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THE EXPRESS.
JNO. W. RADLEY, Editor.
Tha Express has a larger circu-
«t!on thin any other newspaper
n jhi!shed in the 38th Senatorial
Cistriot.
VO It CONGRESS,
HON. O-EO. N. LESTER,
OP (,’OBIl.
If the convention should nominate
as good and pare a man as Qeorop.
N. Lrjtbh, I would ground my arms
ami retire to the shades of private
life.—W. II. Felton in 1874.
CoJartown, Soptembor 5th.
fd^Tliprc’s » powerful nice piece
of literutnro in this issue signod
“citizeu.” We commend it to the
prayerful consideration of our Felton
friends.
5^”Just ns soon ns we learn how
many votes tho other counties in this
district will lack of giving Judge
I/ester 2,600 majority, wo will pro
ceed to “gather them in” from Polk,
t his will explain why we have not
given the figures before. We have
decided tbnt 2,600 is the proper ma
jority for the Judge to have, and
Polk must muko up what the other
oountiea lack. Do you gather?
W1IY IB IT 1
“Lester gained no votes by his
speeches.”
“He hus no argument but his war
record.”
“Felton will gain largely on bis
former vote.”
“Felton has certainly gained lnrgc-
ly."
“Lester spoke here on 10th. Some
of ourcountry cracker could beatit.”
“Felton is ahead in this city,
(Rome.) The Lesterites have given
up.”
The above are extracts from near a
column ©f the same sort in tho Car-
tersville Free Press, and which the
editor of that paper says are “truth
ful reports” given by “honest far
mers” all over the district. But
what puzzles us is why their candi
date, with these facts before him,
should continue to tear around
through the district, night and day,
and Sunday too, breaking all the
commandments in the decalogue,
saving, possibly, the sixth and sev
enth, in a wild, despairing effort to
secure his re-election. Verily, the
ways of the independent (so called)
are dark and peculiar.
“K. T. P.” of this place
writes to the Felton organ in Mariet
ta that the great political parson
will carry this county by M0 major
ity! There’s richness for you I The
anchor is supposed to have delivered
himself of that unique epistle du
ring the two weeks he is said to have
spout In canvassing the convict
camp for Felton* and before he
learned that they could not votol
All, Richard, my Dick, you arc a sly
humorist! You ought to be asham
ed of myself!
ZrW*The latest advices indicate
that the yellow fever has notyvt reach
ed a olirnax. Tho dead already num
ber in the thousands in the cities of
New Oleuns, Vicksburg, Memphis,
Granada, and other cities, and towns.
It is spreading every day, and the
.only hope of the people in the inlec-
ied district is the speedy coming of
frost. To their groat praise be it said,
the northern and western cities and
towns are responding nobly to the
appeals for aid.
la 1861 when the political
prejudices of the people were ruu-
ning high; Dr. Felton saw his oppor
tunity to gain a cheap notoriety by
urging the people to take a step that
brought upon them war and all its
horrible train of sufferings and dis
asters. He loved tiie people so
dearly then that he could not bear
to Bee them remain in peace and
quiet, a part of the Federal Govern
ment. But when it became necessa
ry to vindicate his course by some
thing stronger than arguments and
street affrays, his love for tho people
suddenly cooled, and there was noth
ing on earth half so dear to his af
flictions as » hospital. He could, not
be induced to. .tear hi tnsslf from its
exquisite embrace.
JST’The Oartersville Free Press
man has been ransacking the Bartow
county records, and to his inexpressi
ble delectation, has found that his
“true and tried old Roman, Dr. Fel
ton,” was on a Grand Jury in 1871,
and that said Grand Jury was com
posed of “substantial and reliable
oitizens,” and did “reiterate tho sev*
eral solemn protests which have been
uttered by former Grand Juries of
this county against the reckless ex-
travugance and the disregard of hones
ty which has for several years char
acterized the administration of our
state finances.” That Dr. Felton
should have been a member of a body
that expressed its disapprobation of
“reckless extravagance” and “disre
gard of honesty” is deemed, by the
aforesaid editor, of sufficient impor
tance to he made the text of his
leading editorial in his issue before
the last. We had not thought be
fore that Dr. Felton’s character
umong his neighbors was such as to
require a column article* stiffened by
a lengthy extract from the Grand
Jury presentments* in o d r to con
vince them that he was opposed to
“reckless extravagance” and “disre
gard of honesty” in the administra
tion of our {State finances. But wo
presume the editor of his home or
gan knows what kind of bolstering
up he needs.
paper that is always careful in its
statements, led ns to inquire of gen
tlemen who have recently been in
Walker county as to whether they
heard it spoken of, and we were in
formed that many of the best citi-
izens of Walker county said they
heard Dr. Felton make the asser
tion. Major Hargrove told us that
Judge Lester never made uny such
proposition. If this be “electioneer
ing,” may all thruthful men he saved
from it.
The editor of the Felton
sneet a: Rome sayss:
<*The Ringgold Convention was
not a convention of Democrats, hut
of political hummers, who are afraid | ton was as dumb us an oyster. He
to trust tho people, and assume tho i was inofo than willing to let George
fight, to make Congressmen them- Lester and his compatriots have all
From 1806 to 1871, the peo
ple of Georgia suffered insults and
persecutions that were even harder
to hear, if possible, than the hard
ships of war. During all those long
dreary years the man who would
dare champion the rights of the
people, could proiniso himself noth
ing in return but tho enmity and
possibly tho shackles of the oppres
sors. It took men of nerve, of moral
courage, of genuine affection for
their down trodden country, to face
and defy the vampires who sucked
away our life blood. Is there a man
in all this broad laud who ever heard
Dr. Felton’s voice in our defense
then? Is there a carpet-bagger or a
Bcnllawag in all the horde that infes
ted ns who will testify that Dr. Fel
ton ever dealt him a “hallelujah
lick” for his villiany? No, there
was no $418 per month to he had for
loving the people then, and Dr. Fel
selves.”
Yes* that convention was made up
of such “political hummers” as W.
F. Durden, Win. Hogg, G. W. Mor
gan, John L. Branch, E. Lyon, aud
others of the same stripe, from oth
er counties. Isu’t it astonishing
that, these outrageous old “political
bummers” should “assume tne right
to make Congressmen themselves ?”
But which would you rather have, a
Congressman mode by them, or one
. npuleby such political tramps asli.F.
Sawyer, Z. B. Hargrove aud O. H. C.
Willi ngh am.
|Is it possible that Gen. Wil
liam Tatum Wofford, “tho hero of a
hundred battles,” so to speak, (and
the hero of an indefinite number of
boot lickings,) is it possible that he,
the valiant champion of the “people
of thfc deestrick, ” ever got his puis
sant arm eo deep into the State
Treasury that Gov. H. V. Job aeon
Imd to call a halt? Is it possible
that he also took $3,000 of the peo
ples money for holding a sinecure
under Bullock’s man, Ben. Conley ?
it true that lie. spent several
months in Atlanta lo— (ahem) lob—
(sfittll wo say the word?)—lobbying
with the Legislature to induce them
to buy : Stone Mountain? We*re
peat it, be these things possible?
Will the General let up ou his
Felton harangues long enough to
rifake a few observations to the pec*
pylon these pints 9
the honors aud rewards that were to
be had for serving a robbed, impov
erished and oppressed people. It took
the magic influence of five thousand
dollars a year and mileage to rouse
his patriotism from its Rip Van
Winkle slumber. The rustle of
greenbacks is infinitely more musical
to his ears than the applause of a
graceful people.
To flic Voters of The Seventh Congres
sional District.
Will you consider and lay down
all prejudice and bias that may have
been generated in your bosoms in
consequence of supposed oorrnpiions,
and probably true, that have in some
instances heretofore existed in the
nomination of candidates for this dis
trict, and tho ballot box, in Novem
ber next, put W. TT. Felton and
George N. Lester in the scales of
truth and justice, and impartially
weigh each of their personal and po
litical worth to the people, and espe
cially to the laboring classes. Again
I ask, will you, from your hearts,
impartially consider their true worth,
not ns Republicans, nor us Demo
crats, hut as men. Ask yourself the
question, and seek, with an honest
heart the true answer, which of t
two men is most likely to truly sym
pathize, from their heart?, with and
for you, and 4 .o know what the poor
honest laboring man most wants and
needs. A man who bus been raised
and educated in ease and wealth,
and upon all the luxuries that lifo
could afford, and one who never has
been forced to do a days work in his
life, or a man who has been horn in
poverty, raised and educated by hard
toil and sweat of his own face; and
in the language of Judge Wright,
with wind and tide against him; hut
has held the rudder and directed his
course well, and who has never for
got the great laboring class fiuui
which he sprung, and who will neith
er deceive nor desert them, and
whose self made abilities are such
that his opponent, though a giant he
be, dare not to meet him face to face
before the people. Will you impar
tially examine the language of Win.
II. Felton in 1874, to-wifc/ “If tlie
Convention was to nominate as good
and pur© a man as Geore N. Lester,
I would ground arms and retire to
private life,” and then examine the
language used by the same gentle
man in his Oartersville speech on
the 11th of July, 1878, relative to a
pieced filed away by hiiu in his scrap
hook, previous to 1874, in remem
brance of Lester’s thieving and
robery in the State Rouil lease, and
then, in that same impartiality, put
your hands upon your breasts, and
say did not Dr. Felton in 1874,
knowingly stuff the people with rot
ten demagogism as to Lester being a
good pure man; or else did he not,
the lltli of July lust, in his Carters
ville speech, and at various times
and places since, wilfully make and
utter unholy and unrightoeus char
gesand slanders against the public
and private character of George N.
Lester. Say yea or nay.
I again ask aud beseech that you
impartially examine the charges
made by Dr. Felton against George
Lester, together with the evidence of
Ex-Gov. Brown, and others, in the
case, and then say, from uu honest
and unbiased heart, do you, or do you
not, think that Dr. Feltou is strain*
ing at a gnat and swallowing a cam
Up to the day of Judge Lesters’
nomination for Congress, the fourth
of July last, no human being ever
questioned, much less ussuiled, his
character for honor, integrity, abili
ty or patriotism. Even his compet
itor, Dr. Felton, pronounced upon
him tho loftiest panegyric. But
now, since he is tho Democratic nom
inee, with 8iich unmistakable omens
of success, the pot-house politicians
would have the people believe, that
even Tiberius surpasses him in in
tegrity, Tittlebat Titmouse in ahili
ty, Benedict Arnold in purtriotim
and Judas Iscariot in Christian fideli
ty! O, lompora! O, moroi!
Tho card will uol win. The blow
will recoil upon the heads of those
who have dealt it. The butt of the
gun is more powerful for hurt limn
the mzzl* —the kick more danger
ous tliiiii the load. These calum
nious assullB upon Judge Lester have
raillied his friends to a man. They
stand ubout him in t solid, defiant
phalanx, and they mean never to
relax their efforts until victory shall
proudly perch upon the banner he so
gallantly hears.
deuce and support of his fellow cit- J the airs and graces of rhetoric. \(t
izens because of his connection with j 1 am a voter, and, like thousands of
the lease of the .State road. Your your constituents, I am asking my.-
evidence was the testimony of Gov
ernor Brown before the investiga*'
ting committee* and tho receipt of
Lester for 81,000, for services ren
dered the Western and Atlantic rail
road company. The conclusion you
draw from this evidence was that
Lester was a corrupt lobbyist.
I will assume that your charge is
true. I concede that no man should Passing Smiles,
support u lobbyist. I admit that no | xho Meiulvillo Republican, refer-
lobbyist should bo elected to office. riug to ft col ,temporary, says: “A
self the question: If Dr. Felton in
dorsed a corrupt lobbyist in 1874 in
order to set the votes of that lobby
ist’s friends, would ho not indorse
him thu sumo way to day, were that
sumo lobbyist not a candidate for the
oltice Dr. Felton desires to fill?
llut 1 worry—perhaps disturb you.
Citizen.
From the Rome Courier.
An Evidence or llesperaton.
The prolific Parson lias started
another “canard” on Judge Lester.
He said in his speech nt Villanow,
Walker county,last week, that Judge
L. went to Mr. Zack Hargrove and
offered him a “consideration” to vote
for him and use his influence among
the negroes. Said he could prove
this in Rome. Of course Judgo Les
ter did no such think— it is too ab-
sured—and we do not believ^Dr.
Feltou eui, prove it.—North Georgia
Citizen.
No, Dr. Felton cannot prove it,
but, on the contrary, MajorHargrove
says it Is not so. He voluntarily
came to the editor of the Courier
and stated that such a report was in
circulation, aud that if Dr. Feltou
had made any such statement it
was not the truth—or words amount
ing to the same. This was some
days ago, and beoause we did not
think Dr. Felton had gone so far in
his desparation, did not mention it;
but this assertion in the Citizen, a
ell. Will you thoroughly weigh
tlip niatter, aud without prejudice or
bias, favor or affection to either par
ty, and with conoiences, in soberness
and truth, for the sole welfare and
happiness of yourselves and your
country, say on your ballots next
November, yea or nay.
An Ex-Feliqkite.
From the Marietta Journal.
Keep Cool.
It is a mailer of deep regret that
so much of personal acrimony and
bitterness characterizes tiie Congres
sional campaign in tiie Seventh Dis
trict. Surely we live in evil times
and the lines have not falleu unto us
in pleasant places, when the ohief
adjunct of political Controversy is
personal abuse; when the grossest
misrepresentations of private con
duct are unblushiugly made for the
purpose of compassing public ends;
when, for example, a gentleman who
during more than fifty years has liv
ed the life of honesty, probity and
usefulness—whoso good repute, the
while, was in all the churches—who
has done the State valuable und hon
orable service in seasons alike of war
and peace—can’t become a candi
date for b>g!> and responsible office
but that every dirt dauler .considers
it his bouuden duty to throw mud at
him, and takes special delight in the
work of personal defamation.
From Consltutlou,
An Open Letter to Dr. Felton.
Hon. W. H. Felton—Sir: Your
assertion, so frequently made
throughout this district, that li • who
seeks the suffrages of the people
should hold himself ever ready to
answer tho people, must serve as my
apology for addressing you I am un
known and too humble to interrupt
you on the stump. Nor do you rel
ish that I dare, not thrust poli
tics on Hie sacred bench and interfere
with your seventh day ministrations.
Therefore I am forced to this unsatis
factory method of engaging your at
tention, though I have but little
power of securing your reply.
You invite me lo support you.
You tell me that George N. Lester
is unworthy my vote because of Ins
corruption, lie is a lobbyist, you
say, worthy of the scorn of a fair an I
unbought people. You startle the
state with your chargee. You op
pose the eloquent testimony of your
friend from Floyd. You practically
denounce the action ot the gover
nor of Georgia, who has elevated him
to the bench. You denounce the
legislature who elected him to office.
A thousand soldiers who knew him
in the days of war and desolation,
avp now, for tho first time, told that
their old comrade is a scoundrel,
trading upon an empty sleeve—emp
tied, sir, that you might preach in
safety and drive on your slaves.
I must deem you in earnest, for to
imagine that you are wantonly tra
ducing the character of another for
political effect* were to believe you a
wilful slandering trickster, with nei
ther the courage or truthfulness of
a gentleman. 1 am, therefore, con
fident of your sincerity. Those who
have watched your course during
this oarapaign must agree with me
when I declare that you make no
charges not sanctioned by your head
and your heart, and which you are
not willing to prove, and to justify,
before the people anywhere; every-
w h ere—under sui table ci rou ms tan ces.
Yet your enemies confront mo with
a portion of your record to which I
deem it my duty presently to call
your attention.
Cawdor compels me to confess that
the nomination of George N. Lester
pleased me deeply. He has felt tho
poverty of the people and he hus
borne their toil. He strove to avert
the desolations of war; and yet when
Georgia called her sons about her in
her hour of sore need, ho came. He
had not the shelter of that “broad
cal lateral, the pulpit.” The driving
of no fifteen slaves kept him back
from the fight tHe dear secessionists
had brought upon us. No hospi
tal opened its doors to receive him as
surgeon patriot.; He fought the!
enemy. Alas, poor emtpty sleeve
But peace and tho patriots are
abroad in the land. They lose sight
of your later reqcir*! who so unkindly
assert that lit* who plunges a coun
try in a civil war in which he is wil
ling to bear no part and share no
danger, is a moral coward who will not
hesitate to repeat his pusillanimity
whenever his personal safety demands
its exercise. Those men are strange
ly oblivious who say “O dear seces
sionist, let every widow who cries
out to God in Woe and poverty; let
every mother wife totters down to
the grave BonlesJ because they died
that you might drive your slaves iu
safety, let us all who remember , and
thank God for SJiorman, rise up and
call you blessed among men!” Such
conduct is undignified. They for
get what you La^edone lately.
But I heard your speech at Oar
tersville, und all charges against
Lester. One of them only will I no
tice now.
You say so, and I believe you,
Now, sir, I ask you if you have
everdeclared your willingness to sup 1
port for the very office to which you
now aspire, a corrupt lobbyist?
Have you ever declared that you
would not have opposed a corrupt
lobbyist if he had been nominated?
Your enemies say you have. They
furnish the following letters a9 their
e7idence. It was published ill the
Rome Courier, September 16, 1874.
I give it entire:
John \V. Wofford, in the Rome
Commercial, states that I said to
him on the Saturday beforo the con
vention nt Calhoun that I was not
opposing Trammell personally; that
I intended to run the race let who
might bo nominated at Calhoun.
This statement is correct.
Some gentlemen, in Rome, state I
unnoticed in Home, on Friday after
tiie convention that if Dabney,
Youug, Printup, LESTER, or Bass
had been nominated, I would have
retired and left the field to the nom
inees. That statement, is correct.
Now, hear me: On Monday follow
ing the conversation with Wofford,
1 spoke at Ringgold and conversed
with many citizens of Catoosa coun
ty. On Tuesday I spoke in LaFuy-
ette and heard the opionious of ma
ny citizens of Walker county, and a
good many from Chattooga county,
On Wednesday, when I readied
home, I found many letters. On
passing through Oartersville 1 mot
some friends from Cherokee, besides
conversing with many from my owu
cou n ty—Bartow.
The conviction was irresistibly
made upon my mind that if either
of these men before named were
nominated, that it would he useless
for me to oppose them.
I found out also oil that trip—to
the upper part of the district—that
Trammell Was very wrenU before tho
people. Old democrats denounced
him an unscrupulous political ad
venturer.
When I readied home at 12 m, I
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
G-L-OItOlA-rULK COUNTY.-W. C. Knlpli
Administrator on tho rstatarc or A N Pnckutt, li t
Rjpllt’il for leave to sell the land of suiil dticoi.Mu
Tlierorolc,ull persona concerned will flit- ol.j ti ,
to tho aamo, if any they have, at a Court of Ot n
miry to bo hold In said county, on tho 1st Mom! i
in October next. Given under iny hand, Ibis An.
31 ot, 1878’ JOEL BREWER,
sept. 5, 30d Ordinary.
word to the wisj will hardly reach
him.”
A “pure white swallow” has been
observed in Hartford, and tho Now
Haven Register suspects it was gin.
An Elm-street hoy who was raised
by the bottle, seems to take an al
most filial delight iji “sussing” the
milk-man.
Now fades away the last trace of
revengeful feeling against the boy
who last winter lodged a soft snow
ball on the back of our neck.
That which is good to be done,
can not he done too soon; and if it is
neglected to he done too early, it will
frequently happen that it will not be
done at all.
Don’t drink iced tea; it’s liable to
rot the lining of your stomach.
Drink beer, that goes to your head
and makes a bigger fool of you than
ever.
Distinguish hotween idleness, igno
rance, want of attention and malice;
words do sometimes slip from the
tongue which the heart did neither
hatch or hurbor.
Somebody 1ms discovered that
whenever the grain is cut and hauled
in, the tramp makes liis appearance
on th© stubble aud demands work or
bread.
A Montgomery County farmer
found a potato-bug on his dinner-ta
ble, fchd other day, and thus to the
hug ho ejaculated: “Good heavens!
have yoti got to have your potatoes
cooked this year?
“The sun rises in the cast,” ex
plained the teacher. “Yes, an’there’s
suthin’ rises in the west, too,” cliim
ed in one of the smaller boys. “Well,
what is it?” asked the schoolnia’am,
“Iiijuii8!”shouted the urchin.
A gentium an who recently travel
ed over a notoriously slow brunch
railroad declared that it is the safest
road in tho country, as tho superin
tendent, keupg a Ijuj running tdumd
of the train to drive off the cows and
sheep.
GliOKOlA-rOLK COUNTY.-John Hutching*
1ms applied Tor permanent Letters of Admiulstia-
tlonon tho estate ofWui. M. Hutchings, late of
fluid county deceased, Therefore all persons con
cerned will bo at a Court of Ordinary to be held In
snhl county oil the 1st Monday iu October next to
show emme, if any they havo, why said application
should not bo grunted. Given under my band this
Aug Sttli, 1878- JOEL BREWER,
sept 5th, 30d Ordinary.
COLLIER HOUSE,
85>tf Whitehall and Broad Streets
ATLANTA, OA.
Don’t forgot to stop nt the above House when
you go to Atlanta. You will find things “all right’*
-^bountifully supplied, and charged only $1 per day
inch 38-3111 I. D. UPSHAW, Proprietor.
Contracts For Bridges.
LETTING NO. 1
Georgia, polic county.-i win lot to the
I/O WEST BIDDER tho bullying of two
Bridget In Slid county by rocolvlng sealed bid* nt
ofllco, front now nntil tho 20th day of Septem
ber 1878, on which day tho same will lw o|H*m*d and
awarded accordingly. Located at and as follows,
towlt: Ono over Kuharlee Creek nt Rockinart, ut
or near thu place whore tho old bridge now stands/
WOOD.
To bo made and composed ot two Main String
Pieces, 12x11 Indies, 50 foot long, placed 10 fret
apart on good Rock abutments, built sufficiently
high so ns to plnco ovury part of said bridge above
high wntor mark, and more fully described In plan
and specifications In my olUcu. To be live noodlo
beams 12x11 Inches, lfl Tout long; 12 Joists, 3rl2
25 feet, long; 8 blocks 12x12 IS inebos long. Tho
whole or said Bridge, as per plan and specifications
to be floored with good, sound lienrt plank 2x0
10 feet long, laid down on sleepers so as to bo lovo I
with top of stringers.
BANISTERS.
10 Posts 0x85 feet long, mortised In near end of
Noodle Beam, nnd braced, and 1(1 Railings IjtfxlV
25 feet long, to bo let in the posts, and woll nailed.
Said Posts aud Railings to bo dressed.
IRONS.
To bo 0 Bolts 1 *4 Inches In diamoter, varying In
length with nuts und wa-burs with which to fasten
Saddles, Blocks and Noedlo Beams to Stringers;
aud I Cast Iron Caps for ends of Stringers, aud ti
Cast Iron Saddles to put on Bot .orn of Mocks with
glitters to receive I stay reds ljtf inehurs In diatn~
oter, 50 foot long, with good nuts aud
washers fastened to the caps on ends of Stringers/
well tightened for tho supporting of said Bridge.
LETTING NO. 2
The other Bridge to bo over Cedar Creuk, Just
above ford, on what Is known ns tho New Couar-
town nnd Cave Spring Road, near the residence'
of Moses T. Sewell.
MAIN SPAN
to be 81 feet long, composod o' two main Stringer#
made of 12 pieces 3x1121 reel long, to each String
er, sawed out of the llrst 21 foot of o tah true, and
to be put together with 2 pieces 1'tfxM IS Inches
long, nti(| l ono Inch Bolts, wi-hors and nuts woll
drawn and tightened nt each joint; s-tld B-dts here
after named in bill of lion. Each of said Stringers
to ho covered with plank lvfxl I 2I feet long, lull
on pieces 4 s'! 12 inebos long, woll nailed and fas
tened, so as to prevent tho said Stringors firom be
ing .xposed to water. To be 7 Needle Beams I2x
11 111 foot long. 31 Joists 3xl2 21 feet long; 82 blocks
12X12 18 incut* Mbg. Tho JoiM, i„ t.o well tinted
or bridged. Suid Main Span to bo set on Doited
ami well fastened to
DOUBLE TRUSTLKS
told my moat intimate friends tliut vdminiutmti
it would bo useless to continue the
race if certain piudioe wore nomina
ted; but if Trnmnioll was 'nominated
I should oontestevery inch of ground
with him until November, becuuse
his election would ruin tho demo-
ontic party in the seventh district.
If Colonel Ti uinmell or his protege
Heed further reasons why I continue
tho race let them meet me before the
people in public debate.
W. II. Felton.
There remains but one other que
tion: Did you know that Lester was
a corrupt lobbyist at tbe time you
wrote Unit letter? Did you know that
he had' been, to use your words,
“cheek by jowl with Bullock?” Did
you know that wlmt you charge now,
and yet stand up and toll the people
that hud “that good and pure man”
been nominated you would bare left
the field to him—would have groun
ded your arms and retired to privets
life? Let tie see. It is said that dur
ing your Oartersville speech you told
the people that, desiring to get tho
videuce which wus delivered befoio
the investigating commit.ee, you
applied to the state librarian for a
copy, That a copy could be lound in
the library, “but,” you added, “it
happened that I had the evidence at
my bouse iu an old scrap-book where
I had pasted it liearly seven years
ago.” (I give tiie substance only of
your remark)
Now, if you pasted the evidence iu
thutold scrap-book before 1874 you
know all tbe fuels then which you
charge now. You knew Lester wus
a corrupt lobbyist, and yet you cul
led him a good and pure man. You
knew that he had accepted the fee of
*1,000, aud yet you were winning to
leave the field if lie hud been nomi
nated. You knew lie had be, n oherk
by jowl with Bullock, and yet you
stood face to face witli the people
and declared that were he tho nomi
nee you would ground arms and re
tire to private life.
Were you truthful aud sincero
when you tell me now that ho was a
corrupt lobbyist?
Was a corrupt lobbyist worthy my-
support in 1874?
If he was, what renders him un-
worlity to-day? /S
I hope you will answer these ques-
CruOnOIA-l’OT.K COUNTY.-S. li. Bosun,
t. Hogue, deceased, lias ap
plied for leave to Bell ail tiie lund belonging to the
ufituto of enld dceoaHid, thereforo all persona coll
ected will file objection * to tho ffnmo, If nny they
have, at a Court ol Ordinary, to ho held in eutd
county on the flrBt Moil i I. ill October next. This
September 5th, 1878. JOEL BREWER,
ei.pt 5 «»id - Ordinary.
' Auministrator’s Sate.
GeORGIA-HAUAL3.jN COUNTY-By virtue
of an order from said c<> inty will bo sold before
the Court Houbo door, t»l eountv, on the flrat
Tueflday in October next, between thu lcgul
houra el btile, thu follow i .• real cutate. to wit:
All tho hinds bclongir ir to the e»tnte or Nathan
Gann, deceased, lying on i'ullapoosa IUver, consis
ting of lota of hind Noh, 821, tS2. 883, b95, 057,
and 1130, nil In tho 20th . district und 3rd soctlon
of originally Cherocln-. new llurulson county,
, with about 70 acres ol cleared land, with ton-
ant houBCB, abont 00 acrep of good cotton land in a
high Htatu of cultivation, with good Orchard of
upplee and peaches. Will be sold for the benefit
of the heirs. Terms will bo on time nntil! the
first of November 1870.
AOstin Ayiiib, Administrator.
September 2, 1878-
2 33 feet long; 12 posts 12.x
f every pnrtol
» Braces 11x1011
raise Bridge a
sit Dlcl
5 »nl
Photograph fiallery.
I have opened a Pliat-ograh Gallery
OodnrtOwn, Q-n.
where you can got
PICTURES
of all kinds taken. Special attention devoted to
Copying Old Pictures
WATCHES,
CLOCKS, ami
PS WING MACHINES,
and warrant satisfaction*
£39- If you have no money. I will luko produce
ut highest market price.
D. ll. LEDBETTER.
That charge was in substance tions. You perceive that I am a
that Lester is unworthy the confix ,• plain,*blunt man, caring nothing for
and Nuts, thelast named uol added iu bill of iron.
Said MalnSpan to bo 10 feet from In to In of
Stringers, undelivered with plank 2x0, 10 feel long,
sunieas Rockinart Rilrige.
BANISTERS.
To ho IS posts, 0x8,5 feet long, mortlsod in near
end of Needle Beams and caps aud braced, und 10
Ralllugs, t.Vxfi, 21 fret long, to he let in tho pouts
vo inches deep, woll nailed and fastened. Said
ostsutid Railings to he dressed.
APPROACHES
Ou South side to bemvlo of 2 Stringers 12x12,
HO feet long; (I sleepers, 3 <12, 30 feet long; 2 Single
Trestles made of same Hizod timbers as trestles of
Malu Bjnui.
APPROACH
On North Pido to be from35 to SOfoel long, so as ta
i easy admittance lo Mam Span, set on 3
Trostlcs. Said approach and trestles to be made of
kind ol timbers and.built iu samemanuoraa
that of South side. Both ol said approor-i***** R *
i thoso to Rockinart Bridge *'" n y at that
place needod, to ho hani* , - ,t: ' 1 ant ^ covered with
tho same k ind of »- u *' ,Cr . ni “* nmnuer as
that o- u - m s l“"- IIl0N3
72 Bolts, 1 inch in diameter, Nuts and Washore
with which to put Ktrlngors togothcr; 14 Bolts 1>£
incites in diameter, varying in fangth, but averag
ing 8% feet long; NntH nnd Washers with which to
fasten Iron Saddles, Blocks and Needle Boama
to h tringors. 4 cast iron caps for ends of stringers
14 Cast Iron Saddles to put on tiie Blocks with gut
ters to receive 4 Stay Rode, which are to he ljtf
Inches in din uoter 84 feet long after being put to‘-
gether as those ou Railroad Bridge at G’horokeo
Iron Work*, witli good Nuts and Washers well
tightened, I ho same to be fastened to Cast Iron
Caps ana run from each end of Main Striuger un
der thu Blocks for the supporting Main Span of
said Bridge.
The Mu.l or Bottom Sill** of Main Spurt *a woll as
those ol tho Trestles to he lot in earth to a good
firm oluy foundation, Well fastened, confined and
made secure with earth uud rock.
Suid Bridge* are to bo made and entirely compos
ed of tbe boat heart Pine, cloar of knots winshakos,
dotes or nny other defects that may tond to weaken
or cuuso decay. Also, all tho Irons to ho of the best
materlul, .well propared, perfectly clear of cracks,
flaws and ull other defects whatever. Said Bridges
to bo built to a perfect joint, and in a good, llrst-
class, workman-llko manner, and all the material
to bo famished by tiie contractor.
ALTERATIONS.
And if in tho course of building said Bridges it
may be found necessary to make any alterations Irt
the constructions thereof tho same to ho
done by the builder, aud tho rotative value of such
alterations he added or deductodas Justice may re
quire, tbo same to bo estimated by impartial judges.
Said Bridges to be completed by the 1st dhy of No
vember 1878. The Contractors will bo required to
give Bond with good security, in donblo tho
amount to ho paid for each bridge. To faithfully
keep tho samo in good ropair for Seven Tears from
date of completion, in terms of, nnd as required by
Law.
HPnymcnts for building the said Bridges, one-half
cash and balance in twelve months.
Parties dcBlrous to become bidders for tho buil
ding, cither or both of said Bridges, for further in
formation thereto, are respectfully referred to a more
accurate plnu aud specifications on fife in my ofllco,
and also to the Railroad Bridge over Cednr Cisck,
at the Cherokee Iron Works in euidcounly.
Given under my hand tho21stday of August 1878.
JOEL BREWER, Ordinary,
nug 22. 5t' ,/
ManhnoifmiValUllHordera brought on bylntUs-
irotlonexcess. AnjMJnjggUUms tlmi^