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CITY COLUMISr.
ELAM CHRISTIAN,
CITY REPORTER
£0Tiie New Skirt for 1865.—“Bradleys Du
plex Eliptic.—A wonderful inventionforladies. Un-
qestlonably superior to all others.
Don’t fell to read the advertisement in the Macon
Telegraph containing fell particulars every Tuesday
morning. octll-5tw3m.
New Advertising Index.
tCO,000 Dollars worth of dry goods—S Waxel-
baum & Bro.
D Goldsmith, dealers in clothing and gentle
men’s furnishing goods.
Cotton factors—Ridgeley, Squire & Co.
House painter wanted—Drury & Tripod.
Pony for sale.
Lost—L H Bryant.
Clothing—D Dunn.
Wholesale house—J W Fears.
Safe wanted.
Auction salCB—Findly & Kenrlck.
Theatre.
Sight exchange—R W Cnbbedge.
Machinery—H W Wilkes, Jr.
For sale—J E 'Wells.
Wanted—McElroy &"8ubers.
Be sure to read the advertisement of Mitchel &
Smiths.
J. W. Burke & Co., have removed their Book
Store and Printing and Binding establishment to
their splendid new quarters in Snider’s Brick
Building, Second street, next to Baptist Church.
Although it is a little out of the way, it will pay to
look in upon their stock of Books, Stationery,
Fancy articles, etc. oct35-3t
MAYOR’S COURT.
October26.—Moses and Aaron, lacking the hon
est proclivities of the illustrious patriarchs who
bore their names in ancient times, joined another
Hamite, named Wiley, in a cotton stealing expedi
tion. The trio were sent to the lock-up for sixty
days, to wear an attachment of much heavier ma
terial than cotton.
Thos. M. Brown, got into a difficulty with “ Old
John,” was tripped up two or three times, and be
ing unwilling to “give it up so Mr. Brown” he
emitted aprofusion of “cuss words,” which caused
a policeman to go to “Old John’s” assistance.—
He was charged ten dollars damages, and warned
to keep up his spirits by not allowing spirits to
“ go down."
George, an enterprisingfreedman “borrowed” a
wagon body withont the knowledge or consent of
the owners and was charged thirty dollars for the
use of it, and advised that this kind of “ neighbor
ing” don’t pay:
Harvey, anything but a pretty negro, and his in
amorata, Jane, forgot their first love, “broke up
house keeping” and several articles or house hold
plunder—Harvey’s nose narrowly escaping—and
were required to “ fork over” five dollars for the
benefit of the city treasury.
C« C. Smith, for choosing too public a place to
wrestle with old man Barleycorn, was let off on
paying costs.
Js^Have yon seen those beautiful silk hats
Shaw & Co. arc offering for sale? They are extra
fine, and the “court” will take great pleasnre in.
showing them. Don’t forget—they are to be seen
up stairs over T. W. Freeman’s, Cherry, street.
oct25-3t
Cotton Stealing.—J. S. Reddick, a Mr. Craw
ford, and Jas. Lomerack, were before the magis
trate’s court on Tuesday last, on the charge of cot
ton stealing—the cotton having been tnken from
the Plantation of Mr. Vfm. Tharp, of Houston
county, and belonging to that gentlemen, with the
exception of a few bales which were owned by Mr.
Lamar and the Macon <fc Brunswick railroad com
pany. On account of the absence of important
witnesses, Reddick’s case was continned till Satur
day at ten o’clock, he giving a. bond of six thons.
and dollars for his appearance'at that time. Craw
ford also gave bond in the snm of three thousand
dollars for bis appearance in court Saturday. Lom-
rrack, failing to give the required bond, is in con
finement awaiting trial.
Important Notice.—The subscriber hjs im
mediately on the banks of Flint river, in Mitchell
connty, an excellent site for a Steam Saw and
Grist Mill—surrounded by eight hundred acres of
heavily timbered pine land. All lumber sawed at
this point, conld be floated to Appalachacola, for
foreign markets. With somo suitable man, who
wouldfurnish the machinery, he believes he could
form a copartnership advantageous to bothparties.
ROBT. J. BACON.
P. S.—My post office is Albany, Ga. octl5-2iy*
$60,000 Worth of Dry Goods.—It will be seen
by our advertising columns that Mr. 8. Wnxelbaum
&Bro., have just received and are opening one of
the most extensive and best selected stocks of sta
ple and fancy dry goods ever offered in this mar
ket, embracing everything that can be called for
in the way of fancy dress goods, trimmings, and
all the ladies need to “set them off” on any and
every occasion. These goods have been bought
and paid for at the lowest cash prices, and can be
sold at the very lowest figures known to this mar
ket Wholesale purchasers cannot do better than
to call at the New York store, on Second street,
next door to the office of E. C. Grannlss, Esq.
To Machinists.
Machinist will find several thousand pounds of
old type metal for sale at the office of the Dailt
Telegraph. tf
New Clothing Store.—Particular attention is
directed to the advertisement of D. Goldsmith,
wholesale and retail dealer in clothing and gent’s
furnishing goods, hats, caps, etc. He has just re
ceived a magnificent stock, and is prepared to sup
ply the wants of every one, both at wholesale and
retail, and at prices that cannot be undersold in
the city. Give him a call at the New York store,
2d street, Triangular block.
K3T" If you want a cap, cloth or velvet or a
brush hat, or the finest quality fur hat, Shaw & C £
have them. oct25-3t
jgj- Goto A. 8. Patrick & Co.’s to get the best
Stationery ; Also, wrapping paper. scpl7-tf
jgy The Grand Lodge F. A Masons of Georgia
has been in session in this city for the past three
days. Worshipfal Grand Master, John Harris, is
the presiding officer. A considerable number of
representatives from subordinate lodges are in at
tendance.
Buy your Arnold’s writing Fluid and copy
ing Ink at the News Depot, Triangular Block.
sepl7-tf t
rgyWe are under obligations to Mr. J. V
Thompson, special correspondent of the New York
Times, for late New York, Cincinnati, Louisville and
Nashville papers.
jgy Boysbats of every style and quality ean be
found at Shaw & Co. over T. W. Freeman’s.
oct25-3t
I3f Shaw & Co. have on hand, and are deter
mined to keep, the finest hats to be had in the
8outh—give them a call if you wish to see some
thing handsome. oct25-3t
J. W. Bcrke &Co., 2d street,'next to Baptist
Church, do all kinds of Printing and Binding in
the neatest and most expeditions manner. Give
them a call. oct25-3t
Photographic Albums, Pictures, Foolscap
Letter, Note and Billet paper—all kinds of Envel
opes, Inks, Pens, Slates, school and miscellaneous
Books on had and for sale at J. W. Burke & Co.’s
Book Store, next to Baptist Church, 2d street
oct25-3t
HEAR BOTH SIDES.
For the Macon Telegraph.]
Messrs. Editors—The report of the comptrol
ler general, published in your paper of last
week, opens to my mind two questions of
great importance to the people of Georgia:
1st. Should the convention act upon the
subject of the war debt of Georgia, contracted
by her authorities whilst in rebellion against
the United States ?
2d. What should be its action ?
In respect to the first question, the comp
troller general seems to think the convention
should not touch it, but leave the whole mat
ter open to the legislature, and the same view
seems to be entertained by a writer in the
Federal Union, over the signature of “Geor
gia,” and another in the Southern Recorder,
over that of “Aristides;” and aU these writers
strongly urge the payment of this debt. "With
due deference to their opinions, the reasons
seem to me to be overwhelming that the con
vention should settle the question, and put
an end one way or the other" to "discussion
and dispute about it. The convention alone
can settle the question permanently. No leg
islature caii bind a subsequent legislature.
The convention can control all- legislatures,
saying to all, touching this debt,'and every
other subject of legislation, thus far but no
further shall you go. If the convention
should scale this debt, by reducing it to the
true value of the bonds and notes when the
holders got them, it remains fSrever sealed.
No legislature, or other power, save the peo
ple again assembled in convention, can amend
or alter their settlement: Let thelegislature,
however, scale it, and that will not prevent
the next legislature, or one fifty years hence,
from opening and re-opening the whole sub
ject again and repeatedly, paying more and
more of it.
Debts contracted by our revolutionary fath
ers, though, in the opinion of many, firaudo.
lent, and in the teeth of statutes declaring
them so, were paid by Georgia as late as 1845. :
The Trczcvant claim, then paid, will remind
all familiar with our legislative history of a
case in point. That the Georgia debt should
be scaled down to its true value at the time
the holder got possession of it, must be ap
parent to the plainest mind. If I gave my
note for $2500 for a mule dbnrig the war,
when Confederate currency was the standard
of.value, who will say I ought to pay the full
amount of that note now, in the present cur
rency, when a mnlc can be bought for $100 ?
What honest jmy would pronounce such a
verdict? If pronounced, what honest court
would suffer it to stand t In like manner,
how grossly iniquitous would it be to tax
the whole people of Georgia to pay the
amount which appears on the face of her
bonds and notes' in the hands of a few,
when the State did not receive the one
half or in many cases the one tenth, of the. val
ue there expressd! Yet who shall say, unless
our' Convention shall settle the whole matter,
that the Legislature will not be beseiged from
year to year for fifty years to come to pay
this entire dept; and hereafter, when the cir
cumstances are all forgotten and witnesses
dead, our children and children’s children
burdened with its payment ? This debt is
no trifle, Messrs Editors. It is swollen to an
amount far beyond that of our neighboring
Confederate sisters in the war.
Let it then be settled now while we know
something of the facts and witnesses are
around us, what part and how much of this
enormous debt the people of Georgia are to
be taxed to pay. Let the settlement be made
now, and that it may be indeed afSat settle
ment, let the Convention make it.' iri
Let it not be said the Convention; will not
have time. Let them take the time. It need not
retard for an hour the election and assem
bling of the Legislature. Let them provide
for that on the 1st or 2nd day of their assem
blage, pass an ordinance abolishing slavery
to satisfy the Washington Government 1 oh
the same day, and Gov. Johnson can at once
issue writs of election for the 15th of Novem
ber, and the new legislature and governor be
convened and inaugurated by the 1st of De
cember. Then the Convention may sit as
long as may be necessary to amendthe’ Con
stitution of the State and settle this. subject
of indebtedness as they see fit. " !
The holders of this debt have a long and
strong lever, in their hands; give them ground
to stand upon and they will upset the firmV
ness of most Legislatures. No man can es
timate the sensitiveness of the -pocket nerve.
Let this money-power of eighteen millions,
with an annual Interest of over a million ac
cumulating year by year have time to com
bine and organize, and who shall say that
this nerve will not be touched and may not
move in obedience to that touch ? Let then
the Convention, composed of a better class
of men than ordinarily .fill our Legislative
seats, settle this matter, and settle it at once,
before this moneyed battery has tjme to.con
centrate and opportunity to play. It is their
right, representing what thfere is' bf sover
eignty left to the people of Georgia, to settle
it, and for the; foregoing reasons. I believe
it to be their solemn doty 1 to do sb. It can
easily be effected bypassing an ordinance de
claring the whole .debt, niiil, and vpid, should
such he their opinion, or in the event they
think otherwise, declaring, what part and
what per centum therewi ^dreplEgislafrire may
provide to pay, and prohibiting' the payment
of more.
And this brings me to. the discussiop.of the
2nd question, What should he the action of
the convention ? Should they authorize the
payment of any part, or prohibit the pay
ment of the whole, for I presume no disinter
ested sane man will contend that the entire
debt appearing on the face of the bondwand
notes should be paid ?
The proper answer to the question turns
on the answer to two other questions. Is
the debt or any part legal ? if not strictly
legal, is it or any part-of it equitable? ' If
Georgia w erea private citizen liable to he
sued, would a common law judge,force her
to pay it; or if. in. accordance-with strict
law, a common-aw judge could not make
her pay it, would a chancellor! sitting in a
court of conscience to do equity and justice
between man and man, decree its payment-?-
Georgia must not shield herself behind her
privilege of not being liable to suit;, she
should pay this war debt if any honest court,
either of law or equity, if it had jurisdiction,
would compel its payment
And 1st, is the debt legal ?
i The constitution of the United State* U
the supreme law of the land. This debt wa3
contracted by Georgia and the law authori
zing it, made for the purpose of overthrowing
the constitution and government of the
United States, and setting up in lieu thereof
another constitution and government (to wit)
that of the Confederate States. The debt,
therefore, is. directly, in conflict with the
constitution of the United States, it is, there
fore, null and void, and must be so pro
nounced by any judge sworn to support; that
constitution, and therefore, by any court,
State or Federal! held anywhere within the
limits of the United States; and Georgia is
now by the force of arms within those limits;
and, the political opinion of the right of se
cession by virtue of that constitution or by
virtue of the ultimate sovereignty of Georgia
outside of that instrument being overthrown
and buried in the ruins of the civil war, in
contemplation of law, how the settled law
of the Whole land, Georgia never was, for
one moment," without the limits of the United
States.' If, therefore, - this were a question
between man and man to be adjudicated by
courts’, the law authorizing the debt would
be pronounced no’Jaw—the agent creating
the debt clothed with no power to create it,
and the whole ilfebt a mere imllity' ’ ■>
Indeed, so 'soon as the federal 'arms ac-
quiredsupfemacyiir Georgia, the-agent who'
contracted - the■ debt (Gov. Brown) was'ar-
rested and imprisoned for the reason that he
had convened the legislature, the other agent
which had authorized the' debt. And this
accounts for the telegraphic dispatch received-
by. the president of the Alabama convention
from Washington,- and the consequent ac
tion of that convention;: declaring the war
debt of that State null and void. And
though the Mississippi and South Carolina
.conventions passed no ordinances declaring
the debt of their States null and void in
terms, yet they rexited only those. acts not in
conflict with the constitution of the United
States, and thereby 'left all in conflict with
that instrument dead; and surely all to raise
men and money to war against that constitu
tion are in conflict with it. Still their ac
tion is subject to legislative construction, and
that of Alabama,.being plain and unequiyo-
cal -not iso subject! and therefore best.
Again, a large portion of the debt, on its
face, open to all eyes, is, not,payable until six
months after a treaty of peace .between the
United States and the Confederate States.
No such treaty hjis been made, nor will such
ever be made. The time for thapayment of
the debt lias not come, and never can come.
The word “ treaty ” in its legal as well as its
common acceptation necessarily involves
the idea of thq independence of the high
contracting powers. No two nations ever
yet made a treaty without each recognizing
the independence of the other. This is the
A BC of the law of nations. Hence the
watchful care witl^which the government
of the United States avoided even the sem
blance, of officially treating. with the civil
government of Mr. Davis. Hacf they done
so, that moment the two governments would
have faced each other, both the representa
tive? of sovereign powers, and this Mr.
Seward well knew. Therefore,, when Geor
gia, contracted to pay these debts after
treaty of peace, she did so an contemplation
of the succcss'of the revolution, of the recog
nition of the independence of the Confederate
States, and of herself as one of them'. She
agreed to pay,the debt six months after the
cause,succeeded—never before—-never at all
if the cause failed, or the revolution should be
unsuccessful. And all who took her evidences
of debt took them with this distinct under
standing so expressed bn their face. 1 She de
ceived nobody. Her creditors are her owii
people.. They well knew Georgia staked
everything,:and they too staked everything
upon the issue of arms. We all staked- our
all'upon iti ' We all failed. The Confeder
ate Government and constitution, are dead,
and in the grave, with them are buried
Confederate note and bond. Georgia, as one
of the Confederate States, is dead too, and
with her are buried the bonds-.and . notes
which she gave as a Confederate State, and
which some of^thein, upon their face, were
not to be paid except in the event she sur
vived the war and was clothed with sover
eignty and independence as such- Confeder
ate State. Such is-thq true intent, and mean-
ing of the contracts .which Georgia raade,
and it is. beyond tlu- power of casuistry to
warp or twist them into aught besides. No
legislator of her’s, flp pontractor with her
agents ever- drqamed of Jicr present.fallen
estate. Everything she now holds is lieiqt at
the mercy of thq Federal Government, and
all the property her citizens possess liasbeen
saved to them by the clemency and pardon
of the president of the.United States.., This
picture is humiliating, but is truthful. Who
wjould have credited her, had the issue of
tl)e great struggle been foreseen ? She was
credited upon faith in her power with her
Confederates to meet siiccessfuly the storm of
bkttle. ' '
But I pass to the 2d question, Is it equita
ble to pay this debt ? Should Georgia,- as
one. of thq. I|nited States, as a sort of succesj;
sor or exequtor of Georgia, as a Confederate
State, revive this dead debt by a new prom
ise? i 11 iti. .
In cpnsidering ;thjs qnestion, I shall make
no reply to.the extravagant rhetoric of “Aris
tides” ' about magnanimity, liberality, gener
osity, &c:, &c., except to say that a man has
a right to 'be as liberal as he pleases with his
own; a trustee lias no such right with the
property that is placed in his trust; and the
law-making and tax-imposing legislators of
Georgia are but trustees for the masses of her
people. Nor shall I notice the arguinents of
“'Georgia,” that the rich, and not the poor,
will be taxed to pay this debt, therefore it
ought to be paid, and that the payment of it
will benefit the poor soldiers, their widows
and orphans, further than to remind him that
everybody in Georgia is now poor enough to
suit the most leveling taste (except, it may
be, the iew who holcl Georgia? securities, and
a few others who hold cotton), and, there
fore, this debt, if ever paid, must be paid by
taxation upon all property, and all persons,
however poor; and to remind him further,
that cisilians and contractors at home were
paid in , Georgia, currency, and they,with spec
ulators and brokers, hold the most of it to
day, whilst the soldiers were paid in Confed
erate money, and if they or their families have
any at all, (which is matter of great doubt,)
it i* very apt to be the sort they received
their payment .in; for they were too much en
gaged to speculate during the war, and have
hardly bought Georgia securities since. Nor
will I notice the phrenzied rhapsodies of the
comptroller general, filling almost two col
umns of his report in what I trust will prove
a vain attempt to saddle this entire debt
upon the people of Georgia, further than to
remark that it is the first time I have ob
served an anniial' import of that able and effi
cient officer so disfigured, and to suggest,
with the utmost respect, personally and offi
cially, for him,- that, perchance, while advis
ing and pressing others to invest in Georgia
securities, he showed his faith by hi3 works,
and invested somewhat in them himself; and
thus he has permitted adjudgment usually
sound to be biased by that interest which,
despite ourselves, is too apt to sway the test
and purest among us ; and hence a statistical
state paper is converted into eloquent, not to
say, in some' parts; grandiloquent declama
tion.
Passing by all this 1 rubbish; or moving it
out of our way,-let"us come to the true ques-i
tiori, would a chancellor decree the payment
of this debt, whether operating beneficially
or injuriously upon rich or poor, soldier or
civilian, coiporations'pr private persons, peo
ple in or out qf. qffice'j ,* fs it. piist to pay the
debt < Is it just to the convention or
legislature to require them to do it ?—
Can they,- .consistently. with their oaths,
do so ?’ : The ‘ 1 convention'!, the ' Ifegisl &turo.
when assembled, the governor when elected,
all must take an oath"' to , support" the
eonstitntion of the United States, and are as
much bound by it in conscience- as any judgo
whatever. With'that ‘ohth wpon thfeir lip?,
can they receive and give efficacy and life to
dead ja-y; which was passed to st^byerf that
constitution ? Let them answer to their con
sciences. But conceding the power, will
they as a Court of Equity' enforce the pay
ment ? As a general rule equity follows the
law, and I hardly think any,Qhancellor would
be bold enough to depart from the rule in a
case where thq supreme law, the constitu
tion of the United States, pronounced against
the debt. But if the debt be paid, a fund
must be raised out of which to pay it. There
is no money in the'State treasury. The fiind
must be raised lty taxation. 'Evety man in
Georgia must, therefore, in equity be niade a
party to the bill, and thq ,court piust'marshal
the assets and adjust the whole case so as to
dp justice to >all. These great facts would
then appear. lGeorgia engaged in war with
the United States. For the purpose of.carry-
ing on that war, she made two- agents, one at
Richmond called the Confederate government,
the otherat Milledgevilie, called the - State
government. She elected the officers to ad-
mister both. She called upon all her people
to sustain both, for both were hers. She au
thorized executors, administrators and-guar-
dians to invest in bo^ds eftoptb. Some of
her people, under lier authority and in obedi
ence to her call, invested in bonds and notes
of her Confederate., gpyqramen^, others in
bonds and note's of her State ’ government.
The war, the common object, of both govern
ments and the common cause of the debts of
both has failed, the day’of settlement.:has
come and all her citizens are in court with all
their property of 'dvery’flort, and all thdir ev
idences of debt against Georgia, individually,
and Georgia as partner, urging and author
izing by law investments in. the partnership
fund. The negro property of-all'is - lost— T the
houses of many burnt—the land of all depre
ciated in value. Stock and personal' goods
of every.description, destrqyed or carripd
away. Under these circumstances and in the
light of these facts, one of her citizens pre :
sents a Georgia. bond or note, - )>nd, demands
its payment.' ’Another sajrs hold f I served
in this war from the beginning. I have lost
all except this little homestead .where I -live. I
If you pay him, you must; take,by taxation a
part of my land to do it. "Will you take the
little I have left to pay him ?, I, too, invested,
in the bonds of your other agent, the Con
federate government. If you pay him, pay
me too. -Both debts arp'dcadinlaw; if ypq
revive one, revive both; if you
tax my ^tp.. j»ay . him,. ,tax
his to pay me; .as lie cqtqes into a court
of equity, makes; hinvfto-equity! and, equity
is equality^; We beth', invested for the same
object—the only differenceis!he invested with
one of your agents, I with the other. Is it
equal or, right to'.titrf mcftocfpayihiih and not
tax him. to pay me—-at least to the full share
of your partnerships liability. And widows
and orphans of fallen soldiers will appear
too in that great court and demand settle-
Tiist of Arrivals at Brown’s Hotel.-”* •
October 26,1865.
Geo Smith & lady, Athens; Maj A B Smith,
Savannah; L Q Sanders, R A Sanders, Miller coun
ty; U T Shipley, Ky; Mrs L H Smith W R Big-
gers, Ga; J G Trammell, Outhbert; J T Mander-
vill, J P H Brown, Jas Sutlive, Fort Gaines; Geo
S Robinson, Ollen Barber, GMT Perryman, Miss
Perryman, Mrs Ward & Son, Cuthbert; C 8 King
Covington'; Jas M Ball, Ga; M Tucker, Cuthbert;
J J Blackwell, N Y; G A Staley, Savannah: W A
Cneston it lady, Marietta; Col D A Vason & lady
Miss Vason, D V Hill, Maj R N Ely, Albany, Ga
Miss Baltic Appling, Fort Gaines; Wm Wilson,
Atlanta; HLumpley, J SStow, Ala; R M Ward,
Randolph connty; Miss Ella White, Mrs J White,'
Amos W White, Thomaston; C Vaughn, Milledge-
ville; M J Barrow, Lee county, TR Appling, -Fort
Gains; L G Wilson, Ga:J E Barnett, G H Hull,
Cincinatti; i C Mizell, W F Weekly, Tolbot counj
ty; Dr RN Payne, Atlanta: A J Hamilton, Montu-
zuma; W P Hurly, Nashville; G Craft, M GilmOre,
Oglethorpe; C F Miller,'O F Bartlette, C R R; D'
Carroway, IJFla; B B Barnes, Crawford county; W
Atkins, Dooly county; R L Oliver, Americas; J C
Led, Macon: M M Berngon, Nashville; R Lynch,
Louisvillq; Hon B H Hill, , lady & daughter, La
Grange; L G Bowers, Slaj R J Moses, D Webb, C
E Johnson, M Johnson, Colnmbus; A' Wilbur,
Savannah; J EDrayton, S C; Elliot Sanford, Beau
fort, S C; C Kennedy, New York; G J Salter, Ky :
Gi H Coil, Americus; II H Whitfield, Hawkinsyllle;
JT Jenkins, Cuthbert; W J Anderson, Louisville;
J Hamilton, Lebanon, Tenn ; D F Booton, Rome;
B.M Henry, Hanllton; Mrs Ware 'and daughter,
Ga; J D Everett, Montezuma, Mrs Brandon and
child, Ga; J N Land, Colnmbus; Ben C Freeman,
N Y Times. '
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Chattanooga, Ocl. IS?, 1^805:—E. K Walk
er, Supt M. & W. R. R.—Our rate from Dalton to
New York on cotton is $9 per bale.
. . , A. A, TALMAGE,
1 HSupt..E. m. 'A G. H R.-
oct24-3t-’ '
Macon & Western Railroad, Macon, Oct.
21,1865.—Members of Georgia Convention can ob
tain return ticket^ qv^qJhiB Road, (fare one way,)
oh application to J. R. Crew, General Ticket Agent.
:oct24-3t, E. B. WALKER, Snpt.
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JOHN G. WESTMORELAND,
" “ ' Dean.
ment. One orphan in liis little hands will
hold a Georgia security, and another a Con
federate security, and will show that Georgia
law authorized J investments by theif'guar-'
dians in both securities, and both will clamor
with equal justicp,for payment.
And the great chancellor, if he decides the
case upon principles of equity,. must pay all
or none, and as it is impossible to pay all.
and to do exact and equal justice to all, and
all the debts are in-violation of the fconstitu-
tion:o£ tbeiUhited States, the supreme law,
ihe'milst'decree. 1 Let the law'stand—I will
not. interfere. And, though hard names be
called and abusive epithets used, ever the ar
guments of weak minds or a weak cause, en
lightened men everywhere 'will pronounce
such decree no disgrace, nor degradation, nor
repudiation, but 1 sound, layr;' simple equity,
and feven?handed ff.'il:-: it J ustme.
. lit A t!3J032i ;i0 8'M3H
Heavy Gain in Ohio.—In Ohio the black
republican majority of 1 '101,000 in 1863, of
60,000 ill' 1864, is reduced to 20,000 now. As
the Cincinnati Enquirer says: “It indicates
the.qnconquqrable \M-aljty of the democracy
that, with such a load upon it, it. should have
entered the campaign with energy and zeal.
Any othei: party would have abandoned the
contest as hopeless, and made a feeble and
spiritless effort.” And it adds: “Had not
the State convention of the republicans doged
the issue of iegro suffrage,' and the republi
can nominee for governor taken an equivocal
position on it—bad they openly avowed their
real sentiments, they would, despite their
previous majority]'btftotoeen' badly beaten.”
jggf The United States steamer Rhode Is
land, heretofore mentioned as having been or
dered to Havana,'to cOnycy to Washington
the Confederate ram Stonewall, which was
surrendered to the United States by the Span
ish. authorities, sailed from the Washington
navy yard on the 20th inst.
NT A .
M E G R A T H , AGENT,
" Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, <&C,
At Ells’ Old Stand, Opposite Lanier House,
■GEORGIA.
M^CdlST,
I SHALL receive GOODS every week, and shall keep my stock so assorted that mer
chants and consumers can FIND ANYTHING THEY WANT, at all times.
I YVTT.iT j SELL AS LOW AS ANYBODY
N. A, MEGRATH, Agent.
S3P P- S.—ALL KINDS OF COUNTRY PRODUCE WANTED.
ocf 20-liin N. A. M.
A. P. a. HARRIS,
GROCERIES, DRY GOODS
l gill) 'A ti'l ,-l if t JS . s'
Commission AXercLant.
[Next door to J. B. Ross & Son's, Cherry street.]
TAKUNOTICE.
YfY STOCK (
ill to come in. ^
the public generally, that a‘call upon ine will nev-
hgregretted; for with a laigeand well selected;
1 oct 21flm
Light! Light! Light!
Petroleum Oil, just received and for sale at the
Drug Store of A. M. BOYD.
HntcltelorVHair Dye!
I The original and best in the world! The only
tine and perfect hair dye- I la miles?, reliable and
instantaneous. Produces immediately a splendid
black or natural brown, without injuring the 1 hair
or skin. Remedies the ill efleqts of bad dyes.—
Sold by all druggists. The genuine is signed Wil-
ljara. A.,Batchelor, AlfiQi Regenerating Extract Qt
Millelleurs. for restoring and hcautilVing the hair.
■/ ; CHARLES BATCHELOR, 1 ; i
: ‘It.,7;' ’ 7 1 Xc??"YorifL *
iren {\ jxqn! jtrpia 1—Scratch! Scratch !
{■(cratch !—Wheaton’s Ointment will cnr& ithe
Hch in 48 hours. Also cures ^alfc rU^rnv .hlcerss,
chilblains, and all eruptions of the Skin. Price 50
cents. For sale by all druggists. sending 60
cents to Weeks & Potter, sole agents, 170 Wash
ington street, Boston, Mbss., it'will 'be forwarded
by mail, free of postage, to any pa^t of ihe United
States, i. sept 27-6m
; To .the C.itizens of Georgia!
The termination of a sanguinary contest, which
if >r the past four years Ji.as presented an impasia-
bJe barrier tqajl social or commercial intercourse
between the two great sections of our country,
having at length happily cled/ed awa^-nil ^ob
stacles to a removal of those relations which
formerly bound ns together' iff a fraternal unioii,
I;take the earliest opportunity^afforded me by
this auspicious even£ to greet^my Southern
friends, and to solicit from them a. renewal of
that extensive business "connectioh'which for.
quainter of a century has been uninterrupted save
;the great public calamity to which I have
adverted.
It is scarcely necessary, on the threshold of a
business re-union, I should repeat the warning
*so often given to my 1 ifri6nd$,—to beware of all
those spurious and deleterious cpmpounds which,
lender the speciotfs and false titles of Imported
Wines, Brandies, Holland Gin, Liquors, £c. r have
bjeen equally destructive- to the health' of our
citizen^ as prejudicial to the interests of the le
gitimate Importer. ..
j Many years of my. past life have been pxpen-
ded in an open and-candid attempt to expose
these wholesale frauds; no time nor expense has
been spared 'to accomplish this salutary pur
pose, arid" tq place before my friends and, the
public generally, atthe-lowost possible market
price, and in such quantities as might suitjdieir
convenience, a truly genuine imported article.
Twenty-five years’ business transactions with
the largest and most respectable exporting houses*
ip France and. Great • Britain haVe afforded'me
linsurpass^djfapilAti© 3 for supplying our home
market with Wines, Liquors, and Liqmures oi
the best and most approved brands 1 in Europe,
in addition to my own .djstilleiy. in! Holland . for
the manufacture of .thd "Schiedam Schnapps.”
The latter, so long tested and approved by the
Medical Faculties of the United States,’ West In
dies 4nd South America as an iiivaluable.Thcra-
peutic, a Wholesome, pleasant, ana perfectly safe
beverage in?all climates and during all seasons,
quickly excited the cupidity of the home manui
facturers and yenders of a spurious article under
the same name.
I trust that I have, after much toil and ex
pense*, ^urropndcd all, my’ Importations with
Safeguards and directions with which with ordi-
nary cirnumspection will insure their delivery,
as I receive them from Europe, to all my cus
tomers.' *1” ' t \ 7 *,
I wpuldi',however,«recommend ,m. ali cases
where it is possible, that orders be sent direct to
iny Depot,' 22‘Beaver Street, New -York, or that
purchases be made of, my accredited agents.
In addition to a large stock of Wines, Brandies,
ic., in- wood; I haVq’a considerable supply of old
tried foreign winesT embracing vintage? of mapy
past years, bottled up before the commencement
of the war, which I can i especially recommend
?o all connaisseurs of these rare luxuries.
In concIusion r l would specially call the atten
,tion of my Southern customers to the advantage
to be derived'by transmitting their orders with-
out'loss of time, dr calling personally at the
iDepot, in order to insure the fulfillment of their
favors from the present large and well selectecj
assortment. UDOL^Hd WGOtiFE,
sept26-lm ? .. .,22,Beaver Street, New York.
I OF GROCERIES are now beginning
in, and I can promise my friends and
cgei — m “
ItZf
GROCERIES, LIQUORS & DRY" GOODS,
I will be able to fill the whole of their bills with
out giving them the trouble of going all over the
market. “ «■
I will also state, that in addition to my regular
business I will b'c glad to receive any
CONSIGNMENTS ON COMMISSION,
Or on storage; and to all who favor me with con
signments of any description, I promise
Tull and Satisfactory Returns.
A. P. G. HARRIS,
■ ‘ l
Old firm of Dunlap & Harris, afterwards Harris
& Dense.
. Befekences—Any of the merchants of Macon,
oct 2G-3m [oct 14]
5. )
A. M. ROWLAND & CO.
(.Mulberry street, Opposite Lanier House, i
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
In China, Glass and Queenstvare.
We have now on hand and will open from time,
to time,
A LARGE AND WELL ASSORTED STOCK
of China, Glass and. Qucensware, Table Cutlery,
Coal Oil and Coal Oil Lamps, which we will sell
cheap, both by Wholesale and Retail.
Our supply consists' partly of the followining
articles:,'
Gilded and Plain China Dinner Setts,
Gilded and Plain China Te* Set.?. ,
China Cups, Saucers, Plates,
Mugs and Vases,
Porcelain and Wiiito Granite,
Plates, Dishes, Bowles, etc.
Glass Pitchers,
Jelly Stands and Frnit Stands,
Glass Preserve Dishes,
Butter Bowls and Pickle Jars, .
Glass Tumblers,
Goblets and Wine Glasses,
JapanedWare, »
Salvers and Toilet Setts (complete,)
Coal OH,
Coal Oil Lamps,
Lanterns, etc.
BAR FIXTURES.
Such as Decanters,
Sugar Bowls,
Bitter Bottles,
Cigar Lighters,
Beer Mugs,
Ale Glasses,
Tumblers,
Chamnagne Glasses,
Wino Glasses, ,
White Granit* and. Rock-, Spittoons, etc., etc.
Together with everything else that can he found
in a FIRST CLASS CROCKERY ESTABLISH
MENT. octl7-3m
Office Guief Commissaiiy,
Department of Georgia,
Angusta,-Ga., Oct., 20th, 1865.
Sealed proposals in duplicate will be received at
the office of the Ppst Compiissary, Macon, Ga.,
until 12 o’clock M., Monday November 6th, 1865,
for furnishing troops in District of Columbus,
withFresh Beef from that date until the 31st day
of December, 1865, .
The Beef t.> be of good marketable quality, dressed
in equal proportions of fore and bind quarters
(excluding neck,! shank, and kidney tallow.)
To he delivered ready, dressed in the quarter at
such times_and places as the Commissary may des
ignate, and in such quantities as the Commander
of the District may direct.
! Persons submitting proposals, will state the av- j
erago nctt.weight and the quality of the Beef pro- '
poOed to be furnished. >
The successful .bidder will be required to give JOHN T. EDMUNDS & CO.,
bond and security for the fuitbfui performance of . ’
Ms contract._ • ■ . , )Bankers & Commission Merchants,
Bidders are invited to be present at tbe opening , 7
COTTON
of the proposals.
Proposals will be subject to the approval of the
Commissitry General of Subsistence. ■
james McDonald,
oet26-t6n Capt. & Chf. C. S. Dept. Ga.
L. P. STRONG- & SONS,
WOULD respectfully inform their friends and the
public generally, that they have opened at their
did . stand (on Seccbnd street, two doors from
Cherry) a large and well selected stock of
Boots and Slioes,
Which they offer as low as any house in the city.
ocf2C-lm* ' ■
, AT AUCTICIN.
WE WILL SELL, ON THUR8DAY NEXT,
A Fine Morgan Stallion,
Spven years, old, in fine order, and all right.
oct25-2t
R; B. CLAYTON & CO.
FORSAKE,
A GOOD Steam Saw and Griss Mill, which has
twd runners', ode for com and one for wheat
Alt in good running order. Said, Mills situatec
four miles north, of 14th Station, C. R. R. My
price for said property is $6,000 in green backs,
can be seen at the Mills at any time.
octl4-3aw2w J. I- IRWIN,
Old Established House.
JOHN,,JONES, I
Late Treas. State of Ga )’
JONES & WAY,
MACON. GEORGIA,
Office on Third Street, next door to Post Office.
W E are prepared to make cash advances on
shipments of cotton to Norton, Slaughter &
Co., New York, or to our correspondents in Liver
pool, England. .. .. '
Planters and owners of cotton entrusting the
same to our care for sale or shipment, shall have
prompt returns of sales, in gold or currency as
they may direct. -
We solicit orders for the purchase of cotton.
Gold and silver and sight exchahgc on New York
bought and sold.
We refer by permission to J B Ross & Son, Bow-
dre & Anderson, Knott & Howe, Hardeman &
Sparks, R W Cnbbedge, N A Hardee & Co, Savan
nah;. Third National Bank, Nashville; Citizens’
Bank, Louisville; Commercial Bank, Louisville.
Journal & Messenger, Mercantile Mirror, of Ma
con, Educational Journal, Forsyth, Sumter Re
publican, Americus, and Albany Patriot, Colnm
bus Times and Enquirer, LaGrangc Reporter,
Griffin Union, Milledgevilie Recorder, publish one
month and send bill to
JOHN T. EDMUNDS & CO.,
oct 25-lm Macon.
Have re-opened their office at No. 98, Bay Street,
opposite tbe old stand, Savannah, Ga., for the
transaction of a
General - Commission & Factorage
' ‘ :.i B U STN ESS.
Particular attention paid to. forwarding cotton
and merchandise to and from tbo interior.
• References.—TW Chichester, Esq., Augusta,
Ga; IC Plant, Esq, Macon, Ga; J W Warren,Esq,
Columbns, Ga, and any Bank or Merchant of Sa
vannah, Ga. ' r.cl J-eodlm*
f IM1E undersigned have open- .1 an AUCTION
X and COMMISSION HOUSE, m Fort Valley,
Geo., and will give prompt attention to all bnsi-
ndss entrusted to them. ’
References—W. J: Anderson; & Co., Henry Love,
J. L. Byington, and J. F. Trontman.
W. F. POSTELL,
0Ctl2-2tw2w 1 JASIES JACKSON.
Ad mlnlstrator’s Sal c.
U NDER an order from the Ordinary of Bibb
connty, Ga., will be sold, between the usual
hours of sale, on Wednesday the 8th day of No
vember next, at public outrery, in front of the
Auction store of Messrs. Findlay & Kenri"k, in
Macon, Ga., three horses; one 1 mule, undone top
buggy, as perishable. property, belonging to the
estate of James Meartuiate of said county dec’d.
R. S. LANIER, Ex’r;
oct26-10t* Act. Tcm. Adm’r.
GOOD COTTON PLANTATION
:fo i ; rT-: .vt.
I OFFER for rent, the ensuing year, one-half of
what was known as the land belonging to the
estate of A. J. Coalson, lying on the cast 6ide of
the Ocmulgce, 6ix miles above Hawkinsville, and
eight miles west of Coley’s Station, on the M. &
B. R. R.
Between five and six hundred constitute the num
ber of cleared acres, every field of which is well
watered. A good dwelling, with all no., reary out
buildings, two gin houses, one screw, corn cribs,
etc., on the place.
I will also hire to the tenant seven head of good
work mules, and will sell all the produce made
on the place this year, as cheap as it can be bought
anywhere.
This plantation is well known for the amount of
cotton that has been grown upon it, and those
who wish to engage in the, business in the year
I860 will do well to give me a call. I will be
found on the premises. Letters may be addressed
to me at Hawkinsville.
_ oct25-0t* 8. COALSON.
Administrator’s Sale.
B Y virtue oi an order from the Ordinary of Bibb
county, will be sold on Saturday, the 4th day
November next, at the late residence of John H.
Dunlap deceased, about three miles from the city
of Macon, at 10 o’clock A. M., on the Houston
road, the following property, to-wit: Horses,
mules,cattle,householaandkitcbcnfurniture. Sold
as the property of John H. Dunlap deceased, for
the benefit of the heirs and creditors of deceased.
EUGENIA C. DUNLAP,
oct26-9tj MMAtd. Administratrix.
SEXTON WANTED.
A SOBER, reliable COLORED MAN, wonted as
Sexton for Mulberry Street Methodist Church.
JAMES I. SNIDER,
at Jewett & Snider’?.
BOARDINC.
BOARDING AND LODGING can be obtained
for FOUR SINGLE GENTLEMEN, and EIGHT
day boarders, by immediate application. Hou?c
on the Hill, 2d door from Dr. Hammoud's resi
dence. JAS. H. WHITE.
oct26-12t*
Sole Leather,
’A GOOD LOT OF SOLE LEATHER,
For sale by
SINGLETON & HUNT.
ALL STYLES OF
BOOTS,
SHOES,
AND HATS,
At Wholesale and Retail by
SINGLETON * HUNT.
REPAIRING
Neatly done by
SINGLETON & HUNT,
oct26-2t Opposite Lanier House.
Journal <fc Messenger copy.
IS otice.
O N the 1st of November next, will be sold on
the plantation belonging to the estate of R.
H. Slappty, in H ouston county, all the perishable
property, to-wit
Mules, Cows, Meat, and Stock Hog6, Sheep,
Corn and Fodder, Cotton, Peas, Syrnp, Wagon and
Plantation Implements.
JACOB UILY,
R. 11. SLAPPEY, Jr.
oct34-10t* Ex’rs.
_
XXTE wish to purchase a few hundred bales of
V v good Cotton, in good shipping order, will
pay U. S. currency, gold or sight exchange on N.
Y. Apply to
iCt2o-3t ROBERTS, DUNLAP & CO.
NAILS, NAILS, NAILS.
A CONSIGNMENT OF 12d NAILS
In Store and for sale by
JEWETT & SNIDER.
For Sale or Rent.
ACRES Orchard, Vineyard and Garden with
DU good dwelliug, btables and aU necessary out
improvements, only two miles from the heart of
the citv.
CARR, GLINX & WRIGHT,
oct 24-lw* Office iu Ralston’s Building.
Cane Mills and Syrup Boilers.
A FEW more of those very superior Cane Mills
and Svrup Boilers, for sale cheap, at
aug 183m SCHOFIELD’S.
