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THE WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.
HANCOCK. GRAHAM * REILtV
THE STATE TREASURY.
m<W. N. u anoixb’s wcroKT to THE
KKfOR OF OEOBOIA.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA:
Friday Morning. February 21,1871.
Fnn Um Cincinnati Commercial.
Sirs. Woo dim 11 Catches Gener
al Pleasanton in a Delicate Pe
tition. *
Theascr*b’s Omac, State of Gsoegia, The other day, General. Pleasanton, a
Atlanta, January 10, 1871. j delicate. Fensitive little gentleman, was
Tn IBs F-xeUencu, Rufus D. Bullock, ! Brewing for dinner. He bad divested
To Ms luteuency, ixj himself of every garment except the one
«ti>okeii of by Hood in that melancholy
.. . ..m « - . |1,„ Kl.Sr* »»
Governor of Georgia: '
Sin. Iu conformity with the require-j song called “Tht Song of the Shirt,
mcnts of the Code of Georgia, I here- j He was sailing about under bare j ole*i
with transmit a report of the financial ; when he heard a knock at the door, and
transactions of the State for the year J supposing it !o be his man—who ought
1870. to have been there. ncd was not—lie sang
Table A shows the balance on hand at j out, “Come '
ttgfMra. Oates, during her recent en
gagement in Macon, contributed one
hundred and thirty-two dollars to the
Soldiers' Relief Association of that city, j date of last report, the total receipts and i ation, that constitutional female known
. . payments in each month, and the balance j as Mrs. Woodhull, with a peaked hat and
*** m hand January 1st, 1871. ; a man’s overcoat, termina ing in umnis-
Table B shows the balance on hand at j takuble crinoline, stalked in. As she did
mediately stalk out, but stood
A LITTLE C0MK0H SENSE.
How
From all the country coutiguons to,
and which seeks this city as its market
town, saye the Columbus San, we ere
pleased to learn the disposition of plan
ters is pretty general to plank com in
sufficient abundance to meet their wants
—and of many, to go back to their habits
practiced in antebellum times, of rais
ing a sufficiency of hogs to feed the force
oy their respective fu-ms. This is glad
tidings indeed, under its prospective in-
To h» otter constern- duence, our apirita, which have been
made to flag from the depressing in
fluence of the past year’s agricultural
operations, already begin to revive.—
Doubtless there are a few yet reckless of
K&.A curd from J. Blakely Smith, Xtt „ JO „
the Lumpkin Telegraph, states that the j ^ D f report, the total receipts j , .
late unpleasant difficulty between E. C. j from each separate sorree of taxation, | looking at the Commissioner of Internal 1 care for the good of their suffering sec-
Douglas and X li. Chrirtiau. which or-1 the total paTment. from each ap. rial Rcveone in tha aUtmct, the lost «•»«! jho will plant largely of cotton to
fond, and the balance on hand January uik man, hiding behind an urra chair, 1 1 . *
:ginated from a misunderstanding, 1188 j lgt lg71< I stuttered ont, “Excuse mo, madam 1” Jneglect of gram. Such are more to
l>ecn honorably settled. 1 Table Oshows the bonded indebted- “I want to see yon on business, Gen’’ pitied than despised, and*we have
ness of the State of Georgia on the 1st' eicl Pleasanton.” hoped that these erring ones from the
Sophie Won-ell, of the Worrell i day of January^ JL871, exelusire of the \ “Well, madam, wan t you be so goofl j force of the good example set them and
irltli Genius.
[From a Late Speech of {Gen. lb F, Butler
Congress]
I may be mistaken, but in my own be
lief there is no man in this country who
lias more canso to feel in his heart of
hearts antagonistic to West Point than
myself. The results of the discipline and
teachings ot. West Point followed me
through four years, the most important
of my life, and inflicted upon me more
injury thou mortal man ever before did,
or, thank God, mortal man can do again.
I felt it from the 16th day of April, 1861
until the 8th day of November, 18C5. It
constantly overshadowed and enveloped
me and clonded my path; it was an ever
present impediment to the performance
of the duty to which I hail almost for
tuitously been called, and which I hoped
listers* Burlesque troupe, fainted dead
aa-ay daring tho performance in Frank
fort Tuesday night, from the effects of
over-exertion, and caused by an accident
occurring some two years since.
4c£rGen. Chanzysays that ongoing
into action his troops “blubbered and
yoared for priests to confess them,”
which request was always complied with
at a delay ; and even at that they ran
•4 way.
die in a prayer meeting,”
Was the remark recently made by the
wife of the Rev. O. D. Taylor, of Jackson,
Michigan. Her wish was fulfilled, for
that very night she fell ill in chnrcb, and
was carried home, dead.
A Caution to Jurors.—'The Marion
(S. C.) Star reports that Richard Green,
one of the petit jurors for the Court,
hoods issued in 1870.
Besides the bonded indebtedness, as
shown iu Table C, n large amount of
new State bonds have been issued, great
ly in excess of the honest demands
against the State, and under circumstan-
to the Bnreau.”
“ I don’t care anything about your
, condition, General Pleasanton, but it is
that lead to the belief that these a matter of some importance that I wish
bonds have been used for private par-; to see yon upon, and this is as good an
poses, and to further the ends of certain; opportunity as any.”
to my office. *„**. .« «, .. ,. , *• . .
to see any one on business just I l ,ro8 P ent J attending the practitioners,
il I beg you to desist and come j will yet be brought to a proper apprecia
tion of what is to their interest and to
the interest of their section. f
individuals. ...
Paragraph 10 of section 8G of the Code j agonized Commissioner, shifting his ti-
makes it the duty of the Treasurer to nancial person from one leg to the other,
“annually report to tho Governor the “won’t you permit me to dress for din-
amount of State debt bearing interest; ner ?"
for each year, distinguishing between “I have no objection to your dressing
the sterling bonds, if any, and federal; for dinner, but what I want to know is,
the rate per cent, paid on each kind of
bonds, tne amount upon each rate paid ;
also the exchange, if any, and the ag
gregate amount of interest paid in each
year, and the amount due and unpaid at
each semi-annual payment, and the
reasons for such non-payment”
These bonds, so far as the coupons are
concerned, not being executed according
to law, and not registered in the Treas
urer’s office as the law requires, I have
no data by which I can arrive at the
exact omonnt of new bonds issued.
iu session in Marion, was sentenced to 1 have made several attempts to learn the
fifteen days imprisonment in tho county J amount nnd^ disposition made ^of the
jail, by the Judge, for getting drunk »—**»—«* 1
the first day of the term. The Jndge
n!so ordered the Clerk not to issue said
what are yon going to do with this Yan-
What planter is so blind that be
not comprehend the fact that the very
thing that mokes corn high, makes cot-
My Gal. mndata," txcl«imed tbe j toa ]ow . Cotton nt 25 cent, per pound.
pays a handsome profit on the land and
labor employed to produce it. At a less
price, its production in Georgia is a poor
business. With the production of 3,-
750,01X1 bales alone, this price will be
guaranteed. Not only this amount
see that be prodneed iu the cotton States of
America, but with it, on every planta
tion, can bo made the corn necessary to
subsist the stock aud labor on it. We
trust wavering planters will weigh well
this matter before planting time,
try the experiment, and plant for the
full of their cribs. Do not fear the pro-
not looked | duction of too much corn, for be assured :
derbilt case ? That Vanderbilt
great outrage, sir, and I
somebody is to be swindled out of a half
a million of dollars,” and here followed a
statement of the Vanderbilt ease, that
occupied just twenty minutes by the
clock, aud was very forcible and emphat-
At the end of it, when the strong
midded constitutional Woodhull paused
for breath, the Commissioner said :
I don’t know anything about the Vi
derbilt case, madam.
West Point Played Smash
aud labored to make one of high honor
to myself aud of usefulness to the conn-
try.
Although. I had laid before Petersburg
aud -Richmond for as many months os
any other General of the armies of the
Uni fed States, although the troops under
my command-held, from June in the first
case, and from September in the second,
the must advanced post ot the enemies
works both before Petersburg and Rich
mond, taken by their gallant fighting
while under my orders, yet the represen
tations of West Point officers of the
army of tho Potomac to the Geueral-i
Chief, as appere by his letter sent to the
President of the United States, that they
were unwilling to serve under a volun
teer General whose rank, he being the
last of the volunteer Generals not gradu
ates of West Point left in high command,
compelled him to be at the head of the
army when the Lieuten.int-Genaral was
absent from the armies operating before
Richmond, caused me to bo relieved from
command of the briny of the James, then
lying nearest to Richmond. I was seut
homo in apparent disgrace, and thus
allowed the coveted and msy I venture
say well-earned honor of entering the
capital of the enemy at tho bead of the
troops unde*’ my command, which they
! had helped to subdue, as a triumphant
| reward for labor in the field during the
Tha ot__- __ _
his church. Entered an old
lady. Polite usher says, “Shall I con
duct you to a seal.' madam f “If you
please, sir,” replies the-old lady. The
ceremony oTer, old lady tyrna to one Of
three young ladies In the pew "behind
her, and asks, “Do you know the bride?”
Young lady says, “I do.” Old lady adds.
The inspiring strains of the “Midsummer
Night’s Dream March” are flooding the
church, but the young lady, nevertheless,
drops bock upon her seat, horror struck,
to read: “Mrs. Evans, nnrse, No. —,
East Sixteenth street.”— World.
CQhr A youth clearing up a San Fran
cisco printing office found a keg of black
sand. Another boy bet him spruce
gum that it was powder and ho took the
bet. A coal of fire was gently but firmly
dropped into the keg. There was no
iusurunce on tho building. The two
experimental youths are supposed to
have gone into the country looking for
spruce gum.
M. Louis Blanc is preparing a history
of the seige of Paris, tho incidents of
which he follows with the closest atten
tion.
i&nv fjMtrtisemwt*.
Bbls. EARLY ROSE POTATOES.
EARLY GOODRICH.
YELLOW POTATOES.
GKEtOCERIKS, PROVISION
-j % ‘ ' —AND-—
PRODUCE,
ws
By selling for cnsli, WE CAN AFFORD ini WILL BELL for as litu. „
any House in Americus. P
R1ES and PROVISIONS-In QUALITY. PRICE andASSORTMENT** 10 ?'
excelled in the city. Wo are aware of the depression in money mattei'S* *
GIVE AS MUCH GOODS for a “GIVEN SUM OF MONEY” -
South-West Georgia.
san J HOUSE
“‘“ fy y0 “ ,,WE S ' AY WHAT wemeakmj
MONTGOMERY & SHAW
FLOUR! FLOUR!! FLOUR!!! All Grad#
BACON, BULK-MEATS. HAMS,
SHOULDERS, SIDES, &C„ AC.
—FACTORY THREAfc, at Si 40 per Bunch—Best Quality. FISH, MACKEBn
Illuei and White—at reduced prices. In fact we are selling everything low
EST LIVING PRICES—For CARH.
10
BARRELS APPLES.
MONTGOMERY & SHAW.
Green auy pay certificate. It would not
*lo for General Grant or Beast Butler to
be jurors in South Carolina.
at u single paper. I have not heard any- j that just in proportion as your corn crop
| bondsi'bnt~the~finsneini agent, who has I Kno^had toe.*”My o't^Ido” t get ! “ b ° uuttoaa - tl18 P™" o[ > onr cot -1 tlie Courier jounwl, in Lexing-
' them in charge in New York, has been time to get on wy breeches. I don’t * on l ent l upwards.. . } ton, Kentucky, while the_btrackosch
instructed by the Governor to withhold 1 want to be rude, but I wish you would i
all information concerning them. Enough go away and let me dreas.”
however has been learned to anthorizft j At this moment a knock was heard at.
the statement that nearly fire millions! tho door, and Plcns&ntou yelled louder J
have been issued and sent to New York, than ever he gave command to a battal-
This attempt at concealment leaves; ioi
ground for grave suspicions; uud it th<
wonld behoove an honest executive to I of
Fres h Shad, &c.,j
An Affecting Incident
The following affecting incident, says I As usual,
' ““ CHEAP, FOR CASH.
company was in that city. The story
™ f tohl by an eye-witness :
Loyalty at the South. On Sunday last, as the venerable j
In u late issue of the Now York Tribune Chief Justice Robertson, strickened by
find a letter written from Washington the of <leath * almost insensible
Corn, Corn, Corn,
Bran, Bran, Bran,
A Nkw Agitation in Fuance.—The
people of Nice are in tamultuons agita
tion for a repeal of the union with
France. They wish to obliterate the
consequences of Napoleon’s work after
the Italian war. The Nizzards want to
return to their first allegiance to Italy.
They havo had a city meeting for the at
tainment of this objact. French troops
were called out and dispersed them at
the point of tho bayonet. j arf“ 0 r ;CT d "^ d t-dTn"iebtian^
ir bonds issued, will make something
jr forty millions of dollars, keiug one-
fifth of the tax returned value of all the
property in tho State, exclusive of rail-
Tne door opened, and! by “A Lovalist, ” the larger part of!!° tu ? worul * which be seemed fastleay
bstantial figure and handsome face ! whicU is appended : wSchfbTili many throbbed
Commodore Alden ujmeared upon! _ . . iT ,.. , , , , , w'ncnior so many y.ars nas inroooea
:pose such frand against the State. | the entrance. So soon as he did this, j . yfff 1,0 h *\ \ «»»«* to the insp.ra ions of his genius
In addition to the foregoing, bills were the Commissioner chassezed from the 8 biffild bemade to ‘ take a back seat, i barely fluttered with the consciousness of
e aid to the following j rear of nis arm-chair to the back of a an<1 t . hut the n ) cu »j on « should K ov- j life, he expressed a desire Jo hear Miss
passed granting State
named railroads : i sofa, and Alden thinking that ho w
[Hero the names of the railroads to j trading upon some tender scene between
which State aid has been granted.] i the Gt nond oml tho female, beat a hasty
Making in all thirty-two railroads to j retreat, lint tho Commissioner was not
which the indorsement of tho State is! to bo forsaken, and ho ran to the door,
pledged, covering a distance of over two | jerked it open, tuid. with tho toil end of
thousand miles and iu amount about
thirty millions of dollars, which the
Stato prospectively guarantee**. This ad-
roads, banking, express, and insurance
companies.
his linen flying in the wind, seized Com
modore Alden and brought him buck,
when tho cool and courageous Woodhull
rose, iu a majestic manner and wished
them a good day, Pleasanton rank ex
hausted iuto a choir, and begged Alden
for a little brandy to try aud rally from
thisjremendous attack of woman’s rights
“Within t!.* ; brief garment ot a weak defense,
He stood appalled.”
Radical Christianity.
i tho Fubruarr
which the title
Butleu’s Outrage Bax.—Gen. But
ler’s bill, (says tho Tribune of Saturday)
to prevent and punish outrages upon
loyal citizens at tho South, and to
provide for taking and preserving
evidence lo support tho claims, of citi-
zeua for property taken during the war
by tho army, was freely criticised by
members of the House iu conversation
to-day. It is found that all the Com
missioners authorized by the bill are up-
pointed, there will be more than 950 of
these officials, one for each county in 12
States, and cne for each city of over 20,-
(•00 inhabitants. As these officers will
l*o paid only by fees, ihey will naturally
endeavor to create business that they may
derive fome profit from their places. This
they will l*e able to do in but two ways.
First, l*y encouraging people to prefer
claims ugainat the United States; and
second by arresting persons sospeetdd of
Ku-Klux offenses or affinities, and bind- j balance for supplies and monthly pav
ing them over to the United States Dis- rolls; making a difference ngaiust the j „ ^ IU8to ‘ ,;ino doubt that John
State of O.W Million ,md fifUxn U,oum,nl P r, w "> gopher. . tauDcr, wool mcreW,
... (tlj. i- _ ...ii fanner. Kansas chieftain, umvbuntifd cnn.
loyal men alone should g
the country. I can't see any more j Cury sing the ballad of “Old Folks at
sense iu your idea of hastening to restore j Home,” us if the strains of his favorite
rebels to power, lest they should be irri- melody would have power to call back
tated by being kept out o! it, than there his soul from th^» portals of tho grave,
would be in turning over New York to the . which he was so fast nearing. The wish
roughs and repeaters lost they should be : was at once communicated to Miss Cary,
offended nt your efforts to prevent their I a ho williugly consented to do anything
• ay beull right; in her | * 1 "' nUU: — —
fraudulent voting.
but I, for one, fuil to see it/und I believe ! rent of life
a large majority of iLe loyal men of the i or jurist, has
country see it as I do. It may be all right | ing the coun
for politicians and demagogues who want. On reachiii;
tho ebbing
as u statesman
t few rivals dnr-
of a long aud eventful life,
residence of Judgi
the votes of these rebels and advocate ; Robertson Mbs Cary was at once ushered
such a course ; but it doesn’t strike
| us being just to the loyal men of the
South or btst for the countiy. My idea
j is that a crime ought to be punished ;
i and if treason is not a crime, what, in
I Heaven's name can it be ? Every man
that the easier you make the es
cape from punishment the i
; courage the coutmis:
^ last annual report, to January
1st, 1870, the estimate for the usual anil
necessary disbursements for that year,;
exclusive of the interest on the public j
debt, was fire hundred thousand fkAlars i Among the articles
(8500.000) . This was ample for all lion | number of the Knnnim
Sirs n
nearly twice that amount, namely. Aim: j uhristuimty, edited by Rev. Ed a aril C. ought to thank God uud loyal
hundred anti sertniy-jite thousand d>tllar* | Towne, and publishers iu Chicago, is an | , H ' U j. 1
(8975.000) , besides a large debt incurred | article entitled “John Brown on the Scaf- 1 “ Ve
against the “State Road.” _ , i f o!tl , and Jesns on the Cros
mmits treason he forfets hi
nto the chamber where so much of in
tellect and learning was fast flickering
out into the darkness of (he unknown
hereafter, and, without accompaniment
of any kiud, raised her rich contralto
voice in the touching wools, “Way down
upon the Suwunee river,” but before she
had sung three lines broke down iu the
intensity of her emotion. Calming her-
right j self, she again essayed the ballad, anil
Win
A LARGE LOT JUST RECEIVED
FASUIOKABLK
DANCING ACADEMY.
AND SELLING LOW, FOR CASH.
MONTGOMERY & SHAW
day afternoon at 4o’clock.
The Clatta for young gentlemen will bo organ- '■
' " ning at 7J o’clock.
• Tumos-$10,00 per Term of 12
—ALSO AGENTS FOR-
Dissolution.
of R. C. BLACK * CO., has this day j
> been dissolved by mutual consent. It. C. j
‘ '■ the old
BLACK
stand. South side Lamar Street.
It. C. BLACK,
J. H. BLACK A CO.
FOR THE WORLD RENOWNED
SINGER MEW FAMILY
Sewing Machine.
Strayed or Stolen
JIROM the_ Stable of A, J. Loiter, in the East-
of the city, on Friday uieht, 17th
’., A'Lirge Che^timl tiorrel Horle, about
streak in his fai
yearaold, small white
gall Tinder his li ft Tor
Any pars m uk ug up said u *r
inforuiathm that will lead to h
liberallv re*
A. J. LESTER.
Democratic Barbershop
The same report estimated tho annual’ ,. ,
net earnings of the Western and Atlantic " ouhl not be out of the way to call at-
Itailroad, the property of the Stab*, of ^ teutiun to the natural inuuner in which
which the Governor was President, at these radical christiuns places tliorrdi-
ll,r«h,o,dr«lanil,ixt.j Ooiumjl <*».«. i ral Sllj „ t Mor> , , he ( . nu . illlHl OnUilem ;
Only forty-five thousand dolllars was • ’
paid into the State Treasury, while this | ,mt wo proiK.sc 1
road is reported to have accumulated u j tract from the article
floating debt of over seven hundred thou- i will speak for itself
sand dollar's, part due connecting roads, | Comme ,it •
triet Courts for trial. The result, is ar
gued, wonld be to insure the filing of an
enormous number of claims, and to make
more criminal business for the District
C’ouats than could be dispatched for the
next 10 years. Another argument inode
against ftie bill is that it will virtually
take from the State courts all jurisdic
tion over criminal offenses. Gen. But
ler announces his determination to call
up the bill early next week and pash it
to a vote. *
The Caspst-Bao Element.—Were not
the people of the South almost the per
sonification of that charity which hopeth
all things and endureth all things, says
the Detroit Free Press, they wonld be
unable to bear the burden which Radical
hatred placed upon their shoulders. The
men who administer their laws are either
taken from the moat vicious classes of
the NoTth or of the South. Justice is
rendered a mockery, and law perverted
so os to sanction crime, rather than pro
vide for its punishment. Petroleum V.
Nasbv, who is intensely Radical, makes
this admission in one of his lectures :
VI met judges of courts in the South
ern States, who, ten years ago, were host
lers in livery stables in the North, and
whose knowledge of criminal law they
had gained from standing in the pri—
era’ dock. ”
Is it strange that there is lawlessness in
n country where such men administer jus
tice V Is it not strange, on the oontrary,
tliat crime is not ten-fold more prevalent
than it is ? Is it not strange tliat an
fiuence so terribly destructive of a sound
morality, as the rule of Radicalism has
shown itself to be, Los not broken up the
foundations of civil society ?
. A Le Mans letter -states that when
the Bretons ran away from Yviee
VEvcque, they threw down their knap
sacks aud arms, leaving tho high rood
strewod with them. When the first
1 latch of the cowards got into Le Mans,
they found a railway train ready for
starting, iu which a great many wound
ed were lying upon straw in cattle vans.
Without scruple they pulled the wound-
• d out of the train, l«ud them down on
(be cold flagstone*, axul took theirplnoes.
A good many in their precipitate flight
Ivtnl tn j.lt!,u lift!.. .... TT-I.-.
tried to close the littl** river Hnisne,
which was swollen beyond its ordinary
proportions, aud were drowned.
irbtilim : “Miv. of Main requests
the hunter from the west—to write his
naim iu her album. Her enrosity shall
"»** giuttificd by a sentiment wishing lu r
Leith nnd liapiness and a safe si rival at
her residence with her family and frieuds.
David Obocxktt.
• A short time ago, the Fairfield
(Iowa) Ledger, by some mistake, was
♦vpf ti thTSo * ~
HBHL . _ -UoOffifield (TowaV Democrat
with but one aide printed. The Demo-
i nt printed its edition on the otber sido,
yZ.SSi 111141 8)5111 lk - , back T
Republican on one 8ide and
f Dtfnsely Democratic on the oilier.
iloUar. (1,015,000). This' is n Milijact J.rovisiomj
that calls (or tliorongh iDTestigstii,u, „ | rtitmiuu maker, and lUrper.Ferrj
it is a matter of great wonder tij.,t a : Comaisnaer, must cfased with the
main trunk road, besides a heavy wav ' S^ eatt3 ^ ebaracterr t i history, because of
freight, receiving at one end the stock- • rt * mnr kable union of clear
produce and mauufactures of the North
nnd the great West, poured in by river
and rail connection ; and at the other,
distributed by three different railroads
immediate connection, all of which
the people ore amazed that this
great receiver and distributor, ono hun
dred and thirty-eight miles long, fully
equipped, should be so badly unwaged
us not to pay expenses, but saddle a
large debt upon the State. The inquiry
, “ What has become of the money ?”
Said lost report further shows, after
paying all the ordinary expenses, includ
ing the matured interest, u surplus of
fonr hundred und seventy-one thousand
four hundred ami sixty-one dollars, to
be used as a sinking fund, to aid iu cur
tailing the State's bonded indebtedness.
With a wise and honest administration,
these estimates would have been easily
and folly realized; but with an excessive
ly prodigal, unscrupulous Chief Execu
tive in the nsc of tho public funds,
throwing them broadcast, with the hope
of buying influence, and usurping power
for corrupt purposes, with a venal
crowd to icspoud to bis mercenary, sor
did ends, over four and a half millions of
neve Stale bonds hate keen issued, which
the Governor, in his anxiety to keep the
matter concealed from the Treasurer
regish
requires.
Under these circumstances, the Treas
urer asks to be excused from venturing
on an estimate of the expenses for 1871. (
Oar final hope is in a great improve-;
meat iu the Legislative Department,
pure conscience, hi. 1 perfect courage,—
the insight of a pro:.!, the most uncom
promising love of ri : ;l.t, nnd absolute in
trepidity of action. J n amount of quali
ty he stands with li.t very few supreme
I their lie tided knees d»ily if they are per-
' mitted to iive iu the country. That uud
the possesion of tlieir property are a leu-
Perhaps I i. ney far beyond what they have a right
to ask. Every dollar of their property
ought to have ln*en confiscated and used
to pay the national debt, which the loyal
rneu auil womeu are now taxed for. If
treason is to be rewarded by restoration
to political power and office, why should
not auy laxly turn traitor whenever it
suits his fancy or purpose ? If the loyal
men are to ba thus placed under tho feet
and at the mercy ot the rebels, it were far
l*etter for them that thi-y hud been rebels
also. What inducement will there lie for
men to be loyal in the future, or what to
deter reliels from rebelling again when
ever the opportunity occurs ? To me,
it looks like compounding good with evil
—calling white black and black white.
;ive a single ex
question, which
id does not need
i the race, the fouuders for
kind of civiltiy and religion. Aud for
combinations of the grand types of char-1
actor, is too much to say tliat, as we see
him in his transfiguration before the
scaffold, his figure is nobler than that of
any earlier hero of our race—the wisest,
purest, braves: of raaukiud ! Standing
on this lust stage of time, instructed,
chastened aud inspired by a situation
quite beyond uny heretofore arranged in
• whole soul iu the simple utter-
l's which gave so much pleasure to
whose giaut intellect had iu dayt
agouo fascinated tlio most tnlcnfed of
the lnutl. Wlieu she hod ceased Judge
Robertson could scarcely express his
gratification by signs, yet signified a
that Miss Cary should sing for
him “Home, Sweet Home.” Twice did
the gifted artiste attempt to comply with
the request, but her emotion was too
great, uud choked with fueling, she was
compelled to leave the room. The
whole incident was ouc of the most
touching and aflectibg episodes tliat
over marked the deathbed of departing
greatness. .
SYLVESTER WILSON,
-AT THE— ^
Barlow House,
BEST MACHINE EVER INVENTED.
t&T All Goods bought of tis delivered anywhere in tlie City free of Dwyife.
MONTGOMERY te SHAW
GUANO FOR COTTOJ
rpHE ETIWAN COMPANY, of Charleston, ,8. C., offers to planters, the folk
•*“ mg well known Fertilizers, at reduced prices :
Akekman to ns Kicked Out
Cabinet fob Incomfetency.—A special
dispatch to the Ne.w York Evening Post
(Radical,) dated February 13th, says :
Yohr correspondent is iu possession of
information which leaves no doubt as to
the early r situation of Mr. Akerman as
Attorney General. The President has
frequently of late been urged to make a
change in this office, not merely for po
litical reasons, but for other aud higher
fications shall have been removed, they
will be retired to the obscurity of private
life,—not because they were Uniou men,
for many of them were not, but because
worked and schemed to humiliate
history, it was the order of Providence j people u thousand times better tlrnu they
that the mount of this martyr should i , . . „ • „ ,
ptanttbostau-tarJof our march nboro j '' e,e ’ M1 ' 1 to «•'«««• thiir «*■*
Calvary, as Calvary planted it above | enJs kept up a continuous feeling of ill-
Siuai. Not that we compare, in respect. will aud discontcuL
ill lie ostracised by the de-
Judgiug from the tone of the sjteeches
lately matle in Congress ou tho bill to
abolish the test oath, we may take this
Loyalist to be a fair representative of the
average teulawags. This fellow aud his
class know that they have only kept of-
Bee disfranchising tho .hitejpeople of I c.'.nsTjeratTonl TOhinT'tew“days'put
the South, aud that wheu these disquali- j the affairs has assumed such a shape as
tqrequire the change to be made; and
although the President’s mind is said to
bo fully made tip to it, he hesitates as to
Uie policy of mukiDga break iu the Cab
inet until after the 3d of March.
“The necessity for Mr. Akerman’s res
ignation is understood to be entirely pro
visional. nnd to be attributed to a want
>f familiarity with the law governing
to nature, the now defied Christ of Gali
lee and tliejust now despised fanatic of
Harper’s Ferry. They were equally
couuuou men. \Y<; compare only the
Jewish figure with the American figure,
tbo man on the cross with the man on
the scaffold, and say confidently that h
John Brown on l.is scaffold, Eternal God
has lifted the standard of human ad*
vnneement higher than it was lifted in
the Christ of «CnIvarr. Or to put it in
otlmr words, and words justified by that
which Jesns himself said, the true Christ-
Son of God, Hciiven-aiinointed soul,
which was manifested in Jesus, and was
to be manifested iu his humblest disci
ple, the least of these his brethren, is
manifested to day in the American mar-
iiiilu ^ tyr aa it was not, and could not 1h> mani
as to”correct the° abused of*Yhe ExecnlI festeJ iu t3 ‘ 3 Messiah.”
live. i Tims, it will be seen, John Brown the
A Bqokkn Idou—It turns out, says
a Paris correspondent of a New Y'ork
paper, that the Sergeant Hoff, the pet of
Sclunite, and idol of Paris, the man dec
orated with the Cross of the Legion of
Honor for assassinating German seutin-
els, is- a spy! Every night Hoff used to
go out, cuuiiug iu the morning with a
Prussian casque, to report another sen
tinel killed. But this nice youug man be
gan to live freely—lie ave his mistress
seven thousand franca at uuu time, uud
at length he was put in tlie order if the
day as the idol of the duy. At Champig-
ny Hoff dimpi>enred, and the same night
his mistress, with whom bo had qur-
relcd, made some revelations. It
probably owing to her threats he left.—
The infamous set, uaheeoming a soldier,
for which ^off wns decorated, was con-
’ who hadererput
The government geologists in Denut-
rara, British Guiana, have discovered on
the Patoro river, witliin one hundred
miles of the capita), a fall with two leaps,
one of 750feet and nearly 700 feet wide ;
tl»e other over 80 feet.
8ft- There were two regularly estab
lished balloon companies in Paris during
tho late siego. The one firm was Dartois
k Yon, and the other consisted of the
two brothers Julias and Eugene Gadoid.
Kansas bushwhacker aud murderer the
instigator of negro insurrection, is placed
above the Savior of men by this Rev.
Mr. Towne. It wonld b * a blesscdThing
for him (he is a Uuiverauliat) if he could
prove his doctrine to lie a true one ; for
if there is a hell, lie will he very apt to
go tlivr*
National Bank Notes Not LegAl
Tenders.—The United States Treasurer
wrote a letter on the 10th insL to a party
in New York concerning the question
whether notes of national banks ore legal
tender. After reciting and commenting
on sections of the National Bank acts, he
concludes ns follows:
Aw you allud<> to the principle involved,
it may be proper fot me to tmy that to
tonke national bank notes ft legal tender
for all payments Would virtually exempt
tho banks from redeeming them, since
they wonld be as available for nli pnr-
ppse* except the reserves of the.banks,
as the notes of the Unital States in which
tOey are redeemable. The Whole nation
al bank circulation ot the country would
thus become a permanent loon, without
interest, from the people to tne banks,
and would operate os u tax upon the jh-o-
ple in favor of the batiks to jaetthe
amonnt of interest on die bank notes iu
podienev, and the propriety of* i<s adop
tion will scarcely admit of disaassioo.
Barrel tV luvj* the hair mout.
mocracy of tho South because lie was a
Union man. Indeed much of this clan
nishness of the Confederates would long
3 have died out, but that it has been
kept alive by the disfranchising enact
meats of State and Federalgovernments,
and tho utU-nmoe of such aggravating
sentiments oh are recorded above. The
wonder is tliat the people of the South
have accepted the wttnr.tion so generally,
aid been so anxious to have the Uniou
restored and Jiarmony prevail, when such
atrocious sentimeuts are uttered as these :
“ The rebels ought to thank God aud loy
al meu on their bended kne.-s daily, if
they are permitted to live iu the country.
That and the possession of their proper-
•c a leniency Ac. n Such os this is
Lgli to make rebels where now there
i obedient and supplicating people.
The excessive ilosiro for office on the part
of such Loyalists us the writer of the
above would ?>top nt nothing to attain
their euds, even though they ruled over
a desolate, ruined aud blood drenched
country. —
The Next Cotton Crop.—Wo have
closely examined our country exchanges
for the last three or four weeks to ascer
tain the intention of the planter* with re
gard to the next cotton crop. From near
ly every eection of the South tlio'reports
agree in stating that the acreage under
cottou will be largely reduced this spring.
In some districts, it is miid, not haft as
much cotton. wiU be planted as was last
season. On the whole, wo may safely es
timate from twenty-fire to forty per cent,
reduction iu the iaPfcage. Planters now
fnlly realize the f<4ly ox tlieir action last
season in entirely neglecting food crops.
They have paid pretty dearly for their
experience, and the cotton crop of the
8ont!i will henceforth, no doubt, be kept
within the proper limit of 3,000,000 baloe.
—2V,- O. Picayune.
C*3uC*det Grant, son of the President;
Cadet Townsend, and Cadet Farragnt,
son of Admiral Farragnt, have liceu ex
pelled from West Point, . -
porta ut
isinteresteil,
Court.
L*orrc8]x*ndeut violates no confi
dence in saying that several of the justices
of the Supreme Court have advised the
President to uvike this change, usserting
that Mr. Akt-rmau had not thns for dis
played even ordinary legal attainments
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,}
ltKoru* Meeting.
Amkuicvs, Ga., Feb*jr. (i, 1871.. )
ITeoeut.—Mayor Fculow.
»—SllUUNE, DaVEXTOET,
ArmtaL
Dray B »;.iL of J. U. Foldei, G. W. Glover, and
Mimx'm Slyer-, read and accepted.
Communication* from Wide Awake and Hook
aud Lad !er Fir© Companies, notifyina the Coon-
cii or the election of Capt. Win. Sinine, aaChieL
an-t a*l. A. 8. Cotta, ae A-at. Chief, Fire Do-
* irtim-iit, read, aud aaul elcctioua coutinned.
C .wumiucation of M. Wachtol, read and laid
iu the talde.
'1 he loii.J wing bill- read and passed:
T. A. Kasscli St Co., W7.20; I’atnck MiM-cll,
Alderman WV-thcimer submitted an
nance prohibiting dogs from running at lai
the city without collars tor badges. .Laid
under the rules.
Alderman Uaiuil, the following reaolution—
Tliat, Capt. Wm. Hirrine be requesteil to viait
Savjuuah, and witnoas tost of lire engine offered
for aa o to this Council, aud that lus expenses
aud suttivient per iliem bo paid him tor his trou
ble.
Copt, airrmo. Amendment agreed’ to. Rules
suspended and resolution, aa amended, paa-ed.
Aiuiruuu Davenport, a resolution looking to
the conditional paymeut of the uniform IbrCity
i payn
Police Force. Laid
Verbal report Chaii
Alderman Cobb, tho following—B
by the Mayor and City Counou ot
That the bunk in tho Annual Lteen
be filled as follows : Tax npou So.
i tho Annual License Ordinance
s : Tax npou So. Ex. Comp i
suspeodod and passed.
Streets, recommend
the ©peeing of a street fifteen feet wide, betw^n
J. V. 1‘ricu'a%™}Wm*sfiUt*lJ2E£Zt£.
jroyhiedteefome can booiwued with-
fteport read and adopted . ^
1 , UslK J r ^S!? ttXton V lerk Treasurer read
and ordered to be spread npou the n%oti.-a
Couucil adjourned to meet next ReguLr Meet-
fob .23-lt
H. I). HAND ALL,
Clerk and Trooaurar.
RIBBONS,
Millinery and Straw Goods.
ARMSTRONG, GATOR & CO.
ETIWAN GUANO,
Dissolved Bones
COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE
Cotton will lie talen in pnf moot for tlie abovo FERTILIZERS, eitlirr
r at Cafch priei‘s. For Circulars, Terms &c\ apply to either of the undersigned
CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST! I
Bonus;. Trimming. & Velvet Ribbons.
aXNET SILK, SATINS AND VELVETS,
Bio:.ils, Crapes, Rut-lies, Flowers, Feathers,
Netts, Ornament-,
Straw Bonnets and Ladies* Hats,
TIIIMMBD AND UNT1UHMED,
SHAKES HOODS. See.
£17 & 233 BALTIMORE STREET.
BALTIMORE, MO.
r tho Urgent Stock to be found in this
country, and unequalled in choice variety and
ehespneea, comprising the latest European
Orders soHcitcJ and prompt attention given.
TOWNS HOTEL,
ALBANY. OA.
T
EIE undersized having leased the above
House, solicits a share of tlie patronage,
with a promise ou their part to leave nothing
of fir tlio pleasure of tlioir <!ne.te.
B. A. COLLIER It CO.
For Rent.
A Small Dwelling House. Easy Terms. Ac
ply earlv. *
fcb. 16,-2w. G. Y,\ SIItRINE.
Bulk Meats and Bacon
Now on hand and for sale:
40.000 Pounds Clear Itib Bacon Sides
20.000 Pounds Clear liib Bulk Sides.
15.000
15,000Pound.
f Pounds Bacon Should era.
s Balk Shoulders.
10
Tferees SnjwTior Leaf Lard.
601
Barrels SUPERIOR FLOUR.
TBe ABOVE articles we PLEDGE* OUR-
SELVESto hell at MACON PRICES with enpenl
FURLOW St BliO.
feb. 16,-lm.
Notice.
The Books and Accounts of the
AMERICUS COURIER
“tail placed in tho hand, or Hour. FOBT
I HOLLIS, for collooi Ion, nnd If not raid nt in
n&d.f.taBta.nwr *“
W. li PEBRY.
GH0CERIES AND PB0VISI0NS
Thos. B. Glover.
J have opened a 8toro in the old Hotel Building
where I desire my old friends to give me a call.
When they need articles iu my line, I will sell as
anybody else.
T. B, GLOVER.
febL-ew
feb. 14,-20*1.
F. M. (JOKER,
Americas, &
CHARLES PRATT.
Savannah, fa
Gr. W. GLOVER,
| Metaphysical Discovery
On Hand and to Arrive
30,000 pounds Flour—All Grades—In
Barrels, Half Hacks and Quarter Backs.
20,000
pounds dear Rib Bacon Sides.
5.000
pounds Bulk Meats.
TOBACCO, SNUFF, AC.
Whiskey of all Grades.
Bool, ind fchoM.
DAVENPORT’S DRUG1ST08E
AND GET PHAMPHLEK
BED ANDPVHITE
Onion Sete
A.TJRILVA#
Hosford’s YeastPowde^
_ G QODa to the .mount of too pooml. ;End<»«d V MtdicC >nd
woid, delivered anywhere within (be city limits I
free from Drayage.
gcjeatifieU' 1
TERMS STRICTLY CASH,
G. W. GLOVER.
To all Wliam It may Concern.
proceedings to set aside a pretended aafo of
several tiiousand acres of load la Hum ter and
Macon counties, belonging to tbs estate of James
8, Clarke, late of North Carolina, deceased, held
~ first Tuesday in this month, at Americus and
l>e no “innocent purchaser* without
notice." February hth,^
W)0,-tf
Dxx*l VaitNxix. Jso.W.LxmR. WjlMcClcbz.
YARN ELL, LEIGH & CO.,.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
. Foot of Market Street,
CHATTANOOGA, . - TBSSKS8KE.
~ •«»'
Prompt attention to. Orders, and Cash
Advances QnConnignmeuts.
99“ Special reference to Chattanooga Banka.
jaa.30,-3ai.
LINSEED OH
RAW mil BOILED’
Improvi
<iM ao i p -
Everything kept in »
Store can be found at
W. T. DAVENPOI* 1
*£*
Next door to Granberrj’ *