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THOS. IV. TEASLY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HARTWELL, GA.
Will practice in Superior Courts of Hart, El
bert, Oglethorpe and Madison. Prompt atten
tion to collection of claims. ly-
It. 11. JONES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BLBSRTGN, GA.
Special attention to the collection of claims, [ly
“ jT n. WORLEYr
ATTORNEY AT L AW,
ELBERTOS, GA.
WILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF
the Northern Circuit and Franklin county
jn*ay“Special attention given to collections.
J. S. BARNETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELBSRTGH, GA.
JOHN T. OSBORN,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
ELBEKTON, GA.
WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS
and .Supreme Court. Prompt attention
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A. E- HUNTER, M. D.
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN
Office over the Drug Store,
ELBEKTON, GEORGIA.
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Carriage ufact’r
ELBERTON, GEORGIA.
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CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO
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OF 27 YEARS,
He hopes by honest anti fair dealing to compete
any other manufactory.
Good Baggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O
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friends and patrons, whose good
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TIIOS. M. SWIFT & CO.,
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ELBERTON, BA.
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THE GAZETTE.
ISTew Series.
THE LOST KEY.
“My dear Phillip, have you seen my porte
monnaie 7”
Mr. Walter’s brow contracted slightly at the
words, and he drew away the hand which had
been caressing his wife’s pretty hair.
“Is that porte-monnaie lost again 7”
“Now Phillip,” said the little woman, with a
word of pretty penitence in the lengthened
monosyllable, “don’t scold ! Upon my word,
it’s the first time I've mislaid it this whole morn-
ing.”
“It’s too provoking, Jane.” said the husband,
pushing back the books on the table before him
with a movement denoting intense irritation.
“Will you never break yourse.f of this careless
habit, my love ?”
Jane was silent, looking down like a naughty
child who had been chidden.
“You don’t know what an annoyance these
heedless habits are to a methodical man like
myself, dear,” he added, in a gentler tone, as the
coral lip began to tremble and the eye to suffuse.
“Do try to be more thoughtful, for my sake *
Here is your lost treasure,” he added, quietly
drawing a tiny case of pearl and gold from his
pocket. “I found it lying on the stairs, and
thcnghtitja most excellent opportunity for giving
my careless little wife a lesson.”
Jane clapped her hands at the sight of the re
stored treasure, and danced out of the room in
girlish glee.
“A perfect child,” murmured the husband,
looking after her with a smile and a sigh blend
ing unconsciously into one another. “Well, if
T don’t make haste I shall be too late for that
engagement in the city. Let me see—the notes
are in my iron safe, I believe. Nothing like
locking up things aud keeping the keys yourself.
If Jane only followed my example—”
Mr. Walter paused abruptly, seeking in his
various pockets, with nervous haste, for some
thing which seemed not to be forthcoming.
“Very strange,” muttered he, biting his hp.
“I always put it in that waistcoat pocket. Pos
sibly I may have laid it on the table amongst
those papers.”
The aforesaid paper rustled hither and thither,
like animated snow flakes, as Mr. Walter hurri
edly sought amongst their confused masses, but
it was all in vain.
“I can’t have lost it 1” he exclaimed, in dire
perplexity. “And every one of those notes are
locked up in the safe, with no earthly chance of
ever getting at them 1 But lam certain the key
can’t be lost I I never lose anything I It won’t
do to wait many minutes; I’ll Just put on a
clean shirt and run down town. Hang the
key 1”
Air. Walter hastened up to his dressing room
to complete the details of his toilet, ere he left
the house ; but his trials were not yet destined
to terminate. He was a methodical man, there
fore bis wardrobe was carefully locked ; he al
ways kept things in one place, therefore the
keys were snugly reposing in one corner of the
inaccessible iron safe.
He rushed frantically back to the library, hop
ing faintly that the key might be on the mantle
piece, where he had not yet searched. No, it
was not there; but a treacherous ink-stand was,
the contents whereof, by one unlucky sweep of
the elbow, descend in an ebon cataiact over lvis
shirt-front—the shirt-front upon which alone he
had depended !
“Well, here is a catastrophe !” he murmured,
gloomily stanching the ink flow with his pocket
handkerchief. “However, I can button my coat
for the present. Let me see—there is that
money I promised to pay Smithson to-day, and
novr—”
lie stopped short); a cold dew of dismay break
ing on his forehead—the money-drawer was a
fixture of the wretched iron safe!
Penniless and shirtless, what more desperate
state of affairs could his worst enemy desire for
him ? There was a lower deep yet, however—
would he not be characterless, likewise, if his
wife should, by an3 r inopportune chance, discov
er that he, the model of rule and order, had lost
his key ! So thought Mr. Walter, as he went off
to a day of perplexities and mortifications in the
ciiy.
“If ever I tease Jane again about losing
things,” he muttered inwardly, as he entered
the room on returning home, “I hope to be
drowned with a hundred-weight of keys about
mj - neck ! It's certainly a judgment upon me!”
He unbuttoned his coat as he spoke, forgetful
of the ink-stains of the morning. Jane uttered
a faint scream, and shrank back, exclaiming,
“My dear Philip, what is the matter with your
shirt?”
“The matter! Oh!” said he, coloring and
laughing. “I remetnbei now—l spilt a little ink
over it this morning. Ii don’t signif3’ much.”
“Do let me get you out another, m3’ dear !”
“No, no,” said he, eagerly detaining her; “it
isn't at all worth while. Do sit down, my love,
and be easy.”
But Jane started away to carry her baby up
to the nursery. Just as she reached the door,
something jingled softly in the pocket of her
little silk apron—she stopped in the passage.
“Oh ! the way, Philip, here is tke key to
3'our iron safe. I found it on the dining-room
table this afternoon ; and,” she added, with an
arch sparkle in her roguish eyes, “I thought it
would be an excellent opportunity for giving my
husband a lesson ?”
She laid the ke3’ in his hand, and ran out of \
the room as he recoiled involuntary from the |
som.d of his own pedantic words. As he con
templated the gleaming words cf the little steel
mischief maker in mingled delight and mortifi
cation, the echo of Jane’s merry laughter on the
stairs reached his ear like a chime of silver bells.
He laughed too—he couldn’t help it!
Mrs. Jane Walter was a discreet little female.
She never alluded to the subject of the keys
again, and her husband was never after known
to reproach her for carelessness.
A LARGE HEARTED^VIEW OF THE IN
DIAN.
take the same view of the North
American Indian that most people do,” said
Professor Bangs, in a discussion down at the
grocery store in a suburban, town the other
night. “Now some think that the red man dis
pla3 T s a want of good taste in declining to wash
himself, but I don’t. What is dirt ? It is simp
ly—matter—the same kind of matter that exists
everywhere. The earth is made of dirt; the
things we eat are dirt, and the3 r grow in the
dirt; and when we die and are buried we return
again to the dirt from which we are made.
Science says that all dirt is clean. The savage
Indian knows this; his original mind grasps
this idea ; he had his eagle eye on science, and
he had no soap. Dirt is warm. A layer one
sixteenth of an inch thick on a man is said by
Professor Huxley to be as comfortable as a fifty
dollar suit of clothes. Why, then, should the
child of the forest undress himself once a week
ESTABLISHED 1860.
EGBERTOY, GA., JAN’Y 17,1877.
by scraping this off, and expose himself to the
rude blasts of the winter ? He has too much
sense. His head is too level to let him take a
square wash more than once in every two hun
dred years, and even then he don’t rub hard.
“And then in regard to his practice of eating
dogs ; why shouldn't a man eat a dog ? A dog
sometimes eats a man, and turn about is fair
play. A well-digested dog stowed away on the
inside of a Choctaw squaw does more to advance
civilization ana the Christian religion than a
dog that barks all night in a back yard, and
makes people get up out of bed aud swear, don't
it? And nothing is more nutritious than dog.
Professor Huxley says that one pound of a dog’s
hind leg nourishes the vital forces more than a
wagon load of bread and corned beef. It con**
tains naore phosphorus and carbon When dogs
are alive they agree with men, and there is no
reason why they shouldn’t when they are deadl
This nation will enter upon a glorious destiny’
when it stops raising corn and potatoes, and
devotes itself more to growing crops of puppies.
“Now many ignorant people consider scalping
inhuman. I don’t. I look upon it as one of the
most beneficent processes ever introduced for
the amelioration of the sufferings of the humatr*
race. What is hair? It is an execiesence. If
it grows it costs a man a great deal of money
and trouble to keep it cut. If it falls out the
man becomes bald and the flies bother him.
What does the Indian do in this emergency ?
With characteristic sagacity he lifts out the
whole scalp and ends the annoyance and expense.
And then look at the saving from other sources. j
Professor Huxley estimates that two thousand
pounds of the food that a man eats in a year’
goes to nourish his hair. Remove that hair and
you save that much food. It I had my way I
would have every baby scalped when it isjvaccin
ated, as a measure of political economy. That .
would be statesmanship. I have a notion to
organize a political party on the basis of baby
scalping, aud go on the stump to advocate it. if
people had any sense I might run into the Pres
dency as a baby-scalper.
“And as for the matter of the Indians wearing '
rings through their noses I don’t see why people*,
complain of that. Look at the advantage it
gives a man when he wants to hold on to any
thing. If a hurricane strikes an Indian, all he.
does is to hook his nose to a tree, and there he
is, fast and sound. And it gives him something
to rest his pipe on when he smokes, while, in
the case of a man with a pug, the ring helps to
jam his proboscis down, and to make ita Roman
nose. But I look at him from a sanitary point
of view. The Indian suffers from catarrh. Now
what will cure that disease? Metal in the nose
in which electricity can be collected. Professor
Huxley says that the electricity in a metal ring
two inches in diameter will cure more catarrh;
than all the medicine between here and Kansas.!
The child of nature, with wonderful instinct,;
has perceived this, and he teaches us a lrssou.
When we, with our higher civilization, begin
to throw away finger rings and ear rings to
wear rings iu ou nose we will be a hardier
race. lam going to direct the attention of Con
gress to the matter.
“Then, take the objections that are urged to
the Indians practice of driving a stake through
a man and building a bonfire on bis stomach.
What is their idea ? They want to hold that
man down. If they sit on him they will obstruct
the view of him. They put a stake through
him, and there he is secured b>’ simple means,
and if it i3 driven carefully it ma3’ do him good.
Professor Huxley sa3 r s that he once knew one
man who was cured of yellow jaundice by fall
ing on a pale-fence and having a sharp-pointed
paling run into him. And the bonfire may be
equally healthy. When a man’s stomach is out
of order you put a mustard plaster on it. Why?
To wHrm it. The red man has the same idea.
He takes a few faggots, lights them and applies
them to the abdomen. It is a certain cure.
Prufessor Huxley—”
“Oh, dry up about Professor Huxley!” ex
claimed Meigs, the storekeeper,at this juncture.
[Puildelphia Bulletin.
LOUISIANA.
A New Orleans special to the Herald,
dated January 4tb, says the republicans
are enrolling militia daily, and General
Longstreet, who arrived yesterday, will
be in command. An executive order
has been issued on the state treasury to
pay no more money ont of the intei’est,
school and general funds, the present
funds being held subject to order for de
fedeive purposes. No forcible opposi
tion will be made to prevent Nicholls’
inauguration, bnt all the State offices
are strongly guarded by the police, and
will be defended from any attempt to
take possession.
The senate committee heard the testi
mony of Lieut Geo. Arch, of the 3d in
fantry, in relation to the election in East
Baton Rouge, whose general testimony
was to the effect that it was not fair and
favorable He saw no disturbances on
the day of the election. On that day
Deputy United States Marshal McAl
pine complained that he bad been exclu
ded from the polls by the Baton Rouge
police. On investigation it was found
that McAlpine had not informed them of
his official position until after he had
been excluded.
Both republican bouses have passed a
bill reorganizing the militia, and appro
priating $200,000 for the purpose aud
making military organizations outside
of the militia illegal. The bill is now be
fore Packard.
Courier-Journal: ‘When a New Al
bany girl hangs up her stocking en
Christmas eve, she forgets that old Kris
Kringle doesen’t carry more than you
could haul in a two horse wagon. Why,
if he was to see a New Albany girl’s
stocking, after she had worn it once or
twice, hanging to a mantel-piece, he
would crawl up out of the chimney
without all he went clown with, and con
gratulate himself that the girl didn’t
wake up and ask him to stay there two
or three hours filling it up. Besides, if
old Kris was to undertake to fill ’em up,
the poor little ones would stand a slim
chance to get anything; for three good,
healthy New Albany girls’ stockings
would consume his stock, and it won’t
do to give the empty sack to the little
ones. Oh, no.”
An editor offered to make his “devil”
a Christmas present of his printing of
fice ; but the boy declined it, with the
remark that he had rather work for two
dollars a week than to run in debt S9OO
a year.
A HUSBAND'S 00NPESSI0N.
I neTer undertook but once to set at
naugbt the authority of my wife. You
know her way —cool, quiet, but determ
ined as ever grew. Just after we were
married, and all was going on nice and
cozy, she got me into the habit of doing
all the churning. She never asked me
to do it. you know, but then she—why
it was done just in this way. She fin
ished breakfast one morning, slipping
away from the table, she filled the churn
with cream, and set it just where I
couldn’t help seeing what she wanted.
So I took hold regularly enough and
churned until the butter came. She
didn't thank me, but looked so nice and
sweet about it, that I felt well paid.
Well, when the next churning day came
’along, she did the same thing, and 1 fol
lowed suit and fetched the butter. Again,
rfnd it was done just so, and I was regu
larly in for it every time. Not a word was
said, you know, of course. Well, by and
by this became rather irksome. I want
ed she should just ask me, but she nev
er did, and I couldn’t say anything about
it, so on we went. At last I made are
solve that I would not churn another
Itime unless she asked me. Churning
day came, and when my breakfast—she
always got nice breakfasts—when that
was swallowed there stood the churn.
I got up, and standing a few minute-!
‘just to give her a chance, put on my hat
and walked out doors. I stopped in the
yard to give her a chance to call me, but
not a word said she, and so with palpi
.tating heart I moved on. I went down
town, up town, all over town, and mj r
’foot was as rc-stless as Noah’s dove—l
felt as if I had done a wrong—l didn't
exactly know how—but there was an in
describable sensation of guilt resting tip
,on me all the forenoon. It seemed as if
dinner time would never come, and as
for goingHaome one minute before din
ner, I would as soon cut my ears off.
So I went fretting and moping about
until dinner time. Home I went, feel
ing much as a criminal must when a ju
ry is having in their hands his destinj'—
life or death—l could not make up my
mind how she would meet me, but some
sort of a storm I expected. Will you
believe it ? she never greeted me with a
sweeter smile—never had a better din
ner for me than’on that day ; but there
was the churn just where I left it! Not
a word was passed. I felt cut, and eve
ry mouthful of that dinner seemed as if
it would choke me. She did not pay
any regard to it, however, but went on
as if nothing had happened. Before din
ner was over I had again resolved, and
shoving back my ebair I marched up to
the churn and went at it in the old
way. Splash, drip, rattle—L kept it up.
As if in spite, the butter was never so
long in coming. I supposed the cream
standing so long had got warm, so I re
doubled my efforts. Obstinate matter
—the afternoon wore away while I was
churning. I paused at last, from real
exhaustion, when she spoke for the first
time: “Come, Tom, my dear, you have
rattled that buttermilk long enough, if
it’s only for fun you are doing it.” I
knew how it was in a flash. She had
brought the butter in the forenoon, and
left the chum standing with the butter
milk in for me to exercise with. I
never set up for household matters after
this.
RON. JEREMIAH S*BLAOK ON THE PO
LITICAL TROUBLES.
Baltimore Gazette: On being asked
what were his views on the political eit
ation, Judge Black said that he had no
doubt as to the final result; that if the
senators and representatives of the peo
ple were firm in their determination to
resist the contemplated fraud on the part
of the republican conspirators their de
signs could not be accomplished. He
said that it had been reported that Mor
ton had said the democracy had no
spunk. He thought that he would find
himself mistaken. He thought anyway
the democracy had the best of the posi
tion. If the republicans decided not to
go behind the returns then Tilden was
elected, and if they decided otherwise
Tilden was still elected, and if the elec
tion went to the house he would be suc
cesssul. He was satisfied that in the
face of the facts the conspiracy to count
in Hayes could not succeed. He was in
faver of every resistance and confident
that all would come right in the end.
He thought a military despotism was
preferable to a rotten republic control
ed by such men as had for so long mis
governed the country. They seemed to
govern cn the principle of the might of
men instead of the rights of men, and it
was the duty of every patriot to resist
their nefarious desings.
It had been the inten ion of Judge
Black and his companions :o proceed to
Washington at once, but the heavy snow
storm detained them.
It is stated as the opinion of Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens that the action
of the supreme court will throw out the
electoral vote of Florida. He construes
the decision to mean that no legal col
lege met in that State on the day ap
pointed by law, and hence no electoral
vote was legally cast. He does not
tbink that congress can now count the
vote of either the Tilden or Hayes
electors,‘or order anew election.
A memorial to Congress, like the one
sent from New York and Philadelphia,
in regard to the count of the electoral
vote, is receiving the signatures of the
leading men of Boston.
Vol. V-No. 38.
PAY THE PREACHER,
The year is nearly over. For fifty-two
Sundays our people have had opened to
them without charge three neatly fur
nished halls, and twice each day a man
of education, gift and piety has devoted
j himseif to their instruction. They have
devoted all the davs of tho week visit
| ing the sick, the troubled and the poor
las well as seeing after the welfare of
j those better to do. They have said no
word about pay. They have expected
I nothing more than enough to provide
: them with necessary things Your wife
and children, have enjoyed and benefited
by their ministrations. They have done
1 nil they could to protect your property.
Have you paid them ? You have given
you say $lO, sls, $25 for such ser
vice as this, and you have paid five times
as much for the useless luxuries of life,
i The churches you say ought to pay
I them. Well, are not you, even though
not a member, connected with|the church,
does not your wife, your son and
daughter attend these services! You
are a member iu good standing and
have paid your part, you say, but all
these parts don’t pay the preacher :
and if not what does pay him.
Is it possible that you let the poorest
men in thejchurch pay the whole balance?
Can you pay ten, or twenty dollars
more easily than he can pay two or three
hundred ?
Suppose you decided to do without
the Gospel? You certainly don’t want
what you are not willing to pay for, and
for six months your sons have no where
else to go than the grog shops, your
daughters in a Christian land without
Christian privileges—what then? Oh, pay
the preacher! He has earned his pay:
he needs it, and if you don’t God will
collect it out of you some day.
[Lagrange Reporter.
EATING-
Phibbs, an excessively fastidious man,
went into an oyster saloon, and ordered
“half a dozen raw on a plate.” Ho no
ticed just as he had dowred his number
one, that a corpulent duchman stood be
side him sorrowfully surveying a single
oyster on the plate before him. The mo
ment that Phibbs swallowed his first,
the expression beclouded the
Dutchman’s face changed from sorrow
to joy.
“Ah 1 mein Gott, you scliwallow him
wDuiuT Hi i" says Meinneer.
“Of course,” says Phibbs.
“And you can schwallow him whole,
too ?■” pointing to the lone oyster that
lay on his plate.
“Certainly I can,” says Phibbs, and
suiting the action to the word, the oys
ter was on his fork, and m a moment
“schwallowed.”
“Oil, mein Gott, dot is wery wonder
ful, wery wonderful! I never did see.
I have try to schwallow him two or
dhree times—every time I spit him
back.”
Phibbs has been quite unwell ever
since.
Bothering Customs Officers.— M
Vivier, the Frenchman who has made it
the business of his life to worry the cus
tom house inspectors of all European
countries, has returned to France. His
wont formerly was to pack a huge trunk
full of trouser straps, such as are worn
with gaiters, using hydraulic pressure if
it were necessary to cram five bushels
into a three bushel space ; then to lure
the inspector to open it as a suspicious
package, when naturally the contents
were overset, and the whole force of the
custom house was occupied for hours in
putting them back. A powerful Jack-in
the-box was another device of his that
was very successful
Ex-Senator Buckalew, of Pennsylvania,
in a recently published letter, takes the
ground that the electoral college of Lou
isiana was an unlawful body and its votes
void, because the returning board, which,
in fact, appointed it, was itself an unlaw
ful body and plainly exceeded any juris
diction which could be claimed for it un
der the laws of the State. That the
action of the board was also fraudulent
in purpose and in fact, and, therefore,'in
valid, Mr. Buckalew argues, appears
reasonably certain from the evidence.
Said a sweet little miss, of an en
quiring turn of mind, “Ma! do people
have wings ?” “No, my daughter! not
in this world.” “But angels have them f”
“Yes, my dear! angels have them.”
“Then I know aunty has them, for when
the minister called the other day, I
heard him say, when they parted in the
hall, ‘Kiss me, you sweet angel?”
*
Governor Tilden, it is understood, is
about to take up his residence in Wash
ington. This, it is said, is in accordance
with a recommendation to that effect
by Democratic senators and representa
tiVes. The fact that he has made no ar
rangements to resume his law business
at his office in New York city is con
sidered significant.
“What do you know about the prison
er?” asked the Judge of a colored witness
“I don’t know nothin’ ’bout him, Judge,
only lie’s bigoted!” “Bigoted!” asked the
Judge: “whatdo you mean by bigoted !”
“Why, Judge,” explained the witness,
“he knows too much for one niggali,
and not nuff for two !”
-
Never put off till to-morrow what you
can do to-day.
BJSH HILt.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.]’
Benjamin H. Hill* of Atlanta, Georgia*
is a candidate for a seat in the Senate at
the United States. He is a man of fair
abilities,- a lawyer somewhat loosely coed
structed, a politician of cnormotls ambi
tion and plentiful lack of common sense.
He has been elected to the fourty-fourth
Congress to fill a vacancy, and was
elected as a Democrat, though he is a
renegade Republican. During tho late
civil war he was a Confederate—at homo*
Last winter the question of amnesty was
before the House for consideration. Mr*
Blaine* with the splendid tact of a polit
ical master* flung Jeff Davis, Anderson
ville and nil the most hideous of the hor
rors of the late Civil war upon the .Dem
ocratic House of Representatives, in the
desperate attempt to provoke a reply.
Ben Hill, with unequivocal zeal, in order
to enlarge his borders and strengthen
his stakes for tho Senatorship, rushed to
the front. He made hie speech—for the
Senatorship. No single speech, no ona
political act within the year, drove so
many votes away from the Democratic
party as that address—made not for tl e
party, but for Hill. The slimy self-seek
er, feeling the need of “hedging,” jump
ed from his radical Republican position
100 far. There were scores of brave
! men members of that house, men who
I had risked their lives in misguided devo
j tion to what they believed to be the de
i sire of “their people," whose lips did not
open, who writhed under the utterances
of hie trimming Georgian which thoy
would have choked had it been possible.
Jilaine made his point, not through tho
wisdom of an ex-Confederate soldier,
but through the selfish zeal of an ambi
tious, time-serving politician. The Dem
ocratic party was made responsible for
bis utterances, and thousands of men
who had been almost or altogether per
suaded to vote for a change in tho poll -
ical administration of affairs said, no
matter how unjustly, that it was ev’ti- “t
--'•i* vet time to intrust power to the
atic party. If, after this, th
i' , j-ats of Georgia should give Ben
liiii a United States Senatorship as a
reward for the injury ho has inflicted
upon the national Democratic party they
would be putting weapons in the hands
of our enemies, Ben Hill has done
nothing worthy of recompense at the
hands of the Democratic party. If any
party, the Republican party is under ob
ligations to him aud should reward him.
And the Democratic party in no State
can afford in this hour to place a pre
mium upon such a man as Ben Hill,
Even though they may be misunder .
stood and misrepresented, the Demo
cratic. party, with the dawn once more
of its day, should avoid the appearance
of evil. If the legislature of Georgia
would render a service to the national
Democracy it will return someone to
tho United States Senate whose name is
not Bonj. H. Hill.
SETTLING THE PRESIDESTIAL QUES
TION OVF.R OHAMPAONF..;
Thero are still'persons, says the Wash
ington Union, who put faith in the suc
cess of the returning board conspiracy,
and who believe that the president of
the senate may and will resolve himself
into a returning board of one and count
Mr. Hayes into the presidency. That
part of the programme carried out the
rest will be easy of accomplishment, say
the few, though enthusiastic, followers
of Grant, Chandler & Cos. Mr. Hayea,
they say, will arrive here Sunday morn
ing, March 4, und proceed directly to
the white house, whero Grant will ac
cord him a gracious reception. Chief
Justice Waite will be there to adminis
ter the oath, and then Mr. Grant will
turn over the keys to become the guest
of President Hayes, and lunch will be
served and a few bottles of wine will be
broken over the peaceful capture of the
executive offico. Grant will remain at
the white house for several days to bring
up the bayonets aud the artillery in case
they should be required, and Monday
morning President Hayes will send the
names of his cabinet to the senate,
which is to meet iu extra session. It
will hardly be credited that thero are
persons credulous enough to believe in
the presidency being appropriated in
this way, in defiance of law and the will
of the people ; but there are those who
discuss this as not among the probabili
ties, but the certainties. Bnt before the
ebampage lunch is served congress will
have something to say and do with re
gard to the presidency, and thero is re
newed confidence that a sense of justice,
of moderation, and of obedience to law
will guide its action.
Senator Edmunds is quoted as saying,
with regard to the election of a presi
dent by the house, that it is clear to
him the constitution does not warrant
this unless there is not the least shadow
of a doubt of a failure to elect by the
people, us may happen when three candi
dates are in the field.
A gentleman who has just returned
here from a visit to the interior of Mas
sachusetts, where ho met and conversed
only with republicans, says that to his
surprise he found the election of Mr.
Tilden was universally conceded, and
that any attempt to inaugurate Hayes
by fraud or force is deprecated in the
strongest possible terms.
ohangeiThis vote 7
A case once occured in our own his
tory when a Presidential elector chang
ed his vote after being elected, and
voted against his party in electoral col
lege. When James Munroe was runing
for a second term, at the election in
November, 1820, his electors wore chosen
in every State, and in the electoral col
lege in Febuary, 1821, Mr. Plummer, of
New Hampshire, cast his vote for John
Quincy Adams, to the surprise of every
body. It is said that his motive for
this was that he did not wish to have
the vote unanimous for any President
after Washington.
♦ ♦
A brilliant geological student, being
asked the composition of limestone, an
swered, “Lime and stone.”