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VOLUME XXXVI.] MILLED GEVILLE, GEORG I A, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IS, I860. NUMBER 28. BOUGHTON,N18BET,BARNE & MOORE publishers and Proprietors. « H. nocca rox,) JOB. H. JH8B8T, S Cte Jfcbttal (Union }s published Weekly, in M tiledgrvUlc, Ga., Corner of Hu acock Wilkinson Sts., t $3 a year in Advance. A ADVERTISING. TrvS«IE"T.—One Dollarpersquureof tenlinesfor 6& rributt's uf*respect, Resolutions by Societies, (Obit- * ^xoeedio 0, ?<ix linos, Nominations for onice Coni- '^ideations or Editorial not ices for individual benefit,) 'Varied as transient advertising. Lr.oAr. 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Y00RHEES, OF INDIANA, Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 9, 1866. —0:0— f CONTI NT ED J Sir, the most melancholy phases of c*r* rnpted and fallen human nature is its sel fish tenacity to the low purposes of the hour. In their headlong pursuit it spurns the fixed principles and everlasting laws of the Qiiiverse from its sordid pathway. It scoffs at wisdom that is “hoary and white with eld,” and jeers the venerable experience* of ages if they arise as obsta cles to its immediate gratification. Con stitutions, laws aud sacred ordinances are lighter than cobwebs in the way of its con suming desires. Even the dread Jehov ah, who made man and the code of divini ty which claims bis obedience, is but dim ly remembered when the prize of the heart’s dearest pa oion lies close and tempting to our hands. Our line of vision is on the level before us. We bow to the earth and worship the transient spoils w hile the stars that sail over our heads and beckon us to celestial duties and be token eternity, go unheeded in their gran-, deur. We hear the siren voice of the mo ment, but fail to catch the loftier harmo ny of the eternal spheres. Who lias fath omed the dark and ihjsterions depths of his own motives ? The rules of right rise or sink as they can be made subservient t o our interests, our hopes, our loves, and our hates. The merchant prince of to-day adopts a new principle of trade froov yes terday, because his harvest of pro t will be richer and his chambers of wealth en larged. The rulers and legislators of na tions do the same. Napoleon w orshiped with the faith of a Moslem at the Pyramids, when he dream ed of reviving and reigning on the throne of the Pharoahs. lie imprisoned the anointed successor of St. Peter when the unappeasable rage of bis ambition strove for the empire of Europe. He died with the consecrated water on his lips when he sought the salvation of his soul in the midst of the storm at Helena. Cromwell commenced his career in the name of the Lord, the champion of liberty, and the enemy of kings, llis present purposes were gained by these fair and specious pretej}-'ns, hot he passed from the earth as the inst of an imperial dynasty, with every vestige of civil and religions tolera tion destroy ed, and every evidence offrae government swept from the British Em pire. David, the King, the statesman, the warrior, and the man of letters, yielded to the temptation of a beautiful but momen tary vision, darkened bis fame with cow ardly and crnel nmrder, and corrupted bis line with the offspring of a twofold crime. Even the primeval parents of the human race, who had communed face to face with the Eternal Presence, and whose daily guests in the bov.'ers of Eden where the ongel.s and ministering spirits' from Hea ven, looked no higher nor further than the branches of the tree where the forbidden fruit, hanging in fatal splendor, promised and every son of labor in the whole land Sir, how long can the inequalities of our psesent revenue system be borne ? How long will the poor and the laborious pay tribute to the rich and the idle ? We have two great interests in this country, one of which has prostrated the other. The past four years of suffering and war has been the opportune harvest of the mauu facturer. The looms and machine shops of New England and the iron furnaces of Pennsylvania have been more prolific of wealth to their owners than the most daz- zling gold mines of the earth. 1 might here stop and dwell on statistics and figuies, but the public mind is already familiar with their startling import. They are the result of class legislatiou, of a monopoly of trade established by law. It may be said that they indicate prosperity. Most cer tainly they do; but it is the prosperity of one who obtains the property of his neigh bor without any equivalent in return. The present law of tariff is being rapidly understood. It is no longer a deception, but rather a well defined and clearly rec ognized outrage. The agricultural labor of the land is driven to the counters of the most gigantic monopoly ever before sanc tioned by law. From its exhorbitant de mands there is no escape. The European manufacturer is forbid den our ports of trade for fear he might sell his goods at cheaper rates and thus relieve the burdens of the consumer. We have declared by law that there is but one market into which our citizens shall go to make their purchases, and we have left i it to the owners of the market to fix their ! own prices. The bare statement of such \ taxat’en ? Are there American citizens, the who boast loudest of their love of country, who will pay nothing to relieve it from debt ? Is there an honest man in Ameri ca who wishes his neighbor to pay his taxes as well as his own ? Where is the “accumulated wealth of the country,” which shirks its just responsibility and suffers the taxes to “fall unduly on the poor V’ Where is this criminal delinquent which grinds the face of poverty and ab sorbs the widow’s mite, in order that it may escape its own just dues and increase its hoarded gains ? (Hero the hammer fell.) Mr. Smith : I move that the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Voorliees) -have bis time extended to enable him to conclude his remarks. No objection was made. Mr. Voorhees: I return to the House my acknowledgements for the favor they have extended to me. Sir, more than one-tenth of the taxable property of the United States demands and has obtained in the hands of a favor ed class freedom from assessment. The enormous capitalist who has invested all his means in the bonds of the Govern ment thus relieves the principal of his vast estate from taxation. He feels no con cern for the movements of the tax-gath erer except as he goes forth and returns to him with the interest on his bonds, which the hands of honest toil pour into his cof fers. Is this “equal and exact justice to all men, and exclusive privileges to none?” It is claimed, however, by the friends of this moneyed monopoly that the bonds of the Government are a sacred obligation and must not be touched, that they were a principle foreshadows at once the couse- j quences which flow from it. One class of j purchased by their present holders out of citizens, by far the largest and most useful, ! pure patriotism, and that their freedom is placed at the mercy, for the necessaries j from assessment is but a proper token of as well as luxuries of life, of the fostered, i the nation’s gratitude. Patriotism was favored and protected class to whose aid the whole power of the government is giv en. Will not such a privilege be abused ! Can avaricious human nature withstand such a temptation ? Is it any wouder or mystery that the farmer and the mechanic are paying more than fourfold the actual value of every article which supplies their ; ordinary motive of pecuniary profit only daily wants and necessities ? j provokes contempt. They bought at a But it is claimed that this system is a heavy discount, owing to the condition of means of revenue to assist in payment of | the currency. They paid about fifty cents the public debt. Even if this be true, its j on the dollar, and now hold them at par. said by the great Dr. Johnson, to be the last refuge of a scoundrel. It is now made the refuge of non-tax-payers, who convert their taxable property into Government securities, in order to evade their honest obligations. The idea that they have made their purchases from other than the iniquity I would would be infiuitely aggravated, rather be directly robbed than and receive interest at their fac3. But it is said, that when these bonds ferced to assume, in the name of justice I were thrown upon the market there was a and right, the burdens and obligations of guarantee that they should not be taxed. Is an act of Congress at the last session a guarantee that another and a different one on the same subject will not be passed at this? Do we live in the days of the Medes and Persians, wlien it was an offense punisheable with death to propose to chongs a law once enacted ? Does any man of sense predicate his business trans action on such a theory ? Did the capi talists who are now to be so tenderly re lieved from taxation make their invest ments innocently supposing that an ever lasting perpetuity attached to the legisla tion of the most versatile, fluctuating, and changeable body ? If they did, it is very wonderful how men of so little intelligence S. W. CO., HA*) SAVANNAH HAiLY HERALD, Published by MASON & AT 1/1 HAY STREET, SAVANNAH. CONTAINS THE latest Intelligence from all Quarters. TT i« the effort of the publishers to make their lJournalinail respects acceptable to the people of Garcia, with whose interests it is iueutihed.— *‘> spares no expense for news by telegrap , ex press and mails, trom its own reliable correspon estt Its local and general commercial news is a ^Terms'.—Per month, fl; 3 months, $2-50; pfif year 5*? 10. • • Advertisng.—Its value as an advertising me- iium is unexcelled. Advertisements h per square of ten lines of nonpanel lor bnlin- *r'in D , and $1 for each subsequent one. A *iD- *»1 discount made for long advertisements on l£ ,,i e inserted for a long time. Nov. 14,1865 lj4t CHARLES L. COLBY & CO., CORNER BAY & ABERCOItN STREET, SHIPPING, COMMISSION AND Forwarding Merchants SAVANNAS, I IBERAL advances made c , * . si to our triends in New York, Boston and Liv erpool; Our facilities for doing a forwarding bus- • n ess are superior, as we have a line o s ea on the Savannah and one on the Altamaba VV e 'rill forward Produce to the North or to Europe, P>ying charges, &c , letting same lollow goods. Agents for Life, Marine and Inland Insurance Biiks taken at lowest rates. Q Nov. 4,1865. 14 3m - GA. on consignments VINEGAR! VINEGAR!! P INE CIDER VINEGAR in Store, and for sale by ’ . . T. A. CARAKER, Agt. Jan. 13th, 1866. 24 of Ltiman nature to bring ns no leasou of warning in the discharge of our present du ties ? Shall we grasp the close, proximate pleasure of power and revenge in defiance of all the principles of the Republic, in the violation of its Constitution, and in con tempt ofall our own deliberate and solemn committals, with no thought or care for the future, which will be tilled with mis ery, disaster and shame ? It may be so. The present is more powerful here than the past or the future. The majority in Congress as utterly ignores its own record of the last four years as it was blotted from the meu^y of man; and to attain an unlawful result would launch the people of this Government on a future destitute of constitutional protection. Mr. Speaker, 1 shall here rest the dis cussion of the relation which the Southern States bear to the Federal Government, and their right to representation in these halls. It was one of the very few great questions that arose during the war in which both the political parties of the North agreed. The principle that the Union was unbroken was declared iu the platforms of all conventions, from the smallest to the greatest, aud now that its denial has become the corner stone of a new aud aggregate faith, I have found but little difficulty in showing that the doc trines of' the Constitution and the highest official actions of every department of the Government alike invoke us to resist the bold advance of this baleful and destruc tive heresy. There are other points, how ever, on which I wish briefly to dwell in connection with my support of the princi ples enunciated in the annual message of the President. iSecoua only in importance to the mighty question of Union aud constitu tional government is the financial policy which, through the approaching genera tions of sweat, toil and pain, shall govern the tax payers of this deeply-inuebted nation. Our public debt has assumed proportions so vast and threatening that thinking men shudder in its contempla tion. There would be no profit now in in quiring whether it might have been less and yet the Union preserved. It is a fixed reality, aud fastened upon us beyond the power at least of present rescue. I have decided opinions which apply f° the past, and which I have expressed, and which I shall never recall. 1 now approach the future in connection with results over which 1 had nocontrol but which none the less imposes duties incident to the position which I held. These duties I shall dis charge-with not one partisan or selfish’ motive, in the interest of every tax-payer others more able to meet them than I am. Must the Western people, because they are consumers, 1 'and not manufacturers, be- compelled by indirection to meet a large proportion of the debts of their fellcw-citi- } zens in other sections ? Sir, this question ; must be met. It is in the minds and j mouths of all our laboring classes in the I West; and they will hail with great joy | the fact that the President has declared i in their favor and against the policy of I their bloated and plethoric oppressors. I quote from his message .* “Now, in their turn, the property and , income of the country should bear their I just proportion of the burden of taxation, i while in our impost system, through means ] could have so much money. No, sir; they of which increased vitality is incidentally | calculated all the risks of profit and loss, imparted to all the industrial interests of | and every contingency of the future, as an immediate enjoyment and the fulfill- | the nation, the duties should be so adjns- ' closely as Shylock did on the Rialto, as- ment of immediate desires. And are these j ted as to fall most heavily on articles of j sured in every event that their ventures mournful instances in the sad philosophy ! luxury, leaving the necessaries of life as | would come home to them like richly free from taxation as the absolute wants j freighted argosies after a prosperous voy- of the Go\eminent, economically adminis- . age at sea: still better pleased, however, tered, will justify.” ifthey could have judgment forever on the It is true that had I the power I would j inhuman bond which gives them freedom go further than this position of the Exec- from assessment and exacts in their favor utive' Free trade with all the markets of the pound of flesh nearest the heart of the the world is the true theory ofgovernmeut. | toiling multitude. No nation should prevent its citizens from j I have listened to appeals in favor of buying wherever their hard earniugs will j this class, on account of their timely and buy most and go furtherst. If a Hot-1 self-sacrificing services, until I have al- teutot can make and sell a bolt of cloth, I most imagined that we dwelt in a new or of muslin, or calico, cheaper than a j Arcadia, where such a thing as self-inter- New England Senator, who a few days j est was unknown. They loaned moneys since asked for increased protection to his j on gcod securities and high rates of usuance manufactories (Mr. Sprague,) it is the | and therefore the dusty, weary, plow- right of any laborer in this broad land to man in the field must pay their taxes for pass by the civilized but rapacious Sena tor and obtain from the barbarian a better return for the sweat of his brow. For revenue I would look to the actual wealth of the country, and make it contribute ac cordingly. But this just and philosophic system of trade and government is not now within our reach, and 1 am content to ac cept the recommendation of the President to adjust the present impost system to the basis of revenue alone and not of protec tion. It is a step in the direction of true and practical reform—a reform in favor of that mighty branch of industry on which all nations depend for their wealth and power. It is a manly and honest blow ! aimed at a monopoly as arrogant, avari- j cious and deaf to justice as the British ( Sir, there are few parallels in the wide East India corporation under Hastings or j annals of all the nations of the earth to Clive. Nor is it any new doctrine. The ; such frightful injustice and inequality; and people will hail it as a familiar friend of | wherever they are found the people have their foimer and happier days, and indorse 1 * 1 —* J iU ~ : *—— it as they did then. In close and immediate connection, how ever, with this branch of the message, the President has uttered another sentence on which the eye of the toiling, sunburnt tax payer will linger long aud gratefully. At the close of the weary days, as he counts up bis feeble gains, looks into the heavy expenses of his family and his far ming under high protective tariff piice6, and shudders at the thought of the ap proaching tax-gatherer, knowing that for him and his hardened substance there is no escape, he will in his heart thank the man who as President wrote the following lines: “No favored class 6bonld demand free dom from assessment, and the taxes should be so distributed as not to fall nnduly on the poor, but rather on the accumulated wealth of the country.” Sir, is there a favored class in our midst that demands freedom from assess ment ? Are there those who, at such a time as this, demand that their property shall be exempted from the burdens of President’s annual message on thh great and vital question. Sprung from the. loins of the people, they will greet him as their champion. His life has been a battle in their behalf against privilege and oppression, and he has shown that in his proud eminence he has uot lost for th em his ancient love and care. Declamation on the dignity of labor in the abstract is a cheap indulgence. We listened to it a few evenings since in fhb hall, from the eloquent lips of one whose soft hand never did an hour’s toil, and who preaches a fashionable gospel at fen thousand a year. But labor finds its true dignity when its rights and interests are defended iu high places by one who has felt all its privations and sufferings, and knows by experience “the simple anna's of the poor*” Let the public debt be paid, but let it be paid honestly and by all. 1 advocate no repudiation, but I advocate equality in striving to meet the terrible demands. Its exactions will be sufficient ly sore even when the whole wealth of the land is brought to the receipt of custom. It will be more intolerable than the require ments which the Egyptian masters laid upon their Hebrew slaves, if only a por tion of the people have to meet it all. 1 implore this Congress, then, to accept these wise recommendations of the Execu tive. Adjust the present tariff so that the whole labor of the country shall no longer be taxed on the necessaries of life for the benefit of a single section. Repeal the law by which a favored class obtained freedom from assessment. Briug the accu mulated wealth of the country to aid the poor in paying the national debt. Do these things, and you will lift cruel and galling burdens from the shoulders of honest labor, and convince the country that you have some regard for an equali ty of rights and privileges among Ameri can citizens as well as between the differ ent races in our midst. Mr- Speaker, I have thus far reviewed aud discussed, as I understand them, the leading features of the domestic policy of the Executive. The success of some portions of this policy remains wholly with the future. Upon the leading meas ure, however, of a restoration of the States to Union and harmony, an important chapter in history has already been writ ten. Has it been a success or a failure / I have tried it by the high standards of right, justice, constitutional law aud pre cedent. I submit it now to another test, Christian bands, more in sorrow than in anger, hangs peacefully in its scabbard on the wall. Each section has its reminiscen ces of sublime dovotion, ot grief, and of glory. These are the brave heart’s dear est treasure, and until “Tlie good knights are dust,” they will be hallowed as the devotee hal lows the rights of his religion. Bnt peace under the policy of the Executive is cele brating “her victories no less renowned than war.” The shining symbols of the revolted race are over our heads, State after State, kindly assisted by the pater nal hand of the President, comes to take its place beneath its ancient coat of arms. They cluster around these vacant seats that have so long invited them in vain.— They are. welcomed by the President as Israel’s greatest king welcomed the war like son of Ner, whose standard had waiv ed twice four years in rebellion. Let OcDgress imitate his example and mark the opening of the new year as an era of perfect reunion and a season of universal joy. “Let oblivion’s curtain fall “upon the doleful tragedies of the past. Bury the animosities of a civil war. Take no counsel from their baleful whisperings. Hate is the basest principle of human action. They who have made laws and ruled nations upon motives of vengeance are the monsters whom all history cUrses with an unbroken voice. The long and deadly proscriptive lists of Sylla and Maurius, Tiberius, and Clodius, gave the names cf their victims to the compassion ami sympathy of the world, while an im mortality of infamy clings uuceasiugly to those who took private revenge iu the name of the public good. Charity for the errors, the follies ai-d the crimes of the whole family of imper fect man is the leading virtue in the breasts ot lawgivers and rule Those who have been guided by its sweet, angelic influences constitute the glory of the firmament in the annals of mankind. Cyrus, Scipio and Washington command the love and veneration of ages more by the forbear ance, magnanimity and clemency of their character than by the renown of their military achievements. The savage chief may strike his enemy prostrate and power less at his feet. It is an attribute of di vinity which lifts him up and makes him a friend. When Pericles paused upon the opening threshold of eternity, and m his dying moments reviewed the events of his on which it is bitterly assailed by those ( g rea t life, he consoled his parting spirit who yet claim to be the only freinds of the j aQ d rested the chief glory of his reign up- Admiuistration. Those who perform their duties of friendship toward the President by malignant denunciations of his policy are now engaged in impressing the public mind with the belief that he has accom plished nothing worthy of acceptance by the people. The gentleman from Pen- sylvania (Mr. Stevens) pronounced his plan of restoration impracticable and un- on the fact that he had never caused a citizen of Athens to shed a tear. From this hour may this Government dry up the tears of its citizens ! May no more hearts he wrung with the gloom of the prison or the anguish of death ! M ay the two sec tions meet again as kindred and friends! The angel of concord will then stir the healing waters for them both ; and, renew- tenable. He not only speaks for himself j their glorious youth together, the fu- on this point, but also for everybody else, j ^ u , re American Union will be filled He says that “very few now consider” the J with the love and praise of all its citizens. administrative position a tenable one. An : ~ arrogant Seuator in the other end of the ! A Strange Wedding.—The St. Louis Capitol pronounces the whole thing a i Democrat says that, a few days ago, fraud, a white washing process, by which 1 Charles Moritz, a returned soldier, being sins and crimes are connived at and hid j anxious to marry and settle down, offered •from the public gaze. Adventurous mem- j an acquaintance fifty dollars, provided he hers of this house have crowded themselves | procured him a person of whom he might into the presence of the Executive, and j make a wife. The bargain was struck, them and be thankful to God for so sweet a privilege ! Yes. and even the soldier, crippled in the shock of battle, with the old flag over his head, returning home to find poverty and want at his hearthstone, must hear these speculators of Wall street hailed as the saviours of the country; and likewise without a murmur scuffle hard with the world, perhaps on crutches, to pay their debts as well as his own. The nation’s gratitude takes a strange turn at this point. It lavishes its gifts, its gar lands and its favors on the money chan gers of the temple, and causes the defen ders of the Government at the cannon’s mouth to pay tribute to their monstrous greed. been at last avenged upon their extortion ate oppressors. The patricians of Rome, an aristocracy founded upon wealth, at different periods ground the plebians, who labored at home and bore arms in the field, with debt and unequal taxation; bnt there was always a point at which the elements of revolution darkened the sky, and the privileged classes were compelled to yield to the untired millions. State and Chuich in France had for ages load ed their favorities and parasites with rich es and honors, and the peasantry with burdens, until the frenzied insanity of 1700 burst forth, and the whole fabric of Government and of human society was involved in one common conflagration and ruin. Sir, there is but one pathway of safety and honor for Governments to pur sue in their domestic policy. They must administer justice to their citizens in the spirit and the letter of equality; and there is no instance in the history of nations where class legislation and legalized mo nopolies have not overthrown'.the prosperi ty of every interest and destroyed public liberty. I therefore endorse the policy of with exquisite delicacy assured him that, with their constituencies, they think his plan of restoration not likely to give suc cess to his Administration, and that, after an uninterrupted trial of several months, his efforts to recognize the rebel Stales and restore them to the Union must be recognized as a failure. Then with pro testations of true friendship they modestly ask him to step quietly to one side, not to lift a finger of interference, not open his lips in remonstrance, while they smash to pieces all his well ordered plans, and kick to the giound with their vandal feet his almost completed structure of Union ana peace. Sir, this class of dissatisfied spirits is to be found in every age. It is composed of boding birds of evil omen. It is their mission to destroy, not to build up. The borer ifi the trees of the forrest, the worm in the heart of the flower, the wolf in the tanner’s sheepfold, the tiger in the trav elers encampment by night, all pursue their trade of destruction and mark their career with rnin. But no useful thing ever grew from their labors. And like these beings in the animal world created to destroy, so there are unhappy members of the humau family, who never beheld the fair and beautiful creation of another’s wisdom without an irresistible longing to strew the earth with its broken fragments. To them I make no appeal in behalf of that policy which has cleared away the wreck of a gigantic fraternal war, laid anew the foundations of Government throughout an extent of country more vast than the most powerful kingdoms ot Eu rope, revived confidence and hope in the breasts of a despairing people, and won for its author the respect and admiration of the civilized nations- of both hemis pheres. I make my appeal to the disinterested, impartial, and enlightened masses of the country, without regard to lines of party distinction. They have witnessed the patient labors of the President, and since this Congress convened they have beheld their grand fulfillment. Those wandering stars from the azure field of the flag, those discontented Pleiades that shot madly from their spheres, have one by one reil lumined their rays at the great center of light and of glory. The whole land wept when the beautiful sisterhood was broken. The wail of the heart-broken over the pallid face of the beloved and untimely dead is not more full of anguish than were the hearts of those who love their fellow- man when many of our most brilliant plan ets denied the law of gravitation and struck defiantly out upon orbits of their pirn. The sword that was drawd by all and Moritz’s friend and a few others de termined to work a practical joke on the bachelor. They had a boy, dressed up in women’s clothing, introduced to.Moritz, who was pleased with the look of the bar gain, and, arrangements being made to that ecu, a confederate joker married the pair, and received five dollars from the happy bridegroom for tying the knot. Moritz also paid over seventy dollars for the wedding supper, and gave his bride a handsome present in money. The sud den illness of a sister called the bride away from the wedding feast, and she did not return. Next day Moritz set out to hunt her up, when he was told the whole affair was a farce. He did not regard the matter in the same light, and the parties to it are in jail for trial on a charge of swindling. In New Haven there are thirty-five carriage factories, employing (directly aud indirectly) twenty-one hundred hands, and turning out fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifteen carriages, of all clas ses, per year, of an agiegate value of $.34,- 759. Average value before the war, 8153; now, 8242. The unfilled orders tor light wagons for the south are now very large. .New Family Grocery Store. Fl 'IIE undersigned keep constantly on Land X Sugar and Coffee, Flour, Bacon, Mackerel, and all articles usually kept in a family grocery. Also Wooden Ware, Hoop Skirts, Shoes, Ac. Fine Cognac Brandy, Bonrbon Whiskey and Blackberry Wine. They will endeavor to keep meal, corn, peas and country produce generally, which they will sell at a small advance on cosr. walker & Johnson, 1st door North of Stetson’s Store. Milledgeville, Nov. JW, 1865. 17 3 m NEW GuODS! NEW GOODS!! T HE Undersigned has just received and ODen ed a new stock of r Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, BOOTS tb Having selected my. stock with the greatest care, I particularly invite the attention of the public, and ask one and'all to come and examine, before purchasing elsewhere. ET- Store under Newell’s Hall. H. TINSLEY, Agent Milledgeville, Deis. I2ffi, 1865. q9tf