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VOLHIE XLIV.]
Jinion & § f t o r b t r,
!S PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IX MILLEDGEVILLE. GA.,
BY
jjoroHTox, Barnes &. JMoore,
$2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year
S. N. iSOUCitiTON, Editor.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 19, 1873.
NUMBER 17.
-j ilK "FEDERAL
i;j 'X KEUOR DEII *
UNION ” and the “SOUTH
were consolidated August 1st.
being in its Forty-Third Volume and
its Fifty-Third Volume.
advertising.
Duli-'r 1 ur t quart* of ten lines for first ii
, , ents tor < a< h subafqmut continuance,
n the • rates will be allowed on advertise-
. months, or longer.
is by Societies, Obituaries
irations for office and Communications
I.urged as transient advertising.
lit
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
•«»n: Anministratioi
Guardianship,.
Land,
$2 50
5 00
3 00
v D V E RTISEM ENTS.
day ol saL
Executors or Guar-
* first Tuesday- in the
im h *n and 3 in the af-
u which the property*
be given in a publl
i.al property must be given in
sale day.
':s of an citato must be pub-
made to the Court of Ordinary
Is- published for one month,
iistration, Guardianship, kc.,
suiissiou from Administration
xission from Guardianship 40
age must be published monthly
lo^t papers for the full space of
•s from Executors or Admin-
iven by the deceased, the full
mtinued
ording to these,
Book and Job Work, of all kinds,
iATLY EXECUTED
Mill
fall .and winter
inery, Dress Goods, Fancy Goods,
AND
All the J\ovelties of the Season.
Church Directory.
BAPTIST CHURCH-
Services let and 3d Sundays iu each month, at II
o’clock, a m and 7 pm.
Sabbath School at D 1-2 o'clock, am. O. M. Cone,
Supt. Rev D E BUTLER, Pastor.
“JOHN JONES, TREASURER,
BRANCH. SONS & CO., BANKERS.”
METHODIST CHUBCH.
Hours of service on Sunday : 1L o’clock, a m, and
7pm
Sunday School 3 o’clock p. in. Teachers meeting ii
P* ni—W-E- Frank hind. Superintendent.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7 o'clock, p m
Rev. A J JARRELL, Pastor.
VISIS. I®, a. L1NDRIJM
DKEsi GOODS, Trimming'-' E”iicW’^d« h l pnrcliased a large and beautiful
at lower prices (]ian ever i7 e f ore ‘ ' ( ds ’ &c> -> & C-> winch are now arriving,
assortment cf MILLINERY,
ioK, and which she is able to sell
ever brought to t
tion FEATHERS
**?^ N F S ; f J ATS, FEATHERS, RIBBONS, &c.,
Ids n,Xt wafv%rv?o d -FJn^ St 3 ** a ,“ d *>* b«uty and richness surpass anything
*• which she can^e'l at'astonishing LOW^PIUCES^ 6 ° f ^ hMd *° :ne a '* d «“*■'
BRESSS
GOODS.
lius', 1 Merinm-J, I Empr“, f '‘I’buL^'ooera’rlothsoF/H e , on8i f tin 8 of Silks. British Lus‘re, Sateens, Pop.
■ celebrated Reding,.te ' ° f a “ shades and col °'^ Also, Camels' Hair Goods, suitable lor
- LARGE stock of
Ladies, Misses and Children’s Shoes and Hosiery.
Hair Work of all Kinds,
A General Assortment of Toilet Articles,
T °J S by th* Million and Jewelry of all Kinds.
PINS, NEEDLES and SEWING COTTON of all kinds
THOMPSON’S GLOVE-FITTING CORSETS,
-AND THE WORLD-RENOWNED SEAMLESS GLOVES,
® 3SS anffliasr, Old ladies Caps, &c.
»n llj r - n cy or inc Gelcoiatc l Domestic Daoer natteina. and * •• • r 1
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Ser vices every Sabbath at 11 o'clock, a ni and
p. m.
Sabbath School at 3 p in. T. T. Windsor, Supt.
Prayer meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock, p m.
Rev. G. T. UOETCHIUS, Pastor.
all kinds fre
1 cents up. Her
Miliedgerilie, Ga., Oct. 8, 18T3,
PROMPTLY AXD NJ
ernep.
ujestic paper patterns, and can supply ladies with patterns of
peu:njr_wmjake place in a lew days of which notice will be civen.
MAKING,
Still done in the best Styles.
II 3m
m 25 s s
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
St. Stephens Church (Episcopal) Sunday morning
11 o clock, Sunday eveuiug 7 o’clock.
Rev Mr. STOXEY, Pastor.
TRINITY (COLORED) METHODIST CHURCH.
Hours of service on Sunday 11 o'clock, a. in., 3 p.
m. and 7 p. m.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock, a. m. Teachers meet
ing every Friday night.— Washington Phillips, Supt.
Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
Rev. E. li. OLIVER, Pastor.
Lodges.
TEMPERANCE.
•tlillc-ilgrvillr Council No. 1, meets in the Sen
ate Chamber at the State House on every Friday
evening at 7o’clock. J. VV. HKRTY , W P.
F. G. Grieve, Sec’y.
MASONIC.
Uc-nerolem I.orfgr Xo 3 FA M , meets 1st and
•id Saturday nights of each month at Mas- uic Hall.
G D Case, Sec’y. IR1JV II HOWARD, \V M
Temple Chapter meets the second and fourth
Saturday nights in each month.
G D Case, Sec y. S G WHITE, H P
Uill.dgoviii, I.otlgr of Perfection A.-, &
A. - . S.'. It.-, meets every Monday night.
SAM'LG WHITE. T PGM
G I) Case, Exc Grand Sec’v.
TO TH : WEST l TO THE WEST!
iiiHitfi to follow the advice of tin
-Ei- -I'-! v -'one,” it would be* well to consid
r : ■- • t-» ii.; v rite journey to your “Homes ii
.ee from danger as human skill
..:ui con-*ruction a road has been put into
rat. t.: p si file line from Nashville, Teun.,
>:.L* v -E-: ’fire 2real City o, the world.” This line,
Si. Louis &. Southeastern Railway,
enviable reputation by its
pt time, «ure connections, mid the ltiaauifi-
; - j .• / r eq opniunt. Its trains ere made up of
i;.:v rars, provided with the celebrated
: ; W ••-tiii.jlioiue ai.’-!*r:ike
- I'ti'huaii I'alciee Dcawing-
w.tiiout change from Nashville to
S Louis N ads to offer Rich advantages,
\ n: . • r equipment. H bj, then, journey by
■ :■> purri-a-e tickets to St.
Louis or the \V«’-t by any other line, remembering that
The ‘••’vl. Sioni<4 No.iUichmIo iT’
q iick -f. best and only line under one
• . N lo St. Louis, and ii fiom 60 to200
tin-Fhor?-bt to St. L ; ii, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver,
California. T.xxs and a!i western points. It is also the “Chiea-
f -r y .rst Ives and your
• ’ > i -tt< r, to l hari.es
■•oar C di^ge street Depot,
W. B. DAVENPORT,
General IE. ket Agent St. Louis.
THE NEW YORK STORE
Is Opening a I arge Stock of FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
C
OX ISTINO of Fine J lE-AMCIK
meut uf I,A DIEn Ik It HUN rood
Ji fc ({INOEM, AEPAtTElS, and a complete assort
Also, a complete stock of SHAWL*- ami CLOAKS of every
Also, Alilc DOMBSiEIS GOODS AT FACTO&1T FRXCBS.
My Boot and Shoe Department
, !t. 8 .V p R , . i . c . d wil1 ' i ' 11 kinds and <I uaUte 8 of BOOTS and SHOES, which I will sell at VERY
LOW PRICES.
READ'S* ZYZADE CLOTHING A SPECIALITY.
I can fit a Imy from three yens of age to a man a thousand years old. Myprices willbo FAR CIIEAPFR
Uian ever before. As money is scarce and 1 am overstocked with Goods, a little irmey will to buy a good deal.
Gi ve me a call before purchasing elsewhere, as I will take pleasure in showing g^oods. Come and see lor your
self liiat I can sell goods as c heap as they car be sold by anybody this side of New York.
II. ADEER.
JUrLook for the “NEW YORK STORE” oa Wayne Street.
Milledgeville, Sept 15, 1873 . 8 ;/ in
Beyond ths Riississippi!
have already gone, and thousands more
t-ir - towards new homes in the fertile
i-i going to Mi.-, ouri, Kansas,Nebraska,
Wyoming, Nevada, Oregon oi Cali-
»n n n i a elieap, sate, quick and direct
Louis, over the Missoni i Pacific Rai'-
Day Coaches and Pullma
Tuousam
krr turning ti;
West Toth
Colorado, Uii
foruia, »e rei
rente, rin St,
road, which i
Sleepers from S.. Louis to principal points in the
West, iriiimulchaitsf We believe that the Missouri
Pacific Railroad has the best track and the finest and
safwt cqirpmeut of any line west of the Mississippi,
and its c-ncectii.i.s with roads further West are
proa'pt a-,.| reliable. The Texas connection of this
•••ad is uo-.v complete.!, and passengers ate offered a
first class ,'iii rail route frrin St. Louis to Texas, either
v -r too Mi-sou: i, Kansas Si. Texas i£. It., via Srdatia,
".rover tlic A lactic and Pacific I£. It. via Viuita.
Kormaps,:i;i:e table.!, information ns to rates, routes,
Arc, ive refer our readers to E. A Ford. General
Passenger A^ent, .St Louis, Mo. Questions trill be
cheerful 1 tf and promptly answered.
SmigTaticn Turning.
(leap i'an-n in Seulli-west iklissoiiri.
The Allan'ic and Pacific Railroad Company offers
The Cheap Grocery and Provision
STORE!
-:0:-
IF YOU WANT TO SAVE MONEY BUY YOUR GROCERIES AND
PROVISIONS AT THE CHEAP STORE,
WE ARE DETERMINED TO SELL LOW.
Don’t Stop until you fini the Slight Store, on Wayne Street ZVorth
Xtffascnic Ball.
Missouri, at kmn
time, with free t
land i
13 to §1
.-pen a
i Central and South west
per acre, ou seven years
for pa: tv
St Louis
from St. Louis to all
I limaic, si :i, timber, mineral wealth,
• and law-abiding society invite emi-
;.oi: 's to tills land of fruits and flowers,
addre's A. Tuck, Land Commissioner,
A New S£in a e!
i HE undersigned lies opened a new store
Next to Otto XvZiUer & Co.,
where l.e has a complete stock of
iin hoods, i lofhiug, Bools & Shoes,
S! ITS, for Undies am! Ciicutlcnirn,
SADDLERY, CROCKERY, etc,
Aid respectfully invites the citizens of Baldwin and
bljdceut comities to call and examine his stock. He
• "Hies lo locate among you and will endeavor to merit
.‘"iirpatr,cage by strict ami polite attention to busi-
' " M an-! low prices. He feels confident that his stock,
quality and prices, is equal io any in the State; bat
wt ihg „s believing—so come and see for yourselves.
FELIX RUSSAK.
Milledgeville, Oct. 1 1, 1873. 12 4t
’ F. EMJG’S'
Siool uikS Shoe Store.
npjBE nndersigned is raoeiving bis Fail an d Winter
I Stock of B(70IS and SHOES. Nearly his entile
Stock was made to order and he guarantees satisfac-
t ou in quality and price. He has a tine lot of
l adle**, Misses, and Children’s Shoes
which not only look well but will wear well-
PLANTERS TAME NOTICE!
Family Groceries, Provisions, and Supplies of all Kinds,
AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICES. On hand and to arrive the following articles :
2,t UttO lbs C R Sides, 5,(1 0 lbs Shou'ders, 500 lbs choice Pig hams, 1,000 lbs Leaf Lard, at Low Figures.
Flour all grades. Corn. Bran and Fine Feed for Stock. Seed Oats, Sugars all kinds, Coffee cheap, Goshen
Butter, and Cream Cheese, Piu X’ics, Craekuells, Snapella, Kentucky Butter, Lemon Crackers, and other
varieties. Mackerel in barrel-! and kits. >io:gau Sous and other Soaps. Potash, Caudles, Kerosene Oil,
Soda, Copperas, Powder and Shot. Cotton Cards, Chewing anil Smoking Tobacco, Pickles and Oysters, Sift-
ers, Buckets, Brooms, Choice Segars. Come and see us ami save your money. Quick sales and small profits
is our motto.
G3BEN and DZl'^ ££22333 Wanted, for which highest price will be paid.
Having secured the services of Alr.C- B. A1UNDAY. who will be always on liaud to meet his ( Id cus
tomers and attend to the wants of new ones, we hope to be able to give satisfaction to all, and merit a liberal
patronage.
SIMIEL EVANS & CO.
l(i till J an 8 74
|| His Slock of Gsnikii]
ao’s Foots and Shoes©
m W ©S’ 9- : - -
fc%»are of Superior q’iaji
ty and cannot fail to jSL.
i
t i jjivi; satisfact on. Ht* is prepared to make
Ihmtg to order and do all kinds ot repairing; and
Shoes or Bools sold by him tip, he mends them
without charge.
f^-lfyou with the worth of your money give lura a
call.
F. II AUG.
Of
Milledgeville, Nov 8, 1ST!
FURNITURE
FURNITURE !!
W. cfc tr. CAnZtKBR,
AVE ON HAND a large assortment cf FINE AND COMMON FURNITURE, con
sisting of
%
H
Beautiful Bed-Room Setts, Bureaus, Mirrors, Tables, Chairs,
ISedatcadM Rti«l iIlnitnisseH of nil sizes and qualities.
RepairiDg of Furniture and Upholstering Done to Order on short notice.
Window-Shades and Fixtures, Corner and Wall Brackets, &c.
WILLOW BASKETS, CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES, Large lot of Children’s Toys, such as Doll Car-
ringes, Express Wagons, &c.
BUGGY HARNESS for sale. Also, all kinds of Material for Carriage Makers and Repairers. Ready-made
Wagon and Buggy Wheels always on hand.
Doors, Sash and Dlinds, and Fixtures for Blinds.
jj^gp* We guarantee Low Prices and Good Work. Give us a call.
scs
All styles of Metallic and Wood Burial Cases and Caskets always on hand.
Orders for cases wil! receive prompt attention at all hours—day or night.
W. & J. CARAKER.
llilledgevtlle, Ga., Sept. 2, 1873. 6 8at
Mil edgcville. Ga.,Sept. 30th, 1873.
It) 2m.
MACON CARDS.
DAVIS SMITH
DEALER IN
SADDLES and HARNESS,
CAKKIAGK MATEKIAI.,
Shop Findings, leather of all kinds,
Children’s Carriages.
•«2 ( IIERKV
-5'igu-t 25,1873.
S’J REET, MACON GA.
5 3m
3. 2. ,T OKK'SSO N,
Dealer in
■■ITCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER WIRE,
t ini- Cutl.-ry, Musical Iustraments, Strings, ic., tc.
Sola Agent fur the Celebrated
“HMOA'D PEBBLE SPECTACLES, EVE-GLASSES, Ac
ortic-dar Altputi*)n given t<> Repairs on Fine and Difficult
Tt Watches.
J kWELUY, &c., REPAIRED, and ENGRAVING.
Molberry it Second St:
A Pril, SO, 1873.
ets, MACON GEORGIA.
40 ly.
LANIER HOUSE.
, 15. Ol'B,
Mulberry Street,
E-1 opt ietcr.
Macon,
Georgia.
e . tthove named Hotel lias been recently refur
dent ' 1 RI ‘ d ®Ked up for the aceoinmodation of tran
fi&d w vll as permanent Boarders. Persons will
eenir ii - r to stop at this Ilousa. as its
ine.„! 1 , cat ' ( ’ u makes it a very desir
■aerri T“'*"‘" u '""scb n a very desirable place for
f,r for an e . and families coming to thecity for business,
PLE nA°Aw r ; iGl P^aaure. An ELEGANT
it as been fitted
'“mmeycml travelers.
up for the special use
tW«h Me r alwa J 4 supplied with all the luxuries of
by n n „f° D ’A rom flrht markets, and can be surpassed
/ none m ^ south.
oul that sfiot-bag bill of silver to
* i rroermonts 4 b rig • _
B. P. WALKER,
(Late of S. T. 4l B. I’. Walker
J. II. DOBBS,
(Late of Wise, Dobbs 4t Co.)
WAUKER & DOBBS,
SUCCESSORS TO
ise 9 Bobbs &> Co.*
IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
China, Crockery and Glass Ware, Silver Plated Ware,
rQC&71t5 JkND TA3Z.S CUILE&7,
nir I AMPS WICKS, BURNERS, CHIMNEYS, CHANDELIERS, GAS AND KEROSENE
LUAL. wiu, l. FIX ^. ui{KS PORTER’S PLANTATION AND COMBINATION IIOES.
,, Ve C all the attention of Merchants to our immense and varied stock of the above Goods, feeling
thatweeangive entire satisfaction iu regard to quality and price. Our retail Department is also complete.
Walker ike Bobbs, MACON, h a.
October 14, 1873,
12 Gm.
GcO TCI MACON
AND
Buy Your Furniture and Carpets
• OF
THOMAS WOOD, Next to Lanier 11 muse.
THE LOWEST PRICES EVER KNOWN !
METAL CASES AND CASKETS, WOOD COFFINS OF ALL KINDS,
At prices that defy competition. Night calls answered ot the Lanier House.
SBOSSAS WOOD, DSacon, Oa.
Oct. II, 1873.
12 Cm.
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, CURTAINS.
Fall Trade 1873.
& BROTHER*
Sl4ME$ 6. BAILIE
uaeot 205 2>road Street, A.ZTGCTSTA., GA..,
. .. T stock 0 f CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS. SHADES and CURTAINS ever offered
Be^etocaU^kNA
A Constitutional Convention
Under this head the Chronicle and Sen
tinel has the following:
Since 1870 a number of the daily and
weekly journals of Georgia have been
calling for a State Convention, in order
that a new Constitution might be framed
and submitted to the people for ratifica
tion. Recently the politicians have caught
up the cry, and the subject is being vig
orously agitated in certain sections.
For our own part we desire a Convention
called, principally that the capital ques
tion may be fairly and firmly settled.—
Wo do not believe that a majority of the
people of Georgia wish the capital of the
State located in Atlanta. We do believe
that a majority of the people of the State
are in favor of transferring the seat of
government to Milledgeville, where it
fitfully belongs. The section of tfie
Constitution removing it to Atlanta was
rammed down our throats along with re
lief, homesteads, and the good features of
the Constitution of 1868. At the next
election we wish tfie question put sepa
rate and distinct, in order that tfie real
wish of the people may be ascertained.—
Biennial sessions of the Legislature
should also be provided for, as the State
cannot affo2’d the expense of annual ses
sions, accomplishing, as they do, so little
of good. By all means let the Legisla
ture in January put the question to the
people. Convention or no Convention ?
What Some Think Of It.
The (Manchester (N. H.) Union takes
the following view of the social revolu
tion as it was changed by the war and as
it affects New England:
Then, what is the matter ? We are
victims of bad politics. As we have be
fore explained more at length than we
shall do now, two principal influences
have worked against us, and, strange to
say, by the co-operation of our own peo-
ple in the Republican party. First, is the
unnatural and premature developement
of the West, by the action of the Gener
al Government, in giving away land and
constructing railroads. This has made
enormous and fatal drafts on our popular
tion, and, as a rule, the men who have
gone are not as well off as they might
have been at home. Next, the slavery
question operated against us for thirty
years. Onr good friends at the South
had in their care three or four millions of
barbarians to feed, clothe, doctor and dis
cipline, while they worked for New Eng
land. They discharged their duty faith
fully and no peasantry on the face of the
earth were so well cared for and content
ed as the Southern blacks. They were
infinitely better off, physically and mor
ally fifteen years ago than they are now,
or ever will be again. The system was
of immense advantage to New England,
which, to-day, would have been covered
all over with cotton mills if she had let
it alone- But she would not, and the
epitaph suggested by Elwood Fisher
many years ago, as prophesy, has been
verified: “ Here lies a people, who, in
giving liberty to the slave, lost their own.”
This is literally tine. The liberation of
the negro has made us slaves of debt,
even if we are otherwise free.
General Toombs.
General Toombs has been making some
very notable speeches in different sections
of the State. We published a synopsis
of his address at Warren ton, which, brief
and sketchy as it was, went the rounds of
the press North and South. We now
learn that this distinguished gentleman
last spoke at Washington, Wilkes county,
his place of residence. He was entirely
conservative, full of wisdom, practical,
pertinent and abounding - in those terse,
epigramatic sentences which cling to the
memory and are worthy of the utterance
of a Mirabeau. Gen. Toombs takes a
view of the Grange system somewhat op
posite to the jiopular view of that Order,
with regard to secrecy and the hocus-po
cus about middle-men. He urged the
Patrons of Husbandly to organize for
their protection against monopolies and
rings, and gave them some very whole
some advice generally.
By all means let us invite Gen. Toombs
to Augusta and hear, from his own lips,
what he knows and thinks about the “sit
uation.”—[Chkon. & Sentl.
The Grangers.—The Grangers are call
ed to meet at Atlanta, by delegations, on
the 25th inst. All the Granges of the
cotton States are invited to send repre
sentatives.
We trust that more com and less cob
ton will be the upshot of this gathering
of the fanner clans
Mr. Cresswell’s scheme for postoffice
banks does not please the Cleveland
Leader, a Republican organ in Ohio.
That journal shares the popular opinion
that the Post-office Department lias more
on its hands now than it shows a capacity
to manage well, and in a very disloyal
spirit says:
There are a hundred ways in which
Mr. Cresswell could expend his surplus
time to better advantage than in devis
ing new schemes to increase his already
too burdensome duties, and we f$or he
will be reminded this winter, when he
asks to run the telegraphs and savings
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 17, 1873.
Mr. Thomas P. Branch. Banker and Cot
ton Merchant, Augusta, Ga.:
Sir—In the Herald of yesterday morn
ing, I see what purports to be a reply to
“Treasurer Jones’ Circular,” in which cer
tain questions are propounded that should
be answered both to you and to the peo
ple of Georgia. And just here, in the be
ginning, my dear sir, in order that yon
may not forget our relations towards
each other, you will pardon me if I ignore
your personality, the plain Mr. T. P.
Branch, for I really could not consent to
hold any communication with you, nor
have I anything to say to you, as I never
stoji to quarrel with gentlemen about
what, after all, is merely a matter of-edu-
cation and taste. So, it is Messrs. Branch,
Sons & Co., Bankers and Dealers in Gov
ernment, State and Municipal and Rail
road Seciuitie6, etc., to whom I address
myself, and, in doing so, I shall endeavor
to confine myself to a plain statement of
facts, and submit to the people of Geor
gia if my deductions therefrom are not
legitimate and proper. Before taking up
your questions, which I propose to do
seriatim, I hope you will excuse me for
adverting to an expression of opinion by
you, that my circular (which you are
pleased to term “ill-timed and ill-temper
ed”—“will do more harm than all the acts
of the bankers and brokers combined.”
My dear sir, you accord me too much
power, and do great injustice to your
guild. And you really think that it would
have been better for the State’s credit and
interest if I had been content lo confine
myself to my “legitimate ” duties, etc. I
Well, yon know that we are not blessed
with “education,” or endowed with “taste”
or discretion to guard us from mistakes.
Some seven years ago the State of Geor
gia issued what are known as the Western
and Atlantic Railroad Mortgage Bonds.
When they were ready for the market, it
was thought best to send an agent
to New York and negotiate them.—
He was sent, and as soon as he
got there the “Bears" got after him, like
those we are told of in Sacred History
that ate up the bad boys who made game
of the “old bald head.” They persuaded
and almost convinced lam that he could
not sell seven per cent bonds of the
State of Georgia, secured by mortgage
on the State Railroad, at more than eighty-
five, and the prospects became so gloomy
that our Governor went on and found
them perfectly becalmed. He, however,
succeeded in getting off some four or five
hundred thousand at the minimum fixed
by the act authorizing them—to-wit:
ninety cents. After that was done, one of
these same fellows who had been persuad
ing the agent and trying to persuade the
Governor that they were not worth more
eighty-five, entreated almost with tears
that he might have an hundred thousand
at ninety, and pleaded that he ought to
have them, as he was a native Georgian.
After some time the Governor consented;
and having sold all that there was pres
ent necessity for, he came home, and the
sales of the rest of the issue were made
as the money was needed, mostly at home.
The prices rose gradually to ninety-three,
ninety-five, ninety-seven and a half, and
a sale of a considerable amount was about
being perfected in Macon, when our man
who had begged so importunately for the
bonds at ninety, actually sent orders to
Macon to offer those same bonds at nine-
five cents, there interrupting and jire-
venting our sale at par. Now this was all
“legitimatehe had a right to offer his
bonds at what price he pleased, and to
sell what were his own when and where
he could ; but was it right or even pret
ty in him to do so under the circumstan
ces ? I thought it was not right, and
wrote him what he considered an “ill-
timed, ill-tempered,” and perhaps imper
tinent letter to that effect. I believe he
wrote to the Governor—at the same
time advising him to make me attend to
my “legitimate” duties, else I would ruin
the credit of the State, and we never
would sell another bond in New York or
elsewhere. We did get them all oft’,
however, maugre his opinion, and mostly
thereafter at between ninety-five and an
hundred. So you see even those who have
been “educated” to these things, gradu
ates perhaps of Wall street and the Stock
Exchange, don’t always km>w everything;
and sometimes most “ignorant” of what
they are most assured—make mistakes ?
Your light remaks about prtriotism and
State pride are very natural. I believe
they are ignored by some private bankers
and brokers, dealers in Government,
State, municipal and railroad securities,
etc. I therefore have nothing to say
about that, as one’s profession, or, if you
please, his “legitimate” business depends
a a great degree, if not entirely, on his
tastes, education” and natiu’al proclivi
ties.
You say you were opposed to the issu
ing of bonds at this time, and thought,
•‘heavy tax payers” as you" are, that the
best tiling to have done was to levy taxes
sufficient to meet the exigency. Do you
not know that it wopld have required
two dollars on every hundred of taxable
property “to pay ora 1 way?” And do you
not also know that the large mass of the
people would have been beggared to pay
the taxes? I dare say that the sellers of
guano and provisions at one bundled per
cent, profit, and lenders of money at two
per cent, per month, could have paid
their taxes easily. But what could have
been expected of the buyers of guano
and provisions and borrowers of money
at those rates ?
Now, then, to your question as to my
“authority” to purchase the bonds offered
last Spring in New Y'ork at 85. I sus
pected a trick of the “Bears” to depreciate
them and give them a low position before
they appeared on the market; and I meant
to oppose it. I had good reasons to
know that the bonds were not there, as
not one had been sold, or even sent from
the Treasury at that time. The answer
of the broker to our agent, when called
on to produce the bonds was: “The par
ty out or the city!” Mark that! (Quite
a common answer, I believe, among the
guild when detected in attempting to sell
what they have not) I expected nothing
else, and of course the State wa6 in no
danger of having her funds so misapplied.
The answer of our agent in New York
and the letter from the broker who had
been induced to offer them justified my
opinion.
The second instance in which you wish
to know my “ authority” began in this
wise; A firm in Georgia, as I said in my
circular, whose name I did not therein
mention, issued a card, or circular adver
tisement, dated 13th September, 1873,
that they had for sale at 96 cents, with
the October coupon on, ten thousand dol
lars of new Georgia 8’s. This was brought
to my notice by a gentleman who came to
the Treasury ostensibly to buy bonds.—
When I refused to sell them at less than
par, he told me he could get them
at 96. On my expressing douht he
showed me the card—a printed one, cer
mine and of the State, and requested him
to open negotiations. He did so by a
telegram dated 17th September, in these
words: "What will you sell ten thousand
new Georgia 8’s for ? Answer quick. —
The answer came same date. (I beg you
mark it also.) “Party out of city. Make
us best bid. Will report to-morrow.
The reply from here was: “Will give
for ten thousand delivered, here,” and
was answered on the 18th : “Have bought
ten for you at your limit. Party will de
liver in a few days.” On the 19th this
dispatch came : “Wired you yesterday of
purchase ; have advised seller that sale is
confirmed.” Answer from here same date:
“All light; we need the bonds. Send
them at once.” On the 24th, seven days
from the 17 th, when the first telegram
was sent, no bonds having arrived, we
“ wired” him; “Have you sent the bonds?
Answer quick.” And the answer came as
I expected: Bonds in New Y’ork. Will deliv
er from there. Please send currency herb
dy express.” The week was out—the end
was reached—the gentleman was convincd,
and the conclusion forced itself upon me,
unacquainted as I was with such “legiti
mate” business, and natm’ally “ ignorant"
withal, that it was an act in the play of
the “Bears”—and depreciation its object.
So you see in this instance, the money of
the State was in no danger of being mis
applied. -
Suppose, however, that the bonds had
been sent, and the money of the State
paid out for them. There is a clause in
the Code of Georgia which authorizes the
Governor to take up the unmatured
bonds, and I had the Governor’s authori
ty for the venture, that we might show
up to the tax payers of Georgia some of
the practices that whether intended or
not, were operating against the sale of
her bonds ; and I have no fears of con
demnation from the people or their rep
resentatives.
You may ask if I was operating for my
self or on account of the State ? Well,
as I did not expect to get them and was
not disappointed, it is very plain that I
WAS operating ior nobody.
l'on take the liberty of telling me what
I should say, and where I ought to stop.
I hope you will grant me the same privi
lege, “uneducated” as I am, and devoid
of “taste.” What! gentlemen, would you
curb the flight of aspiring genius? or
would you, because you have heard
enough-—perhaps more than yon enjoy—
deny to others the'enjoyment of the di
vine afflatus ? and because you have no
stomachs for the feast, persuade the host
that no one else is hungry ? Time was in
Georgia when this would have been con
sidered hardly good breeding—to say
nothing about “education” and taste.”
You are at a loss to understand how I
could offer 85 for new Georgia 8’s, and ex
pect others to take them at par. You
strangely forget that I proposed to accept
them of him who proposed to sell them,
and that when I proposed to give an
eight per cent, bond for a past due six
per cent, bond of the same size, I was
but doing what the law required me to do.
I had no money in the Treasury with
which to pay the over due bonds. The
new bonds were issued to take up the old,
dollar for dollar, and until all the new
bonds were sold, I did not feel that I was
treating the creditors of the State with
equal justice if I required some to take
the new 8’s in exchange, and give other
holders of old bonds currency. Is your
“education” or “taste” equal to that dis
tinction ?
Now, allow me to say what, in my opin
ion, you ought to have done as citizens of
Georgia. You should have said to the
person you say sent you for collection the
bond you forced to protest: “We cannot
as citizens of the State of Georgia, allow
oiuselves, even in the way of ‘legitimate’
business, to be made instruments of her
intended humiliation and discredit. Your
bond will be paid as soon as these bonds
can be sold, and we advise you to take an
eight per cent, bond in lieu of ft. We
regard the Nutting bonds as a first-class
investment, and, as heavy tax payers, are
interested in seeing them placed at a high
figure.” These are your own words.—
You could have further said to him that
he could not hurt the credit of the State
by forcing her bond to protest; that it
was already advertised to the world that
Georgia, depending on taxes from her
people, could pay nothing now but those
bonds ; that they were safely provided for
year by year, and that you had no fears
that they would not be paid at maturity.
All this I know, neither your “education”
nor your "taste,” unabiased by the idea
of trade, could have prevented your say
ing.
You try very hard to make it appear
when the holder of the old bond refused
the new eight in exchange, that I offered
him eighty five for his old bond. This,
and several other attempts to pervert my
language are, and appear so palpable on
perusal of my circifiar that further animad
version is unnecessary. But enough of all
this. I have to ask pardon of the public for.
dulling their senses with this review of your
sample of “education and taste,” and your
cruel attempt to expose my “ignorance.”
I might have made everybody, even yon,
understand what all this means by a sin
gle paraphrase of a stanza of the poet
ploughman, inimitaqle Burns:
Pliilo.-opliers tlieir eVu mny seek,
Anil raise a philosophic reek,
And physically causes seek
In time au' season ;
Bui tell ine money's name iu Greek,
I’ll tell the reason.
I am, gentlemen, your your obedient
servant, John Jones,
Treasurer.
JL Russian Anecdote.
The following anecdote, taken from the
Historical Memoirs of Segur, gives a live
ly picture of the spirit which reigned in
the Russian court, under tl:e sway of the
celebrated Catherine II.
A rich banker, named Sadeiland, enjoy
ed for a long time the licentious favor of
the Empress, but one day he suddenly
saw his house surrounded by an armed
force led by a commissary of the police,
who demanded to speak with him.
“ My dear sir,” said he to the frightened
banker, “ it grieves me t deeplv to have re
ceived orders from our gracious sovereign
to execute toward you a severity beyond
anything I have ever yet seen. I know
not what extraordinary often se”you have
committed to excite such extreme anger
in her Majesty as to induce her to com
mand a punishment so horrible and un-~
precedented.”
“ I do not understand a word of what
you are saying," said the astonished bank •
er ; “I am as much amazed as if yon" had
fallen from the clouds. What are the or
ders you have received ?"
I have not the coinage to tell you.—
And yet I shall be compelled to exeento
them.”
“Am I indeed so unfortunate as to have
lost her Majesty s confidence ?’’
“Ah! if that were all, sir. you M ould not
see me so disconsolate. You might re
gain her confidence and even her favor—
but—-
“But am I then banished from Rus
sia ?”
“That would indeed be a sad misfor
tune ; yet with your riches you could find
a hospitable reception in any other coun
try. But—”
“Oh, heavens! is it possible that I am
to be exiled to Siberia ? ’
“ Even from there you might, sooner or
later, be called to Russia.”
“ Perhaps, then, you are going to put
me in prison ?”
“ I wish it were so, for then you might
be liberated. ”
“ Am I then compelled to undergo the
“ knout ?”
The “ knout" is a dreadful punishment,
to be sure, but it is uot always fatal.”
“Then, oh, then you lead me to death!
tell mo plainly; tliis suspense is worse
than death itself."
“Know then, that your most gracious
Empress has given orders to take oft'you
entire skin.”
“To take off my skin!” exclaimed San-
derland, seized with horror—"to flay me
alive!” But, regaining his self-command,
he added, “ No, no; it cannot be; either
you have lost your senses, Mr. Commissary
or your most high mistress has lost hers.
Is it possible you made no answer when
you received such cruel orders ?”
“ I did more than any other would have
dared to do. I did not conceal my grief
and surprise. I lingered in the Imperial
f resence; and had actually begun an hum-
le remonstrance to her Majesty, when
our gracious sovereign, turning to look
on me, with a look and voice of anger,
bade me be gone and perform her will.
I still seem to hear her threatening and
appalling words—‘Go,’ said her Majesty,
‘and never forget that it is your indispen
sable duty to execute, without question,
the commands I think you worthy to re
ceive from me.’-'
It is impossible to desc.tibe the agita
tion, the anguish, or the despair of the
poor Saderland. After he had for a time
given way to the violence of liis distress,
the Commissary told him that he was al
lowed a quarter of an hour to settle his
affairs. After much entreaty, however,
the officer consented, at the risk of his
own life, to write and implore clemency-—
and he followed the letter himself. Before
appearing at the court he went to. seek his
friend, Col. Bruce.
The Count thought that the Commissa
ry must have made a mistake, and took
him directly to the Imperial Palace.—.
Theae, leaving him in the ante chamber,
he obtained udmission to the pres ice of
the Empress, to whom he related the
whole affair.
What was his astonishment to overhear
the Empress exclaim: “Just heaven!
what atrocity! There can be no doubt that
Niecloff (the Commissary) is mad! Quick!
Count, take horse before it is too late, and
deliver my poor banker from his alarm;
and assure him of my favor and good
wishes.”
The Count hastened to communicate
this order to the Commissary, and was
yet more astonished when, returning to
the presence of the Empress, he heard
her exclaim, mid bursts of loudest laugh
ter:
“ Now I understand the cause of this
strange and incomprehensible scene. I
have for several years had a fine dog,
which I valued highly, and had given the
name of Saderland, both for the sake of
a joke on my good banker, and also in
compliment to the English gentleman of
that name from whom I obtained the dog.
Early this morning I gave orders to
Nieeloff to take off his skin entire
in order to have it stuffed, as the poor
thing was dead. He seemed to hesitate
whether to obey, and I was very angry,
■because I thought it was silly pride ou
his part.”
The Centennial.—We apprehend that
the South v ill take but little stock in the
Centennial Exposition, notwithstanding
the appeals made by our Northern breth
ren. During Fair week an attempt was
made to get Georgia interested in the
matter, but it was far from being success
ful. It is true that a small meeting was
held and a feiv gushing speeches deliver
ed, but farther than this not much pro
gress M as made. We have nothing to say
against the exposition part of the cele
bration. Those persons in Georgia • who
have articles which they wish to exhibit
should by ail means cany them on to
Philadelphia. But when it comes to State
aid for the enterprise that is another mat
ter. There are those who say the people
of Georgia will endorse any “reasonable
action” in the premises which may be ta
ken by the Legislature. We do not be-
lieve the people of Georgia would endorse
or approve anything like au appropriation
or subscription to the stock of the so-
called patriotic celebration. If the citi
zens of the North, East, and West, feel
like celebrating the hundredth anniversa
ry of a nation’s freedom, let them go
ahead. We have not had enough liberty
in the South during the past eight years
to feel like spending' much money or ex
hibiting much enthusiasm on the occasion.
—Chkon. & Sent’l.
It is said that a man from Missouri
is trying to buy the Mammoth Cave,
with the intention of abutting out tha
public aod living in it alone. We feer
there is hardly room enough in the
tainly not intended to bo “ hidden under !? av ® to accommodate as big l fool
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Long Time Coming.
We have been listening for it several
days and wondering why it didn’t come
along as usual. We couldn’t account for
the delay. But it has come at last, and
hoe it is:
Washlsgton, November 7.—Represen
tative James H. Platt, of Virginia, is
here and has much to say on the subject
of the late election in that State. He
charges that there was never such-a dis-
graceful system of terrorism and frauds
as on the day of election in many por
tions of the State, on the part of the
Democrats. He says he personally wit
nessed scenes of violence that would
have shamed the worst of Tammany. He
says negroes were beaten, ballots des
troyed, life threatened, and that men
were driven away from the polls who
would have voted the Republican ticket.
He says that in Richmond workmen in
the tobacco factories were threatened
with discharge if they did not vote for
Kemper; and, finally, that the result was
due to fraud. He says many arrests will
be made, and trials hod under the laws
of Congrees.—Telegram to the Tribune.
The^Democratic majority in Virginia
was in the neighborhood of 25,000, with
two-ihirds on joint ballot in the Legis
lature, which result secures an honest
man as successor of the scallau-ag Lewis
in the Federal Senate. Read in the light
of these events, carpet-bagger Platt, who
said in the Radical convention that ho
was proud of his share in the back pay
steal, has drawn it rather mildly. Ha
might have put in a few actually dead ne
groes—or at least a half dozen or so of
them thrown into a millpond ivith rocks
around their necks.
Thn Christian at Work answers a query
as'jto the true posture for prayer in this
wise ‘fThe only posture to be avoided is
imposture. Let ine heart be in the service
as well as the lips, and a prayer on tha
back, or the head, oi
is ah the same-
or the feet, or the sale,
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