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THOMASTON, GEORGIA.
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■vFFICEn T,Iw MASTO3C GA.
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Hr v< |, <! ‘ “here l am prepared
H L “ . a '!°] asses of Dental Opera- Ts
iiovivl_ t 'f" rK m yßeference.
m, W otioe.
Mvin'V”; 1 !'*l, for several years past, I have
‘"’ huation to practice Medicine, or to
iap, v ? W ai 'd. if possible, cared less. But 1
bit'll i llll<inu ,n . v uid friends and patrons that
(i Ur f,, r ‘"' v ,n,u *b l>et ter. and if they desire to re-
I'aliir,, ( * UI r relatkms, that they can easily do so
nivy!'/ ! ' e “hen my services are needed. 1 will
lI to serve them to the best of mv skill and
B l Dtfice a;
H’, j • °ld stand, the Drug Store, now occupied
■r mar3 R. HARWELL.
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B Address,
1 A C. MOORE.
Gov. Brown’s Confidential Circular to
Hu* Hanks.
This extraordinary document, so much
written about in the papers for some weeks 1
past, will be found in our columns this I
morning. It is taken from the Atlanta
American, whose editor assures us it is
given verbatim from the original manu
script. Another document, purporting to
be the same, was issued contemporaneously
iti the Intelligencer, of the same city. We
have selected the American’s copy because
we desired to give the circular just as it
was written by Governor Brown. In no
event can it do him injustice ; while the
copy that was altered by others in the pro
cess ot publication is certainly not Gover
nor Brown’s production, but the work of
some other individual.
Strange as it may appear, the Morning
Ncics, of this city, actually arraigns the
editor of the American for publishing the
letter just as the Governor wrote it. It
takes the very extraordinary position that
the American should have corrected all
the Governor’s bad spelling, and punctua
ted the various sentences, made them sense,
before giving the article to the public ; and
it charges the American editor with petty
malice for his refusal to mutilate the re
cord ! This is anew rule, We apprehend,
set up for the government of the Press. —
We shall not respect it; to the contrary,
we think it due to the people to italicise
certain specimens of His Excellency’s or
thography, that they may see how really
great a man has been chosen to rule oyer
the Empire State of the South.
But to the material contents and ob
jects of the circular. We intend, in the
brief examination w r e shall give it, to deal
fairly and justly by Gov. Broivn. If we
know ourselves, we had rather see him
elected Governor of Georgia for twenty
terms than do him a yvrong. And let us
say, in the outset, that we have been as-”
tonished at the coolness with which the
Press of his party, so far as v T e have seen,
without noticing any specilic point it con
tains, or its relation to the charges alleged
against the Governor, havecontented them
selves with pronouncing it a triumphant
vindication of himself against what they
nit. j.lctirt <1 ter--fr-i-m tLc of Eia I
enemies.” If it be a vindication, why do
they not attempt to show it from the re
cord, We contend that it is Untie /to the
contrary, no setrsible, impartial man can
examine the circular without coming to the
conclusion that the charge alleged by tlie
Opposition Press generally, has been most
triumphantly sustained. We intend to
show this to the satisfaction of every hon
est mart into whose hands this paner shall
fall.
We said that we should do Gov. Brov. tr
no injustice ; and in proof of our intention,
we here take occasion to say that the spec
ific and independent charge alleged by the
Rome Courier, to the effect that Gov.
Brown “had informed the Banks of the
State of a plan by which they could evade
the law, in making their returns- which
plan was “that the officers should make
out their returns one day, atrd then do no
banking business until the next day after
they had sworn to their statement”-is not
substantiated in the published letter. If
it be true —and w t c hope the editor has
been misinformed—lie will have to look
elsewhere for its proof. Thus much we feel
in duty bound to sav, and w r e say it cheer
fully.
But that is not the great point in issue,
and the charge upon which the Opposition
Press have arraigned the present Executive.
The alegation is, that while he was impos
ing himself, and his friends aiding in the
fraud, upon the honest voters of Georgia
as an enemy to the banks, and claiming
peculiar credit to himself or having heroi
cally placed the Banks under his feet and
compelled them to obey the laws of the
land, he was, at that very moment, engag
ed in a secret correspondence with the offi
cers of those institutions, anil suggesting
constructions of the law that removed all j
their objections, and made what wasinten- j
ded as a statutory restriction, perfectly ac- ;
ceptable to them. In other words, by his !
public boasts and demonstrations, he made |
the people believe that he was playing fury j
with the Banks, while, by his confidential I
circulars, he was making the Banks believe j
that they were not hurt after all, and that
this adverse legislation, for popular effect,
was a humbug and utterly harmless in its ,
operation.
Such is the charge, and it involves du- |
plioitv of the deepest dye. We shall pro- ,
eeed to prove it out ot Governor -Brown’s
own mouth, or at least from the testimony
of his pen,
In order to a full understanding of the j
matter, it is necessary that we should de
fine clearly the complaint of the Banks—
wherein they considered the law an injus
tice and a hardship, an obstacle in the way
of their compliance with the call ot the
j Governor. The sole objection was that the
1 law prohibited them from buying or selling
I exchange at a greater premium than seven
per calf. This'was the stumbling block,
and the only one. Removed, no word of
complaint would have been uttered by the
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES:-DISTINCT, LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA.”
THOMASTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 18-59.
Banks, and no disagreement could have oc
curred between them and the Executive ;
they would have been perfectly satislied
with the law.
Now, we contend that Gov. Brown, in
his construction of the law as contained in
this secret circular, did remove this objec
tion, and make the statute not only accep
table to the Banks, but an utter nullity,
so far as this feature —the only objectiona
ble one—was concerned. It will be recol
lected that the law said they should’ not
charge more than seven per cent. —what
does Gov. Brown say ? We quote from
the circular:
“In my opinion the object of the act of
1857 was to prevent the Banks from tak
ing usurius interest under the pretext of
buying and selling exchange and not to
cripple them in the transaction of ordinary
legitimate Banking business .”
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The object I presume was to permit the
Banks to buy or sell exchange in a legiti
mate course of business at sttch discount
and premium as the exchange is actually
worth, but not to allow them to speculate
in exchange at a greater discount or pre
mium than its true market value.”
The seventh section of the act of 1857
prohibits any Bank from sending any por
tion of its capital out of the &tate for the
purpose of buying notes of any kind. This
I do not suppose, was intended to prohib
it our Banks from buying Drafts on pro
duce in any other state at the usual rates
of the transaction if a legitimate one in a
fair course, of business and not intended as
a note shaving speculation much depends
in each case upon the good faith of the
transaction and the question is, was it a
fair business transaction or was it a usuri
ous Speculation.”
It is difficult to Say what particular idea
the Governor affixes in his own mind to
the term “speculation.” All financial op
erations are speculations, and the fact that
they occur “in the fair course of business,”
does not relieve them of that character. —
But this is immaterial. We submit to the
reader if we have not fully established our
point, viz, that Gov. lhowYi attempted to
sfeow to the buuks in this private corree
pofldence, wherein they could ‘•barge more
than seven per cent in the purchase and
sede of exchange. H says distinctly that
under the law the Banks are permitted “to
buy or sell exchange, in a legitimate course
of business, at such discount and premi
ums as the exchange is actually worth.” —
This is all the Banks desired, and the on
ly principle on which they have ever trans
acted their business. In proof of it not a
syllable of complaint has been heard from
a Bank officer or director in the State since
the date of this private and confidential
correspondence.
The law therefore, under Gov. Brown’s
construction, is an absolute nullity, and if
he be right the Legislature were guilty of
the verriest folly when they passed it. It
is very certain the people have been deceiv
ed by one or the other.
But why this desire of Gov. B. to keep
secret the correspondence ? Why should
he wish to conceal from the people, or even
from the scrutiny of the Bress, an honest,
straight-forward interpretation of a law
of the land ? Does the mart of honest in
tent seek the dark, either for his opinions
or acts P Let these questions be answered
to the Voters of Georgia. It appears tons
that no candid mind can resist the conviction
that, the whole affair was a scheme for ma
king peace with the Banks, and at the same
time concealing from the public eye the
mode in which it was done.— Savannah
Republican.
ApologLe.—A poor laborer in a certain
village died, after a long illness, and hav
ing escaped the turmoils of existence, pre
sented himself at the gates of Heaven,
where he found he had been preceded by a
rich man of the same locality who had just
died: and having previously knocked, had
been admitted by the Apostle Peter. The
laborer, who stood without, was enchant
ed by the ravishing sound of singing, re
joicing and sweet music which appeared to
hail the entrance of Dives, and having
knocked in his turn, was also admitted.—
But what was his astonishment at finding
silence where seraphic sounds had so late
ly been joyously uttered !
“How is this ?” he demanded of Peter,
“when the rich man entered I heard mu
sic and singing; is there, then, the same
distinction between rich and poor in heav
en as on earth ?”
“Not at all,” replied the Apostle, “hut
the poor come to Heaven every day, where
as it is scarcely once in a hundred tears
that a rich man gains admission.”
Of all the crimes t hat ever disgrac
ed society, that of swearing admits of the
least palliation. No possible benefit can
be derived from it ; and nothing but the
perverseness and depravity of human na
ture, would ever have suggested it ; yet
such is its prevalence, that by many it is
mistaken for a fashionable acquirement,
and considered by unreflecting persons, as
indicative of energy and-decision of ehar
-1 actor.
[From tile Atlanta American.] , ,
Gov* Brown's Secret Better to
the Banks.
Executive Department, \
Milledgeville, Dec. 24, 1859. j
Dear Sir ; On my return from a visit
to the office of the W & A Rail Road I find
your letter in which you ask my opinion on
two points growing out of the Bank Acts of
1857 and 1858. You state that you do
not desire it for publication but fur your
own satisfaction as a director of the Bank
of , with privHedge to show it to a few
friends. As n t ou are aware it is no part oi
my duty to construe the laws for the
Banks. It is only my duty to sec that
they are executed. It is not for me to say
what is a violation of the Acts of 1857-58,
for the passage of which I am not respon
sible. The statue has prescribed the oath
to be taken by Bank officers. It is my ditty
to examine the returns and see whether
the officers have taken the oath prescribed
by the statues. If they have not it is then
my duty to enforce the penalty prescribed
fur non compliance with the law. When
the oath is in proper form I have no father
concern with the matter. If any one al
ledges that the officers have not sworn truly,
then the courts are open for the determina
tion of that question. Should propet pro
ceedings he instituted itiider the 12th sec
tion of the Act of 1857 it would then be
come the duty of the court to construe the
statue and say whether the proof showed
it had been violated. Asa personal friend
however and not as a public officef, I will
give you my opinion on the two points
mentioned in your letter which is not de
signed for publication, hut which you are
at liberty to show to such friends as are in
terested provided you do it in such manner
that the opinion shall not become the sub
ject of news Paper comment. Your first
question is, can a Bank purchase exchange
on New York for instance at a greater rate
than seven per cent, as for example you say
a sight bill on New York is usually taken
at from a 1-4 to 3-8 off which is about
what it would cost to bring the aiqount of
the bill from New York to this place.
To this I reply that in my opinion the
object of the act 1857 was to prevent the
Banks from taking usurius interest under
the pretext of buying and selling exchange
and Trot to cripple them in the transaction
of ordinary legitimate Banking business.
It is said the form of a Bill of Exchange
and charge of premium &c was often re
sorted to in transactions intended as loans
to avoid under this pretext the penalties of
taking usuary and that they would not
discount good paper at seven per cent
while they could get more by resorting to
a pretended bill of Exchange. The statue
was doubtless intended to prohibit all this
kind of usurious speculations. In the case
you suppose the planter may hate due him
in New York for cotton SI,OOO he does
not wish to use it there but does wish to
use rt in Savannah it will cost him a 1 4
per cent to have his money brought from
New York to Savannah by Express. Your
Bank may wish to use funds in New York.
You therefore cash the PlanterVdraft dis
counting the sum which it would cost him
to get this money from New York. This
in my opinion is a legitimate transaction,
and is no violation of the Act of 1957 If
however the Bank discounts the drafts in
the case supposed at more than the usual
exchange between the two points, I think
it a violation of the statue, by examination j
it will be seen that the 10th section of the ;
Act of 1857 autherizes the sale of exchange i
by the Banks rit a premium which must
not exceed otie per cent, (except in case of
Foreign Exchange) upon the amount.
The object 1 presume was to permit the
Banks to buy or sell in a legiti
mate course of business at such discount
or premium as the’ exchange is actually
worth , but not to allow them to speculate
in exchange at a greater discount or pre
mium than its true market value. Nor to j
allow them to take u'suary on transactions
intended as a loan by the substitution of a
bill of exchange for a note, no matter
whether the hill he payable in or out of
Georgia. And in order to make it the
interest of the Bank to do a regular dis- j
counting buisness and in return for its ‘
chartered priv Hedges to accommodate the ;
citizens of Georgia with regular loans upon i
good paper at seven per cent. The seventh
section of the act of 1857 prohibits any j
Bank from sending any portion of its capi
tal out of the State for the purpose of buy
ing notes of any kind. This Pdo not sup-1
pose was intended so prohibit our Banks I
from buying drafts on produce in any other !
state at the usual rates if the transaction j
is a legitimate one in a fair course of
buisness and not intended as a note shav
ing speculation much depends in each case !
Upon the good faith of the tranraction and
the question is, was it a fair buisness
transaction or was it a usurious specula
tion. If the former I should think the
statute was not violated, If the latter it
was violated. ,
In reply to your second question I have .
to state that it is in my opinion the duty of
every Bank in Georgia to make its returns
as directed in the Act of 1857 by or be
fore the first dav of January 185 Sand in
Case of failure or refusal so to do the two
per ceht a month begins to run under the
act of 11 tli December 1858. It does not
matter whether my call bears date before
or since the passage of tlie Acts 11th De
cember 1858.
The Act of 1858 provides however that
no execution shdll i&*ue before Ist July
1859, and the Banks can prevent the exe
cution from issuing by making tlicit re
returns prior to Ist J lily 1859 relating back
to Ist January 1859, whether this ni cans that
they should swear that they have not vio
lated the act of 1857 since the Ist January
1859 or that they have not violated it at
all, and tliqt their returns, made after Ist
January 1859 shall show their condition
on the Ist day of January is not very clear.
If the statue is so construed to mean that
the Bank officers shall all swear in making
their returns after Ist January 1859 to
the condition of the Bonk on the Ist Janu
ary 1859, and shall further swear that they
have not violated the statues of 1857. (at
any time) It may not he possible for'some
of them ever to make their returns, as it is
quite probable some of them have already
violated the statue of 1857 my object is to
act on a reasonable construction of the
Act of 1858, and such construction as will
enable every Bank pfficer in Georgia vuho
is willing to obey the Acts'"bf 1857 rather
than pay the penalties of the acts of 1858
to make the return I presume it
was not the intention of the legislature to
require impossibilities under penalties. 1
suppose therefore it was the intention to
require of Bank officers who had violated
the act of 1837 to pay heaver penalties if
they again, violated it. 1 should therefore
act on the construction of the Statute
which will allow to every Hank an oppor
tunity in future to obey the law, and in
case of refusal to do so, I‘shall use all the*
power vested in me by the constitution and
laws of the state to enforce obediance. I
shall hold that a return made in the fol
lowing form is a compliance with the
Statute.
State oY* Georgia County
, Personally appeared before me A. B.
President and C. D. Cashier of the Bank
of who being duly sworp say, that the
Bank of which they are officers has not by
itself its officers or agents in any particu
lar violated the provisions of the Act pass
ed 22d December 1857, Entitled an Act
to provide against the forfeiture of’ the
several Bank charters in this state on ac
count of non specie payment for a given time
and for other purposes therein named since
the passage oi the Act, assented to 11th
December 1858, rffid that the above state
ment of the said Bank at the last weekly
meeting of the directors prior to the late
call of the Governor of this State is true
all which deponents, depose and swear to
he true to the best of their knowledge and
belief.
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this day of 185
J. P.
Probably I have gone more into detail
than you ..desired me to do. a disposition
to gratify a friend is my appology if any
be necessary.
I am respectfully your ob’t servent.
(Signed) J oseph E. Brown.
Frightening the Girls. —Away up in
the northern part of Vermont, says the
Knickerbocker, is a primitive sort of little
village, called “The Centre.” Here,- not
long since, the rustic youth of the vicinity
congregated for a “dance,” “and dance they
did,” said our informant, “with an unction
unknown to our city belles and beaux.”
Gne interesting young man having “im
bibed” rather too freely became “fatigued”
in the course of the .evening, and wisely
concluded to “retire” for a short rest.
A door ajar near the dance hall revealed,
invitingly a glimpse of a comfortable bed,
of which he tQok possession with a pros
pect of an undisturbed “snooze.”
It so happened, howbeit, that this was
the laities withdrawing foom, and nbsoon
er had he closed his eyes than a pair of
blooming damsels came in from the ball,
and began adjusting their disordered ring
lets, the ditn tight of the tallow candle not
disclosing the tenant of the bed. The girls
had tongues, like most of their sexj which
ran on this wise: -
“What a nice dance we’re having t Hare
you heard anybody sav anything about me,
Jane ?”
“La, yes, Bally ! Jim- Bro\fn pats he
never see you look so handsome as you do j
to-night. Have you heard anybody say
anything about me ?”
“About you ? why, sartin ; I heard Joe :
Flint tell H-a.m Jones that you was the pret- (
tiest dressed girl in the room.”
Whereupon the dear things chuckled,
“fixed Up” little more, and made off to- !
wards the ball-room. They had hrfrdlv
reached the door when our half-conscious
friend raised himself upon his elbow, and
quite intelligibly, though slowiy inquired :
“Ha’ you heard anybody say anything ,
about me, girls ?”
“Phansy their pheelinks,” at that junc
ture ! They tied with an explosive scream. l
11 ifaint ill.
Perhaps the* following may not amaua
either yourselves or yum* readers, blit It
did me. In oitf drug store I have nfel
lowclcrk, somewhat celebrated aiming his 1
acquaintances as a cMuluctot of. puns and ‘
the utterer of dry jokes. Ho i< a boyish
looking youth, and officiates—wlioh his
services nfeAequikkl, Tnffiiiul the soda foun
tain. A few mornings since, a fashion'll
bly-dressed, poetical-looking young gen
tleman entered, and seating himself on a
stool in front ot the counter, in, a choice
selection of terms requested the clerk to
prepare him a seidlitz powder. The tbi-*
lowing conversation, ridiculous in its ear
nestness, resulted :
Clerk —With Syrup?
Customer—(slowly and m ethodically)—
I require it not as a ‘ refreshment. It the
I syrup vitiate not the effect of the cSm
pounds, you mly mingle with it such an
amount of the substance as will render the
potation palut tide. Or, to be better un
derstood—
t’lerk—(lnterrupting)——T c6hlprebend
you ]ierfectlv. Permit me to assure \ou
that the tendency of the syrup will ho ra
ther to enhajfde than diminish the purga
tive virtues of the drug.
Customer —(Indignant at observing flint
his stykj is affected by the other) —Then’
jiroceed, miracle of medical literature and
wisdom !
Clerk —With dispatch? ccyfounder of*
, fools.
Customer —Then, if not struck motion-’
less, use haste. .
All this was so quietly, so politely said,
that, although amused beyond expression
at the conversation, we started in wonder
at the parties? The clerk evidently felt
cut at the last remark of the other, hut
mixed the powder, which the stronger tri
umphantly’ swallowed, paid for, and start
ed to leave the store, when-
Cleifc=—Should you feel any unoasinW
in the region of the stomach within the
period of fifteen minutes,’ illustrious pa
tron, attribute the cause to the accidental
introduction into the draught you h&VU
just taken of some drug of vigorous effect
and parnfu l consequence.
Customer —(a trifle frightiWdV- If I do, *
d—n you, I’ll punch your head !
Clerk —I thought I’d bring you down to
plain English ; but I guess you’ll find the
powder all light. [Exit‘ with
coattail standing strut girt out. I*
A True Manhooil*
A true manhood is self-su’Staiuifrg and
self-sustained. It depends upon nothing*
extrinsic. Advantaged by outward pos
sessions or circumstances, it disdains to’
rest upon them or claim merit on their ac
count. Lacking these helps, it does not
sit down, fold the hands, and murmur at
the partialities of fortune. Benefits* andr;
opportunities it accepts gratefully, ajul
strives to improve them—not alone for it-’
self, but for society also. Indeed, a true
manhood implies every noble sympathy,-
every generous f*ction, every lofty virtue,
in the conVmon range of life. A true man-’
hood asks no special fields to display it
self. It can every day develop its nobiW*
fy and heroism. Not a gracious word,
smile, or act, springs to the iinpulso of its
large warm heart, to lighten human w&frtF
or lessen human sorrow, *b(rt flashes brigh
ter than a Toledo blade. * . .
True manhood is firm and bravb, as it is
mild and gentle, and tlfe rtest gentleman is
also the truest man. Gentlest of the gen-.
tie was Bayard, the clu velier sans jx ur ct
sans reprdche, but never sturdier arm bore
lance or sword in defence of virtue, honor,
right. Gentle* of heart, ahd courageous ot
soul—gentle in feeling and heroic in ac- f
tion—such are the Bayards; such are aIF
gentlemcu —all true men. They may ho
found in courts and camps, in universities
and senates, but they also tread the fur
row* send dwell in the l*nnrbl* , "t cabins.
The estate ot true manhood cannot bo
bought with go>d, nor bequeathed by let-.’
Bts testamentary. Jrr its (ssentia's, it is
Go(rtgiven, Art other possessions being
“of the earth, earthy,” may be clevis* and arid
inherited, but a true manhood is a dfvlwr,
a heavenly gift. And if men at i.irge* on-",
ly knew the greatness and preciouMiess ot
such manhood- —how nobVr ?t is in stat
ure and i power than all titular* estate —
they wouTd hotnjr and imitate it more. —
Manhood, sfftfdifcr i rtuh< 01. is what so
ciety and nations want t<> make flair found
ations fi-rm atid their bulwarks beautiful
aAd strong. It might l-ssca the woYld s
pageants, but it Would increase its. grand
eurs. When “life’s fitful fever,” is past,
what can remain of man worth even* a pith’
ful epitaph, savt: the memory of a true
manhood ?
* A young man named John Ilenrv
Kemble Was arrested recently in Han 1* ran
c-isco, sent to the station house on a charge’
of vagrancy. In 1850 this same man, now
lying in prison as an idle vagabond, was’
possessed ot property valued at sllo,ooo’
—lie owned of real estate, houses’, lands’
arid merchandise in Sail Francisco, and a,
quartz lead in Volcanoville, which yielded?
richly.
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