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GREAT SACRIFICE, Hdienßen Are now selling out their entire stork of fail and Winter goods , comprising Blankets, Flannels, Linscys, Cassinitro, ftMitnck'y Jeans, Kerseys. Sat. At less than Hew York prices, OOTHIK. Our Stock Clothing iu raark ud’ilown lower than New York wholenalo prices, to make room for Spring floods, Laflies’Trim'll Hats 10 Dozen Ladies’ Trimmed Hats, At less than their Original Frioe. Heats’ & Boys’ Hals. 50 dozen Gents’ Hals. At astonishingly scow Prices. -i .TT- ' XT’ Kentucky Jeans. 39 Pieces : Jeans, At a \vonderlnl iimlugtiun, Dress Groods. Empress Cloths, Circassian Cloths, Alpacas. Under Manufacturers' Prices, Foots and Shoes. W a would invite all persons ■~ho are in trout of shoes, to •otne and examine our Stock, as ye have decidedly the cheapest and best Stock to be had- We pay# harked every pa'r doyn fully IJi per .ccyt layer than she ■same c:iu i*j bought at in any licUil Stvfe ji) Afrgwstft. Ji 1 ~:,J . : —r* GROCERIES. ,Otjr fStock of Groceries :uid f'rov.sjoHS is fidj and complete, ' s ybo come to Washington t° *!«?}' 4 and look at our f jocals and compare our Piipes. We guarantee to sell them as cheap as any one tun buy tli.em jn Augusta or Atlanta. M a.honcy & BiMi&Dji. (K ltS Chi €mttt. H- *».. AXDIIEWS, KiH^r. Friday Morwinc, February 21.1873. Oen. Toombs on the Bond Question. Tlie question of accepting <y rejecting the offered |,y the holders of the fraudulent honda issued Ary Mullock’* government is, at pres*i*t, Alia ail absorb ing subject of interest with the (icople of Georgia, Many of onr bent and wisest men, and some aho are not so wise and ionic who arc not ho good *iuj some who are neither yiire fft good, have given tlieir opinions regarding the proper course for the State p) pursue. Some are in favor of and some opposed to tfio compromise. We gladly give to our leaders the vicars of alt tfic men of ability in whom the oeople have confidence, hut our s|micc will not ]>ermtt. We therefore publish the letter of Gen. Toombs on the subject in this issue of thu Gazkttk. AVe select his letter from amongst the great number which have Ireeu published, from the fact that he is a resident of this place and thp readers of the Gazkttk are more directly interested in his views. Aside from this, (Jen. Toombs lias a greater and more wide spread reputation us a financier than any man of this day in tho United States. Itc has devoted tnijph time to the study of this branch of political science and his views arc out i tied to great respect and should and probably will have great in fluence. The Flection. Host Wednesday, the 26th Inst., is the day appointed by Governor Smith, for au election to lie held in this District, to fill the vacancy in Congress, occasioned by the death of Gen. A. It. Wright. Hon. A. 11. Stephens is the only candidate who has been publicly announced lor the place, but we do not know that thu Rad icals may not attempt to play a trick and run a candidate secretly. Wo would therefore, urge every Democrat to go to the pulls and votu lor Mr. Stephens. JJy »o means let no one neglect to perform Ills duty. Adjourned. Tjie Legislature adjourned on last Tues day night, tine die, without agreeing to compromise with Mullock’* bond liulder*. Well done, »ay all the people of Gcorgin. Amadeus, King t f Spain, has abdicated and left the country. He is, at present, in Portugal, and will return to Italy, his native lund, so soou as the health ot his wife will permit. He wns chosen by tbc authorities of Spain and cl clod by her people to reign over the country os King. Hu found tho throne o! Spain, however, a dangerous aud uneasy sent and has, very sensibly, retired to private life. The Spaniards have now doclured in tavor us a republic. Time alone can prove whether they have acted wisely or not. European r< publics aro not usuully very prosperous or long lived. (r»a TUB OASBTTB.J Washington Fifty years Ago. CONTINUKD. I did uot myselt read the proof of my last article, and as a professional proof reader notice nonsense fryt not uftgy Julne sense, I am afraid my older readers will begin to think there is no use in attempt ing a record if it is to contain us many orrura as appeared in my last. Where it was printed that Mrs. Bran hum’s house was on the situ of F. Arnold's dure, I said F, Arnold’s atuhlet. And tho younger Leonard had a tin shop in town, not fn bis dwelling house. Also, the school house torn to pieces in thu fire of (837, vya» not on the Squaw, (by w hich everybody of course understands our inaguitlcent Public Square with its ele gant stores and splendid Temple of Jus tice,) but on the north western corner of the square owned by Mr Jordan, where it marked the south eastern limits of the tire. And now I will speak of tho fire of 1841, which broke out Wednesday, Feb., 24th, in tho store ot Burton aud l’elot, which was at the corner, on the site ot what is now Boltin's range, in which is the (tore of Huberts A Wylie. It burned tho whole ot that square except the old Alison house; and what is now Mr. Go lucke’s liOfWu was witli difficulty saved. It also burned the store and dwelling house of Sir. Aaron Cleveland, (which stood a little buck from the street, on the opposite corner, to the south;) and all thu buildings which stood where are now Mr. Anderson’s grocery and the doe’dr's shop. The brick store was afterwards built by Mr. Cleveland, and from his long occupancy, the place is called Cleveland's porner. The tavern was not burned in the fire, but marked its soytjiimi limit. The first tfiing wh)cl) uiv informant remem bers üboyt Cleveland's corner, was that thu old story burned iu tjiu fire, was occu pied, ulwut years ago, by Mr. James Corbett, a Scotchman, a very prominent merchant of that (Jay, who married the sister of Col Joseph ljobjysoi), (our form er postmaster) and liisdwull jng house stood a little I ack troig *h u street where the office of Dr. Kjcklen i)ow stands, and his gardeu extended west to the corner. Mr jjurbelt owued a plantation near town, covering the bids back of Dr. lie ml's residence. His family had left tfiis house at the time of the fire, and young men boaidiug at the tavern rented rooms iu it. Thus, in two tire* not quite four years apart, nearly the whole of the equate and the buildings adjacent were destroyed, including seventy odd houses. These two fires, with that which burned the Seminary , just before tlie war, and that which iu 1825 destroyed Mr. Sneed's old tavern, are the only important conflagra tions of which 1 harp had any account iu the history of our little town. The present tavern was built by Mr. A. It Sliced, father of Mr. J. R. Suee.d of Savannah, and other children, lie had been paymaster in the U. 8. Army. It continued in possession of his family long alter they moved from it. but was rented. After the fire of 1837, Mr. James A- Alex ander re .ted and kept it. He did not Stay long in it, and then Mr. and Mrs. Vickers, who had, after the fire, taken Jyoardcrs in the Masonic Hail House, rent ed R. The very night they moved in, Hit of December 1842, one of the cottages on tfie lot was the scene of a painful and mysterious tragedy. The Mr, Wood, mentioned in my last communication, liad engaged board with Mr. Vickers, for himself and wife. They had been mar ried the previous Septemlier and it had been S runaway match. They occupied the two cottage rooms directly ou the street and farthest south. It was under stood that Mrs. Wood was very averse to occupying the cottage rooms. The back room was their bed room, and about eleven o'clock at night, 4th ot December, 1842, Mr. and Mrs. Vickers, were roused by screams from this room, and cries of “Mary pas kiljed lie rail 1.” On running in all liastc, Mrs. Wood was found lying penr the door between the front and back rooms, with her throat cut from car to ear. Mr. Wood reported that she got up to get some water, as she said, which waked him; that he dozed off, when he was roused again and saw tier standing up cutting her throat with a razor winch he had missed some days before. She had exhibited no signs of insanity, and no cause could be assigned for flic deed. It occasioned great excitement, and for weeks, timid women all over the town could not sleep for thinking of it. Not very long after, Mr. Wood, who was a creditor of Mr. Mark Lane at the time of his failure, was detected in an effort to remove goods by night from Mr. Lane’s store. The goods removed considerably exceeded the debt in vulue, and Mr. Wood had to leave Washington, to es cape difficulty, and went to Texas. Then people began to think he might have killed his wife. But there waa no evi dence of it. Mrs. Vickers used long to say, when she heard people talk of revela tions they lmd got from professed spirit ualists, that if she ever had the opportu nity, she intended to ask who killed Mrs. Wood. But I think she lias never done so, and probably the mystery of who kill ed this unfortunate ludy, or why she kill ed herself, will never lie known until the secrets of all hearts aro revealed. Tho plastered wall between the two buck rooms iu that cottage long showed tho traces of blood which regularly made its appearance through successive coats of whitewash, until Mrs. Brown, who rented tho other back room, took the partition down to enlarge her apartment at the ex pense of tho other. The stains of blood can probably still be seen on the floor, where the writer lias often looked at them. I used occasionally to sleep there with a niece of Mrs. Brown who visited her, and on each occasion wc Would pre pare ourselves for a comfortable nights /eat, by a talk over the murder, and an f XHiMifiation of the*bl««»dy stains. Hut for fear ot giving the rooms a lmd name, I will say that Mis. Brown, (us well os Mrs. S. Anthony, then Mrs. Rnkcstmw) qften slept there, and was very much given to lying awake at night, hut she never saw Mrs. Woods’ ghost. Notwithstanding this u fortunate lic ginning of their life in tho old tavern, Mr. nnd Mrs. Vickers, prospered in it. The lawyers who came to court used to say it was the nest country tavern in Mid dle Georgia, and travellers wlm had to stop somewhere over Sunday, used to try . to reach It for that purpose. And as an illustration of the good old ante helium times, I will mention that day boarduis used to pay VJr. Vickers (110 a month. But chickens, eggs and butter, used to cost 10 and 12) cents the yonr round, cori) 1)2) eel)fo a bushel, and turkeys 37) cents a piece. Prices in regard to every thing else, are a good deal ns they are in respect to wo men’s dress bonnets. When the Ismnets increase m size, the price always goes up; but no matter how bonnets diminish in size, the price never goes down. My principal informant says the earli est thing he recollects about the old tav ern which stood on the site of (fin present house, nnd was burned in February 1825, is it was kept between fifty and sixty years ago, by old Col. Willis, the father of Dr. F. T. Willis, ot Richmond, Va. He wns a man of fine sense and great enterprise. It is said of him, that in some package he got from abroad, there was some grass wrapped around something, and Col. Willis planted it. It turned out to be Bermuda grass, and from tiiis it spread over the country. Nobody now living, remembers when or by whom the old tav ern was built. I bail intended to put in my last com munication, some correction of fresh facts regarding a part of the town I had gone over, but I had not room or time, so I will add them here. The error somehow crept In that the house occupied now by Captain Anthony was built by Mr. Jos. Moaely. I hardly know how the mistake occurred. Tho earliest that is recollect ed of it, it was occupied by Mr. Brookncr, father of Mr. David Plumb's last wife, (and grandfather of Mr. Daniel Plumb, of Augusta.) It then comprised only tho one story p»rt. Afterwards, Mr. Royland Beasley bought it, and he also purchased thu old bouse iu which Dr. Abbot bad lived, and moved it, thus adding the two story portion. The bo’iso which was the old Presbyte rian parsonage, was built by Mr. Mnscly. The one next to it now belonging to Mrs. Vickers, formerly to Mr. John Dyson, and now occupied by Mr. Foreman, wys 1 nilt by the late Mr. John Green, The house at the southern end of the eastern s)dc of the same street was built by Mr. George Carter, When he lived there, hi* wife's sister, a M ls - Turpin, was found dead on her knees in the parlor, where she had been in tbc habit of retiring tyr private prayer. Astkjcahian. (From the Atlanta Constitution. THE BONDS. I.ETTEU FROM fIK.VF.I-.AI. TOO Mil*. Wasiiixotok, Ga. Feb. 10, 1873. To Messrs. 1. W. Avery and E. V. Clarke; Gk.nti.khrv : I regret that very urgent professional engagements prevented an earlier reply to yours of the sth instant, requesting for publication my “views on tbc bond question now lrcfore the Legis lature,” as presented in the propositions of Col. Snead. I gave the question of the validity of all ot the bonds embraced in those propositions, a very careful consid eration last year while acting as counsel for the bond committee, appointed by the Legislature, to investigate and report up on all the bonds issued in tbc name of the State by Bullock. And I fully concurred with the committee in tlieir conclusions upon ail those which were condemned by them. It is utterly impossible to sustain the validity of the $600,000 of bonds in dorsed by Bollock, for the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, under the act of Oc tober, 1870, under the principles adopted by the committee and the Legislature.— There was already a first mortgage to the State on all the property of the road for one million nine hundred and fifty thou sand dollars—an amount proven by the President and Directors ot the company to tie equal to the sums invested by private parties ; and there was a second mortgage then and now outstanding on tlic road to other panics, as I am informed, and no mortgage or other iicu of any kind has ever been given )o secure the State for the indorscmeiiuy TtsSS have not, and never had, a single lag to stand upon, ami the Legislative approval of them must have been done under a clear mistake. I would also have declared us unconsti tutional and void all thp obligations at tempted to 1* put <-n the people of tins State by that gang of usurpers and thieves assuming to lx- the Legislature of Georgia, foisted upon us, not by the people, black or white, hut by Bullock and General Terry by fraud and the bayonet, in defi ance of the Constitution anil tho laws anil in utter con tea ptof public decency. They were wanting in that indispensable ele ment necessary to the validity of all con tracts; the free consent by themselves or tlieir agents thereunto, lawfully author ized, of the parties sought to lie bound by them. I desire now to say only tins much, on tho last two points, to prevent any mis apprehension as to my opinions touching them, and tor”the additional reason that they are also equally applicable to the propositions now under consideration.— Hut while the wrongs, injuries, insults and spoliations, which have bet-u imposed up on the people of Georgia, under color of law, since the unfortunate termination of the war between the States, are- galling, heavy and grievous to be home ; yet, tor all the purpose* of this investigation, I shall test the demands ot those claiming to tie our creditors by the same principles of luw, equity and public faith, u* though they lmd been created under our own State Government liefore the war, or un der any other undisputed, righMul gov ernment. All the bo nils embraced in the first, fourth and filth propositions were issued or indorsed in aid of railroad companies. They were all declared null and void by the lust Legislature, on the grounds that they were issued in violation of the Con stitution of the State, nnd in violation of the provisions of the several nets of the Legislature authorizing their issue. Wire these judgments right and proper and tit to be made! | think so, right on tsilh grounds, aud I-will proceed briefly to give niy rensops mt* the constitutional point which covers nnd disposes of all these cases, nnd I lyuvc the other, which de pends mainly on fact:-., w here the very utile report of* the committee left. To levy and collect taxes, to borrow money on tin pledge of tho property of the people and tlie faith of the State are among the high est nnd most important powers of sover eignty. The Anglo Saxon race lmd a long nnd bloody struggle to wrench them troui tlie iron grasp of despots, and to limit, re strain and chain them down by organic laws. Their dest-sn-lnnts on this continent, profited by tlieir triumph under William anJ Mary of England, and generally put additional restraints upon tlieir exorcise even by their own representatives. Neith er the Constitution of the United States nor the Constitution of any of the States ol tho Union, it is believed, vest the pow ers to tax and to borrow money, in any otlicer or department of the governments established by them, or upon oil of them together without conditions and restraints, and thu necessities and tendencies of the present times point rather towards '.lie in crease than tho diminution of such re straints. It is csrtain in this country that neither Presidents, nor Governor*, nor ministerial officers, nor judicial officers, nor great seals qun extract even a penny from poverty, or change tlie common wealth a shilling of public debt except by authority ot law, and according to tlie terms prescribed by law. The Constitu tion ot thu State of Georgia settles this class of public obligations now under con sideration with clearness and certaiuty.- Paragrnph 5, section 6, article three, among other limitation* upon legislative pow ers, ordains that a The General As sembly shall pass no law making the State a stockholder in any corporate company, nor shall the credit of the State lie grant ed or loaned to aid any company without a provision that the whole property of the company shall Iks bound for tlie secu rity of the State prior to any other debt or lien, except lit laborers; nor to any company in which there is not already an equal amount invested by private per sons.” Under the act of the 12th of March, 1869, three millions and three hundred thousand of first mortgage bonds were in dorsed by Bullock in aid of the Bruns wick and Albany road. The act did not require that private persons should either first or last Invest a single dollar in the road, which in fact they never did do,but attempted to subvtitute for this impoitant and indispensable requisite of the consti tution, half a dozen noted falsehoods in hall'a pozen whereases by way of pream ble to the bill, and which were wholly im material if true, anil would in no wise change the Constitution, and under the act ot the 17th October, 1870, the onemil lion eight hundred thousand dollars of semi-annual gold bonds were issued by Hullook in aid rif the same road, with a first and second mortgage already on the road for more titan it was worth without any security whatever, except some ot t liese very second mortgage bonds of the company. The latnds of tho Cherokee Valley Railroad Company and the Car tersville and Van Wert Railroad Compa ny, indorsed by Bullock, w ere not issued in cpnformitv with a single provision of the Constitution or the statute which au thorized them, and bonds were fraudu lently duplicated. They are not entitled to any further hearing until the State ad vertises her readiness to pay all counter feit liomjs issued.in her name. It is, then, lieyaud doubt» question that each and all of the bonds referred to in the Ist, 4th, and sth propositions of bond holders were issued iu plain violation of the Constitution, and it is equally clear, by the testimony of these liondholders them selves, that not a cent of the money which they paid tor them ever came to the Trea sury of the State, or .ever was contracted to go there by them. How then do they seek to escape this condemnation of the Legislature,and on what principle do they seek payment of the State ? They affirm that they took these bonds solely on the credit ot the State, that they were signed by the Governor of the State, who affixed to them her great seal, and that they had to knowledge or notice nl the illegality of the issues, and had tnitji and confidence in our agents. It is difficult to believe that any man living in Wall street, New York, and dealing in either public or pri vate securities three months, who acted on these principles could possibly have a dol lar to lend to anybody. Hut as they arc clamorously if not rationally put forth they may he worth a reply. There caunot be a bona fide holder for valuable consideration, without notice of its illegality, of a single one of these bonds in the whole world. Governments contract by agents. These agents derive their authority from the laws, and every person treating with such agent is bound to examine, at their peril, the authority of such agent to treat, and the extent of such authority. The same role holds good in private agencies, though the rule is more rigid in dealing with public than with private agents. Even Sovereigns are bound to take notice of the organic law ot all countries with whom tiiey contract or treat; and even Sovereigns do not enter upon the smallest matter ot treaty, or contract without examining the credentials of the agents of each other. The Constitution, the organic law of any free State, is the poaer of attorney of all of its agents, at home and abroad, and all the world who are interested in their acts, must take notice of it al their peril. The State must act through agents; the pow ers of their agents must he defined by law; and all persons contracting with them are Ism ml to notice the laws delegating and defining their power. Every one of these bonds refer in their face to the law under which each of them was issued, thus put tingnli bidders nuder notice and on guard. The ]>cople of Georgia gave public notice in their constitution of liic only terms and conditions, under which she could become bound or give aid to railroad companies. The bondholders disregard ed this public notice, they say they trust ed to the Governor's signature and to the great seal. Very well, “whose tault is tliat't’’ not the people of Georgia, but the fault of the bondholders, the consequen ces of which they seek to saddle upon the poor people of Georgia, who have done their duty and are faultless in the prem ises. These principles of equity and justice and law' upon which the Legisla ture acted, are recognized autl adopted by all civilized people. The Courts ot Great llritain, the Statu Courts, the Su preme Court of the United State* all con cur in the correctness of the principles affirmed in tile Floyd acceptance cases (7tli Wallace) that whenever a negotiable paper is found in the market purporting to bind the government, it must neces sarily lie by the signature ot some officer of the government and the purchaser of such paper, whether the first holder or another must, at his peril, see that the of ficer has authority to hind the govern ment. 1 have already shown that Util lock's power of attorney, the Constitution and laws of Georgia prohibited him from issuing these bonds, one and all, and they are. therefore, unconstitutional, null and void, utnl all the attendant circumstances leaves the State without even an apology tor paying them. The I Hinds held by J. Horn man, Johnson A Cos., and the Fulton Hank ot Brooklyn do not stand on the same footing. They are not affected by the clauses of the Constitution regulating aid to corporations. But conceding, them tor the purposes of this argument, that they were all regularly issued, it is ad mitted that they had been taken up by State funds to lie cancelled, that the hold ers took them from the agent of the State knowing him to he such agent without examining his authority which foiliid their rc-issue, and took them to secure a private debt of Kimball's for advances made to him oil his own account. They thus violated two sound and plain prin ciples of law. They accepted these Isolds of the State’s agent, as collateral security for the personal debt ot the agent, and tlicv accepted them, ns such collateral, under circumstances which fairly charged them with notice of such fraudulent re issue. So much of the third proposition pro poses simply a settlement with Henry Clews it Cos., is not only unobjectionable but highly desirable, to the State, and 1 think the State should institute legal pro ceedings to that end it it cannot lie other wise attained. Hut lamat a loss to con ceive what such settlement can have to do with the acknowledgement of the va lidity of the out standing gold quarterly bonds issued under the set of September 15th, 1870. I mean by a settlement with Clews & Cos., the taking the accounts be tween them and the State, and if anything shall be found due them to pay them, and if they owe the State that they shall pay whatsoever shall lie found against them. We have uotliing more to do with Messrs. Henry flews Si Cos. I have thus disposed of the whole ut the questions involving flic legal and equitable liability of the Stato for these bonds and condemned them, and fully affirm the sentence passed on them by the last Legislature. Yet, notwithstanding all this, there are considerations of public policy which caused me earnestly to desire their settle went, and I have searched diligently tor some solution of the difficulty which might result ip withdrawing these spuri ous securities from the market. In the first place our refusal to pay them injures the public credit unjustly, as I have dem onstrated, but it is nevertheless a tact. Very few people in the world will look into the reasons which justify our refusal to pay them, and many ot them w ill not comprehend these reasons. Another great reason is, these claims are large, say ten millions of dollars, the body is growing juto vast proportions in power and influ ence, and Legislatures ate growing annu ally weaker and more corrupt, and will continue to do so as long as we have ue gro suffrage. The lobby and some Legis lature in the near future representing five hundred thousand ignorant pauper sava ges will not long resist paying these claims, however worthless; they have al ready numerous and clamorous support ers. For these reason*; mainly. I would have paid something for the sakeof peace, some thing to escape present evil* and future perils. But upon a calm and lull review of the whole subject, I confess I find no satisfactory basis for soch settlement. We had better stand on the law and the right, struggle as best we may with the money changers, pay the debts we honestly owe, faithfully. honestly, promptly by increas ed taxation as far as possible, and raise the balance at usury, if necessary; call a convention of the people, cut off the heads of the lobby, by a constitutional prohibition against paying these illegal winds, and prohibit the Legislature from ever indorsing another bond for any pur pose, or borrowing another single dollar, except for the public defense. This will restore our credit, do much to purify our Representatives, give stability and order, and public confidence by aboliahiag a Constitution which the people nev«r made, and restore tlieyw to the dignity of freemen, to the grand, imperishable right of living under a Constitution made and established by themselves and not by de testable conquorerx through the instru mentalities of carpet-baggers, beggers, brutes and traitors. I am, very respectfully. Your ulieilient servant, It- Toombs. Mr. Janic-s thug closes his letter on the bogus bond question : “As I get no pay, I will not discuss the legal points.” Dues Mr. James mean to insinuate that those able lawyer* who have furnished the pub lic with elaborate legal arguments in sup port ofthe proposed compromise are paid j fortbeir opinions ? If these “special plead ings” arc paid for, and the newspapers are paid twenty cents a liue for printing them, it would argue that the “innocent holders” allow their agent a very liberal, margin.'’—[Savannah News. Speaking of Gen. John C. Fremont and his recent stock operations in Paris, the Louisville Courier-Journal says: The licst analysis of his character was given some years ago by a California stump orator, who styled him, “A statesman who never made a speech, a General who never fought a battle, a Pathfinder who always lost his way, and a millionaire not worth a continental d—n.” Commercial. WASHINGTON MARKET. COBRECTED WEEKLY UY P. 11. HORTON, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL lIEALEH tX uno- CKItIES, DRAIN, PROVISIONS, &C.. TKUMS CASH. Washington. Feb., 20th. 7873. OATS ©OO CORN feSHO D. B. —Shoulders C. It. Sides 9@!ty Hams ii LARD,New Cans 124 SALT per sack “40 SUGARS.—Ex.C @ 1-4 A @ls Granulated to 16* Crushed to 11 *! Demarara toll Port Rieo to 121 COFFEE. Rio 22©28 Java ~334@3S FLOUR.—Choice Family.... ©la Extra “ @ll.OO Supurtlne “ ...... . ©3 SYRUP 85© 100 MOLASKS lilid per gal as Cuba Molasses “ “ ...... fio BICE “ n> 124 TOBACCO “ “.... 62t080 COTTON.— i»l Augusta Market. Augusta, Feb., lilt It. 1873. Cotton—Market quiet @lO CORN AND NOT COTTON IS KING ! “C HIN ES E COB N. ” I>l I’< )RTA > T T< > I AI t >ll SI {H. THE GREATEST DISCOVERY IN THE WORLD I - ♦ - —ll hndorxed by Ib c I ' > e-vv, Juulor sai by tin; fieryy. l'lmlor*ed by the AMitvl Faculty, kmlurwl by the Seal Under.*. Fa* (10/*ul by Druyyist*. Endorsed by Pit lift re and Fav* vie* 8. And endorsed by every Per am. EXTRA EARLY THIRTY-TWO ROWED CORN. It is a genuine 32 towed swset corn, growing from 10 to 13 IV-et in huight. Last year, planted the first of May, it was sold in the market July 23d, (Si davs.) A later planting was ready in 70 days. IT M CL, AIM M . Ist. It will produce inoro Corn to the Acre with the sun e cultivation and in auv variety of soil. ' 2ml. It has a greater depth ot kernel than any horse-tooth variety. 3ul. It has a smaller Cob than any thirty two rowed vurielv. 4th. It weighs 05 His. to the bushel, sealed measure. sth. It fills Utter at Uitli ends than any other corn. Oth. It is a solid white tiansparcnt errn. with white eob. . large field varieties in America. Bth. It makes liettei meal, being sweeter and richer. Otli. It bears more foliage whicli makes inoro bread. Hull, it can be planted 011 land from which wheat has been harvested, or from which potatoes have been dug, fully ripening before frost. 11th. The spikes shoot out w ithin tour tea tof the ground, consequent!v the crop D not liable to lie prostrated by high winds. It is likewise easier to gather. 12th. It ucars more full grown earsof corn on each stalk than any Targe field variety 13th. The tap roots penetrating the subsoil to a very great depth it will stand >e vere drouth better 'ban any other variety of corn. 14th. It can be successfully grown in any State. We give the most satisfactory reference that the corn Is, in every respect, what w• represent it to be; and further, we are the only persons throughout the eountrv who have introduced this variety of torn. Having a quantity, vve are now able to till alt orders for those desirous ol testing it. La it season vve could have sold “000 bushel* more, but could not fill the orders. TKR M S : In order that all may receive seed, we have reduced the price to $1 per package.— Any person who will get up a clubof five will receive a package gratis. Fifteen pack ages for $lO. Fifty packages tor S3O. A cur 1 stalk will accompany all orders above $lO, with from 5 to 8 cars of corn for sample. Address, MARSHAL & MOK<2AN, Hull toil, Virgin!*. JESSE A CO., Agents, Washington, Ga. A supply ofthe Com will soon be on lirnd, ami those desiring to purchase may leave orders at the Diug Store ofthe above named firm. HOME REFERENCE : Messrs. Chas. Benton it Brother, Bankers ; Morrison it Baldy, Grocer? and Commis sion Merchants; F. G. Staley, Proprietor of Planter House, Stout & Wilson, Agricul tural Warehouse, or any ofthe gentlemen named in the indorsement in our advertise ment, INBORSgMBXTS, We, the undersigned citizens of Osenola, Va., having examined some of the Chines# Coni, grown mi Mr. James Wliitncr’* farm, one mile east of this place, decertify that some of the stalks produced six spikes, the largest spike we noticed measured 111 inches in lentil and 84 inches around. * Capt. C. W. Morgan. E, F. Gardon, Merchant, Henry J. Kennedy, Esq., H. 8. Clark, Pres, National Bank, vve, tho undersigned, do hereby testify that the above named gentlemen are actual ly residents of Oscaola, Va, CHAS. E. LORD, Justice of the Peace. Rev. ALFRED T. TOMPKINS. „ ... . Oseaola, Va., Oct. 16th, '7l. Messrs. Marshal & Morgan, Ifoiston, a.: —Gentlemen: As you requested me to glv* your Chinese Corn a fair trial, 1 have done so, and will state that 1 was disappointed at it. I planted t|ie JOtJi ot Juoe, aui] Hwas ripe enough to shell the latter part pf Au gust. I planted seven am} ope-eightli of an acre, w hen shelled it measured 80$ butk els and 3 pecks. I cheerfully recommend it to my brother farmers, lioping that it may revolutionize the ugneqlttiraj world. Yours, very respectfully, JAMES WHITEBB. PREMIUM. A premium of $250 will be paid by the undersigned, through First National Oseaola. 11. S.Clark, President, as follows: ' SIOO to the person producing the largest yield of Chinese Corn to the acre, $75 to sot an acre. SSO to 4of an acre. $25 to Jot an acre. A report must he sent ts First National Bank, Oseola, \ a., by the first of December, signed by the person and sworn to, estimating the corn at 85 lbs to the bushel. A sample ear of corn must bo sent with report. A. W. Henderson, of Green Castle, Indiana, rceeived the SIOO premium for produ cing the largest yield of “Chinese Corn” Irom a 2 pound package. Green Castle, Indiana, Dec. 20, ’7f. Messrs. Marshal A Morgan, Holston, Va. Gentlemen : Your letter of t|ie 14f|i oi this month came to hand yesterday with the Draft of SIOO on the First National Bank of Indianopoljs. Allow me to thank you with my best wishes for success in life Very respectfully, A. W. HENDERSON, fcb2l 4w New Advertisements. #l<> REWARD FOB MY POCKET BOOK and con tents, lost on Monday the 17th. and n# questions asked. feb3t-lw* nENRY CORDES. HOUSE AMD IQT FOR SALE.' , The House and Lot on Liber ty Street, Adjoining the place of Mr. wiiiiam Simpson, and occupied at present by Air. John Dakeman, is offered for Ml#.— There are about FOUR ACRES OF LAND on the place, w ith outbuildings and a well of excellent water. For terms, Sic., apply to Mrs. M. An drews. fcb'3l-2w GUANOS. PHUSXIX OCAXO. Wilcox, Gibbs & Co's Manip'lafd Guano r I' , IIESE celebrated gnanOs Imported J and prepared by Wilcox, Gibbs A Cos., Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, C’., are lor sale for cash, or on credit on ar couunodating terms, payable in cotton. ky lllair, Sin it I* & C o_ Agents, Augusta, G». Special attention is called to the use of the Phoenix Guano composted w ith Cot ton Seed. Scud or apply as above for cir culars giving testimonials from planters, prices, terms, Ac. feb2l~6w Citation for Letters of Administration. / 1 EORGIA, Wilkes County. V J To all w hom it may concern: Benja min F. Barksdale haling in proper form applied to me for permanent letterslif ad ministration on the estate of Daniel H. Standard, late of said county, dec’d, this is to cite all and singular the crcditurs and next of kin. ot Daniel 11. Standard, Ul lie and appear at my office, within the time allowed by law, am) show cans#, if any they can, why permanent administra tion should not lie grunted to F. Barksdale on Daniel H. StandaiiTs es tate .Witness my hand and official signature, this 18th day of February, 1873, fob2t-st» GEO. DYSON, Onl y. NOTICE TO DEBTORS & CREDITORS' Vl.f. persons indebted to the late firm of Arnold iV Dullose are requested to make immediate settlement, as the bu siness ot the firm must be wouul up a| once. Those having Claims against the firm w ill please present them at as early a day as they can. Either membor ot the former linn will settle all claims, fchU
