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Newspaper Page TextOs (Quitman gjamift. K. fr'ILDES. Editor. J W. HT. OLA IK. Asaoclate Editor. QUITMAN, GEO. rniDAV, ri'Hiti'A hy u>, isi.o. Wiikk Him,* ark Piz —All Mil# for-ad vertising in this paper arc «’ u<i on flic first sppoarunco of tho advertisement, except when otherwise arranged hy eon tract, and will lit pro entod when tlir* moucV in needed. All advert'-ie'inepts should he marked for a specified time, otherwise they will lie charged under tin rule of n> much tor the (list insertion, nhd so much for each subsequent inser tion, n ' t;ol Screreii # Address. To the exclusion of almost everything, ■we day the udniirahle addre a of Col. John Screven to the Stockholders of the Atlanta and (lull' Railroad. It j will he funnd of sufficient interest to par dou a failure to furnish a general sum m»ry of news. Enlargement. It the patrons of the Banner will be patient a few weeks longer, we expect to enlarge, and then there will he no reason for complaint of a lack ol reading matter. ter We invite the attention of otir read era to the card of the widow and daugh ter of the late Col. J. McUobc.i t linker, » t Florida, who died in a military I capi tal near ltichmond, Va., in January 1804 The father jf the deceased, who resides among us, desires ns to say that patron age extended to tliojfamily of his deeeas ed son will he gratefully received ,by them, and will moreover, he considered by him as a favor conferred on himself. New Advertisements. We are compelled to permit lie over until next week editorial mention of scv eral Savannah houses, which make their appearance in llie Hannc.r to-day. Ihe crowded state of our columns makes this neressaiy. The attention of the reader is directed to tho following new adver tisements: W. J. Walsh Drug House, Pavannah. D. Falvey, furniture Dealer, Savan nah. Oiterat'd & Holcomb, Factors and Com mission Merchants of Savannah. Mr. S. S. Strickland represents this house. S. W, Gleason, Savannah Machine works. Mrs. P.nkrr and Daughter, Milliners. A. Ik Lovett withdraws his property from Homestead. Rebecca Groover makes application for setting aside of Homestead. Homestead notice from Coffee County. Congressional Election. The Legislature having set apart the first Monday in April for tho Congres sional election, wo observe a limners ville coriespondcnt of the Savannah lie publican, suggesis the holding of a Dis t. lot nominating Convention, at Mack shear, on the First Monday in March, for the purpose of selecting a Democratic Standard bearer. If the suggestion is agreed to, County meetings should he held promptly uhd delegates selected. There ts no time to lose. What say the Democracy of Brooks ? The Caunliit; of (ho Votes for ErosMtent anil Vice President. The Telegrspile report of the coun ting of tho votes, on tin l 10th inst., says that at 1 o’clock tho Senators, arm in arm came into the house. Senator \\ ade took the chair with Mr. Colfax i ear him. Senator Cockling and Representatives Wilson of lowa, and I’ryunc, acting as tellers. Mr. Pryutie read out the Demo cratic votes, Messrs. Cockling & \\ ilson alternating in reading the Republican votes. All went smoothly until Louisia ns was reached, when Mr Mullins, of Tenn , objected, declaring that no va! W election had been held. The Joint Session separated and the House voted one hundred and twen y six to sixty tinee to count the vote of Louisiana.— The Senate, alter a severe struggle, to draw in extraneous matters voted to count. The House again met and pro ceeded with the count, until Georgia was reached, when Mr. Butler objected I ecause the Georgia College had not voted ou the proper day and Mr other r asons. Much confusion ensued, which Senator Wade ended by ordering the Senate to its own room. The House then voted one hundred and fifty to forty one that Georgia should nut he counted The Senate, after a most perplexing and laughable struggle, declared that in the face of the concurrent resolution con cerning the State of Georgia, the objec tion in joint session was out of order. The House again met in joint sessioH in at solute conflict. Senator Wado order ed Georgia to lie read as directed by the concurrent resolution. Butler objected. Wade won.ld hoar so objection. Butler nppea’ed from Wade’s decision. Wade would allow no appeal and ordered tjfie oou-it to proceed. Butler moved that tie Senate have perinissi m to n tire. R ilcd. not in tnkr. But'cr irsisi.3 that j they should control their own 11.i11. 1 An id moat intense excitement Wadeur , dered the count to proceed. Senator | Conkling commenced reading in a reso | lire tone. Lot Lis voice was drowned hy | cries of “order.” Tho noise became- deaf | cuing, when Speaker Colfax sprang to h ; desk, proclaiming “The Vice Presi dent must he obeyed in joint session,” and ordered the Sergi-ailt at Anns to ar rest all disorderly persons, Colfax was oidci lng and appealing probably two minutes, during which time the Sergeant ■it A* ms had distributed Ida men well through the House before partial order was ientered, when the reading of the result and the proclamation followed, and the Houses separated and the henatc im mediately adjoin ned. In the House Butler introduced a reso hitioii that Wade and the Senate, in its action, hud been guilty of a gross inva sion of the l ights of the House, which resolution was pending when the House adjourned- Col. Screven's Aildrees to the Slock Holders A- & G. It. 11. Mr. Chairman: The report which I llavr just submit ted is tr.o annual report of the President and Directors of this Con-puny. Neeep sari'y restricted by the limitations of a document of a purely business character I fear that it is not sufficiently explicit in its exposition of some of the points connected with (he nflairs of the Compa ny which have attracted of late, much of the public attention and which have be come prominent topics of public discus sion Conscious that the position of this Company, in its relations, especially with the Central and Southwestern Rail roud Companies has not been understood and has often been the subject of unjust misconstruction and censure, I beg leave to say that this annua! report should not he dismissed without some allusion to the late annual report of the Central I Railroad and Banking Company in which ' the following remarks are made : “In j addition to the rival lines of road that may he built upon the credit of tho I State, there are other causes tending I seriously' to impair investments that have been made; we. allude to competi tion from lines claiming a shaio of the business that is fairly tributary to your Road. The policy of such lines is to of fer transportation by a longer and more expensive routes at reduced rates. This in turn obliges a reduction hy the nutu ial channel, amiMi some cases a counter cmnpQtivu rale, when the opposition will again induce so that in the end the line fairly entitled to the business must do it at an unremiimnative rate or lose it alto gether. This policy is now prevalent, and apparently popular with too many Roads of the Conntiy; hut why ft should by Stockholders whose interest is at Stake, the Board is at loss to understand The Managers of the Hoads that persist in this kind of warfare are capable .of doing an immense amount of injury to otherwise remunerating lines without in any way lieiielitting those under their control. How far this policy is to be carried or wtien to cease, tho Board is unable to predict but itis easy to fore sco the utter ruin that must follow iis continuance and we cannot close this Report without entering onr protest a gaiiist a policy so disastrous in its res ults. These remarks which might hare been better restricted to a simple statement to the stockholders of tho Central Rail road and Banking Company of the fact of the reduction ot the receipts of the Company for tho past ysar rather than attempt to account for this reduction by | incorrect reas .ns proceeds to ascribe this result, to lines claiming unjustly' a share | of the business “fairly tributary” to the j Central Railroad. It cannot be doubted j that allusion is here made mainly to the j Atlantic & Gulf Railroad which has had j the misfortune to penetrate the so called i “legitimate territi ty” of the Central and j Southwestern Railroad Companies on the Flint and Whattahoi clu e rivers. This well compounded statement of arbitrary; assumptions might well be dismissed by j a few categorical and brief propositio s: j Ist. Business is “fairly tributary” if; tributary in any sense, to that lino which esn carry it. the cheapest. 2d. The Atlantic and Gulf Railroad is | 2IIT miles long to Cambridge and on the same ratio of water transportation as | that hitherto recognized hy the Central '! Railroad in its adjustment of rates with j carriers by water i. e. four miles of wa j ter to one of rai , Columbus is about the: | same distance to Savannah by way of I Baiubridge as by' way of Macon; and j Eufaiila is 331 miles and Fort Gaines! j 331 miles by way ofMaom while hy way j of Bainbiidge the distance from liufaula 1 to Savannah is 277 miles and from Fort : Gaines 270 miles. This ascertainment I of comparative distance affords an easy j demonstration that tho route via Bain | bridge is not only more expensive luit I that it should be el.taper. 3bat ibis . route lVotn the places named is longer in point of absolute distance is not to be ! denied; But it is equally certain that ub- I solute distance is not a criterion on the cost of transportation. If it were the I Central Railroad taking its cotton late j from Station No. 1 to Savannah as a j basis of estimate, should charge say $3 per 100 pounds Mr the transportation of Ci tton from liufaula to Savannah 334 ' miles ! Its actual charge however Mr 1 this distance s now $1 05 per hundred ! pounds. Ti e distance via Bainbi idge is 277 miles. II tnw the Central Railroad : demands 13 4 miles, the rule of propor tion would call for a chum e of say 83c 1 ou 277 miles- It is therefore simply untrue that the Bainbiidge is the more cxpensiie. It is so much cheaper ns to over balance the I difference of absolute distance. 31, These facts being true, they dis prove tbe assertion that the rates from the Chattahoochee via the Baiubridge route have been reduced at all lower | than was authorized by the principles j ou which the Central Railroad itself ad. iustsits own rates of tiansportation. If therefore the Central Railroad was fun j ed 10 reduce its rates, it Was because it could imt resist the advantage of the ; Baiiihridgo route. 4th, The “millira! channel” of trans portation if not the channel provided by nature as the Chattahoochee and Flint ■ rivers is the cheapest chmpfel and the 1 “fairly entitled to the business,” is the one which can command it at. remunera tive rates. It $1 05 per 1 (JO lbs on cot. toll is a ronniiuTutivi. rate to the Central Raihoad transporting 334 miles certainly it should he 11 min i 1 alive in the same proportion to lh<- Atlantic and Gulf Rail load transporting 277 mill s. In Janua ry 1808 the Gliaige of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad 85 cents per 100 lbs. I’.mm Kufaula; or as $1.05:334 miles; $0.83: 277 miles. Willi these few plain arid undeniable proposition!) I proceeded to add that just such misrepresentations as thrse now ail verted to pronounced by the respietive Annual Reports during 1808 of the Mus cogee, Southesli-rn and Central Rai’ivnd Compiti ii s have been used to inflame the public mind with a suggestion tiiat the administration of this Con pany has boon aggressive and unjust recklessly intru ding upon the so-called “legitimate ter ritory of these Companies and in u fruit, loss warfare doing great damage to them without hi unfitting this ~6' n ■!.any. — These assertions could they b • under stood as mere exclamations of the gi .el es an unnerved and stio-kei* mom p sly, would invite scarcely more than a to 1 f expression of compassion, hut whi n they assume the form 1 fa grave and unKtiii - did impend inent ] ii ni i nred without condition or reserve such assertions de mand fall refutation and exposure if not distinct rebuke. 'J he autlu rs of tin sc reports should know that the udministru tion of this .ompaiiy has sought for no more than the evident advantages of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad nfM-i w a t heap or route from the Chattahoochee and that had the directors of this Company east away these advantages and refused the business which the Atlantic'and Gulf Railroad ought to have brought it would have been an improper, if not a erimiii al disregard of the interests of the Block holders of this Company. Iris simply senselesg to assume because (lie South western' Railroad t< iriiiinih-s on the Chattahoochee river and was completed before the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad, that the former alone id, "lairjjf entitled’ to tho business of the yountrjr divided hy j it and there may he some doubt suggi-s ted whether the people living in it are prepared to acknowledge themselves the vassals of any sovereignty so supreme-, that they cannot give, their transporta tion to whom they-please. The President of Central Railroad Company with a sententious dictation, which would be unworthy of response did not appear to involve a declaration “ex-cathedra” gravely asks why the poli ey against which he enveighs “is sanc tioned l y stockholders whose interest is at stake.” The impeachment thus doulitly utter ed may he intended to go to trial before the bar of the'stockholders of this com pany. The Directors of this Company do not fear this arrangement. Their duty has been boldly but conscientiously perform ed. Many of them have huge interests in the Central and South Western Rad road Companies but Ibis has not deter red them from the careful and assiiliotis performance of their duty to the Alien tic and Gulf Railroad Company: and they 1 might with very pertinent justice of j right demand to know why the rates of I the Central and South Western Hail | road have been reduced if the Bainbi idge j route is so much "longer and inure ex pensive ?” Why did they not allow to [this route a fair share of the business lof the Chattahoochee (if only that which went to Apalachicola previous to the completion of the Atlantic and Cull Rad road to Baiubridge and never before eon trolled hy theCeiitial and South Wes tern Railroads) in order that the receipts of these roads might be rmiHituined at something like previous figures. 11l 1867, Apalachicola r< ccired 80 000 bales of cotton. Has this transportation become peculiarly valuable only because the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad has been built to Baiubridge ? Why if the Central Road has such pre-eminent advantages should it suffer its receipts to decline un and :r an ull coni t mal and unnecessary con test with an enterprise asserted to be in I'eiior? If, on the other hand, the Atlantic and Gulf RaProatl (Res possess ; -’\ la ges which might in any degree 1 :. .im balance the continuity and greater se curity' of transpo.ilation of the ''until- j western and Central Roads, why did the authorities of these institutions decline j to make a reasonable compromise with an antagonist whose damaging power was unquestionably great ? (la the contrary every elf.a t lor compromise has failed because of the unreasonable and arbitrary exactions of tl r aiib t ntics ol the South Western and Central Railroad Companies until the lalt.r, after being forced to the confession of a loss ol $212 j 000 in the receipts ot 1868 i-a joint and in ! incurring obligations to the amount ul upward ot one million two handled and ; thirty five thousand dollars to obtain control of tbe Atlantic and Gull Railroad i This in itself a measure ol doubtful le giilitv involves an expenditure, which reasonable compromise would have sav ed. It is therefore evident that this i x penditure enormous as it is, betrays, it no more an unnecessary grasping tor a costly power because the same conces sions which control l>y- these companies jof the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad would : justly demand me quite asjastly deman ded by the conditions of fair compromise If it is suggested that the recent compromise between the companies is proof to the contrary it is certain first that this compromise was made altar it was understood that the Central and Southwestern Kail wad Companies had become stockholders in the company ; and secondly that this is not a fair com promise simply because it arbitrarily cuts the Atlantic and Gull Railroad en tirely i ff from any of the business of Cos hi mb’! sand Eutnua which it has bitlier -1 to derived its principal receipts from the ■Chattahoochee and which it was entitled ti> slme :m t‘. r; rhe:tp**<>t anti relatively tile AtriirteHf relit.). Tin: ivt'iinal of ilie authorities of t' <>ae x;oiii|iun;es tn consent to just e> nip'omis ch Inis lircii nccotnp.iok'il l v the cxpei*- t) it me aTo of doubt iul legality of Urge smm in tlio purchase of ateari boats sent to ply on tl.e Flint aid Chattahoochee rivers, rmi with any hope of pr. fit to their coropa lies but tn force the Atlan tic and Gulf Kai'road tn carry at non paying rotes atal I her I ave cl owned this •. indictive ad I y foicil g the lines of the ocean steanirrs b< tween Nortliein port* and SovuHitah known as too mmiuni lines to enter up"ii a cualition !w i loile tin: Atlantic iii.d Gulf Raifrnad west of Lawton iruin ocean acc iiiiie datien.— Hat f r tin: imtepio deuce of a single steamship lino (the Black 'tar.) too m habitants id Southern Georgia would have been effectually debarred ml com mercial privileges beyond the c ly of Sa vannah. Yet in the face of these significant facts too c'cnrly betraying the jealous spirit and rutidiss isercise of power which monopolies are capable to display the pei pie of Gcoigiu arc invited to sub mit themselves to a monopoly still mi re stupendous seeking to buist through the just restriction of iuw, to overriiu more iha» one half tJ.e territory 1 f the State and to embrace the viiy enterprises which the people have themst-lvc* author i/eil as the most certain safe-guards of their commercial libeitios. Not salisfiod with a compromise (which this company hud accepted not because it was just but partially because jtts policy bud t ecu misconceived i lid wilfully misconstrued, and because it. sought to sib oce tec pub lie echo, sos the clamor of its adv. isa rits) the Central and Southwestern Had road Companies continue nevertheless contrary to the spirit and true intent of the contract to maintain their steamboats on tlio F int i ml Cliatlahoo.■!, i Ivors, bidding for freights to Apalachicola and New Orlcatis at rales absurdly »w for the purpose of and) i\tog off the stcaud'oats previously plying tin «e river*. How grossly inconsistent ti.-- excla malions Id the uutl.ol ilios ot these Com paoii-s win n lia y appeal i.>r symnull.y in their h sms ami |UoIi.-<;lion to bunt ness “fairly tribal mv'’ to them ami to which they are “fairly entiled !’’ Sic. ti tore Ino ut ulienuni non loederc,’ the golden maxim of justice may be appro riate to the weak but it does not apply to tbe powerful, when they may vcntuic to evade the !aw if Hh assertion is at tempted or to defy it it it cretna to be doubtful. The cons<’i]ueticcs of tliin policy have become already evident. Cotton is of fered to be carried to New Or! ssl fiO per liale, from all points on tin Flint and Chattahoochee livers inchiiling Bain bridge, and a powerful coniliination bucked by large capital has been form ed to cany cotton via Apalachicola through Cedar Keys and Feniundiou, to New York and other Northern ports at $1 25 per 100 lbs, when the compro mise rate of this company is $1 65 pet -700 lbs. from Baiubi idge. l ints the compromise made with this company ba llot only deprived it of the business it lii.d obtained at Columbus and Kafaula, but has furred it into a breach with its allies converting them into enemies not only to itself, but to the commerce of this city on the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers; while the Central and Southwes tern Bail road Company fling to the A. & G. K. 11- Company the charitable drop pings of the rich mans table. It is futile to assert that this Compa ny is itself to blame for such a compro mise by which it abandoned any part of its commercial rights because it lias been offered the privilege of In coming a part ner ill the steamboats owned by the Celt tral and Sulhwa stern Hat I road Compa nies. This Company will not venture, like litem to transgress tile limits of this Act of Incorporation, and attempt an die culily whie may prove a piopi : sub ject of injll notion if not of the .State’s writ ofipn, warranto; nur >s it disposed, moreover to wear even the semblance ot a breach of i.s Compromise by subsidiz ing steamboats on the Flint and Chatta hoochee rivers even by a direct owner ship to bring and carry freight at eva sive rates. These are acts which while they demoiistiate the folly of compro mises m>t made « fleetive by vndicatory foifo.lures are not unsnggest.ve of the prospects ot the Atlantic and Unit liuii ruad when in the control of these compa nies Tt ey will reap a rich harvest in deed when they shall have eon-' muted a monopoly by which the Alb.ii .o & Gulf Haiiroad is absorbed and llu-n steamboat adversaries mi tbe Flint and Clialtalmo-: chcc rivers forced to retire from the con test. Mr. Chairman, a fear ol tiring the pa tience of the stockholders prevents my attempting any further vindication of the policy of the administration of this Company in its operations on the F int and Chattahoochee r.veis I'eriiaps tin sueeess attending t *• op. rations of this Cumpauy in thin direction achieved in ttie face of persistent and powerful "ppm sit ion and without the on! lay of a si;.- 1 .- dollar for means of transportation addi tional to those it already pi ssi s-ed is itself a sufficient vim: icatiou. Hat 1 trust that enough lias been said to dissi pate the culpability which has been tin justly sought to attach to the policy. It was dictated not by any ; urp.ise to in: damage the mteris'* id l! o Central and Southwestern Railroad Companies but it was cnforct and by a warm sens-- of duty which forl ad - the casting away of any of the advantages to winch the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad might be entitled by its local position and the large money in vestment by which those advantages had. been obtained. If sir, in tine course of these remarks I may seem to have given vent to ex pressiops which tniglu have been mark ed by less asperity, I beg to say that they have been invited by deci.i ..lions win. h demand appropriate response Vo lu.d borne with censure until du lienee had become exhausted suffering in onr hearts the torture ot the embar rassment and afixieTc s attending an en terprise struggling lor its ju-t develop meut if not Tor its existence. We have not been prepared to tolerate with amia ble sut mission cither unjust censure or ill f utided assertion. We lave 1. It and ! somewhat bitterly fi It that tlfe rights land interests of this company have not la-i n pet milled to be appreciated or even potceived through the cloud of miscon struction by whirli they have been snr rouijileri. We have been lield up before the world either as “capriciously sport ing with the lights ami interests of oth er institutions or ns common free hooters preying upon their legitimate business WHieti we sought for just compromise we have been always defeated; when we prefern ri independence we have been as .-j.oii.i . „„ | We have been con demned t .. r... ,i .Sir, silence.under such circumstance* might be interpreted as a confession of jmigo ei t w! ini we have lieen neither wink nr guilty tint simply faithful stew aids of t' <• gn atest trust reposed in »ni hands. Tnat the performance of "Ur task I as t'een wholly unaceompaoiid by error would be asseitiog too much for human action ; bat whatever may have be n our pw sumption in asserting the lawful prerogatives of the Atlantic and U'lif Re iroad Company or of our andaci ty in intruding upon the Empiie of a monopoly, we present our conduct and this im vindication at the bar to which ,vi I ave bleu summoned—;tt tbe bar i t the lavi fnl stockholders ol this Company. Rs LT.tcrr.D-—Col. John Screven has been re-elected Piesident of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Company, and D- McDonald, Sect clary and T easm er. Washixoto:; February 11.—A woman named Mary O'Neal, wlm -a and sue was sent by U and to assi ssiiiate Mr. Johnson, was at ri'-teii at ti e U Idle xb.ose. -A donine barreled pistil l , not loa.lt and, war found on lit-r pei son, She is evidently crazy. A Cloudi-stoii paper sa;s tbe new South Carolina Constitution contains a plank from Massachusetts, one It.-m Ohio mu ral from Ycitu rnt and a broad beam from Aliaca. Atlanta, February 12.—The Georgia Legislature to day passed i.nanimiiusty a resolution to elect Representatives to the United Mates Congress on tiiu first Monday in April next. Accint.nt to Mr. ftTKMtsNs. —W.; regret to learn, says the Atlanta Era, that Ilmi A. II Stephens was veiy seriously in jnriil on .Sunday last by a heavy gate falling on him. Mr. S. is very fragile when enjoying his best health, and an accident that would scarcely effect a ro bust man would be very painful to him. Simnnv Extravagant*—A. T. Stewart has sold twenty shawls this season in Niw York worth $.'5,000 each and one wot tli $4,000 One- w.inan lately' inn np a bill ii $20,000 ut his stole in a Couple "t monies. BXASJ&XES On the 14th hist., »i ttouillaivn. Appling coun ty. Gin, by the Kev. J. K Witch. Capi. Jams* K. Ui.aiNsoN, of iJiovk.a county, to Ati.-n Anna I- Mi,is, of Appling, daughter of Win. J. Mims, for merly <a liichmomi county. Ga. Quitman Retail Prices Current COBlircrsn WIKKI.Y, Jiacon tb... | 20 26 butter —< 50-lien j ft 1b... 05 or, Country jyA ft». . | 26 0* Sit CatnlUn... Ip. ft... 1 35(i* 60 |f* 6 I 25 of- 35 Coffee -Uio |H ft. i 29 ($ S:i Own |r< bii»lij 60 or, 75 •'.'ackers f* ft-.-I 2o (i. 25 K fit S i fldnz. 15 of 20 i l tear—.N'ope; tine ,'p Ijbl . |ls 00 oe if hb ( Family ft bbl .j 1 7 00 o; 20 00 Ginger If 1 tt). Qi 5u | 1,iu.1 i Iff lb. | 23 1-4 25 ' Oysiers flea" J Os 4" I’eaehi'S i ft. ran . i ; J 50 I'iekl.'s jy iir. , 50 ex 75 IVtatoiw- Irish id bast! i 50 in, 3 (10 ■Sweet jf* b*iso (of 601 I’mv.ler iff 1h... 60 i/f 75 I I’ot.idi | if & (4 Itiee |;> ft.. I.'. - Ik Raisins If) ft. . (pi 50 Salt.. jff sack. 3 50 or. 4 50 i:> <*£ w\ Sugar \i\ £>. ..j Hi 2i» | Syrup... j gal.. 50 (it, 75 j Soda .. |f* it*.. j (cfy I'.? Shot .* (<>\ Z 0 Starch }V* lb. J 20 '£■> \ Tohucco good article, ift h. . t 150 (ft, 200 | \ iiiegur jf l , gal .j 60 ‘ Spttinl Uotitf. The Great BSedicine of tbe World. IVrrv Davis tV Son’s ••Pais Kii.i.i'.k" muj must justly be styled the great medicine of the world, for then* is no region of the globe into which it ! has not found i:s way. and n«m*t where it has not. long been largely used and highly prized. More- j over there is t;o clime to which it has not proved 1 to be well adapted for the cure of h considerable Vi; xof and • -a-": it -s a peed' ands ite reme dy oo burns, scalds, cuts, bruise*, wounds and various other hiturie:-. ns well ns for dysintery. diarrheea. and dowel cemphimts general!y. it : s a-itiiii.ibtv soiled for every race ol men or the face of the globe. It is a very significant fact, that notwithstand ing the long period of years that the ••I'aiu Kill- ‘ ••r ’ has be. i hes re ts • wf rid, it has never lost one whit of its popularity or shown the least sign of becoming 1 unpopular; but on the contrary.; the call for it has steadily increased from its first j discovery by that exc.-UeiH and honored man. ; ferry Ini vis. and at no pieviou* time has th » tie- ! mai.d for it been so great, or the quantity made bren so large, as it- is this day. Another significant fact is. that nowhere has the Tain Killer ever been in higher repute or Sgeri more generally used by famine-, and indi- | \ idu; Is. than it has been here at home where it was first discovered and introduced, and where i;s proprietors. Messrs Pony Davis Jc Son. have ever been held in high esteem. That the Pain Killer will continue to be. what we have styled it. tbe great medicine of the world, there cannot be the shadow of a doub\—Pkoy. Jdvkrtisku. jun2D 2-Jm Brunswick District Ist Quarterly Con ference. Stockton 3rd Sunday January. Waresboro 4:h Quitman ."'th 44 4 * \ aldosta Ist Sunday in February. Morven (at Shiloh) 2d Berrien & Irwin 3rd “ '* MouKrie Mission 4th Doctor wn & llomersville Ist Sunday March. (tcmulgee 2nd 4 * Brunswick 3rd “* 4i SVaynesville 4th “ * 4 Centrevillage Is Sunday in April. Coffee 2nd “ “ J.-W.TIMSIOKS. r. 3. Fas. 1 : 8® Hrs. A. E Eaker & Daughter, SUES II MMS-KSEIS, I > PSITX'I I I’I.LV solicit a share of public JLI patiouage. All Needle work entrusted to their care* whether Plain or Ornamental, will be execut^ : with neatne.-s and dispatch. They will keen on hand a small Stock of dim ming Good.* at their Office on Main Street, in-xt door west of Mr. Jacob Bin:mV More. Mb*. A. 11. Baker. Miss M. A.Buttr. Quitman, Feb. 19, ISS9. :>-u TO THE PUBLIC. ' rrtlll. subscriber lion I.uv.i 1 tjkfc? itSkiyfrlii'tforccou sk t i * fi hi- appiieadou, ki.U that ail hia-property id Hibjeet te hi.*, dob'.*. A. B. LOVETT. February 19. I sC9. 3-1 i rETI'iION FOR HOMLfTKAi). C"1 KCRGIA. CofKKK Cor.\TT. DnnM R. M i < »«• having applied i-.i Exemption and hetdog apart and valuation of Komejoead. 1 will |v«s upci. the same at my oflice, at Douglas, tu , the hi ih day ol February, IMj9. JJaxuil Lott, 0 rdinary. February If. I SCO. Petition for Homestead. - bTA i:n Va C.lv- { Court of GrUiaary. li..Ur,A Obecca Groover having HppJi- V ▼ ed lor excm* ;.ut. I aim setting apart and vnle ttic-n (»♦ Homestead. J will upon the same at Quitiiutn. on the 27;h day ot i ebruary, a. 11 o'clock, a. ui., ut my of fice. « Given under my hand and official bignature, : this lJtii day ot February, lc-9* Jaxilo L. BiLiTY. Ordinary. February 19. ISC9. 5-_'t W. j. Vi alsh7 ~ WliOikt'AU: I.KAU.?: IN DRUGS. 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