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VOL. 3. H. 14. M’BQNALD, DENTIST* Will be found at Ins Office, Room No. 3 White head Mouse, Conyers, ha., where he is pre pared to do all kinds of work in his lino. Fill, iiijf Teoth made a speciality. All work Warranted to give Satisfaction Being thankful for past patronage, he re spectfully solicits a continuance of the same. WILMatM S'Lomc SILVEMira and JEWELEB, CjNYKRS. UKOIiUIA batches, Clock, and Jewrlry of every de scription repaired. All work done neatly, and in order, at lowest prices for cash, and warran ted to give satisfaction. Shop : next door to Post Office. aug23187(3-ly Downs & LftNGFQnPt BOGGY and WAGON REPOSITORY, CONYERS, GEORGIA, DEALERS IN AND MANUFACTURERS OK HAND CARTS, WHEELBARROWS, and VEHICLES of all kinds. HARNESS, from the Cheapest to the Dearest, both Hand and MachifieStitcb ed. We keep the best HMD-MIDE HARD. in Use, for CARRIAGES BUGGIES, or one Horse WAGONS, flan sup| ly any part of HARNKSs ou short notice. Also, a full stock of luibee in greai variety always on hand, for house building purposes. Carpenters and Contractors would do well lo see our special wholesale rates. Mouldings, L.-itiees, Stops, strips, etc., a .speciality, and made ot any width, thickness, or shape. Window Sash — primed and glassed—Blinds and Doors, either white or ye low piue. Also suitable lumber tor Coffins. V> v always keep in stock Bu:il cases and Caskets of various sizes and lengths, from infants lo adults—all at very low figures. CjHin Hardware generally. With our facilities, we propose to make Coffins ot any style, from the plainest to the finest, cheaper than we possibly cou and by hand alone. drive us a trial and see l PATENT WHEELS. Hubs, Spokes, Kims, Bodies, Seats, Shafts, Boles Dash Frames, Axles, Springs. IKON in great variety. Screws and Bolts ot best make. Patent and Enameled Leather, Enameled C olhs, Moss and everything a Trimmer needs. Full slock of best Carriage Paints, Varnishes, Oils, Colois, Ornaments, and Paints generally. NEW CARRIAGES, . BUGGIES and WAGONS always on hand, in great variety, and can make to older any style or quality desired. Old ones Repaired, Painted and Trimmed at short notice, and at living rates. We buy the best material, and having suitable machinery, are able to turn off work with neatness and dispatch. With constant devotion to cur Bnsi ness, Honest Dealings with our Custom ers, Experienced Faithful Mechanics, and the manufacture of Reliable Goods in rour line, we hope to merit a liberal pat ronage from a Generous Public. Thauk ing you tor your past favors, we will be glad to see you again at our office ou Depot Street, near the Geo Ii R. Respectfully, Downs & Lanokoud m m.. EeSMt m. W. ! | "• DRUGGIST and APOTHECARY i j j Centro Street, CONYES3, GEORGIA —Dealer in— DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS Perfumery anil Fancy Toilet articles, PULE WINES & LIQUORS for Medicinal ue. *' 1 ‘ 8, Varnish**. Ac; Trußßee and slioul ir lae1 aee ®- Fresh Garden Seeds. Patent ■ ( c . lnes kind*. Thyßician't Pre _ T tioa * accurately coiopoimdud. 1818. MCBEttCEKUHMALIM6 desiring information as to beat route* sort* ~ , Leutennia., or to any Summer Ke hrrnl,t oth<r *** *" the country , B vv - WKFNN. ral Fas stager Ay ant Kennesaw Houle, AtTatrin, <3a. Comfort. Buatmar, boatman, my brain is wild. As wild as the rainy seas; My poor little child, my sweet little child. Is a corpse upon my kuees. No holy choir to sing so low, No priest to kneel in prayer. No tire woman to help me sew, A cap for his golden heir. Dropping his oar in the rainy sea, Tho pious boatman cried, •‘Not without him who is life to thee Could the little child have died ! ‘‘Mis grace the same and the same his power Demanding our love and trust, Whether he makes of the dust a flower, Or change a flower to dust. “On the land, on the water, all in all. The Btreugth to be still or pray, To blight the leaves in their time to fall. Or to light up tho hills with May.” Over the Sea. BY MRS, MULOOK-CRAIK. O boat of my lover, go softly, go safely— O boat of my lover, that bears him from me ! From the homes of the cluchan, from the burn singing sweetly, From the loeh and the mountain that he’ll nevermore see. O boat of my lover, go softly, go safely; Thou bearest my soul with thee oyer the tide. I said not a word, but my heart it was break ing, For life is so short end the ocean so wide. O boat of my lover, go softly, go safely ; Though the dear voice is si ent, the kind hand is gone; But oh ! love me, my lover, and I’ll live till • I find thee - Till our parting is i Ter and our dark days are dune. THE GASVIE OF GRANTISM Indications that Trouble Will Arise When the Electoral Vote is Counted Next Year—A Dez pet ate Effort to be Jade by the Administration to Defeat the Will oi the People. [ Washington Special to the Cklcxgo Times.] There is an important fact on record here that has seeminglv escaped the no tice of every one, and yet will probably form the basis ot one of die most stu pendous rows known in the history of our elections It is this, the Congress of the United States lias no joint rules. An explanation is necessary lo show the enormous importance of this omission. To explain, the custom ot forming Con. gnssional rules will be reviewed. No one Congress lias any power to pacs any code ot rules that can bind in any de gree a future Congress. Each one can, 11 it so desires, b’bid iq foi ilselt a separ ate code. This, however, involves 100 much thinking toi the average legisla tor, so the custom lias been for the House and Senate to pass at the outset or ope ning of every new Congiess a formalis tic resolution declaring that the rules of the preceding body shall be the standard ot government for its successor. This involves seperate action uot concurrent. However, there are other rules, and this is where the hitch comes. These were joint rules. No one can say that they are now in existence, 'these joint iules provide, besides certain restrictions up* on legislation during closing days of session, regulations tor counting the votes for President. In the old joint rules it is provided that the Senate shall meet iti tiie House of Representatives in the presence of the It ruse, to count this vole. It also says that any one member may object to coum mg the votes oi any State, and that upon such objec tion the Senate shall retire, and eacli body shall vote separately upon propositions The vote ot no Stale shall be counted except upon a concurrent vote ol approv al from both houses. lICW THE OMISSION WAS MADE. The custom about passage of the joint rules of Congress lias been for the House to pass a formal resolution first adopt ing them and then send it over to the Senate tor approv il. This the last House neglected to do. In Eebuary the Senate took the initiative and passed a joint resolution declaring the joint rules of the Forty-third Congress the joint i tiles of the Forty-fourth Congress Phis came over to the House and was re ferred to she Committee on Rules. 'This committee had upon it Ken as Chair man, Randall, Cox, Banks and Blaine, long lingering under an attack of deems Milligan mala ia, this committee never im t, so that when the close ol is Session came the Senate rcsolutuin was not acted upon, and so theie are now no jorn rules This can I e ah remedied after Congress meets again, but one must re member that this is no! the wisest time to provide tor the counting ot a to* after an election. Theie s ill be a Dem ocratic Mouse and a Republican Senuu CONYERS, HA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 187. to arrange li:e method of counting the votes, whoever is elected. This does not bromide well for harmony. If the vote is close as it is posable that it will bo, the Republican Senate will attempt to throw out the vote of every Southern State where cases of outrage have ever happened. To do this they will have to devise new joint rules. The fight be tween the lion e and Senate upon this very question alone will lead to the most bitter of partisan battles. A DESPERATE OAUK. The Republicans are playing a draper ate game. Every day they are massing evidences of the so-called fraud and in timidation in the South at the Depart ment of justice. The action of Bout well's committee in visiting Mississippi shows'how this material is to be used. It is.to be used as a lever for the pur pose'of throwing* out 'all the possible States in the South from the general count. But in this it is necessary for them to act with prudence. They may throw out so many that while their can didate would be left with a majority, yet would not have the necessary constitu tional majority of all the electoral votts, .and then the election of the President will go into the House of Representa tives, wlu re the Democratic candidate would at once be reaffirmed. Look at it as t'oofly as one can, there are all the elements of a huge fight in it that may threaten.serious dangers to our estab lished institutions. Partisan malignity stops at nothing to carry its selfish ends. With all the elements of statesmanship eliminated from this fight, there is dan ger indeed. The experienced Journal Clerkjof the; House of Representatives is the aurthcrity for the statement tha there are now no joint rules to govern Congressional action. The Only Way to Get Reform. I lie Hon. t haiios Francis Adame has used some of the wisest and most states manlike words which tLis canvass has called out. They are not the utterances of h shallow obsei ver or a self-seekwg politician, but of a man long in public life, if varied political service, and ac customed tw discern the meaning of events arid weigh the profession of par ties. Mr. Adams, however, lias said nothing truer cr more pregnant with suggestion than the following, contained in a letter addris.-ed hy him to the. Young Men’s Democratic Club of this city. These are Mr. Adam's words: ‘The experience of the last eight years of shameful profligacy in the direction of public affairs, beginning w ith the his tory ef the Credit Mobilier and conclu ding with the exposures made during the last session of Congress, points to but one safe result to be arrived at in the present election. That result, is a thor ough change of administration. I, for one, am tired of compromises witlr cor ruption and pledges of future amend ment, while the sam- fatal influences that have brought us to disgrace continue in the ascendant. Unless the people speak this year in an unequivocal manner, there will be no thorough reform possible heieafter.’ We hope all young men, to whom Mr. Adams especially addresses the above language, and old men, too, will think upon these sentiments. It is indeed true that unless the people seize the present opportunity to e’eanse the Governmcn by driving out ot its places the coirupi party now intrenched in them, the hopes ot rctonn in the fa tine will be tew, poor and elusory. Now is the time to do the work, and such a time may not come again. Put the Republicans again in office, further fortify them iu their pres ent places iu spite of their corrupt and lawless practices, and tour years from now it may be impossible to remedy ihei' mismanagement of the government and expose and prevent their longer plundering of the people.— N. Y. Han. The following anecdote is subiruted to professional gentlemen who give evidence before Corner’s juries: —A witness lor the prosecution in a murder case was thus questioned by Ills Honor : ‘You say you saw the man shot at and killed ? ‘Yes sir.’ ‘You said, I think, the charge struck die deceased on his body, between the diaphiagm and the duodenum !’ Witness—‘No sir; I didn’t, say no sieli tiling. I said lie was shot bi tween the hug pen and the wood house. The Herald correspondent, Mr. Charles Nol'dfioff, as understand, continues ins review of the Indiana counties. lie has traversed the Siate twice, and fie I as renewed his prediction that the T>uno eistic ticket wi l have about 15, GOG ma jotity in October.— Jtroolly-i Eagle A grtin-procer —one wlo credits. Superstition About Friday- There are many very supers! itous re garding Friday, but the following facts compiled ly an exchange must convince any “one that his superstition;.against Friday as an unlucky day, ts an error: It was on Friday, tho 8d of August. 1492, that Columbus sailed from the harbor of Palos for the now world. It was Am friday, the 12 th of October, that he first saw land after sixty five days of navigation. It was on Friday, the 14th of January, 1593, he started on his re turn to announce the result of his search. It was on Friday, the 15th of March, 1493, that he disembarked in Andalusia, It was on Friday that he discovered the American continent. It was on Friday that Henry VII. gave John Cabot his dispatch from the voyage which resulted in discovery of North America. On Friday September, 9lh, 12Gb, Wendez founded St. Augustine.—On Friday November I Oth, IG2O, the May Flowei first disembarked a few emigrants on American soil at ProviJencetown, and ou Friday, Decent tier 22d, 103 >, the passengers finally landed at Plymouth Rock. It was on Friday, February 22d, 1732 that George Washington was horn. It was on Friday,-June 10, 1775, the battle of Bunker LI ill was fought, and oil Friday, Oetobir 7th, 1777,_ that the surrender of Saratoga took place, the i mit which decided France to give her aid to the colonies. The treason of Arnold was discovered < n Fiiday, York town surrendered, and on Friday that ! Richard. Henry Lee read the Declaration of litdependaiice to the Continental Congress. The D.-y You Were Born. 11. tv is iwijnfallible method of and scov ering the day of tlie week‘on which a given day (fl month any number of years previous occurred To the number rep icsenring your age at your next birth day, add oiu'-fouih for leap) ears; this amount dvidi and by seven, and, the re maimier counted back from , the day of tlie day of ilie wvk on which you were born., For instance, on your birth-day, you will be 24 years old, divide this by 4, and the quotient 6, added to 24 gives 30, the an omit, which dividtd by 7, toe number of days in a week, gives four weeks and the remainder two days. Now, if your b rtlnlay m 1876 comes on Monday, count uack two days and you have tiie day of which you were born, Saturday. Kow an Empress Eats. When the hour toi Queen Vboloiia’s dinner arrives her guests assemble, and when she enters I hey all arise. She bows, and lliny' all sit down. The foot man serves the dinner, and all is silent. Sometimes the Queen speaks, and who ever is spoken to acts like a good child, and speaks in return. Before the dessert is served she arises. The guests arise. They all how, and the Queen goes out. Think of it! When the American cran beiry sauce was served no one said it was good; when the beef is overdoiie no one can mention t. There is no wonder over the early peas, and no congratula iions upon the new corn. No one at thai Engbsh table could breathlessly watch the first cat into a watermelon ; when it cracked no one could smile, and wheu it lay open ripe, who could cry out that it was ‘Lovely V To eat at the Queen’s table would be worse than hav ing a stranger to dinner on Thanksgiv ing Hay, and having to eat the turkey as it it wile an everyday fowl, and make no special praise ol its unusual tenderness.— New Century jor Women. It was Pope who used fo swear “God mend me,’ and swearing his tav trite oaili one day in the presence of a little hoy, the boy locked at tfie diminished and misshapen form of the great poet and said : “God mend you; indeed! I ihink it wouid bea good deal easier to make i new one.' You talk about mending he Republican party, about reform with in its limits. I tell you. my fello v-cili z ns, that in this October and in thin November election the people ot the country must make anew one..— Con gressman Hayler. An Alabama paper describes a r . iiw k able underground lak'- near Montgomery, upon which there is a fine field of corn growing. The lake is covered w.th a layer of earth, the layer being so thin that a horse’s weight is too great for it to hear, and the land has to be cultivated by hand. The farm laborers amuse then selves at noon lime by making holes through the crust of earth and fishing The fish caught have no eyes and no cak a. \\ hy is this continent like rni k ? H> cause it s onrs. How Many Apples did Adam and Eve Tat? Pome say Eve 8 and Adam 2, a total of 10 only. Now we figure the thing out far differently. Eve 8 and Adam 8 a'so. Total 16. Boston Journal. We think the above figures are entile ly wrong. Il Eve 8 and Adam 82, cer tainly the total will be 90. Scientific men, however, on the strength of the theory that the antediluvians were a race of giants, and consequently great eaters, reason something like this : Eve Blsi, and Adam 82. Total IG3. Gloucester Advertiser. Wrong again. What could be clearer than if Eve 81 and Adam 8 1-2 the total was 872 ?—Lawrence American. If Eve 8-1 Ist, and Adam 8-1-2 would not the whole be 1623 ?—Boston Jour nal. I believe the iol‘owing to be the true solution : Eve 8-1-4 Adam, Adam 8 2 2 1 Eve. Total B'J3B. Veritas. Still another calculation is as follows: If Eve 8 1-4 Adam ; Adam 8 1-2-4 to ob lige Eve, total 82 056. We think, how ever, this not to be a sufficient quantity for though we admit that Eve 8-1-4 Ad am ; Adam if he 80 8.3 4 2 keep Eve company, total 8,083,066. — N. Y. Mail. —— ♦ - • - - A Black Hills Incident.--He was coming down Main street the other day with a revolver in each bootleg, and just a little topheavy, when a man happened to rub against him in passing. Our blood-thirsty hero of the boots jumped off the sidewalk, and flourishing a pisLol aloft, yelled: ‘Now look yer, every bod t in this yer gulch ; look at me and crawl! I'm Wild Cat Tip, from Bear Gulch. I didn’t come to Deudwood to be insulted, so git out here a half dozen of jer sons of guns and form a line of battle, ’cause I can’t hold onto this yer hammet much longer; so trot ’em out.’ About this time someone in t ho crowd fired a pistol in the air, and simultaneously a rotten egg struck ‘Tip’ between the eyes. Dropping Ins two veraed throwing boih hands in the air, lie yelled, ‘l’m mind' r ed,’ and foil heavily to the ground. Af ter he realized jus: what had happened, he straightened up, looking around, ex claimed, wliilli he wiped the decomposed egg from his face,‘Now, boys, that's a rough joke, but I'll stand it ! I'll ta,-.e it ad, only let me see the calibre of the gnu what shoots eggs.’ Not gain ng the desired information, he silently sto t away, —Black Hills Pioneer. Cure for Founder. As soon as you find out y in horse is foundered, get a six ounce bottle of iur pen line, lake up one loot, clean all lie dirt out, lb n pour one quailer of the of the turpentine into hollow of the foot ; iight the turpentine wrh a pap i, slmck, or anything, and let ,t bum mini the turpentine is consumed. The same pro cess applied 10 ah the feet,-and the horse w.ll fie weh and fli for use in 12 hours. I have seen horses so sore that they could uot stand longer than one loot was being doctored. From 30 years’ experi ence. I am confident in saying h is mlal‘ lable. How a Cricket Saved a Ship. In Southey s ‘History of B axil’ fie iclls how the Chbcz de Vuca was in a great Hhip going to South America with four hundred men and thirty horses, and alter they had crossed the equator the commander discovered 'hat there were only three casks of watt r left, He gave orders to make for the near si laud, and for three days they sailed tor the coast. A poor sit k so dier, who had left Cadiz with them, (nought a yrillo, or giound cricket, with him, thinking its o cerfni voice would amuse him on the long, dreary voyage. But to ins great disap pointment the little insect was print: ly silent the whole way. The fourth morn ing att'*r they had changed the ships couise, the cricket who knew what they was about, set up her shri lest note. 'The soldier at once gave warning to the offi cers in charge of the vessel and they soon saw high, jagged rocks just ahead of them. Tha watch had been careless, ana the great ship in a few moments would have been dashed to pieces on the ledge if i Ins puny creature had not scen ted the land and told them of their dan gnr. A horsedealer who lately affect'd a sale, was offered u bottle of porter to cob Toss the animals failings. The poller was diank and ihcti he said the anima had bui two faults When turned Joosi in the field he was ‘hard to eaieh,’ and Its -was of no uae when caught ’ Tko only real question at issue is whe (her honesty or dishonesty *hh rule in national affairs. — Pitfrfarv/! Port E. B. PUINIZV, Successor to G. H. I’hii.uy ,t- Cos, mrrmy jwrm, AUGUSTA, - - - - GEORGIA. Liberal' Advances made on ConrignmrHtt. aug‘23 3m THE National Hotel, ATLANTA, - - - GEORGIA. yhe rates of hoard Aj) r/Dt this popular * h <’ t#l havo heea V/ Yllreduoed t0|.50 por day. I* or thin ' prieg* offor eommodations ’and fare unsurpassed by any three or four dollar lieusp iu the .Smith, Come and get nit old Virginia welcome. LEE & HEWITT, Proprietors. Kidney GampCdut. Probably there is no complaint that aflliet* the human system, which is so little undor ■ tood at the present time, as some of the va nod forms of Kidney Complaints, L'hore is no disease which cause* imoh acute pain or more alarming in its results tbanjwhen the kidneys fall to secrete the blood from tbs urio a id, arid other poisonous *ub stances, wlii-h tho*blood accumulates iu it* Circulation through th - system. If from any cause the kidneys fail to per form the functions devolving upon them, tha cumulations are taken up by tho absorbent* a-n 1 the whole system thrown Into a state of disease, causing gr at n :in and Suffering, and very < ften immediate and lath. Hence the im portance of keeping the kidneys and Wool in a healthy condition, through which nil tho im* purities of tho body must puss. P IN IN THIS BACK. There is no remedy known t.o medical sci ence which has proved i. .elf more valuable in cases of Kidney Co:i jd unts th' n the Vc;;etin*. It acts directly upon the secretl.-i..,, .Fanis* and purifies tho blood, and restores the whols system to healthy action. Thu following extraordinary < nre of great sufferers, who had b -on given i p by th* beat physicians as I opeloss cases, will speak for themselves, a id should challenge tie most pro found attei tion of the medics] faculty, as well as of those who are (.ufi'criug from Kidney Complaint. HE BEST MEDICINE. East Marshfield, Aug. 22, IM7O. Mr. Stevknb ; Dear Bir—l am sevenfy-oue years of age ; have suffered many years wit* Kidney Compeiint, weakn ss in my hack and stomach. I was Induced by fHeads to try your Vboitink, and I think it the best medi cine for weakness of the Kidneys 1 ever uiusi. I have tried many remedies for this complaint., and never found so much relief as from ttie Vkobtink. It strengthens and invigorate* the whole system. Many of my no jnaintafi cos have taken it, and I believe it to lie goes! for all the complaints for which it is recom mended Your truly, JOSIAH If. SHERMAN. Boston, May 3d, 1871. PRONOUNCED INCUR A RLE H. U. Stkvinh, limp: Dear Sir—l liavo bean badly afflicted with Kidney Complaint for ten years ; hate great pain in my back, hips and side, with great dificulty in passing arim*, which was often, and in very small quantities! frequently accompanied with (flood arid oxem tiating pain. 1 have faithfully trill most of tho popular remedies recommended for my complaint: I have been under the treatment of s me of the most skillful physicians in Boston, all of whom pronounced my case ii curable. This was my condition When f was auvised by e friend to try the Veoitini"., and I could see the good effects from the first doHe I took, and from that moment I kept ou improving until 1 was entirely cured, raking in oil, I should think, about six bottles. It is indeed a valuable medicine anj if I should be afflicted again in tho game way, I would give a dollar a dose, if I could not g*t it without. Respectfully, J, M. GILE. 361 Third Street. South Poston. NEARLY BLIND. H. R, Stevens ; Dear Sir—ln expressing my thanks to you for benefits domed from the use of Vkoktinb, aud to benefit others, I will state: — When eight or nine years old I was sfiilctcd with Scrofula, which made its appearance in my eyes, fat and head, and I was very near blind for two years. All kind' of opperationa were performed on my cj m, and ail tono good result, Finiillj the disease p: inoipally settled in my hod 3 , limbs and feet, and at timet in aa aggravated way. bust Summer I wan, from some cause, weak in my spine and kidneyij, and it was at times very bard to letin ike uiinu. Seeing your advertisement in tin Oomun r a , I bought a fotfl -ol VT.OKTINE, and cemmenced using recording to directions. !•: two or three days 1 obtained rent relief. Alter using four or five bottles i noticed it hud a wonderful effect on the rough scaly blo'e-hea on iny body anti legs. I slill used Veoetj :’G snd the humor* oils seres ono after another disappeared until they were ail gone, and 1 alt .bute the cure of the two diseases to VtaiiTiMs, and nothing else. If Tam ever effected with anything of the kind again 1 shall try Vkoutine, as the only reliable remedy. Once more at ccpt my thanks, and believe me to be, Very respectfully, AUSTIN PAKIiOTT. Dec. 1, 1872. No. 35Gano St., Cincinnati,Ohiov Diseases of the Kidneys, li (adder, etc., are ulw ays unpleasant, and at times they beoeme the most distressing and dangerous ''''“Sffr" that tan affect the human sXstem. Most di seases of tin- Kidneys arise from Impurities in the blond, causing humors which settle an the. e parts. Vi oetik* excels any known reme iy in the whole world for elsansing er.d pur.'yiug the blood, thereby causing healthy iclion to all the o gane of the body. Vezetlae is M by all fimwsti l gents. It you want the beet soiling article .A in the world nd s. solid gold patent laesr witoh free of cost, write t ones to J. ffrihe w Cos,, 7i7 Drowlway, N. Y.4w I2S a day at horn*. A genre wanted. On tit id terms free. Tarn & Cos., AvgvtH, Maine. tvoli-'dj NO. 15,