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ATLANTA, GEORGIA:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 18C3.
..ARttMT DAILY CIRCULATION IB THU STATE.
tr8KK FIRST PAGK.*»
Rrvlew of tlie Keport of the Secretory or
the Treasury—Mode of Paying the
Prlnfctpal of the Confederate War Debt.
NUMBER NINE.
[The reader is requested to make the follow'
ing correction in the article No. 8, that appeared
yesterday : Read two dollars and a half per bans
dred pounds export duly on cotton instead of taro
dollar* and a half per bale.]
The reasons and motives that justify the finan
cial policy of borrowing at a lower rate to pay
-the interest on a public debt bearing a higher
rate of interest, applies as well to the principal
ol the debt. To borrow at 5 to discharge an
obligation carrying 8 per cent, is a saving that
does not require elucidation. If we borrow in
Europe forty millions for the payment of inter'
cat, it would be no less expedient to borrow as
much more as onr credit would enable us to re
deem of our war deMf if prudencedid not admon
ish ns that there are limits to the capacity to
endure taxation, united with the inconvenience
of paying off our public debt too rapidly. The
only efficient ainking fund as we have seen is
obtaining capital at a lower rate oi interest than
has been paid for the use of capital lor public
purposes, and which being invested increases at
compound interest. In the. plan we have sug
gested of discharging our debt in a gradual
manner, a sunt of teu millions is slated as an
amount that is within our power to borrow in'
Europe for this purpose, in addition to the forty
millions for the payment of interest. This
would lead to a gradual extinguishment of the
principal, in correspondence with a system of
gradual increase of taxation.
This plan of discharging our war debt differs
essentially from that proposed by Mr. Memmin-
ger. He discards the employment of a sinking
fund. His scheme has' these defects: 1, It
would discharge the debt with too much rapid
ity. 2, It would distress our resources now
limited by the waste of war. 3, It would dis
card the only valuable part of the sinking fund
—an accumulation by compound interest. There
can be no denial of the fact that the public debt
may be paid off with Too much rapidity. If it
were practicable to redeem one hundred millions
annually for five years, it would greatly derange
the loan market from the competition of thoso
who arc seeking investments for unemployed
capital. It is needless to show that our re
sources are not adequate to the liquidation of
the debt in the period contemplated by Mr.
Memminger. The rejection of a sinking fund
—and with it the only pan that is of value, iis
augmentation by compound interest—while the
people are additionally taxed to supply its place
by the frequent recurrence of semi'annual pay
ments, will withdraw more from their pockets
than is saved in debt by these semi'annual pays
ments.
The plan of borrowing capital at a lower rate
to discharge the interest and principal of public
debt, gives no preference of the foreign over the
domestic. loan market. Wherever moneyed
capital can be obtained at a lower rate of inter
est, whether’at home or abroad, on the cheapest
' terms gives the only claim to preference. We
may here anticipate the objection to foreign
loans compelling the periodical reini:tance of
interest, which, if received in the country in
which the loan is made, is thought to contribute
to its wealth and prosperity in a higher degree
than if the interest is remitted and spent abroad.
' This is a delusion: More is made by the use
of foreign capital than the annual sum paid for
such use, when and where in can be obtained
relatively cheap. If we borrow in Europe for
productive investment there can be no. denial of
the fact that we can, after repaying the interest,
derive a la ger surplus than if we had not made'
the loan abroad. If wc borrow 100 millions of
dollars at 5 per cent per annum, it is unques'
tionablo that our earnings will exceed the sum
of five millions per annum, which we annually
remit for interest. It is the same operation, in
effect, although different in form, when we bor.
row fifty millions at 5 per cent, to discharge the
interest or principal of a public debt, incurred at
an interest of 8 per cent. We have borrowed
European capital since the settlement of the
conntry. With European capital we have made
canala, built rail roads, established b inks, set
tied plantations—in the form ol merchandise as
well as money, and we have increased in wealth
and prosperity simply because the demand lar
outruns the supply ot capital in a new conntry.
Wc have accumulated a larger surplus lor the
support of a more numerous population than it
we had developed our resource* without the ad
vantage ot comparatively cheaper capital abroad.
Wc have had more to spend luxuriously, if we
wished, and to invest profitably, if we so preferred,
than il we had not made foreign loans.
In this Review, in suggesting an export duty
on cotton, we have not included in the estimate
of our fir cal resources our other exportaole
products, aa they constitute only abont one sixt h
of the value of our entire exports, neither have
we made any deduction for incomes at and be
low a Mtaianiai, in estimating the probable
amount of our gross income, as it is presumable
that they will about offs et each other.
There may .he this further objection to
foreign debt, that the t eminence of the inter
est, and, occasionally, of portions of the pria
cipal causes disturbance in the money-market
of the indebted conntry. This cannot be de
nied. There is no good, however, without its
attendant evil. The penalty or borrowing ia
occasional inconvenience; but the real qnes
' tion involved is, dow not the benefit overbal
ance the inconvenience t In this the indebted
country is ol ten chargeable with the' loss of
its specie, in remittances to discharge the in
tereston a foreign loan arising from a balance
of payments from over importations, origina
ting from a spirit of rash speculation, Or from
the depreciation of iu currency. A remittance
in specie to pay the interest on a foreign debt is
nst anecev-ary consequence, any more than
such a remittance from commercial indebted
ness. If there is an annual sum due for in
terest on a foreign loan, should there be no
commercial balance due and no depreciation
of tho currency, what i* periodically due for
interest may be paid by bills drawn against
produce exported as well ss by exporting
specie.
The two leading principles on which our
scheme of discharging our War debt is found
ed ate:
1st, Obtaining at borne or abroad the use of
capital on cheaper terms than we have en
gaged to pay in incurring that debt.
2d, Discharging the new obligation to be
thus incurred, by a system of gradnrl taxa
tion, as alone suitable to our present circum
stances.
We offer a summary and recapitulation
of the general conclusions to which we have
been led in this inquiry.
1st, That the preliminary and leading ob
ject in any sound scheme of financial relief
being a reduction in the volume of the cur
rency, this is .to be obtained not by forcing the
holders of this currency to exchange it for
bonds, at the expense of pnblio faith, but by
the combined influence of gradual taxation
and the use of our principal staple, in pro
curing cheaper capital abroad than we can
obtain in the Confederate St Ales, and cheaper
than wears paying on our war debt, in inter
est.
That boing a sound financial maxim, to ob
tain at a cheaper rate than is paid for capital,
in contracting a War debt, it would be the
readiest and most certain mode of relief, to
borrow capital abroad,, to pay the interest
and principal of onr War debt, on the solemn
fledge of our government, to impose an export
duty on cotton as a security to capitalists who
may contract a loan or loans, for this purposo,
with tbo Confederacy.
3. That an export duty on cotton will not fall
on the producers, but on the consumers, while
the demand for this article continues greater
than the supply, according to tho invariable
operation of the Law of demand and supply.
- 4. That the most expedient plan of taxa
tion, if an income tax is ..imposed, is by a
moderate rate of impost, gradually increas
ing nntil the equilibrium between the demand
and supply of cotton is restored, so that no
part of the burthen of taxation should fall on
producers or a particular class of producers,
tut be distributed over all. tax payers and
over all income.
5. That a sinking fund oan only property
be so called that does not withdraw from pro
ductive employment a larger sum annually, in
taxes than- is paid for interest on a public
debt, or than is received by an investment of
such fund in stocks, to accumulate at com
pound interest. Consequently that to tax the
people where capital is making 10 per cent,
profit, to discharge a public obligation draw
ing 7 per cent, or not to borrow oapital mak
ing 7 per cent, profit to discharge such an
obligation drawing 10 per cent-, is attended
by national loss. Another artiele will close
tbis series. C
Amendment of the Constitution of the
Confederate S’ates.
The following is the bill introduoed in the
Confederate Congress by Mr. Johnson, of
Georgia, of which telegraphic mention has
been made:
“A bill to-proposa au amendineut to tho Con
stitution of the Confederate States of Am
erica. *
“Sec. 1. It is enacted by the Congress of
the Confederate States, two-tbirds of both
(looses thereof concurring, that the follow-:
ing amendment to the Constitution of the
Confederate States of America be, and the
same is hereby proposed, and when ratified
by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the
several Stales, .shall be a part of the said
Constitution, and.shall be inserted therein os
clause 2d. section 1st, of artiole Stb, to wit:
“When any Stato being aggrieved by any
act of Congress, shall by Convention, deolare
the same to be unconstitutional, Congress, if
in session, and if not, the President shall
convene it for that purpose, shall immediate
ly call a Convention of the States to consider
said act, and if not affirmed by two-thirds of
said Convention, the vote to be taken by
States, it shall stand; and if affirmed and no
adjustment can Se made by amendment or
otherwise, satisfactory to the oomplaining
State, and if determined to recede from the
Confederacy, it shall be done^n peace, but
shall be entitled to its pro rata share of the
public property and liable for Us pro rala
share of the publie debt, to be determined
and settled by negotiation.
“Sec. 2. That the Presinent shall transmit
to the Governor ot each State a copy of the
act, to be submitted by him to the Legisla
ture thereof for ratification.”
The Reported Destruction of the Florida.
—The Northern papers of the 2d- contain the
rumors which were in circulation at Havana on
the 28th ult., of the loss of the Confederate
steamer Florida, (»e Ovieto.) The following ia
a summary of the rumors :
On Tuesday Sanuary 27, it was reported in
Havana, that heavy firing had been heard at
Matanzas and Cardenas, as if coming from veas
aela of war engaged in a serious contest at sea.
It was also staled that the Florida or some other
rebel vessel had been chased by several Union
gunboats -. but with what result had not been
learned. It was then believed at Matanzas that
the firing and chasing was connected with the
same, vessel. The rumor was strengthened by
the arrival of the Creole from New York, on
the following day, which reported that she had
been apokon by the Union gnnboat Cayuga,
which vessel reported that she had observed a
steamer on fire, supposed to be the Florida, and
that three other vessels were firing into her
with great rapidity. The locality of this en
gagement was not definitely stated, but it was
in the vicinity of the Cayes, on Cardenas and
Matanzas.
Yah Dorr at Hollt Sprihqs.—The Tua-
cumbia North Alabamian of the 30th ultimo,
furnishes the following particulars of a recent
raid of Van Dorn at tiolly Springs :
reliable gentleman who arrived in town
yesterday from below, reports that Gen. Tan
Dorn made another attack on Holly Springs
a few days ago, capturing 700 prisoners, and
catting the 31 Michigan Cavalry op very
badly, only a few escaping.- The infamous
scoundrel Capt. Latimer, who made himself
infamous by his depredations in tbis county,
and who had been burning houses and cut
ting up extensively abont Holly Springs, was
hung by order of YanjDorn, only ten minutes
being allowed him to make bis arrangements
for his long journey.
See onr new terms.
Oiir Special Richmond Correspondence.
Cougres* raising a N egro Army—Demote! ixa-
tlmi in the Yankee Anuy—YallandigbviaV bald Speech
—Senator Johnson'. Resolutions— Destroyed Property
—Treasury Notes, Sc, Ac.
Richmond, Feb. 8, 1803.
In my lettor of the 20th ult. 'I noticed the
fact that Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania,
had introduced into the Yankee Congress a
resolution for tho enrollment of 150,000 ne
groes, to supply, the-places of .over that num
ber of nine months and two years men, whose
term of service will expire in May. The res
olution was duly referred, reported back and
finally passed the House by pretty nearly tho
same, vote by which it was sustained on its
first introduction. Its pa-sage in the House
is significant in two aspects; first, as a con
fession of their own inability, notwithstand
ing their vast superiority in numbers and re
sources, to accomplish the task of subjugating
tho South; and, secondly, S3 an evidence of
the desperation with which.the abolitionists
are determined to prosecute this iniquitous
war so long as they shall-remain in power.—
In his dosing speech on tho question, Mr.
Stevens openly proclaimed' the fact that- in
May next, the term of servioe of Borne 300,-
000 men would expire; that it will be impos
sible to raise 60,000 by volunteering, and that
drafting is out of tho question. Wheu May
comes this brutal abolitionist will find that,
in all that shall then remain of the old United
States, his party oould net rate, by volunta
ry enlistment, the half of uno thousand men,
unless, indeed. th< y should be called ont, a
thing not unlikely, to hurl from power, tho
sanguinary imbeciles who have destroyed their
liberties and spread desolation and mourning
throughout the land.
The latest Northern journals unite iu rep
resenting .the Northern army, at every point,
as exhibiting fearful symptoms of demorali
zation and disaffection. Whole urigadcs in
the West have been placed in garrison under
arrest;'the populace have risen, in several
localities, and resisted the troops sent to ar
rest deserters; Brigadiers and Colonels have
resigned, assigning as a reason that they will
not draw a aword in a war avowedly waged
for the abolition of slavery. From every in
dication that roaches us from the North, and
from assurances given by those who are cog
nizant of much in Richmond, that the author
ities, so far, deem it proper to withhold from
the public, there is not much risk in predict
ing that, if we can hold onr o>n, and drive
back the enemy until May or June, the war
will be over and our independence won.
The. speech lately delivered by Vallandi
5bam in the Yankee Congress, has produced an
mmense sensation in the New England Sl ates,
and is attracting an unusual degree ot atten
tion in Richmond. It reached here a few
days since through the columns of the New
York Caucasian, occupying nearly an entire
page of that paper. It is learedin the United
States, and believed by many persons here,
that, behind this bold and eloquent denunci
ation of the Washington tyrants, ‘ there is
much which Mr. Vallandigham does not
ohoose to roveal. A conspiracy, even, is
hinted at by some of the more sagacious jour
nals of abolitiondoin, having for its object the
expulsion of the usurpers from Washington,
and Mr. 'Vallandigham’s speech is already
construed into an open declaration of the
sentiments which pervade the conspirators.—
Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York
and New Jersey are supposed to be the head
quarters of the different branches of tbis ter
rible secret organization, and it is ominously
hinted that the leaders are in communication
with prominent'officers at Richmond.
On no other theory can these timid, edito
rial old woman comprehend the audacity and
emphasis with which the member from Ohio
dared to otter in the Hall of the House of
Representatives,' pausing almost after every
word, the prophetic declaration that “the
1 •/ which divides the North from the South,
M .t self same day decrees eternal divorco he
tween the West and the East.” Unlike the
predictions of Cassandra, this terrible doom
is haunting the slumbers of the entire Paritan
Nation. A divorce from the West, and, per-
haps, without a sous in the shape of alimony
—the loss of the South with a bankrupt treas
ury, and a debt counted by thousands of mil
lions of dollars. The very idea is enough to
drive them stark crazy, and would actually
make them so if it were not for the assnance
of Abe that “Fighting Joe” will take Rich,
mond, Grant open the Mississippi, the com
bined land and naval forces rnn the plow
through the streets of Charleston before the
conspiracy can make any head way, and
then the same guillotine will drink the blood
of the ill-boding Vallandigham and the ter
rible chief of the subjugated rebels.
Mr. Johnson, ot Georgia, submitted a series
of resolutions having for their object an amend'
ment of the Constitution of tho Confederate
States.' You have doubtless seen a copy oi these
resolutions. They propose an amendment to be
inserted as clause 2, section 1, of article 5, pro*
viding that when any State being aggrieved by
an act of Congress, shall, by Convention, declare
the same to be unconstitutional, Congress shall
immediately call a Convention of the States to
consider said act -. if not affirmed by two'tkirds
of said States, it shall be void and no law, but
if affirmed it shall stand. The State feeling it'
self aggrieved may, if it eo desire, retiie in
peace, receiving and assuming its pro rata of the
public property and the public debt. The Press
idem is to trasmit a copy of the act to each Gov*
ernor to be laid before the Legislature* of his
Stale.
It, as it is generally believed in and around
Congress, it is designed to revise and improve
the whole Constitution, as one of tho first acts
of national necessity, after peace shall have been
established, Mr. Johnson’s resolution will, prob
ably, not be definitely, acted on during the pros'
ent session Under any circumstances, the
chances are that they will be laid over until the
next session, as the military exigencies of the
country, and the financial questions with which
these exigencies are so intimately allied, will,
in all likelihood, occupy Congress as long as
that body can afford to remain in Richmond, un
less prices come down or salaries go up. What
ever action may be had on these important ress
olutions, Mr. Johnson has made his Senatorial
debut in a manner that has attracted the aitem.
tion of the conntry. He is unquestionably a
man of high intellectual power, great practical
capacity, and earnest and forcible as a public
speaker.
The resolution offered by Mr. Smith, of North
Carolina, instructing the Committee cf Ways
and Means to report the best mode of paying
for cotton and other property destroyed by onr
own military authorities, or by the owners to
'keep it from the hands of the enemy, though
adopted without diBsent, will, it is feared, like
all similar bills, be allowed to slumber either in
the committee room or in the desks of members.
In such cases, the law consigning to destruction
property that if captured would materially aid
the enemy, is hard enough to submit to; its
stringent provisions should not be made wholly
insupportable by unnecessarily, withholding
proper indemnification, especialiyjbhen in many
Chambers, of Mississippi, sweeps away all these
forms, and makes it obligatory on the Colonel
of the regiment to which the applicant desires
to attach himself to receive him, in the company
he may select, if not filled up to the maximum;
if so - filled, in some other company of the
same regiment.
The bill reported by Mr. Keuner from the
Committee of Ways and Means.to fund the cui>
rency was made tho special order of the day for
Tuesday the 10th inst. Tho chief features ol
the bill are that it authorizes the different issues
of Treasury notes to be converted into bonds,
within certain limited periods in orderto entitle
tlie-holder to the interest specified on their face,
while it also contains ample provisions for with
drawing such notes from circulation after the
expiration ot the periods prescribed.
O11 Saturday the House was chiefly engaged
in secret session. Before the doors were closed,
Mr. Gartrell asked for and obtained unanimous
consent to iniroduce a memorial and claim for
sugar seized for the use of the Government, from
Messrs. Brown, Fleming & Co. of your city.—
The papers were appropriaiely referred. The
secret sessions yesterday and to-day hre gener«
ally understood to be devoted to the considera
tion of a report from.the Committee on Foreign
Relations, on the resolutions of Messrs. Foote
and Foster referred to that committee early in
the session. Your readers will remember that
those resolutions announced the unalterable de
termination of the people of the States of this
Confederacy never to assent to any proposition
looking to a reconstruction of the old Union,
while they expressed a willingness to enter into
a league, offensive or defensive, with the States
bordering on the Mississippi, whenever they
withdrew from this war, and severed their polit
ical connection with the New England Slates.—
The report, it is whispered favors the Bpirii end
object of the resolutions, and recommends a
practicable mode of carrying them into execu
tion.
Our telegraphic news, this evening, releives
us ol all our apprehensions in regard to the
Oreto or Florida, Confederate States vessel of
war. It is still barely possible that she may
have been sunk by a superior force ; while ail
the probabilities are that she,' with her consorts,
the Alabama and Harriet Lane, attacked, do
feated and sunk the United States sloop ol war,
the Brooklyn. The demoralized condition in
which General Banks found the army at Baton
Rouge, drawing from him the classical Yankee'
ism, “My army lias gone toh—11—that’s a fact,”
is fully corroborated by official intelligence res
ccived at the War Department.
No movements yet on the Rappahannock, and
none likely for weeks to come.
CHEROKEE.
Oar Correspondence front Pen. Wheeler's
Command.
Hadquarters Advance Pickets, >
Near Fosterville', Tenn., Feb. 10th. J
Perhaps your numerous readers would like
to hear from the front of our army, from an
eyewitness, and pirtioipant Onr Regiment,
(the olst Alabama Cavalry, Col. John T. Mor
gan,) occupy the turnpiko leading from Shel-
jyville to Murfreesboro’, and picket this p.ike.
The balance of Wheeler’s old Brigade (now
Allen’s) ocoupy and picket the road* on our
right and left. In our rear and close enough
to come up when wanted are regiments of
infantry, the whole under the command of Col.
W. B. Wade, of the 8th Confederate. Gen.
Allen being wounded at Murfreesboro’ has not
yet recovered sufficiently to take command.-—•
After Gen. Wheeler had played thunder and
kioked up Jack generally around Murfrees
boro’, he took us down to the Cumberland.—
What we did there you have heard long sinoe.
Being iu our saddles thirty days and nights,
men and horses were pretty well worn down,
and Geu. Wheoler brought us here to reBt our
men and horses. Relieving Gen. Wharton’s
brigade with ours he took Wharton’s aod For
rest’s commands and started off on one of his
devilish expeditions and you will be sure to
hear- from him soon. We beiug left on out
post duty to rest, will remain here until he
runs Forrest and Wharton down and then «•
will come in for our services again
We are gettiog on finely, stand picket one
day and rest tbo other,* and only have two
fights a week. The Yankees come out forag
ing in our front, twico a week and wc have a
lively time of it. We dismount and meet
them and the firing is kept up for four or five
hours. They always bring ont about three or
four thousand infantry, with artillery and
cavalry. Tbis foree has to be met with our
Regiment, and thus far we have successfully
checkod their advance and repulsed them
without calling, the infantry to our assist
ance.
Every limo they como out they get some of
their men killed and a quite a number wound
ed, while we have not lost a man, and have
had only two slightly wounded. At this rate
their forage will cost them something. If
they don’t pay money for it, they will have to-
pay blood. I feel sorry for the people that'
live iu their reach. They go to a house take
every ear of corn the man has, every p-juud of
bacon, take all the poultry and drive off all
bis cattle, sheep and hogs, and if be steps out
of his house a minute, it is filled with soldiers
who steal everything they oan lay their hands
on. In many instances a whole family is left
without meal and meat enough to make them
a dinner. This is no fancy sketch. I see it
with my own eyes every day, and know it to
be so. They candidly confess to the citizens
their inability to whip us with powder and
ball, but say they will starve us out by taking
everything we have, and subjugate us by this
meaus. Obi that Wheeler with his whole
command would come back here t Ho could
find plenty of work to tlo, and do it he would
if he was here. He will boon them as soon
as he gets back from his present expedition,
and then, go it Yankee wagons and mules.
Oiir soldiers are all in fine spirits, and pay no
attention to the rumors of peace. They are
determined to fight this fight ont if it takes
them a life time to do it. . Soldiering and
fighting has bccomp to be a business with
them, and the longer the -war lasts, the more
they get aooustomed to it and like it.
To-morrow the Yanks come again and we
will have another frolic If it proves to be
a serious one, I will give you the particulate.
Adieu for the present.
HORSE MARINE.
Hardware! Hardware!
1 n non lbs ENGLISH plow steel, aWtedsizes
Al/jVJUU 5,1)00 lbs Rond and Square Iron assorted size*
120 pair Eogli.li Cotton Cords No 10
ICO dozen schovtU A Brado's Potent Hoes
1,000 lbs Iron Wire,‘from No 8 to No 15
10 kegs Noils, 4 J, 5<t and 40d
12 Counter and Platform Scales, drawing from 35
lbs to 1.220 lbs
9U Cast Steel Mil) Sows
VO Cost t-teel Circular Saws, frtm 0 to 15 inches
50 gross Gimblel Pointed Screws, from 1% to
4 inches
5 Wrought Anvils, steel freed
5 Smith Vices
9 dozen peir Smith Tongs
30 drzen Point Brashes
SuO dozen Wrought aud Cos* Iron Butte with
■crews
200 pair Wrought Iron Gate a d Strap Hinges
100 di sen Kim and Mortice L. eke, with koubaand
tixturea
95 Dickson’* Meat Cutter.
5 roam i Wrapping paper
1000 lbs Allspice, at (educed It cee
900 lbs best Star Candles
In store and for sale l>y
S SOLOMON A BROS.
febl2-tf Hardware aud Commission Merchants.
Volunteer Immediately
ANDUEr
FIFTY DOLLARS BOUNTY
And-save yourselves the nuplereant feeling or being
A CONSCRIPT.
L ieutenant s. d iiasiett, of company c, aut Kogi-
! men. da. Vols, la now in this eity for the purposeof
g-iting recruits for his company and regime..t, and
would Ui glad to receive such as Volunteers, who will
receive ail the beneOts c.f the law in such cat. a Butil
yon re’nse to volunteer, the country tiertl. and must
have your services as conscripts, and I ant fully author
ized to take yon into her service. Come up like p ttrio s
to the help of your conntry Iu this her time of need.—
Also stragglers from the army of Virginia who have been
at home on furloughs, will report to me immediately, or
1 shall be under the necessity of taking yen op. 1 am
authorized to reeeive Volunteers for any regiment in T.
J. Jackson’s Cwps. fob 12-iOt*
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1HA QOOD SHOEMAKERS can find employment at
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tion \t this Post. None but good hands need apply.—
Those furnithieg their own tools will have preference. -
Sotdienfjdeelrtat to work la this establishment, must
cam, the claimants are left entifKrbesiitute of . p '““ t *“ e r W ud * UU *
present means.
^ A bill has passed the House
laj
rij^ppiieaa’jtouj pass
OW eomphcdfea-jaaSbtr.
who had 3pent thpr moo _
in the effort to fight anfeV _. JBHHM
own State, were compelled to abandon the task
in despair. The present bill, prepared by Judge
G W CUNNINGHAM,
Major and Quit term aster.
SACK I
I X L ARGE NO. 1 SPANISH JACK.
_ 1 Tor tofortaotion apply to the Clerk of the
feb8 9t TROUT HOUSE
Volunteers for Cobb’s Legion.
T UB undersigned is authorized to receive Volunteer
rcciults for any Company in Cobb’s Georgia Legion,
now stationed near Fredericksbmg, Virginia Any per
son can nowj.in this Legion, whether subject to Con
scription nr not, by volunteering, aud will beentltlod to a
BOUNTY OF FIFTY DOLLARS,
and all the rights and privileges of voluuteors Persons
wishing to join any Company iu the Legiou enn uddre.s
or call ou me at Covingtuu, Georgia.
W. D CON V KltS,
fobIS 2f t* Cspf Co A, Infantry, Legion.
Constitutionalist copy aud send bill to ihir • Dice.
AUCTION SALis;
AUCTION^ SALSS:
BY CRAWFORD, FRAZER & f0
S. a. SWACKKfoFOttD, adctionjebr
I hereafter be on 01 bouse aQ|
TUEsDiYS.THilR D.1V8 A.\D
OK
EVERY week,
AT H ALF PAST ID O’CLOCK.
All Goods, Warm end Chattels should bo
* T 8tock s'idm'm "* U " “° rbiu 8 " dV
Horses, Mules, &c.,
“ 4 ,>,olock regular sele lay.
CARPETS, CARPETS,
CARPETS.
13 All-Wool, 3-Ply Carpets,
Different 8izes— Ready Made Up—on consignment end
for sale by ANDERSON, ADAIR A CO,
fobU-tf Commission Mon bants,
1 NOTICE.
OFFER FOR S tI,K MY TRACT OF LAND, consist-
lug of 800 acres, 350 cl eared and In cultivation, most y
adapted to cotton; with good dwelling house and othot
houses suitable for such a farm; good gin-house aud house
to thresh'when! In, aud iron packing screw. All the build
ings are goo I frame Tlie lands lie near Ettharley Creek,
Joining the lauds of S Peeke, within 18 miles of Route aud
Oartcrsville, with a good road to both places.
I will sell it upon good terms; al-o, the faint log tools
and stock, and give possession ' nuy day. Come early or
you will miss a bargaiu.
feblZ-4t* JAMES M WARE.
COUNTRY PRODUCE: WANTED,
inn BUSH»LS OF RYE
1UU lot) bbla Lard
2,000 lbs Tallow*
5,006 lbs good Bocoo
100 bushel*diiet Apples and Peaches
90 good fot Hogs, dressed
- For which the highest market price wit be paid by .
* F M >13K,
ftbll-flt Whitehall street
DRYGOODS-
QQQ() T»»U3 CAUUVlta
300 yards bleached Sheeting
950 pair Ladies' and Misses Gaiters and BUppen'
12 dozen Men’s and Boy’s Hats
Aud a variety of Fancy Dry Goods, for sale at wl-otutol-
only by 8 SOLOMON A BROS ,
dec!7-tf Commission Mercbtnt-
I OOMS
SPINNING WHEELS,
SLUES,
. SHUTTLES. Ac
» For sale by JR PITTS,
fobU-3m Marietta street.
FOR SALE.
1 Aft HODS CHOICE AND PRIME SUGuR
-LVJVJ 300 sacks Choice and Prime Tngar
50 barrels Choice and Prime Sugar
. . ALSO,
Virginia Salt, for rale cheap, by the sack and quantity
by F M FISK,
fcblOtk Whitehall street.
FARM FOR SALE.
Farm of Land lying on the W A A H It, five miles
_ from Atlanta,containing 112 acres. 30 cleared, with
dwelling, oat-house* and orchard npnn it. It ia well wa
tered, having an excellent well aud several springs, and
a uever-frlliu’g biauch rnnniug through it The Land is
of frir quality, aud uusui passed for hetllh. Apply to
HUHII DUNNING,
to.11 0-re Augusta Arsenal.
fabll2w* Angcato, Ga.
LOOK HERS.
W ANTED IMMEDIATELY, at our Bakery In Atlanta,
four good Caudy-Maker* four Rollers and six good
Bakers, for which the highest wages will he paid
febl3-2w JaCK BRYSON A 00.
Charleston Courier and Savannah News please copy and
■end ItUl to Ibis office.
PLANTATION FOR SALE.
A N excellent Plantation, in a high state of Cultivation
containing 685 acre*, 130 or wbioh are flist rate LA
lout, only 95'oiles from the Atlanta A West Point Rail-
read, on tho Chattahoochee River, in Campbell county, cen
be bought by application to this office fobU-tf
WANTED.
j MMEDIATKLY, two Stills and Wvrmer complete, and
i In good or.or one of one hundred gallons, the other
of sixty gallons, for which the highest cash prices will be
paid. Want them couvenlent to a Railroad, or to be de
livercd on one. For farther prrticators address at Atlan-
fob7-9t*
THOS J UGHTFOOT
FOR SALE.
I N Oxford, Ga, a comfortsb'e House, containing live
rooms, with Ore places- half acre let and an excellent
well of water. A healthy servant gltl or woman will be
taken In exchange for tbis place, if desired. Posseadon
can be given at any time. Apply to
* MRS B C JENNINGS,
feblO-ttt*« uxfo-d.Ua
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD,
■p ANA WAY front theSUtre of D Mayer,. Jeoobe A Co.
JK on Thursday. Feb. 6th lost, a negro fe,v Phllfe
about 26 years old, weighs 150 lbs! cow*?reto?fiverrift
6 or 7 inches high! blemish to ri^Ter^Tti
wl ^ be paid for hie apprehension >nd lodgment in
febl04f D MAYER JACOBS A CO
* WHERE’S MY MULE!
S TOLEN from my plantation near Irhyville. Fulton
county, on the 8th tost, a mouse-colored Mule, about
,nbLed by harness. Informa
tion that will lead to ItU recovery, wUI be liberally re-
varaea by
foblt-U* 8 K pace.
1 mom A. A W. P. B B. CO, 1
Atlanta, Feb. 7,1863. /
M ERCHANTS are respectfully request# t to come for
ward and pay Utelr freight* to advance and remove
their goods in 24 hours after arrival, or we will be c.,m-
pelled to store the freight at their expense.
fobStf W J. SMALL. Agent
NOTICE.
mHB undersigned, intending to change hi* business,
will dispose of his lar, e stock of Millinery and Fan
cy Goods at greatly reduced price#. PnrcLaeeis, whole
sale and retail, will And it to their intereu to call.
A. ISAACS,-
nov27tf * Whitehall street.
To Xhe Highest Bidder.
'S IL . L J'¥' T0 ’’’HE HIGHEST BIDDER, on the
flirt Tuesday in March, at the City Hall, a tractor
land lying to Fulton county, within six miles or Atlanta,
tontofelng 665 acres. It is situated between the Green’.
Ferry read aud May son’s on the Chattahoochee rirer —
good branch bottom, with a gcod tni.1 site, whereon#
will was one* erected. About 160 acres are cleared and
under fei so—the balance well wo ded—part rery heavy.
The improvement, are a pretty gcod dwelling with seve
ral good cuthbiwcs, cribs,.(tables. Ac, a woll of good
water in the yard and "a good spring convenient, and
ina y other things on the place, aud a email young or-
clwid. Terms made known on the day of sals. Any one
wisniug to exainiue the place can call on John A carter
00 the premia, s. JOHN FARRAR.
Atlanta, tioortna.
I#bl3 #1:14,17,19. SI, 22,24,20 98, feb and 2 mar
LANDS AT AUCTION.
CRAWFORD, FRAZER&OO.,
S. J. SHACKELFORD, Actloueer.
>T«aK following tracts ol Lrial will be sold votn-ti.,,,;
A iront of our store, ( ... H, Whitehall «htlT? “
o'clock, Saturday, 14th men- ««et,)»t Iu
1 Tract containing 1,«U 'cies, teing let. » ,
and *5, to the 12th eiatrist, C Hnch County u. ^ * S4,
1 Tract .49 i^acrea, being It 1415, to the aim*
dwlrfcf.* 1 M '° ,oiuK luU 1301 U'tat lSth
1 Traci 491 acres, bei- g tot 431, in tame
i Tra-l 490 acre*, 'wing lot 490, in same
The ia laud* are i u a n,<ai tby .nctioa ajdare fert'ein
the product on ol a,a bland and Upho-I Co tou, Sucrr
Corn au uipeuliue, and lie convmie. t la th« AlUi r
« Gull Hnitroiul, which affords cheep aul rxpsiHti.ni
tranaportat ou o he po ta of Uruas tick end 8 vaunuk
and a Red road is beiug built, passing thron :h b >th du
traits. North aod South, aud cj meeting with the kaij-
roed. in II tide. A map of there bods moy besmn »t
our office. Settlers aud cepi atisu will do welt to sin
this aete^tbeir particular aueut’ou Tiller ii.di-nuteM,
Terms cash. Oll M
JUST RECEIVE]}
FROM NASSAU,
PER STEAMERS
CALYPSO, DOUGLAS, FLORA AND THISTLE.
4 000 183 EXTRACT LUJWOOO *
6.000 tbs Bi Carb Soda
2,060 lbs Oolong Tea
6,009 lus Superior Oopperat
2.000 Ibr Soda Crystals
200 dez-Louis’ Brown Windsor Soap.
For sale by w K YOUNG A CO,
Whole-rate Druggist*.
feb8 lw U hiteball at, Atlanta, Georgia.
50
Cheap Provision, Etc.
BUSHELS TURNIPS
200 bushels Peas
100 bushels Fresh Meal
. 4,090 lbs Extra aud Fme Flour, to 95 lb sacks.
6C0 bethels potatoes
10 boxes Toilet S xu>
10 ta-kt Rio Coffee
1,600 lb* genuine French Chickory
200 lbs Black and Green Tea
. 10 hhd* cheap Sugar •
7»€0) ibi Hie© Hour
60 tierces New and Old Ufoo
600 lbs Soda
100 gross superior Matches
Beekles Tbbooeo, Caudles, Starch, TaYpentine, Soap.
Salt. Pepper, Ginger, Citron, etc. Garden Seedr etc.
JaolS-tf E. M EDWAhDY.
SELLING GUT
Without Reserve.
grjTlEdCES NEW RICE
16 hogsheads Sugar it^storo
40 hogsheads Sugar to arrive
• 10 gross imp rrted Matches
600busbelsC.ro.
9» bushels Meal, Ac At
feb7«r= ■ • KDWARDY’s.
VOLUNTEERS WANTED.
O APf. J. R. RHODES aud Serg’L R. W. CRAVEN, ol
lire HULL VOLUNTEERS. 1stD-f,federate Regimen!
Georgia \ i-Iuiiteeis, aro aow at home f-w the purpose o’
raWng recraiU for their Regiment. They will give tte
“FlFl-Y DOLLARS BOUNTY” to all who will .volunta
rily come forward aud enroll fihcmrelvea. But these who
krill not listen to their country's caU. iu this her liourol
need, they ere ordsrel to Consctipt No doubt the caU
will soon be m rde to 46, and the Exemption bill repealed
80 como forwardand vultm cer and»areb<4ngCan*cribe<1.
Their command is located at MOBILE, ALA , one of the
mo -t desirable and healthy localities to theservico. Tbrir
Company, consisting of over one hundred, has not tosloor
by atrknees.
One or them wiH be found at all Urn -a at the office ol
OoU Gartrell A Hill, on Wbto ball street.
_ J K. RHODES,
Janat-tf Capt Com’g Co C, 1st Con fed Reg Ga Vet*
Attention, Georgians!
COAST DEFENSE.
. y » jt .« '
I HAVE been aul hoi lied to raise an Inbutry Company
for Capt John L Hardee’s Regiment, which is now
forming under asthoilty from the Mcret.ry of War, to
sex ve an the Coast of acorgio.
I appeal to all tocene forward .and vdenteer.- Tear
country it la want of yoor serrices, and yon rnnst no
longer remain a spectatortn tbis mighty strugele fur her
Independence. A bounty of $59 will be peid and god
arms rurubbed atones. Afarluughwii begivontotb.ee
who m iy Join, for twenty days.
1 can be soea at any hour, either lo person cr by rep
rreenteiire at the office of C(4 Gartrell A Hill.
Lieut D O SMITH.
AU nta, February 8J, 1863. feblDtf
WANTED.
S EVERAL WOMEN, Men, and Boya, to work to our
TOOTH FAOIOUY. Cnatant emplojtuoat giren.
A* the work to eminently AKTlSTlC.monc.need apply
who ha* not sufficient ta-te to appr. ci-te it, for each party
will have t»be taught at aen,ia rnbla waste of material
Mo intend paying liberally, so that it can be followed a*
a permanent business.
• Some worthy yonugm e-i who have been disabled in the
Army, or who aro uot snbject to military dn’y preferred.
BROWN A HAVE.
, . Dental Depot,
fol»3 9t Whitehall street.
DH. U. W. SHOWN.
/"VFFIOE—At his residence on Oalhoan
U Medical College.