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1> ^H *^i*S * WARREN.
A^NAW^aEUB*^■ *r . T uku 'ivir.
Congress meets next Tuesday, Istli
lost.
Tlie Tennessee Express, published
at Cartersville, Ga., doesn’t seem t<
know on whh-li side tlie State line it-
editor dwells.
There are only eight survivor* o'
the famoua Palmetto regiment that
went to Mexico." It had 1,100 met
when it left Sooth Carolina. When
It returned it had but 223. The gal
lant Pierce ]1. Butler was its Colonel.
Members of the Georgia Pres# As
sociation should bear in mind that
the next Conrention takes place iu
Cartersville, Bartow county, tliehoim
or Mr*. Felton’s husband, the Hon
Wm. H. and bo more guarded in
their remarks as the time draws nigh.
Stewart's body, which has for s
long time been in possession of Mrs.
Stewart, has recently been placed in
the crypt of the Carden City Memo-
rial Chapel. The body was returned
to Mrs. Stewart a few days after I
was stolen, the thieve* receiving s
Urge sum for It.
The tragic death of Col. R. A.
Alston, in AtlanU Tuesday evening
causes universal sorrow throughout
the State. He was a gentleman, hon
orable, brave, geuerous and useful to
his fellow-men. Private advises re
ceived since the telegraphic report
cause us to entertain a belief that be
was murdered. More extended pai-
tiruUrs will occur In ous next.
We publish to-day Hon. W. U.
Felton’s wife’s abusive letter on Sen
ator Gordon, which has caused such
extended comment, and astonished
Georgians by a wild-lire political out
burst from a Southern woman. We
also present to our readers the manly
reply of General Gordon. It speaks
for itself. We hare iu our life-time
read many scathing rebukes from tin
pens of men whose sentences carried
weight with them, but Gordon's
complete annihilation of thepreachci
politician, who “bore false witness/’
and the dignity and graceful man
hood which characterizes this rebuke,
is worthy of record upon the pages
of the history of this time.
The Forty-fifth Congress, deceased,
left a record that it cannot be proud
of, but which is rather a matter to be
ashamed of and to regret. While the
country was in dire need of sound,
wholesome legislation to relieve the
distress everywhere prevalent, the
Congress spent its time in fillibuster-
ing, delay, procrastination and gen
eral neglect of business. Matters ol
great importance were either passed
by or left unfinished, and other mat
ters, in which the country was but
little concerned at present, were tak
en up for political effect, and the
whole time of the session wasted in
order to make political capital.—
Elsewhere we present a record of the
commissions and omissions of the last
session. It is in itself commentary
enough, and is bnt another of the
fsreial records that are beginning to
cause the American people to think
Coegress a rather useless and
pensive institution.
Free Again.
After fourteen yean of misery,
misfortune and disaster, entailed by
Republican misrule, Alabama Is once
more made a free, self-governed
Bute by the recent retirement of its
esrpet-beg Senator, Spencer. The
State's autonomy is now fuily assur
ed, and thus another is added to the
list of redeemed and reconstructed
Southern States, another bright In-
minary has emerged from tho dark
ness of oppression and gleams bril
liantly in the glittering constellation.
The New Congress
meets next Tuesday. Washington
City is said to be thronged at this
time with new Congressmen and can
didates for the various subordinate
offices. The approaching struggle
fur organization of the Forty-sixth
Congress, it is thought, will be fierce.
Four officers in the House are elect
ive—Speaker, Clerk, Doorkeeper and
Eergeaut-at-Arms. For the first po
sition, Randall and Blackburn head
the list. Mr. House, of Tennessee, is
also mentioned in this connection, and
it is said that neither Morrison, of Il
linois, Goode, of Virginia, Carlisle,
of Ken tacky, McMahon, of Ohio, nor
Cox, of Naw York, would objeet to
the place. There are as many aspi
rants for each of tba other places.—
There are lively times ahead, tnd
somebody is bound to be badly dis
appointed next Tuesday.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN AT
LANTA.
Killing of Col R. A Alston.
1
Arum. March lit—At X30 o’elce
p. «. I be office of lbs Scats Treasurer. ■
lbs Capitol, la Ibis city, was the scans ol
s bloody tragedy, tba partiea being Col
Hobt. A. Alston, member of tbs Leglsls-
11re. sod Captain E S. Cox, of DeKalb
county. Alston fired three shots, sod
Cos two. Alston was shot through the
right temple, tbs ball pssslng through
bis brain Cox was shot la lbs month
sod through tbs left band. Alstos
dytDg, bat Cox Is not seriously bark
Th* difficulty arose from Alston hav
ing n power of attorney from Senator
Cordon to sell the letter’s Interest In the
i tile convict lease. Cos It
under Cordon and wanted Alstoo to
Cordon's interest to Wallers, who bad
promised to buy Cox oak Alston sold to
another person. Cox threatened Alston
at noun that be would kill him before eun«
down if tbs trade was not cancelled and
made with bis men. He hauled Alston
g 0 wo. Governor ColqalU and others liav
lag detained Alston nt tba Capitol, lbs
quarrel was renewed and both draw their
pittals with tbs result above slated.
Latss—Colonel Alston diad at sis this
evening.
S« cttvnuliMii in Georgia
One ol* t In- worst evil- of our polil-
■nl t*y -trio i- the sectional animosity.
-Irifeaml distrust it engenders. Tin
'in-1 is envious of (lie West, mid is
•|>posed tea mi ll mid measure* in Xa-
iiuial affairs I localise they come fi-ntii
hat scetion. Likewise the West dis
trusts Die motives of the Hast, and
tVill not leual its iiifitionei- to promote
its aspirants or advance its interests,
ftif Nih1Ii htifl tile South are multi-
.illy distrustful of each other. The
Ifcmoiifacj'. North” instead of being a
united body, working all over the
I'OUtilry for one common end, have to
-oiiriliatc the various factions of it*
thirty trom tlie Fast, West and North,
and weaken the common power liy a
division of iks component forces. It
a.l’teftidcut is to lie elected, the Fast
must buy the votes of the West for its
.-Audi dale, by giving them some im
portant matt in the race. In thous
ands of wavs this sectional feeling
breeds mutual distrust between the
dltTerent parte of the country att-.l in
terferes with tho peace aud prosperity
of the Nation. While this nnimosltv
between States Is a matter of deep
concern to every patriotic man, It is
to he more sincerely regretted that
-uclt a feeling lias arisen iu Georgia,
and is every day becoming more bit-
ter and more widely diffused.
The Democracy of Georgia which,
three years ago, was a united body—
invincible iu its strength—has allow
ed evil influences to breed discord
among its ranks, until to-day it is a
disaffected and broken organization,
and in our own State there is a De
mocracy of the East, and West, and
North, and South. The mountain*
arc inclined to oppose any mau who
-comes from any other section. The
East and West and South are like
wise jealously disposed toward the
other part9 of the country.
The evil permeates not only the
affairs of Stata-, but even the county
aud iiinuiripa! elections and appoint
ments. Tlie people who reside on
one side of a river, bitterly oppose
any man who comes from the other
side. One township does its best to
break down anil keep tinder the can-
dialute from its neighboring village:
ami even different wards and divis
ions of cities become arrayed In hos
tility toward each other. Partisan
ship has given away to sectionalism,
aud uuder the baneful influence of
this latter the true merits of the man
or the measures are forgotten or cast
aside for the gratification ot personal
or local ambition and aggrandise
ment. ’Notable instances of this
growing evil have come beneath our
observation iu bur immediate section
of country. The last Congressional
contest in this District was waged
mainly upon this principle.
Already, iu'flie premature discus
sion oftho dext’ Gubernatorial cam
paign, evidences of this sectional an
imosily are beginning to appear and
forecast unpleasant results. Such
feeling is to be deeply deplored. It
is certainly not calculated to benefit
the party or the State, and the sttife
aud suspicion it engenders may wotk
incalculable harm. True men and
staunch democrats shonld watch this
tendency, and use their influence to
suppress it. Our politics will never
lie pure until people of all sections do
away with bickerings and jealousies,
and unite upon tlie merits of men and
measures—until, overcoming the pre
judice of section and surrounding,
they ineet-npon a broad and liberal
platform, determined to institute and
carry out a reform in our political
ivstem that will redound to the hon
or and welfare Of nil peoples and
lions in the State
Tlie Extra Sessiou of Congress.
Nobooy knows how long the extra
session of Congress, which begins on
the 18th, Will hold. It would never
have become necessary, fur extra ex
penditure of money had not the last
■senate refused to repeal certain ob
noxious laws, especially the Federal
election law.
The Democrat* of the new (,'on-
_tc*. will, without doubt, insist up-
n a repeal of that law. and it is said
Haves lias determined to resist anni
hilation of this law at all hazard
This conflict may become serious; at
-.a-l cause a lengthy and tierce st-v-
-i«n. The Democratic members have
u> desire to enter into a conflict with
tin* President. It is proposed 1>y
them to proceed, immediately alter
organization, and incorporate within
one bill the repeal of the juror’s test
•rath, with perhaps a ucw provision
for tlie proper. selection of United
-tales jurors, the exclusion of troops
Cf.iui the polls, and the repeal of the
election law ; that if Hayes should
veto this bill, to attach it to one ot
the appiopfintioii hills; that then, if
Hayes vetoed the appropriation hill,
for Ougre** to immediately adjourn,
and not remain in session to continue
any struggle over the matter; that if
Hayes then culled another extra ses
sion lo go through the same form of
proceedings, ami if he repeated his
veto**, to adjourn again.
1 ids strikes us as being a kin-1 of
•"ptill-Dick, pull-Devil” arraugeiaeiit,
hut it would perhaps he a most effi
cient way for curing Havas of Ids
obstinacy and party passion
Democrat* have a serious matter to
encounter. If they back down from
their purposes in this crisis, the party
it gone. Let them reme’'iber that
their rhmriiluentv demand the resto
ration of free Ini I lot and untrnmclled
citizenship, despite the bull-dozing of
the Radical party.
MRS. FELTON’S LETTER AND]
SENATOR GORDON’S
REPLY.
Especially the tattler
JIBS. W. It. VKI.TON.
Washington, I). Feb. l'.l.
Ed*. Chronicle «fc Constitutionalist:
I hope von will allow me sufficient
space in your paper to reply to your
editorial of last Sunday which you
will please copy here.
OlVK T1IE NAME.
Mr. A. W. Reese, in his editorial
correspondence with the Macon Tel-
egraph and Messenger, charges that
during the recent canvass, in the
seventh district, a letter waB written
to Senator Ferry (rep) of Michigan,
imploring in the most piteously, pa
thetic terms, material aid fram the
Radical Congressional campaign
Committee for Dr. Fotton, in his
canvass against the Democratic nom
inee and party.” Mr. Reese says
Senator Ferry sent the letter to Hon.
.1. A. Iluhbcll, a Republican member
of the House from the same Stato,
and also a member of the above
named cempaigit committee. It was
afterward turned over to Mr. Gor
ham, secretary of the Committee, and
nlso secretary of tlie Senate. “All
the persons named agree as to the na
ture and text of the letter, and how
eloquently the writer plead for Rad
ical money to enable the so-called
independent leader to cairy tho elec
tion.” Mr. Reese does not give the
name of tho author of the letter, but
his language conveys the impression
that Mrs. Felton was the writer. In
matter of this kind there should
not be nnv hints or intimations. Mr.
Reese says he docs not publish it, but
knows the name well. He should
give it by all means.
Although A. W. Reese, oftho Tele
graph and Messenger is the person
known as my assailant, (his name be
ing signed to the article on which
you comment) General Gordon I* roc*
ognized by me as the author of the
assault.
Since “A. W. R.” did not give the
name for which you call, I cannot as
sert that I am the person pointed at,
but as yourselves and other* are sim
ilarly impressed that it was Intended
for me, I shall reply to it.
I have be--onie tit some measure ac
customed to the abuse showered so
liberally ti]ioii my husband and my
self intlio late Congressional cam
paign, but I ant glad to say no provo
cation has ever induced cither of us
to retaliate upon the families of our
opponents. Chivalry seems to be at
a di-count with tlie so-called “organ
ized in Georgia.” All good citizens,
who respect and protect their own
hearthstones will give the independ
ent* credit for better conduct.
I understand the charge to be, that
I “plead in piteously pathetic tones
for Radical money”' to help iny hus
band’s election. Had I done so, the
a I legation would come with bad
grace from the Mncon Telegraph and
Messenger, which paper was subsidiz
ed by Governor Brown in tlie State
road lease for the sum of lav thous
and dollars.
I only recognize the master in this
attack—not the servitor who does
General Gordon’s puffing as well as
his dirty work in his newspaper.
If A. IV. Reese in his strenuous ef
forts to secure a place tinder tho Sen
ale organization finds it necessary to
-how thD subservience to Gen. Gor
don, we cannot stoop to notice a man
working for such selfish ends and
such substantial rewards. The Sen
ator, I find, lias been very active in
tiiis matter—his position entitles him
to some attention.
When a United States Senator can
run a convict camp, which “is a dis
grace to civilization,” for money
ex or condition iu their tti«»n ■
i desire to keep themselves in office,
j The very fact that shifty ]><>)iIi<-ini -
attack everybody who itilcrfer< s
with their combination for publ r
plunder, lias done more to injure tl e
Democratic orgiinlrutioii’in Georg a
Ilian everything else. To litis they
add the resolve to attack women, be
cause guilty cowardice refuses to
meet more responsible parties.—
Drive the money-changes from thr
Democratic tciii|>lc, and set up oft -
rials whose honor and reputation tut
dearer to them than convict camps or
the inoiiey of Jay Gould or Hunting-
ton. Respeotfullv,
Mtts. IV. II. I’m,ton.
GORDON’S REPLY.
WITUKIIINO IlKOt’KE ol-' III- CAI.I’JI-
NIATOIt*.
Washington, I). March 4, 1871’.
Editors Chronicle and Constitution
alist, Augusta, Gn. :
A letter over the signature of Mrs.
W. II. Felton, published in your pa
per of tlie£3a nit., conic to my notice
in Hie last days of the expiring ses
sion, when my whole time, night and
day, was nccessnrily given to ptibli -
business. 1 wish it distinctly under
stood that, in my reply to tlie state
ments contained in that extraordina
ry communication, nothing that I say
is applicable to Mrs. Felton, with
whom I have and sltnll have no con
troversy.
There is no longer any room for
doubt that Dr. W. H. Felton is the
author and circulator of the calum
nies which, insinuated by him on the
stump, have been so often repeated iu
his organs in the Seveneth Congres
sional district, ami which were so sig
nally rebuked by my almost unani
mous re-election to the Uuitcd State-
Senate.
Dr. Felton is the first Georgian,
and I believe the only American in
any sphere of life, who has shielded
himself from responsibility for hie
falsehoods by taking shelter behind a
woman, and that woman his own wife
and the mother of bis children.
Indeed, I do not know that such an
instance was ever before known in
any civilized community. The com
mon law, which on this subject is the
essence of English sentiment and civ
ilization, contemplated the man us the
outer picket, standing at his doorway-
guarding his wife from the rude con
tact with the world, while she in the
delicate privacy of home presided
over its hallowed preciucts, soften
ing, sweetening, and sanctifying its
holy endearments. This, too. is the
spirit of the Christian Church in all
the earth. Religion, then, and civili
zation and the cominoit law and man
hood and womanhood alike revolt at
this profanation of the holiest rela
tions of life. It almost makes us lose
sight of the sickening spectacle of this
minister of the gospel bearing false
witness against his neighbor.
I entered tlie canvass of the Seventh
Congressional district not front choice,
but at the call of the political organi
zation of whicli I am a member,
made no assault upon Dr. Feltoi
character during the entire canvass.
I did not mention his mime until his
slanders upou my character made it
proper for me to repel them. This
assault, therefore, is absolutely with
out excuse, wanton and reckless.
A few words will suffice to dispose
of his effort to shamefully misrepre
sent my administration of the Atlan
ta department of the Southern Life
Insurance Company, and my connec
tion with a great and patriotic move
ment by the leading educators of the
South to rid the schools of the coun
try of partisan text books. The insu
rance company’ failed from no fault
of mine. When the two dreadful ep
idemics of the Mississippi valley and
to the lowest of all meanness, iu seek
ing to create the impression that he b
or any other man believes merapable
of corrupt practices ns a Senator of
the United State*. I do not v i*h to
do Dr. Felton a wrong, nor to use
language unbecoming myself, as a
mail, or as a representative of Geor
gia ; hut without fear of damage
from him, hiding as he does, behind
Ids wife, his grey hairs, and the robe*
of a minister of Christ, I ought to be
pardoned for saying of this offortthat
untiling tcorse was ever attempted by
any man. It is the very blazonry of
nil that is base, false and fiendish.—
Doctor Felton seeks justification for
his wickedness lit the idle gabble of
tite partizans of two great rival rail
road schemes, who charge improper
motive* to moil on cither side of the
controversy who refttse to vote as
their interests demand, not one of
whom will lie or any other mail dare
to quote by imtnc iu such a connec
tion. He itns not even the excuse ot
n newspaper charge such ns that made
by a newspaper journal recently,
charging bribery against many ofthe
purest and best incii in public life
from both sections of the Union.
The gentlemen who are thus wanton
ly assailed by this Now York paper
voted witli a large majority of the
Semite for a subsidy bill. 'The wick
ed falsehoods circulated by Dr. Fel
ton against myself are founded upon
my vote in a minority on the bill to
provide a sinking fund for thePaciflo
Railroads. My vote was against that
Dill, and time and experience are fast
demonstrating the propriety and wis
dom of that vote, not only on the
score of principle, but In the interest
of the public Treasury. I advocated
a hill which required these great
roads to pay into the Treasury a fixed
sum every year to meet their obliga
tions to the government. Tlie Bill
which passed required these roads
ro pay a portion of their not earning*.
Had the bill I desired passed become
a law, we would to-day have in the
Treasury' from these roads at least
two millions of dollars, whereas the
hill which did become a law, and for
refusing to support which I am slan
dered by Dr. Felton and bia allies, has
failed as I predicted twelve months
before its passage to bring one far
thing to the government,. And I now
wish to add another remark that no
man can say'whcn a dollar will be
secured under it. Yet this man-
false to his people in war; false to the
political organization which saved
his people in peace; false to the teach
ings of Him whom he professes to
follow; begrimed with a wicked and
corrupt alliance with the enemies of
his party, section and people, has the
audacious effrontery to assail my
character in public and in private
with the vile and hypocritical pre
tense that he or any living mau be
lieves me capable of giving that or
any other vote for venal considera
tions.
These are strong words, I know.
hut they are true words, and are’
forced from me by the conviction that
no deeper wrong was ever perpetra
ted than this mau hns attempted up
on tne. For months I have borne In
silence tlie most brutal attacks from
Dim and his allies ever made upon
any man in public life. For months
I have borne his secret efforts at de
famation here in Washington; and
now I do not believe that the people
of Georgia, who hare ltouorcd me in
wm-and in peace far beyond my de
serts, will ask tne to refrain longer
front placing on record for tiic sake
of my children and the, people who
elected nte, my public denunciation
of these foul aitd atrocious culumuics.
J. B. Gordon
when he can manipulate a southern i the general financial panic of the
The N’-w York Hun says the River
and Harbor job came within an ace
of being vetoed. Hayes had his veto
message written and lie read it indis
creetly \o tior. Colquitt of Georgia,
who was in the Capitol.' Colquitt, of
cotirae, lost no lime in romniiiiiicn-
tiiig the fuel to Southern Senators,
who, of course, made a dead *et upon
Hayes, and, with the assistance of Re.
publican Senator* interested, sneseed-
ed In gelling the bill signed.
insurance company and n southern
university publishing company, not
to speak of other circumlocution en
terprises, where the money of the
subscribers disappeared forever—
when he could borrow tlie money
of a Southern bishop—and the bish
op sold the collaterals for only one
doilar in the hundred, you need not
lie surprised that he should attack
tlie wife of a political opponent.—
When his name in connection with
the money of Jay Gould and Hun-
dingdoti was the street talk of Wash
ington city, which astonished the
startled ears of Judge Underwood
and Col. D. S. Printup last spring,
commented on by strangers at a din
ner table of one of the principle ho
tels in Washington, can you wonder
that he should see money at the bot
tom of any enterprise ? If he and A.
W. Reese desire to establish the prec
edent of fighting ladies to injure
their husbands, they may find it un
comfortable if well carried out—
Precedents count astonishingly some
times.
Tlie charge that I wrote to Senator
Ferry, or anybody else, asking for
“Radical money,” or any other mon
ey, to help my husband's election, I
firmly deny. If “A. W. R.” will fur
nish a genuine letter of mine, I shall
need no further proof. That I did
write a friendly letter to Senator
Ferry, witli whom I had acquaint
ance for several years, asking him to
ii-,u his influence to break up the
combination with Bryant in the
Holtzelaw movement, I frankly ad-
mil.
J. E. Bryant informed a gentleman
of Rome, Gn., a distinguished Demo
crat, that lie “was on his way to Dal
ton” (the day before lie brought out
iloltzlaw,) to organize the Republi
cans in the interest of Judge Lester.”
Do you desire his name? The fact
that Bryant was furnished money by
tlie national executive committee of
the Democratic party was published
in full in the Indianapolis Journal of
October 24th, 1878.
That Bryant was seeking to get
money from the Republican national
committee, I ant also reliably inform
ed. That I did request Senator Fer
ry lo use his influence to circumvent
the nefarious plot, I have no disposi
tion to deny. I should likely do so
again under similar circumstances.—
My husband was away from home,
in the upper counties, and my wifely
anxiety induced me to write without
delay, which I did on my own respon
sibility anil over my own signature.
What his cooler judgement would
have advised, I did not know. He
certainly appreciated my heartfelt
interest in his success against the
strong combinations to which the
history of Georgia furnishes no pnr-
rellel. It was a hitter fight made by
unscrupulous men, and I have no
apology to muke for ray efforts in
behalf of my husband. It is a sad
day for Georgia when “sensational
newspaper menticants’’ can assail tlie
wife when her husband stands in tlie
path of a public man from whom the
scribbler derives his official existence
aud whose patronage he enjoys.
Ifl am thus to be made the target
of “organized” abuse, the independ
ents of the State may understand that
no mail’s homo is sacred from attack,
if lie dares to resist the encroach
ments of the public plunderers” on
■ he old commonwealth of Georgia.—
I think I understand and appreciate
the feelings of the good and honest
men in both parlies, and thoy will re-
buku any party or clique that spares
country broke tlie parent company nt
Memphis, the hooks of the Atlanta
department, over whicli I presided,
showed that every death loss it had
incurred had becN paid, and tlie trans
mission of the parent company at
Memphis of near one and a quarter
millions of dollars.
As to the book enterprise, I was in
duced to connect mrscll' with it in
obedience to tlie wishes and advice of
the best men at the South, among
them General Lee himself. No sur
prise ought to lie felt, since our fail
ure in war, nt tlie disposition of Dr.
Felton to slander every cause and
every man who had the confidence
friendship of that honored man. w
Although this most needful school
book enterprise lias made no money,
it has survived the panic, and is still
furnishing hooks of the highest order,
by our ablest teachers, to Southern
and Northern schools, despite the ef
forts of wealthy rivals ami the ene
mies of the South to break it down.
I do not know to what Dr. Felton
makes reference when lie charges me
with having grossly wronged sontt-
Sonthern Bishop. It is unqualifiedly
false that I ever borrowed, used or
obtained in any way one dollar, or
ever was under pecuniary obligation
to the extent of one farthing, to any
Bishop, Northern or Southern, ex
ccpt to a beloved and holy man non
dead, whose son served upon my
staff, and who sent me near the dosV
ofthe war, without any solicitation
from me, about $300, as well ns I car.
remember.
That debt was discharged, after (lie
war, by stocks, the best 1 had, and in
amount sufficient ns I believed tc
more than cancel it. I say nothin,
in this connection of the nppenritiet
of a Representative of Georgia and
a member of the American Congrost
in the high nnd statesmanlike role of
hiring his minions to uncover every
private and business transaction ol
mv life in the fruitless effort to find
something to blur and stain my rep
utation. I invite his inspection and
revelations; and ; fhc has discovered
that these stocks sold for less than the
debt, let him and every one interest
ed know that I stand ready to make
good every cent of loss, if any occur
red on that debt, not only witli mon
ey but with the gratitudge due fornn
unsolicited and unexpected kindness
done me in the distressing hours ol
the Inte revolution.
His reference to my connection with
tho lease of convicts under Hie taws
of Georgia is best answered by tlie
records of the Slate and the corres
pondence on its files. These show
that the law was passed by the chosen
Legislature of our own people; that
it was passed without my knowledge
or agency ; that the bids were invited
from all citizens, in accordance with
law, by the Governor; that whatever
interest was secured hv hid for my
plantation was tendered Dy mo to the
State soon after the contract was sign
ed and before, any of these prisoners
cattle into possossiou of Uni. Lockett,
the President of the company ; Hint
this Interest has always been subject
to ntty disposition the authorities of
tho State might see tit to make of it.
My reasons for wishing to be released
from my obligations in connection
with this lease were given more than
two years ago, and are a sufficient an
swer to this strange effort of Dr. Fel
ton to do me this additional wrong.
But not satisfied with these shame
ful perversions ot my private bitsl-
iisis affairs, Doctor Felton descends
Call at tlie New Hardware Store
for those $1 Bridles for 75 cents.
Hare You tho Book eye.
It is a well established fact, that
'fabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointmet will
cure, if used according lo directions.
Tlie .Esculus Hippocastanum, or
Horse Chestnut, commonly known as
the Buckeye, has been highly esteem
ed for many years, owing to the fact,
Hint it possesses virtues, lying in the
hitter principle called Esculin, which
ean he utilized for the cure of Piles.
If affected with that terrible disease,
use Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment,
and be relieved. Price 50 cents. For
-ale by IV. H. Gilbert, Ag’t, & Co,
Come and see our large stock of
tine shoes and straw hats.
Welch & Bacon.
The Marietta Journal complains
that Inst week an exchange cut one of
it* editorials in two aud credited one
half of it to the Albany Advertiser
and the other half to the Albany
News It then remarks quite naive
ly : “But we can stand it if tho Alba
ny papers can.”
Some Knight of the Quill must
have been on a private “Press Excur-
>ion” nnd got tilings mixed. The
Journal has our sympathies.
Hardware as LOW as any other
house ill town.
Sheffield & Bell.
«|lew ^Idvntisemtuts.
SMITH’S WORM OIL !
What
has to say next week will astonish the community.
Look out for it in this space.
Second Spring Fair 1
•pas udsnigusd *U1 pay s rewind of
ONE HUNDRED D0LLAR8
tor tbs mrreat sad delivsrr lo th--. Sbirtffof Csllioaa
». Whittikind,
sad murdered hint, at Ltary. Cantona county, *a
the 2Sth day of January, 13».
I. 8CHWED,
FAH,Hmt Ealkuhq At*.
For Sale.
THU HAMILTON PLACE,
^DJOIJIIKO the taunt corporate lino ef Al-
baay, ooetaloiag 230 sens, moolly under cttlUut-
tioa. Tko wbsto oraoy port of asM property will
boooldalebaigile. Locatioo healthy; couvtolaut
tochsidteasckoobant society. Land mil stapl
ed to fruit and xnpe culture, cottoo or trade On*
lac. Would Trhangs tat rest aatato North.
Adams C. B. WOOTEN, AtTystLow.
fabli-tm* Albany, Oft.
Dougherty County Tax Sales
TV7ILL be sold before the Coortboaso doer talk*
of sate, tko Miowlw, property, to rettal, taxi tbs ftr
- Ol TUB-
Sovrawmtp Gemeist
INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION
CSy totKo.TS.on tko sootk side of Cswaoree
dsratuafslkrikokcoeatotlln.aM.aaik.
atud'ornbrlf oftCftn jh£S dtSrtrt?f Dongtarty
for Un keaedt of H. T. Mask.
atbsmj, Os, as Iks property dEH. Town, a(*st
Ain. at tko non Urns sad pises, the vast bait of
<*y kttmatter 1*. ea Broad ttraK,city cf Albany
Gs.aa tbs property ofHearyJfcrpa.
Abo. at the ume time sod rpl <ce. city Ion aan-
bor» to. 32, SI ant 6*. on Brsad Kraal, In the city of
Albsoy. Go. n tbs property Of Fnd. Lebnso, tnta-
tee for wife.
Alan, ot th* note Ume sod pises, otrht sens of
load, it betafS port oflot namber 321, In tho lilt
district of Dourhutyeooiity, sad lyltut about If *t
s mils south oftbs city limits ot tha city of At Way.
2*5,0“ Jks Ih* nod, and knowm So thr place wm a
*• Drinhwater now resides, cold a. tho property at
K. Drlakaraler.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY,
May 22 1®?©<
Grand Military Display !
First Prise $200 00
Second Prise 75 00
Grand Regatta !
Under rules to be published by the Association.
A Splendid Tournament!
Will be a special feature.
Full Premium List will be Published
in next week’s paper.
GRAND ENCAMPMENT of the Knight Templars of
the State on the 21st and 22d, will add much to the attrac
tions ofthe city during the Fair.
T. M. CARTER,
Secretary.
Mareb IS. 1879
L. E. WELCH,
President.
SI It-MV cTllltl, tiVL am
worms. I tried calomel and oilier Worm Medldoee
tut ft»lle*i t«» expel any. Seeing Mr. Baln'e crrtlfl-
CAto, I got a vial of Worm oil, aud the flret dote
brought forty worms, end the second dote to many
were pas lna I did uot count (hem.
S. II. ADAMS.
Prepared by Di. E. 8. LYNDON, Athena,Ga.
For sale by W. H. GILBERT, Apt. & CO.,
uicblS-ly Albany, Ga.
WILLINGHAM’S HALL-
one NIGHT ONLY
THURSDAY, MARCH 13th, 79
BUND" TIM,
Natural Pianist Living 1
lighted till
Admission tents; Chihli*.i 35 emit*; U><rrvcd
Mem* 7$ * eiits. Plan or Hall aud liakcta a! Waleh *
aaVlteliell’s Book Stuit*. l*irib*«t
A Manatioi.
GEORGIA:
Bv Alfbzd H. Colquitt,
Governor ofaaid State.
W IIBBBAB, offletat Information has bees racelz-
art at this Dspsitauat that a murder waa
aisiaalHa* Utkssswaty of Mltshell, o» tha is*h
of January tut, open tba body of DAVID SCAR-
B0B0U0H by JOHN KKARCE, as la sltafad, and
that astd Xaares baa flad ftaa Juattoa:
I baza thought propar, tharafore, to laaoo tht-
wty Proelaosttoa, boreby offering a rawsrd of TWO
HUNDRED DOLLARS far tba apprehension and
dsilvery of astd John Kaares, to tha Shartff of aald
county tnd RUta.
And I do moreover charge nnd require all officer-
In thta State, Civil and Military, lo bo vigilant to
anoeavorlng to appreband tha aald JOHN KKARCT-
tn order that ht may b* broogbt lo trial for tbs <-«
tbnoo with which ht stands charged,
aivon under my ksad sod tho Great Bret uf tha
State, ot tko Ospltol la Atlanta, this tba tub day
of It arch, In tha year af o»r Lord One Thousand
Eight Hundred sod Seventy-nine, and of tho In-
dependence *f tho Untied Stales of America th*
On* Hundred sad Third,
ALFRED M. COLQUITT,
By the Governor: (tov.ruor
N, a BARNETT, Breretary of Bute.
meblS-tt
GF.OROIt—WORTH OUN T Y.
r.’hcrers, J J Sumner and J T Branch, adtnlnta-
trrtora on the eat am of Jeaao C Turner, tale of aid
county, deeeoaed, applj b* tne for tellers of dtwnle*
aton from aald administration. These are therefore
so elm all concerned to be an-' appear at aay
within tho limo prescribed oy taw toebow esi .
hey they can, why le tters of dlaznlvalon Should not
be era trod aald applicants. _
Given under my hand officially this JZareh 3,1S7S-
mchC-1379
T. C. and ex- officio S
Dougherty County Sheriff's
Sales.
GEORGIA—Dougherty County.
WIU bo sold before the Court Hewas door la the
ly of Albany. Ga- -----
next, between th* (
otty of Albany. Gau on the Ant Tuesday U April
next, between thelega) hours of auto, the AoUnwUg
property, to-wit:
Oty lot described as foltowa: Commencing S21Z
lent from northeast corner ml lot No. ** ea’Bnmd
street; thanco doo west, 106 Sect; thence doe south,
210 foot; thence doe east, 103 (ret; thence due north,
to starting point. Sold aa property of Isaac Jackson,
to satiety County Court I. fa. & Hobbs ea. Isaac
P. G. EDWARDS, Sheriff
March 6, ISTSQda
FOB SALE.
Stewart's Cluster Seed Potato,
liter tUm Ik Al-
I HAVE a lot of these fine mad •
Potatoes for Mle, and will delii
ban/p at Weatbrcok & Co’» store, at •—.
el; in Leary, at P. E. Boyd’s, at 8LSS per btahel; te
Arlington, through OoLF. L Pepper, at $125. Ok
mv farm, netr Whitney, at $1 JO per bcnheL To be
delivered Dram the 12th to tho 15th of March.
a M. DAYX4.
feb27-tf Morgan, G*.
THOROUGHBRED SHEEP
For Sale!
BTJOE&BWB
W E hiTe for mle at our (tables, a thoroughbred
BUCK nnd EWK miffed br the eoMmUd
otoefc man, Mr. A. HcCHntudc, of MlDenbaTf, Ij.
Wo can thoroughly
u thoroughbred, nnd they wm bo n TnloabU addi
tion to any neighborhood. Call nnd exnmlno.
BARNES & YANKEY.
febS04f
PHILLIP HARRIS,
Practical Watclimater & Jeweler
VtTATCBE*, docks. Jewelry, etc, repaired a
TV short notion. AU onion reonlred from ou
ASSIGNEE’S
Sale of Notes and Accounts,
r ryonuanceofonorder from tho Untied Statoo
District Court »t 5»mnnah,Ga, 1 will *41 boforo
thv Coart.houac Co»t of Dougherty county, on, on
Thursday, April 3d, 1879,
betw«-.!n ihe legal hour* of »le, all tho NOTES and
ACCOUNTS belonging to the e*Ut« of L. STcRNE,
Rank nu& A list of the name can be aeon ported at
the Cwui t-hou*e door. . .
D. GLAUBER. Assignee.
uehC4tt
MILLS
-AND—
Machine Shops
N. & A. F. TIFT,
Now Process of Grinding!
Sand to Jams* Vick, Si-odenma,
Rochester, N. Y., fur a cop,. |
CORN OR WHEAT,
a. well os It can be done any where la tbo State.
Wo ore prepared lo do all kinds of Rapultiuff ou
Stoau) Engines. Baltoro, sad such other are.
rhliic*aaaroused In this arction. Charge*mason-
able, and all work guaranteed to glee aattrthetlon.
J. GILMER.
Albany, fob. $, 1179-tf
THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE THE
pieoaure to announce to the Planters
of Dongherty and adjoining oquntioa,
that they have renewed their Agency
for the sole of the above
WIDELY KNOWN,
4U8TLY CELEBRATED
It will suffioe to say that as a fertili
zer, it li anequafled by few and sur
passed by none. Its merits are too
well known to need commendation
at oar hands. v
We are now prepared to furnish it
in any quantity, either for cash or
cotton option, on the most liberal
terms. ^
8. MAYER & GliAUBER.