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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: FEBRUARY 13, 1877.
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H. H. CARLTON, - Editor.
Our Chief.
The Warrant on C/ijtpcr, in its
4i peii sketches of prominent mem-
bers of the Legislature,” sjteaks
tliusly of our Chief:
The Speaker pro tew., Hon. II. H.
Carlton, <>f the county of Clarke, is
also a prominent anti handsome man.
His beauty is of a different stamp
from Bacon’s, being a brunette of the
first water. He lias a slumberous
• black eye that warms up and glitters
Hinder excitement, and a classic
onder-lip that draws itself down
tight and firm when he is crossed in
his purposes. His moustache falls
over his eloquent mouth with the
graceful curve of a miniature water*
fall, while his Napoleonic goatee
coiqes down to a fine point with a
bit on the end of it like a gimlet, and
acts as a sort of pointer to the im
maculate shirt front which he always
wears. He rarely ever opens his
mouth in debate unless he has some
thing to say, and when he does chip
in, he makes it lively. As Chairman
of the House Committee on Finance,
lie is doing Georgia good service,
which his old mother will not forget.
Ben Hill owes his election to the
Senate in a great measure to Carlton.
The Electoral Commission.
The decision of the Electoral
Commission in the case of the vote of
Florida, apart from its effect upon the
Presidential question as viewed from
a merely partisan stand-point, must
necessarily be deplored by every one
•who felt confidence in the fairness
and impartiality of the judicial por*
tion of the tribunal. The votes,
both as to' the admissibility of
evidence and on the main question as
to which of the two seta of electors
should be recogi ized as honestly en
titled to cast the vote ot Florida,
were distinctly distinguishable by
party lines. The five republican
senators and representatives and the
three republican judges votej on one
side, and the five democratic senators
and representatives and • the two
democratic judges vo'. od on the other.
The public were prepared to see
party bias influencing the judgment
of the Messrs. Morton, Garfield «fc
Co., but the hope was yery generally
entertained that the republican
Judges of the Supreme Court would
discard all party considerations, de
cide tlic questions in dispute sclely
with reference to the Constitution
and the law, and refuse to accept as
the truth so palpable a fraud ns the
votes of the Hayes electors in Florida,
even though, ns J udge Black forci
bly expressed it, “ it conies wrapped
in the forms of law.”
Nobody believes, whatever persons
may pretend*(hat a majority of the
people of Florida voted for the Hayes
electors. Everybody knows that
they did not, and 'everybody knows
that the certificate that they were
elected,-is an infamous falsehood
based on fraud and corruption, and
procured by as foul a conspiracy to
dofeat the will of the people as was
ever concocted by radical ingeuuity.
And yet, the eight republican mem*
bers of the Electoral Commission
have decided that this fraudulent
nud false certificate must be accepted,
and that the form of law in which it
is enveloped, cures the unalloyed
substance of fraud and falsehood of
which it is composed.
Hitherto, from the first establish*
ment of the" Supreme Court, tlie peo
ple of Ihe United'States, of all politi
cal denominations, have taught them
selves to believe in the independence,
purity and impartiality of that tribu
nal. They believed' tliaY Within the
products of that Court, truth, justice
and the Constitution were the ihva-.
liable rules of judicial action, and
that, whatever the previutis party af
filiations of the judges, when they
put on the ermine, they put off the
prejudices of the politician.
If-all the decisions of the Commis
sion shall be influenced by tlic same
motives winch have too manifestly
prevailed in the Florida case, the
people will find that they have gained
nothing by the reference of the ques
tion in controversy to the “ i.otnpro•
mise n tribunal, and they will find
that they have lost grievously in the
destruction of all confidence in the
integrity of the Supreme Court.
Judge Jeremiah S. Black, speak
ing of the radical returning Iwards,
before the Coin mission, said :
“The work of the counterfeiter is
as well entitled to be received for
truth as this spawn of a criminal con
spiracy, got up to cheat the State and
the Union, overturning and over
throwing the great principle tltat lies
at the foundation of all our security.”
It is barely jmssible that Judges
"Bradley, Strong and Miller, who
have decided that the Florida lie
must be accepted as the truth, on the
ground that there is “no power to
go behind the returns of a State,”
hiay decide that n ithcr is there any
power to go behind the vote of a
State in Oregon, and that thus, the
Cronin certificate will be counted.
This would elect -Tilden. And it is
just because it would elect him, that
we believe that the radical judges
will find by the time they reach the
Oregon question that tlie power “ to
go behind” a democratic vote is per
fectly clear.
. It has been overwhelmingly de
monstrated that the penitentaries of
the Union might be searched in vain
to find criminals at all comparable in
villainy with tho members of the
Louisiana Returning Board. Not
withstanding this, tho chances arc all
in favor of Judges Strong, Miller and
Bradley, deciding . that their spawn
of a criminal conspiracy, being wrap
ped in the form of law, must be ac
cepted as a gospel truth.
An Agricultural Experi
ment Station.
What is it? In the first place, it
is not a “model farm,” where all
kinds of crops are cultivated and all
kinds of work done in the manner,
which enlarged experience and tlie
successful applications of science,
have shown to be the best. The
“model farin’’ represents theadoanred
thought and practice of the day.
The object of the Experiment Sta
tion, on the contrary, is not to em
body or rcprescut thoughts already
in existence, but to advance thought
itself, to solve the obscure problems
in agri. ulture which press themselves
upon our attention and demand so
lution—in brief, to make original in
vestigations. A few examples will
best illustrate the matter:
To a Southern farmer, cotton seed
is one of the most valuable and avail
able of fertilizers—but who is pre
pared to tell us how they may be
most economically and efficiently
utilized—whether by crushing, rot
ting, applied in a green state in deep
furrows, composted, or how? The
records and analyses of crops grown,
by using it under all conceivable
inodes, can alone answer the question.
Thu Charleston phosphate rocks,
how can they be best utilized—by
treating with acid (superphosphates)
or by reducing to fine powder and
composting, to secure solubility?
What combination of fertilizing ele
ments are best adapted to onr several
staple crops? Is available potash,
sulphuric acid, lime, magnesia, etc.,
deficient in the soils of Georgia?
What is the loss (if any) by leaching
of manurial elements applied at dif
ferent seasons? What are the cheap
est forms in which a Southern fanner
can obtain nitrogen l jihosph^cagt^ and Bradley will have.tlie.proud sat'
etc. ? These and manv .other* of likeT>*“cUon, if they' carry out the plan
and many others of like
character, it is "the province of an
Experiment Station to answer.
Another work often assigned them
in Europe, is theAnalySis of Fertili
sers, to prevent fraud —but ' this is
already done for the farmers oTGeor
gia by our Department of Agricul
ture. Analyses, however, of mucks,
marls and ‘other valuable deposits,
would legitimately fall within its
scope. 5 "
In the United States, jjiere is b.yt
one genuiue Experiment Station;
that has been in existence but a short
While,' and has done scarcely more
than fairly enter upon iy* work... It
is located at Middleberry, Connecti
cut, and is supported partly |>y State
appropriations and partly by private
contributions.
'Can
the United States go
.Behind Wells? .
This is the very significant question
asked by the Brooklyn Eagle. The
vote of the Commission in the Florida
case, Wednesday, is a elear answer
in the negative. That is to say, no
matter how fraudulent the electoral
vote of any State may be, no matter
how apparent that fraud nor how
glaring the rascality by which the
result was obtained,'the people of the
United States have absolutely no
remedy, but must submit to lie gov
erned by a President not entitled to
the office. Such a State of affairs
was never dreamed of by tlie found
ers of the Republic, else we would
certainly have had unmistakable lan
guage in the Constitution, hearing
on the subject. But it must be evi
dent to®every one not willfully
blinded by partisan prejudices, that
such a monstrous Interpretation as
the Republicans put upon the law is
foreign to all ideas of right and jus
tice and was never intended by its
framers. It is simply Mexicaniziug
a nation which has always held itself
up before the world as a model Re
public. What is the use of an elec
tion ; why should we pretend to be
guided bv law, when such woippjrcl^
as Wells can nullify the actioinof the
people and declare who shall be Presi
dent? Tlie action of the Commis
sion is enough to make well-wishers
of our republican form of government
pause and look into the future with
gloomy forebodings. True, the ulti
mate result of the count, no matter
who may lie President, will secure
.peace and acquiescence for the press
ent; there will lie no clog to the
governmental machinery; but who
can say that in the time to come, the
people, under a decision which would
place Hayes in the White Bouse,
would ever be allowed to select their
own ruler? What lias been dope
this time in two States, may be car
ried out four years hence in six or a
dozen. There will be nothing to pre
vent such commonwealths as may
happen to have Republican State
administrations from being counted
for the Republican candidate, pro
vided those administrations will it so,
no matter what tlie verdict of the
people of such States nuy be. In
other words, the election, in the end,
rests with the canvassers, and not
with the people. Is not that the ex
act declarali in which the Grand
Commission, by a vote of eight to
seven, has just made ? Clear proof
of fraud, unquestioned rascality,
amount to nothing, says Evans and
the other counsel for the Hayes elec
tors. Wells and Me Lin have said
that Louisiana and Florida have gone
for Iluyes, and, therefore, they must
be counted .or bint, notwithstanding
what tlie equities of the case may be.
It is a melancholy commentary on
the highest judicial tribunal of the
laud that its members have disclosed,
by their votes ou the question of
goiug behind tho returns, that they
are utterly unalile to rise above party,
feeling. Bound by their original
oaths of office, and bound still further
by the special oath provided for In
the electoral bill, they calmly closed
the windows of their consciences mid
voted as party demanded. The coun
try is indeed^to be pitied when its
judiciary sinks to the level of mere
partisan?. Justices Strong, Miller
which they have begun and sueceeq
in potting Hayes in the'Presidential
Chair, of having saved the Republi
can party and at the same time of
clouding, to say the least of it. the
fair fame of the .United States Su
preme Court. It is somewhat a mat
ter of surprise that .Justice Bradley
even “went so far as to disregard
party commands in consenting to
examine into the question of the.
eligibility of one of the Florida Hayes’
electors. But then it will be a very,
easy matter for the eight to rise up
and declare that Humphrey’s title is
pure and unspotted, and thereby se
cure the four votes for Rutherford B.
And so ends the first chapter. The
time is not far distant when we
shall be able to write finis on the last
page of tlie volume. Granted that
Florida and Louisiana, however, are
counted again t us, it does not follow
that Mr. Tilden’s case is hopeless.
If the certificate of the Executive of
a State is final in one case, so it must
lie in another. If Stearns’ and Kel
logg’s “broad seals” gives Florida
and Louisiana’s votes to Ilayes,
Grover’s must, be counted for Tilden.
Even, however, with the decision of
the Commission i,i regard to receiv
ing evidence, before us, we do not,
by any means, concede that it gives
Louisiana to Haves. While the vote
in Florida was so close, as under anv
decision, to give either side only a
very small majority, that of Louisiana
was not in any such condition. Its
eight thousand majority for Tilden
stmds prominently before the coun
try, ami cannot lie ignored except by
the most unblushing disregard of
law: ,
Later dispatches say the stunning
effect of the party division of the
Commission on the main question,
Wednesday, was somewhat dissipated
yesterday morning, and that the
Union, of Washington, claims that
in all es ential particulars, the ques
tion is before the Commission in the
shape indicated and desired by Mr.
O’Conor iu his opening statement.
We must confess that we dq not see
it in that fi«?ht. As we understand
the inattyr, the decision of the Com
mission was directly contrary to the
wishes of the Democratic counsel.
The party vote on the question, shows
that this was the case. The five
Democratic Congressmen and Justices
Clifford and Field voted to admit the
testimony, while the Republican
Congressmen and Justices Strong,
Miller and Bradley voted against it.
It is consoling to know that it will
not be long before the end is reached.
Chronicle and Sentinel.
TJ. P. M. K
The following arc the appointments
of the Union Prayer Meeting So
ciety for this week.:
Tuesday night, at Mrs. Joiner’s—
Bro’s Towns Comer, Madden, Jack-
son and Rhodes.
Wednesday night, at Mrs. Bailey’s
—Rev. W. H. Potter, Bro’s E. Smith,
Rtunney and Christy.
Thursday night, Prayer Room (for
young men)—Dr. Win. King.
Thursday uiglit, at Mr. Green
Dottery’s—Bro’s Dobbs, Reaves,
Bernard and England.
Friday night, at Rev. I. M. Kid
ney’s—Rev. Mr. Thomas, Bro’s Moss,
IlnniiiciiU and H. Cobb.
Saturday night, at Mr. Rhodes’—
Bro’s F. W. Lucas, Stone, R. Coiner
and Huggins.
Sunday afternoon, 3^ o’clock, open
air meeting at Lower Bridge—Bro’s
Lumpkin, Cobb, Comer, Dobbs and
Gailey.
Mor.dav night, at Prayer Room—
Bro. II, R. Bernard.
Jay O. Gailey, Pres’t.
WHY SUFFER FROM COLD
iu the head ? Dr. J. II. McLean’s
Catarrh Snuff soothes and* cures. In
fallible for Catarrh and any Sores in
the Nose. Trial boxes 60 cts« by
mail. Dr. J. H. McLean, St. Louis.
IffaxrxadL
GAIN HS—TEAS LEY—O n tho 6th inat., by
Bov. 191111001 Smith ot tho residenoe of tho
brides Cither William H. Tcosiey, 8. W. Ginn
and Miss M. C. Teaslet. All of Elbert county.
Be sure and attend the Democratic
meeting Saturday.
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UNLESS THEY BE RESTORED TO THE SOIL.
sped and price before buying elsewhere:
OLD CAROLINA, 8T0N0 PHOSPHATE,
SAMANA GUANO, CHESAPEAKE GUANO,
PALMETTO ACID, STONO ACID,
COTTON OPTION FIFTEEN CENTS.
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complete and the most instructive exhibition of Artificial Fertilizers of
Superior Quality, at the National Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in
1876 One million of dollars permanently invested in the business, is a very
good guarantee that these Fertilizers will always be kept up to their present
high standard. These Firtilizers have been used constantly in this section
for several years, and I take pleasure iii referring to parties who have used
them, for evidence of. tlieic great value.;. For prices, terms, <fcc., please
apply to,
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Frodaxaa.a'biosa.
GEORGIAs
Ex ALFRED H. COLQUITT, ’
Governor or said State :
Whereas, a vacancy haa been caused by the
resignation of the Hon. B. II. Hill, the membei
elect from the Ninth Congressional District to
the Foity-flfth Congress of tlie United States ;
Now, therefore, I have thought proper to issue
this my Proclamation ordering that the Polls be
opened and au election be held on Tuesday, tlie
thirteenth (18th) day of March next, in the coun
ties of Banks, Clarke, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth,
Franklin, Gilmer, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall,
Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Pickens,
Rabun, Towns, White and Union, comprising
the Ninth Congressional District in said State,
for one Representative to fill said vacanoy.
Given under my hand and-tlie Great Seal of the
State, at the Capitol, in tlie City of Atlanta,
the sixth day of February, in tlie yeng of Our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seveu and of the Indepenacncc of
the United States of America the one hundred
and first.
ALFRED H. COLQUITT.
By the Governor: ,
N. C. BARNETT,
feblS-lt. Secretary of State.
Keep your Money at Home 7
I keep on hand, at all times, a good supply of
Moulding and Glass,
and everything necessary, and can frame Pictures
As low as they can be framed in
Atlanta,
or elsewhere in tlie State. Don’t give your
orders to drummers from Atlanta houses, bnt
give me a trial. I guarantee better work for the
money than you can get in Atlanta, besides
Having yonr freight and trouble. It is poor
policy to send your money to people who are
doing all (they cun to make a way station of
Athens. Orders for all sizes and styles _ of
Frames filled at short notice, and satisfaction
guaranteed. T. A. BURKE,
febl3-tf. Bookseller and Stationer.
Cheap! Cheaper I Cheapest!
Elementary Spelling Books, $1 20 per dozen;
Thomas’ Block Ink, in 9 ounce cases, 50 cents
per dozen; Flagg and Moore’s Ink, in 9 ounce
cases, 40 cents per dozen, l’uper, Steel Pens,
Pencils Ac., as cheap as they can be bought
elsewhere. Give roe a trial.
feblS-tf. T. A. BURKE, Bookseller.
G EORGIA CLARKE COUNTY.—Whereas,
Samuel D. Mitchell, Administrator de bonis
non, with the will annexed of Giles Mitchell
deceased, appliea to me for leave to tell the fol
lowing real estate of said deceased, to-wit:
Phinizy
and admonish all concerned to show cause at
my office on or before the 1st Monday mApnl
next why arid leave should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office this 19th Feb-
rU fe?18^4t! ASA M. JACKSON, Ordinary.
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9 a 10
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50a 1.00
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16s 18
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1 1Sal 25
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73*1 25
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Meal, “
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Bacon, Sides,-
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LEATHER.
Hemlock -
Sole Leather
Upr. Leather -
Harn. “ - -
Calf Skins - .... 610 00*100 00
Kip Skins 50 00a 75 00
Dry Hides • 10
Green Hides 5
BAGGING, TIES, ROPE.
Bagging pr yd - - ><•}•
Rope, cotton — - 30al0
Rope,grass —- 20*23
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Molasses, Cuba........
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adamant......
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Cheese, State—.. .
English Dairy
Onions, per bu.-
Starch-.......—
Tallow
Bice, per lb
Mackerel, No. 1>1U...
•• No. 2, Kit*...
•< No. 3, Kits...
8*11, Per Sack.—...
Chewing tobacco—
Smoking
Snuff, Maccaboy -
American, —
Havana——
AMMDNIT
Sugar
French bran
Holland Gin
American Gin.....
Bourbon whiskey
Wines———■
Cotton Cards-
Horse Shoo*-
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Castings.......
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