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SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE
LUCIUS C. BRYAN, Editor and Proprietor.!
Terms, $4.00 a year in Advance. j
Law and Medical Cards.
BRYAN & HARRIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
TIIOUiIVILLti, A.
f I*OFFICR 1 *OFFICR first door in second story of
Stark's Confectionary.
L. C BRYAN. U H. HARRIS.
Mar 14 11 ts
MITCHELL & MITCHELL.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
THOMASYILLE, : : : GEORGIA,
Office over McLean’s store —opposite
Mclntyre Sc Young's.
W. D. Mitchell. R. G. Mitchell.
•lime 6 lv
S. B. Spescer. C P- Hassell.
Spencer & Hansell,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
THOMASVILLiE 6
Will jfive prompt atntntion to all le*ral bnsi-
Yiess Entrusted “to their care in the counties of
the Southern Circuit —l*ee;ttnr of the Smith
Western —and Clinch, Ware ami Appling, of
the Brunswick Circuit.
Hears. WoUT & Brother'■
S.ore. jsly 4-lj •
_ , __ $
WM. HAYES. J. A. SEWARD
HAYES & SEWARD,
ATTORNEYS AT I,AW,
THOMASYILLE, : : GEORGIA,
augß 6m
J. It. Reid, tl. 1). W. F. DctVilL.TI. .
|)n. HUB A We WITT,
OFFER their services to the citizens of
Thomasvilie and vicinity,
f t) I'i'lC Cat Dr. DeWitt’ $ Drug Store
Feb a 8 ts
l>r. T. S. lIOIBiI\S,
OFFICE
■ > StbK LOT with RESIDEItI'E.
h. O. AR.VOLB,
RESIDENT DENTIST
THCMASVILLE, GA.
A be fonnd at the old ‘
t f stand occupied by him for
the lust ten years j
Aug 23-12 tu
Dr. WTP. CLOWES -1
HAYING •pernnineiitly located in Thoinas
. V’lle, Offers his l’rafcwioual ?*-rVi
*-e to the public.
1 at the Drug Store of W.P.
Flower Sc ('o.
(■^RESIDENCE — the house formerlv oe- ,
copied by l>r. Brandon. mar 1 1 Iy
fllilE greatest Purifier and Disinfectant
f known—DARBY’S PROPHYLACTIC (
FLUID. For sale by
W. P. CLOWER, j
hag 23 Druggists. |
C. S Rockwell, I
Civil Engineer and Surveyor.
1.i,ml- Hnrreyril and IMat drawn
in ihe le-l style of i!ie Art.
Obdiuleft with A. P. W right, 1 honinsville,
tia . will meet with prompt attention.
June 20 2>-ti
Commission Merchants.
A, $!. SLOAN.‘ C. H. STUBBS. C, W. ST-EGA.LL.
Sloan, Stubbs & Stegall, .
Cotton Factors
FORWARDING
AND
fJohjftjissio]} |
g*. 4, Htddrd*n Lwr Range,
Bay Street....... Savannah, (a.
Sept 6 a "i j
AUSTIN & ELLIS,
COMM AID MIMS
Mercliants,
K•. SO BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH,
Thomas H. Austin, tSeorgia. (
Charles Ellis.
Oct 4 3,n
-—, —. ~ j
E. Weitzfelder & Cos., i
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
AND
Cotton Factors,
50 Leonard St.. XEYV YORK.
usville. G;t.. arc acting oiir agents, and are
prepared to make libernl advances on all con
Jighments made to us through them, or directed
lo*. . • ° Ct4tl
.in s. davis & co.,
AUCTION
COMMISSION
AND |
J’oVhMp'Jloc)
THOMASVILLE, GA.
3 R.S. Davis. ‘ G. A. Jeffers.
July 11 28 ts
TISON & GORDON,
COTTON FACTORS.
tiun 410 FOSfARDIBB
Mercliants,
btbket. j SAVANNAH. GA.
WM. H. TISON. . WM. W. GORDON.
May 16
EMPIRE HAIR RESIORER.
AN elegant Dressing,
An infallible restorer of ( 'olor,
And .a wonderful lurigorator of the H AIR.
Prepared 1> v
W. P. CLOWER Sc CO.,
Jun 31 5-ts . ‘ Apothecaries Hall. . !
I. KUBITSHEK.It BRO.,
Have Just Received
?.®® ,e< es Luest stvle Prints: a large lot of Bagging and Rope Spun Yarns. Osnaburgs,
<>iiu->puas, Mnpets, &-C. \\ e will keep constantly on haml a larire stock of this class of •n( XK ] d
which we now oiler at reduced rates at Wholesale'and Retail.
W e get these goods direct from the Manufactories. ahd will sell at Factory P.ices, includ
ing Freight. ■
FAMILY GROCERIES AT WHOLESALE.
We are prepared to furnish Merchants and Planters with all descriptions of Faniilv Groce
ries. at New l'ork prices, with Freights added. Nov J 5
E.D.SMYTHEiCo
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
GLASSWARE
HAVE on hand (and are constantly receiving additions thereto) the largest
stock of the above goods that has ever been offered in the Southern mar
ket. Being Direct Importers and Manufacturers’ Agents, we are
enabled to offer these goods at prices
IS Li AS THEY CIS BE lOUHITII THE CITY IF Si 111!
Or any other Northern city, thereby saving the purchaser the extra expense of
Freight, Insurance and Breakage, and also the double profits of the Importer aud
Jobber. Lists of Assorted Crates, containing only saleable goods, will be sent on ap
plication. • . , • •
Qaeensware House,
109 Broughton Street, SECOND DOOR WEST OF BULL,
SAYANHAH, - - V6EOIMMA.
Nov 15 3m
S. B HARRINGTON,
DEALER IN
EVERY VARIETY Or!!H
‘Household and Office
FURNITURE!
MATTRESSES,
Spring Sods, cfcc
1 ■* RECEIVING
41 MM mil hi
A FULL ASSORTMENT OF
CHOICE GOODS!
SELECTED WITH CARE EXPRESSLY
• FOR A
SOUTHERN MARKET!
PRICES
AS LOW
. ‘ ■ ‘• AS .
any HOUSE IN THE TRADE!
WAHEROOMS,
178 Broughton Street.
NEARLY OPPOSITE
ST. ANDREW’S HALL,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
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Nov 15 ‘ 6tP
i(REFN TEA of delicate flavor. For
r sale by W. P. GLOWER & CO.,
aug 23 “ ‘ Druggists.
FOR BAIiE.-Ob Portable Ingirii
n„<l Grwt .mill, 6 horse power. En
•joire at thisoffice. fK-
IIANDELL & CO.,
WHOLESALE
GUO CER E,
.‘IOI A- ‘JO.'I BAY STREET,
Savannah, : : : : Georgia.
A large and complete assortment of Groce
ries constantly oil baud; which are offered at
lowest market prices.
Special attention to Oiders accompanied by
Remittances. . . Nov 10-diy ‘
I’tvo HI on l Its Police.
GFAKGIA—TIioniaH fonnly.
ON ihe first Monday in December next, I
will apply to the honorable Court of Ordinary
of said County, for an order granting leave to
sell the Lands of William Collins, deceased—
wiejw’s dower excepted.
ELIZABETH COLLINS,
Oct 18-2 m Adm’x.
Forty Days Volice.
GKORGIV—ThonniH Couatf.
A * rr cable to an order and bv authority
from the honorable Court of Ordinary of sai'd
Comity, will be sold before the Courthouse
door, in Tbomusville, said County, within the
legal hours of sale, ou the first Tuesday in De
cember next. the Ileal Estate and Heine Place
of \\ illiain (. ollins, deceased—widow's dower
excepted, Terms on day of stile.
ELIZABETH COLLINS,
Get-18-41‘d Adrn'x.
G I*. O RGl.i—Cl inch Con ti ly.
stIXTV Days after date, and from the loth
day of November inet., application will be
made to riie honorable Court of Ordinary, of
said County, for an order granting leave to sell
the lands belonging to the minor heirs of Rich
ard Bure halt er, late of said County, dec'd
RACHEL BUUCHALTEII,
Nov l 6od Guardian.
Notice to Planters.
FJ AH E undersigned being in connection with
Fa Baltimore house, are prepared to fur
nish planters with all kinds of Fertilizers, at
Baltimore prices, freight added.
Orders for Peruvi -n Guano, Turner's Excel
sior, or anv of ihe Super l*f ospliates shouid tie
sent in early. IN c oiler anew Fertilizer at a
cheap rate. .JAS. li. SMITH & CO.
Ousley's Station, Ga., Nov 8 45 ts
NOTICE
TO BUILDERS
riIHE undersigned are prepared to fill all or-
A ders for
Sasll, Blinds, Doors, &.C.,
At a slight advance on Baltimore prices. Thev
will furnish a list ot raies ou application.
All orders for Glass, Putty and Paiut* filled
with dispatch at Baltimore rates.
JAS. 11. SMITH Sc CO.
Ousley’s Staiion. Ga., Nov 8 45-ts
GliOUGlA—Thomns l oamy.
Court of Ordinary, Oct. 26,1866.
Whereas, G. G. Gibbs makes application
to this Cou.lt for Letters of Guardianship for
persons, 1 roperty and effects of the minor neire,
children of John Futeh deceased .—All per
sons interested are therefore notified to tile
their objections in court, otherwise said letters
will be granted the applicant in terms of the
law, ou tlie first Monday in December next.
i , . ‘ H. 1L TOOKE,
Noy 8-30d ‘ ~ - rtefffffdY--.-
<• EORt’lA—l.mimic- County.
Wbrivas. Jesse Hardee applies to motor
letters of administration on. the estate of C. J.
Limeberger, deceased All persons are here
by notified to file their objections, otherwise
said letters will be granted in terms of the law.
Given under mv hand. October 29,18i ; 6.
VYM. G. SMITH,
Nov 8 30d ‘ Ordinary.
4<lin in is! ralor's Sale..
IVT ILL be sold before the Court House door
ft in Louudes, on the first’ Tuesday in De
.cenib'er next, the fallowing property, to wit:
Number 7. Block 14. being 4 by <K) feet, as
the property of Solomon Newsom, late of said,
couutv, deceased,
’ ‘ . T. B. GRIFFIN,
Nov Btd ‘ ■ i Adto’r.
SWEET OPOPON AX ! New Perfume
irom Mexico.- The only fashionable
Perfume and ladies’ delight. oct 18-3 m
Tkomasville, Georgia, Thursday, December 6, 1860,
A Alight Proprrt f Civil War in
Wa-hiugtOH
[From the Washington Union, Nov. 10.]
We perceive from the Chronicle
that Forney, true to his .instinct,*, is
attempting to inflame the public mint]
by calling upon the Loyal Leaguers as
they are termed, to organize them
selves and come to Washington lor
the purpose of protecting and vindica
ting the power of Congress orcr the
constitutional rights of the President
which Is nothing more nor less tl.au a
revolution, which must be met with
decision and firmness. If Forney &
Cos are determined to persist in the
course they have marked out, it is the
bounden duty of the friends of the
President to accept the issue thus
presented, and prepare themselves for
the struggle.
If the time has arrived when the
legislative department of the Govern.-
ment is to absorb the coordinate
branches, the time has als arrived
when it should be resisted at the point
ot the bayonet. We are in favor of
the constitutional rights of every de<
partment of the Government, which
can only be maintained by each acting
within the prescribed limits of the
Constitution. When Congress shall
transcend these limits for the purpose
of absorbing the powers of the Presi
dent, it is revolutionary, and lie is jus
tilied in calling to his aid the whole
military power of the country, which
would be responded to from North to
South, East, to West ; and, when this
formidable array of fighting material
shall present themselves in vindication
of the Constitution, this grand army
ot “ Loyal Leaguers,” as they style
themselves, whose loyalty consist in
plundering the public treasury, skulk
ing from the army when their services
were needed, and now exciting the
country to revolution, will never pres
ent themselves in battle array. The
war will be for the Constitution—not
plunder ; for the independence of the
three co-ordinate branches of the Go
vernment, and against either one ab
sorbing the functions of the other.
If the programme presented by For
ney & Cos. is the true and legitimate
ground upon which the Radical Con
gress intends to plant itself, we say to
the friends of the President let ua ac
cept the issue, and at once organize for
the struggle. Let our friends in every
hamlet and village organize themselves
at once, and be ready for the conflict.
Let. tbeir watch words be the Constitu
tion—the independence of the Presi
dent in the execution of his constitu
tional rights—and a united country
upon terms of equality and justice, and
present themselves also in Washington,
where these Loyal Leagures uray have
a fair opportunity oflooking upon the
material with whom they will have to
lock horns, if they attempt to absorb
the constitutional powers of this Go
vernment. The impeachn ent of the
Picsident is a sine qua non fur war,
and the friends of the President accept
the’ issue.
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THE METEORIC SHOWER.
LETER FROM PROFESSOR I.OOMIS —1,-
500 SHOOTING STARS AT YALE COL
LEGE — WHAT THEY ARE.
Yale College, Thursday, Nov.
’ 15th, 1860.
To the Editors of the Evening Past.:
On Monday night, November 12, a
company of observers at this place
counted 096 shooting stars in five
hours ani twenty minutes, which is
about four times the average number
visible lor the same period throughout
the year. On Tuesday night, Nov. Id,
another company counted 881 shooting
stars in five hours, which is five times
the average number. On Wednesday
night the sky was overcast, so that
no observations c nuld be mu le. W c
conclude, tl en, that the number of
shooting stars visible about the 18th,
was very rerno k ;bk ; nevertheless this
(lisp ay is not to be compared with
that of Nov. 8, 1833, in which the
number of meteors was variously e ti
uiated at irom ten thousand, to thirty
thousand per hour. The grand display
therefore, wt.ich it was supposed might
po-sibly occur this year, has not been
witnessed in the United States, and
probably not in tturope, or it would
have been announced to us by tele
graph. It may have been witnessed
iu Asia or the Pacific ocean, but if
such had been the case it seems pro--
bable that the number visible in the
United States would have been greater
than it was. The telegram in this
mori.ing’s Herald, purporting to have
come from . Gre-nwicli, is evidently
spurious It is therefore probable that
there has not been witnessed this year
in any part of the world a display ol
r- a. all to be comp red with the
grand di^tav'U:^^
As an unusal interest in subject
appears to have heen excited, some of
your roadi rs niay wish an answer to
the questions; What -are shooting
stars? and, How do we account for
their periodical display in unusual
numbers ? Shooting stars mav, with
out much i-ni] ropriety, be called little
comets. Each me cor is a small body
generally of very Jitile density, revolv
ing about the sun in an elliptic orbit,,
and governed by thY.‘•ante laws as the
larger planets, Jupiter rnd Saturn. -
The average number of those bodies
which encounter the earth every day
i is several millions, and still there is no
perceptible decrease from year to year.
The total fluuibet’ of these bodies,
therefore, belonging, to our solar sys
tem, must be reckoned by millions of
million * The earth in its motion
about the sun, witli a velocity of nine
teen mil s per second, is continually
cuc< unlering. more or less of these
bodies, and- they plunge into - our -at
mosphere with velocities varying from
ten to forty miles per second, by which
( means heat is developed sufficient to
I ignite them, and they are entirely
consumed, generally in a . siugle
second, and at an elevation of about
fifty miles above the earth’s surface
Occasionally we encounter bodies of
greater density,, which cannot be . so
readily consumed, and they reach the
earth's surface, sometimes entire, at
other times in a fragmentary condition.
Samples of such meteors are to be
found in all mineralogical collections
in this country and Europe.
The periodical display of shooting
stars iu unusal numbers indicates that
they are not distributed uniformly
thriughout the solar system, but are
collected in vast numbers in certain
regions, while in other regions they
are comparatively few. Shooting scars
are annually seen in great numbers on
the 10th of August; and since each
meteor is moving iu its orbit with
great velocity, wh le every year we
find large numbers ol them near the
same point of the earth’s orbit, we
conclude that they are arranged in a
ring or zone, intersecting the earth’s
orbit at a point which the earth passes
on the 10th of August.
. Li older to explain the. recurrence
ol aw unusal number of shooting stars
year after year, about the loth of No
vember, we -suppose-there is another
ring of these minute bodies, somewhat
inclined to the ecliptic. Throughout
the different portions of this ring, the
meteors are distributed in unequal
numbers, but there is one portion
where the number is immensely great
and it is this portion which the eatth
encounters at intervals of about thirty
three years.’ According to Professor
11. A. Newton, the reaso-n. that * bis
display returns only once in thirty
three ycats is the following; Each
meteor of the November group moves
in an orbit which is n arly circular,
with a mean distance from the sun
either a little lesss or a little greater
than that of the earth, and a period
about eleven days less or greater than
one year. The earth encountered the
densest'portion of this group in No
vembur, 1532, but the next year this
portion passed eleven days before or
after the earth returned to that point
cf its orbit; the following year the
difference . amounted .to twenty-two
days , so that, at the end of about
thirty-three years it must, gain or lose
one entire revolution, and return near
ly to the position where it must en
counter the earth. If we receive no
accounts of an unusual display of. me
teors this week in any part of the
world, \vc shall look with considerable
confidence for such a display on No
vember 14,1867. E. L.
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Greelcpi Secession Pledge*.
From the N. Y. Tribune, of Nov. 9,1860.
If the cotton States shall , become
satisfied that they can do better out of
the Union than in it, we insist on let
ting them go in peace. The right to
secede may be a revolutionary one,
but it exists nevertheless.. * *
We must ever resist the right of any
State to remain in the Union and nulli
fy or deny the laws thereof. To with
draw from the Union is quite another
matter. Whenever a considerable
section of the Union shall deliberately
resolve to go out we shall resist all
coercive measures designed to keep it
in. We hope never to live in a Re
public whereof one section is pinned
to another by bayonets.
From the Tribune Nov-. 26, 18G0.
If the cotton States unitedly aid
earnestly wish to withdraw peacefully
from the Union, we think they should
and would be allowed to do so.- Any
attempt to compel them by force to
remain would be contrary to the prin
ciples enunciated in the immortal De
claration of Independence, contrary to
the fundamental ideas on which hu,
man liberty is based,
From the Tribune , Dec. 17, 1860.
If it (the Declaration of Indepen
dence) justified the secession from the
British Empire of three millions of
Colonists in 1776, we do ru t see why it
would not justify the secession of five
millions of Southrons from the Union .
in IS6I.
From the Tribune , Feb . 22, 1862,
Whenever it shall be clear that the
great body ,jsL~ + t ’fc...i;iMDhprr> ncgnlc
have become conclusively alienated
; from the Union, arid anxious to escape
from it, we will do our best to forward
their views.
Wwle Up, Bloinn !.
r “Sol. wake up-, it’s time to get up,”
shouted youhg Harry to his sluggish,
brother one fine July morninef, as be
began dre-sing himself.
. u What time is it?” yawned Solo
1 roerr. .
Nearly, six/’ replied his brother
! ‘and mind Sol, we start at seven,’
‘lt’s too early to go up yet,’ said Sol
! om-on, DJI snooze till quarter to seven,’
So tbe lazy fellow ItirnPd found and
was soon fast asleep again. When he
awoke his room looked very full of
sunshine. The house was very quiet,
too, and rubbing his eyes, he mutter
ed
‘I wonder if it is seven o’clock yet V
Crawling out of his bed he dressed
himself and wept down stairs. .There
was nobody in the parlor, nobody in
the sitting room. What can be the
matter thought Solomon. .
‘Where are they all ?’ lie asked.
. ‘Gone to the city,’ replied the maid,
‘they.started two hours ago.’
‘ Why, what time is. it ?’
• ‘Nine O’clock ! But why didp’t they
call me •
. . ‘iou were called at six o’clock and
• wouldn’t’ get up. . Vour father wouldn’t
have you called again. He said be
would teach yo.u a lesson.’ *
‘lt’s too bad !’ cried Solomon, drop
ping his head upon the- table and
bursting into tears. . ’. . ‘
It was too bad that the lazy boy
did not learn the lesson of that morn
ing so as turn over anew leaf in the
book of life. lam sorry to say lie did
not.. He loved sleep. He hated work.
He was the slave of lazy habits and is .
so to this day. .
W hat sort of a man will Solomon
slow coach be ? Well if he don’t die
of idleness before he becomes a man
lie will be a shiftless,good-for-nothing
fellow, He won’t havFknowledge, be
cause he is 100 lazy to study j nor any
inoney,. because ho is too lazy to work ;
nor any good character, because he is
too lazy to conquer himself
\\ ako up, Solomon ! Wake up my
dear boy. . Shake off the chains that
are upon you! Be manly, be wide
awake,, be something ! If you don’t
wake up,you will soon be a lost boy.
Wake up, Solomon, wake up! If you
don’t you will make a shipwreck of
your life. . •
P. Butler Appleton’s Cy
clopedia of Biography gives the follow
ing account of one Spoony Butler’s
ancestral relatives :
Butler, John. —Thp atrocities com
mitted by this miscreant during the
revolutionary war, almost exceed be
lief. He was a native of
but removed to the Valley of Wyom
ing, where, in 1778, at the head of
1,600 men, of which 300 wefe Indians,’
and the rest tories painted like- In
diana, he attacked the towns and villa
ges of that romantic region, and indis- I
ctiminately massacred those who sub.
initt-ed as well as those who fought,
women aud children-as well as men.;
To the question, what terms would be
granted, he replied— ■** the hatchet !”
People, of both sexes and every age
were indiscriminately shut up in
houses, which were then set on fire;
some were held down in the flames by
pitch-forks, and, in one insttnee, at
least, a pour wretch had his body stuck
lull of pine knot splinters and then
burned etc.
Our only comment is, that “ blood
will tell.” . ‘ .
What an Editor Saw at a Cir
cus. —Dan Castello’s circus exhibited
at Charlottesville the other day, and
the editor of the Chronicle went .tO see
it. He thus speaks of the animals he
saw: ■
I saw a tiger in Dan Castello’s show
exactly like Thad Stevens ; a hyena
that might have been begotten by old
Butler ; a buzzard the very image of
Judge Underwood ; a beautiful set pent
which I named “Greeley;’’ a lion
what looked like General Lee; an ea
gle that looked like General Jackson ;
a bear that looked like General Grant;,
a jackal that looked like Forney, a
peacock that looked like a woman of
fashion ; a jackass that reminded me
of the Northern Democracy, and an
owl that reminded me of my own pro- ■
session. •
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George Peabody given
8159,000 to found and maintain a
Museum and Professorship of Ameri
can Archaeology in connection with
Harvard University.
Gorcrnor Jenkins’ Melange
To the Legislature, on the Georgia
anil Florida Boundary Line. ■ .
Executive Department, )
Milledgeville, 13th
To the General Assembly X
I came into office -under the impres* ’
sion that the vexed question at the
boundary between Florida aod Geor
gia bad been amicably and finally set
tled, I was, therefore,, greatly sun
prised.to find, during the late spring,
that the inhabitants of a narrow strip
of territory, which I suppose may be
called the “debatable grounds, * were
being called upon by tbe receivers of
to make re
turns of their taxable property Thts~
produced no little anexiety and ex
citement among those good citizens
who would be highly appreciated by
either State. There was in this a
conflict of authority, which, if not
ehecked, might in time have imperil
ed the peace of the border. Under this
impression, I proposed to Governor
Walker, of. Florida, that all aouon in
reference to taxation be suspended
until I could.carefully investigate the
subject With the history of which I
was not very famil af. Gov. Walker
in the /spirit of amity and. courtesy
which it is to be hoped will always ob
VOL, VI.- No. 48.
tain between the State?, promptly ac
ceeded to the propo> tion, My inves
tigations have satisfied me that this is
no longer to be regarded as an open
question. It is Unnecessary to review
the Whole history of the controversy.
Your attention is, invited to a point in
it when a renewed attempt at arnica,
ble adjustment between the parties, af.
ter repeted failures, was agreed upon;
and to what ensued-. You are aware
that having been unable to agree, yet
Unwilling to protract the controversy;
the parties resorted to a suit in the
Supreme Court of the United States,
in the progress of which that Govern*
ment was made a party. At this stage)
of the case the. Governor of. Florida
proposed that the terminal points of
the then existing line be agreed upon,
that a line bo run from one to the oth<
er by two canmiissioners, one to be ap.
pointed by each State, and that the
line so run be established as the boun
dary. By resulution of the 27th De.
cember, 1857, the General Assembly
accepted the proposition in regard to
the terminal points, arid in a commen
dable spirit declared that Georgia,
would adopt either of the then existing
lines between these points or any other
that might be !surveyed,- and . marked,
by virtue of law and the joint, action)
of the two States. Authority was’
given by the same Act to'the Gover
nor,'to appoint a competent Surveyor
to run out and mark distinctly such a
line between the designated points in
conjunction with a Surveyor to be ap
pointed by the State of Florida. In
pursuance of this agreement, Gustavus
J. Orr was appointed by the Governor •
of Georgia, and B. F. Whitner, by the •
Governor of Florida, to run and mark
said line. Whilst these Surveyors “
were engaged in the work assigned
them, the General Assembly of Geor
gia, by an act assented to 17th Decem
ber, 1859, enacted, ‘‘that if the Statd
of Florida shall duly recognize, and,
by law, declare the line now being run
by the joint Surveyors of Florida and
Georgia, that is to say, the first line-.
run by them from the Western to the
Eastern designated terminus, as the ’
permanent boundary line between the
two States, that the said line is here
by recognized, adopted and declared
on the part of Georgia, as the true and
permanent line of boundary, provided, .
nevertheless, on the Eastern termi
nus it does not depart exceeding one- . ■
fourth of a mile from Ellicott’s mound/
The line was run out and marked,
and its eastern terminus did not “de*
part one-fourth of a mile from Elli
oott’s mound.” Indeed the variance
being reported as only twenty-four
feet, is inappeaciable, and for all prac
ticable purposes, the line may be taken
to have terminated at that mound. .
It would seem then, that nothing •
more was wanted to bind Georgia to
this line, than Florida’s recognition of
it by Legislative cnactmeut.. Whilst
this survey was in progress, the leg
islature of Florida enacted a law, ap •
proved 22nd of December, 1859, of’
the same tenor aiid effect with the a
bove recited Act of the state of Oeor
gia. •.
After the completion of the line,
the Legislature of Florida passed reso
lutions, approved February Bth 1861,
referring to the above Act declaring
the line run by Surveyors Orr and
Whitnef as the permanent boundary
between the States, and authorising
the Governor of the State to- issue a”
prod rmation. to that- effect", provided
that by authority of rbe Legislature of
Georgia the same thing be done by th*
Governor here. I transmit’ herewith
a copy (>f these resolutions now on file
in this department,’ authenticated by
the great seal of the State., By the
17th and 21st sections, of the-Code,
which was made'the law of Georgia,
first by adoptiom Act approved Decern
her 19th, 1860, and- secondly by the
fifth clause, Ist section,-and, sth arti’
cle of the Constitution ordained and
established by the Convention of 1865,
this identical line is declared to •be
the boundary between Florida and ;
Georgia. Surely, this should have
ded the controversy. The State of
Florida so holds. 1 respectfully sub
mit that, the. State of Georgia must so
hold, unless she determines to ignore
a law enacted by her Legislature and
solemnly recognized as law by her .
people in Convention nearly five year*
after.’
I regret to add, however, that the
Geueral Assembly, by resolution, as
sented to Dec 11th, .1861, re-opened,
the controversy by providing for the
appointment of Commissioners on the
part of Georgia, and requesting the .
appointment of Commissioners’ On the)
part of Florida to hold further confer
ence’ on this vexed question. The
Legislature of Florida, with coimnen
•uulali f rio^ >y considerar
tion,” acceded to the request/C-oMhil*/
stoners were appointed on both sldea
and entered into conference in
month of December 1862, Messrs,
Wright and Erkgiqe on tho part of
Georgia proposed that a line known
as the Western line be adopted as tho
boundary. Messrs Banks and Papy,
on the part of Florida, declined the
proposition, and insisted that the .pre
vious action of the Legislature of the
two States had established the Orr and
Whitner line, and so this effort ended
without changing the status of
question.