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H. H. CARLTON,
Editor.
VTEDKESDAT MORNING, OCT. 18, 1875.
General Local and Traveling Agent,
CAPT. J. E. RITCH.
LOCAL."”AGENTS.
Mr. Juni A. Maxut, Tooeoa City.
Mr. F. C. Btstbsksos, But Connty.
Mr. C. H. Arram, Fart Lamar.
Mr. Run Huuuox, Cleveland.
Mr. W. L. Dxax, Danielavillc.
Mr. W. T. MUttixld, Windaor.
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Can there be Sectional Harmony under the I Juries, the representatives of the people
•Mi-
present System or National Banking!
The currency question which is now so
engaging the minds of our Amcricn people,
not only seriously involves our present and
prospective political welfare, but gravely
concerns the future strength and unity of
this government
It is altogether safe to assert that
nothing so controls that sentiment of sec
tional harmony,- which is the strength of
government, as that system of bankingjor na
tional financeeringtwhich secures money equal
ity to each and every section of the coun
try. The question then arises, and one of
national importance, does the present sys
tem of national banking secure this equal
ity? Is it likely, even under a more favor
able administration, that this system wil,
give such character to our financial affairs
as will protect equally each section of our
common country against the dangerous
fluctuations to which our currency is and
has been subjected by the speculative ma
nipulations of moneied rings, railroad com
binations and other speculating corpora
tions of great power and influence of wealth?
It needs only to study the history of our
present system of banking, and the extent
anu magnitude of speculation in the great
money centres of tho country, which has
been strengthened by and based thereupon,
to satisfy our minds that the great money
trouble which is now threatening both our
political and material interests, is due in a
greater measure to the speculative manipu
lation of our currency, which has been en
abled under the national system of banking,
than to its volume. That system of bank
ing which is based upon bonds aud securi
ties of the general government, giving the
power aud control thereof so into the
Then bring on your Job liands of the wealthy bondholders and
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we have been compelled for the past week
to slight our Job Work, but having ar
ranged to give Special Attention to that
Department, we announce to the public
that we are now prepared to do Job Print
ing of dl kinds in the most improved style
and at most reasonable rates.
Our Mr. Powell will take special charge
of this Department , and we feel confident
that wo can please in style, and give satis
faction in price.
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Connty Advertising.
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standing tho law in regard to County ad
vertising docs not for good and valid rea
sons make it the imperative duty of the Offi
cials to publish their advertisements in the
paper having the largest circulation in their
County, yet, Mr. B.vkkk having satisfied
himself that the Georgian has the largest
circulation in his Connty, aud believing
the interest of the people of Madison County
would be best subserved by the change, he
has signified his intention, in accordance
with law, to present the Sheriff Sales of
Madison Connty, on and after the first of
November next, through the columns of
the Georgian.
Tiie Crop Report for September as
given in our telegrams show not so much
damago to the cotton crop in Mississippi as
was apprehended from the late freshets. The
report so far as given shows tho average
yield in Mississippi and Alabama' to be as
good if not better than last year. The
average however in Mississippi is likely to be
reduced by the recent political troubles while
in Alabama and other States the low prices
and unreliable labor will no doubt cause some
abandonment of the crops.
We yield our editorial tripod to our
correspondent Hafed, who ably presents tlie
question as to “ why the South should
favor inflation.” While we commend the
spirit which pervades the argument of our
correspondent, as to why we should favor
inflation, still we cannot accept as a tem
porary policy or good, that disposition of
onr currency, which for lack of tho sound
er principles of political economy and of
true financeering, must eventually and in
evitably prove as thoroughly the overthrow
of our temporary Southern prosperity, as it
will, in the opinion of our correspondent,
work the immediate embarrassment of the
North. We heartily endorse the views of
the writer as regards the necessity for free
banking, and the great danger of making
the currency question an issue in the com
ing Presidential campaign. ,
’ These views are in perfect accord with
those wo presented but a few days since.
If our correspondent will but go one step
farther in his consideration of this subject,
accepting as a financial policy that which
will bring permanent, rather than tempo
rary prosperity to the] South, we are per
suaded that we will stand exactly togeth
er on the currency question, and that he
will folly agree with us, that the whole
trouble is not In the volume of our currency,
-butia onr system of banking. From a
thorough analysis of the position of
Haled, as set forth in his ableand extended
oommupication, and disclaiming all inten
tion of criticism, we think we would do no
injustice io say that already he virtually
agrecs^with us. As our views on this all-
important question—which is at last but Jto
bring into-our National politics an issue of
a purely local or sectional character—have
already been given in full, we decline any
Author comment on tins communication,
and commend it to the careful considera
tion of the reader* of the Georgian.
monied speculators in 6tocks and bonds of
the North, as to enable them to direct the
financial administration in their behalf, will
so long as it continues, make the question
of our currency one of such strong section
al differences, as to forbid a just and satis
factory adjustment of our finances until it is
substituted by a return to the system of free
banking.
There can be no doubt but that the pres
ent National Bank system, while it has given
financial strength to the North—building up
her capitalists aud money monopolists—has
been used to the further impoverishment and
depression of the South. We repeat, our
financial troubles, which now begin to enter
so largely into our political discussions, and
which is likely to continue sectional antag
onisms, can not be due to the want of a suf
ficient amount of currency—which financial
statistics shows to bo perhaps larger than ever
before in this country—but to the unequal
control and distribution thereof. With the
goods manufaetured from our cotton at a
lower price than when cotton sold from five
to eight cents per pound, if we only had
that system of banking which could not be
discriminated in favor of the Large money
markets, and which would supply our
Southern demand, not only would onr ag
riculture prosper even with cotton at elev
cn cents per pound, but our whole com
merce would receive such impulse as would
soon bring a new order of things in our
now financially embarrassed Southern land.
If the question of our finances must enter
into our national deliberations at this time,
let the attention of those who desire the
better condition of our country, who desire
such a condition of finances ns will secure
equal growth and prosperity to each and
every section of the Union, be directed to
a reform in our system of banking. Let a
free system be adopted, when the North,
the South, the East and tho West may each
control its currency to meet the demands of
its trade, then may we hope and expect
that sectional harmony, which is so based
upon just aud equal financial advantages,
and which at last is the perpetuity of our
Union, the sure strength of our National
Government.
This comprehensive duty of Grand Juries
need bring no conflict between them and
the Court, but on the contrary, should and
will bring that co-operative action which
wilt both facilitate and advantage the
administration of onr connty affairs.
Let a more general and supervisory
course characterize our Grand Juries in
future. With a full exercise of such Legis
lative authority as the law undoubtedly in
its spirit contemplates, and which will
embody in its sphere a greater and more
direct concern as to our county taxation,
our public institutions and improvements, a
deeper and more extended interest in onr
public expenditures, fostering at all times
such progrestiveness as will be safely within
the scope of a true, wise and practical
economy, we may confidently expect such
improvement in the administration of our
county matters as will constitute our Grand
Juries the sure and certain guide and pro
tection to the welfare of their respective
counties.
Let onr Judges in the exercise of their
judicial authority make written and compre
hensive charges to the Juries, exacting of
them such full discharge of duty as the re
sponsibility of their position demands.
Then, with this reform in the government
of onr counties, we will recognize in our
Superior Courts not only tribunals for the
administration of law in behalf of justice,
but institutions for tho prosperity of our
whole country.
The Negroes in Conclave.
The Colored Convention which, for the
post lew days, has been holding its session
in the city of Augusta, as reported, both by
telegraph and by the press of that city, was
a most remarkable jtoio oioie. After read
ing over tho proceedings most carefully,
and then applying all our powers of analy
sis, we most admit our utter inability to
discover any particular or special purpose
of the call, os shown by their proceed ings
and are constrained to class it as another
conglomerated effusion of pent up igno
rance highly tinetured with that spirit of
disquiet and complaint which is thejresult of
carpet-hag influence upon the ignorant,
duped and deceived race of Cuffees. From
the opening resolution to the concluding
display of Sambo’s parlinicutary excellence,
The black serpent* wired in and wired oat,
Leaving the people still iu doubt.
Whether thereat urea from wlmt they say
Are going away or mean to stay.
In as much as the Georgia Legislature
can hardly resist the influence of so strong
a body, no doubt when it has appropriated
the asked for five million dollars with which
to set afloat these dusky sous of the South
for the coast of Guinea, the doubt will l>e
settled, and with some enterprising disci
ple of Sumner as their Moses, they will de
part for the promise land, coming in full
We give the following extract from the
CbnatitationaKtt we pertaining to the subject
. matter of the communication of onr corre
spondent signed L.:
“The case of poisoning of w wedding party
«t Dalton, was n moat aucokr na well as
lamentable affair. The physicians have
tamed it-to the peach keraeu used in the
prepnaatioo of the wedding cake. We never
Defcniheard of nancbkenwle being powonoos.
As only brief telegraphic details are At hand,
we prwanme ten is a more mtional explana
tion to come. Several deaths have occurred,
and sixty persons ore more or Jess dangerous
ly tick. The wedding was that of Miss Lilly
.(•Anderson, which took place on the 30th of
September, from which it is seen that the
deadly ingredient of the cake is slow in the
performance of its terrible work.
Miss Warner, the author of tho “ Wide,
Wide World,” performed the fimeral(service
at her father’s burial, tho clergyman invited
■ J im A»l Jntu. hiiiinn Itilnl In 1*>
Grand Jnries— 1 Their Unties and their Rela-
lation to the Public.
Nothing perhaps so much involves or so
directly concerns the well being of our
counties as a full and faithful discharge of
duty on the part of their respective Grand
Juries. From a retrospect of our history,
it must be admitted that not only has the
prosperity of onr country and the advanced
state of our society, but even the establish
ment of our better law, been due to the
suggestive wisdom and proper inaugura
tions of these county officials. Still, it
would appear from that restrictiveness which
but too often characterizes the actions of
these bodies, that they fail to recognize the
fact that the Grand Jury is strictly the
Legislative body of every county. That
body of citizens who, filling the respon
sible position of Grand Jurymen, content
themselves with simply discharging those
duties which may be incident to the Court
in session during their particular term, cer
tainly must fail to recognize the importance
or comprehensiveness of the law which as
signs them to bo high a trust.
To suppose, as doubtless is the case in a
large degree, that the Grand Jury is but
subject to the orders and directions of tlio
Court, with none other than the prescribed
duties of said Court, would be as absurd as
to suppose the Legislature of our State
bound or controlled in its action by the
dictation and direction of the Governor.
Recognizing fully the importance and pro
priety of that law which makes it the duty
of our Judges to issue charges to their
spective juries, and to recommend such
measures and adoptions as may in their
judgment be for the interest of the coun
ties; apprehending that a more faithful and
exacting exercise of their power under the
law, such as would induce on their part a
written and detailed presentation of the
various duties of Grand Jurymen, and a full
and complete discharge thereof would be in
strict aooord with the requirements of their
important legsl position, nevertheless, wc
are dearly of the opinion that the law dele
gates to the Juries more than to the Judges
the direction aad control of the general af
fairs of our Courts and counties. The
administration of the laws in behalf of jus
tice and equity is the high prerogative of
the Court; but the administration of the
general affairs of the counties, such asmust
necessarily give direction in a great
view thereof just as ye Moses bags
the iast dollar. Thus impoverished through
the sacrifiting leadership ofoue of New
England’s pnritan philanthropists, what a
fine opportunity will be furnished for the
establishment of another Cannibalistic na
tionality, just off the coast of Africa.
The criticisms of this convention upon the
distribution of patronage by the party they
represent and which now runs “the best
Government the world ever saw" evinces i
dissatisfaction among the outs which can on
ly be equalled by the disappointment of tbe
“ forty acres and a mule” expectants.
Their review of the disposition of the
Middle Georgia insurrectionists by
Judge II. V. Johnson, t as a political
strategy, can hardly supply the parti
zan demands or Radical necessities which
inaugurated the cmbroglio. As newly
made and appreciative citizens of this glo
rious Union, where a white man is almost
as good as a negro, how they have passed
in judgment the aerobatic performances of
some of our leading Democrats upon the
political arena of an admiring country,
while they speak in no uncertain praise of
those who have csjioused the cause of the
sons of Haul rather than maintain the rights
of that oppressed race which they represent
in color, but not in principle.
The threatened bankruptcy of the cotton
warehouses of our State, by such a with
drawal of the sinewy arm of ye sons of
Africa, as will make the grass to grow
where the staple did bloom, is only equall
ed in its importance as a grave matter, per
taining to our industrial and material wel
fare, by tbe currency question which now
agitates the American mind, and which
question seems to be the only one denied
the woighty consideration of this miscellane
ous “ black and tan” convention,the result
of whose coming together may yet bless
this Southcru land by the formation of their
Agricultural, Emigration and Sstatistical
Society.
There was a wedding in our royal house
hold. The beautiful Josephine Jewell,
daughter of the Postmaster General, step
ped from pure unsullied maidenhood into
matrimony. Should this paragraph meet
her eye we request her to use her influence
with her father in stopping the removal of
the Post Office from Jackson street, Au
gusta, Richmond county, Ga^ to oue bl.ck
below. If she will do so wc will indite her
twenty-seven verses commencing—
Beneath tbe blue New England skies,
Flooded with sunshine a valley lies,
But these skies are not so blue
As Josephine's eyes of azure hue.
—Augusta Constitutionalist.
And if in the same connection, she will
induce her “paternal Pa” to build Colonel
Taylor a substantial new Post Office bnild-
iug iu Athens, Clarke county, Ga., we will
subjoin the twenty-eighth as follows:
Beneath the deep Connecticntt's waves,
Where gems arc hid in secret caves.
No brighter jcwell is fonnd I ween
Than the amiable sonl ot sweet Josephine.
At a recent examination for admission to
the bar, held at Ottawa, I1L, among the
candidates were one womau and a colored
man. The latter failed to pass; but Miss
Mary Perry, the young lady, is said to have
taken tho court, tho examiners, and the bar
by surprise, and to have passed the best
examination by fipr.of any member of the
class. •
The Methodist congregation in Frankfort
Hill, N. Y., quarrelled about the location of
the organ in their church. One faction
assembled to move the instrument by force,
and were so energetic in their work that it
was badly damaged. It is nightly expected
that the other party will try to put it back
in its old place, and if the attempt should be
IFAy the South Should Favor In
flation.
To the Editor of the Georgian:
The present object of National politics in
dicates, beyond a doubt, that inflation is to
be the issue in the next Presidential nomi
nation and election, as it already is in the
elections in Ohio and Pennsylvania. But
for this unfortunate “ apple of discord” the
Democrats would have undoubtedly car
ried the Presidential election. As it is, the
Democrats are divided upou the issue,
the South and West favoring expansion of
the present currency and the Eastern and
Middle States fighting for contraction,
Bill Allen, of Ohio, at tnc head of the infla
tion faction of the Democracy, and Tildon
of New York and Bayard of Delaware
heading the anti-inflation, and hard money
faction.
The Republicans, on the other hand, are
united almost to a man. Their discipline
Is altogether better than that of the De
mocracy, which is undoubtedly owing to
the fact that the thousands of public offices
arc in the hands of the party, a sort of
“ whip to hand the wretch in order.”
Inflation and contraction, paper money
and hard money are not really party issues.
They are local entirely.
There can be no doubt of the need of the
country for a larger circulating medium.
Statistics show that the United States has
a smaller amount of currency per capita for
circulation than any country m the world,
of its commercial importance. More cur
rency, is the cry of the South and West.
Before the war the commercial transactions
of the country, were small in comparison
with the present. Even then gold and
silver were insufficient tor a circulating me
dium, and almost every town and city had
a local bank whose bills were as good as
gold in that particular locality. For trans
actions between different localities no
money was actually passed, but the pay
ment was made through bills of exchange.
The strong argument in favor of the pres
ent system is that, owing to the government
guarantee, a bill of the National bank of
Athens is as good in New York as a bill of
the National Park Bank of that city. This
is an argument for the North, not for the
South aud West If the bills of the Na
tional bank of Athens were good only
through this particular locality, of course
they could not flow otf into other channels,
but would of necessity circulate only here.
And yet those bills would be as good as
gold if the holders knew, as in ante helium
days, that they would be redeemed upon
presentation, just as our city bills are as
good for local trade as greenbacks.
But we are denied free banking, because
that would ruin the National banks, and pre
vent the accumulation of the currency
around the money centers of the North.
The only way then in which we can bo sup
plied is by so inflating the currency that it
will exceed the demands of the North and
East, aud the overplus will flow out to the
South and West. Just as soon as there is
more money in the North than can be prof
itably used, the^capitalists will spread it
over tbe country at large, first over the
West and then over the South. The
South and West do not believe that ex
pansion will depreciate the currency, but at
the same time they do not care if it does.
They will be in uo worse condition than
they are now. Tiie money, bonds, and se
curities of the government are not in their
hands. It is even greatly to the interest of
the South for it to depreciate, and the
greater the depreciation, the better. The
South is heavily in debt Tho National
currency is a legal tender. If greenbacks
decline, of course all projierty, except
greenbacks and securities will increase in
value in proportion.
Not in actual value, for a pound of cotton,
a bushel corn, or an acre of land, is worth
the same gold value that it was before,
and if greenbacks were at par, this species
of property would bo worth more'in green
backs than in gold.
But let us suppose that inflation makes
paper currency decline till it takes two dol
lars of greenbacks tobuy oneofgold. Then,
of course, a pound of cotton which was
worth ten cents when at par, is worth still
ten cents in gold, but twenty cents in the
depreciated currency. This depreciated
currency is still a legal tender. If, then, the
South owed the North an hundred millions
of dollars, and had on hand to pay one
million of bales of cotton, worth fifty mil
lion dollars of the present greenback cur
rency, and the currency should depreciate
one-half, then this million bales of cotton
would bo worth just twice its present value;
and whereas, it Ls now only half enough to
pay the debt, after the depreciation, it
would pay it in full. Of course, the North
just looses half her debt, just as during the
war, when ante-bellum debts were paid in
Confederate money the creditor lost. It is
really wrong in morals, because we rob the
North of the difference between the value
of the debt in gold now, and tho value
in gold of tbe amount of currency
with which we pay it. But, when were
morals ever allowed to govern national
polities?
The North is bitterly opposed to this in
tlalion and depreciation, for another reason
in addition to their loss in the maimer above
described. They have two-thirds of the
currency and bonds in their liands. One.
dollar of those bouds or that currency, is
worth now just so much in gold. Then, if
the currency depreciates one-half, one dol
lar in bonds or currency will only buy half
as much gold, and is worth only half as much
as it was before. So they loose all around
On the other hand, if they can bring about
specie payment, debts that we now owe
them iu greenbacks, we would have to pay
in gold, aud they would rob us just as we
would rob them by inflation. And whereas,
it now takes one dollar and eighteen cents
greenbacks to be worth a dollar in gold, if
specie payment is resumed, they would
make just eighteen cents on every dollar in
their vaults, which is quite a respectable
profit.
So the currency question can not be a
party issue only by adoption. An Atlanta
Herald rei>orter makes Gca Gordon say,
that the issue is not expansion or inflation
on the part of the Democracy. “The con
test is between the greenback and the
bank note,” says Gen. Gordon. Now,
there is no use in our trying to deceive
ourselves, and still less in tryingto deceive
onr hard money anti-inflation Democratic
allies in the North and East by any such
argument as Gen. Gordon brings to support
this proposition. The difference to the tax
payers Detween greenbacks and National
Bank notes, is verv small. The opponents
of the National Bank system say that the
National Banks deposit with the Govern
ment 8100,000.00, for every $90,000.00 of
their circulation, and that they not only
have the use of the $90,000.00, but the
Government pays them intereet on the
$100,000.00 deposited, and that this inter
est comes out of the pockets of the people.
The construction put upon this is, that the
people are taxed to support the National
Banks. Now, this construction is ridicu
lous. You might just as well say that tiie
people of the State of Georgia are taxed to
support the capitalists who have invested
their money in our State Bonds.
The U. S. Government issues bonds just
as State Governments do, to raise money,
Suppose I have a hundred thousand dollars
which I want to invest in some rehable se
curity, and I go to the United States Treas
ury and put it in bonds. The government
pays interest on those bonds. Ib that an
n AniKn rwasunla? Tftuv
worth more to the government than the in
terest they pay for it, it certainly is not.
Suppose then that I want to establish a
National Bank. I go to the Treasurer
again and leave with him my bonds for
$100,000 00, and he endorses my bills for
$90,000 00. Now the circulation has been
increased just ninety per cent., and the tax
payers are notone dollar worse off, but
rather benefited. Now let us take Gen.
Gordon’s view of Greenback Currency.
He says in the same interview, “ wo pro
pose to redeem every dollar of greenbacks
by a low rate bond, and make this bond
interchangeable with greenbacks at the
pleasure of the holder.” Now in what does
that differ from the present system. Simp
ly in the rate of interest on the bonds.
Greenbacks are now interchangeable with
bonds at the pleasure of the holder, and it
has been the pleasure of the holders to con
vert a great many of them into bonds,’and
to deposit these bonds with the Treasurer
in order to get his endorsement on their
notes. If the greenbacks with which these
bonds are bought, are not retired by the
government, but are kept in circulation,
the country Is really benefitted. If they
are retired and destroyed as fast as paid in,
then the government is only redeeming
with bonds its notes already issued. This
is what we are opposed to, as it is decreas
ing the circulation, when we want an in
crease. Let us have more greenbacks and
more National Banks, if we can not have
free banking. This is the issue. If it were
simply a contest as to the interest to be
paid on the government bonds, as General
Gordon says, for sift his currency theory
down and it amounts to nothing else, there
would be no division in the "Democratic
ranks. Republicans might exaggerate it,
€dcgrapl)ic.
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1 DISPATCI
LATEST F ROM FRIAR’S POINT.
“ALL QUIET. ALONG THE LINE."
SENATOR ALCORN DEFINES HIS POSITION.
Memphis, Oct. 8.—Chalmers, in driving
Pease’s force from Jonestown, had them
nearly surrounded. Chalmers determined
to Capture Pease. This will end the dis
turbance.
Sheriff Brown is still at Helena. Me de
nies having incited the riot, and has tele
graphed Gov. Ames that he would quiet
the disturbance.
Senator Alcorn telegraphed the Attorney-
General as follows:
“Having read several incensed and sen
sational dispatches touching the recent race
troubles at Friar’s Point, I beg to assure
you that there need be no alarm for the
peace of this connty. Several hundred
armed negroes, who had been incited by
an ill-tempered chief, marched on onr town,
and were rapidly repulsed by the whites,
under the lead of the most prudent eitizens,
who had been following the armed bands of
negroes and dispersing them with as little
violence as possible, and urging them to go
home. The mob has dispersed, and I think
will remain quiet. There is no question of
politick in this excitement. The whites are,
to a man, for defense. Those of the negroes
who have been misled, are fast being re-
Ni* Corns :
RivPtaa
Hay. Press, is without doubt tbs ChsaoMt?
**• will pack twin ss£L®*!
us « ■ mgr .*sople, it n pronounced K. ^
onowbo has used it to bo. perfect
Zlhc« C3S °“ “
elsewhere. GILLELAND, WOOD Aco*
BepL 15—(ML A ** nt * for North** ^
.. conciled. A community of planters may be
just as thev have the southern oiftrngcs for ?? treatment of the laborer.
mmJt. Knf The wlutes have made no demonstration of
UUIllAV UL
party effect, bnt they could not deceive the
TilUn Democracy.
But if the Democratic party persists in
making it a part of their platform in the
campaign of 1876, they may look out for a
Waterloo defeat. It will come about in
this way. The Republicans know now
that they have little or no chance iu the
election if the fight is made on party issues.
If hard money or inflation is the issue they
will either rally round a hard money Dem
ocratic standard with Tilden at the head,
or the hard money Democrats will flock to
the standard of some specie payment anti
inflation Republican. It will be a great
deal better for the Democratic party if Bill
Allen aud his inflation platform, tor it is
nothing else, do not get a vote in Ohio.
That will kill inflation as a party issue, and
loose the Democracy little or nothing in the
Ohio election of 1876. We can better af
ford to loose every office in Ohio at this
election than to have Allen for our sandard
bearer in 187C, with inflation for a plat
form.
Then inflation or specie payment will be
settled in the two houses of Congress, just
where it will be fought out any way. It is
not at all probable that the next president
will ever have the hill to veto, or if he
should have, it will be such a mild inflation
that it will do the Sontli no good, and the
North no harm. No bill can pass the pres
ent Senate, which tends half as much to
ward inflation as the bill passed by the last
Congress and vetoed by Grant. No mat
ter how much wc may desire an expansion
of the currency, by all means let us shun it
as a party issue. Reineinbe the old prov
erb of “a house divided against itself”
Just as we are about to accomplish what we
have labored for and suffered for four years,
do not let us loose the victory by a division
among ourselves. There’s defeat in every
word of it. IIafed.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Council Chamber,
Athens, Ga., Oct. 2, 1875.
5 o’clock p. m.
The regular monthly meeting of Council
was held this evening. Present, His Honor,
Mayor King, and Aldermen Hood, Moss,
Pittard, Lucas and Burke.
Tho minutes of the three last meetings
were read and confirmed.
PETITIONS
Of W. L. Mitchell, Esq., to widen Hancock
avenue,7 near his residence, was referred to
Street Committee to investigate and report
to Council.'
Of Wm. Stark, to erect a small room, to
be of wood, for shoe shop, on the vacant lot
between the stores occupied by Dr. Wm.
King and J. C. Wilkins <fc Co. Laid on the
table.
The monthly reports of the Treasurer,
Chief of Police, Lamplighter and Clerk of
Market, were read ana received.
On motion of Alderman Burke, the Clerk
of Council was authorized to receive
Coupons that arc due on City Bonds, 1st
January, 1876, in payment of taxes that
are now due.
On motion of Alderman Moss, the Finance
Committee were authorized to purchase one
thousand dollars of the Bonds issued by the
City to the Northeastern Railroad, and four
hundred dollars of the Bonds that were
issued to the College.
On motion of Alderman Lucas, the ope
ration of the Ordinance prohibiting the
running at large of cattle in the streets, was
suspended until the first day of November
next.
S. P. Thurmond, Esq., appeared before
the Council, and made a statement in regard
to Ills account against the City for fees.
On motion of Alderman Lucas, the ac
count was ordered to be paid, amounting to
$50000
The following accounts were ordered to
be paid: Gann and Reaves, $59.00 and
$30.00; Hopy Pinkney, $27.47; Athens
Gas-light Co., $15.75 and $3.75; Gas bill
for 8140.00 ordered, paid after correction
and approval by Chairman of Committee on
PublicPropcrty.
Council adjourned.
W. A. Gilleland, Clerk,
Obasd Csxxsai. Honn-nw g^^; ^
quarters in New York-ii capable o
hundred guests.
1000 Ibfc, Strictly Pure Lead,
& Billups.
If yon want Power* A Weightman’s
go to Lottos & Bum. Sept.
NOTICE.—Country merchants and
an now prepared toieUyonaU articles **
the dreg trade as cheap a* yon can get them **
freight (fled. tsmU h Baum.
Gilleland, Wood A Co. have added the Coffin ba.iT'
to their Furniture Manufactory, and always keep on w!
* large stock of Wood and Meulie Burial Casa. n!,
sell as cheap is any house in the 8tate,and
without extra charge to their patroos, their eplendid ..I)
Hearse tor funeral occasions. March st-u j™
E0TThe undersigned have on hand s choice toTi
Timothy Hay, which they will sell cheap for ^ 01
GANN A BEAVES.
If you want Furniture, call on Gilleland, Wood &
Co^ who manfactnra and deal in all kinds of Furniture
and Coffins, and sell as cheap as any bouse in this dtr
March 84, 1875.—81-ly. ’’
HEALTH AND BEAUTY COMBINED; '
Wokav’s Eights.—One who has long studied ti.
•orbing subject now presents to the women of ou
entry tha result of his investigations. He isW,
to say that h» has at last discovered “Womin’e
hostility to the negroes of this county, but
arc anxious to cultivate tbe most friendly
relations. My name has been most ridicu
lously associated in the matter. I trust you
will not give credence to the share given
me in this afiair by the telegrams.
Respectfully,
J. L. Alcorn, U. S. Senator.
A STATEMENT OF FACTS BT WHITE MISSIS-
SIPPIANS.
Memphis, Oct. 9.—All quiet at Friar’s
Point.
The difficulty at Charleston, Tallatchie
Friend.” It is adapted especially to thoee cases shm
the womb it disordered, and will core any irrmW,
of the “menses.” Dr. J.Bradfieid’s FemaleBendai
acts like a charm fl “ white*,” or in a sudden cheek*
tha “ monthly court**," from cold, trouble of mind a
like causes, by restoring tha discharge in even iC
stance. So also in chronio eases its action is uLZ
and dedaive, and mvee the constitution from couulm
guts in the land. Prepared and _
field, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga. A thousand
testify to it* merit*. |
Mamma, Ga.. March 88 jgjo
Mamas. Bxadtisld A Co.—GentlemanW, W,
you two certificates from perfectly reliable penou
would have lent them before, but waited to see if tl*
cun would prove permanent.
WM. BOOT A SONS, DrugrirU
HELP, HELP*—NOW OE NEVER.
DR. E. D. NEWTON,
county, originated between Sheriff Alcorn j Immigration Agent, 375 Broadway, N Y
and a negro named Blackwell. Blackwell , ^ now w , urge and selected el« ,f ^
was abusing Alcorn and other Republican at u, ^ rit ^ *
js* ‘Su’rjnsi T Pes 1 ^ ^ --n-S
I stresses, laundresses, etc., or farm or mechanical Ubcr-
en of any and all kinds, will pleas* leave their orJerv
at the office of the Amass Giobolas, when they will
Gbssn’s Acocer Flos
Hall, white. Blackwe’l was pursued by
tbe sheriff and others to tlic back room of
a grocery, where he was shot fifteen or be forwarded to
twenty times, and mortally wouuded. All
Republicans.
Washington, Oct. 9.—The Star has the
following version:
The Attorney General of the State of
Mississippi, Senator Pease, Postmaster
at Vicksburg, Miss., aud District Attorney
Walls, of the Northern District, called on
the Attorney General this morning, to pre
sent to him the situation of afiairs in that
State. They represent that the recent
troubles are of a personal nature, and are
now over* They do not want Federal
troops sent into Mississippi. They set
forth that if troops are sent into the State,
the negroes will elect to office men plastered
over with indictments of various misdemean
ors; if troops are not sent into the State,
they are of the opinion that the Legislature
will be lost to the Republican party, but
that tlic successful candidates will be lovers
of good order, aud law-abiding and patriot
ic legislators. They think the reverse, how
ever, will be overcome Id time for the Pres
idential issue; and that in that campaign the
Republican candidate will receive the ma
jority of the votes cast in the State. The
Attorney General advised the delegation
to remain here until the President’s return,
and reiterate the statements made to him
to the President. ! -.iw! ' ’*i«.
CHASING A FILIBUSTER.
Kingston, Jamaica, Oct. 9.—The fili
buster steamer Uruguay had a very narrow
escape from capture by the Spaniards off
the coast of .Cuba. Sailing close in shore,
under cover of night, she effected landings
during two evenings, but was so close to
the Spanish encampment that they fired
upon her with rifles. Subsequently she en
countered a Spanish war steamer, which
chased her for sixteen hours close along the
Cuban coast, in day light; hut she escaped
and headed for Jamaica, reaching Port
Royal Monday night, 7tii inst. She re-
qnires repairs, and has been ordered to land
her arms and ammunition at Fort Augusta.
Meanwhile, Her Majesty’s ship Woodlark
takes charge of her, with steam np. One
of the crew of the Uruguay died of fever
yesterday, and three others have gone to
the hospital to-day.
Council Chamber,
Athens, Ga., Oct. 4, 1875.
5 o’clock r. u.
A called meeting of Council was held
this evening. Present, His Honor, Mayor
King, and Alderman Moss, Hood, Hull,
Pittard, Burke, Blair and Lncas.
The Mayor stated that he had called the
Council together at the request of some of
the merchants, for the purpose of taking
some action in regard to the Ordinance
prohibiting the placcncing of cotton on the
tide walks.
Col S. C. Dobbs appeared before the
Council, and stated that the enforcement of
the Ordinance as it now stood, would result
in serious damage to the merchants who
bought cotton, and urged upon the Conn-
til the necessity of modifying the Ordi
nance.
After considerable discussion of the mat
ter, the rules were suspended, and the
following amendment to the 326th Section
of the .Ordinance, introduced by Alderman
Moss, was adopted:
Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil, That the 326th Section of the General
Ordinances be amended, so as to allow
merchants and cotton buyers to weigh cot
ton on the edgo of the side walk in front of
their places of business, and shall have 24
hours to remove the same, provided all
cotton shall be so placed as to leave at least
eight feet of the side walk dear of obstruc
tion.
On motion of Alderman Hull," the Mayor
and Aldermen Moss and Talmadge were
appointed to represent the city in tho meet*
itig of the Stockholders of the Northeast
Railroad, to be held on the 2Qth in$t.
Council adjourned.
W. A Gilleland,
Clerk ofCouncil.
E. D. NEWTON,
Im’g. Agent, STS Brosdvtj, s. y.
.—It is nstarsl for peon!.
Liver Complsint or ur
tack ■* Sou
Stomscb, Sick Uesdscne, llsbitnsl Costivcness, tsipits
tion of the Heart, Htart burn, Water-brash, entviii
tad burning pains at the pit of tbs Stomscb, Velio*
Skin, Coated Tongas, and disagreeable teste is U*
mouth, coming up of food after eating, low spirits, fa,
to put off from day to day baying an article thsttkq
kixnr has cured their neighbor, lrisod or relsnis,
tbe* have no faith in it until it it too late. Bel if you f
will go to your Druggists, B. H. Brumby & Co., tni pt I
s bottle or Gbxxjt’s Acocir Glowzs, your hmnsdua
euro is ascertain a* you live. Sample bottles of this
medicine can be obtained tor 10 cents to try iu superior
virtue.
Regular sire, 75 cants. Try it, two doses will ethers
any case. / Aug. 11—to.
CIGARS.
We have now on band 850,400 Choicest Brands of
Cigars, which we offer at Gbsstlt Esdcczd Pans.
Also a large stock of Smoking and Chewing Tobacco,
Snuff; Genuine Meersbaum Pipes, and all Smokrn Ar
ticles. \ ,
PT A liberal discount allowed to Jobber* buyinf
largely. Come one! Come sill 1
KALVAK1NSKY Jc LIEBLEK,
Aug. 5*tL] Under Newton House, Athene, G*.
Musas. Fi
Southern Dry
Cadi
GBEAT SAVING.
it, Bxnmor & Co., of the V*
i Establishment, an now offtnuy
their new tail stock, wholesale and retail, strictly at tha
lowest Foreign and American market quotations. Thar
fscilitia are equalled by only a few Northern end Wsr
imshjigTliinfill T‘ ■j-lftsniTi-f-r T1[i~"*~
and offer to sell tbsir average stock in all their branch*
15 to 80 cents lower than those paying higher prices u
Jobbers as sail them, as they My strictly from man-
lecturers or their scents. For particulars, all or stud
for sample* and price list. All retail orders short tea
dollars sent free.
■!J FUKCHGOTT, BENEDICT A CO.,
U Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga
Branches—
F. B.*Oo., N«w York.
F. R & Co., Charleston, 8. C.
F. B. & Co., Jacksonville, Fla. [Sept. Ms
MORE SWINDLING COME TO LIGHT.
New York, Oct. 9.—Orders of arrest
were granted on Wednesday last against
Wm. Butler Dunam, Wm. Watts Sherman
and Francis H. Grain, of tho late banking
firm of Duncan, Sherman <6 Co., on com-
? laint of W. A. Ferdenand and W. and
lhaa G. Roebly, who charge the firm
with fraud, in having sold them a bill of
exchange on London six days before their
suspension, and when, as alleged, they knew
it would be dishonored. Orders of arrest
were executed on Thursday, and each of the
defendants gave bail in $5,000.
A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.
Bay City, Micu., Oct. 9.—Early yester
day morning tho house of George Forrest
was entered by some person unknown, who
Doured a quantity of acid upon the face of
Mrs. Forrest as she lay asleep. She is hor
ribly burned, and will lose her eye-tight.
The outrage is supposed to have been com
mitted by a man whose suit had been re
jected by a girl who lived and slept with
Airs. Forrest.
Query.—How long will s8ingar Sawing Machine had
Answer.—Thousands upon thousand* have beta b
daily use for twenty yean and mors, and an todsy is
" Qusrr.—W hy is it that tha sales ot the Singer sbsoH
equal those of «U other Machines combined I
Answer.—Simply because tbe Singer it the best, Els''
eat moving, mostodorable, end consequently che*p“ l
Sewing Machine ever offered to the public.
One Singer, eoeting (cash) $47.50 to $78.00, will last
« long as rive of tha common totalled “cheap 1st
dbsa,” but in reality Soar 2d class Machines, which n
being offered to the public at $50.00 to $«0.00.
Which it the cheapest, a Singer St $57.50 to $78.00
east), that will laetfO yean, eoatjier year |2.t0to|3.00
or a common so-called cheap Machine, costing cash
$50.00 to $40.00, that will last 2 to 6 yean—cost pet year
$1X00 to $40,001 U-tf
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 9.—A freight
train on tho New York Central Railroad,
running at the rate of 40 miles an hoar, left
the track and dashed against the wall of
the depot in this city, demolishing part of
the buuding, crushing the engine and tender
and a part of the train. The engineer and
fireman were crushed to death.
The Remington again Triumphant!
MAKES A
CZ&AJir SWEEP
OF ALL THE PREMIUMS, REGULAR
and Special, at the Oconee Fair in AtheM,
N. B.—This. Machine has taken pre
miums over the Singer, Howe, Wheeler A
Wilson and Wilson Machines wherever «•
hited in competition. It is new to the i
people of Athens, it never having been ex- |
hibited here until this Fair.
The older companies can only compel*
with tins Machine by misrepresentation. R
is acknowledged by all experts, mecbxsk*
and operators, to be superior to all other*
in the following particulars:
Superiority of Construction.
Quality of Material
Ease of Operation.
Certainty of Action.
Speed and Light Running.
Whilst the attachments of this VtA**
BAGGING AND TIES
75 Cents a Bale
ATHENS FACTORY.
ail
r, l. Bloomfield, Agent.
Oet. 20—w4t.
GEORGIA.—CLARKE COUNTY.
Whereas, Stevens Thomas as Guardian of Step!
E. Moore, orphan of Richard D. Moore, deoaaaed, ap
plies to me for letters of dlsmiasiou from said pun’
ship. These are therefore to cite and admonish all
eernedtoabow cause, (If any they haval at my office
on or baloee the first . Monday U> November neat why
said letters should not bo granted.
Given under my hand and official signature it offlea,
this 4th day of September, 1875.
ASA M. JACKSON, Ordinary.
8op$. 15—84-4W.
are a npctiality, being the latest
gad
Notice.
i;
A LL persons indebted to 0* estate of JohnMegerity,
*\ late ofi Hart county, • deceased, aro hereby notified
to come forward and make immediate payment; those
having deiassds agShuMeMkme will present them to
tbe
pretent tl
within t’
Sspt. 98—48 «t.1
,yl*w. This 18th c
WILLIAM)
JOHN A. MEGABIT^, .
sad GARDNER MEGABITY,
’»f i-V-T-Managers of th* estate of j
JOHN MEG ABIT Y.dscsised.!
desirable and sold only with this ‘
Having been critically exsnno
judges at the recent fitirw w •** *..
points, and being satisfied thst *•» **“?
far excels all other candhbw* * ot ?
favor, wc have accepted the agency 01 ^
sale thereof on the company’*
prices. Its undaunted success in 0
cities where introdneed is a guarantee
that its merits will be recognised J
patrons. Call and sec these Mac me*
our store.
L. SCHEVENELLA CO.
I *7 No. 8 Broad «t. Athens,^*-
We are also agents for tbe sale
wonderful
TYPEWRITER.
Oct, 10—dtf*
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nesota, Colorado, Kan***,
Utah- and " " *“
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Noons ■
toor M2•
Wiring* ?
and farming implement* general*!. -
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