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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST SATURDAY, August 14, 1875. “Wliat’s the Law?” Now that the Supreme Court of Georgia has been in a manner re organized by the appointment of two new judges, and has fairly opened a new term, we feel impelled to recur to a subject already mentioned in our columns. Vague, uncertain, and shift ing laws are u curse to any community, and particularly so to a State situated like our own. The great prosperity of England and the wonderful recupera tive strength of Franco have been at tributed, and we think justly, to the stability of the jurisprudence of those nations, so far, at least, as their busi ness interests are concerned. The mer chant, capitalist, farmer, mechanic, or in one word the business man, using the term In its broadest sense, knows exactly where he stands as regards the acquisition, the retention, or the dis position of property. The rule, while by no means either just or perfect in itself at all times, is at least a rule and is suffered to remain unchanged long enough for a knowledge of its pro visions to be generally diffused among those who are to regulate their actions thereby. As regards this State, we are forced to give it as our firm persuasion that such a condition of things does not ex ist. Of the quality of our laws we do not propose to speak. Asa rule, the legislation of our General Assembly is to be graded, as the English tourist classified Norwegian butter, “from very bad to indescribably beastly,” nor is a change for the better to be ex pected until better timber composes our Legislature than has been the case for some years past. At the last ses sion, a deplorable state of affairs was revealed in the Treasury, and instead of straightening out the crooked places and insisting upon the State’s business being conducted on the same principles as those by which the ordi nary commercial world is governed, our sapient law-makers fairly turned tail, adjourned, and ran away. So long as the cross-road politician continues to lead the dear people captive we can not expect wise or beneficial laws, and so far as legislation promotes popular prosperity must endure our lamentable lack of public brains as best we may. But while this is the case as respects our law-making bodies, it must be borne in mind that our Legislatures do not often make inroads upon long es tablished laws of general operation. The mighty intellects of our Solons are commonly exercised upon local and private bills, and only as the exception are ancient legal principles invaded. The Code, of course, is plenteously amended; it is now a Joseph’s coat of many colors, and at every new session the “rising young men” clap on a score or two of fresh clouts and patches, but upon inspection it will be found that the changes are chiefly in matters of detail. An official fee is increased or cut down; a notice is to be given in some new number of days; or the du ties of this functionary are developed in whole or part upon another; the great body of the law is not seriously impaired by such small nibbling by Ciceronian mice. Is is reserved for our courts, and above all, the Supreme Court, to make “the rule of action” a football for fancy. Years ago an able jurist of the old school, residing in another State, a man who lived up to the judicial oath of administering justice, “agreeable to the laws and Constitution,” asked of a dis tinguished citizen of Georgia this un flattering question, “Does Chief Jus tice continue to deliver orations in your Supreme Court ? ” The stern old jurisprudent could not abide the idea of a Judge putting the law to one side and deciding each case on his own private conceptions of justice. It was too much like the rule of the Roman empire that what pleased the Emperor had the force of law. The sarcasm was a cutting one, but was it unde served? And is not the same course of judicial law-making, which prevailed years since existent now to the confu sion and damage of the people of this State? Just before the war the evil had risen to such a magnitude that the Legislature was compelled to intervene and passed an act which, in effect, positively prohibited the Supreme Court from overruling or reversing its own decisions, or declaring that to be no law to-day which it had yester day unanimously declared to be the law of the land. A poor foolish citizen of Georgia who had all the previous decisions of the court in his favor sought to assert his rights under the law as expounded by those decisions and declared irreversible (ex cept by the Legislature) by this statute, but with surprising alacrity the court skipped round the law, found it did not apply to this particular case, and re versed all its prior decisions, to the poor litigant’s loss of divers thousands of dollars. The war coming on, this re-affirmation of the old evil of shifting decisions was overlooked and has re mained unattended to up to this time. The law to reform it still lingers on the statute book, but for all practical pur poses is as inefficient as a Quaker gun. The decision of this term overrules the decision of last, and it has oven been decided that this is quite the natural and legal order of things. We have been handed a decision to this general effect delivered on the 25th of May last j and reprint it in full as follows : T. J. Spriggs va. E. M. Bramlett, Equity, from Whitfield. Tbippe, J. Where one, on account of the decisions of the Courts being of a character adverse to his claim, settled a matter in litigation between him and his adversary—the latter yielding a portion of his rights under the rule of law, as then held—the former cannot avoid the settlement on the ground that subsequent decisions overruled the former, and that by his mistake of law he had lost his rights, there being no displaced confi dence, and artifice or fraud shown on the part of the other party. Judgment affirmed. W. K. Moore, by Shumato and William son, for plaintiff in error. Johnson & McCamy for defendant. We italicize one sentence in this de cision as particularly worthy of re mark, viz., that where a man has en tered into a transaction on the faith of the decisions of the Supreme Court that the law is so and so, and subsequent decisions overrule the former, “by his mistake of law he has lost his rights.” But is it the man’s mistake of law ? And is it not rather the Court’s fault? The citizen is told by our highest ju dicial tribunal that the law upon such and such a point is so and so, and on the faith of this statement arranges his business or disburses his money ; then his rights are invaded and he ap peals to the Courts only to be told that he has mistaken the law, that it is not what he was officially informed it was yesterday but what he is now officially iaff-nned it is, and by consequence that his business is ruined or his money lost —“ by his mistake of law.” Where such a fast and loose style of jurisprudence prevails is it any wonder that domestic interests suffer and for eign capital stands aloof ? The Cost of Living—Thrifty Farming the Road to Success. What would the newspaper world do without those quiet and sagacious ob servers who have a knack of storing their memories and scrap books with all kinds of valuable information? These useful and modest mortals exist everywhere and to them the editorial fraternity are frequently indebted for valuable suggestions, communications, and the. like. One of these collectors of Notes and Queries has sent to the New York /Ship ping and Commercial List a brief expo sition of the comparative price of those articles which enter directly into the cost of living of laboring men, and the relative position of wages to the cost of living, at three several dates, viz: 1860 (before the war), 1865 (the time when everythiug was at the highest), and at the present time. The conclusion he arrives at is that the laboring man is able to purchase as many of the com forts, and luxuries of life, for the amount received for his daily toil, as at any previous time. That he is better off now than in 1865. He also finds that about the only extra expense in living comes in the cost of provisions, other than flour. The usual products of the farm have not declined in price during the last ten years, with other articles. The reason is evident to any close observer. It is the only line of business that is not overdone. Far from being overdone, in any part of the country, it is remarked that the young men of New England and the Middle States are leaving their farms aud flocking to the cities. “ The pop ulation of our manufacturing towns,” he says, “is rapidly increasing by the increase of families, and as the boys grow up they are kept at home to be come operatives. Immigration is also adding large numbers. Thus we have consumers and manufacturers increas ing, while the producers from the soil are decreasing ; the result is inevita ble, manufactured goods cheap, manu facturing towns overrun with help, and always poor, while provisions are high and the farmers are well off. I have taken pains to inquire while traveling iu the country, if the people knew of a hard-working, industrious, frugal farm er, who did not succeed, and the uni versal answer has been, no! Any man who will cultivate his farm faithfully is sure of a comfortable support.” The conclusion drawn is that “could the young men who are growing up, understand fully the advantages that would accrue to themselves from a life in the country, and the greater cer tainty they would have of a comforta ble and happy career, our country would be richer in productions, and in noble men.” Now what is above said of the young men of the New England and Middle States is relatively true of the South. How many country boys, who ought to be helping their parents in farm work, are either idling their time away at home or flocking to the cities and towns for the obtainment of clerk ships? In this way the municipalities are crowded with men out of work and the rural districts aro deprived of til lers of the soil or directors of labor. What we want in the South is fewer professional men, fewer trades men and more farmers, not plan ters. If all laws of thrift are not set at defiance, it stands to reason that the sons of men who own and cultivate the soil ought to succeed much better on the ancestral acres than in a wild hunt for politi cal offices or clerkships in the city. There is something radical)y wrong in parental discipline or in the character of the rising generation, when hun dreds and perhaps thousands of young men, born and raised in the country, are skulking and sulking at home or else making periodical forays upon city merchants for paltry employment. Now and then, aspiring boys, full of brain and pluck, and not fully adapted to farm labor, emerge from their bucolic retreats and make their way handsome ly in other pursuits. But as a general proposition, if country boys will seek employment in the town, we are satis fied that they have the best chance for prospering who can establish the fact that they were not drones when in the country. As the case stands now, we see but little encouragement for any industrious young man to abandon the farm or plantation and come to the city. Trade may revive this Fall and Winter, but, from all we can learn, there are more persons seeking work in stores and counting-room3 than even the flushest season could supply places for. And yet, despite this truth and warning, we fear Augusta and all other Southern towns will be invaded by a host of young fellows from the coun try, intent on clerical duty, who had much better be trying to make a living out of the soil. Nomenclature. —Some days ago one of the Columbus papers alluded to “Arsenic” Houssaye,” and now the New York Times calls that unfortunate French writer “Obscene” Houssaye, Perhaps the Times was dead in earnest, and thought obscene ought to be the translation for Arsene. “Extended Empire, like extended gold, Exchanges solid strength for feeble splen dor.” The Whirligig of Time—Jefferson Da vis to “Go West.” A special telegram to the Chicago Tribune, which we reproduce, is full of significance: Rockford, 111., August 9.—Ten years ago, had Jeffrson Davis ventured into Winnebago county, he would have stood a good chance of being shot. The ltth proximo he will appear in the banner county of the Union to deliver a speech be fore an audience of husbandmen, artisans and tradesmen who fought him, and would, a few short years since, gladly have sent a bullet winging through his head. H. B. Kimball, the Secretary of the Agricultural Society, announced this morning that Jefferson Davis had accepted the invita tion extended him by the Board of Direc tors of the Association, and that he will this year deliver the annual address at the Winnebago County Fair, held next month in Rockford. In his letter of accep tance, Mr. Davis said: “I have long desired to visit your country and see the wonderful development which has been made since I left it, as then it was a wilderness occupied by savages.” While our contemporary of the Wash ington Chronice is essaying to get up a “big scare” on the subject of the Demo cracy of the South forcing Jefferson Davis upon the country as a prominent candidate for the next Presidency; and while the same power in the land is at tempting to re-open the dead issues of Secession as a programme for the cam paign of 1876—the Board of Directors of an Illinois Agricultural Society, many of whose guild would have, a few years back, “sent a bullet through his head,” cordially invite the ex-President of the Southern Confederacy to come into their midst peacefully aud deliver the annual address. And the “monster,” Davis actually accepts this invitation and will no doubt make them just such a speech as they would like to hear, not for the purpose of fomenting strife but in due acknowledgement of their re ciprocal sentiments of patriotism, for giveness and respect. It is very hard for an old statesman, and especially one “out of business,” to make speeches of any sort without lugging in political scraps which may or may not be offen sive to his auditory. Even Jefferson Davis displayed this weakness on sev real memorable occasions; but within a recent period his utterances have been opportune and in good taste, and we cherish fond hopes that his discretion will be admirably exhibited when he stands before the yeomanry of the West and beholds their array of prize pigs and cattle. He is too conspicuous a man not to be watched by those of his enemies, on the press especially, who will be on the alert to catch him trip ping and some of whom, we apprehend, have the diabolical talent of distorting the most innocent words into most leprous and “treasonable” language. From past experience, Mr. Davis must be aware of the delicacy of his posi tion and the scrutiny to which he must of necessity be subjected. He should, and we hope does, appreciate these facts, and therefore being forewarned will approach his task entirely equipped to please his friends and confound the eager malignity of his adversaries. If Mr. Davis were a mere political hack, on half pay, we should be apprehensive of any speech-making from him in the Western country ; but he is nothing of the sort. Few men of this age or country have been so thoroughly train ed, few have so many stores of widely diffused learning at command, and few are more fertile in ideas and more eloquent in the delivery of them. We trust, therefore, that he will make just such an address as the farmers will enjoy, and, by thus doing, com mand the affection of his own fellow citizens of the South and the esteem of the East and West. That he is ca pable of so conducting his cause we are assured; that he will disarm a thousand foolish prejudices by his grace and wisdom, wo trustfully be lieve. Really, then, to return to the first point of departure, is not this appari tion of Jefferson Davis in the West, remembering the gory Confederate drama, another proof among many that time works wonders? No doubt, Western as well as Eastern men have found out that the South is not such a bad place after all, and that the wild theorists who drove the sections into cutting each others’ throats are least to l e respected. Then a wide-spread commercial misfortune has brought men of all parts of tho country to gether again by a common mis fortune, and taught the victorious section especially that Restoration of the Union and not “Reconstruction” of a fragment of it, is the only policy for sound prosperity and something akin to happiness. Many determined foes of Jefferson Davis have passed away, and many have been visited with a retribution worse than death. We are glad to see that he has survived amid the wreck of States and reputa tions, and not the least proud day of his life may be that when, beneath a September sun, he stands upon tho soil of Illinois and responds in fitting words to the hospitality of men who, a few years ago, would have deemed it su preme bliss to put him to death with a lethal weapon or “hung him on a sour apple tree.” The world moves, gentle men, the world moves! Worth Remembering.— lt is worth re membering that the public debt at the close of the war was $3,000,000,000. It about ten years it has been reduced nearly one-third —or at the rate of more than $90,000,000 per annum. This has been done exclusively by the Republican party. Would the Democ racy, if in power, have made any such creditable record as this ? Wo doubt it.— Washington Chronicle. Not so bad, if “figures do not lie.” But, had the Democracy never lost power in the Government, -it may be that there would have been no debt at all of this magnitude to reduce. Hungry Aspirants.— The Columbus Enquirer says : When we see a groat falling off in the rush for Judicial and Executive offices in Georgia, we may reasonably conclude that great inducements are needed to tempt competent men to accept them. But this is notably not the case at present. Wherefore, the Enquirer very pro perly thinks the Supreme Judges of this State are sufficiently well paid—far bet ter than many professional men who work much harder—and in this opinion we heartily concur. ' PERSONAL. | !j Gov. HARTRANFTis trying o?jbreak up “hangman’s day” in Pennsylvania, not by pardoning murderers, but b;| Sentencing them to be hung on other day J i’ the week than Friday. | ? Sad, if true. Col. Sellers’ rSi;|l name is not Raymond, but O’Brien, an| lie used to be basket-boy in a Buffalo fbf’atre. But he’s a gentleman and an ahi r, all the same. } I Senator Sprague wears c 4 alls when he visits his mills, and not ane|ening suit with gloves and opera hat, ah J was popu larly supposed. : Joel Parker, of New is men tioned for President by a correspondent of the New York Tribune, wh > tfiinks this would be a good time to res’so'tate a War- Governor Mr. H. T. Helmbold, the : Celebrated patent medicine proprietor, flaMarrived in Philadelphia, and as he says, “i;i the best of health and eager for the Lord Dudley wishes peoi ,e would not tell how much he won on thp '? urf, for no sooner does ho make a few tfc< tisand than a crowd of women and minhiujs come to him begging him to build a cfi.i|rch with it. Robert Collier’s new lectin I on “Salt” is now in pickle, and will be until Winter. But it will keep an well. Mr. James Gordon Bennet enduring his recent visit in Europe, receiv (h|,he annual gold medal of the Irish Emigi ..ifilon Society. His asylum in America was spoken of in the warmest terms. I -is a remarkable fact tut-i- while not one ex-President is living, the Vives of five of them survive—Mrs. Polk, M|b. Fillmore, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Lincoln andJohnson. Of these ladies one is insane anf another at the point of death. A grand-daughter of ABeSij, 101 years old, is on a visit to some you) id'ul compan ions at Springfield, Mass.-f Ethan Allen, that is .—Toledo Commercia l. ? ) Mrs. Laura Gordon, editcl- it the Stock ton (Cal.) Leader, has temporarily retired from the tripod, bee tuso, ad %he says, the present campaign promises *o|6e too boy strous for a lady to appear ii t public. Before the coffin-lid is renewed down, study the figure of Andrew iojmson. The shaft of death was so well dinted that the features retained their aec|s|;bmed look. Nothing is lost but the red of health. Nothing is missing but thp ‘ Strong soul which animated this toi|?bj compact frame— Utica Observer. [ Not ranch missing, certainly, from an undertaker's point of view, but just about all there hi!to a man.] Archbishop Allemany, Iff. San Fran cisco, on the twenty-fifth Inlfiversary of his consecration, which occufrqd last week, was made the reeippient ||i check for $5,000, a span of fine full set of archieplscopai robes, and in 1 r<|.| otiier pres ents, embracing smaller sijiffit of money, services of silver plate, flowers] and works of ait. 1 :; i ■ i 1.2 POLITICAL NGflj&S. The New York World has 'n.Vn forced to publish the speeches of Ra< orators on the Ohio stump in order t| pany out the wish of its heart—the defeat dij Gov. Allen. It is now a grand receptacle |u|<il fulminate r of Radical thunder. Marble] had better take another trip to Cuba foj bis health. Gen. T. L. Cl<ngman, one<|a ?ioted states man, but who has been a quilt citizen of North Carolina, recently wcht over to Sewanee and delivered an ?ad|iress before the University upon “Dobvlls of Public Speakers and Characterist ijhj of Popular Orators.” >{ The St. Louis Adminis tration o'gan, says: “ K 'ntfieb y has givon her usual brutal majority,for the Demo cratic candidates. It alwdy| takes them about a week to count the-, vpto, but it is generally safe to bet on 50,< ; *)0.. President Johnson lefts bis family in good circumstances. His ftlrtiine was mod erati, but was the honost savings of a life time, and ample for their w^hts.— Baston Post. • i He never took presents, ahd never cor rupted Congressmen in or Ljr to get his salary doubled. His memtA y will be hon ored when the avarice aQlj basfhess of Grant are despised and ex| cfated.— N. Y. Sun. t '• We aro afraid Gen. Banksfkf not making that progress towards receif iiig the Demo cratic nomination for Prosb oii his friends wish. The only recruit he hhs gained in the South is an old Confou -who used to go with Stonewall Jackson over to his camp every morning and get a smoking hot breakfast. Banks, like a good cook, retiring whilst the eating was goifis on. He has a solid following in the main who had the bills printed with “Banks !i.*l Lamar" on them. The bills made a s<fn • ition in this town. A great many gvoffery keepers found them just the size ft* wrap up a quarter’s worth of candy. | ■ The Washington ChromVez shudders at one suggestion following of Andy Johnson: “Tennessee,” itfsYys, “is in a great stow over the Jobfi&dn successor business. Pome name Bath, somo Brown, some Thomas, some Harris? and one gush ing simpleton, who, no d|>ufot, parts his hair in the middle, lisps, and reads Byron by moonlight, sentimentally produces the name of Jefferson Davis. At the same time, he mildly swears he has |.lv ays been for him, and says, with a g< utjje whoop, “ let’s have Davis!” We think wo so tho Gover nor of Tennessee commissMnkig Jeff. Davis as Senator!” We don’t kn| w.anybody out of the Senate at the prete|f; time we’d rather see in it than Jefff’stfn Davis. In him you would find no trite’' or abler de fender of the Constitution, land just about the last man your Northern ; representa tives would approach with aide eving propo sition. i The Washington Clironiie.. of tho 11th, has a regular glorification I irtiole over the North Carolina election, la which occurs such sentences as “There to bo no doubt over the result in Ijor'ah Carolina.” “The Republicans will havijja <*lear working majority in the Conventkfi.’l “This will protect the present State C* institution from those radical changes w.|icl:| Democracy had calculated upon makirj'.” : “It is quite probable that the Republicans will favor an adjournment of the Conve jlion as soon as it meets, thus leaving thejConstitution as it now stands.” “The victory will have a good effect North and Sou Li.” “It will as sure our friends everywlie|e that Republi canism still lives in North Carolina, and that the State can be rellid upon in the Presidential battle of 1876.’* As the official figures show an election of Jifty eight Radi cals, sixty Democrats, and £ne Independent Democrat, these bombasti# s< ntences will have to be hauled down foi|re\ sion. A large number of office-lv Id rs and poli ticians in Chicago are salt to. have sent a letter to President Grant! isljng him to accept a re-nomination, on., le ground that the growth of the inflation j sentiment creates an emergency whi<*i w; grants him to make the sacrifice. T* -jy promise to support him if he will tail t e field for a third team. In this conrlctiln the New York Tribune, says: “Therein n! doubt that careful efforts have been mfde ih New York to feel the pulse of financial inen on the same subject. The idea ha| been seduously impressed upon them withi| tli- last mouth by- persons coming directl* fi m General Grant, that it would be werth hundreds of millions to the business off the country if the financial community c: uld be assured now of an unchanged polk jor the part of the Government and a stoa ly j Iherence to hard money ideas, and t at nothing can give such assurance but tl \ nomination of Grant. Tho idea has n adefsome head way.” > j SPECIAL NOTICES. CARPETS. ALTHOUGH CARPETS HAVE ADVANCED, we are still offering our BODY BRUSSELS CARPETS, TAPESTRY BRUSSELS CARPETS, 3 PLY INGRAIN CARPETS. At Reduced Summer Prices. We invite spe cial attention to our stock of Body Brussels which we are closing out very low. Also, a full stock of THOROUGHLY SEASONED FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, New and Beautiful WIN DOW SHADES, WALL PAPERS AND BORDERS, at JAMES G. BAILIE & BROTHER’S. augU-eodtf 205 Broad Street. RICHMOND COUNTY COURT. Sitting for County Purposes, August 12th, 1875. THE FOLLOWING ASSESSMENTS UPON the State Tax for County Purposes for Rich mond County, for 1; 75, are hereby made, and John A. Bohler, Tax Collector of said County, is instructed and required to collect the same: Per centum. Court Expenses 10 Paupers 10 Roads and Bridges 7 Salaries, etc 3 Poor House 3 Jurors 7 Public Offices 2 Coroner’s Inquests l County Map 2 Public Buildings 5 Total 60 CLAIBORNE SNEAD, augl3-law3 and County Judge. BOSTON, MASS., AND PORT ROYAL, S. C. AN A 1 VESSEL NOW ON BERTH AT Boston, Mass., loading with cargo for Port Royal, S. C. For freights to Port Royal apply to Messrs. Lewis & Hall, No. 9 Merchants’ Row. Boston, Mass. augl3-3t. fillMoUA PASSENGER ROUTE. POItT ROYAL RAILROAD, ) Office General Passenger Agent, - Augusta Ga., Aug. G, 1875. ) ltOUNI) TRIP TICKETS ! 10 AUGUSTA to CHARLES- <LK If) TON aud RETURN. tfO.GU ON AND AFTER THIS DATE ROUND TRIP TICKETS will be sold, via Yemasee from Augusta to Charleston, for $5.40, good until October Ist, 1875. DAILY SCHEDULE. Leave Augusta 8:00 a. m. Arrive at Charleston 4:15 p. m. Leave Charleston 8:10 a. m, Arrive at Augusta 6:45 p. m. Passengers en route to the “City by the Sea,” and those seeking the salubrious cli mate of Carolina’s Long Branch, Sul livan’s Island, will find this a pleasant route by which to reach their destination. Tickeis on sale at Planters’Hotel and Ticket Office, Union Depot. T. S. DAVANT. augG-lm General Passenger Auent. BANKRUPT SALE. BIGNON & CRUMP, Auctioneers. WILL BE SOLD, in front of the Auction House of Bignon A Crump, No. 28G Broad street, on MON I >AY, 23d inst., at 11 o’clock a. m., the following property of Messrs. Isaac T. Heard & Cos., Bankrupts, viz: 1 Second Hand Gullett Steel Brush Gin. 1 pair Fairbanks’ Piatforn Scales. 1 pair Trucks. 2 Stoves. 1 Gold Watch. 1 Clock. 1 Water Cooler and Table. 1 Lot Maps. 1 Lot Ink Stands, Pen Racks, &e. 1 Stamped Check Book. Irons complete for two Brooks’ Cot ton Presses. The above articles can be seen at the store of Messrs. Bignon & Crump. Terms: Cash. TUGS. 11. JOHNSON, Assignee of Isaac T. Heard & Cos. auglS-frsuwsu “ PURE SEED”~ “ RUST PROOF OATS.” PRICE $1.25 CASH, PER BUSHEL. Sown in August or September, the most cer tain crop raised—succeeding on the Sea coast, where no other oat ever matures seed, as well as on high'ands. Grown expressly for seed, and for sale by EDWARD BANCROFT, Athens, Ga. For sale by C. 11. PHINIZY, & CO., augl3-lm* Augusta, Ga. For Sale to Merchants, VGOOD stock of English Pocket and Tattle CUTLERY, and Rogers’ im ported direct. For sale at cost. Orders from the country will be properly attended to. K. F. ULQUHART. augl3-3 GRAPES! TAM RECEIVING, fresh from Colonel Clark’s vineyard, Covington, Ga., every day, the following varieties: Hartford Pro lific, Delaware, Ives, Seedling, Concord, ltentz and many others. JOHN F. QUINN, augl2-thsatu-3 48 Jackson street. TURNIP SEED! TURNIP SEED, TURNIP SEED, OF EVERY VARIETY and of the same reliable quality that has always given satisfaction. Call before you purchase at our Drug Store, where you can also be sup plied with our TURNIP FERTILIZER. This article has never failed to produce the largest Turnips and most abundant crops. We refer to all the farmers in Rich mond county, who have used it. For sale in any quantities at the Drug Store of EDWARD BARRY & CO, jy23-frsuwclin 288 Broad street. NOTICE. THE Books of Account of W. A. RAM SEY, Agent, having been placed in tho hands of Messrs. Harper & Bro., Attorneys at Law, No. 225 Broad street, Augusta, Ga., for collection, all persons indebted, by note or account, are requested to make immedi ate payment of the same. Timely atten tion to the above will save expense and lit igation. HARPER & BRO., Attorneys for W. A. Perry, W. A. liam sey. Agent. jy29-thsututf PIANO FOR SALE. 7OCTAVE Hallott & Davis Square Grand PIANO, nearly new and in good or der. For sale cheap. Call early. Apply at 135 BROAD STREET, jell-tf Nearlv opposite Monument St. JACKSON STREET Iron and Brass Foundry, Corner of Jackson and Calhoun sts., Augusta, Ga., GEO. COOPER, - Proprietor. STEAM ENGINES, Mill Machinery of all descriptions made to order, Gin Gear ing of all Sizes, Store Fronts and Iron Railing of the Latest Pattern, Horse Pow ers and Threshing Machines, made of the best material, at prices fully ten per cent, less than ever offered in this city, for cash Also, four engines, new and second-hand, from ten to thirty-horse power, will be sold very low for cash. jy24-lm GEO. COOPER, Prop’r. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Petition for Corporation. STATE OF GEORGIA, Greene County. lo the Superior Court of aaid County: The petition of antoine poul- LAIN, Thomas N. Pouliain, Jr., Philip Poullain, Celeste Moore, Marion B. Moore, Harriet M. Ware,-Julia C. Poullain, Sarah N. Poullain, Henry B. Plant, John P. Ken nedy, Maurice Wilkinson, William M. Reese, Augustus Reese and William L. High shew eth that your petitioners have associated themselves together under the name of the “FONTENOY COTTON MILLS,” for the purpose of engaging in the busi ness of manufacturing Cotton or Woolen Fabrics, Grist, Flour and Lumber, at SCULL SHOALS, in the county of Greene aforesaid, upon a body of land which your petitioners nropose to acquire, known as the “Fontenoy Tract,” lying on both sides of the Oconee river, in the counties of Greene, Oglethorpe and Oconee, and con taining thirty-eight hundred acres (more or less); also’, of using so much of said land in the prosecution of their said busi ness as may be requisite or necessary, and dividing the remainder into farms of ten, twenty, forty and one hundred acres, or into village lots, with convenient avenues or streets, and leasing or selling the same to immigrants or actual settlers, in fur therance of the objects above specified. The capital stock of the Company to be One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dol lars, divided into shares of One Hundred Dollars each, and to consist in part of the land aforesaid representing Seven Hundred andFfty Shares, with the improvements and Droperty thoreon, to-wit: A large Cot ton Factory, containing 3,300 spindles, 116 looms, and other machinery; a grist mill, having two run of corn stones and two of wheat stones; a saw mil 1, a water gin. a blacksmith shop, atoll covered bridge upon stone piers, a brick warehouse, brick dwell ing house, a two-story store house, and sundry operative houses, cabins, etc., and in part of seven hundred and fifty shares in cash subscriptions, to be made by the said Henry B. Plant, John P. Kennedy, Maurice Wilkinson, William M. Reese, Augustus Reese, William L. High, and others. And to this end your petitioners desire to be incorporated, under said name, for the period of twenty years, renewable at the expiration of that time, with the privilege or acquiring for themselves, their associates, successors, and assigns, the legal title to said land, imp.overuents and property, and of using, laying off, and lea-ing or selling the same, or any part thereof, as aforesaid; of making and using a common seal; and of issuing coupon bonds, to an amount not ex ceeding said capital stock, and mortgaging said land, improvements, and p operty, to secure payment of the same, by deed of trust to three or more persons, upon the following conditions, to-wit: That in case 'default is made in the payment of the prin cipal or interest, at the time stipulated, said Trustees shall be authorized and requir ed, upon the written request of any bond holder, to advertise said land, improve ments, and property, once a week for sixty days, in a newspaper published at Greenes boro’, Georgia, and another in the city of Auguste, and to sell the same for cash, at public outcry, before the Court House door in Greenesboro aforesaid, on the first Tues day in the month next after the expiration of said sixty days; and if after demoting the expenses of sale, and paying the prin cipal and interest due on said bonds, any surplus remains, sucii surplus shall be paid to said Company, or divided among the stockholders thereof; Provided, That said bonds shall contain, upon their face, notice to the holder that not less than five per centum of the amount issued, to be selected by lot, shall be redeemable annually after the expii ation of two years from their date. A Iso the privilege of conducting the affairs and business of the Company through a President, Secretary and Treasurer, and three Directors, who shall bo elected by a majority of the Stockholders in person or by proxy, and hold their offices during good behavior, and until removed by the Stockholders at an annual or special meet ing : Also of making such By-Laws for the government of their affairs and—business, and the compensation of their officers, as shall be deemed expedient or necessary; of increasing said Capital Stock hereafter from time to time as the said corporators, their assigns and successors may see tit, to the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dol lars, and generally, of exercising all other corporate powers necessary to the purpo ses of their organization, with no other lia bility than that fixed by Section 167 G, of the Revised Code of this State, to-wit: “In case of the failure of said Corporation, the Stockholders shall be bound, in their pri vate capacity, to any creditor ot said Cor poration, for the amount of stock suberib ed for by him until the said subscription is fully paid up, or until the stockholder shall have paid, out of his private property, debts of the said Corporation to an amount equal to his unpaid subscription.” WHEREFORE your petitioners pray that this declaration be recorded and published once a week for a month, in the Gretnes boro ’ Herald, and that the usual order granting the same, be passed by the Court at the next Term. W. A. & J. M. WALTON, aug!4-lw Petitioners Att’ys. FOR SALE, A BAY HORSE eight years old. Good for any work. Apply on Telfair street, MR. KING’S House. augl4tf Y. M. C. A. Hon J. C. C. BLACK, President, will de liver an address before the Association on Ihe subject of Christian Work, on Mon day night next at 8 o’clock, at their Hall. Alfaro invited. Especially let every member of the Association be present. augl4-lt. GROUND STOCK FEED -AND CUT HAY READY FOR MIXING. For sale by Peter Cx. Burum. aug 13-3 THEMOST PERFECT MADE. LEMON SUGAR, ETC. <£ONE THIRD IS SAVED^ in quantity by their perfect purity and great strength; the only kinds made by a prac tical Chemist and Physician, with scientific care to insure uniformity, healthfulness, deli cacy and freedom from all injurious substan ces. They are far superior to the common adulterated kinds. Obtain the genuine. Ob serve our Trade Marks as above, “Cream” Baking Powder, “Hand and Cornucopia.” Buy the Baking Powder only in cans securely labelled. Many have been deceived in loose or bulk Powder sold as Dr Price’s. Manufactured onlv by STEELE & PRICE, Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati. mchlß-tuthsasu f 1 y STOCK PRIVILEGES. $lO. SIOO7 SSOO. SIOOO. Often realizes immense profits when in vested in STOCK PRIVILEGES. Circulars containing full explanation of the mode of operating, and quotation prices of all Slocks dealt in, at the New York Stock Exchange, sent FREE on application to SIMONSON, BARREIRAS & CO., Bankers and Brokers, No. C Wall street, Opp. N. Y. Stock Exchange. New York. jels-tuthsaly TO RENT. FOR RENT, rjIHE RESIDENCE at No. 336 Broad street, opposite C. V. Walker’s Auction House. Apply to J. T. Derry, at the Rich mond Academy. augl2-tf TO RENT, JMtOM Ist October next, the Store and Dwelling No. 230 Broad street, at present occupied by N. W. Peacock. Apply to A. D. PICQUET. augl2-6 TO RENT. PART OF A HOUSE with water, gas and everv convenience for house-keeping. Price, $250 a year. Possession given Ist September if desired. Also a suite of rooms and a furnished lodging room. Location central. Apply to ,_ _ aug!2-tf M. A. STOVALL. FOR RENT. The DWELLING over the Store now oc cupied by W. D. Davidson, No. 282. Appiy to j D & j w BUTrf augl2-lw or J. M. TURPIN. floorTtcTrent, WITH WATEIi AND GAS. Apply at NO. 266 BROAD STREET. augll-2vv TO RENT, ] 7l ROM the Ist of October next, D. F. Tan , ner’s RESIDENCE, situated first house above Toll Gate, on Summerville Railroad. House contains 8 rooms, double kitchen and stables, with good water in the vard. Also 4 acres of land attached. All in good order. Apply to JOHN BR AN SON, Augusta Factory, or JAS. G. BAILIE A BRO., Broad street. aug!2-tf. For Sale or to Rent. HOUSE and lot on the south side of Bi'oad street, between Centre and El berc, known as No. 84, now occupied by Gen. B, Y. Harris. The lot has a front on Broad and Ellis streets of 44 feet, more or less. The improvements consist of a com fortable two story brick dwelling, a kitchen, &c. Georgia Railroad stock, at a liberal price, will be taken in exchange, or long time given, if desired, to an approved purchaser. If not sold the property will be rented on reasonable terms, and applications are so licited. WM. A. WALTON, No. 10 Old Post Office Range, auglO-tf Mclntosh St., up stairs. FOR RENT, THE BRICK HOUSE on the corner of Ellis and Monument streets, contain ing seven rooms, Apply to auglO-tf SIBLEY & WHELESS. TO RENT, I7IRAME DW FILLING, with eight rooms, on the north side of Walker, fourth be low Centre street. Apply to JAMES G. BAILIE, auglO-tf 205 Broad street. For Sale or Rent. THAT Desirable Brick Store and Dwel ling, No. 330, opposite Planters’ Hotel. Apply to J. H. SPEARS, M. L. SPEARS. W. E. SPEARS, augß-tf Executors. TO RENT, I7IROM the First of October next, the dwelling on the North side of Broad street (4th door from Mclntosh) now oc cupied by Dr. J. P. H. Brown. WM. A. WALTON. No. 10, Old Post Office Range, Mclntosh street, up stairs. aug7-tf. TO RENT. 371R0M THE Ist OF OCTOBER NEXT, . the Store on the corner of Broad and Washington streets, now occupied by Mr. J. B. Norriss. Apply at augs-tf THIS OFFICE. TO RENT, 171 ROM THE Ist OF OCTOBER NEXT, ' that LARGE and COMMODIOUS STORE, No. 338 Broad street, at present oc cupied by F. A. Timberlake & Cos. Apply to jy3l-tf P. H. PRIMROSE. TO RENT, A COTTAGE HOUSE containg five rooms, a good Kiichen, Store House, and other Buildings, water in yard. No. 0 Fenwick street, near the Parade Ground. Apply to jy3l-lm A. M. BRODIE. TO RENT, Til ROM THE FIRST OF OCTOBER next, .1 the elegant and commodious STORE, 209 Broad street, at pra-ent occupied by M. S. Kean as a dry goods store. pplv to H. F. CAMPBELL, Or A. S. CAMPBELL, jy29-tf 207 Broad street. TO RENT OIV CONDITIONS. riMIE DWELLING OVER OUR STORE X for one year from October Ist, 1875. jy 24-1 m BONES, BROWN &, CO. TO RENT, From October first, the store No. 182 Broad Street, now occupied by Timmerman <fe Wise. ALSO. The Dwelling and Saloon on Ellis street, between Mclntosh and Washington, occu pied by Joseph Heitzman. Apnlv to T. W. GUMMING, jy22-tf Augusta Water Works Office. STORE TO RENT. rp HE store at present occupied by Calvin A Jones to rent. Apply to HENRY MYEBS, jylG-tf 102 Broad Street. STORE TO RENT. Store No. 290 Broad street, now occu pied bv P. G. Burum. For Terms, apply to jy!s-tf H. H. D’ANTIGNAC. TO RENT, If! ROM the Ist of October, the HOUSE 1 next to Dr. Garvin’s, with five Rooms, and double Kitchen in yard, water and gar den. Apply at jyll-tf NO. 81 WALKER STREET. FOR RENT, -pROM OCTOBER FIRST, THE STORE No. 242 Broad street, now occupied by Messrs. O’Donnell & Burke. Apply to jy9-tf J. 11. MONTGOMERY. TO RENT. On Washington street, the TENEMENT HOUSE, next door to Dr. J. 11. Eve’s. Apply to jy7-tf W. F. EVE. TO RENT, J ROM the first of October next, the store No. 271 Broad street. Apply to VAUGHN & MURPHEY, or M. S. KEAN. jy23-frsuwetf FOR SALE! AWINDL A.SS, with a Brake attached built by Mr. George Cooper, of this C Also, a Ruggles PAPER CUTTER, which cuts 26 inches wide. All in good order The above mentioned Machines will ho sold CHEAP FOR CASH. Apply at THIS OFFICE. jy!B-tf SUMMER RESORTS. WARM SPRINGS! MADISON COUNTY. WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. rnHESK SPRINGS are situated four miles 1 from the Tennessee line, on the banks the French Broad River, m the very rnaifknomT.SFUhfuily called the owitzoi'icXiicl of Amei lea. b The Hotel accommodations are unsur- T s are wonderfully invigorating to all invalids, equalizing the circulation and stimulating the secretory organs and -will in most cases ot chionic and sub-acute Gout, Rheumatism, Dispep sia Neuralgia, Secondry Syphilis, Nephri tic and Calculous Disorders, Scrofula, Cu taneousr and many diseases Witlar to females effect a radical cure, liiere isaiso L eJ cold Sulphur Spring near the Warm Onrimra very closely in tern perature aud color of deposit the Yellow Sf.iMh.ir Sorinir of Virginia, with a sul b|, odw much "stronger. These Springs are easy of access from all South ed cities, by alf lines of railroad? converg ing into East Tennessee via Atlanta, Knox vifle Tenn., to Morristown, East Tennes see Excursion or Round Trip. Tickets are on sale to aud Jroin this place in ail South ern cities, at three cents per mile. Rates of Board, S4O per month; sl9 50 per week; $2 per day. Children under ten and over two years, and colored servants, 1 Price of Tickets to Warm Springs, N. 0., via Atlanta, $21.90. J. A. SAMPLE, Gen’l Manager, For Warm Springs Cos. Apply to Manager or Druggists in the city for Pamphlets and Circulars. je2-tf MANSION HOUSE I J OIi r D ROYAL, H. U. OITUATED AT THE TERMINUS OF O the Port Royal Railroad, where counec tion is made with the fast sailing, lirst class steamers Montgomery and Huntsville, sailing to New York every Friday. Round trip from Augu-ta, $3". This is an entirely new and elegantly fur nished house. Situation unsurpassed, sur rounded with magnificent live oaks, com manding a splendid prospect of the sur rounding country, the Beaufort and Port Royal Rivers, and offers unusual attrac tions to travelers or to parties who desire Board or to spend a few nays near the salt water. Table supplied with everything the mar ket affords. Fresh milk, butter, fish, veg etables aud fruits in their season. Best of Cooks and Attendants. Terms liberal. C. E. WARREN, j026-tf Proprietor. The Charleston Hotel WILL not be closed this Summer. All guests patronizing us during the Summer and Fall months, and remaining a week or more, will be allowed a reasonable discount— exceptoccupants of rooms on the first or parlor floor. The attention of the Cou 1 try Merchants is respectfully called to this notice. jy!s-lm Tlie Pines, AIKEN, S. C. rpiIIS centrally located establishment is X now T open for the reception of Summer Boarders. The house is capacious, airy and within one minutes’ walk of the Ac commodation train from Augusta. Fare first class. Aiken is well known to be the most pleas ant Summer resort within an hundred miles of Augusta. Just one hour’s ride. Three trains daily each way. Board S3O per mont h. P. B. WILLIAMS, augl-suwefrsu Proprietor. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. JOHN S. & m. T. DAVIDSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WILL practice in the State, and United States Courts of Georgia. OFFICE NO. 1 WARREN BLOCK. je!7-ly _ W. T. ( J VIS V . ATTORNEY AT LAW, ADGUSTA, GA. Office No. 213 Broad street. Will practice in all the Courts of South Carolina and Courts of Georgia. Special attention to collections. aug!2-su&th3m arc Tif wihrToNic & Stimulant pennitiadtote iiscdmlhe Armies andGoraronent Hospitals It*# I—' 1 —' 1 1 1 Prepared 11 y Tli HOME BITTERS CO., St. LOUIS. FOR SALE BY Ur-iigjvists and 13ealera Generally augß-0m ’ THE TEX.A.S Cotton Worm Destroyer! A Sure and Safe Remedy for the Destruc tion of the CATERPILLAR. TT DOES AWAY WITH THE TTSP op J- 1 ans Green and all other poisonous 2? entirely destroy the CAT I’HP IT! It ssyyrs: s&fs*- 1 Bl HIJL L, Savannah, General Agent for Georgia. A. STOVALL. . . Agent, Augusta, Ga. Agents wanted through tho Stato. jelß-Sm NOTICE. 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