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AUGUSTA. GA.
TUEBDAY MORNING. JUNE 14, 1870
THE DEATH OF DR. WILLIAM GIL
MORE SIMMS.
We are pained to hear of the death of the
Illustrious author, Dr. William Gilmore
Simms. A few weeks since, we saw him
totter from his daughter’s home in Charles
ton to deliver an address before the Floral
and Agricultural Association of that city.
We felt at the time that this was the last
great public duty he would ever perform,
a surmise unhappily justified by the event
now chronicled. Few men in his day and
generation have done so much for true pro
gress, and done it so nobly, as Dr. Bimmh.
His natural gifts of intellect were mag
nificent, and his physical part was the
worthy temple of so splendid a shrine.
Like many other men who have won re
nown, his was no primrose path of dal
liance leading to distinction, but the
thorny road of duty pursued with an in
vincible will, the loftiest purposes, an
unfaltering step and unsparing energy.
He was emphatically a worker; and
we do not doubt that his death was has
tened, though at a comparatively ripe age,
by literary toil entirely too severe and ex
hausting for one who had been grievously
“ broken by the storms of State.” He has
died in harness, as he always craved to do,
and it is not a little curious that his de
parture should be so near to that of
Charles Dickens and from causes almost
co-incidental. For the last five years, there
lias beeu no more pathetic and sublime
spectacle than the sight of this graud old
man, rising up literally from amid the
ashes of his household gods, and, with
undaunted enthusiasm and Christian resig
nation, striding forth to do battle with a
chaotic world. Eternal honor to his pluck,
his spirit of independence, his conquering
soul, his glorious example, his superb
achievements. May the cherubim encamp
about his grave, while his immortal es
sence mounts to the regions of rest and
benediction!
Other pens, more familiar with the sub
ject, will record the remarkable traits of
his artistic and social life, his varied at
tainments, his prolific genius, his virtuous
career. South Carolina has produced no
man who more lovingly strove to honor
her in many honorable ways ; and the South
generally is his debtor in the domain of the
beautiful, in song and story. When noted
veterans like Dickens and Simms are beck
oned away, it is a mere prettiness to say
that the world has met with an untimely
loss. When the workman’s labor is com
pleted it is a blessed thing for him to enjoy
his everlasting reward. We feel that when
Heaven called these two heroes of the pen,
it was at the best appointed time, and in
the best and wisest way. It would be
selfish, then, for their constituency to wish
it had been otherwise ordained ; for though
the bereavement must be a terrible one to
their families, we assuredly believe the
change or translation a happy one for
them.
Bard and his Backers.—The Griffin
Star gives an amusing sketch of Bard’s
backers Joshua Hill is chiefly notable
for having a remarkable brother. His
thirst for office is unappeasable, and when
he gets it, pitch-plasters are nothing in
comparison to his adhesiveness. Being
politically sick, at present, he falls into the
arms of a quack.
A.irornx-1. wants to euchre Rtce by pur
chasing a rival editor. The Star predicts
that the banker will be sold by his tool.
Bankruptcy having played out, Foster
searches for some middle ground of refuge,
since neither Radicals nor Democrats will
have him.
The Turveydrop thus hacked is described
as follows:
“ He sold his Confederate principles to
“ Andy Johnson for anew press and type.
“ He sold his interest in Andy to the Radi
“ cal party and to Bullock for cash. He
“ sold his soft sawder to Grant for Idaho.
“ He bought, sold and swapped with State
“ politicians several times, and got boot
“ He finally sold the Era to Rice for about
“ four times its worth, and, for the first
“ time iu his life, has, probably, got a sol
“ vent bank account. He will run the True
“ Georgian" until somebody, probably Bul
“ lock, buys it. Who bids, and how much,
“for the ex-Governor’s uew paper? ‘Up
“in a balloon, boys! Up in a balloon!’ ”
Obituary.—The New York Suit con
cludes a political article in this lugubrious
strain: “ The stunning overthrow of
“ Bowen, under the very eye of the While
“ House, in the presence of a Republican
“ Congress, and in a city swarming with
“ the beneficiaries of the President, must
“ tie accepted as an indication that either
“ his days or those of his party are draw
“ ing to a close.”
The Sun, as chief mourner, is impatient
to exclaim over Ulysses and his party,
“ May they rest in peace.” If the peace
thus prayed for is of the same quality
granted the South, then will there lie a fa
mous frying some of these days for Ulysses
& Cos.
Poor Sprague.—The Israelites are after
Senator Sprague with a sharp stick for
his recent speech on the so-called Roumania
massacre. Sprague explains as follows :
“ Where a few people (whether Jew or
Gentile) monopolize all the trade, business
and property of a community, a poor class
will spring up, and whose poverty will in
crease in a ratio as the monopoly increases
There must inevitably occur outbreaks and
flually revolutions.”
Now let Senator Wm. Sprague break up
the great monopoly of which he is the head
and front and thus set a good example to
others who have cause to fear the loss of
everything by the revolutions of the poor.
The Radical Stampede— The W ashing
ton correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette
says :
“ Shoals of deserters from the Radical
“ ranks are hovering just outside of the
“ outer guards of the Democratic army
“ There is danger from that source alone !
“ Admit the subordinates, but exclude the
“leading officers! Political amnesty for
“ all except the prime culprits !”
Remove the Corpse.—Donn Piatt now
says: “The late Republican party is the
“ deadest dead thing aboveground, and if
“ the surviving friends wish to retain for
“ it any feelings of respect they will hasten
“ its funeral.”
Wilkes Booth.—According to the Bal
timore American (Radical), the grave of
John Wilkes Booth, in Greenmount Cem
etery, was profusely decorated with flowers,
the other day.
The Negro Cadets. —The colored
youngsters at West Point are likely to fail.
One Jjas “ weak eyes” and the other “ weak
brains.”
.... . L From the Charleston Hewn, 13th.
Wm. Gilmore Simms.
DEATH OK THE GREAT SOUTH CAROLINA
NOVELIST—HTB LIKE, CHARACTER AND
WRITINGS.
•The Hon. Win, Gilmore Simms, I). 0. L.,
died at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr.
Ed. Roach, In this city, at about 5 o’clock
on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Simms had
been in delicate health for some time, but
only a week before his death was well
enough to join iu an excursion down the
harbor. His strength, however, rapidly
failed him, and on Thursday night there
was no hope of his recovery. He remained
conscious to the end, his last words being,
"Not long!" The bells of St. Michael’s
Uilled yesterday—the solemn notes convey
ing to the whole city the mournful tidings
of the death of him who was the ornament
a.id the pride of the State lie loved so well.
Wm. Gilmore Simms was horn in this
city on April 17, 180fi. Ilis father was
of Scoto-Irish descent, and his mother,
Harr'ett Aun Augusta Singleton, was of a
Virginia family which came early to South
Carolina. While yet a child, he was left
an orphan, and was thrown upon his own
resources. For this reason his regular
education derived small aid from the pecu
niary means of his family, and he had little
classical training; but he acquired knowl
edge with an astonishing celerity, and was
soon the possessor of a vast fund of miscel
laneous information. At eight he wrote
verses, and at eighteen his self-acquired
scholarship was already remarkable. No
professor or college did for him one-hun
dredth part of what he did for himself.
M”. Simms was originally destined to
the study of medicine. The pursuit Jumped
not with his tastes, and he chose the law
by preference, being admitted to the bar at
the age of 21. Law, however, was too
tedious for the acutely active mind of Mr.
Sim.ns, all of whose inclinations lay in the
direction of the pleasant paths of litera
ture. His first active literary engagement
was in the editorship of the Charleston
City Gazette , a paper whicli opposed the
doctrine of nullification. The Gazette was
a failure, and Mr. Simms, its proprietor
as well as editor, was a heavy loser. The
effect was not unhealthy, for it caused Mr.
Simms to devote himself, in earnest, to
literature as a profession.
The literary debut of Mr. Simms was
made in 1825, when lie published a Monody
on General Charles Cotestcnrth Pinckney. A
volume of his poems followed in 1827, and
Early Lays was putilished in the same
year. The ivarm reception given to his
first efforts was highly gratifying to the
young author, who, thenceforward, for
more than 40 years, applied himself to
those pursuits in which he won fame for
himself and honor for his native State,
The publication of Atalantis , in 1832, in
troduced Mr. Simms to the literary circles
of New York. The next year the Harpers
published his first tale, Martin Faber, the
SU>ry of a Criminal , which at once attract
ed public attention.
From this time so uniform was his ca
reer that a, few words will stun up the in
cidents cf his history. A second marriage,
to the daughter of Mr. Roach, of Barnwell,
his first wife having died soon after their
union ; a seat in the State General Assem
bly, where he made his mark ; the recep
tion of the Doctorate of Laws from the
University of Alabama; his Summer resi
dence in Charleston and his Winter home
at Woodlands; these, up to the beginning
of the war, are the few external incidents
of a career, whose events must be sought
in the achievements of hands and brain.—
The elegant residence of Mr. Simms, at.
Woodlands—a mansion with equal wings
and a fine front—was burned down by
Sherman’s raiders in 1865. At the same
time an extensive library was wholly de
stroyed. But Mr. Simms returned to his
general literary work with his old energy,
and was in harness almost to the day of
his death. The long roll of his literary
works is the noblest tribute that can be
paid to the memory of him who is aptly
styled “ the Walter Scott of the South.”
* * * *
Martin Faber , his first prose work, brought
Mr. Simms fairly before the public! The
book was decidedly successful, and its sue
cess was richly deserved. The story of
guilty love, of the cry of blood from the
mute earth, of the mysterious law by which
the bloody haud of the murderer is made to
point to his own bosom ; these things are
shown with graphic power. From year to
year, sometimes from month to month, he
threw off his rapid series of fiction ; now
deal ! ng with the aboriginal characters ol
American life; now depictiug the achieve
ments of knight and infidel; now amid the
glades of Florida ; now in the wild freedom
of the West—over the whole wide range of
Southern and Southwestern American life.
But, as Mr. Davidson remarks, “ he was
most at home in the Revolutionary times,
when war, and craft, and treachery, and
love, and death, ruled the hour ; or in the
oiler and pre-revolutionary times, when
the stalwart and sturdy Indian yet strug
gled with bloody hands for his erstwhile
dominions, and yet hoped to wrest his
lands from the pale faces.” As to the high
order of his ability as a prose writer, there
is no difference of opinion.
Edgar Poe said of Mr. Simms : “ He has
more vigor , more imagination , more move
ment and more general capacity than all
our novelists (save Cooper) combined.”—-
Duyckinek, than whom there is no cooler
critic, says of Mr. Simms : “Asa novelist
he is vigorous in delineation, dramatic in
action, poetic in his description of scenery,
a master of plot, and skilled iu the arts of
the practiced story-teller.” In every home
in South Carolina the romances of Mr.
Simms have found a pleasant resting place.
Well might Mr. Davidson write that while
l<r Cooper has the advantage in character
ization and plot. Mr. Simms has clearly the
advantage iu the energy of action, variety'
of s’ uations, and, perhaps, in literal truth
fulness of delineation.”
Asa historiographer, Mr. Simms accoin
plished just what lie proposed—a readable
history of South Carolina for the youhg,
something ofless “immemorial dust and
dignity” than Ramsay and Carroll, and
something of far less research than Rivers.
Asa biographer, Mr. Simms produced
four creditable volumes—enough, in them
selves, to have made the reputatiou of a man
of less note.
Asa poet, Mr. Simms wrote very largely.
Besides his long poems— Atalantis, the Cas
sioue of Aceabee , Donna Florida , and the
Vision of Cories —he wrote two dramas, and
hundreds if not thousands oi lyrics, sonnets,
ballads, odes, idylls, canzonets and other
minor poems. Atalantis is general ] y con .
sidered the Irest of his narrative poems.
Among the poetical works of Mr. Simms
are many rare gems of thought and dic
tion, but it cannot be said that his poems
are familiar in the months of the people
The very copiousness of illustration which
sprung from the fertility of his fancy was
likely to weary the general reader, who
tires of any long continued demand upon
his attention or discriminating judgment.
And the ease and fluency with which he
wrote tempted him to write overmuch.
Those who knew him best knew that he
could do more than he had ever done.
They looked forward with confidence to
the day when his name—borne ««n the
wings of a mighty Epic—might be mea
sured in busy Europe as in his native Caro
lina. But time and circumstance were
wanting. That astonishing industry and
activity which remained with him to the
end gave him no repose, and when he ap
peared in public for the last time the flow
of thought and fancy was as ripe and fresh
as when he first stepped into literary Hie.
To the buoyancy of the boy was joined the
sober scholarship of the mature man. Who
did not notice that the voice of the poet
was weak and faint as he delivered the
opening oration of the Flora! Fair, in this
city, only a few short weeks ago? And yet
who of his auditors dreamed then that the
teeming brain and kindly heart had well
nigh done their work ?
In company witli those whom he loved
or admired, Mr. Simms was fnll of jest and
merry conceit. A charming talker, lie,
like Coleridge, rather discoursed than con
versed. At all times he was a true and?
generous friend, whose hand was always
ready to help the unfortunate. In all his
anxieties, he did not forget the sorrows and
afflictions of others. Action—ln his char
ity as in his professional work—was the
feature of his life.
Mr. Simms was twice married. His first
wife was a daughter of Mr. Othuiel .).
Giles, and his second a daughter of Mr.
Nash Roach. His first wife bore him a
daughter (now the wife of Mr. Ed. Roach,
of this city;) and his second three sons
and two daughters, all of whom are living.
One of the daughters is the wife of Mr.
Daniel Rowe.
—■ The body .was,laid out in the parlor of
Mr. Roach s residence yesterday, and many
culled to take a last look at the features of
the great departed. The countenance be
tokened tint lie had died without suffering.
The remains will be interred at Magnolia
Cemetery.
[Fiom the New York Express, 11th.
Charles Dickens.
Charles Dickens was born at Ports
mouth, England, February 7, 1812, and
was consequently, at the time of his death,
58 years old. His father, who for many
years had held au office in the Navy De
partment, retired on a pension in 1815, and,
being a man of literary tastes, became a re
porter for the daily press of London. His
sou he intended for an attorney, and placed
him in an attorney’s office to acquire that
knowledge which, iu later years, was
turned to such advantage in the world of
fiction. The drudgery of an office, how
ever, ill suited the tastes and habits of
Dickens, so that we soon find him abandon
ing all hope of the prospective woolsack
and engaging in the more genial tasks of
newspaper critic and reporter. A series
of sketches of London life and manners,
published over the signature of “Boz,” first
brought him into notice, and so attracted
the attention of Mr. Hall, of the firm of
Chapman & Hall, as to induce that gentle
man to prevail upon the author, then ahout
24 years of age, to engage in the composi
tion of a work of fiction. The result was
the production of the “ Pickwick Papers,”
which were completed and published col
lectively in 1837. From the period of the
publication of this work dates the author’s
almost unvarying success and popularity.
Following it, in the succeeding year, came
“ Oliver 'Twlst.” During the three suc
ceeding years came “ Nicholas Nickleby ”
and “ Master Humphrey’s Clock,” the lat
ter comprising the “Old Curiosity Shop’’
and “ Barnaby Rudge.” After the publica
tion of the latter work, Dickens sailed for
America, arriving in Boston, January 22,
1842, and returning to Knglaud on the 3d
of the following June. At the close of the
following year were published his “ Ameri
can Notes for General Circulation.” Much
as has been the ill feeling caused by the
publication of this work, an unbiased pe
rusal of its pages has proved, by after ex
perience, the justice of many of its stric
Mires. American society has improved
vastly within the last thirty years, and we
ourselves must now confess, looking back
upon what, we were, and seeing what we
are, that the novelist, after all, was no
harder upon us than we really deserved.
Iu 1843, the “ChristinasCarol”appeared,
its homely sentiment and genial straight
forwardness immediately winning for it
admirers. In the following year, “ Martin
Chuzzlewit” appeared, in monthly num
bers, and towards the close of the same
year Dickens went with his family to Italy.
On January 1,1846, he assumed the editorial
control of the Daily News , a morning news
paper started iu London on the liberal side
of politics. But in this position he did not
remain long, and during the years of 1847-8,
“ Dombey and Son” published iu monthly
parts. In 1850, “ David Copperfield” was
given to the public, and in the same year,
the weekly periodical, “ Household Words,
was founded by Dickens, and has remained
one of the most popular publications up to
the present day. Here appeared, at various
periods, his “ Child's History of England,”
“Hard Times,” “Bleak House,” “Little
Dorrit,” “ Our Mutual Friend,” and many
other of the lesser and greater works which
have so readily come from his facile pen.—
For lie was a hard worker, was Charles
Dickens, and a man whose largeness of
animal spirits kept him ever fresh, genial
and merry. Hawthorne relates an anecdote
of him. how, “ during some theatrical per
formances in Liverpool, he acted in play
and farce, and spent the rest of the night
making speeches, drinking at table, and
ended at seven o’clock iu the niorniug by
jumping leap-frog over the backs of the
whole company.”
Many more such stories are oil record,
and go to make up a character which drew
around its professor many warm personal
friends, in 1868 he paid another visit to
America, this time the reader of those crea
tions with which his hearers were so fa
miliar. It were needless now to tell of the
reception which awaited him. In all the
leading cities the wealth and the intelli
gence of the land sat entranced at the dra
matic power of the man whose literary
genius had made him so close and dear a
friend. Returning to England, bis health
has for some time beeu failing, and now,
in the early autumn of his existence, when
life began to wear the mellow tone of ad
vancing age, he is stricken down, dying
fairly in the harness, taken away while
giving to the world another work which
gave promise of fully equalling its prede
cessors.
Death has been busy among our great
men for the last year, but few lives will be
more keenly felt than that of the genial
novelist who last night was taken from us.
There was a peculiar charm about his
writing which invested it with an interest
that few modern writers have succeeded in
attaining. True, he was not always natu
ral, and displayed a no small proneness
towards caricature and exaggeration, but
with all this he invested his characters
with a magnetism that drew readers
towards both them and their author. His
early experience as a law student gave him
a sufficient legal knowledge to introduce
with telling effect its many intricacies into
his novels, while, as a police rejrorter, his
contact witli the low and criminal life of
London afforded the means of portraiture
of a class which he has depicted with vivid
intensity. But, while Dickens is.generally
acknowledged as a humorist, it is in the
more tender passages of his works that his
success is even more genuine. Poor “ Lit
tle Nell,” tending her grandfather, is a
much longer remembered picture than the
“ Marchioness,” and leaves a more lasting
impression upon the mind and heart; anil,
while we may laugh over “ Tilly Slowboy,”
it is good, gentle “ Dot ” that creeps into
our affections, and is nestled in our bosoms.
But now the pen is stopped that limmed
these rare portraits ; the voice is forever
hushed that spoke to us in words of such
pleasant import, and Time, marching ever
relentless on, inscribes upon the tablets of
the dead the name of Charles Dickens.
The Negro Cadets.— A West Point
correspondent of the New York Times, re
ferring to the negro applicants for cadet
ship, says:
That there has been a great deal of feel
ing among many officers, cadets and civil
ians concerning the presence and disposi
tion of these new “amendments,” is true.
But this feeling has been more of perplexi
ty and anxiety than anything else in the
effort to divine the policy that should pre
vail, and to mark the line between the so
cial and the official treatment. The nearest
approach to real trouble has been in the
mess department. At tlrst it was debated
whether the colored ones should have a
separate table and waiter. Colonel Black
decided that the cadets should be “ free
artd equal,” and that neither white nor
black distinction should be made. The
white waiters, who manifested some signs
of dissatisfaction, were assembled in the
presence of the officers, and informed that
unless they were willing to serve all the
guests of the table alike they must with
draw. They have remained. Sothecolor
e<i cadets eat side by side with their paler
comrades. They also room in the barracks
the same as the others, and they are saluted
and attended to in all their inquiries and
duties, just as though their skius had been
bleached before they entered the Academy.
The Pot and the Kettle.—The Atlanta
Era thus puuches Captain Bryant uuder
the fifth rib :
a P t ?' ,n Bryant’s Augusta Organ, (the
Jteqmbliean oi the llth), in commenting
upon the Andersonville Decoration, adopts
the slanders of the Ku Klux Press, which
the respectable Democratic papers have
repudiated, and then adds this comment
“ The men who caused the band to play
“ Down with Traitors,” in the streets of
Macon, were actuated by feelings of hatred
toward the Southern people. Such men
are not fit to live in this country, and they
ought to leave immediately.”
Captain Bryant, who hired gangs of little
negro boys to sing “ Down with Traitors”
and other songs, in Augusta, in 1866, as a
means of revenge upon Southern ladies for
holding him in abomination as a pestiferons
disturber of the peace, now wants men
driven out of the State by the Ku Klnx
because they are falsely charged with play
ing and singing odes to the “old flag’”
This is progress.
Georgia state Lottery.
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Superlntenrien >* Office, )
Georgia Railroad, >
Augusta, June 13, 1870. )
COLLEGE EXERCISES will commence this year
as follows:
At Covington, Sunday, June 19th.
At Oxford, Sunday, July 17th.
At Pcnfleld, Sunday, July loth.
At Athens, Sunday, July 31st.
All parties desiring to attend will be passed for
ONK FAKE. Full Fare Ticket to be purchased going
and Agent gelling to furnish RETURN TICKET
FREE. S. K. JOHNSON,
Superintendent.
Athens, Greensboro, Covington, Washington, Mad
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The Great Family Medicine of the Age.
THIRTY YEARS
Have elapsed since tlie intro.luellon o( tile Pain Killer
to the public, and yet at the i resent time it is more
popular and commands a larger sale than ever before.
Its popularity is not confined to this country alone;
all over the world its beneficial effects, in c ring the
“ Ills that flesh is heir to,” are acknowledged and ap
preciated, and as a Pain Kili.rr its fame is limited to
no country, sect nor lace. It needs inly to he known
to be prized
Thirty Years is certainly a long enough time to
prove the efficacy of any medicine, and that the
Pain Killer is deserving of all its proprietors claim
for it, is amply proved by the unparalleled popolarity
't has attained. It is a scus and rkebctive reinedv.
Hold by all drugglets. Price 26 cents, 60 cents and |1
per bottle. Directions accompany each bottle.
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Look to Your Children
The (ireat Southern Remedy.
Mrs. f Cnres Colic and Griping) Price,
yi-i.i,.......1..,, J u> the Bowels, and faedi- I
Whitcomb's ■ lat( , B th< , proc J MQf T(je h . }
Syrup. (.Ing. j Cents
Mrs. f Subdues Convu'sions andd ‘Price,
I overcomes all diseases in- .. „
whitc n mb’.J ci(ltiil lo lnfantg Bml , 25
Syrup. f Children. J Cents.
Mrs. fCures Diarrbcsa, Dyson-) Price,
Wliltcnmb’s tßry rt,ld Bummer Com- 1 „
w niKoinii s < plaiDt in Children of all |
Syrup. (.ages. J Cents
It is the great Infant’s and Children’s Hoothing
Remedy in all disorders brought on by Teething or
any other cause.
Prepared by the GRA ETON MEDICINE CO.,
Bt. Louis, Mo
Hold by Druggists and Dealers in Medicine every
where. niy3-d*cly
A Book for thr iVliifiion.
MARRIAGE A Privat* Codnsel-
O TTTD I? *-or TO Marrieb,
Vj U liJiil. or those about to marry,
on the physiological mysteiies and revelations of the
sexual system, with the latest discoveries in pro
ducing and preventing offspring, preserving the com
plexion, Ac.
This is an interesting work of 224 pages, with nu
merous engravings, and contains valuable information
ior those who are married or contemplate marriage ;
still it is a book that ought to be under lock and key,
and not laid carelessly about the house.
Pent lo any one (tree of postage) for Fifty Cents.
Address Dr. Butts’ Dispensary, No. 12 N. Eighth
Street, St. Louis, Mo.
W3T Notice t.o the Afflicted and Unfor
tunate.
Before apylylng to the notorious Quacks who ad
vertise in public papers, or using any Quack Remedies,
peruse Dr. Butts’ work, no matter what yotir disease
is or how deplorable your condition
Dr. Butts can be consulted personally or by mail
on the diseases mentioned in his works. Office, No.
12 N. Eighth street, between Market and Chestnut, St.
Louis, Mo mv3-d*cly
Office Charlotte, Columbia and 1
Augustii JRatlroad, !
Augusta, Ga.. June 1, 1870.)
Consignees of Freight by this Road are notified that
In no instance will any kind or description of Freight
he delivered unless charges on same have been paid.
)e2-6 W. T. WILLIAMS, Agent.
- fa WIRE RAILING, FOR
■ AAA II B'■closing Cerae'ery Lots,
i|s VV V II C ttages, Ac.; Wire Guards
a-™ '” r •'tore Fronts, Factories,
Asylums, Ac ; Wire Webbing, Rice Cloth, and Wire
Work. Also, Manufacturers of
FOURDBINIKK CLOTHS.
Every information by addressing
M. WALKER A BON,
No. 11 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia.
jau29-ly
GROVER & BAKER
Colebrated Improved Sewing Machines,
MISS LUCY J. READ, Agent,
326 Broad at., Augusta, Ga.
JVIaCRINES Repaired and Improvements
added at abort notice.
STITCHING of all kinds, and NEEDLES
tor sale. nov!2-ly
New Reivertisemelits.
Steam Dyeing and Finishing*
T HAVE opened at my MILL on Twiggs
street, n STEAM DYEING and FINISHING
ESTABLISHMENT, in ebagge of
JAMES ALLISON,
FliOM I’AISMY, SCOTLAND,
where Ladies’ and Gents’ CLOTHING of all
kinds, fine SHAWLS, SILKS, CRUMB
CLOTHB, TABLE COVERS, PIECE and
STRAW GOODS, can be CLEANED, DYED
and RENEWED in the best manner.
Orders and communications received at my
store, 276 Broad street.
je7 if R. F. URQUIIART.
FOR LUNCH.
OjTKEEN TURTLE SOUP. TODAY Ore
Hundred Pounds will be served at the OGLE
THORPE SALOON, from 11 to 1 o’clock.
Friends and customers are respectfully invited.
Also, TURTLE STEAKS will be served.
Families can be supplied. jel3-l*
FOE SALE.
too SHARES Mobile aud Mont
gomery PREFERRED STOCK
O X ,
Shares Uruniteville STOCK.
WANI'ED.
50 Shares Macon and Augusta
STOCK
IOC) Shares Nashville nud Chatta
nooga STOCK
50 Shares East Tennessee and |
Georgia STOCK
5,000 Montgomery and West Point
INCOME BONDS.
BRANCH, SONS & CO , Bankers,
icl3-tt 223 Broad street, Augusta.
Southern Dve House
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Office Corner Washington and Broad Streets.
DYE WORKS 79 ami 81 ELLIS ST.,
AUGUSTA, GA.
BUSOOW& BLROUD,
PROPRIETORS AND FRENCH DYERS
W E respectfully beg to inform the pub
lic that we are now ready to do DYEING and
( LEANING of all kinds of SILKS, VEL
VETS and RIBBONS, WOOLEN GOODS,
ALPACAS, WORSTED and Gents CLOTH
ING, KID GLOVES, CURTAINS, LACES,
&c., &c , in all colors and at a short notice of
24 hours.
Also, GeDts’ Clothing REPAIRED AND
ALTERED.
FIRST CLASS WORK OR NO PAY.
In hope the public will give us a trial and
judge, tor theiuselvee, we remain respectfully,
BLASCOW & BEROUD,
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NOTICE.
JOHN L. ELLS,
Attorney at Law and Justice of the Pence,
175 ELLIS HTHKKT,
NEAH NEW POST OFF CE.
Civil Terms Court begins Second and Fourth
Saturdays of each month Criminal Courts—
Dd.y Sessions. jel2-2*
READ CERTIFICATES.
IJon. ALKX H. STEPHENS,
Hon. 11. F. RUSSELL,
Hon. H. W. HILLIARD,
Dr. H. M. CUMINGS,
PAUL F. HAMMOND, Ksq., of
SOLOMON’S STRENGTHENING and IN
VIGORATING BIT I ERS. Without doubt the
great., st tonic of the age, and so said by thou
sands of our S' ml heru people who have tried it.
M. HYAMS.
Agent lor Solomon’s Bittebs,
244 Broad Street,
Under Masonic Hall, Augusta, Ga.
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Hardware, Cutlery,
Moves, Tin and Wood Ware.
WILLIAM HILL
I3fGB to announce to his old friends aud
customers, and the citizens of Augusta and
vicinity, that he lias 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 full stock
of HARDWARE, consisting of—
AXES, HOES, SPADES, SHOVELS
MANURE FORKS, RAKES
BLACKSMITH TOOLS
BAR IRON, STEEL, NAILS
HORSE and MULE SHOES
OVENS, POTS and SPIDERS
HINGES, SCREWS
POCKET and TABLE CUTLERY
SAWS, AUGURS, CHISELS, Ac., Ac.
ALSO,
WOODEN WARE, each as BUCKETS,
TUBS, CHURNS, HAILS, Ac.
COOKING STOVES, of various patterns oi
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 aud SHEET
IRON MANUFACTURED to order, and job
bing promptly done in best manner.
I respectfully solicit a share of public pa
tronage. WILLIAM 111 LL,
janl4-6ra 193 Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
FOR SALE,
r I?HE ONE-FIFTH INTEREST OF THE
late L. D. Lalcerstedt in the Printing and
Publishing Establishment of the AUGUSTA
CONSTITUTIONALIST. This very valuable
interest can be had on reasonable terms for
cash.
Apply to Mrs. A. F. LALLERSTEDT, Ex
ecutrix, Berzelia, Ga., or her Attorney at Law,
JAMES S. HOOK,
Augusta, Ga.
ggp’ The Chronicle aud Sentinel copy once
a week lor lour weefes; Charleston Courier,
Savannah Republican aud Atlanta Constitution
once a week for two weeks, and forward bills.
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HI .lH HOOD:
CxKmMT ho IT LOS T—HOW RESTORED.
Just Published in a sealed envelope , Price ,
Six Cents,
A LECTURE on the Natural Treatment and
Radical Uure of Spermatorrhea or Seminal
Weakness, Involuntary Emissions, Sexual De
bility, and impediments to Marriage generally ;
Nervousness, Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits;
Mental aud Physical Incapacity, resulting irom
Self-Abuse, Jfcc., by Robert ,T. Cut/verwem,,
M. D., author of tbu “Green Book,” <fcc.
it \ Boon to Thousands of Sufferers.”
Sent under >eal, in a plain envelope, to any
address, postpaid, on receipt of six cents, or
two postage stamps, by CHARLES J. C.
KLINE & CO.,
147 Bowery, New York, P. O. Box 4580.
Also, Dr. Culverwell’a " Marriage Guide.”
Price, 35 Cents. my4-d*cßmif
20,000 LBS. C. R. BACON
SIDES.
5,000 bushels CORN
1,000 bushels OATS
300 barrels Refined SUGARS
For sale by
je4tf BRANCH, SCOTT & CO.
Still Lower Down We Come.
LOOK! LOOK! LOOK!!
GREAT REDUCTIONS
IN OUR
WHOLE STOCK.
A Good Suit for - - $3 50
A Good Suit for - - $3 50
AT
Pope, Mack & Co.’s.
A Good Suit for - - $4 50
A Good Suit for - - $4 50
AT
Pope, Mack & Co.’s
A Good Suit for - - $5 00
A Good Suit for - - $5 00
AT
Pope, Mack & Co.’s.
LOOK AT THIS !
A Good White Shirt at 75 Cents, sl,
$1 50 and $2.
AT
Pope. Mack & Co.’s.
m
50 Dozen Gents’ Linen and Lisle
Thread Draws at 50, 75 cts and sl,
AT
Pope, Mack &, Co.’s.
50 Dozen Gents Undershirts at 50, 75
cents and sl,
AT
Mack &, Co.’s.
EVERY THING REDUCED,
Call and See,
Pope, Mack & Cos.,
248 BROAD STREET,
under masonic building.
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CLOTHING. CLOTHING.
(TuST RECEIVED, and will be sold at
GREAT BARGAINS :
150 pairs Linen and Cotlonade PANTS,
f l to *1 50.
20 pairs Linen and Cotfonade PANTS, 90
cents.
100 Linen COATS, St 25 to S2.
50 Black Alpaca SACKS, $2 50.
50 Suits GRAY FLANNEL at f5 per suit.
250 pair® Summer Cassimere PANTS, S3 50
to#L
125 Summer Cassimere VESTS, SI 50 to f*
20 Fine Colored Walking COATS, SIS to
$lB, worth $25.
Lisle Thread UNDERSHIRTS, 50 cents
to $2 50.
India Gauze, the very fluest, 75 cents
to SI.
Bleached Drill and Linen DRAWERB.
Elegant Line KID GLOVES.
Lisle Thread DRIVING GLOVES,
Buckskin, &c., Ac.
COLLARS, SHIRTS of every kind.
HANDKERCHIEFS, very cheap and
flue.
Browu aud White English SOCKB.
SUMMER IIATS AT BKBW YORK COST!
For sale by
W. A. RAWS BY,
In old Insurance Bank Building.
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FINE HORSES.
H HAVE just returned from Kentucky with
a lot of the finest
DOUBLE AND SINGLE HARNESS AND
SADDLE HORSES
Ever brought to this market. I respectfully
invite those wishing to purchase to call and
examine my stock before buyiug, at 350
BROAD STREET.
jets-6 JL_ W. CONWAY.
Notice to (Contractors and Builders.
We ARE receiving a Iresh supply ol
ROCKLAND LIME direet from Maine, and
will sell by the CAR LOAD or SINGLE BAR
REL.
Also, ONE THOUSAND BARRELS TO
ARRIVE.
We are Agents for the sale of the LIME
manufactured by the Georgia Lime aud Fer
tilizing Company, and would call special at
tention to their Lime, which we have in store.
Planters desiring a Lime for fertilizing can
be supplied at the low price of
sls PER TON.
A full stock ol
LOUISVILLE CEMENT
PLASTER OF PARIS
HAIR and LATHS
Orders for BRICK will be promptly attend
ed to
D. H. AJ.T. DENNING,
45 Jackson street, Augusta, Ga.
my 22 dftctf
Veterinary Surgeon.
The undersigned respectfully announces
to the citizens of Augusta and surrounding
couutry that be has established headquarters
at the well-known Grey Eagle Stables of Mr.
John B. Pournelle, where he will be pleased
to receive calls for VETERINARY PRAC
TICE. A graduate of the Veterinary College
Os Edinburgh, aud having an experience of
fifteen years in the treatment of the varied dis
eases peculiar to horses and cattle, he confi
dently offers his professional services to the
public in this section. His scale of fees are
very reasonable. He bears flattering testi
monials of J. B. Halpun, Principal of the
Edinburgh Veterinary College, and other emi
nent veterinary surgeons, which he will be
pleased to exhibit to all who may desire to
Witness them.
Horses bought and sold on commission.
CHARLES FAWNS.
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NEW. AD V ERTISEMBNTS~"
RAIN! RAIN 11 RAIN!!!
In CONSEQUENCE of the Rain on Monday morning, the Goods advertised to ho *
on the BARGAIN COUNTERS at the FREDERICKSBURG STORE, comm,
o’clock precisely, was postponed uotil THIS (Tuesd.yl MORNING exactly at
they will be offered regardless of the weather, and we hope all who can will ° ’ When
promptly, as it will be like giving GOLD DOLLARS away. 00 ° D hand
Do not forget that part of the Biock to be offered will be our entire assortment n,
and White LACE POINTS and SUMMER SHAWLS, commencing ns low as «l J*
A large line of beautiful CHECKED SILKS (all Silk) at 75 ceuts.
Elegant Silk and Wool IRON BAREGES, at 25 cents.
If possible be on hand, all of you, at the hour precisely.
r . Hiclißrds -Bros
J el4l CORNER BY THE PLANTERS’ HOTEL, AUGUSTA GA
NEW AND CHOICE Goods
AT ’
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES!
AUGUST” DORR.
merchant tailor
220 .Broad and 25 Jackson Streets,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
In consequence ot tho threat .scarcity of
money at the present time, L am now offerintr
my well selected stock of IN ew and
ble Dnglish, French and German Cloths Cas
simeres, Vestings, &c., <fcc., at prices lower
than ever before, and to suit the times
The above will be made up in the latest
and most fashionable stvle. Having the best
workmen, I guarantee satisfaction.
.A. fine stock of .Ready-made Clothing, in
groat part of my own manufacture, and Cents’
Furnishing Goods, will be sold as low as any
house in the city.
AUGUST DORR,
290 Broad street, A.ugusta, Ga.
CARPETS. CARPETS.”"
Great Bargains Offered for Two Weeks.
IN order to reduce stock before Ist JULY, aud to make room for our Pall Stock
we will offer the following great inducements to parties buying CARPETS for two
weeks from this date :
Carpets, worth 50 cents, at ‘25 cents.
Carpets, worth Si, at 50 cents.
Carpets, worth Si 50, at sl.
Carpets, worth $2 25, at Si 25 to Si 60.
Druggets, worth $lB, at sl2.
Druggets, worth sls, at $9.
Parties intending to purchase Carpets the coming Fall can save money by bnyln*
now.
The public are invited to call and examine the bargains offered at
James G. Bailie & Bros*.
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READY-MADE CLOTHING
AND
CENT’S FURNISHING GOODS.
A. T. GRAY,
OPPOSITE MASONIC HALL,
Invites the Citizens of Augusta and visitors to an examination of a Fresh Stock of Surintr
and Summer READY MADE CLOTHING for MEN AND BOYS. Also a well selected a*
sortmeut of GENT'S CHOICE FURNISHING GOODS. The Stock hiving been purchased
when goods were at the VERY LOWEST FRICE4, will he sold at FIGURES THAT WILL
GIVE SATISFACTION, and which cannot be undersold.
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Carolina Life Insurance Company,
OF MEMPHLS, TENN.
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ASSETS - - - - - - - - 9840,019 03.
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JEFFERSON DAVIS, President.
M. J. WICKS, Ist Vice-President. | J. T. PETTIT. 2d Vice-President.
W. F. BOYLE, SecreUry. | J, H EDMONDSON, Geueral Agent.
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ISSUES POLICIES on ail the Improved Plans of Life Insurance.
ALL POLICIES NON FORFEITABLE for their Equitable Value.
NO RESTRIC [TONS ON TRAVEL OK RESIDENCE withiu the settle J limits of the
United States, British North America or Europe.
1 respectfully present the claims of this Company to the citizens of my State as a reliable
medium through which they cm secure a certain proteetiou for their families iu the event of
their death.
ACTIVE SOLICITORS WANTED.
UFAYKTTR McUWfi, State Agent,
my 4 6mif NO. 3 OLD POST OFFICE BUILDING, AUGUSTA, GA.
MUSQUETOE NETS.
I HAVE just received a foil line of MUS
QUETOE NETS, with Patent Fixtures com
plete, and of Fixtures without Nets. No extra
charge made for putting up Nets or Fixtures
in any part of the city.
E. Ci. UOCERS,
Furniture Dealer,
mj29-lm 143 and 145 Broad street.
ST. MARY’S SCHOOL,
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA.
Right Rev. THOS. ATKINSON, D. D., Visitor.
Rev. ALDERT SMEDEB, D. D., Rector.
Rev. BENNETT BMEDES, A M , Assis’t.
THE FIFTY-SEVENTH TERM of this
School will commence on the 16th of JULY.
The charge for Board and English Tuition
is 1120 per term.
For a Circular, apply to the Rector.
References-—Right Rev. Jno. W. Beckwith,
Rev. W. H. Clarke, Rev. W. C. llun'.er. Rev.
H. A. Skinner. jelS-B*
Private Board in New York.
fj~ AMES E. BROOME aud NIECE, late of
Florida, have leased the spacious and elegant
Mansion, No. 330, on the corner of East Seven
teenth street and Livingston Place, in the City
of New York. A charming Summer location
on Sfuyvesant Bqnare, one of the finest Parks
in the city. They offer to their friends and
Southern families generally, who desire to
spend time in the city, a quiet end pleasant
home, comfortable rooms and first class fable
at moderate prices.
Preserve this notice for your Hackman.
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COTTON GINS!
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PRATT'S
CELEBRATED GINS,
JVTaNUFACTURED for the past FORTY
YEARS by DANIEL PRATT, of Alabama,
and in use from Virginia to Mexico, giving
very geueral satisfaction.
The PRATT GINS are plaiu, simple and du
rable, run light and gin fast; not liable, win
proper care, to get out of order, and as cheap
is any first-class Gin made. .
Mr. Pratt claims that his COTTON BOX is
superior to all others in use.
We were unable to supplv the demand for
“PRATT GINS” last season, and request
Planters to send in their orders early.
Factors’ acceptances, payable next Novem
ber, will be taken for Gins without charge for
the lime. ,
We will guarantee every Gin that we sell to
perform well.
For further particulars apply to
WIIELESN & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS,
my3s-Smif AUGUSTA, OA^
BASS «S& CO.’S
ENGLISH PALE ALE.
JUBT RECEIVED, and for sale on draught,
by je7-C. K R. SCHNEIDER-
Flour From New Wheat.
Families whe°S?.«
with FLOUR ground from NEW wna. .
our Store or &