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that in the year 1859, one Harrison had
a judgment against Kelly, and was
about to levy on and sell the land now
in controversy, when Kelly applied to
Thomas W. Thomas, who loaned him
the money to relieve the land from sale,
and took his note, secured by mortgage,
which was afterward assigned to James
Thomas, the plaintiff’s intestate, the
lien of which it is now sought to en
force by the sale of the land. The de
fendant, Kelly, claims a homestead in
the land as against the plaintiffs mort
gage lien. Held: That the defendant
is not entitled to claim a homestead in
the land. First: Because the home
stead act is unconstitutional and void,
against the defendant’s prior contracts.
Second: if the homestead act was un
constitutional as to past contracts, the
plaintiffs mortgage created an '■'■encum
brance" upon the land, which the
defendant was bound to discharge, be
fore be is entitled to his homestead
under that act. The term “encum
brances,” as used in the Constitution of
1868, was there used in the legal sense
ol that word, and should receive its
obvious legal interpretation by the courts
in the construction thereof.
Judgment affirmed.
Bkown, C. J. concurred as follows :
1. The iirst section of the seventh
article of the -new Constitution of this
State is retroactive, as well as prospec
tive, and denies jurisdiction to the
Court to enforce any judgment, decree
or execution heretofore or hereafter
rendered against the homestead, except
as therein excepted.
2. The exceptions are also retroac
tive, as well as prospective, and the
Courts have jurisdiction to enforce a
judgment reudered upon a debt con
contracted prior to the adoption of the
Constitution, for money lent, to remove
an encumbrance from the land now
claimed as homestead.
McCay, .1. concurs, tor this reason only:
An execution founded on a debt con
traded for the purpose of paying a
judgment about to selj the land, is
within the exceptions to the Constitu
tionai provision, securing to the lamily
of a debtor a homestead ; it is an exe
cution founded on a debt contracted for
the removal of an encumbrance, and
conies witliiu the express exception of
this act.
J. H Skelton, E. P. E lwards, for
plaintiff in error.
A T. Akerman, for defendants in
error.
William Graham, vs. John McGuire,
John B. Crau. Motion to set aside
Judgment, from Terrell.
The endorsement of a note, given for
a slave, if the endorsement is tor a vnl
uable consideration, other than a slave, ;
or the hire thereof, is not. within that
part of the Constitution ot the State, i
denying jurisdiction to the Courts there
of to enlorce a debt, the consideration
of which is a slave or the hire thereof.
Judgment reversed.
Bkown, C. J., concurred as follows :
1. The payee of a promissory note
given for a slavo, who for a valuable
consideration, which was no way con
nected with the slave; indorsed and
delivered the note to the plaintiff, is
liable. The indorsement is anew con
tract and the Court has jurisdiction to
enforce the judgment against him on
that contract.
C. B. Wootten, D. A. Vasou, A.
Hood, for plaintiff in error.
F. M. Harter, W. A. Hawing for de
fendant in error.
Col. Parkinson Contests.— The Tal
ladega Reporter says: “Col. J. C.
Parkinson having decided to contest,
the late election, and being desirous at
the earliest possible moment to obtain
such information as will aid him to
test the legality of the election, all
good citizens who know of illegal votes
cast, or of voters in their employ or in
their neighborhood who remained
away from the polls, are requested to
send list of names with particulars to
lion. John Henderson, R. H. Isbell,
J. Morgan Smith, R. M. Henderson
or M. 11. Cruikshank, members of
Executive Committee for Talladega
county.
Breckinridge —llls Reappearance at
TriK Bar.— At the court-house in Lex
ington, on Saturday afternoon, General
Breckinridge made his iirst effort at
the bar since the beginning of the late
terrible conflict. He argued before
the court in the case of Cook vs.—
Innis, administrator, which involves
some abstruse legal questions. He also
addressed the jury as only General
Breckinridge can, the power of his ora
tory, and his handsome personal appear
ance having their usual striking ef
fect. It has been almost a decade since
Gen, B. has attempted the conduct of
a legal case, and the long years elapsing
that were full of the romance, the victo
ries and defeats, the crushed hearts
and b asted hopes of an unsuccessful
war, caused this first appearance of
General B. at the car to be regarded
with peculiar interest, and his remarks
to be listened to with the closest atten
tion.— Louisville Evening Express, I Sth.
Massachusetts Democratic Con
vention.—A dispatch from Worcester,
Mass., of the 24th says :
The Massachusetts Democratic State
Committee met to day, Hon. Chas. L.
Woodbury presiding, who, iu his re
marks advocated immediate freedom of
Canada aud Cuba from the European
subjection, looking to their ultimate an
nexation to tbe United States.
Hon. John Q. Adams was nominated
for Governor and S. O. Lamber lor
Lieutenant Governor. Resolutions
were adopted denouncing the prohibit
ory law, condemning the Legislature
for not granting charters to certain la
bor organizations, recognizing the duty
of acquiescing in the result already ar
rived at in national affairs, etc. The
convention iu the main was harmoui
ous.
The Edinburgh Review tells the fol
lowing story of Walter Savage Baudot:
“la his garden walks he would bend
over the flowers with a sort of worship,
hut rarely touched one of them. The
form which the notoriety of this senti
ment took in the Florentine legend was
that he had one day, after an imperfect
dinner, thrown the cook out of the win
dow, aud, while the man was writhing
with a broken limb, ejaculated, ‘Good
God ! I forgot the flowers.’ ”
A gentleman writes us from Camilla,
Mitchell countv, August (20th : “We
are having very dry, hot weather at
present. Cotton, potatoes, etc., suffer
ing—cotton shedding badly from dry
weather and ru9t. Caterpillars doing
but little harm.”
The Eatonton Press and Messenger
reports late corn gone up, but the whole
yield of corn for Putnam is 25 per cent
more than last year. Severe wind on
Monday—slight showers. Cotton much
damaged by drought—loss probably
one-l'ourth of tbe cotton crop by hot
weather.
At Shreveport, La., the receipts of
cotton for the commercial year to the
18th August, have been 78,860 bales,
including 150 bales on hand Ist Sept,
last. Stock on hand Aug. 18th, 24
bales. On the 17th, six bales of new
cotton were received aud shipped.
Another Affray. —On Sunday,
about one o’clock, an altercation took
place between Mr. Preston Drake and
Nich Davis, Esq. We are informed
that offensive language was interchang
ed. Drake knocked Davis down and
was seized by his brother, Shannon
Drake, and pulled back. Davis
arose, with a pocket-knife in his hand,
and cut a severe gash across the muscle
of Preston Drake’s right forearm.—
Someone wrested the knife from Davis’
hand, and a friend took him off. Dr.
L. D. Carter dressed Drake’s wound.—
We understand, the parties have been
summoned to appear in the Mayor’s
Court. —Huntsville Democrat.
Montgomery Cotton Market.
New cotton is coming to town in Mont
gomery, Ala. Withintlie last two days
twenty-eight bales have been received
and shipped to New York. Strict
middlings 30c; low middlings 28i@29.
SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 28.
Tbe Yankee Lads Beaten.
A cable dispatch confirms what every
body expected, viz : that the college
lads from Harvard, who went to Eng
land to row against the Oxford crew,
were beaten. We are without particu
lars of the race, save that the Harvards
were pretty badly beaten, six English
rods being some ninety-nine feet. Tak
ing into account that these young fel
lows rowed in anew style and on a
strange course, we presume that they
did very well. They will certainly come
home with a well defined idea that there
are other people who know how to row
boats and other things beside the Yan
kee nation. Since they went over there
as representatives of the Yankee nation,
we have considered that one half the
crew were not niggers, and we are sat
isfied that if Cuffee had been represent
ed on the occasion, the defeat would
not have been so decided and mortifying.
When we lived on the seacoast of Geor
gia, the Spaldings, Coopers, Du Big.
nons, and others, had crews of well
trained, brawny Africans that could
have pulled around the Oxford or Har
vard crew anywhere in a race.
A Wood Investment.
The endorsement of the bonds of the
Savannah and Memphis Railroad Com
pany, to the extent of SIO,OOO per mile,
by the State of Alabama, is equivalent
to loaning the company that amount at
about 9 per cent., putting the bonds at
ninety cents on the dollar—the limit of
discount allowed by the law giving the
endorsement. The road will cost about
$25,000 per mile. To extend to Elyton,
will cost $3,000,000; of this sum, the
endorsed bonds of the Company will
furnish $1,485,000 in money. This
leaves $1,515,000 to be raised by stock
subscriptions. When the road is com
pleted to Elyton, 120 miles, the Compa
ny will have issued $1,515,000 in Stock,
and will owe $1,650,000, bearing 8 per
cent interest. The holders of this Stock
will own property worth $3,000,000
There can be little doubt that the busi
ness of the road to that point, with its
valuable connections with Selma, Rome
and Dalton by that road ; with Tusca
loosa and the country West of that city,
by the West end of the Meridian and
Chattanooga road; with North East
Alabama, by the East end of the same
road ; and with Decatur and Nashville,
by the Montgomery and Decatur road
—will be such, in amonnt, as to yield
handsome dividends—fully ten to twelve
per cent. This will pay 8 per cent, on
tho stock, the interest on the bonded
debt, and enable the Company to lay
aside two to four per cent, to meet the
principal of the bonded debt when it
falls due. Thus, in effect, acquiring a
property in the road of $1,485,000 from
its earnings, whilst receiving 8 percent,
on the money paid in. In other words,
the Company will own $3,000,000 in
property, by the investment of half that
amount of money.
When the road is completed to the
Tennessee river, and connects with
the Memphis and Charleston road at
Tuscumbia, the earnings will be much
larger, aud will doubtless pay fifteen to
twenty per cent, on the investment. If
the citizens of Columbus sustain the re
commendation of the meeting of the
25th, it will stimulate the people north
of Elyton to go to work, and with such
assistance as they can obtain from St.
Louis and other Western cities, will
build the road from the Tennessee river
to Elyton by the time we reach that
point.
The property, created, in fact, with
an investment of fifty cents in the dol
lar, will be worth to the holder, w!Uen
completed, from 120 lo 150 cents in the
dollar.
Think of this, citizens ot Columbus,
when you hear croakers prating about
the taxes to meet the expenditure.
Tbe Survey to Lumpkin.
A private letter written from Lump
kin, and received in this city from the
Chief Engineer of the Baiubridge, Cutth
bert and Columbus road, who has just
completed the survey of the second lino
from this city to Lumpkin, says : “The
line by Jamestown to Lumpkin is five
miles shorter, and equally favorable. I
will make up the estimates on this line
as soon as I get time to do so.” Speak
ing of the spirit of the people of Stewart
county, towards the road, the letter fur
ther says, “After associating with the
people of this county, I am satisfied that
they will not pay in their stock to our
road on the resolution adopted by the
Board of Directors at Columbus. They
want the work to begin at Columbus
when they begin to pay in installments.
They feel identified with Columbus,
and desire and will co-operate with
Columbus in raising the necessary
amount of money to grade the road from
the South line of Stewart to Columbus.
This is particularly true of the noithern
and best portion of the county. I
think Stewart would perhaps pay a
small installment to fit up the first twen
ty miles out from Columbus, to secure
the charter and State aid.”
The letter further says, “There is
about 1110.000 subscribed in Stewart
county. The leading men are very
much disposed to drop their private
subscription and rnako a county sub
scription of $300,000. For a good coun
ty like this, I would much prefer this
course. It would be much more relia
ble. They are willing to subscribe and
pay that much in currency, not in bonds,
as fast as it may be called for.”
The Week —If possible the week just |
closing has been duller than any of its ;
predecessors during the summer. It |
has been most remarkable for its con
tinued oppressive heat. On Monday we
had a slight shower, but the hot sun
rapidly absorbed the cooling moisture.
Trade has been very dull. Bagging and
rope have been most in demand. Pro
vision market firm and prices continue
to rule high, with a strong probability
of continuing high, as the drouth has
been seriously felt throughout the coun
try. Little or nothing being done in
the dry goods line. The drug business
is improving as the sickly season ad
vances. Our city continues healthy,
though scattering cases of sickness are
occurring, produced probably in most
cases by imprudence in diet and expo
sure to the sun. We have heard ot but
one or two bales of the new cotton crop
coming in and prices rule about the
same as last week. The cotton year is
about closing, and receipts will now
begin to increase which we trust will
increase the circulation of money. The
religious revivals have all closed, and
a portion of our people have betook
themselves to camp meeting. Others
are amusing themselves with occasional
displays at physical powers. The May
or’s Court has a sessiou almost daily,
and its treasury is being replenished
with sundry fines. Chicken stealing
and matrimony rather brisk just now.
Taken altogether, August has been ra
i ther a hard month on our people, and
if its successor has any more benefits in
store for us we shall be glad to welcome
it in.
Front Nan Francisco.
San Francisco, August 27—Burning
of the car sheds, evidently incendiarism,
stopped the trains three days.
Our neighbor over the way has seri
one objections to the plan urged by the
Report of the Majority Committee, to
the meeting Wednesday night. Our
neighbor says:
While we are friendly to this and all
other roads projected to or from Co
lumbus, we ask our citizens to consider
well before they sanction any prop
osition that is based on any material
| enlargement of the city debt. In the
next place, the manner of disposing of
the stock is especially objectionable to
us. Asa person pays the special tax
to meet the interest on the city bonds
issued for this stock, the City Treasurer
is directed to give certificates specifying
the amount paid, and when these certifi.
cates amount to one hundred dollars the
city will take them up by transferring
to the tax payer its stock in the road to
that amount. Now what would be the
result of this arrangement ? The city
issues bonds at twenty years at seven
per cent., and it would require at least
Five Hundred Thousand dollars in
bonds to command the Four Hundred
Thousand in money—and would, con
sequently, collect of the tax payers and
pay to the bondholders Thirty-Five
Thousand dollars a year—and then
transfer to the tax payers Thirty Five
Thousand dollars’ worth of Railroad
Stock. So, in eleven years and a half,
the city will have transferred all its
Four Hundred Thousand dolllars’
worth of stock to the tax payers, and
will owe to the bondholders the
original Five Hundred Thousand
dollar debt. This looks very much to
us like financiering oneself out of a
house and home, and into an intermin
able maze of debt, most effectually. We
want the city to hold whatever stock
she subscribes for, and make it availa
ble, should it have a market value, in
paying her debt when it matures. But
we would much prefer that she should
make no new debt on account of this
road. If she can aid the company by
lending it her Mobile and Girard and
Montgomery and West Point stock to
be hypothecated for sums as they may
be pressingly needed in prosecuting the
work, she might do so with profit to
them and safety to herself, provided so
curity to cover its value be taken.
From the tenor of the above extract,
one who had read the report would nat
urally enough come to the conclusion,
that the writer of the above had either
not read the report, or if so, to poor
purpose. In the first [dace, the recom
mendation did not contemplate the
contraction of the whole debt at once.
On the contrary only one hundred
thousand dollars is permitted to be paid
to the Company, until thirty miles of
road is completed and the trains run
ning on it. This, together with the
hundred thousand heretofore contract
ed for the benefit of the road, will make
the debt of tbe city $200,000; the inter
est on which will be $14,000 per annum.
When the tax is collected to meet it,
the tax payers will be in possession of
$14,000 of the stock in the road, and
will represent that amount at stock
holders’ meetings. At the same time
the City Council will represent just
that amount less. This done, the Com
pauy will have thirty miles of road
running to or near the Tallapoosa river.
At this point the city is called on for
a second installment of SIOO,OOO, issues
her bonds, sells them and pays the
money to the company. Now
the debt stands $300,000, and the
tax for that year will be $21,000. When
this is paid, the tax payers will hold
$35,000 of the stock of the road, and
the City Council just that amount less.
Before the Company makes another call
the road will have been extended sixty
miles, entirely through the counties of
Tallapoosa, Coosa, and into Talladega
at Syllacogga, the great marble quarry
of Alabama, and be doing a heavy bu
siness for Columbus, and furnishing fine
mail facilities for the distribution of
our neighbor’s paper among the intelli
gent people on the line of the road.
At this point the company is author
ized to call for the third hundred thou
sand. Its payment creates a further
debt of SIOO,OOO, and adds seven thou
sand to the tax, making the special tax
for that purpose $28,000. When this is
expended, and before a further call is
made, the road will be running ninety
miles, and be in the midst of the fine
coal fields in the vicinity of Harpers
ville. The road will now have connect
ed with the Selma, Rome and Dalton
road, and be bringing to our city at 'east
forty thousand bales of cotton per an
num, and pouring coal and iron into
our city from the rich coal and iron de
posits of that section. And there can
be but little doubt that by the time the
road reaches that point it will be paying
at least 4 per cent, dividends on the
stock held by our citizens for taxes paid
for its benefit. Now the citizens will
have acquired $63,000 of the stock, and
the City Council will hold that'sum less.
Now the road is authorized to call for
the fourth and last installment of SIOO,-
000. This will take the road to Elyton,
where it forms a junction with the
Montgomery and Decatur, and the
Meridian and Chattanooga roads. The
business the road will do when it reach
es Elyton, will, without doubt, enable
it to pay at least 8 per cent,
not only on the stock held by the citizen
tax payers, but on the remaining stock
held by the city, with which to meet
the accruing interest on the bonds issu
ed by it, without further troubling the
tax payers. The fourth and last assess
ment will place in the hands of the citi
zen tax payers, $90,000 of the stock in
the road, leaving $410,000 still in the
hands of the City Council.
To the minds of all intelligent men,
we feel satisfied, it will appear that we
have.demolished our neighbor’s show
ing on his stock transfer theory.
Now a word as to our neighbor’s
proposed aid. He is willing that the
city shall turn over to the Savannah and
Memphis Railroad Company, the stock
held by the city in the Mobile and Gi
rard road, and also that held in the
Montgomery and West Point road, on
the giving by said Company, sufli
cient guarantee for its security. What
amount of stock the city holds in the
Mobile and Girard road is unknown to
the writer. For a few years the tax
payers of the city absorbed a portion of
it with tax script. The original amount
was 1300,000. The city owns, we be
lieve, $59,000 in the Montgomery and
West Point road.
Then how about its value ? Does
our neighbor propose that the Savan
nah and Memphis Company shall take
this stock at par, or does he mean to
sacrifice it at its current value? The
former would possibly bring 20 cents
on the hundred, on the block. As for
the latter, we doubt whether-it could
be sold at all.
The Company might well exclaim,
deliver me from such friends.
Death of Francis K. Scrape.—A
telegram announces the death from
thirst, of this gentleman in Arizona Ter
ritoi\y. He was formerly a clerk in this
city, and is doubtless recollected by
many of our people. He enlisted in
the army at the breaking out of the
war, and acted part of the time as Lieu
j tenant. After the war he went West
and this is the first time we have heard
of him since. Like many of the noble
young men of our community he was
' ptobably trying to pursue fortune in the
far West, instead of which he has only
! realized an inhospitable grave. He
was a nephew of Hon. John Forsyth,
! of Mobile.
They say in Paris that Patti-Caux is
I —well, as some ladies love to be.
SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20.
Cotton. —Eleven bales received on
yesterday. The drouth is probably ac
celerating the opening of the staple and
high prices hurrying it to market. Mid
dlings are quoted at 30c.
Mob Law.—We publish iu- another
column an account of the rape of a
young woman in Cass county, Georgia,
and the subsequent killing of the fiend
who committed the crime. We are op
posed to Lynch Law, but we justify
the action of the people who resorted
to it in this instance. Bullock has
turned loose upon the community
thieves, murderers, and assassins by
the score. He has given license for
crime to his colored brethren, and they
have availed themselves of the privilege.
Within a week, two negro mobs have
attempted to hang and murder innocent
white men. The leaders if captured
and convicted, are sure of pardon.
Bullock has set aside law and justice,
and society is called upon to protect
itself.
MOLD YOUR PEACE.
We would say to the thing who signs
himself Rufus B. Bullock, Governor of
Georgia, that he has come to a point
where it would be becoming in him to
cease lying upon the people of the State.
For more than a twelvemonth he has
been importuning Congress to put the
State under Military rule and to appoint
him Dictator. lie has traveled north
ward and told the credulous crowds
wich listened to him that his life was
in danger in Georgia, and that his peo
ple were persecuted and murdered by
the hundreds by day aud by night. He
has charged that the members of the
Press are the leaders of the Ivu Klux
clan, and his henchmc great and small
have re echoed the slander. Yet he
admits that lie has invited this Ivu Klux
clan to go on an excursion with him.
Even more : he has filled sundry cars
with whiskey, sardines, champagne and
nigger barbers, and has put therein
some forty of the Ivu Klnx and gotten
therein himself, to travel by night aud
by day for the space of twelve days or
more. Tho only protection he has
around him is a body guard consisting
of Hulbert, Swayze, Bard, and the
aforesaid nigger barbers. The Ivu Klux,
on the other hand, have unlimited ac
cess to whiskey with which to inflame
their passions, and opportunities be
yond counting, to chuck Bullock off a
bridge, or to knock him iu the head
with a coupling pin. And yet he goes
with this gang by special appointment
without a shrug or shiver, after tramp
ing over the North vaunting his great
danger and unparalleled cowardice.
We say it is time .that even Bullock
should quit lying, aud that the slander
mill should be locked up for want of
custom. Selah.
Great is Hulbert.—The Atlanta
Constitution man winds up a letter from
tlie Press excursion as follows :
The accommodations are becoming
better in every respect, as they are more
fully developed. Polite and attentive
waiters are passing through the cars
continually with all imaginable delica
cies. One will pass you with cheese,
crackers, sardines, etc., to be succeeded
by another with unexceptionable sand
wiehes, and he by a fruit cake bearer,
and be —“Champagne, cigars.” Yes?
certainly, pour me out a glass—theje,
that will do. Ah ! Col. Hulbert is a
nice man.
We would respectfully enquire if Mr.
Bullock ain’t great some. And ain’t
Mr. Kimball of tbe Opera House great
some too ? This last personage took all
the sleeping cars from the State road for
the press people, and through passen
gers on that road have been hurling
gentle expletives at Messrs. Bullock &
Kimball, proprietors of the Opera House,
a piece of property that is for sale to tbe
people of Georgia.
Notice to Planters.— The Macon
Journal and Messenger contains the
following item of interest to our Geor
gia cotton planters:
Mr. Editor: Will you give notice
inrough your paper, that in addition to
the premiums offered by the Executive
Committee at the approaching State
Fair, we will give the following, either
in plate or currency, as may he desired:
For best ten bales upland cotton, S6O 00
For best five bales upland cotton, 30 00
For best single bale upland cot
ton 10 00
For best five bales of long staple
from green seed 40 00
For best single bale long staple
from green seed 10 00
The cotton to be delivered at our
warehouse, to be transported to and
from the Fair Grounds by us free of
charge.
Five Judges will be selected, one
from each of the following cities: Sa
vannah, Augusta, Columbus, Albany
and Macon, who shall determine upon
and award the same. Respectfully,
Hardeman & Sparks.
Another Negro Thief Pardoned.
—The Enquirer, of this city, one of
Bullock’s thirteen official papers, con
tains his proclamation, pardoning Jim
Jones, a negro, convicted at the late
June term of the Superior Court of
Dougherty county, of burglary, and
sentenced to the Penitentiary for life.
This pardon not only annuls the decis
ion of the Court and jury trying the case,
but restores this negro to all the privi
leges of citizenship—makes him a voter.
In addition to the outrage committed on
the community, from turning this thief
loose again, the act has entailed on the
State Treasury an expense of two hun
dred and thirty-four dollars. Bullock
is fast making the Criminal Code, as to
negroes, a nullity,and is throwing open
tho doors to the commission of crime.
Iu other words, he is inviting crime
among this class of our population.
Boutwell’s Finance Talent.—A
Washington correspondent of the Mari
anna Courier, writes of the Secretary of
the Treasury:
“I have just received some news
about the Secretary of the Treasury,
which is reliable,and I give it to you as
news, and as illustrative of the reason
Mr. Boutwell has acquired a Yankee
reputation for finaneeering abilities. He
Tents a room in Washington at ten dol
lars a month, takes two meals a day and
pays by the month, fifteen dollars, for
his board. When he does not get a meal
at his boarding house, he invariably
has its price deducted from the bill!
Need I say anything more about Van
kecdom and its great financial minister?
The citizens ot Jersey City and a
great part of Hudson county.New York,
have had under consideration, for some
time past, an act by the Legislature “to
consolidate and make into one city, to
be called Jersey City, Hudson City, Ho
boken, Bergen, the town of Union and
the townships of North Bergen, West
Hoboken, Greenville, Bayonne and
Weehawkea, and part of the township
of Kearney.” This act is not to take
effect without the consent of a majority
of the citizens in the cities and towns
affected by it, and a vote of the question
will be taken on the 24th of March next.
The Bullock Mania Spreading.—
It is reported that Governor Geary, of
Pennsylvania, has pardoned Cain Nor
ris, the black fiend who was convicted
and sentenced to the Penitentiary for
violating the persons of three white
women in the vicinity of Chambers
burg, in that State,
THE DISGUISE THROWN OFF.
In all the controversies in our city
heretofore, about, railroad aid, railroad
connections, &c.,our neighbor over the
way has played mum, considering, we
presume, prudence the better part of
valor. Not so in the present struggle,
however. In its issue on the morning
before the meeting, it attempted to
throw cold water on the arder ot the
people, by intimating that it would be
useless to propose any measure of aidte
the railroad for the reason that the City
Council would not submit it to the peo
ple. That it was possible the reason
of there being no quorum at the Council
Monday evening was, that monstrous
measures for the ruin of the citizens ,
were expected to be presented for their
action. And our neighbor thought it
possible their action was well enough.
In its issue of Friday, an attempt is
made to throw ridicule on the recom- j
mendation of the majority report, and \
in its issue of Saturday morning an at
tempt is made to show that the expen- I
diture proposed, on the contrary of act- ,
ing beneficially on the prosperity of
Columbus, would injure Columbus by
building up Elyton. Strange logic in
deed. In his two first efforts, the wri
ter was exceedingly careful, while
stating objections, to assert its very
great desire for the success of the road.
In its last effort, however, this feint has
been thrown off, and our neighbor now
stands in the intelligent position of an
opponent of the road, because, forsooth,
it might make a right smart town of
Elyton. We are right glad the thing
has crawled out of its shell—even i to
make opposition to the improvement of
our city.
Iu all the battles heretofore the Sun
has fought singly and alone, of the press
of the city, for the success of measures
touching railroads and railroad improve
ments; not even having a chance of
breaking a lance on the subject with its
neighbors. The measures all succeed
ed, however. But now, since our
neighbor has crawled out and attempted
fight, we feel that the measure under
consideration is doubly assured of suc
cess. Our neighbor is one of tbe old
fogies, and self styled wise men, who
occupied Columbus in days of yore,
when it was thought wisdom to permit
no railroad to touch it and soil its gar
ments. We know how hard it is to get
rid of old prejudices, and on this ac
count we excuse, to some extent, its
present hallucination. Not being here
in the days alluded to, perhaps accounts
for our views on improvement. How
ever, we have always been progressive
iu our views, and at times thought to
be too much so. Particularly was it
thought so by the old fogies, when,
though a stranger to all, in the summer
of 1855, we flung to the breeze the first
number of “The Daily Sun.” That
proved a success, to the astonishment
of many and the chagrin of some. So
will the measure now before the city
prove a success, despite tbe efforts of
our neighbor to the contrary.
Thanks to the many new-comers like
ourself, that old leaven has nearly
played out, not enough being left to
demoralize new-comers. Indeed, tbe
contrary is the effect, for we every day
meet members of the old regime who I
congratulate us on the waking up they
have received from our ventilations of
the benefits to be derived to Columbus
from tbe building of the Savannah and
Memphis road.
As to the proviso, locating the shops
in Columbus, it was, as our neighbor
well knows, no part of tbe report of the
Committee, but was proposed in the
meeting and attached by the meeting to
the report, contrary to the wishes of its
author.
That is, however, a small matter.
Tbe shops, when located, will be putin
North Girard, and will, commercially,
as much benefit Columbus as if located
in the city.
Rave on, neighbor. We shall not
object. Your conclusions are so ridic
ulous and contrary to common sense,
they benefit the cause of the friends of
the measure.
C»r)>orate Subscriptions-
In the report presented to the meeting
and adopted by it, on Wednesday night
last, the principle of cash subscriptions
for building the Savannah and Memphis
Railroad, was inaugurated. Experience
in the building of tho Mobile and Girard
Road on the credit system, taught a sad
lesson. The city made subscriptions to
that road and paid it in bonds. Stock
was issued to the city for the face of the
bonds. What sum the bonds sold for
in money, the writer is not informed.
We presume not more than ninety cents
in the dollar, and possibly, not more
than eighty. If the latter sum, then the
three hundred thousand dollars of stock
issued to the city for the three hundred
thousand dollars specified in the face of
the bonds issued to the road, only net
ted the company two hunddred and
forty thousand dollars. In other words
the company received from the city for
the stock issued to it, two hundred and
forty thousand dollars. This created an
inequality between the corporated stock
holders and individual stockholders.—
The result was, that in a short time,
seeing this inequality, individuals ceas
ed to take stock in the road. All know
what followed. The company had to
depend on the earnings of the road, and
money borrowed at heavy discount, to
carry it forward, and when it landed at
Union Springs, a distance of fifty three
miles, it had cost some twelve or thir
teen hundred thousand dollars, instead
of eight hundred thousand that it would
have cost, had the subscription to it been
paid in money instead of bonds. The
amount of cost stated above, is from
recollection, and may not be entirely
correct; the difference in the cost, how
ever, is about correct —showing that it
cost one third more on the credit, than
it would have cost, if cash had been the
basis ; with this other difference, that
the road would have been built in less
than half the time. It is now nearly
completed to Troy,a distance of 83 miles
from Columbus. It has been nineteen
years building, has issued stock to the
extent of about thirteen hundred thous
and dollars, and owes a bonded debt of
more than seven hundred thousand dol
lars. It has never paid a cent to its
stockholders in dividends, aud its stock,
though the road has all the time doDe a
heavy local busidess, is worth only
about 20 cents in the dollar.
Upon the principle that all people
should profit by the experience of the
past, the committee determined to re
commend a different programme in the
now and gigantic enterprise. The road
we now propose to aid is two hundred
and thirty miles in length, and will
cost, if built on a cash basis, about
seven million dollars, aud be completed
in some four or five years. If on a cred
it basis, as was the Mobile and Girard,
the cost will possibly be ten or eleven
millions, and its completion be prolong
ed—if we take the strides of that enter
prise as a sample—twenty, thirty, or
possibly forty years, if it is ever done,
and the city would continue to pay tax
on the bonds issued, as in the case of
the Mobile and Girard road, till dooms
day.
In applying the cash system to our
own subscription, we force it on all other
corporations, whether towns, cities or
counties. Under it, the financial con
dition of the company will be prosper
ous, the work be proceeded with ener
getically, and the road extended rapid
ly, reaching Elyton, a distance of 120
miles from Opelika, within three years
—possibly in less time. Elyton being
reached, the local business of the road,
together with its through freights and
travel influenced by its connections
with the Selma, Rome and Dalton, the
Montgomery and Decatur, and the Me
ridian and Chattanooga roads, will ena
ble it to pay the interest on its $16,000
per mile State endorsed bonds, and
relieve our citizens from further tax on
their subscription, if they desire it.—
Economy is wealth. In this instatnee
it will prove wealth indeed.
Another Horrible Negro Outrage.
Adairsville, Aug. 25, 1569.
Mr. Editor: Our usually quiet com
munity has been under great excitement
for the last twenty-four hours, by the
occurrence, within a few miles of
Adarsville, of the most wanton outrage
ever perpetrated by a fiend. A most
respectable and esteemed young lady,
connected with one of the best familes
in our county, was walking out last
Monday evening, not far from the res
idence of a relative, with whom she
was staying at the time, when she was
met by a savage negro fellow, who
seized her, crammed her apron into her
mouth to prenvent her from giving the
alarm, dragged her into a neighboring
wood, where he violated her person,
and then beat her to death with his
gun.
When she failed to return at the hour
she was looked for, and night came on,
the fears of the family were aroused, the
alarm was spread through the neighbor
hood, and a dilligent search kept up
during the night by a large number of
anxious friends, but it was not until af
ter light tbe next morning that her dis
honored and horribly mutilated body
was found. It was evident that she
had made a desperate struggle to avoid
her fate, and it was probably this terri
bly desperate resistance which her out
raged but helpless innocence had made
even to the very last, that struck terror
into the heart of the fiend, that had her
in his possession, and made him feel,
after his first hellish act had been ac
complished, that tho only possible
escape for him from future punishment,
lay in her entire destruction. But a
righteous Providence had so ordered it
that this second frightful crime should
not long conceal the first, even in the
silence of death. By the peculiarity of
the shoes he was wearing, he was al
most immediately tracked to his house,
where the blood of his unfortunate vic
tim was still upon his person, and upon
the broken gun with which he had
struck the fatal blows. Portions of her
dress were also found upon him, and
many other evidences of his guilt.
Not one of all the large and respectable
crowd, white or black, old or young,
male or female, that witnessed the evi
dences of his crime, doubted for one
moment his damning infamy. The ne
groes were loudest in his condemnation,
many declaring that lie ought to be
burnt. He is now under arrest, and
will have to meet the demands of law
and justice, unless the Governor should
unfortunately feel it. bis duty to inter
pose bis clemency. This is the great
fear of the community—that notwith
standing the heinousness of the crime
committed, and the certainty of the
negro’s guilt, our most merciful Gov
ernor will devise some plan to prevent
his being bung. Bartow.
P. S.—Since writing the above, we
learn that the guard placed over the
prisoner last night, were surprised by
parties unknown to them, their guns
seized, and the negro taken forcibly
from them, and carried off—for what
purpose, and whether done with a view
to his release, or to prevent the interpo
sition of Executive clemency,it is not yet
known.— Atlanta Constitution.
Gutkfin and North Alabama Rail
road.—We find the following resolu
tion reported in the proceedings of the
city Council of Macon, at their meeting
on Tuesday last:
On motion of Alderman Westcott,the
Mayor was authorized to subscribe for
fifty thousand dollars stock in the Sa
vannah, Griffin and North Alabama
Railroad Company, in the name of the
city, payable in Macon & Brunswick
Railroad stock at 33£ cents, and should
the proposition be accepted by said
road, be was further authorized to make
a transfer of the stock.
This is the road projected from Griffin
to Decatur, Alabama, to which allusion
was made by Col. Chappel, at the meet
ing Wednesday night. The struggle
now going on, is to complete the road
to Newnan, 35 miles from Griffin,which
the company desires to accomplish this
fall.
Extract from a Private Letter from Ha
waii, Sandwich Islands.
***** Although the eruption
is not so violent now, the volcano is a
fearful sight to behold. The rivers of
lava still flow, and the smoke from the
crater ascending in awful majesty.—
During this violent upheaval it has been
very sickley hero. A. peculiar sort of
low malarious fever, which has grown
out of the foul, condensed vapors of the
volcano, has prevailed to an alarming
extent, and at one time it was feared it
would depopulate the island. But for
tunately, a sea captain (calling here for
supplies) distributed Plantation Bit
ters to the suffering, and quick and
thorough cures were tbe result. The
news spread like wild fire. Messrs.
Ching-Takin A Go., Commission Mer
chants, had these Bitters for sale. In a
short time their office was besieged and
their supply exhausted. A steamer was
dispatched to San Francisco by order
of the Hospital Department, and anew
and enormous supply obtained as soon
as possible. From that moment the
scourge was stayed. Not another fatal
case occurred, and the epidemic has
now entirely disappeared. * * * Is
this wonderful remedy known in your
city ? I hope so, for it is a sure cure
for all fevers and miasmatic sickness.
You may tell your friends so forme.
* * * * * 11. M. C.
Magnolia Water.— Superior to the
best imported German Cologne, and
sold at half the price.
Aug, 21 Tu Wd St & W.
Facts for the Ladies.— l have one
of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Ma
chines, which has been in constant use
for the past fifteen (15) years. It has
never been repaired, and to-day is in
perfect order, and is equal for all kinds
of work to any machine I have yet seen.
It has been used in making heavy
clothing, beside doing all manner of
family sewing, and I think it gets better
every day. Mrs. Joab Scat.es.
Toronto, Ontario.
“I wish I was dead !” is an expres
sion not unfrequently made use of by
thedyspepticand sufferer from liver dis
ease, the depressed spirits unfitting the
mind for anything, and almost driving
him to despair. But be of good cheer,
there is life and health for you yet, so
those that have taken Simmons’ Liver
Regulator attest. It regulates the liver,
dispels despondency, and restores
health.
At Memphis, Tennessee, on the 21st
instant, the cotton receipts for the com
mercial year had reached 247,487 bales,
including 47 bales on hand at the end of
the last commercial year. Stock on
hand Aug. 21,1869, 36 bales.
An Old Buck. —Commodore Van
derbilt married a Miss Crawford, of
Mobile, Ala., a few days since. Ilis
first wife has been dead but a few
months, and he is seventy-five and bet
ter.
From St. Lonls.
St. Louis, Aug. 28.— Judge Chase
writes to gentlemen here: “I am out of
all future contests, and no one need be
jealous of me hereafter.”
Killed.
St. Louis, August 27. —C01. Lake,
proprietor of Lake’s circus, was shot
dead by a person whom Lake ejected
from canvas. The murderer escaped.
By Teliegrapb from Enropo.
Liverpool, August 27 —Noun. —Cot-
ton heavy, Uplands 13|@13J, Orleans
13£; sales to day 6,000 bales, of week
138,000; exports 9,000; speculation 6,-
000; stock 248,000; American 95,000.
Afternoon Splendid weather de
presses the price of breadstuff's.
Liverpool, Aug. 27. Evening.—
Cotton tends down, Uplands I3j, Or
leans 13|@13|d, sales 7,000 bales; spec
ulation and export 1,000. Breadstuff's
nominal.
Manchester advices less favorable;
yarns and fabrics Jd lower.
Cotton afloat 761,000, of which 30,000
are American.
London, August 28—Noon,—Con
sols 93. Bonds 83J. American securi
ties flat. Closing—Consols 93| Bonds
Liverpool, August 28—Noon.—Cot- 1
ton dull, Uplands 13g, Orleans 13J@ 1
13£, sales 6,000 bales. Closing—Cotton !
dull, Uplands 13J, Orleans 13jj@13$d,
sales 6,000 bales, for export and specu
lation 1,000.
Paris, Aug. 28. —An investigation is
ordered to discover the author of false ,
rumors.
London, Aug. 28.—The Titm », com
menting on the race, says, the Ameri
cans’ inferiority was in steering, but
not enough to account for the distance.
The Americans must acknowledge our
style of rowing the best. Comments of
the press generally favorable to the
Harvards.
Eroiu Washington.
Washington, August 27.—Tho race
occurs at 5 o’clock. Latest comments
of English papers foreshadow victory
for Oxfords. The race track is com
pletely guarded ; only umpire and race
boats are allowed on race waters.
London —Later—The Harvards lost
the race by 6 rods.
London, Aug. 27 Evening— Time
22 minutes 40£ seconds, Oxford won by
3 lengths; Harvard 6 seconds behind.
Yesterday’s report of the seizures
aggregate 60 establishments in various
sections throughout the country for rev
enue infractions.
Estimated debt statement shows a re
duetion of $3,000,000.
Assessors throughout the country are
instructed to survey distilleries prepar
atory to the enforcement of some new
regulations about to be promulgated.
Delano telegraphs Supervisor Perry,
of Raleigh, N. C., that every box of to
bacco should have all marks and brands
required by law, in the precise manner
prescribed, but Delano don’t regard
slight irregularties a ground for seizure
but advises detention for explanation.
Delano directs guagers to nail stamps
on packages of spirits withs ouuce gal
vanized carpet tacks.
The Governor of Colorada, by proc
lamation, calls on the citizens to oxter
minate depredating Indians.
Washington, August 28. —Tbe Na
vy Department lias advices from Admi
ral Rowan, commanding the Asiatic
squadron. The rebels were defeated
on laud and sea, their leader captured,
and the rebellion absolutely squelched.
The plate printers’ strike continues.
No present prospect of relief from the
fractional and small note currency fa
mine.
There are ugly rumors of a coldness
between Boutwell and Grant.
Senator Osborne, of Florida, lias fur
nished a list of the persons he desires
removed from the naval and army em
ployment in Florida.
Official circles discredit the reported
rejection of the Chinese treaty.
Rawlins is better, but his physicians
forbid business.
It is stated Delano opposes the repeal
of the income tax, preferring rather to
relieve manufacturers.
Year’s internal revenue estimated at
$200,000,000.
War material from Mexico for rebels
landed at Bay of Nipe.
Refreshing thunder storms here to
night.
From Havana.
Havana, Aug. 27.—A battalion of
volunteers, six companies of whites and
two of blacks were organized for field
volunteer regimients to be formed as re
serves, to take the place of those v'ho
take the field.
Robbers attempting to pillage the
Savings bank have been arrested.
Insurgents attacked the town of Bar
ras, in Central Department, and were
repulsed.
Havana, Aug. 28.—C01. Benagas ar
rived at Los Tunis with his convoy, a
schooner. After safely landing arms
for the rebels, he was captured in the
bay of Saville by Spaniards hunting for
arms in the mountains adjacent to the
bay.
From New York.
New York, August 28.—The work
on the Spanish gunboats continues.
The Government’s surveillance is unre
laxed. Marshal Barlow has informed
the builders that no attempt must be
made to send them to sea.
From Kickmoml.
Richmond, August 28.—Gen. Canby
has issued an order extending the time
ofr paying the six months’ interest on
debts under the stay law to 30th Sept.
All executions alrerdy issued are stayed
until that time.
kakhetn.
New York, Aug. 28.—Money 0(0)7
per cent. Stocks steady and dull.-
Sterling, long, 9s, short 10. Gold 133 J.
Flour dull and declining. Wheat un
changed. Corn l@2c better. Pork
nominal at $32. Lard dull. Cotton
quiet at 34fc.
P. M.—Cotton a shade firmer, sales
900 bales at 34|@35. Gold firm at 1345.
Cincinnati, August 28.— Corn scarce
at $1 10, distilling demand pressing.
Whisky unsettled at $1 18. Provisions
dull and drooping. Pork $33 25@33
50. Bacon shoulders 15§(i$15$. Lard
192 c.
Loutsvillk, August 28.—Whisky $1
21. Mess pork SB4. Shoulders 10,1,
sides 19$@19J, sugar cured hams 22,
fancy 23 j. Lard 201.
New Orleans, August 28.—Cotton
no sales, receipts 39 bales, exports 474.
Gold 1335. Sterling 461. New York
sight | preim.
Mobile, Aug. 28.—Sales 200 bales,
low middlings 295, receipts 20 bales.
Augusta, August 28—Cotton market
more active, sales 22 bales, middlings
811, receipts 14.
Charleston, August 28.—Cotton
quiet tor want of -fork, sales 10 bales,
middlings 82, tee* ipia 74, exports 87.
Savannah, August 28.—Cotton—Re
ceipts 185 bales, exports 234.
Cotton.— Twelve bales were receiv
ed and sold this morning oil the basis
of 29cts for low middlings.—Montgome
ry Advertiser.
l»retly Women.—A comparatively few
Ladies monopolize tiiu Beauty as well a* ttie
attention of Society. This ought not to be so,
but it is; and will bo while men are foolish,
and single out pretty faces for companions.
This can all be changed by using Hagan’s
Magnolia Balm, which gives the Bloom of
Youth and a Refined Sparkling Beauty to the
Complexion, pleasing, powerful and natural.
No Lady need complain ol a red, tanned or
freckled or rustic Complexion who will Invest
76 cents in Hagan’s Magnolia Balm. Its ef
fects are truly wonderful.
To preserve and dress the Hair use Lyon’s
Kathairon »ug!7 eod Wlm
Special Notice —Beware
0 f Counterfeits! Smith’s Tonic Syrup
has been counterfeited, and the counterfeiter
brought to grief.
SMITH'S TONIC STRI P
TUe genuine article must have Dr. John
Bull’s private Stamp on each bottle. Dr. John
Bull only lias the right to manufacture and
sell the original John Smith’s Tonic Syrup of
Louisville, Ky. Examine well the label on each
bottle. It my private stamp is not on tho bot
tle, do not purchase, or you will he deceived.
See my column advertisement, and my show
oard I will prosecute any one infringing on
my right. Tho genuine Smith’,- Tonic Syrup
can only ho prepared by myself.
Tue public’s servant,
Louisville, Ky. DK JOHN BULL.
ap2l ts
MARRIED,
In this city, August 27th, by Oliir, B. Grimes,
Notary Public and Ex-oflK'io .1 P., Mr. IIHAS.
ARMSTRONG to Miss ULKMIE HOBDY.
On the owning ot the 2Mh of August, at the
residence oi Mr! D. R. Bize, in Wynnton, by
Charles Coleman, Esq., Mr. J AMES H. WIL
LIAMS, of Oartersville, Ga., to Miss SAL
LIE T. BALDWIN, of Talbotton.
Administrators’ Sale.
A GREEABLE to an order of tho Court ot
jTV Ordinary ot Muscogee county, we will
sell at public outcry, on tho FIRST TUES
DAY IN OCTOBER NEXT, between the
usual hours of sale, at D P a R Ellis’auction
house, the following described property : Gity
Lot No. 107, situated on the corner of Ogle
thorpe aud Bridge streets, improved by an un
finished two story Brick building end two
other rooms attached; containing about one
fourtli of an aero.
Sold as the property ol David A. Wynn, de
ceased, for the benefit of tho heirs and credi
tors. Terms of sale Oash.
EMERY S. DENNIS,) . , .
MARY F. WYNN, J Admr s.
August IS, 1889 law 4od
Georgia. Muscogee Count}.
JOHN D. MoJUNKIN, I Libel for Divorce.
vs. j May Adjourned
MARY McJUNKIN. S Term, 1809.
IT appearing, by the return of the Sheriff,
that thed el'endnnt cannot be found in this
county, and It appearing that defendant has
le<t this state:
It is therefore ordered that service ot said
petition and process be perfected by publica
tion of this rule iu the Sun and Times, a news
paper published in the city of Columbus, once
a month for four months.
A true extract from tho minutes of the Supe
rior Oourt of said county.
WILLIAM S. LLOYD, Clerk.
August 29, 1809 lam 4m
WM. H. STARK. H. P. RICHMOND.
Wm. 11. Stark &(>o.
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
Commission Merchants & Col
ton Factors,
Savannah, Georgia.
AHKHTfi FOK TBE SAI.B OF
t4ull«*tt*A Steel lirtifcli 4 ottou Uliin,
Hall's Patent Cation (.in Feeder,
A it It O W r r 1 KB,
ALBO
E. F. Coe's gli'Elt- PHOSPHATE of Lime.
—AND—
Crimes’ Patent Raw Rone Phosphate.
CAiJIiPUL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Sales or Shipment of Cotton,
AND ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE.
Liberal Advances Made on Consignments.
YVo in
Kerosene Agency S
rpilE subscribers having been appointed
_L AGENTS
Tor ttie States ot Georgia and
Florida,
By one of the Best KKFINGKN of Hero
sene Oil,
Are now prepared to supply the trade at
tf.ILTIMORE PRICES!
with expenses added. CASH must accompany
all orders.
IrUnolatioiiH at till* lime JSr,
A. A. SOLOMONS & TO.,
DRUGGISTS, SAVANNAH, GA.
aug27 lm
To tlie Planter!
THE
The Eagle & Phenix Mf’g Cos,
WILL
HUY COTTON IN THE SEED,
at the HIGHEST MARKET VALUE.
ALSO,
WILL GIN TOIf TOLL,
Charging ONE-TWENTIETH, or the SEED,
for the toll, HUY ING the COTTON, after
ginning, at the HIGHEST OASH VALUE.
Being prepared to (tIN SIX HALES per DAY
there will be no delay. All those having no
gins will find this convenient and to their in
terest. auglß 2m
TO THE PLANTERS!
WE are now prepared to furnish you
with the
Best Cotton Packing- Screw
EVER MADE, which is tlie
DOUGLASS SCREW,
WITH
Porter & Fell’s Improvement,
Hear what some ol the BEST FARMERS
say about this SCREW. Price $75 at the
Foundry tor Screw 9 feet long, and SOS lor
Screw s feet long. Fully warranted.
Salkm, Ala., Feb. 4, 1869.
Messrs. Porter St Fell, Columbus, (la.:
Sirs—Yours of 19th inst., is to hand asking
how i am pleased with the DOUGLASS COT
TON SCREW 1 purchased ol you last fall,
Ste. so far J*a in wonderfully pleased, so much
so that I would not exchange it for two of tho
best Wooden Screws in this county. Mine is
in my lint room, perfectly enclosed ami we
tind no ditiiculty in packing it matters not how
hard it rains or the wind blows. Thirty min
utes is plenty of time for three hands and a
mule to pack a bale weighing SSU lbs. Ido
not think any common power near sufficient
to ever break or wear out a pin, as put up by
you ; and 1 take great pleasure in recommend
ing them to my friends and the public gene
rally. Truly,
R. W. PRUITT,
P. S. —My Screw complete with a Lint Room
22x24 did not cost SIUO, all told. R. w. P.
It is the very best Cotton Screw t have ever
seen. I want another this season to put up on
another of my plantations. It will stand all
the pressure required to pack a bale of cotton
weighing 650 lbs. I packed twenty-five (25)
bales of cotton in ten (10) hours on it last sea
son without, extra help. I would not give it
for any two Wooden .Screws I over saw.
Signed: M. L. PATTERSON.
It is just what every farmer wants, does all
you say, and even more. It will stand more
than double the pressure required to Pack a
Bale of 550 lbs. of Cotton, and Packs it in hall
the time ol any other Screw I have ever seen.
JOHN L HAYS,
Gordon, Henry Cos., Ala.
We also refer by permission to Col. J. A. L.
Lee, Muscogee, (Jo.; Calvin Calhoun, Esq.,
Talbotcounty; Thomas Collier, Opelika, Ala.;
Dr. White, Harris oounty ; Col Irby Hudson,
Harris county, and many others who have
seen it.
For sale by
PORTER & FELL,
OPPOSITE STEAMBOAT LANDING.
July 18, 1869 «12wW3m
(iliililUl lip WflliKS!
AS IT has been reported by those interest
ed in the ALIJJM SOKKW, that the
DOUGLASS COTTON SCREW whs an
infringement on it, and also that Mr. Aiiuras
intends to ENJOIN US, wo therefore take
this method of informing all who want tho
DOUGLASS SCREW, that there i» no in
fringement, and that we will GUARANTEE
all parlies buying against loss or damage;
and we furthermore invite Mr. ALLUMS or
any of his friends to EM JOIN US as soon as
they please.
Send in your orders for the BEST SORT- W
MADE an<l wo will till them with the DOUG
LASS.
PORTJEH & FELL,
OPPOSITE STEAMBOAT LANDING,
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To Real Estate Owners.
E PARTIES who desire to sell Farms, Plantii
tlons, Mills, Mineral Lands, Ac., will find
It to their advantage to cooler with me during
this and the early part ol the next month, as 1
shall, about the middle ol September, forward
a large number of descriptive circulars to my
Agents ami correspondents at the North and
West, in order to aitractattention and emigra
tion South next winter.
Owners favoring me with their patronage
may rest assured that, apart trout the local
advantage my office all rds, their property
will be put iu market to, the best advantage in
the principal cities in tbe North and West, as
five years strict attention to the real estate
business has enabled me to make the most fa
vorable arrangements with real e-cate agents
there. J. 11. SIKES.
Roal Estate Agent, Columbus, Ga.
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EPPING’S BUCHU!
A PRIVATE letter from South-Western
Georgia to a friend in this city, says:
“I am astonished that so many eases ol
GRAVEL and other KIDNEY DISEASES
should exist, anil so much suflerlng endured,
both by men and women, from SYPHILIS,
the WORST of all diseases, in many eases
transmitted to their children, while there Is
such a CERTAIN and pleasant remedy as
“EFPING’S BUCHU.” It not only cures
these horrible diseases but gives strength and
vigor to the secret organs. It would be a
great blessing If this Medicine was more gen
erally known. One of my old patients told
me yestc, day that It had added twenty years
to file life.”
This valuable medicine is manufactured In
COLUMBUS, ()»., and sold wholesale and
retail by Druggists generally, and by
J. I. GRIFFIN,
jul 17 <l3t Wtf Sole Agent.
H. F. ABELL,
Successor to BLACKMAK Jc CHANDLER,
116 Broad St., ColumDiis. 6a.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
ÜBOCEK, COMMISSION MERCHANT,
And general dealer in
Family, Steamboat and Plantation Rood*.
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life. JillL\ Kit!’:-,
O i- e a t li eni v> diun !
OIL .SOUA BULL
Manufacturer and Vender of the t, lot, r »f,
SMITH'S T():\it SVKII'!
FUR THE Ci RE <G
AGUE AND FEVER
Ohillis unci Fever.
The Proprietor of this celebrated modi fine
justly claims for It a superiority over all reme
dies ever ottered to the public (or the snfc, << r
tain, speedy and permanent euro of Ague an i
Fever, or i hills and Fever, v.hetkor ol then r
long standing, lie refers to the entire V\ e
tern and South-western oountry to bear him
testimony to the truth of the assertion, that !,n
no case whatever will it fall to cure, If the di
rections are strictly followed and carried out
lu a great many eases a sing le dose has hum.
sufficient fora cure, aud whole nuiilies ha\ c
been cured by a single butt le, with a perie. ,
restoration ol tho general health, it is, how
ever, prudent, ami in every case more certain
to euro, it its use is continued in smaller <h • . •
for a week or two after the iiLea.se has h< on
checked, more especially in difficult and long
standing cases. Usually, this medicine will
not require any aid to keep the bowels in good
ordor ; should tlie patient, however, require a
cathartic medicine, alter having taken three
or lour doses of tho Tonic, a single dos« ot
BULL’S VEGETABLE FAMILY FILLS
will be sufficient.
DK. JOHN BULL'B Principal Office.
No. 40 Filth, ( rot,*, street,
LOUISVILLE SiY.
Bull’s Worm Destroyer.
To my United Stateß and
World-wide Headers
1 have received many testimonials iponi pro
fessional and medica l men, as my almanacs and
various publications have shown, all of which
are genuine. The following letter lrom a
highly educated and popular physician In
Georgia, is certainly one of tho most sensible
communications 1 have ever received. Dr Clem
ent knows exactly what ho speaks ot, and his
testimony deserves to bo written in letters ol
gold. Hear what the Doctor says of BULL’S
WORM DESTROY Eli:
Villanow, Walker County,Ga., (
June 20, 1800. \
l)r. John Bull—Dear Sir—l have recently
given your “Worm Destroyer” several trials
and find it wonderfully efflcaoious. It has not
failed in a single instanco to have tho wishod
for ellect. lam doing a pretty large country
practice, and have daily use lor some article ol
tne kind.
1 am free to confess that I know of no remedy
recommended by the ablest authors so certain
and speedy in its effects. On the contrary thoy
arc uncertain in the extreme. My object in
writing you is to find out upon what terms I can
get tho medicine directly from you. If 1 can
get it upon easy terms, i shall use a greatdeal
oi it. 1 inn aware that tho use of such art icles
is contrary to tho teachings and practice ol a
great majority of the regular line of M. D.’s,
but 1 see no just cause or good sense in dis
carding a remedy which we know to be effi
cient., simply because we may bo ignorant, of
its combination. For my own part, 1 shall
make it a rule to use all and any means to al
leviato suffering humanity which 1 may be
ablo to command not hesitating because
someone moro ingenious than myself may
have learned its eilects first, and secured tlie
sole right to secure that kuow lodge. However,
I urn by no means an advocate or supporter
of the thousands ol worth l ass nostrums that
flood the country, that purport to cure all man
ner ol disease to which human flesh is heir.
Pleaso reply soon, and inform me ol your best
terms.
lam, sir, most respectfully,
JULIUS P. CLEMENT, Id. D.
Bull’* Mai rsn *>lll*ll En
11 HOOD REASON fur Uic CAPTAIN’S FAITH
HEAD THE CAPTAIN \S LETTER AND
THE LETTER FROM HIS MOTHER.
Bknton Haukackh, Mu., April 30,1800.
Dr. John Bull—Dear Sir-Knowing tho effi
ciency of your Saraaparilla, and the hoaliug
and beneficial qualities it posesses, i Bend you
the following statement of my case.
I was wounded about two j ears ago, taken
prisoner and conilned for sixteen months. Be
ing moved so often, my wounds have not heal
ed yet. 1 have not sat up a moment since l
was wounded. I am shot through the hip
My general health is impaired, anil I need
something to assist nature, i have more faith
in your Sarsaparilla than in any thing else.
I wish that that is genuine. Please express
mo half a dozen bottles, arid oblige
Daft. <J. P. JOHNSON,
St. Louis Mo.
P. S.—The following was written April 30,
1806, by Mrs. Jennie Johnson, mother ol Oapt,
Johnson. *
Dr. Bull—Dear Sir—My husband. Dr. U. S.
Johnson, was a skillful surgeon and physician
in Central New York, where he died, leaving
the above O. P. Johnson to my care, At thir
teen years of age he had a chronic diarrhoea
anil scrofula, for which 1 gave him your Sarsa
parilla. It uuiucd him. 1 have for ten years
recommended it to many in New York, Ohio,
and lowa, for scrofula, lover sores, and general
debility. Perfect success has attended it.
The cures effected in some cases of scrcfula and fe
ver sores were almost miraculous. I am very anx
ious for my son to again havo recourse to your
Sarsaparilla. He is fearful of getting a spu
rious article, hence his writing to you for it.
His wounds were terrible, but 1 believe he will
recover.
Respectfully,
JENNIE JOHNSON.
ISIILL'J lIIiURM ISITTKIiL
AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS.
Arkan»UM Hoard From.
TESTIMONY OF MEDICAL MEN :
Stonky Point, White County, Ark., t
May 23, 1860. \
!>r. John Hull—Dear Sir—Last February I
was in Louisville purchasinK and I Kot
some of your Sarsaparilla and Oedron Hitters
My son-in-law, who was with me in the store
has been down with rheumatism for some time,
commenced on the Hitters, and soon found his
tenoral health improved.
Hr. Gist, who has been in bad health, tried
them, and he also improved.
Hr. Codec, who has been in bin! health lor
several years—htomach and mvnu aliected—
ho .mproved very much by the use of Hitters.
Indeed the Oedron Hitters has «;tven /ou urent
popularity, in this settlement. I think I could
sell a areat quantity ol your medicines this
! fall—especially of your Oedron Hitters and
Sarsaparilla. Ship mo via Memphis, care us
Rickeit tt Neely
Kespeotlully,
C B. WALKER.
Vreparfid and bold byDR.JNO, HULL, al hit
l.abratory , Fifth St., Louisville. Ky.
! All or the above remedio or sa lo by
PEMUEHTO\, HOOI* Y4TB >1
v AGENTS, OOLUMBT'S, OA.
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C HUEOH,
SCHOOL ANI) PARLOR
ORGANS,
—AT—
York n*unrartnr«r’fi Price*
j send for a Catalogue or call and examine
They are the BEST Instruments made, and
j satisfaction guaranteed.
PIANO "'FORTES
OV
Best Sew York Maniifuctine,
AND AT
IVEW YORK. PRICES!
J. W. Pease & Matthews’
myls 6mW BOOK and MUSIC STORE
Bloom of Youth,
Magnolia balm, milk of violets
and LUBIN’S EXTRACTS.
I Forsaleby J. I. GRIFFIN
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