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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
TUESDAY, August 57, 1875.
The “Bloody Shirt” — Morton & Cos.
Ou the War Path—Pin-Back De
mocracy.
The speech of Senator Morton, the
other day, in Ohio, was no doubt a key
note of the Republican campaign for
1876. He “went back” upon his former
utterances about the currency question
with the same facility that he turned
up, in 1861, as a renegade from De
mocracy. The staple of his harangue
was denunciation of the South and her
sympathizers in the str iggle for Con
stitutional Liberty against Radical des
potism and consolidation. He exhibit
ed the “bloody shirt,” recently packed
away in ex-Attorney General Williams’
trunk, and is manifestly in favor of
galvanizing the “Southern Outrage
Committee” and all the rusty machinery
of slander and lies, which worked so
badly just before the “tidal wave”
Democratic triumphs. Take from
Morton his malice and faculty of
misstatement and he has no more
attractiveness than a plucked Shang
hai rooster. But armed with these
weapons, and backed by a Re
publican press that insists upon put
ting Jefferson Davis forward as a can
didate for the Presidency and re-open
ing the dead issue of secession, he has
much power for mischief with ignorant
rustics and the Grand Army of the Re
public. Morton’s main effort is to
demonstrate that the surrender of the
Confederacy was not in good faith;
that a return of the Democracy to
power in 1876 means another “rebel
lion;” and that life is so insecure in the
South that a Republican can not go
there without being in constant danger
of death. Hon. A. H. Stephens is set
up as the principal target of this
man’s vengeful diatribes against the
Southern people. What has Mr. Ste
phens over said or done, since the war,
that was not in a line with the Consti
tution of the country? When has he
ever advised the people against the
laws of the United States? When has
he ceased warning his hearers that
“ the price of liberty is obedience to
the law ?” Some of the so-called De
mocratic papers in the Middle States
are begging the question by repudiat
ing Mr. Stephens as a representative
Southern man, and therefore not a fair
example of the temper of his people.
It is true that Mr. Stephens, like all
positive men, has not always been in
accord with many of the people of the
South; but, to his dying day, he will be
recognized, even by his hottest and
most unrelenting enemy, as the em
bodiment of true conservatism and
the uncompromising foe of violence of
every kind and character. If the weak
kneed, temporizing and pin-back press
of the Border States were half as true
to Democracy, to Constitutional liberty
and to the best interests of the whole
country as Alexander 11. Stephens,
they would not have to make apologies
to Morton, and thus encourage him
and his followers to press their slan
derous programme. These pin-back
Democrats should remember that the
only utterances any of the party at the
South ever “repudiated” were those
deprecating a war on Grant, instead of
on Congress, aud, in some quarters, his
earnest and enthusiastic appeals for a
general reconciliation of the sections
at the grand Centennial of the 4th of
July, 1876, at Philadelphia. We can very
well understand why Morton should bo
so savage in attacking Mr. Stephens, be
cause it is by our following the plan of
the Sage of Liberty Hall that the Rad
ical monster will be brought low. If
there is anything a Radical like Mor
ton abominates and fears, it is a recon
ciliation of the sections on principles of
justice and fraternity. If there is one
thing he specially abhors it is that this
reconciliation may take place ou the 4th
of July next at Philadelphia. Hence
he begins to cast his firebrands in ad
vance, and proclaims that the Centen
nial shall be under Republican auspices.
We repeat, then, that Morton’s abuse
of Mr. Stephens, and through him the
whole South, is not difficult of compre
hension ; but of all the gigantic
absurdities in the world, commend
us to that committed by the
so-called Democratic presses whose con
ductors are unintentionally seeking to
strengthen Morton by depreciating Mr.
Stephens. This is on a par with the
Baltimore Gazette, which, mounted on
a currency hobby, not only strives for
the demoralization of the Ohio Democ
racy, but frankly confesses that Al
len’s overthrow will be a sweet morsel
to roll under a hard money theorist’s
tongue.
We advise our “Conservative” con
temporaries to omit their onslaughts
upon Mr. Stephens while attacking
Morton. The grand principle insisted
upon by Mr. Stephens is that the cam
paign of 1876 shall turn upon whether
a State of this Union has not some re
served rights not under the control of
the Federal Government, or, in
plain terms, whether this is a
Government founded upon the Federa
tive principle or upon the Oriental
policy of centralized power. In that
view the overwhelming voice of the
South backs him up, however differ
ing upon minor issues ; and if the
Democracy of the Border States can
not endorse this utterance, but re
pudiate it and its apostle, woe to
them and to their posterity! Sjch a
betrayal of trust will recoil upon
them, aDd the Grants and Mortons,
instead of being at the end of their
reign have just commenced to flourish.
The Press.— Seemingly independent,
and sometimes really so, the press can
afford only to mount the cresting wave,
not go beyond it. The editor might as well
shoot his reader with a bullet as with a
new idea. [Laughter and cheers.] He
must hit the exact line of the opinion of the
jay.— Wendell Phillips.
If the press had let Wendell Phil
lips severely alone, his “ideas” might
bave done less harm, and the viper
might even have stung himself to
death. It would seem, however, that
„ n editor occasionally has an idea that
“omebody does not like, for one of the
craft, Cabbcth, in even now going about
with a testimonial to that effeot-a bul
jft in bis brain.
Butler’s New Departure.
Whenever a Southern man, like Gen.
Pres'jpn, for example, has been dis
posed to deny that Plymouth Rock
civilization was worthy of respect or
imitation, a howl proceeds from the
Puritan choir which shakes the conti
nent. Now Hon. Ben O’Butler comes
forward and throws Gen. Preston com
pletely into shadow. Here is what he
said at the O’Connell celebration at
Boston :
Much has been said of Plymouth Rock*
You will allow me to say, in the words of
another, without offence to Irishmen, that
that Plymouth Rock is the blarney stone
of America. [Great applause and laughter.]
Your sweet woman poet, Mrs. Memans, has
said that our fathers sought and there they
found freedom to worship God. Oh, no!
that is exactly what they didn’t seek. They
sought for freedom to worship God as
they desired, and for the right to prevent
anybody else from worshipping God in
any other way. [Laughter]. And they
whipped the Quakers and drove out the
Baptists, and made the Episcopalians take
back seats, because they felt that they were
going straight to hell lire and eternal dam
nation. [Laughter.]
And Benjamin might have continued
the parallel from the landiDg of the
Mayflower’s cargo down to the present
day, just as Gen. Preston did. Afoot
ball has been made of the negro, just
as it was made of the Indian. The
same intolerance and grasping bigotry
that existed in religion, many years
ago, existed in 1860-65 when the con
science of tlm South was supposed to
be in the keeping of the Beechers, the
Stowes and that kind of cattle. It must
be observed, as a singular paradox,
that whereas the Carolina statesman’s
arraignment of the original Puritan
was received with mad execrations, the
stinging repetition of the same fact is
welcomed with “laughter” in the very
citadel of Puritanism itself. If Gen.
Preston has patiently awaited for a
Nemesis, lo that divinity has come in
the masquerade of a Butler. Verily,
we think the timid Faculty of the Uni
versity of Virginia “went off half cock
ed.”
Beecher. —The failure of J. B. Ford&
Cos., publishers, is said to be one of the
results of the Beecher-Tilton trial,
which, as Sam Wilkeson conjectured,
would “knock the ‘Life of Christ’ high
er than a kite.” The New York Sun has
this pungent paragraph about the mat
ter :
“You would be surprised,” said one of his
church members, in an excusatory way, to
a reporter, “to know how irksome it is for
Mr. Beecher to write. Ho hates the labor
of using a pen, and while he could talk and
talk all day with pleasure, he would be pes
tered to death if he had to write. He has
frequently put off writing for Mr. Bonner
until the last minute, aud thon dashed off
something which came into his head and
was worth reading because he had his name
to it. He knows the printers’ cry for ‘copy,’
fur he has written the ‘Life or Christ’ under
the habitual prodding of Mr. Ford, and ho
has often had to write while the messenger
waited for his manuscript.” Mr. Beecher
is said to have made another promise to
begin to labor diligently on the last third
of the second volume of the “Life of
Christ” when he returns in the Fall.
Some men are said to “crucify their
Lord anew.” If Beecher is not a boss
specimen of that kind of criminal we
would like to know who is ?
Brownlow.— The Knoxville Chronicle,
Parson Brownlow’s paper, recently be
gan an article in this fashion :
Of all communities on the globe, the peo
ple of the Southern States ought now lo
feel the greatest prejudice against human
slavery as it existed here up to the com
mencement of tho iato war. Its existence
was a curse to ou r people, and there is no
telling when wo will recover from its evil
influences.
Willingham, of tho Rome Courier,
who has a microscopic eye for the de
tection of inconsistences, calls atten
tion to the fact that, somo years ago,
Brownlow poured out a stream of ven
om and curses, enough to float a ship,
on Abolitionists, and especially on the
writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin. He re
members “that the.’Pa v son not only
denounced that work, but that his ridi
cule of Harriet’s personal appearance
was withering. lie said that she had
‘ enough beef on her ankles to feed a
litter of hound pups.’ ” We pity Wil
lingham when old Brov nlow sees that
reminiscence in print.
Sepulchral. —A movement has been
started at the Federal Capital “having
for its purpose to petition Congress at
its next session to appropriate a suffi
cient sum to disinter the remains of all
the deceased Presidents of the United
States, remove them to Mount Vernon
and reinter them in mausoleums for
each one in a circle round the tomb of
Washington. The reason given for
this movement is that some of the
-Presidents are ‘laid now in obscure, un
adorned and neglected graves.’” We
would suggest, as an amen dmeat, that
all dead Presidents, since Buchanan’s
time, should have a separate burial
place. G. W. might not feel comfortable
in company with some of his latter day
successors. __
Dry Goods.— The New York Inde
pendent states the Dry Goods situation
as follows: “There are some kind of
cotton goods which are lower than
they have been at any time since the
war, and the temptations to buy large
ly are very strong. The future shrink
age, if there should be any at all, can
not be ruinous, for the point has been
reached in most descriptions of cotton
and woolen goods at which manufac
turing ceases to be profitable, aud
when that is the case production ceases
altogether. The general conditions of
the markets aro acknowledged on all
hands to be sound, and if an immedi
ate revival of activity should not take
place a collapse is not antic! pated by
any one.”
Planting.— A Southern planter has
figured out that, after making his crop,
principally cotton, he realized a total
profit of §378.36. He says this is a
much better showing than the average,
because he did not borrow any money
at ruinous rates of interest. Perhaps
this exhibit may account for the pov
erty of men who have cotton on the
brain. ________
Collie. —Messrs. Collie & Co.’s lia
bilities are §10,000,000 ; assets, §1,250,-
000. They lived on the public at the
rate of §50,000 per annum for each
partner.
Crimes at the North and South—A
Hint to Hypocrites.
The “ bloody shirt ” speech of Sena
tor Morton will be followed by the
echoing yelp of Tray, Blanche and
Sweetheart of the Radical press and
party. The Cincinnati Gazette has al
ready come to the front and thus
speaks :
Democratic and Greeleyite papers, the
New York Tribune among the number, have
been very prompt to assert that Senator
Morton’s “ bloody shirt ” utterances—that
is his exposure of the very unsettled con
dition of the South—had no effect on the
listeners to his recent speech. Southern
outrages, they would have their readers be
lieve, are so thoroughly things of the past
that even a bugaboo cry can not be raised
over them. It would be gratifying to all
lovers of peace if this were the fact, but,
unfortunately, the Southern papers come
to us with abundant records of crime.
There is too much crime unfortu
nately in all the land, but the South is
not the only or chief offender. Our ex
changes from the East and West come
laden with accounts of bloody and
shocking atrocities, many of them too
indecent to print. In Williamson coun
ty, Illinois, a reign of terror exists, and
murders aro so frequent that families
are fleeing from that accursed spot.
The New York papers are calling at
tention to another reign of terror in
the mining districts of Pennsylvania.
Massachusetts and other Eastern jour
nals are fairly stuffed with records of
robbery and outrage. The Herald
says:
In some parts of Massachusetts this evil
has become so serious that the town and
county authorities are forced to use extra
ordinary means for the protection of the
people. For somo weeks past the shores of
the Hudson river have also been infested
by tramps, and the country roads on both
sides of the river, especially about Pough
keepsie, Hudson and Peekskiil, are report
ed to abound with such vagabonds, most of
them stout, able-bodied men, who pretend
to beg, but are, in a majority of eases, ruf
fians, and often burglars, spying out fa
vorable places for robbery and midnight
ent‘ y.
About Poughkeepsie, if we may believe
the telegraphic reports, there exists a band
of such creatures, who have begun brigand
ageas a business; and one of them, who
calls himself “the Captain,” has even writ
ten a letter to a citizen, demanding a contri
bution of live hundred dollars, threatening
that if this sum were not laid—in a white
paper parcel—in a certain place at a speci
fied time his house would be robbed.
It would not be difficult "to fill our
paper from day to day with details of
Northern wickedness aud sins crying
to heaven for vengeance. Against this
unhallowed and tremendous record, the
list of Southern crimes would bo
dwarfed almost into nothingness, de
spite the fact that our brethren of the
East and West have forced upon us a
state of society which is little less than
one of their own champions de
termined it should be—“an organized
hell!” So much for Morton and his
bloody shirt followers!
Protection. —One of the great New
England manufacturers, Mr. Edward
Atkinson, writes to Harper's Magazine
that those special branches of indus
try which aro now the most depressed
are the most protected by the Govern
ment. The Chicago Tribune, alluding
to this statement, says : “Senator Mor
rill, of Vermont, the father of the ex
isting ultra tariff, admitted on the floor
of Congress since the close of the re
bellion that in the years 1859 and 1860
the manufacturing industry of this
country enjoyed its greatest degree of
prosperity, which shows that a high
tariff is not necessary to the prosperity
of domestic manufactures. Morrill
voted for the reduction of the tariff of
1846. He said that ‘any bill which
would have the effect to reduce the
then excessive revenues would receive
his vote."’ * * * If a high tariff is
conducive and requisite to the pros
perity of the country, it is not a little
singular that we had the terrible finan
cial panic of 1873, after twelve years of
ultra tariff, and in the midst of the
highest protective duties of any civil
ized nation in the world. As to the
effect of the panic on the protected
branches of manufacture, Pig-Iron
Kelley’s speeches draw a more fright
ful picture than anything we are able
to write. He demonstrates very clearly
that ‘protection’ does not protect.” x
Colored £)dd Fellows. —The Char
lotte Observer waxes very wroth over
the growth of negro Masonic and Odd
Fellow Lodges. Tho editor says : “As
the writer is not an Odd Fellow, we do
not know what the law of that organiza
tion is inregard to emancipated slaves;
but we know that it is against Masonic
law to admit an emancipated slave
whatever his color, into the Order. Yet,
hypocritical Yankee and meddlesome
English fanatical Masons have, for par
tisan purposes, organized Masonic
Lodges of emancipated slaves in defi
ance of Masonic law, and we should
not be surprised if the same is being
done as regards the Odd Fellows - ”
Question and Answer. The N. Y.
Journal of Commerce, of the 9th inst.,
has this item :
A “Subscriber’s Clerk,” in East Twenty
third street, appears to have been victimiz
ed by a lawyer whom he had employed, and
asks if he can not recover. It is an unpro
fitable business suing a lawyer for a small
sum, and the result doubtful. The best way
to punish him, if he deserves it, is to insti
tute proceedings to disbar him for dishon
est or unprofessional conduct.
What it Costs. —The Fall river
(Mass.) factory operatives, having de
cided to take a vacation of 30 days, the
Courier-Journal figures up tho cost
thus: There are 43 mills at Fall river,
running 30,000 looms and 1,250,000 spin
dles. The pay-rolls monthly distribute
§500,000 among people who need it.
Pap. —A writer in the Gainosville
Eagle attempts to prove that Mother
Georgia has too many *pap-suckers.
We dare say he will give us a second
communication to show that there is
no immediate urgency of increasing
salaries. (
Corn. —The popular idea at home
and abroad is that the South can not
grow corn worth having; but farmers
in Carroll parish, La., contrive to raise
from 50 to 60 bushels to tho acre.
The New York Herald Bennett waited
two days, while in Europe, for the Prince
of Wales to call on him. The Prince didn t
appear, and Bennett telegraphed home:
“ Give the whole English Government
thunder."
PERSONAL. ; j
Oliver Cromwell was very .drum in
Galveston, Texas, tho othe -- day. ; '
Red Cloud says that all write ? men in
cluding the Rev. Murray, are ijjirsi
Only one hundred and fifljr c| pies of
Louis Napoleon’s Life of Ctes% lold.
Brio i Pomeroy still lives, leitur
ing to the Michiganders.
Mrs. Andrew - Johnson is sfjwd - recov
ering from the great shock cruised by her
husband’s sudden illness and dsiat a.
-yi K
Keily now wants live mon'ohfc moie to
perfect his “hydropneumatfic-jfjisaling
vacuo engine. § $
Prof. Tice predicts some ldhurkable
convulsions of nature and rain f<>: ta@ 25tli
and 31st of this month. Takcihodce.
Mlle. Marie Say, who roce-itlj; narriod
the Prince do Broglie, got uo|t of her
money from sugar. The gaiV'u? to lowed
the bridal carriage crying, Sugar!”
The Khedive of Egyt has ;; tvd'tised for
a first-class “engineer,” and jfecefved some
two or tlireo hundred letters; re jommend
iug Brother Shearman. ;
Sam Wilkeson, according ific Brook
lyn Argus, when asked for hi-
to the SIOO,OOO, repKed: “Excnsefme. I’ve
bought a plow and a yoke of xel.and am
going West to grow up with Mie Country.”
- 1 |
The last flitch of Bacon ha ; snapped the
bond of sympathy between LeSn&rd and
Mr. Beecher. Hereafter they wilt bedeadly
foes, with all that the same in: plk-s—which,
of course, bars out pulpit exchange*.
Gen. Sheridan’s honeyrmjjm is marred
by an action brought against l>'m by Jas.
S. Whelan, of Louisiana, to rifjover §358,778,
the value of property confiscate? by “Lit
tle Phil” during his reign in |867-
Mr. E. Ballard Smith, managing editor
of the Louisvillo Courier-Jcumaf bus had a
large interest in tho Evening of that
city, transferred to him, and> ha; assumed
its editorial control. Air. W§itt|rson is to
assume the active control i|’ tko Courier-
Journal himself. S
King Victor Emmanuel? riles on his
hunting expeditions a stria J A?:ab horse
which paces over the searpe l slopes of the
mountains with a boldness wMelkis ton ify
ing. On a recent occasion tVenfy chamois
fell before the royal rifle, 1
Cox,. Alston, editor of th J A I ant.a, tier
aid, was in the city yesterday, afid a pleas
ant and genial’gentleman if. Though
we may differ from our t jetlfren of tire
Southern press politically,%o lire always
pleased to grasp them by jthd hand and
welcome them to our SLifetdm.— Wash
ington Chronicle, 14</t. j | j
A Warm Springs (N. C.) correspondent of
tho Atlanta Constitution sails: It remains
now for me to tell you who tbp prettiest
woman here: She is a Hrg.| LrJ.vis now of
Augusta, but formerly of Ajf.baiia. She is
white as marble, with blac)*oy<*d and hair,
finely formed, stately in a; peailnnee, a tine
musician, is said to be very intelligent.
Bkother Shearman, the baah of many
tears, declares that he loves Brother Beech
er better than he loves his of n {Wife. Asa
Brooklyn man, he might lfav*£ made the
declaration much more for< fie’*by naming
somebody else’s wife.— CburCr-s.urnal.
Bogardus has again conquer ;1 Rimmel,
the champion pigeon shooter yt all Eng
land. Their meeting was hei| a* the ground
of the London Gun Club, anjl wfeis attended
by all tho crack shots ot .‘England. The
American must have won g jjlarlre amount,
for the betting was lie; vy ppaiiVt him, and
he backed himself to win. j ißi f‘tauia may
rule the wave, but with ftjhe _ smooth or
grooved barrel, tho stead I meiived Ameri
can can make tho Lion tuck Lis- - tail.— N. O.
Times. \ |
Capt. W. If. Trezevant Jwrlbes that he
lias accepted tho position off agent of tho
Port Royal Railroad in Aulusfia, to which
place he went about a week )igu We reully
regret to lose him from Ciftrl* tte. He is
well nigh indispensable t.~ ths- Centennial
city. Full of enterprise anil throng in his
affection for the place, Ini aji one of the
leading firemen and in olhej capacities,
has always added tie the eclat of
every public event *n tho ei|y. Ho is, too,
a genial, pleasant gentleman a man of
sterling worth, and his many "friends here
will join us in regret of hi 1 rf inoval. We
wish him, howover, all iim Unable success,
wherever his lot may be ca.-t, and congrat
ulate tho Port Royal RailrUtd Upon having
secured his valuable seti /icSs.— Chari Me
Cbserver. j;'
POLITICAL NOTES.
In the game of State off!,- os Macon holds
a full hand. Simmons is [president of the
Senate, Hardeman, SpeakV - of the House,
Cumming, Doorkeeper of Uhe Senate, and
last'y Jackson has a sealjon ihe Supreme
Bench. There are three pit mGuneed candi
dates for Governor, and sending can
didate for State Printed h’i the town.
’Pears to us tho assets of*Mri:on in State
offices is too large now. i: *
The Springfield KeptjijMhfin declares
for Charles Francis At/amS as “ a Cen
cennial candidate for Governor ” of Massa
chusetts, and says it woifSd §e a step to
wards making him “This is
pretty certamly MassaetnifetlUlast chance
to furnish a President to t % c. untry during
this generation, if not to come.
Political power is steadilynnU swiftly pass
ing to the West, year by yparf But Massa
chusetts, if she choosos, §an*stave off the
inevitable a little longer.”| |
The Macon Telegraph 8?Vv t 8 Governor
Smith is by no mea ~ 3an sndig'erent specta
tor to the scramble for tile i;S xt Govern >r
ship, and that he has “ to leave his
name with his friends to |io kith it as they
deem best in regard to thjt (Jjtfice.”
The Governor of T.or,|ies-' oe ( is now a
huge objective point with!,in* aspirants for
Senator Johnson’s seat, lie i>as the right
to appoint. The now servo full
six years, Mr. Johnson hJvii|? died before
the regular session coni]|iei|ed, although
serving a few days in a c;|ilei session last
March. The Washington} Clf onicle lias a
regular nightmare in a:|tu fpation of the
appointment of Jefferson JjAVis.
Apropos of the currency gbssip from the
White Sulphur Springs wjfs pother the fol
lowing regarding A. Hjj Hi Stuart, ex-
Secretary of the appears that
Mr. Stuart, in his anxiety t| aid in bring
ing back the country to a % ( scgmd currency,
actually suggested the gyueytl idea of the
measure which passed It (he last session
of Congress, under whicl| thvi mint is now
coining $45,000,000 of silvii change, (buying
the metal for the puril s s, to tako the
place of the fractional cu|r< ;cy as fast as
it can be calleand in after
next. |4*
The Lynchburg Repul li e.'"a deliberately
proposes the abolition of tb.j' present Con
stitution of the United Sjjkt/fb and the sub
stitution of that of the jj>.t<* Confederacy!
The idea originated wifi *he New York
Herald in 1801. |
Being accused by tlu pdi-back Democ
racy of tho North of hi vi% favored the
election of Auden in 01 o, fho New York
Sun says: “We want no (io?oof Grant 01
Grantism, with tho con'|pt¥in, fraud, pub
lic plunder and moral i g idation which
they bring upon the covXitny; and for this
reason we advise our r 'aiders in Ohio to
vote for Governor A uuei| ’ £
The Courier-Journal .‘.oil fishes a list of
forty-four candidates J.ucceed Andy
Johnson. It says “mosj oft the foregoing
names are open aspirants. |Many of them
are well qualified. A fe'f o f them are emi
nently so. Governor lljr |er can not go
far wrong in picking hisjm Jn from the list
at random.” | |
' SPECIAL NOTICES.
SOCIAL LODGE NO. 1, F.\ AND A--. Mr.
A CALLED COMMUNICATION OF SO
CIAL LODGE. No. 1, will be held at
Masonic Hall THIS (Tuesday) EVENING, at
8 o’clock.
The F.\ C.‘. Degree will be conferred.
By order S. D Heakd, W.\ M.\
WM. H. CRANE,
augn-i Secretary-
CARPET3.
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-eodlm 205 Broad Street.
RICHMOND COUNTY COURT.
Sitting Tor County Purposes,
August 12th, 1875.
THE FOLLOWING ASSESSMENTS UPON
the State Tax for County Purposes for Rich
mond County, for 1t75, are hereby made, and
John A. Bolder, 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 1
County Map 2
Public Buildings 5
Total so
CLAIBORNE SNEAD,
augi3-lnw3 and County Judge.
THE HIiiMILI.I PASSEMiEII lilllTE.
POUT ROYAL RAILROAD, |
Olfli** Oetunnl Passenger
Augusta Oa., Aug. C, 1875. )
| ROUND TRIP TICKETS !
J|*g in AUGUSTA to CHARLES- &K If)
TON and RETURN.
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. in.
Leave Charleston 8:loa. m.
Arrive at Augusta C:45 p. m.
Passengers on 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 roach their destination.
Tickcis on sale at Planters’Hotel and Ticket
Office, Union Depot.
T. S. DAVANT,
augC-lm General Passeuger A .ent.
EDUCATIONAL.
University of Georgia,
SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR.
FACULTY,
11. 11. Tucker, I). D„ Chancellor.
W. 11. Wadd in,, A. M., Prof, of Latin.
Ciias. Mounts, Prof, of Greek.
O. P. W iiioox, A. M., Prof. Modern Lan
guages.
E. W. Speer, I). D., Prof. Belles-Lettres.
P. H. Mell, D. D., LL. D.. Prof, of Meta
physics.
W. L. BRoun, LL. D., Prof, of Natural
philosophy and Pres. Ga. Stato college
Agriculture and Much. Arts.
Wms. Rutherford, A. M., Prof. Mathe
matics.
L. H. Ciiarbonnieb, A. M., Prof, of Engin
eering.
H. C. White, C. and M. E., Prof, of Chemis
try and Geology.
W. M. Browne, A. M , Prof, of History.
E. M. Pendleton, M. A., Prof, of Agricul
ture.
W. W. Lumpkin, A. M., Prof, of English
Literature.
W. L. Mitchell, A. M., Prof, of Law.
riUIE next Term opens on October Bth,
JL 1875. Tuition in Academic Department,
$75, payable in advance, viz: SBS on October
Gth, with $5 Library fee, and $44) on March
Ist 1870. Fifty beneficiaries from the State
admitted without fee. The State Collogo of
Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts forms a
part of the University, and opens October
(ith. Law School opens August 10th, 1875;
2d term opens February 2lst, 1870; Fees,
S6O per terra. Every branch of a liberal and
professional education afforded. For cata
logues. &c., address
W. 11. WADDELL, Sec. Faculty,
augl7-d3xc3 Athens, Ga.
DANCING SCHOOL.
MONS. BERGER, Professional Teacher,
informs the Ladies and Gentlem n of
Augusta that he will open a First-Class
DANCING SCHOOL at the Masonic Hall
He wi 1 be there on Thursday, the 24th
•I une, from 4 to 0 o’clock, to receive pupils.
Mops. 8., being an Artist, teaches what is
really Dancing. Ho teaches all the new
dances as welt as the old ones, which com
bine the harmony of bodies and the poetry
of motion. Mons. BERGER is well known,
and can give the best reference here and in
Charleston.
For circulars, etc., apply at A. Prontatjt
& Son. je2o-tf
MADAME^SOSNOWSKI’S
HOME SCHOOL
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
CALENDAR.
THE scholastic year is divided into 2 ses
sions. First session commences Sep
tember 15th; second session February 7th.
Closing Exercises occur on the last
Thursday in June—preceding two weeks—
devoted to private examinations.
Terms (per session), payable in advance.
Board, with use of fue SBO 00
English Department 3) 00
Music—lnstrumental 30 00
Music—Vocal, Extra Lessons 30 00
French Department 15 00
German Department 15 00
Drawing 10 00
fainting, in Oil and Pastel 30 00
Use of piano 5 00
Each pupil is required to furnish her own
bed linen, towels and lights.
Washing can bo secured at moderate
rates. iyl~H
St. Jolin’s.
A Select Boardinq School
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
TN ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
and healthful districts of Western Mary-
Parents and guardians who desire a
pleasant and attractive home for their chil
dren or wards, with lirst-class educational
opportunities, will please address
Rev. GEO. LEW IS SIALEY,
Knoxville, Frederick county, Md.
aug3-2taw&tri-wlm
Southern Female College,
LA GRANGE, GA.
THE Thirty-Fourth Annual Session opens
the 25th of August, with the old corps
or eight thorough teachers. Ten Premiums
for excellence in Music, Painting and Draw
ing were awarded pupils of this College at
the Georgia State Fair within the last four
years. Board, with washing, lights and
fuel, per annum. $155. Tuition, S6O. lor
Catalogues, address I- * • COX,
jy27-d&wlm President.
WANTS.
4fS” Advertisements not over five lines wil
be inserted under this head for fifty cents
each insertion, cash.
WANTED— A respectable white woman
as Dining Room Servant and to do
other house wort. Apply at 26G Broad
Street. augl7-l
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
HO! FOR SAVANNAH!
GRAND EXCURSION
TO THE
GREAT SPELLING BEE,
AT ISLE OF 1 HOF* IC,
SAVANNAH’S FAVORITE SUBUR
BAN RESORT,
ON TUESDAY, 24th inst. A Grand Pro
ject for Amusement. Excursionists
will be taken at a Greatly Reduced Fare.
Hotels will accommodate Excursionists at
Reduced Prices. For further information
address R. R. BREN,
General Ticket Agent,
Savannah, Skidaway A Seaboard R. R.
augl7-l
GUILD, CHURCH & CO.’S
CELEBRATED
PIANO FORTES!
J UST RECEIVED—ANOTHER SUPPLY
•) of the above celebrated instruments,
which will be sold at factory prices, for
Cash or Part Cash and balance in flionthly
instilments, by
GEO. A. OATES,
Sole Agent,
augl7-l 244) Broad street.
$lO REWARD
WILL BE PAID for the detection, and
proof to convict, the party who has
been and are daily cutting and removing
timber from my laud. The land is about
S l / t miles from this city on the Georgia
Railroad, and is bounded bv lands of Jos.
tsumerau, H. B. Fraser, McLaws, Walton,
King and Davison.
augl7-2t* JOHN PHINIZY.
XTEW CALICOES FOR FALL AT THE
JN One Price House, HENRY L. A.
BALK, 172 Broad sireet. 1 have received
New Calicoes for Fall, New Calicoes for
Mourning, White Dress Goods, Home
spuns. Jeans. Prices very low at Whole
sale and Retail.
HENRY L. A. BALK,
augl7-lt* 172 Broad street.
NOTICE !
I HEREBY NOTIFY ALL PARTIES who
have left in the hands of S. Cohen, and
Henry Lewis, guns, pistols, watches and
jewelry, to call for them in thirty days, if
not the same will be sold for repairs, in the
store.
augl7-8 176 BROAD STREET.
ALBEMARLE FEMALE INSTITUTE.
CHAKUmv>VILLE, VA ,
Nineteenth annual session begins first of
September. For circular giving Faculty
ami (expenses, address
R. H. RAWLINGS, M. A., Principal.
BROAODUS FEMALE COLLEGE.
i Late Winchester Baptist Female Institute,)
WINCHESTER, VA.,
Rev. E. J. Willis President.
With a full corps of instructors, com
mences its fifth year on the first of Septem
ber next, with the most encouraging pros
pects. No location could be more favora
ble for health, and the religious and social
advantages are unsurpassed—COMMEND
lNG ITSELF ESPECIALLY TO SOUTH
ERN PARENTS.
For catalogue, .address the President.
"LARGEST SCHOOL.
Dr. Ward’s Seminary for Young Ladies,
Nashville, Tenn., is the largest in the South
aud fifth m the U. S. Send for new cata
logue. Full Session September 2d.
The Only Polytechnic Home School.
ST. CLEMENT’S HALL, Ellieott City, Mil.
Five vacancies, owing to enlargement. Ap
ply at once.
SEND YOUR DAUGHTERS TO THE
Georgia Female College,
It is a Home School, healthful and acces
sible. The Expense* aiv Le> than in any
other similar scho.il, and tho instruction
Unsurpassed. Painting and Music are
specialties. Circulars free.
GEO. Y. BROWNE, President,
Madison, Ga.
Wesleyan Female College,
MACON, GA.
The 38th Annual Session opens Sept, isth
187,, with a full corps of professors and
teachers. Tho oldest Female College in the
world. Endorsed by the best patronage in
the South. Health record unsurpassed; in
struction thorough; curriculum of the
highest order. Address
Rev. W. C. BOSS, M. D., Pres’t, or
Rev’d. C. W. SMITH. D. D.. Sec’y.
Pleasant and Profitable Employment..
“Beautiful!” "Charming!”“iOh, how love
ly!” “What are they worth!” Ac. Such
are exclamations by those who see the
large elegant New Chromos produced by
the European and American Chromo Pub
lishing Cos. They are all perfect Germs of
Art. No one can resist the temptation to
buy when seeing the Chromos. Canvassers,
Agents, and ladles and Gentlemen out of
employment, will find this the best opening
ever offered to make money. For full par
ticulars, send stamp for confidential circu
lar. Address F. GLEASON & CO., 738
Washington street, Boston, Mass.
THE BRfIWY (HIM CIV COMBY,
NEW LONDON, CONN.,
Manufacturers or Cotton Gins, Cotton G n
Feeders, Condensers and Cotton Gin Mate
rials of every description. Our Gins have
been in use thirty years, and have an estao
lished reputation for simplicity, light
running, durability, and for quality ana
quantity of lint produced. Our feeder b
easily attached to the Gin, .and easily
operated by any hand of ordinary intelli
gence. They are the simplest and cheapes
Feeder in the market and feed witli more
regularity than is possible by hand, in
creasing the outturn and giving a cleaner
and better sample. At all Fairs where ex
hibited and by Planters having them in use,
they have been accorded the highest en
comiums. Our Condensers are well-made,
durable and simple in construction, and do
what is required of them rapidly and well.
No additional power is required to drive the
Feeder or Condenser, and no Gin House is
complete without them. We are prepared
to warrant, to any reasonable extent, per
fect satisfaction to every purchaser. Circu
lars, prices and full information furnished.
Address as above, or apply to
MOORE Ac CO.,
Augusta, Ga.
SSO TO SIO,OOO
Has been invested in Stock Privileges and
900 ‘ PROFIT
“How to Do It,” a Book on Wall st, sont
free. TUMBRIDGE <fc CO., Bankers &
Brokers, 2 Wall street, New York.
nm? A Cl —The choicest in the world—
I Pj J\ n. Importers’ prices—Largest
Company in America— staple article—
pleases everybody—Trade continually in
creasing-Agents wanted every whore-best
inducements—don’t waste tirne-sen<l for
circular to RUBER I LLLS,
circular VeseysL, JN. Y., P. O. Box 1287
mm mm A WEEK guaranteed to Male
Ce and Femafe Agents, in their lo-
V / / caiity. Costs NOTHINO to try
kO/ jO.'Wate'rCO^ust,, Me.
GRAPES !
I AM RECEIVING, fresh from Colonel
Clark’s vineyard, Covington, Ga., every
day, the following varieties: Hartford Pro
lific, Delaware, Ives, Seedling, Concord,
Rentz and many others.
JOHN F. QUINN,
augl2-thsatu-3 48 Jackson street.
THE GREAT SUMMER ROUTE NORTH,
VIA
AUGUSTA, WILMINGTON. PORTSMOUTH,
AND
The Magnificent Sidewheel Steamships
OF THE
OU> DOMINION LINE!
WHICH leave Portsmouth, Va., upon the arrival of Trains via thG Atlantic Coa6t
Line, at 7 ;30 p. m., in the following appointed order:
Steamship ISAAi 1 BELL. 1,600 Tons
Steamship WYANOhE, 2,040 Tons Capt. COUCH, Wednesday.
Steamship OLD DOMINION, 2 210 Tons.. Oapt. WALKER, Saturday.
And upon the above named Schedule dffring tho entire Rummer ““dAutamn The su
perior a commodations, luxurious tables any absence of all am } the
ocean navigation, commend this Line to the attention pi Noith-Bound Travelers as the
most pleasant Excursion Route to New York, and within six houis of all lan time.
State Rooms and Berths engaged bv Telegraph upon application to all Agents of the
At antic Coast Lino, and Through Tickets sold at all Railway I leket C 11k - . . XT
Baggage checked to destination, and equal facility of transfer and delivery in New
York as by other Transportation Lines.
w. 11. STANFORD,
Secretary Old Dominion S. S. Company, No. 197 Greenwich Street, New York.
W. M. TIMBERLAKE, Agt. Atlantic Coast Line, Augusta.
B. F. BROWN, Ticket Agent, Planters’ Hotel.
jyl-2m
SAVINGS BANK,
NO. tit!!! BROAD STREET,
Cash Capital SIOO,OOO (with Stockholders Liability >
TRANSACTS A
General Baiiking, Exchange and Collection Business.
5 Per Cent, allowed on DAILY balances, subject to
CHECK AT SIGHT.
Interest allowed on Time Deposits as may be agreed upon.
T. P. 5 BRANCH, President.
' ’ J. T. NEWBERY,
CASHIER.
N. B.—Draw SIGHT DRAFTS on Great Britain and Continental Europe
in sums of £1 and upwards. mh3o-tf
AUGUSTA TO NEW YORK
VIvV
PORT ROYAL, S. C.
The following Comfortable and well-known Steamships,
Montgomery, 1,500 Tons, Oapt. Fairclotli,
Huntsville, 1,500 Tons, Oapt. Oliestei*,
Ar • appointed to sail from PORT ROYAL for NEW YORK, direct, on FRIDAYS of
e ich w ek, afte arrival of Morning Passenger Train from Augusta.
The following reduced rates of Passage are offered the Travelling Public:
Augustn to Now York Ac Return, S3O
Augusta to New York, Straight, S3O
Augusta to Now York,
Which secures Accommodations in all respects equal to those of other lines.
STATE ROOMS AND BERTHS
Can be secure i by application to
RICH’D. P. BUNDLE, Agent,
Port Royal, S. (J.
Or to tho undersigned,
T. S. DAVANT, G. P. A.,
i Augusta, Ga.
Tickets on Sale at Planters’ Hotel and Ticket Office, Union Depot je4-3m
WILMINGTON, N. C„ LINES,
semi-week: i , v
Fast Freight Route to All Points South or East,
BALTIMORE,
Baltimore and. Soutliern Steam Transportation Company,
SAILING FROM BALTIMORE
Tuesday and Friday, sit 3 X*.
AND FROM WILMINGTON Wednesday and Saturday.
NEW YORK.
CLYDE’S WII AII N CiTON XI IN E,
SAILING FROM NEW YORK
Tuesday and Friday, at 3 P. M., and from Wil
mington Wednesday and Saturday,
&IVING through Bills of Lading to all points in North and South r-n-oHm n.,. „i„
and Alabama. For North or East bound Freight to Baltimore Nmv vrt W i>Me
adelphia, Boston, Providence. Fall River, and other eLI iu cities Also I > liu
Glasgow, Bremen, Antwerp, ami other European points! A1 ’ to
These Lines connect at Wilmington with the Wilmington Cohnnhi.. 1 a .
Railroad; connecting at Columbia, S. C., with the Geenvaim’ ■ 4, u g ust ?
and Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. Colombia lvul Road,
At Augusta, Ga., with the Georgia, Macou and Augusta and ii
with their connecting roads, oiler unequaled facilities for Mi</i i 7 7 a< a ll i
Freight to all points. The Steamers of these Lines, on arrival m Vii 1 7*’ lv ‘‘ ly u f
Railroad Depot, the Freight transferred under covmed sl .Vu V‘ *■'> nt
and forwarded by the Fast Freight Express that evening. S * wilimul and, lay,
No drayage in Wilmington, and no transfer from Wilmington ,
anteed as low as by any other route. Losses or Overcharge" pToimalv i, li, i *" tcß ffUal '
Mark all Goods “VIA WILMINGTON LINES.” >P- •
For Further information, apply to either of the Undersigned Agents of the Line:
EDWIN FITZGERALD, Agent Baltimore Line, 50 South street Baltimore
WM. P. CLYDE & CO., Agents New York Line, 6 Bowling Green New York
A. D. CAZAUX, Agent Baltimore and N. Y. Lines, Wilmington N r
E. K. BUItGESS, Agent W. C. & A. Railroad, 2G3 Broadway New York
JOHN JENKINS, Agent, Augusta, Ga’.
A. POPE,
_ nf ?g opn>l Fr(Mght Ag, ' nt ' Wilmington. N. and 268 Broadway. New York
L. 11. MILLER. 1 J , ESTABLISHED 1857
MILLER’S
Safe and Iron Works,
BALTIMORE.
Salesroom, 2G5 W. Baltimore Street, One
Door Above Hanover Factory. Sqaure
Bounded by Henrietta, Clark, Fre
mont and Warner Streets.
EVERY variety of the Best FIRE and
BURGLAR-PROOF SAFES, BANK
ERS’ CHESTS, Improved Key and Combi
nation LOCKS, BANK VAULTS and
DOORS.
JJT 1'4,000 in Use and Tested in ‘4OO
Fires. ap3o-6m
P. of H.
THE SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING OF
the Savannah River Valley Association
P. of H. will be held in AUGUSTA, Au
gust 25th, at tho Masonic Hall, at 10 o’clock,
A. M. All Granges not members who
sympathize with us are cordially invited
to send delegates. A full attendance is
desired as this M eeting is very important.
EDWARD A. CARTER,
augl-taug2s Secretary.
JACKSON STREET
Iron and Brass Foundry,
Corner of Jackson and Calhoun sts.,
Augusta, On.,
OKO. COOPER, - Proprietor.
CUEAM ENGINES, Mill Machinery of all
M descriptions made to order, Gin Gear,
ing of all Sizes, Store Fronts anil Iron
Railing of the Late t Pattern Horse iw
ors ami Threshing Machines ’made of tho
best material, at prices fully ten per cent
lessthan ever offered in this city,'forSSfi
fromtento*Hurt newand second-hand,
very low RH- caJr ° lSe P ° Wer ’ will bo >ld
__jy24-lm GEO. COOPER. Pron’r.
NOTICE.
r P a * shall become
X a PUBLIC or FREE TRADER, in ac
cordance with provisions of Section 1760 of
the Code of Ge. rgia.
T , , , SARAH RICH.
I hereby consent to my wife becoming a
Public or Free Trader. J. RICH.
Augusta, Ga., August 6th, 1875.
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