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Exccutcis, Admibistratcrs tit and Guar
dian?, who sometimes send in adver
bs mcnis through tho Ordinary, have
entiro centr l of the same, and can pub
lish thrni in the paprr of their choice.
They will hear tbi? in Blind.
Admiral Hemmes has retired from
the rditoiial mnagenicnttof tho Mom
pLie? Bulefio. 11 is successor is not an
naunaL
Judge Auguttus Kcci-e, of the Oc
mulgc Circuit, i;as ceased to exercise
(ho furctions es hiseflicc. Cause—
couldn’t stand the negro jury oreh r.
We Loj e that the people thrnugh
out tho State wil slow better sense
than to follow the mad die ates-of a
fool. —American L nion.
0, dem’t bother your dear “lilo” self
on that score, Mr. Swsiyze. Tho peo
ple have got lette r sense than to bo
influ need by anything you car: pub
lish, of course.
A New Ink ce-ircsf < ndent says the
Ilerald claims to expend a million and
a half pet annum, and the Tritunc at and
Times alout a million dollars each, in
tbo publication ts tbeir journals.
Judge I verse n L. II ai rls has written
a letter en reconstic ion —taking the
ground that the Suuilnrn States, arc
ns conquered provinces out of the l’s
ten, and advising the pet p’e to got hack
into the Ut ion as soon as p.Sfilh', cn
the terms e fie red.
At the last term es tie Superior
C urt for Baldwin cenn'y, two white
mcD and fourteen negroes, who attempt
ed to escape form the Penitentiary,
vcrc sentenced to fur years’ additional
imprisonment, Lut with a recoEienda
tion to the m< rey of the Governor.
The impress in seems to prevail with
many that del 'gates to the State Con
stituiie ml Convention will bo required
to take what i&known as the “iron clad’
oath. Such is not the fact. Any man
eligible to vo'c is eligible to be voted
for, and (he oath required of him befere
taking his scat will not bo more strin
gent than the registration oath.
Tho Hadicala of Chatham to
have seme and lliculty ia arranging their
ticket to the CYnvantion. Ex-Gover
nor James Johns on and Mr. 1).
flail Rice, who were cn it, most re
spectfully decline, tie former because
he is anew citizen, aid the later be
came he preft rs to see Lis name in “rc
spcctab’o ccmpany.”
At the Nashville election on Satur
day, all was reported quiet, tLc negroes
and low whiles having il all their own
way. It afpears that General Grant,
after Ecndirg Ge ne ral Thomas to Nash
ville with a military force to preserve
order, decided the whole case in favor of
Brownlow by in; truc-ting him that “the
military cannot bo made u?o of to de
feat the Executive es a State in enfero
ing the laws of a State.’’
* pEKOCBirtC VIt'TOBT AT THE IIcMF.
or Colfax.— The hon e and ward of
Schuyler Colfax; which last spring gavd
Dr. Myrc, Radical Republican, twenty
nine mi jority ever \V illiam Mack, I)cm
ocrat, thirteen m;j rity over Peming,
lladictd Republican. The Democrats
are jubilant over their success in de
feating Colfcx and his friends, upon a
strict party issue, in Mr. Colfax’s (iwn
ward, where hie own vote and influenue
availed him sn little-.
The Radicals of Pallas county, Ala
bama, like the same party in Mont
gomery, Greene and Ilale counties,
have nominated colored candidates to
the State Convention. In Dallas, three
whites and two blacks have been nom
krated. It is new certain that the Rad
icals of Alabama will elect quite a num
ber of negroes to the Convention, aßd
we suppose to Congress, when their
{Rate -is reconstructed. These Radical
nominations Aa not sustain the reports
that Gee. Pope has given private in
structions against tbo election cl ne
groee.
The Gcvernmeat has received iufor
formation that Gon Canby is not inter
fering in any way with the processes is
sued from the Federal Courts in North
Carolina, although he has not suspended
by aDy special order that feature of
frCD, Sickles’s order No. 10 which pro
hibited the enforcement of a judge
ment f°r debt. The United States
Mardral is serving writs issued by the
United States District Courts and sell
»cg property under them, but the ptices
are so low in tho present condition of
affairs in North Carolina, that iu one
case a farm, which cost forty thousand
dollars iu gold before nho war, brought
at the Marshal’s sale but live thousand
dollars. Tho judgement in this ease
was brought by a Northern creditor.
'l iie l-'yetcry s:t Hollis' Mills, j
\\ c are gird to lrr.rn that it has horn
fully det< tn.ir.rd to build a C (ton and
Wool Faet'iy at Hubs’ (f-i meiJy
Brew n’t) Mills in Calhoun county
This is au euterptii-r in which uil the
people Os this Sic it n are deeply in
terested There can be t:o d„ub’„ of the
adaptation o’tbo Reality to tLeptr
pose, arel the ] radical i ity of the cn
terj rise in every partict.l; r.
Capitalists at hon e and abroad are
ilT ied such an opportuny as is seldom
met with, ami wo trust many wiil ap
preciate ‘.ho advantages offered, and
take hold if the matter in earnest.
The next nice tirg of thore interest
cd will le held on tho 4th Saturday in
October next, instead of the first, at
was fta'rd in the res lutions. JjCI
there he a large attendance.
The present mi itary government is
tho best we have ever bud.— American
Lilian.
"When Sherman's ntmj reached our
Stato Capitol, sj reading desolation in
its swoop), the j enilentinry tojiviots
Ihougitt it the best thing that ever hap
pened to (be country—because tiny
were released, and thereby escaped
their metited | tin! hrnent.
On the same prino'ple this political
leper asserts that the prerent status
of Georgia—without law or a rcpubli
can form of .government —is 1 otter than
we have e ver had No doubt it
is b tier for these imported sealiwags
w ho ore supported by government pat
! ronage, for | olitirM put poses; f r un
der ether circumstances they would be
kicked cut es not dccc m soet. ty, for
they have n vet got into it.
I’olitie :il A piitliy.
The New York Express, of the 23d
instant, under the foregoing beading
pays: “The Republicans complain of
teriiblc apathy amorg their party in
Ohio and Pennsylvania, hut yet whistle
to keep their car rage up. It now de
pends upm the Democrats and Conserv
atives of the country to say what the
future shall he. Uuder the Radical
rule there can be no permanent peace
fur ti e people, no erder and stability iu
business,no (quality or ju-tice between
the States, no hastening of specie pay
ments, no absence of Military Gcvc-rn
inents at the Suuth, and no diminution
of tax. a. Those, therefore, who wish
some change fc.r all these evils must
now see the necessity of a charge of
measures.
lietu lion Lven in Mimaelm
setts.
As in Conncc'icut and Maine, there
is an evi lent reaction in Massachusetts.
Disccutcut, divisions, and apathy, pre
vail to a great extent among the Re
publicans of tLc State. As evidence
of this we place before our readers the
following fre in the Worcester Gazette,
a noted Republican s beet:
“WbcD,” eavs that paper, "wo ask
for cheaper bread our leaders strive to
anarne us with glowing pictures cf ne
gro equality; when we a-k for a more
equal and just system cf taxation, we
are handed a treatise setting forth the
blessings which are to come to man
kind tire ugh universal tuifiage, thrust
upon the ccttcu pickers cf the Caroli
nias; when wc suggest that cur derang
ed currency is driving us at raihoau
?pced, to individual and national bank
rup'ey, the air is filled with alarming
rutr.ois and the shadow of impeach
ment is made to play the part of the
red blanket in the sports of the Spanish
arena.”
And so the w< rk of regeneration
“geos bravely on on !”
To tin: Frecdmeu.
For the benefit of the freedtnen in
our midst, whom tho Radicals are
see King to induce to vote and act with
that party, w-e give a few extract s from
a s; etch delivered at Macon on Friday
last, by Joseph E. "Wi liams, a con
servative and Sensible freedman, of
Tennessee :
110 went into tho history of the Re
publican ana Democratic parties, to
show that while the former was the
Government of the fox', the latter had
really gone in for the extension of suf
frage to the masses. 'I hat while pre
tending to think tho negro tho equal
of tho white man, they had persistently
refused him universal suffrage in the
Northern and Western States, and
discriminated sga’mst him in favor of j
the former. They had used the negro!
to ride into power, nnd w ish to still
use them to continue their reign. To
effect this they were daily widening
the breach between tho Southern
whites and colored, by the aid of un
principled emissaries, who herded
them together in secret, oa h bound
leagues, and by inilarnmalory har
angues inflamed their minds against
theii B'oulhern friends and neighbors by
telling them they were only trying to
aga n enslave them.
They should havo more sense than
to believe such a talc. There is no in
stance in history of a race once enfran
chised again enslaved. Why the an
cestors of the very lead rs of this par
ty were those who introduced slavery
into tnis country, and to them and
their desc'ndar.ts alono were due the
honors of the middle passage —their
ships brought negroes from Africa
Iw.o after regaidud ns piracy
ti elo so. Finding s 1 eves un| rentable
in tho colek-rmJ sterile North, they
shippeeh and soil tnem to ths sunny
unel fertile Honth. To enrich them
se'vs they did h>. Ami nor only this,
but slavery was recognized by the law
of the liti)(l,nnd slaves escaping into
Northern Btst.s were rendered up to
th 'ir owners.
It was not tho Radicals that sunder
ed vour bonds. Tbo results ol tbo
war alone removed your yoke. line!
the re been rorcbelUon, you would have
rentnlnid slaves. Tho ordinances of
secession nnd tho first gun fired at
Sumter was bn* tbo beginning < f tho
end. At tho beginn’ng of tho war,
Mr. Lincoln even favored the perpetu
ation of the: institution, could lie out
save the Union thereby. lie was only
opposed to its oxter sion into the terri
tories, nnd at beston’y favored a grad
ual emancipation Hut tbo war j ro
grussed ui 1 vorably to the North, and
had waged txo years when President
Lincoln’s emancipation was issued. It
was issued its a necessity of war and
solely to weaken and cripple the South.
And yet these Radicals tell yon that
all this was dono out of pure love for
the negroes, and tLut they f light to
give you freedom.
They toll you they are your best
friends. I tell you the Southern whites
are your be st friends, nnd tin y have
given you cm] loyment, and aided yoju
by every means within i heir power;
and yet you repay them by entering
lon li bound leagues, ami listen to the
I pernicious doctrines of low white men
who have nothing at stake in this
country, and w ho only w ish to use you
to elect them to office, and to your
ruin hereafter. So surely as you per
sist in this course of (Opposition to your
best friends —your emp'oyers —sos’rrc-
lv w ill you bring about a war of races,
which must result in tho extermination
of your race.
What lias been tiio result of the elec
tion in Tennessee? There tho colored
people were drilled in Radical princi
ples, and undo to believe that every
voter after the election would receive
a mule and forty acres of land. Did
they get them ? To day there are hun
dreds of colored paupeis in that State
seeking employment that they cannot
find. So many of them applied at the
Freedtnon’s Ruroau for tho $lO aud
cigars promisee! them by the Radical i,
that agent had to bo appointed to
bunt them homes in North Georgia
and elsewhere. And such, my friends
will be your fate in this State if you
hearken to tbo advice of Radical em
issaries, and go against those with
whose interests you are identified.
“I was a soldier for tour years in the
United Stares army, and n witness to
'he cruel treatment colored soldiers re
ceived. You can expect no better
from the liadica’s alter yon have sub
served their purposes. On tho con
trary, the Southern whites, with few
exceptions, have shown their friend
ship in an unquestioned shape The
South is jour homo. Here there are
neither restric'.mns nor discriminations
against you. You are free to fol’ow
mechanical trades here, aud have but
lo seek employment to get it. In the
North, no white mechanic will work
in the same shop with a co'orcd man,
and from being brought in competi
tion with cheap w hite labor, can only
obtain the most menial offices.
“Mv reasons for advoea ingyour re
maining here are : That there is more
land in the South, and a better chance
for obtaining it by labor and economy;
besides, the climate suits your phy-ieul
organization. That of tho North docs
not, and land is scarce.
lie then v ent to show that in the
boasted free States a qualification was
necessary to '.lie exercise of suffrage.
This was because they could not band
ihe colored race together there, and
vote them blindly In the South it
was different, and they had tho color
ed men herded in leagues, to do tho
behests cf tteir Radical mas'ers. —
What was this but a species of bon
dage, mere gaffing than that from 1
which they have escaped.
“If you were independent, you could
act so. But you are not. Y r ou are
dependent upon tho Southern whites
I for your bread nnd meat. It is a mu
tual dependeuco—they have the land
| and need your labor. YLou should not
act contrary to their wishes and inter
! cats. If ynu should, you will certainly
not be acting to your own interests
“I believe ia allying mysclt with those
who can help me. You need monied
friends, both now and in the futuro, you
cannot ass >rd to act against such men ;
for if you should, the day will surely
come when you will suffer from such
conduct.
The Boston Rost floats a rumor that
Coienel Farkor (Indian) is to be put at
the head of the Indian Bureau, nud
Fred Douglas (freedom) at tho head
of the Freedifaen s Bureau.
Wo would suggest Beast Butler as
Inspector of silver ware.
Grasshoppers have been added to the
other numerous pests that infest Atlm
ta. Rity the sorrows of the plague rid
den city.
The Lagrange Remoter | u's tiuwi
Mr. Celling-of tho Augusta 11-pu'li
cai, asu fcjuihcin man. We’ll firln
ynu on thrtCljjirlie, while <fur eyelids
wink. —Juin nut if- M 1 s engtr.
Then, p or Ecrpgff, of the Opinion,
stand* alone hs a■Kourhcrn rais el Geor
gia editor iu f ivor of the military bills !
Well, scrugu*, I’d sell out curtain, and
g> to raising children and chickens
!/t (!rant/e liniorlrr.
Don’t do i», Scruggs ; for decency’s
sake don’t rairo any more Scruggs s.
You may do very well in tie chicken or
my other Jovl busiresr.
Cotton in Te xas.
Tho Houston Telegraph of the 11th
instant says: We met a Rra*os [latter
yesterday who informed us that he had
finished [irking out his cotton, ginned,
baled it, and had turned stock into the
cotton fled, 110 planted eight hund
red acres of cotton, and his entiro crop
amounts to six bales. Tbo neighbors
of our fiicnd have done no better than
limselt’. The worm tills tho story.
The cotton moth, which deposits in tbo
egg of the cotton worm, was seen iu
great numbers in the praires, remote
from any cultivated grounds. Tbo ro
p ated and nearly complete destruction
if the c it-ton crop must doubtless lead
to the abandonment, fur a few years at
least, of this cultivation in the ooatt
tiers of cc until s. It is two [ rccarions; a
few repetitions of the loss would bj ruin
ous to the largest fortunes. Oircuui- j
stances may ciiango in tho cuur>o of
year? —the worm may disappear, the j
cultivation tuny be resumed, but for
some years the lands must cither ;
he abandoned or other crops suhstitu- j
i ied fur cotton. Gur low coin try plun
ders may as well look this fact ?rj larely
in the face, and at onco prepare to en
gage in something beside eotton. lie
who devotes the hulk of his labor again
to cotton i.s hopelessly he lpless.
The Future of Cotton.
The Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Courier makes snmc remarks
on this subject that are Worthy of atten
tion. lie says:
The estimate of tho crop by the
Charlo-ton Courier corresponds with the
information derived from general sour
ces by tho Agricultural Bureau here.— !
Os the nineteen hundred thousand or
two million of bales,-of this crop, about :
cino hundred thousand bales may be |
exported between October and January. 1
’Hie avails of this exportation will be
large enough materially to change rur !
present eommereial relations witii Eu- i
r pe. That is, ins'ead of standing as a I
d< btor fur sixty milli ms in gold upon
the commerce of the last fiscal year, we
shall become tbo creditor party. Gold
will necessarily decline while cutton fur
ui-hes us with exchange.
The futuro of ootton is anxhudy ' is
cusecd here in connection with the sub
j ct of revenue and taxation.
It is maintained by some that, cotton,
as a staple, is destroyed in this country
by the change in the political, social and
economical system, brought about by
the war and present policy of the Fed
eral Government. India, it is asserted,
will produce cotton to any extent at a
cheap r rate than we can.
The Lmdon Economist says that
some millions of laborers fur cotton
fields in India can be employed at the
cost of six cents a day, each employee
finding his own food, clothing, habita
tion, niedioal attendance, etc. All this
would show that our sy?tc nos African
sLvi labor was humane, liberal nnd
highly prrmotive of Afiioan develop'--
ment and ul imate advancement, in
companion with any labor system in
any country where chiton is produced as
a staple.
Tho following I# an extract from a
Southern planter’s letter, dated Liver -
pool, August 28'b, 18G7 :
“As an American planter, T givo tho
opinion that the cotton trade will calum
niate here in sixty-five days. The mil
-lod6 of la or short in proluot by the
American war, with the demorai’zed sys
tem of labor to be for years to come ;
tho exhaustion of ‘he cld crop, and tho
e-op of 1867 probably net to cxcred two
million?, will meet a market without a
stock, present er prospective, to he com
pared with f< rmer years ; and while the
emsumers of cotton have for tho
eight months us and all their power and
influence to depress cotton too rapidly,
and much to the hurt of the trade, the
stock being at their mercy.
Its present value will only pay to pro
duce it in the most favorable localities
in tho States, and the past year will de
ter them in 1868 from the wotried un
certainly of walking freed’uen, and it
the now reported excess of 3 to 400,000
bales over tho 1,500.000 estimate:! put
the price down 10 oents per pound, it
is too obvious that common sense, if not
their finances and previous failures,
should tench them that a crop of 1,500-
000 to 2,000,000 of bales will pay them
more money and profit than a crop of
three millions. A crop of near one
million of hales, which tho planter can
produce with reliable labor and little
risk, in my opinion, wi 1 pay more prof
it than 3,000,000 of bales, with all the
hazards of its cultivation and curtain
low priee ; but if the farmers would on
ly sell this year one half of the present
crop and make only enough for home
use in 1868, the other half of the crop
wi'l bring more money to them than
heir utmost res urces devoted to a full
crop, and this move might perhaps bring
the laborers to their sen-es too. This
move was commenced in my Rcction
when I left home on tho Bth inst . aud
the planters have the’ thing in their
hands now for the first time, and car.
use their power over this article with
more effieienay than any combination
among the manufacturers.”
The negro woman in Rome who split
her husband’s head open with an axe
not long since, has been sent to Millcdge
ville for one year.
The annual communication of the Grand
Lodge of Georgia. F. A. M , will
convene iu Macon on Wednesday 30 h
jest.
Colton ltt>t[iilnlhms.
Washington, EontonilxT 21. I'ho j
tux on cotton introduced into t! o XTnt
ted States is 2J cunts per pound Cot ,
ton proper y as esseel and returned !
prior to’September Ist is subject to 3
cents tax. Cotton removed under
bond prior to Be’pternber Ist is taxed
3 cent*. Tlio tHX is a lien on dio cot
ton till the tax is paid.
Class A— Colton upon which tax has
been fmid.
Class B—Colton remov'd from tho
district of production with tho tax un
paid.
Class C—Cotton rorfiovcel from point
to po : nt in tho district whoro produo
ed before payment of tax.
Cotton must bo described by these
designations in the bi'ls of lading, way
bi Is, mtnifesls and permits. Each As
sossor is required to keep an account
with each ee tton producer in bis dis
tiiet. Asscssois at receiving points
shall keep nn account with each Re
ceivi r. An Assessor or Assistant As
sessor, and Cohector or Assistant Col
lector, as required at places where cot
toti is weighed nnd marked, shall use
metnlic tags for marking cotton, and
it will hereafter be required in all cas
es; tags to bo furnished the Assessors
by tho Dej artment. On each tag w ill
jbe stamped a letter, a narn: in figures,
! nnd United S'ate.-i Internal Revenue
I Thtae tags will bo put up in packages
' of fifty, numbered in convertivo order,
I and Assessors must be very particular
to use them iu regular order, ns from
one to fif'y, and from fifty to one hun
dred, etc., as ihe ease may be, on each
lut of co ton weighed and marked.
The owner can have the cotton
weighed nnd marked at any point in
thc< district by paying the traveling ex
pen es of officers. Disagreements in ey
be referred to a Commissi- ne-r, but the
officer must not delay in proceeding o
weigh the cotton on account of disa
greement regarding expenses The
owner may dispense with the official
weigi vr by providing all the manual
labor, but iu all cases the Assessor or
Assistant Assessor mini, see the cotton
weighed and marked.
This process does not requite the
immediate payment of tax Tho emt
ton e:tn bo held v>i hin the and strict
wthout payment of tin tax, unless
sold for consumption within the dist
Withdrawal for transportation under
the bills of lading, upon payment, can
be made at any time
The Secretary of ihe Treasury ap
points the weighers; applicn'ious and
recommendations should come through
the Assessors of the respective dis
tricts, and be addressed to the Com
rii!-?sjom r rs Internal Revenue, Weigh
ers must take the oa'h of office pro
scribed by Congress, July 2nd, 18G2.
Each bale sha 1 be marked gross
weight, with ink or pencil, in largo let
ters A metal c tag, hereafter deserib
ed, shall be fixed to the bale by the
Assessor <r As istant Assessor. The
weigher must make daily re urns to
the Assessor. Fee for weighmg 25
cents per halo, tho weigher furnishing
the metalic tag. The owner pays the
fee.
The Assessors must see that tags
are used and inserted at the time of
weighing and marking, excapt in eases
hereinafter mentioned. The letter and
number in each tag must be accurate
ly entered in the record kept by the
Assessor, and an account kept by him
with each owner, holder or producer
of cotton, and permit*, whether issuea
by tho Asse sor or Collector, .for the
removaief cotton, most clearly speci
fy the letter ami number for each bale
so that there may be no Double in
ilentifying it. When numbers are
consecutive, it will suffice to onter both
on the record nnd permit the first and
last number, thus for a lot of fifty bales
the entry tnnv be: “Letter A. Nos
101 to 150.”
Collectors, whenever tho tax is paid
on eotton previous'y weighed, marked
and tagged, will n ark, or cause to be
marked, upon each bale, w ith brush
and ink or paint; in large letters, the
words “Tax paid under Section G, Act
of July, 1860 ”
Colton may bo removed from the
disti ict in which prepayment of tax
under bond or other security, to be
prescribed by the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, subject to the approv
al of the Secretary of the Treasury.
It having been found by experience
that furnishing of ineteased facilities
for the removal of cotton without pre
payment of tax, is consistent with in
creased security to the Treasury, it is
determined to subs itute shipments to
Revenue officers tinder bills of lading
for the bonds heretofore required ; ae
c.rdingly, the own- ror tho holder of
cotton which he desires to remove
Irorn the district of production to an
other district without prepayment of
tax, will hereafter bo required to ob
tain a bill ofladrog in duplicate, sign
ed by a well-known, regularly-estab
lished, responsible transportation com
pany, consigning the cotton to the Col
lector of the district of destination, for
delivery to the factor or agent of 'die
owner, after payment of the tax.
The transportation company signing
such bills lading will bo required to
furnish tho As-essor of the district in
which is a receiving port or point of
destination, immediately after arrival
a copy of thefr manifest or way bill, so
far es it relates to any cotton transpor
ted by them, and stating therein wheth
er tl-io cotton is class A. IL or C. as
hereinbefore required. Each Assessor
will keep an account of all cotton en
tered upon the cc<pies of manifests and
way bids so furnished lo idm. Shoulei
any transportation company refuse or
neglect to fnrnish the Assessor with a
copy of the minifest or way bill, as
above required, the Assessor will im
mediately uotily all Asses ora on the
line of fuieh transportn'ioo company of
such neglect or refusal, and thereafter
no permit tor the transportation of cot
ton by such company will be granted
by any Assessors without perm ssiou
to do so being obtained from the Com
ii issioner of Internal Revenue.
| Before cotton is shipped the ow ner
1 or holder will apply to tbo Assessor, or
' nearest Assistant Assessor of the dis
trict In whi h tho cotton was produced
for a permit to remove it. This appli
cation must describe the cotton bv the j
tn irks placed upon the hales, and give
the weight ol each, and must also I
plate hy what router and inode of con
veyance it is proposed to transport, the
mono of tho transportation company,
with tho name o f the Collector to
w hich it is to bo consigned, and of the
factor or agent to whom it is to be de
liverrd on payment of, 'ax. The net
weight will be ascertained by deduct
ing four per centum for tar.i from the
gross weight One copy of this cer
tificate must bo transmitted to the Col
lector of the district, anil another copy
must be delivered to the Assessor. If,
however, the Assessor or Assistant
Assessor is satisfied from tho location
pf tho cotton, or the distance of the
cotton gin or place of shipment from
his own residence or that of th« desig
nated weigher or marker, that tho
w eighing or marking cannot bo clone
without great inconvenience or extra
expense, tho officer may take the
weight a? certified by the owner of tho
cotton gin, or by the freight agent at
tho p'ace of shipment, and will deliver
to the applicant w ith tho permit a num
ber of metalic tags equal to the num
ber of bales named in the permit,
which mu t be carried with tho cotton
and delivered by the transportation
company at the place of destination
a- her iaaf er described. If the trans
pollution company named in tho appli
cation it: known to the A Lessor or As
sistant Assessor to bo responsible, be
w jll grant a permit.
It will be tho duty of tho consignor
es cotton to obtain duplicate bills of
lading, and band cr send them forth
witli to who the
p rmit, and said Assessor will sen! one
copy to tho (1 Hect r of 'he District to
whom the cotton is consigned.
Should the consignor fail within a
reasonable time to furnish the Assessor
with duplicate bills -ot.lading as requir
cd, said A-sessur will immediately as
certain tho cause of failure, ami if he
shall find that cottOD has left the D s
trict ho may immediately assets tax
(hereon, and utiles? satisfactory and
proper explanation of failure be given,
he will thereafter issue no other permit
to such persons as are in default. Upon
arrival of cotton at place of destination,
transportation company must deliver it,
together with permit of Assessor, to Col
lector of Internal Revenue, to whom
the coiton is consigned, and at the same
time the company must deliver to the
Assessor of receiving district acco-mpa
nying metalic tags uucttachcd to bales,
together with a copy of their manifest
or way bills, so fur as tho same relates
lo ootton, on account of which must be
kept by said Assessor as hereinbefore
directed.
Section four of the Act of July 18,
ISGIi, requires that coiton removed with
out prepayment of tax shall he delivered
to the Collector of Internal Revenue
forthwith up n its arrival at its point
of destination, and shall remain sub
ject to his control until taxes thereon,
and any necesary charges of custody
thereof, shall havo been pa : d, which
payment must he made within ninety
days from date of permit granted by
Assessor for removal of cotton ur
der this proviso nos law Tho Colli ct
or, immedistely op n delivery of cot
ton to kirn by transportation com
pany, will dispose of cotton, and ac
companying pern it of Assessor, in the
following manner, viz : If the cotton
was not ( fficially weighed and tagged
he flopping district Collector will have
it weighed by officer appointed for that
- u pose, whose duty it will le to affix
accompanying tags to bo delivered lo
him by Assessor, and mark on each
bale tho gross weighs, as hereinbefore
directed in such care. The weigher
will make du[ iicate copies of weights,
and will deliver one copy to Assessor
of the same district, and ho will be re
quired to pay to said Assessor the sum
of five cents for each metalic tag deliv
ered to him for the purpose of marking
bales so weighed, which sum Assessor
will dispose of as elsewhere directed,
vdiethcr the cotton was weighed and
’aggod in shipping or in receiving dis
trict. The Collector will requiro the
tax to le payed before he allows the
cotfon to go cut of his pcsscssicn and
custody.
If the tax is paid immediate!;:, the
Collector will on the Bame day deliver
or forward to his Assessor the accompa
nying permit of Assessor by whom re
moval was permitted, after endorsing
thereon the certificate of payment of
fax. In case the tax is not [aid imme
dia'ely, and ootton is held and storrd
by collector, as hereinafter directed, he
will deliver to his assessor accomoany
ing permit, as above directed, but ebang
ing the certificate so as to road as fol
lows, viz: I hereby certify that the tax
within de.-cribcd cotton, amounting to
dollars, not having been pail, I
h ivc store 1 tho cotton, and now bold
w; rehouse receipts of for the same.’
The Assessor on receiving said permit,
wi'h endorsement of Callectrr, will
make proper entries on his account cf
cotton rceeivcd, and will then transfur
the pci mit to the Collector of the dis
trict in which it was issued.
When the Collector is obliged to re
tain custidy of cotton consigned to him
on account of failure to pay tax irnme
diaty on its arriva’, he shall cause the
same to he stored in some suitable ware
house, the owner cf which shall have
given sdtquale soeu'ity for tho safe cus
todv of such cotton, aud shall take a
warehouse receipt Irorn such proprietor.
Charge for storage must not exceed the
usual rates. The Collector will in no
case permit the owner of the ootton, his
agent er factor, to have actual possc9-
Hon of tho same until the tax shall
have been paid.
If the tax is paid beforo the expira
tion of forty days from date of Asses
sor’s permit, the amount will be re
ported. If the tax is not ptid before
tho expiration of ninety days form date
of Assessors permit, the Assessor will at
I once certify tax to Collector for collee
! tion, and if necessary the Collector wiil
1 enforce the collection distraint and
| sale of cotton. In such ca*c the Asscs
| sor will enter tho tax on his next month
ly list, aud the Collector will
intir tho proper credit in bonded
account, übder heading of collected by
ddo faint aud sale of eotton.
Win never tl e t»x is paid on ootton
shipped under b 11s of lading, the Col
lecting it wilhdeliver to the proper fxn
amhi* ccrtific»te of payment and
permit f r removal. The following
words mud ho printed or written in
rod ink across the face of permit, tix :
“This permit authorities the transporta
tion of such bales of cotton only as bear
metalic tags and lettered and numbered
as herein described.” In case it should
be desired to export part of Baid cotton
and ship part to another part of the
United States, the Collector may gtvft
separate certificates and permits to cov
er each lot. In such ca?e the permit
covering tbo lot tn bo exported must be
delivered to and taken up by the CoU
lector of Customs at port of exporta
tion, who, after canoeling the satne, will
transmit it to the Assessor of the di(*
trict in which it was issued.
Permits covering the quantity to b*
shipped t) a port in the United States
must be delivered to the Collector of the
district in winch such port is situated
before the landing, discharg ng or deilv*
ery of such cotton at the place of desti
nation c»n be permitted, and said Col
lector will after canceling it, transmit
said permit to the Assessor of the dis
trict iu wl ieh it was issued. Substan
tially tho same course will be taken
with cotton removed from tho district
of production, after payment of tax, uc-'
der a siugle permit of tbo Collector of
said district to a place or port in anoth-'
er distiict, when it may he desired t(7
divide and ship it in separate lots, ei
ther to foreign or domestic ports. In
eases ol :his kind the original permit
must be presented to and iakeu up by
the Collector of internal Revenue for
tbo district in which port of tranship
ment is situated, and he may issue nevt
permits esvering seperatc lots, which
must be taken up by tho Collecter of
Internal Revenue, »s tho case may be,
as above directed, canceled and returned
to the Asioisor cf the district in which
said perm ts were issued originally.
The pi rmit above named must like-s
--wise be canceled and returned by tho
Collector who takes it up to the Asses
sor of the district in wheib it was issu
ed.
The following words must be written
or printed in red ink across the face of
the permit, viz : “This permit authoriz
es the transportation of such bale* rs
eotton only to metalic tags, lettered and
numbered as herein described.”
Any person who violate these provis*
ions, or whoconvcjs or attempts to con*
vey from any Stale in which eotton h
produced, to any port or place within
the United Stsfcs, any cotton upon
which the tax has not been paic, is lia-*
hie to a p nalty of one hundred and liars
for each sale of cotton so conveyed o*
tran-purted, or attempted to be con
veyed or transported or to imprison
ment fur net more than one year, or
both ; and all vesse’s or vcbieles em
ployed in sneh conveyance or tranpor
tation, are liable to seizure and forfeit
ure by proceedings in any court of the
Uuited Slates having competent juris
diction; and all cotton so shipped or at
tempted to he shipped or transported,
without payment of tax or rx
ccution of transfir bund*, may bo for
feited to the United States. Asses
sors and Colhc'ors arc strictly er join
to rig : dly enforce the provisions of this
section.
IVEWg, A.\l) OTIIEU I TILTHS.
Englard uses 850,000,000 postage
stamps annually. France 450,000,000
and the United States 350,000,000.
A suit has been brought by Mr.
ITitchard, of St. Louis, to test the
Constitutionality of tho income trx
law.
The Milwaukee p'rk packer, who put
up salt and sand so nicely, has been
packed off to the Stale prison for tbrefl'
years.
The Beard of Ileahh of
ry have declared Mobile an infected
yellow fever distric*, and ordered that
all persons coming from it be quarantin
ed.
Gen. Toombs, in connection with bis
son-in-law, Gen. Dudley Dußose, hair
opened a law office at Washington Wilk#
c untv.
Edgefield District, S. C., is without
a sheriff. Win. Spires, Esq., tho incum
bent of three years past, resigned somo
months ago, hut as yet the military au
thorities have appointed no one in hn»
place.
nt.t imiEi>.
Married on Tneeday t!ie 24th ult., by Rer.
C. A. Crowell, Geo. C. Melton ami Miss Em
ma C. Biown, all of Randolph county.
Southwestern Railroad.
WM. HOLT, Tres. [ VIRGIL TOWERS, Bup
Leaves Macon 8 AM ; arrives at Eu
faula 6 30, P M ; Loaves Knf.nila 7 20, A M ;
Arrives at Macon 4 50, P M.
ALIIANY niIANCII.
Leaves Smithville 1 46, P M ; Arrives st
Albany 3 11, P M ; Leaves Albany a 35, A M;
Arrives st Smllhville 11, A M.
IK YO TJ WANT!
CARDS,
FOSTERS,
CIRCULARS,
HANDBILLS,
BLANKS,
LABELS,
rni.t Tin* i.raooi* STYLE
AT—
LOdV RATES.
COME TO THE
“JOURNAL OFFICE.”