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JTPTTTT. EAGLE.
Friday Morning, February IS, IHPi.
Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of Baltimore,
died suddenly at Annapolis, Md., on
Friday last, in the 80th year of his age.
An explosion in a mine at Pittston,
Pennsylvania, Saturday, killed four
persons and injured six or eight oth
ers.
It has been demonstrated that for
all the telegraphic purposes the Eng
lish language is from twenty-five to
thirty-three per cent, cheaper than the
French, German, or any other lan
guage-
The New York Bulletin of Thursday,
in an elaborate article on the pros
pects for the spring trade, sums up
its conclusions by saying that, on the
w’hole, the outlook, if not wholly un
clouded, is as eucouraging as could
reasonably be anticipated.
The defense in the Babcock case at
St. Louis is vigorous resistance. r J’hey
don’t propose to admit any th ng. The
greate'r portion of the fifth day was
consumed with arguments of counsel
on the relevancy of the celebrated tel
egrams.
In a moment of zealous enthusiasm,
a young lady at a fair in soliciting
chances, stated that she would raffle
herself off at §1 a chance, live hundred
chances to be taken, when a gentleman
whipped out his wallet and announced
that he would take the entire number.
The fair one, surprised at such
’’promptness, stated that the prize
would be withdrawn for private offers.
In Queen Victoria’s address at the
opening of her Parliament, on Tuesday
last, she says that when the govern
ment of her Indian empire w.is trans
ferred to the crown no formal addition
was made to her style and title, and
she now proposes to remedy that
omission, to which end she has caused
a statute to be prepared for action by
Parliament. It is supposed that the
statute will 'proclaim her ‘Victoria,
Queen of Great Britain and India.’
An intelligent Republican editor,
just back from a trip in the Northwest,
reports a strong and growing senti
ment in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois
and other States, on tlio greenback
line, and among other things that ex-
Senator Carpenter is shortly to make
an elaborate speech against the res
umption act, and all other projected
measures of forced resumption, and
such increase of circulation as the
needs of business may require, and fur
thermore for accepting the legal ten
ers in favor of the government dues at
the custom-houses.
General Gordon’s .Speech.
This illustrious Georgian spoke in
the hall of the House of Representa
tives, in Atlanta, on Monday night last
to a large and appreciative audience,
on the general issues of the day. Ho
started out by a spirited arraignment
of the Republican party, and presented
a bill of indictment unanswerable, so
far as facts are concerned.
Ho bandied Senator Morton and
Representative Blaine with ungloved
hands for the part they are taking in
shaking the bloody shirt and keeping
open wounds that ought to have been
healed long, long ago. He said it had
been deemed best not to reply to Mor
ton’s harangue in the Senate, and as a
consequence the speech had fallon life
less at his feet. (Is it nu~ highly prob
able that Mr. Blaine’s amnesty speech
would have done the same thing if it
had been treated in the same way ?)
Gen. Gordon thinks the danger of
the South lies iu the apprehensions
aroused among thinking men of the
North, more than in all the passion
and prejudice Morton and Blaine can
stir up. He stated that Morton had
read General .Toombs’ late convention
speech, and it had gone abroad
throughout the North as endorsed by
the people of Georgia, and as carrying
with it the intention of the people to
form a government in accordance with
that gentleman’s idea, which wbuld
put the negro where he never can be
beard of again in connection with our
political affairs. He said this speech
was the greatest calamity that had be
fallen our people since the surrender.
Gen. Gordon favora the calling of a
convention at once, if one is Io he, called,
in order that a good constitution may
be framed, limiting the terms of officers
to shorter periods, reducing executive
patronage, regulating aud more pro
perly guarding the question of munici
pal taxation, and last but not least, the
providing for equal and exact justice
to men of all colors, etc.
He speaks hopefully of the triumph
of the Democratic party in this, the
centennial year of our history, but
thinks that if a convention is called in
Georgia to meet after the elections this
fall, that that fact alone will place the
National Republican party back in
power. We are glad General Gordon
takes this view of the question. It
strengthens us in the opinion that we
have long entertained, that the time of
a Constitutional Convention to assem
ble has arrived, and that the question
ought to be met and disposed of
promptly.
What the Legislature will do is, of
course, wrapped up in mystery. But
if Gen. Gordon’s prediction is worth
anything, the responsibility cannot be
avoided or shirked. Slaughter’s amend
ment places the National Democratic
party in a dilemma, from which there
is no relief, save in the immediate cal!
of the convention. Now shall we have
it? We shall see.
The 8011th and K; donal Politics.
lion. George H. Pendleton has just
returned to his home in Ohio, from au
extended tour in the South, where he
has been traveling for the benefit of au
invalid daughter’s health. Soon after
his arrival at home, Mr. Pendleton was
interviewed by a reporter for the Cin
cinnati Enquirer, to whom he gave his
impressions of the South and the
Southern people. Politically, he says
the people are more concerned about
the problem of reconstruction so-called
than they are about National ques
tions. To this the Enquirer expresses
surprise, and seems to think that as
every Southern State, with two or
three exceptions, has at last been re
constructed on a Democratic basis, the
people ought to let the whole question
of reconstruction go as a dead issue,
and give their attention to that wh cli
is before the nation at large, and in
which all are peculiarly and intensely
interested.
In reply to this well intended advice
we will say to the Enquirer .and to all
such, who have never yet been through
the reconstruction mill, that it requires
practical experience to understand the
modern meaning of the word. And
that although the white people now
have control in nearly all the Southern
States, they did not come through
without the smell of fire on their gar
ments. Hence their caution. And
again, it is well known to all who un
derstand the real sentiments of the
great body of the Southern people,
that they favor a strict construction of
the Constitution, and the right of local
self-government guaranteed by that in
strument as they understand it. But
they have learned by the history of
the past decade, that they cannot take
the initiatory upon national questions
without having their patriotism ques
tioned, their motives impugned and
their fidelity to the Constitution and
to free government, derided. It
is not indifference on the part ot the
people, but because they have learned
by sad experience that to attempt to
lead on any question is to insure its
defeat.
Editorial Correspondence.
Atlanta, Ga., February 16, 1876.
Dear Eagle: The ti* eof the present
General Assembly expires by Constitu
tional limitation on Saturday, the 19th
instant, and now the “mill” is running
at a “2:40” rate. I think the body will
be compelled to prolong a day or two,
in order to dispose of the matter now
before the two Houses.
During the latter part of last week
Victoria Woodhull addressed the peo
ple of Atlanta on the ‘Social Problem.’
Her audience was mostly of the male
persuation, and I think she made few
converts.
General Gordon’s speech ou Monday
night was well attended. I believe it
is generally applauded and approved,
still there are those who speak of it un
favorably.
The "fight on Gov. Smith continues
with unabated fury among a few of
the country editors. Contrary to their
expectation, his Excellency pays no
more attention to their assaults than
the fabled ox did to the little gnat,
which imagined it was giving said
bovine much trouble. Governor Smith
has not announced himself a candidate
yet, and probably will not; but the
fight that is being made upon him, has
so far, done him good instead of an in
jury. The opposers of a third term are
beginning to bo ashamed of their posi
tion, and acknowledge that after a man
has been Governor of Georgia for four
years and teu months, under our pre
sent Constitution, that lie has simply
served one term and a piece, and that
Gov. Smith is eligible even on this
score to be elected again to his present
position without being open to the
charge that is rightfully brought
against Gen. Grant.
“the dog law”
has passed the and will prob
ably pass the Senate, which will, it is
thought, kill off many of the worthless
canines.
The Atlanta Herald succumbed to
the inevitable on Monday last, and has
passed “horse foot and dragoons” into
the hands of the sheriff of Fulton
county. Col. Alston says he has on
the way to Atlanta a lot of new tyue,
presses, etc., and will issue the first
number of his new paper early next
week.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad
Committee, or the committee appoint
ed to investigate the charge of fraud
iu the procurement of the lease of that
property, is still at work. What they
will develop remains to be seen. Of
one thing I feel certain now, and that
is, it will not be shown that one dollar
•was used on the Legislature of 1871.
Other evidence may be discovered that
will be valuable for future reference,
but until it is published I refrain from
saying more on the subject.
The bill authorizing the endorse
ment of the bonds of the Marietta and
North Georgia Railroad was defeated
in tlio House on yesterday, but was re
considered this morning. I fear it will
be defeated, and will greatly dishearten
the people to be immediately benefited
thereby.
Before your next issue the Legisla
ture will have adjourned, and I will try
to fifl-nish you next week a number of
the most important acts passed during
the session. M. Y. E.
Mrs. Kibbv, a widow lady of Cald
well county, N. C., recently lost eight
childreu by diphtheria in such quick
succession that four were buried to
gether.
Georgia State Lottery.
This huge fraud upon the Constitu
tion of the State, this blot upon our
civilization was thoroughly exposed on
Monday last by the Hon. Robt. ■ es
ter, Senator from Elbert county. For
some time past we had noticed flings,
slurs and side-thrusts at this peerless
champion of honesty, which we could
scarcely understand. We know the
man, we know his adherence to prin
ciple and his uncompromising opposi
tion to wrong, and it was difficult to
understand why correspondents and
local editors, who are enlightening the
public from the Capital, were continu
ally cutting at this noble old Christian
gentleman.
The explanation has come at last.
Hester was gradually digging under
the Big Bonanza—the Georgia State
Lottery;' at last he sprung the mine,
and if he did not scatter the cohorts of
lottery advocates we can not under
stand plain English. He stormed the
very camp, spiked every gun, silenced
every battery, and stood victor upon a
field won by manliness, by true nobili
ty. We give our readers tlio following
extracts from the proceedings, which
we take from the Atlanta Constitution:
The grant was first given to certain
widows of Confederate soldiers, as
trustees, to raise funds for the erection
and maintainance of a Masonic Wid
ows’ and Orphans’ home. The trus
tees might associate others with them
selves, which they did, and since be
ginning operations, the main features
of the institution has been the lottery
scheme. The lottery, we may remark,
is not one of the kind usual, in the way
of stated schemes, but is conducted
upon the ‘policy shop’ plan with com
bination tickets, drawn twice a day.
The bill was reported with amend
ment, from the judiciary committee,
and upon a quiet passage was lost.
The debate which follows, was upon
a motion to reconsider the losing
vote.
Senator Hester said that the provis
ions of this bill were that the trustees
should erect a home for widows aud
orphans, and he was prepared to say
from the sworn reports of the trustees,
that not one dime of all the vast money
reaped by this lottery had been paid
out in that way. They have not
bought, rented or built a home, al
though they had made the clear round
sun of more than SIOO,OOO out of the
lottery. The constitution of the State
prohibits, by strong terms, the sale of
lottery tickets in this State, and the
laws upon the statute books prescribe
heavy penalties for such vending of
lottery tickets. This bill was passed
in 1866, out of sympathy with the
times, and was given to estimable ladies
whose husbands bad fallen in death
while doing battle for their country.
Some of the persons invited to partici
pate in the scheme had spurned it,
among them being Mrs. Cobb, the
widow of Gen. Howell Cobb, once a
Governor of this State.
Col. James M. Waddell, who is now
the head of the concern, went before
the committee and spoke for the insti
tution, but with all the light he could
throw upon its transactions, the com
mittee unhesitatingly reported figainst
it. Senator Hester then read from the
act to show the extraordinary powers
granted and the failure of the parties
to comply with the reciprocal require
ments. They had been exempted from
taxation, on the ground of being a
charitable institution, aud thus the
State had been kept out of an income
of $50,000. They had received since
March, 1869, near $1,000,000 and they
have made no reports of what they re
ceived between the dates of the charter
and the one above given. They have
only built one house, although Col.
Waddell had stated that they bought
some other property, but this has been
sold and the money pocketed.
They paid out for prizes since March
’69 the sum of $622,087 34; to trustees
$41,534 70; to managers, of which Col.
Waddell is the head and front, $78,534
42; to clerks $19,458 41; and the com
missioners got $9,164 82. This insti
tution must certainly be well provided
for. They gave for the school building
$18,420, and have paid out to the sup
port of said school the sum of $34,771
34, and this shows that the managers
got more than double what was paid to
teachers. You wiil very likely hear
something of the sympathy which
these teachers have aroused among
senators on this floor, but it is the
strong, able bodied men, like James
D. Waddell, who get the cream of this
concern! Here we see a strong, able
bodied man, a graduate of the State
University of Georgia, running a lot
tery in the city of Atlanta! A grandson
of Stephen Waddell—a name dear to
every Georgian—we find him lobbying
here day and night, to get the State of
Georgia to preserve him in the enjoy
ment of these privileges ! He is not a
one-armed soldier!
Senator Harris—Colonel Waddell is
far from being an able-bodied man; he
bears upon his person live wounds
received in the service of his country !
Senator Hester—Well, sir, 1 did not
know ali that, for he looked able-bod
ied to me. - I can say that I served my
country in three campaigns, and I
killed as many of the enemy as they
killed of me. [Laughter.] lam told
that these lottery officers are good
places to visit and are attended with
as much drinking as any establish
ment in the city. They have free liquor
and it is a mighty good place to go
and get a drink and a lunch. When
a man has taken a drink, he thinks he
is able to draw a prize every time and
so the money goes.
Now, this school is a pretext for
keeping up this lottery in the State of
Georgia. There is no necessity for it,
as the city of Atlanta makes the am
plest provision for the education of ali
its children. To its praise be it said,
Atlanta keeps up the best system of
public schools in the State of Georgia,
or in the South, possibly. They are
ready and willing to take all these
children and teach them as well as
they are now taught. This whole
thing is shown to go in different ways
to satisfy the grasping desire of these
managers to put money into their own
pockets.
Now, as to the trusees. They are
very worthy ladies, no doubt. How
do they pay them ? There are but
twenty in all. The indigent widows
and orphans who receive the benefit of
the institution are only twenty in num
ber. Then, there is the list of schol
ars, now nearly 1,000 in number, tak
ing every one that has ever set foot in
the school. The plan is, when one en
ters the school the name is put down
and then it remains as one of the ben
eficiaries of the school, although it
may stay there but a single day.
According to the returns of 1870,
there were twenty trustees and ben
eficiaries. There was the same number
in 1871; 13 in 1873; same number 111
1874, and 16 again in 1875. And the
strauge thing about this is that as the
number decreases the pay increases,
in 1870 twenty of them received $4,-
643 45, but in 1872 sixteen of them re
ceived $7,000; in 1873 thirteen received
SIO,OOO, and in 1874 the same number
received $10,500 ! These are the ben
eficiaries. The managers were sworn
to return on oath who were the
beneficiaries, and these are ail that
have come in under those returns.
And as the number decreases from 20
in 1871 to 13 in 1874 the money paid
to them increases from $1,856 25 to
$10,500. Where is the equality and
justice in all this? It cannot be shown
Where are they working this insti-
tution ? Right there adjoining the
school—there is where they sell their
tickets and run their lottery. And they
call in a member of the school to turn
the wheel, and thereby popularize this
institution which the people and the
laws of Georgia say shall not exist!
The drawings of the lottery are made
within ten feet, of the entrance to the
school. What, is that but turning the
school and all its scholars into lovers
and patronizers of the institution?
See how this thing is running! It is
put upon the poor orphans who have
no proper guardians. They take them
up there and start them to running a
lottery, in their very infancy! “Oh,
shame where is thy blush?” Here, in
this city, the capital of the empire
State of the South, is an institution
called a lottery, put into a school, and
an orphan’ school at that! In an in
fant orphan school, to debauch the
morals of the innocent children; and
it is done, too, by a graduate of Frank
lin XJniversit.
Now, what goes with all this money ?
I hear complaints from Mrs. Doles,
that she had not received any money
since last June, and then it was only a
small amount to pay the freigtt on a
trunk full of clothing which she
brought with her. This institution
withholds from her, one of the trustees,
her pittance, her share of the proceeds!
I also hear that Mrs. Pember—l do
not know how true it is—who lives in
Baltimore, that she has a power of at
torney from Mrs. Pearson and Mrs.
Doles, and that she intends to sell out
the privilege to a New York company
that can run this thing as a lottery
ought to be run.
If you endorse this thing it will go
out to the public that lotteries are the
order of the day iu Georgia, and Mrs.
Pearson will get $250,000, as she thinks
will, for her right to run a lottery here
“as is a lottery!’ [Laughter.] Some
times we find this lottery appearing in
one place and then in another—one
time in an infant orphans’ school, and
again in the most disreputable of
places. And, in tlie face of the con
stitution of the State, are you going to
endorse it? When it comes Squarely
and fairly before you and the constitu
tion says it shall not be tolei-ated in
the State of Georgia. Youffaya got
to say that yon Will do so, if "you say
so at all, in the face of the (/institu
tion and against The judgiittetffc of all
good men in. the State. *;
I see in the Atlanta Constitution
that the city council of Atlanta re
quests the repeal of this lottery act,
and say that it is exerting a very grave
demoralizing influence. And if peti-
tions were circulatfd four-fifths of tiie
citizens would also ask its repeal.
This action of the city council is en
dorsed by the citizens of Atlanta and
the State. Then, I ask, should we
keep it up, merely as a favor to these
few persons who reap so much from
it? They, it seems to me, have had
their day.
The senator argued that there was
no necessity or excuse for tolerating
this lottery and he desird the senate
and house to abolish at so that not a
vestige of it. would be left.
Senator Peavy said trie Senators who
voted against the bill were neither
gamblers nor the apologists of gam
blers. As an original proposition he
would not vote for a lottery bill, but
there was more in this bill than ap
peared on its face. It was passed to
give the property acquired by the lot
tery to the city of Atlanta. He did
not wonder that, the city council passed
the resolution asking the repeal of the
law when the city was to receive the
property. Atlanta was swallowing up
every thing within her reach, and at
present rates it would be long before
the whole State was owned aud run bv
this city. If the constitution abolished
lotteries the work of the legislature to
that end would be supercogation. It
was said this lottery was debauching
the children and people. If Atlanta
never had any worse institution than
this lottery she would do well. The
institution did have a homeland it ed
ucated, maintained and clothed free of
charge, orphans from all parts of the
State.
Senator Hester—l read the list of
beneficiaries from the sworn records
and stated all those outside of Pulton
county, and it won’t do for the senator
to say that there are others.
Senator Peavy—There tire others;
some from LaGrange.
Senator Hester —Their names do
not appear upon the roll, and never
have, and it cannot be as the senator
says.
Senator Peavy—l insist that I am
right and the senator is blind to
the fact, because he does not want to
see it.
Senator Hester—l hurl the insinua
tion back, sir. It is unbecoming a
senator upon this floor to say such a
thing. It comes irom a foul heart.
Senator Peavy—l am responsible for
it!
Senator Hester—l know von are—
in your way ! [Laughter!
Senator Winn opposed the bill be
cause it was against the constitution
of the United States, in that it would
violate the obligations of a contract.
If the contract upon tlxe part of the
trustees was not executed in terms the
court should enforce its execution.
He called the previous question, and
upon it the bill was reconsidered.
Yesterday it was amended so as to
make the repeal take effect from No
vember Ist, 1876, and providing for
ike care of the property until the leg
islature makes provision for the execu
tion of the trust.
In this shape the bill was put
upon its passage, and was enacted in
the senate by a vote of 27 yeas to 7
nays.
Yeas —Arnow, Black, Cain, Cannon,
Carter, Cooper, Crawford, Deadwiler,
Dußose, Felton, Gilmore, Graham,
Hester, Hopps, Hudson 25, Hudson
28th, Lester, McAfee 32d, Mc Afee 29th,
McDaniel, Newborn, O’Daniel, Perry,
Reese, Robinson, Slaughter, Wilcox'
—27.
Nays—Harris, Matthews, Mattox,
Peavy, Rutherford, Wilson, Winn—7.
Col. Hester deserves and wiil receive
the approbation of every’ honest man
in Georgia for his course upon this
question. His people may well be
proud of him. W idows and orphans
can find in him an honest defender,
while fraud, corruption, intemperance,
immorality of every sort are by him
called by their appropriate names.
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A History of the Whisky King.
A correspondent of the New York
World states that the original ‘crook
ed whisky’ ring of St. Louis was start
ed in 1872, ostensibly for campaign
purposes in the interesty of Grant. Its
leading spirits were McDonald, Super
visor; Joyce, Revenue Agent; Bevis
and Fraser, distillers; and C. G. Me
grue, cashier and paymaster. Instead
of using their funds to promote the
cause of the Republican party, the
money was divided among them. This
arrangement continued till after the
Presidential election, the Government
being defrauded of from 85,000 io $15,-
000 per week by the official After
the election was over McDonald and
Joyce wanted to ‘freeze out’ certain
members of the conspiracy, and ac
complished their object by having all
crooked operations stopped for a while.
As soon as the obnoxious persons were
got rid of, including Megrue, opera
tions were resumed more boldiy and
upon a larger scale than at first. All
the distillers, with unimportant excep
tions, the supervisor, the revenue
agents, gaugers and storekeepers,were
in the ring.
In 1874, Peter Curran, having been
prosecuted by the Government (his
case was subsequently settled), desired
to get out of his trouble, and the ex
members of the original ring, suspect
ing the trick which had been played
upon them, and having suspicions that
the crooked operations had been re
sumed, opened a correspondence with
Commissioner Douglass, informing
him of the existence of the ring. Penn
Brashear, a secre. service detective,
was sent to St. Louis to investigate.
The ring was forewarned by Avery,
chief clerk of Douglass, and Brashear
was conquered by a bribe of $5,000.
He returned to Washington with a
clean bill. After that, Hoag, another
secret service man, was sent here, and
the ring paid him SIO,OOO for the satis
factory report which he turned in at
Washington. Then Brashear and Yar
yan came. Their investigation tost
the ring another SIO,OOO, which Bra
shear took, promissing to divide with
Yaryan. The former returned to
Washington and made our, the regula
tion report, showing everything all
right, certifying that Yaryan coincid
ed in the opinion. The latter went to
New Orleans from St. Louis, where he
passed the Winter. On returning to
Washington in the Spring of 1875 he
discovered the report made by Bra
shear, and denied that he coincided in
the report.
The ring continued its operations
till April last, when information was
received that, Yaryan was in town os
tensibly working up a railroad case,
but in fact secretly engaged iu looking
after the revenue frauds. When the
ring learned what was being done Mc-
Donald raised SIO,OOO from its mem
bers for the purpose, as he said, of
stopping investigation. Bevis had
gone to California, but was called
home by a telegram, reaching St.
Louis three or four days before the
seizures were made. The descent was
early in May last, and impartially in
cluded all distillers and rectifiers in
St. Louis. McDonald still continued
to tell the ring ‘things are all right;
that he knew who had that $10,000;
that all was straight, and that they
would surely be released.’ To their
sorrow McDonald proved a false pro
phet. The grand jury was in session
for six weeks. At the end of that time
it brought in true bills against Mc-
Donald, supervisor; Joyce, revenue
agent; all the gaugers and storekeep
ers; all the distillers and rectifiers, with
the exception of one who died just in
the nick of time to save himself; Fitz
roy, deputy eollecter and financial
agent of the ring, and Avery, chief
clerk iu the Revenue Department at
Washington.
The ring continued iu good spirits,
still relying on McDonald’s promises,
and those of Joyce, that ‘all would
blow over;’ but iu October, having lost
ali faith in him, the distillers and rec
tifiers all came into the United States
District Court and pleaded guilty;
Fitzroy, deputy collector, together
with the gaugers and store-keepers,
made the same plea. At the Novem
ber term of the same Court McDonald
and Avery were tried and found guil
ty. Joyce, under indictment in the
Western District of the State, had
previously been tried and found guil
ty. Sentence was suspended 011 all
who pleaded guilty and they were used
as State’s evidence. Sentence was also
suspended on all found guilty by trial
in the Eastern District. At the Novem
ber term of the grand jury, Constan
tine Maguire, Collector of the District;
William McKee, of the Globe-Demo
crat, and General O. E. Babcock, were
indicted on several counts each. The
three last named were certified to the
United States Circuit Court, a special
session of which met on the 20tli of
January for the trial of these three
cases. To the surprise of ev( rybody
McKee was found guilty; Maguire
made a compromise, pleading guilty
on five counts to dereliction of duty,
the Government entering a nol. pros,
as to the charge of conspiracy to de
fraud. The trial of Grant’s Military
Secretary, General O. E. Babcock, the
third and last, commenced on Monday
last. The trouble in this ease is that it
requires very different testimony to
convict him from that used to eouviot
his accomplices. General Grant’s re
moval of Mr. Henderson, who had
thoroughly mastered the ease, will also
add to Babcock’s chances of escape.
The whole influence of the Administra
tion is being exerted in his behalf, and
his conviction will be a wonderful tri
umph over the President as well as
over the ring.
The New York Journal of commerce
thinks that tne poposed new tariff is
the best measure which has been be
fore Congress during the last dozen
years.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
Don’t Fail to Read this Carefully.
A 11AN WANTED to take an Interest iu a lr"e pay.
ing business, that can furnish a few hundred
a liars cash capital. Safe investment. It is a rare
opportunity, and will only be open for a few days,
r or particulars, address immediately to
, . I£l W. C. WILLIAMS,
ieDlb-lt Box 41, Gainesville. Ga.
J. C. TIMBER LAKE,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
Candler Hall Building.
PRICES REDUCED TO SUIT THE HARD TIMES
foblß-tf
To tiie Public.
lVPr?'. M ' PUCKETT having located at
ALL Gainesville, Ga., is prepared to teach (including
tliirty-one brandies) Fancy and Ornamental Work in
the best manner, and at prices to suit the t ies.
Having been connected with various colleges during
tlio last twenty years, and a point to please,
she is confident of giving satisfactio ; and her work
having led tlio van in many State and county fairs, is
a criterion of her success. Having had many years’
experience in Cutting, Fitting and Diess Making, is
prepared to give perfect satisfaction to all who may
call on her in that line. Plain Sewing also taken.
feblß-4m
V. D. LOCKH ART, M. EX,
Polkviile, Ga.,
VIIILL PRACTICE MEDICINE in all its branches.
T Special attention given to Chronic Diseases of
women and children. febltS-Cm
IST otice.
A N ELECTION ior officers of the Centennial Light
• V Guards will be held at the Court House, Satur
day, 10th inst, at 7 o'clock p. m.
feblß-It W. G. HENDERSON, J. P.
SITUATION WANTED.
A YOUNG man of good habits, and ability to C"n
duct the mechanical department of a first-class
country weekly, desires a situation as either foreman,
compositor and ‘•maker-up/* or to render general as
ssnstance m the running of bucm a paper. Referenc s
BURR JOYiS, Eagle Office, Gainesville, Ga.
February 18th, 1870.
HALL COUNTV.—EIias Kolton applies
A for Letters of Administration on the ostate of
riioma son of said county, deceased:
Therefore, all persons interested, are hereby cited
to be ami appear at my office at a term of the Court of
Ordinary, to be held on the first Monday in April next
to object to the granting of said letters, if any desire
to do so. Otherwise letters of administration will be
granted the applicant on said “State.
ieblß-30d J. B. M. WINBURN, Ordinary.
Administrator's Sale.
GIEORGIA, towns COUNTY.-By virtue of an
I order from the Court of Ordinary of said coun
ty, will be sold on the first Tuesday in April, 1876 at
the Court House door in said county, between the
legal hours of sale: Lot of Land No. 284, in the 18th
district and first section, containing IGO acres the
same being a portion of the lands belonging to the
estate ot W. J. England, deceasod. Sold for the
beueht of the heirs of 6aid deceased. Terms cash.
JOSIAH CARTER,
M. H. ENGL AND,
lebiH-td Administrators.
Georgia, hall county.-to the superior
Court of said County : The petition of a. B. C.
Dorsey, T. N. Hauio, Claude Estes, A. H. Saye W E
Lodon, J. R. Barues, T. B. McCamy, W. L. Loan’ J.
R. Logan, F. W. Redwice, G. W. Pryor* Sam. K.
Forsyth, George Rakostniw, J. D. Chapman, ,J. P.
Caldwell, G. TV. Moore, M. T. Brown, Mon its Belitzer
J. T. Cooper, R. E. T. Chapman, and their associates
and successors, respectfully shows that they are de
sirous of being iuoorporatod, and of becoming a body
politic and corporate under the name and style of
“Gainesville Hook and Ladder Comimny No. 1 “to
bv located iu the city of Gainesville the obiect of
which company is to protect tlio property in said citv
from lose and destruction by fire. The capital btock
to be such amount as may be necessary to provide
implements and equipage for said company, not to
exceed the sum of Eight Hundred Dollars.
The term for which they desire to bo incorporated
is twenty years. Said corporation desire to have such
powers conferred upon them as are usual and neces
sary to the exercise of their legitimate duties, and the
objects of tlioir organization, including all eurli rights
powers and privileges as arc incident to all i ucorpura’-
tions, under and by virtue of the laws of Georgia—to
elect officers, preeoribo their duties, prescribe a con
stitution aud by-laws, and all other usual and neces
sary acts not inconsistent with the constitution aud
laws oi Georgia, nor of the United States.
Wherefore they pray the granting of this, their
petition, upon the terms, conditions and stipulations
required by law, and the passing of such order as i
usual in such cases.
J. B. ESTES, Petitioners Attorney.
Filed in office, February 12, 1876.
J. J. MAYNE, Clerk S. 0.
Georgia, Hall County.
Clerk’s Office Superior Court,
Recorded iu Clerk’s office, Hall Superior Court, i .
Record Book “K“ of Deeds, page 7G7., February 12th,
1876. W. S. PICKRELL, Deputy Clerk.
feblß-30d
NO Ti
IS HEREBY GIVEN that there will bo an Election
held at the Court House, iu the city of Gainesville,
nil Monday, the 21st of February, for an Alderman for
the First Ward, to iiil the vacancy occasioned by the
resignation o*' Martin Graham.
The fo.lowing persons are appointed to manage saul
Election.
For the First Ward—Edward Lowry.
For the Second Ward—A. Patterson.
For tlio Third Ward—W. G. Henderson.
fel>ll~2t D. G. CANDLER, Mayor.
Valuable Property lor Sale.
THE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS FOR SALE SOME
Valuable Property. One Track of Three Hundred
Acres, wilh good Gin 30x41 feet, Circle Saw Mill, good
Dwelling, newly constructed. Also, one Track of 75
acres of Laud, ou winch is a good Merchant Mill in
good running order. Both of tlio above Mills aro on
splendid shoals. Also, one track of 400 acres of land,
with a fino Six-room Dwelling House, 25 acres first
class bottom land. 25 acres cleared for cotton and
balance in original forest. Also, 450 acres, 40 acres
first-class bottom and fine cotton land, on which is a
good dwelling and out houses. Titles unquestioned.
Titlos perfect and no encumbrance whatever.—
Terms, one-third cash. Call on me at my residence,
at gin and saw-mill.
fob4-lm J. W. TUGGLE.
IMS AND BUGGIES.
JOHN I). BAGWELL & GO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Wagons and Buggies,
SIX MILES WEST OF
(3-£liliesvillo, C3~uu,
EEP CONSTANTLY ou hand a supply of First-
Class Two-Horse Wagons at from $75 t • $95.
First-Class One-Horse Wagons at from SSO to S6O.
First-Class Buggies from sllO up.
Orders solicited, to which prompt attention will bo
given. jan2B-tf
Evening School.
mHE UNDERSIGNED proposes to open an Evening
X School for the instruction of persons unable to
attend in the day time.
J. H. White, au accomplished Penman, will teach
PLAIN & ORNAMENTAL PENMANSHIP.
Tuition in English Branches and Penmanship, f<Jr
both, $1 50 per week.
M. W. RIDEN.
jan. 28-4 t.
CAMP *5 EL t.A I-lOUW MO, ~
(Corner of Decatur and Ivio Strocts, near Car Shed.)
MY FRIENDS from Gainesville and Toccoa City
are respectfully invited to call on me at this
place. I guarantor satisfaction.
jan2B-ly THOMAS LITTLE.
JNFI.HMARY,
FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF WOMEN,
AND OPERATIVE SURGERY,
At the Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga, by
jau2B-tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D.
A. . .T. BHAFFK R,
AND
S IT |{ G K O N ,
Gainsviile s Ga.
Office and Rooms at Gaines’ Hotel, GainesYiilo, Ga.
jan2l-ly
500 Volumes h\ o.ic!
AGENTS WANTED for tlio LIBRARY OF
POETRY AND SONG,
Being- Choice Selections from ihe lies!
Poets, English, Scotch, Irish and
American, by
WILLIAM CULLEN ItKYANf.
I F one hail the complete works of all the poets, it
self a large library, costing from 4500 to SI,OOO, lie
would not gain in a lifetime, perhaps, so comprehen
sive a knowledge of the poets themselves, their best
productions, the period dur.ng wuich they wrote, aud
the places honored by their birth, as from this elegant
volume. The handsomest and cheapest subscription
book extant. Having an immense sale. Extra terms.
Send for circular. J* B. FORD & CO.,
jau2l 4t 27 Park Place, N. Y.
NOTICE.
4 NY PERSON wishing to purchase a good survey
/\ ing COMPASS and CH AIN at a very reduced price
can be accommodated by calling at the store of J. H.
& T. A. DANIEL, in Gainesville : nov26
GRAND PRIZE
WARRANTED FIVE YEARS!
It requires no Instructions to run it. It can not get out of order.
It vrill do every class and kind of work.
It ■will sew from Tissue Paper to Harness Leather.
It is as far in advance of other Sewing 1 Machines in the magnitude of
its superior improvements, as a Steam Oar cxcells in achievements
the old fashioned Stago Coach.
Prices made to suit the Times,
Either for Cash or Credit.
send for illustrated Catalogue of ) Afll-M TO W A NTFD
STYLES and PRICES. J “ UUII m/ nn I i-U.
Address : WILSON SEWING MACHINE CO.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, CEXCAOO, ILL., HEW YOEH, N. Y.,
SAVE TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS.
HEW CHILEANS, LA., ST. LOUIS, J£o,
.T. E. GAKRIWOIN, T.RAVELING AGENT FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA.
jnu2B-tf Postofiice: Jefferson, Ga., or Gainesville, Ga.
RABUN GAP HIGH SCHOOL,
Located in 1 lie Beautiful Valley of Head of Tennessee,
RABUN COUNTY, GEORGIA.
W. -A-. CUriTIS, Principal.
TWO SESSIONS ANNUALLY
Opeiron the Third Monday in January and July,
-A-INTID OO ISTU’I JNTTTJEI TWENTY "W E 33 3XIS
RATES OF TUITION, PER TERM:
SiCKLLIIVG, RKADIIVG, WltlTlNC, an<l PRIMARY ARITHMETIC $
ANALYSIS, PRIMARY GEOURAPHY, and IN TERM EDI AT K ARITHMETH s.iu,
ENGLISH GRAMMAR, COMPOSITION, LOGIC and ARITHMETIC.
BnETOKIC, AUVAMCKD ARITHMETIC, ADVANCED GEOGRAPHY, EI.E
MENTARV ALGEBRA anil PHYSICAL SCIENCES l i.Oti
A DVANCEU ALGEIIKA, GEOMETRY and LANGUAGES ' 15.00
Contingent Fee, each Student, 50 cents. Contingent Fee and oue-tiiiril ot Tuition ro<juirert in mlvaiitv,
and balance promptly at close of ftesßion.
No Student will lie admitted lor a less time than the balance of ti.e Session, from dato of entering.
No deduction will be made for absence except in cases of protracted sickness, of the student, of cot less
than two weeks duration.
Tim course of instruction will be thorough and practical, and discipline iirut but mild, and such that any
student of p re and elevated motives cannot object to.
Healthful location, pure \\ ater, Salubrious atmosphere, mild climate, and attentive and devoted teachers,
render the school attractive, pleasant and instructive.
0
Board in Good Families at $5 to $6 p©r Month.
I °
££8 rm Tlio Board of Education in county of North-east Georgia is respectfully requested npoint a
deserving young gentleman or lady, over fifteen years of age, of industrious habits ami •.*< <1 t, t tractor,
who will be rev*i\.-l lor not less than one year in this school, free of tuition charges, if mrnis- iwi |j a cer
ttfic-ato signed ty ;je President and Secretary of the Board. Address
W- CURTIS,
j 117-tf HEAD OF TENNESSEE P. >„ GA.
AB! .. S
8 A NT A. C I, A. U S
a'till lives, and has made his
II 10 A I> XT r FMi >4
AT
T. S. CAMPBEIaL’S.
HE HAS A"OUGHT
Hooks for the Old and Young,
Books for the til rave and Gay,
Books for the Infant Tongue,
Books you can give away.
Building Blocks, Dolls,
WRITING DESKS
At from $1 iiO to $3 00
PAPER of all kinds, with boxes and Mitliont,
Pons, Ink, Mucilage,
And all articles belonging to flic
BOOK TRADE.
SANTA CLAUS. BESIDE bringing Books (food for the mind,) liaß not forgotten
THE S Lt JXf ltV,
BUT HAS LAID IN A SUBTLY OF
Dried I >eei‘. Bologna Sausage,
tmmCE MEAT ,
Maoearoiii and Cranberries,
Jell ies,
Preserves,
Figs,
Dates,
Gaisins,
Currants,
Citron,
Pickles,
i tranges,
Lemons, Oysters, Sardines, Lobsters and Salmon,
CRACKERS, TEN KINDS,
CANDY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
CIGARS, TOBACCO AND PIPES,
—< •<■ ►—
Every one are cordially invited to call and examine my stock, as I take great
pleasure in showing my goods.
All of the above will be sold CHEAP FOR CASH.
T- S- CAMPBELL,
■iwio-u GAINESVILLE, CA.
S A V E TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS,