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Oar Obligation. A Good Templar's obligation goes be yond the mere pledge of total abstinence AMERICUS. GEORGIA; Prid»y llandag, HayJIO, 1870. 3h«3ftrUg $tcput>Ucntt. HANCOJK, GRAHAM * REILLY j • }: raorr.xnTons. assumes in his pledge, there is something i more to be done than merely to refuse ti. c. v. HASoocg, _•••••• ’ sart0 * Irink when nsked to do so. That doe: ! not satisfy the conditions of liis promise, j vVo aro engaged in a war against intern- • leranco—we attack as well as- defend— I md there is an aggressive feature in om Official Organ of Sumter Co. *i>m> » to ° often overlooked. Thi, ° I is brought distinctly to our minds whci. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF SCHLEY COUNTS, we recall the language of our pledge. W* ’ oust not only not drink, nor bo instru Official Organ of Lee County. ‘ ffental in causing others to drink, butwt n^st in all honorable ways discounter! Official Ore Jill of Wettotw Count? : nee the use of intoxicating liquors i» ■ijjgj . l . . . ---■— he community. We cannot stand b A Few Words on the Mea* nd see our neighbors drink withon- Question- earning them of tneir danger. Wc can The Macon Telegraph <fc Mcseengo | lU t minglo in daily a'so iriion v;.t' declares that to-day wo find meats rel> - Irinkiug companions without urgin. tively dearer even than cotton itself. Pork, which sold in 1860 for $15(e}16 pei b’oL, now commands about §30 50@31, and promises to go much higher. lard, which formerly brought 10 and 11c. pei II)., now sells at 10c. Beef has advanced more than 100 per cent. Many of out planters are inclined to view these higl prices as tho result of a combination o rpecnlativo influences. In this they nr« sadly mistaken. Thero may be an effec tive local combination occasionally, bni tho general increased value of the mea food is due to the same canso as the ad vanco on cotton; that is, tho demand out stripping the supply. The returns of th* Agricultural Bureau show that the num be? of booves, swino and sheep is enoi raou ly reduced below tho proper ratio t. tli« population. Ceres Is have been sell ing at enhanced values, which has dis couraged stockraising, until tho mei question has become one of serious im port, not only to tho Sonth.bnt ho wbol country. The American peopie or • pai ticnlarly fond of animal food, and whil population has gone on increasing, th production of meat lias been almost sti. tionary. It will tako several yours to reduo thoir relative cost, evon should any mean bo resorted to in ordei to increase th supply. Under these circumstances it behoove tho Southern planters to at onoo appl. themselves to tho work of stock raising Thero is every advantage with them, foi mer suppositions to the contrary no? withstanding. The experience of tho late war demon stroked that os fine bacon can be put uj in the Southern States as any Hint come from the West. Tho progress of science has removed all climatic difficulties ii tho way of packing on an extensive scale The refrigerating process has prolonge* tho packing season through tho entir> year. In a warohonso where tho tem peratnro is at a very small cost reduce tc any desired point, packing may be a- thoroughly done beneath tho equator, a in tho frozen regions of Alaska. But > short tmo since it was deemed neccss&m to drivo the beef cattle of Texas up t Chicago, in order that they might b« safely packed. To-day the very fines beef is put np on tho borders of Mexico. In fact, wo deem tho time as not for dis tant when Missouri, Indiana and Illinois will find formidable pork packing com petitors in Lonishlua and Texas. Tho upper portion of Louisiana and Western Texas must soon produce hog! in abundance; but it is nor, our design t< encourage hog-raising in particular lo calities. We desire to sec it almost uni vegwl over the Cotton States. A pound of good bacon will cost tho planter tlii> summer twenty cents. It will tako ex actly ono pound of his best cotton in ex* change. There are few who will noi agree with ns that the former c.in lie more easily raised than fbe latter. If tho cotton crop should be increased, prices will fall in proportion; but we may depend upon it that the cost of provis ions will be long in finding the old level. Ijet onr country friends bear in mind that a conplo of litters of pigs costs them all tho cotton that a good hand can pro ducc on the best alluvial land. Ministerial Grog. A very amusing casohas Inst occurred in » lwl. A New York Priub\tcrian divine a fib amytho, after sen-icce oiie Sabbath, invite w.’* reporter, to go trill, Urn 10 » re,Uur,n IVlule th.re h. orri.rod {,« lingers of mill. ,1, son, trhich hedmnlVuh niucE ga ,to. 0lw oI tlio reporter, thought it good t noegh to make * f uragr.ph .boot. Tile prtathtr tu thorcopoi. hutted over tho cotU«b.v Li. cougn-gittoirilit- pteul muthlll, at hu tnal for acooiiial alleging hi. weak condition, uni th»t Ito rSid K for the carton. grog he had imbibed. Bnt hi. Well, wo can only say that liis holy reverence is not alone. We do not need to leave onr own State to find scores ol canting Pharisees, who denounce ho sale of liquors from tho pnipit, and go home, or to tho house of .omo toddy-drinking hem to abandon tho fiery bowl, jamiot son a barroom established in our neighborhood, and grow into lucrative patronage, without entering our earnest jrotest against tho ill wo can to save the victims of the rum- ellcrfrom the fate to which he lures him. .Vhcrever and whenever tho subject ot Temperance is discussed, it is our boun- len duty to give our testimony in favor of total abstinence, and against any use vhatevc.r of intoxicating liquors. Wo ere o discountenance tlicir use, not in one vay nor in a dozen ways—but in all hon orable ways. It is by this means that we •xpect to create a healthy public FODti- aent in favor of our reform. This is llu -ver with-which wc are trying to lift tho .opular heart to tho temperance plaue. Uc do not expect a single liqnor seller to |uit his business on the first rebuke, or n ingle host to ceaso setting wine befor* is guests the moment a Good Tempi*! uses his warning voice; but we do expect mt a faithful and persistent diseliarg* •f our whole duty will in time effect th« ban go wo seek to accomplish. “Coo lant dropping wears the stone,” and th« •nblic heart is far from being as hard and nimproesible as rock. Let our Good Templar Brothers and listers reflect upon their duty iu this datter. Idleness in tho good work i> he only real danger wo hr.vo to dread There can be no doubt about, our ultimate .access, if we aro only earnest and faith- ul to tho vows wo have taken upon onr- u-lves. Onr principles and onr object ippeal to the most sacred emotions of the leart, and their acknowledgement and triumph are only questions of time. Comptroller-Genera l*» Report. Wo aro indebted to Major Madison Bell, tho Comptroller-General, for * copy of his Annual Report for 1869. It is an interesting document, and contains much valuable information. Annexed we give i few of the leading items, and shall give •tber extracts from timo to rime: The whole S tate receipts for 1869 were 2.800,- 789 1G: payments, £1,857,82% 98; balances on land, $442,960 19. Of this, $116,695 55 was on land from tho year before. The general tax of 1869 was $558,745 22, tgaioat ti,33,590 70 in 1868, showing a decrease f 74,846 48. Tho poll tax of 1869 wa« 35,54» 45 gainst 89,778 47 in 1868; decrease 54,233 02. Tli- iqnor tax grew from 1,892 71 in 1668 o 27,093 79 a 1859, showing that grog has flonrwbod undei Udie.il rule. Insurance tax hold its own. being • 793 95 in 18G9, and a trifle less the year pre- a J8G3, The lax on railroads *e.l from 3,150 SI a» 1,341 75 a year Liter. The State Road paid 250,000 far the ton months mm Dc .-ember, 1868, to October, I860. Daring .he seven months tinco, Superintendent Blod gett rep->r:s 45,000 paid, or less than 6,500 monthly, against 25,000 before, and tliis with an increased business. on,l d/vtrwv I The civil eatpblishmen*. cost 65,222 48 in 1869, wore, and doteg ^ J, to ^ owing „ iacrcra , 31,928 59, or more than double. Contingent tend of 1869,19,968 95; year previous, 8,167 42. Ainting for 1869 19,806 77; year previous, 8,169 12. imperial appropriations, 239,923 29 against 89,G46 Co the year previous. Convention ecrip, 26,651 25. Legislature nay rolls, 186,794. Pub- iic debt, 858,816. The State own-the State read and 419,716 of Thus it will be Keen that tho civil ex penses of tho Government lrnve been lonbled during the past year. It amply proves that the effect of Radical rule is to baukrapt the State, and destroy her ••redit. The charges so often mode •gainst the Governor of appropriating to lis private use the public moneys, find strong corroborative proof in the unpreca- lented drain upon the Contingent Fund, md in the.returns of the State road. In regard to the public lands tho report •xmtinnes: The acres of land returned in 1869 were 42,- 552,399 against 32.007,714 the year previous; in crease, 544.685 acres. Tho valno is #84,567,166; increase, J4 849,582. Tho average value per dcre wps #2 49 in’68, and $2 CO tho year follow ing. There counties arc worth over a million dollars: Cobb, Coweta, Fulton, Gordon, Hancock, Harris, Lee, Mnecogoo, Newton, Rich mond, Tronp Walker and Washington-. These over a million and a quarter: Bibb, Dougherty, Monro?, Stewart and Sumter. These over a million and three qua Here: Bartow, Chatham. Floyd end Thompson. Tho riche-1 county in lands is J IovJ, tho next Houston, tho next Bar- Atlanta.—In our recent visit to Atlan- a we were surprised to see such energy md enterprise as was displayed in ex ending the limits of the city and bnild- ng np the waste places with blocks of -ubstantial business houses and elegant family residences. Tho spirit of im- irovement seems to have infused itself nto every branch of business; cvery- vhero evidences of thrift could bo seen hroughout the city. Everybody seem- m1 to be busy attending to their own bus- ness. We doubt not but that Atlanta »ives employment to a greater number if mechanics of every description, than my city in tho State. This accounts for .ts prosperity, for mechanics are the very tx>no and sinew of a community: “ Their strong arms wield a mighty power, Sustain tho little and tho great; Builds the low cottage of the poor And gilds the glittering lialln of state. ” Tho larger the number of mechanics in a place the greater its prosperity. Tho city is entering upon its career of j men prosperity, and is justly entitled to In J tickle •tyled tho “Gate City of the South.”! \Vith abundant capital and well directed »nergy, Atlanta, is bound to become the emporium of the State—why should it not be so ? May the city continue to int* prove, until its borders become extended tor miles in every direction where noth ing but ti e forests now stand. To no one man is Atlanta more indebt ed for its spirit of improvement, than to Mr. H. L. Kimball. Few men possess ing the wealth of this gentleman could be induced to appropriate it in so laud- iblo a manner. The Opera House now ised as tho State House, and built at u •ost of many thousands of dollars, is an irnament to tho city, and will ever re main an honor to him who projected it He is now engaged in building a hob 1 which, when completed, will bo the handsomest in the South. It is to be built on the most modem improve I plan Iho «xcavation for the foundation is nearly completed, and the masonry will -toon oommence. Several hundred hand> -ire now employed on it. Such a man i> worth thousands of millionaires who keep fheir money shut np in vaults, and At lanta should be proud of him as a citizen 6,199336 3,054 The unimproved land, worth $#,838,691. The improved lauds worth $82,238,475. * City property wee worth $44,368,096, Money and good debts, 24,143,967. Merchandise, 11,256,71*7. Furniture, 1,405,745. Hands employed between tho ages > 65 arc 00,739. bond ••250.0-:-. 52,S39.‘H8. Iron works, $478,920. National br.nl- hlisrcs, $885,950. Tho whole value of tho State in 1809 was $204,481,906, so that His Expressed- ency ha? a snug little property to squan- 06^. Hoar had a confidential chat with ho learned pig the other day. The pig i Ivisod hint to resign. Wise and learned 1g. Read This. 3S»f* There is said to be •ion of blood-thirsty young females Iowa, the object of which is to intimidate men from waxing mustaches. They Believing that the time has come, when all lovers of temperance should organize and arrest the awful vice of drinking, sad believing also that there would not be a more successful way of reaching the good people of this section, and arousing them to action, than through the columns of the Republican, we deem the cause and the reason a sufficient excase for tres passing upon the attention of our readers Few people seem to think cf the aarfu effects of inebriety. There are six lmnd- red thousand drunkards iu the United States. Of these sixty thousand die eve ry year. Oao hundred thousand men and women, under the influence of in* tiixicatiiig liquors, are sent to pri* n every year. Two hundred thou-and chil dren are sent to the poor house. Three hundred murders are committed. The proportion of those who drink to those whe do not, according to carefully kept records in England and America, is four to one-. Four hundred suicides are com mitted yearly. When cholera or any pes tilential fevefr prevails, nearly all the sub jects are of those who use intoxicating drinks. In proof of this Dr. Canwrlght says that five thousand of the intempe rate died of yellow fever ia New Orleans in 1853, before a single sober man wjis touched. Tho testimony of all magis trates. chaplains and prison-keepers goes to prove that nine-tenths of all the crimes have their origin iu intoxicating driuk-v and that seven-eighths of all tho pauper ism originates in tho same cause. It costs the Uuited States $60,000,000 annu ally to support pauperism and crime. The official reports of 1866, show iha» one hnndred and eighty-six millions gal lons of fermented, forty millions gallons distilled, and ten millions gallons im ported liquors, aggregating two hundred 1 and thirty-six millions gallons, are con sumed annually in the United States, costing five hundred millions dollars. On thin a revenue of only $47,727,206 i- paid, making a clear loss of over $450,- 000,000 to tho country. These are start ling facts, and when wo consider them we think, they appeal to all who love peace and order, to organize and battle against the nsc of intoxicating liquors as a leverage. They appeal with such a sad tale of havoc, anguish, despair and crime as should at once arouse all lovers of good to bottle for the liberation of those who, by the use of tlieso drinks, have become bound by the chains of de spair. Let us come now to our own sec tion. Almost every trading establish ment deals in this beverage of hell, and every day we sec the sad effects of rum. Victim after victim, in oar own midst have fallen into tho snares of the enemy, and now fill drunkards’ graves. Thes*- mea are contributing, wo may say, theii time, talent, money, family and souls to help increase this already large amount o! suffering. This drinking rcdnccs them to tho worst kind of s’avery. Not long ago we went to see a man who once s to oil high in the church of God. He re marked to nsj “I was once a man—I am not now.” No, ho felt that ho was m longer a man. What can the feelings ot any man be, while listening to such re marks as these, coming from a slave to whiskey, while tears were trickling fast down his bloated face? Pen canuot des cribe our feelings as wc looked upon that ! poor man, with that despair depicted up- “ ion every feature of his fuco that <: organiza* j bim U) fce j . Cancelling Revenue Stamts.—Under parishioner, and “sip” a little wine “ for tho provisions oi- tho act of June 30,1SG4 o s mac a 8a e. With what holy t he Commissioner of Internal Revenue authorized to prescribe such method for the cancellation of stamps as he might deem expedient and effectual. On the 19th of lost February, Circular No 82 was issued from the'Internhl Revenue Deportment, providing that on and after May 1 1870, all adhesive stamps used •ipon the instruments, documents, wri tings and papers required to be stamp ed shall be cancelled by the person offer ing tho same, either by writing upon each and every stamp, in ink, the initials of his name and th j date (year, month and day) upon which tho same is used or attached, or by cutting and cancelling tho samo with the machine called “ Wheeler’s Patent Cancellor,” or such other machino as might afterward be designated by the Commissions, no other method of cancelling to be recognized as legal and sufficient after that date. As this restriction to thense of ono single machine, thereby creating a monopoly in their manufacture, was found to work to the serious detriment of tho business men throughout the whole country, the Commissioner has just issued a circular authorizing the use of three other ma chines for tho cancellation of stamps, namely : “E. D. Chamberlain’s Cutting and Dating Machine.” and “Thompson’s National-Revenue Stomp Canceller. fervor they can inveigh against some __ fortunate tippler, while they themselves aro the veiy men who support the liqnor drinking interest. Christ came into tlie world net to preach to tho just but to th«- unjust. Onr modern clergymen, on the contrary, wonld rather confine their min istrations to tho s^-righteous, and visit /ho ladies of their congregation, than en ter the devious paths of sin, there to lift up and save thG fallen and degraded. Ob, no! They could not soil their ■hands by doing each a thing. Does a clergyman do his duty who rests quiet while there is in his community a single drinker who might be induced to reform? He most assuredly does not It is hie duty not only to set the example of total abstinence, bnt to - go and seek whom ho may save. Pay Youb Addeetd-ixo Bills.-—The C* ro iclo & Sentinel says tho following is ip iropriato to a great many in Augus ta, and is published for their benefit: “Wagons cannot rm witlout wheels, boats cannot run without steam, bull frogs cannot jump without legs, or a newspaper carried on everlastingly with out money, no more than a dog can wag liis tail when ho has none ! adver tisers aro good, bnt what good docs a man’s goodness do when it don’t do any good ? We have no donbt' that cveiy ono thinks that all havo paid except himself, and as wo aro a clever fellow, and as his >v-ount is a little matter, it makes no dilTtXte^c. Strango hallucination 1 A man who -ot' pay his board and ad- t©. A youth of eight,-five, living Wiaeomin, va noentl, joined in wed lock with hi, fint love. From a deten tion hj nrailroad accident hornet hers dieoosteoUte widow, end nude, her hit wife. When naked by hia friends at what period of life a man oeaaea to, matrimony, faeaaid, **aak some one A Ben Franklinito demonstrates the importance of economy and suving, even in small matters, by allowing that five cents a day detv>* ited in a savings •auk will in twelve years amount to$670. This wonld buy quite .; respectable farm out West. OaLUTHonPE CoLLEC S TO BE SIOVEP TO Atlanta.—The committee to whom was referred the question of removal of the ibove named institution met in Atlanta •n the 6th inst, and decided to locate ho College in that city. They accepted ho ten acres of land donated by H. C. Holcombe for a site, and took steps to- vard collecting the $40,000 subscribed by the citizens of Atlanta for the erection if editable Imihlings. Bt$“ The special correspondent of the Savannah Nows, writing from Washing on, May 5th, says it is proposed by Bol lock and his adherents to buy the resi- *ence of J. H. James, of Atlanta, for a gubernatorial mansion, at a cost of $250,- 100. although the value does not exceed $60,000. Gonf. Where the Guano Shelleth.— The Columbus Sun complains that there is a scarcity of money in tho Colombns market. Recapitulating the average daily tales of cotton during the past season iu the market of Colnmbns, it shows there has been no lack of money derived from •Jio sale of cotton, and it asks what ba« become of the money ? Sorrowfully the Sun answers its own question—Gone where the Guano SnteUeih. But the Sun's inawer in incomplete. It should be. Gone where the Gnano smelleth, that the cotton plant may bloom and flourish, and the jicople perish. .. SOr The London Money Market Re view says: We understand that the committee of the bend holders of tho Confederate loan issued in 1863 are abont to call a general meeting. The object is to determine what steps should be taken in their in terests to a»ert their rights to bo reeog oizfcd by the Southern States to the ex tent of the bonds now current, in pro portion to their resources, before any status is given to any new loan proposed to be issued in this country by Alabama or any other of the Southern 8tates. Whisky is not a tonic. It is probably an al terative, for it alters dollars to cents, virtue to crime, and men’to brutes, Let no one count the number of bis friends till they have been bolted in the solve of bis own adversity, for there ia much bran in prosperous friendship. An Lehman that was very near sighted, about to fight a duel, insisted that he should stand six paces nearer hie satagonJst than the other did to him. A lacy fallow once declared in a public cora- ’ pany that he could not find bread for-his family. “NorI,"replied an Indostriore mechanic, “I am obliged to work for it." Pere Hyacinth is at Munich with Dr. DoUn- “ Which way I fly is hell, myself aru hell. And in tho lowest docp, a lower deep Still threatening to devour roc, opens wiilo. To which the hell 1 suffer net-mu a heaven.” In order, therefore, to arrest this grow, ing evil, let us organize Good Templar Lodges in every community. Ten dol lars will secure a charter and necessary ritmils. Applications for charters, enquiries for imformaliou, should It dressed to the Editor of this paper. Liability of P>rtnek°.—Tho follow ing questions l-ave been propounded t* the editor of th« New York Journal o Commerce. First. A and B foim for a general co partnership ;• G contributes 850,000 ro special partner; A »fc 1) fail; what is tin extent of C’s liability ? Second. D and Euro partners in the produce business; L) also carries cu the banking busines- •nUisovm aoeouut, iu which he fails Is E. liable for D’s debts ? The editor of the Journal of Commerce replies as follow-*: First. A special partner, if ho ha- managed his connection properly, can uot be held liable for tlio debts of tin concern in which his money is invested The capital he contributed is liable, but Uq had no personal liability whatever. Second. Ono genera! partner is not liable for tho private debts of tho other, nor responsible for nuy business undertaken by the other for which tho firm’s nam* lias not been used, and in which it lias no interest The Grave.—Wo sit around tho fire side, and the angel feared by us all, comes in, and ono is taken from onr midst—bauds that havo caressed ns. looks that have fallen over us like a bfttl of beauty, and arc hidden bcuefttl shroud-folds. We see the steep edges ol the grave, and hear the Ifer.vy rumble o» the clods; and the burst of possionait grief, it seems that we can never still the crying of onr hearts. But tho days ris; and set-, dimly at first, and seasons com* •md go, and little by little tho weight rises from the heart, and tho .shadow> drift from before the eyes. Broken up is a Row.—The negreea of Map-hrtllviih-, Oa , celebrated the paasage of th Fifteenth Amendment on Saturday night last, and owing to a free use of m-an whisky, a big fight broke out A Bailiff who “went in” to quiet the ‘‘mu s,’ got pretty well used tip, and instead of arresting any of the belligerents came ont of the flghl on a shutter. He has probably learned tho important lesson, that it don’t pay c white man to pitch into a cr -wd of drunken negroes who are fighting, in order to preserve the peace, and wc guarantee that ho will, in future, let them fight it ont “if it takes all sum mer.—TelL & Mess’. Burned to Death.—Miss Mary San ford, of Cartersville, seventeen years of age. was so severely burned on Saturday night last that she died in consequence. Sho had filled a lamp, and In filling it, some of the oil ran over op the side of the lamp, nnnoiiced by her. When the lamp was lighted, tho flame communica ted to the oil on the side of the lamp. Min Sanford drooped the lamp, when, breaking by tho fall, the contents ignited communia . 1VkinsL BRIEFS. —A horso died recently in Ulster co., N. Y., aged 40 years. —Down in the depths—Free love stock. —Down in the month—Mrs. McFar land Richardson. —A Mexican offers to shoot Jnarez for two hundred dollars. —Graham had a ten thousand dollars fee in the McFarland case. —The free-lover Frothingham’s church is called “the church of the affinities.” —Governor Davis, of Texas, will b« uangurated on the 28th. —Governor Senter denies the rnmor- of his intended resignation. — Fechter remaius in Boston ns a then ter manager. —News of the death of Burliugamt was received in China with general re gret. —A span named August Donhart com mitted suicide at Cincinnati Thnrsday night by drowning in tho Ohio. . —A little California boy said Adam and Eve were “stampeded oft tho ranch” for eating apples. —Chicago is now in successful opera tion. Its per diem of murders occurs on time. —Count de Chambord, tho Bourbon heir to the French throne, has addressed i letter to tho Pope, giving in his adhe- -.ion to the doctrine of infallibility. —Lady Lopez, the mother of two mem bers cf the British Parliament, wa*- burned to death on the 20th, at her country seat nt Frorae. Hoi* muslin dres tock fire while she was alone in her room. The deco isod was seventy years old. —It has been repeatedly charged by responsible parties that all tho female ad vocates of woman suffrage havo big feet. But in a recent speech at Dayton, Ohio, me oi the shrieking sisterhood denounced the statement ns a base slander. Her lenuuciatioa amounts to nothing,though, for on measuring her tracks in the mud where she afterward crossed tho street it was found that sho wore number nine Urogans, with more tacks in the heels and toes than au ordinary nail factory turns out in twenty-four hours. A Radical Mob. Hovv Ministers or thk Gospel a urTueated in East Tenxes.se*—Doom and Windows op a Church Barricaded. The Knoxville Press and Herald learns from Bev. It W. Bass the following particulars of a Uadical mob and preacher mobbing in Blount county on the rooming of tho 8th instant. S-.uida.v morning at ten and s, half o’clock a mob of about forty lladic&l ruffians, black and a bite assembled at Logaus Cli&pc], six: not ot Maryville, in Blount county, ai med with icunes. pistols and bludgeons, for tho purpose ■ if mobbing Bov. II. W. Bays, a preacher of the ilcthodiit Episcopal Church South, hiring •Jiarge of Sevicrvillo and Little Biv*'* circuit ol he Huston Conference. Tho ruffians baricaded the doors and windows •f tho church with the benches, and awaited Mr JiyV nr rival. Boon the preacher arrived in front if tho church in a buggy, in which were Alexan- ler Kennedy, Br. his daughter, and Mr. Bay» rod wife. The crowd seized tlio horses, and iVm. Goddard, the loader of the ruffians, br -ud- ii-liing a huge bludgeon, swore they w uld kilt dr. Bays if he alighted fr ro tho buggy. The crowd brandished thoir knives, and yelled anu vh.roped, making n Uorrib o racket, and fright ening tlio ladies into screaming. Mr. Bays attempted to reason with tho mob, out it was useless' They answered idtn with curses and threats. Binding that tb« danger was imminent a:id that delay might cost him ns life, Mr. Bays requested Sir. Kennedy to Irivo ofl; an.l they left the scoae amid the hoot ing and curses of tho mob. Forney’s Testimony. Tlio Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune thus writes about tho Bullock bribery matter. Ho dont sjuro cither Rufus or lover nor Bullock oe examined if he arrives iu time. He lias b on .-xpocted for two cr three days. He will be luestioued as to the disposition of largo amounts A Strauge Story. I 3 IAN DESERTS HI3 WIFE IN ST. JOSEPH, MO., AND DIES WBALTHT1* CALIEOKNIA. [From tho St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald. 24th. Fifteen years ago there r s ded this The Atlanta Constitution is in formed that Bollock has drawn his war rants daring the present month of May favor of the Atlanta New Era, his per- i sonal organ, for over forty-five hundred dollars. Pretty good for one whet. <auds of doliais. Tho committee, ii found Mr. Forney an obrtinato an less. Gov. Bullock is tho last « rornmom-d, unless something in Li Brick Pomeroy ash Bliss 8csan B. Axteonv — Jrick Pomeroy, in liis New Yorif Democrat, -eta off the following: Busan 1>. Anthony is a woman after our own .mart after r.!L (Sho ien’t tlio first one who has j*jcn after our hurt, if ivy do say it as should- j t.) The apex ol her cranium is pitched to a geometrical dead level 81io is a woman of sense, is Bn sic. Bhehas been out West stump ing the whole tarnation country to a stcud-up ighi on the stiff ring woman question. At a mooting of strong-miudod chieka-biddye, held in this city yesterday, eho exid that she loved the Democratic party j cat liko git eout. i hat tho party by tho namo of Democracy hr.d.rectirod her'with open arms, and hugged her to its manly •xwom, while the Radicals hail said “shoo, fly,” •r and her cause. Oct; Fatiieu.”—That good May sometimes come out of Nazareth, we verity believe, aftoi - reading the following beautiful extract trom a sermon recently lelivored by a Clucago divine. As it may strike some of our readers as appro priate Sunday reading, we give it: Yonder on the erag. amid the storm the monntoinH, the engle h.tugn her «t. She cn-.ven for her offspring the elements of royulty and power, and takes .urn with the thunder in singing them ij sleep, and with the lightning in watch ing their repose. She tears up her nest, il leaves them to cling to the crags. When they flutter and fall, ahe swoops nider them and bears them np, repent- ng the process until, matured in the druggie, they cun mount above the dorms. So God treats ns. ago •ity a man named Preston, (that is not the uimo, bnt it will serve os well, for we are filing a true etory,) who, with the smnl! Miriness he was in, became dissatisfied.— •3e was married to an estimable lady, who wire him one child, a daughter,- and of lis wife and child he seemed to be alwav- fond, which facts odds to the mystery of .iis pubspquent conduct One fine day, vithout warning tohislovod ones, ho dis ippeared. Wondering where he had »one, and what cause tho delay of his re riirn, the deserted wifo waited through weary years for his retnrn. The fail orild •f their wedded love grew in beauty and utelligencc, and tho hopefnl mother, with that pride and secret joy that only u mother can know, longed for th« return of the father, that ho might seo the bcuu- y and grace of their first- born. But he lever came, and after the lapse of eight years, Mrs. Preston married again, think ing her husband dead in fact, as he was to her in lav,*. Sho lived happily with her new mate, who was and is always kind and fatherly to her little daughter. Her first husband was well nigh forgotten ir remembered only as tho dead ■die was, therefore, little prepared for. the intelligence that reached 1 era |shott irr.e since. Abont six weeks ago, a man, who was oauy years now post, a resident of St. foscpli, returned hero from California.— He knew Preston hero before the latter left his family so mysteriously, soon after •iisarrival called on Mrs. to inform »er that her old husband was now really lead, having shaken off this mortal coil •bout ono year ago in San Francisco if which place ho had long been f. resi- lent. Ho communicated also the <trange information that Preston, soor ifter going to California, had married i -qimw of the Digger tribe of Indians; that he went into business in Sau Fran cisco. where he prospered beyond all hi* calculations, and got rich. Indeed, his •success was almost fabnolus; for when he lied hia estate was valued at $75,000, the larger part of which was iu money. By 'his Iudian wifo ho left five children, to whom and their mother ho bequeathed every dollar of his property. This of course, was a strango revelation to Mrs. , who, when tho surprise •ind confusion produced by tho story hail subsided, .was strongly agitated by the tlidtight that her own beloved daugh ter, Preston’s forgotten child, was the rightful heir to the property of which her father had died seized. Burdened with this impression, she sought the advice of a legal lirm in this city, who took tho case in hand. The first business of the lawycre was to leant whether or not the will contained any provision for the child hare, which they learned a few days since by' reading the documents, a certified copy of which they received from Sun Francisco Th«- next business will be the securing of to- timony identifying tho de ceased Preston io Sau Francisco with the Preston who was tho first hnslmnd • if the laity instituting his widow. An other point will come np as to tho le gitimacy of Preston’s marriage to the -qtiaw, lie knowing that his wifo was liv ing when, ho married a second time.— Clio suit will be cu interesting one. If thp second marriage can be invalidated, the whole eaf-vtc will go to the little girl j here. Sugar and Rice in Louisiana.—We thank Mr. L* Bouchereau for a copy of bis annual riuU-meut of the sugar and • ice crops of this State in the year 186!)- 70. It presents to tho reader the names of every sugar or rice planter in the State; the 1 *eu!itics oi their plantations, desenp on -f sugar houses, the kind of power au.« die proc isses for making su gar, tho amount of the crops for the p;u»t two seasons in sugar and molasses, by hogsheads and also in pounds and gallons. I’ho following iv recapitulation, which' shows at a glance t'uo crops of last season from which wc learn that the brown sugar made under the old process in 18G9-70, amounted to 73.472 hogsheads, weighing S3 633.01)7 pounds, and that tho refined and clarified sugars amounted to 13,618 hogsheads, weighing 15.819,849 pounds giving a total crop of 87,090 hogriieads, • •r 99,152,040 pounds. The molasses from this crop was 5.721,,350 gallons The rice crop was 100.778 barrels, estima ted at 200 pounds each. The parish of Assumption produced most sugar, the crop being 10,358 hogsheads. The parish of St. Bernard g' ves the highest returns for rice, 31,337 barrels. T o largest su gar planter in the State is Mr. Johu Burn side, whose plantation yielded 3,333 hogs heads of sugar and 80,000 gallons of mo lasses. Iu looking over the liRto of the planta tions wo observe that uot a few of them will be cultivated this year which have laid fallow for years past. So that with an ordinary fair season, and a steady- supply of labor, :: considerable increase in.tko crop of the present, over that of last'ycar may reasonably be looked for.— X. 0. Picayune, Gth. To Save Plants from Insects.—Pour h small tumbler full of Phenic acid into p pail of water, and with a fine sprinkler, sprinkle your plants and the gronm’ ironnd them three evenings in succes> ion, and every bug, and terminated, and yonr plants and vine* I ,dthm ?{£«« t, Theee ira therefore to at* ... wUJ.begranted/ ’ U nv ^ jh- EliiiS deceased. ^ & will be ex j •jJS£* !ar , ,he Sm<f£? 3*^^ : I 'SS&ll** * O> Officein .h?3 y ^J>Jloi terminated, anu your pianw ram vine ! iritkin tho time • a '- ri Arm - urll grow apace. This acid is cheap, and i dI V, t ! Mjir <>l>jtetioiw t if P Mr *7 1 •‘jd letters will L) granted -Vhcre, otbenri/ 8 Q 1 venn.dcim y L D & UM i ■•an be. had nt any of the drug stores. SPECIAL NOTICES. 31 Uiia 17t!i IV B - *■ Dai r m Be Wise in Tune. ,nyaro there who t j afllctc<l with dir- j decn^5 , -* tr8tion ont ^ e ' ro bn nod appear at m* L which would effectually arrest the further pro gress of disease, and render tho system impreg nable to its insidious attacks. It is unfortnn *tcly too tree, there arc thousands who sink in to an early grave, whereas at a trifling expense they might have lived to & goo ’ -■* there be reliance to bo placed in I?°d old _ r in medicine! ami thousanda of well attested cases establish be yond tne possibility of a doubt the curative properties of anyouo particular remedy, tli Ifurlcy’s Harsaparilla and Potash i» ably the greatest mediginc . - ... v--— .. — Jo^uoed t. uni a-ted community. He6itato not, then- «e, to use it, if suffer in" from any of the ills t« hich tho flesh is heir. * ap2Ctf T h *%»ehliig oI Kipti ir Mci. After tho experience of more than 12 yean hanffidi- :y fain granted*. ' ' * otherwise said letters May, lS7o!* ' f T '"Ti aa d «paturc, this I i:. Ply 19-1 in -'AJTtsW. UtLKINSav, •ass upon the same »t ' r r * Hna ratesd, 1 v.i: 47, at 10 o'clock, a. n, y oftce on Friday, mvl9 9tt-> ’ n . W - baVEXPQHT. Oroli. N o T I (Te . r nearly 12, and th i ueeira to present to youi cliingof niy experience, viz :— kinds of sewing machines tha others for nearly < readers the teach) rherc aro many 4 arc not worth the t do good service f r tho.*o who have tho abilit to manage and keep them in order, and but oiu that is always in order, always ready fursen j'-o *n ; l tint always gives satisfaction. This m» chine uses o single thread, makes the twisUs loop stitch, and never fails in making it. It h called tho Willoox A Gibbs’ Sewing machine,on. superior iu aimpheitv, durability, ease oi i ”* *” '* opera ion and he«ut\ i -o call at the Clerk a ,»y for their lots in i they occupy Y-a management, certainty of its work to any other work doao by tins machino lias eh strength and dm ability than that chines making any otlier kind of titch.- •pplied for Fowler, iu the Phrenological Journal. ALLEN’S LUNG UAL8AM. Dr. A. L. Harris is tho invontor of seven ] medical pioparations which havo become vert popular, and have been liberally used. Aiuon*. his inventions are Hall's Balsam for the long and Liverwort and Tar. For the past six year* a better lung remedy has been offered to the public. Bead tho following letter from D 1 -. Sco vill referring to it: Messrs. J. N. Harris A Co.—Gouts: I maki liic following statement from a perfect convic tion of tha beneflts of Allen's Lung Balsam in curing tho most deep seated pulmonary con sumption. I have witnessed its effects on tin young and the olu, and I cau truly say that it is by far the heat expectorant remedy with which ] am acquainted. For conglis, and all the ear!\ stages of lung complaints. I believe it to bo j. ccrtaiii cure aud if ovefy family would keep i< it by them, ready to administer upon the lim appearauco of disease about tho lungs, t!u-r< would lxi very few caaee of .liTlleir #AK «B0VE cemetebv. ™ !«»■»»»> fcmrt u«! Uk» ih,„ t . H. D. RANDALL, mayn-ih Clerk t Tn-a, siMii.ii County, \X Jesse T. Westbrook having eniption of personalty and netting U u... CI „ ' - Mtion of homestead, I wfll pai 2 I £ ° clock ’ *■ "•» on tbe Mav. iriii at my office. B. F. iJiiu inayn-Jt Ordinary. Jeorgia—Sumter county. fnrujfeaa,Joseph W - »“t-lgrovo and Keabs. ” K -, l . 'xveutors ot ShadracliTun.c- leccasc.1, apply for letters of di-niwion fr.-. -'»’d executorship. These aro theitfjre to cite, summon aud u' , al1 auigular, the kiudn-, or said deceased, to be and apixar at ir ilhco, within time by Uw prescribed, and tilt .ection if any tin y haH. v.hy such letter* lot bo granted. •Vituess my han l aud official signature iliin liiil in B. V. Bell, OtJj. oiptioi toyl7-ni3 aspect fully. ml change Jthv state GtlVfLL tigh pr . TO BILLING INGIDFNT don life of Mrs. Ing dis, in Br.nnali, is tho Baptist Mosecugvr, relating how it for to visit ono of the Buddhist who had bseu nearly Li while iu th. ;t holy p!a< had I thd hefor. been admituri, she was permitted unrebuked use for him the sacred vessels, which nuuo hu. the high priest dare touch, and to even overturn the magic influence of The Pain Killer, called fej them the G<k1 Medicine, so successfully she j their l (list chole i that c late. mplain i'liis speaks volumes for don Tunes. Clougli, Pain Killer —Lon- Ongole ECONOMY IS WEALTH. COAL, COAL, COAL. I T makes a cheaper aud hotter fire ibaii woini Lay in vour supply while you can hnv :• cheap. Messrs. 8ir:tr.o 4 Son have the exchuaw- sale of my coal for the city of Americus. All n-- ders handed to them will'bo promptly ffi|*d. april28-2m* ARMAND L. BUTTS. runs. M. EDEN, iUN & LOCKSMITH. Doftlor in CUNS, PISTOLS, "owder, shot, taps of nil kinds, wads, ndges, pitto) liolsOrs, molds, ladles, aud opti ng ammunition oi every kind. Wesson’s BitiA- »f grass, silk, cottou anil linen linen, bou ’ ‘ i. hinkers^ointed and reed jxjio .pears, trout flies, spoon nnd boxes, c Wilson Shuttle Sowing Mach flubli c. N.B.- le ttt \ next do. XRE GEORGIA—VVebster Countv. N OTICE is hereby given to oil parties cuc- cerned, that f. J. Shepherd, kte n| tlu- oonnty. deccascl, ueparte.1 tliis life intesun. and no rrorson bus rnpiied tor a. mlnistnlio on tho est&to of said T. J 8hepberd, tn.l th*:. Bcv.J. E. Southern ludi Killer very liigldy for seoimiou stings, Chokn i etc;, and cannot very well do without it.'* | Eev. I. P. Colbuiu. missionary at Tavov, Bu mah. writes: *T shall be happy to assist in i tending a knowledge cf % remedy so speedy at effcctuaL Sold by all druggists. m\3-lm •ms if the law, admiuh od in the Clerk of tho Stipend ither lit and proper per 'ho publication of this citi d objection Is made to hi. official •n will be >f May, Koskoo.—Tliis medicine j confidence or tho people, testimonials of its virtues, era of medicine, leaves no < aud reiiablo remedy it r — .. _ liver disease, Ac. Tlio last Medical Jn props r tie; i. — bclievi of Koskoo to tho r pidiy gaining tlu d the numerom en by practition- it that ft is a sett impurity of the Mood “iLp! ^onetre cuv •* k " '' togh n special recomraendatioi Litioners of medicine. Tliii Atlanta Era says Mr. Goorg SUarj*», a jeweler of Atlanta, 1ms offered the follu\\iug yretoiuiw for the June exhi bition of tlio Cobb county Agrieulturul ■ty; |l«v g.tlvtirtwmfnt'i. Silvc , waitc-r anil goblets, valued at $50, to the uhuueet and neatest dressed lady, intjoduciog a style for Georgia, ignoring present fashions.— Said premium to be awarded on 1st day Annual Fair, Cobb county, held in 1870, and confined exclusively to ladies of Cobb county. Mr. Sharpe offered this special premium belhmug that present fashions do got conduce to the health, style or beauty of those v.*e love most WiLCOX & GIBB’S SILENT An Indiana widow and widower, -au. a number of children each got mar ried lately. They lived happily together, and appeared to enjoy themselves until they vjt down to their first meal, when the nsked a blessing, and included his children, bnt not bis ’wife’s. The lady balanced a bowl of hot soup on hia head, and he is now coaxing a now head of hair to gifow. From Washington.—Tae Reconstruc tion Committee has. agreed to report a bill re-admitting Georgia on the terms ipplied to Virginia, Mississippi and Tex as, with a clause authorizing the States xl to organize, arm and call into ser vice then: respective militia forces^ One watch set riKht will do to try many by; at, on the other han l, one that goes wrong may be the means of misleading a whole neigh borhood. And the tame may be aaid of exam- A PfiorER Legal Decision.—We see it stated that in tho Federal Court at Nashville recently, in the crose of n distill •er who had refused to comply w th an in salting demand by u revenue officer to show fits books, ami was charge! there fore with oljsirneting tho execution of the taws, Judge Trigg charged the jury that the moment- un officer so far forgets himself oa to treat u citizen in a brutal, hectoring manner, he di.-grcot-3 the iiosi- tion he liOida, and forfeits all chime to Obedience or respect. A demand made m an abusive or iustilting manner is not i legal dem-ind; the ritizen is not l>o tnd to obey it, and cannot be punished for refusing to obey it. Shivixo —“Speaking of shaving,’ a pretty girl to uu obdurate old bat “I Rhould think that a pair of hanu~,« eyes would be the best mirror to shove b J* ‘‘*‘*1 a , \*** fellow has been shaved by them.” the wretch replied. A family In Florida lost their little boy, and they advertised for hhn,iu the paper,' That very afternoon an alligator crawled ont of tho swamp and died on the front doorstop. Inins stomach were found a handful of red hair, some bone buttons, a glass alley, a brass barreled pistol, a bunday school book and a pair of check pants. The advertisement did it. Valuable Recdpe.—We notice the following receipe in an exchange, and give it as something ingenious and valu able. if practicable. Those who have slept or tried to sleep in the same room with a person who snores can readily understand the unpleasantness of the situation and fully appreciate the remedy, The receipe direct somtwhat as follows: Fasten up on the nose a gutta perclia tube lending to the tympanum of the ear. So that whenever the saorer snores he himself receives the first impression, finds how disagreeable it is and of ooftrse tries to A PERFECT WONDER In iUs simplicity, strength of etitch, aptl beauty ■f finish. NVodlnia self-a<ljus!ing and c&nno't ho net wrong.' It tucks, cord*, he broider*. braid«, quilts end does plain and fancy sowing, with neal patch. For salo at mann fact nrer' I. N. HART A dine in gold and cotton l>y I. N. HART & CO. Cotton Gins Repaired BY P. C. SAWYER, At Dixie Worts, Macon, Ga. C OTTON OINS made as good aa new, at from one-third to ono half tho cost of a new Gin, and mado equal to the but gius manufactured in tho United Btatee. Largo gin# reduced to any required size. None but the best and moat experienced workmen, from the shop of the late Samuel Griswold, are employed, aud all work guaranteed to give satisfaction, or money re funded. I keep a large enpply of the different lands ofnba used by the several gin makers, wifcr to hundreds of planters iu the counties of WiUdnspn, Laurens. Twiggs, Pulaski, Houston, Bibb, Crawford. Monroe and (Jpeon, among whom are the folio wing,, Wilkinson, M. J, Carv weU; Lauren*. Jod Croiej; Pulaski, James Bo- hanuan; M. P. Grace: Houston. C- N Rountree, Hardeman * Sparks, Jmev*- * upright* ad myou o fix thorn mjl9-4m Dixie Iraq WorkihMacoJ^s. Dr. SMITH’S Great Southern Tonic wv.Ncr.rxl,-.- i-rhe, Kidii.y al t.r Dr. JUBILEE SMITH & CO- CHEMI3TO AM' rOHPOCXDEItf, AMIERICnS. Oi Dr. JUBILEE SMITH’S DYSENTERY CORDIAL A sure remedy for tlio cure of Dvswtoy, lk*' rhcea. Cholera Morbns, Cholera InfaatcB.In- , auu an iroroono c ,*r^ u • l t Manufactured by Dr. JubtleJ anujiii ■ Co., encmists and Com|»oundera,Antenctia of... *nd eold by dealers anl druvgists • Price per bottle. $1. mllS,M T VALUABLE PROPERTY V FOR SALE IX UEEXsWIOE. «*-•«■ ACRES ”, Eft 3®* 4oU with ami 10O con»r«' e oently surveyed int>» lot« and now lor we time offered at low pttces to enconragcl®. ments, presenting great inducementsi to w- e oapiSlit. eml oAS. wteigsg to •aluablo inveetraerts, as tne propcrtymwJ vance rapidly iu values as tho city , Titles ere perfect. Descriptive JOHN C. JOINERS Family Grocery Store, N. K. Corner of Pnbllc Sqmart, Is always supplied with a fre*h °‘ FAMILY GROCERIES, oompri-ing everything usually fored in 6 • eatabliBhnionhs such a.-* f> , or , ‘ ,,,r0 "re.L Tobsu co. f^nanr. Lard. &*.. Ac. COUNTRY PRODUCE alwayncn hand for ® ,icl1 S9 1 Pen Fowls, ' Tolu** ClUclwnv, Turkey*, nnd all Game of all Kin.ds. I make tliis department a specialty, \ saasstti;Kww^-jssft ana in this way ca.*» alwsja give •on’t forget the place, .m., nporits Dr. W. VT. Ford s ^ ^ JAMES 3BTiTiTfl> blacksmith, VWSSSJSSbXgBA