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tend to you couusei and help, us you
>ll ay desire, and opportunity may be
given. Good bve. [There was a gen
end nnd profound emotion throughout
the house during Bishop Paine’s re
marks.]
Bishop McTyeire: I congratulate
you, Bishops and bretheren, on having
reached the point to which you have
looked with desire, and with hope, not
unmixed rith solicitude. My confi
dence has increased at every step; and
the manner in which you have gone
through the first General Conference,
confirms it. Yours is a great minion.
The best religious interest of your race
are identified with this movement—
Pray for us, God forbid that we should
cease to pray for you and to labor.—
But what we do will be mainly through
your church organization. Can a
mother forget her children ? We re
quest our preachers and people every
where to give such assistance as you
may desire, and they may be able—
assistance in building churches, carry
ing on Sunday-schools, and in educa
tion. Blit your dependence, under
God, is on yourselves. You have near
a hundred thousand members to be
gin with; for besides those already leg
istered by you, we shall, wherever
they wish it, pass over to you the col
ored membership that is on our rolls.
Thousands that have gone off will re
turn to you. They have been waiting
for this. I any it, not. to reproach any,
but as a fact—you are the only colored
church that has been peacefully set up.
All others began in revolution or se
cession, which ill affected their temper,
if not their regularity. This gives you
an advantage for stability and order.
We have dealt with you in no half
measures. You have ah that we have.
Side by side let us work, mutually
helping. The unity of the Spirit may
be preserved under the two neighbor
ing jurisdictions. Perhaps this is the
best for you and best for us; and thus
we both can do more for ourselves and
more for each other. And now,
brethren, I commend you to God, and
to the word of his grace, which is able
to build you up, and to give you an
inheritance among all them which are
sanctified. The ship has been launch
ed, and we feel like pilots who have
seen it safely across the bar into deep
water, and resigned the helm into your
hands. There, in the Bible and Dis
cipline, is the chart and compass.—
Yours is exactly on the model of the
Old Ship. See that you sail as aeaxly
on her track as you can. And may
your God and our God give a .ysvasper
cus voyage!
Bishop Miles: I have ties to say,
the promises and vows 1 have just ta
ken, I will carry out .to stiie best of my
ability. I ask ycarjjarayers.
Bishop Vanderhurst: Brothers, say
not good bye, that is a hard word.—
Say it not. We love you and thank
you tor all you have done for us. But
you must not leave us—never.
Dr. Green: This is a solemn hour.
Wo all feeL When that chair was va
cated, then we cut looose from the
woik of a hundred years. You’ve got
the right name. I like everything you
have done here, even down to the last.
I .said if I was a Bishop, I would have
no hesitation iu laying hands on the
heads of those men. My heart is glad
to see you start off so well. You are
not a poor, runaway, cast off church.
No, you have bishops, elders, deacons,
local preachers, exhorters, stewards,
class-leaders, Sunday-scools, and mem
bers —a heap of them. You have a
start for a Book Concern; for you have
a paper, and you’ll have your Hymn
book and Discipline and Catechisms,
with your own imprint, right away.—
And then you’ve got meeting-houses
all over the land, to the amount of sev
eral hundred thousand dollars. They
are yours. We have held them for
you until you got ready to hold them
for yourselves, and now, by the order
of our General Conference, our trus
tees will turn them over to you. You
are well to do, setting up your house
keeping. You have no enemies but
the devil and mean white folas, and
black ones. Everybody in this coun
try, that is any account, is your friend
and wishes you well. Upon top of all
that and better, I do believe you have
the blessing of God Almighty, without
which nothing can prosper. Go ahead!
Amen.
Dr. Watson thanked the Conference
for their complimentary notice of his
service. It had been a pleasure to
him, and he would endeavor to carry
out the requests made of him in set
ting forward their publishing interests.
Four thousand copies of the Index
would be printed, containing a Jour
nal of this session.
After votes of thanks to the presi
ding officers and secretaries, and the
church for the use of the house, and to
hospitable citizens, and to railroads
that had granted delegates the usual
courtesies, the Conference adjourned
sine die. The next is to meet in Au
gusta, <la., \Y eduesday in July, 1874.
The doxology was sung, and Bishop
Paine, by request of the Chair, came
forward and pronounced the benedic
tion.
“Among the many curious phenom
ena which presented themselves to me
in the course of my travels/ 1 says Huin
bolt, “I confess there were few by
which my imagination was so power
fully affected as by the cow tree. On
the parched side of a rock on the moun
tains of Venezuela, grows a tree with
dry and leathery foliage, its large woody
roots scarcely penetrating into ground.
For several months in the year its
leaves are not moistened by a shower;
its branches look as if they were dead
and withered; but when the trunk is
bored, a bland and nourishing milk
Hows from it It is at sunrise that the
vegetable fountain flowu most freely.—
At that time the blacks and natives are
seen coming from all parts, provided
with large bowls to receive th milk,
which grows yellow and thickens at its
surface. Some empty their vessels on
the spot, while others carry them to
their children. One imagines he sees
the family’ of a shepherd who is dis
tributing the mhk of his flock/’
HOX. ALEX. If. STEPHENS.
He Replies to Joe Brown About
the State Road Lease—As Gov
ernor He Would Have Given
the Lease to the Dobbins Blod
gett Company.
Liberty Haul, 1
CItAWFORDSV ILJLE, Ga., >■
January 21, 1872. )
Hon. Joseph E. Broicn , Atlanta, Oa
Dear Sir: Your letter to me of the 10th
instant, has been received, both in
manuscript and newspaper form. No
aptplogy was needed, either for its
length, or its having been given to the
public before it was received by me.—
I have read it with interest from be
ginning to end, us I doubt not the peo
ple have.
At first, it was my intention to let
it go to the country as you sent it,
without any reply or comment what
ever on my part. It. was evidently
addressed mainly to the public -rela
ted mainly to the public interest; and
contained nothing requiring notice
from me. But upon reflection, in view
of our long, uninterrupted friendly,
personal relations, entirely disconnect
ed from public questions and politics;
and in view of your allusion to these
relations, especially in reference to my
connection with the company to which
the lease of the road was awarded, and
your service to me in the matter, for
which I felt duly obliged, I have come
to the conclusion that perhaps you
may bt expecting to hear from me, at
least upon these points; aud would
feel even more aggrieved, if I were to
remain silent on them.
I therefore think it proper—without
discussing the merits or demerits of
the lease, or becoming in any way a
party to any discussion of this sort,
further than is absolutely necessary
for my present purpose —to say to you,
as I now do, that it was not without
due sensibility I read those parts of
your letter, in which you complain of
me for not having conferred with you,
or consulted with you, and inquired
into the facts attending the letting of
the lease, before taking the course I
did. You express the opinion that I,
by withdrawing immediately upon see
ing Mr. Seago s exparte statement of
facts, did an act of injustice to you and
other members of the company, etc.
To this I have simply to say, that I
regret you took such a view of it, and
think your feelings of complaint arose
from an entire misapprehension of the
objects, reasons, and motives of my
withdrawal; and without due consid
eration and weight of the words I used
in my letter to you, aud the one for
the public on the subject at the time.
Be assured nothing was further from
my intention than an act of injustice
to you, or any member of th© compa
ny. By what I did it was not my in
tention to cast the slightest reflection
upon the motives, character, integrity
or honor of any person whatever,
much less upon you, or any member
of the company. opinion of the
members of the company, as far as I
have seen their names announced, had
been clearly given in the publication
setting forth my connection with the
lease. That opinion was not changed
by the statement of Mr. eago, nor did
I mean to be understood as changing
it, in the least, by the act of my with
drawal.
In my letter to you, inclosing the
relinquishment of my interest in the
lease, I expressly stated that it was
“immaterial with me whether all the
facts detailed by Mr. Seago be correct
or not;” and in this letter to you, as
well as the one addressed to the Edi
tor of the Constitutionalist for publi
cation, I also expressly stated that iu
what I did under Mr. Seago’s state
ment of facts, I acted only for myself
without wishing to be understood as
passing any judgment upon the con
duct of others.
This was broad, and unqualified;
and was intended to exclude all reflec
tion or imputation uponpthers. 1 act
ed for mysef. I expected you, and
others, to do the same—to act each
for himself, if you and they saw 7 occa
sion for doing it. This you have done.
It was not, allow me to say to you,
in my judgment, a case for conference
or consultation with anybody. It was
one in which my own act could not,
and would not, have been governed,
or influenced by the opinions or judg
ments of others, few or many. I felt
and acted just as I should have done,
if, at public auction, property had
been knocked off to me, as the highest
under the terms of sale, by which it
was thought I had made an advanta
geous bargain; and someone had
stepped up, and said that he had made
a higher bid, which had not been en
tertained by the crier.
In such case, I should have made
no inquiry into the facts of the matter.
I should not have insisted Jfor a moment
upon any legal rights I might have
had; nor should I have thought of
conferring or counselling with any one
upon the course to be taken. I should
have acted promptly for myself, and
told the auctioneer to put up the prop
erty again. In so ucuug for myself, I
should not have intended to refit ct by
my action in the least, upon the con
duct of any o her person, who under
exactly similar circumstances might
have insisted upon his legal rights.
These are the principles upon which
my conduct in relinquishing my inter
est in the lease was founded. It was,
you will allow me in this connection to
say, from nc oversensitiveness as some
seem to suppose, to acrimonious cen
sures, on account of the smallness of
the sum for which the road was let.—
I did defend the lease, as you say
when it was assailed barely on that
ground; and should have continued io
defend it, and my connection with it,
perhaps, in perfect disregard of all
censures, if the assault had been con
fined to that ground: just as I should
have defended my purchase of proper
ty, in market overt, if it had been as
sailed solely upon the ground of the
smallness of the sum bid for it, where
competition was open unci fair. The
question m this case was totally chang
ed with me, when the fairness of deal
ing with bids properly made, was as
sailed.
It is proper for me, further, to
state that you are in error in sup
posing that if all the facts of the case
as you gave them, aud as they have
since been published, had been before
me, I would have acted differently.—
On this point, I say to you most ex
plicitly, that if all these facts since giv
en to the public had eeen before me
at the time, I should have acted just
as I did; aud equally without intend
ing by my action to cast any reflection
upon the conduct of others. I will
say, further, if I had been in Atlanta
and had known the state of the bids
on the 27th of December—just as the
facts now appear before the public—l
should have gone to the Executive aud
advised him to accept the bid for
$36,500 per month, instead of the one
for $25,000, iu which I was interested
It is not a case iu which I should
have insisted on legal rights, even if I
supposed I had them. Iu speaking
thus frankly and candidly to you of
myself, I wish you and all others to
distinctly understand that I do not
mean to cast the slightest reflection,
either morally or otherwise, upon you
or others who stand in this case, or
any other supposed legal rights, where
I would not. I only speak for myself,
and so in this instance, solely for the
purpose of explaining to you as clear
ly as I can the principles upon vvmch
I was governed in the course I took at
the time, and under the circumstances
it was taken. A rule of my life—one
for the guide of my whole conduct—
has never been to stand upon bare
technical legal rights against individu
als; much less against public mteresta
This rule I do not set up for others,
but one I have ever acted upon
and here state it for the sole
purpose of making you fully under
stand that my course in the matter iu
question was not rashly , or hastily ta
ken, under a mis pprehension of im
portant facts attending the case.
You will pardon me for saying fur
ther, that such is now my estimate of
your character, that if you had been
in the Executive C hair instead of the
bidder, I think, you would not have
awarded this lease as the acting Gov
ernor did I think you would have
accepted the bid offering to pay the
State over eight and a half millions of
dollars , for the twenty years lease, in
stead o*f the one offering only six mil
lions.
If the parties offering to pay the
eight millions and over had failed to
comply with the terms of their bid, iu
giving the security tendered , you would,
I think, then have re-let the ltoad at
their risk—as is usual in cases of pub
lic sale or leases of trust property.
The company w’hich made the high
eat bid, as now appears, was abun
dantly ably to have responded to the
State for all damages at least, which
would have attended the delay and
expense of a re-letting of . he Hoad.
In this I only state what I think
you would have done if you had been
Governor at the time, and watchful
as you ever were of the public interests
during the long period you held that
high aud responsible position.
It is certainly the course I should
have taken. But again, I say, that I
do not set up my conduct, or the
course winch I should have taken, o.
the one which I think you, as Govern
or, would have taken as a rule for oth
ers. Iu all this lam but explaining to
you the reasons of my own couduct iu
the matter referred to, aud the princi
ples upon which the rule regulating it
is established, and to let you closely
understand that in nothing 1 have
done or said did I or do i mean to
cast an injurious reflection upon you
or others.
Id conclusion, I will add that as
many persons seem, from letters re
ceived, to be anxious to know what re
ply I have made to your letter, aud as
the public generally is certainly entitled
to the information desired, I shall send
a copy of what is herein w ritteu, to
the press by the same mail which ctir
ries the original to your yourself.
With the same feelings of friend
ship arid personal regard with which
I have ever addressed you, I still re
main, Yours truly,
Arexander H. Stephens.
EX-GOV. JOSEPH E. BROWN.
He replies 1o Mr. Stephens’East
Letter, and Defends his Lease.
Atlanta, January 24, 1871.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens — My
Dear Sib: I have the honor to ackowl
edge tfie receipt of your letter of 21st
instant, which I have also seen in the
newspapers. And in reply, I beg you
to accept my thanks for your kind ex
pressions of personal regard and con
fidence, aud assure you that they are
fully reciprocated.
While I have taken a view different
from yours, as to the natural effect of
your letter, which deemed to me to
contain, whether so intended or not, a
reflection upon others, who continued
their connection with the lease of the
State Road, lam fully satisfied by
your statement in your last, that you
had no such object in view, and that
you did not intend, even by implica
tion, to charge or insinuate that there
was anything morally or legally wrong
iu the conduct of our company in the
transaction. Feeling that our action
was perfectly upright and just, and
tnat we are really doing the p. ople of
Georgia a great public service, by ta
king charge of the road for twenty
years, and guaranteeing to them a sum
as large as three-filths of all the State
tax now assessed upon the whole peo
ple —when it was not only paying
them nothing, but was constantly in
creasing the public debt and our pub
lic burdens - I am glad as you with
drew from the company (in which re
sults may show, so far as personal safe
ty from loss is concerned, you have ac
ted more wisely than any of us) that
you do so without questioning the le
gality and justice of our conduct.
But I will enl irge upon this part of
your reply, as the object of this letter
is simply to notice a single point made
by you. Referring to myself, you say:
* “You will pardon me for saying fur
ther, thac such is now my estimate of
your character, that if you had been
in the Executive Chair, instead of the
bidder. I think you would not have
awarded this lease as the acting Gov
ernor did. I think you would have
accepted the bid offering to pay the
State over eight and a half millions of
dollars, for the twenty years lease, in
stead of the one offering only six mil
lions.
“If the parties offering to pay the
eight millions and over had failed to
comply with the terms of their bid, in
giving the secuity tendered , you would,
I think, then re-let the Road at their
risk—as is usual in cases of public sale
or leases of trust property.
“The company which made the high
est bid, as now appears, was abun
dantly able to have responded to the
State for all damages at least, which
would have attended the delay and ex
pense of a re-leting of the Road.
“In this I only state what I think
you would have done if you had been
Governor at the time, and watchful as
you ever were of the public interest
during the long period you held that
high and responsible position.
“It is certainly the course I should
have taken. But, again I say, that I
do not set up my conduct, or to the
course which I should have taken, or
the one which I think you, as Gover
nor, would have taken, as a rule for
others. Iu all this I am but explain
ing to you the reasons of my own cou
duct in the matter referred to, and the
principles upon which the rule regula
ting it is established, and to. let you
ciearely understand that in nothing I
have done or said did lor do I mean
to cast an injurious reflection upon you
or others.”
While I thank you for the compli
ment contained in this quotation, aud
nighly appreciate your good opinion
of my official conduct, while I acted as
the Executive of the State, I must say,
divesting myself of all personal inter
est as a bidder, or otherwise, that if I
had been Gevernor at the time, I
should have done precisely what Gov
ernor Bullock did, and should have
been well satisfied that I was promo
ting the best interest of the people of
my State.
I made it rule of my official couduct,
to act for the State precisely as I
would have acted for myself under cir
cumstances: to claim for her and in
sist upon all I would have claimed for
myself, if the interest I represented for
her had been my own individual in
terest, and to yield to the just claims,
demands or rights of others against
her, just what I would have yielded if
these claims, demands, or rights, had
been insisted upon b} r others against
me as an individual. This, in my opin
ion, is a safe and just rule to be adop
ted by a public officer for the regula
tion of his official conduct. He should
deal with the State’s interest, while he
represents her, as he would with his
own, and while he should sacrifice
none of her rights, he should insist up
on her rights only, where the rights
of others are involved. While she
would stand in worse, she is entitled
neither in law nor morals to any bet
ter position, than an individual citizen.
Now for the application of this rule
to this case. If the Western and At
lantic Railroad had been rny individual
property, aud I had given public no
tice tor two months, in many of the
newspapers, that I would lease it for
twenty years to a company worth
$500,000; provided they would give
bond and good security in the sum of
$8,000,000 for faithful compliance
with the terms of tlia lease; and I had
required each bidder to state his place
of residence, and the value of his prop
erty; and to state what security he
tendered, and to describe it particularly;
aud I had specified a particular hour
when bidding should cease giving all
bidders fair warning, aud a fair oppor
tunity to comply with the terms pre
scribed in my adveretisment, I should
have felt that I was as much bound
on my part to let the road to the high
est bidder who complied with my own
terms published for the guidance of
all, as the bidder was to accept the
lease and comply on his part And
in case one company had fully and
faithfully complied with my own terms,
aud had, as requested by me, tendered
good and ample security, giving such
particular description of the security
tendered as I had required; and an
other had made a bid, which I was ful
ly satisfied it was impossible for them
to comply with, aud carry out, and
had tendered no security, or had used
the names of good securities, without
any authority, aud that fact had fully
appeared on opening the bids, I should
have felt honorably, morally, and le
gally, bound to let the road to the sol
vent company, that.had put iu a rea
sonable bid, with which they could
comply; and had tendered the security
which I had demanded. And if I had
for the purpose of securing a higher
rental for the road, refused to carry
out the contract., aid held it open be
yond the time fixed, to see if the com
pany could comply at a subsequent
time, 1 should have felt that I had ac.ed
in grossly bad faith towards the compa
ny to whom my faith pledged their com
pliance, and in utter disregard of their
rights legally and morally. I would
have had no right for the purpose of
increasing my yearly incomes to have
violated my plighted faith to the bid
ders who complied with my terms
within the time set by myself.
This v ould have been my course as
a private individual, where my own in
terests were involved, and this would
also have been my course as a public
officer, had I been acting for the State
under precisely the same circumstances.
Asa public officer I could have no
more right to violate good faith, to
make an adantagecus trade for the
State, than as a private individual to
make it for myself.
But independently of this principle,
which I think good faith and good poli
cy required, should control; there are
other reasons why, if I had been Gov
ernor instead of bidder, with the
knowledge I have, and had, as to the
incomes and value of tho road, I should
have done just as the Governor did in
this case. I know the road is in a ve
ry bad condition, and that it wifi cost
the company about half a million of
dollars to put it in good safe order;
aud with the prospect of competing
lines, and taking the chanc sos lire,
flood, war aud other calamities, I know
that no company can undertake to pay
the sum bid by Messrs. Seugo, Blod
gett & Cos., for the use of it for twenty
years, with any reus mable hope for
doing so, and making auy profit, or ev
en saving themselves harmless. If
they had secured the road under their
bid, they could not, have met the pay
ments to the State, and kept it in safe
running order, so as to have met the
demands of the business and traveling
public. Upon this point I believe all
experienced railroad men are fully
agreed. And they would in the end
have been comp lied to have appealed
to the Legislature for relief against
their unreasonable contract, or they
must have permitted the road to revert
to the State, aud left her to such rem
edies as she might have had on then
bond.
This woul have frustrated the whole
object the Legislatue had in view, in
providing for the lease, and would have
disappointed the reasonable expecta
tions of the people, who, under the
lease, looked to the road as a source of
rightful income to the Treasury of the
State.
But you say the Governor should
have given them time to find sureties,
and if they failed, should have re-let the
road at their risk, aud that they are
shown to be good for all damage the
State might have sustained by their
failure to comply.
Here again, I think you inadvertant
ly fall into an error. The Code of
Georgia provides that: Any person
who may become the purchaser of any
real or personal estate at public outcry,
by an / Sheriff or other officer, under,
and by virtue of any execution, or other
legal process, and shall fail or refuse to
comply with the terms of such sale when
required so to do, shall be liable for
the amount of such purchase money,
and it slull be at the option of the
sheriff or other officer, either to proceed
against such purchaser for the full
amount of the purchase money, or to
re-sell such real or personal estate,
and then proceed against such pur
chaser for the deficiency arising from
such sale.
Now, I respectfully submit, that un
der this law,- the Governor ha I no
right to hold these parties liable for the
difference, if he had given them time,
and they had failed to comply, and he
had re-let the road for a less sum.—
The act of the legislature does not
make it his duty to advertise for bids,
nor does it fix any penalty for a failure
on the part of a bidder to comply.—
This was not a sale under and by vir
tue of any execution or other legal pro
cess. And if it had been the right of
the Governor to hold the bidder liable
for failure to comply with his bid, must
have been a legal bid- one that came
up to the requirements of the law, which
certainly cannot be said of the bid of
Messrs. Seago, Blodgett & Company.
No bid was invited by the Governor's
publicat on, unless it was accompanied
by ample security tendered. There
was good reason for this. The lease
was open to the public generally. The
lav/ required him to see to it that no
security was accepted that was even
doubtful. He had fixed a particular
hour when bidding must cease, and he
could uot keep faith with bidd rs and
do justice to them and tne State, with
out knowing, when lie opened the bids,
exactly what security each bidder ten
dered. As he promised all to award
the lease to the best bidder at that
hour, with ample security, he must ne
cessarily know what secuiity was pro
posed that be might judge of sufficien
cy.
Suppose a party notoriously insol
vent had bid $50,000 per mouth, and
had tendered no security—or good se r
j eurity, which such party had no au
thoritj to tender—would it have b( en
the duty of the Governor to refuse to
let the road to the highest solvent bid
der, tendering sufficient security, and
have advertised it again and brought
suit against the bidder for noh-coinpli
anee ? If so any insolvent company
or individual, by putting in a higher
bid each time, than any other person,
and failing to comply, could have per
petually prevented the lease.
Jhe principle of re-letting because
there was a higher bidder who did not
comply, and of bringing suit in behalf
of the State, thereby involving her in
long, expensive and troublesome litiga
tion, did not apply, and was not in
tended by the Legislature to apply.
But suppose you are right, would it
have been wise policy on the part of
the Governor to violate faith ? to give
a bidder who had failed to comply
time to give security, in order to pred
icate a suit for damages on his failure?
This would not only have involved the
State in a troublesome litigation, but
it would have resulted in leaving the
road in the hands of politicians, where
it has, as a whole, proved a very un
profitable investment for the State.--
Was it not infinitely better to do as the
iovernor did; keep faith with the bid
ders, let the road to a safe company |
which reconciles conflicting interests '
and makes the railroad system of the
State harmonious, securing to the peo
ple, without doubt, a reasonable and
fair reutal for the use of their property,
and avoiding all litigation and strife to
which the State is a party ?
As evidence that the Seago-Blodgett
comp tny did not at the time, and have
not to this hour tendered securi
ties as required by the Act of the
Legislature, and the Governor’s
public notice; we see bv the corespon
ence between Air. Seago and Col. Mott,
published a few days since, that they
are still hunting for securities and are
still unable to find them, though they
offer an interest to those who will
stand for them. The truth is that no
sensible capitalists worth $8,000,000,
can anywhere be found, who will
pledge it on any such surities as the
law requires, and they must continue
to fail.
I am iuformed it has bean charged by some
that the provision in the bill, authorizing th*
lease which requires the SS,OOO,(KK) securi
ty was put in at my suggest ion, to prevent
competition for the lease. This is a great
mistake, So far as I know or believe, it
was the suggestion of the Hon. Dunlap Scott,
the author of the bill alone, anti was in
sisted upon by him as a part of his scheme,
which he would uot yield. lie was deter
mined that the State should be secure be
yond doubt, and he demanded a bond ample
for that purpose and fixed the amount at
$8.01)0,000. The Legislature adopted his
suggestion, and made it the duty of the Go -
ernor to see to it, that it was faithfully car
ried out.
But I will not weary your patience by
further remarks. Wishing you a speedy
restoration to health, and that you may be
spared many years to your friends and your
country, I am as ever, yours truly.
Joseph E. Brown,
The emigration from Tennessee,
Georgia, etc., is heavier than any previous
season. Texas seems to be the main object
ive point. According to the Memphis Ava
lanche the number of wagons which have
crossed at that point, since September 1, is
1,664, and uumber of people over nine thou
sand ; at Hellena crossing has been greater,
and it is said large numbers have crossed at
Point Pleasant. Asa class the emigrants
are much better than those gone before.—
They have better outfits, and are generally
*n a condition to purchase farms.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Georgia, bartow county.—whereas
Beujamiu T. Drake, Administrator of Mart
well Drake, deceased, represents to the Court,
in his petition duly tiled and entered upon re
cord, that he lias fully administerd Hartwell
Drake’s estate. This is, therefore, to cite all
persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to
show cause, if any they can, why said adminis
trator should uot be discharged from his admin
istration, and receive letters of dismission on
the lirst Monday in May, 1871. Given under my
hand and official signuture, this January 27tb,
1871. J. A. HOW ARD, Ordinary B. C.
J ast Received
Buckets, Tubs, Brooms, Baskets, Washboards,
Trays, Scrub Brushes, Rope, and Seives, at
MONTGOMERY’S.
Garden Seed*.
A fresh supply of Buist’s Garden Seeds, inclu
ding the “Silver Skin _»nion Setts,” at
MONTGOMERY’S.
Mess Beef!
Mess Beef, at MONTGOMERY’S.
Fresh Garden, Flower,
Fruit, Herb, Tree & Shrub,
and Evergreen Seeds, pre
paid by mall, with direc
tions tor culture. Twenty
lire different packets ol* ei
ther class tor SI.OO The six
classes for $5.00.
20.000 lbs. Evergreen and Tree Seeds; Apple,
Pear, Cherry, Ac.; Grass Seeds; Beet, Cabbage,
Carrott. Onion. Squash, Turnip, aud all Veget
able and Flower seeds, in small or large quanti
ties; also Small Fruits, Stocks. Bulbs. Shrubs,
Roses, Verbenas, Ac., by mail, prepaid. New'
Golden Banded Japan Lily, 50c. Priced De
scriptive Catalogues sent to any plain address,
gratis. Agents wanted. Wholesale List to
Agents, Clubs and the Trade. Seeds on commis
sion.
B. M. WATSON. Old Colony Nurseries aud
Seed Warehouse, Plymouth, Mass. Fstablished
in 1842 jan. 81-sw2m
R. F. PICKREN,
Dealer in
I Furniture,
AT GILREATH'S WARE-HOUSE ,
WEST MAIN STREET,
CARTERSVILLE ’, GEORGTi,
WOULD respectfully announce to the citi
zens ofGartersvflle and surrounding coun
try, that is has rented the old stand of Robert
Bruce, known as the Gilreath Ware-House, for
1871, and is now receiving and opening anew
and superb stock of
FIIRNITIRE,
Consisting, in part, of
Bureau*,
Wardrobes,
Bed-steads,
W ash-staiicls,
Towel-racks,
Book-cases,
Cribs, Chairs,
Tables, Ac., Ac.
And many othei things too numerous to men
tion, all of which will be sold at small advances
on the origional cost. My motto is “Quick sales
aud small profits.” Call and see my stock of
Furniture and learn my prices.
R, F. PICKREN.
Cartcrsville, jan. 27th, 1871-wly
W. B. COX W. K. HILL.
COX $ HILL,
®of)olfsalt jßtaJtrs in
Foreign and Domestic
LIQUORS,
Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Grtt.
WE can now supply all our customers and
dealers generally, with
WHALER’S COPPER DISTILLED PURE CORN
Whisky,
Which is made in the old fashioned way, with
out the use of steam, and is equal in quality to
any ever manufactured in this State.
We desire also to call attention to our large
stock of
COPPER DISTILLED PEACH AND APPLE
Brandy,
These Brandies are distilled from selected
fruit, by the best makers in
NORTH GEORGIA ,
and for PURITY, AGE and FLAVOR, cannot
be surpassed.
Our stock also of Pure Copper Distilled
Rye and Bourbon Whiskies
is the largest in the South, aud cannot be sur
passed in all the qualities essentially necessary
m fine whiskies.
Both Brandies and Whiskies we offer at the
very lowest rates for CASH, and to prompt pay
ing customers. We will be pleased to receive
and fill orders for anything in our line,
jan 27,-swly COX & IIILL.
R. J. M. GAINES,
1 Tailor.
’ .. c ; f ■’fit -j
I s preparecl t 0 Cut, Make, and Repair
Mens’ and Boys 9 Clothing,
with dispatch, in the most fashionable and du
rable style, at living prices. Shop in the back
room of Satterfield, Pyron & Co’s Storo.
Carter?.villc, jan. ‘l7..swjy
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
prepared to furnish all classes' with Si® n °*
employment at home, the whole of tit
lor the spare moments. Business new °r
aud profitable. Persons of either »ev e H m r '* bt '
from o6c. to $5 per evening, and
sum by devoting their whole time m Jh?, "*>
ness. Boys am?girls earn neartv as
men. That all who see thi* L?U. ch *
send then- address, and test the bush is!
make the unmiraUeled offer: To such ’ w ®
l.ot well satislU we »ill s eml t! VEJ ", «>
trouble of writing. Full particulars'/ a vli, he
ble sample which will do to commence wort *
and a copy ot Th* Literary Cofrlß;. ° B
one of the best and largest family new?,!.
ewer puMished-all sent free by mail iffi I'* 1 '*
it you want permanent profitable work, a®
E - c - ALLEN & CO., Augusta, MahJ
The New York We ekly Day-Book.
Fhe 4 li;iin;hon of ih*
Kypiibllc Against
4 lie 1% or 111.— $2 per year.
Address ’‘DAY-800K,,’ New York City
UXIVERSaHsI WhafUlTf
Send for the «TAR IN THE WEST
Cincinnati. A large 8-page weekly; estab
lished i 827. It meets all the wants of the
family; $2 00 per year; $1 20 for six months
Try it. Specimens free. Address William
son & Cantwell, Cincinnati, Ohio.
CHRISTIAN STANDARD opposes Sects and
advocates Primitive Christianity. Best and
cheapest Family Weekly. 8 pages,' „,|„ rai , s
Edited by Elders Isaac Errett and J. S, Lamar
Only $2 a year. Specimens free. R. W. Carroti
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NOW’S YOUR CHANCE! Just
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My new chart “Liberty,” 28x8G in., takes sph n
didly. Fifteenth Amendment, Emancipation
Proclamation, Election Scene, Processions, a,-.
Portraits of Lincoln, Howard, Grant, Bevels
All brilliantly colored. Large protits t
agents. E. C. BRIDGMAN, 29 Beckman Street
New York. ’
('I fil 5 persons to successfully canvass for
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pie’s Weekly, Dayton, Ohio.
(N K.VUINK OKW \Y /A Alsike
C'lo ve r;---LN Sample v/ Packages sent
t REE to all Farmers; also a copy of the AMER
ICAN STOCK JOURNAL, by enclosing Btam>
to N. P. BOY Eli & CO., Parkesburg, Chester,,
Pa.,
NEW YORK Safety steam Power Cos. sn u
Engines, with aud without cut-off, and Sec
tional steam Boilers, built in quantities,bv spf.
cial machinery. Send fbr circular, 44 Cortland
J. F. EDDY,
Cotton Commission Merchant,
7 Market Square.
PROVIDENCE, ». I.
Advances on Consignments of Cotton
VICK’S
FLORAL GUIDE
FOR 1871.
The first Edition of One Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Copies of VlCK’ft Illustrated Cata
logue of Seeds, and Floral Guide, is published
aud ready to send out. 100 pages, and an En
graving of every desirable Hon or and Vegeta
ble. It is elegantly printed on fine tinted pa
per, illustrated with three hundred tine Wood
Engravings and two beautiful
COLORED PLATES.
The most beautiful and most instructive Floral
Guide published. A German edition published,
in all other resuects similar to the English.
Sent free to all my customers of 187 ). as rapid
ly as possible, without application. Sent to all
others who order them for Ten Cents, which is
uot half the cost. Address
JAMES VICK,
RoclieHer, 14. Y.
GEORGE F. GANTZ & CO’S
SEA FOAM!
la ail entirely ni‘w inven
tion without any ol* tile bad
qualities of* Yeast or Bak
ing Powders, Soda, or
Saleeratus. Its strong
er than any yeast oir
baking powder in
the world, anil
PERFECTLY PURE.
TAKE NOTICE.
Light, well raised Bread, Biscuit and < ak .
digest easy ajid conduce to good health. Good
health makcS* labor of all kind easier and pro
longs life. SEA FOAM I’OWDEH will make
Bread, Biscuits and Cakes, always light.
SEA FOAM is WAKRANTKD’to make better
lighter, healthier, sweeter, more toothsome and
more DIGESTIBLE and NUTRITIOUS Bread,
Biscuits, cakes, Puddings, &c., Ac., than can be
made any other way.
NEWS TO HOUSEKEEPERS,
A barrel of Flour makes forty pounds more
of Bread with SEA FOAM Powder.
No time required for dough to raise, but bake
in a hot quick oven as soon as mixed.
SEA FOAM saves Eggs, Shortening, Milk, Ac.,
and is a wonderful economy.
GEORGE F. GANTZ & CO,,
136 & 13§ € edar St., Xew lork.
$5 TO $lO PER I)AY. b^JS
who engage iu our new business make from $5
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Those in need of permanent, profitable work,
should address at once, GEORGE STINSON A
CO-, Portland, Maine.
Agents ! Bead This Z
WE will pay agent* a salary
of s3' > per week and expenses, or
allow a large commission, to sell our new and
wonderful inventions. Address M. WAGNER
* CO., Marshall, Mich.
EMPLOYMENT FOR ALL.
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paid Agents, to sell our new and use
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I USE THE “VtGFTABLE” j
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ITPHAM’s r>el>ilatovy
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hair in fixe minutes, without injury to the skin.
Sent by mail for $1.25.
IJPHAM S ASTH.HA CURE
Relieves most violent parox vsms in five minute*
and effects a speedy cure. Price $2 by mail.
The Japanese Hair Stain
Colors the whiskers and hair a beautiful black
or brown. It consists of only one preparation.—
75 cents by mail. Address S. C. UPH AM, No
-721 Jayne Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Circulars
sent free. Sold by all Druggists.
HFUM ATIS W.-Lincii’s
matic Powdeks has cured thousands
of cases of Rheumatism iu the last ten years,
many of them in which all other remedies had
failed. For evidence correspond with J. G.
GIBSON, Eaton ton, Ga., or inclose $2 by mail,
and it shall have prompt attention. Price ♦*
per package. Liberal discounts when sold by
the dozen or more.
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nloyment should send for the book, enclosing
II cts. for postage, to T. W EVAISS&
40 South Bth St-, Philadelphia-