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€|£ §ailj Cekgrapjj. 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. Go to Bryant, Stratton & Co’s. Nashville Business College for a thorough knowledge of Bookkeeping, Pensnjanship, Commercial Calcula tions, Commercial, Law Partnership Settlements and Business FomjBand Practice etc. Sendfor Col lege paper, Circulars, etc. Address BRYANT, STRATTON & CO., oct21-6m Nashville, Tenn. , Atlanta."Medical Collect.—'The; course of Lectures in this institution will commence on the first Monday in November next, and continue^bur months—the Faculty having changed the time for the session from summer to the winter months. 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.