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PROPRIETORS.
MACON, GEORGIA:
Saturday, July Bth, 18(5.
~CORNING EDITION.
ADVERTISERS .
Will do well-to avail themselves of our
large size Sunday’s issue, and bring in their
favors early.
“ The New Era,” is the name of anew
paper just started at Atlanta, by Messrs.
Phillips & Prather. The number before
us is intellectually and mechanically excel
lent. We are pleased to notice in it a prac
tical contribution from our old friend, J.R.
Barrick. The proprietors have our best
wishes for their success.
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Bank op the State of Georgia. —The
Augusta Constitutionalist of the 6th, says:
We are assured by a gentleman who is
thoroughly posted, that the Bank of the
State of Georgia has coin enough on hand
to redeem all its issue at twenty cents on
the dollar in coin.
A DRY SPELL.
Wc regret to learn that, in some sections
of the State there has been a long dry spell,
and that corn, which promised fair some time
•ince, is nos burning up. This condition of
things is not general, but we fear that the
drouth is sufficiently extensive to inflict a
great amount of suffering. W e saw, our
self, a few days since, fruit completely shriv
elled up on the trees from excessive dry and
hot weather.
I*ooo FOB THE GOOSE IS FOOD FOR THE GANDER.
The New York Herald, commenting upon
the radicalism of Massachusetts politicians,
as demonstrated in a late meeting at Faneuil
Hall, Boston, says :
“The duty of President’Johnson is plain.
He has no other ultimatum but to arrest
the whole party engaged in utteriDg disloyal
sentiments in the Faneuil Hall meeting, for
stirring up and inciting insurrection. They
were, by their own showing, inoitiog mutiny
among the emancipated slaves, and trying
to secure the united hostility of the colored
race to our military authorities. They are
thus attempting to bring another element in
to prolong the contest and add to its present
complications a war of races. It is clearly
the duty of the President to arrest these
disunionists and incarcerate them in Fortress
• Monroe in cells alongside of Jeff. Davis.
The people demand this much of Mr. John
son before their insurrection programme
assumes more formidable proportions.'’
Certainly we think the Herald is right.
If these New England fanatios had been
dealt with as they deserve years ago—say
about the time they proposed to do, what
the South has since done, secede from the
Uuion, —the late terrible war, with its con
comitant evils, would have been avoided.
!i here seems to be an ingrained hatred of
Southern men and institutions in the hearts
ot these fanatical New Eoglanders, which
will not be appeased by anything short of a
St. Domingo massacree. They regret the
termination of a war, which has cost them
comparatively little physically or financially,
because it has failed to glut their rage against
the South, and they would to-day, if in
their power, cast the Union a victim upon
the altar of their unholy passions. Such
* men are the worst kind of traitors—traitors
to God, to country and to humanity, and
deserve, if treason is to be punished, at least
as severe treatment as any Southern man
now in arrest for treason. We trust the
conservative good sense of the North and
West will put a stop to the influence of
these fanatical destruetionists, or that the
Government will take them in hand. If they
meditate treason, as their acts imply, feed
them oil the same food which they would
urge upon Jefferson Davis and other promi
nent Southern men. If it proves healthy
for the one party, it should do so for the
other.
No Wonder !—lt is hardly to be won
dered at that the fanatics of Massachusetts
should go for negro equality, negro suf
frage, etc., when their own white men are
so effeminate as to usurp the employment
of women. While the men of other North
ern States were fighting the battles of Mas
sachusetts, we suppose the fellow spoken
of below was employed in trimming bon
nets! Wo clip the paragraph from the
Nashville Union:
“ Our ladies will hardly believe that a
large number of their fine hats and bonnets
are trimmed by males, but such is Hie fact.
In one of the largest fashionable millinery
stores in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a
man is regularly employed to make and
trim bonnets.”
A Timely Donation. —We are pleased
to learn that by direction of Gen. Wins
low, the Post Quartermaster, Capt. Clarke,
turned over a day or two since, to our city
authonties, nineteen mules and five wagons
and harness. This is a timely and
considerate gift, and will aid the city au
*tborities to have much necessary labor
performed conducive to the comfort, clean
liness and health of our city.
Atlanta Intelligencer.
The Sanitary Fair at Chicago has closed,
the receipts being about $325,000 The
fair was open nearly four weeks.
[For the Daily Journal and MesseDger. J
President Jolinaon*
There is a wonderful chain of events
connected with Andrew Johnson. The
most singular feature in his career is, that
each successive step has been of itself a
marked event. He was for a long time a
Representative in Congress. The Whig
party greatly desired bis defeat, but it
could not be accomplished at the ballot
box. The Whigs run in the majority in the
Legislature when the State wap to be re
districted, and his District was so Ranged
as to make his election impossible.' Gen.
Gustavus A. Henry, recently Confederate
States Senator, was supposed to be the
prime mover in making the change. It
excluded Johnson from Congress. He ap
pealed to the people, and they .made him
Governor. He had the satisfaction of
knowing, that the man who had legislated
him out of Congress, became his van
quished competitor for Governor. John
son’s course was steadily onward and up
ward. He is now President, and Gen.
Henry must trust to his clemency for par
don. It is not a little remarkable, that the
very men who disliked him most in former
times, are now petitioning him for mercy.
He never had as strong a hold upon party
“leaders” as had most men. Unlike others,
he never negotiates with the people through
the “leaders;” he goes directly to the peo
ple themselves, and herein is found one
secret of his success.
Andrew Johnson's popular star is this :
The sovereignty of the people. During a
politicial career, extending from the mechan
ic’s shop to the White House, by day or
by night, in office or out of it, publicly or
privately, he has unswervingly endeavored
to promote what he believed to be the best
interest of the people. In other and better
days, the writer of this article knew him
well; and he must be thus known, to duly
appreciate a strong point in his character —
he is in earnest. There is with him, a liv
ing, acting earnestness that no other public
man, within my knowledge, has with his en
ergy, devotion to principle, talent and in
dustry, he was born to the Presidency. I
am profoundly impressed with the belief,
that Andrew Johnson will ineffectually im
press his geuius upon the institutions of his
country.
Prepared in the sohool of the past, his
work is still before him. Let no man doubt
that in the future, as in the past, he will
steadily, fixedly and constantly, keep his
eye upon what be thinks is the interest of
the great body of the people.
Four years have elapsed since I saw
him, and changes have occurred—he is
President and I am proscribed and penny
less—>tftill he is unchanged. I watit the
people of the South to realize that he ie
deeply in earnest. Enough has transpired
to satisfy me that what his friend purpose
is this: To evolve from the present state of
affairs the greatest possible good for the
people North and South. In doing this
he assumes the abrogation of slavery. Our
duty is plain. We must give up the past,
accept the present, and cordially aid the
President in the future. The Southern
man who fails in either of these, is an ene
my to himself. Exile.
Rates of Freight*
We publish the following order for the
benefit of our business friends, who may
be interested in-transportation rates to and
from Augusta via the Savannah river :
Headq’rs Department op the South, }
Hilton Head, S. C., June 24,1865. $
General Orders, >
No. 98. y
The following rates will he charged on
all freight shipped on private account, on
board Government vessels within this De
partment, viz:
Between Hilton Head and Beaufort, 25
cents per foot.
Between Hilton Head and Charleston,
50 cents per foot.
Between Hilton Head and Fernandina,
62 £ cents per foot.
Between Hilton Head and Jacksonville,
62£ cents per foot. -
Between Hilton Head and St. Augus
tine, 62 J cents per foot.
Between Hilton Head and Savannah,
37 £ cents per foot.
Between Savannah and Augusta, 50
cents per foot.
Between Charleston and Georgetown,
30 cents per foot.
Between all other places in the Depart
ment not mentioned above, private freight
will be charged-for at the same rate. The
money thus received will be accounted for
to the Chief Quartermaster, Department
of the South. By command of
Maj. Gen. Q. A. Gillmorb.
W. L. M. Burger, A. A. G.
Official:
Henry Lawrence, Lt. and A. A. A. G.
*
News op the Day. —We have New Or
leans papers of the 18th via Cairo. They
are taken up principally with speeches
made at the public reception to Lieut.-Gov
ernor Welles. The Governor, in the course
of his address took the most unequivocal
ground against negro suffrage. - He warn
ed the people that every effort would be
made by the Radicals to prevent the re
turn of power to the Conservatives of the
South. He wanted to know if, “ after hav
ing taken this continent from the red man,
and holding it for more than a century,
they were going to be so charitable as to
turn it over to the negro ?” — N. Y. Express.
The World's Columbus (S. C.) letter of the
21st instant, says that along the main roads'
for a hundred miles around Columbia the I
country is being stripped of its food. |
tiie S&aten.
If Ne* England be really resolfecf upon
subverting the States and the rights of the
States —beginning in the matter of suffrage
—we do nofc*see why we of Jtfew York should
say “No.”' The Constitution of the United
States —the Federal Govjrnment —th? Sen
ate of the United States, are very hard and
harsh upon the Empire State, and very anti*
Democratic — wed if New England be belt
upon a'lhMge/ao be it.
This is a Government now of 35 States—
of which, it takes some 12 or 15 of the les
ser ones to make a New York—and yet New
York has only two Senators in Congress,
while these 15 States have 30 Senators in
Congress. Now, the Senate of the United
States is the great power of this Govern
ment. It monopolizes the making of Treat
ies, the ratification of Executive appoint
ments, the judicial part of the impeaching
power—indeed, the President himself is only
a recond rater, in comparison with the Sen
ate. Two Senators from little, tiny, tit-mouse
Rhode Island, are as potentates in the
United States Senate, as the two potentates
from the nearly four millions r f New York.
Why we have more people under our side
walks than live in Rhode Island, We have
a thousand to one in our attic heaveu to
every single Rhode Islander on the ground.
Thus, as subterraneans and certainly, to say
nothing of terrestrials, we eclipse this little,
tiny Rhode Island, thousands and tens of
thousands, and yet the Titmouse is as tall
in the Senate as the Giant. Lilliputian
there is as big as Brobdignag.
Now, nothing can Ido more anti-Demo
cratic, or scarcely so little Republican, as
all this.
Then, there is the Supreme Court of the
United States, which makes and unmakes
acts of Congress or acts of Presidents, and
which can make and unmake States. This
body consists of but ten men, and these
ten men are not created according to po
pulation hut according to (presumed) merit.
And why should not New York have her
proportion of the ten ?
Then, the President of the United States
is elected by the Electoral College, and this
College is so created that New England
has twelve electoral votes to New York’s
(Senatorial) two! What can be more anti-
DenlOtfratrc ?*
And next, if the President of the United
States is not elected by this Electoral Col
lege, the States, in the' House of Repre
sentatives, elect him—and in this vote
Rhode Island has just as much of the vote
as New York. ;
Then again, the President may be, and
sometimes is, (as President Lincoln was the
first time,) eleeted President by a large mi
nority. of the people. What is more anti-
Democratic ? ’
The fact is, there are a great many things
in the Constitution that may be changed,
and when Massachusetts men shuffle, why
not shuffle with her ?
Then, in a Constitutional Convention, we
ean consolidate New England into one State,
and give the Western States their proper
influence in the Senate.
If this is to be a consolidated Government,
New York, the Empire State, has a right
to at least thirteen Senators in Congress—
the of her population—and two
Judgea(of the Supreme Court of the United
States—a sixth part, too, of the Foreign
Ministers andConsulates, and of ‘the spoils'
generally—say two Cabinet Ministers all
the time, or nearly all the time.
The Revolutionists of Boston, who are
now again seeking to subvert this Govern
ment, but little comprehend the job they
have on hand, if we once begin. • To ob
tain the negro suffrage victory they are
now struggling for, at the expense of-the
States of the South, will cost them, if we
adopt their principles of Government, the
suppression of their own State.
THE DEVICES OF CUNNING.
The negro suffrage agitation, which starts
in Boston, under the high, auspices of a
Professor of Cambridge University, means
not only “negro,” but “ white man,” too.
It is very remarkable that a set of oligarchs
and aristocrats, who hold white men in such
supreme contempt, that they would not, if
they could help it, let an Irishman or a
German vote, or a Jew, or a Cathie—in
short, anything but a Puritan, fall all of 'a
sudden so dearly in love with “ universal
suffrage,” that they would embrace the ne
gro ! Indeed, if these men could have their
way, no American born white man would
be permitted to vote who was not a man of
property, while to the negro would be con
fided the freest sort of suffrage—such as
they would certainly refuse, if they could,
to aIL poor whites.
Now why is this ? The answer is obvi
ous. The war, with the consequent abo
lition of slavery, has done away with the
old political issues, and re-raised new ones
—such as Tariffs, Protection, Currency,
Finance, Taxation, &c. Hence, to keep
from 50 to 100 per cent, protection upon
capital, and to be able to inflate the cur
rency at will, in order to make the rich
richer, and the poor poorer, we have from
Boston and the surrounding country, this
new agitation of negro suffrage, the only
real, steady purpose besg to absorb all
other important white man’s matters in
this overwhelming agitation. While we
agitate on negroes, it is reasoned there,
“ nothing can be said or done against pro
tection.” “ While we talk of suffrage,
specie payments can never come, and we
can go on inflating the currency and our
capital.” Thus, all this negro agitation,
continued now that slavery is abolished, is
but the device of cunning to throw dust
into the eyes of the people, as more and
more the people are to be plundered by
the devices of capital.—A r . Y. Exprm. ,■
Change of Laborers at the South*
Richmond families are employing white
girls from the North and from Ireland, in
their kitchens, and white men as porters,
driver#* iflid the like. A correspondent of
the Atlanta Intelligencer says:
They were, at first, driven to this from
necessity. The freed negroes were at first
hired in these capacities. But they proved
so indolent, so unreliable, so untrustworthy
that the whole system ol domestic life was
brought to a stand still.. The cook would
put on the dinner to and then would
run out to the street and jabber and gossip
with the negro soldiers lounging about, or
with other _ Iblaeks while the dinner - was
; arfd then at night feet
a dozen of her particular friends with what
had been provided by the master of the
house for the consumption of the family on
the following day. The negro men em
ployed, would neglect their duties in a
manner that brought even greater loss on
their employers; and when remonstrated,
with, men and women alike left their em
ployers without a moment’s warning, after
making to them the most insolent speeches.
The latter now find that there are plenty
of German and Irish men and girls, willing
to work for fair wages, whf are respectful
in their demeanor, honest, industrious,
punctual and trustworthy. These they have
employed to a great extent; and the prac
tice is extending, not throughout the State
of Virginia alone, but all over the South.
The press of New Orleans are said to
have taken a unanimous and decided stand
in favor of white labor.
Frauds upon United Stale* Treasury
Notes*
From the July number of “ Peterson’s
Philadelphia Counterfeit Detector,” we ex
tract the following important information
concerning frauds upon U. S. Treasury
notes and bonds:
2s, imitation, are reported in circulation.
Poorly done.
55,-altered from ljs. Portrait of Chase.
ss, imitation. Poorly done; coarse.
ss, photographed —have a blurred look;
the paper is stiffer and heavier. Signatures
very heavy.
.. 10s, imitation, well executed, are report
ed in circulation. There is no Treasury
stamp upon the bill. ;
10s, altered from Is—vig. portrait of
Chase on upper left; genuine have portrait
of Lincoln.
*2os, imitation—engraving coarse; gener
al appearance bad.
50s, imitation. The head of Hamilton
iseOarse and blurred; otherwise excellent
ly done, and well calculated to deceive.
60s, altered from 2s—vig. portrait of
Hamilton below the words United States.
In genuine it is above.
100s. imitation. The only points of ac
tual difference between the genuine and
counterfeits are these: In the upper left
corner are the words “Act of February 25th,
1862. In the counterfeit the “th” and the
ornamental lines above, run into and touch
the border; in the genuine there is a dear
space between. Ou the right end of back
of note there are thirteen small ovals; on
the edge of each oval the figures in the bad
read oqj, or inverted, while on the left they
are 100. This is the reverse of those figures
in the genuine; there, it will be seen that
on the right hand they read 100, and on
the left ooi- These notes are well executed.
Postage Currency—2s cents, imitation
poorly engraved and on poor paper.
50 cents, imitation—poorly done. The
heads of Washington are blurred and are
not alike.
5 cents and 10 cents, imitation, poorly
printed.
50s, Hew issue, are now in circulation.
Observe caution. The portrait on each
coarsely done.
Coupons—Counterfeit coupons, dated
Mafoh 1,1865, for $12.50, in the similitude
of 10.40 five per cent. United States SSOO
bonds, have been offered at different United
States depositories.
7 30 Bonds—Some of these are in circu
lation with the coupons cut off, and are offer
ed as currency. Without coupons they are
of no value until mature. Refuse all such.
Labor Compensation.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Intelli
gericer, makes the following suggestions
upon the system of compensation for freed
men labor: »
1. When the crop is gathered, let there
be laid up in store as much of provisions
and provender as was consumed in making
the new crop; so that the status of the
plantation may be preserved.
2. Let plantation expenses be paid, such
as taxes, bills for salt, iron, leather, shoes,
hats, clothing, blankets, smith-work, medi
cine, and medical attention.
3. Let the remainder of the produce,
which constitutes the only profits, be equita
big divided between the proprietor and the
laborers.
4. Let the laborers receive half as much
of the present crop as they would have been
entitled to, had they been free the Ist of
July.
5. Let the profits accruing to the laborers
be divided among them, directly according
to their industry, skill, and faithfulness;
and inversely according to the size of their
families.
6. The system should ho explained to
the negroes, and the agreement reduced to
writing.
7. It should also .be understood what pro
portion of the laborers’ profits eaoh one of
them should receive.
A Sensible Order.
Capt. J. E. Bryant, Assistant Commis
sioner Freedman’s Bureau, at Augusta, is
sued the following very Sensible order, in
anticipation of a rush of negroes to that city
on occasion of the 4th of July celebration.
\ye wonder if they had sense enough to
profit by his advice :
Office Ass’t Com’r. Freed men, \
Augusta, Ga., July Ist, 1865. }
To the Freedmen of Upper Georgia and
South Carolina :
I am informed that you intend to visit
this city on the 4th day of July next. I
advise you to remain at your work. Noth*
ing will transpire in this city of sufficient
importance to cause you to leave your work.
If you can, you must bring food, for no pro
vision will be made to feed you and you
must leave the city on the sth of this month-
I call upon all good citizens to assist in
advising the colored people not to come to
this city on the 4th. But at the same time
no force must be used to prevent them from
coming if they eo desire.
J. E. Bryant,
Assistant Commissioner. *
A considerable effort is heing made by
the Union men of Alabama to have the
President pardon L. P. Walker, of Huntg
ville, the Confederate Secretary of War,
gEW AfiVEitTisai^;
MttYiWT RUN m
AT.the sound of the GONG, TO-Da Y **
to sell.
1 One C6W and CAI.F
*
A JEWEL*v
And that large lot of STRAW HaT*
bndr »
Bo oure to attend punctually at oe j.
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KEIN & COMPaxT
Factors & Commi*,'
MERCHANTS^
VJMJrJYAH, Cl. f)
.h. w„«
Ai stoTj Warehouse, No. *, Stoddard
site the Central Railroad Bank, on ih«
occupied br Messrs. Dana A Washburn *•**•*
ed to STORE and FORWARD all k£d* «***
due*. Goods forwarded regular to Auc- .^* Cs ‘-
STEAM BOAT. * Au£u *- fw
Liberal cash advances made on ■—
ton, Wool and Hides, forsal. m
to our mends m New York, Boston or Lit*-!?** s *
KEIK * CoSJJvf
airtasxcEs;
Messrs. Smith A Dunning, N. Y • p.**,, »
S>. Louis ; W. H. Esq.,
Judson, Esq., Banker, N. Orleans, W a Jj*? l *
bile, Alabama. ' '***“6,L
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FORSALEr
A HOUSE and LOT inVTNEVILIE
JOHN B. HABERSHAM A CO .or toib, •
on the premise*. RICHARD M rrvirf*
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DR. GEO. G. GRIFFIN,
Offers his services to the public tw
over the Post Office, Macon, Ga
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JOYCE, ALEXANDER k CO.
Cotton Factors,
RECEIVING AND FORWARDS
•Apalachicola, Florida.
BRANCH HOUSE AT EUP AIL A, m
COTTON and other produce sold on Coan *
Cash advanced ou Cotton shipped to m for.,
signment to our Houses in New Orleans or Sew Tort
When produce is intended for sale by u*inlp*ar
cola, we make no charge for receiving and fot**rc
from this point. ‘
REFERENCES .* :
Ex-Gov. Shorter, Eufaula; R. G. Ricks,
Georgia; T. J. Cannon, Eufaula, Ala.; l>r. W. l
Withers, Macon, Ga.; A. 8. Mansfield, New 0-*si
Woodruff, Butler A Cos., New Orleans; J. Muno, C*
umbus, Geo.; J. McNabb, Eufaula, Ala., Girtar
Dexter, A Cos., New York.
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CORN AND FODDER VVINTEII
FOR THE
XT. S. GFovernment.
THE undersigned having been made Contractor*;•
purchase CORN and FODDER for the Car-
States Government, will pay a fair market price tu*.
good Com and Fodder that may be delivered at r.<
Station on the South Western, Macon A VI eaters
Macou A Brunswick and Centra) Railroads, donas ta»
present month.
Payment to be in CASH on presentation of the To.
road receipts for the Com and Fodder, delivered at fc*
office of I. C. PLANT, at Macoo, Ga., at ah ch p*>
ourselves or our Agent will be found. U. 8. (k*«fL
ment sacks will be furnished to sellers on aon-unua
WM. MITCHELL i CO
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NOTICE,
TO POLICY HOLDERS
"PITIES insured-by the CENTRAL QEoß6ili»
17 BUBANCE COMPANY, are notified rfist ail t
cies issued by this Company are cancelled.
Holders of Policies are requested to call at the CO*
PANY’S office, on Second Street, adrreoder their P
icies, and receive the proportion of premiums to wks
they are entitled. A. R. FREEMAN, Sec •
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T. W, FREEMAN,
Wholesale and Retail dealer io Grocer.**
and Fancy Goods. Cherry Street,
Georgia. jy7 —3n*
WE MUST LIVE.
HAVING secured the service of MB. W. i Tvi
TEN, as SALESMAN, we hare deterimoeu UmL‘
GENARAL COMMISSION, in connection sitfc <*’
former business. We bare ample STORE ROOM, li
as secure from fire as an? iu the City, and »o*icit •& r
menta of all kinds of Produce, Tobacco, I>vb** •-
and Gioceries.
Pledging our PERSONAL attention to all tout***
entrusted to our care.
GREER* LAKE.
Third Street, Ralston Granite R*tQ*
Macon, jv6-tf
Sili
WILL be aold at the residence of the •«****
-on Second street, two doors above *
an assortment of Household and Kitchen fur*
ture consisting of
Chairs, Tables,
1 Bureau, 1 Bedstead,
1 Matrass, 1 Feather
2 Carpets, ~ 1 Cooking-Sto«
1 Marble top washitand,
• • ‘ 1 Safe, ICNM'» CW
Together with almost every article
sary for housekeeping. Also,
A GOOD tow AM) CILF-
The prices are reasonable, as tfc**
must be sold this week. , TVTtf6
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Goods at Wholesale*
Its*.
For C«re«n Barks, Specie or
DRY GOODS.
OA Oases Prints. Also Mossmblqoe*, c r h * l ‘ *
DeLa'nes, Hosiery, H*op
Sewing Silk, Needles,Dres§Bllks, d** 4
Gloves, Rlbons, Trlmiogs. Alio msnjr *«* ■
Goods.
Boots, Shoes & Hats^
160 Oua Udlt.' Men’, Boj’i .oiOhlH"*''
Shoes, of Elegant Patterns. _ , r-dies’ *
800 Oases Gent's Soft and Straw Hats, **
the Newest Styles.
DRUGS, CBOCEHI* 8 ' * *
200 o*. Morphine, SOO os. Quinine,
lbi. Saltpetre, 10 bbs. Coperas, K Met' ijp *
Soaps, 195 bags Coffee, Bagging ***
Salt, at Wholesale, by . - oL1 yfg l BSO?
Fufaula, Ala., June2»-lw """
NOTICJ*.,,
TO POLICY
PARTIES insured by tbe 1
ANCE COMPANY.««
aued by this Company are 10 tbeV F
„ Holders of Pol&aa are *l oe T
PANY S office, on Second w
icies, and secure the proportion 0 1
tllay are entitled
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