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WORDS OF WARXIXG. COrNSEL TO GEORGIA DEMOCRATS. Address < f tlie State Democratic Execu tive Committee —The Duty of the Teo ple of Georgia in the Freseut Crisis— Initj of Action Called For. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Democratic party of this State at the Cap itol In the city of Atlanta on the Bth inst., the following committee was appointed by the chairman to prepare an address to the Dem' ocratic parti of the State. James M. Pace, chairman; J. L. Warren, W. A. Harris, M. J. Hatcher, J. T. Waterman, W. T. Trammell, J. A. W. Johnson, and W. E. Simmons. It was on motion ordered that the name of Miles W. Lewis be added to the committee The following is the address issued by the committee to the people of Georgia : THE ADDRESS. To the Democratic Party rx Geor gia : The State Democratic executive com mittee of Georgia, animated by a sincere re gard for the welfare of the State, and viewing with undisguised concern the existing oppo sition to some of the regularly chosen candi dates of our party, deem it timely to address Georgia Democrats upon what it considers the imperative duty of the hour—the duty of true party allegiance and the importance of its discharge. We speak no mere formal words to you; we ask you to hear us for our common eanse. The peril of party disinte gration is foreshadowed in a personal inde pendeotism that professes fealty to Demo - cratic principle. The large numerical major ity of the Democracy in the State has begot ten a feeling of security, and a disregard of the principles that won success. This sense of security appears to be drifting ns steadily towards the dissolution of our party bond, and the ultimate triumph of our political ene mies in our own State. Not only this, but the great national victory for which Democrats have been struggling for more than a decade of toilsome years, and now for the lirst time within our grasp, must be inevitably lost to ns if our party unison ceases, if our party zeal wanes, or if our party strength is weak ened by selfish aspirants or disorganizing factionists. It is well for the Democracy of Georgia to take soundings of its course, and jn this early hour before the battle of the bal lots, deliberate what is best to be done and what must be avoided. All sensible men must acknowledge the need of co-operation to secure a common aim, acd to preserve and enforce a common belief. In war there can be no triumph without organization. In pol itics it is equally essential. There must be a common object, an acknowledged authority, a harmouious policy and a united action. These arc the indispensable conditions of success, approved by time and trial, aud their violation will bring revenge in sure over thro w. Looking back over the turbulent years siuec 18(14, to their stormy conflicts, to their disappointments and humiliations, the con scientious champions of Democratic princi ples And cause for congratulation in their heroic adhesion to duty, and in the full re- ward of victory which it has brought to them. We saw then the upheaval of all society. We saw States raped of their sovereignty. We saw the caprice of conquest made the law of the geueral government. We saw the soldier become the arbiter of private rights, the cus todian of private liberty, the judge of private property. Worse even tnau these, we saw a ' party in power, seemingly enthroned, that sought to make these odious aud fatal practi ces the accepted and permanent policy of national rule. The spirit of our free govern ment was to be forever subverted and destroy ed, and the genius ot liberty and law was to be supplanted by the demon of force and j tyranny. In resistance to all this wicked in- i tent, in undismayed battle with the heresy of j an arbitrary centralism, the Democratic party did its grandest work. Vainly it fought for years. It suffered repeated defeat. It was derided aud overw helmed, but vanquished or silenced, never. Sturdily by the assailed | cause of constitutional government, it stood j like a stone wall. Ou every battle ground its forces were rallied, aud its blow was struck. It resisted force and fraud, misrule, 1 menaces aud temptation. Its courage grew, and abated not. It won, at last, small victo ries, aud then larger ones. It redeemed pre- { ciucts, counties, cities, States. One after another, it took citadel and stronghold of re- I publiennisin. It carried its victorious staD- j dard into the Speaker's chair, it but awaits in assured victory the forms of the Senate’s cap- i ituiation. jt elected the President, but lost j the prize by the superior genius of radicalism for fraud. In these hard won and long de- I layed triumphs, it restored law, and order, and peace. To the conduct of public affairs, it brought new virtue, to official corruption it brought an cud. For public extravagance, it substituted economy, it quickened the dor mant sentiment ot private patriotism, it re stored to life and vigor the spirit of constitu tional law aud liberty. But its mission is not yet fulfilled. It has a President to seat before it eau wholly impress its policy upon the goverument and make the next chapter in 1 the history of the country. What has not the Democratic party done ; for our beloved State!’ Its beneficent work is j all too fresh to need recount. Consider it but a moment, and let the pleasing reflection as scunble its members iu solid phalanx around its standards on ever} field of conflict. F'ellow-cilizens of the Democratic party, the j final consummation of triumph for our iudi- : vidual and collective good can be aceorn- , plislied only by tht same united action which j has brought us our past successes. What we have gaiued can only be preserved to us in j this way. If Democratic principles are to be maintained, we must preserve our orgauiza- i tion. We cannot disband our forces and con tinue to conquer. We cauuot achieve no fur ther victory it division comes to us. If we break rauks, wc can win no battle. We can not preserve our party by disintegrating it. Wc see in Georgia, in several Congressional districts, aspirants, claiming to be Democrats, running outside of the party organization and against the regular party nominees. These aspirants make stout profession of their party fealty, and yet their only hope of success rests upon the solid vote of' the opposition, the rad ical party. From such source conics their succoring strength. If their profession of political faltli be true, it must be seen that a successful candidacy upon such basis makes the opposition the balance of power between Democrats, humiliates our party, and by subjecting it to defeat, makes the re sult a substantial opposition victory. Will voting Democrats aid in putting their party to shame ? We entreat you not to 4o 50. Let there be no self-delusion in this important matter. Let no man mislead you, or deceive you by specious pretext. The path of duty and interest is plain to all who will calmly consider. Let Democrats refuse to give their countenanc e and support to independent can. didates, and the danger which threatens the jm'ty shall disappear at once. They have no .claims upon you, they carry not the party .standards, they 6eek not to advance the party Interest, or promote the public good. They but seek to gratify fheir own personal ambi tion aud love of office. No existing party abuses invite their reforming hands. For eel. fish purposes they make profession. success will bring benefit to none but them selves and the party hostile to us. Let them run if they will, but not UDder false colors. The Democratic party can but dispnte their claim to represent it. It can find no pleasure, it can feel no sense of friend ship, in that success which wounds and en feebles it, arid arrests its conquering advance. fJpeakiDg affectionately and earnestly for that grand party, Yenerable in patriotic service and radiant with its regained strength ana honors, we appeal to every member of it in Georgia to stand inflexibly by, its organization, aud follow to joyous aud benign victory the men who hold its commissions, and bear to battle its accredited standards. ■“Once more unto the breach, dear lricnds,once more.” J. >L Pace, of 6th Diet., C’hm’n. Joseeu L. Warren, Ist District. Wm. A.. Harris, gd District. M. J. Hatcher, 3d District. J. T. Waterman, 4th District. W T . T. Trammell, sth District. J. A. W. JohNson, 7th District. Miles W. Lewis, Bth District. Wm. E. Simmons, 9th District, -qnocratic papers in the State are re- The Dv 'quested to publish this address, gpectfully a. VOLUME XIX.] CURRENT PARAGRAPHS- The fever at Chattanopga is pro nounced more malignant and fatal than at any of the infected cities. Missouri has twenty-three green back papers, an empty treasury and a state debt that columns up like a shot tower. A Rhode Island jury were six days debating on a hog case involving sev en dollars, and then recommended both men to the mercy of the court. The news from the elections in Ohio and Indiana, last Tuesday, lead us to believe that the Democats have made gains in Indiana, and the Republi cans in Ohio. Indications are that the Republi cans have carried Colorado by about twenty-five hundred majority. The Greenback vote in the state was only about one thousand. Independentism is bearing fruits, for w r e now’ learn that Horace King a colored carpet bagger, ha3 announl ced himself a candidate for Congress. He lives at LaGrange, aud intends to thoroughly canvass the district. At a great shoe manufactory in Lynn, Mass., recently, a pair of kid side laced woman’s boots was made from the stock in just eleven minutes in sight of visitors. Poor Memphis! From a beautiful and flourishing city of 40,000 people, has been reduced in two months to a population of 2,500 whites and 0,000 vagrant and famished blacks. Walter Brock, a leading Republi. can of Harralson county, was asked why he supported Dr. Felton. His reply was “Dr. Felton is as good a Radical as I want.” A w r oman was recently sent to pris on for a month at Woolwich, En gland, for having a rag baby bundled in shawls, wherewith she excited the sympathy of passers-by as she begged alms of them. At noon Friday the yellow fever deaths in Memphis numbered 2,240 since the beginning of the epidemic, exclusive of the cases in which the friends of the parties purchased the coffins. A pint of peanuts donated to the Parker City (Pa.) Oil Exchange by Signor Polo Tragone for the benefit of the yellow fever sufferers, sold for two hundred and thirty dollars and eighty cents. The prices paid ranged from one to fifteen dollars per nut. A man w’alked into the Phildel phia yellow fever relief office, gave SI,OOO to the treasurer, refused to tell his name and went away unrecogniz ed. He made his mark where thieves j do not break through and steal. South Carolina Republicans have sent complaints to Washington that the United States Fifth Artillery Band is constantly used at Democrat ic political meetings, and that the j commander, Major Hunt, uses the garrison as Democratic headquarters. The yellow fever is making rapid ; inroads in the interior towns north of the cities that have heretofore been infested with it. Chattanooga, so long thought to be proof against it, at last had to succumb, and is now in its death dealing grasp. Among the heroes who have sacri ficed their lives to save the sick and suffering in the Soutli should be class ed Dr. Robert H. Tate, of Cincinnati. He was born a slave iu North Caroli na-served through the war as a ser vant in the Confederate army, and studied medicine after tlie surrender. He volunteered to go to Memphis and died while doing Iris duty nobly in that death beleagured city. A Treasury statement shows that three hundred and twenty-eight na tional banks, with a capital of nearly $49,000,000, paid dividends for the six months ending March 1, 1878; and three hundred and fifty-seven banks, with a capital of $59,000,000, paid no dividends for the six months ending September 1, 1878. Of these latter fo'i the first six months thirty-six were in the Southern States, and for the last six months forty-four were in the South. Mr. Langhorne, of Maysville, Ivy., has filed over his signature with Sec retary Sherman, charges affecting the official integrity as the second audi tor of the Treasury, French. The es sence of his complaint is that valua ble records iu the second auditor’s office of the Treasury Department have been extracted from the custody of that office, and it is supposed con verted to private use for purposes of gain. Major Wallace is a most excellent gentleman, and a highly competent railroad man and officer. He was Superintendent of the W. A A. R. R. for two years, four months twelve days; for that time the road paid the St?te $406,000, For the same length of time the lessees have paid into the state treasury $710,000; a difference in favor of the lessees of $304,000; money saved the state by the lease. General M. W. Gray, who is stump ing South Carolina for the Democratic ticket, made a speech recently at Darlington, in which he dwelt at length, in his usual effective manner, upon state and national finances. He charged the present national banking system with being the prime source of all our financial woes and advoca ted the repeal of the law, the with drawal of the national bank circula tion and the gradual substition there for of “a fixed and stable currency, with a sufficient volume to meet the requirements of trade and commerce. A gentleman from Pennsylvania, a correspondent of the Rome Courier, writing to that paper on the political situation of the South, say; “The Sputheru man who lives to see the In dependent movement win at the South will see the states of that sec tion once more under Radical rule, with a Republican in every guberna torial chair in that section, and in the Presidential chair also. Whoever lives to see the Independent move ment succeed in the South, at any time in the future, will also see a state of affairs exist there in comparison with which the past was mild and even patriotic.” grand barbecue ajtd basket dinner for the seventh con gressional DISTRICT. Ou Thursday night, the 10th inst., the friends of Judge Lester held another meeting and decided to have a basket dinner in connection with the grand District barbecue to be given at Cartersville on the 31st of this month, and invited all persons who do not feel able to contribute to the barbecue to bring a basket. Let everybody turn out witn their bas kets and let us have a grand feast. The following committees of ladies were appointed for the different dis tricts of the county to solicit contri butions. We want all the ladies to give us a basket and see that their neighbors and their friends bring baskets. We expect this meeting to i be the largest ever held in North Georgia, as the friends of the grand Democratic organization throughout the entire District will be here. Let us, therefore, prepare to entertain them in a manner worthy of the good cause that brings them togeth er. We hope none of the good la dies will feel slighted because their names are not on the lists of com mittees, for it is impossible to add them all. We here say that all from every district are appointed to aid in the good cause, and we hope they will go to work at once in each dis trict and see that everybody attends with a well filled basket. The following are the committees : FOR CARTERSVILLE DISTRICT. Mrs. A P Wofford, W O Bouler, Uriah Stephens, Thomas Simpson, T W Milner, W H Gilbert, F PGray, R L Sellers, Wm H Styles, J W Har ris, S II Patillo, John A Stover, Nel son Gilreath, D Winburn, R M Pa tilio, C M Field, Marlin Walker, R L Rogers, James Lockridge, Robt. Rouan, James Jefferson, James Sproul, James Tinsley, James Young, Joshua Kinnett, B K Carson, J M Neel, A 31 Foute, Abda Johnson, J N Dobbs, Thos W Leake, T A Word, J A Howard, D W Curry, Lindsay Johnson, W W Rich, John Hollins head, Wm Rowland, Jerry Fields, aud R C Roberts. Misses Mary Lou Young, Virdie Akin, Flonnie Par rott, Caroline Styles, Mary Wikle, Lidie Fields and Lillie Johnson. CASSVILLE DISTRICT. Mrs. Dr Battle, James Wofford, E P Price, B O Crawford, Thos Pittard, Sames Luther, Sam’l Pittard,Sanford Venable, George Hayden, L E Price, H S Best, James Irick, J D Lauson, Hawkins, W S Battle, Eli Corshur, and John A Matthias. SIXTH DISTRICT. Mrs. 31 T Hays, Thos. Stephens, Red Floyd, H D Lewis, Jeff3lurphy, W A F Stephens, George Hendrix, C W Whitworth, and Ed Lewis. ADAIRSVILLE DISTRICT. 31rs John H Fitten, John C Ay cock, John W Gray, Thos Johnson, T R Ripley, Sack Price, J C Martin, L Neel, John W Boudoin, J L Chil ton, G C Gholstin, J J Johnson, J D Boudoin, J E 3lorgan, Jacob 3loouey, F 31 Durham and J L Venable. m KINGSTON DISTRICT. Mrs Dome, A Y Sheats, William Rainey, Benj Kitchens, Dr. Jones, 3lark A Hardin, Henson, J C Roper, J C Branson, S 31 Davidson, John A 3lc3lurry, B F3lc3liken, Alek Dent, and 3lcDonald. SEVENTH DISTRICT. 3lrs Theo Rogers, J J Calhoun, Styles Phillips, Thomas Tutnlin, Frank Calhoun, Robert Speer, 3lor gan Rogers, B T Leake, Dr Stephens, Dr Beasley, T J Lyon, Dr Green, C Dodd, Roe Isbell, Hayne Doddd, R C C Powell, 3lcCary, Lorenza Jones, John Hayney, Jack Y r arborong, George Yarborong, Misses Hattie Sayre and Zulia Tumlin. ALATOONA DISTRICT 31 r3 O U Dodgins, J C Waldrif, Patillo, J O 3lcDannil, John Stegall, C 31 Jones, George Tumlin, T 31 Webster. STAMP CREEK DISTRICT. 31rs W F Corbin, Joe Davis, Stant Rouse, John Baker, William Brooks. WOLF PEN DISTRICT. 3lrs Silas Bell, C C Wofford, Spence McEver, Joshua Randolph, Frank Vernon, J D Thomas. MNE LOG DISTRICT. 3lrs. Thomas Gordon, Dr Fite j Adams, Samuel Diilaid, Sampson Stephens, Isac Thompson, Lui Price. CRAM) DEMOCRATIC RALLY. On Thursday night the 26th of September a large number of the friends of Judge Lester met in Car tersville and decided to have a bar becue on Saturday the 2ndday of No vember, and committees were ap pointed to solicit subscriptions &c., On 3londay, of last week, we were very much surprised to learn that the friends of Dr. Felton had held a meeting on Saturday night after wards aud decided to have a Felton barbecue on the same day that we had selected. After talking with several friends of Dr. Felton we met Col. F. 31. Ford and he assured us in the most positive manner that Dr. Felton’s friends had decided to have their barbecue more than three weeks prior to their meeting on Saturday night the 28th ult., and stated that he himself had been soliciting sub scriptions for that purpose at least that long. When this became known the friends of Judge fester held another meeting and decided to have their barbecue the 31st day ot October, as they did not desire to interfere with the friends of Dr. Felton or their barbecue. We there fore announce that the grand Demo cratic rally and barbecue will take place at Cartersville on Thursday October 31st, 1878. The following committees were appointed to solicit subscriptions for the barbecue : Cartersville District— A P Wofford, J N Dobbs, R L Rogers, J 31 Smith, M V Hollinshed, R L Sellers, Nelson Gilreath, F P Gray, G H Bates, J W Riche, John A Sto ver, J 31 Neel, T f Gouldsmith, Geo S Cobb, Win H Styles. Cassville District— B O Craw , ford, J D Lauson, Thos Pittard, J, f M Wofford, George Headen. CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY 3IORXIXG, OCTOBER'I7, 1878. Sixth District— Red Floyd, H D Lewis, Jeff 3lurphy, M T Hays, Charley Whitworth. Pine Log District— Thos. Gor don, W L Adams, Robert A Richey, Thomas Carson, A 31 Fite. Wolf Pen District — Silas Bell, Charley Wofford, Spence 3lcEver, David Vaughan, Capt. J D Thomas’ Stamp Creek District —Thos. Jenkins, Joe Davis, Stant Rouse, John Dayis. Altoona District— J C Wa'drif, Egbert 3lcDaniel, Campbell Wal lace, Jr., O U Dodgins, Patillo Wal drif. Se v enteen tii D istrict— Ch ris tofer Dodd, B T Leake, John G Col bert, 3lorgan Rogers, Hayne Dodd, John J Calhoun, Roe Isbell, ItC C Pswell, J C Tumlin, W J Williams, Styles Phillips, T J Lyon. Kingston District— A Y Sheets, 3lark A Hardin, Dr. Thos. F Jones, William Rainey, Benj. Ivitckens, sr., Perry Collins, B F 3lcMiken. Adairsville District— Capt. J L Neel, John W Bowdoin, J R H Gray, John L Chilton, B J Lews, Col. John II Fitten, D W Louder milk. On motion, it was resolved that Gen. John; B. Gordon, Gen. Lucius J. Gartrell, Gov. Alfred H. Colquitt and Judge Geo. N. Lester be invited to be present and address the people on the political issues of the day. All committees in the different dis tricts are requested to report their subscriptions to A. P. Wofford, Chairman Central Committee, at Cartersville. ANOTHER LIE NAILED. Editor’s M a rietta Jou rn a l—A friend write to me from Draketown, Haralson county, that Dr. Felton’s supporter’s are telling in that region, that I have gone into bankruptcy, taken the homestead, made my wife a free-dealer,” and I am informed from another source that these inter esting statements were made by a creature residing in Cobb county, What is human nature coming to ? How far are falsehood and slander to be used against me, when my old of fense is, that I accepted an invitation to become a candidate for Congress against Dr. Felton? Will people, who have any love for truth, sustain or endorse such a course of election eering against one who never did them a wrong in his life time? The Prince of Darkness himself could not invent a string of more unmitigated falsehoods than the statements to which I have alluded, and yet there are men who are willing to use them, and suffer others to use them, in an effort to defeat me, and break down the only party to which the country can look with any hope of deliver ence from the hard times and mis rule, under which we have groaned for so many long years. Those, and many other falsehoods and slander ers which have been utterred against me since I have been a candidate, will as surely recoil upon the authors of them, as that a just God rules the universe. Surely good men will be disgusted with such injustice, and re buke it at the ballot-box when they come to vote. Respectfully, Geo. N. Lester. THE COMING MEN. The following is a correct list of the new congressmen, as far as is definite ly ascertained : THE OHIO DELEGATION. First district, Butterworth, rep. Second, Young, republican. Third, 3lcMahon, democrat. Fourth, Keifer, republican. Fifth, Leferve, democrat. Sixth, Hill, democrat. Seventh, Hurd, democratic. Eighth, Finley, democratc. Ninth, Converse, democrat. Tenth, Ewing, democrat. Eleventh, Dickey, democrat. Twelfth, Neal, republican. Thirteenth, Warner, democrat. Fifteenth, Geddes, democrat. Sixteenth, 3lcKinley, republican. Seventeench, 3fonroe, republican. Eighteenth, Updegrafl; republican. Nineteenth, Garfield, republican. Twentieth, Townsehd, republican- Democrats, 11 ; republicans, 9. THE INDIANA DELEGATION. J,First district, Heihrjan, republican. Second, Cobb, democrat. Third, Bricknell, democrat. Fourth, New,democrat- Fifth, Brown, republican. Sixth, 3leyers, democrat. Seventh, Delmaytf, national. Eighth, Hostetter, democrat. Ninth, Orth, republican. Tenth, Calkins, republican. Eleventh, Gowgill, republican. Twelth, Coleriok, democrat. Thirteenth, Baker, republican. Democrats, 6; rep üblicans,6; greens backers, 1. THE IOWA DELEGATION. First district, 3lcCord; republican. Second, Price, republican, Third, Updegraff, republican. Fourth, Deering, republican. Fifth, Clarke, republican. Sixth, Weaver, greenback. Seventh, Gillette, democrat. Eighth, Sapp, tepublican. Ninth, Carpenter, republican. Pemocrats, |j republicans, 7 ; green backers, 1. The West Virginia delegation is entirely democratic. Everybody has his remedy for yel low fever. One enthusiastic person tried his remedy on himself a couple of days ago and died. M. Benain, a French physician, has reached the utmost limit of simplicity in the mat ter of remedies, and his cure will not cost anything. He declares that to be free from liability to yeliow fever one has only to drink boiled water, yellow fever beiug the exclusive re sult of drinking water that has be come corrupted, and that if anyone is attacked by the disease he \yill be cured in twelve hours if he will only drink large quantities of boiled wa ter. HON- AMOS T. AKKBMAN. We are informed by the gentle man who handed us tbe letter of 3lr. Akerman that his Republican friends have frequently asked his views in regard to the contest iu this Congres sional District, and at his request we publish the letter below as Col. Akerman’s answer to such inquiries: Cartersville, Ga., October 9,1878. Dear Sir —In answer to your question, I say I do nqt take sides in the present contest ia the Seventh Congressional District I do not agree in ganeral political sentiment with eithe? Dr. Felton or with Judge Lester, the only real can didates in the field, for I do not regard 3lr. Aoltzclaw as a candidate in any serious or respectable sense of that term. I have none bat good feelings for both Felton and Lester as men, and therefore take no interest in the personal features of the canvass. From the absorbing nature of the contest, I suppose that most of our Republican friends will vote for one or the other of these two. Without indicating which of them ought to be their choice, I will suggest that as they are unable to gratify their polit ical preferences, they choose between the two, after considering their res pective capacity, integrity and expe rience; the probable efficiency of each, in non-partisan matters in congress; the fairness or the contrary with which each conducts the canvass, and character and objects of their respect ive supporters. Under this last head inquire which of them is the favorite of the demagogue, and which is the favorite of the well-meaning citizens; which is the favorite of the knaves, and which is the favorite of the hon est men. ,If you cannot by your votes do as much good as you wish, do as much as thejcircumstances will permit. Very truly, &c., Amos T. Akerman. WHO ARE THE INDEPENDENTS ! Beast Bailer swallowed a eonsider i able portion of tlie Democratic party of 3lassachusetts, and little Alex. Stephens, having swallowed the De mocracy of the Eighth Georgia Dis trict, is endeavoring to aid Felton in gobbling up tiie party in the Seventh District of that State. We have nev er seen a party occupy a more humil iating position than does the Demo cratic party of Alex. Stephens’ dis trict. After indorsing Grant’s uncon stitutional and merciless policy to wards Louisiana, and siding with Hale in opposition to the Bolter res olution, which was a typical Demo i eratic measure, he went home, took tlie Democratic party of his district by the throat, cursed it, blackguarded it as a lot of loons, bullies and asses, spit on it, slapped its face, kicked it all over the district, and then extort ed a re-nomination from it. Having extorted from a Democatic conven tion a regular nomination and accept ed it, this little autocrat of the Eighth District of Georgia, who rules the party of which he is not a member as absolutely as any slave driver did his slaves, coolly proceeded to aid, abet and encourage Felton, the Independ ent candidate in the Seventh District, and urge the Democrats of that dis trict to vote for Felton against the regular Democratic nominee, Judge Lester, one of the ablest and purest men in Georgia. Alexander Stephens has given more encouragement to the Independent movement in the South, the purpose of which is to destroy the power of the Democratic party and remit the next House of Representatives to the control of the Republicans, than any man in America. But neither the advice nor example of Stephens should n.ive any weight with any Democrat, and we believe it has not with any Democrat outside of the dis trict which seems to bo his own per sonal property. He was the bottle holder of Grant when Grant was trampling Louisiana under his foot; more furiously than the Radical Rep resentatives themselves, he stood side by side with Eugene Hale in opposi tion to the most pronounced Demo cratic party measure before the last House. He is now supporting an In dependent candidate for Congress against a regular nominee of the Dem ocratic party, and he is not only the typical Independent candidate of the South, because the Democracy of his district fell down before him,besought him to take possession of them, body and soul, and do his will with them, the Augusta Chronicle and Constitu tionalist being the only paper of im portance in the wfiole of Georgia that had the pluck to denounce his arro gance and expose tlie hypocrisy of his claims to a Democratic nomina tion. The above from the New Orleans Democrat strides home, but it labors under an error in stating that the Chronicle and Constitutionalist was the only paper that had the pluck to denounce his arrogance and expose his claims to a Democratic nomina tion. The Express did so, as well as the Savannah News, Rome Cou rier, and many other papers in this State and district. In the language of the Savannah News, “had the Democrats, the ‘irresponsible trick sters and shysters’ of the Eightii Dis trict, been as unanimous in support of their right to select their own can didate for Congress as was the press of the State, 3lr, Stephens would have been forced either to retract his ; defiance of the party of whose nomi nation he sought, or ‘tote his own skillet’ at home.” Someone has suggested that Gov. Hubbard issue a a proclamation, set ting apart a pertain day on which j every person in Texas be requested to give something for the benefit of the yeliow fever sufferers. The idea is a good one* What a grand, proud day in the history of Texas it would be. A day consecrated and dedica ted alone to charity—to the relief of suffering humanity. Texas would roll up thousands of dollars for the victims of the plague, and great good would be done. THE PINE LOG SPEAKING j Pine Log, Ga., Oct. 5, 1878. Editor Express : According to ; previous announcement the Hon. ! James R. Brown and Col. Carey W. i Styles addressed the voters at this place to-day. Their speeches were fair, logical and convincing, and we think they did much good for the de mocracy in this district. The people of Pine Log have been for the last four years listening to the siren songs of Dr. Felton, about lobbyism, cliques and rings without knowing the truth. He has been having everything his own way here, as Col. Dabney nor any one iu his be half ever made a political speech at this place. But it is not so in this campaign. Our people have begun to learn the truth ; it is what they have been wanting to know for a long time, and having learned it they will not forget it soon, and doubtless many who have heretofore been for Felton have gone home to think of what they have heard to-day, and to return on the sth of November, and vote for George N. Lester. There were many here who heard the Dr. say at Adairsville that Judge Lester never resigned the office of | the r eco ids) sigrietf by'this“Y\jiYlpVtsl - er-General and the State Treasurer, j with the great seal of the State at tached thereto, that Wallace only paid into the treasury an average of j about $14,000 per month, the verdict of many of them was that the Dr. has certainly fallen from grace. And as to Lester’s lobbying the Lease Bill ! through the Legislature, no sensible man who heard the truth as delivered by Brown & Styles, will ever believe one word of it, no difference who tells it, whether it be William H. Felton or Zic. Hargrove. Thu3 bub ble after bubble bursts as it comes in : contact with the truth, Hearer. GENII’S AND POVERTY. As we turn over the leaves of the great book of the past, let us pause for a moment to reid the names of a few of those brave souls, who have struggled, fought, and conquered, though fettered on all sides by : bitter, stinging poverty. Homer, the blind old man of Scio’s Isle, went begging from door to door, | singing the songs that were, in after years, to render his name immortal. It was as a charity student that Spencer entered Cambridge. At the age of fourteen Shakespeare is said to have been obliged to earn his daily bread. Goldsmith describes himself at a certain period of his life as in a gar ret, writing for bread, and expecting to be dunned for a milk score. Wil iam Hazlitt once went without food for two day. Dr. Johnson wrote “Rasselas” in a week to defray the expenses of his mother’s funeral. Lamb calls Cole ridge the inspired charity boy. Fqr thirty-three years “Elia” himself was tied to the drudgery of the desk; and yet, through all these years of slavery, his quaint, tender humor never failed. Tasso was reduced to the extremity of borrowing a crown for a weeks subsistence. Having no candle to see how to write his verses, he entreats his cat to assist him by the lustre of her eyes. Dryden spent his last years in poverty, and was, obliged to write on distasteful sub jects for his daily support. Cervantes, the genius of Spain, was imprisoned for debt; and here, it is said, the adventures of the immortal Don Quixote were first chronicled. It seemed hard for Sir Walter Scott to be obliged to undertake his gigan tic task in the evening of his life that should have been spent in peace and quiet; but when we read the brilliant Waverly novels, we felt that, though the victor sank exhausted the prize was worthy of the sublime sacrifice. Defoe, the author of inore than two hundreds hooks and pamphlets, died insolvent. He thus sums up his checkered career: “No man has started different fortunes more; And thirteen times I have been rich aud poor.” “Sa!magunda,”and “Knickerbock er’s New York,” were written for recreation, but later in life, failing business, Washington Irving began to write to live. Jean Paul Richter’s life was one long struggle with pov-1 erty. The great desireof his life was to see the ocean, but he. the mighty genius, who had written so much and so grandly, never satisfied his longing eyes until there rolled before him the mighty ocean of eternity. Had Burns walked the sunny side of fate we should never had that ; sweetest of alj home pictures, “The Cotter’s Saturday Night;” nor could we pluck, save in poverty’s rude, un cultivated garden, such a delicate wild flower as the modest, crimson tipped 31ountain Daisy. POLITICAL COMMENT. Gen. Gordon is in the field in the interest of Democracy. We are glad of it. The notes that he is sounding reverbrate throughout the whole State—echo against tlie mountain sides, play with the ocean breezes, and dangle with the wire-grass— Al bany News. The Felton organs allude to Gen. Gordon as a “blatherskite.” This is, the way they have argued from the first, and if their statement is denied the}* will get out a colored affidavit to prove it. What do the democrats think of this sort of business? — Con stitution, There is, undoubtedly, a weaken ing of the double-barrelled party. A few of Dr. Felton’s warmest admir ers are trying to get Gen. Toombs to come up and speak. We don’t think Gen. Toombs will come—in fact, we aie afraid he will not. Felton will need the “shot-bags of pewter quar ters” that Gen. Toombs says he uses iu “buying negro votes” more on election day than they do his pres ence before the election. —Rome Cour ier. Felton claims to be a Democrat, and yet at tlie Adairsville meeting, iy‘c, are credibly informed, rom $1 ’ ach. yrove and the nen'o 3liddle ifthefutis were seated ou tlie stand with No harm in this if these D R 'uaihad ever claimed to be Deiuo niUwm U * )UI they are avowed Republi urj?eon iand this is where the Parson’s ies. >cracy clashes with the wrong iesidelicjf material. And this Adairs loyeis - pow wow is what they called a ' s EORqicratic meeting. What a stu ■Tna?G>us farce! We assert, what is pplle'i ic ’ state of c known by every intelligent Thi'sis'&in the district, that Felton has o'amVaiP 6 ghost of a chance of being rescribeqd without the Republican vote, ley can, r i toappience his great intimacy with Linbci, iß. ove , Middlebrooks and others M euro* Party who have a controlling l.t m. i nc e at the polls.—[Dalton Citi [olllnshet 1 1 as applio inking to TherefoiH. Stephens, who never tought ave.'in ntle for the South, but who threw inlfietHo obstacle in the way of the ns. 'inumeracy, the man who praises t, defends the infamous Durell, Al>uisiana, and favors tlie baek yY viy grab, is for Felton, tlie ram soi.Vbc secessionist who brought on the refused to fight its battles. 'Kiividoithe other band, Gordon, the tnatcu e-scarred soldier, who fougnt in lU iSr£ommon defense of our Southern cai<u>n,es i s f () r Lester, the man who his right arm in the same cause. -. ep ‘~7them soldiers, as you remember bloody deaths of your comrades • iqnnthe field of carnage, stand true to nith, >se who were brave enough to ' knl ,nd side by side with you in the j tierce battle array. They are the ones who proved their devotion, he roism and worth, and desetveyour promotion. Show your appreciation of them. You have honored Ste phens, Gordon and Felton, will you not now honor your one armed hero, Geo. N. Lester ?— Marietta Journal. Gen. Gordon is doing splendid ser vice on the stump for tlie cause of organized Democracy. He has al ready made two speeches in the sev enth (the only district where the in dependent movement seems at all formidable) and will thoroughly can vass the whole district. I: e will also speak in the first and fifth districts, where independents are running against the Democratic nominees. Gen. Gordon has been fighting the battles of the Democracy ever since 18G7. He knows at woat a cost radi calism was finally routed in the state and he resolutely opposes a move ment which, if successful, will bring that corrupt political. organization back into power. Gen. Gordon is doing his duty and doing it nobly.-- Augusta Chronicle. HELP, (ASSIUS, OR I SINK ! j Lester's LQbhying Uee and tlie So-Called Immigration Swindle. When Judge Lester was nomina ted for Congress, Dr. Felton and his organs immediately set to work to find something with which to preju dice the people against him. Previ ous to his nomination he was a good and pure man, but now that lie is set up as opposed to Felton’s walking in to Congress, the records are searched, and if they do not read to suit their j foul purposes the read ng is distorted and colored to cater to their unholy desires to defeat tlie Democracy and elect their favorite. To effect this purpose they first raised the howl about Lester supporting Cole, a Re ! publican, but it was soon stripped of its truth and fell harmless to the ground. 3lany other such charges i have been brought forward, but they too have gone “where the woodbine twineth.” However, with a deter mination to injure Lester, likedrown | ing men catching at straws, the still hold on to their false cry about the lobby fee, and as they call it, the im migration swindle. Let us see about this. The thousand dollars received by i Lester was a fee paid him as a law yer by Gov. Brown for him (Lester) to defend Brown’s lease before a trib unal. When Bullock was Governor a bill was passed by the Legislature, Lester not being a member, authoriz ing the state to lease the state road to the highest bidder, no bid being no ticed that came below twenty-five thousand dollars per month clear money to the state. The law requir ed this to be advertised for thirty or sixty days, and that a bond of eight million dollars should be given be fore the lease should be granted ; fur ther, that each bidder should furnish his securities, and opposite the name of each proposed security the amount they were worth over and above their liabilities, these amounts to be sworn to. There were two bids; Ex-Gov. Brown and a Mr. Dobbins. When opened, Gov. Brown’s bid was found to be legal in every particular, having complied with the law to the letter. Dobbins’ bid was thirty thousand dollars, five thousand more than Gov. Brown’s, but no securities were fur nished. According to law, fairness and custom, Bullock ought to have Immediately awarded the lease fo DUMBER 3s. Gov. Brown, but instead o. . he calls in Dobbins, the other and tells him his bid is not legal ana gives him a chance of making it so with the proper security, but Dobbins failed—hecauldn’tuieke the necessary security as required by law, conse quently the lease was awarded to Gov. Brown. This was done after the Legislature bad adjourned. Dob bins now comes forward and notifies Gov. Brown that he is going to con test the legality of his lease before a tribunal, when Gov. Brown employs Judge Ix’.sler to defend his company, if ttecessary , and pays him his re'ainet • foe of one thousand dollars, just as any other man would employ a lawyer for defending or prosecuting a case. It was strictly and purely a business transaction between Judge Lester and Gov. Brown, the president of his company. The men who composed that $30,- 000 bid not only failed to give the re quired security, but since that time most of them have gone into bank ruptcy. Let it then be remembered that according to the records Lester was emptied to defend the validity of the (ease,if it was tested before the courts, and not as a lobbyist before the lease was effected. About the immigration scheme — facts and figures from the records don’t lie. Dr. Felton and his organs charge that Judge Lester robbed the State of ten tboasaud dollars, and did not, as Dr. Felton says, relinguish his grasp upon the public treasury until the last cent was expended. But to the plain, simple facts: In the acts of 1860, page 20, you will find the act appropriating SIO,OOO to pay the expenses of the Immigra tion Agents. In the House Journal, page 529, you will find how that fund was dis tributed. But to make the matter plain, we append the following table: Appropriation .$10,090 00 Salary of Judge I.es er $2,598 04 Kxpended for printing 500 00 Salary of Samuet Weil 8.000 00 Expedited for printing 1,020 00 7,119 24 Unexpended balance 2,880 24 Now we find that Judge Lester and Col. Weil both resigned leaving an unexpended balance of TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS AND T WENTY-FOUR CENTS If they had been the mean cormorants that Dr. Felton charges, they would not have resigned until, as he says, the last cent wis drawn from the treasury. But Dr. Felton will find, before this canvass is over, that falsely repre senting facts to the people, will not add much to his character for truth and veracity. And again, page 529 of the House Journal reads as follows: “I here with transmit a report of the Doiries ticand Foreign Commissioners of Im migration.” The Domestic Commis sioners have received a salary of $2,- 598 61, and lias expended SSOO for printing and circulating documents, etc. The Foreign Commissioner has receieved $3,000 for his compensation, and has expended $1,020 GO for print ing and circulating documents, mak ing a total expenditure for the exper iment of $7,119 29. Here, then, is the corroborating testimony that there was an unexpended balance of $2,880 24, and lHat Dr. Felton’s charge that Judge Lester did not resign until the last cent was drawn from the treas ury, is false. Now, voters of the Seventh Dis trict, these are the charges which the Felton element rely on for your votes. Will you endorse by your votes these flagrant falsehoods, or will you vin dicate the truth at the ballot box ? It is a plain, simple case, that any man of ordinary intelligence can under stand. Judge Lester, as will beseen, was not a lobbyist, but accepted a re tainer fee to defend a cause, just as any other lawyer would have done under the circumstances, and as to the im_ migration scheme,who can blamehim for accepting an office created by the Legislature, and drawing a legitimate salary there from. It is true that the scheme was barren of fruits on ac count of the breaking out of the Franeo-Prussian war, which put a stop to immigration from that coun try, and seeing this judge Lester re signed without expending the amount appropriated by the Legisla ture for the purpose. These are the very charges laid at his door, and as will be seen they have been colored, distorted, and basely used against him- To-day, as Gen. Gordon says, he stands before the people as pure a man as there is in the district, and his empty sleeve at least should prompt; the people to awaid him justice though the heavens fall. A family of Turks, consisting of a father, mother, three sons, and a daughter have settled in Knoxville, having fled from the Porte’s domin ion because oppressed by Turkish tyranny. One of the sons ia a phy sician, one a tailor, and one a shoe maker. The father desired, he said, to see the children protected and en joying the free air of liberty. They asked no alms of anyone. The phy sician desired to be employed by res idents of the Tennessee town, or by the government. Captain J. G. Vale, formerly a Re publican of the Radicalß‘ate of Penn sylvania, says the Republican party has robbed the people of this country of millions of dollars of their circula ting medium, and brought ruin and bankruptcy to the threshold of every man’s door and stands to-day a mere machine of political tricksters and ringsters whose only objects are to secure office for themselves and legis late in the interests of themoney rings and corporate monopolies ot the land. Puff Pudding. To a pint of light bread sponge, mixed quite thick, add half a teacup of sug ir, two eggs beaten light, and a tablespoonful of melted batter. Fill buttered muffin tins half fu’l with this batter; let rise until light then bake in a quick oren. When done turn them out upside down on the dish in which they are to be served, and then pour over them i a liquid sauce made by boiling a tea cup of sugar with half a cup ot water, and adding a little butter aud flavor ing. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Thero wi.s a heavy frost at St. Louis last Friday morning, Mr. Tho?. J. Perry, ono of th- old est and best citizens of Homo, Ga. s is dead. Richmond, Virginia, lias a popu lation of 70,000. Selma Times: Cotton continues to pour in by the thousand. Charleston, S, C., sends $13,9)9 50 to the yellow fever sufferers. Diptheria is prevailing throughout Tennessee in a most malignant form. Tramps who refuse one dollar per day for cotton peiking in Texas burn - ! ns. 1 ht> Tsraelites of Rome speak of building a nagogue . The human bi.i n } 3 on e twenty eighth of the body. The mills in Columbus win, this year, weave into cloth about 20,000 bales of cotton. Six hundred Mormons arrivod at New York in the steamer Wyoming, on the 25th ultimo, from Liverpool. About twenty car loads of coffins— some one thousand in number—have been sent to New Orleans and Grena da. Several eases of yellow fever at De catur pan nicked the inhabitants. There are only five white families left in the town. Every good citizen will endorse the action of the Government in prompt ly forwarding tents and supplies to the yellow fever suffereis. During the first six months of the current year $15,000,000 worth of cat tle, slice p and swine were imported to England. Diptheria is almost an epidemic at Cleveland, 0., twenty deaths from that disease having occurred within a week. There was a grand rally of the or ganized democracy In Floyd county on the 4th. Gen. Gordon and Judge Lester addressed the multitude. Over one hundred carcasses were ixtrbe cued. The Cedartown Record says that all the farmers freely admit thattheir cotton crops have turned out hotter than they anticipated a mouth ago. An opium eater lias gone from North Carolina to nurse yellow fever patients, claiming —and he says all doctors will agree with him—that his habit gives him immunity from tho disease. Dr. Babcock, inventor of the firs extinguisher bearing iiis name, is a drunken outcast in Oakland, Cal. 110 was once moderately wealthy. Columbus, Ga., has contributed $4, 026 for fever sufferers. Contributions continue. Mrs. Thompson, widow of the late editor of tae Memphis Avalanche, and Postmaster of Memphis, Tenn., who died of yellow fever, will prob ably be retained as Postmistress in that city. The Tallahassee factory and mills in Elmore county, Alabama, were sold by a decree of Cnaucery, and were purchased by W; A; Cnace & Co*, of Georgia, for $250,000. India has lost nearly a million and a half of the people during tho past year by the famine that has prevailed within her borders, and the deaths fr uii starvation in China probably number as many. Win. Tanner, Jr., of Washington county, killed a “thousand legs’’ and in doing so, two drops of something resembling iodine, was left upon one of his hands, which produced a poi son which came near proving fatal. Daniel Mcßride, a colored man confined in jail at Athens, Ala., on a charge of having murdered a white man, was taken from prison by a crowd of about 100 men and hung to a tree on the spot where the murder was committed. A distinguished Japanese traveler in this country writes home : “The chief branch of education of young men here is rowing. The people have large boat-houses called col leges, and the principal of these is Yale and Harvard. The rice crop of this country is tho largest for ten or twelve years, and and will approach 200,000 barrels. Such a crop will naturally depress prices, and it is quite probable that it will be marketed even as low as five cents per pound wholesale. The Cuban plan of driving cows from door to door and milking tho quantity the consumer requires has advantages over the cart, can, and quart dipper of the milkman of our own cities. The consumer knows he gets pure milk, instead of chalk and water. The yellow fever has raged, daring the week, throughout the lower Mis sissippi Valley with unabated S9veri ty. The deaths at Memphis have averaged nearly one hundred per day- Win. A. Fairchild, secretary of the Howard Association is among the dead for the past week. The news from Ohio indicates that that State has gone over with a Re publican majority of eight thousand. The Secretary of War has con-v3ntedt to place forty thousand rations in ad dition to those already distributed, at the disposal of the relief committee in New Orleans. Gen. Gordon will now come in for a belaboring from the Independent speakers such as he never before re ceived. Affidavits will be trumped up, cross marks will abound without end, and the old hero will soon be pictured as second only to Benedict Arnold and Judas Iscariot. Mr. Marcellus Thornton, the Inde pendent candidate from Atlanta, has set a good exam ole, and withdrawn from the race for Congress. Ilis head is level, fur quail -ating is a more pleasant occupation than trying to squeeze a camel through the eyQ of {fc needle. The Mexican authorities have OIV dered all the troops at Monterey ta the Rio Grande. It is said there ara about five thousand Mexican troops now on the road to the river, and it is believed that a collission will occur between the American and Moxicaa forces before a great while. Bartow', which is universally con ceded to be the best county in the State, has not in the past been prop erly brought before the prospective immigrant and the capitalist. The Express will give proper attention to all this in due time, Just now it is on the lookout for affidavits going to prove that Gen. Gordon was a lob byist, and received retainers for using his influence to annex the Chineaa/ Empire to America.
