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THE UNION & RECORDER.
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‘Southern Recorder” Mid
consolidated.]
1 Federal Union
MILLED (SEVILLE,
a A:
Wednesday, January 7,
1874.
BOVITD TO TBS RING.
Humiliating Condition of the Atlanta
Press.
Every intellgent person in Georgia who
h is noticed the expression of the press
aid of leading individuals in every sec
tion of the State, must be convinced that
a large, a very large, majority of the peo
ple are anxious to have a convention to
abolish the carpet-bag Constitution and
reestablish our old one, with such altera
tions as our changed condition requires ;
aid yet, when this demand for a Conven
tion is so strong that editor* living out
of the State have seen and acknowledged
fie public sentiment of Georgia, these
Atlanta editors are so fast bound to the
lobby ring of Atlanta that they are afraid
to respond to public sentiment in favor of
a Convention, but in obedience to their
ring-masters, they oppose a Convention,
and in doing this they advocate and extoll
the glories of the carpet-bag Constitution
forced upon us by our enemies, and praise
the works of Bullock, Blodgett, Akerman,
Farrow & Co., and are afraid to trust our
own citizens in Convention for fear they
will mar the work of that convention of
thieves who formed the present Constitu
tion. This subserviency to the Atlanta
lobby ring may be profitable, but it must
be extremely humiliating to honorable or
honest men. After having abused the
carpet baggers and all of their works, then
at the bidding of the ring to turn around
and praise their Constitution, the most
infamous of all their works, must be hard
for anything but an Atlanta man to swal
low.
Women’s Influence Behind the
Throne.
Under the government of some of the
most corrupt of the Roman Emperors
and during the reign of Charles II of
England, and Lewis XV of France, in
triguemg women ruled the rulers of these
un fortunate countries, and whoever wished
to obtain any office were compelled to
make suit to these women. From re
ports from Washington it would seem
that a similar custom now prevails under
the present administration. Mrs. Wil
liams and Sirs. Stewart, it is said, have
procured office, position and wealth for
their husbands by their influence with the
powers that be; and if Mr. Williams is
made Chief Justice it will be through the
influence of his wife. The same influence
that can make a Judge can control the
decision of a court. If the President and
fienate and Supremo Court are already
controlled by women, they need not
clamor for more power—they have the
government under their control.
From (he Augusta Chronicle fc Seutiuel.
The Expense of a Convention.
So far the only argument advanced
against*the calling of & Convention has
been the ’‘expense.” Every reason which
has been met with this stock cry, the ex
pense. It is true that the present Con
stitution was the work of a people who
did not respect the State of Georgia—but
then, the expense of assembling the true
representatives of the people. It is true
that under the provisions of the present
instmmcnt the doors of the Treasury
have been thrown open to thieves and the
State pitilessly plundered of millions of
dollars—l>ut then it will cost so much to
throw effective safeguads around the
property of tax payers. There is no doubt
but that our judicial system needs remod
eling to a certain extent—but then im
provement will cost so much that it is
better to live under a bad than to go to
the expense of framing a good system.—
This is the argument, the only argument,
the one argument, the only argument, of
the anti conventionists. The sylogism
runs thus : It is wrong to spend money ;
a Convention, though it can accomplish a
greal deal of good will necessitate the
expenditure of money ; therefore it would
be wrong to hold a Convention. These sa
pient eoonomists estimate the cost of a
Convention all the way up from two hun
dred thousand to half a million of dollars.
They do not deign to inform the world
upon what data these wonderful estimates
are based, but it seems to be generally
conceded that they get their figures from
the cost of the Convention of 1868. Why
was it that this convention cost the State
so much ? Because it was composed,
mainly of ignorant negroes and unprinci
pled adventurers, utterly unacquainted
with public affairs, influenced by outside
rings, greedy for the munificent compen
sation which they had voted themselves
and anxious to remain in the golden show
er as long as possible. They did not know
how long to work, and they were eager to
remain in Atlanta while their pay went
on. Why do not the economists—some of
whom can swallow’ the bond compromise
but strain at a convention—inform us what
the Convention of 1801 cost us ? Why
do they not state what the expenses were
which the Convention of 1865 incurred
This body, as we are informed upon good
authority sat fifteen days, and cost the
State less than thirty thousand dollars.
If the virtue and intelligence of Georgia
can be assembled again the}’ can reform
existing abuses and furnish safeguards for
the future in a very short time and at very
small expense.
Tine Scandalous Nomination.—
The real and deep objection to Mr. Wil
liams has nothing to do with his moral
character or his actions as a politician.
It goes straight to the man’s mental unfit
ness for the jilace. He had neither the cult
ure nor the learning—nor a tenth part of
either—fit for the place; and he has not
the intellectual grasp, nor clearness, or
power that give hope that he might be
come fit for the position. .All this, w<
repeat, was perfectly evident to those who
heard him here in the Credit Mobelier
suit. He not only did not make a fair ar
gument, but he seemed entirely incapable
of grasping the points that were made by
the opposing lawyers. His appearance
here in court was a humiliation to every
friend of the Government. We have nev
er talked with a member of the bar here
who does not consider the proposal to
make him Chief Justice an “outrage.
In stating this, we do not give an opinion
we report facts.—Hartford Courant.
The Particulars of the Virginias
Sinking—Report of the Officer in
Charge.
LIENS AND MORTGAGES.
The Convention Question—How it
Stands.
We give a list below, showing how the
press of Georgia stands on the Conven
tion question:
For a Convention—Augusta Chronicle,
Augusta Constitutionalist, Macon Tele
graph, Columbus Sim, Griffin News,
Morning News, Athens Watchman, For-
. sytli Advertiser, Covington Enterprise
Conyers Examiner, Greenville Vindicator,
Franklin News, Carrollton Times, Nor
cross Advance, Lawrenceville Herald,
Gainsville Eagle, Gainsville Advertiser
Clarkesville North Georgian, Barnesville
Patriot, Greenesboro Herald, Athens
North-east Georgian, Warren ton Clipper.
Washington Gazette, Thomson Journal
Elberton Gazette, Waynesboro Expositor,
Sunders ville Georgian, Sandersville Her
aid, Louisville News & Farmer, Eatonton
Messeugcr, Milledgeville Union, Americus
Republican, Eastman Times, Quitman
Banner, Valdosta Times, Tliomasville
Enterpise, Bainbridge Democrat, Albany
Central City. Hawkinsvillo Dispatch
Perry Home j ournal, Talbotten Standard
Blakely News.—42.
Against a Convention—Bainbridge Sun,
(Rad.) Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Her
aid. Savannah Advertiser, Newnan Herald,
Thomaston Herald, Catoosa ■ Courier,
Brunswick Appeal, Albany News, Black
shear Georgian, Griffin Star, Madison
Journal, West Point News—13.
The above classification is from the
Griffin News. Some of those put down
as opposed to a Convention, say they
have been classified wrongly. Prominent
ly among these is the Savannah Adver
tiser. There are two or three others among
those opposed to a Convention who we
are assured do not represent any consid
erable number of their readers on this
subject. But the editors of these papers
are deadheaded at the Kimball House
whenever they go -to Atlanta, and they
consider themselves hound to sustain the
interest of Atlanta. These gentlemen do
not represent principles so much as pota
tions and provender. After all of these
deductions arc made, the opposition to a
Convention substantially consists of the
Radical sheet in Bainbridge, the Sun, and
the two Atlanta papers. These, with one
accord, extoll the negro-carpet-bag Con
stitution, and wish to be let alone to en
joy tlia good things which Bullock, Blod
gett, Farrow & Co. provided for them.-—
But will the people let them alone to en.
Joy their plunder ? We shall see.
Natoleon the Great.—In a recent ar
ticle republished in the Eclectic Magazine
from an English Journal, we have this
somewhat novel description of the first
Napoleon:
“ He was neither dark nor fair: had
chestnut hail - ; grey eyes; complexion
pale brown, without any red in it, and a
smooth skin. The brain was large; the
skull belonged to the largest development
ever known. His pulse was slow, count-
mg only forty beats a minute. He per
spired little, and was insensible alike Ja
beat and cold, hunger and thirst. Dissim
ulation, an extraordinary power of gen
eralization, and a sluggish temperament,
make up this wonderful man.”
The most remarkable statement in the
above is that in regard to the great Eiu
peror's circulation, aW making only forty
strokes per minute.
The whole article is unlike all others
we have seen on I^apoleon, and is from
the pen of De Bodichon, and but recently
allowed to be printed. This and numer
ous other able articles appear in the Janu
ary number of the unequalled Eclectic
Magazine.
The Northeast Georgian has come
out in favor of a Constitutional Conven-
New York, December 30, 1873.
Lieutenant Commander Haswell, exec
uti^ officer of the Osipee, says: The
Osipco left the Tortugas with the Virgin
ius in tow on the morning of the 19th
inst. As already reported, they had fair
weather until the afternoon of Saturday,
the following day, when a gale sprang up,
and she continued to have bad weather
like that encountei’ed by the Juniata, and
the Virginius signalled that she was leak
ing badly. Captain Walters, commander
of the Osijtee, therefore determined to
shape his course for Charleston, South
Carolina, but as they got into smoother
water the Virginius behaved better, and
the water was kept out of her fire room.
On the morning of Christmas day, how
ever, severe weather having continued,
the Virginius was again leaking as badly
as ever, and the vessel put into Frying
Pan Shoals, about ten miles south of
Cape Fear Light House, where smoother
water could be obtained. Here the ves
sels came to anchor. Captain Walters
hearing that the Virginius would ride out
the gale. Before daylight next (Friday)
morning Commodore Woodrow signalled
with lights that the Virginius was leak
ing rapidly, with the fires out and pumps
stopped, and that the crew wished to be
taken oft'. A boat was lowerei from the
Osipee at daylight, and by 7 p. m. all on
board the Virginius were transferred to
the former vessel. As a heavy sea was
running, the work of removing the crew
was one of much danger and difficulty,
and therefore no lives were risked in en
deavoring to save their personal proper
ty or any other property on the Virgin
ius. The hawser of the Virginius was
cut, and buoys attached to mark her po
sition in case she sank out of sight.
The Ossipee remained at anchor during
the day, and at a quarter-past 4 o’clock
p. m. the Virginius, which had been grad
ually settling went to the bottom. She
sank in eight fathoms water, and her top
masts remained above the surface.
The Osipee then resumed her voyage to
this port. Her supply of coal was ample
—twenty five tons still remaining on
board. All on board the Osipee are well.
She will proceed to the Navy Yard to-day
or to-morrow, after discharging her pow
der.
Capt. Walters has made a written report
which will be forwarded to Washington at
once. He released the captives of the
Virginius, who still remain in Cuba, at
the restaurant on Fine street, and the
scene there this morning was one of en
thusiasm. A resolution was adopted re
turning thanks to Capt. Braine, of the
Juniata, for his kindness, and expressing
sympathy with him in the loss of his son.
It was also resolved that the ex-captives
should attend the funeral of the child in
a body.
Some of the captives this morning were
visited by personal friends, and the meet
ings on these occasions were of the most
aff ecting character.
Milledgevillf., Ga., Dec. 25, 1873.
Messrs. Editors Union A Recorder :
As the present year is drawing to a
close and the ni w year coming in. allow
me to suggest a few thoughts upon the
subject of liens and mortgages.
I do not believe a m:ui can be found
who has given the subject any considera
tion, who will not pronounce the mort
gages and crop liens, that have come to
be so common in our country, an un
mitigated curse. The laboring classes,
whom the law makers doubtless intended
to benefit, liave been constantly growing
poorer ever since the system has been in
vogue, and I think I will be entirely safe
in saying that those of our merchants
who have sold most largely on the secu
rity of such liens and mortgages, have
lost most heavily.
The present unhappy condition of the
greater portion of the people is to be
attributed to various causes, but to no
particular cause so mu^li as to the credit
system, which has already wrought im
mense mischief and will continue to do
so as long as the law permits it to be
bolstered up as it has been since the war.
For the sake of getting goods on a
credit our people have made themselves
the bonded slaves of the merchants, by
giving them absolute control of their
crops, and then added to their folly by
buying a great many things they could
have done without. The merchants
tempted by the enormous per cent for
which they could sell their goods and
overestimating the strength of the secu
rity given them for the payment, have
been involving themselves in purchasing
from other markets on a credit, expect
ing to pay their creditors when they had
collected the debts due them. Pay day
has come, and come before anybody is
ready for it. Those who have been tra
ding so liberally on time have not made
half so much as they expected to make,
simply because they were crazy enough
to expect to realize twice as much as
they ever did or ever will make; and the
necessary consequence is that they must
have everything they have made taken
away from them and be left to start again
as poor as they were when they began,
with only one comforting reflection : they
have nobody to blame lint themselves.
The merchants are not to be condemned
for trying to collect what is due them.
Their own credit is at stake and all rea
sonable men will commend them for their
efforts to preserve untarnished that which
is to the merchant what virtue is to a
■woman. But they find that very many
of their mortgages cover property they
had never owned, and that their much
prized securities are not worth the paper
they are written on. That which was to
be has not come to pass; the crop to be
made during the current year with which
to pay advances bona fule to make said
crop, has not been grown, and the result
is our mercantile friends are hard press
ed to make buckle and tongue meet.—
Some evils if let alone will cure tin m-
selves; but this is not one of them: and
so far from getting better we may expect
to see them grow constantly worse until
all the lien laws are repealed. And the
Legislature, soon to convene, could not,
in my judgment, do a better service for
the people than to repeal it as soon as
they possibly can.
You will -pardon me for making one
other suggestion, upon the subject of the
usury law. The last Legislature repeal
ed the usury laws. The usury laws
should be re-enacted, and so framed that
if any bank or individual should charge
more than seven per cent, per annum for
the use of money, they should not only
lose the interest but should forfeit the
entire debt. A.
Cotton.--Bffr. Warthen’s Flan of
Cultivation.
The Southern Cultivator says : As
bearing upon the request for a manure-
formula to make the largest quantity ><f
cotton on a given area of land, we pub
fish the following account of perhaps the
most remarkable yield on record—said to
be s.'x bales per acre.
AVarthen'b Store, Washington Co., Ga.
Editors Sandersville Herald:—Accord
ing to promise, I hereby append a brief
and correct account of the preparing, ma
nuring and cultivation of my acre of cot
ton grown this season:
The soil is sandy with clay subsoil.—
Has been in cultivation 60 or 80 years I
suppose. About half of the acre was an
old dung-hill, the other half very poor
before manuring. The Guano I used
was Kettlewell’s A. A., or Phosphate Pe
ruvian, 1,400 pounds; raw pine straw,
from the woods, 60 ox-cart loads ; green
cotton seed, 60 bushels; stable manure,
well rotted. 400 bushels.
The jtine straw, cotton seed and stable
manure I hauled out in January, and
strewed broad-cast over the land, then
Fashion Notes.
Eugenie has added purple to her mourn
ing.
Some ladies are wearing daggers of
silver or jet in their bonnets, sewed on a
small black velvet or ribbon bow on the
the side.
Reversible Eiizeth: nr iffsarethe latest.
They are worn with any costume, and are
lined with light colored silk.
Work-Tiaskets and bird-earges combin
ed arc new. They are made of willow,
the c ge hanging from an arch above the
basket.
The old fashion of wearing beads has
been revived. Jet beads are used instead
of the large rablrer ones, as heretofore.
Four times around the neck, is, we be
lieve. the correct thing just now
Brown corduroy jackets, made double-
breasted, with deep collar and reverse,
will be fashionable this winter. They
have no trimmings save n double row of
large bronze buttons.
Velvet walking costumes imported late
ly ore very elegant. They are made
something in the redingote style, and the
COTTON MARKET.
The following is the market report
of January 5th :
Liverpool.—Middlings Sid.
New York—Middlings 16£.
Savannah—Middlings 15J.
Charleston.—Middlings 15.
Augusta—Middlings 14f
Milledgeville—Middlings 14.
Gold 10.
Milledgeville Prices Current
Corrected Weekly by C. II. Wright & Son.
turned under with a two-horse plough, ! trimming is usually feathers and rich
breaking eight inches deep. Then with
a sixteen-inch scooter run in the two-
horse furrow, breaking from five to seven
inches; in the whole, thirteen to fifteen
inches deep. I then followed in the
scooter-furrow with the guano, or sub
soil furrow, so on, till completed. In
February I repeated the breaking in the
same manner, leaving off manuring. In
March, the same again, breaking each
lace.
Artificial flowers are now used to dee
orat-* ball-rooms, parlors, and halls on
festive occasions. They are cheaper than
natural exotics, look quite as well, and
will serve on more occasions than one.
Wax flowers are now called into requi
sition to trim the new winter bonnets.
The large red roses worn are all of wax.
| u. new style of collar, said to be in
time cross-wise, or in opposite directions. | ^ ^ for Uemeilj is the nearest ap-
In April, I harrowed the land twice, to iw .j t we
level the soil and destroy the yoiuig veg
etation. Then I checked oft my rows
three feet each way, with a small bull
tongue plough, and on
May. I planted my cotton seed in the
hill, six or eight seed, dropped by hand
and covered with the foot. The seed
when covered being on a level. The J |‘ ei . •
seed were the “Cluster Cotton’"variety. • 1,01,1
I purchased them from David Dickson,
Esq., Oxford. Ga., to whom I must con
fess I am indebted for my success, to a
certain extent. The seed, I am confident,
were half the battle. The cotton was
thinned to one stalk to the hill in June,
with the exception of outside rows, in
which I left two stalks. Then I ploughed
with twenty-two inch sweep, “Dickson s
very shallow, one furrow to the row, just
scraping the earth enough to destroy the
young weeds und grass. Did not use a
hoe in it. in order to avoid skinning the
cotton, m fact, had no use for any, as the
cotton grew so fast the shade thereof
proiwn we have Been to the kind worn by
-end men" in minstrel companies. .
Ear-rings made of gold coins are one
the 13th dav'of I of the latest novelties in jewelry They
hang from the car from a fine gold chain
fast- ned to the hook, and are qnito pret
ty. Necklaces of coins are also introdu-
also bracelets of the same, the coins
; sewed on a wide band of black vel
vet.
The newest ear-rings are of bone. They
are cut in the form of many-pointed stars
tipped with different oolors. A small
star fastens in the lobe of the ear, and a
larger one hangs underneath. They are
very odd and very pretty. The first made
were exhibited at the Vienna Exposition.
BACON:
Shoulders, t’ IS 1° a.
Clear Rib Sides I'* d
Clear Sides 1» ®
I) S.CIearttib 3ides,10®
Plain Hams 15 0
Canvassed Hums,....
BAGGING 1« 3
IRON TIES 1" 6 12
BUTTER—Country lb30 <740
COFFEE—Ri<4> lb SO a
Juvu 40 345
EGGS. ff dozen 20
FACTORY GOODS:
Cotton Y’aras ^ luueli #1.7.,
Stripes. 4> yd. 121 u 2"
FLOUR. 4>bbl ..*10linn 1200
GRAIN: _
Corn *1 00 a *1 25
Peas * 1 MTS *1 20
Oats 90
HOES 6031 00
IRON y ffi 5310
LARD 15320
LIME y bush *125
MEAL y bush.... *1153130
15 MOLASSES. y gal. 37350
NAILS, y IS..
OIL: Kerosene, 4’ gal
POTATOES :
Sweet, y bush....753*1 00
I risli. y bush.... *2 25 32 50
POTASH Sr LYE y
SALT. y sack
SUGARS 10313
SYRUP. I* gal 753100
TALLOW 124
TEA *1 503200
VINEGAR 40 u 75
WHISKEY gal. *1253500
REGULATOR
The Blakely Ncavs says : The question
of calling a convention for the purpose of
forming a new constitution is being dis
cussed by our State exchange generally.
The argument as to the necessity of a
convention is a very one-sided affair. The
only opposition we have noticed comes
from the Atlanta papers and from ’Wliitely
of the Bainbridge Him. (Rad.) That the
press and people of Atlanta should he op
posed to a constitutional convention is
very natural, for they know full well that
one of the results of that convention
would inevitably be the return of the capi
tal to Milledgeville, White!} s opposi
-tion to a convention can be accounted for
from tho fact that with the doing away
of the present constitution and the conse
quent return of the capital to Milledge
ville, there would scarcely remain enough
of the infamous work of Radcalism in the
State to remind coming generations that
Georgia was ever cursed by the unhal
lowed presence of the thieving carpetbag
ger or the still more infamous scalawag.
That the general sentiment of the State is
in favor of a new constitution there can
be no doubt, and the controlling consid
eration with the Legislature in regard to
calling a convention will no doubt be, can
we afford the expense in the present eon
dition of our finances? On this point
there will be a diversity of opinion. Those
most anxious to liave the convention will
be full of expedients to raise the necessary
funds, while those who are less anxious
will be doubtful, and those opposed to a
convention will see in it ruinous taxation.
Senators and Representatives should ma
ture the mattei in their minds before the
meeting of the Legislature that they may
not spend almost money enough in its
discussion to pay the expenses of a con
vention, say we, just so soon as we can
afford it; and that we can afford it at any
time better than we can afford to erect
public buildings at Atlanta, we have not
a doubt.
prevented all vegetation from growing
underneath. T. C. WARTHEX.
Cromwell’s Dispersion of the Hump
Parliament.
We co})}’ from the old work now before
us. for the benefit of such readers as have
not yet seen it, tho famous proclamation
of Oliver Cromwell dissolving the Rump
Parliament. It is a masterpiece of terse
and vigorous utterance—happily accom
panied, as it was, by corresponding action.
If Old Noll had l>oen addressing the Credit
Mobiliers and salary grabbers of the Forty
second Congress he could not have spoken
more appropriately:
the interesting announcement to
THE “ RUMP. ”
It is high time for me to put an end to
your sitting in tliis place, which ye have
dishonored by your contempt of all virtue,
and defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all
good government. Ye are a pack of mer
cenary wretches, and ay Quid, like Esau,
sell your country for a mess of pottage,
and like Judas, destroy your God for a
feAv pieces of silver. Is there a single
virtue now remaining among you? Is
there one rice you do not possess? Ye
have no more religion than my horse.
Gold is your God. Which of you has not
bartered away your conscience for bribes?
Is there a man among you that has the
least care for the good of the common
wealth? Ye sordid prostitutes, have ye
not defiled the sacred place, and turned
the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves?
By your immoral principles and wicked
practices, ye ha\’e grown intolerably o-
dious to"a whole nation. You who are
deputed here by the people to get their
grivances reversed, are yourselves become
the greatest grievances. Your country,
therefore calls upon me to clean tliis An
gean stable, by putting a final period to
your iniquitous proceedings in this house,
and which, by God’s help, and the strength
he has given me, I now intend to do. I
command you, therefore upon the peril
of your lives, to depart immediately out
of this place! Go! Make haste! Ye venal
slaves, be gone! Take away that shining
bauble there, the speaker's mace, and lock
up the doors."
Two things uoav appear to he prety cer
tain. The bankrupt law will not be repeal
ed. but will be amended, and Williams will
not be confirmed as chief justice. The
judiciary committee have discovered, a-
mong other things, that the elegant six
teen hundred dollar carriage that ill’s.
Williams sports was paidjfor out of the
contingent fund of the department of
justice. The friends of Williams explain
that the same thing has been done by
the "members of the cabinet, and that most
of the department pay such family ex
penses as this out of the contingent fund.
If this is fine, it is a pretty conclusive argu.
ment against any increase of the salaries
of cabinet officers. The feeling against
Mrs. Williams is quite bitter, and Sena
tors will yield to the public and vote a-
gaiust confirmation, if the nomination is
not \ritlidrawn.
Tin: Jay Cooke Failure.—A Philadel
phia letter to the New York Tribune says
that by tlie recent failure of Jay Cooke A
Co., Jay Cooke loses an estate belonging
to him individually that was once thought
to be Avortli nearly §4,000,000. Mr. Moor
head had £2,0003)00 ofproperty, it is said
before he entered the firm, and is now
of course, penniless. The other members
also Jose large private fortunes. None of
them can possibly save a dollar from the
wreck, judging from present indications.
The PinLAMELpmA Tower of Babel.—
The Scientific American publishes a full
description of the proposed great tower
to be erected i:i Philadelphia at the Cen
tennial. As to height, anything of pious
device r inks into insignificance beside it.
The tower of Babel was a common affair,
in all probability, and the St. Peter’s at
Rome, St. Paul’s London, and the Pyra
mids of Egypt, will “look like pigmies.”
The tower is to lie one thousand feet in
the air, of circular iron; one hundred and
fifty feet at the base, and thirty at the
top, with a spiral stircase for the use of
any one who is foolish enough to attempt
to walk up, and an elevator for those who
are willing to risk a ride.
hI>D WORDS.
The Associated Reformed Presbyterian says:—For
years Perry Davis' Pain-Killer lias been known as a
most useful family medicine. For pains and aches we
kDow nothing so good as the Pain-Killer. For many
internal diseases it is equally good. We speak from
experience, and testify to what we know. Nolamily
ought to be without a bottle of Davis’ Pain-Killer.
Messrs. Perry Davis X Son, Prov. R. I.—Gents:—
Although a stranger to you I am not to your invalua
ble medicine. Pain Killer I formed its acquaintance
in 1817 and I am on most in'imate terms with it still;
my experience in its use confirms my belief that there
is no medicine equal to Pain-Killer for th. quick and
sure cure of Summer Complaints, Sore Throat, Croup.
Bruises and Cuts. I have used it in all and found a
speedy core in every case.
Youis Truly, T. J GARDINER, M. D.
Jndgh g by our own experience whoever once makes
a trial of Perry Davis's Pain-Killer, will not fail to
recommend it widely as a unequalled liniment, and val
uable internal remedy for cods and various other com
plaints.—A'rey Month.
The efficacy of Perry Davis’ world renowned Pain-
Ki.ler in all diseases of the 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 Iudia have written home in commen
dation of this remedy in terms that should cariy con
viction to the most skeptical, while its popularity in
communities nearer home is ample proof that the vir
tues claimed for it are real and tangible. Among fain
ily medieiucs it stands unrivaled.—Boston Courier.
The Saturday Evening Gazette of Boston, says : —
It is impo-sihle to find n place on this broad land
where Perry Davis’ Pain Kiuer is not known as a
most valuable lemedy lor 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.
“Perry Davis' Pain Killer is really a valuabie medi-
cament,and unlike most of the articles of the day, is
used by many physicians. It is particularly desira
ble in locations where physicians are not near; and by
keeping it at hand, families will ofteu save the ne
cessity of sending out at midnight for a doctor. A
bottle should be kept in every house. 1 '—Boston
Traveller.
“We have tested the Pain-Killer, and assure our
readers that it not only possesses all the virtues Haim
ed for it, bet in many instances surpasses any other
remedy we have ever known.’"—lit
The Favorite Home Remedy.
This unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to contain
a single 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 Diseases
caused by Derangement of the Liver and Bowels.
Simmons’ Liver Regulator, or Medicine,
Is eminently a Family Medicine; and by being kept
ready !or immediate resort will save mauyan hour of
suffering and many a dollar in time and doctors’ hills. A
After over Forty Years’trial it is still receiving lhs
most unqualified testimonials to its virtues from per.
sons of the highest character and responsibility. Emi
nent physicians commend it as the most
BFFBCTUAXi SPECIFIC
For Dyspepsia or piuligestion.
Armed with this ANTIDOTE,all climates and changes
of water and food may be faced without fear At a
Remedy in Malarious Fevers, Bowel Complaints, Rest
lessness, Jaundice, Nausea,
XV BAB NO BQUAIi.
It is the Cheapest, Purest and Best Family Medicine
in the World!
Manufactured only by
J. B. ZBIUN A CO.,
MACON, G.*., and PHILADELPHIA.
Price, $1.00. Sold by all Druggists.
Dec 17, 1873. 21 ly.
MILLEDGEVILLE ACADEMY.
THE
I MONDAY IN JANUARY, (12,1..)
RATES OF TUITION, PER TERM.
Terns sf tt Months.
Primary Claes,.. $1.8 00
2nd “ 24 00
3rd “ 30 00
Fall Terns of 4 Month*. ,
1st Claes f 12 00
2nd
3rd “ . —
Charges from time of entrance.
Milledgeville, Dec. 1G, 1873.
1G 00
20 00
O. M. CONE
21 3t
Monroe Female College,
FOR. SYT
GA.
Liberty.
ierald of Gospel
dec. 2 t Im.
A PLAIN
STATEMENT
CASE.
OF THE
Quitman Banner: Some of tlie papers
that oppose the proposed Constitutional
Convention are particularly exercised lest
if held it might do something injurious
to our people, and the Atlanta Constitu
tion has scared up tho bug-bear that, such
convention might make imprisonment for
debt legal. Now, if such convention is ever
held it will be remembered that it will be
composed of delegates fresh from the peo
ple, and before the election all their views
and opinions can be inquired into. Of
course only such will be sent as the peo
ple select, and ought truly to represent
the people on all questions likely to come
before them. To be afraid to trust the
Convention, then, is to be afraid of the
people themselves, and when we lose
faith in the people who constitute the
true foundation of all civil liberty, we had
a well give up the idea of free govern
ment.
The New York churches are said to
have a total seating capacity of 308,500.
Wheeling, W. Va., boasts that it is the
largest nail and glass manufacturing city
in the Union; that it has passed through
the late panic without a single suspen
sion of mercantile and manufacturing
firm or run on any of its banks; that its
mills and factories are in full blast; that
money is comparatively easy, and that
parties are already paying their January
mCQTTOiVfl
A paper so far removed from us as the
Missouri Republican seems to have a bet
ter understanding of the Convention
question than solhe of the journals in
Georgia which oppose a movement that
they do not seem to comprehend. In
recent editorial article the Republican
says: “The demand for a Constitutional
Convention in Georgia is urged for the
purposes of removing the Bullock bond
controversy from tho domain of legisla
tion—that is, of passing a constitutional
prohibition
000,000 of
the payment of the $8.
fraudulent bonds issued by
Bullock; limiting the Legislature to bi
ennial sessions, and fixing the per diem
of members; reducing the amount of
homestead and personalty exemptions,
now considered extravagant; rerising
the judiciary system; allowing a second
trial by jury; prohibiting special legis
lation, and prohibiting reckless State do
nations.” This is a plain statement of
the case, a plain recital of what the ad
vocates of a Convention wish to accom
plish.
A Bow in the Florida Cabinet-
Tallahassee, Dec. 21.
Attorney General flocke and Secretary
of State McLin who is the editor of the
Sentinel, tho Radical organ here, had a
personal rencontre on the street yesterday
evening. Cocke knocked McLin down
twice, which ended the trouble.
The difficulty grew out of certain com
ments made by the Sentinel of yesterday
-upon Judge Cocke’s letter to the Floridian
of last week, in which he repudiated the
idea that the State of Florida is res
ponsible for the four millions of bonds
issued by Reed to Littlefield in aid of the
Jacksonville, Tensacola and Mobile Rail
road, the proceeds of which were sent to
North Carolina to pay Littlefield’s fraud
ulent debts in that State.
The shock between these two Cabinet
officers is considered here as the opening
of the ball in respect to this railroad
squabble, which, it is hoped will end in
the State's triumph. There is not much
expressed for McLin here-
OSCEOM-
The Chief Justiceship.—The N. Y.
Times thinks that, in spite of his unpop
ularity, Williams will, in the end, be con-
finned as Chief Justice. Tho well in
formed Washington correspondent of tlie
New York Journal of Commerce says:
“There is a decided and very bitter oppo
sition to the confirmation of Attorney
General Williams as Chief Justice. A
member of the Judiciary Committee says
the object of adjournment Friday week
was to defeat the confirmation by giving
an opportunity to Oregonians and others
to present new evidences against him.—
It has been conceded on all hands that
delay injuries his chances. But in the
meantime the President appeals to have
taken up the cudgel, .and made a person
al matter of it. lie appears to l>e as per
tinacious for Mr. Williams’ confirmation
as he was about San Domingo annexa
tion, and since many Senators will be
able to regard it as simply a personal
matter, the probabilities seem largely in
favor of Mr. Williams’ confirmation. The
President has maintained all along a be
lief that he will be confirmed.’’
Georgia News.
A Northern company has purchased
an extensive mill site, near Columbus, and
will soon put up a large cotton factory.
A negro woman made a Chistmas pie
for her lord, who is in jail at Athens. Tlie
vigilant jailor examined it, and found
three files, a box of matches, etc. “Fore
God, mass’r,” she said, “I duno how dat
ole rooster eber did swaller dem files.”
On the 26th ult. a tragedy occurred
in Washington county. Edwin Stubbs
and Zacli Gray, brothers-in-law, were in
Sandersville drinkftig heavily, sud quar
relied on their way home. The result
was the mortal shooting of the former.
Whiskey primes concealed weapons quick
ly-
Mr. C. H. C. Willingham takes charge
of the Rome Courier with a neat saluta
tory, and Col. Sawyer retires. To both
we extend our good wishes and congratu
lations.
The Bamesville Gazette is in favor of
a Constitutional Convention. The Gazette
was not included in our list of newspa
pers recently published.
The grand jury of Houston county,
during its session last month at Perry,
adopted strong measures against grog
shops or “grab-all’s," as they are some
times called.
Two Foes of Health.
Cold and damp are inimical to health, as
we generally have an unwholesome com
lination of the two at this season. They
penetrate the skin and integuments and
affect flic muscular, glandular and ner
vous organizations, producing rheum;
tism, neuralgia, chills and fever, and
where there is a tendency to dyspepsia or
liver complaint, provoking an attack of
indigestion or biliousness. The best ad
vice that can be given under such circum
stances is to keep the external surface of
the body warmly clothed, and to keep
the internal organs in rigorous workin
order with the most wholesome and ge
nial of r.U tonics, Hostetter’s Stomach
-Bitters. Gradually but constantly this
famous inrigorant is superseding the
adulterated liquors of commerce, as
medicinal stimulant and corrective, in all
parts of tlie country. It will be a happy
day for humanity, audit will surely come,
when this pure restorative shall have
taken the place of raw spirits as a stimu
lant in all our pupljp and private hospi
tals. It is not, however, merely a harm
less substitute for the fiery stimulants re
ferred to. Its stimulating properties are
not its chief merits, although in this re
gard it surpasses all the unmedicated
product of the still, domestic or import
ed. The powerful influence it exercises
over the torpid and toneless stomach,
the disorded liver, the constipated bow
els, and tlie relaxed nerves, render it a
positive specific in dyspepsia, liver com
plaint, intestinal constriction, nervous
weakness, hypochondria, rheumatism and
sleeplessness. All chronic complaints
arc aggravated by a cold, moist atmos
phere. and it is therefore particularly ne
cessary for those who are afflicted with
ailments of this nature, whatever their
type may ho, to meet this predispos
iug cause of sickness with a wholesome
antidote. Hostctter’s Bitters should be
take n daily at this season by all persons
laboring under chronic ailments that tend
to weaken tho system. (24 lm.
Comipiiri.ou brltrern the Com I of Ike Stol*
Uovi'rnmrnl al MilledgeTille aad Atlaala
JoY To the World! Woman 13 Free!—Among
the many modern discoveries looking to the happiness
and amelioration of the human race, none is entitled
to higher consideration than the renowned remedy—
Dr. J. liradfieid's Female Regulator, Woman's Best
Friend. Bv it woman is emancipated from number
less ills peculiar !« her sex. Before its magic power
all irregularities of the womb vanish. It cures sup
pression of the menses. It removes uterine obstruc
tions. It cures constipation and strengthens the sys
tem. It braces the nerves and 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. Brailfield, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga.
Price $1 50 per bottle. All respectable drug men
keep it.
Tcskegee, Ala., 1868.
Mr. L. II. Bradfield—Sir: Please forward us,
immediately, another supply of Bradfield’s Fe
male Regulator. We find it to be all that is claim
ed for it. and we have witnessed the most decided and
happy effects produced by it.
Very respectfully,
Hunter &. Alfxahdkr.
We the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure in
commending to the trade. Dr J. Bradfield’s Fe
male Regulator—believing it to be a good and re
liable remely for the diseases for which he recom
mends it.
W. A. Landsfll. Atlanta. Ga.
Pemberton, Wilson, Taylor &. Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Redwine & Fox, Atlanta, Ga.
W. C Laws he, Atlanta, G.%.
W. Root &, Son, Marietta, Ga.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Troup Courtt.
This is to certify t lint I have examined the recipe of
DR. J. BRADFIELD, vf this county, and as a medi
cal man pronounce it to be a combination of medi
cines of great merit in the treatment of all the dis
eases of females for which he recommends it. This
Deceihber 21, 18GS.
WM. P. BEASELEY, M. D.
For sale in Milledgeville bv
JOHN M. CLARK and B. R. HERTY, Druggists.
May 14. 1873. 42 ly
'pnE SPRING SESSION will open on VVEDNES-
1 DAY, JANUARY 21st, 1871.
Board and tuition for term of 24 weeks, ft31) 20
payable in advance.
Those who would secure for their daughters the ben
efits of a classical education and proficiency in the
tine arts would do well to apply for catalogue to
It. T. ASBURY, Pres. Fac.
Dec. lGth, 1873. 21 Ct
Selling oil* at Cost
I N ORDER TO MAKE A CHANGE IN MY BUS
INESS, I offer my entire Stock of Goods at COST,
FOB. THIB.TY DAYS,
Consisting in part of GOLD and SILVER WATCH
ES, JEWELRY of all description,
Plated Ware, Castors, Spoons, &t. f
GUNS, PISTOLS, CUTLERY
and many other things usually kept in a Jewelry
Store, too numerous to mention, iu fact everything in
my establishment for the
CASH AND CASH O\I,V.
Call, see and price my Goods. Repairing dono as
usual.
N. B,—AC those iudebted to the undersigned, are
requested to make payment, otherwise their accounts,
&c., will be baudedover for collection.
G. T. WIEDEXMAN.
Milledgeville Ga.,Dec 9, 1873. 20 1m.
F, HMG’S
Boot and Shoe Store.
T HE undersigned is receiving his Fall and Winter
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 tine lot of
Ladies, Misses, and Children's Shoes
which not only look well but will wear well.
cfel His Stock of Gentleman's Beets and Siioesfl
’ nLarc of Superior quality and cannot fail to J
to give satisfaction, lie is prepared to makej
Boots to order and do all kinds of repairing; andl
if Shoes or Boots sold by him rip, lie mends them!
without charge.
EFTf you wish (he worth of your money give him a
call.
F. HAUG.
Milledgeville. Ga., Sept. 30th, 1873. lo 3m.
1
t
REMOV A li
aeon, Georgia,
H AVE this day removed to their new store, corner Cotton Avenue and Cherry St., (Bowdre A Anderson's
old stand) where they will be pleased to see their old friends and customers and the public generally. The
Street Cars from “ Brown House” and Passenger Depot pass in TEN STEPS of our door every thirty min
utes during the dav.
Bacon,
Bacon,
Bacon
75 HALF CASKS CLEAR RIB SIDES. 25 whole casks CLEAR RIB SIDES.
In store and to arrive, on consignment, and sale at lowest market rates by
„ , TONES A BAXTER
October 29, 1873. 14 3m
JjOOM TO I*Or« IJVTEBEST!
Prices to Suit the Times!
I have jnst opened my NEAV and LARGE Stock of
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Of the BEST BSanfactnres. Also,
HAND MADE WORK that I will sell CHEAPER
than any other house in Milledgeville. Give me a
call and you will satisfy yourself, that 1 keepthe best of
Gentlemen's Fine and Heavy Boots and Shoes*
The Finest of LASTING MORROCCO, GLOVE KID, PEBBLE and the new
SENSATION GAITERS
Also. Misses and Children’s Gaiters and Shoes of EVERY DESCRIPTION and a great many other article
in my line too numerous to mentoin.
' LEATHER AND FINDINGS.
LOUIS EISErOIAN.
Hides, Wool and Sheep Skins Boneht.
Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 14, 1873.
12 3m.
1867 AT MILLEDOEVILLE.
For lights, - $501)0
For fuel, - - 360 00
For stationery, 282 51
Incidental expenses
Executive Dep’t, 248 80
Advertising in news
papers by Gov., 2,339 84
$ 5,281 15
1869 AT ATLANTA.
For light* - $1,157 62
For fuel. - 1,586 40
For stationery, 5 382 49
Incidental expaii'*
Ex. Dep’t., 11,440 00
Adv'tising ia pa
per* by Gov., 27,191 59
$46,768 10
It is among the queer things that Ca
leb Cushing, now to be Minister to Spain,
was president of the Charleston conven
tion in which Ben Butler cast sixty votes
for Jeff Davis for nomination to be Pres
ident of the United States, and that at
that time U. S- Grant was an obscure
tanner at Galena, HI. And all this
less than fourteen years ago.
Cats are dangerous pets. A young
man in Brooklyn who was slightly bitten
by a cat was attacked some weeks after
with symptoms of hydrophobia, antj fi
nally died. A German in the same city
also died from the same cause,
The Graphic says the fate of the Vir
ginius is eminently fit and proper, con
sidering the number of reputations she
has sunk.
A .flannel nf Health.
An edition of between nine and ten millions of co
pies of a very useful work is now ready for gratuitous
distribution, and can be bad for the asking at any
drug store in the United State*, tho British Colonies,
Spanish America or Bazll. The work referred to 1*
Hostelfer’s Almanac for 1874- The medical portion of
it treats of the vai ious ailments to which the human
system is subject, and set* forth the peculiar proper
ties of llostetter’s Stomach Bitter*—the purest and
best tonic at present known—a* a preservative of
health and strength, and as a remedy for debility and
disease. The Almanac is printed in ail the principal
languages of the civilized world, and reachee a larger
number of families and individuals than any other med
ical treatise that ever issued from the press. No man
or woman who has kdue regard for that choicest Of
heaven’s blessings, bodily vigor, should fail to read
the plain, simple and convincing articles which this
truly practical publicatiion contains. The miscellane
ous matter is varied, instructive and amnslng, aad the
calendar department copious and comprehensive. Hoe-
tetter's Almanac is, in short, a household convenience,
adapted to the use of all classes and eallian. The
farmer, the planter, the miner, the merehant, the me
chanic, the laborer, the profeaaional maa, all need it;
and to invalids of both sexes it is Utterally aa article of
prime necessity The medical technicalities which
render so many medical treatises intended for popular
nee unintelligible to tho general reader, have heel
Burdick Bro’s,
63 THRD STREET,
JMacon. Ga.,
DEALERS IN
Bacou, Lard, Corn, Oats Ilay,
Baggings Ties, Sugar, Coffee,
Whiskies, fpc., Sfc., Sfc.
order
carefully avoided in this pamphlet. All ia clear, ex
plicit, forcible, and rccoocliable with reason aad com
mon sense.
The proprietors, Messrs. Hostetler St Smith, ^PitU-
, Pa , on receipt of a two * J ~
^ will for
ward a copy by mail to a*y person who eaanst proeirs
ood, M* *> *■.
bnrgli
ward 1
one in bis' neighborhood,
From an experience of SIXTEEN YEARS in the business, ws feel confident that we can fill, '“y,-:.!,
satisfactorily, and guarantee the same. Call and see ns when yon corns to Macon, and yon wilKbe pleased
any purchase you may make of us.
AT THE OLD STAND, €3 THIRD STREET,
Sign of the ^GOLDEH MOO*’
RUBRIC! BROTHERS.
Oct, 14,1873. 123m.