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The Weokly Democrat BEN E. RUSSELL, Editor. Bainbndtre. Georgia Oct. 19th 76- Tbe National Democratic Ticket. FOR PRESIDENT ; SAMUEL J. TILDEN, OF NEW YORK. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT : THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, OF INDIANA. FOR CONGRESS : WILLIAM E. SMITH, OF DOUGHERTY. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS For the State at Large. GEN. A. R. LAWTON, of Catbaro. HON. JOHN W. WOFFORD, of Bartow. ALTERNATES. GEN. L. J. GARTRELL, of Fulton- JUDGE H. D. D. TWIGGS, of Richmond. District Electors- 1st Disk—A, M. ROGERS, of Burke. 2d Diet.— R. E. KENNON, of Clay 3d Dist.—J. M. DuPREE, of Macon. 4th Dist.—W. O. TUGGLE, of Troup. 6th Dist.—F. D. DLS.MUKE, of Spalding. 6th Dist —F. CHAMBERS, of Wilkinson 7th Dist.—L. N. TRAMMELL, of Whitfield. 8th Dist.—D. M. Dr BOSE, of Wilkes. Oth Dist—J. N. DORSEY, of Hall. election far President and Congressmen comes off on Tuesday the 7th <f November. Don't forget tie dag, and don’t forget to u-ork in earnest. WHERE THE MONEY GOES Tax-payers, honest citizens of all political parties, give us your ear while Wo tell you where some of your oppres sive taxes have gone. 'We want you to know, so that you can vote intelligently on the 7th day of November. The records -rove that the public expenditures during the six years of Grant’s administration, ending June 30, 1875, have been four billions of dollars, The records prove that the defalca tions by Republican office-holders du ring the last six years of Republican administration, amounted on Jane 19, 1876, to five millions, five hundred thousand, five hundred and twenty-five dollars. The records prove that the robberies of the Whiskey Rings amounted to ful ly one huudred millions of dollars. > The records .prove that the army of office-holders has been Increased over 50,000 during Grant's administration, The records prove that nearly 8194,. 000,000 have been stolen from the South by carpet-baggers since the era of Reconstruction. The records prove that 70,000 color ■ed depositors in the Freedmen’s Sav- ing Bank, (a Republican institution) have been robbed t»f 83,000,000, Now, intelligent voter, can you vote to continue this corrupt party in pow er ? Can you vote for Major Whiteley for Congress, who is a member of and supporter of this party ? A Bet.—A gentleman in Atlanta offers to make the following bets .- 85,000 that Tildcn carries Ohio. 85,000 that Tilden carries Indiana. 85,000 that Tilden carries N. Y. 85,000 that he can name 24 States that Tilden will carry. 8-5,000 that Tilden will be elected. The money has been deposited at the Markham House, and awaits takers. New York Sun .- ‘-Governor Tilden is confident that his majority will reach 75,000 i» this State. He is not an over sanguine man, nor one given to loose statements, but rather a man who speaks after cautiously examining the grounds for his assertions. In Brooklyn a Hayes and Wheeler club, numbering 296 members, sent word to the Tilden and Hendricks club that they would like to join the Tilden club. They w ere received with cheers, and three other clubs there expres s an intention to follow the example. The Cnicago Inter-Ocean says that “in almost every Southern State there is an admitted republican majority.” But the Inter-Oc-an will say any thing, always remembering that it gives truth the last chance. Hence the truth got left when the above was written. We see a good many papers are ur ging different reasons why Mr. Hill should be kept in the House and not be sent to the Senate. Ben Hill will be the next Senator nevertheless. Mark the prediction. A big hill of money rnd a roaring whirlwind of tongue were wasted on Indiana in the interest of Grantism. NOVEMBER THE SEVENTH- It is now less than three weeks ere the day when the destiny of this nation is to be settled for another four years, and, perhaps, forever. When the sun goes down upon that day the people of this great Republic will have spoken for pure and honest government, or for a continuance in power ef the party whose shocking maladministration finds no parallel in the world’s history. If the people approve of ^the corruptions that have crept into every avenue of the public service, by their ballots in No vember, then the people themselves are corrupt and are not worthy the name of free Americans. While we are not free from appre hension as to the result, we cannot be lieve that the people of this country are willing to re-endorse this depraved par ty with its damning record staring them full in the face. Their acts are on the public records, and the history of th<*ir deeds will be the one foul blot in American history. They trample upon the Constitution, ignore the law, plunder the people, and make the mili tary paramount to the civil authority Great States have been prostrated, and are now prostrate, then plundered. Not alone has the South felt the incu bus of Republican rule—the whole country is oppressed, and the people are crying out in dispair. Grant’s administration has in six years, and in a time too of profound peace, expended over 84,000,000,000, or twice the amount of the national debt. Add to this the millions upon millions stolen from the South by the carpet-baggers, and the millions stolen by office-holders and rings, and we have a load resting upon us as a people that bids fair to crush us out of existence An honest government would have by this time paid the national debt, and the country would be prospering. But no ! The party in power spend twice the amount of the public debt, pile up more debt, and then ask the people to Continue the reins of government their hands. God forbid ! In less than three weeks the grea verdict will be rendered. * People of Decatur, black and white, you are r—^ - lTral Jfarw. Hayes, Whiteley and Corruption, Tilden, Smith and lirform? We have given you fact after fact, to stubborn that no Radical dare resist them, show ing how the country is governed, and how, unless there is a check upon the par^y in power, it will be ruined. Hence there is no excuse for a reading man voting to sustain Radicalism, and learn ing, he should impart his information to those who cannot read. Let every man who can read become a missionary until the day of election, in ..rder th it all of our people may become fully en lightened as to their duty in this crisis. are before the country. “When the devil wae sick,” no donbt his protesta tions of intention to pat on sackcloth were very fervent; unfortunately for their acceptance, the country has had a fuil sight of the devil when he was well. Besides, if there be snch need of Reform, who made it so urgent ? What party has had exclusive control of Treasury, Castem-House, Indian Bu reau, Navy Department, &c.. while all these abuses were growing rank ? Un der what auspices have all the rogues Ieai ned to sun themselves m our public places so insolently ? To whom be longs Grant, Shepherd, Babcock, Bel knap, Butler, Chandler, the Camerons, and all the long catalogue of graduates in iniquity and shamelessness ? They do not belong to the Democratic party. They belong to you and your party, oh, Republican doctors ! And, when the people ask “what next?” the Demo cratic party is at least able to offer a change as their remedy. It cannot be worse and it may very easily be better. THE WESTERN ELECTIONS- High Authority ou the Result [From the N. Y. Herald—Rap. The Republicans seem to concede that the “solid South” is against them, and if this impression should be verified it is as certain as the rules of arithmetic that (heir Presidential ticket will be defeated if Til den carries his own State and the adjoin ing Stares of Connecticut and New Jersey. To be sure, the Democratic party can derive little hope or consololation from the Octo ber elections; but it must be considered that the three pivotai States are already Democratic, and that the Republicans must not merely hold their own, but make con quests to wrest them from Democratic con trol. The Democratic party has also some chances in Calitornia ana Oregon, which would more than balance Sonth Carolina if the Republicans should carry that one Southern State. Tuesday’s elections, in stead of deciding the Presidential contest, will make it more close, doubtful, strenuous and resolute than any national canvass in the history of our politics. .[From the N. Y. Sun — Dem. The results of the recent elections enable us to determine with reasonable accuracy how the great question will be decided in November. In Iliac contest, as our readers will remember, the whole number of electors to be-chosen is 369, and the candidate who gets as many as 185 of these will be elected. Here is the record as it stands since Tues day : STATFS CERTAIN TO VOTE FOR TILDEN. w Candidates for all the offices within gift of th 'J as bees. busy^i°^ t ^ le next Legislature, are WHAT NEXT ? How much longer are these Repub licon doctors to be allowed to play their farce of “pacifying the South,” while the stage on which they act is the writhing and agonized body politic, bleeding from a hundred wounds that need healing ? Have we, the people, no other concern than just to sit still and see this wretched mockery perform ed to the end, while our own 1 uin is being surely and not slowly consumma ted? “What next ?” the people are asking and they will noc be diverted from it. You may send your Boutwells to search for the hole in the sky, in Mississippi, as often as you please. You may wave the bloody shirt till your arms are sore; you may shout yourselves hoarse about “old issues,” but you will not divert the minds of the people from the new and ever present issue of the necessity of living, and the necessity of getting re form in order to live. All your nos trums, all your subterfuges, all your lies will do nothing to cure the universal discontent which your measures have brad in the hearts of the people, be cause your measures have bred such distress in the midst of the people. Af ter you have done with your shouting, your farce playing, your shirt waving, your ridiculous capering on the ealum- ny tight rope, the people are sure to de» mand of you “what Dext ?” And what will you answer, Republi can doctors ? What, indeed, can you answer ? Will you promise us Reform ? You have had eight years of undisturb ed power to reform in, and the results Alabama .. 10 Missouri 0 Connecticut... ....6 NewY'ork . .35 Delaware.... ....3 North Carolina ..10 Georgia Oregon.. . . .o Indiana ...15 Tennessee .. Kentucky .. 12 Texas 8 Louisiana ... .8 Virginia . ii Maryland 8 West Virginia. .. .5 Mississippi i . — Total... .195 Or ten more than are necessary tv elect. STATES LIKELY TO VOTE FOR TILDEX. California .... .6 i New Ilamnshire... .5 i-icuiua 4 | South Carolina... i Total ; .22 Certain Slates .195 Probable States 22 Grand total for Tilden 217 STATES CERTAIN TO VOTE FOR HAYES. .11 Kansas ..5 Ohio O’) Maine Rhode Island 4 Minnesota Vermont.... 5 Nebraska ...3 — STATES LIKELY TO VOTE FOR HAYES. Colorado ...3 Michigan.... 11 Illinois 21 Wisconsin... Massachusetts.. . 13 — 58 Certain Stales.. 65 Probable States. ....58 Grond total for Hayes .. 123 Or 62 fewer than are necessary to elect. DOUBTFUL. Pennsylvania 29 SUMMARY. Grand total for Tilnen 217 Grand total for Hayes 123 Tildens majority 94 Less possible vote of Pennsylvania 29 States their whole army ofurators, mana gers, Government clerks, repeaters and bal lot-box stuffers and the campaign fund of millions wrung from 90,000 public officials, extorted from whiskey thieves or contribu ted by candidates who proposed recouping themselves from the public pockets. The Republicans fought like cornered rats. They had the Treasury before them—and the pen itentiary behind. All that could be effected by rousing prejudices of section, wee and religion was done. The art of calumny, falsehood and corruption were exhausted. Tuesday’s sun went down on a battle field all “rolled in smoke even now we lack the uninterrupted view necessary for precise computation of results at.d conse quences. We know, however, that We have won a decided victory in Indiana, and fought a drawn battle in Ohio that is e luivolent to a Republican defeat. Mr. Hendricks has shown conclusively that he brings strength to the national ticket; Mr. Hayes that he is a load to his party, when a candidate of pos itive character would have helped it. Ohio is transferred from the “Republican” to the “doubtful” column; Indiana is no longer doubtful, but. Democratic. In each Siate the full Republican strength, with all ex traneous appliances, has been developed. We enter on the November election with the certainty that Messrs. Chandler and Mortob cannot again concentrate their funds and feVcnson tliosetwo States and that the “wait ers mi .providence” will reinforce us. While the gallant Democrats of Ohio and Indiana thus have their work made easier au"Vtheir brethren elsewhere have been en couraged and heipen mightily, there must be i» illusion, no over-confidence, no time wasted in felicitations. We have the weight of the initiative, but we have also a strong oe made more desperate by defeat. The Repub lican overthrow in November means starva tion or hard work for nearly a hundred thou sand fat officials and politicians, and for ma ny of the greater rascals social ostracism and the convict’s stripes. There is no weapon from murder and high treason that they will not employ. But happily to no purpose, if we are only true to ourselves. Let there bo no relaxing of effort to discipline; no selling the bear’s skin till he is quite dead. Three weeks more of such as the Army of the Ohio has done, a simultaneous advance all along the line, and we shall dictate peace at the Capital. LATE NEW^BREVITIES. Servia is sick of the war, Spuin is sending troops to Cuba. A riot occurred in New York last Week. Chamberlain continues to cry out for troops. The Democratic majority in Atkansas is 33,992. Augusta has raised her quarantine against Charleston. Russia and Servia are threatening Austria and Turkey. Increased Democratic gains and 12,000 majority are shown in West Virginia. Sherman hits been petitioned to send more troops to Carolina and Mississippi. Governor Gaston declines the nomina tion fol’Congttss from Massachusetts. The yellow fever is slowly decreasing in Savannah. They report it not epidemic now in Brunswick The otlicia. returns have been received from Indiana, and Williams’ majority is 5.494. This is glorinti-.lv good. The official returns fro a Colorado have not been received. Both pattiescbiiti) the State. 1 The official returns fr < n Ohio hive not ’Beet) rcrypnc-l- but it >* mor.-'t:>-■«> pfoba- bje it has gone Radical. The Sixth anti-Tamroasiv District met in convention at Nc'V York and n imiuat- ed Hon. S. S. Cox for Congress. Mr. J. W. Lathrop, President o r the Savonnali Cotton JE roll in re, died last week of yellow fever. Comptroller Greene has accepted the nomination lor Mayor of New .York tendered him by the Cooper Institute meeting. NEW GOODS NOW POURING IN THE And tvill soon he one of ih« prettiest an most attractive stores in town. The ^EYENTH OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA Agricultural and Median^ association, Commencing id ThodffisVilie, Georgia, October 3f st lg?g , ’ 1 0(1 FIVE DAYS, •S Ad Weil & Loeb, A splendid arrayof Premiums A magnificent display of (hr , South Georgia and Florida- Kuiehts in 6 P^uctio With It distinctly understood in the of the season that they CAN’T BE UN ERS0LD Georgia and Florida- Knights in gltMerYngTosC 1 ” 10 " ° f| A brilliant Tournament. Ample accommodations and room for Everybody Th„ t .... did condition U1 1D & S 8re * n s plen* ALL ENTRY TEES ARE ABOLISHED, Excursion trains will run daily at reduced rates. The Am™." , tug nothing undone to make this yeat’s exhibition the grandest 011 *** U H eating of any formor exhibition. South Georgia, Fiorida and th» “t!T ' nW ’l mankind are invited. 18 balance —— °ctl9td (Under the Rankin House) COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. BY ANY HOUSE IN SOUTH WEST GKO it U1A, NUitBL8J-JYV HERE, RESTAURANT UlAkKOt BILLIARD SALOON, The Restaurant is now open and will be supplied with fresh fish and oysters, and in fact all the delicacies of the market. Par ties visiting the city will find to their inter cst to give Us a cn.l. A, f . CLEMENTS & CO., psi-21-2ni Pr prietors. hLABAJIA W AREHOUSjl COLUMBUS, GA. -w *33 1fcw m NEW HARDWARE FIRM. J. A. FRA2ER & CO. Dealer Tilden’s sure majority 65 This is just the way the case stands since the result of Tuesday’s elections has become known, It leaves Tilden’s success about as certain as Frank Pierce’s was after the elec tions of October, 1852, We have no longer any doubt of the complete triumph of the Reform party. But it will not be achieved without an earnest struggle. Tbe party of corruption will aie hard. The possession of power will only be surrendered after des perate fighting. In the State of Ntw York especially, the combat will be most intense and incessant from this day forth until the election of Tuesday, Nov. 7. Every trick and device will be resorted to by the men in office to save themselves from the dire ne cessity of seeking a new occupation. But no trick and no device, however cunning or however audacious, can overcome the will of the people to have a change, aud to turn out the Grants, Robesons, Chandlers, Blaines, Babcocks, Fishes, Shepherds, and all the banditti who for the last seven years have disgraced er plundered the country. [From the N. Y. World—Dem.] On Tuesday of this week we fought a great battle where we had everything to win and every chance of losing. West Virginia was so surely ours that in our preliminary reviews we did not even admit the chance of its loss. We had hopes of Indiana, prin cipally because of the local sympathy that Mr. Hendricks as a candidate on the na tional ticket: was sure to attract ; besides, the average majority there to be overcome was comparatively small. At the same time we had our fears. Of all our antagonists Mr Morton is the cleverest, least scrupulous, most versed in the dirty and desperate ways of politics. In Ohio we had confidence that our Western brethren would make a gallant resistance; we could hardly have hoped for more Ohio is one of the banner States of Republicanism, and the candidate whom in effect tbe Republicans voted for was an Ohioan, selected especially for his local popularity and his success a twelve- mouth before in the most desperate politi cal battle ever waged in the State. The Re publicans had the choice ot ground and time, for they concentrated on these two In the State elections so far held the Democracy has not merely gained on the popular vote of 1872 two hun dred thousaud votes, but has secured the votes of Alabama, Arkansas, Indt ana. and West Virginia; in all thirty six electoral votes from States which voted for Grant in 1872. With Col orado and Ohio yet in doubt, and of all the States yet voting, only two, Maine and VerB’ont, safe for Hayes, there can be no doubt of the triumphant election of Tilden and Hendricks by a large majority of the Electoral College. Alliance, O. 4—The Hon_ SchuyleF Colfax addressed the people at the fair grounds this afternoon. The Hayes and Wheeler guards paraded the streets in t«rchlight procession. Alii ance is wild with enthusiasm. What can there be in the presence on the stump of a venal legislator, man who took money for his influence in Cotigress in behalf of a job, and then lied about it, a pious fraud, a smiling pretender, and a disgraced politician what can there be in Schuyler Colfax to excite “wild enthusiasm?” But we doubt not that however it may have been with some of the people of AUi- unce, thqjhonorable and thinking citi zens looked with proper contempt on this man, who had the effrontery to come front his di graceful seclusion to instruct the voters of a neighboring State as to the casting of their ballots at a time when there is so general a re solve to rid our politics of the whole crew of which this Schuyler Colfax was once so conspicuous a member.—JV, T Sun. The Republicans are sad, and well may they be so. After a fierce strugle they have barely got Ohio in October and stand a good chance of losing it m November ; while Indiana, which they crowded with speakers,’ and on which they lavished the mon ey wrung from the office-holders, is lost to them now, and will be against them next month with a still more de cisive majority ; and West Virginia forcibly declares its detestation of the men and ways of their party. The Republicans can henceforth, nntdU the Presidential election, wage only a half-hearted fight. Their Western straggle was in vain,, and they cannot renew it., We have on band and nr** ron.-tlnfltly ceiving a full line of DRY GOODS, HARDWARE CUTLERY, and AGP [CULTURAL IMPLE MENTS, . Also, Gtltts, Carriage Mnleriitls, Iron, Steel. Giu and Mill Gearing, Rubber Belt. Ing, Mill Stones, Bolting Cloths, l’aints, Oils, &v. West Side Broad Street. COLUMBUS, GA. CLOTHING, FANCY GOODS, |y|RS. M. i. REYNOLDS, FASHIONABLE Milliner and Dress Maker, Has just returned from the North with a large and varied assortment of the filanchapji, Williams 4 Co., Now We cliltfgfc Of this large FircPrJ Warehouse, and solicit „ o{ Storage 25 cents a bate per month ',w s 1 ;;” 1 , i-«j ^S^iidattentiat, give,, to the nit' -uni storage of Syrup, t. J. mnc-E, «. j. uixtoBb, A, u, w,uu* v PEARCE, BINF0RD & CO* GROCE RS f AND CommiMion Merchant!, NO 20, BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, QJu B®* Special attention to sale of cotton- stp2l-3m lOF THE* GROCERIES Latest Styles Lowest Prices- Call, Ladies, at once, and make your se lections. oct 12-lni OF ALD KINDS, We invite the attention ot the trading pnV He to the inducements which we propose te eroff during the incoming season. We in tend to sell goods at bottom figures, having as our motto ‘Quick sales and small profits.’ GIVE US A CALL And be satisfied' of Cha-trotb ot what we eay WEIL & LOEB, Bainbridge, Georgia, BAKER AND CONFECTIONER, And Dealer in Family Groceries The best, freshest and cheapest gro ceries, at the lowest prices. Call on Fred Smith, in Sharon Block. sepf8-6tn W. H. H- STOKES Next door to Barnett & Son, BAINBRIDGE,*GA., Work done Cheeper tnan anywnere else in in the City, and IN THE BEST STYLE- Give me s call before going elsewhere, All that I ask is a trial tGf Work warranted. eep28-3m REDELL & CO LIQUOR DEALERS, ASH tobacco agents 126 BROAD STREET, Columbus, Geof sep21-3m j. kaufhahT Wholesale Dealers in GROCERIES, LIQUORS, Provisions, <8tc.«r COLUMBUS, CA/ sep214f James a. lewis, jobber of GEORGIA—Decatur County.. James M, Burnham as trustee for Sarah B. Burnham has applied for exemption and setting ajrarl of Homestead and I will pass upon the same on the 4th day of Nov, at my office m city of Bainbridge; HIRAM BROCKET*, Oct-12,1876. Ordinary, D. C; DRYGOODS NOTIONS, CLOTHING, HATS,-SHOES, SC 152 and 154, Broad Strtet, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. > «p21-lsI IMBMB