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THE DAILY TIMES.
JOHN H. MARTIN, - * - MIUr.
Culuinbu*,
THURSDAY APRIL Hi. 1H77.
LARGEST CIRCULATION
In the CeVHtIM to and Trad In*
at UolMmhua.
The Nicholls Legislature of Louis
iana balloted unsuccessfully for a
United States Senator on Monday.
B. F. Jonas had the highest vote
-36, lacking 11 of an eleotion, as the
whole number of rotes cast was 92.
Smell pox Is still prevalent in New
Orleans, and the proportion of deaths
is greater than usual. There were 372
oases and 162 deaths in February.
This shows a fatality of 41 per cent,
of the cases. The disease is more
fatal among the negroes than among
the whites—much more so.
Messrs. Watts & Cos., of Liverpool,
express the opinion that the war in
Europe ean depross the cotton market
for only a very short time. They
say that the continental stocks of
cotton are unusually low, and must
be replenished; also that "if confi
dence In bonds, stocks, etc., is un
dermined, Investors may and per
haps will turn to actual produce that
something near the cost of pro
duction.”
The Medical Association of Ala
bama closed its annual session, which
was held in the town of Birmingham,
Friday. Dr. Peter Bryce, physician of
the Insane Asylum at Tuscaloosa,
was elected president for the year
1877, and Dr. Berry Hogan Riggs,
orator. Eufaula was selected as the
place for holding the next annual
has a postlve value, that is,
meeting, which will take place in
April, 1878.
A letter from Atlanta to the For
syth Advertiser says: ‘‘The fight for
the Marsbalship of Georgia is still
progressing. Those who are familiar
with the efforts being made by the
different candidates concede that Col.
W. A. Bedell, formerly of Columbus
but now of this city, has the inside
track. Col. Bedell is a man of ac
knowledged ability, of splendid busi
ness capacity and be would make a
United States Marshal of whom all
Georgians could be proud.”
We are glad that a contributor has
called attention to an atrocious
threat reported.to have been uttered
by Kellogg, lute of Louisiana, and
properly commented upon it. Our
correspondent very truly represents
the evil effects of carpet bag teaching
upon the negro population of the
South. The civilized world, if ac
quainted with true condition of af
fairs, would be amazed at the tolera
tion and forbearance with which the
white people of the South have en
dured the presence among them of
men of whom Kellogg, Packard and
Chamberlain are representatives.
Stewart Countv.— We learn from
the Independent that W. H. Cross
man has been appointed jailor until
the special election for a sheriff.
Several bridges in Stewart coilnty
were washed away or badly injured
by the heavy rains of last week.
The present incumbent and two
new applicants are contending for
the Lumpkin postmastership, and
the result of the contest is doubtful.
A negro man named Bailey Ed
wards has been bound over to
answer for burning a barn belonging
to Mr. Wm. Giles. He confesses tho
burning, and tries to implicate a
white naan.
Fishing parties are the enjoyment
of the young folks of Lumpkin. The
young ladies sleep with their rubbers
on and water-proofs on their pillows,
and the young men sport sweet
shrubs in the lappels of their coats.
A justice of St. Louis has before
him a oase founded on an election
bet, and if an appeal should be taken
from his decision to the higher
courts, possibly we may have a legal
opinion on the question whether
Hayes was elected President or not.
The bet was made in September last
between Gen. Cavender and Col.
Ryau—Col. Ryan betting on the elec
tion of TildeD, and Gen. Cavender on
the eleotion of Hayes. Tho money,
SIOO a side, was placed in tho hands
of a stakeholder. Ryan now claims
and has brought suit for it, which
Cavender resists. On tho trial, the
returns were produced in evidence,
and' witnesses were examined, and
the Justice,, being in doubt as to
whether Hayes or Tilden was legally
elected, took the matter under advise
ment.
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The Electoral Causmistiloii.
Bit by by bit the secret history of the
Electoral Commission leaks out for the
edification ot the public. A well-inform
ed Washington correspondent says the
Republican caucus appointed a commit
tee, consisting of Senators Cameron, Bout
well, J. P. Jones, Dorsey and one other,
whose name is not recollected, to select
and report the names of three Senators
whom tho caucus would nominate, to
serve on the Electoral Commission. The
committee chose Messrs. Edmunds, Mor
ton and Conkllng, bnt Dorsey insisted
that Oonkling was unsound as to Louisi
ana, and declared he wouid denounce
him in the caucus and in the Senate if he
should bo nominated. Jones informed
Oonkling of Dorsey’s opposition, and
Conkling answered that he was glad to
have the information lieeause he would
not serve on any commission which
was pledged in advance as to what its
it* decision wouid be. The committee
reported Frelinghysen in place of Confc
ling. No doubt the trickery and the cor
ruption which controlled the action of the
Electoral Commission will yet come to
light. Nothing dishonest can be hidden
for any length of time. The murderer
may escape (be gallows for a period of
years, bht bis oriuie is ever before him,
and exposure and retribution surely over
overtake him in the end.
T-T"
The people who live in Massachusetts
valleys are getting so now that, when a
man comes into the neighborhood and
and builds a dam, tliay sell oat and move
to the top of the hill, and naii cleats up
along the trunks of the highest trees.
A EtllTOrslliVEß.
A dispatch of Tuesday reported
that the New York Banks were "com
plaining of a glut of silver.” If they
have too much of it on hand, it must
be due to their bolding on to it. Prob
ably, in view of the liso of gold, they
are putting a tighter grip on silver
in the anticipation that that coin too
will soon be worth considerably more
than the greenbacks, and then they
can make more out ofit. We find that
there was a difference in favor of sil
ver in New York on Saturday even
ing—our latest mail financial ac
counts from that city. Gold was then
quoted at 106| premium in green
backs, and silver at 95(;95J
cents in the dollar, gold. This would
show a premium of about | per cent,
for silver over greenbacks, and in
fact the selling price is reported at
i per cent, above the buying. This
Indicates that the New York banks
and brokers are not freely paying
out silver at currency par, and'ac
counts for the “glut.”
We also find that the New York
Banks had hardly more coin on hand
on the 14th of the present month
than they had on the 14th April 1870.
A year ago they had $19,400,800 in spe
cie ; this year they have $19,768,000.
They do not distinguish between
gold and silver in their return of
"specie.” Probably if they were re
quired to resume Immediately, they
would not think their stocks of silver
a “glut.”
The “true inwardness” of this com
plaint is probably opposition to Hon.
Wrn. D. Kelley’s bill for the “re
monetization” of silver—a bill which
he announces his propose to press at
the coming extra session of Congress.
It is not to the interest of money
dealers to have a fixed value for sil
ver or any other currency. They
profit by its depreciation and fluctu
ation. It is true that the silver coin
which the Government is now turn
ing out is not of full standard weight,
but it is worth more in the money
market than the greenbacks at even
the present comparative sight depre
ciation of the latter. If the Gov
ernment compelled the people
to take the greenbacks at
par when they were not worth more
than 80 or 99 cents in the dollar, gold,
it need not scruple to “monetize”
silver that is intrinsically worth 95(ft,
93J cents in the dollar as compared
with gold. The paper which it made a
legal tender was intrinsically worth
nothing and very unstable and much
depreciated in its nominal value; but
the silver has an intrinsic value very
little below gold, and will most prob
ably retain it in spite of all fluctua
tions of paper.
We are in favor of Mr. Kelley’s sil
ver bill, and of his financial scheme
generally. It is a bill in the interest
of trade and the convenience of the
great body of the people, and Con
gress will be faithless to its trust if it
permits its legislation on the subject
to be influenced by the complaints of
bankers and brokers who are more
anxious to "turn an honest penny”
for themselves than to piooe the
finances and currenoy of the country
on the best basis for the people at
large.
WILL Til It WAR li\ I'I.NU?
All the “powers” of Europe, ex
oept Russia, have certaiuly made
strenuous and persistent efforts to
prevent war. They have also, in
making their propositions to Russia
and Turkey, been careful not to com
mit themselves to the enforcement
of any measures of policy recom
mended. It will hardly be claimed
that they are bound to assist either
belligerent in the present phase of
the quarrel. We think that they
will continue this policy of neu
trality and avoidance as long
as possible. The late war
between France and Germany, abort
as it was, taught Furope a frightful
lesson as to the ravages and cost of
such a conflict. The great powers
have need to husband their resources
so as to be in readiness for any war
between themselves which their
jealousies and the antagonism of
their people may provoke. So far as
England is concerned, she is in a
state of alarm now about the loss of
her cotton trade, and a war in
Europe in which she engages will
turn over a very large portion of it
to the Uuited States. She
has for years studiously avoided com
plication in the quarrels of tho Con
tinental nations, even to the impugn
ment of her honor or spirit some
times, and the present is not a time
in which she will willingly depart
from that policy. There is, of course,
do telling what necessities the events
or results of the war tnay ultimately
force ou European powers, but we
believe that for the present they will
let Russia and Turkey enjoy the
fightiug all to themselves.
Over-Wriilmt Calltarnla.
The Bail Frahcfoco Mail uses plain En
glish. It says thntthe AUa and other pa
pms that speak of the magnificent oppor
tunities w liich California presents to the
newcomer, lie in a very gratuitously
criminal way. “The unvarnished truth
is,” it says, “that our labor market is
stocked to overflowing, and every fresli
arriving train but adds to tbe miserable
multitude that waits,, suffers, starves, and
finally fights its way east again. Men of
brain and culture, good clerks, excellent
accountants, business men of undeniable
energy, mechanics of abilitv, walk the
streets in a dumb despair.” '“Westward
bo!” tea siren song in this year of grace.
•'Hard Times" is the national tune in Cal
ifornia as well as in New York, and work
ingmen would better keep step to the
music, wherever they are. To the young
man who is about to put his college edu
cation and bissolo-icather trunk on a Cali
fornia-bound train, the Mail cries “Stop!”
Yes, lot him stay where he is, and if he
can’t find the chance he wants, let him
take tho first that offers.
Mrs. Noel a ludy living near Red
Bone, in this county, has caught in a
trap nine or ton hawks. It is a steel
trap, and is placed on top of a tell
stump near her chicken-yard. Just
under the trap is placed a wire cage
in which she has several young chick
ens. Provisions and water nre placed
in the eage, and tbe chickens, while
acting as a bait for the trap, suffer
no inconvenience from their position
—Butler Herald.
WHY THE CONVENTION SHOULD HE
CALLED.
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Editors Times: I have of late been
frequently asked; Ist. Whether I
thought a Convention ought to be
held ? and
2d. Whether I thought it would be
held ?
And as my answers to both ques
tions have invariably been given in
the affirmative, together with my
reasons, I havo been asked to give
my views to the public, either by
oral discussion before the people, or
through the press. As this latter
method is more convenient, and will
probably reach a greater number of
my constituents, than could be
reached orally, I propose to use your
columns for this purpose, premising
my remarks, by assuring you that I
do not expect to present any views
more forcicle than such as would
strike the minds of any one who gave
the matter mature deliberation.
To the first question, whether we
ought to hold a Convention?
I can scarcely convey to another
how singularly and unaccountably It
strikes my mind, that any one can
hesitate upon this question.
The power to hold a Convention,
the right of the people to assemble
and determine for themselves, freely
and independently, without the least
hindrance, or supervision by any
other power, under what organic Jaw
they will live, is the greatest politi
cal privilege that man can enjoy, it
is a right “inestimable to free men
and formidable to tyrants only;”
it is the great principle that the
fathers established in the revolution
of 1770, and for the maintainance of
which they considered no sacrifice of
life or property too great, no trial
too severe, no power too formidable
to contend against. The immortality
that crowns the memory of the sages
and heads of the revolution has no
othe foundation than this. The one
class promulged the grand idea of
man’s capability of self-government,
and the other maintained it with
arms. The successful revolution of
the Colonies had no other object; the
gigantic growth of the United States
springs from no other source than
the recognized power of the peop
in convention to determine for them
selves what limitations are necessary
to be placod on the natural right of the
individual,for the purpose of promot
ing the aggregate happiness of the
community.
The people in a natural state have
unlimited freedom to do what they
please. No one but themselves have
a right to restrict this power. Expe
rience teaches that restrictions are
necessary, liberty to be enjoyed,
“must be regulated by law.” Law is
but another phrase for the limita
tions to be put upon the natural lib
erty of the individual for the benefit
or the aggregate advantage of the
country.
In America alone it is established
that these limitutious can only be
prescribed by an organic law or con
stitution declared by the people
whose happiness it is intended to se
cure.
Georgia enjoyed this political right
from the 4th July, 1776, when she de
clared her independence of Great
Britain, until Lee surrendered at Ap
pomattox* ; from that hour to the
present we have been debarred from
the exercise of the right of assem
bling in convention and declaring
for ourselves under what constitution
or organic law our happiness and in
terest would best be promoted! A
part of the time the power itself was
denied, and the right withheld by the
actual presence of a military organi
zation ; a part of the time, although
the military had been withdrawn, the
exercise of the power remained in
abeyance, because its exercise
might be made the pretext for
Federal interference, and a remission
of the State to military rule Ia part
of the time we failed to exercise it be
cause Louisiana and South Carolina
were in chains, and the only hope of
their liberation was in the overthrow
of the Republican doctrine, that the
President of the United States had
the right to use the military power
of the Goverament to overthrow the
sovereign right of the people to
choose their own Governors and
Legislatures and regulate their own
internal affairs as they might deem
most advisable, so long as they did
not violate the powers delegated to
the General Government by the
States 1
Georgia, year after, forbore to
exercise the great privilege of mak
ing a Constitution for herself, fear
ful lest her enemy the Republi
can party might gather some
strength by perverting truth, and
thus postpone the day when the peo
ple of the northern States would be
aroused to the dangers of centraliza
tion and would themselves deny to
the Federal Fxecutive the right to
interfere with the internal govern
ment of the States; for this reason
the Legislature of 1860 defeated the
Convention bill, lest it might inter
fere with the prospects of the Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency.
The time has at last come when,
although the people have been de
frauded in the choice of their Presi
dent, the publio sentiment ou this
question of State rights, or in the
more modern phrases, “Home rule,”
local government, has become so
pronounced, that even a -Republican
President feels bound to obey it;
and we at last, after twelve years of
forbearance and humiliation, find
ourselves for the first time in a posi
tion when we may exercise the right
(secured to us by our fathers) of call
ing a Convention and determining
for ourselves the organic law or Con
stitution under which we think our
happiness can best be secured. This
ought to be a jubilee and day of gen
eral rejoicing, it is the day of our
liberation, and it seems to me simply
impossible that any man worthy to
be a free man (without distinction of
race, color or previous condition) oan
for a moment have a doubt as to the
propriety of exercising it.
The Constitution under which we
have lived since 1808, is not our Con
stitutionl I will say nothing about
the constituency that elected its mem
bers, about the disfranchisement of
the intelligence and virtue of the
State, for if every man in the State
bad been enfranebised, if the purest
and best men in the State had form
ed the Constitution, if the organic
law was as perfect as it could have
been made at the time, yet I would
exercise the inestimable right of a
a free people by holding a convention
and making a Coostltitution of our
own, adapted to the present condi
tion of the country ; because the pres
ent Constitution is not the Constitu
tion of the people of Georgia; it is
not the Constitution even of the men
who made it; it is the Constitution of
the Congress of the United States,
made to govern the people of Geor
gia in their domestic concerns.
Every section and paragraph of it had
to be rovised by the Congress. Every
section and paragraph could have
been altered, and was not alter
ed only because its framers made it
to suit the Congress to which it was
to be submitted.
The Constitution itself admits in
language not to be misunderstood
the right of Congress to revise it, and
the necessity of Congress to accept
it, before it could become a law unto
itself; (see section 11, artiole xi, Con
stitution 1868.) For my own part, I
have serious doubts if it is a Consti
tution at all; it certainly is not the
organic law of Georgia framed by
the people of Georgia as the supreme
power, the only source of free govern
ment; it is nothing but the law
under which for the last eight years,
Congress, with no Constitutional
power to intermeddle with our do
mestic ooncerns, has amid its other
usurpations, permitted us to live.
But, pretermitting the power of
Congress for the present, I say we
ought to have a Convention and
make a constitution of our own, be
cause now that we have the power,
for the first time since the war, we
ought to exercise it, and thus re
assert the right of self-government,
which has been so long denied. We
ought not for an instant of time longer
than necessity requires to allow it to
be engrafted in our constitution that
we exercise the power of government
not as an inherent and inalienable
right, but by permission of Congress !
We ought to make anew Constitu
tion, not to be supervised by Con
gress, so that when we do (as we will
do in our new Constitution) full jus
tice to our former slaves, we can say
“i( i<i our act !” As it is now, Con
gress can say, “it is my act; if you
had done otherwise we would not
have accepted your Constitution.”
Let the people of Georgia have all
the credit for whatever may be good
in their Constitution, and the dis
credit of whatever may be bad. We
want no divided responsibility. We
do not wantposterity to say when is
sues may arise, now hidden in the
womb of the future, that Geor
gians, when they had the power to
assert the equality of their State in
the Federal Union, allowed it to be
written in her organic law, that all
the powers exercised by her people
were exercised by the favor and grace
of Congress.
I will pursue this subject further at
another time. Respectfully,
R. J. Moses.
•The Constitution of 1865 wae not made by the
people of Georgia without dictation from Wash
ing ton.
[Communicated]
EX-GOVERNOR KELLOGG'S RADICAL
PHILANTHROPY.
The extreme Radical never inspires
the confidence of the people. The
biblical Pharisee was a radical. Wen
dell Phillips, Garrison, Chamberlain,
Packard, ahd Ex-Gov. Kellogg, are
typical Pharisees. The expressed
opinions of the last named worthy,
in Washington the other clay, deserve
notice. Said Kellogg: “I tell you,
the White League would have enough
to do to look out for their homes.
Why, every colored servant in their
employ has his little bottle of coal oil
ready for the match, and when a col
lision occurs, if it does come, the
White League will not have time to
be fighting for Nicholls in New Or
leans, but will be needed at home to
look after their property.” Radical
ism, in its last analysis, means an
archy. It means the brutal phases
of the French Commune: Conlet
pulling down the Column Vendome,
the Red Republicans pouring cil in
the Palace of the Tuileries, and de
stroying in their mad fanaticism the
products of centuries in art, and the
noblest memorials of history.
Radicalism has armed the negro
with thp torch and the alibi; two
potent instruments which have done
more to depress agriculture in Geor
gia and render the efforts of landlord
and tenant useless to himself, to the
State and to his family, than all
other causes combined. This silent,
systematic war of the torch has
burned probably nearly a thousand
gin houses iu Georgia since the war,
not to enumerate barns and city con
flagrations. At tbe gin house tire
stored the products of a year’s toil,
and one night’s work of fire frequent
ly means the toil of a ltfo time to re
pair the indebtedness thus caused.
Kellogg now proposes to ruiu tbe
cities by the same process. Not an
incendiary of gin. houses in Georgia
has suffered the peruxtty of the law for
this offence since the war. A thous
and planters, and every negro laborer
in the State, have endured greater
hardships, year after year, owing to
this cause.
That an infamous paltroon like
Kellogg shall be kept in office the
city of New Orleans, it is proposed,
shall be destroyed! That is Radical
ism in a nut-shell.
Slavery had this merit at least:
The best system of police for the
lower classes ever devised; Southern
cities were proverbially quiet and
law-abiding at night. Few negroes
were sent to the penitentiary. Now,
the proportion of negro convicts to
whites is as ten to one. Again : A
Solicitor General, before the war,
who bad eight counties in his dis
trict, during eight years, made out
two thousand bills of indictment, of
which not more than twelve were
against colored people.
My father owned four hundred
slaves. I never saw a negro, except
convicted criminals, in chains in my
life.
And last; These criminals, these
Incendiaries,these semi-civilized fana
tics, used as tools by designing men;
who aredisplsed where they original
ly came from, and disgrace the name
of “Northerner”—-are the same pa
tient, kind-hearted, and simple peo
ple who supported and protected our
wives and children, in their isolated
plantation homes, during four years
of war that has made “vacantchairs”
in every household among the whites
of the South. F. F.
Dissolution Notice.
COLUMBUS, a A., April Ist, 1877.
THE Arm of Swift, Murphy k Cos., is this day
dissolved by mutual consent; Mr. S. Q. Mur
phy retiring from the business.
GEO. P. BWIFT,
8. G. MURPHY,
GEO. P. SWIFT, Jr.
NEW FIK H:
The business will be continued by the under
signed in all its brsnehes as heretofore, under
the firm name Goo. P. Bwift k Son; and wo hope
to merit a continuance of all old customers of the
late firm, and as many new ones as will favor us
with their business. Patrons msy rest assured
that any business entrusted to our care will
meet with prompt and careful attention.
Respectfully,
GEO. P. SWIFT,
GEO. P. SWIFT, Jr.
COLUMBUS, GA., April Ist. 1877.
In retiring from the business of Swift, Murphy
A Cos., I beg to return tnsnks to all old patrons
of ths firm for past favors, and hope the liberal
patronage heretofore extended the late firm, will
be continued with my successors, Geo. P. Swift
A Son, who is duty authorized to settle up all
outstanding claims due the firm of Swift, Mur
phy k Cos. 8. G. MURPHY,
aprl lm
Four Per Cent. Discount.
TTTILL be allowed on all City Taxes on Real
FT Estate paid before May 1. Persons owing
Taxes might do well to arrange for this payment
NOW. “A penny saved is a penny made."
JOHN N. BARNETT,
aprl7 tilmayl Treasurer.
The Finest Bull.
TTIHR full-blooded Devon
1 STONEWALL may be found at
Monday's Stablea for a few weeks. wsEpPoK
Improve)our stock. This is the 4AIZ
best milking breed to be found, and the bull is
a very ffue Animal.
At the expiration of four or five weeks this
Bull will oe for sale.
aprl7 lw
SALE OF UNCLAIMED BA66A6E.
COLUMBUS AGENCY OF
Southwestern Railroad Company,
OF CJEOnSIA.
COLUMBUS, GA., March 26tb, 1877.
THE following articles remaining in Baggage
Room of this Company, if not called for, will
be sold at public outcry to pay charges, on Sat
urday, April 38th, 1877 Sale to take place at the
Auction House of C. 8. Harrison, in this city:
7 Yellow Trunks, no mark.
3 Black
1 Large Valise, Sole Leather.
8 Oil-Cloth Carpet Bags.
1 Brown Trunk.
1 Rgg Crate.
W. L. CL.4RK,
_mh2B > *pr8,15A22 Agent.
SALE OF UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE.
COLUMBUS AGENCY OF
Mobile & Girard Railroad Company,
OF ALA IIAM I.
COLULBUB, GA., March 36. 1877.
THE following articles remaining in Baggage
Room of this Company, if not colled lor will
Wl iold at public outcry to pay charges, on Satur
day, April 28th, 1877. Sale to take place at Auc
tion House ofo. 8. Harrison in this city:
2 Block Trunks, no mark.
1 Yellow “
Also, if not called for before date of sale named
above,
1 Cotton Cleaner, consigned, J. W. Allison, re
maintug in Warehouse of Mobile k Girard Rail
road.
W, L. CLARK,
mh28,pr8,15,22 Snp-.rintenilent.
Something New.
WOODEN CASES AND CASKETS.
SELF-SEALING, AIR TIGHT,
At the same Prices as Ordinary Coffins,
and One-Fourth cost of Metalio
Oases.
THEV ARE A NECESSITY WHICH HAS long
been felt in our hot climate, and obviate
n pleasant, and oftentimes dangerous associa
ions. I commend them to the inspection of the
community generally.
Former styles of Cases and Caskets at
Reduced Prices.
*SiF“Night and Sunday Bell at front door
VtOOMEY,
83 AND 85 BROAD BT., UP-BTAIRB.
febll-eodkw3m
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
COLUMBUS AGENCY OF SOUTH WESTERN)
RAILROAD COM FAN Y OF GEORGIA,
COLUMBUS, GA., March 17, 1877. )
THE following articles if not called for, will
be sold at public outcry, to pay freight and
charges, on Tuesday, April IT, 1877; sale to take
place at auction house of C. S. Harrison In this
city.
Sue Washington. 1 Mattress.
Rev. L. Rush. 1 Sack Oats.
Order A. E. M. A Cos., 8 xes Wine.
W. L. CLARK,
mh17,36,apr1&15 Agent.
I>r. C. It. Leitner
OFFERB bis professional services to the citi
zens of COLUMBUS; Office opposite Times
Office. Randolph street; at night can be found at
his residence, upper end of Troup street; house
formerly occupied by L. Hslman.
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WAREHOUSEMEN.
Planters Warehouse
GEO. P. SWIFT. GEO. P. SWIFT, Jr.
GEO. P. SWIFT & SON,
SUCCESSORS TO SWIFT, MLRPHY & CO.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Columbus. Gcorgiu.
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Attention given to Sail* and Noraee of’Mmne.
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The Great Fertilizer
FOR COTTON, FOR CORN AND ALL CROPS!!
WIIANN’S
Raw Bone Super-Phosphate!
FOR SALE FOR CASH OR COTTON OPTION
BY
W. A. SWIFT,
Centennial Wagon Yard, Columbus, Ga.
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GROCERIES.
J, J. Whittle. Geo. M. Yarbrough Jno. T. McLeod
J. J. Whittle & Cos.
IIATE 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 ana FANCY GROCERIES, Consisting in part of
Boots, Shoes and Staple Dry Goods, Bacon, Lard, Su
gar, Coffee, Cheese, Flour, Syrup, Bagging & Ties,
TOBACCO, WHISKEY, BRANDY and WINES, of all grades, SALT, CORN, TEAS of all Brands,
MAKEKEL and 80AP; together with a full line of all other goods kept in a first-class Grocery
House.
SELL THEM AS LOW AS THE LOWEST.
We solicit the patronage of the City and surrounding country,
J. J. WHITTLE & CO.
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Grand Opening of Patterns!
HATS AND NOVELTIES,
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OUST THURSDAY, APR.Hi 12TH.
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fINAKES pleasure in informing her Customers and the Ladies generally that she will open on the
A 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 CHE. 4 PER than ever.
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DRY GOODS.
NEW STOCK ! LOW PRICESTI
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See My Prices!
Maltese suitings, ioc. best London cords, ioc.
SUMMER SILKS, 65c. to $1.25. VICTORIA LAWNS, Isc.
Good HEMMED STITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS. IStfc.
Large Stock BILK SCARFS at 25c. Large Stock SILK HANDKERCHIEFS at 26c.
Good LINEN DAMASK TOWELS, 20c.
TWO BUTTON Uudreeseil KID GLOVES, sdc. TWO BUTTON KID GLOVES worth *1 only 60c.
MISSES TWO BUTTON KID GLOVES, 00c.
Good STOCK of FINER GRADES.
CHILDREN COLORED HOSE, 15c. to 50c. ALL LINEN COLLARS. 10c.
ARE ABKFD TO CALL AND SEE THESE GOODS. **No Trouble to
SHOW THEM.
J. ALBERT KIRVEN,
TWO. OO BROAD STKEIX
Millinery! Millinery!!
At 100 Broad Street.
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Grand Opening on Thursday, 12th inst.,
OF THE
Handsomest Line of Millinery and Fancy Goods
EVER BROUGHT TO THIS CITY, AT
Mrs. Colvin & Miss Donnelly’s,
and which are offered at extremely low figures T
HATS, BONNETS, RIBBONS, Ac., of the latest and most Fashionable Styles, and guaranteed to
please the most taatidious.
These goods were selected by Mrs. Colvin in person—who has just returned from New York,
and can be relied on as the best. “P l *® lm
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AUCTIONEERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
■OO Iteoswl St., Opposite Rankin House, Columbus, Ga.
Consignments solicited of every diaeriptlon and liberal Cash Advances made and settled prompt
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Correspond.en.oe Solicited.
References, toy Permission:
Ohattahoochee national Bank, - National Bank of Oolnmbni) Ga.
Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing Company.