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NEW FIRM!
EDWARD WILDER'S
FAMOUS
. Stomach Hitters.
KIRBY & JOHNSON j
Having formed a co-partnership, are now (
-.fferintr for sal •, at .1. T. Kirby’s Brick Store, j *
opposite H. J.’ Sargent’s. Greenville’ street, j
their stock of
Sarins and Summer Goods, : READ THE FOLLOWING HOME EVIDENCE
1 | of its medicinal virtue and try it in your own
which has been bought at the lowest cash family circle:
prices and just received, viz: j La Grange, Ga, Jan. 17, 1SG7.
I/lilies’ Dress Goods, ! Edward Wilder, Esq.:
Calicoes, Muslins, Poplins, Linens,
Hosiery, Gloves, Towels and Toweling,
v ine assortment of Boots and Shoes for La- I fi
dies, Gents and Children, si . .
( intlis Cassimers, Linens, &c., for Gents and , to introduce them into this part of the country,
. . ’ I and knowing their properties recommended them
j5oys ! highly, feeding assured that neither I nor my
(Gnaburgs, 131 cheu amiunbl chert Domestics, j ~ ”
Parasols and Umbrellas.
From the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel.
Notes cn the Situation—No. 13.
I have said in all eases of doubtful c<
tutionality the Executive Department coul
become a court or judge in the matter. Xt
can Congress be a court. But it was necc
there should be a final arbiter, and, then
the Constitution provided a third depart
of government called the Judiciary.
laws of the United States and treaties, etc
Hut here a mm differences have arisen ;
confined within it, and, tl
ti.:y power nut t :i e i on sum
it of reason and settled ant.
ligh or low. wl
n under these
From tire Indianapolis Herald.
The Chinaman in California.
BY J. S. HESTER.
suits for damages as individuals.
That every such officer who arrests a citizen
before anv
bl
arising under the Ci
was a favorite oue c
mill C
and pt
tjtuticn.
committed.
And I a rain b
the matter
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Dear Sir : Having used your Bitters extensive-
I Iv with my patients for the last three months, I
great pleasure in saying that the effect ue-
1 has lA mi obtained in every case. 1 was first
ine L
she st
Court
refuse
an inc
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as the final
d to do so, insi
[(•pendent, sepa
te question
arbiter, but
rolina
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A full and well-selected stock of
Hardware Tin and Crockery Ware,
At low prices.
friends would be disappointed in their effects.
Hoping they meet with the success they so
richly merit, I am yours very truly,
D. II. MOIHUtiON, M. D.
OUB
ES
Cotton Plant, Ark., Dee. 4. 1SC7.
i Mr. Edward Wilder:
Dear Sir: It is with great pleasure that I say
believe the Buttle of your Bitters v> u nave me. i
all
rubs’ oity. Svved no life j.ln-% e-o •• . 1-
\re fresh, and with a full assortment, which kept mo up until I reached home, and from the
,! w iH sell at low figures for i 1 have been improving ever since. My wi
has just presented me with a fine buy, and, t
show our appreciation ofvonr Bitters, have name
the little fellow Edward’Wilder.
Yours, very respectfully,
E. G. BRADLEY.
Cash or Country Produce.
We have on hand a fine lot of
TOBACCO, SHUFF,
and everything usually kept, in a first class re-
IT WILL CURE
DYSPESIA, LIVER COMPLAINT, ;
And all species of
tail store. We have
Bacon, Lard, Flour, Rice,
Sir jar, Codec, Molasses,
Syrup, Spices, Ginger, &c.
—ALSO—
FACTORY YARNS, COTTONADES
AND STRIPED DOMESTICS.
£ A We will pay the highest price for all
Country Produce.
Give us a trial and we will make it to your
interest, to trade with us. Thankful to old
niends and customers for past favors, we hope
to see them in again, ami receive a liberal pat- It will cure COST 1 \ ENLSS. It is a mild
lounge from all. ,1. T. KIRBY, and delightful invigorant for delicate Females.
G. L. JOHNSON, It is a safe Anti-Bilious Alterative and Tonic
U. A. JOHNSON, j for family purposes. It is a powerful recuper- |
Greenville St., Newnan, Ga. i ant after the tramc has been debilitated and re-1
R. L. HUNTER, Salesman. [May 1-Gm. duced by sickness. It is tin excellent appetizer
as well as strengthener to the digestive forces. I
j It is desirable alike as a corrective and mild ca- !
THE TOMLINSON, LEM A REST CO. : ]t . is u ' in - usc<1 , atul |
, , )v ;! jj p], ViSlcl . mS- as tlie lormula will be hand-
Indigestion, Intermitten Pever, and Fever
and Ague.
And all periodical disorders. It will give im
mediate relief in
COLIC AND FLUX.
620 Broadway, New York,
Have associated with them
3VEX-. ATYT. W. oodar-ULfT,
Formerly an Extensive Dealer in
Oarria^es and 33uggies,
ed to any regular graduate.
EDWARD WILDER, Sole Proprietor.
EDWARD WILDER & CO.,
WJldesale IDruggist.-,
No. 215 Main Street, Marble Front,
JLomsviile, Kentucky.
G A.
sale wholesale or retail by
HEnwi'VJS & fox,
CORNER WHITEHALL & ALABAMA STRS.
j ATLANTA,
October 20-7-12m.
| Southern Branch of the National Stove W orks,
mST ewY or-lx.
AT GlUFE]X AXD ATLANTA, GA.
-:o:-
L. Y. Sanford,
Ij^OR the purpose of supplying Merchants and j
C Planters at the South,*bv wholesale or retail, F. M- Richardson,
g‘u w%r,;is. e uf °* n ’ i:u?CiS Bu ^ ios ° r riama ' | EIOHARDSOH & SANFGUD,
Mr. Woodruff’s long experience in the carriage j
business will enable us t o give mitUfaet ion in -up- Wholesale & Retail Dealers
plving good, substantial work, such as the ci>uu-
SiSS Y4 J in In Sieves, Ho!Sow-ware, Block Tin,
hand j
| Tin-Plate. .Sheet-Iron & Tinners' Findings,
LIGHT CONCORD BUGGIES, |_ n . f
! Lamps, Cutlery & House-fiimisJimg googs.
the same as formerly sold by Mr. Woodruff, and ! j e. HuitoTmin Wave
which became so universally popular all through : L late Cl cv J-> 1 ItaiYUia \\ ai C ,
the south, as the best Buggy in use. Key-stone Block, WhitehaH-st.,
THE "W"OODRTTFF ATLANTA, GA.
! June IS, ’67.- tf.
ATLANTA MACHINE WORKS
AND
I Iron and Brass Foundry.
PORTEn c&? IS XT TXjSH,
*■ PROPRIETORS.
We are prepared to manulacture and repair
—SUCH AS—
Portable and Stationary Steam Engines
and Boilers, Grist and Saw
Mill Machinery, Ae.
House & Brown’s Horse Power, W right s
Pattent Cotton Screw, Gins,
pans. Bark Alills.
rUATATIOA WAGOAS!
For TWO, FOUR and SIX HORSES, can he fur
nished by special order.
Address all orders to
TOMLINSON. DEMAEEST CO..
«3uuc 16-l2m, 620 Broadwav, Xew York.
IV. B. AY. DENT,
MANUFACTCTER of all kinds of
TIN WARE
AND DEALER IN
S'
SST? &>~%T ¥«1 gg
kinds ot Country Produce taken iu ex
change.
15^“ill duplicate any Atlanta bill given to
merchants.
f April 27-tf.
JN0. C. WHITNSSK’S
General Insurance Agency.
Fire. Inland, Life & Accident,
Insurance Effected and Losses Promptly Paid,
Omee at McCamv i Co’s. Drug Store, Franklin
Buildings, Alabama Str’t., Atlanta, Ga.
Refers to Rev. James Stacy, aud J. J. Pin-
e °x, Esq., Xewcan. Georgia.
Aug. 11-50-1 v
Building Fronts, Iron Railing, Sugar
Mills and Boilers. Pipes, Pulleys Car
tYheels and Railroad Castings
of every description.
gTYCasfings made without extra charge for
patterns when in regular line of work.
g'WNurs Fe-Tooi/ird and Gummed in the best
manner.
terms cash.
JAS. H. PORTER, i Old Stand of J. L. Dunning,
R. H. BUTLER, ) ^
May lS-6m. ATLANTA. GA.
Everybody take Notice!!
Marble Head Stones furnished for Soldiers' t
Graves—size, 2 feet by 10 inches, with inscrip- j
tion—in any quantity, at $3.50. by S.B. OATMAN.
Ae’t of WM. GRAY, Atlanta. Ga. 1
sovereignty, outanie
of the express powers granted to Concress—j
that this was apolitical question, affecting her j
separate soverignty, and that she would not
permit any other power to sit in judgment
upon questions involving her sovereignly; that i
in this respect South Carolina stood to the C. :
States as she did to France or England.
It was supposed that the peculiar doctrines •
of State Rights had been decided by the war !
against the position taken by South Carolina, j
and that hereafter the Supreme Court would j
become, what the old Union men always con- ’
tended it was intended to be—the final arbiter
upon all questions arising under the Ccustitu- !
lion, so as to leave no excuse or necessity tor
an appeal to arms to settle controveisiea be
tween the General Government and the States. !
G< orgia and Mississippi were the first to act ’
on the new idea. They did what Sou'll Caro- j
lina refused to do. They applied to the Su- |
preme Court (in, 1 think, a proper case made) !
to enjoin the enforcement of bills palpably j
unconstitutional—admitted to be so—in their
borders. The reply was. the question mad* i.s
a political question, and not a judicial ease. The j
Supreme Court refused to entertain the juris- j
diction, aud thus simply affirmed what was j
called the ultra State Rights doctrine of South
Carolina. I am glad the question was presen
ted. I am especially glad they were presented !
by Southern States, showing a disposition 1
thereby to abide the decision claimed to have ;
been made by the war, and to recognize an \
arbiter of future disputes short of arms.
These decisions, therefore, so far i’rom show-1
ing there is no remedy against these Military !
Bills, show clearly the reverse. They proceed !
on the very basis that the States are still sep- |
arate political communities, and as such it j
necessaiily follows that their internal domestic :
governments cannot be abrogated, regulftted, !
or interfered with by Congress? Hence the !
way is clear for every State, citizen and corpo- i
ration to make a case and test the Military !
Bills, w hen any person, by their authority, j
shall interfere with a right of property, or of i
person, or of liberty.
I, therefore, beg every citizen, black and white, j
even the humblest of the ten millions who j
inhabit these ten States, to remember—never ’
to forget—that it is his right—his glorious, i
unpunishable, unimpeachable right—to resist i
every interference, by any officer, high or low, !
with his property, or his person, or his liberty, i
under these Military Bills: and that each citi- j
zeu owes it to every other citizen and to his [
State, and to posterity,: and to constitutional j
liberty, to assert the right boldly and fearlessly
against every such interference, Nor have !
military officers in such cases one particle I
more protection from such resistance than civil j
officers. The law is superior to all—is master i
of all; and the strength, the majesty and the
merit of the law make the citizen’s panoply in
this issue. Hear what a distinguished Ameri- ,
can writer says on this subject:
“It is now' settled in England and the Uni
ted States that an officer of the forces who j
executes an unlawful order remains personally ;
answerable. If the highest in command, the j
British monarch himself, order, contrary to :
law an officer to quarter his soldiers upon the !
citizens to annoy and oppress them, as Charles ;
I. did, the officer" remains responsible, in the :
fullest sense of the term, to the law of the ‘
land. All that has teen gained by U !e ardu- .
cus and protracted struggle w hich began to J
•liy under Charles I.,
e few words, tl at the I
law shall he superior to all and every one and
every branch of government; that there is no-
where a mysterious, supreme and unattainable |
power, which, despite of the clearest law, may j
still dispense with it or arrest its course. This
is the- sum total of modern civil libertv—the
great, firm and solid common’s liberty/’
Our Constitution—our supreme law, which
no Congress, no President, nor other earthly
power, can violate or authorize to be violated
with impunity—is our ruler, our only ruler,
and all the highest office holders, civil and :
military, are but its servants, and bound, un
der penalties, to obey its commands.
Our Constitution declares—
*• The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus
shall not be suspended, unless when in cases j
of rebellion or invasion the public safety mav
require it.”
■•No bill of attainder or expost facto law shall
be passed.”
*• The trial of all crimes, except in cases of
impeachment, shall be by jury. "
“ No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quar- ;
tered iu any house without the consent of the
owner.”
•• Congress shall make no law abridging the j
freedom of speech or of the press. "
Xo citizen •• shall be held to answer for a
capital or otherwise infamGus crime, unless on j
a presentment or indictment of a grand jury.”
••Xo warrant shall issue but upon probable
cause, supported by oath or affirmation.'”
These are the commands of the only impe- .
rial power in America—the Constitution.-^- j
Thcv are so plain that a wayfaring man. the
a fool, cannot err in reading them. They'
cover e very State, and territory, and province. .
and foot of soil over which the jurisdiction of,
the United States can possibly go. Yet every ;
one of these positive commands, and others ;
besides, are violated and ordered to be violated
by these Military Bills. They are. therefore. 1
assaults—unmistakable, traitorous assaults—
upon the Constitution: and every man. woman
or child, or officer, civil or military, in the I. :
States who votes for these bills, or approves
them, or accepts them, or executes them, or
passively submits to them, is an enemy of the
Constitution and an enemy of every citizen
whose rights are protected by the Constitution.
I care not what excuses are made, nor what .
pretences are whined out about the power of
Congress and the progressive radical party.—
Such pretences only show cowardice or the
treasonable intent in those who use them.—
The only way to crush the Radical prrty is to
bring down upon it that power which is great
er than the Radical party—the Constitution.—
If the President is a slave and bouud to exe
cute the orders of traitors, the people are free
men aud entitled to resist. The only question,
and, therefore, the only danger, is, have they
the courage to resist? A freeman should
know no master but the law, and bend the
i War up. a Him—His Religion—His Theatricals
—His Chief Occupation -His Ordinary Habits
1 —His costume—The China Woman—Her
Hal its—Use of Opium—BusinYss Habits ot
the Race—Carious Names—Merchants—ine
t, State or Federal, having ju- j Race adapted to Libor in Tropical Prodac-
..„ .i . tions.
A curious feature of California population—
fact of all the tuiuinz districts > l toe Pacific
clos ay in the track ot dts ov. ry« t prt a ms me
tals V ' . 1 '•/-
zona, as well in California. When he first
came to the country he was met with preju
dices against him. so stubborn as, at one time,
to threaten his expulsion. Mobs were incited
persecutions were carried t > the exlravgant
lcii-itii of a State law to prohibit his coming to
the Stite, which failed of its object, Ir-eause ot
of want of constitutional power to execute
prevented by the sickly,
iil'lll. it!/
wer whi
law.
t for
a ling \u
how itself most sigi
nay be summed up in
self uneonstituticnai. ir
not violate law cannot annul or i
processes, or . erne iies and penalties <
Sue iu damages for every injury ;
every crime. Be suie and include ti
treasury agents who were lately sic
county where the injury was or may be done,
or the crime was or may he committed,—
Whether defendants are present or absent, get
the true bills. Don't let :he lapse of time bar
you. Whenever you see me at court, under
stand I will aid you wi:hout fee cr reward.—
The written Constitution L my client, and the
preservation of its protection the only fee i
sh ell ask. The time for tiie law’s triumph
over passion will one day come. If our peo
ple will now, everywhere, assert these rights,
nut by again abandoning the Constitution, but
by claiming its remedies, that time will come
quickly; aud then we shall demand the crim
inals wherever found and they will he deliv
ered. If the President himself should commit
murder in the manner I have indicated, l do
not hesitate to say that I would urge a true hill
against him and demand him for trial when
Lis term has expired. We owe it to ourselves,
to our children, to free institutions, to teach
all, however high or low, who t.ike advantage
of degenerate times like these, to violate the
great guaranties of the law, aud trample on
the rights of the citizen, that whenever the
political spasm is over they' can find no hiding
place from the law's avenger, nor take shelter
from its penalties anywhere iu the jurisdiction
of the Constitution.
Let this generation teach this lesson new,
and teach it faithfully and well, and we shall
have no more returns of such periods of sor
row and crime for us or for our children, if
we uo not teach this lessen, then sorrow and
crime will increase their coming and prolong
their stay, because rogues will steal; tyrants
will oppress; little officers “ will cut fantastic
tricks ;” and traitors will use fraud and force
to perpetuate their power, just as often and
lung as they think they can do so with im
punity.
I also earnestly hope the people of each of
the ten -Stateu will L.’dly for ward, and pre
serve and continue their existing State govern
ments, and hold all elections in the manner
and at the time prescribed by existing State
constitution and laws, and by votes qualified
by existing State constitution and laws. If
any citizen or officer shall be interfered with
in exercising his rights under these laws, or in
discharging the duties of any office to which
he may be chosen, let him make the issue fear
lessly.'
I would have them continue this until, and
even after, pretended constitutions may be
formed by deluded negroes and their designing
inferiors under these Military Bills; and if an
attempt were made to displace existing consti
tutions and governments by pretended consti-
t-L lions so formed and officers chosen thereun
der, I would inuict every officer so attempting
to subvert existing legal State governments,
and 1 would then have our Governors or the
Legislatures (if in session) make application
to the Bresideut under the Constitution, to
protect existing State governments “ against
domestic violence,” and thus compel the Pres
ident to decide whether he is bound to displace
by force v. liat he admits to he legal State con
stitutions and governments for those lie admits
to he illegal, unconstitutional and tyrannical.
I will add two important considerations why
our people should thus resist and net or con
sent to these usurpations:
In the first place, if we once allow these
new governments to become legally fixed on us
by our consent we can never get rid ot them.
The power will be in the hands of those who
make aud administer them; aud. though de
stroy, as they will, they will hold on to their
iniyuitv. It will also require three-fourths.o:
the States to concur iu the adoption of the
odious Constitutional amendment, but it adopt
ed it will then require three-lourths oi the
States to get rid of it.
But. in the second place, if, as is clear, tuese
bills are so grossly unconstitutional, then t.iey
can never be legally e-Ublisheu if we continue
to resist them. Let ns commence cases now,
and continue cases as fast and as often as they
arrive, and if', even after these military con'ti-
tutions are framed and organized, aud have
oppressed unwillingly people for years, the
court finally decide'the acts authorizing them
to be unconstitutional, then, unlike a case ot
onus between belligerents, everything done
under them will be declared v oid- the wicked
governments will be displaced, every man who
has administered them will be a criminal, and
our existing skate constitutions restored to us.
Then will patriots meet again at Lashing-
ton and at every State capital, and, gathering
the records of tuese Radical traitors .-.nu ot a:l
their State subordinates together, will Ju, a;
our fathers in Georgia did when corruption
had usurped power and soiled our honor as a
people once before—we will catch fire fiuin
Heaven and burn them up.
If, then, we yield now, our remedies are
gone and we are coi quered forever: but it we
refuse to yield, our remedies will contmuo.
at,d we can never be conquered.
I)
•spite this war up<
diition continu-'d j
it numbers at lea
ity with which tl’
esti••< and laborers
ts that thcv are gr
n the race, the China
teadjly t incres . and
-t fifty thousand. The
v get employment as
on farms and elsewhere
into fa-
A Noble Woman.—A h-tter from Mexico says:
Colonel Miguel Lopez, the traitor, after selling
Maximilian and his Generals, went to Puebla
to visit his wife. His reception was decidedly
cold. His wife advanced to meet him. leading
their little son l»v the hand, and addressed him
thus:
•'Sir, here is your son : we cannot cut him
in two, take him. You are a base coward and
traitor. You have betrayed, your country and
3’our benefactor. From this hour we are stran
gers. for I shall this day retire to my family.—
Go.”
Tnr. Mexican Tiger.—One who has often seen
Gen. Juarez describes him as about sixty years
old, under the middle size, and inclined to tn-
\ rcp-Ard. He has the color of an Italian, and.
like the people of the Zapotic tribe, has a small
forehead, high cheek bones, a broad and bent
nose, large and beautiful teeth, bluett, small
and lively eyes, and long Llaelt hair just tinged
with grev. His voice is soft, sonorous and
mournful, hut he is tond of garnishing his con
versation with anecdotes and jokes, after the
fashion of the lute lamented.”
Many of them have donne 1 the costume < f
i the whites; hut few of them have laid aside
the habits and customs of the race. The per-
i tinnedty with which they ding to them amidst
surroundings exposing their folly, is the strong-
i er when their habits of reflection are consider-
I ed. Their religion—an intermixture of ridic-
| ulous idolatry and a tolerably refined philoso
phy—their puerile and nonsensical rites and
i ceremonies, national anil religious festivals;
their customs in social life, so at variance
with those of any other people, and so well
! calculated, in the main to excite the contempt
| of the mining population with whom they
! mingle; they cling to with a zeal halting at
! no obstacle. Their music—discord itself re
sembling no known s und agreeable ‘‘to ears
polite”—they prefer to any other, though sur
rounded with, and in hearing of the sweetest
strains from the ‘-masters.” The popping of
file-crackers is as exhilarating to them as a
national salute from twenty-four pounders to
i a European or American soldier or sailor. In
j theatrical performances they regard themselves
I adepts, Often, as many a* twenty nights are
j required to complete one play. The chief fea-
i ture is the buckets full of blood spilled.
They have an especial dread of evil spirits ;
• and, to frighten them away, little lighted ta-
| pers are stack about their houses, and iire-
! crackers set off and gongs sounded.
Their chief occupations, outside of mining,
i are as cooks and laundrymen. Iu these pur-
i suits they are adepts, after a style peculiar to
; themselves. “Sprinkling” is per.ormed by
! blowing the water from their mouths At all
! hours of the day, they may be seen carrying
I clothes through the streets of the larger towns
i and cities, in baskets suspended from the ends
of a pole slung across their shoulders. These
; baskets are quite as large as those in which
die Merry \Y lves of Windsor bid Fir John, the
! fat and amorous knight. Thus ladened these
! Chinamen move along with a gait like that cf
: a pacing cow.
In variety of dishes they excel all other na-
| tions. Their favorite one seems to be “chow
' chow,” an ollapotrida of all sorts of meat put
: up in air tight earthen jars in China, and thence
j brought to California. The smell emitted from
! from one of these jars on being freshly opened
! is exceedingly offensive. How much puppy
i and rat and mouse enter in the composition
j they alone know. Everybody has heard of
! their bird's nest soup ; and, of course, it is con-
j sidered intensely nauseous. Yet, notwithstand
ing its peculiar flavor and nutritions qualities
! are derived from disgusting sources, it is pro-
i nounced excellent by Anglo Saxon epicures.
In confectioneries they excel, but are deflpi-
| ent in pastry.
Some of their freaks in the culinary line are
not very good appetizers. It is said that they
! have a haoit of spitting in their cooking uten
! siis to see if they are hot enough for their pur-
! pose. How many other eccentricities they
i may carry into their business' we can only
guess. The disclosure of the kitchen secrets of
| even our own “first class” hotels would be illy
; calculated to provoke an appetite.
No people are more industrious. They are
j patient frugal and economical. Many o‘ them
1 arc now working over the “tailings” thrown
I out years ago by miners and making fair wages.
Tfiey live on much less than any other labor
! ers iu the country, rice constituting their chief
i diet.
The cue, known in California parlance as
; the -pigtail,” the true Chinaman clings to with
I the tenacity of a Turk to his beard, or a bash-
! aw to his tails. These appendages are often
j artificial. To cultivating the natural, he e:r
i pends ranch care, cutting close all his ha
I not necessary in the desired product, which he
i suffers to grow ad libitum, plaiting when long
j enough. This tail piece offers great tempta-
1 tion to Young America, who seldom allows an
; opportunity to pass by without taking atuy at
Their women, in European costume, “cut a
! ridiculous figure. 'J hey are low in stature, and
’ with hoops on. swell like toads. To which,
! add their stumbling walk occasioned by their
: senseless jfractice of compressng their feet,
when children, into mere stumps, and a more
ludicrous specimen of femininity can scarcely
I be conceived.
A handsome China woman is rarely found
i on the Pacific slope.- Perhaps they have re
tained their beauties for home consumption.—
The manner in which their eyes are set in their
heads—obliquely pointing downward toward
i their nose—their corpse-like complexion, high
I eheek bones and flat noses, forbid the idea ot
i beauty. The color of their eyes, and their
shape*too, like an almond—if in a different
phvsi zn -my, might be passable; but when
stuck in the* head la the Mongolian style, they
are ever reminding one ot a monkey. I hey
tie their hair so tight, on tnetop. ol their heads
that their eves Seem as it starting Irom their
sockets, 'incir flesh is soft and dropsical, and
their skins glisten as if varnished. They lack
that elasticity of movement constituting one
of the chief attractions of Tahiti and the Sand
wich Islands. They paint their cheeks and lips
ouite as skiiliullv as do tae fading beauties oi
tne white race. In social intercourse, they
manitcot little more than the sharpened instinct
of a trained inoiikev, to whose head, theirs, in
general outline bear a close resemblance. I had
occasion to frequently observe the movements-
of a bevy of these "celestial nymphs” from a
piazza of an office, where my business calls me
in a mining town. For my lile. I couldu t help
thinking of the probable truth ot that qutei
account of the origin of the human family giv
en by a quaint old philosopher, who assserted
that man s progenitor was r. monkey who lost
his tail bv rubbing it off on an ottei slide.
In brutal Just and indiscriminate indulgence
China women are without rivals. There is no
concealment, no assumed modesty, nothing in
dicating a higher estate from which, in an evil
hour they had been driven. I he vice puts on
a naive air—natural, unrestrained—in no man
ner fashioned or curbed by fortuitous circum
stances. It accosts one as unceremoniously up
on a public thoroughfare as in a bed chamber,
inviting to ita loathsome contact with a scale
of prices defying competion.
Tne use of opium is almost universal among
the Chinese oF the Pacific coast. Large quan
tities of the drug are imported for their benefit.
I heir houses and their persons stink with it.
Its effects are visible in the cadaverous visage
and vacant eye.
In business matters the Chinaman is an expert :
a close calculator, shrewd in all the ‘ tricks of
trade.' He calculates with little balls which lie
handles with great rapidity. Everybody knows
that his language is written perpendicularly,
but few appreciate how strange the contrast
when one sees both scattered about protniscu- |
ouslv on signs, the European one way and the 1
Chinese the other.
.Sling seems a favorite patronimic with them.
1 have seen the whole family Joe Sling. Jim |
Sling, Samtjliug, Sli. Sling—except gin sling [
represented in various tawdry signs.
Though patience and docility are character- i
isties ot the Chinaman, when aroused by extra- I
ordinary causes he is a ferocious savage, rev- i
era* ve.irs ago at ban Jose, a t hinauum wanted
to nuntv aCnina girl, whoso Lather reiuseil his \
consent; thereupon he announced his intution ;
publicly to kill father, mother and girl, and i
nroposed to another of his countrymen to steal,
the old man s clothes while he was committing :
the murder. Y-ing to the house where the;
girl liva 1 with her parents, he demanded her
again ot her father, when he was again refused. [
Immediately rushing upon the father stabbed !
ami killed him. then killed the mother, and j
then mortally wounded anotheer Chinaman j
who came into the house, attracted by the cries
of the victims. The girl succeeded in making,
her escape. j
Tiieie is said to be a secret society among
them, one of the penalties for violating the
laws of w hich is death. Tliis penalty is often i
visited upon its members in secret in Califor- 1
n fit-
suicides are common among them. Death
diseburgt s ail debts, and they avail themselves !
of that mode of payment more frequently than :
any otner people.
• The difficulty of learning the Chinese lan- !
guaae rondei > u nearly mipractiblc to get com- ,
potent interpreters. There are but two or three j
j in the State. In lawsuits where they are con- j
eerned, tne usual res a t is a Chinaman who has |
a smattering of English. < *i course, through
| such a medium, the iruth is imperfectly known. |
There seems to be no sound of a letter iu their I
: ian-ui igc like tli it of “It” in the English The |
anal- ‘u as sou.i i is “ L. ’ lienee tuey say in :
1 speaking o’ Americans, “Mclicans.”
Th-- Aborigines of the country manifest a i
strong repugnance to Chinamen. The path nt, j
■ non-re.-i.-tant spirit ol the “celestials the red |
man regards as cowardice. This feeling finds j
! its out cr >ppiugs in murderous assaults upon
I Chinamen upon every convenient occasion.
Their thrift and rigid economy are seen in
j their picking up from street garbage many lit-
| tie cast away articles, which they fashion into
j various contrivances paiute 1 a la China ; and
[ probably sell to the original owners at hand
some prices.
There are many peddlers, many of them tra-
i verse the country w ith various useful and or-
j namental articles of Chinese manufacture,
| which they sell at reasonable figures.
The merchants belong to a higher caste, and
do not associate upon terms of equality with
j the laborer. The former are polite, intelligent
[ and thoroughly conversant with passing events
I and commercial usages.
| A care*ul study ot the habits of these people
! satisties me that t hey may he made available
j as a substitute for negroes in cultivating cot-
| ion, rice and other tropical products. They
are far superior in intelligence, more honest,
trustworthy and industrious. Their habits oi
diet are peculiarly adopted to a southern cli
mate. Their labor can be procured cheaper
than slave labor ever was, by proper arrange
ment with the companies who have successful
ly brought them to California. At all eveuts
the scarcity of labor iu the Southern States,
the adaptation of Chinamen to this soil,climate
and productions would justify the experiment
of that kind of industry, and I have no doubt
it would prove successful.
“Second Sober Thoughts.”—The New York
Commercial Advertiser says; Reflecting people
begin to lift their eyes and thoughts a little
! above the horizon of Military Reconstruction
I Law, discussing, in the future, what may prove
I anything but benetici.il to those who are cast-
I ing the responsibilities of Government upon a
j class just redeemed from two centuries of slav-
j cry The Springfield Republican indulges in
j some reflections as follows:
The prospect that at tLe first election under
I the reconstruction acts the Southern States will
I be carried by the Republicans is in itself grati-
S tying. By the way in which tliis is to happen
gives to thoughtful men some anxieties for the
i future. The foresight that the negro vote is
j to control everything is not having a favorable
I influence upon the white men of the South,
I and we cannot forget that the whites consti-
| tute two-thirds ol the population of the States
' that are to be surrendered to the control ot a
I mass of ignorant blacks, and that these white
j men must inevitably become the dominant
i class very soon, whatever happens this year.
A majority of the whites will not attempt to
! register, or are excluded it they attempt, and
j of those registering it is thought that a major
ill vote against reconstruction under the
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(often lines or space equivalent,) for first inser
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sertion.
Monthly or semi-monthly advertisements
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Liberal arrangements will be made with
those advertising by the quaiter or year.
All transient advertisrnents must be paid
for when handed in.
The money for advortiseing due after tho
fir-it insertion.
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L. B. GRANT, Superintendent.
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E. YY. COLE. Superintendent-
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POWELL & STALLINGS,
Attornoys at Xj a w ,
NEWNAN, GA.,
\\T ILL practice in the several Courts of Law
YY and Equity in the Tallapoosa and Cow
eta Circuits, and in the United States District
Court for the State of Georgia.
Special attention given to the compromising
and collecting of Old Claims, and Administra
tion, Conveyancing, *vc.
All business entrusted to them will receive
prompt and faithful attention.
JOHN W. POWELL, J. E. STALLINGS.
Newnan, Ga. Senoia, Ga.
March 9-12m.
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OTTs.iE3A.rE7 souniEiirj
CROCKERY EMPORIUM!
McBride, Dorset! & Co.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS,
ATLANTA, GA.
r i «y
The blacks, and
small
i Congressional plan,
; fraction of the whites will do all the voting and
j reconstructing, and have possession ol tae 8tate
i machinery under the new government. But
! it will be good enough tor the Obstructionists,
! indeed, but how io it coming out ? \\ e know
j what the Kunnicutts aud other leaders ot the
j nt n rocs have threatened, and what hopes and
i purposes they have raised among their credu
lous followers. Shall we see Browulow despo-
i tism and anarchy extended over the entire
! >juth for tiie next ten years, and order pre-
j served only by keeping the eight millions of
! whites quiet under the rule of four millions of
• negroes bv stress ol Federal bayonets t
CHINA, BLASS-WARE
—AND—
TIME MiTIfifl
Prices as low as they can be had
ill this Country,
TORTS! OR SOUTH.
• Lieut. Braise.—'The Macon Talegraph of
f August 1st publishes a long account ot the ca
reer and imprisonment of Lieut. Jno. C. Braine
! late of the Confederate navy. Lieut Braine
j was one of the most gallant spirits oi the late
j war. His record was pure and above reproach.
! ]*j s brilliant exploits won tor him the admi
ration of nis enemies; yet notwithstanding
j the amnesty granted to him in common with
! other officers, he still languishes in Kings
County Penitentiary. Brooklyn, N. Y. Those
who will read the article prepared by himself
! for the Memphis Bulletin, and those of Savan-
^ j,■ jb who know the man will not fail to respond
! to the following :
“I have been a prisoner since the 15th of
September, ISbfi, and not one of my Southern
i countrvmen have called to see me. I cannot
think that it-is their intention to desert me;
though I must say it looks very much like re.
I am perfectly destitute of money and clothing
• and have no means at my. command to pay
counsel lees. By puoiismng this, sir, you wili
j oblige oue who has tried to do his duty to his
•j country. I remain very respectmliy yours,
i John C. Braine,
Lt. Coin’g C. S. N.
Iv.
’B ciiisa&K
FRUIT JAR,
Cheapest, best and simplest li
the World!
luuKIHG-GLASSES, CLOCK;-
—AND—
CUTLERY*
Rain and Caterpillars.—We are now hav
ing any quantity ol rain—almost every day a !
pine-knot flouting, soil-moving deluge, and the j
fodder-pulling season being now upon us, much j
of this very necessary article of horse feed must j
be lost or damaged badly.
\Ve learn that the caterpillar, that terrible '
scourge of the cotton interest, has made its ap
pearance in our county, and it is feared will do
great irjury to the growing crop. It is to be ,
hoped the fear will not be realized, as it would j
bring much destitution with it.—Bainbridge \
Gearaiati. j
Agents for the
EXPEDIENT
McBride, dorsett & co.
April 6-12m.
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