Georgia Historic Newspapers

    CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AXJGKCTSTA. Q-A.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 30, 1868
For :
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OF KBW YORK.
For Viee-3?resident:
FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
OF MISSOURI.
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STATE ELEOTOEAL TICKET.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE :
Gen. JOHN B. GORDON, of Fulton.
Hon. JOHN T. CLARKE, of Randolph.
FOR THE DISTRICTS:
1. JOHN C. NICHOLS, of Pierce.
2. Col. CHARLES T. GOODE, of Sumter.
3. RAPHAEL J. MOSES, of Muscogee.
4. AUGUSTUS O. BACON, of Bibb.
5. Maj. j‘. B. CUMMING, of Richmond.
6. H. P. BELL, of Forsyth.
7. Col. JAMES D. WADDELL, of Fulton.
MUEDEE, NORTH AND SOUTH.
The New York Herd'd has advocated the
election of Gen. Grant, but it is, by no
means, a lover of the Radical system of re
construction. While partisan journals, like
the Times and Tribune, are devoting the
South to destruction, because of certain
murders committed, the Herald takes an
impartial and just view of the matter; so
just and so impartial that it*may make men
wonder. Here is the article we refer to .
“ We have been made familiar for a loug
time past with stories of frequent murders,
violent assaults, displays of force to interrupt
political processions in the Southern States,
negroes assailing white men even unto death
and white men assaulting negroes. This is all
the natural result of the Radical system of re
construction. The reconstruction laws were
the Lets is of a war of races. We cannot, there
fore, be surprised at the fruits. For example,
white men in open day murder Randolph, a
black member of the South Carolina Legisla
ture; black men in Louisiana hunt down a
white man, chain him to a tree, threaten him
with death, and the result is a general fight be
tween negroes and white men, cuding in the
death of thirty of the unfortunate blacks and
two white men. So, also, at Jeflerson, a city
situated a little above New Orleans, the old
police force and the new one appointed by
the Louisiana 1 black and tan ’ Legislature
come into collision upon the latter attempting
to assume authority. Wherefore? Because
the new organization is composed, iu large
part, of negroes, who, it appears, go heavily
armed through the streets, displaying that ef
frontery which always characterizes ignorance
invested with authority. A newspaper ofllee in
Alexandria, Louisiana, is also sacked by a mob,
whether white or black the dispatch does not
state ; but that it was nevertheless the result of
collision between the races we may safely as
sume. The latest murder is that of four peo
ple in the streets of New Orleans on Saturday,
in a fight between a white and a black political
club. From various quarters in the South we
hear ot similar conflicts, which make good the
prophcey that the reconstruction laws, whether
* unconstitutional, null and void,’ as they have
been declared by the Democratic platform, or
not, are certainly provocative of much mis
chief, anarchy and bloodshed. So mneli fo*-
the Southern record of murder, and we have
not noted the lmlf of It. But what of the mur
der record of the North ? Perhaps if we were
to strike a fair balance there would not be
fouud so much difference after all. The appa
rent difference is that homicide at the South is
invariably put to the credit of polities, and in
exciting times like these there is much made of
it by partisan newspapers. We are told that iu
one single county of New Hampshire there are
now awaiting trial no less than five murderers.
In our own city homicides are almost as ntr
merous as the nights in the year. New Eng
land furnishes, according to the record, nearly
as many murderers in proportion to the popu
lation as the Southern States.
“ The moral of all this is that while Radical
reconstruction canuot check the progress of
crime in the Southern States, but rather fosters
it. so New England Puritanism cannot elevate
the moral condition of its people above the use
ot the knife, the pistol and the poison cup.
The cause of the increase of murder in the
South is to he traced to the war of races, the
inevitable result of Radiol policy. In New
England it belongs to the war of bad passions,
to irreligion and intemperance. No plea of
political exasperation can be put in there, for
everything is serene and pleasant in New En
gland ; no military governors, no offensive ne
gro supremacy, for New England takes care
that the uegro is kept in his proper place ; no
disfranchisement of white citizens exists there
to provoke conflict and keep men’s temper np
‘ like quills upon the fretful porenpine ;’ and
yet, with all the hideous reports of murder and
violence in the Southern States, sad as they are,
it would appear from recent statements that we
are not much better off at the North than our
neighbors in that wretchedly misgoverned por
tion ot the country.”
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, October 21.
The agitation of the subject of changing
the Democratic nominees for President and
Vice-President has done good, and the can
vass now looks more promising than it has
at any time since the first of October. The
personal responsibility and interest which
every man may have in the result have
been brought home to him. As has often
been the case during the past eight years,
the people have placed themselves in ad
vance of their leaders, and are pushing the
canvass with such vigor as has probably
never before been witnessed. That the re
sult will be such as we hope for cannot b<>
confidently assured; but the Southern
people may rely upon it, that we shall at
least deserve success.
NATURALIZATION.
A notorious fellow, named Murray, who
is United States Marshal for this district,
is making a gre-t parade of discoveries of
frauds in the naturalization of foreigners
in the courts of this city. Os this Murray,
it is no uncommon thing to hear Republi
cans remark that they would not believe
him under oath.
Never has the work of naturalization
been performed with more care than this
Fall; those who make the outcry know
this; but the purpose of the Radicals is to
establish such opinions in the public mind
as to take the power to naturalize foreign
ers from the State courts, and confide it
only to the Federal Courts; in effect, re
pealing our naturalization laws to a large
number of foreign born white men. This
is a consistent following to the work of
forcing negro franchise at the point of the
bayonet.
THE WHISKY TAX.
The collection of the whisky tax is now
believed to be nearly perfected. How is it
dene ? By an appeal to the self-interest of
the leading distillers. The law, as it now
stands, makes the manufacture of whisky a
risky business. The action of the Internal
Revenue Commissioner is directed to the
crushing out of all small distilleries. The
process of collecting the whisky tax is not
precisely the “farming out” process which
is practiced in many European countries,
but it is pretty near it. By the vigorous
enforcement of the law, as it now stands,
and the collection of the excise of 50 cents
per gallon, the great distillers can make
more money than they ever did when there
Was no excise. The changed aspect of j
<• £-3 'srvSSS'SIESSS
Ci ?on^ I S k n y ot 3 m07e S ttan t 4s s ceJt
make or with the excise, 95 cents,.leaving
the enormous profit of 20 cents per gallon.
The re™ru from the whisky tax ought,
therefore, be fully forty million gJgJWJ
annum; a sum sufficient, with the topacco
tax and the sale of stamps, to permit the
removal of all other internal taxes,Jndiud-
ing the odious income tax; the> duties on
foreign imports may also be much reduced
and the cost of living once morebe brought
within reasonable limits- .
Radicals in -control of affairs. Shall they
not be overthrown ?
NOTABLE COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS.
One ill a while a mercantile transaction
occurs in our markets of such colossal pro
portions as to deserve more than a passing
record. The immense extent of
New York is hardly understood, and diffi
cult for the unitiated to comprehend. A
prominent wholesale grocery house in tiffs
city purchased, last week, the entire stock
of Java coffee iu the country, amountiug to
81,000 mats. Now, as , each
about sl2 in gold.it follows that this trans
action involves the payment of nearly
$1 000,000. Another of the same charactei
was the purchase, by one house, of four
hundred thousand cases of p( l t *
(kerosene) whose value was aboutjpi.ow,-
000. On Saturday about five thousand
hogsheads of sugar were sold in this mar
ket, and to-day about two hundred thou
sand bushels of wheat. And \t must be
observed, too, that these transactions occur
at a time when there is very little specula
tive* feeling. What can more strongly il
lustrate the overshadowing commercial in
fluence of this great city ?
THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
During the course of the week just trans
pired, as was anticipated, some acts of great
importance have been passed by the Gen
eral Convention of the Episcopal Church,
which is still in session, and likely to con
tinue so for some days yet to come. Among
these is the consent of that body to the di
vision of the Dioceses of New York, Mary
land and Western New York ; the latter,
however, not having been effected until
after considerable discussion, owing to a
difference of opinion in regard to some tech
nicalities. Another proceeding also, which
called forth a severe protest, was the send
ing of the petition for the consent of the
convention to the division to the House of
Bishops, instead of to the House of Clerical
and Lay Deputies, as had hitherto been
customary. Not the least important, also,
lias been the passage o? an act altering the
fifth article of the constitution, by which
the sub-division of Dioceses is rendered
much more easy than formerly, as all re
strictions arc struck out, except that which
requires the consent of the Bishop of the
Diocese and of the General Convention. A
new restriction, however, has been adopted,
to the effect that the consent of the General
Convention shall not be given until satis
factory assurance be given of a suitable
provision for the support of the Episcopate
in the new Diocese. This restriction, which
was not adopted until after a long and ani
mated debate, is, nevertheless, a most bene
ficial and necessary one, inasmuch as the
consequences would almost inevitably have
been disastrous to the purity oi the Church
had Dioceses been permitted to select those
who should fill the office of Bishop, without
asking for compensation, for it would have
followed from necessity almost, that when
ever a poor Diocese was created it would be
compelled to elect for its Bishop some one
who would not require a salary, thus
throwing this important and honorable
office entirely into the hands of the richer
portion of the clergy. The opposition to
this pecuniary restriction came principally
from the poorer Dioceses of the South and
West..
Tac proceedings this week have also been
marked by tiic final settlement of the Tyng
case, which has for months past disturbed
the peace of the Church, and given rise to
so much discussion. The question was de
cided against tiie innovating party, by a
majority of one hundred and twenty-three
against seventy-eight; this being the final
(locisiuu those restless ami disor
ganizing spirits, who And the numerous
churches of the Episcopal communion quite
insufficient for the expenditure of their in
trusive zeal.
Meantime, the Board of Missions has been
actively engaged in arousing the mission
ary zeal of the Church, and evening after
evening the claims of some department of
missionary work has been presented to
different congregations. One novel fea
ture in this movement was a musical festi
val held at the Academy of Music, ou which
occasion the exercises consisted of the
reading of chapters of the Bible, the re
cital of the Creed and Lord’s Prayer, and
the siuging of hymns and the performance
of some tine pieces of music by several dif
ferent choral societies of tiie city and
suburbs.
KELLOGG.
The Academy of Music, on Monday of
this week also, was thronged to its utmost
capacity on the occasion of the debut ot Miss
Kellogg, who appears this Winter before
an American public in concert, or rather a
sort of combination of opera and concert,
as on the evening in question, after the
rendition of several pieces in her accustom
ed beautiful style, she went through the
third act of Faust. . During the concert
part of the performance wore the same
dress in which £he appeared at her first
concert at Buckingham Palace—a rich
rose colored silk, puffed over an under
dress of white tulle, made with three
flounces, and finished with a white satin
striped panier, looped very high on the left
side with a bouquet of pink roses which
tamed towards the rightaud fastened there
with three bouquets. She wore a wreath
of roses over an elaborate and tasteful
coiffure, and a number of costly diamonds
completed this most elegant costume. She
was assisted by Miss Alide Topp, the cele
brated piauist, and other artists of note.
OPERA BOUFFE.
Opera Bouflfe is, however, the amusement
of New York this season, and rival Priraa
Domas and new plays are presented in this
line both by Grau and Bateman. At the
French Theatre, on Thursday evening, the
first representation of “ Genevieve de Bra
bant” was giveu, which, as a matter of
course, drew a crowded and fashionable
house. The mine cn scene was very fine,
while the opera itself offers reminiseuces of
Offenback’s other works.
It is vehemently denounced as grossly in
decent, but whether as an advertising
dodge I cannot say. The charge is true
enough, but will it prevent people who
claim to be decent from visiting its repre
sentation? Probably not. The story is
told that an author, finding that one of his
productions upon the New York boards
was likely to prove a failure, went to the
editor oJ a noted daily and asked permis
sion to publish a notice of il. The editor,
from friendly sympathy, permitted him to
do so, and left orders to insert whatever
miirht be written. Great was his surprise
the uext morning to find the poor author’s
play denounced as disgracefully prurient.*
But he found that these denunciations were
written by the author himself; and from
that time forth the theatre would not hold
the people who crowded to see his play.
BUSINESS MATTERS.
It looks to-day as though gold had de
clined as low as it is likely to go for some
weeks to come. The Government has been
selling $300,000 per day, and the money
market has been very tight. The “ bears ”
have croaked their loudest about the effect
of the November interest, till I think the
effect has been quite exhausted.
Cotton stands up wonderfully upder the
pressure of increased receipts, a close money
market and other adverse circumstances.
All efforts to force middling uplands below
25 cents have thus far failed. But the crisis
of the market is hardly reached as yet.—
Some are looking for a decline in gold to
125 during the Winter, and it is by no
means probable. It is clearly the interest
of buyers to meet the demand at current
prices as freely as possible, for when stocks
begin to rapidly accumulate here and in
Europe, it will be difficult to prevent a de
cline. It is noted that cotton which has
paid tax—old cotton—has the preference
with spinners, because they arc allowed a
“draw-back” on goods made from such
cotton and sold for export.
Willoughby.
A Western editor, when in durance for libel
ling a justice of the peace was requested by the
jailor to give the prison a favorable notice.
(From the National Intelligencer.
The National finances.
ABLE LETTER OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
* ' '
Executive Mansion, )
Washington, D. C., October 24,1868. J
Dear Sir : In a recent conversation upon
the subject of the finances, you expressed a
desire to be furnished with some of the
leading facts then mentioned, touching the
national expenditures and the public debt.
I now comply with your request, regret
ing, however, that other and more pressing
matters have prevented me from more
clearly illustrating the absolute necessity
for immediate reform in the financial ope
rations of the Government. - v.
In 1776 our national independence vffas
proclaimed, and, after an exhaustive, bloody
struggle of seven years, was, in 1783, ac
knowledged by the parent Government. In
1787 the Federal Constitution was framed,
and in 1789 the Government went into ope
ration under its provisions, burdened with
a debt of seventy-five millions of dollars,
created during the war of the Revolution.
Immediately upon the organization of Con
gress, measures were devised for the pay
ment of the national obligations and the
restoration of the public credit; and when,
in 1812, war was declared against Great
Britain, the debt had already been reduced
to forty-flve trillions of dollars. It was then
largely increased by the three years’ strug-,
gle that ensued between the two nations,
until, in 1816, it had reached the sum of
one hundred and twenty-seven millions. —
Peace again established, provision was
made for the earliest practicable liquida
tion of this indebtedness, in order that it
might not become a permanent incumbrance
upon the people. Under wise and econom
ical legislation, the entire amount was paid
in a period of twenty years, and the extin
guishment of the national debt filled the
land with rejoicing, and was one of the
great events of Presidept Jackson’s admin
istration. Even after its payment, a large
fund remained in the Treasury, which, for
safe-keeping, was deposited with the sev
eral States, ou condition that it should be
returned wlien required by the public wants.
In 1849, the year after the termination of an
expensive war with Mexico, we found our
selves involved in a debt of sixty-four mil
lions ; and this was the amount owed by
the Government iu 1860, just prior to the
outbreak of the rebellion.
In the Spring of 1861 the war of the re
bellion commenced. Each year of its con
tinuance made an enormous addition io the
debt; so that when, in the Spring of 1865,
the nation successfully emerged from the
dreadful conflict, the obligations of the
Government had reached the vast amount
of twenty-six hundred millions. They had
not yet, however, attained tlicir highest
point; for, when the army and Davy had
been paid, the volunteer forces disbanded,
and tiie navy largely reduced, it was found,
in February, 1866, that our indebtedness
exceeded tweuty-eight hundred millions of
dollars !
Having thus referred to the indebtedness
of the Government at various periods of its
existence, it may be well to gall attention
to a brief statement of facts connected with
its expenditures.
From the fourth day of March, 1789, to
the thirtieth of June, 1861, the entire public
expenditures were seventeen hundred mil
lions of dollars. Although covering a pe
riod of seventy-two years, this amount
seems small when compared with the ex
penses of the Government during the recent
war of four years duration ; for, from the
first of July, 1861, to the thirtieth of June,
1865, they reached the enormous aggregate
of thirty-three hundred millions of dollars !
An investigation into the disbursements
since the first day of J uly, 1865, further
shows, that, by adding to the expenditures
of the last three years the estimated cost of
administering the Government for the year
ending the thirtieth of June, 1869, we ob
tain the sum of sixteen hundred millions of
dollars as the amount required for the lour
years immediately following the cessation
of Hostilities, or nearly as much as was ex
pended during the seventy-two years that
preceded the war.
It will be seen, from this brief review,
that from 1791 to 1861 our public debt was
at no time more than one hundred and
twenty-seven millions of dollars, while,
subsequently, four years of civil war ex
panded it to twenty-eight hundred millions.
It will also be perceived that while, prior
to 1861, the largest annual disbursement
was not quite seventy-four millions for the
year 1858, the expenditures during the last
three years of peace have successively been
five hundred and twenty millions, three
hundred and forty-six millions, and three
hundred and ninety-three millions—three
hundred and seventy-two millions being
the amount which it is estimated will lie
necessary for the year ending the thirtieth
of June next.
In making this comparison, we should
remember that during the long interval be
tween 1789 and 1861 the Government was
frequently required to make expenditures
of an extraordinary character. Large sums
were paid to Indians as annuities, and for
the purchase of their lauds, and expensive
wars were waged against powerful tribes.
Louisiana was acquired from France at a
cost of fifteen millions of dollars; Florida,
in consideration of five millions, was ceded
to us by Spain; California became a part
of our possessions on payment to Mexico of
fifteen millions; while for ten millions our
Government secured from Texas the terri
tory of New Mexico. During these periods
of our history we were also engaged in
wars with Great Britain and Mexico—the
first waged against one of the most power
ful nations of the world, the other was ad
ditionally expensive by the prosecution
of military operations in the enemy’s terri
tory.
The startling facts, thus concisely stated,
suggest an inquiry as to the cause of this
immense increase in the expenditures and
indebtedness o. the country. During the
civil war the maintenance of the Federal
Government was the one great purpose that
animated our people, aud that economy
which should always characterize our finan
cial operations was overlooked iu the great
effort of the nation to preserve its exist
ence. Many abuses, which had their ori
gin in the war, continued to exist long af
ter it had been brought to a triumphant
conclusion, and the people, having become
accustomed to a lavish expenditure of the
public money for au object so dear to them
as the preservation of the integrity of their
free institutions, have patiently tolerated
taxation of the most oppressive character.
Large sums of money continue to be extort
ed from them, aud squandered in useless
and extravagant appropriations. Enormous
expenditures are demanded for purposes,
the accomplishment of which requires a
large standing army, perversion of the Con
stitution, aud subjugation of States to ne
gro domination. With a military establish
ment costing in time of peace not less than
one hundred millions annually, and a debt,
the interest upon which draws from the
Treasury each year nearly one hundred aud
fifty millions of dollars for these two items
of expenditure alone—retrenchment has lie
conic an absolute necessity, or bankruptcy
must soon overtake us, and involve the
country in its paralyzing and disastrous
results. If, however, a wise economy be
adopted, the taxes may soon be materially
reduced, not meraljr for the benefit of a few,
but iu the interest of all. A revenue would
yet remain sufficient for the administration
of the Government, as well as for such a
reduction of the public debt as would in a
few years relieve the people from millions
of interest now annually drawn from their
resources.
The idea that the debt is to become per
manent should be at all times discoun
tenanced, as involving taxation too heavy
to be borne, and payment of an amount in
interest every sixteen years equal to the
original sum. The gradual liquidation of
the public debt would by degrees release
the large capital invested in the securities
of the Government, which, seeking remu
neration in other sources of income, would
add to the wealth of the nation, upon
which it is now so great a drain. This
immense debt, if permitted to become per
manent and increasing, must eventually be
gathered into the hands of the few, and
enable them to exert a dangerous and con
trolling power in the affairs of the Govern
ment. The debtors would become the ser
vants of the lenders—the creditors, the
masses of the people. It is now onr boast
that we have given freedom to three mil
lions of slaves; it will then be our shame
that by their own toleration of usurpation
and profligacy, forty millions of people
have enslaved themselves, and exchanged
slaveholders for new taskmasters, In the
shape of bondholders and tax-gatherers.—
Hence the vital issue whether Congress and
its arbitrary assumptions of authority shall
supersede the supreme law of the land*-
whether in time of peace the country shall
be controlled by a multitude of tax collect
ors and a standing army, the one almost as
numerous as the other, and making the debt
a permanent burden upon the productive in
dustry of the people; or whether the Con
stitution, with each and all its guaranties,
shall be sacredly preserved ; whether now,
as in 1789 and 1816, provision shall be
made for the payment of our obligations at
as early a period as practicable, that the
fruits of their labors may be enjoyed by
our citizens, rather than used to build up
and sustain a moneyed monopoly at home
and abroad. The contest is not merely
who shall occupy the principal offices iu
the people’s gift, but whether the high be
hests of the Federal Constitution shall be
observed and maiutaiued, iu order that our
liberties may be preserved; the Union of
the States restored, that our Federal system
may be unimpaired; fraternal feeling re
established, that our national strength may
be renewed ; the expenditures diminished,
that taxation mav be lightened; and the
public debt once more extinguished, that it
may not injuriously affect the life and ener
gy,the prosperity and morals of the nation.
Believing that for the redress of the
great wrongs, and the correction of the
many abuses under which the country is
now laboring, we must look to the Ameri
can people, and that in them is our hope, I
am, very truly, your friend,
Andrew Johnson.
General Thomas Ewing.
mxJINJBPtAIL. NOTICE.
THE FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF
Mr. end Mrs. Patrick Sharkey are respectfully in
vited to attend the funeral of the latter, from her late
residence, on Centre street, THIS (Friday) MORN
ING, at 10 o’clock. *
Georgia State Lottery
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
M asonic Orphan’s H osjfe e.
Tiie following were the drawn numbers, in the*Sup
njenfentary Scheme, drawn at Augusta, Georgia,
Y w . October 29.
MOWfITNG DRAWING-Class No. 597.
37 01 39 4<T 7 74 73 1 71 «6 50-~
11 Drawn Numbers.
EVENING DRAWING— CIass No. 268.
37 SI 68 6 38 33 39 11 3 57 49 50 41
13 Drawn Numbers.
M. G. McKINNE,
oct3ol Manager.
Special, notices.
OFFICIAL.
PROCLAMATION.
GEORGIA:
BY RUFUS B. BULLOCK, GOVERNOR OF SAID STATE.
Whereas, Official information has been riceived at
this Department of the escape from the jail of DeKaib
county of Abe Huggins, chirged with !he crime of gjiur
der, committed in the county of DeKaib:
1 have thought proper, therefore, to issue this, rayjpro
clamation, hereby offering a reward of Two Hundred
Dollars for the apprehension and delivery of thjtsaid
Huggins to the Sheriff of said county and State- vt
And I do, moreover, charge and require all officers in
this State, civil and military, to be vigilant in endeavor
ing to apprehend the said Huggins, in order that Ire may
be brought to trial and justice for the offense with Mbich
lie stands charged.
Given under iny baud and the Great Seal of the State, at
the Capitol, iu the city of Atlanta, this 28th day of Oc
tober, in the year ofdur Lord, eighteen hundred and
sixty-eight, and ot the Independence of tiie Unite 1
States of America the ninety-third.
RUFUSB. BULLOCK, L
By the Governor: Governor.
David O. Dotting,
Secretary of State.
<‘Ct3o-d3*Dl
I. V. ASSOCIATION.—There will be a meeting
of the members of the above Association, at No. 8 #Bn
gine House. THIS (Friday) EVENING, at 8 o'clock/
By order of the President.
oct3o-l ; #
BST PUBLIC MEBTING.-Dr. S. Bard, of Atlanta,
will address the citizens of Augusta, without distinction
ofpartv, on tlie political questions of the day, at the City
Hall, THIS (Friday) EVENINO, at 71 o'clock. j&v
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0V NOTICE.—The PEWS iu St. Paul’s Cliuudiwill
be offered for rent for the coming year, at 12o'clock,®.,
MONDAY, November 2,1568, at the Church.
It is particularly requested that parties desirous of de
taining their Pews should notify the Secretary, or tlSir
Pews will b • considered vacant, and will be olfereoyEjj
rent at that time.
By order of (lie Board of \\and
W. C. JONSSj
Secretary and Treasurer St. Paul’s Church.
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NOTICE.
Office Assistant Superintendent, ?
Georgia Railroad, Augusta, Get. 16, 1668. )
BfS~ Except Sunday night, a Train will inn on the
Washington Branch iu connection with our Night Pass
enger Trains on ani alter MONDAY, 19th inst, tearing
Washington at 10, p. ra.; rotu'oing, arriving at Wash
ington at 3:20. a. m.
S. K. JOHNSON,
Assistant Superintendent.
Washington Gazette copy. octl7-tf
NOTICE TO MERCHANTS.
Office Assistant Superintendent, 1
Georgia Railroad, S
Augusta, Ga., October 6,1568. )
On and after this date the rate on ROPE is reduced to
One Dollar and Twenty Cents per one hundred pounds
from St. Louis, Mo , and Louisville, Ky., to Augusta, Ga.,
via Hickman, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn.
S. K. JOHNSON,
octC-lro As-i-tant Superintendent.
DR. H. T. CAMPFIELD,
DENTIST.
Rooms, 223 Broad Street,
Opposite Central Hotel.
oetl7-3m
-a WIRE RAILING, FOR EN
ll JL ~ 11* closing Cemetery Lots, Cot-
JLVv V l|_ tages. &C.; WIRE GUARDS
"■ml MM and WIRE WORK.
FOUItDRINIER CLOTHS
manufacture*! by M. WALKER A- SONS,
Jan22-lv No. tl North f.th st.. I’mLADKLPinji.
:
v Avoid Poison.
Invalid reader, do you know what nine-tenths of the
bitter compounds you are solicited by the proprietors to
accept as universal panaceas are composed of? Give
heed for a moment. They are manufactured from un
purified a'cohol, containing a considerable portion of
fusil oil— a poison almost as deadly as prussic acid. The
basis of the regular tinctures of the Materia Medica is
the same. No amount of “ herbal extracts ” can over
come the bad tendency of this pernicious element. The
essence of sound Rye, thoroughly rect fied, is the only
stimulant which can be safely used as a component of a
ton e, alterative and anti-bilious medicine, and HO;'-
TETTKR'S STOMACH BITTERS is the only medicinal
preparation in the world in which this article is used as
an ingredient. Hence the extraordinary effects of this
great specific. It gives strength without producing ex
citement. No other tonic does this. All the ordinary
Bitters flush the fare and affect the brain. HOSTKT
TER S BITTERS diffuses an agreeable calm through
the nervous system, promotes digestion, and produces
sleep. No other tonic so quickly revives the exhausted
physical energies, restores the appetite and removes the
gloom and depression which always accompanies weak
ness of the bodily powers. It purges from the system
the morbid humors which retard its natural functions,
and which bring paleness to the cheek and suff ring to
the brow. It banishes those clogs upon pleasure, re
stores the system to high health, and necessarily proves
a valuable adjunct to the digestive organs. A trial is all
that is needed to establish it in the confidence of the
skeptic. ecU5-dJkctnovl
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tST Hepatic Hittsks,
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M“Dibb*s*bof ths Livaaa Digibtik Organs.
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ROBERTS, MORRIS & SHIVERS,
FACTORS
■ AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Mclntosh Street, Augusta, Ga.
Commission for selling Cotton, ONE AND A
QUARTER PER CENT.
jy22-6m
RESTAURANT.
I HAVE opened a First Class RESTAURANT at
my Baloon, on Ellis street, in rear of Central Hotel,
where I keep constantly on hand OYSTERS,
GAME, FISH, MEATS of all kinds, and eveiy.
thing appertaining to a FIRST-CLABSB BATING
HOUSE. CHARLES QUINTEL.
oct2»-tf
New Advertisements
THEATRE —CONCERT HALL.
Leaiee and Manager.. John Templeton.
EXTRAORDINARY BEN3ATIONS ! .
New Orderjof Attractions! The Best, Most Varied
and Select, and the Lowest Prick of Ad
mission Ever Known in Avgusta. The
Drama Laid Aside to Present the Se
lected Novelties Which ore Pa
tronized by One and All.
FRIDAY EVENING, October 30th.
THE AVENGER!-
The Select and Fashionable
MI NSTR EL S !
In Grand New Programme. Lingard’s CAPTAIN
JINKS.” ELECTION DAY, and Great
Variety. SECRET DISPATCH,
Sent hy Johnson to Gen. Lee.
To Accommodate All,
THE LOWEST PRICES KNOWN.
Parquette, front, 75 cents; Parquette, hack. 60
Cents; Gallery, 60 and 25 Cents. No charge lor re
served seats.
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CONCERT HALL.
Return ot the Favorites for TWO NIGHTS ONLY,
MONDAY and TUESDAY EVENING,
November 2d and 3d,
THE ORIGINAL
Skiff & Gaylord’s Minstrels.
o
Entire change of piogramme each evening.
Admission— Parquette, |1; Gallery, 50 cents.
JOE GAYLORD,
Business Manager.
JOE MACK,
oct3o-4 Assistant Agent,
MECHANICS’ BANK.
ASSIGNEE’S SALE.
On THURSDAY, the SEVENTH of JANUA
RY next, at 12, M , will be sold, at Public Auction,
on the premises, the
Banking House and Lot
OF THE MECHANICS’ BANK.
The lot is one hundred and seventy-three feet
deep, and lias a front on Broad street of thirty-nine
feet, of which four feet nine inches is in the alley on
the Ea«t, reserved for the use of all the adjoining
lot-holders. The property Is too well known to need
further description.
At the same time and plica, the FURNITURE
remaining in the Bank \vil> he 6old, consisting of
MARBLE COUNTER DESKS, TABLES, a first
class IRON SAFE, fine GOLD SCALES, &e.
Terms, Cash, in currency. Sale, without reserve.
WM.T. GOULD,
Octoubr SO. Assignee.
oct3o-lawi janldtd
HATS, HATS, HATS.
JTTST RECEIVED,
JL’h E ALPINE, the latest style out, and the
HANDSOMEST HAT OF THE SEASON.
Call and see them.
cww VAN WINKLE & CO,
0c'.30-4 222 Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
Choice Seed Wheat,
FOR SALE BY
GEO. T. JACKSON & CO ,
oet3o-3 47 Jackson street.
CHEAP INVESTMENT
4,000 EIGHT PER CENT. AUGUS
TA AND SUMMERVILLE Ist Mortgage BONDS,
the interest guaranteed to l>e paid promptly.
Parties wishing these Bonds had belter apply im
mediately to BRANCH, SONS &. CO.,
.J > Bankers,
oct3o-tf 223 Broad street.
NEW YORK WHOLESALE
BUTTER STORE,
CORNER CAMPBELL AND ELLIS STREETS.
J U3T RECEIVED, a lot of tine GOSHEN BUT
TER and FACTORY CiJEESK, hy steamer, from
New Y<rk, which wo will sell at low prices to the
trade. TITMAN & WHITLOCK.
oct3o-6
Ground Peas and Sweet Potatoes
WANTED.
T WILL pay a liberal CASH PRICE ior
500 Bushels Bright White SWEET POTATOES
500 Bushels GROUND PEAS
Also, for
Dried Fruit, Beeswax, Cow Peas,
AND OTHER PRODUCE.
A. D. WILLIAMS,
At Office of C. A. Williams & Cos.
ocl3o-il4at2
IN STORE
AND ARRIVING,
10 CASKS Clear Tcnr.essee SIDES
10 Casks Sugar-Cure,] HAMS
5 Casks Dry Sa't SHOULDERS
60 Rb!s. IRISH POTATOES
200 Coils GREEN LEAF ROPE
10 Bales BAGGING
10 Bbls. CIDER VINEGAR
1,000 Sacks Liverpool SALT
20 Casks NEW RICE
1,000 CABBAGES.
oc>2B-6m BRANCH SCOTT & CO.
FOR SALE.
I OFFER for sale the BUICK DWELLING, on
Ellis street, one door below Monument street. Ap
ply-to J. B. IIAb'ZO,
eepß-lf Opposite Post Office.
TAX NOTICE.
Make Your State Tax Returns.
/\ T,T. PERSONS TAKE NOTICE, that, for
the purpose of receiving said Returns, I shall attend
the following places, from October 28, to December
15, 1868:
At the Upper Market, on every Monday, from 9,
a. m., to 1, p. m., and from 3 to 6, p. m.
On Tuesdays, at Messrs. Day A Inman’s Auction
Room, No 261 Bioad street.
On Wednes lays, at the Court House.
On Thursdays, at the Scale House.
On Fridays, at the Court House.
On Saturdays, at District Court Giounds, of which
due notice will be given.
All citizens, white and colored, between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty, are liable to return and pay a
Poll Tax of One Dol'ar, and such other Taxes as may
be imposed by tbe County. For failure to mate your
returns, oi all property, or to comply with the law
now of loree, the penalty of the law will be strictly
enforced, unbiased and impartial, on all defeaulters.
N. B.—For failure of making returns, the penalty is
a double tax. -I. B. VAUGHN,
R. T. R. Richmond County.
Acgcsta, October 24,1868.
oct2s-dftcl
Mmes. SEGIN
T I AVF just returned from New York, and will
have their opening of French BONNETS and IIATS
ON THURSDAY, OCT. 15, 1868.
We refer in parti« tilar to the present new styles of
making dresses, as Robe Randet, Robe a Temrnure,
a Panier, Pompom, etc. All of which are made or
cut and fitted, at
Mmes. BEGIN’S,
French Millinery and Dress Making Establishment,
octl3-tf 328 Broad st.
CAROLINA RICE,
(NEW CROP.)
r I ' IERCES and BARRELS of RICE, snitable for
trade and family purposes. Weekly sdpply direct
from the Mill. For sa'e by
JOSEPH JOHNSON,
* Insurance Bank Building,
oct29-3 Broad street,
THE BEST IN THE WORLD !
(FORMERLY STONE, ROSBTON A MURRAY’S.)
The Largest Exhlbi ion on the
Earth I
WILL VISIT AUOUSTA
Friday, November 6th.
Two Grand Performances.
MATINEE AT NIGHT EXHIBITION
AT Vi.
Doors open one hour previous.
Admission, 75 Cents. Children Under 10
Years, 50 Cents.
Wm
The Leading Circus of America !
NEW FEAIUIIES AND FRESH NOVELTIES.
WONDERS! MARVELS! MIRACLES!
The Richest Show in the World !
$500,000 Wort.li of Paraphernalia !
NOTHING CAN EQUAL IT !
The Grea teat Troupe of
STAR RIDERS,
GYMNASTS, ACROBATS,
PANCRATISTS, VOL.TIGUEUS,
ATHLETES,
FUNAMBULISTS, LEAPERB,
EQUILIBRISTS, TUMBLERS,
PANTOM IMISTB,
J UGGLERP, AORTA LISTS,
And other performers over seen.
THE BEST CLOWNS UV THE WORLD.
THE FINEST TRAINED HOUSES EVER SEEN
IN A CIRCUS.
THRILLING ACTS AND EXCITING
FEATS,
Perfotmed by Artists who have NO PAR ALLELS
in their vocation.
A VARIETY TO PLEASE EVERY
TASTE.
No Circus, either in this conntty or in Europe, l;a-.
so many FIRST-CLASS PERFORMERS as STONE
& MURRAY’S.
The Troupe has never been equaled, and is now
ABBOL.UTISLY RICHER IN TALENT
than any three other exhibitions combined.
The ENTERTAINMENTS OF THIS CIRCUS
are presented to its patioi.s surrounded by the attri
butes of respectability and elegance, and purified of
all objectionable features.
The present tour of STONE & M URRAY’S CIR
CUS will convince all those who attend its exhibi
tions that it is worthy of ihe claim of being
“The Best In Ihe World.”
STONE & MURRAY’S CIRCUS travels entirely
by railroad, on special trains ; therefore no attempt
is made to deceive the public by a parade c f empty
wagons, drawn by hired horses; but its exhibitions,
which are generally acknowledged by all the leading
journals of the country to be
INCOMPARABLY SUPERIOR
to those of any other Circus, will he given
ON A SCALE OF GRANDEUR,
and with such BRILLIANT EFFECT, that they
will be events long to lie remembered by every pa
tron.
To make tbe announced exhibitions unprecedent
edly successful and attractive,
STONE & MURRAY
pledge themselves to redeem every promise of excel
lence, feeling confident that their extra large Troup.e
will excite the a-lmiration and fnifill the expectations
of their patpons.
DON’T FORGET THE DAY AND
DATE,
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 6,
And don’l mistike this MAMMOTH EXHIBI
TION for one of tbe ordinary shows now in this
country; and don’t pay any attention lo the invita
tion ol any concern, ‘‘TO WAIT AND BE DE
CEIVED.”
Remember that THIS IS THE ONLY FIRST
CLASS, LEGITIMATE CIRCtJS that will visit
Augusta this season.
Tickets for STONE & MURRAY’S CIRCUS will
be lor sale at Schreiner S Son’s Music Store, 183
Broad street, three days in advance.
oct2B-d9if
mnaros te BMSBB,
132 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA . ChA.
JET 1 U IK- IW ’MU’ MM. *3 9
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, FROM THE FINEST TO iHE CHEAPEST.
Having enlarged our establishment, we invite the tublic to examine
our
NEW AND EXTENSIVE STOCK.
0c129-3m
GREAT MfliifllH
AT THE
FREDERICKSBURG STORE.
V. RICHARDS & BROS.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
FOREIGN AAISTD DOMESTIC
DRY GOODS,
Now OFFER one of the largest and most attractive Stocks of Dry Goods they have
ever had the pleasure of exhibiting in Augusta, at prices that cannot be questioned.
Their motto is, as ever has been, “ Small Profits and Quick Sales. They are detei min
ed not to be undersold by any house South. Their goods are all the llrst-class and best.
makes, selected with the greatest care by their buyer, who, being in New A oik all the
season, enables him to select the latest and most fashionable goods in the maiKet.
New Goods received daily. Something new always to be found at the FREDER
ICKSBURG STORE, at the LOWEST PRICES.
They eau say, without hesitancy, that their stock of Dress Goods cannot be surpass
ed inelegance, beauty, variety or low prices, having all the novelties of the season.
Particular attention is called to this Department.
TIIEIR
CLOAK AND SHAWL DEPARTMENT
Was never larger or more complete, being of the latest and most fashionable designs.
CLOAKING CLOTHS in great profusion. FURS, in great variety, just received.
A large stock of goods for GENTS and BOYS, such as
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, TWEEDS, JEANS, &C.
DOMESTIC GOODS of the best makes, in BLEACHED and BROWN HOME
SPUNS, KERSEYS, LINDSEYS, STRIPED and CHECKED DOMESTICS, BED
BLANKETS, &c., &c.
WHITE GOODS of every description. NOTIONS too numerous to mention.
It is useless for them to try to enumerate what they have in stock. They invite all
to call and examine their stock, as goods will be fairly and cheerfully SHOWN.
W.EIOIUES-AXi E BObM TJ3 3 STATUS,
To which the attention of Merchants is particularly invited. The stock was never
larger, more complete or varied. They guarantee to compete with New \oik pi ices.
V. RICHARDS & BROS.,
:tOl IfROAI) STREET,
CORNER BY THE PLANTERS’ HOTEL.
oct2B-G
SOUTHERN TOBACCO AGENCY.
BLAIR, SMITH &CO.,
XKEeroliaiiLts,
298 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
AV E HAVE IN STORE AND OFFER TO THE TRADE,
FIVE THOUSAND BOXES MANUFACTURED TOBACCO,
CONSISTING, IN PART, OF THE FOLLOWING WELL KNOWN BRANDS, VIZ:
Holland’s Hidden Treasure
D. Jones’ Rose Bud
W. D. Stultz’s Fig Twist
W. D. Stultz’s Rough and Ready Twist
Tatum’s Queen of the Yalley
J. T. Keen’s Forest Rose
J. T. Keen’s Count Bismark
Martin Burk
T. 0. Kale
Ragland’s Oronoke
Randolph, y 2 pounds
ALSO,
FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS SMOKING TOBACCO, of various styles and grades,
comprising, iu part, the following favorite brands, viz:
Roanoke Navy
Scarfalletti
Durham (genuine)
Pride of Caswell
Peach and Honey
Selling EXCLUSIVELY ON COMMISSION and receiving our stock directly from
the Manufacturers in Virginia and North Carolina, wc are prepared to till orders at the
Very Lowest Market Rates.
SAMPLES will be sent by Express when desired.
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Wholesale Dry Goods.
FALL TRADE, 1868.
D. R. WRIGHT & €O.,
333 Broad Street, Augusta, Gin.,
ItiLaVK now received a large, complete and at
tractive stock of
FALL & WINTER GOODS, NOTIONS, &C.,
To which alinopt daily additions will be made
through the season.
We buy for CASH from Importers, Manufacturers’
Agents and at auction, at the LOWEST PRICES.
We are prepared to offer to Cosh buyers INDUCE
MENTS UNSURPASSED by any house in the
South.
AUGUSTA FACTORY GOODS
GRANITEVILLK FACTORY GOODS
RICHMOND FACTORY GOODS
of all descriptions constantly on hand.
Wc invite examination of our STOCK and PRICES
by merchants and all buyers of Dry Goods.
aug2B-4mlf
COTTON SEED.
1,000 BUSHELS PURE PROLIFIC
COTTON SKI'D for sale. Price, $3 00 per bushel,
s-ickpd, and delivered at the Railroad Depot, cither
Mayfield or Sparta.
WM. W. SIWI’SON,
Sparta, Ga.
lIF.FF.II TO
Dr. Jas. U. Laks, Washington, Ga.
Sahi’l Eahsftt, Esq , Washington, Ga.
A. G. Simpsox, Notasulga, Ala.
B. T. Harris, Esq., Sparta, Ga.
T. J. JLittle, Keq., Sparta, Ga.
W. H. Brabtly, Esq., Culverton, Ga.
Jas. T. Gardiner, Augusta, Ga. oct2B-3m
C. H. PHINIZY,
(SUCCESSOR TO E. PDIBIZT k 00.)
Cotton Factor and Commission Merchant,
At old stand of F. Phihiet S Cos.,
Jy2-lyif JACKSON ST.. AUGUSTA, GA-
Liquors at the Reduced Tax.
75 BBLS WHISKY,aII grades
16 bbls. BRANDY, GIN and RUM
15 H Casks, Sherry, Port and Madeira WINE
ALSO
A full supply of HOLLAND GIN, imported
BRAN DY, Ac. Just received and for sale at the Re
duced Tax, by
augl2tf O’DOWD * MULHKKIN.
Winfree’s Cross
J. L. Clayton’s Gold Leaf
J. A. Smith’s Gold Leaf
Belle of Piedmont
Lilly of the Valley
Ellie Knight
J. J. Hankin’s Virginia Crown
J. S. Lovelhce’s Extra
May Flower
Harry Lee
Bee Wing, 10’s
Guerrilla Club
Highlander
Cape Jessamine
Chanticleer
Queen, &c., &c.
MARKET NOTICE.
'Tits MEAT AND VEGETABLE STALL
the Upper and Lower Markets will lie rented on the
FIRST MONDAY in NOVEMBER next, at the
Lower Market House, at 10 o’clock, n. m. Persons
holding Stalls can retain the same for the next year at
the assessment of last year; provided arrearages are
paid before the day of renting. Parlies in arrears on
that day will not be permitted to retain their Stalls
or to rent any other.
The Green Grocer’s Ordinance will be rigidly en
forced.
Terms of renting are one-half cash, in advance, in
United States currency, and notes, with approved se
curity for the balance, payable on the Ist May, 1869.
Sums of Fifty Dollars, or lose, cash.
EPHRAIM TWEEDY,
oct22-td Chairman Market Committee.
M. T. STOVALL, D. E. BUTLER,
Os Augusta, Ga. Os Madison, Morgan Cos., Ga.
STOVALL & BUTLER,
Ootton Warehouse
AND
General Commission Merchants*
NEW FIRE PROOF WAREHOUSE
Southwest Corner Bay and Jackson Sts,
AUGUSTA, GA.
oct26-d6l*clm
MERWIN, TAYLOR & snil'MN.S
Manufacturers, Importers and Wholesale
Dealers in
Arms, Ammunition, Guns, Pistols,
SPORTING MATERIALS,
Fishing Tackle, Powder and Shot,
MUSKETS, So., So.
Sole AGENTS for W. R. Pope’s Celebrated
BREECH-LOADING SHOT GUNS, BALLARD
BREECH-LOADING RIFLES and SHOT GUNS,
Eagle Arms Company’s FRONT-LOADING RE
VOLVERS, Pocket and Belt Sizes; English, Ameri
can, French and German SHOT GUNS, all stylos,
qualities and prices.
Particular attention given to orders by mail.
a»S BROADWAY,
Exactly Opposite Btxwabt’s Down Town Store,
NEW YORK.
sep7-d*acßra
WOOD, WOOD, WOOD.
Q"OOD SEASONED WuOD will he delivered at
•3 50 PER CORD. Apply to
A. P. ROBERTSON,
oct2o-tf No. 146 Broad street,