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18 THE CITY EXCHANGE SEAT OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT FOR SB YEARS. CORNER STONE LAID IN 1799. THE I.O\G ROOM THE SCENE OF MAYA' HISTORIC EVENTS. History of the Anrlrnt Building From 1U Inpepfion. fey Mr. Tfeomas Gamblp-Erected for Public and Private Purpose*—Once Oc cupied by Custom Home and Post oftlce and Deter n an Armory, School House and for Pnblle Amusements —Presidpnts Monroe, Polk and Fllmore, Gen. lafayattp, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and Aaron Burr Received the Homaae of Savannahian* There—lta lon* Room the Assembly Place of Ante bellum Society. Savanna it's city Hail—the City Ex change—will be 1(E years old next month. June 5, 1799. the cornerstone of the an cient building- -was laid with imposing ceremonies. Although not erected for municipal purposes, it has been the seat of the city government sthce 1812. Through the courtesy of Mayor Myers the Morning News prints to-day, a his tory of the Exchange from the advance sheets of Mr. Thomas Gamble's History of the City Government, which will be is sued this week. The subject of an exchange for the city was first broached by Mayor Stephens. On Aug. 18, 1795, he gave notice that at the next meeting of Council he would '■propose a scheme for building an ex change in the city without expense to " — ~cZ—— J6*hioh/ j&b (S 1 Xr.avra *- I •AV ANY AH’S CITY If ALU The Scene of Many F.vents In the City’s History. the citizens and (or public and private purposes, vrhlch will be not only useful but ornamental.” When presented the •rheme was laid on the table (or n time. lter the question of building an ex change was referred by Council to a com mittee composed of Aldermen Wayne. Tobler and Young. They reported In lavor of citizens building It by subscrip tions, the city to purchase a number of •hares of stock. It was recommended by this committee that a subscription of $20,- ®OC be opened In 2PO shares of the par value of SJOO. the corporation to give title to the ground where the vendue house cow stands. (Jan. 19, 1798.) No definite sieps were taken, however, until Nov. 26, 1798, when Council resolved that "Mr. Bolton. Mr. Dennis, Mr. Hun ter and Mr. Glass, together with Mr. Ste phens. Mr. john Habersham. Mr. Ebe nezer Jackson and Mr. John Morel,” should be a committee to report to Coun cil at its next regular meeting a plan of an exchange, where to tie erected, the ex pense of the same, and the mode, either by subscript 100 or otherwise. The kite Selected. On Jan. 28. i<99, the committee appoint ed to make choice of a plan, having se lected the site at the foot of Hull gtrtet and having examined the several plans laid before It, recommended to Council and the citizens "a plan drawn by Mr. Bou cher ns the most proper one to be eslab lished. The report being taken up was agreed to ar.d that the City Council do ♦ak twenty-five shares In the said build ing.” It wus directed that a hook should be opened at the platform In front of Commerce Row. under inspection of the committee, cn Feb. 18, next, for subscrip tions. The book was to be kept open un til Feb. 22, aud no one during this time was to be allowed to subscribe for more than ore snare, and shareholders wee* limited to those actually residents of the city. If on Feb. 23 all the shares had not been subscribed for, on the following Monday the hook was to be reopened and any Individual could then subscribe foi os many shares us desired, not to exceac* ten. As soon as the whole number of shares vrere subscribed for the shareholders were to proceed to elect five trustees to be In vested with charge and control of the pr.g.-rty. Thereafter in annual election rd • ruM'-e* war set for the first Monday In March. After the stock had been subscribed for the shareholders met at the platform on Commerce Row on Saturday, March 18, 1799. and elected as the first trustees Wil liam Stephens, Matthew McAllister, Rob ert Bolton, John Glass and William Hun ter. The Corner Stone I,aid. On June 5, 1799. “the corner-stone was laid by the Right Worshipful, the Hon William Stephens, Grand Master of Mas on# In tha slate of Georgia, on the spot where the former Exchange, destroyed by the fire of 1796. atood.” The Inscription plate c:Ptalned this: A. U 6799. A. D. 1799 Of the Independence of America Crd Year. . Matthew McAllister. Mayor. Wlkiatn btephene. Grand Master. "The Right Worshipful, the Grand Mas- 1 ter, was accompanied by the Grand Hodge of Georgia in procession at the particu lar request of the Hon. Matthew McAl lister. Mayor, and Aldermen, who attend ed and were with the craft, ably ad dressed by the Grand Master.” "Thin building,” said the Georgia Ga xette at the time, ”ls intended to be of brick and stone. 75 feet by 50, three stories high, with apartments suitable for the different public offices and otherwise calculated for a City Exchange." The site was leased to the Exchange Com \ pany by the city for ninety-nine years. The City's Occupancy. It was thirteen years later before the Mayor and Aldermen were established in the Exchange. Until then the filature, on the west side of Reynolds square, at Aber eorn and St. Julian streets, continued the seat of government. The first installment on the stock was 115 a share, and It was called for soon after the erection of the building began. On Feb, 9, 1801, the City Treasurer was directed by Council to pay another quota of S3O a sfcaxe on the twenty-five shares held by the city. While the records are silent on the subject, it seems that other early quotas, amounting to $45 a share, were called for. Hater the secretary of the board of trustees notified Council that there were eight shares of stock unsubscribed for and the Mayor was au thorized to subscribe for the same, in creasing the city holdings to thirty-three shares These eight shares cost $720. Soon after this four shares were bought from the Thalian Association for S3BO, making the city a shareholder to the ex tent of thirty-seven shares. On Thursday, Dec. 31, 1801, another quota of S2O a share was paid by the city, amounting to $740. The next year five more shares were bough t at sllO, Iwo from Carpenter Sc Havens, and one. each from William Craw ford, Frederick Herb and John Pooler. On these forty-two shares In 1803 further installments of S2O a share, or $840; of sls a share, or $630, and of $5 a share, or $2lO, were paid. Again, on Dec. 31, 1804, a quota of $6 a share, or $252 was passed. At this meeting Aldermen Morel, Davies and Marshal were appointed to confer with the trustees and secure a statement of the exchange with the corporation. On Feb. fi. 1806, Aldermen Weischer, Hunter and Williamson were appointed a commit tee to purchase shares of exchange stock and report the same to Council. On Feb. 19. eleven shares were bought at $156 each. This made the city the holder of fifty three shares. A few months later, on the advent of the next administration, Aider men Williamson, Sturgee and Stackhouse were appointed to buy shares, ami on Aug. 16 the city treasurer reported the city'# Interest in the exchange as follows: "The city now owns sixty-five shares in this building, four of which are not yet paid for, acceptances having been taken. The sixty-one shares already paid for, with the expenses of the steeple und the dock, amount to $11,744.33; four shares to be pnid for when In funds $824; thirty six shares yet to be bought $6,616; total $17,984.23; 181 shares in all." On Sepit. 1, ISO 6, the treasurer was au thorized to borrow $2,080 to buy stock with. On June 13. 1808. he was authorized to buy a share from Mr. McAllister. The next year Mayor Bulloch and Aldermen Tufts and Davies were appointed to ad just accounts with the trustees. Wanted n Steeple and Clock. In the treasurer's report of 1806 refer ence la made to the expense of the stee ple and clock. The steeple on the ex change was built by the city at a cost of $1,148.43 in 1802. in 1801 Council ap propriated SSOO for a clock to be put In the I’resbyterlan Church steeple. this was rescinded and the ciook ordered put in the exchange steeple. On May 8. I*o2, permission was given to Alderman Bolton to Import h bell and an eight-day clock for the use of the city, to be placed In the steeple of the Exchange, and that the treasurer pay him St.HOO on account of aunve. In October, 1803, Alderman Shef tall was appointed a committee to apply to Messrs. Robert & John Bolton to know If the clock apd bell had been received and report the expense of the same. He reported back to Council on Not'. 14, that the expense of the clock and bell, with Incidental charges, would he $990.63, and that the $9,37 remaining of the appropria tion had been turned into the treasury. Alderman Sheflull and Sweet were then appointed a committee to communicate with the trustees on the propriety of Im mediately setting up the clock. Thanks of Council were also extended to R. A J. Holton for their trouble in providing the clock and bell free of expense t6htr than actual coat and charges. The trus tees seem to have been slow In complying with the desire* of Council, ami on Jan. 30. 1801. Aldermen Howard and Sweet were appointed to confer with them about putting up the clock immediately. This committee scem 1o huve had the desired effect, for the next reference to the hell is the passage of a resolution on May 28, 1804, that from March 31 to Sept. 22 jt should be rung at 9 o clock every night, and the remainder of the ymr at R o'clock as the signal for closing plarea of busi ness. and A Mermen Howard and Sweet ivere appointed to receive proposal* (or keeping bet I and clock In Older. Trnalcca for the Exrhnnjte. Beginning with 1804 Council elected a ticket of five trustees to be voted by the Mayor for the Exchange, the Mayor be ing one of them. The trustees (or a number of year# were as follows; 1*93--Charles Harris, William Stephens, THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. MAY" 19. 1901. SISTER: READ MY FREE OFFER Wise Words to Sufferers From a Woman of Notre Dame, Ind. jfii ! 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Plumpness and health always result from Itgriise. a Wherever you Hve I can refer you to well-known ladies of your own state or county who know and will gladly tell any sufferer that this Home Treatment really cures all diseased conditions of our delicate female organism, thoroughly strengthens relaxed muscles and ligaments which cause dis placement, and makes women well. Write to-day, as this offer will not be made again. Address MRS. Q. SUMMERS, Notre Dame, Ind., U. S. A. John Glass. John P. Williamson. John Bolton. 1804— John Y. Noel, William Stephens, John Bolton, R. M. Stiles, James John ston. 1805— John Y. Noel. William Stephens, Curtis Bolton, Edward Harden, Richard M. Stiles. 1806— -John Y. Noel. William Stephens, Richard M. Stiles, George Woodruff, James Johnston. 1807— John Y. Noel, William Stephens, James Johnston, Richard M. Stiles, John Bolton. 1808— William Davies, William Stephens, Richard M. Stiles, John Bolton, James Johnston. 1809— John P. Williamson, William Steph ens, John Bolton, Richard M. Stiles, James Johnston. 1819—William B. Bulloch, William Steph ens, John Bolton, Richard M. Stiles, James Johnston. Wanted n New Rnllillng. On Oct. 25, 1811. Aldermen Mendenhall, Proctor and Pemberton were appointed to inquire into the expediency of erecting anew city hall of brick on the site of the filature. In the meantime sixteen more shares of exchange stock had been bought for the city. On Nov. 22 the committee reported that a necessary preliminary step would be the Immediate disposal of the shares owned by the corporotion in the exchange. Council then authorized the committee to ascertain what could be obtained for them. The discovery seems to have been speedily made that other holders of shares preferred to sell to the city rather than buy the city’s holdings, A BLUE HAT DRESSED WITH PLUMES. and thue give complete control of the property to the municipality. On March 18, 1812, Council appoint ed Aldermen Mendenhall, Minis and Hughes to negotiate for the purchase of the entire Interest held by different indi viduals In the Kxchange, and report thereon at.the next meeting. Council had moved to the Kxchange and the mature, heretofore Its home, was unoccupied and ottered for rent. On April 10 the commit tee reported that it was fully in the pow er of Council to effect such purchases of outstanding shares of Exchange stock ay Issuing certificates of stock bearing in terest at 8 per cent., and redeemable within ten years, "and which will he gradually redeemed by the income of the building, being wiped out to within $264 at the end of the said period,” supposing the building to produce no more than le gal Interest on Its cost. The committee reported that It had various applications from different proprietors of ahares "who all approbate the arrangement and ex press an anxiety for Its completion. The committee recommended that Thomas Mendenhall, M. W. Hughes and Isaac Minis purchase In behalf of the city the whole number of shares owned by indi viduals In the Savannah Exchange at <• sum not exceeding siro each, upon the plan suggested in (he calculations. They were also authorised to order and super intend such alterations and repairs as might be necessary from time to time. The reixott of the committee stated that "the total amount of shares In the Kx change was 800. which at 1100 each is $80,001" From this it appears that the original plan to issue 200 shares at SIOO each had been deviated from, the cost of the building proving greater than antici pated. The actual amount paid in on each share appears to have been slst>. An elaborate plan covering ten years was worked out by the committee, show ing thst at the expiration of that time only $2 r 4 would remain due and payable by Council to the original shareholdervin this plan the income from the Exchange was placed at $2,401 a year, but Council expressed the belief that it would reach $3,000. as utaler the most favorable cir cumstances It had been $4,000, "so that probably all certificates may be redeem ed before they arrive at maturity. ' The flty 4a Possession. On Nov. 12. 1811. Aldermen Minis, Men denhall and McAllister were appointed to cloae up accounts of the trustees of the Exchange and reretur the books, papers, etc. They were also empowered to pro ceed with contemplated Improvements and alterations. The different apart ments were directed offered for rent to the highest bidder. On June 2, 181$. Al dermen McAllister and Harris were as u thot ised to lease the purlieu of tha build * ins not occupied by the city to Samuel G. Bunch. One June 14 this -ommittee reported to Council that it had done so for five yearß. The lower partitions form ing the entry were to be taken down .'-nd the Exchange repaired and put in good order as well as the postoffice room still reserved for that purpose, entailing on expense of S2OO, to be advanced by Bunch. “The city hall, to-wit, the second long room is reserved for aJI public resorts ap pointed by Council and for the Mayor's court, and the room used by Council is reserved for the sittings of Council, but to be at Bunch’s disposal when not act ually in use by Council. The rent will be at the rate of SSOO a year as long as the war lasts, and that three months af ter the cessation of hostilities the rent will ije at the rate of S7OO a year. SBOO for the next year, S9OO for the next year, and SI,OOO a year thereafter ” On May 22, 1815, Bunch petitioned Coun cil to be allowed to rent the room occu pied by Council for its sittings, in lieu of which he would consent to Council’s bolding its sessions in the long -oom on the same floor. Council agreed to this on the condition that Bunch furnish the long room for this purpose. The present quar tets of Council accordingly appear to have been in use by it for eighty-five years. (1815-1900.) Its Fortner Occupants. On September 4, 1815, the committee on the Exchange was instructed to "extend the a*rea now constructing on the south ern front of the budding.” For many years the Custom House and Postoffice were located in the Exchange. In 1817 the building was thoroughly overhauled and a railing wus put around it at a cost of $228.32 by Daniel Gugel. In front was paved with "free stone and round.” at a j cost of $1,164.50, and the Council room wax put lti goed order for the sole use of the beard. The lease with Bunch expiring June 30, 1818, the Mayor was directed to retain such rooms as he might deem necessary for city offices and lease out the others annually. On Dec. 6, 1819, two windows were ordered cut in the west side of the building, and in 1822 two or more additional windows were ordered cut in the lower tenements. Various parties having applied to have their certificates of Exchange stock tak en up, on Dec. 12, 1822, the city treasurer was ordered to retire those belonging to parties who had applied to Council, to a value not exceeding $2,800. The plan by which the certificates were all to he re deemed within ten years had failed, the necessities of the city doubtless leading It to use of the Income from the building for other purposes Instead of providing sinking fund. It was not until the fall of 1830 that Council finally ordered that the entire debt on the Exchange ahould he extinguished on or before Dee. 1, and it was not until some years later that the last share of stock was presented and cancelled. For many years a public bar room was located In the Exchange. The old Georgian office waa in the building in the early eft's, and In It wha* was proba bly the first steam printing press In Georgia was erected. Borne of the office* on the ground floor were rented to bus iness houses until 1896, when the entire building became devoted to public pur poses. The First Mayor's outer. No special arrommodatlons appear to have been provided for ihe Mayor until 1862. On March 10 of that year Council directed that the eastern part of the long room should be partitioned off for the Mayor's office. In the great storm of September, 1864, the building was consid erably damaged. Builders who were call ed to examine It reported that the wood work throughout the building was de cayed. Improvements had been In prog ress prior to the storm and $7,093.70 had been expended. The work of alteration and repair had ao far progressed that the next ndmlnlsltration found It Impossible to suspend it, and in 1866 $18,046.46 was ex pended. the building being put In prac tically Its present shape and renovated throughout, among the Improvements be ing the erection of the portico In front. On Aug. 20. 1857, the port wardens were given permission to use a room In the basement and have been tenants from that time. The long room has been util ised op many occasions (or public meet- The Qrleans-Beaumont Oil and Land Go. OF NEW ORLEANS, LA. Chartered under the laws of the state of Louisiana, U. S. A. Authorized Capital, - $1,000,000. President—A- BRITTEN. Second Vice President—G. E. DICKINSON. First Vice President—J. W. FAIRFAX. Third Vice President—WM. P. ENO. Secretary and Treasurer—C. P. ELLIS. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: A. BRITTIN, New Orleans, Ha., of A. Brlttin Sc Cos., Cotton Merchants. J. W. FAIRFAX, New Orleans, Ha., of J. W. Fairfax & Cos.. Stock Brokers. G. E. DICKINSON. Savannah, Ga„ Cotton Broker. WIDDIAM P. ENO, New York rtty, Capitalist. C. P. ELLIS, New Orleans, Ha., of C. P. Ellis Sc Cos., Cotton Merchants. S. P. WAHMSHEY, New Orleans. Ha., Cotton Factor, President New Orleans Cotton Exchange. FEHIX COUTURIE. New Orleans, Ha., Cotton Exporter. This company presents to the public a business proposition, managed by business men Its properties have been care fully selected, surrounding the gushers from six points of the compass, and most of It in the PROVEN OIL, FIELD em bracing the following exceptionally valuable tracts: (A) 10 aches, due north, 1,709 yards from the flowing wells. f’ t Hr,;— (B) 10 acre*, northeast, 2,000 yards from the flowing wells. (C) 4 acres, northwest, 2,500 yards from the flowing wells. 4, (D) 3 acres, northwest, 2,300 yards from the flowing wells. , (E 15 acres, southwest of the Ducus Gusher. (F) 180 acres, southwest of the Hueus Gusher. (G) 1 acre, south and 800 yards from the Hueus Gusher. ! Negotiations are now pending for the purchase of several outlying properties. A contract has been entered Into for ona well with a thoroughly trustworthy driller, who has successfully brought In four of the twelve gushers In the Beaumont Held, and work will commence not later than June 1. The company Is negotiating for two other wells, and contracts will be placed so soon as practicable. Meanwhile own ers of adjacent lands have begun boring ing ror oil and this company’s holdings are thus being daily enhanced in value. Half of the authorized capital has been subscribed for, and while the company has a large balance now in the treas ury, it is desired to sell SIOO,OOO of the treasury stock, the proceeds to be devoted to the acquirement of further land; the drilling of welle; the building of storage tanks, tank cars, pipe lines, etc. The shares are SIOO par value, full paid and non assessable. A limited amount can be through GUERARD Sc DEMERE, Brokers, 10-4 Bay Street, East. The company reserves the right to withdraw the sale of stock at any time without notice. Ings for the reception of distinguished vis itors, and as a suitable place where the honored dead might lie in state. Aaron Burr, President Monroe, Polk and Fil.- more, Gen. Lafayette, Henry Clay, Dan iel Webster and other great men of the early history of the republic there met and received the homage of the Savan nahians of the ante-bellum period. Historic Events In the Long; Room. No building in the state of Georgia to day has more historic memories clustered around It than this venerable edifice Just entered on the second century of Its use fulness. In the infancy of the building the belles and beaux of the little city danced there, and at several times rooms were granted temporarily for school purposes to worthy pedagogues of limited means. For many years It was the center of the social life of the community. Itinerant ectors and passing showmen with strange animals to exhibit found it a convenient place for the purpose and the City Council len iently consented to Its use for such popu lar amusements. Other rooms were also given up to public purposes not part of the city government. Once an Armory. In 1845 the use of the rooms on the top floor was granted to the Savannah Vol unteer Guards, the Republican Blues, the Georgia Hussars and the Phoenix Rifles. The Guards and the Republican Blues gave up their use of the rooms In April, 1859, shortly after the passage of an ordi nance vesting in them the fee simple title to the western and eastern halves spectlvely of lets 27 and 28 Forsyth ward. The Irish Jasper Greens and the Ogle thorpe Light Infantry were given the use of the premises then vacated. This use of the Exchange by the military con tinued to some extent until late In the 70's, but as one company after another withdrew to its armory Council declined to admit others to the privilege, owing to the disturbance of public business by the noise. The Exchange steeple from long neg lect and a leaking roof became so much decayed as to Imperatively require ac tion to insure its stability. In 1870 82,- 284.09 was expended for this purpose. Again in 1886 81,500 was appropriated for repairs to the building. Anew striking clock was ordered placed in the tower In 1890. In 1891 a brick annex for vaults was built In the rear of the Exchange at a cost of 85.390.30, and the vaults fitted up at a cost of 81.278.70. In February. 1896. the old clock was taken down and given to John Rourke & Son, under the agreement that they would place it in a tower on their building at Bay and East Broad streets. In 1897 the exterior of the building, which had been plastered and painted brown many years before, was painted white, a color which it now wears. A Monament to Savannah. Standing, as it does, where It can be no Impediment to the march of improve ments, and almost as solid as when it was received by the original stock com pany from the builders, there Is appar ently no reason why the Exchange should not stand for another century, an en during memorial of the early days of Sa vannah. Civic pride, as the city grows in population and wealth, may lead before many years to the erection of a more pretentious and modern structure else where but the lover of that which is antique and f historic inter est will cherish the hope that the old city hall will be allowed to remain, sug gesting to all Savannahians the life of the days, now seeming so remote, when the little town was struggling out of the ruins of the revolutionary struggle and estab lishing those solid foundations for com mercial progress on which the prosperity of the Savannah of to-day atill depends. WHEELS MADE oVpAFSR MOUBT. Cancelled Kates HepreaenHng *l,- AOO.UOO Devoted to Thai Dae Every Day. From the Cleveland Leader. Washington. April SO.—National Bank and United States government notes to the face value of about 81,800,000 were' destroyed here Saturday. They were re duced to pulp and a few month! hence will be aplnnlng over steel rails In the form of railroad car wheel!. From a banknote to a car wheel Is quite a rad ical transformation, but It Is happening every day. Whenever you get hold of a soiled ten-dollar bill or a ten-thousand dollar note Just bear In mind that some, day It will he an atom in the revolving mass under some lightning express. The Treasury Department in Washing ton destroys between 8450,000,000 and 8600.- 000,000 worth of paper money a year. Just think of It? Nearly half a billion dollars annually. Soiled currency to the amount of a million and a half a day reaches the treasury for redemption. Two big pulp mills—macerators they are termed offi cially—grind them into a mass which looks like putty. The pulp Is then treated with an alkali, which extracts the Ink that constituted all the printing and inscrip tions on the Mil. Next It be converted Into bales and shipped to a car wheel manufacturer. Thte pulp makes the best kind of wheel!. The government aelle It for 840 a ton. after It la baled and dry. The maceration of currency Is in charge PETER HELHWEGE, New Orleans, La., of Hellwege & Cos., Cotton and Stock Brokers. BERTRAND BEER. New- Orleans, La., of H. & B. Beer, Cotton Merchants. W. F. PINCHARD, New Orleans, La., of Pinchard & Meyer, Cotton Merchants. E. PERRIN, New Orleans. La., of A. Brlttin & Cos., Cotton Merchants, Presi dent Orleans Railroad Cos. I. E. GLENNY, New Orleans, La., of Glenny & Cos.. Cotton Merchants. SAMUEL HYMAN, New Orleans. La., of H. & C. Newman, Limited, Cotton. Patronize Home Industry AND BUY MAGNOLIA SOAP, THE SOAP THAT CLEANS. WHERE IT CAN BE HAD: THOMAS COOLEY, West Broad and River itreetl. J- F. ENTELMAN, 618 Liberty street, east. i FRANCIS HARTE, Jefferson and St. Julian streets. HOTCHKISS & NEVILL, Jefferson and Broughton street* L. B. GREER, Whitaker and Park avenue. McGRATH & RANSFORD, Whitaker street NICHOLAS LANG, Barnard street. \ J. T. EVANS & CO., Barnard and Congress street*. BENJ. GAILS, Duffy and Jefferson streets. i JOHN STAHMER, Bryan and Ann streets. J. P. MEYER, Farm and Bryan streets. GOODMAN BROS., 43 Farm street. ' j F. H. JACKENS, Ann and Pine streets. HARRY STEFFENS, East Broad and Oglethorpe are nog, DRAYTON GROCERY CO., no Whitaker street. HENRY SCHRODER, Broughton and Habersham street*. S. F. SMITH & CO., 345 Abercorn street. HARDEE & MARSHALL, Gaston and Drayton street*. JOHN LYONS & CO., Lyon’s Block. S. W. BRANCH CO., Broughton and Whitaker streets, THOMAS HICKS. Montgomery and Henry streets. GEO. W. LEE, Ninth and Burroughs streets. NORTON & RYAN, Price and Broughton streets. JNO. D. BRODMAN, Bolton and Burroughs street*. D. GEFFKEN, Waldburg and Burroughs streets. 4 . ALBERT GRIMM, Second and West Broad streets. W. R. FULTON, Duffy lane and West Broad streets JOHN LYNCH, Taylor and Whitaker streets. R. H. GRIFFITH, Gaston and Jefferson streets. - J. H. LANKENAU, Berrien and Jefferson streets. JAMES O'BYRNE, Montgomery and Bay streets. D. GAMBITTIE, Indian and Farm streets. • HENRY FEHRENCAMP, West Boundary and Bay street* W. O. CLARY, Pine and Farm streets. H. H. BUNGER, Ogeechee Road. H. H. GEFFKEN, Price and Broughton street*. J. C. SCHUMAN, East Boundary and Broughton street*, t M. A. CLANTON, Harrison and Farm streets. C. H. HEITMAN, President and East Broad streets. I PETER ORSINI & BRO., Bay and Houston street*, i JOHN GRIMM, Drayton and State streets. RUBEN HORROVITZ, Bryan and Montgomery street* M. EGAN, Huntingdon and East Broad streets. 4 J. H. WILDER, Park Avenue and Lincoln street. SAM. JENKINS, Price and Gaston streets. ABRAM. WAINER, Purse and Sims streets. A. P. CANNADY, Guerrard and Sim's street* H. J. SCHNAAR’S, Wilson and Jones streets. JOHN D. SIEM, Jones and Purse streets. JOHN T. KAISER, Bull and First streets. SOUTH SIDE CASH GROCERY, Habersham and Anderon streets. HENRY GERKIN, Wheaton and Liberty streets. ANDREW GASPERNICH, Perry Lane and Barnard street* ROBERT REMLER, Liberty and Drayton streets. B. E. MORSE, Ogeechee Road. HERMAN GROTHEER. Park Avenue and Cuyler street* J. G. PARDUE. Russell and Cemetery. JAMES J. JOYCE. Liberty and Abercorn. JAMES J. JOYCE. East Broad and Oglethorpe Avenuo, A. M. & C. W. WEST. Liberty and Whitaker. , C. A. MUNSTER. Duffy and Drayton. JOHN SULLIVAN, 15 Congress street, west MRS. H. SALOSHIN, corner Bay and Habersham. of a commttte of three treasury employes, who represent respectively the Secretary of the Treasury,the Treasurer of the Unit ed State and the Controller of the Cur rency. and are designated as the Destruc tion Committee. Every day this commit tee Is at work and it sees every bundle of cancelled note# dumped Into the mace ratora, which are constructed Just like paper mills, and are operated hy machin ery. For every note that la destroyed, unless It should come from a national hank that Is In liquidation, anew one is made at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Thus, while $1,500,000 of paper money Is converted Into car Wheel# every day. new money to the same value Is made every day. All this work costs the United States government nothing. The national banks stand all the expense, although Ihe treas ury department has absolute control of the redemption division. Twenty or twenty-flve years ego the government used to burn cancelled cur rency, but that method of destroying it waa abandoned when it was discovered w. P. RICHARDSON, New Orleans. La., of Richardson & May, Cotton Fac tors. LAWRENCE FAB ACKER, New Or leans, La., President Jacfkson Brewing Company. C. A. JOHNSTON, Columbus, Mias., President First State Bank. M. N. WISDOM, New Orleans, La., agent Equitable Life Insurance Cos. J. A. GAUCHE, New Orleans, La., Stock Broker. T. P. THOMPSON, agent Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, New Orleans. JAS. DU BUYS, New Orleans, of Du Buys & Laboulsse, Cotton Brokers thst on windy days the draft In tha chlmneya would draw notes only parti ally burned from the furnaces and spread them over the White House lot and nighborlng streets. Such bills have been redeemed In (he past, and Uncle Sam had to stand the loss. But with the tin cerators no greenbacks escape. —His Solo -Mrs. FiU PfJJlt—"Who was that snored In the choir this morning during a pause in the singing?" Mr. FlJJit—"Snore! Great heavens, woman, that was my bass solo.''—Ohio State Jour nal. —Pietro Mascagni, the composer, is writing a life of Glusepfie Verdi. —What I>ld He Mean?—Riter-"Have you read my last poem?" Reeder—"l hope so."—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. —Easily Recognised.—"Whore's Mr. Schnorer?" “He's In the next room" "Are you sure?" "Tee. T Just overheard him taking a nap."—Philadelphia Times.