Newspaper Page Text
CONSTITUTIONALIST.
ATJGUJ3TA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 80, 1867.
Reading Matter on Every^Page^
The News.
Gold closed in New York at 134 X- Cotton at 34
for uplands. Receipts for the week, 21,000 bales;
sales, 10,00#; exports, 9,700; stock, 197,000.
The receipts of cotton at ports, up to date, are 935,-
000 bales, against 1,085,000 to a corresponding period
last year. . . ,
The Cretan war had been resumed, and had assum
ed Increased proportions.
Blßamrck lias been nominated to tho German Par
liament, to represent Berlin.
The Great Eastern has been critically examined,
and found to be in perfect order. She will sail for
America on the 20th of March.
Sickles will shortly resume command in North
Carolina.
A hundred negroes are in Washington en rout < to
Arkansas.
The Greek array is to be increased to 31,000 men.
Judge Sharkey, of Mississippi, has been admitted
to practice4n the United States Supreme Court,
The Reconstruction Committee is hopelessly inhar
monious.
In the Legislature of Maryland, the bill ordering the
Constitutional Convention excludes preachers.
Grant was in consultation with the Congressional
Committee on Military Affairs Monday.
Ash oy wants to know if the President can be held
to account for acts perpetrated before he came into
office.
It is reported, on the strength of the French paper
in the City of Mexico, that the United States Consul
at Mazatlan has been executed b the Mexican au
thorities, and that in consequence a United States
gunboat had bombarded the placqfor eight hours
From Vera Cruz wo learn of the depar uro of 1,700
Austrian troops, and that tho City of Mexico was to
have been completely evacuated on the 23th inst.
Tne correspondence relative to the Frazer, Trcn
holm & Co settlement, by the United Stales Consul
at Liverpool, has been submitted to Congress by the
President. Congress don’' know any more than they
did before.
Congressional pioce,:dings are not Important. The
President’s veto was read.
The Motley correspondence is published.
THE FUTUEE.
The public press and Northern masses, uot
possessing the vim and impatience of Mr. Thad
deus Stevens, have administered a check to
old King Caucus through the House of Repre
sentatives. Ills headlong speed for territorial
izing the South was rather too precipitate for
their weaker nerves and the dose to be doled
out a trifle too strong for their feebler stom
achs. His pet measure for inaugurating a new
revolution has been temporarily defeated and,
for a season, Radicalism pauses until new ma
chinery can tie brought to hear upon reluctant
adherents. As we have said, over and over
again, fanaticism is compelled to go forward or
perish. Some of the moderate Republicans are
unwilling to see it through these glasses, but
Mr. Stevens and the brains of the party are
perfectly cognizant of the fact. They kuow lull
well that the only hope for their cabal is in the
overthrow of constitutional or semi-consti
tullonal government and the substitution of a
military despotism. This they strive for. Mr.
Stevens’ bill, recently defeated, was the enter
ing wedge of revolt and terror. It failed
through a miscalculation as to time. He did
uot give the heavy battalions of the poople an
opportunity to reach his stand point, and, thus
takeu unaware, the very audacity of their
leader caused them to hesitate and hold back.
Made cautious by this experience, Mr. Stevens
will allow their sluggish senses time to become
accustomed to his deviltry. As eels are noto
lionsly used to being skinned alive, so the peo
ple can get hardened to anything by proper ma
nipulation. When such manipulation is con
ducted with a master hand, those who once
shrunk from atrocity actually crave something
still more atrocious. It is an old principle ol
human nature known thousands of' years ago
and admirably understood t>v the dominant fac
tion or rather by its leaders. We may now an
ticipate an adroit system of scheming so adjusted
as to drive press and people from their present
position of doubt and uncertainty. The two
probable courses are through the instrumeu
tality of a caucus and then rapid legislation.
Another “crazy Ashley ” will be forthcoming
and a plastic House ol Representatives dra
gooned into action as it was in the impeach
ment ense. The Washington Chronicle declares
that “rapid revolutions develop an appetite for
rapid legislation.” .This subtle phrase has bc
oomo the key-note of progress, intimating that
the ultra men of the party may be balked for
the moment but will not be finally obstructed.
Nerve and dash usually win as against vacillation
and timidity; and so, it may be safely predicted
that when Mr. Stevens delivers another blow
it will bo with due preparation to make it a
crushing one either lo conservatism or himself.
Should lie succeed, and the chances are nearly
all witli him, the strange spectacle of the Veni
tian Council of Ten or Thirty Tyrants of
Greece will be reproduced in a country which,
not long ago, could proudly boast ol its free
dom and its laws.
Already there is an attempt upon the integrity
of the State government of Maryland. Fearful
that their designs may meet with violent oppo
sition, an open proposition is made to seize
the State of*Marylaud, so that, in case of
physical defiance, she might not lie athwart the
path of North or West on the road to Washing
ton. When men begin to make such prepara
tions, it is evident that they internl iniquity
which gives them cause for fear.
When Mr. Stevens permitted his bill to be
laid upon the table, and thus confessed to a
quasi discomfiture, we can well understand
how those who await reaction and know that it
must come from extremes of Radicalism
were grievously concerned. Their hope has
been deferred, uot overthrown. This vory
pause may compel the party to invite murder
or commit suicide. In any event, we can afford
to be patient, having lakh in ultimate results.
As further proof of impending difficulties,
the opinious' of no less a man than Secretary
Stanton are entitled to weight and meditation.
Very recently, he had an interview with the
Hon. JonN Covode. He expressed himself
lreely. He acknowledged the liveliest alarm at
the state of the country. lie apprehended rev
olution and anarchy. He blamed President
and Congress, deeming that both had been in
jurious to the country by intemperate remarks
or acts. At parting, he said : ‘ I aided to place
two million of men in the field to put down
the rebellion ; three hundred thousand have bit
ten the. dust, and an equal number are cripples
throughout the land ; and yet, with all this tre
mendous effort and corresponding sacrifice,
the country, - in my Judgment, is shadowed
with the gloom of a darker hour than was in
cident to any crisis of the late war.’ The
chronicler of this extraordinary conversation
goes on to say that Mr. Stanton was com
pletely unmanned when delivering this last
passage and turned away to conceal his emo
tion.
Now Mr. Stanton may be a bad man but no
one denies his smartness and sagacity. He
killed McClellan as a General and made
Ulysses S. Grant wbat we now behold. He
is and has been Secretary of War uuder amaz
ing eircuiuslauees. These are proof's of pow
er. When such a man gives utterance to words
of dreadful import, common folk cannot avoid
listening. When he, the cold blooded engineer,
of butchery and who, to use the words of the
National Intelligencer , “fu the forum of the
people has no defender”—when he prophecies
blackness, of darkness and absolutely has
groaning in a relentless bosom, more sensitive
and less conspicuous individuals may stand
aghast when contemplating the future over
which the Lord ol Anarchy is asserting claim
and dominion.
As an index of the spirit of the two wings of
the army ecclesiastical, we may mention the
prayer offered on behalf of Congress, on a late
Sunday in New Orleans, by two Methodist
ministers. The pastor of the Cnnrch North
prayed that Congress might be free from cow
ardice ; the pastor of the Church South, that
Congress might act with moderation ! A third
pastor, a Southern Baptist, prayed that the
Lord would bless the President’3 righteous
cfTorts to bring peace to tlie country.
■ 1 m ,
' A negro bureau man having left a Southern !
city, a newspaper notices the event under the i
caption of “ Leaf by Leaf the Roses Fall ”
United States Finances. j
The following speech on the condition ot ,
the United Suites Finances was delivered by <
Mr. Morrill before the House of Representa
tives in Committee of the Whole, on Thursday
last:
It is our highest duty to insist, first and
everywhere, on rigid economy; and second, to
restore our finances to the normal condition —
to the specie standard —at the earliest practica
ble moment. Producing more gold and silver
than all the rest of the world, let us not endure
the reproach that we do not know how to keep
it after we have got It. The inevitable ex
penses of the Government must be provided
for. The interest on our public debt is esti
mated next year at $105,551,512, and uulcss the
perpetual paper propagandists shall prevail
upon the final redemption of the legal tender
currency, this will be ultimately increased about
$20,000,000 or $25,000,000, or in the aggregate
more than our whole public debt in 1816, when,
it reached the highest point ($127,834,095) prior
to the recent rebellion. Our navy lias beeu
very largely increased, and it Is not probable
that it will ever shrink to its former narrow
proportions. In this department our annual
expenditure will be $23,174,810 31, or nearly
twice as much as before the war. Tho regular
array is now fixed at about 54,000 men, but we
have to provide for nearly 90,000 for the com
ing year; 8,000 or 10,000 are forever obsolete;
and it must be kept capable of instant and for
midable expansion. The estimated cost of the
War Department the coming year is $58,804,-
657 05. The extra bounty we provided for last
year will amount tp $80,000,000, all of which is
yet to lie paid. The pension appropriation, in
stead of less than $1,000,000, as in 1862, now
requires $18,177,446, or as much as the whole
expenses of the Government in 1824 and 1828.
The new claims of several States, if that of
Missouri, already reported upuil at $7,000,000,
may be regarded a; a foretaste, will weigh
heavily upon the Treasury. The Indians are
in annual and perpetual expenditure of
500,000 more, which does not include the large
and variable sums it costs us out of the milita
ry chest to bestow upon them, for various pro
voked and unprovoked offenses, that Christian
chastisement which the agents and traders who
snatch and devour our amiable charities think
they need- Cast year 7,809 Navajoes were
held by us as prisoners in New Mexico, at
an expense of $1,500,000. The Freedmen's
Bureau, in proportion to its value and im
portance the most economical expenditure ol
the Government, will cost for the coming year
$10,350,265 55; but it has an unexpended fund
on hand of two-thirds this amount. With the
most inflexible economy, without any guaran
tee that The Halls of tho Moutestumas shall have
■ restored the gold abstracted by Cortez, or with;
->ut the indulgence pf any other splendid folly,
our entire expenditures for ail purposes cannot
be brought down to anything like the o!t}
standard of sixty or seventy millions per an
num. Heavy taxation is at present unavoid
able; hut this will every year be sensibly di
minished by Increased wealth and increased
population. Our task, if we arc wise, will he at
least biennially to relieve something from
taxation. An unusual Rem, however, is this
year to be provided for by the people, not by
the Government., which will transfer a large
sum from the United States to Europe. The
Paris Exhibition will attract Americans, ever
addicted to travel, by thousands, and there is
some ground far the satire conveyed in the
pretended cable dispatch that Napoleon has set
apart four acres as a graveyard for American
visitors who may not survive. It will be a very
moderate estimate to calculate that 75,000 per
sons will this year cross the Atlantic from the
United States, and the cost will not he less than
$1,500 each in gold, or a total of a $113,500,000,
which, in currency, would be over $150,000,000.
Some will estimate the number much higher
and the expenditures greater. It will hardly he
less. This will swajjow up the entire produc
tion of all our gold and silver mines for the.
year to come, or, what is more likely, its equi
valent in United States bonds, to be disposed of
as the exigencies of individuals may require.
Such a drain may be i!i-tirue,d, pud there is no
escape from it. For the present our leg3on as
a nation is ecouoniy, rest, abstiuencc. How any
friend of American industry cau espouse the
cause of an endloss reign of paper currency of
which it takes one dollar and thirty, forty or
fifty cents to buy a dollar in specie, is to me in
comprehensible. Iron ships are rapidly coming
into use, but they can he built abrpad and em
ployed for one-half the price they cost here.
Will any American build an iron ship? Although
ail other circumstance# save only our depreciated
currency, indicate a disposition aid warrant in
all parts of onr country, North and South, East
and West, to start new industrial enterprise,
yet few sueii arc actually started. Men will not
invest, expecting five year* hence to lose one
half of the sum invested. Some gentlemen
think that the premium on gold paid by the im
porter* is ample compensation for all the griefs
of American manufacturers, Never was there
a greater fallacy. The bare difference iu the
cost of the permanent capital of English woolen
manufacturing establishments and American
gives to the English the mastery and ample di
vidends, Six years ago a woolen mill that
would have cost $1,000,000 in New York or
New England could have beeu put up—so much
cheaper are raw materials and labor—for $500,-
000 in England. To-day the prices ot bricks,
iron, machinery and labor have so largely in
creased that such establishment would herd cost,
nearly double what it would six years ago, or
$2,000,000. The interest upon this sum would
he $140,000
establishment—ssoo,ooo at 3>£ pc* capt,—is no
more than $17,500. Here Is $122,500 per annum
in favor of the British manufacturer, a sum
suOlctcnt for very respectable dividends, «Cer
tnlnly, oil a capital of $500,000. Ts It any won
der that we have an extraordinary influx of
British goods, or that ail Europe last year was
swept to famish American markets ? Prior to
the war the cost of the labor expended upon a
yard of cotton cloth (64x64 printing) was nine
mills, hut now it is two cents and seven mills,
or three times the amount. A printer in Wash
ington now gets $24 per week and works blit
eight hours per day, where he formerly re
ceived sl4 per w&ek and worked ten hours per
day ; and yet he will tell you that his condition
and means to support a family have not been
bettered. A ton of English railroad iron in
Wales is now sold for £5 10s., or $27 50, but it
is estimated that the wages alone paid to work
men in Pennsylvania to produce a tou of rails
amounts to $65, and of this a careful analysis
shows 835 28 to be expended by them for agri
cultural productions. In spite of the high rates
of the figures, the laborer enjoys no more com
forts tiian formerly. Onr paper currency rep
resents dimensions without gravity, and its per
petuation must prove destructive to both em
ployees and employers. ,
I am no defender of the politics of the Secre
tary of the Treasury. They have been and arc
as distasteful to me as to any of my friends.—
The political sins of the Secretary are patent,
but, according to Burns, we know not what
has been resisted. Should we drive him from
position, is it likely that any suefcessor would
have morejof the confidence of the country ?
Although 1 think lie has named a day for the
resumption of specie payments, somewhat
earlier than it will bo possible to achieve, yet
the unalterable purpose to resume at an early
day I have no doubt is sound in principle, poli
cy and morals, and if Congress shall thwart
this purpose it will have doomed the country
to long years of snflering.
I wish I could believe that the Treasury esti
mates of the receipts from customs for the
years 1867-68 were not. too large, but I cannot,
and Instead of $145,000,000, if wc get less by
$20,000,000 it ought to content and he satisfac
tory tc the country. The capacity of the
South to consume and pay for Immense impor
tations ha# been vastly overrated, and the lake
trade alone probably much exceeds the entire
aggregate of the Southern trade recently re
stored.
It is most likely that the Secretary of the
Treasury has underestimated the amount of
United States bonds held abroad, and that in
stead of $350,000,000 not less than $500,000,000
of our national secuntics are so held. So long
as these remain below par abroad, they will be
held more or less as fancy stocks, likely to be
returned for realization at any moment. It is,
however, a source of mortification that Massa
chusetts five per cent, stock brings more in
London than United States sixes? Or the Vir
ginia five per cents, bring only twenty per
cent, less ? Are we quite content that Egypt
ian (quoted at 84), Turkish (98), Brazilian (93),-
and even Moorish (93), stocks shall bo quoted
much higher than the best United States stocks?
The problem of how much currency or cir
culating medium any country requires tor the
healthful transaction of its business, is one hav
ing 60 many points of disturbance that its actual
solution is one of some difficulty. The entire
amount of hank note circulation of the whole
country in January, 1862, was $184,000,000, and
of this $40,000,000 belonged to the Southern
States. The maximum amount of bank circula
tion at no previous time has gone beyond
$214,778,822, and the circulation in 1860 was
$207,802,000, and that was a year of ns large
production and of as much general prosperity
as any perhaps in our history. To the amount
of paper there must be added a small amount
of specie in daily circulation. With what pro
priety can it he claimed that the business of the
country requires tho vast volume of paper cur
rency which now inundates the laud ? Let us
look at it:
Paper Currency note in Circulation, December
1, 1866.
Notes of Stitc Banks $36,785,035.00
Notes of State hanks converted,
now outstanding 9,748,025 00
United States notes, legal tender 385,441 849 00
Fractional currency 28,680,249 93
Circulation issued to National 292,671,753 00
hanks 292,671,753 00
Total $753,266,011 93
To the circulation already mentioned, it is
fair to add the most considerable part of the
following items:
Gold certificates of deposit $19,636 r 500
Compound interest notes 147,387,140
Specie in actual circulation on the
Pacific 25,000,000
Specie in actual circulation in the
Atlantic States 15,000,000
Copper and nickel 3,000,000
Total $210,023,640
This, added to the first series of items, makes
the whole of ourpreseirt currency $963,390,551
93, or in round numbers nearly $1,000,000, to do
actually less business than we were doing six
year# ago, when we did not hay# nor require
one-fourth ol the sum. Beyond doubt tfie t
trade ami commerce of Great Britain vastly ex- t
cced that of our owu or any other nation. Its ]
exports in 1864 were $2,.>45,000,000, and yet (
they find $185,000,000 of paper money equal to <
all their ordinary demands. How is it that it *
can be pretended that we require so mucu 1
more V It is an absurdity to suppose that we
require five times as much paper money as
Great Britain to do less than half as much
busiuess. , , , , 1
A member of Parliament 'recently declared ,
that it required no more currency to do the ,
busiuess of Great Britain now than it did twenty
years ago, when the business was only half as
large. There will be found in one of the Par
liamentary reports of 1858 (Evid., p. 165) the
testimony given by Mr. Slater, a member of a
firm in London largely engaged in commercial
transactions, ranging over several millions ster
ling yearly, which showed that their receipts
and payments in the ordinary course of busi
ness, when carefully analysed, held the follow
ing ratio for one
RECEIPTS.
Bunk of England notes ,—7 per cent. |
Gold and silver 3 per cent.
Bankers’ drafts and checks 90 per cent.
Total 100 percent.
PAYMENTS.
Bank of Englaud notes 2 per cent.
Gold and silver 1 per cent.
Bills of exchange and checks—. 97 per cent.
Total * 100 per cent.
The business of this firm was analagons to
that of any of our large merchants or traders in
New York, and proves conclusively -that the
credit and capital of the people are used to an
extent of 90 to 97 per cent, in ordinary metean
tile transactions, and neither gold and silver nor
paper convertible into gold and silver is used
for a circulating medium beyond from 3 to 10
percent. The tact is strikingly illustrated by
the New York bank exchanges or money trans
actions tor’ a single day ; for example, take one
in the year 1863, amounting to $91,291,431,
which was performed by the use of $2,507,396
iu money.
Mr. Morrill then proceeded to quote statistics
of the production of gold and silver, stating
: that the increase ol silver is small, while gold
! has quadrupled, and claiming that, apart from
i the action of a paper currency, that, gold must
. have irretpediably iallpi) in intrinsic Value. He
■ also discussed the question of coinage, renjark
. ing upon the current which carries it away from
the country. The standard of the United States
. coinage is very low, and the normal condition
of exchange with mo»t other civilized nations is
, always against us. Exchange on London when
’ at not over 9Wf per cent, is really at par. When
our paper uiOftey is promptly convertible into
’ specie, it is still much below the par of the
l countries with which we have the largest com
. merpia! transactions. It would seem almost in
. excusable to allow our paper mosey to remain
depreciated below the standard of specie as flx-
I ed by ourselves for any period more protracted
. than iffiow imperatively necessary. Banknotes,
” when they are made equivalent to the standard
\ of United States colu, will be none too valuable.
! Let us see the gold operators and all who fol
, low kindred trades at work in some honest
, calling. At least we may dry up the foun
tain from which flows their present means of
5 intoxication. It is a significant tact that our
great eras of financial distress have occurred
just at the moment when we have had the
i maximum amount of paper money inflation,
, and when we were at profound peace with
. all the world. Thus far we have escaped any
. commercial tornadoes, but if we should be
, visited by such a calamnity— the usual sequence
of war—it is too obvious that we are exposed
’ to something o> unrecorded severity. Any e&-
’. cess of currency adds nothing to actual valuer.
3 Calling a dollar a dollar and a half only brings
along the necessity for marking up the price of
3 every exchangeable commodity corresponding
ly. If this were to be done with mathematical
f exactness nobody would he the gainer or Un
loser. But our circumstances are peculiar
\ We know and have faith that every dollar
, iesped by the Government will be actually rc
■ deemed and paid, and probably within live
3 years. So that any one can afford pu this hy
f pothesjs to invest gold in.Unitcd States notes
~ and hold them idle until rodeemed for much
. less than even the present premium on gold,
r and would probably gain much more than six
’ per cent, interest, according even to the present
rate of discount on legal tenders. Notwith
ij standing that the present inflation of paper
1 ought uatnrally to carry the price of gold imuit
j, higher than it now is, this alt-peryading coii
t fiction largely controls the rale of discount. —
If the public taitii on this poiut should uuder
[ go a change, and the time of specie resumption
appear to be uncertain or postponed, thee is
n no power which could prevent the premium
on gold from bounding up to some oi its high
s est altitudes. Let Congress become weak and
e vacillating, and we should soon gee our currcn
e cy as buoyant as soap bubbles, and with hardly
„ niore purchasing power. A violent or abrupt
„ contraction oi the present volume of paper
currency might not be advisable, qhd with the
t ever-present interest of the Treasury urging
, the nialntcnaune oi an easy money market,
I, there is no danger of Us occurrence; blit a
moderate and persistent contraction of the
. flood within its own embankment is advisable
’ in order to restore health and vigor to languish
t, Rig industries; and in order to build up onr
greatness as a nation upon that impregnable
) foundation for which tho material, not more
precious than solid, lias been placed by Provi
j dence within our reach, and in greater abuii
-3 dance than is to be fouud iu all other countries
, besides.
The Atlanta Financial Trouble,
s As wc notice that among the holders of bonds
> of the city of Atlanta there are several of our
J readers, wo give a portion of the report of the
Finance Committee of the City Council.
Two Counc huen—Mr. D. P. Ferguson, of
1 the First Ward, and Mr. A. Murphy, of the Filth
Ward—have resigned.
j Councilman Cox, Chairman of the Finance
i Committee, to whom was referred the books
i and reports of the City Treasurer for the year
t 1865 and 1866, submitted the following as the
. result of their investigation, which report was
3 adopted :
5 To Ilis Honor the Mayor and Council of the City
of Atlanta :
5 The undersigned, by a resolution of Council,
were charged with the duty ot examining the
books of the late Treasurer, J. T. Porter, .and
also to report upon the general financial condi
tion of the city of Atlanta, on the first day of
January, 1867. The task devolved upon them
has been as onerous as it has been unpleasant,
; rendered more so by the unsatisfactory condi
tion of the records kept by the Treasurer, and
; the difficulty of obtaining the necessary data
' upon which to make our report. But your
[ committee believe that they have been able to
1 make out a statement as {nearly correct as it
was possible to do under the circumstances, to
enable your body, as well as the constituency
whom we represent, to understand the precise
condition of the city at the beginning of the
present year.
We regret to say that the books, records,
vouchers, etc., of the Treasurer have been kept
iu such au imperfect manner that it would have
been impossible from them aloue to have
reached any result as to the receipts and dis
bursements of that officer, but by collating all
the various vouchers, receipts, and s altered
memorandas, we have beeu partially able to do
so.
The records of the issue of bonds, for in
' stance, for the year 1865 and 1966, have only
' been kept upon a few slips of paper, in pencil,
‘ and no book has ever been kept containing a
regular register of the issues; notwithstanding,
the same has been required bv au express'or
• dinance of the city: “The City Treasurer shall
number bonds, and keep a register of them, and
return the same to the Clerk of Council, who
shall record the same.” By reference to Ab
stract No. 1, herewith submitted, wc find that
the total receipts of the Treasurer, J. T. Porter,
from all sources during the year ending 31sl
December, 1866, amount to $294,641 03, The
disbursements of the Treasurer for the same
period have been $264,896 36, showing a balance
on the above agaiust him ol $29,744 67. In ad
dition to which it will be further seen from the
abstracts referred to, that he is charged with
missing cheeks and receipts amounting to $lO,-
577 18, of which there is a $2,000 payment on
bridge account, for which the Treasurer claims
he will be able to produce a receipt. There
must also be added to the deficiency above the
amount of $6,684 63 cash on hand, as shown by
the Treasurer’s fourth quarterly report, Slst
December, 1865, and not charged on his books
for the year 1866, making the total deficit up to
January Ist, 1667, $47,006 48.
The Treasurer lias been unable to satisfy
your committee as to his disposition of any part
of this deficit, but he has turned over to be ap
plied to the reduction of the amount, property
valued at about $12,000, and he may be able, by
the production of vouchers hereafter, which he
has not yet presented, to bring the total defalca
tion to $30,000 00; for which tho city must look
to the securities on his official bond. Iu this
connection, we feel it onr duty to state, that the
whole manner of the discharge of his duties has
been singularly loose, and that in one case, at
least, we have found that he has hypothecated
a check of the city which had been twice paid.
By reference to abstract No. 2, the report of
8. B. Love, Clerk of Council, it will be seen
that the receipts of tho city, which came into
his hands, amounted to $9.9,932 53, and the ex
pend tures, including the checks issued during
the year 1866, amounted to 183,292 77, show
ing an excess of expenditures over receipts, in
the year 1866, of $83,360 24 ; and we take great
pleasure in this connection of expressing our
entire satisfaction with the manner in which the
Clerk of Council has kept Ills books, showing
both neatness and accuracy.
Having thus shown the receipts and expen
ditures of the year 1866, we have endeavored to
make a complete record of the bonded indebt
edness of the city, out of which, by the addition
of some items which can be reached hereafter,
a regular Bond Book can he opened, and the
city be able hereafter to keep a complete re- l
gister of its bond obligations. From the Ab- <
stract, No. 3, the entire amount of bonds issued
and outstanding will be seen to be-- <
Old issue, date not ascertained $28,000 00 t
Issued in 1865 53,500 00 t
Issued in 1866.. t 169,200 00 i
With the above abstracts we arrived al the
tutu! indebtedness o 1 the t-ity Jauuarv 1, latTi,* 1
to wit: / >
Bonded debt.. ! $250,700 00
Checks outstanding, (Broadstreet award*). 25,845 1 5
Other outstanding checks 23,285 31
Money borrowed In N. Y., due Ist March.. 10,000 00
ci.) notes outstanding..» 11,014 50
Notes and obligations 2,800 00
$327,274 96
It is due to the Mayor and Council of 1866,
that we Bliould point out as constituting: a part
of the expenditures under their administration,
but properly chargeable to the previous one of
1865, the following items :
Credits on checks for Broad street awards
and bridge account $26,293 61
'Small account 10,366 78
City notes redeemed and bonds due 44,800 00 i
Second market buildiug 3,603 00 I
Paid checks lor salaries 1860 3,000 00 i
$88,063 39
There are, ou the other hand, items of ex
penditures by the Mayor and Council which do
not appear on the Clerk’s report, in couse
queuce of the transactions being in bonds, but*
which are properly chargeable to the adminis
tration ol 1866. The first item is the donation, 1
tfl the Medical College of $5,000, the second,
those to the Fire Companies of $11,000; ntakl
ing $16,000.
Having disposed of the actual, condition,
financially, of the city on the first day of Jan
uary, 1867, it behooves us to present to youi
attention the estimates for the current year]
that your body may see what has -to be met!,
both in necessary expenditures, floating debl
and interest VVe refer to Abstract No. 4,
showinjythe amount to be provided for
074, and an additional amount in bonds rtf
about $20,000, arising out of coutract lor build
ing wells and cisterns. Ol this amount $70,571
of floating debt is pressing urgently upon the
city for settlement; and of this, the amount si
SIO,OOO, due in New York the first of Marti),
which has been secured by collaterals <»('
$25,000 of S per cent, bonds, which are forfeit
ed if the principal is not paid at maturity. A
smaller amount of $2,000, secured by collateral*
of the same kind, is bearing interest at IT pH
cent, per month. The simple statement of tie
facts above show that these obligations shotjd
not stand longer than it is possible lor the cfcv
to redeem tlnTm.
The balauce, including interest due in Ju;y
on bonds, will be payable throughout the year,
and is of iuelt huge enough 10 startle any eftv
whieh has guttered as Atlanta lias. The task of
providing lor all our necessities for the pre
sent year is one well calculated to tax the very
ablest financial ability, but it has beeu made
greater by the wide-spread impression which
has gone abroad that defalcation and looseness
oi mahagtment, coupled with the heavy expen
ditures during the year 1860, has weakened our
credit, and imposed burdens upon out people
hard for them to bear. The constituency which
we represent will find no difficulty in placfhg
the responsibility lor this state of things only i
upon those to whom it properly belongs, and
will censure no man where it Is uudeserred.
But there are great interests involved in the
maintenance of our public credit, which eanuol
lie disregarded or neglected, and with a view 10
the preservation of this, anil the restoration oi
confidence greatly shaken, wo believe it would
plevate all connected with the city administra
tion to give the people an opportunity of at
• taimng these ends, through 'officials elected,after
1 these facts have been.made known to them.
Respectfully submitted
. VV. B. Cox,
A. P. Beu>.
CONSIGNEES TER CENTRAL RAILROAD,
' January 29, 1867.—A W Walton, JO M, Platt Bros,
«f Kassler, J \V Ape!, Conley, F.V Co, B <V Co, W
1 D W H Tutt, AP,CI KMu son A Co, Mj ers
A M,B Levy, B WoILC A W & Co, Beu!!, 8 & Co,
J JMD Sc Co, J T Onfumcr. _
l‘ l-M.
SPECIAL NOTICE^.
TO THE BUB IC.
The Pais Kili.kii has won fori‘seif a reputation uu
> surpassed in tile history of medical pr. perations. It is as
Hell known in the tradi ug pouts of Jnd 11 r.u<f China ar. in
; New York and Boston ; and its continually increasing Ue
-1 11. and, h lu-re it has been longe-t in uh->, is one of its
, stroug-st recommendations sad l est advertisements. In
: IS)9 this remedy first came into general use, since which
t it has grown rapidly into public favor, till, in thousands
-of families, it has come to be considered an article cT
[• ’ such neces-Py that a supply is never wanting to resort to
l in cas ;of neci lmt or su Men illn ss. IVe often hear it
- said of it, “ tic tocu.fi cs ioj« think cj being without
- flour in the house as without l'.ux Kii.i,er," and th;it
- witii an earnestness of tone that speaks more than even
I this language. It Is much in its f.v r that it ja a purel.
? vegetable prep ration ; and while it is prompt and effi
-1 clent in its action, it is always safe and reliab ~e. To this
quality is indebted for the name— Pain Kiulkh—oi
!• whi hit has proved its lPko worthy ; a name easily 1111-
- derstood, and not easily forgotten.
It lias been eminently successful *ll Cholera, curing
t hundreds of the sever, st cases ; and never, to our knowl
edge, lia.'ing failed in a single ins ane?, when it was used
1 according to directions in tlie earlier stages of the dis
; ease. In curing Peror and Ague, and oriier diseases in
, eident to our Wt stern and Boutlieriiclimate.no medi
l cine has been more successful. For a Cold it is almost a
' s.ecific, ami Rheumatic and Neura’gic affect ions often
J give way to it when all remedies have failed. Itisemi
- nently a Family Medicine, and kept ready for innne
i' diate resort incases of accident or sudden a, ttnpk ofdis
- rape, it i.n- saveu it,any hujurs of suttering, and many a
' dollar in time and doctors' hills.
. It has bee n tested in ever;- variety of climate, and by
- almost otery nation known to Americans. It is the al-
J wort constant companion of the missionary amllhe trav
eler. and it bas won to itself firm Mends wftfrever it Inis
eeoeuie know*. fJL
We have received unsolicited many testmoToirs. MiOw"
ipi its. remarkable success in curing sudden Colds,
- Coughs, Sore Throat, Diptlicria, Fever and Ague, Head
■ acl|e, Billions fever Pains in the Side, Back and Loins, as
, well as in tlie Joints and Limb*; Neuralgic, and Rheu
matic Pains ina-iyput of theSys.em, Tooth,che and
Pains in the Head and Face.
f Asa Blood Purifier and Tonic for the Stomach, it sel
l doni fails to cure Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Liver Com
plaint, Acid Stomach, Heartburn. Kidney Comp'ainis,
Sick Headache, Piles, Asthma or Phthisic, Ringworms,
- Dojis, Felons, Whitlows, Old Sores, Swelled Joints, and
’ Ueneral Debility of the System.
It is a’so a prompt and sure remedy for Cramp and
Pain in the Stomach, Painters’ Colic, Diarrhoea, Dysen
-1 tery. Summer Complaint, Cholera Morbus, Cholera In
fantum, Scalds, Burns, Spraius, Bruises, Frost Bites,
' Chilblains, as well as the Stings of Insects, Scorpions,
pious, Centipedes, and the Bites of Poisonous Insects,
and Venomous Reptiles.
To the name of our medicine, “Pain KIM.BR,” which
is our trade mark, we have the exclusive right, which we
have never failed to s stain in law in any of the Humor
ous actions brought against parties putting up or selling
articles under that name, or one so similar as to mislead
the public ; and we would caution the public against all
imita ions of our preparation, either in the name or style
of putting up.
IVe continue to prepare the Pain Killer from the
best and purest materials, and with a care that en ures
the most perfect uniformity in the medicine.
PEiIRY DAVIS 4 SON,
Proprietors.
Offices—7l High street, Frovidince, R. I.; 378 St.
Paul street, Montreal, C. E.t 17 Southampton Row, Lon
don, England. jau29-lni*
sar GEORGIA. RICHMOND COUNTY.—IN PL’R
suarce o authority given ine by law to fix the times for
Ilia Quarterly Sessions of the County Court for said
county, and to aifvort’zj the Same iaono of the public
gazettes, I have s -t apartnhe third Mondays in April and
September as the most practicable times for holding
said s> ssions.
Given under my hand and seal this January 26th, 1867.
IVM. R. McLAWS, C. J. R. C.
Test—lV. G. IVuidby, Acting Clerk.
jan27-lw
HrfF" PORT ROYAL RAILROAD.—The Stockholders’
meeting of the ,2tli inst. was adjourned to the third
SATURDAY in February next, at the building of the
Allendale High School, for the election of a President.
A general attendance is peeuliaily desirable.
G. C. DA VAST,
jan23-tfebl4 Secretary.
B=y FINAL NOTICE TO STATE AND COUNTY
TAX PAY’ERS.—The extension of time al’owed by the
Legislature for the payment of taxes will sooa expire, and
notice is hereby given to all who have not paid up for
1860 that executions will be issued on the first of February-,
and the upaid taxes collected as required by law.
JOHN A. BOHLER,
jan22-tfcbl * T. C. R. C.
THE HOUSE OF MERCY, FOR PRODIGAL
SONS.—Howard Association, Philadelphia, Pa., estab
lished on the principles of Christian Charity, for the re
lief and cure of MISGUIDED YOUNG MEN, who have
destroyed their manly powers by Errors, Abuses and Dis
eases, incident to Puberty and early life. Essays and
Reports, with plan of new treatment, sent in scaled letter
envelope--, free of chaige. Address, Dr. J. SKILLIN
HOUGHTON, Howard Association, Philadelphia, Pa.
jauli-d3m
car DK. J. P.H. BROWN, DENTIST, (FORMERLY
of Atlauta,) Rooms, ISO Broad street, next house below
the Constitutionalist office. Special attention given to
the insertion of ARTIFICIAL TEETH and PALATES.
NITROUS OXIDE, the safe and popular anaesthetic for
preventing paiu in extracting teeth, admiuixtered.
aug29-6m"
NOTICE—The oflice of the Ordinary of the county of
Burke having become vacant by the resignation of Joseph
A. Shewmake, the present incumbeut, by virtue of an
Order of the Honorable Inferior Court, an election will
be held at the several election precincts in the county for
an Ordinary to fill said vacancy, on Wednesday, the
30th day o/ January, 1867.
jan9-td EDGAR S. GARLIQK. Clerk.
Batchelor’s Hair Dye t
This splendid Hair Dye is the best in the world. The
only tuck and perfect Dye—Harmless, Reliable, In
stantaneous. No disappointment. No ridiculous tints.
Natural Black or Brown. Remedies the ill effects es Bad
Dyes. Invigorates the hair, leaving it soft and beauti
ful. The geuuine is signed William A. Batohklor. All
others are mere imitations, and should be avoided. Sold
by all Druggists and Perfumers. Factory. 81 Barclay
street, New York.
gST BEWARE OF A-JJOONTEUFF.it.
decll-ly
Bar TO THE AFFLICTED.—Nothing lias as yet been
presented in the way of a Tonic, possessing such proper- 1
ties as PANKNIN’S HEPATIC BITTERS.
They invigorate the system and impart new life to a !
constitution shattered and worn out by that most dis
tressing disease known as DYSPEPSIA. They should be
tried by all those thus affected, and will never fail to give
relief.
For sate by all Druggists.
PLUMB & LEITNBR, Agents. (
novll-lyW *
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS '
TO STOCKHOLDERS
The home insurance company, of i
tvaunah, Georgia, having declared a dividend ol five
r cent on. the paid up capital, the Stockholders re
ading in this city will please call at the office of th
Agent of the company and receive their dividends.
\YM. E. EVANS, Agent,
jan29-6 . 210 Broad street.
AGENTS WANTED
.FOR THE LIFE, LKTTER3fSPEECHES,&c.,OF
lION. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS,
By Henry Cleveland, Esq.,
Late Editor ot the Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalalist.
Send for Circulars and see our terms, anil a full de
scription of the work. Address
NATIONAL PUBLISHNG CO.,
Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
jan3C-d*clm* ,
SHOES, . SHOES.
HO CASES SHOES, all sizes and dcscrip- I
tions, which we offer at manufacturers’ prices, with
cost of transportation charges added. Those that are
in Want will please call and examine our stock and
prices before purchasing. * .
• Also, 20 CASES BOOTS.
M. IIYAMS & CO.,
jnn33 5 178 Broad street.
“ VINO VERMOUTH.”
J UST arrived from Italy, and can be found at the
Family Grocery Store of Augusta, opposite Augusta
Hotel. M. HYAUS & CO.
jan3>lo .
Bacon, Molasses and Oats*
IO EUDS choice Clear Rjbbed SIDES ;
15 BBLS. choice MOLASSES;
300 BUSHELS Black and White East Ten
nessee OATS:
For sale by
J. SIBLEY A SONS,
j.inGO 1 No. 6 Warren Block.
DOG LOST.
CM •
IOTR \ YED from the Constitutionalist Office, on
Sunday morning, a small Bla-.-k and Tan Terrier I’UF,
about six months old. His ears were recently cropped,
and arc notes ircly cured up; lias a small etnak of
white on the breast and a scratch over the left eye;
answers to the name of CQNSTI. A suitable reward
will be paid for his recovery, at
j janlo-ti THIS OFFICE.
j NEW YORK AND CHARLESTON
, Peopled Steamship Company
SAILING DAYS WEDNESDAYS
THE STEAMSHIP
M <) K E K A ,
(Captain Libby!
"WILL LEAVE North Atlantic Wharf on
WEDNESDAY, 16th, at 2 o’clock.
Line composed of steamers MONKKA and EMI.
LY B. SOUDKR.
WILLIS & CHISHOLM, Agents.
jau29 North Atlantic Wharf.
FOR NEW YORK,
r TnE flno steamship CARROL , (,1100 tons,) ol
the Baltimore and Liverpool Line, will have imme
diate dispatch from Charleston for the above named
port direct, sailing about sth February.
Capacity, 1,400 baiea cotton.
Through freight on cotton from Augusta to New
York, $5 per bale. Cabin passage, Augusta to New
York, $25.
Shippers will please advise us of nil consignments,
by mail, of 2d, at latest.
For freight or passage*, apply to
COURTENAY A THENHOLM,
Bier No. 1, Union Wlnrf, Charie'slon, S. C.
jan29-2
NOTICE.
W ILL he sold, on the 2d of February, at my
place, ail the STOCK, (not disposed <•! nt private*
sale previous to this date,) consisting of MULES,
1 HORSES, and ONE YOKE OF OXEN.
Also, WAGONS and WAGON nAUN£B3,
CARTS, ar.d 800 bushels COTTON SEED.
Terms—Cas]). I will also rent my plantation, or
in field*, if preferred. Terms made known day of
Rale. JOHN G. GREEN,
' Green’s Cut, Burke county, Oh.
. junoap
m.
STAPLE GROCERIES.
; 200 Bags RIO COFFEE
75 Tockets JAVA COFFEE,
, 100 Barrels Refined SUGAR,
1 20 1 lids. Raw SUGAR,
QK
1 Hhds. New Crop MOLASSES,
50 Barrels Peach Blow and Mercer I'OTA*
TOEH,
300 Barrels Choice I’INIv EYES to arrive,
i For sale low by
jan2G6 HORTON 4 WALTON.
\ NOTICE.
. GteoRGIA, BURKE COUNTY.-By authority
vested in Judges of the County Court, by an Act of
the State of Georgia, approved December I3tli, A. D.
1 1860, I hereby give notice that the Quarter Sessions of
said County Court will !>c held on the second Monday
in APRIL and SEPTEMBER hercalter, unless a
change be made, o' which due notice will be given.
Witness my hand and official signature, this 14th
day of January, 1887.
nEMAN H. PERRY,
ianlO-1 m J. C. C. B. C.
NOTICE.
TREASURER’S OFFICE,?
Bunns County, January 16th, 1867. j
In pursuance of an order of the Inferior Court of
Burke county, and by virtue of the second section of
an Act entitled “An Act to enable the Justicesof the
Inferior Court of the several counties in the State of
Georgia to raise a fund sufficient to discharge the in
debtedness of the several counties, and for other pur
poses,” I will sell, on the first Tuesday in MARCH
next, before the Court House door in said county, at
such rate as may bo offered by the highest bidders,
COUNTY BONDS of said county, in such sums as
may bo deemed advisable, payable at a period not
longer than three years from the day of sale, bearing
seven per cent, interest—lnterest payable seini-annual
ly. STEPHEN A. CORKER,
janlß-td County Treasurer Burke county.
t Hurley’s Ague Tonic.
Perfectly Reliable.
The only remedy for Chilis and Fever or Ague
and Fever that is or can he depended upon is Hurley’s
Ague Tonic. There have been thousands cured by
using it who had tried the usual remedies without
benefit; but In no case lias Hurley’s Ague
Tonic failed to effect a cure. All who have
used it cheerfully tell their afflicted friends of it, as
a sure and certain nrticle for Chills and Fever. Any
one suflering from the Chills would consult their own
interest by sending to a drug store and buying a bot
tle. It is pleasant to take, compared with others, and
will be certain to cure all cases of Fever and Ague or
Chills and Fever. Bend for it to the proprietors,
HURLEY, RUDDLE & CO.,
Louisville, Ky.
Every druggist and country merchant should have
it in store, especially in districts subject to Chills and
Fever or Ague and Fever.
Hurley’s Stomach Bitters.
For Debility, Loss of Appetite, Weakness, Indiges
tion or Dyspepsia, want of action of the Liver, Disor
dered Stomach, there are no hitters that ran compare
with these in removing these distressing complaints.
For sale or can bo had at any Drug Store In the United
States, or from tho proprietors, Louisville Ky.
Hurley’s Sarsaparilla.
The great Blood purifier, as a Spring and Summer
Medicine, stands unrivalled, removes all impurities
from the blood, and gives health and strength to tne
system. HURLEY, RUDDLE & CO.,
Proprietors.
o
Hurley’s Popular Worm Candy.
As this is really a Specific for Worms, and the best 1
and most palatable form to give to children, it is not j
surprising that it is fust taking the place of all other
preparations for worms—lt being t isteless, any child 1
will take it.
Seabrook’a Infant Soothing Syrup.
Seaton’s Writing Fluid.
For sale by W. H. TUTT, B. F. TUTT, GKO. A.
OATES, PLUMB 4 LKITNER, and Druggists
everywhere. augW-d*cßra
CONCERT HALL.
FIFTH WEEK, AND
UNABATED SUCCESS!
Os the Great Public Favorites, the Distinguished Ar- I
tistes,
MR. and MRS. HARRY WATKINS.
Who will appear, during the present week, in a bril
liant succession of DRAMAS, COMEDIES,
FARCES and VAUDIVILLEB. “Inshavogue, or
Ireland in ’98,” “Serious Family,'-“Bride of an Eve
ning,” “Peasant
Cup of Tea,” “Too Late for the Train,” etc.
Seats secured at Schreiner’s Music Store,
jan 27-lw
NEW SUPPLIES
OF *
CARPETS,
Rugs, Mats, Druggets,
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS
TABLE OIL CLOTHS,
WINDOW SHADES,
Cocoa and Canton Mattings,
Paper Hangings,
Damask, Lace and Muslin Curtains.
JUST RECEIVED, IN NEW STYLES AND*AT
REDUCED ‘PRICES.
THE attention of those in want is invited to the
above new and boautiful line of goods.
Jan. («. Bailie & Bio.,
203 BROAD STREET.
dec!2-3m
FOR SALE,
Peruvian Guano,
Bacon Sides,
Bacon Slionlders,
Country Hams,
ALolasses,
Corn,
ALackerel,
Sugar,
Coffee,
Pagging and Rope,
"Wliisky,
Brandy,
V inega.r,
Tobacco.
FOR SALE BY
CRUMP. DAVISON &. CO.,
jan24-G 209 Broad street.
GUANO. GUANO.
Havino secured a Stare in Suvnn
nali, xve are prepat e«l to suiiply Planters
with
Phmnix and No. 1 Peruvian {.nano,
FROM EITHER
SAY ANN All Oil AUGUSTA,
in quantities to suit. All orders should
be addressed to the undersigned, at Au
gusta.
WILCOX, GIBBS & CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AND DEALERS IN GUANO,
nov7*d*c3m No. 241 Broad street.
GRANITEVILLE, S. C.
Orders for Graniteville GOODS, sent to 11. n.
HICKMAN, Treasurer, Augusta, Ga., will ho for
warded to the Mill and promptly filled.
jan24-tm
S. D. HEARD,
W A R E II ( > IT s E
. AND
COMMISSION ' MERCHANT,
AUGUSTA, GA.
aug2o-d*tßm
SUPERIOR '
SMOKING TOBACCO!
T?HE celebrated “MARYLAND CLUB” and
‘NAVY” Smoking Tobacco.**, from the Factory of
the
“ Roanoke Tobacco Company,”
For sale at Factory prices, freights added, by
BLAIR, SMITH & CO.,
298 Broad street,
jan24-6 Sole Agents for the State of Georgia.
CLOCKS.
The subscriber has just received a large assort
ment of Eight-Day and Thirty-Hour Striking and
Alarm CLOCKS, of the best manufacture—warranted
*o keep good time for one year.
ALSO,
BUSINESS ALARMS, and many other artich s too
numerous to mention.
A. PRONTAUT,
163 Broad street,
jan27-6 Below Augusta Hotel.
BARGAINS ! BARGAINS 1
~W"E OFFER FOR THIRTY DAYS OUR
entire stock of FALL and WINTER
Hats, Caps and Millinery Goods,
AT ANI)
BELOW COST,
TO MAKE ROOM FOR
SPRING STO CK.
Call soon and examine GOODS and PRICKS.
D. R. WILLIAMS & CO.,
233 Broad street,
jan26-3 Opposite Masonic Hall.
HAY! HAY!!
A. LOT of prime EASTERN and NORTHERN j
HAY, in store, and for sale by
R.J. BOWE.
jan27-lw
ORCHARDMEN !!!
ANTED Immediately two competent MEN
to cultivate, prune and keep up a large stock of bear
ing trees. Apply at this oflice or to Charlks Prm
blk’s Seed Store, Augusta, Ga. jan26-3
SMOKING TOBACCO!
One CASE very flue KINNAKINNICK, will
he sold low to elose consighnment,
jan’2s-3 BLAIR, SMITH 4 CO.
GREAT REDUCTION
IN
SET GOODS, FABCT GOODS,
CLOAKS, SHAWLS, &C.,
FOR THIRTY I>AY S,
i
Being desirous of reducing my Stock as much as possible.'
TO MAKE ROOM FOR SPRING GOODS,'
I will offer my Goods at * ’ ,*- w
GREATLY REIDUGESD. PRIORS,
FOR THIRTY RAYS.
IN MY
Dress Goods Department
may be found almost every variety and style now worn, at .
HALF THE FORMER PEfOTSB.
G&OJUKB, 0&0J&KS,
\
- t
In this Department I have a good assortment of BLACK and COLORED
CLOTH CLOAKS, among which are a few fine garments, selling at *lB to
*2O, former price, *25 to *BS.
w. hi—T ♦ -
HOSIERY AHO GLO¥ES a
The largest and best assorted Stock in the city, having been purchased at
the recent decline in prices in Now York, will be offered at a great, reduction
from former prices.
r—j» > ■ ll—'
iipiffi wiffiSfi! iiili,
IN
Shawls, Capes, Sontags, &c tJ
Will bo sold low to close them out.
SHOES, SHOES.
A large and full assortment, in all the different styles and qualities, for
LADIES, MISSES AND CHILDREN,
at prices that defy competition.
FLANNELS, FLANNELS.
In this Department may be found all the different varieties in these goods
Prices as low as at any house in the city.
]£XOO]P SltmTS.
The largest and best assorted stock of
BRADLEY’S DUPLEX ELLIPTIC
(OR DOUBLE-SPRING SKIRTS,)
in tlie city. Ladies can find at t his Establishment every variety of this justly
celebrated Skirt, and as prices lower than at any other House out of New
York.
mil IB . . fair
IN
LiCES, LICE MS IHD EMBROIDERIES
My Stock is complete, comprising in part
Puffed Lace Spencers, Lace Sets, Waists, Gapes.
Besides many other styles of Lace, made-up goods, suitable for the Party
Season.
Together with many other articles 100 numerous to mention. All of
which will be offered at
GREAT BARG-AmS
*
A % |jk
236 Broad Street,
UNDER CENTRAL HOTEL.