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Immigration.
Ti e South a* a mass arc rapidly drifting
to the coaeloition that the labour of tho
Frccdmcn cannot be relied upon as acer-
jn drafting any programme for the
ilcv iopinjj of her great resource*. Some
think that, under the moat favorable circum*
statical, the negro If determined not to work
at all; other* believe, and we think juatly,
he tcould work, were he once from under the
p< ruinous influence* of the Bureau system.
Wc do not pretend to insist npon it that ho
would do a* much work now, beiqg free, a*
he did, cr rather was made to do, while in a
ntatc of slavery. Our position is, that inas
much as the South must have laborers to till
her lands, why not let those laborers be sc
lcctc-d from a class wlio have proved them
selves to be our belter friends!* We mean
pluinply and plainly that the friendship of the
negro to the Southern white man is more to be !
relied on than that of any foreigner, yea, or
even Yankee, who may come and settle
among us. The more trifling clai-s of Freed
men, it is granted, are bound to perish, in a
little while, utulcr any system that can be
devised—Bureau system or what not. I’bil
anthropy need not exercise herself in effort*
to preserve this class, or Christianity exhaust
her energies in essays to reform or regener
ate it. It has to suceuinby.ond as slavery
only could save it, an 1 ,-lavery itself is an ig
nored, doomed institution, —it ivould seem
f.irevcr, — it (this class of worthless negroes) I
has to he soon numbered with the things
that were. Tho worthless portion of the
Frcednien strayed-off, or starved-off, or froz
en i ff, or otherwise disposed of, the remainder
would prove tho basis of the most useful and
peaceable working peasantry that any nation
ever had. The efforts of the South, then,
should he so directed as to keep this popula
tion- thus purified by elimination- among us,
uml also to prevent tho Yankee from ruin
ing it—both relatively, as fur as wo (the
whites) are concerned, and absolutely, as far
as they (the negroes) themselves are con
cerned.
As the Bureau system is now an incubus
upon the poor negro, and will continue a year j
or two longer, tho only hope wc see to nou ,
tralizc its deadly effects, is for the Southern !
man and the Freedman to come together in j
this wise—that the former shall give prefer
dice to the latter in all contracts, over all ]
si • t 1 white laborers —Europeans or Yan
kees—hut the Bureau is to be utterly ig-
nored, and no question whatever between
them (the Southerner and Freedman) is to
bo ri It rrod for adjudication to that tribunal-
Let the Bureaus, no longer used, rot into
nothingness, and the incumbents thereof, that
live on perquisites, starve literally, and let
tho Southern man and Freedman, bet
ter friends of each other, than each is, re
spectively, of any other, have a fair under- |
standing to work into each other’s hands j
The Yankee has moro than half-destroyed
the negro ly freeing him, in the first place,
and, with his Bureau, he bids fair to destroy
wiirt! little remains of him. Now, if the
Southern innti invites white labour from
abroad, ho finishes 'he poor negro, world
without end, while that same white labour
will' eventually destroy the very ones thni
introduced it—tho Southern men themselves.
Tho Yankee, and tho white laborer from
abroad, nre conspiring to exterminate the
negro, and, it lot alone, they will do it
—and after they have done it, they will
have the blush less mendacity to swear that
it was tho South that exterminated that poor
race. Tho negro has as much right to livo
here—being first stolen by the \ imkeo and
sold here—as the N ankee himself, or the j
imported white laborer, who is, nine times,
in ten, as much our cueniy and the negro’s i
enemy, as is tho Yankofl. W c say then, i
give the negro tho preference, and if it i
comes to tho issue that tho Yaukco or the ;
negro, one, lias to be driven out,'our voice is,
let the negro stay. The negro, only uh< n
compelled, has not niurdcied us, burned us
up, cursed us, like tho Yankee, and the im
ported foreigner ; and, niough in an abstract
contest between the white man and the black
man, we arc emphatically for the former, yet
we just as emphatically prefer a uarkie that
is good, or barely tolerable, to a low-1
down, mean wbito man who despises us, and
whom, with more than usury, we despise in
Even if the negro votes, wc would
PWpbr him then; for veiling at random, he j
aJaIJ a« ofUfc tvfsjrtgTrt U wrajuv j^g&J
tad the Radios)
aigner never woufiWofche couwf
help it.
I’ll n.ADKLi'tii.v Con vkntiox.—- While
nearly every journalist South sees, or seems
to see, so mueh to go into glorification spasms
about, touching the wondrous doings of the
Philadelphia Convention, and we, for the
life of us, can really see so little —in formal
deference to tho preponderating masses, we
will hold on yet awhile, to see if we can be
s> mistaken as the odds against us might be
interpreted to imply. If the mountain had
brought-forth merely a mouse, that, though
a ridiculous result, were a harmless one j
right glad we will feel if that incubating
miss baa hatched no cockatrice’s eggs.
It u reported that the French governmen
lias abandoned the idea of extending the
frontier of Franco by the annexation of cer
!ain German provinces on the Rhine.
Itiqitl ■>< moralixulioii.
(Ju-en Victoria is letting herself dowu
most tr< mombiiislv. U ,idi s exhibiting a
great penchant for a liveried servant of hers,
bct-au-c he favors her deceased “ dear Al
bert.” a-ifall Dutchmen did not favor one an
other, she has shown the worse than Lad taste
—the criminal meanm-sq or worked up mad
ness, wc should call it—to marry-off one of her
da ugh tors, the Prince** l/e'ma to a fellow over
oa tho Continent, y-elepcd Prince Ckriitlan
Schlrnr>y llohtrin, who already has a wife
and four children living, and, withal, is poor
even to poverty, his real income about a
thousand dollars a year, an adventurer, a
notorious gambler and sporting man, a man
with all the low vices of the German char
acter and none of its virtues.
Recollecting how the royal doll t-iok sides
against the Southern Confederacy, for no
better reason than the fact that the Yankees
made themselves simpletons about her pet
boy, the I’rincc of Wales, while lie was trav
elling through tlieir country, it would not
surprise us to bear, any morning, by the
sub marine cable*, that her Majesty had
taken another consort, in the shape of the
said crout-euter or lager drinker that is so
much like her dear Albert, llow far their
laws or conventionalities foibid (ho mixing
of royal and plebeian blood, we know not—
hut if such things arc not interdicted, no
one need bo much a-t'inUhcd to lei.rn (fiat a
German gardner, or cook, or groom, e.r stew
ard, or buth r, or whatever he is, no matter
what, has 1 et n promoted to the vacant jiosi.
(ion of Prince Consort. \\ by he astonished
when stranger, more unaccountable tilings
arc taking place eon Rintly in the , v 'outh !
(o wit, nice rebel girls forgetting all their
j brave resolves, turning right around, and
; marrying notorious playouts that deserted
j tl eir section, fought against their section,
and killed or robbed the brothers and fathers
j of the very sisters and daughters whom they
j afterwards hood-wink and marry.
Vic. has now a precedent, though of her
I own instituting, of whie.i she can avail her
self at any moment, and take unto herself
j anew liusl an I, leadening doubtless, that if
I it is not good fur man to fie alone, it is also,
j by analogy, not good for woman to be alone—
i especially if the new husband somehow man
j ages to look like, or falk like, or act like the
old one.
'rite IMiiiuilclpliiii fAireutlon,
Below we give the “ Declaration of Prin
ciples” set I’mih, and umiuimmody agrecd-to>
by the delegates accredited to A and present
at this Convention. An address lias also
beon sent forth, but as it is tediously long
and a mere elaboration of the resolutions, wc
cannot displace more interesting matter fruui
our columns to give it space.
DECLARATION OF HU.NCjri.F.S.
The National Pnion Convention, now
assembled in the City of Philadelphia, com
posed of delegates from every State and Terri
tory in the Inion, admonished by tho solemn
lessons which for the past five yc_ars it has
pleased tho Supreme Ruler of tho Universe
to give the American people, profoundly
giateful for the return of peace, desirous as
are a large majority of their countrymen in
all sincerity to forget and forgive the past,
I revering tho constitution as it conies to us
j from our ancestors, regarding the l nion in
| its restoration as moro sacred than ever,
looking with deep anxiety into the future as
of instant and continuing trial, hereby is
sues and proclaims the following declaration
of principles and purposes, on which they
have, with perfect unanimity, agreed :
First: We hail with gratitude to Almighty
God the end of war and tho return of peace
to an atllieti and ami beloved land.
Second : The war just closed has main
tained the authority of the Constitution,
with all tho powers which it confers, and all
the restrictions which it imposes upon the
General Government, unabridged and unal
tered, and it has preserved the Union, with
the equal rights, dignity and authority of
tho States perfect and unimpaired.
Third : Representation in the Congress of
the United States and in the Electoral (Col
lege is a right recognised by tho Constitu
tion as abiding in every State, and as a duty
I imposed upon its people—fundamental in its
I nature, and essential to the existence of our
: republican institutions ; and neither Con
gress nor the General Government has any
authority or power to deny this right to any
State, or to withhold its enjoyment under
the Constitution from the people thereof.
Fourth : \Ve call upon the people of the
Unite.! States to elect to Congress, as mem
bers thereof, none lut men who admit this
fundamental right of representation, and w ho
will receive to seats therein loval representa
tives from every State in allegiance to the
United States, subject to tho constitutional
right of each House to judge of the election
returns and qualifications of its own mem
bers.
Fifth: The Constitution of the United
States, and the laws made in pursuance there
of, are the “ supreme law of the land, any
thing in the Constitution or laws of the
State to the contrary notwithstanding.” All
the powers not conferred by the Constitu
tion upon the '— l nor pro
ihlbiteA by ifac t»Utoa, ... " ’ - * •
States or to tho people thereof;” and amjng
ill righto tho reserved to the States, is the
rignrro^prostTfro”qualification for tho elec
tivo franchise therein, with wblsh right
Congress cannot interfere. No State or
combination of States has the right to with
draw from the Union, or to exclude, through
their action in Congress or otherwise, any
ether Stato or States .from the Union. The
Union of there States is perpetual.
Hixth : Such amendments to 'he Constita-
I tion of tho United States rosy be uiado by
j tho people thereof os they may deem expc
| dient, bat only in the mode pointed out by
j its provisions ; and in proposing such amend
ments, whether by Congress or by a Conven
tion, and ratifying tho same, all the States
of the Union have an equal and an indefeasi
ble right to a voice and a vote therein.
Seventh : Slavery is abolished and forever
prohibited, and there is neither desire nor
purpose oti the part of the Southern States
that it should ever be re established upon the
isoil or within tho jurisdiction of the T'uited
| States, and tho enfranchised slaves in all
the State* of the 1 nfon should receive in
c in won with all their inhabitants cqnal pro
t otion in every right of person and prop
city.
Eighth : While we regard as utterly in
valid and never to be assumed or made of
binding force shy obligation incurred or un
dertaken in making war against the I'nited
.States, wc field the debt of the nation sacred
ar.d inviolable ; and we proclaim our pur
pose, in dLcbarging this, as in performing
all other national obligations, to maintain,
unimpaired and unimpcached, the honor and
faich of the Republic.
Ninth : It is the duty of the National
Government to recognise the services of the
Federal soldiers and sailors in the contest
just closed, by meeting promptly and fully
their just and rightful claims for the services
they have rendered the nation, and by ex
tending to those of them who have survived,
and to the widows and orphans of those who
have fallen, the most generous and consider
ate care.
Tenth : in Andrew Johnson, President of
the United States, who, in bis great office,
has proved steadfast in bis devotion to the
Constitution, the laws and interests of his
country, unmoved by persecution and unde
served reproach—having faith unassailable
in the people and in the principle of free
government—we recognize a Chief Magis
trate worthy of the nation and equal to the
great crisis upon which his lot has been cast,
and we tender to him, in the discharge of
his high and responsible duties, our profound
respect and assurance cf our cordial and sin
cere sopport.
[communicated ]
From the Griffin ITi Weekly Star.
Mes*r*. Editor* : —lt is a prevalent opin"
ion among the people, that the repudiation
of private contracts is within the province of
the Legislature; and the citizens of Pike
County have given a public expression of
that opinion in tho resolutions published in
your last paper. This opinion is erroneous,
and all hopes of relief based on the expecta
tion that the Legislature, or even a Conven
tion of the people, can pass any act to annul
nr de.-troy contracts, or in any way impair
the obligations thereby imposed, arc illusory,
and will never be realized.
The Ist Article of the new Constitution of
Georgia declares that, “ex post fictn laws,
laws impairing the obligations of contracts,
and r, troactive laws injuriously affecting any
rights of the citizen, arc prohibited ” And
again, “ Legislative acts in violation of the
Constitution are void, and the Judiciary shall
so declare them.”
Such arc the solemn injunctions of' the
Constitution of the State, and every member
of tho Legislature, and every member of
the Judiciary, havo taken an oath to sup
port that Constitution. Now, it is a self
evident proposition—one which admits of no
argument—that if the Legisluture cannot
pass an act impairing the obligations of con
tracts, it cannot pass an act to repudiate, loan
nul, and to cancel the obligations of all con
tracts. And if the Legislature—acting under
the pressure of an excited public sentiment
—should pass such an act, the Judiciary
would not hesitate to pronounce the act un
constitutional, and therefore null and void.
But if the Constitution of the State of
Georgia contained no prohibitory clause on
the subject, the State—acting through its
Legislature, or even through a Convention
of the people—could not pass any binding
act of repudiation.
The 10th section of the first Article of
tho Constitution of the I’nited States, de
clares that “ no State shall pass any bill of
attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing
tho obligation of contracts.” Thou, ae a State
—acting through the instrumentalities of a
Legislature,Convention, or any other political
agency—cannot pass a law impairing the ob
ligations of contracts, it follows as a log
ical sequence, that the Stato cannot in any
manner repudiate any contract, or destroy the
obligations which, imposes on the debtor.
It is not necessary to discuss tho subject
of repudiation in its moral aspects. It is
not understood that the very respectable gen
tlemen who composed tho Pike meeting, or
any portion of the people of Pike County,
advocate a sweeping and an indiscriminate
act of repudiation. Many widows and or
phans in the State have no other source of
income than notes, and other evideneces of
debt founded on contracts. The makers of
notes and other obligations have received a
full equivalent for them ; and many of them
are not only able to make payment, but are
rich in tho means to do so. There are oth
ers who have bought lands, and other proper
ty, and who arc at this very time enjoying
the use of such property, without having
paid any part of the purchase money. There
arc some who aro engaged in trade and spec
ulation on borrowed means. And there are
very many debtors who havo ample resources
and can discharge every pecuniary liability
resting on them. Ido Dot understand that
any one is disposed to advocate the repudia
tion of this class of debts; yet, every one
must see that it would be very difficult to
lr-me a general law which must be general
in its operation, so as to exclude from its
benefits the undeserving class which I have
enumeratrd. To repudiate such contracts
would briug upon the country more suffering
aiid distress than I can describe. Wc can
not live in a state of civil society without
having some respect for the sanctity of con
tracts To repudiate all contracts would be
like touting as mder the very ligatures by
which society is held together. And wc
should submit to isolated eases of individual
sufferings and individual hardships, rather
than tolerate a departure from a great moral
primiplo—one which is entertwined with the
As repudiation of private contracts is im
possible, is there any remedy for the evils of
the people so earnestly complain ? A
disastrous war has swept away more than one
half of our wealth ana capital, and left the
people of the South poor to an extent unex
ampled in the history of the country. NVhe»
to this impoverished condition is added the
blighting effect of drought, and tho inefficien
cy of our new labor system, which is even yet
in the progress of doubtful experiment, a sad
and gloomy future is opened before us. Th®
money in the country is not sufficient to pur
chase one-tenth of the property of the State
which may be subjected to execution and
sale ; and the growing crop of cotton docs
not promise to yield enough to supply the
manifest deficit in the corn crop. In this
st te of things, sotno remedy is necessary,
or many of our best and most respected cit
izens will be subjected to great privation
and reduced to want and beggary. As re
pudiation is impracticable, we roust look to
some other remedy for the evils which, are
already on the oountry. There are rerv
many crcdi'era who hare not been cltaf to
| the calls of humanity, and generally deserve
gre a commendation tor their liberality tLd
indulgence But th* are some whose rapac
ity must be stayed by the strong arm of the
law ; and to accomplish this object, the next
Legislature should prohibit the creditor fr.jtn
| re-sins any part of his execution for two,
three or four years. This extension of time
of payment, would give the debtor, with the
aid of propitious seasons and remunerative
prices, an opportunity of relieving himself
from the crushing hurt!: n which has come
upon him, without any lan. that can-be just
ly imputed to him.
I am aware that the e ii-tinition -o'y of tho
stay law is a question to ! L and by the
Supreme Court of the Slate; > lam very
sure that its constitutionality wiii i affirmed,
because the law points distinctly to the
remedy of the creditor, and not to the obli
gations of the contract. The obligation im
posed by the contract remains intact, and
therefore cannot be said to be impaired by
extending the time for executing it. The
vital principle and binding obligation re
mains tlie same, whether tiic process of the
law is suspended forty or sixty days, or two
or four years, and neither the legal or moral
obligation of the contract is weakened or
impaired in the slightest degree by any law
regulating the mode and time of executing
final process. If it is the manifest inten
tion of the Legislature to abrogate all com
tracts, by an act extending the collection of
debts to an indefiqite arid indeterminate pe
riod of time, it would be unconstitutional;
but it is an unreasonable assumption to say
that any Legislature in the face of thepro
hibitions contained in the organic law, would,
attempt such an evasion of their sworn du
ty. Jf the exigencies of the country requir
ed a prolonged extension of time for the
promotion of the suffering debtor, he should
be required to pay the accruing interest on
his indebtedness. This would secure to the
creditor an available income without impair
ing the obligation of the dcbtor'to pay tho
principal of the debt, and without infringing
cither the letter or spirit of the Constitution.
The late Convention of the State passed
a stay- law and extended its provisions until
the adjournment of the first ensuing Legis
lature. By extending the provisions of the
law until the adjournment of the Legislature,
the Convention clearly intended that the
Legislature should <xu mi th- u: nil further
if the necessities ut li; p. ipL u nanded it.
Here then we have an authoritative declara
tion of the supreme power of tie- .'t.ue in
favor of the constitutionality oi the stay iuw,
and I trust that it is a remedy which the
Legislature will not fail to apply to uu ex
tent commensurate with the wants and ne
cessities of the people. This is the only
feasible—the only practicable remedy, and
the creditor, as well as the debtor, are deeply
interested in its prompt and speedy appli
cation. To press the collection of debts
when property has no market value, is to
destroy the resources of the debtor—to im
pair his recuperative energies, and to leave
him in a state of hopeless insolvency. Strug
gling under the depressing influences of the
difficulties and embarrassments which sur
round him, he needs time and opportunity
to marshal and apply his crippled resources,
and to relieve himself from the burthens of
his condition. A Citizen of I’ike
Public Meeting-
At a meeting in Zebulon of a large and
respectable number of the citizens of Tike
county-, on Tuesday-, the 14th instant, on
motion, I*. 11- McDowell, lv-q , was called
to the Chair, and W C. Beckham was re
quested to act as Secretary.
On motion, a committee of five were ap
pointed by the Chair, to report matter for
the consideration of the meeting, who after
due deliberation, reported the following pre
amble and resolutions :
Whcrrtm, The Government of the 1 nited
States have cm • :;n i !'>•' h- -roes, the
former property ui 1 s : and
whereas, the State I * • ’ ratified
said emancipation by th t<- i- o ber peo
ple in solemn Convention; -it whereas,
said Convention did repudiate 0, State and
Confederate debt, without extending any re
lief to the masses of the people, thereby
leaving the good citizens of the State with
out any means of paying debts formerly
contracted ; and whereas, the almost entire
failure of a crop of grain as well as cotton in
the greater portion of the State the present
year, will make it impossible for the people
to pay any portion o' tlieir indebtedness ;
and whereas, there is a manifest, disposition
on the part of the capitalists and money deal
ers to press their claims to the great sacri
fice of what little property is left the citi
zens of this State ; and whereas, the relief
contemplated by the General Assembly in
the passage of the act known as tho Stay
law, requiring one fourth of the indebtedness
to be paid annually for four years until all
the debt be paid, in view of the great depre
tion in the value of property, the whole of
the real'estate now owned by the citizens of
this State would be consumed in the pay
ment of the one-fourth of said former in
inbtedness, thereby failing to render the re
lief intended by the passage of said act to
the people of tho State; therefore—
Rewired Ist. That the citizens of l’ike
County feel it to be a duty we owe to hu
manity as well as society, to call upon our
Senators and Representatives ot the General
Assembly, when convened, to pass a law re
lieving the people of their present embarrass
ments, either by stay law, exemption or re
pudiation, by calling together a Convention
or otherwise.
2nd That wq . pi~7?oun fivs of the
fatate favorable to this cause, to ca;i the citi
zens together aud unite with u> m this great,
and important movement,
3rd. That the public gazettes in the city
of Griffin, and others throughout the State,
be requested to publish these proceedtlh:s
Upon the motion to adopt the report of
tho committee, Col. W. D. Alexander moved
to strike out Mi much of the Ist resolution as
had reference to repudiation, which motion
was lost.
The preamble and resolutions were then
adopted nearly unanimously
I*. A. McDowell, Chairman.
1 NV. C. Beckham, Secretary.
Jenny Lind, the great cantntrice, it
il stated, has lost her musical voice. She
rtcently made a signal failure, in attempting
to sing in Paris and—so saya a Paris letter
—*was hissed by a great part of the audience.
The widening of tho guage on the
niroad extending From West Point to Mont
gonery, was completed several days age.
Through trains can now be run over that
roild, without change of cars.
NUMMARY.
The election in Kentucky shows that every
one of the nine Congressmen from that State
w.li be Pi mot-rats, save possibly one. The
Democrats will gain three, if not four, mem
bers.
Ti,e President and Secretary Seward will
leave Washington on the 2>th inst., to at
tend to the Douglas Monument ceremonies,
going by the way of New York.
Gen Logan’s recent speech at Springfield,
Illinois, is a good illustra'ion of the feeling
at the North among the Radicals towards
the South. He said “ until you adopt the
constitutional amendment, if it is forty years,
you shall not come in.” “ There was but
one way to treat with rebels, take the torch
in one hand and the sword in the other, and
sweep over their territory.’
The Charleston CoUritr says that Mrs.
Davis, in a recent letter to a gentleman of
that city, writ' s as follows :
“ Mr. Davis is not slowly, but surely wast
ing away, and I look forward to his Maker’s
release, if man does not soon afford him one.
ft is very kind of you to ask what he wants ;
but, beyond cigars and a little Madeira and
Sherry wine, he seems to desire nothing.
The following 13 a good Recipe for the
cure of cholera:
1 oz. Laudanum.
1 oz. Camphorated Spirit.
2 oz. Tincture of Ginger.
2 oz Tincture of Capsicum (mixed).
—Dose, oue teaspoonful in a wine glass full
of water. In obstinate cases repeat the dose
every two or three hours.
Letting the Cat ovt of the Bag.—
A dispatch from Philadelphia, of August
7th, to the Cincinnati Times of the Sth,
says :
“In a specoh at Boston, last evening,
Senator Wilson denounced the President,
in terms at once severe and ungracious, and
declared that the people would prove this
fall that every one of the Southern States
must pass the Constitutional Amendment
lie declared it as his opinion that the Presi
dent would be impeached next winter unless
a change took place this fall. The speech
was received with great applause.”
A German professor has been trying.to
measure the “ ultimate atoms.” From cer
tain theorcdcal data, lie finds the thickness
ot at. atom of atmospheric air to he 8.927
hundred thousandth millionths of an inch.
In a cubic loot of air, ho calculates there are
2111,000,000,000,000,000,090, atoms. This
confident arithmetician also says that an
atom of air weighs just fifteen ten-thous
andths of a grain. This is the last degree of
scieuce.
Prussia peremptorily declined a Russian
proposal for a Congress of the Powers which
signed the treaty of Vienna.
MARRIED,
On the -20th inst., by the ltev. W. A. Ungers,
at the residence of Mr. S. Cnuthen, Capt. JACOB
S KING, of Thomaston, Ga., to Miss DORA L.
READY, of Spalding County, Ga.
On the evening of the 19th Inst., at the resi
dence of Col. W. 11. Hunt, by the Rev. Mr. Jones,
Prof. CHARLES A. F. YASQUE to Mies MINNIE
J. HUNT.
DIED,
On tli 19th inst,, at the residence of Ids father
in Columbus, Oa., JOSEPH M. BANKS, grandson
of Dr. Pi-iehard, of this city. The body was in
terred at the old grave-yard, in Griffin, on Mon
day last.
New Advertisements.
LIEN BY UEYAN. A. L. HARTRIDGE. .E. V. S. MIFF.
BRYAN, HARTRIDGE 4 CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
ASD
BroLuora,
SAVANNAH 0 EOROIA
WE solicit consignments and make advances
on shipments to ourselves, New York and
Liverpool correspondents.
|yPLANTERS’ SUPPLIES FURNISHED JjJ
aug-23—-tf
SHERIFF’S SALE.
WILL BE SOLD before the Court House door
in the city of Griffin on the first TUES
DAY in October next, one house and lot, known
ns the Middle Georgia Medical College, situated
on Broadway, near the Macon & Western R. R.
Depot, levied on as the property of Edward F.
Knott, to satisfy costs on several fi. fa.’s issued
from Inferior and Superior Courts of Spalding
County. John L. Doyal vs. Edward F. Knott,
Janies M. Couch vs. Edward F. Knott, and others.
ft' g2l-lm D. D. DOYAL, Sheriff.
Railroad Meeting
AT GRIFFIN.
FTMIE Stockholding,'VrfYtf A R. R. (XL, and
wWTJTends of the enterprise, are requested to as
serabte at Griffin, Ga., or. THURSDAY, the 13th
day of September next, to adopt Some plan to
complete the Road.
This call has been suggested by numerous stock
holders, aud cordially assented to by
C. 11. JOHNSON,
au23 —td President.
G 1 F.ORGIA— SPALDING COUNTY.—Whereas
L J hn 1). Moor, Administrator of the estate
of Lee Strickland, late of said county, deceased,
applies to me for letters of dismission.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
parsons-interested or concerned t* be and appear
at my office within the ti»e prescribed by law,
and show cause if any exist, why said letters of
dismissiun should oot be granted.
Given under ttiv hand nt office, this the 15th of
August, 1866. F. D. DISMUKE,
augl6—6m Ordinary.
G 1 EORGI A—SPALDING COUNTY—Whereas
■ David P. Elder. Guardian of David D. Ma
lair and Elisabeth A. Gray, formerly Elisabeth A.
Mslair, applies to ms for letters of dismission.
These sre therefore to cite and admonish ail
persons concerned to be and appear at my office
within the time prescribed by law, and show
cause, If any exist, why such letters of dismissiec
should not be granted.
Given under my hand, at office, thts the 14ts
day of August, 18««. F. D. DTSHUKE,
attgl 9—<SOd Ordinary.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
OFFICIAL.
To His Honor A. Bcllakt, Mayor:
At a me. tieg of the citizens of Griffin b.IJ
Friday last for the purpose of devising » av ,
means to raise funds to equip the
ment, a committee of five weref
eali npon the eltis.ua and see what amount emus
beraoud In eoajuncUon w.th alike
of three from the Griffin Ilook and Lad J-r n
No. 1. Griffin Fire Company. No. J, and two f ’
City Council, beg leave to state that tber U*
performed the duty imposed upon them and a
their efforts demonstrate that the desired oW *
cannot tie obtained by subaeription. if
We therefore recommend that your honorin'
upon the jieople, in the exercise cf ti e elect
franchise, in aecordanee with the Hth seefj
the charter, to say whether the aid a-k. and it,.n",
granted by authorizing the City Council to i, u J*
a special tax for that ptirt ose.
Feeling satisfied, as Wd«, tfayt every prol> _
holder within the corporate limit* 6t the 12*
not help seeing the importance cf a well orwini!!)
Fire Department, 6
We are, very respectfully.
J. A. BEF,KS. Chairman Citizen Com
H C CUNNINGHAM, Ch’n H * r (V .
L. J. BLOODWORTFf, Ch’ii G. F. Cos
JNO. £5. WISE, Ch’u from City Council
Election Notice.
AN electron for one Alderman to fril J-r
cancy occasioned by-the resignation of F-
W. C. Wright, will be held on SATURDAY tie'
25th inst, between the hours of 9AM snd’d p-
M„ at Council Chamber. Also, &t same time
place the voters of the city will please sigaffv
them approval or disapproval of a Bp e cia i tfL
being levied for the purpose of fitting out the
Fire Department.
Endorse on tfie tickets "special tax” or "m
--special tax.” a. BELLAMY
a,, g 16 - 2t Mayor.
VT George W. Grant and E. W. Bel*, Executor,
of 11. P. Kilpatrick, deceased apply to me for
letters of dismissiou on said estate.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
persons concerned, to be and appear at my office
within the time prescribed by law, to show cause
if any exist, why such letters of dismission should
not be granted.
Given under my band at office. o !his Auvn.s
15th, 1866. F. D. DISMUKE,*"
aug!6—6m Ordinary.
JS'oiicc to Debtors and Creditors•
VI.L persons indebted to the estate of Janies
W. Middlebrooks, late of Spadling County,
deceased, ore notified to come forward and settle
immediately, ami those having demands against
said estate are requested to prevent them duly
autlientiealed in terms of the law.
J. 11. CONNALLY,
augl6 Administrator.
/ lEOKGIA SPALDING COUNTY—Whereas
R. F. Maim applies to me for letters off
Dismission oil the estate of Rhode Hamil .
late of said conny, deceased.
These are, therefbre to cite and admonish all'
persons interested or concerned to be and appear
at my office within the time prescribed by law to
show cause if any exist why such letters of dis
mission should nut he granted.
Given uuder my baud at office this 15th August
1866. Cm F. D. DISMUKE, ’
HUE A & JOHNSON,
G-rocers, Produce,
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
4 RE receiving constantly a large lot of
-V SUGAR,
COFFEE,
FLOUR.
BACON.
LARD.
ROPE and
Bagsing,
And every article kept in their line of trade.
Tlieir Store is opposite BRKK WARE
HOUSE od SOLOMON STREET.
augl6—3t
THE GREATEST
INDUCEMENT
OF TIIE SEASON AT
MRS. TAYLOR’*
MI NLIERY EMPORIUM
C CONTEMPLATING a radical change in W-
J ness the coming season, the undersigned offers
lor the next FORTY or FIFTY DAYS, a LARGE,
FRESH and FASHIONABLE- STOCK of
Millinery and Fancy Goods,
at prices that will astonish the most incredulous
We attempt no humbug, but the goods MUST and
WILL be sold at some price, a portion of the stock
AT LESS THAN COST.
A great inducement will he offered to any wish
ing to mako a good bill. Call soon, as the best
chances are first taken.
S. S. TAYLOR,
Agent, at Ladies’ Store.
Griffin, July 19 1866-41
_ __—rnsilAL
LAND AND EMIGRANT
AGENCY
WITH II EAD-QU ARTERS AT
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
I shall keep a Registry in my office, where all par
ties having Lands, Plantations, City, or other prop
erty for sale, rent, or exchange, ate respectfully
solicited to Register them free of chsrge, whether
my services are engaged as Agent or not.
I am thoroughly acquainted with Southern
Lands, and therefore amply Able to discern tha
quality 'and strength, as well as -what they are
belt adapted for, etc., etc., which wM enable ®e
to render valuable services to Capitalists and
others wishing to invest or exchange.
I now have several Plantations, Lota, and a
considerable quantity of wild lands in different
parts of Georgia for sale, rent or exchange, aud
will soon have them mapped out on my Register
so that all can examine for themselves.
I am now making, and will soon have perfected
arrangements with parties in New York, Phila
delphia, and Baltimore by which I shall be able to
advance money on lands, growing crops, etc.
KanmacEs: George N. Niebols, Esq., Bay street
Savannah, Ga ; Ransom Rogers, E*q., No. 119
South 4th Street, Philadelphia, and the business
men of this city.
A. JACKSON ROGERS.
fW Otfce, for the present at my residence, oa
corner of Broadway a«4 18th Streets, opposite
Marshal College.
July 19, to.