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Attorneys.
IV. O. TUGOLE,
ATTO H N E Y A T L A W,
I.n (Irnngr, Georgia.
<2. I. TOOLB. 0. W. MAUUY.
TOOLE «fc MABRY,
A’lTORNEYH AT LAW.
LaOrnngK, Georgia,
W ILL practice in tho Superior Courts of the counties
of Troup, Hoard, Carroll, Coweta, Meriwathor and
Harris. AIho, in tho Supremo Court of (Jeortda, and in
the United Staton District Court at Atlanta.
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LAGRANGE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1809.
(NUMBER 11.
Groceries.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
T.nGrang. «„
»•«>•
tsfoful attention.
* J-HAMMOND atill remains a morabor of the firm of
a w Hammond I* o^ n| 0 f Atlanta, except an to Troup
ceunty. Jo3-tf
Dentist iy,
II. II, ALFUKIJ,
SUHUKON DENTIST,
I,a Grangr .Georgia.
OFFICE—Northwest corner Public Bquaro,
lu Thornton's ltock building.
January 8th. 1800.
j. T, DOBBINS.
SURGEON DENTIST,
HAVINO located at LaOrange, rospeotfidly
tenders bis proJesMioiml servings to the citizens
of the place and surrounding country. All
work done at hi" nflleeshall ho ne itly and substantially
fxoouted a*.d warranted to give satisfaction, at reasouuble
■hargna.
For roforonen apply to Col. Hugh Huchanan, Col. W. F.
Wright. Dr. Calhoun. Dr. Wollborn. Nmvnnu, On.; and Dr.
Stanley and Dr. Wimhieh, LaOrange, (iu.
Office up atairs over l’ullun A Cox’s old stand, Northwest
corner of Public Square. Jau8
Miscellaneous.
T W1
lo
WILL furnish, nt LnOr.uige Depot, by the ton r
l(. U. WIMUIUH. A. 1). ABKiliiHH.
WIMBISH & CO.,
MEnCUANTS and T T{ AT3EXIS,
(North East Goruor Public Square,)
.Georgia,
g'jod us the best,
In sacks (per ton) nt..
lu Bbls. (per ton) at ..
LaOrango. Nov. IT—If
$2'.) 00
'21 00
. E. COX. Agent.
NOTICIE THIS I
I TUK BUnSCRTHEH. thankful for past favors,
I by apiDinptutteutlou to business, hopes lor a coi:
Luune* of the same
Cutting; and Work Done Promptly I
ienrgia.
T«
THE OLD TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA
T73NIT1CT> STATES HOTEL,
Atlaniu, Georgia.
8A9SEE.V 6i MAXI, Proprietors.
J. F. W. BRYSON AND ISAAC N. SCOTT, Clerks.
FRANCIS A. FROST,
IB A N K E R ,
('Office West Side Square, next door to Who A Douglass.)
La Grange, Georgia.
to thoir largo stoek of
GROCERIES, HARDWARE, PROVISIONS.
HEAVY BOOTS AND SHOES,
BUGGY AND WAGON MATERIALS,
STOVES, AC., kC.
STEWART’S CRUSHED, TOWDERED, A, B and C SU
GARS, aud SUGAR HOUSE SYRUP and MOLASSES,
CHOIOF, RIO, LAGUAYRA and JAVA COFFEES,
STOVES—(Warrantud to glvo aatlsfactlon,)
GUNNY and I1IANKET BAGGINGf (44 to 40 in, to2* lb*,)
GREEN LEAF ROPE and ARROW TIES,
AXLES, HUBS, RIMS and SPORES, (buggy and wagon)
BUGGY TRIMMINGS, (every klud.)
GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES aud CAPS,
PLANTATION and MECHANIC’S, TOOLS, (every kind,)
LOCKS, BUTTS and SCREWS, (groat variety.)
BUOGY aud WAGON HARNESS,
CALF SKINS, SOLE, UPPER and HARNESS LEATHHR,
IRON nnd STEEL, (SwedeH aud R;iflnod—all nizes,)
SUPERIOR CHEWING and SMOKING TOBACCO,
BACON, LARD aud FLOUR, (superior quality,)
COTTON YARNS, OSNABURGS, STRIDES k HIIIRTINGS,
NO. 1 SIIOP.E and BAY MACKEREL and WHITE FISH,
nnd EVERYTHING ELSE in our liuo, ou tho moat roaaon-
ublo term*. Call and see us.
WIMIJISU 4c CO.
WIMBISH L CO.
New Orleans Molasses.
Choice article, fur sale by
WIMBISII 4i CO.
Pest Orleans Sugar
JUST rocelvod by
W1MBIUII 4: CO.
O
T,
I; WIMBISH k CO.
Family Flo
TTMU’SIT and of superior qualltv, Ju^t received nnd for
I. sulu by WIMBISH 4: CO.
Clover Srril I
|TRESH and OENU1NE, fur sale by
LOGO X
Fine Cheese I
BS. EXTRA FINE CHEESE, just receive
WIMBISH k CO.
C l OLD nnd SILVER bought and sold. Atlanta, Now ,
X York and Philadelphia EXCHANGE always ou baud : QNE CAR LOAD juat rem
pool Malt,
eived aud for sale by
qy*Special attoutiop given to Collation*. octflO tf
STUD H2 B A Iv v: 11 WAGONS’
rjIHEsiib!
WIMBISH 4t CO.
H a lot Of thu
FARM WA<IONS f. .r sale. TI
lateriuls and admirably adapted
of furiu hauling, marketing, Ac. They are sold at MOl
KRATE PRICES and warranted to bo us they uro renn
ed.
In the absi'iii
tiie store of Ev
vrinhing to pun
ed. H
base. Call and >
ig aiul handsome i GUANOS. i- U’laln and reliubh: hmtiliz a r8 for cotton,
built of thebe.ri | Will alsn furnish g. nuinc PERUVIAN GI*vNO, BONI
" - DUST’ and LAND PLASTER, all at Baltimore prices, with
freight added. Give us your orders early that vou may
have thorn filled in time. Will send your orders to obei
or Morrynmn, as you may prefer. Can furniah you Lturi
Plaster, lu iitrong now sucka, at £T2 per ton, ut tho ilepoi
hole. WIMBISH 6i CO.
hem to pel
; Imfore the;
OWEN ik n.VHNAUD,
COTTON WAREHOUSE,
La Grange, Gcorgln.
We also have a NIGHT-
:ul)li aliment. wepll-tf
MEDICAL NOTICE I
D R. R. A. T. RIDLEY, having associated with himself,
hie hum. Dr. CHARLES B. RIDLEY, a re.-eut gradu
ate of the Now Orleans School of Medirlne, would offer
their services in the various branches of the Medical Pro
fession, to tho citizens of LaOrango aiul Hurrouudlng
country.
A residence of thirty years in LnC.range, and an exten
sive practice during that time, by the acnior member of
(the firm, la a tnilfick ‘
rases, either from ti
and fnithfully attended to.
Office ono door North of Pullen A Cox’s old stand,
and three doors South of fhe Poet office.
CLAGIIOH.V, HERDING «k CO M
COTTON COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 7 Warren Block,
{ Augusta, Georgia ;
Corner Yanduo Rango and Accommodation Wharf,
Charleston, South Carolina;
120 Chestnut Street,
ft»fefi.o4*)j>h!a, Peuusylvnnla.
#9* JOSEPH 8, BEAN, of T.ttUratige, Georgia, is our
Agent, aud wifi give prompt attention to ahipm^uti nnd nd.
9a nett. aepU-tf
ATLANTA MARBLE WORK I
1VM. GRAY, Frop’r, 8, 11, OAT3IAN, Ag’t,
DEALE11S W
American nnd Foreign Afnrblo,
MONUMENTS, T0M8S, VAULTS, HEADSTONES, TABLETS,
Mantles, Statuary, Urns and Vagi'*,
49” DESIGNS PUBLISHED, for those purchasing of up,
fret of charge.!
4^r.M01)K,rj ltC, in clay or plaster, aud other ornamental
AF* Ail otdats faithfully executed and promptly filled.
49-OFPJCK AND YARD—Opposite Georgia R. It. Depot,
Atlanta, Ga. octlO-tf
IJullc Aleut.
ill sell BULK MEATS, for CASH, nt very short
rofits, or urder them for a small com miss ion.
declO' WIMBISH k CO.
w*s
declO
500 U b :SI1 ' WI£ITE C0RN '
TON8 A. A. GUANO just r.
CHARLES HANDY,
(8UCCKSSOB TO W. C. TANCET,)
COMMISHIOX MERCHANT,
AND DEALER IN
CHOICE GROCERIES AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
(At Pullen k Cox’s Old Stand.)
Tjol Grange Georgia.
CUAS. HANDY.
I.VRDWAltE tu my stock, which i« complete.
I n.VVE onh
offer at .She
CHARLES HANDY.
CHARLES HANDY'.
CHARLES HANDY.
Drugsjmd Medicines.
WARE’S DRUC 8TORE I
AUGUSTUS C. WARN,
DRUG a 1ST AND APOTIIECAHY,
North Hid® Public Square,
LaGrangc, Georgia.
.T L’HT UECEIVKDt
ASPAJUGU3--
BU3II BEANS—
Bix Works or Mohawk,
Red Spockled Vale’glfne,
Brown Hjieokled Valentino,
Early Y. llow Six Works,
Newington Wondor.
Cldna WTilto,
RUNNING BFANS—
Limn nnd
Wren's Egg.
BEETS—
Philadelphia Early Turulp Rooted,
Extra Early Turnip Rooted,
Early Blood Red,
Silesian Sugar.
BOnECOLE-
Gonnnn K«de.
CABB.VGE-
Rod Dutch, (for pickling.)
Drumhead, (largo lot)
Drumhead Savoy,
French Oa Heart,
Early Sugar Loaf,
Orooti Glazed,
Early York,
TUt Dqtb,
CAROTS—
Long Orange,
Early Ilorna
CAULIFLOWER—
Early Asiatic.
CELERY—
Large Whito.
CORN—
Evsrgroon 8ugnr.
Adams Early.
CUCUMBER-
Long Groan Turkey,
Early Frame,
Vfhito Spine,
E*JG PI. VNT—
Ijtrgo Early Puri’lo-
LETTUCE—
Early Cabbage,
Ice Cabbage.
MELON—(water)—
Mountain Sweet Wntor.
CANTELEUPE—
Green Citrou,
Pino Applo.
MUSTARD—
White and black.
OKRA—
Tall, aud Dwarf.
ONION—
Silver Skin,
Stroaburg, (long yollow.)
PARSLEY—
Curled.
PARSNIP—
Fine Sugar.
PEAS—
Landroth’s Extra Early,
Largo Whito Marrowfat,
Dwarf Blue Imperial,
Early Frame,
Tom Thumb,
Eugoule.
PEPPER—
Cayenne,
Largo Spanish Sweet Boll.
RADISH—
Long Scarlet,
Golden Globe.
Red Turnip Rooted,
Whito Turnip Rooted,
SALSIFY—
Or Oyator Plant.
SPINACH—
llouud DuU-b,
Savoy Leaved.
SQUASn—
Early BurIi,
Long Green,
Oocoanut,
Marrow.
TOMATO—
Tildcn.
Ivvye’s Prolifle,
Cook’s Favorite,
Largo Stuootli Rod.
TURNIP—
Early Flat Dutch aud Red Top.
POTATO—
Early Opodrieh, (Landreth’s.)
•0 mj mm? mm,.me c: mu jc m'ju: jb»
AND
FOR SALE
BRADFIELD & PITMAN,
DRUGGISTS AND AROTHKCARIKS,
La Grauge, Georgia.
Fly Poison.
J UST RECEIVED 23 Packs Fly Paper for poisoning flies,
for sale by
BRADFIELD it PITMAN.
Yeast Powders.
B11.YDFIELD & PITMAN.
Horse Phlegms.
BRADFIELD k PITMAN.
JpOR SALE BY
JjlOR sale by_
'Y^/'ANTED.-COO pounds DRIED I
ALEXANDER ERGENZINqER,
(Hnutcr Street, near Whitehall,)
Atlanta, Georgia
ITrOULDro!
W and su:
fkll orders for
fURNITURE, UPHOLSTERINO,
MATTRESSES AND BEDDINO,
DECORATIONS.
WINDOW CURTAINS,
PTOVHS, TINWARE, AcO.
J. F. SLAUGHTER,
DEALER IN
HEATING AND COOKING STOVES,
PLAIN, JAPANNED, PRESSED AND PLANISHED
*ap M »n. -ma*r sm. :mr ,
LA GRANGE, GEORGIA.
ALL KINDS OF JOB WORK,
In my line of bualuoaa, done to order.
Sell Them as Cheaply as They can be Pur
chased anywhere in Georgia:
e their old friends.
CHARLES HANDY.
HAVE removed to Pullen k Cox’s Old Stand.
CHARLES HANDY.
EVANS & RACLAND,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
GROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
(East Side Pgblic 8quare,)
La Grange, Georgia.
A 8SORTEP stock of HARDWARE, IRON and NAILS
A. for sale by EVANS ii RAGLAND.
I F you want heavy BOOTS and SHOES call on
EVANS k RAGLAND.
S HOT-GUNS, PISTOLS and CAPS on hand and for aalo
by EVAN8 4t RAGLAND.
find a
EVANS 4: RAGLAND.
IDS finest Rio COFFEE for sale by
superior lot of all grades TOBACCO at
r k vo r
rjMiE
gUGARS, A, B and C,
EVANS k RAGLAND.
Dressing Combs,
i Dozen assorted Dressing Combs for sale by
BRADFIELD k PITMAN.
Lubin’g Extr
Lily White.
Do*c|> botes assorted Lily Whito for sain by
BHADFIELD 4: PITMAN.
Whit* Pond Lily,
1 Dozen White Pond Lily. ju*i
saje by BRAD""
10
Gulf hell ver
Pounds Quicksilver, for bud bugs, ju
FILL '
300'
Condition Powders,
Dozen DENISON’S CONDITION POWDEIIR. for
sale by BRADFIELD 4t PITMAN.
Cooking Soda.
Pounds English Cooking Soda for sale by
. BRADFIELD k PITMAN.
-■«. a-: nl-*.' m, ac Mvoxaib.
At IIogaixHville, Georgia.
McIVER, PHILLIPS & UO.
B UY their goods from first-class Drug Houses, North.
and receive supplies every week. Dealers aud all
other persons can, therefore, depend upon getting
Pitre and Frcslx Drugs and Medicines,
Chemicals, from tho best manufacturers,
Pulsate, Oils aud I)yc Stuffs,
Window Glass uud Putty,
Soda, Kpiers and Pepper,
Kerosliie Oil, bust quality,
Roek Potash and Turpentine,
Toilet Articles and Perfumery, of superior
quality,
Garden Weeds,—crop of 18(18. and
lflverything Usually Kept in a First-Class
Drug Store, •
at ns low prices ts tho same quality of goods can be bought
in tills sootiou of country.
tfjtr PRESCRIPTIONS accurately filled, day and night,
by Dr. Mclvef. fcblO-3sqH-:)m’ , ‘
Marietta, Oa. | Marietta, Ga. | Louisville, Ky.
tub oraonai* maiiulk works
A RE now nnMt^ toUl^l ord.r. tor MARBLE, >nd
to turn '
Moi&lpiente, Slab*, Tombs, Ace.,
style, and at LOWER PRICES than
« done with Northern Marble. Our
Murble is equal to tha>BEST AMERICAN.
Dealers nan bo supplied with BLOCKS and SLABS of
any dimensions.
For any Information or designs address
4UOROIA MARBLE WORKS,
Either at Marietta or Jaaper, Pickens eo., Ga.
W. H. 900 is iha Agent at LaOnmge. aepl-tf
CAMFonMA.
Friend Willingham; Iu r letter publlHhoil in
your paper lust wock, I ubitod that I would en
deavor to rIvo you an idea of what I couaider
serious objoctioiiH to California, ns a home for
Southum familiop. They ure baaod upon faetg
Btati d below all of which, as a matter of course,
did not como immediately within the scope of
my observation or experience; but such uh did
not, wero presented to me by reliable men, who
expect to sleep their lout sleep iu California's
soil, nnd who would he glad to sec an influx of
population from the Booth, but are too honest to
impose upon any one false ideas in relation to
their Stale, for the purpose of inducing them to
come. Many who read this will, no doubt, think
it colored by a prejudiced mind, as ’Lis materially
different from accounts of the Slate which have,
«o far as I know, been published heretofore. I j find requests I have received on the subject,
would merely remind such that, almost without 1 I submit three propositions:
exception, these accounts of the inducements 1- The debtor and creditor should meet each
for emigration have been circulated by steam I other for the settlement of old debts iu a mutual
navigation companies, real astute agents, and j spirit of kindness, candor and justice. The
property holders, whose interest it is to present debtor should be willing to pay according to the
only the favorable side of the question.
The cllmate of California, as I stated before,
is delightful, so far as temperature is concerned;
but this is owing .entirely to the winds, which
come sweeping from the Pacific, across the
T1IK MOWS IN 11KIIOF.
PAYMENT OF OLD Dl£irJ%
Editor La Granok Hkpobter:—At the close
of the recent war, I wrote an article recom
mending tho settlement of debts on principles
of equity. It was first printed in your paper,
aud afterwards copied by most of tho journals of
Georgia, and iu many of the most widely cir
culated and rospoctable journals of the South.—
It met with such general favor with reflecting
men, that I lmvo boon frequently requested to fifty pounds, worth $15 to$20 n pound!
roproduce it. Hitherto I have declined to do so; j r 0 «,..i an i.,
but, as the Supreme Court lias recently made
an important decision relative to old debts,
I deem this juncture of time opportune; and,
feeling willing to contribute my humble mite to
tho public good, I have concluded to communi
cate, for your columns a few ideas which I beg
may be taken ns n reply to the many letters
Col. Giles Mitchell, of Athens, is dead.
The Catholic Church iu Bparta, will bo finish
ed and dedicated in May.
Fine shad ure welling at forty-five or fifty cents
por pair in Jacksonville Fla.
Several responsible parties are taking stops
V) erect cotton mills in Savannah.
It is said that an acre of pop ieB will yield
G. P. Asliburn was arrested Thursday night
for robbing the mail, and plead guilty.
Tho Democrats carried Portland Maine, ou
tho 1st in ut., fur the first time since 1 bfi().
Tho nnme of Dig Shanty—seven miles above
Mariota—haa boon changed to Kcnesaw.
Mr. Edward Varner, of Indian Bpriugs, died
in tho Asylum at Milledgeville lust Friday.
The pork dealers in Cincinnati have made,
this season, a clear profit of three millions of dol
lars.
Tho Spanish press advise the provisional gov-
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coast-range and through the valleys of tho inte
rior— being impregnated with moisture to such
an extent that they bring, with their burden of
vitality for vegetation, the germs of neuralgia,
rheumatism, and ail pulmonary diseases. An
eminent physician, who has been practicing in
tho Slate for the last five years, told mo that
more than ono-half of his patients who have died,
fill consumptive’s graves; and that ho had never
scon, in any other State, so much Hufiering, in
proportion to the population, from tho above
named diseases, Tho patent medicines for their
relief I noticed upon tho shelves of all country
stores that I suw, whilst they are a considerable
item in tho stock in trade of ever}’city drug store.
Perhaps, on account of the immense amount
of cnpftul necessary lo carry ou what was, ten
years ago, the chief attraction of California min
ing, nearly all who go there now expect to de
vote themsedves to farming —which, upon the
whole, may be considered-a safer business there
than in Georgia, as the production of its soil,
when everything is favorable, is so much greater,
aud failures in crops fiom drought or flood less
frequent. But there is a terribly destructive el
ement there that seldom interferes with the
farmer here. Ever}’ valley, except immediately
along the water courses, aud iu the grain grow
ing sections, these are few, is one vast wheat
field, covering, frequently, without intermission,
scores of square miles; aud whenever there is,
iu these valleys, a space uncultivated, it has upon
it either a heavy growth of “volunteer wheat" or
wild oats. Tho entire absence ol rain during the
summer renders this, when ripe, very inflamma
ble. A cigar carelessly dropped, or even a match,
if exposed to the sun for half un hour, is sure to
ignite —frequently causing the destruction of
millions of property, and leaves homeless, and
sometimes penniless, hundreds of families, who,
but the day before, considered themselves inde
pendent for life.
As I stated in my former letter, the soil of the
State is universally good; but it cost 60 much to
plant a crop that, when an account of a too wet
or too dry winter, and when the crop is destroy
ed by tire, he has no harvest. The fanner, un
less very wealthy, is a mined man. Many lose,
in the failure of one crop, the savings of years.
But, what, in my opinion, would bo. to a
Southerner, the greatest objection to California
is, its standard for morals, state of society, &c.
Nearly every one, who, prior to 1858 or 1859, and
many since, went to California, were mere ad
venturers, of an unsettled, dissatisfied disposi
tion, curing more for excitement and lreedom
from the restraints of social and civil law than
for the comforts of home and the refining influ
eucc of homo association—many of them refu
gees from the courts of justice, a cosmopolitan
I mass, gathered together from the four corners of
the earth, living almost entirely without religion,
tbe refining influence of female association, or
tho restraints of law. It is not to me a matter ol
wonder that, where such a p iople control or
make what we term public opinion, that its social
status should fall far short of the standard re
quisite to suit refined Southern taste. Decently,
California lias, in this respect, began to improve;
but tho morals of the State are still iu a deplor
able condition. Gaming and dissipation of even-
kind is carried on to an alarming extent. I saw
around me there, every da}’, the paiulul evidence
of the train of evils consequent upon them —in
the miserable, broken-hearted women, men de
prived of all of the nobler attributes of their
nature, and mere children sunk to tho lowest
depth of vice and degradation—whilst the jails
aud lunatic as} buns of the .State are crowded with
the votaries of these pernicious habits.
The majority of the people show no respect
for the Sabbath—many of tho stoies are never
closed upon this day—whilst many stop their
work to meet ut the cock-pit, race track or gam
ing table—all of which places ure much more
largely attended upon this day than any of the
churches. These habits are confined by no
means to the lower classes, but extend to all
grades of society.
Tis unnecessary for me to consume your space
by entering into detail as to the result of the in
fluence of such characters, upon the grading of
society, when they have the controlling voice.—
Suffice it to suy, that some of tho worst charac
ters are in» and component parts of, the best so-
c ety.
There is ono other very serious objection to
the State, and with it I will close, as I have al
ready trespassed too much upon your time.
As 1 believe I have mentioned before; winter
aud summer are not marked so much by cold
and heat as by rain aud (bought. For five
months, commencing with November, it rains
almost incessantly—causing the ground to re
main, during that time, perfectly wet; and a6
the soil is very fine, the mud becomes so deep
that ’tis ulmost impossible to ride a horse along
the beBt roads iu the valleys. In the summer,
for seven months, not a drop of rain falls.—
During this time the dust is so objectionable
that the inhabitants prefer the mud of their
winters. The winds are constantly filled w-ith it,
and it is utterly impossible to keep it out of the
closest houses,
As my time did not admit of a full summary
of fiiotu favorable to California, ’tis equally true
that I have, by no means, exhausted this view of
the subject
Hoping that what I have written will prove of
some interest to your readers,
I am, respectfully,
W. W. TURNER.
Atlanta, February 280L
Wants to Ride Fbee,—In the South Carolina
House of Representatives, on the 15th ult., Mr.
Henderson introduced the following preamble
and concurrent resolution:
Whereas, That railroad companies of Geor
gia, either by consent or by actiop of her Gen
eral Assembly, are now poking members of her
Legislature free of charge over all the roads in
its State; therefore be it
Kesolved, By the House of Representatives,
tho Senate concurring, that the General Assemb
ly of South Carolina take such measures as may
secure tho same privileges for her members.
States.
means left him by the war. The creditor should
bo willing to compromise and accept payment
in proportion thereto.
2. If, after e fair, unreserved, friendly confer- re . Be
enco, they cannot agree, thoy ought to leave it to ! l )riaouor8 -
others, and abide by the judgment of their neigh- Tho “blue Grass region,” of Kentucky, has
i of Grorgla Hr fore tko
on ('omiDlitre.
have received, through tho attention of the
lion. Nelson Tift, mouther of Congress from tho
First District, a copy of the evidence given be
fore the Reconstruction Committee of Congress
in regard (o the condition of affairs iu this State.
Tide evidence is quite voluminous, covering two
hundred and thirty-six closely printed octavo
pages, and embraces thn replies to Mr. Tift’s cir
cular Iruin one hundred State officers, including
the testimony of Chief Justice Brown and Asso
ciate Justice Warner, of our Supreme Court —
All of these officials save one F. J. Robinson,.
Ordinary of Oglethorpe county give it ae thoir
decided opinion that no further action is neces
sary on the part of Congress looking to the re
manding of the Btate to a terriloriai oondition.
Some of tho Republicans, like Mr. Akcrman,
recommend Congress to taku action securing the
negroes the right to hold office, but even he
thinks it would be decidedly better to have this
done through the agency of the State government.
The evidence submitted by J. E. Bryant, con
sisting chiefly of affidavits of negroes and car
pet-baggers, is so grossly absurd and improbablo
as to have produced upon the mind of the com
mittee but little effect. We shall endeavor to
give nt least tho substance of this pretended
idence, so far as it relates to the counties’in-
. ,1 vYmt-uce, Qtj jiti UN It MJIIUL'N iv uiu cuumieH'iU'
eminent to keep on good terms with the United the Middle and Eastern portions of the Btate,
The English Government proposes shortly to j
imprisonment forty-five Fenian '
bora.
3. In coming to a conclusion as to any partic- j tfii 8 Rooson.
ulur enso, the general condition of tho country, Mr. James Hudson, of Talbot county, made
as to thrift and prosperity, should be consulereil j 220 gallons of Syrup from i of an acre of land
—for our ability to pay is measured not only by j planted in red cane,
wliat we possess, but also by our income. Thus,
if the community is prosperous, each worthy
member of it is proportionally so; and if it is
suffering undor what we all know as “ hard
and particularly we desire our friends in Burke,
Columbia and Richmond, to sec wlmt Madden,
and Powell have to say of them.
Wo present this morning the reports in full
from Jefferson, county, hk they are shortest and
we are much pressed lor space’;
JKPEEGHOW County.—The Ordinary states that
received two million, of dollars for mulee sold dtSTn.^feDM!J,eprivfleVoof volin.
on account of not having paid thoir taxes; with
this exception the election was held iu accord
ance with law.
Win. Alaxander, Notary public, states that he
is informed that numbers ol both white und col-
times,” each member of it suffers in his ability
to pay.
It is, therefore, plain, if we could ascertain
the depreciation of values caused by the late
war, we would have a general rule for settle
ments substantially just. Believing this to be
true, in preparing the article nbovo referred to,
I compared with each other the reports of the
Comptrollers of Georgia, made just previous to
the war and just after its close. It so happens
that we have two very able reports for this com
parison—the one by Col. Thwcptt, long a favor
ite officer, and the other by Col. Burns, now of
the Senate. These reports are based upon the
Col. Win. M. Smith, » prominent citizen of J o”toxe” rojouted on account of “°“-pavment
of Selma Ala., died at the 8t. Nicholas Hotel j I held an election at the 81th militia district;
) challenges there.
Jefferson Co., Ga., Nov. 3C, 1868.
New York, at four p. in., Monday.
The Suhlirne Porte has revoked all orders and !
decrees aguinst the Greeks, and Turkish ports I
are now open to Greek shipping.
The failure of the 4th National Bank is attri- ;
buted to the defalcation of the Treasurer. De- j
posits amounted to half of a million dollars.
Two New York mechanics, have invented a j
“ monoeycle’’-a one w ieeled velocipede—which I
they claim can be driven sixty miles an hour.
Sir: The polls here were not open uutil JO
o’clock. Republicans were driven from the polls,
waylaid at night, assaulted and badly beaten;
many turned out of house and home; many votes
rejected for non-payment of poll tax; colored
people fleeing for their lives; and republicans
both whito und black, feel unsafe a. their homes
at night. Respectfully,
Sam’l J. Jones.
W. M. Moore, Esq., Sec’y, &c.
Will some of our Jefferson readers be kind
rm,„ cv -44V rn. ii * x* v , , . enough to tell us who Samual J. Jonos is? Wo
lue Sheriff of Oneida county, New \ork, hae ; !mve qaite au extonsivc acquaintance there, bav-
been indicted for malfeasance iu office; for ad- j ing lived in the county from our birth up to tho
ministering chloroform to a criminal he was
about hanging.
We learn tlmt Mr. Luther Toney was accidcnt-
oaths of each tax-payer in the State in giving in ally killed at the Pine House, Edgefield, S. C, \ —
their property to the Tar Receivers. Therefore, j terday afternoon, by a pistol shot fired by Mr. u^hol'lvan'd trosriv lMse tm8Ut ° f Kepublicaua
the data stand upon the sworn testimony of all Benjaraine Boothe. * ' g • «} i e.
the men of Georgia., Tl '° <;° m P<‘ ri *> n I Gen. John Forney who recently recently ac-
to will show that the taxable property of the roft6s m ^ A i abania Unjver .
U.illn A* 41, A aIaba a f f1\A ...n (I A r. OO «A 4 a 1 OO I '
sity, has become insane—tho result of a wound
ear I860, and we have never hoard of such
man. Wo incline to the belief that he is a myth
produced by the magic wand ol Bryant lor this
especial purpo.se. But whether or not he bo a
rual personage, this we do know that his stute-
Perhaps old “ Bre ze” could tell who wroto
the letter ! Will he do it?— *hronicle& Sentinel.
Btate. at the close of the war, was, as 22 is to 100,
when compared to the taxables of the last date
previous to the war. 78 per cent, of the property
of the State had been lost from the aggregate
by actual destruction and depreciation. I have
never stated this as a correct measure of settle
ment in any case, but I have said it ought to be
considered in every settlement. What I then
wrote was founded in common sense. It was
right then. It is right now. In individual cases,
starting out from this as a general basis, when
tho equities fall lower than 22 cents in the dollar,
the settlement should come down, and when the
iquities go higher, the settlement should go
higher.
I am greatly gratified that thousands of settle
ments have taken place in accordance with these
views, advanced by mo more than three years
I do not claim them as exclusively mine;
but I urge them upon the consideration of all
ir citizens.
Do we nut all have an interest in each other
beyond the moro debts we hold tho one against
the other? and of what earthly value is an old
xecution, no matter how strong and valid of
itself, that has no property of the debtor out of
which to be enforced? Wliat reason is there,
then, in forever holding many of our bebt citi
zens uneasy with old claims that can never be
hoped to be realized ? And what good sense is
thero in any debtor to be over dodging the just
e juity of creditors ? It is better lor debtor aud
creditor to compromise, and then lor us all
to be constant and persevering and generous in
trying to build each other up. It is to our in
terest collectively aud individually to do so;
for ii each individual thrives, tho whole commu
nity will improve; and there can be noprosjjerity
in ‘ any community that the man of honest in
dustry does not deserve, nor can thero bo any
division of wealth in which he does not take his
share. B. H. B1GHAM.
Kimball’s Opera House,
This is the house that Jack built.
The State Treasury.
This is the mult that lay in the house that
Jack built.
Gov. Bullock.
This is the rat that eat the malt that lay in the
house that Jack built.
Du. Angier.
This is the cat that caught the rat that eat tho
mail that luy iu the house that Jack built
The Sub-CoMMiTTEE.
This is the dog that worried the cat that caught
the rat that eut the malt that lay in the house
that Jack built.—Federal Union.
The Legislature.
This is the cow with tho crumpled horn that
tossed the dog that worried he cat that caught
the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house
that Jack built. —Atlania Constitution.
Granny” Bard I
This is the ‘ maiden’ all forlorn, that milked
the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the
dog that worried the cut that caught the rat that
eut the mult that lay in the houso that Jack
built.
Parson Caldwell, (C. L.)
This is the priest, all shaven and shorn, that
married the maiden all forlorn that milked the
v with tho crumpled horn that tossed the dog
that worried the cat that caught the rat that eut
the malt that lay in tho house that Jack built.—
Griffin Star.
Sam Bard.
This is the maid all forlorn that milked the
cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog
that worried the cat that caught the rat that eat
the mult that lay in the houso that Jack built.
JonN E. Bryant.
This is the man all tattered ami tom that mar
ried the maid all forlorn that milked the cow
with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog that
worried tho cat that caught the rut that eat the
mult that lay in the house that Jack built.—Au-
yusta Press.
The Miseries of a Ricn Man.—Tho New York
correspondent of the Rochester Democrat is re
sponsible for the following:
Alexander T. Stewart clears one thousand dol
lars per day, Sundays excepted, all the year
round. Cornelious Vanderbilt pleads guilty to
twice that sum, while William B. Astor rates his
income at four thousand three hundred and
thirtv dollars per diem, Bleeping or waking,
the last named gentleman finds a three dollar
bill dropping into liis hat every minute of the
twenty-four hours. He cannot sit down to talk
with his physician without having a little more
wealth, it not health; he cannot unburden his
mind without feeling his burdon increasing in
his pocket; and he cuuuot walk Broadway, how
ever the weqjher may be, without meeting a
shower of money. At every turn cash stares
him in the most insolent manner; banks fling
their dividends at his head; ruthless financiers
beat him with coupons; unpitying and soulless
corporations dump their lucre at his doorstep;
and contemptuous bill stickers plaster his door
with greenbacks. One might wonder what that
follow’ has done to merit this treatment, and the
only charge that can be brought is that he is a
rioli mans sou, and therefore must suffer.
received during the war.
A desperate affray occurred ut Hamburg, S. C\,
on the 2d inst, between W. W. Kennedy, county
marshal, and J. Ii. Keys, a citizen. The former
was dangerously wounded.
The Augusta Press of Saturday, regrets to
learn that the recent cold snap operated very
unfavorably on Hon. A. H. Stephens’s recent in
jury. lie is entirely disabled.
There is au ox on exhibition at Montgomery,
Ala., measures 18 hands high, 13 feet in length,
115 feet girth, and weighs 4,540 pounds. He
was raised in Bourbon county, Ky.
Jonathan Burr, who recently died in Chicago,
left about a quarter of a million for charitable
purposes, and put his relations off with small
amounts. Now the will cannot be found.
Mr. Henry E. Lucas, Jr., one of the most es
teemed and successful citizens of St. Thomas
parish, near Charleston, accidentally shot and
killed himself with a pistol, on Monday last.
The youth charged with the murder of Mr.
Charles Axt, near Crawfordville, Ga., was tried
this week. The evidence being purely circum
stantial and not sufficient to convict, he was ac
quitted.
The editor of the Air Line Eayle, Guinseville,
has been shown by Captain Boswortk, tmee
Mail Rodder Caught.—The Atlanta Era con
tains the following item of news:
For some time past there have boon suspi
cious against a mail messenger iu the employ of
the Western & Atlantic Railroad. On the 8th of
last month, envelopes were found near the lino
of tins railroad, addressed to Philadelphia pub
lishers, and which were mailed at Columbus on
the 6th. This led to the conviction that some
one connected with the mails who went up tho
road ou tlio night of tho 7tli, had abstracted let
ters therefrom. Suspicion rested upon George
I*. Ashburu, mail messenger, and he has since
been watched very closely. Ou Wednesday
night, special agent W. T. Howell, who was con
cealed iu the car, detected Ashburn in the very
act of abstracting lettero, before the train had
left the car shed. When arrested letters taken
from t .e mails were found in his pocket Yes
terday lie was taken before United .States Com
missioner W. B. Smith, and upon the testimony
of special agent Howell, he was required to give
bond in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars.
The young man alluded to is a son of the no
torious G. W. Ashburn.
The State Fair.—The premium list for tho
State Fair, to be held in Macon ou the second
Tuesday in November next will soon be issued
in pamphlet form, and, iu addition to the list
of premiums, will contain the rules and regula
tions governing the action of the officers of tho
Fair and those competing for prizes, and much
other interesting mutter bearing upon the subjects
By the lights in which we now view the subject,
we have no doubt that the Fair will be one of
the grandest affairs that ever caine off in tho
. .* ix i • .. , i State. The eeutral position of Macon; her ac-
mights ol gold, recently louud m the Nuohoo- corailji]itv from all p £ inta . the kll0wn 'liberality
chee mines, weighing respectively 370, 210 and 1 and hospitality of her citizens; aud the eminent
102 dwts. j administrative ability iu such matters, which
a,. „ ,, , . , characterizes the executive committee of the
. Th0 lkrM tUlljka Bnm11 bcM ' ° r tbe P r °l 03ed i Shite Agricultural Society, all give us the ussur-
X\ amendment It says: “Nothing is said of ance that the fair will attract such a crowd to
A. G. Perryman, ope of the most prominent
lawyers of Western Georgia, died at Talbotton
on the 22d nit., aged 52 years.
the right to hold office. The mountain has b.
in labor a long time and lias now brought forth
a mouse.”
Major Alexander Gregg, formerly a citizen
of Nashville, and a member of Gen. Forrest’s
staff during tho war, committed suicide by
jumping into tho Mississippi, near St. Louis,
last week.
A New Orleans doctor sued a man for attend
ance ou the child of the latter during an attack
of small pox, claiming five hundred dollars.—
Tho father brought a cross suit, charging the
doctor with mal-practice, tho child having be
come permanently crippled. The jury gave a
verdict of $2,500 and costs against the doctor,
and disallowed his bill altogether. $
The Livingston (Ala) Journal says that one
causo of labor in that section is from the mania
of the negroes for planting “ on their own hook”
this year, hoping on account of the present high
price of cotton to get rich iu one season. One
of these would-be-planters was seen iu a store
a few days ago trying to get <\ pair of shoes for
a bale of cotton yet to be raise d.
The Treasury plate printing office has nearly
ready for printing a new emission of the fifty
dollar greenback notes to take place of the pres
ent issues w kich have been largely counterfeited.
The hundred dollar notes will bear a likeness of
Mr. Lincoln, with a vignette, symbolic of Recon
struction, and the fifty dollar notes will bear a
likeness of Gen. Grant, with a vignette symbol
ical of the restoration of peace.
A Washington dispatch to a Philadelphia pa
per says Senator Yates “appeared suddenly ap
peared suddenly, a few evenings since, before
the ladies in the parlor of the St. James Hotel,
in his favorite disabillle costume, and flourish
ing a revolver in a very careless manner. He
was attired in nothing but a single article of rai
ment, uud was, of course, intoxicated at the
time. Tho sensation produced, however, was
startling. ’’ This was his Becond appearance up
on those boards in that costume.
Refugees in New York report that at least fif
ty thousand Cubans are among the insurgents*
notwithstanding the many who have left the is
land for the United States to avoid conscription.
Many of these bring what property they can, and
leave the rest for confiscation. Every means of
conveyance to the Btates are used, and some of
them have to resort to subterfuge to get off.—
The most excited aro resolved either to be free of
Spain or to destroy the island, and most of them
would like annexation to tho United Stutos.
In the evening session of the Senate on Sat
urday a rioh scene occurred. Garret Davis rais-
ec a point of order on the Constitutional Amend
ment, claiming that it required a two-thirds vote
of thotio present. Mr. Davia went on to elabo-
raet his point of order. Mr. James M. Ashley,
of tho House, being present, seemed greatly
amused aud laughed ostentutiosly iu tho faco of
Mr. Davis,-who thereupon rei. arked, “ Yes, you
chucklehead, you may laugh, and all your inter
lopers may laugh, but the point I make is tech
nically, constitutionally, and logically right
The whole Senate burst into a roar of dignified
laughter, and stamped with stately delight.
Macon as was never before witnessed or record
ed i i the history of the city.
Meanwhile let every planter, mechanic, artisan
and housewife in the State set about preparing
something valuable or interesting for exhibition
and have it here at the fair in November next—
Let ns prove to tbe world, and to carpet bag
gers particularly, that some things cau be done
in Georgia as at tho “hub of the universe.”—
Telegraph.
Good Chance fob a Boy. —The editor of the
Erie Gazette, no doubt tired of the old system of
apprenticeship, thus advertises for a boy:
“ Wanted, at this office, a boy to take sheets
from the press every Wednesday and Saturday
altemoon, no limits as to salary, and the said
boy is to consider tkut tho office exists for his
Hpccial convenience. If he don’t feel well or
wants to go fishing, or play marbles, or see
match games of base-ball, or go shopping with
his girl, or visit his cousin, the paper will wait
his sovereign pleasure. Anybody who presumes
to criticise his efforts is to be immediately ar
rested for contempt All the boys he knows aro
to have free run of tbe office. The editors time
to be exclusively at the aforesaid boy’s disposal.
Salary to be drawn two or three years belore.—
A boy possessing these qualifications, please re
port where he can be found, and wliat time a
deputation of printers may call upon him and
respectfully present references of good character
on the part ol the employes. Please write for
pontage-stamps and monogram gilt-edged pa
per.
A North Carolina Romance.—The Winston
N. C.) Sentinel tells thiRRip Van WinVlish story:
Thirty-six years ago, a man living in this county
was arrested for some violation of the law. He
was tied and placed on horseback, and started
off to Germantown, then the county sent—
After he was arrested, his wife managed to slip
him a knife, aud ou his way to prison he cut hw
bonds, aud being well mounted, he made good
his escape. Nothing was heard of him after his
escape, by his family. He had been married but
a short time, and his wife mourned lor him as
one dead.
A few weeks Rince, an old gray-lieaded man
stopped at the house where she was living, and
inquired for her. She came out, when he asked
her if sho knew him, sho told him she had no
recollection of ever having seen him before.—
He then made himself known as her long absent
husband. And now, after a separation of nearly
forty years, they are again living together as hap
pily as a newly married couple.
A Strange Phenomenon.—A strango phenom
enon occurred nt Talcnhuann, on the Southern
const of Chilli, in connection with the last shock
of an earthquake. A boiling hot spring bub
bled up from the ground, and the water in the
river Audalieu increased bo rapidly in heat that
shell fish wore cast upon the beach actually boil-
od! And eggs placed in the spring were cooked
in a moment, wnile fish and chuns were vomited
up boiling hot, and ready for use. The sea roeo
and fell rapidly during this disturbance, and
strange low muttering in the air was iuoesaant
There was not a breath of air stirring, not even
enough to move a feather^ yet tne tido ran
in and out with increased violence, and the sea
rose and fell sufficiently high to set ships all
tossing about like toys on a miniature pond,
bracking their anchors aud turning them around
and around.
Lands Bbooimo.—The Tallahassee Floridia*
says that several of the most valuable tracts of
land in Leon cotfntv were sold by the United
States Marshal- under execution, at tho Court
House, in Tallahassee, recently, none of which
brought more than r dollar per acre in currency.
For ono of these tracts, tne Floridian under
stands, $27 per acre ip gold was offered a Httle
bpfor*' the war.