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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30.1874. .. L. tAXTT, Editor aud Prop. 1 ~i r .State Dpmofratic Ticket. l*t District—lFon. Julian Hartridge. 2d “ “ William E. Smith. •>d “ “ Philip Cook. 4th “ “ Henry R. Harris. ,r hh “ “ Milton A. Candler. oth “ “ James H. Blount. " “ Wm. H. Dabney. Sth “ “ Alex. H. Stephens. Oth “ “ Garnett McMillan. Election Tuesday, November 3, 1874. w* Hr. O'Conor on the Louisiana Question. Mr. diaries O’Conor, the distinguish ed New York lawyer, in a receut letter to the Herald, takes direct issue with the opinions recently expressed in a letter to the same paper by Mr. Reverdy John son, on the relation of President Grant to the Kellogg government. They both agree that the question of the recogni tion of a State government is a political, not a judicial one. But Mr. Johnson holds that though the President made an orror in basing bis decision upon the ju dicial decree of Judge Durel, in favor of the Kellogg government his decision is final and irreversible, and equally bind ing upon the President and others. Mr. O’Conor, on the contrary, reasons that whilst a decision by any legal authority is binding whilst it remains of force, it is rare that a decision by any authority, legislative, executive or judicial, is ab solutely irreversible. I he Federal authorities have no right to interfere, except in a case of “domes tic violence,” at the call of the Legisla ture, or of the Executive, when the Legislature cannot be convened. In the Louisiana case, the paramount authority was Congress, and any recognition by that body would have bound the Presi dent. Congress not having acted, the recognition by the President had a similar effect, and as Congress might have revoked its determination, so might the President, when called upon a sec ond time by the Kellogg government. Its overthrow by the Penn movement, though an offense against the laws of Louisiana, could constitute no ground for Executive interference, without a call from the State authorities, and when that call was made, then was pre sented to the President a renewal of the precise question which arose at first— was Kellogg the legally elected Gover nor of Louisiana? If so, it was the President’s duty to reinstate him; oth erwise not. Mr. O’Conor thinks that there is no ground for hope that Kellogg will resign, and indulges the only hope, that the popular will of the country, ex pressed through the press, may induce the President to reconsider his course. We have no idea that the President will change his policy, or assume what Con gress failed to do—overthrow the Kel logg government. Removal of the Capital from Washington. For some time the subject of removing the National Capital from its present site to some central locality in the West, has been agitated by the Western press. Apparently, the proposition is growing tfV favor, and as the West is rapidly (1 Rowing in political strength, it is not otP*probable that men are now living who 3 M accomplished. A convention from the Mississippi Valley ilas held in Louisville on Monday [Consider the subject. V The Day. 3d of November, is the ectioajpAy of the year, and closes x s till Bfexfc spring. Numerous , ’ote on tits! day—among them v k, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, o j.sctts, Rhode Island, Delaware, , f(i Virginia, Georgia, Florida, u> r Illinois, Wisconsin, Min- I tyjldgan', and perhaps some a <t Je day’s work will determine .qexion of the next Congress. 1 l tge of Col. Fred Grant. n ent marriage of the President’s ' ’Vo Miss Honore, of Chicago, s “' the Jenkinses of the press a Kt Numberless long-winded arti men of sense never read. We perceive that Fred Grant is any l.iig more than the average young men oil the day. The accident of his father bJjing President does not add one inch to his stature. The Third Term. President Grant paid a visit to Wash ington City on Thursday. A special to the Courier-Joftrndi says: “He declares against any declaration by him that he will not run for a third term.” Can it be jossible that the Republican’s whining > ‘ 1 was without his authority? LATEST GEORGIA NETS. The receipts of the fair in Atlanta were $36,100. "General Colquitt is sick at his home in Kirkwood. Hotel business at Tuccoa is dull, with a downward tendency. A prisoner in the Conyers jail broke out with a tooth-pick recently. A railroad is to be built from Ring gold to Lookout Mountain. The colored people of Georgia owu property to the amount of $0,157,788. After the Ist of November the genial cotton factor will find it difficult to lien on the farmers. Lucius Rainey, of Ackworth, picked three hundred and nineteen pounds of cotton the other day. Mrs. Ellen Brown, of Elberton, died on the 19th inst., having survived her husband, the late John M. Brown, but a few weeks. A corn cob the shape of the human hand, thumb and fingers all perfect, is the latest freak of eccentric nature in Itockmart. The gin-house of Mr. T. B. Lawson, of Stewart county, was burned recently by an incendiary. This is the thirteenth this season. Ihe Quitman Reporter suggests the revival of the old method of eatchimr thieves and incendiaries—a pack of “ negro hounds.” At a baptising among the colored folks of Thomasville, Phil Allen’s wife got excited and kicked him in the stom ach and killed him. The North Georgia Conference of the M. L. Church, South, will convene in Clarkesville Dec. 2. Bishop Wightman, of South Carolina, will preside. The negro convicted at Franklin Su perior Court of the murder of Mr. Dixon, near Toceoa city, has been sentenced to be hung on the 27th of November. A boy only twelve years of age, who weighs three hundred pounds, has been found in Coffee county—at least the pa pers say so. His name is William Riekerson. Mr. Fred Diukins, of Tattnall county, 102 years old, walked several miles to vote the Democratic ticket. Three or four cords of wood before breakfast whets his appetite. The merchants ofWashington, Wilkes county, met the other day, and passed a series of resolutions requesting the next Legislature to compel the railroads in Georgia to charge uniform rates of freight. Mr. Robert Hanson, an old and res pected farmer, who lived in Morgan county, near the line of Newton, was shot and mortally wounded by one of his sons, J. O. Hanson, on Wednesday of last week. P. IT. W atkins, of M ilkinson county, asserts this, that “ oil of sassafras, ap plied to the wound, and a teaspoonful ta ken internally every five minutes until vomiting is caused, is an infallible cure for snake bite.” On Tuesday, the 6th of October, a most awful tragedy occurred on Swift creek, in Worth county. Jack and Charley Judge, two brothers, quarrelled about some oats, and the quarrel led to a fatal difficulty. A party of young men from Dalton made an excursion to Cohuttah Moun tain a few days ago and brought back one bear, three deer, several wild tur keys, a live wild cat, two rattlesnakes, and eight or ten bushels of chestnuts. The Augusta Chronicle reports that on Wednesday night last, T. L. and Geo. Stolnaker, father and son, murdered an old man named Win. 11. Chance, near Waynesboro. Chance bad charged them with stealing corn, and it is supposed that they shot him for this. Diptheria is prevailing to an alarming extent in the counties of Paulding and Folk, and a portion of Bartow. It is confined principally to children and is very fatal. In one neighborhood in Paulding it is said there are sixteen new made graves, all resulting from this fatal disease. A young Atlanta sportsman whose “ pa” got into the station house, with filial love, surrendered his little gun as hail and tbok her out for one night, but took her back next day and said, “ I want ter go huntin’, mister, so take the old lady an’ lock her up an’ gimme my gun.” How touching. A negro named Collins brought suit, at the present term of Harris Superior Court, against the county, for $20,000 — damages for falling through a bridge. The Court dismissed the action on the ground that the county was not liable for damages done to an individual by negligence of authorities in not keeping the bridges in proper repair. The Griffin Ncics has a terrible report from the country near its city. It is that three negro children were burned with a house that was consumed on Thursday last. A woman had left her three chil dren in the house while she went out to pick cotton, and when she got back to it. attracted by the sight of the fire, the walls had fallen in and the children were not to be found. j FK9.TI “THE WILDERNESS.” A General Beview of the Echo, With a Slight Dash at “Glsde.” Lv THE Wilderness,” Oct. 28th, 1874. Mn. Editor -The last copy of the Echo is before me, and eagerly I have looked over its columns to find some thing of interest peculiar to myself. Not long was I doomed to look, for its columns are as full of spiev items as an egg is of meat. My heart goes out in deep sympathy towards the unfortunate "wards of the nations” who met that masked collector in the quiet shades of evening, on that lonely road. How their hearts must have palpitated with fear, and their nether limbs have shaken with extreme terror. I opine, dear Echo, that, unless such proceedings are stopped instanter, then the war was in vain, .reconstruction was a farce, and civil rights a myth of the brain, that lies now entombed with Charles Sumner. Mv time will not suffice to speak of all tne contents of the number before me. I must therefore pass—reluctantly though it be—over to the obliging clerk and the obfusticated individual who mis took raw oysters for raw potatoes. I was struck with the communication from “Glade.” In fact, in point of lit erary merit, originality of conception, and subtility of intent, it will stand for ever as the embodiment of realized per fection. Mark, if you please, the delicacy with which the first installment of that com modity known as “soft soap” is adminis tered. No nauseous draught of this wel come compound does he pour into your ear, Mr. Editor. It is given with the discretion of an adept. If your means were commensurate with his expressed wishes, you would soon have a paper unrivaled in size, and, judging from the past, certainly unap proachable in point of vim and general interest. But, alas, for the safety and comfort of the remaining inhabitants of your little town —while you arc elevated to a height that must dazzle one of your modesty and inexperience—they are banished to some undiscovered realm, where telling tales, eating chestnuts, and marking goods high is no crime. Only one companion will remain to you in your loneliness —he of “the noble carriage and virtuous look.” When in the future “ you tread alone ’’ the deserted streets of Crawford, ponder over the sad fate of its banished citizens, and perchance drop a tear to their mem ory. Some future antiquarian, perhaps, will puzzle over the site of the deserted town as the learned have long them selves to find the place ancient Babylon stood. There is but one hope, Mr. Editor, for your town. Let its public spirited citi zens relieve themselves of the grievous charges laid againit them—abstain from imitating Munchausen, look on chest nuts with abhorrence, and sell goods cheap. And, in addition to this, if Mr. Stokely will sell Glade goods on credit next year—and a shrewd suspicion flashes through my mind that this is the boon for which he sighs—then Crawford is safe. Her citizens can pursue the even tenor of their way, unswerved with the stern behests of “ Glade,” and your cor respondent will be, as perhaps he ought to have remained — Mum. Texas. Very many people, during the fall and winter, are going to Texas —whether wisely or not is another question. We have only to say that many emigrants are grievously imposed upon and South ern railways robbed by wandering agents of Northern lines of travel. We have seen tickets peddled through the country which conveyed the buyers over roads north of the Ohio, and through St. Louis, four or five hundred i miles “ out of the way,” into Texas. Southern people, all else being equal, should spend their money in Southern States and on Southern roads. The South is poor, the North very rich, and therefore we would state that there arc three Southern routes from Georgia and the Carolinas to Texas: one through New Orleans, part of the distance traversed by steamers landing at Galveston; another, through Vicks burg, ninety miles of the distance trav ersed in stage coaches; the third, all rail route through Chattanooga’and over ; the Memphis and Charleston and Mem- ! phis and Little Rock roads to Texar- \ kana, where all the roads of Texas con- ! verge. This is the shortest, cheapest, and ! speediest, and proper route for Georgia j farmers. V e write this because ignorant 1 people are constantly misled by falsely ! printed maps, and by peddlers of railway j tickets everywhere traversing the coun- : try. - Emigrant tickets over each of these j three Southern routes can be boucht. j at one-half the usual rates. Table linen xyhicli has been repeatedly stained with tea and cofiee finally be comes dingy, and can be made white and clean again by wetting and laving on the grass in the sun a day or so. FREIGHT I.IST. The following are the names of persons having freight remaining in the depot at this place up to the morning of publica ! tion: ELBERTON. J F An Id, J J Burch, J J Heard. S D Blackwell, A B Ivucker, Swift & Arnold, 1 X J Swift, Tate & Almand. LEXINGTON. O H Arnold, Arnold & Barrow, I T Amis, L M Briscoe, M B Brooks, W A Buckhalter, | L W Colier, W W Davenport, J H Echols, J II Duncan & Bro, ! J Edwards, J S Gilbert, | J M Kidd, Moss & Wilson, : R P Mathews, H A Hays, | G W Norton, Mrs M W Oliver, ! Miss L G Oliver, J 0 A Patton. E J Reynolds, E G Roan, A Shelveston, Smith & Bro, D L Smith, W A Turner, J H Tiller, W T Young & Cos, MARKET REPORTS. CRAWFORD, October 30, 1574. Cotton $ 121® 13 Flour, perbbl 8 00 @lO 00 Corn, new, per bn 1 00 “ old, “ none. Corn Meal, “ 1 2d Peas, “ 1 00 Wheat, “ 1 *0 @ i 75 Oats, “ 75 @1 00 Rye, “ l s(i Sweet Potatoes, per bu.... 75 Bacon —Market falling 14 @ 10 Larp, per tt> 20 @ 22 Bagging 15 @ is v Ties 9 @ 10 , Chickens 2f> Eggs 20 Butter 25 Syrup, per gal 75 @ 1 25 Molasses 50 @ 05 Sugar 121® Coffee - 25 @ 80 Tobacco 75 @ l 25 j TO SUBSCRIBERS. As will be seen by reference to our terms, subscription must be paid in ad vance, or delinquents will have to pay twenty-five cents per quarter additiona so long as payment is postponed. But owing to the fact that but little cotton lias as yet been sold, we propose to give our patrons until the first of December next, when, if payment is not made, our rules will beef orced in every instance We do not desire any subscriber who can not pay for bis paper in advance, We are determined to run a first-class news paper, and to do so successfully will have to demand the cash. We com mence Till: Echo unincumbered by debt, every dollar on the purchase of the paper having been paid, and so subscri bers need have no fear that our contracts will not he carried out. The support already received assures the successful publication of our paper. Notice of Stokes’ Great Sore and Fain Medi cine, of his Own Discovery, and Manufac tured by Stokes & Lyle, Social Circle, Ga. I have cured, and will try to cure again, all kinds of Sores, of long or fresh standing, Piles, or Pains of any kind, with my SALVE LIN IMENT AND TONIC. For Five Dollars, in advance, I send a package which, if it tails to give satisfaction, 1 will redeem, and return the money: Provided, yon follow the direc tions. As I don’t furnish brains, I want no physician to supply them for me. lam no practical physician, but the boss of my dis covery, which has cured when pnysicians have failed from New York to the Gulf, oct9-l WHITE FOR IIS. w e arc determined to publish a local paper, and to do so successfully, we call upon our friends, all over the county, to keep us posted as to everything taking place in their respective neighborhoods. Write us each week of the marriages, deaths, roads, improvements, schools, crimes, magistrate trials, church, school, and crop news. In fact, there are daily occuring events in the county that would help render our paper interesting. You need not trouble to write it up— only give us the points, and we will fix that. ME. J. J. C. McMAEAN. This gentleman is authorized to collect and receipt for subscriptions or other moneys due this office. Any contract j made hv him will be recognized and car- j ried out by us. Subscribers can leave money with any of our merchants for us. OUR TRAVELING AGENT. Mr. R. E. Brannanis our regularly au thorized Traveling Agent. Postmasters and all of our friends are requested to solicit names, and thus assist in extend ng our circulation. Newspaper Postage. —ln regard to the new postal law, we state that news papers now go through the mails free of postage in the county where published. That part of the law took effect on tli first of July. The other sections of the law go into operation the first of next January. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. _ j YOUNG MEN WHO WISH A THOROUGH PREPA ' I RA 1 ION for Business, will find supe rior advantages at Moore's Southern Business University, Atlanta, < i ;t. The largest and best Practical Business School in the South. Students can enter at any time. Send for Catalogue to oct3o-lv 15. F. MOORE, Preset. KALVARINSKI & LSEBLER, Under Newton House, Athens, Ga., Cigar Manufacturers, And Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Tobacco, Pipes, Snuff, &c. Dealers would do well to price our goods before purchasing elsewhere. Our brands of Cigars are known everywhere, and sell more readily than any other.' oet3o-tf EICININE HAIR OIL! ! T7OR PROMOTING THE GROWTH AND | A beautifying the hair, and rendering it ! dark and glossy. Price, 25e. and 50c. a bot j tie. Prepared hv it. T. BRUMBY & CO.. College A.venue. Athens, Ga. SAVANNAH ADVERTISER Published Daily and Weekly at Savannah -...Georgia. GEO. N. NICHOLS, F. W. SIMS, Proprietor. Business Man’r. % The Advertiser is a live, comprehensive newspaper, publishing the latest News and Market Reports from all parts of the country, particular attention being given to Savan nah's Local and Commercial affairs. IH POLITICS The Advertiser will be a hold and fearless exponent of the Democratic Conservative Creed. TO ADVERTISERS Unexcelled advantages are offered, our large and increasing circulation rendering the Advertiser a valuable advertising medium. TERMS Daily—l year...... >7 no • “ (> months 350 j “ 3 months 1 50 j M eekly—l year j 59 Agents wanted in everv town. Sample : co]>ies free on application to - this office. R. M. SfVIITH, DEALER IX ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE LEXIXGTOX, GA. Bedsteads, Bureaus, Tables Cfiairs~~p CHAMBER AMD PARLOR SETS, Wood and Jlelalic BURIAL CASES, Lower than can be bought elsewhere in the place. Give me a call. oetl-tf I? O S E Glycerine Lotion! A DELIGHTFULLY SOOTHING PREP- A' ALA 1 ION for Sore Lips, Chapped Hands, etc. Price, 25c. a bottle. Prepared bv L. T. BItUMBY & CO., Druggists and Pharmacists, Athens, Ga. Plantation Supplies! jl YOU NEED Bagging, Ties, Bacon, Flour, Meal, Salt, Molasses, Syrup, Kerosene Oil, And want to buy it CHEAP, you can do so at Me MAH AX A STOKELY’S OPinOLOGM AN ELEGANT PERFUME. rpHIS COLOGNE IS MANUFACTURED A from Pure Materials, with the greatest care. Prepared only by R. T. BRI'MBY & CO., Druggists and Pharmacists, Athens, Ga. furniture! I) EDSTEADS,85 to 115 apiece. CHAIRS ' >G to 89 per set, at mcmahan a stokely’s. NEW Positively No Chios THE DANBURY SEWS Containing every week FORTY COLUMNS of choice reading matter, printed on clear, handsome type and tine white paper. The News is edited by “ The Danbury New? Man,” and is contributed to by a large num ber of excellent writers, who will furnish fresh correspondence from the leading cities, and contribute to the editorial columns. The News has its own Scientific, Fashion, Chess, and Puzzle editors; publishes the best original matter, the best miscellany, and the freshest and best stories. In all its depart•- meats it is edited with scrupulous care, and is, in consequence, one of the best Family Journals published. Sample copies free— send for one. 1 he News is no new experiment, but a long established bona fide concern. Terms of Subscription. One Year *2 (XL Special rates to Postmasters and Clubs. BAILEY & DONOVAN, Danbury, Count -50,000 J WAAT EI > I" O R THE OULETHORPE ECHO. Administrator's Sale. qTATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE h- *OiN FV. f>y virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary of said county, will be sold, before the Court House door in the town ot Lexington, in said countv, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN DECEMBER next, 1874, the following descrilied LAN I US, belonging to the estate of John Sims, late of said county, de ceased, to-wit: I TGiet No. X contains Seven Hundred and j Ninety-one (791) Acres, more or less—one iieie reserved,, enclosing grave yard. This tract lies on the waters of Beaverdam j creek, adjoining lands of William Flecnmn, amf other tracts belonging to said estate, and is known as the Home Place, and is in every respect a well improved place. The improve ments consists of a commodious dwelling and all necessary outbuildings, all of which arc in thorough repair, 1 ract No. 2 contains Three Hundred and Si xtv-two (3 f, 2) Acres, more or less, lying in Madison county, known as the Old Widow Spratling Dower, adjoining the lands of Math ews, Widow Eberhart, estate of James Mar tin, and the lands of the estate of John Sims. Tract No. 3 contains Four Hundred and l idrty-oiie (437) Acres, more or less, adjoin— ing the lands of the estate on the east and west, north by Kpp<+, and south hv Fleeman. Said piece contains some twenty-five or thirty acres of Fresh Lands, some fifteen or twenty acres of Bottom Landv, in a; state of cultiva- ■ tron, and someone hundred and fifty or some one hundred and seventy-five in tlie woods ; also a Tennants’ House. 1 ract No, 4 contains- One Hundred and Eighty-six (ISG) Acres, more or less, and lies on the waters of the home fork of Beaverdam creek, and is bownued on all sides-by other' tracts belonging to said esfcute.- On this tract is a dwelling and all necessary out-buildings -1 ract No. 5 contains- One Hundred and I orty-seven (147) Acres, more or less, and adjoins lands of Fleema.iv, Eberhart, andi other lands of said estate. On this tract is am excellent mill seat. Tract No. (j contains Ninetv-one (91) Acres,, more or less, and adjoins lands of David Bar nett and other tracts belonging to said estate- Tract No. 7 contains One Hundred' and I \venty and One-half O20t) Acres, more or" less, and adjoins lands of M. Edwards J. Hol ton, and others. —ALSO— Lot No. 240, 17th District, Ist section, iir i_nion county, in said State, containing One Hundred and Sixty (160) Acres, more or less. All of the lands lying on the waters of I leaver dam creek. All sold as the property of John Sims de ceased, /or the purpose of distribution. Terms One-half cash, the tialanee in twelve months. Bonds given for titles. Plats of the above lands may lie seen at the office of me Ordinary of Oglethorpe coon tv, at Lex ington G. JL & C. W. SIMS, Administrators, of John Sims, deceased. oei33-td T E OF p OWER OF ATTOR- ! rom tbe administratrix of Isham •L Sims, win he sold In-fore the Court lloase ', 1 bewingtnn, in Oglethorpe eovmtv, on the FIRS I TUESDAY IN DECEMBER next, I wen tv-seven (27) Shares of Capital Stock; m the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. Terms' cash. No legatees to bit nor agents for them. GLLA M. SIMS, Admin’x. G. R. SIMS, Agent. GROCERIES JF YOU WANT Coffee, Rice, Pepper, Spice,. Ringer, SocI„ or anything else in the GROCERY LINE, Ca]l on mcmahan & stokely. IF YOU WANT ANYTHING IN THE FURNITURE LINE Call at mcmahan & stokely’s. * Tv attorney at x \r t t’ At V; n ‘i’. Ga ‘ Office with Judge A M Jackson, Ordinary of Clark countv. mrict attention given to all business entrusted L ollections and searching of records a specialty! Winter Dry Goods! T F YOU ARE GOING TO BUY DRY 1 GOODS this Fall or Winter, now is the time, and you will find a good stock to select from and prices lower than ever it Mcmahan & stokkby’s.