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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AUGUSTA. GA.
SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1866.
MR. STEPHENS; TESTIMONY.
Mr. Stephens testimony before the Recon
struction Committee, on Hie eleventh ami
twelfth of this present month, is singularly
Just ami clear. The three main points on w hieh
information was sought seem to have been
first, the present views of the people of Groh
Ola on secession ; secondly, their atuenabilit'i to
fUrther conditions precedent to Congressional
representation ; and thirdly, as to nl-at »ovi of
men they would desire to Tvpivwent them On
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with statements that, so f». <<» wv caw at pic
sen! ivtcttv. fr.Ry er.ilsvtv i- s m:uunil
of this State V*. >.* it. it is the
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;v. .-. . .. .-.u > improbable. The right
noth ug tuorc, alter all, than
lie ■ .jjoi ijy people, nbeu intolerably op
v: eoaed. o- :i 'em o. sueb oppression, to break
*wi> tom the lor bo us or threatening govern
nice, sud institute foi themselves such other
as tuay in their eyes seem good, is of course a
right that, in its belief, is as deep seated as the
Alps or the Appeuines. The expediency of
netiou thereon is, however, another and very
far different thing from the belief itself, and Mr.
Stephens is eminently correct in saying the
people of Georgia have no intent to re-pUrsuo
that course. It will be noticod that this Recon
struction committee had great difficulty In ap
prehending Mr. Stephens language in regard
to this first point of secession, and the explana
tion of that obtuseness is one that does them
but little credit. Here—seems to have been
their line of argument—here is a people who
believed a certain principle correct and for four
years faced debt, death, and privation in an
effort to maintain that correctness by- physical
force. They have failed in this effort. They
disclaim any intention to either renew or con
tinue their past exertions and yet, wonder upon
wonders, still believe as firmly as ever in the
abstract rectitude of this principle. You sec
these fellows are so indurated us to anything
beyond the mere fact of success that they are
utterly unable to comprehend how a man con
vinced against his will can possibly boos the
same opinion still.
By their rule, if the South had essayed to
subjugate the North and succeeded, they would
at once have renounced any faith in the right
fulness of their own proper causo, bowed
down obsequiously before the Battle-Flag,
sworn by the divine right of Slavery, and per
formed incessant acts of adoration at the feet
of President Davis. But enough of these in
quisitors. Let us turn to the second point to
which their queries were directed.
What will Georgia do, is about its sum and
substance, to get back into the Union ? Will
she permit negro suffrage or will she consent
to be gulled out of iter full Constitutional rep
resentation ? To which queries Mr. Stephens
admirably responds that, according to the theory
of the questioners themselves, Georgia had
never been out of the Union—since nothing
save Secession could have taken her out, and
that', in their eyes, was an absolute nullity.—
Recovering from this rebuff, the grand inquisi
tor for the day comes up, in pugilistic phrase t
to the scratch once more with another query to
about the same general purport; when, taking
this time the Southern ground, Mr. Stephens
replies, in effect, that Georgia had done about
all she felt willing to do, in view of the fact
that her prior concessions had never been re
paid with the concessions promised her in re
turn—that she felt, too, if she was in the Union
at ail, it was only under the Federal Constitu
tion which made her the equal of every other
• State of the United States, and neither gave
others the right to impose terms upon her or
made it her duty to therewith comply, as a con
dition precedent to a full enjoyment of the
rights guarantied under that Constitution.
It being then hinted pretty broadly that the
people of Georgia — Constitution or no
Constitution —must accede to negro suil’rage
or remain unrepresented, the reply was—and
we know a thunderous Amen ! will go up from
every man, woman, and child that loves the
State of gallant OoletHOßl'E —AVo have done
everything that was essential or proper, aDd we j
are not willing to do anything further as a con- !
dition or precedent. Negro suffrage we regard
as about as great a political evil as could be
fall us!
Hearken, O! gentlemen of the Reconstruc
tion Committee, to this voice. Lay it close
to your hearts and bind it on the brows
of your Radical brethren that Georgia
lor one, says Better exclusion forever than
Pomp at the polls or Cuff in the seat of Troop,
Stephens, and Crawford.
And now (or tlio third point. What sort of
men would the people of the State send to Con
gress if permitted—Oh! this word permitted ,
the spawn 6f despotism, the one pet lamb of
tyrants—if permitted representation ? Mark
the answer:
“ 1 do not think they could exercise that right In tha ;
choice of their Senators and members, so as to impair
in the slightest degree the constitutional right of each
House for itself to judge of the qualifications of those
who might he chosen ; the right of the constitutional
section of a State to choose, and ttie right of each
House of Congress to judge of the qualifications of
those elected to their respective bodies are very dis
tinct and different questions ; and in thus judging of
qualifications I am free to admit that in my opinion
no ono should he admitted as a member of either
House of Congress who is not realty and truly loyal
to the Constitution of the United States and to the
government established by it.”
Now we object here to the word “ loyal." It
is true tliat Mu. Stephens, in a prior use of
the term, had expressed himself as by no
means giving in his adhesion to the idea it is
now employed to convey ; but, for all that, we
are sorry to see it fall from his lips, and here,
as everywhere else, take up our testimony
against it.
"■Loyal" indeed. ’Tis an ill phrase. To
what or to whom is it that you, or that I or
that any of us are under any political obligation
whatsoever to be “ loyal" f Is it to the Presi
dent? The true Republican owns no personal
superior. Is it to this drunken, lawless con
clave, misnamed Congress ? The creatures
who make it up are the servants, and not the
masters, of the People. Is it to Chief Justice
Grovel and his learned associates ? Why
that Bench is but the mere translator of the
People’s will. And yet here is the whole triad
of Government and not a starting hole for
this poor “ loyal ” in any one of the three.
“ Rebel ” is bad enough, but “ loyal ” surely
worse, for the one, at least, means fight, and
the other has only sneak for its synonyme. It’s
such a miserable, puling, weak-legged, crawl
ing- thing, too, this “ loyal"—v cry well in “ the
effete despotisms of Europe,” doubtless, but
strangely out of place iu this the “ best”— and
freest —“government the wor Id ever saw.” But
enough of “ loyal." ’Tis a dead fly in the
ointment and hath a most unsavoury perfume-
We bid its sneaking paltriness, for the present,
adieu.
Mr. Stephens is eminently correct in saying
no one should he admitted into a Congress of
the United States who is not willing to
maintain and support the Federal Constitu
tion. Our great trouble at present is that
those now iu the body, assuming to hear that
name, do neither. So far from maintaining it,
their every effort is to pull it down, and so far
from acting by its rules they live in a daily
perjury consequent on the violation of that,
before God, they have sworn to observe. Tried,
by the rule Mr. Stephens suggests, the
Southern delegations would at ouce enter
Congress and the Radical members straight
way depart. And with this much we com
mend the whole of this interesting evidence to
a close perusal. It is very sensible and very
true, and being both logical and fair, will have
its weight in correcting some of those mis
representations to which we have so long been
exposed. ___
TabeascoepusT
It may gratify our readers to know that, on
the seventeenth instant, President Johnson de
cided that his peace proclamation restored the
privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus— the
question being brought before him on an ap
peal from Judge Underwoods decision, de
nying the writ iu case of a Virginian put in lim
bo by the Freedmens Bureau for refusing to
pay a fine of five hundred dollars to a negro.
Immediately on this appeal being made both
the President and the Attorney General decided
against Underwood, and the Virginian, thank
c’od, was set free from the Bureau’s clutches.
This decision, be it remembered, was rendered
late in the evening of the seventeenth and
k “bcks into a cocked hat all prior instructions
sent out from Washington, not excepting those
mentioned in the late proclamation of his Ex
cellency, the Governor. We would have been
sorry to believe—as some would have had U6 —
•that Mr. Joh N 8 was paltering with a people
entirely in his power, and are, of course, pro
portionately happy In knowing he is standing
p q rocWiom heh ° nCßtmeaning ° f Ut PeaC6
[From the Nashville Union & American, 10th.
Testimony of Hon. Alex. H. Stephens—
Continued.
In our issHC of yesterday we published the
testimony of Mr. Stephens before the Congres
sional committee as n full report. We find that
the following portion was omitted from the
reports received at that time by mail and tele
graph. We therefore add them in order to
make it complete:
Q in what particular did the people believe
(heir constitution-1 literties were endangered
or assailed from the Union?
I would say iu their internal social policy,
and their apprehension from the general con
solidating tendencies of the doctrines and prin
ciples of that political party which had recently
succeeded in the choice of a President and Vice
President of the United States.
It was the serious apprehension that if the
Republican organization, as then constituted,
should succeed to power, it would lead ulti
m iteli to a virtual subversion of the Constitu
tion o's the United States, and.all its essential
guarantees of public liberty. I think that was
the sincere and honest conviction of the minds
ot our people. Those who opposed secession
did not apprehend that any such result would
necessarily follow the elections which had
taken phuV. They still thought all their rights
might he maintained in the Union and under
the Constitution, especially as there were
majorities in hotli Houses of Congress who
agreed with them on constitutional questions.
Q. To what feature of their internal social
policy did they apprehend danger ?
A. Principally to the subordination of the
African race as it existed under their laws and
institutions.
Q. In what spirit is the emancipation of the
slaves received by the people?
A. Generally it is accepted, I think, in per
fect good faith, and witli a disposition to do
the best that can be done iu the new order of
things. In this particular—
Q. What at present are the relations sub
sisting between white and black people, es
pecially in the relation of employers and
employed ?
A. Quite as good as in any part of the world
that I have been iu, between like cases of em
ployers and employees, and the condition of
things iu this respect, on my return last fall,
was very different from what it was when I left
home for my present visit here. During the
(all and up to the close of the year, there was a
general opinion prevailing among the colored
people that at Christmas there would be a divi
sion of land, and a very general indisposition on
their part to make contracts at all for the
present j-ear. Indeed there were very few con
tracts, I think, made throughout the State until
after Christmas or about the first of January.
Gen. Wilson, who is at the head of the Bureau
in the State, and whose administration has
given general satisfaction to onr people, I think,
was very active iu disabusing the minds of the
colored people from their own views in this
particular. He visited quite a number of places
and addressed large audiences of colored peo
ple, and when they became satisfied they were
laboring under a mistake in anticipating a
division of lands after Christmas and first of
January, they made contracts very readily, and
since llien their affairs in the main have moved
quite smoothly and quietly.
Q. Are the negroes generally at work ?
A. Yes, they are generally at work. There
are some idle, but this class constitute but a
small portion.
• Q. What upon the whole, is their conduct,
under the circumstances in which they are
placed, or otherwise ?
A. As a whole, much better than the most
hopeful looked for.
Q. As far as you know, what are the leading
objects and desires of the negroes at the present
time, in reference to themselves ?
A. It is to be protected in their rights of
person and property, to be dealt by fairly and
justly.
Q. What, if any, has been clone by the Legis
lature of Georgia for the accomplishment of
these objects ?
A. The Legislature has passed an act of which
the following is a copy :
“No. 99.—An act to define the term persons
of color, and to declare the rights of sueli per
sons.
“See. 1. Be it enacted , &c., That all negroes 1
mulattoes, mestizoes and their descendants
having ons-eighth African blood in their veins
shall be known in this State as persons of color.
“See. 2. Be it further enacted , That persons
of color shall have the right to make and en
force contracts, to sue, to he sued, to be parties,
and to have full and equal benefits of all laws
and proceedings lor the security of person and
estate, and shall not he subject to any' other
different minisliment, pain or penalty for the
commission of any act or offense, than such as
are prescribed for white persons committing
like acts or offenses.”
The third section repeals nil conflicting laws.
The hill was approved by the Governor, March
17, 1866.
Q. Does the act, express the opinions of the
people, and will it he sustained ?
A. I think it will be sustained by the courts
as well as public sentiment. It wqs passed by
the present Legislature as an evidence of the
tone of the Legislature of the State, as well as
that of the people of the State, upon the sub
ject, I will refer you simply to a letter I wrote
to Senator Stewart upon the same subject. I
submit to you a copy of that letter. It was as
follows :
“Washington, D. C., April 4, 1866.— Dear
Sir : In answer to the inquiries touching the
sentiments and feelings of the people of
Georgia toward the tVeedmen and the legal
stains of tills class of the population in the
State, allow me to say, the address delivered by
me, on the 22d of February last, before the
Legislature, a copy of which I herewith hand
you, expresses very fully find clearly my own
opinions upon the subject of your inquiries.
This address was written and printed, as you
now see it, before its delivery. It was delivered
verbatim , as you now read it, that there might
be no it. It was, as it now
stands, unanimously indorsed by the Senate in
a joint resolution, which was concurred in by
the House without dissent, and was ordered to
he spread upon the journals of both Houses.
This I refer to you as a better and moru de
liberal e index of the feelings and views of the
people of the State on the subject, than any
hare individual opinion I might express or en
tertain. The Legislature of a State, it is to be
presumed, is as correct a reflex of the general
feeling and views of the State as any that can
be obtained from any quarter.
In addition, the Legislature subsequently
evinced their principles by works in passing
an act which I also inclose to you. This act
speaks for itself. It is short, concise, and
pointed, as well as comprehensive. It secures
to the colored race the right to contract and
enforce contracts ; the right to sue and be
sued ; the right to testify in the courts, subject
to the same rules that govern the testimony of
whites, and it subjects them to the same pun
ishmeht for all offenses as whites. In these re
spects, embracing m all essential civil rights all
classes in Georgia, now there is no discrimina
tion in these particulars on account of race or
color. Please excuse this hasty note. 1 have
no time to give more detail. Yours, most re
spectfully, “ Alex. 11. Stephens.
“ Hon. Wm. H. Stewart, U. S. Senator.”
Q. AVhat, if anything, is being done in Geor
gia in regard to to the education of the negroes,
children or adults ?
A. Nothing by the public authorities as yet.
Schools are being established in many parts of
the State under the auspices of the Freedmen’s
Bureau, I think, quite a number by the
colored people themselves, encouraged by the
whites.
Q. What disposition do the negroes manifest
in regard to education ?
A. There seems to be a very great desire, on
the part of the children and younger ones, and
with their parents to have them educated.
[From the Boston Courier.
Thad. Stevens’ Smelling Committee.
We understand that General R. E. Lee will
be summoned again before the Reconstruction
Committee, and the following questions will be
proposed to him:
Since the close of the war have the people of
Virginia been inclined to modify their opinions
as to the comparative merits of James Otis and
Patrick Henry in setting the ball of the revolu
tion in motion ?
Is not pitching of quoits a favorite amuse
ment in Virginia, and will the people of Vir
ginia he ready to give it up and take up the
game of base-ball instead ?
Will the people of Virginia be inclined to
give up the eating of bacon and greens and to
substitute therefor the Yankee dishes of pork
and beans and codfish and potatoes ?
Is there any prejudice in Virginia against
bnckwheat cakes and popped corn as Yankee
dishes ? And is that prejudice increasing or
decreasing ?
In your judgment, have secession doctrines
been promoted in Virginia by the drinking of
mint jnleps ? And is there any prejudice there
against sherry cobblers as a Northern drink ?
Is the Yankee institution of singing schools
likely to become naluralizcd in Virginia ?
Do the people of Virginia read the writings
of R. W. Emerson ? and, if so, do they under
stand them ?
Would a young man in Virginia be disinclined
to marry a Yankee girl who was young, good
looking, and a rich man’s daughter ?
Is there any prejudice in Virginia against
Rhode Island coal as the product of a Northern
State ?
Do you have thanksgiving day in Virginia,
and is the. shooting of turkeys practiced on that
day ? Would a Virginia marksman be unwill
ing to fire at a turkey on that day because it
was a Northern custom ?
Is molasses candy ever made in Virginia, nnd
how is it likely to be in the future ?
Do the people of Virginia ever play poker ?
and if so, would a Virginia secessionist he will
ing to pay the money won ol him at that game
by n Northern man ?
What is the sentiment of Virginia ns to the
bloomer costume, and is it likely to be modified
in the future ?
Do the people of Virginia regard Wendell
Philips as the greatest American oratof? and
if not, arc they likely to come to that opinion
hereafter ?
How many people in Virginia look upon
General Butler as a great military genius? an
swer the same question as to General Banks
Is the diary of Count Gurowski a popular
book in Virginia? and would it not be popular
if the people were loyal ?
Is there a piece of the Pilgrim rock anywhere
in Virginia ? and if there is not, would it not
be a judicious step to send a piece of it to Rich
mond ?
Have you yourself ever seen a chair that came
over in the Mayflower ? and if not, would you
like to see one?
The question that follows you may answer or
not, as you choose. Is Wirt’s Life of Patrick
Henry in Virginia regarded as an historical
work or a work of fiction ?
Do you believe the story of Captain Smith
and Pocahontas? Or do you think it was
made up by Captain Smith many years after its
supposed date ?
Do the colored race in Virginia generally go
in when it rains ? and if not, why not ?
Should the colored race addict themselves to
the study of metaphysics, would they be likely
to become disciples of Sir William Hamilton
or John Stuart Mill ?
Was Hannibal, in your judgment, a negro ? '
Answer the same question as to Othello.
Do the colored people of Virginia usually
sleep with their heads under the bedclothes"?
and how far will emancipation modify this
habit ?
What effect is emancipation likely to have
upon the comparative -consumption of corn
bread and wheat bread ? '
Are the colored people of Virginia fond of
bright colors; if so, what effect will emanci
pation be likely to have upon tills taste ?
What do the people in Virginia think of a
license system in the State of Massachusetts ?
Have you ever heard any opinion expressed
as to the right of F. W. Bird to a seat in the
Massachusetts Legislature?
What do the people of Virginia think of the
Hoosac Tunnel, and of the new drill ? Do they
think it will work as well as the Freedmen’s
Bureau hill?
What are the opinions of the people of Vir
ginia as to who the following persons were ?
The man in the Iron Mask ;
The author of Junius :
The man iu the Claret-colored Coat;
The man that struck Billy Patterson ?
[From the Baltimore Gazette.
The Methodist Church North—lts Un
christian Character.
There is no political or religious organization
upon this continent which did so much to pro
voke the revolution on the part of the South, or
which manifested so relentless and brutal a spirit
during the war as the Mctlrodist Church North.
For years the ministers and its conferences
waged a vindictive war against the institutions
of the South, until they forced the Methodists of
that section to separate from those who were so
vilely persecuting them. Not satisfied with
agitating and determining the question of the
sinfulness of slavery within the pale of their
own church, they were determined to make it a
political dogma as welt as an article of faith.
The church became, in very truth, a church
militant, and went forth, like Mahomet, offering
to all who resisted it either the new discipline
or the sword. It called a political problem- a
case of conscience, and spoke of the slaughter
of human beings as God’s work. Were this
great politico-religious organization content
now to busy itself about the things which it
professes to regard as alone worth attending to
in this world, the peace of the country would he
very considerably promoted. But it is very
evident to us [hat the Methodist Church North
is going to discover that Providence has pre
pared another mission for it, and desires it to
regulate the qualification of voters for the peo
ple of the Southern States. This is very ck*rly
foreshadowed in the speech delivered in New
York, on Monday, by Chief Justice Chase at a
meeting held to celebrate the centennial anni
versary of the foundation of Methodism in
America. Judge Chase spoke at considerable
length and in glowing terms of the labors which
the Methodist Church had accomplished, and
especially of the very active part it took in sus
taining the war. He then referred to its future,
and assumed that it was still to continue to ex
ert itself as a political organization. He enun
ciated for the hnndreth time that, new and re
markable truth, that it is impossible to “ look
upon the face of any human being and not feel
that he is our brother man.” He might also
have said the same of the human foot. After
commending Congress for passing the Civil
Rights bill, Mr. Chase added : “ A step further
remains upon the steps ; tor it is a long work
this raising a whole people ; but one of these
steps, as I count it, is that they to whom you
have given freedom must he permitted to’de
fend it hv the ballot.” The applause which
greeted this and similar announcements was too
hearty and general to leave us in doubt as to
the opinion and feelings of those who attended
this so-calied religious festival. The Chief Jus
tice then earnestly expressed his belief that the
Methodist Church is divinely commissioned to
inculcate his political views. He-said : “ Who
can tell what this nation is to become if it is
only faithful to itself? Who can measure the
work that this church has to perform in mak
ing this nation true to itself and true to its
God ? I verily believe that hut for this church
nothing ot that which we have thus far realized
could have been accomplished. I verily be
lieve that, God in his province raised up this
church. Ido not say that He did ndt give ap
propriate spheres of action to other churches ;
hut I do verily believe that God raised up this
(the Methodist) church for the purposes of
aiding in leading this nation to-these grand re
sults.”
Here we have the Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court urging men to agitate for the pur
pose of breaking down State laws with which
they have no right to meddle, and calling on a
religious denomination to preach up a new po
litical doctrine. And, with a mock solemnity,
he deliberately assured the fools who applaud
ed him that he verily believed God had raised
up the Methodist Church as an instrument
through which to make voters out of black
men, and that the nation could only be “true
to itself and true to its God” by extending the
elective franchise. No intelligent man will
suppose that we mean to condemn all Metho
dists and Methodist congregations in the North:
We know that there were’ many individuals
and clergymen who refused to foment discord
or to meddle, as churchmen, with political af
fairs. But it is an indisputable fact that the
great body of the Methodist Church North, in
the name of Christianity, and as a religious or
ganization, energetically promoted and prose
cuted our civil war. When the destinies of the
country are so greatly influenced by such men
and such churches, and when we remember
what they have done in the past, how is it pos
sible td regard the future without apprehen
sion ? »
Geo. D. Prentice on Brownlow.
A TOMAHAWK DESIGN.
He showed himself a walking volcano, with
snow upon his peak and all bell iu his bosom.
It is most extraordinary and most disgrace
ful that any portion of the people of Tennessee,
knowing this man as they did, voted to make
him Governor of that State. Their only ex
cuse must be, that they were under military
law, and so not really free agents in his elec
tion. No other State was ever afflicted and
disgraced and cursed with such an unmitigated
and immitigable, such an unredeemed and irre
deemable blackguard as her Chief Magistrate.
He is a parody, a caricature, a broad burlesque
on all possible Governors. ’He is a monstrosity.
He is a thing as much out of nature as Bar
num.'s woolv horse, or his giants and dwarfs, or
his calf with two heads and eight legs—four of
the legs pointing toward the zenith. His
blood is hell-broth, which Satan will one day
sup with a long spoon. They say there is lire
in him, but it is liell-firc, every particle of it.
Though he is but a single swine, there are as
many devils in him as there were in the ■whole
herd that “ran violently down a steep place
into the sea.” His heart is nothing but a hiss
ing knot of vipers, rattlesnakes, cobria, and
cotton-mouths. He never argued a question in
his life, approaching no subject, but with tierce,
bitter, coarse, low, and vulgar objurgations.
His tongue should be bored through and
hrough with his own steel pen, heated red hot.
This man, as we have said, calls himself a
clergyman. He holds forth in pulpits. He
preaches, prays and exhorts, draws down his
face, drops the corners of his mouth, and un
dertakes to look sanctimonious. And yet he
seems always trying in his pulpit discourses
to see under how thin a disguise he can venture
to curse and swear and blaspheme. He can’t
offer up a prayer in the house of God without
telling the Lord what an infernal scoundrel,
damned thief, or cursed vagabond, this, that,
or the other neighbor is. From his youth up
to his old age, he has no personal controver
sies without attacking the wives, fathers, moth
ers, grand-fathers, grand-mothers, brothers, sis
ters. children, uncle, aunts and nephews of his
opponents'. He has sought to strew his whole
path of life with the dark wrecks of wantonly
ruined reputations. He has never had an
hour’s happiness except in the unhappiness of
others. He has ever said to evil “be thou my
good!” He has always carefully jotted down ail
that he has ever heard unfavorable to gentle
men while professing to be their friends, so as
to be ready for a day of alienation. He howls
venom, talks venom, breathes venom, belches
venom, coughs venom, sneezes venom, spits
venom, drools venom, sweats venom, stinks
venom, and distils venom from his nose. Not
the fuliginous exhalations from the bottomless
pit, not the fire and brimstone fumes from the
sooty throat of the Devil, were ever more,
blighting and blasting than his accursed ser
pent breath. He never had a friend on earth out
side of his ow r n family. No doubt there are those
who fear him for his fiendish forocity, but no
human being not of his household ever loved
or respected him. He will yet have his reward.
Sowing in wrath, he will reap in agony. Fury
and hate may stifle in his heart the feeling of
remorse for a time, but Nemesis, with her hor
rid whip, will yet scourge him around the
whole orb of being. All the hairs upon his
head will seem to him to be snakes like the
hissing and forked-tougued locks of the Eu
menides. When he shall retire, as he soon
must, from the noisy and tumultuous strifes
that have ever engaged and still engage all his
thoughts, he will not have a solitary, pleasant
and serene memory of the past. On the con
trary, a store of bitter and desolate and tor
turing recollections will corrode and eat up his
very heart, until, ent off from all human sym
pathies, exilcd#om the pale of all the beautiful
genialities of life, having no friends or com
panions around him to soothe him in his moral
and physical solicitude, deserted by mankind,
whose enemy he has been, and loathed by God,
whose holy temple he has sacrilegiously dese
crated by his horrid mockeries of religion, fest
ering from head to foot with the polluted and
poisonous puddle-water in his veins, standing
as an outcast and paria on the lone desert of
despair, shrinking from the past, agonized by
the present, and hot daring to gaze into the
future, beholding in fancy upon the door of his
own soul to the words, “ Hope comes not here
that comes to all,” shut out by murkiest clouds
from every star that to others lights the path to
the tomb, and writhing under myriad curses
and execrations piled like a mountain of living
coals upon his head, he shall long at last to
make his escape from earth—scarcely asking to
what more dreadful destiny.
Henrv M. BgUNS, LL. D.—We were pleased
to learn, a few days ago, that this gentleman
had returned to our city, after an absence of
over four years. Dr. Bruns is a Charlestonian
of the. old school—gnd all our readers know
what is comprehended in that terra. He was
for many years Pricipnl of the Charleston High
School, where he prepared many of our citizens
—men of business, and of the learned profes
sions—for an intelligent discharge of the varied
duties of life. Dr. Bruns has for yean? enjoyed
the repbtation of a line and finished scholar, as
well as that of an apt and thorough instructor.
He has ever been a great favorite, both with
boys and their guardians. Such concurrent es
teem aud affection is rarely met with, and can
only be secured by a good teacher, who must,
at the same time, unite the qualities of the
Christiau gentleman.
It is the wish of a number of our citizens,
we understand (provided it bo agreeable to Dr.
Bruns himself,) that he should open a select
school for boys of an advanced grade, or that
his services be secured in some other form in
the cause of education. Good teachers are
rare, and we cannot afford to allow talents like
those of Dr. Bruns to lie idle.
f Charleston News.
Henry Ward Beecher is over fifty years of
age; Fanny Fern is fifty.
State of Ireland.
Speech of Lord Duff'erin in the House of Lords,
March lfif/t.
Lord Dufferin asked the Honse to neiratlve
the motion, oh the ground that it would be
most inconvenient that the Honse should be
called on to go into committee on resolutions
with which it had no opportunity of making it
self acquainted, and also because he believed'
that these resolutions were founded on a wrong
assumption, and that the evils, the discontent
and the disaffection which existed in Ireland
were not the result of legislation, and could
not to any considerable degree be removed by
any exceptional legislation at the present time.
The manifestoes of the Fenian leaders and their
apologists only disclosed three subjects of com
plaint which Parliament could remove. The
first, was the Irish Church, the second was the
absence of tenant right, and the third was the
excessive emigration from the country. He
denied that the disaffection which now prevail
ed in the country was due to any of these
causes, or that it could lie abated by removing.
He was not there to defend the Irish Protest
ant Church, but he maintained that its existence
had had no effect in producing the present dis
affection. If they handed over its revenues to
the Roman Catholic clergy to-morrow, it would
have no effect in checking the Fenian move
ment, which was equally hostile to both
churches. With regard to the tenant right, he
admitted that an inquiry how far the uneasi
ness existed amongst the tenant farmer class in
Ireland is connected with the absence of tenant
right, would be attended with somewhat more
difficulty, but lie did not believe that there was
any connection between t lie argariaw agitation
springing from Fenianism, and that which un
doubtedly prevailed amongst the tenant-farmer
class, on aeebunt of the want of certainty of
tenure. While the one wanted fixity of hold
ing, the other sought a redistribution of nroii
erty. 1
In point of fact, he believed that the tenant
larmer class were now' thoroughly loyal while
it was certain that they would be the severest
sufferers by the success of the Feuian agitation.
Ihe noble lord then entered into detflfds ex
planatory ot the relation between landlord and
tenant in Ireland, and stated it to be his pro
found conviction that the small farming: system
had been the curse of Ireland. He believed
that if they adopted many of the improvements
in the law suggested by the so-called friends of
the Irish farmers, the result W'ould be a great
increase ot discontent. For instance, one fa
vorite measure was the abolition of the power !
ol distraint. But thoonlvresult ofintroducing i
such a measure would be that all outstanding I
rent would at once be enforced, to the utter i
ruin ot the tenants. Os one thing, at all events,
lie was certain, that no portion of the present
disaffection in Ireland could be attributed to the
Government not having introduced a bill to
improve the relations between landlord aud
tenant, although he admitted that that law was i
capable of improvement. [Hear, hear.] It was
said that there must be some deep-seated evils 1
in Ireland when so large a portion of iier popu- i
lation left lier soil. He quite admitted that ;
but the question was whether those evils wore
or were not caused, or could be cured bv legis
lation. For his part, he did not believe any
thing ol the kind. It was a mistake to sup
pose thqt this emigration originated after the
potato famine, or that it was confined to Ro
man Catholics.
It was also an error to suppose that evictions
had any material connection with it, since in
years when the number of evictions was only
300 to 400, the number of emigrants was 80,000.
Until the potato famine, the condition of Irish
society was altogether unnatural and unsound.
The period of transition which had since follow
ed had unquestionably been one of suffering;
but both the country, and the people who had
emigrated, had been benefitted by the exodus to
America. Asa proof of the prosperity of the
emigrants, he referred to the large sums which
they had remitted to their relations, iu order to
bring out to the United States. Emigra
tion was an advantage alike to those who went
and to those who remained. It was quite a
mistake to suppose that emigration had unduly
depleted the population of Ireland ; for the fact
was that it was still one of the most highly popu
lated countries iu Europe, and when they con
sidered that its people was almost entirely sup
ported by agriculture, it was certain that they
were relatively as numerous as that of England.
He did not deny that the resources of Ireland
might be greatly developed by the expenditure
of capital, and that in this way the country
might be made to support a larger population
than it had hitherto done. But no expenditure
of capital would do while the present state of
uncertainty continued; and it came within his
| own knowledge that several large industrial
! enterprises had been abandoned on account of
j th(> Fenian agitation.
He denied that Ireland was in the declining
! state alleged by the noble Earl. In 18fi5 the
1 cattle in Ireland was worth two millions more
i than in the previous year, and twenty-six mil-
I lions more than in 1841. The same results might
be deducted from an examination of other agri
j cultural statistics, which proved that thesculti-
I vation of the country was steadily improving,
’ while the wages of the population was rising
j iu a marked manner. Pauperism wasdiminish
i ing; the deposits in savings banks were intreas
| ing; the manufactures of the north of Ireland,
had doubled within the last few years; an! the
\ same might be said of the export trade of the
| country. He thought there was, therefore, no
| reason to say that Ireland was retrograding, or
i was not in a prosperous condition. In fact,
• considered as a purely agricultural country, it
I had made even greater progress than Englfnd.
] There was a traditional hostility to England on
j the part of the lower class of Irish, engendered
Iby the evil trentnmpt > /! O f J it
could not be expecred wnUd be got
over in a day, especially amongst people so
deeply attached to everything that had any na
tional associations. But it was only the most
ignorant of the people who were addicted to
Fenianism, and he trusted that we were now
witnessingthe last wave of the retreating tide
of rebellion.
[From the Baltimore Gazette.
The Paradise of Murder.
Ou Friday, a man named Edward Green, was
hanged for murder in the tail yard at East Cam
| bridge, Massachusetts. He had been for four
! or live years postmaster of the town of Malden,
and according to his own confession, had some
how lost four or five hundred dollars worth of
postage stamps. He said that he was afraid to
make the matter known, and that, after having
charged himself for some time with these
stamps, as if they were still in his possession,
he set fire to the post office in the hope that the
records might he destroyed. But his humane
heart had some misgivings lest a man who
slept over the office should be burned up, and
he therefore extinguished the fire. Weeks af
terwards he went into the Bank of Malden, “ in
great trouble of mind” because of his financial
condition. He found there and alone a young
and estimable man named Converse, ope of the
officials of the bank, who had by him a large
package of money. Green went immediately
to his own office, got a pistol, returned to the
bank, shot Converse through the head and
walked off with the money. One or two citi
zens and officers of the bank investigated the
case and concluded that Green was the murder
er. They undertook to arrest him, when he
confessed his crime, and pointed out the place
in the post office where he had secreted the
money. He was indicted for murder and when
arraigned plead not guilty. When brought in
to court for trial his counsel permitted or ad
vised him to plead guilty to the indictment.—
Here was the ease of a man, who, being a de
faulter to the Government, deliberately shot an
other and stole the funds in his keeping in or
der to conceal his own defalcation. Under
such circumstances he deserved, if ever man
did, to be made to bear the extremist penalty
which the law demanded for such a crime. He
had been brought fairly before a court for trial,
and manifestly declined to meet the issue be
j cause, in the judgment of his counsel, he had
no defense to stand upon. He was visited by
physicians appointed by the court, who, after a
| careful examination, pronounced him to be a
j sane man. • *
It might have been thought that the people
I amongst whom a deed of blood had been done
i would, while pitying the wretched murderer,
I have nevertheless seen the propriety of silently
permitting the law to take its course. But
there is a canting sect in Massachusetts which,
| claiming to be possessed of a very intimate
; knowledge of the wishes and signs ofProvi
j dcnce, and to be animated by more exalted
i motives than govern any other class of people,
! is perpetually insisting that all human statutes
! and institutions shall conform to its dogmas
j touching the requirements of the higher law.
As soon, therefore, as Glenn was sentenced, all
j the sensational philanthropists, who incite
; riots and revolutions in the name of brotherly
love, broke forth in pathetic or indignant ap
j peals to the Governor to prevent the sentence
from being carried out. Some of them relied
j on some higher law text as prohibiting the ex
| ecution of any man, and put forth a pamphlet
entitled, “Shall we suffocate Ed Green?” —
Others, and among them Governor Andrew,
took the ground that Green had not been tried
by a jury, and, therefore, had had no legal trial,
such as warranted the court in passing judg
ment on him. And others, including Mr.
Wendell Phillips, seemed to think it a heinous
thing that an untellectual murderer should bo
hanged. That gentleman waited on Governor
Bullock, on Green’s behalf, and said: “ I mean
no offense; I have shaken hands with Green
within a week, but God forbid that I should
shake the hand of any man who would give
this dwarf intellect to the gibbet.” And all
this fine sentimentality, all this parade of an
exquisitely sensitive humanity is exhibited by
the descendants of th4se who remorselessly
burned and shot human beings because they
were red meu and old women—aye, by the very
men who have, themselves, been most relent
less and bloody-minded in their threats against
the Bouth, and who have fiendishly imported
recruits from Europe, and sent them to slaugh
ter their “ Southern brethren.” Verily, the
gorge of Hamlet would rise at the abomina
tions of fanaticism, were he even fresh from
the rottenness of Denmark.
General Robert Toombs.— The Montgom
ery Ledger relates that General Toombs is in
Havana, negotiating for a sugar estate. The
General says that he intends to make Mexico
his future home, but first he would proceed to
France, procure an interview with the Empe
ror, and learn from him his line of policy. If
the Emperor promised to sustain Maximilian,
he would tell the Emperor that he had still a
little money left with which to make a home in
Mexico for his family, while the balance of his
fortune he was willing to invest in powder and
lead.
Mosbt Refused to Give up his Confeder
ate Coat.— The Alexandria Gazette says a dis
turbance occurred at Leesburg, on Tuesday, by
an attempt of the military guard therd to take
from Colonel Mosby, who was in t<Lvn, his
overcoat, which had on it some Cowfi derate
buttons, or was greylcloth, or was something
«f the kind. He refused to give it up, and
louuted his horse to leave town, when he wae
pursued and fired at by those who followed
him. The next day this military company, it is
said, were ordered from Leesburg.
The Sioux Indians are assembling their bands
on the north fork of the Cheyenne river. A
party of young men* ft short time since, tried to
get up a war party, but were quickly suppress
ed by the head chiefs, who killed their horses
and destroyed their lodges.
f
CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL RAILROAD,
April 21.—J OM, Augusta Factory, J&T A B, J J
Poase, D Stallings, Wyman Ac M, LB Davis, I Kahn,
J Bpad, Crump A Co, Mrs 8 L Travis, I Simon, Sco
field, W Ac Co, J B Kauftnan, F Ac R, Lattarop, MAc
Co, Mrs M L Pritchard, Lesser At L, ,1 G B Ac Bro,
Conley, F Ac Co, B A S, [ H] S. J M C At Son.
OBITUARY.
Alma Calais, infant and only daughter of Charlie
M. and Vickie Cheesborough, was horn March 20th,
and departed this life on the 16th of April, 1866.
. Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade,
Death came with friendly care,
The opening bud to Heaven conveyed,
And bade it blossom there.
SPECIAL MOTIOES.
BdT WEBB’S LODGE, No. 16C, F.\ and A.*. M.\
—The Regular Monthly Communication of this Lodge
will be hold in the Lodge Room (Masonic Hall), TO
MORROW (Monday) NIGHT, *23d Inst., at 7i o’clock.
By order
Christopher F. Lewis, W.\ M.\
ap22-l WM. R. DAVIS. Secretary.
83T0FFICE MASTER TRANSPORTATION, C. R. R.,
Savannah, Ga., April 20, 1866.—From and after JUNE
first, Dry Goods, Clothing and Merchandise in general,
packed in trunks, will be charged as in First Class, in
stead of Third Class, as at present.
This change is made necessary in consequence of the
facility for pilfering ailbrded by the present mode of
packing in trunks.
(Signed) J. M. SELKI RK, M. T.
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THE NATIONAL EXPRESS AND TRANSPOR
TATION CO.— Office on the Corner Reynolds and
Mclntosh Sts., Augusta, Ga.—Gen. J. E. JOHNSTON
President—Are now prepared to forward CURRENCY,
COIN, VALUABLES AND FREIGHT to SAVANNAIL
CHARLESTON, COLUMBIA and all cities North of this
It will extend its business South as rapidly as possibly,
when due notice will b<Lgiven to the merchants and citi
zens of Augusta and the public generally. The tariff of
charges will be based upon a fair business per centage
above the cost of transportation, without being oppressive,
nor will it be made less than the cost of transportation,
witli a view to break down or drive off any rival. Upon
this basis the Company solicit a liberal portion of patron
age. If orders be lett at t lit? office, goods will be called for
without charge and forwarded promptly.
Goods shipped from the North per Steamer, either to
Charleston or Savannah, and marked to the care of the
NATIONAL EXPRESS, will be promptly forwarded to
destination FREE of CHARGE for commission or dray
age. 11. M. COTTINGIIAM, Agent.
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3ar TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH
ERN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY.—At a meet
ing of sundry members of the Southern Mutual Insurauce
Company, it was resolved that it would be for ibo best
interests of the Company that its principal office be re
moved from Athens, Ga., to Augusta, Ga., lor the reason
that the largest proportion of the business was done in
this city. A Committee of Management was then elected,
who were authorized to solicit proxies from our fellow
members to vote the said Company be removed to Au
gusta at the next annual meeting. Those members
therefore who desire to co-operate with us will please
give their proxies to the undersigned committee, or leave
the fame with Mr. A. G. Hall, Secretary Committee, at
Ills office, No. 2*21 Broad st.
S. D. LINTON, Chairman Committee.
J. A. Ans ley, Jxo. D. Butt,
Jxo. W. Walker, L. M. Cnrncni i.l,
S. D. Heard, Benjamin Conley,
Geo. T. Jackson, John Craig, •
D. B. Plumb. Henry Myers,
AV. A. Ramsay, C. V. Walker.
R. H. May,
A. G. HALL, Sec’y Com.
apl9-tf JXO. T. MILLER, Ass t Sec’y.
MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY, AN ES
SAY of Warning and Instruction for Young Men. Also.
Diseases and Abuses which prostrate the vital powers,
with sure means of relief. Sent free of charge in sealed
letter envelopes. Address, Dr. J. SKILLIX HOUGH
TON, Howard Association, Philadelphia, Pa.
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W GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE COMPANY,-
It is with pleasure that we copy the following notice of
the above company from the Atlanta Sew Era. In this
community, its reliability, and promptness in immediately
paying all losses, is well known and renders it an institu
tion of pride to our citizens. Its officers are courteous
gentlemen, with years of experience in the business, to
| which fact, coupled with their eminent fitness for the po
• sition, its remarkable prosperity must be mainly attribu*
| ted. The Era says:
! Acts Speak Louder than Words.—We are gratified
i to learn, on inquiry, that the Insurance Company which
I paid so promptly its loss by the fire on the corner of
i Whitehall and Decatur streets, is a Southern Company,
1 and none other than that reliable institution of our State,
The Georgia Home Insurance Company of Columbus,
I of which Mr. Jno. C. Whitner is Agent. The payment
i was made within twelve hours after the first cry of fire
! was heard, whilst smoke was still issuing from the ruins.
I No third party came forward to sil’t and feel about for
I flaws—but the agent issuing the policy also makes the
j payment just so soon as satisGcd of its justness.
! We ask our merchants and citizens to note these facts.
The cry has been raised, that all Southern Companies
| were totally ruined. The answer to this is, their invest
ments were made before the war, and wero never changed.
Their loss, therefore, was merely the profits and the labors
for four years—though some, like the Georgia Home,
have even come out better than they entered the war. It
is false that they are insolvent. A most remarkable feature
! of Southern Companies is the absence of “Special Agents”
j and “Adjusters” to settle up losses. They go on the pre
; sumption, that the man they appoint as agent is honest
| and capable, sufficiently so to be entrusted with the re
sponsible duty of making out a policy promising to pay
you in case of loss, and sufficiently so as to pay up losses
j when they do occur., When, therefore, you insure with
them your last transaction is with the same man—your
friend, jour your —with whom
your first occurred. *
We do not mean to be sectional in our advice, but we
do think when we can build up ourselves and our own
people at the same cost and with greater advantage to
ourselves, it is our duty to do so. There are a number of
Southern companies represented here who are perfectly
reliable.
Call on that experienced Insurance man aud polite
Southern gentleman, Mr. Whitner, at McCamy A Co.’s
Drug Store, and he will give you a list that will surprise
you.
C. <fc A. G. HALL, Agents of the above named company
in Augusta, Goo. ap3 lm
| EKF* SOUTHERN PORCELAIN MANUFAO
! TURING CO.—Five days uotice is hereby‘given that
1 there will boa meeting of the Stockholders of the South
ern Porcelain Manufacturing Company held at the Store
i of the Company’s Agents, Mother, Thomas A Co.. No.
| 244 Broad street, oil MONDAY, the 23d of April, 1x66, at
! eleven o’clock, a. m. JOS. E. MARSHALL,
apl7—td Secretary.
33T WILLIAM DOUGHERTY, Attorneyat Law,
| Atlanta, Ga., where he may be consulted in person or by
letter. The facilities afforded by his location, arrange
ments made and being made, will enable him to give at
tention to professional business in many parts of the State
more especially the middle portion, embracing the cities
of Augusta, Macon and Columbus.
He will also practice, when organized, in the District
Court ol the United States for the District of Georgia.
mhlß-2m*
*3T NOTICE.-—My eon, Louis DkLaiolk, is my
duly authorized Agent for the transaction of all my
business. Parties having claims against me will present
them to him.
mli22-lm . CHARLES DEL AT OLE.
BST FOR COUNTY SOLICITOR.—JOHN S.
; DAVIDSON, Esq., will be supported for the office of
County Solicitor iu the ensuing election of second day
by _ _ __ Many Voters.
ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE
Col. WILLIAM R. McLAWS as a candidate for the of
| fice of County Judge, at the ensuing election. *
* Mr. Editor : Please say that lam not a candidate for
: Judge of the County Court.
mh2o B. F. HALL.
A. D. PICQUET, Esq., will be supported for
I County Judge, at the election on the first Wednesday
i in May next, by
mhlff-td Many Voters.
BeF*FOR COUNTY JUDGE.—We are authorized to
announce W. MILO OLIN, Esq., as a candidate for the of
fice of County Judge, of Richmond county, at theelec
. tiou on the first Weduesay in May next. mb 13
NEWTON HOUSE,
ATHENS, GA.
R. ROSS, Proprietor.
THIS well known HOTEL ha 9 been recently
thoroughly renovated and furnished. It will
I now compare favorably with any bouse in the coun
try. No pains will be spared by the proprietor and
! his employees to render the guests comfortable.
I Persons seeking a Hummer resort will find the water
I and climate of Athens unsurpassed in the State.
! Attached to the Hotel is a BAR, well stocked with
Choice Liquors, Wines, Segars, Ac.
I apl~-lm
gjKM ,1|
Use at Once. Clothes-Moths while chrysalids are.
cheaply destroyed. All druggists sell. C. C. Harris <V
Chapman, Facturers, Boston. apso-a
FOR SALE OR RENT\
A. NICE HOUSE and LOT, in Wood Lawn,
well arranged for comfort and convenience.
JOHN H. MEADE Ar 'SON,
Campbell street, between Broad and Ellis,
2 doors below Fleming A Rowland’s corner.
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"mill:
FURNISHING WARE.
THE undersigned would respectfully Inform his
old customers and MUlors fn general, that he Is
now prepared to furnish the best quality of French
Burr, Esopus and Cologne MILL STONFH rot t
| ING CLOTH, SMUT MACHINES BELTING
WIRE CLOTH, MILL PICKS, and any o&crarU
clc required in a good Grits and Flouring Mill.
Orders solicited and punctually attended to.
WM. BRENNER,
novls-dt*c6m 109 Broa<i Btr “ et ’ AUgUS,a ’ Ga -
New Town of Harlem.
THfTUV place ) near Saw Dußt > on HAT-
L KUAY the 14th inst., and each following Saturday
veved nol PArt f f r l h e B , electlon , ar * , l! »le of Lots now suf
them ■ m av !°* P ur ? hl ‘ e od Lots can now select
* r Vw wi ; hin 8 to purchase, call at the Store of C.
anT? ,* LL * for tcrmi '’ orat Harlem. Sec Pamphlets
apls - lw _B. W. HENRY, Agent.
Molasses, Molasses, Molasses.
OO HHDS. new crop Muscovado MOLASSES
75 HHDS. do do Cuba Clayed do
For sale, delivered In good order at the S. C. R. R.
Depot, at Augusta. Apply to
M. HYAMS & CO.,
ap2o-5 Comer Broad A- Mclntosh streets.
Augusta Orphan Asylum.
persons having claims against this Asylum
are requested to present them at once, at the office of
Mr. J. O. Fargo. A. GOULD, Pres’t.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
MASONIC HALL.
The Beautiful Panorama
OP THE
Bombardment of For inniter,
WILL BE REPEATED
On MONDAY and TUESDAY NIGHTS,
AND
POSITIVELY TIIE LAST.
ap22-3
THE DAILY NEWS,
i
PUBLISHED AT
CHARLESTON, S. 0.,
HAS TIIE
L ARGEST CIRCULATIO N
OF ANY
JOURNAL PUBLISHED IN THE STATE,
AND IS UNIVERSALLY CONSIDERED
r// E HE S T cOM M E lie lA L
AND
Tf-A-ATIIW PAPER
IN THE STATE.
Parties, therefore, in Georgia, who desire to subscribe
for a Charleston Paper, will consult their interest
by sending for THE DAILY NEWS.
Terms $lO per annum.
Published in Folio Form, size of New York Herald.
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FANCY FLOUR.
( f ) BBLS St. Lotus FANCY FLOUR, ordered
expressly for family use, and warranted the best in the
city. For sale by
J. A. ANSLEY & CO.,
ap22-G 300 Broad st.
WANTED TO RENT,
HOUSE, convenient to the business part of
the city, suitable for a small family.
Apply to 11. C. GERCKE,
At C. V. Walker A Co.’s,
ap22-3 271 Broad street.
COTTON YARNS.
TEN BALES COTTON YARNS, assorted
numbers.
For sale by
G. 11. CRUMP & CO.,
ap22-3 209 Broad st.
PIANO-FORTES.
JL HE subscriber lias just received several very
superior
PI AN O-If ORTKS,
From the Celebrated Manufactories of
STEINWAY & SON, NEW YORK,
CBICKERING & SON, BOSTON, and
HAZLETON BROS., NEW YORK.
The above makers having obtained a world-wide
reputation, having taken the first premiums both in
this country and Europe, need no puffing to recom
mend them. He will be pleased to show them to any
one, whether they wish to purchase or not. Persons
at a distance will please send for an illustrated cata
logue. Every Piano-Forte warranted for five years.
GEO. A. OATE&,
ap22-3 240 Broad st.
CLOSING OUT!
I OFFER for sale, without regard to cost, a good
stock of —
HATS, CAPS
CALICOES
ALPACCAB
MERINOS
CASBIMERES
BOOTS
stilus
BLEACHED GOODS
JACONETS
TWEEDS
BROAD CLOTHS
PINS, NEEDLES, THREAD, Ate., &c.
These Goods must be sold, and GREAT BAR
GAINS will be offered.
GEORGE A. JONES,
ap22-12 233 Broad street.
Groceries, Wines, &c„
A. «'RESII SUPPLY, just received, consisting
of
loo cases CLARET WINE
2 M casks Old SHERRY WINE
4 H “ “ PORT WINE
b H “ Extra Fine BRANDY
25 bids Stuart's Powdered, Crushed and C
SUGARS
10 bags RIO COFFEE
5 bags JAVA COFFEE, in pockets
5 bbls Stuart’s Extra Sugar House SYRUP
1 5,000 lbs BACON
25 boxes choice English Dairy CHEESE
5 boxes Pine Apple CHEESE
10 kegs Extra Fine GOSHEN BUTTER
100 hags SHOT, assorted sizes
10 M Superior Genuine Imported SEGARS
50 M superior Domestic SEGARS
100 gross MATCHES
ALSO,
MACARONI, PICKLES, SAUCES
SPICES, TEAS, CRACKERS
TOILET SOAP, STARCH
BROOMS, BUCKETS
And every thing usually kept in a FIRST CLASS
1 FAMILY GROCERY STORE, all of which
will be SOLD LOW FOR CASH.
JOHN NELSON & SON.
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LAST NOTICE.
PENSONS indebted to the late firm ol
BAMSEY <fc LABAW, either by note or open ac
count, are hereby notified that thirty days from date,
the notes and accounts belonging to us will In* placed
1n the hands of an Attorney for collection. \Vc arc
forced to resort to this mode, by order, to settle up thi
business. RAMSEY & LABAW,
ap22-lm In liquidation.
CLOTHING.
tXUST RECEIVED, a small lot' of Superior
CLOTHING, which has been purchased at the very
lowest price, and will sell at a very small advance.
ap22-10 J. A. VAN WINKLE.
HYAMB & CO.,
SHIP AGKNTS
AND
General Commission and Forwarding
MERCHANTS,
BROWN * CO.-S WIIAUK, CHARLESTON, 8. C.
M. HYAMS, D. B. DUPONT.
Late Firm Brown A Hyams. Formerly with A. Gardeile
N. B.—Advances made on CONSIGNMENTS.
All Goods consigned to our address will be forward
ed with dispatch at lowest rates. ap2l -lm
L. B. DAVIS,
GROCER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
292 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA.
IFTY bales of choice HAY. For sale low by
L. B. DAVIS, '
292 Broad si.
Barrels mackerel, No. 2
Half bbls “ “ l and 2
Kite “ “ 1 and 2
For sale by L. B. DAVIS.
O BBLS Crushed SUGA R
5 bhls B BUGAR
5 bbls C SUGAR. For sab' low bv
l. b. Davis,
292 Broad st.
5 BACKK RIO COFFEE
5 Pockets JAVA COFFEE
For sale by L. B. DAVIS,
292 Broad st.
TEN Kegs Bi-Carb. SODA
For sale by L. B. DAVIS,
292 Broad st.
"YTTHITE BEANS, CURRANTS and SALMON
V V For sale low by L. B. DAVIS,
292 Broad st.
TEN Tierces SHOULDERS
For sale bv L. B. DAVIS,
ap2l-2 292 Broad st.
MOLASSES, SYRUP and SUGAR.
15 HHDS New Crop MOLASSES
50 bbls MUBCOVADA MOLASSES, very
superior
8 bbls Sugar House SYRUP
50 bbls Crushed, Powdered and Clarified SU
GARS.
ap2l-3 BAKER & SHIELDS.
GROCERIES.
20 HHDS. SIDES
20 HHDS. SHOULDERS
io CASKS HAMS
IO TIERCES Prime Carolina RICE
5 HHDS. Muscovado MOLASSES
e) do good Brown SUGAR
f") QR. casks Port WINK
do do Sherry do
100 CASES Wahoo BITTERS
And a general assortment of other GOODS, such as
are usually found in a first class Grocery.
For sale by O’DOWD dt MULHERIN.
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■TO FAXIMEIRS 5
'V ■ ' p ’* .
CASH OR CREDIT.
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FORD’S
AN IMPROVER OF THE LAND, SUPERIOR FOR WHEAT, TOBACCO, COTTON,
CORN, &c., &c.
OF SUPERIOR QUALITY AND WARRANTED.
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CONTAINING ELEMENTS ESSENTIAL TO THE PRODUCTION OF GRAIN, Ac., AND
IMPROVEMENT OF THE LAND.
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This is confidently recommended to FARMERS TO BRING LARGE CROPS, and we
guarantee it to be as good as any Fertilizer in the Market, and to bring as good crops, tried side
by side wfe any, even Peruvian Guano.
It can lie put in with the drill or broad-cast. If sowed broad-cast, first sow the Fertilizer
and. the Grain immediately after, and plough both in together. Do not harrow in but plough
in —not too deep. In the Spring, give Wheat a top-dressing, it will act admirably.
FOR WHEAT, Ac.—-'Three hundred or four hundred pounds to the acre, according to the
wish of the Farmer.
Plough deep and subsoil, if the Farmer has time—sow 200 or 300 pounds of 'my Fertilizer
to the acre and plough in tolerably deep, and sow again 200 or 300 pounds- to the acre and plough
in slightly with the Grain. It will pay the Farmer if he has time to do it, both in the improve
ment of his land and increase of his crops.
FOR CORN, COTTON, TOBACCO, &c.—Put a handful to the hill when you plant. When
the Corn and Cotton are well up, put another handful to the hill as a top-dressing; and when
the Corn is about to shoot and the Cotton to boll, another handful to the hill as a top-dressing,
ii#?" Bear in mind, the top-dressing is an important feature. By putting it in the hill, the Fer
tilizer goes directly to the plant , and the plant gets all the benefit of it. Use it In this way, amt
the Planter can ran count on good crops if the weather is at all favorable.
We guarantee it to produce as good crops as any other Fertilizer used. Use it in the way
directed, by the side, of Peruvian Guano or any other Fertilizer, and if it does not produce as
good a crop, we will refund twenty per cent, of the price. Use it in the way directed, by the
side of Peruvian Guano for five years consecutively on the same land, and if it does not produce
more money, and leave the land in better condition than the Peruvian Guano at the cud of the five
years, we will refund the purchaser twenty per cent, of the price for the five yen rs. Ours will
improve the laud and leave it butter than it found it; and father, by using ours as directed,
Planters can cultivate the same land, year after year, and make good crops. There is nothing in
' ours hurtful to the land, bit Beneficial.
| FOR SUGAR CANE.—The same as Cotton, Corn, Ac.
FOR POTATOES. The same as Corn, hut using two handfuls to the hill when you plain,
and when the plant is well up, two handfuls again as a top-dressing, and when the Potato 1»
about forming, two handfuls to the hill again as a top-dressing.
Give Strawberry Beds a heavy top-dressing early every Spring.
Excellent for Gardening and Trucking.
Sowing broad-cast in two sowings, one ploughed in deep and the other slightly will more
| rapidly improve the land.
Packed m barrels—about eight barrels to the ton of 2,000 pounds.
• FOR SALE BY
GEO. P. CRUMP & CO.,
ap2l 200 BROAD STREET.
SOLOMON COHEN,
BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA., ,
AT THE OLD STAND OF WRIGHT, ALEXANDER & CO.,
Invites the attention ol Cash Buyers, at Wholesale and Retail, to his stock ot
Staple and Eanoy Dry Goods,
Clothing,
Plats,
Hoots
and Shoes,
WHICH FOR EXTENT, VARIETY AND GENERAL ADOPTION TO THE WANTS OF
THE TRADE, IS UNRIVALLED.
COUNTRY MERCHANTS
! VISITING THE CT'PV ARE ESPECIALLY INVITED TO EXAMINE MY STOCK
BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE, AS MY GENERAL ASSORTMENT
IS WORTHY OF INSPECTION.
Constantly on hand, a large assortment of
EKGLISPi TABLE AI\ T D DOCKET
CUTLERY, AXES,
WHITTEMORE’S BEST COTTON CARDS,
a n n
CHOCK E R Y .
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~ CASII DRY GOODS HOUSE.
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A. T. GRAY, | P. GRAY, | JAMES W. TURLEY.
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A. T. GRAY & CO.,
AT THE OLD STAND OF H. H. HICKMANN,
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242 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
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" ; Beg leave to announce that they oun be found at the
SPACIOUS STORE
Lately occupied by H. H. HICKMAN,
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Where they are fully prepared to oiler to the publican ELEGANT and COMPLETE
Assortment ot
r STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS,
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EMBROIDERIES,
D.
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HOSIERY, JS T OTIONTS,
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,
CLOAKS, SHAWLS, HOOP SKIRTS, &c., &c.
One of the partners will reside in New York, devoting his entire attention te the
1 SELECTION OF OUR SUPPLIES,
Aud we are now daily receiving NEW GOODS at
CONVINCINGLY LOW PRICES,
ts
PURCHASED FOR CASH
, At the New York Auetion sales aud
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TWENTY-FIVE TO FIFTY PER CENT.
And in mtiuy instances
FULLY ONB HALF LESS THAN THEY COULD BE HAD FOUR WEEKS AGO.
These are superior advantages, which a re -will always share with our Customers.
COUNTRY MERCHANTS,
And all otb i«rs In want of
DRY GOODS,
Should not make a single puroh, »e before visiting our Establishment.
• A. T. GRAY & CO.
Augusta, March 25th. mhSA-lm