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Sl'XDAY MORN'IN'O. JAX. in. 1S74.
r Improvisations.— IX.
, mu-blade is my trarliie lance,
A JJu«c-fc*nini7»WcU;
nfmtt d tbe ron arc. every one.
1 M; charier* (or the field.
The momina aives megolde.1 steeds,
* The moon gives sUver-white;
T i*, ,f>n drop down, rav helm to crown,
WW?° Forth to fight.
rtj burLl rs flji-u. the mar,* cnah.
The haiigbtytmmpeta blow.
UM touch, and all.with armor eWt.
Then dances o’er tha waterfall
'Ss lalnlwwinjtvjgee;
The daiu suwa, the lily rings
Her bell* ot victory.
go I am aimed whem’er I n.
And mounted, mght or day.
U ho shall oppose the conquering rose.
And who the sunbeam slay f
(>o. 2—Concluded.)
VS. COJU’TROLLEB TIIWEATT’S
UNPAID SALARY.
„ The laborer Is Worthy of His Hire”
_Hj CInliu tor the Halanre of my
salary as Comptroller General.
Had the State hold my notes of a simi
lar character, eight or nine years ago,
pren her at "specie rates” or any other
rttea, for work done or services rendered
during the war, everybody knows that
tha moment I refund positively to “re
wire" the same “in payment of all dues’
to me, or otherwise refused tp “redeem
said notes as promised on their face, the
State would have at cnee through her
marts forthwith collected the same from
me, together with legal interest from
thejtivf day I refused to “receive” or “re
deem” said notes, even though it might
have taken tho last dollar’s worth of my
property to havo paid the same. Since the
ilose of the war, the State or her officers,
attorneys or agents luive collected or at
tempted to collect debts duo her for
“work done” or “servieea rendered dur
ing the war,” by her convicts in the pen
itentiary. I know not how many of these
debts havo been collected. I only know
that in May or June, 1872, I received a
very .feeling and earnest letter from a
puor old widow lady, who had lost three
ions in tho war, and whoso honest old
husband died in 1868, from grief on ac
count of those afflictions and other losses.
She seemed to be much troubled about a
debt due the State, made with tho peni
tentiary, which one of tho agents of the
State was trying to collect out of her de
ceased husband’s estate, said claim dating
leek from the 29th July, 1804. Tlie es
tate was only worth $1,000 or $2,000 in
lind and a few cows and horses. Tho
good old lady was nearly 70 years old,
and only had two daughters to work for
her. and their own support. She begged
me to intercede for her and “help” her
in her trouble j” as, in I860, long before
the homestead exemption act, I had, of
my own accord voluntarily and most
cheerfully tendered and given up to her
poor, honest, grief stricken old husbands
note for borrowed money, in amount near
ly as large os what ho owed the State,
it was indeed, n “labor of lore” for me to
engage in such a cause. I therefore, im
mediately saw the State agent at her re-
■ of: :• thr home-itiuJ and personalty
• remption act had been passed; and sat
isfying him that tho homestead and por-
fonalty exemption act would leave noth
ing for tha State, he gavo me a paper
that I enclosed to her, which did indoed
"make glad the heart” of the good old
widowed "mother in Israel,” os her two
letters now on filo in the office of the prin
cipal keeper of the penitentiary will
abundantly show.
Is it right, therefore, for tho Great
State of Georgia note to refuse to pay her
“ " * given mo for services rendered du-
tho war, and “ not incidental to a
of war,” when sho would most cer
tainly mako mo pay my notes given her
for similar services ? Is it magnanimous
for her to do such a thing, when all know
that while sho had tho power to compel
me to pay, I had wo power, either eight or
nine years ago, and have none tioiv to
compel her to pay me. After having, since
tho war, collected or attempted to collect
debts duo her from others, for services
tendered during the war, is it fair, or is
it honest for her now to refuse to pay her
notes, that I have never parted with and
“ Provided that nothing herein contained
shall prcien( any Legislature hereafter to
assemble from making appropriation of
money for tho payment of any claim
against the State originating after the
19th day of January, 1301. when it shall
be made clearly to appear that such claim
was founded upon a consideration discon
nected with any purpose of aiding or as
sisting the prosecution of the war against
the United States and not incidental to a
state of scar."
The statute of this State (see Irwin’s
Revised Code, section 2,494) makes
“notes” of a "higher dignity” and pay
able before "accounts” in the payment by
Administrators and others of claims and
debts. But tho authorities of the State,
in paying certain civil officers for their
services rendered during tho war, merely
upon "acconntp,” while failing to pay
those holding “notes” for the same kind
ef services, have wholly degraded this
wise and wholesome law, and have actu
ally “rur the cart bdfors the horse !”
If every civil officer and member of the
Legislature in this State were called upon
to-morrow to present the notes of the
State they now hold for their salaries or
services, I doubt if much more, if any,
than $50,000 of them can he presented
by all. And yet, by such “fantastic
tricks” as tho above, certain civil officers
havo been kept ont of their green backs,
or money, while other civil officers, and
others, havo got their green backs, or
money, for their service during the war—
over eight yeare ago. And while certain
faithful servants of tho people have failed
to get their notes "recognized” and
“paid” in green backs, by such “fantas
tic tricks” as tho above, the rich bend
holders of this and other States have had
their bonds “recognized” and the interest,
“paid,” and Tom, Dick and Harry, and
the rich trader and speculator of this
and other States, who never worked a day
for the State, have had their notes or
change hills paid dollar for dollar, in
greenbacks.
But these “fantastic tricks,” I trust,
have had “their day,” and I can but feel
that a “better time” is near at band,
friends. Ilia nr, Paish, Justice and
Law, as one man, havo had the floor, and
being clearly heard or seen, WILL PRE
VAIL. p. T.
a
Address oi Speaker Bacon.
The Constitution roports the following
eloquent address of Speaker Bacon, of
Bibb county, on taking the Chair and
opening tho session of tho House:
Gentlemen of the House of Eepresentatires:
As your presiding officer, the pleasing
duty devolves upon mo of welcoming you
upon your return to your official duties.
The public situation devolves upon us
seriousresponsibilities. Sinceouradjourn-
ment, les3 than one year ago, grave ques
tions havo arisen among the people, and
now present themselves to us, invoking
our earnest consideration and demanding
our solemn decision. Some of these are
questions of State policy, looking to tho
weal of the whole commonwealth as such,
and others are questions of the individ
ual interest of the citizens claiming in a
tiwo of calamity and trial the protecting
hand and fostering core of the State.
They havo not been conceived or sug
gested by any ono man, but owo their
commanding dignity to the fact that they
are propounded to us by the great voice,
and through tho necessities and wants of
tho people; and as when the forest is
Bhom away, and tho virgin soil is first
turned by the ploughshare, there speedily
springs a new growth, tho seed of which
the hand of man has not sown, and which
has been germinated and warmed into
life by tbo requirements and wants of
tho ground which produces it; so, in the
changes and fortunes of tho revolving
year, some of these issues have been
bodied forth by the public needs of tho
State, and others have been born of tho
just spirit of resistance to grievous and
unauthorized burdens, and of the need
for assistance in tho disappointments and
the sufferings of faithful but unrequited
industry. These issues are before us—
thoy peremptorily cliallengo our atten
tion, and wo must meet and dispose of
them without quibble or evasion.
There are evils undoubtedly existing—
tho remedies for them should he applied,
but in what these remedies shall consist
is the difficult and important question.
Unless paramount objection bo shown,
the proper course is to execute tho popu
lar wish; for while tho legislator has in
dividual responsibilities which cannot be
disregarded, still within constitutional
limitation, the voice of thoso whom he
represents should ho with him only les3
potent than tho Divine mandate.
It cannot he disguised that thero is
general suffering from pecuniary embar
rassment among tho large majority of our
now hold for similar services f Ought I people, and that while the aggregate
members of the Legislature, l>y their ac-1 wealth of the State lias been increasing,
tion or Rflti.optlorti. mnlrA Anr unWn olrl f.lin<3A Tnr wIima Inlvn Lilia wealth. lias
tion or non-action, make our noble old
Stato do dial which, if rone by an individ
ual these very members themselves
wouliljat once denounco ns “unfair” or
“dishonest,” or “little” and “mean,”
etc., etc. Oar Savior thus instructed us
ill: " As yo would that men should do
to you, do ye also to them likewise.”—
SL Luke, vi—31.
Theroforo, even if tho present Legis
lature (beingmow well informed) should
not care enough for the integrity and
honor and fair character of Georgia, for
them to pay me, or since, together with
other Legislatures, it. has “recognized”
what is called tho Atlantic and Gulf rail-
rood bonds issued during tbe war to
raise money to meet a deficiency in the
Treasury, (and bought perhaps by specu
lators or moneyed men for Confederate
money) and have paid tho holders of tho
bonds tbe interest on the same. Since,
too, together with other Legislatures, tho
present Legislature has paid other civil
officers, and others, for services rendered
“during the war.” And. since, together
with Uio Legislature, of 1S72, it ordered
or directed (without objection by any ono
so far as new appears) the Governor to
pay all the State Hoad change bills or
notes (93,508,40) were issued but fortu
nately for the State only $23,12(5.73 oould
be found and brought in for redemption
Which Rave been paid dollar for dollar,
1 repeat, that, under all these cireum-
■.tances, and since the Le gislatures of 18-
72 and 1873 composed of different or two
sets of members, have deemed that the
interest, credit and honor of Georgia, re
quired that they should vote $93,508.40 if
necessary, to pay tho State Road change
bills issued during the war for bank bills
and Confederate Treasury notes, and held
by Tom, Dick and Harry, the larger por
tion of which was held by rich moneyed
men, traders, nnd speculators, in this and
other States, who, perhaps, traded for or
bought up said notes or bills at the rate
of five, ten, fifteen and twenty cents in
the dollar, and who never served the State
one day during the war. H, under all
these circumstances, the present Legis
lature, have it not in their hearts as an
act of “even handed justice." now, and at
once or before the session closes,
TO TAKE Ur OF ITS OWE ACCOST,
this matter, and pay res loo, in State
sokds (to run for 20 years), if it chooses,
ospocially after seeing hor hard and how
faithfully I worked, and how much the
State has been benefited by my services,
on.l how very e'-onomiccllj I managed her
yia while her servant—if, under all
these circumstances, tho present Legis-
h*ture will not pay me, I can but yet confi-
^-rr.tly hope that sooner or later otherrep-
^^antativos of an honest and highminded
•nd honorable people, such as I believe
I?® controlling masses of tho people of
Georgia to be, will yet do me justice, and
** E that the faithful i.ahoeee gets
HrSHIEl!”
. feeling and so believing, I shall
”L Patiently, to await the “better time
-uung.” Very respectfully,
... Peterson Thweatt.
-1 he receipt book in the Executive of-
- riH show that the State only has my
■weif ta f or The Governor’s “ drafts ” or
—x mats * ’ upon the State Treasurer
‘ favor for my several quarters as
n? ** Comptroller General, which
or warrants were from time to time,
about the 1st of April, 1SG2, to the
■ ‘ of May, 1865, exchanged with the State
Teas lirer for the State.^ notes, which notes
f^ciTed by me from the State Treasurer
fcem paid.
. following is tlie “ proviso '* in
— 1 called the “ Repudiating Ordi-
"“ce of 1335 and 13f,3” that I have re
ared to:
this law. Our great want is money „
safe and abundant circulating medium.
Our people have a large amount of valua-
ole property, hut on account of the want
of currency nothing can be spared from
ordinary trade for investment, and +L«t
property is utterly unsaleable, and money
can only be obtained at a price two and
three times its legitimate producing val
ue. To issue* of paper money there are
many objections, but to the entire finan
cial ruin of a large portion of our people
there are greater objections, and of two
evils, if either must be had, wisdom
chooses the least.
The wide-spread financial distress in
the State calls peremptorily for care
upon our part in exercising the
power. Hot only so, but the united voice
of tho people demands that while the
State refuses to assess an onerous tax, it
shall not permit county and municipal
authorities to collect taxes without limi
tation. The State tax of last year -was
4-10 of one percent, and yet the county
and municipal taxation in some sections
of the State swelled this amount to three
per cent, in the payment of which suff
ering and loss must certainly ensue to
the citizens. Such exercise of the taxing
power should be denied to them, and the
limits of the same should be clearly and
sharply defined. Upon the property
of the State a small assessment re
alizes a sufficient revenue, and if the
necessities of the tar-payers should for
bid it, even this assessment to the full
extent need not be made, for during the
past year it has been shown that Georgia
has other resources than taxation. The
$1,200,000 of her bonds authorized to be
issued by the last session of this Legisla
ture have all been sold at par, and in the
main jto her own citizens. This has been
done in spite of the great scarcity of
money and of tho financial panic which
shook the continent, and the result Is
the proud reply which Georgia makes to
the taunt that because she refused to
recognize her liability upon a spurious
and counterfeit indebtedness she should
bo shut out from the money markets of
the world.
IVo have reached a turning point in
our history. For years past we have
been earnestly occupied in the struggle
to rescue our Stato government from the
grasp of aliens and adventurers, and to
defeat the designs of the harpies
plunderers who fastened upon the public
treasury. A gratifying success haa at
length rewarded our efforts, and our at
tention is now claimed l>y the necessity
to rebuild our waste places and restore
tlie glory of the former prosperity. Diffi
culties mountain high lie before us, but
despondency and despair should not char
acterize the descendants of those heroic
men who out of the wilderness built up
that magnificent development of material
wealth and intellectual and social culture
which justly earned for Georgia the
proud title of the Empire State of the
South. Their example now challenges
our emulation. These Fathers of the
State who look down upon us from these
walls, bid us be true to tho glorious mem
ories and traditions of tbe past. In the
deeds of her noble living, and in the
memories of her illustrious dead, there
are for us pride and inspiration; and
from out the midst of uncertainty and
doubt which veil our future, shadowy
liands of departed patriots beckon us on
to the goal in the paths of fidelity and
honor which they trod.
necessity of Personal Labor.
Tho annihilation of our system of la
bor, says the Norfolk Virginian, renders
it imperatively necessary for us to resort
to severo economies. We must alter the
style of our dwellings to accord with our
changed condition and the circumstances
which surround us. Especially will our
kitchens have to be provided with “all
the modern improvements," and so loca
ted as to be under the immediate super
vision of the mistress of the house. Tho
farmer will find it to his advantage to
avail himself, moro than ever before, of
labor-saving machines. And so on
through every department of life; what
ever will economize time and labor must
be studied and adopted by onr people as
far as practicable.
The youth of the State must be reared
with a full knowledge of the value of a
manly self-reliance, and should be taught
to work for themselves. When wo cease
to entertain extravagant and erroneous
ideas of the social dignity of idleness,
then, and not till then, will we begin to
build up our waste places, as the trite
phrase runs. This ago looks moro and
more every day at results, and although
we are oppressed with debt and taxation,
and strugglo under an iniquitous consti
tution, still wo have resources within
ourselves which a race of busy workmen
can develop, and that, too, with the cer
tainty of accumulating wealth and power.
This theory is not at nil incompatible
with sound education for our boys in tho
. ordinary meaning of the term. They
I can bo students of books and work also
at the plow or the forge; with axe and
hammer; and a recognition of the cir
cumstances by which wo ore surrounded,
teaches every thoughtful parent in the
State that the next generation, to be
successful, must be able to work with
their hands as well as their heads.
Grant to Ask the Redaction of His
Own Salary.
A Senator who was in conference with
tho President to-day, states that Mr.
Grant will return to Congress, without
his signature, the hill repealing the sal
ary steal, accompanying it with a recom
mendation that it be reconsidered and an
amendment added reducing the pay of
the Chief Executive to $25,000 a year, he
agreeing to forego his constitutional
right to tho increase.—TFiuJu'n<rIo» corre
spondence Cincinnati Commercial, 1.4th
instant.
If Grant does this, his friends had
better sue out a writ de hmatico. It will
prove conclusively that his mind is not
in its normal condition. "We would as
soon expect to see Beast Butler disgorge
his war plunder, or Bureau Howard make
public confession of his hypocrisy and
sticky fingers. The whole thing is “plu-
perfectly d— prepostuous."
those by whoso labors this wealth has
been mainly created, are themselves stag
gering almost to their final fall under tho
load of over increasing debt. Tho heroic
struggle thoy havo mado during the past
eight years, in tho faco of great difficul
ties, to retrievo their lost fortunes, is
about to culminate in general disaster to
our most valuable indastry. How may
this great calamity bo averted ? Can it
not be effected in a great measure by
proper and intelligent legislation which
shall do violence to tho rights of no ono.
hut which shall relievo the citizens of
every unnecessary burden, and gird him
with tho power to enjoy and use to tho
utmost advantage all the resources at his
command ?
Why should Georgians be poor? Are
they not intelligent and industrious?
And is not Georgia a Stato in which all
the elements of soil, sky and climate com
bine. to offer to intelligent industry a
reward greater in quantity, variety and
value, than can be garnered from any
other area of equal size upon the Conti
nent? Besides the great staple of cotton
which whitens her fields, in the winds
which sweep from the mountain tops of
her northern boundary to her southern
plains, there waves in profuse succession
every variety of agricultural product,
from tbo hardy grains and grasses of the
North to tho rich vegetation and golden
fruits of the tropics. "Winding through
her fertile valleys and traversing her
extended plains arc many lordly rivers;
and in the .broad and deep bosom of her
hills lies, locked in slumber, tho vast and
varied wealth of her minerals, awaiting
but tho awakening hand of native enter
prise.
And yet, while the busy hum of ear
nest labor goes up constantly from all
tho length and breadth of this magnifi
cent inheritance, why is it that a_large
majority of those most earnest in the
struggle yearly grow poorer and poorer
under ever augmenting debts; and why
is it lamentably true that the mo3t pro
ductive lands in the State cannot he sold
for one-tenth of the value of their yearly
product? These are serious questions,
calling for the earnest reflection and ex
amination of tlie legislator to see if some
laws now in force do not produce this
blight, and if, by the absence of others,
there is not a failure to furnish the citi
zen with the assistance and protection to
which he is entitled. In a widespread
and continued failure of intelligent in
dustry, aided by great natural resources,
the responsibility may, in general, be laid
upon the Government because of some
thing it has done, or other thing it has
failed to do.
Unfortunately in one instance, laws in
juriously affecting our interests are not
limited "to State laws which are within
our control, and among the many unjust
statutes of the Federal Government it is
not difficult to trace much of our distress
to an iniquitous tariff law which requires
of us an almost double expenditure for
articles of comfort and necessity, and a
discriminating and excessive banking law
which denies to our people the requisite
amount of currency for the transaction
of legitimate business, and the develop
ment of the State’s resources. But while
we cannot control this Federal legislation, B c plaitsagan.
it is not unworthy of our consideration , A . p. , npr.r.
whether it is practicable to inaugurate ! FLANNAGAN, ABELL A CO.,
counteracting measuresjand especially in i pactOTH and Gkmeral Com-
Tf»fArorvv> ir, tins fifnncrPTlt law t
A Spanish Gilt for Grant.
The reputation of Gen. Grant for ac
cepting presents seems to be world-wide.
At least the Costelar government in
Spain appears to have heard of it, and to
have recognized its obligations to him
for the policy pursued by this Govern
ment in the settlement of the Virginia
matter. The President of Spain has sent
to the President a beautiful sword, which
is now in the possession of the State De
partment. It is one of the famous Toledo
blades, On one side of the sword is in
scribed a list of all the battles in which
Gen. Grunt was engaged during the war
of the rebellion, and on the other side is
the legend. “Let us have peace.” It has
a basket hilt carved by hand, instead of
being cast. The scabbard is of polished
steel, without ornament. It was sent
through the American legation at Mad
rid. A special act of Congress is to be
passed to enable the President to receive
it. The sword was transmitted by Cas-
telar’s Minister of "Wax; and all the
members of the Cabinet contributed to
purchase it, Castelar himself being the
principal donor.
W. DC5CAK. 3. H. JOIESSTOX. M. MACLEAN.
DUNCAN, JOHNSTON CO.,
Cotton Factors and General Com
mission Merchants,
92 Bay Street, Savannah, Ca.
auvl 6m
reference to this stringent hanking law
which pampers the interest of one section,
and denies the vital breath of business
prosperity to onr own ; whether the State
should not come to the rescue of her suf
fering people in the supply of a currency
through depositories or other means
which would defv the taxing clause of
CHRISTMAS GOODS!
NEW YEAR’S GOODS!
GRAND LOTTERY FOR MAI ESTAT1!
WALKER & DOBBS
Have got the Panic “ Bad,” and have marked their Goods
DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN
DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN
DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN
DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN
DOWN DOWN DOWN
DOWN DOWN DOWN
DOWN DOWN
DOWN
TO
A
P
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T.
WE ABE DETERMINED THAT THE PEOP-LE SHALL HAVE
CHRISTMAS,
Notwithstanding tlie Scarcity of Money !
And have just opened a large assortment of
SILVER PLATED GOODS, TOILET SETS,
MOTTO CUPS, ETC., ETC.,
AT VERY LOW PRICES.
Come and see for yourself, and remomber that onr Goods are USEFUL as well
as ORNAMENTAL, quite an itom thoso timo3.
decl7eod tf
W ALKER <3c DOBBS.
GH EAT
Freigit and Passenger Line
—VIA—
CHARLESTON, S. C..
• -TO AND FROM—
PHeinliia, Not York and Boston!
AND ALT. THE NF,W ENGLAND MANUFACTURING CITIES.
THREE TIMES A WEEK FROM NEW YOJRK,
TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS AND SATURDAYS.
ELEGANT STATE-ROOM ACCOMMODATIONS—SEA VOYAGE 10 TO 12
HOURS SHORTER VIA CHARLESTON.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD C0„
And connecting Roads West, in alliance with the Fleet 'of Thirteen First-Class Steamships to the
above Ports, invito attention to the Quick Time juid Regular Dispatch afforded to tbe business public
in the Cotton States at the
PORT Of? OHARJLESTOi^l,
Offering fidlitie* of Bail and Sea Transportation for Freight and Pawn vers not exceeded in excel
lence and capacity at any other Port. The following splendid Ocean Steamers are rt-gulafly oil the
Line:
TO NEW YORK.
MANHATTAN— M. S. WoobncLL. Commander
TOTAL CAPACITY40,000BALES MONTHLY
TO BALTIMORE.
FALCON
VIRGINIA..
SEA GULL
..Hxixie. Commander.
Commander.
..Duttox. Commander.
TO BOSTON.
STEAMSHIPS MERCEDITA AND FLAG..
..S-lIL EVKRT 8ATUSDAT.
JAMES AUGER A CO., Agents, Charleston, S. C.
mission Merchants,
1S5 BAT STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
and liberal cash advances made on eofuagnmems
for sale in Savannah, or on shipments to our oor-
respondents iu Northern, Ifaatem or cDiopfflu
WrkrU. • u « 1 ^
THE GEORGIA.
Beal Estate & Miration Co.
Offer the public the following scheme:
$126,000
Real Estate in Georgia!
1IAL0IE, WILLIIGMM I CO.’S
AGRICULTURAL DEPOT.
THE DIXIE PLOW!
This Plow is now in general use in Georgia, an.l without a doubt has become tho
ivorite Plow with the Farmers of the South. Sold only by MALONE, WILLING-
SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY PRIZES
St.:— (guaranteed os low as those of Competing Lines. Marine Insurance one-half of one per cent.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING AND THROUGH TICKETS
Can be had at all tbe principal Railroad Offices in Geonria. Alabama. Tennessee and Mississippi.
State Rooms may be secured in advance, without extra charxe, by address mgAeentsot the Steam-
■hips in Charleston, at wboee offices, in all cases, the Railroad Ticket, should be exchniwed and Berths
assigned. The Through Tickets by this Route include Transfers, Meals and State Boom, while on
ship board.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD,GEORG LA RAILROAD
And their connecting Line* hare largely increased their faciliiies for the rapid morement ofPreytht
riMilium between the Northern Cities and the South and M e-»t- On the Georgia and bouQi
to day and nhrht trains of th« South Carolina Bail-
rood* do^ingfmchU at HJSKfe
neM. Tim lf*iM«rr» will nrr r r —— tK *** rrw *5 win * that the hen V1A CHARLESTON
^ Agent. AU.nU. Ga; HP.HAS-
BUtOrenlisak P. a. Box «7». Office 317 Broadway. N. Y- S. B. PICKENS General Pissrneer
St Ticket AgontTsoutll Carolina Railroad, or
WHOLE TICKETS ONLY SOLD
Capital Prize $25,000!
Tickets Ten Dollars Each
Localized by State Authority, ami Drawn ia Pub
lic, in Augusta. Ga. Glass A to be drawn on the
£2d of April, 1374. Six hundred and forty prizes,
amounting in the Aggregate, to $120,000.
CHARLESTON
James Kerry, Commander.
JAMES ADGKR
.T. J. Lockwood. Commander.
GEORGIA
JAMES ADGKR A CO.. Agents, Charleston, S. C.
SOUTH CACOL1XA
T. J. Beckett, Commander.
CLYDE
J. Kexxkdt, Commander.
ASHLAND
C0 '} A-«, Onr,..ton.*. C.
TO PHILADELPHIA.
IRON STEAMSHIPS.
ASHLAND
Axexaxpzr llr.VTER. Commander.
RnnATOR
. - C. Hixcklek, Commander.
SAILING DATS—FRIDAYS.
ATM. A. COURTENAY, Ajsent, Charleston. S. C.
HilyS eodAcr
SdiKIEKf
Sopststeodont Ormt Southern Freight nnd PaMengar Line. Charleston. & 0.
First and Capital Prize—An improved lot
in tlie city of Atlanta, situated at tha^cor
ner of Llovd and Wall streets, within GO
feet of tho Uniou Passenger Depot, 25 feet
front, and running back 110 feet, to 20
feet alley; a new nnd elegantly con
structed four-story building thereon;
basement, storeivonis and sleeping ajsirt-
ments; can he rented for £3,000 per an
num ; valued at $23,000
Second Prize. A Ci y Lot on w est side ot
Spring street, be ween Cain and Harris
streets, in .Atlanta, fronting 100 feet, ami
running back 200 feet to aii alley, where
on there is erected a now and elegantly-
built dwelling-house, containing cloven
convenient and commodious rooms, be
sides bathing rooms, store-rooms, water
closet, fuel rooms, etc., with water works
attached, hot and cold water pipes, and
all necessary out-buildings. One of the
most desirable * city residences in tha
South, valued at : 20.000
Third Prize. A Farm iu the far-famed Ce
dar Valley, Polk county. Ga., two and a
half miles from Cedartown, containing
320 acres, half cleared; balance well tim
bered: abundant running water, com
fortable buildings, etc., valued at L»2SOO
Fourth Prize. A Farm in Xocoochfld Valley.
White county, Ga., of 250 acres, well im
proved and in a high stato of cultivation;
good dwelling, new and necessary out
houses, adjoining the new and magultl-
cent possessions of Cnpt. Jas. IL Nichols,
valued at ; 10.000
Fifth Prize. A Farm of 300 acres, situate 20
miles west of Matron.in Crawford county,
Ga., in the fork t>f Big and Little Kcha-
con nee creeks; half cleared and in a good
state of cultivation; balance heavilytim-
bered with oak, hickory and beach; good
dwelling, out-houses, etc.; capital gin
and cotton press, valued at............ 8,000
Sixth Prize. A Tract of Land of 23 acres,
situate in Richmond county. Ga., one-
half mile from the corporate limits of
Augusta, Ga., with ail the improvements
thereon, consisting of an elegant frame
dwelling, with all the necessary out
buildings in good order, etc., valued ot.. 8,000
Seventh Prize. A recently improved City
Lot in Marietta, Ga., containing about
two acres, with a. ten-room dwelling-
house theron, in good repair; kitchen,
servants’ house, dairy house, stables, rtf.
Within two hundred yards of the rail
road depot, valued at..... 7,500
Ono prize $7,000' JOne prize,third...... 475
One prize 4.500 ;One prize, fourth... 475
One prize .1,800 One prize, fifth 475
One prize, first 1,100 One prize,sixth .... 475
One prize, second...1400; One prize, first 400
One prize, third... -1,100 One prize, second... -loo
One prize, first OOOjiOne prize, third 400
One prize, second... 900; ;Ono prize, fourth... 100
One prize :..... 750 ;One prize, fifth 400
One prize, first 550 ! Oue prize,sixth 400
One prize, second... 5501'Ono prize, first 300
One prize, third 550} jOne prize, second:.. 800
One prixe, fourth... 550 ;Ono prize, third..... 800
One prize, fifth 550; One prize, fourth... 300
One prize, sixth 550 !One prize, fifth 300
One prize, first....... 475i jOne prize, sixth 300
One prize, second... 475; Six hundred prizes.fi,0t>0
6to prizes, amounting in the aggregate tofil28,000
Six Bandied approximation prizes, valued at $10
each.
MODE OF DRAWING.
There will bo upon the stage two glass® wheels,
the contents of which can be seen by all the spec
tators. A committee of two citizens, in no way
connected with tho management, and of undout*
ed integrity, having first counted and examined,
will place m the larger wheel 12.GOO tickets, ex
actly alike, and having printed numbers from 1
to 12,000, corresponding to all the tickets sold. A
similar committee, having first counted and ox-
amed, will place in tubes precisely alike tlie
mixes which arc placed in the smaller wheel.
Both wheels will then be turned until their con
tents arc thoroughly mixed. A boy under fifteen
years, blindfolded, will then draw from tlie larger
wheel one of tlie 12,GOO tickets, and holding it up
in full view of the spectators and auditors, its
number will be called by the crier appointed for
this purpose, so that all present may hear. Tho
number will then be passed to the committee of
citizens, who will say whether the number has
been rightly called. It will then lie passed to a
registrar, who will filo it, and record it upon a
book prepared for that purpose. A boy of similar
age will then draw from H10 smaller wheel one of
the tulies containing n prize, which will be opened
and- held up to tha view of the spectators and au
ditors. The value of the real estuto prize will
then bo criod and jiassod to tlie committee, who,
after inspection, will give it to another registrar
to file and record. Tlie prize thus drawn will be
long to the ticket l»cariug the number drawn im
mediately before it. Thus this process will con
tinue, drawing first from the largo wheel con
taining the tickets, and then from the small or
prize wli3el, until all the tubes containing tho
prizes are drawn. An accurate record of the above
will bo kept on file, certified to by tho comniitteo
of disinterested citizens officiating.
. The prizes below $300 in value are approxima
tions, and will be determined and paid as follows:
The numbers of all tho tickets sold being consid
ered in a circle, numerically formed, and having
the highest number, 12,000, nnd tho lowest, 1,
brought together, then whatever number in this
cirle may lie by lot determined to be entitled to
the capital prize of 25,000, will be taken as a cen
tre, on each sdio of which the next 300 numbers
in numerical order will be counted for the $10
prizes, thus making on tho two sides of the capi
tal the COO nearest numbers, each of which
will be entitled to 11 renl estate prize of $10. All
the tickets drawing larger prizes will be excluded,
and the circle extended to iuclude 600 on both
sides of the capital, being 300 on each side, it be
ing the purpose of tho management not to dupli
cate prizes.
31 onet—All money received from sales of tick
ets will be deposited in bank immediately on re
ceipt of remittances.
Transfer of Titles—"Within ten days after
the drawing, parties putting real estate, on the
market under this scheme, arc required to make
good, valid and unencumbered titles thereto to
the Georgia Heal Estate and Immigration Com
pany-said Company obligating themselves to
transfer such title in fee simple to the party or
parties who may draw such prize of real estate.
Tickets can be had on application, personally or
by letter, to authorized agents, tbe managers or
JAMES GARDNER,
President Ga. R. E. A I. Co.,
Atlanta or Augusta, Ga.
Corporators—Hon. William Schley, Savannah,
Ga.; Robert Schley, Esq., Augusta, Ga.; Colouel
James Gardner, Augusta, Ga. Managers—A M
Wallace, Atlanta, Ga.; H L Wilson, Atlanta, Ga.;
J D Waddell. Atlanta, Ga.
Parties desiring to dispose of their real estate
through tbe Georgia Real Estate and Immigra
tion Company in their next Grand Lottery, to be
drawn on July 1,1874, can do so by addressing
JAMES GARDNER
President Ga. R. E. A I. Co.,
Atlanta or Augusta, Ga.
Agents wanted in every county. janlft 3m
WRIGHT’S COTTON PLANTER.
No Fanner can resist the temptation of purchasing ono of Wright's Planters after
learning its merits, from tho faefcAhat the mode of distributing seed and guano with
this Planter is different from all others—saving more time, labor and scod than any
other in use. Sold only by ."MALONE, WILLINUHAW A CO.
Every clas3 of Farming limdewonts. Com Mills. Feed Cutters, Plows, PlawPoints,
Grass Rods, Heel Bolts, etc., ute.^for said by MALONE. WILLINGHAM & CO.
Our prices to suit the times. Eefore purchasing elsewhere, call and examine
stock, or address us, *at No. 10 Hollingsworth block, MAeon, Ga.
examine our
decE-Sm
Barley Sheaf, Comm Plain & Benefactor
COOKING STOVES!
-A.T PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
IVc Uavo a Medal fov the Best Cook
ing Stoves, given at the Inst State Pair,
open to the world."
Pocket ami Table Cutlery,
Hardware and Hollow-Ware,
Wood and Willow-Ware
Wholesale manufacturers of
PLAIN and STAMPED TIN-WARE
0LIYEE, DOUGLASS & CO.
dec2btf
METROPOLITAN
IRON & BRASS WORKS,
Canal Street, from nth to 7th,
RICHMOND, - - - VA.
WM. E. TANNER & CO.,
EN61NEERS, MACHINISTS AND FOUNDERS.
ENGINES OF ALL KINDS.
Semi for Circular.
h. it. BROWN,
iauHlr Asrent.
FACTS FOR PARENTS
AND
Guardians to Consider.
G ainesville, une of the oc&ithiest and
pleasantest towns in Georgia, has just com
pleted a fine Brick College Building, and placed
it under the charge of Geo. '.C. Looney. He has a
faculty of tbe best teachers, male and female, in
the State.
His system of teaching does not crowd facts and
theories into the mind to tlie neglect of reason
and common sense. His pupils can enjoy their
political and religious views without any attempt
on tho j«rt of teachers or students to bias or
ridicule them.
He will guarantee to each boarder bringing him
1175 iu advance, board, lodging, fuel, washing and
tuition in highest classes, for ten scholastic
months. Lower classes coat la3s. Board $10 to
$12 per month. Tuition $20 to $50 per year; Music
$60; Modem Languages, Painting and Drawing,
each $30 per year.
Calisthenics. Book-keeping (single and double
entry), practical out-door exercises in higher
Mathematics, with instruments, without extra
charge to pupils.
Students are kept under strict discipline, both
in and out of school. Drunkards, gamblers and
rowdies not received.
Young ladies constantly encouraged not to
dress fine to come to school.
The spring term of twenty-four weeks begins
January 5tb. 1874. dre!7 lw
MANUFACTURED BY
Langdale’s Chemical Manure Company
(LIMITED.)
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, ENGLAND.
Has the following Powerful Recommendations for Planters
It is a "enuinc Engllsli made Manure, tho only ono in tho market, and maun-
factured by a company having a capital of $1,250,000, which sells 40,000 tons annu-
ally, and has the most extensive works of tho kind in Great Britain, which have
boen in operation 2-4 years. The Lnngdale, therefore, lias a good pedigree and is no
experiment.
It contains a larger proportion of chemical elements suited for tho promotion
of vegetable life, and especially of cotton, than any other fertilizer offered in tho
South. It is the best and safest Cotton Manure in tho market.
The analysis given with tho Manure when sold will be guaranteed. There shall
be no mistako about tho genuineness of the article, nor the good faith of tho vendors.
It is the cheapest Manure offered, as it contains nothing but what is of use in
becoming plant-food, or by chcmieal action on the soil, producing the same. The
test of cheapness is not the price, but the actual worth of the articlo purchased.
Low-priced Manure cannot contain efficient quantities of pure and valuable chemi
cals, which can alone give woith to a fertilizer, and bring satisfactory results. Tho
Langdale is a3 low in price as is consistent with the use of the best ingredients, and
a fair commercial profit on its cost.
The employment of powerful machinery in mixing and pulverizing tho ingrC'
dients prepares every particle for service, and prevents trouble in using. The Lang
dale is unequalled in this respect, and impresses every one who soe3 it as a perfectly
manipulated Manure.
In its composition and preparation it is tlie result of careful scientific resoarch
and experiment, confirmed by practical application for a quarter of a century. It
will be maintained at its present high standard, and is thus what planters have
long wanted—ns thoroughly reliable and safe Manure.
THE MODEL MANURE AUD PLANTER’S FRIEND.
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH GRANGES FOR CASII.
AGENTS IN GEORGIA,
CLEMONS & JAMES,
J. BEN WILSON A CO..
BUFF, WINTERS & WHITLOCK,
B. JET. WRIGLEY & CO.,
J. W. WHEATLEY & CO.,
O. M. STOKES,
WM. J. RUSSELL,
C. M. DAVIS, ...
SPEERS & NILES,
J. D. HAVIS,
P. O. BOX 42S
- - - Columbus. ’
... Atlanta.
- - - - Mariotta.
. . . - Macon.
- . . - Americas.
Leesburg.
....... Athens.
....... Arlington.
Marsballviile.
Perry.
W. McKAY, General Agent, Macon, Ca.
MART 8 CORD
WHOLESALE
HARDWARE
CUTLERY. ETC-,
Cherry Street,
octlfitf
- Macon, (if,
ERNEST PESCHKE’S
Macon Standard Mean Time.
H AVTNG perfected my arrangements to correct the slightest error in tbe time-keeping of my fii.c
. Regulator, by tha erection of an observatory and one of tbe most approved TRANSIT IN Si'll l -
MENTlS/for the purpose of observing the meridian ijasttoge of the sun and stars, 1 will bo able to k< c; •
tile exact Macon mean time to within a fraction of a second. .. ,
* m *Special attention paid to the Repairing and Rating of fine Watches, as well assail tends
n+n work made to order. „ ‘ u *-* **