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GEO. W. ADAIR J. HENLY SMITH,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1861.
L.ook at Home a Little.
During these war excitements, let us not for
get that we have interests at home which are
quite as important as those which are centered
around the operations at Manassas.
These home and domestic interests are lost
sight of, to some extent, of late—especially since
the war fever began to rage. This is strikingly
and painfully apparent in the many late viola
tions of law, which are greatly in excess of the
records of former days. War has its demorali
zing influences as well as its virtues, and the
matter now under consideration is one of them.
A large portion of the virtue of the land with
all its beneficial influences is gone from our
midst. The vicious men who still remain among
us, find less restraint—a less amount of morali
ty in the atmosphere which they breathe, and
hence they become emboldened in the commis
sion of crimes, and of violations of the laws of
the land and of morality.
Virtue itself, from the loss of the numbers
who obey its teachings, seems to have become
weakened in the hearts of her few votaries that
remain behind. Either they have their minds
occupied with the war and are heedless to a
greater or less extent of the growing immorali
ties ot the land, or their resolution and love of
virtue are shaken and they have not the manly
courage to stand up for her cause and her rights
that they once had.
It is with much concern we have observed that
Christians are less strict in the observance of
their obligations, and less faithful in the dis
charge of their duties; that men who were here
tofore regarded as models of virtue and morali
ty, are more lax in their habits, “ walk and con
versation” than formerly; that parents seem to
suffer their children to go into greater excesses
and neglect to exercise the wholesome restraint
they once did; that our civil officers are less
rigid in enforcing the laws than formerly; and
last, but by no means least, that our negroes are
not kept under proper discipline, as they were
a few months ago. We see them in squads and
gangs on our streets—especially on the Sabbath
—standing around the corners discussing the
war news and listening to the discussions there
of by those whose former careful habits the
times seem to have thrown sadly out of joint.—
Proper regulations, and the due and faithful en
forcement of legal and moral requirements in
our own city, seem to be too much forgotten.
The same thing exists, to an alarming extent,
throughout the country, so far as our observa
tion goes. A healthy vitality seems to be lost,
and a moral stagnation prevails to an alarming
extent.
We also observe that this state of things is
not confined to our own vicinity. Our exchan
ges give fearful evidence of the alarminggrowth
of lawlessness in some places and the depreca
tion of morals in others.
Our stay law has perhaps contributed to this
state of affairs, to a greater or less extent. Men
are unaccustomed to seeing or feeling the exe
cution of the law in majesty, until they have
come to feel almost as if there was no law. A
stay law—the suspension of the operations of
law on one matter causes its execution in other
respects to be disregarded, and tends to bring
our laws generally into disrepute and contempt
—at any rate the suspension-of the operations
of a wholesome law, is not calculated to com
mand respect for the majesty of such laws as
are not suspended.
These things ought not to be so. Instead of
t he troublous and exciting ordeal through which
we are now passing, begetting a laxity of mor
als—a neglect of duty, and a failure of the offi
cers of the law—our chosen conservators of the
peace and public morals—to rigidly enforce the
statutes, it ought to create a greater watchful
ness and more unremitting care on the part of
all, than ever. If our country’s morals are not
preserved, our success in arms will be worthless.
Let all our home duties and obligations be faith
fully discharged. Let our city and county offi
cers betake themselves to greater vigilance and
more unceasing watchfulness In discharging
their duties and preserving the public peace and
morals ; let each one look well to his own con
duct first, and keep everything under his control
in the ways of rectitude. Let parents look after
their children at d masters keep watch over the
conduct of their servants.
There is another thing connected with this
subject which we regret to observe, and that is,
our people arc giving but little heed as to who
shall till our Important offices for the terms next
ensuing. The election of members of the Leg
islature, Governor, Congressmen, President and
Vice President, will soon be upon us, and we
know our people have given this matter but lit
tle thought. While the great mass of our
citizens are thinking and caring but little about
the matter, a few, who are after the spoils are
wire-working to get themselves into power
through the corrupting and demoralizing ma
chinery of cliques, cabals, caucuses and conven
tions. The people have the right to choose their
own officers ; but they can never do so effectu
ally or satisfactorily if they lie supinely upon
their backs till greedy, selfish and unpatriotic
demagogues have bound them hand and foot
and got them securely hitched.to their engine
of destruction. This war has broken the shack
els of partyism and freed our people from its
despotic and destructive thraldom. If now, in
their great deliverance they shall consider them
selves secure and neglect to exercise a sleepless
vigilance, they will again become entangled in
the network which hungry partisan wolves are
spreading to catch them. If this takes place,
no one can tell the day our deliverance will again
come—perhaps never.
Then let our people awake and look to their
interests. “Eternal vigilance Is the price of
liberty;” and we need not expect to enjoy its
blessings at a less cost.
The West.
A Texas paper before us, states that a large
number of Missourians with their negroes have
emigrated to the “ Lone Star Slate.’’ Missouri
Is overrun by Federal soldiers and her govern
ment entirely broken up. Gen. Lyon, with a
large force, is at Springfield making preparations
to invade Arkansas and overrun that Stale also.
There is, besides, a movement being made in
New Mexico, among the regular troops, to in
vade Western Texas and operate against the
people in conjunction with the Camanche*.
Our next warm work may be out West. We
hope our people are reedy for it.
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.
[From the Intelligencer.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Atlanta. Aug. 10th, 1861.
To His Excellency Joseph E. Brown :
Daar Sir —I desire your views for publica
tion on two points:
First, Is it, in your opinion proper, under
existing circumstances, to hold a Convention,
as proposed by some of the public journals of
this State, to nominate a candidate for Govern
or, and to hold Conventions, in the different
Congressional Districts, to nominate candi
dates for Congress? Second, If it should be
the wish of the masses of the people without
regard to old party differences, would you, in
the present critical period of our history, con
sent to serve fora third term in the Execu
tive office ?
I trust you will, at an early day, answer
the above questions and consent to its publi
cation. Yours, truly,
JARED I. WHITAKER.
Camp McDonald, 13th Aug., 1861.
Dear Sir—Your letter is before me contain
ing two inquiries, to each of which you ask
my reply for publication.
Ist. Whether, in my opinion, it is proper,
under existing circumstances, to hold a Con
vention, as proposed by some of the public
journals of this State, to nominate a candidate
for Governor, and to hold Conventions in the
different Congressional Districts to nominate
candidates for Congress ?
2d. Whether, if it should be the wish of the
mass of the people of Georgia, without regard
to old party differences, I would, in this criti
cal period of our history, consent to serve for
a third term in the Executive office ?
To your first inquiry, I reply that, under
existing circumstances, there is, in my opin
ion, no necessity for a political State Conven
tion or Caucus to nominate a candidate for
Governor, nor is their any necessity for such
Convention or Caucus in each Congressional
District to nominate candidates for Congress.
These political caucuses or cqnv entions
have been the instruments in the hands of
political parties for maintaining their organi
zation and consolidating their strength in im
portant elections, when a division of strength
on two or more candidates of the same party,
would have caused the defeat of that party,
enabling the party in the minority in the State
or District, by a consolidation of its whole
strength, to succeed over the majority with its
strength divided. In view of the question and
for this purpose, so long as party organizations
were proper, and while our people were divi
ded upon great political questions, conven
tions or caucuses were necessary for the pres
ervation of party discipline and party power.
Both parties, especially the party in the as
cendancy in a particular locality, found it
necessary to adopt the prsctice to prevent de
feat.
Fortunately for the country, we have at
length reached a period when party differ
ences have passed away. With them, I trust
the vituperation and bitterness to which they
gave rise will soon find a common grave. The
people of the South, as one man, are engaged
in a mighty contest, involving not only their
lives, their liberty, and their property, but the
destiny of their prosperity. If we stand to
gether, firmly and resolutely united, we are
invincible, and with the aid of Divine Provi
dence, we shall soon achieve a grand, glo
rious, final victory over a revengeful and re
lentless foe. The King of Kings has given to
the united arms of our Confederacy the most
triumphant success. He has inspired our sol
diers with courage, and has scattered before
them tho so called grand army of the Union,
with a great General at its head, as of old, He
scattered the terror-stricken Assyrians before
the small army of Israel. Let us, theu, witlu
devout gratitude for this evidence of Divine
favor, press forward with one heart and one
voice. Let us avoid everything that may re
vive party divisions and strifes and vie with
each other only to determine who shall do
most in proportion to his ability for the ad
vancement of our glorious common cause.
How, then, shall we best avoid party divis
ions ? Surely, not by using the very instru
mentality which was, for many long years,
employed to keep them alive.
But it is said that the Convention soon to
assemble is to be a Convention of the whole
people of the State without regard to past par
ty divisions. If this were so, and the whole
people would participate in it harmoniously,
but little objection could be made, except to
the very unnecessary trouble and expense, as
the whole people at the ballot-box would be
as competent to make the selection at home,
as the whole people in Convention at Milledge
ville.
But the question arises, will the Convention
of the 4th of September be a Convention of
the whole people ?
In our State, sale-day is the day upon which
the largest number of the people in each coun
ty would be likely to assemble. The sale-day
in September conies, I believe, the day before
the time proposed for the Convention. De'e
gates appointed then could not possibly reach
the Convention. Sale day in August is past,
and, so far as I am informed, very few coun
ties appointed delegates, and in moat of those
the meetings were composed of a very small
number of persons. It is evident, therefore,
that if the counties generally are represented
it will be by delegates appointed by cliques of
village politicians, wire-workers and office
seekers, meeting together in small numbers,
without the knowledge of honest laboring
masses of the people, for whom they will as
sume to act, and in many cases, appoint
ing only such delegates as will undertake so
to cast the vote of the county as to serve their
political views. If two-thirds of the counties
are represented even by delegates appointe 1
by these small meetings, I predict that quite
a number will be represented by proxies, or
men living in other counties who have only
the request of a few persons to act, and who
are not acquainted with the wishes or prefer
ences of the people whom they undertake to
represent.
I have heard of but two or tbree counties in
this part of the Slate that have appointed del
egates In each of these, it is said that from
twenty to fifty persons met, and appointed
three who are to represent in each ease from
fifteen hundred to two thousand voters, with
out their knowledge or consent. A Con ven-
tion thus constituted cannot be said to be a
Convention of the whole people without regard
to past party differences. The people were at
home attending to their business, while the
politicians and office seekers were at the Court
House assuming to represent them and to ex
ercise at another and place the prerogative
which the Convention gives the people of se
lecting their own rulers at the ballot-box.
There are probably 115,000 voters who are
citizens of Georgia. Os this number, nearly
25,000 are now in the service of the Confeder
ate States, leaving about 90,000 still in the
State. There are 132 counties Suppose that
two thirds (88) of these counties are represent
ed, and that in each of these, 50 persons par
ticipated in the appointment of delegates
Fifty times eighty eight will be 4,400 who will
elect the Governor for the 90,0C0. Would this
be a Convention of the whole people? I ven
ture to say, and ask the people of the differ
ent counties to notice for themselves, that the
meetings will not average fifty persons. In
some of the cities and stronger counties the
number may be large, but in many of the
counties it will be-much smaller. I think the
90,000 voters at the billot-box are much more
competent to make a judicious selection than
the 4,400 who may assume to act for them in
Convention.
It may be said, however, that the whole
people of the country have a right to attend
the meeting, and if they do not, they must be
bound by the action of those attending. I de
ny this. There may be but ten men in the
county who desire or favor a Convention.—
There may be 1,500 who do not attend the
meeting, because they condemn it. Surely,
no one would contend that the ten have a right
to bind the fifteen hundred, because the ten
go to the meeting, and the fifteen hundred re
fuse to go.
From the considerations above mentioned,
and others which I might enumerate, did I
not fear to weary your patierce with a long
letter, I am of opinion that it is impolitic and
unwise to attempt to hold either Gubernatorial
or Congressional Conventions, while we remain
united, and party spirit is drowned. Should
such Conventions beheld in the manner above
described, no one would be bound by their ac
tion, but the whole people would be left free
at the ballot-box, iu the manner pointed out
by the Constitution, to select their own rulers,
without any regard to the action of these self
constituted assemblies. Should the country
again be unfortunately divided into political
parties, they may find >t necessary to revive
these caucus nominations to secure the success
of the principles for which either may con
tend. This is not now the case, and in the
hope that it may never be, let us adopt the
language, “ Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof.’’
, A word in reply to your second enquiry,
which is personal to myself.
I have been repeatedly solicited, by persons
, of both political parties, to consent to serve in
my present position for another term. I have
, stated truly that neither my personal interest
nor inclinations prompted me to give my con
i sent. In the days of your honored grand fath
er, Jared Irwin, who served with so much abil
■ ity as Governor of Georgia, there was no such
i usage as that of a first or second term only, for
he was called to the Executive Chair the third
i time. The political usage has since been for
the Executive to retire at the end of the first
or second term. It has, however, been but a
usage, as there is noConstitutional difficulty in
> the way of the same person holding the office
. for a third term. I have had no inclination to
violate this usage. If I have made no char
acter in the office in four years, I may not ex
pect to do so in six. If I have made any rep
utation during that time, I have, then, some
thing to risk by holding the office for another
; term, in the midst of a revolution. This aud
oflaer private considerations I have often urg
ed upon friends, who have demanded of me
that I again consent to the use of my name.—
These objections have been met with the reply
that I have been in the office until I under
stand its duties; that the country is now in
great financial trouble, which may cause a
very heavy increase of taxation, and that, un
der my administration, the faithful officers
whom I have selected to manage the State
Road, are paying into the State treasury, from
its net earnings, over $400,000 per annum,
which wolud have to be raised by increased
taxes, if not made by the Road, and that a
change is to be feared, lest it might not be for
the better. It is also urged that I am now fa
miliar with the financial affairs of the State,
and that in these dark days of revolution,
when it is most important that no mis step be
made, it might be risking too much to place a
new man in the position, wholly unacquainted
with the practical details of the office, and
with the condition of the military, financial
and other affairs of the State. Again, it is
urged that I, as a Secessionist, had much to
do with the withdrawal of Georgia from the
wicked and oppressive Abolition Government
of the United States, which brought upon us
the present revolution, and it is said that, as
the Slate has entered into it under my admin
istration, I have no right to consult my per
sonal interests or inclinations, and to retire in
the midst of the revolution, shifting its bur
dens upon the shoulders of another, but that
I should remain at the helm and endure,
without complaint, all the responsibilities,
toils and hardships, to carry the old ship
of State triumphantly through the storm.
It is also claimed that the example of our sister
State of Tennessee is entitled to respect—the
people of that gallant State, unwilling to
change a tried man for a new one, having,
within the last few days, reelected Gov. Har
ris for a third term, by an overwhelming ma
jority. Il is also urged that the use of my
name may tend to harmonize conflicting claims
and may prevent a canvass that can only en
gender strife and contentions among our peo
ple, when unity and harmony are of vital im
portance
Feeling that there may be some force in these '
and other considerations urged upon my at- *
tention by men of all shades of past political ,
opinion. And that it is the duty of every citi- |
zen, in a great emergency like the present, to
serve the State in any capacity in which he
may be most useful, while I can neither enter
into a canvass nor into any political combina
tion for the office, I could not refuse to serve,
if the masses of the people, without regard to
old party lines, were, by their united suffrages
at the ballot bex, to demand my services for
another term.
I am, very respectfully,
Your fellow-citizen,
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
Hon. Jared Irwin Whitaker.
From Washington—Startling Disclosure.
The following are extracts from the special
Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Exchange of August Ist :
A war between the negroes of thv District
is impending, and, should the influences which
have caused this enmity not be removed, there
will probably be a pugnacious contest which
the mere police canqot quell. This feud has
been caused by jealously, induced by the su
perfluous intervention of Northern soldiery,
and exists between the free blacks and
the slaves of this city. The soldiers
have so petted the free negroes hete,
by promising them protection and better times
when the war shall have ended, that they have
become exceedingly saucy and impertinent.
These darkies go into their camps, work
diligently, and are fed with the soldiers. —
Many of them expect to go North with the
regiments. Many of the Federal troops treat
these negroes as boon companions, and in
many instances, the most disgusting intima
cies aie formed.
The slaves of the District bitterly hate the
troops, and those of their own race with whom
they are familiar, and avoid their presence.—
The result of the feeling on both sides has
been the generation of a vindictive feud,which
becomes more general every day, and if the
discipline of the army is not amended in this
particular, there is every reason to believe
that a serious strife will ensue.
Recruiting proceeds but slowly here. The
hearts of the people are not with the ruling
powers, and I doubt if a single full regiment
can be raised in this city, with its population
at fifty-eight thousand.
Not only will there be great difficulty in
obtaining the necessary recruits to supply
the place of the three months volunteers, but
the army now in the field will be considers
bly reduced by desertions. lam assured by
perfectly reliable gentlemen from Anne Arun
del that as many as three hundred men, who
have managed to cross over from Virginia in
to Maryland, are now in his county alone.—
They profess to be very much dtesatLfied with
their treatment, and indignant at the manner
in which they have been deceived. Several
of the soldiers told my informant that they had
enlisted under the positive promise of the ex
tra pay of eight dollars a month to their wives,
during their absence, but they had only re
ceived one dollar, and their wives only three,
during three months. They said besides that
they had been each promised a small farm in
Virginia
An officer who was in company with them
corrobated this statement, and said he was
sorry to confess that four fifths of the men in
his regiment, bad enlisted with this expecta
tion. Another gentleman from Prince George
county states that at least three hundred more
have passed in the neighborhood of Buena
Vista. These have effected their escape from
the District. They were swapping their coats
and uniforms with the negroes for plain cloth
ing, and taking from them anything in ex
change that would cover their nakedness.—
The brilliant display of darkies in full dress
uniforms, next Sunday, will be unusually at
tractive.
Private information has been received here
that a barbarous plan had been arranged by
some oflicers of the U. S. navy to arm and
provide 1000 negroes with knives and torches,
for the purpose of landing them from boats at
some point on the Southern coast, where they
can proceed inland to ravage, burn and de
stroy.
You may well think this too infamous to be
lieve, but the source from which I receive it,
leaves me no room to doubt its perfect accu
racy.
* *
The Oath.
Below we present a copy of the oath which
Virginians are forced to take who are made
unwilling captives by Lincoln’s vandal hordes
and cut throats. It is a genuine production,
having come into our hands through the kind
ness of the Rev. J. P. Hyde, acting Captain
of the Hardy Grays, who obtained the copy
of the oath (printed on heavy foolscap) from
a gentleman who had for weeks been a prison
er in the hands of the Federate, and who re
fused to take the oath required of him. The
gentleman alluded to, we are hapj y to an
nounce, effected his escape, and is now in a
locality where Lincoln’s hirelings will scarce
ly venture.
We invite for the “ oath” an attentive per
rusal, and have no doubt our readers will
concur with us in pronouncing it a most out
rageous and iniquitous production, worthy
only of the men administering it and of the
detestable cause sought to be upheld.
Oath of Allegiance.—Whereas, there ex
ists at present against the United States of
America, whose subject I am, an armed re
bellion, and divers citizens of Virginia have
espoused the same, and are engaged in active
hostilities against the Federal Government ;
and whereas certain adherents of said rebel
lion, assuming to represent the State of Vir
ginia, have issued a so-styled Act of Seces
sion, severing the political relations of said
State to the United States, and declaring the
allegiance of the citizens of Virginia to the
United States as annulled ; and whereas, it
behooves me as a faithful subject of my com
mon country, devoted to its institutions and
anxious to express my fidelity to the same, and
my utter repudiation of the traitorous pre
tensions and proceedings advanced by its
government ; now, therefore, 1, the under
signed, of
County, State of Virginia, do hereby solemn
ly swear, before Almighty God, that I will
ever bear true allegiance to the United States
of America, and support its Constitution ; that
I will at no time, and in no wise, aid or abet,
by counsel or act, direct or indirect, any of
the enemies of, or rebels against, said govern
ment ; but that I will, at all times, conduct
myself as a peaceful, loyal and obedient sub
ject of the same, and faithfully discharge toy
duties as its law-abiding citizen ; all of which
I swear of my free will and accord ; so help
me God.
Subscribed and sworn to, on this day.—
Winchester ( Fa.) Republican Aug. 9.
Special Dispatch to the Charleston Mercury.
Richmond, August 12.—1 have reliable in
formation that Lieut. Col. S. R Ripley, now
commanding Forts Sumter and Moultrie, will
soon receive the commission of Brigadier-Gen
i eral in the Provisional Army of the Confederate
' States, and that he will be placed in command
i of the seacost defences of the State of South ■
: Carolina.
The movement of Gen. Magruder, predicted
in my letter, occurred on Wednesday. He
! advanced with a strong force on Hampton.—
The United States pickets were surprised and
driven in. Five of the enemy were killed, whiile
only one of our men was wounded. The
Northern troops immediately abandoned
Hampton. The place was then burned by the
Virginians, the Hamptonians themselves be-
ing the first to apply the torch to their own
dwellings. The conflagration was complete,
not even the Colonial Church, the oldest on
this Continent, having been spared.
Since then Gen. Magruder’s army has been
encamped before the fortifications at Newport
News. The enemy, however, showed no sign
of a desire to come out. Thus matters stand,
and we know not what will be the next move.
While the enemy’s vessels command Newport
News, it would be useless to attack the en
trenchments, for we could not hold them af
ter they were taken.
There is no doubt that Prince Napoleon paid
a visit at our camp at Manassas. He was
courteously received by Gen. Beauregard, and
after spending a day there pleasantly, he re
turned to Washington.
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THOS. C. HOWARD,
Atlanta, IS6I. Post-Master.
The Atlanta Female Institute,
re-open on Monday next.
nWL- v v Commencement on Wednes
day under the following Board of
Visitors:
J. R. Mayson, Principal, assisted
by W. P. Howard, Mrs. Bessent, Mrs. Mayson
and Miss S. C. Means.
For Catalogues, giving full particulars, ap
ply to the Principal. aug. 14-d4t.
India Rubber Cnoods.
THE undersigned has a good supply of India
Rubber Coats and Blankets on hand.
Atlanta, Aug. 14-d3t. D. MAYER.
Notice.
CW. HUNNICUTT, Esq., at Hunnicutt, Tay-
• lot 4 Jones’ Drug Store, is my legally
authorized agent to transact all my business
during my absence from the State. My broth
er, John R. Whaley, and Mr. Wm. James are
fully competent, and will contract, for any kind
of brickwork in my name.
aug 14-dawtf. C. A. WHALEY.
Our School
WILL be reopened on the FIRST MONDAY
IN SEPTEMBER next (1861; in the base
ment room of Central Presbyterian Church.
With many thanks to our former patrons
and friends for support and confidence, we be
speak their continued efforts in behalf of our
enterprise. Misses A. E. HAMILTON,
aug. 10-dlrn. M. L. BROWN.
SOUTHERN MASONIC FEMALE
COLLEGE,
(Under the control of the Grand Lodge of Ga.)
Rev. C. P. COOPER, A. M., President.
WILL resume exercises on the 25th ot Sep
tember next.
An efficient corps of seven ladies
_ and g eD^en,en wil l comprise the
vWHßßgl Faculty, representing, as far as
practicable, every Protestant de
i&sSbr nomination of Christians.
This Institution appeals to the patriotism
and benevolence, as well as interest, of the
Southern public for its support.
The proceeds, beyond current expenses, for
the next Collegiate year, will be tendered by
the President to the Treasury of the Confeder
ate States.
Orphans of deceased, and daughters of indi
gent Masons, will, as heretofore, continue to
receive gratuitous tuition.
Cheapness to patrons, and thoroughness to
pupils, are aimed at in the system proposed to
be pursued.
No pains or expense will be spared to secure
the best talent for the various Departments, to
be exclusively selected from among Southern
ers.
A Preparatory Department is attached to
the College, where particular attention will be
given to laying well the foundations of educa
tion, as absolutely necessary to further suc
cessful advancement.
The useful, the practical, and the ornament
al, will be sought to be blended and develop
ed throughout the whole regime of the Insti
tution. The moral and religious culture of
pupils will be scrupulously kept in view.
French and Spanish will be taught by a la
day perfectly conversant with both of these
languages.
The Musical Department will be conducted
by a gentleman, assisted by an accomplished
lady, both possessing experience and genius to
an eminent degree, and occupying fine social
positions.
The late President resigning, to attend to pri
vate affairs, unites with the retired Vice-Pres
ident and the Trustees in commending the In
stitution, under its present directioi, to the
public confidence.
The President is honored with roost compli
mentary credentials from Bishop G. F. Pierce,
lions. Joseph 11. Lumpkin, T. R. R. Cobb, and
Col. Wm. H. Jackson, President of the Board
of Trustees of Mercer University.
Covington, the location of the College, is
pleasant and healthy. Board can be obtained
from sl4 to sls per mouth. sl2 to sl4 in or
dinary times.
By order of the Presidential Board.
JOHN II ARRIS, D. G. M.
President of the Board.
W. W. Clarke, Secretary. auglO-lm.
HAVING secured the services of Dr. H.
Warmouth, a graduate of several French
and German schools of Pharmacy, our Prescrip
tion and Chemical Departments will be under
his entire control.
Pharmaceutical Chemicals and preparations
can be furnished at short notice.
july 30-ts MASSEY 4 LANSDELL.
WHISKY 1-300 barrels Pure Corn Whisky
in Store andfor s ale by
junel® .BUTLER 4 ESTERS,
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