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OOJS STITTTTI ON ALJ ST.
ATT Oil ST A, C+A.
SUNDAY MORNING, SEPT. 26,1869
THE LATEST PHASE OF THE BYRON
SCANDAL.
It is generally conceded that Lord Lind
say, by a timely publication of the cor
respondence of Lady Byron with Lady
Anne Bernard, has effectually disposed
of Mrs. Stowe and her calumny. Out of
Lady Byron’s own mouth is Mrs. Stowe
condemned and the Hon. Augusta Leigh
vindicated. According to Lady Byron’s
own testimony, Mrs. Leigh was specially
Invited by the unhappy wife to remain
with and <tand as a barrier between her
and her fierce husband. The world will
never credit thht such an invitation would
have been given by Lady Byron had she
believed in the unholy intimacy which Mrs.
Stowe declares existed between the illus
trious poet and his sister. It must be
borne in mind that this account of the Lady
Augusta’s ministering was penned long
after the time which Mrs. Stowe alleges
Lady Byron had become acquainted with
her lord’s unnatural crime. Is it reasonable,
is it even possible to credit that such a
plea could come from the injured wife to
the sister, if the one believed the other to be
of a vileness beyond the lowest estate of
the lost children of men? It is neither
credible nor possible; and so, instead of
being the Messalina which Mrs. Stowe
would have her to be, the Lady Augusta,
iVom Lady Byron’s own confession, in
1818, was rather an adorable and angelic
woman. According to Mrs. Stowe, Lady
Byron knew of her husband’s atrocity
during the stormy season of their married
life; and yet, we have the evidence of Lady
Byron herself, two years after the deed of
separation, that no such awful suspicion
had ever entered her mind. Lord Lindsay,
strong in the charity of one who has the
power to establish truth, preserve reputa
tions and silence slander, allows Mrs.
Stowe two loopholes of escape without
going into the blackness of darkness which
ought to accompany an'd follow a re
velation with which she dared offend the
heavens and the earth. He writes:
11 In the face of the evidence now given,
positive, negative and circumstantial, there
can be but two alternatives in the case—
either Mrs. B- Stowe must have entirely
misunderstood Lady Byron, and been thus
led into error and misstatement, or we
must concludfisthat under the pressure of a
life-long and secret sorrow, Lady Byron’s
mind had become clouded with an hallu
cination in respect of the particular point
In question.”
This was all he could say in order to
permit Mrs. Stowe to cling to some straw
for safety from utter drowning in the
billows of iniquity. Not to be surpassed ill
clemency, we are inclined somewhat to
suppose there existed both misunder
standing and hallucination. We can
imagine that the New England woman
heard more than was ever spoken, and that
the British woman, in delusion, declared
more than she knew to be true.
Lord Lindsay’s testimony has thrown a
perfect calcium light upon the whole affair.
So great,, indeed, has been the illumination,
that even those journals which endorsed
Mrs. Stowe at first, have been compelled to
forsake her and her cause. The London
limes, judging from a recent cable tele
gram, gives her up. Even the New York
Tribune sullenly retires from her advocacy
and grows angry that it should have been
so badly betrayed “into an endorsement of
calumny. It says:
“ If she had presented her extraordinary
charges with a decent regard for literary
and personal proprieties, she might have
saved herself from a great deal of reproach
and spared us much unnecessary contro
versy. We can only hope that she will re
pair her mistake without any further de
lay. Lord Lindsay has placed her in a po
sition where she can no longer keep silence
without grave injury to her reputation.”
The New York Tunes pronounces Lord
Lindsay’s evidence “ irresistible ” against
Mrs. Stowe, and the Evening Post, edited
by the venerable W illiam Cullen Buy
ant, declares that it is a “ final disposition
of the Byron question.”
Meanwhile, how terrible has Mrs. Stowe
failed in the objects she ostensibly proposed
to gain. Her purpose, it would appear,
was twofold: First, to vindicate Lady
Byron ; and second, to excommunicate the
great poet from the great reading public.
We venture to say that such memoranda
as those of Wm. llowitt will hardly com
mend Lady Byron to the admiration or
respect of the world, and her connection
with the John Brown raid will make her
forever odious to many of the Southern
people, who, otherwise, must have sympa
thized with her misfortunes. So Mrs.
Stowe, far from vindicating or apotheo
sizing Lady Byron, has made her really
hateful, and covered her with reproaches
which never could have come to light but
for officious and criminal intermeddling.
As to diminishing the world’s interest in
all that relates to Byron, the failure is
more enormous still. Never in the hey
day of his brilliant career was he more
popular or notorious. His shade stalks
abroad with a fascination unknown for
nearly half a century; greater than when,
in the flesh, his bodily presence brooded
over the canals of Venice, or his stricken
form, “hushed in the alabaster arms of
death,” reclined on the Grecian soil. Men
and women, who had long ago ceased to
read his poems, take them up again. Those
who had escaped, by a generation, the
glamour of a near or actual approach
to his own day, are forced by some
subtle influence to peruse with enthu
siasm what they had scanned coldly
or indifferently. Every circle, no matter
how remote, discusses him. Children,
who never knew aught of him or his song,
or knew of either but vaguely, are now
rapidly becoming conversant with every
particular of his fate and every line of his
verse. If a person should happen to have
a memento of him, like the Parish Clerk’s
record of visitors to Hucknall Torkard
church, or an original letter—such a per
son is besieged with questions and applica
tions. So, Mrs. Stowe has done more to
circulate Byron and his works than any
one would have supposed, a few weeks ago,
either possible or probable for a battalion
of daquers or a ten thousand dollar adver
tisement. Wherefore, if her success in
achieving a horrible notoriety is immense,
her failure to accomplish her supposed ob
jects is what Dominie Sampson would call
pro-dig-i-ous.
We now learn that the amount paid her
for her unholy article was neither more nor
less than what she had been accustomed to
receive for an ordinary contribution to the
pages of the Atlantic Monthly. But the fact
seems to stand that she was something ;
and the receipt of money for such a pur
pose leaves a stain upou her hands, lifce
Duncan’s blood on those of Lady Macbeth,
which all the perfumes of Arabia will never
paake sweet again.
We sincerely trust that the revelation
made by Lord Lindsay will not only re
move the reproach from Byron’s memory
ami from the good name of his sister, but
put an early stop to the entire controversy.
The judgment of the majority of mankind
which first spake the sentence "Not Proven ,’’
now proclaims the bard and liis sister "Aot
Guilty .” We trust this judgment may
stand everlastingly as a warning against
all - future sensationalists who may be
tempted to follow in the footsteps of Mrs.
Stowe. Over the tomb of Byron let there
be written. those words which Stoddard
would have inscribed on the slab that
pressed upon the grave-mound of Edgar
Poe—
“ The stone is roll’d 1
Over bis ashes dim and cold.
He has carcclled all he has done or said,
And ho dwells with the dear and holy dead.
Let ns forget the path he trod
And leave him alone with his Maker, God !”
THE INCREASE OF MONEY.
A day or two since, we sketched the
outline of an Association, by the formation
of which we believed planters* and mer
chants would be benefited. This benefit
was to come through the concentration of
capital-invested in good interest-bearing
bonds to be used as a bonus for obtaining
funds in order to subserve the interests of
the cotton trade. This plan was suggested,
as we stated, by one of the best business
men of Augusta, ajid one who lias beeu,
for many years, connected with the pur
chase and sale of the great staple.
We think it must be evident to all that
au Association such as we ninted at would
be productive of immense advantage to th»
business relations of onr city. Not only
would it give the cotton trade anew im
petus and a novel source of power, but it
would likewise offer one of the very best
inducements for the investment of capital.
The rapidity of the growth of money out
of per centage is realized by very few per
sons, especially when the interest can be
readily reinvested and compounded every
six months. This reinvesting cannot be
done conveniently by individuals who hold
one or two thousand dollars in bonds ; but
when capital is aggregated—crystallized as
it were in large sums— in
terest can always be put in other bonds,
so that the principle will more than double
in,ten years. We suggest another great
argument for the formation of such a com
pany at this time, viz: the ease with
which Southern securities can be purchased
for less than their par value in currency,
every dollar of which will, in all proba
bility, be paid in gold when due. It is a
matter, then, of some consequence that
Southern men or corporations should be
enabled to reap this golden harvest. The
formation of such Associations will do
more to render the South independent of
our late enemies than any other plan that
has come under our observation.
1 COMMUNICATED.]
Mu. Editor: Recently, when one of our
merchants was on a visit to Charleston, he
was arrested under a charge of “ soliciting
orders,” and fined at > a druitmer in the sum
of fifty dollars. It is amusing to see how
the Courier of the 18th inst. endeavors, in
a labored article, to relieve the odium cast
upon that city. Tt reminds ope of the little
boy in a graveyard, “ whistling to keep
his courage up.” The editor hid better
own lip at once that such a policy, among
some others of our sister city, is driviug
cotton and trade to Savannah and other
points. Our merchants show that they
intend to contest this season for the whole
sale trade of goods, and it is really en
couraging to see the piles of goods turned
out daily on our sidewalks and depots,
going to South Carolina, Alabama, Ten
nessee, Florida and throughout Georgia.
Many of our merchants have enlarged
their stores for the increased supply of
merchandize, and they now invite mer
chants from every section to come and buy,
and bring their bags of wool, bags of feath
ers, supply of bacon, bales of cotton, their
stock of tobacco, or bags of flour.
Augusta is now offering superior induce
ments to upper South Carolina to deal
with her, and we are gratified to find on
hotel books the names of parties daily ar
riving from that section, who come to
make purchases. Every store in the city
is rented and filled with goods. Wc say,
let all come; here is the point to find a
welcome and good bargains. Come, buy
and sell. Free Trade.
Tennessee.
WILL THE COMING LEGISL ATURE RATIFY THE
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
“ Avery,” a Tennessee correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial, indulges in the
following predictions in regard to the fif
teenth amendment:
The Legislature elect, which is shortly
to convene at Nashville, will not ratify the
fifteenth amendment. There is no longer
room to doubt what will be their course in
this matter—no room to hope by those who
are friends to the amendment; no reason
to fear by its enemies. It is well enough
to look the shadow of coming events square
in the face, and be no more astonished when
the truth of its presence bursts upon us in
October, than at the September visions of
approaching reality. The “ coming event
of the period” is the fifteenth amendment,
and there is no longer room to doubt what
Tennessee’s course will be in regard to that
absorbing question. Her vote will be re
corded against it, or else the signs of the
times are not to be relied on, nor the opin
ions of the members elect themselves.
Governor Senter and the Legislature were
elected upon a platform embodying to clear
distinctness the principles of the fifteenth
amendment. It was a main plank in the
platform—a rallying point and a rallying
cry. Senter is still for it, but the men elect
ed with him upon the same ticket and upon
the platform are not. He was the head of
the ticket, but the tail is greater than the
head, for the head is merely a figure-head,
and the tail is power. The Governor is
little more than a Gubernatoriol ornament
to preside at receptions, pardon convicts
and board in Nashville. The power is all
in the Legislature, and they will not use it
to advance a favorite Republican measure,
whether Gov. Senter be its champion or not.
He can recommend that the amendment be
adopted, but his recommendation will have
no other effect than to attest the truth of
his oft repeated declarations and the sin
cerity of his motives. For practical effect
he might as well urge the adoption of the
marriage laws of Massachusetts or the
liquor law of Maine.
If the old Legislature were in session,
they would adopt it in a twinkling, no mat
ter who recommended it, or who opposed
it. For them to follow Congress was as
natural as for a lap dog to follow its mas
ter, and any amendment that Congress
might propose would be sure to find an
earnest, if not able, second at Nashville.—
There has been a change of years crowded
into the space of months, and an easy way
to get at what the coming Legislature wiil
do, is to consider what the old Assembly
would refuse to do, and vice versa.
N Heretofore, Tennessee has been counted
in the list that is to make up the required
tw’enty-seven; but the regularity with
which she has been counted in, can now
be exercised in counting her out. When
the amendment comes up, nobody will ob
ject to the nigger having a vote; but then
the idea of Congress and the Constitution
having anything to say about it will be the
flaw, and the “ getting out place ” for tW&se
wh<? are tangled in the web of inconve
niences, and victims to their own insatiate
desire for office. The Constitution lias
risen to a sudden sacredness, and there is a
greater degree of solicitude expressed for
for its preservation in purity than at any
previous time in the history of that ven
erable instrument. The Constitution of
our fathers must not be patched so much,
lest, like an old shirt undergoing the same
process, the beauty of its former propor
tions be lost in a confusion of additions.
Too much'nigger must not be got into it,
for it will smell bad and become distasteful
to a large portion of those who worship at
the shrine.
While the Legislature elect will not
ratify the amendment, yet they are not of
that, material which will take from the
colored man any right he now enjoys.
Judging from those, who have expressed
opinions on the subject, they are opposed
to the amendment, first, because they
consider it useless, and secondly, because
it would give Congress more power than
of our Republican system of government.
No disposition is manifested among the
members elect to deal unfairly with the
negro, and they seem to think that no
future Legislature will curtail their rights.
Consequently, no amendment is needed
so far as Tennessee is concerned, and
Tennessee has no right to dictate to other
States, through the Constitution or other
wise, what they shall door what they shall
not do.
I From the Oipcliro&ti Commercial, 18th.
An Interview Between General Sherman
and Mrs. Dr. Walker.
The presence of Mrs. Dr. Walker at the
Women’s Convention renews the recollec
tion of au.interview which took place be
tween that somewhat remarkable person
and General Sherman, at Atlanta, during
the war, and several weeks after the city
had been captured. By some means, known
only to the mysteries of the female mind,
the doctor had been able to avoid
the order forbidding any of her sex to enter
the city, and with a degree of perseverance
peculiarly her own, she walked into the
private room of General Sherman, and de
manded a commission in the medical de
partment of the army. The fact is not
publicly known, but General Sherman is
weak when a woman is concerned —that is
to say, he would run rather than have
hard words with one of them; and the tears
of a female rebel had move tep-qy to his
soul than a thousand Beatfregards. So,
wnen cne little doctor renewed again and
again her demand for.an appointment, the
General, like a great soldier, as he is,
changed tactics in the face of the enemy.
“Why don’t you wear proper clothing?
That toggery is neither ODe thing nor the
other,” said the General, as he pointed his
finger to the nondescript garb of the
doctor.
“ Well, General,” replied the young
woman, ■ t I suppose you would like to see
me in hoops, and heavy skirts dragging
down my hips, to the destruction of health
and comfort ? What right, sir, have women,
who bear children, thus to destroy their
best powers and unfit themselves to be
wives and mothers ?”
This, and much more she said about wo
man’s reforms.
The conqueror of Atlanta was somewhat
taken aback by this charge of horse, foot
and dragoons, but he picked up courage.
“ Did you ever bear any children ?” he
asked, with sardonic emphasis.
She had so admit that she had not done
anything of the kind.
The General added severely :
“ I don’t know that I should especially
desire to see you, hoops or no hoops ; nor
do I see any need that women should be in
jured by wearing them, or the moderate
use of the costume of the day ; but 1 do
know for a certainty that you and such as
you put on that dress from affectation. If
you wish an example of what a woman
should be and ought to do—damnation,’’
cried the General, getting excited, “ what
are yon here for any how ? Breeches or
no breeches, the President’s wife would not
flare to disobey orders. Put on decent
clothes, go back to Nashville, enter the
hospitals where our poor boys are dying Os
wounds and fever, and imitate the example
of the women in hoops and petticoats, who
are devoting their time to the work of nurs
ing.”
We think Mrs. T>r. Walker went North
uppu an tgirly train.
Unwed States District Court for the
Northern District ok Georgia, Hon. .1.
ErskinE Presiding. — An interesting ques
tion arose yesterday in the case of N. R.
Gibbons vs. B. B. Hinton. The suit was
upon a promissory note given by the latter,
with expressed conditions that if the note
was not paid when it came due, the maker
was to pay all expenses of collection in
curred by the holder. Messrs. Hammond
& Sou, representing the defense, claimed
that said expenses were not collectable. L.
E. Bleckley, Esq., representing s he other
parties. The decision claimed that the con
tract was not usurous, but that, the ex
penses were not collectable, quoting from
Orr vs. Churchill: “ When the question is
concerning the non-payment of money, in
circumstances like the present, the law
having by positive rules fixed the rate of
interest, iias hounded the measure of dam
ages; otherwise the law might be eluded
by the parties ” Though but a small
amount of money was involved in this
cause, the decision is one of much import
ance in commercial transactions.
William Owens, charged with-distillation
without having paid special tax, was found
guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of one
thousand dollars and cost of suit, and to
six months imprisonment.
The petit jury was discharged until Mon
day, the Judge y tilting that he would oc
cupy to-day in hearing arguments on law
questions.
Thomas A. Roony, of Cobb county, was
discharged in bankruptcy.
[ Atlanta Era, 25th. -
Running Freight Trains on Sunday.—
This is prohibited in Georgia, as will be
seen by the following extract from the
Code:
“If any freight train shall be run on any
railroad in this State on the Sabbat h day
(known as Sunday) the superintendent of
the transportation of such railroad com
pany, or the officers having charge of that
department of business of the railroad,
shall be liable to indictment for a misde
meanor in each county through which such
train shall pass ; and on conviction shall
lie fined for each offense the sum of over
tve hundred dollars. On such trials it shall
not be necessary to allege or prove the
names of the employees engaged on such
train, but the simple fact of the train being
run. The defendant may justify himself by
proof that such employees acted in direct
violation of the orders and rules of de
fendant.”
Labor op Sunday is also forbidden under
heavy penalties.
Boutwell’s Coming Spree.—The Star,
in view of the fact that the aspiring Bout
well has accepted an invitation to attend
the Georgia State Fair, to be held at Macon
in November, thinks:
“ The acceptance of this invitation, cut
and dried beforehand, as it is, is a sly
dodge of Boutwell’s, whereby he may be
enabled to go among the Georgians and
‘ feel’ that population upou the subject of
his Presidential chances. But why Bout
well should go about his private business
cruising around in Government vessels is
another thing.”
The Whisky Tax.—ln his report, Mr.
Delano, will‘not recommend an increase of
tax on spirits, but will favor either a de
crease in the sum now collected per gallon,
or the continuance of the existing law. An
effort is to he made by dealers in whisky to
defeat the Commissioner, and by a formi
dable organization of the lobby to convince
members of Congress thaf the tax should
be increased, the figure named being one
dollar. Secretary Boutwell, it is known,
will favor the continuance of the present
law on the subject.
Sent Back to Laurensville.—P. 11.
Scott, the express, messeuger on the Lou
rensville train, wlio was arrested on the 7th
of this mouth upon the charge of stealing
SI,BOO from the Express safe in the depot at
Laurensville, started back to that place
yesterday afternoon, in charge of officer
Coates. The accused, who still asserts his
innocence, expects to get bail for his ap
pearance for trial immediately upou his
arrival at Laurensville.
[Charleston News, 25 th.
Accident on tiie Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad. —The yesterday morning’s pas
senger train on the Atlantic and Gulf Rail*
road going west, ran into a wash near Rep
pard’s mill. The engine is safe but the
tender is damaged, and several freight cars
broken up. One train hand and the en
gineer were slightly hurt. The passage
of the trains will probably be interrupted
for a day.
[Savannah Republican 25th.
MARKIED, . k ■
On Thursday evening, the 23d inst., by Re,-. J. S.
Lamar,Ail - .Iso. F. Etubiias, of Baßimoiv, amfMiss
Bettik M., daughter of Rev. W. -I. Hard,of this
city. •
Baltimore Gazeitc, and lit l.gious Herald, of Rich
mond, Va , pleuse copy. *
At St. I'aul’s Church, Burlingto-i* Vermont, on
Wednesday, September Sth, 1169, by Rev. K. R. At
well, llokacb P. Cr.tKK, of Georgia, and Hiss Mahy
E.lTf.kkick. *
DIED,
At Summerville, on the 18th September, Mokt
oomkrt Khisd, infant eon of W. A. and M R. Stole, e,
aged thirtce l months. Scarcely a year agQ,a lovely
little sister was gathered into the folds of “the Good
eheplieid,” leaving this little one foe a few brief
mouths to soothe the heart and brighten the home
made desolate by her removal.
“ Ah t it is well;
Well with my lambs, and with their earthly guide;
There, pleasant rivers wander they beside,
Or strike sweet harps upon its silver tide—
Ab I it is well.
“ Through the dreary day,
1 hey often came from glorious light to me; »
I cannot feel their touch, their Lees see,
Yet, my soul whispers— They do cone tome!
Heaven is not far away ”
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The lollowiug were the drawn numbers, in the rjup
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September 25.
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iSPJEOiAJLi NOTICES.
Kir DIVINE SERVICE MAY BE EXPROTED
in the Presbyterian Church, on Sabbath Morß*g, at
tt»o q iual Hour, by the KjV. Dr. Hows, of Colombia,
S. O. ► sep2s-2
KST WEBB LODGE, NO. 166, F.. & A.-. M.-.
The Regular Monthly Communication of this "Lodge
will be hold at the Lodge Boom, Masonic Haft, TO
MORROW (Monday) NIGHT, 27th instant, at 7g
o’clock.
BretLren will take due notice thereof and govern
themselves accordingly.
By order C. F. Lewis, W.\ M.\
GEORGE ADAM,
sep26-I Secretary.
tOT MILLER LODGE, NO. 10, 1. O. Or F.—
Theie will he an address delivered at Odd Fellows
Ha:l, ou TUESDAY EVENING, the 28th inst., at 8
o’clock, and the member, of Washington Lodge, No.
7, and all vusitirg brethren, are icpectlully invited.
The new By-Laws will be submitted for adoption,
and all members oi Miller Lodge are requested to be
present.
By order of N. G
C. A. ROBBE,
sep2B-2 Recording Secretary.
DEBFECT MANHOOD.
EdbAYS FOR YOUNG MEN on the evils of
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Book-Keeping, Botany, Chemistry, Diction
aries, French,'' Grammars, Greek, German, Ge
ography, Histories, Latin, Primers, Philosophy,
Readers and Spellers. The above includes all
those in general use.
WRITING PAPERS.
I have in stock, at all times, different quali
ties of Legal Cap, Fool’s. Cap, Letter, Commer
cial Note, Ladies’ Note, &c. Envelopes of all
sizes and colors. Steel Pens, in great variety.
Inks—Arnold’s, Carter’s, David’s and Staf
ford’s, by the quart, pint and stand. Stick
well’s Mueillage.
A full assortment of Blank Books, Memo
r(uulums, Pass Books, Indexes, Pencil Books,
Tuck Memorandums, Note Books, Draft
Books, &c., &c., always on hand.
ALSO,
Photograph Albums, Almanacs, Bibles Bill
Paper, Blotting Paper, Bone Chess, Composi
tion Books, Carmine Ink, Cbeckermen, Chess
Men, Dime Novels, Dime Song Books, Domi
noes, Eagle Pencils, Hymn Books, Ink Stands
Letter Writers, Masonic Books, Pen Racks'
Prayer Books, Reward Cards, Ready Reckon
ers, Rulers, Slates, Slate Pencils, Toy Books
Testaments, Tissue Paper.
N. B.—l make the News Business a SPE
CIALITY, and can sppply any Paper or Maga
zine published at short notice, and subscrip
tions received at publishers’ prices. Back
numbers ordered if required.
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A CARD.
Tiie UNDERSIGNED, having purchased
the entire interest of S. M. Jones in the AU
GUSTA HOTEL, respectfully solicit a share of
patronage from the traveling public generally
We propose to keep a FIRST-CLASS HOUBSL
aud use every effort to satisfy and please all
that will give iis a call. Both of us have been
connected with the hotel for thirteen years
The Rooms of the Hotel are large aud'airv
and furnished equal to any in the city. '
We call the particular attention of the old
patrons of the House to the change. We desire
to see and welcome them.
The BAR furnished with the best Lianm-.
and 'Cigars. DAN’L G. MURPHY
jy!7-3m PATRICK MAY. ’
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRT GOODS!
h. F. Eusslri; s co.,
209 BROAD STREET,
THIRD DOOR ABOVE NATIONAL BANK,
Invite tfie attention of the public to their magnificent
STOCK OF GOODS, which is now open for inspection.
Handsome Line of Black and Colored SILKS,
Satin Striped.POPLINS,
TARTAN PLAIDS,
FIGURED MOHAIR,
CHENE MOHAIR,
MOTTLED MOH AIR.
STRIPED MOHAIR,
ENGLISH SERGE, v
PARIS SERGE.
Gray Mixed MALANGE,
Imperial Gray POPLINS,
Bijouterie do
Silk-l'aced do
Satin Striped do
French PLAIDS, ,
All Wool EPiNGLINE, ,
Silk do
Plain Black CRETONNE,
SULTANA CLOTH,
Black and Colored ALPACAS,
Black REPELLANT CLOTII,
Striped and Figured POL DE CHEVRE,
Mixed do do
Fancy Figured French ROBES,
Graysville SACKING,
Chantilly do
RIBBONS, TRIMMINGS and BUTTONS, all of the Latest and most
Fashionable Styles.
Magnificent Sash RIBBONS,
Great Novelty iu DRESS TRIMMINGS.
h>lu»sy]»s and Cloaks.
Large Stock—Every VanHjEHiKLf^yle—Unsurpassed in Beauty and Elegance.
Great Variety of ARARWHBIkBDOUINS.
HOODS, NUBIAS, &c.
{Sip We invite Special Attention to this Department. *
<• Grloves.
Complete Assortment of KID GLOVES,
Alexandre’s Dutchess,
Do 2 Button GAUNTLET,
Plain,
M
oSDualbian,
’ Berlin GLOVES,
\J> do GAUNTLETS,
Gent’s HBck GLOVES,
Do do GAUNTLETS,
Do Berlin GLOVES,
Do do GAUNTLETS,
Do Cloth GLOVES,
Do Kid do
Do do Lined GLOVES.
H osier v and Notions.
Very Large and Attractive Stock.
Linens
01 our own Direct Importation-
Table DAMASK, White and Colored,
Do NAPKINS,
Irish LINENS.
TOWELING,
Bird’s Eye DIAPER,
L. C. HANDKERCHIEFS.
"Woolens.
OPERA FLANNELS, all Shades and Colors,
White and Red do
Shaker do
W elsb, do
Canton do
Fine Black BROAD CLOTHS,
Fine and Medium DOESKINS,
BEAVER CLOTHS,
10 Cases CASSIM ERE,
6 do SATINET,
10 do Kentucky JEANS,
2 do TWEEDS,
4 do Waverly TWILLS, #
8 do Beverly dq
5 do KERSEY,
5 do LINSEY,
5 do White BLANKETS, Medium to Extra,
10 Bales Colored do
Pomestics.
10 Cases Bleached SHIRTINGS,
25 Bales 8-4 Brown • do
25 do 7-8 do do
10 do 4 4 do *do
10 do Brown DRILLS,
2i) do White OSNABURGS,
20 Otises Stripe and Plaid OSNABURGS,
10 do TICKING. 34, 7-8, 4-4—Various Brands,
3 do GINGHAM, &c., &c.
We invite a Rigid Examination of our Stock, which will be found complete in everj
Department.
To Merchants visiting the City, we offer Great Inducements. Our Stock is boughl
from First Hands, and is being constantly replenished. se»26-2m
FALL STOCK
AT
M. HYAMS & GO’S
234 BROAD STREET.
100 Bbls. SUGARS, all graces anil
qualities,
110 boxes BACON
30 bbls. MOLASSES
10 tierces HAMS
10 bbls. SYRUP, Silver-Drip and
Goldeu,
20 Bales BAGGING
3 Tons ARROW TIES
50 Half Coils Greenleai ROPE
100 Packages MACKEREL, bbls., half
bbls., quarter bbls. and kits,
GO Bbls. WHISKY, Lowest to the
Highest Grades,
75 Boxes CHEESE
200 Bbls. FLOUR
75 Sacks Liverpool SALT
80 Half Chests TEA, Young Hyson,
Imperial and Gnn Powder,
300 Bbls. Fresh LIME
50 do PLASTER
50 do CEMENT.
We offer the above at the Lowest Market
Prices. Our Supplies come regularly each
week, so onr Customers can depend on re
ceiving Fresh Goods. sep26 im
NEW GOODS!
EW RAISINS and ALMONDS
NUTS of all kinds
20 Bbls. Northern APPLES
SO do do POTATOES
Smoked SALMON and HALIBUT
Smoked BEEF and TONGUES
Ice-Cured HAMS and STRIPS
For sole by M. HYAMS & CO.
scp26-10
FRED. KNTJPFER,
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER AM) JEWELLER,
Has Removed from Mclntosh Street, next
to Georgia Railroad Bank, to BROAD STREET
(No. 198}£), below French Store.
Specialty for FINE WATCHWORK, French
and Calendar Clocks, Music Boxes,,Ac. —
Piece Detache (new work), done for Watch
makers. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, for sale,
Repaired and Warranted. All kinds of Mate
rials—phains, Keys, French and American
Patent Crystals and Keys. Also, best qualities
Pin Tolignes, «fcc., &c. sep26-6*
BUFFALO TONGUES!
Ten DOZEN, just received Irorn the West.
For sale by M. HYAMS & CO.
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NOTICE.
Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, 1
Secretary and Treasurer's Office, >
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 20, 1869. J
COUPONS of the First Mortgage Seven Per
Cent. Bonds of this Company, maturing Ist
October next, Will be paid at this office at ma
turity. S. H. LAMB,
sep26-12 Treasurer. ,
Consolidation of Stock*
Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta R. R. Cos., )
Treasurer’s Office, \
Columbia, S. C., September 24, 1869. )
The undersigned is now prepared to issue
Certificates ol Stock iu this Company, in lieu
of the Stock of the Charlotte and South Caro
Gina and the Columbia aud Augusta Railroad
Companies, iu accordance with the terms of
consolidation, adopted by the Stockholders iu
Joint Convention, July 8,1869, vis:
“ Each share of stock iu the Charlotte and
South Carolina Railroad Company shall be
converted into a! share in the consolidated com
pauv; and every four aud one-half shares of
stock in the Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Company 6hal! be converted into a share in the
consolidated company ; and where, in the last
named apportionment, fractions of a share may
result, the owners thereof may, at their option,
complete the unit by paying for the necessary
additional shares of Columbia and Augusta
Railroad stock at the rate ol sl2 50 per share,
or they may receive pay lor their surplus
shares at the same rate.”
Stockholders or their legal representatives
are required to surrender the old Certificates
when applying for the new.
C. H. MANSON,
sep26 10 Secretary aud Treasurer.
Bagging, Burlap Bags, &e.
Wm. B. COOPER, Jr., <te CO., Importers,
99 Pearl and 62 Stoue streets, New York, offer
for sale at lowest market rates, in lots to suit
purchasers—
DUNDEE BAGGING, BURLAPS
GUNNY CLOTH, BURLAP BAGS,
GUNNY BAGS, JUTE HEMP
BORNEO BAGGING. JUTE BUTTS, Ac.
AH kiuds of GRAIN BACKB con
stantly on hand. sep2o-l m
SAMUEL EIRE & SON,
IIS.. W. BALTIMOBE STREET-...1ra
BALTIMORE, HD.,
MANUFACTURERS OF ELEGANT
Silver Ware, Watches and Fine
Jewelry!
ESTABLI SHED 1817'.
sep26-3m
STATE OF GBORGIA. RICHMOND COUN
TY.—Whereas, Sarah Jane Wilcox and William
W. Wilcox apply to me for Letters of Adminis
tration on the estate of Jonathan 8. Wilcox, late
of said county, deceased :
These are. therefore, to cite and admonish, all and
singular, tbe kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to be and appear at my office, on or before the first
Monday in November next, to show cause, if any
they have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature, at office
in Augusta, in said county, this 26th day of Sep
tember, 1869. BAMUKL LEVY
sep26-lawtd Ordinary.
OATS, - OATS.
Three Car Loads
Prime Tennessee Oats
ON CONSIGNMENT.
scp2d 1 J. O. NATHEWDOK I
RESTAURANT reopened*
The UNDERSIGNED baa reopened bis
RESTAURANT for the season.
Everything the market affords will be served
In the best style.
A FREE LUNCH will be served DAILY, at
11 o’clock.
The best of LIQUGRS, WINES, ALE and
LAGER BEER to be had at the Bar.
CHARLES QUENTAL,
Ellis, between Mclntosh and Jackson sts.
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C. IT. PHINIZY,
Cotton Faotor and Commission Merchant,
CoNTINUES to give his attention to the STORAGE and SALE OF COTTON, at his
FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE, on JACKSON STREET.
CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. Jy27-d3m*cGm
JULIUS a. TUCKER,
WHOLESALE DEALER IH
SHOES AND BOOTS, CLOTHING,
316 BROAD STREET, OPPOSITE PLANTERS’ HOTEL,
Xs now receiving a Fall Supply of the above
named Alerchandixe. The stock consists of
only M_edium. and Low .Priced Goods. Hav
ing purchased from Manufacturers only, I am
prepared to wo 11 tluewo Cl ooda OKcttp as tUey
can "be bought in ISTew York or elsewhere.
Call and examine, and be satisfied.
sep2s-Sin
porter flbhino, chan. k. staples,
(Formerly FLEMING A ROWLAND.) (Late with JNO. M. CLARK & CO.)
FLEMING & STAPLES.
We TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THAT WE OCCUPY THE LARGE
FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE formerly owned by F. Phinizy" Esq., on Jackson
street, where Mr. Flf.ming will give his personal attention to the SALE OF COTTON
at the OLD RATE of 1 % per cent. sep4-sep2s-d&clm
INSURANCE,
PIPE, MAJRIISrE -AJSTH INLAJNTD,
IN THE FOLLOWING FIRST CLASS COMPANIES, VIZ:
.iEINA INSURANCE CO., Hartford, Chartered 1819, Cash Assets 15,352,532
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 345,000
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
ASTOR INSURANCE CO., New York, Cash Asaots 453,787
PIIENIX INSURANCE CO., New York, Cash Assets 1,«4«i359
PfItENIX INSURANCE CQ.» Hartford, Cash Assets 1,573,9(11
*12,737,990
RISKS taken on COTTON, MERCHANDISE, STORES, DWELLINGS, FURNITURE,
LIBRARIES and other property. Also, ou COTTON and MERCHANDISE to New York
and other Northern Cities, via Savannah mid Charleston to Liverpool and other European,
cities, and vice vena. The most important enquiry lo be made by every person iusuriug, is,
“ Are the Companies able to pay, if losses occur?” Our citizens have insured in some of the
above Companies more than forty years. The assets of all of them are iu CASH or its equiva
lent, and uotlu subscriptions, or stock uoles to be paid when fires occur. Losses will be equi
tably adjusted and promptly paid.
RISKS ARE RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED.
M M. Nil CAR,' Agent.
Augusta, G a., September 18, 18(59. seplS 4uiif
SUCCESS TfcEE CRITERION !
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The Best Managed is the Best Company 1
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INSURANCE COMPANY,
OK ST. LOTJXS, MO.
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JTAM.KH 11. LUCAS . PRKBIDKNT.
TUE MOST SUCCESSFUL CASH COMPANY IN THE WEST I
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The following well known gentlemen. Trustees of the Augusta Department, are all policy
holders, and cordially recommend the company as a souud and reliable institution :
OFFICERS:
STEPHEN D. HEARD, President. JAMES T. BOTHWELL, Vice-President.
O. M. STONE, Secretary.
AUGUSTA BOARD OF TRUSTEES:
Stephen D. Heakd, W. H. Wakrbn, John U. Mbyek,
J. T. Bothwell, Platt, Ciias S. Bradford,
O. M. Stone, John C. Pouter, Wm. 8. Roberts,
John D. Ramey, Joseph Brummkl, a. Hatch,
Ohas. A. Rowland, M. I. Branch, James W. Horton,
James M. Dye, George A. Oates, Joseph T. Smith,
John Osley, Jr., J. O. Mathewson.
JAMES 8. HOOK, Attorney. S. C. EVE, Medical Examiner.
POLICIES IBSUED upon all the popular plans. All Policies Nou-Forfeitablc.
RITCLIFFE & BUR WELL,
MANAGERS FOR GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA
Bopl9-wi*sulm OFFICE, 299 BROAD STREET, Opposite Masonic Hall*
Large, New, Attractive and Cheap!
AT
| James A. Gray & Co.’s.
Our Stock of Foreign, Domestic aud Fancy
s
FOR THE FALE ANB WINTER TRABE.
0
We OFFER, This Week, Large Invoices of Imported DRESS
GOODS, comprising New Colored Silks, latest shades; 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
this 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 trado.
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.
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