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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1875.
HENRY WILSON AND ARTEMAS
WARD.
If President Grant is a man of few
words, Hon. Henry Wilson makes up
for Executive deficiency by abundant
expressions of opinion. We have al
ready published some notable views
of the Vice-President delivered to Bo
hemians of the Press, and his latest
oracular utterance was in the form of
a speech at, Philadelphia. The New
York Times, alluding to Mr. Wilson’s
. fears that “there is in the country to
day a counter-revolution against the
colored man,” comments as follows:
“He laid it down as a principle for ac
tion that ‘the condition of the colored
man must be improved.’ What! im
proved again ? A great deal of money
and some blood have been already ex
pended on these ‘improvements;’ and,
as in the case of a man who is altering
his house, we should be glad to know
when the job is likely to be finished.
Is it not almost time to think about
the desirability of improving the con
dition of the white man? He may be
inferior to the black, but still he is a
human beiDg.”
A neat bit of sarcasm, containing a
ponderous truth, is that paragraph
from the New York paper. Not satis
fied With the slaughter of hundreds of
thousands of white men, and the im
poverishment of millions more; not
satisfied with a wholesale bestowal of
the ballot upon the blacks, when many
white men in New England are refused
the franchise ; not satisfied with push
ing field hands into places of power
and profit, to ruin States and dishonor
government; not satisfied with com
pelling the Caucasian race to edu
cate the Ethiopian; not satisfied
with adding every insult that malice
or fanaticism could desire to in
juries which are almost irreparable—
Mr. Wilson, like the daughter of the
horse-leech, cries out “ give ! give !”
His demands are as insatiable as the
grave. It is bad enough for the South
and West to have a protective tariff,
but when it comes to protecting the
negro beyond endurance, there will be,
and these is, a revolt all over the
country which threatens to make
mince-meat of that wing of the Repub
lican party so eagerly championed by
the Vice-President. Has Mr. Wilson
ever seriously read and studied the re
sult of the English experiment in the
West Indies? Does he know what
protection has done for the negroes
there? Is he so blind with his race
unity theories that he does not know
that commerce has decayed, civiliza
tion almost rotted out and every pollu
tion resulted from the very theory he
now presents for practical trial in the
United States? Has he examined the cen
sus reports, made up under his very
nose in Washington city, which prove
beyond a shadow of contradiction that
the negroes are dying out at a fearful
ly rapid rate because of the very “ pro
tection ” he describes and insists upon ?
Does the man really want this country
to sink into hybridism and chaos like
Central and South America? Is his
whole scheme of abolition and univer
sal suffrage a devilish and deliberate
device to make way with the Africans,
as well as the native Southrons, so
that the descendants of the Puritan
shall possess the land as a spoil? We
credit him with better sentiments. It
is our firm conviction that on the negro
hobby he is simply crazy ; that having
started out with false ideas he can not
turn baok; that he knows only too
well how events are condemning his
whole career, and menacing him and
his party with utter subversion. Poor
Horace Greeley, being honest and
sensitive, beheld this great truth with
horror, and died a maniac, desperate
and broken-hearted. Wilson, tortu
ous and lizard-like, would see his own
race and its liberties overthrown and
demoralized rather than forsake his
dominant idea.
We commend to Hon. Henry Wilson,
and men of his kidney, the following
scrap from the writings of Art emus
Ward :
Fellst Sitbrsuns : The African mabe
our brother. Severil hiiy respectable gen
tlemen and sum femails tell us so, and for
argyment sake I mite be induced to grant
it, tho I don’t believe it myself. But the
African isn’t our sister, and our wife, and
our uncle. He Isn’t severil of our cousins,
and all our wives relashuns. He isn’t our
grandfather and our aunt in the country.
Scarcely. And yet numerous persons would
have us think so. It is troo he runs Con
gress and severil other public grosserys.—
But we’ve got the African, or he’s got us
rather; now, what are we going to do about
it? He’s an orful noosance. P’raps he isn’t
to blame for it. P’raps he was created for
sum wise purpose, like Bill Harding and
New England rum, but it is mity hard to
see it. At any rate, he’s here, and it’s a
pity he kan’t go orf sum whares quietly by
himself whare he cood gratify his ambi
tion in varis wase without liavin an eternal
fusa kickt up about him.
The adventurers of the Republican
party are prating about an impossible
scheme to transport the negroes baok
to the coast of Africa; but Mr. Wilson’s
project seems to be to make a Daho
mey and Ashantee of the Southern
States. Both propositions are wild
and chimerical. The negro will remain
among us for many years to come, and
if reduced to his proper sphere, may
become useful to himself and to the
country. But the more the phil
osophers attempt to “ protect ”
him, the worse it will be in the long
run for all concerned. The mass'es of
the Union, the men who are masters at
the ballot box, are rapidly getting
right on this subject, and Mr. Wilson
may live long enongh to know that
even the freedmen fervently wish he
had never come into the world at all or
had, in some manner, left behind him
the kink in his mind which appears to
be as difficult to straighten as the kink
in the wool of Senegambia.
r 01-de-Rol, —The Chicago Tribune
says the third term question started as
a Herald sensation, degenerated into
hullabaloo, and has now dwindled to
fol-de-rol.
Like a Prince. — The journey of the
Priace of Wales to India is computed
' cost $2,300,000.
MEMORIAL DAY.
In a recent address before the finest
audience ever assembled in the Monu
mental City, S„ Teackle Wallis, Esq.,
lawyer, poet, man of letters, orator and
true patriot, spoke of the Confederate
cause and its glorious soldier, Robert
E. Lee, with a force and eloquence not
easily paralleled in any land. We re
gret that our space is insufficient to
give this grand oration in all of its
perfect proportions and classic shape.
We, however, reproduce the concluding
passages, which will be read with rap
ture, and are worthy of being placed
in the corner-stone of our monument
along with other precious testimonials.
We give these extracts, too, because
they anticipate everything that we
could possibly say on the same sub
ject, and for the further reason that
they are said so much better than we
could express them:
JUSTICE OP THE SOUTH.
The men who fought in the same cause
with Lee, and all whose hearts were with
them, are bound in honor to abide by the
arbitrament they sought. They are bound
to accept defeat and its legitimate conse
quences in as good faith as they would
have accepted victory. (Applause.] They
are bound to obey the laws and support
the constitution; to fulfill to the letter
every duty of citizenship, and answer freely
every call of patriotic obligation. But
they are not bound to defile the ashes of
their dead, or to submit in silence to in
justice or dishonor. They may have been
wrong. That is fair matter of opinion, and
posterity will j udge them. They may have
been uawise. There is no absolute criterion
on earth of what is wise, and none of us
have reason to think, like the friends of
holy Job, that we are the people, and that
wisdom shall die with us. [Applause.]
But the men of the South are entitled to
stand before mankind as a people who, be
lieving they were right and acting with
what wisdom they know, set hope and ex
istence on the die. They have a right to
resent and denounce imputations on their
purposes and motives. When they read in
political journals and discourses, or hear
from the halls of legislation or the bench
of justice, that for eight millions of free
born men to separate themselves from a
popular government of which they formed
a part, and set up and be governed by an
other which they preferred, was “wicked
rebellion”—an effort to overthrow society
and turn back the current of civilization—
they have a right to say that the time has
oome when educated people should be
ashamed of such things. [Applause.] They
are the froth of the angry waters, and
should have passed away with the storm.
Until they cease to sully the stream, the
serenity of peace and brotherhood can
never be reflected, like Heaven, from its
bosom.
THE OLD STORY.
Such devices and phrases are not new.
They are as old as foolishness and foul
language. I have before me a copy which
Mr. Parton has furnished, from a Tory
’ Extra” of 1777, chronielingtho retreat of
Washington across the Harlem river, and
denouncing the cause in which he was en
listed as “the most wicked, daring and un
natural rebellion that ever disgraced the
annals of history.” The ingenuity and
eloquence of our own day, with all the
modern improvements, have not beon able,
I believe to add a single epithet to this
pleasing expression of bygone loyalty.
And yet, ten years after it was written, or
at all events after the revolution was over,
tarn sure that all reasonable Tories, and
certainly all sensible Englishmen, would
have agreed to laugh at It and forget it.
[Applause.] We are ourselves about to de
monstrate, by a centennial commemora
tion, how entirely nature has recovered
from the shock which that “rebellion” was
supposed to have given. True, it was suc
cessful, and that unquestionably makes
some difference—but only with time-serv
ers. We are dealing now with moralists,
and they will never, I suppose, suggest
that wickedness ceases to be wicked be
cause the horn of the ungodly happens to
be exalted. If Grant had surrendered to
Leh they would still have died In the con
viction that secession was a heresy; that
the ways of Providence wore inscrutable,
if not unconstitutional, (according to
Story’s Commentaries), and that truth
and reason are not questions of numbers,
artillery or ammunition, [Applause.]
REBELS, REBELS, REBELS!
I make these observations here in no
spirit of unkindness or contention. You
would resent, and with justice, the intru
sion of past or present controversial issues
upon an occasion dedicated only to rever
ent and gentle memories of the dead. But I
feel, in common with all to whom those
memories are dear, that silence concerning
such things as I have mentioned Is no
longer consistent with proper self-respect.
So long as the bitterness of party can be
profitably stirred by wornout catchwords
of the war, wo must, of course, expect to
hear them from the lips of those to whom
profit is a sompensation for shame. But we
have a right to appeal from these to the
men who lead opinion, because they are
worthy and entitled to lead it. [Applause.]
Wo have a right to throw upon them the
responsibility which belongs to their in
fluence, their Intelligence—nay, their taste,
their breeding andjtheir manners. And for
saying this respectfully, but earnestly and
frankly, I know of no better occasion than
the present, when we are honoring one
who, though a “rebel” of “rebels,” if
there were any such, was, by common con
sent, the soul of honor, and than whom no
man living dares to say that he or his are
purer or better. [Applause.] And when I
remember how his generous and unselfish
nature would have scorned to place upon
a lower level than hie own the purposes
and motives of the humblest of the sol
diers who gave all to the same cause and
the same country-living or dying, in de
feat or victory, half-naked in the field,
half-famished on the march and in the
camp, but heroes always—l feel as if I did
his bidding in this earnest protest against
further maligning their good name.
AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER.
And here I am permitted, by the kindness
of a friend, to read some extracts from a
letter of the illustrious soldier, which has
never seen the light before, and which will
show through what sad struggles of both
heart and mind he passed to what he felt
to be his duty. I doubt not—nay, I know—
that many a gallant gentleman who fought
beside him, and many another in the op
posing host, grieved, with as dsep a grief
as Lbe, to draw his sword. The letter that
I speak of bears the date of January 18,
1881, and was written from Fort Mason,
near San Antonio, In Texas. It was ad
dressed to a young lady, a relative of his,
for whom he had great affection, and the
passages of which I speak were written
as a message to her father. Alluding to
the hdmes of two families of friends he
said:
“I think of the occupants of both very
often, and hope some day to see them
again. I may have the opportunity soon,
for if the Union is dissolved I shall return
to Virginia to share the fortune of my peo
ple. But before so groat a calamity be
falls the country I hope all honorable
means of maintaining the Constitution
and the equal rights of tho people will be
first exhausted. Tell your father he must
aot allow Maryland to be tacked on to
South Carolina before tho just demands of
the South have been fairly presented to the
North and rejected. Then, If the rights
guaranteed by the Constitution are denlde
us, and the citizens of one portion of the
country are granted [privileges not extend-1
ed to the other, we can, with a, clear con
science, separate. lam for maintaining all
our rights, not for abandoning all for the
sake of one. Our national rig hts, liberty
at home and security abroad, our lands,
navy, forts, dockyards, arsenals and insti
tutions of every kind. It will result in war
I know; fierce, bloody war. But so will
secession, for it is revolution and war at
last, and cannot bo otherwise, and we
might as well look at It in its t rue charac
ter. There is a long message, A , for
your father, and a grave ono, which I had
not intended to put in my letter to you,
but it is a subject on which my serious
thoughts often turn, for as s n American
citizen I prize my Government and coun
try highly, and there is no sacrifice I am
not willing to make for their preservation,
save that of honor, I trust t rust there is
wisdom and patriotism* enough In the
country to save them, for I cannot antici
pate so great a calamity to the nation as
the dissolution of the Union.”
Alas! alas! that the hand which wrote
those touching, anxious was not
near enough to the helm to avert the ship
wreck! Alas! alas! that no voice should
have been lifted In the land potent enough
to bid the whirlwind stay! Who lacked
the wisdom—who lacked the -patriotism
that Lee invoked. It is not for me, in this
place at least, to say. If they existed,
they were dumb and helpless, and the
whirlwind came. But I have read enough
to you to show the stuff of which some
men were made whom they call “ rebels ”
—enough to show that they who fought,
at last, against the Union, were not always
they who loved it least, or would least
willingly have died to save it. [Applause.]
MARYLAND’S LOVE OF LEE.
I have spoken, ladies and gentlemen, of
our hero’s character and life as they at
tract the admiration of mankind—of the
qualities which enemies and friends may
venerate alike. It would be unmanly af
fectation in me to pretend that, here in Ma
ryland, we lovod him and remember him
chiefly for these. We are proud of the
great name—as proud as any—but the
household word is dearer far to us. [Ap
plause.] His story and his memory are
linked with all the hopes and triumphs,
the exultation and despair which made a
century of those four bitter, bloody, tor
turing years. He was to us the incarna
tion of his cause—of what was noblest In
it, and knigtliest and best. [Applause.]
Whatever of perplexity beset his path
before ho chose It, he knew no doubts when
it was choien. He followed where it led
him, knowing uo step backward. Along it,
through victory and defeat, our sympa
thies and prayers went with him. Around
him gathered the fresh, valiant manhood
of our State, and many a brave young heart
that ceased to boat beside him, drew him
, but closer to the bleeding hearts in all our
saddened homes. These are the ties that
bind him to us. [Applause.] These are the
memories that troop around us here to
night—not of tho far off hero, belonging to
the world and history—but memories of
our hero—ours—the man that wore the
gray. Not in the valley where he sleeps,
not among the fields he made immortal,
lives he, or will he live, in fonder recollec
tion than whore Calvert planted freedom.
“And far and near, through vale and hill,
Are faces that attest tho same;
The proud heart flashing through the
eyes
At sound of liis loved name.”
And when they tell us, as they do, those
wiser, better brethren of ours— and tell the
world, to make it history—that this, our
Southern civilization, is half barbarism, we
may be pardoned if we answer: Behold its
product and its representative ! “Of thorns
men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble
bush gather they grapes.” Here is Robert
Lee—show us his fellow! [Great and pro
longed applause.]
GOLD IN THE WORLD.
The Pall Mall Budget asserts as an
ascertained fact, that the annual wast
age of gold is equal to £8,000,000, or
$15,000,000, and that, in addition to
Germany, Japan and Holland have be
gun gold coinage. This wastage is .in
the wear, tear, friction, and casual
losses. The London Economist states
that the aggregate production of all
the gold mines since 1848 has amounted
to $2,740,000,000, and the stock of gold
existing at that time was $2,800,000,000.
The product of the last twenty-seven
years has, therefore, been a fraction
over th 6 stock then on hand. The re
sult is thus stated:
1848—Stock on hand *•.. .$2,740,000,000
1875—Product in 27 years 2,800,000,000
Aggregate 55,540,000,000
Less, lobs by wear, tear, etc 405,000,000
Stock of gold in existence $5,185,000,000
The gold product of 1856 was $160,-
000,000, which the English paper says
was the largest ever produced in one
year. In 1874 the same paper esti
mates the yield of the mines at $96,250,-
000, of which it apportions $43,750,000
to Australia, $32,000,000 to the United
States, and $22,500,000 to Russia. The
Chicago Tribune corrects the Economist
on its calculation concerning the United
States, rating the product at $74,000,-
000. The same paper says: “Another
feature of this matter of gold supply is
that in the United States, Italy, Austria,
Russia, Turkey and Spain, gold is dis
placed for internal commerce by paper,
and Is, to a greater or less extent,
hoarded or otherwise held In reserve.
The amount thus held In the United
States, including the amount on de
posit in the Treasury, is put down at
$150,000,000, and the stock of gold and
silver in coin and bullion at $250,000,-
000. Of this sum, excluding the manu
factured metal, about $190,000,000 is
available for money.”
These valuable statistics, gathered
from leading English and Ameri
can newspapers, are enough to startle
tho impecunious. If anybody could
ascertain the actual amount hoarded
in all countries, especially the Orient,
the grand total would be immensely
swelled. Should an agent be appointed
for that purpose, we warn him that our
treasures are laid up elsewhere.
Science and Religion.— Has any
prose author ever stated the true case
between science and theology better
than the English poet Clough, who
thus wrote;
“When all is thought and said,
The heart still overrules the head;
Still what we hope we must believe,
And what is given us, receive.
Must still believe, for still we hope,
That in a world of larger scope,
What here is faithfully begun
Will be completed, not undone "
Rents. —The World says rents of
dwelling houses are not likely to re
cede till municipal taxation is lighter
and lower assessed values briDg some
relief to the owner. When these bless
ings are vouchsafed us by a policy on
the part of our municipal authorities
which shall enlarge the taxable area
instead of Increasing the rate of taxa
tion over the present areas, tenants will
share the results with landlords.
MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS IN
POLITICS.
In nearly every city and hamlet of
the United States the political machine
Is, to a great extent, manipulated and
managed by a few demagogues who
love spoils better than principles.—
Hence this country, in all branches of
go vernment, is not managed by its best
and worthiest citizens. Hitherto, the
better class of merchants and farmers
have shrunk from a contest with the
ward politician and the cross-roads
wire-worker. How much this delin
quency, on their part, has been for
evil rather than good, we need not
mention. It is to the honor of a few
high-minded men that matters are no
worse than they are. Business men
and thrifty planters take a lofty
and discouraged view of a most
important subject, and declare
that “ they have nothing to do
with politics.” Nothing to do with
politics, Messieurs, and why not?
What men in any community are more
deeply Interested in good government
than you are? Do you not pay taxes ?
Have you not property ? If the essen
tial of happiness here is defense from
bad men and wicked laws, how can you
surrender your birthright and princi
ples into the hands of those who will,
i most probably, make your worldly
effects a bonanza of rapine, and com
pel you to live days and nights of ap
prehension and dismay ? You have
the vastest stake in the community,
and yet you risk it, simply beoause
“ you don’t care to have anything to
do with politics.” Now we hold that
this is a fatal error. If you ufer
chants and planters would abailuon
your habits of indifference and lassi
tude, think you corruption would fester
everywhere as it is doing ? When af
fairs become intolerable, you do be
times band together and make a gal
lant, and most frequently successful,
effort for reform. In every State the
tendency of vice and roguery is to
rule. Finding so little opposition,
these twins of Satan grow audacious,
trample upon virtue and intelligence,
and only at immense cost are beaten
back to their lairs. When this is ac
complished, the same old humdrum
course is pursued, and again and again
the baffled, but not conqueted, mob
rallies to the van, and has again to
be confronted. If the men who are
most concerned in good govern
ment were to take the same inter
est in it that the men of the gut
ter too frequently do, especially in the
crowded hives of Northern cities, the
moral atmosphere would not be so full
of miasma. Let business men come to
the front in politics, and insist upon
their proper share in the administra
tion of the public weal. If the men of
commerce, the thrifty farmers, and the
honest, hard-working mechanics would
resolve to know more about politics
and to mould them too, we might not
quite reach a millennium, but changes
for the better would occur which are
not likely to come about, so long as a
few crafty and intensely selfish men
assume leadership and dominion.
Kissing as a Fine Art.— The New
York Herald, from Mr. Beecher’s own
showing, thus summarizes his oscula
tory processes: He has kissed Mrs.
Tilton (sisterly), Mrs. Moulton (inspi
rationally), Mr. Moulton (experimen
tally), Mr. Oliver Johnson (unwilling
ly), Sam Wilkeson (unavoidably), Mr.
Evarts (professionally), Mr. Shearman
(indignantly), Bessie Turner (fatherly),
and Theodore Tilton (reconciliatory).
A Lucky Man. —There is a man out
West who “works for a newspaper and
makes money; has been in the Legis
lature and was not bribed; his girls and
boys married young; and now enough
gas wells have been found on their
farms to supply them with light and
fuel.”
Another.— The New Orleans papers
of the 22d record the death by suicide
of an old Creole citizen, named Comaux.
He took to drink, said business was
getting dull and he intended to kill
himself—and so he did.
new advertisementsT”
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NOTICE TO COUNtF OFFICIALS,
The Judges,Magistrates, Sheriffs,Clerks,
Constables and Bailiffs of the City and
County are requested to meet at the City
Hall, on MONDAY, the 26th inst., at I:3CJ
o’clock p. m., preparatory to joluing in the
Memorial Procession. _ apr2s-l
GEORGIA STATE LOTTERY !
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
Orphans’ Home and Free School.
WILSON & CO., Managers.
ATLANTA, GA., April 21st, 1875.
A.T A MEETING of the Board of Trus
tees of the Georgia State Lottery, held
THIS DAY, the following resolution was
adopted: .
Resolved, That hereafter the business of
this Institution shall be conducted under
the name and style of WILSON A CO.,
Managers. apr2s-lm
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Laying of Corner Stone
MEMORIAL DAY.
The following Programme of Ceremo
nies will be observed on the occasion of the
laying the Corner Stone of the Confeder
ate Monument on TO-MORROW (Memo
rial Day):
PRAYER—By Rev. Dr Irvine.
MUSIC—By U. S. Post Band.
Masonic Ceremonies.
ORATION—By Gen. C. A. Evans.
MUSIC—By Cornet Band of Bremond
Speciality Combination.
PRAYER-By Rev. Mr. Wharton.
BENEDICTION—By Rev. Mr. Sweeney
The seats on the Platform will be occupied
by:
Disabled Ex-Confederate Soldiers,
Marshal and Assistants,
Officers of tho Different Organizations in
the Procession,
Orator of the Day and Escort of Officers,
Masonic Fraternity,
Mayor, City Council and Clerk of Council,
Representatives In Legislature from
Richmond County,
Clergy,
Judges and Officials of City and County
Courts.
Members of City Press,
Committees and Special Aids of ladies’
Memorial Association.
By Direction of the Officers of Ladies’
Memorial Association.
J.V.H. ALLEN,
ap2s-l Marshal of the Day.
CLOSING} STORES.
X HE officers of the Ladies Memorial As
sociation request merchants to close their
stores at 12 o’clock on Monday, in order to
allowitrieir employes an opportunity to
join in the ceremony of laying the Corner
Stone of the Confederate monument.
Carriages for the officiating Clergy and
escort of the Orator, will be at the Paron
age of St. John’s Church at 2 o’clock, p. m
ap2s-lt
Geo.T. Jaokson. John T. Milleb.
Walter M. Jackson. Marion J. Verdery.
a. T. Mi & CO.,
PROPRIETORS OF THE
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AND
General Produce Merch’ts.
DEALERS IN
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Orders are respectfully solicited,
and prompt attention promised.
The Fredericksburg Store
We will open this week another assort
ment of PARASOLS and SUN UMBREL
LAS, all new and choice Goods, and at very
low prices.
Also, a groat variety of new and beauti
ful DRESS GOODS, including Corded and
Plaid IRON BAREGES and GRENA
DINES. NEW CASSIMERES and PANTA
LOON LINENS.
NEW WHITE GOODS very low; some
elegant WHITE ORGANDIES, Striped and
Plaid, at 25c.—choice Goods for the price.
NEW NAINSOOKS, BISHOP LAWNS,
SWISSES, Ac.
Also, another case New York Mills
BLEACHED COTTON at 15c.
V. RICHARDS & BRO.,
Corner by the Planters’ Hotel.
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New Styles Extra Quality Prints
AT A BARGAIN!
HENRY L. A. BALK,
172 BROAD STREET.
I HAVE received 5 cases Superior Quality
PRINTS, New Styles LINEN EFFECTS,
2 more cases FINE BLEACHED HOME
SPUN, 1 yard wide, 10 cents; ail Linen
HUCK TOWELS, $1 per dozen; LADIES’
STRAW HATS, 25 cents each; New FLOW
ERS, RIBBONS, etcetc.
HENRY L. A. BALK,
api-25-1* 172 Broad street.
MULTUM IN PARVO !
The Briggs Stove Furnace
OF which several hundred have been or
dered by the ladies of Augusta, are
now ready for delivery, at my store on
Jackson street, near the Post Office.
For camming Fruit and all kinds of Sum
mer use they are without a rival. Once
seen or used tbey become indispensible.
So say the ladies who have tried them.
Price, only $3.50
apr2s-tf FRANK SMYTH, Agent,
SIOO REWARD. ‘
LEFT in a store on Broad street, between
Jackson and Mclntosh, on Wednesday
evening, about 6 o’clook, a Russian Leather
POCKET-BOOK, with name and residence
in full printed thereon, and containing two
Diamond Shirt Studs and a few papers of
no great value save to the owner.
W. STEVENSON,
ap2s-3 221 Broad street.
Remember This Week!
CJ. T. BALK sells the Best Calico at Bc.;
• splendid White Pique at 15c.; Revere
Lawn at 20c.; Ruohings at 5,10 and 150.
Look for No. 136 Broad street, below
Monument street, and you will not be dis
appointed. C. J. T. BALK.
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notice:
On WEDNESDAY EVENING next, the
28th of April, at the Douglass Hall, a FAIR
will be given by the Ladies of Trinity
Church for the BENEFIT OF THE
CHURCH. We would solicit the favorable
patronage of all who may come.
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TO RENT,
A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE at Harri
sonville, in perfect order, with all necessa
ry out houses, stable, orchard and garden,
with ten or twenty acres of land.
Possession can be had at once.
For terms, apply to
ap2s-tf GEO. T. JACKSON.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Girardey’s Opera House.
THREE NIGHTS ANDjDNE MATINEE!
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thttritdey,
April 27th, 28tli aad 29th,
Bremond’s Specialty Combination!
FOUR GREAT TROUPES COMBINED!
Drama, burlesque, specialty 1
and Pantomime, with a full and ef
ficient CORNET BAND and ORCHESTRA
from the Academy of Music, New Orleans,
in a chaste and elegant programme, intro
ducing the infant wonder, YOUNG APOi -
LO, and Thirty-live Talented Artists, in the
laughable, mirth-provoking sensation of
the day, Burlesque “Spelling Bee,” enti
tled •
SCHOOL !
Cards of Admission, SI; Reserved Seats
can be secured at Oates’ Book Store without
extra charge. Ladies’ and Children’s
MATINEE WEDNESDAY AT 2 P. M.,
On which occasion the Burlesque Spelling
and a Great Olio of Specialties. ap2:s-8
TO RENT,
ROOMS suitable for housekeeping, on
Broad street, in the centre of the city.
They will be rented low, with the privilege
of retaining them the ensuing year. Also,
SLEEPING ROOMS for rent. Apply to
M. A. STOVALL,
ap2s-tf No. 1 Warren Block.
Girardey’s Opera House.
MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 26TH.
GRAND
Instrumental Concert!
BY THE CELEBRATED
Columbia Post Baud,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
Richmond Hussars !
PROGRAMME.
I’ART FIRST.
1. Centennial Grand March Downing
2, Overture—Fra Diavolo Auber
3. Waltz—"On the Beautiful Blue
Danube ” Strauss
4. Golden Robin Polka Mater
5. Caratlna—A La Favorlta Donizetti
PART SECOND.
6. Overturo— La Dame Blanche ..Boieldien
7. Song—“ Departed Days ” Hays
8. Serio-Comic Pot Pourri Rmgleben
9. Quadrille—Without a Title Strauss
10. Vivat Galop and Dixie
Members of the Richmond Hussars have
a limited number of Tickets for Sale-
Price, 75 cents; Gallery, 60c. No Reserved
Seats. Concert will commence at 8 o’clock.
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MEMORIAL DAY !
IHE Order of Procession on MONDAY,
26th inst.—MEMORIAL DAY—will be as
follows, and the Line, will be formed
promptly at 2:80 p. in. on that day, at the
Bell Tower:
Order* of Procession.
ITirst Division.
Richmond Hussars.
United States Post Band.
Augusta Independent Volunteer Battl’n.
Police force of Augusta.
Doutschcr Scliuetzen Club.
Second Division.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Knights of Pythias.
Different Societies of the City and Coun
ty—National, Benevolent and Religious.
Good Templars.
The Cornet Band of the Bremond Speci
alty Combination.
Augusta Fire Department and Independ
ent Fire Companies of Augusta.
Third. Division.
Soldiers of the Late Confederate Armies.
The Survivors’ Association.
Citizens Generally.
Members of tho Bar of Richmond County.
Medical Faculty and Society.
Judges and Officials of City and County
Courts.
Clergy of City and County.
The Masonic Fraterniiy.
Fourth Division.
Representatives from Richmond County
in the General Assembly.
Mayor,City Council, and Clerk of ouncil.
Orator of the Day, escorted by Commit
tee of Ex-Confederate Officers.
Officers of the Ladies’ Memorial Associa
tion, and Ladies generally.
Organizations and individuals intending
to participate in the Procession are re
quested to report punctually at 2:15 p. m.,
as follows:
First Division—On northeast corner of
Greene and Jackson streets, to Col. Wilson.
Second Division—On the north side of
Greene, midway between Mclntosh and
Jackson s'reets, to Capt. Eve.
Third Division—On the south side of
Greene street, in front of tho Augusta Free
School, to Col. Snead.
Fourth Division—On the south side of
Greene street, in front of the Baptist
Church, to Maj. Craig.
Route of the Procession,
Up Gx-eeno to Cumming, through Gum
ming to Bi-oad, and down Broad to the
Central Hotel, where the CORN ER STONE
of the Confederate Monument will bo laid
by the Masonic Fraternity, and an Oration
be delivered by GEN. C. A. EVANS.
The Procession will then re-form and
march down Broad to Monument, to
Greene, to Elbert, to Watkins, to the City
Cemetery and there be dismissed after
witnessing the Decoration by the ladies of
the Confederate Soldiers’ Graves.
Capt. PRITCHARD, in command of a
detachment of the late Washington Artil
lery, stationed at the intersection of Broad
and Mclntosh streets, will fire a salute of
Thirteen Guns—one for each of the late
Confederate States—as the Procession en
ters Broad street.
Asm,tant Marsiml* of the Day.
Col. R. J. Wilson, Col. Claiborne Snead,
Lieut. James L. Fleming, Maj. Wm. Craig,
Capt. Frank Timberlake, Jas. P. Verdery,
Esq.; Capt. F. E. Eve, Capt. L, A. Picquet,
and Capt. M. F. Nelson.
Ex-Confederate Soldiers and Citizens
Generally are requested to organize in fi-ont
of the Augusta Free School, at 2 p. m.
By direction of the Officers of the Ladles’
Memorial Association.
J. V. H. ALLEN,
apr2l-2 Marshal of the Day.
AMERICAN WATChT
WHOLESALE SALESROOM,
David F. Conover & Cos.,
’ SEOCESSOBS TO
WM. B. WAENE & CO.,
IMPORTERS, MANUFACTURERS AND
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
WATCHES 1 JEWELRY,
SOUTHEAST CORNER
Chestnut and Seventh Streets
(FIRST FLOOR),
PHILADELPHIA.
novZfl-Hatuthaefim
Safe Deposit Boxes.
The NATIONAL BANK of Augusta is
prepared to lease small SAFES inside its
Fire Proof Vault, at moderate rates, for the
reception of Bonds, Securities. Deeds, Le
gal Documents, Plate, Coin, Jewelry, and
valuables of every description.
G. M. THEW,
JeStt-ly* Cashier.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Old A tna Life Insurance Cos.
819 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
ASSETS, - - - $20,667,603.57.
CLAIMS PAID THROUGH THE AUGUSTA AGENCY, 8210,180.
Pontes issued. Premiums payable annually, semi-annually or quar
rsons n tbo city or country desirous of insuring their own or the lives
thuJfflMttrein? u^Me„‘“ UlUheirbeiit ‘ n, * reSt by commulli ““ n wlth
CHAS. W. HARRIS,
AQENTB WANTED. AgeD ' ,0r Ge ° ria and S ° Uth ,^““ a -
TO HOUSE-KEEPERS.
NEW SPRING GOODS.
JAMES G. BAILIE & BRO.
RESPECTFULLY ask your attention to the following DESIRABLE GOODS
offered by them for sale:
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS.
24 feet wide and of the best quality of goods manufactured. Do you want a
real good Oil Cloth ? If so come now and get the very beat
Oil Cloths cut any size aud laid promptly.
A full line of cheap Floor Oil Cloths, from 60c, a yard up.
Table Oil Cloths, all widths and colors.
CARPETS.
Brussels, Three-piy and Ingrain Carpets, of new designs. A full stock of
low-priced Carpets, from 30c. a yard up.
Carpets measured for, made and laid with dispatch.
LACE CURTAINS.
French Tamboured Lace, "Exquisite;” Nottingham Lace, “ Beautiful Tam
boured Muslin, durable and cheap, from $2.50 a pair upwards.
CORNICES AND BANDS.
Rosewood and Gilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut and Gilt Cornices, with or without Centres'
Curtain Bands, Pins and Loops,
Cornices cut au and made to lit windows, and put up.
WINDOW SHADES.
1,000 New Window Shades, in all the new tints of color.
Beautiful Gold Band Shades, $1.50, with all trimmings.
Beautiful Shades, 20c. each.
More Window Shades, any color and any size.
Window Shades squared and put up promptly.
Walnut and Painted Wood Shades.
RUGS AND DOOR MATS.
New and Beautiful Rugs.
Door Mats, from 50c. up to the best English Cocoa, that wear three years.
100 Sets Table Mats, assorted.
CANTON MATTINGS.
NEW GOODS!
R , ed ~ M ; Vr TJ b e, s t 4 ' 4 White MATTINGS, best 4-1 Fancy
MAT 1 INGs; also, 50 Rolls b resh Canton MATTING, aL sl2 a Roll of 40 yards. At
JAMES C. BALIE & BRO S.
V\ nil Papers and
3,500 Roils Wal! Papers and Borders, in new patterns, in gold,pannels. hall, oaks,
marbles, chintzes, Ac., in every variety of color—beautiful, good and cheap.
Paper hung it desired.
Hair Cloths
In all widths required for Upholstering. Buttons, Gimps and Tacks for the same.
Curtain J3amasks.
Plain and Striped French Terrys for Curtains and Upholstering purposes.
Gimps, Fringe, Tassels, Loops and Buttons.
Moreens and Table Damasks.
Curtains and Lambraquins made and put up.
Piano and Table Covers.
English Embroidered Cloth Piano and Table Covers.
Embossed Felt Piano and Table Covers.
Plain and Gold Band Flocked Piano Covers.
German Fringed Table Covers.
Crumb Cloths and Druggets.
New Patterns in any size or width wanted.
To all of which we ask your attention. Ail work DUNE WELL AND IN SEASON, by
JAMES C. BAILIE & BROTHER.
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The Housekeepers’ Friend.
WILSON’S CELEBARfED INSECT
POWDER AND POWDER GUN is
thus testified to by our own citizens:
Augusta, Ga., January Ist, 1875.
The undersigned hereby certify that they
have used the Powder and Pow'der Guu of
Mr. Thomas It. Wilson, for destroying
Roaches, Bod Bugs, Insects, etc., and heart
ily recommoud it for the purpose for which
it is vised.
E. W. MARKER, M. D., Dentist, 137 Broad
street.
F. S. MOSHER, Augusta Hotel.
PLATT BROS., Furniture Dealers.
J. T. & L. J. MILLER, Grocers, 216 Broad
street.
It. M. ROBERDS, Mansion House.
JACOB RENTZ.
P. MAY, Globe Hotel.
MRS. W. W. THOMAS, Central notel.
MRS. E. A. MAHARREY.
CHARLES SPAETH.
TELFAIR <fc JACKSON.
For sale by
J. H. ALEXANDER,
apr22-7 Wholesale and Retail Agent.
LIME. LIME. LIME,
Alabama and GEORGI a LIME at Kiln
price by car load. Wo have special
rates of freight to points in North and
South Carolina and Georgia. We sell low
by barrel and ear load. Our Alabama is 98
por cent. Carbonate Lime. None purl
in the world and white as snow. Orders
solicited.
SCIPLE & SONS,
api 21-10 _ Atlanta, Ga.
To Passengers and Shippers.
FOR the present or during the heavy
movements of Fruits and Vegetables,
the Steamships “Georgia” and “South
Carolina” will sail from Charleston on
TUESDAYS, instead of Wednesdays, as
heretofore; to be followed by the "Cham
pion” and "Charleston” on alternate
Saturdays. For Stite Rooms to New
York, Liverpool or Glasgow, with dia
grams, apply to the undersigned.
Freights to all points North and East
guaranteed as Low as by any other com
peting Line. W. STEVENSON,
Agent of Steamship Lines,
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Reduction of Freights
Via Oliai'lestoa, H. C.
THE following Reductions have bton
made on FREIGHTS from New York,
Boston, Providence. Philadelphia and Bal
timore to Augusta. Ga., commencing from
pmnt of shipment on April 2Gth:
Rate on Sixth Class articles from New
Yerk, Boston, Providence and Philadelphia
reduced from 60c. to 50c. per 100 lbs.
From Baltimore, 55c. to 45c. per 100 lbs.
Arrow and other Ties, Bagging and
Gunny Bags, will be reduced from Fifth
Class to Sixth Class.
S. S. SOLOMONS,
Superintendent S. S. R. R.
F. K. HUGER, Agent. apr23-5
Auction Sale of the Noted
Trotting Horse, Gen. Hood.
BY consent of the parties interested, a
sale at Auction of the Trotting Horfeo,
GEN. HOOD, will take place at the Fair
Grounds, on TUESDAY, the 27th inst., at 4
o’clock p. m., for a division between the'
owners.
LEWIS JONES AND OTHERS.
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AUGUSTA SAVINGS
INSTITUTION,
BROAD STREET,
(National Exchange Bank Building,)
ON the first day of May this institution
will be opened to receive monev on
Deposit, and will pay Interest on the same.
Under our charter we can offer extra in
ducements to all having funds which they
wish to save and accumulate, and being
specaliy privileged, wo solicit the accounts
of all minors, guardians, receivers or anv
parties holuing money in trust. The Mana
gers of the Institution are its Trustees ap
pointed by the Mate, and axe prohibited by
law from box*rowing or using any of its
funds. The private property of all the
Alauagers (during their term of office) is
liable for all deposits and debts of the In
stitution, and its investments will always
be in the safest and surest securities. It is
earnestly hoped that all who have anv
money which they wish to place at interest
will avail themselves of the advantages of
the Institution, and the accounts of me
chanics and all laboring olasses are re
spectfully solicited.
MANAGERS;
Alfred Baker, John P. King, George T
Barnes, Wm.B. ioung, W. H. HowarxL k'
R. Schneider, Charles Spaeth, C. Hunniken
Patrick Walsh, William ilulhorin E
O Donnell,
ALFRED BAKER, J. 8. BEAN, Jr„
President- Treasurer.
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NEW AND NOVEL
lotteries :
$19,000 for §4 oo
$14,000 . fir $4 OO
SIOO,OOO for S4O 00
SIOO,OOO for §4O 00
MISSOURI STATE LOTTERIES!
On the 15th Day of Each Month during
18/5, will be Drawn the $2
Single Number Lottery !
Capital Prize, $12,000 !
10,290 PRIZES AMOUNTING TO SIOO,OOO.
2T Tickets Only ,3 !-*
TRY A TICKET IN THIS LIBERAL
SCHEME.
$1,200,000 IN PRIZES.
Capital Prize, $100,000!
11,590 Prizes, amounting to $1,200,000!
Will be Drawn June 80, 1875.
Will be Drawn.... Kept. 80, 1875.
Will be Drawn— Dew. 31,1875.
W hole Tickets, S2O; Halves, 10 ; Quarters, $5.
Prizes payable in full and no postpone
ment of drawings take place.
Address, for Tickets and Circulars,
MURRAY, MILLER & CO.,
P. O. Box 2446. ST. LOUIS, MO.
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TAKE NOTICE
GEORGIA—Morgan County
NOTICE is hereby given that Capt. J. M.
BURNS is nc. longer my agent, for
any purpose whatever.
apr22-law4 MARY W. ANDERSON.