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C!)vonu:te anD WEDNESDAY JANUARY 21, 1874. [FOB THB CHBOMCLE iXD SENTINEL.] ONE HUNDRED YEARS. One hundred yearn ! how much of change Hath marked since, then the home of man : How much of progress hath been made Tho' human life is but a span. Each year som grand invention marks A noted milestone on the age! The improvements of a hundred years Gleam out in gold on History s page. nature still remains the same, Tho’ we are born—live- weep and die .She has the same unchanging front, Presents the same blue smiling sky. The stated seasons come and go; Spring, with it* wealth of fragrant flower*. Autumn so grand, e’en in decay, And Winter chill with frosty flowers. For nature has no smile the less. No tear the more for all our care. * The sun shines just as brightly, when It only shines on our despair, As when beneath his fervid beats. We danced in gladness all the day, And dreamed in childish ignorance This life would prove one endless May- Arid where arc they -the happy youths, And maidens fair of long ago, Who sported on the green sward free, Or skated on the Winter snow ? They loved even as we loved to-day, Were wreathed with smiles—or bowed with tears, Ala*their happy hearts have been Hushed in death's clasp -one hundred years The woods they roamed are just as fair, The laughing brook as smooth and clear As when their joyous songs awoke The noisy echoes far and near. Earth mourns not for her children lost— And April, with its smiles and tears, Still ushers in a rosy May, Tho’ they've been dust a hundred years. And so ’twill be when we are gone, Nature will not one moment pause, iut still pursue her wonted course With all her fixed unchanging laws, And other hearts wilt love or hate, And other eyes be dim with tears, Or bright with smiles of happiness When we’re been dead one hundred years. Augusta, Ga. R- A. L. LITTLE ANNETTE. Little Annette ! Little Annette ! With your rosy cheeks and tresses of jot; With the lashes concealing your gypsy eyes. Meet for a King's or an Emperor s prize. Your white teeth glearniDg like drifted snow, Or shining like pearls in a well-laid row; Little Annette ! Little Annette! I hear the ring of your laughter yet. Little Annette! Darling Annette! Only a year has flown, and yet, Ere you could melt the snow with your breath, A messenger came, and his name was Death Little Annette! Darling Annette ! Never your face can I forget; Listen ! The angels are calling yet Over tho pino trcon, “Little Annette ! — [Junius. THREE MEETINGS. Oh, the happy mo- ting from over the sea! • When I love my friend and my friend loves me. An<l we Btninl f&<*e to face, and for letters road I hero are endless words to be heard and said. With an anxious glance, half shy, half strange, That asks, ‘ After all, is there any change ?" Till wo settle down as we used to be— For I love my friend and my friend loves me. Oh, the blessed meeting of lovers true Gainst whom Fate has done all that Fate could do, And then sunk, vanquished—while over these slain Dead weeks, months, years, of parting and pain. ‘ Hope’s rosy banner waves gallant afar, Untainted, untoro, from the cruel war, Ami the heaven of tho future, wide, oloudless and bright, Arches above them- God guards the right! But oh ! for tho meeting to come one day, When tile Hpirit slips out of tho tired clay ; When Hie stauders-bv, with a tender sign, .Shall mutely cover this face of mine, And I leap forward whither, none know ! Hut outward—onward—as spirits go! And eye to eye, without fear, I see God and my lost as they see me. [Miss Muloch PISCATORIAL. The Spaniards did a Fishing go. And for a rod they took a bludgeon; They got a bite for which they show One of the tribe we call a gudeon. You Spanish men inclined to angle, Go for a Fish that shows more game, And never quarrel, fret, or wrangle When bites are few and Fishes tame. Should little Fishes fail to bite, * It lias bee 11 said they often bark, Like little boys you cannot tight, Or those who whistle in the dark. Hiit be not careless with your rod, For game-fisli in those waters sail; Watch well your cork and pray to God The Fish may not turn out a whale. Should it be so your fate is sealed— Your line is twisted 'round your legs ; And tho’ you reel him, you'll be reeled Completely off your Spanish pegs. CUBA little careful; Don’t o'eiNveight your lino with bullets ; He more patient, calm and prayerfnl— Fishes here are not all mullets. Fish-fry. WEARY—LONELY- RESTLESS HOMELESS. BY FATHER RYAN. W’earv hearts! weary hearts! by cares of life oppressed, Ye are wandering in the shadows—ye are sigh ing for rest; There is darkness in the heavens, and the earth is bleak below, And the joys we taste to-day, may to-morrow turn to woe. Weary hearts! God is rest. Lonely hearts! lonely hearts! this is but a land of grief ; Ye are pining for repose—ye are longing for relief; What the world hath never given—kneel and ask of God above, And your grief shall turn to gladness—if you lean upon his love ! Lonely heart! God is love. Restless hearts ! restless hearts! ye are toiling night and day. And the flowers of life all withered, leave but the thorns along your way; Ye are waiting, ye are" waiting, till your toiliugs here shall cease, And your eve ry restless throbbing, is a sad. sad prayer for peace, » Restless hearts! God is peace. Breaking hearts! broken hearts! ye are deso late and lone. And low voices from the past o’er your present ruins moan: In the sweetest of your pleasures there was bitterest alloy. And a starless night hath followed on the sun set of our joy. Broken hearts! God is joy. Homeless hearts! homeless hearts! through the dreary, dreary years Ye are lonely, lonely wanderers, and your way is wot wit h tears; lu bright or blighted places, wheresoever you may roam. Ye look away from earthlaud, and ye murmur, "where is home ?" Homeless hearts ! God is home. HANNAH BINDING SHOES. Poor lone Hannah. Sitting at tho window bmd.ug shoes. Faded, wrinkled, Sitting, stitching in a mournful muse. Bright-eyed beauty once was she. When the bloom was on the tree; Spring and Winter Hannah’s at the window, binding shoes. Noi a neighbor Paasiug nod or answer will refuse To her whisper. •‘ls there from the fishers any news ?” Oh, her heart's adrift with one On an endless voyage gone! Night and morning Hannah's at the window, binding shoes. Fair young Hannah. Ben, the sunburnt fisher, gayly wooa : Hale and clever. For a willing heart and hand he snes. May-day skies are all aglow. And the waves are laughing so! For her wedding Hannah leaves her window and her shoe*. May is passing; Mid the apple boughs a pigeon coos; Hannah shudders. For the mild southwester mischief brews. Round the rock of Marblehead. Outward bound, a schooner sped ; Silent, lonesome. Hannah's at the window, binding shoes. ’Tis November; Now no tear her wasted check bedews; From Newfoundland Not a sail returning will she lose. Whispering hoarsely. ‘'Fishermen, Have you. have you heard of Ben ?” Old with watching. Hannah's at the window, binding shoes. Twenty Winters Bleach and tear the ragged shore she views : Twenty seasons. Never one has brought her auy news. Still her dim eyes silently Chase the white sails o'er the sea; Hopeless, faithful, Hannah's at the window, binding shoes. • ~ ELECTRIC SPARKS. The President has approved the act repealing the salary law. Waite was unanimously confirmed by the Senate as Chief Justice, yester day. The Democrats have nominated a straight municipal ticket in the city of Philadelphia. Shadd, colored, has been elected Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives. There are numerous aspirants for Ames’ unexpired Senatorial term. BERLIN. Speech of Prince Bismarck—An Elo quent Vindication of His Course- The New Oath for the Bishops— Bazaine—Testimony of Prince Fred erick Charles. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. ] Berlin, December 20, 1873. prince bismarck’s speech in the hocse OP DEPUTIES. Deputy Vo» Gerlach, formerly the leader of the old Conservative party in the Prussian Landtag, and one of the founders of the NeuePreussische( Cross) Zeitung, who, however, withdrew n 1866 from all connection with the Gov ernment because he did not approve of the Anstrian war ; a most orthodox Pro testant, but who joined the Catholic Centre party immediately after the out break of the conflict between State and Church, having, during yesterday’s de bate on the Civil Marriage bill in the House of .Deputies, attacked Prince Bis marck, by citing a speech he made twenty-five years ago, the Prince replied as follows : Gentlemen : The last speaker has, as i already formerly, again done me the honor of repeatedly quoting passages | from a speech made by me twenty-five i years ago. Had he not done so, I should not have taken part in the debate, as the defense of the measure now before the j House is in better and abler hands than mine. If, however, the last speaker gives me the pleasure of entering on a j personal discussion with him—a plea sure which, owing to the peculiar atti-1 tudeof the honorable gentleman towards j Prussia since 1866, I have not had for a ] long time, he forces me to reply to him, | and to explain, in a few words, my atti tude at that time as compare 1 to my present attitude with reference to the bill before us. The honorable gentle man had at that time some connec tion with me, and I had an oppor tunity of forming an opinion about his attitude in political matters. The honorable gentleman at that time frequently convinced me, by means of his superior intellect and his eloquence, and there were short moments when we were of the same opinion; but these moments were only short, because the honorable gentleman does not seem to like to share the same opinion with other people, and he therefore soon adopted another. There are rich people, founders of companies with limited liability, and others who can permit themselves the luxury of having a car riage or a stick altogether to themselves; thus the honorable gentleman appears to wish to have always, an opinion alto gether to himself. I have not been able to find that phase of Prussian history which enjoyed the approval of the honorable gentleman, neither the time of Frederic William L nor of Frederic 11., to whom, for reasons which I need not detail here, ho refused the appella tion “The Greathe also did not ap prove of Frederic William 11. and just as little of Frederic William 111. The only things of which the honorable gen tleman seemed tft approve were the battles of the war of liberation; but I do not know whether he was still of the same opinion after the battle of Leipsic. I also do not know what ettitude he took in 1848. Neither the political principles in vogue after 1848 nor those of the Dew era have satisfied the honorable gentle man. He has always persecuted every existing thing with sharp and destruc tive criticism, but I have never heard from him how it was to be done better [laughter]; that was always postponed until next time. Many members will recollect that whenever tlilre appeared in the newspapers with which the honor able gentleman was at that time con nected an article sharply censuring all existing evils, its conclusion was al ways, “we shall show in the next article ' what ought to be done.” | Much laugh ter. | I believe that the honorable gen tleman also does not know at present what ought to bo done, but I presume lie is satisfied with his present atti tude, because he is in a place where no one will follow him. That he, who is neither Catholic nor Pole, should have been pleased to join tho Centre party, is owing to the fact that tho Centre party is an isolated column on which no one cun find a place besides himself. He can not, under any circumstances, be of the same opinion on all questions as the other members of his party, he remains tho heretic. He cannot claim for his Holiness the Pope the same rights which the other members of the party claim ; as a Protestant Christian he cannot, as they do, wish that no law should be en acted which has not the approval of the Pope. [Cries of contradiction in the Centre.] Well, then, if you like, that no law can be mads by the authorities which the Pope does not approve of. You can only count upon a complete realization of your ideas in the States of the Church, and this is the reason of your endeavors to maintain the States of the Church and extend them to the whole of Christianity. [Excitement and contradiction in tlie Centre.] Well, gentlemen, refute this by argu ment, and not by inarticulate cries of indignation. You reproach us with be ing inimical to the Catholic Church; but also you do not pay the necessary respect to us Protestants. We wish to have that peace in which we have lived formerly ; but you ought not to forget that indi vidual demands can only be taken no tice of to a certain degree. If the hon orable gentleman lays so much stress on what I said 25 years ago, why will he not believe much more what I say now ? Does he believe that I have become a dotard since that time, while he has re mained as he was? [Much laughter.] I have never been ashamed to admit alte rations of my opiuions. It is now near ly twelve years since I am at the head of Government, which was commenced un der difficult circumstances. With refer ence to the second half of that period no one will easily reproach me with having been mistaken in anything connected with the welfare of tho State. I am very slightly master of my will; I have learned how to subordinate my personal conviction to the necessities of tlie State. [Cheers.] I must confess I have heard with satisfaction that the honorable gen tleman has quoted so liberally the con clusion of my speech ; but I must re mark that at any rate I did in 1849 not describe the Catholic Church of to-day as the rock on which the fool’s vessel of the time should be wrecked. I must presume that I had in my mind at that time the evangelical church ; and I do not wish to explain who is on board the vessel. [Much laughter.] It is only after great hesi tation that I have together with the other Ministers, resolved to submit this bill to His Majesty the Emperor for sanction. From a political point of view l have convinced myself that I may say the scientifically revolutionary attitude of the Catholic Bishops enforces these laws. I have said scientifically revolutionary, because it is really a scieutifical preparation of the minds for revolution if a man places his own judg ment above the pow-T of the laws. “As this law is unjust, I will not obey it.” The honorablo gentleman ought to re member those judges holding liberal views in 1863. Was there even a single one who adopted the present course of the bishops. It is lamentable not to find the virtue of subordiuatjpn among higher officials. I will not proceed to prove that the present attitude of the honorable gentleman is not in accord ance with his attitude 25 years ago. It does not matter what a man said 25 years ago, but what he now believes to be necessary foi the welfare of the State.- And I would finally beg the honorable gentleman to learn from me a greater degree of subordination to the welfare of the State. [Loud cheers at the Left and the Right-hisses in the Centre. ] THE NEW OA*H FOR BISHOPS. Last night’s official Siaqts Anseiger publishes the following royal decree about the oath to be taken by Catholic Bishops in fijture: “We, Wil liam, Ac., decree as follows The Catholic Bishops, Archbishops and IVinee- Bishops within our monarchy will have iu future to take the following oath be fore they will be recognised by the State: I (name*') swear an oath to God the Al mighty and All-Knowing, and upon the Holy Gospel, that, after I have been raised to the dignity of a Catholic Bishop [Archbishop or Prince-Bishop! I will be subject, true, obedient and de voted to His Royal Majesty of Prussia [name) and his legitimate successor ia the Government, as my most gracious Kiug and Sovereign—that I will further his welfare to the best of my ability, and prevent everything to his damage and dis advantage; that I will conscientiously ob serve the laws of the State, and es pecially use my best endeavors to see that in the minds of the clergy and the congregations entrusted to my episcopal guidance the sentiments of veneration for and fidelity to the King, ioye of the fatherland, obedience to the laws, and all those virtues which signify a good subject in a Christian, are fostered with care: aud that I will not suffer that the clergy subordinate to me should teach and act otherwise. I promise especially that I will not entertain any community or connection, either within or without the country, which could be dangerous to the public security; I also promise to report to his Majesty, if it should come to my knowledge that any where projects ate being made which could be disadvantageous to the State. I swear all tins as truly as God and His Holy Gospel may help me. Amen ! “Given at Berlin on the 6th day of December, under our own hand and seal. ” [Signed] “William.” [Countersigned] Comphausen, Count Eulenburg, Leonhardt. Falk von Ka mecke, Achenbach. BAZAINE. It is now stated her# on good au thority that the voluntary testimony of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, at the trial of Marshal Bazaine, was indi rectly provoked by the French Court Martial. The matter stands thus: At the request of the Prince, the former chief of the general staff of the First Army, General Von Sticble, had <drawn up a memorandum altont the situation of Marshal Bazaine at Metz, which' proved beyond all doubt that the Mar-’ shal could not break through the Ger man lines, if he paid the slightest regard to the principles qf a national war. By order of the Prince-General, V. Stichle sent this memorandum to the Court Martial, but not the slighest notice was taken of *it. It was in conseqnence of this that Prince Frederick Charles, for reasons easily understood, took an op portunity of giving his personal testi mony in favor of the Marshal and to send unasked the two well know letters to Maitre Lachaud, who made use of them at the trial. We may add to this that it is reported on good authority that Marshal Bazaine, who was very reserved in his remarks about various persons at his examination, is in possession of documents of the highest importance which he did not wish to use at the trial. A friend of the Marshal, who is very much devoted to him, is about to publish them. M. Lachaud thought the use of the documents at the trial unneeealary, as he was firmly convinced that his client would be acquitted. It is said that this correspondence will throw a light on many points which have not been cleared np as yet. Berlin, January 16. —The North Ger man Gazette to-day says : If the policy of France is made subservient to the temporal aims of the papacy, the peace of Europe will be compromised. There was an exciting scene in the Landtag to day. Herr Mallmieknadt, an Ultramon tane Deputy, quoted a passage from a recent work of “La Marmora,’alleging that Bismarck in 1866 discussed the ces sion to France of a portion of the Rhen ish territory. Prince Bismarck arose and pronounced the statement as an audacious and malicious falsehood. MONTGOMERY BLAIR ON SOME OF THE SECRETS OF THE WAR. A correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune writes thus of Sidney John ston, at Shiloh, and Hood, at Atlanta: The writer, in looking over a Virginia paper, the Lexington Gazette, was forci bly struck with an article which con tained the substance of a conversation or interview of the Hon. Montgomery Blair, at the Virginia Springs, this past Summer, upon some of the secrets of the late war. We quote, as it is exceed ingly interesting: “Blair’s Interview or Himself.— While spending a day or two at the Rockbridge Alum, last month, the visit of the Hon. Montgomery Blair, in 1868, to the same springs, was brought to mind, and some tilings connected with the late war and related by him were freshened in the memory. At this dis tance of time, entire accuracy is impos sible, but the report is correct in tlie main. Mr. Blair made a public address at the Alum; but his conversations in his porch of evenings were specially in teresting. He was Mr. Lincoln’s Post master-General, aud knew much of the inside of the Washington Government. His brother, Gen. Frank Blair, served in the Western army. He said it was twice in the power of our Southern com manders to have achieved great victo ries. At Shiloh (they call it Pittsburg Landing) a great fight was won, but the fruits thrown away. When the Confederate forces halted the Federals were ready to surrender. ■ Thirty min utes more of active firing and pushing would have ended in the capiure of Grant and liis command. Half of his troops had already thrown down tlieir arms, and were sheltering themselves under the river banks. The gunboats were firing, but their shot passed over tlie Confederates. The bluffs along the river required too high elevation of the cannon. He had heard that the shells from the boats bursted among the high officers in the rear of the Confederate army, and led them to think their sol diers were suffering severely in their ap proach by the river, and ordered a halt. He mentioned a sally from Atlanta by Hood, killing General McPherson, one of the most talented officers of tlie Fede ral army. The death of this great sol dier and the impetuous and unchecked advance of Hood threatened the United States forces with destruction. Sherman and his generals were aware of the crisis, and not hopeful of a happy issue. He weakened his line at other points, and crowded Hood with fresh troops, till Ins terrible advance was slackened and stop ped. If half the enterprise exhibited by Hood had been shown by his subor dinates, the ranks of the Federals, weak ened by the men sent to oppose the vic torious onset of the Confederate Gene ral-in-Chief, would have been broken through, and Sherman put to flight or collapsed into a surrender. Mr. Blair said his brother, General Frank Blair, drew for him the battle-field, and as sured him that the movement of Hood would be rated among military men as probably the most brilliant of the war, and that the escape of the Union armv from ruin was owing more to supineness in some Southern officers than from any skill in the Federals.” The writer was in both of the battles referred to, occupying a front position in both. At Shiloh his line was advanc ed on the evening of the 6tli until it was in easy musket range of the banks of the Tennessee river, where were huddled in a wild, frightened and shuddering mass the remnant of Grant’s powerful army, which had been hurled back with tre mendous losses and an annihilated orga nization to the water’s edge by the mas terly strategy and unequaled onslaught of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston, com manding the Confederate forces. Never was morale and organization so com pletely destroyed in an army by one blow, as in the Federal army under Grant on the evening of April 6th at Shi loh—the sun rose that morning upon as proud an army as the Federal Government could boast, and set that evening upon a “hapless host of fugitives,” crushed and cowering under the sheltering banks of the Tennessee. If the death blow of that grand old chieftain, of whose life, genius and patriotism his native Ken tucky and his sister States may well be proud, had not been given, the star of Grant, then glimmering in the ascen dancy, would have gone down ill a sea of bloody and irretrievable disaster—in the critical moment, when the hands of the Federal army were extended to their enemy for a merciful surrender, a halt was ordered. A few gunboats in the river kept up a scattering but innocent shelling of outlines, while Buell, with a large Federal force, marched rapidly by forced marches to tlie succor of Grant, aud thus was saved the Federal army. One brigade of eurs, if moved forward after the fatal halt, would have received the of all that was left of a once proud army. At Atlanta the other event occurred where Sherman came near losing his whole army. General J. B. Hood had just been placed in command of the Western army, worn down, as it was at the time, by an unremitting poliey of retreat, inaugurated by his predecessor, to two-thirds of its original strength, he determined to strike the enemy with his whole forcG the first opportunity that was presented. One soon occurred. The Federal army had crossed the Chat tahoochie, and was moving on Atlanta to the right. Ganeral Thomas, com manding the army of the Cumberland, was between the Chattahoochie and Peach Tree Creek —the latter a consider- I able stream and affording quite an ob- j stacle at the time for a» army to cross, j General Scofield, commanding the army of the Ohio, had crossed further up, i and had taken position ou Peach Tree Creek, which stream ran in a northeast-! ly direction and entered into the Chat tanocclrie near the railroad bridge, while General McPherson, commanding the army of Tennessee, was moving to the southwest, on the Georgia Railroad, to Decatur, or near that point, with a I view of turning the extreme right flank of our army and cutting its communica tions. Lieutenant-General A. P. Stewart's corps and Hood's old corps (Cheatham commanding) held the lines in front of Atlanta, confronting Thomas and Sco field, while Lieutenant-General Hardee was dispatched with his corps south of Atlanta, on the night of the 21st of July, by the road, towards De catur, with to completely turn McPherson’s left, even if, m order to do so, he was compelled to go beyond the tog-n of Decatur. In this move ment he was oaaisi.ed by Major-General Wheeler, with the entire cavalry. The plan was most admirably devised, and its Prohor execution would have de stroyed Sherman. Hardee and Wheeler on his right were to begin the attack on McPherson at daylight on the 22d, or as soon alter as practicable. As soon as Hardee would succeed in forcing back McPherson, Cheatham was to attack on the right, and, continuing the move ment from the right, force the enemy from right to left down Peach Tree Creek. Lieutenant-General Stewart was to follow up the movement with his corps, in the same manner as Cheatham, when the action became general. Har dee failed to get in the position direct ed—did not get far enough around; but his troops fought with courage and im petuosity, doubling McPherson’s army up, and jeopardizing it in the extreme. Cheatham moved forward to prevent a concentration upon Hardee, and carried the enemy’s works in his front, taking a large number of prisoners, and captur ing a nnmVvar of pieces of artillery. Stewart vyas unengaged. Hardee and Cheatham captured upward* of three thousand prisoners, sixteen pieces of ar tillery and nineteen standards. Had this attack been followed up as directed, Sherman’s army must have succumbed, or been crushed between Peach Tree Creek and the Chattahoochie. As it was, its position was hazardous in the extreme. The Federal army was entire ly disorganized. Brigades melted into squads, and regiments fell into inextri cable confusion. The army, ou account of its dispositions and the fearful and unexpected attack of Hood, could not be manoeuvred for attack or retreat. Like the snake in the circle of fire, it must die there. It was one of those oc casions where consternation seemed to take hold of the army and paralyze it for the time. Officers and men glared dumbfounded and with stony looks into each other’s faces, and an impending doom seemed to settle upon an army which had hitherto borne its haughty standard “full high advanced,” and flauuted them iu the face of an army compelled by a fatal policy to forego the blow which its great martial heart so yearned to give before its strength was impaired and its spirit humiliated. But that fate which frowned so darkly at times through the rifted folds of the checkered sky that bent above our young Confederacy seemed to again stretch forth its hands and stay our army in the very flush of victory, and roll back our hopes into the shadow of despair. A. VOLTAIRE. It is nearly one hundred years since Voltaire died. “Stifled witli roses” by a generation which had come upon the stage long after he had played his part there; a generation which even then was unconsciously preparing to reduce the principles which he had preached into such practice as he had never dreamed of. An hundred years in the grave is to the vast majority of mankind equiva lent to eternal oblivion, so far as this world is concerned; and only a few, very few, of the human race manage to leave enough of good or evil behind them to survive the shocks and storms of a cen tury of progress. Yet Voltaire has ap parently endured the ordeal of time aud change successfully, aud secured a ninefi in the temple of fame—or perhaps we had better call it the temple of noto riety—which will hold him aud his henceforth and forever. For within a comparatively recent period there have been published one or two new editions of his voluminous works, several com plete or partial biographies of him, a number of biographical sketches and es says, and a liberal assortment of able and exhaustive criticisms upon his life and genius. These spontaneous tributes to a personage so long ago vanished in to the unknown prove, if nothing else, that there was some sort of in tellectual validity and value in him which defy death and neg lect, and assert themselves almost as strenuously now as when the strokes of his bitter pen reverbrated throughout Europe. The worms have banquetted on the Voltairean body and swept it into the chaos of invisible par ticles, 'but that odd element which was Voltaire’s soul is his soul to-day, and walks up and down the earth smiling and sneering, and demonstrating its im mortality in a most indubitable and re markable manner. And there are sub stantial reasons for believing that while our planet revolves in infinite space, whirling with it intelligence, tlie deeds and the words of this philosopher, this cynic, this charlatan, this—in some re spects—stupendous humbug, will con tinue to be objects of curious study and more or less ingenious speculation. Say what we please, think what we please of Voltaire, he wa3 an original— nature broke the die which moulded him—and as originals of his style and calibre are scarce, the world cannot af ford to forget that the man once lived and performed some notable things. Voltaire, who professed to hate liars and lying much wor.-e than he did the devil, was himself a liar of the first mag nitude, and carried his lying propensity into the smallest as well as the greatest matters. He could not, or would not, tell the truth in regard to his own age, even when waiting on the slippery side of eighty-two for the coffin which he knew must be close at hand. Not until long after he had departed hence did an industrious antiquary, delving amid the ecclesiastical archives of Paris, discover that Francois Marie Arouet was born in that city November 21, 1694, and duly christened the day following. His father, Francois Arouet, was a respecta ble notary, afterwards treasurer of the Chamber of Accounts ; his mother, Mar guerite D’Aumar, was the descendant of a noble family of Poitou. Neither father nor mother seems to have had the smallest scintillation of the talent which sparkled so brilliantly in their distin guished son; and both being honest, religious people, it is probable they would have strangled him in his cradle had they suspected the character of his subsequent performances. The pater nal progenitor intended the boy to be a lawyer, and he was educated according ly; but parchment, red tape and legal etiquette were not to his liking, and he soon began to dabble in literature with such skill and enthusiasm as clearly manifested his future vocation. He had for god-father a godless abbe, De Chateauneuf by name, who, seeing the metal of the lad, proceeded to introduce him into “the best society” in France— the door-keeper of that society just then being the famous and fragrant Ninon de l’Enclos. This veteran member and venerable ornament of tlie demi-monde had then reached the sedate age of eighty, but she retained much of the beauty and all of the wit which had daz zled and damned so many gallant fel lows fifty years before. Ninon took a decided fancy for young Francois, pat ronized him, encouraged Him, and when she made her exit left him two thousand francs to purchase books. Arouet, senior, was indignant at the useless and dissipated life his son had chosen, and thinking a change of air and scene might benefit his morals, procured his appointment as at tache to the French embassy at the Hague. Here he fell in love with Made moiselle Dunoyer, whose mother, not being pleased with the proposed alliance, had him sent back to Paris again, where he signalized his arrival by writing some political squibs in dogerel verse, which furnished him with free lodgings in the Bastille for eleven months. His sojourn in this historic prison gave him abundant leisure, and he im proved it by composing what was after wards known as Henriade, and also his tragedy CEdipe. The latter was put upon the boards November 18, 1718, and achieved a great success* whieh stimu lated him to further efforts in the same line. Artemise, in 1720, and Mariane, in 1724, did not fare so well, being roundly hissed and banished from the foot-lights domain. But his verses and plays brought him into public notice, and he soon became the pet of Parisian saloons, and so intensely aristocratic that the family name was too plebeian for him. So he changed it—or added to it—that of Voltaire, which he claimed to belong to an estate inherited from his mother. As his mother never had an estate, so far as most patient investiga tion lias yet discovered, it is safe to con clude that his story was an amiable fiction, otherwise termed a polite lie. However, he strutted in his borrowed plumage from that time forth, and ob scure Arouet is hereafter swallowed up and lost in famous Voltaire. In 1725 our hero stumbled into a quar rel with Chevalier de Rohan, who not only insulted him grossly, but refused either to apologize or fight, and capped the climax of outrage by having the un luckj poet soundly oudgellej by hired bullies. Voltaire, with' aching ribs and grievously wounded pride, retired to private life and took lessons in small sword exercise. When he had reached a pitch of proficiency which he thought would enable him to administer to liis enemy a neat dose of cold steel,he again challenged de Rohan, and received as an answer a lettre de cachet, which procured him a second visit to the Bastille. JJe was shortly afterwards released on con dition 6f leaving the kingdom at once, and so betook himself across the chan nel to England, He remained on British son two years ; 1726-28, and during this period familiarized himself with the philosophical systems of Newton aud Locke, and the sceptical systems of Bo lingbroke, Collins, Tyndal, Wollaston, and others. He also published his Henriade, which he dedicated to Queen Caroline, and dispos and of to such ad vantage as to bringiinto his needy pock et about £B,OOO. This sum judiciously invested anu oareiully juftnipulated, i oftentimes in an exceedingly question able manner, was the foundation of his future ample fortune; for Voltaire, un like uou ft&tfcors, knew how to make money and also how to keep it when made. Returning to France he continued his literary work, and added to it another department of a more delicate and in teresting character. We allude to the famous intrigue with Madame du Ghate let. This lady was a female philosopher of no oommon order. Her knowledge of astronomy was extensive and accurate ; she was * well versed in the highest branches of mathematics, ardently de voted to investigations and experiments in natural science—in short, a genuine prodigy in petticoats. Her moral pro clivities were quite as remarkable, though scarcely as commendable, as her intellec tual acquirements. Grown tired of a husband who had grown equally tired of her this eminently French couple lived together on polite but not intimate terms ; Monsieur running after strange gods whenever he chose, and Madame doing—as she pleased. She met Vol taire and was pleased to fall in love with him. The passion was reciprocated, and went from one gradation to another un til, in 1733, they concluded- to retire to Chateau Cirey, the property of M. du Chatelet, and located in Champagne. The owner and husband not only ac quiesced in this cool arrangement, but sanctioned his wife’s emotional eccen tricities by making occasional visits to Cirey and remaining there as long as his presence was agreeable. Here for four teen years Voltaire and his “divine Emilie,” as he was wont to call her, dwelt together untrammelled by the sa craments of the church, and divided their time between the study of New ton’s Principia and the enjoyment of each other’s acquaintance. Fourteen years is a long while for such a woman to be constant to such a man, so it is no matter of surprise that somewhere about 1745-’47, she picked up another lover in the person of one Saint Lambert, and installed him at Cirey ou equal footing with Voltaire. The latter was not al together satisfied with this addition to the family, but finally, making virtue of necesity, shook hands with the new partner in the domestic firm, aud the triangular household moved on without serious jarring. In 1748, death stepped in and removed “the divine Emilie” from her disconsolate husband aud her pair of disconsolate lovers. The be havior and exclamations of Voltaire on this doleful occasion deserve to be reckoned among the curiosities of human nature; lor certainly what some one calls the “combination of the gro tesque and the arabesque” was never more vividly illustrated than by the tears, grimaces and reproaches of the afflicted Francois Marie around the dying bed of his fair and frail inamo rata. Voltaire declared the loss of Madame du Chatelet would surely kill him, but after mature deliberation he concluded to live, for the purpose of “dragging out a miserable existence above the tomb of the divine Emilie.” He went back to Paris, and from theDce was tempted, in 1750, to establish his residence at Berlin. The great Frederick, who, as Macaulay says, ‘ ‘went into battle with a packet of poison in one pocket aud a quire of bad verses in the other,” had long kept up a correspondence with the poet philosopher, and was now delight ed at the prospect of obtaining such a brilliant acquisition to his proverbial ly dull court. Voltaire was made Royal Chamberlain, received the cross of the Order of Merit, an annual pension of 20,000 livres, and house, table and equipage free. For a few months Fritz and Francois got on admirablytogether; then their affection began to cool; then the poet-philosopher commenced to make sport of the King, and the King commenced to make it hot for the poet philosopher, and finally the latter hur ried out of Prussia to avoid being kick ed out. He did, indeed, receive a part ing demonstration a posteriori, in the the shape of a disgraceful arrest and an noying imprisonment at Frankfort: bent at last emerged safe though sore, from the royal clutches, and revenged lnmself by damning Potsdam and its proprietor for the balance of his days. The last twenty years of Voltaire’s life were passed at Ferney, in Switzerland, where a slierwish niece—Madame Denis —kept house for him and nearly drove him mad with her foolish whims aud caprices. He was now the most noted man in Europe, and all of educated Europe, that was able to do so, paid pilgrimages to Ferney and laid their of ferings at the shrine of this bastard demi-god. He built a theatre for the performance of his owu plays, and now and then condescended to take a part himself; he built a church in order to conciliate the Pope, and dedicated it to the Almighty—laughing at the idea as a good joke; he busied himself with innu merable plans and projects of a philan thropic character, and maintained a con tinual warfare with the secular and ec clesiastical powers; he ranged all the batteries of his wit, wisdom, and ele gance against the fortifications of Chris tianity, firing rhetorical shot and shell until the stock of ammunition was ex hausted, and yet making no perceptible breach in the sacred walls—and at last, thinking that death had forgotten him, he yielded to the teasings of Madame Denis, and late in the, Winter of 1778 was trundled eff to Paris. There he was feasted, flattered, crowned at the thea tre, almost worshipped everywhere; lost his breath in the giddy whirl of fash ionable society, ascertained that death had not forgotten him, and with a good deal of ungreatful grumbling gave up the ghost ou the 30th of May. A CALM. BRIEF REVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION OF 1868. Its Leading Points and Animus—Grav ity of the Subject—Not a Mere Ordi nary Occasion for the Correction of Some Special Inconvenience Too Sohter for Abuse—Too Real aud True for Mere Passion or Invective —The More Thoughtfully we Consider it the More Monstrous it Appears in Its Origin and Provisions—lntentionally Wrong in Its Very Anatomy. [From the Washington (Ga.) Gazette^ 1. The plea of “non est factum” ap plies to the whole instrument. Whatever it is—it is not our act and deed. Have we forgotten tho object for which the Convention was called ? Its very object was to defeat our will; to compel Geor gia to become partisan and Radical by changing our organic law in conformity with the views of outsiders, and to fur nish booty to depredators. It was called by military power, and introduced by the reading of general orders from headquarters. A Constitution is intend ed to settle calmly in advance the prop er relations of a people and the means of their preservation. It is supposed to be the result of the quiet reflection of wise men, correcting the evils of the past, and providing against the foreseen dangers of the future. It is carefully considered in advance of the heat of ac tion. Its two leading purposes are, 1. The declaration of rights. 2. The pro vision of means for their maintenance. Os the two, the latter is much the more important. For a Constitution should not only give information as to lights, but organization to preserve and main tain them. It is not so much a lecture as a structure, not a disquisition but an organization, with proper machinery, to secure the ends it has in view. A Constitution, therefore, is properly an instrument intended to define and maintain the relations of a people. These relations are internal and exter nal. The internal relations are those of the departments of tho State govern ment to the people and to each other. The external, those of the State to the other States, and the world at large. This Constitution confounds and misrep resents both, and was intended so to do. In the internal relations established by it, evil and corruption are organized and deep seated in the very structure of the organic law, aud its workings have been according to the intent of the framers. The power of taxation is the power which carries the strongest temptation in its bosom. Does not the whole State groan under the bonds issued in a few years of misrule, and does not the civilized world ring with complaints at the fraudulent issues imposed upon it ? When the standard of suffrage was lowered, a cor responding necessity arose to hedge about legislation with additional restrictions, for there were additional dangers. But the powers were enlarged, not restrict ed. The appointing powers of the Gov ernor was enlarged, and terms of office prolonged. The real object of this was an effort to perpetuate Radical power. The powers ok the General Assembly were increased by a specific grant of power to issue bonds. Tho General As sembly was not only empowered but obliged to embark into the untried ex periment of a system of common schools, which has in Georgia been a failure ex- I cept in cities. i A deeper hold is given Itb.S Legisla ture on the public purse for more ends aud liable to more abuses than when we were richer and their constituency purer than now. The constitution of the Senate secures instability—contrary to the very ideal of what the Senate was to be. This error occurred fn the previous Constitution—hut it was the object of this to see and correct errors. One happy hit occurs, significant of the change of times —our legislators are made liable to arrest for larceny. Os old, the commission of larceny by a leg islator ■fras incredible, and no special provision made. Now, fortunate people, if a' legislator going to or from Atlanta should make free with onr spoons we are provided with remedies. We could hazard a shrewd conjecture as to the author of this astute provision, possess ed of a keener sense of the logical than the ludicrous. He appreciated aright the honesty 91 the new regime. In the establishment of the judiciary occurs the shameful denial of jurisdiction to the Courts in certain matters, by which the Constitution of the United States is flagrantly viglated. It required an ex pert tp devise this dodge. In the ap pointment of Judges hy a oorrupt Exe cutive for a long term, the effort was made to poison the very fountains of justice, for with Bullock qualifications for office were too often a disqualifica tion. But if the internal relations - were misrepresented, much more were the ex ternal. The relations of Georgia to the world and to the other States are right fully defined by the Constitution of the United States. This instrument inten tionally falsifies them. It is false, both to the State and to the United States. Contrary to the Constitution of the United States and the very name of the United States, it represents them as a nation, declares our permanent alle giance due to this nation, and submits the Constitution when made to Congres sional conditions. It violates thus the Constitution of the United States and the truth of history; the fundamental rights of the State and the convictions of her people. It further violates the Constitution of the United States and all the principles of public law and natural morality, in inserting a provision intended to nullify a provision of the Constitution of the United States, viz : that which prohibits any State from passing a law ‘'impairing the obliga tions of contracts.” With pretended loyalty it thus incorporates in the Con stitution of Georgia the nullification, not of some doubtful construction, but of one of the plain express provisions of the Constitution of the United States — then known to be in such violation, and since so decided by the courts. The broadest view of nullification never ex tended half so far, and the object was as dishonest as the means. Georgia was ever loyal to the Constitution of the United States, more so than her oppres sors, foreign or domestic, native or im ported. But our oaths and fealty were ever to the Constitution, not to the rulers who violated it. It remained for this convention to interpolate “the Govern ment.” In a word, neither the defini tion nor the preservation of our true re lations was the subject of the instru ment. Actual wants, actual evils, were not the occasion of the Convention; and if their work was adapted to them, it would be a singular accident. How the clothing it provided for the body politic should fit, they cared not, provided there were holes enough in the pockets. The Constitution of 1861 was passed by as noble an assembly of statesmen as ever dignified and graced so small a State—men we ever delighted to honor and whoso name was legion—for there were giants in those days. Nor did they think constitutions unimportant. The Convention of 1865 (although many of our best citizens had been disfranchised) contained many noble and upright men ; such as Governor Jenkins, Judge Reese, and other citizens of substantial worth, and was presided over by ex-Governor Herschel Y. Johnson. The present Constitution —who made it ? And how came it to be made ? The answers to these questions are ominous of evil. It was passed in our time and hour of darkness. Many of its prepetrators have already lifted like bats and evil birds at the approach of day, and are fugitives from justice. The temporary chairman, whom the evil delighted to honor, was Blodgett, now a fugitive from justice. Bradley lent the As sembly his presence and counsels. The Convention as a part of its pre liminary work requested the removal of Governor Jenkins and the appointment of Bullock as Governor—now also a fu gitive from justice. The year 1867 closed darkly upon the South. It will never be forgotten by those who had any sympathy for a suf fering country. In spite of concessions the people sank deeper into despotism, and in spite of arduous labors, deeper into debt. That same year the odious cotton tax absorbed more than all our profits—or rather was heaped upon our losses. In this dark day it was that the enemies of the State, under the shawdow of bayonets did this deed. By this Constitution the fruits of our labors were made subject to plunder from within as before from without.— Then was our rich State constitutionali ly privileged to endorse railroad bonds, and a mixed Legislature of pepper and salt regarded too good to sit in the old Capitol at Milledgeville. The little question, however, about the seat of government ought to be decided separately, and all other little and local questions kept distinct from real great constitutional points. Since then what plundering have they not had ? They knew their time was short. Even wind seems good in their work was only plausible, not honest. The prolonged tenure of office, for example, was no pro bono publico, but for privato ends. Like the purity of the South Carolina Radi cals," sound it, and you will find corrup tion everywhere. Against all this a handful of good men struggled*! n vain. Such were the workmen. Still, if their handiwork (although not so intended) had happened to suit us, we might adopt it, because we are used to insult as well as injury. But the work, like its authors, was evil. The real evils of the time were considered only to promote them. The tendencies to corruption were fostered. Rings, combinations of capital, corpo rate combinations on a scale formerly unknown, too strong for private resis tance, with wealth enough to bribe and rule. New rat holes were provided, new powers evoked, not like the Barons of old, but an oligarchy, without chivalry or sentiment, fond of lucre, sensual in dulgence and display. These people were not ignorant of the method of mak ing a tricky instrument with plausi- bility enough. Constitution making, with pinchbeck arrangements, has been very common. It is as easy now to .make a good seeming Constitution as an Elgin watch by machinery—the proper inventions and devices are known—the patent levers and the escapements, the stem winders and the 1001 improve ments. The Convention was like an ad venturer who should debauch a family and think it greatly obliged to him for introducing a cute trick or two in the kitchen or household arrangements. He is willing to be accommodating for op portunities of plunder. Indeed, they had plenty of constitutions to go by. They had simply to deface and mutilate the old one for example. To recapitulate this Constitution is wrong in its origin —base born, it shows its lineage. Wrong in its defini tion of our relation to the United States —loyal in pretense and full of badges of fraud and subservience, of mock loy alty to the Federal Government and in sults to the State and people. Equally and intentionally wr< ng in its internal structure. Suffrage, the fountain of pow er, being enlarged, there is no corres ponding check against abuse. On the contrary, the breeching has been weak ened when it should have been strength ened. Taxation, the chief temptation, without proper limitation. Provision made to borrow stealthily from the future that the present might complain less—to spend money on credit. Anew system of education at public expense, made compulsory, when of very doubt ful suitableness to our circumstances. If the Civil Rights bill pass, what a con dition does it leave us in ! Obliged to provide public schools which those who pay for them cannot send to. This one feature were sufficient to war rant a dozen conventions. This Consti tution for the first time negleots any provision for higher education, the sort of provision which has made Virginia largely what she is in the intelligence and virtue of her inhabitants. Light comes from above. Indeed, the Consti tution is what its makers intended it to be—a perversion of our wishes, feelings and interests. It says to usurpation este perpetua. Instead of an instru ment made hy wise representatives on calm consideration of the actual wants and interests of the State, it is less con servative than the first 'impulses of an honest people. The object •of the l builders of this new instrument was not i to make it rat proof, but convenient for j rats, to provide Loiea for them and leave the bin; and larder open. The reasons ; of thoughtful men for desiring change j are quite misunderstood ?.broa<} and mis represented by some at home. These J reasons are the desire for good govern ment and the promotion of public and | private virtue—so intimately connected in a republic—fealty to the Constitution of the United State properly constnndj and the true welfare of the State and : people. Let noue say it is unnecessary to Lave a good Constitution; it was necessary in better times than these. We should dig deep, lay a good foundation and build a sound superstructure. It will not do to count tipon perpetualcalm and sunshine. The rains will come and the tempests blow and beat upon onr house. To such conditions all human structures are ex posed and we must build on that ex pectation. Should any Federal question i arise, how do we stand committed even i now ? Better get letters of dismission from such admissions and such hazards. ! And when we have a good Constitution j not much legislation is needed. With a j good Constitution, a good Code and an i honest judiciary, if we should not see I another Legislature for years, we would ! suffer little. Mighty littlo new law is needed. This is the reason wny, in old Arragon, when universal assent was I necessary, the country was prosperous. The Courts gave protection to person and property and most of the supposed need of legislation was found to be mi aginary. When you build your house leave not too many doors—especially into your vaults. Now, with a stupendous diminu tion of property we have had increased taxation, increased debt and obligations and laxity of restraints. (I refer not to the present Legislature, but the past, and we may have ruch again. ) During a lull of the storm is the time to refit. It may not be. amiss to remem ber the story of the man whose house leaked. In bad weather he thought it a bad time to work on his roof, in good weather, why his roof did not need it, he was getting along very welL This seems to be the best present argument in favor of this present Constitution. Whatever of argument there is in favor of having any Constitution at all is an argument in favor of a good one—rain proof and rat proof, tight and close, and which will serve the purpose when strains and pinches come. Our present condition is precarious, and the work ings of the Constitution show us what can come to pass under it. After all we do not say that we are able now to mend it. It 13 for those who i are well acquainted jwith what is prac ticable to determine this. But we think he is a dull man who does not see these evils and an unpatriotic man who does not desire to remove them. The case is as plain as that it is the interest of the people to get out of a pit—if they can. The real object is to undo our shackles and return to sound principles. What is said of the expenses is of small consequence. It will save many times what it costs. Indeed, 4he number of members need not be considerable. One for each Senatorial District, or four or five for each Congressional District, would suffice probably better than a largenr umber. Such a Convention would not follow the example of ’6B in reckless expense. The whole cost could be made less than the printing bill of the last. If we are strong enough to right this great wrong and to uutell this great falsehood we should do it. Some of the heirs and legatees will, of course, make a great struggle against it. They will endeavor to sustain the will of Bullock, Blodgett k Co.—now departed. If we cannot now accomplish it we should ever have it in view—whenever it may become practicable. Meauwhile, let it be remembered that the rights of the State and people are real and never lost by successful usurpation. "Nellum tern pus occurrit libertati.” There is no proscription against liberty. Conquest confers power, not right—imposes ne cessities of compliance, not obligations. The false statements of the Constitution are without consideration, and therefore a nude pact. In presenting these views I have simply discharged the duty of a citizen on a subject of great public in terest. The matter has been well con sidered, though the expression may need revision. Sam’l Barnett. 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Time Price $66 00 Drayage to Boats or Railroads 1 l)0‘ $66 00- DIAMOND COMPOUND. Cash Price $65 00 Drayage to Boats or Railroad 1 00 /\ $66 00 DIAMOND <A> COMPOUND. Time Price S7O 00 Drayago to Boats or Railroads 1 00 s7l 'OO MANY persons prefer to trade Cotton for Guano; to all such wo guarantee 16 touts V lb. on basis of New York Middlings, delivered in Warehouse hero Ist November next, to the extent of their drafts, yet leaving it optional with them to deliver the cotton or pay their drafts in money on that day. By this arrangement they are seemed whatever cotton may bo worth above 15 cents, but if below 16 then they have the advantage of delivering the cotton at that price. City Acceptance or Satisfactory Security required on all time sales, whether for oash con sideration or cotton consideration, or both. Wo offer albo Chemicals, such as SULPHATES OF AMMONIA, SULPHURIC ACID. MAGNESIA AND POTASH. MURIATE OF POTASH—testing 80 V ot. NITRATES OF POTASH AND SODA, ALSO, PERUVIAN GUANO, LAND PLASTER, Fine GROUND BONE, PRUSSIAN SALT—Fine Ground; SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME, TANKING OR MEAT and BOhK for Corn- Circulars sent ou application. postiug, an equivalent for all chemicals. PRIVATE FORMULAS MADE TO ORDER OF THE BEST INGREDIENTS. Address JAS. T. GARDINER, President, Janll-suweAfriAwSm . AUGUSTA, GA. W. DANIEL. 0. A. ROWLAND. DANIEL & ROWLAND Cotton Factors, Commission f9lcrctoanr,v, And Agents for the celobraled ETIWAN, WANDO, DUG DALE AND COTTON FOOD GUANOS, CORNER JACKSON AND REYNOLDS STREETS, AUGUSTA, OA. Consignments solicited. B^COMMISSION FOR SELLING COTTON, $1 BARRY’S CHEMICAL FERTILIZER.! concentrated, PREPARED BY EDWARD BARRY, M. D. PRACTICAL ANI) AGRICULTURAL CHEMIST. • SOLD BY EDWARD BARRY & CO., 288 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia* TTY HE evidence presented in tiro statements of the respectable and intelligent planters of the surrounding counties will satisfy Southern men that this CONCENTRATED CHEMICAL FERTILIZER may claim to bo equal, if not superior, to any in the market; that being composed of a base of Raw-bone, de composed with Sulphuric Acid, and a combination of Chemicals, it is devoid of the enormous amount of inert matter which all Phosphate Hock preparations must contain ; and that it presents the best guarantee of a large profitable return, as testified to by all who have used it. We refer to our Pamphlets for this evidence, as it is too voluminous for an advertisement. The preparation is varied in composition to meet the condition of the two great classes of our soils. Our C. FERTILIZER adapted to CLAY SOILS ; our G. FERTILIZER adapted to SANDY SOILS. When ordering please say wbioh kind is required. CASH— PRICE will be S6O per Ton. TIME— PRICE will be $65 per Ton. Payable Ist November, 1874. Factors’ Acceptance, or other satisfactory security, will be required on all sales. Please address orders to our office, 288 BROAD STREET, and call for Pamphlets. EDWARD BARRY & CO. jan2e-tuthsa&w3m , * m Oldest Furniture House in % State. PLATT BROTHERS, 212 & 214 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, OA., Keep always ou hand the latest styles of F URN ITU RE Os every variety manufactured, from the lowest to the highest grades. Chamber, Parlor, Dining-Room, AND Library Complete Suits, or Single Pieces, At prices which cannot fail to suit the purchaser. UNDERTAKING In all its branches. METALIC CASES and CASKETS, of various styles and make. Imported Wood Caskets and Cases, of every design and finish. COFFINS and CASKETS, of our own make, in Mahogany, Rosewood and Wal nut. Ah accomplished Undertaker will he in attendance at all hours, day and night. FLATT BROTHERS, 212 and 214 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. oct25 —]»nl4-dt<twlV A, A P er day. Agouts wanted trill If'lil everywhere. Particulars free •Nllf TA *s■'ill a. h - blaik * co., st •A U Hf tiv v Louis, Mo. myU-wiynovS N«vw Warclioumo Firm, A. M. BENSON, W. N. MEKCIEIi, of Auguida, Ga. of Crawfordville, Ga. BENSON & MERCIER, Cotton Factors ANI> General Commission Merchants, No. Jt Warren Block, AUGUSTA, GA. WILL give our personal and undivided at tention to the Storage and SELLING OF COTTON for our friends and the public. With the experience of over tiiirty years in the Cotton Business, all we ask is to give us a trial, and we will guarantee satisfaction. Augusta. Ga., Januaiyjst, 1874. d&wlm W. W. Elliott, Jejjxinos, Smith A Cos. Port Royal, H. C. Augusta, Ga. ’ W. W. ELLIOTT & CO,, Port Royal, S. C., General Receiving & Forwarding Agents AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, « ARE prepared to RECEIVE AND STORE FERTILIZERS on tho most accommo dating terms. Will also reship the*«ame as per instructions. Having just erected a large and commodious warehouse immediately adja cent to the wharf, can handle all shipments with small expense. The patronage of the puhhe is very respect fully solicited. nov23-d&w2m THE EMPIRE COTTON COMPRESS COMPANf HAVE one of their magnificent COTTON COMPRESSES in operation in the city of Port Royal, 8. C., for compressing cotton for foreign shipments. For further information apply to JOHN W. WALLACE ’ President Augusta Ga Or to JOSEPH GHAtfAM ’ Superintendent, Port Royal ’g 0 And to the President and Superintendent Port Royal R. R. Company, Augusta Oa 1 deo27-4m
