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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AUGUSTA. GA.
SUNDAY MORNING, DEC. 29, 1867
THE NEGRO QUESTION.
The following article from the National
Intelligencer is worthy of an attentive pern
sal. It is calm, dignified and profound; it
is likewise prophetic of the future. Our
venerable and laureled Washington con
temporary reviews the history of Negro
Agitation in all its phases; lays bare its
hideous plans, and holds its authors up to
the execration of the virtuous of onr own
day, and the unrelenting verdict of posteri
ty. It speaks thus:
“A few days after the surrender of General
Lee, a Confederate soldier, on board a steam
boat, addressing a fellow-passenger, who after
wards announced himself as from New Eng*
land, as the boat was passing Jamestown Is
land, in James river, exclaimed, as lie pointed
to the spot: * There the war began, two hun
dred and forty-five years ago!’ His meaning
was, that in 1620, thirteen years after the first
settlement, a Dutch shipmaster arrived at that
spot with the first cargo of negroes that had
ever landed on our shores. This is not pre
cisely accurate, as the Spanish colony of Flor
ida was foul with negro slaves nearly a genera
tion earlier, while, by a singular coincidence,
the Piymouth colony, founded the same year,
with the Introduction of negroes in Virginia
(1620,) is known to have had negro slaves also
thirteen years afterwards, (16:111.) The Virginia
colonists lorbore the sin of importation of ne
groes among them, or the sin of slavery, as it
was afterwards called, full as long as the Puri
tans —possibly, indeed, longer; for there is
evidence of negro slavery in 1633 iu Massachu
setts, with a probability that it was introduced
earlier, while it is known to have begun at
Jamestown in 1630. Iu a book published in'
1764, .called the “ New England Prospect,”
which has been cited by high historical author
ity, mention is made of the consternation of
certain Indians who, observing a negro in the
branches of a tree, took him for their Bad
Spirit, whereupon they ‘ posted to the English
and entreated their aid to conjure this devil to
his own place, who, finding him to be a poor
wandering olacliamore, conducted him to his
master."— p. 01. This is stated to have happen
ed in 1633. So 'poor, wandering blackainores,’
in or before 1633, in Massachusetts, had their
‘ masters.’
“Nevertheless, the Confederate soldier’s
idea was closely related to a profound and
melancholy truth. A morbid sensibility about
negroes has, in one form or another, according
to what it was mixed with, by whom it was
patronized, or with what objects it was ex
pounded, been, from the origin of the colonies,
occasionally shown, and having, in later years,
convulsed public opinion under the superficial
head of pro-slavery against anti-slavery, finally
broke info an earthquake of civil dissolution
under the equally superficial head of insurrec
tion against Government. Under all mutations
and issues, real as they were, there was at bot
tom a specific poison working iu the veius of
the political body, which was the predisposing
cause of all intersectional trouble, and that
poison was the presence of negroes. The pre
sence of negroes occasioned the anti slavery
fanaticism, which was but the natural form of
horror of negro association iu those not imme
diately exposed to it, because slavery tended to
keep negroes in the country. Their presence
occasioned ‘pro-slavery’ also, because, inde
pendently of all industrial considerations, in
which the non-slaveholding whiles had no
share, that was the natural 'force of the same
repugnance to negro association, in the hearts
of those immediately ex nosed Lo it. Here was
au instinct — i. e.: a horror of equalisation with
negroes ; which was “morbidly strong in the
white breast of each section, and which in it
self was common to both, yet actually opera
ting in the form of an antagonism between the
people of the North and those of the South,
solely because their circumstances were differ
ent, and, consequently, the same instinct ex
pressed itself in opposite forms.
“Nothing more melancholy could he con
ceived than the obvious deduction, that the fu
rious and colossal struggle of blood in 1801
was hut the culmination of these opposite
forma of the same impulse; that the spurious
and ignorant issues and controversies of our
politicians which developed it never touched
the true point; and that, this tremendous fra
tricide of Caucasian brethren was nothing but
a mistake of the truth.
“ If God is in heaven and man is his creature,
let us not reject the truth which millions have
perished to unseal to us 1 Negro equalization
is intolerable to white people. This truth hag
survived every possiblo contravention, and has
been constant through trials and tests that no
imaginable error could withstand. Let us con
sider a few of them : *
“1- If it had been really true that all white
persons who were not rendered insensible to
justice toward him by prejudices arising from
his degraded condition, believed the negro to
he a fit component of society, we must have
found in communities where those not so pre
judiced were in a majority, a corresponding
favor for negroes as a component of society.
Yet, it will not be denied, that in any commu
nity of the United States, the persons who live
up to that doctrine in good faith are so' few that
they are regarded as singular, and j>y those who
profess zeal for negro rights, are habitually se
lected as honorable examples. There could be
no distinction, honorable or otherwise, attach
ing to conduct which was common or very fre
quent.
“2. But even if in a given community, it
were common to the majority, or to all, to treat
negroes among them as bona fide equals in all
respects, the test would not be conclusive
unless the negroes in such community were
sufficiently numerous to make a substantial
component of the society. The rcpuguance
excited in one individual by the presence of
another is not to be compared iu intensity and
energy to that which characterizes classes
against each other, in which case each indivi
dual, by force of a law of familiar experience,
is an exponent of the aggregate repuguance of
thousands, limited only by uucommon wisdom
and virtue iu the individual, or by some ec
centricity which makes him otherwise an ex
ception to common men. 1 Why do you want
to drive them off now, &ince you admit they
are getting wealthy, respectable, and educated,
compared with what they were formerly ?’ was
asked by a stranger of a white man, of the
working class, in 1858, in Xenia, Ohio, when
some excitement had arisen against the negra
population of that place. ‘ Because,’ was the
instinctive reply, ‘ they’re getting too far res
pectable for white folks.’ This man was an
earnest adherent of the Republican party,
volubly hostile to slavery. But the fact is o
little account. He had not the ordinary temp
tation to dissemble, and coarsely, biff truly,
uttered the law of his race, in the conditions in
which it was operating in his heart.
“3. Kansas was ‘dedicated to freedom’—
i. e. y to negro freedom. Civil war was immi
nent. This was the pitch of excitement* to
which hundreds of thousands of people in the
States not containing many negroes had
brought themselves, as they said, by consider
ing that the course of settlement of the Terri
tory, if suffered to go on as it bad elsewhere,
would allow Kansas and Nebraska to become
States in which the negroes should not have
equal rights with white men. It was not pre
tended that the white men from the North
who should settle there would ever incur the
least inequality or proscription. It could not,
therefore, have been in the interest of their
own white men, but exclusively, as they them-,
selves proclaimed, with ravishing eloquence,
in the interest of negroes, that they struggled'
(OX “freedom” in Kansas. They gained the
victory. Freedom was its fruits. Not white
freedom, for they did not pretend that it was
in issue. But block freedom was the fruit.—
Alas, for the hypocrisy that does not even
know itself! The only fruit availed of was a
fruit lor the white man, and that was the priv
ilege of excluding negroes from the right of
existing at all In the Territory ; for it is well
known flint "“omong their earliest legislation
was an act virtually prohibiting colored people
from comiug Into the Territory. Thus, the
anti -slavery impulse that undermined loyalty
to the Union and reverence for the Constitu
tion, and conducted the country to the mael
strom of 1861, was an anti-negro impulse, or
else it teas a sham.
“4. But when the shriek ol peril to the flag
of the Republic called to arms the adherents of
the Constitution, and these anti-slavery agita
tors mounted the tide, and falsely, but loudly
cried 1 Union ;’ when tho Atlantic Monthly pro
nounced ‘ Ddcnda est servitudo when But
ler mouthed the word ‘contrabandwhen the
‘ Star Spangled Banner,’ the national air of our
fathers, gave place to the ‘ Battle Cry of Free
dom ;’ when persuasion, exaggeration, song,
and declamation, followed by fraud, force, de
nunciation and intimidation, worked a popular
recognition of the cause of the Union as the
cause of negro emancipation all over the world,
and fanned both to madness by kindling the
cause with the fiery passions of the field—iu a
word, when negro equality became the test of
loyalty, and untested loyalty became treason,
and treason was civil damnation, then it was
that a question arose what to do with accumu
lating negroes about the camps on the border;
and the alternatives were for thorn to run to
barbarism and perish, or else to be provided
with opportunities for useful labor and honest
self-support. Massachusetts forbade their
keepers to befoul her soil with them, though
her fields were suffering for laborers. So of
every other State. The crusade against South
ern society was not to rescue and save, but to
expel and destroy the negro race, and the war
waged by the rebels was a defense of the
negroes. Such, though unconsciously, was at
the bottom of the Radical enthusiasm of 1861
and following, during the war.
“We say unconsciously ; yet the truth must
now and then have forced itself to the surface.
Upon what other principle but repugnance to
negroes could tlie fact be accounted for that,
when a society was organized early in the war,
presided over l>y the late ViccfFresident Ham
lin, called the ‘ National Freedraen’s Aid
Society,’ for which all humane men bespoke
success, its charities were so utterly nugatory,
tb it after an existence of many months, with
frequent meetings here at Washington, we hap
pen to remember that some steps were taken
to dissolve the association on fkegronud that
it had never succeeded in collecting but $342
This was not from lack of humanity as a serti
ment. Toward white men, witness the literally
unheard of benefactions of the Sanitary Com
missions, Christian Commissions, Soldier’s Aid
Societies, State agencies, etc.; witness the fairs,
incredible abroad, which realized their millions
upon millions for the relief of the soldiers, no
dearer to them than British or French soldiers
arc to their kindred and countrymen, aud un
questionably less in need of charity than any
army that ever camped or fought. But it was
not for the shuddering, helpless, and desolate
negroes, perishing as they were known to be,
by thousands monthly.
“ But mark the change : As soon as the Gov
ernment assumed the office of guardian, teach
er, and almoner of the negro race, at the public
expense, the utmost zeal in all the charities
became, and lias continued ever since, visible
in all branches of the negro administration, be
ginning in (lie War Department, and taking a
regular statutory form in 1863, by the Institu
tion of the Frecdmen’s Bureau. Why this
cold and cruel apathy, notwithstanding the
powerful partisan motives for upholding the
appearance of sincerity? Because no man
was willing to prolong the life of tho colored
rare, even with a prospect of political use, at
his private expense. But when Government
assumed the charge, seorces of millions of
public money flowed, and has continued ever
since to flow forth, that cannot be distinguished ,
in the motives for its disbursement , from a com
mon electioneering fund , nor in any other
thing, except in the tremendous quantity of it,
in the fact that, it is managed and expended in
the sacred name of benevolence by the Govern
ment itself; in the unparalleled and wholesale
dishonesty with which it is openly employed
qualify negroes for the support of a political
faction against the sovereign people aud tlieir
Constituticn; and in tbc fact every cent of
these millions is tire money of the very North
ern people whose liberties would be betrayed
by subjecting them to the influence of hideous
apparitions ol States composed of negroes.
“ It is obvious that in our view the present
order of Radical politicians, whether blind or
not to the law of separation of races, have
planted themselves dircotly across the way, be
cause they want to use the negro as an Instru
mentality with which to goTorn the white man
in their own interest. The old ‘ slave power,’
so familiar to other times, was nothing but
negro potentiality In white hands. What name
shall be given the very same kind of a power
which has now again, with less excuse, dared
to defy the Constitution, and dares even to
compass the destruction of free Government
on these shores ? If the negroes are no longer
slaves, certainly the political power of slavery
has only changed hands. If the recent rupture
was a ‘ slaveholders’ rebellion,’ the threatened
one is a ‘ negroholders’ rebellion.’ The dif
ference blinds no whito man. The project
must be put down.”
Tlie Mystery Solved—At Last!
[From tho N. Y. Times.
We insist that Grant is the modern Har
pocrates. ******
Horus-Harpocrates, however, as any
school boy knows from his Ovid, was a
most mysteriously silent and secretive per
son. lie was decidedly the Grant of an
tiquity. Whether he was also the despair
of Egyptian editors (we lielieve he was the
God of Silence for Egypt —The World will
correct us if onr memory fails) history does
not declare; but doubtless he badly puz
zled the press of that day. The impertura
blc Harpocrates was figured by the poets
and sculptors with one finger on his lips,
indicative of secrecy; the imperturbable
Grant is figured by modern journalists and
romancers with a never-absent cigar in his
lips, indicative, probably, of the same quali
ty. The classic age lacked the Virginia
herb of placid silence, and was compelled
to resort to such feeble roundabout emblems
as it had. In short, whoever will look into
the subject, will find that Grant is the mod
ern Ilorus-llarpocrates.
The Times declines to be considered as
the Homer of anew Odyssey, preferring to
be the Ovid of a political Ars Amandi. But
would not the modern Catullus be more
appropriate ? That merriest of the Roman
wits mentions Harpocrates, whom the
Times makes the prototype of Gen. Grant.
The soldiers of the Western army were, at
one time, in the habit of calling their gene-
ral “Uncle Sam”—a fancy taken from
“U. 5.,” the initials of his Christian name.
In the not over decent poem to which we
allude, Catullus says that the person he de
scribes made his uncle a Harpocrates—
et patruurn reddidit Harpocratem — and that
he did it in so remarkable a way that the
uncle was sure to keep his mouth shut—
verbum non faeiet palrum. Whether the
parallel holds as well in other points, the
1 ivies is a better judge than we are, but
Catullus was far enough from intending to
compliment the uncle by calling him a Har
pocrates. To express it as modestly as
possible, the uncle could not complain of
an incest because lie was penrtic&ps criminis.
Is the same true (symbolically speaking
of General Grant in reference to the mise
genatiou politics which are an incest
against nature ? Catullus makes the uncle
quite severe against such things at the out
set, and if it was the dread of his censures
that caused the-nephew to adopt a queer
method of iusui'ing liis silence. This seems
to tally; for Grant was strongly anti- negro
in 1865, and the hope of negro votes to
elect him Uresident in 1868 lias made him
discreet. We can therefore understand
why the Times “ insists that Grant is the
modern Harpocrates.”
Besides, Harpocrates was son of the cele
brated Isis, worshipped in Egypt as the pro
lific principle of life; the sou’s function of
secrecy being like that of the fig-leaf with
which our first mother made her toilet.—
The mysteries of Isis were reputed to con
sist of the most indescribable practices, and
her son Harpocrates was made to represent
silence because her worship was too ob
scene and scandalous for tongue to utter.—
By calling Grant a Harpocrates the Times
represents him to be an apron of fig-leaves
in the wardrobe of tho Republican party.—
The mother of Harpocrates was symbolized
by a cow, and is supposed to be the same
as 10, whom amorous Jupiter changed into
a heifer. His jealous spouse, not deceived
by the metamorphosis, stung Io with a gad
fly, and sent her wandering and swimming
till she came to Egypt, where she was
worshipped as a goddess under the name of
Isis. It was tire business of Harpocrates,
her son, to hold his finger on his lip and
hush up her unmentionable doings, as it is
of Gen. Grant to take off attention from the
negro polities of the Republican party.—
We congratulate the Times on its successful
parallel, and tender it the compliments of
the season.— N. Y. Worltl.
THE SITUATION
NO. 11.
The polls were kept open long and the
net drawn most vigorously for voters, but
every haul consisted mainly of niggers.-
There were not Bradleys enough to leaven
the lump with intelligence, so the new or
ganization was officered by whites. These
officers, not at all dissatisfied with the so
ciety of their camp but moved by mutual
affection alone, now seek to proselyte their
color from white errors aud prepare it for
a civilization of a higher type. They pro
pose to unite the races—not socially; oh,
no, but only politically—to equalize in civil
rights freedmen, and freemen barbarians and
citizens, aud a strong pull, and a long pull,
and a pull altogether, is now making upon
all whites recusant. The bargain proposed
under flag of truce is, if you will join us
aud vote to ratify nigger governors, nigger
heads of departments, nigger judges, nigger
juries and nigger legislators, we will guar
anty, backing our guaranty by the Radical
arm and that of the military, that you
shall hold from your creditors property
over and above that which the law of white
times aud larger estates deemed a sufficient
exemption, and we will grant full amnesty
for your registry and contumacious refusal
to vote. The races are to coalesce, only
politically be it ever remembered. ’Tis said
that some of the late recusants —a few men
who have been kept up the last seven years
by the stay law—have been pulled over by
this effort of all together, and are begin
ning to make love to the African. Poor
buckra proposes plump for an alliance
(only political). Hear him : “ Cuff, I tried
hard to do a good part by you while
you lived with me. 1 gave you good
clothes aud a plenty to eat. I gave you
holiday on Saturday afternoons to wash
your clothes, and sometimes to hoe your
watermelons, and I seldom kept you home
on Sundays. I mention all these tilings to
make you see how I love you, Cuff. 1 did
love you, and I parted with you greatly
against, my will.” Here Buckra wipes liis
eyes. “Now, Cuff, I am owing lots of
money. I don’t know who I don’t owe. I
am dead broke. Recollect that I always
gave you a dram at cornshuckings, and
let you have four days in the Christmas.—
I never taught yon to read, because the
grand jury would have presented me—that
was a bad law, which I was always
against, but now 1 will pay a tax to gel
you a spelling-book. Cuff, have what you.
will, hold office, sit cm juries,
but let me £eep my laud.
little Smelted—still fierce—
colored folks never
tho Government —lots of us fought for the
Union and you white trash whaled us a
heap of times before freedom come out—
but that’s played out now except for school
teachers, and no nigger can whip my ehil-
(Iron it lie does teach school —yes, it you
white folks will own up that we can vote as
much as yon, wo will do something for
you—if you don’t, we will turn loose the
other white folks that you owe and bring
you down from a plantation to a potato
patch. If you will say it and stand to it,
that a colored man is as good as a white
one, we will advance you all of your I md ”
—(the said donors being landless paupers
and mightily disposed to squat)—“ and set
tle upon you, so strictly that neither the
avarice of your creditors nor the covetous
ness of ourselves will ever dispossess yon.
And I want you to know, too, that it is iu
the bargala that I am to ride in the cars
with you.”
Thus proceeds the amour, which the
lovers hopo will beget a mulatto govern
ment, part black, part white. Fellow
whites, you’are to acknowledge the man
whom your laws, till the middle of 18G5,
kept from reading; tvlio labored at your
bidding; who, of servile race, was your
slave, your contented slave—as your equal
in legislation, upon the judges’ bench and
in the jury box. More than half of the vo
ters will be unable to read their tickets,
you are to send the nigger to office who
desires nothing there save to pocket its
money; you are to discipline your revolt
ing nostrils into mulatto manners, and
smell nothing bad when tho darling law of
niggers is enforced against common car
riers—those men of such inveterate preju
dices ; you are to pay the bills of Yankee
schoolmarms engaged in the delightful
task of teaching little niggers’ ideas liovv to
shoot, and whenever juries hang you will be
penned up all night with dirty, lousy, snor
ing, kinky-headed, thick-lipped, sunk-back
ed, narrow-fronted niggers, who will pre
serve and keep and defend holy right between
man and man as well as the bull did the
China. Great God! and you are to take all
this for what—that you may run the peril
ous gantlet of Federal courts sworn to ad
minister the Constitutional protection of
private contracts against you and come out
at the end stripped of everything, but the
now State exemptions. You will emerge
from your law-suits, having lost time, pre
cious to repair your broken fortunes—hav
ing lost your reputation for good faitli and
fair dealing, which is credit and wealth—
having lost forever your own self-respect,
without which man is poor indeed, and
the golden hour of deliverance for debtors
unable to pay 50 cents, on the dollar in
bankruptcy forever gone by.
Fellow whites: “Whatsoever things are
true, whatsoever things are honest, what
soever things are just, whatsoever things
are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
things are of good report; if
there be any virtue, and if there be any
praise, think on these things.” Repudia
tion, sugared with the name of relief and
mongrelism, ushered by the catchword of
equal rights, are neither of “ these things.”
Shun the former as you would the plague,
and loathe the poisonous pest house, the
vile festering mephitic sink of a mulatto
State as you would the lake that burns
perpetually with lire and brimstone.
Albus.
Death of a Pbesbttebian Divine.—A dis
patch from Harrisburg, Pa., announces the
death of Rev. William Radeliff Dewitt, at the
age of seventy-live. Dr. Dewitt has long been
known as one of the most eloqueut divines in
Pennsylvania. He has been the pastor of the
Presbyterian church in Harrisburg nearly fifty
years. Several times during liis career be lias
been subjected to severe personal animadver
sions by the politic! ins of the Stale, formerly
by those of the Whig party, and latterly by the
Republicans. Hie connection with Governor
Shunk, and the resignation of that official,
brought upon Dr. Dewitt censures on*aeeouut
of the influence which it was supposed he ex
ercised over the Governor’s last nets in office.
Soon after Dr. Dewitt’s congregation provided
him with an assistant, he was appointed by the
Democrats State Librarian, a position which he
filled better, and the dnties of which he dis
charged more creditably than any of his pre
decessors or successors. The library was never
kept in as good condition as when he had
charge of it. The Republicans, on obtaining
power during the war, assailed him on account
of his Democratic sympathies, removed him
from office, and appointed a-Radical to succeed
him.)
MAIUUEI),
On the 24th inst., at the Parsonage of the Catholic
Church, by the Rev. Father Bazan, Miss Mart L.
McCarthy and Tuos. Summer, both of Augusta. *
Georgia State Lottery.
for the benefit of the
Masonic Orphan’s Home,.
lhe following were the drawn numbers, in the Sup
plementary Scheme, Georgia State Lottery,
December 28th.
MORNING DRAWING— CIass No. 104.
68 25 70 31 22 7 418 12 05 53 17 78
12 Drawn Numbers.
EVENING DLtAWING— CIass No. 102.
12 49 8 53 74 16 43 22 39 66 62 44
M. G. MoKINNE, Agent,
Corner Jackson and Ellis streets.
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CONSIGNEES PER S. O. RAILROAD, De
cember 28.—E Bleakley, G Rappold, A Bogatkl, J D
Butt &. Bro, n B Moon, A Toler, Joseph Deho, J
Culhbert, Octjen &. Dosher, Hyams & Cos, J L Andrr
pon, Chris Baker, Clark A Martin, J G Tucker, J 0
Mathewson & Cos, Geo II R Cos, F VonKamp, H
Cohen, O A lto'ibe, G S Hookey, Bath I’ Mills, O A
Williams & Cos, T R & Son, E O Donnell, Chat
Williams or J S Reeves, J A Ansley & Cos, J E Roll,
W Hill, Gray & Turley, G L PenD, N R Morgan,
O’Dowd & Mulherin, J Sibley A Sons, D A Hoskins,
H Cranston, A J Williams, H Thomas, H H Hick
man, J W Mooie.
CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL RAILROAD,
December SO—A Bleakley, Jones, S & Cos, Gray &T,
B W & Cos, G T Jackson, C A Platt, J G Bailie &
Bro, If E Clark, (RJ, Gray, M & Cos, Trustees RC
A, J T Gardiner, K Brown, T Richards & Son, W H
Tult, G K A Bro, C II Warner, Myers A Marcus,
Schofield, W A Cos, Augusta Factory, J OM, P
Doris, J Levy, .Beall A H, O Pemblc, J A T A Bones,
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A Bro, S D Linton, J M Dye A Cos, G W Evans A
Son, J l’hinizy.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Kg' AUGUSTA ENCAMPMENT, NO. 5, I. 0.0. F.-
A Called Meeting of this Encampment will be held on
TO-MORROW (Monday) EVENING, at 7 o’clock, for the
purpose of electing officers, conferring decrees, and the
adoption of the new code of By-Laws.
By order of the C. il.
E. LABICHE, Scribe.
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Augusta Factory, ) '
Augusta, 28th December, 1867. $
B3TTHE SEMI ANNUAL MEETING of the Stock
holders in the Auguata Factory will be held at the office
of the Company on TUESDAY next, 31st instant, at 12
o’clock, in. W. E. JACKSON,
dec23 3 * President.
B-jT THE CONFESSIONS AND EXPERIENCE OF
AN IN VALlD.—Published for the benefit, and as a Cau
tion to Young Men aud-other.-, who suffer from Nervous
Debility, Premature Decay of Manhood, «lc., supplying
lhe Means pi Self-Care. Written by one who cured
li mself, and sent tree on reeeiviev a post-paid directed
envelope. Address, NATHANIEL MAYFAIR, Brook
lyn,•N. Y. Also free, by the same publisher, a Circular
of DAISY SWAIN, the {.'real Poem of the War.
decl7-3m *
fciTSUGGESTIONS OF llf E SEASON.—King Win
der has waved his sceptre over the land, whitening: the
earth, bridging the streams, and turning the water-fulls
to pendant crystal. Upon animated an well as inanimate
nature, the frig.-d atmosphere produces a maiked effect.
The blood is driven from lhe surisc ; of the body back
ur.on its inner fountains, and CUil sand Fever, Rheuma
tism, Pulmonary diseases, Biliousness, and
disorders of the stomach an I bowels are apt
Now, what is required to fortify the system he
attacks of disease thus engendered ?
which, actiug through the stomach upon the circOrtion
and the nervous system, shall redetermine tho vitWnaid
to the surface, and brace the nerves of motion and sen
sation. But this is not all that is required. With the
Tonic luust be combined such Alterative and regulating
agencies as will tend to keep the whole animal machine
ry “in good working order.”
These three grand requisites of a winter restorative
exist, in their fullest perfection, in HOSTETTER’S
STOMACH BITTERS, which are compounded of the
purest vegetable stimulants and extracts of the most
genial and healthful roots, barks and plants that the
herbalists ana botanists of the world have yet jjiscov
ertd. decKMjanl
NOTICK.
Augusta, Ga, Dec. 21, ®7.
To the Stockholders oj the Milledgeville or Macaim&nd
Augusta Railroad Compuny : V
Calls for payment on subscriptions to tho C*ptal
Stock of ibis Company have been made up to Fiftßivc
percent. Stock upon which this amount has
Vji-l wii! Lj.Uui Company.
f«,r Tu
date 4 M *r
r. iU ll if nd^paid.
All Stockholders ii> arrears will at ODce corraspond
with the Treasurer. ;
The Road is now in operation to Milledgeville. land ia
doing a large business, it is believed that arrangAnouts
will be made by which further calls will be avoided, if
prompt payment is now made.
By order of the Board of Directors.
R. il. BULLOCK, President.
J. A. S. Milligan, Sec. Treas. dec2l-dic6o
DR. H. T. CAMPFIELD,
I > E NTIS T.
202 Broutl Street,
First door above the Ficncli Stoic.
dec2l-tf
ear maiuuage andoeijbaoy, and the hap
piness OP TRUE MANHOOD.—An Essay for Young
Men on tbe Crime of Solitude, and lhe Physiological
Errors, Abuses and Diseases which create Impediments
to MARRIAGE, with Ruro means of Reltof. Sent In
scaled letter envelopes, free of charge. Address
Dlt. J. SKILLAN HOUGHTON,
scp27-3m Howard Association. Philadelphia, Pa.
Bmp' The Best Remedy. "fE*
Kir PANK NI n’s
Hepatic Bitters, “tba
tfcff EOR "TiS
BfifDISEASES OP THE LIVUU A UIGKSTIE OnGANB."®JU
B?«r- It Never Fails.
3 if- It Never Fails. ”Stl
It Never Fails. "Usd
KIT Agents “’<&o
KsT Plumb <fc Leitnkr W. IL Tutt. -isdf
ilecl7-Iy
A tough, a ('old, or a Sore Throat,
Requires immediate attention, and should be checked.
If allowed to continue,
Irritation of tlie Lung*, a Permanent
Tliroat Diease, or CoiisumptiOHi
is often tlie result.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
Having a direct influence to tlie parts, give immediate
relief. For Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh,
Consumptive ami Troat Diseases,
Troches are used with always good success.
Singers and public speakers use them to clear and
strengthen the voice.
Obtain only “ Brown’s Bronchial Troches,” and do
not take auyof the Worthless Imitations that may be
offered. Sold everywhere. oct27-eod4ra
LACE CURTAINS,
CURTAIN MUSLIN.*’,
DAMASIC n„<l REPS,
COUNICES ami BANDS,
CURTAIN TRIMMINGS,
Embroidered Cloth PIANO COVERS,
At Reduced
We otter, from this date, our entire stock of the
above Goods at
REDUCED PRICES,
In order to make room for other goods.
decl7-lmif JAS. G. BAILIE & BRO.
BRIDAL CAKES,
lI^YRAMIDS,
STEEPLES, Ornamented,
„ CHARLOTTES RUSSES,
WINE, LIQUORS, FRUIT, Ac.
Homo Made CAKES, ornamented to order,
CAJSJJDY,
French and Domestic, wholesale and retail
A_t French. Store,
200 Rroail St., Augusta, Ga.
ocl3o-2m
BUGAY AND HARNESS
FOR SAFE.
A. GOOD TOP BUGGY and HARNESS, yarly
new, for sale low. Ap|dy at Kebnloan’s Btabi*3, or
to CfIAST ESTES,
decg* 6 276 Broad sif^t.
GUNNY CLOTH, <
In Bales and Rolli,
FOR SALE BY
OCTAVUS COII ILK & CO.A
dec24-6 SAVANNAH, Udl
ISTew .Advertisements
NOTICE.
'LL 1 nE Copartnership heretofore existing between
Leon Guerin & T. Roger Raoul, under the Btyle of
Leon Guerin <fc Cos., was dissolved on the 6th of
December, 1887, by mutual consent
Mr. Leon Gubrin is alone authorized to settle all
debts due by the company and to collect all debts due
the company. LEON GUERIN,
T. ROGER RAOUL.
FRENCH STORE.
HE undersigned will continue business at the
above store, as formerly. LEON GUERIN.
dec29-(i
SITUATION WANTED,
A.B GARDENER, by a singlo msn, who Is hilly
competent. Will work by the day or month. Best
of city roferenco given. Apply at Mr. C. Fbmblb’s
Augusta Seed Store, on Washington street.
dec29-l*
TO RENT,
My IIOUtfE and LOT, on the corner of Broad
and Lincoln streets, containing six rooms and two
attic rooms, with kitchen, stable and good garden.
dec29*tf ~ R. D. GLOVER.
AUGUSTA CITY BONDS.'
WANTED, AUGUSTA CITY BOND3, due
1C69, by
BRANCH SONS & CO.,
dec29-tf Bankers.
HORSE AND BUGGY
For Bale.
A. No. 1 TOP BUGGY and good harness, very
little used, and a sound and gentle HORSE, lor sale
low. Inquire at this office.
dec29-l
For Sale or Exchange,
FOR OIT Y PROPERTY,
Mt place VINLAND, two miles, from the
city, on the Washington ra id, known as tbs RED
MOND VIN LAND'S NURSERY'. Inquir a. this
office or to - JOHN UMJER, Jr.
dec29 0*
GARDEN SEED.
"W" E have just received a full a*soii merit of
fiesh GARDEN SEED and ONION SETTS, which
we offer rt very iow pi ices, cither ax wholesale or
retail.
BARRETT, CARTER & CO.,
dec29-3w Wholesale and Retail Druggists.
"bridal, Christmas"
AND
NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS.
GrR AND opening of solid STERLING SILVER
Ware, of all kinds, expressly made to order ; the
richest Style of JEWELRY, set with precious stones;
DIAMONDS in Breast-pins, Ear-rings and Finger
rings ; Solid Gold and Silver WATCHES; tine Gold
LKONTINE, C HATE LINE and GUARD CHA (NS
for Ladies; Gentlemen’s VEST CHAINS of the latest
patterns, with the greatest variety of Fancy Articles
to be found inn first class JEWELRY ESTABLISH
MENT. Ail goods having been bought for en-h will
he sold on the same terms, and according to hard times,
at very small advance of manufacturer’s prices. La
thes and gentlemen are very respectfully invited to
call and r Kamine my stock, which is tho largest ever
offered, not only in this city, hut in the Slate of Geor
gia- A. I’RONTAUT.
Established 1850, 103 Broad street, next door below
Augusta Hotel. oct2o-6m—novlO
Wood, Lumber and Shingles.
13 • KAII Its &, BRO., opposite Waynesboro’
Depot, Augusta, Ga. We have, and are constantly
receiving, a large assortment of WOOD, LUMBER
and SHINGLES, and arc prepared to fill orders at
tlie lowest market rati s. All orders left at the Store,
corner Greene and Elbert streets, will be promptly a'-
tended to. dee27-6m
IIANOOCK COUNTY.
TLIIK EXERCISES of my School for Boys wil
be resumed on lire 20th of JANUARY". There will
be two sessions, of 20 weeks each.
Terms for the session, including Board, Tuition and
every thing usually furnished in Country Boarding
Schools, except candles, will be $l5O, half in advance,
the other half at the middle of the term.
D. S. HAYNES.
Reference, by permission, to Col. It. M. Johnston,
Baltimore; Col. T. M. Turner, Col. A. J. Lank,
Bishop Fierce, Sparta; Rev. C. I’. Bum an, Mt. Zion;
Judge J. S. Hook, Hon. R. 11. May, Augusta; Col.
J. W. Hill, Quitman, Ga. dec2s-18*
TO RENT.
X WILL KKNT MY PLANTATION, on Buck
head Creek, Burko eounty, containing 1,400 acre*, on
very cheap term*, to a r»*pon*iblo tenant, and toll the
Mnles, Cattle, Oxen and Hog*, with all the Corn, Fod'
der, I’ea* and Potatoes, 3 fonr-hor*e Wagon* and Hap
ness, 1 two-horse Wagon, 2 Ox Carts, 1 *ingle-horse
Cart, with all the implements and tools necessary and
usually kept on a Plantation.
If not rented before the 15th January, 1808, every
thing above mentioned will he sold on the place thu 1
day, without reserve.
The place has anew Gin House, Packing Press,
Gin and Running Goar, with accommodations for
thirty workers. Terms may he made to work the
place on shares. Apply to
GEO. W. LAMAR,
dec2s-tjanls Savannah, Ga.
OYSTERS,
TTIRKSII every and iy, can he purchased at .T. M.
JL 1 Nkr i.ktt’s Family Grocery Store, No. 126 Broad
street. Oysters in the shell and opened, are received
daily from Philadelphia and Savannah. Prices vary
from 40 cents to 75 cents a quart, and from $2 to $3 per
bushel. Order* promptly filled and purchases deliv
ered in any part of the city. Restaurants andJlotels
furnished at reduced rates. dec2s ts
FOR SALE.
X 1 OUR MULES AND ONE IIOKBE will he
sold low for cash. Inquire at
dec2s 4 THIS OFFICE
336 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
Osborne’s Optical Depot.
SPECTACLES EXCLUSIVELY,
with exactitude in feci and sci
entifically adjusted to each individual case, WHEN
FREE FROM ORGANIC DISEASE. I claim to
be competent, after twenty years study of Oculism as
well as Optics, to detect diseased vision ; and many ■
know that I have rbfossd to sell to such Spectacles,
and re/erred those thus afflicted to PRACTICING
OCULISTS FOR 1 TREATMENT. My business is
the prescription of PERFECT lenses, inexact com
pensation Optically for HEALTHY EYES, Myopic
or Presbyopic. The VALUE of my services only
the intelligent can perceive. The masses of the peo
ple have been accustomed to purchase Spectacles
ANYWHERE OBTAINABLE to the irrecoverable
impairment of vision, the CHIEF OF BLESSINGS.
So, thousands destroy health by medicine, without
judicious prescriptions. Alas i BOTH learn wisdom,
but TOO LATE. I have been working to EDU
CATE the people into these knowledges ; a thank
less task, but I have done SOME good, and am still
willing to do more for all who can see this great need
and appreciate my efforts for the public weal.
nov!s-3awlm
MILLER WANTED.
One that understands his business, can come
well recommended, and is willing to' help do the
work. Address W. <fc R. H. Stevens, Mayfield, Ga.,
or call and see W. T. Richards, at the Georgia Rail
road office, in this city. dccl6-eod2w
ROBT. TOOM IS. | D. M. DuoOSE,
TOOMBS &, DuBOSE
-Attorneys at Law,
WASHINGTON, GA.,
w ILL practice in the counties of Taliaferro, El
bert, Hart, Wilkes, Warren, Hancock, Oglethorpe and
Lincoln, of the Northern, and Columbia, of the Mid
dle Circuit, the Buprcmc Court of Georgia, the United
States District and Circuit Courts.
Special attention will he given to all cases in Bank
ruptcy. sep2o-6m
NTJTS, &c., &c.
PECAN, ALMONDS, WALNUTS, IIASKI
NUTS
RAISINS, CURRANTS, CITRON, PRUNES
CRANBERRIES, JELLIES and JAMS
FIGS, GINGER PRESERVES
PRESERVES and Canned FRUIT
Fresh goods just received.
Crackers.
Egg, Cream, Walnut, Ginger Snaps, Farina, Pic-
Nie, Fox, Boston, Milk, Butter and Soda CRACK
ERS, Ac.
Fresh CRACKERS just received. »
Tea,, Sugars, &o.
Best, quality GREEN TEA
Best quality BLACK TEA
SUGARS,of all grades
Superior RIO COFFEE
Best quality JAVA COFFEE.
Butter, Hams, <fcc.
Choice new GOSHEN BUTTER
HAMS, es superior quality
FLOUR, of best qualities
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, ffesh
#CIGARS, old and fine
CANDLES, SOAP, Ac., Ac.,
And a general line of fresh and choice GROCERIES.
O
X-jiquors.
A fresh supply of old
BRANDY, RUM, WHISKY, WINES, Ac,
Just to hand.
Wood and Willow Ware, &c.
BASKETS, of all shapes and siz -s
TUBS, BUCKETS. CHURNS, KEEi.RS, Ac
BROOMS, BRUSHES. DUSTERS, SCRUBS.
Shoes.
A nice, stock} of. Ladies, Misses and Childrens’
SHOES of good quality, just received.
All of which will ho sold at a
SMALL ADVANCE FOR CASH.
.Fas. 0. Bailie & Bro.
decrlS jt-9
University of Georgia.
rn
X HE SECOND TERM of tho Sixty-seventh Ses
sion of this Institution will oegi l on the 15th day es
JANUARY, 1888, with all of the Departments, in
cluding the High School and the Law School, in fuh
operation. On the 10th of January the Faculty will
appoint twenty tneilloiious young men, residents of
the State, who will be admitted without charge for
tuition or room rent. Applicants for these appoint
ments should "orward tcß'imonials pi qualifications,
of good moral character, and of inability to pay the
tuition fees, stating age and residence. Only one will
be appointed from a county.
All students wno design to enter the Ministry of
any denomination wiil bo admitted without charge
for tuition.
'Those who desire can, by messing, greatly reduce
their expenses.
Applications should be addressed to
W. U. WADDELL,
dec2l-2aw3w Socre'ary of Faculty.
PERUVIAN GUANO.
60 TONS PURE NO. 1
PERUVIAN GUANO,
NOW ARRIVING DIRECT FROM
PERUVIAN VESSEL.
.1. O. MATHEWSON & CO.
ocf6-d*ctf
COTTON GIN S
AND
COTTON PRESSES.
THE ISE.'T
McCarthy cun ever made,
WITH THE TAYLOR, EAGLE, BROWN,
SOUTHERN, and the NEW CRAVEN SAW
COTTON PHRHBKtJ, -with Kngt.io and
Horse Powers, anil all supplies in store, for sale at the
lowest rates by
J. B. FULLER,
sep4-4m 47 Dey Street, New York City.
mm
COLGATE & €«.’S
GERItAN
iiiusive mt
i Tile Muiidai ti of
| EXCELLENCE.
For Sale by all Grocers.
0c122-3mif
T. A. HOYT, JAS. OARDKKR,
V. P. Gobi Exchange. of Georgia.
HOYT & GARDNER,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
INTO. 5 NEW STREET.
(SHAH WAT.L SfRUIVr,)
NEW YORK.
(3 OVERNMKNT Securities, Storks, Bonds, Ex
change, Commercial Paper and Golcfpurchased and
sold on commission.
Money received on deposit, and interest allowed
upon current balances. Collections promptly made
upon all accessible jtoints. Special attention given lo
orders in gold.
novl9-2m
Dennison’s Condition Powders,
FOR
Horses and HVlnles.
NLIKK other Medicines ami Powders, their
effect is permanent, building up the animal, giving
strength to the LUNGS, and vitality to all parts of the
system. They rejuvenate old Horses and Mules, and
if you want your animals FAT, HEARTY, STRONG
and HEALTHY, use these Powders, and after giv
ing them a fair trial you will, like thousands of others
never he without them.
These Powders are unequalled for Coughs, Colds,
Loss of Appetite, Hide Bound, Yellow Water, Sur
feit, Farcy, Diarrhoea or Purging, Lung Fever, Cholic,
and all diseases Incident to Horses and Mule*. All
persons having tho care of these animals should keep
a supply on hand. A few doses given before and
alter a race or any extra work will keep the animal in
health and strength, and If given to a Horse or Mule
that has by hard labor or neglect been reduced in
flesh and spirits, a complete restoration of health and
beauty will he at once effected.
Dose : One Powder at night in wet food.
For sale at wholesale and i eta.il by
M. G. McKINNIE,
Corner Jackson and Ellis streets,
and by W. H. TUTT.
decll-3m
NOTICE.
PERSONS having claims against the es
tate of William Jones, deceased, late of Columbia
county, will please present them at once to the under
signed for payment. Those indebted will also make
payment to us.
Our address is Augusta, in rare of Fleming &
Rowland.
WILLIAM H, JONES,
JOSHUA B. GRIFFIN,
decll-6w Executors.
WOOD, WOOD, WOOD.
SCHLEY & CO. will sell the best
quality of MIXED HICKORY, OAK and ASH
WOOD, if taken at tho Wharf, on tho arrival of
the steamer, at FIVE DOLLARS per measured cord.
Tho steamer will arrive and discharge every week.
All orders left at their office, No. 15 Mclntosh street,
will bo promptly attended to.
If delivered at the WOOD YARD tho price
will be $5 60 per cord.
We expect to keep a supply of WOOD on hand
throughout tho year, and order* left in lime will save
10 per cent, on the cost.
mySOLTaI
WANTED
O PURCHABK, SUGAR CANE in any quan
tity. Address or inquire of
CHAS. W. HARRIS,
dec27-0 262 Broad street.
NEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED
o—
OWN IMPORTATION!
JULIUS G.TUCKER,
' Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES,
TRUNKS, GENT’S FURNISHING ©§OOS
NOTIONS, &e„ &c. ;
iikV, & 316 BROAD.ST., AUGUSTA, GA,
HAS JUST OPENED
A full tin 1 complete stock of the above named merchandise, which will be sold at a
SMALL ADVANCE ON COST.
The attention of the Ladies is especially Invited to my splendid assortment <*.
IMPORTED CORSETTS, all colors anti styles.
ALSO,
KID GLOVES at One Dollar a pair.
* ALSO,
The finest assortment in the city of
MOURNING COLLARS and SETTS
LACES and LACE COLLARS.
My stock of
BB.££§S €3ro<o3»fi»
Is well selected and as cheap as can ho sold anywhere. A full and complete stock of
CLOTHING and PIECE GOODS.
A full line of
BROGANS, BALMORALS and CONGRESS SHOES.
A full assortment of
C iff and Ivip BOOTS.
A comple assortment of Gent’s FURNISHING GOODS, embracing
Fine White SHIRTS
Fine Colored SHIRTS
Fine Traveling SHIRTS
Fine UNDER SHIRTS
HANDKERCHIEFS, SOCKS, GLOVES, SUSPENDERS, &c.
ALSO,
A large assortment of
HATS and CAPS
TRUNKS and VALISES
UMBRELLAS, NOTIONS, Ac., &c., &c.
Country IVtoroliants and 'Dealers
Arc respectfully invited to Call and Examine the above New and Large
Stock, and Special Facilities are otfered from the fact that l have Personally Purchased
a large quantity of the above named merchandise in Europe, and am consequently en
abled to sell these Imported Goods
BELO W N EW YORK PRICES,!
0c127 3 m - ■" m \ - T ~r—~
AUGUSTA SEED STORE,
NO. 15 WASHINGTON STHKKT (one door .South of ltlroad).
o
_Jl* 11K SUBSCRIBER has just received a very Splendid Block of FRENCH, ENGLISH nud AMERI
CAN GARDEN and FIELD SEEDS, which cannot be surpassed tor Quality and Variety in Hie Southern
market; also, ONION SETS, RED and WHITE CLOVER, I.AWN GRABS, KENTUCKY BLUE,
ORCHARD and HEARDS GRASSES and LUOICRN. To arrive, llie Celebrated Early Goodrich and
Hftrnson IRISH POTATOES, PJSNNBYT.VANI A GOURD SEED and other KA RLY CORN, Ac., Ac.
COUNTRY MERCHANTS and FARMERS supplied as Low as elsewhere.
Small Packages, from one ounce to a pound, sent by mail FREE OF POSTAGE.
decs-3m C. PKIHBLK.
GREAT REDUCTION IN FRIGES AT
THE EMPIRE BOOT & SHOE MPORIUM.
• «♦♦♦»-- —i
ROBERT CARROLL,
WITH
EDWIN F. BLODGETT & CO,
aoa BHOAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA„
Vt K ARK NOW OFFERING one of the largcnt and best selected Stocks of Gentlemen’s, Lyuties
Misses’ and Children’s
Boots ASM satis,
kver opened in this city, and experience of twenty years, and buying strictly or cash, enables ns to soil
to our customers at from 20 to 25 per cent, cheaper than they can be purchased elsewhere. Call and examine
as Goods will be freely shown and one price asked.
Miles’ Celebrated BOOTS and SIIOKS. -Also, all other ROOTS and SIIOKS from manufacturer* •
note in the United States.
N. 13.—N0 Shoddy or paper stuified SIIOKS kept at this establishment- ootJt?-0m
SOUTHERN TOBACCO AGENCY.
o
BLAIR, SMITH & CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
298 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
AV"E HAVi£ IN STORK AND OFFER TO THE TRADE,
Six Thousand Boxes Manufactured Tobacco,
Os all glades and styles, consisting in part of the following well known brands, viz:
W. D. Stultz’s “ AAAA ”
W. D. Stultz’s GOLDEN BARS
Stultz & Burnett’s PANOAK K
Holland’s HIDDEN TREASURE
D. Jones’ ROSE BUD
Spencer’n CALHOUN
J. T. Keen’s FORREST ROSE
J. T. Keen’s COUNT BISMARCK
Tatum’s QUEEN OF THE VALLEY
G. A. Burke’s EXTRA FINE
Winfree’s C ROS J
ALSO,
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND (100,000) POUNDS SMOKING TOBACCO,
Comprising in part the following favorite brands, viz:
MARYLAND CLUB
ROANOKE NAVY
DURHAM
GUERRILLA CLUB
OLIVE BRANCH
Selling exclusively on COMMISSION, and receiving our stock direct from tho Manufacturers in Vir
ginia and North Carolina, we are prepared to fill orders at the iowost market rates.
SAMPLES will be forwarded by Express when desired. docß-lm
MOSHER, THOMAS & SCHAUB,
l No. 244 Broad Street, Angutta, Ga., Under
} COINA yf English and French China,
BOHEMIAN, FRENCH AND AMERICAN
GLASS AND CROCKERY WARE*
VVA ftjjjpT Southern Porcelain Ware*
tar Orders Solicited, Filled and Promptly Forwarded
.1- 4081 AH MOSHKR. |4. 4IVFEH3ON THOMAS. | GIO SOHAI'H
J. L. Claytor’s EXTRA
J. L. Claytor’s GOLD LEAF
J. A. Smith’s GOLD LEAF
BELLE OF PIEDMONT
LILLY OF THE VALLEY
VIRGINIA CROWN
ELLIE KNIGHT
FANNIE FORRESTER
ELLA WAG STAFF
ADMIRATION TWIST
DON JUAN GOLD BARS.
BIRD’S EYE
CZAR OF RUSSIA
QUEEN
CAPE JESSAMINE
HIGHLANDER, &e., &c.