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Newspaper Page TextCEDARTOWN RECORD. W, S, D. WIKLE & CO.. Proprietors. CEDARTOWN^ GEORGIA, FRIDAyJ NOVEMBER 3, IS7G. VOL III. NO. 20. timely topics. A prominent Now York woman elair- 'oymit, who toil* “all secrets,” and “ reveals the nblding jdaoo .ol aliment friend*,” fi.r $1, invariably in advance, lo^L her own daughter a few days since, and immediately went weeping and Ed ging to the police department, asking that sin* might he found. I'nr. leading citizen* of Philadelphia if' very much enraged over the refusal ol the board of Park commissioners to allow the main exhibition building to lie retained permanently upon the eenten- LATEST NEWS. grounds, Philadelphians, who to raise half a million the building. The i the commissioner* ii not known. projected by the * to purchase controlling s anKin mean* to keep right on sing- i",' 1 ho Ninety and Nine.” lie pre- Ifod it in Chicago with the following s'ory: ” Ihrec weeks ago we were hold* ii'c Home meetings at NortlifUdd, Ma and after the service a gentleman said with deep emotion: 4 When you’ hero last year I did not believe it ligion, ami would not go to your n ings. Mitt one evening, when the church was too small to hold the people, the meeting was held in the open air. I was silting under the porch or my home, and a line of that song was wafted Jo me on IhoHtill air of the evening: - u Rejoice! f"i the l»rd brings back bis own." I b*gan to feel the force of the truth that the (food Shepherd was looking after me, and now I, with my family, belong to Ibis church.’ ” El m ■ tells ho African woman made jiottery. First she pounded enough earth and water for one pot, with a pestle such as they use in heating corn, till it formed a jierfcctly homogeneous mass. She then put it either on a flat stone or on the bottom of another, and giving it a dab with her fist in the mid dle, to form a hollow, worked it into a *ha|>e roughly with her baud*, keeping them constantly wet, and then smoothed out the linger-marks with a corn cob, and linally |K)lit*hcd it over with one or two bit* of gourd and a hit of flat wood—the l»it of gourd giving it the proper curves; j and finally ornamenting it with a sharp- l*ointcd stick. It took forty-five min utes, and then it was put away to dry four or five hours in a shady place. The shapes of many are very graceful, and all are wonderfully truly formed, like the amphora in the Villa 1 Monied, at r |K‘I The James and Younger Urol her*. The remarkable career of the Missouri r °bber band, the leading spirit.* of which were the James and Younger brothers, forms one of the most singular chapters in the. annals of modern crime. Num- Is ting originally about twonty men, for eight years it has baffled the keenest de tective talent in the land. The exploit* which have given them notoriety have been on the most extensive scale and of fbe most audacious character. Their tactics have invariably been a rapid da-li upon tho bank or railroad train, where their lsv>ty lay, half of them making *ure of the plunder, while the remainder, by riding up and down firing revolvers, created a panic amongst any bystander* or travelers who would lie likely to interfere with their nefarious enterprises. The secret of their success lay in their knowledge of tho southwest ern country, and their isolation from all Imt known friends or old war comrades. The mainjjerror of the detectives lay in attributing their crimes entirely to the Jameses and Youngers, and ignoring the fact that the gang was of much larger proportions. Their career commenced in 18(5*, when a bank at Russellville, Ky , was robbed. Tb“ following year a similar criminal exploit was committed at (inliatin, Mis souri. In 1870, seven of them carried off tie- day’s receipts of the Kansas City px|*>vtion in the presence of 50,000 peo ple. Marik* at t'oryden, Iowa, Col it in- Mrs. Vant’ott is stirring up sinner in Tcxiu. Six Savannah i*oliecmen have died o the fever. Darien, Ga., want* a physician. I'n common want. Judge Shacfor of Salt Lake, decides that Brigham must pay Ann Eliza that little amount of uliimniy. A lute Charleston circular puts tho present rioo crop of Georgia and olinn nt 7 A,.'*00 tierces, or afloat tii than any crop since the war o Corpus Christi ( lex.) (ia/.otte keeps up Its fire upon the regular bull-fight* just outside the town limits, hut the hulls continue to sprinkle dirt on their bark*, and gore < Deaths from yellow fever in Savannah alone, from •September I to October II seven hundred und twenty-six, an average of eighteen perdny. It is estimated that the population has been reduced by refugees about 8,000. A correspondent of the Florida Agri culturist urges the owucrH of groves in dr- anew county to pay more attention to pine apple culture. l'nllko the orange, the rooted plants come into bearing in a vear und a profitable crop can always bo grown between the young orange trees. Corpus Christi (Tex.) Gazette: An enterprising Mexican of this place recently conceived a new plan for obtaining a liveli hood. It is nothing more than peddling of live meat front door to door through the city. Young kids nre driven in n flock and sold to customers at their doors for the modorate sum of thirty-seven and a half Cents each. Norfolk Virginian: It is rumored that the colonization society is preparing to send out to Liberia from thirty to fifty col ored emigrants next month. The sseretnry at Washington City is now in correspondence with Messrs. B. »fc J. Backer A Co" with a of securing their passage on the hnrk e Resolution, which is to sail for Cape Mnlmns, Africa, nt nil early period. Richmond Whig: For the week end ing Saturday the shipments of flour from Richmond to foreign ports aggregate n,!>37 re Is, valued nt $*U,7V'.7fi. Tho niiinhcr mrrcls exported tho previous week was 7, showing an execs* of 1,2*0 barrels for week ending the fourteenth lust. With exception of one cargo of 2,-1(17 barrels, nd for HL Johns, Newfoundland, nil the uhovu mentioned are hound to Brazilian ports. Norfolk Landmark: iWenger*on the “Valley Railroad” are attracted daily by the conduct of a large «ad intelligent dog wiiilifi AN IMPARTIAL VIEW. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., on tho Two Presidential Candidates Governor /l'lldon tho Foremost former of tho Time. Hay os tho Oroaturo of Oamoroti, Olmud- ler and tho Gang. °ni no Article liy Charles Frniinls Arinin* Jr., Just bo fore tho lirat mooting intended having a hom ing on tho presidential nomination* (ortho campaign, now going ii wore hold, Mr. W. M. F.varts one ny remarked to Carl Hcluirz that the re publican party in its tlion condition re minded him of nothing ho much ns an • whoso tenu of enlistment had ex pired. Mr. F.varts is justly famed for the witty and incisive way in which ho xpresses what other people think, but ho has not often had tho good fortune to hit off a happier smile than this. It in- eluded in ten words a phnmphlcLftil of political insight, and accounted at onco for that large amount of individual ac tion, which is such an essential feature the present canvass. The field is full of stragglers. So far as the niomcntoiiHpolitical issues ol twenty years ago aro concerned, little remains over which to struggle. During ■ present canvass-issucs, sido-issm* I after-issues will, indeed, l>o nuinu factored out of it ; somotimes by very •st and very dull men who, having 1 learned to talk on a certain subjee • no faculty of speech on any oihe sometimes by very cunning and ii pulpits men. who will work on tl passions and the old hatreds as long hoy etui possibly hone to got them es into office, or to Keep themselves there by so doing. In all fltis, howover, is something very uninviting and repulsive to men who look upon politics as anything more than an occu pation, and upon office holding as any thing more than a means of support. Tho continued dwelling upon the last phai " ' * *' that being unknown and untried they payinont of the rebel war dohts, tho pen have no record to defend. F,very voter’ sinning of confederate officers and sol is thus left •free to imagine wiiat he Idler*, and numerous other visions of pleases, and, of course, onuie i(/no(uit, etc, {terror aro conjured up. With an nrgu in such a matter ns this it U Ih>m per- niont of this character it is almost humi haps to try to see ourselves aji we would | Hating to bo called upon to deal. Again, others, and as others nmstjseous. practical mon, priding onrsewes on capacity for self-government, what would we Americans say if we saw, thr instance, the liberal party of England on ^ defeat by the readable for the daily iiuwiipngrr, which was formerly thrown to him from the baglOtgc ear for Ills master, who lived half a mile from tlie rails. The master lias dead many mouth*, bin the faithful doir inis not missed the mail train a day aiuee. 'I Kc man, in |» i him ns the l lull NOIII r the do; slies by, which he eagerly seizes und starts joyfully over the hills for home. When the train rushes by and no paper Is thrown he rushes wildly up and down the track, enzing after the ears with nil almost human look <,f dis appointment, ond jogs dojcctly homeward. A dispatch from the camp on Am phibious creek, Black Hills, October 1.1th, via Fort Diramie, October filth, says; Gen eral Meritt, with all the. best horses in the Fifth cavalry, left here this morning, taking sixty selected men from the Second and one. hundred and twenty from the Third cavalry, ten days rations and one hundred and filly round* of carbine and twelve pounds of pis tol ammunition per man, en route for the forkofthe Cheyenne river, where, a large hand of Indians, led by < raey Horse and other hostile*, are reported in winter camp. The troops arc in three detachments, oflicered liy Captain Beale and IJcutenat Hail, Cap tains Monnahmi and Von Vheist and Lieu tenants King and Snead. No wagons were taken, and the rations arc carried by pack mules. The four hundred fresh hones hich reached here day heforo yesterday with recruit* for the Fifth cavalry, will he used ninting the old soldiers of this regi iconipany General Me: rmuauN. Eastern newspaper correspondent* nay that the Turkish note offering six mouths nr- mistier is conciliatory,imhmissiveand almost huinhlc. then robbed. fu 1H7R, a train on the Toronto telegram stale* that Jamc* Rock Island A Pacific road was wrecked. Ryan, a mcichant of Petcrhoro, worth five After a visit to Texas thny returned und hundred thousand dollars, is to he hanged the .St. Louis <V Iron on the twenty-first for the murder ofhis wife Thirtv thou and dol- on the eighth inst old dust was next taken Th( . k|nf , of ( j' lct , roblsul a train Mountain roa< lan»' worth of from the Kansas Pacific train nt Muncie, Kan., the same program mo of fiiglit to western Missouri being pursued in every instance with entire success until the late North field affair. The total amount I stolen by the band i* about a quarter ofj a million dollars. Many of them have Ca l>een killed in the various affraya with Gcorj pursuers in which they have been on- i;. A. gaged in from time to time, until only I York Frank and Jesse Jame* and two other now remain alive and at large. ce feel* constrained t y on a war footing in view of th b of afinirs in Turkey. (T.KARIM. S T It LI. I - Ol -NOW. - A machine for melting snow in cities, which often forms a source of much an noyance and obstruction to traffic during the winter months, have been invented by John Mullaly and John T. Hawkins, of New York. It i* claimed that the proc -s has been brought to perfection. Sup- r-heated steam is employed for the purpose, and by a simple contrivance the steam at the same time creates a draught in the furnace which increases the heat. < )ne snow-melter is said to be capable of ( clearing off from one to fifteen milt? of street in twenty-four hours. The invent ors e-timate the cost at from one-fifth to one-tenth the expense of the present sys tem of carting the snow away, and have mad. a proposition for undertaking ilie work to tlfe street cleaning depart ment of New York. let midshipmen NY. N. King, of :ia; T. B. Parsons, of Massachusetts; Scott,of Indiana; J. F. Lciby, of New and W. NY. Russell of Maryland, have been dismissed from tho naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland, for refusing to tell who Imzed the “ plebs.” A Washington dispatch way* the pre sentation of theaddres* from Ireland through Messrs O'Conner, Power and Parnell, mem bers of parliament, has been deferred through etiquette. Resolutions will Jmve to come through the British minister here and the state department to the president. An obstacle lias been found to the success of the first step in the wording of certain parts of the resolutions. One part recites that having suffered through seven centuries of tyranny, the Irish people make their greeting to the (1 .States and its president. This can not, it is contended, lie passed by without an act of disrespect on the part of president Grant to her majesty’s representative. The resolutions are magnificent evidences of art an-.! t.vte, appearing like a plate of the pur est alabaht. r i*. laM with mosaic. They nre left in one of the rooms of the White House that tho number of those who act inde pendently of all party affiliation* is con tinually increasing. The wonder rather is that the majority still cling to these rut*. Jn considering tho question* of the day it is well in the first place to try to get a perfectly dear perception of tho issttcB involved in the campaign. That lie may do thi* it is absolutely necessary for an intelligent being to close Ida ear* to the discussion generally carried on. In that, words supply to an altogether inordinate degree the place of'idea*. Of the three elements, therefore, in which every cam paign discussion may he dee imposed- rubbish, formalities and essence—it i* here proposed to dovnlo Very few word* except to the last. Under the head of campaign rubbish may, in the present case, safuly be classed all the rambling discussions of the war records of the several candidate*, and their opinion* prior to the rebellion or the Mexican war; also.tho r charge* and counter-char ge* made*n* their transactions in mules, their stealing railruads, pi undering widow* and orphans, "dodging” taxes, issuing "shitiplastcr” currency, the number of watches they own, and the date at which they may have purchased piano*. I’er- Honally all the candidate* are respectable gentlemen. They have passed their livas before the <•011111111111110* in which they live, and been honored and trusted, A* to the view* they may have enter tained twenty year* ago, it is to he re- inhered the war of the rebellion closed the year 18li. r i. The issue* at stake between the years 18-18 and 18(50 are now just as much settled beyond the pcrad- venture of reversal a-; those involved in the war of 1812 or the revolution. The record* of Guv. Hayes and Gov. Tildon anterior to 18(51 have, therefore, senti- nt part, just about a* much 1 tearing the lining issues of this campaign as ir opinions on the Hartford conven tion or the Darwinian theory of evolu tion. No one can deny that tho mam of trash and rubbish of this description- - constituting, a* it doe*, nine-tenth* of the campaign literature—lias its in fluence. Unhappily, mud-flinging i* to ry large class of mankind one of the most enjoyable feature- of every canvass; and, as there are said to he Herman :oiintics in Pennsylvania, where votes ire regularly at each election cast for Jen. Jackson, so a not inconsiderable portion of the community now does, and for the next five years will, measure every.candidate, not by hi* acts of the flay, but by what he said and thought in 18(50, or did or did not do during the re bellion. There are three great phases into 'tie’ll all political movement resolve* •elf—the revolutionary, the construc- vc, and the administrative, and these three also iiecessarilyisuccccd each other he order in which they have been named. Within the hist sixteen years it * apparent that this country has passed through two, and the more momentuous o, of these phases, and is now entering ujs»n the third. Tho*period between 18(51 and 1.865 was one of unquestioned revolution : that since 18(55 has boon one of construction, which, well or ill done, will ,be complete a* soon as .South Caro- and Louisiana are permitted to reach the jK>.sition of rcstJoward which they are irrcsistably lending That time not long be deferred. T- IE ADVANTAGE OB TUB DRMOCHATH. t i* hardly better worth while to waste time over empty political formali ties than over unadulterated rubbish. Passing on, then, to the essence of the campaign, the candidates are first to be considered. In this respect unquestionably the prima facia advantage i* with the demo crats. If there is one thing wholly op posed to the spirit of our institution* and the earlier and better usages of tliecoun* „ t is the political trick of nominating unknown and untried men,on the ground of the Disraeli ministonind a dissolution of parliament, select a* (heir cindidate? for premier, not Gladstone, nm AsHter, not tiny well known or exMWonced leader, but some unknown, unfried lord lieutenant of Canada, who had- been colonel in the Sepoy insurrection, and a audit monitor during one short parlia ment ? In tho days of Washington and Jefferson and Madison we should have smiled, not without just prldo, and re marked that republicans I hough we , we at least did not make a farce of government. Yet thi* i* exactly what was done by tlm republican party iu the case of (lovornor I laves. Of that gentleman all that is known Is from hi* (lit ; lie seem* to have been a gallant 1 meritorious otlieer during thewar; a faithful though uuiufliiontiul member of congress after it* closo ; and more re nt ly a respectable, though not brilliant, governor of Ohio. Since his nomination the verdict of those input intimately ac- Ijiaiiited with him ha* boon decidedly in hi* favor,und they lmvojoiuod iu warmly recommending him for the presidency. All this, however, ill supplies the place public service. To fill the [presiden tial chair with success a malt must have great deal more than tlioso good pur poses, fair talents, ami high character which serve to make him locally respec table. I le must have judgment,firmness, insight, and, above all, experience iu a much more than ordinary degree; and that 1h< ha* these is only shown by trial. Even the most euthiisia.stiosupporters of Air. I Inyo* can hardly, ns yet, claim that hia election would lx* anything more than a political experiment. It i* diffi cult, tliorofore, to see why Governor Hayes does not fall within that class of iiludidalCH who were so well pictured As [ tho existence and obstructive power of ’an organized opposition, thi* time con trolling tho icnnte, I* ignored ; and that too, by the leader* of a party which, ' complete control of the government It* every dopnrtihont, through hIx years out of eight, piteously claims that it* utter failure during all that timo to ftil fill any of its pledge* was duo to the nresonco of a contemptible minority Experience 1*, however, after all, the host of guide*, and experience Is not without It* lights on thiH subject. The "ins” always do, and always have, unanimously averred, with a fervor which can only spring from hoart-foit conviction, that the incoming of tlm “outs” will he shortly followed by the final crack of doom. A good* many cred ulous people, from force of habit chiefly, can always he relied on, also, timorously to accept this view of the subject. Two years ago it was nervously argued by II10 party leadcrf, in tho same spirit/that ;ho country could not he so rich a* to (•loot a democratic house ol representa tives to trust, etc., etc. Yet, looking r tho field and judging by the reconi, truly independent voter could prob ably now be found who would not admit that the existence of an opposition majority iu one branch of congress has bet n, during the last year, a piece of national goodjlortuno; and, also, that tlto record of that opposition body will, as a whole, compare more than favorably with the records of either the republican senate or tlm republican executive TUB END roll REFORMKIIH. idopted by the Fitli Av •nee, a* candidates whom In- could not support; tlm addre hotel conic dependent men " who, however, favorably judged by their nearest friends, are not publicly known to possess those qualities of mind and character which the stern task of genuino reform requires; for tho Ameri can people can not iilfhrd to risk tlm future ol the republic in experiments on merely supposed virture or rumored ability to lie trusted on tho strength of private recommendations. TUI El) MEN AND TRUE. Tlm democrats, on tho other hand, whatever maybe thought, of tlm men, unquestionably have put in nomination candidate* both of whom were among their most pmminent party leaders— men with whom mid whose record the whole country was thoroughly familiar. I'lmt on certain cHKontial issue*, and especially that of the currency, these two leaders were at. variance, i* indis putable, but this merely proved that, they wore party leaders, and nil who considered such variance a good ground fin refusing to support the ticket hud full notice of tlm fact and could shapo their course accordingly. Good or bad, the candidates were tried men, and the whole country knew how to measure them; the appeal was to facts, not to fancy; to flic record, not the imagination. And this i* the only sound practice. Ini., „ ,, so far, therefore, the democratic party ] koulheni Itepiidialioii a ( onscqiicncc him,, thin t-iiinpiiigii ujiproriclicU iiilioli of H«|.iil>llcnn more nearly than its opponents to a cor- v , , „ reel usage ; it* rceord may lie bad other-1 ,)W 01 ' wise, but it Iiiih at least nominated the I Tlm war ended more t han eleven year* most distinguished reformers it its ranks, j since. Tlm whole of the debts ol the A thorough and correct appreciation I southern state* contracted during the The single great end to which all re formers, whatever their theories may be, must look i* distinct enough; it is to overcome the tondcncy of our political system to corruption. All political systems, no doubt, have some tendency, greater or less, toward corruption. Tlm uliarity of our* is that it moves, and fifteen years has moved, in that direction with accelerated fmeo, and it 1m* now arrived at a point where even the blindest patriots see that, unless tho ovil i* checked,our political system must break down, and some now experiment must he substituted in it* place. The ground, therefore, and the only ground on which all honest men can unite, and insist with one voice upon reform, is that of resistance to the corruption of r political system. Ml these measures ol reform, necessary they are, attack merely the outposts of corruption. They would, if successful, considerably reduce the resources of the political organization; hut when it is considered how infinite the ramifications of the inary t sources arc constantly developed, it is ridiculous to suppose that these metis- nre*, even if adopted to their utmost extent, would offer any permanent, cure for the radical evils of our political sys tem. No serious impression can ever he made on those evil* until they are attacked at their source.; not until tho nation is ready to go hack to tho early practice of the government, and to restore to the constitutional organs those powers which have been torn from them by the party organization for purposes of party aggrandizement. WHAT IS (GIANTISM. r llio Oilluiia, Cot-nipt (tuition mill l)li|i-ni , rl'nl n speech ol Gov. (.'linn. 8. May, of Mhh'ijnn, at Clovclnnri. Citizens—What is Grnntism-- wortl in our polities? It Isa Fell. this 111 t word of baleful import—a word shame, a word of national humiliation. It is a word that means under this ad ministration overy department of government has been disgraced and dis honored. l)o 1 speak too strongly? l'Ook at t he record—-tho plain but damn ing rooord which all mon know. 1 said disgraced every department. Was I not right? What one ha* escaped ? Tin state department, tho great foreign de partment of tho government, has beot. disgraced under ibis administration by t he displacement of Charles Sumnor and the elevation of Simon Cameron; by the appointment and retention of puli lie swindlers a* the representatives <> our country nt foreign courts; by wasteful and criminal extravagance, in robbing tho treasury for tho benflilof the camp followers of the party. The treasury, that great department organized by tho genius of Alexander Hamilton, and once presided over by statesmen like Albert Gallatin and Unit great son of Ohio in the war times, Sal mon I*. Chase, has been dishonored and llsgraeed by HoutwoU and Richardson. Tho navy, first organized by the true patriot, George Cabot, under Washing ton, and in nioro recent times adorned the administration of Folk by the 11 instances mid 1111 accurate ad justment of mean* to end i* generally looked ii|hiii a* a find essential to human success. Don Quixoto'performed, per haps, u very gallant feat of arms when he ran a tilt with the windmill; but lie camo out of the tournament badly damaged none the less. It is surely to he supposed t.liaL Governor lluyes appre ciate* the fact that, if he is elected presi dent of the Unitcil States, his power as such will l>c limited, and his administra tion can he saved from lamcfilahlc and uLtni failure 'only through the hearty and united support of some organized party. No president in this country can carry on an adininistation to suit him self on sentimental or guerrilla or Islimac- lite principles. He has got to have a party Isdiind him, or fall. Not only this. Common sense, as well rs political usage and party courtesy,always dictates to the president elect who are to he hi* confidential advisers and whom he can look to for effective support. Theso are, in the fir t place, his unsuccessful com petitor* in the nominating convention ; and, in the second place, those who brought about this nomination und sub sequent election. Not only doe* thi* usage exist in our political system, but it i* a sound one. Through it alone can responsible, in place of personal, admin istration be secured. President Grant, looking iijsm bis cabinet a* a sort of civil staff, ignored the usage, picking up his heads of departments as he met men ho fancied in the cats, at dinner tables, or in the dllb-room*; and the result be came known as "Grnntisni.” Lincoln always recognized it, and it saved hi* administration. 111 the early day- of the republic no president thought of dis regarding it. In the ease of Governor yaves, who are the advisers thus desig nated to him in advance? Hi* chief competitor in the convention was .Mr. iilainc; his rival* who secured hi* nomin ation over Secretary Bristow were Messrs, Morton and Conkling. .Senator Sher man, Jrom Ohio, fir*L named him promi- ncntlynHH candidate; ^Secretary Cameron manipulated the Pennsylvania delega- negroes a lion in hi* favor at the decisive moment; ! power the men who have created these and Secretary Chandler is the head of debts, and repudiation will assuredly the national executive committee which ! follow. Put an end t.f that delusion, i* organizing the campaign for his elec- and enable their legislative bodies onco Under these circumstances how is I more to be filled by honest and for its purposes have been out by an amendment of the constitu tion of the llnitcdiStatoH. The debts of nine of those states, created since they camo under republican control, amount to more than * 150,000,000; how much more it is impossible lossy, because no one can tell what the debts of North and HotiLh Uiirolina are. For this erroneous mow of debt t here i* substantially noth ing whatever to show. The money has been squandered, stolen, and carried off; and at this moment tho stales of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Ixmiainnii,Mississippi, North Carolina, Kouth Carolina, Ten nessee and Virginia are unable to pay tlie interest on their bonds. Ono hundred and fifty millions is a huge amount of plunder to bo obtained out, of the use of Inn publieereditof those nine states; and it has all boon obtained by men who have had the public credit of those states put within tucir reach by the pretence that the republican party is the party of freedom, and that it* political suprem acy is established to the safety of tho ne groes. There is no fraud in the whole history of fraudulent pretences that can show $150,000,000 of plunder obtained by tho simple swindling of an ignorant lieasantry, suddenly endowed with a right of suffrage, making them the un conscious tools of a great public robbery. The simple truth is that if tho carpet bag governments are not overthrown, the public debt of these states can never bo paid. What system of taxation, what system of economy, can he looked for from the republican party, that will put their bonds into good credit in tho money centers of any portion of Christen dom ? These state* could not borrow a dollar anywhere in the world, could not fund their debts upon any basis of agreement with their creditors, unless the result of this election shall -how that the virtuous and intelligent among their citizen* have it in their power to con trol the course of legislation and the executive conduct of their governments. Keep up the cry that the rights of’the langor, and by it continue President Have* to form a cabinet sympathy with his views as respects civil Her vice ? ■: OPPOSITION RECORD It i usually argued that it will not he afe to trust thedemoeratieparty in office, y«" for Lhn brictl icriu ol four year*, in ! I Iu, repiibliami party oOlin wlioia :cw of the possible mischief it might! has encouraged the delusion which has accomplish in that time. The deprive ’ made this wholesale plunder of Hie south tion oi the black* of all civil right-, the | a possible and an easy villainy. xccutivo offices once more to he in the hands of reputable citizens, and their natural re*ources will soon enable them, with u proper system of public economy, to rid themselves 01 the bur den* for which the republican rrnrty of the whole union i* responsible, oeeause union oiniuontnud cultured historian Bancroft the navy, which carries tho flag every sen, and which has thundered American liberty iu all our war*—thi* {'rent department, under Grant, has be iulrusted to the dishonest hand* of man who is thought by a great majority of ItiH fellow-citizen*, upon good evi dence, to ho no better than a public rob ber. And the war department—what shall say of that? The great department which, with the navy, and more than the navy, holds tho honor and safety of the country iu its hands—the depart ment organized by Henry Knox,of revo lutionary fame, and since filled by Mar shall. and Monroe, and Gass, and Murcy, and Htanlon—this great department ha* at la*t come to bo lu?l<l by a man mean and huso enough to reach out hi* hand from hi* luxurious palace in Washington and roll tho poor common soldiers on our bleak western frontuuiatU. their moss ta bles, rob them of thoir-raWons, tho poor privates whoso protection and comfort ought to have been dear to him ! What more ? There is tho postmaster-generaI- ship with Oroswell and hi* frauds, and the interior department with Delano and his public infamy, and there i* tho attorney generalship, that groat, law office of the government, given into the weak hands of u man liko Williams— 1 “ Lnn- daulot Williams,” as ho is called—the who connived at fraud, and rode about iu a carriage stolen from tho gov ernment. This was Grant's choice of a successor for Pinckney and Wirt and LvarlsI Ami more than this, he sent the immo Williams to tho senate to fill the exalted and spotless office of Chief Jnsf.ico of the United States! To that had it come at last, under Grant—Wil limns a* successor to John Jay and John Marshall and Salmon P. Chase. And during all this dreary und dis graceful chapter in our political history Gen. Grant has steadily stood by these recreant nubile officials, giving them hi* confluence and protection, while he has just iih steadily frowned upon und turned out honest men. Hoar and Cox, at tho beginning, and Bristow and Jewell in these latter times—all these men had to leave hi* cabinet lie- cause they honestly tried to do their duty and reform abuses, while he has citing, wit h all tho stubbornness of hi* nat ure, to hiicIi men iih Delano and Rich ardson, and Belknap and Robeson. Whenever the honest wrath of a people ha* driven a huso public servant from power because he himself was shamed into resignation, there Grant Iiiih been with his words of energy and his letters of confidence. You know (hat this ha* been so, They call it standing by his friends. Well, Unit is a good trait, if a man’s friends aro decent people and fit to stand by. But how comes it that Grant has never made the mistake to stand hy an honest and fearless public officer in the discharge of hi* duty? How comes it Hint when the people turn out men for dishonesty, Grant immedi ately rewards them V Wo thought in Michigan two years ago that we had at hist god rid of Zaek Chandler. The people were tired of his political rule, of Ids coarse, demagogue wuys amt hi* had notoriety in the coun try, and with the help of his own party they rose up and overthrow him—cost out of tho senate and into private life, as a useless and dilapidated demagogue. But Gen. Grant, true to thi* way of do ing business of which I have spoken, reached jforlh his presidential hand and lifted him out of the political gutter and put him in his cabinet to ornament hi* administration and give him sober coun sel in regard to his great duties! ','ortT or tjie Great Ihtilmijh Canal John O. Trautwinc, an engineer of great experience, who was connected with the construction of the Panama railroad, and who made an exploration for a canal hy what i* known as the At- tratro route, says that no canal can ho constructed across the Isthmus, which will be satisfactory for less than $1100,- 000,000. Ho hold* that it would not he possible to const! net a canal on the most favorable route without having tide- locks nt either end. Tho rise of tlie tides along the Pacific shore* of the Isthmus range from sixteen to twenty feet, while the rise on the Atlantic side averages only about two feel. He think* that at least two tidelocks will he necessary in order to check the current, which would materially impede navigation. Butter is very high just now, and Hpilkin’* landlady remarked to that gen tleman, with emphasis, this morning, as he was preparing a piece of bread : " Mr. Hpilkins, that air is (Joshing butter, and will make you sick if you spread it too thick. It cost forty cents 11 pound” Hpilkins says that many is the lime she has snatched him from the tomb hy her carefulness.--Skn Antonin lkrnhl. FACTS AND FANCIES. The Lee monument Bind now amount* to $25,000. When is a blow from a lady wolcomo? When sho strikes you agreeably. A man must bo pretty drunk to go along the streets holding fast to Ills coat collar with both bauds to prevent falling down. er> 'he chief Japanese exhibitor at tho centennial is called " Filter Dojlcie,” be cause that is bis response to overy ques tion put to him. Byron wrote. “How sweet to hear the \Cntoh dog’s honest bark.” From which wo infer that Byron never attend ed a midnight sociable in a farmer's melon patch. “ Why do tho butterflies waft their wings?”—a twenty-two verso poem; by “ F.smoruldiiis respectfully declined, with tho information that they have to do it or walk. The Graphic says: George William Curtis says “a ship on the ocean is only a chip with a thought iu it.” Then a chip in tho wood-house is only a ship without a thought iu it. This is curious. An old minister once said to a young preacher who was, complaining of a small congregation. " It’s as large a con gregation, porliaps, a* you will want to account for at tho day ol judgment.” There is nothing dispels the dreams of youth and shatters the ambitious hopes of the noble boy like having a young lady remark iu his hearing Hint lie would make, with study, a good hat rack.” Adelina Patti is not in good health. Some say that her throat, la affected, others that her lungs are threatened ; at ntH, her physicians have forbidden her to bravo the rigors of tho Russian winter the coining Reason. The indicative mood, present tense of 0 verb to go, should now bo rendered thus: I go to Philadelphia ; you go to Philadelphia ; ho goes to Philadelphia: wo go to Philadelphia; you go to Phila delphia; they all goto Philadelphia.—- Buffalo Courier. It makes tho new preacher awful mad to he fumbling with the intricnciPH of a front gate fastening trying to got in and make his first pastoral call to have tho woman of the house turn the slats in tlie hay-window and call out, “ Wo haven’t got 110 old clothes to give away and there ain’t a cold vlttlo in tlto house!” Mrs. Hitting Bull got possession of a fashion magazine the other day and was so delighted with tho latest mode* that sho cut out all the colored plates und juisfed them on various parts of lior body. Hhe says they are a " heap nice,” and sho wants her husband to subscribe for a year to enable her to wear the latest styles every month. “Talk about givin’ into a man’s temper,” exclaimed Mrs. Tenrhnir, with her arms akimbo ; “ that’s all nonsense! Why, when my sninuel und mo uuh married, lie had such a temper, imt look at him now! Why, he's that angelic that I do declare I don’t bolievo it’d be safe to trust him with a pair of wings.” An editor is described a* a man who liable to grammatical blunder*, typo graphical errors, and lapse of memory, and has twonty-flvo thousand people watching him tripping—a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief, poorly paid, poorly estimated, yet envied hy some of the great men ho has made.—New Or* learn Bulletin. When IIiim pmiNina wmlri IhiIoiki, WIiOll Iiiih fiiiiik your i-IhiIiik huh, Whim woMimri with Rlirliit In story, Loolilnu o'nr life's fliilnliod story, 'I lii'ii, Loril, hIiiiII I fully know - Not lilt thoil—libw (mum I owe. Wlnm 1 Klnnri ls-Iorn Thy throlio, Dii-hsMIii Im-hiiIy not my own, When I tw>Then us Tima art, l.ovn Them with uiiHlnnlnu Inuir(, Thru, l*»nl, Hmll I fully know- Not till thou—how inin h I own. When tho prnlHoof Inmvoii I I; I .'imt 1111 llininli-rri lo l lit. oar, Hwimt iih harp's iih-IoiIIoiih v Thnn, Lorri,-hull J fully know-- ** I till then—how 1 ‘ ’ E'en on OMrlli, as Ihroiiah a ulnn Dmkly, lot Thy glory pm-s; Mukc Thy spirit's help ronnict E'en nil i-srtli. Lorri, iimkr Hoiiifthlng of how iiiuoli I Ulioson not for goori in mo Wnki-m-il up from 11 In tin Hlilrii-n In llm Savior's 'rath lo flee, By tlm spirit snnntllli'tl; Touch mo, Mini, 01 Hy my lovo, how u irlh to show, When Beth got homo from mackerel- ing I10 sought his Ha rah Ann, and found that she, the heartless one, had found another man. And then most awful tight I10 got, and so he went away, and bound himself to cut live oak all clown in Florida. Ho pined upon tho live oak land, be murmured in the shades; hi* ax grew heavy in Ids hand, ail in the wild-wood glades. Mosquitoes bit him everywhere, no comfort did ho get, and how terribly he’d swear whenever he got hit. At last, despairing of relief, and wishing himself' dead, lie went into the woods a piece and chopped off his own head. Down in the southeastern part of Vir ginia flourishes a breed of semi-wild hog*, called in the country vernacular “ wind- splitters,” or “razor-backs.” They greatly resemble a greyhound in shape, and in speed would successfully compete with one. At one of the county fairs, sever al years ago, an enterprising Pennsylva nian placed on exhibition a pen of sleek fat Berkshires, which presented a marked contrast to the leaner native specimens by which they were surrounded. Their owner one day encountered one of hi* competitors in swine culture, and ven tured a comparison between his own and the silent occupants of the neighboring jH'ii*. " NYa'al, stranger,” replied the ruralist, "they may he iight'sinartfor you mi*, but down in this yar country you couldn’t give ’em ’way.” “ Why not ? ” asked the astonished Pennsylvanian. "Why, ye see »l ranger, down yar a hog that can’t outrun a nigger ain’t wutli a cuss.” This anecdote was told by sena tor Withers, of Yirginia, iu a stump speech delivered iu Chesterfield county. \YJ10n he descended from the platform lie was accosted by a venerable darky, who had been an attentive listener; with the query : " I say, Mars Withers, wliar can I git some dem hogs. Fo’ .Clod, dey’s jess de breed for dis yar kentry.”

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Cedartown record. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1874-1879, November 03, 1876, Image 1