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Saiafcndco. Georgia Oct. 5th 76
vSaF
itaktha Washington
jriSDED THE FIRST YEAS
or HSK MARRIAGE
In an uld country h u*e in .New Je.%
•*7> ■”* f**r from Philadelphia, owned
by a family who ;luim rcm >te reatim
•hip to Martha Washington, ihe writer
reoeally found among other relic*
the part. M<*t carefully hoarded, a
memoranda ofitouie toilet article* which
George Washingt *n eent to London f-r
in 1759. the firat yerr of his marriage
The following is an exact copy of this
memoranda, which is cnri >Usly quaint;
One cap. handkerchief and tucker.
Two fine lawn apron*.
Two dotibh- handkerchiefs.
Two pair* of white silk l.ose.
Mix pairs of fine cotton huee.
Four pair* of thread hose.
Ouc pair of black satin sh ies of ihe
smallest fires.
One pair of white I’atin shoes
One pair caliuiauco shoes.
One fashionable hat or bonnet.
Mil pairs of kid gloves.
Mix pairs of mils.
Six breast kuots
One dosen silk atay laces.
One black mask.
Oae d< iscu fishiunable cambric hand
kerchiefs.
Two pairs neat small scissor .
One pound of sewing silk.
Ouc box of real miuikcu pin and
hairpins.
Four pieces of tape.
Six pounds of permuted powder.
One piece narrow white satin ribbon.
Oh"', puckered petticoat of a fashiona
ble color.
One silver tabbo petticoat.
Two handsome breast flowers.
Niue pounds of sugar candy.
So, girls, you see its all bosh about
Jfoar boieg more extravagant ihau our
mothers and grand ui .theis in the good
old days gone by. if they didii t have j
their puli backs and all such modern j
tHiSisrie* you sc- Ladv Washington!
i
uaMti perfumed powder, breast kuots, |
satin shoes, and siikeu hose : whether!
they had stripes or u .t history d ies uot. j
exactly say ; but then she indulged in !
all the vagaries and whims of fashion j
just like any modern lady w ho makes
any pretensions to style. Ilut tin ii how
many of you have husbands • r fathers
with an income equal to iliat of the pro-
pi iotor of Alt. Vernoe and his stately
wife? After ail, just hate your own
pretty sweet ways and n .tioiis, girl .—
Troy (.V V.) I ‘rets.
IS TIMID ATIoV* INTIMIDATED
A number ol the South Carolina cot
ton strikers went to a field in Marion
county S. 0., last week in which a stal
wart son of Ham was w irking, and ac
costed him about how much h. receiv
ed, when the following dialogue took
plac * :
Strikers—Say. Nat, what y.ra git for
dat dar work you doiu' ?
Nat—Look here, niggers, tell me, are
you ready to meet yo’ God ?
Strikers—No foolin', Nat ; what dese
buekra pay you for dm work ?
Nat—I'm cot foldin', nulder; tell
me, niggers am you ready to meet
yo’ God ? *
Strikers—See here, Nat, we come to
•top dis workiu' for nottiu’; so you got
to atop dat work ’mediately and go wtd
a*.
Nat—Fore God. niggers, you flingin’
graveyard dirt on yo’self, and if you
ain’t ready to meet yo God leave hear,
fur de fust nigger puts his hand on me,
dal nigger'll wake up in hell.
Nat worked on.
BAL\BRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1876.
THE SOUTHERN FROSLEM
The True Way to Win the South.
[From the New York Herald. J
There are rnm ns to hope that ve
are at last coming to the true way with
the Mou'h. ’i here has been going *-n
• here since 18G5 ail exp -riuient the like
of which no civilised nation ever made
in the wor d Wh it was meant by c n-
terring the suffrage upon f rar milli -ns
oip rsins just emmclpit.*d, without
education, without .property, withom
tmining in the exorcise of citixcnsh p.
with nit a correct, moral sense, and with
no sense of public responsibility at all
what this meant Air Lamar, in his
singularly, able and pliil *8 -phic.il: Beech
• in Wednesday, brought vividly before
the senses of hi- he rers and readers.
To help him he had the foremost friend
of the negroes in all the land. Senator
Morton hi ms-If; fur we must confess
that the languige of Mr. Morton, cited
by .Mr. Lamar, describes in even more
vivid detail than that of the .Mississip
pi m. the perils, the evil results and the
inconveniences of ibis gift of citizcn-
ship to the freeduien. The two speech
es—Air. 1-amar’s and Mr. .Morton’s—
deserve the careful attention of all
thoughtlul citicens, not as arguments
for withdrawing this gift from the
Southern blacks—that is out of the
question—but in order that the North
ern voters may realize the true ua»ure
of the Southern troubles, in
order that they may see that the ques
tions there involving the whole of socie
ty in turmoil are not to be settled by a
mi itary order, a tew companies of cav
alry or a Force Bill. Air. Lamar spoke
truly ; time was needed and mi some of
those States time is still needed. And
besides time they need vigorous, Cour
ageous local governments, ready to as
sert the laws, to punish evil-doers and
to hold society together in peace until
time shall sdvc the still remaining dif
ficulties.
One of the phrases used
about the Southern States is that they
"inlist become like the North.” "We
want to make Loui.-iena iikeihe North,”
p iwerless Federal Government, t-.r j i*
tice and protecti »n against the lawless
part of the community. We sh.uidlHAY rajTucii) : 15 mr3
HAftS JJ i i M XM ,i£UTrf.
like to see s iciety in the South re »r-
g mixed with the brains at the top. and
that Is what the Republican rule’d iw.i
th»re with its constant cry for Federii
interference and its fatal habit of teach
ing the ignorant negro that office is one
of his rights, n • matter how he abuses
it. and that the Federal power is his
only protector, has continually obstruct
ed. Among the d-mu.n-Mits sent in bv
the President with' his rec t Southern
message are letters from the United
State* District Attorney of North -ra
Mis.'issippi. lie relates that the grand
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Curious C oafs* non of a Former Re
publican Congressman—The Villai
nous Rseori of Some Gtorm* R*-
pniicaa LsaJers— Hur the Ne^ro
Legislators we e Corrupted-
Gol,oj3jr>, N. 0., 3 pt. 13.—send
you a copy of a letter from John T. Di-
wese, no.v of (Jlevelua I, O no, a,l lress.-d
to tils voters of X >rih Uarolin v which
li n j.ut he
News.
baggers who helped to misgovern this
State after the wir hid clued, an l he
was twice elected to Congress from th
us voters ot X >nh Uarolin d which ’ V,
j.Ul been oj ilishe.i in fcs : Sweps
ws. Deweesg w is one of the carpet- SOT I released any c
. , . , , . . . , , i Raleigh district hy the aid of the negro
jury, which had just been discharged, j votH He left the State some years ago,
c insisted of eleven Republicans and i an I professes to have repeated of his
seven Democrats ; that b.-fore this b *dy J misdeeds while acting with the KepubI
was brought evidence of in'iinid ition at 1 can P' 4r, A*- Atany rate, whether he i
i cannot think lucre is a doubt about
s result ot the pending contest. Tue
publicans demand me restoration ot
[justified power in all branches of the
lend Governinenl, but this is done in
1 face of much llirt is condemned bT
: tboughttul men of their own party.—
uv. Seymour's Letter.
riie time has now come when the spirit
justice which auuu.iles llie Northern
>ple will require me expulsion iroiu
Southern Slates oi tlie nordos ot
cals, black and wuile, who have suu-
:uted ruihkss oppression and pillage
free Government —[Jennings, lute
tor New York Times.
M£, Our paper is only fifty cents for
the campaign.
.•aid a very prominent Kepuliiican oi
that Suite the oilier day. "We want t"
make Aiisnis.-ippi like de Norf,” said a
col ired sheriff of that State, u->t long
agd. to a Xurtl e n traveller, who re
plied to him, gravely, "You ar sheriff
of this count o, my friend; you cannot
write a sentence c rrt ctly. you can
barely read ; y ra own less than five
huiid'ed d .liars' w Till of pr p -rty in
th w rid : ye - y u ire sheriff of a great
county, and you want to have y ui
State like the North. Believe me
when I tell y u thd there is not a
State n .r county in all he V ith where
ten men c uld be found to nominate
V -ii hit sheriff; or. in met, fur any of
fice whatever. Id >» >t speak it to of
fend you but t inform y u li'yu
lived ally where ill the North, even in
Mass chusetts or the \V.-stern Reserve
T Ohio, n • s ml w u I ever fir a nm-
iii-iit think ..I'nuaiiii itiug y‘U even f >r
constable. much les- sheiiff Aou
would be a patient and contented day
lab rer or farmer, aiid vour wild st
dreams would not !e..d you to think of
ffiee.” I* not this true? And if so,
when we echo the Southern Republi
can’s 01 Southern negro's cry that the
South shall be like the North.’ ought
we n l to think what that means? Lou
isiana h :sa negro Lieutenant-Governor;
.Mississippi had out- until he was im
peached for bribery. Almost every
Sout ern State has e. lured State offi
cers. colored sheriff-, col >red tax collec
tors. colored judges, colored school of
ficers. In this are they not un ike,
very unlike, "the North ?" Frederick
D..uglass i-a c titivated man. an elo
quent speaker, a forcible writi r. a man
of property, a g md citizen. What par
ty in New York has ever thought of
uomiii.iting him lor Lieuteiiaut-G«ver
nor ?
We, too. w uld like to see the South
"like the North,” aud like the best
part of the N rth. Be should like to
see. for iustaucc, the rude, unlettered
Colored men <>f the South warned and
guided by the Republican leaders to
give up their greed for public ■ ffiee,
and taught to select their guve. n >rs.
their sheriffs, their legislators, their
judges and county supe visors 1'roJi
among the educated and property ■ we
ing white residents. V\ e shou d like
to see them calling upon these, aud uot
upon the far-off aud to a great extent
an election ; that he—< native .Missis
sipian—in vain pressed up-n thei the
necessity of indicting the guilty pir-
ties ; that they absolutely refused to d >
so. and he encloses their rep >rt to the
judge. Now, having just refused to
find iudictinents >>n whieh the guilty
■night have brought to justice, whit do
these Republican grand jury me . d).'
They unite in a wild, ganeral indict
ment of the wh 1 State as revolution i-
ry and full of violence, and demand
the immediate interference of the Fed
eral ! What is the use of that?
Senator Boutwell cannot be accused
of lukewarmness toward the Southern
blacks no- of an amiable weakness t »-
w. rd the Southern whites, as his parti
sail report on the .Mississippi Gover
norship abundantly proves. When re
cently in .Mississippi what he there saw
led him, as he was leaving the St ile,
to call around him a number of the lead
mg colore 1 men aud to advise them to
select this fall for all the offices, Stare
and loc-.l, not negroes not even North
ern men, b. t prominent, influential, in
telligeut men of the nlJ white resid mts
• natives of t’ e State, and to vote for
th.-se That advice was sound aud
statesmanlike, but it will ti it be taken.
Even if the mass of the col ired men
were willing, the vagabmd cirpet-b g
element would n >t let them That
class lives upon office ; "divides with j
■ he
it has taught the black
sincere in nis rep mt tnee or n at, he h is
made an open confession, wnicti is good
for his seal, but exceed.iiuly o 11 for his
former associates, wao hive represented
Grant’s A im.ui-nr.ition here, an 1 are now
the leaders ol the Hayes an! Wheeler
party ol North Carolina.
There is hardly a prominent Republican
in the State, from the ex-Confederatc
Settle, who is the cindi lute of that party
tor Governor, do.va to the rural district
managers, w.i > w is n >t a in unaer of the
King which Dewese exposes, and the
main facts th it he recounts have lon^
been known to the plundered tax payers,
lu 137.2, wj ;n Grant was runnin r for re-
election, not less th m |J15,i)JJ taken from
the United States Treasury, ostensibly
for the purpose o: suppressing illicit dis
tilling, was .-pent hy United States oili
eials in this State for political purposes.
It is a sUgnl ir fact tint, s» lar as is
known, there lias not been one revenue
collector appointed by Grant ia North
Cir lina who his not proved a defaul er,
aud tiie aggregate stealings of these de
faulter* amount to over half a million of
dollars,
B low ;ire the most interesting portion-
of the address of D-wcese. Tne James
H. Harris mentioned in it is the lia lmg
colored politician in the Slate, au l the
chief m mager of the Republic in party
here, llol.ieu is the i apeached and dis-
amueu VjroVcruor A !ia e;r v# .
unde Emperor, an 1 to Hare his son Fred
succeed him on the throne:
dkwkesr’s add;u;s3.
To tits Voters of North Carolina:
When I left your State six years ago, it
was with a determination never again
! mingle in politics; hut, in a quiet way,
man that his voting strength entitles
him to a share of public plunder, aud
it lives up. ui bis fears r.ud has It is grad
for :
p 1
It is often a-ked. "Why ,-lionld n t
i N n lhern man run f >r office in the
Smith? and the qnesii >n is tliiught to
de nous’ i ate -S mth rn ill tolerance ”
But suppos .Mass ;chuse ts had a ma-
j rity of cilix ns. but lately slaves, tg
uor.iiit, with nit pi-p-rty. with little
moral sense -Mid less value f-r t.iat
which we eall cliar.icterand reput ition
Suppose a Louisianian sh-mld there-
up ui remove to Massachusetts and at
nee c ntrol this ignoraiir aud deb is-d
ui ij rity f.r hi* own p »li ical ambiti oi;
-upp ISO he sh uild d ■ this by appealing
n ‘W to their cupidity ; should unscru
pulously arouse their unw Tthie-t ambi
t ions ; teach then tliat lack of character
and capacity need not keep them from
taking the most important officers :
should divide the plunder of the State
with them ; and when he had attract
ed to himself and to them also the sus
picion. fear and hatred of the old citi-
z ‘ns. should then appeal to the omnipo
tent and dreaded Federal power for
siipp >rt and ge; it. what would be the
condition of j ublic opini m in .Massa
chusetts? Would n >t society be shaken
to the c >re? Would n->t respectable
and otherwise virtuous citizens be em
bittered to the point where they would
shut their eyes to violence ?
We d > not excuse violence. Noth
ing excuses murder >r 11 wlessness. Bu f
these crimes which happen in th<* South
and of whieh. just now, the President
aud the Republican organs and politi
eians give such horrifying accounts,
are not without cause. They are the
results of a long course of abuse begun
and continued by unscrupulous and sel
fish N irtheru adventurers, who have,
the help of the Federal Govern
ment, preyed upon Southern society,
and wh- have not e.en ha 1 enrage
and energy to punish ihese cnim-s ot
which their conduct has been the main
cau.«e. Let non-interference have a
tiial. Let us see what will happen’d
iventurers can ro longer call
upon the Federal power to maintain
them. That is the only cure.
vote for ami suppoit the men ami party 1
thought were best or my c uutry’s wel
fare. I had also determined th it so far as
any of the nutters connected with p ilitics
in your State were to be of a sealed natur .
so far as I was concerned, to let the dead
past bury its dead—shed no tear over its
grave; but unfortunately, perhaps, for
some ol the pirties concerned, they con
cluded they would shi t their sins on
my shoulders. Now, i have enough oi
my own to hear, and propose, in a few
statements, to put the sin where it proper
ly belongs.
In the first place I was,as you all know,
an officer in the regular army ot the Unit
ed States, stationed am mg you from the
close of the war until I resigned to take
tiie appointment of Register in Binkrupt-
cy, which I held until 18i>8, when I was
elected to Congress. When the Constitu
tional Convention in 1868 was in session,
Messrs. Soutter & Co., bankers of New
York city, were desirious of getting that
assemblage of corrupt end doubtful rep
resentation to endorse $1,000,000 ot old
State bonds, or repledge the faith of the
State to their payment. I was then inex
pcrienccd in a! 1 kinds of legislation, hut
had quite an extensive acquaintance w ith
the members of that body. One of them,
Gen. John C. Abbott, late a Senator in
Congress, on learnirg what Messrs. Sout
ter & Co., wanted, told me that they
would pay some considerable money to
get ihe Convention to p 'ss a law re-en
dorsing the bonds; tiiat if I would see a
Mr. Porter, then in Raleigh, and make a
liargam with him foi some definite sum,
he (Abbott) would put the bill through
the Convention, and that he would divide
the money received from Soutter & Co.
I did ns he suggested. Mr. Porter agreed
to give $1,000. Gen. Estes, then a partner
or in some way connected with Abbott,
represented Abbott; the bill was passed,
and the money paid by draft on New
York ami cashed at tne Raleigh Xationa 1
Bank The money was divided in Ab
bott’s room, he and Esies taking $9,500.
and 1 getting the other $2,500. Of this
sum, I save $.500 >o a Major Rice, from
Pitt county; $250 to Janies H. Harris,
and kept the remainder.
This was the commencement of the
swiefil-s that were perpetrated by the j
tn.it time the itiug was formed uy Swep
son, Abbott, and Littlefield by which ail
of tbo e stealing laws were pissed. They
had up to that time been friendly with
me. I was. through their influence anil a
liberal use of money, nominated to Con
gress. Air James H Harris was the only
opponent I had in the Convention, and he
was paid by me $1,050 to get out of the
way and support me. I paid him by a
check on tiie Raleigh National Bank dat
ed February 28. 1308. About this time
tiie Ring concluded I hey would make a
close corporation and shake me, bur I
.Mr. Swepson paid me
claim I hail on
them, or the spoils of the Ring.
I was again nominated, when Harris
again wanted to leech mr; and this time
the colored patriot would take no less
than $2,005, bus making me bleed $3,000
te represent as mean and worthless a con
stituency of whites and blacks as ever
called themselves Republicans. Th>-y
should have been called by their proper
names of thieves and leeches. I had, by
this time, come to tiie conclusion that
Swepson, Abbott,Littlefield & Co., would
be tired of their slinking me in
I he way they had, so I went and
saw Judge Sammy Watts; made an ar
rangement with Judge Watts to enjoin
the issue of bonds to the railroad coiupa
ny, and he was to have $5,000 of State
bonds lor issuing and sustaining injunc
tions in the Atlantic and Tennessee Rail
read case. The suit was in the name ol
one Kelioe of Newhern; the case was fix
ed up, and Sammy got his $5,000. There
was but one railroad, I now remember of,
that did not pay tribute to this Ring, and
that was the Salem road. They eclined
to "bleed."
It was well understood that Mr. Swop
sou was to and did take care of Gov. Hol
den, and that he was paid for his influ
ence. Andy Jones and Swepson have
often told me that Swepson paid Gov.
Holden Some $25,000, besides his stock in
the Raleigh National Bank. I kno v that
Littltield gave Gov. Holden $15,000 for
the St'indtrU. The price was high, but
tbe Govtrnor gave his countenance and
encouragement to steal his State. So it
was about even.
Gov. Holden, Bill Sloan, Andy Jack-
on Jones, Windy Billy Henderson, Joe
Abbott, Gen. E-tes. Sara Watts, Jim
Harris, M. S. Littlefield, G. W. Swepson,
steals.
AN ANXIOUS PARENT.
J. C. L. llirris wanted to be Postmas-
r; his daddy, C. L. Harris, offered me
$1,000 los.gn his recommendation. 1
ieebn .d. Hairis then had Shaffer, the
:irpet-hag register, who lias about .is
much brain as a bull calf, to write me a
•Her, offering me $1,005 te sign it. I de
lined. Logan then wanted t.< fight nr-
n Malil -r’-s jewelry store for not giving
him a r-.comm ud.ition.
Littlefield, Swepson, and Abbo't are to
blame, one as ma.-li as the other, for the
condition of affairs in your State.
They corrupted the L‘'gi>l.iture, using
nch willing tools as J. H. Harris to get
he negro'members to vote for all of th-ir
railroad schemes. Harris was by them
paid the m >noy with which he purclms'?
his farm. In tact he would do nothing
uifess he was paid for it. - He must have
received not less than $15,000 for his in
fluence and his vote. Abbott got at least
$100,000 fur his share. You all know how
much your State “was swindled out of ;
the members themselves received but
little. Sam Carrow whs paid $3,500 for
tryi"g to influence Rodman’s opinion on
the legality of the bonds issued by the
railroad company.
Dick Badger and Tim Lee each got
their $8,l>00 of State bonds out of the
Atlantic and Ohio Railroad Company ap
propriation. In fact, not one of these
radical chaps that are now houndiig me
■Ida lick of work; but they got their pay,
and your State had to pay them. The
stealing extended from one cud of the
State to the other, an t was confined en
tirely to the Republican party. More
than one man now in ease and plenty in
your State stole what lie is daily eating,
and if the Republican parly is to be con
tinued in power, you will get ju.->t four
years more of it.
. John T De weese.
MODERN JOSEPHS-
The Fellows Who Bagged the Shekels
—Tribute to Distinguished States
men.
[Rev. Henry Morgan's Lecture.]
Joseph was private secretly to the old
patriarch Jacob, like Babcock to Grant,
but with this difference, Joseph reported
the evd deeds of his brethren. Babcock
didn’t. YVhen Joseph’s Brethren stole
sheep Jo-eph exposed the rogues to Jacob
and won their displeasure. IS’hen Bab
cock’s brethren stoic whisky Babcock
didn’t report to the old man. He went
shares, divided the spoils ol the whisky.
Joseph represents the party uf “moral
ideas” sold into Eg.pt—sold to the spoil
grabbles. Judah said.' “Let us sell Jo
seph.” Now Juflah was a shrewd finan
cier. He saw [here was money in the
slave trade, so he put his brother in the
market, sold him to his cousins. Reuben
was the best of the cabinet, he designed
to rescue Joseph—run an underground
railroad. It is well for Potiphar that he
did not puiehase either Reuben or Judah
for servants. He could not trust them in
hi9 family. Airs. Potiphar might become
too familiar. Tliey represent the modern
Joe. Joseph was imprisoned because of
his virtue. The modern Joe is incarcerat
ed for want of if oseph was sold by
his brethren* Tire modern Joe often gets
osld bv the other sex Grant says: “l
didn't sell Joseph, I ouly took double
salary aud a tew presents.’’ Babcock
says: “I didn’t sell the party, I only
took a few thousand from the whisky
ring.” Beiknap says: “I didn't sell him,
I only got $25,000 out or the suller’s’
posts, just to please my wife." Delano
says: “I only made a few th usamls out
of the land jobs and the Indians." Boss
Shepherd srys: “I only took $30,000 out
of the Freedmen’s Bauk.” Scbenck says:
I only got the Britishers to invest in
Emma mine.” Ben Butler says: “I didn't
sell the party, I only preached inflation
and repudiation. " Yet all had their part
of tiie shekels, all made money out of the
sale of poor Joseph, or the Republican
party. Butler would have a leather-medal
currency; Butler thinks much of the flag;
much of hunting—if it is made in his lac-
lory. The election will turn on tUelinane*
question, and on the color line. It Moses
had married a white worja~ we I
didate. But Moses was a regular*bishop
—Gilbert—Haven—friend of the colored
people! He rode out with the blacks,and
married an Ethiopian—Aiaies I mean. In
our day Amalck means the whisky ring
nd the Washington rings. And Saul
aid: “I nave done as thou comm indest
me” Samuel said: “Ah! Ha! Hast thou!
What meanerh this bleating of sheep; and
lowing of oxen?” Saul said: “I have
to the best of the spoils to sacrifice kept
Lord ” So says the whisky ring “Kept
he best of the sp iils to serve the party
with.’” Samuel said: “Obedience is
better than sacrifice. Bring hither Agag,
king of the Amaleki'e-!” “And Samuel
hewed Agag to pi- C •* before the Lord.’
IVumber SI
NEW GOODS
SOW TOURING IN TH*
And will soon be one of the prettiest
most attractive stores ia town.
THE FAIR-
Plant rs and everjb aly else should
bear in mi.id that it is now but a little
over six weeks until the Fair opens.—
Irfais should stimulate every one who
feels an interest in thf exhibition to
take prompt measures looking to a full
exhibition of T homas county's resour
ces. This exhibition should call iut>
play all .he latent energies of our peo
ple. Nothing should be left undone
to make this the grandest exhibition
which h s yet marked the brilliant
series of exhibitions- in the past. We
cannot retrograde in this matter. On-
C’onvention and Legislature which led to ! on d upward must be our course,
tne financial ruin of your State. Before ! All it require* is that we should have
the close of the Convention the bill was 1 concert of acti-n among the farmers and
passed giving State aid to the Chatham farmers wives. Let us have this and j by the bestowal up *i\ them ot tiie b-w
road, and $60,000 of bonds were given to | the Fair is already an assured success. | public offices which they afe legally
Gen. Littlefield to pay the members for ; Witn<rat this, even with all the prestige j qualified and c mpetent to fill, and we
their votes . ; <»f the past, failure will Stare us in the j know ot no better beginning in this re
i face. Theft let town and country go to i form which could be made, than the ap
j work now preparing something Ft the ! pointment of an accomplished laity
tore met and me memo rs V P ht ;„ rk f ., r 1 , h * wid -W and daughter of distinguish-
ever cbimarous for all kinds of « j each . Ut when argued will make a , d Georgians-1- ,he position of State
and s Zeals, there influence and 1 mi tt wh j Librarian.-Columbus Tan*.
were up for sale to the highest bidder At o J
AN OFFICE FOR A LADY.
We are informed that Mrs. E. S.
Overby intend to be an appl.c.mt for
he p siti'ui of State L brari n, when
the duly of making a new appointment
for that office devolves on Gov. Colquitt
Mrs Overby is the wid iv of Judge
Overby, and he daughter of lion.
Hugh Harals.ra—two i'f Georgia’s late
talented and distinguished sous. She
is,a lady of fine accomplishments aud
supeiior mental endowment, and vmild
till the position most intelligently and
gracefully.
We hope that Gov. Colquitt will do
an act at once of gallantry and justice
by giving the appointment to this lady
He might thus initiate a • u -w depart
ure” in politics, the following of which
throughout the South wovld do much
to better tbe pecuniary condition of
many wou.cn who well deserve such fa
vor* of the State But. perhaps we
c.i n >t exactly cdl it a in-w departure.
f..r we understand that .Mr*. Haskell,
the widow of the gallant Gen. Haskell,
h *lds a similar p .siii<iu in the State of
Tennessee The office of Librarian is.
at all events, one well suited to both
the capacity and the taste of an aceom
piished woman
Hard as has been the c ndition oi a
great many of our people since the de
struction of their "r>>petty and the de
rangement of their industries by tbe
war. that of large numbers of wouitu
has been the hardest Th rasands of
them found themselves reduced from
affluence and luxury to absolute want.
In the eleven years oi* conflict with ad
verse fortune, whieh lias followed, they
h ive not had as g-i..<l a chance as the
men. who could always make a liveli-
h.M-d by hard w rk And yet nothing
has b en done by the State f»r their
special benefit We hope that (here
will be an improvement in this respect
A LEGISLATCIUi TOT SALK.
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'li it distinctly understood in tb
of the season that they
CAN’T BE UNDERSOLD
BV ANY HOUSE IN SOUTH WES
UIA, NOR ELSEWHERE.
We have On hand and are constantly
ceiving a full line of
DRY GOODS,
II ING, FANCY GOODS,
GROCERIES
OF ALD KINDS.
We invite >he attention of tbe trading pab*
lie to the inducements which we propose M
offer during tbe incoming season. Wa ii.
tend to sell goods at bottom figures, having
as our motto ‘Quick sales and small prafiw.’
GIVE US A CALL
Aal be setuSsl of thstrutn 9t*
WEIL t LOU,