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SUNDAY’S DISPATCHES.
From Washington.
WAsmsoros, March 28.—The Reconstruction Com
mittee did nothing on Saturday regarding Georgia,
on scoonnt of thero being no quorum. It is stated
in extreme circles that the Committee stands in fa
vor of Bauer's bilL •
Mis. Dr. Mary Walker, after several applications,
baa received an answer from Grant that she might
have an interviqjv when dressed as become her sex.
Foreign News.
four, March 28.—It is rumored that Napoleon
baa demanded an explanation of the King of Prus
sia's mobilization of troops in the western provinces.
Fall diplomatic relations havo been resumed be-
HrMn ss»4 fi—sAA
Is a h'egro Eligible to Office In Geor
gia?
JUDGE SCHLEY DECIDES HE IS NOT.
In the Chatham Superior Court, Friday, March
2G, Judge Schley rendered the following deci
sion, which we copy from the Savannah News:
State of Georgia, *x..rdati<j:, w. j. Clement*.
vs. Richard W. White, Clerk of Superior Court
of Chatham county. Quo Warranto. In
Chatham Superior Court.
The writ of quo warranto alleges that the re
spondent, Richard W. White, is a person of col
or, having one-eighth of negro or African blood
in bis. veins, and that he is, for that reason, dis
qualified to hold the office of Clerk of the Supe
rior Court, the functions of which he is now ex
ercising.
The respondent demurs to the sufficiency of
Ibis ground in law, and I am called upon to de
cide tho question of the respondent’s eligibility
to office in Georgia. In other words, the ques
tion is, can a negro hold office in Georgia ?
It is admittedly counsel'for the respondent
that previous to the adoption of the negro by
our State and Federal Government as a citizen,
he was ineligible to office in Georgia. This
proposition is so clear that it' does not admit of
argument. Bat it may be- well to consider the
status of the negro up to the adoption of our
present State Constitution fn order to assist us
in ascertaining his present Oondition. The ne
gro, excepting the few free persons of color in
Georgia up to the close of the late war, was that
of a chattel—be had no State relations—the
master was the citizen—tho negro was his sub
ject—the law recognized him by protecting his
life and limb, but no further. He had no polit
ical rights by any imaginable nature. The
State and Federal Constitutions treated him as
a slave. He was neither citizen, denizen or
alien, but bore in his namo and race every po
litical disability. And such he remained at the
time of general emandpation. Tho first step
taken for his relief was to give him his freodom
lay an ordinance of this State in convention as
sembled in 1865. The next step was to enable
hiiq^o sue, testify and acquire and hold prop
erty, and marry. Arid theso were all the priv
ileges conferred on him until the adoption of
our present constitution, and of the Fourteenth
Amendment to tho Federal Constitution. And
as the language of the Fourteenth Amendment
and of our Constitution in conferring citizen
ship on the negro is the same, the grant in the
latter, if differing at all, being broader than in
the former, I ShaU consider the effects of them
both together.
And first, I will say, so far as the rights con
ferred by citizenship are concerned, the four
teenth amendment was as ample as the second
section of the first article of our State Constitu
tion.
ted States, and resident in Georgia, to be cit-
zens of Georgia, and both guarantee “ all the
privileges and immunities of citizens of the
United States," and of this State. If, therefore,
citizenship, ipse facto or ex ti termini does not
confer the right to hold offioe, as tho Federal
Constitution grants nothing more than the priv
ileges and immunities of citizonship, we will
have to look further into our State Constitution
to see whether the right of office is therein given
to this class of citizens. It must be borne in
mind that we are now considering only the
privileges and immunities of citizenship, which
are conferred alike by the Federal and State
Constitutions. . .. -. ,
And to estimate properly the effects of this
grant, let ns snppose that the 2d Sea Art. 1st of
onr State Constitution had been omitted. Wonld
not every privilege and immunity conferred by
onr Constitution in said 2d section havo been as
complete aa they are sow. Certainly, because
the fourteenth amendment being a part of the
Federal Constitution, which is the supremo law,
not only becomes a part of onr Constitution, bo
to speiuc, but controls it So that it was unnec
essary to repeat the language of the fourteenth
amendment in our Constitution, as to have said
that no law should be passed impairing the obli
gations of a contract, or that no ex poet facto law
should be enacted.
This being settled, we are now prepared to
inquire into the extent of the privileges and im
munises of citizenship in Georgia, as conferred
by the }4th amendment. In other words, we
most inquire what privileges and immunities
the Federal Constitution and Government can
confer on a citizen of Georgia. I answer, con
sidering the question negatively, that the power
to confer the elective franchise and eligibility
to a State office is not vested in the Federal Gov
ernment, or embraced in the Federal Constitu
tion. These are reserved States’ rights. Tho
elective franchise is controlled by each State.
Any State can oonfer it on its citizens, or on
denizens, or temporary inhabitants, or on aliens.
Any State oan establish a property qualification
based on class or race. Again, any State can
make eligible to office certain of her citizens,
and exclude all others, or can give office to
aliens, minors, women, negroes or Indians.
Over these questions the Federal Government
has no control. Hence we see the effect being
made now to so amend the Federal Constitution
as to confer on all citizens the right to vote. If,
then, the Federal Government, under the Con
stitution, could not fief ore or since the adoption
of the fourteenth amendment, confer on the
citizens of any State the elective franchise, mid
the right to hold a State office, it must follow that
neither of these rights has been conferred on the
citizens of Georgia, white or colored, unless they
are included in the meaning of the words,
“privileges and immunities of citizenship of the
United States, or of this State.” This brings us
. to consider, first, whether the right fo vote and
eligibility to office are, or either, is embraced in
the privileges and immunities of a citizen of a
State, and if not, then, secondly, whether those
rights by the laws of Georgia in force at the
adoption of our present Constitution were inci
dent to citizenship in Georgia. On the first
point we are fortified by abundant authority to
the effect that citizenship embraces neither of
these two rights. The question is settled be-
vonda donbtby tho State and Federal Courts,
in Dred Scott’s vs. Sandford, 19, How, 422,
Chief Justice Taney says, with emphasis, “un
doubtedly a person may be a citizen, that u, a
member of the community who form the sov
ereignty, although he exercises no show of the
political power, and is incapacitated from hold
ing particular offices, women and minora, who
fonnapart of the political family, .cannot vote;
and yhen a property qualification is required to
votffor hold a particular office, those whohave
not the necessary qualification cannot vote or
hold the office, yet they are citizens.
Again, in a very recent ease decided by Jus
tice Swayne of the TJ. S. Supremo Court, as
Circuit Judge in Kentucky, and reported in full
in the Law Register of February last, that Judge
says: “Citizenship has no necessary connec
tion with the franchise of voting, eligibility to
office, or indeed with any other rights, civil or
.political. Women, minors and persons non
compos, and not the less so on aoconnt of tnex?
disabilities. Again, the fact that one is a sub
ject or citizen determines nothing as to his
rights aa such*! They vary in different localities
SSff* Circumstances.” In the Buff
wv^ The ^ Batt - 2G ’ Jnd 8 e Gaston
law is ° Itlzen as understood in onr
thl y w “ 1 ^ on8 *° term subject in
entireW^Lto and the change of phraie has
entirely resulted from the change of govern-
has hee 11 changfifrom
Mdh^wb^w 0 “tk^ebody of the people,
and he who before was a subject of the king, is
Curiit of .! he Sta te-” Again, Mr. Justice
2*5 ?.**—*» opinion delivered in
M ““’P** 8 SSS.aays; “So in-
au the States numerous person, though citi
zens, cannot vote, or cannot hold office, oitw
on account of their age, or sex, or the want
Jegal qualifications.” The
SSL ^at ^tizenahip under the Consti
tution of the United States is not dependent on
the possession of any particular political, or
even of all civil rights; and any attempt so to
define it must lead to error.
To what citizens the elective franchise M
be confided, is a qnestion to be deteimined by
each State, in accordance with its own views of
the necessities or expediences of its condition.
What civil rights shall bo enjoyed by its citi
zens, and whether all shall enjoy the same, or
how they may be gained or lost, are to be de
termined in the same way. Again, in Wash. G
C. Reps-voL 4, page 381, Corfieldvs. Coryell!
Judge Washington says: “The inquiry is,
what are the privileges and immunities of citi
zens in the several States ? To feel no hesita
tion in confining these expressions to those priv
ileges and immunities which are in theiz nature
at all times, been enjoyed by the citizens of the
several States which compose this Union, from
the time of there becoming free, independent
and sovereign. What these fundamental prin
ciples are, it would perhaps be more tedious
than difficult to enumerate. They may, how
ever be all comprehended under the following
general heads: Protection by the Government;
the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the
right to acquire and possess property of every
kind, and to pursue and obtain happiness and
safety, subject, nevcrthelesss, to such restraints
as the Government may justly prescribe for the
general good of tho whole.
The right of a citizen of one State to pass
through or to reside in any other State, for pur
poses of trade, agriculture, professional pur
suits or otherwise; to claim the benefit of the
writ of habeas corpus, to institute and maintain
actions of any kind in the Courts of the State ;
to take hold of and dispose of poperty, either
real or personal, and an exemption from higher
taxes or impositions than are paid by the other
citizens of the State, maybe mentioned as some
of the particular privileges and immunities of
citizens, which are clearly embraced By the
general description of privileges deemed to be
fundamental, to which maybe added the elective
franchise, as regulated and established by the
laws or Constitution of the State in which it is
to be exercised.
If then, as we have thus seen, the right to vote
and toliold office are not included in the grant
of citizenship; if they are not necessarily among
the privileges and immunities which belong to
overt citizen, and u£iich cannot be abridged, bat
as Justices Washington, Swayne, Curtis and
Chief Justice Taney declare to be regulated by
the laws or Constitution of the State in which
they are to be exercised, we must look to our
State Constitution and State laws for the true
eolation bf tfiU frasaHf ; by thsm and them on
ly wo must be governed.
I ha ve already said that the fourteenth amend-
Iment would have been os effectual in seeming I
the right of a citizen of Georgia as the second
section of tho first article of our State Constitu
tion. I mean by that to say that if the elective
franchise or eligibility of office in Georgia de
pended on the said sections alone—that is, if
tho remainder of tho Constitution and the State
laws were silent as to either of theso rights—the
said second section could have been omitted
without detriment to any citizen’s rightq ini
Georgia, and I have stated that the fourteenth,
amendment did nof confer either the right to |
vote or eligibility to office.
This conclusion may be donbted, and I will
therefore, notice that point still further. Let
Ins compare the two, an A see if they vary in
meaning. The fonrteentb amendment is, “AU
peraons born or naturalized in the United States
and subject to the jurisdiotisBthereaf, are citi
zens of the United States and of the State where
in they reside. No State shaU make or enforce
any law which shaU abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United States, nor
shaU any State deprive any person of life, liber
ty or process of law, nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of
the laws.” The State Constitution reads, “AU
persons bom or naturalized in the United States
and resident in this State, are hereby declared
citizens of this State, and no laws shaU be mode
or enforced which shaU abridge the privileges
or immunities of citizens of the United States
or of this State, or deny to any person within its
jurisdiction tho equal protection of its laws.
And it shaU be the duty of the General Assembly,
by appropriate legislation, to protect every per
son in the doe enjoyment of the rights privileges
and immunities guaranteed in this section.”
The clauso in tho amendment about Ufe, liberty,
eta, is surplusage as it was already in the Con
stitution. Tho only imaginable difference is in
the fact that tho amendment forbids the abridge
ment of the privileges ot immunities pf “citi
zens of the United States,” while our Constitu
tion says “of citizens of the United States or of I
\this State."
But the language in both relates, as we have
seen, upon authority, not to political but to per
sonal rights of citizens. But tho respondent in
sists that the right to vote and eligibility to i
office are included in those words. I wUl con-- ■
cede that, if before or at the time of tho adop
tion of onr Constitution, nU citizens had the
right to vote and to hold office, there wonld be
much force in this position, for aU persons bom
and naturalized in the United States and resi
dents in Georgia at that time were declared to
bo citizens, and tho privileges and immunities
of aU such citizens are hereby guaranteed and
[cannot be abridged.
But just here the onus lies upon the respond
ent to show that the citizens of Georgia could
before and at that time, vote and hold office.
This position cannot be evaded. The privileges
and immunities referred to belong to all citizens
of this State. They were such as were com
mon to each and every citizen. If the respond
ent denies this position, his right to office, so
far as it depends on this second section of the
Constitution, has no foundation. If he admits
it, them be must take its logical consequences.
For by that section all persons, (white and col
ored, male and female,) were declared to be
citizens of Georgia, and it is the “rights, privi
leges and immunities of all citizens” which are
guaranteed, and which -cannot -be abridged.
Then it follows as a necessary consequence
that, either the right to vote and eligibility to of
fice were not conferred on any persons, or class
of persons, by that section, or that they were
conferred on all peraons and classes who_ were
thereby declared to be citizens. Bnt tins sed
ition makes women and children citizens, and if
tho right to vote and bold office was thereby
given to any person, women and children nave
the right to vote, and are eligible to office.
This conclusion is inevitable, if it once be
granted that the Convention intended to confer,
and did confer, the franchise of voting and of
office by the use of the words, “rights, privil
eges and immunities.” But wo most now see
if any other portion of onr Constitution gives to
colored citizens the right to hold office.
It is urged that this right is given by the sec-
ond clause, second section, article XU, ■whicn is
in these words: “The Senators shall be citizens
of the United States who have attained the age
of tiventv-five years, and who, after the first
election, under this Constitution, shall have been,
citizens of ride State for two years,^and for one
year resident of the district from which elected.
llt is insisted that no other qualification is re
quired for a citizen to be a Senator. This pro
ceeds upon the assumption that the Convention
intended that every citizen having those qualifi
cations should be a Senator. This, it seems to
me, is strange logic—that the effect would have
been to make voters of women, white and col
ored, as well as of male. But it would not have
followed that every woman, wonld thereby have
been eligible to office. The former does not in
clude the latter. The latter is a higher political
right. It presupposes qualifications superior to
those fitting a person to vote, jnst as it requires
other and higher qualifications to be a voter
^n to be * citizens. There is a gradation to
relations to the State ; and while eligibik-
tyhToffioe presupposes the tight to vote, and
voting presupposes citizenship—as one ordina-
niy precedes the other—on the other hand, dt-
izensfiip does not include the elective franchise,
nor the elective franchise the right to hold office,
any more than the less includes the greater.
Eligibility to office for the male negro is not,
taerefarerto Ini Tiifmrai ftwn llm winch
clothes him with the elective franchise. That I
am right in this, not only on principle, but on tife
letter of the clause itself, will appear more dear
ly when we consider the fact that if that clause
conferred the right to hold office on the male ne
gro; it also conferred the same right on aliens;
for it reads, “Every male person who baa been
naturalized, or who has legally declared hie in
tention to become a citizen ot the United States,
twenty-one years old," eta, “shall be deemed
an elector.” Certainly the Convention did not
intend to throw the offices of the State into the
hands of aliens. But if the male negro is, by
the above clause, advanced to the highest
political right, to-wit: eligibility to office, the
male person who simply declares his intention
to become a citizen, (and who may never carry
ont that intention,) is also clothed with the same
right. This is an inference not to be lightly
made. We should and must require nnmia.
takable language in this case likewise to justify
Buch a construction as would place our State
offices in the hands of aliens. This would,
however, be the effect, because there is no pro
vision in onr State Constitution requiring citi
zenship as a qualification to eligibility to office
in one out of ten of the many State offices.
And if the Constitution thus confers the right to
office on an alien, it must be borne in mind that
tho legislature is. Dowerless to proooribe citi
zenship as a qualification. And lienee, it truly
follows, that any alien—a Congo, an Ebo, a
Hottentot, fresh from his jungles—who should
declare his intention to become a Citizen, would
be clothed with the highest political right known
to our people, and after six month’ residence in
Georgia.
This disposes of the provisions of the Con
stitution bearing upon this question, and we are
brought finally to the statute laws of Georgia.
Bo they confer on the colored citizen the right
to hold office? The Code, which was adopted
by the Constitution aa law, divides the natural
peraons in Georgia into four classes: Citizens,
residents not- citizens, aliens and peraons of
color. It says that among the rights of citizens
are the elective franchise and the right
to bold office. And as the Constitution has
made peraons of color citizens, it is insisted, as
a necessary consequence, that they have all the
righto which were given to citizens aa they were
defined when the Code was passed, and after
wards adopted by the Convention. Bat we have
seen that persons of color, before the adoption
of the Code, had no political rights; we have
seen also that political rights are not conferred
by implication of law, and that the removal of
one disability does not include the removal of
any other, unless the one removed be the great
er. ^-Citizenship was first conferred. Hist did
not remove necessarily the disability as to the
elective franchise; for if it did so for the person
of color—who by the classification given above
ranks lower in the State than white females who
were citizens—it mast, a fortiori, have removed
that disability from all females.
If declaring a negro to be a citizen made him
a citizen in the sense intended in the Code, all
females and minors are likewise clothed with the
elective franchise and the right to hold office; if
they are not, then the Constitution by making
persons of color citizens, elevates them above
white females and minora. Bnt will it be pre
tended that females can vote or hold office in
Georgia? Can the conclusion be avoided, how
ever, if the monstrous construction be put upon
the Code, whereby the lowest class of natural
persons, and who rested nnder every disability
before the Constitution was adopted, are relieved
of all disabilities by the grant of mere citizen
ship, the want of which was the least of his disa
bilities. If the Convention intended to gjvo this
construction, why did they go one step farther
and oonfer the right to vote on persons of color?
If citizenship gives tho right, why confer it in
express terms. If the Constitution considered
that this right to hold office was conferred by
the Code, as incident to citizenship, why was
not the right to vote also considered ? And if
so, why expressly confer the less right, and
remain silent as to the greater right? If the
Constitution had given in express terms the
right to hold office, the silence as to the elective
franchise would have been proper, not to say
logical, because the right to hold offioe necessa
rily carries with it the right to vote. Icanputno
other construction on this action of the Conven
tion than that they meant to give only such
rights as are given in express terms. And this
conclusion is made certain by the record of their
proceedings, which shows that they, by solemn
vote give the right to hold office to peraons of
oolor. If, then, we are to be controlled by the
express grant of political rights in our constitu
tion to persons of color, the right to hold office
The demurrer is, therefore, overruled.
W. SCHLET.
Judge Sup6fior Court Eastern Circuit, Geor-
g»«-
The Cotton Straggle in England.
A cable dispatch announces that the strike of
tho cotton operatives in the English manufac
turing districts is extending and that in Glasgow
several mills have entirely suspended opera
tions. This news is highly important, and is
calculated to affect the cotton market in this
country. For some time past the Lancashire
cotton districts have been in s suffering condi
tion. The high price of cotton had so far en
croached on the profits of the manufacturers,
that many of them were actually working their
mills at a loss, as the condition of the market
precluded an advance on the manufactured
goods to prices corresponding with the advance
in the raw material.
As it was supposed that a suspension of work
would produce an accumulation of raw cotton
Ui»t would force down the price, it was proposed
some time ago, that the manufacturers should
S ierally close their factories for a few months.
e want of unanimity among employers pre
vented the adoption of this plan. Bat many of
them worked a short time, without any reduc
tion of wages, however. Recently the employ^
era at Preston and other places, met and agreed
to reduce wages from ten to twenty per cent
This was absolutely rejected by the workmen;
and the result is a strike that is likely to be gen-’
eral and protracted. .
This strike, it is to be observed, must, in any
event be more beneficial to the employers than
the workmen. It accomplishes at onco the gen-
eral suspension of ■work, and stoppage of con-
sumption of the raw material, which many man
ufacturers have been vainly trying to effect for
some months. The workmen are thus actually
e ying into tho hands of the capitalist class.
e proper coarse was for the workmen to
take what pay they could get until better times.
Gradually the (nice of the manufactured arti
cle would assimilate to the rates of advance m
the raw material; or else the increased produc
tion of the staple would effect a reduction.
Either of these events would enable manufac
turers to' run their mills at a profit, after pay
ing tho full rate of wages. The effect of this
strike upon the American cotton market and the
new crop still remain to be seen. That it wdl
force down prices, and thus diminish the profits
of the planters and the wages of the freedmen,
are among the contingencies of the future.—
Ecus York Commercial.
Ww Guest has given her personal supervi
sion to the refurnishing of the White House.
She was warmly attached to the residence she
had just left; and she remarked s few days since
that she should go to the White House with re
luctance. She proceeded to remark: Imtend
to make Mr. Grant comfortable there, and shall
no doubt soon feel at home. I am told that it
has been customary to have the Commissioner
of Public Buildings superintend the household
to a considerable extent, but I don t dears to
have any gentleman do that for me. I shall
also engage the steward and servants, and as
UZJSES. salary is paid from ^ Treasury,
T shall exercise great care in selecting hmi. as
LSe tenured office bill I shafi not be able
to get rid of him.”— Washington Letter.t
V Wise old gentleman, who knew all about it,
onredriL from business, gave the following
saoe advice to his son and successor: Common
s^L my sot is valuable in afi kinds of burn-
ness—except love-making.
“You on^ht to lay up something for a
day ” L ? d Sn anxious father to Ins profhgate
fg “ImUo I have,” replied the young hope
ful. “What?” asked the father. Anumbrel-
a!” was the impertinent reply-
—...... Assignee.
s two rplendid rooms in thia building. .
^ interest in the large A
iry Building in Perry, now occupied by Mr.
i, in the Lot inPerry.
BANKRUPT SALES,
By J. A. HOLTZCLAW,
W IbT.be ,old in Perry; H <n*ton county, Ga., on
» T LLSD A V. 30 th ofM ARCfQMfc
One-halt undivided ^iottrc't in tb» Srore-b>
and Lot in Pernr. known the “Good idea/' There
ere two ? pi etui id r-
AU
«'ory
Townsley.
, Also, half undivided i; H v
in the rear of Cox. MawhaJl Jt CoJa. \
Atso, one-fifth ‘Herat la rensiader In the dower
H. Bryan a~wre«dN. Abo.Snoteeand Meweat*.»
the MI*U> of L. h. Bryan, aroonntinr lo *1200. Six
At the same time and place, an excellent Gin—as
in the possession of John G. M
Smit , h ““ a 00 “* Jr ’ SUd"*ke
'Vill be soli in Vienna. Dooly eoanty, Ga- on
TDB8DAY, 6th APKIL, 1S69. "
j J .’hu StS nil ol the insolvent
SSilSSSlSfe!ft *^t e Property of
At the same time end pl*e- v 20M m. L.
miles irom V leone, whereon fa Bryan now
’“•‘Vw^neeLoti Ml. IIS, 151 no. Jem i -W-.
MiiMi
Abo. 1 Hono, 9 Malts. » heid CsUio, « h .ii
of Ho*,. 1 Jennet. 1 Ox Cart and Yoke/1 ^oar-hone
rv Harness, about 223 barbels Corn rad
Will be sold on SATURDAY, the 17th of April ed
tee residence of Will iam II.Talton.in Houston eoanty.
860 seres of Lacd. whereon aaid Tallin now reeider.
— Abo, 1 Bone. 2 Males. 4 head of Cattle. £00 pounds
Pork, and hair interest in two Copper Stilb.
Termi, Cash in each cue. ParchaMst most pay for
■tamp* and deed*. Title, perfect, hold by me u As-
firnee in each ease. .
t> „ „ , * J. A. HObTZCLAW,
Perry. Ga.. March 4.188B. flaw4tl Astisnaeu
ASSIGNEE'S SALE.
Bank of Columbus, etc.
By D. P. A R. ELLIS —AcCTiomu.
I N pursuance of an order of the Bon. Edmund B.
Worrill, pre idine in Equity in thecomuy of Mot
cocce. and in ar.-ordancc with the deed of Aasipn-
ment, I shall offer for sale, at pnblie auction, in front
•>r the store of D.P.tlt Kills, between tee asual
hours of sale, on tho first Tuesday in May near.
T"o oot on which stands the iron Front Buildiep
f three stories and basement, erected hy the Bank ol
Columbus, on the south side of Lot No ltd, in the
city of Columbus, and occupied as a Bank, fronting
on Broad and tit. Clair streets, comprised within tee
following boundaries: Commencing at tho south
east corner of said streets, running tbenee along St.
Clair street one hundre i and forty-seven feet ten
inebee; tbenee south twenty-eight feet twoinehrs;
thence west ooo bo d ed ar.d forty-seren feet ten
in-hei to Broad street: tbenee north twenty-cbht
feet two incheo, to tea poiut ol beg inning, being 147
feet 10 inches from east to west, and 28 feet 2 inches
from north to south, and also a piece of g-onnd re
served for so alley irom the rear or east end of the
adjoining pert of said Lot 166, on which the store
owned and occupied by Lerter L. Cowdery now
stands, mea-nring 10 teet from east to west, and 21 feet
two ioche< from north to sonth.
Alto. d7 Mobil# A Girard Railroad Bonds.
17. Noe. 1 to 17. Bonds K. fiV». tt.fOO
-- - Bonds C. ito, 4/00
Bonds C. SIC. 1.500
Bonds B. 500, Z.0U0
Bunds B, IU),
9. Nos.
3, Nos.
4. Nus.
31, Nos.
81 to 89.
96 to 98,
55 to 58.
66 to 90,1
96 to 100/
17,000
fi&KO
Also, Bonds of the Metes of Alabama.
No 46 dated May 1. 1862 *10,000
46dated M»y 1. :862 10.‘4«l
144 to 147,4 Bond', fioAO each 20,000
Coupons to May, 1864 6.4UO $46,400
BONOS or THK STATS OF GEORGIA.
No. 1101 to 12u0,100 Bonds, *500 each,
Feb. 1.186.’. - WUOO
No. 751 to 784,34 Bond*. *1000 34.000
Coupons to Nov, 1,1864, 8.925 *92,925
sons or tbs coxfeperate states.
7-30 Notes - *340,000
15 Million Loan, 50 Bonds. 81UUU each 50,000
15 Million Loan, 1 Bond, fillMl, No.
Loan i»;iTAuii'.Twj"Oo.'849ti' ML
MOOD.
Loan 16th Aug 1861.3 Bonds, No.
3161 to 3163. *1000.
Loan 19tb A ns. 1861.9 Bonds. No. 3.60
to 3174. *!OOi
Loan 19th Ang. 1881, 4 Bonds, No.
3176 to 3179, *10 O.
Losa 1Mb Aug. 1861,2Bonds. No.3ia5
to 3137, *1009
Loin 19ih Aug. lUbl.Z Bonds, No. 3121
to 3123. *1000.
Six percent. N«>n-lax.2U Bond*. No.
Six per cent. SlOOuib.tnt lean, 3
Bmdr, No. 3147 to 3149. fitOt 0
Six per cent. fiiOO.MO.OuO Loan, 5
Bonds. No. 3129 to3.3t. *1000
Six per cent. *100,00000’ Loan.
PLANT E K St
M to Your Interest!
BOY NO DOUBTFUL FERTILIZERS!
Bonds No. 3140 to 3145. *1000 -
Cotton .Loan, 20 Bonds, No. 6!36to
to779. (tOOeaek.
Loan 19th Aog.1861. 13 Bmds.No.
1868-9-10-71 2236.1917-18-19 20.312.
914,2*72 and 3, *5000.
Loan 19th Aag. 1861, 6 Bonds. No.
2642, 8668. 8/2. 2344, 2343. 498. *100
Lmo 19teAoi.l86L3Boo<b,No!Bh
390 and 399t*50 each....
Loan 20:h Feb 1863.1 Bond. No. 16.-
976. *500; 7 do. 8416 to 8503, $100 each
2 Million Loan, 3 Bonds, No. 2408,
1,000
2,000
3,000
9.000
4,000
2,000
2.000
10.000
3.009
5,000
2.000
20,000
1.500
6.500
GOO
160
1,200
300 472,450
15509.2510. *100
Kegb’ered Stock Confederate Li an,
1 liond
208 Bilb ofteo State «l Ga
207 Confederate Treasnrr Notes-.—.
208 Bills of the State oi Vo —
2n9 Bills oi tbo Macon Savings Bank
311 Confederate 8 per cent. Bonds in
the hands of Fraxer, Trenholm A
Co- Liverpool. KngUnd. -
Sundry Bank notes....— — —
Alto, sundry individual notes and accounts, some
of which have been reduced to judgment.
Terms of sole Cub, in United States currency.—
Sale positive. Sale being made under an order of
Court, all puroba.es not settled for on the day of sale
will be advertised and re.old on account of the former
purchaser on tee second Tue*Uym
maro-law-td Astignee.
5.150
33.385
101323
456
500
180.000 3201813
3.740
WHITE LEAD.
L. W. HUNT*CO-
Druggist.. Cherry tt.
rpHRKBTONS
MAGNOLIA SNOW WHITH LEAD-in pails.
L. W. HUNT* CO..
Druggists,
t* sad 8t Cherry ft.
PLASTERS’ SUPPLIES ON TIME
“YyE ARE now prepared to famish Planters their
supplies—ON TIME—at reasonable rates, for ap
proved paper.
JONES, BAXTER & DAY,
i'otton Avenue, Macon, Ga.,
ARE NOW RECEIVING
700 Bags No. 1 Peruvian Guano,
Direct from the Government Agent, every beg guar
anteed genuine: ISO Bsrreb beet
Nova Scotia Land Piaster;
75 BBLS. MARIETTA MILLS
POWDER OF RAWBONE,
The meet honest and beet product of the kind
ever Put up in this country;
CHESAPEAKE CUANO,
400 BARRELS IN STORE.
‘Jtjltg article need, no’reeommendation when it has
been used. The following letter from one of the most
respected citisens ofMonroo e runty, tells tee whole
story. We hare other letters and oan give the name*
of many who will nut do without it if it b to be bud.
but we prefer to give a tetter from a men who b well
and favorably known by almost everybody in Bibb
tmd Monrou counties- Such a man b Dr. LEROY
BOLT:'
Moxtcos Couxty Oi.. December 25, 1868.
ME8SHS. JONES, BAXTER * DAY.
Gexilimek : In reply to yoar inquiry, I take pleas
ure in raring my experience with the CHKs A PEAK E
PHl’SPn ATE, I bought of you last, spring, bas been
very favorable. I used 1200) two hundred pounds
upon <%> three-fourths uf an aero, third year’s new
ground, appl, ing it in the drill, rowi.three feet apart,
sixteen inches in tee drill, on which I had five thus
sand seven hundred stalks of cotton. From this, I
gathered (1821) eighteen hundred and twenty-four
pounds "f cottou. The last of August, the worm com
mitted greet ravages iu it, destroying all of (he late
crop. Had it not been for the worm I should have
made at least onr-third more on the land. I can cheer
fully r- commend it to Planters Os a Fertiliser for cot
ton. Hespeetfully,
iSigne); L. HOLT.
WE HAVE ALSO RECEIVED 290 BAGS AND
BAUGH’S RAW-BONE PHOSPHATE.
Thb article has boon before the pnblie for thirteen
years, and tbaraarenow over 10.000 tons sold annually.
Read the following letter from a well known eithon
of Monroe county:
Moxaox Cooxtt. Oa.. Jan. 4, 1869.
Mr. O*o. DotdaU, Baltimore. Md. :
Dlsa S:«—I made an experiment upon Cotton tbo
past season with Baugh's Raw-Bono Phosphate. I
used it at the rate of only One Hundred Pounds Per
Acre, applying it in tbo row with tea seed, and ten
yield of cotton from load to which the Phosphate was
applied, was One Hundred Per Cent, greater than
from lud on which no firtiliser was used: the differ
ence being so great teat I could see to the very row
where I stopped dropping tee Phosphate.
I can. with confidence, recommend Baugh’s Raw-
Bone Phosphate as bang a reliable and satisfactory
article.
Very truly your..
{Signed) HIRAM PHIKEZEE.
DRUG STORE
-J. H. ZEILIN & CO,
Hava for sale a largo Stock of
PAINTS, OHS, GLASS, PERFUMERY
FANCY OOOl>8»
Snuff, Garden Seed,
Medical Liquors, Etc.
A LL orders entrusted to them will be filled prompt
ly and with tea greatest care, aad at the
~ VJERT LOWEST TKIGES,
Wo buy exclusively for cash aad Nil only for the
money down, and eaa fire better prices than any oth-
er hoora iu the State. ^ ^ ZBIIJ!i * ^
SIMMONS' LIVER REGULITOR!
The great remedy for Dyspepeia. Liver Dlsnw,
Chills, Fever. Jaundice, etc. Par sale in any quanti
ty. The trade sawdied at a vet. handsome discount
for profit, by the Proprietors.
J. a. ZSXXtXN tk CO.
fehl7-tf ,
Johnson, Campbell & Go
msr5-lmo]
Corner Fourth and Poplar its.
[OFFICIAL.]
Exxcmvx ntrantnT. 1
Atlanta. Ga.. March 236,1809. j
Osdixxd. That John M. Clark. Esq- bo, snd he b
hereby appointed Inspector of Fertilisers for tee coun
ty of Baldwin, by virtue of the power and antbority
Tested in me by an Act entitled “An Act to protect the
planters of this State from imposition in the sale of
fertilirers”—approved September 17,1868.
Given under my hand and tee Seal of tho Execu
tive Department, at the Capitol, in Atlanta,
the day and year first above written.
RUF1S B. BULLOCK.
Governor.
By the Governor:
B. B. iixtJgavrcraiSD.
Secretary Executive Department.
mr26-d3twlt
VELOCIPEDE WHEELS,
do.,
w.scFicrrasD bt
ma 3>J-_ BB.OWMT db
DAYT<»N, OHIO,
They abo make a prime article of Spokes aad
B ube for light Carrises and Boggy Wheels. Bead for
prioe list. feb29-lmo
Read what DAVID LANDRETH * 80NS, say-
they are tee oldest Seedsmen and Gardeners in thb
country, being established nearly forty years:
"BAUGH’S SUPER-PHOSPHATff b in good re
pute at Philadelphia, and wefecl warranted in taring
from our own experience, is reliable.”
jaal-tillaprl
A POSITIVE CURE
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Asthma,
Bronchitis, Sore Throat, Diffi
cult Breathing
Aatl all diseases of tee
LUNGS, 7B&OA7 and CHEST,
M rorjTD IM TVS
Globe Flower, or Button Bush Syrup.
rnius plem»nt nnd effectual rww-Jy poMoMitl
i mvt mtr*caloo* power f* r th« tvirc uf the ahoye
cotupUinU. And is the moit reli i» lo r»nettv ever dig
cove:fsifor th-cureofCOSHl’MPlION. fthe«b»^n
tected in over T*r«: ty Tnnurend Ca*«« withth* rnoet
r*ui»rkmM« tuorete. And many of <*ur uioet promm-ut
Phy-iciADS will U-etify that it will euro Tub'-rcuiAr
Consumption tu its early st »g« . It is lOe t ant to
take and never disagree* with •hrm<*i»t tMtaato
ach. Children do no< object to taking it-
To all wbf* have any Lung uffoc i n*. wwy n It
but once and you will prise it as yoar host cixrtbly
friend. , „
For Remarkable Cures, see our Phamphlet—Pearls
for the People.
•AForsale b,l.rugglrtyvj^.h.re^ndb,
L. W. HUNT * CD..
Macon, Ga.
J. S. Bcmbcrton & Co,
Proprivtoia sad Chemists,
jaa22-3mo Columbus. Ga.
EUREKA BITTERS.
EUREKA TONIC BITTERS,
3 [’HE bast in the market: is kept by all Druggists.
L and will cure Dyspepsia. Indigestion, Chills and
ever, a, well es fvph >id snd Bi'lotu Fevers. Rheu
matism, Neuralgia. Cough. Cults. ■ unsnmtdicn in
first stagus. and Female Irregularities It has proved
itself the best remedy of this sge.
L. W. HUNT & C0-,
Wholesale and Retail Druggists, are the agents for
tbb io valuable remedy, where it eaa always be fouod
feb!0-3m
010 SOUTHERN URDU STORE.
BXC0UB10R RIIUR-JIIBIIFACTIIRBS.
THE OLD CAROLINA BITTEHS,
A SOUTHERN PRKPAP.ATION. AND A MOST
VsLVablc and RaueSLi Tone, equal. If not su
perior, re any Bitters in tea marktt. and at a ranch
less prioe. Cares Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite. Chtlb
and Fever, end b, without doubt, tea best Tonic Bit-
OOODKXCH, WINEMAK A CO
Proprietors and Manufacturers of the
CELEBRATED CAROLINA BITTERS,
And direct Importers of choice European Drags aad
HARRISON’S
PLANT FKiM IL1ZKII.
Brice Deduced from 065 to 050 per
- Ton, on 2000 lbs., Cash.
A T TnK Wliciutions ot many friends, I have RE-
A DUCED the prieeof my “Plant Fertiliser” for
thbseaaoaroabr. rofSO per ton. for the purpo-e ofin-
trodueiagittotho Planters of Georgia end Florida,
nnd m et earneetiy dcsireto hevett rreeticilly tested
alongside ol other v ell known Pheepbateo and Fertil
isers. I feel a-sured that a fair, impartial trial will
convince the most skeptical ot it* superior fertilising
qualities in the firet,** well as securing crope, bote as
to activity and durability, ^ UXRRISON,
Successor to Al«x. llarrUom.'
j ; i-.n.i •611 CommercesuPhila.. t-
Propri* tor ami Manufacturer.
Orders re** ectfully solicited, and any information
tivAA by iddramie . • * -.»
given oy uu re (J^OAN, GROOVER * CO..
Factors and Oommusior^ Mertesntg
Agents for the sale of Harrison's Plant Fertiliser in
Florid*. Southern and Middls Cerate
sa-Pricc, delivered in Augusta, Ga. *55 per ton.*®*
B. C. BRYSON.
Factor and Commission M*’ chant.
Au vusta. Ga.
Agent for the vele of Harrison's Plant Fertilner m
Northern Georgia and upper South Carolina.
GOJrAJSTOS.
JQQ TONS PERUVIAN GUANO.
M0 tons SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO,
100 tons LAND PLASTER.
*0 urns DISSOLVED BONES.
For solo, fbr Cash Only, by
maifi-lmo ASHER AYRES.
CHANGE OPJCME.
Orncr or Manraa or Taaxiroararios C. R. R„ I
SaVAXuau. Ga- August 14,1868. J
will run oa fellow*:
UP DAY TRAIN.
MOV*.
8:00 a. ir.
”wltii”tr*fn thiifloavea Ao-
5:33 r. it.
*68 r. a.
11:00 r. V.
MiKdraviiie
Connecting
filiate at-.
DOWN DAY TRAIN.
Macon....... ...—..78*1 a. M.
Savannah -——
Augusta
Connvotte* with train teat laavts Au-
UP NIGHT TRAINL
Savannah— — -—.... _7:2n r. n.
Macon - X.. —
Augusta.. - —
Com,eoting' with trains that leave An-.
DO W NNTO BT~TRAIN.
Macon —6:25 p. a.
Savannah.—.. .................
Mii'mdgeviiie— —.—4:30 r. a.
Batonton — ..2:4" r. a.
Corner tin* with train that leaves Au-
MPA. M. Trail
r. u. Train from M icon, connect with Mill
Train at Gordon d~ :, ~ *—•" J
*g-p. M. r
!hr ugh Mull 1
r. a. grain from Sava .nah and Aag.u.1* with 3 rain*
intiou’bwMtern and Mnscogo* Railroads.
Signed! WM HjMIKKS.
. Acting Muster of Dins,nutation*
i:
8:45 a, a
9*3 r. K
5:10 i. a
a»13 a. at
tt-.-* mat i rijJM' ' _ i" k
M,Tralrafrnm8^«n.Tand A^rngj-td
with
onion daily. bund*}*.riet:Plod
4. Train trim Snninonb ouanect* t
all Train on South tjarolte* Raltr-nd.
WALTER A. WOOD’S
PHIZ
MUR& AM REAPERS,
THE BEST IN TJSE!
Awarded MORE FIRST PREMIUMS theuany other
Machine manufactured,
Both in this and Foreign Countries,
i Among which I*
THE HIGHEST PKIZE !
Two Grand Gold Model* and Croso of tlif
Legion of Honor,
AT FAKIS EXPOSITION, 18071
jMCoro than 130,000 now in use,
20,000 manufactured and sold in 1868, and the
demand unsupptied.
Chemical-. K
For sale by
jan28-3m
No 2! Uaynq St. Charleston, 6. C.
i Di V#
J. U. ZEILIN * CO.
OS, XEI IsO V JBRS
—or oooo—
PURE BOTTLED SODA WATEE.
TTAVTNQ commenced to day the manufacture of
n Bottled Soda Water. I am now preparmi to fur
nish Bottled Sod* Water, of any kind or flavor, at
short uotie*; and It is my determination to have good
or none. I have employed, through Mr. John Ryan,
of Savannah, a No. 1 workman, who come* well re
commended from him a- understanding the bnainee*
thoroughly. My manufactory is at my lea ilotue,
near the Pegfenrer Depot
Orders promptly filled, end may be left at the Man-
uf-ctory or at my store. I shall start a wagon out
soon, to deliver ft in an* part often city.
irU-tf if. N. ELLS.
XXXX WHISKY.
TTAVE received, thb evening, another lot of thb
ro Whisky. joBIS W. O’CONNOR.
. - _ No.60 Cherry Street.
OfiOD B.'Z-E. -
Received, thb evening. 2o.Barrels of tbb choice
brand of common Whisky, ftjs hot equaled in tbb
market for the money. Abo. other choice brands of
gued medium Rye Whbk^ ^r^yOR.
- No. to Cherry Street.
IMPORTED At* A$» P9BTSk. "
Just received. (Direct Imrortetioa) ririuoi brands
of tho be«t Dublin nad London POKTEK, and Eng-
lilR fliwl Kga fjsfc AT.IW:- -•*
Tub and Scjtdh ALBtf.
JWOwW. WCOHNOR,
Ho. 60 Ciaerry Street.*
SUNDRIES.
Cbamp’gne snd other Wine* pur* Brandy, Flodit
Bbk. Tobacco. Sugar. Coffee aud .lees.': _
JKO. W. “'CONNOR. ,
- m*r25daw-tf ; .. ; jio. 69 Oetry Street ,
INCREASING DEMAND.
INCREASED FACILITIES,
Addtiooal Improvements, for 1869.
Wood’s Prize Mowers, (One ond Two Horae.)
Wood's Self-Baking Reaper, with
Wood’s New Mowing Attachment
Wood’s Hand Bake Reaper.
Haines’ Illinois Harvester.
Maoafactnrod by the Walter A. Wood Mowing and
nfactary,
Alexandria.. Va.
77 Upper Thames 8L. London.
Bend tor new dccriptive Circular and Price LbL
Application for Georgia should be addressed to
P. W. J. ECHOLS, Agent, Atlanta, Ga.
jan!3-3m AYER * HILL?. Agents, Rome, Oa.
“THE GEORGIA CITIZEN."
A LL perrons Indebted for advert!* inrand tabicrip-
I\ tinn to the paper, are eamc.-tly aolicitcd to rat
tle Immediately witb the underrigsed, who alone bae
tberightto adjustbalanctr. Editors,with whom the
Citltm** hvv eschaugc.t, will please withhold tholr
papers until fort her notice.
America*, Match 25,1869.
L. P. W. ANDREWS.
“PLOW, LOOM ADD ADVIL.”
above title: devoted to the dtvelnpinen' of
’ awl theFOflV
tig and Me-
WANDO FERTILIZER.
T HE Wando Mining and Hsnufacturine Company
offers to the Planters and Farmersi of the Siuth
theirFertilircr, known as tho “» 4N0O FERTIL
IZER.” which the experience of the pagt searon has
? roved to be one of tho most valuable in our marget.
t his for it* base tha materi.ls from tee Phosphate
Beds ol the Company oa Ashley River, and is pre
pared at their works at the
East End of Hasel Street,
PAT EOT METALIC OASES,
emnxemrnts with the distinxabhtd Chcmbt, Dr.C.
UVShJrard. Jr., who carefully, analyses all the am-
nioniacal andotuer nuij-rwlby thep.rn-
p j .ny. aadtbarm vua
offered for**Ie..Tb«Company xaTe^HredXfMni»ke an » » I
article which will prove to be a Complete Manure,
and give eniire satisfaction. • :
For term*, circulars and other information, .
1 : -i<. appiotto . - f . ’
WM. C. CURES & CO., Ageofe,
Wo. 1 Sonth Atlantic Wharf
CHARLESTON, S. C.
nil thoindn-triil riviurccsof tieorgis m
EdacationoL Agricultural. Manuluetun:
Tho paper will bo published, simultaneously, at
. Aeon snd Americns. with Headquarters st Ma<-on,
and will be issued Weekly, in (behe-c style of the
fffinethMlial A»fc...8i>fivrii fap.-rs will root, be
circulaGd, witb fall particularsol pi in. <l«-,igi. terms,
eti-.’ TheoM friends nf the “Gr rci. Citizen.” a d
its Editor, are invited to the support or the o»w en
terprise. L. I. \V. ANDREWS.
i>^Li2STTi]sra.
N. L. DRUHY.
House & Sign Painter,
StlPKli, GLAZIER A>» PtPKK KA>GKR
C OVER LAWTON * LAWTON’S.
FOf’RTH STREET.
Isnlt-tf ; lysid XfAriOW. GA.
IN THE FIELD AGAIN!
I REPACKING - C ETON !
FULL GLASS CASBEES,
CUPERIOBTO ALL OTIiEH INVENTIONS. A
toll aMtirtmcnt kept constantly on hand : also,
superior t’ufliB# of Mahogany, tt’tluut,
Cedar snd Imitation, in all «t> le? nd pricef.
f-: froetf -rrurmi iiir - TUo6 w uOD.
Next to Lanier Hoose.
o«t24-6mo Macon, Ga.
i c hipper*«.
_ trmmfr
of the Cottora Pre*« in the ^arei'Oore of Wooifalk,
WsQmt^ Co., corner of Poplar snd Second Streetf.
aod have pat it in crmpLte or*lrr.
I sra fa>|y prepared r o.epact and pot Cotton in r»er-
fe' , tship!’itiirord»*r. and will prom’iw* th*>»e who favor
me with their tatrocage, the utni'»5t ati*faction.
JOEL A. WALKKR.