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r V H E EAGLE.
IViday Morning, May 25, 1877.
CABBY W. STYLES Editor.
Oar Agent, Mr. J. B. Hughes, will be
at Morganton, Blairsville and Hiwas
see during court week, to call upon
subscribers in arrears and solicit new
names. It is our intention to attend
the courts of Union and Towns, to
make the acquaintance of the friends
of the Eagle, and add new ones to the
list.
Railroad Meeting at Blairsville.
At the request of General Phillips,
President of the Marietta and North
Georgia Railroad, the editor of this
paper will speak to the people of Union
county, at Blairsville, on Railroad
Matters, Tuesday next, at 12 m.
A Disappointment. Last' week we
partially promised the readers of the
Eagle a war map iu this issue. Before
making that promise we closed a busi
ness arrangement with a contemporary
for the cut, and had no doubt of getting
it till Saturday night, when, by postal
card, he informed us that he had sold
it to another party. This was, prob
ably, doing unto us, as he would do
unto others, and therefore it would be
uncharitable to complain of his con
sistency.
However, these maps are humbugs,
any way, and our readers will be better
served with reading matter in the space
the cut would have occupied. Should
aDy map appear that approximates
correctness and intelligible clearness,
we’ll make an effort to procure and
publish it.
The Charleston News and Courier
thinks that while the election of Judge
Willard —a Northern man and a Re
publican -to the chief-justiceship “cost
some sacrifice of feeling, yet it will
make the state secure, and do more to
enable private citizens to borrow
money at seventeen per cent than all
the usury laws that have ever been
drawn.”
The competitive examination for the
West Point cadetship, came off last
Saturday. There were four applicants,
who were subjected to a very rigid
and thorough examination. All of
them stood high, and ought to feel
proud of the manner in which they an
swered their questions. Mr. Fred. G.
Hodgson, of Athens, was the success
ful competitor. We congratulate the
young gentleman on his brilliant suc
cess.
United States Revenue Collector
Clark, has no use for troops in the
execution of the whisky law. He has
the fact that the law can
iu Georgia without the aid
blackmailers or robbers. A
h ago colleci
aZ ■. 1 le;.
I'. . Mills
ill
distilleries, seized thrn
HHved gallons of 'whisky and thro®
SMM used in transporting the ‘block
fluid. No Marshals, no troops,
no outrages!
“Charles O’Conor, in a speech before
the New York Historical Society, advo
cated legislatures of one house, which
shall elect from its own members a
new Governor every year. By this
plan, says the New Orleans Times,
Governors will become as numerous in
a short time as Colonels and Majors,
and it is believed a harmony will be
diffused among aspirants which will
hasten the millenium. The titles of
the functionaries will bo January Gov.
Brown, July Governor Perkins, De
cember Governor Jones, etc.”
Mr. O'Conor should have credited
Hon. Warren Aiken with this grand
original idea. If that gentleman’s
‘One House’ hallucination should pre
vail in the July Convention, he should
be immortalized as ‘July Governor.’
Worse things have happened in the
‘dog days.’
“A New Dodge.”
Quoth the Albany News:
“Some people, like drowning persons,
catch at straws. A ‘straw’ has been
caught and held fast, and here is the
nature of it: It is asserted by the auti
conventiouists that in the event a con
vention is held and constitution framed,
it will never be referred to the people
for ratification or rejection, but be
declared of force by the body framing
‘T°o thin,’ ‘not sufficiently materi
alized,’ cracked,’ split so that consola
tion can tbe drawn through it.— Read
this section, coming from the power
creating the convention, and don’t be
bull dozed:
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the constitu
tion adopted by the aforesaid conven
tion shall be submitted to the people of
(<eorgia for ratification or rejection,and
that every person entitled to vote for
members of the General Assembly un
der the present constitution and laws
of the State shall be entitled to vote to
ratify or reject said submitted consti
tution.'’
A veritable ‘dodge,’ ’tie true, and one
of the thinnest attempted by the advo
cates of the call. The section was put
in by the friends of the bill to catch
the ignorant and unwary members,
and was giggled through as a pack
horse. Gentlemen laughed at their
°wn audacity, and successfully played
the trick upon the dupes who accepted
it as a substantial guarantee. Its use
and its vitality died with the passage
of the bill. The Legislature could not
lestriot the Convention in that regard,
and if the News will reflect for a
moment, it, will discover unintentional
deception in its publication. It is
witlnn the power of the General As
sembly to call the sovereignty into
council, and prescribe the manner of
10 call; but when the sovereignty as
sembles, it is supreme, and is not
ound to respect legislative advice.
Progress of the War.
On the 18th an important battle was
fought at Ardahan, a strongly fortified
city in the Turkish dominions in Asia.
Ardahan is situated about midway be
tween Batoum, a seaport on the east
ern shore of the Black Sea, and Mount
Ararat, and in advance of Kars, com
manding the passes to Trebizond and
Erzeroum. It is a great commercial
point, and was regarded as the strong
est point for defense in that vast region
of mountain country.
The Russians opened the entertain
ment with a heavy artillery fire, soon
making a breach in the walls, through
which storming columns plunged with
terrible effect and brilliant success.
The city, with its va t armament, fell
into the hands of the Russians, the
Turks retiring towards Erzeroum.—
Four hundred Musselmen were buried
by the Russians, and the lost in
wounded was fearful.
This is an important advantage for
the Russians. It was the first objec
tive point of that campaign, and Gen.
Millikoff is evidently master of the
situation. He can easily destroy the
enemy in his rear, and bring up large
reinforcements from Kars and Batoum,
for a grand and decisive engagement
somewhere on the line of defenses ex
tending from Erzeroum to Trebizond.
If successful at these point, full one
half the Ottoman Empire will have
Been overrun and placed under Rus
sian civil government, and the Czar
can then safely rest and recruit his
armies for the final campaign along
the southern slopes of the Black Sea
to the Bosphorus.
Active operations are also going on
along the banks of the Danube, but
no general engagement has jet taken
place. The Grand Duke Nicholas is
conducting this campaign, and he is
certainly displaying wonderful caution
and wise generalship in his prepara
tions to cross the river. His marches
and countermarches up and down the
Danube in echelon, in the provinces of
Roumania and Little Wallachia, mean
much more than a search for shallow
fords and weak points in the line of
Turkish defenses. Time is worth more
than a pitched battle aud a great vic
tory, for diplomacy and intrigue are
progressing with Roumania, Greece
and England, and there are already
leakings of intelligence that an alli
ance has been negotiated between
these powers, at least to the extent of
preserving the status of the Suez Canal
and Constantinople, the establishment
of the independence of Roumania, and
tho protection of the Greeks.
is
°r jib
causes and the the war, and
the present situation, be worth nny
' thing in the way of prophecy, three
grand double campaigns by the Rus
sians and three years of unparallelled
i fighting and unprecedented slaughter
will be required to conquer the Turks
and establish Russian dominion over
the Black Sea and Turkey in Europe-
France.
The irrepressible Frenchman is fo
menting another civil revolution. The
quarrel between the Right and the
Left, or the Republicans and Monarch
ists, is rapidly assuming a serious as
pect, and the resignation of President
McMahon or another “reign of terror”
seems to be the alternatives.
The policy of the administration is
neutrality in the Eastern war, and
quietude towards Prussia, while the
people, headed by M. Gambetta, think
they see an opportunity to wipe out
the disgrace of Louis Napoleon’s dis
aster and rescue Alsace and Loraine.
The situation is so threatening that
Germany takes the precautionary step
of reinforcing these provinces with
16,000 troops. It is doubtful whether
the Marshal will accept a solution by
the ballot, or resort to a coup de force
to sustain his policy.
The number of Musselmen in the
world is estimated at 170,000.000. —
They hold the doctrine that ‘there is
but one God, and Mohammed is his
prophet.’ When the faith is endan
gered by superior force, the successor
of the Prophet—who is the Sultan of
Turkey—is empowered by the Koran
to summon all the worshippers, and
they are not only obliged to respond,
but are taught to regard it as a glo
rious privilege to fight and to die in
defense of their religion. This is called
Islamism, and its flag means death or
victory.
If we understand the dispatches, this
fearful summons has gone forth, and
the Musselmen are now putting their
houses in order for a death grapple
with the Christian world. Millions of
them are savages, and are ignorant of
the civilized moles of warfare and
modern agencies for killing in battle,
consequently the slaughter is likely to
exceed the casualties of the wars for
many hundred years.
Altanta continues to discuss the water
question, and the fear of being poisoned
has well nigh driven the whole popula
tion to the beer saloons. The seven
editors of the Constitution are ap
plauded for their discovery and en
couraged in their habits.
Observe the Rule.
Last week, just after the Eagle was
worked off, we opened a letter from a
neighboring county, which contained a
long communication, signed by eighty
four prominent citizens, recommend
ing a very worthy and capable gentle
man for the Convention.
We immediately notified the gentle
man who forwarded the communica
tion, and one of the signers at the
county seat, that it could go in, this
week, if paid for, and named the price.
Our rule is to charge for communica
tions in the interest of candidates, and
it is our present to adhere to
it. A candidacy for an office that pays
is business—simply busine s, nowa
days, and the party, or the parties in
terested, should pay for advertising the
fact just as the merchant pays for ad
vertising his business.
Within our experience the news
papers of Georgia have written a vast
number of small men into notoriety,
prominence and important official posi
tions, without fee or reward,
hope thereof; and our experience con
firms also the opinion that more than
half of those so written up were un
worthy of the generous service, and
incapable of appreciating the kindly
emotions that prompted the friendly
aid. Greatness that is thrust upon
Lilliputian shoulders by the voluntary
unremunerated use of printers’ ink, is
the very sort of greatness that mistakes
the work of others for its own, and
vaunts its success as the result of
superior merit. It is too selfish to
acknowledge a service, and often too
ignorant to draw the distinction be
tween its own weakness and the
strength of the lever that prized it.
These remarks are general, and have
no special application—least of all, are
they intended for the case in point; for
the gentleman recommended is emi
nently worthy, and deserves the con
fidence and suffrages of liis fellow
citizens. It would afford us pleasure
to announce his name in the usual
way, and to publish, under the rule
adopted, any and all communications
his friends may send in. Many of our
subscribers are on the paper referred
to—enough of them to pay the charge
at a cost of 20 cents each. They can
better afford to pay that much for their
friend, than we can the aggregate
amount. It costs money to run a
newspaper, and if it fails to charge for
all legitimate business, it soon ceases
to be worthy of public patronage, and
dies of dry-rot.
Whig Party to be Again Resuscitated.
[Washington Republican.]
“Of one thing we are surq ; -fl Tat in
time those of North and
South, alike, will unite iu
and that the time must, there-
Kre,eome, sooner or later, when the
wings of the South and the great body
lot the Republican nartv will act to
f posnm --
‘niMi -efaai r/emocrats, North ana
yiouth, will then be driven to the old
wssues to sustain their party. Princi
■e will survive and justice triumph;
pad if a party has a following so bad
that it is abandoned the moment it
dedicates itself to the service of the
country it ouglß to fall, and will fall,
and all the people will say Amen,”
Jus’ so, jus’ so. But then the young
men of the South, of thirty aud down
wards, and there’s enough of them to
form twenty army corps, know as little
about Old Line Whiggery as they do
about a war map, and they care less.
I hey are Democrats—i. e. they are
white men, to the manner born, and
comprehend fully the potency of the
principle that lives in the tw© English
words—‘Solid South.’
Is he the President ’
[Baltimore Gazette.]
“Mr. Hayes was not elected Presi
dent by the people, but he is President,
and as such the people accept him.
More than this, he is respected. No
man can do his duty, fearlessly and
honestly, in the face of bitter opposi
tion from his own party, without strik
ing a popular chord which sounds his
praise. There may be honest people
who wish that this were not so—who
remember that the country was cheat
ed and Mr. Hayes dishonestly foisted
upon it, and who believe that only woe
can come from crime. Even this" does
not alter the fact. The majority of
the people are to-day with Mr. Hayes
in spite of the taint of his title From
every section of the country come
words of hearty commendation and
approbation of Mr. Hayes’ course.”
Yes, but the ‘hearty commendation’
should not be mistaken for an endorse
ment of the fraud. It goes only to the
extent of approving the ‘course,’ and
will be withdrawn when that ‘course’
deviates from the Constitution and the
‘Southern policy.’ He is President, but
the fraud is the same, nevertheless.
If Mr. Hayes believes that his South
ern policy is for the best interests of
the country, and no one doubts that
he does, he will not hesitate to avail
himself of the services of the only or
ganization that can crown his efforts
with success. The Democratic party
is a huge mountain, whose foot-hills
are laved by the Atlantic, the Gulf and
the Pacific; but the mountain can not
go to Mohammed, though but the
breadth of a hair divides them. Mo
hammed must come to the mountain,
is the inexorable decree of fate. This
will require no greater sacrifice on the
part of Mr. Hayes than was made by
Andrew Johnson, and no man can
truthfully say that Andrew Johnson
made any sacrifice that was inconsis
tent with conscience, integrity, or man
hood. Such a course would meet with
the bitter denunciation of Blaine and
his friends, for it would require no
prophet to tell them that the end
would be their own discomfiture and
humiliation and the triumphant suc
cess of Mr. Hayes’ Southern policy.—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
We have room only to say that the
Eagle endorses the anti-Convention
movement in Hall, and the candidate
selected. On with the dance.
AXTLCON VEST I OX* %
To the Voters of the 33d Senatorial Dist.
The citizens of Hall county,
opposed to the assembling of a Consti
tutional Convention the present year,
have determined to give “form and
pressure” to their opposition, by
ning candidates in harmony with their
views.
To this end, they have selected as
their candidate J. F. Langston,
of Gainesville, and ignoring all forms
and ceremonies, respectfully present
him to the District as one of the stand
ard bearers of “anti convention.”
The anti-conventionists of Hall earn
estly appeal to the voters of Banks
and Jackson, who agree with them, to
take action without delay, and name
candidates who will aid Mr. Langston
in the canvass. Banks should name
one, and Jackson two and
Hall will zealously support their Selec
tions.
The friends of this movement are
urged to act'in time to make authori
tative announcement in next \ieeks
issue of the papers of the District-.
Many Citizens of Hall.
m The Big Bonanza.
i .l*Gn('ler this caption the folio wing?card
from Gen. A. O. Garlington appears iu
the - Atlanta Constitution of Wednesday:
‘Having heard that there is a ruiior in
circulation that the compensation allowed
by Governor Colquitt for the prosecution
of the claim lately paid by the Govern
ment of the United States to the Suite of
Georgia, on account of the Western aud
Atlantic Railroad, was not according to
contract, I feel it my duty, as one of the
attorneys employed in the prosecution of
said claim, to igive to the public the fol
lowing facts: *
‘The original contract by Gowunor
Bullock with Baugh & Garliugton4then
partners in law,’was that they should be
allowed a contingent fee of twelve aud a
half per cent, upon the amount recovered
on said claim, with a retainer of-three
thousand dollars,to be deducted from the
amount finally recovered. The coutract
entered into between Governor Smith
and Baugh & Garlington and R. A.
Alston (all present at the time) was, that
the contingent fee to be allowed the last
named parties should be twenty-fi* per
cent, upon the amount recovered on said
claim, with no condition annexed.
‘All statements to the contrary |f the
above are false. A. C. Garlington.
‘May 15th, 1877.’ f
This settles the question. Gtneral
Garlington would not maketa false
statement for the whole or
any other amount. And, besides|there
is abundant proof of the truth-#f his
statement. For nine years these gen
tlemen have been at work ob this
claim, and their final success was more
of a miracle—a political
a legal achievement. It was just like
finding that amount of money for the
State, that she neither knew or nor
cared to hunt for; and its simply con
temptible to raise a howl about the
fees. No respectable lawyer Would
have taken such a claim for private
parties for less than twice the fe#tpakl,
contingent upon \vb are
is at tue boUum ol the foolish o|l!moi\
t: Gohl Mining in Georgia.’ s ,
Under this heading we find the fol
lowing published editorially in the
Atlanta Constitution:
“Dr. W. P. Harrisson was in Chica
go last week, where he had an oppor
tunity to see the witless tide that is
flowing to the Black Hills. He could
not restrain his pen, and a letter in
the latest number of the Chicago Times
that has come to hand, gives his views
on the subject of gold mining. He
thinks Dahlonega offers better induce
ments than Deadwood. He shows how
deceptive ‘pocket mines’ are4-that
quartz mining is the only reliance. He
then shows what the Georgia mines
have produced. The estimate, he says,
that places the Georgia product at
forty millions in twenty years is by no
moans extravagant. After stating
what the stamp mills in and near Dah
lonega are actually doing, he adds:
The quartz leads in this section are
very numerous: I speak from person
al experience, having visited within a
twelvemonth the gold region of North
east Georgia, During my stay there I
saw an old mine, out of which several
hundred thousand dollars had former
ly been taken, reopened, and out of a
“pocket” in the vein SBOO was taken in
a single panful of ore. A ton of this
pocket ore would yield $30,000. Of
course these incidents are rare, and
really do not advance the gold inter
est, for extravagant hopes are aroused,
and these not being fulfilled the reac
tion is injurious to all concerned. But
there are veins of quartz from . four
inches to five feet thick, in which more
or less gold will be found in every ton
of ore. The extremes range from fifty
cents to as many dollars per ton. But
there is a reliable average which will
afford a basis of calculation which is
really more certain than almost any
business in these “hard times.”
The people of Georgia and of the
whole South have been struggling with
difficulties which only cool and dis
passionate minds elsewhere can prop
erly appreciate. The struggle has
been for existence, and the destruction
of capital by the late war renders it
impossible for them to engage to any
large exient in quartz mining. But
they cordially welcome honest and
worthy men from every section of our
country whose purpose is to attend to
legitimate business of any kind. Large
capitalists in the north, east and west
have suffered loss by the non-employ
ment of their means. Here, in the
heart of the South, accessible bj r rail
roads from all directions, is a "gold
region in the compass of thirty miles
square, which can yield $500,000,000
of gold without driving a shaft five
hundred feet deep, and yet it is suf
fered to lie comparatively idle.
If these mines were in the Black
Hills, and life and fortune were staked
upon reaching them, it would be easy
to excite public attention to them. It
is time that the foolish stories of
southern antipathy to northern men
were laid aside forever; they have
served their purposes, and are now
too well understood to frighten any
one. A Chicago man, whatever his
politics may be, is as safe in any part
of Georgia as a Southern man is in
Chicago. Either might get into diffi
culties, if he had a mind to do so, and
either will find himself arnoQg friends I
if he shows himself worthy of them. i
THE WAR IS GEORGIA,
Brown ys Gordon—l he Senator Hastens
to the Seat of War.
[Special to the N. 0. Democrat.]
Washington, May 16.—Senator Gor
don went home last night. He has
endured misrepresentations and insin
uations of Governor Brown and
others until, in his judgment, forbear
ance ceases to be a virtue. It general
terms, it may be stated that Gordon’s
relations with the Administration have
been soleiy with a view to securing
non-intervention in affairs of Louisi
ana and South Carolina. Beyond this,
he has no relations with Hayes what
ever, except those of an amicable social
nature. In the course of my political
observations I have never seen a war
fare more base and dastardly than t hat
recently waged against Gordon by his
rival in Georgia.
WHAT THE PRINCIPAL KEEPER OF THE GEOR
GIA PENITENTIARY SAYS.
[Letter to Athens Georgian. ]
I have made this letter more*lengthy
than I intended. I will now close by
saying that the “sore heads” in and
about here have exhausted their sup
ply of ammuniation, and not a single
shot has come near to molest the dig
nity and high standing of two of Geor
gia’s purest and best men—John B.
Gordon and A. H. Colquitt. When
this class of men that are ever ready
to cry “wolf” at everybody, to divert
the public mind from their own ac
tions in the past, shall have passed into
insignificance and will only be remem
bered by the public for their unfaith
fulness to every trust imposed in them,
Gen John B. Gordon’s and Alfred H.
Colquitt’s good deeds will shine like
the last lingering rays of the king of
day upon the mountain peaks as he
sinks to rest behind the western hori
zou, to perpetuate and keep fresh in
the memory of unborn generations
their fidelity to Georgia’s interest and
their own honors. When they are
called from this mundane sphere to
enjoy the rest of eternal bliss, their
pure and unspotted names will be a
pleasant theme of conversation around
the firesides of unborn generations.
But no more. With my best wishes
for you and your interest, I am yours,
John W. Nelms.
Mining News.
The Dahlonega Signal furnishes the
following items:
This week has been an active one
among the miners. A large amount
of ore has been taken out, and most of
mills are reporting an increased yield;
while several rich ‘finds’ are reported,
reminding us of the early excitement
in gold digging here years ago.
At the ‘Fish Trap’ mine they are
taking out some splendid ore from a
‘lead’ above the vein formerly worked.
Moore & Bensil are rushing their
new mill forward as rapidly as possi
ble, impatient to get lo work on the
fine bed of ore recently discovered on
their property.
Dr. Smith is making it ‘tell’ in his
deposit mines over on ‘Cane Creek,’
and made the finest ‘clean up’ last week
reported for a long time in that kind
of work.
Mr. Price has also ‘struck it rich’
again at the old reliable ‘Findley.’ His
outside lean ores have been yielding
long 3 ‘open cut’ acXsTthe
hill has reached . the famous ‘Sand
Vein,’ from which some very fine mill
ore is now being taken. But the sen
sation of the week was on Wednesday
afternoon, when a blast in the lower
level leading from the bottom of the
shaft towards the old ‘Findley Vein’
revealed one of the richest ‘leads’ yet
found in that already famous proper
ty. It is running paralled to the old
vein, but some ten feet from it, and in
an entirely different formation; being
a hard blue horn-blende rock, streaked
with white quartz, which is threaded
with webs of gold. Some of the speci
mens shown us being the liuest ever
seen here. In addition to the gold, the
rock carries, what experts here say, is
tellurium; which, if it be so, adds
greatly to the value of the ‘find;’for
teliuride ores are the richest known.
11 v/ill be tested at once, and the
level driven through to the point where
the ‘old vein’ is thought to be quietly
waiting to reveal its treasures, and
should this prove true, with two such
rich veins lying so near together we
shall congratulate the owners of the
Southern bonanza on their good for
tune, and repeat what we have so of
ten said before, that all our country
needs is energy and capital, to demon
strate it one of the richest gold regions
in America.
The Georgia Press Association.
Oar brethren are now in session in
Thomasvillo. The following compli
mentary circular will show the sacri
fice we are making to serve our
patrons:
Gentlemen—Representing the local
press of Thomaville and in behalf of
the citizens of our town, we extend
you a cordial invitation to attend the
meeting of the Pi’eas Convention here
on the 23rd and 24th.
The citizens have generously re
sponded and every preparation is be
ing made to make your meeting a
pleasant one. Arrangements have
been made to quarter the members of
the Association at the Mitchell House;
a splendid Ball will be tendered the
“gang” on the night of the 23rd, at
their hotol, and on the day following
will open the Horticultural and Floral
Exhibition of the South Georgia Agri
cultural and Mechanical Association.
This exhibition promises to be the
most brilliant and interesting ever
held on the grounds.
Upon the whole we can safely prom
ise you a most enjoyable time; in fact
nothing will be left undone on the
part of the citizens of Thomasville or
ourselves to make the occasion one
long to be remembered by the Press
of Georgia.
The members of the Convention
will be entertained free during the
session. Very respectfully,
Charles P. Hans ell,
Editor Enterprise,
John Triplett,
Editor Tim es.
Thomasville, Ga., May 14th, 1877.
The Administration will endeavor to
run the army from June till October
on a ‘due bill’ system. The officers and
privates will be paid off in ‘promises
to pay,’ and sharp officials will go
round and buy them up at a paying
discount.
About the State.
The Albany News says a larger acre*
age is planted in wheat in that section
this year than any previous year, and
that the prospect is fine for a heavy
yield. Many are hjpeful of thirty
bushels to the acre. We are glad to
see the cotton belt turning its atten
tion to grain growing and stock rais
ing. Corn is cheaper to-day in South
western than in Northeastern Georgia,
and if this wheat business goes on
there, and the cotton and guano fal
lacy be persisted in here, the fools and
wise men will soon have exchanged
places.
The cost of running Dougherty coun
ty the year ending Ist of April was
$10,500.
A young Israelite, named Kapp, was
drowned in Couch’s mill pond, near
Albany, by being capsized while out
in a small boat with a fishing party.
Master -Nolan Willis, twelve years
old, accidentally shot and killed him
self, while out hunting.
Frank Evans, of the News, is snuffing
salt air, on Cumberland Island.
Sheep raising is on the increase in
Southwestern Georgia. Henry Ran
dall, the great sheep raiser of Western
New York, says in one of his pam
phlets, that Southwest and Southern
Georgia are the greatest sheep raising
sections of the United States.
Hon. James R. Brown and Col. E. E.
Field are the nominees in Cherokee
county for the Convention, and the
last Georgian contains their letters of
acceptance. Col. Field squarely favors
the call; but Col. Brown does not tell
us whether he favors it or not. This
passage, however, occurs in his letter:
“It is not only important that the
Constitution boa good one, which
protects every interest and every class
of the people, but it should be their
Constitution —the workmanship of their
own hands, and not one imposed upon
them by some other power.”
His brother, Joseph E., wrote the
present Constitution, and to him we
are particularly indebted for the home
stead and jury system.
The Georgian wants a Convention,
but continues to harp upon that ‘if.’
It would ‘know more of the antece
dents, qualifications and views of the
various candidates over the Slate, be
fore feeling prepared to endorse ‘Con
vention’ on the back of its ticket.’
The same paper says:
“Capt. Evans, formerly of Albany,
Ga., is teaching school in a very neat
academy, built principally by A. T.
Scott, M. R. Britt, and George Rein
hart. Capt. Evans is an accomplished
gentleman and scholar, and has an ex
cellent school. They have a flourish
ing Sabbath-school at the acadernMjrt
which the entire community aSfHji
deep interest. We visite
on the first Sunday evea
pleased to see so large J
boj'S and girls and para
dance. The school nS
Bayentv.fi wo nnuils. \V
little talk, and were folkn
Evans, who delivered a ]
impressive little speech,
tauce of religious educaifHHH
Capt. Evans has no hi|H§f§
teacher in Georgia, and CheroW
has the opportunity of building
educational advantages equal to the
best in the land. Canton is a good
point for a High School. Cherokee
has wealth aud population to sustain
it, and Capt. Evans has the learning,
the qualifications and the purity of
character to place it at the very head
of the list of Georgia’s schools.
The Sumpter Republican wants a
Convention to strike the word ‘rebel’
from the Constitution. We rather like
the word. Onr grand-fathers were
rebels, and so was George Washington.
Sumpter had another hangiug on
Friday last. Charley Thomas, who
murdered Mrs. Caraway, about a
month ago, went to Heaven by the
hangman’s line, and Mr. Caraway went
straight to the Ordinary’s office and
bought license to get another kind of
a knot tied. He was determined the
negro should" not be far ahead of him
in the matter of bliss.
Excursions, picnics, fire parades,
military displays, balls and politica
conventions are raging like New Eng
land woods fires, in South western
Georgia.
Mr. M. G. Boyd, of Cleveland, is
about to move to Dahlonega.
Col. W. P. Price had a runaway the
other day—his buggy was smashed
and he and his daughter, Miss Belle,
narrowly escaped.
Crops in Lumpkin are luxuriant,
and a ‘green corn dance’ is proposed
by brother Howell, of the Signal. He
should keep a sharp look out for the
revenue wreckers.
The Signal office is printing a pam
phlet life of David Lowellin Beck.
Corn is selling at §1 20 at Duck
town, and all because they call it
‘Mountain eye water.’
The Dental Association that met at
Macon, week before last, elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
President Or. M. H. Thomas, of Craw
ford.
First Vice-President —Dr. W. F. Tinger, of
Col ambus.
Second Viee-Pn sident Dr. J. L. Fogg, oi
Bartlesville.
Recording Secretary—Dr. J. A. Chappie, of
L.iGrauge.
Gat-responding Secretary—Dr. M. S. John
son. of Perry.
Treasurer—Dr. H. A. Lowrance, of Athens.
The meeting adjourned to meet iu Atlanta,
on Monday preceeding the last Tuesday in
July, 1878.
/'GEORGIA. HALL COUNTY. —D. P. Casey,
* A Executor of the last will and testament
of John Casey of said county, deceased, ap
plies for letters dismissory from said executor
ship:
Therefore ail persons interested are hereby
cited to tile their objections (if any they have)
and show cause (it any they can) why said
Executor should not be discharged from his
said trust, otherwise said letters will be
granted the applicant at the September term
of the Court of Ordinary for said county, to
be held on the first Monday of said month,
1877. J. B. M. WIN 15URN, Ordinary.
Ordinary’s office, May 8, 1877. * mayll-Jm
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
Mr. Hill to Be the Candidate in 1880.
Washington, D. C., May 11.
Editor Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
Sir —lt may interest your readers to
be informed of the exceedingly great
popularity of the distinguished Geor
gian, Hon. Ben. H. Hill. Mr. Hill
made his mark when he so utterly de
molished Blaine in the ‘amnestical de
bate, but his course since that time
has been of such a nature as to endear
him to the North and West, irrespec
tive of party; and it is no uncommon
thing now to hear influential people
speaking of him as the probable Presi
dential candidate of 1880. There is
no disguising the fact any longer that
anew party is in process of formation
in the North and West, which will
doubtless receive accessions from the
South. Radicalism is dead and buried,
and can never be resurrected. The
thinking people of the country waut
and will have peace, and they are
ready to come together as one man
and elevate to the Presidency a states
man whom all can revere and respect.
They want a man of ability, whose re
cord is good They want an old line
Whig, who can rally the following of
Henry Clay. Such men as Cl.ymer,
Kelley, Banks, Eaton, and a host of
others think they have found him in
the great Georgia stateman, and they
have quietly resolved to nail his name
to their masthead in 18S0. The
Washington Nation and the New York
Graphic are known to be strong en
dorsers of the Hill movement, and
during the Summer they will urge his
claims openly. It is known also that
Hayes favors the nomination of Hill
by the new party, and when certain
plans are perfected, there will be a
hegira over to the brilliant Georgian
from both parties that will be refresh
ing. I could write you more about
the Hill movement, but deem it pru
dent at present to say no more than
that you may congratulate yourselves
upon the probability of your furnish
ing the next President of the restored
Republic.
That’s a curious revelation, and we
do not believe it is honest. It cannot
be the writing of a friend. It smells
of treason, stratagems and spoils. Mr.
Hill could not carry a county in the
‘Solid South’ under such auspices, and
no man" know/'it better than Mr. Hill
himself.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Notice to Plaintiffs.
A FTER THIS DATE, I shall require all
advertising fees iu advance, in pursuance
of section 3,(549 of the Code. None need ask
me to deviate from this rule, as I shall adhere
to it in every case.
JOHN L. GAINES, Sheriff Hall Cos.
May 11, 1877.
64 SHARES ~
Slock
CHEAP BEDSTE APS, CHAIRS and
]Yt a. tt re sses.
I. M. IVMS. 11. W. THOM AS.
Orders with the Casli will be filled at
bottom prices. may2s-lm
Assignee’s Notice.
In Bankruptcy—Northern District of Georgia.
At Gainesville, the 22d day of May, A. D.,
1877.
rpHE undersigned hereby gives notice of his
*" appointment as assignee of Elisha W.
Merritt, of Gainesville, in the county of Hall
.and State of Georgia, within said District,
who lias been adjudged a Bankrupt upon his.
own petition, by the District Coutt of said
District. SAMUEL C. DUNLAP,
may2s-3t Assignee.
Georgia, white county.—wher
Mieajah Turner, Sr., departed this life in
the year 1871, and leaving a will, and that
James West was named therein as executor;
and whereas the said James West, after pro
bating said will in ‘common form,’ renounced
his trust, ar.d no one applies for administra
tion with the will annexed:
These are therefore to cite all persons con
cerned to bo at my office, on the lirst Monday
in July next, to show cause why administra
tion, with the will annexed, should not be
vested iu the Clerk of the Superior Court, or
some other fit and proper person.
Given under my hand and official signature
this May 17, 1877.
maylG-td ISAAC OAKES, Ordinary.
/7J.EORGIA, WHITE COUNTY. Whereas,
” it appears to me from the petition of
Sarah J. Turner, that Mieajah Turner, Sr.,
deceased, departed this life, leaving a con
siderable estate, both real and personal, not
disposed of either by will or otherwise, and
that no one applies for administration on said
estate:
Therefore, all persons concerned, are here
by notified to be and appear at my office, on
the first Monday in July next, to show cause
why administration should not bo vested in
the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county
or somo other fit and proper person.
Given under my hand and official signature
this May 17, 1877.
naay2s-td ISAAC OAKES, Ordinary.
Q.EORGIA, WHITE COUNTY.— G. W. C.
Wikle, of said county, applies to me for
exemption of personalty and setting apart
and valuation of homestead, and I will pass
upon the same on Saturday, the 16th day of
June next, at 11 o’clock a. m. of that day, at
my office. May 21, 1877.
may2s-2t ISAAC OAKES, Ordinary.
We are authorized to announce the name of
W. I. Pike, of Jefferson, Ga., as a candidate
for one of tlio delegates from the 33rd Senato
rial District to the Constitutional Convention.
W. S. WILLIAMS & CO..
Auction and Commission Merchants,
C3r,iaa.os-viJXo, C3
Consignments of Merchandise and
Country Produce Solicited.
PROMPT RETURNS GUARANTEED.
\VE ARE AGENTS for several Insurance
Companies, and will insure buildings and
other property at reasonable rates.
Refer to Geo. W. Williams & Go., Charleston, S. C.;
Perino brown, Cashier Citizens Bank, Atlanta, Ga.;
banks k Brother, Bankers, Gainesville, Ga.
maylß-3m
An Interest ins a Flourishing
Newspaper for Sale.
i DESIRABLE INTEREST iu a well established
Newspaper and Job Office, in a nourishing town
in Southwestern Georgia, is offered for sale on most
reasonable terms. An intelligent practical Journalist
tan secure a permanent situation and profitable busi
ness. For information, address Eagle office,
may 11 -tf
D. BURFORD. T. J. YOUNG.
D’ BURFORD & CO.,
Flowery Branch, Air-Line R. K.,
Dwalers ±xx
Dry o-oods,
FANCY GOODS AND NOTIONS,
FAMILY GROCERIES,
Country Produce, Etc., Etc.
j m-CHEAP FOR CASH Oil COUNTR Y
PRODUCTS, -m.
Our Dr. Young has a full stock of
Drugs, Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
Turpentine, Etc.
.jsiT- Give us a tiial is all (hat we ask. 'TPA
wayll-tf
To Summer Visitors.
t T MY OLD STAND ON OAK STREET,
-A- I continue the
Livery Business
In all its branches, and am fully prepared to
furnish
Elegant Turnouts
At short notice aud at reasonable rates.
Parties wishing to visit the neighboring
Watering places, or the more distant nionn
taii attractions, can be supplied with good
stock and comfortable vehicles.
YV. P. SMITH,
maylß-3m Uainesvillo, Ga.
SECOND GRIND DRAWING
KEITIEIY CASH lISTBIIOTIDISO.
Louisville, Ky., June 30,1877.
$310,000 CASH in GIFTS.
Fanners & Drovers Bank, Louisville, Ky., Treae.
THE KENTUCKY CASH DISTRIBUTION CO., au
thorized hv a Special Act of the Legislature ior
the beneilt of tt'e Public Schools of Frankfort, will
have the Second of the Series of Grand Drawings in
the city of Louisville, Ky., Saturday, June 30, 1877, at
Public L brary Hall—a scheme _ commensurate with
the times.
§*oo,ooo for Only Ten.
1 Grand Casli Gift SOO,OOO
1 Grand Cash Gift 25,000
1 Grand Cash Gift. 15,000
1 Grand Cash Gift l ,000
3 Grand Cash Gifts, $5,000 each 153)00
5 Grand Cash Gifts, $2,000 each 10,000
20 Cash Gilts, SI,OOO each 20,000
40 Cash Gilts, SSOO each.... 20,000
100 Cash Gifts, S2OO each 20,00.)
300 Cash Gifts, SIOO each 30,000
500 Cash Gifts, SSO each 25,000
0000 Cash Gifts, $lO each GO,OO
6072 Cash Gifts, amounting to $310,000
Whole Tickets .10; Halves $5; Quarter $2.50; 11
Tickets $100; 33Tickets $300; !ol£ Tick ts SSOO.
Drawing Positively June 30i.h, 1877, and every three
months thereafter.
Certificate of Supervisors of Drawing.
This is to certify that the first drawing of the Ken
tucky Cash Distribution Company took place on the
Cth of December, in Major Hall, Frankfort, Ky., in
our presence and under onr immediate supervision.
We further Btate t. at every ticket aiuhpart of ticket
which had been sold, wero represe^ the wheel,
and that the drawing :v
,
is.
i ...
was to
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LADIES DRESS Xt’-
M. Pei*sons,
Northeast Corner Public Square,
a.inesvillo, Gr £*. . .
RESPECTFULLY announces to her friends
that she has engaged the services of Mrs.
Faulkner, an accomplished Dress Maker, and
that she is prepared to supply her customers
with the latest styles of Millinery and Dress
Goods. She has a carefully selected assort -
pent of Hats, Bonnets, Ribbons, Laces, Edg
iogs, Inserting?, Collars and Cuff's, Embroide
ries and Trimmings of infinite variety.
Ladies are invited to examine her bountiful
goods before purchasing elsewhere.
may4-3m
BOUSE !
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THE GOWER SPRINGS.
One Mile from the Court House,
At Terminus of Green Street,
3n flit* City of tlaincsviilc, Ga.
| E. N. (jIOWEIt, Aliiiiai>{‘j\ j
A LARGE, COMMODIOUS and comfortable
Hotel, just completed, and will be ready
for guests by the 15th instant.
OIF 1 BO2YRD.
S3O per month; $lO per week; $2 per dav.
Special rates tor families and parties.
Water, Bathing, Amusements and service
free to guests.
Street cars will run regularly from the depot
to the Spring.
Visitors courteously attended to and bag
gage promptly delivered.
Qualitative Analysis of Gower’s Mineral
Spring, by William J. Land, Analytical
Chemist.
Atlanta, Ga., October 30, 1876.
Constituents.—Free carbonic acid, free
hydrosulphnrie acid, carbonate of iron, car
bonate of manganese, sulphate of potassa,
sulphate of soda_, chloride of sodium, crenate
of iron, apocrenate of iron, phosphate of
lithii), (small quantity,) sulphate of lime, sul
phate of magnesia, phosphate of alumina,
nitrate of ammonia, sulphuret of copper
(traces) sulphate of stroutia, (traces) feuoiidc
of calcium, (traces) bromide of potassinna,
(tiuces) nitrogen gas, oxygen gas, (small
quantity of each.)
Note—This is one of the best chalybeate
waters I have ever examined.
lUit y4~ W. J. LAND, Chemist.
G EORGIA, WHITE COUNTY.-Calvin K.
Stover, administrator with will annexed
of Jeremiah Stover, Sr., deceased, applies to
me for leave to sell all the real estate beloim
mg to the estate of the said deceased:
Ihorefore all persons concerned are hereby
notified to be and appear at my office, on the
first Monday in July next, to show cause, it
any they can, why such leave should not be
granted, otherwise leave will be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature,
this May 9, 1877. ISAAC OAKES,
ma ylß -td Ordinary.
Marshal’s Sale,
UHLL bo sold before the Court House door,
in the city of Gainesville, within the legal
hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in June
next-, the following property, to-wit: One lot ot
land on the coiner of Maple and Lawrenceville
streets, with law office and the oid Advertiser
office on the same. Levied on as the property
of defendant by virtue of and to satisfy a ti fa
for city tax for 1876. The city council of
Gainesville vs. James J. Findley.
J. A. MORRISSON,
may 1 td Marshal.