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TIIE HERALD.
I?Y JOHN K. MM'MII,
GREENSBORO, GA :
SAltlii-AV MOOTING, : : I SfifT t>, MW
llcrctoval of Judge Reese.
The pinelicitl wotking of inHilnry suprem
acy is iHustiated ir* :|i« ml j lined c irrcs
phaderx-e resulting in the tem< val of one cf
the best jit hts whose picsence upon the
bench ever C'iiu-hI th< Jttdicmy of America.
The same ffiflituliy which embarrassed the
lien. Augustus Reese in the performance of
his duties, must Ik) encountered by ev.-rv
court in our district, though lie has been the
f -remost in protesting against the interference
of military despotism «vhh the sacred privi
lege of freemen in the tight ts the decision
< f disputed points by a jury of their peers.
In this time of radical innovations it may be
safer to subvert that right than it proved in
n pa»t age to an English monarch. The
manly tone of the Judge's protest will lie re
garded by an impartial posterity in a cooler
and belter age, as the evidence of a higher
nobility titan the ephemeral rank of the mill'
t*ry ifH er whom accident has given tempo
tarv authority bv which he is enabled row
to execute his imperial will even to the rie
stinotion of tvety tight he'd dtnr by freemen
in all »g s. It will he ohsetved that General
Tope n« s Li? authority on the claim that
r o L gal government lias existed in Georgia
since the adoption of the ordinance of se,
cession, font which assumption the conclu- ,
bion is inevitable that the act of tho conven
tion recognizing the abolition of slavery in
this State, was null and void ; and conse
quently slavery is still in full Ajtce. Tut
I ere is the correspondence w hich wo copy :
[Front the Chronicle Sc Sentinel.]
To the People of the Ocmulgee Judicial
District.
Citizens: Fleeted by you to the
Juogeaiiip oi this Circuit, without opposition,
it is duo to you that you understand
why it is that I do not, from this day, exercise
the functions of tho (flea. I refer you to the
appended correspondence.
Sept. 20, ISG7. Augustus Reese.
(no 2.)
Madison, Ga., Sept, 5, 1807.
Tu Major General Pope, Commanding Third
Military District, &c. :’
General : Since 1 have been on tho Bench
of the Superior Court. 1 have sedulously en
deavored to have justice administered accor
ding to luw, “without discrimination ns to
classes and individuals.” How furl have suc
ceeded is host known to the people, the Bnr,
and ‘the Supremo Court fur the Currcetiou of
Errors.’
Since the passing of wlmt are commonly
cnllcd the Military Hills, looking to my own
into csts as well as the interests of my constit
uents, I have labored to conform to nil military
orders, and until the publication of General
Orders Nos. 53 and 55, hoped 1 should be able
so to do. Truthfulness, General, requires me
to say that I cannot obtain my consent to he
made instrumental in carrying out these or
ders, and it is due that you should have my
reasons, which I will now proceed to give with
out much argumentation.
General, when I received from (lie people
of my Judicial District, through the Executive,
us the State, my commission, I took nnd sub
scribed the following oath, viz : ‘1 swear that I
will administer justice without respect to per
sons, and do equal right* to Iho pour and rich,
ami that 1 will faithfully and impartially dis
charge and perform all tho duties incumbent
on nte.as Judgo oi tho Superior Court of this
State, according to the best of my ability and
understanding, and agreeable to the laws and
Constitution of this State and the Constitution
of the. Vailed States.'’
When, how, or where I have been absolved
from this obligation 1 am not able to under
stdi and. With this obligation' remaining, after
a careful review of the several theories touch
ing the status of the Southern States, 1 am
unable to adopt any process of reasoning by
winch I can arrive at tho conclusion that the
orders referred to are the laws of Georgia : the
Constitution thereof; or the Constitution of the
I'nitcd States, or are otherwise within the
power, view nndprenning of sard obligation.
Jly analysis of these orders is, that the
competency of jurors is mode to depend upon
the polities of the person summoned. If the
citizen summoned has registered, ho is a com
petent juror, if ho has not regi-ueTcd he must
he set aside. Now, if registration, like the
payment us taxes, was a legal duty on tho eiti
mi, there would he some plausibility in the
legislative authority excluding him iioin the
jury box until he discharged that legal duty,
uut the Military Hills, even, do not moke reg
istration a legal dutv ; on the contrary, it is
left to the free will and discretion of every
‘citizen who can take the registered oath to
register or not. If these orders were intended
as a punishment upon such citizens as cannot
take the registered oath, it must not be forgot
ten that there nre hundreds, if not thon-afids
in Georgia, who have ever been considered true
to the Federal Government, and who can take
the registered oath ; but w lie have not and will
not icgistcr, fearing they may, by registering,
commit themselves to a programme w hich will,
in their judgment, if successfully carried ou*,
work an entire change in the form of govern
ment uudor which the people of the United
States were for so long u time prosperous and
happy. This last mentioned class of citizens,
T think, are in error, for 1 hold that every citi
zen who can, ought to register, and thereby
qualify himself to prevent mischief; but these
citizens, in declining to register, are hut exer
cising the rights of American citizens—rights
conceded by the Military Hills, and in declining
to register commit uu crime, and violate no
legal duty.
These orders carried out cannot fail to affect
moss injuriously the rights and interests of
parties in court, especially an they have the
right, under our system, in equity, appeal, and
criminal cases, to select impartial jurors. You
will pardon me. General, in sayiug that, under
the must latitudinarain construction ,ts the
‘.Military Bills,” J can fiud no authority for
making the politics of a citizen tliq test of his
competency to serve ou a jnry, and thereby, it
may ho jeopardizing to parties in court the
right of being tried by an impartial jury.
If the officers of court were ordered to have
tb# juries made up from the list of member
ship iu the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian,
or any other church, 1 cannot see that such
order would be more in conflict with American
ism than these orders. In the one case the
religious creed of the citizen would be the tes
of his competency to sit on a jury—in the othe
case, the test of his competency is his politics.
Wore I absolved front the obligation re "erred
to, there are other considerations sufficient to
deter me front undertaking to administer jus
tice through the instrumentalities indiented.—
Precedents, General, ia all public matters, es
pecially in judicial matters, if based upon
wrong principles, are dangerous things; their
it.ifluenco for evil is felt long after the occasion ,
which gave birth to them," and their nufliors
have passed away. Imn unwilling to he made
instrumental Ln engrafting upon American ju
risprudence the principle that the competency
of a juryman is dependent upon his politics.
This principle would endanger the impartiality
of juries, and sooner or later, destroy nil pro
tection to life, lil»erty, nnd property.
Again : Without further authoritative legis
lation, in riew of my responsibility to the law,
w henever the people of the United States shall
become sane, and in view of my accountability
“to Him that is ready to judge the quick nnd
the dead,” no earthly consideration could in
duce me to pass sentence upon a person convic
ted of a capital offence, by the verdict of a jury
organized as indicated in Orders Nos. 53 4 55.
Whilst I do not expect you, General, to con
cur in the views herein presented, I do claim
to have accorded to me frankness nnd honesty
of purpose, qualities onco considered virtues,
the existence of which among Georgians, I fear
you have had too rarely occasion to remark
since you were called to your present position.
General, I regret to have to present these
considerations, but I dare not ignore my con
victions of duty.
If you should feel it to be your duty to pro
hibit mo from tho further cxerciso of Judicial
powers, notice of that fact at your earliest con
venience is desirable-
I shall make no issue with you for the reason
that 1 know of no appellate officer or tribunal
in the country at tho present time adequate to
the occasion.
With high consideration. General, lam s,
most respectfully, Augustus .eehi.
N. 11.—The regular term of Greene county
Superior Court begins on Monday next.
Ild’qrs 3d Mil. Diet.. Ga., Ala., 4 Fla..
Atlanta, Sept. 18G7.
llos. Augustus Reese, Madison, Ga :
Dear Sir: I have the honor jo acknowledge
receipt of your communication of the sth inst.;
in which you inform me that you cannot, as a
Judge of a Superior Court of the State of Ga.,
obtain your consent to bo made instrumental
in carrying out Orders Nos. 53 and 55, issued
from these Headquarters, and stating your
reasons therefor.
Whilst 1 thunk you for the candor of your
communication I regret that you have reached
such a conclusion.
I ennoot undertake to enter into an argument
to convince you that my orders are legal and
obligatory upon you. It seems not improper,
however, to state that the position upon which
your conclusion is based appears to me to bo
totally untenable. Your argument is founded
upon the'theory that the State Government of
Georgia is a legal one, and that all acts contra
ry to the laws of the State, even when done in
pursuance of the acts of Congress, nro illegal,
The preamble of tho Reconstruction Acts con
tradicts this theory in direct terms in the fol
lowing words, viz :
Whereas no legal State Governments or ade
quate protection for life or property now exists
in tho rebel States of * * * * Georgia
* * * * 4c..
The acts then proceed to recognize tho exist
ing State governments ns provisional only, and
establish a Military Government to which the
provisional government is made in almost every
respect subordinate.
As the laws of tho United States are para
mount iu Georgia, it follows that no proceed"
ings of the oxisting State government of Ga.,
possessed nny validity whatever, prior to the
enactment of the Reconstruction Acts, nod
that whatever validity they possess now, they
owe entirely to that recognition. Whenever
tho proceedings of the provisional State gov
ernment, either ir, its executive or judicial
department, conflict with tho provisions of the
Reconstruction Acts, or with the orders of the
military commander acting in conformity there
to, such proceedings are without legal validity.
Tho power is vested in me by the Reconstruc
tion Acts to make such orders ns I consider
necessary to carry out the objects therein spec
ified, and such orders carry with them in this
District all the force of law until they are mod
ified or countermanded by higher authority
than mine.
Any law of the Provisional State Govern
ment in conflict with orders thus issued is null
and of non-effect, nnd any proceedings what'
ever, under a law thus set aside by Military
Orders are without validity.
My Orders oil and 55 were issued by virtue
of the power thus vested in me, and I do con
sider them ncocssary to the execution of the
Acte of Congress above specified. As the Re
construction Acts became laws wtf the United
States, in the manner provided by the Consti.
t ttion, and as the Question of their constitu
tionality has been presented to the Supreme
Court of the United Ststcs, nnd that highest
judicial tribunal of the country has decided
that it lias no jurisdiction in the case, the con
sideration of that question by subordinate
military or judicial officers is scarcely admissi
b'e. Your argument against political tests is
very good, but totally inanplacablc to the ease.
My Orders require the jurors to be selected
from the registered voters, but make no dis.
crimination asto thoir politics.
Whilst I do not, for the present, prohibit
you from the further exercise of judicial povr
\ ers, 1 do require you to observe the alo e or
ders, and will not overlook any failure on your
part to carry them fully into execution.
I am sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
John' Fees,
Brt't Maj. Gen. U. S. A. Commanding.
Madison, Ga., Sept, 16th, 1867.
To Maj. Gen. Pope, Commandant Third Mili
tary District, &c.:
General : Owing to my absence in holding
I Greene County Superior Court, your letter
| (without date), in reply to my communication
! of the sth inst., was not received until the af-
I ternoon of Saturday last.
Your suggestion, in relation to Orders Nos.
| 53 and 55, have caused me to give to my com-
I munication of the sth inst. a most careful and
senrohihg review, to see if 1 could find nny
fallacy in the arguments or error in my conclu
sions, and candor compels me to say that I have
been unable to detect either.
You say, “My Orders require the jurors to
ho selected from the registered voters, tut
’ make no distinction as to politics.” Now, it
is certainly true, that the orders referred to do
not, in so many words, make a distinction as
j to politics : hat upon what ground is it that a
I large number of citizens, who can take the
I registration onth, are excluded?
Their politics is not to register or otherwise
commit themselves to the Military Bills; they
; don’t register—they are excluded from the jury
J box. I most rospectfully submit tlint my anal"
j ysis of these orders, as contained in my first
communication , is correct, to wit: That by
these orders the politics of the citizen is made
the test of his competency to sit upon a jury.
I concede to the full extent the doctrine that
the private citizen is ltound to conform to all
laws passed by authority until they are de
clared void by the judiciary; but a judicial
officer, in discharge of his duty, sworn to ad
minister his office agreeable to fundamental
law, occupies a very different position. I
thank you, General, for the deferential consid
eration you have been pleased to give to my
embarrassments upon this subject.
1 can’t seo that 1 have any alternative in the
premises, other than to proceed with the dis
charge of my official duties as heretofore until
you shall feci it to he your duty to have given
to me n prohibitory notice.
With high consideration, General, I am
yonrs, most respectfully,
Augustus Reese,
Judge Superior Court, &c.
N. I?.—I have an adjourned Court in Raid
win county, commencing tomorrow. Next
week is the regular term for Putman county-
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 17, 18G7.
Dear Sir: I received this morning your
letter of the lGth inst., in answer to mine of
the sth inst. As our views of your duty to
observe and comply with Orders issued by me,
as District Commander, arc irreconcilable, and
as I consider it my duty to enforce iny own
opinion on the subject, and as I am very un
willing in the case of a gentleman of your
character and standing to resort to so unpleas
ant an net ns your removal from offiec, I sug
gest that, to avoid unpleasantness, which I am
sure neither of us seek, you resign your office.
If you should concludo not to do so, be pleas
ed to inform me, and consider this letter a pos
itive prohibition against the further exercise
of your office unless you conform to my Order
concerning Juries in this Stale.
I regret very much that this disagreement
should deprive the State of Georgia of the ser
vices of so competent nnd worthy a Judge.
I am sir very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
John Pope,
Hrv’t Muj. Gen. U. S. A., Commanding.
Hon. Augustus Reese, Madison, Ga.
Milledgeville, Sept. 20, 18GT.
To Major General Pope, Commanding Third
Military District, Ac. :
General :—Yours of the 17th inst. in reply
to mine of the lGth, was not received hv me
until last night. I cannot, as you have been
heretefure advised, consistently with my \iews
of duty, be made instrumental in carrying out
Orders Nos. 53 and 55, nor can 1 bring my
mind to the conclusion that I ought to resiyn.
Your letter, therefore, is accepted by me as
“a positive prohibition against the further ex
ercise of my office,” and will be acquiesced in
by me as such.
I thank you for the kind and complimentary
manner in which you have been pleased to
communicate your prohibitory order. With
high consideration, General, I remain
Yours, most respectfully,
Augustus Reese.
(Communicated.)
Mr. Editor; Your correspondent, Mr.
Ketchum, and the Club he represents, having
taken in hand to correct certain errors and
abuses of a social, economic and moral nature,
I take the liberty, through your columns, of
suggesting a wider range of their observations
nnd labors. I see they have a Committee on
Churches, to rebuke misconduct, and promote
good order, in that sacred place. This is highly
commendable. Now, I venture to enquire, how
it would do to Lave also a Committee on Pul
pits. I have great veneration for the pulpit,
and for all worthy and judicious incumbents of
|t, who so preach Christ, as not to give them
.reives too much prominence, or importance.—
But all men, may not be discreet in all things
pertaining to their holy office, even with the
best intentions they may err, and then for a
layman, however experienced and judicious, to
reprove them, might seem impudent and pre
sumptuous. So let there be a Committee, who
can make some grateful return in timely and
respectful hints, for the wise counsels, so free,
ly given from tho pulpit, without losing casto
or suffering reproach for it. Njw if Mr, K's
Committee on Churches, should see any one
leave during service the offender would ho
marked for it. Should he not he allowed to
plead, in self-vindication, that the preacher was
so languid, Inng-winded, or soporous that his
reverence for the sacred place, requires him
»o slip out rather than sli}> in, the Church ?
There are many reasons to justify long 6er.
monsand services in the country where preach
ing is comparatively rare, that don’t apply to
towns, where they have it, several times every
Sunday nnd frequently in the week. Now in
view of that state of things, what can justify a
long winded town preacher, in mauling in, for
more than a mortal hour, as much gospel (?)
as human muscle can drive through a battered
book board, or pounded pulpit cushion, into a
i tired and- unwilling hearer’s heart; and that
too after a tedious introductory service, along
song, lined oot, and duly interlarded and dilu
ted, with prosy additions, and a prayer longer
than the one hundred and nineteenth (llfitb)
| Psalm, or Solomon’s dedicatory prayer, and
which makes one’s knees ache and feel as if
they could never straiten again find all this
followed by a “post mortem’’ exhortation pre
ceded or succeeded by another prayer from the
strong lunged blower, or some fresh hand, ut
the bellows. Add to this, the meeting if at
night, was commenced at an hour when all
country people who make u living for them
selves, nnd mfike the bread that keeps the town
people living, are either thinking of bed, or
snoring in it!! 1 Now thero is a town I wot
of, a twain of them, where all the prayer meet
ings are bed time affairs, followed by late ris
ing, red eyes, and “sour godliness” the next
morning, and as effectually banishing the hon
est son of toil, from participation in a meeting
ordained of God, as if Satrap Pupo lmd issued
edict or hull No. 99 against it.
Is this too severe for becoming reverence for
sacred things ? Is it half so caustic, as what
one of the greatest and most pious poets said
in a poem contemplating the same object, as
this article of humble origin docs? Hear
him
“ln man or woman, hut far most in man,
And most of all in man that ministers
And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe
All affectation. ’Tie my perfect scorn,
Object of my implacable disgust.”—
And again
“How oft, when Paul has served us with a toxt,
lias Epectctus, Plato, Tully preached.”
But, says he,
"I venorate the man, whose heart is warm,
Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine nnd
whom life
Coincident, exhibit lucid proof
That he is hone s t in the sacred cause.”
“Would I describe a preacher such as Paul
Were he on earth, would hear, approve and
own,
Paul should himself direct me. I would trace
His master strokes, nnd draw from his design.
I would express him simply grave,sincere,
In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain.
And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste
And natural in gesture; much impressed
Himself, as conscious of his awful charge,
And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds
May feel it too, atteqlionntc in look
Aud tender in address, as well becomes
A messenger of grace to guilty men.”
It must not he inferred from the foregoing
reflections, that all of our preachers are consid
ered culpable. Far otherwise. Few sections
in this State, or rather Satrapy, are blessed in
the denominations, with abler and better man,
who know how and what to preach, and when
to stop. Men who forget self and all ambi
tious views, and hope of personal honor, in
holy zeal for their Master’s cause.
INCOLA.
P. S. Do you think a preacher ought to he
always going on with his exhortations and
long talks at prayer meetings, thus consuming
too much time, and preventing many who
might usefully lead in prayer, and all this be
cause he loves to talk, and can talk ad'infinitum
until his tones <£*c., have become as familiar
and impressive as the herdsman’s bell ? Don’t
you think a prayer meeting, ought to be a
prayer meeting , and not a preach meeting, ex
hoi t meeting, or display meeting. I.
flic Latest Sews.
R. G. Horton, editorthe New York
Day Book, is dead.
New Orleans, September 24.
Interments from fever for twenty-four
hours to s’X this morning, eighty-two.
Letters from La Grange, Texas, to be
laid before the Howard Association here,
state that the number of citizens remain
ing in the town is barely live hundred,yet
the interments reached twenty-four in
two days. Average mortality eight.—
Those attacked are almost sure to die,
the disease proving fatal in nine cases out
of ten. Every house is filled with sick
ness and death. Whole families are swept
away. In some cases theie was no one to
bury the dead. The disease is spreading
in the country. No provisions are in
the town, and country people will not
venture in with produce. On the 9th
not even meal could be had to make gru
el for the sick. Business has ceased en
tirely, stores are closed, newspapers have
ceased publication and the jail is emp
tied of its inmates, who have fled in
terror from the scene of desolation.
Richmond, September 25.
Hd’qrs, Ist Military List., State ]
of Va., Richmond, Sept. 24, 1567. /
Mr. James McDonald, Virginia :
Sir —I have received your communica
tion of this date, asking my decision of
the question whether delegates to the
State Convention will be required to
take the oath prescribed by the act of
Congress for officers of the United States,
and by section 9 of the act of July 19,
for all persons hereafter elected or aps
pointed to office in said military district
under any so-called State or municipal
authority, or by detail or appointment of
the District commanders. In reply I
have no hesitation in saying that dele
gates to the State Convention cannot be
required to take the oath referred to.—
Section 9 of the act of July 19 refers to
officers elected under authority of the so
called or provisional State Governments.
This cannot be construed to include del
egates to a State Convention, elected
under authority of the Congress of the
United States. No oath whatever has
been prescribed by law for delegates to
the State Convention, and there is no
authority but Congress competent to pre
scribe such oath. The only restriction
imposed upon the registered voters in
selection of these delegates to the Con
vention is that contained in the sth sec
tion of the act of March 2, viz :
“Any pcrsoH not excluded from the
privilege of holding office, by said pros
posed amendment to the Constitution of
the United States, shall be eligible to
election as members of a convention to
frame a constitution for any of the said
rebel States.”
Yours, very respectfully,
J. M. Schofield,
Brevet Major General, U. S. A.
SOUTHERN
MASONIC FEMALE COLLEGE
The Exercises of this Institution xvi 11 he resumed
On Wednesday, 1-Hli us August,
Under the Presidency of
GU STATUS J. OUR, A. M.
Assisted in the Literary Department by
RE V. W. D. ATKIKBO N, A. M.
Mrs. V. G. CONYERS, Instructress in Music.
and a corps of Competent Instructors
The Fees for the Fall Term of Nineteen weeks
cl osiug the 24th December, will Leas follows
PREFAUATORY DEPARTMENT.
First Class : : : : : sl4 00
Sccoud Class : : : : : i-1 00
COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT.
Tuition for Literary and Scientific Instruction,
[s36 00
Tuition for Instruction in Music, $36 O 0
Fee for use of Instrument, $3 50
Incidentals, $3 60
Matriculation fees, only on entering, §4 00
No extra charges for instruction in the An
cient Languages or Vocal Music. All fees paya
ble in advance. No pupil received for a less
time th“" a term, and no refunding of fees ex
cept in cases of protracted sickness or death.
BOARD, including fuel, washing and lights,
can be procured at present, at $lB to $22 per
month, and will he lower, should there be auy
Considerable decline iu provisions.
Any Mason or number of Masons sending four
pupils from abroad, will bo charged the regular
tuition fees of only three; and any gentleman,
or number of gentlemen, not Masons, sending in
like manner, five pupils, will be charged the
tuition fees of only four.
Provision has been made for a Fifth College
Class, a class of resident graduates, who will be
entitled, on standing a satisfactory examination,
on certain prescribed studies, at the expiration
of twelve months after graduation to receive the
second degree-in English Literature.
A most successful term has just been closed
with a brilliant Commencement, under tne con
trol of the gentlemen of the Board of instruction
above named, and the attention of tlie public is
respectfully invited to the claims of this College.
JOHN B. HENDRICK,
Aug.2-Cw President cf the Local Board
QOFER & MoCALLA,
General Commission Merchants,
and Dealers in
LEATHER, SHOE FINDINGS,
'HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES', &C. AC.
Consisting in part of
French ami American Calf Skins,
various Brands.)
Country, Hemlock, and White Oak
S3 o 1 c LeatHor,
HARNESS LEATHER,•
Both Country and Northern.
SADDLE MATERIALS, 4o„
and everything needed in a Shoe, Harness or
Saddle Simp; We are alab
MANUFACTURING'
Harness, Saddles, Bridles, &c-,
and will sell the same kinds of goods as cliwvi
as any House, t aking Freight aud other expenses
into consideration.
Hereafter we expect, to devote our whole time
and energy to the above business, and expect
success to crown our efforts.
M. 1.-Cofxb, A. C. MoCaila. -
Aug. 23 Decatur street, Atlanta, Ga.
JJ. BROWNE,
. GILD E Tv,
Looking Glass, and Picture Frame Manufacturer
O and P a nags Restored, I.ined and Varnis ied
2,13 ly 135 Broad street, Augusta, Gnu
N E W
Milli n o r y
E S T A B L I S II M E H T .
MRS. C. WTSEBERG, (formerly of Charles
ton, S. C,) takes pleasure in informing the
ladies of this vicinity, that she lias established
herself in the Millinery Business, where can be
found a WELL SELECTED, Fashionable stock of
Bonnets, Hats, Straw & Millinery Goods
Generally, and r-spcctfully in\ites all those
visiting the city, to purchase the same, to price
her Goods, before purchasing elsewhere.
Mrs. C. WIBEBERG,
No. 3, Peachtree street, Atlanta, Ga
Next door to Cox 4 Hill, Wholesale Liquor
Merchants.— Iy3o
Holmes & c alder
Formerly Holmes 4 Cos.
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
Paints, Oils. (Hass, Varnishes,
BRUSHES, ETC.
Nos. J 26 Meeting, and 55 Ilascl Streets
CHARLESTON, S. C.
W. E. lIOLMrS,. W, CALDEB
References. —Andrew Simonds, Pres. Ist Na
tional Bank. Win. C. Dukes ,j- Cos., L. W
Spratt, Esq., Gen. Johnson Hagood, Col. Clias
11. Simomtun, Capt. James M. Carson msol\u
SADDLERY & HARNESS
EMPORIUM.
Cf C. ROGERS, Decatur Street,
%• secono door below Messrs. Moore 4 Marsh
and op. the United States and American Hotels
ATLANTA, GA.
Keeps constantly on hand a good assortment of
Saddles, Harness, Collars
Wlxips, &c., &c„
All kinds of REPAIRING promptly dome—
prices reasonable.
Call and examine the stock on hand, which ia
complete, and will be sold cheap, before pur
chasing elsewhere.
HIDES taken in exchange for Goods.
wishing BUGGIES or other V»hi
vies, can have them ordered through me.—6m3o
Special Notices.
Information.
Information guaranteed to produce a luxuriant
growth of hair upon a bald head or beard]#**
face, also a recipe for the removal of Pimplua,
Blotches, Eruptions, etc., of the skin, leaving tha
same soft, clear, and beautiful, can be obtuiuod with
out charge bv addressing
TUGS. F. CHAPMAN, Chemist,
1y24 SI Broadway, New York.
To tConsampUves.
rpilE Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON will send (foe.
I of charge) to all who desire it, the prescription
with the directions for making and using the simple
remedy by which lie was cured of a lung affection
and that dread disease Consumption, llis oulyob
jeet is to benefit tho afflicted and lie hopes every
sufferer will try this prescript ion; as It will cost
them nothing, and may prove a blessing. Plcast
address Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON,
No. 165 south second street, Wllliamshurgh, N. T.
Errors of Youth.
A Gentleman who suffered for yours from
Nervous Debility, Premature Decay,‘and all the
effects of youthful indisoreton, will, for the sake
of suffering humanity, sent free to all v ho need
it, the recipe and directions for making tli.
simple remedy by which he was eured. Suffer
ers wishing te profit by the advertiser's experi.
i-noe, tua do so, by addressing, iu perfect c«n£-
donee, JOHN B. OGDEN,
24 ly 42 Cedar Street, New York
PHILLIPS & CO.,
J AUGUSTA, GA
Importers and Wholesale Dealers
Have Just received the Largest Stock of
ROPE & BAGGING,
and can sell Cheaper than any houso in the oity.
Have just opened, and keep constantly ou hand
a well selected stock of
Brandies & Gin, Bourbon, Ry«,
and other Whiskies.
a’so a Great Variety of WINES and CIGARS,
also a fine Stock of
G-RO CERIES,
To which (hey respectfully invite the atltnti.n
of all Hotel Keepers and Dealers in their lint,
ns their intention is to sell
As Low as can be Bought in the city ts
N£ W YORK.
Call at PHILLIPS k CO.,
282, Broad street, August*, I #*..
1,46tf AND LOOK, IF YOU DON'T BBT
iofliwlil.
11 E M O y A t .
r'F'llK undersigned would l-esp, clfully k iv.
J- notice to his friends, p>< ions, and iht tr««.
generally, that he has rtmoVeJ hi# Stock »f
BOOTS, SHOES, AND THUNKS,
To the Spacious Frfalduhinfnt
o. 141 M feting Street
Opposite if *yn e ,
CII AULESTO N,‘ S.- &
And with inc: cased facilities with the Mai.nfus
turies and his spacious tales Roem, is pi.psrcif
with a superior ttock lo furnish desirable gsoda
for the Southern Market, consistiig of the fol
lowing kinds:
Men’s, Hoy’s, and Y mlhs'
BOOTS, BROGANS, BALMORALS, OXFORTF
’JIICS, AND CONGRESS, Sew ed and Pegged.
W onion’s Mi-ses’ and ( h’i'drrn'y
PEGGED AND SEWED BOOTS.
Mali’s and Lndi-s’
TRUNKS/ VALISES, AND CARPET BAGS '
Also, PACKING TRUNK; of every size aadf*
description.
The continued patrnnng’ if 1-is friends akc
former customers, is invited, and all dealers it!*
BOOTS, -SIIdES AND TJtVSjtSf., ,
are solicited to call nnd examine hid SlC‘ca,'
AU orders will be promptly attended, ts.'
Ar , EDWARD
March la-oOCm. ’
W. U. GOODRICH 1 , o. G 000 nitimi
(V G. GOODRICH & Yo'.-
COTTON <(■ TOBACCO FACTORS
AND GENERAL,
Commission Merchants,-
171 Broad Street, : : : : 'AUGUSTA, GA
DKAbttRS IN
GRAIN, PROVISIONS, AND lilt)COES'
fsifAmple Storage for Consignments. Per
sonal attention given to the Brnhuse. Sale'ar and
Shipment of COTTON and other Products, en
tirely dti Commission.—lyre 13
r. iiansberger, Kent biuli
P. IIANSBERGEII, & GO:
2C4, Broad Street, Augusta, (**.'
Wholesale and Retail Dealers'
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CHEWING & SMOKING TOBACCO,-
Havana, and Domestic LI GAB S,
SNUFF, riPES, MATCHES,Ac.
We deal exclusively in Tobacconists Artic!c»l
and can therefore supply the Tr ade at as liber*
prices as anyhouse in the city.
All orders promptly filled.—asl,4Ba2.3in.
WOOL ( tiilimi!
AT STEADMAN,
Newton County, Georgia
HAVING bought a New Set of Improved
WOOL CARDS of the best Manufae
t :rers, (Cottrell 4 Babcock, Westerly R. 1.,; I
shall be prepared by the first of May to com
mence Carding, and 1 garantec to the ladies
and others who may favor tne witli their pat
ronage, to give them Rolls without Napping th*
Wool, and Rolls that, can be spun without caus
ing a fuss in the family.
Having the Best Set of Car ds in the country,
I wish to give universal satisfaction. To do #«
those sending Wool will please comply with th
following directions for
Preparing the Wool,
Ist. Wash the wool with clean soft water. —
Never have it hot.
2d. Pick out all liie Burs and Trash. .
3d. Never put Grease on the wool.
4th. If you have good clean Lard, send ene
pound for every 12 pounds ot wool, in a clean
veseeL •
6th. Where gbod Lard is not sent, I will
fut'fffeh LARD OIL, which is miieh better, and
charge it with the Carding, which will be only
the price of good Lard,
6th. Have yout names plainly marked oa eaeh
Package.
My charges are 12£ cents for Plain, and
cents for Mixed.
F. STEADMAN,
Steadman, Ga., April 12, 1867. — 201f