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Columbus, fl’W
WEDNESDAY APRIL M, IST?.
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A Chattanooga correspondent of
the KndxH|e Tribune says that the
repeal of the conventional-interest
bill by the Legislature of Tennessee
has caused the withdrawal of $170,-
000 of foreign capital, which is to be
transferred to Georgia and other
states where higher rates of interest
are permitted.
The Jacksonville Union of Satur
day reports a large exodus of North
ern people who have been spending
the winter in Florida, and says that
the homeward movement of North
ern visitors is this spring earlier than
usual and more rapid, comparative
ly few being left at Jacksonville
now.
"Buell” telegraphs to the New
Orleans Denusrat that the astl-ad
minlstratlon resolutions induced Into
the New England Methodist Confer
ence are understood at Washington
to have been inspired by Parson
Newman, la revenge because Hayes
does not attend his church. “In
heavenly minds can such perverse
ness dwell?”
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Manx cotton men are now cutting
down their estimates of the incoming
crop. Some, who would hardly come
down to 4,600,000 baieo a short time
ago, are now willing to put their
figures at 4,400,0U0. We believe that
it will be lower than this-exception
al conditions, to which we have here
tofore referred, having forwarded
the markettng of the crop this sea
son.
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Referring to the report that Mr.
Poster, of Ohio, had declinod to run
for the Hpeakership of the House, in
favor of Garfield, the Washington
correspondent of the Now Orleans
Democrat telegraphs: “Mr. Foster’s
candidacy has never been anything
else than a consent on his part to
stand for the Speakership in caso
auy considerable number of Southern
Conservatives should join with the
Republican friends of Hayes to effect
a composite organization of the
new House in opposition to both
the Radical-Republican and Bourbon-
Democratic factions in the North.”
He also transmits the following
dispatch from Foster to him: “In the
ordinary sense of the term, I have
never been a candidate for the Speak
ershlp. In the same sense, I have
never withdrawn.”
The Commission.—Our dispatches
show that the Louisiana Commission
disclosed its plan yesterday. It la
bored hard to induce the Conserva
tives to consent to a fusion of the two
two Legislatures,but wlthput success.
The Democrats did right in refusing
to reooguize the count of the return
ing board, but insisting on the vote
of the people, according to which
Nlcholls has a clear majority of both
branches. A steadfast adher
ence to this resolution will win the
ease for them.
The Commission concluded that
there was no State of Louisiana to
be found, because the Beveral
branches of the State government
were in dispute. It overlooked the
important element which, according
to our form of government, and ac
cording to Sir Wm. Jones, “consti
tutes a State," viz: the people. The
commission found the peoplo of
Louisiana there, and it has only to
recognize their existence by remov
ing the troops and allowing them
to settle their differences for them
selves, and all will be well. This is
all that they ask—it is what they are
entitled to—aud “to this oomplection
it must como at last.”
Fractional Currency.— According
to the last national debt statement,
only $33,140,000 ot the $50,000,000 of
fractional currency outstanding a
year ago is still outstanding, the bal
ance haring been redeemed with sil-
Yer. And it is telegraphed to us that
Treasury officials estimate that ten
millions of the unredeemed twenty
three millions have been lost or worn
out. This would leave only about
thirteen millions in actual circulation
now, against twenty-seven millions
of silver; and yet it is apparent that
fractional paper currency is much
more abundant in this part of the
country than silver. How is this?
It would appear that the silver is not
circulating freely, and It so, the sub
stitution ot it for paper has worked
an inoonveuience instead Of an
advantage to business.
By the way, If the Government has
saved ten millions of dollars, out of
fifty milliona, by the loss or wearing
out of fractional currency, this is the
moet profitable description of paper
obligations it has out. It gains but
little by the loss of larger bills, and
the bonds arc seldom lost, but always
cost the Government five or six por
cent, per annum in the way of inter
est. Then tbe economy of redeeming
and taking in the fractional currency
first is not perceptible—no more so
than its benefit to business.
A Legal Difference.—" Now, then,
state your case," said a Detroit law
yer, the other day, as he put the five
dollar bill away in his vest pocket.
• Well,” began his client, “suppose
the man living next door wants to put
a barn right up against my line, com
ing within two feet of my house?”
“He can’t do it, sir—can t do any
such thing.” relied the lawyer. “But
1 want to put my barn right upagainst
bis line,” remarked the client. Oh—
ah—yes, I see. Well, sir, go right
ahead and put yonr barn there. All
the law in the case is on your side.”
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Fashion Notes.— Fur collars are
little worn by ladles this season, and
this will give rise to many se
vere coughs and colds. Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup is a certain and safe
cure in every case. Price 25 cents.
I THE POLITICAL CRISIS.
President Hayes is now taking bis
first lesson as a chief magistrate of
disputed title and uncertain support.
The embarrassments of bis position
are uequestionably great, and are
aggravated by tire consciousness that
a considerable majority of the whole
popular vote, and an Immense
majority of the votes of the
substantial and intelligent people
of the United States, were cast
against him. Ha knows, and the
most reasonable and prudent of his
party leaders know, that the policy of
his predecessor was emphatically
condemned by the people in the late
Presidential election, and that the
party can neither maintain its su
premacy nor oan he carry out any
administrative policy without aban
doning the unconstitutional measures
by which the Southern States have
heretofore been deprived of tbeir
rights and liberties. The abandon
ment of the policy of Gen. Grant is
a necessity with Hayes, but the diffi
culties of abandoning it are what
make his trouble.
The question has now assumed
such a definite shape, and parties
arc so positively taking their posi
tions upon it, as to make the contest
a very interesting one at this time.
It is as Important as it is interesting.
The old leaders, whose support of the
Reconstruction measures is their only
notable record and claim to party
favor, arc obstinately opposed to a
change of policy. They built upon
this foundation,and when it is knock
ed from under them they must topple
and fall. The ethics of this class of
politicians are as short-sighted as
they ure selfish. There is nothing
more certain than that the “sober
second thought” of the American
people will demaud the restoration
of the right of each State of the
Union to make and maintain its own
local government. It-is even now
demanding it. ’Mr. Hayes shows a
disposition to yield to the demand,
and the extremists of his party are
opposing him. This is the political
conflict of the day, and it has just
now reached its crisis.
It is to bo the turning-point in
Hayes’ administration—the issue that
will make its success or failure.
Should he yield to the clamors of men
like Blaine, Phillips and the carpet
baggers, he not only loses his chance
to make his administration strong
and partially successful, but he seals
the doom of his own party. The
party is already in a minority, and it
cannot hold its own, much less obtain
recruits, by persevering in the policy
that has frittered away the vast ma
jority by which Gen. Grant weDt into
the Presidency. If the extremists
beat Hayes now, they have him
"down” for the remainder of his
term. Even the hesitation which he
appears to be exhibiting is damaging
to him and promotive of factious op
position by some of his own party.
The question is a no less serious
one for the people of the South. The
new President is now in a position
where be must either claim or re
nounce the right to interfere with the
military pow'er in establishing or
pulling down State governments
where they are in dispute. If he
claims and exercises this power, we
will have another four years’ term of
Grantism and military despotism
provided the House of Representa
tives will consent to maintain an
army used for that purpose; and if
the House should refuse, a state of
confusion and excitement would re
sult, the end of which no man can
now foresee. The most adroit politi
cians might so direct it as to make a
popular majority on the side of the
House at the outset of little avail.
Principle and the Constitution might
again bo ignored, and the question
provoke its old sectional divisions.
The crisis is a serious one for both
the jmliticttl parties, and for the
South as a section of the Union, and
the responsibility devolving on tbe
President, is correspondingly great.
Tbe character of his administration
must now bo determined.
Secretary FUb’a Exikomk.
Wait bin if ton Correspondence Troy Times.)
Mr. Evarts will find it a very dif
ficult task to maintain the social
side of the State Department with
more dignity than Hamilton Fish
has done. It seems necessary that
the Secretary of State should be both
rich and a man of culture. The
custom has grown up, and it certainly
is a dignified and creditable one, that
the Secretary of State must give
frequent and elaborate entertain
ments to the Diplomatic Corps, and
to anv visiting strangers of distinc
tion from foreign countries. The
Secretary of State is not only expeo
ted to manage all difficult interna
tional problems, but to be as well
the exponent of national courtliness
and hospitality. He is supposed to
be a genial, dignified. International
good-rellow, who pays all his bills.
But it takes money to do It. Mr.
Fish, in his private monetary mat
ters, is said to lie very close, but he
has been lavishly generous in his
managements of the courtesies of the
Government. He has spent every
vear his entire salary in nouse-rent.
He has maintained a good establish
ment, and has dispensed the hos
pitalities of the nation in a style of
which all of us may be proud. And
he has not taxed the peoplo for it,
but lias paid for it out of his own
bank account. From the best
•sources, I know that it has, at all
times, cost Mr. Fish $50,000 a vear to
live in this city, and maintain the
dignity of the State Department
His salary was SB,OOO,
A short time ago there was an eat
ing match, at a village in Yorkshire
between two men named Gibbius anc
Muggins, which caused a good deal
of interest in the neighborhood, and
a oouDtryman leaving the place a
little before the match was decided
was stopped by almost every one on
the road with, “Who beats? How
does the tnatoh get on ?” etc. To
which he answered: "Why, I don’t
exactly know—they say Gubbins ’ll
get it, but I think Muggins ’I! beat
um yet, for when I lert he was oulv
two geese and a turkey behind him.”
Art has its votaries even amid the
untaught children of the wilderness.
A few days ago a savage Indian paint
ed his own face, went into an emi
grant wagon that was sketched bv
himself out on the prairie after dark,
and drew a woman from under the
{ canvas and sculptor.
THE TWO PICTURED.
John and John.
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Editors Times:—lt is but natural
that we have something to grumble
over, and it is impossible, in a great
degree, to restrain tbe evils now agi
tating the common mind of the com
mon masses. I see in your Btate,
those who fear the result of the com
ing Convention are apprehensive the
homoßtead may be abolished, there
by entailing certain misery and woe
on tho the thriftless generation now
coining on in tho footsteps of their
illustrious, debt-dodging sires. Geor
gia may be said to be one of the most
beneficent of government!; it not
qnly gives to each head of a fam
ily a luxurious home, guaranteed
to each generation as an hereditary
inheritance, but at the same time,
she grants a pension to each of said
family who may be fortunate enough
to marry some fair damsel possessed
ofafew thousand of the ‘filthy lucre;’
ho becomes that identical pension
er when debt invades his own
personal and the law threatens to
give to the creditor that which be
longs to him. I would not persuade
myself into the belief that tho “Great
Empire State” of the South, whose
bonds are to-day eagerly sought af
ter by capitalists, willingly lends
herself a party directly and estab
lishes thereby a pension office, for
the relief of the class above refered
to. But she certainly does so indi
rectly, and we would not have world
believe the “Great Empire” bestows
this magnificence npon her citizen
ship for valuable services rendered
in the past in the great struggles for
human independence or freedom, for
such Is not the case. The “noble
Roman” is but receiving that com
pensation “indirectly” from her as a
reward to his noble manhood, in that
he is a chivalrous head of a family,
thereby, becoming a “Petticoat pen
sioner.” He owns no property of his
own—not a red, but hear him on the
street round thq corner, aye, in the
forum, and his estates are as extend
ed ae are the wonderful intricacies
of the modern law. But, when hia
creditor calls for that little bill for
plantation supplies wbioh six months
ago he swore he could not do with
out, and which wereabsolutely neces
sary to the sustenance of his family,
“ho doesn’t own ad and cent him
self”—it’s all the madam’s; he’s
simply a “petticoat pensioner.”
“His legislator makes the laws, and
he the children to execute them.’’
This is his mission as he conceives,
and will ever continue to conceive it
te be. He oan go head over heels in
debt and smile complacently at his
creditor when presenting his
“promises to pay.,” and swear that
no honest farmer can live at the mer
chant’s bloated per cent. He can
demonstrate by six hundred of his
nearest neighbors that the aforesaid
merchant is a "highwayman” and
ought to be in the penitentiary; that
his books are incorrectly kept; that
everybody adjudges him a sneak
thief and outside the pale of religion.
He goes home and teaches his “he
reditary” tp rise up after him and
curse the wicked merchant who has
so near ruined him by feeding him on
the great staple of the TPest and other
foreign produots, without compensa
tion, trusting in God’s gift of man
hood. He belongs to tho Grange
joined it for no other purpose than
hope uf getting into respectability
on the shoulders of a few good and
well-designing men. He imagined it
might be a further lever power in the
hands of “his sort” to prize open the
gap of Constitutional Amendments so
as to impose on thmerchaut the im
portant and imperative functions of
an “hereditary feeder” of such pre
cious lumbß in Israel as himself.
The above is a feeble picture of
every day life, as experienced by
every merchant in Georgia, and is
only given to show the effects of a
law that is deemed wise, just and
good by a great people iu a great
State. Suppose the Constitutional
meddlers see fit to make every tub
stand on its own bottom after Janu
ary 1, 1880, and exempt nothing from
levy aud sale. The result would be
this: every man who owns a home
stead will never jeopardize it by pre
dicating or hypothecating it to the
grand and ennobling cause of raising
to manhood thriftless children and
ignorant negroes. He’ll go to work
himself aloug with his children—
truly exemplifying the fact that
“labor is honorable,” and it is
but just to pay our debts. It is a
divine injunction of the Great Agri
culturist that we should “earn our
bread by the sweat of our brow; ” but
the decalogue of the man of to-day
says nay, and millions respond. No
oountry can be prosperous where
agricultural pursuits are ignored,
nor can we succeed with iniquitous
laws, self-imposed, ostensibly made
with a view to defraud others when
they ruin ourselves. No sane man
with the bitter experience of the
past, capable of reflection and hon
esty, but can draw the picture of to
day and desolation, and that of 1865
and prosperity. Credit then was an
embassador at another court, and
the welcome greenback was acceota
ble even at a fearful discount; pros
perity smiled on us, and we eveu be
came saucy in our old quarters and
swore anew our allegiance to “King
Cotton” under the bitter banner of
freedom.
Now, to offset the thrust made at
the farmer in the above, which
should have geueral referenee to all
classes. I must draw a mercantile
picture, which a man with a glass
eye can easily perceive to be "he
whom fortune, under the above re
gime, has failed to favor on his her
editary farm.” So he becomes
thoroughly disgusted with that most
honorable of all vocations in life,
(agriculture,) and is satisfied that
merchants are making fortunes by
the wholesale. So he gets her "sover
elgocy” (her of tiie petticoat) to
agree to “lift the veil,*’ and go with
him hence to town to live a life of
the prluoely merchant.
She lifts the punoply that hath so
long covered tbe misfortunes of that
farm and family, and into town they
go. aDd soon John Smith slings his
shingle out to the breeze as a
“wholesale dealer” in—etceteras,
(you know it’s not dignified to be
anything but a wholesale dealer.)
So John is a “wholesale fellow,” and
as them darned aforesaid thieving
merchants who used to extort on
him must be humbled, and
those six hundred neighbors of
John’s who were ever ready, willing
and awaiting to swear with John
aforesaid as to the general rascality
of merchants, now expect John to
do the clean thing as a Granger und
ex-farmer, they await in breathless
anxiety for John’s flaming advertise
ment, which, However, John prefers
sendingouton the sly through the
malls, announcing rousing induce
ments, such as selling clear ribs at
8i that oost him 8j laid down, (2 per
cent, salt;) snow white corn, 69—cost
71 cents (1 per cent, for loss added ;)
calico 6 cents, cost 7J in New York;
checks 9J, cost 10j in factory, etc.,
etc. They all rush to John, and the
more they rush the more it embar
rasses the modest John; and of
course, John’s new neighbors didn’t
like to see all the trade go thus; so
they got up a scale of postal prices
("even so) and scale John about 20 per
cent., which is “sorter kinder” sick
ening to John. Nevertheless dis
comfiting, John goes to work (he
couldn’t be afraid when his wife was
there to protect him) and is bent on
a still further reduction. He’s teen
in town long enough to learn how to
sell ‘Aoheap goods” and “good goods”
at fabulously low prices. The way
to sell,is to “sell;” so he goes to work
and he “sells”—yes, sir, he sells
all the goods he can buy,
and has this consolation: “No
other feller can beat him
selling goods for less than cost
and making quicker profits off his
creditors,” for John has actually em
barked in the business determined to
sell, and just how ho can “sell” is the
question that puzzles his creditors
and they demand of John to make a
showing, only to te confronted by
the same old “she boss” who so
faithfully flung her “garment” to the
breach in former occasions when
John’s finances were about to under
go an assault from an opposing
column of “advancers.” John re
tires from the arena satisfied that if
he did not benefit the Grange he
played h—l with bis mercantile
neighbors. And just here, gentle
men,how many “John’s” are there in
Columbus and other cities? So long
as a few irresponsible men embark
in mercantile and agricultural pur
suits and have the generous option
of two thieving laws to bring to their
support in an emergency, so long
will legitimate business suffer and
all industries be paraiized.
John’s visiting the holy land now.
God be with hia widow and off-uns.
Dennis McCarthy.
April 10th, 1876.
Ah African SI. E. Minister Much Mixed
on Matthew.
James 11. Humphreys, a colored preach
er of the class known as “local,” living
at 153 West Thirty-first street, was tried
before Judge Gildersleeve yesterday on a
charge of committing an assault and bat
tery on Cornelius Pieasance, living in tho
same house. Pieasance testified that on
the 29th of last month he heard Hum
phreys beating his step-daughter, a child
two years and four months of age, and
that’he went to Humphrey’s door and ex
postulated with him, whereupon Hum
phreys turned upon him, and seizing a
pisto’i struck him with it, inflicting a se
rious wound. Humphreys, in his own
behalf, testified that Pieasance drew a
pistol on him, and that he drew his pis
tol, which would not goof! anyhow, with
the intention of scaring Pieasance.
He was whipping the child, as command
ed In St. Matthew, xxvii, 13.
Humphreys was cross-examined by As
sistant District-Attorney Rollins. Said he:
I have been preaching about four years;
previous to that I worked in hotels in dif
ferent parts of the United States; I was
called to the pastorial field some years
ago, led by the spirit of God.
Mr. Rollins—Was it the same spirit that
led you to beat that child?
Humphreys—l was obeying the Script
ures iu reprimanding Ihechild; it is record
ed nSI Matthew, 251 h chapter and 22d
verse, I think, or iu St. Matthew some
where.
Mr. Hollins—Did you say once before
that it was St. Matthew, 27th chapter
aud 13lh verse?
Witness—lt is in the last chapter of St.
Matthew, 25th—27th verses.
Mr. Rollins-Now, the 25th chapter
and 22d verse, and the 27th chapter and
13th verse, and the last chapter and 25th
and 27th verses of St. Matthew say noth
ing about reprimanding a child.
Witness—lt is somewhere in St. Mat
thew; I generally know every verse in
the Bible.
Mr. Rollins—Now, weren’t you very
profane on that occasion?
Witness—No, sir, and allow me to say
that the evidence of the lady wh said I
did were nothing but perjury; I never
swear and I never lie, for the Scriptures
say “All liars shall have their portion in
the lake.”
Mr. Rollins—How much do you think
will be your rortion?
“None, sir.”
Humphreys further testified that he had
said nothing to his wife about the matter,
because she was for the other man. He
was sentenced to the penitentiary forsix
months. —N. Y. World.
—There are in Colorado over fifty peaks
which rise more than 14,000 feet above
sea level. Blanca Peak, in that State, the
elevation of which was determined last
year by Hayden’s survey, is probably the
highest point within the limits of the
United States, 14,46-1 feet above the level
of the sea.
Blue Glass not Dead.— Apropos of
the blue glass mania, a Broadway dealer
in head-gear has adopted an advertising
device which readily attracts the attention
of passers-by. On a four-loot pole is
fastened an unfinished beaver hat of the
style of 1776, the crown of which is cut
out and r piece of blue glassdnserted in its
place. On a placard attached to the pole
is printed the following;
This hat cures
Thick heads,
Chuckle heads,
Block heads,
Chunk heads
All kind of heads except dead heads.
The MtrUKKle for the Cotton Trade.
Chicago Tribune, 1
An animated debate is in progress
In the columns of the London limes
as to whether England can maintain
the supremacy in the cotton manu
facture in competition with France.
Mr. Hugh Mason, an authority, has
expressed his opinion that England
cannot at all withstand the greater
cheapness of the. French product.
Asa matter of fact, however, the
figures show that in, the last fifty
years the exports of cotton goods
from Great Britain have grown sixty
fold faster than those of France.
But while tbe Thunderer and its
public are soothing themselves with
this Tact, they are overlooking a rival
that threatens to become much more 1
formidable. In the Financial Chron-
icle tor March 31, Mr. EdwardiAtkin
son, of Boston, returns to the subject
pf the competition between this
country and Great Britain in the
manufacture of cotton goods, and
reaffirms some of conclusions given
In a previous circular on the same
subject. Mr. Atkinson is able to
show that, the price of cotton in New
York has averaged, since the autumn
of 1875, ninetenths of a cent less a
pound than tn London, after deduc
ting 7J per cent, from the Liverpool
price for taro and discount. This
does not express the total advantage
Of New England over Lancashire, for
a very large portion of the cotton
now used ia New Eugland comes in
land by all-rail route directly to the
mill, frequently at a lower rate than
it can be landed in New York, and
always at least as low. Cotton com
ing bv rail has another economy in
its superior cleanliness und dryness.
This margin of price in tho raw
material, Mr. Atkinson states. Is
enough to allow the New England
manufacturer to pay one-third higher
wages and yet produce pure cloth at
as low a cost as the Manchester spin
ner, other elements of cost being
equal. But they are not so. The
water power of New Eugland does
not cost as much as the steam power
of Lancashire. There can be no mis
understanding of these fact3. It is
true, as Mr. Atkinson says, with
ominous clearness, that if the supe
riority of Great Britain in manufac
turing is due to her superiority in
cheapness, this superiority is to be
short-lived. This result was foretold
in general terms many years ago by
Cobden. and the prophecy is now
being fulfilled in detail.
The prize to be won in this indus
trial rivulry is an immense one.
Take China alone. The total export
of Great Britain and the United
States would supply but little more
than one-sixth the population of that
Emigre. The remainder amounting
to hundreds of millions, are supplied
with hand-spun cotton goods. If
Col. Sellers had calculated on cali
coes instead of eye-water, hia Orien
tal operations would have been only
a little iu advance of the enterprise
that now lies ready to the hand of
the American cotton manufacturer.
Besides China, therb are the ludes,
South America. Canada, and other
countries. If their inhabitants prefer
cotton to clay, if they would at equal
prices prefer pure American goods
to the combination of our flour, pipe
clay. chloride of magnesia, and ba
rytes,uuited'by a few fibres of cotton,
the cotton manufacturers of htaia
country can count upon running a
successful race with the British man
ufacturers, aud achieve for them
selves a splendid prosperity.
This is not at all a matter local
to New England. The South only
waits for such an impulse from the
New England inauufactoried to re
cover a wealth far greater than that
she lost daring the war or tiaa before
it, and the West cannot reach its full
developement till the mills of New
England and the plantations of the
South are pushed to the utmost ca
pacity.
From the Baa Francisco Call, 22J.)
Tracking* the Prophet.
Since Brigham Young’s emphatic
denial to the New York Herald that
he had any complicity in tho Moun
tain Meadows massacre, of which
John D. Lee says he made an official
report to him soon after its occur
rence, the Salt Lake Tribune, a
“Gentile” journal, is on the Prophet’s
track, and follows him with relent
less persistency. Its array of proofs,
extending through a number of
years, all tend to convict Brigham
Young, whatever may be the com
plexion of his case before a court of
justice. His numerous sermons to
his followers, urging them to perse
cute the “Gentiles,” it is suggested,
could not be otherwise than produc
tive of bloodshed, and his responsi
bility for such teachings cannot be
avoided. Take the following in
stance, produced by the Tribune,
from the Deseret News, a Mormon
paper published at Salt Lake iu 1855.
It is an extract from one of Brigham’s
harangues:
“What! do you believe that people
would do right aud keep the law of God,
by actually putting to death transgressors?
Putting to death transgressors would ex
hibit the law of God, no matter by whom
it is done—that is my opinion, Have not
the people of God a right to carry out
that part of the law as well as any other
part of it? It is their light to baptise a
sinner to Save him; it is also their right to
kill a sinner to save him, when he com
mits those crimes that can only be atoned
for by shedding his blood. Do you think
it would be a sin to kill me if I were to
break my covenants? Let every man
preach for liim9elf. I am preaching
for my own faith to-day. Do you believe
you would kill me if 1 broke, the cove
nant of God and you had the spirit of
God? Yes; and the more spirit of Gid I
had the more I should 9trive to save your
souls by spilling your blood when you
had committed sin that could not be re
mitted by baptism.” *
JOHN BLACKMAR,
Brols-eraso,
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE,
St. Clair Street,
GEORGIA HOME BUILDING,
NEXT TO WESTF.HX UNION TELEGRAPH OP KICK.
LAND WARRANTS BOUGHT
BEYER, BT PEMIbSION,
To Bank* of this city.
Something New.
WOODEN OASES AND CASKETS.
SELF-SEALING, AIB TIGHT,
At the same Prices as Ordinary Coffins,
and One-Fourth cost of Metalic
Cases-
THEV ARE A NECE.-<Srrr WHICH HAS losg
been felt in obr hot climate, and obviate
unpleasant, and oftentimes dangerous aaaocia*
tiona. I commend them to the inspection of the
community generally.
Former styles of Csses and Caskets st
Heduoed X^riee*.
Night and Snnday BeU st front door
L KOOIHEI ,
83 AND 83 BROAD ST., I'P.STAIRH.
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Millinery! Millinery!!
At 100 Broad Street.
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Grand Opening on Thursday, 12th inst.,
ft l , OF THE
Handsomest Line of Millinery and Fancy Goods
EVER ItIIOM.IIT TO Til 18 CITY, AT
Mrs. Colvin & Miss Donnelly’s,
anil which are ollcccil at CAlrcuicly low il£ure f
HATS. BONN JCTB. RIBBONS, ka., of the latest and most Fashionable Styles, und guaranteed to
pktfe the llU.lit fBMt i.lmiiK
Then* good* were selected by Mr*. Colvin in person—who Lm just returned from Ifrw York,
and cad be relied on *4. the best. Mf lm
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Grand Opening of Patterns!
HATS AND NOVELTIES,
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ON THUnSDAX, APRIL 13TII.
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3VE :r,s. lee,
TAKES pleasure in informing her Customers and the Ladies generally ..that she will opeu on the
above day an immense stock of
Straw Hats and Bonnets with a large Variety of Fancy
Articles;
Suited to the present season, which she intends to sell CHEAPER than ever.
GROCERIES.
J. J. Whittle. Geo. M. Yarbrough. Jno. T. McLeod
J. J. Whittle & Cos.
HAVE OPENED A NEW
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERY HOUSE,
Under Central Hotel,
WHERE WE WILL KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
STAPLE and FANCY GHOCERIEH, Consisting in part of
Boots, Shoes and Staple Dry Goods, Bacon, Lard, Su
gar, Coffee, Cheese, Flour, Syrup, Bagging & Ties,
riBACCO, WHISKEY, BRANDY and WINES, of all grades, SALT, OORN, TEAS of aU Brands,
M AKERKL and SOAP; together with a IVill line of all other goods kept In a first-class Grocery
House.
ggpOTTR GOODS are all NEW and FRESH, and were bought for the CASH, and we will be able to
SELL THEM AS LOW AS THE LOWEST.
*We aolioit the patronage of the City and surrounding country,
J. J. WHITTLE & CO.
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WAREHOUSEMEN.
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Planters Warehouse
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GEO. P. SWIFT. GEO. P. SWIFT, Jr.
GEO. P. SWIFT & SON,
SUCCESS OHS TO SWIFT, MI RTHY & CO.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Columbus, Georgia.
Libera! .idvnuers <m Consignments of Cotton, and Special
Attention given to Male and Storage of Same.
Hirsch. &. Hecht,
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AUCTIONEERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
160 ISroari &t M Opposite Konkin House, Columbus, Can.
solicited of every diseriptlon and liberal Cash Advances made and settled prompt
Correspondence Solicited.
Kcfercnnes, by Permission:
Chattahoochee National Bank, • - - National Bank of Columbus, Ga-
Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing Company.
The Great Fertilizer
FOR COTTON. FOR CORN AND Alt CROPS!!
WHANN’S
Raw Bone Super-Phosphate!
FOR SALE FOR CASH OR COTTON OPTION
BY
W. A. SWIFT,
Centennial Wagon Yard, Columbus, Ga.
deals eodAly
DRY GOODS.
NEW STOCK! LOW PRICES !!
SPRING 1877!
See My Prices!
Maltese settings, ioc. best London cords, ioc.
SUMMER SILKS, 65c. to *1.25. VICTORIA LAWNS, 10c.
Good HEMMED STITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS. 12i;c.
Large BtocV SILK SCARFS at 35c. Largo Stoci SILK HANDKERCHIEFS at 25c.
Good LINEN DAMASK TOWELS, 90c.
TWO BUTTON DnUreaied KID GLOVER. 50c. TWO BUTTON KID GLOVES Worth *1 only 60c.
MISSES TWO BUTTON KID GLOVES, 50c.
Good STOCK of FINER GR ADES.
CHILDREN COLORED HOSE, 150. to *oc. ALL LINEN COLLARS, 10c.
AOU ARK ASKED TO CALL AND SEE THESE GOODS. JHf-No Trouble to
SHOW THEM.
J. ALBERT KIRVEN.
NO. 90 BROAD STREET.