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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
aug-usta. ga.
ISATURDAY MORNING, 00T. 2, 1869
SECRETARY BOUTWELL AND THE
WALL STREET GAMBLERS.
The reputation of the Secretary of the
Treasury has greatly suffered, in all quar
ters by his vacillating conduct during the
recent panic in New York. The common
opinion seems to be that however excellent
Mr. Boutwell may be as a politician he
is totally unfit for, statesmanship, especial
ly that enlarged and practical statesman
ship which is employed in the manage
ment of the finances of a great Government.
When the time had arrived for a display of
firmness and mastery, Mr. Boutwell, was
quite as much bewildered as the worst of
the howling dervishes of the Gold Board.
He did not seem to grasp the real situation
of affairs ; he all afloat on a sea of
speculation, and his mind was tossed about
like a cork. He proved himself to be a
weak as well as an unwise man, and his
flurries did more to cause consternation
on Wall street and in business circles than
even the antics of the Fisk-Gould ring of
gamblers. When he did arrive at what
was deemed a just conclusion as to the
proper cburse to be pursued, he appears to
have flown to Grant for advice; and if he
was required by that blunt soldier to act
contrary to his owu convictions, it was no
more than what might have been expected.
In a fit of remorse, he is now reported to
have said that he will no longer, in the fu
ture, be controlled by Wall street. The
Herald agrees that this is a sound resolve,
on general principles, but it may have to
be abandoned should another emergency
arise in the shape of a second conspiracy
among either bulls or bears. As the case
stands, the future is full of peril, in conse
quence of the enormous debt of the United
States held abroad. This debt is on the
increase, and the country is harassed
daily to pay the interest constantly ac
cruing and to make good the deficiencies
caused by the dishonest collection of the
revenue. Here, then, is the great difficul
ty: to stave off the trouble threatening
from abroad and prevent crashes at home.
The Secretary of the Treasury is too weak
a vessel to be trusted with such vast re
sponsibilities ; and,even if he were stronger,
the vicious system of the National Banks,
and the inadequacy of the supply of cur
rency, North and South, would combine to
defeat even the best of intentions directed
in the most sagacious manner. Casting
about for even the flimsiest straw to save
the Government and people from bank
ruptcy, the Herald pounces with delight
upon that great Southern staple, which,
however much derided, has had the
royal privilege of propping up Uncle
Sam and all his villainy. The cotton
crop of the South is looked for, then,
to secure the present season from utter
disaster. After that, Congress—such a Con
gress!—must needs be appealed to in order
to postpone the day of wrath a little long
er. We suppose the genius of Congress
might be equal to the imposition of a tax
upon cotton —as has been threatened of
late—but, beyond this, if Reconstruction is
to be taken as a sample, we should say that
little is to be hoped from a convocation of
political worms whose chief aspiration has
hitherto beeu to rival Wall street in panics
and surpass it in greed.
The Journal of Commerce has much to
say of the late operations. The very best
illustration of the whole scheme may bo
found in these pungent and sensible ex
tracts :
Money Market, )
Saturday Evening, Sept. 25. $
A “ Merchant” with an inquiring mind,
referring to our suggestion that Secretary
Boutwell would do well to leave the gold
gamblers to their fate, wishes to know
“ where the great mercantile interests of
the city would have beeu if the Department
had not interfered yesterday?” We echo
the question, Where would they? What
would have happened if no response had
been made from Washington ? Possibly
gold would have gone up for the space of ten
minutes more. Perhaps the nominal price
would have reached 170 Instead of
and what of it? Would any legitimate
interest have suffered? What merchant
yesterday brought gold at 162? No better
thing could have been dope than to have
left these two parties to the gambling trans
action to fight, it out clean to the bitter
end. The more of them that were extirpat
ed in the conflict the more security for the
future peace of the market, and the better
for all honest traders. We recall a most
striking illustration. A good lady, whose
husband was away, being left alone to
manage a spoiled child of eleven years, was
in constant hot water on his account. She
lived opposite a butcher’s shop, and an
errand boy thereto belonging was en
gaged in a daily conflict with her
son. Sometimes the latter youth would
get the upper hand,' and his antagonist
would suffer a rare pommeling. But
whenever the butcher’s boy was on the
top, the youth would yell for his moth
er, who was thus kept daily in alarm and
constantly on the watch for his rescue.
She appealed to the butcher, who declared
that her son provoked the conflict and ad
vised her to let the boys have it out, aud
thus settle the matter. She pleaded with
her son, but as he had the advantage, being
sometimes able to thrash his opponent, ami
always sure of her help when he was likely
to be worsted, he would not desist. Mat
ters were in this condition when her hus
band returned, and the fond mother laid
the case before him. Telling her to leave
the difficulty in his hands, he waited the
issue. Very soon his boy was in for anoth
er fight, and when his sturdy little antago
nist had him on his back, and he found he
was likely to catch a drubbing, he shouted
as usual for his mother. His father check
ed her as she was running to the rescue,
and the boy was left to his own resources.
He came out of it with a bloody nose aud
a black eye but he made no more iruUehes.
When will sensible people learn that
no bulls can put up gold unless some bear
oppoueut equally culpable is on the other
side of the arena. There is not a particle
of choice between tlie two as to the equity
of the couflict. Each is trying to take ad
vantage of the other. As long as they
keep outside of the criminal law, let them
tight it out. We do not say that society
does not suffer from these contests, or that
they are reputable, or that it would not be
well if they could be wholly proven toil.—
But we do say that interfering to help one
or the other, where both cannot be reached
together, only prolongs the conflict, or
rescues the equally guilty to renew it as
soon as he sees a good opportunity. If the
(Secretary had not stirred from his position
yesterday, the market would have been
healthier, steadier, and freer from Specula
tion for mouths to come. This is as clear
to an experienced observer as the sun at
noonday.
Truckling. —The Baltimore Gazette, al
luding to the truckling of the military in
the South to Radical dictation, says: “So
completely is the whole policy of the Gov
ernment subordinated to the will of such
men as SpMNRtt and Boutwell, to the
great horde of bondholders and families,
and to the coddling of negroes, that any
hope which the Southern States may en
tertain of a speedy recognition of their
right to. seats in Congress, pr even to con
trol, without molestatjoq, their own local
affairs, Is nothing short of a delusion and a
snare.” ,
Well, maybe the North will see virtue
gven in Ku Klux, one of these days. ,
Father llyacintiie. —A writer in the
Courrier dee Etate Unis thinks Father
Hyacinthe will prove a second Luther.
Another writer injects this theory, and
says “Luthers are not made of rose
water." The fate of Lammenais, a much
greater man than Hyacinthe, is cited. He
rose in splendor and perished in utter ne
glect. Our ardent friend of the Freeman's
Journal settles the case thus for Hya
cinthe :
“ He will not disturb the coming Coun
cil of the Vatican more than a lusty Ro
man flea settled on the calf of the leg of a
Roman Cardinal, celebrating, would inter
rupt the devotions of a solemn public
mass.
“In the latter case, a quiet and unper
ceived movement of the heel of the other
foot, under the robe, displaces the pestifer
ous insect. In the case of Pere Hyacinthe,
the insect will remove itsel' by a collapse.”
Well, we do not know what will be the
result, but hope to prove equal to the
worst. The age is too full of sensations
for the revolutionary success of any one
spasm. Father Hyacinthe may have what
men barbarically call “ gumbut we sup
pose Lubin’s extract has softened the gum.
Ohio. —The Cincinnati Enquirer is very
confident of a Democratic triumph. It
says:
“ Advices continue good from all parts
of the State. The centre will show tremen
dous Democratic majorities; so Will South
ern Ohio. The backbone counties will also
give ns splendid votes. There will be a
caving-in of the Radical strength in the
river counties, and throughout Eastern
Ohio there will be the same report. From
the Western Reserve there are good tidings,
and we confidently expect a handsome
diminution in the majorities that are
always given against us in that section.—
Well-informed parties no longer doubt the
success of Mr. Pendleton and the Demo
cratic Legislature.”
Inconsistent. —Concerning Dr. Cum
ming’s inability to understand the Pope’s
letter convoking the Ecumenical Council,
the St. Louis Republican says:
“ Here is a man that holds himself out as
able to draw aside the veil that conceals
the future, and put the true construction
upon the mysterious writings of St. John,
who errs egregiously in interacting a docu
ment that was intended to be so plain that
‘ all that run might read.’ ”
Perhaps its very plainness was the diffi
culty with a man who revels in the ob
scure. Men who can see into millstones
sometimes fail to perceive what is on the
outside of them. We have heartl of a lec
turer upon the art of memory who always
forgot his umbrella whenever it rained. —
And so, Dr. Gumming may be pat on Pat
inos and yet stolid as a stone on Peter.
George Francis Train. —This notori
ous individual has come out on the Byuon-
Stowe controversy. He says:
“Divorces and such things arise on ac
count of money matters. Harriet is all
wrong. She struck for fame, and got in
famy. Since her fate I have stopped my
book proving that George Washington was
the mother of several children by his aunt.”
[communicated.]
The Circular of Dr. Parish, an Aged
Black Man.
PART I.
The undersigned begs leave to call the
attention of the citizens of Augusta, War
ren and Hancock counties, and of the State
of Georgia generally, to the fact that he
has resumed his old professiou of the
practice of medicine, which had been par
tially suspended by the breaking outof the
rebellion, and the difficulty of procuring a
horse, as all the horses were either im
pressed into the cavalry service of the Con
federacy or driven from the country to
subserve the purposes of our former ene
mies (but now very kind friends), to the
great detriment of the healing art.
He has, however, made arrangements to
borrow a horse occasionally, which will
enable him to attend to the, most pressing
cases; though he would prefer that his
patients should be sent to him, as, being
old and infirm, he will thereby be in a
better position to wat.ch the progress of
their disease from day to day, and to apply
the proper remedies.
The public will patiently bear with him,
while he undertakes to set forth Ills indi
vidual merits, and relieve his character
from any suspicion of quackery and im
posture.
He is happy to find that he lives in an
age when color no longer offers a bar to
the progress of science—nay, becomes a
positive .advantage to a professional char
acter.
All colors seem to have had their day—
white, red and yellow; now black is the
rage. Suffice it to say, he is ablfjck man—
not colored, as that expression would be
too mild a term to indicate his true com
plexion.
His features are characteristic of his
color, but underneath his aged wool there
lie some common sense, experience and
skill, which iie would fain impart to his
fellow-countrymeD, if they will but. re
munerate him for his pains. As regards
his birth and education, he wonld state
that lie was born in Onslow county, North
Carolina, on White Oak river, during the
Old war of the Revolution, and can well
remember the joy and festivity evinced by
the whole country at its successful termi
nation very different, he is sorry to observe,
from that manifested at the present time,
which seems limited to only one section of
this broad land.
While other young men enjoyed the ad
vantages of paying for hearinir medical lec
tures, which they did not understand, and
cramming their memories with hard Greek
and Latin terms, which veiled their ignor
ance, he followed, while a lad his old mis
tress Mrs.Keziah Jones, through the woods,
and learned from her lips the efficacy and
qualities of certain roots, whose hidden
virtues lie scattered in the forest, and cau
only lie appreciated by those who draw
their inspirations from nature, and not from
the second-hand lessons of men. He can
administer roots which salivate quicker
than calomel, penetrate the inmost recesses
of the liver, and accelerate the velocity of
the peristaltic movements of the viscera.
He has tried his “ prentice hand” upon
himself, subjected his owu constitution to
the severest ordeal, and hence feels author
ized to experiment upon the bodies of others.
“ Nil tetigit, quod non purgavit.” In early
youth his attention was necessarily con
fined to the labors of the field, so that his
range of practice was not at first very good,
but was simply a relaxation from the
sterner duties of the day; but with time
came experience and with experience infir
mities, which disqualified him for agricul
tural toil, and left him more leisure for the
practice of the noble art, which, for the
last seventeen years, has been his solace
and support; nay, more, the ruling passion
of his soul. In his first rude efforts, how
many may have been consigned to an early
grave is a topic he would not dilate upon;
how many negroes “lie mouldering in the
tomb,” who miglit now be enjoying their
freedom, he would be silent thereupon.
He would console himself with the reflec
tion that they fell victims to his own ar
dent aspirations for success; that the road
to the temple of iEsculapius must necessa
rily be strewn with human bones aiid
skulls, and that he has unconsciously les
sened the labors of the Preedmen’s Bureau.
Pallida mors sequo pulsat pede pauperum ta
berna?,
Regumque tnrrcs.
It is fit that he should mention the dis
eases which have engaged his most earnest
attention, and whose ravages have been
stayed by his timely assistance. Fits,
which convulse the human frame and dis
tort the image of the Maker, as reflected in
the human facediyine; dyspepsia, the great
source of domestic discord and civil disor
der and frightful suicides; consumption,
that, like a “ worm in the bud,” secretly
undermines the opening flower; dropsy,
that “ blows a man up like a bladder; ’ the
awful attendant upon intemperance, snake
bites and ulcers, which blotch the human
skin, all readily yield to his potent reme
dies, and give place to returning health
and vigor. His grand specialities are those
desperate, obstinate chronic cases which
have defied the efforts and proved the de
spair of the most distinguished physicians.
There the triumph of liis skill appears;
here lie reaps the laurels which contrast
so strangely with his dark complexion.
There he stands unrivalled. Lost In the
contemplation of his own success, he heads
ioutinto those beautiful lines of Gray, which
his young master has so often repeated to
him:
“ See the wretch that-long has tossed
At once repair his vigor lost—
And breathe and move and five again—
The meanest flowret of the vale, V
The simplest note that swells the gale,
The common earth, the air, the skies —
' To him are opening Paradise.”
Here the Dr. would once for ail allude to
a delicate point, which must uecessarily be
touched upon, and then dismissed forever.
As the principle of gravitation controls
the universe, so the bonds of society are
either tightened or loosened by the abund
ance or absence of money.
With it, all things are possible, without
it none. It is the spur to every human
effort, and may justly be suspected as the
secret motive of every philanthropic move
ment. The thought* of it hovers arouud
the sick bed, intensifies the disease and
alas 100 harasses the last moments of the
expiring patient. In the midst of pain and
agony the sufferer would lavish his means
lor relief, but tlie smile is too often checked
upon the returning cheek of health, by the
gloomy reflection, that the pliysican’s bill
must still be paid. The principle of no
burp no pay has been tried and failed.—
Many patients have obstinately refused to
be well, though to the discerning eye the
system had received its tone, and the wheel
of life resumed once more its uniform mo
tion. Mournful reflection, that he who has
restored the failing energies of life, should
often require its necessaries.
“ Non prosunt domiuo quae prosnnt omuibus
artes,”
which may be translated —
“ In my own case there is no care,
Nor herbs relief afford—
The arts, which health to all ensure,
Prove useless to their lord.”
Such is the touching language of Apollo,
the fabulous deity of the healing art. Pre
payment in all, and especially desperate
cases, will be the invariable rule, to which
there will lie no exception, and here he
would conclude the subject with these
original, yet warniug lines:
’Ti& vain to implore the Dr.’s aid,
Unless his bill be first prepaid.
Warren Cos., Ga.
Tennessee Affairs.—A special to the
Louisville Courier-Journal, from Nashville,
under date of the 28th ult., has the follow
ing concerning the situation in Tennessee :
The Legislature convenes on Monday,
and early in the succeeding week will elect
a United States Senator. At this early day
the following events can be predicted with
reasonable certainty of their fulfillment:
1. Andrew Johnson will be elected Sen
ator.
2. The fifteenth amendment will not be
ratified.
3d. A constitutional convention will be
called at an early day, which body will
effect the enfranchi of every dis
franchised person in the State at the earli
est practicable moment, but will not inter
fere with the civil and political rights of
the negro.
4th. Tlie bonds of the State will not be
repudiated, although earnest advocates for
such a measure will not he wanting.
sth. The partisan legislation of the last
few years will be generally repealed.
These are the main questions to come be
fore the Legislature and the convention
growing out of it. The fight over the Sen
atorship will be fierce, but the result, can be
told in advance. The new Legislature will
contain an abler set of men than has over
been found in the Tennessee General As
sembly before. The Press and Times, the
Radical organ of this city, will suspend in
a day or two, leaving not a single daily
Radical paper in the State, as Brownlow’s
Whig lias become quite conservative.
The collapse of Radicalism in Tennessee
is as effectual as that of a mammoth bal
loon bursting from over-inflation.
Matters are quiet throughout the State.
Is Grant Mixed Up with the Ooi-d
Speculation? —Tlie Times and Sun both
intimate that the President’s brother-in
law, Mr. Corbin, had a good deal to do
with the recent gold speculations, and the
intimation is accompanied by a rumor that
the Gould-Fisk party were about to secure
his services and influence as President of
the Tenth , National Bank. The Sun, with
reference to this, says :
“It is a very interesting fact that when
tlie editor of tlie Times asked the Presi
dent’s brother-in-law—who is an old spec
ulator—whether the report was true that
he was about to give his services and his
‘ influence ’ with tlie President to the gold
speculators for $25,000 a year, Mr. Corbin
would not venture any more positive con
tradiction than that such an arrangement
was improbable.”
The editor then asks:
“ After all, what room is there loft for
Gen. Grant, to do anything which shall
create surprise, seeing that he has appro
priated tlie highest office under the Gov
ernment, openly and without any attempt
at disguise, as the consideration and return
for pecuniary favors which lie had re
ceived ?”
Hebrew Immigiiaton. —lt is reported
that the Israelites in San Francesco have
organized an immigration society for the
purpose of assisting persons of their faith
in Europe to come to this country. This,
we think, is well. The Israelites prosper
in this great and free country. In no
country in the world, since they lost, their
own land, have they found so much of a
home as they have found here. They make
good, peaceful, prosperous citizens. We
have no reason to object to a large Sewish
immigration. In some parts of Europe, in
Roumania particularly, their condition is
most wretched. Recent legislation in the
Principalities has revived tlie experience of
the captivity in Babylon and tlie bondage
in Egypt. Prince Charles lias promised to
exert himself to ameliorate their condition;
but Prince Charles is a constitutional
ruler aud not above law. It is the feeling
of the people, not the power of the Prince,
that makes the Jews miserable on the banks
of tlie Danube. Let our rich Israelites
bring their oppressed brethren to this new
land of promise. Here, at least, they will
be freemen, and milk and honey will not be
found wholly wanting. —New York Herald.
Is That the Man ? —At a political meet
ing the speaker and audience were very
much disturbed by a man who constantly
called out for Mr. llenry. Whenever a
new speaker came on, this man brawled
out, “ Mr. Henry ! Henry ! I call for
Henry!” After several interruptions of
tliis kind at each speech, a young man
ascended to the platform, aud was soon air
jng h : s eloquence in magniloquent style,
striking out powerfully in his gestures,
when tli£_old cry was heartl for Mr. Henry.
Putting his hand to liis mouth like a speak
ing trumpet, this man was brawling out at
tlie top of liis voice. “ Mr. Henry ! Henry !
Henry ! Henry ! 1 call for Mr. Henry !”
Tli« chairman now rose and remarked that
it would oblige the audience if the gentle
man wonld refrain from any further calling
for Mr. Henry, as that gentleman was
speaking. “Is that Mr. Henry ?” said the
disturber of the meeting. “ Thunder, that
can’t be Mr. Henry ! Why, that’s the lit
tle cuss that told me to holler !” — Ex.
Habit is Everything.— A city man ac
customed to lodge on one of tlie noisest
streets, recently visited a country friend.—
Too much quiet destroyed his rest at: night.
His friend felt for his distress, and said he
would try and relieve it. Accordingly he
went to a neighbors and procured a bass
drum, which he beat under the gnest’s bed
room window, and bad liis boy run a
squeaking wheelbarrow op and down on
the porch, while his wife played on the
piano, and his servant girl ]M>unded on the
chamber door with the tongs. In this man
lier the sufferer was enabled to get two or
three hours of quite refreshing sleep, though
It was heavy on the family.
,To enre corns: Hold your feet near the
fire until the corns pop. This is said to be
a sure cure.
The Footsteps of Decv|t.
FROM TIIE SPANISH. ■j
Ob ! let the soul its slumbers brtMik—
Arouse its senses and awake, 11
To see how soon
Life in its glories glides away, I
And the stern footsteps of decay 1
Come stealing on.
And while we view the rolling tii !e,
Down which our flowing minutes glide
Away so fast,
Let us the present hour employ.
And deem'caeli future dream ajo y
Already past.
Let no vain hope deceive the min 1—
No happier let us hope to find
To-morrow tbau to-day.
Our golden dreams ol yore were iright,
Like them the present shall delig’ t
Let them decay.
Our lives like bast’uing streams n ist be,
That into one engulphing sea
Are doomed to tall—
The sea of death whose waves rol i on
O’er king and kingdom, crown an and throne,
And.swallow all. \
Alike the river’s lordly tide, i
Alike the humble rivulets glide 4
To that sad wave ; l
Death levels poverty and pride,
And rich and poor sleep side by silDe
Within the grave.
Our birth is but a startling place ;
Life is the running of the race,
And death the goal ;
There ail our glittering toys are brought—
The path alone, of ail unsonght,
Is found of all.
See then how poor and little worth
Are all these glittering toys of earth
That lure us here !
Dreams ol a sleep that death must break ;
Alas! before it bids us wake,
We disappear.
Long ere the damp of earth can blight,
The cheeks’ pure glow of red and white
lias passed away.
Youth smiled, and all was heavenly fair
Age came and laid his finger there,
And where are they ?
Whore is the strength that spurned decay,
The step that roved 60 light and gay,
The heart’s blithe lone ?
The strength is gone, the step is slow,
And joy grows wearisome aud wo,
When age comes on.
General Items.
Richmond, Va., shipped over one million
pounds of chewing tobacco during August.
Action should follow thought. No farm
er cait plow a field by turning it over iu
his mind.
The Alabama river is so low that it is
almost impossible for boats to navigate it
at all.
Why are horses iu cold weather like
meddlesome gossips? Because they are
the bearers of idle tails.
Bisop Phillpots, of Exeter, who died the
other day, was the son of an inn keeper,
who filled pots before him.
Mr. John Cox, of Georgetown, is now at
the point of death with lockjaw, caused by
using blues tong as a remedy for toothache.
Corning has white blackberries of an
amber color. Next we will hear ofa white
black cow of a brindle tint.
A North Carolina farmer lias a couple of
“foolish turkey gobblers," who will persist
in setting on nests full of apples.
The New York papers arc discussing a
proposal that the United States shp.ll pay
that State $12,000,000 for the Erie Canal,
and open it to trade free of toll.
What is tlie difference between Noah’s
ark and an archbishop ? Noah’* ark was
a very high irk, but an archbishop is a
hierarch (higher ark).
A junior Dent, whose Christian name is
Fred, turns up in California,and cheerfully
serves his country at $1,500 per minim in
the San Francisco Custom House.
There is a Kentuckian who has no ears.
He is married and happy—whethir in con
sequence of being married or of laving no
ears, we have not learned.
Joseph Whitworth, inventor of the Whit
worth gun, and Win. Fairbrain, the cele
brated engineer, have been created baro
nets.
Anew municipal Sunday regulation,
closing all tlie barber shops and clearing
the boot-blacks off tlie streets, went into
effect in Washington city on Sunday Ipsfe.
Mr. William D. Coleman, editor of the
Richmond Enquirer and Examiner, is a
candidate for tlie position of Clerk of the
Senate of Virginia.
The reason why Frelingliuysen declined
the Chinese mission has leaked out. He
wasn’t on good terms with his nhcle, old
Hyson, who lives there.
George S. Bennett, local editor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, is dead. PV twenty
eight years lie collected news for the same
newspaper, and lived out three Sets of pro
prietors.
A memorial against Christianity has been
presented to the Japanese Government by
three priests of high rank. Otnsiderable
opposition to foreigners is manifeted in the
Japanese Parliament.
Miss. S. A. Brock, of New York, pro-,
to publish a volume to be, Tide up of
contributions from poems al’-elfy publish
ed, one poem to be selected by each author
as his favorite production.
Rev. Dr. Sears has appropriated $21,600
of the Peabody school fund to Virginia—
s9,4oo for publie free schools In four large
cities, $6,200 for normal schools and nor
mal classes, and $6,000 for colored schools.
A woman at Plattsbnrg, Yew York,
didn’t know whether she could fill a kero
sene lamp while it was burnins; until she
tried. She now wears a wig, ami her face,
heretofore handsome, looks like a rare
beefsteak.
A writer wants to know /the difference
between the ivory checks that gamblers
buy for playing faro, and the paper checks
for the Gold Exchange Bank tlie other
gamblers in the Gold Room ? The legiti
mate demand for gold for custom house and
other purposes is not half a million a day.
Anew hotel, with a marble front, eight
stories high, has just been completed at the
corner of Broadwey and 3tet street, Neid
York. It is known as the “ Grand Hotel,’]
and was built at an expense of $800,00)]
exclusive bf the land on which it stands,
The furniture aud tquipmenU cost another
$200,000. More than $20,000 was paid for]
mirrors. The establishment has been
leased at $65,000 per annum.
A gentleman was seated with other per
sons in the room where a country girl sit
bolt upright, aud utterly sileut. Silen#
indeed, fell upon the entire party, and tit
gentleman first alluded to said, in whatF
supposed to be an almost inaudible toneii
voice : “ Awful pause.” “ I guess, Mistr,
exclaimed the indignant country lass, juuT
iug up, “ you’d have awful paws too, if you
had to do all the scrubbing that I does 1”
A Wall street speculator, returning bon*
on Saturday evening in no enviable fram
of mind, announced the result of his open
tions to the family group : “No more si)
dresses this Winter, my <]ear; no mol
balls anil parties; no more opera boxes
and then, warming with iis subject, “ji
more infernal winings and dinings, undo
more d—n nonsense of any: sort, Matilih
Surely the most uninitiated would ha"
known that the man was a jbear.
On the Virginia and Tennessee Ros
Suuday, between Salem and Big Sprig
three cars, rushing with fearful veloci;
down the grade, ran into tlie engine of jo
3. The collision was fearful, smashing li
caboose and the cars attached into a thfl
sand fragments. The cars were loaded )1
of valuable freight, fine dry goods, &c., ik
they were scattered broadcast along n
road and terribly damaged. The engimo
No. 3 was also wrecked. Loss estima*
at from SIO,OOO to $15,000. Two colo*
children, one an infant all the breast, wf<
killed. No other loss of life.
* •>’ n i- ■
Farm Associations. —Farm Associate!
are popular among the Germans residing!
New York city. A tract of land compo t
of 50,000 acres, in Potter county, Pa., V
been settled on this plan, and has loca'C
upon it a thriving village, called Genua#
The farms of twenty-five acres each ’«
sold for S3OO, and arc paid for in instl
merits of $2 per week: The associates
organized for the purpose of obtain'*
farms at low rates consist of fifty memte
each, and purchase large tracts of lid
acres*
State Items.
The Marietta Journal reports the sight,
ou Tuesday night, of a beautiful meteor
moving through the vast space of the uni
verse with a train of light, to the eye, two
yards long. It started from the North
western portion of the heavens and direct
ed its course Southeast until it found, appa
rently, a lodgment among the “ fixed stars,”
where it continued to dazzle with brilliancy
its tail of luminous substance for near five
minutes, then it gradually expired into a
feint, mellow light, and then ceased to be
visible. It created quite a confab among
the few who saw it, in regard to its cause,
strangeness and splendor. It must have
been the rear guard of the comet that re
cently created quite a “ confab ” among the
many who did not see it.
A little son of Mr. G. T. Can, of Greens
boro, on Monday, bad his leg broken by
some of his playmates winding a rope
round his legs and throwing him down on
the ground.
The Dalton Citizen complains of a scarcity
of lime at that place, notwithstanding the
great abundance of the rock in that section.
All that Is needed is a firing up on the lime
ridges.
Rev. J. L. Blitcn, Pastor of the Baptist
Church in Dalton, has received and accept
ed a call to Little Rock, Arkansas.
On Wednesday the 29th ult., Mr. A. C.
McCulla, of Covington, was admitted to
practice in the courts of Georgia.
The Dalton Citizen has been shown, by
Cupt. W. C. Tilteu, a very fine specimen of
maganesc, an inexhaustible mine of which
he thinks he has discovered on his planta
tion, in Murray county. The Dalton and
Morgantown Road will pass through or
near the mine.
The City Council of Rome are advertis
ing for proposals to erect city water works,
bids to be received until the 25th instant.
[Prom the Savannah News.
Monument to Bishop Elliott—Laurel
Grove Cemetery.
About eighteen months ago the Diocese
of Georgia authorized the standing commit
tee to procure a suitable monumental tab
let to be erected in Laurel Grove Cemetery
to the memory of the late Rt. Reverend
Bishop Stephen Elliott, of the Diocese of
Georgia. The committee consisted of the
Rev. Mr. Clark, of Augusta, Chairman;
the Rev. Mr. Benedict, of Savannah, Secre
tary, and the Rev. Mr. Mitchell, Win. Hun
ter, Esq., Col. Jno. Screven and Capt. J. M.
Guerard, the other members. The first ob
ject of the committee was to obtain a de
sign for the monument which would at
once convey the idea of simplicity and gran
deur, as indicating the noble character of
the man whose exalted virtues it was in
tended to commemorate. An extensive cor
respondence was opened with various dis
tinguished architects, and a number of de
signs received, all of which the committee
carefully considered. The result of their
labors at length took the shape of tangibil
ity, and they adopted the design of Mr.
John F. Miller, of New York City, an ar
chitect of long experience and fine taste,
and the monument was a few days aco
received and put up in Laurel Grove Cem
etery, where it has been the admiration of
all who have beheld it. It is difficult to
give, without the aid of drawings, a good
idea of the beauty, simplicity and grandeur
of tiiis tribute of a flock to the memory of
tlieir beloved Pastor, even as it is difficult
to give an idcaoftlie beauty, simplicity and
grandeur of character, which distinguished
the venerable prelate himself—hence weean
only give a general description irotn notes
taken hastily at the spot.
It is not vvliat is technically termed a
“ monument,” but a tablet; it having no
thing of weight which attracts an observ
er. The whole is composed of three pieces
of Scotch granite, raised upon a mound of
earth about two feet high, tufted with
grass. The base is a beautifully polished
gray and bine granite, without a il-.iw dis
cernible, and covering a space probably
eight feet by four. Upon this base rests a
second slab of granite of the same kind,
but beautifully variegated, red predomina
ting. This is also highly polished, and ex
ceeds in lustre anything we have ever seen.
Upon the top of this is the third slab of the
same material, terminating in the form of a
cross, laid horizontally and of the length
and breadth of the stone. /
Upon the right hand side of this, cut in
old English letters, is this inscription : Ste
pluinag KUiott , Kpt* — d. g. (Jeorglens is firms,
with a hand pointing upward, the two last
fingers closed. Un the other side: Ob—in
p>jce — Jesu — 8. Tkomat, Ftv.sto, Mdccckcvi —
Act. Ixi, witli tlie head of the “ Shepherd’s
Crook.”
On the front is cut the Bishop’s mitre,
and in the rear the Cross Keys, symbolical
of the Bishop’s office.
The cost of the monument is about
$2,500, and it is contemplated to place
around it a massive iron railing, upon
granite pedestals.
It is a cause for congratulation among
the admirers of the character and wortli of
Bisliop Elliott that tiie committee have so
successfully caried out the desire of the
Diocese, and as a monument commemora
ting a great and good man, no design
could have been more appropriate, or con
ceived in better tas-e.
The Chinese.—A writer in the New
York Sun , who knows the Chinese wel),
thus daguerreotypes them:
“ I have lived nearly two decades in Cali
fornia, and know of the people of whom I
write. They arc barbarous, cruel, thievish,
unreliable, and wedded to nameless prac
tices that to mention is sufficient to make
the flesh creep. Their morality is nothing,
unless you can call abominable vices nega
tively so. Every hen roost and clothes
line in California has to be guarded against
their depredations. They systematically
coin and issue counterfeit money—a busi
ness at which they are quite adepts. The
few women that leave China are bought
and sold as so many sheep in the shambles.
Every China woman in California is a pros
titute, and they spread among the young
people where they reside every form of
vice, and, besides, maladies of the most
horrible and incurable character.”
These would be desirable acquisitions in
deed !
A Bad Occurrence. On Saturday
morning, the 25th of September, our com
munity was startled with the announce
ment that Mr. James M. Woodruff had shot
himself with a pistol, the ball hiking effect
just below and back of his car, and pro
ducing instant death. As no one was with
him at the time, it is not certainly known
whether the shooting was accidental or
premeditated; but from his position when
found, it is thought to have been done in
tentionally. He was not known to be in
any particular trouble, being an indus
trious and successful farmer. His family
have the sincere sympathy of our entire
community . —Covington E'aterprise.
An inquisitive urchin the other day,
while reciting a lesson, (says an exchange)
from a sermon on the Mount, broke out:
“ Ma, did Jesus get $2,000 a year for
preaching?”
“ No, my child ; he did not get any
thing.”
“ Why didn’t they pay Him ?”
“ Because He refused to preach politics.
The devil offered Him a big salary to do it,
but He would not accept the call ”
The plan adopted for the McPherson
Monument, in Cincinnati, on the 25th, by
Generals Sheridan, Halzen, Buckland, Leg
gett and Heckeuloper, in connection with
General McPherson’s brother, is tlqit of a
bronze equestrian statue on a pedestal of
Quincy and Scotch grauite. Total height
from the base of the pedestal to the top of
the hat, is 20 feet 6 inches, of which the
pedestal is 9 feet. The cost will be $20,000,
of which $ 5,000 is now in the treasury.
The casting will be done in the United
States.
It. T. Helmbold, the Bucliu man, cleared
$25,000 in the gold market on Friday morn
ing.
How the Negro Came to be a Voter.
—ln his speech at Corinth, Miss., some
days ago, Judge Deut declared that Presi
dent Grant, in company with a number of
prominent Republicans, declared a few
weeks ago, iu his presence, that the Repub
lican party had no idea of extending suf
frage to the negro until they found it a ne
cessity for the reconstruction of the South
upon their party basis.
BY TELEGRAPH.
[-"pccittl Dispatch to the Constitutionalist.
New York Closing Stock Quotations.
REPORTED BY HOYT & GARDNER.
New York, October I—P. M.
The following are the closing quotations
this day:
G01d.... .... .... 130%
Pacific Mail. 62
Western Union Telegraph 36%
New York Central 72%
Erie 33%
Reading Yvi-Citr-'ir- 98
Lake Shore .......... 81%
Pittsburg & Fort Wayjip.. 89%;
North West ...V, 69
North West preferred 82%
Milwaukee and St. Paul 67%
Milwaukee and St. Paul, pref........ 80
Ohio & Mississippi.. 27
Michigan Central 22
Canton.. 53
Stocks steady at close.
[Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, October I—Noon.—Com
mander Luce reports front Lisbon that he
reached that port in twenty-one days. His
vessel, tin; Juniata, is a success as a sailing
vessel. The Juniata-found the Sabine at
Lisbon. There had been no trouble what
ever on the Sabine.
There are no Cabinet developments.
Judge Richardson lias resigned the Assist
ant Secretaryship of the Treasury.
Among those named for the Virginia
Senalorship, Edgar Snowden, editor of the
Alexandria Gazette , is prominent. Mr.
Snowden opposes the election of Senators
until Virginia is restored; but if the elec
tion does take place, it is understood Snow
den will be supported by the Potomac, tide
water, upper, Piedmont and a large part of
the Valley districts.
Washington, October I—P. M.—Delano
has returned.
Fish and Creswell were absent from Cab
inet.
The Supreme Court convenes Monday
with a full bench.
The commandant of tlutoAsiatic squadron
reports health good and American interests
flourishing in Chinese-waters.
Delano thinks Geary will be re-elected
by a small majority.
Debt statement shows a decrease of
$7,500,000. Coin in Treasury, nearly $109,-
000,000; currency, $6,500,000.
The steamer Euterpe, of the New York
and Galveston line, is under surveilance,
pending instructions from Washington.—
Site had a cargo of huge Parrot guns, tons
upon tons of solid shot and shell. The
authorities suspect tiiis cargo is intended
to arm the .Spanish gunboats now ready
for sea. The account says: “There are
just thirty of these gunboats, and singular
ly enough there were found in the hold of
the Euterpe just thirty Parrots of the 100-
pound species. There were also three
thousand solid shot and shell, which had
been cast for these same Parrots.” Speak
ing editorially of the Euterpe’s detention,
the Tribune says: “The authorities have
just laid hands upon a vessel which, by all
accounts, appears to have beep destined to
supply with armaments the Spanish gun
boats at Mystic. The possibility that great
harm might have been and yet may lie done
thereby to the cause of struggling patriot
ism, naturally provokes a most earnest de
sire that no want of vigilance shall permit a
wrong to a neighbor whose comparative
weakness and whose noble aspirations have
our hearty sympathies. The plea of the Cu
bans that they should have the same right to
purchase arms as their savage antagonists
must be admitted in the light of menacing
events to have unuxbal force.
Jteverdy D. Bolts is appointed Collector
of Revenue for the sixth Virginia district,
vice Sterling, suspended
-1 he Telegrafn, recently cruising In the
West Indian wafers, is declared a pirate.
Poor is ordered to capture her.
The steamer Hornet is off New York,
supposed to be there watching the gun
boats, and also to intercept the Euterpe,
which was expected to sail with supplies
for t lie Spaniards. The Hornet is daily re
ceiving supplies. Her captain is in New
York City, and well posted in regard to
Soanish movements. The captain’s name
is withheld, but is understood to be a
noted Confederate. The Hornet has been
fitted out by parties in New York and
Boston, who have no connection with the
Cuban Junta which lias been operating
here. The Hornet is formidable and very
fast. J
TEXAS.
Galveston, October I—A special from
Houston says the so-called Democratic
Convention at Brenhain consisted of five
editors. The Democratic party, through
its Executive Committee, refused to call a
convention or make any nomination for
Governor. The J lemocratic party of Texas
lias no sympathy or connection with this
move.
CONNECTICUT.
Norwat.k, October I.—The Connecticut
National Bank of Norwalk has been robbed.
The bank loses $30,000. Private parties
lose immensely—amount not known.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia , October L—ln a political
row, two Republicans were killed.
MEXICO.
City ob' Mexico, October I.—Congress
has assembled. Juarez made a congratul
atory address on the condition of the Re
public.
MARINE NEWS.
Savannah, October I.—Arrived : Steam
ship Catherine Whitney, New York ; ship
Screamer, New York.
Cleared : Schooners Maggie McNeil, Ma
tanzas; Coquette, Matanzas ; Jeddie Trott,
New York.
Charleston, October I.—Arrived:
Steamer Charleston, New York; steamer
Key West, Savannah for New York, put in
for coal, &c.; schooner W. B. Thomas, Phil
adelphia ; schooner Woodbury, Baltimore;
schooner Ridgewood, New York.
Wilmington, October I— Sailed: Fair
banks, New York.
Weather cloudy. Thermometer, 74.
MARKETS.
London, October I—Noon.—Consols,
92%. Bonds, 84%.
London, October I—Evening.—Turpen
tine, 275.
Liverpool, October I — Noon.—Cotton
quiet; uplands, 12%; Orleans, 12%; sales
to-day, 6.000; sales week, 03,000; export,
13,000; speculation, 13,000; stock, 442,000;
American, 5G,000; receipts, 54,000; Ameri
can, 350,000 bales.
Later. —Cotton dull; uplands, 12%; Or
leans, 12%; stock afloat, 392,000; Ameri
can, 8,000 bales. Breadstuff-) dull. Yarns
and Fabrics at Manchester dull.
Liverpool, October I—Evening.—Cot
ton closed flat; uplands, 12%; Orleans,
12%; sales, 6,000 bales; export and specu
lation, 2,500 bales.
Parts, October I.—Bourse opened firm.
Rentes, 7lf. 40c.
Havre, October I—Cotton opened flat;
on spot, 143 ; afloat, 139.
New York, October I—Noon.—Stocks
strong and tending up. Money, 7, gold.
Sterling—long, 8%; short,[B%. Gold, 130%.
’62’s, 19; Tcnncsses, cx coupon, 60%; new,
52 ; Virginias, ex coupon, 53% ; new, 50% ;
Levee sixes, 62; eights, 84%; Alabama
eights, 91; Georgia sixes, 83; seveus, 89;
North Carolinas, old, 49% ; new, 41.
New York, October I—P. M.—Wall
street continued quiet to-day, except to
wards close, when the stock market was
unsettled by rumors of losses of the Michi
gan Southern Company, by the late panic.
No new developments in tire gold question.
Many millions of Friday’s contracts were
settled to-day and the end of the complica
tion is drawing near. The money market
closed easier at 7, currency and gold. Ex
change dull and nominal at 8. Gold quiet
and steady, ranging from 1300130% and
closing at 30%. Stocks depressed and
unsettled. Governments closed Ann at
20% ; Southerns firmer.
New York, October I—Noon.—Flour
dull. Wheat quiet. Corn dull. Pork firm
g* 3l J?’ Cotton unchanged;
-7%. Turpentine, 43%@44. Rosin ouiet
strained 29%@30.’ Flights quTet Q ’
New Yoke, October i—P. M.-Cotton
unchanged; sales, 2,000 bales at 27V_
Flour s@lo lower. Wheat Ic. lower. Corn
favors buyers; mixed Western, sl@l 05
Pork firmer at s3l 50. Lard steady.-
Whisky firmer at $1 190131. Rice firm;
RiVo 'l9 ;% lower; Porto
Kico, 12%; Muscovado, 12@12%. Other
Groceries steady. Freights tinner—cotton,
steam, *
o^ A ™ RE A october 1-—Cotton dull at
27 /q. lour quiet. Wheat heavy;
prime to choice red, $l 40@1 47 Corn
unsteady; white, $1 10@l 18; yellow,
$1 10@1 20. Pork quiet at $33. Bacon
Arm ; shoulders, 17%. Lard quiet at 19%
@ 2O - Whisky, $1 20. Virginias, old, 4
bid, 46 asked.
Cincinnati, October 1 .—Whisky firm;
held at $1 15. Pork unchanged. Bacon
firm ; shoulders, 16%; clear sides, 20.
Louisville, October I.—Provisions firm.
Mess Pork, $33. Bacon—shoulders, 17;
clear sides, 20%@20%.
Wilmington, October I.—Spirits Tur
pentine steady at 39%@40. Crude Turpen
tine unchanged. Tar shade lower—s 2 80.
Cotton quiet; low middling, 24^24%.
Mobile, October I.—Cotton—receipts
tor week, 8,130; exports coastwise, 1,754;
stork and shipboard, 1,422 ; sales for week,
o,800; to-day, 500 bales; closed quiet; mid-
f 4^® J receipts, 1,556; exports,
461 bales. *
New Orleans, October I—Cotton—re
ce, P t l s ( .the week: gross, 21,320 bales;
net, lJ;«8o bales; exports: coastwise, 1,976
bales; Havre, 1,232 bales; Liverpool, 65
Dales; stock, 37,755 bales; sales, 16,250
bales; receipts to-day, 6,283 bales; eot
ton decidedly lower; middling, 24%@
2 fhi sales, 4,000 bales. Flour dull at
$o 7<>, $6 and $6 10. Corn—light supply;
wink’ll lo ® Oats, 58@60. Bran!
$1 20. Hay dull at $26@27. Pork, $33 75.
Bacon firm at 17%, 21 and 21%. Lard, 19
U " ar » Molasses—re
boiled, <o@Bo. Whisky, $1 25@1 27%
Coffee—prime, 16%@1G%. Gold, 131%.
Sterling, 38%. New York Sight, %@%
discount. 4
Charleston, October I.—Cotton steady;
* a ' c S 600 bales; middling, 25; receipts,
1,086 bales.
Savannah, October I.—Cotton—receipts,
1,778 bales; sales, 800 bales; market ac
tive ; middling, 25.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, >
Friday, October I—l*. M. 5
FINANCIAL—
GOLD—DuII. Buying at 130 ami selling
at 133.
SlLVEß—Nominal. Baying at 125 and sell
ing at 130.
STOCKS-Georgia Railroad Stock, 106@108.
Ancusta Factory Stock, 157%.
COTTON—This morning the market opened
with a moderate demand at 24%@24%c for
New York middling. Owing to unfavorable
news from New York and Liverpool, our
market declined %e, closing at 24c with but
little demand. Sales, 427 and receipts, 591
bales. Stock on hand tiiis p. in., 2,780 bales.
BACON—Finn with an advancing tendency.
Wc quote C. Sides, 22 ; C. It. Sides, 21%; B
B. Sides, 20; Shoulders, 18%; slams, 21 %@
20%; Dry Salt Shoulders, 17@17% ; Dry Salt
C. It. Sides, 20.
CORN—Firm, but small supply. We quote
Choice whit3, $1 60@1 65 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, $1 70@
1 80; amber, ?l Co@l 70; red, $1 00.
FLOUlt—City Mills, old, s6@9; new, $7 50
@10; at retail, $1 jjf barrel higher. Coun
try, io@9, according to quality.
CORN MEAL—SI 00 at wholesale,and $1 05
at retail.
OATS—Bs@*si.
TEAS—No supply. Selliug at $1 50 for
seed.
CITY ITEMS.
F. A. Bratie & Co.—We refer our read
ers to the advertisement of Messrs. Brahe
& Cos., who have the most imposing, if not
the most splendidly appointed, jewelry es
tablishment in all this region. Their stock
of silver and plated ware is gorgeous and
magnificent; and we should say that one
of the greatest pleasures of wealtli must
consist in the ability to purchase and pos
sess those miracles of beauty and useful
ness which repose on the shelves of Brahe
& Cos. The prevailing style is known as
the Pompeian ; it is copied from the origi
nal antique, and ha; a charm about it su
perior to the more modern devices. In the
jewelry department, Brahe & Cos. are re
splendent. They have taken pains to im
port the latest sensations and their display
is both tun and dazzling. Many novelties
in the way of ear rings, bracelets, breast
pins, etc., can be found among their curi
osities of gold and gems. Messrs. Brahe
& Cos. have also an admirable lot of fancy
and ornamental goods. In a word, from a
personal examination, we should say that
though this firm may be equalled in the
superb character and vaiiety of its goods,
it cannot be excelled in the South.
Tilt and Tournay. —The Macon Journal
and Messenger says: Our brave knights of
the lance will hail with joy the perfection
of arrangements for a grand tournament
during the coming State Fair.
Captains of companies now formed or
being formed in the cities of Atlanta,
Augusta, Savannah, Columbus, Albany,
Americus and Macon, can lie furnished in
formation by applying to office Agricul
tural Association, for selected places for
cainp and bivouac, so like the days of yore.
Nothing is now left for them to do, except
to practice for excellence in every branch
of tiiis manly exercise on horseback.
Magnificent prizes will be awarded to the
victors, and tlie “ Prize of prizes” will be
given to tlie victor over all the different
ones who excel in their respective com
panies, to be given tot lie most lovely woman
present.
We expect many a fair lieauty to visit
Macon, and honor us with a longer stay on
account of these festivities. Knights, with
hostler and camp equippage, can have a
glorious time—forage for animals being
furnished on the grounds at cost.
Branch in Rome. —Dr. W. H. Tutt, the
enterprising and widely known druggist,
of this city, has, we are pleased to learn,
extended a branch of his large and magni
ficent establishment to the mountain city
of Rome, and will soon open a handsome
drugstore among the Romans,to whom we
commend our friend and patron, Dr. Tutt,
as no less a model gentleman than a relia
ble and successful dealer in drugs and phy
sic, the latter of which he always contrives
to put up in the most agreeable, yet nouo
the less effective manner. Dr. Tutt and
his physic can be taken without any mis
givings, but we don’t propose for a moment
to allow our Roman friends to take the
Doctor entirely away from us. Os his sort
we have none to sp are.
The Atlanta Theatre. —The Era says
that thirty hands are now at Work upon
Larkin Davis’ new Theatre. The brick
work is done, and by Saturday night the
roof will be on, the floor laid and the stage
and galleries erected. Mr. Davis says it
will b« ready for use by the first of Novem
ber. It has been engaged for the Bth of
that month. It will make a very comfort
able theatre and will be large enough to
seat eleven hundred people comfortably.
Personal.— We were pleased to welcome
across our threshold, yesterday, Mr. W. G..
Whidby, Local Editor of the Atlanta Con-'
stitiition,
Where to Find Them.—ln all the va
ried lines of articles essential to house
furnishing, promotive of comfort and con
venience in domestic life, there is an estab
lishment of long standing in Augusta,
which presents the most irresistible at
tractions to housewives and their lords,
who have the least regard for a preserva
tion of peace in the family,or a disposition
to avail themselves of the advantages of
the thousand and one modern improve
ments which genius and experience have
devised to throw around housekeeping a
charm of domestic felicity to which onr
fathers and mothers were comparative
si i angers. The establishment to which we
refer is that of Messrs. W. H. Goodrich &
Son, 265 Broad street, where everything in
the house furnishing line, from a clothes
pin to a mammoth cooking stove, is kept
in full supply, of excellent quality, the
most modern fashion, and at prices that
cannot fail to please. Note their adver
tisement in the Constitutionalist, visit
their establishment, inspect their stock,
and you will surely find myriads of ar
ticles that will charm you by their adapts
tion to your wants.
Cotton Statement for the Week.—
The following arc the receipts and ship
ments over various roads centreing in this
city, for the week ending Thursday, October
Ist, p. in.
r» , . , _ Bales.
Receipts by Georgia Railroad, local. .1,495
Shipments by Georgia Railroad,..
tli rough |
Receipts by Columbia and Augusta
Railroad 156
ents b} r Columbia and Augusta
liailroad 307
Receipts by Central Railroad, local 302
Receipts by Central Railroad, tlirongli 15
Shipments by Central Railroad, local. 810
Shipments by Central Railroad
through...... ’
Shipments by South Carolina Rail
road, through 1
Shipments by South Carolina Rail- ’
road, local ggg
Total shipments from city by Rai l road. 1,900
Recorder’s Court. —Yesterday morn
ing, B. R. Doolan was arraigned for viola
lation of tlie 18th section. Plead guilty,
and fined $lO and cost.
Mary Williams, (colored), for violation
of 18th section. Plead guilty, and fined $2
and cost.
Amos Edwards, (colored), for violation
of the 18th section. Plead guilty, and fined
S3O and cost, or sixty days on the chain
gang.
George J. Oberle—Violation of the 18th
section. Fined $5 and cost.
Gold and Greenbacks. —A writer
urges as a right step towards resumption
that the duty ou every merchant's in
voice should he allowed to be paid in
greenbacks, with the addition of only one
half of tlie ruling premium for gold. This
would certainly give the greenbacks a pre
mium in time, and every holder of green
backs would enjoy it. Then tlie premium
on gold would fall from day to day, and
the people be relieved from gambling.
Pleasures oe Royal Travelers.—Du
ring her recent trip, Eugenie endured thirty
one speeches, twenty-three receptions and
presentations, eight grand dinners and
banquets, two reviews, about two hundred
and fifty gun salutes from the fleet alone,
four displays of fireworks, and over eight
thonsapil petitions.
Great Success.— We are informed by
Mr. J. 11. Miller, General Agent Southern
Life Insurance Company, that lie lias re
ceived and forwarded to tlie Atlanta De
partment 210 applications in September.—
Has received 119 applications since last
Monday morning. This speaks well for
the popularity of this company.
Exercises to be Resumed.— Tlie exer
cises of the Misses Sedgewick’s school will
be resumed on Monday, tlie 4th instant.—
The reputation of this institution is well
established as ranking among tlie very first
female schools in the city, and deserves the
consideration of parents and guardians
having daughters and wards to educate.
Dividends. —The Augusta Factory has
declared a quarterly dividend of five per
cent., which will be paid to stockholders
on demand.
The Graniteville Manufacturing Compa
ny has declared a dividend of $lO per
share, payable on and after the 10th inst.
No Fault with Those Flags.— We al
lude Vo the flag stones now being laid in
front of the handsome stores of Plumb &
Leitner and the Platt Brothers, on Broad
street, which have been recently complete
ly metamorphosed by the addition of ele
gant granite fronts.
Mail Route Agents Appointed
Rudolph Deniche, from Augusta to Macon,
Ga., vice F. Walter Adams, removed. J.E.
Dense, from Augusta, to Eufaula, Ala ,
vice Adam M. Baldwin, removed.
Change of Schedule.— On and alter
Sunday, 3d instant, tlie passenger trains
on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad will leave Augusta at 6:45, a. m.,
and arrive at 6:15, p. m.
Film’s lira BITTERS.
THEY CURE DYSPEPSIA,
AND ALL DISEASES Or THE
STOMACH AND LIVER.'
they ark recommended by the
M HDIO AL PAO U LT V.
HEGEMAN CO„
AiiK.ws, xmr YORK.
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Manufactured fay C. P PANKNIN,
CHEMIST AND APOTHECARY,
(■II A RI.IOSTON, S. C.
aS'/V.r Sate by OrMyylxts Every where.-<ts
mh27-eodly
Coal Creek Coal Mines
-A.RE acknowledged to be anpciior to nuy
now worked or knowu. The Coal from these
mines delivered in your yard at sll 50 per ton;
by the car load at leas rates.
J. M. BOHN, Jr., & CO.
WM, F. DEARING, AgODt.
Yard at the Georgia Railroad, corner Jackson
and Fenwick streets. sep2s eod6
STATE OP GEORGIA, RICHMOND
IY.—Whereas, A. C. Tlolt applies to me for
Letters of Admlnistrnt on on the estate of John M.
Hills, late ot said county, deceased:
There are, therefore, to cite and adinonlah, all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to be and a(.near at ray olfico, on or before tin- first
Monday In November next, to show eanse, if any
they hive, why said letters af ould not be grunted
Given under rav hand and official aigna'ure, at office
in Augusta; in aaid c runty, this Ist day October, iB6O.
BAMUSb LEVY,
octMawtd ' Ordinary,