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I>V S. ROSE & CO.
Journal a, Mt‘*M‘UttT
■v.rfj W eiucs-t*).aorumgat fix S4 per tnuuo.
ti tMe r charge will be Oss lKiu.m
if jrNnxxn WOUISB • *h Lfc, for the first inser
, Cs.'ct-- I** r e * ctl subsequent insertion. AU
.. net jpeciM * to time, will be published
~t , ~ar-'ed accordingly. a liberal discount
. ‘ .... -h • advertite by lue year.
. of ovsk ten unis, will be charged at
,r- -r candidates for iflice, to be paid for at
~1 ,v-.i ’in ui de with county cilieers, Druc
, tlriv-liauM, an.l others, who may wish to
. .* At> NtiiKAi.bf Exscnton, Administrators
re required by law to be advertised in a
>rty days previous to the lay of sale.
... held on the first Tuesday in the moatli,
if ten m the forenoon and three in the
• ~ Court-house in the county in which the
I situated
,i. ~> al PtuiPißTV must be advertised in like
, , ias asd Crew Tons of an KsUte must be
application will he made to the Ordinary for
t, ,3d uud Negroes, must be published weekly for
r Letters of Administrations, thirty days ; for
-r . \ l u.ni-tration, umntldy, six months ; for
r .> „ Oairdianship, weekly, forty days
. F- i.isisa or Mouroiua, monthly, four
•• f (•-•sblishin# lost papers, for the full space of
fur . ■lupelUng lilies from executors or ail
s’ re s bond has been given by the deceased,
e of three months.
I f .rfkrs address te It. ROSE A CO.
l>,oi<‘"*" ,llk t uittl Uiiviupss .Hell.
i,l >vd SrsiUci OkslH will be inserted under
,t the following rates, vis :
, per annum, $ 5 00
. ,a l nes, do 10 UU
a .aes, do It u
Tines, do .* 16 (Hi
f : i._-nts of this class will be admitted, utiles 1
•i.i*, nor for a less term than twelve months.
} nts f over twelve lines will be charged pro kata.
. - m.t paid for in advance will be charged at
il IaAH ME&bsTiNQH
>S. KMGUT TEMPLARS. ODD FEL
t - A\i> SONS OF TEMPERANCE,
11-.LL< IN THE CITY UP MACU.H.
MASONS.
i *of Georgia for lsW, Oetulier 31st.
. No. 5, first and third Monday nights in each
. <• Chapter, Xo. 4, second Monday night in each
Council, No. 6, fourth Monday night in each
• u.. a-*nt. Knights Templar, No. 2, Meetings
•st Vue- Isy night in each op-nth.
ODD FELLOWS.
. first Wednesday in June.
. ... ..nent, Tuesday previous.
. No. 2, every Thursday evening,
s, No. 5, every Tuesday evening.
aorpment, No. 4, second and fourth Mon
- r.iincs in each month.
SONS OF TEMPERANCE.
. ~u. fourth Wednesday in October, annually.
ssiOiV At €A R DB.
J. VIUIIAI, Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
nAt >, til.
Illtk. on Colton Avenue over the Baptist ik
|I - ru-.-U formerly occupied by l>r. Green.
>. la. took,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Macon, ecu Util a.
I Fit 11 with epeer A liuuter, over Bostick’s Store.
‘• hv>,Wl-J
•• *LA t| AK tOKlf,
at law,
, ; M ICON, GfcOliOi t,
diUKua Uiiilwii) street, over the Store of A. M.
II v- ii a Cos., ui il .urGm,n’s Washington Block.
, e,n bibb, Crawfvrd, Dooly, Houston, Macon,
: ... a ,rtu. au-1 burner. leb *Z-y
LAW CAHD.
1 ‘i,'. took, It OH IN SON a MONTFORT,
>’i I.; hits in ihe counties of Taylor, Macon,
Id . O ly.eumter, Marion, Bekley. and in such
* . j |,, c .-itair as their business will authorise. !
i"OII It but O--let it tripe.
A • PHILIP COOK,
1 „ W. U. ROBISpOK, I
t; , _tf A f. W. MONTFORT.
# • * • jo. a. hill
jkr- la •
,t > ‘Law l*arlM*raliip.
i-iil L La & Wl L L,
- TO THR LVTR EIRU OP sICIIIs S H1L1..)
Mu. I Uct in the Maeon and adjoining Circuits,
‘*■ • , Supreme and Federal Courts, the same as
. rt.Jtue late firm of Stubbs A Hill.
*t will close up the busiaes* of the late firm
- x ft;H, t, speedily as passible ; and to this end, all
’ I to -aid firm, are requested to make pay
arly s day as practicable.
B. HILL, Surviving paitner of
.*1,155® —24_tf Stubbs A HiU.
uui:k 4 %*i>i:k*o.v
attorneys AT LAW,
314C0N, O \.
|Jw ;™n thi Coua'ies of the Macon Circuit, and in
■ j |•> nf Huiut.T, Muuroe and Jones; also In tne j
| -jr%at .'Avanuah. _ j
* 7 [aprll ’SB-ly]
I I LVEBHOI 8K A AMiLEV,
ATTORNEYS at law,
* ktofrviLLK AND FORT VALLEY, GA.
‘*■ CCbVBKHOUSS, F. A ANSI.KY,
Enuxv ille, Ga. Yurt Valley, Ga.
_ !
I . !f. WVfVTTIsE.
attorney at law,
MACON, GMO HUH.
t- CONCERT HALL,over Payne’* Drag Store
r ——
ATTORNEY at law,
Forwytli, Oa.
\l II I, art, nl promptly to ail business entrusted to hi*
,T ‘ t a,eCoanti*;3.jf Monroe, Bibb, ButU, Crawford.
J r-. Spalding and Cpaon. . l“*ay II ’W]
a. cab amiss.
ATTQRNEYS At LAW,
4 FORSYTH, GA.
j o-practice law in the counties of Monroe, Bibb, Up
” P Henry and ButU. Mr. Cabani**
*:kl <-ot.,aul attention to tba ooileeUou and
r ( t i-t.fs and claim*.
I >u geo. a. cabaniss.
icrly 6f Athens, Oa. *’
JOEL It. GRIFFIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MACON, GEORGIA.
\VH L practice in the C.>antie* of Macon and the ad
’* Circuits. Also la the eowntlea of the West and
■ n Georgia, accessible by Rad Road.
>e“ Pin: nlar personal attention given to collecting.
• ‘ u with 0. A. Loeiirane, Damour’s Hnihiing, Id
s icb ti ’to —ite If
I bO.ULDA VAM iilLßiiAi
.JDENTISTB,
‘'ttl.e in \Va,Hinstuii Block, flin 011, t.a,.
ili rßnrrY*rsKD in extracting tbbth.
Ml • lIN tlili’Ji Tooth F*e always ,sw..sa
•t and for saiw. Dentists can be
h thodlneat of TEETH,
if. Gold And SU\ er Plate anu Wire, I X
I xtures, Ac., afso with any kind of Instrument. r
_• -on short notice. *** **
k.‘ oTmooke,
D K 18 T *
TKOMASTON, 0A...
( Af'f'K’K liter Dr. Thompson’s Store. My work Is my
* * • . {apr J *-tf ]
l‘Uthiag£ Clotliiiig ! I CWthiß* !l!
I L VKGE Stock for sale, without r earn'd to cost. Now
/*“-* *"?;’ * w A dtiM
” h*al, K v<*, Uarlty ail Oal*.
S‘ I Yt TKiyAjpeciaHy for seed. I” ‘ r ; ';■* so
‘ 1 “>. (octlO) McCALLIB A JONES
flay.
2lHi Ril.F.k Prime selected Hay, for sale low hy
[\ r otr ; BOWoKE A ANDERSON
■KiN r t rION HB4M.ANB,—Mow la Am
*ro best %*#rtmutof Net-ro Shoes, we
; /■’' r °Yered In this Market. Men’s double soled peg
V*. * | hl *k M • ruasetts ; do. heavj single aoled oinck
-J do. qnys and youth* black and ruasetts, all of
|^ ,r * ,el “|g very low. MIX A XIRTLAND.
GROVE, Superior old Ay# aud Mo
Whts in Bvorssad lot sale by
1 MoOALLIB A JOIIBe
ocorflifl Jowriifll <mft ill essenfjer.
business cards,
ikon WOIiKS,
lAI O>, UEORCiU.
r r. c. in l s it e r r,
n%VM; removed his FOL.YHRY AND MACHINt
■ WOBKS to the l.ue of the Rail Kaa4 near the Mc" u
k.i t- o/ r ° h '* n ° W pr O' r ’ •*o manufacture all
MACHINERY AND CASTINGS,
ALSO
Steam Engines & Boilers,
Oil lerttis as iavorable as any Establishment either North or
Bouth - tm*r IBj .T. C. NIAfcET.
A. XVI QUEEN,
MACON, GXOHQIA.
\IAWI Fit Tl KKII af WrM(k| iron
| VILI.NU of every description, and for all purposm
. Plain aud Oruaineutal, from the lightest Scroll Iron, uu to
the heaviest Kailiug used, li'tvuig an endless varict, ol
New and Original Dejigus, purchasers cannot fail to be vmt
til.
Bemir rniirely of WroajfHl Iron, lh*lr itreiF/th cDQot he
‘iutvtioueti, ( or beauty Ihef eaunot >e any
wlter*. All kinL> of F*i*cy Iru Work m]etooriier.
ticuiar £t?eu to makiDtr all of
Geometrical Stair Bailinga. *
or “.“'v \ ,tk CilU *•* Hte “ “lU'v Residence?
Os T. a. Hull, L V W. AtiJrews aud W. J Me Brow Emirs’
Also t Uiop Hill CviutWrj. *
July U 16-U
A •
i ormgatftl VI
Hailing.
(Secured by Letters Patent.)
A *?• *?* ** • ‘ adapted for enclosing Public
, Cemeteries, Balcouies, Cottages Ac She V-r
and Ox Hurdle Pa-ent Wire, Sacking Viih eVfr,^
oT'iWv Y- V- ‘ * nJ '■>•■ PurnUiAwo-
Patent
Wire Setting for Mosquito, Sheep, Poultry ad other KiT
po?es W,re Summer Houses, Kanry Wire W ri, in vreif
variety for gardens, Ac. M WALKKR A SON*A
Manuacturtrs, No. 685 Market, N.K. Cor 6th 8t„ pA,| a .
*^ 4 1_ (°t Ajfj
D. C. HODGKINS &, SoW,
fiVALEKS I AND M * NCPACTERaRS OP t'.
C3r TJ 3NT SS , f
RIFLES, ~ fi.
PISTOLS, .
TACKLES
Acd Sporting Apparatus.
OPBVRRY DRsCRIPTIUK, (’ ■
* PKW POORS ’
Lanier House,
Macon, Ga. > *
Jan. 1,1360. ts .y'-y
DOUBLE m. Ilfunill PiSTflLl
THOMAS MOBBE,
OP tk btc trans MmvtLTiu A ‘fuitsa, having pur
chased the entire busiueed, will continue the manufac
uir of
Double (iiiiis, ami be<l and Pistol*
na<fe in the Cult*] SUlci,u Ml entirely IH* plan of Mr.
tfor*9.
GUNS re-atooPed kiid repaired In thf Ml mtnii>-r 1 tnd no
■ eason-iLic lrku. tl short nolkr. The unilcroiciol being
practical *rlnun, will guarautce all hi* work, an.l in
rlte th- public l give him a trial.
The Stand i* under the Flnjd House, opposite Hr.
riiLiinpuoti'j. - June iit-’Ah-y
,T. B. & \V. A. ROSS,”
Wholesale Dry Goods Jobbers,
Corner Cherry and Second Sts.,
Macon, Ga.
IX addition to their large and new (toe* of Dry Good*,
. Clothing, Hutu. an.l Uroceries, are receiving 50*1 cases
?hoe*, frnsii irom the Manufacturers, to which they respect
fully invite attention of Dealer* and containers,
jane IS
TAOS. NlUltMtS, **. O. O. SPSBKS
HARDEMAN & SPARKS,
WARE-HOUSE
AND
Commission Merchants.
■■ ■ tAM MACON, <*A.. i+J&i
WILL give prompt attention to the selling and storing
of Cotton, and to the Ailing of orders for plantation
ml family supplies. With many years experience and
with their best effort* to serve their friend*, they hope to
ti,ve a >■*> ttinuance of the liberal patronage heretofore
extend-! to them Liberal advauces mad- when required.
August 15th IS4O. (ly )
NEW FIRM.
L. T. STRONG & SONS.
IKWIB P. STRONG tea-
J hia crateful thanks
or tb? !ib-rrU patronaif? 7^
rndeJ to him for lli?l*t A *
went, M*en jrcarn.xiiil re- Nw 1 V, .<rtk
eotfully xniiouni 1 ?* that he O ’ W;vv JT
ats.icixteii with him in \ AffL-J
e farther pr.eutl<*n ol vJBH VA
ikt bMiniWi, bit t>> ou, n.
EDGAR P STRONG and X-d
FORRESTER W STRONG.
under the name, firm aud
style ol L. V. STRONG A
SONS, and will continue to
keep on hand and offer, a large and select assortment of
kSoolb, Shoe* ansi l.eatlier
of all kinds, and Finding* for Country manufa- turer*. He
respectfully asks for the new firm, a continuance o me lib
efitl **vor rftfndrd tu the old.
Macon, January t, IS6. <l-y
& hunt,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRUGGISTS.
MACON, GEORGIA.
fob B-’k—y
MYi FIRM!
Mnssrs. T- & O. WOOD,
HA V (3 this day aasoc.t
ted with thetn in the J **ee.>-.y’!Sey.
manulacture and sale of ‘ _3
The buine ‘.ill be here* i’-Wv
after conduct, and in the firm
WOOD BRO 4 CO., *1?
■aeon. Georgia.
Notice.
Having associated with as in the Purniture business. Beth
G. Wood, we are particularly desirous of dosing up the old
huain.-sa a. soon as poeeibp-. and respectfully request all in
debted, either by note or account, to call and make payment
at an early day. T. A U WOOD.
Macon.id January, lUgtV (febW)
L. D. WILCOXSON St CO.,
siaurtcTtuu tan mium im
cakiuaukh and harness,
of svaav pteaunK>.
fti-wuf a net Hoor to <Ae B>ij>li*t (YurcA,
HAVK in .tore at all price* and fur sale on ll,e n,os
reasuoable term*, a complete aerortinent of fin,
CoachesA'alcche*, Brett., Pl.wtuus, Rockaa ays and Buggies
Heary and Pchl Plantation Wagni,. with Iron AaieS, of
the best possible description.
|F“ All work warranted. feh C, ldl
Pure lorn and KecUfH’d Uhiskry*
mm d\d\ BBLB. Whiskey, euusUling of “ Ward A Carey’
I I H f Kxtra Re. tifie.l,”*’ Kentucky Pure Whlte,”Ten
ne*aeeC*ea,”Oeorg,a Planters,” “Pike’s Magnolia,’ami
other Brand* all received direct from the Distillers aud
loVby MOCA *- Ll * A JON E 8
atf 7
iConetignment.
600 “ <K “ ‘“* *
MAC(>N, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1861.
li 0 T E I. s.
n)S sTI BBLKFIf Lfi Ilnl sK.
the Phcentx lro;;i ite A. 1 he.,-
large, new aud elegant House, recently erected
u 1 ‘V flB of u, y r *ld wstablithment, Mulhei ry street
MaWdrTjV, tl tlow open for the Hfcfcptiou and accommoda
tlon of Boarders and transient Guests
Guy louse U:,g been nei furnished throughout, in the
,e ” mdSi.er, and the Proprietor srill endeavor to make it a
, ? ’ FIRST CLASS HOTEL.
T a
JU Situation is eligible, a little below the Methodist and
jfposiie tdbhe Presbyterian Church, and 1 near the Bank,
ftiiil place, t yf i-nsibt-hS. ~ /
with the House is a large
l\.i\;ei*,y itncl
-where Droyers and others can find accommodations for
1 their stock ’ I .
. The of his old friends sifloF the traveling pub
’ lie £ is respectfully solicited.
pov 6-ls M. STL'BBLEFIKLO.
M NEW HOTEL.
.'PLANTERS’, HOUSE,
\y MACON, (xEOIvGIA.
/ i \MuiIERRY STREET, two Bi|uarA from Uit Kail Road
A * Ms-pot, Htid In ihe bu.snu?.- part of the city,
nor 4 21-frj-y J. 0. GOoDAI.K, Proprietor.
Hro w i i’s If ote 1,
Opposite the Passenger House, Macon, Ga-
Ity E. E. BROWN A SOX.
VTFALS ready on the arrival of every Train. The
iva. pro -rb-tors will spare no pains to make their gucat,
Ijk ll t- ’tio v
(4 H-A.N ITE rTA-lul^.
<H I.lk respectfully inform my OLD FRIENDS and
PATRONS, that since the tire, f have obtained the Rooms
in the building NfiXT ABOVE the “Oranite Hall,” and over
the store of R P. Mt-Ecoy and Messrs. Bostick A I.amar,
where I have opened, and will he pleased to see aiy friends
and customers, aud w ill and my best for their comfort and
pleasure. Very Respectfully,
ay 1 HEM. F. DENSE.
TBOtJT J IOUSK,
■IV J. ■>. Oil. Bluer A to.
, Atlaittu, Georgia,
seji 18 2Utf
,VV AS 111NGTON 11 Al.i.’
.THUF HO UU* is STILL OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
| Wl. arrgtigeineiit will be made for the accommo
►JJ £fiuit id the NGiabers to the approaching STATE CON
,, jff’ y'jfcxl UiJfuture Session of Ue Legislature.
t£-mn at tliis House, w ill conform to those
Ol.” Publig Houses In this city,
t ‘Wf. 4 4 N. C. BARNETT.
1 jgjfjrj*B*V ille - vr a • Pec. 15fh, IS6O.
Y agricultural
PiIPIiISMENTS.
• ■ t
NATHAN WEED,
Georgia*
H AN NOIvJMN STORK and offers to Planters a superior
assortment oi the newest aud most improved Turn
ing Implements 111 use.
Iron and Steel Plows, Harrows,
Plough Hauie*, Cultivators,
Gram Cradles, Scythe Blades,
Threshers, Fan Mills,
Horse Powers, Straw Cutters,
Shovels and Ppinles, Traces,
Spading aud manure Forl.j,
Weeding IL-es,
of Smells’, Collins’, Brade’s Potent American Hoe Cos.
manufacture.
Swecde- an l English refined IRON of all sixes
Warrant and Plow Steel, English manufacture.
Anvils, Vises, Bellows,
Hammers, Screw Plates, Tongs, Borax,
Carpenter’s Tools,
Builders’ Hardware,
CARRIAGE AXI> WAGON MATERIALS ,
In all their variety.
mar 18
New Establishment.
CARRIAGES®
REPOSITORY.
C. T. WARD (JO.,
MAM FACT I Kl£ltS uud BIALIKS,
OPPOPITR THE FLOVD HOUSE, Macob, Ga.
WE would call the attention of the public to our new
Block, comprising Coaches, Brett.-, ltockaways and
Buggies, of the most elaborate finish, from celebrated build
ers, North.
|w Genuine BKATTI.EBPRO’ BUGGIES constantly on
hand. nov 16 84-ls
WILL VOl co NORTH, WORN YOU CAN DO
BETTHKSOUTHP
CARRIAGE & IUIIISS HAM FACTORY
A N 1> K KPOSI T O U Y,
FOUSYIH, GA.
purchased tire entire inter- K ff’fl
. est of the late firm of BANKS, W , * i '/'vCIT
I)ER A CO., I Invite the attention of the
citu-ns of M-.nroe and snrrouning i ountii-s Vfi/ ‘*£y
to mv estenvive arrangement-for Manufacturing TOP AND
NO TOP BUGGIES, COACHES, ROOKAWAYB, CAR
RIAGES, PHiKTONS. Ac., Ac. lam constantly receiving
addition, not from Ihe North, hut from in y
Work Nho|is, to my stock oil hand, of three or four
Buggies |-er week, which combine elegance and fiuisb, with
lightness, strength and durability. Orders for any sort of
Vehicle,Harness, Ac , are most respectfully solicited, which
shall lie promptly supplied, and all engagements for work
PUNCTUALLY met. 1 have constantly on hand a large
assortment of HARNESS.
r6F“ Repairing done at short notice and Warrant-d.
aug 81-1 y J- K- BANKS.
H li] NKY’S
CONCENTRATED
Extract of Jamaica Ginger,
uibi from the Jamaica 1 JJJ Ginger Root. Fi r Cholic,
which not oniy expels tliej wind but thoroughly invig
orate* the bowels and intes tines For Dyspepsia it is
unrivaled, the dose being 2 small and giving relief m
lucdiately, thus dissipating lowness of spirits and head
ache. As many denominate at Drunken iieaa a disease,
which undoubtedly is the case, we offer this a most
effectual remedy ; a few drops of Henry’s Ginger In
a little water will impart 3 .-ueti a stimulating effect
upon the stomach ami bow els that the great desire to
indulge in liquor is destroy cd, while it produces a
healthy and natural coudil JJ, tion of the parts. Asa
Rheumatic K medy, used; extensively, it lias proved
excellent. To prevent bad effect of change of water or
diet, it ha* no equals, and ® no one should travel with
out It sea sickness is prt vented and fatigue dissipa
ted. No ne should hesitate | ff! to use it, being made of a
familiar and long acknowl 5 edged excellent medicine,
lieii.g prepared with great} mm* cafu a of superior strength.
Use Henry's and no otl,er. w* The test of its being gen
uine it does not turn milky] L.’ when poured into water.
Made only hy . A HUNT,
n,,y q Druggists, Macon, Ga.
wr See special notice. |
A for C|>italiMtß.
MACON GRIST M 1 LL for SALE. 1
OWING to the Insufficiency of our capital, and the
pressure of other engag> ments, we are anxious to dis
pose of the Macon Grist Mill, to a satisfactory purchaser
The M Ills now in complete running order—will grind j
bushels a day, and cumuli full to make a handsome proa.,
if well managed, in the bands of a person with sufholeu |
capital to carry it on properly. The most satisfactory 1 j
for in aMo on this, and otL**r subjects connected with tk i
busine**, can be obtained at the Mill. ]
sep JE M- IIOIFBUILLET A CO. 1
Norm;.
HIVING purchased the Stock of Messrs. Castlen A
Vardell, we respctfully solicit tlie patronage of’•“df
friend* at war old staml. M ASHEN HI RG A PON. |
Having disposed of our stock as above, we resprctfully
Solletit for Messrs. M A Bon the patronage heretofore-ex
tended to us. CASTLE.N A V 4KDKLL-
Juue lff.UAl __
The Harden Express Cos.
WILL PASS GOODS AT THE
Cu*tm llbnm at Savaiiiiuli,
AND KORWAItD them
By Express or Freight Train, as parties may prefer, only
charging for our trouble the Custom House Fees, for passing
and forwarding. For further information concerning Die
“o.rr‘pfy to M. C MCDONALD, Agent.
Macon, March SO, ISfil.
Corn ami Oak.
I-'JIA ||! XHI.LS Prime Corn rg>V bushels Oats,
iu*r lO 1 r Uy BOWDRE A ANDERSON.
~~CORM ! CORI ! !
BUSH Prime Western Corn, just received
I It If 1 uud for sale at 6< lbs. to the bushel hy
Vug 16 MoCALMF A JONKB.
KEFIIED LEAr LARD.
jj/y Kff/ia Beind Leaf Lftrd now rweiflit aiw! I#
\ QQJgSffSt mouuEi/om
[PUBLISHED UY KK,JITKST. j
AN ArriFl£B
Delivered before ihe *• Nlf*hilnonli ’’amt
“ Sltoumer” Siifli-lirv of the CiriiHn t e
male t olleue, at 11. Annual l oiniurine
iiieiif, J une 27, I BGI.
BY REV. J. KNOWLES.
Unexpectedly summoned to speak in this
interesting presence—with mind and heart
and hand largely pre Occupied with the unusu
al and impressive scenes and events which,
like frightful spectres, are ever flitting be
fore the mind, absorbing our Waking and
sleepiug moments —but little opportunity has
been afforded for ealui and sober reflection
and studied preparation for au occasion like
this. And yet 1 did not feel quite at liber
ty to decline the iuvitation so gracefully ex
tended by your partiality. The uniform
kindness and courtesy which l have always
experienced in your favored community, du
ring my pleasant sojourn and occasional vis
its, caused me to desire to repay, in some
manner, a debt thus gratefully and publicly
acknowledged. In responding to your re
quest, my chief difficulty lias not been the
want of appropriate topics; hut, amid the
themes and thoughts which rush tumultu
ously upon the mind, 1 have been most em
barrassed in selecting sentiments best suited
to profitable itttvvanfe.
\\ r e live truly fn eventful times. The
Government founded by our wise and patri
otic fathers, after a brief career of unsur
passed prosperity and magnificence, has
passed away. its glorious sun has gone
down in clouds and darkness and blood. —
We mourn its unhappy and untimely fate.
The light and benefactor of the world —a
friend and protector to the oppressed —a ter
ror to tyrants and evil doers of high and low
degree, aud “a praise to them that do well”
—-diffusing all through the wide world, the
principles of rational liberty aud Protestant
lb publicanisin —we should be ungrateful
aud degenerate sons of a proud and noble
ancestry, could we, unmoved, look upon the
ruins of this stupendous fabric. Indeed,
the awful events uow transpiring, the horri
ble spectacle now presented—wear rather
the semblance of frightful dreams, than
stern realities. The fact, however, can no
longer be disguised. The old and stately
nationality, in whose diadem glittered thir
ty-three brilliants—the insignia of as many
sovereignties, has fallen—gone, irretrieva
bly, hopelessly gone, to the bonine of all
sublunary things, never more to return.
Standing upon its new made grave, with
sorrowful hearts ami tearful eyes —-mindful
of its great and brilliant deeds, its generous
bestowments upon us, and those who pre
ceded us—as we c ist the mantle of charity
over its faults, we would not surrender our
selves to unavailing regrets. The Uniou ot
our fathers is gone, forever gone; but, from
its crumbling ruins, in the hiuguage of
Georgia’s great and honored statesman,
“ VVe have preserved the Constitution.” —
This glorious .fclgis of American liberty and
Christian civilization, we have rescued from
the burning, sinking wreck. Purified, like
gold, by the tierce flames of a sanguinary
struggle, may we not hope, devoutly hope,
that, unimpaired, it will descend a blessing
to succeeding generations.
Quickly, almost unconsciously, we have
been ushered mto anew political existence.
It is true so much of the old Government
framed by our revered ancestors, as was good,
we still retain and cherish, with filial devo
tion, as our own lawful and priceless birth
right. This is ours —not only by bequest,
but doubly so by the uudeviatiug devotion
with which we have always ministered at the
altars of Constitution*! liberty, and the un
varying fidelity which we have ever brought
to the discharge of our Constitutional obli
gations. And yet, suddenly as has been the
advent of this uow nationality, it was not
altogether unexpected —certainly not unhe
ralded. Latent causes have long existed,
which have gradually worked out this lcsult.
The final catastrophe has been hastened by
two leading ones —Territorial expansion,
and foreign immigration.
The Federal Government was originally
framed for an enlightened, homogeneous,
Christian people —uot tor ignorant, hetero
geneous, infidel rabbles —tor quiet, law-abid
ing freemen —not tor noisy fanatical zealots,
whose hypocritical professions of fealty to
higher law, is used as a masked battery
against all law, and all gospel.
1 have no hesitancy in saying, that to the
great commercial centre of the North, may
be traced those primary cam.es which have
! precipitated this fratricidal and bloody revo
lution. Teeming with people of every dime,
with every variety of customs and antece-
j ents —convuhed with tierce moral, political
aud social antagonisms, it has been the great
emanating fountain, which has sent forth its
poisonous streams into every pait ot the
land.
The South, in some degree, has been con
taminated by moral, social and commercial ‘
contact with this modern Babylon, reeking *
in all manner of licentiousness. Especially ‘
has sbe become politically liilected, by in
haling its poisonous vapors.
The North have long been the silly apes 1
aud sycophants of royalty. Adopting the 1
opinions and lasliions of European Courts,
they have far surpassed them in showy ex- <
travagance, pompous parade, and unblushing i
licentiousness. The South, hy free inter- i
communion and inter-mixture with the i
North —by educating in too many instances
her sons and daughters in its schools and
colleges—by devouring its ho iks and peri- 1
odieals, and adopting its fashions, was fast
losing its hornogeneousness and republican
simplicity. Adopting the illusory notion
that wealth, dress, luxury and effeminacy
are the true badges of respectability, and 1
the only legitimate passport to high social
position, the American mind has run mad
upon the subject of money, and become
wild in frantic efforts for its attainment,.—
This spirit has pervaded all sections and all
classes. A fierce scramble for tnouey —mon-
ey to le boarded for the gratification of a
grovelling pride, or squandered in ostenta
tious extravagance and display. To meet
the unreasonable ami arbitrary exactions of
this morbid and hurtful condition of public
sentiment and feeling, thousands have
donned the nemblnuce ot wealth at the ex
pense of honesty and virtue. The country
has been infested with fast young women,
aud, if possible, still faster young men.—
There has been an utter prostration of all
family discipline, all veneration for parental
wisdom and counsel, and, consequently, the
demoralization of society at large. Lawless
ness at borne and abroad is a discouraging
I characteristic of the age. j
* Entering, a* wo do, upon anew national*
career, amid clouds and storms similar to
•hose which marked the heroic struggles of
our ancestors for the achievement of their
independence, it is eminently proper that wc
should imitate the noble example of those
illustrious patriots and sages—thus showing
to the world that we are worthy sons and
daughters of revolutionary sires and matrons.
So far as mere government is concerned,
Mr. Stephens, in a recent speech, very truly
remarked, that the revolution now going on,
is at the North rather than at the South.—
Ours is the true A merit an Nationality.—
We are merely struggling for the maintaiu
ance and preservation of a principle which
underlies alt republican institutions, viz :
“ The rbjht of the people to govern them
selves.” This is all icc ask. This, however,
does not suit the North, nor meet the exig
encies of their changed c m litionr- “To con
trol and keep in subordinati >n the turbulent
spirits which have Keen gathered there front
every part of the globe, and pampered and
nursed into political excesses by selfish, fa
natical and corrupt leaders, requires a stron
ger government than that formed
ers of the republic. True, the North have
suddenly become enamored with the Consti
tution and prate most eloquently about “the
enforcement of the laws; 1 ’ but they have
long recklessly disregarded the oue, and
ruthlessly trampled upon the other. Happy
would it be for the South, if hereafter a wail
so high should stqiarate us as that no aspir
ing /Eromuit could ever surmount its alti
tude. I say this, not in a spirit of sectional
hatred or bitterness, but from a conviction
long entertained, and recently confirmed,
that, from a variety of causes, we must be
two separate peoples—two distinct nationali
ties.
It is a high tribute to the wisdom of the
fathers of the old government., as well as to
the conservatism of the South, that we have
found the old Constitution, after an experi
ment of more than three quarters of a cen
tury, exactly suited to our present condition
and wants. Afiiictivc and annoying as the
Union had become in many respects, it
would have remained unbroken to this day,
had not a pledge been given to the people,
in advance, that whilst the old Union was
to be thrown off, the old Constitution was to
be retained, and cherished with increased
devotion, and guarded with untiring vigil
ance. Yes, my friends, our free institutions
yet stand where our fathers placed them,
upon the right if the people to govern them
selves. Standing up m this firm, defensible
and enduring basis, and appealing to Heaven
for the purity of our m >tives—who more
worthy than ourselves, to Hoat those “stars
and stripes” which were proudly unfurled
nearly a century ago by the heroes of the
revolution? 1 thank Hod, that although
the old ship of State has gone down amid
sectional storms and breakers, we have saved
the old chart and pennant. The first—replete
with tin; life of anew and vital recognition
—will be found securely guarded in the ar
chives of our national capitol,the other graud
]y waves over our victorious legions.
And here, my friends, right here, a great
and vital question arises—one of momentous
interest to us and la-ting importance to
those who are to succeed us. It is, whether
in our changed relations, we shall be able to
maintain and transmit the government of
our choice and adoption? A satisfactory
solution of this problem depends entirely,
under God, upon the character of the gov
erned. It must be worked out upon the
black-board of time. It is a problem, my
fair auditors, in which you are deeply in
terested, and with which you have much to
do. Upon the moral and religious as well
as the intellectual training of those who
go forth from our teeming schools and col
leges, is involved the safety and glory of
our new Republic.
We have long believed that Christian ed
ucation is fundamental to all stable and
beneficent government. An ignorant and
besotted populace may be controlled by
bristling bayonets—none but an enlightened
and Christian people can be governed by
moral suasion. Lot other nations govern by
force of arms—be it, our lofty aim, to live
under the miid sceptre of the “sword of the
spirit”—the word of God.
All history declares that mere mental il
lumination is no guarantee to liberty, law
and order. The Duka of Wellington once
forcibly said, that “education without relig
ion only makes men clever (smart) devils.”
The Prussians have a wi*o maxim, that
f i —-- yon would have appear in a na
tion’s life, you must put into a nation’s
schools.” Hence you will perceive that the
office of a teacher is not only one of great digni
ty, but also of great responsibility. If l
could but feel that all the youths of our land
would grow up under the hallowed influences
and teachings of Christian homes and Christ
ian schools, I should have no apprehension
in regard to the strength, durability and
beneficence of our new Republic. Ordained
of God, and under the fostering care of suc
cessive geoorations illumined with that wis
dom which cometh from above —pure, gen
tle, peaceful —it would be “like a tree plant
ed by the river,” with leaf evergreen, yield
ing flowers of beauty and fragrance, and
fruit for the healing of the nations.
The great want of iiie age, is enlightened
Christian statesmen. Without them, it is
idle to hope for good government. Os pol
iticiuns, great and small, masculine and fem
inine, we have had a disgusting surfeit.—
Like the locusts and grasshoppers of Egypt,
they have swarmed the land and well nigh
devoured every green thing. An eminent
British statesman once observed, “that though
politics was the most difficult science to mas
ter, yet every body professed to be thorough
adopts in it.” Had lie lived in the middle
of the nineteenth century, nud intermingled
largely with American society, he would not
probably have modified his views. Let us
fondly hope that with the downfall of the
old and venerated govern meut, the reigu of
political charlatans and demagogues is ended.
That, hereafter the management of our po
litical affairs will be committed to statesmen
of pure morals, lofty and unselfish patrio
tism, and Ibidoubted wisdom and integrity
—men well skilled iu political aud ethical
science, who well understand the structure
of society, the spirit and wants of the peo
ple, and who, with earnest zeal, will strive
to elevate and dignify the masses.
Asa grand and leading instrumentality
in Governmental Reform, I look hopefully
to our schools and colleges. We have now
reached a point, where we are thrown not
only upon our material, but also upon our
intellectual resources. Shall wc prove to
the world that we are entirely adequate to
I the work of self-instruction as well is *df
’ protection T That we can dispense with
foreign teachers and foreign text boots? .
What say you, my fair auditors? Will y (l „
enlist in this good war and never fohi
your beautiful arms nor strike your glisteu
ing colors, until the South shall achieve her
literary independence? You are not blessed
with the optical obliquity of the Elbert
heroine, who could, at the same time, sight
a musket and watch her culinary. Nor is it
desirable that you should be. For the im
partial historian frankly remarks, that Nan
cy Hart was not only horribly cross-eyed,
but terribly cross-grained; more formidable
as a soldier, than amiable as a spouse; aud
rather given, withal, to tillibustering in her
own pent up, domestic Utica.
But there is much and appropriate work
for us all to do. If left undone, our new
nationality may prove a brief, sickly, disas
trous experiment. Nor can this work be
.p istponeibto an indefinite and uncertain fu
ture, The present is the plastic period,
when everything is in the formative process.
\Ye may stand still and fold our arms, but
this process will go rapidly on—whether for
grtod or for evil, will be determined by the
influences and appliances to which it is sub
jected. What agencies, what forces, so
powerful as educational? The South with
her vast material resources; with fast mul
tiplying and varied pursuits —thus early in
her history, springing into full and earnest
activity—in the very infancy of her nation
ality, demands a wise aud harmonitma edu
cational system, to exert, as the presiding
divinity of our political institutions, a re-cre
ative and reformatory power upon untaught
and undisciplined mind, and to diffuse
through the whole body politic the health
fuluess of anew and conservative vitality.
There is no time to lose in the application
of the agencies which are to mould public
mind, and instil public morals. The South
has to work out her own great destiny. I
pray that it may be illimitable; glorious and
enduring as the sun and moon. It may be
so, if man aud woman, like those great
lights, will move steadily aud unitedly on iu
their oppropriate orbits f making radiant and
beautiful their respective spheres with deeds
of light.
The experience of the past, and the obser
vation of the present, shows that the South
must have a civilization of her own, or none, j
Shall we not then, I ask you, —ye men and
women, who grace this auspicious occasion
—shall wo not with courageous and trustful j
spirits, as wc lean over the cradle of our
new-born nationality, with deepest solicitude,
seize, and hold with unyielding grasp, those
great moral and intellectual agencies aud
instrumentalities which shall bear it upward
to its grand and beneficent culmination ?
So that in our vast forests, on our expansive
prairies, over our verdaut hills and fields,
through our smiling vallies, along our
mighty rivers, in our floating navy and mar
shaled army, over our iron pathways, iu oar
mechanic and machine shops, and mails ot
commerce, — rpetogwhere, shall be seen and
felt the impulse and imprint of Christian ed
ucation.
Some of our gifted educators have left
the temple of learning, and valiautly rushed
to the battlefield. I appreciate their mo
tives and feelings, but regret their couise. —
1 say it with due respect and deference to
to other professions, wc can better give to
the sword, any other class ot our fellow-cili
zmis (not even excepting editors, those uni
versal philanthropists and bcuefactors) than
efficient christiau teachers. Let such, then,
tarry in the school-room not 1 until their
beard grows,” hut until their locks whiten
in the God like work of mental and moral
illumination.
If we rightly interpret the signs ot the
times we are not likely to have a season i.u
listless indolence, or “elegant leiauie.
Even now the heads and hearts ot au aie
enlisted for the achievement of Southern
Independence. The industrial revolution at
the South, is quite as remarkable as the po
litical one, by which a nation has been born
in a day. The sentiment of patriotism
which lias fired the hearts aud stint to the
battle-field our young men aud old men
(the venerable Grice, of your city, among
the rest) has also awakened a responsive echo
in the hearts of mothers aud daughters, aud
engaged their willing hands in labors of love
and mercy, and dieted feats ol heroism woi
thv of the old American revolution. Have
we’ not recently read of the daring and no
-1,1,, conduct of two young am! accomplished
ladies of Virginia, who, to save our forces
from fatal surprise, started from their homes
in Fairmont, Marion county, disguised and
unattended, and performed on horseback a
journey of more than thirty miles between
six o’clock in the morning, and two o’clock
in the afternoon; often seized and detained
by Lineolnites, but finally eluding their vig
ilance, and performing their patriotic mis
sion in safety? The names of these two
noble heroines, are, Miss Addie Kerr and
Miss Mary McLeod. Their courageous acts
will form a bright page in the glorious his
tory of the second American Revolution,
and will be read aud admired by coining gen
e rations.
Everywhere at the South are the women
actively engaged in making garments for
our soldiers, and otherwise liberally contrib
uting to their comfort. Should this unhap
py conflict, be prolonged, you, young ladies,
will doubtless have an opportunity of prov
ing yourselves ministering angels truly, to
some father, brother, friend, who may re
turn disabled aud mangled from the field of
carnage, or wasted by disease. How beauti
fully is woman’ll character and mission illus
trated by Mary, the mother of Jesus! How
touching the memorable words of the Sav
iour, uttered from the cross —“Behold thy
Mother! Behold thy Son!” Words a<l
dressed to our common humanity, and suited
to all time.
An English author, of the olden time,
thus quaintly portrays the Gdy of “the old
en school” :
“ She was marvellous debonair, and piteous to
them that ‘ were sick, and comforted them, and
served them right humbly; nd gave them larg.-ly
to eat such as they asked; but to herself she was
hard in her sickness aud scarce, for she refused to
eat flesh how well she gave it to others, and also
to drink wine. She was oft by them tliut were
sick, and she laid the pillows aright and in point;
and she rubbed their feet, and boiled water to
wash them ; aud it seemed to her that the less she
did to the sick in service, so much the less service
did she to (iod, and deserved the le.-s mercy;
therefore she was to them piteous and nothing to
herself.”
In modern times no one probably shines
so conspicuously as the soldier’s friend as
Florence Nightingale—a name happily adop
ted by one of your Societies —as she lingers
like an “augel of goodness” in tbe hospitals
of Crimea—hovering around the bed-sides
of the maimed suffering soldiers
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smoothing with her own hands their pillows
—cheering their despondency with gentle
•rdsj providing them with suitable nourish
mi nt and muses—and looking after their
pi ncra comfort, la so much that a poor sol
■ j , . passing over his
l*d seemed to do Wm = Tem i , u
well describes U.e feel.og. of , w
warrior under such gentle nor duo in the
following beautiful liues:—
“ A kindlier influence reigned*,aud everywhere
I,ow voices w ith the ministering hand
Hung round the sick. The maidens came, they
talked,
They sung, they read, till she, not fair, began
To gather light, and she thas was, became
< Her former beauty trebled! to and fro,
Like creatures native unto gracious act,
And in their own clear element they moved.”
A word to the graduating class, in addition
to the weighty and appropriate counsels of
your worthy President. Your college exer
cises are ended. The ties which have bound
you to classic scenes and associates, are for
ever sundered. Like Eve, driven from her
happy Eden, you go forth from your colleg
iate paradise, with mingled emotions, to en
counter the vicissitudes of ordinary life,
whilst memory fondly lingers over the bright
and beautiful reminiscences of scholastic
days. You enter upon life’s active drama
at a time when it beho<f\es ait to perform
well their part. Have you reflected that
you are the Alumnae of anew epoch?—
That upon your diploma is inscribed a new’
and momentous era? “The first year‘of the
Independence of tbe Confederate States of
America? That you leave your Alma-Ma
ter under the auspices of anew nationality,
—baptized, it may be, iu the blood of a
father, brother, lover. 1 almost envy your
lot.
You will not be called upon to encounter
the bloody onset of the battle-field, nor the
fierce strife of political and military rival
ship. These, happily, come not w ithin your
sphere. In your own pure and quiet homes,
you will find appropriate employment in the
discharge of domestic duties—in the culti
vation of those benevolent and kindly affec
tions, and holy aspirations, which so eaalt
and adorn the female character; and as you
go abroad, scatter around yon those timely
benefactions and charities that make this
life so beautiful and blessed, and which yield
in the great harvest of eternity a hundred
fold of immortal delights, to regale us in the
life which is to come. In view of the event
|ful present, and thrilling future, I could ut
| ter no more appropriate parting words than
the following, from the gifted pen of Mrs.
[Sigourney, whose honored name is borne by
one of your Societies:—
“Lite is mournful, — its duties
Cluster ’round each passing day,
While their sweet and solemn voices,
Warn to work, to watch, to pra? ;
They .-done, its blessings forfeit
Who by sin their spirits cheat,
Or lo slothful stupor yielding,
Let the rust their armor eat.
Life is beautiful—affections
’Hound its roots, with ardor cling,
’ili.t its opening blossoms nestle,
Hirdhke, in its brunches sing.
Smiling lull its cradle slumbers,
Guard with pride its youthful bloom,
Fondly kiss its SDotv-wliitc temples,
Dew its turf-mound o’er its tomb.
Life is beautiful—with promise
Os joy that cannot fade,
Lite is fearful, with the threatening
Os an everlasting shade;
May no thoughtless wanderer scorn it
Hlittdly lost in lolly’s maze;
I)utv, love and hope adorn it,
Let its latest breath be praise.”
From the Richmond vVu ) Enquirer, July 2.
ili iilinn! AeliiCveuieut.
Another of those daring and successful
enterprises which have so frequently distin
guished our men, took place last Saturday,
resulting in the capture of the line steamer
St. Nicholas iu the service of the United
States, and running from Baltimore to
Washington, aud three other valuable prizes.
On Friday eveuiug about 4 o’clock tbe
steamer left Baltimore for Washington.
Among her passengers were thirteen brave
Marylanders, of whom Col. R. Thomas was
j chief. Lieut. G. IV. Alexander, with an
other party, came on board, and took pas
sage for Washington. Having resolved to
take the steamer, aud determined on the
plan of operations, early on Saturday morn
ing they proceeded to put it in execution.
The two officers and their friends seized
their arms, and demanded a surrender of the
vessel, ihe Captain and crew surrendered
without resistance and were immediatlely
confined. The steamer was then placed un
der command of Capt. Hollins, late of tho
L uited States Navy, who guided her into
Cone river, near the mouth of the Potomac.
He thence sailed down the Potomac, and on
his passage captured two schooners and a
brig. One of tbe vessels was loaded with
11,500 bags of coffee, one with about 200
tons of anthracite coal and the third with
about 200 tons ot ice; the value of which,
with tbe steamer, which is a very la*rge one,
must amount to a very haudsome sum of
money. All of the prizes were tyken to
1 Fredericksburg. V
‘J lie Captaiu aud crew of the steamer and
prizes, some forty in number, were brought
here yesterday in charge of Lieut. Alexan
der and have been safely housed in the
building oil Main-street used for the pur
pose.
With such a feat as this before their eyes,
the people of the Southern States will per
ceive that to come up to the Maryland boys
will put them up to their full mettle. All
Uonor to the heroes, and honor and congrat
ulations to all concerned in ihe affair.
Solemn Incident. — Gov Ellis sent iu
to tho North Carolina Convention the dis
patch of Col. Hill, published elsewhere.—
When the closing paragraph was read, a
deep, thoughtful solemnity was manifest on
every countenance. The venerable Judge
Ruffin improved the serious moment by a
tew well-timed remarks, suggesting that
when the members went to their respective
lodgings they would retire, bowing before
God, iu tbe language of Col. Hill, “give
unto His great name all the praise of our
success.
Singular Detention oe a Railroad
Train. A Conductor on the Nashville Kail
road informed us a tew days ago, that bis
train was stopped by an emigration of army
worms crossing the track. They were over
an inch thick, and the wheel of the locomo
tive, when it came upon their midst, whirled
round and round as if the track was covered
with ic?, and would not move an inch for
ward. Tho train was backed out and the
track cleared of the worms with shovels. —*
Louisville Courier.