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it. In so far as the code had conferred rights
on tho colored race there is no conflict and no
ropeaL Tho constitution took away no right
then possessed by them under the code, but it
enlarged their rights as defined in the code, by
conferring upon them the right of citizenship.
It transferred them from the 4th class of natural
persons, nnder the above classification, who
were denied citizenship by tho code, to the 1st
class, as citizens.
The 4f.th Section of the Code limited citizen
ship to white persons. The Constitution struck
out the word white, and made all persons bom
or natnralizod in the United States, and resident
in this State, citizens, withont regard to race or
color. It so amended Section 40 of the Code,
as greatly to enlarge the class of citizens. But
it repealed no part of Section 1048, which de
fines the rights of citizens.
It did not nndert&ke to define the rights of a
citizen. It left that to the Legislature, subject
to such guarantees as aro contained in the Con
stitution itself, which the Legislature cannot
take away. It declares expressly, that no law
shall be made,or enforced,which shall “abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States, or of this State.” It is not ne
cessary to tho decision of this case to inquire,
what are the “privileges and immunities” of a
citizen? which aro guaranteed by the 14th
Amendment to tho Constitution of the United
States, and by the Constitution of State.—
Whatever they may be they are protected against
all abridgement by legislation. This is the full
extent of the Constitutional guarantee. All
rights of the citizeD, not embraced within these
terms, if they do not embrace all, are subject to
the control of the Legislature, A er
Whether tho “privilege and iranumitiea” of
the citizens embrace political rights, includ
ing the rijjht to hold office, I need not inquire.
If they do, the right is guaranteed alike by the
Constitution of the United States and the Con
stitution of Georgia; and is beyond the control
of legislation. If not, the right is snbject to the
con trol of the Legislature as tbepopular voice may
dictate; and in that case'the Legislature would
have power to grant or restrict it at pleasure, in
case of whito persons as well as of poisons of
color. The Constitution of Georgia h.g gone
as far as the fourteenth amendment gone,
but no further. An authoritative construction
of tho fourteenth amendment by the Supreme
Court of the United States upon this point,
would be equally binding as a construction of
the Constitution of tho Stato of Georgia, which
is in tho same words.
Georgia has complied fully with tho terms
dictated by Congress in tho formation of her
Constitution. She has stopped nothing short,
and gono nothing beyond. The highest judicial
tribunal of the Union, will, no doubt, finally
settle tho meaning of the terms “privileges and
immunities” of the citizen, which legislation can
not abridge; and tho peoplo of Georgia, as well
as thoso of all the other States, most conform
to, and m good faith abido by, and carry out
the decision. All the rights, of all citizens, of
every State, which aro included in the phntso
“privileges and immunities” are protected
against legislative abridgement by tho funda
mental law of the Union. Those not no em
braced, unless included within some other con
stitutional guaranty are snbject to legislative
action. Tho samo rights which the fourteenth
amendment to the Constitution of tho United
States eonfers upon, and guarantees to, a col
ored citizen of Ohio, aro conferred upon and
guaranteed to every colored citizen of Georgia,
by tho samo amendment, and by the Constitu
tion of this State, made in conformity to the ro-
constrnction acts of Congress.
'Whatever may or may not lie tho prieilsgss
and immunities guaranteed to tho colored race,
by the Constitution of the United States, and of
this State; it cannot bo questioned that both
Constitutions make thorn citizens. And I think
it very dear that tho code of Georgia upon
which alone I base (his opinion, which is bind
ing upon all her inhabitants while of force, con
fer njion nil her citizens tho right to hold ofllco,
' unless they aro prohibited by some provision
found in tho codo itself^ I find no snch prohi
bition in the code, affecting tho rights of this
respondent. I am, therefore, of the opinion
that the judgment of tho court below is errone
ous, and I concur in the judgment of .reversal.
JUDGE WABNEU'8 DISSENTING OPIN
ION,
Warner, J., dissenting.
Tho defendant is a person of color, having,
as the record states, one-eighth of negro or
African blood in bis veins, who claims to be law
fully entitled to hold and exercise the daties of
the offico of Clork of the Superior Court of
Chatham county, and the question presented to
. our consideration and judgment is, whether a
person of color, of tho description mentioned
in tho record, is legally entitled to hold ofllco in
this State, nnder tho Constitution and laws
thereof?
Tho 14th amendment to tho Constitution of
the United States declares that “Allpersons bom
or naturalized in the United States and snbject
to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of tho
United States, and the Stato wherein they resido.
No Stato shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge tho privileges or immunities of cit
izen* of the Unitod States.”
Tho Constitution of this Slate declares that
“All persons bom or naturalized in the United
States and resident in this Stato, arc hereby de
clared citizens of this Stato, and no laws shall be
mado or enforced which shall abridgo tho privil
eges or immunities of citizens of the United
States or of this State,"
From tho timo of tho adoption of tho 14th
amendment, and the adoption and ratification of
the Constitution of this Stato, in 1868, the de
fendant became, (notwithstanding his color and
African blood,) a citizen of the United States,
. and of this Stato, and is entitled to havo all tho
privileges or immunities of a citizen.
Does tho fact that tho defendant was made a
citizen ot tho Stato with all the privileges or im
munities of a citizen thereof, confer upon him
the legal right to hold office in this Stato ns snch
citizen ? When you take into consideration the
definition and object of creating an office, and
by tcliat authority it is conferred upon a
citizen, tho distinction between tho privileges
and immunities of a citizen os snch, and his
right to hold offico will bo at once apparent. It
will be seen that tho privileges and immunities
of a citizen as snch, is one thing, and that his
legal right to bold offico as Bucb citizen under
the authority of the State, is another and quite
a different question. "What is an offico ? “An
office,” Bays Bacon, “is a right to exercise a
public function or employment, and to take the
fees and emoluments belonging to it. An officer
is one who is lawfully invested with nn office.
It is said that the word offiimn principally im
plies duty, and tho next word place tho charge
of such duty; and that it is a rule that where
one man hath to do with another's affairs against
his will, and without his leave, that this is an
office, and ho who is in it is on officer. By the
ancient common law,"officers ought to be honest
men, legal and sage, ft qui melius zeiant ct pat-
tint officii Mi intendere ; and tins, says my Lord
Coke, was the policy of prudent antiquity, that
officers did ever give grace to the place, and
not the place only to grace the officer.” 7th
Bacons Ab. 279—title offices and officers. Black-
stone says the King, in. England, is the
fountain of honor and of office, and the reason
given is that the law supposes that no one can
be so good a judge of an officer’s merits, and
services, as tho King who employs him.
“From the same principle also arises tho pre
rogative of creating and disposing of offices;
for honors and offices aro in their nature con
vertible and synonimons. All officers tinder tho
Crown carry in the eye of the law an honor along
with them; because they imply a superiority of
parts, and abilities, being supposed to be always
filled with those that are most able to execute
them.” 1st Bl. Com. 271, 2. Offices (says
Blackstone) are a right to exercise a public or
private employment and to take the fees end
emoluments thereunto belonging, and are also
incorporeal hereditaments. 2d BL Com. 36.—
All citizens of the State, whether white, or col
ored, male, or female, minors, or adults, idiots
or lunatics, are entitled to have all the privileges
and immunities of citizen*, but it does not fol
low that all of these different classes of citizens
are entitled to hold office nnder the public au
thority of the State, because the privileges and
immunities of dtzen* are secured to them. The
State m this country, as the Crown in England,
is the fountain of honor, and of office, and she
who desires to employ any class ot her citizens
in her service, is the best judge of their fitness
and qualifications therefor. An officer of the
State as we have shown, “hath to do with an
other's affairs against hit trill, and withont hit
leave,” and snch officers must have the authori
ty of the State to perform these public duties
againtt the trill of the citizen and withont his
leave. This authority must be conferred upon
the citizen bysome public late of the State, from
that date of her citizens, which in her judg
ment, will best promote the general welfare of
the State. The right to have and enjoy the pri
vileges and immunities of a citizen of the State,
does not confer upon him the right to serve the
State in any official capacity, until that is ex
pressly granted to him by late,
Mr Justioe Curtis, is his dissenting opinion
in the case of Dred Scott V3. Sanford (19th
Howard’s Hep. !> and 3) says : “So in all the
States, numerous persons, though citizen.», can
not vote, or cannot hold office, either on acconnt
of their age or sex, or the want of the necessary
legal qualifications.” Corfield vs. Corvell, 4th
Washington. 0. C. Hep. 3 and 1, to the same
point. ' -
* The defendant, therefore, cannot legally
claim any right to hold office either nnder the
Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of
the United States, or the Constitution of this
State, which make him a citizen, and guarantee
unto him the privileges and immunities of a
citizen, for he may well have and enjoy all tho
privileges and immunities of a citizen, in the
State, without holding any office, or exercising
any public or official duty nnder the authority
of the Slate. Tho privileges and immunities of
a citizen of the State do not confer the legal
right to hold office nnder the public authority of
the State, and receive the emoluments thereof.
Does the public law of the State, recognized and
adopted by the Constitution of 1868, (known
as Irwin's Code,) confer upon the defendant the
ley atright to hold office in this State? The
Code took effect, as the public law of this State,
on the first day of January, 1863. By the for-
ty-siith section thereof, it is declared: “ATI
white persons bom in this State, or in any other
Stato of this Union, who are, or may become resi
dents of this State, with the intention of remain-
ing herein; all tc/iifeperaons naturalized under the
laws of the United States, and who are or may be
come residents of this State, with the intention
of remaining herein; all persons who have ob
tained a right to citizenship under former laws,
and all children wherever boro, whose father
was a citizen of this State at the time of the
birth of snch children, or in case of posthumous
children at the time of his death, are held and
deemed citizens of this State. Persons having
one-eighth or more of African blood in their
veins are not “ white persons in the meaning of
this Code.” The 164Cih section declares, that
‘■‘Natural persons are distinguished according
to their rights and status, into 1st citizens, 2d
residents not, citizens; 3d aliens, 4 th persons of,
color. The persons to whom belong tho rights
of citizenship and the mode of acquiring and
losing tho same, have been specified in a former
article (referring to article 46 before cited.)
Among the rights of citizens aro the enjoyment
of.peisonal security, of personal liberty, private
property and the disposition thereof, the elec
tive franchise, the right to hold office, to appeal to
the courts, to testify as a witness, to perform
any civil function, and to keep and bear arms.
All citizens are entitled to exercise these rights,
as such, unless specially prohibited by law.”
Sections 1647, 1648,1C49, 1630, 1631, 1632, IGG3
of the Code.
It will be remembered that at the time of the
adoption of (he Code, in 1833,The defendant was
not a citizen of this State and was not recognized
by the Codo as a citizen thereof. By the 1646th.
section, the status ot the defendant is defined to
be that of a person of color, and not that of a
citizen. The Bevised Code, adopted by the Con
stitution of 1868, includes the Act of 1866,
which declares that “All negroes, mulatoea,
miatizocs, and their descendants, having one-
eighth of negro or African blood to their veins,
shall be known, in this Stato, as perjpns of color,"
and especially defines their legal rights, but the
rigid to hold office is not one of them. Bevised
Code, Section 1661.
It is trno that since tho adoption of tho Code
tho defendant has been mado a citizen, bnt all
the legal rights conferred upon citizens by the
Code, were conferred npon that doss of per
sons only, who were declared and recognized by
tho Codo, os citizens of the State at the time of
its adoption. When the Codes declares that it shall
be tho righ 1 °f a citizen to hold office, snch right
is confined to that elatt of persons who wore re
cognized and declared therein, to be citizens of
the State, and not to any other class of persons,
who might thereafter become citizens. So
where the Code declares that “All citizens are
entitled to exercise all their rights as such, un
less prohibited by law,” it is applicable to that
etas* of persons only, who were declared to be
citizens of tho State at that time, and not to any
other class of persons who might thereafter be
made citizens of the State: snch os Chinese,
Africans, or persons of color. The troth is,
that tho pnblio will of the State has never been
expressed by any Legislative enactment in fa
vor of the right of colored citizens to hold office
in this State since they beeoHne citizens thereof.—
Although these several classes of persons might
bo mado citizens of tho State, with the priv
ileges and immunities of citizens, still, they
could not legally hold office nnder the authority
of the State until that right shall bo conferred
npon them by some public taw of the State, sub
sequent to the time at which they becamo citi
zens, so os to indnde them in its provisions.—
Hho pnblio will of tho State, as to the legal
right of that class of her citizens to hold office,
has never been afflmtflticely expressed ; bnt on
the contrary, when the proposition was distinctly
made in the Convention, which formed the pres
ent Constitution, to confer tho right npon col.
ored citizens to hold office in this State, it was
voted down by a large majority. [See Jour
nal of tho Convention, page three hundred and
twelve.] So far as there has been any express
ion of tho pnblio will of the Stato as to tho
legal right ot that class ot citizens, known as
colored citizens, and since they becamo such, to
hold offico in this State, it is against that right
now claimed by the defendant Tho insur
mountable obstaclo in the way of tho defendant
claiming a legal right to hold offico in this State
nnder toe provisions of the Code, is the fact that
ho was net a citizen of too Stato at the time cf
its adoption. The class of persons to which he
belongs were not recognized by it as citizens,
and therefore he is not included in any of its
provisions which confor toe right to hold offico
npon the class of citizens specified in the Code.
The Code makes no provision whatever for col
ored citizens to hold offico in this Stato; all its
provisions apply exclusively to white citizens,
and to no other class of citizens. Tho Conven
tion which framed too present State Constitu
tion and declared persons of color to he citizens,
could have conferred toe right npon them to
hold office, bnt declined to do so by a very de
cided vote of that body, and went before toe
poople claiming its ratification, upon too ground
that colored citizens were not entitled to hold
office nnder it, and there can bo no donlit that
toe peoplo ot the Stato voted for its ratification
at the ballot-box, with that understanding. But
now it is contended that the defendant, though
a colored person, is made a citizen of too State,
and of the United States, and that no enabling
act has over been passed to allow a naturalized
citizen to hold office in this State—when ho pos
sessed too other requisite qualifications pre
scribed by law; that toe defendant, having been
mado a citizen of the Stato, is entitled to hold
office in the same manner as a naturalized citi
zen conld do. The reply is, that naturalized
citizens were white persons, and as snch, had a
common law'right to hold office, a right founded
npon immemorial usage and custom, which has
existed so long that toe memory of man runneth
not to toe contrary. The 1644th section of toe
Code simply affirms the common law os to the
right of a white citizen to. hold office in this
State.
No such common law right, however, can bo
claimed in this State, in favor of persons of col
or, to hold office. They have but recently be-
como entitled to citizenship, and havo never
held office in this State. In 1848, in toe case of
Cooper and Worsham vs. toe Mayor and Aider-
men of too city of Savannah, (4to -Ga. Rep.,
72,) it was unanimously held and decided by
this Court, that free persons of color were not
entitled to hold any civil office in this Stato. The
naturalized white citizen can claim his common
law right to hold office in this State. The col
ored citizen cannot claim any snch common law
right, for the reason that he has never exercised
and enjoyed it, and that constitutes the differ
ence between toe legal right of a naturalized
white citizen to hold office in this State, and a
person of oolor who has recently been made a
citizen “since the adoption of the Code, and,
who is not embraced within its provisions.” The
one can claim his common law right to hold of
fice in the State, the other cannot, and until the
State shall declare, by some legislative enact
ment that it is her will and desire that her col
ored citizens shall hold office under her author
ity, they cannot claim the legal right to do so—
for we must not forget that toe State is toe
fountain and parent of office, and may confer
or refuse to confer the right to hold office, npon
any da» of her citizens she may think proper
and expedient.
■When a new class of persons are introduced
into the body politic of the State and made citi
zens thereof who cannot claim a common law
right, to hold office therein, it is incumbent on
them to show, affirmatively, that such right has
been conferred npon them by some public law
of the State since they were made citizens there
of, to entitle them to have and enjoy such right.
In other words, they must show Vie public law
of toe State, enacted since they became citizens
thereof, which, confers the legal rigid claimed
before they can demand toe judgment ot toe
Court, in favor of such legal sight.
All male white citizens of the State, whether
native boro or naturalized citizens (having toe
necessary legal qualifications) have a common
law right to hold office in this State ; and in or
der to deprive them of that common law right,
a prohibitory statute is necessary. A natural,
lzed citizen had toe common law right to bold
the office of President of the United States;
hence the prohibition in toe Constitution of toe
United States. But as colored citizens of the
Stato who have recently been made snch, can
not claim a common law right to hold office in
the State, as no prohibitory statute is necessary
to deprive them of a right which they never had
nnder toe common or statute law of toe State,
when, therefore, it is said that colored citizens
have the right to hold office in toe State, unless
specialty prohibited by law, it must be shown af-
firoiatively that they had previously enjoyed that
right _ If they cannot show their right to hold
office in the State, either nnder toe common
law, the Constitution or statutes- of the State
the fact that they are not specially prohibited
from exercising a right which they never had,
amounts to nothing, so far as investing them
wjto the right to hold office is concerned.
When, and where, and by what public law of
toe State was the legal right to hold office there
in conferred on the colored citizens thereof ?
If this question cannot be answered in the af
firmative, and the legal authority nnder which
toe right is claimed can not be shown, then the
argument that, inasmuch as there is no special
prohibition in the law against the right of col
ored citizens to hold office, they can hold it,
falls to the ground. If there was no existing
legal rigid to hold office to be prohibited, the
fact that there is no prohibition does not confer
such legal right There was no legal necessity
to prohibit that which did not exist
It is not tho business ordnty of Courts to make
the laws, bnt simply to expound and enforce ex
isting laws, which have been prescribed by the
supremo power of toe State. After toe most
careful examination of this question, I am clear
ly _of toe opinion that there isno existing law of
this State which confers the right upon the col
ored citizens there to hold offico therein; and,
consequently, that the defendant has no legal
right to hold and exercise toe daties of the office
which be claims nnder her authority; and toe
judgment of the Court below overruling the de
murrer should bo affirmed.
PLANTERS'
S M PLIES'.
BURDICK BROTHERS
C3 THIRD STREET,
MACON,
GEORGIA
ABE CONSTANTLY RECEIVING, AND HAVE
NOW IN STORE.
Sound Tennessee Corn, Bacon Sides,
SBOV&DBK8,
Tare LEAF LARD—in keg*.
KrFerrsn, Armstrong* Co.’,celebrated MAGNOLIA
and FAMLY SUGAR-CURED HAMS.
TENNESSEE BAMS,
cantos
TIMOTHY HAY.
STOCK PEAS, FRESH MEAL and WHEAT BRAN.
LIVERPOOL SALT.
Also, a large and varied stock of
F Ii O TT R
la barrels, sacks and half sacks.
BURDICK BROTHERS,
63 Third sL, Macon. Ga.
ANOTHER LARGE ARRIVAL
OF
FINE LIQUORS.
in BARRELS XXXX RYE WHISKY.
IW 20 barrels Old Virginia Mountain Dew.
75 barrels Old Bye. Corn and Bourbon Whisky.
3'/i casks of line Fort and Sherry Wines,
50 cases St. Jnlean Medoe Claret,
5ca>cs"Liqueurs,” "Marachioo.” "Cuiracoa,”
. , "Anncssette"and "Absinthe.”
Also, a well selected assortment of
BRANDIES. GIN, ROM. ALE and PORTER.
The attention of “Bars” is called to the above list
of Liquors. No good Bar is wUhonl_thetn when they
can get them.
, W. O'CONNOR.
A tall stock on band of
Bacon, Flour, Sugar, Coffee. Teas, Vinegar. Soap.
- Candles, Starch, wrapping Paper, Twine,
Candy. Blacking, etc..
Which I will sell very Cheap, for Cash. Call and <
me before you purchase elsewhere^
Under Plant in* Hotel. No. GO Cherry sL
juncl3-tf .
LIFE-SIZE
FAMILY PORTRAITS
A RE evidence* of a high state ofeolture the work I
over. I mm prepared, at all times, to fill order i
for thoso. as well a* all the smaller styles of Photo
graph Likenesses. I am making a specialty of the
better class of Pictures, and those wanting something
superior will find it totheir interest to call on
J. A. PUGH. Artist.
Triangular Block.
ma«9-et JMaeo “a.
GEO. T. BARTLETT.
A. PROUDFIT.
Moxtickuo. Ga- (late of Memphis. Tenu.)
BARTLETT & PROUDFIT,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
NEXT DOOR TO CITY BANKING COMPANY.
Macon, Georgia.
W ILL practice their, profession in the various
State Courts, tbeSupreme Court of Georgia and
the U. S. District Courts. june6-lm.
PARENTS—SCHOOLS.
_ of Macon that he has just returned from bis visit
to Germany, end that having studied the German
plan of education, as fares opportunity offered, and
having brought with him a set of philosophical
apparatus, he is prepared to serve teem with renewed
zeal. As it does not comport with his views of pro
fessional dignity, to go around and solicit pupils, he
will be glad if those wishing his services will be kind
enough to leave their names at Singleton *fc Hunt’s,
that he may the better be able to adapt his school
>om to the comfort and convenience of the pupils.
The school will open in September, of which farther
notice will be given.
may26-lm* E. H. LINK. A. M.
Essays for YooBg Hen,
On the Errors and* Abases incident to Youth and
Early Manhood, with the humane view of treatment
and core, sent by mail free of charge. Address
HOWARD ASSOCIATION.
m»y23-3m Box P.. Philadelphia, Pa.
MGR OF SCHEDULE.
TgairsroxTXTiox Omci C. R. R.. 1
Sayaxxah. Ga- August 14.1863. J
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY. 16th debt- PASSEN
GER Trains cn the Georgia Central Railroad
will run as follows:
UP DAY TRAIN.
LZATZ.
innah —IbDO a. x.
Augusta.
Milledgeville
Connecting
gusta at—
Macon..
with train that leaves An-
&40 p. _
5:38 T. X.
8:58 r. x.
I LOO X.
August*..
Connecting with train that leaves Au
gusta at
UP NIGHT TRAIN.
■Savannah 7:20 t. X.
Macon..
Augusta..
MfUedgeviiu
..130 r. x.
Eaton ton ... 2:40 p. ic.
Connecting with train that leaves Au
gusta at <fc33 f, jt,
49“A. M. Trains from Savannah and Augusta, and
p. m. Train from Macon, connect with Milledgeville
Train at Gordon daily. Sundays excepted.
49“P. M. Train from Savannah connects with
through Mail Train on South Carolina Railroad, and
. k. Train from Savannah and Augusta with Trains
n Southwestern and Muscogee Railroads.
[Signed] WM. ROGERS.
General Superintendent.
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ON DRAUGHT.
THIS WATER it brought
from Saratoga in csi-tight rcs-
evoir* lined with pure block
tin, and is forced out at our
eounter precisely as it flows
from the Springs, without
charging it with gas. It is in
valuable. removing by its ape
rient and alterative effects,
the incipient forms of disease.
It is highly recommended by
the most eminent Physicians,
and is used with great success
in the treatment of
DYSPEPSIA, FEVERS
CUTANKOUfl DISEASES.
Those who do not love to take
medicine for slight indisposi
tion, will find this far-famed
Water the very thing. On lee
at all times.
EVERYTHING
WORIiS’S
DRUG MARKET
Affords to snpply the wants of
the trading pnMir.
Etc., Eta, Etc.
LIGHTNING
FLY - PAPER,
An Exposure of Jealousy, Spite
and Vindietiyeness.
C AUTION.—This ii to certify, that 1 have sold aU
tight, title and interest in the Bimmons Liver
Regulator to J. H. Zcilin A Co., who are the only one*
that have any right to malt* toe same, and the. only
ones that ha-e the original, true, and only.reeeipt for
the same. Any one manufacturing oroffenng tor sale
the Simmons Liver Regulator, or Simmons Medi-
STATE OF GEORGIA. CATOOSA COUNTY.-
Know altmenby thesepresent*. That 11 have author*
iied my son. C. A. Bimmons. .only, to make all my
Medicines and to use my name in preparing, selling
and advertising any and all my Medicines, and I also
authoriie him, the same C. A. Simmons, to print or
to have rrinted anything that he may see proper con-
cerning any or all of my Medicines. *
This 17th day of October.1856. A. Q.SIMMONS.
WILLIAM ELLKS. - „
JAMES II. CHAMBERS. J. P- ‘ :
.Macon, Ga.. September 30,1868.
For value received I hereby sell and transfer to.
H. Zeilin A Co., all right and title to the within cer
tificate to the sole manufacture and tale of and med
icines. Witness my hand and seal the da); and data
abovo written. C. A. SIMMONS. [L. S.1
Witness: John Ingalls.
E. BOND. Notary Publie Bibb County.
T'O THE PUBLIC.
Baexesvili.k, July 24.1S6S.
I havo acted according to my advertisement, and
have discontinued tho manufactnreof Dr. Simmons
right to manufacture tho genuino articles. I take
pleasure in recommending this respectable and re-
will meet prompt attention. I remain respectfully
yours, C. A. SIMMONS.
DR. SI MM ON 8’
Liver fiegulator, or Medicine,
For all affections caused by a deranged slate oj
the User, Dyspepsia, Headache, Jaundice,
Impurity of the Stood, Costiveness,
Fever and Ague, Dropsy, Boils,
Melancholy, Heartburn,
Etc., Etc.
A preparation that is guaranteed to be strictly veg
etable. and can do no injury to any one; it has been
used by hundreds, and known for the last20 yean as
one of the most reliable, efSeaeloiuand harmless pre-
pmrations ever offered to tho suffering. The effect of
this Medicine on tho Stomach, Liver and Kidneys is
prompt and effectual, and tho patient soon feslsas it
he bed taken a new lease of life, and is overjoyed to
find the depressed feelings dissipated, the costive habit
corrected, and new stremms of health coursing through
his reins. It acts like a charm, withont dcbititating
toe system, and without any of the evil effect! of mer
cury or alcoholic rtimnlants. Prepared, only by the
sole Proprietors. J. H. ZEILIN A CO.,
Dniggtsts, Macon. Ga.
SW- Sold by all Druggists. Price $1 00. It can l _
sent by mail, postego paid, for SI 25.
The following highly respectoble persons can fully
attest to thevirtnes of this valuable medicine, and to
ny. Ga: h
toy. Esq.. Macon, Ga; George J, Lunsford. Esq-
doctor S. W. R. R.: C. Masterson. Esq.. Sheriff
county: J. A. Untie. Bainbridge, Ga; N. Biaswai
Esq. Macon. Ga.: Dykes A Bparhawk, Editors Fli
ian,Tallahassee; Rev. J, W. Burke. Macon. Go.; .
gil Power*. Esq.. Superintendent S. W. R. K.: Daniel
Ballard. Ballard’s Station Mseen A Brunswick It. R.;
Twiggs county. GaqGrenvillo Wood, Wood’s Factory,
Macon. Ga.: Rev. B. F. Easterling, P. E. Florida Con
ferenCe: Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston,Ga.
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TUTTS VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS
Cures diseases of the Liver and Stomach.
TITT’S EXPECTORANT,
A pleasant cure for Coughs, Colds, etc.
TUTT’S SARSAPARILL A QUEEN'S DELIGHT
The great AlteratiTe and Blood Purifier.
TUTT’S IMPROVED HAIR DIE,
Warranted the best dye in use-
These standard preparations are for sale by
HARRIS, CLATACft^-j^
Con
Bibb
Blnswanger.
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Datioomrs,
Macon, Ga.
TH E
OUR HOUSE.”
JL friends and the public generally, that they have
just refitted, repainted and elegantly furnished the
above establishment on Third street, next door to
Rslston’s Hall entrance, where they are now prepared
to furnish Meals to order at all hours of the day and
night, sod eater to the cravings of the inner man in
snprrb stylo. Mr. Wall, than whom there is no bet
ter Bar tender, will give his nenonal attention to this
branch of (he business of the House, whilst experi
enced cooks will attend to tho culinary department.
Free Lunch every day at 11 o’clock.
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Ayer’s Sarsaparilla,
FOB PURIFYING THE BLOOD.
The reputation this ex
cellent medicine enjoys,
is derived from Us cures,
many of which aro of •
truly marvellous char
acter. Inveterate coses
of Scrofula, where ths
g stem seemed uttcr^
ven up to corruption,
tve yielded to this com
pound of anti-strumous
virtues. Disorders of a
scrofulous type, and af
fections which are merely
aggravated by tho presence of acrofttioiu matter,
have been radically enred in such numerous In
stances, in every settlement in tho country, that tho
public do not need to bo Informed hero that U is in
most cases a specific and absolute remedy.
Scrofulous poison is one of the most destructive
enemies of our race. Often, this unseen and unfelt
tenant of the organism undermines tho constitution,
and invites tho attack of mtfbebliag or fatal diseases,
rapidly devoid
into one or other of Its hideous forms, either on the
■ surface or among tbo vitals. In tho latter, tuber
cles may be suddenly deposited in the lungs or
heart, or tumors formed in tho liver. These facts
make the occasional use of tho Sarsaparilla as a
preventive, advisable.
It is a mistake to suppose that so long as no erup
tions or humors appear, there most be no scrofulous
taint. These forms of derangement may never
occur, and yet the vital forces of the body he so re
duced by its subtle agency, os materially to impair
the health and shorten the duration of life. It is a
common error, also, that scrofula is strictly heredi
tary. It does, indeed, descend from parent to child,
but is also engendered in persons bom of pure
blood. Low living, indigestion, foul air, licentious
habits, nnclcanliness, and the depressing vieeS gen
erally, produce it. Weakly constitutions, where not
fortified by the most constant and judicious care,
are peculiarly liable to-it. Yet the robust, also,
whose turbid blood swells the veins with an appar
ently exuberant vitality, aro often contaminated,
and on the road to its consequences. Indeed, no
class or condition can depend on immunity from
it, nor feel insensible to the importance of an effec
tual remedy.
In St. Anthony's Fire, Bote or Erysipelas,
for Tetter, Salt Kheum. Scald Head, UUuj-
teorm. Sore Ears and Eyes, and other eruptive
or visible forms of the diseases caused primarily by
the scrofulous infection, toe Sarsaparilla is so ef-
| fleient as. to be Indispensable. And in the more
and other
^Vaad nervous systems, tho,
Sarsaparilla, tlirou--'- <•-
moves the cause of the
ii hing cores.
..The sarsaparilla root of the tropics does not by I
itself achieve these results. It is aided, by the ex
tracts combined with it, of still greater power. So
potent is this union of healing virtues, Syphilis or
Venereal and Mercurial Diseases are cored by
iti though a long tone is required for subduing these
obstinate maladies by tuiy med icine. Aeueorr/ural
or Whites, Uterine Ulcerations, and Female
Diseases in general, ore commonly soon relieved
and ultimately cured by toe invigorating and puri
fying effect or our Sarsajtariita. JthcumatUm.
and Gout, often dependenton the accumulations of
extraneous matters in toe blood, have their remedy
also in this medicine. For Diver Complaints,
torpidity, inflammation, abcess, etc., cau-wd liy
rankling poisons in the blood, wo unhesitatingly
recommend Dm Sarxaparilla.
This medicine restore# health and vigor ■where no
specific disease can be distinguished. Its restora
tive power is soon felt by those who are Languid,
Listless, Despondent, Sleepless, filled with
Ferrous Apprehensions or Fears, or who are
troubled with any other of those affections symp
tomatic of weakness. Many, after taking it for
General Debility, have written ns of toe youth
ful vigor imparted to toeir nervous svstem, which
seemed buoyant with toot prolific life they thought
haddepartedon the advance of age. Others,whose
fountains of life were always sterile, acknowledge
their obligations to it for an oh vions change.
produces aston-
nedis-
Ayer’s Ague Cure,
Forferer and Agrae, Intermittent le
ver, Chill fever, IKcaUttent fever,
Dumb Periodical or Billon*
fever, dec., and indeed all the affec
tion* which arine front malariou,
marsh, or miasmatic poison*. -
As Its name Implies, it does Cure, and does not
EaiL Containingneither Qniniix^
Zinc, nor flu other mineral or poisonous substance
whatever, it in. nowise injures any patient. The
number and importance of it3 cures in the as
tricts, are literally beyond account, and wc
without a parallel in the history of medicim
pride is gratified by the acknowledgments we re-
OlMfllnHfemffMflMffhMliMMllH,
and where other remedies UimI wholly failed.
DaacoJimated persons, either resident in, or
travelling through miasmatic localities, will be pro
tected by taking the A.&TJE C IT Jilt daily.
For Lirer Complaint*, arising from torpidity
of the Liver, it is an excellent remedy, stimulating
the .Liver into healthy activity. . - i>j -* ~
. Prepared by Da: O. Amt Jk Co., Practical
and Analytical Chemists, Lowell, Mass., and sold
allround the world.
*>J£ICEp $1.00 EJEH BOTTLE.
Sold hjr L. W. HUNT k CO^ J. H. ZEILIN k CO
and aU the Dranuta in Macon. Also, all drarrisU
and dealers in Medicine everywhere. ■***«*
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MRS. P\ 13ESSAU
HAS OPENED. AND IS CONSTANTLY RECEIVING. THE LATEST ■ ' *'
NOVELTIES in
MILLINERY,
DRESS G-OODS
TRIMMINGS, GLOVES, POINT LACES, EMBROIDERIES, etc.
68 MULBERRY ST., MACON, 6A.
49-All orders promptly attended to.
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ERNEST PESCHKE,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER,
MANUFACTURING JEWELER AND OPTICIAN,
NO. 1' SECOND STREET.
^LL KINDS AF SPECTACLE GLASSES FITTED AND ADJUSTED by an 0PTIMETEK. WATCHES
and JEWELRY repaired and warranted. ,
Name Stencils for Marking linen Cut to Order.
COUNTRY MERCHANTS AND BUYERS =*-
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, GROCERIES, TOBACCO,
HARDWARE, STEEURON,
AND MANY OTHER ARTICLES USUALLY KEPT IN A
; . - -t - ) ■- ~»T •
FIRST-CLASS WHOLESALE HOUSE,
arb Informed .that the .: . :.t: ,
SPRING STOCK
OF
J. B. ROSS & SOK,
rs NOW complete, and is the largest and best selected op any they hav
L ever had the pleasnr* of offering to the buyers of Middle and Southwestern Georgia. In
SPRING DRY GOODS,
It ie unusually heavy and select and worthy of special attention. Indeed, they aro prepared to furnish from
a Fiih Hook to a Grind Stone, from a Hair Pin to a bale of Domestics.
In GOODS and PRICES we ;know they can suit you. Cation
J. B. ROSS & SON,
marlG-tf Wholesale Doalers in Groceries. Dry Goods, etc., Macon, Georgia.
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
TTAH DECIDED
THAT SOLD CIINTIWCTS SHALL 1
Therefore, insure in the only strictly GOLD COMPANY in tho United States,
NO FLUCTUATING OE CHANGING THROUGHOUT TIME NOE COUNTRY.
POLICIES PAYABLE ONLY IN GOLD!
Premiums payable in GOLD or EQUIVALENT. Dividends equally and impartially divided
between Policy Holders, by tho
O. E. THAMES, Pres’t] [T. N. FOWLER, Seo’y.
ALABAMA GOLD
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF MOBILE, ALABAMA.
ASSETS, SS90,000 LN GOLD!
It. H. WHITFIELD.
I. S. BOYD,
WHITFIELD 4fc BOYD,
GENERAL AGENTS,
KroE'owasarja.jja'...
GEORGIA.
WRIGHT & DOUGLASS, Newnsn, Attorneys;
ED, SMITH, M. D., C. D. SMITH, M. D., Examiners.
Reliable Agents Wanted Throughout the State, and Special Agent for Macon
COMMISSIONS PAYABLE IN COLD,
State Supervisors to whom XLeferenco is Oiven :
yTfAfcfaS3MB5 °*- j- v- bent
J, H. JAMES, Banker, Atlanta, Ga. L. M. SMITH, D. D., Oxford, Os
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U A a L E
STOVE WOR.EC.S,
(ESTABLISHED 1840.)
ABEXMOTH BROS., Proprietors
10B* 111 Basic naan at., Kew York,
Manufacturers of the Celebrated
“COTTON P1AHT” COOK STOVE,
"QUEEN OF THE SOUTH" Cook Stove, -;
“MAGNOLIA" Cook Stove,
“GRAY JACKET" Cock Stove,
"DELTA" Cook Stove.
And other Stoves, suitable for the Southern trade
EVERT STOVE IS WARRANT ED,
FOR SALE BY
H. A. WISE, Macon, Ga^
W.L WADSWORTH*CO.. Amerieu«.Go_
JOHN A. DOUGLASS, Savannah, Ga_
4 COy Columbus, Ga.,
, W L. WADSWORTH’* CO.. Roie da.,
And by the Principal Stove Dealers throughout the
8OT * ,, • f inly 15-d*w6m 0.1
LIVERY AND BALE STABLES.
r p taken charge of the well
ta-Chapmen’s Livery Stables” in Macon,
, , h '?U 0B P1 ° m street, where he
will conduct a general Livery Business in all its
Anything you may want in the way of
transportation, by horse or male, baggy, carriage or
hack, will be furnished on short noticeahd SraaSon-
sb 1 * rates. Drovers will find this an old and popedL
•tend at which to dispose Of their stock. va-ar
fiebll-ly S.H.HOLMES. Agent.
*ioo rh w Ann.
NOTICE TO THE AFFLICTED.
ECLECTIC BOTANIC PRACTICE. .
'T’HKundersigned desires to invite tho attention ot
-L all who &r® afflicted to his skill and trea.tm»nt nn
on r nF n ‘e tenttofof Ulrant ®e to perfora Sures
on mne-tentos ot each Aod every enmnlqipt v h;.i.
tae human family arc heirto. from one month’s .Tend-
ing to twenty years. He presumes to say he vrill cure
-cases Of a very critical character in the ipac® of a few
month, time, and those of a mBder ehS^ter in tho
apace of two or three month, time. cuar,M:ier ln lD0
0f ft® crit j, cal complaintsfo
SSFrh'mJ Ai5? ptl0 ' n t J- lver Complaint. Drop
j ^Momonial Dropsy, Milk Leg, I P
0M8ore? y »l7i lpd '. 8cr0f “!* in general. Ulcer
UIu ooref, all private complaints in eeneral • wi
debilities : wilUuwImle to'tre
female debilities caused by cold or otherwise
and'ovcrT t e , M«nf^nfl ,il1 1!*° p>»rantee to cure'
by the®tZiSf?£°i ln flamation By which msrried 1
signed An rro * nln * witb - T* 1 * nl
aL1 } twify to his great 8 access in the treat
a rtTi'fe maiadiM by iumwou. pr£ft (
?ordJvi 1 ?nlT A1 & Griffin. Columbus, C
He has been in the fie
HuSMl w™. twenty-one years in Geo
Htll° of the Legist:
marble house. He is pennant
t. Co P e one. come all. and examine for >
elves. Kach prescription strictly cash.
DR. M. FITZGERALD,
nr, Atlanta, i
The public will address meat Atlanta, Ga.
jP AIJSTTII^O
N. L. DRURY.
House & Sign Pain
8ILBER, GLAZIER AHD PAPER HAK
OVER LAWTON * LAWTON’S,
FOURTH STREET.
janl4-tf MACON. <
'Wo A. BAXSOM •—A. P. RAKSOM -DARIC8 W
R03T. H. BOYD.
W. A. RANSOM & CO.,
Manufacturers and Jobbers of
BOOTS AND SB01
*®*“d 38S Broadway, NKW YOU
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