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fOLI MBrS, SATI RDAT, DECEMBER 5, IBM
Foreign Banks. %
AVe see from the report of proceedings in the
Legislature on the Ist inet., that Mr. Milledg of
Richmond has introduced a hill in the House of
Representatives, to prevent the Banks of other
States from carrying on a banking business in this
State. We presume this is a blow aimed at the
system of foreign Bank Agencies, now tolerated
by our laws, with the ultimate purpose of expell
ing the hills of such institutions from circulation
within the State. Our opinion has on more than
one occasion been made know upon this question.
We do not regard it a legitimate subject for legis
lation. It is based upon the idea that the pros
perity of a people is better promoted, when each
community, or State, provides its own circulating
medium. The idea is almost as common as it is
fallacious. How often have we heard men even
in country villages, deplore the fact that they,
had to depend upon Savannah, Augusta and Char
leston for their monetary facilities ? They seem
to think that the profits paid to those institutions
by their business might all be saved to their re
spective communities by cutting off their depend
ence upon such resources and necessitating, there
by, the establishment of Banks at home. In ref
utation of this we have merely to say that all the
capital in every community is engaged in some
productive employment, that in order to estab
lish a Bank, therefore, a portion of the capital so
employed must be abstracted from such employ
ment. If, in this change from a mercantile, man
ufacturing or agricultural to a banking business,
a loss is operated to the individuals making the
conversion, a loss falls upon the community, pro
tanto. If, on the other hand, the change involves
again to the individuals, a like result in enjoyed
by the community. Now of the precise time when
this investment should be made the people arc the
best, aud should be, the sole judges, and any inter
ference with such matters by restrictive legisla
tion, which would prematurely force upon the
people the necessity of embarking in banking op
erations, would work a manifest injury and injus
tice. That the Banks of this Stale cannot legiti-
mately furnish a circulation sufficient .l'or its com
merce will be attested by any one whejhas an e.r
peri mental acquaintance with its commercial oper
ations. Notwithstanding the JnisinesSi was divid
ed last year between the State and foreign Banks,
the former had quite as much as was comfortable.
If they had a monopoly of the circulation they
• would, of course, endeavor to supply the wants of
trade, and, to this ensmiglit be led into excessive
issues of their notes. Tor the purpose, therefore,
of guarding such a possibility, this bill
should not b<*£oirfe a law. But upon what ground
in this .discrimination invoked against foreign
Banks ?A Are they not solvent ? We know of no
bnhkingflnstitutious from other States which do
Jbusiness among us but those ot teouth C arolina,
and, certainly, the financial history ot that State
will compare honorably and favorably with that.
of auy other State in the Union. Georgia Banks
enjoy a deservedly high reputation, they are
a bly, precedents and faithfully managed ;
but they arc not pre-eminent in these re
spects to the Banks of our sister Com
monwealth. The effort to procure the pass
age of such a bill is not original with Mr. MU-
Jodje-O. At alwnxt ..•*;-. .U'our Legislature
for ten years, a similar bill Ims been introduced,
and, as often failed. The people whose interests
were to be affected by it, and at whose prosperity
the thrust is made, hat e always been equal to the
exigency, and have shouted remonstrance
upon remonstrance against, it. Considering
the uniform fate which has befallen every
attempt to inaugurate this restrictive, anti—
free-trade, unjust policy, we cannot imagine
what could have induced Mr. Milledge to
espouse it, unless it be that bo is ambitious of
the questionable honour of having his name
associated with its defeat.
The Newspaper. —The Louisville Journal
was 28 years old ou Wednesday last, and its edi
tor, Mr. Prentice, indites an appropriate leader
on “the event,” in the course of which it is well
remarked:
The history of a newspaper is much of the
world’s history. Tho daily paper is the day’s his
tory—it clasps the world's daylight. Bound in
its daily columns the world, with all its passing
events, circles. In it the steamship arrives and
unloads her freightage; in it the lightning flash
es from thought; in it the city booms, the corn
blades glitter, the wheat rustles its golden heads,
the cattle low from a thousand hills, and the mar
ket bums; in it the poet sings, and with his song
the low wind comes fresh and sweet over old mead
ows, aud happy faces gleam from forgotten doors.
Yes, the world turns every day in tho daily news
paper. Its columns are freighted with the world’s
merchandize. Through their avenues ring mer
rily the marrige bells, and through them the hear
ses moves aud funeral knells are tolled. Such
must every daily paper be ; such the Journal
has been.
COMMUNICATED.
Messrs. Editors : I would respectfully call
tho attention of the public, especially the mem
bers of tho present Legislature, to the wrongs
arising from the too frequent relief given by the
Legislature to securities upon forfeited criminal
bonds.
I allude especially to the wrongs imposed upon
the officers of the Supreme Courts of our State.
The law requires said officers to render their ser
vices in all State cases, and provides that they
shall receive their fees for said services when the
act falls upon the State or where the defendant
is insolvent, out of such fines as may be imposed
by the Court, aud the forfeited criminal bonds,
and in no other way. In some, probably many
counties in the State, such fines and forfeitures do
not amount to more than enough to pay said fees
if they were all collected. And it is for the wrongs
done the officers of such counties that I complain
of the general habit of securities upon forfeited
bonds being released from their payment by the
Legislature. I know that in such cases, respecta
ble petitions are generally gotten up, but you will
readily see that the petitioners are not interested.
A man of a little influence can soon gather B.ny
quantity of names to a paper that does not appear
in the least to effect the interest of the signers;
and upon the strength of such a petition in many
instances, the money that has been earned and
that really belongs to the officers, and taken from
them and given to the petitioners. I would there
fore, respectfully suggest, that the Legislature
make some provision by which the our
Court may be compensated for their services ren
dercd # to the State in criminal cases, or that they
cease giving to securities upon forfeited criminal
bonds that which justly belongs to said officers.
The great wrong imposed upon the public by
thus opening wide the door lor the escape of
criminals is too glariif|: to admit of discussion.
AN EX. OFFICER.
Tlie Main hrunk—lts Objects and Location.
Messrs. Editors: The editor of a paper,
yclept the Bain bridge Argus (albeit its hundred
eyes are purblind) in a silly article condemns the
effort now making in the Georgia Legislature to
locate by legislative action the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad as the attempt of interested parties. If
the above mentioned statesman will explain the
amount of interest he has in the location hereto
fore marked out by the Directors of the Company,
perhaps it may after all amount only to the old
story of the skillet preaching to the pot. This
explanation, however, he has not chosen to give.
But those who have been familiar with that paper
since the inception of the Hoad will need no expla
nation from its editor. They will recollect the
song it has sung—the “harp of a thousand
strings” on which it has played. For the benefit
of those who do not recollect, I will give a sy
nopsis of that “same old tune.” It is in this
wise: “Ding dong, Main Trunk,” “ding a ling,
Main Trunk,” “ding a ling doug, Main Trunk,”
“hi doodle de day, Main Trunk,” “fol de rol,
Main Trunk,” Bainbridge, Main Trunk,” Deca
tur county, Main Trunk,” “our town? Main
Trunk,” <fcc., Ac. Now we dismiss the considera
tion of the question of his interest in the matter,
by reminding him of the necessity of taking the
timber out of the hundred eyes of his Argus, be
fore he attempts the delicate task of extracting the
mote from legislative optics. Verbum aapienti
bus sat .” I don’t wish to cast an unjust insinua
tion on any one—but I am inclined to the opin
ion—and I thought so at the time — that the Ar
gus was gotten up for the express purpose of advo
cating the claims of Bainbridge to the location of
the Road. That paper was commenced in April
after the session at which the Main Trunk was
chartered—and in its first number adopted the
measure as one of the main planks of its plat
form. I might say the only plank—for if it has
been consistent in any other one thing I am not
aware of it. This sapient sheet (over the left) was
the first to broach the idea, and I hazard nothing
in saying that I do not suppose there were a doz
en members in the Legislature at the session at
which the bill was passed that ever thought of the
Road taking the downward tendency that inter
ested parties have given it. The charter (Acts of
1855-56, page 158,) locates the initial point ofthe
Road at or as near as might be to the intersection of
the lines of Appling, Ware and Wayne counties
and defines its course till it shall reach the vicinity
of Waresboro, and directs that it shall run thence
by the most practicable route, to the western
boundary of the State of Georgia at any point be
tween Fort Gaines in the county of Clay aud the
junction of the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers in
the county of Decatur; said Western terminus to
be selected by the Directors after an accurate
survey aud estimates of cost shall have been made,
and with a distinct reference to a speedy connection
with the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile or Pensacola.
Now these are the definitive limits of the route as
marked out by the Legislature. Wo ask have the
Directors complied with the directions and limita
tions thus contained in the grant as above referred
to ? We answer, they have not. And in order to
determine the matter, let us examine minutely the
wording of the limitations contained in said grant,
and which of course must be strictly followed to
entitle the company to the aid and eo-operation
elsewhere in the charter guaranteed to them on
their complying with the conditions annexed to
the same. We will give the pith of the limitation
in our own words.
The road is to run from the initial point by the
most practicable route to any point on the Western
boundary of Georgia, between the two extreme
points, (Fort Gaines aud the juuctiau of Flint aud
Chattahoochee) which will afford the speediest
connection with Mobile or Pensacola, (by way of
Railway.) Now we ask, have the Directors clone
this ? They have not, So far from having done
it, they have not located the Western terminus at
all? But did the Legislature contemplate that
they should do it before any of the road was
built. Most assuredly it did. Why ? Simply
because it prescribed that they should locate the
road, on tli most uiusiratc,
suppose I tell my servant to build a fence by the
most practicable route to a point to be selected by
him, within certain limitations, with a view to
certain ulterior objects made known to him, would
he not have to select his terminal point before he
could determine the most practicable route there
to ? Could he select the most practicable route to
an unknown and undetermined destination Now
the terminal point of the Main Trunk Road is not
yet selected, and yet the company are pretending
to be building by the| most practicable route.
Surely the Argus (despite its vaunted name) is a
“blind leader of the blind.” But suppose that
the terminal point route, known, or at least pretty
well settled on, is the road now building by the
most practicable route ? We trow not. What
did the Legislature mean by the term “ most prac
ticable route ?”
They explain themselves by saying, immedi
ately afterwards, that the location” of the entire
line, terminus and all, shall be located “after an
accurate survey aud estimates of cost shall have
been made.” This explains all. It is simply a
question of cost and distance. All the company
can do is to determine the cheapest and shortest
route to such point on the Chattahoochee as will
afford the speediest connection with Mobile or
Pensacola. Now, ask what point will afford
this connection ? In the first place, it must be
above the line of Florida—because Florida has
by Legislation, inhibited the connection of her
roads with those of Georgia. But passing by
this for the present. The shortest route from
Waresboro to Mobile, without reference to any
road as yet projected or chartered by Alabama,
with a view to connection with ours, would cross
the Chattahoochee river at or near Columbia, and
would pass through the counties of Ware, Coffee,
Berrien, Colquitt, Mitchell, Baker and Early, be
fore reaching tho terminal point. Now, we* ask,
is there any road chartered or projected from Mo
bile to Columbia on the Chattahoochee, which will
afford the speedy connection mentioned in the
charter, as the main element in determining the
question of the location of the terminus? We
answer, there is a road chartered by the State of
Alabama, from Mobile to Freeman’s landing, about
two miles above Columbia, which has already
been located and surveyed, and to whieh the Uni
ted States government has donated four hundred
and fifty thousand acres of land in alternate sec
tions along the line. Then there can be no doubt
that the above mentioned terminus must, by the
provisions of the charter of the Main Trunk, be
the western terminus of that road. Then, we ask,
if said point be tho proper terminus of the Main
Trunk, have the company chosen th e shortest and
cheapest route to it ? They have done just no
such thing. But we shall *be told that the road
must like all other roads, be located so as to get
the greatest amount of private subscription ? We
auswer, that if the legislature had so intended,
they would have left it to follow the known laws
of commerce and trade, but that in giving their
aid to it, they have recognized and provided for
the paucity of private subscription consequent
upon the directness of its course, and its non
subserviency to private and particular interests,
owing to the great ulterior object to be obtained,
to-wit: the connection of Savannah and Mobile
by the shortest and consequently the cheapest j
route. Ihen if the road is not being built by the
shortest and cheapest route to most eligible ter
minus—the provisions of the charter have not i
been complied with—consequently no rights have j
vested under it, it is as yet a nudum pactum, a
caput mortuum in legislation, and the State is not [
bound by any rule of reason or justice to pay its j
subscription, and ought not to do it. Then, let a j
quietus be put to tho bugbear of ‘•vested rights” in j
this case. Let the overweening cupidity of the
interested parties who have diverted this great
State Institution from its legitimate objects to suit
their own private interests, receive its appropriate
rebuke, and then in all probability the above
named parties may learn by sad experience the
wisdom of Shakspeare’s apothegm, that “Vaulting
ambition overleaps itself and falls on tho other
•We.” GEORGIAN.
What Cotton Is doing for Is.
Many reliable estimates, set down the cotton j
crop ofthe United States this year at the high fig- |
ure of .‘>.500.000 bales. It is coming to market
much earlier than usual. The receipts at South
ern ports are 550,000 bales, (iu round numbers) in
advance of the receipts of last and other average
years to the same date. So large have been the
arrivals at Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and
New Orleans, that specie has been shipped from
New York to the South to buy bills on England
more cheaply’ than they can be had here. The
price is satisfactory, And, considering the con
dition of Europe ; peaee everywhere: prosperity
in Germany, Ireland, Spain, and other countries
whieh have often lately- been in the deepest dis
tress ; a large accumulations of money’ at the
financial centres; a fair prospect that new mar
kets for European manufactures will be opened in
China, Japan, British Columbia, and elsewhere:
there is no reason to expect that the price will
decline.
In an article published some months back in
this journal, we showed that iu that most active
commercial year the United States’ ever knew,
1856, the cotton of the South was our chief stand
by and set off against the enormous consumption
of foreign goods in the great cities and through
out the county. But for the copious supply of
cotton, and high price it commanded, the United
States, would have incurred a debt to the foreign
world which it would have taken years to dis
charge.
It seems now that the cotton crop is going to be
the means of setting the trade of the country on
its legs again. Our other great staple—bread
stuffs—is in an unpromising condition. Excellent
harvests have been the rule throughout Europe,
and the price of all kinds of breadstuff's rules so
low that it is estimated that a loss of at least a
million of dollars has been incurred by tlie par
ties who sent breadstuff’s to New York this fall.
At present rates, and they are likely to be un
changed for some months, flour and wheat cannot
be sent abroad and sold so as to repay the produ
cer in the West.
Our cotton on the contrary, if the crop fulfils
present expectations, will not only nobly reward
the planter, but will go a long way toward liqui
dating the debt wo are incurring to Europe for
drygoods and for; ; 0 n manufactures. More than
this: the early receipts at the Southern ports,
by suggesting shipments of specie from New
York, have given trade the first wholesome impe
tus it ha,s ha l since the revulsion. The four or
five million .>f specie we have sent to the South
were worse than useless in our bank vaults here.
In the South they-will be eminently’ useful. They r
will generate and feed traffic throughout the
Southern country. And coming back to us, as
they will by various channels through the South
and West, they’ will, on their journey, serve use
fully’ to restore credit and foster wholesome com
mercial enterprise. The revival of trade will
hereafter be dated from the early’ fall receipts of
cotton from the South, and the movements in
specie which they occasioned.— Harpers.
Judge Edmonds on Spiritualism and the At
lantic Cable. —The scientific electricians at Va
lentia Bay and Trinity Bay having failed thus
far, to make the Atlantic Cable a speaking medi
um, we are glad to see that the spiritualist have
taken the matter in hand. In the late remarkable
discourse by Judge Edmonds on the mysteries and
miracles of spiritualism, lie says that “in regard to
the Atlantic telegraph, the spirits had revealed
that the interruption in its working was caused by
a prevalence of mineral influences at the other end.
Further, says the Judge, “we all know that there
is a grea t quantity of mineral matter at the other
end, and that the interruption is supposed to be on
the other side, which tends to confirm the revela
tions ofthe spirits.” But, alas! to cap the climax,
the learned Judge in spiritual affairs confesses
that “further than this we do not know.” And
why’ not ? Why can’t a spirit be called in to do
something useful for once, and for once to tell us
something of truth that is not already known ?
What a public benefactor, for example, Judge Ed
monds would become in producing from “the
spirits” the precise locality’ ofthe difficulty in the
cable, the precise character of the difficulty, and
the modus operandi for reaching it aud applying
the remedy; and what a benefactor to De Sauty.
Let the Judge put his spirits to work accordingly,
upon a test of this sort, and give us the results in
advance of the next steamers news from the Irish
coast. This old habit of the spirits, of giving tfs
their spiritual knowledge of things after we have
imd , ay <>r a weeK or two, by’ our ordi
nary channels of communication, is not a whit
better than Professor Merriam’s predictions of a
storm after the storm has passed by.—A r . Y. Her
ald.
The American Consul at Bremen, received from
the United presented to the party’ for
whom it was intended, a handsome silver speak
ing trumpet, bearing the following inscription:
“The President of the United States to Captain
Wilmsen of the Bremen bark Laura, for his hu
mane, zealous and successful efforts in rescuing
one of the passengers and two of the crew of the
steamer Central America from the perils of the sea,
1858.”
Noble Thoughts. —l never found pride in a
noble nature nor humility in an unworthy mind.
Of all trees, I observe that God hath chosen the
vine—a low plant that creeps upon the helpful
wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb ; of
all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. When God
appeared to Moses it was not in the lofty cedar,
nor the spreading palm, but a bush, a humble, ab
ject bush. As if he would by’ these selections
check the conceited arrogance of man. Nothing
produeeth love like humility'; nothing hate, like
pride.
funeral car of Napoleon I. arrived on
Friday morning, Nov., sth, in Paris. Gen. Sir J.
Burgoyne, charged by the Queen of England to
proceed with it to the Invalides and deliver it up
formally, General Count d’Ornano, the Governor,
and his staff, descended into the court-yard to
meet Marshal Yaillant, Minister of War. In a
lew minutes alter the English General and Prince
Napoleon, who had come from Compiegne ex
expresslv for the oceassion, arrived, aud the cere
mony of reception took place in front of the
church, where the car had been placed. The car
is to be placed in the Chapel St. Jerome, by the
side of the mortal remains of tlie great man which
had been conveyed on it to the tomb.
In a jolly company, each one was to ask
a question. If it was answered, the proposer
paid a forfeit, or if he could not answer it himself, j
he paid a forfeit. Pat’s question was :
“How does the little ground squirrel dig his I
hole without showing any dirt about the en- !
trance ?”
When they’ all gave it up Pat said :
“Sure, do you see he begins at the other end of
the hole ?”
One of the rest exclaimed :
“Bur. how did he get there ?”
“Ah.” said Pat, “that’s your question, can you \
answer it yourself ?” j
if there are not some people in the
world that do actually reason after the cool man
ner of the philosopher who gives this sage advice
to his friend ? Just as likely as not. We know
some citizens who act according to such advice,
‘any wav’: ‘The duties of life are two-fohl: our
duty to ourselves is to make ourselves as comfor
table as possible: our duty to others is to make
them assist us to the best of their ability, in so
doing. This is the plan on which all respectable
persons act. Adhere strictly to truth—whenever
there is no occasion for lying. Be particularly
careful to conceal no one circumstance likely to
redound to your credit. If it be for your interest
to lie, do so and do it boldly. No one would
wear false hair wh# had hair of his own, but he
who has none, must of course wear a wig. A
wig, you see, my young friend, is simply a lie with
hair on it. I don’t see any difference between
false hair and a false assertion. In fact, I think
a lie a very useful invention. It is like a coat or
a pair of breeches : it serves to clothe the naked.
But do n’t throw your falsifications away. I like
a proper economy. Some silly persons would
have you invariably speak the truth. Now if you
were to act in this way, in what department of
commerce could you succeed? How would you
get on iu the law, for instance ? What vagabond
would ever employ you to defend his cause ? What
X • tdk imi m ’ ——— 1 ■* “ 1 —
practice do you think you’d be likely to procure as
a physician, if you were to tell every old woman
who fancied herself ill that there was nothing the
matter with her? Never break a promise unless
bound to do so by a previous one : and promise
yourself, from this time forth, never to do any
thing that will put you to inconvenience. Be firm,
but not obstinate. Never change your mind when
the result of the alteration would be detrimental
to your comfort and interests ; but do not main
tain an inconvenient inflexibility of purpose. Do
not, for example, in affairs ofthe heart, simply
because you have declared, perhaps with an oath
or two, that you will be constant till death, think
it necessary to make any effort to remain
ease stands thus : You enter into an engagement
with a being whose aggregate of perfectUms
pressible, we will sav, by 20. Now'HThey would*
always keep at that* point, there might be some
reason for your remaining unaltered, namely,
your not being able to help it. But suppose that
they dwindle to 10 ha- the person, that is, the
whole sum of the qualities admired no longer ex
ists, and you. of course, are absolved from your
engagement. But mind, Ido not say that you
are justified in changing only in case of a change
on the opposite side: you may very possibly be
come simply tired. In this case, a prior promise
to yourself will absolve you from the one iu ques
tion.’ — Knick-Knacks.
Inlted States Senator Elected.
Columbia, S. C., Dec. 2. —C01. James Chestnut
Jr., of Kershaw district, was, to-day, on the 10th
ballot, elected United States Senator.
Virginia Democratic Convention.
Petersburg, Va., Dec. 2.—The Democratic
State Convention met to-day, and permanently
organized. No nominations have yet been made.
Secretary Cobb’s Reported Resignation.
Washington, Dec. 2. —There is not a word of
truth iu the reported inteution of Mr. Cobb to re
tire from the Cabinet.
The President’s Message.
Washington, Dec. 2. —The President’s message
will not be sent in advance further South than
Richmond, nor further North than New York.
Departure of President Paez.
New York, Dec. 2. —President Paez departed
for Venezuela to-day. A grand military and
civic demonstration was made on the occasion of
his departure.
New York Times. —James Gordon Bennett
editor of the K. Y. Herald, was arrested on Sat
urday last, on an indictment found against him
by the Grand Jury of Westchester county, on
Thursday last, for libelling the Hon. J B. Haskin,
member of Congress from that district. He gave
bail for his appearance. The ground of the bill
is that Mr. Bennett, through the Herald news
paper, accused Mr. Haskin, in June last, of hav
ing forged the records of the Willett’s Point Con
gressional investigating committee, of whieh he
was chairman.
Mr. Ten Broeek, of racing notoriety, is now in
New York. He contemplates leaving that city
for the South, very soon.
Mr. Edwin J. Dickens, a relative ofthe famous
novelist, committed suicide, by taking laudanum
and cyanide of potassium a few days since. He
was found dead in his room at the American Ho
tel. Jersey city. Mr. D. is represented to have
been anew comer in America, a man of splendid
genius, and one who had been connected with
some of the leading literary periodicals in Eng
land, lie had already made arrangements with
the Press of New York to furnish them with lit
erary articles. Pecuniary embarrassment is said
to be the cause of his melancholy suicide.
! A New Pocket ax. omtrjm, me
| inventor of the celebrated Sharpe’s rifles, is about
! taking out a patent for anew pocket revolver.—
! Besides being much lighter than those which are
j in common use, it is made in such convenient form
that it can be very safely and easily carried in the
vest pocket. It has always been a great drawback
with (he different kinds of revolvers that they are
so difficult of loading. This is remedied in the
pistol of which we make mention; for in place of
capping and loading with powder, and ball, it is
loaded by the insertion of a cartridge whieh
contains the powder, ball and cap. The bar
rel is grooved like the rifle, and the cart
ridge is also grooved, so that it no only possesses
the advantage of facility in loading, but of accu
racy of aim. This improved revolver will be man
ufactured and in the market in the course of about
four months. Notwithstanding its diminutive
size, it possesses considerable efficiency, having
thrown a ball across the Connecticut river, a dis
l tanco of three hundred yards, and having also
I penetrated a two-inch board.— Wash. Union.
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Holloway’s Ointment and Pills are twin
j curatives, derived from one origin, the vegetable
productions of the soil. They act in unison on
the system, the one internally upon the secretions
of the body, and the other externally through the
countless orifices of the skin, cleansing and recu
perating the vital organization.
at the manufactory, No. 80 Maiden
Lane, New York, and by all at 25c.
63c., and $1 per Box or Pot, ‘ uov27dwlw
think it is hardly known even to the
most intelligent of our readers, how deep some of
the sciences are looking down into the mysteries
of creation. We knew there were wonderful dis
coveries in these times, and wonderful uses made
of them, but did not know the Chemists were imi
tating in their crucibles and even surpassing the
most wonderful productions of organic life. ° Du
ring our visit to Lowell we were introduced by one
of their prominent citizens to the laboratory of
Dr. Ayer, (inventor of CHERR Y PECTORAL
and CATHARTIC PILLS,) where we were
shown with generous frankness, his processes and
his products. This master genius of his art is man
ufacturing the subtle essences of flowers from tar
and other ■\ egetaole substances. His essence of
Tine Apple, Strawberry, Checkerberry, Quince,
Pear, Canella, Cinnamon Ac., not only equal but
they exceed in purity of flavor, those vegetables
themselves. His oil of Winter-green is purer and
of better flavor than any that can be gathered from
the piant and yet is made by chemical composi
tion from the Hydro-carbons in tar! His process
is, to analyze the substance and find the exact ul
timate atoms of which it is made, then recompose
them in the same proportions which exist in na
ture.— Christian Advocate.
WOOD’S HAIR RESTORATIVE.
This Restorative for making the hair grow,
stopping its falling out, restoring gray hair *to its
original color, is becoming more celebrated. All
the quack nostrums are giving way before it.
Three fourths of the mixtures for restoring and
beautifying the hair, do it more injury than good.
They burn it up, destroy the life at its roots.-make
the hair fall off, and produce premature baldness.
But Prof. Wood’s Restorative may be relied upon
as conitftiing nothing which can in any manner
be injurious to the hair, while its success in ac
complishing what it pretends to do, has been ver
ified in hundreds of cases. We advise gray heads
and heads getting bald, all who wish to s*ave their
wool or obtain anew stock, to get a bottle of Prof
Wood’s Hair Y. Democrat
Sold by all Druggists in this city, and bv deal
ers and druggists generally throughout the United
States and Canadas. nov24— wd2w
Another instance of the Ejficacy oj ho e
Holland Hitters.
N. M. Poindexter, at Union office, September
16th, 1854, says :
Some weeks since being seriously abet ted uitli
pain and uneasiness at the stomach, loss ot M PP e
tite, and at times strong symptoms of dyspepsia,
I was induced to try your Holland bitters, and
I feel it but an act of justice to the article, as well
as for the good of those who may bo affected w ith
like derangement of the stomach, to state, that
the use of one single hottJ*> of this medkwe proved
<Jf inealeulah^£enefi bfcflrfg stomach
r jS&ty
ymptoms of dyspepsia, I would also rffhark
that two other members of ray family, who were
afflicted in a similar myself, were en
tirely relieved by the use of a single bottle each.
See Advertisement. nov27 lwdw.
•DARBY’S
nwmAfiVH wmmm,
Tlie Great Premium Disinfectant I
A MAGNIFICENT PITCHER was awarded it at
the Alabama State Fair at the recommendation ot
a special scientific committee, who pronounced it supe
perior to any similar agent now in use. Besides its
strictly disinfecting uses, it may be most advantageous
ly applied as a therapeutic agent in the following cases:
All putrid diseases, salivation, sores, ulcers, burns,
fresh wounds, removing stains, destroying bad breath,
curing stings, softening and w hitening the skin in bath
in", and especially in limestone countries, where the
water is hard, in making it soft, by pouring a few drops
| into a basin full of water. Read what is said of it:
You would confer a general good by using means tor
j its general introduction and use— . More than fifty citizens
of Auburn.
The best and most efficient preventative of conta
gious diseases now in use.— Auburn Gazette.
We advise ourfriendsto try it, by all means.—Mont
gomery Mail.
No one who has used it once w-ill consent to do
without it. — Tnskegce Republican.
We have used it about our premises with entire satis
faction. — Savannah Republican.
Superior to Labarraque’s French Liquor. — Corres.
National Intelligencer.
Has received the sanction of medical men m the
leading cities of the South Atlanta American.
These tilings Prof. Darby assures it has done, and w r e
believe he would not even think, much less say so,
were it not the case. Southern Christian Advocate.
It is a most effective and powerful combination. at
should be used everywhere. It will not disappoint you
as a disinfecting agent.— Holmes Steele, jM. D.
Endorsed by Physicians in Charleston and Colum
bia, S. C.; New York, Augusta, Savannah, Atlanta,
Macon and Columbus. Ga: Montgomery, Selma and
Mobile Ala; and New Orleans, La.
Hospitals, corporations, ship masters, manufacturers,
planters, physicians, furnished by the gallon at reduced
rates.
For sale by druggists and country merchants gener
ally, from whom orders are respectfully solicited.
Try at least one bottle. Price 5o cents. Follow di
rections.
JTTManufaetured only in the Laboratory of
J, DARBY, Auburn, Ala.
FOR SAFE IN COLUMBUS IJY
DANFORTH, NAGEL <fc CO.
BROOKS & CHAPMAN,
J. S. PEMBERTON & CO.
decl—dvvtf DAVID YOUNG
Columbus Guards!
Appear at the Armory on Monday naxt at 2%
o’clock P. M., armed and equipped as the By-
Laws require, for Parade and Prize Target prac
tice. By order of the Captain.
„ Dec2 —dtd HODGES, O. S.
THEATRE 1
TEMPERANCE HALL
THE STAR COMPANY,
from the SAVANNAH THEATRE, under the man
agement of Mr
W. M. FLEMING-,
Willi appear on
SATURDAY EVENING.
In Shakspeare’s great play of
O THE LL O,
I rouuncu uy ute comedy of
DELICATE GROUND,
with Singing, <fcc.
UZr > For particulars see small bills.
lE?* Tomorrow Evening, Fifth and Last Performance
but Three of the Company, prior to their departure for
Macon.
Admission 50 Cents. Reserved Seats, Seventy Five
Cents, to be procured at the Hall.
Doors open at 7 o’clock. Curtain will rise at ~}fi.
FOR SAL FT
MTHE House and Lot on thejiortli east corner
Troup and Bryan Streets, fronting the House of
Mr, H W Nance, and directly w est of the new- Metho
dis Church, at present occupied by M J Crawford For
terms apply to J M Russell, Esq.
dec3—d2w MARTIN J. CRAWFORD
HotrsE
FOR SALE.
M THE Dwelling House on Oglethorpe Street.
lately occupied by Mrs. Anna Spencer is for sale
on nneral terms. It not sold by Christmas it will be
rented tor the next year. For particulars enquire of R
‘stt?'*, .858. LAMBERT *■•
COLUMBU.S
Saddlery, Harness,
AND LEATHER STORE
H. MIDDLEBROOK & CO.,
94 Broad Street,
■ MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS
& Feather,
-wlnclrthe following comprises a part
A a —Spanish Quilted Saddles, overlaid; Ene
lish do; Planters’ Plain do; Youth’s and Bov’s do
ty oFytes Plantati<>n d ° ; aUd Ladies Saddles,—varie-
Bridles, Martingales, Saildlc-
Bags, and Medical do.
HARNESS.
Fine Silver plated Carriage Harne-all qualitie,
lt Kockaway “ a
“ Double Buggy ~
“ . . “ Single do “ i.
Plain black Harness, all styles and qualities.
leathee
pSTsASts"” - Bri ? ,e ando ’ Hr, e *•.’
taa skins, Harness Leather Oal anH it i .
Sole Leather, Calf Sknw, LinS- Sk? dllcmlock >
Shoe Pegs, Lasts, Thread and Finding, & c .
jVTacliiiie J^eLtinor.
Leather and Rubber Beltin'* all wirifhe
rK Si <*yte&X' u ’
bor'rS. ““dtcc J Sl',' r ' I,i, ' g for Pla >‘™-
i*rs.TJKris.s,
@503) Ladies and Gentltmen’s
g Trunks, all quali
andCarpet Bags djl ’ Bonnet Bo *es, Valises
CARRIAGE TRIMMINGS
teTcoKf’’ ““*
AndßUnd Ses PS ’ W * 0 ” Bre “",„ g ,
fn 6^ 1 ’ .1* e 'nvite all those who are in want of articles
n our line to call aud examine “our stock, and we as
sure them that they will be well satisfied with h
quality of goods and the prices; as they will be sold on
the very BEST TERMS > mDe sold on
•hotiS, JS& Work ,nade ’ and Repairin | d 7A (] “ytie
STRAYED,
JiSTV 0> T tho 17th inst., a dark brown mare
about three or four years old, both
ears slightly cropped with cold, and small white
collar mark on one shoulder. Last heard of
KJjfti ? olumb f b f id g e - A reward of ten dol
lars will be paid for her. L. HOT t
dl 2td Oswitehe#, Ru*li ce., Ala,
SILKS, SHAWLS,
DRESS GOODS
JUST RECEIVED
AT THE ONE PRICE CASH
DRY GOODS STORE-.
140 Broad Street-—Masonic Building
UMW M’PHILUHj
Has just opened a magnificent assortment of
SILKS, SHAWLS and
FANCY DRESS GOODS.
purchased at recent New York Auction Sales for Cash
at an immense sacrifice:
5.000 yards Fancy Dress Silks at 50c. worth SI.
5,000 “ Black Silks—all widths;
50 pieefes Printed all wool Delaines of the u-rv
best quality, at 50 cents per yard;
50 pieces French Merinos—all shades;
20 “ Union Marino Plaids, splendid quality
100 Rich French Robes a’Les—beautiful Goods;
50 Rich French Valencias and Poplin Robes—v m
choice. -
AX.SO.
A large Assortment cf
FANCY DRESS GOODS,
I?3SW ©WILE©*
Bought at a reduction of 25 per cent., on the price U su
all paid for such goods:
25 Pieces ARABIAN CROSS OVERS—
Heavy quality and beautiful rnlorings
-30 pieces POILE deCHEVRE, high colors—
New and choice designs
15 pieces VALENCIAS—very handsome.
20 pieces COLUMBIAS BAYADERE—
Of highest lustre
-5 pieces EL\ IRAS—a new and beautiful article.
10 pieces Plaid EASTINGS C’HENE
Superior quality and coloring.
Together with other styles of Goods
ADAPTED TO A
FIRST CLASS TRADE,
Also,
A LARGE STOCK OF FINE
BED,, BLAJSTKETS,
White and Colored Flannels,
Xil MEETS,
AND HOUSE KEEPING GOODS IN GENERAL
A Large Stock of
Calicoes and Homespuns,
Of every description at very low prices.
CLOAKS, tHAWLb X ND TALMA3,
In great vaiiety.
Buyers are invited to examine, compare ami judge
before making their purchases. Remember the address
eJames jVFclPliilliiDs.
140 Broad Street.
Two Doors below- J. B. Strapper’s.
ONE PRICE ONLY.
Every article markedat the lowest.
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 10. 1858. d&w tf
MB @oa®W*
A full a-sortment of Bajou’s Kid Gloves, epetN
ed this morning* JAS. Me PH ILL IPS,
140 Broad street, Masonic building.
IMPORTANT TO
Planters & Country Merchants.
J. McPHILLIPS
Would call attention of Buyers to his large stock
of Foreign and Domestic
DRY-GOODS,
As he has a buyer residing in New York, he
will at all times be prepared to oiler goods to tho
Trade for Cash only) at the lowest New York
Cost prices by the bale or package.
Planters Will find they can save money bv buy
ing their KERSEYS, NEGRO BLANKETS,
&e.,from him, his stock is extensive and his pri
ces rr uch below that of any other store in the
South.
Call nrf =ot> oovi and prices, and thus post
| yourselves upon what you can get lor your mo
j ney and what goods are worth.” Remember the
! address,
JAMES McPfIILLIPS,
110 Broad Strest,
Two doors below- .1. B. Strapper.
Oct- So..dAw tf.
[ SYDENHAM AGEE. .INO. F. IVERSON
THE undersigned having formed a Copartnership
will continue the wholesale and retail
Drug Business,
at their Stand “EAGLE DRUG STORE,” 03
Broad Street, where they will be happy to serve
their friends and the public generally, with” a large,
fresh, and well selected stock of
DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PAINTS,
Oils, i utty, Glass, Burning Fluid,(of our own man
ufacture) Alchohol, Pure Brandies and Wines
(tor medical purposes) Fine Hair &. Tooth
Brushes, Combs, Perfumery, Fancy &.
Toilet Articles,Chew ing and Smo
king Tobacco, Fine Cigars,
and almost every article usually kept in a first class
Drug store. We solicit a share of the public patron
age, feeling assured that a strict attention to business
anil to the interest of our customers, will merit the con
tinuance of the liberal patronage heretofore bestowed
on our predecessors.
Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully compounded at
all hours, day or night, by a competent anil experienced
Druggist ACEE & IVERSON.
1 . ts. Persons m want of Medicine after the usual
hour of closing at night, w ill find Mr. Acee in the front
room directly over our store, ready to wait on them.
Coiumbus, Nov. 25—d(5in A. <fc I.
XECL TOR s SALE.—WiII be sold on Monday
-i the 2‘Jth instant, at 12 o’clock, in front, of Hard
son & Pitts’ Auction Room, the House and Lot in the
city of Columbus, belonging to the late Mrs. E. H
Crook. This house is delightfully situated oa Bryan
Street, and is on part of lot No 343, with eight large
rooms; halls above and below, and collonaded on all
sides. Sale positive. Terms: Credit of one and, two
years, with 7 per cent, interest.
Nov. Ifi, 185ft— dl2 wit M. J. CRAWFORD. Ex’r
N.B. The above sale has been postponed, in conse
quence of inclement weather, to Wednesday Dec. 1
EARLY SHERIFF SALES.
WILL be sol< l before the Court House door in the
T f town of Blakely, Early county, Ga., on the first
icesday in January next, within the legal hours of sale,
the following property, to wit:
• V,° ? u a , nd I ? um ber'three hundred and forty nine,
district of Early county, containing 250 acres
more or less, levied on as the property of John E Babb
to satisfy one fi fa issued from the Superior Court of
Early county, in favor of Robt W Sheffield, Adm’r
property pointed out by Plaintiff.
Also lot of land number two hundred and twenty siv
tn the 2Gth district of said county, levied on as the prop
erty ot Charles Powers, to satisfy one fi fa issued from
Stewart County Superior Court, in favor of Jacob
Dennard,—property pointed out by Plaintiff’s Att’v
v , ANTHONY HUTCHINS Sh'tf
November3o,1858.—vvtds. ’ feJl n ‘
EARLY MORTGAGE SALE.
W IBLbe s ? ld “ n the first Tuesday in January next
f V before the Court House door in Blakelv Far
ly county. Ga. the north east half of Lar
one hundred and sixty six, in the 2ftt , ? a , nd
— A- HUTCHINS. Sheriff.
COLUMBUS GUARDS.
Company Weekly Drill from 7toft Ji , c
urday night. By ‘order of the Captain. 0 ° Ck frat ‘
November 24. td. ALLEN, Secretary.
BLjA.3VIS.S,
"c^S P dt n a%2ad y „ La^r OTOfflCerS
a t tbe y TmES Pe ,:'^ r f.T r ’
T O^VRIDS,
f!? 1,81107 Colors of 9ize ’ nefttl y
prtnteti at tn TIMIS QFFICI.