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) Published Every Thursday y “HERE SHALL THE PRESS TILE PEOPLES RTGIITS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN” ■{ Two Dollars Per Annum. Volume V. BArvmrt»tiE, geokgia, Thursday, august 10, is76. Number 43 Address of Maston O’Neal, Esq., Chairman County Executive Com mittee- lUntTintnoE, Ga., August 2d, 1870, Ti '• Democratic and CoHscrcattvc pang of Incatur County.— 11: low Citizens: By resolution of your Kv'.utive Commiuce il has been made my ■luiy os Chairman of said Committee, to undress you on this occasion. The time is fast approaching when we must place before people our candidates for the Legislature, ni well as county officers. To that end, each member of the Executive Committee, in the M-vcra] Districts in the county, will cal! a meeting of the Democratic and Conservative voters of said Districts to assemble at. their respective precincts, and select three dele gates to represent said District in the nomi nating convention, to lte held in Dai abridge on Wednesday the GtW day of September next. I would here suggest that fifteen or twenty days notice be given before the time of meeting, in order that the voters of the whole District may he informed of the time nnd place of meeting. And the Committee would also urge upor every voter the im portance of attending those primary meet ings. and to select true and capable men to make nominations for the several high and important offices in your county, for in tiicse primary assemblies lie tlie power of the people. We do earnestly request every voter to come out and exercise the authority guaranteed to him in these conventions. The Executive Committee also desire and request the several Districts to organize one or mote Campaign Clubs, on or before the ■I'li Saturday in August, and to furnish the Chairman oftliis Committee with a full list of the officers of the same, and their respec tive post office addresses. The Executive Committee directs me ns Chairman to urge upon the people, and especially the voters of the county, the great importance of taking our home or "county newspaper, the B.uxmtniGE Dbjio- cuat. D is a channel of information to the propte on all countj affair*, us well as State and national politics. The Dkmocii at labor ed zealously and with great effect in oar ! isl campaign, and there is no doubt lmt our 'unprecedented success "as a pony iu this county and Congressional District was in no small degree effected by the repealed as saults nnd blows, skillfully directed, by the 1 ii More at against our opponents. Several hundred copies of the 1) luuciat w ere dis tributed in 1 S7d, partly at the expense of ‘the Central Demo.-vatic Club of 15linbridge, mid gratis by the Editor. Den E. I!iis»el!, throughout our county. The Executive Committee earnestly request that the sever al Clubs in the county take this matter specially in charge, an 1 procure as many mi iscribers for the Dmmouoat rs possible, and where parties are unable to pay for the paper, each club should make up a small fund to furnish it to them, at lea-t (Irving She campaign. By this means tire Democuat will be distributed broadcast throughout the county, and while this will sustain our home paper, it ill at the same time have a telling effect for good iu the coming elec tions. 1 find by reference to the Tax Digest for 3871* for this county, that there are 1145 white polls, 1084 colored polls returned, showing f»l more white than colored voters. Of course this docs not represent truly all the voters in the county, lmt it is a pretty correct approximation to the true numbers. The census of 1870 show that the white peo pie in this county were in (he majority at 'that time about one hundred, and it is believed by some of our most intelligent citi zens that more of the colored people have emigrated from the county than of the whites since that date. This being true, and the fact that the Republican party in this coun ty look, I may say, almost, wholly to the "colored race for their strength and support, should we not be encouraged at the outlook? Yes; at a fair prospect of success at our elec tions this fall. Then let us rally t he Demo cratic and Conservative h osts of our county around our standard— 'the standard of Reform, Economy and Retrenchment—the standard that has emblazoned on its folds—equal and exact Jus- 'tice. to all—Injury to none. To do this let us not enter the campaign with the extre mists argument, the fiery abuse of our oppo nents, nor with the language of the “milk and cider"’ politician, but with bold decla rations of right and justice, let us deal with facts. We have enough of them. As “eternal vigilance is the price of liber ty,”so are unity-, harmony and activity the only guarantees of political success. Let us, beyond all things, hate unity and harmony in our ranks—forget whatever of dissatisfac tion may have heretofore marred our feel ings or "relaxedpur patriotic efforts, and now- pusli forward in one common cause for the good of our country ; and 83 a party, with that activity that guarantees success, arise as ose max, on the day of election, and tri umphantly bear our candidates into offiee. And now, in conclusion, as the party of progress in securing reform, retrenchment and economy in the administration of gov ernment and the ultimate redemption and prosperity of the country, we earnestly in vite all persons of whatever nationality, race, or former political creed, who are willing to conform to the principles of the Democratic and Conservative party, to allign themselves with us in our patriotic efforts to obtain good government, and we will hail their advent with pleasure, and guarantee them a cordial reception. Respectfully Maston O’Neal Chairman Democratic Committee Decatur County. riie Weekly Democrat. BEN. E. RUSSELL, Proprietor. Bainbndffe, Georgia, August 10, ’76. Ma. Jxo. D. Harrell is the General Agent cf the Democrat, and is authorized to receipt for suliscriptions and advertising. AMONG OUR NEIGB80SS. The Dawson Journal says cotton in Terrell has the rust, and is shedding badly. Clay county recommended Col. Harde man for United States Senator. Mrs. Haines wife of G. W. Haines died at her residence, on the Tallahassee place, Oaky Grove, near Albany, Monday morn ing at 9 o’clock and was buried in the Al bany Cemetery, Tuesday morning. Rev. Mr. Mallory officiating. Her remains were followed to the grave by a large number of 'ovrcwing friends and relatives. The terms of the notaries public all over the State expired last week, and Gov. SmiJt is now eppointing new ones. Albany New. Keep aa eye on all In dependents, and as soon as one announces in opposition to the regular Democratic Candidate, give him a whack over the head and eyes, that will so blind him, that ho can’t see his waj- into the ranks of the Radical party. The Methodists of Thomasville are carrying on a protracted meeting. Thomasville Is eating ripe peaches. The recent rains seem to have been general throughout the State, doing much good and cooling the atmosphere to such an extent in some localities as to render fires desirable. Seven persons are charged with murder and about ninety as accessories by the jury of inquest in the Hamburg riot. Of the latter sixty are Georgians The Quitman Gem prints this deserving compliment to a Georgian: ‘ Mr. fftn. 11. Dart, of St. Simon’s Island, paid our town a visit "recently, and of coarse could not go away without leaving his.subscrip lion for the Gem, which he did in true Georgia style by paying a year in ad vance. Albany shipped the first bale this, sea son, but it was grown in RikerT'ouut.y. Quiini iu is a good deal worried with sore eyes. Quitman has a society of "upper tens.” According to the Receiver’s books there are but 4,278 sheep in Brocks county-; 534 were killed by ■ loirs. Dawson Taunutl: The yield of Capt. Pulton’s five acre patch of wheat was about 85 bush -Is. Does this not evince the truth that all the Hour consumed in Southiv st Georgia could, with but little cost nr iroublbe raised at home. An oi l bachelor editor says: “When we reflect tliit at pic hies, a hundred years ago, it was the custom for the girls to stand up in a row and let the then kiss' them al! good-bye, all this enthusiasm ahoot national progress seems to be a great mistake. Fort Gaines prances to the front with a beet 27 inches in circumference. The foundry department of the Rolling Mills of the Messrs. Findley Bros., of Macon, was destroyed by fire last week. Incendiary. The catterpillars have as yet done no serious damage in Dougherty county. The Cuthbert messenger prints this sensible paragraph: “The Balnbridge Democrat, we arc glad to see,lias resum ed it’s former size and is more full of news and sparkling reading matter than ever. It deserves the patronage of the people in that section and we trust that not one jot of its usefulness rnay be cut off by the want of a proper support.” Dawson Journal: “Several young ladies went swimming in Mr. J. M. Critn’s mill pond, tlte oilier day. Jim is a sensible boy, and thinks of bilin’ that pond down and "making ’lasses of it.” The colored Methodist’s near Cuthbert are camping out. Query: Who writes up the Mayor's Court for the Cuthbert Messenger, George Francis Train, or Bill Arp? There arc 66,014 acres of land under fence in Brooks county. Andrew Female College at Cuthbert, begins exercises on the 19lh September. Quitman Gem: We are pleased to note that our sprightly neighbor the Cam bridge Democrat has again assumed its original size. We hope the people of Decatur will see that under its present management it will not have to reduce iu size again. Savannah New One of the features of the commencement exercises of the State University at Athens was the delive ry on Monday evening last of an address before the two literary societies of that institution by Colonel John Screven, of this city. The fundamental idea of Coio- uel Screven’s address was that universal motion or activity is essential to universal existence. The subject was treated with that ripe scholarship, profound research, pithiness of argument, pungency of ex pression, and rare facility for capturing the subtleties of thought characteristic of the distinguished orator. At the conclu sion of the oration. Chancellor Tucker advanced to the platform and warmly congratulated Col. Screven, thanking him in behalf of the societies and the audi ence. Albany New A planter from Calhoun county reports (bat be will make enough corn from cue quarter of an acre to bread his white family “consisting of himself wife and one child,” for one year. He is now selling and loaning corn to his neigh bors of the present year's growth, having planted a few acres of extra early corn. Would it not be well for each farmer to adopt the same plan, the coming year. Albany Ne<c»: On Monday our boys were somewhat excited over a telegram to the commanding officer of the Albany Guards, purpoting to be from Governor Smith, for an immediate report of the number of men lie could muster for active service. Tiie Company could have mus tered one hundred men; bGt it turned out to be a hoax, gotten up to vary the mon otony. It was a very clever trick, and its originator must have felt some satis faction at the result. A few were ‘sold,’ but none will admit it. Early County News: The Cuthbert boys seem to be in a disorganized condi tion, generally. After having challenged the Dawson boys for a game of base ball on the 4th inst., they failed to make their appearance, and appologized throng!: the columns of the Aj>pcnl, attributing their failure to their disorganized condition. The “disorganized condition” of the Guards prevented them from being pres ent at the Battalion drill at this place on the 20th. Organize, gentlemeu organize' Fort. Gaines Messenger: There is a far mer living near Fort Gaines that owns a “yaller” bitch named “Dixie,” that fol lows the guinea-hens daily, and whenever one lays, or she hears one cackle, she runs immediately to the uest and covers up the egg with straw or leaves,and what is remarkable, she has never been known to eat or break an egg. If “Dixie” can’t hide the roost from the chicken brigade, she can the nest, and thus far she has suc ceeded finely. “Harrah for Dixie.” Thomasville Enterprise: That the late drought did considerable damage to all the growing crops there can be no doubt. The yield of corn, which before promised so well, dies been generally cut short and in many localities to a very great extent. The fodder, also, has ripened premature ly and much of it rendered valueless. Cotton is rusting and dying and many fields will mature no more fruit. This, at least, is the condition of the few fields that we have seen, and a gentleman who ought to be posted, gives it his opinion that the crops are . now made—in other words, that no more bolls will mature. If this be so, the crop will be cut off very nearly or quite one-half. Altogether the outlook is discouaaging, and it behooves the farmer to be unusually dilligent and frugal in husbanding and appropriating Iris crops. POLITICAL CONDENSATIONS. Take vour time, Mr. Tildcn. The tax payers all know what you are going to say. After all, it it is the masses that should he reformed. The dead heads that have been to the Piiiladelph.a exhibition art- said to number-63,921. Seven Johns adorn the Missouri Demo cratic ticket. Reginald and Augustus don’t seem to be coming out this year. The respectable Republicans will give .$100,009 for a copy of one of the reform speeches made by Mr. Hayes while in Congress. Mr. Hayden, of Hartford, Ccnu., has come out for Hayes and Wheeler. He came out of the penitentiary, on a pardon from Grant. Democrats North and South may as well understand that every black man iu the South is to be proteted in all his rights as an American citizen. The Re publican party accepts that issue.—[To ledo Blade.] And will immediately pro ceed to put up another freedmen’s bank. When men are lynched in the Southern and Western States, the sneaks who mur der them usually go by night and wear masks. In the North, the mob goes by daylight, and when the work has been done the names of the members of the mob are published with laudation in a big daily newspaper. It is aunouuced in an Administration paper that Mr. Thomas Wentworth Hig- ginson is convinced that the Southern whites do not yet accept the results of the war. If the protuberant Mr. Higginson’s friends, who have been stealing ever since the war, would return some of the “results,” they would be accepted. Warmoth, of Louisianua, is reported to have said, about the sending of soldiers to that State: “We don’t want any white troops in Louisiana. They affiliate with the people too soon and we can’t use them. We want the colored regiments to intimi date the niggers and prevent them from joining Democratic organizations.” Western Massachusetts is coming lip nobly for Tilden and Reform. The Chinese question is one of the elements of the canvass in that section, and the working-men express themselves as dis satisfied with the equivocation of the Re publican platform on this matter, while they heartily approve the position of the Democratic party. The campaign already' “rows warm in Ohio, Judge Stallo, General Brinkerhoff, and Fred Hassaureb, the great Liberal leaders who supported Hayes for Gover nor last fall, are plunging into the thick of the tight iu behal: of Tilden and Hen dricks, and this means a hotly contested and aggressive canvass on the part of the I Democracy. Nathan Goff, who was nominated for Governor by the West Virginia Republi cans last week, has already been tw ! ce defeated for Congress in the least Demo cratic district in the State. No doubt is entertained that he will be as successful in his race for Governor as for Congress Mr. Goff is now the United States Dis trict-Attorney for West Virginia. WHAT THE SOUTH HAS DONE FOlt THE REPUBLIC [Baltimore Sun.] In the address of Gen D. i3. Hill before the Mecklenburg (N. C.) His torical Society, which is republished in the May number of the “Southern His torical Society Papera,” some interest- ; ing facts are revived as to the conlribu- j tions which the South has made to the j military and civil service repub lic. Regiitrfihg with the fact that the commaudor-in-chief of thp first great rebellion was a Virginian, it is added that the South furnished troops out of all proportion to the number of her population. Almost ali the battle-fields of the North were drenched with South ern blood. At the battle of Long Is land (Brooklyn) a regiment of Mary landers fought so stoutly and checked the British advance so long that it was virtually destroyed. Half the victors ofTrentou and Princeton were from Virginia- Two future presidents of the United States, of Southern birth, were in that battle, one of whom was wounded. The only general officer there slain was from Fredericksburg, Virginia, and he was commanding Southern troops. The retreat at White Plaius was saved from disaster by a charge of Southern troops, and at Ger mantown a Southern brigade gained immortal honor. The Virginia troops bore the brunt of the battle of Brandy wine. At Monmouth and on the plains of Saratoga Southern blood mingled with Northern in the battles of freedom. After (he massacre by the Indians in the valley of Wyoming, 1776, George Rogers Clarke, of Virginia, with a bri- g de of his countrymen, penetrated to the upper Mississippi, chastised the sav ages, captured the British garrison at Detroit, and seized £10,000 sterling, a most seasonable addition to our cur rency. In the war oflS12 Harrison and Jackson, Southern men, gained the most laurels as shown by the elevation of both of them to the Presidency for their military prowess. The most bril liant land fights of that war were in de fense of New Orleans, Mobile, Craney Island and Baltimore, in which few but .Southern t: oops were engaged. While the North may have furnished more of the naval heroes in that contest, yet the war of 1S12 was unpopular in New England, and the South again furnish ed in,ire than her proportion of troops. Kentucky is said to have furnished more troops for the invasion of Canada than anv State in the Union. If we read of the bloody battles in Canada we are struck with the number of South era officers there engaged, mostly gen eral officers—Wilkinson. Tzzard, Win der, Drayton, Hampton. Scott, Towson, Brooke, Gaines, &<r The supplies of the army iu the Revolution and in the- war of 1812 came largely from the South. In the .Mexican war the com manders of both American armies were Virginians, one of whom (Taylor) ue- came president, and the other ah unsuc cessful candidate for the Presidency. Two-thirds of the volunteer troops of that war were from the South. Even in the late civil war the Federal Presi dent was a Southern born man, and the first commander-in-chief, Whose plait for the subsequent conduct of the war was probably that which was finally successfully acted on, was a Virginian. Next to Grant nud Sherman, whose leading military conceptions were, per haps, derived from Gen. Scott, the most successful Federal generals were South ern men, viz., Thomas, Canbv, Blair, Sykes, Ord, Getty, Anderson, Nelson, &e. General Hill declares that the stubborn resistance of Gen. Thomas at Cbickamauga and the refusal of An drew Johnson to give up Nashville, as Buel directed, dug the grave of the Confederacy. Farragut, of Tennessee, rose to the highest rank in the Federal navy. The naval forces at Hatteras were under command of Goldsborougb, of Maryland. General Hill is of opin ion that the South furnished as many troops to the Federal army as did the populous North. At any rate there were no better troops in the Union ser vice. Missouri gave 108,773 soldiers to the Federal army, Kentucky 92,000, and Maryland 49,730. Other South ern States contributed in greater or less degree. In all there were 400,000 na tive born Southerners in the Federal service. This does not include the 250,000 negro troops, without whom Mr. Stanton said that “the life of the nation” could not have been saved— which, though, is generally regarded as bosh. In regard to the loss of life in the battles of the late war, General H'll, states that since the introduction of firearms the losses sustained in the great battles of the world have only in rare cases been so much as a fourth of the troops engaged, and (hey range from that up to one-twentieth. The Confederates thought that battle almost a skirmish in which their losses did not exceed a fourth. Tried by this test Europeau fighting has been child’s play in comparison. “I am ashamed for strangers to see my barefoot, ragged hoys in camp,” said General Lee to an English visitor, “but I would be glad for all the word to see them on the field of battle.” It is not necessary to follow General Hill’s sketch of the political services of the South to the country from the be ginning of Washington's administration to that of General Grant. Without disparaging either the military or the civil services of the North to the Re public, it may be well in this centenni al y •• to revive the memory of what toe South, too, has done for the com mon country,and to vindldate the truth of history. POLITICAL TAMPERINGS- We have respect for Mr Tilden. We nfler nothing in disparagement of hit character or his worth.—[Albany (N. Y.) Journal, Rep. We congratulate our Democratic friends on being led by so respectable a standard-bearer as Samuel J. Tilden. —[Poughkeepsie Eagle (Rep.) President Grant shows signs of Fa tigue in holding the country up by the tail. Sometimes there are symptoms that he has a great notion to let the thing drop like a hot pota o —[Cincin nati Commercial. Ts Tilden a safe man ?—[Harper’s Weekly.] If our memory serves us right, the names of the safe men are Harrington and Babcock. Their per formances at Washington in that line have led to their indictment.—[World. Arkansas has for two years been in the control of its own people, and there is peace and prosperity ; South Carolina has been in carpet-bag hands for eleven years, and scenes like that at Hamburg are still possible.—[Boston Post. History repeats itself. In 1776 the people had to fight the taxation impos ed by the British monarchy. In 1876 they have to fight the taxation impos :d by Radical tyranny. The only differ ence is iu the mode or fighting. It was bullets in 1776—ballots in 1876.— Pittsburg Post (Dem.) Silly people in the United States who speak so contemptuously of re form, and of those who are honestly at tempting to reform the Government by reducing taxation and increasing hon esty in high places, know but little of the feeling deep down in the hearts of the people.—[N. Y. Express. Many Republicans admit that reform is necessary, and, were it not for old associations, they would vote for Gov. Tilden and thus secure it. These men should not delay id t'neit choice nor in carrying, out their convictions. Reform with Tilde n is a certainty. With Gov. Hayes it is a remote possibility.— [Omaha Herald. He (Tilden) has always had the rep utation of high personal character, and his opposition to the Tweed gang of thieves has even placed hint iu some degree among political reformers. Mr. Tildcn is a man of great wealth, and is generally recognized, we should say, as u thoroughly safe, conservative person. —[Troy (N. Y.) Whig, Rep. May not the carefully written reports of Grant’s insanity, or uiadn'ss, or brain softening, be only a device of the Re publicans to escape responsibility for the infamous acts of his administration? But, then, how about Babcock, Belk nap, Williams, Boss Shepherd, and the parasites who surrounded him, and were indorsed and sustained by “the Party?” Were they all mad. too?—Peoria Dem ocrat. If the negroes were in arms to “defy the law,” they should have been put down by the law, and not by the shame less violence employed by a few lawless white men who have brought disgrace on themselves aud serious damage to the South and the Democratic party of the country, We can have no tolera tion for such conduct or for the perpe trators thereof—[Sumter (S. C.) True Southron. The Republican professors of reform can dispense with further remarks on Governor Tilden’s powerlessness in case of his election until after they have shown that they possess any particular power of their own. One thing is sure in the eyes of the people ; it is the pow er of the rings that stands in the way ol all reforms in our public affairs, and the only successful ring-t masher in the couofry is Samuel J. Tilden, the Dem ocratic candidate.—[Boston Post. A Massachusetts Republican says: “My mind is about made up to vote for Tilden, although I hate to ; but I feel that if any one ever needed a thrashing If Governor Tildm is not an honest and able man, the Republican papers of New Y«rk are tremendous liars, [Dayton (O.) Democrat. Both Whigs and Democrats used to hats the word abolitionist with a per fect hatred, but still they never so ab horred it as the Republicans now do the word reform.—[Indianapolis Senti nel. Safe burglars, whiskey rings, bribe receivers, and the whole nest of scours-' drels in and about the Cabinet, incHLe smaller thieves in places over the coun try, are to be protected so long as they contribute to the fund relied upon by Chandler’s committee to continue the peculation of Grant’s* Administation through the election of Hayes.—Boston Post (Dem.) Ilaycs sayes he will not accept a sec ond term. But he said he would not accept the Governorship of Ohio, but lte did and is now on his third term. He says he will only remove inefficient men from office, yet his record as Gov ernor of Ohio shows that in all the State boards he exercised the most par tisan disposition and filled the boards almost exclusively with Republicans. His promises are worthless.—Indianap olis Sentinel (Dem.) The Senator from Georgia was scarce ly looked to for tne plan of a revenue reform which, compressed into a para graph, has more air of business about it than all President Grant’s large, ten tative civil-service reform operations, with Mr. George W. Curtis’s labors su- peradded. The S wth has suffered her full proportion of maladministration, and her statesmen are probably quito as sincere in desiring honest and economi cal administration as those of the rest of the country.—Philadelphia [Times. ( Ind ) \Ve defy the dough-faced Radical or gans that persist in disbelieving every thing that comes from the South except stories of “negro outrages,” to show us one instance where the representative Southerner ever engaged in any of these riotous demonstrations. We in sist that these people are peaceable. We know them to be peaceable; but we do know that the carpet-baggers, and those too indigent to own carpet-bags who go •South arc not peaceable. They trek up a disturbance through the instruc tions they receive, and the instructors then rush to the wires and telegraph the news all over the country of “an other negro .outrage.” . They are out rages; but they are put on foot by the Radicals and scalawags to help carry the elections.—[Troy Press. The Westliche Post calls for proof of the charge that Shurz has been bar gaining with Hayes. Here it is. A politician draws the portrait of a man whom he would not support under any circumstances, and follows it with the portrait of a man whom he would sup port. The man whom he would not support is nominated by one convention and the uian whom he would support by another. While occupying a proud position on the fence, he has a private inte view with the mqa whom he de clared he could not support, and then , conies out in faver of that man .and against the man whom he declared he would support. There could be no bet ter evidence of bargain and sale than ■ this.—[St. Louis Times (Dem). THE GERMANS STRONG FOR TILDEN. The Germans are strong, for Tildcn. The Westliche Post, in an effort to show that this was not the case, recently pre sented a list of sixty-nine German papers which supported Hayes. The St Louis Reoublican has completely eclipsed this and shown, in the press criterion, where the bulk of the Germans stand, by pre senting a list of 176 German Tilden papers, being more than two-thirds of the German papers in number and nine-tenths in circulation. The Free Prrcs says the Germans generalliy throughout the coun try demand of the great political parties the nomination of men for the Presidency who were thoroughly imbued with the spirit of reform. Bristow was the choice among the Republicans and Tilden among Democrats. The Republican Na tional Convention showed how little it regarded the reform sentiment which was urging it on to good by rejecting Bris it is the Republican party, and I go, in tow, the foe of the whisky, ring, and this campaign, for disciplining the Re publican party, fully assured that the Democrats will be on their good beha vior, and will try to make a record du ring the first four years.” My preferences are most decidedly for Tilden. l»have knowo him all my life, and I knoW him to be honest to the core, singularly conscientious in all he does, of great disinterestedness, and, as a statesman, head and shoulders above any man now prominent. He is the most profound, sound, and clear in his political economy of any man I know—completely grounded iq princi ples, sure of his every step, extremely judicious, and without conceits, preju dices and weaknesses. If he were president at this moment, in les3 than three months we would see our finances on their best feet, taxation reduced a half, and the currency in a sure way to recover, by gentle and almost impercep tible means.—Parke Godwin. nominating a man who was unobjeclion able to the ring, and who was indebted for his nomination to some of the worst ring politicians in the Convention. The Democratic National Convention heeded the voice of the people crying for reform, and nominated the known reformer whose nomination the best elements in the country had requested. The Germans see that the Democratic party gave an emphatic proof of its earnestness in its nomination, while the Republican party refused to do so. The larger mass of the Germans have taken their stand accord ingly. They tell a story of a Judge iu Alabama who sent an officer out to get him a drink of whiskey. The officer returned with it. but the amount did not satisfy the Judge. The second time he came back with a tumbler full, and remarked that the bar keeper said that he “didn’t know that the old fool wanted to take a bath.” THE GRASSHOPPER. Commissioner Janes, after an exami nation of the grosshoppers which have appeared in different portions of the State, has issued the following circu lar: STATE OF GEORGIA, ) Department op Agriculture, [■ Atlanta July 2 r ', 1876. ) The Grasshopper which have appear ed in many sections of the State aro, without doubt, the Hatefnl Grasshop per of the West—that dreaded pest that has, during the last few years, de stroyed eutire growing crops, reducing people to the point of famine. They arc now in the first and comparatively helpless stage of their existence. They will grow rapidly and in the course of a few weeks they will be able to fly.—They will then dsposit eggs in the earth by millions. Next year these eggs will hatch and there will be mil lions where there are now only doz ens. You are earnestly advised to destroy them now, beforo they can fly, and be fore their eggs are deposited. They can be driven into piles of dry straw aud burned. Thousands may be destroyed by ac tive men and boys with brush. Nets may be made similar to par tridge nets, of some cheap material, with widely extehded wings. The in sects can be driven like birds into these nets or snares and destroyed. By every means in your power, and that can be devised by your ingenuity, utterly exterminate them and save our State front a plague, such as we have never experienced. I respectfully suggest that you lay all other business aside, unite together and make common cause and combined attack against the enemy. By coucert of action, and immediate, persistent, efforts, the evil may be avert ed. You are respectfully invited to send to this Department, all valuable facts as leaned from your observation and — experience in relation to the grasshop pers, the extent of damage, what means of destruction found to be most effec tive, etc. Very respectfully, Thomas P. Jamfs, (Commissioner of Agriculture. tTT -- T* O J GOOD CROPS EVERYWHERE. From all over the world come simi lar reports of the crops—all good, and in most cases bountiful. Mother Earth never yielded such a harvest as the present. From the wheat regions ol Europe, and especially from the south of Russia, the reports are very favora ble. Croaking disappears as the har vest approaches, and throughout the old world the change, it" any there be, is for the better. In the great wheat-growing states of this country the harvest proves to be much larger than was anticipated. Wheat is probably a full everage, bar- ley, rye and oats are turning out finely, and corn is growing so rapidly that it promises the largest yield in the history of the northwest. In California the wheat and barley crops are fully secured. Not less than 23,500,000 bushels of wheat and 10,- 000,000 bushels of barley will be avail able in that state alone for export. It will take all the spare tonnage of the world to carry this enormous surplus to market. In onr own section large crops are in sight. Texas has millions of bushels of wheat for export, and the entire south will come bo near to raising their own breadstuffs this year that the oc cupation of many produce dealers in St. Louis and other western cities will be as good as gone. The soath will supply her. elf very soon.—Atlanta Con stitution. AN HEIRESS TO $560,000,000. , Miss Mellissa Elder was a poor clerk in a hotel dining-room in Atchison, Kan., and here is the account from a journal of that city of her wonderful luck: A short time ago Melissa Elder fell heir to $112,000,000 sterling, amounting to about $560,000,000. It seems that her great-great grand-father, on her mother’s side, who was a Roman Senator, had all his property, which consisted of a vast amount of real estate in and around the city ol Rome, confiscated to the Roman Empire on account of lxts being concern ed with Marc Antony in the terrible as sault on the body of Ctesar. Caesar’s wife was also accused at the same time, but Marck Antony afterwards said she was above suspicion, and nothing was done in the matter. AH the property of Melis sa’s great-great-grandfather, however, was confiscated upon the testimony ofadetec- tive. The detective afterwards was taken with frenzied remorse and wrote a full confession, moved to Pompeii and was living in that ill-fated town when the sudden catastrophe which befell it cut him down in the prime of life. During the recent discoveries among the ruins of Pompeii this confession was discovered, and Miss Elders great-great grandfather was fully vindicated. A Chicago lawyer, who was traveling through Europe, heard of the circumstance, and by aid of de tectives, found in the person of Melissa Elder the only surviving heir of her la mented great-great grandfather. The law yer has taken the prosecution of the case on a contingent fee, and Melissa leaves for Rome to take possession of that town. Of course we tender our congratulations ; $560,000,000 does Dot grow on bushes. The Quitman brass band is electioneer ing in Florida.