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fejeinntljfrit^ffork JLA#. MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13,1871. The Comptroller General’s Report for 1870. As we intimated when wa acknowledg ed the couitesy of Comptroller Madison Bell in presenting us with this public document, we sball now devote a small space to its general make up, as well as specially to arraign what we regard a part of the positive wrongs and gross malfeasances disclosed throughout its pages, and which transpired with the supposed supervision, if they were not actually perpetrated, under and through a secret connivance of the last Legisla ture, or rather some of its subdivided agencies—matters too, that demand and must receive prompt investigation and the most liberal retrenchment, if no more can be effected—by their incoming suc cessors. The Kepoit in its mechanical con struction exhibits (with some few ex ceptions) as far as we have been euabled to judge, a fair and concise statement of the Finances of Georgia—the sources whence derived—to whom paid out, when, and for what; the balances re maining to the different Funds; and what debts are still due by the State. Many of these items are the same, mu- tads mutandis, as heretofore reported up on—making the Credits and Debets of one year—that of 1S70, the main features for close investigation at this time; and these are furthered down to the warrants which were drawn by the Governor, evi dently upon the Treasurer in favor of members of both branches of the Legisla ture and their doubled, tripled and quar- tupled staff of Clerks—iu favor of the Governor and his Secretaries and their extra adjuncts—also of the heads of the several Departments their regular Clerks and auxiliary attendants—and of the many, many Judges and Solicitors of the Courts, and even their consulting breth ren—with a host of sponging parasites, interlopers, hangersonand supernumera ries, thick as blackberries, who appear to have got the pap-drippings for no oth er reason than they were akin to mem bers and had been promised situations whenever vacancies occurred! Of all these, we shall confine our present stric tures to the ‘mileage’ paid each Senator and Representative; remarking ‘luens a non lucendo' that even Door Keepers and Messengers with all the aforesaid Clerks, participated in the rich picking* Of all ways that are dark and tricks that are stealthy, let the ‘mileage’ sys tem or practice, as manipulated by patri otic and ‘truly loyal’ Senators and Rep resentatives of the Georgia Legislature of 1S70, take pre-eminence, Whatever charitable expediency might have sug gested in the past, when travel was en cumbered with bad roads, crooked and long at that—vehicles few and cumber some and money hard to obtain—its a- doption was of doubtful propriety and scrupulously adjusted to the simplest ne cessities ; but now it has acquired such utter disproportions to these, that it is not only shamefully exorbitant but in most of its details,'a swindle and hast fraud! The term—its sole aim and scope, as we take it, was intended to be under stood and employed as a certain and fixed rate for so many miles of the whole dis tance from the seat of Government wher ever it might be, to the several homes of members; that is for every twenty miles of this distance dollars should be paid both in going to and returning therefrom, as allowance for traveling expenses. This was its original accepta tion and use, when a day’s journey was not much beyond twenty miles, and the fixed rate of mileage was in accordance with the supposed actual charges on the roads. It was the custom when honor and honesty prevailed over theft and peculation, and Senators and Represen tatives labored heartily to aid the public interests. It was the custom whan the village or county 6ite, its town or city or center, was taken as the point from which all distances were measured or estimated to the Capital, by the most direct line of the common road wagons; and when a member once established and charged for so many miles of that road, always adhered to it as the unvarying true one. We will give a few counties, and the mileage to which we think Senators and Representatives entitled under the law, with the amounts which were paid to them iu accordance with their ‘audited accounts,’ but nevertheless in unaccount- lie contrast with all law and custom within our knowledge. Independently of their being overpaid in nearly every case, we are unable to comprehend how they could fairly ‘figure up’ the amounts; god why they varied bo materially in chaiges for the same distances, and in favor of the same persons—and what is still more a riddle and a rebus, how the same Senators and Representatives man aged to increase their mileage for each and every session of the same Legisla ture ! These are such perfect enigmas that we ask of same knowing one a com mon sense solution. We will begin* with Chatham, and Savannah the County Site—distant from Atlanta by dirt or Wagon Road proba bly 257 miles—by Rail, 292. Now if tbe members from this County had been paid as they should have been, for the most direct or wagon route, each would have been entitled to about $126. If on the contrary they were permitted to prefer the roundabout or Rail, then they should only have received about $146. We do not aim at exactness but to ap proximate amounts. Wbatdid they really get ? For the 1st Session the Represent atives drew each $150—for the 2d each drew $153, for the 3d each $150, ‘while as ‘expelled colored members’ two drew, yet other instalments of $225, each for mileage alone ! ! There is some confusion and a want of clear ness and fullness iu the report, as to the accounts of the ‘expelled colored members’; in as much as they are rep resented as drawing their full per diem and mileage for the time they were dis- seated together with the full per diem and mileage for the whole of the 3d Ses sion—no mention beiug made of the ousting members or the amounts they were paid. We presume we comprehend the probable facts, but even under such view? there remains large discrepancies in the mileage, as the exhibits of the report show, these ‘expelled colored members’ were paid each and all of them, four dis tinct aod full amounts, when far the larger number received but three, excepting the Senators, who came in for the shares of the Executive Session, making four to them—and five for two of the expelled Senators. Kota lene as to this Executive Session ( equally useless as it was expensive. It was made to last 16 days ! The mile age of one cute, colored, cuss, exceeded his per diem by $9S.50 ! while that of sev eral other Senators, were laregly in excess. The ‘beauty spot,’ however, of Gov. Bullock’s sham, consists in its having only re-assembled the next day, or the day thereafter or some very short peri od from the final adjournment of the Legislature, zeithout in all probability a single Senator leaving Atlanta in the inteival, yet they drew mileage as if they really went and came again ! This was construing law exceptionally, and constructing journeys groundlessly !— But how 6tands it with the Senator of the 1st District, of which Chatham is a portion ] Well, he took for the 1st Ses sion, $147.50 ; for the 2d, $150 ; and for the 3d, $450 ! each of which were for mileage alone. The Executive Ses sion mileage was $147.50. At first, wo thought the 450 amount, must be a ty pographical error—but, it is carried out, and added to his per diem pay, making the reqisite totality; besides, Mr. Bell surely corrected the proof sheets of his report, and would not have overlooked it had any misrepresentation existed.— Four hundred and fifty dollars mileage from Savannah to Atlanta, at five dol lars for every twenty miles simply stag gers us ! We will next look into Liberty coun ty the County Site of which, is Hines- ville at an estimate distance from Atlan ta 273 miles, which would call for $130 mileage, or if by Railroad (327 miles) about $163./The Representative however must live in three separate and widely distant localities: The 1st Session he drew $166.50—the 2d $16S ; and the 3d $192.50 ! while under the ‘expelled colored members’ Table, he laid in his bill at $252! Next in order is the negro carpet-bag Senator of the 2d district, the grand magnate of Cathead, Darien and Doboy— one Tunis G. Campbell “Esquire Jus tice of the Peace an! Coram, Cust-alo- rum and rataborum too !’’ Liberty, Mc Intosh and Tattnall compose his baili wick ; but he lives in McIntosh and has his headquarters at Darien—always reck oned 190 miles from Milledgeville—the old Capital, and adding 93 miles to At lanta, makes the latter place distant from Darien 283 miles. ’Squire Camp bell therefore, should have reoe ived as his mileage by this, his nearest route about $140 per Session. But doubtless he traveled all round tbe circle of his jurisdiction and went first by Steam Boat to Savannah, which we will say is 120 mile9, altho' but 63 by laud from his home, «o-called, th ence he Railed it to Atlanta292 miles in all 412, at an actual’cost of not more than $25, if that. But allowing his right to make such a roundabont journey and paying him five dollars for every 20 miles going and the same for returning, his mileage bill would foot up $205 ! Does he charge this sum in any of his amounts render ed to the Senate’s auditing committee and who aro presumed to know some thing of that they pass upon, aud to cer tify the correctness before payment can be made 1 Not he. For the 1st Ses sion, his mileage bill as paid, was $217.- 50 ; for the 2d $326, and for the 3d $272 50 not one of which corresponds to the true amount that ought to have been paid him. Under the ‘Expelled colored j members’ caption, it is »Uted fie get $217.50. r or mileage, and for the Execu tive Session $212 50 ! But more strauge and equally inexplicable are the charges made for mileage, by Lis son, the Representative of Mc Intosh county, ’Tunis G. Jr. and residing as we imagine, in Darien also. The 1st Session his mileage was $225. For the 2d and 3J each 200. While his bill, for going over the stme ground af* ter he suffered expulsion, could not be compromised for any thing lower than $300 ! Upon what rule or ‘tariff of rates’ these mileage Bills were .fixed up, is al together beyond comprehension : and how they were made to vary and each to contradict the others, all being fair— is a secret known only to Radicals. No formula appears to have governed the Auditing Committees, but every mem ber it seems charged what he thought he eould get, and the Treasurer was no^ a Judicial power. In proof of this sup position and to demonstrate that gross ignorance, or inexcusable negligence, if not willful connivance to defraud the State, was inevitably chargable some where, we will add the several mileage sums paid to B. B. Hall, Esq., the Rep resentative from Glynn county, and liv ing in Brunswick, which is estimated to be distant from Atlanta in nearly a di rect line, at about 294 miles. For the 1st Session his mileage was $145; 2d Session, $144, and same for the 3d ! Here is a member representing a class charging what we consider rightfully due him—yet how much under what the Campbell’s (father and son) charged— they living in a county between Atlanta aud Brunswick, and considerably nearer thau Mr. Hall! But we will have more to say about mileage, and will defer further examina tion and comparisons until theu. Some thing must be “rotten in Denmark”— something that calls for the surgeon’s scalpel. Look at the Bright Side. Notwithstanding the innumerable bles sings with which a beneficent Provi dence has strewn the pathway of man, aod the fact that for about six thousand years his wants have been supplied by the same kind hand, yet we still find those who doubt the continuation of His bounties, and are always looking for*, ward to some unseen calamity that is to befall them individally, or which they are to share in connection with the hu man family at large. These characters can sec nothing that is bright and beau tiful—can hear nothing that is pleas ing—can feel nothing that is gratifying. They cannot see the bright sunshine that bathes the flowery hills and vallies in golden light. They cannot hear the melodies of the birds—nature’s sweet songsters—when they make forest and fields vocal with warbling music—nor feel the pleasure which a world of beau ty ought to inspire. They can only see the storm-cloud as it looms up over their heads, threatening to sweep them and theirs to destruction. They can hear on ly the muttcrings of the deep-tor.ol thun der and can feel only the stroke of the dreaded lightning as in anticipation, it blights and withers all their earthly prospects. These doubtless always have the dark side of every picture presented to their mental visions. And though it were painted by an angel with a pencil dipped in light, yet will they only see it of the same somber hue. Their fields may be smiling with the bright promises of a bountiful harvest, yet they will not believe that blessings they have enjoyed for so many years will be continued to them. Their families may he in perfect health, and in other respects be all that is calculated to gain the respect and es teem of the world or awaken their own pride ; yet they will torture themselves with the fear that approaching sickness will soon sweep their loved ones away, or that some sad misfortune is to befall them which is to bring shame upon their now honored names. In this class of people you will ever fiud willing and credulous listeners when you recount the darkest and sadest talcs of human suffering or the most terrible and sicken ing stories of human depravity. Tell them of the virtues and praise-worthy deeds of mankind and they will either deny their deeds themselves or will at tribute their performances to some im proper motive. It is such as these that would have us believe that they have the gift of prophecy. But if so, they are but half prophets, for they prophecy on ly evil, tihould anything really bad take place, it never rakes them by sur prise, but their proudest triumph is to tell every one tbeymeet, “I told yon so.” Wars may come, with all their desola tions ; pestilence may sweep like a besom of destruction over tho land; famine, like a gaunt spectre may stalk through our fairest cities ; storms, fires and earth quakes may come, but they are always received by them with the same claim to prophetic foresight of “I told you so.” But is it not a little strange that, as they told everybody yet nobody can ever recollect of having heard of the prediction. Most of these assertions are about as truthful as that of the woman whoso husband thinking to tel! her of some disaster she bad not foreseen, made tbe rather startling announcement that the cow had eaten the grindstone, when she promptly responded, “I told you bo,” This disposition to always look at the dark aide of every picture—tbe gloomy side of every subject—tbe worst feature in every landscape, ia all wrong; aod he who is so little thankful for the bright places in life., deserves to live only in the dark gloom with which his own distort ed fancy has painted the picture of life. Why not look at tbe sonny sidef Thorgh it is true there are dark lines in every picture, yet they are intended to make its beauties more apparent. The beauty of the landscape may at first sight appear to be marred by some unsightly feature, but it will afterwards be found that it is contrast that makes the love liest of its scenes more pleasing. There is no situation iu life in which tbe cheerful and hopeful heart may not find some green spot—some oasis—which, though it be surrounded by tbe arid des ert, is yet made verdant by tbe life- giviug waters of Hope and Promise. Tbe best kind of human philosopy is to make the best of the circumstances with which we are surrounded ; to think the best we can of every misfortune, and to place tbe moat charitable construction wo can upon the acts of others of which we cannot conscientiously approve. If some unfortunate friend has fallen into bad habits which hare lost him tbe high place he ouce occupied among bis fel lows, let us not give him up as forever lost to us and to society, but let us cher* ish the hope that be will soon be restor ed to us, and that his departure for a time from the path of right will but at tach him more strongly to it when he returns. God gave us the world as it is. And shall we look only on its clouds and never see the ‘‘silver lining” that tells us that all is bright beyond ? Let us remember that the longest and dark est night will give place to the light of the rising sun ; and so when our pros pects are darkest and most unpromising, let us not despair, but let us look forward to the dawn of brighter hopes—the light of a brighter day. The earth is full of brightness and beauty, why should we seek only its glooms and deformities? It is full o beautiful flowers, let us not “vainly stray in search of its thorns.” Let us under all circumstances be cheerful, and hope ful, and happy, and then— •‘Bright flowers shall bloom wherever we rove, A voice divine shall talk in each stream; The stars shall look like worlds of love, Aud this earth be all one beautiful dream.” Florida News. The Water Fall in Florida.—A wea ther king writes the Palatka Herald : During the two weeks commencing on the 12th ult. and ending on the 20tb the amount of rain fall reached the enor mous depth of over twenty-one inches— 21 19-100. This is equivolent in mea sure to eighteen thousand one huudred and three barrels per acre, and its weight to two thousand three hundred and eighty two tons for the same acre.— More than half of this enormous amount of water was precipitated in two days, beginning the 17th and 18th, during the prevalence of the cyclone or tornado. The writer continues : To get a clearer idea of the vastness of this rain fall, let us assume that the St. John’s river drains only six miles on ei ther side from its mouth to Dunn’s creek, and then include all between Dunn’s lake and the Ocklawaha to Enterprise. .This includes about uinety townships, and is considerably less than one fourth of the area actually drained by the St. John’s ; but in this limited space the amount of rain fell during the time specified above was suficient to form a lake forty miles long and fifty miles wide, with a uniform depth of twenty- eight feet four inches. St. John’s River.—This noble river is higher than it has been in thirty years, and we see no evidence of abatement in its waters. People who built at low wa ter mark find themselves surrounded with water. From all that we can learn we are led to the belief that at least one half of the cotton crop in this section has been destroyed by the late gales.— The planters have sustained very seri ous damages in the loss of the potato and corn crops, which must necessarily bring much distress. The Thomasville Enterprise reports as follows, on the cotton prospect of that section : The Cotton Prosped.—Our farmers report the prospect as anything but prom ising in this section. The boll worm continues its ravages, which in some lo calities amount to almost a total destruc tion of the young bolls. The storm al so did considerable damage by blowing down the stalks, whipping off the bolls and forms, and muddying and scattering the open cotton. Besides this the top crop, Which promised well a month ago, seems to be doing but little, and without an improvement, with a favorable and late fall, it will prove a failure. An in telligent farmer told ns that he did not believe the cotton crop of Thomas coun ty would be more than half as great as that of last year. Another, who is farm ing npon the beat lands in this section, planted for 150 bales, hat now hopes for only 80. Upon the same lands last year, with less artificial appliances, 125 bales were realized. New Advertisements. HT R. IU RADWAYS READY RELIEF CURES THE WORST PAINS In from one to Twenty Minute*. NOT ONE HOUR after reading this advertisement need any one SUFFER WITH PAIN. laivay'i Ready Relief Is a Care far every rim. It was the first and is THE ONLY PAIN REMEDY that instantly stops the moat excruciating pains, allays Inflamation, and cures Conges tions, whether of the Lungs, Stomach, Bow els. or other glauds or organs, by one appli cation. Iu from one to twenty minutes, no matter, how violeut or excruciating the pain the Rheumatic, Bed-ridden, Infirm. Crippled, Nervous, Neuralgic, or prostrated with dis ease may suffer. The application of the Ready Relief to the part or parts where the pain or difliculty exists will afford ease and comfort. Twenty drops in half a tumbler of water will in a few moments cure Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Sick Headache, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Colic, Wind in the Bowells. and al Internal Pains. Travelers should always carry a bottle of tt-.dway’s Ready Relief with them. A few drops in water wiil prevent sickness or pains from change of water. It is better than French Brandy or Bitters as a stimulant. FEVER AND AGUE. Fever and Ague cured for fifty eents. There is not a remedial agent in this world that will cure Fevei and Ague, and all other Malarious Bilious, Scarlet, Typhoid, Yellow, and other Fevers (aided by Radway’s Pills) so quick as Kadway’s Ready Relief. Fifty cents a bottle. HEALTHT~BEAUTY!! Strong and pure rich blood—increase of flesh and weight—clear skin and beautiful complexion secured to all. DR. lADWAY'S SABSAPAIILIM BESOLVE.VT Has made the most astonishing cures so quick so rapid are the changes the body un dergoes, under the influence of this truly wonderful Medicine, that Every day an Increase in Flesh * and Weight is Seen and Felt. TMMB t. SCK.t r BLOOMS J»lK/f7AH Every drop of the Sarsapariliau Resolvent communicates through the Blood, Sweat, Urine, and other fluids and juices of the sys tem the vigor of life, for it repairs the wastes of the body with new and soud material. Scrof ula, Syphilis, Consumption, Glandular dis ease, Ulcers in the throat, Mouth, Tumors, Nodes in the Glands and other parts of the system, Sore Eyes, Strumorous discharges from the Ears, and the worst forms of Skin diseases, Eruptions, Fever Sores, Scald Head, RiDg Worm, Salt Rheum, Erysipelas. Acne, Black Spots. IForms in the Flesh, Tumors, Cancers iu the Womb, and a'l weakening and painful discharges. Night Sweats, Loss ot Sperm and all wastes of the life principle are within the curative range of this wonder of Modern Chemistry, and a few days use will prove to any person using it for either of these forms of disease its potent power to cure them. Nat only does the Sarsaparillian Resolven excejs all known remedial agents in the cure of Chronic, Scrofulons, Constitutional, and Skin diseases; but it is the only positive cure for Kidney and Bladder Complaints, Urinary, and Womb diseases, Gravel. Diabetes, Dropsy, Stoppage of Water, Incontinence of Urine Bright’s Disease, Albuminuria, and in all ca ses where there are brick-dust deposits, or the water is thick, cloudy, mixed with substances like the white of au egg, or threads like white silk, or there is a morbid, dark billious ap pearance. and white bone-dust deposits, and when there is a pricking, burning sensation when passing water, and pain in the Small of tbe Back and along the Loins. DR. RADWAY’S PERFECT PURGATIVE PILLS, perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse, and Strengthen. Kadway’s Pills, for the cure of all disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Head ache, Constipation, Costiveness, Indigestion. Dyspepsia, Billiousness, Bilious Fever, In flammation of the Bowels, Piles, and all De rangements of the Internal Viscera. War ranted to effect a positive cure. Purely Veg etable, containing no mercury, minerals, or deleterious drugs. Observes the following symptoms resulting from Disorders of the Digestive Organs: A few doses of Radway’s Pills will free the system from all the above named disorders. Price, 25 cents per Box. Sold by Druggists. Read “False and True.” Send one letter- stamp to Rad way & Co., No 87 Maiden Dane, New York. Information worth thousands will be sent you. r July 4 1871. 26 ly. FOUND AT LAST! An Antidote for Fever & Ague. From Charleston.—Charleston Sept. 7.—There have been three deaths from yellow fever daring tbe last twenty-four boars. LawrenctviUe Court-House Destroyed.— Lawrenceville, Gwinnett county, Court house was recently destroyed. All tbe county records perished. The most strenuous efforts were made by tbe citi zens to Bave the most valuable papers, but the conflgration spread with such rapidity that it was found impossible to save anything. There is said to be no doubt about its having been the work of incendiaries. One mas having matches and a pistol in his pocket has been ar rested, and is supposed to be a member of tbe gan£ who fired tbe building.— qph* loss is bpavy.—Atlanta Era. Findlay Iron Works! Mercaturs, Barnwell District, S. C., July 12,1870. Mr. B. F. Moise: Dear Sir:—In reply to your question as to what has been the success of your Fever and Ague Pills that have been sold by us, we would say as far as we know they have given en tire satisfaction. In one particular case, that Ben 8hephard, to whom we sold one box, tells us that his wife who has had chills aud fever for the past two years, and found no relief un til she took your pills, since which she has had no return for more than two months, and is now able for the first time in two years to at tend to her work, and was never better in her life. We shall continue to recommend them. Yours, respectfully, W. T. BLANTON &. SON. I am desirous of prescribing yonr Fever and Ague Pills in my practice. Have you an agent in this neighborhood? DR. JOHN 8. JAMES. HEAD OF THIRD STREET, SIGN of “THE NEW FLAG.*’ MACON, GEORGIA. THE LARGEST IN THE STATE. SKILLED LABOR AND MODERN MACHINERY. ALL WORK WARRANTED. Northern Prices for Machinery Duplicated. STEAM ENGINES OF ANY KINO AND SIZE. FINDLAY’S IMPROVED CIRCULAR SAW MILL. MERCHANT MILL GEARING, mod approved kinds; SUGAR MILLS aud SYRUP KETTLES ; IRON FRONTS, WINDOW SILLS aud LINTELS; CASTINGS of IKON and BRASS of every description, and MACHINERY of all kinds to order. IRON RAILING, OF E LEGANT DESIGNS, and at PRICES that DEFYCOMPETITION. CF* No CHARGE FOR NEW PATTERNS in furnishing outfit of Machinery for Saw or Merchant Mills. .<S1 Repairing, in all its Branches. Competent Workmen furnished upon application to overhaul Engines, Saw Mills, etc., in any section of the country. FINDLAY’S SAW-DUST GRATE BAR SHOULD BE USED BY EVERY SAWMILL PROPRIETOR. Millstones, Belting, Circular Saws, Steam Fittings, Babbitt Metal, etc. MADE TO ORDER. TERMS, CASH OR APPROVED PAPER. The Great Eclipse Screw Cotton Press! I have long felt the want of such an article in my practice, as a substitute for quinine, and shall use them with confidence. J.P. BUCKLEY, M.D. r & p Aug. 30 177J. p81r 34 4t. L. J- Goil martin. John Flannery L. J. G0ILMARTIN A CO. COTTON FACTORS —AND— General Commission Merchants, BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA. Agents for Bradley’s Super Phosphate of Lime, Jewell’s Mills Yarns, Domestics, &<*. Bagging, Rope aud Iron Ties, always on baud. Market price paid for Wool, Dry Hides, Tal low and Wax. August 15,3® r 18 4«B,n Patented February 27tli, 1871, by FINDLAY & CRAIG. An ANTI-FRICTION SCREW- A MECHANICAL WONDER. This wonderful mechanical achievement in point of RA PIDITY and LIGHTNESS of DRAUGHT. STANDS WITHOUT A RIVAL, and is des tined at an early]day to supercede ALL OTHER Cotton Screws, be they fabricated of Wrought or Cast Iron. Since last fall, and before accenting Patent, we ad ed improvements and labor-saving con veniences, rendering it PERFECT in every particular. The screw, or pin, has a pitch, as fall, of 64 inches ; th it is, at every turn of the screw, follower block descends (or ascends, or the case may be) t>4 inches. The device of the tube or nut in which the screw works, is such as to materially reduce the friction, so great in the common screw ; thereby ren^ dering it an easy task for three hands to pack a bale of cotton in HALF THE TIME of ANY OTHER Iron Screw Press by horse power. When desirable, an ordinary mule can be substituted for three men without change of fixtures. (Screw Presses also arranged for water and steam power.) We claim for the “ECLIPSE < SIMPLICITY, STRENGTH, DURABILITY, RAPIDITY, LIGHT DRAUGHT, and STANDING ROOM at top of box, etc., etc.; ice pronounce it the BEST Screw Press IN THE WORLD, and res pectfully invite a public test with any and all other Screw Presses. To purchasers, we GUAR ANTEE SATISFACTION or REFUND PRICE MONEY. Orders daily received from dif ferent States attest its popularity even in infancy. To parties who may not desire such ra pidity in packing, we can supply them with the COMMO^I WROUGHT IRON SCREW of flue (slow) pitch, and warrant them equal to any otherJWmught Screw manufactured. But above all others, we recommend the strong, rapid, light draught “ECLIPSE.” Send for price list, etc. \ CRAIG’S PATEnFhORSE POWER, FOR DRIVING COTTON GINS- For Ginning Cotton, CRAIG’S HORSE POWER ia aa far in advance of the-ordinary Gin Gear as the ordinary Gin Gear is in advance of ALL THE OTHER HORSE POWER now ad vertised and manufactured in the State, We are WILLING and ANXIOUS to PROVE this, if allowed an opportunity of a PUBLIC TEST. The above Horse Power has proven, by actual teat, to ha the roost pimple, durable, economy ical and of ligh est draught, of any Horse Powiryet introduced to the public. REQUIRES NO MECHANIC TO ADJUST IT. Any farmer can pot in position and operation in several hours, as it sits upon the ground. The Gin may be located at either end of the Gin-house, or directly over the machine, as preferred. WE GUARANTEE WORKMANSHIP, MATERIAL AND PERFORMANCE And further, we will legally obligate ourselves to REFUND PRICE MONEY where ma chine fails to perform satisfactorily. We challenge any and all Inventors and Makers of Horse Powers, to meet us in an actual teat, and produce the eqnal ot this Machine for driving a Cotton Gin. We manufactnre two sizes—No. 1 for driving 50 and 60 Saw Gin ; No. 2 for 40 and 45 Saw Gin. This Power will speed a Gin, having an 8 ineh pulley, (standard siae) THREE HUN DRED REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE—calculating the mnlee to make three rounds per minute or Two Hundred and fifty Revolutions |with the males making only two] and a half rounds per minute—(a very lew estimate.) Send for CIRCULAR containing PRICE LIST and TESTIMONIALS. R. FINDLAY’S SONS. t Jane 13, 7U|dU7 Xros Works. Xmob. «».