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The Weekly Democrat,
Ben. & Rowell,
Dr. W. J. Harrell, *
Editor.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1873.
jay “the Democracy is dead. 1 ' If so the
Ghost puts them to considerable alarm
It strikes ns, however, that if ever a
Associate P art 7 existed noted for intolerance it is
the Radical party. They howl in most
piteous, puppy-like tones that the Demo
cracy are on the eve of rebellion, am
;hen pass a Ko-Klux bill by which the
of Judge Isaac E. Bower
Judge Bower » dead 1 Such wasL ^ decree8 ^ out
the sad announcement that startled Democracy of trying
this community yesterday morning.
At nine o’clock, Tuesday night last,
this eminent man, t his good citizen,
this pure patriot, breathed his last,
in the 04th year of his age.
On Saturday last he was in the
city—hale, hearty and bidding fair
to live many more long years. But n . -
Death ; unmerciful, relentless ; al
Most without warning, took him
from his family and friends.
In the death of Judge Bower, De
“It’s too Thin ”
The 9aying, “It’s too thin,
new. Sheridan Knowles puts it into their efforts to acquire it by othc
They accuse the Democracy of trying
to upset the Government and free insti
tutions, yet they deliberately march the
legal State Government of Louisanna
from the Capitol at the bayonet’s point,
and put in their stead free niggers and
carpetbaggers of their own liking.
Intolerance, forsooth! Were the
literal rebellion
they would not eqnal the intolerance
and tyrannical misdoings of the party
in power. What hast thou to say to
Can It Be f
There is a Clothing House in Bain
bridge; that of Noel Gainey & Co. It
is a manufacturing house. Their stock
of clothing is home-made—Southern
made. It passes through no second hands
out is delivered to the purchaser direct
from the manufacturer. Hence, and
we speak from experience, they sell
their clothing at least 20 per cent, be
low Yankee made goods.
are equal in every respect to those ol
Yankee manufacture; in make ,they far
surpass them. Now, notwithstanding,
the press and the people are outspoken
in favor of Southern commercial free
dom, we are utterly, aye, ruinously dis
nclined to foster and patronize home
institutions.
This clothing house, for the past two
years, has been largely represented in
the advertising columns of The Demo
crat, and the man point made in their
advertisements was, home made goods
[t was at the once a direct appeal to
the patriotism and pockets of the pub
ic. “Here are our goods—they are
ome made—they are equal in every res
pect to Yankee goods—and what is bet
ter, they are cheaper.” That is the gist
of it.
But the public, the patriotic South
ern public, the money loving public,
‘couldn’t see the point.” True, they
R. H. Whiteley, who from week
week writes his sentiments in the Bain
bridge Sun,
he made, and forfeited his manhood anc
respectability to maintain, why, we be
long to the “rule or ruin party.”
If we say that he stole money from
the public treasury when he voted him
self back-pay, we are “intolerant,” yetKnto
we tell the unvarnished,
truth.
on lies, and misrepresentations It must
over assert the “South still disloyal,
“on the eve of another rebellion,” &c
party must have, and whether true or
untrne, they are alike given to the
country.
Hence the hypocritioal jayhawker of
the Sun is continually bawling out “in
tolerance,” “persecution,” “Ku-Klux,
Ac., when he knows that the very tolera-
tian of such a satire on humanity as he
amongst us, gives the flat-footed lie to his hideous reality.
his slanders.
But to take a more general view of
the subject. A Radical never dreams
of the Democratic party, without his
imagination pictures a grand conglomer
ation of intolerant demons mounted
catur county, aod this section, hu h ioableoftime . se „
lost its leading citizen. He wa^^ r
'traly our representative man—em
bpdying in himself, and practicing
those great principles which every
Southerner loves. Frequently re
presenting his countrymen as itepre
■entative and Senator in the State
Legislature, he won their confidence
Jjy the able and fearless manner in
, Which he carried out their will
and elicited the admiration of his con
temporaries by the soundness of hi
judgment and the superiority of his
wisdom.
He was ever the disinterested and
unflinching friend of the poor and the
oppressed—not in the light of a schem
ing politician ; but as the genuine
promoter of the welfare of his race.
Quietly, modestly—but surely he
performed these ennobling deeds foi
the poor and distressed, that made
him the beloved of the people.
As a Judge, he was just, yet merci
ful—but always incorruptible. As a
Lawyer he stood at the very top round
of the ladder—he had no superior,
where he practiced his profession. No
client ever intrusted Lis cause to better
or more skillful hands. He carried into
all his cases such profound legal judg
ment, so much original conception, and
withal such indomitable perseverance
and industry, that he seldom failed to
succeed.
At the close of the war Judge Bower
represented this Senatorial District in
the Senate of Georgia—the last truly
representative body of the white people
of our State. After the Government
went |into Mongrel hands he retired
from politics and applied himself assidu
ously to the practice of his profession
from which he retired about one year
ago.
He leaves a largo and interesting
family. Two of his sons have chosen
the profession of which their father
was so honored a member, and in which
they are bidding fair to arrive at emi
nenoe. May we not hope that the
mantle of that father has fallen upon
them. To the entire family, we offer
our heartfelt sympathy.
We pretend this to be no worthy
sketch of the deceased, but hope to give
our readers one from hands far better
calculated to do his memory justice
than we could hope to do.
these things, Richard, most subtle of vious to adorning themselves with fig
leaves.
In style, and appearance, their goods day, in Nasty-Nasty-Nastychusetts Commerercial, defines them thus :
help to forge the chains upon onr necks
and to smother every effort at self-sus
tainance we may make.
despotism failed to open the sleepy eyesjganee
of the Southen people? We fear so
alas, we fear so!
Secession Leaders.” In former articles
“Intolerance."
The above heading applied to the
Domocratio party, and the Southern
white people,.is the favorite theme of
that sneaking, snivelling demagogue, dices of oertain men in Decatur county
who in former times acted with th<
Whig party.
Let us look now at home, and see
Everything Southern that does not who of our Democratic leaders were se
cession leaders. Was Gen. Gib Wright
ooincide with his ideas of what should
and what should not be, is “intolerance.
If we give him the benefit of the record last year, “a Secession Leader ?” Far
from it. He opposed Secession with
Whiteley’s boasted Union men. assert-
negro kitchens.
Whiteley now
urov0cabh®louuuiinates him “• Boeoaaiea leader
Who among the people of Decatur
to be made for me, and no salary grabBerate circumstances, all vie with
so convenient,” we qpine, is the answer each other hi the style and ex
jf Dickey’s raw-hide conscience.
pensiveness of their outfits and gen
eral appearance. But it requires
money to command these things, and
is not hence the nutimely fall of many in
the mouth of Alasca in the play o*
Rose of Arragon.”—Ex.
In reality the saying can claim a
greater antiquity. The best authori- travagance which is the parent of
ties say that when Noah told his
neighbors there was going to be a ac t U ally erecting insuperable bar-
flood and that he would be saved by rierg the marri e relation .
means ot the ark he was building, , ...
remarked, with reference to both Young men dare not marry on their
those statements : “It’s too thin.”-
LaGrange Reporter.
lender incomes and face the exor
bitant demands which will be made
If our memory serves us aright the U p 0 n their pockets, and the holiest
saying has still a greater antiquity-
extending to the garden of Eden it- the heart are sacrificed on the altar
self. It was used by both Adam and
Eve in reference to their raiment pre
guard Beast—the bellowing blear
eyed, brimstone belching Behemoth
of Lowell, was defeated last Wednes
State Thieves-Own
Governor.
Convention tor
The Foundation of the Whole Diffi
culty.
In seasons of ruin and financial dis
tress which sweep over the country|
like a cyclone at occasional periods,
it is always profitable to inquire]
what are the remote and proximal
auses of these dire disasters. Ther
3 a moral growing out of them
which it were madness not to rea
and reply.
The late catastrophe in New York|
t is generally conceded, was the im
mediate result of speculating in th
bonds of rotten railroads, which wer
set on foot for the aggrandizement oi
private cliques and rings, and engin
eered through Congress by the agen
y of the most astounding corruption.
The peoples’ money and property
were given by the million, or mor
than by strictly honest means. And
worst than all, it is this universal ex
vice in its most repugnant forms, by
ind best impulses and affections of
Parents,
The “Beast ”
The wild man of the Lexington| th ; ref . OEjp;
(Missouri; Caucasian thus an
nounces the defeat of Butler in the
Massachusetts State Convention
The roaring, rearing, rampager-
ous Beast—the foaming, frothing, fe
rocious, fiendish, Beast—the blath
ering, brawling, blustering, black- me Component Parts of White Rad-
of fashion and expediency.
Never can there be a return to
eal virtue/ -d prosperity in the
country untj hese evils are abated
And now wf Flin the vale of adver
3ity, is a time to inaugurate
an.
guardians, husbands,
wives, daughters and sons, all should
heed the admonition, and henceforth
;o resolve to practice economy
Telegraph.
icalism at the South.
H. V. Redfield the special travel
ing correspondent of the Cincinnati
The Radical party in Mississipp is
made up in the main of meanness,
rascality and ignorance. I have yet
to 3ee a white Republican in the
-state who has not an office, or had
ne, or is not maneuvering with spe
iai reference to getting one. The
[principles of the party are best re
resented by the word plunder. Take
[away that and the hope of it and the
party would disappear like dew un
er an August Sun. It is held to
tether by “the cohesive power ol
[public picking.”
Redfield has a just appreiation of
[the gang. His remarks, says the
|Macon Telegra.i instead of being con
fined to Mississippi, should have been
nlarged to cover the entire negr
belt.
The Bainbridjie
JEWELRY STORE
L °C— —'aisiXESS SOTlS
A good segar ean be had at Sweari^
I GARDEN SEEDS M IT*1
l& CO.’S U S "EARI.NGJ5
. -A fine lot of sinokino
>ipes just in, at Subers°
tobaccos
We can and will sell L>d,~^_
(tore.
Carpenters, Pattern-maker., r
net-makers, win take notice that p p r!
EKSJ* -’Si
Beyond the Mississippi!
Thousands have already gone. « n d fc.
ands more are taming their n- , ™ a -
new homes in the fertile West j
ing to Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska
Utah, Wyoming. Neuada,
forma, we recommend a cheat. U “'
and direct mute, via St. Loais, V 1 ®*
souri Pacific Railroad, which rJ t ^
Day Coaches and Pullman Sleenc Z
Louis to principal points in the'lU. ,
ut change. We believe that
Pacific Railroad hns the host track T
finest and safest equipment any
A t he M.sstsstppi, and its connections Z
roads further W est areprumpt and -li.u
Hie Texas connection of thi, ^un
completed, and passenger are offered a fill
all-rail route from St. Louis t« Xeiaa ti h
over the Missouri, Kansas & Tum’r r
,,,u Sedalia, or over the Atlantic & Pacific »
It., via Vinita. For maps, time tables, iafor
.nation as to rates, routes, etc. we ~r„„
readers to J. F. Thompson. Southern iw!
ger AgPnt, St. Louis, Mo. Questions will be
riieerfully and promptly answered.
Largest Stock Ever Brought
to this Market,
CONSISTING OF
GOLD & SILVER WATCH
ES, CLOCKS, SOLID SIL
VER AND PLATED WARE.
Pocket and Table Gutlery,
Scissors, Razors, etc., etc
Pipes, Smoking Tobacco.
JEWELRY, DIAMONDS
EMERALDS, AMYTHISTS
&c. MUSICAL INSTRU
MENTS, STATIONERY,
CHROMOS AND ALBUMS,
PERFUMERY, PIPES, ETC
read the advertisement; true they WentM" ®"”“
ud if P ro P er h' shared between legislator?
to the Store and saw the goods, and
they hadn’t been informed to the con
trary by the paper, they would have
taken them to be Yankee goods. Bui
knowing they were home-made, and
lacked the charm of having |
through Yankeedoodledum, they were
set aside by our patriotic people, who go
and get the Northern article and thus speculation and fraud, for which thei
and the astute managers of these
enterprises. Think of 20,000 acre;
of land per mile stretching halfacros-
a continent, being donated to a sin
gle corporation.
But now we are ready to look a
causes which induced this reckless]
I
innocent and guilty alike are made
to suffer.
Who will gainsay that increased
Has four years of war and seven of habits of expenditure and extrava- £ els g° 0tl title against.all execution^
and the feverish desire to
grow rich rapidly, are not at the ert J- Under the above decision then
bottom of all this misery and dis- are s * x a PP ea l 3 to Supreme
The “Secession Leaders.”
Nearly every article that has emana
ted from the brain of Whiteley, since
his connection with the Sun, refers to
hose who oppose him politically as “the course exhausts every dollar of t heir
tress? Young men with moderate Court,
salaries, clerks, bank officers, book
keepers, etc., assume to dress and
make the same display in society as
their employers themselves. This of
income, and there is no margin re-
we have shown that this favorite desig- served for a rainy day, or provision
nation of his, of the leaders of the Demo
cratic party, was to arouse the preju
made for the wants of a family,
should they be inclned to marry.
Hence, they are constantly exposed
to temptation, and usually begin
their dowuward career by abstract
ing under the guise of temporary
loans—small sums ffrom the cash Of The only Reliable Gift Distribution in the
their employers, which they undoubt-
ho opposed Whiteley for Congress edly intend, at first, to replace. But
with the means of gratification eomes
the increased desire to indulge in all
.11 his might and main; yet he, one of pursuits and pleasures of the wealthy,
and, once embarked in such a doubt
ed that he never saw him (Whiteley) ful course, conscience soon loses its
because he never made a habit of going fine edge, and becomes blunted and
Radicalism could not live wore it not county fought Secession harder than
that lamented, true and tried Southern
patriot, Hon. Hardy G. Crawford? Yet
hardened to such an extent, as ai
length to offer no impediment to fur
ther depths of depravity and critae
The result is eventual exposure [and
ruin for life. Or, perhaps, an un
holy ambition to speculate on private
in the hour of the South’s peril he account, and cover their footprints,
Ac. These artificial stimulants that stood by her and was with her in the afterwards, by successful ventures
Democratic ranks at the time of his induces the first lqpse from the path
death
We might name “Secession Leaders’
that are now wearing the livery of Radi
calism but we desist. We have gone
far enough to show that Whiteley has cur. Almost every issue of the press
no regard for truth. Divest him of his adds to their number.
sophisty and he stands before you in al!
In conclusion, we would like to knoi
of Whiteley, why the Dickens he is omy,
kicking up such a dust over Secession
ed, and parents train up their chil- paid.
’tis true, when Secession was voted by
v _ the South, yet we don’t remember of any
uuttio^in^LrStelr^c^ effort on Whiteley’s part togfrugality, and 8 et an example in the
crable, diiTsp^^rth^d 11 ^ n“. ^ T“ “ ot 1 °PP oae Sece8sion “fthc root of the evil complained of.
*P awn 01 ‘he devil called voraciously then Dick ? “Why, simply
niD/ir/i/ietu A «.) a .t l .i , * * r
because there was no ’loaves and fishes
Important Decision-
We understand that Judge John
on, of the Chattahoochee Circuit , at
(the late session of Talbot Superior
ourt, made a decision in regard toj
omesteads that had been sold im
ortant to the public. The Talbot-!
[ton Standard, in a late issue, has theg
[following in regard thereto :
In the course of an opinion Judge'
ohnson decided that where a homc-
[stead had been set-a part and after
wards sold prior to the decision ol the|
United States Supreme Court on thej
homestead laws, that the purchaser
Spectacles and Eye-Glasses, Toys and Fancy Goods at Wholesale and|
Retail.
CRESCENT” SPECTACLE
Especial attention is called to the
and EYE-GLASS.
A large assortment of Goods suitable for HOLIDAY and BRI
DAL PRESENTS.
Highest price paid for OLD SILVER, in TRADE OR CASH.
SSL, Watches, Clocks, and Jewelry repaired, with neatness and dis-
g patch, and warranted. V/. C. SUEERS.
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whatever that may be on the prop
Gift Enterprise
Country
$75,000 00
IN VALUABLE GIFTS
To be distributed in
L. I>. SINE’S
164th REGULAR MONTHLY
of rectitude, and the inevitable dis
graceful sequel. It is thus that so|Two Prizes $1000 each, in Green-
many defalcations, thefts, and abuse:
of public and private confidence oc
But it may be asked, what is tin
remedy for all this ? We answer it is
unbraced in one simple word econ
Let extravagance in living, dress,
At this late date ? We were but a boy, and display of every kind be abolish
As matters now stand, the sons am
daughters of men in the most mi#
To be drawn Monday, November 24th, 1873
ONE GRAND CASH PRIZE OF
$5000 In GOLD!
ONE GRAND CASH PRIZE OF
$5000 In Silver
backs!
Six Prizes $500 each in Green
backs !
Ten Prizes $100 each in Greenbacks
1000 Gold and Silver Lever Hunting Watch
es [in all] worth from $20 to $300 each.
Coin Silver Test Chains, Soiid and Double-
plated Silver-ware, Jewelry, Ac. '
Number of Gifts 10.000 ! Tickets limited to
75.000!
Agents wanted to sell Tickets to
Whom Liberal Premiums will be
r *• j ' .^Single Tickets $1 ; Sii Tickets $o ; Twelvi
dren to the habits Of industry andfl^ 5 Tickets $10 ; Twenty-five $20.
w _ Circulars containing a full list of prizes, a
' , .. /_ , ..’.'■description of the manner of drawing, and
premises, and the axe Will be laid to£,th er information in reference to the Distri-
mrion, will be sent to any one ordering
Rem. All letters must be addressed to
KA1X OFFICE
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Cheap Farms in Socih-wkst Minctn!
The Atlantic A Pacific RailnmJ
jffers 1,200,000acres of land in CentnluJ
pout Invest Missouri, at from $5 to _
acre, on seven years time, with (We tnia-
]>ortation from St. Louis to all purchawn.
Climate, soil, timber, mineral wealth, schools,
( lamdies and law-abidinp society inriteMF
itirants from all points to this land of fnuti
and flowers. For particulars address, A.
Tuck, Land Commissioner, St. Louis Mo
May 13-ly.
TO THE WEST! TO THE WEST!
Before making our arrangements to f4-
low the advice of the “thousands who bin
ilrendy gone,” it would be well to consider
what has b3en done to make thejoumer to
yonr “Homes in the West” as pleusant ud
as free from danger as human skill and (or-
fight can accomplish.
By consolidation and construction > rad
las been put into operation on the shortest
ssible line from Nashville, Tenn., to St
ouis, “the future great City of the world.’
This line, the
St. Lotus A Southeastern RulwiT,
las, during the past year, earned un entii-
jble repnhition by its smooth track, prompt
ime, sure connections, and the inagniS-
;cnee of its passenger equipment Itstnim
ire made up of new nnd commodious day
iis, provided with the celebrated Millet I
rapier and platform, and the westmgbnuw
lir-brake. ;
It is positively the ouly line mnninp Poll- I
(man Palace Drawing-Ib's-ni Sleeping fun I
brough without change (rum Nashvilk If I
t. Lotus. No other line pretends to ofc J
;uch advantages, either in distance, timer I
qurpinent. Why, tlieu, journey by cirruit-1
Inas routes ’/ Do not boiudiuied to pnrdu-f
ftiekets to St. Lotiis or the West by oite
'jline, remembering that
The “St. Louis A Southeast!®!"
the shortest, cheapest, quickest, best aid
ejonly line under oue luaiuigemcnl fpim-Nufk-1
• • illc to St Louis, and is from HO p.ddimto *
he shortest to St. Louis, Kansas City, (to-
ui, Denver, California, Terns, and ull
(western points. It is also the --ChiopJ
(Shortest line,” via Evansville.
You cjm secure the cheapest rates for ««*■
Ives and your movables on application a
loeTson or by letter, to Charles McCiba
•outhern Passenger Agent, nair CoUnN
itreet Depot, Nashville. Tenn., oi to w
lundersigned.
W. B. DAYENPOBT.
General Ticket Agent, St. Loa
No trouble to answer qnestiong : __^
Simon A. Weil
This merchant’s establishment D
actually overflowing with new W
and winter gootls. He offers indof*
incuts second to no other dealer u
iwn read his advertisement.
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Important to Teachers.
The teachers of the public sen*
in Decatur county, arc request**
meet at the* Court House, w >
ountv, Saturday at 9 o clock,
ct. 11, 1873. .
The objects of the Conventional
■ 1st. To elect a delegate
[sent the county in the next *
State Convention. ... .yj
I 2d. To lacilitate if possible; t
bor of teachers by ohtamjufj
iews of the most experience T
rs and educators of ^
county as to the best m ^
n- erning and discipline sch
® TH best mode of teaching <1^%
^ ies, which can be best ebuiaw J
free interchange of opimo«- ticl
3rd. To adopt as soon
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4th. To adopt a uniform 0
number ot hours lor ^ |
day and to fix uniform ’
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The teachers
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attetxh
schools are reques.-— nnW te*e*
other teachers whoa ^f 2 J bef
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SAMUEL S,
President Boi
Education
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George
D. McGill,
County School Com.
1W
POSTPONEDSHEB^
EORGIA—DECATIR ^ ho** ,
WILL be sold hef« r «‘ h on the it*
i the city of Bainbn^ (he0 sB»l
day in October be ^yio* 1 *:
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