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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY VOL. 5. NO. 23. ATHENS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 27, 1877. Z^a.W XTOTIC±S. James R^I.tle, Watkiuaville. I Fountain cm spraTt |jMORY HI'EEU, ATTORNEY AT LAW, * ATHENS, GA. Otttre Nos. 4 and 5 Court-House. i dl9-ly J H. DOHTCII, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Curne»ville, Ga. niUS-1873-tf JACK80N & THOMAS, T1CBNEYS AT LAW, Athens, Gn. Asa M. Jackson. L. W. Thomas. decl6-1874-tf 1>. II 1T.1.* ATTORNEY AT LAW, Athens, Ga.. # Prompt attention given to nil business nnd the same respectfully solicited. janU#ly JJOPE llAHHOW, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Athens, Gu. Office in John II. Newton’s new building. jan4-ly _ E. TIIIIAHIIEU, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Watkinsvillc, Ga. Office in former Ordinary’s Office. jan25-1876-ly [ YEE & ERWIN, A TTORNEY’S A T LA TP. Will practice in parttierslpp in tlie Superior Court of Oconee County, aud attend promptly to all bu-iues* intrusted to their care. jan9-3m. X£ing Marks 7 JE£ x c li a. n g e Saloon, j COLLEGE AVENUE. The best Ciucinnat'.i Lager Leer, Cigars and all kinds of Liquors sold cheap dceli-lv. FOR CASH. Howe's Great London Circos-Oestructlve i * . ■ Fire—$40,000 Devoured in the 1 Flames. StTIAKEf.lt GOTTOXT BUYSn, Toeoa City, Ga. Highest easli prico paid for cotton. Agen for Wiusbip’s Gius und Press. oc2(M87Mf The Celebration of the 22nd in ingusla— Grant's Proclamation, and how it was. Received—Georgia’s Hospitality Ex tended to the Down Trodden Sons of Carolina. IJI A. I LEU, ‘TOa-bcFimnlter Sc Jeweler, At Micliael’store, next door to Reaves & Nich olson’s, llroad street, Athens, Georgia. All work warranted 12 months. scpt!2-4f. P. G. THOMPSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Special attention paid to eairainal practice. For reference apply to Fx-Gov. T. It. Watts and Hon. David Clopton, Montgomery, Ala. < iffice over Post-Office Athens, Ga. febS-1875-1 f jlHANK 1IA1UIALHON, attorney at law, Cleveland, Ga. Will practice In the counties of White, Union, Lumpkin, Towns, and Fanning, and the Su preme Court ut Atiauta. Will give special at tention to all claims enuated to his care. ang-U 1875-41-tf. JOHN W. OWEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Toeoa City, Ga.‘ Will practice in all the counties of the West ern Circuit, Hart and Mudison of the Northern Circuit. Will give special nttenion to all claims entrusted to his care. oct20-1875-ly Lamar Cobb. IIowell Cobb. & ii. com*. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Athens, Ga Office in Deuprcc Building, fob22-1876-ly Tlio Election of Congressmen from the llth, nncl tvliat Is Thongclit of tlio Com ing Race by Citizens ol tills District. Stem <& Saulter. "WTaolccalo and. I^o-fcail. Dealers in Wines, Whiskies, Iuigcr Beer, Ale, Gin mid Cigars. Sign of the 13 ig Barrel BROAD STREET, ATHENS, GA. oet.Sl.ly. F. P- —DEALER IN— American and Imported Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, luftiacdoal Inatrumonta, Guns, Fis-fcola, E-fcc. WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY RE PAIRED IN A NEAT, WORKMAN LIKE MANNER, And wanjuRad to give entliw satisfaction. Ornamental ana Plain letter Engraving Specialty. BS9AS 8T2SXT, cat dan fra local A Wue, ^LEX. K EllWIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Athens, Ga. Office on Broad Street, between Center & Nich olson and Orr ,t Co., up-stairs. feb22-1876-ly A M. COCIIHAN, A. ^.TTORirajy -at law, Gainesville, Ga. Real Estate and General Land Agent fortbe purchase anil sale of Mineral and Farming Lands in Hall, nnd the other counties of North east Georgia. Mineral ores tested nml titles to property investigated. Special attention given to the purchase and sale of city property. may2—6m J. N. DORSEY. Attornev. ^SllUIlYG. McCURllY, , Attcmoy a-fc 2L-a-w, 11APTWELL, GEOKOtA, Will practice in the Superior Courts of North east Gcoigia and Supreme Court at Atlanta. Aug 8. 1876 tf W 1*. J-ITTLE, | ATTORNEY AT LAW, Foil the Holidays. Great Reduction in Prices. TRIMMED HATS 75, 81 and upwards. UNTRIMMED HATS 35, 50, 75c. and upwards. NECKTIES AT lO. 15. 30, 35c. and upwards. A large assortment of goods suitable for OJarigrfaaieuB 3?reserrfcs, at} remarkably low prices. Call early before they are picked over at MISS C. JAMES, dec!2-tf Broad street, Athens. THE UNDERSIGNED IS PREPARED FURNISH MARBLE OR GRANITE Cut to any designs they are desired, .Plain or Elaborate Monuments, Head and Foot Stones with side pieces. Marble or Granite Box Toombs, Cradle Toombs, Vases or Statuary. Marble or Granite Vaults for Cemetarv mid other purposes, designs and prices furnished at Mnrlilo. Ynril the Marble Yard. jnneSO.tf. A.R. ROBERTSON, Athens. Ga. nplS-1678-tf Carnesville, Ga. BTJ3HTESS CARDS. ^ A. WINN, —WITH— GROOVER, STODBS & GO., Cotton Farters and General Commission Merchants, Savannah, Ga. Bogging, Ties. Rope and other supplies fur nished. Also, liberal cash advances made on consignments for sale or shipment to Liverpool or Nortl-om ports. may 80-1875-tf AS.TSTO EVANS, Practical Watchmaker. H AS removed to hia old stand at tho Ke*e Drug Store, whero ho win bo glad to see his eustomera, old and new, who wish fine work done on Watches, Clocks, and Jewelry. All work warranted. febSO-Sm. ARTHUR EVANS. JjlTEBT AND SALE STABLE. Carriages, Buggies & horses for bin. Terms reasonable. _ E. M. WHITEHEAD. Washington, Wilkes county, Ga. nov*S-1876-tf For the Bfnefit of the Trade of ATTESTS And Northeast Georgia. EDOTHT D- NEWTOIT, - SALESMAN FOR Messrs- Opdjcke, Terry & Steele, Whlto Goods, Notion., Linen., Laces and. Em broideries. t —AND— General Merchandise Broker. OFFICES: 375 Broadway 4 , New TTorJs, —AND WITH— Messrs. Thomas & Fleming, * DEUPREE BLOCK, ATHENS, GA. XToti.ee ! All persona an forbidden to hunt, or other wise trespass on my land. Said property being near Farmington, Ga., and adjoining the land of J. J.-Branch, Esq. fcb20-2t. JOHN WHITLOW. [Correspondence Athens Georgian.] Augusta, Ga., Feb. 24, 1877. It is with great pleasure that we find ourselves able once again to address your sterling journal, which we have ever regarded as one of the institutions of Georgia. But lew if any incidents of a startling or ex citing nature have occurred in the past few months to disturb the dull, monotonous course of every day life in our staid old city. The circus sensation still lives, as after being sold ont by the sheriff it was determined to go into winter quarters in Aagasta. The uni are housed in one of onr largest warehouses, (many of which are va cant, and promise to remain so for some time to come,) where they are daily visited by all who are so fortu nate as to gain admission. It will be fully re-organized and resume its wanderings in four or five weeks. Augusta bad a genuine, live, sen sation, last Monday, in the shape of one of the most destructive fires that has occurred within her limits for many months. Mr. Simmons, a gen tleman from Connecticut, of vast pluck and energy, established here some four years ago a large Factory or Pickery, where trash and damaged cotton was repacked. lie had been very successful in this business, and was rapidly making money until last Monday evening, when the fire fiend ruthlessly destroyed the building together with some five hundred bales of cotton, inflicting a loss of thirty or forty thousand dollars, which was covered by only ten thou sand insurance. lie was burnt out once before, in Savannah ; but hopes, in a few weeks, to resume operations in a fire-proof building. Men of his indomitable energy are much needed in this section, lor it is ouly through such Pha*nix-like pluck as theirs, that we ever attain any degree of prosperity. Thursday 22nd, Washington’s birthday, was celebrated by several of our military organiza'ions, promi nent among whom were tlio Rich mond Hussars, a cavalry company, than which there is none finer in 4 he State. They intend parading with fifty men; that number mounted, makes an imposing display. Our cit izens were electrified, astounded and indignant; this morning, when they read Grant’s'proclamation forbiding any military celebration iu South Carolina of the birthday of the father of his country, and this, too, after allowing the negro militia of Charles ton to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday on the 12th of the present month. What a commentary on the u best government the world ever saw!* What are we drifting to? Verily, does it seem as if the high-handed pations of Cte^aristn are usurping ’divine principles of freedom, freemen are forbidden by a partisan President from celebrating th^ anniversary of the birth of a man to j.whont, more than any other, qur country is indebted to for its release froggt British thraldom! It is sup posed that this proclamation was payed more particularly against the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston, who haVe ever been in th^Jiabit of observing the day. This company is the one which attended the Bnnker Hill Centennial, and also represented South Carolina in the Centennial Legion at Philadelphia, lost July. Between them and the Clinch Rifles of this city, (who rep resented Georgia in the Centennial Legion,) have existed the warmest friendship. As soon as the latter heard of the infamous proclamation, they telegraphed to the “ W. L. I.” to come to Augusta and join in our parade, as, upon Georgia’s soil, we yet ei^oy the semblance of freedom. This,*' however, they declined to do, as Gov. Hampton had ordered striyi observance of the President’s proclamation—thus wishing to afford the hated tyraiit no excuse for tiny further exercise of an authority which, in this instance, is as arbitrary as unpalled for. The election of a congressman front your district to the vacancy which , had been so ably and nobly he Hon. ,B. H. Hill, excites Iton seem OLD SERIES, VOL.. 56. D0NN PIATT, m ' 9ftr The Famous Article that ] Grant Howl. ' A DOUBLE DISTILLED ESSENCE OF EDI TORIAL AqA FORT IS—PREPARE FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE END. “T ' [Washington Capitol.] The sickening apprehension felt by the people, to which we referred last week, that the Supreme Court would be found as rotten as the other pow ers of our unhappy Government, lias been realized The swift decay that in the last ten years has made our self-government a sham and a mockery, and in the ex ecutive and legislative btanphes shamed us before the world, lias been silently working its way through the judiciary, until now, in its first trials it offends with its stench the nostrils of all honest citizeus. The appeal made to Judges of the Supreme Court from , the people, sorely distressed and perplexed, was Co-save them from the wicked eon spiracy of men they lmd repudiated at the polls. They saw their faithless agents for years robbing the Treasu ry of their hard-earned taxes; they saw thpir highest officials indicted for the meanest crimes; they saw ji President, coarse, brutal and it, appointing sycophantic pi be decidedly the favorite, and if we had a vote, it should certainly be bis, and as many more as we could influence, for (meaning no disparagement to any of his numerous opponents,) no purer or abler man exists in your district, and we think that your people could pay no higher compliment to them selves than- by selecting one who has the respect and esteem of all who ar so fortunate as to have met him. We have read, and were utterly astounded by the account of the Convention held in your county in the beginning of the week. A more decided or clearer case of packing, bull dozing or wire-working, we have never beard of during the whole course ofl our experience. Wc look upon it in the light of a farce, and if the people of old Clarko allow them selves to be so duped,'then, they are’ not the men whom wo had supposed trod the mountain paths of North Georgia. Would like to write at greater length on this subject, but have already occupied too much of valua ble space, so more anon. Yours, Clinch. Scarcity of Money.—-There is no donbt but the present condition of all kinds of business and industry is fear fully depressed, and it behooves eye*- ry family 4 to look carefully to their expenses. Winter is coining on when children are liable to Croup, Whooping Cough, etc. Coughs and Colds will prevail everywhere, aud Consumption, with other throat and lung diseases, will carry off many. These diseases should not be neglected. Doctors’ bills are expensive, and we would advise our people to use Bos- ciiee’s German Syrup. It never has failed. One bottle at 75 cents will keep yonr whole family well da ring the winter. Two doses will re lieve any case. Sold in all towns in the United States, and by yonr Druggist, Dr. R T. Brumby. dee!2-tf. the associate of roughs and the com missioner of thieves; they saw car pet-baggers sustained by bayonets manipulating the polls, that igno rance and rascality might tyrannize over the South; they saw rings or ganized iu the lobby control their Congress; they saw huge monopolies created by their Government eating out their substance; they saw them selves reduced to want, trade paral- ized and labor without employ, and they made a desperate effort to right their wrongs through the bal lot. With a subsidized press against them, with an army of hungry office holders, that, counting those of the General Government with those of the States, make a horde of Treasury- eaters greater than any standing army of Europe ; with’all tho accumulated capital in the hands of monopolies irrayed on the side of tl'cir oppres sors they made one despairing effort, anil came up from the polls with a majority of over half million in their behalf.. And of what avail ? Through a dishonest Returning Board, made up of criminals who have escaped conviction and punish ment under the protecting arm of a corrupt Government, enough votes are thrown out to render all their confidence in the very foundation of our political structure, the ballot. They decide that fraud does not viti ate, and beyond this, that thtjy have nothing to decide, and so send the question to the people. We have not the patience to argue wlint the people in their broad com mon sense will not consider; the fine spun legal technicalities under which these aged scoundrels seek to hide their shame. Their real brief is. to be fotiud in the utterance of one of their Commission James A. Garfield, who Baid, lioastiugly : “You’ll have to grin and bear it; we hold the cards and intend to play them.’’ Poor political gambler The stakes for which he plays are the rights of forty million of people, the peace and prosperity of the only Republic known to humanity. For all that freemen hold most dear, these hands, stained with plunder, gamble, as the soldiers of Pilate severed in division- tlie garment of the crucified Christ. As wc said a week since, this is not law; it is revolution, nnd if the peo ple tamely 4 submit we may bid a long farewell to constitutional government. Fraud no longer vitiates. A corrupt administration has only, by its bayo nets, to hold a State usurpation long enough iu pov/er for a corrupt Re turning Board to do its vile task, and the work is done. If a man thus returned to power can ride in safety from tho Executive >n to the capilol, to be inaugu rated, wo are fitted for the .slay twillTbilow the inauguration. .We do not believe the people of tho United States are of this servile sort. We do not believe that they are pre pared, without a blow, to part with their hartl earned, blood-stained pos sessions. Notice is now served on the citizens of Louisiana nnd South Carolina that they must care for themselves. How soon lump-posts will hear fruit is for them to say. To the people of the North andWest no tice is given that all tlie toil to which they arc subjected, that bond-holders and monopolists may fatten secure, is repaid by no security for their rights, and that a shrinkage of values is now iu order. If there is law for fraud there is reason tor violence. And to that wc make our last appeal. H. T. Huggins, has a choice stock of cigars, and solicits the patronage of all smokers. jan30-2t. efforts vain and saddle upon them the old corruption and old horde for another term of years—perhaps for ever. From this an appeal was taken to five justices of the Supreme Court— for that, no more and no less, was the commission created. It was be lieved that by- such process the ques tion at issue, being a charge cf con spiracy against certain corrupt men, conld be lifted from the political arena to a tribunal of high-toned, im partial judges, who would dcide in accordance with law and justice. To the amazement and disgust of all thoughtful nrinds, the justices di vided, as the partisans had, on a po litical line, and three indecent old men joined with the enemies of the fpeople in fixing cor ruption upon ns, and destroying all U. I*. M. feS. Union Prayer .Meetings this week, are as follows: Wednesday night, at Mrs. Hop kins’—Rev. Mr. Coil, Bro’s Jackson, Reaves and Kroner. Also at Mrs. Bailey’s—Bro’s Eng land, Lucas, Black and Comer. Thursday night, at Mrs. Porterp- field's—Bro’s Dobbs, Sale, Dr. Lump kin nnd McGinty. Friday night, at Mrs. Josiali New ton’s—Bro’s W. W. Lumpkin, Pitt man, Reynolds, Hunter and Dr. E. Smith. Saturday night, at Mr. Nations’ — Rev. E. D. Stone, Bro’s Lumpkin and LeSueur. Monday night, at Prayer Room— Rev. C. W. Lane. Jay O. Gailey, Prcs’t. A NEW METHOD that cures Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis and Con sumption, Dr. J. II. McLean’s Cough and Lung Healing Globules. As they dissolve in your mouth, a heal ing gas is generated and inhalled, permeates and comes in direct con tact, will cure Throat aud Lung dis eases. Trial Boxes, by mail, 25 cents. Dr.' J. H. McLean, 314 Chestnust, street, St. Louis. —The famine in India is decreas ing. Tlie prices of grain are falling in most of the Madras districts, ana large importations will reduce them elsewhere." *"• ’ ■