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OCR COBBESPO^DEICE.
For the Ge wgia Citiien.
Supreme Court Decision.
Dr. Andrews —lndulge me in s lew more
thoughts and reflections upon the decision
of the Supreme Court at Macon, in the Bank
case. I propose to be brief. The legisla
ture of Georgia grants a charter for a bank.
The time fixed for its expiration is twenty
years. The capital stock to be paid in is
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The stockholders meet, elect a President,
Cashier, and Directors; and these officers,
under the solemn sanctions of an oath, state
the capital stock has been paid in, and the
terms of the cltarter complied with. On the
faith of this oath, they are permitted to g°
forward and do a banking business They
issue their bills, iciih (he pledge on their /dee
that the stockholders are bmmd for their ulti
mate redemption. Time travels ou. All
things seem to move smoothly for two or
five years, when all at once the announce
ment is made, that the bank is unable to re
deem its bills in coin or its equivalent. Five
years of suspense and vexation are the bill
holders’ consolation and lot. Ten years, you
■will perceive, of the twenty, (the length of
the charter,) is gone. The billholder com
mences suit according to the terms of the
charter granted, to wit: that the stockhold
ers are bound for the ultimate redemption of
their bills. In the mean time the Bank and
stockholders select and appoint an Assignee,
and place the Bank and its assets in his
hands to dispose of, for the benefit of the
stockholders. Immediately after this, the
judgment of forfeiture is declared. What
next? The legislature very properly ap
point an Assignee for both billholder and
stockholder. Now, mind yon, the Bank
was chartered twenty years. Five years of
that time are consumed in putting oat its
bills, and after it fails to redeem its bills*
five years mere are consumed by holding
out hopes that keep alive the patience, long
suffering and expectation of the billholder.
Ten years, now, of the twenty, are gon*.
The billholder commences his suit, and
pleads the ultimate redemption of the bills
in the terms of the charter and the contract
made with the billholder or people. Court
comes on and passes by again and again.
Trick and legal device is used to delay jus
tice. Justice is delayed. Twenty years ex
pire, and with it the billholder*’ rights!
What a compound idea of fraud f for they
commenced banking upon what they never
bad, and after they had done this, they re
fused to take up the bills they persuaded the
people to take, and then ingloriously and
dishonestly repudiated their own contract
by vexatious delay until the twenty years
expire*, and that pure, innocent and virtuous
Court decided that a bank was not bound to
redeem its bills after its charter expired l An
Assignee is appointed by the Legislature.
Who created th* necessity for an Assignee ?
Why, the stockholders’ agents, the officers of
the bank; and now these slockholdars turn
round and complain, because they, by their
own action, compelled the Legislature to do
what it did do. Again they say it was not
fraudulently managed. Then the converse
must be tru*. It was honestly managed , and
yet the bills ot the P. and M., with its large
and ample means, are still unredeemed. If
the bank had been honestly managed, with
the ample m ans spoken of, it would have
redeemed its bills. The stockholders can
have no right to complain because the Leg
islator.- nvpoinu-o an A-**ignee, for the Leg
islature only e<mjirn.ed tie r appointment.
Dut these atirewd stockhoide'S know the
opinion held by that Assignee, as to this
iniquitous doctrine of extinguishment t The
otj>*Ct ands fliee of an assignee is two-fold,
to protect both the interest of the creditor
and debtor, and see that the means passing
through his hands are properly applied. I
cannot see how the ample means of my
friend, on whose note my name stands, as
security, could relieve me until that note
was paid. Now, if the stockholders are se
curity for the Liiis, (os admitted ,) how A c the
ample means of the Bank reiieve the stock
holders, so long as the bills are out and un
redeemed? The hidden venom in the shafts
aimed at Judge Lumpkin will fall harmless
at his feet. He is pure and virtuous, and
above suspicion. When Judge Lumpkin
refused to preside because he was interested,
he imitated the example of the virtuous and
learned Marshal, for before Chief Justice
Marshal would preside and determine the
constitutionality or unconstitutionality of
the Bank of the United States, he ordered
the stock he owned to be’ sold at public out
cry. Had Judge Lumpkin's father-in-law
been interested some thirty or forty thou
sand dollars in a decision he bad to make,
think you he would have presided? Nos
He would have seen his arm wither, and
felt the blood as it run back cold to his
heart, first He is a Judge of stern integri
ty; a Judge that cannot, by any circum
stance however imposing and powerful, be
awed or driven from the honest convictions
of his head and the settled purpose of hi*
soul. The sanction of that foul, deep and
damning decision will be as pestiferous to
the morality of the Law and the rights or
the people, as the presen.-e and withering
influence of his Satanic majesty in the Gar
den of Farad ise. LEG AR E.
For the Georgia Citizen.
The H ood Market.
Mr. Editor .—Should not the Mayor and
Council take into consideration some means
by which the present high price of Fire
Wood may be reduced ? lam informed hat
the best Wood brought to the market, is
from the east side of the rirer, and jet a
Bridge-toll is exacted on Wood Wagons,
that must either deter them from trussing,
or if they do cross, the foliage must come
out of the pockets of the consumers of the
Wood. In the meaD while, the wood haulers
on the west side of the rirer, take advantage
of the necessities of the people by compel
ling yhein (during every cold spell of wealh
er,) to pay at the rates of from six to eight
dollars per cord, thereby causing the poor to
suffer from cold, and those that are better off,
to te burthened with a tr.p'e tax whea
Co' l pared to the small amount of benefit re
sulting from the to’lage on wood wagon..
Would it not be better, Mr. Editor, (or the
Council to es>at•li.-.h, n some way, the price
by the Cord and have those prices so fixed,
by the quality of the article, ;n order to pre
vent the imposition that is now being prac
tised upon the public, by selling swamp
wo. and, roften stuff or green pine at such ex
orb.tan* rates? Taking the present season
as a Criterion. we n.ust lep* nd Solely upon
tli* for a supply, as *h.re is so great
a quantify of Cotton to he transported over
the diff.-rent Rul Roads, hat they cannot
furnish Cars fir the hauling of wood.
Now, in order to have some established
price,! would suggest that the City appoint
-Ui'p-etor of Wood, whose duty if
_ “2° mp uie and price every load of
r ia the city, according
quantity, qi,jd U y
fine ou any who may olfer a fftr ;al {.
witnonr y] kaT<!
WCL in regaM t„ Har. Fodder
■nd Prov.doca, and why not as to* wood ?
For the, Georgia Citizen.
Mnnical Soiree.
Mr. Editor Permit us, through your
columns, to express, as far as language can,
the pleasure we experienced, last night, in
listening to the music of .the “ Macon Har
monic Society,” at Mrs. Lamar's, conducted
by Mr. E. Hasslocher. The entire perform
ance would do no discredit to Niblos, or
the Academy of Music in New York. We
do not mean to say we have not listened to
better music there, for we have heard all the
musical celebrities who, for the last ten
years, have visited this country ; yet, for
“ home manufacture,” we have never heard
it equalled anywhere.
Mr. Hesslocher deserves much credit for
bis z**al and great labor in preparing those
delightful entertainments, and for contribut
ing so much to the cultivation of a correct
musical taste in our city. He seems not
only fully qualified for such an undertaking,
but he has the bearing of an accomplished
gentleman. He is an elegant composer, and
a highly-finished performer, and is said, by
his pupils, to be one of the best and most
successful of teachers.
Where all performed their parts so well, it
might seem invidious to specify: yet some,
having prominent parts assigned them, en
joyed a better opportunity of exhibiting
their peculiar talents and skill. Os these,
we cannot forbear mentioning the names of
Misses Gussie Lamar, Margaret Armstrong,
Marian Cotton, Jennie Conner, Ellen Wash
ington, and Messrs. L&nier and Waldau. In
skill of execution, ‘and in artistic power,
Miss Lamar approximates the wonderful vo
cal pyrotechnics of Jenny Lind, as Miss Cot
ton does Alboni in Ae softness and liquid
sweetness of her gracefully flowing and gen
tly swelling notes. Miss Armstrong is not
only a beautiful performer on the piano, but
a splendid composer of music. Almost en
tirely untaught by masters, she plays with
nearly the accuracy and precision of the
most carefully instructed, without their arti
ficial restraint, and her compositions bear
the marks of genius possessed by few even
of the most gifted. Miss Conner appeared
almost as a Dew star in the song galaxy that
for years has been the pride of onr beautiful
city, and she bids fair to equal her brilliant
sisters of song. Stars will rise and set Just
as “the beautiful Irene” sinks gracefully
into the rosy sea of matrimonial bliss, this
“bright particular star” rises in beauty, to
gladden us with her melody. Although
Miss Washington yet strikes the notes with
a timid hand, experience will render her a
skilful and pleasing performer.
If shades of the departed ever revisit our
world, we are sure that of Nicholson must
have been hovering round the gush of en
trancing melody as it floated out upon the
ifcivery notes of young Lanier’s magic flute.
Mr. Waldau plays the violin with a master
hand.
Altogether, the Soiree prevented an array
of talent and beauty rarely met with on any
occasion. The musical club consists of about
twenty-five members, ladies and gentlemen,
and we hope, for Mr. Hasslocher’s benefit,
they may, during the winter, delight all our
citizens with their splendid performances.
Th*ir p eces consisted of gems from the ope
ras of Somnambula, Der Freishutz, Linda,
Norma, Zampa and 11 Trovatore, besides du
etts, fantasias, and a beautiful song by Mr.
Hasslocher, so sweetly sung by Miss Con
ner.
We would not forget the generosity of
Mrs. John Lamar, who not ouly opens the
spacious halls of her elegant mansion for so
beautiful and noble a purpose, but provides
the performers with a profusion of all that
can gratify their tastes and stimulate their
skill, in a display of the choicest refresh
ments, both substantial and spiritual.
Xoc. 24. L N. L.
For tlie Citizen.
Re-Opening or flie African
Slave Trade.
Dr. Andrews j— l have just read an
“Argument- again Si ‘lie policy of re-open
ing the African Slave Trade/’ by Robert
G. Harper, of Covington, Ga., and con
fess my disappointment in the perusal
thereof, for the reason, that what he calls
an argument is destitute of the attri
butes of cause and effect. Besides, his
cause and effect are incompatible, and
therefore void of strength. It abounds
with cunningly devised abuse of those
who dare assert the wrongs of the South,
and denounce the infamous laws that
make the external trade of the Southern
man’s property, the fruits of murder and
robbery. The warm heart of this Mr.
Harper, seems to feel for, and appreciate
Northern sentiment almost to the exclu
sion of Southern sentiment, and I appre
hend he has never appreciated, nor ever
will appreciate the outraged, feelings of
the South. Much is said in this said-to
be argument, about Federal absorption ,
and State depletion. The idea that the
North would be outraged, if the laws
making the trade in a Southern man’s
property murdt r and robbery, were re
pealed, is of Northern origin and feeling,
and ought to be treated as such. His
thoughts, his sentiments and advice in
culcate the counsel of cowards. The pro
position to repeal the law making the
external trade in Africans murder and
rubbery, does not necessarily include the
idea of re-opening the African Slave
Trade, for the reason that the State may
refuse their importation by burdensome
prohibitions. The Federal Government
could not tax higher than ten dollars a
head.
Mr. Harper, in what he is pleaied to
call his Constitutional argument, staggers
on toe eighth Section of the first Article,
stumbles over the 9ih Section of the
same article, and, as he imagines, secure
ly seat-* himself on the 3d clause of the
Nth Soition of the first Article, viz:
“To reguiate Commerce with toreign
nations and among the several States,
and v ith the Indian tribes.” The error
into which the gentleman has fallen, is
this: he jumps to the conclusion, that
the power to regulate, includes the right
to destroy. The framers of the Consti
tution never contemplated the idea of
giving t > Congress ;he right to destroy
the trade in horses and negroes. fur they
knew every reasonable man nuw
kn<*ws,) that to cut off the trade in pro
pert\, v- a* to destroy the property itself.
If unde * the to regulate commerce
with fo:*eipi tiHtions, Congress has the
right to abolish or prevent the external {
trade in A'riennß, she certainly has the I
right to abolish or prevent lie internal
trade in Africans, foe the power to tog
ulate cogr. Tree among the States (in the
gam* cimuH) ia M clearly rUUgt fd m
the power to regulate commerce with
foreign nations. The truth is, the exer
cise of the first power, includes the idea
to regulate both internal and external
trade. So, if the power to regulate
means prohibition, prevention and de
struction to the external trade of Slave
ry, as a matter of course it means pre
vention and destruction to the trade of
slavery among the States. To be plain,
if Congress, under that clause of the Con
stitution, has the right to prevent me
from buying a negro in Africa, Congress
has the same right to prevent me from
buying a negro in Virginia, and selling
him in Georgia. Mr. Harper says the
power in Congress to destroy the trade
of property, whether it be external or
internal, is a grant specific and to be’
found in the clause of the Constitution,
giving to Congress the power to regulate
commerce with foreign nations and
among the several States, ike.; and to
sustain his position and construction, he
calls to his aid some great names, among
them Jefferson and Madison. Mr. Madi
son himself never was able, and never did
point out the clause in the Constitution,
that delegated the power to Congress,
preventing the external trade in Slavery,
and stigmatizing it as murder and rob
bery. When driven to the wall and
asked to locate the power in the Consti
tution, Mr. Madison failed, and always
showed signs of confusion and inferiori
ty, in debate on that question. Mr.
Jefferson’s sentiments about slavery, are
justly obnoxious to every true Southern
head and heart. Does Mr. Harper, like
Mr. Jefferson and his compeers, believe
slavery “amoral, social and political
evil?” for slavery is the legitimate result
of the African Slave Trade. The gen
tleman labors to show, that an infamous
cause has produced a most righteous ef
fect. That it is wrong to buy the negro
in Africa and bring him to the United
States, yet it is right to buy and hold
his children, here as slaves. The gentle
man ought to have informed himself of
this fact, that the South never did, but
in one instance, give her sanction to
those laws, and then she was cheated
by the haters of slavery, smuggling it
in during the Missouri excitement—
the time was when that out rage a North
refused to admit Missouri, because
she was a slave State! Don’t you think
Northern sentiment ought to be consulted
now, as then ? The gentiemau’s Geo
graphical, and I apprehend his historical
knowledge, is at fault, when he asserts,
that the odious distinction made be
tween the Slave Trade and Slavery, was
made by the South. The South, with Rut
ledge in the lead, denied in the Conven
tion that framed and adopted the Consti
tution, that either the trade of slavery,
or slavery itself, was infamous.
GEORGIA.
(To be Continued.)
Portraits of Govs. Clatii and
Troup.
Miu-idoivillb, Nov. 20ilj, 1008
Upon entering the Senate chamber this
morning, the first ohject that caught my eye
was the new life-sized portrait of Governor
John Ciark, which had been raised to its
plane to the left of the President’s desk since
the adjournment yesterday. The artist is Mr.
Wm. R Freeman, of Augusta, and his task—
though undertaken under circumstances of
great difficulty, the character of his subject,
and a dilapidated indifferent painting, which
he found in the possession of a descendant,
being bis only guide—has been performed in
a manner highly creditable to his profession
al skill. The portrait is said, by the old
friends of Gov. Clark, to be a good likeness.
Th**o!oring is better than that of most mod
ern paintings, while the position, back
ground, &a, have been selected and execu
ted with commendable taste. He is repre
sented as having just risen from his desk in
the Executive Chamber, and, with cloak a
round him, and cane in hand, is about sally
ing forth, when he is suddenly arrested by
the entrance of a visitor. The frame is mas
sive and well knit; the face strong and de
cided, showing, however, more of the ani
mal than of the intellectual attributes. The
eye is its beat feature, and is penetrating and
resolute. lie looks, for all the world, a
man destined for the troublous times of a
rough and uncultivated age. Such as he
was.
To the right of the President’s desk, may
be seen his illustrious competitor and peer in
the stormiest days of our history—Governor
George M. Troup. This, too, has been eroc
tedsince the adjournment of the last session,
and the State is indebted fur the contribu
tion to our gallery of Statesmen, to Mr. J.
Miiier, a young and talented German artist,
now resident at Alanta. The main figure is
a copy from an approved likeness, now in
the possession of the family, and is executed
with great fidelity. The artist, we think,
lias made a mistake in introducing upon the
canvass so great a numb-r of accompani
ments. sneh as draper y, book-eases, tables,
chairs, boxes, papers, old files, <fce., with
which the figure of his subjct is surrounded
in the greatest prolusion. They attract tee
eye and lessen greatly the effect of the por
trait In a painting of the sort, the fewer
the objects introduced, the better.
With this very hasty comment upon two
very worthy specimens of artistic skill, I pass
on to the Legislative labors of tit? day.—
MiUedgeville Correspondent of Sav. Republi
can.
“Gleason’* Wkekty Linb-ox-Battle
Ship.”—We have received the first num
ber of the new pictorial weekly pnper, bear
ing this title. It is handsomely printed on
a double sheet, tastefully ornamented with
a newly designed border. Mr. Gleason has
the experience, the enterprise, the tact, and
the capital, requisite to sustain a good and
successful paper, and a long and prosperous
vovage may be safely predicted for the
“ Line-of-battle Ship.” The Hon. A. J. 11.
Duganne has contributed some spirited ver
ses for this initial number, which indicate
the course that will be pursued :
“Stand by the helm! The breakers shun
Os faction, clique, or creed;
With neutral course, by stars and sun,
To various porp, we speed.
With geins and fruit—a generous freight,
We ll crown each golden trip,
While myriad hearts exultant wait
Our Line of-Battle Ship.
“Stand bv the guns ! A broadside sweep
Through walls of ancient wrongs :
And bear our lee-guns on the deep,
Each true born-poet’s songs !
Let noble thoughts I#* bombshells bright,
And Wit, like grape-shot skip.
And Humor's rockets arch with light
Our Line-of Battle Ship ! ’
Xew York Commercial Advertiser.
A Lessox ix Exdearirq Terms: —“My dear
est Maria,” wrote a quite affectionate husband
to bis wife, atrouir-rniud*-d woman. She wrote
him back, “Dear, let n.e correct eiiher joilr j
grammar or your morals. You sddr- ss me, ;
‘My dearest Maria.’ Am Ito suppose you have
other ‘dear Marias?” 1
From the Constitutionalist, Ai>® 21.
Death of Ex-Gov. Win. Schely.
A few days ago we communicated the unwel
come intelligence that this excellent gentleman
was very ill at hia residence in this city. We
have now the still more painful duty of announc
ing that he is no more. He died yesterday &£•
ternoon.
Mr. Schlet has held important relations to
the people of Georgia. In 1825, he was elected
by the legislature, Judge of the Superior Court
of the M ddle Circuit, and held that position
until 1828. In 1830, he represented this coun
ty in the ligilature. In 1832, he was elected
to Congress, and served during the sessions of
1833, ’34 and ‘35; and in 1835, was elected
Governor of the State, and filled that office un
til 1831.
“In his first message to the legislature of Geor
gia, he strongly recommended the construction
of the Western & Atlantic railroad. To this
work he devoted all the time he could possibly
spare from the discharge of the duties of the Ex
ecutive office, and had the honor of signing the
law authorising the construction of this road.”
Mr. Schley was at one time the Grand Mas
■ ter ol the Grand Lodge of Georgia, and for a
bout twenty-five years from its organization, in
1822,the Grand High Priest of ihe Royal Arch
Chapter of the State, and was its first presiding
officer,and among the oldest Masons in the State.
He was President of the Medical College of
Georgia, at the time of his death.
Mr. Schley was born in the city of Frederick,
in the state of Man land, on the 10ih of Decem
ber, 1786 —was educated in the academies at
Louisville and Augusta—and admitted to prac
tice law in this city, in 1812.
He was an able counsellor; an upright citizen
an affable gentleman; and a devoted husband
and parent.
In this hastily written notice, we pretend
not to recount the many important measures of
State and local policy, with which Mr. Schley
has been identified. He was thoroughly a Geor
gian, and no measure, calculated to develope the
resources of onr State, or add to its interest or
honor, ever failed to meet his cordial approba
tion and zealous support.
“ Full of years and full of honors,” he ha*
passed away.
His funeral ceremonies will take place at the
Baptist Church on to-morrow (Monday) morn
ing at 11 o’clock. The masonic fraternity are
requested to meet .at the Masonic Hall, at 9 t
o’clock, on Monday, to pay the last tribute ot
respect to the memory of their Past Grand
Master.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, NOV. 26,1858.
Macon Cotton market. —Prices
range from 10 to 11, in this market.
Apologetical.—Yesterday being Gov.
Brown's Thanksgiving Day, and the day of
the Fireman’s parade, (which lust took off
some of our “ Young Americans,”) in addi
tion to a series of annoying accidents to our
power Press, during the week, we were
not able to issue this number of our paper
in season for some of the mails that left this
morning and last night. Hope for better
luck next time.
Musical Soiree.—The second Musical
Soiree of the Macon Harmonic Society, of
which Prof. Hasslocher is leader, came off
on Tuesday evening last, at the residence of
Mrs. John Lamar, in this city. We regret
that it was out of our power to accept the
Professor's polite invitation to be present at
the delightful entertainment, as we had
hoped and intended, but a friend, who was
present, has made amends for us, in the
handsome description he lias given of the
affair, as published in our columns to-day.
Interred.—The remains of Mr. M. D.
Barnes, whose death at Northampton, Mass.,
a short time since, we have before recorded,
were brought to this city, on Weednosday
night last, by Express, and on yesterday in
terred in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Fire.—Another fire occurred in this city
on Wednesday evening last, about 3 o’clock.
A Kitchen on the lot of Mrs. Ives, near the
Methodist church, was consumed.
New Music. —We are indebted to Prof.
H. Schreiner, for a copy of Sheet Music, en
titled Col. Bond's Grand March , composed
by Mr. S., and on sale at Messrs. Virgins.
Correction. —The Ringgold (Ga.) Ex
press, who implicated Rev. T. R. Purslev, in
the charge of Forgery against Preacher
Ware, has since exhonorated Mr. Pursley
from all participation in the affair. There
was no foundation for the report that Mr.
P. had absconded, &c.
South Western Circuit. —The Hon.
Alex. A. Allen, lias announced himself a
candidate for re-election to the office of
Judge of the South Western Circuit. He
will run as an independent candidate against
two others who are party nominees.
New Advertisements.
Mr. It. It Hutchins offers a very
extensive Stock of Crockery and China
Ware importations and of various styles of
elegance and beauty.
Mr nenry Horn is now in the “full
tide of successful experiment'’ with his new*
Eating and Refreshment saloon. He has
oysters from N. Y. Biunswickand Savan
nah game from the far west, fresh fish of ev
ery kind from the great deep and its tribu
taries, Champaigne from the orchards of
New Jersey, and luxuries from all parts of
the world. Disappointment to those who
calls is pronounced an impossiblity.
Messrs Greer and Freeman are hav
ing a rush of business,at tliier elegan t Fami
ly Store. Commerce Row, a few doors below
the Big Eagle.
ir B -stick and Kein are closing out
their brilliant stock of Dry Goods, at New
York cost for cash, preparatory to the disso
lution of partnership on the Ist January-
Now is the time to get the best of bargains
at this well known and well established
Bazaar of fashion and Repository of Taste.
li. G. Harper's I'aniphlet.
We acknowledge the receipt of a pamph
let of 78 pages, from the “Atlanta Ameri
can” press, entitled, “An Argument against
the Policy of Re-opening the African Slave
Trade,” by Robert G. Harper, Esq. On a
; cursory examination of this document, we
came to the conclusion that the author has
■ undertaken a task, to which his abilities
were not equal. His ‘•argument,” both
| from expediency and constitutionality, seems
! to us to yield the whole question of Slavery
j to Northern sentiment, and will boar with
as much force against the “peculiar institu
tion” itself as against the re-opening of the
traffic with Africa. With this impression,
we handed our copy of the pamphlet to a
friend well versed in constitutional law and
true Southern instincts, for examination and
review, and he has kindly favored us with
an opening article on the subject, which w ill
he found in to-day's paper. We arc much
mistaken, if Mr. Harper does not live to sec
!he day when he will regret having publish
ed this essay. It has too much of the north
ern taint, to suit even our Union- loving pro
clivities.
Farson Graves. —This reverend gentleman
wishes the press to state that Eld. Howel and
the party in the F:rst Church, that prostitu.
ted the sacred name and authority of the
Church to slander and defame Liui have beeu
excluded irom the general Association of
Ifiddlt XIBAMKII
State Aid.
The Savannah Republican of Wednesday
has an editorial on the subject of State Aid
to Rail Roads, in which the “cloven foot”
of self-interest sticks out so far, that no one
can be deceived by the disguise it assumes.
The statistics presented, cf the New York
and other Rail Roads, intended to show that
the stocks of such roads as have received aid
from the State are below par, proves too
much, because, in consequence of a wild
speculation in such enterprizes, North and
West, none of these roads have paid a fair
dividend to the stockholders. The private
companies not aided by the State, are no bet
ter off than those aided. Many of these
roads were not necessary—they were not
“legitimate enterprizes.” But the Repub-
lican does not condescend to tell us, what
increase in the value of landed property, in
New York, and what additional revenue
from taxation, jvas the result ox the two
great roads from the Lakes to the Metropo
lis. Suppose the great State of New York
had sunk twenty millions of dollars by her
investment in these public works, we doubt
very much if she has lost a cent by it. The
annual increased revenue from taxation,
would probably be equal to ten per cent,
yearly on the capital.
But let the Republican take up the statis
tics of Georgia in reference to Rail Roads,
and their effect to enhance the value of
property as a better criterion by which to
judge of the policy of State aid to our roads.
Mr. Harris, of Glynn, quotes from the pub
lic documents, to prove the great benefits
which the State of Georgia has derived from
those improvements. The increase in the
taxable value of Cherokee Georgia lands,
from the passage of the State Road through
that section, cannot be overlooked or ig
nored, in the examination of this subject.
No doubt the Republican thinks that
“Georgia has contributed the last dollar she
should contribute to building of Rail Roads.”
“Savannah is satisfied,” — “Savannah Rail
Roads ask no aid from the State,” <fce., is
the selfish language of the Republican. Hav
ing secured State aid to her Main Trunk
Rail Road, at the expense of Brunswick and
for her peculiar benefit, w r e should have sup-
would have been willing
for other portions of the State to be aided,
inasmuch as no project of the kind can now
be built, that will not, to some extent, help
our only sea-port city!
But selfishness is always short-sighted,
and the opposition of Savannah and its press
to the Macon & Brunswick Road receiving
aid from the State, only serves to show that
the latter Road is feared as a formidable
rival to the Central Road, and this proves,
that in the judgment of the Savannah Rail
Road men, themselves, the Macon & Bruns
wick Road is an enterprize of the greatest
magnitude and importance. Else why does
it meet with such opposition from that quar
ter? Echo answers, why !
On this subject of State aid, however, we
notice the most bare-faced inconsistency,
among all those who rank themselves as op
ponents of the principle of “State aid.”
Why, the most of these very men are clam
orous for State aid to a thousand projects
w hich have no claim to be considered of gen
eral interest. Witness the proposed appre
ciations to Athens College, and to denomi
national and medical institutions—to private
gentlemen for Compilations of Laws, Books
of Forms, and Books of “Statistics” ! Why,
there is no end to “State aid” to public and
private enterprizes—some of them very
laudable, and others of veiy doubtful expe
diency and benefit, except to a few interest
ed recipients of the public favor! Now.
consistency would seem to require of these
men, to cut off all these wild and extrava
gant ways of squandering the public money,
and go their death against the whole of
them, if indeed they are, in principle, op
posed to State aid. Otherwise, it would be
the part of wise men to discriminate between
important and unimportant objects, and give
aid or withhold it, on the merits or demer
its of the objects proposed.
Mr. Atkinson's 11111 Defeated.
On Tuesday last, as the “special order of
the day,” the Bill of Mr. Atkinson, of Cam
den, striking out the 11th section of the 4tli
Article of the Constitution, prohibiting the
importation of slaves into Georgia, was ta
ken up and discussed. Messrs. Atkinson
of Camden, Billups of Morgan, and Slaugh
ter of Dougherty, spoke in favor of the Bill,
and Messrs. Spaulding of Mclntosh, Thom
as of Gwinnett, Reynolds of Newton, and
Tucker of Stewart, against. On taking the
vote, the Bill was lost by two votes—yeas
46, nays 48. This is pretty well, consider
ing the little time since the main question
involved in the Bill of Mr. Atkinson has
been before the people of Georgia. For our
part we are free to say, that we agree with
the Senator from Muscogee, when he re
marked that the section of the Constitution
of Georgia prohibiting foreign traffic in
Slavery, was a blot upon our escutcheon,
which ought to be wiped out without delay.
Senators in the opposition may blink this
question as they may, but the gist of the
whole matter consists in the degrading fact,
that a people believing Slavery to be right,
morally and politically, and boldly pro
claiming that right to the world, in theory
and in practise, tbould be pusillanimous
enough to write themselves down as “pi
rates and murderers,” in their own magna
chartn ! If the institution of domestic Slav
ery be right in the abstract, and right by
the ordinances of the Most High God.—if
the traffic between the Slave States, in this
species of property , for property it is recog
nized to be by the highest tribunal of the
country, be legitimate, proper and constitu
tional, by what process of reasoning do en
lightened Southern Senators arrive at the
conclusion, that it is immoral, unjust and
infamous, to carry on the same trade be
tween a State and a foreign power? Does
a change of the channel of commerce change
the principle of this question and reverse its
morality and justice? In our opinion, the
defeat of Mr. Atkinson’s Bill will be hailed
by the Northern abolitionists as a sure indi
cation of a radical change in the S uth on
a question of such vital importance to this
section. We cannot, therefore, help regret
ting that a small majority of the Senate of
Georgia should, by their votes on this Bill,
ghen even the semblance of countenance to
the opinion, that any such change in refer
ence to our domestic institutions exists
among our people.
Apart, however, from this humiliating
aspect of the case, there is another of policy
and expediency, which deserves a passing
thought. As things arc now tending in the
South, Slave labor is fast becoming a mo
nopoly in the hands of a small minority of
the }>cople. If wo recollect aright, only
about one third of the inhabitants of Geor
gia are slaveholders. The majority have
not been able, hitherto, to have a personal
interest in the institution, and from the
present scarcity and high price of serviles,
the prospect is getting worse, daily, of their
ever improving their condition, in this re
spect. A life of personal toil, without the
aid derived from the institution, is the set
tled inheritance of thousands, who fain
would shelter the evening of their days, by
an investment which would transfer that
necessary toil to shoulders and hands better
able to bear it than their own. But it is out
of the question, under the present circum
stances of supply and demand. The rich
man only is able to add to his investment
by the score and hundred, while the poor
man cannot buy enough for the ordinary
service of a respectable household, or for
the support of his family, after he has been
removed by death from their midst!
How, then, shall this growing evil be
checked? How shall the uhole people par
ticipate in the common benefits of the do
mestic institution? We know of no way
so obvious as the increase of the peculiar
labor of the South, until at least a majority
of the people can become personally inter
ested by right of ownership, therein —and
this, in onr opinion, can only be done bv
ronoving all restrictions against the intro
duction of slavery from foreign sources. On
the score of humanity we claim this. It will
be a blessing to the ‘African to take him
from his state of barbarism and transplant
him to a state of semi-civilization. It will
be a blessing to the white man to be able, in
his old age, to cease from hard toil—and it
will strengthen the institution, which we
believe to be of divine origin and authority,
by diffusing its blessings and its burthens
among all classes. If it be a good thing, as
we all agree, there can be no good reason
assigned, why a government instituted to
protect the rights of all, equally, should in
terpose its power, to establish an aristocracy
in the realm, for the almost exclusive pos
session and enjoyment of an inheritance
which should be common to every citizen.
And this we believe is the public sentiment
and feeling on the subject, as evinced, time
and again, by an attempt, on the part of
some of our legislators, to have a law passed
exempting one slave, or one family of slaves,
of every man’s property, from execution and
sale for debt. But even this mode of
strengthening the ties of the people to the
government, has failed of enactment, as if
it were thought, that a poor white man has
no business to have a servitor to wait in his
gates! But we will not now pursue the
thought into which we have been led, by
reading the debate in the Senate on Mr. At
kinson's proposition, and defeat of the mea
sure. We shall refer to it again.
A Good Ticket.
‘•Roland,’’ a corespondent of the Mongom
ery,Ala. Mail, suggests the following opposi
tion ticket tor the Presidency in 18G0.
For President. —Hon. Henry M. Fuller, of
Pensylvania.
For V. President. —Hon B. H. Hill, of
Georgia.
This would be a first rate ticket, but in case
‘our Ben” couldd not be spared, we shoul say
Crittenden or Bell for President and H. M.
Fuller, for Vice President.
Hon H. Cobb.— The Atlanta Intelli
gencer says, it has it, from pretty high au
thority. that the Hon H. Cobb, has received
and accepted the position of Minister to
France.
Wood! Wood !—The wood haulers
have been making their “pile,” a little too
fast for comfort during the past week or two
of cold weather, and we think, should re
member to be merciful. IVe have paid at
the rate of $8 per cord for oak wood, and
about that for heart light-wood, rather than
freeze, but wo shall take good care not to be
caught in that way, again. In fact the
wood-sellers are fast driving people to the
use of coal for fuel, and are thus killing the
goose that lays for them the golden egg.—
They had better moderate, a little, in their
exliorbitant charges, before their commodi
ty becomes a drug in the market. A cor
respondent asks to be heard on the same
nnd wo give him a place in another
column.
Private Executions.
A bill has passed the House by the casting
vote of Mr. Milledgo, the pro tern Speaker,
requiring the Sheriffs to execute persons con
victed of capital offence, in a private man
ner, and precluded from public view ! We
seriously object to such a change in the mode
of legal strangling! If the hanging law is
a good one, all its goodness consists in the
public example thereby made of malefactors,
with the view of detering others from crime!
And here wo have a proposition squeezed
through one branch of the Legislature de
priving the sovereign people, men women
and children, say nothing of the darkies, of
one of the greatest blessings of this Christian
dispensation, the privilege of seeing a fellow
mortal swung off into eternity! No, no,
gentlemen! It won't do to deprive the dear
people of this wholesome spectacle! We en
ter our protest against any such law, for the
reason, that it confers a time-honored and
glorious privilege, common to all, upon a
few connoisseurs and amateurs, of witness
ing these humane exhibitions.
Hon. H. R. Jackson. —This Honorable
gentleman addressed the assembled wisdom
of the State and others, in the Hall of the
House at Milledgcville, on Tuesday evening
last, on political topics. He blamed Doug
lass for the many reverses which the Na
tional Democracy have recently experienced,
and was eloquent in his praises of J. Gluncy
Jones, and President Buchanan. That will
do, Mr. Jackson. Yon have got down tol
erably low to praise such a squirt as C Haney !
Don’t do it any more Captain, we beg you.
due Day Eater from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP
PRINCE ALBERT.
Cotton Market Steady.
St. Johns, Nov. 24.—The Galway steam
ship Prince Albert has arrived with one
day’s later intelligence from Liverpool, re
ceived at Galway by telegraph.
Commercial HWn.
Liverpool, Nov. 11, noon.—The sales of
Cotton to-day were 6,000 bales, and the
market closed steady.
Bread-stuffs generally were very dull.
At London Consols closed at 07 j a 08.
Provision.- were dull, but produce gener
ally unchanged, in Liverpool.
Professor Whitehouse, in another letter,
reiterates his conviction that the Atlantic
cable can yet be made available.
Another serious insurrection has occurred
in Asiatic Turkey.
A Madrid dispatch savs that the Mexican
difficulty must be settled in a manner suita
ble to the dignity of Spain, and that hostil
ities are anticipated.
Latefit from Santa Fe.
St. Louis, Nov. 24.—Dates from Santa
Fe to the 21st inst., have been received. The
news is generally unimportant.
New gold discoveries have been made
along the South Platte to a very great extent.
Heavy Express Business.—On Thursday
morning, says the Knoxville (Tenn.) Whig,
the Acl&rns Express Company conveyed a
heavy amount of goods and money through
here. About 4,000 pounds of freight, and
$325,000 in gold for points west ol this ma
king $450,000 of gold this week, undercharge
of special messengers from Baltimore. This
Express Company, while doing a profitable
business for itself, is rendering great service
to the country and ought to be sustained.
“lARBY’S
Prophylactic Fluid.
This justly Celebrated Disinfectant,
Now so extensively used
by phvrfolAn* and families, for removing offensive odors, for
■or, i. ulcers, Ac., for b 4 breath, #64 for a variety of similar
dnuivsiic uunxyer, Is for sal# In Macon, af. ai-A re
tail by o#org Payor, also by Stroiwcker A Uo„ A. A. Menard,
Lrllln, Hunt A Cos. and Ufa* Bro. m t
It may be ordered from John Darby, Auburn. Alabama or
Hanoi, fUaley A JUtcAsa.No. Tt, Barclay street, K#w York.
•ap 10— Cm . -
State Aid to Railroads.
The following extract from a speech of
Mr. Harris*, of Glynn, in favor of State
Aid to the Macon & Brunswick Railroad,
is a very clear and convincing argument,
to show how the Slate has increased its j
revenue from the construction of various
Railroads now in full operation, within
her limits, and ought therefore to lend
her aid in the developement of those por
tions of the Commonwealth which r.re
yet deprived of Railroad facilities and
advantages:
“ There are gallant spirits on this floor,
said Mr. Harris, who will stand by the
country through which the road is to
pass, from the purest dictates of justice.
It has been said by a lew persons who
have never taken the trouble to inform
themselves correctly on the subject, that
the country on the line of the proposed
road is so barren and sparsely populated
that, even if the road is completed, there
will not be sufficient business to move
the wheels of a freight train. Never
was error more gross. The twelve or
fifteen counties through which it will
pass, and are near its vicinity, are now
of value to pay one-tenth of the taxes of
the State. This assertion is borne out
by the Comptroller General : s Report.
In this secluded region, locked out from
the commerce of the world, the taxable
property is over fifty millions. Give us
the road, which you can do safely by en
dorsing the bonds of the Company as
the bill provides, and this property will
be enhanced ten-fold—to five hundred
millions, it may be, pouring into the
Treasury of the State, under the present
low rate of taxation, money enough
every year to redeem almost half the
bonds asked to be endorsed ! Such is
no wild dream. Once the road is finished,
connecting back by other roads to the
waters of the Tennessee, and thence to
Oglethorpe Bay, on the which the city
of Brunswick stands, you will see the
astonishing results, Georgia w ill stretch
her iron highways, and harness her fiery
courser, from Chattanooga, Atlanta, Ma
con, to the tides of the Atlantic, through
what is now a comparative wilderness,
but soon to blossom as the rose.
What other arguments need be ad
duced in favor of State Aid in the con
struction of railroads than the Cherokee
region of Georgia 1 But a few years ago
its mountain solitudes were disturbed
only by the, war whoop of the savage
and the howl of the wolf. The sturdy
white settler who bared his bosom to the
perils of a mountain-locked region, and
tilled his narrow field in some rich val
ley ; the man of large means who bought
up land, and either cultivated it with his
own force, or held on for better prices—
all ranks now look out from their con
tented homes on the finest country in the
world. What wrought this magic change!
Here today these valliant sons of Cher
okee are with us on this question. They
reside in the Garden spot of Georgia,
and know perfectly well what State aid
has done for them. They gather around
us with walls more solid than walls of
brick and granite—with expanded hearts
to help us in our extremity. A bright
vista is opened to view in the produc
tion of the Northwest that will come
into our channel. We strive for this
boon —this proud destiny. Without
stretched arms we call upon you, even
as Peter said, while walking on the wa
ter, “ Help, help!
As an illustration of benefits, take the
following statement from the Comptrol
ler Ge-neral’s Report of the
of property for two years:
1857. 1858, Jncre’s,
Fulton, 5,369,552 5,713,807 351,303
Cass, 7,526,852 7,935.946 400,095
Gordon, 3,438,872 3,849,305 410,434
Walker, 3,291,041 3,401,990 110,957
Dade, 824,941 873,348 48,307
Whitfield, 3,182,351 3,280,864 98,513
Here is an increase of value from
1857 to 1858 of $1,423,519 in the six
counties] above, in Upper Geo r gia, all
produced by railroads through S;atc aid.
I will now take five counties in that por
tion of the State through which the
South Western Railroad passes:
1857. 1858. Ingres.
Houston, 10,428,083 10,6.44,798 206.715
Crawford, 4,539,150 3,544,754 5,604
Macon, 4,600,956 4.748,164 147,210
Sumter, 8,741,365 7,415,012
Dougherty, 5,932,154 6,714,177 782,023
In the above table, the decrease in
Sumter is owing to a part having been
taken la't session to form the new
county of Schley. In the other four
counties the increase of property in one
year is shown to be $1,151,552; the ag
gregate increase in the State for the same
period is $11,226,151.”
A King for Cuba.
The following, from the Washington
States of Friday, is the authority for
the despatch we published in our last
issue, stating that negotiations were pend
ing between Great Brita n and Prance
’ for the erection of a monarchy in the
West Indies:
A friend, almost direct from the Court
| of Madrid, and whose fine attainments
and high social position enables him to
! approach the highest personages of the
j Spanish Court, has furnished U3 with
! some curious cabinet whisperings of a
new holy alliance.
France has taken up Cuban Indepen
dence, and, w ith England, is proposing
; to erect Cuba and Porto Rico into a
I semi independent monarchy, on paying a
’Wenta” to Spain equivalent to the rev
enue now received from the ever faith
-1 ful isle. This “ renta” is to represent
the interest on a national debt, to be as
sumed by the new monarchy, in consid
eration of her independence, the debt
and “ renta” to be assumed by France
and England as a bond for the non an-
I nexati. n os Cuba to the United S‘afes.
France likes the monarchy idea, but
not the monarch selected by England.
1 Q jeen Christina and perfide Albion want
Monpensier, the husband *of Christina’s
second daughter. That ambitious wo
man has been plotting for years to plant
the Duchess of Monpensier on an Ame
rican throne. M p xc< failed her, and now’
she is bidding for Cuba ; but “ Napoleon
the'Arbiter” —arbiter he is of Spain and
England—opposes her p'ans. He has
himself suggested to lending I übans
or his agents huve done it for him that
he is deposed to “ me-diate with gpain
for the independence of Cuba under a
prince of her own but not with a
prince of the rival royalty of France.
A prince of his own blood, which, as he
once remarked, is “ American by his
grandmother Josephine,” might wed the
little princess royal of Spain under a
general European guarantee, and extin
guish forever the Yankee dream of an
nexation.
Death of a Member of Congren*.
Chicago, 111., Nov. 24.—The non. Thos.
L. Harris, member of Congress from the nth
Congressional District of Illinois, died in
this city thi, morn:tig.
SPECIAL NOTICES. =
UTTbe Hon. HSNBT fl, LAMAR prweiU bis name
to the voter# of the M*coo Judicial DUtriet a* a candidate for
•Motion to the offloe <f Jwl**, wkWt A# Mm AoIiM.
tW W. M. MONT FORT, 1*,,., prwe . ,
voters of the Macon Circuit as a candid.*, u.
he ofllca of Solicit* ir General. for
K are authorized to
JOHN M. GILES, of Houston County „ .
GOOD MSDICINsc
It!a istimotel that Arm's Chxrrt r EI ...
thaetic Tans have done more to *"* C
tkaa any other 0 eca- .-. Thera can * no ‘ J!** 1
Chfrcy Pec'oral ha*, by its thousand* ‘ ‘’
Olds. Cavghs, Asthma, Croup, lifl UPL „ iwl
very much re Sneed the propone,, ff *,
cies diseases in thlj country. The P.U* art J ® t °°* a6 h
Pectoral, and will cute more complaints ‘ * tfc
Everybody needs more or less purdb*!.
from its impurities. Purge the bowel,, Livfr Tj
visceral system from obstructions. Purge out ‘ ***
which fasten on the body, to wort iUdccsy. But t
we should die only of old age. Take antidot,,
thrust it from the system, befor* it U yet too stro
Ayer’s ribs do thru and out disease, not only wb,*’ W4 ’
but when It has taken a string hold. Kc id t) ie
statements of those who have been cured bv them ’
fill Scrofula, Dropsy, Ulcers, Skin 4 **
Neura'gia, Dyspepsia, Internal pairs, Bilious c
Heartburn, Hcadach-, Gout, and many!**
s*l!l threatening ailments, such as PimplesaU, t tW n-
Nervous Irritability, Loss of Appet.te, Irteinua-ti “ ‘**’
ness In the ho id, Colds, Fevers, Dysentery, and i-.*
variety of complaints for which a Purgative
qulrcd. “““Tii*
These are no random statements, but arc attkan -,.
your own neighbors, and your own PLysiciuu. 1
Try them once, and you never will be without tu®
Price ?5 cents per Box—s Boies for $1 (j). ‘
Prepared by Dr. J. C. AYER, Chemist, Lo Wcl , v
and sold by all respectable Druggists cverywhtr*.
All Hair Ryes Abandoned
“Wood’s Great Article uas takes thefV
—Frofessor Wocd stands upon an eminc
chemist whose attention has been turned t
ventiDg a hair tonic, has ever before reach!?
His famo is sudden but world-wide, and iw
sands who have worn wigs or been bald 5!
years, are now, through the use of his prenaq
tion, weairug their own natural and luxuri
head covering. So much for chemistry 0,
chemistry of human life, and the laws which 15.
ply to the functions of the system. Protest
Wood studied out the humau hair, its characit
its properties, its diseases, and how to result
the decaying vitality of that ornament; he
as in his own case, that grey hair is uanuttn
unless the age of the individuals had reachc
lour score, and he believed that the hair cocH
be naturally revitalized. He tried his on
case—almost bald and quite grey at the ape ’
thirl y-seven he restored his own hair in.
strength and luxuriance, and the article he did
it with he gave to the world. Gt ’Woo;.
Htm Restorative, and take nothing else.
Caitmx.—Be ware of worthier imitations, as severs!*,
already In the market, called by different nanus,
unless the words (Professor Wood's Hair Restorative,D?jt
St. Louis, Mo , and New York.) are blown In the b -,t_e -
Sold fly all Druggists and Patent Medicines dealen, ,
all Fancy and ToUet Goods dealers in the United bug* n;
Canada.
A GREAT BLESSING TO TIIE AFFLICTED,
Dr. M'Lane thelnventor of the celebrated LiverKf.
prepared by Fleming Bros , Pittsburgh, Pa., used the* Pi
tor several yearn in hii practice, before he couM be lnaucidu
offer thou to the public iti such a manner as to make £1
known throughout the country. Thi- learned lhv>
the same repugnance that all high minded men of >c ■ ,; j
In entering the lists against those unscruiuious empirics s
obtrude their uteleo* nostrums vpon the public, and re y^ t
a system of puliii gto sustain them. Convinced, hovever i
the real vilue of the Liver Plils. and influenced byth*j
dictates of dutv. the Doc'or finally authorizal FlentlrfS*
■f Pittsburgh, Pa., who are nowtne sole pr t rielor-.U.mirt
fae •••re and pl-tce t hem before the public. This grvst ilk,.-*
hue n t di appointed the exp* ctatlons of ids frie* dr.ihi ai
cat faculty, ♦ whose instance he wa* Induced to Mm thi
bes irethe puiriic in the'r present popular form, fr•| W
uuartc’ do we hear the most eratlfyi'ieaccomits of the;ro
derlul curative < ffects—*he East and the West, tht Mr hi t
the south, are alike laden with ** tidings of great j *y"fromlhi
afflicted These wonderful pills have complete!* couqiw;
that t reat scourge of America the Liver Complain.
jy Purchasers will be careful to ask for Dr. He-
LANE’S CELEBRATED LIVER PILLS, manufactured
by FLEMING BROS, of Pittsbcrgb.Pa. Theretrctsk
er Pills purporting to be Liver Pills, now before tfc
public. Dr. M’Lane’s genuine Liver Pills, also hit cels
brated Vermifuge, can now be had at all respectskei
drag stores. None genuine without the tigra'wt i
FLEMING BROj.
KEW “AEVEETISEEEim
CLEAR THE THACK.
Look for the Engine when the
‘W’h.istle Blows!
\\TE sre closing out our stock at New York cut furt’ASS
f| and we do so simply liccanse onr copartnership c ‘
by limitation l-:t of January next, ami we wlch t*i evil en
uring before that date. Our Ltook Is sll'l very dfsinl*ie,ia
our friends and cu.-tomers can find as handsome sod cheqi
Pr** Goods than at any establishment in Macon.
N. B
requested to come forward and settle,
nov. 26—t f BOSTICK 4 KHJ.
XTEW SPLENDID CHAMPAGNE CIDER Jos re
iv twenty five barrels, of prime cider,for ssie by b- ts
gallon at nov. 26 2t H. HOKSij
Oysters, Oysters, Oysters!
INRKPHNew York Brunswick and Savabinh Ojw* *=.
; isle. Parlies may rely to get none but freshest (Wa
by-sending to nov. 26—2 t H. HORSB,
IFa party of Geutlenjen, -wishes to set an cxctll ntKcur,
something really nice, let them nil at H. HOKhE'S
taurant. EHsappointmtut U considered impossible,
nov. rc -it.
Christina* is Coming.
p A BOXES Eire Crackers and a large as-ortmtnt of!'*
rs I J Works of all kinds, received a: df -i sale Tv
uor. 26—ts G REER A FREEMiK
Chamapgne Wines.
if* OASES, Cfobwet,* pi- .MkiskcUHeM.eJc,acJ;t:
O Prendmn. Forstfol.v GREEK 4 FREEIH
nov. 26— if
New IvTusic,
Just received and for sale,
Col. llond’ Grand March.
composed ami dedicate! to Col. Joseph Bond, of Macon, Oi
by Hermann L. Schreiner. Frice 2ii cents.
nov. 2<—lt J. A. A 3. S. VIRGIS_
“CROCKERY’ STORE
TIHE endersigned thankful for Uie very li’ei*! pdr*J
. bestowed on him for th ■ past season would roost
fully solicit a continuance of the me, at the Old “re
brand, on Triangle Block, where he is prepan and to show*w
a stok of obtna, u ass and Crockery Ware as can be
the South. Every body ts incited to call ar.ii eist—j
beaut Ifni asscrtffientofDininirand TeaSelts. Saint rejm
and for sale low. nov. 26—ts R. K. HUTCHI.VA
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Wanted 10,000 ibs. Mom. T. Sr. 0. WOfltt
City papers copy irn. W*<
Cook Woman Wanted.
WASTED Immediately, and for the ensuing year. 4
Cos ‘k woman, for whom the highest wages wiP n • py a “J
r.ov. 2f,-tf C. F. ANSLB V, So. West K.ullrmt‘l lVg.
8188 COUNTY GRAND JURY PAT
SENTMENTS
"Wo, the Grand Jury, ehossn and I
for Bibb Superior Court, Fall Term. I s -’
bog leave to make the fojlovfing
\Yc have given as much attention tw*| |
county matters, as the nature of our (,lS ®
bu'iness would allow. We have exsnitx j
the Books of the Clerk of the Inferior < r
and find a lack of experience, but therccort
appear correct and perfectly legible
recommend greater care, as respects I
Bt.jii in regard to tlje Books and pap? ll *
the Office. .
{ Wo find the Book.’ and Papery of ',
| Clerk of the Superior Court in their u- ;a “
j good order. ,
The Reads are in tolerable order only’ I
We would esj-ecially call attention to l
Forsyth Road through the Vinevihel
District, and also the Road leading ffotn ■
Ferry Road to Hartley’s Bridge W* j
Echoes nee Creek. The several 1
the County art* in good Order, except t* I
one at Scott’* Mill—it needs imniedistr ■■
pairing. _ . i*
We have examined the Jail, and yy
kept in as good order as it can be, under
isting circumstances, as it needs ‘’tnif
pair.-, which can lie pointed out by ty ’
or, and to which we call the inuned* 4ll
tent ion of the inferior Court. _
For the safety of the Court Hoti-o. v,<
commend to the Inferior Court, to -”
the Wet*let} Mantle Pieces taken downy
Iron ones put up in their stead, ‘'.
suggest to tne said Court, the prophet} a
necessity of having a couple of Regiyy' 1
in the Uourt Room for proper ventußj 1 !’ ‘
We recommend to the next Loire “
as well as to the members from tin- t 0
to have the law of this State so eb*ug>
to give the Solicitor Generals of ty
salary sufficient to compensate them ‘" r
services, and allow the Fees they ue
ceive to go and belong to the l''-}
counties, in which the Bills ol bme
and presentments may be found- (
We recommend to the Inferior_ “ j, L .
release James B. Ayres, I. M. Coun£’
ry J. Lamar, and O. B. Rice, y
double taxes, ns far as they have I
to and > so. T In> D”
In taking leave of his Honor * hu \ ~a .
mar and Solicitor TANARUS, W. Montfort. “ . I
dor each our thank’ for their kind
teoiis dojhortment to us during
course and association with them. •
leave to express our entire app rova . Ji
impartial manner in which each o
charges their respective and arduous
CHARLES COLLINS,
R. B. Clavton, S. F. ’
Roland Bivins, Thomasyu 1 ’
William O. Hurt, Smiiucl 5 ugj:
James W. Knott. Kg
“William Ncwnan, R“ht- •
William A. Cherry, Jamys 8_ , v K . rV ,
WwUnB.iUIcD itouMt-vr”