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YOL. 5. NO. 5.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 17, 1876.
OLD SERIES, YOL. 56.
LAW ITOTXCSS.
-^y H.I.ITTI.K,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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Carnoavlllc, Go.
J 8. DORTCH,
ATTORNEY at law,
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JACKSON & THOMAS,
TTO BNEYS AT LAW,
Asa M. Jackson.
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Athens, Ga.
L. W. Thomas.
q i). mi.x.,
attorney
AT LAW,
Atlieus, Ua.
I’roinpt attention given to all business and
the same respectfully solicited. junll-ly
DOPE HARROW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
Office in Jolin H. Newton’s new building.
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NEWS NUBBINS.
In compliment to Mr. P. A. Stovall,
our former Local, we copy the follow,
ing news column front the Chronicle
and Sentinel:
The hickory nut crop is good.
} Daljon wwto a <wgon fo^pry.
: Coni in’ f)aitoh, SO cents jW? fcnsfc
el.
Mr. J. G. Patterson, of Savannah,
i9 dead. *
Gilmer epunty is swimming in sor-
glratn. OD.
Hart county gave Colquitt 628 ma
jority.
Mr. Hilliard will be beaten in the
Fourth.
JJ 13. TURAHIIER,
attorney at law,
Wat kins ville, Ga.
Office in former Ordinary's Office.
jon25-1876-ly
p G. THOMPSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Special attention paid to caiminal practice.
For reference apply to Ex-Gov. T. II. Watts
and Hon. David Clopton, Montgomery, Ala.
< )ffice over Barry’s Store, Athens, Ga.
fcb3-1875-tf
pRANK IIARRALSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cleveland, Ga,
Will nrtetice in the counties of White,Union,
l.umpkiu, Towns, and Fanning, and the Su-
prome Court at Atlanta. Will give special at
tention to all claims enusted to his care,
nug-ll 1876-41-tf. .
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JOHN W. OWEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Tocoa City, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties of the West
ern Circuit, Iiart and Madison of the Northern
Circuit. Will give special attenion to all claims
entrusted to his care. oct20-1875-ly.
Lamar Cobb. Howell Cobb.
Jj * II. conn,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Athens, Ga
Offioe in Denpree Building,
feb2S-187S-ly f .1 T,
^LEX. 8. ERWIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
Office on Broad Street, between Center & Nich
olson and Orr & Co., up-stuirs.
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^M. COCIiBAN,
ATTOSNET JUT LAW,
Gainesville, Ga.
Root Estate and General Land Agent for the
purehaae and aale of Mineral ana Fanning
Lands in Ilall, and the other counties of North
east Georgia. Mineral ores tested and titles to
.property investigated. Special attention given
tome purchnso and asle of oity property.
J. N. DORSEY. Attorney.
ness, caused from being thrown from
his buggy.
Mr. James H. Garrard, of the Sig
nal Service, U. S. A., who took
charge of the office in Savannah, died
Thursday morning of yellow fever.
The Oglethorpe Echo is the pro
prietor of the statement that an Au
gusta girl detained her sweetheart
three hours the other night, by
sitting on his hat.
David R. Keith, a graduate of the
University of Georgia, comes highly
endorsed by divines, and statesmen
f- ^- Hnard county, surveying
SCHOOL T" P* ’
Amateur dramatic clubs for the
yellow fever sufferers still spring up
in . Atlanta. If these things continue,
subscriptions for the Atlanta suffer
ers will soon be in order.
mays—6m
STT3XXTES3 CAXtSS.
J^ # A. WINN,
s —WITH—
GRGOVER, STUBBS & CO,
Cotww Farton aad Orncral ComnilsMon Merchants,
Savannah, Ga.
aaMing, Tiea, Eopo and other supplies fur-
maned: Also, liberal oaah advauoes made on
eonugnmenta for aale orshipment to Liverpool
or North*: ru ports. may 80-1876-tf
P^IL Phlnlzy,
(Successor to C. H. PhinixyVfe Co.)
COTTO2T FACTOR,
Augusta, Ga.
» .Liberal advances made on consignments.
jape6-4m
Boot anil Shoe Manufacturer,
COLLEGE AVENUE,
NEXT DOOE TO THE POST OFFICE,
On hand, Uppers for making Low Quartets,
Congress, Alcxis-Ties, and Prince Alherts. Re
pairing promptly executed. Send ten dollar*,
SEiSLSrEE?" *nd you shall receive a first
clasa pair of boott. Jnn e 80 1876-86-tf.
j], SCHAEFER,
CfOTTOIT BOTBHy
Tocoa City, Ga.
Highest oash prioe paid for ootton. Agent
for Winship’s Gina snd Press. oc20-187Mf
Dr. J. C. C. Blackburn, of Barnes-
ville, has concluded to become a can
didate for Secretary of the State Sens
ate;
Elberton elects the following
Councilmcn : “ J. O. Sanders, S. L.
Carter, H. C. Edmunds, E. B. Tatq,
Jr.,WdD»A Matthews.* ' “
“ The whites and colored all pulled
together,” in Miller county, says the
Commonwealth. Colquitt, 461; Nor-
cross, nix.
A Barnesville man, suffering from
the low price of cotton, has had
“ Tilden ” painted on his wagon and
has stored his crop until November.
The Elbert county negroes have
j ostracised Chas. McCalla, a colored
The Atlanta custom house is pro- preacher, for being a Democrat and
grossing. jwiU not allow him to occupy the
Hart county has resolved to build \ pulpit,
a new jail. ” £ > ^JT Ce - j Rev. Henry Tyler died ou the 4th
A Hartwell inau caught ten ’pos- instant, at his residence in Hart
sums in one night. ! county, after a long and painful ill-
Crawford wails for butter and a
telegraph office.
The drought has injured the small
grain crop in Whiteficld.
The banner counties are uow as
numerous as grasshoppers.
An Atlanta man offers to bet $50,-
000 on Tilden and Hendricks.
T. W. Teasley, Esq., has been ad
mitted to the Hartwell bar.
The Franklin girls have organized
a Henry R. Harris reading club.
Chicken thieves are among the
first refugees to return to Savan
nah.
The Times' belle editor reports
two marriages for Atlanta this week.
Rex and his crew will invade
Atlanta with more eclat than ever
this year.
In the Georgia election, in Hart
county, last week, Wade Hampton
KqUyo votes.
Colquitt has six rising young men
to select from, for a Solicitor of the
Atlanta Cireoit. r A T
Thero is a great rivalry among the
country towns as to which pays the
most for cotton •
Up to Tuesday night, the 10th
inst., 3,100 bales of cotton have been
received at Barnesville.
The new Methodist church in El
berton, says the Gazette, will be ded
icated on the first Sunday in Novem
ber.
Two.Elberton mules ran away with
a load of cotton last week and
killed Buck Brawner, the colored
driver.
It appears that a young lady by
the name of Miss “ Olla Podridge ”
get up locals for the Washington
Gazette.
The Elberton Gazette very natu
rally attributes the low price of cot
ton to the “ concatenation of com
bined events.”
Judge E. H. Lindley, a former
representative of Cobb county, was
killed by the State Road collision
last Thursday.
Mr. Robert Crump, a respectable
citizen of Hart county, was stricken
with paralysis in the left side last
week.—Sun.
John A. Moore, the courteous con
ductor of the Athens branch, is again
on duty. He now figures in two
roles, we believe.
Dr. W. C. McEntire, Ben Hill
man, is announced elected represen
tative by a majority of fourteen votes
in Franklin county.
Whitehall street crossing is be
coming such a plague in Atlanta
that they are thinking of Bending for
Gen. Newton to blow.it up.
COMING PARTY.
The pin-back and anti-pin-back fac
tions arc having quite an acrimonious
contest in Acworth. Dr. Lovick
Pierce should stump the county for
the former faction.
J. M. Smith No. 1, is Governor of
Georgia; J. M. Smith No’ 2, is rep
resentative elect from Oglethorpe
county ; J. M. Smith No. 3. is a can
didate for Ordinary in Heard county.
Next!
Elbert county tallies the first of
the season. A little colored boy left
alone to amuse himself by playing in
the fire was burned to a coal, so says
the Gazette. There remains 136
counties yet to hear from.
A State Road freight train ran in
to an accommodation train at Ice-
ville Thui8day. Two gentlemen
who endeavored to escape from the
rear platform, ere the freight engine
reached it, were instantly killed.
The Atlanta Times, upon its own
responsibility, states that Georgia
will probably not go for Hayes and
Wheeler. This is a canard. Geor
gia will “go for” Hasenwheelcr,
with a Tilden majority of some four
score thousand.
Mr. J. Northcutt, not Norcross,
was slightly mashed while coupling 2
freight cars in Acworth. The latter
gentleman, we believe, was mashed
by coupling himself with the Radical
Nominating Convention some months
ago.
The Pike county negroes, thinking
that they had elected their man,
fired a cannon upon the evening of
the election. The official returns
next morning, however, brought out
the howitzer with a Democratic
prime. The Barnesville Gazette im
mediately sent up for one of Caroy
Stiles’ roosters to complete the victo
ry*
mpton’s Speech to
e Colpred People.
Sit irnlay, Wade Hampton, Demo-
crati^ivandidate for Governor of
' ^Carolina, made a speech to the
of 'Darlingjibn county. ’This
is a very heavy black oounfcy, about
two to one, Wit we are told that it
will go Democratic.
Please read what Genebil ‘Hamp
ton said in Iris speech there to the
blacks. It is right to the point.
Speaking of the fact that he was an
early advocate] of negro suffrage,
because it would give the South
much power, he says:
“ Why did I recommend that you
be permitted to vote? There are
800,000 colored voters in the South.
They add to the power and strength
of the South. We have more voters
in the Presidential contest, and we
have more Representatives in Con
gress. Why should we want to cut
off one-third of our votes ? Of course
we should desire.to keep them. We
know that if the time has not come,
that it will will come and must come,
when blacks and whites in the South
ern States Will come together.”
That fe,. all vote the Democratic
ticket, and make a solid South. He
continues:
“We would be, indeed, fools to
desire, with 800,000 colored votes
and 1,600,000 white votes, to cut off
one-third /of our strength. The
North saw/it, and lieuce the Mortons
ai^Andrews opposed the move to
allow the colored people votes. I
was the first man in the South who
advocated that measure, and I have
never gone back on it. You will all
have to come together, and I have
been waiting for the time, and it is
not for distant now, when all the col
ored people will be ready to ‘jine
the cavalry.’ [ Applause and laugh
ter.]
Do you sec the point.f^He has
certainly made it very plain.
Speaking of the fact that he was
the first white man in South Carolina
to advocate negro suffrage, he says
“ I made the proposition at several
public meetings in Columbia, and I
took the grouud that they had been
made citizens, and that they should
not be excluded from the right to
vote. And I recommended then
(and Jat that time none but whites
had the right to vote ), I whom yonr
leaders tell you am a rebel, that
am an unreconstructed fire-eater,
they will tell you the Lord only
knows what about me, and yet I re
peat that I was the first man in South
Carolina who recommended that the
right to vote should be given to the
colored people. |_ Applause.] Go
to Nash, Edwards and others, and
ask them if what I have told yon is
not tme. When I was taking that
grouud in South Carolina, Governor
Morton, yonr choice for the Presiden
cy, tlie man who waving the bloody
shirt and digging into the very
graves of onr dead, made speeches
at the North, in which he said your
people were not fit to vote, and re
commended that the frandhise should
not he granted them for twenty
years. I have the speech of Gover
nor Morton, and any of yon can see
it if yon wish. My speeehes were
also published, and you can see them
if you desire. Governor Andrew,
also another, of you Republican
friends, took the same ground as
Morton, and I have his speeche
also. These are facts that cannot be
disputed. They are printed docu
ments and are now among the archi
ves of Massachusetts and ofCongress.
These are the men who profess now
to be your warmest friends—these
men who would have put their feet
upon your liberties for all time.”
He was in favor of black suffrage,
because it would give the South 1 a
preponderating Weight in National
affairs.
At tho^same time, Morten, in Indi
ana, ma3e a t'dty^cKar and argumen
tative speech against negro suffrage,
copies of Rich Hampton reads to
his black auditors, and distributes
among them for their edification.
elick ” now when they are drawn,
cocked and ready for action. This
information will, I kiiouv be gratify- *yW~-
ing to’ yonr Excelleucy, and save v\
you the trouble of another pronun- f\\ ' N
ciamento. On the 18th of this month -, A
we are to have a “ Gander Pulling ”
at Edgefield C. H., and have suc
ceeded in seeming the serving of an
agcd' Gander named “ Dan,” who has
all his life.been remarkable for dodging
qualities, which, you knpw, is a very ?\\
essential trait to makoWob elevating'
It is now 1 in order for some riofor- sport- entertaining. And I h/fye been
r-» «.,1, i 1 r 4-1- a 2a ,i mm’Lm \ m . ^1 ItW All,# f"’ 1 V , #■> I f-. a. .1. n 1 A. 1 1, _
iner, who thinks the South is oe®ti|>y-
appointed Chief Marshal on thoNsaid
ing too much space in affairs, ! td staVt' -occasion. By virtue of my position
a party havirig^ror its Cardinal princi
ple the graceful, taking of the negro
out of politics by way of a counter
acting constitutional amendment.
But you. may ^bc sure no Tilden re
former will start such a party. They
have got too good a thing of it. If
the Democracy capture the nation it
will be through the preponderating
weight which negro suffrage has
given the Solid Sooth. They virtual
ly have a gift of the representation
arising from eight hundred thousand
votes to begin with. This, of itself,
is a fair start toward Washington.
H. V. R.
BUTLER TO WICKED DAN
AN BUMBLE LETTER FROM GEN. BUT
LER TO GOV. CHAMBERLAIN.
i pfoponpiamen-
ukase, fulmination, or
[ Edgefield Advertiser.]
Governor D. H. Chamberlain, Co*
lumbia, S. C.
Your
to, manift
whatever else it may be termed, has
been duly received and “contents
noted.” I am happy to inform you
that we liavejbut one Rifle Club of
white men in Edgefield county, and
that exists under and by virtue of
chartered rights granted by the
Legislature and approved by the
Governor; and if by virtue of your
authority as coramander-in-chief of
thfe military forces of the State, you
order them to disband, why of course
they will have to “ squander *» and
ground their arms, and will I presume
re-organize, without arms, as a Dem
ocratic Club, and call iheir officers
President, Vice-President, wardens,
etc., etc-, instead of their high sound
ing, rebellious, military titles. We
have thirty odd Democratic Clubs
in this county, organized of course to
defeat your election and the election
of “your people;” and Iain happy
to be the medium of announcing to
you, that hereafter they propose to
abandon the “ Rebel yell ” which ap
pears to shock your imagination bo
horribly, and I am requested by the
Clubs ( Democratic Clu,bs, I mean,)
to invoke your permission and gra
cious dispensation to allow them to
indulge occasionally in a good square
Democratic “Holler” instead of the
“ Rebel Yell.” The latter, you know
is performed by each fellow “ holler-
in ” on his own hook, and it does
sound a little provoking to sensitive
ears; but the Democratic “ holler ” is
done by system, and no man is allow
ed to “holler” out of time, which
makes it smoother you know, and
not so grating. I trnst that you will
see fit to proclamate on this subject,
and grant us this innocent privilege.
It gives me much pleasure to in
form you also that the fellow whose
pistol 11 clicked” at you when yon
were here on the 12th August, with
Judge Mackey, has been disbanded
in obedience to your fulmination (or
proclamation, I should have said
I beg pardoq ), and has been inconti
nently ^suppressed, and Smith
Wesson have so modified their origi
nal pattern, as that they don’t “click"
worth a cent in the holster, but only
as Chief Marshal, I am allowed to in
vite a few social friends, and I avail
myself of this privilege to extend to
your Excellency a cordial invitation,
and to request that your Excellency
will come prepared to participate in
the sport. Knowiug your fondness
for equestrian exercises, we have,
selected a well-broken docile Radical
horse for your use, black of color -
with striped legs, and a yellow star
in his face, to be fully caparisoned
with a Democratic saddle and appro'
priate trappings. ~
If you should bo able to coine r -
please notify me, ahd I will bave a
mounted escort, without arms, to
meet you at the station and see you
to the grounds. These Democrats
are very naughty fellows, and have
a very provoking way of saying that
their souls we tlieir own,, and of rid--
ing to their meeting in squads of such
convenient size as to suit their de
praved tastes. I must do them the
justice, btrtveveiv to say that they
ride their own horses aud traverse
the public highways and have not
interferred with that “ 40 acres and
a mule,” which you presented to the
darkies some years ago. Of course
it would be more proper and respect
ful to your Highness that these pre
sumptions underlings should walk to
their meetings, and stand around
with their fingers in their mouths,
whilst your Indignity is orating and
uttering nothing but the truth so help
you God. This I say would be more
proper, but as we have to ride at
the “ gander pulling,’’ they will have
to come mounted. Besides this,
“Dan” may break loose and run,
and being swift of foot, for a goose,
it will require a first class thorough
bred to overtake him.
Very truly, yonr obedient eater of
humble pie. M. C. Butler.
P. S. Our Chief Engineer, Wade
Hampton by name, has Bunk a shaft
near the State House at Columbia,
with subterranean galleries running
off towards the mountains, the
Catawba and Savannah rivers, and
the Atlantic, which he is stuffing
with untold and “ untellablo ” quan
tities of reform dynamite; and on
the 7th of November next, he pro
poses to have the dynamine touched
off by a small sized darkey from the
battery established somewhere in
Colleton county, and there will be a
“ bustification ” compared with which
General Newton’s recent brilliant
achievement at Hell. Gate, New
York, will “ pale its ineffectual fires."
Now you have - organized a “ Hell
Gate ’’ in the channel of progress in
South Carolina, and Hampton intends
to blow it up on the 7th of NovemJ
ber, and I advise you as a friend
to get from' over. Don’t attempt to
countermine, because you can’t possi
bly tell where the galleries run; and
if you try to .find out, you will be
blown up trying. M.-C. B.
X~s
J
Two-thirds of the supreme court
and five-eighths of the circuit bench 4
of South Carolina—the judges all
being radicals—denounce Chamber-
berlain’s proclamation as a lie and a
defamation.