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\ r OH,, I. jdrljc Georgia ||erallt, PUBLISHED BY Hall & Alexander. TERMS. 4 M K)ne Month * ‘7, m.ree Months \ Year.? 800 ALL PATMKHTSINVARIABLT IN' ADVANOB’ ADVERTISING BATES, hi following arc, the rates to which we adhere in contracts for advertising, or where dvertiserneut s |nre handed in without instructions. Displayed Ad -tis.imcnts will be char ed according to the space ey occupy. ' “squares i"i mV |2m7: 3 m 6m.12 m. L Square S 4 j$ 7 $ 9 $ 14 $ 2*' 2 Squares 1 8 I 11 14 20 30 3 Squares 12 I IS 1 20 20 40 4 Squares 10 | 20 20 i 38 .00 5 Squares 20 ; 25 82 ■ 40 00 0 Squares 24 ■ 31 ; 33 . 4S 70 7Hq I ares. 23 37 ; 45 ! 56 80 H Squares Bft 40 j 52 , 64 : 90 0 Squares 30 i 40 no ! 72 100 JO Squares ! 40 I 55 ! f.3 SO 110 Column ; 41 | C 274 j 89 j 120 TO OBDWARtES, ADMINISTRATORS, GUARDIANS, <4O. As heretofore, since the war, the following are fho pricse for notices ofOrdinaries, &o.—to repaid in ad va.vck : Thirty Days’Notices 4 00 Forty Days’ Notices 5 00 Sales of Lands, &c pr. sqr of ten Lines (i 00 Sixty Days’ Notices 7 00 Six Months’ Notices 10 GO Ten Day*’ Notices of Hales pr svr .... 200 shuiueft’-' Sales.—for these Sales, for every li fa $2 50. Mortgage Sales, per square. $5 00 Obituaries are charged for the same as other adver tisements. SESSIONAL CARDS'. N «fc WFjAV KB, Attorneya urid selors at Law, Thomnston, Ga. Will prac e counties of Flint Circuit of the State of ..iid elsewhere in special cases. declO-ly DLRSON & MoCULLER, Attorneys at Law, Covington, Georgia. Will attend regu j, and I’ractice in the Superior Courts of the unties Newton, Butts, Henry, Spalding. Pike, ionro son, Morgan, DcKalb, Gwinnettc and .Jas per. dec 0-1 y ES M. MATHEWS, Attorney at ' wb, Talbotton, (ia., will practice all the counties .sing the Tallapoosa Circuit and elsewhere by i'al contract. declO-ly .YTILLIS & WILLIS, Attorneys at Law V Y Talbotton, Ga. Prompt attention given to business placed in our bauds. declO-ly I)OBERT P. TRIP PE, Attorney at Law 1 Y Forsyth, Ga. Will practice in th<g State Courts nud in the United States’ District Court at Atlanta and Savannah, Ga, dec 0-ly I AMES S. WALKER, Attorney at Law f J LaGange, Ga Will practice In Circuit Courts of the Shite, and in the United States District Courts, dec 10-ly MISCELLANEOUS WHOLESALEAND RETAIL LIQUOR STORE !! Jofm 13. George, (deader in I'UIiE LIQUORS,) HAVING PURCHASED THE ENTIRE STOCK OP X ■ 1 SQI TCt OTS I / \F TFTE LATE FIRM OF REID, GEORGE & PaTTERSON, will continue the \ I LIQUOR BUSINESS the CELLAR of the same building : and will keeo*s. FULL STOCK of the FOREIGN and DOMESTIC LIQUORS, of all kinds, and sell at WHOLSALE and DETAIL low for CASH. (infun. • ‘. FURNITURE MOONeC BOVD & MANUFACTURERS and whole, safe AND RETAJJ. DKAIDERS IN FURNITURE of every Description, Our Manufactory ha bra e overhauled, and improved wita bow machinery, ciqdn.. Ac., and we we new prepared to fur the public with Furniture of all kPid at very low prices. 'A (DIP IF ail 8a . consLanUy on band a LARGE ABSORT ' ‘ , r ’ s * °. FF I NTS ’ floni tba finest Burial cases to nil ai,es ' l "t, '' IL> J Orders for Cufftns should bo ande through Captain DOE, City Sexton We are grtttelul lor th d l urge palronage oxtea .- eti ly thereof. ’ and “**•"* to an increase deriolf U> tX ensivo Wareroorn ' fa SOLOMON ST. MOONEY, BOYD &TlO. ; ® >|| J Gr I ilj ■ SCHEUERMM’S ADVERTISEMENT. MAXIMUM IN IIRBE. TKE STO<3<IE£ OIF A. SCKUEftfS A« t IRQ., Is ARRIVING- and being OPENED. It comprises EVERYTHING kept in a FIRST CLASS Our stock -df is heavy and complete. BLEACHED HOMESPUNS—from 8 cts. upwards; CASSIMERES: BED TICKING— from 12|ete. JEANS—K/ky and N. C. LINSEYS; DRILLINGS; GINGHAMS; OSNABURGS—striped and plaia; KERSEYS—at factory prices. N # 400 ’Pieces Flannels ! Just received. We will sell a First Bate Article at Sgkgg*. 25 CENTS PEE YARD ! ]mm 11111 Jlliiii fill ill SlLKS—plain and fancy, all colors and shades. Genuine Silk Irish and American POPLINS. Great variety of SILK MANTILLAS. AlKwool French and English MERINOS—aII colors. DeLAINES —all wool French. Do. Figured. SILK ALPACOAS. BOMBAZINES. EMPRESS CLOTH. The latest style CLOAKS. All sizes SHAWLS. 650 pieces PRlNTS—warranted standard brands NT otions. A large and well assorted stock—too numerous to mention. CLOTHING dents' Furnishing doods ! Our Clothing is manufactured to order, to suit all classes. HATS! II ATS! 500 dozen all sorts and qualities, such as fine BRUSH, BEAVER, FUR and WOOL. BUNK E T $ ! An ENDLESS variety, both fine and coarse. HOOP BKIRTB FROM 20 CENTS UPWARDS. Bouts and Shoes. From fine French Calf down to coarse BROGAN S. Crockery and Oiassware. A splendid stock on band, eonsisting of Granite and Com mm Ware, fine Toilett and Glass Setts, &c., &c. prepared to sell the above mentioned stock at eiceettitfyly loir prices, and guaran tee perfect satisfi#ti«n to all our customers. Come one, come all and examine oar itock before purchasing elsewhere.; H. SefceneHUM & Bro., WEST SAP® OF FfcTLL STREET, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. We invite the special attention of mxxA’ to ©nr Wholesale Bepartmeat. Which has been newly fitted up, and is as complete and ex tensive as can he fonnd anywhere in tins State. I. sdieiietiiiaii A lire. Oriffln, Ga., Dec. 10-lm THOMASTON, GA., DECEMBER, 1869. THRASHING BOYS. ;> ’ rs ® ' * f. , How 1 o keep the rising generation of boys a drseipline, is a is just mow taxing the vdts of.parents and teachers. The -boy of tii j period certeti&ly has a li cense and. a libert y of action which his father never had. He rans in the street:, cltposes his own associates, wor ries his gistety, plays truant, harasses his te ackers j and indmlg.es in manly dissipations and vices on the sly, and yet hi-4 b.Kik -and the e/dvi sos his legs are iimoceM @f ike birch. He has a-n accumulated store of fea-ek rations which lie has never drawn and often deserves, ifis father controls him but little, his mother indulges him, and the teacher reaps the benefit of his bad temper, ill manners and spoilt tan trums. So young hopeful progresses. Seme day he behaves outrageously, then come;, the question, who is to punish lip a ? If the teacher does, ever so mildly, and although the boy do* or WfrLte than he gots, the young hypocrite runs home and. whimpering about having been ’‘beat en,'' and blubbers to liis mother about his “undeserved” punishment. Then comes a scene between the parent and teacher, and all about this little repro bate. who has probably not gotten half he deserves. The question is, what's to be done ? Why, this. when a boy does anything mean, false or dirty, let him be thrashed soundly in presence of the whole school, or dismissed. We shall have all the tetter generation of men in forty years if the rod, instead of being put away to rust, is taken down and used wisely and efficiently. + — THE TEACHERS’ CONVENTION IN MACON. From the Atlanta Era. This body met in Macon on the 17th inst., President Tucker in the Chair, and held a very harmonious session.— The principal object of the meeting was to hear the report of the commit tee appointed at n former meeting to devise a plan of public schools for our State, to lie urged upon the next Leg islature ; or submitted to that body for their consideration. This report was read by President Ora, of Covington Female College, and was discussed and talked over in all its parts, and adopt ed. *lt sets forth a very liberal and prac ticable plan, I think, and, indeed a much better one than I thought pos sible to get up under the surrounding • ivu?nstanccto. It was put in the hands of a committee whose business it is to have a bill drafted in conformity to the plan, and presented to the Legislature, at the session in January next. It is scarcely necessary for me to at tempt a synopsis, inasmuch as it will be given to the reading public is a few days through the newspapers of the State, so that all may talk the matter over and instruct their Representa tives in ties premises. There is nothing now before our people of bo much importance as get ting up a liberal and acceptable sys tem of public schools. I may say, before closing, that the plan above mentioned provides for a State Superintendent, a Board, of Ed ucation—(of seven) on# from ©aoh Con gressional District—a county Superin tendent and Board of Three. That the Superintendents of each Senator ial District shall constitute a Board of Examine** for the three counties.— That the negroes shall have separate school# for their education, controlled by themselves as far as possible, sub ject to same conditions and regulations that control the whites —that they will be permitted to have their own Super intendents and Boards, but may elect the white Superintendents and Boards to regulate their affairs —that all the tax paid by the negroes shall be set apart, with an equal amount from the State fund for their education as soon as they construct school houses and prepare for their education —that there shal »• - tvv - I noiuaul ooljioolo 00l * 'rt&i 1• G© <•> Ol OCS soon as practicable, one for tine whites and one for the negroes, expewes te be defrayed by the State, the whole system to be moved by a school fund, proposed to be raised of the poll tax, half the net earnings of the State Road, tax on tobacco, whisky, &<?., &c. It is next to an impossibility for me to give you a full idea of the plan in as short an article as I desire this to be. Sev eral new members presented themselves and wera uaceived “in full fellowship. But eWLoupk ha- the present. Yonrs, Teacher. Macon, Ga., November. 185,1869. +—,«. ’ Has your husband got natural ized?” inquired an energetic Demo cratic politician of the Fourteenth ward, of a robust female. “Got natural eyes.” was the response in an indig nant tone, “Yus, begorra, and natural tnstlie, tool” The New York Sun tells a storv | of a man who was too lazy to sav his I prayers. He wrote out his devotions on foolcap. however, and tied them to the foot of his conch. Before retiring he would hold them up to heaven and exclaim, “them’s my sentiments,” and jump into bed. KFTCHDM'S RELEASE. inß HUSOX LIFE AND CONDUCT —FUTURE PLANS AN© PROSPECTS. From the New Vvv,k Tim, s, Nov. Ift. Lust Saturday, after a lapse of three yearn ten months and fifteen days, a telegram from Sin Sing announced Ketehum’s release by reason of the ex pfrdion of Ids term of sentence. He Est the prison qfrotly, and took the kite bwendng down tram, without infor ming' any on© oi his (lestiaiirtion. Me had intimated once or twice tlia-t he should live in a secluded mamier stou©- wiiere on the Mudson, abo\ e New York, instead of appearing immediately, at least, among his former business asso ciates. During his prison life Ketehmn en joyed certain privileges and immuni ties which rarely fall to a convict. He deported himself as a gentleman, say the keepers. He was not punished once in the prison, which fact enabled him to take advantage of the commu tation rule, releasing him nearly eight months beioreiiis term had expired. It is said that a convict seldom en joys the benefit of this rule, liecaus© of the great difficulty in keeping all the regulations of the prison. Ketehnm was put to the shoemaker’s bench when lie went to prison, but what proficien cy he acquired in the trade could not be learned. It is certain that he haiia small library of books in his shop which he “pegged” away at to ho small extent. He did not eat his meals with the regular gangs of prisoners; his letters did not pass through the regu lar channels. In regard to his future plans and prospects, Kefechum was very reticent before the prison authori ties. # Life of a Printer.— The following strange, eventful record of a journey man printer’s life is taken from a jour nal, which paper asserts it correct to the letter. It developeswhata man can do if he likes, find what queer, enter prising, and unselfish fellows the ma jority of printers are: “The life of u. printer is. to say the least one of variety. I left home at the age of nine, and was appren ticed to the printing business at thir teen ; since then have visited Europe, been in England, Ireland, Scotland, Whales and France, in Canada, Nova Scotia, Labrador South America, West Indies, and all the Atlantic States of the Union, from Maine to Louisana— have lived in twenty-seven cities and towns of the United States. I have been a sailor in the merchant service, and have sailed in all manner of craft —ship, barque, brig, schooner, sloop, steamer —in the regular army as a pri vate soldier, deserted and got shot in the leg. I have studied two years for the ministry, one year for an M. D., traveled through all the New England States, New York, New Jersey, Penn sylvania and Virginia, as a journeyman printer, generally with little else than a brass, rule in mv pocket. I have been the publisher <» three papers— two in Massachusetts and one in Maine. At one time I had $7,550 in my pocket of my own, I have been married twice, and am now near twen ty-six years old! * I have been a tem perance lecture, and a proprietor of a temperance theatre. On Saturday, the Smio Agri cultural Society went into an election for officers. Col. R. C. Yancey, of Athens, was re-elected President, with the following named gentlemen as Vice presidents : Ist Congressional District, William Schelev ; 2d Congressional District, Benj. Locket : M Congressional Dis trict, Felton ; 4th Congressional Dis trict, Henry D. Capers ; sth Congres- Joel Billuns ; fith Congressional Dis trict, David C. Barrow ; 7th Congres sional District, C. W. Howard. Col. David W. Lewis was then nom ixmted for Secretary and unanimously floated William Hazelkiu’st, of Ma con, Treasurer.—Telegraph & Mess enger. +»--» — A French child asked the priest, the other day, “Why is it, Father, that we ask every day for our daily bread, instead of asking our bread for a week, a month, or the whole year?” “Whv, you little goose, to have it fresh, to be sure,” was the reply. —-—♦ Pay Your teUivjLj. Dee*-:. —Every man that means b* clever, ought towards the close c*f each year, to hunt up all his small d< hr*, and pay thorn. These small amounts are to a large extent due to mechanics and laborers, and persons who really need these dues in order to supply thorn selves wteh Hu© comforts of life. Many of this ekiss of persons are modest ;md sensitive, and it is very mortifying for them te known th* ir sraight ened circumstan ces . —Rome Cornser. Jfr-T* A gentleman from the Sunny South entered a bar-room and called for a drink fit for a Southern gentle man. The barkeeper replied; “We don’t make anything but loyal drinks here, sir.” “Then just give me a Union Smash!” ENGLISH INSTEAD OF CHINESE LABOR. International Land and Labor Agenct. ) To\TN Hall, Chambers, [ Birmingham, Oct. 29. 1869. ) Editors Avalanche— Sirs: Without entering upon what may be called the morale, ethical or industrial, in regard to a large and sudden importation of Chinese labor into the Southern and Western States, I beg to express the opinion, that there is an abundant sup ply of better labor nearer home thiin may be imported at cheaper rates than conditions as to payment. Certainly there are a hundred' thousand English laborers in town and . country who would gladly enter upon all the fields of employment and occupations which the South and west would open to them, if they could get across the At lantic. But if those fields were cov ered with apples of gold, to be had for their labor, these poor men could not pay their passage across the ocean to obtain them. Can the poor Chinese to be imported do any better out of their own means? If liot, if the whole expense of then* transportation from China has to be borne the party or company importing them, is it not clear that each must cost at least twice per head as much as the whole charge upon an English laborer from London or Liverpool to Memphis or St. Louis via the Mississippi? If, then, planters and farmers, and manufactures, and railroad companies are willing to put English and Chinese on the same foot ing, as to the conditions of their im portation, a hundred thousand of la borers from this country would go at once, and gladly, to the occupations and localities thus opened to them.— Even if there were only one steamer a month direct from Liverpool to New Orleans, such an importation might be effected. And with all this reconstruc tion of Southern industries; with the great Mississippi as the jugular vein of the wealth they produce, and also tapping the great traffic between East ern Asia and Western Europe via the Pacific railroad, surely there ought to be not only one steamer a month but one a week from Liverpool or London to New Orleans. If these were fitted up to carry emigrants at a cheap rate, they might be loaded with good Eng lish blood to be infused into all the States of the Mississippi Valley, and of the great West. It would not cost more than forty dollars per head to de; liver them at Memphis or St. Louis and as there would be one tranship ment, at New Orleans, there would bo but a slight chance of any of them slipping onray at that part, or at any one on the river. Now does not any company or party offer to deliver Chi nese at St. Louis or Memphis less than forty dollars per head? If not, would you not all prefer English laborers at the same price ? I would ask your leading men to give a little thought to this proposition. If they are disposed to try the experiment our agency will assist them in carrying it out. Having traveled a good deal in both countries, and seen how much horn st. labor is needed in the one and how many hundreds of thousands of hue .e laborers in the other need employment, I have felt it one of the best Under takings I ever put my hand to, as yet, to do what little lay in my power to bridge the sea that divides these worlds of labor-demand and labor supply.— It was with this feeling and object that I entered upon the work of our Inter national £>a*Lri and Labor Agency, the spirit, principle ana object of which have already won much confluence both in the United States and England. Indeed, within two months of its first opening, more than a thousand farms were committed to it for sale to Eng lish purchasers, from Maine to Cali fornia, and from SSOO to $50,000 in price. We are also receiving applica tions for servant girls and working men from both those and intervening States. Several intelligent, industrious young men, with their families, are go ing out to Memphis on the steamer that takes this, to take cotton lands in your vicinity to cultivate on shares or on lease, payable in stipulated portions of the crop. If they find that all the conditions of the lease are fulfilled in good faith by the planters, doubtless scores of other families will follow them, and make a very valuable ele ment of your community.. It is sad to find how few of even skilled and industrious mechanics, as well as farm laborers, can raise money enough, even by borrowing, to pay their sea and inland fares to points less distant than Memphis or St. Louis.— After being out of work for two or three months, their savings are gener ally exhausted. As an illustration: we advertised in the leading paper in this town for a groom for a gentleman in 'Milwaukee. Ten young men well fit ted for the place applied for it in twen ty-four hours. Os these only one could pay his fare all the way to Wis consin. Most of them were intelligent looking young men. One had been the military servant of Lord Raglan in the Crimea ; had earned good wa ges, but had infirm and aged parents to assist. This may be perhaps taken as a fair measure of the means of working men of various occupations in this country. Not more than one in ten can raise the money to pay their NO; 1.