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The Weekly Democrat.
'SRS E. RusSKLL, • - R. M. JORSSTOS
EDITORS.
B. icbrid^e, Georgia. August 24, 78
Tha National Democratic Ticket.
foil PRESIDENT ;
Samuel j. tildes,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT :
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA.
The State Democratic Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR :
ALFRED H. COLQUITT.
OF FULTON.
For Senator, 8th District,
HON. ISAxlC A. BUSII, of Miller.
NOTICE.
Con
Second Congressional District
vention-
By order of the Committee in consulta
tion with the Delegates from the several
counties, a Convention of the Democratic-
party for the nomination ot a candidate
for Congress for the Second District, is
called to convene at Thomasville on the
second Wednesday in September next at
11 o’clock a. m. The several counties are
entitled to the same representation
heretofore allowed, double the number of
Representatives to which each is entitled
to in the lower house of the Legislature.
The counties are requested to indicate
by vote whether they desire the majority
or the two-thirds Rule to obtain.
D. A. Yason,
Chr'n Ex. Committee.
All papers in the District please copy.
BAYONETS IN THE SOUTH.
The following is the order recently
delivered to Gen. Sherman by Presi
dent Grunt, in relation to troops ia the
South during the c. iniiig election:
The President direct? that in accordance
i with the spirit of the above, you are to held
: all the available force under your command
I not now engaged in subduing i he s,.vages on
i the western frontier, in readiness to be used
upon the call or requisition of the proper
legal authorities for protecting all citizens
without distinction of race, color, or politi
cal opinion, in the exercise of the right to
vote as guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amend
ment, auri to assist in the enforcement of
‘‘certain, condign, and effectual punish
ment” upon all persons who shall “attempt
l,y force, fraud terror, intimidation, or oth
erwise to prevent the free exercise of the
right of suffrage,” as provided by the law
of the United States, and have such force so
distributed and stationed as to be able to
render prompt assistance in the enforcement
of the law.
Such additional orders as may be necessa
ry to carry out the purpose of these instruc
tions will be given to you from time to time,
after consultation with tin? law offices of the
Government. ^
i Very respectfully, yoiirob’t serv’t,
J. 1). Camzro.n. .Sec’ry of War.
Grant has seized, says the New York
Sun, the first moment after the adjourn
ment of Congress to shov his hand
BEN Hill ON THE SITUATION.
Ocr Atlanta C'okrespoxdekt Inter
views the Great Georgian, and
Draws from Him Some- Words of
Good Cheer—Something About the
Second District-
[Reported Specially for the Democrat.]
Mr- Bush’s Appointments-
Won. I. A. Bush will address the citizens
of Decatur county as follows:
Bell’s District, B'ednesday, September
13th; Wight’s Store, Thuisday, September
]4th; Higdon's Store, Friday’. September
lGlh; Attapulgus, Saturday September 10th;
Whigham, Wednesday, September 20th ;
Lime Sink, Thursday, September 21st;
Belcher’s District, Friday, September‘22nd;
Vine Hill, Saturday, September 23rd; Face
ville Wednesday, September 27th; Bain-
liridge, Thursday, September 28tli, Spring
(’reek. Friday, September 29th, Rock Pond,
Saturday, September 30th.
The Democratic majority in Alabama is
swelling up to more than 40,000. As the
majority increases, the reports grow
stronger and stronger that there was not
the ^lightest disturbance in any part of
the State; that whites and blacks voted
without the least intimidation, and that
numerous negroes voted the Democratic
ticket. Tlie clay of carpet-baggers and
military satraps in Alabama is at an end.
The Second District feels grateful to
the press all over the State for the disin
terested interest manifested in our ap
proaching struggle with Wliitcley and
Grantism. This is the only’ close distric!
in the State, hut with hard work, and
God’s help, we intend to land a Democrat
in Congress again.
A special from Houston, Texas, says a
war of races is threatened in Colorado
county in cousequeuce of the lynching of
two negro cattle thieves by the whites.
Tiie blacks have gathered in armed gangs,
threatening vengeance, and a conflict is
expected.
lion. M. O Kerr, the honored and be
loved Speaker of Congress, is dead. This
is an event not unlooked for, hut is rob
bed of none of its unmitigated sorrow on
that account. The death of this truly
good and great man -will impart sorrow to
the whole land.
We would like to know if Mr. C. W.
Arnold, of Alb my, is going to support
Whiteley in the present heat ? We did
know a time when there was an exceeding
small share ef love between these two.
Wonder If the chasra that va« bloody has
Been shook across ?
The Albany News says that in answer
to a telegram from a friend to Hon. W.
E. Smith, urging his immediate return
home, that noble gentleman replied in
the following characteristic words.- “Du
ty first ; self next. I cannot leave Wash
ington.”
Old Jonathan Norcross, of Atlanta, is
the lamb the Rads have put upon the
Gubernatorial altarto i>esacrificed. Won’t
the old gentleman feel cross when that
100,000 majority is rolled up against him.
The Radical State Convention was held
in Macon last week, and Jonathan Nor
cross, white, of Fulton county, nomina
ted for Governor. C. W. Arnold is the
Elector for this district.
M e feel morally certain that Whiteley
will be beaten in November, but that is
not the point. We want him beaten badly,
squrk-hed eternally.
We do hope and trust, for the good and
honor of our dear old county, that there
is not a Democrat in the whole county
who will refuse to vote for Bush.
Blaine has recovered sufficiently to
make a political speeh, hut is yet 110 un
well to be investigated and give an ac
count of his rascalities.
ES'Ts.ke our paper.
and the people of the country can see
that, it grasps a bayonet, the point of
which is turned toward the Southern
States.
It is a ieei.ng u ,t of alarm, but of
indignation, that will bo raised through
out the land by the military order that
was yesterday issued from the War De
partment to Gen. Sherman.. It directs
the General of the Army to hold all
the available military force in readiness
to be used for the support of the Fif
teenth Constitutional Amendment, and
for the punishment of those who may
attempt to interfere with the rights
therein guaranteed. It directs him to
have the military force so (Fstributed
as to be able to act with promptitude ;
and it informs him that he will receive
other instructions from time to time
oncoming this business.
Tbe o v der means that ten or twelve
thousand troops of the regular army are
to be concentrated in the Southern
States—in those of them which have
been, or, without this order, would sure
ly be wrested from Grantism in Novem
ber next. They will doubtless be sta
tioned mainly in Mississippi, Louisiana.
Alabama and South Carolina ; and it
is not improbable that, before the elec
tion, the Southern Department will be
put in charge of Gen. Sheridan,- who
lias had some experience in the kind ol
Work that he will be called upon to per
form.
It was very cunning in Don Cameron,
Secictary of War, to resort to the pre
text of basing this order on the resolu
tion of Mr. Soott Lord, which was pass
ed by the House of Representatives on
the 10th instant, and received the vote
of nearly all the Democratic members.
He has delayed its issue till one week
after the passage of that resolution, and
h s kept it back till one day after the
adjournment of Congress. Why did he
not issue it after receiving the resolu
tion. or while yet Congress was in ses
sion ? The trick is worthy of Grant him
self.
As far back as the 2d of this month,
we warned Congress that it would be
unsafe to adjourn leaving a free oppor
tunity for the exercise of unrestricted
power in the hands of such a President
as Grant. Our warning is already
more than justified.
Grant and the Senate have lately
been very anxious for the enlargement
of the army ; and it is now evident, as
it has been all along, what object they
had in view in this policy.
Tbe House was weak enough, on the
last day of the session, to wit, on Tues
day of this week, to assent to the Sen
ate’s demand for an increase of 2,500
men in the cavalry arm of the service.
The pretence was that this additional
force was needed for the Souix war. It
was not needed for that war, but for
use in the Southern States during tbe
Presidential election.
There is but one thing now to be de
sired, and that is, that this military in-
terferenca of Grant may recoil upon the
party for whoso advantage it is in
tended.
The Savannah Seat says the popular
branch of the next General Assembly will
be largely in favor of a Constitutional
Convention. The Xewt also wants the
Senators to be elected this Fall pledged in
favor of the Convention.
tafTake the Democrat.
Thinking that your readers would be
glad to learn the views of a Representa
tive so distinguished and well informed
on public topics as is Hon. B. H. Hill,
from the ninth district, your correspond
ent called at his office yesterday afternoon
for the purpose of “doing him up” in
modern reportorial style. This was an
undertaking entirety novel to your corres
pondent, and never could have been ven
tured upon bad I not been braced up with
the conviction that the dissemination of
Mr. Hill’s views and opinions would be
of benefit to the Democracy of the Second
District in their great fight against Grant
ism,as it is seeking to develop itselfki the
person of old Slip Dick Whiteley.
Mr. Hill gave me a cordial greeting.atid
upon stating the object of my call,
marked that he did not much like “inter
views,” but would gladly talk to
awhile and I could use it as I chose,
“What do you think of the Pt. Louis
nomination?” was the first question asked
‘•The ticket,’’ answered Mr. Hill ‘is the
very best that could have been made. Til-
den is a reformer, and reform is what the
country needs,and what it must have,and
will have.’
“What are the chances for the success
of the Democratic ticket ?”
“Well sir, the prospects are eminently
favorable for success, and I think three
chances out of live are in favor of the
Demoerac .”
“What Northern States will go Demo
cratic?”
“We will certainly carry New York
New Jersy, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and
Indiana, and the Pacific slope, including
Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, and Califor
nia. There is no excuse for any white
man to vote with the Republican party,
and I want you tc* tell all of our old ltae
Whigs in Southwestern Georgia, that they
owe it to themselves and the country to
vote with the Democratic party. The
only hope of Republican success is in op
position to the Southern people, and the
success of that party is a condemnation
of all Southern people without reference
to old party divisions; end every censide
ration whether of interest, policy,
honor, demand of us that we, both Whigs
and Democrats, combine to overthrow
this corrupt party which is seeking
saddle itself on the American people for
the next four years.
That a change is needed in the admin
istration of the government is conceded
by even the Radicals themselves, and the
question at issue between Democrats and
Republicans is, bow shall this change be
effected? The Republicans say, endorse
what we have done in the past by re-elect
us,and we will do better in the future
or as it is put by them, we will “reform
within ourselves.” Now the Democrats
and honest conservative men of the coun
try natural v oppose this method of reform
plase no confidence ia the reform profes
sions of the Radicals. For the past fifteen
ears they have feasted and fattened upon
the toil and sweat of the laboringmillions
of this country, and now the hand-writing
upon the wall is, “Tried and found want
ing.” During the whole term of their
ease of power they have done nothing
that even smelt of a tendency toward
reform On the contrary they are now
beginning to smell loud of putrefaction
for having pursued that course diametri
cally opposed to honesty and r^foim; and
to-day they stand before the world cover
ed and slimed over with rottenness and-
corruption. The great question the people
are now called upon to decide is, shall
thieves be taken out of office and honest
men put in in their stead. If Governor
Hayes is elected President the corrupt ad
ministration of the government will not be
in the least affected or changed. They say
he is an lioDest man, and will purify the
vil service, and institute other and much
needed reform. Ris past career as an offi
cial furnish no evidence that he has any
desire or ability to carry out reform, and, as
for his being an honest man, why that’s
exactly what they said of Grant when they
first nominated him. Admit that he
honest, still if elected he too, like Grant,will
be but a tool in the hands of the corrupt and
corrupting leaders of the Republican party,
and will be phable to their every touch of
policy.’.’
AVhat of Bristow, Mr. Hill? dou’t you
think the rejection of him by the Kepubli-
Onvention at Cincinn: ti plainly indicates
the emptiness of their reform professions?”
“Yes, sir, certainly it does, and it also in
dicates very plainly, to my mind, another
fact. That is, that the Radicals are making
this fight, as I said before, in opposition to
the Southern people. They are against
every Southern man. No», mere was Mr.
Bristow, who, notwithstanding his reform
principles and his efforts at civil service
reform, was rejected and kicked out of the
Republican party for no other reasons than
that he was a reformer, and a Southern
man. “The birds of night that had built
their nests in the high places of the nation
drove him in ignominious disgrace from the
synagogue of the party. Doth a fountain
send forth at the same p.ace syeet water and
bitter? Can the fig tree bear olive berries?
ther a vine figs? What good can come out
of such a Nazareth, when they stone to death
tb eir only prophet?”
“Well Mr. Hill, what about the investiga
tions by the House of Representatives ?”
“They were very laborious, in fact they
constituted by far the most laborious busi
ness of the session, but they were prosecut
ed by a vigor and degree of success really
remarkable when it is remembered how
many obstacles the Radical Senate and
President threw in our waT. This fight
against investigation by the Radical office
holders at Washington, and the Radical
members of the House and Senate, is,
however, a fight for the preservation of pri
vate character, and is not the dictates of
party necessity. If all the facts could be
known there is not a real prominent official
in the Republican party, connected with the
administration at Washington, but what his
character would be forever blasted.”
“How much were the tax-payers of the
country saved bv the Appropriation bills of
the present Democratic House of Represen
tatives, as compared to those heretofore
passed by Republican Houses?”
“There again the Radical Senate antago
nizes the Democratic House, and weakened
in a great degree our efforts in behalf of the
tax-payers of the country. The Appropria
tion hills of tbe present Congress are amply
THE HAMBURG AFFAIR.
As the Hayes organs and politicians
like Senator Morton continue- to speak
of the Hamburg riot as a Democrat ic
outrage upon harmless and inoffensive
negroes, who were wantonly murdered
in cold blood because they celebrated
the Fourth of July and dared to vote
the Republican ticket, it becomes of
interest to review the facts in the case
as they have been brought to light by
the most recent developments. The
whites accused of complicity ia the af
fair voluntarily appeared before Judge
Maher, at Aiken, a few days ago, when,
by the evidence of over one hundred
witnesses, it was proved: First, that
sufficient to defray every legitimate j tbe B °- Called company was sim-
expense of the government,and they are for i pty *‘ n armed mob of rioters which had
thirty millions of dollars less thau has been I been organized with the avowed purpose
annual 1%-paid out of the Treasury by (Ton- I of killing the whites; second, that the
gress vfe|l$rtFV Radicals controlled the h eader of the oo]oreJ mob j ]ed (W
House, flail,the Senate been Democratic j r, , , ; , , 1 . .
,,. ,, . ... Hock Adams, had no Commission, as’it
we could have made a reduction in the | ’ ’
expensdbj^f-fohy millions of dollars, which | bad pretended hs had; third, that
can he increased to sixty millions with a
Democratic resident.
These miserable Radicals would not con
sent to reduce the expenses of the govern
ment as low as they could have been reduc
ed, and as the House wanted to reduce,
simply, and for the very simple reason, that
to consent tb a reduction so far below the
Republican standard would be a tacit admis
sion that they had yearly,for the last fifteen
years, drawn largely from the treasury of
the government more money than the gov
ernment needed, or more than was necessa
ry for the running of the government. I
verily believe that if we had all the money
that has been stolen and uselessly expended
by the Radicals at Washington that it would
amount to more than enough to pay the
National debt.
Mr. Hill, Whiteley has again been nomi
nated for Congress in the Second District,
and I learn that your Whig friends in that
section want you to go down and give him
another thrashing, as you did in the last
race; do you think you can go?”
I feel a great deal of interest in the fight
in the Second District, and am willing to
render them any service in my power. I
am under promise to make three or four
speeches in the District during the canvass,
and it will afford me great pleasure to fulfil
them, and meet my old Whig friends of the
Second. Say to my old line Whig friends in
that District that every one of them ought to
vote for W. E. Smith, if he is the nominee
of the party; and that they should not vote
tor Whiteley under any circamstanees, as
he was in Congress at the time all the frauds
and rascalities were being perpetrated, and
did nothing to prevent them, and this alone
if there were not other good and sufficient
reasons, ought to drive them jiway from
him ” ——
Just at this place your reporter fearing
the first shot was fired by the blacks;
and fourth, that the whites did not
return the fire until one of their own
number, named Merriweather, was
killed. The whole affair was simply a
riot, growing out of the resistance of the
negro mob to the orders of a black
magistrate, in which the negroes were
the aggressors from the beginning.
Politics had nothing to do with the
matter at all. The execution of lynch
law upon several of the leaders of the
black mob was inexcusable, as all such
measures are; yet everybody who knows
anything of tbe chaiacter of the class
of Southern negroes who would natu
rally array themselves under such
leader as Dock Adams has been proved
to be, knows also that what was done by
the whites was mildness itself compared
with what would have happened if the
negroes had whipped t eir opponents.
THE NEXT SENATE
The terms of twenty-six Senators will
expire on the fourth of next March
with the present Congress, and their
successors in most instances will be
chosen by Legislatures elected in the
coming autumn. Of these Senators
sixteen are Republicans, namely: Clay
ton of Arkansas, Logan of Illinois,
Wright of Iowa, Harvey of Kansas,
West of Louisiana, Blaine (Morrill's
successor) of Maine, Boutwell of Mas
sachusetts, Ferry of Michigan, Alcorn
of Mississippi, Hitchcock of Nebraska,
Craigio of New Hampshire, Freling-
huysen of New Jersey, Anthony of
Rhode Island, Robertson of South Ca
rolina, and Howe ef Wisconsin Nine
are Democrats, namely: Goldthwaite of
Alabama, Saulsbury of Delaware, Nor
wood of Georgia, Stevenson of Ken
tucky, Ransom of North Carolina, Kel
ly of Oregon. Cooper of Tennessee,
Johnston of Virginia and Davis of
West Virginia. One of those Senators,
Hamilton of Texas, is classed as an in
dependent. In addition to these the
new State of Colorado, whose political
status is in doubt, will elect two Sena
tors, and Louisiana will elect a second
Senator to fill the vacancy for which
Pinchback long contended.
Thu3 th'-re will be twenty-nine seats
to be filled by new men next March.
The present Senate is divided between
forty-two Republicans, twenty-nine
Democrats and two independents, giv
ing the Republicans a majority of
eleven. The next Senate will consist
of seventy-six Senators. If the Demo
crats hold their present seats and elect
nine other of the twentysnine Senators
to be chosen then, with a Democratic
Vice President in the chair, they will
control the upper House of Congress,
N£ w GOODS
NOW POURING IS Xf{g
And will soon the^i^t
most attractive stores in ^
THE TWO JAMUELS-OUR UNCLE
AND OUR COUSIN.
The estimates of the departments for the
year were $203,099,025. The bills as re
ported by the Committee on Appropriations
amounted to $137,233,135. The bills as
passed the Senate,$158,200,598; the bills as
enacted into law, §147,719,074, as against
appropriations for last year of $177,063,-
^ 327, being a reduction of $29,944,253.
j Ibis is Mr. • Randall’s statement of
the good work of his committee and of
the House of Representatives in the
direction of economy and reform, not-
Withstandin, the Executive and the
Senate. These eight lines of Mr. Ran
dall’s comprise a .perfect,answer to ail
the campaign speeches in favor of
that be bad already detained -Mr. Hill too ! Grantism or Hayesism that, can be de-
long, thanked him for his kindness and bade ! jivered between this and November.
him adieu. To the mind of the sagacious
observer (here ran be no doubt as to who
will succeed Senator Norwood alter the
fourth of next March. Mr. Kill is undoubt
edly the man whom the people of the State
will commission to repair to the Senate and
drag the hyena from Maine from his skulk
ing place. Maine lias promoted Blaine for
what he did for her, and shall we be less
grateful to Hill for his defense of us?
Pray to the gods to intermit the plague
That needs must light uu thhMugratitude.
* G. F W.
THE FORMAL ACCEPTANCES.
The more careful^ and the more
frequently one reads and studies the let
ters in which Governor Tilden and Gov
ernor Hendricks accept the nomination
tendered them by the St. Louis Conven
tion, the more thoroughly is he convinced
of the special qualifications which the
writers possess fot the high offices to
which they are proposed. We have at
tempted a comparison of these writings
with the corresponding communications
of the Republican candidates; but the
former ate upon a plane of thought, hon
esty, and power so much higher than the
latter, that it was impossible to get them
into juxtaposition sufficiently close for the
purpose. When we say what tbe former
are we say precisely what the others are
not. The documents of our candidates
are tbe honest expositions of the writers’
sentiments upou the questions which they
discuss. They, are original documents,
not compiled by party leaders, skulking
behind the names of automatons whose
actions tbey.ajftjjnverning and prompting.
With an unsparing pen the peculators and
perjurers of the present Administration
are exhibited in their true character, and
with unrelenting severity is laid bare the
character of the transactions by which
these plunderers have robbed the people
and enriched themselves. Not even here
pause allowed; the true remedies are
unfolded. Not merely must the public
service be purged of rascality and rascals,
must be so ordered and regulated that
the admission of aught that is evil shall in
future be impossible. With tbe authors
of these documents at the head of our af
fairs, it is certain that we should enter
upon an era of public fidelity and national
prosperity.
Notice of Meeting.
The next meeting of the South Georgia
Medical Association will be held on Tues
day, 19th day of September, in the city of
Bainbridge. Members of the Society will
please take notice and govern themselves
Our Uncle Samuel has reduced the
taxes of New York State seventeen per
cent, in a single year, and our Cousiu
Samuel, with the aid of a Democratic
House, has in a single session reduced
the appropriations for the Federal Gov
ernment by the handsome sum of §29,-
' 1144,253.
The people, we incline to think, can
trust these men ; and all those? who
seek relief from the excessive burdens
of debt and taxes, will vote to give them
a larger field and a greater opportuni
ty-
CONGRESS ADJOURNED.
The forty-fourth Congress adjourn
ed on Tuesday, the 15th inst., after a
long and laborious session. The New
York World says that “Confederate
Congress” is the name applied to it,
the Congress just adjourned, by the
Radical press of the country Call it
what you please, it has reduced the ap
propriations 930,000,000, in the face
of the fierce opposition of the Republi
can Administration, the Republican
Senate and the Republican press
It has forced retrenchment and
economy in the expenditures in spite of
the determination of the Republicans
ro increase them over former years. It
has exposed the thievery and rottenness
of the Repnblican Administration and
broken up some of the rascally sch ernes
for plundering the people. Whatev
er may be said of it, none charge the
House of Representatives with jobbery
or plundering schemes, as has been the
case witn several of the recent Repub
lican Houses. There have been no
Credit Mobilier swindles nor railroad
subsidy jobs put. through. It has stood
between the public plunderers and the
people and protected the interest of the
latter.
The editor of the Albany Xeua has had
an interview with CoL R. E. Kennon,
Elector for this District, and that gentle
man will enter the field as early as possi
ble, with a vim and a determination to
win. He will make an aggressive fight,
and is the very man to bear the standard
of the party. The Col. desires correspon
dence with prominent gentlemen in all
; parts of the District, and promises to visit
accordingly.
Papers throughout the 2nd Congres ; every city, town, village and hamlet,
sional District are respectfully requested ' where his presence is needed. He isanx-
! ious to have the party thoroughly organ-
I ized without delay, and sees no time for
j awaiting actions or results.
Savannah Ne>et: Old man Norcross, it
is said, intends to leave nothing undone
during the campaign to forward the in
terests of bis party. He has had his boots
blacked, and will shortly have bis hair
■hingied.
copy this notice.
Aug. 23,1876.
J. A. BUTTS,
President.
We want to see Wm. E. Smith nomi
nated unanimously for Congress. He is
just the man to make Whiteley sick. ■
THE HERALD REVIEWS THE
WORK OF THE SESSION.
New York, August 17.—The Herald
reviews the work of Congress to-day, and
says the legislative work of the long ses
sion has not been specially brilliant. The
Democratic party has labored under dis
advantages not shared by its opponents in
consequence of its long exclusion from
power, yet the lower House of legislative
neophytes appeared to advantage in com
parison with the Senate where the Repub
licans have had a majority of trained
members. The Repulicanmajority in the
Senate has done nothing to establish a
claim to public confidence, whereas, the
house, in spite of blunders and inexperi
ence, has dons much chat sou id public
sentiment will approve. It has reduced
public expenses $30,090,009 below last
year, and would have made larger reduc
tions if it had not been thwarted by the
Senate. We do not believe any public in
terest will suffer by the measures of re
trenchment. We are utterly uuable to
point to any measure of the Senate which
presents a favorable contrast.
Parliament and congress came to tin
end about tbe same time, after busy and
anxious sessions. Congress rcasembles in
December and parliament iu February.
Before congress reassembles Mr. Ti! en
will be elected, and before parliament ‘e-
assembles England will probably have a
new ruler in Lord Derby in place of Dis
raeli, resigned.
The first independent that shows his
head may expect a whack from the Dem
ocrat, and a hard whack at that.
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Notice of Homestead
Eleanor J. Cardy has applied for exemp
tion of personalty, and setting apart and
valuation of homestead, and I will pass upon
the same at 10 o’clock a. m. on the 6th day
of September 1876y at my office, This Au
gust 16, 1876. HIRAM B ROCKETT,
Ordinary, D. C.
Tobacco! Cigars!
Best tobaccos, finest cigars, of all grades
to be had at the big store of H. B. Ehr
lich.
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES.
The St. Louis platform, with no uncertain
sounds, gives utterance to these great prin
ciples that constitute the foundation of our
republican system :
Faith in the permanence of the Federal
Union.
Devotion to the Constitution of the United
States, with its amendments universally ac
cepted as a final settlement of the controver
sies that engendered civil war.
Steadfast confidence in the perpetuity of
republican self-government.
A resolute acquiescence in the will of the
majority, the vital principle of republics,.
The supremacy of the civil over the mili
ary authority.
The total separation of church and State,
for the sake alike of religious freedom.
Tbe equality of all citizens before just
laws of their own enactment.
The liberty of individual conduct un vexed
by sumptuary laws.
The faithful education of the rising gen
eration, that they preserve, enjoy and trans
mit these best conditions of human happi
ness and hope.
Wish it distinctly understood in the outse
of the season that they
CAN’T BE UNDERSOLD
BY ANY HOUSE IN SOUTHWEST GEOR
GIA, NOR ELSEWHERE.
We have on band and are constantly re
ceiving a full line of
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING, FANCY GOODS,
GROCEBIES
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
GEORGIA—Decatur County.
On the first Monday in September next,
I will make application to the Ordinary of
Decatur county for leave to sell all of the
real estate belonging to the estate of Wm.
J. Smallwood, late of said connty, deceased,
for the benefit of heirs and creditors of said
deceased.
N. N. Lester,
Ad’mr estate of W. J. Smallwood.
SAVE MONEY
by sending $4,75 for any $4 Magazine -and
THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE (regular price $6),
or $5.75 for the Magazine and THE SEMI
WEEKLY TRIBUNE (regular price $3). Ad.
dress
THE TRIBUNE. New York.
OF ALD KINDS.
We invite the attention of the trading Pub
lic to the inducements which we propose to
offer duringjthe incoming season. ,n *
tend to sell goods at bottom figures, halt's
as our motto ‘Quick sales and small profits.
GIVE US A CALL
And be satisfied of the trutn ol w 1st we s
WEIL * LOEB,