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THE TELEGRAPH.
BY CIiISBY & REID.
TXLKGRAPH BUILDING, COBNKR CHKBXY & BKOOWD BTB.
THURSDAY MORNING. OCT. 22, 1888.
FOB PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OF NEW YOKE.
FOE VIDE PRESIDENT,
FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
OF MISSOURI.
STATE ELECTORAL TICKET.
FOE THE STATE AT I.ABOE :
Gas. JOHN B. GORDON, of Fulton.
IIox. JOHN T. CLARKE, of Randolph.
FOB THE DISTRICTS:
1. JOHN C. NICHOLS, of Pierce.
2. Col. CHARLES T. GOODE, of Sumter.
3. RAPHAEL J. MOSES, of Muscogee.
4. AUGUSTUS 0. BACON, of Bibb.
5. Maj. J. B. CUMMING, of Richmond.
6. H. P. BELL, of Forsyth.
7. Col. JAMES D. WADDELL, of Cobb.
FOR CONGRESS.
Diet. 1. Hoy. AUGUSTIN II. HANSELL. of Thomas.
" 2. Iloy. NELSON TIFT, of Dougherty.
** 2. Hoy. HUGH BUCHANAN, ofCowetaconnty.
" 4. Hoy. T. G. LAWSON, of Putnam.
"ft.
'• 6. Hoy. WIER BOYD, of Lumpkin.
'• 7. Hoy. P. M. B. YOUNG, of Bartow.
Eatonton, October Oth. 1868.
Mr. Editor : Please publish the following
appointments. I will address the people of
the 4th Congressional District in the follow
ing order:
At Jeffersonville, Thursday, October 22d.
At Milledgeville, Saturday, October 24th.
At Monticello, Tuesday, October 27th.
At Covington, Thursday, October 29th.
At Conyers. Friday, October 80th.
Thos. G. Lawson.
OUTSIDE CONTENTS.
First Page.—A very interesting account
of the Funeral Obsequies of Gov. Cobb, from
the pen of a friend who was present as one
of the delegation from Macon—Dress in re
lation to Figure—Death of a Colored Legis
lator—Items.
Fourth Page.—Under Suspicion : an in
teresting story of humble life.
Mr. Tucker, of the Chattahoochee Mirror,
is in town, soliciting advertisements for his
paper. It is a sprightly and able sheet and
offers an excellent advertising medium to our
merchants.
Smart. The Memphis Avalanche of the
17th gives a long account of the destruction
of the loyal league arms on board the steam
boat Hesper, and expresses a strong convic
tion that it was the work of disguised
leaguers themselves, in the interests of party
capital.
The State Road.—The Intelligencer says
the joint committees of the branches of the
Legislature for the management of the W.
& A. R. R. are in session in one of the rooms
of the depot building in this city. The
investigation will be thorough, and, we pre
sume, the session will be protracted through
many days.
Lippincott for November has the follow
ing table of contents: Maliala’s Drive: an
American story; Scientific Expedition to
Alaska; Fata Morgana: a Hungarian Legend;
The French Empire; Dr. Aar: a tale; Forest
Recollections; Silbouetts; Legal Interference
with the Hours of Labor; Emmanuel Leutze,
the Artist: Incognita; Riccardo il Falcon :
an Italian story; About Strength; A Day at
a Cherry Patch; Monthly Gossip; Literature
of the Day.
Wiiat an Industrious Freedman may
do.—The Milledgeville Federal Union of last
Tuesday says that “ on Saturday last a freed-
mnn traded one hundred and fifty dollars
cash at one of oar grocery and provision
houses. He says he will make over $1200
clear profits on his crop, which has been cul
tivated by his own family this year. What
do darkies who stand around on street cor
ners and talk politics think of that ? Better
than depending on Radicals for forty acres
and a mule, eh ?”
Gullett’s Gins.—We invite attention to
an advertisement of Mr. F. S. Johnson,
agent for the Gullctt Gi ns in this section, to
the ample testimony he furnishes in rebnttal
of the allegation that these Gins injure the
staple of the cotton. On the contrary the
Charleston papers, this very season, have
quoted cotton prepared by these gins at an
advance over that ginned on other machines.
The Popular Majority.—The Louisville
Courier well remarks that the united Radical
majorities of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Vermont,
and New Hampshire are nothing like so great
as the Democratic majority given by Kentucky
alone. With facts like this before us it is im
possible to doubt that a majority of the peo
ple of the United States are opposed to Rad
icalism. We have no hesitation in promising
that Kentucky will give Seymour and Blair a
majority larger than Grant’s combined ma«
jotities in any six States.
WnAT Constitutes a Rebel.—It seems
that some of the unlucky Cubans have
endeavored to maintain the supremacy of the
Queen on that island—have been defeated
and are to be pnnisbed as rebels. In this
case the rebels succeeded and punished the
“truly loyal” as traitors. Spain has began
a business which is likely to lead to a good
reciprocal garroting, for who will be traitors
and who loyal must hang upon the fate of
the sneenssive revolutions, which will, in all
probability, make up the history of that
kingdom for years to come.
Babnesville.—Our Bamesville patrons
complain that their package of the Daily
has failed quite often recently. This hurts
us. If the fault lies in this newspaper office,
we would be glad to know it; but we have
every reason to believe that the package
leaves our office with unfailing regularity
every morning. If the Macon Postoffice
were in fault, that fault, we think, would be
shown by the total failure of our whole
Macon and Western Railroad mail—for it
all leaves the printing office in one sack, and
(as we suppose) in that shape is sent by the
Macon Postoffice to the railroad. In the
absence of evidence we are not disposed to
charge any fault to the route agent, but
hope that all concerned will increase dili
gence to have matters correct. Yesterday,
for example, we know the Bamesville pack
age left the printing office all right, hut it
did not, nevertheless, reach Bamesville.
THE GOVERNOR’S PROCLAMATION
SUSPENDING THE TAX QUALIFI
CATION FOR VOTERS.
Our yesterday’s paper contained an edito
rial paragraph calling the attention of tax-
collectors in Georgia to the Constitutional
requirement that every voter shall have paid
his taxes for the preceding year, and to the
importance to the revenue of the Stato and
county, that the tax-collectors should be
present at each poll, with their list of
defaulters, in order to collect on the spot, the
taxes due from delinquents before they are
permitted to vote.
The same number of the paper, however,
contained a telegraphic synopsis of a procla
mation issued yesterday by Gov. Bullock,
suspending that provision of the Constitu
tion, and instructing the tax-collectors to
suspend the collection of all poll taxes until
the next regular session of the General
Assembly of this State, agreeably to section
seventy of the code of Georgia, which de
clares as follows:
“The Governor may suspend the collection
of the taxes, or aDy part thereof, due the
Stati-, until the meeting of the next General
Assembly, but not longer; nor shall lie other
wise interfere with the collection thereof.”
The Governor has, therefore, it seems,
seized upon a dispensing power, conferred by
the legislature to enable him to relieve the
people in times of great pecuniary distress, in
order to defeat a Constitutional voting qual
ification which he himself helped to incor
porate iu that instrument.
The Constitutional Convention, as thor
oughly in the interests of the Radical party
as it was, balked at the absurd idea of making
a great voting population of ninety-five thous
and negroes who should-not contribute a eent
to the public revenue! Referring, therefore,
to the Journals of the Convention, pages 266
and 282, it will be seen that this provision
originated with Messrs. Akcrman and McCay
—the very chiefs among the Radicals. It
owed its inception to the plain fact that this
mass of negro voters were without property
and even the insignificant poll tax of one dol
lar prescribed by the Constitution could not
therefore be collected without making it a
condition precedent to the exercise of the suf
frage.
Surely if the suffrage were held to be of any
value at all, it would command from the ne
gro the poor pittance of one dollar as his con-,
tribution to the support of the government.
But as to the actnal fact, as far as we are
advised, so small a number of poll taxes have
been paid that failure might be recorded as
a general return. The negroes, as a mass, re
fuse to pay taxes, and the attempt to collect
them from employers by process of garnish
ment, has bred infinite trouble and vexation.
Now, upon the first occasion in which this
Constitutional provision can be made to oper
ate and to demand of the negro his poll tax
as the price of the suffrage, the Governor by
proclamation seeks to contravene and circum
vent the plain and reasonable provision of the
Constitution demanding that the voter shall
pay his tax before voting.
And observe that it is only upon the “poll
tax” that Collectors are directed to suspend
collection. All other taxes must come with
in the Constitutional provision. The man
who owes a property tax must pay it heiore
he can vote; but he who owes only a poll
tax is exempt. The object and effect of the
proclamation are too plain to call for any com
ment.
The point the Governor makes that the
taxes levied under the Constitution and laws
of 1865, which levied two dollars poll tax,
are sought to be enforced under the Consti
tution of 1868, might be plead with greater
plausibility if the suspension ot taxes was
general and impartial; but il the sanctions
of the Constitution of 1868 are to he applied
in one case, why not in both, unless the ob
ject he to discourage one class of voters and
to open the door without obstruction to an
other {
It is snch unfairness as this which is most
demoralizing and fatal in destroying political
confidence in the good faith of government.
No little party advantage to be gained by
such tactics has a feather’s weight it compen
sating the great public evils they inflict, and
which are fast associating in the minds of
the masses all over the country, the idea of
government with dishonesty, trickery, evasion
and shuffling. The tricks of politicians have
been proverbial for years and, unfortunately,
it has come to be the case that the people
have ceased to look for candor, ingenuousness
and a liberal comprehensive patrotism iu any
party or politician, or a political paper. In
deed, they are rather ridiculed as something
entirely out of date—oldfoggyish and imbe
cile.
That is a great misfortune, hut it would be
a grand catastrophe to stamp tlie same pop
ular conviction upon the character and action
of government. That is carrying the cant
and immorality of the brothel into the
sanctuary of home—and to whelm all dis
tinctions of vice and virtue in a general car
nival of fraud. The human mind must rest
secure iu the belief of the existence of gen
eral fairness and integrity of purpose and ad
ministration somewhere, or virtue is gone,
and there is no resting-spot amid the wide
deluge of fraud and immorality.
Now we will not entertain the question
whether Gov. Bullock’s Proclamation, under
force of a mere statute, can supersede or sus
pend s constitutional provision. There can
be but one answer—and that in the negative.
Next, whether if it could do so—a mere sus
pension of tax collecting, agreeably to the
order, can qualify a voter, who by the terms
of the Constitution must “have paid all taxes
which may have been required of him, and
which he may have had an opportunity of
paying agreeably to law, for the year next
preceding the election.”
We think the proposition itself suggests
its only answer. But practically we assume
the Governor’s order will set aside the Con
stitution, and abolish, for a time, a qualifica
tion so wise and reasonable in itself that no
man can say aught against it and every man
is compelled to allow it should be enforced.
But we ask the Governor to consider well
the demoralizing tendency and effect of his
proclamation—the wretched precedent it sets
of the exercise of a dispensing power by the
Governor as great as ever was claimed by the
Eighth Henry or First Charles—a power to
dispense with fundamental law 1 We pray
him, in all respect and kindness, to recall a
proclamation franght with such fatal prece
dent to the interests of good government in
Georgia and the liberties of the people.
PRESS DISPATCHES.
Address from the National Democratic
Committee.
New York, October 21.—The National Democratic
Committee have issued an address. It makes no al
lusion to any change of candidates.
It says: “Wo aro charged by the Radical party, a'
party of violence and usurpation, which, for the last
four years, to prolong its own existence, has set at
naught the Constitution and fundamental principles
of our Government, that we intend revolution and
defiance of the established laws. The accusation is
unfonnded and absnrd. It cannot be entertained for
a moment by any intelligent voter who has even the
most superficial knowledge of the history of this
country. Tho Democratic party can proudly point
to every pago of its record. It has never violated a
singlo obligation of the fundamental compact, by
which these United 'States entered into a family of
nations. Its watchword in peace, as in war, has been,
and will always be, the Union, Constitution and laws;
and no man, nor any set of men, however high they
might be placed by the sufirago of their fellow-citi
zens, can expect to receive the support of this great
Conservative party, in any revolutionary attempt
against established laws. The ballott box and the
snpreme will of the American people are tho only
means of redress to which we look.
CONSIGNEES M. 4fc W. RAILROAD.
Macon, October 21, 1868.
Adams, J k R; T C Nesbit; N Bass; G Bernd; Jones,
BAD; Johnson, C k Co: Thos Wood; Bledsoe k Co; A
L Maxwell; Seymour, T k Co; J J Freeman; D G k S:
T Wilcox.
Jasper County.—A correspondent reports
the crops in Jasper very poor. The cotton
yield will be small owing to the depredations
of the boll and army worms, and the potato
crop is almost an entire failure.
Prom ■Washington.
Washington, October 21.—The orders from tho
War Department, assigning Inspector Generals, in
cludes Gen. E. H. Luddington to the Department of
the Sonth. Assistant Inspector Generals will be
selected from officers who have served ten years. Ail
others aro ordered to their TOgiments as soon as re
lieved.
Attorney General Erarts is in New York attending
to important private practice.
Montgomery Blair departed Westward this morn
ing.
Gen. Rosecranz, having received final instructions,
left for New York to-day. Tho date of his departure
for Mexico has not transpired.
Gov. Soymonr speaks at Buffalo to-morrow, and
thence proceeds to Pennsylvania and the West.
The rumored loss of the steamer Vilio de Paris is
false.
Chase leaves in a few days for Savannah, Ga., to
hold court.
It is stated that tho Revenue Department is pre
paring instructions, whereby donble distilled whisky
will escape doable taxation. Heavy investments have
been mode under the previous ruling, and tho change
creates much excitement among whisky men.
Included in General Reynold's instructions to reg
isters of votes, in tho State of Texas, is the following
No amnesty or pardon entitles the applicant to reg
ister, and all persons shonld be rejected who may claim
to have been coerced to engage in tho rebellion, if it
appears that such persons sought, held or exercised
any office, or position of profit or honor under the Con
federate States, or either of the States in rebellion.
Tho removal of disability by Congress entitles the ap
plicant to register unless disfranchised by crime.
Revenue, to-day, 8172,000.
To-day’s World is silent regarding a change of can
didates. It applauds Seymour’s determination to
speak.
The official majority in Maine is stated to be 19,960.
Letter From Gen. Wade Hampton.
Charleston, October 21.—The Daily News of this
morning, publishes a letter from Wade Hampton, in
reply to a Wisconsin lawyer, who requests him, in
view of the wide-spread misrepresentation of his
course, to define his position as to the issues, results
and consequences of the war. Hampton says:
"The main issues involved in the war were secession
and slavery. The first, the primary one; the latter
was brought in at a later period. In regard to these,
I adopt fully and without reservation, tho principles
announced by the late National Democratic Conven
tion, in New York; and in the words of the platform
promulgated there, I consider these questions as
settled forever. I accept this as the result accom
plished by the war, and as its logical and legitimate
consequence. This 1 have done from the day the war
closed, and I have counselled our people to look upon
it in the same light.
I was strongly in favor of the action taken by this
State, conferring on the negro equal civil rights with
the white man, and more than ayear ago, I advocated
the policy of giving to him, as soon as wo had the
power to do so legitimately, suffrage, based on quali
fication.
The Democratic Convention, held here in April
last, recognized him as “an integral part of the body
politic, and declared that it would, when our party
came into power, grant him partial suffrage. The
State Central Club has just reaffirmed this declara
tion, and 1 have no donbt but that this declaration is
sustained by a vast majority of the white citizens of
the State.
We regard the Reconstruction acts as unconstitu
tional ; but we look for their overthrow, not to vio
lence, but, in the language of a resolution unani
mously adopted by the Democratic party in conven
tion asembled—to constitutional agencies and peace
ful remedies alone. We invoke a decision on the
constitutionality of these acts from the only tribunal
competent to pronounce on them—the Supremo Court
of the United States—and we were prepared in good
faith to abide by that decision. It may not be inap
propriate to correct a misrepresentation, widely
spread by the Radical party, touching these acts. In
these I have been charged with having dictated that
portion of the Democratic platform relating to Re
construction. This charge I have more than once
denied, and I do so again, most emphatically. The
sense in which I spoke of the words unconstitutional,
revolntionary ana void as being my plank in the
platform, referred to them as the plank to which I, as
well as any other Southern man, clung for safety."
The letter concludes as follows: “If tho people of
the North wish to build up a strong and lasting Union,
let them be magnanimous and generous to tho Sonth,
let them confide more fully than they have done to
the honor of onr people and they will meet a cordial
and heartfelt response. The future destiny of the Re
public is in tho hands of the North, and upon their
action it depends whether there is again to be a union,
based on fraternal feeling, or one held together by the
iron bands ofmilitary rule."
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From Louisiana.
New Orleans, October 21.—The Legislature ad
journed sine die. at midnight, last night. Among the
lost acts of the House was one to reconsider the vote
sustaining the Governor’s veto of the Five Million
City Bond bill, and passed a bill over the veto. Also to
eject another white member, elected by over three
hundred majority, and install in his place a negro.—
A resolution was adopted giving mileage and per
diem for tho whole session to a number of Radical
contestants of seats, and setting aside Democratic
members whose cases have not yet been decided.—
The same action was taken in the Senate, in a similar
case. In the Senate, when the veto of the City Bond
bill came up, a Senator caused to ho read a commu
nication, offering two thonsand dollars as a bribe for
the passage of the bill over tho veto. It was also
stated that a further sum of fifty thousand had been
offered. A vote was then taken and the veto sus
tained-nine voting to pass it over the veto and nine
teen against.
The body of Col. Pope, lato Sheriff of St. Mary’s
Patish, went North this evening on the steamer Nich
olas Longworth. The body was escorted to the steamer
by a large number of ex-United States officers and
soldiers and officers from headquarters, including
Gens. Rossean and Buchanan. Pope was formerly
Colonel of the 33d Illinois, instead of the 29th.
General News.
San Francisco, October 21.—The steamer Japan,
from Hong Kong, arrived on the 15th, from Yokoha
ma, with dates of the 26th nit. She ‘brings 500 pas
sengers and 1500 tons of merchandise,
Mikado has decreed for Yoko to bo called Tokea,
and the port of Yeddo will he opened to foreigners by
October 1st.
There havo been no important military operations
since the last report, though there has been considera
ble fighting,; in which the Northern army had the ad
vantage.
It is stated that an American officer, belonging to
the steamer Oneida, was killed at Hioga.
The steamer Shenandoah broke her engine while
on route for Hioga.
Charleston, October 21.—A meeting was held this
afternoon to express indigdation at the recent
mnrders in the up country. Mayor Clark presided,
and speeches wero delivered by Senator Sawyer,
Collector Mackey and others. Gov. Scott has issued
a proclamation offering rewards for the apprehension
of the murderers, and exprassing the determination
to maintain public order at all hazards.
Head This, Irishmen.
Selma, October 21.—Willard Warner, United States
Senator from Alabama, is canvassing this part of tho
Stato for the Grant and Colfax ticket. He stated
here that tho Irish stunk louder and worse than any
set of niggers that ho ever was in company with, and
wero not as fit for the franchise as the negro. It was
said in the presence of a number of United States offi
cers. The undersigned called upon Gen. Warner lbr
an explanation of this charge upon the Irish, and ho
attempted to apologize for it; but stated that ho was
riding in a railroad car in Ohio, not long since, and
they were drinking and smoking and they stunk as
bad as negroes.
[Signed,] p. E. Meyhan.
Foreign News.
Katana, October 21.—Captain Qenral Lersundi ia-
sned a proclamation to-day, ordering the trial by
court martial of all persons engaged in tho recent in
surrection in the interior, and of all these who gave
aid or countenance to tho attempt by cutting the tele
graph wires, destroying tho mails, or in any other
way.
The arrival from Venzuela reported that country
comparatively quiet.
Gen. Bozas had recognized the Mongaz Govern
ment.
Tho Vomito is raging at Caracas. There are many
deaths.
Arrangements havo been made for a line of steam
ers between New York and New Orleans, via San
Domingo.
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“CHATTAHOOCHEE MIRROR,”
FORT GAINES, : : ; GEORGIA
TI8ING medium in Southwest Georgia, as it cir
culates throughout Southeast Alabama and South
west Georgia; also, all along the line of railroad to
Macon. Advertisers, look to your interest and send
your advertisements to the Mirror; rates are moderate.
Address M. TUCKER,
oct22-tf Fort Gaines.
OFFICIAL.
Proclamation by the Governor
Whereas, It is reported by reliable citizens from
many counties of the State, that prep orations are be
ing made to collect onerous taxes levied under author
ity of the Constitution of eighteen hundred and sixty-
five, (1865,) and failing to collect, to apply the pro
visions of the present Constitution, and thereby ex
elude many citizens from the privilege of voting.
Therefore, I, Rnfus B. Bullock, Governor and Com
mander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the State
of Georgia, and of, the Militia thereof, by virtue of
the authority in mo vested by tho Seventieth (70)
Section of the Code of Georgia, do hereby suspend the
collection cf all poll taxes until the next regular
session of the General Assembly of this State, and of
this suspension the Comptroller General will forth
with give notice to the Tax Collectors of tho several
counties.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the State,
at the Capitol, in Atlanta, this twentieth day of
October, in the year of onr Lord eighteen hun
dred and sixty-eight, and of the Independence of
tho United States of America the ninety-third.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
Governor.
By the Governor:
David G. Cottinq, Secretary of State
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Notice to Shippers.
Transportation Office, Macon and B. R. R. Co.,
Macon, Ga., October 1,1868.
O N AND AFTER THIS DATE WAY FREIGHT
Trains, on this Road, will run tri-weekly, on
Tuesdays, Tborsdays and Saturdays, until further
orders.
Freight for Hawkinsvilie. to be shipped the samo
day, must be delivered at this Depot by 1 o’clock p. m.
Small packages, only, will be received at the Passen
ger Depot by 3 o’clock p. H., and for these, donble
rates will be invariably charged.
ROBERT SCHMIDT.
oct21-lmo Master Transportation.
Democrats to the Rescue!
T here will be a meeting of -the col-
ORED Democratic Club" next Monday night, at
tho City Hall.
All hands are invited, irrespective of party. Speak
ing by
W. C. SMITH, (colored) Houston county.
GEO. H. OOLMAN, Albany, (colored.)
JULIUS RAYFIELD, Macon, .colored.)
J. HENRY TAYLOR, Savannah, (colored)
JOSEPH BUTLER,
oct21-tf. President* pro tern.
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J IBBRAL ADVANCES MADE TO PLANTERS
on Cotton in Warehouses, by
„ I.C.PLANT kSON.
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Fall Styles DRESS SDITS.
Fall Styles WALKING COATS.
Fail Styles CLOTH COATS—all shades.
Celebrated
MEDAL SHIRTS—excel all others in ease, elegance
And durability.
THE BEST A8SOBTMENT OF
FURNISHING GOODS
In tho Southern market.
I.ATB STYLES
NECKTIES. KID GLOVES. BUCK. DOGSKIN and
CLOTH GLOVES.
Fine lines of UNDERWEAR,
ENGLISH AND FRENCH HOSE,
Fine Irish Linen
HAUDESROHIEFS,
Plain and Bordered.
Cleveland ATowle’s Patent
SUSPENDERS and BRACES.
FALL STYLES
BOYS’ AND YOUTHS’ SUITS,
For Dress and School; the most tasteful in
GTTIXET
OLD RELIABLE
MY MODS HOUSE
TO THE PUBLIC:
HPHE undersigned, representing the
1 Gullet Steel Brush Gin. appears before the publio
in order to refute a story which is being circulated
through the country by interested parties, with sinis
ter motives, one of whom has tried the^ same K*? 3 ®
before at another point, charging that.this Gin. which
had premiums awarded it as long since as in
jures the fibre of cotton. Ho offers to the public tes
timonials to the contrary# from men known for their
practical knowledge and probity of character; live
men among ns: and asks those interested to weigh
the evidence, and to ho assured that tho Gullet Gin is
not a “fraud," as charged by one of tho party. lam
prepared to prove that cotton ginned on these Gins
readily sells for from 34 to 2 cents per pound more
than that from other Gins* and that manufactures
prefer it.
TESTIMONIALS:
Columbus, Ga., October 8,1868.
F.S. Johnson, Esq.: ... . , T .
Dear Sir—Yours of tho 6th has been received: I note
what you say about the reports that the Gullet Gin
“injures the staple; cutting it up." That is simply
ridiculous. The saws of tho Gin pass through the
breast similar to all Gins; then how can it cut it up
any more than other Gins, except the brushes do it,
which is an impossibility ? There is nothing else to
say and these are simple truths. But when any one
or more persons assert that a Gin cuts up the staple,
it creates a strong prejudice with people^who do not
understand tho principles of the operation, and it is
up hill work to welcome these foolish notions. I
havo seen cotton ginned on tho Gullet Gin and it
makes a pretty sample, and the staple is in no way
hurt; and when you sell a man one of these Gins he
gets a good Gin. Mr. Peabody, who makes long
staple cotton, uses a Gullet Gin and ho expresses him
self highly pleased.
Yours truly,
wk.H. YOUNG.
Mr. Young is tho founder of, and for many years,
the President of the Eagle Mills, Colnmbns, Ga.
Office Cuthbert Manufacturing Co.. 1
Cuthbert, Ga., October 9,1868. j
F. 8. Johnson, Esq., Macon, Ga.:
Dear Sir—Replying to your inquiry of tho 6th inst,
“does the Gullet Steel Brush Gin, in your opinion,
injure the fibre of cotton?" Upon my first examina
tion of this Gin, though bclioving it would make a
superior sample, I did think (and so stated to others)
that tho fibre would be moro or less injured. At the
request of the Agent for this section I put in operation
a sixty saw Gullet Gin, at the Cuthbert Factory, for
the purposo of testing this opinion; and, contrary to
my expectations, neither myself nor any of the parties
associated with me, in \he operation of working the
cotton into yarns, could discover the fibre was injured,
while all agreed it was remarkably free from moats or
trash. I still thought it might show a greater pro
portion of loss, compared to other cottons in the pro
cess of manufacture and propose testing that opinion
by weighing up a certain amount of cotton and com
paring results with other cotton, but before I had an
opportunity of doing so the Agent sold the Gin. I
have since learned that a manufacturer did so test it
and states the loss to be less than usual.
Rospectfullj’ yours,
[Signed,] J *HN HARDY,
President Cuthbert Manufacturing Co.
Office Macon Manufacturing Co., )
Macon, Ga., October 16,1868.)
F. S. Johnbon, Macon. Ga.:
Dear Sir—Wo take pleasure in stating that the cot
ton we have worked, ginned on the Gullet Gin, has
given good satisfaction, and we believe it to be
superior to any other Gin now in use.
[Signed,] J. E. JONES. Agent,
BENJ. BURDICK. Sup’t.
I am also authorized to refer parties to Mr. Geo. W.
Swift, so long at tho head of the Upson Factory, and
well known for his beautiful yarns as well as success
in managing that Mill. I leave those interested to
judge between such evidence and that of interested
parties, neither of whom has probably ever exam-
ALL GOODS AT PRICES
20 percent, below other Houses
Producing the same line of Goods.
MY
WBOXSSAAZI DEPARTMENT
Has been separated from tho Retail, and is now
filled with a choice selection of goods for Planters
and Country Merchants, which will be sold at
NEW YORK PRICES,
FREIGHT ADDED, at
HERTZ’S,
Late TURPIN & HERTZ.
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No, 90 Cherry atreet.
MIDDLE GEORGIA.
STRICTLY ONE PRICE.
NOTICE.
T HE UNDERSIGNED DESIRES TO FORM A
Class in German for Ladies and Gentlemen.
Terms: Five dollars a month—four lessons a week
of two hours each. For further particulars, inquire at
the Stubblefield House.
REV. J. SAENGER.
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J. C. CONKLIN,
MERCHANT TAILOR
•yy-OULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM HIS
friends and tho public that he has just received a
splendcd assortment of NEW and FASHIONABLE
GOODS in his line, embracing
FRENCH and EUaiLZSH:
BROADCLOTHS AND CASS1MERES,
VESTINGS,
Both Silk, Velvet and Cassimcro,
Which he intends to put up in the BEST STYLE, at
prices which will defy competition.
GIVE ME A TRIAL heforo purchasing elsewhere,
os I feel myself both competent and determined to
please.
P. S. I will bo in receipt of new Goods every ten
days.
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GEORGIA
HOME INSURANCE COMPANY,
OP COLUMBUS, GA.
$350,000 j Incorporated 1859 j
Assets,
,280 87
I SSUES POLICIES (PARTICIPATING AND
NON-PARTICIPATING) on all kinds of Prop
erty, at equitable rates.
4Sf“Participating policies may receive THREE-
FOURTHS of the profits.
SMITH & CARNES. Agents,
Office: Over Massenbnrg’s Store.
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Planters of Middle and' Southwest
Georgia,
LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST.
W E ARE SELLING, IN ANY SIZE LOTS. TnB
Celebrated Wailey Buckle Cotton Tie, of which
we sold Twelve Car Loads last season. Every Tie un
dergoes a pressure of 2000 pounds before it is bundled:
is yi heavier than the ARROW TIE—it is made
by Southern men and wo are authorized to Warrant
every Tie. Planters are earnestly seeking heavy
Bagging. It is as much to their interest to use heavy
Ties as heavy Bagging.
We also offer Planters and Merchants Beard’s
Famous Buckle Tie, which is tho favorite band in the
West, and has given universal satisfaction wherever
sold.
Wo warrant every Tie and guarantee it to be one-
third heavier than the Arrow Tie.
We also keep the Arrow Tie. but wish to put all the
money we can in the hands of our Georgia Planters.
SEYMOUR. TINSLEY & CO.
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CUBBEDGE & HAZLEHURST,
BANKERS & BROKERS,
MACON, GA.,
"DECEIVE DEPOSITS, BUY AND SELL EX-
li CHANGE, GOLD, SILVER, Stocks, Bonds and
U ncurrent Funds.
COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL ACCESSIBLE
POINTS.
43-Office open at all hours of tbo day.
[septl-lyrl
I. C. PLANT & SON,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
,ts, buy
_ . .vnnnah.
Augusta and other points, mako liberal advances on
COTTON IN STORE IN A1AC0N, or on shipments
Cotton to good Northern or European houses, >n
Bonds, Stocks, or other goodseounties. Will purohas
and sell BONDS,”
STOCKS,
GOLD,
SILVER.
, , , BANKNOTES,
and mako investment* for parties as they may direct.
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF MACON,
I. O. Plaht, President. W. W. Wriqlky, Cashier
Corner Second''and Cherry Streets.
TVISCOUNT. DEPOSIT AND COLLECTION.
JL* Exchange bought and Sold.
Liberal advancos made on shipments of Cotton tc
any good Northern or European houses.
Collections promptly attended to.
DiEiCToas:
H. L. Jewett. Wm,T. Lightfoot, G. H. HazlehurshW.
H, Ross, Wm.B. Dinsmore, H. B. Plan*
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THE
MAMMOTH
DRY GOODS STOCK
FOR THE
IT* A. Xj Xj OI* 1868
IS NOW COMPLETE.
E. FEUCHTWANGER & GO.,
43 SECOND St. and 3» COTTON AVENUE,
TRIANGULAR BLOCK,
^RE NOW READY TO OFFER TO THE PUBLIC
one of the handsomest and CHEAPEST ASSORT
MENTS of DRY GOODS that has over been ex
hibited in Macon, both at Retail and Wholesale.
Tho Wholesale Department, (up stairs) compose*
everything in onr line to assort any store in the State
in ample qualities. We solicit, most respectfully, an
inspection from Merchants of the same.
At onr Retail Department can be fonnd ail the
FASHIONABLE STYLES OF GOODS,
4S~ The same as are to be fonnd in Broadway, New
York, -®8r
FROM A
nAKrDSORIE raXBTT
HEAVY SILK OR POPLIN,
RICHSILK VELVET CLOAK.
OUR STOCK OF HOSIERY
Is superier to any yet received, and in
LINEN CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEFS,
We have an endless variety; also, in all tho
fashionable styles of GLOVES,
ALEXANDER S KIDS!!
All in new shades and very handsome.
OUR
DOMESTIC COTTON GOODS
DEFARTMEMT
AND
MSTENT DEPARTMENTS
Are stocked with the
BEST BRA ND S OF GOODS,
FOR GENTLEMEN,
We have aline assortment of
ENGLISH HALF HOSE,
Of the best make.
GENTS' HEMED HANDKERCHIEFS.
CLOTHS,
CASSIMERES. DOESKINS. JEANS, etc.
Tho celebrated
ROCK ISLAND CAS3IHERE
AND JEANS
ARE DAILY EXPECTED.
E. FEUCHTWANGER & CO.,
43 Second at., 93 Cotton Avenue,
MACON, GA.
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