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Newspaper Page Textman a n ts VOLUME XLIV.] M ILL EDGE VILL E, GEORGIA, JANUARY 21, 1874. NUMBER 20. TEE gl n i o n ft ^Itcorbtr, 13 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., BY Boughton, Barnes & Moore, At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year S. N. EODGIITOK, Editor. XIIE “FEDERAL UNION" and the “SOUTH- EKN RECORDER” were consolidated August 1st, 1872, the Union being iu it? Fcrty-Third Volume and the Recorder iu it’s Fifty-Third Volume. ADVERTISING. Transient.—One Dollar p<r square of ten lines for first inser ts ^ud seventy-five cents for each subsequent continuance. Liberal discount on these rates will be allowed on advertise- n'euts running three mouths, or longer. Tributes ot Respect, Resolutions by Societies, Obituaries ex- cmiiu* si* line*. Nominations for office and Communications for individual bent fit. charged as transient advertising. legal advertising. Sheriff's Sab-s. p<-r i«*vy of ten lines, or •• Mortgage li ta sal* Citation Appli^al Normandy Picturesque. By Maby Faith Floyd. of Administration, • Guardianship, Dismission irom Administration, *• ** Guardianship, jfave to 6**11 Laud, je tire to Debtor, and Credit** S, ,S of Land. ir.. p*T -q«M •» perishable pr«*p**rty, 10 E it ray Notices, •> J day. •• Foieclusurc oi Mortgage, per $2 50 5 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 On 5 00 1 75 S 00 5 00 1 75 3 0i 1 00 legal advertisements. . Laud, to., by Administrators, Executors or Guar dian-. «r*- p ip.in .1 by law to b. ii«*ld on the tir.t Tuesday mouth, between th.* ternoou, at the Coif .of 10 inthe forenoon and 3 iu the af- ise inthe county iu which the property Notice of tG* sales must be given iu a pubill - Met tc 30 days previous to the day ol sale. 8 Notices lor the sale of persona! property must be given in like manner 10 days previous locale day. Notice to the debtor. ii.iled 4-1 days. creditors of an estate must be pub lication will be made to the Court of Ordinary for'leave to sell "Land, 4tc„ must be published for one month. Citations for letters ol Admiui.tiation, Guardianship, itc., mast be publish.*d d * tlays- for dismission Irom Administration monthly three mouths—for disn.isoiou from Guardiauship 40 X lWs f, r foreclosure of Mortgage must be publiened monthly for four mouths—lor establishing lost papers tor the full space oi three mouths—for compelling titlj ~ istrstor. ... f r: •. lnuiiLif. >e continued according to these, a otherwise ordered. .vhcre bond has bee. ^Publications will always utors or Admin- by the deceased, the full the legal reqi Book aud Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. Church Birectory. BAPTIST CHURCH- Services lt-t aud 31 Sundays in each month, at 11 o'clock, a m and 7 p m. Sabbath School ai 9 1-2 o'clock, a m. O. M. Cone, So ,, t . Rev D E CUTLER, Pastor. METHODIST CHURCH. Hours of service on Sunday: II o’clock, a m, and 7 p iii Sunday School 3 o'clock p. in. Teachers meeting d p. m—\V-E- Fiankiaud. Superintendent. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7 o’clock, p m. liev. A J JARRELL, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Services every Sabbath at 11 o’clock, a m and 1 p. in. Sabbath School at 3 p m. T. T. Windsor, Snpt Prayer meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock, p m. Rev. G. T. GOETCUiUS, Pastor. EPISCOPAL CHURCH. St. Stephens Church (Episcopal) Sunday morning U o'clock, Sunday evening 7 o’clock. Rev. Mr. Sl’ONEY, Pastor. TRINITY (COLORED) METHODIST CHURCH. Hours ( f service on Sunday 11 o’clock, a. m., 3 p. m. aud 7 p. m. Sunday School at 9 o’clock, a. m. Teachers meet- ng every Friday night.—Washington Phillips, Supt. Prayer meeting every Thursday night. Rev. E. It. OLIVER, Pastor. Lodges. TEMPERANCE. tnillrtlgcville t on ut il No. J, meets inthe Sen ate Chamber at the State House on every Friday evening at 7 o’clock. J. W. 1IERTY, WP. F. G. Guieve, Sec’y. MASONIC. Brurrolrnt I.oiigo No 3 F A M , meets 1st and 3d Saturday nights ol' each month at Masonic Hall. 0 D Case, Sec’y. ADOLPH JOSEPH, VV M Temple 4'hnptrr meets the second and fonrth Saturday nights in each month. (J D Case, Sec y. S G WHITE, H P nilledgrville Ledge of I*erfeclio« ,A.«, & A.-. S.-. K.-. meets every Monday night. SAM E (i WHITE. T P G M G D Case, Exc Grand Sec’y. Adventures of a TTousg naturalist Were I endowed with power to select for my children the purest pleasures of life, outside of the enjoyments of religion, I should choose for them a knowledge of Natural Science, or as the Germans hap pily term it, Erdkunde (earth-knowledge,) coupled with a soul fitted to appreciate it. He is never lonely who gazes with scientific interest on the flowers, the an imals, the insects or the mute stones around him. They lead the soul from the labyrinths of sin through the works of Nature tip to Nature s God. The late illustrious Agassiz declared that he ‘‘had not time to make money. Hying the foremost savan of the world, although comparatively poor in dollars, yet he is rich in fame, and was blessed with such enjoyments as arc never found in this world by the miserly devotees to vulgar hoarding of wealth. We have before us a fascinating book of popularized science entitled “The Ad ventures of a Young Naturalist.” The scenes of these adventures are all in the marvelously beautiful land of Mexico. No other country on the Globe can vie with Mexico in its variety of charming natural features or the romance of its history. The writer hereof has trodden its shores and explored in many a won drous pilgrimage its fascinating interior. Its fertile fields teeming with products resulting front artificial irrigation and skillful labor—its charming old fashioned towns belonging apparently to the ages a thousand years ago—its mountains a- domed with shining white crosses glit tering in the sunlight on every pictur esque peak; and its loftiest peaks pierc ing the clouds with summits covered by eternal snow under a tropical sun—how all of these are engraven on memory! The very mountains themselves have a romantic way of doing things. The gi ant Orizava. or as the Aztecs termed it Citlatepetl (Mountain of the Star”) 17,- 372 feet above the level of the sea, bears on its summit eternal snow. How often has the writer regaled himself in the neighboring city of Jalapa on ice creams and lemonade made from ice brought, even in midsummer, from the great Mexican ice house, the summit of Orizava! Yet this peak, soon after the conquest of Cortez, in 1545, broke forth in active volcanic eruption, continued so just twenty years, and then resumed the quiet under its snowy cap it has worn ever since. The young Naturalist, in the elegant volume before us, visits Orizava and a vast many other places of interest. All the objects of Nature are observed and explained in a familiar way : the Mineral, the Vegetable, the Animal Kingdoms are all explored, aud are invested with all the interest which can be thrown around them as connected with lively and pleas ant narrative of personal adventures.— The pages are thronged with elegant il lustrations ; and its exterior glittering in green and gold holds out a charming promise to the reader, especially to the young, which the perusal of the contents does not disappoint in the least. Pub lished by Harper and Brothers, Franklin Square, New Y r ork. ■ —A farmer near Cave Spring, in Floyd county, is endeavoring to establish jnerino sheep farm. Normandy occupies the northwest com er of France. Although but a small di vision, it is rich in mediaeval research to the inquisitive tourist. Nestled among its picturesque hills are many towns which have gathered around them the dust of ages and memories of world-renowned conquerers whose fome cun nover die. Each of these towns possesses its mag nificent and ancient cathedral of the true Gothic type; many of them of 12th century fame. Among the most interest ing of these is that of St. Etienne at Caen, built in the 11th century and cele brated as the burial place of William the Conquerer. To change from the great in arms to the great in fashionable frivolity, we may record that Caen also displays to the sight loving public the house"in which Beau Brummel died, not less a hero in the eyes of many than the great No: man. Beau Brummel is noted as the discoverer of the use of starch and for his dandy ism and liis impudence. It was of him the anecdote is told that wishing to re turn a slight to the Prince Regent (after wards George 4th of England,) he ex claimed with matchless effrontery to the Prince at a dinner party, “Ring the bell, George!” The Prince never forgave the affront; and Beau B. died at Caen in wretched poverty afterwards. Many of the houses at Caen are built of the celebrated Caen stone. The town is manufacturing, and many English families reside there for its cheap living. At Bayeux, another Norman city, the traveler is shown the world-renowned relic of antiquity known as the Bayeux Tapestry, a specimen of the industry of Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror. This tapestry is of linen cloth of the col or of brown holland. It is 227 feet in length and 20 inches in width. It com memorates the conquests and warlike feats of William. The figures are wrought in worsted of many colors with out regai-d to nature. Horses, reptiles, men, and other objects arc presented in green, red, blue or yellow just as the fan cy of the artist dictated. St. Lo, Granville, Roueu, Cherbourg and other places of Normandy are de scribed with vividness in Mr. Blackburn’s book in a style which affords pleasure to the lovers of travel and ancient lore. “Normandy Picturesque” - title of a little volume published by -j. it. Osgood & Co., 131 Franklin st., Boston. It is illustrated by many beautiful engravings, and is one of the most charming inex pensive works we know, suitable for hol iday presents and the like. Writing for the Press. The progress of knowledge is never more strikingly presented than when we consider the great number of those per sons in our day who write for the Press. How great the number, now-a-days, who see their thoughts in print! How few ac customed to thinking, and who are able to put their thoughts even with tolerable accuracy on paper, fail to see at some period of their lives their lubucrations sent out to the world with the magic fluid known as “printer’s ink"! There is a serious practical question connected with this subject but little re garded by the vast army of scribblers but very seriously felt by the correlative hard-working class of type setters: the question of shaping manuscripts for pub location. Vast hordes of scribblers who write “legibly” in the ordinary accepta tion of the word, are wholly incompetent to prepare even an ordinary news-letter or communication of any sort, for the hands of the type-setter (or “compositor,” as he is technically termed) so as to in sure that his ideas sltall reach the public correctly. And the writer of books, or of heavy magazine articles lias, of course, a far greater interest in preparing his manuscripts in such manner as to com pass accuracy in their publication. To enable all manner of scribblers so to do, Mr. Benjamin Drew lately pre pared a complete manual of all this sort of knowledge in a little volume published by Lee and Shepard of Boston, giving such instruction as every one who writes for the press needs. The price of a copy is only sixty cents sent by mail. O ye who write for the Press! get a copy of “Pens and Types,”—so the volume is named—read it! and then prepare your MSS. so that the puzzled printer may know how to do his work wisely and well. The Future of the Catholic Church. | Strange Rumors from Over the Sea— How the Line of True Popes may be Broken Upon the Demise of Pius iX. London, December 20, 1873. Extraordinary stories are floating about in Roman Catholic “ society" here con ceming events soon to happen in Rome. I hear these stories in drawing-rooms, in clubs, in newspaper-offices, and other pla ces. They are made up, I imagine, partly out of interpretations of a great number of remarkable prophecies (some of them old and some of them new,) and partly out of information obtained in Berlin. Vi enna, Rome and Paris. As one listens to these stories he hears this thing here and the other thing there; but putting all thc- reports together they assume a shape something like this: According to a great number of proph ecies and revelations, the Church, imme diately after the death of the present Pope, is to enter upon a season of suffer ing and trial, which is to end, however, in her glorious triumph. By the compact framed between Bismarck and Victor Emanuel, as soon as Pius IX dies—and perhaps before then—the Vatican is to bo seized by the Italian government and gar risoned by their troops. The College of Cardinals is then to be told that it must admit into its body a certain number of members appointed by all of the Catho lic governments of Europe aud by Ger many. The majority of the Cardinals will of course refuse to comply, and they will then either be seized and imprisoned or driven from Rome. It is believed that a few of the Cardinals will yield ; and they and the persons named by the govern ments of Italy, Germany, Austria, and perhaps some other countries, will elect Cardinal Hohenlobe to be Pope. In the eyes of the great mass of the Catholics throughout the world he will uot bo Pope, but anti-Pope ; but the gov ernments will recognize liim as Pope, and seek to force him upon the people. Mean while, if the other Cardinals have been only exiled they will meet in conclave somewhere in France, England, or per haps Malta, and elect the true Pope; but if they are imprisoned separately there will be an interregnum in the line of the true Popes. The new anti-Pope will live but a few months—here we get back to the region of prophecy again—and at liis death another anti Pope will be chosen, who will be Cardinal Rancher, the Arch bishop of Vienna. His reign also will be but short, and at his death the true Pope will be brought back to Rome in triumph and restored to the full posses sion of his city and domains. In this re storation France, who at that time is to bo ruled by a yotmg king, is to play a grand role. Now all this may seem ridiculous. But think there is the best possible reason for believing that the governments of It aly and Germany have resolved to seize the Vatican, and to interfere in the elec tion of the next Pope; that they arc de termined he shall be a Gentian and not an Italian ; and that Cardinal Hohenlobe is the man whom they, at present at least, wish to place in the chair of Peter. It would not be convenient for me to give you the detailed facts wliich lead me to believe that this is the substance of the compact between the two governments, but I repeat that there is reason for be lieving it. However, the execution of the plan depends upon the death of Pius IX: and that wonderful old man seems not at all disposed to die. There is every prob ability that he may outlive Emperor Wil ham, and he may outlive Victor Emanuel and Bismarck also. A Constitutional Convention. FALL AND WINTER Millinery, Dress Goods, Fancy Goods, AND All the IVovelties of the Season. MRS. P. A. LINDRUM Han just returned froui New York wliere she purchased a large and beautiful assortment of MILLINERY. DRESS GOODS,Trimmings, Fancy Goods, &c., Sec., which are cow arriving, an t which she is able to tell at lower prices than ever before. BONNETS, HATS, FEATHERS. RIBBONS, &e., Selected with preat care fi otn the latest and prettiest Style*, and for beauty and ric hness surpass anything rer brought to this market. She was very fortunate »u the purchase of some very handsome real aud imita te n FEATHERS, wliich she can sell at astonishing LOW PRICES. DUESS GOODS. She invites the ladies to call and examine her Dress Goods, consisting of Si'.ks. Rrilish Lustre, Sateens, Pop lias, Merinoes, Empress Cloths, Opera Cloths of all shades and colors. Also, Camels’ Hail* Goods, suitable for the celebrated Kcdingote. LARGE STOCK OF Ladies, Misses and Children’s Shoes and Hosiery. Hair Work of all Kinds, A General Assortment of Toilet Articles, Tojs by the Million and Jewelry of ail Kinds. PINS, NEEDLES and SEWING COTTON of all kinds. THOMPSON’S GLOVE-FITTING CORSETS, AND TIIE WORLD-RENOWNED SEAMLESS GLOVES, Sash Ribbons at low prices, Queen Bess Ruffiiuj, Old S-.iies Caps, &.c. She has the Ageucy of the Celebrated “Domestic” paper patterns, and < :;n supply Julies with patterns of all kinds from 5 cents up. Hei opening will tnke place in n few days of wliich notice will be given. DRESS ZV1A El XT €5-, Still done in the best Style?. 3Ii]ledgerille, Ga Oct. 8, 1£?3, J! 3m- GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE. Executive Department of Georgia,) Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 14, 1874. J To the Assembly: The reports of the Treasurer and of the Comptroller Gener al, herewith transmitted, show the finan eial operations of the State Treasury for the fiscal year ending December 31,1873 It will be seen that the amount re ceived into the treasury from all sources during the year, including the proceeds of the sale of bonds, and the balance on hand January 1, 1873, is three million one hundred and seventy-two thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollar: and seventy'four cents. The disbursements for the same pe riod. including the amount of principal and interest paid upon the public debt are two million two hundred and fifty thousand two hundred and thirty-two dol lars and forty-nine cents The amount of public debt, principal and interest paid during the year, was one million three hundred and thirty-five thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventy three cents. This amount is made up of the following items : Bonds redeemed - - '3 320,500 00 Interest - - 592,142 73 Amount Russell Sage Claim 423,125 00 The Cheap CJrocery and Provision STOIH! -:0:- 1F YOU WAKT TO SAVE MONEY BUY YOUR GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS AT THE CHEAP STORE, WE ARE DETERMINED TO SELL LOW. Street Hcrth Don’t Stop until you find the Right Store, cn Wayne Masonic Hall. of [©TICE PLANTERS TABLE Family Groceries, Provisions, and Supplies of all Kinds, AT THE LOWEST CAS2X PRICES. On hand and to arrive the following articles: *2,‘-GUO lbs C K Side?, 5,0 0 liis Shou .tiers, 5U0 lbs choice Pig bams. 1.000 lbs Le if LarJ, at Low Figures. Flour all grades,Corn, Bran aud Fine Feed for Stock. Seed Oat?, Sugars all kiads, Coffee cheap, Guaaen Rutter, and Cream Cheese, Pic Xics, Cracknells, Snapells, Kentncky Bi:t‘er, Le.non Crackers, and other vaiieties. Mackerel in barrels and kits. Morgan Sons and other Soaps. Potash, Candles, Kerosene Oil, Soda, Copperas, Powder and Shot Cotton Cards, Chewing and Smokiog Tobacco. Pickles and Oysters, Sift* ers, Buckets, Brooms, Choice St-gars. Come aud see us and save your money. Quic^ sales aud small profit? is our motto. G-B.EEIV and SR7 £XXDES Wanted, for which highest price will be paid. Having secured tl<e »ervices ot Alr.C- 15. A1UXDAY, who will be always on uioiJ to meet ins tld cus tomers aud utteud to the wauls of uew cues, we hope to be able to give satisfaction to all, and merit a liberal patronage. SAMUEL EVANS & CO. Miiiedgeville, Nov 8,1873, Id till Jan 8 74 FURNITURE FURNITURE ? t H AVE ON eistiug of W. c&? J\ O-A.iO.a'KXS.AUZFL, HAND a large assortment of FINE AND COMMON FURNITURE, con- Good Stock.—Mr. James McEntee lives in Floyd county, and his motto is : “First say your prayers and then pay the prin ter." If he has any girls we would advise the young Romans to cultivate them.— That* is bound to be a good family to mar ry into.—Macon Telegraph. In all Buddhist temples is a taU and broad leafed lilly, which stands directly on the front of the altar.—Its idea is as beautiful as its workmanship; it represents that just as the pure white flower may grow out of the mire and filth, and blos som into loveliness, so may the heart of man raise itself above the wickedness and corruption of the world into a state of spotless purity. Let us be patient. As the years roll on towards the deep sunset, we are weary at making no near approaches to a recon filiation and real intimacy n ' ! od. But do we long for that restreligi j tsly enough to wait for it? Stillness is our needed sacrifice. Baffled and broken the soul must often be before its immortal strength comes. Humiliation of pride—an utter consciousness of infirmity—to bo kept painfully out of inheritance—till these are the price of conquest. Do not pray for exemption from, but victory by them. Huntington. ADVICE TEW YOUNG MEN. Don't be discouraged if yure mustash don’t gro. It sum times happens whare a mustash dus the best nothing else duz t O well. Don’t be afrade ov enny thing that is honorable and don’t forget that the best friend that God has given enny one iz hiz conscience. Larn tew wait!—this iz a hard gait for a yung man tew travel, but is. the surest way to git thar. If you have got stun wild oats (and a phew wont spile you) git them in arly. and sow them deep, an they will rot in the ground. Bland Hill, Habersham Co.. Ga. I January 8tli,1874. )" Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: The Conventional wave has at last reached this secluded spot, and although I am not able to report the county an unit in its favor, still old Habersham will do her duty. While in the village of Clarksville to day I heard a venerable old gentleman (and one who held a conspicu ous position during the Joe Brown ad ministration) denounce the Convention as follows: “Why, sir, it is utter folly! The people are mad! They are insane ! for it amounts to a species of insanity; this mania for Convention. The Constitu tion, if it was made by Bullock and his detestable crew, is one of the best that we or any other people have ever had. There are some objectionable clauses, but they are things of yesterday, they have done all the the harm they can. If the Constitution must be changed, do it by two successive acts of the Legislature, thereby costing the State 87,000 or 88,000. instead of by a Convention which will cost §70,000 or §100,000.” Now, sirs, the Greeks used to say “old men for council, young men for war;" but we are not Greeks and the adage will not apply to us We know what Legislatures are,even the best of them. The people are the best guard ians of their own liberties: they alone arc incorruptible. I am happy to say that the gentleman above mentioned is the only man in Habersham county, as far as I know, who is opposed to a Convention. We need reform, and we must have it. If you do your duty in the future as you have in the past, the Convention is a cer tainty. Keep it before the people; get them interested and thoroughly roused. We in this section are willing to bear the enormous tax which anti-Convention men predict Put the capital back in Mil ledgeville where it belongs, sell the new capitol, grounds and mansion, and with the money thus realized pay the expenses of the Convention. Let us wipe out the last blot and remove the last vestige of the accursed Bulloek-Blodgett reign. Respectfully yours, J. C. A sailor, explaining a quadrille to his messmate, thus described the third fig ure : “ You first heave ahead,” said he, “and pass your adversary’s yard-arm, regain jOar berth on the other tack in the same order, take your station with y jut part ner in line, back and fill, and then fall on your knee, and bring up with your part ner ; she then mancevers ahead, off along side of you; then make sail in company with her, until nearly astern of the other line, make a stem-board, cast her off to go for herself, regain your place the best irsyyou can, and let go your anchor. fh Beautiful Bed-Room Setts, Bureaus, Mirrors, Tables, Chairs, IJrdnlrncl* an<l .Wnttrnaiic* of nil sizrs nnil qualities. Repairing of Furniture and Upholstering Done to Order on short notice. Window-Shades and Fixtures, Corner and Wall Brackets, &c. WILLOW BASKETS, CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES. Large lot of Children's Toys, such as Doll Car riages, Express Wagons, Sec. BUGGY HARNESS for sale. Also, all kinds of Material for Carriage Makers and Repairers. Ready-made Wugon and Buggy Wheels always ou hand. Doors, Sash and Blinds, and Fixtures for Elinds. |j’-jp a We guarantee Low Prices and Good Work. Give us a call. Total, as above stated §1,335,757 73 As required by the act approved Feb ruary 19, 1873, I issued the sum of one million two hundred thousand dollars of bonds of the State, bearing eight per cent interest, and to become due as provided in the act. These bonds have all been placed at par; and, as will appear from the report of the Treasurer, at an expense of less than one per cent. I respectfully recommend that the amount necessary to defray the expense of negotiating these bonds be appropriated, and that the Governor be authorized to draw his war rant therefor in favor of the Treasu rer. The larger portion of the bonds was disposed of in this State; and the facility with which the loan was made shows, not only the confidence of our people in the pledged faith of the Gov eminent, but the sound condition of the public credit. PUBLIC DEBT. The following is a consolidated state ment of the debt of the State on the first day of January, 1874 : Amount of principal. I 237,000 00 100,000 00 100,001' 00 100.000 00 200,000 00 300,000 00 300.000 0C 200.000 00 100,000 00 100,000 00 iro.eoo oo 100,000 cc 4.00 ,0o0 00 2.008.000 00 307,500 00 Date of Issue of Bonds. When due. 1844 and 1848.... 1873 1«73 1876 1858 and 1873... 1878 186(1 and 1873.... 1880 1861 and 1873.... 1881 |>73 1873 1873 1885 866 and 1873.... 1870 1890 IS72 1892 IS nr iai €Jn ses All styles of Metallic and Wood Burial Cases and Caskets always ou hand. Orders fur cases will receive prompt attention at all hours—day or night. W. & J. CARAKER. Milledgevtlle, Ga., Sept. 2, 1S73. 6 Cm B. P. WALKER, (Lateof S. T. 4. 15.1*. Walker.) Q WAiKEM & SUCCESSORS TO Wise* Dobbs & Oo.t J. II. DOBBS, (Late of Wise, Dobbs 6c Co.) Q B » S, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN China, Crockery and Glass Ware, Silver Plated Ware, FOCirST AO TAELS CJJ’SZiSB.’ST, COAL OIL, LAMPS. WICKS,BURNERS. CHIMNEYS, CHANDELIERS. GAR AND KEROSENE FIXTURES, PORTER'S PLANTATION AND COMBINA1 ION IIOI-.S. jy We would call the attention of Men haute to our immense and varied etork of t!ie above Goods, f.teiing that weeangive entire satisfaction iu regard to quality aud price. Our retail Department is also compl ete. Walker & Dobbs, maco>,ga. October 14, 1873, 12 Cm- Total public debt $8,342,600 00 The foregoing statement shows, that the bonds issued in 1844 and 1848 will become due the present year. Means for their payment have been already pro vided, in the sale of eight per cent, bonds. Of the Gold Quarterly bonds, issued un der authority of the act of September 15, 1870, the sum of §2,098,000 00 is out standing. The sum of §500,000 00 of these bonds, in the hands of Russell Sage, to secure a loan of §375,000 00, has been surrendered to the Agent of the State in New York. The total amount of interest to be paid upon the public debt the present year is §586,460 00. RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS FOE 1874. The Treasurer estimates the probable receipts and disbursements for the present fiscal year as follows : RECEIPTS. In Treasury January 1, 1874 f 922,55600 Keetiptd from general tax, 1S74........ 1,000,00000 Receipts from rent on Weatern and Atlan tic railroad 300,0 0 00 Receipts from poll tax.................. 100,000 00 Receipts from tax on insurance compa nies 25,000 00 Receipts from railroad tax..... 10,000 00 Receipts from tax on shows.. - . 3,(00 00 Receipts from tax on express companies 300 00 Receipts from dividends od stocks...... 2,0(0 00 Receipts from taxes of 1873 300,000 00 Receipts from taxes of former years...... 30,000 00 Receipts from hire of convicts..... 20,000 00 Receipts from all other sources 20 000 00 Total $2,722.85600 DISBURSEMENTS. Civ:! List $ 100,000 00 Legislative Pay RolL........ 100,010 00 Luuatio Asylum 105,010 00 Salaries Trustees and Chaplain Lunatic Asylum 2,000 00 University of Georgia.8,000 00 Deal and Dumb Asylum 13,500 00 Academy for the Blind.* 11,000 00 Public Buildings, Atlanta and Milledge- ville 20 000 00 Printing Fund 20,000 00 Contingent Fund 20,000 00 Secretaries, Clerks and Messengers Exec utive Department 10,000 00 Solicitor General fees. Supreme Court, criminal cases.................. 2,000 00 Clerk Wild Land Office 1,200 00 School Commissioners and Clerk 3,700 00 Vaccine Agent for the State ... 300 00 Subscription to Code of Georgia...... 18,000 00 Superinteudant Public Works aud Keeper Public Propelty.... 2,000 00 Educational Fuad 250,000 00 Old Debts Wes'ernJc Atlantic Railroad 25,000 00 Old Change Bills Western aDd Atlantic Railroad 25,000 00 Public Debt aud luterest. 823,460 00 Balance 1,159,196 00 C( O TO MiCOI AND Buy Your Furniture aud Carpets THOMAS WOOD, Next to Lanier House. THE LOWEST PRICES EVER KNOWN 1 METAL CASES AS1) CASKETS, WOOD COFFINS OF ALL KLYDS, At prices that defy competition. Night calls answered at the Lanier Ilou.-e. TEOr«Iii3 ^7 0 0 3, T!,23Con, Ga. Oct. 14,1873. ’12 6m. Fretful People.—It is not work that kills men ; it is worry.—Work is healthy You can hardly put more work on a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the frictions. Fear secretes acid, but love and truth are sweet juices. We know a man with & patient, good wife, and we never heard him speak a kind, pleasant word to her, and doubt if he ever did in the half century they have lived together. He is always in a fret You would think he was made of a cross-granted timber, and had always been trying to digest a cross-cut saw. He is eternally cross, and thinks that his wife and children, hired hands, and all the domestic animals, have united to wor ry him to death. He is not only crusty, but fairly crusted over with it. Friction has literally wont him out, and he will soon worry himself to death. Of course, he has never worked to any advantage to himself or anybody else. With him every thing goes wrong. He superstitiously believes it is because the devil has a spite against him, when, in truth, it is nothing but his own fretfulness. CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, CURTAINS. Fall Trade l^fg. JAMES G. BAILIE & BROTHER, 205 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA., Are now offering the Largest Stock of CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS. SHADES and OURTA2LNS ever offered by any House South, aDd at the lowest prices. Good, all new. Pretty and Cheap. Bo sura fes call and look at the new and beautiful array of Patterns at ■" JAMES G. 2AZI.Z2 & B3.MJHEJL Choice Family Groceries and Plantation Supplies. and al low prices at First Class Goods! Oct. 21.1873. JABX2S O. SAZIrrZ &. EI.OXEQBR, 133m. WM. aOHMTSTM, Successor to Titos. U. Cornier, <XM., One of our contemporaries states that a much ruffled young lady of his aeqaint- ance, with four button kid gloves, refused to go out and take her music lesson last Saturday, because her mother had neg lected to dam a hole in her stocking just where it peeped over the edge of her boot. Some mothers are so careless and lazy. Keeps on hand the latest and most fashionable styles of HATS, HATS, HATS, HATS, Gents Furnishing Goods! Gents Furnishing Goods! CRAVATS, SCARFS, BOWS, FURS, TRUNKS, VALISES, SATCHELS, Baskets, Umbrellas, Canes, &c., &c., &c. When you come to Macon please give me a calL Orders promptly aud satisfactorily filled. Cotton Avenue, next to MBs A Xirtland. MAfJOV, Hot. 19, 1873, a a. 17 3s Total $2,722,856 00 The amount of taxable property in 1873, as shown by the Comptroller Gen eral's report was §242,487,382. This valuation, we may safely calculate, will be increased the present year to §250,- 000,000. Four and a half-tenths of one per cent, on this amount would raise §1,- 125.000; which, together with the revenue to be derived from other sources, will be sufficient to meet all just claims upon the treasury during next year. Your attention is respectfully invited to the ammendments of the tax laws sug gested by the Comptroller General in his report. I renew the suggestion made in my last annual message to the General Assembly, that the law bo so amended as to secure a correct valuation of the taxa ble property of the State. With such valuation, there is but little reason to doubt that the money needed to supply the wants of the Government could be raised at a reduced rate of taxation. AGRICULTURE. From the vast importance which at taches to the subject, it would seem logi cal to give priority and supreme consider ation to the agriculture of the State. It is too trite to repeat, that tbia interest is so vital and extended that it underlies and supports all other industrial pur suits. We are essentially an agricultural people, and will remain so, no doubt, for an indefinite period; and while an intelli gent and observing mind does not fail to appreciate a diversified industry, we nev ertheless feel that the best interests our society require that agriculture should be encouraged as the leading industry of the State. But is our agriculture advanc ing ? Are the farmers and planters of the State prospering, and does that busi ness which they have elected to follow, and upon which they are so entirely de pendent, make them sueft annual returns as to satisfy a reasonable expectation ? These questions, it is feared, must be answered in the negative. I have given, of late, much earnest and anxious reflec tion to the condition of this great, indos try in our State; and candor compels me to say that the result of my investigation is far from satisfactory. Many reasons might be given for the present depressed state of our agriculture. QhM them are the imperfect modes of culture tnd fertilization, which have so extensive ly obtained. It must be admitted, how ever, that there has been more intelligent effort directed towards the discovery of better and more scientific modes, since the close of the late war, than during any previous period in the history of Georgia husbandry. But what a vast amount of improvement is yet to be made! Of all the futile attempts upon the part of men to secure -material prosperity, nothing can exceed in hopelessness the task of the farm, who toils in the cultivation of the soil whose sterility refuses any adequate return. It is not too much to assert, that there are thousands of such acres in cultivation in our State, and that large sections, unless soon recuperated, will become so unproductive as to compel their abandonment Here, then, is a case which is too vital to be tampered with or treated with a resort to palliating and temporary expedients. Throughout the leading States of Eu rope the public mind seems to be pro foundly interested upon the subject of improved husbandry. This interest ban, in' a great measure, extended throughout the older Atlantic States ; and it affords great satisfaction to know that the farm ers and planters of our own State are energetically seeking new roads to suc cess. All seem to agree that we can no longer suffer the exhausting drain on our production which our trade in fertilizers has called for. Millions of dollars are each year sent out of the State to pay for com mercial manures which have been applied to our crops ; and the prevailing opinion among our fanners seems to be adverse to the economy of their further use at the high price which is demanded for them.— A cheap and portable manure seems, in our present condition, to be the grand de sideratum in Georgia agriculture. With this secured every other amelioration is within our reach. But without it no pains taking in culture and no expenditure of intellect or capital will produce encourag ing results. Recent discoveries give prom ise that the tillers of the soil will, at no distant day, be placed in possession of sounder theories on the subject of fertil ization and of cheaper and more efficient formulas for the preparation of manures than they have yet had. Sound policy requires, however, that in matters essen tial to success in this great department of industry, nothing should be left to the mere accidents of individual enterprise or research. The State, very properly, keeps jealous and sleepless watch over its finan cial department. It is deemed of vast importance that the income of the State and its taxable property should be appro priated and paid out with elaborate par ticularity. But when it comes to the pro duction of this wealth and the means by which it is to be gathered in, everything is left to the voluntary and unassisted ex ertions of each producer in the State. After much reflection upon the subject, am prepared to recommend to the Gen eral Assembly the establishment of a De partment of Agriculture for the State. It would be difficult to enumerate the advan tages which would result from the opera tions of such a department. Among its duties should be included the supervisions of our mineral interests and resources, as well as the application of chemistry to agriculture and the mechanic arts. Men now distrust analyses and experiments which are given to the world on unofficial indorsement. Could the information so much needed in the every day operations in the field and shop, be sent forth from such a department as the one hero recom mended, it would carry with it a weight and sanction rendering it acceptable to the public. Here could be gathered from every source the most advanced ideas and methods affecting the great interests com mitted to this department. Gradually the scope and value of the practical op erations of the department would extend so as to include a full detail of the physi cal characteristics and advantages of each county in the State. It is with regret that we observe how far the State of Georgia is behind even some of the newly admit ted States, in those valuable statistics justly deemed of so much importance by capitalists and immigrants. In connection with the subject of ame liorating our agricultural interests, I would respectfully invite your attention to the propriety of revising the lien laws in force in this State. The most casual observer has not failed to note the per nicious influence which these laws have exerted upon our agricultural and other industries. COMMON SCHOOLS. I transmit herewith the annual report of the State School Commissioner, show ing the operations of that department during last year. Of the special tax of one-tenth of one per cent, levied by virtue of the act to provide for the payment of claims due to teachers of 1871, there was collected prior to the first day of Decem ber last, §176,237 01. Of this amount the sum of §174,000 has already been appor tioned among the counties of the State.— The School Commissioner is not in pos session of the information necessary to enable him to report the amount of these claims yet remaining unpaid. At the time the teachers of 1871 took service, there was no fund in the treasury for the payment of their claims. One year after the schools of 1871 were opened the school fund, amounting §242,027 62 was bonded, under the provisions of the act of July 27,1870. This act required that the school funds, then on hand, should be paid into the treasury, to be used for other than school purposes. The act far ther provided that the bonds in which the school fund was required to be invested should be sold “under the direction of the Governor, to meet appropriations for school purposes and for no other pur poses.” Authority was given by the act of August 19, 1872, to destroy these bonds and substitute other “lawful ly executed bonds” in their place. These substituted bonds were required to be sold “at rates not injurious to the credit of the State,” and the proceeds apportion ed among the counties on the basis of school population. The fund so appor tioned was required to be applied to the payment of the claims of teachers for 1871, till such claims were satisfied, “and then to future school work.” At no time since the passage of this act has it been practicable to dispose of these bonds “at rates not injurious to the cred it of the State.” • The condition of the public debt, since the passage of the act, has required the exercise of great pru dence and caution in placing our securi ties upon the market. Much as I have desired that the just claims of teachers should be paid, I have felt that it would not be proper to raise money for that pur pose by the sale of bonds. I especially invite the attention of the General Assem bly to so much of the report of the School Commissioner as has reference to the olninnB now under consideration. If it should be thought proper to provide for their full settlement, I recommend that the suggestion of the Commissioner in reference to the matter of payment bo adopted. At the date of the Commissi oner’s re port, he had received reports of school op erations in 113 counties. Three months’ schools'have been kept up in most of the counties, with results which have gen erally been satisfactory- The faithfulness with which financial operations b*ve been met, has secured the confidence ef Ifaf

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Union and recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1872-1886, January 21, 1874, Image 1