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ilr Ima Vista . W. A. SINGLETON, Editor and Proprietor. YOL. 11. Rates and Rules for Legal Adver rising. sjh.Tiff SiUop, ouch levy ....$ 4.00 Mortgage fl la .HiileK, gholi levy 7.00 J'hx Collector’* salea, each levy 4.00 Citation for I ttera of Administration and Guard Unship { 4.00 duplication for dismission from Administration OuardiauHhlp and Executoi-nlilp 7.00 Application for leave io aril land for one aq’r.. 6.00 Fotlce to debtorn and ••redltora 4.00 Ij Uid sales, Ist square. |4, each additional... 8.00 Sales of perishable property, per square 2.50 fast ray uotieo, 00 days . 7.00 Notice to perfect service 7.00 U,t\oß ni si to foreclose mortgages per sq'r U. 60 Killer to establish lost papers, per-square.... 3.60 llulca compelling titles 3.60 Jlules to perfect services in divorse cases.... 10.00 Application tor Homestead 2.00 All Legal Advertisements must be paid for in ad advance. _ Sales of land. &c., by Administrators, Executors <if Guardians, arc required by law to be held on the I‘irst Tuesday in the month, between the hours Of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court House in the county in which the property is of these sales must be given in a public ga rotte in the county where the land lies, if thero be anv and if there is no paper published in the county boil’in the nearest gazette, or the one having the argent gen Aral circulation in said county, 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be, given in like manner ten days previous to sale day. Notice t" the debtors of creditors aud an estate must also bo published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for Leave to Sell laud, kc., must be publish* ctl once a week for 4 weeks. Citations for Letters of Administration, Guardian s',ip; etc., must be published 30 days—for Dismission ft out Ad niuistrati on, Guardianship and A’xecutorship 4 ' ftulos*of Foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish ed monthly for lour months—for establishing lost papers for too full space of three mouths—for com polling titles from Executors or Administrators, Where bond has been given by tho deceased, the lull space of three months. ....... A i>plication for Homestead must be published twice. Publications will always bo continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or dered'. ... ii. HiMtoufe w. U. HiiitoYi ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BUENA VISTA. GA Will practice in the Courts of this Sluice ftiul the District and Circuit Courts of th. United States, _ mchSl-Iy, itfcAfe o HOusc, binithville, Georgia. O — - j®*Mf!tils on the arrival of all < rains Fare as good a3 the season affords. Trine, fit) ecms a meal. 'je. Jt.TBrTT, A TT< I? >■ ICY' AT I-.-V \V. hi;exa vis’i'v.ut. nprxr.~wisoM, m. w. j BUENA VISTA, GA. may be left at my rest- j ilenee at a hours oi llie day or i DR. ET T.,JM ATH! f, JLiu.ilUl 1 Julia left at mv office or reni donee promptly jtltei icled. _J' cU-l-ty SIMMONS & SIMMONS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AM K MIC US. G EORGI A tHiDliiAii SOTMJIi Dr. S. W, Woodruff will promptly attend ill! calls in his profession. I,ay or night. He also continue* to treat rvitli liis usual success, all kinds of Chronic diseases of long standing. Female diseases will receive his special attention —his remedies m e mainly taken from the Vegetable kingdom, but iu his treatment of diseases, he selects from both Vegetable and Mineral, usmay be most clear ly indicated. Dr. Woodruff does not profess t'o b.e üble to cure all cases but will certainly lie candid in giving his opinion in every case that may apply to him and exert himself to the utmost of his skill to cure all who may place themselves under his treatment. Dr. Woodruff can be found all hours of the day at his store, and at night at bis residence North East corner public square, unless ab sent, on professional business. HOUII!, (PUBLIC square,) AMERICUS, GA. J3. EASON, - - Prop ritcr, First Class actunmoiktions, Two Dollars per Day efforts will ba spared to make the “French House” tireJWpular hotel of Amcr -r’ivus. The best faro that the market affords, polite and attentive servants and comfortable sleeping accommodations wiil always be found at this House. It is conveniently situ ated to tho business portion of the city, tlio post office aud the depot. " iifwsfs ESTABLISHED 1850. Opposite FafttfcngcrDcpoL Macon, Gu Throe JCNbl'lars Per Dny. Meals 78 Cents, - - - Lodgings 78 Cents. This Popular Hotel, E. E. Brown & Proprietors, after a trial of twenty years, is ill opened Jo tho public, with all the modern im 2irovemqntß and increased facilities for tho ac commodation of the Traveling public, The proprietors respectfully return their grate ful thauks for the very liberal patronage extend ed the Ilouao for Twknttt Ycaks, and assure their mauy frionds that they will use their host cn leavors for the futnro to givg tho sarno satic faction that they have in tho put. '/pST" Evory attention given to ladies and faoi.ies. J3TJTiIIsrA. VISTA. MAIUON COUNTY. OA-, MAY 16,1877. fttfmmimxcatitftf. ~ CONVENTION QUESTION. Mr. Editor: Silt: —I sec “Citizen” is discussing tbc necessity of a Constitutional Con vention through your columns, and as all questions have two sides, and as your columns are open f>r a free discussion of the question, and be heving the changing of our funda mental law to be a grave question: one that should not be acted upon un til it has been fairly and honestly dis cussed in all its bearings, weighing each reason for and against. I have decided to propound a few questions, and may in the course ol my remarks give some reasons why wo should not have a convention at this time. 1 am no politician, or political writer ; I am one of the humble farmers that must bo affected for the better or the worse by the convention, if it should be called. lam not an officer, nor a candidate for office under the present Constitution, nor do I expect to be under any future one that tnay be made. lam willing to live and die like my father, a private citizen of the old Commonwealth of Georgia, Ist. What will we gain by anew Constitution ? 2nd. Have wo any assurance wo will get a better Con.sti'Ution than tho present one ? 3rd. Will anew Constitution make any more meat, corn, cotton, money, or make people work belter? I presumo that we will find some who will answer all these que.-tions in the affirmative, as they say we must have a convention, because their meat and liv .and depends np.m it; lit igation nndir the present ono has ended, fund they are ruined unless they can get anew Constitution. If these reasons be faers, I say let the present Constitution be immortal, and stand while time shall las*, be cause under such a state of things, the millennium would soon usher in, and the linn and the jamb could be down together in peace ; would that these reasons were true indeed. Again they say the Govormr has too much power, that he is permitt ed. under the present Constitmion, to op >oint the Judges of the Superior Court, and otic r officers. That is true, but tin-judgbs must be confirm ed by the Senate. This is a good and wise provision in the Constitu tion, The tendency to favoritism by going out of office is so irresistibly great, that he would lean beyond a perpendicular between men, in a con test for re-eh ction when Ins elecuon would be influence by it. Is it not nerkctly natural for him to lean to tile man that supported him, and against the man that voted and did all he could against him ? This pro vision should remain, and keep the judgeship as far as possible ftom these contaminating influences. We think the reople are more likely to get a good judge under these ap pointments of. the Governor, than by election. In tlie.se days of political fraud, when there are so many vo ters in the land, who can bo influ enced by whiskey, and oilier means, it is barely probable that inferior men would not succeed against supe rior men. Docs not evciy office, within the appointing power of the Governor come, more or less, through the people by recommendation, I, for one, am satisfied, that, in the -A. DEMOCRATIO IF NEWSPAPER. main, we get better, more competent men in office, under the appointment of the Governor than we would by elections ; for in these days of polit ical dishonesty, the best men arc not always willing to enter a race, and stoop to things that arc necessary to secuie an election. Our good and Christian men are opposed to treat ing, so as to gain an election, and it is almost impossible for a man, with the present voting population, to be elected without doing it directly him self, or by his friends. Rather than run the risk of being beaten, good men w.ll rarely suffer their names used in candicacy. Under the ap pointing power, wo have none o these evils to contend with ; yet, ev ery man enn present tho name of his friend, with his claims for the office, and the Governor can consider them, and appoint the best man. Some may, and will, be displeased; but oihers will be pleased, just as if elect ed, and wc get rid ol the dernoraliz iug influence of tho clccJon, and get the country, as well, and in many instance.-', h-Her, officers, than it we j had had a great many elo. tiot.pt, an i ! treated, election, cu and, Lught, b'cd, and and ed, an l sp-iu money to our injury. Again, they say under Hie p oseuf ICo i.dilution wc have too many old ie ms; that wo ought to have less: arid ! run the government cheaper. iVe admit that In e mo departments we have 100 many officers; but is this [ the fault of the Constitution? V Isays there shall be seven e’e b; 1 why then and > they have m re than ! ihat number in tho legislature ? It is no fault ot the Con-dilution. 1‘ tile legislature di-n gartWt-niandu’cs and violate it plain edict, would a new Const tutsan bind them anv * * Would not die legislative disregard it, as they do the present on.* ? If they will not regard the pi esc i;t Constitution, there is no rea son why we should expect they would pay any more attention to anew one Now, Air. Editor, the people are koking too much to the change of law to benefit them. It would be well, to look less to change of laws and more to our (system of farming, for great improvements. There has b on mistakes in laws wc admit, aud great mistakes, too, but there have been greater mistakes in our system of farming. No new C< ns'i.ution will make a people prosperous, as long as their smoke houses and corn cribs, are in the West. Let us look to our farms, and raise meat and corn, and if our Constitution must be amended, let it be done by the legis lature, without thu extra expense ol a convention. If a Constitution works badly, it ought to be change; if not, wi.y dis tuib it ? Before tearing up our fun damental laws, We should have at least some assurance that we would get a bettor ore. Some of tuo lead ing reasons they give us for desiring to tear down our present Cdnst.itu" lution, are as follows: Ist, They t-ay we did not muke it; that aliens and negroes, made it; and for this, if no other reason, wo ought to have a convention. -Some even say, that they want a convention, if it would do no more than adopt the present Constitution, word for word; just to be able to say “it is onr Constitution.’! Is this good statesmanship, to spend $75,000 or 8100,000 of tho people’s money, just to satisfy a simple Whim? it it is a good Constitution, why tear it up and destroy it just for that rea son ? I did not build the house I live in, yet ft is a good house, must I te#v t * t ’* ow,, - JO 91 because, forsooth, it vfas build by a negro, and, tnere lorc, according to their argument, I should not live in it. I never made a car, and, therefore, according to this mode of reasoning, I should not ride iu one. So with almost every thing that wo use or have. We did not make them. Many are made by negroes aud yankec.-s. No man in Georgia ever made a yard of Broad cloth, yet it is a good cloth, though it was made by yaukces, aud I see jhe\ do not refuse to wear it for that reason. Thus we perceive that their reasoning does not hold good on this point. The people and the politicians are unsettled, and ever anxious for a change, hoping that something mayiesult to their advan tage, and that they may get sonic of the spoils. They even see tho mi rage in the future ; the inviting lake of cooling water and refreshing | shades in tbc desert, looks inviting, but when they reach it, they c m lot k back, and see the mirage iu the past, 5 and, like the Egyptians, are ready I to make them captains, and return ,io the flesh puts of Egypt. “L t it's return,” they say, “to the boose our lathers built,” but every move j ihey make is Luther still from the i “house our fathers built,” Wo luul | belter not return io the old house ol I our fathers, lmt let us add to, and I improve that house. Iu these da vs J of improvement, let us uotretr (grade ' but l:ke Moses of old, let our word Ibe on, go forward. If onr Libers I houso had some good rooms, and ! wo admit it did, let us—improve, I beautify, and add- io that house, un til improvi me it will bo im| O; -b! Ilavi g a good Laudation to Lqih? to, let us noti,fifor* flown the f. 0 •' work, but 1.-t us add to -and strelighUn it. Should there be a rotten piece in the frame, take it out, and put a good piece in lieu tin reef. Should there boa leak, slop that The cost of tearing down and rebuild ing wil bo too great. Besides wc might split some of the lumber, and spoil the whole edifice. II amend ments are necessary, why not make ihem by the legislature? They say that will cost too much ; that the egislaturc cost $250,000 per annum. Now, Mr. Editor, they are simply mistaken, it only cost from $85,000 io *90,000 per annum, to hold the leg islature, The legislature is going to spend that amount, Consitutution or no Constitution. If you have public servants pay them for that service, 'they say there is too much local leg islation. Who asks for local legisla tion ? Is it not die people ? And is not the legislature the peoples servant ? If they want local legislation, and are willing to pay for it, let them have it, some local legislation is the best that we ever have, and saves iqn people money instead of spending Look at the millions of Dollars. Thai are sp. r.t yearly for ardent spir its, and t-hc lives tnafc arc lost by their use. By local legislation we got lid of some of the shops of de struction of money, lifes, difficulties, &e. Every dollar spent in legislation on that subject, is we 1 spent. God speed the day when we will have more legislation on this subject, when no man shall be allowed to retail poi son to his neighbor, or to destroy, not only, the peace and happiness, of his wile and children, but the peace of the wholo community in which lie lives. These, trouble andcostthestate annually twice as much as all her legislatures and school system in ad dition. Yet, they say, just because the legislature happens to pass a few local laws against it; that it costs too much when it is actually a saving to the people, not only of momy, but of peace, ami happiness. Exceptio. Timur, hours s* glory. The following letter, bearing the signature of a reputable person, the facts herein narrated being also vouched fot by prominent residents of the place, was printed in the Green County Reformer, of Monroe, Wis., ot a recent date : At the earnest request of Nellie Blackford and her parents, I shall endeavor to inform the public of the strange and miraculous restoration of the life and health to this little suff ering girl. Nellie is thirteen years old, and never has been a robust child, aud eight weeks ago her motile (who is suffering with consumption) became dangerously ill, and Nellie, thinking her mother was dying, left her and ran for a neighboring lady, They started back for Mrs. Black ford’s, and Nellie was in such a hur ry that she caught up fie three year n and chi’d of the neighbor’s while the la !y was ahead with the baby, and | did not know that Nellie was running i for file with that ’arge child. When | .-die did see her, she stopped and cx i changed burdens. Nellie also ran ! or another neighbor, and by the time ! he had run over two miles she arriv . ■.I at home eompl toiy exhausted, and i ; hus commenced the dreadful suffer— ■ I Noll c. She has been very ill | for eight weeks, sutl'ming almost con- anD • \wis attend -d at first by Dr. I Rieliter, and improved quite rapidly exo pt pain in the spine. Feeling bet cr, she quit taking med icine. Still so weak that walking seemed an impossibility ; but Nellie Lit such a desire to again walk unas sisted til ,t Friday, March 31, she ventured : but the ” exertion- proved too much, and falling to the floor, she injured her spine in endeavoring to save herseU, an l 'went into a vio lent lit, taking the form of epilepsy, lusting two hours. The next day she had another, much more violent, that lasted half an hour. The frail form could kcarcely be held fey strong per sons. Dr. Rood was called ; she continued to grow weak, but had no return of convulsions. Three days after the first convulsions, both up per aud lower extremis ies wore par alyzed. She continued in this help less condition until the Sabbath. Dr. Hood called, aud said she could not live till morning, and that no human power could save her. Nevertheless she did live, and during Monday forenoon laid in the same condition, perfectly quiet and conscious, yet mableTo articulate, except iu the gentliest whispers. Her mind had been perfectly clear during all her illness. The least exertion, even the taking of a spoonful of water, would cause her to sink away till the pulsa tion of the heart could not be noticed, nor could any pulse be discovered in the wrist. They turned her gently on the sheet, and that would cause the sinking spells. She was also deaf for days at a time. Her wish was to leave her lite of pain, dityuid live with God and the angels, ere her dear afflicted mother left her a help, less orphan. Annual Subscription s2oo* KO. 30 On Monday afternoon tho friends and neighbors assembled to ece her die. About 2 o’clock she sank away growing weaker and weakc- till nb >ut 3. Ilcr extremities bec imo very cold, and they thought her gently and hap * pily passing ‘‘over the river.” Alt at once a change passed over her lea turcs, a sweet smilo illuminating her countenance, and the most intense delight seemed portrayed and linger ed on her face till it fairly shone. Words fail me to express the happi ness, contentment and glory there depicted. A continal change seemed passing over her quiet face, all telling of something bright and beautiful passing before her enraptured eyes. All at once to the astonishment of all. she raised her little hands in the atti tude xrf listening intently, changing tier position continually and seeming to listen with all the powf rof her being. She continued in this state for nearly three hours, seeming per fectly unconscious of all surround ing objects and sounds. She seemed to gently rouse from this condi ion. She opened her eyes, and seeing her mother standing near, a sweet and heavenly smile passed over her face.' Her mother stooped and asked her if she heard sweet music. Nellie had spoken before of hearing music when in her sinking spells. And now comes the strange and miraculous story of this little daught er of affliction as related to me by herself: ‘ 'I seemed as though I was walking through a pleasant country till I came to a place that surely was Heaven. There were streets all paved w.tlf gold, and such beautiful fountains as clear as crystal that seemed to rise up and then fall in bright sparkling drops. I laid down on a soft, grassy bank to rest, near a fountain, where my grandpa who has been dead six years came to me, and said I should go back to the care of my little sister till she was large enough to take care of herself. My little brother, whom I had never seen, came to mo and told me he was my brother, and lie played such sweet music forme on a golden harp. Acrown of gold encircled liis head he was all dressed in gleam ing white, and so was grandpa. And did not Jock So old as when here, and his eyes were perfect, not blind in the one ho used to be. His voice sounded so familiar. “Then, oh, I can’t hardly tell, I saw Jesus all robed iu white, a dazzling crown upon his head. He sat on such a beautiful high scat that was on a raised platform. All seemed of gold, and there were beautiful tides, flowers, streams and fountains of clear water around the throne and everywhere. Angels were flying around, bright crowns upon their heads and golden harps in their hands, and they played the sweetest music that I ever heard. I felt So' sorry at first when grandpa told nu> I should go back, and take the place of my dear mother and she should come. When I first seemed to get to this place the sweet wold Wel come ! Welcome! echoed ail around. I saw so many things that vrords fail to tell them now. The angels said they would cure me, that I should take no medicine, and I know X shall get well.” Since these notes were first taken down, NelliS has improved rapidly— has walked and been out of doors, and seems in a fair way to get well.