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THE NEWS AND HERALD. W IN N&A0OR, 8. 0. RATURDAY . January S, , , "Do. Pt. D7 ' R"AsS nArI, Xnrrow. .rQ. 8. 1IrOLZDS. assOcIAT R"SRn Tim WINNSBOnO MROHANTs are not the only ones who conaplain of the Ox ceesivo and diserliinafing freight charges made by the Charlotte, Coo lumbia and Augusta Railroad Compa ny. The Augusta Neuws of the 31st ult. says: "At a meeting of Augusta narchants, held this morning at the office of Gco. T. Jackson & Co., strong resolutions were drawn up, which will be presented to Council to night, requesting that body to take some action looking toward the C. C. & A. Road reducing f'eight rates at least so far that Augusta merchants may not lose all their busiiuess over the road, and be allowed to compete fairly with other cities. We learn that, instead of reducing rates, as re cently petitioned by Augusta mer chants, the C. C. & A. authorities increascd them. This looks very much like discrimination in reality." From this it seems that the Railroad authori ties are attellpting the same -game Upon. the Augusta merchants that, yersisteutly carried on for a series of years, forced those of Winnsboro to seek protection in the courts. If the policy heretoi're pursued by the man agers of the Road is to continue, the Augusta merchants will find that they can get their rights only by enforcing them in the courts. The Augusta city council has appolinted a committee to investigate the matter. TnE A-PanOrMATION DU. recently passed by the Legislature is a good sample of hurried legislation. The levy for State purposes was fixed by the House at 46 mills. The Senate rarsed this levy to 41 mills, but subse quently receded frot its amendment, leaving the bill as it originally stood. These facts are said to have been prop erly entered upon the margin of the en grossed bill, but the enrolling clerk, by a mistake in copyiig, inserted the Senate aiendment, in the Act. In the haste incident to the last days of the bession, the mistake was not observed, and the Act, as enrolled, was duly ratified and approved. Two other errors have also been discovered. The levy of $3000 in Charleston county, for the Fourth Brigade, was improp erly inserted, and the levy of a special tax in Marion county was inadvertent ly omitted. These mistakes give rise to some apprehensions as to the validi ty of the Act. Tile engrossed bill has iever been ratified, or approved by the Governor; while the enrolled bill has not been read three times In each house. Some think that the entire levy of 41 mills can be made, and the amount in excess of the appropriations carried forward to the next fiscal year. We trust this view may prove correct. it would be very bad to have no legall supp)ly bill--thus necessitating either| an extra session of the Legislature, ori the post ponemnent of tax-collecting tilli late next winter. The Hired Convicts. The letters which we publish in this issue, concerning the cond(l~on of the penitentiary convicts hired to the Greenwood and Augusta Rail road Company, sp~eak fbr themisolves. A great deal has been written, and much mnore said, about the treatment of these convicts. The first publication on the subject was, we believe, the letters of the staff correspondent of the 2.1wsy and CJouarier. Previous to this there had been some grav'e charges mnade, and these letters went far to confirm the impression that (thie con victs had really been very badly treat ed. Then came a lengthy document, termed a defense, f'om the Directors of the ('reenwood and Augusta Rail road-a document which rather evad ed the kssue, and endeavored to throwv blame omn others thani the railroad maanagers. We now have the letter of Colonel Lipscomb the superintend emit, and of Dra. Trezevanit the surgeon, of the penitentiary. These documents do not conasist either of argument or of the statements Qf convicts. They describe things as actually seen by the writers. The st atements of those gen tlemen, made under the sanction of solemna official obligations, more than *confirm all the rumors and newspaper accounts. Col. Lipscomb says that "In one end of the stockade he found imhe sick mIOn chatined on what was intended to be a straw bed, but the -straw was too thin to do much good." He "could not stand the awful stench." Tl e convicts "had no change of clothiug, no shoes, no covering of siny description" that he could see. lHe says that out of 286 convIcts sent * to the Railroad Company from Sep tember 24, 1877, to A pril 7, 1879, in elusive, 114 died--.a mortality of just forty per cent. in less than two years.! Dr. Trezevant confirms the statements of Col. Lipscomb. Speaking of tile hospital (?) ho says: "The English huaguage do008 not possess words suffieintly strong to express the stonch that arose from the plae." Of the ordinary. quarters he says: "The stenoh arising from those quarters was sickening totheouttermost extent." As to the large number of deaths among the convicts ho says that ti snortality "Is sueleclent to prove what their treat. mebit hm ben.".-It is no exaggera tIos to Aaf that the reports. of these o# etfr l confirm thoe wors6 fer ~~t~tqb~d 7 the pu leoon this sube But this committee can only make a report-and this about a year henee. It cannot try, convict and punish the parties guilty of the inhumanities that seem clearly to have been committed. This can only be done by a court. and jury. But courts and juries cannot act of'their own motion. Some one must take steps to have the thets brought before a judicial tribunal. This Is surely 'ot the duty of the Goxernor, and still less can it be ex pected of the Attorney General or the Circuit Solicitor. It is peculiarly the duty of the Directors of the peniten- I tiary to take the matter ii hand. Let them make atlidavits against Captain Cahill and others suspected of cruelty to the coivict-including if necossa ry to a full investigation, all the guardls and overseerr. If the parties are innocent, they cannot suffer. A judicial inquiry can only vindicate their Innocence and their characters. The Directors need certainly feel no hesitation In this matter. If, how ever, they retise to act, then let Col. Lipscomb, the officer in charge of the penitentiary, make the necessary afildavits. Enough has surely been shown to call for a thorough judicial inquiry into the treat ment of the convicts. If no such step be taken, there will cer tainly be ground for soine people to say that the proper authorities connive at conduct which, from the evidence given to the public, seeus to have been worse thanl inhuman. rOLITO.L NOrES. -In the Socialistconvention at Pitts burg, Pa.. on Saturday, a report was adopted recommendin g that the Social Democracy put a candidate in the field for President, in opposition to the can lidates (if the Democratic and RIepub lican parties. -Mr. Blaino says that in fifty-nine years during which annual elections have been held in Maine, there have not been as many fatal defects in the returns as this one -car. The Atlanta Constitution remar s that this shows at what a lively rate the Republicans went about their frauds in 18711. -Tho Democratic members of the Senate Committee of Privileges and Elections have privately decided to re )ort in favor of unseating Senator Kellogg. As, yet there has been no for ial actioni in 111l1 committee, but a pronminent, Democratic member of the commnittee Is authority for the state ment that Mr. Kellogg would undoubt e:11y be out of the Senate before t -e en1d of' February. -A Bayard club was organized in 8t. Louis last week, already numbers several hundred Democrats, includiung proi inent merchants, attorneys ani politicians. The preamble of the con stitution of tbis club urtges upon the Democrats of the Nation the policy of nomuinating Senator Bayard for the Presidency, and, when nominated, of electing him. -Sherman's friends claim that he will have several of the State delega tions fr'om the South in the Republi can Convention, despite anything that the fiends of Grant and other candi dates can do. Mr. Sherman has put into office nearly all of the RepuibIb canis in (lhe South, black and white, who aire most noted for working the politi cal wires. Three, if~ not four, of the ox-colored Congressmon from South Carolina are now in office, and (hey are hard workers for himi. -The latest exp~ressionis of ox-Gov ernor Seymour contained in the Newv Yorik JTmes' interview in regard to his possible nomination for the presidency by the Democrats nlext year, idicate a willingness to accept the nomination, if tendl~eredI to himi with unanhnity. le avoided any declaration to thie effect that lie would not accept (lie noina tion, though heo did say lhe would not be a candidate. This is the positin Gen. Granit is sold to occupy mn irela tion to (lie lRepublican party, anid t his we are presenited with tile possibility that the imim wtho made thie presiden tial race in 1868 wIll once more con front each other, next year. --A Washington dispatch to the Newv York Herald, says twvo gentle men of that city, both 1'epublicans, one a strong friend of Gen. Grant and the other by no means averse t~o his nomi nailim, wvenit over to Philadelphia early 'ast week for the special purpose of as certaining (lie real feeling of' the prom intent Rlepublicans who were to be thmeie, regardling the nonmination of the General. They replort thiat thley were surprised to find a strong utut(1er-cur rent against his nlomination, even among many who are supposed by the country to be uncondItionally for it. Of' these, seome were privately oppos ing (lie idea of bringing Gen. Grant out, on the grounad that It involved real risk to (lhe party on account of (lie uncertaliity of the old Liberal vote, which onice deserted the par'ty because of'Grant. It was found that serious fear's wvere entertained of Ohio by the General's M~ends, based upon (lhe known feeling among tihe Germans and (lie strong opposition among (lie large body of Indtep~endent Rtepublicans of that State agaist a third term. A GERMtAN DZs00VERY.-A German physician who has recently given much attention to the subjects has come to the conclusion that (lie onuly way to preserve peace among the wvomen of a hiousedod when, as in weather like the p resent, they are kept in doors, Is to oblige them to absolute silcec. When womnen are much thrown together their tongues, Ihe says, should remain in a state of perfect qui escence. They may converse with each other, if necessary by means of signs or symbols, but 'sliould on no ac count utter a word. lie has found by experience that this regimen, when strly adhered to, produces the hap - p lest results. In onme or two eases lie la8s actually known feelings of-mutual regard and esteem to arise between women who could not open their mouths previously without disagree able conscquences. Their appetites also Improved In so marked a degree I that they could go on eating lunceon till tea-thie, ,Aan You SICK?-If so, go to your nearest drug aIt or store, and buy* a box of Dr'. ilder's Liver Pills. 'They will cure you. You cgn find them in an st1re. o sale by Dr.W.1. 00,it. st or;}Am not iite the rest who, wyhen they oWe you mon-! e neverthemselvos any mere; a'nahr ynnI.Gly's 'noth Tom miRED CON rxIra. Testimony of Colonel Lipscoinb and D Trezevant an to What they Saw Last Suam mner In the Stockades of the Greenwoo and Augusta Ranilroad--Tho 1orribI Cateas Wlhich Account for the rMortat, of Forty Per Cent. The following are the reports of th superintendent and the surgeon of th State Penitentiary as to the treatme1 of the contvicts leased to the Greet wood and Aigust a Railroad Company which were called for by the Sonat at its recent session, and by that bod ordered to be printed: Report of Superintendent Lipscmonb. Corun1A, S. C., Sept. 2, 1879. To the Chairman and Board of Dj -rectors, S. G. P.: G0E'Nri.i-*mEN-H1aving received a let ter foim Gen. P. 11. Bradle, prCsiden of the Greenwood and Augusta Rail road, statinK that, a great deal of mo tality and ickness existed among th convicts leased to that company, conferred with the chairman of th board, showing him the letter. 11 instructedti me to go over there an make an inspection of -their condition and at my suggestion he instructe me to take Dr. Trezevant, the surgeo: of the institution, with mc, to see wih could be done to ameliorate their coi dition. Dr. Trezovnlut and myself appointe< the morning of the 21st of August t go on the inspection. On the night e the 20th I rcceived the attached not from Dr. Trezevait, saviig he coul not go, and I proccededI by myself oj the morning of the 21st. I met the lIon. A. P. Butler, one o the board of directors, in Augusts (,a., about 11 o'clock the same morn ing. We left immediately for th camp on the South Carolina side, i Edgefleld county, about nineteen o twenty miles distant, which we reach ed about 6 p). m. ITfound in one end of the stockad nine sick men chained on what wa intended to be a straw bed; but th straw was too thin to do much good I could not stand the awful stench an had to direct the guard to unchai them and bring them out in front o the stockade. I found them in a d< p)orable condition, all of them con plaining of venereal diseases, swolle limbs, &c. I then went to the so called hospital, where I found thre sick-two white men and one blac man. They had some straw to li upon and were all chained. Tile were all covered with vermin. anm fleas-so much so that I was forced t leave the room. I don't see howI wits possible for a well man to exist I these places well treated, much loss sick mian with no treatment, or s little that I regarded it as none. The had no change of clothing, no ahoei no covering of iny description that could see. The y reported that the had had no medIcine and no medica treatuient except one dose of paregot Ic In the three days preceding, all their nourishment was fat bacon an bread. I left the camp and proceede to where they were at work on tIl road, about a mile or a mile and a ha distant. I found about seventy-fly men at work on the road, clothed. I the Penitentiary stripe that I had ser to General Bradley about five week before. It was so late that I coul only look at their condition generall an~d postponiethe linspectli until no, morning. I went next morning to where the were at work, called the r-oll and Ii SpeCcted them. 1 fo)und( a great matl of them comnplaining of v'enereal di eases anld swollen limbs, and almo all with scurvy. They were yer dirty in person and clothing-hiavi1 no chanmge; some of them said the had nlot washed for weeks. I saw :) blankets or bed clothaing for them i lie upon or cover with. I heard great anid loud comiplam about the cruel treatmenmt of convic by Capt. J. J1. Cahill and his guard One of them, W. II. McGarvey, N< 3,125, showed Col. Butler and myse5 scars upon his hlead which he 'sai wvere caused by blows from a eth im the hlands of Capt. Cahill, and pe sons5 outside gave the same inform; tion. Capt. Cill11 1 hmsef, in repor inig thiose that were dead, informed mr that thle guard had shot one while I shackles and(1fastened to the gati chain, claiming that h~e was in revol We heard that Cahill had ordered ti guard to shoot him. Tile convicts were generally' in'su< a bad condition that I deeme'di t i imperative duty to send the surgec of this institution to see them. Tihe sIckness and mortality being great, I hecard that some of 'the dire tors of tihe road had resigned and D TI. J. Mcie, their surgeon, 11ad( ca ed to visit the convicts professionall: I was informued that lie had refuse to contimnue to treat the convicts b cause his prescriptions were not fille noer his ordeirs as to treatment all nourishment carried out. I return~ed to Columbia on Saturda: the 213d, an~d sent Dr. Trezovant i make a similar inspection on ti mornling of the 25th as wvill be see by time following order, approved b the chairman of the board, a copy which .1 appenid. His detailed repoi wvill accompany this paper. On 24th September, 1877 they I coived 100 convicts; oni 18th Octobe 1877, they received 8 convicts; on 31: October, 1877, they received 2 cot victs; onl 2d May, 1878, they receive 66 conviets; on 6thl Decem'ber, 1871 they received 40 convicts; on 71 Apr1l, 1879, they received 76 convicth making, in all, 286 convicts. Of th number 18 were returned to the Poen tenltiar'y before I took charge, 88 a caped, 17 were discharged, 7 pardom ed, and up to August let accordin to repor1ts submitted by dapt. Cahli there were 98 deaths. I found wvho I went there thmat 21 had died wh were Iiet reported, the most of thei ini August, making a total of 11 deaths. All of whIch is respectfulily sul mitted. T. J LRPsCOarn Superinitem'ient Rteply of Doeter Tresevant. Col~UMIInA 8. C., Aug. 80, 1879. Col. T. J. Lipscomb, i5utperintenden 8. 0. Penitentiarg, DnA R SIR-In o edience to you and Director ShIelds' instructions, proceeded to Edgetleld counlty to iii spect the condition~ of the convicts a wo)rk on the Grominwood and August Rtailroad. I reached the stockade on Monda afternoon, the 26th, and immediatel roceeded to the said inspectIon. tonilte log pen, which is calle1 the hospItal, three couniete l in~ on shlelt phade of poles uand 0 a:-moar'd andleevered about two 2nches wit str'aw. ,Two of said eenvIotq wer colored And one white. One 'of 4h conviets, Jno. 1ras in thnl at stagspf' exh 9I~i~ad had Oi nomtt Ing but his shackles and a oir , ered with flies. The o'ther colored convict had general dropsy. * * 01 M(Garvey, the white convict, was so y weak and emaclated that lie was una ble to leave the shelf, and the straw was so fill of vermin that I could not D make a satisthtory examination of' 13 him. Tle English language does not t possess words sufficiently strong to express the stench that arose n'omn the place. * The quarters in which the laboring ' convicts are consist of two lo pells, twenty by thirty feet, separated by an alloy way of eight or tenl teet. In this space I found eighteen other convicts lying on the inked earth, their diseases being principally exhaustion and dropisles. Tle same style of sleeping accom miodations prevails in these pens as do mIn the hospital, with the excotUn that oi some of the shelves there is no straw at all, and' from the polished appearance of the clapboards, there has been none since they have been DIocculpled. I saw neither trace nor sign of cov I ering of aiy kind-blanket or aught else. Thle stench arising from theso quarters was sickening to the utter most extent. The cooking is done in six or eight round iron ovens in the open air, the bread which I examined being burnt on top and raw throughout the bil anc. I saw no arrangement for boil fIing, &c. C From the stockade I went to where the convicts were at work, and in Sspected each convict separately. With the exception ofnine, I fouind them all, more or less, infected witl scurvy, and with an eruption which was evi dently caused by the vermin on their persons. There were two who were rso swollen with dropsy of the ex r tremities that I remarked that they ' should have been In the hospital, and was told that they were there on light N work, just to do what they pleased. None of them possessed a change of clothing, and their persons, thou h evidently having beei washed th preceding Sunday, were ofrensive o account of the stench from the filth"1 I:clothing. y IIn conversation with Dr. T. J. Mc Kie, an excellent gentleian as well as a physician, I found that lie had refus ed to attend further on these convicts, as he could be of no possible service 0 under such a condition of things as p 1)rcvailcd; and Mr. Twiggs, the asso c elate en luee of the railroad, with the Geogia ranch, informs me that lie remonstrated thme and again, but to no effeict, and that out of one hundred and ninety-one convicts, on the Georgia side that since the 22d day of May lie 0 has had no sickness whatever. The mortality above is sufficient to prove what their treatment has been. As the cool weather comes on, with the system of the convicts so nnfeebled by their scurvied condition, I am afraid there will be a still greater mor talit.v I fiave the honor to be, with much respect, your obedient servant, G. S. TnEZvANT, M. D, Surgeon Penitentiary. 0 P. 8.-I would respect fully report a sice your inspection that 'Spencer It Bradford had died. Of all the cases 1 Inspected I did not see but one case of 1well :marked-. syphilis. They were Y he ters thijt Iid not see. AUGUSTA, December 30.--Governor ~'Garcelon is engaged at a late hour to night with f'aming a reply to Merrill. He states it will cover all the points ~suggested. When the guns anm an - mniltioni from the arsenal at Bangor arrived to-ni ht there w~as quite a o crowd at the ecpot, but no disturbance. They were taken to the State House. P'ORTL AND, December 3.-The Ad verhaser .says a conference of leading Democrats of Portlanid has agreed that *the Governor and Couneil must be cor' dially sustained; that the first business of the Legislature must be to admit k those elected who have not receive cer .tificates, and tl at these views will be . urgd upon the Democratic State Coin mittee which meets here to-night after the mass meeting. SBANGOR, December 80.-C. B. Mor Ston, of Aunrusta, a member of the Gov ernor's sta , came on the eveninftrauin *with a special order, signed by teAd j utant General, or oerng Lieutenant hColonel White, commnanding the First y Recfinent Mdaine Volunteer Militia, ian Major Melville M. Folsom of the same regiment to rep~ort at the A dju otant General's office In Augusta at 10 o'clock for'enoon of Wednesday, Dc comber 31, by order of the Governor and Commander-In-Chief. Reports are current that agents of *the Governor are secretlye enlisting .men In various p~arts of thle State to d form a military force at Augusta at the dl openilng of the Legislature. AU&IusTA, December 31.--The mill tary officers summoned from Bangor had an Interview wvith the Governor 0to-day In reference to an inquiry con cerning the calling out of the militia companies promuld toe obey teded. jThe officershoulsd to ey he eeed ders of tegovernor as long as lie Is in office. The Goveinor spok in strong lan uage in regard to calling out the In accordance with the su sationa made in the letter of Mr. Moi'u Gov ('rnor Garcelon prepared and sent t ithe Supreme Court this sfenonr tabin qnestions of lawv aovernoo ther sential points of Mr. Morrill's commu nication. No correspondence will be had with Mr. Morr) I, and the ques -tions are not to be made public until received by the Court. Mr. Gould, the Governor's legal adviser, say the constitution authorizes the subm ission only) of qestious of law and not of facts to the Supreme Court. B.A on MN., Jan. 1.-Chief Justice 4Appleton mis summoned all the asso *ate justices of the Supreme Court to assemble in this city: to-morrow to consider the questions propounded by Gov. Garcelon, which were received by this morning's mail. *BosToN, Jan. 1.-.A special from Au gusta to thme UHerald says it nppears tat not a single mnember of the execu-; ttivo councoil ared with the Governor i n his dctarmintlon to-ask the opihdon r Iof the Supreme court on questioiis [ growing out of the recent eleotion. A Agent I will offer for sale on the firs Mdday n Jnua next, be fore the court-I s door In Winsboro, for eash, the following personal properly, to wit: On. bay mare and one bay hors about e arson rniirbillo Iegfvon in fvor fAW lhifford. * 'J011N1 Ait8, S ~'Aent. -Dr.TUTT'S> Expectorant I IN 250T8. AND $1 BOTTLES. Its properties are Demuloont ,Nutr. t vo Ialaamio, uoiothing and Healing. Combining thesqualitii ts most effective LUN B4 AN ever offered to suferers mfr ionar diseases. DR. J. F. HAYWOOD, of New York, voluntarily inderses It. p -READ WHAT HE SAYS - Dr. TUTT: Now Yo. k. mept.. 19,187?. Dear ir-3During this year I wished n:a'e hundre4 mae of lung dseasey. in the lower w %rds of the elty the catses ioeof a very severe t 0o. It was there my attendun was calledtoTutt' apqotorant, udIc nte y surprise at li woner ti power. urg a act of twenty years. i hav never fnown a cedicio to sot as pronptly and with much bAppy efeti ntatly subduedt em snt violenk aL1 oeughingarf ud se a ihh st 5taef ouehln~and Ivarhably cured thu diagase in toedays.e I everf sed tudorse It an the beot lung snois X ever used. J. FRANOIS HAYWOOD, M. D. A NEWSPAPER PUB. WRITES. Uofie '1venin News, Atigusta, Oa. Dr.TUTT: Dear ll-Sy ilt-t son. woe attacked with pneumnoniai last winter, V. (olh left latin with a violent cough that artd til1.. thin a naonth since, for tme ouro of which an Indebted toyour valuable Rpeoterat 1 hanod tried moat eory thing recomn. mnod, but none did any 00 untl I Iused your 15:. pectorant, one bottle of w oh removed the cough entirely. 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Five thousand super 3 Instrumoents from ten leadIng manufactuarers to bo placed in repre scettativye Southern homes at factory rates for in troduct Ion a nd advertisemien t. Sale lnaugu rated Nov. 1, 1818. and~ proving such an m menso success, will be continucd untIl Nov. i, 1880. The only sale of the kind cver sulccesfull.y carried out in A merica. Don't miss t,hls chance to joIn a gigantlo club of five thtousand pur clasmers, each of whomn securcs an Inistrumeont at anrufactu. cr's wholesale rates. INFORMATION TO PURCHASERS. Don't iv. ke thu mIstake of supposIng us to be merely "local agents, selling~ on commission." Underatande and don't forqet it, that EN of the largest manu~tfacturers In America includilng Chiebering & Sons. Mason & Hamilin. Hlallet & Davis. Guild & Church. Mathushek Piano Co. Peloubet & Pelton, Southern Gem Co. storling Organ Co. have appointed us their Southern Wholesale Agents and given us8 exclusIve control of their Instruments for the South. T1haeso mfanufactur era sulpply us, uander special contract, wIth thol's ands of Instruments yearly at only it small per cent, over prime cost of inaanufacture. All advan tnges, gained by our dIrect connectIon with manufacturers and our immense purchases we give directly to purchasers uinder our NE W PLAN OF SELLING. No Agents I No CommissIons!I Instruments '.s.1pc from factory direct to puarchasiers, and all mddle men's profits saved. Every man his own agent and entitled to agont/s rates. Tihe only house South sellIng onl tis new plan. fluyn from us Is practically buyIng from the maanu faturers, and our prices are as low as luauuaoturers over give. See these specIal Pianos Organs S125 7 Oct. Rlosewood 9 Stops. . Landsome Carved legs. Catta- Walnut case, wIth field logue price, *528. ornamentatIon, 8157. S155 7%~ Oct. Rose- 18 Stops. TFhree sets wood, large size. Carv- of reeds Irgo slze, ox.. edl Legs, Serpent ine tended tp Etagereocase Pilth. Cat. rirce $600. of rich design, 871. 8227 7% Oct. Square 113 Stops. Three sets Oland, extra I a r g e reeds, superb MIrror alize and magnIfIcent. Top French Wal'iut. ly ornamented ease. Hurl InlaId and Goeld Catalogue price, $1000 Ornamented Case, S86, All guaranteed Instruments from reliable makers. Sold under six yecare guarantee. Shipped direct from factory or from savannaha, If pre ferred. For ton dolla'rs extra on a piano or tour dollars run an organ, we assihmmo frelight, to any It. It. depot or steamer land-ng South. Senteon 15 days test trial, we pay freight both witys If not satisfattry. Or~for anld tet in your own home. Seyereit tente of competent muslcins Invited, Purchasers choice from ton loading leakers and two hundred different styles. .'pe. clat rates to Teachere, &hioole, Churches andi 74a fore. Send for Introduction Sale Clrculargivinag full InformatIon. Address Laudden a Bates, SAVANNAH, GA. Wholesale Piano anid Organ Dealers. de0 Is ~OfA month guaranteed. $19 a day ' ~Flome made by the industriou8, atal not requhired' we WIll start youM' women, bo ad grls nakco money fasnter al wokfru than et anythig else. Tiho Work Isll8~ n pleasant and s~has &ntb~ can Ibhtlewill snd us their a8dresse an one sa seXo temsee eiot n d Stra s h ie. Tnoe lodyaw k DIP Sides greater than over, which shows the INTRINSIC VALUE and GREAT CIEAPNESS of our goods. SUGENHEIMER & GROESCHEL, bf n 11 witi elo ave money by buying your goods, como and see us beforo bui n elsewhere. de16 AUGUS~TA STORE. FOR THlE OHISMTAS HOLIDAYS! [WILL offer my entire stock at bottom prices, as you will se0 by-"my . nolist Thlis is a r-are oppot iuiity to parties8 in nood of goods. 100 pieces Standard Prints @ 7 eents. All domestic goods at factory prices. Dress Goods commencing at 8 to 10 cents. Something stylish @~ 12 cents. Crepe Cloths reduced to 20 cen1ts. Black Cashmeros to Closo out at cost. Kentucky Jeains at 15, 20. 253, 30, and 33 cents. Something extra im Canton Flannels at 12 cents. L~ook at our $6 and $7 Blankets. 100 Boxes paper Collars at 2} cents. Nutions ini grcat ; ariety. SHOES ! SHOES ! SHLOES ! Three Cases of MIens' Boota @ $2, $2.25 $2.40 nd~ $4. Something fine ini a Standard Screw Boot at $1.00 Ladies and Misses Slhoes in great va riety. Misses' Fine Shoes a specialty. An elegant line of Glass nnd Crockery ware-A big drive. 3. L. MIMNAUGH, de -0 LEADER OF LOW PRICES. NEW GOODS! . E have now open, and will sell as low as any reliable house in town our second supply of Fall and Winter Goods. 1 case Fruit of the Loom Long Cloth.. 25 pieces other brands of Long Cloth. 1 case Bersbrook Jeans. pieces assorted Jeans and Caesiineres. pieeces now style Prints. Dress Goods, Alpacas, Mohairs, Cashimeres. Blankets, white and colored, Flannels, Linsays, Ginghams, Brown Homespuns, Plaid Homespuns, Drillings, Osnaburgs, Bed Ticking, Hick ory Shirting, Cotton Flannels. Comforts, Shawls, Cloaks, Boulevard Skirts. A full supply of white and colored Dress Shirts, Undershirts and Drawers, Bleached, Brown and Colored Half Hose. Clothing and Hats. Overcoats I Overcoats ! I Overcoats 111 For the ladies we have a nice stock of Undervests, Hosiery, Gloves, Ru'ing, Collars and Cuffs, Edgings ank Insertions, Ribbons, &c. The "Pinafore," "Juna," "Pride" and "Beatrice" Corsets. White Goods, such as Nainsooks, Jaconets, Cambrics and Lawns. For house-keepers, we have a full line of Table Damask, Doylieo, Towels, Bleached and Brown Sheetings. Notions in great variety. Ladies' Misses' and Children's Shoes. Men's, Youths' &nd Boys' Boots and Shoes. Trunks, Valises, Satachols, and Umbrellas. In our Grocery Department can be found everything needful at low prices. We cordially invite an inspection of our stook, feeling assured that we a n please. F. ELDER & CO. ,nov4,' THE ELEPHANT HAS COME' -WITH A FRESH STOCK OF FALL ANtD WJINTER GOODS -AT THE WINNSBORO DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, AND MILLINEY BAZAAR. We take pleasure in announcing to our friends and the publlo generall that we re now opening the finestand most com plete assortment of Fa and WhA-r G ',odn, including F:;ncy and Staple Dr Goods, all the latest styles of Millinery, Ladiep' Dress Goods, Fancy Woods and Trimmings -DEALERS INk GROCERIE , CONFECTIONERIES, SHOES, HATS, OLOTING, CROCKERY, TIN and-WOODENVARE, LUMBEB, ETO which will I offered atyeay Io inos asiv~oo we 0 0fl~d to hop Vi 0son fo '0,1411~d ~qfi, ole SEWING~~ Q4H~<'~