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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST WEDNESDAY, August 25,1875. The Wheat Crop—lts Importance—Sup port of Home Institutions. The New York Express has densed and grouped together some very interesting statistics of the mag nitude and importance of the wheat crop in this country. We learn that the crop in 1870 was 287,736,626 bushels; in 1871, 230,722,000; in 1872, 249,000,000; in 1873, 281,372,000, and in 1874, 285,- 000,000; from which it appears that the average crop and the basis of compari son for the last five years preceding the present has been 266,766,125 bushels. The prospective yield of the present season is elaborately figured out by the Chicago Tribune. It says ; “Tak ing into account the excess of acreage', the crop under favorable conditions should have been 300,000,000 bushels, of which the Winter wheat would have contributed 200,000,000 and the Spring Wheat 100,000,000. But the rains have considerably modified this prospect. According to the Agricultural Bureau, in July, wheat was then eighteen per cent, below the average, and since that •time rains and floods have occurred in many of the grain-producing States, so that the total crop of both Spring and Winter wheat in 1875 will be re duced to 212,000,000 bushels, to which, when exportation is to be considered, we must add a large balance to the crop of 1874 still on hand.” The general impression in well-in formed circles is that the above esti mate, if any tiling, falls below the mark. The Agricultural Bureau usually ex hibits much caution in its speculation as to results, and the more so because Western floods have operated upon its conservative timidity. There will be a handsome and even splendid yield in the United States, and if the latest foreign advices are to be credited, Eu rope will largely demand any surplus wo have on hand. Asa collateral, and by no means in significant, branch of this subject, we are struck with the almost identical prices of flour ruling in Eastern and Western cities with the Southern rates. Now, we are of opinion that our Au gusta flour is better, or at all events quite a§ good as that manufactured abroad. If this be so, and few will deny it; and if the quotations afe the same or in our favor—why, in the name of reason or patriotism, not to speak of trade inducements, do Southern buyers, especially country people, make their purchases in St. Louis, Baltimore and Chicago, when they have equal if not superior inducements in Augusta and other Southern cities where flour is made? This is a subject worth con sidering. If our farmers, for example, really desire to keep money at home, secure something like prosperity here, and obtain many business advantages besides, they should, in the language of the tradesman’s advertisement, “Try Augusta before going elsewhere.” Grasshopper Gastronomy—Some Rea sons for Eating the Locust Family. A noted scientific man, Professor Riley, prepared and read before a learned society a treatise showing that locusts or grasshoppers could, with great propriety, be included among the cheap and elegant accompaniments of American dinner tables. He proposes, in point of fact, that grasshopper on or off toast shall become a regular edi ble in this country, and that the people of the West may have the satisfaction of eating the pest that eats their crops, on the same principle that a cannibal devours fried missionary, because he loves his fellow man. It is true that an absurd prejudice, at present, stands in the way of grasshopper diet, just as men at some time or other disliked oysters and tomato sauce. But, this prejudice once removed, Prof. Riley feels a moral and gastronomic convic tion that men will learn to have an ap petite for lucusts and grasshoppers, just as impecunious Frenchmen have become enormous consumers of horse flesh. Read what the Professor says : These insects are accounted among the “clean meats” in Leviticus, and are else where spoken of in the Bible as food for man. Herodotus mentions a tribe of Ethiopians that fed on locusts “ which came from Southern and unknown dis tricts.” Livingstone states that this is still the case with many African tribes. In Morocco, where locusts do damage every year, they are used for food whenever their increase seriously diminishes the crops. The inseots are roasted and offered for sale in the market at Tangiors, and in other cities. Certain dark markings on the under part of thß thorax of the female in sects are regarded by the Jews of Morocco as Hebrew characters, and are said to in dicate that the female is “clean,” while the male is unclean—hence the females are principally offered for sale. The locust is also used for food in Southern Russia. Many American tribes of Indians, as is well known, make use of locusts for food. As to the method of cooking, the Romans are said to have roasted them to a bright golden yellow. Locusts of the Old World are mostly large, and can be easily pre pared by first detaching their legs and wings, and then by roasting, boiling, broil ing, frying or stewing. In Russia they are salted and smoked; in Morocco they are salted by the Hebrews, but' are ordinarily boiled and then fried. The Hebrew popu lation use the salted locusts as part of the composition of a dish which contains al most everything eatable, is put into the oven on Friday night and taken out on the Jewish Sabbath, so that a hot meal is pro vided without committing the sin of light ing a fire on the latter day. Precedents abound to sustain the learned Professor, and it may be that when the Western people become as civilized as the Romans and; Jews of old, they will seek for these insects with avidity. We dare say the time is remote when such a fashion will pre vail; but we do not despair of the final accomplishment of Prof. Riley’s sug gestions. When a delicious perfume, by chemical action, can be extracted from bed bugs, no good reason exists why grasshoppers shall not take a place of honor alongside of frogs’ legs and other delicious, but repulsive, cu linary articles. Money Men. —And now comes Mr. William A. Groesbeck, a politician out of employment, who is prompt to declare his hostility to Allen Democ racy. Mr. Groesbeck is probably a owner of U. S. bonds, and will consent to bleed the people so long as *hey will stand the drain. Liberal Republicans—The Plain Truth About Them. Some of our Southern leaders, so called, have been willing to go to great lengths in order to secure the “Liberal Republicans.” The New York Herald and the Evening Post are letting the cat out of the bag on this subject and telling the truth about these soreheads, whose junction with the Democracy is supposed to be of the last importance. We learn from these authorities that “there has never been* a Liberal Re publican Party in New York worthy of serious consideration. The issue upon which the leaders of that organization retired from the Republican Party was purely selfish. The first indication of difference was when in the distribution of Government patronage the Liberal Republicans were overlooked by the President. So long as President Grant was swayed by the counsels of one of the Senators from New York and made appointments to satisfy his personal sense or party duty, there was no ques tion of Liberal secession. As soon as the President changed his mind, and in doing so changed the personnel of several of the Federal officers, we had the formation of what grew to be a noisy, ambitious, but never a very suc cessful organization. Therefore, if the Democrats have given the Liberal Re publicans but little, it is because they deemed them of indifferent conse quence. For the last two years the only value of the Liberal party as an organization has been to dicker with the Republicans and Democrats for terms. * * * The politicians who have kept the skeleton before the public, rattling it about from commit tee to convention and from convention back to committee, have done so solely that they might by the occasional ap parition frighten one or the other into making terms with them. They succeeded for a time with the Demo crats, and the price they secured at the last election has been regarded as extravagant. But the Democrats seem to have had enough of it, and it is pro bable that the Liberal politicians will disposo of their skeleton to the Repub licans. It is scarcely Wv.rth buying, either for its voting capacity or as a curiosity.” That any Southern • “leader,” so called, should go into huckstering with a corporal’s guard of noisy and venal demagogues, is simply farci cal. There will be plenty of Republi cans to vote for the Democracy, under certain circumstances, but they are not to be caught by mere lip-service. They will be guided chiefly by the damage sustained to their business from Radi cal misrule. The floating voters of the country will decide its destiny in 1876- men who have little care about politi cal distinctions, but great concern for the prosperity of their trade. The Liberal Republicans of the Murat Halstead school are penetrated with a single idea, and that is the forcing of their detestable principles upon the Democratic party, accompanied with a ravenous claim for the spoils of office. Such men hang like dead-weights upon the neck of any organization, and their room is better than their company. The KeeLy Motor.— The wonderful Kelly motor is being quietly pushed to completion. The Philadelphia pa pers state that a stationary engine will bo completed within three or four weeks, when a private exhibition will be given to members of the press at Mr. Keely’s residence. The machine, it is reported, is now under perfect control; that while an immense power can be generated in an instant, yet such improvements have been made as to allow the engineer to so manipulate it as to reduce the pressure from 15,- 000 pounds to the square inch down to zero. An engine for railroad purposes is also being made. The gauge to be used on the apparatus has been com pleted, and will be on exhibition in Philadelphia in a few days. It reg isters as high as 54,000 pounds pres sure. It is stated on the same author ity that the control of the patent will not be vested in a stock company. Shares have been sold by Mr. Keely to parties who advanced him money to finish his work and secure the patent right, and the shares almost imme diately afterward were disposed of to other parties at a great profit. Parallels. — The Philadelphia Times takes its Troy namesake to task for expecting the South to bo patient un der exactions. Recommending the Troy editor to read up in English history, it says: “It took England and Scotland fifty-seven years to become reconciled to the bloodless revolution which brought in the family of which Queen Victoria is the present repre sentative. Yet all the Southern peo ple are expected to be completely re conciled and in a lamb-like state of submission after four years of war, fol lowed by ten years of the most terri ble misgovernment that civilized his tory has ever recorded. Determined fault-finders would be satisfied with nothing short of impossibilities.” Centennial.— And now comes Lucy Stone, who writes to Mr. Loring, ask ing that the President of the United States shall, on the 4th of July, 1876, conduct Lucretia Mott, Lydia M. Child and Frances D. Gage upon the Centennial platform under a black flag, commemorating the fact that women are ranked with idiots, felons and ig norant men. We dare say Grant would rather stay at the White House than mount the platform with those old crowing hens. Persistent. —We learn that Mr. Jef ferson Davis has accepted an invita tion to deliver an address at the Knox county, Illinois, agricultural fair next •month. The Courier-Journal says Galesburg, the county seat, is an old anti-slavery stronghold, but the people as yet do not seem to coincide with their neighbors of Winnebago county in their anti-DAVis sentiments. Grain. —ln spite of grasshoppers and other pests, Minnesota will harvest 32,000,000 bushels of grain. The St. Paul Pioneer-Press estimates that of this crop 25,000,000 bushels will be for sale, and that it will bring to the State over $23,000,000 or more than twice as much as was obtained for the crop of 1874. PERSONAL. The thousandth child answering to the description of Charlie Ross has been dis covered at Schuyler’s Falls, near Platburg. He is with a colored family. The reason Sambo doesn’t “insurrect” better in Georgia is that probably the bloody shirt has not been well sent round, and the whites have not been so cruel as a well conducted population should be.—[New York Herald. Ex-Senator E. G. Ross, of Kansas, is now foreman of the Lawrence Journal compos ing room, and in very reduced circum stances. He has written an account of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson for the Hannibal (Mo.). Clipper. The blew York press are loud in their abuse of the Tail-tower youth because his Tribune building has a bar-room on the lower floor. Why, bless their New York souls, we have the same on our ground fiat, and yet preserve our sobriety and moral temperature. Kate Field, who is writing letters for the Courier-Journal, in her last letter to that paper begins a paragraph thus: “Dear, kind Lady Franklin has at last gone to join her husband in regions that are not Arctic.” This is a grave reflection on the “dear kind lady,” though some people may regard it as an over-warm compliment. Mrs. Hicks, of Rome, Ind., does consider able damage with her pistol to the Romans. Three weeks ago she shot Mr. Sutton in the leg; now she has fatally wounded Mr. Ken ny in the head. Mr. Kenny, who was in toxicated but inoffensive, was “passing from a saloon to her house by an alley;” hence she will try and prove an alibi. This is the way they read the Governor’s speeches in the irreverent town of Buffalo: “In such a grave crisis as this now impend ing in the State of New YorK,” says Gov ernor Tilden, with beautiful self-abnega tion, “mere party considerations disappear. Let us rise above patties, my friends, and especially let me rise above parties. Let me rise, I say, and in the name of canal re form (and gammon) don’t stop me until I give the word. For lam the people’s only friend and my name is ‘Sham Tilden’ ” (Movement.) There is something in the suggestion of the Chicago Iribune that Jay Gould’s ac cession to the Western Union Telegraph Company will give new strength and ad vocacy to the scheme of the Government telegraph system. It will be a real addi tion to Gardiner Hubbard’s stock-in-trade. No man in America is perhaps so deeply distrusted by the country as Mr. Gould, and with reason. There is no limit to the measure of his ambition, as there is, ap parently, no hesitation to use his power to amass private fortune at the expenso of the public interest.—[Springfield Republican. The Washington Republican is remarka ble for courteous conduct and polite lan guage. Speaking of ex-Senator Doolittle, who is to be the orator at the Winnebago Fair, instead of Jeff Davis, that high-toned advocate of Grant and pensioner upon the Government says: “It is probable, how ever, that what Doolittle knows about farming will not prove to be very instruct ive, because, if reports are true, his knowl edge in that regard is limited to observa tion in stealing cotton from the Govern ment. Nevertheless, as a cotton thief and apolitical renegade and deserter, he will prove to be a worthy substitute for Jeff Davis.” Mr. Samuel Wagner, a colored preacher, is trying to reform the morals of Virginia City, Nev. On a recent Sunday evening, when a crowd was returning from a foot race, he went out into the street, ringing a bell to attract attention, and said in a solemn voice: “Dare’s divine worship dis even’ at 7 o’clock. Hear ye! hear ye! Ye’s been upon dis cost for years, follered yer vanities and yer sins, an’ neber prayed a prayer since yer come har; and ye knows very well yer souls am in danger, dat yer never kin be saved until yer borned agin, for what did Nickademus say?” The an nouncement is said to have been successful. Mr. Beecher spends his time at the White Mountain House between bowling, croquet playing, morning prayers and preaching on Sundays. Here is an anec dote of himself told by himself: “Once upon a time” a clergyman visited him, and insulted him and his wife in his own par lor. In an instant he (Mr. Beecher) arose, grasped the clergyman by the baen of the neck, shoved him to the front door and kicked him out of it. The man’s face as he unexpectedly found himself in M r. Beecher’s grasp, and his look of terror, as he was about being pitched down the front steps, were so ludicrous that, as Mr. Beecher re turned to the parlor, his anger vanished, and the whole affair seemed so ludicrous that he “rolled upon the floor like jelly, and laughed till he almost cried.” POLITICAL NOTES. So far only twenty-seven deaths are re ported as tho result of the Williamson county, Illinois, “Vendetta,” but there are several back townships to hear from. Where’s Sheridan!— [Boston Post. A correspondent writes: “Allen’s faith that lie is to be the next President is simple and touching. When one of his familiars, in the style of a true courtier, said to him, ‘Governor, you will be the next Democratic candidate for President,’ he replied, ‘Well, by —-, sir, it would be just my luck to bo elected.’ ” It is announced that ex-Senator Doolit tle, of Wisconsin, has been chosen to de liver the address at the Winnebago County Fair, in Illinois, Hon. Jefferson Davis having declined. Tho Radicals who raised the clamor against Mr. Davis really hate Mr. Doolittle about as bad, but as he was conspicuously “ loyal ” during the war, they will have to swallow their rage. The Republicans in Mississippi have split on the color lino, and have two candidates running against Mr. Lamar—a white man and a black man. The Democrats on the other hand “Have found, with keen, discriminating sight. Black’s not so black, nor white so very white,” That is, for political uses.—[Capital. In tho colored convention at Richmond last Friday, a resolution was adopted peti tioning the Legislature against the pro posed amendment to the constitution dis franchising a person convicted of petit larceny. The interests of colored humani ty demand this concession. “Happiness,” says Rochefoucauld, “lies in the taste, not in the things. It is from having what we desire that we are happy, not from having what others think desirable.” Therefore let the man and brother go to the hen-coop without restraint: let him steal his neighbor’s chickens by night and vote the Republican ticket by day. Why not? White Sulphur Springs editorial corres pondence of the Washington Capital: Among the many distinguished guests at the White Sulphur is Gen. Toombs. We have never met a man who possessed so much of that indefinable attractiveness which we endeavor to describe by the term personal magnetism, There is something very fascinating about this type of the un reconstructed, a frankness of manner, boldness of utterance and originality of thought and expression which enchain the listener. * You forget his political unortho doxy, you forget how peculiarly he is an object for a sixteenth amendment, or of special missionary work, or of a day of fasting and prayer throughout the politico religious churches of the land, and feel that you are in the presence of a man who has been always a leader among men, a man bigoted as John Knox as' to his faith, and in all other respects as generous and broad minded as the Halifax who never deserted a sinking cause. THE FRENCH jfIMY. Exaggerated Accounts l| its Efficien cy—Wliy France Keeps! |the Peace. The August number ||f Blackwood contains an article upofg the French army which is calculate?!#© create a sensation in France, thaiiio little sur prise generally. It i3 dirUitly contrary to the statements whi;* have been everywhere published, at;f France was universally believed to be ifjgain making herself so formidable as ifco indirectly threaten the tranquilityJf Europe.— Victorious Germany, Jmed at all points and entrenched behind her dou ble line of fortresses, might have to commit herself any daj|yto a war of self defense against the )>wer she had dismembered and impoverished. With such an army as we were taught to be lieve reconstructed Fran< \ might count upon, when some prelimi £ary arrange ments were completed, might con tract alliances with any l owers which might share its dislike %|> German as cendancy. If the writet& u Blackwood can be relied upon, tffese popular notions of the State of. the French army are as far fro \ reality as can well be imagii Pd. Accord ing to him, and in sp |e of the se vere schooling they have deceived, the Frendh have learned thei \ lesson most imperfectly. They are |j wedded as ever to old ways, and we | the war to recommence to-morrow £ they would break down at the sarm The Central Bureau, with th |r paralyzing influence, are paramour |as ever, and nothing whatever Las I *?en changed either in the staff corps < § the Intend ance. In brief, the so n|,ich vaunted “gradual improvement” lfeia resulted In the apparently steadily fettling back of things into the old fe ooves. Now as to some of the facts a|<i figures as stated by Blackwood : Li e law of or ganization, which imitate? |±he Germans In creating corps d'armet > complete in their several parts, pron |ses to work well, but only so far as it for in stead of being drawn f |m a district, so that at the first nob alarm tb > men would find themselvt inclose to their colors, the corps is recru fed promiscu ously from all the depari grants, and a sudden summons would [fed to a gen eral scramble. By the >,ri des Cadres the standing army wfe nominally swelled by one hundred , id sixty bat talions, and this menacing augmenta tion was made the moi |of at Berlin. In fact the effect of the 1; has been to suppress 480 companies, fed the result a loss of 120,000 men insl fed of a gain of 160,000. The budget [ takes credit for 425,000 men under ar |s, but “there are abundant proofs tha • these figures are fictitious and imagii: fey ;” all de ductions made, the wri pr sets down the strength in France i id Algeria at something like a quarter : ? a million of combatants. Then as to The indispen sable materiel of war : V \ are told that the authorities have hith [to been mak ing shift with “ prov feonal ” field pieces, the defects and inferiority of which have been admi fed, and they have iust come to a tai fe decision on a better model, which \ 4s shown for the first time at a revie }• in June last. As for their rifles, their §aw/usii Gras is a good one, but at the present rate of manufacture it will be feir years bo fore the necessary numb f is provided. In purely defeusive matt t of fortifica tions, more satisfactory -progress has been made. An artificial frontier if being created to replace the lost one, rut the exten sive works which this i febraces must necessarily be a labor of I? ears, and in the meanwhile the countil 4 has only ad mitted its vulnerability. [Much more is related, going to show t! | general ab sence of method—thatth .war direction is supine or indifferent wfere it has not been positively obstructive. Nor, it is remarked, has studied 11. gleet in par ticular departments beei^ compensated by intelligent preparation in others. This, it may be suppose! is quite bad enough, but, the writer af? is, there is a growing sense of discoid,ent, profes sional jealousies and a pant of confi dence in the chiefs, the s|item and the army which must be esjfc daily unfor tunate in its effects on ilfeops so emo tional as the French. t: In commenting upon tie article the London Times is dispcpjd to think that it contains interna! evidence to substantiate its general ffecuracy, and remarks that if the naiifeitive is eveD approximately faithful, Iff shows not merely that the French ullUtary prepa rations are far less advarf|?d than was supposed, but that they i:V 1 being made on mistaken principles, a|. | that then much vauuted military r<|.|aneration is, in a great measure, a delusion, “We must conclude, too, that ffe apprehen sions of the Prussian vsffe party had even less reason than t,h<| feost skepti cal imagined, for there ca be no ques tion that they are at le;j.fe, as well in formed at Berlin as the writer of the article in Blackwood. T ANARUS! we ask why French journalists have b |n silent and left it to an Englishman I speak out, we are reminded that .' fence is in a state of siege, and awkw |d indiscre tions involve severe penaii|3S.” GERDEMANbfe What They Think of Hjja& Out West. We notice the ex-Roiv&ja Catholic, Gerdemann, is not provi|uj successful as a lecturer against his fqfeaer church, and his announced lectuife are with drawn. This Gerdemannlfe the person who left the Romish Chulcfe of Phila delphia under suspicious! feircumstan ces, and until his record proved to be clear of embezzlement !<• had better not abuse his old friends, jfeome week or more since a newspaper? abstract of Gerdemann’s lecture agafpst Roman ism, delivered in Philadelphia, was sent to us with request to publjfei. We had already seen the abstract! ip our ex changes, but had no and: position to publish it. It looked to u>- as evident on its face that the man tjfei what was not true, for wholesale prharges of crime and immorality agetfest Romish bishops and priests in feds county, coming from a man who -rs just left that church, will not bo* received as true by sensible people. | But more than that, on $ .oral prin ciples we would not publish the article, as we take no stock in de&Lters, seco ders or renegades, turned, reformera We have no faith In ex-Catf die priests or escaped nuns, or secedid wives of Brigham Young, or reformt|i blacklegs, or reformed drunkards, wR go about exhibiting themselves f- brands snatched from the burnir%, and who advertise to expose the cri|aes of their former bosom friends. If Sit be true, what they say of their fon||er associa tions, it becomes them to|j>e exceed ingly modest, and in privap to repent them of their sins, and noipto parade their former rascalities tg a gaping crowd. Even the politieianpvho aban dons his party associated laud goes over to the enemy, looks letter in a back seat than in a front! fone. And surely one of these reformMi culprits had better not turn saint j.'titil he or she has done penance a wifle for the sins they have lately beeniiconvicted of.—[Cleveland Heraid. I They have a pretty way d| relieving the sufferers by the floods |i France. Instead of sending unpoetice pork and flour, the big-hearted phiß ithropiets write letters of condolence t- the news papers. When a Massachusetts nam walked seventeen miles to see a mai f'luug, and the prisoner was respited, tlfi disgust ed traveler sat down in a fej ce corner and hoarsely inquired if thf. country was drifting back to barbarifn. SPECIAL NOTICES. THE BOARD OF HEALTH, Ordinary’s Office, Richmond County, ) Augusta, Ga.. August 21, 1878. ) THE FOLLOWING TWO SECTIONS OF the law creating the “Board ol Health of the State of Georgia” is published for the infor mation of all parties concerned • Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That all Phy sicians in the practice of Medicine in this State shall be required, under penalt/ of ten dollars, to be recovered in any Court of com petent jurisdiction in the State, at the suit of the Ordinary, to report to the Ordinary, in the forms to be provided, all Deaths and Births which come under his supervision, with a certificate of the cause of death. &c. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted. That where any Birth or Death shall take place, no Phy sician being in attendance, the same shall be reported to the Ordinary, with the supposed cause of death, by the parents, or, if none, by the next kin. under penalty of ten dollars, at the suit of the Ordinary, as provided in Sec. ll of this Act. Physicians or other persons can obtain blank forms for the return of Births or Deaths at my office, and a blank form for the return of Marriages will hereafter be furnished with the Marriage License, the same to be prop erly filled out by the officiating minister or officer and returned to this office. Physicians are required to make their re turns from the Ist of August. SAMUEL LEVY. aug22-3: t Ordinary. GIN HOUSES INSURED AT EQUITABLE RATES, IN FIRST-CLASS Companies. Call at or write to my office, 219 Broad street, before insuring elsewhere, C. W. HARRIS, aug22-tf den’l Insurance Agent. ~ DR. FALKS WILL BE ABSENT FROM THE CITY FOR six weeks. Due notice of his return will be published in this paper. auglß-wed&su 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. aug!4-eodim 205 Broad Street. fllT MAGNOLIA fMMR ROUTE. PORT ROYAL RAILROAD, j Office General Passenger Agent, Augusta Ga m Aug. G, 1875. ) ROUND TRIP TICKETS ! 40 AUGUSTA to CHARLES- dfi JA SJ.4U 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. m. Leave Charleston 8:ioa. 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 And this a pleasant route by which to reach their destination. Tickeis on sale at Planters’Hotel and Ticket Office, Union Depot. T. S. DAVANT, aug6-lm General Passenger A-ent. EDUCATIONAL. SELECT .SCHOOL. Mrs. WM. C. DERRY’S Seloct School for girls will be reopened on Monday, Septem ber 20th 1875, Rates of Tuition, $lO, $8 and SG, per Term of eleven weeks. aug2sw&stilsept2o Academy of Richmond Cos. THE EXERCISES of this Institution will be resumed on MONDAY, 13th of Sep tember, 1875. It is important that pupils should be present at the opening of the session. J. T. DERRY, aug22-3w Secretary of Faculty. SOUTHERN MASONIC FEMALE COLLEGE. THE next session opens September Ist. This Instution is in successful opera tion under wholesome discipline, and affords first class training for young ladies. Rates for Board and Tuition moderate. For particulars, send for catalogue. J. N. BRADSHAW, President. Covington, Ga., Aug. 6, 1875. aug2o-d<fcc2w _ St. J ohm’s. A Select Boardinq School FOR YOUNG LADIES, IN ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL and healthful districts of Western Mary land. Parents and gua'dians who desire a pleasant and attractive home for their chil dren or wards, with first-class educational opportunities, will please address Rev. GEO. LEW IS STALEY, Knoxville, Frederick county, Md. aug3-2tawfctri-wlm Southern Female College, LA GRANGE, GA. THE Thirty-Fourth Annual Session opens the 25th of August, with the old corps of 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. For Catalogues, address I. F. COX, jy27-d&wlm President. DANCING SCHOOL. MONS. BERGER, Professional Teacher. informs the Ladies and Gontlem'-n of Augusta that he will open a First-Class DANCING SCHOOL at the Masonic Hall Ho wi l be there on Thursday, the 24th Juno, from 4 to 6 o’clock, to receive pupils. Mons. 8., being an Artist, teaches what is really Dancing. He teaches all the new dances as well 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. Pbontatjt & Soil je2Q-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 7tn. 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 fu SBO 00 English Department 30 00 Music—lnstrumental 30 00 Music—Vocal, Extra Lessons 30 00 French Department 15 00 German Department 15 00 Drawing 10 00 Painting, 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 be secured at moderate rates. jyl-tf NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. BARGAINS IN NEW GOODS AT THE ONE PRICE HOUSE, HENEY A. L. BALK. 172 Brood st. Cm brellas, Corsets, Ribbons, bea Island, Bleached Shiritings, Checks, Stripes, Jeans, White Dress Goods. Prices very low at Wholesale and Retail. Coats’ best Machine Thread all Nos 70c. per dozen. HENRY L. A. BALK, aug2s-l* 172 Broad street. NEW FALL GOODS! NEW FALL GOODS! —AT— The Fredericksburg Store. WE ARE NOW RECEIVING our Stock of Fall and Winter DRY GOODS, and which will soon be complete in every department. We now have in stock choice styles of new Calicoes at 8 and 10c.; Black Alpacas at 25, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60, 65, 75, 85, $1 and $1.25 to $1.50; Black Mohairs from 45c. to $1.50; Black Cashmeres, Hen riettas and Bombazines from 75e. to $1.50; Beautiful Colored Dress Goods from 25 to 75c.; Kentucky Jeans at 15, 20, 25, 35, 40, 45 and 50c.; Tweeds and Oassimeres at 50, 60, 75, 850. and $1 to $1.50; Kerseys and Sati nets from 40 to 75c.; New York Mills and Wamsutta Bleached Cottons at 15c.; Fruit of the Loom and Londsdale do. at 12%c.; other makes of Bleached Cotton at lower prices. Purchasers will do well to examine our stock, and we particularly wish them to notice the superior black and finish of our Alpacas, Mohairs, Cashmeres and Bomba zines. To those of our country friends who can not pay us a visit wo will, upon application, send them samples of any Goods we keep that can be sampled. Also, a Price List of all the leading articles we keep. We are agents for the celebrated Domes tic Paper Fashions, and will, upon applica tion, send Catalogue with Prices and De signs, and upon receipt of the price of 'any Pattern, will forward same by mail or otherwise. Country merchants who buy close for cash, or city acceptance, will do well to ex amine our wholesale stock, and we respect iully invite them to do so. V. RICHARDS & BRO., Corner by the Planters’ Hotel, 301 Broad street. aug24-tuwethsutuw&clm NOTICE. State Board of Health. Augusta, Ga., August 21st, 1875. I WOULD respectfully call attention to the following official notice from the Secretary of the State Board of Health, HENRY F. CAMPBELL, M. D., Health Commissioner for the Eighth Dis trict of Georgia. OFFICE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, I Atlanta, Ga., August 16, 1875. ) Physicians, Ministers, Coroners, Jus tices, and all interested, will receive, by application to the Ordinary of the county, the requisite forms for making their re turns to the Ordinary, as roquired by law; the returns to the Ordinary to date from the Ist of August, and the returns from the Oidinary to the Secretary of the Board to commence the Ist of September. V. H. TALIAFERRO, M. D., aug22-3 Secretary of the Board. 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 Girarqley’s Opera House, at 10 o’clock, A. M. All Granges not members who sympathize with us are cordially in vited to send delegates. A full attend ance is desired as this meeting is very im portant. EDWARD A. CARTER, augl-taug2s Secretary. Attractions Extraordinary THE ILLUMINATED TEA-CHEST, Presented to the China Tea and Coffee Store TEAS. TEAS. TEAS. Samples Given Away. \\TE HAVE ALSO ERECTED A RE- W VOLVING PYRAMID, containing samples of the choicest Bottled Liquobs,- put up expressly for those who are willing to pay for a strictly pure article. Call and see us. Satisfaction guaranteed In all cases. R. N. HOTCHKISS, Prop’r China Tea and Coffee Store, Red Gilt Front, opp. Fountain, jy2s-tf 143 Broad Street. GEORGE G. HULL, PROPRIETOR OF THE EXCELSIOR MILLS (Formerly Stovall’s Excelsior Mills), AUGUSTA, GA., MAFUFACTURES FLOUR in all grades. The old and well known EXCELSIOR BRANDS PRIDE OF AUGUSTA, GOLDEN SHEAF, EXTRA, LITTLE BEAUTY, Always on hand, and their well earned reputation will be faithfully maintained. CORN MEAL, CRACKED CORN, CRACKED WHEAT, GRAHAM FLOUR, MILL FEED, BRAN, Etc., Constantly made, and orders promptly tilled at the LOWEST RATES. ie23tf STOCK PRIVILEGES. $lO. SIOO. 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 Stocks dealt in, at the New York Stock Exchange, sent FREE on application to SIMONSON, BARREIRAS & CO., Bankers and Brokers, No. 6 Wall street, Opp. N. Y. Stock Exchange. New Yobk. jels-tuthsalv 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 & 00, jy23-frsuwclm 288 Broad street. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. __ !PLANTERS We are general agents for the PRIDGEON COTTON PRESS. Which is highly recommended for its simplicity and very moderate cost, 3125 complete. Planters in need of a PRESS should examine this new invention. SIBLEY & WHELESS, COTTON FACTORS, AUCUSTA, CA. aug2s-6 _ -- ISCOTTS IMPROVED COTTON Tit OOTTOIV FACTORS, AGENTS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. aug24eow2m ■ ■ • TALL OPENING, 1875! _o ARMSTRONG, CATOR Sc CO., 337 and. 33D Baltimore Street, BALTIMORE, MD., ,ul Manufacturers ! WILL OPEN WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25th, 1875, FRENCH PATTERN BONNETS, Fine French Flowers, Fancy and Ostrich Feathers, together with full lines of Ribbons, Velvets, t>ilks, and all the late Paris Novelties. The trade is invited. Will receive weekly during the season, all the late styles in MILLINERY’FURNISHING GOODS. Orders solicited. aug2l lw THE Gr¥aT SUMMER ROUTE NORTH, VIA AUGUSTA, WILMINGTON. PORTSMOUTH, AND The Magnifiicent Sidewheel Steamships OF THE OLD DOMINION LINE! WHICH leave Portsmouth, Va.., upon the arrival of Trains via the Atlantic Coast Line, at 7:30 p. in., in the following appointed order; Steamship IS A A' 1 BELL, 1,600 Tons Capt. BLAKEMAN, Monday. Steamship WYANOKE, 2,040 Tons Capt. COUCH, Wednesday. Steamship OLD DOMINION, 2 240 Tons. Capt. WALKER, Saturday. And upon the above named Schedule during the entire Summer and Autumn The su perior a commodations, luxurious tables any absence of all unpleasant and dangerous ocean navigation, commend this Line to the attention qi North-Bound Travelers as the most pleasant Excursion Route to New York, arid within six hours of all rail time. State Rooms and Berths engaged by Telegraph upon application to all Agents of the At antic Coast Line, and Through Tickets sold at all Railway Ticket Offices. Baggage checked to destination, and equal facility of transfer and delivery in New York as by other Transportation Lines. W. H. 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 __ N. C., LINES, SEMI-WEEKLY Fast Freight Route to All Points South or East. BALTIMORE, Baltimore and Southern Steam Transportation Company, SAILING FROM BALTIMORE Tuesday and Friday, at 3 !r*. IVI.. AND FROM WILMINGTON Wednesday and Saturday. NEW YORK, CLYDE’S WILMINGTON LINE, SAILING FROM NEW YORK Tuesday and Friday, at 3 P. M., and from Wil mington Wednesday and Saturday, /JIVING through Bills of Lading to all points in North and South Carolina U and Alabama. For North or East bound Freight, to Baltimore New V’l.'rl adelpliia, Boston, Providence, Fall River, and other Eastern cities AlsoNo Lirarn™ l Glasgow, Bremen, Antwerp, and other European points. ’ ij ‘ Vol l'ool- These Lines connect at Wilmington with the Wilmington Columbia and Railroad: connecting at Columbia, S. 0.. with tho Greenville and Colunfbia U lLa?£ U ,?? and Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta liailroad. Columbia Rail Road, At Augusta, Ga., with tho Georgia, Macon and Augusta, and Central w.,11,. i with their connecting roads, offer unequaled facilities for the nr on! nr , lci ß '? 8 * an< J Freight to all points. The Steamers of these Lines, on arrival in L UmuLoL. ‘ v ? r y °! Railroad Depot, the Freight transferred under covered shods to Cai! wuimm S ,n at and forwarded by the Fast Freight Express that evening. uaia WitUout delay, No drayage in Wilmington, and no transfer from Wilmington South an teed as low as by any other route. Losses or Overcharge:} promoUvnai j ® ruar “ Mark all Goods “ VIA WILMINGTON LINES.” V 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. O E. K. BURGESS, Agent W. C. & A. Railroad, 263 Broadway, Now York JOHN JENKINS, Agent, Augusta, Ga. A. POPE, novs Gen’l Freight Agent, Wilmington. N. 0.. and 263 Broadway. New York FOR SALE! A WINDLASS, with a Brake attached, built by Mr. George Cooper, of this Also, a Ruggles PAPER CUTTER, which cuts 26 inches wide. All in good order. The above mentioned Machines will be sold CHEAP FOR CASH. Apply at THIS OFFICE. jy!B-tf Pay your State, County and School Taxes. THE TAX DIGEST for 1875 has been placed mmy hands for collection. Mv instructions are to collect without delay Owners of Real Estate and Merchandise as well as other property, together with those who are liable to the Poll 'lax, had best come forward and settle. To „ n ~ /OHN A. BOHLER, augls-Md X ec^or Richmond County,