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i-> yim ANNUM. 4 ~ VOL- VII. the WEEKLY SJIN PUBLISHED ■givow Satm.rcia/y I(. M JoHnston, Proprietor. Terms of SuborlH'iOiCi OneCopJ' <>,,e ' ,ir ’’ Six Months 1,00 yae Copy,Three Mouths 75 Invariably in AdVAMc* Among the Georgia Press. y r . John Thrashet has been marie Mar ey of Quitman. We suppose he will tirAsh out things if they don’t do to suit him. y r , J. J. Jells, of IlawkitlsvlUe, is tfe porKvl to have raised a cucumber measur ing four feet eight inches in length, and fonrtw.ni inches in circumference. E ('. Wade goes for Capt. J; H. Ilun t,.r of Brooks county, in a letter in the Quitman Banner. Atlanta is fixing up for the next State fair. 11. V. M. Miller spoks In Atlanta lust fSek. IP nrj ft. Duftignon, of BrflttSwick, died |*nt week. t'ol Barkaloo has been nominated for the l/egislature from Glynn county. \\> k-re ihftt t*ur young friend W. E. Col li,r, formerly of Itainbridge, but now of Fort Valley, has been spoken of for Rcp ivaentative from Houston county. We don't think a better selection could be Perry has been having affine revival. What is the matter with the Guthbert Appeal ? We have not received a copy in sometime. Have you forgotten us, friend’.Saw tell ? Blakely is to have a singing Convention. U. 0. Dunlap lias been nominated for the legislature, from Early county. Maj. Hurst, of Miller county, is dead, t'ol. J. B. Weems, of Macon, spoke at Butler last Saturday. The hoys of Savannah are advised to rrv tin l evening Mirror, and the proprie tors are responsible if anybody don’t like it. We have received the first nnmber of the Newton Enterprise, published at New ton. Baker county in this State, by Brown A Kirch. It is a neat little sheet, well got ten up. creditably edited. The colored mokes around Newton were very much disappointed because Major Whitclcy did not address them as prom ised Fitch, of the Griffin Star, gave Burnett, ts the Atlanta Whig, a severe beating »ith a stick the other day. One day last week, Mr. Robert \\ allace, laing injtke Sixth District of Dooly coun ty. had his dwell inland entire household effects destroyed by fire. He was absent fmra home at the time, his children only being upon the place. ikipt. Ben J. Russell, of Baker county, made a speech last week, in which he ad vocated farmers only as legislators, l'r. K. F. Way’s gin house, on his river Jantation, just below Ibiwkiusville, cou pling seven bales of cotton, was burned on Friday last. It was an accident. t'ol. Morgan Rawls has been nominated kr Congress in the First District. lion. Ju'.iau llartridge is to address the of Lowndes county. •’barley Pendleton tells one more of aw ful snake stories. Ike Enterprise says town property in Ihomasville is too high. W© can’t under hand that, as there are only about oue or ,w ° two-storv houses in that burg. Thomasville had a eoueext last week, by *be eoruet baud. Rtere is a crazy woman m Americus "bo claims to be the sister of our Saviour Fnmk Evans, of the Albany News is because nobody in his town won't get married. Albany is going to play tragedy soon. Albany has two dogs to every citizen. Ibat is a dogoned sight. 1 he Albany News says : • ur Wend, T. R. Lyon, is out this week e Central Pity, in a well written let- T t ‘ the colored people of Dougherty.— cm is doing good service in the Greeley 1 enthusiastic as he is voluiniu (’ j «! ' l ‘'-ill3 Herald is inclined to eu °r* Ma l- Bruton for the Senate. A, b*any News discourses thus: ll *N ro women iu the northern ffvejvW c Vlt^'tK au d whipped most r>r 'iT tlk ' a ne gro loan, who calls of v aT *’ aiu * swindled thorn out and " °alling himself a conjuror, cum all women of dis xc old i sai!le M. B. sometime ago told hi t! her\" 01liait that ii she would pay >V.rrig v van dollars he woukl coujur * r Iris , "' 'r iU ' lV ' r °l ca *tng her son b» i , l 1 ’*: °ld woman willingly «vmur to ' oUni ' But Sheriff K. would’nt Contrast. If there bo any persons who advo cate the re-election of President Grant from any other than Bullish and sordid considerations, wo would repectfully submit to their careful consideration the Proclamation of Lerdo de Tejada, the present Presi dent of Mexico, to those in rebellion or insurrection against the Govern ment of Mexico. They will notice that the amnesty is universal and complete, the franchise is restored to all, not even excepting Porfirio Diaz, the “ foils et origo ” of the in surrection. How different from the conduct of Grant who yet denies the rights of citizenship to very many Southern men seven years after the close of the war, and is now engaged with U. S. troops in hunting down Southern men and boys to imprison them thousands of miles from home. It proves Tejada a statesman and Grant a tyrant : Conformably to the provisions of our fundamental code for the case of an absolute default of President of the Republic, I have decided that the first of my official acts should be the decree to-day promulgated for the new elections. In these elections all the rights of the people shall be fully respected, without restrictions or hindrances, and liberty of suffrage guaranteed to all to its fullest extent. All the citizens, and all parties will be allowed free action in the electo ral acts, and thus tlio result will prove the real expression of the gen eral will. Animated by a spii’it of concilia tion I liavo considered it my duty to-day to issue a decree of amnesty for all political offences committed up to this date, and without person al exceptions. Tho principal efforts of the insurgents having been thwart ed, amnesty can now bo accorded them without prejudice to our law r s and authority. This amnesty res ponds to the general desire for the pacification of the country and to a well-grounded opinion of the many who regret all the frightful disasters of anarchy and deplore the ruinous results of civil wav'. At the moment when the electoral campaign is being opened amnesty is the only means of providing that no one be excluded from the privilege of casting his vote, and that no one be deprived of the right of receiving the suffrages of his fellow-citizens. I have thought that I could not make a better use of the faculties granted the Executive, and that if unfortunately there should still be found men bent upon longer inflicting upon their native land the horrors of war so as to require new efforts from those in authority for their subjection, it would be well that the public opinion should rec ognize that the Executive has had tho sincere desire to omit nothing calculated to secure peace and give the widest scope to electoral liberty. How a President is Elected. The question is often asked as to how the President of the United States is elected. We will answer : Each State is entitled to as many electors for President and Vice Pres ident as it has Senators and Repre sentatives in Congress. Hence Penn' sylvania has twenty-nine electors. In each State the electors are cho sen by a plurality vote. That is if there are sets of electors voted for those having the highest number of votes are chosen. But a candidate for President, in order to be successful, must have a majority of the electors. If there be three candidates for President and none of them receive a majority of the Electoral College, there is no choice, and the election goes to the House of Represeutativ es. The House must confine their choice to the three highest candi dates voted for by the electors. The Representatives vote by States, and each State has but one vote ; so that the power of Delaware is as great as Pensylvania. A candidate to be successful must receive a majority of all the States, or nineteen States.— If (he delegation is divided equally the vote of the State cannot be cast, and therefore is lost. Pittsburg claims to have made steel whkh stands a test of 210,000 to the square inch. Dots Here and There. Eol Smith Russell is not a preacher, after all. lie was only baptized. A mother and her four babes were in jail in *it. Louis the other clay. General Thayer, the oldest graduate of West point, Is dead. The Metis disaster is being Investigated by the Government. Liquor is the won t thing in the world to carry arrouud with you in hot weather. By a vote of 13 to, 4, the Louisville school board sustains the use of tho rattan in school. Joe Jefferson, the great "Rip Tan ’Win kle’’ has again been obliged to leave tho stage on account of his eyed. Long John Wentworth is accused using a telegraph pole for a caue when ho is at home. San Francisco lawyers charge a fee of 8800 in perjury coses, 8600 for manslaugh ter and 8400 for a plain burglary. Pope Blits IX generally speaks very hesitatingly when addressing strangers, but when his feelings become aroused he is a most eloquent speaker. Cataca/.y publishes a card in the New York papers denying that he has endeav ored to sell a pamphlet containing revela tion against President Grant and fam ily- A telegram from Rome announces the appointment of Bishop Bayley, of Newark N. J., to be Archbishop of Baltimore, to succeed the late Archbishop Spaulding. The QltcCn of Prussia has sent the Fiincess-Salm-Salm, upon her entering the St. Ursula Couvent at Appenzell, a Catholic prayer-book worth one thousand dollars. M rs. Horace Greeley's health continues to grow worse rapidly. She is so feeble t hat she cannot stand, her lower limbs having been partially paralyzed. —Her physicians think she cannot survive the year. The editor of tho Hartford Post wrote the Other night that "white pique costumes are now popular.” The intelligent corn compositor perhaps questioned the fact and to give it the merit of truth set up,’ "white pine cofi’ns are not poplar.” Greeleys Opinion of Carpet-bag gers. Mr. Greeley, in the New York Tribune, of May 17, 1871 “Our correspondents liave been so long in the disturbed districts of the South, that we can form from their letters a distinct idea of the state of society in that unfortunate part of the , Union.— It is ;> melancholy picture that they draw for us. The most intelligent, the influen tial, the educated the really useful men of the South, deprived of all political power have come to look upon themselves as the outraged subjects of a despotic conqueror. Taxed and swindled by a horde of rascally foreign adventurers, and by tho ignorant class, which only yesterday hoed the fields and served in the kitcli en, they care noth ing for politics except to throsv off the op pressive yoke; they have no interest in national affairs; they would call themselves of either party, provided their rulers w ere only of the other. The refuse of North ern cities, who went southward after the war, out-at-elbows and destitute of charac er mid education, now roll in splendid carriages, drink rare wines, glitter with diamonds and steal taxes. It is no wonder that the impoverished planter, growing poorer every day, the ex-confederate officer who fought so bravely for a cause in which he honestly believed, the professional men, accustomed all their lives to hold office and lead tho public sentiment of their communities, look ou these things with raucoroas hearts. They might sumit to be ruled by soldiers who had beaten them iu battle: but here they plundered by sut lers and camp-followers.” * * * "We have often warned our party iu Congress of the inevitable result of the vindictive method of Reconstnitftiort. We have told them, and we tell them again, that thete Is only one way to restore the Union —Universal Amnesty and Impartial buf frage.’, Herschel V. Joiin'sox. —lliis distingu ished Georgian written to by a “Straight’ in Columbus about the Louisville Conven tion. This is part of his reply: “I respect your opinions and can fully appreciate the patriotic feelings which prompt the Louisville movement. I do not approve it, but lam not at liberty to question its sincerity, much less to censure I deplore all schism among Southern peo ple, especially the people of Georgia. If it were in my power, I would exercise for ever the words of damnation and reciim nation. that we might all be linked in the bonds of brotherhood, tolerate honest differences of opinion, and cover each others faults with the veil of charity.— This is the lesson taught by common ruin and common sorrow.’ Napoleon once asked a lady wliat France needed for the education ol her youth ; and, the short profound reply was, “Mothers!'’ FOB THE RIGHT—JVBTICE TO ALL. BAINBRIDGE GA-, SEPTEMBER 21st, 1872. The Soldier and the Pack of Cards. A private soldier by th 9 name of Richard Lee, was taken before the magistrate of Glasgow for playing cards during divine service. The accounts is given in the English Journal. A serge&tji commanded the soldiers at the church, and when the Parson read the prayers he teok the text Those who had a Bible took it out, but the soldier had neith er Bible nor Common Prayer book, but pulling out a pack of cards, he spread them out before him. He first looked at one and then at the other.—The serge' at ‘of the com mand saw him’and *«*• “Richard, put up the cards ; this is no place for them,* “Never mind that,” said Richai’d. When the service wa3 over tho Constable took Richard prisoner and carried him before the Mayor. “What have you brought this sol dier here for ?” “For playing cards in ehurrli/’ “Well, soldier, what have you got to say for yourself?” “Much sir, I hope.” “Very good, if not, I will punish you more than ever a man was p an ished.” “I have been,” Said the soldier, “about six weeks on the march. I have neither Bible nor Common Prayer book. I have nothing but a pack of cards, and I hope to satisfy your lordship with tho purity of my intensions.” Then, spreading the cards before the Mayor, he began with tho ace : “When I see the ace it reminds me that there is but one God. When I see the deuce, it reminds mo of the Father and Son. When I see the tray, reminds mo of tile Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. When I see the four, it reminds mo of the four Evangelists that preached—Mathew, Mark, Luko and John. When I see tlio five, it reminds me of tho wise virgins that trimmed their lamps—there-were ten, five were sliut out. When I see tho six, it reminds me that in six days the Lord made Heaven and earth. When I see the seven, it reminds me that on the seventh day God rested from the great work he had made and hallowed it. When I see the eight, it reminds me of the eight righteous persons that were saved when God destroy ed the world—Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives, When I see the nine, it reminds me of the nine lepers that were cleansed by our Savior ; there wrnre nine out of the ten who never re turned thanks. When I see’the ten, it reminds me of the ten commandments which God handed down to Moses on tho tables of stone. When I see the king, it reminds me of the Great King of Heaven, which is God Almighty. When I see the queen it reminds me of the Queen of Sheba, who vis ited Solomon, for she was as wise a woman as he was a man. She brought with her fifty girls and fifty boys, all pressed in boys apparel, for King Soloman sent for them to wash; the girls washed to the elbows and the boys to the wrists, so King Sol omon told by this.” “Well,” said the Mayor, “you have given a description of all tho caads in the pack except one. “What is that ?” “The Knave.” “I will give your honor ft descrip of that, too, if you will not bo an gry.” “I will not,” said tho Mayor. ‘lf you do term me to be the Knave. “Well,” said thd soldier, “the greatest’knave that I know of, is the Constable that brought me hero. “I do not.know,” said the Mayor. —“lf he is the greatest knave, but I believe ho is the greatest fool.” “When I count how many spots in a pack of cards, I find three hun dred andsixty-five-as many as there are days in a year. When I count the nurnoer of cards in a pack I find there axe fifty-two— the number of weeks iu a year, and I find four sirits—the number of weeks in a fiionth. I find there are twelve picture cards in a pack, representing] the number of months in a year. And on counting the tricks I find thirteen—the number of weeks in a quarter. So you a pack of cards serve for a Bible, Almanac and Prayer Book,—this will tell you all about a pack of cards." Hint§ for tho Country. In preparing grounds, it shoiild bd remembered, says the Gardener’s Monthly, that grass and trees are not only required to grow therein, but that they must grasuwelL The top soil of the lot is] often Covered by the soil from the excavations, trusting to heavy manuring to pro mote fertility. But this is a too slow and expensive process. The top surface soil should, in all cases, bo saved, and replaced over the ba ser soil. Also, where it is necessary to lower a piece of ground, the top soil should be saved to place over again. The depth of the soil is an important matter, both for the trees and the lawn. It should be at least eighteen inches deep. In shallow soils, grass will burii out under a few]days of hot sun. In a soil eighteen inches deep, a lawn will bo green in the driest weathea. For the sake of the trees, also, tho ground should be not only deep, but rich. If from thirty to forty loads of sta ble manure to the acre could bo ap propriated, it would bo money well spent. Life is too short for it to be an object to wait too long for trees to grow, and planting largo ones is an expensive as well as unsatisfacto ry business. A tree in a rich and deep soil will grow as much in one year as in five in a poor one. So in preparing a lawn, it is fortunate that, while aiming at the best effects, we are helping our trees also. It is gen erally better to sow for a lawn than to sod, where much of it has to be done. Tho edges of the road must, of course, bd sodded, and Rhd bal ance neatly raked over and sown. The best land of grass to be employ ed in seeding as a disputed point, and it will, no doubt, depend in a great measuro on the locality. lii Philadelphia and northward, the pe rennial rye grass is excellent. It commences to grow very early, and has a peculiar lively, shining green. South of Philadelphia, it is very li able to got burned out in summer, and the Kentucky blue grass would be much better. It is much the best to have but one kind of grass for a lawn provided it is situated to the locality. A mixture of kinds is apt to give a spotted and variegated character, not at all pleasing. Some people like to see white clover grow ing thickly in a lawn, and others ob ject to anything but green. How ever, if a good grass rake is'employ ed freely in Slimmer time, the heads of these flowers may be kept from expanding. Where there is a pros pect of a month of growing weath er, lawns may still be sown with grass seed, the clover, where used, to be kept for sowing in] April or March next. A small quantity of rye should be thinly sown with the grass, which, by the shade it affords, will prevent the grass from being thrown out by the frost. The rye must, of course, be closely cut in the spring, to allow the grass to get ahead of it. fcalf a Century ago a wornout field in Conneticut was planted in timber. The field hag yielded ten cords per year, and fencing for the farm for twenty years past. If you believe the white people of the Smith are a set of murderous Ku-klux destitute of patriotism manhood and principle, go for Grant. A wize man never enjoys himself so much nor a phool so little, as when alone. men are most alwus apt to be a leetle too proudov the job. Man’s necessity are phew, but his wants are endless. Campaign Notes. Colfax wrote in 1808: “There are sixteen weighty reasons why Grant should never bo President.” And those reasons have been *in creasing in weight and number every day since. John A. Log art said of Grant in 1869 that “he is a man without suffi cient knowledge to preside over a caucus.” We should think that his strongest point would bebroughoUt presiding over a Circus. “Are you not more prosperous and making more money than over before asked Morton in his Rushville speech And tho Court HoUso Ring with one accord, loudly answered, “We are!’ Herts. Hoi ace Greeley Correctly stated the case when he said »ri his Port land speech, “Front those who port me at the Soitth I have but one demand—justice; but one desire— reconciliation.” Surely the people of the North will not refuse to admit such a claim.— Cour. Journal. The question in politics ought not to be “What were you?” but “Wlirtt are you?”—>not what you did advo cate, but what you do advocate; not whether you are the nominee, bu t whether you are an honest and capable person to fill tho designated place. If the President’s favorite mouth piece Morton—the brains of his ad • ministration—thinks the administra tion perfect and does not realize the need of reform, it is clear that no reform can be effected as long as he and bis party remain in power. We all know that abuses do exist, and we want an administration which Will bo pledged to reform them, not one which will not even acknowledge their existence. Thfe “time-honored Democracy” are not only supporting Horace Greeley, but tlioy are committed to “the civil and political equality of all men,” the Reverse of their principles four years ago. General Grant be longed to the “time-honored Democ racy,” and so did Governor Morton; and Colonel Mosby and Mr. Ste phens prefer Grant to Greeley, in spite of State Rights, the resolutions of ’6B, and “principles” and “consis tency.” Measures, plain, practical, Com prehensible measures—which every body can understand-are the things to be looked to and considered and discussed; these change from time to time, according to the varying conditions and needs of the pedple; and not to change, to sot up a sham for all sorts of weather and call it “principle* and “consistency,” is to perpetrate a wretched, and often a ruinous, self-delusion, unworthy of brave and thinking men.— Cour. Journah Plit it down. Young man, why will you do It? You cannot afford to drink. That single glass of whiskey that you take costs you only twenty-five cents, does it? Let us see. It casts your father a shudder. It costs your mother a heart-ache, Jt costs you, tfaei loss of yoUr purity. It digs deep into your manliness. It tost your yobng friend perhaps, his soul, for he followed your example. It countenancd a traffic in hu man lives! «nd souls. It dishonored dod. It helped Od the flood-tide of drunkenness in which our land is downing. It “put an enemy in yoUr mouth to steal away your brain.” It Unfitted you for steady, thoughtful work. It paved the way for another drink, and that for another, and that for another still, and these for number less others, and all together will make you a sot, and pave your way to a drunkard’s grave, and a drunkard’s Hell. Young man, for God’s sake, for the sake of everything true and good, put down that glass. A Washington dispatch says. - It may be positively stated that Gur ney’s Commission will award to British claimants in America about two millions. There are over seven hundred claimants before this com mission. The Geneva Arbitration will award in gross the amount claimed, excluding indirect damages and expenses of chasing and watch ing Confederate cruisers which es caped from British waters, over $15,- 000,000. IN ADVANCE, A Git AND MASS MEETING. By Authority of tho State DciiH ocratie Executive Committee. A great State Mass Meeting of the Democracy will bo held ih Atlanta, on the 17th of September, 1872. It will be a grand occasion. Thu following speakers of national famtl are expected to make addressos : Gov. B. Gratz Brown, candidate Vice President. Hon. D. W. Yoorheos, of Indiana. Hon. Carl Schurz, of Missouri. Gov. M. Ci Butlor, of South Caf* olina. Ex-Governor 55et>. VartCo, tis North Carolina, and other great public meh. The Democratic papers in tho State are requested to publish this. Thos. Hardeman, Jr., Chairman State* Ex. Committee, I. W. AFery, Secretary. Democratic Notice. Atlantia, Ga., Sopt. 4, 187& To the Sub-Electors :—l am fre quently solicited to furnish to the respective counties, and tlte Executive Colbirtiitee are anxious to do so, and will respond to all such calls as far as they arc ablo ; but they have not the means to defray the expenses of the speakers desired. Having no “ governmental fund ” at their disposal, and no army of office holders upon whom they Can levy contributions for campaign purposes* it is suggested, as eminently proper that those counties desiring speak ers should pay thoif traveling expen ses. It will bo but a trifle, and great gOod can be accomplished in this way, at a Very small expense. Coun ties, therefore, desiring speakers will notify the Chairman or Secretary, We want and urge county throughout tho State: Tfios. Hardeman, Jr., Chm’n. I. W. Avery, Secretary. Papers please copy, Tlic Louisville CohFfcntihiii The Louisviile Convention says the Bal timorcan, has at length actually met, acted and adjourned. After a three days’ ses sion, characterized by much indecision, wavering and uncertainty, the Convention determined, in spite of Mr. O’Conor’s pos itive and repeated refusals to become and candidate for the Presidency, to retain his name as the Democratic nominee for the President in conjunction with that of John Quincy Adams for Vice President. In view of the fact that. Mr. O Conor de cidedly refused to allow his name to bff used by the Democratic party as represen ted at Louisville, it cannot hut be evident to even the most prejudiced or tenacious that the Convention has done nothing but mauifest its Own weakness and folly, b/ persisting in a movement which is Utterly without a head or leader. Even had Mr; O’Conor consented to become their candi date, the success of the Straightouts was impossible, but action whieh iu that casd might have been regarded merely as fool ish and preposterous, becomes under actual circumstances suspicious and inexcusable. Enough had been done to vindicate the honor of the Democratic party when the principles announced iu Ml O’Conor ’s let ter were accepted as the Cfeed of that parts. All further action was ptCnOster oUs and absutd. The NeW York T libund well says : “ If they bad seen fit to put Up Andrew Jackson in place of O’Conor, and the late John Quincy Adams in place of his respected grandson, they might have) voted for those departed celebrities with just the same effect as their votes are now likely to hate, and with a great deal more comfort.” Now that the farce between the two great acts of the political drama is over wo may resume out preparations for and turn our attention td something more important, real and substantial. The great political astronomer, Mr. Blmitort Duncan, with his wonderful straightout comet, which was to Irtish to atoms the puny fabrio of Libd erallsm, have botli flitted across our Heav ens and disappeared—the former a subject of ridicule, tne latter of contempt —a thing more unsubstantial than the “ baseless fabric” of Flantamour’s wildest visions} more harmless and more headless, jf that were possible, than even Duncan himself* The four large joint stock bankfl of London have this year declared dividends at the rate of twenty pef cent, per annum. The Bank of En J gland only paid eight per cent pets cent, per annum. During the thunderstorm tff tiid 29 ult., a tree standing neat tie res idence of J. D. Blanding, in Sumter* was struck by a flash and a narrow escape was made by the occupants; A New Jersey milkman feeding two calves, one on either side of him the other day, saw both animals struck by lightning the flash not effecting him at ah KQ U