Seventy, and of the Independence oi the United
States of America the Nincty-Fourh.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor: Governor.
David G. Cutting, Secretary of State.
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in number. Also, anew Staff o 36 Silver Bells
and anew double action Erard Harp ; New Bell
Music ; new Stall Beil Solos ; new Harp Solos ;
new Character Songs ; new Band Music, and
all the Popular Airs of the day.
Cards of Admission, sl. Nothiug extra for
reserved seats. Tickets for sale at Gates’
Musk- aud Book Store, where Aeats may be se
cured in advance.
Admission to Matinee: Adults 50 cents; all
School Childreu, 25 cents.
L M. HARRIS,
jan 13-7 _ Business Agent.
TJse Xiussel Coe’s Sui
jjDerpliospliate. Itistlie
TO RENC~
A DESIRABLE COTTAGE RESIDENCE,
adjoiuing the residence of Mrs. H. McKinnon.
House contains 6 Rooms, wiih fireplaces;
Kitchen and Servant’s Room,. Smoke House,
Stable and Carriage House; also, a good Well
of Water,
Apply to Mrs. McKinuon, at her residence,
or to B. W. McKINNON,
jantMawtf Trustee.
AN HO OD !
A MEDICAL ESSAY ON THE CAUSE
AND CURE OF PREMATURE DECLINE
IN MAN, the Treatment of Nervous and Phy- j
sicai Debility, etc.
“There is no member of society by whom
■this book will not be found usetnl, whether
such person holds the relation of tarent, Pre
ceptor, or Clergyman.”— Medical Times niid
Gazette.
Sent by find I on receipt of fifty cents. Ad
dress the Author,
Dr. E. De F. CURTIS,
seps-ly Washington,, D. C.
Choice Family Groceries,
Plantation Supplier
Tubs. Churns. Bnr.ketv, Measures
Hall- and SI raw Brooms, Busters, Brushes
Baskets of all kinds
Pouts aud Sh»«».
We iinvite the attention of the Cltiiens
of Augusta and Vicinity to our new Fall
Supplies of the above Goods.
All of which arc of Good Quality.
Fresli Supplies received Weekly •
JASLG. BAII4B* BROTHER.
sepSO-fioi
?4ev .Advertisement s
JEW TO RENT.
U IEBIKABLE FEW ia the Presbyterian
Church & rent. Apply at
jai2o 205 BROAD BT.
Mtftf INN Blip; INSTUtITB,
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
At Whksi'UU, (IVo. S, Central Railroad ,) Ga.,
G<)\iIENCES JANUARY, 1870.
isrst,Term ends in JUNE, 1870.
F>r jirticulars, apply to
Miss MARY ANN BUIE,
jan2tf Whltesville, No. 3 C. R. R., Ga.
FOR RENT,
Tai very desirable RESIDENCE on the
cortieof Telfair and Centre, containing five
coirstotable rooms, kitchen and all necessary
out hidings ; hydrant in the yard,
roilnrther particulars, apply to
J. L. MIMS,
At Gray Eagle Stables, Ellis st.
jatjo-Sif*
RUSSEL COE’S
A <iiy :
f p W ?* >«*•;•!■ I MF.ifi HUB.
Superphosphate of Lime,
FOR BALE BY
I L ... t j.. .. f ,• ; , s,'• . j
0, H. Phinizy. Agent,
ATJGTTSTA, cga.
itn2o-dt*c2tn
DR. D. W. AVERILL,
OOULPT AND JURIST,
C URES all cases ol
SORE EYES,
CROSS EYES STRAIGHTENED,
CATARACTS REMOVED,
And all other operations performed iu acare
fuland judicious manner,
tie also treats a few other Special Diseases.
Office, 266 Broad street. Office Honrs from
11, a. m., to 4, p. m. jan2o-tf
NOTICE.
persons having any claim against the
Bouesville Manufacturing Compauy must pre
sent them to the undersigned within SIXTY
DAYS or they will be debarred payment.
WM. 8. ROBERTS,
Treasurer pro tem.
Augusta, Jan. 17, 1870. jaul9-2m
Paris Horticultural Exposition.
arrived from France, has
aliened, tor a few days only, under the OLD
CITY HOTEL, ao exhibition of the most ex
tensive and choice colic. thin of PLANTS,
BULBOUS ROOTS, FLOWER SEED, grafted
ROSE TREES, FRUIT TREES, &c.
janl9-6 0
Use Dnssel Coe’s {Su
perphosphate. It is the
Best _
C O A L.
Unglish Uarlor,
ISTow landing from bark Neptune, aod de
livered in depot, Augusta, at sl4 per ton ; also,
lied Ash.,
Stove and Egg Sizes, delivered at #l6. War
ranted to give satisfaction.
E. B CHIFMAN,
jan!2-12 Savannah, Ga.
(.RBI) RAFFLK AND SALE
OF
Re*! Estate and Personal Property
At Casavll!*!, W#., March 1, 1 870.
PROPERTY VALUED AT #42.902-RaF
FLED AT $24,000.
ONLY $i PER CHANCE.
'This PROPERTY consists in part of a
general assortment of MERCHANDISE, val
ued at $8,000; one STOKE HOUSE, «0x24
(new), $1,500; three DWELLING HOUSES
(new) and improvements, each $1,000; lot of
FURNITURE, SI,OOO ; 400 bush-Is CORN; 100
sacks FLOUR ; 40 head of PORK HOGS (war
ranted to weigh 200 lbs. each) or Bacon from
Mice; 1 No. 1 COOK STOVE; 12 one acre
TOWN LOTS, in centre ot Casaville, S2OO
each ; 1 fine Marble top Mahogauy BURE \U ;
I fine HORSE, will work any whore, $300; 1
line BUGGY and HARNESS. $200; 12 fine
GOLD WATCHES (warranted); 12 tine SIL
VER WATCHES (warranted); 0 No. 1 BEW
II '} MACHINES; 2 No. 1 MILCH COWS; 1
OFFICE STOVE : 24 pairs line French Calf
i Skin BOOTS, &e. «fcc.
The above Property is val jed at $21,830, and
other Property, uot included iu the above list,
valued r,t $21,072, making in all property val
ued at $42,002, is to be Raffled for $24,000.
THIS IS NO HUMBUG. Titles warranted.
Every cnance or ticket is warranted .and guar
anteed to get a prize valued from $1 up to
SB,OOO. NO BLANKS. Twelve disinterested
persons, six gentlemen and six ladies, will be
chosen to conduct the Raffle, aod see that each
and every one feus an equal and tair showing.
Refer to officers of Bartow county, citizens
of Cassville and Cass Station.
AGENTS WANTED in every city, village
and county in the Union, to whom liberal
terms are offered. Address all ordois for
tickets and all communications to
L, Q. SMITH & CO.,
Managing Agents, Cassville, Ga.
jaulC-lm
Use ]R ussel Coe’s Su
per pliosph ate. It is tlie
JBest.
NOTICE.
T~TAVING withdrawn from the firm of
KERNAGHAN & REMSON, “Globe Hotel
Stable,” I have opeued a Sale aud Livery Sta
ble in the building corner ot Mclntosh and
Ellis streets, where L will be happy to meet
my friends and former patrons ; and by strict
personal attention to business I hope to merit
a share of the public patronage, so liberally be
stowed cn m e heretofore.
G. H. KERNAGHAN,
Aogoita, Ga., January 7, 1870.
jat.7l2
Copartnership Notice.
The undersigned has associated with him
self in Ihe BOOT, SHOE and HATfBUSI
NE3S, llr. Thomas Wilson. The business
will be carried on iu the name of GREER &
WILSON. I respectfully solicit a continuance
of the patronage so liberally bestowed in the
past. JOHN GREER.
Augusta, Jan. 7,1870. Hnl6-d6*el
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS.
WEEK & WILSON,
WHOLESALE and RE TAIL DEALERS,
B»>. 217 G Broad at., Aoguttn, Ga.,
WILL keep constantly in store a full stock
of the beet qualities anr latest styles of BOOTS,
SHOES and HATS, which will be sold as low
as cau be,offered, amd to which they invite the
attention of the public.
janl6-d*cltu
SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME.
Rod Prof. JOHXSOVS, of trie 101 l or, Analysis.
'll M r # W m
■ -o-
P-« .. Jp .jk jm --mr ■it r j
ROF. SAMtIEL W. JOHNSON, of Yale College, in his “ Report on Commercial Fe -tilizers,” to the “ Connecticut Boa -
Agriculture,” nnakes the following tabulated statement of fertilizers analysed by him, with the explanation of Gold valuation !
follows :
“ The valuation is cot intended to fix, in all cases, the proper selling price of a fertilizer. It may, however, always sen-? t
comparing together the money value of two or more manures, and so nearly represents commercial worth that the farmer w '
often err in refusing to lay out his money for auy article whose cost much exceeds the calculated value.
“ The valuation is properly based upon the cost of the active aud valuable ingredients of commercial manures, as obtained ■
the cheapest standard sources. Without going into details of the calculations, 1 will state that the prices which I employ. ,| in 1
Report to the Connecticut State Agricultural Society in the years 1857, 1858 and 1859, wTun referred to t/<s gold standard, arc ni.t
from those.which result from computing the present market cost of the commercially valuable elements of standard manure- ” ar
The Secretary of the Board, T. S. Gold, Esq., remarks on Prof. Johnson’s Report: “ These samples analyzed by P ro f r
son, were received by him without their names, or auy mark except a number. Most of them were taken, under my insi»e-t* IN
from the bags or barrels in the storehouses of the dealers, aud were just the article they had on sale. These packages w ’
livered personally, or forwarded by Express, so that he could know nothing of their origin or pretensions.”
The annexed table shows the different manures analyzed by Prof. Johnson, of Yale College, giving the names of the m a >i
of what composed, and. their Gold valuation ; also the market price at the time the report was made.
TABULATED RESULTS.
ANALYSIS. 1 2 3 4 5 C 7 8 9! 10 11 12 13 14 !
Moisture 7.63 4.73 16.99 17.84 24.47 22.48 9.80 3.10 11.52 7.41 9.75 12.90 643 "kmo
Organic and Volatile Mutters.... 57.22 J 3.54 19.75 36.40 29.47 35.63 18.58 25.41 4.42 85.84 32.62 25.83 25.89 20*80' 4»'qi ' 4 '
Sand and Insoluble Matters...... 7.69 3.83 1.67 1.83 3.01 5.82 49.51 53.48 2.35 1.87 7.17 3.70 4.53117.24 g «?• *
Soluble Phosphoric Acid.... noneinone. 3.19 7.91 13.88 3.93n0ne. none. noue. noue. .30 141 79 i‘.. 4
Insoluble Phosphoric Acid 9.24; 19.18 16.16 4.96 1.811 8.64 2.17 2.32 2.48 9.48 15.95 9 26: s'lt;' v -
Total Phosphoric Acid..... 9.24| 19.18 19.35 12.87 14.69 12.57 2.17 2.32 2.48 9.48 16.25 10.68; g'y;, {4-! ‘
Phosphates of Iron and Alumina. 1.13 .35 1.89 2.09 1.16 1.43 .51 1.30 .81 1.57] 437
Bone Phosphate of Lime equiva
lent to Phosphoric Acid 16.43 41.56 41.90 27.89 31.83 27.24 4.70 5.03 5.37 20.54 35.21 23 14 19 3.,
Nitiogen 6.46 1.38 2.00 2.31 3.97 2.90 .11 .10 1.04 4.37 1.61 2.13 2.01 '52 "T
Ammonia equivalent to
VALUATION.
Value of Poluble Phosphoric Acid > 37.98 $19.78 32-20 $9.82 $0 75 $8 55 *1 c,- « ,
Value of Insoluble “ “ $8.28 $17.26 14.54 4.46| 1.62 7.78 $1.95 $2.'19 «2.23 $8.49 14 35 833 7 S4’ 11 f 1
Value of Nitrogen .23.12 4.79 6.80 7.85113.50 9.86 .38 .34 $3.53 4.95 | 5.49 7.24 6.83 l*77i- 9*ir -
Total Value per Ton (gold) 30.40 22.05 29,32 32.09,47.32 27,40 2.33 | 2.43 11.23, 17.15] 13.98 22.144 1 8.71 11.09 24 47 !
ANALYSIS No. 1. Fish Guana, $45 per too, in currency. No. 2. Baugh’s Superphosphate, ffiO per ton. No. 3. B'n-g’s SunemM
s6s per*ion. No 4 R. F Coe’s Superphosphate, S6O per ton. No. 5. RUBBEL COE’S SUPERPHOSPHATE, $56 PER TON' \ ’
Mape’s Sunerphosplmte, S6O per ton No. 7. Lodi Double Refined Poudrette, S2B per ton. No. 8. Lodi PoadreUe, $2 50 per barn ! v
Saltpetre Wa-te, $35 per ton. No. 10 Castor Pomace, $35 per ton. No. 11. Baugh’s Bone Fertilizer, SSO per ton No V> 1 ,/r v
phosphate, SSB, per top. No. 13. Wilson’s Tooacco Grower, #BO per ton. No. 14. Home made Superphosphate. No. 15. BradlevV i
phate, S7O per to a. No. 10. Atwood’s Superphosphate, S7O per tou.
For Bale by C. H. UfTINTZY, Agent.
j.iri2odt*' „ „ AUOUBTA, (7\
Hardware, Cntlery,
Moves, Tin and Wood Ware.
WILLIAM HILL
Begs to announce to bis old frieuds aud
customers, and the citizens of Augusta and
vicinity, that he has Removed his business
from Hamburg, S. C., to the Store, 193 Broad
street, Augusta, Ga., next door above the Con
stitutionalist Office, where he has a lull stock
of HARDWARE, consisting of—
AXES, HOES, SPADES, SHOVELS
MANURE FORK*, RAKES
BLACKSMITH TOOLS
BAR IRON, STEEL, NAILS
HORSE and MULE SHOES
OVENS, POTS and SPIDERS
HINGES, SCREWS
POCKET aud TABLE CUTLERY
SAWS, AUGURS, CHISELS, &e., &c.
ALSO,
WOODEN WARE, such as BUCKETS,
TUBS, CHURNS, PAILS, &c*
tOOKING STOVES, of various patterns of
modern make, and warranted to cook well ;
also, HEATING STOVES.
He also offers a full assortment of TIN
WARE, which he manufactures in all its varie
ties, at wholesale and retail. TIN and SHEET
IRON MANUFACTURED to order, and iob- 1
bing promptly doue in be6t*manner.
I respectfully solicit a share of public pa
tronage. WILLIAM HILL,
j.ifil4-tf» 193 Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
"Use .Russel Coe’s Su
per pliospli ate. It is th.e
Best.
First tup-at tieotgia
Stall,** Fair.
G
STEWART’S
CELEBRATED AIR-TIGHT
COOKING STOVE,
WITH
Dumping Clrate.
THE STEWART COOKING STOVE,
Which has hitherto maintained an acknowl
edged superiority over all competitors. Is now
introduced to the public with the addition of a
DUMPING GRATE an 1 ASH DRAWER. In
poiut ol Economy and General Utility, it has
been conceded that -the Stewart Stove is
AHEAD OF ALL, OTHERS.
By this addition of the NEW DUMPING
GRATE, the heating surface of the oven is
greatly increased, aud the capacity of the flues
nearly doubled. The Stove can “never have a
detective draft, and no dust can escape while
cleaning or dumping the grate. AH parts of
the oveu bake alike. The oven is ventilated in
a manner entirely new, and by means of which
the oven is more quickly prepared for baking,
and the baking is better dona than ever before.
The Fire Box has th® Perforated Iron Lin
ings and cannot burn put
EVERY STOVE WARRANTED, and for
sale by
W. H. GOODRICH & SON,
265 Broad street,
jan 12-3 m|E | Augusta, Ga.
... . -i m - - 1 4
I
Buy tlie Best Super
phosphate of Lime—
Russel Coe’s.
WOOD.
100 CORDS of Prime OAK AND
HICKORY WOOD, jast received at the
Waynesboro Railroad Depot, and will be fur
nished at $5 per cord at Depot, or $6 delivered.
Orders left at Kentucky and Tennessee Stables
will receive prompt attention.
nov2B ts C. TOLER.
Cargo of Frail and Molasses,
tTUST arrived by the schr. J. A. Brown, from
Havana :
100,000 ORANGES
200 Do*ec. PINES
200 Bunches BANANAS
200 Hhds Prime Clayed MOLASSES.
For sale by
J. A. BROWN & CO.,
janlS-Sw Savannah, Ga.
ETIWAN GtUANOS
SOLUBLE MANURES.
AND
SULPHURIC ACID,
MANUFACTURED AT CHARLESTON.
XJ NDER THE DIRECTION OF Dr. N. A. PRATT, CHEMIST FOR TRE SULP'IP
ACID AND SUPERPHOSPH ATE COMPANY. R
SOLUBLE PHOSPHORIC ACID, in the form of SOLUBLE PHOSPHATE OFLIYIF
DISSOLVED BONE PHOSPIIATE^js the basis of all good Fertilizers, and these are vain t
in the ratio of Soluble Phosphoric Acid which is in them.
The immense deposits of Pbosphatic Guanos which were discovered in 1867, in SoatbCiro
linn, by Dr. PRATT, consists mainly of Insoluble Phosphate of Lime, which is made avail
a Fertilizer by being ground to powder, and reduced by Sulphuric Acid to such a conn , a
to make its insoluble phosphate soluble in water, and thus made capable of being taken a
growing plants. The insoluble phosphate found iu auv Commercial Fertilizer is of no uv
value to the plant than the original phosphate rock. The greater the proportion of this so' .•
phosphate which any fertilizer contains, the less the quantity required per a re, and cor.-- • •
ly the cheapest Fertilizer is that containing the highest per centage ol Solnble Phoephit,
I>A w!5 preßSed wUh thcse the SULPHURIC ACID AND SUPERPHOSPHATE COM
PANY have erected at Chorle-lon Ibe first extensive Acid Chambers South of Ba Pmore
a . r . e w^ letooffV,r to Plan ters the HIGHEST PER CENTAGE OF SOLUBLE PHOSPHATE-'
LIME known in any market.
Their Fertilizers are offered under two forms :
1. ETIWAN, No. I. PURE SOLUBLE PHOSPHATE, guaranteed to contain 24 per ml
of Dissolved Phosphate of Lime, S6O p r ton ; 10 per cent, discount for cash.
3. ENWANNo. 2.-PERUVJAN SUPERPHOSPHATE, guaranteed to contain 20 w
ceDt. of Dissolved Bone Phosphate, and to 3 per cent, of Ammonia, with a sufficients
dmoa of i eravian Guano to adapt it to all crops, S7O per loa ; 10 per cent, discount for cvl
Analysis of Etiwan Fertilizer. No. 1.
Bv Dr A, MEAN S,.State Ifispeotor at Savannah, Ga., and his opinion thereon,
•Novembeb 20th, 1869.
Moisture expelled at 212 deg
Phosphoric Acid —Soluble
Equal to Bone Phoa. made soluble 29 s’
Phosphoric Acid— lnsoluble ", “
Equal to Insoluble Bone Phosphate in 41 *
Total Pho-phoric Acid .. . . ig -jn
Or to Bone Phosphate r,‘i 7 j .
A. MEANS, Inspkctor, Savannah, Chatham county G*.
The foregoing anal vsisof the. Etiwan Fertilizer, No. L indicates a high proportion of \ .
Phosphoric Acid, an indispensable element in he production of fruitage for Colton, Corn and
the Cereals generally, and which, in this con dition, acts promptly durine the first vesr T e
amount of Insoluble Phosphate of Lime which it contains—equal to 10.41 per cent-renn
in the soil, to undergo chemical re action favorable to a succeeding crop. It will rank
fore, amongst I.o e most reliable of the class of Phosphate Manures.
A. IMICA.JNrS, Inspector.
N. B.—ETIWAN, No. 2, is same as No. 1, with Peruv-an Qnano added as aminmd
A. PRATT, Chemist
WE OFFER
DI.BBOI.VED BONE, of high grade, for Planter* or Mannlacturers, who msv drz.eui
TUiX into any oilier composi, smd we suggest - hai. Ibis the bt*Mt ami cheapefit method for by*
ufaetuiers lo transport the Sulphuric Acid contained in th< mixture. Will be sold ante!
rate lor each per centage.
STO V ALL& R ()\X Jj \ND
AGENTS AT AUGUSTA, 6A.
WM. G. BEE & CO., Agents
’NO . 14 ADGEKV WHARF,
’ A CHARLESTON ,S.O.
jaof2o-eod3m
a i nil a
0
DISSOLVED BONES,
Land Plaster,
\ ' • ’
mniiiD hih nn
-If lifri |.A. —■ o
Burity of all article sold by ns -*•
Better to the prominent Planters of Georg I*' 1 *'
JOHN MERRYMAN & CO*
Baltimore
decl4-2rod*c •• • * '
Peeler lotion Seed,
(Guaranteed pure. Growu by w. f
Albxandbr, Columbus, Ga., (late of Washing
ton, Ga.) Apply to
JNO. JENKINS,
janll-2ru No. 2 Warren Block.
Magistrate’s
Ta* undersigned will be found at
during the following hours: From
\)4, p. m. t 3 to 6, p. iu., Sundays except* 4
moueya collected will be paid over lj® -
y janlS-4* OAKLAND A. 8- Nt *