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HUfiNA VISTA, GEOItOIA-
Mar*li 10. 187 6—l yr*
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VOLUME I.
POLITICAL NOTES
Harris ami Democratic unity. Hil
liard and Democratic disorder and
ruin.
Charles Francis Adams is the Dem
ocratie candidate lor Governor of
Massachusetts.
Some say that Hilliard ns an inde
pendent is neither fish nor fowl. We
fear lie is nil foul.
Who is not for us is against us.
No true Democrat will run indepen
dent of the Democratic party.
The election of Harris means the
triumph ol the Democratic party,
and not the success of one man.
Hilliard carries his own banner.
Harris bears the banner of Democ
racy. Choose ye this day whom ye
shall serve.
The complexion of an independent
candidate is that of a mulatio—nei
ther white nor black, but a vile cor
ruption of both.
In the election of Hilliard is in
volved the success of one man over '
an entire party—and that the Demo
cratic party.
The Radicals in Charleston, S. C., '
had a terrible riot on the 6th inst.,
because the white people would not
let them kill a Democratic negro.
This is freedom.
lfon. Henry R. Harris is the choice J
and the nominee of the Democracy j
of the 4th Congressional District.
Democrats, to your arms.
The election ol Harris trill be the i
triumph of Democratic principles and
Democratic unity. The election of
Hilliard Will be the triumph of ad s i
organizer and the final success of
Radicalism.
This is the sum total of the whole i
matter: Personal ambition vs. grand
ami noble principles. Hilliard’s
platform is one solely ofncisonal am
bition; Harris’ of De.inoc atic princi
ples. Will you trust the man or the
party ?
“Coni ' now, and let us reason to
gether:” Hilliard, the broken-down
politician —Harris, the pure Democ
racy. Which shall we honor, the
political rake or the grand and noble
party.
Old Jonathan Congress norated in
Columbus, on Friday night last. The
great trouble with the old man is
that the fellow who composed I-.is
speech, wrote a very bad hand, and
the would be Governor can’t more
than half read it. The Rads have
mighty poor Governor material.
The entire delegation of Georgia
in the last Congress has been renom
inated to their same positions by
their respective-districts, except Fel
ton, who is au independent candi
date.
Never since the war has the Dem
ocratic party been so ably and satis
factorily represented by her standard
bearers as in this canvass. Tilden
& Hendricks bearing tho national
Democratic banner of Reform 1 Col
quitt the State banner of purity and
honesty; Harris, the 4th District ban
ner of integrity and perseverance;
and Cody, the 24th Senatorial Dis
tt ict banner of unswerving patriot
ism in State legislation, present a
corps of gallant leaders eminently
worthy of the unqualified surpjrt
of every honest man and lover of con
scientious statesmanship.
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., SEPTEMBER 22, 1876.
Tlie Camilla Rioter.
That W. P. Pierce, whom the Rad
icals of the 3rd District nominated,
to oppose that gallant old stager,
Hon. Phil Cook, is the identical
Pierce who instigated the Camilla
riot,' in which several colored men
lost their lives. The Sumter Repub
lican gives the following truthful ac
count of his conned ion with that un
fori unate affair:
On Saturday, the 19th of October,
1867, W. P. Pierce, recently nomina
ted for Congress by tho Radicals of
the 3rd District, entered the town
of Camilla at the head of a baud of
armed negroes against the protest of
M. S. Moore, Sheriff of Mitchell
county, and a committee of citizens
who waited upon this man Pierce
and liis light bowers, Murphy and
Putney, and informed them that the
peace of the community depended
upon their followers laying down
their arms, and that if they did so,
no objection would be made to their
entering the village and holding
i heir proposed political meeting at
the court house. Disregarding the
wishes of peaceably inclined citizens,
Pierce, Putney & Cos., marched into
town at the head of their deluded
followers, when an unfortunate and j
fatal rencounter took place which re-
suited in tiie death of eight or ten
negroes and the wounding of for y
others. Pierce left the scone of con
flics, as ranidlv as his legs could take
olf his rotten carcass, and the poor
ignorant negroes upon whom he had
brought this tiouble and who alone
were the sufferers, had to care for
hemselves as best they could. And
ibis is the man they are called upon
to support for Congress.
Congressional dominations.
In the First District Col Julian
Hartridgc was nominated on the 52d
badot.
The Democratic convention of the
Second District met in Thomasville,
on the 1 IStli inst., and unanimously
renominated HOll. W. E. Smith. He
will be opposed by it. 11. Wliiteley
radical.
The Democracy of the Third Dis
tinct, properly recognizing the good
services of Gen. Phil Cook, have re
nominated him to be his own succes
sor. Wm. P. Pierce, of Washington
City, who made himself so conspicu
ous in Georgia some years ago in
connection with the Camilla riot, is
his radical opponent.
In the Fourth District, the con
vention held at AVest Point on Thurs
day, nominated Hon. H. R. Harris.
11. AA r . Hilliard, indepeudant, will
oppose him.
The Fifth District convention met
at Griffin on Wednesday and resolved
to send Hon. Milt Chandler back to
Washington.
Hon. Jas. 11. Blount has been re
nominated in the Sixth District.
Col. AV. H. Dabney was nominated
in the Seventh District by acclama
tion.
In the Eighth District Hon. Alex
ander H. Stephens was renominated.
The Ninth District Democracy met
at Gainesville on Wednesday and re
nominated Hon. B. H. Hill.
With the exception of Parson Fel
ton it looks as if Georgia prefers to
be represented in Congress by the
old delegation. —Sumter Republican.
Hon. A. H. Stephens Hc-Yoint
li tiled.
Augusta, Sept. 6.— -Alexander
11. Stephens wa3 nominated tor
Congress by acclamation wit out a
dissenting voice, by the Democrat
ic Convention, which met at Thom
son to-day. It is understood the
Republicans will make uo nomiua-
I tion against him.
DII/./UH ciiahdi.uk.
From the New York World.
Washington, September B. —When
the French King &aid “L’Etas e’est
moi!” lie didn’t say anything partic
ularly neat to my mind, because in
i hose days the King was the State.
But if in a gigantic republic, and at
this later day, one man could rise up
and say truthlully, “I am the United
State,” why then there would be
something really grand about it.
There is such a man, and his name is
Zacii Chandler.
I had occasion to call on Mr. Chan
dler, and went to tho Department of
the Interior. Mr. Chandler was not
in, and the clerk told me he Lad just
stepped over to the War Department.
I followed him there.
He i3 engaged for a moment with
the General of the army, said one < 1
the officials, but will be out directly.
Pray lie seated.
I look a scat. The door was part
ly open, and a conversation was go
mg on in the inner room iu tones at
tirst suppressed and earnest, then
loud. Finally I heard a sound as it
someone had brought his list down
vehemently on die table.
I'll be everlasting and -d seven hun
dred and forty-five different ways if
I’ll do it. Whoa I was before the
committee I gave a plain enough
hint about what I thought of moving j
troops down South, and 1 thought J
vou’d take it. You, and Patterson,
and Spencer, just go and do your
own dirty way, and don’t expect sol
diers to do it. Who’s running this
army, anyhow?
Then I recognizer! the voice of Mr.
Chandler : ‘I am.’
‘Rut I thought Don Cameron was
Secretary of War?’
‘Nominally he is. I’ve got no time j
to waste. Will you or will you not?
If you will, all right. If you won't,
perhii ;rs you can a get job bossing
street railroad in St. Louis again;
Fred Grant or Babcock’ll Like your
pl.ico any day at half the pay. 11
know it isn’t an agreeable sort of
work for you, but it’s got to be done.
Yes or no ?
The General of the armv groaned.
‘Don’t take on so, my dear young
fellow. I’ll prepare tho general or
ders and send them over and you can
sign them, and after that you can go
on writing memoirs and enjoying
Some conversation in a lower lone
followed, and then Mr. Chandler walk
ed out, singing merrily :
11 umpsy -Pump sy
Zachary Chandler’s bossed Tucuumseli I
Mr. Secretary ! said I.
‘Ah, Mr. Ferguson!’ be replied.
Want to see me? Awfully busy, but
meet me at the Department of Jus
tice in half an hour.'
In naif an hour I was at the De
partment of Justice, and announcing
my engagement was usbcied into the
interior waiting room. There was
nobody there but the keyhole, to
which I addressed myself, first with
tne eye, and afterwards with the ear.
Mr. Taft and Mr. Chandler were seat
ed by the table, the former agitated
and flushed, the lutter calm and con
fident. Mr. Chandler was speaking:
‘How about that opinion?’ he said.
‘I can’t write it, Zachary,’ answer
ed the Attorney Genera! ; ‘Fve
thought it over, and prayed—to our
Father, which is in tho Protest ant
Heaven, of course —forguidance, and
read all the authorities; and I can’t
wri e it. To do so would bring down
| my gray hairs with illegality to the
! grave.
Annual Subscription, $2,0.
NUMBER 50.
And not to do so will bring down
your gray hairs with regret, a-a Grant
sail to Belknap under similar cirl
- to private life. Why
can’t you write it?
It isn't constitutional. It isn't le
gal. It isn’t right. Look at Evans
opinion; you can’t get rouuti mat.
Look at the Supreme Court’s decis
ion; you can’t get round that. Look
at the fourth plank iu the Republican
platform of 1860; you can’t get round
that.
My God! exclaimed Mr. Chaudler,
and have we thrown away Williams
and Munsen for a man like this, a
man who doesn’t know that tho
whole duty of Attorney General is to
get up opinions. Why, bless your
stupid soul, if the Southern business
was constitutional, legal or right,
what would I want, your opinion for ?
I don’t know; I don’t know; sobb
ed Mr. Taft, clasping his trembling
hands round his oIJ, gray head, and
bursting iuto tears; but, O, I do wish
I had never left my peaceful home at
Cineinnatti.
So do I. liut you will get up the
opinion ? If you prefer it I will send
my coachman over to write it out for
you, and =ave you any wear and tear
of you conscience.
Mr. Taft was still moaning iuartie
ularly when Mr, Robeson came brisk
ly into tiie room through another
door, and addressing Mr. Chandler,
said :
Oco 1.C.1.V, 55w..„i., iv... % ..11 w ~
spect for you as head of my depart
ment, but ain’t this sort ol running
it into the ground—the sea I mean ?
The House has only given me so
much money for salaries and wages
tor the whole year, and if, as you
want to do, I spend it all in the first
three months what’ll we do then ?
Re-ides, this is a case where we can’t
cover up our tracks so easily.
Delay there, George M. Robeson,
replied Mr. Chandler sternly; just
you go and do as I tell you. if you
spend at: the appropriation why there
will he big deficiency bills in Decem
ber, and that will show that the Con
federate Cougress’s pretension to
economy were false, If Grant —
Hayes, I mean, is elected you’re O.
K.; if he isn’t you’re gone up anyway,
and if the ex-Confcderate brigadiers
press you hard just resign, and then,
as our fellows in the Senate have de
cided, you can’t be impeached.
At this moment there was a per
fect irruption of lunctionaries, but
it was delightful to see how Mr.
Chandler received them all and dis
missed each with a proper answer.
The first man Was Mr. Tyner, the
acting Postmaster General, Mr. Cliau
dler being, of course, the real head
of the department. Mr. Chandler,
he said, here are these commissions
for 7,500 Louisiana negroes as spe
cial agents to investigate the work
ing of the Post Office DepnaUnent in
Indiana and Ohio on the second Tues
day in October.
Mr. Chandler read one commission
and replied with an angry frown ;
Why, these niggers are to recicve $5
a day and traveling expenses from
the time they leave Louisiana till
they get; back!
Mr. Tyner’s knees smote together,
and he timidly said: Wk —Why,—
what’s wrong!
Sir, said Mr. Chandler sternly, you
have proposed to nay these men a
salary and expenses from tho time
they leave Lousiana till they get
back, instead of till the day af.er tljo
October election.
Published Every Friday.
RATE* Of ArkMßll'mVi
INCLUDING POSTAGE,
0n Year.-. , $2,00
Six Months 1 OO
Three Mentha 7&
Alwavsf in Advance.
in a<■■■■*>
Connfrv Produce I aim wtcn Snfceritaifi cmtl
lay Casfc
Best Advertising Medium irt
this Section of Georgia.
I thought it would make no differ
ence, stammerer? Mr. Tyner.
No difference! retorted Mr, Chan
dler angrily. Tex take tliose niggers
back withnheir pny, would cotrt $240,-
500; and this money would be wasted*
at a time when the* people urgently
demand reform and ecouotny. No.
Get your 7,5 W special agents pn.
Indiana, and let them tote early and r
often; then pay them, with the custo
mary deduction for campaign pur
poses, and turn them loose.
But I thought we would want fhetr
votes again iu Louisiana iu Novem
ber, said Mr. Tyner.
With a Returning Board m Louisi
ana, said Mr. Chandler, it is mart)
blessed to count out than to vote iu.
Next came a clerk with a telegram.
Mr. Chandler read it aud said in
stantly :
Telegraph Mr. Bristow to pilch
into me more strongly. Reform is
the leading issue of this campaign.
The same to Schurz: I will see
about the draft.
Then came the President’s secre
tary, who said.; Mr. Chandler, it
you please, pa would like to pardon
the whiskey thieves.
Buck, said tho Secretary, kindly,
tell your father it can’t be done, at
least till after the elections. Then,
no matter how things go, the gooso
hangs altitudiluin, as we used to say.
And let him understand that I ant
running this Administration, and
that if there is any trouble tlm Sen
—•n’t hn troubled .by any ques
tions of jurisdiction when ho is im
peached. Y'ou hear me?
And, oh! Mr. Chandler, Mr. Hayes
wants to knew if he can l come and
see pa.
Not till after the election, and then
he won’t want to, no matter how it
goes. Tell the matt who has Hay es
in charge to keep a detective at the
railroad station, and if Hayes tries
to buy a ticket for Long Branch
shoot him on the spot and say tho
Catholics did it.
* * * 1 lmve never seen a man
of such executive capacity as Mr,
Chandler. .
•‘JUST OUT.”
A young lady in a neighboring
town went into a dry-goods store and
thus unburdened herself ; ’ "
“It is my desire to obtain a pair of
circular elastic appendages, capable'
of being contracted or expanded by
means of oscillating burnished Steel
appliances that sparkle like'particles
of gold leaf set w itli Cape May Dia
monds, and which are utilised for ro
lalning in proper position the habilb
ment of the lower extremities, which
innate delicacy forbids me to men
tion.
The vender of calicoes wa* non
plussed but not wishing to appear
ignorant, said that lie was ‘‘juSt
out.”
After her departure he ruminated
in silence for a few moments, when
anew liht broke upon his distracted
brain, and he burst forth with :
“By thunder! I’ll bet that wo
man wanted a pair of garters. ’
Pomeroy, the boy murderer iu
Boston, whose sentence has been
at last commuted to imprisonment
for life, will be placed in the State
prison in a cell by himself, and
therein compelled to labor lor his
own support. ' The new prison now
building will have several of these
cells, and to -tie of them, when *~
ished, Pomeroy will be t* 1 *
there spend the re'-
life. He has -
m'oiis >*••