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SHic §tmin Hist# Avps. Published Every Wednesday §ittes, Wastage Jitce. One Year Six Months 1 Three Months <5 (Ju.mli in Advnnto. Special JXatct, Tiro or more subset ihing together and pay tog CASH I.V ADVANCE, ran haw the Ariiy i at 51.50 a i/nir each. Country Frothier rerria f lat the lowr.lt cash jiriefH in exchamje for ttul *rriptioH,forno lax* time than a year. Eatc* and Rules lor Legal A elver tining. Sheriff Slof, I’Oi'li levy f t '.ill Mortiwe 11 1- •'■“•li Urvy '■ T:ix Collvl'K.rV i-'.len. rncU l. v\ .... 4.<W .Station for L''Ulth uf Aamliiintration and Guardian uliil' *•* 1 Amilivuttouforaisiuisßioufi-mn AuniinutiaUun (inardiimslMviaml Kx.aiuK.rahi]. J- > Aimlli-atieu for loavo ... m-ll land lor oue Hi r.. ~n Notifti to tlel.tora ami uiniUtnra 4 -illl j ~m i Bales, latH|ilure, S4, eael; aiMitloual... am) 5.”,;, a oi pei'islialile iinnioity, jwr winaro *••* I tr-iy uotit'.'. alays -a- • Nr,ti• toivftVrt Horvico / |;ulcs Hi si to I'orwloso iu<rlKtti*B Jm t sj r Istiles to establish lost imimrs, per Hijuare Rule* comiiolliw" titl.K. Hulos to porfoid siwvjees iu divorao cases.... 1 . Aiiplication for Homestead - " All Leyul Advertisements must uc paici tor in ml ‘"sHlwoftaml. &c.. by Administrators. Exocntor* */., t "(tiii 11 s are require*! by law to beheld on tho VT • Vi m sdiiv'iutlm month, between tho hours of ten in the forenoon and three in tho afternoon, at the I'iiurt !i ..use in tie-county in which the property is 'li. i's oftlicsr '• ■ must be itivon in a nnblic gt _ tli. oimty win rt tho land lios. if thorn bo Hliv.an.l if tho r• is '"> iiuycr imbiiali I m tlio ••••unt.v bell in tin? naarost '('Zi'tt'. or t-.iu m:u lu\. m IF * st ~: ii , tMibiiion in said county, 10 days pr st!oogV.Vti'o'fpcraoiuil property mm l>o, .irru’lii'liiio mam . -.on duyaprovimm to sal,. .ay ' \ * , Ukm'i! ' ..of meditora and au oatute U Tobt Uial appllttiimwmirn made to tho Court of Ordinary lbr lAi ;• laud, Am. must be pubiwb ' < oaat'i.mi'<r Lrtto" . f Adiuiniatratlon, Guapi m sbio, t te., in a-1 he putdishcd 4U da.\ s—ioi Dimuls (i one Xd niiiistr&tion.tiu'irdiaiishii 1 and/.xtcutor ..ip 4 ’ ttiik'.s of Foreclosure of Mortsjmo must bo publiaii ...l mmitlily for four months—for urt-ibli-i.iuo lust aiHjrf..rtoe full sin* of thrw tnuu..; lor ••‘•mi titles from Executors or Ao-irnn.-stratort, • re bond hf.fi been given by the dec*.athe luii oi three nionths. , ~. . ~ i•• ."deal ioii for Homestead must be pubusliedt.wioc. , ' utiom will always bo continual recording to ...hi, legal requirements, unless other*vise or d •' (!. ximifiscmcHt, HAEIOH SHERIFF SALES. GEORGIA—Marion Cotnrar. Will be sold before tin; court bouse doo 1 ' -iu the town of Bucini \ ista. on the Ist I ues day in April next, under and by virtue nt three 1 i. Eas.. is:;ued from the ('oimty Court iu favor of W, 11. Haynes > C. 11. A John IV. Epps, the following property, to-wit: One black maie, levied on as the properly of .John W. Epps. ALSO, _V t!i“ sam ■ time rnd pla ■i, 1 ie foilowuag property, to-wit: •>, >\ acres of lot ofland cr acres of lot i umber Uil, ami Ji> acres ofl East side of lot number All in the din Jlistriet of s lid county. Also one hundred buslte sof corn moj-e or less. All sold un der and by virtu" of a Fi, Fa. is.ned from t!:- Sttorrior Court of said county, in favor of Susan I t lemolits ••. Tiles, i Ck-mcuto and John VV. < leiiieu.s and Sarah B. Clements, Executors. Property sold as tit. properly ... John W. dements. 18. cuter of i. A. Cioni ,.„t<, <b eras. and. (here being o property of said estate upon which io levy. ALSO At the same time and j lace, the following property, to-wit: (me "lswing taaoliine and fixtures, as the property of John Cai'ianiter to satisfy a. cost fi fa. iu favor of the officers ot Marion supe rior Court vs. John B. Carpentir. Also, at the same time and place uc pump and fixt ures, as the property of the Southern Bump and I’ipe Company, to satisfy ~ cost ii. fa., iu favor ot the officers ol Marion County .Court vs. Southern Pump and Pipe ComiJa ny. ALSO. ; At the same time and place, the iollovrtng property, to-wit. - 140 acres of land, more or less, adjourning tho lands of Joint F. Mollis on all tidi s . s the property of . oel F Bushin, Sj „ and J. F. Bushin, Jr., to satisfy a fi. fa. in fiwor of J. C. Andrews & Cos., vs. Joel F. Kushiu Fr., and J. F. Bushin, Jr. Aaid property pointed out by plaintiffs’ attorney, f/’euant iu possession notified. D N. MADDUA, J’eb. 27, ’77- Dept. Sheriff. B. B. Billion &. W. B. Hinton, ATTOSSI\ T EYS AT IIW, BUENA VISTA. GA- Will'pnicßcein the Courts of this ;Statee aiut the District and Circuit Courts of th. United States. iuoh3l-ly, JT. Xjb. O. 25-orr. attorney at law, IHIfiNA VISTA, GrKOItOIA- Mareh 10.1878-1 jr Si. M. BUTT? ATTORNEY AT LAW, IlCE’t A VISTA. GA. ' I\~L. iW. V>. BUENA VISTA, GA. ftey-Calls may be left at. ■ . >'' ■ ioru-'e at a hours of the . night.'lei' DR. E. TANARUS, MATHIS, Buena "Vista, O-a; Culls laft at my office or residence promptly attended. Dec2t-ly SiMMOMS&SIMMONS, attorney at law, AMKIUCUS, GEORGIA. March 10-1 yr. THE BUENA VISTA ARGUS A. Id- C- EUSSSLL, Proprietor. -A. DEMOCRATIC FA-Tv- ISTE'W'SIPFAp'ERi. Annual Subscription, $2,0 VOLUME 11. Tli ffllllTM’S CIIOOI. ini: who lj:\d run glojiy or Tin:in countenance to BVllCUAltlf, Tfipidvorm .Toll a and flic llomlf—Syn t:ix Kvai’is—Tliomjikoii, The Warblfr Of the Wabash—Hiflmr/ the Hired Tol it iciun—Wurlilte McCrary—Duvuns, the Anti-ISutlerltc, ami David Mei lgc Key. WM. M. EVARTB. Win. Maxwell Evarts, of New Yoik, seerelary ot state, was Win in Boston, Feß. 0, ISIS, Iris father, Jeremiah Eva 1 fair practice ami goo I aliil.ty. He entered Ya e Guliege at an early ...go and was graduated in 1527. .S - ,'vi; queuliy he studied lor i : .n s if.. the Harvard law school, u. ri s 1 ■ he located in New York city, he immediately entered upon i. ' •practice of his prolession. In a few tears his industry and fidelity, as well as his ability as an advocate, gained him a large clientage and be fore lie was thirty years of age lie held a high position in his profession. In 1851 he was appointed United States District attorney for the South ern district of iSew Yoik. He was prominently urged for U. S. Sena or in 1 SGI, but was defeated by Ira Harris, who was made the com pro inise candidate. From July 15, ISGB, until tho close of President Johnson’s administration, lie was at torney general of the U. S., and in 3 871, Ik. wrs selected by President ia :nt as tiie counsel of tlic'.U. S. at he Geneva arbitration. These are the only public positions which he ! has vi r held, or to which lie was supposed to aspire, and it is at the bar where he gained his conspicuous and distinguished honors. When Mr. Everts retired from the district attorney’s oil'c ?, in 1853, was form ed the law firm of Butler, Evarts & Soutlimayd, now known as Evarts, Southmayd ic Choats, and it was as a member of this lir.n that lie gained his high place as a lawyer and pub licist. lie was counsel in the great Parish will case, in which an attv nipt was made to break tho will of Hen ry Pariah on the ground of the men tal incapacity of the testator. Asti! later case in which Mr. Evarts was engaged was oue iu which th - wili o,' Mrs Gardner, the mother of the wid ow of ex-President Tyler, was con tested on the ground of undue indu • nee on the part of Tyler to obtain the making of the will. Although a Sialeu Island jury found against tue will, Mr. Evarts finally gained his case iu the court of Appc als. When the articles of impeachment were brought by the house of representa tives against the late President Johnson Mr. Evarts was called to Washington as counsel for the de fense, and his effort on this occasion is almost as fresh in the minds of the people as hi ; arguments in the Til ton Beeclior case two years ago. Per his legal championship of President. Johnson he was rewarded wiih place in the cabinet; as his reccn i championship of Hayes before tin j electoral friiumtd gi\ • im the ba ! place ii; tile cal ii t of the m v pros I ideut. JOUX SIiBK.MAM. J . n Sherman, comes of a , :in guisheu Cbuuectiont turn By, f.-auded by a reiugee roundhead, of Essex, England. His lather Charles Rob ert Sherman, a lawyer, removed lo Ohio in 1810, and became a judge of the supreme court, tie marr.eu young and had a family of eleven children. Of the sons William Tecum seh Sherman is the general of the BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., MARCH, 91, *877, ■army. He was born at Lancliagicr, Ohio, May 10, 1823, and received his early education at Mount Vernon, Ohio. At fourteen he was sent to tue Muskingum improvement to earn his own living and to learn civil eu giuoerng. After two years, political changes deprived him of his position and lie began the study of law at Mausliekl, Ohio, with his brother, Chalts T. Sherman, afterwards U. S. district Judge. 11c studied Latin, and read largely of English Stand ard am hoi s. Jle wa licensed to practice law die nay after he became ul'ttgc. Foi vi n y\ar.s he was a partner with his older brut her. -, 30.0i rod-- the circuits, it is ■ luted, “Guild s mail, ged the uisincss and <:< ii i;. !■ and hi ti:e Alice. u memb-.r of the uation.d whig con eii-iou Oi uii7 and I'AB ft ml in sue latter year <v-o cuoseii a prcsidcntia. eh cii r. in 1851 lie ran For Gongtc in mi le; ui district i Ohio and was oiec cd. Tn Iswa. ni wu.- hen ie soiVid. lie uistiUgUisned iumscil in the house oi representatives as a ilu ent debater mid a man of affairs- He was again dieted to XXXVtIi and XXXVIth congiess. ILc was the republican candidate for speaker of the latter, and after an unprece dented contest, wanted only oDe or two votes to secure U s election, During that congress he was chair man of the committee on ways and means. In 1 SCO lie was dieted to the XXXVIth congress, but in Istß. on the resignation of Senator ■ .‘nasc, | he was elided by tiie Ohio iegt. iu-1 lure to the U. S. Senate and placed upon its most important coaiinitcee, that oi finance. He introduced and pui he debate on the national bank | bill and legal tender ads. ii was] activ. iu providing money io carry on the war and maintain the public credit. In 1863 lie delivered decisive speeches against the continuance oi ihe state banking system and ill ia vor ol the national banks. Iu the XXXIXth congress ho introduced abut io fund tho public indebtedness, of which much was promised, but it was mutilated in tue senate and de feated in the house. He prepared the substance of the reconstruction bill u.ii. li was adopted. Iu ihe XLtli congress he became chairman of die finance committee. He reported a bill for funding the national debt and converting the notes of the United States. It, was regarded by many as just and wise, and was attacked by others as a step towards repudiation. Jlo supported the bill in a speech of great ability. He served, during his congressional career, on tho commit tees on agriculture. Pacific railroad judiciary and patent office, besides the finance committee. In person, Se.iator Sherman is tal and spare, with brown hair, grey eyes, a large head, and countenance expressive of decision firmness and self control. lie speaks without ef fort. or oratorical display. RICHARD W. THOMPSON. Secretar of the navy, is a Vngin by birth, and a whig politician pf trie old school He was born in C-ul ■-upper county ott Jane 9, 1809, and received a go-m ” , ical education. If-, was fond of adventure, and long i„d.-re lie was of age his face turned toward ihe wild of Kentucky. In 1831 ho settled in Loui; ville as a clerk in a small store. Subsequently lie removed to Lawrence, Indiana, where I c taught school lor a lew months and then went into a store, selling goods by day and studying law by night. In 1831 ho was ad mitted to the bar, and was almost immediately elected to tho Indiana legislature, lie was re-elected in 1835. and in the following year went Lo the senate where lie served two years, bring president pro. tern, of that body. In the campaign of 1840 he work&ri zealously for “Tippecanoe and Tyler too,” being a presidential elec tor and speaking constantly from the stump. In 1811, lie was elected a representative in congress. In 1844 he was again cho cn a presidential cleelor, and in 1847 reappeared in congress. President Taylor offered an appointment of' charge d'affaires to Austria, President Fillmore tiie office, of recorder of the general land office, bat he preferred to practice his profession. In 1864 he was eiect t"l presidential elector, and in 1868 vi u- elected a delegate to the r pub* iu'Kii lmnonal coaveniion. iu poi'ti’ eat -uc-e- he has uis-; ivptK i ,on ..t being an excellent piaiiorm maker, and h s ij'.cud say that he lias Con ti u ted mere party platforms than any . ajliiic.au in tile west. The res olutions adopted by the Chicago con vention in 1860, were drawn up and read by him. He was chairman of the Indiana delegation at the Cincin liatti convention last year, and voted ior Mr. Morton until the break was made for Mr. Hayes. Mr. Thompson is a man of exceedingl ,• line presence, tad, straight, with white hair, and a countenance denoting great decision •if character. He is considered one ol . lie JujOsHun f orators in fad ana. ,M. KEY. a Tenuos-ec neighbor of IP n. I)- M. Key, now in Wasnington. I urn ishes the following sketch of his ca eer : David M. Key, postm <ster general, was boiii iu Green county, east Teu nesec, in 1824. Lis father was a Baptist minister, Young Key was reared on a farm, and alter obia ning a commoe school education taught school himself to obtain means to pay liis way through college. In 1850 he was graduated at iliuwassee col lege, east Tennesee, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1853, and settled in Chattanooga, where lie ev er since resided. In 1801 ho joined the Confederate army, entering the service as a lieutenant colonel of the 43nl Tennesee regiment, served through the war, and surrendered in North Carolina under General John son. In 1805 his old friend Andrew Johnson pardoned him. He return ed to his home in Chattanooga and renewed the p.taeiice of the law. In 1869 ho was elected to tho constitu tional convention, and wa3 earnest in securing the rights of full citizen ship to the colored people, with whom he is very popular. Although a democrat, his course has been so liberal as to win tho respect, admi ration, and ; .often the support of re publicans. The county of Hamilton, in which he resides is republican but its niFinbei 8 in tho legislature were his zealous supporters. In 1875, Mr. Key vaa appointed by Gov. Porter to fill the vacant seat of An drew Johnson in tho Senate. He was recently defeated lor election, lacking ond three votes, but receiv ing i very vito of both parties from East TennJee, which gave Hayes 10,000 majority. lie also received evciy republican vote in the Itgisla tine. His deffat was due to the non partisan course in the senate. He voied for the Mississippi investiga tion, and was the only democratic senator wno did. At his home he is regarded as a representative confed erate, a just, liberal and houcst man, who thoroughly accepted the situa tion in 1865, and has done all in his NUMBER 24 power to nr-Unote gOod will and har mony between tho sections. In 1870 he delivered an oration over the gloves of the federal dead at Chatta iioCtgfi, which touched the popular heart, winning golden opinions from tho soldiers of both sides. lie is a man of imposing presence, and, while not brilliant or showy, has sol id qualities and sterling integrity, which command respect. lie has long been regarded as the leading lawyer of East Tennesee, and from 1870 to 1875, when he was appoint ed senator, was chancellor of the Chattanooga circuit. CHARLES DEVENS. Gen. Charles Devens, attorney gen eral, was born in Charlestown, Mass., April 4, 1820, entered Harvard Uni versity in 1834, and after graduating a its law school began legal practice ai Franklin county, Mass., in 1841. He served in the state senate in 1847-’4B, and was Unitfd "States marshal from 1849 to ’53. While holding the latter office, he offered to pay the sum demanded for the freedom of Sims, a fugitive slave who nod been returned from Massachu setts. Immediately before the war Gen. Devens was one of the ablest and most promising young lawyers of Worchester, and had already dis tinguished himse'f as an orator. In the spring of 18G1, Devens entered the army with the rank of Major. Some months later he became colo nel of the fifteenth regiment, which took part in the peninsula campaign. fi ** While before Yorktown, he was aj>- pointed brigadier general. He sub sequently served with great credit in the army of the Potomac, and lost a limb in battle. Since the war, he has been most of the time on the bench, and is now a member of the supreme court of that state. Gen. Devens represents the best element in the republican party of hia state, and is regarded.with confidence by the reformers. He has, however, been so much removed from active politics as not to have placed himself in open antagonism with Gen. Butler and others of like character. At the Bunker Hill celebration iu 1875. Gen. Devens was the regular orator of the day, and li s address ed for its conservative, patriotic and liberal tone. GEORGE W. M'CRARY. George W. McCrary, ol lowa, sec retary of war, was born at Evansville, lud., in August, 1835, and in the following year removed to what was then Wisconsin territory. lie studied in the public school and was gradu ated from an academy; then took up law as a profession, and in 1856, when 21 years of age, was admitted to practice at Keokuk, lie took a pronounced position among tho peo ple of that city at once, and in 1857 was sent to tiie state legislature. In 1861 ho was elected to tiie state sen ate, where lie served until tiie close of tho war, taking an active part in the legislation incident to that period. He gave the remaining years until 1868 to the practice of his profession, and was then elected to congress, lie was there appointed one of the committee on naval affairs, and also served on the committee to revise tiie laws, of which Mr. Poland was chairman. He was re-elected to the succeeding congress, receiving in 1874 11,384 votes against 9,521 for Leroy G. Palmer, the anti mouopo'y candidate. Ho wa3 not a candidate for re-election last fall. In the for ty-second congress, the familiarity he had shown with election laws recom mended him for the chairman of tho committoe on elections. In tho fol- shc §unui fteta td coiuu-sriixnFXTs. The Kditor eolirita thort, mU-written (\ui tnunications, from all acvllmt* of the reentry, on Agricultural, Political. Literary aml JJUrd/a iuouh top let — also original Pacing L'ssai/s, Hi oyraphiral Sketches, D cacti pitch*, Critiques, and Short Stories. J/c also sidieti* account* of Accidents, Ineidcntc , Marriage*, jJeath* and all Interesting Occurrences happening in the comity and section. All article* intuuLd forputUinUioW should he closely studied, ear (fully and legibly irrif.ten } and only on one side of the sheet, Tln Kditor reserves the rialU io reject, any or a articles submitted to him. lowing congress lie was chairman of the committee on railways and canals and iu the forty-fourth served on the judiciary. Mr McCrary is credited with having taken the first step iu the leg sbitiou which created the lato electoral tribunal. On Ikecinber 7th last, ho introduced a resolution provu.ing for a joint committee ol of the two houses lo consider a mode of counting the electoral vote. The resolution was inferred to the judici ary committee, of which tie was a member. They reported it prompt ly, and it was passed. Mr. McCrary was one of the joint committee on the part of the house, and when the electoral bill was finally laid before that body for action he was the first speaker in its support. carl schmiss Carl Sehurz, who lias been so prom inent iu public affairs, was born at Livlar, near Cologne, Prussia, March 2, 1829. He vras educated at the gymnasium of Colonge and the university of Bonn, which he enter ed at the age of 17. At the out break of the revolution of 1848 he conducted a liberal newspaper, but being concerned in an uusuccessiul attempt to promote an insurrection at Bonn, he lied to the Palatinate and took part in the defense ol Baa tadt. On the surrender of th tress lie escaped to Switzerland. In 1850 he returned secretly to Germa ny and effected the escape of his com patriot, Gottfried Kinkle. Mr. Schurz came to this country in 1852, and soon after took an active part in the anti-slavery injhe northwest. lie was an influential member of tie republican conven tion in 1800, and spoke both in Ger man end English during the canvass which followed. President Lincoln an pointed Mr, Schurz minister to Spain, but he returned therefrom in December, 1801, in order to enter the army. He took part in the bat tles of the second Bull Bun, Clian ccllorsville and Gettysburg and retir ed at the close of the war with the rank of major general. In 1805-0, General Schurz was Washington cor respondent of the Tribune, and in 1867 he became editor of theW estliohe 1 ost a German paper, published in St. Lou is. In 1859, he was chosen United States senator in Missouri for the term ending in 1875. He opposed leading measures of Gen. Grant s ad ministration and took a prominent part in the organization of the liberal party, presiding over the convention in Cincinnati which nominated Hor ace Greeley for the presidency Ho visited Europe in 1873 and again in 1875, being received with much con sideration in his native country. On his return he took part in the polit ical canvass in Ohio, and by his elo quence contributed materially to the election of Gov. Hayes and the ove;j throwjof inflation. Columbus was the first man to es tablish aa iron foundry in America. Ho cast an anchor. Spanish proverb: ‘‘When mothers in-law fall out, then we get at the family facts.’’ —A now Constitution can and will lesson taxation. —A new Constitution can give us a cheaper and better public school system. —Whatever promises to pay is a favor able omen. —A counter Irritation —Short change from a shopman. —Doesn’t a man contract a debt when he pays part of it? —ln what place is two heads better than one? In a barrel.