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Volume 2. BAINB RIDGE GA. JULY 31. 1873. THE weekly democrat la PUBLISHED Evbbt Thursdat By y,N. E RUSSELL, Proprietor. tpVERTISING RATES AND RULES. \ ivertisemcnts inserted at $2 per square /. r f.ru insertion, and $1 for each subse quent one. * A square is eight solid lines of this type. Li;,era.l terms made with contract advertisers. Local notices of eight lines are $15 per Quarter, or $50 per annum. Local notices (, r less than three months are subject to transient rates. (Vmtr.'tct advertisers who desire tiicir ad- ,, iti—iuents changed, must give us two Leeks’ notice. Changing advertisemdffs, unle.seotherwise stipulated in contract, will be charged 20 rents ptr square. Marriage and obituary notices,, tributes of respect, and other kindred notices, charged ar other advertisements. Adv-rtiseraentg must take the run of the p.,per, as we do not contract to keep them in any particular place. Announcements for candidates are $10, if only for one inserting. p,i,l are due upon the appearance of “the : ; . :ti>ement, and the money will be collect- , : need Id by the Proprietors.' v, hall adhere strictly to the above rules, * . . ill depart trout them under no circum- TF.RMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, annum, in advance, - - $3.00 Per six months, in advance, - 2.00 Per three months, in advance, - 1.00 Single copy, in advance, - * 10 LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriffs sales, per levy, $3; sheriffs mort- v isc .sales, per levy, $5; tax sales, per levy, - citation for letters of administration. $4; citation for letters of guardianship, 4; appli- . iti.in for dismission from administration, 10; a ; I lication for dismission from guardianship', r, ; application for leave to sell land (one square), 6. and each additional square, 3; application for homestead, 2; notice to debt- and creditors, 4; land sales (1st square), U, and each additional square, 3; sale of per- j-liable property, per •square. 2.450; estray notices, sixty days, 7; notice to perfect serv ice. 7 ; rules nisi to foreclose mortgage, per .-iiiiarc. 4; rules to establish lost papers, per squrire. 4; rules compelling titles, 4; rules t • perfect service in divorce cases. 10. Sales of land. etc., by administrators, ex- centors or guardians, are required by law to ILaid on the first Tuesday in the month, between t i u . hours of 10 in the forenpofl and I in tlie afternoon, at the court house door in tin-county >" which the property is situ- a ! Notice of tliese sales must lie given j„ n public gazetted days previous to the of sale. N for the sale iven in 1 i k i of personal property manner 10 days pro of i (it atthlv lb pub ices to the debtors and creditor must also be published 40 days, ice that application will be made to the of Ordinary for leave to sell land,.Sc., tie published fuf two months, it ions for letters of administration. Kinship. .Nr., must be published 3t> t >;.«nis*ion from administration, three months—for dismission nship, 40 days. f„r foreclosure of mortgages must be sited monthly for four months—for es- • MMiing 'lost papers for the full space ol tree months—for compelling titles from ex- uiors or administrators, where bond has eti given by the deceased, the full space of i ce months. I’ublieation will always be continued ne- diug to these, the legal requirements, less otherwise ordered. THE GEORGIA. STATE FAIR. Mayor Huff's Address. Mayor’s Office. ) Macon, June 1.1873. j T thr People'of Upper and ]sneer ( leorgia: As you are aware, tlie Georgia f'tatc Agricultural Society will lipid its next annual Fair at this place, commencing on the 27th day of October. Every true Georgian is justly proud of his native State—rich in minerals as it is varied in soil—wealthy, indeed, in all that should constitute a people pros perous -uid happy. Yt e have here that diversity of production and peculiar adaptation of the various sections to the different, industrial pursuits which combine to make up the natural ele ments sufficient for an Empire In ag riculture. as in everything else, harmo nious concert of action strengthens and supports each section of the btatfe. Lower Georgia has her peculiar inter ests to foster and protect and her great strength to boast of. The same may be said of upper and middle Georgia. Tne city of Macon occupies a grand central position geographically, and her citizens have provided within her limits fair grounds and equipments equal, if not superior, to any in the L nited States, fur the accommodation of \isitors and for the exhibition of any and every ar tide which may he brought here for show. The Executive Committee and members of the State Agricultural So- eietv have evinced a determination to make this next the great Fair of the State. The handsome and liberal pre mium list now being circulated through out the State speaks for itself. An ex amination of its pages will convince every one that the Society means busi ness. But the “county display s” are looked forward to as the prominent and great leading features of the Fair, and will doubtless present a grand panoram ic view ol each county and section such as has never before been witnessed by the people of Georgia. The purposes of this appeal are, therefore, to invite 200 and urge every county in the State, if possible, to be represented in some way, so that we may have no blanks in the picture. To do this is a plain, patriot ic duty; a duty which, if zealously per formed, will conduce to the prosperity and success <5f every Conner in the State, without any regard whatever asto which gets the $1000 premium offered. This premium will, of course, go to the coun ty which shall furnish the -“largest and finest display.” But. as will be seen by reference to the premium list, there are three other handsome premiumns to be distributed among other counties, as follows: * A premium of $500 to the county making'the second best display. ■ A'premium of $300 to the county making the third best display} aUd A premium o£ $200 to the county making the fourth best display. There are now three prominent coun ties in the State which are known to be bending and concentrating all their vast powers and resources upon this great contest—one in Upper Georgia, one in Middle Georgia, and one. in Southwestern Georgia. Other counties will report progress, and enter the list for competition at the next meeting of the Society, to be held in Athens next month. But while the foregoing county pri zes are intended to represent the lead ing features of the premium list, they are by no means the most attractive. The city of Macon lias united with the society in the effort to present a list of rewards that will not only please but actually recompense the exhibitor for some labor and expense. And among others which may be referred to with pride and satisfaction, are the following: For best acre of clover hay $ 50 For best acre of lucerne hay.... 50 For best aero of native grass .... For best acre of pea-vine bay For best acre of corn forage For largest yield of Southern cane, 1 acre For best and largest display of.. garden vegetables For largest yield of upland cotton, 1 acn For best crop lot upland short sta ple cotton, not less than five balcn ooo For best one bale upland short sta ple cotton 1 GO (and 25 cts. per lb for the bale) For bale upland long staple cotton 100 (and 25 cts per lb for the bale.) For the best oil painting, by a Georgia lady For the best display of paintings, drawing, etc., by tlie pupils of one school or college For the best made silk dress, done by a lady of Georgia not a dress maker {, 0 For best made home-spun dress, done hv a lady of Georgia not »• dress-uiaker For best piece of tapestry in worst ed and floss, by a lady of Georgia For best furnished baby basket and complete set of infant clothes, by a lady of Georgia . For handsomest set of Monchoir- case, glove box and pin-cushion, made by a lady of Georgia For best half dozen pair of cotton socks, knit by a lady over fifty vears of age, (in gold.) 25 For best half dozen pair of cotton socks, knit by a girl under ten years of age (in gold.) 25 For the finest and largest display of female handicraft, embracing needlework, embroidery, knit ting, crocheting, raised work.etc., by one lady — • For the best combination horse.. 100 For the best saddle horse...... 100 For the best style harness horse. - 100 For the finest and best matched Number 44. 60 60 60 200 100 one acre For the largest yield of oata en one acre For the largest yield of rye on one acre..* For the best result on one acre, in any oereal crop For the best display made on the • grounds, by any dry good mer- chan t For the best display made by any grocery merchant 100 For the largest and best display of green-house plants, by one per son .or firm 100 For the best dulled volunteer mil- . itary company ;. 500 For the best brass band, not less than ten performers 250 ($50 extra per pay for their music) For the best Georgia made plow stock". For the best Georgia made wagon, (two horse,) For the best .Georgia made cart.. These are among the many premiums offered by the city of Macon, and the State Agricultural Society, aggregating 25 in all more than $15,000. But it is nojf rassment, we learn from the news- 100 100 50 50 50 50 250 250 250 double team *®® For the best stallion, with ten of his colts by his side For the host gelding For the best six-mule team... For the best single mule 100 - 100 100 100 50 For the best milch cow For the best bull • For the best ox team. v For the best sow with pigs For the largest and finest collection of domestio fowls. For the best bushel of corn For the best bushel of peas For the hpst bushel of wheat For the best bushel of sweet pota toes For the best bushel of Irish potatoes For the best fifty stalks sugar cane. For the best result-on one acre in any forage crop For the largest yield of corn on one acre For the largest yield of wheat on 100 25 25 25 25 25 50 150 100 to the value of the premiums that we look for rewards. The exhibition prom ises nobler results than this. There will be a great moral influence growing out of it. The political economist will here find food for his thoughts. The artisan will scan, with eagle eye, the work of his peers. The thrifty farmer; the en terprising merchant; the fowl fancier, and the stock importer ; the horticul turist—all will be entertained, pleased and instructed. Here we will learn the sources of supply and demand in our own State. Here we will learn where, in our own State, each and every article is produced, raised or manufactured. Our people will'bere be taught where, in their own country, they must -follow that pursuit best suited to their inter est and taste., without being forced to hunt homes among strangers, as is now too often the case. Exhibitors from Upper Georgia will here find a market for the ready sale of much, if not all, of their perishable articles at full, remu nerative prices. In addition to all this, much general good must necessarily grow out of these annual reunions of so uj^u) v»riitb lbuimh^i-iuu wor£inline n and women of the country. The spirit of State pride is fanned intojiew life by these meetings, and we forget, as it were, our individual misfortunes in re joicing over our mutual successes. Let us then devote one week in next Octo ber to the very profitable work of meet ing and discussing the important agri cultural and Commercial interests of the dav. Let.it be a week devoted purely to the explosion of false theories and putting into practical operation the safe, sound, business ideas of the times. Among other things, let us prove, by the variety and merits of our exposit ion, the great and absolute danger and folly of looking to railroads, riyers or canals for relief from “hard times ” Let our Fair in October he the only argument adduced by us to prove the utter fallacy of that grand idea, that ignis futuus called cheap transportation, which has so suddenly become the all-ab sorbing theme among men in search of relief. For it may in time—in deed, it has already—become a se rious question with thoughtful, ob serving men, whether we have not now too much transportation. Our seeming advantages may sometimes be our greatest misfortune. That which is oft-times a convenience is not always a blessing..* It may become a vital necessity for us to inquire whether or not these immense rail road lines—traversing and cordu- Toying, as they do,, oui country from mountain to seaboard—are really feeding or absorbing us? That transportation which fosters and en courages cmr improvidence while it depletes onr • pockets, may be the transportation least of all others wanted in this country. And the objection now so strongly urged against our railroad systems might not be entirely overcome by these proposed water lines. It is not. however, the practicability of these grand schemes for reducing freights that we must stop now to consider— for no matter how feasible they may be. Georgia is in no condition to wait their completion. The emer gency—bread—is upon us, and we must go to work, and goto work to day, We must teach our boys, by precept and example, that the great virtue of life and the necessity of the age is to be found in the trnth of the old Latin maxim, “Labor omnta vinoM.” The people of Georgia should never be dependent upon any line or any system of transportation for the meat and the bread, the hay and the fertilizers, used upon their forms. Such a policy will bankrupt and starve out any people in the world. Show me the man with a fat smoke-house and a well filled barn, and I will show you one who is not affected by low-priced cotton or high transportation.’^^DR'the oth er hand, point me to the farmer with a lean smoke-house and au empty corn crib, aud I will si erably poor and mis whose dependent and dition can never be Ye priced ootton^O^heMe by cheap transfortatio is, we havg been bet'' dollars so long on three fatal cards, called “credit,” “cotton,” and “cat erpillar,” that we have nothing .left us but our mules and lands ; and in seven cases out of ten these are pledged to some warehouse firm for supplies to make this year’s crop with. And yet, in the face of all this crouching poverty and embar- papers of the country that more land is planted in cotton this year than last, or even any year since the war. No wonder, then, that we should be crying out for more transportation. Fifteen years ago, when I first commenced the produce business in Macon, my little orders for grain and meat seldom went farther west than chan the fertile hills of Cherokee Georgia, aud the narrow Valleys in East Tennessee. I had time then to write and send letters for these supplies and wait the return of quo tations before buying. I, with oth er merchants, purchased there, at our leisure, all that was necessary to supply the wants of Middle and Southwestern Georgia. Now we send our immense orders by tele graphic wires to the rich fields and broad plains of Illinois and Missouri; yarns. In this, and this .only, lies the great secret of Georgia success —agricultural as well as financial and commercial. We are immense ly rich in resources but miserably poor in the handling of them. What we want is work—honest, hard-fist ed, intelligent, well-directed toil, la bor and application in developing aud utilizing what we have here at home rather than so many spasmod ic efforts to br’mg from ahroad that which we should not buy. Our pov erty, like our pride, is the result of misapprehensions and mistaken ideas of ourselves, of our country and of each other. Ifce abolition of slavery in the South has devefoped a vast world of sickly, sentimental, lazy,in dolent, stupefied, inert and unapt population—a population of young and middle-aged men, some of whom have known better days. These men put on old store-clolhes, hang aroeud dirty grog-shops and dingy hotels, smoke cheap cigars and drink mean whisky, effect old habits and anti-war style, curse destiny apd free negroes more, fret and fume over the results of the late war, write and sign up mortgage liens on their cot ton crops before they are planted, •pay two per cent, interest on money for nine months in the year and then promise to pay annually in the fall more money per acre for commercial manures to scatter over their lands than some of them originally cost, And, finally, when inattention to business and general bad policy and mismanagement have brought them and their State to the extremity ol desperation—when ruin and bank ruptcy stare us all in the face—we issue, proclamations,call public meet ings, invite distinguished gentlemen from abroad to come here and sym pathize with As. We meet in ban quet halls, drink much champagne and discharge more gas over the great aud absorbing questions of ca- and if, by any chance or ill luck, a ! nal schemes, Congressional aid and railroad bridge is burned or a trans fer boat is sunk and a little blockade occurs en route., a panic ensues and a meat, bread a..d hay famine at once threatens every man and beast .-<mwi oi wnarauiiooga; ; UIm 13 our miserably poor and helpless condi tion to-day—fearful and unreasona ble as it may* appear to outsiders. But that annual deficiency of fifty millions of .bushels of grain in the four States of Georgia, Alabama, Florida and South Carolina, com mented upon so gravely by the late Canal Convention in Atlanta, tells the whole story. We have sudden ly awakened,, as it were, from a deep sleep and discovered the unwelcome fact thatwe are a poor,thriftless,non- producing. all-consuming, dependent people. A»d just so long as the farmers and planters of Georgia pur sue their present mad policy of buy ing fertilizers to make cotton to buy corn, bacon and hay with, and then pay two per cent, a month for mon ey from April to November of each year to run this wild schedule, just so long will they be pifoble beggars and borrowers at the doors of trans portation offices and Georgia' shav ing shops, provided a worse fate docs not speedily overtake them. The truth is, the whole country has become one common counting room and huge gambling shop. What we once did with the axe and the hoe, the plowshare and the reaping hook we now seek to accomplish by strat egy and chance, credit and specula tion. And we must sooner or later, come back to first principles or we musr perish. We have too many able- bodied young men in shady places; too much tape cutting and and pin selling and too little cotton chopping and hay curing; too many yard sticks thrown around loose on smooth-top counters and not enough hoe-handles plow-stocks; too many law books and lager beer barrels in proportion to the rail splitting and ditch digging; too much foolish fashion ard foppery,and not enough sledge-hammers and saw horses—in a word, too much whole sale idleness. Georgia has to-day, buried in the rich bosom of her vari ed soil and precious mineral beds, greater wealth and grander results than can ever be worked out by ca nal projects or Congressional enter prises* And how is it to be done? Not by^lrearav theories and mythi cal plans, but in talking corn instead of canal—in diversifying and devel oping oar own vast resources—in writing more about home effort and foreign immigration—in planting less cotton and manufacturing more cheap transportation, than was ever expended by our forefathers in dis cussing the Declaration of American Independence. And what does it avail ? Will these idle and extrava gant demonstrations ever work out the great problem of Georgia inde pendence ? No! "Never nntil labor becomes popular will money get easy. Never, until we feed fancyless and learn to fatten chickens and hogs more, will want disappear and plenty step in. When these plain secrets ofiife shall have been learn ed, when the wild mania for specu lation shall have departed from our farm houses and plantations, when our planters shall learn from, experi ence to abandon Wall street brokers and “cotton futarcs,” and come to deal more directly in the productions of square little “spots” of potatoes and corn, when agriculture shall be come the ruling leature and control ling interest in our State—then, and not until then, will we become an in dependent, prosperous and happy people. And we have here in Geor gia all the elements necessary to this great end. Here God has blessed us with everything essential to the pros perity and growth of man or beast, it only worked out. Everything, from a chicken and a churn to a cot ton field and a coal bed, from a ground pea patch on the sand hills to a gold mine in the mountains. These are among the rich, rare and multiplied resources of Georgia;these constitute our strength, our refuge and onr power. Think of it, farmers and planters of Middle Georgia! Here we are, in the heart oftbe Empire State,the boasted owners of lands without stint, blessed with a climate and soil where two crops of grain, two of po tatoes, or .one each of pea vines and hay can be successfully grown on the same land the same year, and yet we go to Baltimore to buy guano to make a little cotton to sell in New York to.get money to buy hay, oate and corn away out in the rich States of Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. And just so long as we are the voluntary patroDS of produce dealers, heartless rjDgs and pamper ed monopolies, each as now own and control, operate and direct our only lines of trade transportation north, south and west, just so long will we be fit subjects for lien-drafts and homestead laws, mortgages and re pudiation. The South mast workout her own independence. The reme dy is onrs, if we will only apply it. Too often have we been beguiled by plausible schemes for great internal improveinets and financial relief. Let ns no longer be Idled Into a false security by any promises which can be made, outside of onr harrest fields and hog pens, onr bay patches and cane mills. It is here we shall find It. To this end the State Agri cultural Society throws open the doors of her Exposition Halls, offers her Premium Lists to the public,and invites competition from every sec tion of the country. It may sometimes suit the interest of small politicians to excite section al antagonisms in the State; bnt no such petty jealousy is to be found in the heads and hearts of those engag- “ed in-the industrial.pursuits. AH are expected at the Fair in October, Mi con unites with the State Agricultur al Society in a cordial invitation to every county in the State to be repre sented. It 'will impart new life, vig or and energy to every industry; it will disseminate knowledge and cul ture among the great masses of the people; it will kindle a lofty emula tion among the working classes; it will present one vast field for testing theories and trying conclusions; it will cement us, as a people, in the bonds of fraternal union, and none should be deterred from tear of de feat—for the triumph of <^e will be the triumph of all, and there will be no rejoicing over and defe&t. From the lathes we expect much— yes, almost everything. Without their kindly aid and handiwork we shall have no Floral Hall, and with out that pleasing feature in perfec tion the Fair can never be a grand success. The good women of our country saved us here two years ago —without their timely efforts the Fair of 1871 would have been an im mense failure. Their hearty co-op eration now is all we want to insure success. Let us then unite in. one mighty effort to throw together, in one com mon display, the grand and aggre gate specimen resources of our proud old commonwealth.. Let it be such an exposition of our pride and our strength; such an evidence of our 0 d;ii oj Am; tqstp our energy, and especially ol our roic and our homes, as shall challenge, in kindness, the competition of the South, while it excites the envy and admiration of the world. W. A. HUFF, . Mayor of the City of Mhr.on. “Absolutely the Best Protection Against Fire." Over 12,000 Fires Actually Pat Out With It l MORE THAN $10,000,000 00 WORTH PROPERTY j&*SAYED FROM THE FLAMES. F. W. FARWELL, Secretary, 78 Market 8t, Chicago; 407 Broad* •way, Hew York- In daily Use by the Tire Departments of the principal cities of the Union. The Gov ernment lias adopted it. The leading Rail ways use it. [mch20 ljr Send for “Its Record.” BEN. E. RUSSELL, Ag-'t. Bain bridge Go. THE ALBANY JtOUSE, * Merrick Barnes, Proprietor, # ALBANY, GEORGIA. THIS house is well furnished and every way prepared for the accommodation of the traveling public ; entire satisfaction guaran teed.—The table is supplied with the best the country affords, and the servants arc un surpassed in politeness and attention to the wants of guests. Omnihusses convey pas sengers to and from the different railroads promptly. Charges to suit the times. WHISENANT’S Caterpillar Destroyer! One Hand can Destroy Cater pillars on Four or Five Acres per Day l Cost of Compound is very Little. Its Sucecss is Guaranteed I ' Having purchased the right for Deeatur county, we take pleasure in offering it to farmers within its borders on liberal terms. The compound can be applied upon four or five acres per day by one band. Its success tlie’prant in vigorous growth has been fully tested and is beyond question. To success fully guard against the depredations of the caterpillar, planters should use no delay in investigating its claims and effecting the proper arrangements to- obtain the benefits to be derived by its use. Its full and perfect success guaranteed. II. J,SWEARINGEN & CO., mch20-6m Bainflridge, Ga. TEE KEANES AW ROUTE:’ WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAIL ROAD AND CONNECTIONS. SCHEDULE IN EFFECT March 1 si, 1873 M Northward. EXPRESS. MAIL. Leave Atlanta . * 8.30 am. 8.10 pm Arrive at.Cartersville 11.06am. 10.47pm „ Kingston - 11.45am. 11.19pm „ Dalton - 2.01 pm. 1.30am “Chattanooga - 4.28 pm. 3.44 au Southward. Leave Chattanooga Arrive at Dalton King-ten - Cartersville' Atlanta EXPRES*. MAIL. 5.45am. 5-25 pm 7:58 am. 742pm 10.12 a m. 9.56 p m 10.51am. 1032 pm 1.45 pm. 1.00 am Pulman Palace Cars on Trains Nos 1 & 2 to Lynchburg and New Or leans! also to Atlanta and Chattanooga! . NO CHANGE New Orleans to Lynchburg—via Montgomery Atlanta and Dalton. ONE CHANGE Atlanta te Ft. Louis—via Chattanooga. MAX? MILES SHORT^l! MAST HOURS QUICKER.’ TO NEW YORK Than any Other Route from Atlanta. Parties Contemplating Traveling should Send for Map, Schedule Ete. QUICK TIME and CLOSE CONNECTION it Onr Motto. Ask for Tickets via ' The Kennejaw - Route. B. W. WRENN, General Passenger and Tiok- et Agent, Atlanta, Ga. PLEASANT TO TARE, Helm’s Fever and Ague Cure, will break up fever or chills; thousands can be cured for a trifling cost, and no return of chills, when property used. It beats the world, try it, Johs W. Helms, Inventor; City building, up stairs, Bainbridge, Ga. GURLEY, RUSSELL & BROWN, ATTORNEYS And Counselors af Law, JOHN W. McGILL, Attorney at Law BAINBRIDGE, GA, , Will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to his care. Office; north-west room in court house. febl8-Iy SHARON HOUSE SHAVING L00N1 SA- MAN8E (WASHINGTON, fttemroa. Shaving, Hair Cutting, lampoon ing, Dveing, Hair Dressing, executed in the most approved style of the tonsorial art. By strict attention to business, and a scrupulous regard for the wants erf the pub lic, in my line, I expect to retain the gener ous patronage extended to me. I refer to my customers. Priees moderate, Saloon in SHARON HOUSE, next door te the Harness Store. Mass* Wabhwoto*. dune 5,-tf. LIBEL FOR DIVORCE Decatur Superior^Cuart, May Term, James S. Whiddon, vs Surah A. Whidden. It appearing to-the court that the Defen dant fs not to be found in the State, on rao. tion of Hmraond k Durris, attorneys for Libellant, it ls ordered that service be per fected by publication and that this case stand for trial at the next term of this Court. Petuu .L Stroziee, Judge S. C. A. C. A true extract from the arimtes uf the Superior Court, May Term, 1873, T T. F. HAMPTON, Clerk. June 2d, 1878. July 21- Iee, Cream and Confections. The molest and nicest place to be fonnd in the city is at I.COHE1TS Saloon, On Broad street, whe.e he is open for the SUMMER SEASON, and where Iodise and gentlemen eansk- and tafcetfcair ICE CREAM and other refreshments with roOrfmtaad de light. Fruits, Confectisus, Candies Ac* Parties' and Weddings supplied' with Ice Cream, Gafatey 4c., a* low**- rater. Ice for tale at 8 pounds for 10 daota.- M»y 15/7S.