Newspaper Page Text
Terms of City Subscription.
Daily, one year $lO oo
6 months 5 oo
3 months..., 2 50
Tri-Weekly, one year 6 oo
“ 6 mouths 250
Weekly, one year 200
o months l oo
Terms of subscription for papers sent by
mail to any l’ostoffice out of Richmond
county, including postage :
Daily one year $lO 60
Daily six mouts 0 30
Tri- Weekly one year 5 40
Tri-Weekly six months 2 70
Weekly one year 2 20
Weekly six mouths 1 10
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
FRIDAY, MARCH r>, 1875.
Now Advertisements.
Notice—By Fred. S. Mosher, Pro
prietor Augusta Hotel.
Choice Bananas—For sale by Wm.
Ferris.
Wanted—Reliable Men—By J. H.
Trump.
See Notice of Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitters.
The Weather.
War Department, j
Office ok Chief Spinal Officer,
Washington. March s—la. m. )
Probabilities :
For the Gulf and South Atlantic
States, failing barometer, southeasterly
winds, warmer cloudy weather and oc
casional rain.
Report of the United States Signal
Service Bureau.
Augusta, March 4—4:16 P. M.
Augusta, 57 deg.—Cloudy.
Buffalo, 24 deg.—Light snow.
Charleston, 54 deg.—Cloudy.
New Orleans, 55 deg.—Light rain.
New York, 32 deg.—Clear.
Washington, 21 deg.—Fair.
<_ —-—
The Force Bill.
By reference to our telegraphic
columns it will be seen that the Force
bill did not even “ squal ” in the Sen
ate, and is as dead as a door nail.
Y. M*C. A.
The meetings conducted by the
Young Men’s Christian Association
continue with increasing interest on
the part of the young men. The Bible
readings will hereafter take place at 11
a. m., instead of 4 p. m. All are invited
to attend all the services.
Prize Drill of Cos. B.
Oglethorpe Infantry, Cos. 8., will have
a full dress drill to-morrow night, at
their hall, rn Reynolds street, when
the white plume will be contested for
by the members. The ladies are cor
dially invited to grace the occasion by
their presence. The plume is now
held by Sergt. F. B. McCoy. A spirit
ed and exciting contest is anticipated.
The River.
At seven o’clock yesterday morning
the river was 28 feet 4 inches, which
was the highest point observed by the
Bridge Keeper, though there were in
dications that it rose during the night
to about 29 feet, but commenced to fall
slowly during the latter part of the
night. Yesterday afternoon, at five
o’clock, it was 27 feet 7 inches, showing
that it had fallen very slowly during
the day.
Suppoiting Home Institutions.
We publish this morning a com
munication signed “Franklin” which
points out one of the sources of “ hard
times” in Augusta. A man has a light
to do what he pleases with his money ;
but if the party depending upon Au
gusta people for trade chooses to spend
his money abroad for printing which
could be done as well and as cheaply
at home, his customers may find it
convenient to exercise their freedom
by patronizing those who help support
homo institutions.
Luxurious Travelling.
The News and Courier calls attention
fo the fact that parlor and drawing
room cars are now run on all the day
trains between Wilmington, N. C., and
Portsmouth, Y r a., communicating di
rectly with the magnificent steamers of
the Bay Line. Seats or compartments
may be secured by telegraphing. A
Pope, general passenger agent of the
Atlantic Coast Line at Wilmington, or
by applying to the night conductors on
the Wilmington, Columbia, &nd Au
gusta Railroad. State rooms or berths
on the Bay line can be had by apply
ing to the conductors of the day train
on the Wilmington and Weldon Rail
road, or by telegraphing the general
passenger agent of the Coast Line, at
Wilmington, N. C.
See advertisement in another column.
The Confederate Monument.
The Committees of the Ladies’ Mem
orial Association appointed to consider
the designs offered for a monument to
the Confederate dead, held a meeting
yesterday afternoon at the residence
of Dr. J. A. Eve, at which there was a
full attendance with several gentleman
visitors.
There wa3 no regular organization
as a meeting, but a pleasant conver
sation ensued upon the exhibition of
the designs offered for the monument.
The committee decided to report fa
vorably upon the design presented by
Muldoon & Cos., of Louisville, Ky.
This design is for a monument 70 feet
high to cost $15,000. Several other de
signs from different parties were pre
sented and considered.
Endorsements of the People’s Rem
edy.—When skillful and cautious med
ical men give over their own signa
tures a favorable opinion of the sooth
ing and vitalizing effects of a prepara
tion, the public does not hesitate to
believe them. The voluminous and
emphatic professional testimony in
favor of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
as a specific for all disorders of the
stomach and bowels, for liver com
plaint, intermittent and remittent fe
vers, and the thousand ills that wait
upon dyspepsia, must convince the
most skeptical. Aside, however, from
the testimony of the faculty, there is a
large mass of evidence from p ttients
in every walk of life, and showing that
this great preventive and restorative
is of inestimable value to the sick and
debilitated. The Bitters are suited to
all climates, and are universally en
dorsed as a preventive of disorders
caused by miasma and impure water.
mars-frsutu3
A Supposed Case of Civil Rights.
Early yesterday morning a wild re
port prevailed on the streets that a
colored party had availed himself of
the privileges accorded the negro race
by the Civil Rights bill (which has just
become a law) by obtaining entertain
ment at the Planters’ Hotel. One report
was that a negro had gone to the hotel,
obtained supper, had a room and bed
for the night, took breakfast at the re
gular tables and then left. Another
was that .a Connecticut lawyer was
travelling through the South with a
negro man, whom he expected to get re
gular accommodations for at hotels,
and cause a lawsuit in the event of re
fusal to entertain him by hotel keepers.
There were many variations, however,
almost every one hearing a different
tale.
After probing the matter thoroughly
we found there was “ much ado
about nothing,” and that no effort had
been made to test the Civil Rights bill
at any hotel in this city. The facts
which gave rise to the reports appear
to be as follows :
Tuesday evening a number of pas
sengers from the North arrived here on
the C., C. & A. R. R. passenger train,
and fourteen of them went to the Plan
ters’ Hotel. The first one who went to
the clerk’s desk registered the names of
Wm. R. Hatch and Moses Daly, Provi
dence, R. 1., and Mr. B. F. Brown, Man
ager of the hotel, (Mr. B. P. Chatfield,
the Proprietor, being at Aiken, where
he owns also the Highland Park Hotel,)
assigned him to a room and he imme-.
diately retired, Mr. Brown not noticing
the two after assigning the room to
them. Mr. Hatch had requested a
double room, that is one with two beds
in it, which is usual with many tran
sient guests who desire to be together
at night,
At breakfast, Mr. Hatch, who is mani
festly an invalid, entered the public
breakfast room with his companion, a
rather dark complexioned man, and
was accorded a seat at a table near
the door while his companion was con
ducted to a table at the extreme north
ern end of the room—no objection
being made by either. After breakfast,
Mr. Brown, who thought he had a
Civil Rights elephant on his hands,
sought Mr. Hatch, and questioned him
regarding the man of color, when that
gentleman told him his companion was
a full-blooded Pequot Indian from
Rhode Island and a professional nurse,
who had beem employed by him for
sometime in consequence of his ill-!
health. Mr. Hatch said he was com
pelled to have his nurse with him at
all times and that he always slept in
the same room, and had sat at the
same table with him without remark
at different hotels on the route South.
He said he did not know the custom
here, that if he had caused any an
noyance or unpleasantness he desired
to pay his bill and go elsewhere.
Mr. Brown told him that would not
be necessary, his explanation being en
tirely satisfactory. He had told Mr.
Hatch at first that his reason for ques
tiouing him was the fact that the Civil
Rights bill, having become a law, every
one was looking for a test of it to be
made, and he desired particularly in
this case to know whether the intro
duction of this man was intended as
an effort to obtain for the colored man
the privileges which the bill conferred ;
that while the bill was now a law, and
could not be legally resisted while it
was a law, he wanted to know how to
act in the matter.
Mr. Hatch informed him that it was
far from his intention to engage in
such a project as that; but, on the
contrary, he was so much engaged in
looking after his health, that he really
had not read the papers enough to
know that the bill had become a law.
Mr. Brown remarked that, while
such was the law, the hotels could not
discriminate, yet they reserved the
right heretofore held, of seating their
guests at any table the manager de
sired. It has been the custom of allow
ing servants at the tables with ladies
and young children, and first-class fare
has been furnished them when ordered.
In this case the fact that first-class
fare was desired was indicated by the
nurse coming in with the invalid.
At the dinner hour Mr. Hatch signi
fied his willingness to have his nurse
take dinner after the regular guests
were through, so as not to cause any
annoyance to any one. He appeared
perfectly willing to conform to all the
rules and customs of the house—show
ing that it was not his desire or inten
tion to make any political capital out
of the affair.
Mr. Hatch is traveling South for his
health, which has been very k bad for
some time, and he is now en route to
Jacksonville, Fla., for which place ho
expected to leave last night, via Savan
nah.
We have been thus careful in giving
the full particulars of the incident, be
cause of the many erroneous reports
which spread over the city regarding
it. At any other time such au occur
rence, which has no doubt happened
many times before at all prominent
hotels, would have passed without the
least comment, but the passage of the
Civil Rights Bill causes the people
generally to be on the look out for the
least thing that indicates an effort on
the part of the colored people to avail
themselves of the social privileges ac
corded by this last throe of an expiring
political party.
No undue importance should be at
tached to the occurrence as all the talk
about it appears to have arisen from
the mistake of Mr. Hatch in register
ing himself and nurse separately when
it has always been customary for a
guest to register a nurse or servant in
connection with his name.
Railroad News.
Philadelphia, March 4.—On the
Pennsylvania route from Baltimore,
palace sleepers and parlor cars run
through without change to Wheeling
for $5.50; Indianapolis, $7 ; Louisville,
$8 ; Chicago, $8 ; St. Louis, $lO. Rates
from New York to Philadelphia are
unchanged.
Chattanooga, March 4. —The Ala
bama and Chattanooga Railroad has
repaired the breaks in its road caused
by the late flood, and will run trains
through over the entire line to-mor
row.
Free Lance Items.
Twenty-first day of Lent.
Business was generally quiet yester
day.
Thermometer yesterday afternoon,
57 degrees.
Nothing of interest in the courts yes
terday.
Mr. Geo. A. Oates has received the
latest Northern weeklies.
Meeting of the Board of Education
at the City Hall Saturday morning, at
11 o’clock.
The cotton % market yesterday was
quiet but firm, with lighter offerings—
good ordinary, U%; low middling,
and middling, lb%. Receipts 302, and
sales 776 bales.
Ticket No. 1,797, which drew $l9O in
the Kentucky Library Drawing, last
Saturday was held by a citizen of Au
gusta.
Henry Posey, the excellent colored
barbecue cook favored us last night
with a specimen of his barbecued hash,
which went down well.
The little son of Maj. Geo. T. Barnes,
about six years old, fell from a horse
he was riding, on Centre street near
the bridge, yesterday evening, and dis
located one of his arms. The injury
was not very serious.
The Columbia correspondent of the
News and Courier foreshadows the re
moval of Treasurer Cardozo, without
impeachmect. The Conservative mem
bers hold his fate in their hands.
Mr. F. S. Mosher, proprietor of the
Augusta Hotel, has changed the char
acter of his house, having decided to
take out a license for a private board
ing house. He invites all of his friends
to visit the house at their pleasure,
with all others whom he may desire to
entertain.
There is quite an intelligent young
colored boy, named George Huff, about
seven or eight years old, at ti\e Freed
man’s Hospital, who is deaf and dumb.
His mother, Any Huff, died six or
eight months ago in the hospital, leav
ing the boy an orphan, his father hav
ing been drowned just before his birth.
The Atlanta Constitution declares
that all of its prize gifts have been dis
tributed, with the exception -of SSO,
uncalled for. The pianos have been
handed over to the fortunate winners,
who sold them, and an Athens sub
scriber has received an order for the
Durham bull.
There will be a dead printer in the
Herald office pretty soon. The editor
of the Herald is made to say that
“Pennyson, the great poet, has de
clined a baronetcy.” These things are
provoking, but they will occur occa
sionally. We spoke of the eminent
French physician, Desmoulins, the
other day, and it was tortured into
“ Demonlins.”
Lieut. T. C. Murphy, of the Atlanta
Police force, arrived in Augusta from
Charleston, Wednesday evening, with
a prisoner, charged with appropriating
goods belonging to his employer, an
Atlanta merchant. He was obtained
by a requisitioa from Gov. Smith on
Gov. Chamberlain. Lieut. Murphy
left with his charge for Atlanta yester
day morning, the prisoner, during the
night, having been taken care of by
Chief Christian. #
We cull the following from the Savan
nah News :
Dr. W. Watkin Hicks, who was once
prominent in South Carolina and in
this State as an ultra Democrat, has
been appointed Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction in Florida by that other
ultra Democrat, Mareellus Stearns,
Governor. This is as it should be.
Hicks is now in a position to teach the
young idea how to shoot Niagara, as
Col. Carlyle would remark. The editor
of the Augusta Constitutional'cst ought
to write and congratulate the distin
guished doctor,
The editor of the News, who swore
he never would consent to Greeley and
then consented, and whose platform
now adorns the Civil Rights bill as a
preamble, ought to lead off in congratu
lating the Doctor.
N9w Books.
Dr. T. De Witt Talmage is one of the
best praised and best abused pulpit
orators in America. His imagination
is boundless, his style picturesque, and
his thoughts most ingenious and ag
gressive. He lias published in book
form a series of sermons, under the
title of “ Sports that Kill.” A vigorous
onslaught is made upon the modern
stage and the abominations of modern
society, as well as upon bad books and
newspapers. Many persons will cor
dially endorse Mr. Talmage’s opinions
and many more condemn them as ex
travagant and absurd. | But, it is safe
to say, that all will acknowledge their
singular power and brilliancy.
“ Hearts and Hands ” is the title of a
new novel, in sixteen chapters, by that
charming and gifted Southern writer,
Christian Reid, the author of “ Valerie
Aylmer “ Marion House,” and other
productions known to fame. This latest
volume is a pure story beautifully told.
It could not be otherwise, coming from
one of the noblest and most intellect
ual of the daughters of the South. We
warmly commend it to all lovers of un
defiled fiction.
“ A Strange World,” by Miss Braddon,
has already been noticed in these col
umns. The genius of the English
authoress seems to know no such thing
as a weakening of power and intensity
of effect. She has evidently learned in
suffering what she teaches in romance,
W T m. Black, who stands at the head
of latter-day fiction, alongside of Geo.
Eliot and Wilkie Collins, has grouped
together a number of short tales, which
exhibit all the peculiar and winsome
features of his earlier productions,
such as “ Kilmeny ” and “ A Princess
of Thule.” The only regret in perusing
these stories is that they are so brief
yet so delightful.
The novel of Christian Reid is from
the press of D. Appleton & Co.-—the
others from that of Harper & Brothers.
We are indebted to Messrs. Quinn &
Pendleton for copies of these several
works.
“Neuril” —The instantaneous cure
for Neuralgia Depot, No. 291 Broad
street, mhls-ly
Funeral of Two Ex-Confederate Sol
diers.
Two ex-Con£eueiato soldiers, each of
whom lost an arm in the late war, died
in this city Wednesday, and their fu
nerals took place together yesterday
afternoon at 4 o’clock, from Asbury M.
E. Church. One was Mr. Samuel Rat
cliffe, formerly, we believe, of the 10th
Georgia, and Mr. Dawse Ware, of Com
pany C (Georgia Light Guards), 48th
Georgia, who lost his arm at the second
Manassas.
Mr. Ratcliffe was attended in his last
illness by members of the Young Men’s
Christian Association, who also took
charge of the funeral. The surviving
members of the Georgia Light Guards
lining in A ugusta took charge of the
funeral of Mr. Ware, and attended yes
terday in a body.
This was a marked coincidence,
which has not occurred since the close
of the war.
The Jury Question.
Judge W. T. Gould, of the City Court,
yesterday rendered his decision in
Chambers, in the case of the defaulting
jurors, Messrs Bailie and Phinizy, who
claimed exemption from jury duty on
account of being active firmen. It will
be remembered that the case was
argued on Saturday last in the City
Court by John S. Davidson, Esq., for
Mr. Jas G. Bailie and Messrs. Barnes
& Camming for Mr. Charles H. Phinizy,
claiming exemption on the plea of being
active firemen, and the Judge reserved
his decision to be rendered in cham
bers :
City Court of Augusta, /
Chambers, March 3,1875. \
At the late February term of this
court James G. Bailie and Charles H.
Phinizy were required to show cause
why they should not be fined for de
fault as jurors, and after argument had,
an order was entered that the matter
should be decided in vacation.
The two gentlemen stand on the
same footing, and their cases will be
considered together. Each is on the
roll of a fire company, performing no
duty as a fireman, and commuting his
fines by paying an annual sum in gross.
“ Active members,” and only “ active ”
members are by statute exempt from
jury duty. Are these gentlemen in
that category ?
It was taken for granted in the ar
gument that lists of the members of
these companies had been regularly re
turned to the Clerk of this Court, as
required by the statute of 1873 (Code,
sec. 3939), and that the names of these
gentlemen were on one or the other of
these lists. And it was contend
ed that these lists were conclusive,
and the court was bound to exempt all
persons named in them, without furth
er inquiry. I cannot assent to this le
gal proposition. The law requires the
“ Secretary of each and every fire com
pany” to make the return, but it does
not make him the judge, without ap
peal, of what constitutes an “ active
fireman.” The list is not verified by
oath. No responsibility attaches to
the officer making it, for even a wilful
mistake, and yet it is insisted that
it “imports absolute verity.” The
number of citizens of Augusta, who
may, by possibility, claim this exemp
tion is four hundred. The argument
then is that the Legislature intended
to give to private individuals, in no
way responsible for its exercise, power
to exempt four hundred men from
jury duty, without appeal. To my mind
the proposition refutes itself.
But while the importance of this
question, in its possible future bearing,
has led me briefly to consider it, it has
no application to the case before me.
The lists of these companies, which the
law requires the Secretaries to return
“ to the clerks of the various courts,”
ou the “second Monday in January in
each and every year,” have never been
returned to the clerk of this court; and
what their effect, if returned, would
have been, is immaterial in this case.
If the lists had been furnished, I should
excuse no one one whose name (lid not
appear. If a regular “ active fireman ”
were omitted, he must look to the
officer who made the mistake. But to
give active firemen the full benefit of a
privilege earned by their labor, when
no list was returned, I would venture
to look for evidence of their true posi
tion, outside of the statute—though I
confess my right to do so is by no
means unquestionable. But I cannot
take the responsibility of excusing a
fireman, without the Secretary’s certifi
cate, but on the clearest evidence of
his right. The only evidence here is
the affidavit of each party in his own
case, and that shows the precise
condition of things stated in the out
set of his opinion, viz.; Each is on the
roll of a fire company, performing no
duty as a fireman, and commuting his
fines by paying an annual sum in gross.
Are they “ active firemen ?” “ Such
only are exempted from the duty
(Code, sec. 3939). I believe the first
statute on this subject was the act of
1838 (Pamph. 65), by which the firemen
of Augusta were excused from jury
duty, “ provided they do not exceed one
hundred in number, and are regular in
the discharge of their duties as firemen.”
So reads the act. Successive subse
quent laws added to the number of ex
emptions. I have always held that
those only were intended to be ex
empted who, in the language of the
first act, “ were regular in the dis
charge of their duties as firemen.” I
was an “ active fireman” for fifteen
years, and learned by experience that
the “duty of firemen” is to put out
fires—not to pay others for doing
it. This language was not retained
in the acts after 1838, and the system
more properly speaking, the abuse—
came into vogue of giving to paying
members a privilege intended only for
working ones. Then comes the act of
1873, already referred to—the act now
of force. And as if intending expressly
to correct the abuse it limits the ex
emption to “ active firemen” alone.
What is an “ active fireman ?” It is
urged before me, with great ap
parent gravity, that a gentleman, who
never goes near an engine or a fire,
becomes an “ active fireman,” by pay
ing a fixed annual sum to afire com
pany. Coutsel do not always deserve
rebuke, for stating in argument a
proposition, the absurdity of which is
transparent; but courts cannot be ex
pected to heed them. The by-laws of
their companies may make these gentle
men “ members of their bodies,” but as
long as they occupy their present posi
tion, all the company, by-laws, and all
the officers’ eereifieates, cannot make
them “ active firemen." As well might
a gentleman who never saw the ocean
claim to be an “ active sailor ” by pre
senting a set of colors to a packet ship.
There can be but one decision in this
case, and it is
Ordered, That for non-attendance
as jurors, at the February term of this
Court, James G. Bailie and Charles H.
Phinizy be each fined in the sum of
twenty dollars. Wm. T. Gould,
Judge.
We presume the matter will be fur
ther tested in the Supreme Court.
Call at the office of C. W. Harris,
No. 219 Broad street, for Insurance at
adequate rates in non-Board Com
panies dec4-tf
The Poor Man’s Friend, Mr, H.
Brooks, at No. 182)4 Broad street, is
closing out his entire stock of Falx, and
Winter Clothing at unprecedented
low prices. He furnishes full suits for
a very small amount of money, and, if
needed, has money to loan, therefore
can truly be called the Poor Man’s
Friend. Give him a call. feb27-6
For Lent.—Quinn & Pendleton have
a fine assortment of Catholic and Epis
copal Prayer Books.
febl2-frsu&wed-tf
New Spring Coatings, Suitings, Cas
simeres, etc,, etc., just received and
ready to be made up in the latest
style and best workmanship, at prices
much lower than heretofore.
August Dorr,
feb2B-sutufr3 222 Broad street.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
AUGUSTA DAILY MARKET.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, I
* Thursday. March 4,4 P. M. f
Financial:
Gold—Buying at 112 and selling at 115.
Silver—Buying at 102 and selling at 105.
Sight Exchange on New York, buying at
% discount and selling at par to % pre
mium.
Cotton.
The Augusta Exchange reports the
market to-day quiet but firm, with light
offerings, though sales were quite large in
comparison with the past few days.
The closing quotations were: Good Ordi
nary, 14%; Low Middling, 15%; Middling,
15%.
Receipts of the day, 302 and sales, 776
bales. The receipts at all United States
ports were 11,165 bales; same day last year,
10,144 bales.
Produce:
BACON—Clear Sides, 12%; C. R
Sides, 12%@12%. Dry Salt—C. R. Sides,
11%; Long Clear Sides, 11%; D. S. Shoul
ders, 8%; Bellies, 11%. Tennessee Meats.
HAMS—Canvassed, 14%.
LARD—Choice, in tierce, 14%@15; kegs
and cans, 16.
BAGGING AND TlES—Domestic bag
ging, 12%; Borneo bales at 12%; Gunny
bales, 11; Ties, Arrow, 7; Pieced, 5%.
BUTTER—Goshen, 40@45; Country, 25;
Tennessee, 25.
FLOUR—City Mills are $6.25@6.50 for su
perfine, $6.50@6.75 for extra; $7@7.25 for
family; and $7.50@7.75 for fancy; for Wes
tern and Country, we quote superfine, $5.50
@6.00; extra, $6@6.50; family, $6,50@7.00
and fa cy, $7.00@7.50.
CORN—Prime to choice white (new dry)
$1.07@1.08; yellow and mixed, $1.05@1.06.
Smalll lots or less than car load, 3@5
higher than car load or depot rates.
WHEAT—Light stock; choice white,
$1.43; prime white, $1.40; amber, $1.38; red,
$1.32%@1.35.
OATS—Mixed, 80; white, 82@85.
CORN MEAL—City, $1.10; Country, sl@
1.05.
EGGS—Per dozen, 22@25.
Note—We give wholesale rates. Prices
for email lots of the articles we quote are
higher in proportion.
TELEGRAPHIC MARKETS.
FINANCIAL.
London, March 4—Noon—Erie, 24% @24%.
Paris, March 4 -Noon.—Rentes, 65f. 40c.
Paris, March 4—P. M.—Specie increased,
6,125,000 1 rancs.
New York, March 4—Noon.—Stocks ac
tive and lower. Money, 3. Gold, 115%. —
Exchange—long, 481; short, 485. Govern
ments dull. State Bonds quiet.
New York, March 4—P. M.-- >, oney active
at 3@3, Sterling weak at 481. Gold firm at
115@115%. Governments di ll and lower;
New Fives, 4%. State Bonds quiet and
nominal.
PRODUCE.
Liverpool, March 4—Noon.—Bread
stuffs quiet. Pork, 745.
Liverpool, March 4—P. M.—Corn, 335. 6d.
@34s. 3d.
New York. March 4—Noon—Flour firm,
Wheat, 1 cent better. Corn shade better.
Pork heavy at $19.25. Lard firm—steam.
13%. Turpentine heavy at 35%. Rosin dull
at $2@2.05 for strained. Freights firm.
New York, March 4—P. M.—Southern
Flour shade firmer, with a fair inquiry
common to fair extra, $4.90@5.60; good to
choice extra, $5.G5@5.68. Wheat, 1 cent bet
ter with a moderate demand, closing rather
quiet, shippers generally refusing to pay
the advance—st.23@l.2G for winter red
Western, $1.26@1.28 for amber Western,
$1.28 for amber Pennsylvania, $1.27@1.34
for white Western. Corn, 1 cent better and
in fair demand—B4@Bs for Western mixed,
84%@85 for yellow Western. Coffee quiet
anil steady at IG@lB% ('gold) for Rio. Sugar
more active, % advance 1 Rice steady with
a moderate j, bbing inquiry. Tallow steady
at 8%. Rosin heavy at $2 for strained. Tur
pentine heavy at 35%. Pork steady—new,
$19.25. Lard easier—prime steam, 13%@
13 11-16. Whiskey firmer and quiet, sellers
this month, 11. Freights—cotton per steam,
%•
Louisville, March 4.—Flour unchanged.
Corn nominally at 66@63. Provisions quiet
and steady. Pork, $19.50@20. Bacon
shoulders, 8%; clear rib, 11@11%; clear,
11%@11%. Lard—prime steam rendered,
14@14%.
Cincinnati, March 4.—Flour dull. Corn
firm at 67@68. Pork nominally at sl9. Lard
quiet—steam rendered, 15%@13%; kettle,
14. Bacon steady—shoulders, 7%@8; dear
rib, 9%@9%; clear, 11%@11%. Whiskey
firm at sl.lO.
Baltimore, March 4.—Flour fairly
active—Rio brands, $6.25; others unchang
ed. Wheat firm—Pennsylvania red, $1.19@
1.20; Maryland red, $1.15@1.25; amber, $1.30;
white, $1.15@1.25. Corn— Southern white
quiet at 77@80; yellow, 76@80. Oats quiet
and steady. Rye dull at $1@1.02. Pro
visions—vory active order trade. Mess
Pork dull at $19@19.50. Bacon firm—shoul
ders, 8%@8%. Lard dull at 13%@14%. Cof
fee in oetter demand. Whiskey nominal at
$1.12@1.13. Sugar firm at 10%@10%.
CniCAGO, March 4.—Flour in light de
mand, ho ders firm. Corn quiet and weak
—No. 2 mixed, 64% bid; rejected, 63. Pork
quiet at $18.25. Lard quiet and weak at
$13.20@13.22%. Whiskey buovant at sl.oß@
1.10.
Wilmington, March 4.—Spirits Tur
pentine firm at 32. Rosin nominal at $1.50
for strained. Crude Turpentine steady at
$1.25 for hard, $2.20 for yellow dip, $2.20 for
virgin. Tar, $2.20.
COTTON.
Liverpool, March 4—Noon.—Cotton
steady; middling uplands, 7%@8; mid
dling Orleans, 8%; sales, 15,000; speculation
and export, 3,000; sales on basis middling
uplands, nothing below low middling, de
livery May and June, 8%.
Later —Sales of American, 9.600 bales;
sales on basis middling uplands, nothing
below good ordinary, shipped February,
7 15-16; ditto, shipped February and March,
8; ditto, nothing below low middling, ship
ped February and March, 8 1-16; sales on
basis middling Orleans, nothing below low
middling, deliverable March, 8 1-16.
Liverpool, March 4—5 P. M—Cotton
sales on basis middling uplands, nothing
below low middling, deliverable April and
May, 8 1-16; also sales of same at 8.
New York, March 4—Noon —Cotton
quiet; sales, 671; uplands, 16%; Orleans,
16%.
Futures opened quiet and steady, as fol
lows: March, 16%, 16 13-32; April, 16 11-16,
16 23-32; Mav, 17 1-32,17 1-16; June, 17 5-16,
17%.
New York, March 4—P. M.—Cotton
dull; sales, 812 bales at 16%@16%; net re
ceipts, 1,574; gross, 1,574.
Futures closed easy; sales, 19,200 bales,
as follows: March, 16 11-S2; April, 16 21-32.
16 11-16; May, 17 1-32; June, 17 5-16, 17 H-32;
July, 17 9-16,17 19-32; August, 17 23-32,17%;
September, 17 1-33,17 1-16; October, 16 11-16.
16%; November, 16%; December, 16%.
Savannah, March 4.—Cotton quiet and
nominal; middling, 15%; low middling,
15%; good ordinary, 14%; net receipts,
995; gross, 1,076; exports—to the continent,
9,699; coastwise, 389; sales, 1,000.
Charleston, March 4.—Cotton quiet aid
firm; middling, 15%; low middling, 15%;
good ordinary, 14%; net receipts, 824; ex
ports coastwise, 787; sales, 800.
New Orleans, March 4— Cotton quiet:
middling, 15%; low middling, 15%; good
ordinary, 14%; net receipts, 4,977; gross,
5,421 ; sales;, 5,000.
Mobile, March 4.— Cotton firmer; mid
dling, 15%; net receipts, 65; exports — to
Great Britain, 6,335; coastwise, 1,920; sales,
1,000.
Boston, March 4.—Cotton quiet; mid
dling, 16%; net receipts, 220; gross, 1,187;
sales, 337.
— . - ~
Baltimore, March 4.—Cotton .firmer;
middling, 16@; net receipts. 28; gross, 183;
exports—to Great Britain, 649; coastwise,
205; sales, 525; spinners, 300.
Memphis, March 4—Cotton firm; mid
dling, 15%@15%; net receipts, ’,219; ship
ments, 1,590; sales, 2,100.
Galveston, March 4.—Cotton quiet and
unchanged; middling, 15%; net receipts,
1,075; gross, 1,103; exports coastwise, 4;
sales, 565.
Philadelphia, March 4.—Cotton firm;
middling, 16%; not receipts, 16; gross, 633;
exports to Great Britain, 335.
Norfolk, March 4.—Cotton firm; mid
dling, 15%; net receipts, 907 bales; exports
coastwise, 550; sales, 300.
Wilmington, March 4.—Cotton un
changed; middling, 15%; net receipts, 84;
exports coastwise, 1,046; sales, 312.
MARINE NEWS.
New York, March 4.—Arrived out:
Aranco, Paragtma, Amabel, Rosa Mara
thon.
Arrived: State of Indiana, City of New
York, City of Yera Cruz, Java, Italia.
Homeward: Prarie Bird.
Savannah, March 4 Arrived: San Sal
vador.
Cleared: America.
Sailed: Syra, Hypbalea.
Port Royal, March 4.—Arrived: Sarah
E. Douglass.
Sailed: Katrine, Forest, Adair, F. Bonny.
CARPTES!
Bargains in Carpets!
FOR CASH OR CITY ACCEPTANCE.
We are now offering at very
LOW PRICES, our
Brussels,
Three-Plys, and
SCOTCH INGRAINS,
Together with a large stock of
Window Shades,
Lace Curtains and Cornices,
Damasks, Reps and Terrys,
Piano and Table Covers,
Cocoa and Canton Mattings,
Wall Papers and Borders,
Rugs and Door Mats.
Jas. 0. Bailie & Bro.,
an27-su&c3m 205 BROAD STREET.
JAMES LEFFEL S
IMPROVED DOUBLE
Turbine Water Wheel.
POOLE & HUNT, Baltimore,
Manufacturers for the South
and Southwest.
Over 7,000 now in use, working under heads
varying from two to 240 feet! 24
sizes, from 5% to 96 inches.
The most powerful Wheel in the Market.
And most economical in use of Water.
Large Illustrated Pamphlet sent post
free. Manufacturers, also, of Portable and
Stationary Steam Engines and Boilers.
Babcock & Wilcox Patent Tubulous Boiler,
Ebaugh’s Crusher for Minerals, Saw aud
Grist Mills, Flouring Mill Machinery. Ma
chinery for White Lead Works and Oi;
Mills, Shafting, Pulleys and Hangers.
send for circulars.
dee2-ly
The Aiken Tribune.
AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL
PUBLISHED EVER! SATURDAY AT
AIKEIV, S. C.
OFFERS unusual inducements to the
Merchants and Business Men general
ly, of Augusta, for advertising their
goods. Having the largest circulation of
any paper in the county and town of Aiken,
and a constantly increasing patronage in
Barnwell and Edgefield counties, it reaches
a very large class of consumers who pur
chase the bulk of their supplies in Augusta,
Besides this, Aiken is now filling rapidly
with guests from the North, who visits Au
gusta constantly, and whose patronage
can be reached if they are made acquainted,
through the Medium of advertisements,
with the proper places to buy, and the
price they will have to pay.
ADVERTISING TERMS.
Fifty cents per linear inch for first inser
tion, and twenty-five cents per linear inch
for each subsequent insertion. Advortis
ments runni: g for a longer period than
one month to be changed every two Aveeks,
if desired, without additional cost.
Editorial notices, ten cents per line for
each insertion.
Send for specimen copy of paper.
HENRY JSPARNICK,
Editor and Publisher Aiken Tribune.
feb2B-suwefrlm
SERVANTS WANTED
A. GOOD COOK, WASHER, ETC., for a
small family. Also, a Nurse and House
Servant. Recommendations desired.
Apply to H. P. JONES,
feb26-0 Herndon, Burke County, Ga.
Safe Deposit Boxes.
The NATIONAL BANK of Augusta is
prepared to lease small SAFES inside its
Fire l*roof Vault, at moderate rates, for the
reception of Bonds, Securities, Deeds, Le
gal Documents, Plate, Coin, Jewelry, aud
valuables of every description.
G. M. THEW,
ie26-ly* Cashier*
HENRY JAMES OSBORNE,
OCULISTIC OPTICIAN.
NO 171% BROAD STREET,
Under the Augusta Hotel. augao-tf
NOTICE.
EDWARD T. MILLER has this day
made an Assignment to me of all his
stock in trade, accounts and evidences of
debt, without preference, except such as
exist by operation of law. All persons
holding claims against him are requested
to present the same to me for classilication
and payment pro rata.
F. M. STOVALL,
Assignee.
February 3d, 1875. feb4-clm
Headquarters for Prize Candies !
X HAVE the largest and best stock of
PRIZE CANDIES
Ever brought to this market. Every box
contains
MONEY PRIZES!
As the holidays are approaching Jobbers
and Country Merchants will find it to their
advantage to call and examine my stock
and prices. A liberal discount made to the
trade. AU orders from country merchants
or orders left with news agents on the dif
ferent railroad trains will meet with
prompt attention. P. QUINN,
75 Jackson street Augusta. (4a.
CHAS. R. ROWLAND,
Upholsterer and Cabinet Maker.
JVXa'itresses made to order and reno
vated. Ellis street, opposite Empire Steam
Laundry. dec2o-su3m
Pacific Guano Company.
SOLUBLE PACIFIC
V .F.t O
A ND
COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE.
For Composting with Cotton Seed;
The SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO is now so well known for its remarkable
effects as an agency for increasing the products of labor, as not to require
especial commendation from me. Its use, for Ten Years past, has established
its character for Reliable Excellence. The large, Fixed Capital invested by the
Company in this trade, affords the surest guarantee of the continued excellence
of its Guano.
The Guano and Phosphate will be delivered to any boat or depot in the
city, free of Drayage.
CASH PRICE:
Per Ton 2,000 Pounds, SOLUBLE PACIFIC CUANO, S4B
Per Ton 2,000 Pounds ACID PHOSPHATE, - - - 36
TIME PRICE:
Without Intere f and option of paying in Liverpool Middling Cotton, de
livered at nearest Ra Load Depot, at Fifteen Cents per pound ;
Per Ton 2,000 Pounds, SOLUBLE PACIFIC CUANO, SSB
Per Ton 2,000 Pc mds/ACID PHOSPHATE, - - - - 42
fl&“Orders received and inLrmation furnished on application to ipv Agents
at various Local Markets.
J. O. MATHEWSON,
dec2-dw&triw4m * Agent i’ac.fteGuaon Cos., AUGUSTA, GA.
GU ANO!
O
have the pleasure to call the attention of Dealers and Consumers to our
very attractive list of FERTILIZERS, which we are prepared to offer at prices
and upon terms most favorable:
A. A. Phospo Peruvian.
Ammoniated Super Phosphate.
Chappell’s Champion.
Powhatan Raw Bone Super Phosphate.
Wilson’s Ammoniated Super Phosphate.
Grangers’ Excelsior.
Pure Dissolved Bone.
Pure ‘-.and Plaster.
We will make special arrangements with parties purchasing in lots of
TWENTY-FIVE, FIFTY and ONE HUNDRED TONS.
For Particulars, as to prices and terms, send for circular and price list.
COTTON.
We will make the usual Cash Advances on Cotton in Storo.
WARREN, WALLACE & CO..
decl7-d&c2m 155 and 157 Reynolds Street.
BARRY’S
CHEMICAL FERTILIZER
CONCENTRATED.
PREPARED THIH FAIiL, (NOT OLD STOCK,)
BY EDWARD BARIRY, M. D.,
PRACTICAL!AIN D’AGRICULTURAL CHEMIST.
SOLD BY
EDWARD BARRY & CO.,
288 Broad Street, Augusta. Ga.
The EVIDENCE presented In the statements of the respectable and intelligent plant
ers of the surrounding counties will satisfy Southern men that this CONGES fEX
TED CHEMICAL FERTILIZER may claim to be equal, if not superior to any in the
market; that being composed of a base of raw-bone, decomposed with Sulphuric Acid,
and a combination of Chemicals, it is devoid of the enormous amount of inert matter
which all Phosphate Rock preparations must contain; aud that it presents the best
guarantee of a large profitable return, as testified to by all who have used it. We refer
to our Pamphlets for this evidence, as it is too voluminous for our advertisement. The
preparation is varied in composition to meet the condition of the two groat classes of
our soils:
Our C. FERTILIZER adapted to Clay Soils.
Our G. FERTILIZER adapted to Sandy Soils.
tar When ordering please say which KIND is required.
CASH PRICE WILL BE S6O PERj TON.
TIME PRICE WILL BE-- - # - 65 PER TON.
PAYABLE Ist NOVEMBER, 1875.
Factor’s acceptance or other satisfactory security will be required on all fsales.
Please address orders to our office,
288 BROAD STREET,
And call for Pamphlets.
EDWARD BARRY & CO.
jans-tuthsa&e3m
PIANOI ORGAN
EMPORIUM.
Augusta Music House,
12(55 BROAD STREET;
GEO. O. ROBINSON & CO.,
Order and Receive Music Every Day.
THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
Music Books, Sheet Music ami Musical
Merchandise sent by Express or mail
post paid.
A COMPLETE assortment of PIANOS
and ORGANS, of the best Makers, at
the Lowest Factory Prices, for Cash, Part
Cash, and Monthly Payments. Also:
Violins, Guitars, Flutes, Flutinas,
Clarionets, Pieolas, Flageolets, Banjos,
Zither, Accordeons, Concertinas, Cornets,
Harmonicas, Fifes, Tamborines, Diums,
Musical Albums, Music Boxes,
Violineellos, Double Bass,
Silver Instruments, Brass, Instruments,
Tuning Forks, Tuning Pipes,
Cavalry Bugles, Triangles,
Piano Stools, Piano Covers,
Music Stands, Music Folios,
Music Books, Sheet Music,
New Songs, New Music,
Italian Strings, and every variety of
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE.
janSl-suwefrtf
Dyeing and Cleaning.
THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RE
speetfuily announce to the citizens of
Augasta, and vicinity, that ho still con
tinues to do Dyeing and Cleaning in all its
blanches.
Lad es’ Dresses, Shawls, Sacques, Capes,
etc., dyed and cleaned in the best of style.
The cleaning of Gent’s Clothing a speci
ality.
N. B.—The above work done in the best
manner at low prices.
All ol iersleit with me on siifeuf
Broad - treet, between McKimie an t Mai
bury, will receive prompt attention.
liv| •’Jnu 11 '' / SF() I! tiOllOP.
NOTICE.
A MEETING of the Board of Director
and Stockholders of the Planters’
Union Agency will be held in Augusta, Ga.,
on WEDNJ2SDAY, the 3d day of March, at
10 o’clock a. m.
Let every Stockholder be in attendance,
as business of importance to all will be
transacted. G. B. POWELL,
febl4-td P. B.D. of P. U. Agency.
House and Lot for Sale.
THE commodious dwelling, occupied by
Johu S. W T right, Esq., known as No.
89 Reynolds street, between Centre and
Elbert. lot fronts sixty (60) feet on Rey
nolds, anctexten is halt way to Bay.
If not sold privately, will be offered at
public outcry, at the Lower Market House,
on the 2d of March next.
WM. A. WALTON,
febl7-wefrgutild Trustee Emily McLaws.