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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
Uj- SMITH, .WIKLE & CO.]
Written for the Standard & Express.
INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.
From an I'npublished Manuscript.
B l A LADY OP BARTOW COI’KTT, GEORGIA.
“ Howe’er it tie, it seem* to me,
’Tl* only nohle to lie good;
Kind hearts arc more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.”
I found this time they had carried
off almost every article of convenience
that we had—buckets, pans, cooking
utensils, and they had only left us
two knives and forks, and two
spoons.
So I told Charlie if he could get a
horse we would take the buggy they
had left us, and go to their camps,
just a mile from us, and see if we
could find any of our stolen articles.
We succeeded in getting off. We
had gone hut about half a mile, when
we came to one of their breast-works,
and there, to our consternation, we
found a Yankee picket; but being on
“ my errand l**nt,” I told him where
1 was going, and my object. lie told
me that the command was passing
off, and that he was momentarily ex
pecting to be sent for, to follow on ■
so wo waited, and in a few moments
they came for him, and we went on
across the bridge. We could see the
reur guard at a distance, and now,
thought I, we can once more breathe
the air of freedom, untainted by their
foul breath. We had but just gone
into their camp, when suddenly we
heard horses’ feet coming up rapidly
behind us. I said to one of our ser
vants that 1 had taken with me,
“Oh! J was so sure the Yankees had
all gone, or I would never have dared
to leave home, if I had known there
had been any behind me.” We look
ed back and there they were, the
road filled with them ; hut not Yan
kees. Could it possibly be “Grey
jackets?” Yes, 1 could not be mista
ken—it seemed like a dream. I w r as
completely bewildered, for 1 had not
imagined there was one in miles of
us, though the Yankees had been
saying that there were some near
them, while they were with us.
1 dared not trust them, though I
never would l>etray my feelings,
without there was a familiar face
among them. I looked again, and
this time the kindly beaming faces,
bespoke our own Confederate soldiers
—so kind, so genial, so sympathiz
ing.
“ Oh!” said 1, “do go back; there
are hundreds of Yankees just before
us, and it is perilous for you to go far
ther.” They only laughed, and told
me not to he uneasy about them,
there was no danger; and away they
dashed up the road, and before 1
could well take a good breath, they
were hack again with a prisoner.
Now, what should I do. I had un
fortunately taken Harry along with
me. We were overwhelmed with
fear, for 1 knew the Yankees would
return, and there might boa fight
right here, and I might be in the
midst of it. While in this dilemma,
i thought I heard a familiar voice
near me, and turning around I saw
Ben coming towards me. I bursted
intotears. “Oh!” said I, “Ben,some
good angel must have sent you to me
just now; you seem to he always in
the right place; now what shall I
do?” “ Well,” said he, “ take Harry
and go up to the house, and Charlie
and 1 M ill take the buggy back into
this thicket, until things get more
quiet.” Ho we hurried on to the
house, and just as we reached there, a
messenger came from the scouts, say
ing that they were waiting for me to
cross the bridge, as they w’ere going
to tear it up before the Yankees came
back, to keep them from crossing.
My courage gave completely away,
for I feared the Yankees might come
up just as we were on the bridge, and
I dared not venture across; so I sent
word to them to tell the servants at
home, that I would come home as
soon as I could, and to take good care
of my little ones, until I returned. 1
had sent for an old lady living near
us, to stay w ith them, so I was now
more uneasy about ourselves than
them.
Ben then came up, and proposed
that if 1 would not go home, 1 had
better leave there before the Yankees
came hack, and go on to my sister’s,
and remain until the confusion M’as;
over. Ho M’e started, and M ere right j
fortunate in getting away when we;
did, for as we passed down one road j
M’e could see on the other a long line I
of Yankees dashing down at a rapid j
rate. But the Confederates M’ere far
away and out of all danger. The j
Yankees only went to the bridge, and,;
finding it torn up, they could go no !
further. They cursed and swore, and
finally retired.
I went on, and found my sister and I
brother-in-law in much trouble. The J
Yankees had been near them, and (
done them all conceivable mischief; i
but theirs Mas even a greater trouble ;
than this. Their only son, their dar
ling Walter, Mils now a soldier-boy,
and out battling for his country’s (
rights, only a few months before,
thou.:,.i he had numbered but sixteen
summers,
“ In his 1 1 right youth ho had hurried away,
And how proudly ho donned it, the jacket of
grey.”
Even then, but they knew it not,
he lay M’ounded in a hospital in Au
gusta. Col. Hal Beaumar, of Mt. Zi
on, Ga., M as retiring from the battle
field of Grahnmville, and as he was
passing along, something attracted
liis attention, that resembled a human
being. Ile stopped, and seeing a fair,
young boy, he asked him his name;
anil taking the wounded boy in his
arms he bore him gently from the
battle-ground, and thus saved the life
of the young soldier-boy. He Mas
sent to a hospital in Augusta, and for
M’eeks he lay there suffering, until
one day he heard a voice that sound
ed like music to his ears. It Mras a
friend of his mother, from his moun
tain home. The hoy soon felt the
magic influence of “ home and friends
around him; and ere long the suffer
ing one M’as M’ell again; and after
months of suffering and toil, he Mas
restored to his home once more.
After remaining a short time, until
Me thought every thing M’as quiet,
M’e started again for home, thinking
M’e could return by the lower bridge;
but our chagrin and disappointment
can be imagined, when M’e reached
there and found that that had been
torn up also.
There was no other alternative
then, but for us to take a long route
around and ford the creek.
Fortunately m’p met up with Al
fred, and he told me he could take
I me a mute, so that I could avoid a
f part where there were pickets out;
j which he did, but we had several
| breast-works to remove.
Just as M r e came out into the other
j road, we saw two young ladies walk
! ing out. We came on together a lit
tle distance, and ail at once, as if by
magic, two “jackets of Grey ” sprang
up. I almost trembled, for I feared
even the winds might tel! on them.
I told them the Yankees Mere al
most in hearing distance of them;
but they laughed and said they kneM’
it, but were not afraid of them. One
of them Mas Virgil Brown, a youth
raised right in our midst. I never
saw him after this, but I recollect how
hopeful and full of life he seemed
i then. But, oh! his fate was horrible;
I shudder even now, M’hen I think of
| it.
I recollect so well one bright morn
ing in the summer I Mas sitting out
|in the entry, M’hen a handsome,
youthful looking soldier rode up to
the gate. lie spoke familiarly, even
called my name. I Mas perplexed.
His accoutrements and all bespoke
the Yankee, even to his hat and
horse, I imagined. But his open,
frank appearance and pleasant l>ear
ing bespoke a Southern soldier. He
inquired if I knew anything of Lieut.
Cooley and his command. I evaded
liis query as best I could. The night
before, some of Lieut. Cooley’s men
had called, and kindly asked me if
any of their squad should pass to
please direct them to their camp.
He saw my hesitation, and that he
was not likely to gain any informa
tion from me, so he smilingly asked
me if I did not know him.
I replied that “I did not.” “ Why,”
said he, “ you ought to; you gave me
breakfast one morning last week; my
name is Virgil BroM’n.” I then rec
ognized him, and could tell him all
about Lieut. Cooley and his camping
ground.
Said I, “ But your clothes and hat
bespeak you a Yankee.” He said,
“yes, but his old clothes had given
out, and he was compelled to use them
just now for M’ant of gray ones.”
But a short time only, after my see
ing him on the road-side, he was rid
ing along not many miles from there,
not dreaming of Yankees, when they
suddenly came upon him. They
made him ride on some distance with
them, then made him turn and ride
off from them; and they shot him all
to pieces, and left him in the roads, a
mangled, mutilated corpse. His sis
ters, hearing of it, succeeded in find
ing his dead body, and hurried it.
We came on home, and, just as we
crossed the creek, we found another
breastwork. We reached home just
at dark, where I found all anxiously
expecting us.
The scouts had kindly stopped, and
delivered my message though. I
was thoroughly and fully satiated
M’ith a desire to visit a Yankee camp.
Sin Hknny Sydney’s Advice to
his Son at School —“ Since this is !
my first letter that ever I did write
to you, I M ill not that it be empty of
some advices which my natural care
of you provoketh me to wish you to
follow. Let your first action be the
lifting up your mind to Almighty
God by hearty prayr; and feelingly
digest the M’ords you speak in prayer
with continued meditation of nim to
whom you pray, and of the matter
for whicli you pray. And do this at j
an ordinary hour, M’hereby the time j
itself M ill put you in remembrance to I
do that which you are accustomed to
do at that time. Be humble and j
obedient to your master; for unless ;
you frame yourself to obey others and j
feel in your own self what obedience !
is, you shall never be able to teach
others to obey you. Be courteous and
affable to all men, with diversity of |
reverence according to the dignity of i
the person. There is nothing that j
winneth so much M’ith so little cost. !
Use moderate diet, so as after your j
meal you may find your wit fresher
and not duller, your body more lively |
and not more heavy than before.
Give yourself to be merry, for you
degenerate from your father if you
find not yourself most able to do any
thing when you be most merry. But
let your mirth be ever void of all
scurrility and biting words to any
man, for a wound given by a word is
often harder to be healed* than that
which is given by a SM’ord. Be rather
a hearer and bearer away of other
men’s talk, than a beginner and pro
curer of speech. If you hear a M’ise
sentence or an apt plirase commit it
to your memory. Let never oath be
heard to come out of your mouth,
nor word of ribaldry; detest it in
others, so shall custom make to your
self a law against it. Be modest’in
every assembly, and rather be rebuk
ed by light felloM’s for maidenly
shamefastness than by your sad
friends for pert boldness. Above all
things tell no untruth. No, not even
in trifles. Study and endeavor to be
virtuously occupied. Ho shall you
form such a habit of well doing, that
you shall not know how to do evil.
: Remember, my son, the noble blood
' you are descended of by the mother’s
| side, and think that only by virtuous
! life and good action, you may be an
‘ ornament to that illustrious family.”
His mother was Mary, eldest daugh
) ter of the Duke of Northumberland,
j At the time of Phillips birth she M r as
mourning the death, on“the block, of
! her father, her brother Robert, and
j his M’ife, the Lady Jane Grey. To
the letter of Sir Henry Sydney a
! postscrip was added by this excellent
(woman: “Your noble and careful
; father hath taken pains, M’ith his own
I hand to give you in this letter, so
M’ise, so learned, and most requisite
precepts for you to follow with a
diligent and humble thankful mind,
as 1 Mill not withdraw your eyes from
beholding and reverently honoring
the same. I first bless you with my
; desire to God to plant you in his grace;
I and, secondly, warn you to have
always before the eyes of your mind
| these excellent counsels of my lord,
your dear father, and that you fail
not continually once in four or five
days to read them over.”
Taste Not.—Drunk! Young man
did you ever stop to think hoM’
terrible that word sounds! Did you
ever think what misery you brought
upon your friends when you degraded
your manhood by getting drunk?
Drunk! How the word rings in ears
of a loving wife. How’ it makes the
heart of a mother bleed! How it
crushes the hopes of a father, and
brings shame end reproach upon the
sisters. Drunk! See him, as he
leans against the corner of some
friendly house. He stands ready to
| fall into the jaws of hell, unconscious
as to his approaching fate. The M’ife
of his bosom, M’ith aching heart, sits
at the window to hear her husbands
| footsteps—but they come not. He is
| drunk! lie is spending the means of
i support for liquor M’hile his family is
j starving for bread, his children for
clothing. Drunk! His reputation
going, gone! His friends one by one
are leavining him to his fate. He goes
doM n to his grave “ uuliouored and
unwept.”
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 11, 187-2.
Agricultural Department.
TAKING CARE OF I ARM IMPLEMENTS.
On this subject, the agricultural ed
itor of the Christian Union, Maxes
sarcastical as follows:
“ We have resolved, for the present
at least, to change our tactics regard
ing the care of farm implements.
Hitherto we have, in common M’ith
the agricultural papers in general,
urged farmers to take care of their
tools and machines. We have even
printed directions for oiling, and
painting, and storing, and the like.
Nou’. however. M r e have abandoned
that line of policy. The dealers in
and manufacturers of such imple
ments must live, and as M’e have
some friends and acquaintances
among them, M’e are convinced that
we have been too forgetful of their in
terests. An editor says that during a
ride of ninety miles M’hieh he took
through an averaged agricultural dis
trict, he counted the following un
housed implements, namely: Forty
four plows, tM’enty-three harroMS, sev
en mowers, one reaper with beater and
platform as last used, wagons too nu
merous to count, and in one instance,
a set of harness hanging on a fence.
The plows were mostly standing in the
furrow where they had been last used.
Such a sight as that gladdens the heart
of the itinerant manufacturer, and
is un example M’hieh ought to be fol
lowed by every tiller of the soil who
wants anew set of implements. Far
mers, attention! Do not rub linseed
oil on your fork and shovel and rake
handles, do not paint your plow’s and
moM ers, do not use any rust preven
tive on the iron and steel parts, and
above all, leave everything out of
doors. You really have no idea how
quickly you will possess anew set of
tools, provided you have balance at
the bank, if you abandon that most
objectionable structure, the tool house.
Only seven mowers and one reaper
out in the air in a stretch of ninety
miles! And only one set of harness !
Well, we will hope for a better re
port from that section the next time
our agricultural contemporary goes
that way.
TUE FUTURE OF SOUTHERN FARMING.
Mr. John H. Dent, in the Practical
Planter, after expressing the opinion
that foreign M’hite labor can never be
made available to any considerable
extent in cotton culture, thus states
his vie M’s as to what Southern farm
ing should and mustbeheneeforM’ard
in order to be truly successful:
My impression is ; the present sys
tem of cotton planting, on the large
scale in which it is noM’ carried on,
must lie abandoned, and gradually it
Mill become a part of diversified agri
culture, when the policy will be, from
improved culture, to make an acre
planted in cotton makea bale or more;
so in reducing the acreage planted the
amount made will not be diminished.
Such, I think, Mill he the tendency
in the future for raising cotton. As
regards agricultural machinery for
Southern farming, we must adopt it;
it is inevitable, but it will be gradual
ly done, and not until we have more
intelligent labor than M’e now have,
to handle it. We are now using im
proved labor-saving plows, horse
reapers, threshers and separators, but
they can only be entrusted with M’hite
laborers, that is, a M’hite man must
superintend the using them, if negroes
are employed as assistants. Place
reapers, threshers and separators in
charge of a parcel of negroes, and no
white man to superintend their run
ning, and shipwreck would soon bo
their fate; and as regards riding cul
ti raters, I consider them not adapted
to successful culture; the plow attach
ed to them cannot be properly man
aged, to be made to do good work.
But there are gang cultivators in use,
managed by the plowman on foot,
that do good M’ork and are good aux
iliaries as labor-saving implements;
a plOM’man must be on his feet to
manage any plow or cultivator prop
erly—this riding business is all fancy
—and nothing practical in it. South
ern planting or farming, to be made
profitable, must be conducted on
small farms by thorough preparation
and cultivation of the soil. It is im
possible to keep up the fertility of the
soil and fencing on large plantations ;
and one can afford to tend exhausted
lands M’ith hired labor, hence, M e say
the acreage of lands cultivated must
be curtailed and be made to produce
largely to the acre, if not, there will
be no profit in farming. The average
product of cotton plantations is
not more than a bale to five acres.
Would it not be best, then, to manure
and cultivate fifty acres, so as to make
what two hundred and fifty acres now
make. It M’ould certainly save much
capital now invested in lands, mules
and for labor. When labor was cheap
costing nothing more than food and
clothing, M r e could afford to tend poor
lands, but when scarce and high pric
ed the policy is to make the land fer
tile and produce largely. Thus our
plantations will be decreased in the
acres tended, so as to lessen the ex
pense in hands required, and increase
the crop profits; it is the only plan on
which they can be managed profita
bly.
ROLLING COTTON SEED.
Editor of the Rural Carolinian:
First, obtain a common whiskey
barrel, cut a square hole in one side,
the width of tM’o staves, (cut M’ith a
key-hole saM’,) the tM’o staves (fasten
ed with a batten) serving as a door,
and secured by common thumb but
tons. Next, run a plain wooden axle
through the centre of the heade, with
a handle at one end, for turning the
barrel like a grindstone. It is then
mounted on two posts or forks, driven
in the ground, so as to support the
machinery about two feet above the
earth. To operate, put in two bush
els of cotton seed and a bucket of M’a
ter, roll the machines sloM’ly a few
times, or until the seed are thoroughly
wet. Next, introduce tM’elve pounds
(or even more if desired) of sifted Pe
ruvian guano, land plaster, or dry
ashes, and, after a few more revolu
tions, the machine may be emptied,
by turning the barrel until the hole
is underneath.
The seed M’ill be found perfectly
separated, and as thoroughly rolled as
could be done in the usual way in one
hour. The whole operation need not
consume ten minutes.
The above machine for rolling cot
ton seed for planting is perfect. I
have used it two years. I saw it de
scribed in the Southern Cultivator,
November number, 1869, I think.
Many thanks to the inventor, R. J.
R., of Ellaville, Ga. Will you give
this a place in your valuable maga
zine, for the benefit of many.
J. M. Frierson.
Shiloh, S. C., Feb. 28, 1872.
SM’eet potatoes should be planted
largely every M’here. This crop is a
sure one, and helps out M’onderfully
M'here corn is short. The folloM’ing
plan is recommended by a Texan cor
respondent :
Select the largest potatoes for seed,
instead of the smallest, as is the usual
practice. At the time of bedding out
the potatoes, procure a barrel, or box,
that M ill hold water. Fill this with
corn cobs, and add liquid manure till
the cobs are entirely submerged. Let
these stand till the potato plants are
ready for transplanting, by M’hich
time the cobs M’ill be rotten, though
still holding together. Draw the
plants, and M’rap each once around a
cob. which bury in the ridge previ
ously prepared, leaving the end of the
vine out. The saturated cob furnish
es moisture and nutriment to the
plant till it gets M'ell established in
the soil.
CORN PLANTING, OBSERVATIONS ON.
Editors Southern Cultivator:
Your remarks in the last number of
your paper as to the best method of
planting corn, induce me to commu
nicate my observations for the past 30
years. T have planted in the M’ater
furrow after breaking and bedding,
and I have also planted in the centre
of the bed, and planted level M’ithout
bedding. In all the experiments by
these three different inodes, planting
in the bed did the best, and in the wa
ter furrow the Morst.
In 1840, I directed my overseer to
break and bed my corn land, but at
the saine time did not direct him hoM’
to plant the com, and before giving
directions, he had planted some in the
M’ater furroM - . I told him to change
and plant in the bed, M’hieh he did.
The corn planted in the bed Mas the
best. For the same year a neighbor
of mine planted in tne water furroM’
very early, and cultivated his corn
well, and although his land M r as bet
ter than mine, he did not make the
seed he planted. This M’as the driest
season thatjhad occurred since I com
menced planting, about 40 years ago,
and none but the early planted corn
made anything.
In 1839, different members of the
Montieello Agricultural Society of
Fairfield county w’ere directed to
make accurate experiments as to
M’hich was the better plan of planting,
in the water fumnv or on the bed.
All agreed in their reports that on the
bed Mas the better plan, not only
where they planted early, but M’here
they planted late. The season of ’39
M’as very favorabte. We had no
heavy rains, but frequent showers up
to the first Monday in J uly. On that
day a gentle rain fell all day, M’hich
M’as the last for the year. If planting
corn deep is the best plan, no- tM’o
years M ere so favorable for it in my
recollection as ’45 and ’39.
In 1863 a large planter removed his
slaves to a large plantation adjoining
mine. He pursued the system which
he had folloM’ed in the lom’ country,
to-wit: that of running a deep fur
roM r , and collecting in this furroM’ the
weeds and stalks and surface mold,
and on this bed planting the corn on
the middle of the bed. The former
occupant had pursued the opposite
system—that of planting in the water
furroM’. The new comer was told by
the neighbors that he could make no
corn on that land, if he followed that
method—that it might do for the low’
country, but not in that place. He
thanked them for their advice, but he
thought he knew as much about corn
as they did, and he would pursue his
own course. He did so, and succeed
ed admirably. Since that time, I’ve
heard few persons in that neighbor
hood advocate deep planting.
Our lands when fresh Mere general
ly productive, and some of them very
good. Nearly all have a clay subsoil.
I M’ill not give you my reasons for the
system M’hich I think best. I have
listened often to the arguments of the
advocates of deep planting, but their
reasons have always seemed to me to
be nothing hut pure sophistry. S.
Chester, South Carolina.
SAVE MANURE.
The Farmer and Gardner ventures
the assertion, and we fully agree with
it, that nine persons out of ten waste
enough of replenishing material in
their farm yards, forests, fields and
houses, to pay, over all expenses of
collection and distribution, the expen
ses of their households and families.
The remedy lies in the study and
dissemination of practical agricultural
information that M’ill teach us how to
obey the command of “replenishing”
—either in the fields or in the garden.
We are aware of the vast sums of
money that have been spent in re
plenishers the past few years—in the
shape of “ commercial fertilizers.”
No doubt the right kind of fertili
zer, judiciously and intelligently ap
plied, is productive of good; but if
one-third of the money so spent was
used in the collecting and preparing
the natural replenishing material
wasted by so many farmers at their
doors, we M’ould not now be groaning
under the weight of unpaid debts
with nothing wherewith to pay them.
— Term. Agriculturalist.
Transplanting Plants.— The
editor of the GermantoM’n Telegraph
says: There is no mode that we ever
tried so effectual in transplanting to
mato, cabbage, canteloupe, or any
other tender plant from the hot-bed,
or from one place to another, as to
prepare a vessel filled with manure
water and rich soil, about the consist
ency of thin mush, with which the
roots of the plant should be well coat
ed, and set in a hole made with a
round piece of wood or dibble. After
being rather firmly planted moisten
again with manure-M r ater. We have
never failed in any transplanting;
when done in this way, and the troub
le is very slight.
♦
ASHES FOR SWEET POTATOES.
A correspondent in the Southern
Cultivator, says: “ I notice the ques
tion is asked, which is the best fer
tilizer or manure for sweet potatoes ?
From the experience I have had in
manuring the sweet potato, I must
say that rotted ashes, when properly
put on, has precedence over all others
I have had any experience with. The
plan that I adopted was to open a
deep furrow with a scooter plow, and
put in a plenty of ashes. Bed on the
ashes, and a sure crop may be realized
on the poorest soil- Cow-penning is
good—so are cotton-seed and stable
manure ; but, after experimenting
with the ashes, they will all be aban
doned, provided ashes can be had. I
experimented on as poor soil as I had,
and the result M’as as fine a crop of
potatoes as I ever saM’ on any kind of
land. Rotted ashes is good for cot
ton also, and almost any kind of veg
etation. lam convinced there is not
a better fertilizer made on any plan
tation than rotted ashes. So every
one M’ill find it greatly to his interest
to take special care of it.”
(TEE FOR SCROFULA.
Many years ago we published the
following recipe for this ugly disease.
It was furnished by N. Longworth,
•the celebrated grape-grower and
millionaire, who M’as so impressed
with its great value to suffering hu
manity that he appealed to the editors
of the country to repeat the publi
cation quarterly, as “it may save
many lives.” “Put two ounces of
aquafortis on a plate on which you
have two copper cents. Let it remain
from eighteen to twenty-four hours.
Then add four ounces clear strong
vinegar. Put cents and all in a large
mouthed bottle, and keep it corked.
Begin by putting four drops in a
teaspoonful of rain M’ater, and apply
it to the sore. Make the application
three times a day, M’ith a soft hair
pencil or one made of soft rags. If
very painful, put more M’ater. As
the sore heals, apply it M eaker.” The
recipe is extremely valuable, and
every wood Samaritan in a neighbor
hood should preserve a copy of it, so
that, M’henever they hear of a case of
this terrible affliction, they may be
prepared to furnish a remedy.— Our
Home Journal.
Don’t M’aste the soap suds, but ap
ply it to gardens, vines, bushes, ever
greens, or laM n. It is too valuable
to be turned out at the back door.
That M r as a beautiful idea expressed
by a lady ou her death-bed, in reply
to a remark of her brother, who Mas
taking leave of her to return to his
distant residence, that he should
probably never meet her again in the
land of the living:—“ Brother, I trust
M’e shall meet in the land of the liv
ing. We are noM’ in the land of the
dying.”
. EX-GOVERNOR (BARLES J. JENKINS.
he writes is tmnmm letter to got.
SMITH IS NARRATION OF Hlii CAREER
4S GOVERNOR.
From the Atlanta Constitution, tilth.J
Augusta, Ga., March 15,1872.
7b If is Excellency James M. Smith:
Sir—Since my removal from the
office M’hich you now hold, in Janua
ry, 1868, by Major Gen. Meade, of the
United States Army, commanding
Department of Georgia, I have re
frained from communication with
the defacto government of the State.
Had there been no interference of
the Federal Government, my term of
office M ould have expired in Novem
ber, 1867, and there would then have
been assembled a Legislatureto M'hom
I M ould have rendered an account of
my stewardship, accompanied by the
usual reports of the Treasurer * and
Comptroller General for that year.
Such a communication, M’ith like ac
companiments for the preceding year,
had Wen submitted to the General
Assembly at their second session in
November, 1866. There having been
neitehr Governor or Legislature elect
ed in 1867, I, under a provision of the
Constitution, held over; but there
was no Legislative Assemoly. From
the time of my removal until the in-,
stallation of the present Governor and
Legislature, those departments have
not, in-my judgment, been filled by
persons rightfully representing the |
people of Georgia or faithfully guard- j
ing their inter*-As.
J am informal that a committee
appointed for that ourpose by the !
Legislature convened in 186S, exam
ined the books and accounts of Mr. i
Treasurer Jones for the last year of 1
my administration, and reported
them correct.
I desire, hoM’ever, to make a for
mal representation ot certain trans
actions during my official term of
which no account has been given, j
and some of which have been grossly
misrepresented to the public.
Such a communication to a State
Executive, from a predecessor, is, I
know, unusual, if not unprecedented ;
hut I trust you. will find in the cir
cumstances, heretofore and now sur
rounding me, a justification of it,
and that you M ill kindly place it on ;
file, with the archives of the State
where it may be hereafter accessi-1
ble for reference if desirable.
1 need scarcely remark that, owing !
to the suspension of the State govern
ment at the dose of the war—serious
complications M’ith the Federal gov
ernment resulting from that conflict
—the utter exhaustion of our treasu
ry, the impoverished condition of
our people, and the interference by
Congressional legislation with the
State government first inaugurated
after the war, my administration was
fraught with difficulty, responsibility
and anxiety. When I entered upon
the duties of the office there was no
money in the treasury—there were
outstanding liabilities of Governor
Brown’s last term, (owing to his re
moval by the United States govern
ment several months before its con
stitutional end) —debts contracted by
Provisional Governor Johnson, to
carry on the government and the ex
penses of the Convention of 1865, pro
vided for by temporary loans. There
were also ante-war bonds, and inter
est coupons of considerable amount
which matured during and after the
war—the expenses of the Legislature
which came in with me, and accru
ing demands of the civil list. The
bed and track of the Western it At
lantic railroad were in a dilapidated
condition, its depot and bridges in a
great measure destroyed, and its roll
ing stock partly lost or destroyed,
and partly worn out and valueless.
Its Superintendent under Provision
al Governor Johnson, with his ap
proval, had contracted a debt with
the United States Government of
about four hundred and seventy
thousand dollars ($470,000) in the pur
chase of rolling stock and other rail
road property, and still in these items
there M'as a large deficiency.
The Capital, its grounds and furni
ture, and the Executive Mansion, and
its furniture required extensive re
pairs and renewals. The Penitenti
ary had been partially burned and
rendered insecure, requiring a large
outlay in rebuilding and strengthen
ing it.
Besides all this, there were no taxes
collected in 1865. In view of this con
dition of our financial affairs, it must
I think surprise the reflecting mind
that the Legislature, to meet these lia
bilities, and put the machinery of
government again in motion, resorted
to the credit of the Htate by the issue
of its bonds only to the amount of
three millions and thirty thousand
dollars ($3,030,000.)
The Convention of 1865 did, indeed
authorize the issue of bonds, amount
ing to five hundred thousand dollars
($500,00) to meet the emergencies of
the hour. But these, owing to restric
tions put upon them, were found
available only for very short loan,
and w r ere so used, and redeemed with
proceeds of bonds afterwards author
ized by the Legislature, except about
tM’enty-six thousand dollars, (26,000)
M’hich had not been presented at the
Treasury, although called in.
There M’ere also bonds authorized
by 7th section of the act of 12th of
March, 1866, amounting to six hun
dred thousand dollars ($600,000), to
pay the land tax issued by the United
States Government against the people
of Georgia.
These bonds were engraved with
others, hut as the United States
authorities refused to receive payment
of the tax from the Executive of the
State, were not signed or sealedfuntil
after the next session of the Legisla
ture (Nov. 18(36.)
On the assembling, I reported to
them the failure to use those bonds
for the purpose intended, and advised
that the Executive be authorized to
issue them in redemption of, or ex
change for bonds of the State, which
would mature within a short time.
Authority to that effect was given to
the Legislature, and then these bonds
in all respects similar to other bonds
issued under the act of March 12,1866,
M’ere executed. As these bonds bore
a higher rate of interest tiian those to
be redeemed by them, and were se
cured by a mortgage on the Western
& Atlantic Railroad, it M’as believed
that no difficulty would be encoun
tered in exchanging them for the lat
ter on terms advantageous to the
State, and thus our suffering people
be released from taxation, to meet a
heavy demand upon the treasury at
no distant day. They were accord
ingly placed in the National Bank of
the Republic (New York) for that
purpose, and notice of the terms on
M’hich the State would make the ex
change extensively published. This
exchange had been commenced, but
no great progress had been made in it
at the time of my removal. Know
ing no safer place of deposit for them,
and desiring not to suspend the pro
cess of exchange, I suffered them to
remain there, giving written instruc
tion to the agent to continue it, but
beyond that, to deliver them to no
Jerson except upon the order of John
ones, Treasurer, or myself.
The Legislature assembled in 1868,
passed a resolution authorizing the
Governor inaugurated by them to
take possession of all the bonds of the
State executed but not negotiated,
wherever to be found. Under this
authority, as I have been informed,
the acting Governor, R. B. Bullock,
demanded of the bank the unex
ehanged then in their possession, and
the agent, under legal advice, surren
dered them to him, but required of j
him an indorsement on each bond, of j
the manner in M’hich he became pos
sessed of it. The precise amount so
delivered I knoM’ not, but suppose it
could have varied little from six hun
dred thousand dollars. I am, of:
course, ignorant of M’hat disposition j
has been made of them. If they have
been faithfully applied to the object
intended, they have not increased the
indebtedness of the State, but have
only postponed, to a more convenient
time, its payment, pro tanto , and the
relief has accrued, or will accrue, to
the administration succeeding mine.
If otherwise, the application is
chargeable to the Executive, m t lio,
rather than come to an account with
the fairly elected and honest repre
sentatives of the people he is charged
with having plundered, and inglo
riously flecl the State. In no event
can these bonds be fairly set down a*
an original indebtedness incurred by
the State during my official term, anil
by my advice.
Other bonds M ere issued by me, in
conformity with the act of February,
1866, authorizing a subscription to the
stock of the Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road Company, and the issue of the
bonds of the State, in payment of in
stallments on that stock, as the corpor
ation might shoM’ itself entitled to
them. Evidence that they M ere so
entitled, mas in each instance adduced,
before the bonds M’ere issued;
amounts, dates, etc., Mill appear by
reference to the records of the Treasu
rer’s and Comptroller General’s offi
ces.
But this liability M’as incurred ten
years before my time. The amount
of the two classes of bonds last men
tioned have, in an indiseriminating,
unscrupulous partisan spirit, been ad
ded to the three millions and thirty
thousand mentioned before, and the
grand aggregate presented as an in
crease of tne public debt under my
administration and by my advice.
I think I have disposed of those
two classes, and M’ill not again refer to
them. I noM T propose to show that
the public debt was increased by less
than one-half of the'three/nillion and
thirty thousand dollars ($3,030,000.)
The authority for issuing these
bonds and the purposes, to which
they were to be applied, M’ill he found
in the act of the 12th of March, 1866,
and the 11th section of the General
Appropriation Act of the same year.
The folloM’ing items embraced in the
act first mentioned were obviously
provisions for funding existing in
debtedness, and therefore did not in
crease the public debt:
Section B—To pay the matured bond debt
and interest thereon $550,000
Section I—To pay debt to United States
Government for railroad property pur
chased during Provisional Governor
Johnson’s term, and interest 500,000
Loans contracted by Provisional Gover
nor Johnson 30,000
Making an aggregate of 1,360,000
M’hich deducted lroiu the new bond
debt of 3,030,000 leave as increase of
public debt 1,670,000
Among the appropriations made and
paid from proceeds of these bonds
were two extraordinary items of
pure charity, having all the moral
obligations of debts, viz: to purchase
corn for tho destitute and artificial
limbs for disabled soldiers 920,000
Leaving a balance of 1.450,000
This balance was relied upon to re
pair and complete the equipment of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad ;
to repair and refit the State House,
and its grounds; tne Executive Man
sion and furniture; the Penitentiary;
to pay the unfunded debts of thfc State
(by no means inconsiderable,) and to
defray the entire expenses of the gov
ernment for one year, including the
support of its great public charities,
and the accruing annual interest on
the public debt.
This sum of one million four hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars M’as
subjected before it came into the
treasury for general use, to a diminu
tion by the expenses incident to the
preparation and engraving of the
bonds, the execution of the mortgage,
commissions to agents employed in
the sale of them, and the rate of dis
count upon them, for no bonds of any
Southern State could then be nego
tiated at par value. The bonds first
sold—about nine hundred thousand
dollars ($900,000) in amount—yielded
ninety per cent. A few M’ere after
wards sold for ninety-five, and they
would undoubtedly have reached
par value in the market hut for the
depressing effect of Congressional
legislation upon the credit of the
Southern States. Under this with
ering influence, these bonds after
wards fell below ninety in the New
York market. For more minute de
tails respecting the disposition of
these bonds, reference is made to the
records of the Treasury and of the
Comptroller General’s office, to
which, as I write, I have not access.
I have mentioned a debt contracted
by the Provisional Superintendent of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad
under Provisional Governor Johnson
and which debt occasioned my first
unpleasant complication M’itli the
United States. The Superintendent
insisted that lie M as, by the terms of
the contract, entitled to a clear credit
of two years, upon the amount of the
purchase. The Sale-Agent of the
United States, on the contrary, af
firmed that by the terms of sale, the
purchaser could only be entitled to
such credit, on giving bond with ap
proved personal security, for the pay
ment of the debt at the expiration of
two years; in default of which, mon
thly payments of the twenty-fourth
part of the debt, with interest, at 7.30
per cent, must be made, until the
debt was extinguished. The contest
between these officials was an une
qual one. The monthly payments
Mere peremptorily demanded. I
suggested to the Legislature the ex
pediency of authorizing the Superin
tendent of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad to give a bond for the pay
ment of the debt within two years,
and of pledging the faith of the State
for its payment. Accordingly the
act of the 13th March, 1866 j was pass
ed, and a bond executed in confor
mity with it, and delivered. Still,
for the lack of personal security, the
monthly payments Mere demanded.
In an interview M’ith Mr. Stanton,
Secretary of War, I protested against
this, and insisted on the payment of
the whole of the sum at the expira
tion of the two years—urging that
tho pledge of the State’s credit M’as
more than equivalent for personal se
curity.
He heard me patiently, but when
I concluded, remarked curtly, “ I can
give you no relief. You seem to
think because this Railroad is the
property of the State, and the debt
incurred, her debt, and because she
had given her bond for it, she should
be admitted to the privilege of pur
chasers giving bond and security. I
cannot make that distinction. The
terms must be complied M’ith.”
I asked permission to take issue
with him on that point. I pressed
upon him the universal recognized
comity between nations and States,
between organized governments, and
stated as a carol lary from it, that one
Government would accord to another
a credit never given to an individual.
I concluded thus: “ I have not sup
posed, Mr. Stanton, I should live to
see the day M’hen the United States
Government M’ould send the Govern
or of a State out to hunt after personal
! security for a money contract. I cannot
lower the dignity of my State by do
ing such an act.”
The stern Secretary relented, con
sidered, and finally took the matter
before the Cabinet, M ho referred it to
the Secretary of War, and the Attor
ney General*, with power to act. I
then M’ent before the latter to discuss
the question M’ith him. So soon as I
broached the proposition requiring a
State to give personal security for a
debt, Mr. Stanberry, that upright j
man, courteous gentleman, and able
jurist, interrupted me with the remark
“ Governos, I confess that proposition
revolts me.” “As it has done me,
Mr. Attorney General,” I replied.
He rejoined, “ Oh, that will not do.
Mr. Stanton must give that up.” And
he did give it up. and cheerfully, at
last.
I refer to this matter partly to shoM’
that, among those distinguished men,
members of the administrations (and i
we may infer, by the Cabinet,) Geor
gia M’as, at that time recognized as
having the status of a State of the
Union.
Early in the year 1866, the Collee
j tor of internal Revenue for the 4th
District of Georgia required the Su
perintendent of the \\ estern and At
lantic Railroad to make monthly re
turns to him of the gross receipts
from the road, and to pay a tax of 2}
per cent, upon them.
Believing the tax to he illegal, bo
, cause assessed upon the revenue of
the State, 1 appealed against it to the
| Secretary of the Unite*l States Treas
ury, Mho, after a reference of the
question to the Solicitor of the Treas
ury and a report by him, overruled
my appeal and ordered the collection
to proceed. Not satisfied M’ith the
decision, 1 filed a bill in equity in the
District Court of the United States, in
the name of the State of Georgia,
against the collector seeking to enjoin
the collection of the tax. After argu
ment upon a rule against the Collector,
to show cause in Chambers why an
injunction should not issue, the Judge
reserved his decision until the next
term of the Court in Atlanta; but as
sured the Solicitors of the State, in
the presence of the District Attorney
and the collector, that meantime no
further action in collection of the tax
would be taken.
During his temporary absence from
the State, hoM ever, and before ins de
cision, tlie Collector peremptorily de
manded payment of tho tax then ac
crued (amounting to more than twen
ty-four thousand dollars) M’ithin ten
days, in default of which a levy M ould
be made upon the property of the
road. Informed of this, I directed
the Superintendent to pay under pro
test, which was done.
As soon as practicable afterwards,
in a personal interview M’ith the Sec
retary of the Treasury, I brought all,
those matters to his consideration, :
and found him profoundly ignorant
of the bill, the proceedings in Cham
bers, the assurance of the Judge re
specting suspension of action, and the
subsequent enforcement of payment.
I do him the justice to say that he
manifested genuine surprise and in
dignation at the last stage of the pro
ceeding. He pronounced it “all
wrong,” and immediately summon-'
ed before him the Deputy Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue (the chief
being absent at the time,) who, after
hearing the recital, concurred in the
Secretary’s opinion, and declared
himself equally ignorant and inno- 1
cent of the wrong.
The result was that the Secretary '
ordered the suspension of the collec
tion, until rendition of the J udge’s 1
decision, (saying he thought I had j
adopted the best course for the settle
ment of the question,) but declined to ,
refund the sum paid under duress,
M’hich had been pronounced “all j
wrong” until the decision was made.
At the next term of the Court, i
Judge Erskine delivered an elaborate !
opinion, concluding with an order off
injunction pendente life. A copy of ;
this decision Mas forwarded to the j
Department M’ith a second demand
of repayment, which was declined on
the ground that the Secretary was
considering the propriety of carrying
up the question. *
Tho Collector, I was informed, nev
er answered the bill nor put in anap- i
pearance; and at the September term,
1867, the J udge granted a perpetual |
injunction, and decreed that the sum (
paid under duress be refunded.
A third demand was then made for ■
payment, but I was answered that j
the legality of the tax had been refer
red to the Attorney General of the
United States, and that M’ould await
his opinion. That wassoon after giv
en, sustaining the decree of the Court,
which declared thetax illegal. Then i
upon a fourth demand the money was i
refunded, but interest on it was re-!
fused, although the Treasury of the j
United States had held it about eigh- 1
teen months, and also during the >
same time, interest was accruing at
the rate of 7.30 per cent, against the
Western and Atlantic Railroad to the
United States, on the debt before
mentioned, and soon after paid in
full.
But for this appeal to the Judiciary, |
in limine , it cannot be doubted that I
this onerous and illegal tax would,;
year after year, have been exorted
from our impoverished State by the j
spoiled and spoiling minions of power, i
It is but one of many exhibitions of i
the tyrannous and rapacious spirit in
which the ruling party have requitted
the unconditional and sincere sub
mission of the Southern people to the
authority of the Federal Government.
These wrongs I impute to the ruling
party—theirs is the sin ; and theirs,
m the time of recompense, will be the
shame and the suffering. We can on
ly possess ourselves in patience, look
ing for the outstretching of His right
arm who has said, “ Vengeance is mine
and 1 will repay .”
But these things should not be al
loM ed to pass unheeded or unehron
icled.
Great as were the embarrassments
encompassing the office during the
first year of my term, they were vast
ly increased by the passage of the Re
construction Acts, and the entrance
into the State of a military chieftain,
transferred from “ headquarters in the
saddle'' 1 to the headquarters in Atlan
ta. This man came invested with
the despotic power ever the people of
Georgia, and with authority, at his
sovereign pleasure, to remove from
office any of their chosen public ser
vants. And these tilings, shade of
Washington, Jefferson and Madison !
were done notwithstanding the dis
tinct recognition of Georgia (either
before they were commenced or du
ring their progress) as a State within
the Union, by every department of
the Federal Government. I pause
not, to produce proofs of the assertion;
but I challenge an issue upon it.
These reconstruction acts, it will be
remembered, had been passed by the
Congress of the United States over
the veto of the President, based up
on their nneonstitutionality. So
i soon as action was taken under them
—so soon as the foot of the military
j Despot was impressed upon the soil
|of Georgia—l repaired to Washing
ton and filed a Bill in the name of
: the State of Georgia, against the in
truders in the Supreme Court, seek
( ing to enjoin and set aside these pro
ceedings, as infringements upon the
I reserved sovereignty of the State,
and in violation of the Constitution
; of the United States.
The right of the State to file that
! bill, and the jurisdiction of the case
depended upon the fact alleged, that
i she was one of the States of the Un
ion. Asa foreign power, or a con
quered province, she M ould have had
no right to do so—the Court, no juris
diction in the premises. Still, as the
records of the Court show, upon full
presentation <3f the Complaint, for
mal permission M’as granted to iile
the bill; nor M’as she afterwards dis
missed the Court, unredreased on the
ground that she lacke that status.
After argument the bill was dis
missed because in it there was alleg
ed neither interference, nor the threat I
of interference, M’ith her property ,
whicli the Court held was necessarv 1
to make a case for their sublime con
sideration. Nothing so far, had been
disturbed, or threatened, save the j
modest, though peculiar, priceless;
diadem of her reserved sovereighty,
(in Radical estimation a paltry bail- *
ble), of which that elevated Tribunal
could not condescend to take cogni- 1
zance.
The deep humiliation which then
pervaded the entire mass of a proud
people—proud in their historical re-1
mimscenees, and their consciousness .
of thorough recitude of intention, and ;
of conduct, M’ill be long remembered. I
Their final submission M’asas truthful <
and unqualified as their resistance land ■
been honest, open, and heroic. :**’ [
But that humiliation was intensified !
in the person of their Exeeutive, forc
ed as he was by circumstances, into
daily contact with the insolence of an
• intruded Ruler, trained to arbitrary
military command, unfamiliar with
civil government, and rendered giddy
by his unwonted eminence. Had I
yielded to the promptings of personal
feeling, I would at once have escaped
the pain of this unprecedented subor
dination by resigning the office. But
knowing that the position would ena
j ble me to keep open to our people, a
! channel of communication with the
i Chief Magistrate of the Union (who
was a reluctant agent in their cru
sade against liberty) and might
thus in some degree, alleviate
their sufferings, I resolved to re
main in it, yielding all questions of
mere policy, but maintaining princi
ple, to the extent of my power, and
falling (if fall I must) in its defense.
1 was powerless to prevent the remov
al of faithful officers, of the judicial
department, or the appointment of
j others to till their places, or to arrest
the latter, in the unauthorized exer
| cist' ot their ill-gotten offices; but I
declined to pay them the salaries ap-
I preprinted to officers constitutionally
appointed and commissioned. This
alone would probably have induced
my removal; but an occasion of
greater moment soon after occurred.
The Congress of the United States,
by their nefarious reconstruction acts,
had provided for the assemblage of a
Convention, at Atlanta, to frame a
Constitution for the State in lieu of
that adopted in 1865, after the close of
the war. The latter was confessedly
Republican in character—acknowl
edged as the supreme law of the
I .State, the Constitution of the United !
States and all acts of Congress in con- 1
formity therewith—had received the j
President’s approval, and under it the !
existing State Government had been j
organized.
The Congressional act which called !
the Convention of 1867 and 1868 to-j
getlier, provided for defraying their <
expenses, only by authorizing them
to levy a tax for that purpose. The
body, finding themselves unprovided !
with subsistence, and incapable ofi
feeding upon their patriotism until
relei ved by the slow process of taxa
tion, experimented upon the credit
of the State, which, though always
previously a resource in emergenciec,
failed to attract capital when tam
pered with by them.
In thisextremity, they turned their
longing eyes upon the Treasury of the
State. Whether originally prompted
or only encouraged by the military
Dictator, they passed a resolution re
quiring the Treasurer of the State to
pay to their financial agent the sum
of forty thousand dollars, for the pres
ent use of the Convention. This reso
lution (being only an entering wedge)
was approved by General Pope, under
whose broad shadow they held their
daily sittings; and armed with this
high authority, the agent designated
repaired to Milledgeville, and made
formal demand of the money upon
Colonel John Jones, State Treasurer.
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tweeu Gilreath k Jaek.es, ia the saw-mill
business, has this day been diseetved. The bus
nes» in the future wilTbe earfied on by Z. W.
jt- C. Jackson. January Is*, ltd
VOL. 12--NO. 40
The Western Antidote |
McCUTCHEON’S
CHERQOI IKDUOITTHS.
This highly valuable Indian Remedy W
too well known, whenever it has baea weed.
to require speeial notice.
Those who art unacquainted with ita was
derful operation upon the system will tad
it a certain remedy in all Diseesea of the
Kidneys, Bladder and Urinary Orgeat. Ik
is very useful in Rheumatism, l.tvar Cess
plaint, Ague-Cake Dysentery and etbw
complaints. It warms the stomach and
bowels; curea Colic and Obstruetiene es the
Breast; sustains exooaeive labor of bath bo
dy and mind; cures the Piles, promotss the
Appetite, assists Digestion; prevents an.
pleasant dreams and friglata: strengthens (ha
cures Nervous, Astbmetieal and
Hysterical Affections; remove# all the dis
orders of weaknes and debility; purifies the
Blood; cures Neuralgia and Dispcpsia. to
gether with most Diseases petuliar te {fe
males.
Old and young, malt au J female, have bean
greatly benefitted by its use. as hundreds a.
letters from all parts of tbs United -Siaim
will certify. Let those who art unae
quainted with McCcTcunoa's “Cherokee la
dlan Bitters,” before saying this m tee
much, try a bottle, aud all who do se vHI
unite iu testifying that tbs half has aol beam
told.
Chtrokt* Indian Bitttri possesses an ener
gy which aeernt to communioat# new life te
the system, and renovate the feeble, fainting
powers of nature. Its operation upon iha
tissues of the body does not consist in affeoA
ing the irritability of the living fibre, but in
itnpartmy a sound aud kcalikg stimulus ts
the Vital Or gam.
It strengthens substantially aad durably
the living powers of the animal maohina; la
entirely innocent and harmless; may be ad
ministered with impunity toboth sexes, aad
all conditions of life.
There is no disease of any name or am
turo, whether of young or old, mala or fe
male, but that it is proper to admia : stsr U,
and if it bs done seasonably and persever
ingly it will have a good effect It ia per
fectly incredible to those unacquainted with
the Bitters, the facility with which a heal
thy action is often in the worst cess restsr
ed to the exhausted organs of ths STsran |
with a degree of animation aud daaira for
food, which is perfectly astonishing to all
who perceive it. Thi« Medicine purifies tho
blood, restores the tonic power of the fibres,
and of the stomach and digestive ergeao;
rouses the animal spirits, and substantially
fortifies and reanimates ths brskea dawn
constitutions of mankind.
w
Indians are ths most bnslthy of ths human
race. They take an sbundaee of physical
exercise, breathe purs air, and live aa sim
ple diet. When sick, they use ns mineral
poisons, but select roots, herbs, and plants
“from the great drug store of their Cr*e
tor.” McCutchcox’s “ Chxkokxs Ixdiax
Bittkb.B ” is a combination of these vegeta
ble substances which render it entirely in
nocent to the constitution of ths meet deli
cate male or female. The wonderful power
which these “ Bitters ” arc kaown te pos
sess in curing diseases, evinces ta the world
that it is without a parallel in the hlstary
of medicine, and afford additional evidence
that the great benefactors of the country sre
not always found in ths temples of wealth
nor the mazy walks of soianee, but among
the hardy sons of Nature, whose original,
untutored minds, unshackled by ths fsnlg
of science, are left fret ta pursue the die
tatos of reason, truth and oemmen sense.
Sines the introduction es thie ram ady Be
o the United State*, theuaeuda have heefc
raised from beds es affliction whose lives
were despaired of hy tbair physicians and
pronounced beyond the rcaeh es modieine
McCuteheon'c “ Cherokee Bitter*" ha
driven the most popular medicines sf every
name, like chaff before the whirlwind, Areas
every city, town and village where it hap
been introduced, and is dastiasd srs leaf te
convince the world that the red man’s rem
edies are the whit* man'a ehoiee. Far dis
eases peculiar to the female asx there hi
nothing better. Old and young, mala and
female, have all been greatly benefitted hy
its use. Hundreds of certificates, frem ail
parts of ths United States, which are enti
tled to the fullest confidence, speak sf it ia
the most favorable manner. These Are ns
only from persons whe hsvs bean cured hy
it, but also from some af the mast eminent
physicians and druggist whe bare sneoeae
fully tested it in their pr action, aad veins
larily offer their testimonials, in its fares
For sal# by ail Dealers.
Special Non os. — Mershaatajand drug
gists doing business at a distance from the
railroad, when ordering fiay *• Cherekae In
dian Bitters,” will please stats the depet te
which they hare their good* shipped, hy
so doing, I can sometimes supply sheer
wants much earlier.
Address all orders te
X. X. MuCUTCSBQ *,
- • * Jy. .’T-; Marietta, 9a.
Whe alone in authorised U manufacture
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the original aad genuine
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