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HANCOJK.GRArt*M rSorBTKTOB*. AMERICUS.GEORQIA: 3atnrclay Morning,' May 14,1870. Official Organ of Snmter Oo. OFFICIAL 03fi*N OF SOKX.FY COUNTY Official Organ of Lee County. OHtrial Organ of Webstar Count} Comptroller-General’s Report. We aro indebted to Major MadisoD Bell, the Comptroller-General, for a copy of his Annual Report for 1869. It is an interesting document, and contains much valuable information. Annexed wc give a fow of the leading items, and shall give other extracts from time to time: Tbewholo State receipts for 1869 were 2,300,- 789 16: payment*, $1,837,825 98; balances on hard, $112,960 18. Of this, $116,695 65 was or hand from the year before. Tho general tax of 1869 was $558,745 22, against $<-33,590 70 in 1868, showing a decrease of 74,846 43. Tho poll tax of 1869 was 35,542 45 against 89,778 47 in 1868; decrease 34,236 02. The liquor tax grew from 1,892 71 in IMS to 27,093 79 in 18C9, showing that grog has flourished under Radical role. Insurance tax held its own, being 8,793 93 in 1869, and a trifle less the year pre- The tax on railroads foil from 8,150 31 in 1869, to 1,34175 a year later. Tho State Itoad paid 25*1,000 for the ten months from December, 1858, to October, 1869. Daring the seven months since, Superintendent Blod gett reports 45,000 paid, or less than G,G00 monthly, against 25,000 before, and this with aq increased business. The civil eatpblishment cost 65,222 48 in 1869, against 23,283 89 in 18C3, showing an increrae of 31,923 59, or more than donble. Contingent fund of 1869,19,968 95; year previous, 8,167 42. Printing for 186919,806 77; year previous, 8,169 12. Special appropriations, 239,923 29 against 89,646 65 tho year previous. Convention scrip, 26,651 25. Legislature pay rolls, 186,794. Pub lic debt, 858,816. The State owns tho State road and 419,716 of good stock. Thus it will bo scon that tho civil ex pense* of tho Government have been doubled daring the past year. It amply proves that the effect of Radical rule is to bankrupt tho State, and destroy her credit The charges so often made against the Governor of appropriating to his private use tho public moneys, find strong corroborative proof in the unprece dented drain upon tho Contingent Fund, and in tho rotnrns of tho State road. In regard to the public lands the report continues: The acres of land returned in 1869 were 42,- ■"52,399 against 32,007,714 the year previous; in crease, 544,685 acres. Tho valno is $84,567,166; increase, $4,849,582. The‘average value per sere was $2 49 in ’68, and' $2 60 the year follow ing. These counties are worth over a million dollars: Cobb, Coweta, Fulton, Gordon, Hancock, Harris, Lee, Muscogee, Newton, Rich mond, Troop Walker and Washington. These over a million and a quarter: Bibb, Dougherty, Monroe, Stewart and Sumter. These million and three quarters: Bartow, Chatham, Floyd and Thompson. Tho richest county in lands is Floyd, the next Houston, the next Bar- Tbe unimproved lands are 6,199336 acres, worth $2,338,691. . The improved, lands are 26,353,054 acres, worth $82^238,471. City property was worth $44,368,096. Money and good debts, 24443,967. Merchandise, 11,236,797- Furniture, 1,405,745'. Hands employed between tho ages of 18 and 05 are 06,739. Stocks and bonds, 5,184,832. Shipping, $250,049. Cotton factories, $2,338,915. Ironworks, $478,920. . National bank shares, $835,950. The whole value of tho State in I860 v»a3 8204.481,906, so that His Expressel- lency has a snug little property to squan der yet. > Vside from the special responsibilities he assumes in hi* pledge, there is something nnro to be done than merely to refuse to drink when asked to do so. That doe* uot satisfy tho conditions of Ms promise. vVcaro engaged in a war uqainsfc* intem- jemnee—we attack as well as VTefend— tad there is an aggressive feature in our work which is too often overlooked.- This is brought distinctly to our minds when We recall the language of oar pledge. We must not only not drink, cor be instru- mental in causing others to drink, but we m"st in all honorable ways discounten ance the use of intoxicating liquors in the community. We cannot stand by tail see our 'neighbors drink, without warning them of taeir danger. We can not mingle in daily association with drinking companions without urging them to abandon the fiery bowl. W cannot seo a barroom established in our neighborhood, and grow into lucrative patronage, without entering our earnest protest against the evil work, and doing all we can to save the victims of the seller from the fate to which he lures him. Wherever and whenever the subject ol Temperance is discussed? it is bur boon- deu duty to give our testimony in favor of total abstinence, and against any use whatever of intoxicating liquors. We are to discountenance their use, not in one way nor in a dozen ways—but in all hon orable ways. It is by this mean* that wo expect to create a healthy public' senti ment in favor of our reform. This is the lever with which we aro trying to lift the popular heart to tho temperance plaue. We do not expect a single liquor seller to quit his business on the first rebuke, single host to cease setting wine before his guests the moment a Good Templar raises his warning voice: but we do expect that a faithful,and persistent discharge of our whole duty will in time effect the change we seek to accomplish. “Con stant dropping wears the stone,” and the pnblic heart is far from being os hard and unimpressible as rock. Let our Good Templar Brothers and Sisters reflect upon their duty in this matter. Idleness iu tho good work is the only real danger we have to dread. There can bo nodonbt about our ultimate success, if wo are only earnest and faith ful to tho vows we have taken upon our selves. Our principles and our object appeal to the most sacred emotions of the heart, and their acknowledgement and triumph are only questions of time. Ministerial Grog. A very am using case has inst occurred in New York. A New York Presbyterian divine, a Mr. Smyth©, alter serricos one Sabbath, invited several reporters to go with him to s restaurant. While there he or?ared five fingers of milk ©bd gin, which he drank with much gusto. One of tho reporters thought it good enough to make - paragraph about. The preacher was thcrcupo hauled over the coals by his congregation. H plead manfully at his trial for acquittal, alleging iiia weak condition, and that ho had no relish for tho curious grog he had imbibed. But bis ’ *' t lambs reprimended their delinquent • ■ shephenL—Coxsmvnox. Well, wo can only eay tlmt his holy reverence is not alono. Wo do not need to leave our own Stato to find book, of canting Pharisees, who denounce the sale of liquor* from tho pulpit, and go home, or to the house of .omo toddy-drinking parishioner, and “sip” n little wine “for the stomach's sake.” With what holy fervor they can inveigh against some un fortunate tippler, while they themselves are the very men who support the liqnor- drinlung interest. Christ camo into the world not to preach to the just but to the unjust. Our modem clergymen, on the contrary, would rather coniine their min istrations to the icy-righteous, and visit the ladies of their congregation, than en ter tho devious paths of sin, thero to lift up and save tho fallen and degraded. Ob, no! They could not soil their hands by doing snch a thing. Poes a clergyman do his duty who rests quiet while there is in .his community a single drinker who might be induced to reform/ He most assuredly does not It is his doty not only to set tho example of total abstinence, but to go and seek whom he may save. Atlanta.—In our recent visit to Atlan ta wc were surprised to see such energy p.nd enterprise os was displayed in ex tending the limits of the city and build ing np the waste places with blocks of substantial business houses and elegant family residences. Tho spirit of im provement seems to kavo infused it*elf into' every branch of business; every where evidences of thrift could be seen throughout tho city. Everybody seem ed to be busy attending to their own bus iness. We doubt not but that Atlanta gives employment to a greater number of mechanics of every description, than any city in the State. This accounts for its prosperity, for mechanics are tho bono and sinew of a community: “ Their strong arms wield a mighty power. Sob tain tho little and the great; Builds tho low cottage of the poor And gilds the glil tcring halls of stato. ’’ . The larger the number of mechanics in a place the greater its prosperity. The city is entering upon Its career of prosperity, and is justly entitled to be •tyled the “ Gate City of tho South. ” With abundant capital and well directed energy, Atlanta, is bound to become the emporium of tho State—why should it not be so ? May the city continue to im prove, until »U borders become extended for miles in every direction where noth ing bat the forests now stand. To no one nan is Atlanta more indebU ed for its spirit of improvement, than to Mr. H. L. Kimball. Few men possess ing the wealth of this gentleman could be induced to appropriate it in so laud able a manner. The Opera Honso now used os the State House, and built at a cost of many thousands of dollars, ornament to the city, and will ever re main an honor to him who projected ik He is now engaged in building a hotel, which, when completed, will be the handsomest in the South. It is to be built on the most modem improve 1 plan. Tho excavation for tho foundation is nearly completed, and the masonry will soon commenco. Several hundred hands are now employed on ik Such a man is worth thousands of millionaires who keep their money shut up in vaults, and At lanta should be proud of him as a citizen. —The Superior Court commences at Griffin on- Monday. —The crops in White county promise a heavy yield. —Roma hi* paid $15,000 for ffrfe en gines and cisterna*. —The Eatonton Pros* states that wheat prospects are excellent in that section. —Tho street cars in Augusta am to be run to tho Fair Grounds. —The Columbus fair will open on November Ish —Snap beans are sold in Savanuah at Oc. a quart. —The Griffin Star reports wheat pros pecta in Spahldinv good. —Gen. Sheridan arrived at Salt Lake on the 9th. >' • —Over :10,000 emigrants landed in New York last week. -The excise law is being rigidly en forced in Brooklyn. - —Ex-President Johnson visited Knox ville last week. —Insurgent bands havo appeared among the mountains on tho Southern confines of the Roman States. —The latest rumor about the Fenian organization is that the army consists of 33.000 men armed, disciplined and pro visioned for a campaign, and that enlist ments aro brisk and money plenty. —Thirty-eight Spanish Bishop: nounce from Rome their refusal to take the oath to the new Constitution of Spain, although His Holiness interposes no ob jections. —H. Martin, of Warrenton, the cause of all the sensation about the suspension of the habeas corpus act by Terry, was released last Saturday on bail. —A New Orleans paper gives a graphic account of a thunderstorm in that city, in which this statement occurs: “Several persons were struck by lightning, and in ono instance a woman was killed. The houses and vessels, however, did not fare so well —Tfo Philadelphia City Council has appropriated $15,000 for free public baths in that city. —Rev. Free Love Frothingham, in a sermon last Sunday, said there was devil. It will be lncky for him if there is not. —Mr. Ruskiu said, at a recent lecture at Oxford, that life without industry is sin, but industry without art is brutal. —Two New Orleans girls fought a pitched battle for the ownership of a nice young man with mostacho and curls. —Judea has less .Tews than New York. —If McFarland can’t be hung or stmt to tho State prison, Abbie wonts him con fined in the lunatic asylum. —The Prince of Orange is going to marry the fourth daughter of Queen Vic toria. —On the walls of a public house in London there is a placard announcing Commerce. First. A and B form for a general co partnership; C contributes $50,000 as special partner; A k B fail; what k the extent of C’a liabUity ? Second. It "and E ate partners in the- prodded" bsftfaeas; D also cams* on tho banking business On his own aooonnt, in which he I* E. liable for D’s debts ? The editor of the Journal of Commerce replies as follow*: First A special partner, if ho has managed his connection properly, can not be held liable fen the debts of the concern iu which his. money is invested. The capital he contributed is liable, but be had no personal liability whatever. Second. One general partner is not liable for the private debts of the other, nor responsible for any business undertaken by the other for which the firm’s name has not been used, and in which it nos no interest. Compositors in the New York Tnbuno office are fined ten cents for every profane word uttered on the prom ises. the money so gathered being given to the poor. One unfortunate chap, a new hand, lost nearly a week’s wages one night over a bit of Greeley’s mann- script _ * mitteo on Reconstruction bad* aiMdfc. but there being no quorum present, the Georgia bill was not considered. "Washington, May 12.—In the Senate, to-day, the bill providing for a reduction of th army, iataodaoad toy Mr. Wilson, passed without Any material amend ments. In the house considerable progress was made in the emudderntron of. tho .tariff bill. Washkoton", May 12.—Tho Senate Committee on the Wciflo railroad, has agreed to report in favor of a Southern route from Mamhall, Texas by way of El Faso to 8an Diego. Tho road will run through the rotten belt of North Eastern Texas. Gen. Fremont’s proposed road is to be allowed to connect with this’ road at El Paso, but he is to receive no grant of public lands beyond that point. New York, May 12,—A collesionvo- cured on the Missouri and Pacific-railroad to-day, near Eureka, Kansas, wkioh re sulted in sixteen persons being kft ed and twenty wounded. WlLCO* & GIBB’S SILTSISTT paartyWiii w i mn kliLuoNAimns.—William H. As tor is declared by those who ought to know to represent 830,000,000; A. T. Steward, 810,000,000; Cornelius Van (Inbuilt, $30,- 000,000; Daniel Drew, $6.000,000; G. Law, 86,000,000; August Belmont, $6,- 000,0o0; Samuel N. Pike, $7,000.000; James Fisk, Jr., $6,000,000; James, Lenox, $5,000,000; and two or three hundred others are variously estimated from two to five millions. There are a thousand persons in New York who are worth at the lowest calculation, $500,- 000 apiece.* <W Tk© Red River expedition departed from Canada on the 12th. The Fenians are at last ready for their spring campaign. Pare Hyacinth is at Munich with Dr. Dellin ger. AvmcrsMay 13, 1870. Oottos—Market steady and firm. We quote, 20 ceutn, “ ”“k»_ ftif* The special correspondent of the Savannah News, writing from Washing ton, May 5th, says it is proposed by Bol lock and his adherents to buy tho resi dence of J. H. James, of Atlanta, for a gubernatorial mansion, at a cost of $250,- 000, although the value does not exceed $60,000. 9Qfc»The Atlanta Constitution says: Mr. H. L Kimball has transferred one hundred hands, employed in the excava tion from tho foundation of the new hotel to the Fair Grounds. Work has com menced there in earnest. Lxnoro 1 sal« A PERFECT WONDER In its simplicity, strength of ©fetch, apd beauty of finish. Keodlois sth-adjustiug and cannot beast wrong. T * 1 — v — li.tacl. ... broidere. braids, quilts and plain and fancy ©erring, with neatness and dia- * - "or sale at rasnufectnrer’aprices by I. N. HART Sc CO., agent Canary Seed, Rape Seed and Cnttloflah bone. BACON at prices to correspond with the de cline in gold and cotton by mbSU-Sm L N. HART & OO. Macon May 12* etfeniu?.--Receipt© to-day 48 safe* 354; ©Supped 197. Tho market continue© ©toady and firm with a good demand at 211 cent© for middling*. New Yon*, May 12.—Cotton firm; ©ajes 1,000 bales; at 23}(£24*.. Gold 14J. 8'Vasxvh. May 12.—Cotton quiet and firm; middlings 22i%22}. Lrvxnpooi., May 12, evening—Cotton, uplands il; Orleans 11,. ' ECONOMY IS WEALTH. COAL, COAL, COAL. r 'makes a cheaper and better fire than wood. Lay in vour supply while you can buy it cheap. Messrs. Sfimno Sc Son hare the exclusive sale of my coal for the city of Americus. All or ders handed to them will be promptly filled. apri!28-2m* ARMAND L. BUTTS. county, doceaaed, departod this life intestate , 0 -W.DAvmrro*T, maylfrtm and cx-oft elk Webster^ Dr. SMITH’S Great Southern Tonic sa.ld.aCgi.tsgeam]!)-. Dr. JUBILEE SMITH & CO, CHEMISTS AJtD COMPOrSOERfi, IKE ERIODS, ea-A Also—. Dr. JUBILEE SMITH’S DYSENTERY CORDIAL. 11 *5 • J *° kwtgoorti#* to Com PJ"5 a *™. taerkSrOa., dros ** ta SPECIAL NOTICES. Barrett’s warranted Hair Restorative. It cannot hurt you. It is purely vegetable. Try Simmons’ Liver Regulator, if you wish to be weU. It act© like a cliarm without debilitating the system, and without any of (he evil effect© of mercury. Simmons’ Liver Regulator is the safe remedy. may 10-1 1 Senator Bbowxlow.—The Washing ton correspondent of the New York Ex- nress writes, April 28; “ Senator Brown- low, who has been much prostrated with physical infirmity during tho whole present .sesaioq, is become evidently more languid as the warm season advan ces. Ho is very regular in his attendance, though ho lias to bo brought from his lodgings by attendants. His voice is gone; he always votes by proxy, an officer of the Senate carrying his vote to the Secret-anr on each call of tho ayes and noes. He is entirely ^incapacitated from either committeo duty or the regular routine of legislative business.” The Tncklaf or Kipttlmrr. After the experience of more than 12 ycara, and a careful examination of more than 40 dif ferent machine©, having used in my family 5 ■*'“ .. . ujafciup the lock, doulile-loop. twisted loop stitches—tho has rat to for nearly 1 years,the first for nearly 12, and the other* for nearly «—I dealre to present to your ' ” of my experience, xhe:^- of sewing machines that readers the teacl There are many: „ are not worth the room they occupy Y-a few that do good service for those who have the ability to manage and keep them iu order, and but one that is always in owr, always ready for service, end that always gives ©atistketion. This ma chin© uses a single thread, make© tho twisted loop stitch, and never fails in making it. It .u - . Tite Growing Wheat Crop. that the head of the French murderer, the adjoining counties tho unanimous Traupman, may there be seen, preserved | report of all parties is that the growing in spirits, for a penny a sight ! J lnuaa » 1 promise— A notice tlms worded appears in a management, certainty ot opera ion and beauty of its work to any other that I have ©sen. The work done by tins machine has shown greater strength aoa durability than that done by ma chines making any other kind of btitch.- ° m ' Fowler, in the Phrenological Journal. In all — Belgian paper: “Captain —— lias the honor to inform you that it lias pleased divine Providcnco to deliver bis wife of a finely formed son.” —Tho manufacture of bricks Is very successfully carried on near Tallahassee. —Tho Courier-Journal says the fight of tlio Cincinnati editors is “off.” They can't agree on the division of the “crate- money.” —There is considerable gold excite ment iu New Mexico, and the metal is said to be pare and abundant. —General Joseph H. Lewis, who com manded the Kentucky Confederate Bri gade, was sworn in on Tuesday ber of Congress. —The King of Prussia has, at Babels- berg, fifty white mice which he often watches for honrs at a time. —An Arizona miner, wonnded by In dians, shot himself dead to escape the pain he suffered. while in the country abovo we know from personal ob servation, that it is looking unusually well. Last week we were in Jackson, Hall and White counties, and judging from what we saw along tho rood and learned from intelligent farmers, there has never been a better prospect for a crop. If no calamity overtakes it, an immense yield my be expected. And this is true ol all the counties of North east Georgia. Tho finest looking wheat we have seen anywhere is the crop of our friend Bailey, of Oglethorpe, who last year beat “all the world and the rest of mankind” by rais- i ing nearly fifty bushels to tho acre. If onylsody beats that this year, it will be Bmley himself,—Athens (Ga^j Watch man. Ermrn ox ax Edttou.—Her e he lie*. E&a* A glance at tho columns of the Era is quite sufficient to convinco us of that. tar The New York correspondent of the Journal says the drinking customs of Xcw York are fearful, ana for an illnstra- tion adds: the other day in tho street© quite a well kSSiniUirister, who was so drank that tiro More Legislation* fob tbs Neobo— The Country to ee put uxdeb Martial Law.—A Washington dispatch to the Baltimore Sun says: In tho forthcoming Republican caucus a Southern Senator intends to proposes policy, to be incorporated into a law, for the better protection of tho colored -peo* pie of the Smith, and to secure the en forcement of the Fifteenth Amendment in tho North. This will tako something of the shape of a bill prepared bv If r- Pool, of North Carolina, and which will declare that all citizens of the United States shall have, in the several States, all the privileges and immunities of life, liberty and property. It will declare it to bo unlawful for persons to combine or conspire to violate or hinder or impede anjr of tho rights meant to be secured by this act, one of which is to prevent the discharge from employment of any per son with intent to restrain his free and complete exerciso of the elective fran chise. Another feature of this proposed legislation is to authorize tho President to emplov the land and naval forces or the militia to preserve the peace in any Stato. The passage of such an act will be vir tually patting the whole country under martial law. Stat.tt.tso, But True.—The number of deaths iu the United Statesending last June, resulting from the intemperate use of ardent spirits, is given below, as well as the number of men, women and child ren sent to poor-houses, insane and ine briate asylums Stato penitentiaries for offences committed while under the in fluence of liquor, as compared with the number of r those whose crimes were in duced by other cause : Deaths 62,000; Suicides from intemperance, 409; Sui cides from other causes, 87 ; In poor- houses, inebriate and insane asylums, 130,000; Per cent, of crime caused by in temperance, 65. The above is a most startling exhibit, and shows the groat evil of indulging in the wine cap. 1$ is a most frightful com mentary upon the morals of the people of the United States, and snggesfcj the question whether or not the causo of all this crimo and misery conld not be ’ moved. Be Wise in Time. How xu any are tfeore wh* >, afflicted din- TH0S. 31. EDEN, [GUN & LOCKSMITH, GUNS, PISTOLS, ing ammunition of every kind. Wesson’© Breach- loading Rifles. Now on hand a largo and fine assortment of fishing tackle, consisting m part of grata, eilk, cotton and linen lines, hooks, floats, ©inkers, jointed and reed poles* set lines, ©pears, trout met, spoon and spinning bait, bait boxes, etc. N.B.—Jgencr oftbo celebrated Wilson 8huttle Sewing Slachmea. East side Public Square, next door to Win. Rimne Sc Son s Carriage Manufactory. • 'xSctvly TAX NOTICE. the veer 1870. All persons will jfleeee c ward at oneo and give in their tax. T. B. GLOVER, *p 211m Tnxlloceiver Sumter Oonnty. Joy to the World ! AN ANTIDOTE UWCOVUEED CHILLS AND FEVERS. \7 ALU ABLE PROPERTY .» FOB SAEE IN BBUXSW1CK, G». w..,- sitting of lots to suit purchaser©, finely w t n,pv 480 .a 150 eently surveyed into lots and now for tli© firit time offered at low prices to encourage imnrovr menta. presenting great inducement* to settler* capitalists and others visaing to make safe nn<‘ valuable investments, as the property must •<’- Tance rapidly in values as the citr imnrnvoft.- Title* are perfect. Descriptive pamphlets ©ud maps c*n lie ©eon or procured at the office of S. If. HAWKINS, Attorney mar 12-ly for Charles Da\. JOHN C. JOINER’S Family Grocery Store, W. E. Comer of Public Square. Is always ©applied with a fresh stock of ■ FAMILY GROCERIES, comprising everything usually found in Mint establishments, such as B*ro*». Floor, Meat, Coffer. Tobacco, Cigars, Sngor, Lord, COUNTRY**’PR O D U C E alarm o l hand for salt, ©uch ait Pm Fowls, Gaines Fowl*. F.gg«. Hatter, Chicken*, Turkey*, sad Game of all Kiqds. I make this department & specialty, and i Don’t forget the place, Opposite Dr. W. W. Ford’s Dental Office aprlC-lm in an incipient etage, delay from til time baring rcoource to wane remedial agent, which wonkl effectually arreat tho farther pro gress of disease, and render the system impreg nable to its insidious attacks. It is unfortun ately too true, there are thousand© who ©ink In to an early grave, whereas at a trifling expense they might lipve lived to a good old age. If there be reliance to be plaecu in medicine, and thousand* of well at teste* I cases establish be yond tne possibility of a doubt tho curative properties of any one particular remedy, then, Hurley’s 8arsspanlla and Potash ir unquestion ably the greatest medicine ever introduced to au afflicted community. Hesitate not, there fore, to use it, if suffering from any ot the ills to which the fle*b I© heir* sp2Gtf The Fruit Crop.—Wo publish several mem- contra ‘k ctor J reports in reference to the peach crop in this section. These reports were based upon such information as we were enabled to collect from time to time, and were contradictoiy, because in some localities the peaches were parti ally destroyed and escaped unhurt in others.* Some fow orchards will fail to tally, in others the crop will be light, but, throughout the upper country generally it will bo abundant. Indeed the trees are in many localities, too fulL From this place to Cleveland, via Gainsville, we noticed all along the rood a great abundance of peaches. % Apples and othe r fruits aro still more i irriufin; ALLENS LUNG BALSAM. Dr. A. L. Harris is the inventor of several medical preparations which have become very popular, ami have been liberally used Among his invention* are Hall's Balsam for tho lung© and Liverwort and Tar. For tho post six years a better lung remedy has been offered to the public. Read the,following letter from Dr. Sco- vill referring to it: Messrs. J. N. Harris X Co.—Geut«: I make the following statement from a perfect convic tion or the benefits of Allen's Lung Balsam in curing the most deep seated pulmonary con sumption. I have witnessed its effect© on the jroung and tho old, and 1 can truly say that it is Car the best expectorant remedy with which I acquainted. For coughs, and all tho early stages of lung complaints, I believe it to be a certain cure, and if every.iiatnilr would keep it it by them, ready to administer upon the first appearance of disease about the lung©,, there —’ * bo very few cases of fetal consumption. It th** phlegm and matter to raise, without ng toe longs, and without producingcon- promising, as, wo believe, they were not l ©tipatioa of the bowels. It also gives strength at nil injured by the late frosts.—lb. j S*tSnaSud°^g^S^lft!***** The Drouth,—It has been fonr or five I Your© respectfully. Bgb. Nessns has for a long time enjoy ed a distinguished reputation on account of that little transaction of his in tho shirt business, but at hist Neisus has met more than a match in a man who dwells in the romantic viUogo of Hopkinsville, Ken- tncky. This man had the small pox, and lived through it without changing his shirt. When convalescent ho gave the garment to a colored woman to bury. But utilitarianism and temptation overcame her. She gave it a careless washing, and, on the following Sunday her “ole man ” appeared in all tho glory of a white “ biled shirt ” In due time he was tak en with small-pox, and died soon after, and, strange to say, so did five others who successively come into possession of the fatal garment Nessua killed his one man —Hercules—with an effort but this Hop- kinsvillian killed his half dozen without half trying. weeks since we had sufficient rain in this vicinity to wet the gronnd. As a conse- j qucncc our vegetable gardens, which up! to that time were retarded by the cold! weather, present anything bat an encour-1 aging prospect. The ground is so dry i that nothing can grow, and in many case;; vegetables aro losing the little vitality they possess. Spring salad and English peas aro scarco. Snap beans will have to bo replanted. Cabbage and collards aro “ drying up.” We fear that the Irish potato crop will bo seriously cut off, and our summer supply of vegetables generally prove finndequnte. We notice what little com there is in the neighbor- hoed looks dwarfed, yellow and sickly. Tho only thing which seems to be hold ing “its own,” is the cotton, and proba bly the present cool snap is not helping it mneh. Still there is no prospect of rain, and wo have little hope of auv be fore the fall moon. This is rather a gloomy looking picture, yet it must be all right or else it would not be so. We draw comfort from, the old Christian’s philosophy, “We are sure to get rain when it is most needed.”— Col Enq. flokl by all druKgiftt , Mendelssohn’s son is to be his bio grapher. Opelika wants & fire company. They havo had a mad dog in Macon. A new cotton factory is to be estab lished in Augusta. Cigars for ladies—Widows* weeds. Faro is taxed £400 in Nevada. Sorosis decrees against Jong skirt©, Patti auDg to 12!,000f at Liege. Travelers say the great want of Salt Lake is tailors. Cuba is now on the other side of Jor dan. He’s at home. A fair pugilist need not be a striking beanty: A western exchange says the flowers aro jnst teething. A daughter of EL Davenport is to marry a daughter of George Jordan, jr. A Texas boy recently shot hh father “from mere caprice.” A THRILLING 1NCIDFNT — In the mica]on life of lire. Ingalls, in Borxnsh, is well told in tho Baptist Messenger, relating how •he was sent for to visit ono of tho Badflhist high priests, who lisd baen nearly killed, and how, while in the must holy place In their tern- ’ >, where none but priests had never before -.so admitted, she was permitted nnrelraked to nsoforhim tho sacred vemela, which nono bat the high priest dare t* -nch, and to even overturn and sit on one of their gods to rest* ©R through the magic influence of tho rain Killer, called by them the God Medicine, so succefefaDy had she used It in curing their many diseases, some of them considered heretofore fetal in that climate, among which were cholera, liver complaint, Rvspcpeia. the bites of venomous reptiles, Ac. This ©peaks vnliun**© for the Pain Killer.—Lon don Tune*. Dr. IL C. Daily, at Americus. Georgia, undoubtedly tho best medicine yet discover** for the cura of the different forms of malarious fever*, such as chiPs and fever, fever and ague, intermittent qr bilious remittent fever*, ana all forms of disease having a malarious origin. Sold by Druggists and Dealers Generally. Price Ono ?5r»llar. CERTIFICATES. A3iEnu.es, Georgia. To Dr. IL C. Baxlet—Dear hir : I used the Holton Pill, put up by you, in a caso of chills with complete ©uoccss. lly daughter had no chill after taking them according to direction*. S. ANTHONY. Axemccs, Georgia. Dr. H. C. Bailee—Dear Sir: I have used your Holton’s Pills in several cases of chills, one of which was of nearly a year’s standing, and have met with complete succoss in every cuse. I be lieve them to be an excellent medicine. W. A. WILSON. Ajnsnicrs, Georgia. Dr. H. C. Bailey —Dear Sir: I havo used the Holton Pills in my family with marked and sat isfactory results. If taken according to direc tions, they will break up chillsnf long standing, with an almost certainty of their not returni - T. M. FORLO’ Axzaicus, SIS JAMES CLARKE'S FEMALE PILLS. fllHE only reliable remedy noy offered to you A for the cure of those painfil and dangciomi diseases to which the female constitution w mb ject, and which moderates all excesses and Removes all Obstructions, from whatever cause, is Sir James Clarke's IV- malc Pills, prepared from a prescription «,f Sr J. Clarke, M. IL, Physician Extraordinary to tht Queen, by D. H. Fiak, 47 Dev street. New York. To married ladies it is particularly suited, li ill in a short time bring on the monthly period with regularity, and does not contain anythin ■ hurtful to the constitution. Iu all cates of Nei• von© and spiral affections, pains in the back and Umbo, palpitation of the heart, hysterica.whitM, it will effect a cure when .all other means hare failed. Foil directions in pamphlet around ucl> package. Observe the name and copyrightc! D, H.Fi*ke cm each package. Auk your drng- ata for D. H. Flaked Sir J. Clarke’© Pills. SoH r all druggieta,* and by XV. A. COOK & CO.. novlS-ly Americus, G*. Dr. H. C. Bailey—Dear Sir: I havo Holton Pills with my plantation hands, with en tire satisfactory results. I am auro they will cure the chills when taken according to direo- Fairs held in tho South, in Oct and Nov.,1869,for the best pianos made over Bal timore, Philadelphia and New York Pianos. Of fice ana wareroom. No 9, liberty street above Baltimore street, Baltimore, hid. Stieff’a Pi anos havo all the latest improvemcnts,including the AgraSo treble, ivorr fronts, and the Im proved French Action, fully warranted for five years, with privilege of exchango within twelve months if not entirely B&tiafactory to purchaser. Second handed Pisnoe and Parlor Organs al ways on hand, from $50 to $3u0. Referees who have our Pianos in use—Gen. It E. Lee, Lex ington. Va.; Gen. Robert Ransom, Wilmington, N. C.; Gen. D. H. Hill, Charlotte, N. C.; Gov. J. Letcher, Lexington, Ya.; Bishop Wilmer.* New Orleans; Cot W. T. Withers, Jackson, Mia©.; Orphan's Home, Lauderdale, Miss.: Dr. J. H. Bowm&r, Vicksburg, Mi©©.- C. W. Hand, Sum ter, Ga. Mrs. Spaulding, at the City Book Store, Americus. Ga., is agent for the above Pianoe. Send for a circular containing names of 500 persons in the South,who have purchased the 8tieff Piano since the war. may 26 ly. Rev. J. F.. Clough, missionary at Ongole, Southern India, writes: "We esteem yonr Fain Kilfor very highly for scorpion stings, Cholera c„ and cannot very well do without it” Rev. L D. Colburn, missionary at Tavoy, Bur nish. writes: **I shall be happy to assist in ex tending a knowledge of a remedy so apeedy and effectual. Sold by all druggists. iuy8-lm Kosxoo.—This medicine is rapidly gaining the confidence of the people, and the numerous testimonials of its virtues, given by practition ers of medicine, leaves no doubt that it is a safe and reliable remedy for impurity of the blood, liver disease, Ac. The last Medical Janral con tains an article from Prof. R. S. Newton, M, D., President of the Medical College, cityofNew York, that speaks in high terms of its curative pronartiee, and gives a special recommendation of Kmkoo to tbo practitioners of medicine. This to, J* 1 ***. wo hnt instance where such SS-SaSs reace. its com rounder, and alao nuta *• Koakoo" Marion Superior Court, March Term, 1870. Libel for Divorce. RACHAEL A. O. HATTIWAV TIaWSOX HAX1IWAI. suit, and it appearing from the return of the Sheriff that defendant is not to be found. Ordered, that service be perfected eitier by a copy of the bill being served by defendant, or by publication once a month for four months pre vious to the next term of this court. A truo extract from the minutes of Marion 8u- Taosus B. LmCT. Clk. WANTED, Ten Thousand Pounds of Cotton and Linen RAGS, for which b. t^a. jura BLACKSMITH, store, and near the jail building. OR. 8HALLENDERQER*S Fever and Ague A. X T I DOT K Always Stops (be Chills. This Mrlicino lu$ been Defer.- tho Public fifteen year-,».;»! I * at.il Viue^ i »t‘ all other known remedies< If u-v mi, purge, dot’ not sicken.iho **»*w.*l*, < • ■■ *r4r*tlv in any dose sa l under ill - Ir NU^t.-ire©, wd is the only it* a will CURE IMMEDIATELY and permanently every torn •» Fever ani A true, booms* i‘ *«• » »**rv.--** Antidote te Halarls. S. C OHEN, Z Hma : ,u o Morobailt w^JssTBsassss^ssa^ try to the faclTu»?fc be m pwpneA . to - CCSTOH-HADE WOBK at tho shortest notice. We hhvo , Two European Workmen, »bn rire utisfoction til to tho t£rtth»t bo hM hid » good ^ fourteen years torn the puDuCTJWJt-JJT is willing to cut uiJ msits clothes dimoderK^. SSSsfEwISs cleaning done at abort notice. may5-ly Bo^hStde IsmsrBttsft-