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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 The fair one, surprised at such ’’promptness, stated that the prize would be withdrawn for private offers.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. • |t> 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,