COLUMBUS:
City and Country Circulation.
Thuradny Morning, Dec. 16, IHSB.
Soo reading matter on every page.
Wo aeo it atated in our Wostorn ex
changes, that tho Hon. Jere. Clemons, of
Ala., is shortly to take charge of the edi
torial department of the Memphis Eagle
.S; Enquirer.
The Southern Era.
Wo have hitherto omitted to notice the
clinngo of location in the Soutliorn Era,
heretofore published at Salem, Hussell
county, Ala. The Era ia now issued at
Opelika. Wo are glad to soe that friend
Smith is prospering in his enterprise.
Lieutenant Whyte Returned.
Lieutenant Whyte, of the United States
Mud l’olioo or Revenue Service, who was
carried oil on the fillibustcr schooner
Susan, returned to Now Orleans on the
Kith, on the bark Oregon, lie reports
Captain Maury bound for Grcytown.
Tho last Weekly Nows, published at
Enterprise, Miss., contains the “salutato
ry” of James W. Oaulding, Esq., late of
this place, on taking the chair editorial
of that paper. Mr. G., a portion of the
time ho resided in our city, assisted in
tho editorial department of the Sun, in
which position he gave evidence of tact
and ability, and a knowledge of the wants
of tho general reader. Under his control
and conduct tho News is bound to be a
readable paper. We wish our friends
Holland X Oaulding large pecuniary
success.
Central Transit Route.
lion, l'ryor Lou, of Texas, and former
ly a member of < ’ongrosa from Tennessee,
is publishing a scries of articles in the
papers, advocating the construction of a
rail road from Aransas Hay in Texas,
through Mexico, to the Pacific Ocean,
lie calls it the Central Transit Route.
Its length, he says, is about 700 miles—
-160 of which ia in Texas, and 650 in
Mexico. It i advocated as being the
best, cheapest and shortest route for the
commerce of the world yet mentioned
betweon the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The ICclio Slaver Case.
We have heretofore published tho argu
ment in this case, on tho habeas corpus for
tho discharge of tho prisoners. We to
day publish the opinion of the Court. In
doing so we knew wo wore lumbering our
columns with matter many would not
road ; but tho interest we feel, in common
with many of our readers, in tho settle
ment of this question, induced us to yield
tho space. Wo must acknowledge, how
ever, as much as we are opposed to tho
slave trade, ,vo have not been convinced
by tho argument, or the opinion of the
learned Judge, of the constitutionality of
ilie not making tho traffic piracy.
(•corgln Conference.
The annual Conference of tho Metho
dist Episcopal Church South, convened
in this city yesterday morning, Bishop
Geo. E. I’iorco presiding. Tho attendance
was largo, though ail had not nrrived.—
Tho body, however, proceeded to busi
ness. Various Annual Committees were
appointed, and vacancies filled up in
Standing ones. The report of the pub
lishing houso was read and referred.—
Bishop Pierce here took occasion to refer
to tho condition of the Methodist Quar
terly Review. Ho said he bad assurances
from its editors and publishers that un
less its .- übscription list could bo increas
ed two thousand over what it uow is,
before January, it would bo impossible to
continue the work; and bo appealed to
tho preachers of tho Conference not to let
i t fail (or want of this aid.
Tho report of the managers of the
Christian Advocate, at Charleston, was
very favorable, showing its subscription
list to number over 10,000, aud the pro
fits of tho concern for tho year onding
June, IS6B, a fraction over $2,000
A letter from a “Sister in Christ” was
read and referred to tho appropriate Com
mitteel, which stated that she considered
herself indebted to the fund for tho sup
port of widows anil orphans of Ministers,
and in di-charge of it. enclosed to tho
Conference $ 100 to bo applied to that ob
ject.
A motion was adoptod admitting re
porters of the city papers to n place with
in the bar.
Tho time of tho sitting of Conference
was arranged to meet at ft o'clock a. m.,
and adjourn at 1 p. m.
Ttieso preliminaries having been gono
through with, the body proceeded to busi
ness. Tho first thing taken up was tho
reception and consideration of applicants
for tho Ministry. Tho claimcs of the fol
lowing gentlemen wore considered and
admitted: T. J. Staly, T. U. I.amor, J. A.
Reynolds, J. L. Niece, L. I’. Niece, Theo
dore A. I'nvr, John J. Morgan, Y. J. Al
len, T. M. Tyson, J. M. Kowpold, Thomas
T. Arnold, 11. S. Means, Thos, A. Moore,
Moses. A. Leak, W. C. B. Perry, L. C.
Yarborough, T. J. Boring. John Petil
low,
Howard, Edward McGchec, A. G. Horton,
McNamee, and John F. Berry.
Tho next business taken up was the
consideration of the stuuding of Ministers
taken on probation at tho last session of
the body. Our position to the stand,
and the noise in the hail at the time, pre
vented our hearing the calling of the
names distinctly, and for fear of incor
rectness, we forbear giving a report. We
will endeavor to bring up that part of the
proceedings to-morrow.
Just previous to the adjournment, the
quostion of the propriety of the Confer- !
once Bitting with open doors, was brought [
up and discussed, and it was determined !
that its deliberations should be conducted !
with open doors; leaving to the discretion j
of the body to change this rule at any
time during the sitting, should matter ‘
come up with which the public should j
have nothing to do.
At 1 o’clock tho body adjourned to ft
o’clock this morning. ‘
The Echo Case—Prisoners Remand
ed— Decision of the Court.
Columbia, Dec. ft, 185 H.—The Court
met at twenty uiiuutes past one, the Grand
Jury and the prisoners in the Echo case
being in attendance.
Judge Magrath delivered an elaborate
and ablo opinion on the questions involved
in the motions before the Court. Ho de
olared therulo of law perfectly well settled
that a bill thrown out or ignored by a
Grand Jury does not support a plea of
autrefois acquit. Tho provision in the
Constitution that a person shall not bo
subject, for the same offence, to bo tried,
twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, has
no application to tho result of the delibe
rations of a Grand Jury, which has not
the provinco to try for an offence. The
accusod may be again indicted. Bnt to
protect a party accused from prolonged
imprisonment, tho law provided that at
tho second term of the Court, if no indict
ment is found, a trial or discharge may
bo claimed. The prisoners stand before
the Court with all the weight in favor of
their discharge, to bo derived from the
action of tho Grand Jury. But affidavit
and testimony had been filed by tbe Dis
trict Attorney, showing reasonable cause
why they should bo held. The Court re
pelled any idea of supervising the pro
ceedings of tho Grand Jury, but it had
never been held inconsistent with the
rights of tho accused, or otherwise than
consistent with the duties that attuch to a
court of justice, that upon reasonable
cause, the consideration of which is main
ly vested in tho prosecuting officer, anoth
er Grand Jury should bo charged with a
reconsideration of the case. In reference
to tho alleged unconstitutionality of the
law under which tho offence was charged,
it became the duty of tbe Court to proceed
with caution, especially where loss of life
is the penalty which succeeds conviction.
The act in question was an amendment of
an act almost exclusively confined to tho
adoption of measures noccssary to protect
vessels of the United (States, in which tho
commerce of tho country was carriod on,
and upon which frequent depredations
had been made. Tho argument had as
sumed that the Act of 1820 was passed
for the suppression of the slave trade. It
was unnecessary to inquire whether this
was altogether correct. It presented tho
case for the accused in the strongest light
to so consider it. He reviewed the vari
ous arguments against the constitutional
ity. if it were necessary to rule the
point, no great difficulty would be found
in declaring that a power to regulate com
merce necessarily carried with it tho
power to prohibit, in certain cases, la
prohibiting, by declaring contraband,
certain articles of commerce, a State or
nation during war, is accustomed to exer
cise a power often indispensablo to its
safety. It was a power that might be
subject to abuse; but such case would be
so much in violation of the spirit of tho
law, that its sanction could not be invoked
to justify their occurrence.
When the power to regulate commerce
was granted to the Congress of the United
States, the slave trade was shared in by
all natious, and the power to prohibit this
trado was involved iu that grant, and the
exercise of that power of prohibition was
partially stayed uutil 1808. If the right
did not exist, whence the necessity for
tho prohibition of its exercise ? And if
it existed, it was involved in tho right to
regulate commerco with the expiration of
the term of limitation, the right to exer
cise the power was restored, aud was
eminently exorcised without a doubt of
its constitutionality.
Tho learned Judge roviewed tho objec
tion that tho United States could not in
terfere iu the trade if carried on between
ports of foreign nations. All natious have
a right to regulate their own affairs with
in such limits as do not affect the rights of
-others. But such rights cannot he ex
tended to afford to citizens or subjects of
another Stato or nation an exemption
from tho laws of their own country. Tho
luuuicipal laws of a nation follow its ves
sels aud citizens, or even aliens, who bo
ou board. A vessel protected by a na
tional flag, is considered part of tho soil
of the nation to which she belongs, and
its municipal laws govern those on her
decks. Ho argued on the necessity of
obodienco on the part of those ou bouvd
United States vessels to the laws of the
country that protects them, for unless
amenable to those laws they are amenable
to none, aud this strikes at the very foun
dation of society, for whoso welfare gov
ernment is instituted. He disposed of
the objections that under this power Con
gress might interfere with tho inter State
slave trade, by showing that over this
Congress had no jurisdiction ; no claim
could arise in that body to consider slaves
as a subject of general legislation, unless
they shall again become tho subjects of
commerce with foreign States, anil there
fore, within the power to regulate com
merce. To the slaveholding States belong
the question of slavery. Tho inter State
trado of slaves, while the institution re
mains peculiar to States which maintain
it, connected exclusively with the govern
ment of States, and not known to Con
gress except, in relations before referred
to, is not within the power to Congress to
prohibit or prevent.
The opinion next reviews those objec
tions founded on the definition of the
crime as piracy, und shows that their
unsoundnoss lies in tho fact that two
kinds of piracies aro contemplated by tho
law—general piracy, by the law of na
tions, and municipal piracy. This is not
a piracy of which the courts of nny na
tion could take cognizance. It can be
punished only in tho United States. It
was au eminently appropriate term to bo
applied to offences ou the high seas.—
The crime was originally in the jurisdic
tion of the Admiralty, but trial by jury
took it into other courts. If the couclu
siou were correct that tho power to pro
hibit is involvod iu the power to regulate
commerce, aud if the constitutioual qual
ification of the right to prohibit for a
period, establishes the recognition of the
right to prohibit tho importation of slaves
after that period; tho difference iu opin-
I ion as to the proper measure of the pen
; alty by which tho prohibition is secured,
i cannot furnish or support a constitutional
! or legal objection to the law by which
: the penalty is declared. Such a question
| is for the Legislature, not for tho courts
—it is a questiou of policy, not of law .
If the power under the Constitution to
define piracy, was to be confined to piracy
; as recognized by the law of nations, of
wlint use would be tho words that follow,
! and embrace all offences against the law
of natious t For piracy, under tbe law
of natious, was of oourso an offence
! against that law, and would therefore be •
comprehended in the power to declare
offences against the law of nations. No |
authority had boeu cited, aud none, it
appearod to him, could be derived from
rules of construction, to connect and j
limit the powor to define und punish
piracies, by its reference to the law ol j
nations. The rulo of strict construction,
tho observance of which in grants of ;
political power could not be too strictly <
i observed, is just. It does not deny to
! every word its proper weight iu doter
! mining the oxtont of tho power. It would
not warrant the restriction of tho power
to define and punish piracies, as applica
ble only to a certain class of such offences.
Tho claim that piracies should now be
confined to what were piracies at the
time of the adoption of the Constitution
was equally untenable. It was in oppo
sition to the terms which were used, and
equally so to the interest witli which tho
power was granted.
The learned Judge then reviewed the
provisions of the act of 1820. Tho 4th
and 6th sections relate to certain offences
committed upon u negro or mulato, not
held to labor by tho laws of either of the
(States or Territories of the United States.
The offencos so prohibited may be com
mitted ou the shore, by landing from a
vessel, or upon the seu. They consist of
tho inode of acquiring possession, or the
use made of tho possession. The intent,
in the words of the act, being to make a
slave. VVhother the parties accused are
guilty of a violation of its provisions, it
was not for him to decide. But that the
act itself is in pursuance of a power in
the Constitution, ho regarded beyond a
doubt. Whether it was expedient or not
was a mutter not submitted. Ilis duty
consisted in determining whether it came
before him to be onforced, with those
sanctions which would oblige him to de
clare it tho law of the land. And his
conviction led him so to declare it.
His Honor Justice Wayne, in deliver
ing the judgment of the Court, said that
the claim made by the petitioners to be
discharged from further proceedings un
der the commitment had been ably and
fully argued. If the arguments of coun
sel shall be fully reported, with a correct
narrative of all the proceedings, the case
will become a leading one as to the mode
of initiating such proceedings, and upon
two points of law—tho right of prisoners
charged with such offences to be dis
charged nt the first term because of the
ignoring of the bill by the Grand Jury,
and the constitutionality of acts of Con
gress for suppressing the slave trade
from Africa; for prohibiting the intro
duction of negroes or mulatoes in the
United States from abroad ; for the pun
ishment of ccrtaiu crimes on the high
seas as piracies or felonies ; and for oth
er purposes connected with the slave
trade, under the power to regulate com
merce.
Thero was no law to sanetton tho claim
to discharge, because of the ignoring of
the bill this term ; but there was statu
tory law which docs riot allow such a
claim as a matter of right, and there are
decisions of the Courts against it. The
finding of a Grand Jury is in no sense a
trial. The refusal of a bill leaves it dis
cretionary with the prosecuting attorney
to proceed or not, as his sense of public
justice dictates. Confidence is reposed ia
the integrity and legal ability of that
officer, aud it must bo for some very ex
traordinary canso when a Judgo shall in
terfere with him in this regard. The
Judgo is presumed to know nothing of
tho evidence, and even in charging a
Grand Jury on the law, he should be ex
ceedingly careful not to give any intima
tion that he has an opinion or feeling
concerning the guilt or innocence of the
party charged. In this case, the District
Attorney, James Conner, Esq., had asked
the remand of tho prisoners, stating on
oath that ho belioves tho cause of public
justico requires it. Tho motion is sus
tained both by tho section of the habeas
corpus act and many judicial decisions.
But tho discharge of the prisoners was
demanded on tho ground that the act
under which they were committed is un
constitutional, iu tho fourth aud fifth
sections, and void. First, because under
the power to regulate commerce with
foreign nations, Congress has no authority
to interfere with tho commerce which
other nations may carry on with each
other. The sections are not liable to
such objection. They prohibit any United
States citizen from making liimseif one
of tho crew or ship’s company of any
foreign vessel engaged iu the slave trade;
and any person whatever, being of the
crew or ship’s company of a vessel owned
wholly or in part in America, from seizing,
receiving or transporting negroes or mu
lattos, not owing servico iu our own Btates
or Territories, with intent to make them
slaves, ilis Honor roviewed the sections
fully iu all their parts, in order to show
that in no part of either of them is there
anythiug that can interfere with the
commerco of foriegn nations with each
other. They only provide that a citizen
of the United States shall not be engaged
in foreign vossels to do that which it is
unlawful for him to do in American ves
sels, and they punish any person for
doing certain illegal acts ou American
vessels. It cannot, therefore, be said
that in this act CoDgress has transcended
its powers to regulate commerce with
foreign nations.
His Honor then refers to tho argument,
that if tho slave trado can be made pira
cy, then trado in the ordinary articles of
commerce, or the transfer of slaves from
one State of the United States to another,
may also bo declared piracy. The answer
is, that the power to defino aud punish
piracies and felonies, does not give power
to Congress to define and punish acts
committed on tho high sou, beneath the
legal grade of piracies and felonies.—
Congress has such a powor, but not under
that clause of the Constitution. The
Constitution recognizes slaves as the
property of their own owners, and caunot
interfere with their right to romove them
from one slaveholding Stato to another.
It can only regulate, to a cortaiu extent,
tho manner of transportation, for purpo
ses of safety aud humanity, aud the pro
tection of masters. Slaves arc property,
so recognized, in Sec. ft. Art. 1, of the
Constitution, which Congress oannot in
terfere to control or direct in any way.
Tho right of the owner of property is to
send it for transfer or traffic to nny other
place to which it is not forbidden to be
carried. The exerciso of the right can
not be restrained by penal prohibitions.
After dwelling upon the argumont, that
the clause of the Constitution restricting
Congress from prohibiting the importa
tion of slaves into the Union until tho
year 1808, did not imply the right of
! prohibition after that time, and exposing
\ its fallacy, his Honor says there is no
! foundation for the assertion that Congross
can, under nny clause or power of the
Coustitutiou, make it piracy o> felony to
| transport slaves by sea from ono State of
| tho Union to another. Such a removal is
a right retained by the people, which no
enumeration iu tho Constitution, of ccr-
I tain rights, can be constructed to deuy or
disparage.
Another misapprehension of the Con
stitution was, that tho crime of piracy
must be restricted to what it was when
the constitution was ratifiicd. The power
iu Congress to dotino and punish piracies j
and felonies committed on the high seas,
is not to defino piracy only iu ouc spe
cific sense ns to what it is by tho law of
nations. That is known to all nations
to be robbery on the high seas, and pun
ishable vrith death. But the acts in the
contemplation of the framers of tho Con
stitution when they gave that power to
Congress, were those which are not pira
cy by tho law of nations, hut which,
from their atrocity, and tho places where
are done, have an affinity with piracy.
Without being defined, they could not
have been punished in tho Courts of the
United (States, for they have no jurisdic
tion to try such offences, unless given
them by acts of Congress. It may be so
given them on account of tho national
right of jurisdiction which all nations hove
over their vossels at sea, their navigators
and crews. A ship at sea is as much un
der the jurisdiction of the nation to which
she belongs, for protection and tho pun
ishment of crime, as any part of its ter
ritory. The difference between the Uni
the States and overy other nation in this
respect, is that tho former has political
jurisdiction, but not jurisdiction to try
and punish crime committed within the
jurisdiction of the States, or on the high
seas, unless Congress, by ucts, shall give
to tho Courts jurisdiction to do so.
The power to punish piracies and felo
nies on the high seas, includes acts which
have no ingredient of robbery in them,
as well as those that have. Many such
acts, not piracy against the law of nations,
may be legislated by Congress to be pira
cies and punished as such. They can only
be punished judicially by the nation mak
ing them piracies.
The framers of the Constitution knew
that without the power in Congress to
define and punish piracies committed on
the high seas, those interests which are
there protected by all nations could not
be so as to the vessels of the United
(States at sea, though the regulation of
commerco had boon givon to Congress.
The power to regulate commerce with
foreign nations would iiave been very
feeble to protect it, if the power to define
and punish piracies and felonies commit
ted at sea, had not been given just iu tho
terms used iu the Constitution. Tho use
made of it by Congress, in sections \ and
5 of the Act of 20th May, 1820, is not
unconstitutional. The prisoners were
therefore remanded, in custody of the
Marshal, to Charleston Jail, and the wit
nesses now confined here were ordered
to be removed to the same place.
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tbe medical discoveries and inventions of the pres
ent ago, none appear to have met with the same
trinmphaut success as Hr. Bragg’s Arctic Lini
ment. This extraordinary medicine meots the
wants of the public in tbe cure of sucli a large
class of diseases that its value cannot be over
estimated. In all cases of rheumatism, neuralgia,
ear acho, tooth ache, and all diseases affecting the
nerves, its operation is miraculous. It is also in
fallible in curing all eruptive diseases of the skin,
such as erysipelas, scald head, tetter, ring-worm,
etc., etc., and instantly extracts the fire from
burns und scalds. Sprains and bruises it cures in
a very short time, causing the coagulated lymph
to be scattered and driven off. It likewise cures
nearly all diseases of horses and cattle. The worst
cases of spavin, ring-bone, pole-evil, spring-halt,
Sc., yield at once to its curative properties.
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Au agent is wanted in every town and village.
Applications should ho made to BraggS Burrowes,
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Price .fl. Sent by mail on enclosnre of $1 to the
General Agent. Sold by one Druggist in every
town in the United States.
R. U. HUTCHINGS,
General Agent fur tho United States,
IGU Chambers St., New York,
To whom all Wholesale orders should beaddresaed.
For sale in Columbus, Ga., by-
Oct. 12, 1858. ly DR. DAVID YOUNG.
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en. There is a well of excellent water on the
premises. Apply to A. S. Rutherford, or to the
subscriber on the premises.
Dec. IG-tf MARY PERSONS.
NEGROES FOR SALE.
A VALUABLE NEGRO WOMAN. 32 years old,
jljl and her Girl child, 7 years old. The woman
comes highly recommended as a lino Cook, Washer
and Ironer, of excellent character, who will he
sold with her child on reasonable terms.
ALSO
A NEGRO UIRL —a good houso servant —be-
sides several other valuable servants.
Dec. 16-3 t ELLIS Sc MATIIIS.
BAILEY &, CO.’S
GIGANTIC CIRCUS
MENAGERIE,
Combined with the Exhibition of
SANDS, NATHANS & CO.’S
Performing Elephants,
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.
tTMtIS unique and mammoth establishment eoiu-
X bines a greater number of attractions than
were ever before offered to the public. The PER
FORMING ELEPHANTS, Antony and Cleopatra,
aro the same which, fur months, created the great
est furore in London and Paris, while more re
cently their performances were the theme of uni
versal admiration for mouths, at the Broadway
Theatre, New York. Their wonderful docility, aud
the perfection of their training, make them the
most interesting specimens of the animal creation
that the world has over seen. Ail their faculties
have been developed to the greatest extent, and
they stand forth suigeneris, the moat remarkable
of their kind. They stand upon tlioir heads, play
upon musical instruments,ascend inclined planes,
and go through ail the operations of the most ac
complished acrobats.
In addition, Bailey A Co.’s Circus and Monagorle
comprises a splendid collection of
WILD A.KTXIVCA.IhS.
The troupe of Riders, Vaulterß, Lady Equestri
ennes, Ac., is the largest and niOßt thoroughly
artistic now traveling.
Tho Clowns are the very embodiment of fun
and jocularity. Their jokes are humorous, fresh,
spicy and piquant, full of hits at the times and
follies of tho day, yet entirely free from unything
which tho moat delicately constituted mind could
take the slightest exception to. Bailey A Co.’s Ex
hibition therefore comprises Elegant Horseman
ship, a splendid Menagerie, Slack ltopo Perform
ance, New Singing, Comic and Classic Dancing,
Wonderful Posturing, Grand Spectacular Effects,
diameter Equestrianism, and a more novel and
interesting programme than was ever before offer
ed to the public. Eacli entertainment will con
clude with a Comic Afterpiece, introducing all the
comic talent in the company.
Tlie American Brass Band, composed of picked
musicians, accompanies tbe exhibition, and will
precede the Grand Cavalcade on its entrance to
each town, drawn by Elephants in Harness, at
tached to the magnificent Chariot of Apollo.
The Pavillion is large and commodious, fitted up
with due regard to the comfort and convenience
of the visitors, and tho Proprietors pledge thorn
selves that nothing shall be found wanting to
make this the most elegant, beautiful and satisfac
tory exhibition that ever visited this place.
4®- Will exhibit in this city December 2S, 28
and 30. Doors open at 2 aud 6%, performance
commence at and 7j^o’clock p. in. Admission
60 cants: Children and Servants 25 conts.
Columbus, Dec. 10, 1858-tdex
DRESS-MAKING.
MISS MARTHA. DOZIER begs leave to inform
bor friends and tlie Ladies that she has re
moved to Franklin street, next door to Mrs.
Rounde’s, where Hhe will be pleased to see all who
may favor her with a call. Sign by tlie door.
December 15, 1858-2 w
SYRUP 1 syrup:
j i Bias. CHOICE SYRUX* to arrive, and for
lUU saio by MILO BOOIIER.
Columbus, Dec. 15, 1858.
LADIES’ KID GLOVES.
I.AIVE Dozen BAJOU KID GLOVES—the finest
Gloves made—all sizes. 1 will sell them at
76 cents a pair. 0. F. NEUFFER.
Columbus, Dec. 15-6 t
GENT.’S KID GLOVES,
lILACK and Mole Colored, the best article made.
) They will bo sold less than cost.
December 10-Bt C. F. NEUFFER.
TO SUIT THE TIMES !
A GOOD lot of COUNTRY BUTTER;
.A IRISH POTATOES and ONIONS;
MACKEREL and CODFISH :
WHITE BEANS, RICE, Ac., Ac.,
Just received and for sale by
Dec. 10-ts JAMES w. SAPPJNGTON.
SMOKE!SMOKE!SMOKE!
£)F\ nnn MORE of those GOOD CIGARS,
at ONE DOLLAR a Box, just re
ceived and for sale by
Dec. 15-ts JAMES W. SAPPINGTON.
NEW BOOKS!
riMIE Sheepfold and the Common; Or, The Evan-
X gelicnl Rambler.
The Ministry of Life, by the author of .Minister
ing Children.
Agnes, a Novel, by the author of Ida May.
Meta Gray, by Maria J. Mclntosh.
Tlie Coopers, by Alice B. lluven.
From New York to Delhi, by way of Rio do
Janorio, Australia andCliiua.
Swedenborg, a Hermetic Philosopher.
The Blonde and Brunette.
The Courtship of Miles Staudish.
Lady Blessiugton's Conversations with Lord
Byron.
The Four Sisters, by Fredrika Bremer.
(Juits. by the author of The Initials.
Bitter Sweet, by author of Timothy Titcouib.
Two Millions, by W. A. Butler.
Tlie Attic Philosopher In Paris.
We liuvo also just received a large assortment of
BIBLES, I’RAVEIt BOOKS, NEW JUVENILES
and HOLIDAY PRESENTS, together with a varie
ty of FANCY GOODS, such as Writing Dusks,
Reticules, Work Boxes, Port Folios. Ladies’ Moroc
co Traveling Bags, Pocket Books, Pocket Kuivos,
the best Gold Pens, and many other articles too
numerous to mention.
Cali and see at CHAFFIN A JOHNSON’S.
December 15, 1858.
Carrollton Masonic Institute
JOHN K. LEAK, A. 11., President,
fTMIIS Institution, under Masonic
L control, is now in successful Zf.JjHk
operation, and bids fair tn boos ev-gL* uM&xc:
tensive usefulness. Mr. John K. Leak, %
tiro President, under whose care it
opened, and has rapidly prospered,
will continue iu charge of it. Mr. John YV. Stan
sell occupies the chair of Mathematics, and all tlie
other departments will bo filled with competent
Teachers. Tlie Institution is favorably located in
every particular, auil affords superior advantages
to those having sons and daughters to educate.
The discipline is excellent. The course of study
is complete, embracing all the branches usually
taught in the Male and Female Colleges. An op
portunity of taking the regular Male Course is
afforded to all young Ladies deslrious of obtaining
a thorough Education. Thero are two Literary
Societies connected witli tho Institution, and sev
eral Medals of considerable value will be annually
awarded for merit in Reading and Declamation.
We respectfully solicit a liberal patronage from
members of the Order anil the public generally.
Parents and Guardians cannot commit their chil
dren or wards into safer hands. There is no
chance for dissipation, as in addition to the watch
fulness ol the Faculty, tlieir conduct will lie ob
served and reported by the Fraternity.
The next Term will open the first Wednesday
in January, 1858, aud close on the last Wednesday
in Juno. Students received at any lime, and
charged from time of entraucc. No deduction in
Tuition save in cases of protracted illness. Board
eight dollars par mouth, in good families, conve
nient to tbe Institute. Students froni’a distance
will conic by rail road to Newnan,Georgia, tlience
liy private conveyance to Carrollton. A full at
tendance is desired ul the opening of tho Term.
For further particulars address JOHN K. LEAK,
Carrollton, Georgia.
KATES I IF TUITION :
Sjirlug I'cnn. Fall Tern.
Primary Department flu 00 fli OU
intermediate 16 00 8 00
Collegiate.... 25 00 15 00
Music, uot including use instrom't 25 00 15 00
W. M MERKKLL, W. M„
J. T. MKAiMIK, 8. W.,
B. M. LONG, J. W.
Carrollton, Ga., Got. 26, 1868. 3t
A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
CLOTHING BUYERS
TO CLOSE OUT'THE
FALL AND WINTER STOCK
FROM TIIE
CASH CXxOTHIKTC
EMPORIUM,
INTO- ISS BROAD ST.,
COIAJMBUS, GA.
ROSETTE, MELICK S CO.
CLOTHING! CLOTHING!
THE LAST CHANCE OF THE SEASON!
AS WE PURCHASED AVERY LARGE STOCK.
THE SAME MUST BE SOLI) SOON.
WE DO NOT INTEND TO CARRY OVER ANY
Winter Stools..
IT IS NOT OUR MODE OF DOING BUSINESS
QUICK SALES AND NO OLD STOCK.
THIS IS THE MODERN SYSTEM
OF
Working tho Clothing Trade.
“QUICK SALES,” “SMALL PROFITS,”
AND
“FAIR VALUE FOR CASH.”
NO OLD STOCK.
CASH CLOTHING EMPORIUM,
125 Broad Street, Columbtia, Ga.,
ROSETTE, MELICK St, CO.
.
Tho Stock now offered consists in
part as follows:
300 OVER COATS AND RAG LANS,
SILK PLUSH. SILK BEAVER, BLACK CLOTH,
MOSCOW, BEAVER, PILOT CLOTHS,
SEAL SKIN, MOHAIR,
FUR COATINCS AND FANCY CASS,
Prices from $3 to $35.
1,000 DRESS FROCKS AND BUSINESS COATS,
Prices front $3 to ‘s2s.
1,000 PAIR OF PANTS from $1 25 tn slo
1,000 VESTS 1 00 tn In
Gent.’s Furnishing Goods.
2,000 WHITE and FANCY SHIRTS, embracing
all variety, styles and qualities, varying in price
from CO cents to $3 50.
Under Shirts! Under Shirts ! &c.
CASHMERE, MKKENO, SAXONY WOOL,
SHAKER KNIT, SHAKER FLANKL, BROWN
AND WHITE COTTON, LAMB’S WOOL,
AND MERENO FINISH, BLUE AND RED
FLANNEL, sell from CO cents tn $2 50.
LADIES’ MERENO VESTS.
BONNET BOXES, TRAVELING TRUNKS.
150 GENT.’S SHAWLS and BLANKETS, from
42 50 to $lO.
100 OIL and RUBBER OVER COATS, from $2
to f8 00.
Boys and Youths’ Clothing.
150 OVER COATS Price from $2 50 to $lO
150 CASS FROCK COATS 250 to 10
100 CLOTH and Sat. Round JACKETS 200 to 0
280 PAIR CASS, and SATT. PANTS... 150 to 0
100 SILK and CASS. VESTS 175 to I
We intend to have no old stock ! Wo there
fore invite every citizen and stranger, who wish
to purchase ltcudy-Made Clothing, to visit us and
he convinced.
To avoid Old Stock, the Closing Out
Prices of the Season are astounding,
and astonishing Low! Will convert
every skeptic at the
CASH CLOTHING EMPORIUM,
NO. 125 BROAD ST., COLUMBUS, GA.,
ROSETTE, MELICK A, CO.
Columbus, Dec. 2, 1858.
BUILDING LOTS.
OR sale, in tho Town of Girard, Ala., throe
handsome Lots, Nos, 7, H amt 18, four
acres each, adjoining each other. On one of siiid
Lots, No. IS, there is a tine spring of water.
Apply to W. K. HARRlS,agent,Columbus, Ga.,
or W. C. YONU E, owner, Yonge’g, Russell Cos., Ala
August 26, 1858-ts
FOli RENT,
A GOOD House, with all necessary out- a—,
buildings, in the upper part of tho ijjfjl
city. For particular, apply to .WJUuI
_Dec. 14-ts LEDNUM A DAVID.
TO SUE XT,
AVERY desirable Dwelling on Broad „ „
street, with four rooms, kitchen, aud
other out-houses, and a good well ofi|Szl
water. Possession givon immediately. Jljjkjjl.
Apply to JOHN B. STRUITEU.
Columbus, Dec. 8-ts
FOR RENT,
AVERY desirable Dwelling House, con- j.
titiuing seven rooms, adjoining Mr. W?a
Atkinson’s, and near tbe Presbyterian Jllfm
Church. Possession given Ist January, 1858.
N,iv. 27, 1858-ts U. W. NANCE.
FOR RENT,
fTIWO STORES now fitting up at .Vn. 34 -.-a
Broad Rtroet. Apply at tho
Nov. 20-ts SUN OFFICE. -Bit*
FOR RENT,
CJIHE CITY HOTEL, on Broad street, XpU
X near the Market House. Apply to
P. (HITTINGEK, JHIal
October 2-ts At Rankin’s Old Stand.
FOR SALK,
riYWO comfortable Residences and Lots, , ~
I one ou tho coiner of Thomas and
Mclntosh streets, aud the other on the Hajjjlj
corner of Thomas and Mercer streets, one
containing a half and the other a quarter acre.
Apply to r. WILIIELM.
Calumtins, Oa., Oct. 2-ts
FOR RENT. ■ ,
SI KVERAL comfortable Dwellings suit
> able for small families. For further liiijjil
information apply to D. D. nMm.b■.■■■■ I : l l
Agent, or T. F. RIDENIIOUR,
Sept. 21. MM. if At Hogan’s old Coraer.
VALUABLE PROPERTY
FOII SAUK.
lAM anxious to sell the fol
lowing property: ilrin’^.-"A
No. 3, on tlie Female Whfjmßi Lei
my Square, on which is a g.miifl|g yj[|P| ■ a - H
Dwelling and Out-Houses. IBjrbjoHj fjri
No. 15, vacant Lot near tho wharf.
Part of No. 10, noar tiio Bridge, in the City of
Columbus.
A L SO
No. 30, Half Aero Lot in Girard.
No. 18, “ “ “ “ <>
No. 157, “ “ “ “
No. 198,
N0.206, “ “ “ “
N0.300, “ “ “ “ “
No. 19, Four “ “ “
No. 24, “ “ “ “ “
Apply to P. A. CLAYTON,
Deo. 7-tjanl or F. G. WILKINS,
VALUABLE PROPERTY
FOII SALE Oil RENT.
f|’l IK subscriber offers for sale
l bis place in Alabama,on tlie 1
Crawford Road, two und a bill f j l:
miles from Columbus. It eon-fl|iiijQi|kll
tains forty acres; lias on it
now framed House witli three rooms, twool'which
(with cbimnios) are 18 by 20 feet; a ten feet entry,
ami piazza fronting the road, and a kitelien, smoke
house and stables. There is also a well of good
water, whicli does not fail at any season of tlie
year. Twenty acres of tbe above land were in
cultivation this year. Any amount of vegetables
for market may lie raised. The road to town is
good, either by the upper or lower bridge, there
being no liill of any consequence on either route.
He also offers for sale or rent, low Tor cash, bis
Hotel in Girard. That place is so wi ll known that
a description of it is hardly necessary.
Nov. W-tdec2s ISAAC McGKIIKE.
FOR SALE OR RENT,
fpilHtß new and pleasant
I. Residences, half mile north Ji
of tlie city, will’ ill ie . P"n t
out-bnildiugs attached. pc ’ I jJI). | jl
For terms, Ac., inquire of
HARRISON A PITTS.
Nov. 15-3 m or T. I. PEARCE
BACON! BACON I
A CHOICE lot of 1(1 RUED SIDES and SHOUL
DERS, A No 1 and no mistake, just received
and for sale at the
Dec. 1. ALABAMA WAREHOUSE.
