Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

VOL. IV.—NO 28 'HIE JOURNAL BY LA HATTE & GRANBKRKY. vVv c ■ H ROBSCRimON BATES Om* copy one your r On* copv fix — One copy three months > Amy one fnrnMiln* five subscribers, with the money, will receive copy free. SabecrUers wishing their paper* chamred from on* po.t-office to auotiier, most state the name of the post-office from which thev wish it chau K ed. a. well a* that to which tk All* übwTiptions most be paid in "dvehc®- The paper will be stopped at the end of the time paid for, unless subscription* are pre vieasly renewed. Fifty Bumbers complete the year, carh advertikino rates. ” tlraca Imo 3 mo* 6 "in* 12 i iu. j, t‘l fxi s4*so 3000* 10 00 9 inches 460 726 HOO 18 00 t Inches 500 900 13 00 22 00 }£•:•. SB SB 88 SB lss—3 ass *iSo So? mm Marriuires and deaths not exceeding six ie will be published free. Payment, to be made quarter yin advance, according to schedule rates, unless otherwise advertisements will state the length of time thev wish them published and the space they want them to occupy Parties advertiainer bv contract will be re tricted to their legitimate busmeps. LIOAI. ADVERTISI£H<!TS. ■hsriri sales, l-er inch, foW week". . .$3 50 ** mortgage fi fa BftV*. P er lnc ' 1 * & Citation for letters of tministration, .uardianshlp. etc.. thrij■days. .... 3 00 Hetice to debtors andcreditors of 6 M estate, forty days /•• •• • • • ■•■ ••• Application for leayc to sell land, four Blos*of ianri. Vte.‘ per in h, *°**'**P 6 00 •• •• perishabb property, per inch. AprUestion formers of dismission from Application f<r letters of dismission from *,l nrini.tr,tion, three months Kstahlishim lost paper*, the full space •r three months. per inch • • 7 w C*a.i*iliiK title, from executors or ad ministstors, -yhere bond has been Svenby the deceased, the full space _ of three months, per inch ‘ K. Tt i n tries. thirty days. • • • 3 uu kuletor foreclosure of mortgage, four souths, monthly, per mob 6 00 lal*ef insolvent paper-, thirty days. • ■ • two weeks Bugineas Qg> i da XDr. T- J_i- irenKins, "llll”' HAMILTON, CA'.- J. M. M O BLjE Y, attorney at law, HAMILTON, GA. Win continue to prsctirs law In all the glam a nd United Slates Courts. J. T. Bixmit.. H. C Oahbbox •MLOIL T <t < AM EL ON, attorneys AT LAW, IIEIITM, GEORGIA WUI practice In the S** and Federal Ovtlg. Oflic# in th Court House ALONZO A. DOZIER, Attobsm|and/Counseior at Law, COL UMB US, GA. Practices in Btate and Federal' Courts in w. .„, Alabama. Makes Communal Jlyr a specialty. Office oyer Ko. 126 Cobim bns. a*. dec4lr yrineg Uozler, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Will practice In •r tayvrhere else. Offic* in ths Korthwert •ormet of tbe Court-house, up-ftire. )n8 Columbus Dental Rooms W. T. ,„ r| l t Bunt Building, Colombia Ga CENTRAL HOTEL, Ujuatotl®' Mr*. S. E MlllMj® JOURNAL. No luyesfigition Needed, MAX ADKLUB RUNS FOB JB PBKSI DKNfIT. I have pretty ninth made np \y mind now to run fr the presidency. vVliat the country want* ia a candi date who cannot 1c injured by in vestigation of hh past history, bo that the eneraier of the party will be unable to rate up against him things that nobdy heard of before. If you know tic most about a can didate, to begii with, every attempt to spring tl.ngs on him will be checkmated, Now I am going to enter the field wi'h an open record. lam going to own tip in advance t<> all the wickedness I have done, and it any Congressional committee is <li<ipord to prowl around my biog raphy, in the hope of finding any dark and deadlydeed which I have secreted, why, ’et it prowl. Iu the first place, I admit that I treed a rheumatic grandfather of mineiu the winter o f 1859. lie was old and inexpert at climbing tree*. But with a heartless brutality that it characteristic of me, I ran him out of the front door in his night shirt, at ,he point of a shot gun, and caused hiia to bowl up a maple tree, where he remained all night, while 1 emptied shot in his legs. I did this because hs snored —I will do it again if I ever have another .grandfather. lam as inhuman now as I was in 1859. No rheumatic person shall snore >n my house. I candidly acknowledge that I ran away at the battle of Gettysburg. My friends have tried to smooth over thi fact by asserting that I merely got behind a tree; that I did so for the purpose of imitating Wash ington, who went into the waods at ! Valley Forge to say his prayers. It •is a miserable subterfuge. I struck out in a straight line for the Tropic of Cancer, simply because I was scar ed. I wanted my country saved, but I prefeisd to have somebody else save her; I entertain that preference yet. If the bubble, reputation, can be obtained only at the cannon’s month, I tm willing to go tV-re for it, provided the cannon is empty. It it is loaded, my immortality and in flexible purpose is to get suddenly over the fence and go home. Air invariable practice in war has been to bring out of any given fight two thirds more men than I took in. This seem* to we to be Napoloenio in its grandeur. The last time I ran for the presi dency there was some unpleasant talk about nay implication in a trans action with the widow Pollock’s dneks. The matter was hushed up; but I have tio objection to admitting the truth respecting it. I have al ways had a favorite theory that roast ducks were conductive to hysterical 'symptoms, and as every instinct of my nature prompted me to protect the widow from the ravages of hys teria, I but firmly removed those ducks. The fact that she began a prosecution against me is not a mat ter o r conseq enee. It is the fate of the phi lanthropist to be misunder stood. But duty is my guiding star, and if it lesda me te ducks or destruc tion I shall follow it. My financial views are of the most decided charae er, but they are no! likely, perhaps, to inorease my popu larity with the advocates of inflation or contraction. Ido not insist upon the special supremacy of rag money or havd money. The great funda mental principle of my life is to take any' kind that I can get. The rumor that I buried my dead aunt under one of my grape vines it founded upon faets. The vines needed fertilizing, my annt had to be buried, and I dedicated her to this high purpose. Does that unfii me for the presidency ? The consti tution of out couutry does not say so. No other citizen was ever co'“>-' > unworthy of the o* ri^ r^ Hamilton, Harris co„ fA„ Wednesday, august 2,1876 my record. Ou them I oorue before the o untry. If my oountry don’t want me, I will go hack again. But I recommend tnyself as a safe man— a man who starts from the basis of total depravity, and proposes to be fiendish to the last. ■Wi ' Wi Borgia ia getting her “stake*’’ for one hundred thousand, at the least c *lcution, for Tilden and Hendrioks m Us Novstnber election, and she will no.be disappointed. Sound th® tocsin! I‘lden and Hendricks will be our next Y -.sidents. Signer* of theT><; C i a nrtjoiK “The Fathers” were ot „|d men . The average sge of the sig,,, rH 0 f ,he Declaration ou the 4th of scarcely reached forty-five yenrs.John Hancock, the President, wae but thirty-nine yearß old. The six oldes, representative* were Benjamin Frank lin, aged 70; Stephen Hopkins, aged 69; Francis Lewis, aged G 8 ; James Smith, aged 63 ; Matthew Thornton, aged 62, and George Taylor, aged 69. The seven youngeet were Thouia- Lynch, Jr., of South Carolina, aged 27; Edward Rutledge, ofSouth Car olina, aged 27 ; Tho*. Hayward, of South Carolina, aged 30; Arthur Middleton, of South Carolina, aged 35 ; Tho*. Jefferson, of Virginia, aged 33; Eldridge Gerry, of Massachu setts, aged 32; Betij. Rush, of Penn sylvania, aged 31. The difference of :ge between Franklin, the olde-t member, and Lynch, the youngest was forty-throe years. Youth, mid' die and old age were fairly represent ed: o were the nationalities. Two membeas were horn in England, two in Ireland, two in Scotland, one in Wales, and the re-t in the colonies. A down East ediior says the la dies’ spring hat are pretty, and worn on the upper edge of the left ear, which makes one look arch and pi quant, like a chicken looking through a crack in a fence. The St. Louie Republican mentions some of the troubles that will follow use of silver change: ~\Vlien n man walks much the inside of hi* leg wih be chafed raw. When-less than £l is to go by mail it will have to he converted first into postage stamps. When von run for a stre t car, mon ey - ill fly "Ut of your pockets at ev ery jump. When you tell you wile that you have no money, she will say that you lie, for she heard it jingle. It will be difficult to pay a man a quarter bv mistake for a half. When you are in a hurry, the store-keeper will have to weigh the coin in bis band and sound it twenty five times on a counter before he can determine whether it is good. The baby will swallow a dime a day. A boy with •i quarter will lose it in a crack in two minutes, from which no amount of coaxing wi* h forks and ohips can recover it. Sleepy men will put but tons and lozenges into contribution boxes as of yore.” At a youthful gathering, the other evening, a young man asked a young lady whether, if his small brother was a lad, he was not a ladder, and she kindly said she thought he must be, she could see through so easily. It is pleasant to be a young man. How to Cube Coen boDDKB, o* Fodder Coke. —Dr. Janes, in his last circular, gives a plan. Here is one better: Cut your corn, when in tas sels, as he says; but then, immediate ly tie it np in bundles, and shock it with about 15 bundles. Tie a stalk or two aboet halfway up the shock, sround it, and mount a stool, if too high, and tie a wisp around the top; shove in the projecting blades around the shock; and go about your oilier business, and don’t be running, and scared, to lake it ud for fear it wil rain T A Voice front Oitaut*. En. Joukva :Yo lr editorial <*, the “Coming Gmpaign,” will doubt less receive cotments by the public, and the majority will favor it, as far as it goes. A* I am not standi cate, and, as in all probability wo will not have one jn our district, I feel at liberty to throw out a few sipgestioos, with out running the risk of wounding the feelings ot my neigibms. Among the many issmi, w hich will he brought bsfore the fbnveniion i* : “Who do ym favor foi the United State* Semite?” Now, we are all anxiouc to siveGov. Tilden the liest man we cangge t 0 assini him in the great work w(lich contemplates be^„ ing nflpr , )jt jn I augural. Hut jf we C#IJ get ,| ie right mn in t]> Legislature, we can well afford > r ’ ihiain their hand* without inat otions> “Are you. no4e( j j 0 homestead? If o, you mu*t fig lhe Constitu tional Convention,” ay gomo w }, o oppose tho Con vet.but, tho homestead is not the ty important work of a Constitution Convention. I believe that the tnnjo ~ o f l | )t , peo ple are in favor of prov ni , f or tb* “wife and little ones,” ate not In favor of giving them if pr>o In .told, and if this be the case, and the tna jority are in favor of reducing tha homestead to >I.OOO, they should have the priviledge of doing so. Bui more iinpoitar.ee attaches to other issues for onr consideration. The bogus bonds should be placed beyond the possibility of redemption, where they cannot annoy the people, or con*nme the tune ot fegislalioii. lain confident there are too many bureaux, and while T may have be' n at a time, in favor of abolishing the agricultural bureau, I doubt the econ omy of doiug so. I admit it should be more economically managed, and should aff ird less opportunity for in? position, yet, we pay f .itr-fifths of the tax, leceive fewer b unfits arising from taxation, and it seems that we need all the help we oat and I nope it n.A, V.o> eol •nvn'e bentfit to us as agriculturist. Now, as to “catching lings,” who knows what good it might do. Bugs are very troublesome and distinctive to crops, and the only thing I fear is the “bug catcher” fails to do his duly, yet gets bis full pay. There ar too many positions to fill, it requires too many men to fill them, and everyone wants more pay than the financial ernbar asments of the country will authorize. The Governor, clerks, commissioners and Judges of the Supreme and Su perior court, and all others, should be satisfied with less money, and take the bailance of their pay iu “honor.” We pay about twerty-five pier cent of the State school fund to its offi cers. We have 100 iiany Represent atives; they meet toooften; hold ses sions too long; receive too much per diem; charge too much milage, and employ too many clerks. Although we would not sacrifice the honor, dig nity, aud worthiness nf a man, for the sake of a little profit in the reduc tion of saleries, yet tbit condition we are in demands i'cwfcr officers in Na tional, State and chintv government. The tax payers cal not obtain the neccessary comfort of life, and the public servants slould learn the economy that has fcreed itself upon their employers. P The public men isrgne fliat they can not live in Atlahta on smaller sal aries than they now receive; if they can not, they bad best move to another place. You have already hinted at the dcmoralizttion of this place; another difficulty is, tbit in all probability, the State capitol will fall and if it should do so while some of our orators are thundering away on the dog law, or trying to supply mo-a of their friends with nesrtons, the people, lie need not put in his bid. A bountiful feature about it i* that this would take u great respon sibility off of the legislature. Ouo great argument in proof that the taxes are extravagant, and too high, >*, that iu the Southern States, we have of the pro rata of money, on ly >2.80 per capita, and pay *2 00 in pe r capita a* tax; all of it, hat .80 mints p r head, passes through the hand* of collector*. The people havo the right, not only to demand this great reform and reduction of tKeir public servants, but sav, also, who shall iheße public servants bo; 111 other words, the people should e. lect men to suit the offioe, regardless of solicitations of those who want a job of public work. “Lot the office seek lhe man,” ami a great change can then be wrought, Let the pow er of soma of officers ho more limit ed, and the terms of office, in some instances, might be shortened to an advantage. T.ofc tK *um(iU have a fair expression from their journals; urge them t o turn out .at all of the primary meetings, and attend to these duties, or submit to the action of those who do. Let everybody wotk in harmony, lay aside preju dice, personal preferences, strife and tvy. Let us give Tilden lhe best m-n ne have to help him. Let us 'l’e Gen. Colquitt good men to aid hnthat be may do the work for ouftatc which Tilden accomplished forNcw York. Let the people * cno that the Democratic parly business, and reform, by their caiid<* o H , an( p victory will perch upon the bloody shirt will bo tr:n., ( ] j n and ours will be a land c n t en j, in d pros perity. For lilts. 4 nre vvilltng to work, and that it i~ BOOn bo our pleasure to realize it of your correspondent from OatAi. (For the Journal.) The Sioux War. In 1852-4, a war occurred as fol lows with this tribe of Indians: An emigrant Mormon train aban doned a cow. An Indian kil cd the cow. A Lieutenant, and a squad of men went to the camp of the Indians, and demanded the one that killed the cow-. They were w illing to pay for the cow-, but refused to dilkster the cow-killer; w hereon, the lieuten ant and squad fired on the Indians— killing several. The Indians closed in on them, and killed the lieutenant and squad. That was the beginning. The eud was thirty million dollars cost, and many lives lost. Custer sad his troops charged on the Indians, killing several. The In dians closed in on Custer and liiH troops, and killed them. How vory like! Cow in that; perhaps, gold in this. OTtIKII INDIAN WAKB. Seven hundred Seminole warrior* fought our regular army, and a large volunteer force, lor 7 years, and kill ed about 1,600 of our men, and cost U 5550,000,000. In IHO4, & ranch man, named Ripley, charged the Cheyenne* with stealing his gtoclt. Lieutenant Dunn, w ith a squad of men, searched, but couldn’t find the stock. They attempted to disarm a company of Cheyennes, and one sol dier was killed, and some wounded. Then followed the Cheyenne war, in which, 120 Indians, mostly women and children, were muwlrred, in cold blood, at Sand Creek, while rearing on their hunting-ground under the protection of our flag. Thia war cost $40,000,000— 50 says Barker. 2nd OHKTKNsm WAR. In 1807, a military company flam ed the peaceful village of Cheyenne, on ihe Pawneefork, in Western Kae ■as, and then, in )>eae* on lands as signed them sinde the treaty of ’65 We lost three hundred soldiers and citizens, and six Indians were killed. It cost $8,000,000 iu money. another SIOUX WAR. •he military took posses country, in Th* Local Editor. The following is borrowed, and it U the best we overbad a local editor lend t: ”If a m*n buys new a buggy, or if his cow can bawl three times with out winking, the local is expected to nroclaim with a grand flourish. II he star's a two-penny business, his first 'bought is to bribe the focal with a five cent cigar to write up a five dollar puff. ludeod he thinks it ia a mission of the local to make his fs-_ time for him by ’’free blowing.” He will take tho local to one s : de and point out the superior qualities of '■at terrier dog, and coolly asked him to give him a hoist.’ He don’t care anything about it, only has a dog whfoh lie thinks is a bus ter, and some of ’em wanted hi# "put in” just to “take the conceit out of the Sprigging.” Everybody wants ' bo "nut iu.” They are the ■ a-.-# t ... t n,it no one iavs. “here local, put yourself outside of tliis oyster stow, or stuff this watch into your pocket.” Oh, 110, of course not; that would cost something.— The shoe is on the other foot, you see. The local is supposed to know every thing about other people’s business, and is expected to show up all the notors in every family broil in town. If the vile tongue of BCandel finds s victim, people he don’t run about with his note-book and gather up vituperative bits of slan der for his paper. If lie steps into a billiard saloon, lie is requested to maid* a note of the astounding fact that Bill Tomkins lias made a run of eleven points. When the minstrel troupe arrives in town, or city, tho ; agent immediately rushes into th/ priuting office, and calling for the local, lie slaps three or four tickets in his hand, and whispers: ‘Brawns big house! Pul it in strong!’ and ~,u him patronizingly on the *liotilclb.j ie n g eu t, admits the infe riority of the „ p) bllt we are not to ‘let on.’ It is for the local to lie- Tq please the * nrcr (| IC local is forced to sit two m0ra..,, r)l to hear him through an in.ipid di course so that ho can ‘write him up,’ and so it goes. All nre anxious to appear favorably in print, but few are willing to pay for it! The lacal’a rime is worth nothing but to bother his bead writing puffs for ambitious persons. It don’t cost him anything to live. lie never eats or drinks; travel, and money is of no use to him.” You will stare at a strange notion ol mine; if it appears even a mad one, do not wonder. Had I children, my utmost endeavors should be to make hern musicians. Considering I have no ear, nor even thought of music the preference seems odd, and yet it is embraced on frequent reflation. In short, as rny aim w ould be to make them happy, I think it the most prob able metho It is a re"“ “ 1,10,1 will lani, them their lives unless they gsoW(,i4wf\always amuses and, sooibs, $f noj*console; and of all fashionable pleasures ist£e cheapest. It is capable of fame without the danger of criti cism; is susceptible of enthusiasm wii hout being priest-ridden; and un like other mortal passions, is sure ol being gratification in Hven. — Hor ace Walpole. Magenpi, the great physiologist found try experiment, that animals fed exclusively on very finely deseed flour died if a few weeks; whereas those fl-d on the untmlied tneal thrived. Unbolted Hour made fr< m the differ ent bread grains, wheat, rra, oats, barley, corn, ret,is perfect food., good bread made from either of those will snrport life from childhood to old eg*, without the use of any other food* Therefore, bread to be the stair 01 life, must be made from the whole grain; then, and on*y then, is it enti tled to the appellation, the* aft'of life. The grain contains rtoarly all of the brain and bone, ns veil as much of ’ v--,ing sulrlnce ,aud is very -nuervation of $2.00 A I EAR I UOVF'tyilfKTr op HtlOl U v.~ I iximiTlVi dki’aktmkmt. I •Mimes M Smith governor. I* W AlexnVr *.*• w w i”n -ecretariev I executvo ticpui tmeut. Thomas C Howard and Namuel (J WilU#„„ eterUs executive (iupurtinrnt. •I B Ciimpboll warrant clerk. W H Grigsby messenger *-H recording cirri . state mouse OEI ickrs. N (! Barnett secretary of slate. J E Jones clerk. W r. Goldsmith comptroller general -I W Uouftue and J W Goldsmith clerks. •lonn Join h trt'HrHirer. Miller Grieve clerk, ftß*’ Branhiim JlJr.iran. w nwm,?' o,,;cu Mlp t u< swiom. Gonuo l, vt d ul f and dumb asylum.' SUPIIvvE (lOUST Hon Hiram Warner *Gi. , justice. Hon II K McCav |m.U Hon It P Trlppe j,„| w . N l lUmiuond utioruey- K e uelal . A Ham tin clirk. Henry Jack sun reporter. me Court sit, . t , e at „f aov-rn ua*> nun i!rv“iitViVmy in .1 n CfMTT.III ‘lll’lli i: JL’LULIL L’lJil’llT. M. J. Crawford... . , ?*“• XtST** Hai l is—2d MomLtys in Ap.il and October Marion-3d Monday* i„ Apifl and October. Muscogee-2d Mondays In May and Nv‘l„ r htewart- 4th Mondays in Ar.rll and O. tolwr. lalbot—2il Mondays in March and ‘ept'lier. lavlor —lst Mondays i„ A,..il and October new iiuumr coons * "r '■ j w OLJJ S'I’AND. ‘Old will be pleated to s.-rve her <>ld > nrt* *, customer*, uri'l R, m,my n< woD'iu* will A WANT SUPPLIED! Frail N. Coulou, ■ 1 ,i£HR dt JHWELEIt. [Rase J* J’uf/lia Square.] - jffx Hocks ami nt,j irs CflUlii (I ami it' J'l lr. and kt Uie REASON A RLE RA TES. Having permanently located in Hamilton, Ga., I mu now prepared to do all work in my line at prices to suit the hard times, and wi I always GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. 1776 TflE CBKATt'EJTESKIAL /S7f Parties deslrln/ i torin tion wt to best routes to the t'iON'l HNM.U,. or to .n> <>f tlie b'lno'i' r lies- 1 1- oi- fo M,y other jjoini in the couuliy, should ad.lipj< . IV. WfiENN, Grncr. 1 PueseDger Atfel.l Keime w Rer.f*. AiioUha, Ua. The Grorgia Doily ft inmoi wmllfa 18 PUBLISH KP I VKitY r.VIKING <Kx<'<’l>t Sunday) Hr tui (*omm<muicAi/ni Tutu ah mu (ompaxt ATLAXTA, CH’UGIA. And in edited by Col*. Cart W. Sttlw, Inti oi the Albai.) NtuK, *t), cHuiciit u^hif-iantK. This Ci mmomwhalih #)vr* tin* current of tl* < ily, Slate, mi ciwn in re, mar et t*. p-rt* nnd vlliwoih ediioiinlA on Municipal MMeai and General -ni jtciH, The com In-* <anwin-. State National, *iH‘ U? closely wah bed aed nrojH:; ly pr >enttxi, vtlil'c the Mil hitiiUul m J Aurtcultu;tl into efctt of tin* Slate \*< i•• tbe M jLthst and It hao Logaimd la; id)) lucre rniftg iircu'.ution. TkHJNIS. One month. 75 cents : Twotrt.iilf , $1,26 Four months, s2.(si; f*s year, slits., FBI Ml NO, 81. PINO nd itir.NQ of every kind, done it. the be , r ,y; sud >t low t pr cjs. COMMONWEALTH PUBt, 8 tINQ CO., A-rLAt. A, Ueua ia