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. UNIVERSITY OF — Pi YOL. 5. NO. 5. ATHENS, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 17, 1876. OLD SERIES, YOL. 56. LAW ITOTXCSS. -^y H.I.ITTI.K, ATTORNEY AT LAW, apl8-1873-tf Carnoavlllc, Go. J 8. DORTCH, ATTORNEY at law, «plM878-tf JACKSON & THOMAS, TTO BNEYS AT LAW, Asa M. Jackson. dcc!6-1874-tf 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. jan4-ly 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. . — •— L.._’.«.2rf 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. feb22-1876-ly ^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.