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Hamilton wm V isitor.
VOL. VII.—NO. 1L
The Bible Safe.
A week or more ago llie dread
ful story was started that the old
American Bible Society, a non-sec
tarian association, was getting ready
to circulate the revised version of
the Bible, which is now being pre
pared in England. As the work of
revision is being conducted by com
panies about as unsectatian and
orthodox as Christians can be, and
alterations, none of which affect es
geseutials of doctrine, are made only
by general consent, outsiders and
some who were within the fold
could not imagine what a fuss was
about; but it seems that some good
people have been so terrified at the
prospect of any change from the
King James version that they have
lain awake nights to tremble about
it, and to groan at the temarity of
the scholars who dared to search
tor veibal °r r ors in a book of which
even the separate words and letters
are sacred. But it now seems, we
rejoice to say, that the alarm was a
false one; the revised version is not
to be imposed upon the old Bible
Society; the latter will adhere to
the terms of its constitution, which
provided that only the King James
version shall be circulated, and any
man who is reckless enough to wsnt
to”elucidate doubtful words and
passages will have to do so at his
own expense and at the risk of
awful things here and hereafter.
The old Bible is safe, typographical
errors and all.
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That Little “If.”
New York Herald.
Tonchstoae discovered and elo..
quently lauded the great virtue of
au “if.” The retort courteous, the
quip modest, the reply churlish, the
reproof valiant, the countercheck
qunrrelsom and the lie with circum
stance may all, he found, be avoided
by ordinary explanations, but ar.
“if’ furnishes the only escape from
the lie direct. “Your if is yout
only peacemaker; much virtue in
if.” Certainly an “if’’ appears 10
have averted a scene of dire confu
sion if not of calamity in the
United States Senate at four o'clock
on Sunday morning last. The war
like Blame, imagining himself snub
bed by Mr. Thurman, rose in his
seat and wrathtully denounced the
Ohio Senator, adding that “if” Mr.
Thurman had beeu of his (Blaine’s)
age, h 6 would have heard from ftim
in a different manner. This could
mean only one thing. It could not
cover an encounter with firearms,
because a man is never too old to
use a pistol. It must necessarily
have referred to a round of fisticuff' l /
to blackened eyes, bloody noses,
knockdowns, upper cuts, soedoh.
agers and all the many resources in
which the prize ring is proficient,
and we trmble to contemplate the
scene that might have been enacted
in the Senate chamber at early day
break last Sabbath, with Zach
Chandler as bottle holder, “it” the
venerable Thurman had not num
bered more years than the youthful
and fiery New Englander,
Perhaps it may have been as for
tunate for Mr. Blaine as lor Mr.
Thurman that the muscular devel
-of the former were held
in restraint by an “if.” It certainly
would have been better fir Mr.
Blaine not to have made any threats
at all when an “if” stood in the way
of carrying them out, for the days
when Senators “bit thumbs” at one
another have happily gone by.
Shouid they bg revived we might
expect to find a registry of ages and
weights kept by pugnacious Sena
tors, aud to hear Senator David
Davis, in some heated controversy,
requesting our own amiable Fran
cis Ivernan to “hit one of bis own
size.”
the j-OTTiRisr^JL.-
HAMILTON, HARRIS COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 19, 1879.
A Livelr off Year.
The New York Herald thus maps
out the political campaign which
was inaugurated by the last Con
gress. The democratic party hav
ing put lit hand to the plough on
the issue now made can not now
look back. It would stultify itself
if it should yield or compromise at
the extra session after so stoutly re
fusing to yield or compromise in the
session which has just closed
Why put the country to the ex
pense and inconvenience and dis
turbance of an extra session if the
party may back down after all?
It has taken a position fro m which
it cannot retreat, and will be com
pelled to fight out the campaign on
this line. What will be the course
of events? In the first place the
democratic Congress will pass
without difficulty a bill in the or
dinary form repealing the test oath,
the supervisors of elections, the
deputy marshals for electiou pur
poses and the presence of federal
troops at the polls. Such a bill will
be sent to ttie President before any
action is taken on the omitted ap
propriations. It is next to certain
that he w ill veto it in a message
skillullv framed to serve as a repub
lican campaign document. The ap
propriation bills will then be taken
up with sections inserted repealing
the objectionable laws and pas>ed
in that form. The necessary con
sequence will he another veio, de
feating both the appropriations and
repealing sections. Will Congress
then take the responsibility of ad
journing, leaving the army and the
salaries of the civil officers unpro
vided for? Ttie logic of the demo
cratic position will require it to do
this, and nothing will then remain
bui an exciting appeal to the country
to decide betw eeu Congress anu the
President. If the democrats should
be badly beaten in the elections
Congress wili have to yield at the
regular session; if the republicans
be badly beaten on this issue the
President will hnve to yield. Be
the result what it may public feeling
will be greaily stirnd throughout
the canvass, and the contest will be
one of the most strenuous that has
ever occurd in our politics. In such
a contest party lines will be strictly
drawn; side issues make no figure.
It is infinitely to be regretted that
the buisiness of the gauntry is to be
disturbed and unsettled by this
semi—revolutionary agitation
which threatens to disorganize the
government in pursuit of party ends.
The Supply of Fertilizers.
The figures of the state depart
ment of agriculture do not bear out
ihe assertion that there will beany
considerable decrease in the amount
of fertilizers used this year under
that of last year. During the season
of 1877—78 there were inspected
and offered tor sale in Georgia 91,
450 tons. How much of this was
carriep over to the present season,
we do not know; but it is known
that up to yesterday 69,000 tons
had, this season, been inspected in
the state. For the corresponding
period of last year 71,005 tons were
inspected.
On Tuesday of last week a bloody
tragedy occurred in the Capitol in
Atlanta, in which Col. Robert A.
Alston was killed and Capt. Ed. S
Cox severely wounded* Col Alston
was shot through the right temple
and died in a tew hours of the
wound. Gapt. Cox was shot in the
face and Land and his injuries
though very painful are not serious.
A coroners jury after hearing the
evidence in the case returned a
verdict charging Cox with murder.
. Well Done !
N. Y. Sun.
The Democrats in the House of
Representatives have done their
duty iu insisting upon their amend
ments to the Legislative Appropri
ation hill repealing the act appoin
ting Federal supervisors over elec
tions tor Congress; and also in in
sisting upon their amendment to the
Army Appropriation bill prohibi
ting the presence of United States
troops at the polls on election days.
The two Houses failing to agree
respecting these subjects, the bills
w’ere not passed, so that no appro
priation has been made for legisla
tive, executive, and judicial expen
ses, nor has any appropriation been
made for the support of the army;
and accordingly an extra session is
necessary. At that session the
Democrats, being in a majority in
both Houses, will be able to pass
these two bills in the precise form
in which the Senate has now rejec
ed them.
The thauksof the country are due
to the Democratic members of the
House for standing firm to the last
in behalf of these amendments, be
- they were matters of vital and
fundamental princinle. The one
against the use ot soldiers at the
polls is ot the first moment.; and it
seems surprising that Republican
Senators should have contended so
obstinately for a thing so dangerous
to liberty as a law empowering the
Executive to use the armed force of
the country tor the purpose ot man
aging elections.
Hardly less important is the aboli
tion ot the system of Federal elec
tion supervisors—a system of which
Mr. John I. Davenport of this city
lias from the first been the most
coiißDicious exemplar. It is a vi
cious and a noxious system.
1 housands upon thousands of
officials have been appointed at
important elections, ami large sums
of money expended to control the
result in the interest ot the domi
nant party. This system was not
created through the enactment of au
independent statute. The question
of its establishment was never
broadly discussed and fairly deter
mined by Congress, It was inser
ted into an appropriation hill in
1872, and passed at the end of the
session. It is eminently fitting,
then, that it should now be repealed
in an appropriation bill.
We congratulate the Democratic
party, and we congratulate the
country, upon the fidelity and dis
played in those matters by the
House of Representative. Better
five extra sessions than the contin
uance of these unjustifiable anti
democratic laws !
Anew paper is called the Islima
elite is the latest journalistic ven
ture.
The Savannah Weekly News is a
model newspaper. Every number
contains chapters of an interesting
original story, by a southern author
besides a large amount ot other
matter of interest to intelligent
readers. It contains more news, in
a readable form than any newspaper
we know. Its “make-up’’ is a joy
to the eye of a printer, and its ap
pearance is a credit to the state. It
can he had at $2 a year and no far
mer, mechanic or merchant can
make a better investment.
Le Count Johannes B, De Ger
maine late of Europe, says ho has
not yet despair* 1 ot accomplishing
matrimony. Any yonng lady not
over 6>xty, who is fond of sweet
thing* would do well to capture
the.Count —he did own an orange
grove.
Soluble Pacific fiiiano.
lot
,700 Pounds Middling Cotton For a Ton
of 2000 tbs. Soluble Pacific Guano.
NO ADVANCE IN PPICES! !
M
WILLIAM 11. YOUNG,
General Agent,
For the sale ot these popular Fertilizers :
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO and
PA Cl PIC A CHIP IIOSPHA TE,
MANUFACTURED by tho Pacific Guano Company, at Woods Hall
Mass., and Charleston, S. G., takes this opportunity to return his
sincere thanks to his friends tor their liberal patronage ot the above
justly popular fertilizers for the past twelve years, and while doing in
justice to no other fertilizer offered in honorable competition with those
represented by him, he is of the opinion that the increased sales, at all
points, of the fertilizers manufactured by the Pacific Guano Cos., is a
gratifying evidence of the high appreciation bestowed upon them by tho
intelligent planters of Georgia, Alabama, South and North Carolina,
Florida and Virginia.
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO
contains all the elements of plant food in nccuralo proportions; it thor
oughly permeates the soil, is rich m Phosphates, Potash and Ammonia,
and besides yielding to the plant all that it requires, permanently enrich
es the land. All crime materials being carefully inspected and analyzed
before accepted, the Company is enabled to guarantee uniformity of
quality, and the analvsis branded on every sack can be relied upon in all
cases. None sold except under legalized inspection, recognized by the
State of Georgia.
I have made arrangements for the disposal of
2,500 tons Soluble Pacific Guano
AND
500 Tons Pacific Acid Phosphate
Upon the Same Terms as those of Last Season.
TEN REASONS WHY EVERY FARMER SHOULD USE IT,
Ist. They were tFe first to allow the planter the cotton oniion.
2d. They were the first not to exact of the planter freight in advance.
3d. They were the first to establish their price at 500 lbs cotton per
ton, when other manufacturers were asking 500 and 570 pounds.
4th. They held themselves perfectly aloof from all combinations of
pools, in fixing price lor the season, on fertilizers.
sth. They have always sold a standard fertilizer for tho least money
possible,
6lh. Their Fertilizer Tins always given as general satisfaction as others
proving to be a profitable investment to tho planter.
7th. They have been manufacturing fertilizers, and selling in Georgia,
since 18G5, and have too much capital in their business, and too great a
reputation, to make a spurious article.
Bth. They sell more than any other manufacturer in the Stale of Geor
gia, and their fertilizer has been more thoroughly tested by the State
Agricultural Department, and shows better results.
9th, In 1865, they manufactured anj sold only 754 tons; in 1878 they
manufactured and sold 35,284 tons, which speaks for the growing pop
ularity of the fertilizer.
10th. They have their Guano sold on their own account, and do not
sell to jobbers or speculators; but deal directly with the planter; hence
it is to their interest to maintain the high character fertilizer.
Applications to my Agents at Butler, Howard, Geneva, Talbotton
Box Springs, Jones’Crossing, Wimberly, Buena Vista, Hamilton. Ca
taula, YVaverly Ilall and Florence, Ga.; Opelika,Salem, Seale, Lafayette,
Dadeville, Alexander City, Goodwater, Auburn, Loacliapoka, Notasul
a and Troy, Ala,, to
W. C. Johnston, Selling Agent, Hamilton,
And To CHARLES A. GREEN,
At PACIFIC GUANO CO.’S Officf, GTO/ BUILDING,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
Will meet with prompt attention.
JV. 11. YOUNG, GENERAL AGENT,
PACIFIC CUANO CO., COLUMBUS, CA.
CBiahy SttiUingr, St. Clatir 3tot y Yb?
SI A YEAR.