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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
atjgkjsta. oa-A.
FRIDAY MORNING. DEO. 16,1870
FOR CONGRESS
FOR THE I.ONG TERM,
p. M. DUBOSE.
Os Wilkes Count]/.
for the bhort term,
STEPHEN A. CORKER.
Os Burlce County.
COMPLAINT.
We dare say there never was a nominat-
ing convention or caucus, of any party,
which gave absolute satisfaction to every
body, and, more particularly, to such per
sons as were defeated In their aspirations.
While slating this proposition as an axiom,
we are not less impressed with the fact
that these nominating conventions or cau
cuses are frequently full of flank move
ments, and therefore liable to some censure.
We know for certain that tho impioper
practice of “ packing,” “ gagging, or “ fix
ing.” Js not of unusual occurrence. When
this practice is resorted to, the actual will
of the majority is frequently nullified and
a few managing and selfish individuals can
thus imperil the harmony of the party for
the sake of personal aggrandisement. It
Beems to ns, on the one hand, that, so far
as weak human nature will allow, every
body should be willing and anxious to have
a selection of candidates such as really
represent the majority and not a selection
which merely represents a cabal. We
think, on the other hand, that the
parties who complain of unfairness in this
particular should hold themselves mainly
responsible for any irregular proceedings.
If wrongs are to be redressed, why do they
not take the same interest in primary meet
■ ings as the “managing” parties do? If they
attend these meetings, why do they submit
to “gagging” or “fixing?” We are no
politician, but it seems to us that if we ever
mixed in such matters, modest and timid
and unobtrusive as our nature is, we would
raise our voice and protest publicly and
fearlessly against all such contrivances.
But this the offended parties seem rarely
or never to do. Their complaints are
always, or nearly always, after the event;
their boasts of what they are going to do
are generally heard on the street corner
and Dot in the convention. If they are
beaten by the superior tact, management
and vigor of their more wary, adroit and
audacious opponents, who so much to
blame as themselves?
We have written this article without per
sonal allusions and with an earnest desire
to state what we deem the utter truth on a
vexed question. We have written, too, as
a journalist, having only the public weal at
heart, and not as a selfish partisan. That
we have never been.
Let it be conceded then that the conven
tions already held were not perfect in
every particular, and that somebody who
ought to have been nominated was left
out in the cold by extraordinary diplo
macy. After conceding that much, on
the one, part, let it be admitted' on
the other, that the fault, in the main,
is attributable to the defeated as
pirants being somewhat clumsy in mar
shalling their forces. Then, let the men
who“ fix” things yield somewhat in future
to the popular will, while the men who
wish for fair play determine that they shall
not hereafter be “fixed” without an effort
to expose the machinery by which it is
effected. Then, let there be harmony dll
round , this time, if never again. Let the reg
ular nominees be supported everywhere,
right or wrong. The man who bolts a
nomination, in this emergency, or accepts
one from the enemy, proves beyond contro
versy that it was a wise act which disap
pointed his ambition at least.
ILLEGAL VOTING.
To the People of Georgia.
The corruption of the faction whicli has
seized upon the government of this State,
for purposes of fraud and plunder, is no
where more conspicnous than in their at
tempts to prolong their power by illegal
voting in the election now at hand, in de
fiance alike of the constitution of the State
and the “ Enforcement Act ” of Congress.
We beg to call your attention to two of
these attempts, for the purpose of showing
you that they are no less marked by futility
aud nullity than you already know them to
be by infamy. One of these appears in cer
tain provisions of the recent Election Act.
The Bth section of that act provides that
the managers of electlou “shall not permit
any person to challenge auy vote, or hin
der, pr delay, or interfere with any other
person in the free and speedy casting of Ills
ballot.” The 7th section provides that
even the managers themselves “shall have
no power to refuse the ballots” (was tiie
plural number intentional?) “of any male
person o' apparent full age, a resident of
the countv, who has not previously voted
at the said electiou.” These provisions are
directly in the teeth of the constitution of
the State and of the Enforcement Act of
Congress, and are unconstitutional, null, and
void. The constitution, in the sth section
of the 2d article, declares that “ the follow
ing classes of persons bhjh.l not be per
mitted to register, vote, or hold office:
First—Those who shall have been convict
ed of treason, embezzlement of public funds,
malfeasance in office, crime punishable by
law with imprisonment in the penitentiary,
or bribery. Second—ldiots or iusane per
sons ”
The 19lii section of the Enforcement Act
of Congress provides that iu any election
for representative or delegate in Congress,
any person who shall “ knowingly and will
fully receive the vote of any person not en
titled to vote,” may he punished to the ex
tent of three years’ imprisonment, and five
hundred dollars fine. Thus the constitu
tfbn peremptorily commands that certain
classes of persons, including idiots, luna
tics and felons, shall not he permitted to
vote; and the Enforcement Act provides
that managers who permit such persons to
vote in an election for Congress, shall be
subject to the high penalty already meu
tioued. The Election Act of the Legisla
ture declares that all these classes of per
sons shall be permitted to vote without
question of their right, although the man
agers may know that such persons are pro
hibited lrom voting by the constitution,
and the managers are prohibited by the
act of Congress from receiving their votes.
Was there ever greater effrontery of usurp-
aliou anrl revolutionary defiance of law ?
Was ever any act of a so-ca'led legislative
body more plainly unconstitutional, null,
and void ? Citizens or managers who can
conceive themselves to be bound by this
part of the Election Act will deserve lo be
themselves excluded from the ballot upon
the ground that they are “idiots or Insane
persons.” If it be suggested that the oath
to lie taken by the managers will bind them
to carry out all parts of the Election Act,
the answer is obvious and conclusive. An
oath to violate the constitution or a con
stitutional act of Congress, can be no more
binding than an oath to commit treason
or murder, or to break all the command
ments of the Decalogue. Otherwise all
the governments of the earth, and the
government of Go! Himself might be
defeated and overthrown by the pow
er of illegil oaths prescribed by bad
men. Men cannot swear themselves
out of their ob'lgations to their God or
to the true laws of their country. But
the form of the oath prescribed in this case
contains a most important qualification
which removes all difficulty as to its true
construction or the extent of Its obligation;
for It binds the managers to carry Into ef
fect not only the provisions of this Act.
but also “the laws for holding elections.”
Now, the highest of all forhoWing
elections ” are the coujiti t ultOir l*ud Con
stitutional Acts of CoilgfißSS, and When
ever any mere State part of a
State statute, is 1 «Mkpt is
unconstitutioua.', null and void, and must
be so held aud treated by all officers and
citizens. The only proper construction of
the oath, therefore. Is, that the managers
shall endeavor to carry into effect all the
“ laws for holding elections,” making those
of inferior dignity yield to those of supe
rior obligation in all cases of conflict.
Therefore, every manager who believes
either the constitution of the State or the
Enforcement Act of Congress to be a high
er law than a mere act of the State Legis
lature will be bound, by the terms of the
very oath itself, to disregard that portion
of the State act which commands the man
agers to receive votes which are forbidden
to he received both by the constitution
and by the Act of Congress.
But., in addition to the disqualifications
of voters already mentioned, the constitu
tion of this State prescribes another, Which
is likely to be of far more importance than
ail the rest in the election now at hand.
And the Enforcement Art applies to and
enforces this disqualification as welt as all
others prescribed by the constitution of our
State. We remark, in this connection,
that neither the so-called 15t > Am •ndment
of the Constitution of the United States
nor the Act of Cougress to enforce \t con
fers the right of voting upon any one
whomsoever. The amendment, by its very
terms, simply provides that the right of
voting shall not be “denied or abridged on
account of race, color or previous condi
tion of servitude." It leaves each State
perfectly free to deny the right or abridge
it for whatever other reasons she may
choose to prescribe; and the Enforcement
Act, following the same idea, enforces by
heavy penalty all disqualifications pre
scribed by the States, with the single ex
ception of such as might be fouuded on
“ race, color or previous condition of servi
tude.” The disqualification to which wc
shall now allude is not of the kind prohib
ited by the so-called 15th Amendment, and
is therefore one which, being expressly
prescribed by the constitution of the State,
is also directly enforced by the Act of Con
gress. The constitution, in prescribing
the qualifications of a voter, provides,
among other things, that lie “ shall have
paid all taxes which mav have been re
quired of him, and which he may have had
an opportunity of paying, agreeably to
law, for the year next preceding the elec
tion." Any i>erson, therefore, who has not
paid his legal taxes for the year 18(59—“ the
year next preceding the election” —is pro
hibited from voting in the election now at
hand by the constitution ; and the managers
of election are prohibited from receiving his
vote by the Enforcement Aid of Congress.
And this hi ifigs us to the second of the two
attempts lo control the approaching elec
tion by illegal votes. It is found in an act
passed by the Legislature, just before its
recent happy adjournment, declaring the
po’l tax for the y> ars 1868, 1869 and 1870
to be illegal and void. The years 1868 and
1870 are merely lagged in as a cover for the
real and only design, which was to give
subservient managers (if snch could haply
be found) a pretext for treating the unpaid
poll tax of 1869 as a nullity, and, therefore,
no obstruction in the way of voting. The
purpose was to produce a contrivance
which would allow the poor, defaulting
negro to cast his vote for the benefit of his
masters, although he should be aftei wards
prosecuted and sent to the penitentiary,
under the laws against illegal voting. The
only unconstitutionalitv and nullity in this
case are to be found, not in the act impos
ing the tax of 1869, but in the infa
mous act now under consideration declar
ing that previous tax act to be unconsti
tutional and null. The power to pronounce
judgment of condemnation and nullity
upou acts of the Legislature, belongs not
to the Legislature but to the courts. It is
true the Legislature mav rep al an act on
the ground of Its unconstitutionality; or
on any other ground which they may see
fit to assign, and they may often, without
impropriety, give the moral weight of their
opinions touching constitutional questions
(when they are bo composed as.to have any
moral weight) ; but they have no power to
affect the legal validity of any act, while it
remains unrepealed,or for the periodduring
which it may have remained unrepealed on
the Statute Book. This declaratory act 13
then nothing but the opinion of the Legisla
tnre; or rather th e profession of an oplniou,
for we do not believe that a single person
who voted for it was ignorant enough to
sincerely entertain the opinion which it
expresses. But, to make the most of
it, it is only an opinion, and must stand
or fall upon the validity or invalidity
of the reason on which it Is ground
ed. The substance of that reason, as
given by the Legislature itself, is, that the
constitution allows no poll tax to be levied,
except for educational purposes, and that
the poll tax for the three years mentioned
has not been applied to educational pur
poses, there having been, and yet being, no
system of general education or common
schools established by the Legislature as
required by the constitution. It Is very
true that this Legislature have infamously
refused to apply the tax as the constitution
required them to do; and it Is also true
that in so refusiug, they have not only
broken their oaths, but have defrauded the
poor children of the State, and particularly
the colored children, of the educational
advantages which the constitution Intended
to secure to them. But what has the mis
application of this tax to do with the validi
ty or legality of its imposition? Obvious
ly the only unconstitutionality in this case
is not in the act levying the tax, hut in the
subsequent acts converting it to nneonsti
tutional and fraudulent uses. But the
reason given, even if it had any force
at all in it, applies only to the tax
t'mt has been collected aud fraduleutly
misapplied; uot at all to that which re
mains yet unpaid. It is only the unpaid
ta\ which keeps men from voting. Can
anybody he so excessively weak as to be
lieve iliat the Legislature had no power to
levy a tax for “educational purposes”
without first constructing and putting into
operation “ a system ” of general education
or common schools ? This is equivalent to
saying two very absurd things—first, that
a system of geueral education or common
schools Is the only possible educational
purpose; ami second, that the only consti
tutional way to inaugurate a system of
general education or common schools is to
go in debt for it, ami that the Legislature
cannot provide itself witli the means for
performing a constitutional duty unless it
first performs the duty without the means.
The only part of this act which has any
validity is that which prohibits the tax
collectors from making any further collec
tions of the poll tax. The Legislature may
undoubtedly suspend the collection of any
and all taxes at its pleasure, but it cannot
change facts which already belong to the
past. The poll tax of the year 1869 was
long ago “ required” of every voter in the
State; every voter lias had ample opportu
nity in the past to pay it “agreeably to
law ;” it remains unpaid by thousands and
thousands of those who would be legal
voters If they had paid it; it cannot now
be paid, for its collection has been suspend
ed by law ; but it was constitutional and
valid when it was “ required,” and has not
been and coaid not be rendered unconsti
tutional or invalid by the sub-equent ab
surd declaration of the Legislature; and it
stands, and must stand to the end of tie
election, as a constitutional mandate pro
hibiting every person who has not paid it
from voting, and binding alike upou every
citizen and every manager of the election.
If the managers shall disregard it by vio
lating their oath to carry into effect all the
laws for holding elections, the citizens at
least can enforce it by getting out war
rants and arresting every person who votes
in violation of it. Voting before arriving at
the age of 21 years is the only illegal
voting which falls below the grade of
felony under the laws of this State; all
other illegal voting, including voting with
out payment of taxes for the y* ar next pre
ceding the election is felony, and therefore
leaves the offender no benefit from the 7th
section of the 2d arLicle of the constitution
exempting voters from arrest fora limited
time and for smaller offenses. Let it also
be specially noted that the disability aris
ing from failure to pay the poll tax of 1869,
cannot now be removed by payment nor by
an offer to pay. The third section of the
enforcement act cannot help the difficulty,
because there is no officer now authorized
to receive payment and no legal offer to pay
can now be made. Any default of payment
now existing Is chargeable only to the de
faulter and cannot be ascribed to the
wrongful refusal or omission of any officer
to receive payment since the passage of the
act pr<>h^>jt i c<>rs Ir.un proceed i ug
it are flimsy, absurd and infamous. Tin
remedy Is obvious and effective. If the.
managers refuse to use it, it is still largely
in your own hands. We exhort you to use
it with manhood aud unflinching flrmuess.
,In doing so, you will uot be violating law,
but only enforcing It and saving it from
violation by others.
R. Toombs.
Linton Stephens.
Our Washington Letter.
Washington. December 12, 1870.
Those who s*t out the long and dreary
debates on the Georgia question during last
session, miss now—in a most agreeable
seuse—the presence of the members of the
Bollock lobby on the floors of the House
and Senate. It was of these worthies that
a World’ correspondent wrote: “Their
faces leave nothing to judge of in their
characters.” Prince, Whitley, Farrow
Company generally kept in the background,
seating themselves on the sofas and chairs
against the walls, and looking withal some
what uncomfortable, as though oppressed
with a consciousness of being altogether
out ofjLheir element. The brazen Blodgett,
oiled, curled and scented, posed liinv-elf in
the, doorways, or aired his graces, and dis
played his—as he supposes—irresistable
person in the ladies’ gallery. The podgy
person of the ponderous Buliock was never
at rest. His pale, fluffy, evil countenance
‘ever met the gaze of the occupants of the
reporters’ gallery, who. one and all detest
ed him most heartily. He moved about
with the slow sinuous motion of some huge
reptile, already gorged to repletion, but yet
seeking fresh prey. Low as Congress lias
fallen, as a body, in the estimation of all
respectable persons, the presence of those
men, no less than the objects they were
corruptly striving to gain, was a disgrace
and a shame. To the credit of certain Re
publican Senators, be it said, that they
took this view of the matter, and so ex
pressed themselves. Yet when fraud and
corruption shall have done their worst in
Georgia, and Congress reassembles after
the holidays, we shall doubtless have this
notorious Bullock lobby iu Washington
again, aud in daily attendance at the Capi
tol. The prospect is not a pleasant one.
With improved ventilatiou, the atmosphere
of both Senate aud House is now quite pure
and healthful, and no one cares to have it
scented with the odors of cheap musk,
whicli Bullock so freely dispenses.
At the opening of every Washington sea
son, it is predicted that the season is to he
gaver than those which have preceded it.
If Jenkins had proved a true prophet, we
should ere this have been engaged in a
maelstrom of gayety, which would have
carried us we know not whither. The
sounds ol' mirth would have reverberated
within the Capitol walls with a noise like
thunder; the long, lanky statue of Lincoln
would have come down from its pedestal
before the Citv Hall todmee a frantic,
old-fashioned Virginia reel on the pave
ment below; and the sinmpy Washington
Monument would have indulged in a state
ly minuet. As none of these things have
happened, I take courage, and, emerging
from my favorite seclusion (and the garret
sacred to Bohemianism from time imme
morial), look about me. I find that a few
receptions have been held ; that a charity
fair is in progress; that others are in con
templation, as well as a charity hall, and
that there is obe an amateur performance
of Martha. Voila tout ! Really, it takes
very little to turn the heads of the nice
young men who “do” the society news
for our newspapers. One can well fancy
them as concentrating their gigantic inter
ests on the tie of a cravat ; while the ru
mor of an engagement among the upper
ten is regarded as a matter of deeper import
than a war in Europe or a fresh act of
Radical tvrannyat home. But if gayety is
to be found in Washington receptions,
heaven preserve me from such gayety. In
comparison, a returning funeral procession
furnishes a very carnival of fun. To meet,
miny persons dressed in their best, ana
feeling very uncomfortable in it; to be
crowded into corners among people you
don’t know, and don’t want to know; to
discuss of the weather, or to stare sullenly
at your vis-a-vis, who stares sullenly at
you ; to overhear envious criticisms —femi-
nine, of course—of persons and dress—
such is a Washington reception; such is
Washington gayety. Thank you; but I’ll
have none of it. i'll get uie to my garret
again.
It is one week to-day siuce Congress re
assembled. No important legislation has
yet marked the session just opened; but it
has become evident to ail that the Radical
party is without a settled policy, and that
it possesses within Itself all the elements of
dissolution. The Radical Senators have
held a few caucusses, and the result has
been simply the discomfiture of the Presi
dent. Mr. (Sumner has taken the war path
against the President’s pet lobby scheme,
the annexation of San Domingo. Senator
Schurz has been excluded from the White
House and the Executive presence; but
the President was powerless to carry the
punishment farther. Mr. Schurz still holds
his own in the Senate, and is abundantly
able to do so in the future. The President
wants Porter confirmed to the office of
Admiral. Logan introduces a bill in the
House abolishing the ranks of Admiral and
Tice Admiral. A large majority of the
Radical party have declared in favor of
amnesty; hut the President absolu'ely re
fuses to grant it, and Butler has introduced
a bill to legalize the further punishment of
the Southern people. The President, in
his Message, sneers at revenue reform, to
which a majority of the Western Congress
men are pledged. These have not yet
shown their hands, but will do so at the
proper time. An open rupture between
Congress and the President lias long been
predicted. There is even now, as has been
shown, a great want of harmony, and so
the victories have been with Congress.
The corpses of the Radical abortions of
last session are just now floating on the
surface t.o vex their uuthors. Secretary
Routwell’s great financial measure, his
funding bill, having proved an utter and
complete failure, he is now compelled to
ask of Congress further legislation in the
matter. The revival of our shipping in
terests has proved a nut too hard for Rad
ical wiseacres to crack. There was a great
outcry raised by the Radical press because
Congress did not adopt the measures re
commended by the President in his special
message seDt in on the last day of last ses
sion. Had tids been done, w r e were as
sured that once more America would have
ruled the seas. That was less than six
months ago. Yet the President, in his
Message, seems to have virtually abandon
ed his former plan; aud contents himself
with the sapient suggestion “that we will
in future have to look to the countries
south of ns, and to China and Jap.yi for
its (commerce) revival.” In the next sen
tence he tells us that the “ carrying is done
almost entirely in foreign bottoms," a fact
of which everybody was well aware. He
then vaguely intimates that the Govern
ment should aid the building of iron ships,
and that our commerce should be revived,
even at some expense to the Treasury— i.e.,
by the giving of bounties to ship builders
and ship owners. In other words, the peo
ple are to be taxed to pnt money in the
pockets of a few New Englanders. Mr.
Lynch, Chairman of the “ Committee on
the Causes of the Reduction of American
Tonnage,” wiil bring forward his bill of
last session, a poor, weak bantling, which
the House treated then with supreme con
tempt. In fact, an utter inability to deal
with this question has been plainly mani
fested. The premises from which the Rad
ical advocates of bounties to New England
ship bnilders start are false in the first
place. That the decadence of American
tonnage is due to other causes than rebel
privateering is proved by the fact that this
decadence has continued at an undimin
ished rate ever since, and for years after
the rebel privateers had disappeared from
the seas.
What Congress will do in relation to San
Domingo remains to be seen. It is under
stood that the President prides himself
greatly on the portion of bis Message re
ferring to this island, as logical and con
vincing. Yet no where does he display a
more hamili&ting ignorance, unless it be in
his proposal to demand of Canada the free
navigation of Niagara Falls ! He should
read Trollope’s “ West Indies and the Spanish
Main," or what is better, make a personal
visit of inspection to San Domingo, and
see the lazy, iguorant, and degraded nejpbes
whom he proposes to transform into via
ble citizens simply by hoisting the Aplri
cun flag over their woolly heads.
And now comes Governor McCool, of
Colorado, with a request that that ilittle
Territory shall be elevated into a [tate,
sending two Radical Senators and ooeß&di
cal Representative to Congress. MdDook
is after one of the Seuatorships, so th|» is ft
not altogether disinterested move *u his
part. He says the population of Cohrado
is 60,000, but it is be.ieved that half that
number is a liberal estimate. Still this
does not matter. The Radicals mu9Vkeep
up the manufacture of States in Drier to
keep pace with the victories of the Dimoc
racy. Colorado will be admitted ft an
early day. f
The whole clerical force of the umsna
Bureau had a holiday to-day, the building
occupied by them having been declared
unsafe and In imminent danger of toipling
about their heads.
1 fear your typos have mined my reputa
tion as a tarry salt. In my letter the
sth they made me speak of “
royal guard ;’’ when I wrote “ hailing the
royal yard. Ami.
Eating Rats in Paris.
RESTAURANT IHT.T.S OF FARE —STEWERi RAT
AND GRAVY, 80 CENTS A PI.ATE—IIjw IT
TASTES—ROASTED GUINEA TIGS.
Some interesting details of how the Resi
dents of Paris manage to live duriae the
siege are given in the loiter of thaParis
correspondent of the London 7 imes, writing
on the 14lh ult. He says:
It is not yet a question of surrendering,
starving or fighting. The croakerscfl>clare
that we are all hut at the end of our »rovi
sions ; but they have been so long deeMring
this, that one has ceased to put muc&fl<li
in them. I have been told over aqtffpver
again, that the supply of meat
next Monday, and then—positively at the
very latest—on Saturday; but it if still
holding out, inexhaustable,
The largest restaurant in Paris was yester
day—it being Sunday—crowded frofi 5 to
7, and everybody had, if I may judge from
my own experience, at least an eatable
dinner, with plenty of fresh meat. The
beef was probably horse, and some the
entrees possibly cat; hut still everybody
seemed to relish them, and dinerr very
heartily. In fact, there is no knowing
what you can eat till you try. 1 hope I shan’t
utterly horrify your readers, and hencefor
ward become a : orlal outlaw, if I Confess
to hiving this morning eaten at one of the
best restaurants iu Paris—rut. . Two
months ago I should have been af much
appalled at the bare idea of perpetra
ting such an atrocity as, perhaps, any
other civilized Englishman. Hut, first,
one’s principles receive a dangerous shock
in eating horse; then you meet friends,
ordinarily decent, respectable people, who
tell yon that they lnve been avowedly
eating cat; and that you have your
self already been served in the-, same
way if you have ever, at no matter what
restaurant, ordered rabbit. One’s gastro
nomic conscience gradually hardens* I sup
pose, in an atmosphere of this klndjand so
when this morning I met a friend ( on the
Boulevaids just about breakfast, time, who
asked me to eome with him to Hall’s, as he
had there ordered rats, instead of at once
running away or perhaps trying to knock
him down, I agreed to go and just look at
them. They looked very good, served up
in salmi, with gravy and toast, and my
friend pronounced them “excellent;” and
so I did eat, or rather taste,and am ohlifte.l
to confess that I should have no objection
to repeat the experiment to morrow. The
flesh was white and very delicate, like
young rabbit, but with more flavor. We
curiously inspected the hill to see whether
the proprietor of the restaurant' would
venture to give the dish Us real name, but
there was only a significant blank space,
and then If. 50e. On being remonstrated
with for this unbu iness-llke method of
procedure, he wanted to write Salmi da
Oibier, the word “ rat ” being quite impos
sible. As there were two rats in the sami,
each cost about seven pence, hot "bought
wholesale (I am told that they are now ex
hibited publicly for sale in some-shops)
and cooked at hoine, they wotlj p n fhaps
be cheap eating, even In time,rtji&ege;
only, unluckily, the poor people, who want
them most, would be the last to consent to
touch them.
I see that one journalist, in calculating
the amount of meat left in Paris, includes
the animals of the Jardin des Plantes, so
that one may have a chance of getting a
tiger-steak, or clubbing with one’s friends
for a round of rhinoceros, unless the Gov
ernment seize npon the beasts for public
use. It is a little odd they «hould have
been allowed to live so long. The Govern
ment can scarcely hink them more valuable
than the Palace of St. Cloud, and now tnat
monkeys and dogs are considered by
epicures rather as delicacies, it is difficult
to see that food can be found for them
which might not be eaten by human beings.
There is a young American lady here, the
belle of an ambulance (is this seems an odd
expression, let me explain that the doctors,
on strictly hygienic principles, encourage
pretty and well-dressed young ladies to
visit their ambulance in order to enliven
the wards and administer small doses of
flirtation to patients), who is just now in
the depths of despair about her dog, a
splendid Siberian wolf-hound valued at
£IOO in hard cash, and of unappreclable
value in the softer coin of sentiment. The
authorities have found him out, and de
clare that a dog which eats 2% francs’
worth of food a day cannot be allowed to
live in a besieged town. The wild beasts
must, therefore, be in considerable danger.
It has been suggested—probably by the
same strategist who wanted to have the
country all around Paris strewn with
hrok-n bottles to impede the advance of
the Prussians—that all t he ferocious carni
vorous beasts should lie let loose upon the
enemy ; hut who is to do it? If, like the
war elephants of Pyrrhus, they turned
round upon their friends, what, accidents
might not happen, even among the married
members of the National Guard? It will,
perhaps, therefore, on the whole, be better
to eat them ourselves; and, what with rats,
cats, (if these have not already gone) aud
ilogs, it is calculated that the supply of
fresh meat will last till nearly the end of
this month. There Is supposed to be sail
meat for about two months more.
On the 20th ult, the same writer says:
It is a question of the belly, nothing
more. Our beef and muttou will he ex
hausted in a fortnight, perhaps sooner.
Will Paris feed on horse? I beli we it will,
and those who, like myself, vow never to
tonch horse, will live on vegetables. For
me, lain Shadrach. You remember the
story of the three children who would not
in captivity eat the flesh offered to idols,
and feed on pulse. At the end of forty days
thev were very fat. I think I could get up
in Paris the Shadrach, Mesbech and Abed
nego Club. When the siege of Paris i9
over yon will see us as fat as pigs on our
diet of pulse, peas, beans and lentils.
Talking of pigs, let me end this letter
witli an anecdote. I took a friend to break
fast with me yesterday morning at Bra
bant’s. On the bill of fare I found eochon
de lait. Now, I have many weaknesses, but
all are as nothing in comparison witn my
weakness for sucking pig. lat once said,
“ By all means we shall have sucking pig.”
But I called back the waiter and asked him
if it was a real sacking pig? He said,
“Truly.” Then I said, “A little pig?”
He replied, “ Surely.” Again I said, “ A
young pig?” But this question floored
him, and he hesitated. At last he con
fessed, “ It was a Guinea pig, cochin d'lnde .”
Now, I ask yon, are you equal to Guinea
Pig? .
Mu. Gladstone and the Pope. —Mr.
Gladstone’s note announcing that the
English Government has taken care to
make all necessary provision for the pro
tection of the person and for the adequate
supportof his dignity, his personal freedom,
and the independence of his spiritual func
tions, excites surprise and provokes criti
cism.
It Is said the Government inteud, by
making such a declaration at this moment,
to effect the double purpose of Influencing
the great Catholic meeting called to he held
in St. James’s Hall on Friday next, and of
conciliating popular feeling in Ireland,
where alarm had already been caused by
the rumor oi impending difficulty with
America.
A howl will be set up by the London
press to-morrow over Mr. Gladstone's note
concerning the protection assured to the
Pope. The papers will and, »’are the note, to
be an utter reversal of the traditional poli?
cy of England since the Reformation.
[Special to the World.
BY TELEGRAPH.
(Associated Press DLcaicbes.
NOON DISPATCHES.
Wabiiington, December 15.—Pfolsborg
has surrendered.
Secretary Boutwell and Grant are play
ing cross purposes. Han Domingo, and
Pleasanton’s appointment, and general
proposition to have the present genera
tion pay the debt, are among the points at
issue.
Delano is prominent as Boutwell’s suc
cessor.
Bismarck is averse to recognizing repre
sentatives of Lea Homines du Pave. He
prefers Napoleon.
King William wants to go home. Von
Moltke laments the suffering of Germau
troops from the cold.
Dispatches from Culm indicate that in
surgent chiefs will be executed as soon as
captured.
The Itussians are rapidly concentrating
near the Turkish frontier.
In the House, a bill appropriating $300,-
000 for revenue cutters passed.
A bill was introduced directing the Hoc
re Uu y of the Treasury to refund penalties
and taxes illegally issued uuder the direct
tax law.
Amnesty was resumed.
In the Senate, Revels introduced a reso
lution regarding the Mississippi liver le
vees, upon which he will address the Sen
ate.
The resignation of Boutwell is the theme
at the Capitol, but nothing definite is
stated.
The President’s private secretary, Robert
Douglass, son of Stephen A. Douglass, was
seriously hurt by being thrown from a car
riage.
Rainey was appointed a member of the
Com mi lice on Freedinen’s Affairs.
Nkw York, December 15.— Terrific gale.
A piano factory was prostrated and several
buried in the ruins.
London, December 15. —The limes edi
torially protests against the proceedings of
Prussia against Luxemburg, and Russia
against Turkey, saying the attitude of both
is indefensible, but it is not the duty of
England to Interpose.
London, December 13.—Paris advices to
the 10th say the Prussians sent fictitious
messages into the city by carrier pigeons,
which they captured from a balloon. There
is no anxiety in regard to provisions
Trochu seut out four Prussian officers for
exchange, hoping the prisoners would iu
form the b-siegers of the favorable moral
state of the city.
Tlie sharpshooters of Belleville were dis
baudod for desertion when placed lu front.
Alexander Dumas is dead ; aged 67.
EVENING DISPATCHES.
Washington, December 15. —The Presi
dent nominated Michael Schaughenessy
Marshal of the Southern District of Mis
sissippi.
The Senate confirmed Hoosieas Collector
at Vicksburg ; Hiram Springfield Marshal
of the Northern District of Alabama ; and
Mason Postmaster at Newbern, North
Carolina.
It is learned at the White House that
Boutwell lias not resigned. The relations
between the Secretary and President are
cordial.
Pleasanton’s nomination received no dis
senting vote in the Senate
Revels’ bill, aiding the Mississippi levees,
is for a levee between the Mississippi and
Yazoo rivers. It appropriates $2,000,000
and 5,000,000 acres of land.
In the House, Farnsworth made a pow
erful speech in favor of clean a nnesty.
Lawrence opposed any amnesty till those
excluded gave evidence of repentauce.
Wood said the bill was in no sense an
amnesty bill. Its class exceptions involved
many who suffered no riiabilitie* under the
Fifteenth Amendment. Instead of amnesty
it was a property-grabbing bill. Instead of
being a measure of grace it was a bill to
defeat justice ; a bill to deny the rights of
men to recover property. It was a meas
ure, the effect of which (he would not say
the design of it) was to do injustice; to
deprive HLigulits of their pro pur redress,
and to grant a boon and relief to those who
were least entitled to it.
Maynard argned against the principle of
universal amnesty.
Sargeant will vote for Farnsworth’s sub
stitute, removing all disabilities for the
following reasons: First, That the pledge
of the Republican party to remove all dis
abilities as soon as the public safety would
allow imant what it sail, and that it is
not necessary for the public safety that
these disabilities should be continued.—
Second, Because the political power of ex
rebels is not. diminished by their Incapacity
to hold office, as every one of them can
vote at any election. Any man elected by
such men is as dangerous to good govern
ment and as fully represents the principles
and purposes ns eitherof the disqualified in
dividuals could. Tnird, Because their ex
clusion from office is a badge of distinction
from a rebel stand point—is persecution,
not punishment—and enhances their influ
ence for evil if they see fit to exercise it.—
Fourth, Because as a mere party measure
it is uot bad policy to add a few thousand
to the number of Democratic office seekers
while adding nothing to the number of
Democratic voters. Fifth, Because the
men under disabilities are invariably, or
even generally, the worst of the late
rebels, and hence, as a matter of precau
tion, or even of justice, their exclusion
does not answer the avowed purposes.—
Sixth, Because the people North and South
will better appreciate the purposes of the
Democratic party if they are allowed to
bring forward as their exponents the lead
ing rebels, as they naturally will. Seventh,
Because it is unrepubltcan to hold auy
class of people under political disabilities.
Eighth, Because the Republican party Is
great and noble and liberal enough to ex
tend mercy to all classes of citizens, and
should add this crowning act to its great
and successful war and reconstruction
policy. If the substitute fails, I will vote
for tlie measure that makes the fewest ex
ceptions and comes nearest to complete
amnesty.
Discussion continued at great length and
will be resumed Tuesday.
Lawrence, of Ohio, regretted, during the
debate, that one hundred first class funerals
had not followed the rebellion.
In the Senate, several bills removing
political disabilities passed.
The bill incorporating the Southern Ex
press Compauy was reported back with
amendments.
A bill was Introduced selliug certain
lands in South Carolina belonging to the
Government.
Sellmz then delivered an address of
unusual length, to which the Senate listened
with marked attention. Reviewing the
history of the party division in Missouri,
for which, he said, ho and those who acted
with him had been denounced as traitors
to the Republican cause, the interference
at the solicitation of his colleague, Drake,
of the National Executive, by which a State
contest had acquired more than local in
terest and the subsequent defeat of the
President with all his patronage by the
triumph of the very principles upon which
he had been elected. The probabilities of
the formation of anew party upon the
nucleus and the prospects of the reforms In
the civil service and revenue were also re
ferred to.
Richmond. December 15.—The Republi
can Central Committee last night adopted
a resolution praying Congress tq pgss a
general amnesty hill. There were only two
dissenting votes. .
The question of the State debt was up In
the Senate this morning. The tenor of the
speeches was in favor of carrying the mat
ter of West Virginia's share of the debt
before the United States Sqpreiqe Court,
and if payment js not compelled there, then
Virginia will settle the whole debt. All
opposed auy Idea of repudiating It.
Raleigh, December 15.—The House, to
day, sent a committee of three to the bar
of the Senate, impeaching Gov. Holden,
demanding that they take order in the mat
ter, and Informing the Senate that articles
of impeachment would soon be produced.
The Senate replied that Jt would consider
the matter and take order therein. Arti
cles of Impeachment, It was believed, would
shortly be submitted and the High Court
of Impeachment organized, the Chief Jus
tice of the State presiding.
New Orleans, December 15.—The Times
says the amnesty act proposed by Butler
is an aggravation of wrougs already in
flicted upon the people of the South through
the various disfranchising acts of Con
gress, the product of insatiate vindictive-
ness. Butler thus seeks to punish ihe
South for the estimate in which the people
held him, and for the maledictions they
have heaped on biin. The bill offered by
Butler is worse than all these measures of
wrong, nad Is a gross violation of the
Coii9titatlon.
.Tadge&DuKll granted writs of habeas
carpus for David Fischer, John C. and Ce
lestine Oliver (colored), charged with kill
ing Lawes Seonl>erg, at Doualdsonville.
The were released, hut re arrested at the
instance of the State.
Nkw York, December 15.—Robert W.
Maitland, of Maitland county, Is dead, from
paralysis, aged 53.
London, December 14.—The Independence
Beige laments that Prussian war reports
have lost character for veracity first ascrib
ed to them.
Dispatches from Havre report that Havre
and Horfleurs are quiet. Thirty thousand
men were thrown out to confront the
Prussians. Havre is full of war materials.
Bordeaux, December 14.—(Official.) —No
serious engagement has occurred since the
10th. The evacuation of the triangle
formed by Veruil, Berzolies and Dreox Is
confirmed. The enemy seems to be with
drawldg. Dieppe has heen free since the
10th.
Evrenx and Zergnigny are occupied by
the Germans.
The Government has announced that the
harbors of Havre and Dieppe are not open
to neutral vessels.
German losses in combats at Chauzy are
not less than 20.000. The country and vil
lages are full of Prussian wounded.
It is reported that the Prussians have
bombarded Blois and occupy Faubourgs of
Tours. Gambetta was there when the
Prussians demanded the surrender. Gam
hetta ordered, for defense, that the bridge
over the Loire be destroyed. The defense
of Tours was needed to secure the safety of
Chauzy, who was moving towards the
west, where he will be strongly reinforced
and resume the offensive.
Bourbaki is ready to resume the offen
sive. Gambetta reasserts that Bonrbakl’s
forces are in good condition.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.-
Washington, December 15.—A large
number of sugar importers and refiners
were before the Ways and Means Commit
tee to day. Sheldon, of Louisiana, was
present, representing the interests of sugar
growers. The committee agreed to a modi
fication of the law, not reducing the tariff,
but simplifying Us classifications. The
proposed changes, it is thought, will inci
dentally beueflt home growers, and h is the
approval of their representatives here.
London, December 14—Hoyles’ cotton
mill at Bolton was burned to-day.
Anxiety about, the result of the Luxem
burg affair causes much depression in busi
ness. The new German loan is already
quoted at a premium.
The Germans have certainly occupied
Blois, but the report that they were ut
Tours is not confirmed.
The official report of Phalsburg states
that 52 officers, 1,829 men and 63 guns were
captured with the fortress.
iVlontmcdy lias surrendered.
Bordeaux, December 14—Rumors are
circulating here that a sortieof greater
proportions than the last has been made
from Paris and has met with unexpected
success.
Georgia state Lottery.
FOR. TUB BENEFIT Off THE
Omhan’s Horae and FVeo Srhool.
Tha'fo lowing were tba drawn numbers, In the Sup
plementary Scheme, drawn »t Augusta, Georgia,
Dccembtr 18.
MORNING pUAW ING— Class 897.
65 I 6 • 43 So 3 60 78 35 iG 59 13
12 Drawn Numbers
EVENING DRAWING —Ouasa 598.
31 46 43 17 37 73 49 61 73 63 40 54
12 Drawn Numbers.
declß-l
SPECIAL NOTICES.
■ST ATTENTION l-THE AUGUSTA AND
SAVANNAH RIVER BOAT CLUBS are now
consolidated. Members will meet at the cffl.-c of
Messrs. J J. Cohen & Sons, THIS (Friday) EVEN
ING, Dec. 10, at 7, p. m. Promptness necessary.
Rules governing absentees will be rigidly enforced.
1 By order of the P,erodent.
JAMES H. CRANSTON,
deel6l Purser.
THE CHIEF COOK.
THIS I ) THE NAME GIVEN TO A VERY
Superior Cooking Stove, sold by P. L. FULLER
TON, at No. 186 Broad street Ttis Stove is neat in
design, and has the advantage of deep fluos and easy
to clean cut. The oven doois are grount smooth and
lin'd with tin, c .using it to retain the heat and bake
quick. Every Stove warranted a perfect baker.
Don’t forget to bur the CHIEF COOK when you
want a Good Stove. dec9-eodlu
Bar I HEREWITH ANNOUNCE MYSELF
as a candidate for the < fil e of TAX COLLKC TOR
of Ki liinond County, at the approaching election.
novl3-tdec2B JOHN A. BOHLKR.
BUT I HEREWITH ANNOUNCE MYSHLF
as a Candida e for the office of TAX RECEIVER of
Rlcbm. nd County, at the appr aching elcc ion.
novl3-tjfc2d MATHEW SHERON.
BBT I HEREWITH ANNOUNCE MYSELF
as a Candidate for the office of County Surveyor of
Richmond County, at tlie approaching clew ton.
n.vietd K. VV. BROWN.
MU. EDITOR: PLEASE ANNOUNCE
the name of Oapt. RICHARD J. WILSON for
Receiver of Tux Returns, at the approaching election.
novls-ld DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Aiken Premium Land Sale.
S indicative of the views and opinions of
the jeopln of Aiken, where Mr. Diihbt has
resided lor ihe past three years, and where the
property which it is proposed to dispose of is
loe ned, he herewiih publishes one of the orders
for Tickets and Pictures recently received.
On this list will he found the names of the
Mayor of the town, the Judge of the Circuit
Court, aud many of the leading Merchants,
Physicians, &c , &e., including tire most influ
ential and prominent citizens ol the place.
Aikbs, 8. C., December Is*, 1870.
DuahSiii: Being well acquainted with the
desirableness ot the propel ly otiered tor sale in
your Great Premium Lmd Sale at Aiken, and
feeling assured, from our personal acquaint
ance with yourself, that the scheme will be
fairly conducted according to the plan set lorth
in your pamphlet, we would request yon to
select for each of us a Ticket and the Engrav
ing deeiguated opposite our respective names.
Wishing you every success, we remain, Ac.,
(Signed)
E. J. C. Wood, An American Autumn.
Jas Purvis, Marriage of Pocahontas.
H. Wesski.B, h mding of Columbus.
H. Smyser, Marriage of Pocahontas.
Aiviohy Coffin, An American Autumn.
W. H. Gkddinos, Marriage of Pocahontas.
P. G. Rockwell, The Day We Celebrate.
W4l. 8. WALKER, banding of Columbus.
E. ri. Bardeen, The Day We Celebrate.
T. J. Heyward, Marriage of Pocahontas.
W. M. Steedman, ba iding of Cohtmbus.
J. B. Hewitt, Landing of Columbus.
O. L. Cook, Landing of Columbus.
John Gilmour, The Day We Celebrate.
Richard J. Willis, An American Autumn.
Henry Smith, banding of Columbus.
Alfred Holmes, Landing of Columbus.
John McKay, An American Autumn.
J. G. Steedman, Mairiage of Pocahontas.
G. W. CROFT, Marriage of Pocahontas.
A. J. Gardner, An American Autumn.
M. J. Nkvins, An American Autumn.
W. W. Hunting, Marriage of Pocahontas.
E. H. A. Oakley, The Dty We Celebrate-
Z. Platt, The Day We Celebrate.
B. F. Brown, An American Autumn.
R. S. Agnew, find ng of Columbus.
To J. C. Derry, General Manager, corner
Jackson and Reynolds streets, Augusta.
decls-U
MILCH COW.
.A. GOOD MILCH COW, with a CALF
three weeks old, lor sale. Apply to
deels-2 J. L. MIMB.
WANTED.
FrOU TKLLOW WAX.
Apply to or address
WELLS & CLAY,
NO. 288 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA.
Sign of the Big Bill.
d«c4-U
New jjLdvor tifaKsineiits
GIRA RDEY^OPRRAIIOUSE.
LESSEE . ...... MISS KEENE.
DIRECTRESS ............LISA WEBER.
W
BENEFIT OF LLSA WEBER,
AMD
LAST NIGHT BUT ONK
OF THB
BLONDE BURLESQUE TROUPE.
Only Appearanco in Comedy of ||ss Weber.
This (Friday) Kveuiaaff. t>cc. 16, 1870,
The performance will commeuce with the
oleguut Comedietta of
MIDDY ABHORF,.
Hariy Halcyon Mies Lisa Weber.
To couc'ude with the Musical Extravaganza,
ITION,
Or, The Man at the "Wheel.
SATURDAY. December 17, only LISA
WEBER MATINEE.
Prices as umal. Bents can be secured in nd
vauce at Oates’ Book Store. decl6-l
Experienced Book-Keepers
Who are out ol employment will fiud it
to their advantage to address, with poalaey
stamp enclosed,
H. C. TURNBULL. Jr..
54 Lexington Street, Baltimore, MJ.
deal 6-6
TOYS. TOYS. TOYS.
J"UST RECEIVED, the largest and best as
sortment of TOYS in this city, which I will
sell, either wholesale or retail, at prices suita
ble to hard times, at
J. HERTZ’S,
deel6 128 No. 176 Broad Street.
JUST RECEIVED.
A-NOTHER LOT OF
10 bis. Champagne CIDER
10 bbls. Northern APPLES
10 bbls. ORANGES
For siie on coh&ignmeut by
w. 0. BARBER
and F. L. NRUFVILLE,
decl6 l Mclntosh Street.
BTATK OF GKORGTA.f
RICHMOND OOUNY. (
To th Honorable Superior Court for said County :
Tho petition of Benjamin W. Lawton, William P.
Jairell, John Lawton, Rebelt Boyd, Henry F. Mills,
Robert Dunbar and Samuel Cohen respectfully shows
that they aro the President and Directors of on Asso
ciation already formed for lho business hereinafter
mentioned : 'I hat the objects of s.iid Association are
to establish commercial communication by ihe Savan
nih Elver between the cities of Augusts, in the
county and Btate aforesaid, and Bavannsb, in the
county of Chatham, in said State, and the Intermedi
ate landings on said river r.ow or hereafter to be es
tablished, and the convenience, advantage and profit
that may result from said communication; that the
particular business they propose to canyon is tbe
transported, n, by steamboat on said river, between
tbe cities and landtags aforesaid, of passengers and
freights end such business as is usually carried on by
steamboats on said river between said points; that
the amount of capital to be cmplo ed by them actu
ally paid in is thirty-tliree thousand three hundred
dollars ; that is, one hundred dollars each on three
hundred and thirty-three shares; that their place of
doing business is the city of Augusta a'oreaaid; that
they desire for themselves, their associates and suc
cessors, to be incorporated for twenty years under and
by the name of “ The Savannah River Planters’
Accommodation Line."
Wherefore, they pray the Court, upon iheir com"
pliance with the statute in such cases made and pro
vided, to pass an order declaring ihe aforesaid appli
cation granted, and your petitioners, tlieir associates
and successors Incorporated without per ooal liability
for tho puvposes afores dd, under the name aforesaid,
forand during the tuim of twenty ji-ars, with t.e
pr vilrge of renewal a’ the expiration if that time, to
be governed he sucb Constitution and By-Laws as
they may adopt; and your petitioner* will every pray,
&c. JAMEB O. C. BLACK,
Attorney tor Petitioners.
Clerk's Office, J
Richmond Bupbrior C.xrt. \
The foregoing Petition for Incorporation w. s enter
ed on the Minutes of the Superior Court, folios 453
and 454, this lSih day of December, 1870.
E. M. BRAYTON,
Clerk.
Notice is hereby given that at the next January
term of the Superior Court of Richmond County
application will he made to said Court to pass an
order granting the prayer cf the for go ng petitition.
JAMES O. C. BLACK,
Attorney for Petitioners.
December 15,1870. dicl6-law4
ANOTHER
Great Opportunity.
J hav© again just
returned from Hew
Y’ork, and on Mon
day, November ‘2Bth,
and during the week,
will be opening Large
Lines of Mbst Desir
able
DRV GOODS
A T
IffMRICSTIMIffi.
Special attention is
called to the very ex
tensive assortment and
extraordinary L O
BJEtICES of
DRESS GOODS,
SHIWLS,
BOULEVARDS,
ARABS,
And WOdLENS, of All Kinds.
During the continu
ation of this Special
Offering, the 'Whole
sale and Retail De
partments will be
merged in one, thus af
fording still greater in
ducements to buyers.
Janies W. Turley,
DEALER IN FIRST CLASS DRY GOODS.
Third House Above Globe Hotel.
nov27-eodtf
toPHTORA^]
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IPor the Speedy Ttelief
AND PERMANENT CURE OF
CONSUMPTION,
I^ftONOHITIS,
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which collects in 'he Bronchial Tube's, and at
the same time (onus n soothing <*o iling, re
lieving (he it rilalioo which produces the cough.
The object to tie obtained is to e’eanse the
organ of alt impurities; to nourish and
strengthen it when it has become impaired and
enteet.led by disease ; to renew and iuvigorate
the circulation of the blood, aud strengthen
the netvous orgamzition. Tlie EXPECTO
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is active, hot mild nod congenial, imparting
functional energy and natural strength. It af
fords Ovygen to vitalize the blood, and Nitro
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It equalizes the “nervous influence/'
producing quiet and composure.
TO CONSUMPTIVES
It is invaluable, us it immediately relieves the
difficult brealhtng anl bt cruising cough which
attends that dUesse.
FOR ASTHMA
It is a specific —one dose often relieving tho
distressing choking, and producing otliu and
pleasant repose.
FOR CROUP
No mothc should • ver be without a bottle of
the EXPECTORANT in the house. We have
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This dread disease requires fiompt action ; as
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apply tte remedy, and it is easily subdued ;
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The properties of the EXPECTORANT
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produces pleasant and refreshing sleep.
It Exhilarate and Relieves
Gloominess and Depression.
Containing all these qualities in a convenient
and concentrated form, it has proven to be the
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eases.
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AUGUSTA, (lA.
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octlS eodrtm
To Colton MamiliiHurers.
"W” ANTED, a Compelaut Man as Superin
tendent of a Cotton Mill One eonversant
with both r pinning and Weaving operations
cm hear of a situation on application to JAB.
HOPE, Augusti, or to JOBN 1 HOMPSON,
Hopewell Mills, Elbert county. By mail, ad
dress to Wu*Lingtou, Wilkes county, Ga.
deel t 6& 3
NOTICE.
FROVI THIS DATE, we will sell
COAL. FOR CABH ONLY.
No orders filled without the money.
d«cls-2w* BORN, REARING & CO.
BAGGING.
100 BALFS T'xira Heavy Gnnny
BAGGING
100 bales Extra Heavy Borneo BAGGING
800 rolls Bengal BAGGING
800 hall rolls Beucul BAGGING
800 rolls Ludlow BAGGING
200 rolls PLoeair BAGGING
500 half rods Phaeoix BAGGING
On consignment uud for side in lots to suit
purchasers at tbeLOWEST MARKET RATES.
'he 14-8 BLAIR, SMITH & CO.
O’HARA’S POCKET RIANT 7
CORN SHELLEK.
It is the very NE PL LI 8 ULTRA of sim
plicity; is very portable. Weighing only 12
ounces, and can he carried in the pantaloons
pocket, and will shell six bushels ol corn pet
hour ; does not scatter; will deliver every
grain into a half bushel measure; w ill shell
the largest Indian Coru and the smallest Pop
Corn, the wettest or the driest bail Beud
tor elrculars. H. H. SCOTT, Agent,
dec 18-8 319 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
wanted7~
lIiADIES AND GENTLEMEN to know
that SI,OOO is oflered lor stiy case ot Blind,
Bleeding or Itching PILES that De BING’S
PILE REMEDY fails to cure. Sold by
BARRETT, LAND & CO.,
dte!4 lm 291 Broad Street, Augusta.
sst’d. RNOCH MORGAN’S SONS’ 180 ft
ll^u
Is BETTER and CHEAPER than Soap.
Does Ur work quickly, easily, and wnh less
labor than any other compound ; cleans tcin
dows without water; removes stains front
wood, marble and stone ; cleans and brightens
knives and table ware ; for general house clean
ing is unequalled ; polishes tin, brass, iron
copper and steel; removes oil rust aud dirt
from machinery; removes stains from the
hands which soup will uot take off, &c. Sold
ut alt Grocery, Drug and Notlou Stores.
AVHOL tCH Ali Hi
-211 Washington 81., New York.
80 Oxford St., Loudon.
•uIS-eodly
Ex.uiptlou of Ptnoutltf.
GeORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY,
Ordinary’s Office, for said County, )
Augusta, December IS, 1870. (
Richard O. Rowlett having applied to me for Ex
emption of Personalty, X will pass upon the game at
ray office, in Auguaia, on Saturday, the 24 h day of
December, 1870, at 10 o’clock, a. m.
Given under my hand and official signature, thie 13th
day of Decemt er, 1870.
SAMUEL LEVY,
dec!4-2 Ordinary.