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r A ^ A % % i f x {■ —*v Volume 5- BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, JUNE 22, 1876 Number 86 Democratic Convention- TV Democratic party of the counties of uur, Mitchell and Miller are request- n hold Conventions in their respective inties, to appoint delegates to a Oon- rention to meet in Bainbridge on Wednes- the 19th of July next, for the pur «of nominating a candidate for the inte, for the 8th Senatorial District. By usage of the party in this Senatorial wet, each county is entitled to three ! gates for each Militia District in the itml counties. This June 12th, 1876. W. O. Fleming, One of the District Executive Gomrait- Te Whom it May Concern- Ifeafter all personal communications ■The Democrat relating to the fitness lufitness of this or that man for of- Uill be charged at the rate of twenty |*nts per line. Announcements of KaVea, of ten lines or less, to run un- juof clectiou, $10. We see no mo.e 6 why we should give aspirants and lienchmen the use of our columns Icharge, than that our grocer should pa* our daily rations for -nothing. i are in favor of anybody for gov- (jongressinan, legislator, sheriff, or- constable, ad infinitum, bring pr recommendations, and we will Iitliem, provided you accompany iili the CASH. Fhe Weokly Democrat BEN. E. ftUSSELL, - Proprietor. Ben E. Russell, - - R. M. Johnston, editors. Bainbridge, Ga., June 22, 1876. Me. Jno. D. Harrell is the General Agent of the Democrat, and is authorized to receipt for subscriptions and ad^pEtising, AMONG OUST NEIGHBORS. SOM & HAMLIN ROANS. deft lias been re-ap- County Court of r-EST \ND CHEAPEST. 00 MADE AND SOLD J. v !cst Terms for Pavmeut. r •A 1 NEW STYLES- BETTER. ;COg AND BEFORE PRODUCED. 'Double Reed, Seven Stops, min. S. ' Resonant Case $150 p—Double Reed, Nine Stops, 'Rpsonant Case $156 'Three Sets Reeds, Nine Stops, , with Revolving Fall-board- $200 'Double Reed, Seven Stops, in Pfrere style Case, with Plate r Richly Ornamented and CarV- ftbove) $225 H) UNTIL PAID FOR. f trom above prices, for cash s’y payments. Send for illus- tue give full description of es under the various plans of ‘VM fESIRABLE STY r LES W. $110 and $125. ier direct from [eii Ag Rates, KNAH, GEORGIA. &E S O UTHERXA G T. p—lm. Jake Born. s, e<l by this gentleman to • l ? will take in exchange for saddles, or work, in his Pn>d«ce, hides, etc. Now (people. Joseph T. Kiddoo has become asso ciate editor of the Cuthbert Messenger. The Superior Court exhausted the Jury- box in Terrell county without making up a Jury in the Bowen case. The case has been transferred to Randolph county. The Quitman Gem is bragging on cotton blooms. The Waycross Headlight has started a Blackshear department with Dr. A. M. Moore as editor. The Early County Hews has seen a specimen of meal made out of -the eora- mon oats of the country. The Hews thinks it would make very rough bread. Spring fights have not opened yet in Quitman. Late about it. The thieves-are still on the rampage in Albany, and a vigilance committee is spoken of. The Atlanta Commonwealth says, it is within the knowledge of the Editor of that paper that hopeful negotiations have been pending some time, for an early completion, to llpfaula, of the Brunswick & A\ p< ietfcaJud; Brooks. $540,(.00 in Georgia bonds were sold at a premium ou Saturday last. Every bond 5 ol 1 at a premium. Mr. J. II. Jones took $50,000 worth, Mr. W. A. Words, of Sa vannah, $50,000, and Gen. Lawton- and Mr. Greshan, of Macon, large quantities. Over $340,00 of the issues were sold in Georgia, and the balance in New York. This is good for Georgia’s credit. We believe Southwest Georgia is really in love with Ben Hill. Hear the Cuthbert ! Messenger: “The Augusta Chronicle & • Sentinel says: “How will J. M. Smith do fbr United States Senator?” He will do very well, but B. II. Hill will do much better.” The Talbotton Standard very cheerful ly icmarks: “The people of Georgia have the brightest prospect before them now, in the way of pecuniary prosperity : that they have enjoyed for fifteen years.” Miss Lilly Harrison, aged 15, daughter ■ of Rev. W. P. Harrison, D. D., of At lanta, jumped into the Chattahoochee river at Columbus, on Monday last, and was drowned. No cause is known for the rash -act. The Atlanta Commonwealth says : Col. B G. Lokett and Col. L. A. Jordan are in the city. They bring good ne'Ws from Southwest Georgia. The corn c r op is the best since 1864, wheft more watfg.thered than could be housed, and thd planters are looking out for stock to consume the surplus. Col. Lcckett and Col'. Jordan have resolved to give more attention to stock-raising and less to cotton producing in the future. They will select fine breeds during the summer. Two interesting relics have been given to (lie Thomasville museum. One is a fragment of shell fired from the Confeder ate guns at Fort Sumpter, April 13th ’61. The other is a pen staff made from a piece of the flag staff which bore our flag on that ever memorable occasion. Curthbert Messenger : Col. -Hood says that he has cotton ou his Calhoun place that is hip high. The Colonel makes no specialty of cotton either, for he has corn for sale now. Cuthbert Messenger: What cafi be more grating to an editor’s nerves, than for a Albany Hews; An immigration society has been formed in Bainbridge. That is what every town and county of the State should do. Make an honest, strong effort to turn the tide of immigration into our own section. Thomasville Times: A prominent plan ter in this county remarked to us this week that he had planted three acres in rice, which at a low estimate,would make seventy-five bushels; but that he had and knew no means of having it properly clean ed and prepared. There will be thous ands of bushels of rice made in Thomas county this year Will not some enter prising individual put .up*, a first-class mill? Quitman Reporter-. We hear from all parts of this county and from the adjoin ing counties in Florida that the crops are just as good as could be desired. The present spell of wet weather will make all of the forward or early planted corn, and the prospects are that it will be the most abundant crop ever made in the country. The next year will be a good time for imigrants to come into our country, as severe for comfort and they can be supplied |cheaply with pto- visions of all kinds. Albany Hews : Several months ago Mr. John D. Luke, ex-Postmaster at Alapaha' Berrien county, in making final settlement with the Department, fell short $150 or $200 which his bondsmen had to pay. One of these bondsmen was Mr. Thomas Paulk, one of the best, roost peaceable and respected citizen of Berrien county, and the father of Mr. Lake’s wife, from whom he is seperated. -Mr. Paulk had a warrant issued against Luke for embezzle ment, and United States Marshal Sinythe, of Savannah, placed this warrant in the hands of Mr. C. W. Arnold, of this city, with instructions to arrest Luke. On Tuesday morning last, as Luke was aboHt to take the B. & A. train homeward bound he was halted by Mr. Arnold, and held in custody till the departure of the A. & G. train, which he boarded under! charge of Mr. Joel W. Joiner, bound for the “Forest City,” there to answer the se rious charge prefered against him. — IMMIGRATION TO SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. We notice from our exchanges that a lively interest is being manifested by the people and press, in several counties, to turn the tide of Immigration to South west Georgia. And while these efforts to direct the attention ot labor and capi tal irom the cold and rigorous climate of the North and North west to our own delightful sunny land are being energeti cally made by some of the counties, we earnestly hope that our county,Randolph, will be no less active in a matter that will add so much to her material prosperity. Only a few years ago Eastern Florida was sparsely settled, comparatively unknown and undeveloped; but by the united ef forts of a few men of energy, who were judicious advertisers, by circulars and o herwise, attention was directed to her many attractions for. pleasant homes—to her manifold resources of wealth—and the tide of immigration set in and still flows hither from those parts of the No/th and North-west, where the climate ft too health. Where once were dark everglades and tangled hammocks, rich in luxuriant wild growth, now has sprung up fruit orchards, vege table farms not to be excelled, and ever bearing orange groves. And while, only a short time ago, her beautiful inland lakes and winding streams charmed the eye of ODly an occasional settler ot wan derer; now their banks are thickly dotted with cosy cottages, the happy homes of emigrants, who have gone there for health aud fortune. Her productive soil has been utilized, and in short, East Florida has been made to blossom like the rose. All this has been accomplished- by patience, energy, industry and an inde fatigable determination on the part of a few, to show up and develop the advan tages of that State. Now, South-west Georgia has been n called the “garden spot” of the i. Our lands are as fertile as those of Florida—our climate more delightful and healthy—our undeveloped resources superior—and all that is necessary to make our lands valuable and our sectio Tne Washington (D. C.) Gantts «ay«; emory Mtravels back to the time When ft member of Congress stood at the bar ol the House of Representatives to be repri manded by the Speaker. The former was Oakes Ames, the latter James G. Blaine. Ames was accused of haring distributed Pacific railway construction bonds among members for the purpose of securing votes in aid of that enterprise, and hwl admitted the truth of the allegation. Blaine was the representative of the ma jesty of an offended commonwealth. Virtue and vice stood confronted on thftt august occasion in the eyes of an awe stricken people. Who is the knave now? The grand old man who went into the market and bought the things he fOftftd for sale, is in bis grave. There were those even then who suspected that the better of the two was the culprit at the bar; now they know it. Let no man say theNetaae- sis is an accident. It doe* seem a Kttle remarkable to me I prosperous is to make these advantages that you cannot touch one of these railroad * **rd resources known to those insearch of companies but what the gentleman from j pleasant aud prosperous homes. Cuthbert cssenMgcr. Maine squeals. [Laughter ] Yes, sir, and I have no dotibt it struck Mr. Harrison as a little remarkable, when that seventy-five thousand dollar bond transaction Was men tioned in a meeting of directors of the Union Pacific Railroad, that the Treasurer should say: “Do not say anything about . , , . , ,, . , , that; it will rain Blaine.’’ [Renewed laugh- 111 eference to the present Georgia dele- The Georgia Delegation. Reese, the Washington correspondent ot the Macon Telegraph & Messenger, in a late letter to that paper has this to say gation being returned to the 45th Con gress : GEORGIA IN THE HOUSE. The news from Georgia as heard her t , is that there is a strong disposition in every district to return to the 45th Con- bonds ; over bis Kansas Pacific bonds ;’g ress the present delegation. What the ter.]—Proctor Knott’s Speech. Blaine has squealed pretty often since Congress met. He has squealed over bis Sioux City bonds ; over his Burlington and Chicago bonds ; over his Little Rock 'The Colored Delegates at CisciNXATr,— The chairman of the Alabama delegation to the Cincinnati Convention applied at the Walnut Street House in that city for accom modations for the entire delegation, but the proprietor finding that it was partly Com posed of colored men, flatly refused to ac commodate them. The proprietor* of the four leading hotels—the Grand, the ifctrnet, the Gibson and the St. James—have, how ever, agreed to receive delegates VritlMut re^ gard to race, color, or previous condition oj servitude, and to give the colored delegates the same accommodations for the same price as the white delegates. Respectable white people visiting Cincin nati hereafter will inquire for the Walnut 8treet House, A Joke ia a joke no matter if it does hit % Democrat. The other day,, after a meeting of the Judiciary Committee, at Which there had been the usual exchange of compli ments between the Chairman, Mfr. Knott, and Mr. Blaine, Mr. Knott sought Mr. Frye, a confidential friend of the Man from Maine, and said : ‘‘Mr. Frye your friend Mr. Blaine, is the damdest scoundrel in the see the poiui, said perhaps he had been two hasty, and begged pardon-. The joke is pointed by one from over the water. Two of the Emperor of Austra's sons were quar* rolling and one said to the other: YeU ar* the greatest ass in Vienna.’* You forget that I ain present,’* said the angry father. over his Northern Pacific bonds ; over his Spencer rifle contracts, and various other “investments” as he calls them. But he will have to squeal still more. The sur face of this enterprising patriot has barely been stretched. There is a mine of wealth yet to be opened, and when it is all brought out, there will be a good many envious and indignant Republicans, who will think themselves badly treated, for having been left out in the cold, or for ? ;etting an inferior share of the plunder, or which they voted early and often.— H Y Sun. views and intentions of any of these gen tlemen are, I am not informed. They have not consulted me,, and I certainly have not sought theit confidence ; know ing aud warmly esteeming them all as I do, it would perhaps only be natural that some such confidences should be exchang ed, but the truth is just as stated above. It is, however, only bare justice to them to say here, as I do with an emphasis, founded upon and justified by my own judgment and observation, and supple mented by that of others of large expe rience and perfect impartiality, that they all justly deserve that compliment. I do not believe any State in the Union has been'iuore faithfully and efficiently served than Georgia in this Congress. For talent, industry, wisdom, moderation and influ ence, no State can boast any superiority to ours. I say this deliberately and in the fullest beliief that lam not overstating the case. As I said before, I do not man to drop into his easy chair, pick up some old exchange, which has been read and thrown under the table for a week, read aloud an article, laugh heartily and then ask the editor fora chew of tobacco or hint that it is J»is treat? North and South. In his address on decoration day, Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago, said: “I count every attempt to rake up the old trouble a violent, bitter thing, un worthy of our nation and our great An- _ __ glo-Saxon family, and I am ashamed of j know that a single one of them desires to the men of my own State who could sry return ; but if they do, I am sure their the thing that has just been said in our constituents will make no mistake in, nor own State Capital that they might add ever have cause for regret by sending wormwood to gall. VVe are- one family them back. I put this judgment on re- North and South. We can only work out cord as the result of careful and thorough- that destiny through peace and good will, ly impartial, observation, and by it I am On this summer morning, as we stand to- : willing to stand or fall. If it were only gether, the dust of these dead men is ris-' the result of my own experience and ing. The Sun cannot tell which is rebel judgment I might well hesitate to frame dust and which is loyal. It is all one to it so f rcibly, but it is not, and therefore The Cincinnati Enquirer Bays themeam est men in the Republican National Con vention are the white men from the South. As a gener 1 thing they are for sale, while the negroes from that, section are fl led with the grandeur ef profound convic tions. It is said to be quite difficult tQ purchase a colored delegate, but wheft . one of Senator Jones’ silver brick-bats strikes a man from the South he surreft- ders and squeaks for Co Hiding. This is bad. very bad. for the white delegates-, and as a good many of them are sam to have sold out to Morton before they left home, it is also bad, very bad, for the owner of the original incarnadined under 4 clothing. We would like for somebody to tell us how “the slate” stands if Gen. Colquitt is elected. In these degenerate days it is so hard to find anybody working for any body else from purely disinterested mo tives that we are foreed to inquire if any promises nave been made to any any, to be fulfilled in the event of Gen. Coiqftitt’S election/ We have heard some rumore* but want something a little more definite before we call any name*.—ThomamiUt Elite i-pri-ie. the sun Such sentiments as these, says the St. Louis Republican, are worthy of a Chris tian and a patriot, and we are glad to see j““ e * it." such a severe rebuke from such a source administered to the fanatics who built the Republican platform at Sprinfield. It is only cowards who exult over a vanquish ed foe ; it is only vultufeS and byenas.who feed upon the bodies of the slain. I commit myself to its expression so un reservedly. ’ But it is for the people at last to endorse or reject this judgment, and with them all should be content to I certainly am. The papers both West and South are almost unanimous in the expression of the opinion that to carry the election in November, New York must be secured. Mulligan Returns to the Charge. —In an interview with a representative of j the New York Graphic, Mulligan, the witness against Blaine, insisted that the ex-Speaker did not produce all the letters in his explanation on Mon dev, but read only such as suited his purpose, in some instances omitting to read them according He says the apparently ir- This information from the Aftgttsta Chronicle and Sentinel will be gratifying to the friends of Mr. Stephens throughout the union : “The : ndications are that Mott Alexan der H. Stephens will be returned to con gress from this section without having any opposition, either in the convention or at the polls. His health is improving rapidly and we hope to heat of him in his seat before congress adjourns.” Colonel Hardeman recently made ft speech in Rome. The Courier says 4 “He touched upon our domestic affairs, and, speaking of our languis ing indus tries, suggested a more rigid economy ift everything, and, above all, the wisdom of producing more at home than we buy abroad. State politics was briefly refer red to. and in reference to the ring, once so glibbily whispered over the State by the Atlanta schemers, he avowed that if there was such a ring, it found ita head and centre in that city, and was manipu lated by the very men who are moat in dustriously decrying it.” ‘When I goes a-shopping,” said ah old ‘I alters ask for what I wants, and to the text. „ s . relevant letters were cunningly substituted lady, . ,, . ., and that Governor Tilden is the only j by Blaine for the originals. Mulligan : if they have it, and it s suitable, and I i<m Democrat who can certainly carry New \ expects to be recalled by the sub-Judicia- j inclined to take it, and it s cheap, an<L» York. This being the general eeling, ry Committee, and avows himself able to 'can’t be got at anv place im - less, I almost Tilden’s nomination appears to be a cer- show the discrepancies between his»allers take it, without chaffering aeont« tainty.—H. 0 Sentinel and Guide. ’ memorandum and Blaine’s statement. ' all day, as most people do.