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ESTABLISHED IN’ 1843. ertislng medium in this section. M. D WINJELTi, Proprietor. Wednesday Morning,—Nov. 21,1877 Democratic Nominations. Fioyd County. FOR REPRESENTATIVES, S. C. TROUT, JOEL BRANHAM. (Election on Wednesday, .Dec. 5.) ANNOUNCEMENTS. We are authorized to announce the name of Judge Sajicei, Hawkins as candidate for ilio Senate from the 42d District—composed of the counties of Chattooga, Fioyd and Partnw. We are authorized to announce lion. D. B. Hamilton as a candidate for Senator from the 42d District—composed of Bartow, Floyd and Chattooga counties. We are authorized to announce Cul. A. J. Kino as a candidate for Representative from Floyd county. Col. A. S. Hamilton has been nomi nated for the Legislature in Jones coun ty. Ancient Rome had her golden age and Holland her rage for tulips. Now, we are - verging on th¥ silver rage. Judge Wm. Reese positively declines the nomination for Senatuiship tender ed him, on the plea of ill health. “Give us the dollar of our daddies!” cry ths silver lunatics We wish we could give them some of our daddies' sense.—N. Y. Herald. The die is cast, and neither senseless joke nor dolorous twaddle can check the change that is coming. The mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind a certain statutory per cent. fine. Rev. Dr. W. P. Harrison, pastor of the First Methodist Church (South) at Atlanta, has been elected chaplain of the House of Representatives, and preached his farewell sermon to his congregation last Sabbath. He will go to Washington at once to accept the po sition tendered, and also take charge of the Mount Vernon Methodist church there. The first number of the Calliopean Critique, a monthly paper, issued by the young ladies of the Marietta (Ga.) Female College, with Miss Sallie Long as principal editor, is upon our table. It is filled with excellent matter, both original and selected. We extend the hand of congratulation—it won’t do to say fellowship—to the fair editor, with the wish of success to paper, editor, publisher and contributors. AN EXEMPLARY COUNTRY. Our Minister to the Hague, in a com munication to the State Department, says the Missouri Republican, gives such a picture of Dutch honesty and thrift as almost to make one wish that all the world were Holland, and all its inhabitants Dutchmen. The regular army is 60,000 men, and at our rate of expenditure, $1,000 per man, would Cost $60,000,000 a year ; but the actual cost is only $7,000,000 a year—a trifle over $100 per man. The Ministers of State get only $5,000 a year, which is ample for their simple habits. They live within their incomes—as do all the people—and never think of robbing the Departments they preside over for the means for keeping up appearances. Official dishonesty is almost unknown, and when brought to light is severely punished and followed by disgrace. There has not been a bank failure in the country for forty years: there is a good supply of paper money for all business purposes, and it is.always equal io gold. The average rate for fire insurance is i per cent., and the companies pay 12 to 16 per cent divi dend to their stockholders, and never break. There is little poverty in,the country, and little complaint of hard times; the people are thrifty, indus trious and contented; and though the country is less than a third as large as Missouri, with twice as large a pop ulation, it furnishes a living to all. Holland i3 not a heroic country— though it has had its days of heroism, as the history of Philip II., the Prince of Parma and the Duke of Alva abun dantly testifies; it is now a plain, plod ding State, unaddicted to the experi ments and intermeddlings • that breed wars between the other countries of Europe; but if the happiness of people is the chief object of human govern ments, Holland may be called one cf the most perfect illustrations of good government on the globe. The Hol landers were once famous seamen, and had something to do with the settle ment of this country. They founded New Amsterdam, now called New York, and if it could he remanded to them, with the right to manage its mu nicipal government, its banks and its insurance companies, the change would be good for all concerned. RECONCILIATION* ings and influences, is contrary to the Two years ago thTmanagers of a fair I teachin 8 of the Bible and at Winnebago, Illinois, invited Mr. I will give you one illustration. Tom Jefferson Davis to deliver an address 1 01iver ’ who lived in the da ? a of Wes- before the Fair Association, but the I le y’ 8 reformation, was a coblerbytrade people generally were not ready for so I —ver ^ w * c ^ ed > and a shrewd swindler advanced a movement in the way of I in defra uding his fellow-men; his home reconciliation, and Mr. Davis did not atead was migration from one place to go. However, these same men snbse- ano ^her, which he continued until he quently invited Wade Hampton, of created seventy debts. About this time South Carolina, who went, and deliver- ll was the wiU of God to convert him ed an address, and they sent, this fall, He 8aid under repentance he felt like one of their own men, Hon. H. P. Kim- be bad 6tolen ever T cent he had receiv- ball.down fo Columbia, who delivered edby cheating, and determined he a stirring address, in it using the fol- wo “ ld way tbe Iast cent and ma ke fall lowing language touching the political I rea titution. About this time he re- affairs of South Carolina: ceived a le 6 a cy, with a part of this he “I congratulate you most cordially bought a horse and saddle, set off upon the public tranquility that reigns preaching Jesus, and paying his debts within your borders; the steady revival until his money was exhausted. He of your industries, and more especially then sold his horse and saddle, walked upon your enfranchisement from that nr „„„i,..i j , -, ... ... horde of political conspirtors who, un- preacbedaBd P aid untd every creditor der the livery of the civil service and I was satisfied, and God glorified, an incorruptable national party, [?] I I s there such a lesson connected with plundered your treasury, bribed your the homestead law ? Can our Churches representatives impaired your public let their light so shine as required by credit, and with unblushing effiontery L„_ -. , ... y outraged every principle of justice and I ’ vlt ^ out dealing with every honor. The condition of South Caro-1 mem oeT who condescends to take the lina uuder the usurpations of carpet- benefit of the homestead. A few years bag misrule finds a striking analogy in ago I said to the Jiidge of this circuit: that legend of classical mythology which -Sir, your past experience, observation, represents Prometheus enchained to , ? . , ’ Mount Caucasus by Jupiter, and whose pr ° fe f lon and ofhclal Position enables punishment was aggravated by a raven-1 you ’ 1 suppose, to judge correctly of the ous vulture, that descended upon him influence of the relief laws—socalled and devoured his liver, which grew iu (the homestead being the main one) the night as much as it was consumed a nd which I call corrupt-have had in the day. The league of the carpet-1 , - * » . bag dynasty has, for a decade of years, U P 0D the mora!d of our country. Af- constituted the political vultures of the I ter a caom eot’s reflection he said: “Sir, South, who have preyed upon her re-11 believe every one of them have been sources, devoured her substance, crip-1 a curse, and have had a demoralizing pled her industries and loaded her with in fl uence .» Multitudes, if called on, unparalleled burdens of taxation and I ,, . * debt. Rstrioution, personified, by one ' Tould S lve the same testimony that of the ancient Furies, armed with a lhls honorable, honest Judge gave, scourge of venomous scorpions in one In conclusion we protest solemnly hand and a battery of quivering light against the requirement of choosing be- mngs in the other, should pursue the,e tlveen two evilg of fearful magnitude, infamous miscreants, fugitives from I. . ., . , ’ justice, who are profaning the sanctuary hut lf neceS8It y cupels, we will vote of our National capital, and drive them I ^ or ^ le one of 1S68. Respectfully, from the boundaries of civilization. South Carolina stands upon the proud eminence with Illinois and Mas sachusetts in the vindication of her rights of self-government and her con stitutional privileges as a sovereign State. The General Government cai not impose disabilities upon or.e witn F. W. Chexev. eral at $5,000, and 20 -sabordinates at «1,000 each. Financial speeches were the order of the day in the House, bat only Mr. Kelly’s attracted much attention. The Record is fearfully burdened with them this morning. Kxox. The Jetties. Washing-ton Correspondence. Criticising the Eads jetties in its usual spirit, the Cincinati Commercial asks the following questions: “Have the measurements been aver aged over a large area in order to show the proper depth ? In case there is ac tually a channel, has it been produced by the jetties or the dredges? If the result is to be credited both to jetties and dredges, are both required to main tain the conditions that are claimed ? What is becoming of the vast amount of sediment carried into the Gulf by the Mississippi? How soon and how far is it important to extend the jetties? How much more money . is wanted right away ?’ ! To which the St. Louis Republican re plies that measurements have been “av eraged over a large area,” and do “show the proper depth.” That the channel has been produced by the jetties and not by the dredges, is proved by the fact that the Government had a dredge- boat at the southwest pass for thirty years or more, and never succeeded in getting such a channel as there is now at the south pass. Capt. Eads is using the dredge-for the purpose of removing certain hard lumps more rapidly than they could bo removed by the unaided action of the water. These lumps once out, the dredge will not be needed ex cept for the clearing itvray of tempora ry obstacles. We are unable to say ‘what is becoming of the vast amount of sediment carried into the Gulf bv the Mississippi.” If it 13 not deposited in the channel, and does not form a bar at the mouth of the jetties—both of which negatives are admitted—what difference does it make whether the sediment goes to Cuba, or Japan, or any intermediate point? The jetties will be extended no sooner and no farther What Tom Ewing Says. The Anti-Resumption Leader Interviewed by a Hard-Money Reporter. ABOUT WORDS. The building of the Gilbert Elevated Railroad in New York is advancing with almost marvellous rapidity. Be tween Seventeenth and Forty-second streets, on Sixth avenue, upward of five hundred men are working day and ^ and we do ?’ ve pectefVitfhefimsfeed^downas^far as Worth street next month. The'opposi- tion against the project seems to be en tirely dyiDg out. of MESSRS. TROUT AND BS . Nil III. The convention that met in the City Hall on the 3d inst., did credit to them selves and the county of Floyd by an nouncing Sanford C. Trout and Joel Branham as candidates for the House of Representatives. We know there was, and now is, honest differences of opinion as to the authority and propri ety of any convention or nomination We respect that difference, and have no war to make with those Democrats who disagree with us. What we have said and what we now say, is, we would be pleased to see the voters unite upon them and triumphantly elect them, not alone because they are the nominees, hut because they are true men, emi nently qualified for. the position, in point of integrity, ability and true pa triotism. There are such vigorous affirmations on the part of the Republicans who at tended the caucus Saturday night, at Washington, that the session was a very harmonious one, that it is natural to suspect a good deal of boxing went on at the meeting. The ..Cincinnati Ga zette's Washington correspondent says: “The composition of the Cabinet re ceived about such a handling as in the conference of House Republicans at Secretary Sherman’s a few weeks since. There did not appear to be es much dissatisfaction over Judge Key’s selec tion as over that of Schurz and Evarts. There was much pronounced disagree ment with the President upon nearly every marked feature of his course, but some who shared these feelings fuily were still strongly opposed to any open hostility to the President, and were in favor of standing firmly together and presenting an unbroken party front to the Democrats.” THE HOMESTEAD QUESTION. A valued friend and esteemed corres pondent ha3 an article upon the home stead question in this issue of the Cou rier, giving his views upon the matter. We publish it because it is a question be fore the people, to be voted on at the election in December, and hot because, we coincide with the writer. While there ha3 been wrong done, no doubt, in some instances by parties who availed them selves of the provisions of the homestead clause in our Constitution, still wc are of the opinion that in other cases it has been a measure of honest relief to these who have sought the protection it afforded. The question of which homestead is the proper and just one, either the one of the Constitution of 1868 or 'that embodied in the Constitution of 1S77, is for the de cision of the people at the ballot-box. If the new one is rejected the old one stands, and it is not possible, now, to dispense with the homestead provision altogether, even if the people desired so to do. Mr. Richard Grant White, who is considered by agreat many people in the United States as an authority not to he doubted upon questions of rhetoric and grammar, and in fact upon all matters f philology, has recently published in the New York Times an article in answer to numerous inquiries as whether it is correct to use.the phrase, to-morrow is Sunday,” as some people seem to think that because to-morrow is yet to come, the expression should always be, “to-morrow will be Sunday. Mr. White kindly permits the use either expression, in which decisiou concur; as also in his idea of the proper use of adverbs and adjectives in certain expressions. For instance, he thinks his words, be fight to say "fie' feels bad, and no one can compel him to say he feels badly. We would be willing to go into a revolution, or a rebellion, if the word suits better, against the control and constraint of any language whose laws are so harsh as to compel a man to say he feels badly, when the sense ot feel ing was as acute as he could wish it, and he had, perhaps, only eaten too hearty a dinner, and being annoyed from it, wanted to let a friend know that he felt had. But, while we agree with Mr. Rich ard Grant White in all the opinioeg and conclusions expressed in the arti cle referred to, we have to express our surprise at the opening line of the com munication, which is in the “words and figures following, to-wit“I have re ceived no less than nine epistles of late,” etc. Can Mr. White, or any other man, give any good reason for killing off the proper word, fewer, in that sentence, and substituting instead the word les3. Less is the comparative of little, as we understand it. Suppose, then, that we change the expression by taking out the negative, and say, “We have received less than nine epistles”— we have received little nine epistles. Washington, Nov. 16,1877. . The delegates authorized by the Re- lhan Capt- Eads deems necessary for , _ r publican caucus.of last Saturday to the accomplishment of his object; and out degrading and humiliating the confer with the President, explain the he wdl want no more money ’ and want other ' I drift of sentiment as elicited at that U n ° sooner than his . a 2 re ement with neetiug and to report to their associ-1 the Government specifies, ates the spirit in which their sugges tions were received, do not appear by current reports i.nd street gossip, to Jere Black’s reply to Stoughton is out in pamphlet form. It was altogeth er too pungent and personal a docu ment for the pages of the Nortn Amer-,, - ican Review. The editor of the Balti- , Ve bec " glv j n any rea30n to suppcse Thanksgivings Proelamaticn. By the Governor of Georgia. more Gazette, who has read it, says ot I that the President will he much influ- it: "“Regarded simp'ly'" from a "’liter‘s | l““ d lt a ‘^ e „£ and J? is ' | y“eaVthe'bSJ of standpoint, it is a work worthy to be The citizens of Georgia have enjoyed in a large degree during the present merciful and compared with the writings of Junius There is probably no public man in missals from office by the information bountiful Providence. We hive been imparted. He is understood to have spared tne scourge of pestilence ; our said, substantially, that lie felt it in- harvests have been plenteous, our com- 1 mutinies have been peaceful. Social The supreme count of Pennsylvania has decided the dispute between the Al legheny county grand-jury and Gov. Han tranft in favor of the latter. The grand jury summoned the governor and the ad jutant general before them to give testi mony in the case of the riots. The governor and the adjutant-general re fused to come, on the ground that the information in their possesion was priy, ileged, and to divulge it would be de trimental to the public interests The Allegheny county court decided that this answer was insufficient and the ex ecutive officers must come. The ques tion was submitted to the supreme court and that tribunal decides in favor of the position taken by the governor. The decision means that official information in possession of the governor is privi leged and the governor need not give it in evidence before a grand-jury or a court of justice, unless he is willing to. Senator Conkling is reported to have said of Mr. Hayes: “It is the general record of usurpers that, though sus tained, they do their favors to the other side.” The St. Louis Republican asks: Is Mr. Hayes, then, a usurper? Sena- tor.Conkling ought to have discovered the fact nine months earlier. Hevoted to put this “usurper” in office, and it Is a little late in the day to denounce the usurpation. There was a moment in the protracted dispute over the Presi dential election when a speech from the New York Senator in opposition to Mr. Hayes’, claim would have effectually barred him from the Presidency. But the New York Senator refused to make the speech—and now, perhaps, he wishes he had made it” 1 “ , , I cumbent on him to exercise his own n , 1 . “ ave been Peaceful. Social the country who is at aL the equal of • * . , . , , I order has been universally preserved, Judge Black as a satirist, and in this IL = e P r _ eajl3e? , and tbat I and the hearts of the people have been Senators must use their own discretion | cheered by the prospect and promise ot instance he has brought to bear upon,. , * r his puny antagonist the utmost re- in l!le confirmation or rejection of his U restored harmony and fraternity. sources of his «rt The ease with which a PP olntf es J t" a ‘ in his appointment of 14 becomes us as an intelligent and sources ot ms _rt. ihe ease with which Democrats {o offic - e he had . ad re „ apd grateful people to make formal, rever- he overturns every argument and rid- , I ent and heartfelt acknowledgment of dies every conclusion of the apologist . ^conciliation of the different I ihis goodness and mercy, for fraud is only less conspicuous than 38Ctl0 . ns and tbe interests of the service; To this end, I earnestly invite you to the ridicule with which he visits hi J that -, ln his opinion, the wisdom of his meet i„ y 0Ur several places of worship ,, ,, . I selections had been vindicated so far as I on mursday, the 29th cf this month, to pretensions, and the blistering scorn | .. . J testify our gratitude to God, and with Boiton Poit'a Wuhington Correspondence ] Washington, Nov. 9.—The fight over the repeal of the specie resumption act has brought to the fore a man new to Congress, bnt abundantly well known at the West, to-wit: Gen, Tom Ewing, of Ohio. General Ewing is acknowl edged to be the champion and ablest exponent of the views of the soft-money Democrats of Ohio and the West. He was sent to Congress to bring the greenback broil to a head, and he has succeeded admirably. Natu- ally he is elated at the success which has crowned bis endeavors; but he is too able a man to belittle himself or his cause by anything which should sound like “crow ing.” However much men may differ from Mr. Ewing’s financial views, no man may justly call him either a blather skite or a fool. He is not an expezienced parliamentarian, and he does not claim to be. Bat he is a close student, a hard if not a sound thinker and a born leader. I have been somewhat surprised, I con fes3, to learn by personal acquaintance that General Ewing is a very modest, a very quiet and a very logical mau and not at all the noisy demagogue it has been the habit of the East to consider him. The other evening I had the pleasure of a long, quiet and wholly in formal talk with him. That conversa tion convinced me that Mr. Ewing is not as an inflationist as an anti-construction ist, and is not a repudiationist atalL “I think it will be quite possible,” he said, “to resume in twelve or fifteen years, but I do not think it is possibly to set a day. I feel absolutely sure that it will be utter ly impossible to resume in 1870, and any attempt to do so will create wide-spread disaster.” Of course it will be impossible in the limited space of a letter to do anything like justice to Mr. Ewing’s statement of his position, but a few quotations will give readers, who are always ready to hear both sides of every question, a little in sight into the financial creed of the great soft money leader of the West. “General,” said I, “are you opposed to resumption?” “No,” replied he; “but,” and he smiled pleasantly, “I would not stop one mill iu •he United States, I would not throw one laboring man out of employment to ac complish resumption.” Then he added, seriously, “I mean to say that the pros perity of the business interests of the country is of vastly more importance just now than the resumption of specie pay ments at a certain fixed day in the near future.” “You think it impossible to resume 1S79 without causinga business disaster?” “I think itimpossihle to resume in 1879 at all. I believe a large share of the business disasters which have already happened have been caused by the efibrts to resume in 1879, and I believe that what ba3 happened is but a drop in the The Mexican Dollar. Thanksgiving Saa Antonio Expren, Nor J. Bloomington (Iu • *• For two or three weeks past the sur- Illinois is pnse of all has been as to how such to the credit nf „ t,a . ed > *e ija _ great quantities of Mexican dollars came recognition of 8 th 1Dg the upon tbe market and into the hands of Thatiksnivinw Tl ?P B »1 the people. True, the Mexican dollar Gubernftori.-ti proc! a ./ reaide ^l has not been a novelty in San Antonio, ble have in thermit * tlon3 i * purposes have been in the new Mexi-1 the tmkovoi'l.’i 8 "?”'!® l *>eei;o. v 1 -, j. . . new Mexi- the turkevsa„d cra S lhe ^ can dollar, and thus many thousands constituted the tru^T 7 were soon in circulation. It is safe to and the really serin,,J iI ? ter “fatJj say that on the firetday of this month day. But Gov r,![i buait; ee there was a greater amount of this class | mation just issued ^’ p*J distributed among the laboring | the horns—or rather hold*, ^ people than during any previous whole key by the feet—anHTS n ? ttu'l montn within the history of the city, just what they arerenl!^ 3 J and the coin all seems to bear the date Says Gov CuHom ■ " ex P e «etf of the present year. “I therefore caUunon ,l . . In the past this money circulated for Illinois to assemble in „ • its face value iu ihis city, although at religious worship anH . all other ooirit.' 1 . not onlv in Tfixaa. hut. I a * . u a ronr,ri I . —, forgetting its reli&iou^ nh Ies * stated large sums wvre paid out on the above all a dav for • ° serv; firct nf f ha m tint h of no *» hut _ I e ,. ’ « . . first of the month at par, but yesterday, of scattered kindred i reas; - : the second, it was refused by the banks closer knitting of tC f det t at that rate, and those who had receiv- which are the pFdvenr.,! 0Iat ^ ed the money the day previous at its tional union and pro^lv^ face value found themselves yesterday This is not quite so nhi , minus five cents on every dollar of it ed as it might be. but they had. Our reporter, in order to be pardoned to the habit ascertain how this came about, and, plomatic language in again, how such great quantities of this and on the whole it dof t!^ money reached this city and soon be- must he a dull reader came circulated, visited Colonel J. T. that the Governor means h L e „ A a LS^“ ade together and eat tur» inquiries to obtain the desired informa- berrv sauce, and have a 2 lion. Col. Thornton stated that the eralfy, and go home with % ^ Mexican dollar had found this market the evening-and that tha J* as naturally as water would find its day is fo?-although thevt!^ tavel. When it was known that it dentally, go to church if would be received in San Antonio at it. - ■«! J the same rate as the national coins and Well done. Governor , c currency, whv all that could be forced Y„ u will be abTe to eiu e-, ^' upon the market was introduced into still more clearly another tim P h°?* it and hence it suddenly became very J haven’t done badly this VP ‘r u ' abundant. It is said that parties here secured large amounts at a good dis-1 Automaton Talkers. count, and at once put it in circulation at par, thus realizing handsomely from the speculation. e speculation i l A V* lkin 2 machine is said to - *, Col. Thornton says that the banks wasYortri^AmericL 18 ! 1 ^, 130 '’ “fit- ** C7)d“IS en it is most Bee you. I thank you for ;m to get nd i t ha3 been humorously su™ Jl don' densome to handle, and then difficult, being a foreign coin of. Europe doesn’t want any of Ft, and | it cannot be used as the coin of tl" I ^ C ° U >>* country in exchange—thus it must be passengers Thi* RPrv-° nS * ^ depreciated in its present form, or EXt, i s ™ » noy t , boiieht UD. and convert^ inta ArA J! ™, d by ^men, and often j! can coin to augment the value. way that makes 'he names aW intelligible. The machine is ^ bucket to wliat will happen if the pres ent policy is pursued to its full fmition.” with which he analyzes his motives. | _ bee “ 0 f ered & te f I our households bow before the Majesty But it is not the vigor of his rhetoric tbe “> and tbat be could not consistent- I „f Heaven, thanking him for past which most deserves attention. That T 7 - Y, hlS eonce P tlcm s of his duty, cies and invoking his care and blessing which will f-xcito the^pro^q^^.r^J WlthdraW thoso det ? r - mined on. ifhe | upon the future of Georgia and our “Tell me why,General, you think it iin possible to resume in 1879? ‘Because,” he said, “we cannot possibly accumulate anything like gold enough between now and then.” “How much gold ought the Govern ment have to be able to resume ?” “Eleven or twelve hundred millions the least.” “How do you make that out ?” “Very simply. Experience has shown it to be an axiom in finance that, in order to sustain specie payments, it it necessary to have on hand a very much larger amount of coin than the entire volume of paper currency whisb is kept afloat, mer- Take England, for instance. She keeps constantly on hand about S700,000,000 he contests every position which his an- the recognized leaders of the party, in- cludingsuch men as Hamlin, Edmunds triven unaer my nana ana me tagon 1st assumes, and then annihilates , ,2 „ ,. ... . . , „ and others equallv orthodox, were rath him with his own arguments. 1 Homesteads of 1868 and 1877. To Editor the of The Courier: Dear Sir—As many look to your valuable paper for correct teaching in morals and politics so that if error per vades your territory you may give the alarm faithfully, regardless of conse quences. If the above is true, as I sup pose you will cheerfully admit, then I respectfully call your attention to the homesteads of 1868 and 1877, present ed to the voters of Georgia by the late convention, requiring, or permitting them to choose o-.e or the other. In consideration, I desire to present some important questions. Are they or are they not great evils, taken together or separately, with all their surroundings and bearings ? If so, then is it right to vote for eithe r ? If not, then will it be right to vote no homestead ? Thereby setting the seal of condemnation on the whole abomination. Are the liberties granted and guaranteed to those who march under the homestead banner, and enjoy its benefits by complying with its requisitions, in accordance with the teachings of tbe Bible and the prin ciples of morality ? What are the lib erties granted and guaranteed ? That any man who is lazy, profligate, and careless relative to bis interest, and cre ates an indebtedness to his honest and pruden: fellow-citizens of $1,600, may violate all hi3 promises, discard all his honest obligations, crack his whip of dishonesty and march under this ban ner of infamy, and be safe; causing in many cases sufferings among his honest creditors; some of whom owned less property than he did, and bidding de fiance to all those who often had min istered to his necessities. Let us hear the Saviour's teaching: Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them : for this is the law and the prophets.” Can those under this banner be of honest report ? Can they live a Jife of gpdlipess and hon esty? Will their fellow-citigsns esteem them as honest i^en ? Do such walk uprightly, work righteousness and speak the truth in their hearts. It has always been right for men to comply with their promises, fulfill their con tracts, and pay their honest deb.s, it is to-day, and will always be so, and many think our law-u?akers ought to maintain these great principles if ths stars fall and the mountains turn over. The homestead has greatly lessened the confidence that ought to exist among men, and engendered strife and hatred; and much disgrace has been brought upon multitudes that will nearer he re moved during life. Can dollars and cents balance such infamy ? "It has also lessened to an alarming extept the influence of religion, and infidelity has er cavalierly received, entertained and dismissed; and as though he thought he might have been misunderstood, or had not made known bis determination with sufficient emphasis, he immediate ly sent to the Senate the name of one Mr. Lawrence, a Democrat and ex- Confederate, who don’t believe in ‘err- seal of the Executive Depart ment, at the capital in Atlanta, this 13th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thous and eight hundred and seventy sever. ALFRED H. COLQTITT, Governor, By the Governor. J. W. Warren, Secretary Executive Department. The Cuban Insurgents. ing brothers,” as Collector of the pat of J New York Herald-] N’ew Orleans. Senators generally ob General Campos, whose courage, abil- serve a dignified silence; but everyone 'tyand energyasasoldierwill.it is con- interested feels that the very atnos- I ddently believed at Madrid.be the means phere is permeated with a subtle seme-1 br 'j]Sj n g the long struggle in Cuba to , . .. . an end, is not meeting with unchecked thing, that leads every one mstin.ctuely L uccess in his cam g aign again£t t^ •o put themselves in an attitude ot de- patriots. During the past two months tense, though no enemy is visible >r he has succeeded in gaining several im- to seek the most convenient shdtr I ?-°^ an * advan tag e s, which must have from a storm that seems imminet, d ‘f earte!led the revolutionary leaders, ,, „ , , ,, but now have tbe news of a slight though to the ordinary observer tie victory which will go far to comfort heavens were never more serene. Its them under their recent reverses'ahd safe to predict that neither Mr. La*- destroy the idea of the invincibility of fence nor Mr. Reed, the Toledo pos-1 t f’ u Spanish commander. List month master, who is alleged to have securl I su r P ris ed a party of Span- , . . . f, , , .1 larda in the Eastern Department, when his appointment throngh a bargat several of the enemy were killed and with Stanley Matthews, and through! wounded. The news comes entirely most flagrant violation of tbe prt tbrou ghSpanishsources,anditisofoouse gramme which it was announced woulJ IUJ P os sjble to get at the real facts or to guide the President in his reform of tha Spai ? ish ... .... ... . ... , ‘°ss. l hat it was far more serious than pointments to the civil service, will bethe Havana authorities report is ah^o- unanimously confirmed. There is nojutely certain. But the news is signi- inistaking Mr. Conkling’s purpose toP cant ‘ n another respect. It shows antagonize the Administration. jj e j 6 lba44be Spanish declarations so freely Mr. Sherman to inform bis committee nonsense, and that the patriots are still as to the nature of the charges agaimtptrong enough to contest tha advance of the New York custom-house office*' 1 * 1 . 6 Spanish troops. General Campos now under sentence of dismissal, an<i' v ^{ gnd 14 illore difficult than he sus- to have added that it has satisfactorfc ' to reduce the island to subjee evidence that they have efficiently and! faithfully performed their duties. It is\ New York, Nov. 17.—Vessels grrivr the understanding that of the nomina-r° bere form Europe report terrfic afloat T Hoiv much gold has the Government now at its command ?” “About $100,000,000 all told, but not over $30,000,000 available for purposes of resumption.” “General, yon know that gold is only about 103. People generally have on idea that it it goes much lower, say ta 101 or thereabouts, resumption will be almost accomplished. AVliat have vou to say to that?” “That arises from the very common of confounding resumption with equalization, which is a vast differ ence. I will supoose that gold is selling for 100, and still assert that we cannot re- sume. The gold quotation in the New l ork market represents mainly the de mand for gold. It shows simply that, at the time, nearly all the gold that is need ed is obtainable, and ha3 nothing what ever to do with our ability to resume. Facts Abou f the Electoral Conn- the human lungs, krynx. giotl'"'. se! Fees. [tongue. It is operated ’bvYixIV and is supplied with a keyboard? , pedals. If the sound can be prods' 1 he publications which were recent- there would be no difficulty ip an-bi lv made in reference to the large hotel ing the apparatus to run automaticS! bid paid by the National Republican like a music box. Imagine a Committee for Mr. Stanley Matthews rious voice in each end of a train? called out the statement from his friends ing at intervals, “The next stop that the personal expenses of all the Germantown!” In connection counstl before the Electoral Commis- this subject it may be mentioned? sion had been paid by the respective Psyche, the famous automaton cl? national committees of the two parties, player of London, continues to be Inquiry has developed that so far as great success, after about tiro jean counsel on the Democratic side were constant exhibition. No one has V- coneerned, there is scarcely a modicum been able to discover the mode 1 of truth in this statement Mr. Mat- which it is operated thew H. Carpenter, who was taken out 1 of the enemy s camp a3 it were, re- The Memphis Avalanche tells i ceived a fee ot $1,0C0 for his argument touching incident in relation to li in the Louisiana case. Messrs. O’Con- funeral of General Forrest - or, Merrick, Blair,-Trumbull, and all Before the cortege had yet form*’ the other Democratic counsel were vol- groups of ladies, one after aoctk unteers. and not one of them received a slipped softly into the room ^ . . . slipped softly into the room where th cent for his services in any shape or dead. General lay, in the residence i form. It is of interest to see how the the last survivor of the Forrest broths counsel on the other side fared. As Col. Jesse Forrest. Each lady stopped has already been shown, their hotel to gaze for a last time on the faceofti bills, which included all the luxuries of I dead, and, depositing her tribute tne season, were paid._ Mr. Evarts is I snowy flowers, passed°ont. in coin; but the volume of her paper Secretary of State, Mr. Stoughton is I Oni; little bunch of flowers not hat- the same bassis we sfibafinPa^muQfi n ° r rpade cp of ■ more than SI,200,000 of coin on hand, rect assistance of the President and^Ir th^r?’ ^ f Jl j Ue histor 3 r to telL h for we have nearly S • 00,000,000 of paper Shellabarger has been retained in all er J * - of Tuesda y wa « passing WW * b6 profitable Government c^es before "T 131 " 0 ' 1 , near Courtland, Ala. a the courts of this Dtatrie^ Mr m!! ? ’ s “ rcel y‘birteen years of age,arc Crary, who appeared^ one'of ^ Re! I ‘° th ? platform > holdingink; publican objectors, is Secretary of War them to nearly every one of the Republican 1 8 ed W electors for those States has been pro vided for with a Federal office. She was a fair maiden from the Sns- ny South, and, he thought the sweetest Alter the-STindo I ever sent to cbeer the desolate lift 1 tiie^SRade. of a rover en the western wilds and as lighffXrituatad ton U ^ t ^ P ° Ured hi. Soof “nd from the depot large ban hnraL Wa ^ I ln ;V"’°‘ c e thrilling with emotion, said, carriages can ’ be had r’n roT ^ L Seraphina - if ™u couid have your ternL^lenty of milk^e^ y0a ^ “Waal ves 'here’s tr > She bowed her head in silence for a c - j — postmaster a’n’ keeps the We? T^A 8 m . oment > and ‘ben her cberrv lips nar:- Suppose geld rate3 at 100, and we at- goods store’ Siih )i. St J nd , 7 ed ^?. d 831,1 ‘ tempt to resume on a certain day. What smith, an’Thomas Benton Wood^lfe I hn> f tbar ,' S one tbin S that’d be will be the result? The national banks, farms it up to the corners Be vnn’!l” n !j ler n / n0tber ’ ?ud be to be onto ' lated to the tVoods™ 7 ^ I ‘ hls durned mountain country and back -- butwhT CU7 ’’ 531(1 citizen, simmmS if 1 get EOtEe . but what we come to the country for is rorest.” ■ tions before his committee, those not alleged to be inconsistent with Mr. Haye’s civil service reform rules, are given out from time to tiJne, or other wise obnoxious to the majority, will be reported favorably; the others will be allowed to sleep in the committee room and lapse with the session, when they become void. Mr. Hilliard’s nomina tion, before Mr. Hamlin’s committee, is another of those destined to this fate, it is thought But if reported it will be with ths reoomiqentjatiqn that it j>e not confirmed. The Senate yesterday passed the army bill, with the proviso for sending four regiments of cavalry to Texas stricken out, and the numerical strength restored to 25,000. It is the prevalent impression that the House will recede, especially as the Democratic lawyers of the Senate ape said to have been of the opinion that the clause relative to the cavalry was clearly unconstitutional, infringing, as it did, on the President’s perogatives as Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy. The naval defi ciency bill was also passed. The House Foreign Relations Committee yesterday agreed to report Hewitt’s Paris Exposi tion joint resolution favorably, with ampndtoenUi. ft accepts the invita- sather on the Atlantic. The ship In- pid, from Queenstown 28 day, reports it in latitude 49 50, longitude 15 30, had a terrific galp fro® tfcp pquth- (st to northwest November 5th, in Stude 46.30, longitude 48 50, she had eavy gale, during which her top sail • foretop sail blew adrift, and whilst ing them fast a eeamqn fell nver- d and was lo6t Novemlier 14th, fy miles south southeast from Nan- tket she passed a wreck. who must prepare not alone to redeem their circulation in gold, but must also be ready to protect their deposit rs, will at once send greenbacks to the Treasnry to buy gold. The 3,000 national banks in the country hold at least $150,000,000 of deposits. You can easily ste what an enormous quantity of gold the Secretary of the Treasury would be called oh to supply them. IIo could not begin to meet the demand. Then thespeculatinns in New York couldeasilyinvest$50,000,- 000 in greenbacks and send it to the Treasury for the purpose of making a corner in gold. They would have tbe Secretary at their mercy and gold would shoot up to a higher figure than it did during the war. They would get rich and thousands of legitimate business men would be ruined.” These samples are sufficient to indicate the line of logic which Ewing pursues. He is not at ail a ''loud"’ man, but on the contrary as mild-mannered as a lady. In stature he is a trifle over six feet and well proportioned. His complexion is oaiqfolly paljid. It is almost bloodless. His hair, heard and moustache are of a very light brown color, and his manner of speech is very moderate, and a trifle over cautious, if anytbiug. Both in personal appearance and in manners, Ewing is a striking contrast to Ben Butler, who seems to have entered into an alliance with him. Jondon, Nov. 16.—A Reuter tele- i from Ragusa says the Montene- i have taken by assault qll {he fie- And the guileless granger concluded T o. f Iowir, 2 ls re P orted r -* a veritable he must be a simple sort of chap, and I- 0 * 1117 - mentally added five dollars a week to the price of board. The Texas Land Warrant Forgeries. Larned, of Massachusetts:—“See here, Dawes, just tell me what all thi- tox- toolery means. You must know, be cause I hear you are the leader of the administration party in the Senate.'’ Dawes—“Do you ? Well. I don’t knoir I Understand exactly what jcu mean.” Larned—“Why, I mean I want Frank .I. Bowman, Esq., attorney for young Steveng, one of the accused, re-1 t T --a. turned yesterday from Austin Texas 1 1 , Vf. whe!t ‘“ r I am a Republican or whither he had been in tbe interest of f°' ” 6 turn) people up where I come his client. He reports that Ham Mil-! I™ 18 d<w 1 J ust where we are. ler and Stevens, of Kansas Oily ’were ! ' f b 1 t ’ pa,t -' fli S "lipped from under all indicted, and it was fcsneeuj t>u.i I a^’" r h '' , sll !'pecl of!'from the party, others would he indicted for complied, v I Sa ? -n,,w ' !>.iw,.«, honestly, has the Re in tile land warrant forgeries. Iu the ,«!> C3n p!,r U’ f? on « to the devil or case of Stevens, who, it is b.lieved, had DOt ^ sche D me a the Attorniv a ^ 'A dHr ' g Dl(l 7 >« ^er fe-Tthat thrilling, al- K&Ssi?* •■=* The Doxology. Bishop Ken, horn in 1GQ7, and who died jn 1711, wag the well-known writer PS a * a ? ' t r, -a* a j., t( CiAitUJ y li nfllcr th v princ!pal of 1116 familiar doxology, “Praise God tfl which holds opt, though damaged from whom all blessings flow.” The ' p m i ent \i * poet Montgomery has very properly Iimes. Belgrade correspondent I remarked of thjs perfect composition, skirmishes are occurring qon- inily between Servian frontier guards ante Bashi Bazouks. The Turks aricting entrenchments at Bagova onfc Tirnah, tinople. Nqv. |6.—fhe ve been repulsed near Kars af- nged fighting. There has been snow in Asia. A council of :er the presidency of the Sql- tan,|deeided to largely reinforce Mehft All. Rumors of peace nego- tiati<3ire denied. There are at present 115 Chinese been increased in proportion. The ^ tion of France, and empowers the Bres* students in this country. I homestead law, with all its surround- 1 dent to appoint a Commissioner-Gen-1 shall •er morning a lady received a " taj; her rather wa^ dead, aid she, “John can’t help some new clothes.” ihe giack for fegr you ‘m the current. ’ i that it h&3 probably been more used than any other except the Lord’s Pray er; that it is a master-piece at once of amplification and compression. Of amplification on the burden “Pratao God,” repeated in each line; compres sion, exhibiting God as the object of praise in every view in which we can imagine praise doe to Him fog nil His blessings—yea, fog al} blessing?, nope coming from any otliej gouroe; praise by every creature, especially invoked here below and in heaven above; praise to him in each of the characters where in He has revealed Himself in His Word, “Father, §qn tffid Hqjy Qhos{,” Yet this cqm Prehensile 51404a "is suf ficiently simple that by it the ignorant anfi wise, the young and tbe mature, mqy “perfect prajse,” 1 •dt.-.qr 1 <»,■■■ — Eve inaugurated the fall fashions. ^ erC ‘ 8 m furii ;b fable: Abdulla went 1, There is nothing that destroys the to tha residence of Nasereddin to borrow {imauty of feminine grace so much as .^ 3 S" eddl n, whowas a seady [f aw 'ag wood on a tiiree-ieeged saw- lender, said that the mule was not at | buck. Our married men should re- nome. At that moment the moment the I member this and see that their wives’ ma.e brayed loud enough to wake the saw-buoka have soar legs echoes. What dia you say, Nasereddin, — - . that your mule was not at hamo—*hi)t J , He that will put time and eternity near him. 77 ihw « t*» n. n — 1 * * - - * hear him.” “Q q thy way false Abdulla,” I before him, and *who will dare to look tltir. 1 VP»1 nro nnt n I StP.Gf?Tor nn Kn«L -J at Ml said bis netghuor, '‘you are not a true steadfastly on both of them, will find triend, for you believe the mule and re- th at the more often he contemplates fuse to take my word. | them, tbe former will grow greater and the latter less. God respecteth not the arithmetic of our prayers, how many they are; nor thft rhftfhnV n p nnw L i _ . , , _ j , ***** i Saying sham things doesn’t pay- R the rhetoric of our prayers,, how long ® a - v gratify your spite at first, but it is they are; nor the mnsic of our nravers I “tier to have friends than ( how melodions they are; nor the^ogm I f nd Hyou cannot make people happy,at of our prayers, how methodical they I east rafrain from adding to their mis- are—but the divinity of our prayere I ery- v j todd. ‘Standard,datedPajidiD,Tuesday,sars* It will soon be time for another hand 2- uST* 08 . J' e * t8rda y summoned Os- of eleven or fifteen Indians So takeTthe I ? to surrender, and Osman war-path find phase five or six regi- 1 re a - ’ monte nf tTm'tnrl ^ tes aud I A demijohn manufocturiprcompany down the buffalo country until the In- In Philadelphia has foiLdf xfce >n- dlans dl6 off or at® ooinewd in some creasing popularity of tha pocket-flask gorge and Stowed to death. | did the bQU* P -Sl g “ aa11 ? drinks the BiW* one deed of guilt how Met is est part of its own poison. 1 guiltless woe,