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t §* liissta gkrguss. _A_. IMZ. G. RUSSELL, Editor & Proprietor. X3uenn ViHto. Mivrlon Cos.. Ga. Circulates in the Most Solvent and Kelinhle Portion of tlic State. Terniß of Advertising the same as thoso cstab lshed by the Press Association of Uoorgia for the Country Press. Bills for advertising are dno on tho ilrst appear anoooftho advertisement, or when presented, ex cept when otherwise contracted ion gJwfcsistoMit totls. "BraTsimmons, attorney at law, AMKIUCUS, GEORGIA. March 10-1 yr. __ B. U. Hinton& W. B. Iliutoiij ATTORNEYS at law. BUENA VISTA, GA- Will practice in the Courts of this Statee nnd the District and Circuit Courts of th. United States. J, 3j. O. Kerr, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BUENA VISTA, GEOItOIA. March 10, 1870-1 yr- 3eTm. butt, attorney at law, lICB.Vi VISTA, GA. ‘ DR. E. T. MATHIS, Buena "Vista., Gnj Calls left at my office or residence promptly attended. Dec 24-1 y T7~L. WISDOM, 24- D•, BUENA YISTA, GA. t* *• ggy-Calls may be left at my resi dence at all hours of the day or night.-©s October Bth, 1875.-jy Hotel Advertisements. HOUSE. ATLANTA. CA. JAS. E OWENS, : .- Proprietor, Immediately at the Passenger Depot. PASTIES and Families wishing a cool and comfortable Hotel for the summer should stop at the “Markham.” pS~ Special rates by the week and month. PEABODY HOUBE, CORNER of LOCUST and NINTH SI'S., PHILADELPHIA Pa. Convenient to all places of amusement and cat* lines in the city. No changes to and from the Centennial pt-o finds. Col. Watson, proprietor of the Henry House .Cincinnati! for the past twenty years, and has ntwly furnished and litted it throughout. Ho will ieep a strictly flrst-elass house, and has accommo dation for 300 guests. Terms, only $3 per day. Col. Watson is a native or Virginia, and probably the only Hotel Proprietor in Philadelphia Irma the South. junc2-3m BARLOW HOUSE, AMKRICUS, GA. WILEY JONES, - - - Proprietor. Situated in the center of the Business part of t!ie city Tho proprietor flatters himself, from an expo Bence of 9 years, that he caa auii will give sat isfaction to all guests. ItATKS OP BOARD. Board per day $ 200 S ugle meal 50 -Single lodging 75 P ,v /,'ourd per month 20 00 P y Board per month with lodging 25 00 Transient board, per month, 30 00 Persons engaging board by tho month and hoarding less than a month will be charged the wockly rates- No deduction for lost time less than u week. Terms strictly cadi. March lO.lyr J. 15. JOSSEY, Clerk. 140 & 142 Broad Street, COLUMBUS, GEORGIa MHS- S- Fi. WOLDKIDGEi PEOPBIETBESS Board per day, - - $2,00 Single Heal s -- - ,50 Lodging, - _ " 'so _ , o'm7'3a.’js Hotel. Opposite Dasscnt/er Depot, MACON, GKOItGIA. This first-class and well known Hotel has been Entirely Renovated and Keiitted, lu the most elegant style, and is prepared with every facility to accommodate its old friends and thopublic generally, it is CENTRALLY LOCATED, and Immediately Opposite the General Passenger Depot This Hotel presents unusual advantages to viators to the city. The rooms are constructed and fitted up with a view to the comfort of the guests, and tho table isal ways supplied with every delicacy of the season E. E. BROWN & BON, Bcpt24-lyr Proprietors. H. L. Fbrnch. J- S. Eas • FRENCH HOUSE, Public Square, Americas, Georgia, —§— French & Eason, Proprietor McAfee HOuse Smithville, Georgia. on the arrival of all trains Fare as good as the season affords, trice, 50 cents a meal. THE MENA VISTA ARGUS A- 21- C- HUSS3LL, Proprietor. VOLUME I. ifliuimmiattons, ta'-l -JfAJ" —S WRITTEN FOR THK liUKNA VISTA ARHUS. RADICAL HOIVLIVGS. Hamburg massacre 1 \ The Hamburg sensation is caus ing quite a bowl in (ho Radical ranks. Threats of bayonet rule form a part of their moral recitations, and a eon tinned, fearful, waving of the “bloody shirt,” is in preparation for the South. The vile, selfish meanness of Radical philanthrpy. sees nothing but black objects, and has none but polluted aims. Their philantropy cannot see the white people at the South, see the worthy aims of just and equitable statesmen, nor fair dealing citizens. They sea every thing in the false shameful light, as they did the Memphis riot, which happened in 18ti6—-ten years ago. and this remind us very much of that, occurrence. We dislike the blackguardism of many journalists, and would keep such vileness as the Congressional Records, and recent facts, disclosed, from the rising generation, but when our dearest interest, our liberties and perhaps our lives, arc, and have been, so otten abused, and the abus ers justify their course, as they af firm on tho grounds ol our lawless ness, we feel it a duty to resent ev* ery foul slander heaped upon people, after having been manufactured j from lies and perjury, by themselves. All their howlingsand Military in timidation, offered to the Southern whites, originated from just such perjury, as that elicited in the inves tigation, before the Congressional committee, who were seut to investi gate the Memphis riot. That riot and the attempt, by the Radical party, to fasten the blame of the disgraceful occurence upon the Southern doubtless remembered by most of uPhintil to day. Wc remember too, the report of tho committee, headed by Mr. Washburne, now minister to France, detailing the ‘‘horrors of the crown ing acts of atrocity and diabolism of that night,” but tho Southern people do generally know, as they ought to know, the recent disclosures concern ing the “scandalous origin” and the perjured evidenco of that “atrocious and diabolical riot in which Wash burne said, ‘‘five respectable females were knocked clown, kicked and choked, “and afterwards at the point of drawn pistols, were forcibly rav ished, besides other acts of rape.” This sounds badly for as and so does all riots. One of these female unfortunates, whose virgin purity was so brutally violated, was a Miss Francis Thomp son, a seamtress and laundry wo man, with whom, Washburne said, a younger girl about fourteen years old, was living. Both of these re spectable colored females, were brought before Mr. Washburno and the committee, and swore, that on the night of that memorial riot, sev en policemen—-officers of the law — protectors of the weak —keepers of the peace—entered their house, and demanded supper. It was said to have been given to them. After eat ing supper, their base demands be ing refused by them, they were knocked down, kicked and choked, and then both were forced at the point of drawn pistols to submit to ihe brutal ravishment of seven men —Miss Francis by four and the younger girl, by three men. DEMOCRATIC FAMILT NEWSPAPER. BUENA. VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA„ AUGUST 11, 187 G, They also swore, the men took, three hundred dollars from Miss Francis, and so much disabled her, that she “had high fever for three or four days, ’’and that site had to “go on cratches for three weeks,” Worse than all it appears sinco then that Miss Frances was SO greatly disgraced by That rape, that she has become the proprietress and direc tress of a miserable, polluted houses of ill fame. Now all this going to Northern minds, endorsed by the party in [sow er, is enough to fill the minds of good people there with such disgust as to be easily led by the Sc.sig.iing party. Rut quite recently, however, cir cumstances caused a doubt to be en tertained, by some people in Mem phis, who have long known Miss Frances, relative to the real sex of her, who was so shamefully and out rageously raped ten years ago, by “lour policeman.” A warrant was issued for the ar rest of the much abused Frances, and four doctors were appointed to examine her, and ascertain the facts in the case. Horrible! Horrible !! To subject a respectable female to such an ex posure, is too bad. But history re quires a truthful record, of both good and bad men, and parties too, acd as bad as it may appear, the doctors made the required reeonnoi sancc and found the veritable identi cal Miss Frances Thompson who swore she was so brutally outraged ten years ago, is not a woman, but a man. Yet Washburne, our present min ister to France signed the report. Twenty-two years has this misera ble rioter, perjured detainer, gone dressed in female attire, that he might revel high in ciituc, and op pression. The city' council of Memphis, should send a copy of the recent dis 1 covcries to Mr. Washburne in Paris, and one to each foreigh nation, that they might see how “the best govern ment the world ever saw,” has been getting evidence against a large class of its citizens, and bow a corrupt party has been kept in power. So far as wc are concerned, our minds are tired of treating one sec tion rationally, and tho other mean ly. This way of manufacturing whole lies at the North, and getting some unprincipled vidian to swear to them against the South —this carry ing elections at the North with gov ernment money, and trying to carry them at the South, with government arms and munitions of war—placed in the hands of an ignorant, vindic tive, perhaps hired negro mob, wo are tired of, and if we can only do that much, wo will repeat—wo are tired of it- The party talk about violence of the law. Heaven save us ! A par ty whose sins and shame are so great, that al! the grace in heaven, and out of it too, will bearly cleanse it, to talk of lawlessness and" oppression, is down right mockery. Every com plaint oi injustice, all cries of wrong dealing, ot robbery and death, should come only from the brave, noble geu crons but down trodden Southerner. Talk of “Hamburg massacre!” Belter say Radical “Massaoree.” It sounds very much like tho Memphis riot. The affair at Hamburg is bad — too bad, at least, ’tis tine, but Radi cal bribery has done much bo-h to cause and to intensify most all South ern riots, and this last at Hamburg —“massaoree” it they please —was a purchased of their own, made by some mean instigator, of the Radical party, witli money, which did not be long to him or liis party. General ColqnitiN Acceptance. After tho unanimous nomination of General Alfred H. Colquitt, ho was escorted to tho stand by tho commit tee, and spoke as follows: Jfr. President and Fcllow-Dcmo n rtfs: — l thank you most heartily for the kinduess and unanimity of sup port which has been shown me, and which So lar exceeds any confidence that I may have in my own worth and merits, and places me under such a weight of obligation, that 1 shall not even attempt, to express my appreciation of it. Surely no man ever bad greater reason for thanks and gratitude, and it is due to myself and to you to say, that while I live I shall remember with the profoundest feelings of gratitude tho display of favor which you have made me to day. And if I shall be called by the voice of the people to official station, the recollection of it will be incentive to do my utmost to subserve the in terests of tho Stale and advance jthe happiness and prosperity of the peo ple. [Applause.] . f feel the compliment all th*e more in the light of warmly championed candidacy of other distinguished fel low-citizens. Their merits, abilities and patriotism, their capabilities for the exalted office for which they were pressed by their friends, I warmly unite in endorsing, and I accept the preference which you to-day have made, in no vain conceit that it is in any sense a tribute to superior excel lence. [Applause.] I accept, gen tlemen, the standard which you to day have placed in my hands, and I trust that it will bi so borne during the canvass a3 to lead to victory; ' i and, if victory is achieved, that in its results neither you nor your too par tial constituency shall have any reas on to be ashamed of your standard bearer! [Cheers.] But I know you too well not to ba fully aware of the fact that you will expect of me, if elected, tho exhibition of my appreci ation in the acto of an administration rather than in any words that i might speak hero to-day. rAp platise.] We are entering upon a campaign in which-there are involved interests of stupendous magnitude. Upon our side we are contending for peace, fraternity, economy, honesty in of fice, and freedom from fho clap trap of bought political power, the eleva tion of the government from menial hands to those in which there will be found an illustration of tho purity and high character of the men who founded our institutions, and imposed upon ns tho responsibility of their perpetuity. We are confronted by a great party, which practically, if not avowedly, says it is for sectional bate and agitation; that it will deny to one third of the peoplo of these States the blessings of a Union based upon free thought and political equality; who think tiro offices, of this government, are party chattels to be filled with office-holders who, bat for their positions, would be de pendent upon the charities of the world. [Applause.] Since tire war we have sought peace, and through all our trials and Protean hues aud shapes of recon struction, wc have meant peace, and the recorded facts of our history prove it. On the hustings, in the pulpit, in the columns of tho press, and from the bench, lessons of chari ty, good will and harmony to all classes of our fellow-citizens have been taught aud inculcated with a sincere purpose, [Load cheers.] Annual Subscription, $2,0- NUMBER 45. Aut I shall not, detain you to-day, gentlemen, with an elaborate speech upon the great national issues. We have illustrated in tho administration of the State of Georgia, since it was committed to the Democratic party, that no one ot the rights or privile ges of any* good citizen of the coun try bus been denied lo liim who had a right to claim them. [Cheers ] In illustrating this I might refer to the present able and admirable adminis tration. [Applause.] And in the same line to which I have made rel erence, it will bo the duty of that of ficer wtio shall be called to preside as tils successor, to couiiuue. [Cheers.] Gentlemen, without going any I further, and without any premedita tion, allow me to say that, while I receive your standard with great dif fidence, distrustful of my own pow ers, yet strong in the purity of my intentions, 1 believe that with your earnest co-oporation, we will vitalize the Democratic party and give a gov ernment to the country which will encourage industry, unite a divided people and be a token of peace, har mony and happiness under theprovi. dencc of God, at the coming of which we might bow down in humble thanks giving. [Applause.] I thank you again, gentlemen, for your great kindness. [Prolonged applause.] Platl'orm oi tke Rewßoei’acy of Georgia. ADOPTED unanimously by tub state CONVENTION. We the chosen representatives of the Democratic party of Georgia, in Slate Convention assembled, do make the following declaration of political principles and party pur poses, aud we invile every lover of constitutional liberty and good gov ernment, to co-operate with us in maintaining and carrying the same into practical effect. Resolved 1. We rc-avow thor ough identification with tho great National Democratic party of trio United States, and accept the plat form of principles and policy recent ly promulgated by the party at St. Louis, Missouri. 2. The recent nomination by the National Demobratic party of Samu el J. Tilden, of New York, for the of- flee of President, and of Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, for ttie office of Vice-President, meets our hearty approval, and wo do hereby pledge our Democratic brethren, North, South, East aud West, that w r e will put forth the most active, earnest and energetic effort to secure the tri umphant election of these distin guished citizens to the high offices for which they have been named as can didates. 8. Wc declare, without equivoca tion, that wo areMecidedly and firm ly in favor ot retrenchment and re form in the administration of every department cf the government, State as well as Federal, and wo sincerely rejoice that the National party, with which wo are identified, has placed itself definitely and squarely upon a platform that begins, continues ciH ends with the doctrine of purifi^H and reform in everything with tho government istration. 4. Mj upon a if i liJffiS by Lhjp trenchiS set for tie candidal ' (The §\\m 'Vista <3Vvgr EPublishoci Every Friday. |KATIES OF SIBSCmPTfoIi INCLUDING POSTAc R. One Year $2,00 Six Mondis 1 00 Three Months 75 Always in Advance. Country Produce taken when Subscribers eanrt Pay Caslij Cost Advertising SVlediuiri in this Section of Georgia. I will bo deemed a distinct pledge on | his part, that if elected, ho will so exert the influence and power of his office, as to roducc taxation, lessen i the public expenditures, and lift, as fur as in him lies, the incubus of “hard times” from tho people. 5 Y*'e hereby pledge to the pcop ] le of Georgia our earnest efforts and i zealous co-operation to perpetuate a I just, impartial and economical ad ! ministration of the affairs ot tlse 1 State, to the end limb law and or der may be obtained, tho public r I peace conserved, labor disburdened | and energized, Sbnfidenee between | man and man restored, and the pros ! polity and happiness of the whole i people placed upon a sound and en during basis. Uaiuburg. The jury of inquest met in Ham burg yesterday morning, pursuant to adjournment. At 12 o’clock tho long expected verdict was rendered sealed ancT placed in tho custody of Trial Justice Rivers. That official soon afterwards went to nis farm and remained until a short time before the South Carolina train, bound out, j passed. He was tiien interviewed by a representative of the Chronicle and SeDtinel, and requested to fur nish a copy of the verdict for publi cation. To this he replied that lie could not do so, as he had been sum moned to Aiken by a telegraphic dis -1 patch and would have to hurry in or der to catch the passenger train. The Chronicle representative then asked to see the verdict for a few mo ments, but this, too, was refused. Rivers then left for Aiken. From members of the jury we learned that seven parties—Messrs. John Butler, R. J. Butler, Harrison Butler, Thom as Butler, Henry Gelson, John La mar and John Swearingiu—are char ged with murder in the verdict, while about ninety others, including sixty from Georgia, are charged with being accessories before the fact. We did not learn what action would bo taken in regard to these. Tho following is a full list of the jury of inquest: Chas. Turns, Foreman; A. B. Griffin, John Bird, D. M. Marfin, Cyrus James, Andrew Carroll, Giles Stokes, Samuel Eiger, Thomas Carroll, Abram Bolder, Alfred Simp kins, James Coleman. We learn that tho following legal gentlemen will act as counsel tor tho parties charged in the verdict, if they are arrested and carried before tho Courts: Gen. M. W. Gary, Major W. M. Gary, O. C. Jordan, G. W. Croft, D. S. Anderson. You cannot convince a dog witli a string of fire-crackers attached to his narrative that the American republic is a complete success. Mr. Evarts spoke in his oration, the other day of “our debts to tho men of 1776.” Ah! would that all our debts were to the men of 1776. A lady at St. Joseph, Mo., has bo come so accustomed to watering Jim