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•^T . | i| i Social Science in Alabama.
'V il('irrni)l) HI ill jlCSSelljrer. . Intba 1I«I1S« a Mi \va» introiluctd to relieve all
I U K ■ n t - lf ’O persons married during the war from the obturations
-—— 1 ■ — ; created. This in done in consequence of the recent
jiACOX. JANUAitl 25, 5S70 dietnin of tho_ Supremo Court declaring all acts Cf
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taioioR fifty-six columns in eight largo
Is and crammed with reading matter—agn-
] political* mifecellaneons, markets and
every description. This paper has a
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Telegraph
senger,
s sixty-four columns of reading matter
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n a i!y Telegraph autl Messenger,
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j aril has an extraordinary circulation. Price
f1000 per •n'nuro.
The Atlanta Intelligencer.
We have watch* d 'he course of this journal
for some months p. stwith considerable inter-
st ClaimirgWh® * Democratic newspaper
of the a* rides' f ct, it has, within the period
named, done .-ore harm to that party in the
limited sphere of its i^luence, than any Radi-
. eT or politician in Georgia. We do not
c * because that is a charge we are
P^ed to prove. There are hundreds of
nrtial, unprejudiced men, who do believe
it however. They say its whole tone is proof
enough, and ask no other. They could not
make affidavit to the fact of motive, in a court
of justice, but it wonld take a good many affi
davits to convince them that the motive was not
an they believed. Wo certainly should dislike
T ery ooch to have the Telegraph and Messen-
ok, occupy such a position in the eyes of the
party sad the true friends of tho State.
fl- e submit that the time has come for this
sort of thing to stop. No real friend of the
people of Georgia and their interests can be si
lent now, while so many outrages are being
commited by a band of wicked and greedy con
spirators at Atlanta. We do not ask that they
be denounced by name and personally, and that,
too in unadulterated, unadorned Saxon. We
only demand that their nets be noticed—that the
people be informed of what is going on. How
•their rights are being brutally violated, and
•their representatives menaced and insulted.
We have not seen in this professed Democratic
mper one word in reprobation of any of the il
legal, revolutionary, and wicked efforts of Gov.
lallock to onst legally chosen legislators from
ieir seats, and fill them with his partisans. Wo
ive listened in vain, as we had aright to, from
paper boasting its Democracy, to hear it de
ice, or at least protest against the many
i-Pemocratic, anti-constitutional acts that
ive marked each day of Gov. Bollock’s efforts
get fnll control of the Legislature. We had
ight at least to expect a notice of these evil
in the columns of a Democratic paper,
even that has not been vouchsafed. The
lers of the Intelligencer, so far as knowing
at Bnllock & Co. were doing to carry their
its, might as well have taken a paper pub-
in Oregon. It has even subordinated and
ik its mission as a purveyor of news, a chron
icler of events transpiring right under its very
i, in the studious endeavor to keep tho peo-
ileiu ignoranco of tho attacks so constantly
nd shamefully being made upon their rights.
Hot one word, not even a whisper or -
legislatures, judges, constablee. etc., during (tie
j war illegal. A bill waB also introduced and referred
to allow the sexoa to cobvbit. provide! they arc- lib-
; oral in their conduct and aro willing to occupy the
rnlationeliip of man and wife Pres* Dis.patclu.of
inti,. _ . . , . .
This movement in the Alabama Legislatnre
will, donblleas, arrest tho attention of the de
votees of “social science'' throughout tbe world.
That body is showing themselves the most “ad
vanced” among all the Legislatures of earth—
for it is the first one to bring forward a propo
sition of this character. The courts of the
Stato having annulled all the marriages solemn
ized daring the war, the Legislature now comes
forward, in a liberal spirit, to show that they
want no unfair advantages taken, and, there
fore, enact that marrying hereafter shall not be
necessary at all In that State. The sexes have
only to live together in a “liLcraV? way and
that’s sufficient.
One of onr editors who was married (or thought
ho was married) in Alabama during the war, but
woke up one morning this winter to Bad himself
annulled most unexpectedly, nnd all his coDjn-
gal and parental relations disjointed, has not
yet decided whether he will settle down on this
“liberal” basis—have the marriage ceremony
over again or snap his fingers ,at the entire judi
cial and legislative authority of the State of
Alabama as Ethiopically and radically admin
istered ; and we do not know how to advise him
out of the quandary or dilemma.
He might refer to Senator Sumner as the
High Immortal Grand Panjandrum of Radical
law, but unfortunately the Senator is in some
way compromised on that topic, and tho referee
might be prejudiced. Besides, 11 Reconstruc
tion" is the particular and especial forte of the
Massachusetts Senator; but wo understand this
action of the Alabama Legislatnre does not pro
pose a recotwtruction of the severed matrimo
nial bonds, but having broken up the Union,
proposes to authorize it to remain broken, ns to
the law, so that the parties consent to live to
gether in a liberal sort of way.
This is not reconstruction, but only a prelim
inary part of tbe process. A genuine recon-
structor, like Sumner, breaks the bonds, it is
true, but only to mend them again. And if It
becomes necessary, as in the case of Georgia,
to keep on breaking them a good many times, it
is only for a greater display of skill in the
mending—for the more the Union is broken and
the more it is mended, the stronger it becomes
and the more inviolable the Union is shown
to bo.
The Union in this respect is much like a poor
fiddle, which is said to be vastly improved by
being smashed and then glued together again.
And we have heard of enthusiastic fiddle recon
structors who wonld smash their fiddles every
month of tho year nnd then glue them to
gether with a wonderful tact and ingenuity, and
swear that by this process they would be able
in due time to entrance the very angels and
draw them out of heaven with their recon
structed music.
Now Sumner and Wilson and Butler are just
such enthusiastic political reconstructionists.
By process of bursting up and then uendiDg
the Union, alternately many times, they hope to
make it “a more perfect Union”—a spectacle
for nil mankind—and perhaps they may succeed
—who can say ? Bat these Alabama Reconstruc-
tors only smash and don’t mend, and are there
fore unworthy of the name.
A fact not peculiar, by any means to the col-
EM POKTASiT CO«R^SPOS 1>E.\< E.
filler Justice ltrowu's Opinion Upon the
Disabilities of Legislators.
Atlanta, Ga., January —, 1870.
Hone Joseph E. Brown,Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court : " .
The undersigned committee, appointed by a
meeting of Republican and Democratic mem
bers of the General Assembly, respectfully call
your particular attention to the opiuion of the
Attorney General of the State, lately published,
relative to the disqualification of members of
the Legislature, and request your opinion as to
its correctness.
Wo desire more particularly to know whether
the persons whoffiledthepositionsof State Libra
rian, Notaries Public, Road Commissioners, Offi
cers of the Militia or Officeis of Municipal Corpo
rations, ns they existed prior to the secession of
the State,and afterwards engaged in insurrection
or rebellion against the United States, are dis
qualified as members of the Legislature, or can
they safely take the oath prescribed by tho late
act of Congress, under which the Legislature is
being re-organized.
An early reply is respectfully solicited.
We are, very truly, yours, eta,
J. E. Bryant, I. E. Shtjmate,
Dunlap Scott, F. M. Harper,
Milton A. Candles. W. C. Ssoth,
W. F. Hoxjjen, A. J. Williams,
J. H. Caldwell, C. B. Wooten,
C. K. Osgood, J. T. Burns,
W. P. Price.
Atlanta, Ga., January 1870.
Gentlemen: I have received your communi
cation, and after somo consideration, I have
concluded to comply with your request.
As the question connected with the disabili
ties of members of tho Legislature, cannot, un
der the laws of the land, come before the conrts
of this State for adjudication, I do not see, in
tho midst of an emergency of so great interest
to the people of the State, why the judges of the
State courts, who, as a general rule, should
avoid, all political strife, and public discussions
of political questions, may not express their
opiuions when desired by their fellow-citizens.
As you are well aware my duties upon the
Supreme Bench aro now very onerous, and I
have not the time to appropriate to the prepa
ration of a written opinion upon a question out
side of my duties on the bench, which I could
desire. I, however, submit the following re
flections and am satisfied in my own mind of the
correctness of the conclusions at which I have
arrived.
I consent to the publication of my views on
this question, the more cheerfully because I
was denied the privilege of giving my rea
sons for the opinion expressed under oath in
Senator Wellborn’s case, before the military
commission now sitting to inquire into the eli
gibility of members of tho Georgia Legislature,
when I stated that I did not consider the posi
tion held by him such an office as is contempla
ted by the Constitution and the reconstruction
acts of Congress. I appeared before the com
mission under a military order, as a witness on
the part of the prosecution, and as my opinion
there expressed goes on the record, I see no
reason why I should not in this manner do what
I was not then permitted to do—put upon record
the reasons which have led me to this concln-
of disapprobation of scenes and deeds ored Radicals of Alabama, may perhaps explain
hat have disgusted and alienated from their
authors, many who were heretofore in full
arty fellowship with them have we had. The
bnly words of censure it has offered were
directed ng&icst Democrats and their allies
who, on tbe first day of the session showed a
determination not to he bnllied and rnn over by
Bullock’s men. If censure has come from any
ither professedly Democratic source against
hose who resisted tbe attempted outrages of
hat day, we have not heard of it. Wo have
bead, however, a great deal of denunciation from
ueb sources of the uutbors of thoso attempted
batrages. That has certainly been the voice of
> party. The Intelligencer has separated it-
f from the people of Georgia os well cs the
arty iu its dealing with this last reconstruction
fall, and its construction by Gov. Bullock’s At-
ney General. It has gone out of its way to
jive a quasi endorsement of that construction,
|>y appealing to the fears and doubts of Demo
cratic members. It has pursued a line of policy
i this question, directly calculated—whatever
i motive—to shake, instead of steadying tho
nocratic column. If it has not openly assisted
enemy, it certainly has not aided those
khose friend it boasts itself. These aro facts
at caanot and will not bo denied. Of their
otive, as we remarked before, wo have noth-
ng to ay, now. Lot the public divine that for
Itself.
We leave the subject with these two questions
for the Intelligencer, and to which wo respect-
lolly solicit categorical answers:
I 1st Do you endorse the last bill passed by
poagress for the reconstruction of Georgia ?
I - I 1> > YuUeixW.sj the construction put upon
I' by Attorney General Farrow in so far as it re-
”*s to what classes nro disqualified from hold-
I office as members of tho Legislature ?
Divisions and Strifes*
I The Washington correspondents represent tho
podical party in Congress as rapidly losing its
fohesive power. This tendency has been strong
ly developed latterly on tho Georgia and Vir-
!>nia questions as well as upon some other top
ic*- The Senate is becoming very impatient of
* leadership of Sumner, and tho House ditto
pf that of Butler. Tho Senate has given gravo
pffeuce to tho President and many of his Radi-
friends by their conrso upon Mr. Hoar’s
domination and their obstinate adherence to
he tenure-of-office bill. Tho Senate is charged
ri’th ambitions and revolutionary designs to
aopolize tho government—a pie in which tho
louse demands tbe right of inserting several of
Its own fingers, if not tho whole hand.
In point of fact it is said there is more hos-
dity between different factions of tho Radicals
i between some of them and tho Democrats,
hus, it is not impossible that Sonthom Re
action may servo tho Radicals in Congress
*the same way it has served thoso in the
athern States, and prove an apple of univer-
1 discord. We hope so. It would be retribu-
p T » justice.
^hen tho Northern Radicals have fully com
peted their arrangements for tho permanent
aipulalion of tho Southern States, by means
negro votes, they will assuredly find that
*yhavo mado nothing by their labor. Not
of tho Southern States will they perma-
atly control. So, when with infinite labor,
1 at tho expense of infinite wrongs npoacon-
l government, they have foisted upon
8 American people as the Fifteenth Amend-
ae nt of tho Constitution of the United States,
Ifte bastard, misbegotten offspring of a surprise
l’ 1 ?oa the people—packed,bogus provisional Leg-
, so-called, and of Congressional ter
rorism, intimidation and peremptory requis
ition— so, wo say, when this work of the Fif-
j -centh Amendment shall bo done, we hope it
|*ill also be found to effect no practical purpose
I contemplated. We hope, before this adminis-
I b * a °n is over, the Radical party will have be-
I come crippled by its own divisions, at least to
I &a extent which the acquisition of negro votes
l m the North, by the Fifteenth Amendment,
I u'v k® wholly inadequate to repair. So mote
I it be.
this effort to bring down all upon a lovel and
legalize concubinage. Perhaps tho great mass
of tho negroes in tho Southern States are not
legally mapried and do not want to be. They
prefer to live together in tbe manner described
by tbe dispatch. In the piping times of “do
bnro,” they were marched up by double file and
married, as to thousands of them, very snmma-
rily, but tho glue of matrimonial reconstruction
did not stick. Perhaps not ono in a dozen of
those reconstructed couples singed reconstructed.
They were worse than the Stato of Georgia, so
far as staying in tho Union was concerned; and
the several pieces of thoso reconstructed couples,
if hnntejl for under a search warrant, would bo
found scattered about in a promiscuous and
chaotical condition, like tho ruins of Balbec.
Doubtless many of them would be found to have
altogether forgotten tho circumstance of tho
marriago—or tho name of tho bridegroom or
bride, as tho case might be.
Now tho reader may not believe it, but this is
a stato of things which seriously embarrasses
criminal jurisprudence. Whatis to be dono with
these people ? Will you indict them for bigamy,
adultery, and so on ? If so, then you ought to
proceed as old Parson Green did with his back
sliding church—turn them all out, and then
compel them to show cause why they should bo
admitted. Tho shortest way would be to find a
general bill, and require parties who wero mar
ried to bring iu the documents and provo it.
Now the Alabama niggers meet this difficulty by
dispensing with matrimony altogether, and it is
one way to meet it, if not the best one. They le
galize concnbinnge, and, in so doing, at a single
bound place themselvesin the front rank of mod
em civilizators, so to speak. They become tho
i head-centres of “social science,” and we call on
the New York Tribune to note and give them
credit for the fact.
Improvements in Tolcgraplriiis.
Tho New York Herald says various improve
ments in tho rapidity and cost of sending tele
graphic messages are now being made. Ono of
theso is tho automatic telegraph invention of
Mr. Little, which is said to bo capable of trans
mitting two hundred to four hundred words per
minute over a single wire, which is ten to twen
ty times faster than can bo transmitted by tho
system used by tho Western Union Company.
Tho new system of telegraphy, the Herald un
derstands, will be put in operation between
New York and Washington within a few weeks.
Another is the inauguration of a new company,
called tho Metropolitan Telegraph Company,
which proposes to send messages for ono cent
per word, and, if required, to put a private
wire in tho office of every business house in Now
York. This company will have subterranean
cables, consisting of copper conductors, per
fectly insulated and carried in galleries or tubes
beneath the surface of the streets, which will
insuro reliable communication at all times and
under all atmospheric conditions.
A Solid Chunk op Truth.—Says tho Houston
(Texas) Telegraph, in a recent issue:
Tho man who thinks that he can make a news
paper to please everybody is a simpleton. Ho
might as well expect all men to fall in love with
the samo woman. Tho only harm wo wish the
growlers against any newspaper, is, that they
may bo each required to play editor just long
enough to see how easy (?) it is to execute his
notions of what a newspaper should be and how
much easier it is to find some who will proclaim
that he. is not fit for his position.
Preaching isn’t truer than that. The editor
has not been, and never will be bom who did
and will sot find some leather-head or sap-head
among his readers to growl and say: “How
much better I oould do that job.” The number
of men and women, too, who think Nature
especially elected them to publish newspapers
without a fault will hardly be known, bnt if the
writer was running for President he would like
immensely to have their votes. His election
would be snrei It is a singular coincidence,
also, that those who grumble tbe loudest, always
fail the moat disgustingly when they try.
Article 0, section 3, of the Constitution of tho
United States, the Fourteenth Constitutional
Amendment, and the different acts of Congress,
known as tho reconstruction acts, being in pari
materia, like all other laws where the subject
matter is tho same, must by a well known rule
of construction be considered and construed to
gether.
The 3d section of the 0th article of the Con
stitution of tho United States declares that the
members of tho several State Legislatures, nnd
the Executive and Judicial officers of the
United States, and of tho several States, shall
be bound by oath or affirmation to support the
Constitution.
The 3d section of tho Fourteenth Constitn
tional Amendment is in these words:
No person shall bo a Senator or Representa
tive in Congress, or elector of President and
Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or mili
tary, under the United States, or under any
State, who having previously taken an oath as
a member of Congress, or as an officer of tho
United States, or as a member of any Stato
Legislatnre, or as any Executive or Judicial of
ficer of any State, to support the Constitution
of the United States, shall have engaged in in
surrection or rebellion against the same, or
given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof;
bnt Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of
each honse, remove such disability.
Tho act of 2d March, 18G7, known as the
Sherman Bill, provides, that “no person exclu
ded from tho privilege of holding office, by said
proposed amendment to tho Constitntion of tho
United States (tho 14th) shall bo eligiblo to
election as a member of tbe Convention to
frame a Constitution for any of said rebel States,
nor shall any such person vote for members of
such Convention.”
The first supplemental reconstruction act,
passed 23d of March, 18G7, prescribed an oath
for voters at the elections to be held for the
Conventions in the rebel States. This oath re
quired the voter to swear “that he had never
been a member of any Stato Legislatnre, nor
held any Executive or Judicial office in any
State and afterwards engaged in rebellion or in
surrection against tho United States, or given
aid or comfort to thojenemies thereof; that ho
had never taken an oath as a member of the
Congress of tho United State, or ns nn officer
of the United States, or as n member of any
State Legislatnre, or as an Execulice or Judi
cial officer of any Stato to snpport tho Constitu
tion of tho United States, and afterwards en
gaged in insurrection and rebellion against tho
United States or given aid or comfort to ihe
enemies thereof."
The second supplemental act, passed 19th
July, 18G7, puts a legislative coostruction upon
the above oath. It enacts that the true intent
and meaning of the oath prescribed in said sup
plemental act is (among other things) “that no
person who has been a member of the Legislatnre
of any State,or who has held any Executive or J n-
dicial office in any State, whether he has taken
an oath to support tho Constitution, of tho
United States or not, and whether ho was hold
ing such office at f he commencement of tho re
bellion or heldit before, and who was afterwards
engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the
United States, or given aid or comfort to tho
enemies thereof is entitled to be registered or
to vote; and the words Executive or Judicial
office in any State in said oath mentioned, shall
be construed to include all civil offices created
by law for the administration of any general
law of a State, or for the administration of jus
tice.”
Tho act to promote the reconstruction of tho
Statp of Georgia, passed the 22d of December,
1809, requires that each Senator or Representa
tive, before taking his seat, shall, in addition
to tbe oarth or oaths required by the Constitu
tion of Georgia, take an oath that he has been
relieved from disability by act of Congress, or
an oath that he has never held the office or ex
ercised the duties of a Senator or Representa
tive in Congress, nor been a member of the
Legislature of any Stato of tho United States,
nor held any civil office, created by law for the
administration of any general law of tho State,
or for tho administration of justice in any State,
or under the laws of tbe United States; nor held
any office in tho military or naval service of the
United States, and thereafter engaged in
insurrection or rebellion against the United
States, or gave aid or comfort to its en
emies, or rendered, except in consequence of
direct physical force, any snpport or aid to any
insurrection or rebellion against tho United
States; nor held any office under, or given any
support to any government of any kind, organ
ized or acting in hostility to tho United States,
or levying war against the United States."
These are the different Constitutional and
statutory provisions on this subject, which it is
necessary to construe together to arrive at a
just conclusion as to the true scope and meaning
of the oath prescribed for the members of the
Legislature by the late act of Congress.
I apprehend that comment is unnecessary to
convince any lawyer or intelligent person that
the terms Executive and Judicial officers, men
tioned in the 3d section of the Gth article of the
Constitution of the United States, as originally
ratified ; and the same terms in the Fourteenth
Amendment of sAid Constitntion, and in the
act of 2d March, 18G7, were intended by the
law-givers to refer to, and to embrace the same
class of officials, and none others.
But it had been found in practice by tbe per
sons appointed to register voters in the differ
ent States, under the two last mentioned acts,
that persons who had held Executive and Judi
cial offices, before the secession of their respec
tive States, claimed that they had nover taken
an oath to support the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, as required by the 3d section of the
Gth Article: and upon search no snch oath could
be fond. To meet these cases, Congress declared,
in the act of 19th July, 1867, that such person
should be ineligible “whether he has tateii an
oath to support the Constitution of the United
States or not.” In many cases the oath may
have been and lost, and as it was the duty
of each Executive and Judioial officer to-tuke
it, before entering upon the discharge of his
official functions, Congress intended to say that
such presumptionthonid be conclusive. Inotti
er words, if he held the office when it was lis'
duty to take the oath, he should be ineligible,
whether he took it or not. Butitconld not have
been the infection of Congress to go further
than the original Constitution and the Four
teenth Amendment went, nnd prescribe new
disabilities by rendering a class of officials 'in
eligible 'who were not Executive or Judicial.
Congress proceeded to define the terms Execu
tive or Judieiil officesp not to create, new disa
bilities by declaring a class of officers not Ex
ecutive or Judicial, to bo disqualified. The
language used by the actof Congress is: “And
the words Executive or Judicial in any State,
in said oath mentioned, shall be construed to
include all civil offices created by law for tho
administration of any general law of a State,
or for the administration of justice. ■!■■■
And I may here remark that the act of 22d
December, 1SG9, uses the very same language
in tho oath prescribed for members of tho Leg
islature. The case seems, then, to turn in a
great measure, upon the true meaning of the
word administer or administration. . Every
person who held any executive or judicial of
fice before the war, in which he administered
any general law of the State, or in which ho ad
ministered justice, is ineligible, whether he
took an oath to snpport the Constitution or not,
and such persons cannot safely take tbe oatli
prescribed for a Senator or Representative if
he afterwards engaged in rebellion against tbe
government of the United States.. _
What is meant by the administration of a
general law of Stato, or the administration of
jnoticA?
To ascertain the true meaning of the word, it
is best to appeal to lexicographers of acknowl
edged authority. Webster, in’bis unabridged
dictionary, which is, I believe, acknowledged in
this country to be a work of the highest au
thority, defines administer as follows: “To
act cs minister or chief agent in managing pub
lic affairs, under laws or a constitution of gov
ernment, as a King, President, or other su
preme officer. It is used also of absolute Mon-
nrchs, who rule not in subordination, but is
more strictly applicable to limited Monarchies,
and other snpreme executive officers, and to
Governors, Viceroys, Judges and the like, who
are under the authority of laws. A King or a
President administers the government or laws
when he executes them or carries them into
effect. A judge administers the laws when he
applies them to particular cases or persons. In
short, to administer is to direct tho execution or
application of laws. 2. To dispense, as to ad
minister justice or the sacrament. 3. To af
ford, to give,or furnish, as to administer relief,”
etc.
The samo authority defines tho word execute.
to mean (among other things) to carry into
complete effect, to complete, to finish—we exe
cute a work undertaken, that is, we pursue it to
the end. To cany into effect the law, or the
the judgment, or sentence on a person, etc. .
It seems very clear, from this authority, th#t
tho officer who executes a law, is one who car
ries the law into complete effect, not ono whose
duties and authority are interlocutory, or stop
short of completion. As, for instance, on offi
cer having authority to issue a warrant, or an
attachment, bat no authority to hear the case,
or make any decision in it, render any judment
upon it, would not he an executive officer, be
cause his authority stops short of tbe exeontion
of what he has commenced. Nor would such an
officer be a judicial officer, because he has no
authority to give judgment or decide upon any
matter in dispute. The very mention of a ju
dicial officer at onco conveys to tho mind the
idea that he has authority to adjudicate causes,
or render judgments of some sort, or in some
class of cases. While tho mind arrives with
equal facility at tho conclusion that no person
is an exeentive officer who does not have power
to execute somo law; that is, not simply to do
certain ministerial acts, bnt to carry law into
complete effect. And in this caso it 'must be a
general law of the State as distinguished from
a local law, confined to a particular county, city,
or district.
I conclude, then, that no officer is included iu
the disqualification who did not have authority
to administer a general law of the State by ap
plying it to particular cases or persons, or who
did not have authority to administer justice, as
by frying causes between man and man, and
rendering judgment in some way binding on
persons or property, or who did' not have au
thority to execute somo general law of the Stato
by carrying it into complete effect. Construing
the Constitutional provisions and the acts of
CongTeGs together, I see no other rational con
clusion ns to their true intent and meaning.
The Fourteenth Amendment intends to dis
qualify only such persons as were, in the gen
eral acceptation of the term, Executive Legisla
tive or Judicial officers of a State, or officers of
tbq United States, such as were contemplated
by the framers of the original Constitution,
when they directed that they should take an
oath to support the Constitution of the United
States. If iny time would permit, which it will
not, I should have to extend this opinion to
too great a length, were I to undertake to apply
these rules to all the different officers mentioned
in the published opinion of the Attorney Gen
eral, to which you specially invite my attention
and ask my opinion as to its correctness. Suf
fice it to suy, that in my judgment, his opinion
embraces certain classes of officers who by no
just or known rnlo of construction, are or can
be included iu the disqualification intended by
Congress.
Taka tho case of the State Librarian as it existed
irior to the war. No oath of any kind was required,
le simply took care of the Library, and did such
services connected with it as are usually performed.
What general law of the Stato did he execute or
carry into complete effect? What general law did
ho administer or apply to particular cases or. par
ticular persons ? What justice did he administer
between man and man ? What causes did he hear
and determine, or What judgments did ho have au
thority to render ? To state the case is to argue it
Ho, in no just sense, administered any general law
of the btate, nor did he administer justice.
The same is true of a Road Commissioner. Ho is
J ouriii
IVIessexi^er.
-...z.
laws. If road commie-loners aro ineligible, why aro DO'lESTICS.
net alt thesoT ' ' ' _ ' '■ r Macon Shirtino
Ji the bt*«e IabrauSm is disqualified, wuyxs not Domestics—8-4 per yard .....12>$
tbe Gappy a of the State Housu Guards? He has no , SuiiiTl no—7 -8 per yard 133-7 14
military conjmi-.ion, and is paid a salary from the 31 . .IX V. ilvaiK-L.'x'-i'EV!.V'.IB
treaamy. And if lie is, why is not‘’Uncle Den,” Drilling—Heavy Brown per vard 18
the good old African Bervant, eo well known to the Heavy Georgia Stripes.*, ft-.’i.... .18
people of Georgia, who for so many years, nnder t Osnabcbqs No. 1,8 oz 22
different administrations, built SreB and swept, and : No. 2 7 oz .19
keptin order the offices of the State House, for ■ Richmond. ”!.[T.-"19
which he was annually compensated from the : ' amikdgBvitltr Wn/.y..* —*jB
, 4 » T • . 3,' , .1 Flint River. No. 1 23
»ith all due deference, I must say that the poei- j
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tion insisted tipon for Hie exclusion of tho class of
officers mentioned above is simply absurd.
While I admit there may bo somo difficulty in
drawing tbe lino with perfect accuracy between offi
cers, or persons acting under tho laws of the State,
who are, and-those who are not embraced in the
disqualification, probably the nearest approach to a
general rnle would be to say that- the public civil
officers of tboState. commi^eioned bythe Governor,
who accepted their commissions and qualified prior
to tho passage of the Ordinance of secession, who
wero by law required to take an oath to snpport the
Constitution. of the United States, are to be con
sidered officers for the administration of the gener
al laws of the State, or for the administration of
justice, and are disqualified. •*
The act of 18tli December, 181G, required all
officers, civil and military, to take an oath to sup
port the Constitution of’the United States and of
this State. But- the act proceeds to show what is
meant by the officers to which it applied, when it
adds, *‘apd the form of said oath so to be taken and
subscribed, shall be forwarded with the dedimux to
qualify the said officer, or be taken and subscribed
at the time of receiving said commission.”
The class of officers who wero to take tho oath,
then, appears to be such only as received commis
sions. Such as it was usual to send out a dedimti3
from the Executive office to qualify. This is no
doubt the broadest sense in which the framers of
th.. Constitution intended to use the terms Execu
tive and Judicial officers.
I apprehend the Congress of the United States
would dismiss an application for removal of disa
bilities mado by a Notary Public, a Stato Librarian
appointed under the law as it stood m Georgia prior
to the war, a Road Commissioner, a Road Overseer,
an Executor, Administrator, Grand Juror, and tho
like, with tho prompt reply, “You aro under no dis
ability, and need no relief." ' ' r. • '.
• In conclusion, I need only remark that I sco no
legal reason why a person who held the position of '
State Librarian, Notary Public, Road Commissioner,
officer of the militia, or officer of a municipal cor
poration, if in the lattor cases they had no general
civil jurisdiction, to administer a general law of the
State, or to administer justice, may not safely take
tho oath prescribed by the late act of Congress for
members of the Legislature of this State.
I am, gentlemen, very respectfnlly,
Joseph E. Brown.
To Messrs. J. E. Bryant, Dunlap. Scott, and
others
V»*A1 -JAKKfcT?* r> it
Domestic !Harkei>
J25&.
Flour dull and declining.
HNAtfCUL AMD 00MMEBG1AU
simply appointed with others to see that tho roads,
bridges, and causeways, aro kept in order in a dis
trict of a few miles in extent; and while he may im
pose a fine upon a defaulter for refuting to work
the road, he has no general jurisdiction as aq officer
who administers any general law of the State in anji
legal sense of tho term. He was required to taka
no oath to support the Constitution of tho United
States, or any othor Constitution.
A Notary Public, prior to the war, fell in tho samo
class. By tho act of 1816, tlio appointments of You*
due Masters, Notaries Public, and Lumber Meas-u-
rere, was vested in the Commissioners of incorpo
rated towns, or the persons in said towns in whom
tho incorporate powers wero vested. No Commis
sions were directed to be issued, and no oath to bo
administered to them, bythe act to snpport the
Constitution of the United States.
At a late period the appointment of Notaries Pub
lic was vested i:i tho Inferior Courts of tho respec
tive counties, which was the case till tho date of se
cession. Tfcoy wero mere local commercial agents.
A few years before tho Stato seceded, they wore au
thorized to issue attachments and administer oaths,
but they had no Judicial powers; no right to hear or
determine any question^or to administer justice be
tween man and man.
As to militia officers tliero can be no pretext that
they are disqualified unless they had civil duties in
connection with their offices as BUch; which author
ized them to administer jnstico. or to administer
some general law of the State. Such was not the
law of Georgia. It is equally clear that municipal
officers of cities, towns or villages, aro not disquali
fied, unless they had some general jurisdiction in
addition to their municipal functions.
I am aware it is contended that every law connec
ted with tho Government of tho Stato is in some
senso public. And the Attorney General has arrived
at the conclusion that the State Librarian, Notaries
Public and Road Commissioners were all public offi
cers, because they each discharged some sort of offi
cial duty nnder tho laws of the State. So they did,
and so did many other classes of personsnot men
tioned by him.
If a Road Commissioner is & civil officer adminis
tering a general law of the State, why is not a Road
Overseer a civil officer? He warns the hands in
obedience to law, and takes control of them, and
works them under his direction; and reports them
to the Commissioners to be fined in case they are de
faulters. But like the Commissioner he takes no
oath to rapport the Constitntion and executes no
general law, as a public officer.
As tbe law stood before tho war, inspectors of
beef and pork, inspectors of flour, inspectors of
lumber, pilots, commissioners of pilotage, tobacco
inspectors, jailors, estimators, etc., were ail officers
in the broadest sense of the term, acting under the
laws of the State. If Road Commissioners are dis
qualified, why are not all these in the same condi
tion?
All jurors act in an important official capacity un
der general lawB of the State. Why are they not
included in the disqualified class ? Again, a general
law of the State provides for the administration of
the estates of all deceased persons by executors or
administrators. Why are they not also included ?
All marriages are celebrated under a general law of
the State. Then why not include each minister of
the gospel who solemnizes a marriage under this
general law, and makes his official return of the fact
to the Ordinary? The principal keeper, and other
officers of the Penitentiary, act- nnder a general law
of the State. So does the Superintendent and other
officers of the Lunatic Asylum, and the officers of
the Academy for the Blind, and of the Asylum for
the Deaf and Dumb. AU persons appointed to ap
praise an estate, and all commissioners to assign
dower to the widows of the State, act under general
Weekly Heview of the Market.
OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER,)
January 19—Evening, 1670. )
Cotton.—Receipts to-day 12G bales; sales 399;
shipped 411.
Receipts for the week ending this evening, tho
above i-a-huled. 1626 bides; Bales 2063; ship
ments 2117—showing a decrease in receipts for
the last week from thoso of tho week bofore.of 13G
bales; increase of sales 23 baleB.
Tho market has been steady and firm all the week,
and tho demand has, generally, greatly exceeded tho
supply—holders manifesting a stubborn indisposi
tion to enter the market. Sinco our last weekly re
port, prices have advanced }£ cent, and tho bulk of
sales for the week has been made at 23 cents for
middling, tbe market closing firm this evening with
a good demand at those figures. Offering stock still
very light. !
MACON’ COTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on hand Sept. 1,1869—bales,. 173
Received to-day. .-. ’.. 126
Received previously ...63,980—64,106
61,285
Shipped to-day 411
Shipped previously 46.15G-46,167
Stock on hand this evening. 17,718
FREIGHT ON COTTON FROM MACON.
Freight, all rail to Savannah S0.E0 U100 lbs
Freight, sail Savannah to Boston... .%c t* lb
Freight, sail Savannah to Liverpool.9-16d, and Id U
lb by steam.
Freight, through by rail and steam to
New York S1.S5 V100 lbs
Freight, through by rail andsteam to
Philadelphia 1.85 U100 lbs
Freight, through by rail and steam to
Baltimore .'. 1.35 t* 100 lbs
Freight, through by rail and steam to
Boston, via New York 1.70 U100 lbs
Freight tariff from Macon to Brunswick the samo
as from Macon to Savannah.
Financial.—The money market was rather easier
during the week under review than for some time
past, and good paper has now little or nh difficulty
in getting accommodation at the usual rates of dis
count.
The stock and bond market continues very dull
and lifeless, and operations in this class of securi
ties aro extremely limited.
Exchange on New York, as will be seen below, is
now buying at par and selling at bi premium. With
this slight change in fin&ncialquotations, we append
last week’s figures:
EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK.
Buying .’ 1 par.
Selling prem.
EXCHANGE ON SAVANNAH.
Buying % dia.
Selling par.
UNITED STATES OUREENOT—LOANS.
Permonth.. 1)*@2 per cent
GOLD AND 8ILYZB.
Buying rates for Gold . . .$1 18
Selling 1 24
Buying rates for Silver 1 14
Soiling... 1 20
RAILROAD STOCKS AND RONDS.
Central Bailro&d Stock 115
Central Railroad Bonds 98
Macon & Western Bailroad Stock. 125
Southwestern Bailroad Stock 93
Southwestern Bailroad Bonds 98
Macon & Brunswick Stock 85
Macon & Brunswick Railroad Endorsed Bonds... 87
Georgia Railroad Stock 102
Georgia Railroad Bonds 98
Mnscogeo Railroad Bonds 95
Atlantic* Gulf Railroad Stock.. 40
Augusta & Waynesboro Railroad Stock 87
South Carolina Railroad Stock.. 3 40@45
Cotton States Life Insurance Stock .100
Groceries and Provisions.—Trade in this lino
haa been moderately good during the greater part
of tho week closing this evening; but for tho laBt
day or two it has been greatly restricted on account
of the exceedingly wet and inclement weather.—
Sinco our last report bacon and bulk meats have de
clined about j* cent per pound, hog round, owing to
the steady decline reported in tho Western markets.
In other articles this market baa been steady and
quiet at quoted rates and wo have no.change in
quotatione, and submit them as follow* after care
ful revision:
BACON—Clear Sides (smoked). ...9 19;'©
Clear Rib Sides (smoked)... 19 ‘©‘
Shoulders 37 -<t •
Hams (country) !• -,«
Hams (sugar-cured! ... v ■ <•*
BULK MEATS—Clear Sides....
Clear Rib Sides
Shoulders
19J(
U'.'-I
17)*
' -V i
Wheat dull and favors
buyers. Corn dull and heavy. Pork dull; mess 27 75
<£28 09. Lard dull at 16)7'©1C)*. Turpentine steady
at 44)*. Rosin quiet at 2 05<a 2 10 strained.
Freights firm.
Stocks unsettled; off from vesterdav’s prices.
Money easy at 6SS7. Exchange, long 8)*;’short 9)*.
Gold 21}*. 1862s. coupons 15J*. Tennessees, ex-
conponso??*; now 45)g. Virginias, ex-coupons 53;
new 61. Louisiana 6s. old 69)*. new 66; levee 6s
65!*; 83 78. Alabama 8s 94: 5s 63. Georgia 6s £0;
7a 90. North Carolina 7s, old 41)*: new 24!*. South
Caroliuas, old 82)*; new 75)*.
New York. January 19. evening.—Cotton heavy
and drooping.
Money 5'c6. Sterling firm and in improved de
mand at 8K- Gold steady. l£6’2s 15>*. Southerns
weaker in Tenr.essees and North Caroliuas; gener
ally firm on balance.
Bxlttmoeb, January 19.—Cotton quiet and steady
Flour firm but not- active: Howard street super'
fine 4 GO® 5 00. Wheat Bteady; primo to choice Ma-’
ryland 1 40(21 45; Pennsylvania 1 20®1 23. Com
active: white l C0’21' 01; yellow 90(291. Mess Pork
strong at 29 50(c30 50. Bacon, shonlders 13)*(t?14.
Whisky Bcarco at 99-21 On.
Virginias, old 49)*; 18C6s 57. North Carolinas,
new, 24 bid.
Savannah, January 19—Cotton receipts 2778 bales;
eales600; exports 8311; middlings 24)*; market firm.
Augusta, January 19.—Cotton market quiet but
unchanged; sales 538: receipts 396; middlings 23)*.
Cincinnati, January 18.—Com dull at 75Q76. Pro
visions unchanged. Pork 27 50; 27 00 offered. Ba
con in jobbing demand; shoulders 13; clear sides 16.
Lard, kettle 1G?*©17. Whisky dull at 93.
Mobile, January 19.—Cotton sales 3250 bales; re
ceipts 3135: exports 1603; demand good: middlings
24; market dosed quiet but firm.
New Orleans. January 19.—Cotton sales 10,200
bales; receipts 7734; exports 6775: market more act*
, ive and prices advanced )*; middlings 24)*©24i*.
i Flour, f-nperfine 6 25; double extra 5 75; treble
extra 6 25. Com active at 1 00. Oats 70. Hay,
| prime 34 00. . Pork 29 50. Bacon scarce and firmer;
i shoulders l-lj*(214)n: clear rib sides 17; no clear in
market. Lard,' tierce 16)*: keg 18. Others un-
changed. ’ ? '
Gold 215*. Sterling 31)*. New York Sight % dis-
j count. _
wnreljpi Markets.
London, January 19, noon.—Consols 92)*. Bonds
84**.
Liverpool. January 19, noon.—Cotton market
steady; uplands 11)*; Orleans 11)*; sales 12,000
bales.
Later.—Cotton firm; sales 15,000 bales; actual
sales yesterday exceed published estimate by 5000.
Pork dull. Bacon 57t6d.
Liverpool, January 10. evening.—Cotton market
steady; uplands 11%; Orleans 11**; sales 15,000
bales; for export and speculation 4000.
Havue, January 19 —Cotton opens quiet on spot
and afloat.
Paris. January 19, noon.—Bourse opened quiet
Rentes
Slow Henry day and J. Q. Aditms
Played “AU Fours.”
From the Charleston Courier. \
In the summer of 1838 one of onr editors was
an attache of the South Carolina Bailroad dele
gation to Lexington, Ky., to attend a barbecue
given by the citizens of that place to Hon.
Robert Y. Hayne, President of the Louisville,
Cincinnati and Charleston Bailroad.
After the barbecue Mr. Clay invited the party
to dine with him at Ashland, his keantifnl coun
ty residendee and rich cattle farm.
At tha table one of the guests called attention
to two beautiful paintings on the mantelpiece;
whereupon, Mr. Clay, pointing to one of the
paintings, said archly and smiling, “I will tell
you how I came by that painting, provided
(bowing to one of his guests) it does not go into
the newspapers, as it involves an anecdote.
He then proceeded thus: “Mr. Adams, Mr.
Gallatin and myself, three of the commis
sion for negotiating a treaty of peace with Great
Britain, in 1814, were at Ghent, boarding at the
same hotel. One morning we went to a great
exhibition (or sale) of paintings, and each
of us purchased one. On returning to our
quarters our paintings were sent to ns. Admir
ing Mr. Adams purchase very much, I said
to him, “I wonld like to win your painting from
you; I will stake mine against yours at a game
of cards.” “Agreed,” said Mr. Adams. “What
game will you play?” said I. “All Fours,” said
Mr. Adams. We cut for the deal; I won it;
dealt, turned np jack, and scored “high, low,
jack and the game,” and the next hand counted
out and won the stake. I then turned to Mr.
Gallatin (who had purchased a picture of Virgin
Mary), and said, “Mr. Gallatin, I would like to
win your painting from you in the same manner
as I have wonthatof Mr. Adams.” “No, sair,”
said Mr. Gallatin, in his broken English, “I did
not win the Yeergin so, and I shall not lose heer
so.” The company were all highly amused at
tbe anecdote, and at the manner in which Mr.
Clay narrated it, fully coming up to his reputa
tion as a raconteur. The cream of the anec
dote was that Mr. Adams, a staid and demure
gentleman, should not only aRsent to play cards
with Mr. Clay, bnt should have proposed a game
of “All Fours,” at which Mr. Clay was a perfect
adept. The anecdote, in duo respect to Mr.
Clay’s admonitory proviso, has never been in
print; but now that the illustrious parties con
cerned have* gone to honored graves, we feel at
liberty to give it a place in onr columns. ' ^ j
■ - j v - i-.t...,
*as oo m £ w alazs.
STOLEN,
tb* 8ub$f*ribcT\ on thf n^bioftfeo lOtfeior
i? atrnt. » medium siscd mjHKISL* HOR E: fiv«
years old ; with a whitein bi« face; cue kifkl
f'uit white up.to the : mane long, fore aft ttf-
tending down t*‘ trie-eye*; hi* never iuoeti altered in
conaeqaeoee04 hi* aeed n«*t oou.iutf down; tear on
withers on the loft fide caused by a fistula. The
above reward will be‘l» ii \ tomryone giving me in
formation po that I can get him.
. , A- B. HARRISON,
J3ni8-d-t£w2t. At featonfan, Ga.
AC WORTH, GA.
ft SPRING TERM of this School opens on the
* *wofcdajr m January, 3S7f* t under *p expe
rience d and successful Board ot Instructors It is be
lieved that this-is tho chfapkst School in Georgia, as
wen as rne of the most thor ugh and mo*t practical
Tuition tr»*m SIS 00 to$*7i f>0 per year; Board $12 00 to
$15 00 permonth. Two Hundred Dollars will cover
all the neceflfan expenses of a stud?Dt for the schol-
> ear^ Student prepared for any class in college,
or for business. The place is easy of access and net to
be surpassed for health. . - -
For further information or for circular*, address
J. A. CARSWELL,
jan4-d«fcw3t* ' Principal.
Botudon, Carroll County, G-a.
TW® SPRING TER-Vr will open Thursday, 30th of
Jt Janutry, 187'Vaud cobtinue six ironihu.
ruirion i:i.d inciuent .1 fee. in unut. S-.2 CO.
. Board, including luei, uuhii.ir and fish's, can bti
had at S12 to $!o per month, psyahlo monthly in ad-,
var.ee. Students who "fiiets”I'lini that their expenses
<!•* not exceed $6 per month.
Bowden is famous for its goo i health, pure atmos
phere, excellent «atcr, and troejom from indace-
ments Co extravasaneo and dbiiparion.
The course of instruction in Langu«?e%. Mathe
matics.- Book-kcepioff, Enginecritg, otc., is thorough
and practical.
Boivdon is earily reached by stace from Nexnan,
Ga.. on Monday, Wednesday Md Friday-of each
week. •■t'-ecf ■» r
’For any other information, nr for cat»locues, ad
dress MAJ. JNO. R. itiCHARD.-ON,
' REV. F. II M. RBNDERSON^h-
dee’29 w4t i - • Secretary Board Trustees.
WANTED \ A FARM!
I N; ahealthr locality, t- Rent for the ensuing year.l
Any ono desirous of running a Farm on shares
this year, will do well to apply to r
. WILTON,
janll-deod3ttw3t* Macon. Ga.
NO SXOUSE FOR IDLENESS!
$100 TO $300 310AT&1
M ADE by Minbfen*. Teachers, intelligent voting
meii, liwlies, farmer*’ s.>ns, etc., Felling our
XEW IMPROVED COMMON SENSE
FAMILY SEWING MACHINE.
It m a.kcs tho cl»sti Irck-stich. and will hem. fel
tuck, a t.itcb. bind, braid,nnd embroider in a most su
perior‘manner. Price only 8.0. KulW warranted io
ihreo years. For simi licity amt durability, it has no
Kxpori'nccd A cents croat !y desired. TRAV-
Et.ING and t OCAL'AGEN’lS wanted everywhere.
For circulars and terms to agents, address
ShCOMB i CO„
doti6 w.lm * Box DC West Point. Ga.
GEO/ KIMBROUGH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Woottec, lee County, Ga.,
W ILL attend to all business intrusted to his care.
Will also act as GENERAL LAND AGENT in
Southwestern Georgia. My Land Partner, Dr. H. B.
L1PSEY. who is well posted with tho Lands in this
settion. will give his special attention to the business.
Persons wishing to sell, cm forward full description,
numbers, price, etc. V\ e will furnish information
connected with the business free of charge,
decll-wtf ...
BURKE, GUILFORD & CO.,
DRALKKB IN
PI ANOS, ORGANS,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
STRINGS, SHEET-MUSIC,
MUSIC-BOOKS and
MUSICAL MERCHANDIZE,
84 MULBERRY STREET, MACON, GA.,
NNOXJNCE that for the next
T33CIHTT TJA-YTS
Bargains may be had for CASH in exchange for
PIANOS, ORGANS, etc., etc. Now is tho time to
get a first-class instrument at. a LOW FIGU RE.
Bon’t ho deceived by Northern advertisements of
cheap pianos, but buy of a regular bouse at home,
which guarantees every instrument sold.
jsnl.VitAwlw
TRUSTEE’S SALE.
Valuable Jones County Land.
T)Y ORDER of a committee, representing the mi-
X) jority <b> th in number and iu interest) of the
creditors of Woolfolh, Walker A Co., (in bankruptcy)
I will sell, within the lesal hours ot sale, before the
Court-house do-ir, in the town of Clinton. Jnne3
countv, ON '1U1-.SDAY. THE 8th DAY OF FEB
RUARY, 1870, to tho highest biddor, for cash, the
following property, via:
A splendid plantation in said county of Jones, ly
ing immcdiatelv on the M. A A. R R., and generally
known as tho “Pitts p’aee,'’ containing b97 acres of
land, more or less; the same being lot- N. s 182 and
183, snd two other lute, the numbers of which are not
known; all in the district of said Jones county,
Ga. Said laud sold as ihe property of James H.
Woolfolk, bankrupt, for tbe benefit of his creditors.
JOSEPH E. MURRAY.
jon20 dlaw2t.twlt Trustee.
BAGGING—Borneo, 2)£ lbs. per vard..
Kentucky Roll, 1% “ ** ”
26
33
45
12)*
9J*@ 12)*
1 50 @ 2 00
2 00 @ 2 50
50 @ 60
40 @ 50
(-3 40
© 25
@ 50
© .25
© 20
SO
22
45
22
16
65
i i:*<s
14j*@
31
_ . „ 38)*
BALING TWINE, per pound 25
IRON TIES—Arrow, per pound 8
COFFEE—Rio 22 @
Laguayra SO @
Java 43 @
DRIED FRUIT, per pound 10 ©
RICE per pound
TEA—Black
Green...
BUTTER—Goshen
Tennessee Yellow
Country
CHEESE—Accordingto quality...
EGGS
LARD—
SUGAR—According to grade
MOLASSES—According to grade..
FISH—Mackerel, bhls, No. 1,2,3. 15 00 @24 00
Kite .'. - 2 75 @5 00
Codfish per pound 10 @ 12)*
SALT—Liverpool per sack @ 2 50
Virginia 2 50
WHISKY—Common Rye 115
Fine : 2 50
Com..... 125
Bourbon 3 50
ALE—Per dozen 3 00
TOBACCO—Low grades per pound 50
Medium...., 60
Good 75
Bright Virginia. 86
. Fancy ■ 1 25
FLOUR—Superfine per bbl 7 00 @7 50
Extra i 8 00 @ 8 50
Family 9 50 @10 00
Fancy Family Brands 11 00 @12 00
GRAIN AND HAT.
CORN—Yellow, Mixed and White. 1 35 @ 1 40
MEAL 140 @
GBITS @ 1 60
OATS / . 90
WHEAT—Per buihti'.i'.r.150
FIELD PEAS..
HAY—Northern 1 90
Term ease Timothy.....
Herds Grass 2 00
Tenneeaeo.....!.... .1 2 00
9 1 40
©5 00
©
@ 8 00
@ 4 00
@ 55
© 70
@ 80
@ 1 00
@ 1 60
© 1 00
@ 2 00
2 00
@ 2 00
2 00
ALLEN’S JLUNG BALSAM.
THE REMEDY FOR CUMXQ-
Consumptinn, Coughs.
Bronchitis, Asthma
And Croup,
AS AH EXTECTOEAXT
IT HAS NO EQUAL.
It is composed of tho active principles of rootB
and plants, which aro chemically extracted, so as to
retain all their medicinal qualities.
Ministers and Public Speakers
Who aro so often afflicted with throat diseases, will
And a sure remedy in this Balsam. Lozenges and
wafers sometimes gives relief, but this Balsam,
taken a few times, will insure a permanent cure.
Will all those afllicted with Coughs or Consump
tion, give this Bolaam a fair trial, they will be
pleased with the result, and confess that the sure
remedy is found at last.
It Is Sold by all Druggists In Macon.
jan!2-lm
The most complete and elegant stock of Triple
Plated Silverware at reduced prices.
E. J. J OSKSTON.
Latest From the Ladies. —Smce the introduction
of Phalon’s Yitalia or Salvation for the Hair, ladies
who formerly used dyes are universally abandoning
them. They find tho new article so harmless, bo
clean and pure, so pleasant to the senses, and
with all so superior as a means of renowing the
original color that they absolutely shudder when
they think of tbe filthy stuff thoy once used.
janl6-eod&wlw.
A WAY WITH UNCOMFORTABLE TRUSSES—
.ejl comfort and core for the ruptured. Sent post
paid on receipt of 10 cents. . Adderes,
DR. E. B. FOOTE,
dec 15-eod3m. 120 Lexington Avo., N. Y.'
* -
A. made new easily, without doctor or medicines.
■ entpost-paid on receipt of 10 cents. Address,
DR- E. B. FOOTE,
dec 15-eod3m. 120 Lexington Ave., N. Y.
Charleston, November 8,1863.
To Dr. II'm. Jenson:
Drab Sib : We take this method of recommending
every mother to use your Southern Soothing Syrup
in the nursery, for, it is certainly one of the most
valuable medicines produced, and we do not hesi
tate to pronounce it far superior to the “Mrs. Win
slow” or any Northern production. The value of
the S. S. S. to children teething, claims this patron
age of all mothers, snd your liberality in keeping
down the price all you could during the trying hour
of our need snd scarcity, deserves the most general
and extended snpport of the Southern people.
Respectfnlly,
<w“*> £t?F.X£JP“'
'Wanted,
a DRAUGHTSMAN of skill, and some experience
O. in Architectural work.
Apply or address ID. B. WOODRUFF
janlMStwlt Architect, Macon, Ga;.
HAM’S
IMPROVED COTTON PLANTER,
Onaiio Distributer,
P ATENTED by J. G. HAM, and received theprt*
miumat tho Monteomery nnd Rome Fairs: is
now manufactured at the t»ait> Work-, and on exhi-
tn«0 ut -WRtGLEY & KNOTl’S STORK, A cents for
the city of Macon, its simplicity and perffet work-
ioi: induces every Planter to try it. It distributes
small or laritB quantities with perfect reaulsrity, and
needs no certificates To see it work convinces every
one of its usefu’r,css and labor-savins qualities.
bend iu your orders at once and get a e,o<l machine.
Manufacturer’s Prico, $12 each.
J. N. HUTCHINSON.
Manufacturing Agent, Macon, Ga.
janff) dswlm*
G EORGIA. QUITMAN COUNTY.-Brynnt King.
harimr op.iiied to be appointed Guardian of the
persons and property of Berry King and Henrietta
King, minors, under fourteen years of age, residents
of raid county, this is to cite all per osa concerned to
he and appear at the lourt of Ordinary, to be held at
roy office on tho first Monday in March next, sad
show Carso, tf any they can, why said Bryant King
,hou'.d cot bo appointed such Guardian.
W. P. JORDAN,
janfO-wSOd* Ordinary.
B. A. WISE & CO.,
Cherry Street, MACON, GA.
OFFER AT REDUCED PRICES,
300 COOKING STOVES,
IOO COAI, GRATES,
100 PARLOR and BOX STOVES.
Wishing to close out our entire stock of Cooking
Btoves, wo will offer them at great bargains.
Planters wishing to purchase can do so by
Warehouse acceptances without additional cost.
Every cook stove warranted or the money returned
O-ORDEBS SOLICITED.
B. A. WISE & CO.,
Cherry street, Macon, Ga.
nov26-tf
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