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DAWSON' GA., MAY -1, 1860.
New Advertisements.
Something new is presented to our friends in
the variety store just opened by It. Godwin, Agt.
For Uncy groceries, fruits, etc., send your or
d*rs to Ilenry Horne, Macon, fin.
Or. S. G. Roberson, Surgeon DentiHt, Cuibbcrt.
New boarding house—W. E. Sessions.
Citation for letters of administration.
Tlte Election WrdiK'sdny.
The election for Judge and Solicitor of the
newly estal lialied County Court, passed off very
quietly on Wednesday hist. Wiley G. Parks, Esq ,
was elected Judge over bid very worthy competi
tor, A. J. Hal-twin, Esq , by a majority of !6ft
votes. James Spence wus elected Solicitor nitli
out opposition.
Celebration at Weslon.
\V e aro requested to state that there will
he a Sabbath School and “Knights of Jor
ieho’’ celebration at Weston on Saturday,
the 1 Oth of May. The Sabbath Schools,
of Dawson, with their Teachers nnd Sup
eriotetide nts are invited to attend.
To tiic I.udien.
We are requested to say to the Ladies
that if, in the general mixture of crockery
and cutlery on Tuesday last, they got 1 old
of anything for which they cnnnot.fim} an 1
owner, tc deposit said article tit our ( dice. I
Persons who have lost any of their wares |
can call up and get their own, providal, it
is sent here.
IV* learn from a correspondent of tho j
Fufauln News, that we were wrong'y in- j
foimedas to’the status r-f (he Eastern Bank
of Alabama, as published in our last issue. j 1
That institution has no means of resuming
business, present or prospective.
Tim wing of this establishment still in
the enjoyment (so-called) of single blessed
ness, was 1 lifted” considerably yesterday
morning by the receipt of the most beau
tiful boquet of the season.
Tin; Celebration.
Tho first of May will b u long remem
bered by the Sunday School children of
this place, and vicinity, and the pleasantries
of |he occasion will not soon be forgotten
by our citizens generally. Not only did
our citiz ms generally turn out, but people
were gathered from alt tiro surrounding
country ; so that the oldest inhabitants de
clare it the largest assembly ever collected
in this place for any purpose.
The Schools met as previously agreed
upon, at the Baptist Church, where a well
nnd systematically arranged procession was
formed of the children and teachers of
both schools, and inarched in splendid or
der to the beautif'j' grove in front of Dr
Janes’, whore every arrangement had been
perfected for the full enjoyment of the day.
The services opened w ith tho singing of
a beautiful and appropriate hymn by tbe
schools, under the leadership of Mr. Mann,
nnd prayer by tho Rev. Thomas T. Chris
tian. Wo are confident that all will join
us in awarding much praise to our friend
Mann for the unm’stabable evidence of his
great care in training tho children in sing,
ng- The children, in this, as in every
other particular, did exceedingly well.—
The first hymn was followed by an address
from Col. Elam, of Amcricu 3 , in his usual
engaging and pleasant style, llis remarks
were to the point and highly appropriate
from beginning to end ; good taste was
certainly displayed in the selection of the
speaker.
And last but not least (to the children,
of course,) came the “internal improve
ments.” We aro gratified to note the un
bounded liberality of tho people of this
section, as displayed in the great abun
dance that crowded the tables, and we are
forced to the conclusion that the Dawson
ladies cannot be excelled in catering to the
fast! of the people. (Hero wo would like
to mention names, but it would require
more space than we can spare to give the
names of all who deserve commendation at
our hands,) suffice it to say that the most
fastidious could find no ground whatever
lor complaint.
Messrs J. B. Sharp and 11, B. McCon
nell, and others deserve the thanks of all
interested for tho tasty arrangement of the
grounds, and their general usefulness, on
tbe occasion, as do ulso Messrs. Hal Bar
ham and Wesley Loy'ess, who acted us
marshals of the day.
lOTelhodist Gpineopat Conference,
The conference has elected the tollowiDg
ministers bishops iu the M. PL Church !
South : Dr. E. M. Wightman, -Greensboro,!
Ala ; Ilev. E. M. Marion, of Missouri . Dr.
D. L Daggett, of Richmond, Va ; Dr. II.!
N. MoTyrc, of Montgomery, Ala.
Itev. 11. Redford, cf Louisville, was elec- j
ted Book Agent; Dr. L. O. Summers, Book
Editor.
The Domestic Missionary Board was loco
ted at Nashville, Tennessee, and Dr. J. B.
MoFerrin was elected Secretary.
The following arc the editors of the dif
fereot Church papers ; St. Louis Advocate,
IL It. McAnnally ; Memphis Advocate !
Rev. W. C. Johnson; Arkansas Advocate,
Ilev. J. Pa. Cobb ; Texas Advocate, Rev. J.
G. Johnson, and tbe Southern Church Ad
vocate, Dr. E 11. Myers
The ordination of bishop3 will take place!
on Saturday.
The Conference will probably adjourn on
Tuesday next.
Tho name of tho church was changed
from the M. E. Church, South, to the Meth
odist Church. The vote stood, ayes 111,
nays 20.
On the 23d a resolution, introduced by
Pr. Mcfyierc, was adopted by tho confer
ence that lay repreß.nfcation l>c inrtcduced in
to tLe annual and general Conferences.
Emigration to Mexico or Brazil.
Wince the Close of the war, much has been
said and written on the subject of emigra
tion to Mexico nnd Rrar.il. Many men,
prominent leaders in tbe lato disastrous
struggle for Southern independence, un
willing to remain submissively in a
subjugated country, or perhaps appro
hensivo of the jcnaltics awaiting them in a
restored Union, determined to expatriate
themselves, and to seek in foreign lands
what they despaired of attaining in the
country of their birth. Ouo cannot holp
sympathizing with those noble spirits of onr
Revolution wbo, for their country’s inde
pendence, cheerfully boro all the danger
and hardships of the ha' tie and the eamp;
and wbo, at the termination of the contest,
were, more t han all others, exposed to the
punishrv.ent which always waits on unsur
cessfjl patriots. The fate of Washington
*.ud tho other worthies of tho first Rovodu
tion, would haTO been tiro same as theirs if
England had succeeded in reducing tbe col
onies to submission. I‘riee, Magruder, Kir-'
by Smith, and others, were in Texas at the ■
closo of the war and made their way thence
into Mexico; no doubt, very many other :
prominent Confederates would bavo taken i
the same course if they had found it. equally j
practicable. One can readily conceive whaff
j were the feelings of those bravo men and ,
i noble martyrs of the Southern eanse, when j
, they fled from under the ruin of the fabric
which they had helpod to raise, which they
had cemented with tlieir blood, and for
which they were yet willing to sacrifice their
lives and property as long as such devotion 1
could have availed. How must their noble,
hearts have been fillod with regret and an- j
gaish when they turned their hacks at Taskt
upon their homos and kindred, upon all
that onco attached them to the land of their!
fathers, the cherished scenes of their, child
hood and maturcr years, to live as exiles in
a foreign land, among a people that have no
sympathy for them or the cause for which
they ruined tbr.mselvcs.
Much n'ay bo said in justification of the
course baken by these and other less prom-i
inqni actors in the late Grama, who have im- i
Stated their example. It is not, however, j
my purpose to ciilicr justify or consuro their’
motives ; for the steps they have taken, they
are amenable t) no tribunal either North or
South. Southern men will ever honor them
for their devotion and suffering in a just,
though unfortunate, cause, and will hand
down their memory with love and reverence
to their latest descendants. My purpose is
rather to warn others against following their
example. Wo have all read wish admiration
that excellent and patriotic letter of Wade.
Hampton addressed to Southern meD, and
replete with persuasive argument against
expatriation.
Tho Americans arc emphatically a migra
tory pooplo; few of thorn live and die
whore they wore born. With amazing
rapidity the denizens of the Atlantic States
havejwithiu 50ycars diffused themselves over
and peopled the vast regions drained by tho
Mississippi; and not content with this, they
have climbed the Rocky Mountains, or have
swept around Cape Horn or across the Isth
raus of Darien, to seek new homes on the
Pacific- Rut yet, wherever ho has gone,
the American still treads on American soil;
he calls himself still a member of the Amer
ican nation; and wherever his adventurous
spirit may lead him, the language which he
heard in his erudle, in his youth, and in his
manhood, salutes and cheers him at every
step. This is not expatriation or exile.—
ILe docs not feel that he lives among stran
gers who have no common sympathies, no
common memories, no common history, no
common interests, no common language, or
common instincts with him. He is but a
visitor among distant relatives ; and thanks
to railroads, steamboats and telegraphs, he
knows that in a few weeks days or hours,
he can be in communication with any plaoe
bis sympatl ies or feelings may dictate. Far
different is the lot of him who, voluntarily or
involuntarily, lives an exile in a country and
among a people not Lis own. No amount of
worldly pr asperity can compensate him for
what lie has resigned. A man may recon
cile himself to a separation from his friends
and kindred, many may have ntno of these
to regret; but there is a love and a yearn
| ing for tho hsrnc of one’s youth, the scenes
i around which his most cherished memories
j arc wont to cluster, which are productive of
11 he keenest feelings of regret and longing.
Add to this that ho no longer hears the lan
guage that his mother taught him, that ov
! cry sound ho hears, the very names of fa
miliar objects around him, continually re
mind him that ho is a stranger in a strange
1 land—a land and a people that know him
not, that have no sympathetic fccliogs for
him, and who, ignorant of bis worth and
the respect due to him, look coldly and in
differently upon all that belongs to him.—
When old ago creeps upon him, he has
none with whom he can talk over the pleas
ant memories and incidents of bis earlier
| days ; for as i- tho wont of the aged, bis
! mind dwells in the past, no ties attaching
| him to tbe land of his adoption, he s’ghs
; but to lay his bones among the graves of his
' j sires.
While youth and hope still throb in his
veins, ho may ohase away such gloomy
tiioughts from his mind ; yet sooner or la
ter his feelings will be such as hero de
scribed.
Hat turning our attention more directly
to the condition and prospects, in a worldly
point of view, of those of our countrymen
who have chosen a home in Brazil or .Mex
ico, we will examino the political and indus
trial prospects of those two countries. Bra
zil is as yet a slaveholding state, and has a
I monaichial form of goverumeut with eon
slitutionai restriction . On both these
grounds many of our former fcllow-uitiz-m
--havo sought that country in prefer nee to
others, and it is indeed, on many accounts,
preferable to Mexico, Yet the institution
of slavery is rapidly becoming there a bone
of contention as it has been in this country.
England wields a great influence in tho af
fairs of that empire, aud will probably suc
ccod in stimulating the abolition party al
ready existing there until her anti slavery
propagandist?! is crowned with success.—
Many circumstances combine to influence
the Itrazillians in that direction; the ne
groes are virtually almost as free as the citi
zens; they associate with their mastcis and
others almost on terms of social equality ;
the planting and other industrial interests
aro but little developed and exteuted, for the
people are engaged mainly in the cultivation
of coffee which requires but little labor, in
the raising of cattle, and tho gathering of
dye-stuffs, medicinal plants, ami other indi
genious products of their forests ; for all of
these pursuits slave laboris but bt'le needed.
Tho country would boa great field for A
mcrican industry, enterprise aud energy, if
it were not for the want of the means of in
ternal intercommunication, for rail roads
' and rteamboats aro but little known there.
; One of the largest and most liv
i ers in the world, the Amazon, has but sel
dom resounded with tho shrill notes of the
i steam-wh’stle The natives aro Portuguese
by descent, or ludians and negroes of vari
i ous degrees of intermixture, producing a
! race but little calculated to developo the
splendid natural rci ou’ccs and capabilities of
this highly favored country. With a cli
mate, soil aud mip ral wealth uncqualed by
any country in ts ; world, Rraz 1 is to-day
but littlo in r-jvaneo of i’s conditiou f>o
years age. However, soino one may suggest
that Amer'jans emigrating to that, country,
might s* change all this, introduce their
own 'jergy, enterprise, and machinery,
build rail roads and launch steamboats upon
its magnificent streams, and thus soon
change the whole aspect of affairs. One
must not forget that a few hundrel or thou
sand immigrants, many or most of them
with shattered fortunes, would find it diffi
cult to impress a whole people with their
ideas. It was not a few energetic individ
uals who raised the population of Massachu
setts to its present condition of mechanical
and commercial pre-eminence. The whole
mass of tho people i nfcued with the indora.
itablo spirit of their Pilgrim ancestors
marched sjdc by side, and shoulder to shoul
der pressed onward under mutual support
and overcame the natural obstacles i:i their
way. Wo have many New Englanders re
siding in the Southern States, yet we do not
see them build Lowells and Bostons whcrc
cver they go. The Spanish races of Mexi
co and South America, are not made of tho
stuff of which the Anglo-Saxon raec is
formed. A Brazilian will never acquire
the grasping far-seeing industrial energy
and taste of Amerieaus, content with lit le,
and fond of ease, the bounteous naturo of
his country soon supplies his simple wants,
and he cares for nothing beyond. Man is
so constituted that he gradually assimilates
himself to those among whom he lives; he
ho acquires their habits of life, and
their modes of thought ; and it will
not be long before tbe Ljui.iaaian im
migrant in Rrazil, will bcoomo as apa
thetic and indolent as his Portuguese or In
dian neighbors. Rrazil is a constitutional
monarchy, which is something in its favor as
promising stability and an absence of the ■
corrupting t mdeney of republican govern-'
ments. A king or Emperor secure in his j
power and revenues, during life, bas butj
littlo to tempt him from tho path of honor
and patriotism ; at all events the tyranny
oorruptionof one singlo head, is more
easily removed than the hydra-headed des
potism of unscrv—-bus maj -ritics, which]
have proved, and will ever prove, tho curso
of a democratic form of government. \Y e
see this exemplified in our own country, and
hence our Mexican neighbors, more wisely,
have converted their government into a:i
Imperial ono, under which they aro with gi
gantic strides marching on to prosperity and
individual happiness aud security.
And yet it would not bo safe, as yet, to
recommend that country as a suitable asylum
for Southern men. While it is quite evi
dent that Mcx : co is rapidly emerging from j
chaos, and making great strides under the
beneficent rale of Maximilian, towards a
high state of national and individual pros
perity, it is very appareut that the Radicals
of the North arc only watching an oppor
tunity to throw a fire-brand into this goodly
edifico. Tho death of either Napoleon or
Maximilian, or any sudden complication of
the affairs of either France or Mexico,
would be seized upon by these unscrupulous
politicians to light again the flames of civil
war in Mexico, and to rc-construet tbe Mex
ican Republic; then ono of the first acts of
the now powers would be to confiscate ail the
lands and property of any Confederates in
troduced under the auspices of tho Empire.
This danger will continue to threaten for
many a year.
In the next place, Mexico is, as yet, most
respects, no betcr off than Tenncsso or Mis
souri was during the war; the country
swarms as yet with bands of robbers, who for
years have known no other profession ; aud
no solitary ltanchero ever retires to bed at
night secure of life and property till morn
ing. Wo learn accordingly from letters
written by Maury, that he advises emigrants
to establish themselves, for the sake of secu
rity, in villages or towns, till tho country
shall be rid of robbers.
But I doubt whether the men who in
peace or war played conspicuous rolls in this
country, will remain long contented in their
new homes, where at best, they will nover bo
anything more than humble planters, with
no voice in tbc affairs or couucils of their
adopted country ; so that, id all probability,
it will not bo long before they will return
to the land of their birth, whenever they arc
convinoed that no serious obstacle opposes
their return.
This country receives annually more than
a half million of European immigrants, and
there is perhaps no other country which pre
sents a more inviting field to the poor and
distressed of all nations; yet there are few
of them who do not ehoer themselves with
the hopo—though often a vain one—of re
turning at somo time to tho land of their
birth, and if their circumstances should per
mit, to spend there the remnant of their
lives among the scenes of their youth. It is
the conviction of all who can speak upon
this subject from experience, that no one
Bhould expatriate himself unless forced to
this course by the most imperious necessities,
to escapj from starvation, tho prison or the
gallows. ALPHA.
Important Order.
Executive Dzpaktmeht, 1
Milledgcvillc, April 23, 1866. j
Information bas reached this Department
that, tho Managers of tbe ladies SsutLera
I Relief Society, of Baltimqr -, in the exercise
| of an abounding nnd elevated charity, had
i cause to be shipped to Savannah, subject to
jmy order, live hundred barrels, containing
j flour, meal ami bacon, “for distribution
I among onr truely poor suffering white poo
j pic,” aud that, (hey “desire that tho appro-
I priation should be so distributed as to afford
j the greatest relief to the greatest number of
j the really deserving poor and suffering wo
men and children to effect which distrib
ution, they have also appropriated the sum
of two thousand dollars : And tho consign
ees, as well as the Presidents of tho Central
and Atlantic, and Gulf Railroads, having
i generously offered to aid the enterprise by
personal service, and by transportation, I'reo
I of charge, (as other persons and Presidents
| of railroads douLtless will do ;) for the pur
l poso, therefore, of diitribu'ing in Congrcs
-1 sional Districts, as the must eligible primary
divisions of the State, they being organize
with a view to the nearest attainable i quali
ty iu population, I make and publish the
1 following order and requests.
1. In tho name and behalf of the whole
people of Georgia and especially of tho dcs
titu'e and suffering, I tender most hearty
thanks to the dispeusers of this manifiaent
boon, whom I would de.-i mete, by a bozrow
cd appellation, which blends in touching as
sociation the ideas of a tender womanly re
lation and of a Divine attribute, “Sisters of
Mercy.” Such, indeed, are these noli; w -
men of Baltimore- Heaven’s blessings wait
upon them.
2. Messers. Crane & Graybill, of Savan
nah, the consignees, are requested to divide
the consignment into seven part*, as nearly
equal as possible, reference being had to the
; kinds and quantities of the articles compos
ing it. And delivering one portion in Ba
] vannali as hereinafter provided, will ship one
! of the six remaining to each of the follow
ing points, v'z • To Oglethorpe, consigned
to the lion. Phillip Cook; to Newnan. cou
j signed to the lion. Hugh Bucliaunan ;
, To Macon,consigned to the hlou. Thos. Har
i deman, Jr; to Augusta, consigned to Porter
Fleming, Eq ; to Athens, consigned to the
! Hon. J. ll.Christy ;to /Atlanta, consigned
1 to A. K. Seago, Esq.
! 3. The following gentlemen (the first
! named in each case acting as chairman) are
‘ requested to take charge of the several coc
| sigumen's f,r their respective Congressional
; District?, nnd act as committees of distribu
j tion therein, viz : For the Ist District, Mcs
! fro Solomon Colien, John Screven and Jas.
L. Seward ; for the 2d, Me-srs. Phillip Cook,
A. S. Cults and David A. Vason ; for tho
3J, M s iv. Hugh Buchanan, U. A. T. ltid '
ley and J. F. .1 dinsou ; for tho 4th, Messrs
E. G. Caban ins, Thos. Hardeman, Jr; and
Jeremiah Beall ; for the sth, Messrs. J. D.
Mathews, Samuel Barnett and Porter Flem
ing; tor the Oth, Messrs J. 11. Christy. J
S. Gholston and Thomas Morris ; for the 7th,
Messrs. Wm. T. Wofford, -J A. \V. John
son and A. K Seagc. The c insignco in
each District will uotify tho other members
of bis Committee, so soon as ho may receive
the consigumont, and appoint a day for their
meeting at the place of delivery. Each
committee is authorized to appoint necessary
assistants, aud sub-agents, and will act with
special reference to the declared
the JoDors. Bills of expenses unavoidably
incurred, will be presented at this office for
payment.
4. Editors throughout the State, willing to 1
connect themselves with this lau lable ebari- i
ty, *rn r quested tn give this order a few in
sertions.
5. Let a copy of this order bo forwarded !
to Wm Ohiehton, Esq, lUltim?re, who is
requested to present it to the Mampere!
ot the Indies southern Relief Fair, us a .
truthful, though imperfect, expression of
Georgia’s grattituda. Let copies ba for
warded also to Messrs. Crane & Graybill, j
Savannah, to each member of the several
committees appointed, aud to each President
of a Railroad io Georgia.
CHARLES J. JENKINS,.
Governor.
The Tax un Cotton. — W r c see that,
however difficult, it may have boon to fix 'he
vato of interns] taxation upon wool, woolen
nutmegs, or horn buttons, there was no trou
ble at all about cotton. The committee
were indeed a little doubtful whether they
would recommend a tax of five cents or six
cents per pound ; but they finally agreed on
five. There was no demur upon the propos
ition to tax cotton a good deal more than
they did any thing else. Taxing, therefor,
the common Northern estimate of the forth- ,
coming crop at two Biillijns of bales, it wiil
produce to the Government:, revenue of fifty
millions of dollars. The tax, wo suppose,
will practically amount to '2O per cent, of
the total value of the product—an unheard
of persentage of taxation. It will compel
less than two millions of people, white and
black, (and, striking the average, tho honest
two millions in the Federal Union,) to pay
aone tenth of the whole public revenue. —
The wbolo North is anxious that a big cot
ton crop shall be made, in order, as they
say, to relieve the finances of the country,
A big cotton crop will relievo them, as wo
sec, by a two-fold operation.— Juur. cU Mess.
What the South has Lost.—Comman
der Matthew F. Muary now connected
with Maximilian’s government in Mexico,
: has written a throo column article to the
London Morning Herald in which he esti
! mates tbc loss of the South by the war at
§7,000,000,000, (seven thousand iniilior h of
! dollars. In this ho includes tho valuo of
the slaves, war expenses, destructson of-pr:-
vate property and Federal taxation. '1 his
is nearly §I,OOO apieco for every white per
i :yn at the South.
i This loss falls upon less than eight mti
| lions of whites, who have, moreover, .n ad
dition, to contribute largely towards tho cup
i psrt of the four millions of blacks who have
been suddenly turned loose among them,
and who, for tho present at least, arc incapa
-1 ble of earing for themselves.
This §7,000,000,000 of money was the
accumulated wealth of centuries. It consti
tuted nearly the whole industrial capital of
the South.
Considerable excitement is experienced in
New York City, over the death of a woman
from what is supposed to bo Asiatic cholera.
The coroners differ in opinion, however. —
The affair will probably die out with a sharp
newspaper ciscussion.
W hat length ought a ladies' crinoline to
to be ?—A little above two feet,
’X’ i: i, e kapii id.
Report of Ihe Ileconslr lie lion
Committee.
Washington, April 2,8. —Joint Cornmit
teujiavo agreed, twelve against three, in
proposing this amendment to the constitu
tion
Ist. No State shall make or enforce any
law abridging privileges or immunities of
citizens of tho united States. Nor shall
any State deprive any person of life, liber
ty or property, without the process of law,
nor deny to any person within its jurisdic
tion equal protection of laws.
—< l- Representatives be apportioned ac
; cording to tlieir respective numbers, count
j ing the whole number of persons from
I each state, excluding Indians not taxed;
but whenever in any state the elective fran
, ebise divides any portion of the male cifi
i zens not less than twenty one years of age,
or in any way abridge, except for partici
pation in the rebellion, or other crime, tho
basis of representation in such state shall
be reduced in the proportion which the
numbers of such inalo citizens shall be to
iu w hole number of male citizens not less
than twenty; one years.
3d. Until the 4th of July, 1870, all per
sons who voluntarily adhered to the late
insurrection, giving it aid and comfort,
shall he excluded fiom tho right to vote
for members of Congress and forelectors
‘or President and Vico President.
-Uh. Neither the United States nor any
State shall assume to pay any debt or ob
ligation incurred in aid of the lato insur
rection, or any claim for compensation for
loss of involuntary service from labor.
sth. Congress shall have power to enforce
by apprdprin'e legislation the provisions of
this article. Tho Committee will also re
port the bill providing that whenever the
above amendment shall become pa:t of the
Constitution, and any State lately in insur
rection shall have ratified the same, and shall
have modifications and laws in conformity
therewith, tho Senators tod Representatives
j from Southern States, if fouud duly elected
aud qualified, may, after taking (he required
oath of office, bo admitted into Congress as
such. In addition, they will also report a
bill declaring imligiblo to office uuder Gov
ernment to the United States the principle
Confederate, Executive, Legislative, foreign
and judicial officers, both general aud State,
aud others.
FOREIGN NEWS.
New Yoke, April 29.—The steamship ;
Herman has arrived with Liverpool dates
to the 18th.
Co.ton advanced 1 a Id. Sales for two
days were 12,009.
War looks still more probable between
Austria aud Prussia.
New York, April 30.—Cotton quiet but
firmer, with sales of 250 bales at 31 cents.
Gold 201.
! The R ime Courier says the prospects of a
large crop being raised in Northern Georgia
the coming year were never better. The
amount of corn raised will be far in excess
of that cf any previous year, while an equal
ly large amount of wheat will be harvested.
The oat crop has been materially injured.—
The Cherokee country, with its fertile lands,
‘ can pjdduce enough provisions for the coa
. sujirption of the cotton-growing rcigins and
retain enough for homo use.
Novel Modes of tViunins Wives.
The editor of tho KacTno (Wis) Jour
; nal, who is recently married, thus describes
tbe enchantments he used in ensnaring his |
fair victim :
It is thought by some that drug of en
chantment have been used. To till such I
potent, grave and reverend signors, w< |
have to say, that onee in every week we !
carried her a Racine Journal. In this way
we did beguile her. This, anilj nothing
more, was the witchcraft we did use. In
conclusion, we have 1 1 any to our numer
ous lonely friends, from whom we have
just pur od, tho experiment proved success
ful with ns. Eelect your W.etim, and try a
few copies
The Hanford ( Wis.) correspondent of
the Milvaukio Sentinel tells tho following :
A singular case of matrimonial fits, a
newlv discovered disease, has lately come
before the attention of the good people of
this village. It was remarkable, not so
tnuch by its manifestations, as by the man
ner in which a speedy cure was brought
about. •
A young man of this place, not yet out
of his teens, had been paying his attentions
to a young lady some thlee years his ju
nior, and lias for some time been pressing
upon both parties tho necessity of an early
marriage, but being refused this very rea
sonable request, be was eomjielled to re
tort to strategy of the most ingenious des
cription.
lie was seized with fainting fits, and a
council of the village physicians being
called, tho most powerful remedies known
to the profession were tried, but to no pur
pose. His case was given up as hopeless
by his friends, an l being asked if he was
prepared for the dreadful solemnity of
death, replied that ho was, with the ex
ception of one thing, if he could but
marry Mary Ann, he would die happily.
His dying request certainly could not bo
refused, and, Mary Ann having no objec
tions, the minister was sent for, and the
solemn ordinance of marriage was per
formed before the most solemn messenger
of death should step in to snatch away
tho gasping bridegroom from time to the
regions of eternity.
The er.d of this should-have been sol
emn occurrence has transpired in this con
clusion. The sick man arose from bed im
mediately after the knot had been tied, a
well man. What scho 1 of physicians
will be the first to take advantage of this
new curative in their method of practice ?
Profound Wisdom. —A great many
( fools strut in a dignified way through life
! and get credit for wisdom they are fat*
| from possessing. In a recitation room in a
law school not a thousand mi’es from Chi
cago, hue ol the professors, to test the
; ability of a student he was examining, pro
-1 pounded this question :
1 “Mr. , whnt do you think should bo
! done with a man who had committed sui
| cide ?”
Tbc student was puaz’od; be rubbed his
bead a moment as if to brighten his ideas,
and then responded.
j “Well, it is my opinion as a professional
J man that he ought to bo made to support
I the child!’’
The weather, for some days past, has
been delightful.
To Prevent Pitting by Small Pox.—
M.. Solon Robinson, in a communication
in the Plough, Loom ami Anvil, recommends
the following to prevent pitting by tho small
pox:
“Get from tbe apothecary a littlo vial of
stuff called liquid cuticle, and as soon as the
pustules aro fully foimed, apply a littlo ot
the liquid with a littlo brush or foathcr to
oach one. As fast aH they get ripe, remove
the scab and wipe away the matter cleaD,
and apply tho liquid again. If any one of
them fi.l a second time, you must Temurs
the covering and repeat the process. It will
smart like fun l'jr a moment, but my word
for it when you recover you will not find a
maik ou that pretty face of yours to prove
you over had the disease. lam told the ar
ticle is made of guuoottcn, dissolved in chio
loform and forms anartiiioial skin over a
wound just as good as tho real one.”
Fading Away —The Raton Rouge Ad
vocate says the number of deud negroes in
that city every month is over one hundred,
j The negro population of Baton Rouge does
I not exceed 4001 and the deaths at the pros
| ent rate will be 1200 per annum. In the
country’ the fatality is not so great, but
even on the farms and plantations tho res
training influence of whites is no longer
felt, and disease is more than ever fatal
with them, whilst promiscuous intercourse,
freedom of will and want of interest in
their progeny'has chocked their increase
by natural means.
Two negroes died in Washington last
Saturday, with strong symptoms or cholera.
Their ha’-itatiuu was iu a dreadfully filthy
condition.
Why was the giant Goliuh very tnuch
astonished when D avid hit him with a
stone?—Such a tiling had never entered
his head before.
,*t \ ..itat.i>.
On tbe 25tli ult., at Simthville, G*., bv the Rev.
Thos. T. Christina, Mr. Jamls K. Johnson ami
Mis. Eliza h. Bkvkredgk.
BliD,
In Dawson, csi tbe ltith ult., of whoopirg cough,
Angeline Victoria, iufaut daughter of Marshall H.
and Sarah K. Bi a hop.
Hew Advertisements.
BOARDING HOUSE.
I| AVIXG fitted np a house for taking in Board*
L ers, in the town of Dawson, I respectfully
solicit patronage.
May 4, ISOu, Ira W. E .SESSJOIf*.
G1EGII&IA, Calhoun County.
T Whereas, John T. Pace applies to mo for let
ters of administration on the esta'c of Penelope
Freeman, late of said county, deceased—
These, are therefore, to cite and admoni h all
pereons concerned to be and appear at my ofiles,
within the time prescribed by law, and show cause,
if any exists, why said letters should not issu* 3 .
Given ander my hand and official signature, this
May Ist, 1800. W. E. GRIFFIN, Ord’y.
TIMELY warning to all.
VMi persona indebted tj the estates of Wiley
J. Johnson and Hirain G. Johnson, or the
firm of Johnson & John -on, are requested U> come
foeward and settle at once as the esrates must be
closed np. The books and papers can be found
iu the hands of Simiuous & Coker, attvs. at law
for settlement and collection.
L. S. &X. J. JOUXSOX,
may 4 ts. Adru’r. & Admr’x.
N KW STORE!
mmm
HOODS.
Call and. See For
Yourselves •
Ft. GODWIN, AGT.,
(VP E UFA LA, ALABAMA,)
HA? jnst. ooen"it, at l>r. Chealhtnn's
Corner, Cant of Hanson Hotel
—a New and Splendid stock of
DRY GOODS,
Groceries!
HARDWARE,
CUTLERY,
SADDLES,
BOOTS,
SHOES,
HATS,
CLOTHING,
All of which he oners at prices to suit the times.
By keeping a general assortment of such goods as
will supply the wants of the country, and selling
at prices which cannot fail to please the most sass
tidious, be hopes to merit aud receive a liberal
share of public patronage.
STAPLE g FANCY DRY GOODS.
Brown and bleached sheeting, shirting and drill
ing, striped homespun, coitonude, planters’ linen,
Irish, Spanish and American linens. Prints of all
grades, muslins, organdies, piinfed jaconet, plain
and common muslins, plain and a riped swiss,
plaid nainsook and book muslins, brilliants,
India twilled long cloth, plain and striped tirleton,
lineu diaper, siiesia cambric, dr. bdeta, and De-
Baise, lor traveling dresses, etc.
GROCERIES.
Superfine and family flour, sugar, family soap,
soda, starch, spice, pepper, ginger, coperas, shav- '
ing and toilet soap, cove oysters, sardines, pickles
French mustard, butter crackers, tea, gelatiue, to*
bacco, snuff, (and boxes to hold ir),choice cigars.
A general assortment of Gents’ and Youths’
CLOTHING,
Shoes, hats, calf boots and shoes, ladies’ chil
dren’s shoes. An endless variety of Yankee no
tions, combs, hair and tooth brushes, needles, pins,
buttons, thread, pocket books, purses, pens, pen
cils, ink, cap, note and letter paper, envelopes, ca
ble cord, worsted and silk braid of all colors, la
dies’ ana gents’ linen and piper collars, cologne,
and handerchief extracts, etc., etc.
The ladies arespectfuliy invited to call and ex
amine the stock of bonuet and trimming riVbons
umbrellas, parasols, hosoiry, handkerchiefs, towels,
napkins, corsets, hoop skirts, dress buttons, etc.,
and a general assortment of If iff €*oods.
HARDWARE
Axes, hatchets, hammers, augurs, chisels, squares '
compasses, mill aud hand saw tiles, l’ocket. and 1
Table Cutlery, Razors, scissors, Locks, Coil’s and i
other pistols, and everything else usually caUcd j
tor in this line, may be found at this house.
Saddlery. —Saddles, bridles, martingales,
stirrups, bits, wagon whips aud buggy collars.
If you are troubled with musquitos, come and ]
get good .Vltesqnlto . Vetlini /, and dou’t,
forget that Whilteuiore’s cotton and wool cards
can be had at the same place.
All to be sold at very f.oir Pi frry for cash.
Dawcou, May l,litu if. OOVWfF, Ant. i
HENRY HORN]?
DEALEX IN
FANCY GROCERIES
FRUITS, W INES AND LIQUORS,
Jtlacon , - - . ~
HAS just received, and will receive ...l '
Ireeh supplies of «ItAiYOMW
I.KOTOWS, so. sale at .hol,-*|,
lowest priced. H
IN STORE,
For sale by tho barrel, gallou or bottle—
Clioioe Madeira Wine,
Choice I‘urt Wine,
Choice (flurry If:
Holland Gin, J '
Bikes’ Whisky,
Crown Bourl on Whisky. U i,J: '
Also lifty barrels Sweet Champa!™ Re
imported YVbi.o Wine Vinegar
usually found in a i'lmt *v"
t irocery.
Urices as Low as the Lowest,
Macon, May 4, ts HEXItY HORS!
DR. a G.ROiJLILSOX,
SURGEON DENTIS
May 4 Cuthherl, fitorgU
CROCKERY AND
TIN WARE
\\7F. have just received, at our store in Dj.i
V T a large and splendid assortment of i-mtk
and tin ware, which we are prepared to sell ai
csedingly low prices. Come arid buy.
api27-2m Si. OT. SKISEL* IIIK
TO THE LADIES!
Millinery Store ir. Dawso
Mils. C. E. BENJAMIN has
opened a choice selection of Millei
Good*. Her hats and bonnets sire very bentn
and of the latest sty’es. She is prepared to t
and repair hats and bonnets on short notice.
Ladies fiom the country arc invited to call
fore purchasing, as 1 feel satisfied they cannot
better suited in stylos or prices elsewhere.
I can bo found, until I get in my new store
the store of King, Crim k Cos. ap27-lm
BIMCIv WO Lib
npilK Fnbsrriber wants 600,000 Brick | a ji]
JL a wall from 12 to i7 feet high in ihe Cut
Amgricus, proposals solicited until the l.vh day
May. E. B. LOVUSS,
apr27-3t D iw-o-i, Gi
rgy-The Macon Journal and Messenger i
Columbus Sun, copy twice and send hill.
FUIvLO W mo
HEREBY call the attention of the public,
their Urge and well assorted stock of MR
CHANDIZE, j ist received, and ready for vu uni
tion and sale. Their stock of
IADXES’ DRESS GOOD
is complete and omnot be surpassed ia \ r j
style, consis'ing of
Tissues,
Printed Muslins,
Organdie Muslins,
Bine Apple Grenadines,
Silk Grenadines,
Brin'ed Linens.
Embroidered Undcrsleewe,
“ Cuff's and C"!!ajs,
“ lfacdbtrehiefs,
Silk and Cotton Hosiery,
Gloves and Gauntlets,
Their stock ot
S BE O E s
embraces every variety of style and ]
Ladie«,
Misses,
Mcd and
Boys
We have a very large assortment of
KE.IBY-OTABE Cr-OMIIM.
ANI!
HATS
in abundance fiw Ladies, Aliases, Men aud Bo
together with a few
CHARMING BONNETS.
Anew et
SADDLERY,
Carriage and Buggy Harness just reccir
Our line of
WHITE GOODS
is very complete consisting cf
Swiss Muslins,
Mull Muslins,
TAo Cheeked MaHi'iK
Nainsook Musm 1 * 1,
-t bishop L.m
Irish Linens,
Osuagurgs,
Macon Wheeling,
Sea Island do,
Sea Island ftM"'
Bleached Goods of all grades-
Wc hove mode large additions to
Hardware,
Blow Steel,
Nails,
Crsokory,
irwß
Willow «» r£ <
having almost everv size of , „, ,
Pots, Ovens, Skillets, Frying ‘
Stew Bane.
We have on hand a few I?lars©H
Steady very aicc and cheap.
Our stock of I
YANKEE HiOTIO*S
id very general and well selected,
many arlielcs both
Useful an«t Curious
A splendid assortment of
BUCKET AND TABLE Cl R" 1
. i .1 a lit*" 1 *
The above goods will be sold : b4llll ,
count, upon our ret.il prices to Mere
° America., April 27tb ; I86»