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COISISTITTTTI ON ALI ST.
AXTOXJSTA. u- a.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 22,1869
THE BYRON STOWE CONTROVERSY.
There seems to be little abatement of the
controversy regarding Lord and Lady
Byron which Mrs. Stowe has had the
everlasting Infamy of engendering. Thu
press of Great Britain have taken up the
subject and their opinions pro and con are
voluminous and interesting, despite the
wretchedness of the theme. No London
papers, except the Daily News and th«
Times, have endorsed Mrs. Stowe. It seems
that the Daily News is a species of Exeter
Hall organ, and, in this matter, under the
Inspiration of that female crab-apple Har
riet Martineau, takes a pious delight in
piling purgatorial coals upon every thing
frail in humanity, living or dead. The
Times , it would appear, has blundered into
its present position, as is not uncommon
for the Thunderer, and we hear it stated
that the quasi-endorsement given to Mrs.
Stowe’s slander is at once surprising and
disgusting to the great mass of its readers.
In proof of the disingenuous nature of the
Times it is shown that its managers sup
pressed a telegram from the United States
stating that an overwhelming majority of
Mrs. Stowe’s countrymen condemned her
course. With the exception of the Daily
News and Times, the English journals, have,
like their American contemporaries, de
nounced the manner and the matter of this
horrible, uncalled-for and unproven revela
tion. The Aihenaturn is not only disgusted
with the prurient prude method adopted by
the New England witch to detail her hob
goblin narrative, but thluks it monstrous
that a woman so high up on bench of the
Pharisees should, with such apitude for bu
siness, have contrived to let her secret burst
simultaneously in two magazines, the one in
London and the other in Boston. This
looks like Mrs. Stowe’s virtuous indigna
tion was not so immense as to prevent
from squinting at the main chance. This
gives additional execration to her name,
and, however the British people may dis
credit the idea of traffic in the matter,
there is no doubt on the part of A rnericans
that Mrs. Stowe’s article was duly bar
gained and paid for. That the mercenary
ghoul was paid, and well paid for her hag
gish antics beneath the glimpses of the yel
low moon, under the graveyard yew, we do
not for a moment question. It is bred in
the bone of such as she to be perpetually
on the make,” and, as we have hitherto
observed, nothing sacred or holy can come
amiss for profanation to your Puritan bel
dame, who has justified her righteousness
unto herself. So profoundly impressed with
her venal spirit arc the great masses of
Americans, that should she find it neces
sary to deny the reception of corpse money,
very few would believe her if she swore on
the sacrament.
The Count Johannes fairly riddled her
statements in his characteristic style of
treatment. He pointed out several errors
of fact which had escaped the ordinary
critic, and demonstrated, among other
things, that her? dates were as slovenly as
they were conspicuously inexact. Benja
min F. Butler, who is no doubt a bad
man, but undoubtedly a great lawyer, ab.
solutely annihilated her story on the com
mon rules of evidence. And now we have
testimony from beyond the seas, showing
up other glaring misstatements which
would appear to go far in the conviction of
Mrs. Stowe, not only as a calumniator,
but as a fabricator —to call it by no harder
name. For instance, Mrs. Stowe declares
that on her second visit- to England Lady
BtRON solicited an interview “at her
country scat near London, as she wished to
have some private confidential conversa
tion on important subjects.” This is shown
by one of Lady Byron’s relatives to be
pure fiction, as Lady 8., at the time men
tioned in the “ Stowe-ry,” was living in
St. George’s Terrace in the city of London.
The correspondent who furnishes this in
formation was present at one of these
interviews, and thus describes Aunt
Tommy : “ 1 was struck with a certain
solemnity and pretentiousness of manner
“ in that lady which would have led others
“ to mistrust such a woman.”
The Solicitors of Lady Byron and her
descendants have repudiated the woman
and her wild work; and although they have
thus snubbed her, it is but fair to say that
they seem burdened with a double duty,
viz: that of rebuking an officious, inter
meddling and evil-minded American female,
and, at the same time, dealing teuderly
with that rigid English woman whose hal
lucinations have probably tended to Are the
foulest chimney that has burned in the
nineteenth century. A letter from Wil
liam Howitt, which we publish elsewhere,
will throw much light on this dark sub
ject ; and, if it is conclusive in reprobating
the New England sensationalist, it is equal
ly conclusive as to the aberrations of that
British sphinx who became the “ moral
Clytemnestra of her lord.” William How
itt, it will be seen, gives several facts that
came under his own immediate supervision,
and these facts are strong enough to prove
that Lady Byron, however charitable, good
and intellectual, had spasms of mental and
spiritual delusion which made the judicious
grieve. She was one among those nests of
English Abolitionists and free-thinkers who
wept tears of gore for the assumed woes of
Southern slaves, and- yet did not hesitate
to pursue with suspicious vengeance the
serfs of her bounty at home. Sbe/too,
was one of the alders and abettors of the
John Brown raid, and, it may be, like
Victor Hugo, reverenced the old thief and
murderer as the equal of Jesus Ciirist.—
Our confrere of the Mobile Tribune , who
has a mind stored with all sorts of curions
lore, has bethought of him a book publish
ed in 1860, containing the Congressional
Committee’s investigation of the action of
the “ Paiee Society ” of New England and
its connection with the John Brown raid.
Among those felons who came np for inqui-'
sition was a young Englishman who. con
fessed, with evideut reluctance, that he was
a protege of Duly Byron. She had given
him an outfit to sally forth in the peaceful
Southern laud; to stir up insurrection
among the brutal blacks, to murder, to vio
late and destroy. This kind of infamy the
world calls, in euphuistic phrase, delusion ;
but it is not hard to persuade right-minded
men that the woman who could coldly plan
and deliberately assist a project so nefail
ons and so ineffably vile, was equally capa
ble of suspecting her husband of crimes he
did not dream of, and capable, too, betimes,
of injecting her morbid imaginings into the
eager ears of a New England tattler and
pseudo-humanitarian.
The conclusions that will probably be
reached as to this disagreeable revelation
are these: That Mrs. Stowe’s article,
even if true, should never have lieen pub
lished by her. Ir true, it was left to the
discretion of the descendants of Lady
JJtron to make the disclosure, and in
their own proper time and way. That, if
false —and the general verdict of mankind
will be that the disclosures are false—Mrs.
Stowe lias committed an outrage against
the moral law which years of atonement
will scarcely wasli away. But, true or
false, she has linked her name to memory
forever as one who has transgressed all the
canons of whatever is divine in justice,
charity and mercy. Her good name and
what some people call her “ good fame ”
are gone everlastingly. Even the discreet
and cautious Journal of Commerce holds
that her silence is an invocation for the
balm of oblivion to heal up her unnatural
assault upon the dead. But the winged
words have gone to the ends of the earth,
and, though forgiveness may come, the Ra
ven she conjured out ot the Plutonian
night, will sit upon her tamb in sacula sa>-
culorum. How should it be otherwise,
when she has “ sowed suspicion and dis
trust in the .bosoms of families, and poison
ed one of the sweetest relations in life—
that of brother and sister.”
has she done these things, but done
them too at the instigation, probably, of.
a deluded old lady, who was subject to va
pors, and whose broodings upon one idea
had warped her Imagination. Don Juan is
nothing to this and Byron, terrible as his
faults were, has inculcated no such lessons.
The world had long ago made up its mind
that the illustrious poet was no worse than
millions of his kind and that there were ex
tenuations for his errors as great perchance
as the errors themselves. But the obscurely
sinful are not targets for the “ unco guid.”
Like death, these self-righteous Phari
sees love a shining mark, and it happened
in Byron’s case, as Macaulay has vividly
portrayed, that the centuries have seldom
brought to the pious vampires so noble a
prey. Like the man who wrote many
volumes to prove Napoleon a fool and
eminently succeeded in proving himself
one ; so Mrs. Stowe in wreaking he>- bile
upon expression in a guilty effbrt to
blacken the memory of a great, though
erring, man and an unfortunate but in
nocent woman, has only prospered in her
undertaking by ringing herself about with
a notoriety which is at once awful in its
sin and comtpicuous in its isolation. As
for Byron, the yealfe will revenge him. —
They may not clear away thcvweeds Which
are said to be gathering on his fleglectecT
grave, but they will at least visit his
memory with tenderness. He has been
judged by a Higher Authority than auy
power of the earth or sea or air. That which
he left, behind him deserving of life will
live in undying song. Much of it will “ tire
torture and time,” breathing though he
expired. That which is unworthy will
pass away, as it is well it should. Indeed it
had wellnigh gone to its place in oblivion
when the New England sorceress galvaniz
ed it into novel life. Another generation will
witness, it may be, a nobler judgment and
a better appreciation; it will keep only the
pure gold and reject the dross. When the
severest justice shall have been meted out
upon the works of Byron there will yet re
main much that is impregned with fire
and dew that the world will not permit to
pass away.
“ Yet still the murmurs of the Adrian sea
Shall blend with Tasso’s song wild thoughts of
thee;
Thv shade shall gloom through old Ravenna’s
lair
’Till even the forest leaves seemed stirr’d with
prayer;
And when the future, envious of the past,
Shall break the Argi've’s iron sleep at last,
Thy reverend name the Albanian youth shall
keep,
Thy shape shall haunt the loniau maiden’s
. sleep,
Thy song shall linger by the Oread’s hill,
By Love’s own isle, and Music’s ancient rill,
And one diin halo, all unknown before.
Gild the gray waste by Missolonghi’s shore.”
—»• i
Our New York Correspondence. .
New York, September 18.
We have had a variety of minor sensa
tions this week. The return of the Har
vard boat crew, a dinner to them, and fur
ther discussion of the cause of their defeat,
have not excited much interest. The views
presented in this correspondence have
bceu, however, fully vindicated. The at
mosphere in England contains so much
moisture as to be unfavorable to extreme
physical effort by persons from the Atlan
tic coast. The super-chivalry of their cox
swain, in neglecting to “ take Oxford’s wa
ter,” (that is, cuf in ahead of that boat,)
may also be regarded as contributing large
ly to Harvard’s defeat.
Mr. Boutweli, Secretary of the Treasury,
Ims also been in town, and has-been exten
sively interviewed. His functions are just
now so much more important to New
York than those of any other official (on
this side of the Atlantic, at least), that he
is much courted, and the lightest words that
fall from his lips are caught up, repeated,
and given every variety of construction.
But when a man does not know himself
either what hecan do or should do, his utter
ances are apt to be contradictory and un
satisfactory. He seems incapable of un
derstanding the relation between his duties
and the business of the country, and his
ignorance leads to a chaotic state of opin
ion respecting the future, which is worse
than any thing else which business has
now to encounter. Credits are paralyzed,
and none have courage to strike out be
yond shoal water. There is but one point,
respecting which I can make any thing out
of the Secretary’s drift. He is anxious to
reduce his gold balance, and continue the
purchase of bonds, but he cannot go on as
lie is now, and he cannot (he is told) in
crease his sales of gold without making a
monetary panic. He is, therefore, trmng
to make a market upou which he c|in sen
gold, by withdrawing
which have been mped-fuT a matter of
couveniM|jeW--iYAII street. This should
produce an advance in gold, but with for
oign/skehange very dull and rates de
cUpfffig, it has had little effect; and Mr.
Uoutwell is in a terrible muddle in con
sequence. Yesterday, the panicky state
of feeling, which exists almost every
where, but is prevented by various ex
pedients from getting a full head, at
tacked the stock market, and in a few
hours there was a decline of 5 to 8 per
cent, in the leading shares. Earlier in the
week it attacked the cotton market, and
middling uplands declined from 34 to 30
cents. It is noticed, however, that the
sales|for delivery during the Winter months
have been at nearly full prices. Bat
truth compels me to say that the tone to
day is very depressed. Leading parties in
the trade do not believe that prices have
touched bottom.”
We are in the midst of the petty wrang
ling incident to our State election this
Fall. No principles seem to be involved,
and people are treating the whole matter
with supreme indifference. Scarcely a con
vention of either party will meet, in which
the nominations will not all have been ar
ranged beforehand. But there are signs
that the professional politician of the North
will be made to feel that there are yet vir
tue and integrity in the public. A revolt
against oppressive taxation will soon take
place that will astound public robbers of
all grades.
The export of wheat from the United
States during the coming year is
at fully forty million bushels, valued at
$45,000,000 in gold. This is about half of
the probable value ol’ the export of cotton,
and illustrates the enormous impetus givei*
by machinery to the growth of grain.
In matters both musical and dramatic,
we are now having, or will shortly have,
full entertainment, the week that is past
having been marked by the opening of the
Parepa Rosa English Opera Company,
anticipated for so long a time, and 4 the
re-opening of Wallack’s, the home of the
legitimate drama, besides other events in
the same line of lesser note, while for next
week at Booth’s, Miss Bateman is an
nounced, and Carlotta Patti re-appears be
fore the American public in a series of con
certs at Steinway Hall. The first of these
entertainments, the English Opera, has so
far proved successful, and doubtless will
continue to the end, inasmuch as that end
is no distant one, a programme for three
weeks only having been arranged for New
York, and to the advantage of the Parepa
troupe we may furthermore adduce the
absence of competition from Opera Bouffe,
of which there is none as yet, ami of which
we will have, if any, but very little, such
large doses having been administered last
year that the taste of the public is satiated
even now.
If not of Opera Bouffe, however, yet of
French Grand Opera, a number of per
formances will be given at the Academy of
Music, which will also commence during
the coming week.
At Wallack’s the opening piece has been
“ The School for Scandal,” the entire cast
being old favorites with but one exception
—Mr. Charles Windham, a young actor
from the London theatres. The part of
“ Lady Teazle” is taken by Madeline
Heuriques, tfiiw Mrs. Jennings. Miss Bate
man will appear on the first occasion as
Leah, and in the dramatic performances of
this eminent actress the public may expect
an entertainment' of the most elevating
order.
The Parepa Tronpe, for their opening
piece, selected “ The Puritan’s Daughter,”
an opera which has never before been given
here, and which is composed by Balfe, the au
thor of “The Bohemian Girl,” the last named,
however, being the superior. To-night a
new Prima Donna—Miss Rose Hersee, who
will alternate with Parepa—makes her
debut in “ Somnamhula.”
Meanwhile the strong minded, whose
sterner souls the softening charms of music
have no power to soothe, expend their
strength on Greeley, who is, by the way, an
inexhaustible topic for them. This time,
however, ’tis not the political sentiments of
the wayward philosopher, but his appetite
which they discuss, for with the hopes of
costing where scolding has been found
they recently invited their adver
sary to partake of a breakfast which, being
of a savory nature, he seemed especially to
enjoy. No less a personage than Mrs. Stan
ton brought forward at a meeting this ap
parently minor topic, and in the lauguage
of a reporter present, spoke at some length
on Mr. Greeley’s hankering after good cook
ing ! Mrs. 8. is in donbt, however, whether
Mr. Greeley, with alt his talk about the
culinary art, would “ make a good loaf of
bread or cook a beefsteak well,” and in con
clusion says that she cannot see why a wo
man should be the “satelite of the pot”
any more than every man should be com
pelled to dig ditches as a fine art. To this
another of the sisterhood adds that she re
members the time when Mr. Greeley was
well contented with Graham bread and
cold water. Now he wanted the best of
Fifth Avenue beefsteaks. Grave and im
portant topics of discussion these.
Knoedler, the proprietor of Goupil’s, has
*Mlfurned from Europe, bringing with him
a number of lnea,u&faLj>aintings. Among j
foreign artists represented
Caraud, Beranger,Du verger, Charet, Meyer,
Yon Bremen and Verboeckhoven. An
evening landscape by Eugene le Jenne, en
titled “ Returning from the Field,” is speci
ally worthy of remark. A peasant girl is
returning from the field with a load of new
mown grass on a wheel-barrow, and has
stopped to rest, while she caresses a child
which is seated on the top of the load.—
Another, “ The Field Oracle,” by Compe
Calix, is very fine both in color and senti
ment. A young woman is represented
standing in the shadow of a wood, richly
dressed, her beauty enhanced by a flowing
veil jauntily bound around her head.
Conspicuous among American produc
tions is “ Early Morning in the White
Mountains,” by Sonntag, “ A View of Lake
Placid”—Adirondack’s, and “Haying Time”
by Shattuck.
Any resume of the current topics of in
terest would be wanting without mention
of the American Institute Fair, which is
now being lyMcl. The articles are classified
as follows: The Department of Fine Arts
and Education, the Department of tire
Dwelling, the Department of Dress and
Handicraft, the Department of Chemistry
and Mineralogy, the Department, of Inter
communication,-.and the Department of
Agriculture and Horticulture. Among
these are many articles well worthy of a
more extended notice than we are able at
this moment to give, but which we trust to
furnish very soon. A curiosity is a paper
single oared shell—a model craft, weigh
ing only thirty pounds; and another—the
Monitor Animal Trap—with a menagerie
of monkeys, birds and squirrels, which
demonstrates the manner in which it en
traps all such creatures wild venture
within. ' ~
Avery remarkable case of a man being
buried alive, and subsequently rescued in
safety, occurred a few days since. A col
ored man, Lewis Carter, was at work at
the bottom of a well, when the earth sud
denly caved in to the of nearly forty
feet. A large uumber of men immediately
commenced the work of digging him out, a
work which was prosecuted with vigor all
night, and the next day they were surprised
to hear his voice calling to them to hurry
up. A two-inch iron tube was run down
to him, through which he was enabled to
breathe and speak, and on Thursday he
was extricated, after having been about
forty-eight hours under ground. The earth,
in caving, had formed an arch over him,
thus preventing suffocation.
Willoughby.
Meeting of Farmers’ Club.
Maxey, Ga., September 18,1869.
At a called meeting of the West Ogle
thorpe Farmers’ Club held here to-day, and
which was quite largely attended, the fol
lowing preamble and resolutions were
unanimously adopted.
Whereas, The cotton commission mer
chants of Augusta with whom we are
accustomed to deal have become parties to
acombination which on the 2d inst. increas
ed the charges for selling eotton from one
and-a-quarter to two-and-a-lialf per cent., to
take eft’ect immediately; and,
Whereas, They have made advances,
more or less, to many of us during the
Spring and Summer, upon which we are
charged interest largely in excess of the
legal rate, and at the time when these adj
vances were made, when we promised tjKTO
our cotton they were|3efaiiigpfbP
quarter per cent, commission, and gave us
"r intimation that a change
would be made—
Resolved , That in our opinion these mer
chants have no right to make said change
in the rate of commission apply to the
present crop, although we fully and freely
concede that they have the right to make
it apply to all crops after this.
Resolved, That if the business of Augusta
will not support thirty cotton merchants,
at one-and-a-quarter, it is better that some
of them should retire rather than increase
the charges upon the producer.
Resolved, That the Chronicle and Sentinel
and Constitutionalist newspapers be request
ed to give these resolutions one insertion
each.
John T. Hurt, Vice-President,
West Oglethorpe Farmers’ Club.
Pope Barrow, Secretary.
A Card from Mr. Lewis.
Macon,-Ga., September 20th, 1869.
To J. S. Pope , Secretary f Pike County Agri
cultural Society:
Sir : In reply to your note of the 16th
inst.—This: The rules for the manage
ment of the Fair in November will lie
adopted and widely circulated by the Ex
ecutive Committee which meets here 7th
October next.
It is probable that the. following regula
tions will be adopted in relation to the mat
ter to which yon refer, to'wit:
The members of county and local agri
cultural societies who come as members of
a delegation regularly appointed under cer
certiflcate of their President and Secretary,
or who come as a society in a large body,
and camp on the ground, will be furnished
With a ticket which will permit them in
gress and egress of the grounds without
charge. Such members contending for pre
miums will pay the usual fee, two dollars.
I will send all the societies copies of the re
vised regulations. *
I hope your society will do as the Ran
dolph county society has done. They met
last Saturday to appoint a delegation of
ten to the Fair, and finally resolved that
the whole club should go.
If the county societies will follow the ex
ample of Randolph, they can hold assem
blies and discussions at night on the Fair
Ground, vastly to their own enjoyment and
edification. What do yon say V
Very respectfully,
D. W. Lewis.
Georgia State Lotfery.
for thk benefit OF TH 1«
Orphan's Ho«u< iuaU ITree tlcliool.
The following were I tie drnwn numbers, irftbe eup
pleroentary Scheme, at Augusta, weerg' l1 '
September 21.
MORNING DRAWING Oi.ahs No. 451|
» 7 74 70 36 1* 30 37 J 5 51 4 «
12 Drawn Numbers.
EVENING DRAWING —-Class No. 4621
39 1 33 5 56 53 3K 60 96 50 9» 10
31 47
16 Drawn Number*.
soj 22-1 f
L3 » 1
SPECIAL NOTICE^.
STATE AND COUNTY TmP
No' ice ia hereby given that the Tax pige«t f°r
1869 has been received, and the Taxes thtrok are now
due and must be paid on or before Novsmter Ist,
1869. 1 will be found at my office (over ia Broid
street) every day, Saturdays excepted, between the
hours of 9, a. m., and 2, p. m., for the purpoie of col
lee'iug the above Taxes.
I will attend, on Saturdays, the Court oiouads of
tlie Country Districts, on their respective Cou. t
Bays, until the first of December, 1889, ai wiieh time
the Digest will be closed and executio * issued
against defaulters, in conformity to law. ■
JOHN A. BOHtBR,
sep22-lm T. Ci R- C.
LEAVING AND ARRIVING TIME OFTRAINS
OVER SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
South Carolina ft ai l road Company, )
Augusta, Ga., September 17, 1889. s
first TRAIN.
THROUGH MAIL AND PABSENGKR TRAIN.
Runs throngb to Wilmington without eiauge of
Cars.
Leave Augusta 5:50 o’clock, ». m.
Arrive at Augusta ....8:31 “ t. m
Making close connections with Trains of connecting
Roads for New York and all Northern points via
Weldon, Petersburg, Richruouc, Washington Balti
more and Philadelphia.
SBCOND TRAIN.
special passenger accommodation
TRAIN.
Leaves Augustn 7:60 o’clock, ». m.'
Arrive at Augusta 4:45 “ .p. m.'
For Columbia, Kingville, Charleston and all Way
Stations on line of Road. This Train makes close
connections with Trains of Wilmington and Manches
ter Railroad, Wilmingtou and We don Railroad, Poa
Board and Roanoke Railroad to Portsmouth hnd Bay
Line of Steamers to Baltimore.
THIRD TRAIN.
NIGHT EXPRESS AND PASSENGER AC
COMMODATION TRAIN FOR COLUMBIA
. AND CHARLESTON.
Leave Augusta 4:00 o’clock, p. m.
Arrive at Augusta ~6:10 “ a. m.
This Tra ; n is the only one that makes close connec
tions with Trains of Greenville and C dumb la Rail
road at Colombia. Pa-sengers taking this Train will
avoid detention there.
Passengers by this train wrHatwaysctpineK with
Steamers for New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore
via Charleston:
FOURTH TRAIN.
AIKEN ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.
Ltave Augusta 7. .5:06 o’clock, p. m.
Arrive at Augusta 9:10 “ a m
Will stop at following points: Horse Creek, Bath
Mills, Kalmia Mills, Granltevllle, Kalmia, (on the
Hill) Aiken.
FIFTH TRAIN.
KINGVfLLE TO CAMDEN. CAMDEN TO
KINGVILLE.
This Train runs Daily, (Sundays excepted) con
necting with Train leaving Augusta at 7:60 o’clock,
a. m. .
SIXTH TRAIN.
KINGVILLE TO COLUMBIA
Runs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
SBVBNTH TRAIN.
SUMMERVILLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODA
TION TRAIN.
Leave Charleston dally 4:05 o'clock, p. m.
Arrr ve at Summervil e 5:30 “ p. m.
Leave Summerville 7:10 “ a ,m.
Arrive at Charleston 8:25 “ a, m.
KIOIITH TRAIN.
Lojve Augusta 6:00 o’clock, a. m.
Arrive at Anguria 5:50 “ p. in.
Oariyiug Through Freight for Charleston, Colum
bia, Camden and Way Stations on line of Road.
NINTH-TRAIN.
Leave Augusta.... 10:00 o’clcck, a m.
Arrive at Augusta 12:00 “ m.
Carrying Through Freight for Charleston, Colum
bia, Camden and Way Stations on liue of Road,
H. T. PEAKE,
General Superinteudenb
JOHN E. MAULEY,
Agent, Augusta, Ga.
seolß-satuth2w
Hurley’s Sarsaparilla and Potash
Maintains the secretions, especially thsa of the
skin and kidneys, Increases nutrition, and allays
morbid irritability of the nervous and circulating
systems. Hence an admirable remedy for debility
during or after a mercurial courso, and for the multi
farious variety of symptoms which arise, when the
health is broken down, as well as by the disease as
by its remedy. For Scrofula, it is the most certain
cure.
DISEASED KIDNEYS,
If neglected, are almost certain to end fatally, some
times the patient dies of exhaustion and obstinate
vomiting; sometimes of suppression of urine »nd
coma; sometimes In a sudden lit of severe shivering ;
and someiimes of a rapid attack of acute inflamma
tion. In the treatment, the golden rnlo must be ob
served, so forcibly staled by Dr. Front, that modera
tion in the quantity is of quite as much consequence
as attention to the quality of food. Os alcoholic
liquors, sound sherry of the drier kinds or small
qualities of brandy or Hollands and water are the best.
In the medical treatment, HURLEY’S COMPOUND
SAKS A PARI LI, A AND POTASH has proved
highly b<neiicial from its vegetable alkali principles,
wtiich entering into the blood, possesses the property
of abstracting from it a quantity of nitrogenous mat
ter suflicient for its conversion into hipputlc acid, ano
in this very soluble form is readily excreted, and er
pels disease from the kidneys. It may therefore he
given with confidence that it will limit, if not enre,
the disease.
je!B- A Practitioxbr.
WALL PAPER and BORDERS.
Paptr Shades, Fire Screens
, Gilt, Plain ai>d Fan§nJ»aper<.
For a choice assortment, new and **.*f
goto " ' -
James C •. Bailie A Brother's.
WANTED,
A. PARTNER, with a capital of $3,000.
The business will pay exceedingly well.
For particulars, address,
« PARTNER,” Box 620,
sep2l-6 Augusta P. O.
Weston Academy.
This Desirably Located SCHOOL has been
receutly opened. A lew more Scholars can be
accommodated. Application can be made to
Mr. O. P. Fitzsimmons, Jr., or
A. HATCH,
sep2l-3 President Board Trustees.
5,000 South Carolinua Railroad
7 per cent. BONDS, due
in 1872
10,000 Greenville and Columbia
guarantied BONDS
io SHARES Savings Bank
of Angusta
For sale by
BRANCH, SONS & CO.,
au!7-tf Bankers.
COAL CREEK COAL,
THE CHEAPEST AND BEST FUEL
YOU CAN USE.
CREEK COAL MINES, acknowl
edged to be far superior to any now worked or
known. For cooking, for grates, for black
smiths, lor furnaces, for lime and brick kilns,
this Coal is unequaled. The undersigned, hav
ing established a Yard in Angusta, are now pre
pared to aell and deliver this COAL in any
quantity, from a bushel to car loads. Yard at
Georgia Railroffd, corner of Jackson and Fen
wick streets. Orders left at Southern Express*
Office promptly attended to.
J. M. BORN, Jr., <ft CO.
WM. P. DEARING, Agent.
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New Advertisements
DR. PORTER,
THE GREAT ,
MEDICAL ELECTRICIAN,
JSlecfcio IrMiysician,
AND
CONQUEROR OF DISEASES !
Who has Tailed nil the Principal Cities in the
Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western
States, and met with snch
Unparalleled Success
in the treatment ot all diseases—but more
especially those of a Chronic Nature—or of
long standing, and which have bafiled the skill
of all Other ghysiciaus, will (Providence per
mitting) Professionally visit the following
cities :
At AUGUSTA, GA., Planters’ Hotel, from
Thursday morning, September 30tb, to Tues
day night, October sth.
At Atlanta, Ga., American House, from Wed
nesday morning, October6th, to Tuesday night,
October 12 th.
At Savannah, Ga., Marshall House, from
Thursday morning, October 14th, to Wednes
day noon, October 27th.
At Milledgeville, Ga., at the Hotel, from
Thursday morning, October 28th, to Monday
morning, November Ist.
At Eatonton, Ga., at • the Hotel, Tuesday
morning, November 2d, to Monday noon, No
vember Blb.
At Forsyth, Ga., at the Hotel, from Tuesday
noon, November 9th, to Thursday night, No
vember 11th.
At Barusville, Ga., at the Hotel, from Friday
morning, November 12th, to Monday night,
November 15tk.
At Griffin, Ga, at the Hotel, front Tuesday
morning, November 16th, to Wednesday night,
November 17ih.
At' Macon, Ga., at the Byinglon Hot.l, from
Thursday morning, November 18th, to Tuesday
night, November 23d.
At Fort Valley, Ga., at the Hotel, Wednes
day morning, November 24th, to Friday noon,
November 26th.
At Americas, Ga., gt the Barlow House, from
Saturday morning, November 27tb, to Monday
night, November 291 h.
At Dawson, Ga., at the Hotel, from Tuesday
morning, November SOth, to Thursday night,
December 2d.
At Cuthbert, Ga., at the Hotel, from Friday
morning, December 3d, to Sunday night, De
cember sth.
At Fort Gaines, Ga., at the Hotel, from Mon
day moruiug, December 6tb, to Wednesday
night. December Bth.
At Eufaula, Aia., at the Eufanla House, from
Fiiday morning, December lQlb, to Tuesday
noon, December 14th.
At Columbus, Ga., at the Kentucky House,
from Wednesday morning, December 15th, to
Monday noou, December 20th.
At Montgomery, Ala., at the Hotel, from
Tuesday morning, December 21st, to Monday
The Doctor treats all diseases, m an their
various forms and stages, without the use of
Calomel or Mercury in any lorm, Strycbuiuo,
Quinine, Arsenic or any Poisonous Substance
whatever; bis remedies being compounded
by himself, and composed entirely of Roots,
Herbs, Barks, Seeds, etc., purely vegetable,
and highly electrical; remedies that do not
weaken or debilitate the system in the least,
bnt strengthen,-vitalize and invigorate; neither
do they prevent She patient from attending to
his or her every day business. Particular at
tention paid to
DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR.
The Doctor has visited many of the cities,
two, three and four times over, and has suc
cessfully treated more than 1,200 persons in
the Slates of Georghr and Alabama alone, and
more than 2,500, if we include Kentucky and
Tennessee, and more than 3,700, including
North and South Carolina, very many of whom
were pronounced incurable by their attending
physicians, and given up to die, but who to
day, thank God, are still in the land of Ihe liv
ing, and iu the enjoyment of perfect health,
pursuing their accustomed avocations.
Tne Doctor does not make these statements
because be considers himself more skillful
than those other physicians, but simply be
cause lie sincerely believes that the remedies
which he employs will prove much more effica
cious, and are more completely adapted to the
treatment of diseases, especially those of a
chronic nature.
Afflicted, read carefully—consider seriously
and nnprejudicmlly, and act immediately. Call
at once at his rooms, as the Doctor charges
nothing for consultation and advice.
The Doctor furnishes all the necessary reme
dies at once to remove the complaint, thorough
ly and permanently, at a very reasonable price.
The Doctor, if he can cure you, or even
benefit you, will tell you so ; but if lie cannot,
4P will so inform you, and will not take your
ease in hand. sep32-w2fr2*cl
FOR RENT,
The SUPERIOR BRICK DWELLING,
<tn Reynolds street, opposite St. Paul’s Church.
ALSO,
The OFFICES over the Banking House of
Branch, Sons & Cos. Apply to
J. S. BEAN,
sep22-6 223 Broad st.
SALT. SALT.
150 SACKS LIVERPOOL SALT
On consignment and for sale by
sep22 1 J. O.JMATHEWSON.
PROPERTY.
I WILL SELL my Comfortable RESI
DENCE, Southeast corner <>f Ellis and Mar
bnry streets, on accommodating terms. The
Lot is 50 feet front and 136 feet deep. It. is a
very convenient House : Good Kitchen, Store
House, Pantry, Wood House, &c. The House
contains six rooms, gas in five of them.—
Grates for Coal in two rooms. 1 will t ike one
third cash, and the balance on one and two
years’ credit, with interest from day of sale,
and mortgage on the property, until paid for.
Rent, $4,000. Apply at 280 Broad 6treet.
sep22-3 E. MUBTIN.
The Wodffftrff Wa 9^
Hi VERY PLANTER who may want one or
more good Wagons, this Fall, would do well
to put. in their orders in time. Last year, the
Woodruff Wagons had become so universally
popular all over the Bc»uth, as being the Best
Wagon Made, we sold a great unmber of them
all through Georgia, Florida and Alabama, and
other Southern States, aud had orders lor near
ly one hundred more than we could possibly
fill iD lime for the crop. This year we have a
large number of these Wagons made and
ready for delivery, and hope to keep up with
our orders.
Mr. A. HATCH, of Augusta, Ga., is our
Agent at that place, and will take orders lor
either Two, Four or Six Horse VVagons, to be
delivered at Augusts, or any other point.
THE TOMLINSON DEMAKEST CO.,
sep2l 3 620 Broadway, New York.
TO Be Sold Without Reserve,
A SPLENDID BLUEGRASS FARM, in
Smith county, Tennessee, seven miles South of
Carthage, twenlv East of Lebanon aud fifty
miles of Nashville, and with each place con
nected by tnrnpike roads aud river navigation.
NO REDEMPTIONS, and CREDITS of 0, 12,
18 and 24 MONTHS.
Good neighborhood, clear title, schools and
churches convenient. No place more healthy
and fertile. More than halt in cultivation, and
the balance thick set in bluegrass. For grain,
tobacco and grass It is unsurpassed by any farm
in the State. It contains 834 acres, divided into
several lots. Four several improvements and
other fine building sites upon it. It is watered
by the Caney Fork River, Hickman Creek, seven
springs and brauches.
AS A STOCK FARM IT IS UNEQUALLED.
The. Tennessee aud Pacific Railroad, now iu
process of construction, will run'uear the place.
SALE ON THE PREMISES, Oth of OCTO
BER NEXT.
OKVIl£e GREEN,
Clerk and Master,
sepl4 3w Chancery Court at Lebauon.
Manhattan Life Insurance Cos.,
NEW YORK.'
DIVIDENDS ON CONTRIBUTION PLAN.
i W .U Ist Jan., 1860 *5,36T.53T SO.
E. Geddings, Medical Examiner.
je2s-tf A. G. BALL, Agent.
COTTON GINNED.
fT.AVING secured nil engine at my place,
two miles from the city, on Ihe old Savannah
road, I am now prepared to GIN COTTON, of
either short or long staple, upon latest im
proved Gitts, with best style of Press, for
pack me..
au!9 lu) ,1. M TURPIN,
FOR SALE LOW,
HOUSE and LOT, situated on Reynolds,
between Houston and Wild streets. For fur
ther particulars, apply to
• Mrs. I. T. OLIVER,
Administratrix,
or J. T. SHEWMAK.K,
iyl6-tf Attorney at Law.
NOW OPEN.
* ■ ' " V v;, ‘
J.A.S. W. TUKLEIx
Begs TO RETURN his profound ac
knowledgements to the citizens of Augusta
and the public generally, for the very lib
eral patronage which they have extended
to the late firm of Gray & Turley, and
to announce that he has opened
Entirely on his Own Account,
AT THE SPACIOUS
STOKE ROOM,
No. 260 Broad St.,
THIRD HOUSE ABOVE THE
-.v L| -, fi |jr -. J*****&
e Hotel,
where be will be prepared to offer a com
plete stock of
FIRST CLASS
DRY GOODS.
The business of the House will be un
der hisbwn
PERSONAL SUPERVISION,
and the public may rest assured that they
will be justly dealt with.
mjRING BBC3?TtP.MJ3Ir.It
WILL OFFER
GREAT BARGAINS.
JAS. W. lURLBY,
Third House Above Globe Hotel.
sept4-tf
To Cotton Manufacturers.
•
E arc making CO [TON CANS of large
SHEETS of TINNED IRON, 36 inches iu one
shaei; also, improved by making the Top aud
Bottom Kings IRON, made in
proper form flpprevent cutting floors, &e.,
which render them a perfect and complete Can
and at prices which will warrant the general
introduction of them in the
MIDDLE aud SOUTHERN STATES.
SPINNING FRAMES, CYLINDERS, &c.,
MADE TO ORDER.
We can pack Cans so that any ordinary firm
can put them together with ease, thereby re,
dueing bulk and saving freight.
Orders solicited and promptly filled.
E. MILLS & SONS,
16 South Caivert street.
sep!s 2aw6m Baltimore, Md.
Newspapetv Magazines, &c.
S. ,F. CARY, lfewsdcalef,
JACKSON ST., OPPOSITE THE NEW POST OPFICB.
_Z\.LL the latest PUBLICATIONS always
on band or procured at short notice.
Also, PENS, INK, WRITING PAPER,
PENCILS, Ac.
Back Numbers of all Periodicals ordered at
any time, and received by return mail.
Books, Papers, and all other matter BOUND
in good 6tyle at low rates.
PROMPTNESS guaranteed in all things.
scpls-w&snn2
Lsce Curtains, Cornices, &c.
Ileal Tamboured Lace Curtains
Nottingham Late Curtains
Curtain Muslins, all qualities
Rosewood, Mahogany, Walnut and
Gilt Cornices
Tinsel Cornices, Bands, Pins and Hooks
Picture Ta-se's, Curds, Nalls, Canopy
Rings-
Terry, Reps, Damasks, Moreens
Draperies, Tasssls, Gimps, Loops
Plano'and Tablo Covers and Coverings
Table aud Stair Oil Cloths, all widths.
We are opening a choice assortment of
the ahove Goods, all new, at
James G. Bailie ft Brother’s.
FLOUR. FLOUR.
50 BBLS Triple Extra FAMILY FLOUR,
“Bwan’s Down,” made of selected White
Wheat, and guaranteed equal to any manufac
tured. For sale by
sep!B-6 BLAIR, SMITH & CO.
C. TOLER,
PROPRIETOR OP THE
Kentucky and Tennessee Stables,
"Dealer in HORBES and MULES.
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND SADDLE
HORSES for Hire and on Livery, etc., etc.
Campbell, between Broad and Reynolds streets,
Augusta, Ga.
Ample Stable Room for Stock, and accom
modation for Feeding or Grazing on my plan
tations near the city, at low rates. eep!B-tf
C. H. PHINIZY,
Cotton Factor and Commission Morohaut,
Continued to give his attention to the STORAGE and SALE OF COTTON, at hlfi
FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE, on JACKSON STREET.
CONSIGN M ENTS' SOLICITED. jy27*l3in*cGm
INSUR A NCE,
BTRE, MARINE AND INLAND,
IN THE FOLLOWING FIRST CLASS COMPANIES. VIZ:
AfilNA INSURANCE CO., Hartford, Chartered 1819, Cash Ashcls *5,852,532
MANHATTAN INSURANCE CO., New York, Chartered 1821, Cash Assets 1,202,104
HOWARD INSURANCE CO., New York, Chartered 1825, Cash Assets 715,707
FIREMEN’S INSURANCE CO., New York, Chartered 1825, Cash Assets *... 845,000
LAMAR INSURANCE CO., New York, Cash Assets 532,500
COMMERCIAL INSURANCE CO., New York, Cash Assets 287,000
STANDARD INSURANCE CO., New York, Cash Assets 351,103
COMMERCE INSURANCE CO , New York, Cash Assets 275,000
ASTOIt INSURANCE CO., New York, Cash Assets 453,787
PHENIX INSURANCE CO„ New York, Gath Assets... . 1,649,359
PHOENIX INSURANCE CO., Hartford, Cash Assets 1,573,907
*12,737,990
RISKS taken on COTTON, MERCHANDISE, STORES, DWELLINGS, FURNITURE,
LIBRARIES and other properly. Also, on COTTON and MERCHANDISE to New York
and other Northern Cities, via Savannah and Charleston to Liverpool and other European
cities, and vice versa. The most important enquiry lo be made by every person insuring, is,
“ Are the Companies able (o pay, if losses occur ?” Our citizens have, insured in some of the
above Companies more than lorty years. The assets of all of them are iu CASH or its equiva
lent, and not iu subscriptions, or stock notes to be paid when fires occur. Losses will be equi
tably adjusted and promptly paid.
RISKS ARE RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED.
WM. SHEAR, Agent.
Augusta, Ga., September 18, 1869. sep!B 4mif
Large, New, Attractive and Cheap!
AT
James A. Grray & Co.’s.
Onr Stork nt Foreign, Domestic and Fancy
«»«N * S
FOB THE FALL AND WINTER TRARE.
o
WE OFFER, This Week, Large Invoices of Imported DRESS
GOODS, comprising New Colored Silks, latest bhades; Choice Black
Silks, Drap de France, Gros Grains and Taffetas, Handsome Silk Pop
lins, Plaids, &c.
5,000 yards Desirable DRESS GOODS, from auction, will be opened
tliis week, at Prices Lower than ever produced.
The Largest and Best Assorted Stock of DOMESTIC GOODS in
the market, comprising every description of Cotton and Woolen, Ameri
can Manufactured Fabric, known to the trade.
From this date, Every Department will be found complete, with full
lines of Seasonable Goods, in Flannels, Linens, Blankets, Shawls,
Cloaks, Hosiery, Corsetts, Hoop Skirts, White Goods and Notions.
TO THE TRADE, we can guarantee full satisfaction, in selecting
from a Large and Complete Stock, at Prices that cannot be Undersold.
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.,
228 Broad street.
sfpl9-ll
T. J. JICNNINOH. J - T - BUITH *
JEtSUNTISTG-S & SMITH,
Cotton Factors and General Commission Merchants,
no. o Mclntosh street, augusTa, ga.
Lftberitl Advances on Produce In Slor®» nep2-d*c4iu
W. H. HOWARD. O H. HOWARD.
W. H. HOWARD & SON,
COTTON FACTORS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
ISTo. 2 Warren Block,
ILL continue to give their strict attentioH to the STORAGE AND SALE OF COT ION
and other PRODUCE.
Orders f .r BAGGING, TIES dr ROPE and FAMILY SUPPLIES promptly filled, and at the
LOWEST CASH PRICES.
Liberal CASH ADVANCES made on Produce in store.
Com missions lor Selling Cotton, (1)0 ONE AND A QUARTER PER CENT.
Consignments respectfully solicited.
Refer Io General A. It. Wright, Augusta, Ga. sepl-Sm
ESTABLISHED 1820.
OLDEftT SHOE HOUSE IN THE STATE.
1,500 Cases
BOOTS, SHOES & TRUNKS AT WHOLESALE.
ALFRED C. FORCE, '
258 Broad St., Sign Big Boot, Augusta, Ga.
Dealer IN BOOTS, SHOES and TRUNKS. Goods purchased direct from the
manufacturers, and SOLD AT SMALL PROFIT.
aul2-3mif*c4m
C. W. DOUGHTY,
• (SUCCESSOR OF E. W. DOUGHTY A CO.)
Cotton IPactor and Commission Merchant.
'"1 COMMISSION FOR SELLING, ONE DOLLAR PER BALE, same as Last Year.
AMPLE FtfgT CLASS STORAGE.
bFU’ieu, no. 9 Mclntosh st.
sepl7-d*clw Ik
WHOLESALE DRY WOODS !
Fall and Winter, 1869.
D. B.WHIGHT Ai CO-,
233 Broad St., opposite Masonic Hall,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
/-\ RE prepared to offer to the TRADE a
LARGE ATTRACTION and very complete
STOCK of STAPLE and FANCY DRY
GOODS and NOTIONS.
A thorongb and full examination of our
GOODS and PRICES is INVITED, as we are
prepared to SELL as CHEAP as parties cat
lay down the goods bought of Northern job
bers.
Angusta, Grauiteville, Richmond, Jewell’s
and Georgia FactorySHlßTlNGSand SHEET
INGS, DRILLS, STRIPES, OSNABURGS and
PLAINS constantly on hand, by bale or piece.
aug22-tif janl
WINDOW SHADES.
We have received and opened the
largest stock of new Shades ever shown
In this city, embracing Shades of all col
ors and sizes.
New and bonutlful Shades, at very low
pi Ices, at
James G. Bailie ft Brother’s.
WOOD. WOOD.
r PHE best .Oak, Hickory 'or Ash WOOD,
green or seasoned, at Five Dollars ($5) per
Cord, DELIVERED.
Also, SHINGLES, STAVES, HEADINGS
and WAGON SPOKES, at low prices, may be
secured by applying at the Kentucky and Ten
nessee Stables, on Campbell street, near Broad,
or leaving orders with T. E. BUEHLER, at the
Planters’ Hotel, Augusta, Ga. seplS-tf
I Frost, Blaok & Cos.,
Wholesale and Retail Manufacturers of and
*! Dealers in
> FIRST drASS
ftjrisjtt URE
OB’ EVFKY VARIETY,
69 BOWERY, NE4R CANAL ST., N. Y,
STEAMBOATS, HOTELS AMD PUBLIC
BOII.DJiNGS
Furnished at the Shortest Notice.
All goods purchased of our House guaranteed
, as represented.
It. W. FROST, JAMES BLACK. 080. SNVDBIt.
sepl7-Bin
MMES. SEGIN,
AT THE
FRENCH MILLINERY
AND
DRESS MAZING ESTABLISHMENT,
UaVE just received their first selection of
Exquisite FALL and WINTER GOODS,
which to examine will be ol great Interest
to the Ladies ol Augusta and the country.
DRESSES MADE nnd CUT in the Latest
Styles, which are received weekly.
Particular ntteutlon paid to BRIDAL OUT
FITS.
Ladies DRESS CAPS always on hand, and
made to order.
my 26 sepl9-tly 2
J[ANHO (_)_D!
A MEDICAL ESSAY ON THE CAUSE
AND CUKE OF PREMATURE DECLINE
IN MAN, the Treatment of Nervous aud Phy
sical Debility, etc.
“There is no member of society by whom
this book will not lie found useful, whether
such person holds the relation of Parent, Pre
ceptor, or Clergyman.”— lMedical Timet and
Gazette.
Seut by mall on receipt of fifty cants. Ad
dress the Author, rTl ,„, r „
Db. E. Db F. CURTIS,
seps-ly Washington, D. 0,