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FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MACON, GA,
TheFlood i»
The Courier of Saturday says : .
The high water here The
ing since about midnight last We ' t f or a
water did not come into the streets <
short distant in S° nti * 8 , t L £, en done in Borne,
and no material damage h came up the
We learn from Capt. atW
Coosa from Gadsden, on Thwsday^ were Bub _
three-fourths of the nve grounds' had been
merged — nearly allth e ^ three inches,
clanted. ' The com was P ^ wheat about
the cotton just coming up ana
half-leg high. will depend very
The extent of damage “Rf m ^ fol £w. If it
much upon the weather th days, and
shall bo moderately “ t^rSound
then a moderate rauhto P^* f ro m the
'^StTve^S kmswUl result from
* 7t turns off hot and dry, very
serious damage will be^done.
* Motheb’s Love—^Stobt fob a Novelist.
The Kind ot Distinction Demanded.
The Herald says the reason why Clay, Basset
and other negro appointees refused missions to
Hayti, Liberia, etc., was simply that these were
negro countries, and they had no ambition for
eminence among negroes. In fact, they regard
ed it as a kind of alight and insnlt that such em
inence was tendered to them. Their whole am
bition is for prominence among whites; and this
is the case with the entire brood of sable poli
ticians.
| It is an instinctive and fatal concession of the
; philosophic absurdity of mixing negroes in poli
tics. If the promotion of the negro to office
| inspired him with increased respect for his race
REPORT APRIL 17, 1869,
AS CALLED FOE BY THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY, APRIL, 20, 1869.
THE TELEGRAPH
BY CLISBY & KEID.
T(i.teai.ra bdildixo, coast* »rco*D a cHtttT sra.
LIABILITIES.
Dr. ~ RESOURCES.
United States Bonds to secure
Capital Stock.
"SSfi*
$100,000 CO J
815.000 00
1.676 00—16,676
3,631 o3 I
49,240 9-3
G6.442 95 ~ „ I
10,54S17~126.|2|
mlation.
Circulation
Surplus... *
Profit and Loss
I . Discount Account,
j ; Individual Deposit
Rankin? House.
SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL 25. 1869.
Other Real Estate.
Expense Account.
Notes Discounted.
Due National Banks
Duo Banks and Bankers.
Bills Discounted.
Overdue Paper.
Treasurer U. S. Mint
CASH MEANS:
American Exchange Nat
Bank
Merchants* National Bank.
. 91,047 65
. 181 4!
. 1,020 91
.162.000 00
. 3,130 00
. 6.000 00
. 1,877 00
Other Banks and Bankers.
Legal Tenders..—,.
National Bank Bills.
and increased desire to elevate it, there might
be some merit in the pseudo-philanthropic
rnannderings of Wendell Philips, Sumner * Co.
But he seeks such distinction only as a means of
getting above the negro plane and figuring
among the whites. From the field negro, who
weekly wears his wool tightened in curl papers,
that it may be straight like white hair on Sun
days, up to “science niggers,” of the stamp of
Clay. Bassett and Fred Douglass, they have no
m m m W W R ?«? mmm A A ATnlf til Ol V
pnde of race and no
Fractional
Items, including Stamps....
Over Draft
WILLIAM n. ROSS
HENRY L.JEWKT'
GEO. H. 1IAZLEHUJ
■Directors.
We must again call upon parties remitting
money to us to do so in registered letters, if
they cannot obtain poet office money orders.
On yesterday we received a letter from Buena
Vista, Georgia, which came to us broken open
and the money abstracted.
The Westebx Wheat Chop.— All accounts
agree, says the N. Y. Commercial, that, not-
LIGHTFOOT & JAQUES,
genuine
hope for its future. With more or less admix
ture of white blood in their veins, their only
ambition is to increase their social distance from
the African, and they nse him much as the fox
used the stupid goat in tho well—as a means of
getting oat
Are Americans too stupid to see this plain fact
and accept its plain teaching ? The only possi
ble nse of negro official appointments in the
United States would be to give the race a repre
sentation and inspire it to progress and self-im
provement. Bnt the negro appointee values
office only as he thinks it confers a bnckra dis
tinction and makes him a great man among
whites. He is no representative of his race in
feeling as soon as he gets his commission.
Brother Philips in Another Trouble.
Brother Philips has found another trouble—
He has discovered that the negro is pretty nigh
played ont as s cause of discord and devilment,
and has now accordingly gone into convulsions
on the “Labor Question” generally. Like a
baker who finds himself with a batch of stale
dough on hia hands, he adds an equal quantity
of a fresh article in hopes to make a general
are offering the best brands of
be in a more promising condition. The great
depth of the snow prevented winter killing, and
its gradual removal by rains snd moderate thaw
saved the wheat from being heaved up out of
Urn soil. It is quite forward, even although the
season in other respects is at least three weeks
later than usual; and the present pros
pect that—barring cut worms, weevils, smut,
and other mischances which may be in the fu-
tnre gamblers included—the Western wheat
crop of 1869 will be a very liberal one; and
with more extended facilities for marketing, the
Western growers and Eastern consumers would
equally profit
“Da. Livingstone's safety is assured,” says
the telegram. And how ? He has left Zanzi
bar to travel by land to Cairo. Anybody who
thinks his safety assured by taking that journey
can do so. We would none of it It is only
about two-thirds of the length of the African
continent embracing its most intolerable
heats, and takes in the way some of the most
twenty-four hours, hy a high f !eeutn ‘Lifi e Ii
that we need not expect much for we only rep
resented a small white population. Ho pro
ceeds to inquire if the administration intended
to make a distinction between its white and
black voters. The Senator’s reference is under
stood to mean Secretary Fish.
When Sawyer finished, Sprague sought the
floor, and Edmunds, fearing a continuance of
the family quarrel, had the discussion cut short
by moving an executive session.
“Let us have peace!” Is this the promised “era
of gdbd feeling,” and do these Senators feel good
when they talk in that way? Does Cameron
“feelgood?” Does Carpenter “feelgood?”—
Does Trumbull “feel good?” and above and be
yond all, do Sawyer and bis carpet-baggers
“feel good?” We fear not There must be
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CAPITAL
There must be
some mistake about the Era, or the Era tike the
times, has got ont of joint.
Sawyer has, no doubt, tho right to feel wore 1
of all. Various intimations and facts go to prove
that Grant has a slight estimation of carpet-bag
gers ; and, in point of fact, and not to put too
fine a point upon it, he holds them in contempt.
He does believe they “represent nobody,” not
even the Southern negroes; and what they say
or do, or recommend or propose, is of no.raore
account than the empty, whistling wind. It was
no more than candor when he told them throngli
“a high Executive officer,” that they “need not
expect much," for they have not got it; and biased
are thoy who expect nothing, for they shall not
be disappointed.
The case atinded to by Cameron is a veritable
case of kleptomania—in which the victim had
doubtless become possessed of such a passion for
stealing that it was ineontroll&ble. It was atinded
to in our press dispatches of that date, but is
more fully explained in the following:
A Wealthy Dibectob or the PhiladiIphia
Union League (a Newby-Cospibmed United
States Consul.) Caught Robbing Stokes.—
Philadelphia, April 19.—'There was considera
ble excitement here in Republican circles to-day
by tho discovery that a wealthy gentleman, a
Director of. the Union Leagno, and recently
confirmed to a European Consulate, had for a
long time been engaged in robbing stores, etc.
He was detected yesterday stealing a box of
The Iotebiaust Waened.—In its last issue
the Imperialist speaks of the “warning” which
the Emperor Napoleon gives the journals of
this country when he disapproves their opinions,
and complains that it, too, in this “free re
public," for daring to print its opinions in plain
words, lias received official warning that the
publication of the 'imperialist will not be per
mitted- What does it want of an empire then,
if a alight taste of the restrictions upon the
press, so essential to Imperial security, is so
grievous to it? Or docs he expect while every
body else is to be Impcrialized the press is to go
free?
The Secret Mission to Cuba.—Tho National
Intelligencer says it is stated that the President
has sent a certain gentleman, whoso mamo can
not be ttivnlged at present, to Cuba, on a secret
mission, his object being to obtain full and im
portant reports of tho ability and strength of
tho contending forces, and the chances for and
against tho sueeess of the rebellion. He will
make a report aooordingly to the President, and
on his statement will probably depend the action
to be taken by our Government.
The Batavia
$444,462 St
ASSETS, JANDARY 1, 1869,
sion." He is a chief in the pestilent crowd who
have strangled it with protection and all kinds
of Treasury robbery, and finally burdened it
with a debt which will permanently enslave it, if
not thrown overboard. Ho groans about the
inexorable drift of events to bloat the rich and
deplete tho poor, and prophesies that when the
time comes in this country that “a permanent
laboring class shall exist the knell of republican
institutions will be sounded." Ho is ono of the
foremost men who by perverting government
into an engine of intermeddling misrule and
finally of tyranny and oppression, has so darken
ed the future of labor, that all see it is bound
to be tho slave of tho tax-gatherer and bond
holder. Ha is a pretty fellow to sob over the
danger of class labor in America.
THIS COMPANY. ON ENTERING ITS ELEVENTH YEAR OF BUSINESS. OFFERS THE ML
LOWING STATKMKNT: —
Amount of Premium* resolved in 1808. tees return premiums..., $14751213
Amount of Interest and Discount in 1*6,8. — — 39.WI 6|
$184,562'
$212,813 »
Amount of:
Amount of 1
OKO. B. TURPIN. . 1. BONRoa OOORN.
TTjrU?I2M c*? Ota-DEN,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENTS,
MACON, OA..
T)EPRESENT THE MUTAL LIFE INSURANCE
rticipatmg Folicies..., ..2b per cent
t.)is now receivable as Cosh in payment oi premiums.
Witt. W. CAMES, Agent, Macon, Ga.
OFFICE. SOUTHEAST CORNER THIRD AND CHERRY STS.
marMawtf
1 New York—Ca*h Assets over $32,-
TTAN LIFE INSURANCE COM-
’ork—Aficts over $5,000,000.
RESIDENCE known as the BONfl
OFFER FOR SJ
The elegant
TWO BRICK STORES in East Macon, next to D.
Flanders t Son’s, fronting 48 feet on Bridge street—
CO feet deco.
A residence and several FINE BUILDING LOTS
onTalnall"
Ho confessed his guilt and said he could not
resist the temptation to steal, and paid 8500,
a* . A? . . « . ‘l f .L. J. A.l 1 /
on vast numbers, and especially upon many who
control tho movements of the social body/’
[Herald.
That is a true diagnoses not of tho social, bat
of tho political condition. Tho latter is dis
eased to the core and we fear morfatty diseased.
The oorrnption of our whole political system is
so patent and universal that no man cares to
defend it. Only a few days ago wo saw, in the
New York papers, a list of half a dozen legisla
tors in that assembly who it was believed were
not easily accessible to cheap bribery.
The Harrisburg State Radical organ, speaking
of the adjournment of tho Pennsylvania Legis
lature last Saturday, calls it the most venal and
corrupt body ever convened there, and declares
that any measure could bo got through with
money. We should be Horry to put on paper
what we believe is the common opinion of the
Georgia Legislature.
It would take the uglic-st words in the Diction
ary to characterize tho common opinion of Con
gress—and, in fine, to sum up the case, the pop
ular persuasion is universal that the day has
passed when tho government is under tho con
trol of virtue, intelligence and patriotism. They
believe that from a to izzard, it is carried on in
selfishness, corruption and perversion—for per
sonal aids and baser party uses—with little or
no counselor suggestion of reason and justice,
and tittle care for the future except as it may
subserve sinister purposes and selfish objects.
Thus, in less than a century the Ameaican
government has reached a. point of universal
demoralization lower than known by any of
what we call the effete monarchies of Europe.
It is so low that it has been found impossible
to have anything like an honest collection of the
revenue. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island esti
mated in a late speech that one hundred million
ont of four hundred million of internal revenno
is lost by rascality, and every body would say
ho is under the mark.
A. Member oi* the Georgia Legislature
Wheat in Gexesee County.
Spirit of tho Times states that the prospects for
the wheat crop in Genessee county look very
gloomy. Tho President of the Agricultural So
ciety informs us that tho heavy frosts and
warm sun for too past ten days have almost
ruined the young wheat in many sections, and
nothing but early wArm rains can save the farm
ers from an almost total loss of this important
crop.
Lucet.—New Orleans is now rejoicing in a
two-headed woman, and a living ox, with three
eyes and three horns, the centre horn much tho
largost of tho threo. This wpndcrfol animal
was recently captured in Williamson county,
Texas. It is said to be remarkablo for its beau
ty and symmetry of form ; is abont eighteen
months old, and unusually large.
Mr. Chaui.es Francis Adams is quoted ns
having said that the treaty lately submitted
about the Alabama claims was a good treaty,
creditable both to Lord Clarendon and Mr.
Johnson, and that it ought to havo been adopted
with some slight changes. Moreover, he thinks
Sumner’s speech on tho subject did more harm
than good. - * , .
Adventures or a Grindstone.—The CotHbert
Appeal tells a capital story of the adventures of
an old grindstone which began its travels in the
centre of a bale of Georgia cotton, and after
sojonrning in the United Kingdom a brief space
returned to the old plantation in the oentro of a
cask of sugar. No doubt people guilty of such
TAILOR AND CLQTHIEK,
HAS JUST RETURNED FROM NEW YORK WITH A
New Spring Stock!
slue of the goods taken from the
afterwards he resigned from the
is supposed ho will never get to
He obtained his sppointmenton
CHAMPAGNE-quirtsand pints.
A Hairs in Brooks.
Tho Quitman Banner of Friday says;
Reports from various portions of this city and
county, satisfy ns that the recent cold weather
did not materially injure the crops. Planters
are of good cheer, and delighted with the situa
tion at present
The same paper says the negroes of the town
are becoming more and more insulting, and de-
, fiant towards the whites every day. They bold-
ly preach insubordination to all law; and if ad
vised of the error of tbeir course, retort with
corses and threats.
Strawberries are abundant Arrangements
for a May party were on foot A debating so
ciety was in high feather, hot would not admit
the girls. In the matter of the homicide of the
tittle boy, the Banner says:
On last Sunday three tittle white boys and'a
negro about fourteen years of age—(all residing
in the neighborhood of Tallokas, in this county)
—it appears were engaged fishing in the creek;
a dispute arose between them about some trivial
matter, when the negro picked np a heavy limb,
or tightwood knot, and without the least warn*
ing struck one of the boys (a son of Alexander
Humphreys) a fearful blow over the head. The
tittle fellow dropped,insenible, and died tho next
day. The murdered child was about ten years
of age, and of a very inoffensive disposition.
The negro was brought to town, and after an
investigation of the facts in the case before Jus
tice Mabbett, committed to jail, to stand his
in the city, mro earnestly and fraternally invited to aa-
mortow mornins. (April 26lh.) and unite in celebra
ting the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of onr Order.
LtrE have lust burned a kilo of good Brick at oi
VY Yard; Ahoy are like Mr..Snider'* Bricks; th<
re food large Bricks and food hard Brick*; they wi
o furtbCv than anybody’* Brick*. At Kifbt Doll*
«r 1000 at tho Yard.
apr25-3t* SPARKS It KNIGHT.
OPIUM, CALOMEL, CHLOROFORM, KTC.
;n pounds opium.
109 pounds CALOMFL.
100 pounds CHLOROFORM.
50 dosen Kntlisb and French POMADES,
50 dosen LUBIN'S EXTRACTS.
For sale by HARRIS. CLAY A CO.,
aprtt-tf Wholesale Driiggi*t*. Macon, Ga.
PERCENT. LESS THAN THE SAME CAN" BE
X£AD ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY.
■2T PLEASE GALL AND EXAMINE GOODS AND PRICES.
Ready-Made Clothing- at Popular Prices*
mnrl8-2tawl m
NOTICE.
VT, in «
trial at the May term of the Superior court
Asa I’linktlvcMeasure.
The Constitutionalist says the Columbia (S.
C.) correspondent of the New York Times
(Radical) has something to say in explanation
of Grant's negro manta. He avers that the
President-General has not appointed blacks to
office because ho has an affection for them, bnt
because it is virtually a rebuke and punishment
to “scores of white men who have risen into
notice and position by means of appeals to the
■» •* - l Hotuuiuica \viin triem-
'-WnenVnf Sfc .formerly of our firm in
Am rica., the business will bo carried on hereafter
under the name end etyle of 8. Waxelbaum.Bro.it
°°- s. WAXKI.IIAUM,
. ■ _J. WAXELBAUM.
- Macon, us.
BERNARD BAER.
«. . Americas,Ga.
‘"tjr'd into the abovo copartnership, in
the city - of Macon, I return thanks to tho many
friends of Southwestern Georaia. whom I will be
pleased to see when yisitmir thi* city, mid extend to
them all tho courtesies which I am able to render
lucin. , ' ’ *IJ* HARR/ ‘
of w firm So Wax el bau in. Bro. & Co.
** Amencus pan*ig copy. upr22-6t
THBSR BITTEBS are recommended for Dyspepsia,
JL and for diseases of the Liver and Kidneys. It is
certainly a fine Toole and h, almost a sure preventive
asainat malaria. They hvJoa larce'alcinthiseoun-
1 VKRNON aBJS*
1VA11K nOOMS.
it BROADWAY, NEW YORK,
perienee th6requirca«*3
and with the fitcilitw f t
can five better v*l«Wj
l elsewhere in thend. l
,. material an<J«odX
,-ept the "AbbottHals'-:
iarucst in the city, f
Assassinated by the Ku-KIux Klttn.
By telegraph to Ike TWt«*e.]'
Atlanta, Ga., April 18.—Dr. Benjamin Ayer,
one of the Georgia delegation to Washington,
the oldest member of the Georgia Legislature,
and a staunch Republican. Was brutally and in
humanly murdered near his home in Jefferson
county by tho Ku-Klux Klan, on Thursday
night last. Ho was found on the public road,.
shot through tho head. This is tho first Georgia
delegation who has “perishedby the wayside,”
according to the expressed wish o(,the New Eli.
The foregoing special disp^jch fames in. the
New York Tribune of the 19th instant, and will
doubtless figure as “history” in that paper till
doomsday, notwithstanding a court of justice in
Georgia shall decide that tho “Ku-Klux Klan ”
which committed this murder, was a negro m»n,
caught red-handed and laden with the spoils of
his slaughtered victim. The messengers of
falsehood and calumny—the traitors to their
own color and race, are as swift as they are per
tinacious in their business. Let the public note
whether the Tribune ever recalls this falsehood.
Studying into the Business.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that Motley,
the new minister to the Court of SL James, is
now hard at work reading international law,and
“without a master.” Says the Enquirer: ^
It is significant that he does not go to the Sec
retary of State, Mr. Fish, for advice, and that
the time of his departure has been delayed a
AT THE WHITE CORNER.
K nowing from lon&cxi
of the Southern trade, i
manufacturing, I think I *
Ul° than can be had cUe
■the Xiltop Style” Buggy, fur
manship. has no equal or * *
My Depository, ono of tb«
ses the advantaffA, i n its•!<
hjilfthorentof thopoun to-...
vehicles at less prices. Those who have
worK require no reference; but to those unac<4‘
I would respectfully refer to
Messrs. J. H. Brow kb A Co., >
Messrs. SyaLi.wooi), UonoKiys & Uo , >Nei
Messrs 1iKtt.*a. Nii’muo a- \
Ronfigoment. which
we will roll at Factory Pricer- ' / • -
20 Tabs Choice Yellow Goshen BUTTER.
20,000 CIGAR8-aUkradei-^f^r isle very low.
50 barrelsTenncisee WHITE CORN WniSKY.
. .. SEYMOUR. TINSLEY & CO,
Corner Third and Cherry si*.
BALES DOMESTICS
Six Second-Hand Hilliard Tables
FOR SALE.
LUVR full-size four-pocket Tables curapl; tc. and
U- one six-poekgl Table oe Hi Plate, for rale at a
targam. te make roojn for other improvements. .
Apply to, or address
,i A. PATTERSON A CO.,
Macon, (la... Anrii fe rle,or « Georsla
Canada Offset.—The Canadian Parliament
are getting np an offset to tho Alabama claims
in tha shape of the expense of defending their
frontiers against the Yankee Finnegans.
Plantation Cioaks. —Freeman says he has the
only pure, imported plantations in Georgia.
They are some of the lot that Grant left wheff
he quit smoking.
Eeroe.—On the first pa'ge under the heading
—“Astounding Discovery” — read “sentient,”
for “sentiment.” Also put an 1 ’ in that mi-
WANTED,
jnSTHEOEIVED
1 llS f^M^^AMOUNTAtN.DEW;
AST RESTAURANT SERVANT. Apply at
*2 OUR HOUSE,”
; ■'** ■i.-’Lw '.-, < Third sireri
100 BtrSKEYiS
USTOPENED fnr the accommodationofp
and Gentlemen, where they will always o® 1
papers as follows: ‘Ado not want Fitzpatrick
appointed but I recommend J. Clarke Swayze.”
Republics are said to bo very ungrateful institu-
Wo do not vouch for correctness of tho above'
statement. If incorrect, Governor Bollock can.
set himself right in these columns. We intend
O’CONNOR.
Ice Cream, Soda Water,
French Candid
W reduccd 0 pr“«. JCrCj “ e t0 disr,0?e of ttt crcat, v
THEO. W. ELLIS.
NOTI033.
. - TRANSPORTATION OFFICE 7
Macos and Brunswick Railroad. V
o 1 ^
runs to Lcvison! twenty miles irnrh*?fSivE? t S eir
tion. leaving M mo 'o» Tuesday^ Thnr^KvTd %*?-
urday at 6 o’clock, a. m„ end rei...min? 4me lt*. 1
fp^iw n0UEIlT SCHMIDT!^]'/ 1
tak.e j^otioe. -
PERSONS hi
JL . my shop '
injustice to no man.—Atlanta NewEra, of Sat
urday.
• The above is a reckless way of giving news.
If the Atlanta New Era knows what he states to
be true, or thinks he knows it, then he has a
right to make a statement; bnt, as a general
principle, it is not right to make an allegation
and call for a denial if it is not true. One of
the parties in interest in this case has already
informed the public that the present incumbent
of the Macon Fostoffiee, Cob Washington, has
not been disturbed.
Thi addition of numerous suits of rooms to
the Ashsican Horsi, Boston, renders it more
than ever a deserved favorite with families trav
elling. Its central position and large, airy
rooms art unsurpassed.
L. H. BRYANT,
pairs or I will Sni inY^ rcoo UUs and pay for rc-
next thirty-Jays, at auctio D B o?private f ° r - in thc
aprl7-lm* M - 8 - POLLOCK,
— Aotton Avenue.
NOTICE, PHYSICIANS!
A LOCATION, feur-room
sAi l? House with half-acre Lor, Horse. Bugey
“ “'«■ House Furniture. Medicines. Medical Book^'
etc., etc., for sala very low. A pniy to “ooas.
ft . , H- J- I’E 1ER, firnKiiiL
apr2Llw " Th!rd Rni1 MulberIy S,a - Macou, Ga.
[>KGULAR FALK DAYS : , cAl-lffiM*
LV TUESDAY. THURSDAYandSATti
_apr2i)-lm —^
DrsTMcKeUar & Thompson
fah Cabinet Adams conid frame a dispatch
immediately, without any previous study or
preparation. He would be of some assistance
to Grant as a counselor, which none of his pre
sent Cabinet are. Grant and Fish, even when
assisted by Motley, will make a poor figure in
polemical discussions with the veteran states
men of the British Empire.
Facts fos the Ladies—My wife has nsed
her Wheeler & Wilson’s Sewing Machine ten
years without repairs and has nsed one needle
for the last three years. Chas. J. Grat.
Newburgh, N. Y.
OFFICE ON THIRD STHfflT,
IN CITY BANK
D O ANY and all DENTAL WORK,at
notice and at reasonable figures* v
j th,e country will receive prompt attention.
At Homes’ Stables.