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house,
(joViNOTON, OA„
, TTni-1 has just been opened m
.fflflß**!? TI Newly furnished throughout,
1 A’* jwi'ereiened will spare no pains to make
tt j the under* g the traveling public
‘ft * favorite rdra p mt?riW CT11Elt, Prop’r.
A. C. McCali.a.
tT orn eys at law,
OOVINOTON, GA.
\ .. reirularly, and practice in the
WILL a te , n rourts ofthe Counties of Newton,
guperioi CoiHj» Pike, Monroe, Upson,
, Morgan and Gwinnett—a
Plioto^rai>l l lc Gallery.
a m y NEW GALLERY ovsr
'V A t»aqT OFFICE, and n satisfied that I
l ther lniw Skv Light, take as Fine a
\,'tist in the State. As I use
fc cUir * :lS ,r„ verv best matelial, I will guarantee
n one but 1 j n need of Pictures. Give
examine Specimens.
be* 88 ' j W CRAWFORD, Artist.
r „ IjoV. 20, 1860.—4 30tf
Uovingt"”-
i-— —informs his friends and the pub-
A c * v*Ve is now prepared to fill nis orders
A‘ lict ' W L h Planting. A full assortment of
for Vises 1M an ,i Cuttings for sale low
choice nr ?K c n ,I’Hcureuf e’s Air Treatment of
J4MDS®*' in Distilling, Malting, Manufacture.of
fc\Cr Oll" in Tanning, and all Fluids,
ip ’ . solids as Bread making, curing Tobacco,
i The? orgauic substances— ly4B
THE GEOR6IA PAPER MILLS'
CAR OLLOO., OA„ #
Wtrb nay Cosh for Rags, Rope Bagging,
nn/ old Papers. Orders solicited for
Wiping, Manilla, and Printing Paper.
- jJJ Mill, Pure Water, Live Men. Prices
Iqririe* I "promptly answered. Address
' A q M. P. KELLOGG, Pres. Cos .
“College Temple,” Newnan, Ga.
Fall and Winter Fashions.
'vriN M \ BINDER has just arrived front Paris
Mand London with the latest designs, persoual
i«*?ted from the greatest nove-Rfes; also, the
‘ * eletrant Trimming to be secured m Fsu is.
Sr-bhons, Vw.TOM.BMDAi.Vmi4, Fpowttns
V TWvr Jewelry, and Trimmed Paper Pat
terns, Dress and Cloak Making
Mnsive urent for Mrs. M. WorkWelcl.rated sys
umforCHtnir'ladies dresses. sae.,Tes. basques, Ac.
tR W w-rner of Eleventh and Chestnut Streets,
Hijladcipl.ia. —6m4-48 __ _ _
HOLD YOUR COT TONI
THWE made arrangements to Milp tor
Hunters their COTTON to New York and
k n l,l the same for them until the Ist of July
a „d will advance one half of tli, value of
Cation an the day of ship" ent. Call and make
.tour Arrangements, anl hold your Cotton for
Higher Prices. A. U LA ML.
Coi’inyton. t-a.. Nov. 8, 1869.—2m2
JEWELRY! JEWELRY !
I HAVE JUBTOPENED a Fine lot of .lew,dry.
including*ll the la*e styles of I adies’ Fine
Po'd Breast Pins and Ear Rings, also Shell, Jet,
Cornelian,and Pearl Breast. Pins, and Bracelets,
Rent’s Nhell, Jet. Hair. Steel, and Leather,
Inch f’hains, Finger Rings. &c. Also, anew
kaef Watches am' Clocks, an 1 a full supply of
ftpMAcles, Cases, Ac. I respect,fit IB* invite a
call from tile ladies, and all In " ant of anything
in my line. J. L^VY.
DR Ti'TT’B SARSAPARILLA \ND QUEENS
DEI.IGIIT. The great-Rlood Purifier.
UR. TUTT’S EXPECTORANT. A certain cure
for Coughs, Colds, Ac.
| Tt'TT’B IMPROVED HAIR DYE. The
DR. HITT’S VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS,
For Liver Complaint, Diepepsia, &c.
Om valuable Preparations .rr for sale-in
U Joneshoro,'\iy. GEORGE MANSFIELD
n Thomson by A. D. 1111-.D
“ F.«. ko<;s: us,
T'en'er in
ITTTHS
of every Description,
143 and 145 Broad street,, Augusta, Ga
Bcaunts, Washstands,Bof is, Tete-a-Tetes, Cltnirs
Rucking Chairs, What-Nots. COTTAGE SETS,
with and without Marble Tops.—Bn 4
a . Eitcnzm. hr,
UpliositcreT,
AND DEALER IN FURNITURE, AND
MANUFACTURER OF BEDDING,
Hunter street, three doors from Whitehall,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Feather Bods Renovated for $2,00 each. —6in4B
ALBERT HATCH’S - ”
New Carriage and H a> n e s s
Repository,
177 Broad St, Augusta, Ga.
One door below Southern Express office, in the
Augusta Hotel Building.
AGENT FOR
THETOIYILINSON DEMAREST CO.’S
CELEBRATED
Carriages, Buggies & Plantation Wagons.
Harness always on hand and made to Order. —
Repairing neatly done, and at short notice. 3m4
& manufacture *s$ v
Superior Cotton Yarn
Ito. 6to 12. * Doz, No. 400 to 700.
H A T TRESSES
All sijes and qualities to suit orders.
Q a t t i ii K i
Os Waste or Good Cotton
0 O L CARDIN C.
The quality of the Rolls unsurpassed.
f LOUR and MEAL.
P'lE GRIST MILL cannot 1> su passed in
quality, nnr the quantit of MEAL or
1,1 OUR turned. A supply of deal or Flour
vonatantiv on hand. Flour of all grades to suit
‘“ taste and price.
ancy, Double Extra, Extra Family, Family
““Perfine, and Fine. Graham Flour and <lrit
order. SHORT3 andßK AN, for Stock Feed
•* so kept. The patronage of the public is re
•Peetfully asked. Satisfaction guaranteed.
\ splendid stock of
Dr y Goods and Groceries
!’ n ' lan, l and for sale Cheap for ’aslt or barter
1,1 of Country Produce.
E. STEADMAN, Prep’r.
Stsadkan Newton Cos., Ga., Feblß l'J,
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
H. T. II ENR Y,
D Iff T I S TANARUS,
COVINGTON. GEORGIA.
lIAS REDUCED HIS PRICRS, so
that, all who have been ro unfortu-
J ~LLLT_Tr nat.e ns to lose their natural Teeth
can have tlieir places supplied lay Art, at very
small cost. Teeth Filled at rensonalde prices,
and work faithfully executed, Office north side
of Square.—l 221 f
JOHN 8. CARROLL,
dentist
COVINfITON, GEORGIA.
ii ik Teeth FillcJ, or New one* Inserted,in
the best Style,and on UeasonableTerms
Office Rear of R. King’s Store.—l ltf
W. B. RI V RR s ,
D K N T Is T ,
(Office near the Depot.)
CONTINUES the practice of his profession upon
Terms that cannot fail to gives atisfaction to all
who employ him. .
Covington, June 25th 1869. 4.33.tf.
J. W MURRELL,
D ID IST T I S T ,
Offiob—Up Stairs in Muiuiell’s Brick Stork,
Covington, Georgia,
Being prepared with the latest im
pro v emen ts in Dental Material,
wQTiff'fer Guarantees Satisfaction in eacli
branch of Op.rstive and Mechanical Dentistry.
py If desired will visit Patients at their
homes in this and adjoining Counties.
All orders left at the Covington Hotei,, or at
the residence of Mr, G. M . H. Murrell, Oxford,
Ga., will receive immediate attention. —1y37.
J. C. MOR Ris,
Attorney at X*aw,
CONYERS, GA.
J O 8 eT* iT y 7 TINSLEY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler
Is fully prepared t<> Repair Watches, Clock
snd Jewelry, in the best, Style, at short notice,
All Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House—6tf
I would respectfully inform the
L citizens of Newton, and adjoining
§jPps9§|K counties* that 1 have opened a
SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
On north side public square in COVINGTON
where I am prepared to make lo Harness
'addles, do , or Repair the same a‘. short notie?,
and in the best style.
17 if JAMES R. BROWN
FISK’S iifftllie E’JBIAL CASES
AND CASK KT S ,
"or sale hy XHGMPBGN A HUTCHINS,
Covington Ga.
Hotels.
IplTa nters hotel,
Augusta Of.okc.ia.
This well known ftv?t class lUtel is now re
opened for the noc.mn.o lation of.he traveling
public, with the assurance that those who may
have occasion to visit Augu-ta, -vi'.l he made
eomfortab'e. As this 11-tel is now complete in
ever'. 1) •partmenf. the Pro, victor 1 O' »’S, tliai by
stii t and personal attention.to merits simreof
public patronage.
V J4HN A GOLDSTEIN, Prop.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & SABSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passcn
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
A M E R ! C3AN HQTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest lions., to th" Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pro ictors.
Having re-lease 1 and renovated ie above
Hotel, we are prepared to entertain orstgin a
most 'satisfactory manner. Charg • fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to .ease.
Baggage canted to and from Depot tec of charge
Largest Stock since the War.
ANDERSON fli HUNTER
ARE NOW REOhiYING AND OPENING
the Largest and Best Selected Stock o
Fall and Winter Coods,
Consisting of every description of Ladies’Dress
Goods, Fancy Goods, Notions, Ac.
Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Clothing,
Cassiliters, Kbntuoky Jeans, &c. A large lot of
IIAT3 AND CAP3, BOOTS AND SHOES,
and everything else that that this community
may wish, but which we will not attempt to
enumerate. Our stock of
Groceries, and Plantation Supplies
Generally, embrace everything that, is usually
ound in completely stocked establishments,
BAGGING & ROl’E. ARROW TIES, Sec., Ac.,
Hardware, Wood and W ''l; o ,'7? I?Lv v
Crockery, and FARMING IMPLEMENTS
Also Agents fur all t.hQ
STANDARD FERTILIZERS.
We invite everybody in want
Goods, to call nod isspsot our Stack, for we
have got what you want, and w.l
1,0 A' CASH PRICES. M e mean w hat w« say.
sept 24—40t.f AN DEBBON & HUNTRR
Newton County Script Wanted.
ANY ii.rson laving any of the above named
/V Script to dis|<osc of, will consult their own
*Uf * 4j Vm * lIARKIS
VOLCER A CO- n , and „
SEOtRS, TOBACCO, PIPES,
And dei’ers in all grades of LEAF TOBACCO >
195 ad 254 Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
Branch House and our Manufactory,
VOLOKH ct HUNCKEN,
100 Front street, 3tnso New York
COfINGYON a A., DEC, 24, 1869.
FtomtheNew Yoik Ledger.
Lift Him Up.
BY MAUVE. TUCKER.
If you saw a brother sinking down into a wa
fery grave,
Would you lend a helping hand to pluck him
from the wave ?
Or would you stand in mute despair upon the
river’s brink
And, ull unaided by a friend, let the poor crea
sink ?
Would you not help him out?
Would you pass a fallen work-horse lying
prostrate on the stones,
While your heart grew only harder at his pa
tient painful moans ?
Sure you would not unheeding hear the
driver’s pleading call:
‘‘Lend a helping hand, my masters ; ’twas the
wet stones made him fall—
Lend a hand to 1 f him up.”
If you saw a wild-wood floweret in tho city’*
muddy streot,
Could you have the heart to crush it sternly
down beneath your feet?
No; your life, however bitter, has a ray of
tenderness ;
You would surely stoop to reach it, and with
a half carosei
You would lift the floweret up.
Then do not be unmerciful in daily walks of
life—-
How can you know the struggles, or the bitter,
silent strife
Os each poor earth-born mortal ? Ah 1 could
the human eye
But mirror all heart’s pleadings, and the touchs
ing inward cry,
‘‘l am sinking ! lift me up!”
When you see a poor man reeling ’neath a
weight of sin and drink,
Do not let him, all unaided, down to degrada
tion sipk.
Pt ur out the cursing fluid, break the bottle if
you can ;
'Twas the drink that did the mischief—you
must try and save the man—
Lift him up t lift him up I
Oft you moot with sister women, erring, sinful,
weak and frail—
Is your hand the one to east them out of Mer
cy's saving pale?
Are you free from any blemish ? oh, tell me,
if yon stood
Before the Master, would He say that all your
acts were good ?
Would he crush, or lift you up f
Many, many hearts arc breaking ; many loads
are bard to bear ;
Many tncn and women sinking ‘neath the
heavy weight of care.
There is sorrow ail around us, but wc may
each woe beguile
By a gentle word of kindness, or a single
heartfelt smile,
With this motto on our banner. Lift him up!
The Origin ot Candles.
Tho tallow candle is the offspring of the
tallow torcii used in the twelfth century
When tallow candles were first introduced
their cost was so great that only the most
wealthy could afford the luxury, and it was
not until the fifteenth century that they were
sufficiently cheapened to come into gen
eral use.
Think of a tallow candle—that dripping,
guttering, greasy thing being considered a
luxury. But the tallow candle, now used only
where more convenient and economical light
ing materials cannot be obtained, is, as we
now know it, no more to be compared to the
candle of the twelfth century, tha,n, the best
illuminating gas to lard oil. Its wick was of
tow, hard to light, and burning so rapidly as
to melt a large portion of the tallow into riv
ers of oil, so that the drip of four candles
would buy anew o^e.
What would the quaint old revelers of that
period have thought if, in the midst of one of
their drinking bouts, their tallow dip3 with
tow wicks could have been suddenly eclipsed
in the splendor of the oxyshydrogen light of
to-day. Verily, both the physical and men
tal darkness of that age has given way to the
light of a brighter and nobler period..
Can it be that in centuries to eothw lu*'
uries of the present will be regarded as con
temptuously as we now regard the obsolete
appliances ot the middle ages ?-Scientific
American.
Swumming Without Bladders. —Many an
unwise parent labors hard and lives sparingly
all his life, for the purpose of leaving enough
to give his. children a start in the world, as it
is called. Setting a, young man afloat with
the money left him by hib relatives is like
tying bladders under the arms of one who can
not- Twira—ten chances to one he will go to the
bottom. Teach him to swim and he will nev
er; need the bladders. Give your ebild a sound
education, and you have done enough for him.
See to it that his morals are pure, his mind
cultivated, and his whole nature made subser
vient to the laws which govern mao, and you
havo wiven what will be of more value than
the wealth of the Indies. To, be thrown upon
one’s resources is to be cast into, the very lap
of fortune,' for our faculties then undergo a de-.
velopment and display an energy of which
they wore previously insusceptible.
\n incorrigible loafer being taken to task
for his laziness, replied, “I tell you gentlemen
you are mistaken. I have not a lazy bone in
•my body. Rut the fact U I was born tired.
Mr. Editor Keep tho Press pure and free
then the peuplo kfirry klenn hands—clip the
‘pen editoria ’ in the sickly slime of toadyism,
and “vox p'lpuli” shout “tedeum’s” to the devil.
Silence gives konsent, you kno, and I knnt sit
here, in Georgia, and let other folks bo my
mouth piece—no sir. I’ll bo dad rabbid if I
hadn’t rather he hung bv tho ltnr like ’Absa
lum of old, then tick down and fricaseed and
fried in a pan, for some French gourmond ter
gobble down, nnd at his leisure ter pick my
muscles from his rotten teeth, and spit the
particles in puddles on the pavement, fur
howling hungry dnrgs ter lick up and stuff
their holler maws ter bursting—tlinn sit here
and silently become tho fickle, fawning cring
ing, crawling sychophantie konvert (like stun
I wot of,) to tho “new dispensation,” as an
nounced hy John W. Forney, in his letter to
his “two daily's in one.” ’l’aint in so many
words Scriptural, but then its cr trueism run
through thekrneible and doubly rectified, that
is ter say, “make yer bed with hogs, you ar
oertin ter git fleas.” Who blowed the horn ter
call them northern hogs from their filthy mire
to wallow in the heretofore white sands of
Macon, and spew out the “new dispensation”
doctrine? Kant even echo tell? From the
skrntchin, kickin and kavortin goin on just
now, seems ter me some fellers have got fleas
(aforesaid) in their boots down in Macon—
better git some pennyroyal, gents, and klear
yer shirts as best yer kan—that is ter say—
jest kome out like men and say you ‘aint used
ter cxteiupersneous speakin” and have said
and done things you jest hadn’t oughter—
that's the pennyroyal of the times you kno.
Col. Forney says he was ‘surprised to find
us all sober down south, and predicted we
wouldn’t long remain in “Secondary Civiliza
tion.” One fellow with a flea (aforesaid) in
his boot, dipped his pen and. wrote “that is as
high a compliment to the people of the South
as could be well paid, and we thank Col, For
ney for putting it on record.” Better git a
whole bunch of aforesaid pennyroyal, Mister,
by dad you've got more’n fourteen (lease in
your boot. Forney says, “The execrated
Sherman, like tho skillful Surgeon who re
moves tho tumor which threatens to grow over
the heart, broke the prison door of Georgia,
and opened to her a world of health and hap
piness.” A Mseon quill driver, in answer,
says of the letter, “It i- an interesting letter,
written in a fair liberal spirit, nnd in general,
highly complimentary.” Jerusalem! Mister,
Vou ar dead ull over, better step out and shake
yourself before putting on the pennyroyal,
even. Now Mr. Editor, it want er nuff fur us,
as Agriculturalists, that Solon Roberson and
Jno Forney were invited in our name to make
their bed in Macon—it want sufficie't for our
humiliation that we should be axed to kome
ter Macon and sleep under the tents Sherman
used while “breaking the prison doors of
Georgia,” nor yet was it er nuff that Bullick
should be allowed to entor the ring, he dealt a
‘Jack’ ter trump the Executive Committee’s
‘game,’ and make them blow his horn till it
echoes in Washington. But the deepest,
darkest, most damning degradation is for us
now to see that them afore said lings have left
a score or more fleas, and many who claim to be
Southrons ar now scratchin wors’n if they had
the seven years itch. Yes sir, fleas ar about,
arid Forney’s ppwpbecy may lie true, when he
wrote, ‘before the next Georgia Fair, Geor
gians will take Skalnwags to their bosoms, and
the past be dead, buried, and history will pass
it by with contempt.’ Howl Oye horrors of
Iladesl your terrors will be plea-ant remin
iscences of the past, when Forney’s day of the
‘new dispensation’ shall havo dawned.
John Forney says Bullick is the right man
in the right place, nnd what he needs now to
make his republican administration complete,
is power, and tbatsecured to him by Congress.
Georgians, do you know what pnwer is here
meant? Didn’t Congress give Brownlow a
little of this ‘power,’ in the way of thirty
thousand maletia negroes, and have they writ
ten no history in blood, sirs? Bah! John \V.,
we did think the fight wer over, and accepted
tho situation forced on us. Better be kereful,
you ar hatchin anew situation—uowder ar a
kombustible kompound yit—Sela. You meas
ure the degree of our civilization, (placing it
secondary,.) by what you saw in a cold rainin
two days sojourn in Macon, as a guest. Gen
tlemen of the self-constituted, Yank invitin
kommittee, why didn’t you put a first class
man to entertain John, and raise our civiliza
tion one degree? Spose old Ben Beast (the
Butler) kouldn’t answer your summons, bein
under a bond of twenty-five thousand dollars,
for privately purloinin other folkcs things.—
Tho great linpcacher is being impeached.—
Well, Forney scorns ter think, in his letter,
that Boston is tho grand radiating center of
civilization—tho great government grind stone
to which southern folks ought to pilgrimage,
and grind down their barbarities to a civilized
polish. Don’t that Beast (aforesaid) represent
Boston? Is stealing the highest evidence of
civilization ? Spose that Yank Gal that rode
straddle-wise on a Velocipede, round the rink,
down in the city of ‘Secondary Civilization,’
ar the ‘coming woman’ of the new ’dispensa
tion’ foreshadowed by Jno W. Virgin Mary,
protect us 1 When Southern men hug skally
wags ‘to their bosom,’ and God's last best gift
to man, (i. 0., Georgia girls) must bounce a
bycicle, straddle, and go kiting on er bender.
When these are the balances cur civilization
is to be weighed in, we will just kick the beam,
and take up our abode with the silent sleepers
of the ‘old 1 dispensation.’ Jno. W. Forney,
my denr sir, thar is one thing you and your
folks will have tor learn, unless you ar already
! 'like some the Bihlo speaks of—i,e., given over
I to believe a lie, and that one thing is, as be
tween your folks and our’n we are two peoples,
Ind you may double the bonds of your Union
—throw open the doors of your Congress, nnd
invito us to sit with you around tho festive
board—join you in ‘Hail Columbia,’ ‘Yankee
Doodlo,’ Ac., but in LSG2, we set ‘Pixio’ ter
music down South, nnd ther aint a boy born
since but can whis«lc it—even our old maids,
tho toothless, mumble it through their gums,
‘early impressions’ you see. Tho Southern
Cro«s gleams brightly, John, o’er this hellish
sea of oppression, nnd its devotees do daily
cry, ‘how long, O Goddess of Liberty, how
long 1’
Now, Mr. Editor, I wa*b my hands of Yanks
nnd Yankee subjects, that is ter say, Fnir,
Forney, Solon and nil. Forney give the Fair
a kick, nnd ns she passes, everybody gives hor
a twist. Old Solon kicked himself behind
w hen he said ‘every body was drunk at Macon,'
and may the devil kick the Oal that rode the
bycicle straddle, and to ttiis ond I shall evor
pray and be
Your’n,
Gemes Munro.
A TOAST—THE FASHIONS.
Their Relations and their Antagonisms to
the Press.
Delivered at the meeting of the Press Club
at Delmonico’s, November 27th, 1860, by W.
Jennings Demorest.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen—
The vtry short notice given me must be my
apology for the kind of jumbles, hash and pie
I shall be able to bring to this feast to-night,
i Printers are proverbial for thair ability to
espy good things to oat; but no kind of food
makes them so crusty as pie —especially if when
the pie is opened they find that some little
devil had put his foot in it.
The subject of Fashion is wide or narrow,
long or short, or universal, just as wo choose
to make it; but if you expect the publisher of
a Fashion magazine to know any thing of la
dies’ toilets, you have “ waked up the wrong
passenger,” upon the principle that, where
shoes ar# made, the children go barefoot.”
But I have some vague idea of beauty. I
know there are beautiful roses that breathe
their sweetness, and I see sweet, breathing ro
ses before me. Such roses are always beauti
ful 1 See-roses have become the rage with us,
and “So fosis” will always be fashionable,
The Fashions, with tlio Press, rule every
thing and everywhere. The latter, notwith
standing its heavy stereotype “ forms,” has its
types of fashion.
Its lone/primers make standard works, and
are copied, corrected, and pjuved according to
the index of Fashion. And among its most
cherished jewels are the diamond , agate, and
pearl.
Every “ Mail,” and every “Courier and En
quirer,” demands the last styles, and every
“ Revolution” of this ponderous engine of pub
lic opinion, though susceptible to every spark
of intelligence, and “pressed” and clamped
with iron bolts and bars, yet with a tremend
ous energy, rapidly throws off its winding
shoots, which are widely “Heralded” to tho
“World”—precursor of tho “ Times” coming,
to be criticised at the just “Tribunes” of the
people, as tho rising “ Sun,” that shines for
all, and the glittering “ Stars” of the “ Na
tion.” All join to sh«d their “Independent”
light on this “Standard” of “Christian Union”
while distant “ Mercury,” like “Putnam” of
old, “Dispatches,” its fashions to every
“ Hearth ami Home” in the “Western World.”
Our “ Day Books” and “ Ledgers” copy all the
rules and points for each “ Citizen,” which are
followed by numerous “Telegrams,” or go by
“ Fost,” to “Express” the “News” of the la
test modes of every “ Imperialist” and “ Dem
ocrat,” and to every veteran “Observer” on
every “River Side” thronghout our regenera
ted “ Republic’’ as the whole of “ Life Illus
trated.
Each ‘Methodist,’ ‘Protestant
Churchman,’ ‘Liberal Christian,’ and ‘Evan
gelist’ is more or less imbued with the ‘Spirit
of the Times’ while anew ‘Casket’ is being
‘Packed-hard monthly’ with ‘Literary Gems’
that have become all the rage as ‘Fireside
Companions.,’
Though all of Fashion’s reign is not record
ed byevery ‘Scientific American,’ our ‘Rural
New Yorkers,’ and every ‘Working Farmer,'
with a ‘Galaxy’ of other ‘Eclectic’ ‘Agricultu
rists’have their ‘Home Journal’ and a ‘Round
Table,' near the ‘Chimney Corner,’ where ‘Lit
erary Albums’ are profusely ‘lllustrated
Monthly’ with it 9 ‘Mirror of Fashions,’ as an
appropriate ‘Tablet’ for ‘Young America,’
while a ‘Harper’ is playing for ‘Hours at
Homo’ with a whole ‘Bazar of Fashions.'
Demoreet’s Monthly for January.
Take Your Home Paper.— Take your home
paper, says an exchange—and so say we—it
givss you more news of immediate interoet
than any other paper can possibly do ; it talks
for you when other localities belie you ; it
stands up for your rights ; you always have a
champion in your home paper; and those who
stand up for you should certainly be well sus
tained. Your interests are kindred and equal,
nnd you must rise or fall together. Therefore
it is to your interest to support your home
paper, not grudgingly, but in a liberal spirit
as a pleasure, not a dwagreeaWe duty, but ns
an investment that will amply pay the expen
diture.
The Boston Advertiser reports that at Mn
chiasport, Maine, in the harbor opposite the
wharves, there is frequently an upheaval, by
some powor altogether unknown, ofvastqunn
tities of water, inud and stones, to tho distance
of many feet, and with a furious rushing noise,
j This phenomenon has occurred quite a number
■ of times during the summer, and once as late
as a month ago.
VOL 5. 8.
The Morton Bill.
A Bill to perfect tho Reconstruction of tho
State of Georgia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
. resentatfves of the United States of Ameri
ca in Congress assembled,
That immediately upon the passage of this
act the Military Commander of the department
of which tho State of Georgia is a part, shall
issue his proclamation, convening in tho State
House, at the Capitol of that State, on the
second Wednesday in January, eighteen hun
dred and seventy, all persons shown to have
been elected to tho Legislature of that State’
by the proclamation of Major General George
G. Meade, dated June twenty-fifth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight. That when so con
vened in the Senate and House respectively,
ho shall cause them to take the oath of office'
required by the Reconstruction Acts. That
after they have taken such oath they shall
proceed to the organization of the two bosses,
respectively, in the manner and form required
by law; no member elected to bo refused his
seat on account of race or color, and none to'
be admitted to seats who are ineligible under
the third clause of tho fourteenth amendment
of the United States, and when tho organiza
tion of each house is completed it shall report
the same to the Military Commander.—
The Military Commander thereupon shall
cause an examination to be made wheth*
er in the organization of each house
tho provisions of this act and of the several
acts of Congress providing for the reconstruct
tmn of the late rebel States, have been com 4
plied with, and if upon such examination he
finds that the two houses have in all things
complied with provisions, he shall notify them
that their organization h accepted ; but if
it shall appear that cither house has failed or
refused to comply with any of the aforesaid
provisions of law, the Military Commander
shall forthwith notify them of tho particulars
in which they have failed and call upon them
to correct their proceedings and perform the
requirements of the law.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if,
after their organization has been completed
and accepted by the military commander, as
provided in the preceding section, tho Legis-'
lature thus organized shall in due form, ratify
tlie amendments to the Constitution of tho
United States, known as the 14th and 15th, and
shall in all th'ngs comply with the conditions
pre-cribed by the several acts of Congress,
providing for the reconstruction of tho late
rebel States, the State of Georgia shall be en
titled to full representation in the Congress
of the United States.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
the late Legislature of Georgia shall be regard
ed as provisional only, and that its several
acts, resolutions and proceedings which were
of a political character, and were in violation
of tho aforesaid reconstruction acts, or of the
act of Congress passed , known
as the Civil Rights bill, are hereby declared
void.
Sec. 4. And be it further enactod, That
any person who shall hereafter hold and ex
ercise any office created by the Constitution
or laws of the State r.f Georgia, who, having
previously taken an oath as a member of Con
gress, or as an officer of the United States, or
as a member of any State Legislature, or as an
executive or judicial officer of any State, to
support the Constitution of the United States,
shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion
ngainst the same, or given aid or comfort to
the enemies hereof, shall bo deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and shall, upon indictment
and co viction thereof, in the District Court of
the United Statas, be imprisoned one year and
fin and in any sum not exceeding two thousand
dollars, nor less than five hundred dollars, and
the provisions of this section shall be applica
ble to any person who shall have been elected
or appointed to any office as aforesaid, or to
membership in the State Legislature, but who,
after its passage, shall! continue to hold or ex
ercise an office, or to act or to attompt to act
as a member of the State Legislature in vio
lation of the preceding provisions of this sec
tion : rroaided, however, That the term “exee
tive officer,”' as used in. this section, shall ap
ply to any officer whose dirty it is to execute
or administer any general law of the State.
Sec. 5. Ana be it further enacted, That as
soon as the Legislature shall have complied
with the provisions, of this act, and of the Re
construction acts before referred to, and the
State shall have become entitled to represen
tation in Congress as before provided, it shall
be lawful foe the Legisature to provide for the
organization, equipment, drill, subsistence
and discipline of the militia of the State, to
be under tho command and direction of the
Governor of tho State, as t rovided by the
Constitution thereof; and until such organiza
tion is effected, tho President he, and he 5*
hereby, authorized to place at the disposal of
the Governor of said State such portion of the
armed forces of the United States as may
he required by him for the preservation
of the lives and property of persons, the peace
and good order of the community, nnd the
protection of citizens in tho free expression of
their political opinions.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all
acts and parts of acts in conflict with any pre
vision of this act, are hereby declared to bo
repealed.
A murderer, on being sentenced to be hang
ed in Terre Ilaute, Ind., did not catch the
date, and inquired: “When did you say, your
Honor, that occurrence is to tako place.
Lucy Stone said site ‘thought there were ns
many good men as women, and that they were
about alike anyhow,’ and we agreowith Lucy.