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JMLL'JUU. 'ti# rfctf'n WIhU n* crti tir iM>» ! )no Copy of tiio ........ -... Hie Copy of (ho Paper at* >j '■ " “ “ rwntlm 2 00 , i UloiltllH 1 00 paper ^<c.. 10 fclub Hu tan. / .... ' Ton CnploR of Urn Paper one year n.f2« Of) Twenty Copied of tlia Paper olio year*.. hi,.^ 40 00 Ril* All Subscriptions must bn palib lnvnrlubly In ad* Vun m- a aii Huudcripuonn must on pnm/invnrmuiy in nu* ■«. No dlMi'riiiiiuaUou lii/avnr of nnylxMly, . ' ir Tint I’nper will Bif Ktoppuil, in all luetancod, ftttlio • paid for, nnlodd HUbHcrlpltond are pfovioueiy rotfiiwuut Olilluiuy nil 4.. JUN1IH k y'tM.lWoHAM, Mr AUiit-L'HH nil ortli Ml Attorneys. VV. O. TUGGLE, A T TO It N K Y A T I * A W , • Till di‘rtHtfc, i...... .Georgia, I. K. TOOl.lt, 0, W. M Atilt Y. TOOLE iC MA1IRV, ATTOltNKYS AT I*AW. LaGrange, Georgia, BATES OP ABVEBTlBlNa. AfiVKBTidKMMTR «t f 1 per sqiisre of 10 mild lined of “ Subsequent Insertions half VOLUME XXY.l LA GRANGE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1869. NUMBER 12. Groceries. . 1). AUQAIIAM4. ? Ill Hie Hlipe iris of tin* enuiillcH t«. Meriwether and if Georgia, and iu Harris. Also, In the Hup the United Staten District. Court at Atlanta. $3TOPPIpB-rEnet side of tin* Puhlie Square. r». :'.o tf ». C. I'F.HHKf.I., I N. HAMMOND, I F.. W. HAMMOND, LaOruiiHO, (in. | Atlanta, da. | Didrunge, da. FEllltEU, II VM.MOM) 1IHO., ATTO U N F.YS AT I .A W, La Grange, Georgia, \TTILT. praetleo in Troup county. All business entrnst- TT ed to their earn will rureive pernoual, prompt uml Careful nttenlion. N. J. HAMMOND still romninn a inoinher of the tlmi of A. W. Hammond At Son, of Atlanta, except ns to Troup county. Jofl-tf Dentistry. It. It. ALE HKD, SUROEON DENTIST, “!!<’. Georgia. Public Square, itiiiiiua. January nth. lHil'.i. J. T. DOItltlNS, SURGEON DENTIST, HAVING located at Ladranfle, respout fully m^SSttendoiH bin profuHslouul hltvIoob. to the citizens the place and Hurroimrtin« eouutry. All work done at his oUlcoshull ho neitly and substimliully executed und warranted to give satisfaction, at reunonable ehnr«on. For refnrenee applv to Col. Huqh P.iichoimn, Col. \V. F. Wrinlit, Hr. Calhoun, l)r. Wellborn, N. wuuu, da.; and Dr. Stanley and l)r. Wimbish. I.udraiiRn, On. Office up Btulra over Pullen & Cox's old stainl, Northwest jauH corner of Public S Miscellaneous. Di m. LITTLE 4-t It \ UGII, >f Medicine in Hh tier their services to tin* citizens of I.udrnuRi* aiid mirrbundltiK country. Durinq the day they can be found at the HriiR Storo of Dnnltleld k l’itinan. and at niRht. at their respective resl- denecH. Hr. 1 JaiiRli may he louml ut the residence lately cupied by Dr. J. A. Long. S. D. LITTLE, . Mi WlftiillHIlt WIMBISH & CO., MElM'ltANTKl and TliAmCBS (North Kent Cornor Public Square,) La Grange, .Georgia, __ March U, 1801).—1 2t f N ; VOTICK 1'lII.a I S5j THK I. A. BAUGH. Cutting and Work D»i flV TerniH CASH 1 .Vo II r ork ic Promptly! rered until Paid for >1 l.l.KUT FORBKH UNITED STATICS HOTEL, Atlanta, Goov^iu. 8ASSEE.V MAX.V, Proprietors. J. f, W. BRYSON AND ISAAC N. SCOTT. Clerk-;. FRANCIS A. FROST, HA N K !■; II , (Office W«t Side Square, next door to Wise k Douglas*,) La Grange Georgia. I OLD HROUKRIK8, HARDWARE, PROVISIONS, HEAVY BOOTS AND SHOES, BUGGY AND WAGON MATERIALS, STOVES, AC., kC. t, B and 0 SU- ixl Mol,ASHES, CHOICE ltIO, LAGUAYRA and JAVA COFFEES, STOVES—(Warranted to give Hutiafaetioii,) GUNNY and BLANKETBAGGINGf(44 toiflin. to2 V, - lbs.,) GREEN LEAF ROPE and ARROW TIES, AXLES, HUBS, RIMS and SPOKES, (buggy and wagon) BUPUY TRIMMINGS, (ovory kind,) GUNS, PISTOI.S, CARTRIDGES and CAPS, PLANTATION and MECHANIC'S, TOOLS, (ovory kind,) LOCKS, BUTTS and SCREWS, (groat variety,) BUGGY and WAGON HARNESS, CALF SKINS, SOLE, UPPER and HARNESS LEATHER, IRON and STEEL, (Swodoa and Roftnod—nll hIzoh.) SUPERIOR CHEWING and SMOKING TOBACCO, BACON, LAUD uml FLOUR, (auporior quality.) COTTON YARNS, OSNABURGS, STRIPES A SHIRTINGS, NO. t SHORE and BAY MACKEREL and WHITE FISH, and EVERYTHING ELSE in our lino, on the most reason able terms. Call and moo us. * WIMBISII A CO. Potatoes. rpHIRTY Barrels Early Goodrich and Neslinnnnr.il Pnto- I toes, both very early and choice varieties, just re ceived by WIMBISH A CO. New Orleans Molasses, 4 Choice article, for sale \ Drugs and Medicines, WARE’S DRUG STORE JVBT I(KC]}1VKT1 AND Foil HAt.M II» Al'tlt'STtlS C. VVAIlM, Dll U Cl (J 1ST anil A P < > T11 K C A II V I,» Oi niiRr, Ucnrglik, Pin kc’ '"J UST received »li < Plantation lllttei d for null* by Old Carolina llltte fUST received uud for sale by Wilder’s Stomach Hitter Ilostet ter’s Hitters. H OSTETTICR'S HITTERS, Just received and for salo by A. C. WARE. Pearl Starcli. I JEAUL STARCH. Just received ami furaalo by A. C. WARE. Knjoes, R OGER’S BEST, Just received and f«»r sale by A. C. WARE. Glue. G t LUE, Just received nud for Hivlc by T A. C. AVARE. Yeast Poxvders. V^IiABT POWDERS just received and for sal.- hv l ; A. C. WARE. BtrumentB of wrong, Syllft coulil yet fool nufo in laying down the onHigiiH of power ho drondfully nlJUsud, nnd in mingling frodiy witli the liitnilioR und friendH of myriad VictiniH. The fear which ho lmd iUH|»ir('d conHiiited after hiw voluutaf}’ abdication, and oven In rotireinnnt iiin will was law to a people who lmd permitted tllemKolvoB to bo cnHmvea. What but a Rubtle knowledge nnd conviction that the lloiimn people had bo* come changed) discouraged, and utterly broken in spirit could have induced thin daring a«- HUinption? Wlmt but public indifference to conHuqncilccs ho terrible as to leave llonoe optm to every calamity which BubHequontly befell her, could have jiiHtilied the concluHionu of the dic tator and tymut in htw startling experiment? AVe find that iu the time which lias since elapKed human nature and cilgencies In govern ment have Hot greatly changed- AVho, n few years pant, in contemplating our future, could have supposed that in a brief period of bittcy experience everything demanded in the name of military emergency, or dictated by caprice, would come to bo connidered as mere matters of WIMBISH A CO. Host Oi l< a 11 L-a by 1 Sugar JUST O JXRF.S1I ami GENUINE, for wall- by AVIM1JISH A CO. WIMBISII A CO. WIMBISH A CO. | |0SA1).VLIK, ji Darby’ JjVRBV’3 FI.UID, Just ru civ<*d «tj<1 lor hoIm by FARICWFLL ADDItKMS of AND, JOlIVNOV. To (he Pcojylo of the United fitnten! The robe of olfieo, by constitutional limitation, this day falls from my Hhoulderw, to be immedi ately uHHiimed by niy suecoHHor. Bor him the forbearance and co-operation of the American people, in all bin efforts to admininter the ciov- urnment within the pale of the Federal OonHtU tution, are Hincurcly invoked. Without ambi tion to grutlf'y, party eudw to aubscivn, or per- Honal quarrelB to avenge at the aacriflee of the peace an<l Welfare of the country, my eurneBt desire iH to Bee the OonHtittltioii, oh defined and limited by the fathers of the llcpublic, again re cognized ami obeyed as tin; supreme law of the land, and the whole people North, Month, East, and West,- -prosperous and happy under its wise pfoviKloiiB. lit surrendering,the high office to which 1 was called foilr years ago, at a memorable and terri ble crisis, it Is my privilege, J trust, to say to the people of the United Htates a lew parting words, iu vindication of tin official course so ceaselessly ussuiled and aspersed by political course; that conscription, confiscation, loss of leaders, to whoso plans and wishes my policy to personal liberty, the subjection of States to mil- restore the Union has bocu obnoxious. In a | fairy rule, and disfranchisement, with the ex period of difficulty and turmoil almost without j tension of the right of suffrage merely to aecom- preeedent in the history ol any people, couse- plisli party ends, would receive the passive sub- quent upon the closing scenes of a great rebel- ] mission, if not acquiescence, of the people of lion and the assassination of the then President, the Republic? it w„s, perlmpf.,.too inutjli. on my port, lo expect It b cleiirI aemonrtrate.l, by recent o levote, p. rtMgns, who rode mi the wav™ ol ocmmncm tlmt upon the Con- ex<Mtement "Inrli-wt th.yt tune swept nil before , 8tituti „ n ,. a mot bc prav61lt( , (1 bv , lu President them, that dogree ortoleratiou and uiagnuninuty ,.1,.,. y ,... „ M , * , . , , , • which I HOUB&to recommend nud enforce, nnd “ \ ‘ ,T,', 1 1.“ ^‘ermined 1 f n,R - v which I believe m good time would have nd- ’ ‘ ‘l 41 , 1 " “V Il : k “ * 1*« tlic-ro -h vnneed us infinitely further on the rond b, per- , - ,n >”’ v ' or unrt,;r “ ,0 ( ' onHtltu,lon to cheik 11 manent peace and prosperity than we have thus far attained. Doubtless had I at tin.* commence ment of my term of office unhesitatingly lent its powers or perverted them to purposes and plans “ outside of the Constitution, und become an instrument to schemes of confiscation and of general und oppressive disqualifications, I would have been hailed - as till that was true, loyal ami discerning; as tho reliable head of a party, whatever I might have been as the Executive of the nation. Unwilling, howevor, to accede to propositions of extremists, and bound to adhere, at every personal hazard, to my oath to defend tho Constitution, I need not, perhaps, he sur prised at having met tho late of others whose only rewards for upholding constitutional right and law have been the consciousness of having attempted to do their duty, and tho culm and unprejudiced judgment of history. One Square. <<..., i Two HouurcM Tlirort Square*....- Four Squares. .«..<< Five Hqunrufl-.i<M< Hix Squill i s Ouartci' Culumu.... Half Ooltttnn ....... Thrcivf.nuili* Col'll One Column MOO 5 00 7 B0 jo no VI (JO 14 00 9 n oo 0 00 10 00 10 00 10 00 22 00 Jfl 00 00 'JO 0t*| 40 00 Mr. 00 B0 00 4r> 00! 00 00 9 0 60 11 00 10 00 20 00 24 00 27 00 80 00 B0 00 05 00 70 00 t 0 00 IB 00 20 00 n<* oo 00 00 HO 00 05 00 $15 00 25 00 85 00 40 00 4B 00 60 00 55 00 95 00 126 00 160 00 lftjority of of the United States. An appeal to the nation, however, is attended with too much delay to meet an emergency. While, if left tree to act, the people would correct, in time, such evils as might follow legislative usurpation, there is dan ger tliut the same power which disregards the Constitution will deprive them of the right to change their rulers, except by revolution. We have already seen the jurisdiction of the judicia ry circumscribed when it was apprehended that the courts would decide against laws having for their sole object tho supremacy of party, while the veto power, lodged m the Executive by the Constitution for tho interest and protection of the people, and exercised by Washington and his successors, 1ms been rendered nugatory by a partisan majority of two-thirds in each branch of the National’Legislature. The Constitution evidently contemplates that when a bill is re turned with the President’s objections it will 1 by Congress. Such, the prnetico under pres- A. WARE. 1000 Tinskoii’h Syrup of Tar J.JASSON’B SYRUP OF TAR. ju.it r<*c«iv< Wortlen’s Violet Ink, I i^OR nrckiter-tH nml bouk-kuepiTi, just re; salo by Carltolic Soup. T/UMt killing fleas. Ac., just received uud for sale bv 1. A. C. WAR CongrcKH Water. / tONGRESS WATER, Just received aud for sale by V.' A. V. WAR DciiImoii’h Condition Powders, I ."V)It horses und eattle, just received nnd lbr sale by A. 0. WAR Cost nr’* Rut Kxtcrmlnator. i»ioV 1 ' O NECAR LOAD just r ) CgllacUyiB. ocffiO-tf ! v* IV K It WAGON! W Gu! MTi; 1)10 II riAIIE Hubscriber. lias a lot of these Htroug uud liuiidHomu i Will nl. „ .... FARM WAGONS for sale. They are built of the b. Mt I DUST and LAND l’l.ASTKlt. ull ml admirably adapted to all the couvenieiii'es | fro nrbctiug, Ac. They am Mold at MOD* (KHUiiweirH) MANIPULATED I rrliabln leatili/.eri for eotb.n. fumirth genuine PERUVIAN GUANO. JJUNK material. 1 . of farm lianliiig, Kit ATE PRICKS In the nbrtenro of the m the Htore of Evaim A Ra«l; vislilnR to purchurtu. Cull all sold. _ f 1.5-tf ■ranted t- ler.sigmd. Mr. I.c id.‘will show thci they •rgia. T OWES 4k BARNARD, C O TTO X AY A I t I■: 116 u s i:, a Grange Georgia. • IfSKFUL for tho liberal patronage bestowed nn hh last year, wo announce to OOTTON SHIPPERS AND MEKS that we have ro-opened our old Kta ul will give prompt r Mei Plus! atro early that our nrdei i rtiniiih y Will HCI prefer. liH, at £22 per ton, at tho dopo WIMBISH A CO Hulk AEt* ill sell BULK MEATS. I or GASH, nt very mIhu huiuII eoiumiHHion. WIMBISII A CO. lonul attention have a NIGHT- aeplMf MEDICAL NOTIC E I RIDLEY, having n<wu<*fatod Dr. CHARLES B. RIDLEY, u of tho New Orluaiis School of Mcdieiue, would offer their services lu the railoUM br.iuehcrt of the Modirnl Pro- fcHiioii, to tho citizeuH of LuGraugc and Hurrouiidiii;' rou n try. A rcsidonrr of thirty years in LaGrange, and nn exten sive praetleo during that tins*, by the senior member of th« firm, is a Hiifficient guarantee to the people that all if, eases, either fnnn the town or country, will bo promptly and faithfully attended to. Aff- Offict* ono door North of Pullen A Cox’s old stand, ♦•and three doors Sonth of tho Post office. CLAGIIORN, HERRING it C O., •COTTON CO M MISSION MERCHANTS, No. 7 Wnrren Block, Angiinta, Georgia ; Corner Yonduo Range aud Accommodation Wharf, Charleaton, Soutli Curolina ; 120 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylva n Iu. I IBERAL CASn ADVANCES made nt nil times on con- J Higmuentrt of, COTTON. Ay JOSEPtI M. BEAN, of LnGrnngo, Georgia, 1* our Agent, nud will giro prompt attention to shipment* und ad- ; vanret. ^ _ _ wopll-tf ATLANTA MARBLE WORK ! WII. GRAY, Prop’r, S. D. O ATM AN, Ag’t, . t Am^ricnn mid Foreign Aturblo, i MONUMENTS, TOMBS, VAULTS, HEADSTONES, TABLETS, MnntlcH, Statuary, Urim and Vanes, ^NDnlMrscripHonH of FINISHED MARBLE OF THE . ....... Ay MODELING, in clay or planter, and other ornamental Kg works. ■ : f i Ay All orders faithfully executed nnd promptly filled. ^ AyOFFICEWND YARD—Opposite Georgia R. R. Depot, pv Atlnuta, Ga. octl6-tf AIiE\AXl)ER BUaEXZIJrGBU, (Hunter Street, near Whitehall,) Atlanta, Georgia TOULDrei nnd sill rdern for FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERING, , MATT1USSE3 AND BEDDING, . DECORATIONS, WINDOW CURTAINS, kc., kc„ STOVES, TINWARE, &C. J. F. SLAUGHTER, HEATING AND COOKING STOVES, • PIA 1 ^, JAPANNjSg^gggSED,.AND PLANISHED ■ * M jam. tsm «> » LA ORANGE GEORGIA. ALL KINDS OF JOB WORK, In my lino of bualneai., done to ordpr. I BUY THE BEST COOKING STOVES THAT ARK BUILT, and I can and do . 0oll Them aa Cheaply as They ej^n be Par- ehaicd anywhere In Gcorglal Ay Mcrchauta supplied with TINWARE atrea*->nab!c -prkes, jauMf W E S duels ■'AA BUSH. WHITF. CORN, on hand nnd to arrive, OUU by WIMBISII k CU. /{ A TONS A.A, GUANO just received, fretdi nnd pure, 4Dby * WIMBISH k CO. CHARLES HANDY, (rtUCCKUKOH TO W. C. VANCHV,) C JOMMISHION JMI2RC1IAXT, CHOICE GROCERIES AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES, (At Pullen k Cox’a Old Stand,) Grange Georgia' Singer’* Machine Oil. INGER’S MACHINE OIL, just received nnd Mr sale by A. C. WARE. ! S’ J UST A. C. WARE. Putty KiiIvch. P UTl’Y KNn-ES, Juiit received and for nnle by A. C. WARE, Kngliwh Soda. O nf.b.\rri:t. best English soda, for cooking, im received by A. C. WARE. • White Lend. 1 AAA Pounds WHITE LEAD, junt received and fo 1UUU sale by A. C. WARE. At tho time n mysterious Providenco assigned to me tho office of President, I was, by tin* terms j be calmly reconsidered of the Constitution, the Commauder-in-Cliief of however, has not been 1 nearly a million of men under arms. One of my J ent party rule. It has become evident that men first acts was to disband and restore to the vocn- who puss n bill under partisan inffnonces are not lions of civil life this immense host, and to di- likely, through patriotic motives, to admit their vest myself, ho fur as I could, of the unparalleled error, and thereby weaken their own organiza- pmvers then incident to the office and the times. I tioiis by solemnly confesHing it under unofficial Whether or not, in this step, I was right, and j oath. Pride of opinion, if nothing else, basin- how far deserving the approbation of the people. | terveued, and prevented a calm and dispns.sion- all enu now on reflection judge, when reminded ; ate reconsideration of a bill disapproved by tho of the ruinous condition of public affairs that Executive. Much as I venerate the Constitution, it must he admitted that this condition of affairs has developed a defect which, under the aggressive tendency of the legislative department of the Government, may readily work its overthrow. It may, however, ho remedied, without disturb ing the harmony of the instrument. The veto power is generally exercised upon constitutional grounds, and whenever it is so applied, and tho bill returned with tho Execu tive’s reasons for withholding his signature, it ought to be immediately certified to tho Supreme Court of the United States for its decision. If its constitutionality shall be declared by that tribunal, it should then become a law; but if the decision is otherwise, it should fail, without power in Congress to reenact and make it valid. In cases in which the veto rests upon lmsty and inconsiderate legislation, aud in which no constitutional question is involved, I would not change the fundamental law; for in such cases no permanent evil can be incorporated into tho Federal system. obvious that without such an amendment. that must have resulted from the continuance in the I military service of such a vast number of men. ! The close of our domestic conflict found the ! army eager to distinguish itself iu a now field, i by au effort to puuish European intervention in j Mexico. I3y many it was believed and urged I that, asido from the assumed justice of tho pro ceeding, a foreign war, in which both Hides | would cheerfully unite to vindicate the honor of j the national flag, and further illustrate the nn- ! tionnl prowess, would be the surest and speediest way of awakening national enthusiasm, reviving { devotion to the Union, and occupying a force j concerning which grave doubts existed as to its ! willingness, after four years of active campaigu- ! ing, at once to return to the pursuits of peace.— I Whether these speculations were true or false, it j will he conceded that they existed, and that the 1 predilections of the army were, lor the time be- i ing. in the direction indicated. Taking advnn- j tage of this feeling it would have been easy, as I Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy, and ; with all the power and patrohago of the Presi dential office at my disposal, to turn tin. | truted strength of the nation against French in- j the Government, as it existed under the fousti- i torfernnen intn and tn iimwmvntr* n tution l)rior to the rebellion. ITUIV be whollv sub- JUST J 500 Pound* Putty, oelveil and fur sale by Lund red til’s Gurdcit Seed, PST roeidved aud fur Halt; by A. O. WARI-L -■ mj-mrm? :■« kc m w m-zm » terfereneo into Mexico, and to inaugurate I movement which would have boon received with I favor by the military and a large portion of the people. j It is proper, in this connection, that I should I refer to the almost unlimited additional powers j tendered to the Executive by the measures relat ing to civil rights and the Freedman's Bureau. Contrary to most precedents in the experience of public men, the powers thus placed within my grasp were declined, os in violation of the Constitution, dangerous to the liberties of the »le, and tending to aggravate, rather than iiV^he discords naturally resulting from our people, tution prior to the rebellion, may be wholly sub verted and overthrown by a two-thirds majority in Congress. It is not, therefore, difficult to see how easily and rapidly the people may lose —shall I not say, have lost?—their liberties by an unchecked and uncontrollable majority iu the law-making power; and, when once depriv ed of their rights, how powerless they are to regain them. Let us turn 'or a moment to the history of the majority in Congress which have acted in such utter disregard of the Constitution. While pub lic attention lias been carefully and constantly turned to the past aud expiated sins of the With a large army and augmented J South, the servants of the people, in high placet authority, it would have been no difficult task to | have boldly betrayed their trust, broken their J direct at pleasure the destinies of the Republic, ” ~ I HAVE on Inti CEB I1CS wh >I.ANTERS L’onorally a I HAVE on band nn offer at Short Profit lortment of FRESH GUO- noil Cheap for Cash. C’UAS. HANDY. CHARLES HANDY. CHARLES HANDY. ortweut nt LTQUORH which I CHARLES HANDY. highest market price*. CHARLES HANDY. W ANTED.—500pounds DRIED FRUIT. CHARLES HANDY. CHARLES HANDY. EVANS & RAGLAND, Wholesale and retail GROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, (East Sldo Public Square,) La Grange, Georgia. I ARGF. supply BAGGING and ROPE just received by j EVANS k RAGLAND. 4 Large supply fine assorted LIQUORS at EVANS k RAGLAND. V SSORTF.D stock of HARDWARE, IRON nnd NAILS for sale by EVANS k RAGLAND. I F you want heavy BOOTS and SHOES call on EVANS k RAGLAND. superior lot of all grades TOBACCO at EVANS k RAGLAND. SUGARS, A, B and C, ■ EVANS k RAGLAND. EVANS k RAGLAN JJJHED BEEF (finest quality) «t EVANS St RAGLAND. jpon SALE BY JpOR wale by FOR HALE BY BRADFIELD & PITMAN, miUdGlSTS AND Al'OTMECAlUKS, La Grange,,.. Georgia. Fly Poison. J UST RECEIVED 23 Packs Fly Paper for poisoniug (lies, for Hide by BRADFIELD k PITMAN. Yenst Powder*. BRADFIELD k PITMAN. IIor*u Phlegms. BRADFIELD k PITMAN. Dressing Combs. O Doson assorted Dressing Combs for sale bv O BRADFIELD k PITMAN. I.nbin’M Extract*. Q DqjBBnLubln’s Extracts just received by O *f BRADFIELD k TITMAN. Lily White. 6 Dozen boxes assorted Lily White- for sale by BRADFIELD k PITMAN. s White Pond Lily. 1 Dozen White Pond Lily, just received and for sale by BRADFIELD k PITMAN. Quicksilver. I /A Pounds Quicksilver, for bed bugs, just received by Hy' BRADFIELD A PITMAN. Condition Powders* 3 Dozen DENISON’S CONDITION POWDERS, for sol*by.. KRADF1ELD A PITMAN. Cooking Soda. Q A A Pounds English Cooking Soda for sole by OUU BRADFIELD k PITMAN. MKW MVOAtK, At ^vKoKmiKV.Ulp, Ocoi’Kia. McIVIOll, PHILLIPS & CO. I B UY J&eir goods from first-class Drug House*, North. and^rooeive supplies every week. Dealers and all othdr persons can, therefore, depend upon getting Pare and FrcHh Drugs nnd Medicines, CWMttical*, from the best manufacturers, Pidntg, Oil* and Dye Stuffs, Wliulbw Glass and Putty, Soda, 8flce«i and Pen nor, Ivcrosine 051, best quality, Itoek Potash and Tnr|ienttitc, Toilet-Articles and Perfumery, of superior Garden!j$eeds,—crop of 1808, and Everything Usually Kept in a First-Class , Drug Store, s the Romo quality of gixsls can bo bought f country. jIpNS accurately filled, day aud night, finished in thi _ the same work Marble is oqual For any informatloi Either tnr % B iU , all y4i notice, at the to fill all orders for MARBLE, and Rent*, fllabs, Tombs, Ac., id at LOWER PRICES than with Northern Marble. Our T AMERICAN. With BIXJCkS and rIABo of signs address IA MARBLE WORKS, or Jasper, Piokens oo., Go. #t. LaGrange. sopi-tf BBBINB88 CARDS, ami Printing, at tho nhortost REPORTER OFFICE. and to make secure my continuance in the highest office known to our laws. Let the people whom I am addressing from the Presidential chair, during the closing hours of a laborious term cousidor how different would have been their present condition had I yielded to the dazzling temptation of foreign conquest, of personal aggrandizement, and the desire to wield additional power. Let them with justice consider that, if I have not unduly “magnified mine office, ” the public burdens have not been increased by my acts, and other and perhaps thousands or tens of thousands of lives sacrificed to visions of false glory. It cannot, therefore, bo charged that ray am bition lias been of that ordinary or criminal kind which, to the detriment of the people’s rights and liberties, ever seeks to grasp more and unwarranted powers, and, to accomplish its purposes, panders too often to popular preju dices and party aims. What, then, have been the aspirations which guided me in my official acts ? Those acts need not, at this time, an elaborate explanation.— They have been elsewhere comprehensively stated and fully discussed, and become a part of the nation’s history. By them I am willing to bo judged, knowing that, however imperfect, they at least show to the impartial mind that my solo ambition lias been to restore the Union of the States, faithfully to execute the office of Presi dent, and, to the best of my ability, to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. I cannot pend lie censured if my efforts have been impeded in have the interests of party faction; and if a policy which was intended to reassure and conciliate the people ofjmth sections of the country was made the occasion of inflaming aud dividing still farther those who, only repoutiy in arus against each other, yet, as individuals and citi zens, were sincerely desirous, as I shall ever believe, of burying all hostile feelings in tho grave of tho past. The bitter war was waged on the part of the Government to vindi cate the Constitution and save tho Union; and if I have erred in trying to bring about a more speedy and lasting peace, to extinguish heart burnings and enmities, and to prevent troubles in the South which, regarding material prosper ity in that region, injuriously affected the whole country, I am quite content to rest my cose with the more deliberate judgment of the people, aud, as I have already intimated, with the dis tant future. The war, all must remember, was a stupendous and deplorable mistake. Neither side under stood the other; and had tjiis simple fact and its conclusions been kept in view, all that was needed was accomplished by the acknowledg ment of tho terrible wrong, and the expressed bettor feeling and earnest endeavor at atonement shown and felt in the prompt ratification of con stitutional amendments by tho Southern States at the closo of the war. . Not accepting the war as a confessed false step on tho part of t hose who inaugurated it, was an error which, now only time can cure, and which even at this late date we should endeavor to palliate. Experiencing, moreover, as all have done, the frightful cost of the arbitrament of tho sword, let us, in the fu ture, cling elosor than ever to the Constitution as our only safeguard. It is to. be hoped that not until the burdens now pressing upon us with such fearful weight are removed will our people forget the lessons of tho war; and that, remem bering them from whatever cause, peace be tween sections and States may bo perpetual. • The history of late events m our country,, as well as of tbo groatost Governments of ancient and modern times, teaches that we h ive every thing to fem* from a departure from tho letter and spirit of the Constitution, and the undue ascendency of men allowed to assume power in what are considered desperate emergdneieis. — Hyllfl, ou becoming master of Rome, at once adopted measures to crush his enotnies, and to consolidate tho power of his party. He estab lished military colonies throughout Italy; de prived of the 'full Roman franchise tho inhabi tants of the Italian towns who had opposed his usurpations; confiscated their lands, and gave them to his soldiers; and conferred citizenship upon a great number of slaves belonging to those who had proscribed him, thus creating at Rome a kind of body-guard for his protection. •er to slaughter, laths of obedience to tho Constitution, and dermined the very foundations of liberty, jus tice, and good government. When the rebellion was being suppressed by the volunteered servi ces of patriot soldiers amid the dangers of the battlefield, those men crept, without question, iuto place and power in the national councils. After all dangers had passed, when no armed foe remained, when a punished and repentant people bowed their heads to the flag and renewed their allegiance to the Government of the United States, then it was that pretended patriots ap peared before the nation and began to prate about the thousands of lives and millions of treasure sacrificed in the suppression of the re bellion. They have since persistently sought to inflame the prejudices engendered between the sections, to retard the restoration of peace nnd harmony, nnd by every means to keep open and exposed-to the poisonous breath of party pas sion the terrible wounds of a four-years’ war.— They have prevented the return of peace and the restoration of the Union, in every way ren dered delusive tho purposes, promises, and pledges by which the army was marshalled, treason rebuked, and rebellion crushed, and made the liberties of tbo people and the rights and powers of the President objects of constant attack. They have wrested from? the President his constitutional power of supreme command of the army and navy. They have destroyed the strength and efficiency of the Executive De partment by making subordinate * officers inde pendent of and uble to defy their chief. They attempted to place the President under the power of a bold, defiant, and treacherous Cabi net officer. They have robbed the Executive of the prerogative of pardon, rendered null and void acts of clemency granted to thousands of persons under the* provisions of the Constitu tion, and committed gross usurpation by legis lative attempts to exercise this power in favor of f adherents. They have conspired to change party i Vi tho system of our Government by preferring charges against the President in tho form of ar ticles of impeachment, and contemplating, be fore hearing or trial, that he should bo placed in arrest, held in dumuctv-ftud, when it became their pleasure to pronounce his sentence, driv en from place aud power in disgrace. They have in time of peace increased the national debt by a reckless expenditure of the public moneys, aud thus added to tho burdens which already weigty upon tho people. They have permitted tlie nation to suffer the evils of a de ranged currency, to the enhancement in price of all tho uecersuries of life. They have main tained a large standing army for the enforcement of their measures of oppression. They have engaged in class legislation, aud built up aud encouraged monopolies, that the few might be enriched at the expense of the many. They have failed to act upon important treaties, there by endangering our present peaceful relations with foriegn powers. Their course of usurpation lias not been lim ited to inroads upon the. Executive Department. By unconstitutional aud oppressive enactments, the people of ten States of the Union have been reduced to a condition more intolerable than that from which the patriots of the revolution rebelled. Millions of American citizens cun now say of their oppressors, with more truth than our fathers did of British tyrants, that they have “ forbidden the Governors to pass laws of im mediate and pressing importance, unless sus pended until their assent should be obtained;” that they have “ refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in tho Legislature—a right in estimable to them, and formidable to tyrants on ly;” that they have “made judges ciejjentlent upon their will alone for tho tenure of their of fices, and the amount and payment on their sal aries;” that they have “ erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swanus of officers to harruss our people and eat out their sub stancethat they have affected to render tho military independent of aud superior to the civil power/’ “combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws," “ quartered large bodies of armod troops among us, “ pro tected them by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on After having given Rome over to slaughter, tho inhabitants of these States,” imposed “tax- and tymnized beyond all example over those es upon us without our consent, 4- ‘ deprived u~ opposed to him aud the legions, his terrible in- • an many cases of the benefit of trial uy jury, “taken away our charters, excited domestic In- Rurreoiion amongst us, abolishing our most val uable laws, filtered fundamentally tho forms of our Government, suspended our own Uegisla- turcs, uud declared themselves Invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatso ever.'' • This catalogue of crimes, long as it is, is not yet complete. The Constitution vests the jin dicial power of the United States “in one Su premo Court," whose jurisdiction “shall extend to all eases arising under this constitution” and “ tile laws of the United Htates.” Encouraged by this promise of a refuge from tyranny, a citizen or the united States who, by the order of a mili tary commander, given under the sanction of u cruel and deliberate edict of Congress, has been denied the constitutional rights of liberty of conscience, freedom of the press, nnd of speech, personal freedom from military arrest, of being held to answer fur crime only upon presentment and indictment, of trial by jury, of the writ of hn• bean corpxiHi and the protection of civil and con stitutional government—a citizen thus deeply wronged, appeals to the Supreme Court for the protection guaranteed to him by tho organic laws of the laud. At once a fierce and excited majority, by tho ruthless hand of legislative power, stripped the ermine from the judges, transferred tho sword of justice to the General . and remanded the oppressed citizen to bondage worse^lmn death. It will also be recorded as one of the marvels of the times, that a party claiming for itself a monopoly of couisfcnoy and patriotism, aud boasting too of its unlimited sway, endeavored, by a costly and deliberate trial, to impeach one who defended the Constitution and the Union not only throughout the war of the rebellion, but during his whole term of office us Chief Mag istrate; but at the same time could find no war rant or means at their command to bring to trial even the chief of the rebellion. Indeed the remarkable failures in bis case were so often repeated that for propriety’s sake, if for no other reason, it became nt last necessary to extend to him an unconditional pardon. What more plainly than this illustrates the extremity of par ty management and inconsistency on the ono hand, and of faction, vindictiveness, nnd intoler ance on the other ? Patriotism will hardly be encouraged when, iu such a record, it sees* that its instant reward may be the most virulent par ty abuse und obloquy, if not attempted disgrace. Instead of endeavoring to “ make treason odious,” it would in truth seem to have been their purpose rather to make the defence of the Constitution and the Union a crime, and to pun ish fidelity to nn oath of office, if counter to party dictation, by ull the means at their command. Happily for the peace of the country, the war has determined against the assumed power of the States to withdraw at pleasure from the Union. The institution of slavery also found its destruction in a rebellion commenced in its inter est. It should be borne in mind, however, that the war neither impaired nor destroyed the Con stitution, but, on tho contrary, preserved itn ex istence, and made apparent its real power and enduring strength. All the rights grunted to the States, or reserved to the people thereof, remain therefore intact. Among those rights is tlmt nt the people of each State to declare the qualifications of their own State electors. It is now assumed that Congress can control this vi tal right, which can never be taken away from tho States without impairing the fundamental principles of the Government itself. It is nec essary to the existence of the States, ns well n§ the protection of the liberties of the people; for the right to select the elector in whom tlie po litical power of a State shall bo lodged involves the right of the State to govern itself. When de prived of this prerogative, the States will have no power worth retaining; all will be gone, aud they will be subjected to the arbitrary will of Congress. The Government will then be cen tralized. if not by the passage of laws, then by the adoption, through partisan influence, of an amendment directly in conflict with the original design of the Constitution. This proves how necessary it is that the people should require administration of tlie three great departments of the Government strictly within the limitations of the Grnsfitn'tion. Their boundaries have been accurately defined, and neither should be allow ed to trespass upon the otlnir, nor, above all to encroach upon the reserved rights of the people and the Ktates. Th - * troubles of the past four years will prove to the nation blessings if they produce so desirable a result. Upon those who became young men amid the sound of cannon and din of arms, und quietly returned to the farms and factories, and the schools of the laud, will principally devolve the Froi the Mllledgolllo Recorder.] Dratli of H. M. Orme, fir* of his old personal friends througoht tho Si —for he had many—in the lastifow years, grie him much, for lie* deeply felt their troubles i defence of their comrades expired, and hundreds of mil lions of national obligation were incurred. A manly people will not neglect the training ne cessary to resist aggression, but they should be jealous lest the civil be made subordinate to the military element. We need to encourage in every legitimate way, a study of the Constitution for which the war was waged, a knowledge of and reverence for whose wise checks by those so soon to occupy the places filled by their sen iors will bo the only hope of preserving the Re public. The young men of the the nation, not yet under the control of party, must resist the centralization—an outgrowth of the great rebel lion—and bo familiar with the fact that the country consists of united States, and that when the States surrendered certain great rights for the sake of a more perfect union, they retained rights us valuable aud important os those they relinquished for tlie common weal. The sound old doctrine, far different from the teachings that led to the attempt to secede, and a kindred theory that States were taken out of the Union by the rash nets of conspirators that happen to dwell within their borders, must be received and advocated with the enthusiasm of early mnnhoodv or tlie people will be ruled by corrupt combinations of the commercial centres, who plethoric from wealth, annually migrate to tlie capital of the nation to purchase special legislation. Until the representaiives of the people in Congress more fully exhibit the di verse views and interest of the whole nation, and laws cease to be made without full discussion at the behest of some party leader, there will nev er be a proper respect shown by the law-making power either to the judicial or executive branch of tho Government. The generation just begin ning to use tlie ballot-box, it is believed, only that their attention should be called to these considerations to indicate, by their votes that they wish their representatives to observe all the restraints which the people, in adopting the Constitution, intended to impose upon party ex- cess. Cidmly reviewing my administration of tho Government, I feel th«t, with a sense of account ability to God, having conscientiously endeav ored to discharge my whole duty, I have noth ing to regret. Events have proved the correct ness of the policy set forth in my first and sub sequent messages; the woes which have follow- lowed the rejection of forbearance, magnanimity and constitutional rule are known and deplored by the nation. * It is a matter of pride and gratification, in re tiring from the most exalted position in the gift free people, to feel and know that in a long, arduous, aud eventul public life, my action has never been influenced by desire for gain, and that I can in all sincerity inquire, “ Whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or off whose bunds have 1 received any bribe to blind my eyes therewith ?” No responsibility for wars that imve been waged or blood that lias been shed rests upon me. My thoughts have been those of peace, and my efforts have been ever to allay contentions ammip my countrymen. Forgetting the past, let us return to the first principles of the Government;, and unfurling the oanner of our country, and inscribe upon it, iu ineffaceable characters, “ The Constitution and tlie Union, one and inseperablo.” ANDREW JOHNSON. Washington, D. C. March, 4, 1809. Congressman Tift. —A Democratic member of the Reconstruction Committee in the course of a letter to tho editor of the Columbus Sun, thus refers to the euergetic, sagacious and perserver- ing member from the Second District of Georgia “By tho way, from first to last, Tift has stood by us, watched and worked, as Brooks aptly said to-day, with the persistence of a Yan kee and the zeal of u Georgian. You are all much indebted to him. I never saw a more honest, earnest man.” This compliment is well merited. Mr. Tift has no pretensions to oratory, but as a sensible, earnest and faithful representative no State ha# a bettor. Georgia cauiiot afford ta do without him, and we hope every white man and “nig ger” in his district will give him their vote at tho next election.—Savcuwah Republican. New Woolen Factory.—The Marietta Journal says that the Concord woolen factory, seven mues from that place on the Nickqjack Creek, is near completion, tho machinery having been reoeived. It will run 32 looms and 600 spindles, and will give constant employment to 52 opera tors. The very finest woolen fabrics, will be turned out. li becomes our sad nml painful task to rocord the death of tho senior editor of this paper, It. M. Ohio, Hen., who died on Monday, Bill iust., of pneumonia, after an illness of ono Week, in th»* seventy*secoud year of his age, having been bom on the 6th of August, 171#. He was per mitted to live to see the Recorder, which ho es tablished, enter Us fiftieth year, and was, per haps, nt the time of his death, tbo oldest editor in the State, and among tho oldest iu the United States. Ol his character as a man and a citizen, wo do not feel disposed to speak, when we consider tlie near and dear relationship he bore to tho writer of this notice. We leave that task to other pons. But we may. be permitted to speak of him as a lather, and as such, ho was ono among tho best of fathers. In the domestic re lations of life, he was kind, teuder and consid erate', and gavu to his family a life unstained and untalpted by any vice, aiul ever impressed by bis teachings, while sittiug around tlie do mestic hearthstone, the preceuta of virtue, truth, integrity and religion, and fully illustrated them by liis example. His loss to bis family, they alone know and feel. He leaves a wife uud nine hildren, ull but one grown. He died in full communion witli tho Presby terian Church, of which he has been a member for over twenty years. The late unhappy condition of our country weighed with crushing weight upon him, and in bis old age he saw no silver lining to the cloud in the future for himself. The death of many of his old personal friends througoht tho State ‘eved and his own; for, like them, by an untiring energy und a perseverance that knew no abatement m bis younger days, he bad accumulated around him* the comtortu of life, and fondly hoped to retire from tho cares of jrablio life to enjoy the rest he so much desired and coveted, but it was not permitted him. It maybe gratifying to tho readers of fhe Re corder to know that he appreciated the generous support given him, and ever spoke of his sub scribers in the kindest terms, und classed them among those of the most reliable and intelligent in the South, for ho was personally known to the majority of them. To the counties that he visited yearly for the last twenty, thirty, forty and fifty years, he became much attached, and ever felt a lively interest in their welfare and that of their citizens. Particularly did he re member Newton, Jasper, Jones, Greene, Put- nain, Hancock, Wilkinson, Laurens, Montgom ery, Telfair, Coffee, Tattnall, Decatur, Thomas, Lowndes, nnd many others, having done iu them, in days past, *u pleasant and profitable business. But those who looked for him so reg ularly at their courts, will see him no more for- r. and as his old friends pass'away, like him self, the waves of time will washout the memory of liiB existence, and hi* tombstone alone will point to his last resting place. The good that ho did through hifi paper will only be revealed beyond tho grave; and we can bnt feel, though our father, that tlie world yras better fin* his having lived in it. Farewell, my father, adviser, counselor uud copartner; grten be the turf above thee, and sweet thy mentory* •* After the burden,- tlie blissful meed; Alter the tight, the downy rest; Alter the furr<*vv, the wukiug seed; Alter the slradowy river—rest" Adtertisino.—It is a vast and growing con cern, and only of late seems to be beginning to be pursued on anything like sound and system atic principles. Active nud intelligent business men now uccount advertising as u regular ex rent expenses. Thus the great Stewart himself very recently expended forty-five thousand dol lars upon one single advertisement in various papers throughout the country, and yet many people would think A. T.- .Stewart & Co. beyond the necessity of advertising. ’ Tbo prices paid in Northern dities are deter mined purely by circulation,• and they vary from two dollars to ono cent a line. There is no at tempt to establish a scale of uniform prices, be cause such a scale would evidently be prepos terous, both as to the consideration to the adver tiser and the expense to the publisher. An advertisement might be priced a dollar and placed before a thousand people at a cost to tiie publisher of fifty cents—and the same advestiso- mervt might be priced at twenty dollars and put in the bunds of three hundred thousand readers at a cost of fifteen dollars. It is for the adver tiser to settle the question of the sound economy of the relative expense as compared with tho relative advantages. Both are advertisements reading precisely alike in the single copies ho lias before him, but he, himself, must see that an uniformity of price is out of the question. The same* consideration must affect prices, though to a less extent, in Georgia. An adver tisement in a paper of small circulation and not much sought after, is manifestly worth very little compared with an advertisement iu a standard paper of large circulation, which is eagerly read, and to which the people are habitually accus tomed to look for information and advice upon all matters of general interest. The announce ment of the advertiser gains 1 gteat advantage from the wide circulation-, ClUYMctcr and weight of tl»e vehicle he selects. Besides, it costs the publisher much more,- tfud both these points justly demand increased compensation. It is for these, among ninny reasons, that we are un able to discover any philosophy in the proposi tion to demand and prescribe uniform rates, as has been suggested. Uniform rates are explod ed. We have no idea intelligent advertisers will pay them more willingly than they would agree to sell one bushel of corn for a dollar and ten bushels of corn for a dollar.—Macon Telegraph. Common Swindlers.—Richardson’s Advertis ing House, corner Nassau and Beekman streets, N. Y., have succeeded in satisfying the Editor of this paper—Carey W. Styles—that that estab lishment is a swindling comeera, and should bo excluded from the correspondence of Southern journals. We exhausted all the mild means at our com mand to obtain justice and finally threw a stone, which was answered by the following stilted warning. Of course we shall be gobbled up, and wiped out: New York, February 17 1869. Hews, Albany Ga: We have your throat to li bel carefully filed. We will attend to your case in a way not desirable generally, but neccessary in this case. Yours. Richardson’s. The newspapers- of the Sonth are requested to copy, or—otherwise. Carey W. Styles, Ed, and Fro. Albany News. Albany News 5th. How the Money Goes.—We publish for the benefit of tax-payers, who foot the bill, the fol lowing from the Radical Atlanta paper. What do the people think of it? We suggest to His Excellency, tho Governor, the propriety of discontinuing the publication of pardons and appointments of Inspectors of Fer tilizers. The publication of each of the latter cost the State about sevenry-five dollars, while the former cost not loss than one hundred and fifty each. The people complain of this as an unnecessary and unusual expense, and it would be well if it were discontinued. To advertise an Inspector of Fertilizers for each county in the State would alone cost in the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars. Aud there is no necessi ty foe such an expense. Ten Boys.—Our cotemporaries of the LaGrange the conduct of that or some other sterling jour nal. The “old blocks,” however, are good for fifty years, should nothing happen to the con trary. Whilst we* hope that nothing tciU happen to the contrary, we truat that the uaefulness of the “ chips” may not be contingent upon the oc currence of such event. If they pwtake ofttie energy and toot which haa marked the succmkoI exertions of their fathers, they will be heard from long liefore these veterans are worn out— Augusta jPrta*. Large Syrct Yua.DG.-Tha Tulbottou of Friday last, «*y* Mr. Jaa. Hudaon. of that county, made 220 gallons of syrup, last year, off three^uartera of auacre ot rad cane; and Messrs. Boquemore and Parker 300 gallon* off one aore of red and green cane. More Bandmo Capital Sooth.—Under tho banking biU, which has lately passed the House, for a redistribution of the national currency, tho Southern States are allowed an aggregate of for ty millions, B v01 7 cmmidcrable increase of the present allowance,