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$&e Width) ^qrobHiati. HANCOCK, GRAHAM * REILLY -EPITOn AMERICUS. GEORGIA: Friday Morning, May 27,1870. Official Organ of Sumter Go, OFFICIAL OEOAS OF SCHLEY COUNTY. Official Organ of Lee County. Ofllfial Organ of Webster County BSk- Tho White Democrats carried the State of Now York on Tuesday last by scventy-fivo-thousaud majority—a white man’s victory! D®. A negro tlieatro has been started in San Antonio, Texas. Plain folks are not admitted. This is evidently a viola tion of tho civil rights bill, and tho col ored rebels should bo mado to feel it? Bgfc. The railroad is completed batween Selma and Rome, Georgia. Eleven miles of track were laid in nine days, the fastest track laying yet heard of in this country, Presbyterian General Assembly. Louisville. May 14.—Huntsville Ala- bama, has been chosen next place for the meeting of the General Assembly, delegates from the Associate Reform Church and) tho, Cumberland Presbyte rinn Church were fraternally received. The final and exhaustive punish ment of man’s original sin is recorded I own in the birth of a female child with three tongnes, Should that girl live to fulfil the transitional stage of wifehood, and culminate into a mother-in-law, then will tho fall in which we sinned nil be more than expiated. Search op Con vents. —Up ward of hundred Roman Catholic English ladies of tho highest rank signed a petition strongly protesting against the proposed search of conventual institutions. The ]>etition is headed by the Duchess of Norfolk, sister of Lord Lyons, tho Dow ager Duchess of Sutherland, and the Marchioness of Londoncrry. S&~ Schenk’s now bill to reduce the In ternal Revenue taxes, begins by impos ing a new and heavy tax, in its most odi ous and. offensive form. A new income tax, in the place ofthc^ono that expires this yer, and to the same amount, is to ho levied on all incomes over 1,500. This, as hitherto, will l>e but a nominal e xemption, for on every dollar of divi dends or interest the present tax |is de ducted, nt the places of payment. Revenue Decision.*—The following letter, from Acting Commissioner Doug lass, addressed to Dr. Geo. P. Rex, As sessor, is published for the benefit of those who my be engaged in the business therein mentioned. Treasury Department, ) Oflice of Internal Revenue, Washington, May 13, 1860.) Sir—In yours of the 5th instant, you ask if parties selling prize candy pack ages are liable to special tax as proprie tors of ajgift'enterprise; and if the refer ence thereto, under tho head of answers to correspondents in record, vol. 11, page 138, is official? m In reply, I beg to refer yon to section •0 of internal revenue laws, paragraph •11; and to stato that all persons selling, <>r offering for sale, packages of any kina, having, or purporting to have, within them, or accompanying them, gilts or prizes which are for ami in consideration of the purchase of said packages, etc., are subject to tho special tax of $150, unless every package has the gift and the gifts in all the packages are oi equal value. A The passage in the record (vol. 11, p. 138,) although not official, expresses ac curately the ruling of this office. Very respectfully, J. w. Douglass, Acting Commissioner. Geo. I. Rex, Esq., Assessor 2d Dis trict Selma, Ala. S&F* At a recent lecture in the Royal Assembly Room, Birmingham, Mr. CharlesLnnn explained the qualifications requisite in a musical instrument, und passed on to speak of tho human voice, nature's instrument. In order to pro duce a sound there must bo air, or breath; but this did uot produce tone or sound. That air must bo set in motion by means of vocal organs, for sound was air in motion. The humau vocal sound was the result of breath or air obstructed in the organs of sound, and that obstruc tion could be used at will. He then gave a minute description of tho nature, mode of action, and capabilities of the vocal organs, remarking that sound was pro duced by the air looming out from the chest through the windpipe exciting the vocal organs. The chief object of a master or a pupil in that science was to get the greatest possible sound with the least possible air. Intensity and strength did not consist in or depend upop the quantity of air con sumed, but the way in which it was used. Ho characterised the idea of their being .i “chest voice” as stupid and erroneous. Having enlarged upon various other points, including the voice as a means of conveying thought, the influence of 'dia lects, and tho duties and objects of master, ho concluded by a brief refer ence to tho nature of stammering and consumption. He said there wero vari ous causes' of stammering, and in two cases only could it be treated with any hope of success. H he were to say that he could “sweep consumption from the land," ho should tell them what was false, but in many cases a proper know- lodgo of the nature of the vocal forgans, tho way to use them, and a duo everrese of them, would prevent the di»*ase from taking root in the constitution. £©-. Miss Evalino L. Gates, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, writes that she likes trow- sers and wears them, believing them a more comfortable, convenient, and de cent article of apparel than flowing skirts. We know of some girls who like trow- sers too, bat they haven't, as yet, adopted them as their wearing oppsrrd, They would prefer taking trowsers and what is usually in them at the same time. Female telegraphers are jronoraced a success in Rnwia. .The Railroad to Newnan.—The peo ple along this contemplated route seem to have bocome aroused to the impor tance of this great enterprise; and there is evident a determination on the part of the citizens of Schley, Marion, Talbot, Meriwether, and other counties, to build if, if tho project is in any way dependent on their co*oj>erative efforts in its behalf. Will Sumter county, and particularly Americas sleep over its own interest in this important matter ? We wonld like to stc a spirit of enterprise aroused among our citizens. They need but be convinced of the importance of building a railroad from this place to Newnan to induce the capital and energy of Sumter county to be at onco employed to con summate the construction of the propos ed road. To Americas the road to Newnan is of peculiar interest aud importance. It will open to us an independence and cheap ness of freights we can have by no other route. Is this not enough to arouse the energy of our citizens to make a bold strike for onr young aud thriving city ? We could then offer to a large portion of Southwest Georgia a cheap and commo dious produce market. This is a fact onr people should begin to realize and doubt less they will act at once upon a sober judgment in tho matter. Every one who will take tho troublo to examine the. geography of the country through which tho proposed road js to be run from Newnan to Americas, will l>c convinced of its eligibility anti practica bility as a means of developing much min eral and agricultural wealth and paying handsome dividends. Whenever there is a determined pur pose exhibited by those mterested in this enterprise, what they lack in capital to build the rood will be supplied by capi talists abroad who are not slow in taking a 3mnd in all paying enterprises. A meeting will be held at Geneva, on the 15th of June, at which committees from Sumter, Schley, Marion, Talbot, Meriwether and other conntios are invit ed to be present to deliberate ou the mat ter and compare notes and seo what can and how soon something may l»e done.— It is hoped that a meeting of the citizens of Sumter will be called at an <arly day to send delegates to Geneva, and meet in council gentlemen from other sections who will be there to consult ou this im portant subject Let everyone of our citizens take a deep interest in this mat ter. Citizens of Americus arouse your selves to action before it is too lute. Let all show their approval of the enterprise by signing a call for an early meeting.— This road must bo built, if our citizens desire to save their property from ruin ous depreciation. BRIEFS. —Captain hides Hill, formerly of La- Grange, lied at Valdosta on the 2d. . SSU Some example* of the marvels of memory would seem entirely incredible Lad they not been given to us upon the highest authority. Cyrus knew the name —Ida Lewis, tlio Newport li. roine, i i! ot «>cli in his army. It is also -luted of Themistocles that he could coll to be married in the fall. —Heniy A. Wise is suggested as can didate for Mayor of Richmond. —Tennyson is declared to bo verj jealous of Longfellow’s reputation in Eng land, where the latter has many admirers. —Mrs. Senator Spraguo and Mrs. Fer nando Wood wear tlio handsomest jewel ry in Washington. —John Smith recently gave Oberlin College $5,000. John Smith is in jail New Orleans for bigamy. —Itev. C. B. Smythe, of •‘gin and milk” fume, will start a church of his in New York, and c-xpeets many of his old congregation to follow his fortunes. ©a?"* The word “ Democrat ” as applied to the Democratic parly of the present day is a misnomer. According to Web ster the signification of the word is “One who adheres to a goxermnent by the peo ple, or favors the extension of the right of suffrage to oil classes of men. ” Is not this the dortrino of tho Radical party ? They wish to and have enfranchised the negroes, while the Democrats have op- j poisoned - S,JI posed it. The difference between the [ P° n * two parties is only in morals, character ! novr l"^ ar expedition and integrity, or at least in many of the started from New kork - - Senator Arne % of Mis&iflfippi, is stopping in Lowell, at the house of Gen. Butler. His marriage with Miss Blanch Butler takes place probably in July. —Don’t fret over what you can't help, and then again, don’t fret over wliat y can help; therefore, don’t fret at nil. —The best way for a man to train np a child in the way lie shonld go, travel that way himself. —It is a pleasant thing to sec roses aud lilies upon a young lady’s cheek, but a very bad sign to see a young man’s face break out in blossoms, —Susan B. Anthony says that while showasinthe \Vest, on her lecturing tour, she had tho question personally popped nine times, and by letter fifteen times. O Susan! —Some New York ladies ripped open t wo old pincushions, the other day, and found that 1,500 needles had slipped iu- ••idu tho cushions in tho fc coor.‘e of five years. —Mr. Joali Whipple, of Squawlxiro’, does not see the need of build ng school- houses and paying teachers to educate u “parcel of boys and gals who know a darned sight more than their parents do already.” —The Salt Lake papers arc making merry over a light in tho house of a Mor mon Bishop, l«i which the “saint” got fearfully thrashed. Vr —Iu Bulgaria when a person dies,only the women wear mourning. They press, their grief by wearing their clothes inside out. — It lias beeu legally decided in Cin cinnali, that it is impossible to steal an umbrella, aud that possession is in cases evidence of ownership. —A man of miraculous meanness is ported to live in Norwalk, who is worth $100,000, and yet allows his sister to work iu u Danbmy lull factory for $1 a day. —The navy of the Sandwich islands, it is said, consuls of two iisliiug smacks and a raft. —A Cincinnati school girl has been eking the ink from her most prominent men of the Radical jwir- ty these traits are wholly wanting, aud as they are the rulers the result of their legislation is naturally of an unprincipled character. From this causo onr coun try is suffering and men of honor shrink from the dark pages of its history which is being recorded in shameless infamy. It is not negro suffrage that is so much opposed at the South, but ihe tendency toward evil of ignorance in office. The Government was fonnded on a Repub]i basis but its character was never wholly sustained; there was a mixture of good and evil in its Constitution, and the good always fell to the share of the stronger section which was the North.— Perhaps tho political morals of the South have not suffered by the evils which have fallen to her share, but it is quite evident that degradation was intended. The mot to of the great mass of the whites of the South “Justice to all, whether Had: or white, Democrat or Radical ” has been of salutary influence in onr favor. The Atlanta Dajly Sun is the name of a new journal issued in Atlanta, at $5 year. It is edited by Mr. A. R. Wat- >n, an accomplished and fluent writer. Its typogrrphical appearance is all that make it, and is, in onr opinion, the neatest journal ever issued from that city. In politics it promises to bo live and independent, and, in the language of Rip Van Winkle, we hope it may ' long and prosper.” Tho Albany News of the 20th tains on article on Advertising Agencies, which wo most heartily endorse. As a general thing, they are swindling institu tions, and the respectable press should frown down all advances from snch sources. It is timo that tlio press of this State should throw off tho Rhafkles of monopoly, and treat only with tho adver tisers tliemselves. We hope our friend of the News will continno to “give them particular fils.” CnEAP.-Tho Gate City Laundry advertise* ui*. it is prepared to wash ladies* bosoms for flvo cents etch. This Is extraordinarily cheap, considering the delicacy of tho article and the eiall neccaaarv for its manipulation.—At. Coji- STfriTION-. If it could l»e gotten into running der here, wo would l»e almost tempted to enter tlie business ourself. Conundrum.—Sam—“Jake,* what’s do differenc > between tho Atlanta Daily Sun and de ’stinguislied luminary dat illumin ates de heavens?” Jake—“Dout know, Sam, what is it?” Sam—“Why. do Atlanta Sim got Rainwater in it, and de o<ler sun hasn’t.' ^ Paper napkins for table use have jnst been introduced into the restaurants of Germany. They answer every pur pose for one using. Three of them cost less than a cent SadAccipemt to Mbs. W. C. H. Coop- eb.—We regret to loam that Mrs. W. C. H. Cooper met with a serious accident, resulting in painful injury, on Sunday last. She and her husband were riding out, and stopped to gathermoaa from the hanging bows of an oak, and while she was standing on the seat reaching np for lie moss the hone suddenly moved. She loet her balaaee and fell across the wheel to the ground—injuring her aide, shoulder and neck seriously, but we hope not dMOgetonalj.—Albany JNetct, 21ilu rajigements can be completed. —A starch manufactory in Massachu setts uses a thousand bushels of potatoes daily. -r-About one half of the island of Cu ba is in tlio lmmls of the insurgents. —An appeal m made to the New York Methodists to assist the Rev. Horace Cook of elopement notoriety. He poor aud peniten'. —Louis Napoleon takes all the Paris journals—for nothing. When iu this country ho treated hotels in tho same liberal manner. —Geperel Jnbal Early’s father, Jacob Early, died lo&t TJ'fPk. at Lexington, Va., aged eighty seven. —A Boston juryman signed a petition for the pardon of a convict, becanse, he said, he was afraid if he did not, the man would kill him. —A coach once presented to] Daniel Webster, and by him given to the late Charles March, of Greenland, New Hampshire, is to ho sold at auction at Portsmouth. % . --There is no vice that doth so cover a man with oLwxc q$ to be found false and perfidious. —Tho following is said to bo * reliable method for preserving grapes daring the winter; Take boxes the size of candle boxes, nail phwfts across the ends to lay slats on, and put i? tlie bottom a news paper. Having ready a dish of fiot seal ing wax, dip the ends of the steins in it Pat a layer of grapes in the box carefully, then a paper, then grapes again, and so on till fall; not more that three layers in each box. Nail up tight, keep in a cool, dry place until cold weather, then place in a dry cellar. —The following hit at the water-cure was mode by Charles Lamb, and none but himself could have made so quaint a conceit: “It is,” said he, neither newnor wonderful, for It is os old as the deluge, which, in my opinion, killed more than it cured.' —John Itnssel Young, in i*8 Standard, gives probably a correct idea of McFar land’s character in the remark mode since tho close of that trial, that ho “a thriftless, dreamy, literary man, with enthusiasms aud siugtilar aspirations, a strange, graphic, mournful character, more like Hugo’s or Balzac’s creations tli«ui n living man.” That ho was sub ject to fits of moroseness and melancho ly, which would break forth in splenetic outbursts, accompanied with morbid imaginings, thope appears to bo little doubt, and the fact goes for io justify tho verdict of the jary. But had hut life been as placid as a millpond, he would still have been acquitted, it being next to impossible to get a jury who will bang the man who shoots his wife’s seducer. by name every citizen of Athens, altlio’ the number amounted to twenty thou sand. Mithridatcs, King of Pontus, knew all his eighty thousand soldiers by their right names. Scipio knew all the inhabitants of Rome. Seneca complained of old ago 1 localise lie could not, as form erly, repeat two thousand names in the order in wliich they were repeated to him; and he stated that on one occasion, when at his studies, 200 unconnected verses haring beeu recited by tho differ ent pupils of his preceptor, ho repeated them iu a reversed order,proceeding from the first to tho lost. Lord Granville could repeat, from be ginning to end, the New Testament in tho original Greek. Coke, the tragedian, is Raid to have committed to memory all tho contents of a daily newspaper. Ra cine could recite all the trogedies of Eu- ri pedes. It is said that George III never forgot a face ho had once Been, nor a name he had heard. Miraadola wonld commit to membry tlie contents of a book by read ing it three times, and could frequently repeat tho words backward os well as for ward. Cranmer committed to memory, in three months, an entire translation of tho bible. Euler, tlie mathematician, could repeat the .Enid, and Leibnitz, when an old man, could recite tho whole Virgil, word for word. It is said that Bossuet could repeat, not only tho whole bible, bnt all Homer, Virgil and Horace, besides many others. Mozart hail a wonderful memory of musical sounds. When only fourteen years of age, he went to Rome to assist in the solemnities of Holy Week. Imme diately after his arrival, he went to the Sistino Chapel to hear the famous Misc- rare of Allegri. Being aware that it was forbidden to take or give a copy of this longevity. death presents itself to us under a repul sive and tenyfipg aspect, it is solely ow ing to onr habits and prejudices having perverted our feelings.. Montaigne just ly said it is tlio darkening the room, tho faces full of grief and desolation, the moaning and crying, that made death ter rific. Civilization, associations that it can coujuro up, has also contributed to rendering it a hideous specter. It is tho reverse with the patient. In nine cases out of ten death is not only a relief, but almost a sense of voluptuousness. Sleep daily teaches ns the realities of death.— “ Sleep and death are twins, ” said the poets of antiquity. Why, theif, should we fear death, when we daily invoke its brother as a friend and a consolation ? “ Life, ” said Bnft’on, “ begins to fail long beforo it is utterly gone.” Why, then, should we dread tho last moment, when we are prepared for its advent by so mauy other moments of a similar char acter V Death is as natural as life. Both come to us tho same way, without our consciousness?, without our being able to determine the advent of either. No one knows the exact moment when he goes to sleep, none will know the exact moment of his death. It is certain that death is generally a pleasurable feeling. Lncan used to say that death would be uiisnp- nortablo to man if the gods had not hid den from him the happiness he would ex perience in dying. Tullius Morcellinus, Francis Suarez, and the philosopher La Mettrie, all spoke of the voluptuousness of their last moments. Such are the con solations which philosophy presents to timid minds that fear death. ton, specials of Fxiday t we find the fol lowing letter. The dispatch says that Bard will return to Georgia to take up the cudgels against that poor persecuted man, Bullock: Washington, D. G., Mvy 20, ’70. To His Excellency the President: Sib : The political condition of Geor gia is still unsettled and unsatisfactory.— I hoped and exj*ected ero this it would have been otherwise. As it is not, I deem it a duty which I owe to the people of Georgia to resume my profession as ; journalist, in the city of Atlanta. Ihav the honor, therefore, to hand yonr Ex cellency this my resignation as Governor of the territory of Idaho, to take effect from the 5th day of June, 1870. With great respect, I am, Mr. President, your friend and fellow-citizen, Samuel Bard. The Shooting Fish.—This very re markable fish is a native of the East In dies. Nature lias constructed this aquatic sportsman in a very singular manner, bnt one admirably adapted to his sport ing predilection?. The fish has a hollow, cylindrical beak. He frequents the rivers of the sea-shore in search of food, and from the usual manner in which he provides for his daily wants ho derives his name. When this hungry gentleman espies a fly or an insect not taking due ».*are of himself, but sitting on the plants that grow in sluilow water, he swims away to the distance of four or five feet that he may take aim at his prey, and when he has. done so to liis satisfaction, he renowned piece of music, Mozart placed 1 then with amazing dexterity and clever- ness, ejects out cf his tnbe-liko mouth onodropof water, which is so well di rected aud so swiftly shot forth, that it never fails to knock the fly into the water, and once there all hopes of escape is gone—the fish darts upon his prey and eagerly devours it; thus supplying ns with another instance of the diversified inodes by which nature qualities it connt- i in >f creatures with the powers himself in a corner aud gave tho strictest attention to the music, and on leaving tho church noted down tho entire piece. A few days afterword ho heard it a second time, and, following tho music with his own copy in his hand, satisfied himself of the fidelity of liis memory. The next day lie sang tho Miserere nt a concert, ac companying himself on tho harpsichord, and the performance produced such a sensation in Rome that Pope 0lament XIV requested that this musical prodig}' should l>e presented to him at onee. 8££u The appe trance of Junius Henri Browne on the witness stand in the Mc Farland trial is said to have suggested a sort of metaphysical Beau Brmnmell—a compound of Hegel and Yerisopht. He wore (lainted kid gloves of tlie color known as ashes of roses, velvet coat, small tasselod cane, whiskers a la Dun dreary.- and pepper and salt trousers. Be fore lie kissed tlie Bible he wiped it daintily with a liankerchief edged with Cardinal lace, ;ind after Kissing it drew its soft downy folds with the r.ir of a petite maitre across his lips. Dr. Bam. Bard, whilom Editor ot the Era, and receutly ooufirwed as Gov ernor of Idaho, has tendered Uia re&igna* tioa, and intends to enter the lists against his Bovine Expressellency. It is said that he owns a controlling interest iu tlie Sun newspaper, so we may reasonably expect to welcome hijft Lack in the ranks editorial. less millio necessary for procuring food. New York Newspaper Stock.—The Evening Post has gouo up 25 per cent in four years. The Journal of Commerce has hold its own for twenty years. The Times has gram flown 20 per cent, since Raymond’s death. The fcua 190 per cent above par, doubling iu a year. The Tri- buuo has nearly doubled its value. The Herald barely holds its own. Regulations for Bitters.—Washing ton, May 10.—Tho Intermd Revenue office has modified certain rulings on the subject of “bitters” to the extent that every man who prepares or compounds bitters, nsing in them preparation rectifi ed spirits on which tho tax lias been paid and who prefers to bo placed in tho class of ‘medicines’ rather than that of “recti fied of distilled spirits,” or to stamp the bitters which he manufacture or pounds before sells the same or removing them from the place of manufacture, shall be allowed to pay special tax as a manufacturer and not be required to pay special tax as a rectifier. In a case iu point, where the parties manufacture “tonic bitters,” the sale of which depends largely upon their medicinal character, it is suggested they be taxed as manufactur ers of medicine. DiiiuHs Against Crops—The Colum bus Sim says; Quite an extensive laud-owner iu ono of the neighboring counties remarked tlio other day that ho had been having dreams for tho past twenty years, be tween tho first of January and the last of April, and strange to say they liad all come true. Their purport, this year is tliat the cqtton aud corn crops in this sec tion aj-o to b eycry poor. Ju consequence, ho has rented out tho greater pottiou of his lanfl, and is cultivating little. He is endorsed as a responsible man and no visionary, Stbange and Terrible Disease.—Rat- terson, New Jersey, is afflicted with a re markable disease, which has proven fatal to all who liavo been attacked with it. It has beeu treated for scarlet fever, but it is attended with strange symptoms which make it appear something out of the ordinary list of diseases. The victims have holes eaten through their throats, and after death, wliich has invariubly followed a few days’ suffering, the bodies have grown black. ESLTho Buffalo Repress says; young man named Frank Thorne, now stopping in this city, informs ns that he lias concluded arrangements with parties at the Falls to make a leap from the new suspension bridge into the river, a dis tant of MX) feet, on tho 13th of next August, the day after tlie horse-race here. Sente sufficient to accomodate several thousand persons will be erected along both shores. Air. Thorne, we understand, is to receive the sum of $10,000 for this undertaking A Washington Democratic Paper,— It is mid thut John Morrisey, Ex-May ore Barrett aud Wallaeh are about to start a Democratic doily paper in Washington —there- lieing uouu ut the. preseut time. According to I’itz Hugh Lmllow, Brig ham Young is ope of tlie richest men in the world. Soipe idea ipay lie had ot his immense wealth when we state, on the authority of that writer, that a single New.Yorl; house has invested sixty mil lion in securities on liis aepount, and liis po$spssioqs iu Great Rrittan enable him the Bank of England. DSL A society, already counting more than one hundred members, lias been formed in Paris, pledging themselves not to be hurried after death, blit to be queath their bodies for dissection, so as to aid the science of anatomy as much iTtnfut jlaySU Evening.—BeoelpU to-day 51; des 14; shipped 41. We hsTo hxd a# change U> note in tUo tone of the market, If we except tho slight improvement in tho demand. Tho market cloned with * moderate demand this evening at 20j for mid dlings—a fancy article bringing ‘2i cents. k Vouk, May 24.—Cotton dull; sales 1000 bales; middling uplands 52J; Orleans 23]. Qold strong at 14i@14J. Savannah, May 24 Cotton, none offering;' middlings 21 J; Livkrpooi, May 24, evening—Cotton closed irregular; uplands 10J to 11 Orlorna 11]. AMERICUS MARKET. Corrected expressly for the Itepubl: nr MONTOOStKKY a su.iw. Canvassed RACOJi-Clear Sides 19<re20c. Shoulders 1C}(2 17c. Hams, plain 20^2V. * 2:1025c. BULK MEATS—None. MOLASSES-GS^n 00. SYRUPS—90@H 50 SUGARS—15© 20. FISH—Kitts $2 50(^M 50. 4 bbl« 45 D0^?8 50 ‘ bbl SO ODf.cSlG CO. libls $10 OfrftftlOOO. Irish Potatoes—None. TOBACCO—75@$1 50 per lb for sound. BUTTER—Goshen 50c. Country 30^440. EGGS- Buying 25c. Selling :$0c. LARD—Prime Leaf 2.“V?/25c. FLOUR OWtill 00 according to quality. AMERICUS COTTON MARKET. Amebiccs, Ga May 25,1870. COTTON- Demand fair. Wo quote 18@W. 15, 1870. FINANCIAL. Amkiucch, Ga., May GOLD—Buying 12. Sailing 16. SILVER—Buying 8. Selling 12. SIGHT EXCHANGE ON N. Y.—Bnyin„ . “ “ “ “ Selling] prei RATE OF INTEREST- On money 2f per ec per mouth. §uUTrtisrmcnts. WILCOX & GIBB’S SILENT Coiqe and g Ujf —Tooa— °ry Goods While they are Cheap Money is Plentiful. W ° & ^r«x, 00 Satisfaction. JUST RECEIVED Hats and Bonnets Iren Hay. GALL AND SEE THEM A PERFECT WONDER i simplitllv, strength of stitch, apd beauty ish. Needle in tself-adjuttiug ami canuot 1 wrong. It tm-ka, ©md*, hta&», folia, em broiders, braids, quilts and does all kinds oi plain and fancy sowing, with neatness and dis patch. For sale st manufacturer's prices bv I. N. HART & CO., agents. I. N. HART & CO. TH0S. 31. EDE.V GUN & LOCKSMITH, Donlor in GUNS, PISTOLS, lOO Bushels GROUND PEAS|® WANTED AT F RANK HALL'S, ing ammunition of every kind. \Veu~~ „ loading Rides. Now on hand* large tml hi*- assortment of fishing tackle, consisting in jar. of grass, eilk, cotton and linen lines, bonk*, floats, sinkers, jointed and reed poles, set line*, spears, trout flies, spoou and npiuuing bait, Uu boxes, etc. N. B.—igeuev of the celebrate: Wilson Shuttle Sewing Machine*. £ut mL Public Square, next door to \Vjn. Sirrine 4 j|ou-, C O HEN , North side Lamars: CgL. The Boston Times of the 18th contains a long account of an interview with Colonel Sullivan and Major McNa mara, of the Fenian army, whiph infor mation is of tho most important kind re lative to tho next raid into Canada, The Fenian Treasury is said to l>e in-the most flourishing condition, and an abundance of meu, money and war material is avail able at any time. Tho prospects of a successful movement rw pajd to bo ex ceedingly bright. The wild climate of tho Southern Stales will undoubtedly attract emigra tion from Europe. A single jnstanco of this will bo fQURd the removal of two or three Polish toHiUte# ffPW Michigan to a Polish settlement in Amherst Boun ty, Virginia. A Catholia Priest, ot the Michigan colony, after visiting Virginia, hw« reported in favor of the removal, for it appear? that tlio Poles found the cli» mate of Michifcki# joo cold for them. Count Smolinski, the founae* of Am herst colony, states that tho soil and cli mate of Virginia are admirably adapted to the <y( the vino, aud that the colonists may, by their ^fli^try, diversi fy their employments, tortious cf the Carvfbifiy fife still better adapted to tho grape. Alone in Infamy.—At tlio Fifteenth Amendment celebration in New Orleans, the other day, General Lougstreet rode at the head of the procession in a carriage by himself. A terribly destructive fire at Fin- castle, Virginia, the other day, destroyed between forty and fifty houses, aud caused a loss of $400,000, of which there was an insupipce of pqt piqre than $15,000. £&* From a report in the convention of tho Protestant Episcopal Church, of the Diocese of Alabama, now in session in Montgomery, we learn tliat during the year po§v tjmre wero 5G6 baptisms, and 482 confirmations exceed qf any other year, 119. The communicants in creased 35 per cent. There ore 2,625 comw u WPants in tho Diocese, aud 2.23G Sunday Sjjehool scholars, flje contribu tions for religions purposes during the year opfonntjed to $27,2f)l Q3. Bullook's Insult to Bute Uni versity.—Tlio An gusto Chronicle pub lishes the list of ltevercnds and Hcnorn- bles appointed by Bullock as a Board of Visitors to the University of Georgia with tho following : * ‘The following official list of tt»e Board of Visitors to the Btato University we clip from a llndieal paper. We desire that tlio Recent intelligent men of the State may see and kq^v tjie material of which this Board is composed.— Q lit of tlie toil persons ' re-elected Imt 8SSt467*JJSKSSS: section. j College street, two large bay mules; ono a horse — j mnlo and the other a ma*.e*owle, pic latter 8gg.Au observer in Washington, speak-; . wl “ shoe off the left forefoot, and » httlp lame ing about I>. B. Benators says; me or*, on <r. ■> Tlie most of them sit with then hands tlieir pockets, walk with their hands in theirpockets, and talk with their hands in their pockets. To which the Cincinnati Times (Bad.) responds; We thought they spent most of their time wiih their hands in Uncle Sam’s pockets. " * • “ • (inijiil Fenian Movement . Buffalo. May —There is some ac tivity among tho Fenian leaders. Men quietly concentrated ut the rendez vous here. It is imp ois’ble to say at this time where the invasion will be made. The point first attempted may be a blind, thought the frontier is lined with It is reported tho United States steamer Michigan token up a position at Port Colborne, Canada, iu tjio harbor, to protect the Wellaiul caual. A Sean+e»’$ $0059 is to bo established •*n Savanna,!) The village qf Columbia is anxious for watep works. Tho Masonip fraternity qf AthiLtaliave U&4 u jHQ-wiu, The Ordiuary of Floyd county has married 2,700 couples. He tried it on himself the other day, jnst to keep liis hand in. Negro Mail Agents.—The following post-office appointments were made last Isaac S. Mullins (colored) appointed a route agent between Raleigh, N..C., and Norfolk Va., vice John K. Shore de clined; Nathan V. Hunter, (colored,) appointed route agent betweent Selma, Ala., aqd Kingston, tfa., yioe Thomas D. Fister, resigned. J©-Ont of four acres of ground Dr. GUIs of Morgan county Alabama, raised over 1,000 bushels of sweet potatoes, which brought two dollars per * * * When are you eaten raiser*. ten a^d chfldrcp.— Sheridan, the bummer, is at SaltLake. . .. . _ cw be fcffiud. The idoa of It. L. Mott, Join) Happh*. M»ghee, Robb aud Pretty mail being selected for a duty of that kind akowa tfjst Pollock is determined to bring the University into disgrace if be cun. He has not forgotten the insult of Joseph, nor docs be forget that liis darling Mends of African} scent are still prevented from entering its portals.” j Out of tlie tou persons re-elected but Tub Bimxn: Acuo*. the MaMsaim- ^ of iotcUigonoc, l«u-m ;J g Tlie St. Louis Republican devotes four columns to the great bridge across the Mississippi at that point It will be 2230 feet in length, and will cost $4,490,953, three millions of which will bo fnrnlshed by St Louis and tho remainder of the capital come from New York. The river pfllt of the bridge will rest on four mensepiei-s copstpqctpd pf granite, the top of which will be flfty feet above hjgh yater mark, and the piers will be 145 to 175 height from their foundation up. The span of the pripcijal ureh will l>e 515 feet, and the arches will be constructed of cast steel. The bridge will bo a high way for eight railroads. It will be com pleted by the last of next year. . A Trillion.—'This is a simple word, but it includes a great many units, person who had commenced counttn at the creation and had been miraculously allowed to continue his task, wojdd not have reached the number yet by a veiy considerable margin, because a trillion of seconds is about thirty-two thousand years. A little calculation of this tort sometimes raiders a man better able to appreciate what a short space of time he is allowed to live in this sublunary sphere, and what an exceedingly long pe riod eternity is compared with it. Still Dbt and Hot.—We have had _ _ rain yet. Crop* and gardens are suffer ing i /trionsjy. Man and beast are'dying 3 41 ’ 1 — : — a lively B£5l. Tho Jjtew ^fork TriLidie at the 18th has ap article on “ The B’ohtJiejrn Staplo,” from which .wemakoa few brief extracts, ft says: Fron) the time when so good a farmer as George Washington liafl a hundred oqws in hia yards, and bought bntter for his table, the South has been a standing illustration of '-system that seems to faring wealth but in fact leads to penury. * * Far be it from us, who justly prize the thrift and enterprise of North era cl aracter, to draw invidious distinc tions* 0? fan a sectional pride. * The South' spends top jpupb on factors and shipping merchants • sWkeeps* on tho road such long trains of wagons; she supports such »n army of steamboat hands and sailors, and clerks, and brpkers, and insurance agents—in short she pays large ashore of what tho earns in order to get a chance to buy what she wants, that she must continue to live in log cab ins and ride in bridle paths. X p,ip&i‘ fc gmn'fg Hip ioun«D about a girl iu Chester, Vt., dying from tight lacing. An editor, commenting on tho fact, sajs: “These cortets shonld bo done Awuj* \vi|4i j if the girls ( live without being s^uce^ed, we sup r ___ men can be found who would sacrifice theipsolypc. 4s pld as we' are, we would rather devote thrpp Jipnrj a flay, without a ppnt of pay, os a brevet porset| than see there girls dym* (jff ?H !!># fflanuer* Of fice hours almost any time. *• Corode decline* to be a candidate for re-election to Congress. The name for eggs among California. Chinamen gfajofcen-Duta. SO"A p®!** >mt in III soluble way: “ If yon ilollac go and par him; wl money we ongbt to keep lively. qi|, ^tl owed Jim, Jim gbt m*«V bevauus talks i tbit nc bnt a single ero ia so little loving it around G!T®d Bfll and Bill “ mjilc ~ pay one morning last wetk'; but wo piid Bill, and Bill paid Jim, and Jim went to bed that night liappj as a 'elan., with just as much money (is fao had ia thb moniing, and three men cijt of de} i." * A Detroit negro prisoner, qn liis fray to tho pooitentivy for lawny, wm asked wiiat he thought of tho trial. He , «qviam dat lawyer dat ’fended me made hi* speech, I thought ubuah I waa'gofn'g to take my rile hat an’ walk right out of dat oot'n room; but when do odor lawyer got up and commenced talkin, I knew I waa de biggest rascal on top of do carf.’ Tub Qxly Sajett.—^rt'eycry man, especially thoso in public life, who desire tc avoid a drunk ards’ death, remember that he is qn N the crumb ling verge of such an infamy when ho begins to feel tfaat Jp orfler to prepare himself T ibo doc tor for Consultation, the 4wycr for a psse, tfag clergyman for a sermon, tjje polificiah for a speech—hewu»t t|ke » drink cl liquor ora plug of opium, and the self same moment of that discovery let him put his foot down, raise hia hand and swear, that by the help 9f God, he will never taste another grain or drop as long aa life remains. This is the only safaty. mule baa — — 0 —. A liken.. reward will bo paid for tho delivery of the mules and information concerning them will be thank fully received. _ J. F. BAILEY, my26*tf Americus, Ga. GETTING MARRIED.—Ei VJ save for young men.—on tho delights of Home, aud the propriety or impropriety of get ting married, with sanitary help for those who foci unfitted for pistrhnoplsl happiness. Sent lreo in scaled envelopes. ’Adqreas Howard As- sociation, Box P: Philadelphia, P—my21 JUST RECEIVED, Lemon*, UrangCb, Apples, Raisins, Cnvnmts, Citron Viekles, Preserves, . ilramly Peaches, Ac., Ae. ALSO, A SllTI.Y OB FINE . WINES, Claret, Sherry, Ete., VRPH ars m SPEJtlOa QUALITY, ASP A? Extremely Low Prices! oaiAt froos a’j* Frank Hall’s. niy2G-4t North side Lamar sL What is the difference between a sol. ( dicr and a fashionable ladj t One faces Tho Mexican Government has confla- t|w powder, and the other powders tho fated PnntA rstatov. ifa** .. * . . SEVYIP MACHINES ' OS TIME) WE WILL SELL The American Gombmatiou JflrrroNvJfOLp OVERSEAMING SEWING MACHINE OR TH3 PLAIN AMERICAN, which will do all that can bo done on tlie Com bination Machine, except the Button Hole & O verseaming. ON TIME ! nog make tho lock *>tito „ Will qot Rip! They willbtiUh, hem, felt, tuck, cor S uilt, and gather and sew ou. In fact oeverything tliat any other machine comparatively noiaeleas, and easier than any other two thread machine. We will sell these machines to respond bio parties upon the follow ing terms: £25 cash when the vutchiue is fought, bal ance in weekly in$talinenis ui\tl die. machine is paid for. Any lady try to (ho fact that he ia prepared 1 kinds of CUSTOM-MADE WORK at the shortest notice. We lave Two European Workmen, who will give satisfaction to the tradi. 0,*u. to the fart tliat he has had a good pitropiwW fourteen years from the jiiiBDc,'he reels aWc-n- - ) is willing to cut and mike Clothes at iaodentflr low prices, so as to save the ladies the trouble .1 making them, as he can then better fufUl !.;d above promise; K01R, i*o par. Rctwrini *14 cleaning done at short notice. JLOOUESi, mavS-ly South Side Lamar Stmt. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, For Diseases of the Throat and Longs, such as Coughs, Colds, Whoopin' ■ Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma, and Consumption. — Probably ncVCr bofort; Id "the'Whole hbtorrof medicine, ’lias any thing won so widely end to ! deeply upon tbc confidence of mdukl&d, as us excellent remedy lor-pulmonary complaint*. Through a lohg soric* of years, and amour nott of (he raw-* o^op it has ifaeu higher nmUiicijn rioilt* 1 aWvt iofc£ fib? In m M Umarflu*- , SUmIM wSS ; itt~t effectuhlmneov that ran te given f-r wf 1 lent copsupipvto, iuid ifa* iUpgmsp. ##*** of iht* threat and iiu-.gs, ,\s» proviMon splus Kud.kn at tucks of h.+tu. it rltoulJ I* to-* “* hand in every family, r.r.ci Indeed a» niLircfWne -liine^ subject to colds and coughs all should ^ provided with ihi> autidolc for them. . AM bough sett icd Oenatf mftttm ii Ikotftt rumble, still gicat auiubers el «■»*•» wSenc in* dkea»« KttSil »etUn!, have beeu cow|Atrh rwr«nl. iin.l gif pntjfpt restore,i to so’iiri ly fids cWrnf Pert*r*'< •**>' * >1 mnnery over Uie tUssriLva ef ih' ‘•'■Od M' Throat, thauiie nn-st ob.-titiale of them > »W ».r ; When nothing el-c roulC. res** luenj. swKr (Amy JVctorol lliev »uWki« ••wu Mntjm and 1‘uUit Hftokrrs g IukI pw* Tjopd uot ^iibiii-h the fert folly •imint::ji^C({. ^ Ayer’s Ague Cure, Cot Pevcpjuid UJ5 Bilious 1 *'■ poisons. unith.Wort nor liny uthcr mlncralpr eubsiance whatever, it la povtUe w**** tlrnr. Tho umahersud ini|MUlflncooi in theagimdiatrieu, arehtcreBv;has*""" Chill Fever, Bemittent Fevj Ague, PeriCKiical or Bilious and togg^Jbe affscrioM », ia ft short vita® make the machine Pay for Itself. Every Machine Warranted. Leitner and Fricker, SOLE AGENTS asstiistigr? KilpfepsSS ialtng the Liver into heehlnr nctiritv. ;t For BQVius Dtsoritors snd Liver is an excelleat remedy, pro<Iueing rental kable cures, where other meuirine* b, DC. J. 0. AVER * .pbyfJ'SI an«l Analytical Chemists, Lowell, Ma*** tok’. all rQpnd the world. yJSICE, $1.00 PER 90TU£ : eCoxouy is weaiSF COAL, COAL, COAL r * Tr,«Vw« a cheaper and better fire Layinyoureu^y t gn^ jw aprfl2S-2m* AR3IAND L. BUTI^ TAX NOTICE.,