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THE MW & RECORDER.
Old “Southern Recorder’’ and “Federal Union ’
consolidated]
MILLED QSVXX.X.S, GA :
Wednesday, December 31, 1873.
R. M. O.—We call especial attention
to the wise and racy essay on Love in
cur issue of to-day. The writer has felt
beyond doubt,
“the trouudd invisible
By Love's keen arrows made,"
and yet unbewildered by the transports
of the master passion, he analyzes its
workings with the coolness of a philoso
pher.
The initials signed to this interesting
article correspond very remakably -until
those of our esteemed friend R. M.
Orme, formerly of our city, now of Sa
vannah. Wonder if he knows anything
about Love ?
Wm. W. Turner, one of the ablest
writers of Georgia, will assume edito
rial charge of the Eatonton Messenger
on the 6th prox.
Par The W ashington Gazette, answer
ing the Atlanta Herald on the Constitu
tional Convention question, says it is
willing to see the people call a State Con
vention, even if they remove the eapital
from Atlanta back to its old home, say-
i tg: “It may be a bitter pill for you,
b -etliren, but you had better take it like
good children."
A Constitutional hConvention and
Economy-
In discussing the propriety of holding
a Constitutional Convention, the only
plausible reasons that have been urged
against a Convention, is the ex
pense. The great expense bubble that
has been blown up by the Atlanta papers
is so monstrous and absurd as to excite
the ridicule of every intelligent man. It
has been shown that large conventions
have been held and much important work
done in fourteen days; and any intelli
gent man can calculate how much a con
vention for two weeks will probably cost.
And they will see that instead of two or
three hundred thousand dollars, as the
Atlanta press is deceitfully and wickedly
trying to frighten the people with it. will
not, in all probability, cost more than
twenty or thirty thousand. The people
should vote for a convention as a matter
of economy. It would save five times the
cost of a convention in two years, and if
the Capital is restored to Milledgeville
it will save millions in the future. We
heard Gov. Smith declare in a public
speech that had the Capital remained in
Milledgeville it would have saved the
State millions of dollars.
8riT“ The Warrenton Clipper says: The
( ipper and citizens of Warren and ad-
jO ning counties, (Scallawags excepted)
a o for a Convention, and endorse every
T ird of the resolutions adopted at a
public meeting in Wilkes county.
M&° One of the best letters brought
out by the Convention Question is from
the pen of the Hon. T. C. Goode of
Sumter county. No seeker after the
truth and lover of his country will fail
to appreciate this admirable letter. It
will be found on our first page.
Each visit of the Milledgeville Union
and Recorder to this office adds greatly
to our amusement. Its efforts to manu
facture public sympathy for its little old
town on the question of removal of the
Capitol to its withered old bosom, would
be worthy of a great and noble cause; but
when it is known that the people of the
State have no such desire, its efforts be
come ludicrous. The village of Milledge
ville is a good old place, with many pleas
ant reminiscences, but it is too small a
place for the Capitol of a great State.
The above is from the Atlanta Herald
of the 25th inst. We are glad to learn
that we contribute to the poor fellow's
happiness, for in all probability the hap
piness that he has in this world will bo
all that will ever fall to his lot; and as it
is written that the wicked shall not live
out half his days, we fear his happiness
in this world will be short.
The Herald objects to Milledgeville as
the Capital because it is a small place.'—
We admit that Milledgeville is not as
large as Atlanta; it is, however, large
enough to accommodate the Legislature
and all that have any legitimate business
at the Capital; but it is not large enough
to hold the Atlanta lobby-ring. Atlanta
is a large place but is not large enough
to hold all her thieves and murderers.
They frequently have to hang some of
the old ones, and send others off to Grant
& Alexander's gang to make room for
their new rogues.
The Virginius- Muddle.
After all of their fuss and bluster, af
ter spending several million of dollars
preparing for war, Grant's Attorney Gen
eral Williams has just found out that the
Virginius had no right to carry the Amer
ican flag; and now we suppose the Vir
ginius will have to be restored to the
Spaniards. This will make the Admin
istration appear ridiculous in the eyes of
ill the world. Strange and stupid di
plomacy this ; first to threaten and pre
2 are for war. and after spending many
j lillions in getting ready, then enquire
: f we have had any cause of war, and
finally conclude that we have all the while
been in the wrong, and have to back
down from all we have said and done.
Ghostly Comfort.
The Atlanta Constitution cheers up
1 e Atlanta Ring with die assurance that
the Columbus Times and the Catoosa
Courier are both strongly opposed to a
Convention. The Columbus Times has
. en dead and buried for many years,
and if the Constitution has heard from it
on the Convention question, the news
must have been brought by some ghost.
If the Catoosa Courier ever did exist, very
few ever heard of it before. We suspect
it is another of the Constitution's ghostly
visitors from the lower world, and if so
no wonder that it opposes a Convention.
All of the inhabitants of that region
Bra on that side of the question.
X&unchausan Literature.
Since the days of Gulliver, Baron
Muncliausaii and Maj. Long Bow, such
gross canards and such absurd and egre
gious whoppers have rarely escaped from
the press as have been put forth by the
two Atlanta papers on the subject of
Convention. This kind of literature, i
doubt, suits their readers in Atlanta, and
is very popular there, but outside of At
lanta their readers, if they have any, must
be disgusted with the ‘assertion that
Convention will cost the State several
hundred thousand dollars, and that those
who favor a Convention wish to oust all
of the State officers, and put in new ones
or that the carpet-baggers and eom-field
negroes who formed the present Const!
tution were more trustworthy and relia
ble than our own citizens that would be
elected to a new Convention. The tnon
strous assertions put forth by the Atlanta
papers against a Convention have con
vineed the people that they have no
sound arguments on that side of the
question.
Gropings after Truth.
Not only in Religion, but in Philosophy,
in Politics, in short, whatever com
the welfare of the human race, it is not
only the privilege but the duty of iinuqto
investigate for himself where the means
of investigation are within his reach
Such independent investigation, con
trary to the practices of the Romist
Church at that day, led Luther
to his great religious movement,
known in history as “The Reformation.
Free discussion of religions doctrines has
characterized the Protestant denomina
tions from the days of Luther to the
present.
The Protestant world, therefore—of
which the writer hereof is an humble in
dividual—cannot object to the action of
its adherents should they choose to in
vestigate for themselves the doctrines and
practices of the venerable old Mother-
Church of Rome as they exist in this
formatory age. In accordance with this
privilege, the writer hereof has lately read
with absorbing interest the little tract
entitled “Gropings after Truth—a Life
Journey from New England Congrega
tionalism to the Catholic and Apostolic
Church," written by Joshua Huntingdon
It is published at 25 cents per copy, (sent
by mail) by The Catholic Publication So
ciety, 9 Warren Street, N. Y. The writer
is not so volatile as to become a sudden
convert to Catholicism, but confesses to
the fact of being impressed with new
thoughts, (or perhaps I should say old
ones) on the subject of the Christian Re
ligion from reading this little Tract.
Rawley.
Philadelphia Redeemed, Regbner
ATED AND DISENTHRALLED. By the
adoption of the new Constitution of Penn
sylvania. the rogues that have controlled
the elections of Philadelphia, have been
deposed. Hereafter the honest men will
control the city and probably the State
Profligacy of the Adaiinistration-
—The reckless profligacy of the Adminis
tratior. is in the highest degree alarming,
as a comparison with former administra
tions will show. In this comparison weex
elude war, navy and pension expenditures,
as the responsibility for those expenditures
rests upon those who provoked and pro
duced the rebellion. Aside from this ex
penditure we have the following exhibit
Total Increase
1857-61 $115,828,229
1861-65 140.103.153 $24,274,924
1865-69 220,732,780 80,629,627
1869-73 298,933.965 78.201.185
Atlanta Letter.
Auffuata- -Palmer House-Tl.c* A 'c i lo t—S*!<*»n
Dutcher, E»*q —OeUorue, flu* Optician—Snpt-S. K
Johnson—Wife old G»i. U. U — (*n»ral—
Jolly Atlanta—Hotel—Gen. Mciine, Snpt.
W A A. K. R.—Gov J. K. Brown— AtLi"’
vers’ Association—Col. Reu *en Arn M— Cnp» J *l
(Question—Atlanta despairs — Putrv't’C Jew*Ter—
Mercantile Library Association—Mr.
Wolres pursuing Mszeppa-G* W. Jnrk—Capitn!
Officers: Capt. Jonen Col. Grieve.Col. I<*»molt and
Col. J. B. Campbell—Prof.Orr- H-nniltnn,
aitlior of “Cachet."
Making War on a Dead Carcass.—The
A lanta Herald says the call for a Consti-
tu tional Convention is as dead as Hector,
ar d yet the editor of the Herald fills a
large portion of his columns and spends
a jreat part of his time in making war up
on a question which he says is dead.—
T lere is an old proverb that a lion or
6T en a bear will not prey upon a dead
enreass. But tbe Herald with less deli-
c cy than these animals, every day gorges
ii lelf upon this dead carcass. In this
r «pect the Herald imitates the hyena
0 ’ the jackall rather than the lion.
The Athens Watchman says:
Shall we have a State Convention ok
h ot?—This is a question which is now
v uy generally discussed throughout the
f- tate. Except in Atlanta and its imme
diate neighborhood, the popular voice, as
1 x as baB besn expressed, seems to be
decidedly in favor of a Convention. The
General Assembly will meet in a few
d»ys, and in order that their action on
tlus question may fully reflect the will of
the people let there be meetings held in
every comity m the State; let the sub
ject be discussed, and let the popular
opinion be authoritatively expressed
A public meeting of the citizens of
Clark was called for the 27th inst.
Torino. GrantoverBnchanan.’<183,105,812
“ “ Grant over Lincoln 158,830,735
If the present Administration had dis
played the economy that was exhibited
under President Lincoln, themoney which
it has squandered in one term would have
sufficed to carry it entirely through an
other term; for the increase is much more
than double. And the amount of that in
crease is the measure of the plunder se
cured by administration hangers on.
The Pittsburg Post says: “One glar
ing fact that it will not do for any admin
istration organ to refer to, is, that twenty
two Republicans in the Senate and thirty
Republicans in the House have been made
chairmen of committees, and every man of
them voted for back pay, drew it and
bolds on to it. They follow Grant’s ad
vice and never let go of a good thing."
Grant will make a personal issue with
the Senate in its rejection of fWilliams.
Now let us see whether that body will
bow to the will of the people or of the
President—Courier-J oumal.
That fight is decided before it is begun.
Christmas.—The record of Christ-
““ ™ all parts of the country' is a bloody
on earth > we have substi-
until the 1 ^ r haTb^^ dant violenco >
•rime and bloodshed—and , of
brat* tbe birth of the meek and
Savior of men : 9
Georgia News.
About two weeks ago G. M. Key, known
as “Duff" Key, and his cousin, Tinman
Con well, both of Jasper county, were on
their way to a party when an altercation
ensued, during which Conwelldrew a pis
tol and shot Key, inflicting a mortal
wound. Tho wounded man survived a
few days, and before he died he furnished
his slayer with money with which to leave
the State.
Judge H. H. Tooke, one of the most
prominent citizens of Thomas county, died
on Thursday last, aged 56 years. He
had filled tho office of Ordinary of the
county ever since the creation of the
office.
M. H. McAfe9 was elected a Represen
tative of Lee county, on the 17th inst., at
a special election held to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Dr. H. B. Lipsey.
Mr. McAfee is a Democrat.
Chas. G. Campbell is a candidate for
the mayoralty of Bainbridge. W. J. Rru-
has declined.
Colonel John Jones, State Treasurer,
says that railroad stock virtually pays no
tax, for the whole amount realized from
this class of wealth will not exceed $8,-
000.
Tho new Tribune building now in pro
gress of erection in New York will be the
largest newspaper office in ths world.—
It is nine stories, and 150 feet in height,
and on tho top of that there is a huge
tower upward of a hundred feet more.—
The building fronts on Nassau street 91
feet, on Spruce street 100 feet, and on
Frankfort street twenty-nine feet. Depth
of main building 168 feet; height of tow
er above foundation 285 feet The mate
rials are stone, brick and iron, and the
building will be fire-proof. Its cost ex
clusive of the site, is $1,000,000.
Hon. Caleb Cushing has been ap-
^omted Mioiater to Spain—vice Sickles.
Atlanta, Dec. 24. 1673.
A few hours in Augusta on the 22d
were actively spent in business affairs.—
Very naturally, we went first to the
“ Palmer House," where tho best accom
modations in the city for wayfarers can be
had, as the advertisement in yoiu paper
shows. We were impressed with an illus
tration of the versatility of Joe Palmer’s
genius. We had just seen him in tho ca
pacity of landlord, where lie was all that
the cleverest of landlords could be. when
standing near the entrance of Billion &
Crump's auction rooms, we heard the
opening of the evening sales. The auc
tioneer was unusually happy in his droll
ery uttered in a peculiar variety of comic
tones, and sales were brisk. Judge of
our surprise, on stepping in. to find that
Jo Palmer was the auctioneer!
We saw, for a moment at his office,
Salem Dutcher, whose letter on the Con
vention question you published recently;
then Mr. Osborne, the accomplished op
tician who adapts a thorough acquaint
ance with the science of vision to the fur
nishing. of spectacles to young widows
and widowers, whose eyes may have failed
through excessive weeping, and to others.
Last, we interviewed very pleasantly, Mr.
S. K. Johnson, Sup't of the old Georgia
Railroad—the best managed railway in
the United States, safely and wisely con
ducted for the benefit of the business
public, and paying stockholders far better
than the once-famed Georgia Central,
almost wrecked financially now by the
wretched blundering of Wadley. Never
was tbe old adage Festina lente better
illustrated than by the happy conserva
tive management of the interests of the
Georgia Railroad as contrasted with the
opposite course of the Central.
Here, in Atlanta, we find everything
astir with Christmas preparations and
other lively movements, among which the
approaching meeting of the Legislature
is conspicuous. That admirable hotel—
The National—a great favorite since it
has passed into Southern hands, and is
moderate in its charges—was thronged
with hosts of guests. We met there near
ly half of mankind we had known before
in various States and Empires of the
earth. Among these, was a most pleasant
interview wutli Gen. McRae, the accom
plished Superintendent of tho Western &
Atlantic Railroad. This gentleman, well
known as a gallant Confederate ofiicer in
the late war, is one of the most efficient
railway officers of the South, and in the
sphere of his duties has imparted un
wonted efficiency to the quondam “ State
Road.” Gov. Jos. E. Brown, with his
magnificent Executive ability, remains
yet the President of the road. With such
President and Superintendent, the pros
polity of the lessees of the Road is as
sured.
We learn here of a most commendable
organization of tbe Legal Fraternity in
this city. Col. Reuben Arnold, formerly
of Tennessee, as distinguished for ability
as he is for modest unobtrusiveuess. was
the pioneer of the scheme. The Legal
Association, embracing nearly all of the
members of this learned profession in the
city, hold regular meetings ; have their
rules of government, their library, their
reading room, their periodical lectures,
and all of the other harmonizing agencies
that modem civilization has evoked from
the nature of man. We are assured that
this society is having a most improving
effect on the Atlanta lawyers—that is, if
there may be found in the perfection of
their practices and principles any slight
defects susceptible of improvement 1
The Capital question begins to httnass
this city. The hand-writing is on the
wall; “Mene mene, tekel," is visible to
the imaginations of the Atlsuitese. Some
ore rejoiced at the prospect of removal of
the seat of government hither: but even
its opponents are hopeless of any other
esult. The “financial crisis” or "hard
times,” demands increasing economy in
the State Government; and no approxi
mation to economy nearer than the orbit
of Mercury to that of Uranus can ever
be hoped while the seat of government is
in the “double quick” atmosphere of At
lanta, no matter what party or what par
ticular “administration" may chance to
be in power. Among the patriotic Atlau-
tese who favor Milledgeville in this mat
ter, is an intelligent jeweller of this
city. His trade would be boric fit
ted by retaining the Capitol here : but as
a tax-payer, and as a citizen of the State
at large, he heartily favors a return of the
seat of government to its rightful old lo
cation. We should be glad to name him,
but perhaps the notoriety would Ire un
pleasant to him.
We have alluded to the Lawyers Asso
ciation. We had the pleasure of meeting
Mr. Herbst, the accomplished Librarian of
the Mercantile Library’ Association. This
Society keeps open at all times a suite of
elegant rooms on Broad street, near flie
Railway bridge, in which a very fine libra
ry, engravings, paintings, and interesting
historical relics are stored in great pro
fusion. Visitors were numerous when
wo dropped in. It is a good place to
shelter in fora quiet hour, and forget that
the “business" wolves of this avaricious
city are on your track as eagerly, as those
other w’olves which pursued Mazeppa in
his memorable ride. Mr. Herbst is a ge
nial and intelligent gentleman, and never
fails in politeness to visitors.
But we must not neglect to say a word
about merry old Santa Claus. We have
not met this weird benefactor of children;
but we see here his agents, viz: the rela
tives and friends of ’the little-folk, busily
ngaged in preparing for the morrow.
The most of these throng to G. W. Jack’s,
on Whitehall street, the celebrated Candy
Manufactory where all manner of candies,
toys and “notions” are constantly kept at
the cheapest rates. It is at this fine
house that most of the candies for the re
tail trade in Milledgeville are bought at
liolesale. We were astonished to learn
to-day the extreme cheapness of these
tempting good things at “wholesale,”
rates.
We have had pleasant interviews to day
For the Union & Recorder,
Perhaps to no other two causes can be
directly traced more horrible crimes
and bloodshed, than to the two com
mon vices of intoxication, and of carry
ing concealed weapons. Hardly a day
passes but our ears are shocked by
some tale of crime that owes its origin to
one of the two vices just enumerated.
And instead of decreasing in number,
they seem to multiply at an alarming
rate. What possible good could result to
any man from the habitual carrying of a
pistol or bowie-knife has always been a
mystery to us. What satisfaction can it
be* ? We were long ago convinced that
it was a useless and deleterious practice.
For where men are accustomed to handle
these instruments of death every day and
always carry them, they become careless
as regards their use; and so endanger
tlieir own lives as well as the lives of
others. Thus it is so many disputes are
distorted into sickening scenes of slaugh
ter. What possible indication of brave
ry or manhood can any one find in al
ways carrying an instrument of death
with him? You may ask almost any man,
why do you carry concealed weapons?
Are you afraid any one will molest you?
No ! Yon have no animosity against any
one ? No ! You would not wish to slay
a fellow-being ? Most assuredly not!
Well why do you carry weapons ? Well
I don’t know—somehow I have fallen in
to the habit of carrying them and so do
it! Now such an aimless, useless and
deadly habit should bo stopped at once.
Legislators seem convinced of the enormi
ty of this crime of concealing weapons
on the person, and from time to time
have passed such laws as make it a misde
meanor to carry them. Still they do it,
and why ? Because it is the force of
habit, grown strong upon them, and be
cause in many instances laws are not
properly enforced. If we do not need
legislation on this subject, we at least
stand most sorely in need of wholesome
administration of the laws already enact
ed. Then, and not 'till then, can a man
say that he is safe.
Zhno.
A Constitutional Convention.
Letter from Senator Nicholls.
We have been kindly permitted to pub
lish the following letter from Senator
Nicholls. Although not intended for the
public, but simply written in response to
a private letter from a friend asking his
views on the Convention question, and as
to the propriety of holdingprimary meet
ings in the several counties to take action
thereon, yet, coining from one occupying
the position he does and whose views on
public matters are always sound and con
servative, we know his letter will be read
with much interest throughout the State:
[Nat’. News.
Blackshear, Dec. 15, 1873.
My Dear Sir : Your letter is just re
ceived. I am decidedly in favor of the
call of a Constitutional Convention for
many reasons, amongst which are—
The great necessity of a return to our
old judicial system; inferior courts were
inexpensive and efficient—much more to
be preferred to the County Courts and
Boards of Commissioners—more to be
trusted with county matters than in the
one man—the Ordinary. The old plan
of selecting the grand jury from the most
intelligent jurors in the box, very strong
ly conserved the public peace, the public
security from onerous taxation and the
general protection of oar social system.
The old rule of appeals to special juries
more effectually subserved the ends of
justice, and gave tl» Superior Courts a
comparatively small docket. Shorter offi
cial terms was unquestionably tho correct
system.
In a word—for my time is limited—a
return to the old land-marks, as nearly
as practicable, is earnestly desired by ev
ery intelligent, honest thinker in the
State. As a matter of economy, the sa
ving to the people in the foregoing, will
be apparent, so soon as the proposed
changes can be allowed to work for a
brief season. Again, in the matter of
removing the capital, the saving will be
apparent. We can sell the “Opera House"
for something like its original cost,
whilst the old capitol buildings are en
tirely valueless, imless we use them for
their original purpose—so of the Guber
natorial mansions.
Much more might be urged in favor of
a Convention, but I have not the time to
enlarge
I think the bill will pass at the coming
session of the Legislature.
It would perhaps be well for meetings
to be held in the several counties.
Yours very truly,
Jno. C. NiChokls.
She Convention Question—How it
Stands?
We call for a division, says the Savan
nah Morning News. The Atlanta Con
stitution, the Atlanta Herald, the Savan
nah Advertiser, the Newnan Herald, the
Thomaston Herald, the Catoosa Courier
and the Burnswick Appeal are not in fa
vor of a Constitutional Convention. There
are about seventy-five daily and weekly
newspapers in Georgia, and those men
tioned are all that have declared againsl
it. Among those that advocate a con
veution are the Augusta Chronicle, th<
Constitutionalist, the Macon Telegraph
the Columbus Sun, the Griffin News, thi
Morning News, the Athens Watchman,
the Forsyth Advertiser, the Covington
Enterprise, the Greenville Vindicator,
the Franklin News, the Carrolton Times,
the Noreross Advance, the Lawrenceville
Herald, the Gainesville Eagle, the Dalton
Citizen, the Griffin Star, the Bamesville
Patriot, the Greensboro Herald, the
Athens Georgian, the Madison Journal, the
Washington Gazette, the Thomson Jour
nal, the Elberton Gazette, the Waynes
boro Expositor, tbe Sandersville Geor
gian, the Louisville News and Fanner,
the Eatmton Messenger, the Milledgeville
' Union, the Americas Republican, the
Quitman Independent, the Tliomasville
Enterprise, the Bainbridge Democrat,
the Albany Central City, the Hawkinsvile
Dispatch, the Perry Homo Journal, the
Talbotton Standard, and perhaps others
that do not now occur to us. Besides
this is a dozen or more representative
Georgians have given their views on the
matter, and all, save one. are strenuously
in favor of a convention. If the Atlanta
papers do not calf this public opinion,
what do they call it?
The California Senatonsiop.—The long
a ff on y in the California Legislature over
the United States Senatorship came to an
end Saturday, Governor Newton Booth
being chosen by a majority of two over
all competitors. Governor Booth is elec
ted for the long term, commencing Marcli
4, 1875. In polities Governor Booth is
Democratic, but the main issue which
divides California politicians now is the
railroad question, and tho Senator elect
is what is called an anti-railroad manop-
oly man; that is, he is opposed to the
Central Pacific Railroad Company manag
ing everything fo suit itself, and in favor
of a competing line.
The Convention.—The people of Geor
gia (says the Nashville Union) are agi
tating the question of a Constitutional
Convention, and it meets with very little
opposition.
But why should the proposition meet
with any opposition from a single tax
paying citizen of Georgia? We want
nothing but what is right—but what is
absolutely essential to the security of
the tax-payers and every solid interest of
the State? We propose not the smallest
injustice to any citizen white or black.
But past experience having opened our
eyes to the terrible insecurity of our po
sition, no intelligent tax-payer can feel
safe until some constitutional guaranties
are established against any further in
crease of the public debt, State, county
or municipal and providing a reasonable
limit to taxation in the future.
COTTON MARKET.
The following is the market r« port
of December 30:
Liverpool.— Middlings S4<L
New York—Middlings 16J.
Savannah—Middlings 15J.
Charleston.—Middlings 15.
Augusta—Middlings 14§
Milledgeville—Middlings 14.
Gold 10.
Prices Current
Vlilledgeviile
Corrected Weekly by C. H. Wright & Son.
BACON : I Oat. 90
Shoulder*. Hi....10
Clear Rib Sides I"
Clear Sidts 10
I). S. Clear Rib Sides. 10
Plain Hams 15
Cauvcssed Hams,
BAGOING ltf tl>
IRON TIES 10
BUTTER—Country IB30
COFFEE—Rio^ IB... .30
EGGS. #>d»»z.
FACTORY G<
Cottou Y unis
Strioes. y
FLOUR, **bb)
GRAIN:
Corn
Peas
! HOES 00
; IKON R> 6910
1 LARD 15 <920
LIME V bush $1 25
M K AL bush.... $1 15® 130
MOLASriES. V gal. 37®50
NAILS. V m 8® 10
12 ■ OIL: K'-nsene, **«!• 50#6Q
111 I POTATOES :
Swwt, HP bu,h....75**1 00
..in a 15 Iri.h, *2 25*250
i>i> ; POTASH It LYE f ca. 26
SALT, *1* rack, 1»0
*1 75 SFOARS K*®13
:ia ill I SYRUP. IP gal 75®inn
1-1200 TALLOW... 12*
I TE l *1
*1 VINEGAR 4«®75
REGULATOR
Tbe Favorite Home Remedy.
This unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to contain
a tingle particle of Mercury, or any injurious mineral
substance, but is
PURELY VEGETABLE,
containing those Southern Roots and Herbs which an
all-wise Providence has placed in countries where
Liver Diseases most prevail. It will cure all Disease*
caused by Derangement of the Liver and Bowels.
Simmons’ Liver Regulator, or Medicine
Is emiueutly a Family Medicine; and by being kept
re; «*y 'or immediate resort will save many an hour of
suffering and many a dollar iu time and doctors’ bills
...... _ Aftcr over Forty Years'trial it is still receiving t'ha
.$1 wC®#! 20 j WHISKEY l^iral. *1253500 | most unqualified tes imonials to its virtues frorn per.
sous of tne highest character ami responsibility. Emi"
uent pbyaiciaDs commend it as the most
KIM) WORDS.
The Associated Reformed Presbyterian says;—For
years Perry Davis’Pain-Killer has been known as a
most useful family me iiciue. Fur pains and aches we
know nothing so good as the Pain-Killer. For many
internal diseases it is equally good. We 6peak from
experience, and testify to what we know. No family
ought to be v about a bottle of Davis’ Pain-Killer.
Messrs. Perry Davis -V Son, Pruv Ii, I.—Gents:—
Although a stranger to you 1 inn not to yonr invalua
ble medicine. Pain Ki.ier I formed its acquaintance
in 1847 and 1 am on most in'imate terms with it still;
my experience in its use confirms tny belief that there
is uo med cine equal to Pain-Killer for the quick and
sure cure of Summer Complaints, Sore Throat, Croup
Brmses and Cuts. I have used it in all and found a
speedy c-re in every case.
Yours Truly, T. J GARDINER, M. D.
Judge g by our om n experience whoever once makes
a Inal of Perry Davis's 1‘aiu Killer, will not fail to
recommend it widely as a unequalled liniment and val
uable internal remedy for colds and v arious other com
plaints.—F.ce-y Month.
The efficacy of Perry Davis’ world renowned Pain-
Killer in all diseases ofthe bowels, even in that terri
ble scourge, the Asiatic cholera, has been amply at
tested by the most convincing authority. Missiona
ries in China and India have written h >iue in commen
dation of this remedy in terms that should carry con
viction to the most skeptical, while its popularity in
communities nearer home is ample proof that tne vir
tries claimed for it are real and tangible. Among fam
ily medicines it stancs unrivaled.—Boston Courier.
The Saturday Evening Gazette of Boston, says : —
It is iirqio-.-ibie to find a place on this broad land
where Perry Davis’ Pain Ki.ier is uot known aa a
most valuable remedy for physical pain. In the coun
try, miles from physician or apothecary, the Pain-Killer
is cherished as the exclusive panocea, and it never de
ceives.
my
camcnt.and unlike most of the articles of the day. Is
used by many physicians. It is particularly desira
ble iu locations where physicians are not near; and by
keeping it at 1 and families will often save the ne
eessity of sending out at midnight for a doctor. A
bottle should In- kept in every house.”—Boston
Traveller. f* j
EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC
For Dyspepsia or piuligestion.
Armed with this ANTIDOTE.all climates and changes
ot water and food may be laced without fear Asa
Remedy in Malarious Fevers, Bowel Complaints Rest-
lessees., Jaundice, Nausea,
ZT BAS BO EQUAL.
It is the Cheapest, Purest and Best Family Medicine
in the World 1
Manufactured only by
J. B. ZEILIZf A CO.
MACON, GV, and PHILADELPHIA
Price, $1.00. Sold by all Druggists
Dec. 17, 1873. 2 1 ly
MILLEDGEVILLE ACADEMY.
I WILL REOPEN MY SCHOOL THE "tn
MONDAY IN JANUARY, (lib.)
RATES OF TUITION, PER TERM.
Spring Term of C .tiamlis.
Primary Class, $is 00
2nd “ . 21 00
3rd “ 30 00
Fall Term of 4 TCenlhn.
1st Class,........... |12 00
2nd “ jo oo
3rd “
Charges from time of entrance.
Milledgeville, Dec. 16, 1873.
20 00
O. M. CONE
21 3t
Monroe Female College,
FOH. STT
GA.
We have t«*8
readers that it m
d the Pi
unly fine-
i-Killer, ant assure our
sses all the virtues claim
ed for it, but in many instances surpasses any other
I-H - - ~
remedy we havt
Liber ly.
ever ’known,
Herald of Goapel
dec. 2, I m.
with Capt. Jones, the State Treasurer
and with Col. Miller Grieve; with Col.
Barnett, the Secretary of State, and with
Col. J. B. Campbell, Secretary to the
Governor—all MlUedgeviUe gentlemen,
but having at present offices in the Opera
House, used temporarily as the Capitol
building. We met, also, in his office
Prof, Orr, the intelligent Chief of onr
Public School system in Georgia, who is
wide awake to the educational wants of
the “masses” in Georgia. We also met
the accomplished Dr. A. L. Hamilton,
and his lady, Mrs. M. J. R. Hamilton,
the author of “Cachet,” a popular novel
which was reviewed fry “W. G. M," in
your columns- Mrs. H., not reposing on
her laurels, is preparing another work for
the press. But the mail will soon close—
and we must close sooner.
W. G. M.
— ♦ —■
The New York World, describing
Wednesday’s fog in that city, says; “At
half-past 9 A. M., the fog in the streets
was so dense that a person could not rec
ognize an intimate acquaintance at a dis
tanoe of more than twenty feet.. People
b tan ding on the street comers wishing to
take a car, heard the oars rolling by and
the bells jingling, bat saw nothing. It
was necessary to go oat into the middle
of the street and stand ok>ae to the tarek,
and then risk hailing the wrong car. " i
Georoia Press.—The Albany <( Central
City" says:
“The Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel is
interesting itself in behalf of the propos
ed Constitutional Convention more pro-
bably than any other print, and we think
it could not devote its columns more pro
fitably than in seeking to place the sub
ject fairly before the public ; for it is ev
idently the question of the times.
“Hon. John C. Reed, of Lexington,
lias been called out by the Chronicle Sc
Sentinel, who, in a communication of
some length, shows, very clearly to our
mind, that the calling of such a conven
tion is imperiously demanded, and should
be delayed no longer than the forma of
law require.”
We find the following in the Hawkins
villo Dispatch:
Our Odious State Constitutio».—Bat
few papers in Georgia oppose a Conven
tion of the people for the purpose of
changing the present Constitution, and if
the people of the State were aware how
much better they could make it by a few
alterations, they would demand a Con
vention at once. The present Constitu
tion was thrust upon our people at a time
when they were under the power of Fed
eral bayonets, which fact was so repug
nant to their feeliugs as free citizens
that thousands of them refused to go to
the polls and vote against it Bullock
was nmning for Governor, and it is to
Iris party that we are indebted for the
ratification of the Constitution and its
odious provisions. The scalawags and
misrepresentatives who Were assembled
in Atlanta in the early part of 1868 had
strong apprehensions that the people
would some day demand a change in
their legislation, and call for an alteration
of the Constitution. To place as great
an obstacle as possible in the way of
amendments to this instrument, they de
dared that it should not be altered or
amended except by a vote of two-thirds
A two Legislatures elected successively.
Tims we are forced to submit to the ope
ration of laws that cannot be amended or
repealed unless by our representatives
elected on different occasions, or a direct
action by the people to dispose of the
matter. If the
P
which convenes in the early part of Jap-
Two Milesians were standing at the
Fainnount waterworks in Philadelphia,
watching the big wheels splasliing the
water in every direction, when one of them
remarked; -Mike, aint t this a qnare coun-
thry, where they have to grind their water
before they can use it?"
“The University Press at Madison, Wis
consin. in publishing the course of study
at the State University, printed “comic
lectures" in the list of studies for the first
term of the Sophomore year, where the
professor had written “conic sections.”
Thayer county Nebraska is fattening
twelve thousand cattle for market.
Flax culture is receiving increased at
tention in the northwest. About four
thousand acres were sown in Marshal
county, Iowa, this year, and six thousand
acres in Watonwan county, Minnesota.
The latter is an increase of six hundred
per cent, over last year.
The Tallahassee Radical ticket, with
Charles H. Edwards for Mayor, H. Sutton
for Marshal, and Samuel Quaile for Clerk,
has been elected by a largely increased
majority over last year.
A Modern philosopher thinks it a mis
take to suppose women have stronger at
tachments than men. A man is often at
tached to an old hat; but he asks. “Who
ever heard of a woman being attached to
an old bonnet?"
Mrs. York, of Michigan, and Mrs.
Hartsonth, of Iowa, have both been li
censed to preach the Gospel in the North
ern Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Rothschilds, twelve in number, are
worth about one thousand millions of
dollars, as a firm, including their individ
ual fortunes.
“President Grant has refused to ac
cept the resignation of General Sickles."
The first desirable thing he was ever
known to refuse—Boston Post.
The Concord (N. H.) Patriot says the
late death of ex-Senator John P. Hale,
of that State, brings to light a fact often
hinted at pretty broadly before, but in
which no lady s name has ever been given
in print till now, to our knowledge. The
fact is that it was a daughter of Mr. Hale
who was engaged to Wilkes Booth, the
man who shot President Lincoln. In
Booth’s diary, which was taken from his
body, there was a picture of this lady.
They are talking of running Gen.
John C. Breckinridge for Governor of
Kentucky.
alnut Station, Pottawottomie county,
Iowa, claims to have four thousand cattle
fattening in the vicinity.
The hay crop of Maine is estimated this
year at $7,000,000.
An exchange says that one of its sub
scribers, a few weeks since, concluded he
would stop his paper, thinking he could
not afford a newspaper investment. The
paper had ceased its visits two weeks,
when he came into the office and said he
wanted it again. He had lost $100 the
week before for want of information he
could have obtained from the paper.'
Colonel Benjamin F. Evans, of the
widely known house of Walker, Evans &
Cogswell, in Charleston, died in that city
last Wednesday.
There are serious fears of famine in
Bengal. Heavy importations of rice have
been ordered by the authorities, in anti
cipation of the exhaustion of the present
meagre supply of food. •
Jot to the World ! Woman is Free I—Among
the many modern discoveries looking to the happiness
and amelioration of the human raee. none is entitled
to higher consideration than the renowned remedy—
Dr. J. Bradfie'.d s Female Regulator. Woman's Best
Friend. By it woman is emancipated from number
less ills peculiar t.. hr:r sex. Before its magic power
all irregularities of the womb vanish. It cures sup
pression of lire menses. It removes uterine obstruc
tions. It cures constipation and strengthens the sys
tem. It braces the nerves aud purifies the blood. It
never fails, as thousands of women will testify. It
cures whites. This valuable medicine is prepared and
sold by L- II. lirndfield, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga.
Price J1 50 per bottle. All respectable drug men
keep it.
Tc.-kegee, Ala., 1868.
Mr. L. II. Brauheld—Sir: Please forward us,
immediately, another supply of Bradfield’s Fe
male Regulator. We find it ro be all that isclaim-
ed for it, and we have witnessed the most decided and
happy effects produced by it.
Very respectfully,
Hunter k Alexander.
We the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure iu
commending to the trade, Dr J. HhadeieLD's Fe
male Regulator—believing it to be a good a n d re
liable remedy fur the diseases for which he recom
mends it.
W A. LaXDSELL. Atlanta, Ga.
Pember KtN, Wilson, Taylor 4 Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Redwixk & Fox, Atlanta, Ga.
W. C Lawshk. Atlanta, Ga.
W. Root & Sox, Maiietta, Ga.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Troup County.
This is to certify that I have examined the recipe of
DK. J. BRADFIELI), of this county, and as a medi
cal man pronounce it fo be a combination of medi
cines of great merit in the tieatrn-nt ot all the dis
eases of females for which he recommends it. This
December 21, JSiiS.
WM. P. BEASELEY, M. D.
For sale in Milledgeville bv
JOHN M CLARK and B.'R. HERTY. Druggists
Slay 14, 1873. g> i y
T HE SPRING SESSION will open on WEDNES
DAY, JANUARY 21st, 1874
Board and tuition for term of 24 weeks, $139 20,
payable iu advance.
Those who would secure for tlieir daughters the ben
efits of a classical education and proficiency in the
fine arts would do well to apply for catalogue to
It. T. ASBURY, Pres. Fae.
Dec. 16th, 1873. 21 Ct
Selling off at Cost!
I N ORDER TO MAKE A CHANGE IN MY BUS
IN£88,1 offer my entire Stock of Goods at COST,
FOR THIRTY DATS,
Consisting in part of GOLD and SILVER WATCH
ES, JEWELRY ot all description,
Plated Ware, Castors, Spoons, &e,,
GUNS, PISTOLS, CUTLERY
and many other things usually kept in a Jewelry
Store, too numerous to mention, iu fact everything iu
my establishment for the
CASH AND CASH OVI.Y.
Call, see and price my Goods, Repairing done as
usual.
N.B,—All those indebted to the undersigned, are
requested to make payment, otherwise their accounts,
As , will be handed over for collection.
G. T. WIEDENMAN.
Milledgeville Ga., Dec 9,1873. 2U lm.
F. MAUIS’S
Boot and Shoe Store.
r (^HE underaijtned is receiving Lis Fall and Winter
1. Stock of BOOTS and SHOES. Nearly his entire
Stock was made to order and he guarantees satisfac
tion in quality and price. He Las a rine lot of
Ladies, Misses, and Childrens Shoes
which not only look well but will wear well.
i|| His Stock of ficrion's Eoois at Shcesl
» DhL sre °f Superior quality and cannot fail to 1
to give satisfaction. He is prepared to make!
Boots to order and do all kinds of repairing; and!
if Shoe* or Boots gold by him rip, he mends them!
without charge.
BTIf you wish the worth of your money give him a
call.
F. HAUG.
Mil'edgeville. G».,Sept. 3Uth, 1873. Iu 3m.
s
t
MOV A L
ASS
neon, Georgia,
H
AVE this day removed to t heir new store, corner Cotton Avenue and Cherry St., (Bowdre k Anderson's
old stand) where they will be pleased to see their old friends and customers and the public generally. Tha
Street Cars f rom “ Brown House” aud Passenger Depot puts in TEN STEPS of onr door every thirty min
utes during the day.
Bacon, Bacon, Bacon-
75 HALF CASKS CLEAR RIB SIDES. 25 whole casks CLEAR RIB SIDES.
Iu store and to arrive, on consignment, aud sale at lowest market rates bv
JdNBS 6l BAXTER
October 29, 18<3. 14 3m
loom to Y*owrn interest:
Prices to
the Times!
I have just opened my NEW and LARGE Stock of
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Of the BESS BKanfactures. Also,
HAND MADE WORK that I will sell CHEAPER
than any other house in Milledgeville. Give me n
call and you wil satisfy yoanelf, that 1 keep the best of
Gentkmtii's Fine and Heavy Boots and Shoes.
The Finest of LASTING MORROCCO, GLOVE KID, PEBBLE and the new
SENSATXOXr OAX TEAS
Also. Misses and Children’s Gaiters and Shoes of EVERY DESCRIPTION and a great many other article
in my line too numerous to mentoin.
I.EAT1IEE! AND FINDINGS.
LOUIS EISEVIIAA,
Bides, Wool and Sheep Skins Bought.
Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 11. 1873.
12 3m.
A fllaaaal sf Health.
Aa edition of between nine and tea mllheae of eo-
pleeof a very useful work is now ready for grata!tou
distribution, and can be had for tha asfiiag at aay
drug store in the United States, the British Coloniss,
Spanish America or Bazll. The work referred to
Hostetter’s Almanac for 1874. Tbe medioal portion of
it treats of the various ailments to which the human
system is subject, ari l sets forth the peculiar proper
ties of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters—the parent and
uary, will submit the question to a vote,
we ai^ satisfied the capital will be re
moved to Milledgeville, where it right
fully belongs, and some very wholesome
and more important changes will be made
in the present Constitution, if a new one
be not entirely framed.
PAT The Cartersville Standard strongly
favors a convention, and thinks one
shoujd be called. It discovers no oppo
sition thereto among the press of the
State outside of Atlanta.
The Griffin News also flails for a eon*
vention, and remarks that the idea of the
“expense of such a body preventing its
session is no argument against it, for
there are several much needed changes in
our constitution, most any of which
would more than pay theeos^ in the way
of benefiting the people of the State.
Let the question be thoroughly discuss
ed. let the neonle meet towether and Th® proprietors, Messrs. Hostetler fie South, Pitts-
0,1* in nrimwrw borgh, Pa , on reoeiptof a two coot «Ump, will for-
besttouio at preseut known—as a preservative of
health and strength, and os a remedy for debility and
disease. Tbe Almanac is printed in all the principal
laagnages of the civilized world, and reaches a larger
number of families and individuals than any other med
ioal treatise that ever issued from the press. No man
or woman wbo lias a due regard for that choicest of
heaven’s blessings, bodily vigor, should foil to read
tbe plain, simple and convincing articles which this
truly practical publication contains. The miscellaa#
ous matter is varied, instructive and amusing, and the
calendar department copious and comprehensive. Hos-
tetter’s Almanac is, in short, a household convenience,
adapted to the use of all classes and oallings. The
farmer, the planter, the miner, ths merchant, the mm
chanic, the laborer, the professional man, oil need it;
and to invalids of both sexes it is lit’erallyaa article of
prime necessity. The medical technicalities which
render so many medical treatiaea intended for popular
use unintelligible to the general rseder, have been
earefully avoided in thie
plicit,
fully avoided iu this pamphlet. All Is eleer, ex-
i forcible, and reconcilable with ri
1, A •,. ii, I | ,, , A.. — x AL_ ourgn, x-e., on receipt ot a two Cent Stamp, WUl for
speak out in pnmacy tnaflOM nd *h*0 ward a copy by moil to aay penoa who owwat preean
let their views beoaniedovfc lone in his neighborhood. deo-§, la.
Burdick Bro’s,
63 THIRD STREET,
Macon. Ga.,
DEALERS IX
Bacon, Lafd, Corn, Oats Hay,
Bagging, Ties, Sugar, Coffee,
Whiskies, fyc., fyc., $fc.
i experience of SIXTEEN YEARS in the business, we feel confident that we ??" fi !lJS«lwiS
, and guarantee the some. Coil and OM M whan yetsoifs In filneon, and you will be pieow™
e you may make of us. ' *
AT THE OLD STAID, tt THUD STREET,
“GOLDEN HOC**
noifitt*-
From an
satisfactorily,
any purchase you may
Sign of the
Oct, 14,1873, 123m.