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COLUMBUS:
THURSDAY KOB.HKU, SEPT. 2.
Immigration. —We present in anoth
er place a letter from our Home Com
missioner of Immigration. It will be
seen that his own slanderous attack
upon the people of Georgia, and the
grindings of Bullock’s slander mill
reached the Dutchmen while Mr. Weil
was laying up with a bruised nose. If
it were possible to hope anything good
of the Georgia Legislature, we should
hope that it would close the real estate
agency in Atlanta and permit Mr. Weil
to remain in Germany. When Georgia
is restored to the hands of her own peo
ple, such immigration as is desirable
will come as fast as it may be wanted.
The Press Excursion.— There is
much gossip and comment floating
around in regard to the Press Excursion.
We do not wish to do injustice to any
body, at the same time that we desire
to vindicate the integrity of the Press
where deserved, and pursue the line of
truth literally. The participation of
Gov. Bullock in the affair was unex
pected to us, and we believe to the ex
cursionists generally. And it was not
altogether fortunate. It has put the
people to surmising, that the excursion
was not so much to show up North
Georgia’s matchless mineral resources,
as to fete the press into silence upon
Gov. Bullock’s mat administration. —
This construction of the matter is in the
mouths of the people, and is gaining
ground.
We have had rumors of a very strange
speech made in Rome by one of the
editors, that gave strong dissatisfac
tion to the press and people, but we
have nothing definite, and therefore,
withhold names and alleged facts, lest
we do injustice.— Atlanta, Constitution.
The Three Great C’s.—A Georgia
correspondent of the “Journal of Com
merce” tells us that all that part of the
country is now given up to three great
“C’s.’’
Contrabands, caterpillars and carpet
baggers. The contrabands and carpet
baggers (he says) are devouring our
substance as usual; the caterpillars,
though existing everywhere, are thus
far mercifully restrained. If the con
trabands would devour the carpet
baggers and the caterpillar, or the
caterpillars the contrabands and carpet
baggers, we should do very well ; but
if the carpet-baggers are enabled to
devour the contrabands and caterpil
lars, as President Grant seems anxious
they should be, we are gone.”
The Mariana Courier says, “The
caterpillar, though their appearance has
been reported in nearly every section
of the county, are doing little damage
at present. The cotton has commenced
opening very fast, and in fields where
the top leaves have been eaten a hand
can gather from one hundred and thirty
to one hundred and sixty pounds per
day. Rust is doing great damage except
on the richest lands. The crop will he
larger than that of ’69, if the river
plantations are not flooded by a fall
freshet.”
The Bondholders.— At least sl,-
000,000,000 of the United States six per
cents are now held in Europe, and on
the interest paid on these bonds not a
cent of income tax is returned to the
government. Citizens of this country
are obliged to pay the five per cent, tax
on the interest received by them, while
the foreign holder is exempt. This ac
counts for the hosts of American shod
dyites in Europe living at ease, while
our laborers support them.
The New York Times says that it is
understood that Judge Bustoed basis
sued a summons to show cause why a
Collector of Internal Revenue should
not be enjoined from collecting revenue
tax, returnable at his Chambers in Ja
maica, Long Island. He is afraid of
being Kukluxed in Alabama.
The Pkice of Hogs. —The hog crop
of lower East Tennessee, this season,
says the Cleveland Banner, is greater
than it has been in any oue year since
the war, but owing to the fall off in the
corn crop, there is but little doing in
that line. We have heard of hogs being
offered at 5 cents gross but buyers do
not appear to take hold at these figures.
New Cotton. Tho arrival this
morning of 20 or 25 bales of cotton
gives our streets quite a lively business
like appearance. Our side walks are
pretty well thronged with pedestrians
and the streets with vehicles of divers
kinds. We quote cotton at from 29 to
31 cents.— Evfaula News, of Saturday.
The Champagne Tells. —The roll
ing 9tuck and motive power seem to be
in the nicest condition, and, in short, I
think the Press is satisfied that the man
agement of this great State property is
faithful and eminently sagacious. 1
think we can all see why $25,000 is paid
monthly into the State Treasury, instead
of $40,000, and that we generally ac
quiesce in the propriety of the change.
-—Clisby's speech on Ilulbert and the
State Road, at Rome, Ga.
Rick.— ls some dozen stalks received
at this office yesterday, from the Prairie
Plantation on the Ogeechee, be a fair
specimen of the rice crops of that sec
tion, the planters have no reason to
complain. Some of the heads are near
ly a foot in length, the seeds are well
tilled out and very heavy, and in all
respects we should rate the article A
No. 1. Our planters are just commenc
ing to cut, and in a few days wo shall
be able to give something like an ap
proximation to the crop. The grass
hoppers, we learn, have not committed
the serious depredations on the Savah
nah river rice fields that were at one
time apprehended.— Savannah Itepubli
can, 29<A.
The Coming State Fair.—We learn
that Gen. Wade Hampton has consent
ed to deliver the address at the opening
of the State Fair, and that Sirs. Mar
garet Preston, the gifted poetess, has
promised to write a poem for the occa
sion.—Macon Journal &,• Messenger.
Death of a Good Citizen.—We
regret to announce the death of Mr.
John Jlurchison, an old and valued cit
izen of Savannah, who, after a long,
useful and exemplary life was gathered
to his fathers as a shock of corn fully
ripe, at a late hour last evening.— Sav.
Republican.
Death of Fyall. —The above named
negro, one of the “expelled”legislators,
was killed a day or two since, while
seated on top of a car passing under a
bridge at some point on the State road.
His remains were brought to this city,
and his funeral took place yesterday—
the Axe Company turned out on the
occasion. —Macon Journal Messenger.
Dead. —We regret to learn that Troup
Thurman, a well known citizen of Polk
county, died of typhoid fever, at his
esidence last Sunday. —Home Courier.
New Orleans, Sept. I.—Picayune
publishes 45 names which Geo. Grind
ley swears are Democrats employed by
Casey in the Custom House. Decapi
tated Treasury agent Schenck has gone
to Washington with documents. In the
meantime Casey gives Grindley perma
nent leave of absence to await the ter
mination of Scbenck’s exposition.
THE MI UK. IN THE COCOAS UT.
After traveling a portion of the rep
resentatives of the State Press to Chat
tanooga, Tenn.; carrying them to see
one coal mine worked by a Yankee
firm, and then taking them down the
Coosa river to view the damage done
by Federal vandals, the said represent
atives being duly plied with champagne
cocktails and compliments by the way,
“Sharp and Quick” Hulbert, at the op-
develops his plan and
purpose in the affair. Our readers will
find it in another column, from the pen
of our able friend and editorial confre
re, John H. Martin, Esq., editor of the
Enquirer. Bullock bad previously an
nounced that he had invited the gentle
men of the Press to go with him to in
spect the mineral regions of Georgia.
It is plain to the unsophisticated, even,
that both these worthies had designs
upon our brethren of the quill. How
far these designs will succeed, we can
not say; but the indications are strong
and promising that Hulbert and Bul
lock will be the largest gainers by
this excursion, for which the Stale
will have to pay, through her al
ready overburdened tax payers. For
the present we have only to do with
Hulbert, the sharpest, quickest and, in
our opinion, based upon his past acts
and words, the most unscrupulous
man within the borders of this Com
monwealth. Having the field to him
self, and his auditory in the requis
ite state for receiving his utterances, lie
told a flattering tale, of course. We
\ have the utrnoßt confidence that our
friend Martin has given a full and fair
account of what he did say on the occa
| siou. Hulbert greatly glorifies himself
and his administration of the Slate
Road. After patient search we can find
nothing new in it. Through Radical
organs he has been continually saying
that he was cheapening freights; he
frankly announced that he would not
allow the State to have more than
twenty five thousand dollars per month
of the earnings of her great property,
| and lie has faithfully kept his word.
J How much more the road has made
| over that amount is not known. He
received the road in splendid condition
j in every respect; he has had it over a
year, while it has been doing a busi
ness larger than ever before, and has
! paid the State three hundred thousand
dollars only, and now says it will take
a half million to put the road in order.
He points out the dangers to the State
Road, and begs that the people of the
State will give him money, and that
the Press will persuade them to do so,
to build flanking roads to create a steady
and profitable local business. He com
plains that other railroad enterprises are
being prosecuted by reason of the high
rates of freight heretofore charged on
the State Road, when it is known that
the enterprises to which he refers are
being built for the purposes of trade,
and by communities w r hich desire to
develop their resources and advance
their interests. But while these roads,
if built, may destroy the monopoly of
the State Road, they cannot, when
completed, seriously affect it. It must
and will do a large and profitable busi
ness; one that will increase with the
growth of the country, and one ihat
will pay liberally under a wise, eco
nomical and honest administration.
Hulbert did not tell how much he was
paying his party pets for improving the
Road, nor how great a per centage from
the profits of the work that he gives out
goes in to his own pocket. He did not
tell that from the obese Supervisor
i down to the track hands, the offices of
the Road had been parcelled out to
Radicals, many of them of antecedents
and characters worse than his own. He
did not tell that it was now a vast
political machine, and that if, in his
time, the connecting roads are built,
the people of Georgia will be supplying
places to such vermin as may float
down here from the North, in the shape
of Harris and Bostock, or such of their
kith and kindred as may be found here
after the style of the Blodgett family.
We are not disposed to deny Hulbert
energy, industry, and a fair share ol
sagacity. These qualities he possesses,
but they could never have carried him
to his present position. He was put
there by his own chicanery, cheating,
lying and swindling of the honest peo
pie of Georgia out of their rights, and
his object in this excursion was to glo
rify himself, and to build up for himself
a party in favor of his policy, and favor
able to keeping him in a place which
he reached by the most monstrous
frauds and outrages. And for these
reasons we have felt it a duty to make
these comments. There was no com
plaint upon the part of the people of
Georgia with the management of the
Road under the predecessor of Hulbert.
It was known that its business was
honestly and profitably conducted in
every detail. The State has many men
of capacity equal to and beyond that of
Hulbert. We should be grieved to
think that among her sons she could
number many who could compare to
him in character. In spite of cham
pagne, sardines, cocktails and cigars,
excursions and speeches, we think that
the people of Georgia owe it to them
selves to hold this man Hulbert and his
creatures in utter detestation and con
tempt. We desire that they shall re
member the wrongs they have received
at his hands, and when the day comes,
that they may again manage their own
affairs, we trust that the State Road
will pass under the control of someone
whose unquestioned integrity will give
guarantee of its safe management with
out the aid of excursions or speeches, j
Another Outrage. —Last Tuesday
we chronicled what we then considered
one of the most dastardly outrages that
has been committed in this county, and
hoped we would not be called upon to
announce a similar occurrence. An
other, and more outrageous affair occur
red on Saturday night last at the resi
dence of Maj. John P. Lovett, about
three mile from this city, resulting in
serious, it is to be feared, injuries to the
Major and two negroes. It appears that
while sitting in his porch, about eight
o’clock, having just returned from Grif
fin, Maj. Lovett was sneaked upon by
two villians, who fired at him at a dis
tance not exceeding tweenty paces, and
was struck with nearly an entire charge
of No. 4 shot in the arm and breast.—
There was a negro woman with her
child in range, who were also struck
with several shot. Maj. Lovett, after
receiving the fire of these scoundrels,
got into the house as quick as he could,
secured his gun, and fired in the direc
tion from whence he was shot, without
effect.
It appears that a day or two since, a
couple of well armed negroes went to a
boy working for Maj. Lovett, and asked
if he (the Major) did not have money
about his premises, which the boy told
Maj. Lovett, who took the precaution
to prepare himself with a gun, for fear
something of the kind would occur.
He had just returned from Griffin,
where he had come for the purpose of
arming himself; but it will be seen he
had no opportunity to defend himself,
being shot without warning. His
wounds are very painful, there being
nearly two hundred shot in his arm and
breast. The negro woman was struck
with two shot, while the infant received
three about the stomach, and which
will doubtless prove fatal. It is not
thought that Maj. Lovett’s wounds will
prove fatal, but the extreme hot weather
will cause them to be very painful.—
Griffin Star. 1
From the N. Y. World.
NPEECiI Ot »K ADAMS.
Gentlemen of the Convention: I pray
you to believe that lam not insensible
to the kindness with which you have
greeted me, nor forgetiul of the obiiga
tion which your continuing coi silence
imposes. Mindful of my slender mer
its, and conscious ol no claim upon you
for any public service, I should have
preferred an older, wiser, abler, longer
tried, and more widely known candi
date. Indeed, I have not scrupled to
urge that it should be a sufficient dis
qualification for me that such little no
toriety as I have met with was entirely
connected with an utterly unsuccessful
opposition to measures which have pre
vailed, and my only service the defence
of a defeated policy; for I do not for one
instant hesitate to declare my convic
tion that the Democratic parly, if it
hopes for permanent usefulness, must
mind the advice of Dr. Holmes:
Yet in opinions look not always ba'-k
The past is nothing, mlntt your coming track.
But, gentlemen, it is not for me to die
tate to the party, and if my services are
! oi any value to you they are equally at
your disposal, whether required at one
end or the other of the array—whether
as an officer or as a private in the ranks;
j lor, according to my notion, the man is
i of less consequence than the policy and
{ principles which he represents, and it
! is for that reason that 1 dare to obtrude
j upon your deliberations my own idea
: of the fitting attitude for us to assume
S at this time.
DEAD ISSUES.
And first of all, upon matters of na
tional policies, although they do uot
enter this debate; yet it is proper for us
to propose what we deem the wisest
course to steer. In my judgment, our
defeat in the iast election substantially
settled the reconstruction and negro
suffrage controversy—much as we may
dislike the decision. There is no way
short of revolution by which it can be
reversed certainly for four—and, con
sidering tho complexion of the Senate
of the United States, now the effective
government of the country—probably
not for ten years, at least. This in
sures, at any rate, a fair trial of univer
sal, unqualified suffrage at the South;
and even when its failure is ascertain’
ed, it is probable that all moderate men
will agree that no sweeping measure of
disfranchisement would he expedient.
The barbarian ballot then should be re
garded by a wise party as no longer a
legitimate subject of discussion. It has
passed from the realm of debatable
questions, and should not be classed in
the category of facts. Arguments for
and againt its adoption were admissible
last autumn; but now they are out of
place. We cannot advocate or help it.
We must accept it as one of the ele
ments in the problem offered for our
solution, and address ourselves to that
as affected by this inseparable modifi
cation.
THE COURSE OF TRUE WISDOM.
As things actually stand to day, what
measures will best serve the general
welfare? This, gentlemen, with great
deference to difference oi opinion, 9eems
to me the only course open to us. To
act otherwise would resembie the wis
dom of a general who was beaten in a
battle, which he had joined, in order to
cover certain points should, after the
victorious passage of his opponents,
and occupation of tbe disputed territo
ry, rally his army anew, on tbe old
battle field, and there fight an imagina
ry foe, while he leaves all behind him
to the unopposed progress of his antag
onist. Let us leave such strategists to
bang off their big guns at empty woods
and waste their ammunition upon the
debris of battle fields, while we press
on to assume anew position full in the
enemy’s front, where, when we have
restored our lines and reunited our
ranks, successful battle may yet be
fought and redeeming victory won. In
this spirit we would say to our former
fellow citizens in the excluded provin
ces: “Come into the Union, stand not
upon the order of your coming, but
come at once; when you are in, and we
can act as fellow citizens once more, we
will meet together and consult upon
future measures. This, gentlemen, in
brief, is the spirit which, as it seems to
me, should animate our action upon
past issues; for the present and the fu
ture are very important in these days,
and will allow us scant time even to
celebrate the funeral rites over our dead
past. Eternal activity is the price of
party living, and the road behind is
strewn with carcases of the factions
which could not see that in politics a
dead principle is a mere prejudice, nau
seous to the people? Vague declama
tion upon natural rights or wrongs,
whether white or black, female or oth
erwise, no longer delights a people that
is being gradually taxed out of house
and homo. The man who finds it daily
more difficult to find his children bread,
will relax his anguish that the negro
has a vote; the most passionate lover of
his colored kind may recognize a fellow
creature in a planter, if they both agree
that the price of coal is an outrage, the
duty on iron a swindle, and the tariff
an abomination to be abolished. In
truth, it is high time that, after some
twenty years of a refreshing season for
the national soul, we should take a short
term of attention to the public body—
which needs it badly enough.
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
I undertake to say that there is no
nation in the world which is taxed as
we are taxed. No wonder that the men
who work for wages grow desperate, as
they decline in well being and estate.
No wonder that the air is full of strikes
and labor movements and associations
and demands and protests of working
men and women. They are in the right
in their unrest and uprising, although
the practical measures proposed as re
medies are sometimes unconsidered and
unwise ; for it is true that the system of
taxation they endure is not only one
rous, but practically operative in the in
terest of capital alone. It is true, as
the very able and candid Commissioner
of Revenue says and proves, that, al
though the aggregate wealth of the
country is increasing, probably as rapid
ly as at any former period, yet it does
not follow that there is the same in
crease in general prosperity. The la
borer, especially he who has a large
family to support, is not as prosperous
as he was in 1860 ; his wages have not
increased in proportion to the increase
in the cost of his living. There is,
therefore, an inequality in the distribu
tion of our annual product which we
must refer to artificial causes, and he
asks: “Whence comes this unnatural
distribution of the results of labor ?”
and he tells you, and not he only, but
every man who ever was supposed to
know anything about political economy
will tell you, that it must be the result
of an enforced use of unconvertible
heaps of paper money, which involves
a most oppressive tax, which falls heavi
est on the laborer and lightest upon the
owner of the capital. In one significant
sentence he sums it up : “The rich be
come richer and the poor poorer.”
THE PHOTECTIVE TARIFF.
And the next sturdy robber is the tar
| iff upon imports, which is, he says,under
I all circumstances, a tax paid by the con
i sumer. But what kind of a tax it is
| when your tariff is a protective and not
i a revenue tariff solely, let Mr. Mill, the
latest and best authority on the subject
j tell you. “All custom duties which
! operate as encouragement to the home
i production of the taxed articles are an
! eminently wasteful mode of raising re
venue. They are purely mischievous
both to the country imposing them and
to those with whom it trades. The
amount of the national loss thus occa
sioned is measured by the excess of the
price at which the commodity is pro
duced over that at which it could be
imported.” So much for theory. Now,
what does the Special Republican Com
missioner tell you this tariff practically
is ? “A tariff which is unjust and un
equal, which needlessly enhances prices,
which takes more indirectly from the
people than is received into the Treasu
ry, which renders an exchange of do
mestic for foreign commodities nearly
impossible, and which, while professing
to protect American industry, really in
many cases discriminates against it
and he goes on to tell you what is the
upshot of the whole system. And thus
the wave of taxation continues to ex
tend and enlarge itself until no man can
measure the breadth and power of its
influence, and breaking ultimately with
its full force upon two classes of society
—those living upon fixed incomes, and
the day laborer. Do you wonder, then,
that the workingman is discontented,
subjected naked to the lashing of such a
pitiless storm of taxation ? Do you
wonder that he turns incredulous from
the silver tongued demagogues who
would persuade him that be is well off?
Gentlemen, he knows he is sinking ;
he feels that his strength is failing him.
It is borne in upon him that he must
drown if aid comes not swiftly.
hard money.
And what can we do tor him ? Why
do what Andrew Jackson would have
done. Give him hard money and an
open market. Take off your weight
from him and let him alone. What is
needed then to restore prosperity to la
bor and satisfactory relations to capital?
What is necessary to alleviate the pres
sure of public burdens and dispel the
odium of the debt ? And what must be
had before we can have national wel
fare, is a return to a gold and silver
currency aud a reduction of the imports
and exports to the lowest point which
our need for a large revenue will per
mil. The prosecution of this demand
is not alone theoretically the peculiar
province of the Democraic party. It is
its traditional and immovable policy.
To it the men who marched before us
have been in succeeding cluster solemnly
dedicated by the utterances of their
greatest statesmen The giant forms
of Jefferson and Madison, Monroe aud
Gallatin, Jackson and Benton and
Web9ter, all marshall the way lor us,
all in majestic accents cheer us onward
to honesty and prosperity.
THE STATE POLICY,
i'.iii I dare not dwell on topics so ex
tensive ; lei us glance a moment at our
Stale policy. This is simplicity itself,
grasping firmly the fundamental prin
ciple that no man’s liberty shall be in
frinced, if,he respects his neighbors
equal rights. We merely test by it the
pel quackery of the times. That hap
pens to be to-day the phantom of pro
hibitory law, which has risen again in
arms on the tombs of the P. L. Ls.—
This statute would have been long ago
defunct but for a class of persons, most
]y of the well to-do and well behaved
kind, who, while they repudiate the
theory of the law and refused the prac
tice of total abstinence, yet think it is
their duty to protect the poor and inno
cent against themselves—reform them
by force ; and they thus justify what
Mr. Stuart Mill declares to be an in
fringement of a proper personal liberty.
It is a law of the patriarchal and frater
nal kind, not inapt perhaps for Russian
practice, but curiously at variance with
American theory. For our people do
not readily realize, in action, that an
invasion of the legitimate liberty of the
individual just as much an outrage
when ordained by a majority as when
ordered by a Czar. It is however, al
most ridiculous to argue the principle
of the law at this day, since its advo
cates have themselves abandoned it by
legalizing the sale of cider as a beverage,
and we must content ourselve with the
fact that its practice is arbitrary, as we
should expect. Who ever heard of a
rich man’s tipple meddled with, and
when, and for how long respectively
have magnates of the trade (I beg par
don, I should have said traffic) in Bos
ton pined in prison or mourned over
despoiled and empty cellars. The hu
morous old gentlemen who prepared
that amusing literary curiosity, the
Constitution of Maasachusets, in one of
their charmingly simple outbursts,
which they jocosely call Article XX of
the Bill of Rights, say the power of
suspending the laws or the execution
of laws ought never to be exercised but
by the Legislature, or by authority de
rived from it, to be exercised in such
peculiar cases only as the Legislature
shall expressly provide for. And they
followed this miserable sally by gravely
affirming in Article XXX, thaf it was
to the end that it may be a gov
ernment of laws, and not of men. But it
is pretty clear from this that the
founders were fogies. We know better
than that, and when we want to pro
duce the real philosopher’s stone of
political science we show a petty con
stable who disposes of the goods and
liberties of his fellow-citizens, confiscat
ing here and incarcerating there, pun
ishing the little and negotiating with
the big culprits, and, in a word, sus
pending the execution of a law accord
ing to his notion of the amount of public
patience and the state of the popular
pulse.
SUMPTUARY LAWS.
We are told that at the sumptuous
banquets of Rome in its decadence it
was the custom to choose an “Arbiter
Bibendi,” or lord of the revel, whose
high prerogative was to regulate the
libations of the guests and rule the riot
of the feast. Nor is it difficult to pic
ture the curled and perfumed darling of
the reckless youth of Rome, reclining
crowned with flowers, the dictator and
arbiter of the orgie. And now we, too,
must in this, as in other things, follow
the mistress of the world, and have our
arbiter of drinking ; but, no longer con
tent in a republic to limit his sway to the
tippling of the table, we install a con
stable the permanent potentate over the
potations of a commonwealth. But the
real difficulty is not so much to convince
the popular mind as to reconcile the
political stomach. In the letter in
which I accepted your nomination a
year age I ventured to say, “As to the
license law, our prohibitory friends in
the last legislature used to declare that
they cared very little what kind of a
law was passed, as in the Presidential
election the license-law Republicans
would not dare to bolt the regular nom
inations, and these they could control.
I suppose, therefore, the success of their
State ticket will be equivalent to a re
turn to the prohibitory law with its at
tendant constabulary.” To this my ex
cellent friends of the Daily Advertiser
responded by laughing at my audacity
to “suppose” that a party which had
always scrupulously avoided adopting
the peculiar tenets of the temperance
cause should do that thing ; and it con
stantly assures its readers that “the
Republican party of Massachusetts is
strong enough to correct its past errors,
and to conduct the legislation of the
State property upon its own responsi
bility, without aid from outside influ
ences and organizations.” Now, my
friends, it is not very difficult to see to
day which of us prognosticated right.
But it is for all that no more easy to
pursuade liberal Republicans that such
a policy will prove as futile next year
as it was last, and that the prohibition
stake must be once for all fairly smash
ed and done for by a united pounding
from all liberal men. But it is exceed
ingly natural that our Republican
friends should be shy of us, and suspect
us of all manner of tricks, for the path
of politics is full of snares, They know,
inasmuch as they* have themselves in
boyhood helped to set them. Let us
then regard their scruples, and while
we offer a hand in all kindness and con
ciliation, yet respect their maidenly
Congress.
One word more and I am done.
THE COURTESIES OP DEBATE.
Our chief opponents in this dispute
being many of them teachers of the
gospel of peace and ministers of a relig
ion of good will, while all of them in
theory, at least, are professors of tem
perance, will naturally be especially
distinguished for the kindness, courtesy
and moderation of their methods of
conducting the debate. Now, let us not
be outdone by them in the amenities of
discussion. Let us all recollect that
vituperation is not argument, nor abuse
persusion, and do not forget that we
have no right to assume any peculiar
purity to our own motives, or ascribe
exceptional obliquity to our opponents.
Let us admit that we may all be seek
ing the public welfare with honest in
tentions, if by different means, and then
let us act our part frankly, cheerfully,
considerately, and fairly, and let the
best man win.
CONCLUSION.
Gentlemen of the Convention, remem
ber that the time you first did me the
honor of holding up my name for the
office to which you have now for the
third time nominated me, one of our
Republican papers objected to my
youthfulness, and thought I was “a
mere boy,” but a friend of mine of the
same persuasion as the paper comforted
me by the assurance that he was sure I
should be old enough before I got it.
Now, whether I am called upon to
meet this high responsibility in my
present state of mitigated youthful af
fliction, or wait until I am so chastened
by years and disappointment that I
shall see the usefulness of maintain- ,
ing a law on grounds of high moral :
duty, while I see to its enforce
ment for reasons of party expedien
cy, is not of the first importance to us.
But it is of the first importance to us
that we should hold high and spotless j
our banner; that we shout an honest;
war cry, and manfully maintain the
good of all, as it is given to us to see it, 1
strengthened by defeat, and made wise
by adversity. I see that I need not
urge you to do your devoir gaily and ,
stoutly. I see in your eyes that you
are ready for the new rout. Come on,
then—
“ Ret tho dead past bury its dead,
Act, act In the living present,
Heart within, and God o’erhead.”
From the New York World.
Responses of Confederate Generals
to the Gettysburg Invitations.
Invitations were issued to the follow-
I ing Confederate officers to attend the j
Gettysburg reunion : General Robert E.
Lee, General John B. Wood, command- |
ing Right Division of Gen. Longstreet’s
Corps; General James Longstreet, Gen-j
eral Jubal Early, General Rhodes, Gen- j
eral R. E. Johnston, General R. Newell,
General S. D. Pickett, General G. H.
Stuart, General Wade Hampton, Gene
ral 11. Heth, General Kemper, Major
H. K. Douglass, General James A.
Walker, General William Smith, known
as “Extra Billy ;” General John S. j
Moseby, General R. D. Lilly, General
i J. K. Trimble, and General J. D. Im- !
boden.
GEN. R. E. LEE DECLINES.
The following are the only answers |
from thebe Confederate Generals :
Lexington, Va., Aug. 5, 1809. |
Dear Sir: Absence from Lexington
has prevented my receiving until to-day
your letter of the 26th ult., inclosing an
invitation from the Gettysburg Battle
field Memorial Association to attend a
meeting of the officers engaged in that
I battle at Gettysburg for the purpose of
marking upon the ground by enduring
| memorials of granite the position and
I movements of the armies on the field.
| My engagements will not permit me to
be present. I believe,if there, I could not
| add anything material to the informa-
I tion existing on the subject. I think it
wiser, moreover, not to keep open the
! sores of war, but to follow the examples
: of those nations who endeavored to ob
! literate the marks of civil strife, to com
| mil to oblivion the feelings it engender
| ed. Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
R. E. Lee.
fitzhugh lee’s opinion.
Richland, Stafford Cos., Va.,,4
August 14, 1869. j
Hon. D. McConagliy , Secretary Gettys
I burg Battle field Memorial Associa'n.
\ Dear Sir : I have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt, through General
R. E. Lee, at Lexington, of a hospitable
invitation to attend the “reunion” of
the principal officers of the two armies
that lought for the field of Gettysburg.
It will not be in my power to be present
at the time indicated, viz., last week in
August. My division of cavalry reached
Gettysburg on the afternoon of the 2d
July, 1863, was placed upon the left of
our army, together with General Wade
Hampton’s division, the whole being
under the command of General J. E.
B. Stuart, General Lee’s Chief of Caval
ry at that time ; fought during the 3d
; with the cavalry upon the right flank of
| the (“your” struck out and the follow*
I ing substituted) Federal army. Stuart,
| Hampton, and I had been absent from
| the army with our cavalry from the
! time it left Virginia until the above
j time. Any information that I may
j possess on the subject matter of your
: communication will be cheerfully ren
dered. I rather think, though, and I
write it in all kindness, sir, that, if the
nation is to continue as a whole it is
better to forget and forgive rather than
perpetuate iu granite proof of its civil
wars. Sincerely thanking you and
your association for the conciliatory
spirit which prompted a courteous invi
tation, I am, very respectfully, your
obedient servant, Fitzhugh Lee.
GEN. LONGSTREET’S LETTER.
New Orleans, La., Aug. 12, ’69.
| Dear Sir: Your interesting letter of
| the 30th ult., via Saratoga, is just re
j ceived. A few days previous I wrote
; to advise you that important affairs
would detain me iu the city during the
season. In reply to your inquiry as to
the best mode of securing the assistance
of the Southern gentlemen in marking
the different points of the field, I can
only answer for myself. Other persons,
residents of this city, who were there,
are now absent, or I should consult
them and send you their views. I
would bo pleased to visit Gettysburg at
any time when I can leave New Or
leans, but I do not think it possible for
me to do so this year. I would prefer
to make the visit with as many persons
as can be gotten there, but if I can only
do so myself, I would prefer such a
j visit rather than none, if I would be
; likely to find someone there to assist
me in marking points and lines of the
I field. I am, sir, very respectfully, your
obedient servant,
James Longstreet.
Prodigy lovers will be gratifiod by
the intelligence that a fall of what
would in other days have been called
bloody rain has lately been witnessed.
A few weeks back the Neapolitans
found their streets stained with red,
and their garments spotted, with san
guinary-looking drops. Examined
closely, the coloring matter of this
shower was found to consist of small
red grains, sensibly round, and varying
from the two-hundredth to the four
hundredth part of an inch in diameter.
When the mysterious element of this
fall was dispelled, it was clear that the
rusty particles were really dust specks
drawn up by the wind from African
deserts and borne with it across the
Mediterranean. This is not an unprece
dented phenomenon. Twenty years
ago a French philosopher collected a
large quantity of dust of the same quali
ty, and probably from the same source,
from a housetop at Valence; and again,
a German found the peculiar African
grit in Berlin. These facts show how
pests, and plagues, and the germs of
disease may be carried from country to
country by the transporting power of
the wind; it is not always inanimate
dust that is thus wafted to immense
distances. A shower of insects, fell at
Araches, in Savoy, last January, which,
upon examination, proved to be of a
species peculiar to the forests of Central
France; and a few years hack, Turin
was visited by millions of larvae of a fly
found nowhere but in the island of
Sardinia, 'these are recent and well
proven cases; many more striking
instances might be collected from chron
icles of things curious.
Much has been written about the
mental peculiarities of the Prince Tal
leyrand The academician, M. St.
Beuve, in a late study gives the follow
ing curious details on the physiology
of the Prince:—“He had the singular
faculty of sleeping but little ; he passed
the night at cards or in talking. He
rarely went to bed before four in the
morning, and yet was up again at an
early hour. His pulse had the singulari
ty of being very full, and of intermitting
every sixth beat. On this subject he
had a theory of his own; he considered
this skipping of the sixth pulsation as
a stop, as a resting of nature, and he
claimed that the pnlsations which were
lost and which were his due, would be
made up to him at the end, and would
therefore prolong his life. He explain
ed, also, by this fact his little need of
sleep, as if nature had taken its sleep
in detail and in advance by small
doses.”
About Crops.—An intelligent plant
er from Hancock county, who has used
I fertilizers for years, gives it as his opin
j ion that, for the first time in his experi
i ence, they will fail to pay this year.
: He has lately traveled from here to At
j lanta, and thence to Augusta and back
!to Macon through Middle Georgia. He
; reports crops generally bad. In Green
tolerably good. In Hancock we will
allow his statement as to his own to
give an idea of the whole. He had four
hundred and fifty acres in cotton. In
July there was the finest prospects
he had ever seen—counted confi
dently on the 300 bales. His sights
are set now for only 150 bales
One half cut off since July. He thinks
the country generally will hardly make
a bale to six acres planted. As to man
ured cotton it had grown far ahead of
that unmanured in July, but the latter
has now caught up with it in size of
weed, and rains at this time might cause
it to make a little more with a late fall,
whilst they would cause manured cot
ton to take on anew and rapid growth,
which always fail to make anything.—
In Putnam county and several parts of
Hancock there have been some rains
which were beneficial to those localities.
Corn crops in these places rather better ;
than last year. —Macon Telegraph. j
Hulbert’s Railroad Speech.
We take from the Enquirer, of yes
terday, the following account of Hul
bert’s speech on the railroad excursion:
Col. Hulbert commenced by explain
ing his reasons and objects in assem
bling the representatives of the Press
of Georgia to accompany him on this
excursion. He said that in his opinion
the railroads of Georgia had pursued
the wrong policy in adjusting their
tariffs upon commodities, the furnish
ing of which at cheap rates was essen
tial to the prosperity of the people and
the development of the resources of the
State. Twenty five years ago the iron
interest of Pennsylvania was small.
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad de
cided to carry coal and iron at very
low rates—much lower than the rates
of any other railroad in the country.
The business slowly and steadily in
creased, until, after five years, the same
road lowered freights still further, and
the business continued to increase until
it became a source of handsome revenue
to the State. He had tried on our State
Road the same policy ot reduction, and
his reduction had been followed by an
increased amount of business. It was
now, probably, carrying coal and iron
cheaper than any other railroad in the
country. Coal was delivered in Atlanta
last winter at $5 50per ton, and coal as
fuel compares favorably with wood in
the ratio of one ton of coal to three
cords of wood. The saving to the citi
zens of Atlanta, by the use of coal in
stead of wood, had been about $200,-
000. Other cities had been and would
be benefitted in like manner by the re
duction of freights on coal; and the
consumption of coal will no doubt so
rapidly increase that it will in a few
years require the entire present carry
ing capacity of the State Road to trans
port it. Exclusive coal trains are now
run.
Cheap coal produced iron. The ma
chine sbops and foundries, since the
reduction of freights, have steadily in
creased their business, and are now im
porting more labor. The citizens of
Georgia have long been importing iron,
and wearing out muchot it, when made
into agricultural implements, &c., on
hilis full of it ! —wearing out their plows
on iron ore, and complaining because
it was there! He had offered and
would offer totranspoit coal ami iron
to foundries, shops, factories, &0., at
rates as low or lower than those of any
other Road on the continent. He want
ed furnaces and foundries all along the
line of his Road, to light up the track
for his night trains !
He spoke of the vast undeveloped
mineral wealth of this section of the
country. He had been in correspond
ence with iron men in Pennsylvania
and Ohio, aud had described to them
mineral resources of Georgia and Ala
bama. The reports had struck them with
astonishment. He had assured them
that there was no ground lor the appre
hension that they would be in any dan
ger here ; that it would be enitrely safe
for them to come. He bad, in the Rail
road Convention held a year ago last
January, proposed to si !l excursion
tickets to person from the North desir
ing to explore the Southern country,
and it was finally agreed to try this pol
icy for six months. About five thou
sand such explorers visited the Southern
States within the six months, and thou
sands more had promised to come.—
Many of the hotels had co operated by
reducing their rates for such explorers.
The plan worked so well that before
the expiration of the six months nearly
all the roads agreed to extend the time
twelve months longer. Then he con
ceived the idea of this excursion, as the
simplest and cheapest plan of advertis
ing the mineral interests and resources
of Georgia.
He had said to all parties desiring to
locate near the State Road a cotton mill,
grist mill, furnace or foundry, that he
would transport their .machinery at
very low rates, and aid them in other
ways. There is now more machinery
on the line of the State Road than ever
before. He had said to iron men and
manufacturers that he would endeavor
to get for them the same low rates from
other roads, and he had generally suc
ceeded.
The State Road had heretofore had a
monopoly, and had taken advantage of
it to charge higher rates than other
railroads. He doubted the policy of
this course, and reduced the rates.—
Other roads had, with some hesitation,
come into the arrangement and lowered
their rates. He did not intend, by his
remarks, to condemn any one fur the
past policy of the road. lie was of the
opinion that he could easily pay $40,000
or $50,000 per month into the State
Treasury by charging high rates on ar
ticles of prime necessity; but this
would only be taking money out of the
hands of the people, and every dollar
thus paid into the Treasury costs the
people two dollars, because it discour
ages the development of the resources
of the State, and pampers the enterprise
of the people.
It was the general opinin of the peo
ple that the road is now in good condi
tion. Though it was probably the best
road in the South, he considered that
$500,000 would not put it in good condi
tion. His policy would be to take the
surplus earnings and expend every
dollar of it the first year in judicious
improvements, so as to make it in every
respect a first class road. Then he
would reduce the freight tariff so low
that it would barely cover working ex
penses and keep the road in excellent
condition. By this policy the prosperi
ty of Georgia would be increased to a
wonderful extent, and the enhanced
value and increased amount of property
would yield a great revenue.
Col. Hulbert directed attention to
movements that threatened seriously to
curtail the business of the State Road.
The Road had lost Us monopoly. The
road from Decatur to Montgomery
would take off a large portion of the
business; so would the Selma, Rome
and Dalton Railroad. The proposed
road from Griffin to Decatur would have
the advantage in grades and become a
competing line. We would be compell
kd to divide with that road. The road
from Knoxville toward Charleston
would turn off another portion of the
freights now coming over the State
Road. It is surrounded with danger on
all sides. What is to be done V He
would answer—purchase the Rome
Railroad, and extend it to Decatur.—
Build the line from Cartersville to Van
Wert and extend it eastward up the line
of tho Etawah river. Build the road
from Dalton to Morganton. We would
thus build up a local business that would
render the State Road independent of
through freights. Without this, in a
few years, the revenue of the State Road
might fail to cover its expenses. The
adoption of a liberal policy to aid in the
development of the country, and the
building of side lines, would not only
save the State Road, but make the peo
ple rich and increase the amount of tax
able property 300 per cent, in ten years.
The purpose to build the roads now
threatening such serious competition
arose from the high rates charged on
the State Road and the desire to avoid
them.
Col. Hulbert then read a table of dis
' tances, to show more clearly the difflcul-
I ties which the State Road has in pros
j pect. He said that they were not all
derived from reports of actual surveys,
; but they might be relied on as very
pearly correct. We copy the most im
i nortant of them :
| From Nashville, to
Montgomery, via Decatur..3os miles
“ “ Chattanoo
ga and Atlanta 4G3 “
Columbus, via Decatur and
Montgomery 397 “
Columbus, via Chattanooga
and Atlanta 439 “
Columbus, via Decatur and
Newnan 419 “
Macon, via Decatur and
Newnan 422 “
Macon, via Chattanooga and
Atlanta ...393 “
Macon, via Decatur and
Kinston 410 “
From Knoxville, to
Montgomery, via Selma,
Rome and Dalton 350 “
Montgomery, via State Road 387 “
Col. Hulbert called the attention of
the representatives of the Press partic
ularly to these dangers threatening the
State Road. Our true policy in this
emergency, was to build side lines and
to develop the resources of the State.—
He urged the Press to take hold of these
questions and arouse the people to their
importance.
Col. Hulbert is a thorough railroad
man. He studies railroad movements
as a player does a game of chess, keep
ing his eye on every possible shift of his
adversary ; guarding againsts attacks ]
on his own flanks, as well as his front
and rear; and combining his own forces
in such a way as at once to offer the
most compact resistance to attacks, and
to move with vigor, when the occasion
requires it, on the enemy’s works. We
have heretoiore criticised his manage
ment of the State Road, but we freely
confess that we did not then under
stand his policy as well as we now do,
nor had we then perceived its benefits
outside of the figures contained in his
annual report and monthly payments.
We believe that he will be able to con
vince the people of the State generally,
as he certainly has convinced almost
the entire people of upper Georgia,
that the greatest benefits derived from
his management are not to be found in
the figures of those reports, but must be
sought in the rapid recuperation and
steadily advancing development of
many material interests and resources
of the State.
For the Sun and Times.
LIFE.
Little gloamings of gladness
Now and then on the way;
Little shimmers of sadness,
And night succeedeth day.
Little hopes of the deep heart,
Born In some spirit cell,
We cherish, and dream not of time’s art,
For the story is yet to tell.
Little fears, then the clouds come,
Purpling and shading the gold,
Bidding us seek a great One—
To Him our souls unfold.
Years, a grave, a death-sleep--
The weary slumber at last;
’Tis nought, why should old Earth weep I
There are millions gone with the past.
Millions of hearts the lightest,
Pure as an angel’s dream,
Passed to that land the brightest,
Now spirits, to us unseen.
Millions of hearts in sorrow
Thought of the “going home,”
Life would fly on the morrow,
Then Death would bid them come.
Wis will one day stand by a river,
Angels are there as of yore—
(>ne thought of the loved-one’s—a shiver—
And we’re safe on the other shore.
Little gleamings of gladness
Now and then on the way;
Little shimmers of sadness,
And night succeedeth day. Etta.
Hikterie Spot at lietlysbiirx,
“M. Quad” sends the following to
tbe Detroit Free Press :
1 think I shall go down to Gettysburg.
I haven’t yet received au invitation to
ride free gralis over the various lines of
railroad, nor do I expect I shall. Nei
ther the generals, colonels and majors
who are to flock there to point out to
each other the histoiic spots, signified
a desire to have my assistance. What
should they want with a private soldier
theie—you know the great fight was
won by the officers. But, whether or
no. I believe I shall go down, there’s a
few, to me, historic spots that I want
to point out for the camera of Brady,
and the pencil of a Nast. For instance,
over in the extreme left of the cemetery,
I want to see if 1 can’t recognize the
spot where the captain of my company
laid down, went into spasms, and en
deavored to bring us of the rank and
file to believe that he had a sunstroke.
That is one spot. Again, I want to go
back into the edge of the town and see
if I can find the old house where, two
hours after the scene above described,
I went to seek admittance for a com
rade, whose arm had been smashed by
a piece of shell, and found the brave
Captain, with his chair tilted back and
a huge pipe in his mouth, taking his
ease on the porch. Then, when Nast
shall have drawn the picture, I want
right under it these words, which were
addressed to me:' “Well, Quad, they
are having d—d hot times over there,
ain’t they ?” Aud there’s another spot,
which is especially historic to me. It
is near an old barn, on the left of the
fight, where, on the 3d of July, a cer
tain lieutenant in my company sent for
me to come over to his tent, and then,
after much suasion, cajoling, promising,
and agreeing, borrowed ten dollars of
me, to be returned the next week. And
then I want somebody to find me the
spot where this gallant officer returned
me the money, for I have been looking
for it some six years without avail.
I should like to have a photograph of
ascertain spot and a certain man. He
was a very brave man ; very large and
chivalrous looking ; he had a good deal
of red tape on him ; I think he was a
Brigadier General; yes, lam quite sure
he was, and I don’t know but I would
swear lie was a little pompous. When
the cavalry attached to Hill’s corps came
thundering down to meet the Michigan
cavalry brigade in a hand to hand fight,
and were getting mighty close to our
batteries, I saw something or somebody
digging spurs into a steed, aud when
we got back np the hill, and were rest
ing a moment, I saw a body dressed in
a brigadier’s uniform, pounding the
saddle up the road a good half a mile
away.
Asa border around these pictures, it
would be well to place here and there,
some of the swaggering colonels and
majors who filled the streets of Gettys
burg during the three memorable days.
The “corner-pieces” could handily be
made of some of the officers of higher
grades—say a few brigadiers and major
generals.
But then, you know, a private soldier
was only a machine, with a life trivial
enough to be sacrificed at any whim or
blunder of those in command, and how
I, with my old ragged army blouse,
torn pants and rusty hat, would look,
walking over the ground where I fought,
in company with the glittering and
gallant men who did me the honor to
command me ! On the whole, perhaps
I won’t go down.
Removal of the State University.—
The Board of Education during its ses
sion here adopted resolutions looking
to a removal of the University from
Tuscaloosa. We reserve comment for
another time.
Whereas, the best interests of the
State University, and its future success
demand its removal from its present
site in Tuscaloosa and its location
elsewhere. Therefore,
Be it resolved by the Board of Regents,
That it is their purpose to remove said
University at the earliest moment prac
ticable.
Be it further resolved. That it is the
wish of the Board to carry out the will
of the people of Alabama in the loca
tion of the University, and in that end
to solicit proposals from the different
cities and towns in the State, said
proposals to state explicitly the amount
that will be guarantied, either in money,
lands, or other property, in considera
tion of the permanent location of the
University in such city or town.
Be it further resolved, To at a committee
of three be appointed to receive all
proposals, and report to the Board a
suitable location for the Univetsity, at
its next meeting in November.
The followsng named persons, mem
bers of the Board, were appointed as a
committee: G. L. Putnam,olMobile;
Jesse 11. Booth, of Prattville, Autauga
Cos; G. A. Smith, of Courtland, Law
rence Co.— Montgomery Advertiser.
The Problem Solved.— The Cin
cinnati Times, a Radical sheet, and
formerly the organ of Know Nothing
ism in Ohio, a newspaper that has a
very small modicum of respect for white
men, and an infinite love for nogroes,
has entered inlo a solution of the prob
lem ot lace.
It sets down as a theory to be made
manifest in practice, that the Chinese
race will emigrate to the Western Hem
isphere, mix with the negroes, and their
progeny mix with the Anglo Saxon,
and thereby produce a “superior” race.
That paper naively remarks: “Sol
emn facts seem to indicate the decline
and ultimate extinction of the superior
(white) race. Every superior nation
has declined and gone down.”
The Physic Beginning to Work.—
The correspondent cf the Macon Jour
nal and Messenger writing about Bui
lock, Hulbert & Kimball’s railroad pic
nic, says:
I am glad to learn that the editors of
the State are beginning to understand
Hulbert and his policy better, and that
the opinion is fast gaining ground that
the State Railroad has never been in bet
ter hands.
A New Jersey negro who bought
some rattle - snakes; to learn snake
charming died before his education was
perfected.
PAN IE L PRATT’S
O BLEBRATBD
rig' F
COTTON
FOE SALE J3Y
HALL, MOSES & CO.
o
WE ARE SATISFIED from our experience last year that the price oMiiincd lor i
ginned with PRATT'S Gins (owing to the superior staple produced) over Hint m .
makers, will in itself pay ior the Gin in oue season.
Read what Mr. Pratt says:
TO THE COTTON I»IaANTEK>.
A S THE SEASON WILL SOON ARRIVE when COTTON I’LA NTi Jt:-> will v. n:
GINS, I have thought it best to publish my Card.
Mv Gins were in use last >ear irorn Virginia to Mexico. 1 will hero state, if theie w. ,m\
dissatisfaction or complaint amongst all my customers, lam not aware ol it. A (.tin »»aj ..
constructed as to knock out the motes anil sand, which Improve! thei looks of the cotton, Inn
not the staple. Whether the planter Is benefltted I will leave it lor him to decide, l.terj :u
tachment put to a Gin makes it iun he ivier. Every machine the cotton runs thrum h, in inn
th WHAT IdItTpLANTER NEEDS is A SIMPLE, Dl RABLK GIN, that will rut, 11*1,1,
without breaking iis roll or choking, that will cleanse the seed, will separate the heavy Plot,
from the cotton, and not injure the staple. I claim all this for my Gins.
I do not card the cotton, hut leave that for the manufacturer to do. Ido claim I hut 1 h v ■
rnailo and sold more gins than any other living man. 1 have given most, ol my attention In it o
manufacturing of Cotton Gins for the past thirty-nine years. 1 shall do my ocst tokccp up
the reputation of my Gin* so long as I continue the business.
1 de«ire to show the Planters Dial as good work can he done In Alabama as in the New la,a
land States, and as much deserving the patronage ol Southern planters.
1 have some knowledge of the manuiacturing of Cotton as well as Cotton (~»«, which will
account for the remarks 1 makeon that subject. lam making
THE “EUREKA” GIN,”
Which before the war, was very popular wherever it was used. The advantage is, tbe cotton
can be gathered with the bolls and hulls, thereby picking a third more cotton The Gin will
separate them from tho cotton, without being cut or uiUod with it. They arc the most ported
i’in 1 over saw They nbsd no rkconmbhdation where they are known, or have been used
Anv man who makes more cotton than he can pick out in g. oil time will save by getting one ol
them The demand on the Mississippi river before the war wassueh that, 1 could not supply 11
All"orders sent to tho undersigned at Prattville, Ala., or to any of the Agents, will he
promptly tilled. COTTON GINS.
I am making Gins for the Pkklkr Cotton, which are pronounced by good judges, NOT To
INII’KE THE STAPLE, liis a mislakelo suppose that Blank Saws or wide ribs, improve
the stable. It seems to me that a little reflection will convince any man of the fact. No two
saws net hold of the same fibre, so as to cut or break it. II a saw lakes hold ol a iimhl.o ol «
»q,re It o'ten breaks it instead of taking it Horn the seed. No Gin, except the Roller, will take
the lint oft without breaking it more or less, f am willing to run my gins against an y s:i»
Gin f«7r long staple. 1 have tho ROBINSON HORSE MILL, a good article, which i- very
bobular where known. 1 also have Segments, Gudgeons, Inks and Bolts, tor running Gems,
which I would ho pleased to lornish to such as aio In want.
deliver at any landing on rivers, or depot on railroads. DANIEL PRATT’
Their Gins will he delivered and orders received for them by either the COLUMBUS IKON
WOUKS COMPANY or HALL, MOSES St 00., Agents for Dan’l Pratt.
Tho^greatest sceurity to the dealer against thieving Is ottered by us in the TELL-TALE
MONEY DRAWER, one of which every merchant should have.
duly 8, 18f>9 warn HADE. MOSES & < < »•
A CARD.
Having purchased tho Stock of
Drugs, Medicines, &c.,
IN THE
STORE no. ss imo.ii) ST.,
FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY
F. S. CHAPMAN, ESQ.,
1 have located at th»t place lor the purpose of
conducting a general DRUG and CHEIYIK AL
BUSINESS, and hope by strict attention and
devotion to business to merit tho confidence ol
tho community. , , .
I shall keep constantly on hand * tAJM
PLETE ASSORTMENT ol the PUREST and
REST
Drugs, Chemicals, Perfumery
Toilet Articles, Oils, &c.,
that can ho procured in this Country or in Eu
ro1 ’ e " MR. F. S. CHAPMAN,
The well known and popular Druggist will
have charge of the Dispensing Department,
which shall at all times bo supplied with the
BEST preparations of the day, both, loreign
and domestic. .
Persons can rely on having their Proscrip
tions CAREFULLY PREPARED at any
hour of the DAY’ or NIGHT.
TERMS, STRICT!.¥ CASH.
J. I. GRIFFIN,
(Formerly of Apalachicola, Fla.)
Broad Street.
Columbus, May 4, 1809 WGm
it OSADALIS
OrpiiE GREAT AMERICAN
X HEALTH RESTORER, puri
fies the blood and cures Scrofula,
Syphilis, Skin Diseases, Rheuma
tism, Diseases of Women, anti all
Chronic Affections of tho Blood,
Liver and Kidneys. Recommend
ed by the Medical Faculty and
many thousands of our best citi-
Read the testimony of Physicians
ami patients who have used Rosa
w jd&lls; sond for our Kosadalis Guide
to Health Book, or Almanac for
this year, which we publish for
A gratuitous distribution; it wlllgive
you much valuable information.
Dr. R. W. Carr, of Baltimore,
says:
1 take pleasure in recommending
your Kosadalis as a very power
lul alterative. I have seen it used
in two cases with happy results—
Done in a case of secondary syphilis.
in which the patient pronounced
himself carod after having taken 5
bottles of your medicine. The oth
er is a case of {Scrofula of long
standing, which is rapidly improv
ing under its use, and the indica
| tions are thaflhe patient will soon
recover. I have carefully exarn-
A ined the formula by which your
Rosadalis is made, and find it an
excellent compound of alterative
ingredients.
Dr. Sparks, of Nlcholasville, Ky,
says he has used Rosadalis in caseH
of .scrofula and Secondary Syphilis
with satisfactory results —as a
Egg" cleaner of tho Blood I know no
£■-■>.£ better remedy.
Bga a Samuel G. McFadden, Murfrocs
jUj M boro’, Tenn., says:
-JB*&.AaS j have used seven bottles of Ro
sadalis, and am entirely cured of
Rheumatism; send me four bottles,
I as I wish it ior my brother, who
Las scrofulous sore eyes.
| Benjamin Bechtol, of Lima,
Ohio, wriies, I have suffered for
twenty years with an inveterate
eruption ovor my whole body ; a
short time since 1 purchased a bot
tle of Rosadalis and it effected a
S perfect cure.
Rosadalis is sold by all druggists.
Laboratory, til Exchange Place,
Baltimore.
Dr*. Tleincnfs, Riven A Cos.,
Proprietors.
jul 13 W ts
AYER’S
Ague Cure!
FOR THU KrKKDY CURB OF
Intermittent Fever, or Fever anil Ague, Remit
tent Fever, Chill Fever, Dumb Ague,Periodical
Headache, or Bilious Headache, an I Bilious
Fevers, indeed for the whole class of diseases
originating in biliary derangement, caused 111
Malaria or miasmatic countries.
ATU one remedy is luudor called •
1\ for by the necessities of the J? *
American people than a sure and
safe cure lor Fever and Agpe. ■
Sueh we are now enabled to omr, vh'--,
with a perlect certainty that it djgljs/wF
will eradicate the disease and vi-fvik
with assurance, founded on proof
that no harm can arise from itsiKskSgpiv
use in any quantity.
That which protects Irorn or
prevents this disorder mu-t be ol
immense service in the enmmu
nities where it prevails. Prcven
tian is better than cure, lor the
patient escapes the risk which he
must run in violent attacks of
this baleful distemper. This t [a J
“Curb” expels the miasmatic
poison of Fkvru akd Aooafrom
the system and prevents the
velopoientofthe disease, ii taken®
on the first approach of its pre
monitory symptoms. It is not only the best
remedy ever yet discovered lor this class oi
complaints, but also the cheapest. The largo
quantity we supply for a dollar brings it with
in the reach of every body; and in bilious dis
tricts, where Fkvkr and Ague prevails, every
body should have it and use it Ireely, both for
euro and protection. It is hoped this pricowill
place it within the roach ol all—the poor as
well as the rich. A great superiority of this
remedy over any other ever discovered for the
speedy and certain cure of Intermittents (h.
that it contains no flulnino or mineral, conse
quently it produces no quinism Ol- other inju
rious eifocts whatever upon the constitution
t hose cured by it arc lelt as healthy asil tiiov
had never had tlie disease. 1
Fever and Ague is not alone the consequence
ol the miasmatic poison. A great variety of
disorders arise from its irritation, among
which are Neuralgia, Rheumatism, (tout,
Headache, Blindness. Toothache, Earacho, t!a
..U 1 ’ Palpitation, Painful Affoction
of the Spleen, Hysterics, Pain In tho Bowels,
Uolic, Paralysis, and Derangement of the
stomach, all of which, when originating in
this cause, put on the intermittent typo, or be
come periodical. This ‘Ourb’ expels the poi
son from the blood, and consequently- cures
them alt alike. It lean invaluable protection
to immigrants and persons traveling or tem
porarily residing In the malarious districts. If
taken occasionally or daily while exposed to
the infection, that will be excreted from the
system, and cannot accumulate in sufficient
quantity to ripen into disease. Hence it is
even more valuable for protection than euro,
and few will ever sutfor from Intermittents, If
they avail themselves of the protection this
remedy affords.
PREPARED iff
Or. J. C. AYER A CO., IjOwcll, Mass.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists.
SOLD by all DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE
Sold by
PEMBERTON, HOOD & TATUM,
and A. IVI. BRANNON, and ail the drug
glstßln Oolumbus, and druggists and dealers
everywhere. July lOeod & W
OIIEAT
MB Ill'MItl!
rnHBSK are the standard Family Medlctnos
_L of America. They are proscribed and used
by the medical prolession. They are jirolurred
by every mother and lather. They Immedi
ately merit public esteem and confldonoe ol all
who once test their virtues. They are prepared
by physicians who are fully authorized by the
t'ongress ot the Untied iStatos, and are the re
sult of a long bedside experience. Being nei
ther secrets or patent*, the medical prolession
have no hesitancy in giving them a lair trial
aud a hearty reoommendation.
DIARRHEA.
rpHOUSANIIS of our fellow beings are an
_L uually consigned to untimely graves, and
tbe dying groaus of old and young are con
stantly crying aloud for relief from Diarrhea,
Cholera Morbus, Ac. Asa result of much scl
entiiic research and a long and taillilul bedside
experience, wo otter a Remedy tor all those
Mummer Complaints which is pleasant and
never tailing in Its effects. No rnothor should
l'&il to have a supply of tho
RED DIARRHEA REMEDY,
Preparod with artistic beauty, with chemical
purity and exactness, selected and combined
according to extensivo medical experience,
unique in finish and appearance, mild, pleas
ant and cooling to the stomach and never-fall
ing In romodlal effects, the unerrng linger ol
truth points to the RED DIARRHEA REM
EDY as tho boasted combination of the day
for ail the forms of Diarrhea, Cholera, Chol
era Morbus, Nausea, Vomiting, Cramps, etc.
Price *l, or six bottlos for *5. Sent to all
parts of the country on receipt of price. Sold
by all druggists.
J. P. DROMGOOLE & 00.,
Proprietors,
Memphis, Tenn.
English Female Bitters,
WHAT WILL THEY DOI
They will rcßtoro fading female beauty, will
paint the pale cheek, will hurl back tho gath
ering storm that encircles your brow, will add
brightness and lustre to your Ilfeleßs eye, will
give brilliancy and activity to your dull intel
lect, will strongten and sootlio your shattered
nerves, add tone, health aud buoyancy to your
whole system.
HOW WILL THEY DU ALL THIS!
By arousing, regulating and restoring all
sickly females to a healthy condition By
curing all those complaints peculiar to the fe
male sex, such as palntul, suppressed or Irreg
ular Menstruation, Hysteria, Leucorrlieeea,
Chlorosis, Prolapsus Uteri, Ulceration and lr
ritabillty of the Womb, Pains In the Side and
Back, Melancholy, Palpitation or the Heart,
Swimming and Giddiness of the Head, Cold
Foet and Hands, Nervousness, Sick Headache,
a feoling of sutlocatton, indisposition to enter
society, and all those diseases arising from a
deranged condition of the uterine system,
whether aliecting old or young, married or
single. This compound ls neither secret no
patent, but is prepared and ottered by the r,
ulur medical prolession.
Wo have,hundreds similar to the following:
From aneminent physician of Carroll Cos., Mini.
Messks. J. P. Dkomooolk Ik Cos.:
As your “English Female Bit'ers” Is neither
a secret nor a patent, 1 have frequently pre
scribed it for the various female complaints ol
our country, and always with the most satis
factory results. It is decidedly the most valu
ble combinalion 1 have evor known lor the
treatment of those oomplaints peculiar to the
female sex, old or youug, and 1 do not hesitate
to givo it a hearty recommendation, its as
tonishing cures have won for it many laurel.-
in Carroll count*, and 1 hope its efficiency
may soon bo heralued all over tho country
Ihat the medical prolession and the female
community may reap its auvantages.
G. W. VASSEK, M. 1).
Tno English Female Bitters is aecuialely
and beautifully put up in largo butties, al
*-•60 per bottle, or three bottles lor «ti one
bottle lasting about two weeks, shipped to
to all parts of the country on receipt 11 price.
Mold by all Druggists.
J. P. DROMGOOLE A CO.,
Proprletoi«,
Memphis, i cun
KIDNEY AND BLADDER
Airectionß are exceedingly common aml trou
blesome all over the oountry, and the public
have long lelt the necessity of a remedy that
could be relied upon In all those affectu m,
and none are better qualified to prepare au,h
a remedy than the physician hlmsolf. We
havo practiced medicine about twenty years,
and can safely say that we know ol no combi
nation to equal our
KIT. BKAKBKUKY AND BICHV.
It is recommended to oure all derangement
of the Kidneys ami Bladder, such as Oravol,
Urinary Deposits ol all Binds, Bloody or Milky
Drino, frequont desire to urinate, pain In small
or back, dull burning pain in region of bladder,
Gout, Dropsy, nervous trembling, melancholy,
evil forebodings, effects of habits of dissipa
tion or early abuse, loss of power and memory
and all. those affections requiring a prompt
and docided Diuubtio, whether old or young,
rnalo or female.
Price FI, or six bottles forss. Shipped to all
parts of the country oil receipt of price.
Sold by all druggists.
.1. P. I) ROM (FOOL E St 00.,
Proprietors,
Memphis, Tomi
THE CHILL PUZZLE.
8
S 1 3
sills
Slll 1 1 S
8111 h 1 1 1 8
slllhc h 1 1 1 s
8111llOf C tl 1 1 1 8
sllihotofehills
slllhclogofo hills
slllhcfogngotchills
sllihclognlngof chills
slllhcfognlKlngofchllls
sllihofognlngofchills
slllhofogngofchills
sllihof ogofc hills
sllihcfofohills
fcllllicfchllls
slllho h 1 1 1 s
slllh 1 1 1 s
slll 1 1 s
sills
8 1 S
s
The above will cure any case of chills, even
ol six months standing, without adopting
head, oars or nerves. It arouses the stomad
and liver, carries off tho bile and eflets porum
r.entcures. In the swamps of Arkansas, where
the chills are so common and so difficult to
cure, they readily yield when treated with our
King ol Ohills.
Put up in large bottles at *l, or six bottles
for V 6. Sent to all parts of the country on re
ceipt of prioo. Sold by all druggists.
J. P. DROMGOOLE & CO.,
PROrUIBTORB,
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE,
L. W. HUNT Si (JO., General Agonts,
Macon, Ua.
Sold in Oolumbus, Ga,, by
A. M. BRANNON,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist
ul 3 T&W3m
G INS!