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g S j, t Rev D E BUTLER, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
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Rev. G. T. GOt-TCHlUS, Pastor.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
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11 o'clock. Sunday evening 7 o’clock.
Rtr Mr. STONEY, Pastor.
TRINITY (COLORED) METHODIST CHURCH.
Hours i f service on Sunday 11 o'clock, a. m., 3 p.
si. and 7 p. m.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock, a. in. Teachers meet-
injfeier} Friday night.—V, asbingtdn Phillips, Snpt.
Prayer meeting every Thursday
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TEMPERANCE.
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ate Chamber at the Stole House on every Friday
evening at 7 o'clock. J. W. 11EUTV, WP.
F. G. Grikvk, Sec’y.
MASONIC.
BeHcralrnt Lodge No 3 h A M , meets 1st and
3d Saturday nights of each month at Masonic Hall.
G D Case, Sec’y. IRBY H llOV\ ARD, W M
Temple C hapter meets the second and fourth
Saturday nights in each month.
G D Cask, Sec’y. - S G WHITE, H P
Stilledgevillr l.oilgc of Perfection A.’, &.
A.\ 8.'. R.-. meets every Monday night.
SAM’LG WHITE. T P G M
G D Case, Exc Grand Sec’y.
Fot the Uufor. &. Recorder.
Harper’s B3Tpgezinc for S’sceml’er.
LAKE OF GENEVA.
This number is replete with pleasant
reading matter.
Among the most interesting is an ar
ticle entitled “ Around Jjtike Leman,
better known in common parlance as
Lake of Geneva. To the tourist, and the
reader, manv places of note cluster with
in and around this most beautiful of the
.Swiss lakes, more blue and pure than any
other of its sister lakes.
It wears a crescent form, is forty-five
miles long, and a thousand feet above the
level of the sea. Here the Rhone emp
ties its muddy turbid waters on the one
side, is cleansed from its foulness, and
emerges pure and undefiled at the other
end of the lake beneath the quays of Ge
neva. This lake is subject to wonderful
and sudden rising of the water to the
height of five or six feet in the space of
fifteen or twenty minutes. This is ac
companied by no wave or agitation and
the water in twenty-five or thirty minutes
sinks quietly to its accustomed level. Up
on the North frowns sombre Juba, while
across to the South repose the many
formed Alps with their snowy peaks.
About four miles from Geneva stands
the Chateau of Femes, the home of Vol
Coai, Creek, Texn., Nov. 17, 1873.
After a sojourn of several days at
Knoxville, the metropolis of East Ten
nessee, during the placid days of week
before last in the great Railroad “strike,”
we came to Clinton, 20 miles north from
Knoxville, and attended the November
Term of the Circuit Court in that place.
We have characterized the days of the
Railroad strike as “placid.” Such they
were—no offer or threat of violence hav
ing been made by the large body of labor
ers out of employment, and thwarted in
their demand for higher wages by the
firmness of President Jaques and Vice
President McGhee of the Railroad com
pany ; and the utter stagnation of business
made intense quietude. Imagine the
railway trains of Milledgeville stopped
for one week, and you have but a faint
conception of it; Knoxville having eight
times the population of Milledgeville,
and being far more dependent on its rail
way transportation than the latter. The
quiet and peaceful turn of events in the
severe conflict of interests resulted main
ly from the conservative and intelligent
character of the laborers, and from the
tact and personal popularity of Captain
Jaques and Colonel McGhee, who are the
executive heads of the Company. The lat
ter is an especial favorite of all classes;
and having been at school with him in
boyhood, and known him all his life, we
are sure no one is more worthy to be a
favorite. The “strike” is now over, and
for a week past, trade and traffic go on apace
along this great railway thoroughfare.
We came hither from Knoxville, thirty
miles, by railway last Saturday for the
purpose of ascertaining the precise facts
relative to the coal supply. The famous
mines are at this place, which send out
daily to almost every part of the South
hundreds of tons of the finest coal on the
Continent. Here, in the last five years,
has sprung into existence a large town, de
voted wholly to the coal business. The mi
ners are chiefly Welch, and bring their fam
ilies with them. They are hardy, indus
trious andreligious; but alas! they “strike”
too, as well as the railroaders; and here,
even, the “times are out of joint.” They
have resirmed work for the “Black Dia
mond Company,” which is again shipping
coal. We are informed, however, by this
Company, that they find it impossible, at
this season of the year, to procure coal-
cars to carry coal to Middle Georgia.—
Parties in Milledgeville desiring a car
load, could, through Mr. Nesbitt, agent of
the M. & A. Railroad of your city,
cause a Georgia R. R. coal-c-ar to be sent
directly to the “Black Diamond Coal
Company, Coal Creek, Tennessee,” or
procure a car from the Central in the
same way, and cause it to be sent hither.
The ear worrld be filled promptly on its
arrival, and sent by allthepcwersof steam
to Milledgeville. In the summer and ear
ly autumn it is easy to procure cars here;
but none of the Tennessee railways do
not allow their cars to carry coal south of
Atlanta. The shorter trip pays better;
and railroad companies, like the “rest of
mankind,” work for their own interest,
and do not take much trouble to please
coal companies or coal consumers.
We go to-day to Circuit Court at Jacks-
boro’, forty miles by rail from Knoxville,
having some business in that Court.—
Jacksboro’ is near the present Northern
terminus of the of the Kentucky R. R.. in
a region of wondrous fertility and beauty,
known as “ Powell's Valley. The hogs,
the horses, the mules, the wheat, the
maize, this fine valley produces are amaz
ing—to say nothing of the “fair women
and brave men.” O that friend Boughton
were here to “excurt" with us !
W. G. M.
Help for the Planters,
The proposition has been suggested by
a Northern gentleman for the Govern
ment to loan to the Southern States five
hundred millions of dollars, of four per
cent, bonds, having twenty or thirty
years to run, to be distributed among
these States in proportion to their popu
lation, and loaned to planters at six per
cent, on unincumbered improved real es
tate in actual cultivation and twice the
value of the loan. The gentleman mak
ing the suggestion, thinks that long be
fore the principal shall be due events may
take place which might induce the Uni
ted States to relinquish to the borrow
ing States their whole indebtedness. Hon.
R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, to whom
this suggestive proposition was made,
without making claim for the loss by
emancipation of any slave, shows very
clearly that the United States Govern
ment is committed to such a policy of
compensation in its treaties with Great
Britain, terminating two wars, by treaties
in which it was stated that the British
armies should withdraw without “carry
ing away any negroes or other property
of American inhabitants:” and because
they did carry away negroeR during the
war a claim for compensation was ad
mitted by the British Government. In
the first article of the treaty of Ghent
there was a stipulation on the part of
Great Britain in regard to “any slaves or
other private property carried away by
them," and the Emperor of Russia, to
whose arbitration the case was submitted;
decided that the British should pay the
American owners for slaves carried away
during the war. Mr. Hunter also shows
the dilemma in which the fourteenth
amendment to the Constitution places the
Government of the United States. By
the fifth amendment to the Constitution
it is provided that “private property
should not be taken for public uses with
out just compensation." Whenever such
property is so taken, a claim accrued to
the individual owner for just compensa
tion, which the Government was bound to
respect, not only upon considerations of
justice, but under the express provisions
of the Constitution before the adoption of
the fourteenth amendment. Now. the
obligation to discharge the debt having
occurred under the fifth amendment, and
before the adoption of the fourteenth,
which forbids the payment of such debt,
of course the latter amendment cannot
impair the prior obligation - At any rate,
the Government is placed in an absurd
dilemma by this fourteenth amendment,
the fruit of passion and party zeal. The
repeal of that amendment is not asked,
but Mr. Hunter suggests action after the
precedent established by the act of Con
gress of June 23,1833, in reference to de
positing the surplus revenue of the Uni
ted States with the different States, upon
the terms and in the manner therein speci
fied.
The November Elections.
Signs of a General Collapse of the Re
publican Party.
Under this head the Herald of Wednes
day says,
From the returns of yesterday's elec
tions before us, including New York city
and State, Massachusetts. Virginia, Wis
consin. etc., a general collapse has appar
ently fallen upon the Republican party.
Tammany, like a giant refreshed with new
wine, rises again with something of her
ancient strength, and the fifty-thousand
majority of the Republicans on their
State ticket last fall, if not completely ob
literated, is almost reduced to notliing.
Corresponding results are reported from
Massachusetts. Virginia. Wisconsin and
other States. The Democratic victory
of October in Ohio, it may be contended
was accidental; but when we find the
East. the West, the North and South all
drifting in the same general direction it
is evident, at least, that the sprinkling
clouds of October have gathered and
strengthened to the proportions of a po
litical cyclone in November. In the his
tory of the country, since the time of
Washington, there never w as a more over
whelming Presidential success than that
of 1872 ; and in our political annals we
have never had in a single year such a j
general shrinkage for the dominant party
from heavy majorities to small ones, and
to minorities, as in 1873. The popular
whirlwind of 1840, which carried General
Harrison into the White House, was fol
lowed by a marked political reaction in
1841, and there have been some other
cases of this kind from time- to time: but
we have had no re-action of this character
to compare with this of 1873. touching
the disturbing forces at work, including
the demoralizations, divisions, disaffec
tion*, discontent and indifference of the
party in power to the consequences.
Arkansas.
The telegraph yesterday for the first
time brought something definite with
regard to the result of the special elec
tion for the members of the Legislature,
which was held in Arkansas on the 4th
inst. The election was for nine mem
bers of the Senate and forty members of
the House, the vacancies having been
occasioned in some cases by direct re
signations, but in most by the accept
ance by a member of smother office. For
the first time since the reconstruction of
the State, all classes of white men were
permitted to vote, an amendment strik
ing out the disfranchising features of
the present Constitution having been
submitted to the people by the Legisla
ture and by them adopted. The Legis
lature chosen last year was very strong
ly Republican, there being a Republican
majority of forty-four on a joint ballot
in a total vote of a hundred. The large
number of vacant seats, though it did
not interfere with Republican strength
in the Senate, because only four Demo
crats were originally elected to that
body, crippled them seriously in the
taire for twenty years. Here he reigned ; House, as most of the outgoing mem-
autocrat of this “Capital of Intellect.
Here potentates, philosophers, gentle
men of all ranks and degrees paid adula
tion to this scoffing poet. At the gate of
the Chateau is the famous church “ Vol
taire built to God,” bearing the daring in
6cription,
DEO EREX1T YOLTA1KE.
From Femex we pass to Coppet, fa
mous with memories ot Madame dc Stael,.
and her distinguished guests Benjamin
Constant, Sismoudi, Sclilegel and others.
Naturally enough imagination carries us
from Coppet to Lausanne, where doubl
ing Gibbon wooed, and was deemed un
worthy the beautiful Susannc Curohod,
tho mother of Madame de Stael. At Lau
sanne exists the old church of three cen
turies, in which Calvin and others held
tho great discussion with separated \ and
from the Romish Church.
Space will not permit the mention of
all the famed names that rest around the
borders of Lake Leman. "M ithin her bo
som she clasps the Castle of Cliillon made
famous by the foot-marks of oppression,
which, according to poetic song,
Appeal from tyranny to Go J,
when poor Bonivard trod his ^ weary
walk of six years in Chillon s dark dun
geon for opinion’s sake. There are excel
lent engravings of many of these distin
guished personages in the present num
ber of Haiper.
Jinks had been indulging too freely in
ardent spirits. At a street-comer his nat
dropped into the gutter. Says Jinks: “I
kpow—if I pick you, you up, I’ll fall—if I
frill, you won’t p—hie— me—hie—up.
Goodnight!” And he walked off with
• smile of satisfaction, describing innu
merable zigzags as he went, leaving his
hat in the gutter.
The muse of the Cincinnati Commercial
describes the appearance of the Hon. Se-
Wetary of the Treasury when he brought
out that shot-bag full of silver to begin
bers were Republicans. The political con
trol of the Legislature was left to be de
cided at the special election, and it ap
pears that the Republican party suffered
most crushing defeat, as it has in so
many other States this year. With
white enfranchisement and a free vote,
the Republican party is largely in the
minority in Arkansas, and the quarrel
between the Baxter and the regular Re
publicans has not strengthened the
party any with respectable people in the
State. The Democracy made almost a
clean sweep in the legislative elections.
They elected seven of the nine Senators
chosen, and at least three-fourths of the
fortv new Representatives. Instead of
Republican majority of sixteen in the
Senate, as last year, tlicie is non a
majority of only four, and instead of a Re
publican majority of twenty-eight in the
House, there is a Democratic majority
of twenty-six. The Democrats have
majority in the Legislature on joint bal
lot of twenty-two. Having secured con
trol of the legislative department of the
State government, the party should so
shape its course as to convince the peo
ple that it has a thorough knowledge
and appreciation of the needs of the
State, and that it is earnestly determin
ed to give the people good legislation,
which is something to which they have
been unaccustomed from the Republican
party. Doing this it may rest assured of
popular approval in the future.—Chroni
cle & Sentinel.
The Washington papers are waimly
commending Senator Sprague s habit of
settling half a million on each of his chil
dren at its birth. So do we. The custom
is a beautiful one, and no family should be
without it.
Hon. A. H. Stephens has reachedAu-
gusta en route for Washington. He has
made an early start in order to become ac
customed to the colderweatlieeof the North
before the opening of
The Speakership.
As the time approaches for Congress
to assemble, a good deal of interest is be
ing manifested in the election of a Speak
er. It is conceded that there is not a pos
sibility even of the Democratic members
being able to elect, unaided, a presiding
officer from among their own number. It
is also conceded that if any considerable
portion of the Western Republicans can
be induced to secede from their party that
the votes of the bolters, united with those
of the Democrats, can elect a man from
the West who will protect the interests of
tho South and West, and. in his arrange
ment of committees, do justice to the op
ponents of the Administration. But, on
the other hand, it is m - ged that enough
of these disaffected voters can be secured
to elect a man like Mr. Beck, of Kentucky
—a thorough Democrat, but one who has
not made himself obnoxious to the Re
publicans by his extreme views. Much
can be said in favor of either plan, and
the question of a coalition and the man
ner of forming that coalition will be vigor
ously discussed until Congress assembles.
For our own part, we believe that the
nomination of Mr. Beck will afford the
best chance for success* and we hope to
see him selected as the standard-bearer of
the Opposition.—Chron. & Sen’l.
The Time to Advertise.
Now, evidently, is the time to advertise,
and advertise freely. There is just as
much money now as there was before the
panic, but those who have got it need in
ducements to fetch it out and spend it.—
Prices are coming down, and such people
will be wanting to know just where to
find the best bargains. They will be con
sulting the advertising columns on this
subject, and hence those who advertise
freely will have the best chance to secure
their trade. The “ Milwaukee Wisconsin”
gives the following illustration of this fact
when (in 1857) a house there secured suc
cess and fortune by resorting to liberal
advertising:
“After the crash in 1856, when every
body was almost scared to death, and the
croakers predicted that the country had
gone to smash, a dry goods house was
opened in this city, which proceeded on
the principle that in order to reach the
hoarded money in the pockets of tho peo
ple, the proprietors must sell at very rea
sonable prices and advertise very largely.
They worked vigorously upon this princi
ple. Their brother merchants who did not
advertise predicted that the new comers
ivould be ruined, as they paid too much
for advertising. Nevertheless they persist
ed. l£ a single year theypaid five hundred
dollars in gold to the Daily Wisconsin for
advertising, and at the end of seven years
they retired from business with a fortune
of one hundred thousand dollars, while
other merchants on the same street, some
of them opposite their store, had failed.”
We remember, says the New York Post,
a similar instance among onr own adver
tisers in the panic of 1857. A merchant
continued his advertisement in our col
umns through the whole period of stagna
tion, and notwithstanding the many pre-
pictions that “it would not pay.” His
testimony afterward was that his sales
were steady and his profits satisfactory,
while many a merchant around him who
“ could not afford to advertise” saw his
clerks stand idle behind the counters. A
financial panic does not mean that no one
has any money. There is plenty of mon
ey in the country, and those who hoard it
are just the ones to be eager for “bar
gains” which a fall in prices holds out.—
But to buy they must know where to buy,
and the merchant who tells them will re
ceive their cash.
The motion for a new trial, in the case
of Milton Malone, has been refused by
the Supreme Court of the United States.
That Court decided that the jury laws of
Georgia are constitutional.
i ■■♦■i
Samuel W. Allen, of Texas is said to
be the greatest herdsman in tho world.
He owns 225,000 cattle, and brands
60,000 calves every year to keep up his
supply. His stock, without his lands, is
worth five and a half million dollars.
Despite the panic, the hard times, and
their own financial troubles, A. Sprague
was married on Wednesday last. He
showed a true spirit of economy, though,
bvnot. «oin<* on* - *
The Torpedo Boat Admiral Porter
The New York World gives the follow
ing diseription of the toipedo boat Ad
miral Porter(so named after her designer),
which is intended for the Gulf service, and
M-as launched at the Brooklyn navy yard
Wednesay afternoon:
“In the water the boat looks not unlike
a vessel turned bottom up with enough of
the keel shaved off to give a deck. The
length is 170 feet, beam 28 feet, and the
hold is 11 feet in depth. She is expected
to draM - from four and a half to six feet of
water, and at her launch she settled to the
three-footmark. Powerful engines, which
are expected to consume their own smoke,
will M ork a follow screw and in action the
boat M'ill be steered in this manner alone.
The vessel was designed with the expecta
tion of attaining great speed, and every
thing about her is subordinated to this
purpose. Her deck is perfectly flush and
is unincumbered by spars: the hatchways
are sunk to the level of the rest of the
deck and both deck and bow are protected
ivith one-and-a-half inch iron plate. The
vessel carries only one gun. a bow chaser.
Torpedoes will be fastened to a long spar
which projects from the pointed prow,
and will be exploded by electricity, it is
expected, without injury to the boat. Her
sides are pierced with two ports, through
M - hich also torpedoes will be run out. The
contract for the vessel was taken by Roach,
and her total cost will be about §300.000.
The vessel is constructed only for harbor
defence.”
Mystery and ExciTEmENT.—We copy
the following from the Seottsboro (Ala.)
Herald. It is certainly very singular if
true, and we have no reasons to doubt the
statement as Major Malone is a gentle
man of veracity:
“We have a letter from Maj. G. W.
Malone, of Lebanon, DcKalb county,
dated 13th instant, in which lie informs
us of a mystery in the immediate vicinity
of that place which is attracting general
attention and exciting universal wonder.
Mr. M. narrates that Mark Sherrell
who lives Yvith his father-in-law. Groves
Burt, had a child Robert, aged 10 months
sick for many weeks which died recently.
Prior to the death of the child the family
gave it coffee from a saucer Which cover
ed the teacup containing the coffee which
was kept near the fire. After the saucer
ivas used in giving the child coffee, and it
was set back on the cup a ligm - e, as plain a
picture of a woman of saintly appearance,
as ever artist drew, -was seen in the bottom
of the saucer. Maj. M. continues the
narrative by stating that he. Judge Haral
son and lady, Judge Hoge and 100 others,
perhaps have visited and seen the strange
and mysterious figure, a drawing of which
he sends us and is noiv at our office. Maj.
M. says he is not superstitious, is rather a
skeptic on the subject of wonders, but
insists that this is a mystery beyond his
comprehension. He describes the figure
as strongly resembling the Castilian lady
he saw in the Catholic churches in Mexico
wearing a black turban covering the head
and extending down to the floor. Maj. M.
says tho figure is still there and can be
seen, and is being seen daily by persons
who go to the place for that purpose. Our
townsman, Mr. John Dllis, a good and
truthful man ivho carries the mail from
this place to Lebanon, visited the place
and saw the figure, and endorses Maj. M.’s
representations generally, so far as relates
to the description of the mysterious pic
ture in thetaucer."
The New York Post says that the inev
itable reduction in the prices of merchan
dise and provisions of various kinds is
showing itself very unmistakably in many
ways and places. Among them is the sale
of the large stock of goods at Clafiin’s,
where a careful analysis shows that do
mestic fabrics are selling at prices which
Yvoiild yield a fair profit only on a basis
of the present rate of labor and raw ma
terial. It must be remembered that cot
ton, which in June and July brought
twenty-one and twenty-two cents, is now
bought for fourteen cents, a fall of thirty-
three per cent, in the raw material alone.
Now it is plain that a fair reduction of
prices that shall benefit the consumer must
be based upon such an actual fail in tho
prices of raw material and laboi, and that
this, of course, does not admit of a profit
to the producer at the former cost of such
material and labor. This truth must be
as evident to dealers -who are pressed for
money as it is to larger houses yvIio are
managing their business in accordance
with the new state of things, and M - ho are
selling goods at the market value without
regard to profit or loss. Accordingly the
prices, whether foreign or domestic, in
accordance with this principle, has been
gradually coming about for the last thirty
or forty days among leading houses.
Santiago De Cuba.—As this city has
become historical, it Mill doubtless, be a
matter of interest to the general reader
to know that it is a maritime city, and in
1853 contained a population of 24,253.
It is the second city in size on the island,
and is situated on the Santiago ri^er, six
miles from its mouth, on the south coast.
It is well built, with wide streets, and
houses chiefly of stone. The principal
buildings are the cathedral, several other
churches, a college, and numerous con
vents and schoolsIfo nort ia Ian
On to Cuba.
Rev. Henry Highland Garnett (color
ed) appears to have met with a response
from South Carolina, worthy of his cause
and eloquence. We suppose, from what
we see in the Union-Herald, a Radical
sheet published at Columbia, S. C., that
the negroes in our unhappy sister State
are, as the French would say, “(liable
en colere” ivith the Spanish authorities
at Santiago de Cuba. In a double-leaded
article, the Columbia paper thus calls the
colored statesmen and field hands of
South Carolina to arms :
The struggle in Cuba has dragged its
bloody track through five long years; sev
enty-five thousand Spanish soldiers have
swelled the list of the killed, and forty
thousand Cubans have sacrificed their
lives for the good cause—and yet Spain
says there is no M ar. Cespedes has open
ly proclaimed the emancipation of all the
slaves on the island as the first decree of
the republic, and welcomed among his
troops the colored men, who have joined
liim in hundreds and thousands. Some of
liis bravest officers are men M - ith skins as
dark as any in this State, and they fight
for the emancipation of their race. All
over the country the colored men are
moving to the front. They hold the
strength of nine hundred thousand votes,
and could furnish the men and means to
make Cuba free. The Spanish cut-throat
tramples upon the flag of our country,
M-hile the Spanish bloodhound laps the
blood of the hunted slave, and yet there
seems to be no public expression in South
Carolina of sympathy ivith a cause in
M’hich the liberty of half a million of
black slaves is concerned, and the honor
of the national flag is interested f
Why stand we here idle ?
Why stand you idle, indeed f Why not
be off at once to the dark and bloody
ground of Cuba ? While you are about
it, remove from poor South Carolina at
least enough negro braves to give the
white people over there a good Morking
majority at the next election. If you suc
ceed in this, you will, wittingly or other-
M’ise, have performed a service for the
State M'hicli M - ill merit benedictions.
And now, since the black battalions of
South Carolina are so eager for the fray;
and since Rev. Henry Highland Garnett
(colored) has smeared his face ivith red
paint and drinks a quart of vitriol daily—
let the President-General, defying Con
gress as he has presumably defied the
Constitution, collect these avenging
blacks, transport them to Cuba, and—
leave them to their fate!
Meanwhile, since the negroes have the
matter so near at heart and are so hot for
joining bloody issues M’ith Don and Hi
dalgo : and as Cespedes and other Cuban
patriots are blaek-and-tan in their predi
lections ; the respectable M’hite people of
the South can restrain their emotions and
let Uncle Sam and his pets manage mat
ters to suit themselves.—[Constitution
alist.
FALL AND WINTER
Millinery, Dress Goods, Fancy Goods,
AND
All the Novelties of the Season.
MRS. P. A. LANDRUM
Has just returr.eii from New York where she purchased a larpi and beautiful assortment of MILLINERY,
DRESS GOODS, Trimininpi, Fancy Goo da, &c., &.O., which are now arriving, ami which s-he is able to sell
at lower prices than ever before.
BONNETS, HATS, FEATHERS. RIBBONS, &c„
Sheeted with irriat care fiom the latest and prattieet Styles, ami for beauty and richness surpass
anything
ever brought to this market. She was very fortunate in the purchase of some very handsome real and imita
tion F FATHERS, which she can sell at astonishing LOW PRICES.
DRBSi
GOODS.
She invites the ladies to call aud examine her Dress Goode, consisting of Silks British Lus're, Sateens, Pop
lins, Merinoes, Empress Cloths, Opera Cloths of all shades and colors. Also, Camels' Hair Goods, suitable for
the celebrated Uedirgote.
LARGE STOCK OF
Ladies, Misses and C hildren's Shoes and Hosiery.
Hair Work of all Hinds,
1 General Assortment of Toilet Articles,
Toys by the Million and Jewelry of all Kinds.
PINS, NEEDLES and SEWING COTTON of all kinds.
THOMPSON’S GLOVE-FITTING CORSETS,
AND THE WORLD-RENOWNED SEAMLE: S GLOVES,
Sash Ribbons at low prices, Queen Bess Raffling - , Old Badies Caps, Ac.
Slif- tins the Agency of the Celebrated "Domestic'’paper patterns, ana can supply ladies with patterns of
all kinds from 5 cents up. Her opening will take place in a few days of which notice will be given.
BSSSI BXASZNG,
Still done in the best Styles:
Milledgeville, Ga , Oct. 8, 1873, ' II 3m-
The NeM - York Herald of the 16th inst.-
says:
The Spanish people, M'hose very sports
are bloody, may see no crime in the butch
ering of citizens of the United States,
and the best resolves of their government
may be tliM arted by those whose brethren
in Cuba have made Santiago a slaughter
house of civilization in the eyes of the
world. While the gravest doubt exists
that the government of Castellar could
muster a corporal’s guard to right our
MTongs in Cuba, we are very certain that
tens of Spanish thousands could be found
to applaud and sustain the butcheries.
Therefore we say the impotence of the
Spanish government must not be its ex
cuse, even for delay. An insult to Ameri-
lias been committed M'hich must be
wiped out; blood has been shed which
must be atoned for; lives to which we OM*e
our protection are in jeopardy and must
tie saved.
Half the Momen who appear on the
streets of Nashville, and probably of
Memphis also, are dressed in mourning.
TO THE WEST! TO THE WEST!
Before making your arrangements to follow the advice of the
thousands who have already gone," it would be well to consid-
r what has been done to make the journey to your “Homes in
the West” as pleasant aud as free from danger as human skill
11 foresight can accomplish.
By consolidation and construction a road has been put into
operation ou the shortest possible line from Nashville, Tenn.,
to St. Louis, “the future great City of the world.” This line,
the
St. Iionis & Southeastern Railway,
has. during the past year, earned an enviable reputation by its
smooth track, prompt time, sure connections, and the magnifi
cence of its passenger equipment. Its trains are made up of
new aud commodious day cars, provided with the celebrated
Miller coupler and platform, and the Westinghouse air-brake
It is positively the only line running Pullman Palace Drawing-
Room Sleeping Cars through without change from Nashville to
St. Louis. No other line pretends to offer such advantages,
either in distance, time, or equipment. Why, then, journey by
circuitous routes? Do not be induced to purchase tickets to St.
Louis or the West by any other line, remembering that
The “Hi. Iitnia & Southeastern”
is the shortest, cheapest, quickest, best and only line under • ne
management Irom Nashville to St. Louis, and is from 60 to 200
miles the shortest to St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver,
California, Texas, and all western points. It is also the “Chica
go Shortest Line,” via Evansville.
You can secure the cheapest rates for yourselves and your
oveables on application, m person or by letter, to Charles
McCabe, Southern Passenger Agent, near Ccllsge street Depot,
Nashville, Tenn., or to the undersigned.
W. B. DAVENPORT.
General Ticket Agent St. Louis.
No trouble to answer questions.
May l, 1873. —41 lyr.
Beyond the Mississippi!
Thousands have already gone, aud thousands more
are turning their eyes towards new homes in the fertile
West To those going to Missouri,Kansas,Nebraska,
Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Oregon ci Cali
fornia, we recommend a cheap, safe, quick and direct
route, via St. Louis, over tho Missouri Pacific Rail
road, which runs its fine Day Coaches and Pulhnan
Sleepers from St. Louis to principal points in the
West, icilkont ckattpe We believe that the Missouti
Pacific Railroad has the beet tiack and the finest and
safest equipment of any line west of the Missis-ippi,
and its ci-nuections with roads further West are
prompt and reliable. The Texas connection of this
road is now completed, and passengers ate offered a
first class all rail ronte from St.#Louis to Texas, either
over the Missouri, Kansas So Texas R. U..ria Snlaiui,
or over the Atlantic and Pacific U. R. via Vinifa.
For maps, time tables, information as to rates, routeB,
Ac., we refer our readers to E. A. Ford. General
Passenger Agent, St Louis, Mo. Questions will be
cheerfully and promptly answered.
Emigration Turning.
Cbenp Farm* in Noatb-vrc*t lUiaaonri.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company offers
1,9110,000 acres of land in Central and South west
Missouri, at from $3 to $19 per acre, on seven years
time, with free transportation from St. Louis to all
purchasers. Climate, soil, timber, mineral wealth,
schoo's. churches aud law abiding society invito emi
grants from all points to this land of fruits and flowers.
For particulars address, A. Tuck, Laud Commissioner,
St Louis.
MACON CARDS.
E. J. JOHNSTON,
Dealer in
WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILYER WARE, FANCY GOODS
Fine Cutlery. Musical Instrumenta, Strings, itc., kc.
S'tlo tyient for the Celebrated
DIAMOND PEBBLE SPECTACLES, EYE-GLASSES. Ac
Particular Attention given to Repair* on Fine and Difficult
Watches.
JEWELRY, &c., REFAIRED, and ENGRAVING.
Comer Mulberry L Second Streets, MACON GEORGIA.
April, 30, 1873. 40 If.
LANIER HOUSE.
K. DIB,
Mulberry Street,
Proprietor.
Macon, Georgia.
The above named Hotel has been recently refur
nished and fitted np for the accommodation of tran
sient as well as permanent Boarders. Persons will
find it to their interest to atop at this House, as its
central location makes it a very desirable place for
merchants and families coming to theoity for business,
or for a sojourn ot pleasure. An ELEGANT SAM
PLE ROOM has been fitted op for the special use of
commercial travelers.
The table always supplied with all the lazunes of
the season, from first markets, and can be surpassed
by none is the Sooth:
Omnibus to «r
The Cheap Grocery aud 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 find the Right Store, on Wayne Street North
Masonic Hall.
of
.PLANTERS TAKE NOTICE!
Family Groceries, Provisions, and Supplies of all Kinds,
AX THE LOWEST CASH PH1CES. On hand and to arrive the following articles :
9,00(10 lbs C R Sides, 5,0: 0 lbs Shoulders, 5UU 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, Pic Nics, Craoknella, Snapells, Kentucky Butter, Lemon Crnekers, and other
varieties. Mackerel in barrels and kits. Morgan Sons and other Soaps. Potash, Candles. Kerosene Oil,
Soda, Copperas, Powder and Shot. Cotton Cards, Chewing and Smoking Tobacco, Pickles ami Oysters, Sift
ers, Ruckets, Broome, Choice Segars. Come and see us and save jour money. Quick sales aud small profits
is our motto.
GREEN and DRY HIDES Wanted, for which highest price will be paid.
Having secured the services of Mr.C- B. MUNDAx, who will be always on hand to meet Iris old cus
tomers and attend to the wants of new ones, we hope to be able to give satisfaction to all, aud merit a liberal
patronage.
SAMUEL EVANS & CO.
Milledgeville, Nov 8,1873. lti till Jan 8 74
FUMITURE ! FURNITURE ! !
W. cto J. OARAKXnt,
HAND a large assortment of FINE AND COMMON FURNITURE, con-
Tables,, Chairs,
H ave on
eisting of
Beautiful Bed-Room Setts, Bureaus, Mirrors,
Bedsteads and Maltrasses of all sines and qualities.
|y Repairing 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
riages, Express Wagons, Ac.
I5UGOY HARNESS for sale. Also, all kinds of Material for Carriage Makers and Repairers. Ready-made
Wagon aud Buggy Wheels always on hand.
Doors, Sash and Blinds, and Fixtures for Blinds.
JQP 5 We guarantee Low Prices and Good Work. Give us a call.
Burini
Cases
All styles of Metallic and Wood Burial Cases and Caskets always on hand.
ty Orders for cases will receive prompt attention at all hours—day or night.
W. & J. CARAKER.
Milledgeville, Ga., Sept, 2,1873. 6 6m
B. P. WALKER,
(Late of S. T. S: B. P. Walker.)
J. H. DOBBS,
(Late of Wise, Dobbs Ac Co.)
WALKER & DOBBS,
SUCCESSORS TO
Wise. Dobbs & Co.,
IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
China, Crockery and Glass Ware, Silver Plated Ware,
POCKET AND TABUS CUTLERY,
CO A.L OIL LAMPS. WICKS. BURNERS. CHIMNEYS, CHANDELIERS, GAS AND KEROSENE
FIXTURES, PORTER S PLANTATION AND COMBINATION IIOES.
I^“We would call the attention of Merchants to our immense and varied stock of tlm above Goods, feeling
that we cangive entire natiafaction in regard to quality and price. Our retail Department is ah-o complete.
Walker & Dobbs, ma<; \ - \.
October 14, 1873,
12 6m.
GO TO MACON
AND
Buy Your Furniture and Carpets
THOMAS WOOD, Next to LanierHou.se.
THE LOWEST PRICES EVER KNOWN !
METAL CASES AND CASKETS, WOOD COFFINS OF ALL KINDS,
At prices that defy competition. Night calls answered at the Lanier House.
THOMAS WOOD, Macon, Ha.
Oct If, 1S73.
12 6m.
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, CURTAINS.
Fall Trade 18Y3.
JAMES G. BAILIE & BROTHER,
205 Sroad Street, AUGUSTA, GA.,
Are now offering the Largest Stock of CARPETS. OIL CLOTHS. SHADES and CURTAINS ever offered
by any House South, aud at the lowest prices. Goods aUnew. Pretty and Cheap. Be sure to call and look
at the new and beautiful array of Patterns at
JAMES a. BAZLZS A BKOTHfiK.
Choice Family Groceries and Plaitatioi Supplies.
and at low prices at
JAMBS Ch
Oct. 21, 1873.
First Class Goods!
k brother,
133m.
'IMF YMF
KM JUJki
13. JOHNSTON,
Successor to Thos. U. Couner,
«XB.,
Keeps on hand the latest and most fashionable styles of
Bs/tTSf MATS, MATS, MATS,
Geots Furnishing Goods I Gents Furnishing Goods!
CRAVATS, SCARFS, BOWS, FIRS, TRUNKS, VALISES, SATCEELS,
TUal-ota HmU