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MACON, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY JOHN W. O'CONNOR KOSTBKJJIT MW KXCHAVQt BCtLPIXO, SAVASXAH, GA., . T\5ALIR8 in Dome®tic usd ToNlp Sex JLx Aid. SiW®r nndtiTicurrcni M> ncy. Boy a ,vj *•-' *• Biecindrroiiu. allowing four per eenL li per annum on weekly balance* of ttOO and npw VMlecti <n * tr.ade in this city and nil tat pr towoiof Georflftmd Flon«li. ' S” Wtli. auki jMfeBce* ob eontinaeita of ( Rico, etc., to olBOelrcc. or to oar Northern and BROADCLOTHS AND CASSIMERES, ■‘^TESTINGS, % ■ WHISKY AND TAXES. 1^5 TISOJT & GORDON, W*. COTTON FACTORS EVERY PAPBR DATED 1868 CROP. HEATH & REYNOLDS, • mituUii»uriit buiinii n.' FRESH FISH, SHAD S OYSTERS, Foreip &HatiTE Fruits, TeietaMes, TwUmm MinpiWng Arms build tile road for three aiillioa* ot dollar*, and that fa con sideration of thia State aab*erip*i»n they proceed to take ooe-tbird nr eoe million io preferred stock, ooetbird io State hondaaod the rcaikhling third inilHoh la bond* o» the rand. With ibteeoppoaiueo, the preferred stock and the rail bond* would at «-«c« *le- efeaBn^wareabore Ik* a wreath of mist at er* s BRUNSWICK AND HAWDNSYIUE STEAMBOAT LINE, TOUCHING REGULARLY AT DARIEN AND DOGTORTOWN. Md condition, I ifSagine, at the Kiddle *1 Upper O^rgia. The bnrt oe mote, and the fanner* iaptad themselves to tbo mom ex- new order of tbioga. Tbo Agent SITE HE A CHANGE dividends or not—with a hnrrew, and a gat few laagbler, tbe million* of bonds are voted Bat the day of reckoning, demanded by far- more and tilling ianeat by. Ui»Hn« * . At ten cents on tbo one bond red dollars, soffi« cient ravenne was raised to pay the sxpvpeei of the State, including in tenet on n debt ot five or *ix'mURnn* of dollar*. Now. the whole taxable property of the State Woum. oojyto W*Moo Tbi. require* that the rate of taxation ahootd be railed from ten cents on the hundred dollar* to forty or fifty cents. Add to tbi* the inter- e*t on five more millions, appropriated try the State, or to be appropriated, and onr f*nn«r* may speedily expect to pay one dol lar on every bnodred. It may be snfflcieat to aey that this woold produce bankruptcy, Mx it Camiot'bo tnade out of land. The State of Georgia would tho* prevent ell future em - igratioo, for no oae would seek to settle here., And all these evil* or* to epring ont nch of It contracted In'lhe’oflatt to bo old sprawling, ■eretchlog, acmmb ion, einov tbsaarNndcr. parage pad hope, and after n while, [get along well wtffgh.': They sped Md mad tho TBumbaiw down bare, eekly ought to have a large circnle- CARLEPPING& COMMISSION ■ Railroad to Albany i* getting along r dowly—two or three miles graded.— I to get bends, somehow. I think the >lidatlon of the Central find the fttlqmi* Golf Railroad* n gnat nbAAlkf 3k onr Savannah friends, mad likely to . II* injnry, white it nriuforseaesrea- kdvantage on Brunswick,-bet time JAMBS R. RICE MACON MILLS, MERCHANTS, ‘I JU.*STODVAMrStOWKRKANO*. BAT St, negroes about heresre quiet and onaf- ■o terhai idow, by tbo grand npris- the Ogeecbee. The notboritieein 8a- i seem to be working to avoid farther Maional complications, and this I sup • ELECTRIC SOAP! cheerful. The high price of cotton will pat $850,000,000, for that product alone, into thn pockets of the “ reconstructed" of that lec tion, to any nothing of large amonntn for to bacco in Virginia. North Carolina. Mary land, Missouri end Kentucky, end for wheat and corn in the same States and in Georgia sad Tennessee. Thn whole value of the enr- pln* crops nf the Sooth thin year cannot bo lea* than $300,000,000, of which probably $100,000,000 are paid to the oegroee hi the which is so industriously raised against road* which have ever worked for the public at heretjr remunerating rates. As the process of mt. MATS’ OBAltOB onovn—UVKS un 1 tdhD-eofc. col*, or satamxax—rati ▼raw or falatka—tbb kxtokt or oor- TOH BHFOBB TUB WAK—TBOrtCAL FBU1T* : * bamAifsa, .ynriuprLxa, lxmoxi, emon ' AMD OBAMOKa—TUB PBIC* OV LARDS, *rc. Ox Boabd the Dablimotom. ■ On tha afternoon of the 17th of December, 1M8, we came in fall view of Dx. M»yyI my. “odficent Orange Grove, froaflagre^mh river.* I bam from my friend. Col Blanchard, of Jacksonville, who ha* been extremely 'Med | in hie etteatione to me, that the trees com posing this tmaaUful grove were planted in rained by Iha tt .r tlnllr hmijr-<Md tMTillrm destroyed, and ell ihetrlnvwtmeatsof money completely worthies*. When we eoesUter that the aCcemnlated wealth of teo hnadred yeem hove ben destroyed at the Sooth, we oannot cense if wonder that her recuperation should be as rapid a* It-is. Of tbs immense importation of foreign goods, cloths, silks, velvets, laces, jewelty, wises, aod other costly merchandise, tbo Soqth now taken comparatively tittle. Her : M ifRS and COUNTRY MERC HINTS The revolutioo in the labor system of the Sooth, whilst it has operated to the prostra tion of eartain interests temporarily, has turned a dd| fit emigration to tbo Southern TOxtertht most ultimately prove of immense advantage. t The tserite mvannaa of Oasigia have been 5m-^^S2,*a*»as: of the Altamaha, Oconee, Ohoopie, Ogeechee, Ocmulgee, Csnuoncbie, Pendleton river and other streams that are navigable. These lands are valuable not only for the timber, but in demand for the turpentine manofactored, as $0,MO worth of turpentine can be extracted {rsxsasaasKrffte quality, and wall edited for the raising of old, I observe that they are very foil of fruit, probably number several thousand each, be fore aoyit&l beta gathered. Col Cotete place is adjoining, and ooBahta of fifteen ban died yonng orange trqrs, planted under the tenpervision of hte estimable lady, tha beauty KhzgSgBS&BS Rnks arc-htgii, studded with many beauti- Rnl Hie oeks, the branches of which arc hung Mkh ieatoons ^qf .moes. Aht lave with he* MYMBT BTOne IQ WARRANIED, their forest* and their river*—content witq roomy hoe see, wood fires, and.old fiubiooed furniture. Hence in their present depressed r^*rthi^fo^jw^mwenn^rtedrj|iim^a to be. We hear of few suicides there, and thnnnreberof inMoepersoee in Virginia fa only half the number in Maine, regard bateg had to populath u. In its best day* there was very littia moocy "•i H'ggiiaiG PACIFIC GUANO C*BfANT’S - XZXi?.ur, * SOLUBLE PACIFIC eUANO! .» WO* TV e WMaJVB«:t maples and her aailes most sit enthroned m for ne’er did a scene of morn beauty Suleit the heart of man. ^The day to growing late; I ascend the up per deck, and perceive we are approaching Pntetka, seventy-five mites distant from the city of Jacksonville. With the stopping and therefore, suffer more than the North from any contraction of thn currency that may precede the restoration to prosperity. In the South them are no real estate speculations, even in the environs of the cities ; Doartincis vateen given ts town iota or embryo Pslmy- rasjur Bahyloos.' Patino Uni* hr eminently the rule there, so far as real estate is concern ed. They are mt a gregnrip** P*®pte, bet love elbow room above everything. Cities they regard as necessary evils, and aa such not to'bo encouraged unduly beyond tnode- jam* tho nUr the greater the evil. It is very evident tbst business at the North laniHiiga, this is onr dayis journey; and B more dslightfal d« I have gw epant ip- trmetlng-though I hive seen the 'Hudson |nd tlu- lakes Jif-Canada. The city of Palst- ^^ ntains a population of twelve ‘ hundred '^Hbitants. The streets, like all other Flor- HRqwns, are sandy, but well laid off Bp; Re the war, abbot twelve thousand bhleoVr Island cotton were exported from this ber-tts it stand^ia wt less than two dol lars and a half per thn—snd feet, gtviag fbr the value of the standing timber in one acre, twenty five dollars, on one thousand acres twenty-five thousand dollars. The immense profit may be estimated from the investment of capital in thMfoymhf security, whehHte: understood that heavily timbered Georgia land has been sold at fiv'e dollars by the acre to foreign capitalists, who are not slow to ap preciate the value of the investment. FISKS’ PATENT . - •durw iifltcitra ---ts vciliiijrj :x k BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS. | TONS AMM0NIATED RAW BON1 ITS „ , 'ujmnpEKPHos] 2a0 tons Solnble Panifis Guano. ICO tons Doable Rectified Poraxstta. 100 tons Peruvian Gnano. 100 tons Laud Plaster, 100 ton* Carolina Snperphorphate, Orchard Clover and Lneerno Seed, fo It is not amiss here to state that of all the pine timber that is brought to the New York market none is more highly esteemed than the Georgia pine. For tracts of this land, One of the New York journals estimates that there are 200,000 people out of work within aight of the spire of Trinity Church. Within an equal distance of the Bute House at Bos ton there are doubtless 00,000 more, and another 50,000 in the interior of New Eng land. Most of these unfortunate persons are anxious for employment, bnt cannot, obtain it. Even the high tariff, which so enriches the great manufacturers, does not put amor- ing fruit trees. The rich, luxuriant appear ance of the orange, with pendant clusters of golden fruit, present? a scene of exquisite beauty to the eve of a Georgian. I fititl that rice, sugar cine and tobacco, OI t[) handsome income to the producer. choj( ■ft to the nrireof lands, for this onr- FLOUR of all qoalitiot, in b&rrala and sack*. 'TT.‘ /. Kfii^lCCO of various brands, , mi LIQUORS, in barrels and oases. ■« ALLSPICE, GINGER and PEPPER, f ’ SHOT. POWDER and CAP8. ^ HARDWARE. IRON and STEEL. ' ,/>t BAGGING. TIES and TWINE. . Jgo sugar cine and tobacco. yield a 1 , In regard to the price of lands, for this pur pose, back from the river banks from five to ten dollars per acre is asked. These are gen erally found to be low hammocks and pine woods, nnimproved. All lands on the river banks even a? liigh up as Palatka, are held front ten to twenty dollar lots, at from -fifty to one hundred dollars per acre, unim proved. Smaller place? of two hundred orange trees, bearing, would cost several thousand dollars. . — In fact, I Sod no place of this description ^hAjnarket at any price. During the last I learn that fortunes have . ^'“Nculators these lands. In le you a description of my HIGH SCHOOL hobsIv files ai» «uri>- ^WZ*^** MENTAL PAINTER, OVER LAWTON A LAWTON’S 4th St, Maooa, Oa. set of bread or an ounce of meat into their months. ' Try T ' ”r\' >" .c — What visible outlet to all this surplus labor is afforded, unless at tbe South I The,West, for the present, is pretty well filled up with laborers of all descriptions, and thousands there are out of work. The South, then, ia the only vacant field easily accessible on this continent for the unemployed masses of tbe North. <SER£aES|MdMr‘tr , I BOOTS AND S rpHK next Term of this favorite School will open an X the 2d Mood»y in January, 1869. Its distioraish- in* characteristics arer r- 1st. It is the most thorough and practical School in fieorgia. •• r'"^ 2d. It is the least expensive School in the Sooth. 3d. It is attended by more pupils than any other School in the State. 4th. Jonesboro is as healthy as any other town on the continent. tn&tffri 1 * 5th. The School has been long established, and i3 all we claim for it. and not »n ephemeral hum bug. TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in currency will pay for Board,Tuition and Washing for an entire year. There are no “extra” charges for anything. For cir culars, apply to DEI. 33 . FLi DENTIST, O FFICE: Over Maun. Bray A B ware Store, Eufaula, Ala. And many other articles too numerous to mention, bat which we always keep in store. *»"W» think we can make it to the interest of onr friends to call on ■ Aat old gentleman waiting for a train in th a great depot at Chicago recently, said to a by stander: “Only think of itBut a little over thirty years ago I was offered eighty acres c f lend, on part of which the depot is now built, for a sorrel horse and saddle, and I was fool enough to keep the sorreL” •./; ’ Tee Dabuct Ship Casai.—The English Gov ernment is said to have sent an agent to Bogota to watch Mr. Cushing, and see that the United States does not get too much advantage in the Darien Bhip canal negotiations. '-^"1 J. B. ROSS &. SON, Wholesale Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, etc, Sr f * . - : J Corner Second and cherry sto, nov!9 .- -Y-. Macon. G* ffimiiBivir P|f Iff Mlfarna i 17 OMtR VFrra i .. mi, tit lioanta. meien « — SO Boxes, dellvarsd oe Whaifi at Se- oetT-tf _ _ r k M fWAl'V