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UhE JACKSON COUNTY \ •bushing COMPANY. $ ,)tUME 11. p § PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, ■ ifcf Ji' ~^on County Publishing Company. I jsrFEMOX, JACKSON CO ., GA. 1.... v. W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. MALCOM STAFFORD, I XAN'AOIN'O AND BUSINESS EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. I -mv 12 months £-2.00 f•• H “ 1.00 ■, •• 3 “ 50 ■j*F"r every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex ■ p V of t’e paper will be given. JEFFERSON BUSINESS DIRECTORY. NEW MAIL SCHEDULE. ,Jefferson to Athens—William H. Bird, ontrnctor. Eejvc Jefferson, Tuesday, Thursday and :urday at 2P. M. Arrive at Athens by P.M. ,?ave Athens, Monday, Wednesday and -niav at 7A. M. Arrive at Jefferson by 12 M. Jefferson to Gainesville — J. N. Twitty, Contractor. Leave Jefferson, Monday, Wednesday and Jay at 11\ M. Arrive at Gainesville by ?. M. Leave Gainesville, Tuesday 7 , Thursday and urday at 7A. M. Arrive at Jefferson by i jr. * Jefferson to Luwrenceville—William P. I Betts, Contractor. .eave Jefferson Saturday at IP. M. Ar tat Lawrenceville Monday, by 12 M. Leave Lawrenceville Friday at 1 P. M. Ar eat Jefferson Saturday by 12 M. W-IPAL OFFICERS OF JEFFERSON. 1.1. Pike. Mayor; J. P. Williamson, Sr., (J. S. Wilson, R. .1. Hancock, F. M. Hailey. Al nien: T. 11. Niblack, Esq., Clerk & Treasur- I \\. F. Hunter, Marshal. PROFESSIONS. I Fhysicians... J. J. Doster, N. W. Carithers, I ,ii,Hunt. (' R Giles, AY II (Jreenwade. (Indian I tftor.) I Atty's at Law 7 ... J. H. Silman, W. I. Pike, LA. It. Mahafley, W. C. Howard, M. M. Pitman, IF. Hinton, K. S. Howard. MERCHANTS. Pendergrass A Hancock, F. M. Hailey, Stanley I Pinson. MECHANICS. AltrKN'TKßS...Joseph P. Williamson. Scn’r; .I*. Williamson, Jr.; Warwick "Wilson, Ed. Fibn. Mitchell Few, (col.) Harness Maker... John (. Oakes. Amion Makers... Wm. Winburn, Monroe Itr. (col.) fipioY Makers...L. & A. J (lillcland. Blauksmith...(*. T. Story, James Montgomc- Ti.vnkk...John H. Chapman. iann'kks....J. E. A H. J. Randolph. F S Smith. Lip and Shoe-Makers...N. H. Stark, under -nt fries otlice; Seaborn M. Stark, J W tore, shops in the ** Billy Thompson"* corner Wf-hoitse; Henry Evans, (col.) li'RMTi'KE Makers... Warwick Wilson, A J iWiml. HOTELS. •Uxnouni House, by Mrs. Randolph. Hotel, by John Simpkins, i tMic Hoarding House, by Mrs. Elizabeth Iwshani. 'irons, Sboars. &C...J. L. Hailey. must and Saw-Mill and Gin... Long & blolph. hu-Milu and Gin...F. S. Smith. nir.YTr SCHOOL DIRECTORY. F'diii Institute. —f. W. Glenn, Principal; S. 'n\ Assistant; Miss M. E. Orr, Assistant; Myrtio McCarty, Music. nitrr mu Academy. —A G Strain, Principal. I'M" Academy. —Rev. P. F. Lamar, Prin. Groce Academy. —R. S. Cheney, Prin- Academy. —T. TI. McCarty, Principal. , Greek Academy —Mrs. A. C. P. Riden, '"nopal. ! Church. —J. J. Mitchell, Principal. .■Tyler's Mill. —W. P. Newman, Prin. ‘ji'nnpsrtii Academy, J. J. Boss, Principal. 1 J in ami Ornamental Penmanship—Col. A. L. Instructor. COI’XTY OFFICERS. (’. HOWARD, - - - - Ordinary. , HITMAN, - - Judge Cos. Court. :1 )£ H. XI BLACK, - - - Clerk S. Court. > i . Hl XTEIt, - - - - - Sheriff. A. WORSHAM, - - - Deputy “ JOHNSON, ----- Treasurer. mKSL. WILLI AMSON, - - Tax Collector. :a,V W - b RDWN, “ Receiver. "‘f-'j L. JOHNSON, - - County Surveyor. ■V'.AIJiACK, - - - Coroner. B 11. SON, County School Commiss’r. Sessions County Court, 2nd and ‘omlavs each month. , wmissionkks(Roadsaxi> Revenue.)—Wm. J’nour. \V. j. Haynic, W. G. Steed. Meet on Fridays in August and November. T. 11. ( ‘ I * c k< Esq., Clerk. nixpv i>'i of Education. —Robert White, H>: : 0. McLester, James L. Johnson, J. L. 1,: .50n. Wm. Thurmond. Medical Card. Y; W, P. DeLAPERRIERE laving complet ... Ins Medical course of studies at the Uni '.. v Georgia—his native State —locates at , lt 'u;r's old stand, where he will practice w' ,nt ‘ ’ n : ‘d its branches, and will treat dis •/’' w 'th the most approved remedies known to profession. Returning thanks for the conti- Wanifested by the liberal patronage bestow his past course of practice, he hopes by :it “‘ vt 'd and constant guarding of every possible btM 1 l )at 'euts. on his own part, together ‘ u, e assistance of his father, to merit a con ei owf t,,e s me. attention giv -1 diseases of children and females. aplo F. P. TALMADGE, DEALER IN A African and imported watches, CLOCKS, JEWELR Y, SILVER $■ ELATED WARE, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, &C. Batches, clocks .a-untid jewelry repaired In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction. Ornamental aml l*lain I.etter Khigrnving Specially. THE FOREST NEWS. Hie People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. frofessiemaf Is Justness Sank J. O. HUNT, M. D. J. B. PENDERGRASS, M. I). TAkn. hi\>t a E>i:>ii;ie<^KAss ■U Having formed a partnership for the pur pose of practicing medicine in all the various branches of the profession, respectfully tender their services to the citizens of the town and sur rounding community. Office at Col. W. I Pike's old stand. jul v 29 J. A. B. MAHAFEEY. w. s. m'cakty. IVfAHAFFEY & McCARTY, 1U ATT 011 XEYS AT LAW. Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga., AYill practice anywhere for money. Prompt at tention given to all business entrusted to their care. Patronage solicited. OctJOly DR. C. It. GILES OI I ERS his professional services to the citizens of Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at the office recently occupied by Col. Mahatfey. Jan. 22, 1870—tf J. J. FLOYD, I j. B> SILMAN. F Covington, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga. I-OVD A NILHA\, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. M ill practice together in the Superior Courts oi the counties of Jackson and Walton. junel2—ly Attorney sit lanv, • JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. I iactices in all the Courts, State and Federal. Prompt and thorough attention given to all kinds of legal business in Jackson and adjoinin® counties. June 12, 187/f WILEY C. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD. HOWARII A HOWARD, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Jefferson, Ga. "Will practice together in all the Courts of Jack son and adjacent counties, except the Court of Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist "75 STANLEY & PINSON, JEFFERSON, GA., DEALERS ill Dry Goods and Family Groce ries. New supplies constantly received. Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock. June 19 ly DIC. W. S. U JIWMII fit. SURGEON DENTIST, Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga. July 10th, 1875. * dm TIIE REASON WHY J. H. HUGGINS Sells [foods cheaper note, is because he has adopted the CASH SYSTEM! The ready cash enables him to Guy goods very low. and consequently he is offering to the public every tiling in his line, such as All kind.'! o f Crockery and G/ass-icarr, Lamps. Chandi liei's. Farmers' Lanterns , Kerosene Oil. at irhedesalr and retail • Family and Fancy Groceries, Dry Goods. Boots , Shoes, Ilats, Saddles, Harness and Leather. And also a large stock of I.EISE, both for build ing and fertilizing purposes, all very low for the CASH. When von go to Athens, don’t forget to call on J. H. HUGGINS. If you want KEROSENE OI L. at wholesale or retail, he will supply you at the low est price. If you want CROCKERY and GLASS WARE. there's the place to get it. If von want TOBACCO. FLOCR. BACON . LARD , SU GAR, COFFEE and MOLASSES, go there and you will tind it. If you want LIME, for building or composting with fertilizers, go to J. 11. HUGGINS’, No. 7, Broad St., Athens. j£-s?~Remember the place. marlß 1 KOKLJIA, JACKSON COUNTY. Whereas, Samantha Cowan applies to me in proper form for Letters of Administration on the estate of Stephen Cowan, late of said county, de ceased— Therefore, all persons concerned, kin and cred itors, are hereby notitied and required to show cause, if any they can. at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary, to be held in and for said coun ty on the first Monday in October, 1876, why Let ters of Administration on the estate of said de ceased should not be granted as prayed for by the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Sept. 7th, 1876. scp9 W. C. HOWARD, Ord’y. FOR SALE ! A Valuable Plantation in Jackson County . 1 OFFER for sale my plantation in Jackson coun ty, Ga., lying on North Oconee river, Haynie’s and Cabin creeks, containing 650 acres, more or less. 3<X) acres in cultivation, mostly first-class bottom ; about 100 acres in forest; 20 or 25 acres canebrakc ; balance in good pine land. This is one of the most productive farms in the county — yielding 800 to 1.000 pounds seed cotton per aoe without fertilizing, and corn, oats, &c., in propor tion. Clover and all the grasses grow as well as in Kentucky. There are three frame dwelling houses, two double room and three single room log houses—well or springs of pure freestone wa ter convenient to each house : gin and screw run by water power ; stables, cribs. £c. I will also sell a large amount of corn, fodder, shucks, cotton seed, plantation tools, horses, mules, cows, hogs, sheep. Ac I will make it to the interest of the purchaser to include all the above in a trade—giv ing twelve months time, with interest, except the value of the personalty and cash to cover one year's rent of the farm. Churches, schools and markets convenient. Call on me near Nicholson, N. E. R. R., or address W. AV. JACKSON, September 9th. St Jefferson. Ga. fGaT’Atlanta Constitution and Augusta Chroni cle please give six weekly insertions, and send bill to this office. Blank Waivers Printed at this Office. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. OCT’R 21, 1876. SELECT MISCELLANY. The Drunkard Husband. A WIFE'S LAMENT. Sought, won and married, bound for life; In sight of man I am his wife, I know full well. And oh ! did God but bless the tie, My heart in anguish would not erv : "NYby do I live ? Ah, yes ! I thought I’d learn to love This man, who calls me wife, above All else on earth ; Hut when new fruits appear each day, Disgusting traits concealed that lay ’ 'Neath fair disguise. My spirit wails its useless plea That heaven, by some means, would yet free My life from his. T know the truth; by lies I’m won, And deep, deep in my burning brain The fact is seared ! Despair surrounds like prison walls, The gloom of darkest midnight falls Above, around : At times, like a wild tigeress caged, I seek escape from this outraged And blighted tire. Again I sit through day and night. Not heeding sound nor seeing light, In utter woe. How oft in every age and clime ’Tis said that clouds arc silver-lined, What is, is right. That good exists in every ill; However dark, the sin is still Emitting light. To teach unequalled, hopeless grief There’s nought but death can give relief, For that I wait! A French Execution. THE LONG HISTORY OF TIIE LAST FIFTY-FIVE SECONDS IN A MAN’S LIFE. Twas the doomed man. lie was tall and thin. lie is stiff in his bearing and walks very slowly. Ilis haggard eye is fixed on the guillotine, which he sees for the first time. Ilis face seems to reflect some object of an earthly, yellow color. One of the execution er’s assistants removes the jacket from his shoulders. The upper part of his shirt has been cut off, and his bare breast and shoul ders were visible. The executioner seized him by the left armpit. An assistant execu tioner seized him by the right armpit. An other assistant pushed him from behind. A third assistant went rapidly by us and stood near the yoke which keeps the head motion less. The doomed man tottered as he came forward. He said to the assistant who push ed him, "Not so fast!” but his voice was strangled, for lie had no saliva in his mouth, lie reached the scaffold. Its vertical plank came nearly up to the hollow of his breast. The assistants pushed the plank, which from vertical became horizontal, tripped up the doomed man, who fell on it horizontally, his abdomen next the plank. He tried to rise by exerting knees and arms. He murmured some inarticulate words. The executioner and two assistants pushed him violently for ward, so as to bring his head immediately under the yoke. The doomed man must have felt the sensation of a person who falls down an abyss. The executioner bends forward to see if the neck is in proper position. Ilis assistant lets the j’oke fall on the doomed man’s head. This yoke imprisons the head as if the yoke were a vise. The doomed man must have felt this fall distinctly. It must be as if he were twice executed. All this took time. I counted my pulse ; it beat four times while this was taking place. This is long. The executioner raised a little lever. The knife fell. It could be followed as it fell. It attained its greatest velocity only at the close of the fall. The head bounced into a zinc box. It seemed to me I could see, as the knife fell with an indistinct rumble, the doom ed man’s soul take flight. The headless corpse is tossed by the assistants into the basket, where it lies on its back. The exe cutioner wheels on his right foot and turns his face towards us, his back to the scaffold. He indicates by this final movement, which he never fails to make, that once the criminal beheaded his part is at an end. The rest is his assistants’ business. One of them shook the zinc box to make the head fall into the basket. I saw it roll over and over like a ball on the blood} 7 bran. I staggered and shut my eyes. What Others Think of Us. The Bridgeport Evening Fanner of a re cent date, thus speaks of Democratic Geor gia: “Georgia holds a State election on Wednesday next, and there is not the slight est doubt of a Democratic victory, although it is quite probable that, in consequence of over-confidence, the Democrats may allow their majority to decrease somewhat. The State, since her emancipation from Republi can misrule, has been prosperous and quiet. “Outrages/* are unheard of within her bor ders, the Republican managers knowing that to incite them would yield no advantage. The rights of colored citizens are respected to the uttermost limit, and the number of colored Democrats increases yearly. The property owners, white and black, are almost invari ably Democrats. The condition of the State is greatly changed since the overthrow of Republican misrule. While the Republicans were in power and working to keep the su premacy for purposes of plunder, “outrages” were numerous, and military assistance was constantly asked by the civil authorities. Now all is peace and prosperity, and the State is daily becoming a better market for Northern [goods and manufactures.” Counting the Electoral Vote. The Washington correspondent of the Bal timore Sun has the following on this subject, which is of interest at present: Much is now said in the press and on the stump of what the Senate may do and what the House may do in regard to the counting of the electoral vote, should the contest be close. These comments arc predicated on the supposition that the nineteenth joint rule is still in force. This rule gave the power to either house to reject the vote of au} r State. For the last three sessions of Congress the Senate has spent considerable time in dis cussing propositions as a substitute for the nineteenth joint rule, and passed one or two which were sent to the House, which took no action in the matter. Finally, last May. the Senate Judiciary Committee submitted a Constitutional amendment on the subject, which was discussed several times, but which also failed of passage. It had long been con tended that the joint rules of the two houses continued in force until abrogated or amend ed by concurrent action. But the present House took a different view, and held that, the joint rules must be re-enacted every Congress. Early in the session, therefore, the House sent to the Sen ate a concurrent resolution re-enacting the joint rules of the two Houses. This resolu tion lay on the table of the Senate the entire session and was never acted on. Senator Edmunds, the chairman of the judiciary com mittee repeatedly in the course of the session took occasion to say that there were no joint rules of the two Houses. This he said with out contradiction from any quarter of the Senate, thus indicating that, the members of that body agreed with the House that it was necessary for every Congress to enact its own joint rules. In this view of the case, from which there seems to be no dissent here, the whole power over the counting of the electoral vote is remitted absolutely to the hands of the President of the Senate, where it was lodged until the passage of the 10th joint rule in 1804. This officer then, Air. Senator Ferry, of Michigan, will, in case of doubts or disputes, have the decision of what votes shall or shall not be counted. If the late Vice-President Wilson had lived, the country need not have apprehended that he would have undertaken to thwart the will of the people in order to gain a partisan advant age, for, leaving all scruples of conscience out of the question, Mr. Wilson lacked the nerve to play such a desperate part as that would be. Air. Ferry is cast in a different mould. He is fully as extreme a partisan as was Mr. V ilson, and is endowed with a much greater degree of coolness and determination. But it is doubtful whether he would be equal to the occasion of stifling the voice of a State for the benefit of his party, as in the condi tion of the public mind no such action would be quietly submitted to. COUNTING TIIE VOTE FOII PRESIDENT. The "Washington correspondent of the Bal timore Sun attempts to quiet the fears of those who apprehend that the two houses of Congress may not agree as to who was elect ed President, and that trouble may result, by saying that the joint rule providing that the vote of any State might be rejected by either house is no longer in force, and that Senator Ferry, President of the Senate, will decide all questions that may be raised as to the electoral votes. This correspondent as sumes that the House will abdicate in favor of Mr. Ferry its constitutional right to elect a President. For if Mr. Ferry shall declare to have been elected a man known by the House either not to have been elected at all, or if elected known to have been elected by force or fraud, the House could hardly be ex pected to submit quietly to such a plain vio lation of the Constitution as would be in volved in the inauguration of that man as President. The House would possibly pro ceed to elect a President, that being its con stitutional privilege and duty in case no can didate is elected by the people or the electors. It is true that Gen. Grant would have a bet ter excuse for treating the House as Crom well did the British Parliament, than lie would have if the joint rale were still in force. But this only renders the probability of trouble greater, not less. The seeds of a revolution are in the earth. Circumspection and cau tion arc absolutely necessary.— Rich. Dis. Kissing Judge Settle. The day Vance got here Aunt Abbey House called at the Yarboro and said she was bound to see him. It happened that Vance and Settle were both in their rooms Vance in No. 8 and Settle in No. 9. The clerk tried to stave off the old woman and told her Vance was then asleep and didn’t want to be disturbed. But she would listen to no reason ; “I’m bound to see that boy,” she said, and climbed the steps with her stick. The floor boy pointed her the way and she mistook No. 9 for the room. She opened the door softly and the cur tains were let down, the blinds closed and the room dark as night, and there lay Judge Settle, stretched out taking a com-fortable nap. Aunt Abbey threw her arms around him and gave him a smack. The Judge sprang up and looked wild and aunt Abbe}’ staggered back exclaiming: “Why this isn't Vance ! This is you Tom.” She looked at him steadily a few seconds, and said, making for the washstand, “ I like you right smart, Tom ; but I’m obliged to wash my mouth after kissing a radical.” This was the first salute of the campaign at Ral eigh. —Raleigh (N. C.) Neics. The returns from the Georgia election come in slowly. The official vote in 112 counties gives Colquitt 99,362 and Norcross 31.419. The unofficial returns from seven counties in creases the vote of Colquitt to 104,002, and Norcross to 32,173, making Colquitt’s ma jority only 71,823, with eighteen counties to , hear from. A Strange Malady. Nine miles west of Moulton, in Lawrence county, Alabama, lives James Stokes, a poor country wagon-maker. His daughter, Lydia, about twenty-two years of age, is the subject of this sketch. For two years past she has been the victim of a strange malady. During this time there has been taken from her body at different times over one hundred pins and needles, be sides wood splinters. No great number have been extracted at any one time. They have appeared and been taken from all parts of the body. viz.: face, head, neck, breast, arms and legs. She believes that she is bewitched. Her regular physician is David Dinsmore, who will vouch for the facts. The peculiar ities of the case are that the pins are head less, the needles are sometimes taken out in bundles, or rather as many as five twisted together as though made of soft iron wire, and while they are mostly corroded and more or less decomposed, as though they had pass ed through the stomach, yet some are bright as though but recently inserted from the sur face. Every effort so far has failed to de tect how she comes possessed of them. She has been deprived of both pins and needle 0 , all such feminine conveniences being care fully concealed from her for long periods of time without materially checking the trouble. Where she gets them, how. when, or by what agency is yet to be discovered. The location from which they are taken is first indicated bv a small pustule or pimple. She is delicate, apparently consumptive. Dr. C. M . Ligon, who lives about five miles from Stokes, is familiar with all the facts and parties named, and it is to him I am indebted for the notes from which I write out this statement, which is no sell or sensation, nor overdrawn, though in reference to Miss Stokes’ age my notes are not clear. They were taken in the neighborhood and verified by other corroborative testimony. Medical records furnish accounts of simi lar cases in the past, with the eccentric causes. 'Flic cause in this case remains to be discovered. J. 11. Pearce. —Clarksville Reviciv. “What’s the Matter?” The Atlanta Aetcs wants to know "what’s the matter with the clergy? Three of the most prominent disorganizes of the Demo ‘ratio party in this State, under the name of Independents, are clergymen, to-wit: Hilliard. Felton, and Wright. Me repeat the ques tion—what is the matter ? Is secular office so sweet, and political power so enchanting, as to cause these sentinels on the watch-tower of Zion to doff their sacerdotal robes and don the soiled armor of carnal warfare? We beseech your Reverences to lay aside every burden, and nun with patience and delight the thorny road of your higher calling, and ’cave to such worldly-minded creatures as Dabney and Harris, and the other individual whom Wright is after, to take care of the worldly and vulgar interests of humanity.” is what a negro field hand said at a Democratic meeting in South Carolina: "My colored friends, we have to labor hard every day to get bread for our little children ; we have to go barefooted and in our shirt sleeves. I went to Edgefield, the other day. and went into Lawrence Cain’s palace, and I saw a carriage for his baby that cost SIOO in New York, and he had a white girl to roll it. When his wife walked across the floor, she was dressed so fine you could hear her ‘rat tling’ a hundred yards. “There is no such thing as party now ; it is honesty butting rascality, and I tell you ras cality has got to get out of the way. I have been voting for the Radical party i'or the last ten years, and, white folks, I will tell you why I did it: These here carpet-baggers and scalawags came around and told me to give them office, and they would tax you so that you'd have to sell your land, and then we could buy it. I thought it would he mighty nice to have a big plantation, and I voted for them and told them to stick on the tax. They stuck on the tax ; they got land, fine horses, fine clothes and plenty of money, but I have never got anything from them yet.” Madison Home Journal has the following:—One of the most remarkable col ored women in the state resides in this conn ty about two and a half miles from town. Her name is Hannah Wilborne. She is seventy years of age, and was a former slave of -Josiah Wilborne. For the last forty-five years she has lived at the same place and walked to town every day, Sundays excepted, never having been sick enough in that time to be kept away, always returning at night. She has always brought something to sell, either fruit, vegetables, chickens, butter or realizing from the sate of these an average of f)0 cents a day. Let us see in these forty-five years the number of times she has been to town, what distance she has walked, the amount of money she has made, and the total weight of tlie articles brought in by her. First then, she has in that time visited town 14.085 times, walking 70.425 miles, or a distance equal to nearly three times the earth’s circum ference, has made a little more than $7,000, and has carried about 140,850 pounds of pro duce. She still makes her daily trips, and as her health is good, will no doubt continue to do so for some time to come.” A Boston man has written an essay on “ Bustles.” Some bustles project sufficiently to enable a man to write an essay on them very easily. Cross-eyed man lifts an ax to kill a cow. Fifteenth amendment holding bovine. “ Say. bos, hit wliar you look ?” “Yes—” “Weil, you jis hole dis here cow ynrself.” ! TERMS. $2.00 PER ANNUM. I SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. GLEANINGS. And still rain is wanted! The Georgia Senate will consist of forty, three Democrats and one Republican. All of the new House of Representatives, Georgia Legislature, will be Democrats ex cept six. Col. W illis Hawkins has forty-one cases in the Supreme Court at the present term. Now lor November. The skies arc bright with dawning victory. A church in Vermont advertises for a pas tor, and says, “No political stumper need apply.” New York prides herself on anew and gi gantic acquarium, full of curious fish, great reptiles and mammoth white whales. The returning of dead letters by the Post Office Department was discontinued on the 10th instant. 'Fhe New York Herald says the credit of Democratic Georgia is as good as that of the Federal Government. Ten thousand gallons of syrup have been made in Heard county this season. It sells at forty cents per gallon. At Dalton the new crop of corn is coming in at thirty cents a bushel. Fall apples twen ty-five cents a bushel and sweet potatoes about the same. The great Republican majority reported from Maine has dwindled down to a little over fourteen thousand—four thousand less than in 1872. The Democrats have lost ten or twelve members of Congress in the two States, In diana and Ohio, but will have a good work ing majority in the next House. Well done, Connecticut! New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and the South cast 187 electoral votes—two more than are necessary to the election of a President. From a gentleman just from Crawfordvillo we have continued assurancesofMr.Stephens* increasing strength and flattering probabil ities of his taking his scat this winter in Con gress. On Saturday, September 30. fishing smacks off New London struck a shoal of mackerel a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, and took 810,000 worth offish. One thing at least is certain. The elections Tuesday does not decide the Presidential con test by considerable. There is still a ray of hope beaming in the East. The largest set of scales in the world has been built at Ashley, Pa. The platform is 150 feet long, of the width of a railroad track, and can weigh one hundred tons. The cost was five thousand dollars. Two-thirds of the Supreme Court and five eighths of the Circuit bench of South Carolina —the Judges all being Radicals—denounce Chamberlain’s proclamation as a lie and a defamation. General W. T. Wofford, of Cartcrsvillc, lina sullied a noble name by announcing bis in tention to support Parson Felton, the inde pendent candidate for Congress in the Seventh District. A man killed another man’s dog in Colum bus the other day, and the owner of the ca nine sued the murderer for fifty dollars dam age. The judge decided that the purp was worth only ten dollars. The amount was paid Ivy the defendant. “An old fashioned ‘seven pence,* bearing date 1775, was found in the paunch of a cow, at the slaughter pen, this week,” The ques tion which now agitates the average citizen of Jonesboro* is, how long has that piece of money been in that cow ? — Jonesboro’’ News. The golden top sugar cane is making for itself quite a reputation. A gentleman in Baldwin raised this cane thirteen feet high, four stalks of which yielded one gallon of juice. He made seventy-five gallons of nice syrup off of one acre of poor upland. The other day in Memphis. Tetin., a blue limestone paving stone, from the Ohio river quarries, which had been in use in one of the principal streets for fifteen years, was broken, and a live frog hopped out of a cavity in it. Make a note of the synchronism of frogs and the soft period of the limestone deposit. Another State is talked of. It is proposed that California shall be cut in two along the line of Santa Cruz county, with fourteen Southern counties for the new commonwealth, which will have about 150,000 inhabitants. 30.000 voters, and taxable property estimated at $100,000,000; The total expenditures of the White llouso from 1857 to 1861, were $213,028; the total expenditures for seven years under President Grant, were $848,002; annual Republican average. $121,284; annual Democratic aver age, $53,257 ; Republican excess, $68,027. Rev. Henry Tyler died at his home in Hart county, Ga., on Wednesday, the 4th instant. Mr. Tyler was respected by all who knew him, as much for his fearless performance of his Master's work, as for his straightforward hon esty and uprightness of character, lie died full of years and honors, and has gone to reap his reward in the better land, A South Carolina gentlewoman of ancient lineage and former wealth writes to a North ern friend that she had almost no meat dur ing the summer, but that Senator Cain, a mulatto legislator, with a salary of S6OO. drives a S7OO horse, owns a handsome town house and two plantations, and took his wife to the Centennial. Whilst one of the members of the Benevo lent Association was canvassing his district yesterday, lie met a negro man covered head and ears with a blanket, and prowling around loose. The Benevolent man approached him. raised the blanket, and imagine his feelings when he discovered that he had unfolded a ripe case of small pox. But, nothing daunt ed, he immediately hired a wagon and sent the freedman. blanket and all, to the pest house. —Sa a t n nah Ntws. NUMBER 20.