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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: OCTOBBR 24, 1876.
Whittier's Corn Song.
Heap high the farmer’s wintry hoard,
■-v A Heap high the golden com;
No richer gift haa autumn pouted
From out her lavish horn.
Let other lands, cxultiug glean
The apples from the pine;
The oraugc from its glossy green,
The cluster from the vine.
We better love the hardy gift
Our rugged vales bestow,
To eheer.ua when the storm shall drift
Onr.liarvest fields with snow.
Through vales of grass and flowers
Ourplows their fturows made,
While on the hills the sun and showers
Of changeful April played.
We dropped the seed o’er hill and plain,
Beneath the sun of May,
And frightened from our sprouting grain
The robber crows away.
, All through the long bright days of June
Its leaves grew bright and fair,
And waved iu hot midsummer noon,
Its soft and snowy hair.
And now with autumn’s moonlit eyes,
Its harvest time has come,
; We pluck away its frosty leaves,
And bear its treasures home.
Then richer than the fabled gifts
Apollo ahotrered of old,
Fur hands the broken grains silt,
And knead its meals of gold.
Let vapid idlers roll in silk,
And around the costly board;
Give ns the bowl of samp and milk,
By homespun beauty poured.
Then shame on all the pround and vain,
Whose folly longs tosoorn
blessings of our hardy grain,
Our wealth of golden corn.
Let earth withhold her goodly root,
Let mildew blight the rye;
Give to the worm the orchard fruit,
And wheat fields to the fly.
Let the good old corn adorn
The hills our fathers trod;
Still let us for his golden corn
Send up our thanks to God.
The Democratic National
Committee to the People
of the United States.
A meeting of the National Demo
cratic Committe, the Chairman, Mr.
Abram S. Hewitt, presiding, was
held yesterday at the headquarters
of the Committee at the Everett
House. Nearly every State was rep
resented. There were mutual.con*-
gratnlations over the result of the
recent elections, and it was regarded
ss favorable to the success of the
Democracy in November. It was
resolved to carry on a general vigor
ous campaign in all the States. Gov
ernor Tilden called while the Com
mittee were in session and was con*
gratulated upon the prospects of
Democratic victory. It was decided
to issue the following address:
To the people of the United States:
Fellow-Citizens—We congratu
late you as patriots, as partakers with
us in the common destiny of Ameri
can freeman, upon the results of the
October State elections. We re
joice in the victory which the peo
ples’ ballots have bestowed upon the
mends of reform in the valley of the
Ohio, where the Republican hosts
had an overwhelming ascendency in
every Presidential election since 1856.
We rejoice in the assurance these
elections convey that your ballots
will bestow^decisive majorities to the
allied forces of Democracy and re
form in the November elections
throughout the Union. But we re
joice not as partisans; we rejoice
with yon as fellow-citizens.
And when thejdecision of this week
•of one million voters along the valley
of the Ohio shall be ratified next
month by the fiat of eight million
voters throughout the whole Repub
lic, we shall still rejoice, chiefly for
the reason that not ono of its citizens
can miss of an equal share with us
who are Democrats in the political
peace and good will which will theu
and there be established among all
sections, races, classes and conditions
of men, and in the prosperity of which
political peace, based on equal rights
and fraternal good will, is the first
condition.
CONCENTRATION OF ADMINISTRATION
INFLUENCE.
Upon the three States of West
Virginia* Ohio and Indiana, were
concentrated all the influence of the
administration, all their efforts, and
all the vast sums of money forced
from the 100,000 office-holders of the
party in power.
These were fearful odds, not again
to be contended against so concen
trated,for in the November elections
the contest will be in every one of
thirty-eight States upon the same
day.
Nevertheless, against these odds
the Democrats and reformers of West
Virginia and Indiana have been victo
rious, and in Ohio they have all but
rescued a State hitherto deemed
hopeless, and have created an assu
rance of victory in November.
If it falls to our lot as a National
Democratic Committee to congratu
late the people of the Union upon
this victory in the first battle of the
reform campaign, it is only because
Democrats have been honored to be
the leaders of the people in the work
of national regeneration.
The victory won, the victory still
to he won, will be a deliverance as
much to Republicans as to Democrats.
THE DAWN OF A BETTER DAY.
The patriotic masses of the Repub
lican party may be thankful that the
misdeeds of their unworthy leaders
have been rebuked and are to be ar
rested. The suffering whites of tho
South may lift up their heads to greet
the dawn of a better day for them as
well asthc nation at largo. The colored
citizen may share the general joy
that be will soon cease to be the
stock in trade of corrupt politicians,
but shall enjoy his rightful liberties
and his equality before the law amid
universal good will.
As for the reform Democracy, to
whose standards victory has been
tied, with all her garlands on, it only
remains for them to welcome every
ally, every friend, close np the ranks
and press on, shoulder to shoulder,
under the banner, and with the one
watchword, “ Reform.”
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DEPRIVED OF.
Fellow-citizens, peace between all
sections, prosperity in all our homes
—of this, you have been for years
deprived by the mistaken solicitudes
of patriotic Republicans, played upon
by selfish and corrupt leaders, who
have kept fanning the dying embers
of civil strife in order to escape in
spection of the trusts which they
have betrayed.
For eleven years, you have had the
name of peace. At no time have you
had the substance of peace. In lieu
thereof, you have liad the grinding
taxation and wasteful expenditure of
war. Just before every election eve
ry year you have had the preaching
of a new crusade against a section
utterly defeated in war and anxious
only to be completely reconciled in
peace.
For eleven years the power of the
men who have seized away the con
trol of their party from the hands of
its statesmen and founders has been
supreme in almost every department
of the Federal Government.
Discarding the hope of prolonging
their domination by beneficient pub
lic measures, they have created and
trafficked upon public calamities.
Tho policy they adopted has been
worked out Its failure has been ab
solute.
WIIAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PROM
ISE AND PROFESS.
In place of past performances, these
same corrupt and selfish leaders now
proffer promises already broken as
their titles to further trust.
Having prostrated our manifold
industries by the vast aggregates and
the worst methods of Federal taxa
tion, they now again solicit your con*
fidcnce as the instruments of retrench
ment and reform. '
Having debauched tho public ser
vice, and having just now, in the face
of open death, assessed their army of
100,000 office-holders—the peoples’
servants—paid by the peoples’ taxes
—in order to create immense corrup
tion funds to frustrate the peoples’
will, they now profess to be the
champions of civil service reform.
Having imposed upon the Southern
States the rapacity, fraud and plun
der of the carpet-bag governments;
having almost ruined the prosperity
of the North by destroying the pros
perity of the South; having created
terror, uncertainty and confusion in
all the productive industries of the
South, which furnish most of the ex
ports of' our -whole country, keep in
motion the commerce and manufac
tories of the North and East, and
furnish a market for the agricultural
prodccts of the West, they -now pur
pose, by; renewal of the same fatal
policy, to prolong their own power
in the hope of concealing their mis
deeds; and for this purpose they do*
not hesitate to renew the cry of intol
erance ; to revive the dying memo
ries of fraternal strife, and’to appeal to
the fears and prejudices of the timid
and the ignorant.
WILL THE PEOPLE TRUST THEM AGAIN?
Fellow-citizens, these men and
their measures have been completely
tried and have completely failed. An
oppressive taxation, an exhausted
South, an impoverished North, a
fluctuating currency, the enterprise
of an industrious people locked fast
in the paralysis of hard times—such
is the outcome of their political poli
cy, such are the achievements of their
long supremacy. Your ballots in
November can alone dictate a change
of measures and a cliangq^f men. Shall
not the uprising of patriotism along
the valley of tH§ ...QU& go on to a
oompioto uid beneficial revolution in
tlie administration of tho Government
of the United States? -
Will you not, by the voice of over
whelming majorities at the polls,
proclaim your invincible faith, after
all these years of corruption and pas
sion, in the high, immortal principles
of government by the people for the
people, in simple honesty and strict
economy as tlie supreme wisdom of
public policy, in justice as the
mother of power, and in civil free
dom as the be-all and the end-all of
a true Republican nationality ?
Will you not build up a new pros
perity for all the people on the foun
dations of American self-government,
on peace, reconciliation and fraterni
ty between all Rcctious, all classes
and all races embraced within our
system of American commonwealth;
on frugality and economy in all gov
ernments; on honesty and purity of
administration, and having lost your
prosperity through governmental mis
rule, {regain that prosper ty through
governmental reform? We commit
this great issue to the ntclligence
and conscience of the An erican peo
ple, with an nnfaltfering tj-ust in the
wisdom and justice of their decision.
By the order of tlic National Dem
ocratic Committee.
Abram 8. Hewitt, Clnh’n.
Frederick O.- Prince, Sec’y.
New York, October 13, 1876.
For the next thirty days. Brackets,
Wall Packets, and all kinds of Ornamental Wood
Work, wUl be sold at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES..
Now is the time to make your bouses beantl({il
at low figures. Great bargain j^gtirpn ^everything
county, (her said husband refusiug, j has applied
for exemption of personalty, and I will pass
upon the same at 11 o’clock, a. m., on tho isth
day of October, 1876, at my office.
Aaa M. Jackson, Ordinary.
M}t.35-St.
Dr. John Gordin©,
Late of Mississippi,
HAVING DECIDED TO MAKE ATHENS
his future home, now tenders his professional
services to the citizens of Athens anil its vicini
ty. Office on Clayton Struct, in nbw bdild-
ino of John II. Newtox’s, where he may bo
found from 8 o’clock a. m. to 6 r. m., when not
professionally engaged. Can be fonnd at night
at residence of the bite Mrs. Goldings.
raarcb28.1y.
University of Georgia,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
TSE SXVXNT7-SIXSS ANNUAL SESSION!
WILL open on October fourth with a full
Faculty in all Departments. Tuition in the
Academic Department $75, payable in advance,
viz: $35 on October 4th, with $5 library fee,
and $40 on March 1st, 1877.
Fifty beneficiaries admitted free in the Acade
mic Deportment.
S The State College of Agriculture and the
Mechanic Arts forms n part of the University,
nnd opens on October 4tn.
Free scholarships in the State College are
granted to as nmnv students, residents of Ga.,
as there are members of the General Assembly.
The Law School opens, the first term on the
third Monday iu August; the second term on
the third Monday in February following. Fees
$60 per term. Instruction afforded in every
branch of n liberal and professional education.
Good board may be had at $12 to $20 per
month. For catalogue, etc., adress,
W. II. WADDELL,
Secretary of tlie Faculty
scptl2-6t. Athens, Ga.
CASS 70S WOOL,
—OR—
CLOTH FOR WOOL.
The Athens Manufacturing Company are now
making a mneh larger variety of Woolen Goods
than ever before, and propose to
Exchange them for Wool,
believing it to be more to the interest of the
Planter to Exchange the Wool for Cloth, rather
than have it Carded and Spun at home. Call for
Samples and Terms ot Exchange.
R L. BLOOMFIELD, Agent,
may 19,1875-29-tf
JQIVKBT AMD SALE STABLE.
Cnrrlnites, Buggies & horses
for hire. Terms reasonable.
E. M. WHITEHEAD,
Washington, Wilkes cotlnty, Ga.
nov26-1875-tf
^mr^PQRTABLE and STATIONARY
SAW. FLOUR AND bliiST MILLS.
MILL GEARING MADE I
msmEBBSm
Homely Maxims for Hard
Times.
Take care of the pennies.
Look well to yonr spending.
No matter wliat comes, if more
goes out, you will always be poor.
The art is not in making money,
but in keeping it.
Little expenses, like mice in a barn,
when there are many, make a great
waste.
Hair by hair, the head gets bald,
straw by straw, the thatch goes off
the cottage, and drop by drop, tho
rain comes into the chamber.
A barrel is soon empty if the tap
leaks bat a minute.
When you mean to save, begin
with your mouth; many thieves pass
down the red lane.
The whisky jog is a great waste.
In all things, keep within compass.
Never stretch yonr legs further
than your blanket will reach, or you
will soon be cold.
In clothes, choose suitable lasting
stuff, no tawdry fineries. To be
warm is the main thing—never mind
the looks.
/
A fool makes money, but it needs
a wise man to spend it.
Remember, it is easier to build two
chimneys, than to keep one gobg.
If you give all to back and joard,
there is nothing left for the savings
bank. I
Fare hard and work hard wUen you
are young, and you will have dchance
to rest when you are old. j
‘Does our constant chatter dis
turb you?’ asked one of th<
talkative ladies of a sober-lools ng fel
low passenger. ‘No, ma’ar ; Fve
been married nigh on to thirty rears,’
was the reply.
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NG.PULLEYS AND
SIGHS. A SPECIALTY.
The UNEQUALLED JAS.LEFFEL DOUBLE I
TURBINE WATER WHEEL. T000 m use.
Address, POOLE & HUNT,.
SFND FOR CIRCULARS . BALTIMORE. MI).
*9ril.ll.ly.
\ 3STOTICT3.
A FT2R THIS DATE, COUNTY ADVER-
1\ tiaementa which have heretofore been pub
lished in ftis paper, will hereafter be published
in the Sun, a Gazette published in Hartwell,
Hart county, On.
F.OyS
nug.29.t£
,STEPHENSON, Ordinary,
Hart county, Ga.
Genuine Rust Proof Florida
Camp Oats for Sale
At Heaves <& Nicholson’*, at 90 cents per
bushel, neatly sacked. Sown in Com and Cot
ton or Stubblo, from 1st September to 20th
October. Very prolific, can be raised with 1-4'
labor of Corn or Cotton.
J. N. MONTGOMERY.
aug29-2m. Fort Lamar Ga.
CAROLINA CENTRAL DISPATCH UHL
Through. Ratos
TO J’OIITTS SOUTH,
Via Wilniagtiia, K. C.
For bills lading and fhll line of informs
tion, apply to either of the following Agents of
the line:
New York, Clyde’s line to Wilmington, L.
C. Duncan, G. E. A„ 345 Broadway.
Baltimore, Baltimore and Southern Steamship
Co., Jno. D. Lipscomb, Agent C. C. D. Line,
Philadelphia, Ericsson Line, A. Groves, Jr,
84 South Warve*.
Boston, Old Colony nnd Clyde’s New Line*
D. D. C. Mink, Agent 196 Washington St.
Providence, Clyde’s Line, D. D. C. Mink,
Agent, 92 Dyer St.
Insurance always Guaranteed Low
as by Competing Lines.
F. W. CLARK,
General Freight Agent, Wilmington, N. C.
E. h. JONES,
Agent Athena Ga.
Having taken the agency of above line, I am
prepared to givo any information concerning
through rates or any business appertaining to
tho line, and hope by strict attention to tho
convenience of shippers, to secure for the line
a liberal share of tho patronage of shippers in
Allteus and viciniiv.' E. E. Jones.
sept.28.tf.
Belton Hotel,
Bol-bon. Georgia.
Situated 66 miles on the Atlanta, Richmond
and Air Line Railroad from Atlanta, and within
one mile of tho .junction of the North East Rail
road of Ga. The Proprietor ia now prepared
to serve all who coll upon him with meals at the
following rates:
Single meal 50o. I Per week... $8 00
Per day ,.$1 50 | Per month......$20 00
july!8-ly . S. H. HUGHEN.
"OB WORK OF ALL DESCRIP
tion neatly done at tbis office.
NO DRONES
IN THE STORE OF
S. C. DOBBS.
EVERY MAN WORKS, PRINCIPAL AND CLERKS.
The undersigned having just returned from the
NORTHERN MARKETS,
With a full and varied stock of every description of Goods,
BOUGHT AT LOW AND PANIC PRICES.
Consisting in part of
50 Barrels Sugar, 50 Bags Rio Coffee,
200 rolls bagging,
1,000 Bundles Iron Cotton Ties,
16,000 POUNDS FLOUR, 16,000 POUNDS BACON,
4,000 lbs. Hemlock Sole Leather, Upper Leather & Harness Leather,
100 BOSES TOBACCO, ASSORTED.
200 SACKS SALT,
1,000 Pair Hand Made and Northern Brogan Shoes,
200 Kegs Assorted Nails, 20 bales Factory Thread, Su<mr
Cured Hains, Leaf Lard, Boots and Shoes, Kerosiiie
Oil, Staple and'Fauey Dry Goode, Hats, Caps,
READY MADE CLOTHING,
Crockery and Glassware, Saddlery and Harness, Cottou, Hemp,
and Jute Rope, and various other articles too. tedious to
mention, all of which he offers to the trade of Athens
and the surrounding country ior cash,
Cottou and Country Produce,
At as low or lower prices than can be bought in the State of Geor
gia. He makes a specialty of looking after country merchants who
wish to buy goods to sell again. He offers goods to the jobbing
trade generally and guaranties satisfaction.
sepI2-3m S. O. DOBBS.
JAMES A. GRAY &
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Foreign and Domestic
TDBtlT (3-003DS,
194 and 19S Broad Street, Aogrusta, Georgia-
The attention of tho people of Clarke and adjacent counties
is respectfully directed to our •
Fall and Winter Stock of Dry Goods,
Which we are daily receiving.
Commencing tlie Season with, a Stoek
And bought exclusively for cash in the best Markets in this
COUNTRY AND EUROPE,
WITH LONG EXPERIENCE,
And abundant resources for the transaction of a Large Business,
We Can Guarantee
Perfect Satisfaction in Prices and Quality of Goods.
Personal attention given to the filling of orders.
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A* CHAT & CO.