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ATLANTA,
Friday Morning. May 17, 1807.
Senator WU»» at Rlentnanscrr.
In the Montgomery if ail of Tuesday last wo
find the following report ol Q kkkiul Clanton’s
reply to Senator Wimon on tho occuakut oi
the latter's vi*it to that oily, where ho saw proper
to challenge discussion upon the “political situa
tion,'' or rather upon tho reconstruction mea
sures of Congress, and their cflect upon the
South. C-'mmonting upon tho discussion, that
patter says: “There is no doubt that hii (General
Clanton’s) speech did great good in placing tho
Republican claim upon tho negro rote in Its true
light. That Wilson’s ancestors were responsible
for slavery; that the Northern States still deny
the negro a vote and tho power to hold Sfflce;
that tire war was never waged by tho Ropubli
cans to free the negro; that Wilson and hie parly
again and again invited tho Honth back with
slavery secured; that tho latter-day home-made
Republicans never thought of giving tho negro
the ballot until recently, and that the Confede
rates (ought for independence and not for slavery,
having again and again expressed their determi
nation to free the negroes rather than submit, to
conquest, were (acts so well put, and hammered
by General Clanton,” that no "wonder the col
ored people fell oil in numbers" from the ranks
ot the Radicals who have been trying to control
them.
We publish the speech of Gkn. Clanton ns a
part of the history ot tho times, and especially
as one of tho incidents attending Senator Wil
son’s Southern .tour throughout the South to in
fluence the negro vote In favor of the party to
which he is attached, and o( which he is recog
nized as one ol its most efficient leaders. And
we do so, too, for the reason that the invitation
which he extended on the occasion of his visit
to tills city to discuss the reconstruction mea
sures of Congress with any of our citizens, was
not accepted, no one of them present being pre
pared at tho time to do so, who entertained op
posing views to those of the Massachusetts Sen
ator.
From tho Montgomery Mall.
SPEECH OF GENERAL JAMES H. CLANTON AT
THE WILSON ELECTIONEERING MEETING.
In view of the excellent remarks made by
General Clanton at the meeting held at tho Capi
tol on Saturday evening, a large number of his
fellow-citizens, both white and colored, addressed
him a note, requesting a copy of his Bpeecli for
publication. In reply to this note, General
Clanton responds as follows, and submits a sketch
of his speech so lar as he was able to recall it:
Montgomery, Ala., May 13,1867.
Gentlemen: Tour communication of this date,
asking for a copy of my speech for publication,
delivered on Saturday night last at our State
Capitol, in reply to Senator Wilson, of Massachu
setts, has been received. My remarks were en
tirely impromptu, and without notes or prepara
tion. I have hurriedly committed to paper the
substance of what I then said, as far as 1 have
been able to recall the same to memory; which
is at your service. Truly yours,
James H. Clanton.
Friend* and Fellow Citium:
I returned from the country a few minutes
since ami was informed that somo colored men
ha4 called at my office to invito me to attend
this meeting. I appreciate this act of kindness,
confidence and friendship on their part. My
colored friends: we are Southern men, born
upon the same soil, live in the same country and
will sleep in the same graveyard, when life’s
troubles are over; and our destiny is the same.
It you prosper, tho white race of the South will
prosper, and if the white race prospers, you
must prosper; and whatever misfortune is visited
upon the South must be borne alike by both
races. It is aliko your duty and iutcrest to culti
vate tho friendliest relations with your neighbors
and ioriner owners, who nre to-day and ever
have been your best friends. For one, I can
proudly say tiiat no one in this assembly can
assert that I ever oppressed him when lie was a
slave. On one occasion 1 fought lor one of you
in these streets. On another, when a white man
hud been waylaid and murdered, and his neigh
bors had assembled, uml taken the law in their
bauds witli the avowed purpose of executing
the two supposed leaders, who wero colored
men, I interposed with others and succeeded in
having them placed in jail and a fair trial given
them. Ouo was convicted nml hung; the other
acquitted and still lives.
Tlie Senator from Massachusetts, who lias
just addressed you, and who lives several thou
sand miles distant has explained to you the ob
ject of his political pilgrimage South. Ho has
challenged any one present to meet him in dis
cussion to night, and has offered to divide time
with any one who would accept. I was born
and raised in the South, and hope to be buried
in Iter soil. I have met the brave men ol the
North on many fields; they outnumbered and
overcame us; and I certainly have no fear of
their politicians. But for my family, life would
have but few charms for me. Neither the fear
of tho gallows, the gibbet, or the bayonet, will
ever cause me to desert my people, forsako this
bright Southern land which gave me birth, or
deter me from the expression of my honest sen
timents under any circumstances. Some young
Southern Uudiculs, who have recently addressed
you, Bay that the Sherman Bill, which they nre
advocating, would disfranchise them, and, hence
their (■thirls were purely unselfish, whilst at the
time their applications to he relieved from the
disabilities ot that mensurenre pending at Wash
ington, and they doubtless expecting to nail on
you for your votes at the next election for this
State.
I will here state my own position briefly on
this point:
I believe Hint bill is unconstitutional—I believe
it i3 oppressive on a certain class of our best
men.
As soon as that bill passed Congress, a high
Federal official with the kindest feelings for me
personally, said to me: “You were not an
original secessionist. Congress will remove your
disabilities under the Sherman hill. You must
send on an application, and I will approve it,
and help you to get it through.’’ 1 replied that
the Republican party had no right under tho
Constitution to disfranchise me, and I would
never ask for relief at their bauds, and that is
my position to-night.
The honorable Senator from Massachusetts
has said some things to-nig'ut which evinces
good feeling on his part, and which l approve,
lie has also said many things from which I must
dissent, uml made many assertions which the
political history, and particularly that ot our
recent unfortunate war, proves to be untrue.
He commences with the history of slavery in
the Soutli Bince lie came upon the stage of
octloD, and endeavors to fix the responsibility
of the existence of that institution upon the
Southern people, with all of its horrors us depic
ted by his vivid imagination. I will carry the
gentleman back to tho starting point oi the
institution on this continent, uud before I tako
my scat I will prove to you that the North is
responsible for tho existence of slavery with
whatever evils attached to it; and I am frank
to sty there were features in slavery which were
wrong.
Many years ago, my friends, before the Uni
ted States had an existence as a nation, your
forefathers inhabited the homes of your race—
Africa. The.Norlhcrn people, wlto were then as
now a commercial people, owning many ships,
Went to the coast ot Africa and bought sonic,
and stole or kidnapped your grundlathcrs and
mothers, placed them in the hold ot tlioir vessels
in great numbers, and in chains took some few
to tiieir Northern homes, uml sent most of them
to lie sold to the Southern people for slaves. In
this work they had valuable co-laborers in the
Eogli&U and - Spanish. Ily this traffic m human
flesh they made large Stuns ot money.
The Southern people, as a general rule, were
opposed to tlie slave Irade, and when the colo
nies threw off tho yoke of Great Britain, the
Southern colonies amongst them, ami one of
the principal reasons which they published to
the work! in justification of their cause, was
that the Mother Country had imposed slavery
and the slave trade upon them against their
-wishes.
When otir Indc|tendence was acknowledged
and we formed a Union ol the colonies, the
South was still opposed to the slave trade, and it
would have been .declared piracy, and half of
your race in Hie United Slates would not have
been 1fere now, hut in Africa; hut the Northern
men engaged in the trade found it to Iki so profita
ble and so entirely free from any conscientious
scruples were they, that they insisted that their
ious operations should continue twenty years
Niger, and the Bouth yielded. These slave
traders invented their money in lands, houses
and oilier proitcrly North, which made many of
their graudcliilAren or great-grandchildren rich;
and some of whom are now leading Republicans.
The slaveholders ot lliu Northern States did
the same thing, in most Instances, by sending
their slaves to Virginia, aud other Southern
Atatcs, and selling them when their slave labor
10!
.. , — r „ r „™_iave driven j
anti the Senator, the descendant oi those men, is
here to-night reminding you of the wrongs you
have received at the hand* of your former own
ers, aud advising you to avoid political alliance*
with your friends and neighbors, and to aeok an
alltanofl with people in distant States, tho Repub
licans of tho North. I repeat, that the conscien
tious scruples of tho North was not seen crop
ping out until they had your race In llmtr pockets,
where they have taken good care to keep you
over since.
There are many good people at the North
who are your friends, and who have never en
gaged in tho slave trade, owned slaves, or ap-
g roved of slavery. Tho samo can bo said of tho
omit, and, If lot alone by the North, that class
would have been much larger in tho South.—
More slave* have been freed by tho act ol their
owners in the South than at tho North. George
Washington owned about one thousand whiclt
he Ireed at his dentil. Mr. Randolph did the
same. General Oglethorpe opposed slavery in
Georgia. There is a man ou this stage wlto
knows that I bad an angry controversy many
years ago, in this city, for endorsing Henry Clays
emancipation scheme for Kentucky. lie was
my political leader; I never kuctv him to do
wrong; but I fear wo will never look upon bis
like again. The gentleman from Massachusetts
says you ought to identify yourselves with tho
radical party at tho North because they have
waded through a bloody war of four years to
set you free, to give you tho right to sit upon
juries, ride on railroads, testify as witnesses
in courts, and much else. I deny every
assertion he lias made on theso points, ana
challcngo him to the proof. He who says
that this war was commenced by the North
to sot you free and confer on you tho rights
which you now enjoy, falsifies the history ol the
country; not intentionally, I hop. The gov
ernment of tho United States during the late
war, ngain and again declared most solemnly
that this war was not commenced or being
waged lor conquest, or with a view of interfer-
iug with our property in slaves in the States.
.Mr. Lincoln urged ns to return to the Union,
pledging tlie Government to receive us most
cordially and give slavery its protection in the
States. We were threatened with emancipation
if we did not come back. In one hand the Gov
ernment oflered us “Union and Slavery”—and
in the other was “ Rebellion and Emancipation."
Having gone to war on principle, the Soutli
chose the latter. No man knowB tills better
titan the honorable Senator. Nor will he or
Gen. Swayne, who is on the stand, deny the as
sertion I am now going to make, that we could
have gone back iu the Union and held you as
our slaves to-day. You are not indebted to the
North or the South for your freedom, but to
God. Instead of abusing us, you ought to’Ye-
member that this rebellion whiclt you are taught
to despise, by your enemies and ours, who only
come amongt^you for your votes, was an instru
ment in the hands ol God for your delivernDce,
so far as mortal eye can divine the putposes of
the Creator.
The Southern people do not envy you your
freedom. They would not restore you to bond-
ngo if they could. They have your weil-being
at heart. I did not fire a gun for slavery. More
than half the Southern army never owned a
slave. Hardee, Cleburne, and many others, sign
ed a petition long before the war closed, ior your
freedom, and to afford you an opportunity to
volunteer and assist your white friends ol the
South in achieving Southern Independence.
President DaviB recommended this course, and
r, in the theater, in this city, endorsed his policy
in tlie presence of a very large assembly, and
staled that I would take pleasure in commanding
colored troops. You acted well your part du
ring that unfortunate strugglo, lor which you de
serve, and have, the gratitude of every Southern
man and woman in our midst.
Tlie gentleman says the Mexican war was
brought on aud advocated by Mr. Calhoun for
the purpose of iucreasing tho area of slavery.
No man ought to know better thun the honored
representative of Massachusetts that the state
ment is untrue. Mr. Cnlhnun, and also Mr. Clay,
the great Southern giants alive at tho time, op
posed the war. Mr. Calhoun was to tlie last tlie
bitterest opponent ot tho war—predicting as lie
did the disastrous results upon tlie pence of tlie
country. Instead of that war being waged for
slavery it was very evident, as the result proved,
that aDy territory adjoining us which could be
acquired, would be free territory. That war gave
to the North, California, Utah and New Mexico.
Though only a boy 1 followed the old flag
through that war, with mofiy thousand good and
true men from my section who only regarded the
National honor of our common cotiulry. Again
as to how you became flee. Tlie North aided to
free you with bayonet and by military proclama
tions only ns they believed it would injure us aud
raise you up a hostile element in our midst; and
seemingly making your welfare a secondary con
sideration. To render thU act ot theirs valid
and constitutional, it was necessary that we
should act. Wo called togetherour Conventions
and without hesitation made you constitutionally
tree forever. Wo also gave you tlie right to tes
tify in cases where you wero interested, und I
advocated, in this State House, your right to tes-
tily in all cases.
You now enjoy many privileges bore, uot en
joyed by your race in Hie Northern States. As
the gentleman has congratulated you upon your
improved condition here, and created still greater
expectations lor your future political and social
relations in the South, let me tell you what great
blessings tlie Nortli has conferred upon your race
even in his own Slate.
First, Until very recently, although your race
at tlie North arc tree, and have tlie advantages
of the free school system of whiclt he boasts, and
few in numbers, yet whilst your numbers rapidly
increased as slaves in tlie hands ol cruel masters
referred to by him, yet with him at tho Nortli
they have diminished, your race have hecu and
ate still excluded from Northern hotels, steam
boat cabins, railroad cars, aud places of amuse
ments. They lmvc been frequently expelled from
such places, and sometimes mobbed for claiming
tlie rights ot white people. And what has been
the result of every eflort on their part to obtain
redress and establish their rights by law. They
have in every instance, (unless it be very recently)
signally failed. The courts of the country were
against them. I saw in Northern newspnpers,
and I believe it to be true, for I have nowhere
seen it contradicted, that about tlie lost ot 1860,
or tho first of tho present year, Frederick Doug
lass, a mulatto of New York, wlto is said to bo a
highly educated and polished man, wlto con
ducts himself with great propriety everywhere,
traveled as far West os Bt. Louis, and was there
and everywhere ou his route refused admission
into tlie first-class hotels of the Nortli and West.
Nearly every Northern State lias discriminated
against them as jurors, witnesses, and heretofore
at the ballot box. They nowhere ut tho Nortli
enjoy, iu fact, all tlie rights of white people, and
in most States Nortii they are by local laws de
nied political equality at tlie present time. One
or more States went so lar as lq deny them set
tlement within their boundaries altogether.
You ltavo been reminded by tlie gentleman of
pecuniary favors conferred; tlie supplies voted
you by his party, and tho Bureau under General
Swayne in Alabama, as another reason why
you should act witli the Republicans. I believe
General 8wayne to he a friend of yours. I be
lieve the gentleman who lias just addressed you
is also a friend, for they have no cause to be
otherwise, hut no better' friend titan I am aim
many other Southern men. Many of us have
been educated by your labor, and I hope I slmll
live long enough to pay you back with compound
interest in promoting education amongst you,
which I tell you is the only hopo of your race.
I requested that General Swayne ho continued
over us, lor although we see tilings from dif
ferent stand points, yet, I believe lie wants to do
right, and I never think less of uuy one for an
honest difierence of opiolon merely.
But however wot thy the motive or tho act on
the part of tlie Government in assisting you
through the Bureau, and for which the Senator,
amongst other reasons, claims your votes for tlie
Republican parly, it is an undeniable fact that
the same parly discriminates against you in the
way of taxes on cotton, and in this way wring
from tho sweat of your brow one huudred dol
lars to every one received by you through this
same Bureau.
With theso facts staring you in the face, which
the honorable Senator will not deny, what is Hie
obvious object ot his visit South t It is this,
my friends. His party is in power, and lie is
here aiding to keep them so. lie is here to form
a political alliance with you and what lew whites
cau he induced to Join him. They want office,
they want spoils, aud they want to retain power.
It ia quite pleasant and profitable to them. It
is not because they love you better thau other
people. 1 warn you against him and all like
him, at home or troin abroad.
What cluim lmve the men iu our own midst
to your confidence, who profess to be radicals
and advise you to Joiu that party T I see several
of them before me uow cn tlie stand. Mr. K
H. Melcalt is one, who, within a few days past,
lias written n letter saying, amongst other Hungs,
that tlie Southern men opposed to tlie organiza
tion to which he belongs have been legislating
since the war to overtax the poor and deprive
tlie negro of his wages. Hu ought to have
known that these slulemeifla wero untrue. He
has lived fiere many years. His brave sons were
In our army, and 1 never heard of liia [laying
any negroes their wages until they weru made
free. 1 have been informed, aud ’ believe that
Mr. Metcalf, wlto is a good man aud citizen, did
not write the,letter referred to.
from Montgomery county, if I am not ml
voted ior a law to enutavo overy iroo n „
tho Btate who did not loavo by a certain time,
and to prevent any more being made tree. Under
tills law Jack Abercomble, his mother and sister,
wont Into slavery. I tried to savothem from
the operations of the law, and failed.
Ilo now claims to be your champion here, and
invites you to Join Ail party. Tho honorable
Senator in his last speech nays I spoke of many
small things which occurred hero which he
nover before heard of. They may be picayuao
to him way up in Massachusetts, but dcoply con
cern us herd. Ho may consider U:o course of our
local Republican loaders hero, tho gentlemen re
ferred (o, as unimportant, and it may be and
doubtless is true, that ho never heard of them
or their political record before. But I hope,
fknator, you will be patient and wait on those
gentlemen. They are young Republicans; like
young birds Just beginning to leather, they havo
tho will and will fly after awhile, and you will
hear front them. For—
"When young converts first begin to sing
Their happy soot Is on tho wing." •
There is still anothor class that for your owu
sake aud humanity's snko I wish most especially
to warn yon against. I mean those mean
wretches, who, without employment or charac
ter at homo, come into our midst and endeavor
stealthily and often at the hour of mid-night to
poison your minds and embitter your hearts
against Hie white race—your neighbors. Any
man, whito or black, who does this to procure
office or through any other motive, is a fiend in
human shape and deserves the execration of
mankiad. It this is persisted in what will be tlie
result ? “A conflict of races of course." From
which God deliver us. 8ee tlie riot which oc-
curod in New Orleans—white men got itup, and
when the danger becama imminent many of
them fled, only a few or their number killed,
but some fifty or sixty unsuspecting Irecdmen
were reported killed.
A mun mean enough to bring about and en
courage such a Btato of affairs,—as a conflict
of races in our steels, when tho hour of danger
arrives, could not be overtaken by tho fastest
cur in our city.
It occurs to me just at this moment that there
is another portion of the honorable Senator’s
last,or second Bpeech, to which I will briefly al
lude. He says 1 havo mentioned some things lie
never before heard. In that he has none the ad
vantage of me, for he has spoken of many
thiugs that he did that I have not heard of be
fore. He boasts of wlmt the Northern army did,
hut I did not know he was with them. It is
only very recently that lie invaded tlie South.
He remiuds me of tho bold frontiersman, wlto,
when tlie bear entered tho cabin door quite un
expectedly, ran up into the loft. The good wife,
having uo means of escape, used the pitchfork
very freely, killing tho hear; tlie husband in tho
loll crying out all the while, at tlie top of his
voice, “ Lay on Nancy! Lay on Nancy.” When
assured that the bear was quite dead, lie de
scended from his safe retreat, walked up to the
side of his wife, aud with the air of a game cock
oxclairaed, “ Nancy, aiut we brave.” The gen
tleman can afford to boast now of what we did.
In conclusion let me say, that you have known
me from my boyhood. I have always done the
best I could for you, and am still your friend.—
Although I have been deprived of citizenship,
yet I love my country and her people, and I will
remain with you. When I took tlie oath to sup
port the Constitution and Union ot tlie States, I
did so after much reflection and in perfect good
faith. I did so with a determination that I
would do all that I could to promote the peace and
prosperity of my whole country, and particularly
your race, who wero and are now so much in
need of instruction. There is a minister (Rev.
Jns. Newman) oi th9 gospel in this city, wlto
knows that during the war and at a time when
the South expected to bo succcssiul, that we
pledged ourself one to tlie other, to give the
energies of our life to the improvement of your
condition. Tilings have since changed, I am
prostrated by the war but I will assist you all I
can, and am doing so now and encouraging
others to do something. My heart was made
glad n few days since when 1 heard that a South
ern man, notwithstanding our impoverished
condition, luid donated a piece oi land in
this city for a school house lor your children,
uud upon which, I learn, the Government
purposes putting up the building. But for the
excitement and prejudice on the question engen
dered by politicians North and South, before tlie
war, your condition would have been better Ilian
it is. I believe you will bear mo out in the asser
tion that your former Southern owners treated
you quite as well as the Northern men did, be
fore they sold you to us, and as well as those wlto
settled in our midst and owned slaves before the
war. Your own observation and experience
teaches you that the latter class, whether from
Massachusetts or any other New England State,
were as a geueral rule more exacting titan our
own Southern-born people.
My lather hired out slaves for many years for
nr< estate, and told me, what I knew to lie true,
tlmt those Blnves never did refuse to live witli or
run away from any hut two men, and one ot
those was from Connecticut and tho other from
some other Northern State. When you return
to your homes, he industrious, sober, and econom
ical, save your wages, and buy and adorn your
homes however small, educate your children,
cultivate peace with all, and God will bless and
reward your efforts. 1 llmnk you for the respect
ful attention you have given nic.
Public Meetings.—Tito Examiner, Aberdeen,
Mississippi, is down on holding public meetings
ut this time lor the discussion oi matters per
taining to politics. It says, with much force, as
we think:
We are opposed to these public gatherings at
tho present time. We are opposed to them be
cause we think that the hour is for earnest
thought, and uot for debate; the hour is for study
and argus eyed scrutiny of the political horizon,
and not lor windy anil excited Imrraugues. We
arc opposed to them because starvation stares
our people in tlie face; because there is no corn
in our cribs; because corn is one dollur and ten
cents a bushel in 8u Louis, the Egypt of the
laud, und is still advancing, and because the
seaSbn has thus lar been unpropitious, and
thought and labor should not he diverted from
tlie fields. We are opposed to them because wo
believe that at Hie present moment the most per
fect amity exists among all classes of our citizens,
and will exist until crimination and recrimina
tion from the rostrum divides them.
Let dignity prevail. No matter what a man’s
views or polities may be or may have been, there
can be no necessity lor his crawliug on his belly
and eating dirt; nothing cun hegaiued by it.—
Baseness wields no influence, hut manliness
moves tlie mob and leavens tlie mass. If you
lmve concessions to make, rnuko them grucelully;
admit tho necessity, yield to it if you will, butdo
not sltow your contempt for God’s laws and the
intelligence of those wlto know you, by profess
ing love for tlie task that necessity assigns you.
Marriages Among the Priests and Nuns
in Italy.—A largo number of monks and
priests in Italy have taken advantage of tlie
new privileges conferred upon them by the
new law lor civil marriages, and have rushed
into wedlock with unexpected alacrity. Even
the nuns have caught the infection, and the
mntrimonnl mania threatens to complete tlie
abolition ol the convents begun by the civil
law. Human nature appears to he a good deal
stronger than the most rigid of monastic vows.
Progress of trf Age.— 1 The following*we
suppose will he put down as evidence oi our
advanced civilization :
“A limn recently tried in Muene was convicted
and fined $10, lor selling a glass of sweet cider;
and this, it is said, establishes tlie constitutionali
ty of tlie law in tlmt State that cider is as con
traband as whisky or ale. Due of the whole
sale liquor dealers, in Boston, 1ms been notified
to cease sales on and alter the 15th instauL”
During our recent visit to Atlanta, we were
humiliated to see men of whom we had ex
pected belter tilings, bowing and smiling aud
cringing, and ready to promise anything, to gain
au intatview with Oen. Pope. While we re
spect and shall reverence Gen. Pppe as our
ruler, Ac.—Georgia News.
' Don’t “reverence” him at all. He is a gentlo-
nmn, hut not a particularly reverend one. If
you obey him where you must, it will he
enough.—Prentice.
Crop Prospects for 1887.—The New Y’ork
Commercial publishes upward of two columns
of reports on crop prospects, comprising oue
hundred and ten accounts, Irom different lo
calities, North aud South, all of which,’ with
four or five exceptions, unite in representing Hie
prospect as being most encouraging ior both
cereals and fruits.
British Accuracy.—A writer in tlie lust num
ber ol B'ackwood upon “ Manhood Sufirugc,
und Ilia Ballot in America," makes tho marvel
ous statement tlmt “ General Jackson owed his
elevation to bis having fought the British at
New Orleans, and to having served with distinc
tion in the war against Mexico l"
Judge King,id bis report, says:
Tho amount of expenditures tor these objects,
(renewal of ona hundred and seven tulle* ot the
road, new bridges, new cars, engines, tools, etc.,)
may he seen in detail elsewhere, and they have
been made and paid without the use oi credit,
and without any IncreMc of debt. On the con
trary, the debt of the company has been largely
reduced. In tills connection, wo may briefly re
fer to the second principal demand upon the
Treasury, to account for tlie profits or the last
two years;
In May, 1HSS, the Bonded Debt was $ 554,MX)
At tits sains period the flank Circulation waa.. till,SOI
Bondannd Circulation 11,100,401
On the Slat of March, 1807, tho flooded
. Dohtwaa... ,7J< $886,000
On the dlat of Match, 18U7, the Ctrcaln-
tlou wae i 7... Vfc.OOB—6T1,095
Reduction of Debt alnce May, 1865 $ 635,806
Thus it will bo Been that whilst tho bonded
debt has been increased only $131,500, the cir
culation has been reduced $756,80(1, making au
aggregate reduction oi debt of $025,800. us ahnyo
stated. This, too, is omitting any notice of do-
posits, tho coupons on whiclt wero Held hack
during tho war. It may ho proper here to state,
that the compauy has declined to issue any bonds,
except in renqwal, and to fund the bank circula
tion. Tills circulation beiug a largo and imme
diate demand, has been very embarrassing to
the company in its crippled condition. It will
be seen Hint it is reduced to n small amount. It
now comes in slowly, and will not, it is hoped,
hereafter very materially interfere with the finan
cial policy ot the company.
Congress—A Washington letter says tlie
laws of Congress having in view political ob
jects of importance to the radical party, cannot
be completely or satisfactorily executed in the
cramped condition of tho Treasury. The appro
priations of tlie Thirty-Ninth Congress exceed
so far the promised revenue, that the expendi
tures demanded cannot be made.
Tho radical leaders, therefore, have determined
that the radical members of tlie Fortieth Con
gress shall be summoned, by their general Com-
mitteo and all their organizations, to be present
and lorm a quorum of both Houses on tlie 5th of
July. At tho caucus then to be held, it will bo
determined what measures slmll bo taken.
The Secretary of tlie Treasury must bo au
thorized to increase the debt, in order to pay tlie
soldiers’ bounty and find money for other radical
necessities. A loan must he caiiod for. Besides
this, tho radicals now distrusting their success at
the next Presidential election, must pass an addi
tional bounty aid to secure soldiers’ votes.
Tiie Military at Richmond.—Tlie Times, of
Monday, saj’s r On and after to-day detachments
of United Stutes troops will he distributed
throughout the city, and in case of riots, will be
immediately marched to the scene, and all riot
ers dispersed at the point of the bayonet. If ne
cessary, the whole available military lorce in this
vicinity, infantry, artillery, and cavalry, and also
the city police, will be brought into requisition
In case of a riot,'the citizens nre requested to re
main at home and let the military and police at
lend to tlie rioters, as crowds on the streets will
only embarrass them.
Arrest of North Carolina Bank Offi
cers.—W. B. March, President of the Bank of
Lexington, North Carolina, and E. D. Hampton
one ot Hie Directors, were faked to Salisbury
Tuesday, by order of General Sickles, under
charge of embezzling tlie specie of tho bank
about the timo ot the surrender. The complaint
Is made by J. W. Thomas, and others. The par
ties have had a hearing, and tlie evidence lias
been forwarded to General Sickles. The accus
ed will remnin in charge of the military until
the General is heard from
Kicked Out.—The Richmond Examiner, of
Monday, says: On Saturday afternoon a negro
man, notwithstanding the warning they lmve
had that they could not ride iu tlie ladies’ cars,
got aboard of oue of them near tho Old Market,
for tho purpose of riding up Main street. The
conductor told him he must get off. He refused
to do so, when a soldier who was in the car led
him to the platform and very unceremoniously
kicked him off, and launched him iu tlie gutter.
It would not he a bad idea to pul a soldier on
each car with a white bail
North Alabama.—Monday they had a lit-
sion meeting ol whites and blacks at Huntsville,
to select delegates to tlie Union Republican
State Convention. The Independent says: "For
much of Hie time it was a perfect pandemonium
of discord and turbulence.” Even the President
was disgusted, and vacated his seat. Ultimately
the white people gave up Hie meeting to tlie
blacks.
Superior Court of Chatham.—The grand
jury of Chatham county has iound truo hills
against tlie following parties: Stale vs. Smart
Black, Alfred Stafford, Billy Reiliy, Donter Mc
Donald, and Samuel Fields, nil persons of color,
charged witli murder.
State vs. William R. Hopkins, charged with
murder.
Stale vs. Levis May, charged witli perjury.
Heavy Bail.—A man named Clark, who lms
been on trial at Savannah, before Commissioner
Stone, on a charge of piracy in having kidnap
ped a negro at Nassau, New Providence, and
sold him into slavery, lias been held to bail in
the sum of ten thousand dollars tor his appear
ance at the next term of the United States
Court.
The Wolf on the Walk.—Tho Kiowas are
on the war path, having broken the treaty re
cently made with General Hancock. They de
clare for war to tho kittle. General Aancock
sent word to them Y'ou shall have-war until
every warrior cries stop!" Troops uud supplies
are daily goiug forward.
Alasi—A New York papersays: Rev. James
Belclterdied a few days ago ut Blackwell’s Island,
in tlie alms house, of delirium tremens. Mr.
Belcher, seven years ago, was the pastor ot tho
Baldwin Place Baptist Church, Boston, where lie
succeeded such men as Dr. Baldwin, Rev. J. D.
Knowles, and Rev. Dr. Stow.
Death of a United States Officer.—Cap
tain James Y. Semple, ol the 15th Regulars, who
was accidentally wounded at Fort Gaines somo
weeks ago, died at Mobile on Hie 13th, from the
effects ol tlie wound. His remains were forward
ed to Newport, Ky.
Dried.—The only Radical paper published in
Mississippi, the Vicksburg Weekly JlepuUican,
has dried up aud quit for want of material aid
from those who had promised to sustain it. There
are a few more of the same sort in the South,
which will probnhly meet witli a similar fate.
,Tiie Effect,—It is asserted in some of tlie
papers that since the right to rido in the street
ears Lt Richmond, was extended to tho blacks,
tlie receipts of the company ltavo fallen oil fifty
per cent.
Chihuahua.—It is said that teu thousand
armed Americans will soon begin to work the
mines in Chihuahua, under the arrangement
between the United States Government aud
that u( Juarez.
Revoked.—The Richmond papers of Monday
state that General Schofield had revoked the or
der ot General Wilcox, prohibiting the lecture ol
Mr. H. Rives Pollard, iu Lyuchbnrg.
New Bisuop of Florida.—The Rev. Doc
tor Young, of New Y'ork, has been elected to
the Episcopal Bishopric made vneant by the
death of Bishop Rutledge.
Not Truk.—The statement published that
the New Orleans Crescent hud been sold to the
Radicals. Its columns furnish evidence daily to
the contrary.
Arrested.—A man named Gillespie was ar
rested at Snrunnah a few days ago for hiring out
negroes without a license.
new yore associated press map a. tours
• ” 8,
(Hfotal to Iff* bmuMmctn no» Niw York. |
Ponllaln ra. Cnmmlo«<,
- We have received tho following epecial dis
patch from New York, dated yesterday after
noon E». INT,
“The Court has decided to-day that there was
no cause of action, or for tho arrest of James F.
Cummings, lata Confederate Commissary, on tho
part of Poullaln; t(ie latter was taxed, therefore,
with all costs, and suit dismissed.”
The Opinion of the Attorney General.
Washington, May 10.—It is expected Mr.
Stanbery’s opinion on the Reconstruction acts
will bo ready for promulgation this week. All
tho points have been decided and approved by
tho President and Cabinet Tho t utmost pdids
havo been taken to render clear the various
branches of tho acts. Tho preparation Of the
document has involved an examination pf the
laws of tlie Southern States, in order to Under
stand what classes are affected, and to furnish a
guide by which tho law may be carried into ef
fect will) tho least possible embarrassment
Vote In Supreme Court.
Washington, May 16.—The vote in tlie Su
preme Court, stood four to four. Names of
voters not transpired.
Washington matters.
Washington, May 10.—Elliot C. Condin,
silk merchant of New York, has been appointed
Commissioner to the Paris Exposition.
Advices at headquarters contradict tho cap
ture of the steamer Minor, and the massacre of
of the passengers and crew.
The custom receipts from the 1st to 11th of
May are $-5,117,000.
The Supreme Court, in the case of the State
of Texas vs. White and others, to prevent the
sale of certain Texas indemnity bonds. Injunc
tion granted, with leave to defendants to move
to dissolve injunction at next term.
The Mississippi amended bill was dismissed
for want of jurisdiction. This action closed Hie
injunction proceedings now before the court.—
After promulgating certain rules, forms, and pro
ceedings iu bankruptcy, court adjourned to De
cember.
Land officer’s report from Mississippi shows
the entry of 150 farms, covering 8,900 acres, du
ring April.
John W. Stokes has bccu appointed Chief
Clerk of Agricultural Department.
Tlie8teamerSwatora was at Lisbon April 20th.
All well.
The Frenclt Government lias bought the ram
Dunderburg, at 3,000,000 francs.
Revenue receipts to-day, $295,000.
A circular front General Howard states that
reports sltow an increase of intemperance among
the negroes.
James II. S. Schuerman, negro messenger in
flto Comptroller's Office, lias been arrested,
charged with lorgcry and larceny of $12,000,
from the First National Bank of Jersey City, and
a lot of stationery from the Comptroller’s Office.
more Negro Riot*.
New Orleans, May 10.—Considerable dis
turbance among Hie negro stevedores on the
lcveo to-day, amounting almost to a riot. Two
policemen badly injured iu endeavoring to save
a negro from a mob of his own color. The mill
tary ordered out and police. The following is a
paragraph from the order of General Mower to
day :
“The United States Government, if necessary,
will protect you through the military, but you
will not ho protected in wrong doing.”
At a meeting in Galveston yesterday, the ne
gro speaker drawing offensive comparisons be
tween tho races, was interrupted by United
States soldiers. Indiscriminate shooting com
menced, a majority of the negroes appearing to
b(T armed.
miscellaneous Heins.
New Y’ork, May 16.—Fire ia Forty-nine
South street. Loss $100,000. Among the suf
ferers is Howland & Aspinwall, to $30,000. Fully
insured.
Abruhain McFarland, over 20years connected
with the Commercial 10 Advertiser, died.
The third teller of tlie Central Bauk lias de
faulted for $00,000. His bondmen and securities
make tine bank whole.
rnr. Davis at New York.
New Y'ork, May 16.—Mr. Davis stopped at
the New Y'ork Hotel. Judge Russell, Bun
Wood, and others called on Mr. Davis. Mr. Da
vis avoids attracting public attention, and de
clines to communicate with reporters.
Mr. Davis En Route for Canada.
New Y'ork, May 10.—Mr. Davis and family
arrived at midnight, and leave to-day lor Can
ada.
Tragedy at Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, May 10.—James Pcvier cut
his female cousin’s and own throat. No cause
assigned. Botli alive, hut iu a critical contli
lion.
Liquor House Horned.
Norfolk, May 10.—Dobson & Rained’s
Liquor House burned this morning. Insurance
on building and stock $21,000.
Democratic Victory In Pennsylvania.
Williamsport, May 10.—Logan, Democrat,
elected Mayor by 78 majority.
The following dispatch appears iu tho Augusta
Chronicle <t Sentinel ot yesterday :
Mobile, May 14, p. nt.—The Mayor und Coun
cil of Seluia, Alabama, were removed to-day by
order of Gen. Swayne, and new officers were in
stalled, appointed by him.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
itr TKLhoitAPn.
New York market.
New Y’ork, May 10.—Flour 10 to 15 cents
lower. YVlieat 2 cents lower. Corn 3 to 4 cents
belter. Pork firm ; New Mess, $28 18 to 23 20.
Lard quiet. Whisky linn. Cotton firm, at 28)
to 29 for Middling Uplands. Freights quiet.
[irnnxa.l
New Y’ork, .May 10.—Cotton firm. Sales,
1,000 hales, at 28) to 20. Flour dull. Slate, $11
to $14 30; Boutheru mixed to good, $13 00 to
$10; fancy and extra, $15 20 to $18 50. Corn
active. Mixed YVestern, $1 20 to $1 31; old,
$1 22 to $1 23. New provisions quiet and
steady. Mess pork $23 75. Rice firm; Caroli
na 11) to 12). Sugar firm. Cotfeo firm. Mo
lasses Bteady. Naval stores quiet. Turpentine
53 to 54. Rosin unchanged. Freights firm.
New York Stock and money market.
New Y'ork, .May 10.—Gold, 37*. Exchange,
00 days, 9) to 10; Sight, 10). Coupons oi 1802,
109). Virginia Sixes, 04 to 07. Missouri
Sixes, 07.
IXYXxota.]
New Y’ork, May 18.—Coupons of 1862, 100};
1804, 105}; 1805, 100} ; new issue, 108, Ten-
forties, 99}; seven-thirties, first series, 100};
others, 105}.
Baltimore market.
Baltimore, ilay 10.—Cotton linn. Middling
Uplands 28. Rio Coffee dull and nominally un
changed. Flour dull, market favor buyers.-—
Corn firmer with improved demand. Whito
$1 10 to $1 13, large sales. Western Mixed $1 02
to $1 04; mostly at $1 04. Provisions steady,
quiet, and unchanged. Sugar steady. \Yhtsky,
Western 30; Country 20.
Savauuati market.
Savannah, May 18.—Cottou quiet but firm.
Middling 28). Sales 250 hales., Receipts 370
hales. Receipts ot week 1,888. Exports 8 075
Slock 14,138.
SCarket.
■ Orleans, May 10.—Cottou sales to-day
2,900 bales, with firm market. Low Middlings,
25 to 28. Receipts, 784. Exports, 1,404 Fair
sugar, 12; choice, 13} to 13}; white, 14) to 15.
Pritno molasses, 72. Louisiana flour drooping,
and duil tor lower grades; choice firm; super-
fltie, $18; choice extra, $19) to 19}. Corn very
dull, aud further deciino of 5 cents; yellow mix
ed, 80 to 88; white, 85. Oats firm, at 90 to 92).
Prime Western hay, $35. Pork very dull and
no sales; held at $24). Lard, firm, at 13} to 14}
Bacon In good demand; shoulders, 9}; ribbed
sides, 12; clear sides, 13}. Gold, 80). Sterling,
40 to 49); Y'ork Sight, at par.
Cincinnati market
Cincinnati, May 10.—Flour dull. Com
firmer, sacks $1 08. Whisky 30. Provisions
unchanged. Bacon, shoulders 9; clear sides 12.
Mess Pork $22 50. Lard 12f.
August* market.
Augusta, May 10.—Cotton quiet and Bteady.
Sales 100 bales. Strict Middling 25. Receipts
60 bales.
Charleston market.
Charleston, May 16.—Cotton firmer. Mid
dlings, 27 to 27}. Sales, 120 hales. Receipts,
310 bales.
•St. I.ouls market.
St. Louts, May 16.—Corn advauced 3 cents.
Bacon active. Clear sides 12} to 12}. Shoul
ders 8} to 9.
Foreign markets.
[bt the cable i.ine.1
London, May 10.—Noon.—Consols, 92 8-10.
Bonds, 72|,
Liverpool, May 10.—Noon.—Cotton quiet,
and a shade easier. Sales, 10,000 hales. Mid
dling Uplands, 11} to 11); Orlenns, 11}.
Liverpool, May 10—2 p. m.—Colton become
more active. It is now estimated tlie sales will
reach 15,000 hales.
HYMENEAL.
VAN EPPS—COOPER—Married, In LaQrang*, Ga,
on the 16th Inmant, by liev. E. W. Speer, Mr. A. C. Van
Epps, of Atlanta, to Mias Julia C. Cooper, of LaGrange,
Georgia. maytT-lt.i
N"ew Advertisements.
HOARDERS WANTED,
npWO or three Gentlemen can be accommodated with
X. Board aud Lodging, by calling at tho two-story
brick house on Collins street, opposite Medical College.
tnay!7—3t H. L. WILLIAMS.
C. W. ADAER, Auctioneer.
THE MORRISON PROPERTY,
WILL aell on THURSDAY NEXT, tho 23d tnatant,
at 8 o clock In the afternoon, the remainder of the
Lotflot theMurriBOn Property, near to and opposite the
"'""“IS Mill, on Marietta street. The plat ts in my
G. W. ADAIR,
. Real Estate Agent,
W httehall Street, near the Railroad Crossing.
iv17—at ®
«roo HOUSE.
f WILL sell a House and Lot on Butler street, near
- Houston, for $700.
The lot Is 60 by 160, ia well Inclosed, and a good gar
den apot. s
hite k° UB0 k® 8 two rooma, stack chimney, and painted
G. W. ADAIR,
_ _ «v.. , Real Estate Broker,
Offlco W hitehall Street, near tho Railroad.
inay!7—6t
F O It
HALE,
6000 BUflUELS CORN,
100 bushels Irtah Potatoes—In sacks,
500 ponnds Lard,
1500 ponuda Fresh Tcnnossee Butter-
20 eta. per ponnd,
000 BackB fresh Virginia Salt.
Jnat received and for Bale hy
... m »yl7—It II. T. COX & BRO.
safe and cheap
INSURANCE!
JParticIpatlnif Polieiosi I
Customers may Receive Threo-Konrtha of tho ProfltB
without Incurrlng any Liability t „
Capital, all Paid in $350,000
THE GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE GO.,
OF COLUMBUS, OEOROIA,
N OW offers to Ita customers tlie advantage of insuring
at Homo, liberal settlements and prompt payments.
thereby combining the security ot'ample cilpItaiTna
stock compauy, with the hcneOtB of tho mutual feature.
,losses resulting from tlie war make It the
JwjjJP. t, what remalna. No one should now
Killer hi* dwellini
when he can arul
fered. Apply to
mur22—
Atlanta, Ga.
Just Ueeeived.
1000 BAGS GOOD WHITE CORN,
160 bags Choico Family Flour,
10 casks Bacon—Sides and Shoulders,
150 bales Prime Timothy Hay,
25 barrels N O. Molasses, ’
Sugar, Coffee, Candles, Candy, Ac.
10 bales 8 oz. Osnahurgs,
20 bides Cotton Yarns-assorted Numbers.
Cash orders solicited by
CLAYTON A ADAIR,
WHEAT THRASHERS !
1 7HE season for getting out Wheat Is drawing near,
and we Invite the attentiun of Fanners of tho sur
rounding cunutry to tho celebrated Thrasher manufac-
tured by-MEssna. HALL, MOON & MILLER, Louisville
!&• Ilorae-l-ower and Thrasher complete, ready
ror hpo, I*#), aboard the car* at LouIbvIHo
Address
I’ltATTK, EDWARDS & CO.,
wrosimn O*. . „ 8o]e Agent*, Atlanta, Ga,
« a i’ Reporter, Rome Courier,
ate copy one month,
t’o- may II— lm
CHEAP FLOUR.
PIVK HUNDRED UARRKLN and 3UU half sack. Flour
,77,u, m i b ,° * uld 1 st , 0 " ,, d " llur l”' r h,,rr '' 1 k-ss Hum it can
f’’ Jw dchvered from any market tu the West I am
tnearneat, and wonld request merchants to give me a
A. K. SKAGO,
Commissi n Merchant,
Corner Forsyth and Mitchell streets,
■ Atlanta, Ga.
Dalton Time*, and Marietta* Ad....« lv
aud send bill to Pratte, Edwards it r«.
J 1ST A1KIMVKD.
tlRKSII COUNTRY BUTTER*
X i,wvi FHK-jU TENNESSEE BUTTER,
1000 pound* Uorlicu Butter
100 pound* Dried Venleou Ilam
WIIOI.E8AI.K AND
HRTau
Immense Attraetio,
’Hi!
Cheapest Goods of the Seasoo
CA.sn n UrjJKs
Arc invited to call at once and
flecur* »Ka v-.
GOODS at the LOWEST PRicg,,
ALL GOODS MARKED IN Pc A l.y
font
ONE PRICE ONLY;
Prices Guaranteed to Cerreipond
Just arrived, aud uttered cheap by wholeaalo
' *OHf
retail,
inayld—Iw
JOHNSON A EOliOLb’,
Whitehall Street,
OLIVER & WODDAIL,
Warehouse and Commission Merchants,
COllNKIi ALABAMA AND FORBYTI1 HTRKBTH,
EWConsignments respoctlully solicited. Quick sites
and prompt returns guaranteed. let,22—8m
NOTICE,
A NY and all perauua having Individual uccounts
against the nudendgned are rcqueaied to preiiuut
Uimn at ouce lor Immediate payment, to L. J. Gartrell,
— 81 „ , *’• COBRA.
New Era copy, and present bill to this offlee at
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.' 5?
fllHK cn-partnership heretofore existing under tlie Arm
X name aud style uf F. CoKUA * CO. was mutually
dies,,lved on tho 4ih tnetaut. Alt uccouuts iu favor of or
agaiust the late Arm will be settled by L. b'uive
K COKRA,
“Ml* -81 - , L D'OfVK.
I3FNew Era copy and present bill to this offlee.
WM. Iu. HKN8LKH,
PROFESSOR OF MUSIC
ATLANTA, UKOHGIA.
Orders may bo left with II. Braumnller, Whitehall
,<!et - sepk-ly
whisky;
1 OO RYE and CORN WHISKY. Just
A vV received and for sale by
MEADOR A BROS..
' Commission Merchants,
— Alabama Street
HBCBIVKD THIS DAY,
O N consignment, for Bale, eight boxes of Medium
grades or TOBACCO, at very low figures.
»,,,^L 1 , 000 of very eupertorbCUKWHKAT
FLOUR, in sacks.
navis
FLOODING.
S IX THOUSAND FEET Prime Dreed Klln-Drled
Flooring, Tongaed aud Grooved.
KING. HARDKg * CO.
NOW IN STORE.
10,000 BURLAP 8ACKH. Scud In your or
re br.-ivr.
LANGSTON, CJUNE A HAMMOCK,
Alabama Street.
JOHN M. GANNOU,
Corner Whitehall and Hunter Str,
JJESPECTFULLY informs hie ftiradeind tk^J
that hie Stock ia now complete In every denart m «,
that he will, on
Monday, May I3f hj
hie goods at price, to correspoM-
tho times. All conanmer, of Dry Good, mu-
their interests by examining this splendid stock’
purchasing elsewhere.
GREAT BARGAINS will be olte-ed toCh II,»
for tho next thirty days, in order to reduce the
stock, ao ae to make room for thoMID-hUMMSEh'-
which I Intend pnrchaitng at the Immenie Anoioat
which will take place In New York the latter nut of*
and early part of next month. The fact of the Q Wl g
Ing marked In plain figures Is tho beet evidence ituij,
prices will be very low, and that there cannot be |J
price, cUBtomera can tee the price ot every mkkt
themselves and Judge accordingly. To thoie ltrinxMi
distance, I wonld aay that, If they Bond me theiruL,
they will be promptly filled at the loweitprtraefi
season.
Annexed will be found a SCHEDULE OF 00008 a
the different Departments.
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Black and Fancy Silks,
Plain and Printed Organdies,
Plain and Embroidered Grenidine#,
Launs, Cambric*, and Cbanbaj,
Challie*, Tamartine,
Brocb-Barege, English Ikrege, M*
Printed Brilliants,
Mozambique,
Printed Jaconete,
Printed Percale*,
Pine Apple CkA
HOUSE-KEEPING DEPARTMENT.
9,10,11, and 12-4 Bleached and Brown Sheeting,
8, 9, and 10-4 Bleached and Brown Table Dioiik, *
A SPLENDID LINE OP
Irish Linens, Napkins,
Towel*, Scotch Diaper,
Buck Diaper, Rnasla Crash,
Marseille* and Lancaster Quito f
WHITE GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Sw1*b, Jaconet, Nainsook, .
Mull, and Crimped Muslins,
Plaid and Striped Nainsook,
Swiss and JAConet Muslins,
Pin Cord Muslins, Bishop Lawn,
White and Colored Tarlatons,
Brilliant es,
Dotted and Figured
A FINE ASSORTMENT OF
Silk and Silk Lace Cloaks,
Rotundas and Point?, *
Grenadine aid Barege bhavk !
A FULL LINE OF
Purls Silk Mitts, Alexandre’s Kid Gloves,
Lisle Thread aud Cotton Gloves,
Black and White Silk Gloves,
Silk, Linen, and Palm Leaf Fan*,
Fine French Corsetts,
Ladle*’ White English IIom, 1
(so mo very superior,) 5
Embroideries, I.arc*,
Collars and Cuff*,
Bordered aud Hcm-Stichcd
L. C. Handkerchief*.
Cambric, Cotton, and \
Nilk HandkeeciiieN,
Beautiful Parabola,
Silk and Cottos
Sun Umbwlli* \
DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT*
French, English, and American Prints; French,Srottk
and American Gingham* ; New York Mill.- Long
Cloth, Lonsdale Long Cloth, Hills Long
Cloth, Rose Bud Long Cloth,
Hope Long Cloth,
and all other favorite braqds. Al*o, a splendid stock ot
fine Soa Island Shirting and Sheeting always on
hand. A full supply of Anguata aud
Graniteville Factory Sbirings and
Sheetings, Yarn* and Oa-
. naburgs, <fcc.
FOR CENT'S AND BOYS’ WEAR.
Black French Broad Cloth,
Tricot Cloth,
Black French Doeskin,
Faucy Cassiinure*,
Cashmurotes, English Twoedtr.
Sattinctts, Jeans, Cottonndca,
Plain and Fancy Linen*,
Plain and Fancy Marseille*,
Drapt d'Bte, English Half Rose,
Hummed Silk Handkerchief,
ALWAYS ON HAND, A FULL STOCK OP
Notion*, Boot*, aud Sue*,
Trunk*, and Straw Good*.
JOHN M. GANNON,
Corner Whitehall aud Hunter Street*,
mayl2—ttHJunc24 Atlauta, Gcorgi*.
THE ‘ LIVE DRUG STORE!'
Celebrated “Arctic Fount”
And get your
SODA. WATER!
THE PUKE FRUIT SYBl'PS
Are drawn ICE COLD, and the only ooni|il»lnl of 9*
beautiful, sparkling water is, that
“I HO COIiDI"
pr-BUY YOUR TICKETS, and save » per cent
trouble of making change. NO BLANKS! -each drtf*
» "fuU Qian!" "Tho last thought to be the l>e«t!” ^
The Pouut will be kept as clean as it 1* beautiful-
OUR PRESCRIPTION DEPARTMENT
Is still complete, where Physicians aud Patteoh* rtD
rely on getting their Prescriptions filled neatly aud cor
rectly.
Those desiring to porchase
DRUGS, MEDICINES, FLINTS, OIL!,
VARNISHES, WINDOW GLASS,
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