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The Gainesville Eagle. I tibliNlieri Ker) Frida) Morning OARE.Y W. STYLES, Editor aiul Proprietor. Terms Two Dollars a Tear, la Advance. OFFICE Up-stair, in Candler Hall Building, Northwest Corner of Public Square. The Official Organ ot Hall, Banks, White, Towns. I iiion and Dawson counties, and the cfty of Gainesville. Has a large general clrculaTon in twelve other month s in Northeast Georgia, and two coun ties in Western North Carolina. ol‘Advortisiiifi'. One dollar per square for fir-t insertion, and fifty cunts for each subsequent insertion. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six linos will be charged for as advertisements. Personal or abusive communications will not be Inserted at any price. Communications of general or local interest, under a genuine signature respectfully solicited from auy source. Kates of Dcgal Advertising. 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Advertisers wlio desire a specified space for 3, 6 or 12 months will receive a liberal deduction from our regular rates. <j- All hills duo after first insertion, unless special contract to the contrary ho made. <; I' \i:iL\ L 1)1 IIKCTC >KY. Hon. Goorge D. Rice. Judge 8. C. Western Circuit. A. D. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. It. M. Wiiihiirn, Ordinary. John 1,, (tallies, Shoriff. J. F. Duckett, Deputy Shoriff. J. J. Moyne, Clerk Superior Court. N. B. Clark, Tax Collector. J. It. 11. Luck, Tax Receiver. Gideon Harrison, Surveyor. Edward Lowry, Coroner, it. C. Young, Treasurer. CHURCH DIRECTORY. PnKKiiVTKKiAN OuuitCH—ltev. T. P. Cleveland. Pas tor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and night, except the Second Sabbath. Su day School at il a. m. i’rayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock, Mktiiodiht Cliuneil Rev. 1). D. Cox, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at Pa. in. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. Baptist Ciii u. u Rev. W. O. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning. Sunday School at il a. m. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 4 o'clock. YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. A. M. Jackson, President, it. O. Maddox, Vice President. W. 1!. Cukmknts, Secretary. Regular services every Sabbath evening at one of (lie Churches. Cottage prayer meetings every Tues day night, in ‘‘i)|d Town,” and Friday night near the depot. FRATERNAL RECORD. Fi.owi.iiy liiiANcii Lodge No. 70,1. O. O. TANARUS., meets every Monday night, Joel Lasetkb, N. G. 1). F. Htkdiiam, Soc. Ai.i.huuanv Koval Arch Chapter meets on the Sec ond and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. W. M. Puckett, See’y. A. W. Caldwell, 11. P. Gainicsvili.m Lodge, No. 219, A.-. TV. M.n, meets on tlie First and 'Third Tuesday evening in the month U. I‘almoub, Hec’y. It. E Oiikkn, W. M. Air-Line I dixie, No. fit, 1. O. O. F., meets every Friday evening. C. A. Lilly, Sue. W. H. Harrison, N. G. Morning Star Lodge, No. 313, 1.0. G.T., meets ev ery Thursday evening. Claud Estes, W. S. J. P. Caldwell, W. C. T. North-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS., meets every Ist and 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch Chinch. F. S. Hudson, W. C. T. it. W. Rhodes, Secretary. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE, Owing lo recent change of schodule on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, tho following will he the schedule from date: Mall Iron Atlanta [fast] 6.24 p. m. Mail for Atlanta (fasti 5.43 a.m. office hours: From 7 a. in. to 12 in., aud from 1:„ p. m. to 7p. m. General delivery open on Sundays from 8)4 to 9*4. Departure ol mails from this office: Dahloncga ami Gilmer comity, daily r. m Dahlonoga, via W&hoo and Ethel, Saturday Ba. 111 Jell.*;son .v Jacksou county, Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday 7 a. ill Cleveland, White Union, Towns and Hayos vilie, N. c., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m Dawsonville and Dawson county, Saturday S a. 111 Homer, Banks county, Saturday I p. 111 Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday .. ,t p. m M. R. ARCHER, P.M. Professional ;iml Business Cards, LiNI) WAlUtm'sT t'ollegt* Land Scrip, Ami l{(‘Volntionury Scrip, lionght mill solil on eornnuHsion, liy IVI. \\. KI l)!L\, United States Claim Agent. N. It. Parlies holding Warrants ns Admin istrator, Executor, Guardian, ole., will he fully advised how to proceed with them by writing to me. M. W. 11IDEN. jutie22tf J. L. PEEKS A. A. CAMPBELL PEERS & CAMPBELL, COMMISSION MERCHANTS Nos. 7 ami Id Marietta Street, Al ljinta, Ga. References -Win. It. J. Lowry, J. R. Wiloy, ,L C. Carter, Stephens & Flynn. apr’27-8m A. .1. HHAFFER, M. X)., Physician and Surgeon. - Special At ten t ion (t I veil lo Discuses ConiniiMi lo Wonirii. Ollieu near Northeast corner Public Square. Always in office when not professionally engaged. Gainesville, Ga., May 25, 1877. ly MARKHAM HOUSE. 15V .X. 10. OWENH, Al (lie Past Pad of the Union Depot, Gtn. Attention by W. D. WILEY aud T. A. HAMMOND, mayll-tf A. C. ill OSS, Attorney at Law, Homer, Hanks County, Georgia. TTTILL ATTEND PROMPTLY to all bnsi ness intrusted to his care. luarD-ly MABLEU Ac PKBRY. A T’TORNKVS AT LAW. IIA I :V KSVIIA,K, OA , J\_ Office in tlie Court House. One or the other of tlie firm always present. Will practice in Hall aud adjoining counties. aug‘2s-ly I>R. K. It. ADAIR, DENTIST, (iainesville, Ga. Jan 14 ly MARSHAL Is. SMITH, VTTOKNUY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Dau**onciUc % Damson county, €fa, jnl4 ii' ,lOll\ It. ESTES, VITOKNEV-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county, Georgia. C. J. W ELl.ltOli VTTORNKY-AT-LAW, lilairsville, Union county, Georgia. sa -ii 1 diMjAP, \T TORN KY AT LAW, Gainesville, On. Office in tlie Oaiuller huiLling, in the room occupied by tlie Kagta in 1875. aprst-f. WJER ItOYI), ATTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlonega. da. 1 will ITm-licr In I lie counties of Lumpkin, Dnwson, liiliiier. Kiuinin. Union im.l Townsoouuties n the Blue Ridge Circuit; am! Hull, White and Rahim in the Western Circuit. May 1, 1574-tf, M. W. 1U DEN, 4 TTORNKY AT LAW, Gainesville, Georgia. iX Jau.l, lS7t-ly J, J. TURNBULL, ATTORN KY AT I,AW, Homer, On —Will practice in all the counties composing the Western Cir cuit. I’rompt attention given to all claims entrusted to his care. •tan.l. IS7S-iy. JAMES A. BUTT, ATTORN BY AT LAW A LAM) AGENT, Blgirsville (fa. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to his care. June a, 1871-tl The Gainesville Eagle. ,>evo,o<l t 0 r * olitics ’ The Farm 4„tere*t s , Home Mnttom. „,.l Choice MUcellany. VOL XL Facts for the People. It is an undeniable fact that no article was ever placed before the public with so much undis puted evidence of its great medical value, as tho YEC^ETXNE. For every complaint for which Vbgetiite is recommended, many testimonials of what it has done is furnished to tlie public at large, and no one should fail to observe that nearly all of the testimonials are from people right at home, where the VKUETINE is prepared, and as tho streets and numbers are given, there can he no possible doubt about the matter. Boston, Dec. 17, 1872. H. K. Stevens, Esq.: Dear Sir—May I ask the favor of you to make mv case public? In Istll, while on picket duty in the army, I was taken with a jit, which lasted all night. Was taken into camp and dosed with whiskey and quinine. After this had jits every dav, and was taken to Newborn Hospital, and there treated by the attending physicians. I <‘rew worse and was sent home. Remained in poor health tor lour years, treating with many physi cians and trying many remedies. Finally Scrof ula made its appearance on different pails of my body, and my head was so diseased as to he frightful to look at, and painful beyond endur ance. Alter trying tlie most eminent physicians without improvement, a change of climate was advised. Have been to tlie Hot Springs in Arkansas twice, each time giving their treatment a thorough trial. Finally came back to Boston, discouraged, with no hope of help. Life was a harden to one in my situation. My disease, and the effect of so much powerful medicine, had so damaged my system that the action of my stom ach was apparently destroyed, and my head was covered with ulcers which hail in places eaten into tlie skull bone. The best physicians saitl my blood was so full of poison they could do no more for me. About this time a friend who bad been an invalid told me Vk<;i:i’ini: had restored him to perfect health and through liis persuasion 1 commenced taking Vegei’lNl. .it tiiis time I was having tilt al most every day. 1 noticed the lirst good 'effects of ViPiETiXK in my digestive organs. Mv food sat better and my stomach grew stronger. I began to feel encouraged, for 1 could see my health slowly aud gradually improving. With renewed hope I continued taking the Vfuk tink, until it had completely driven disease out ot my body. It cured the jits, gave me g„od, pure blood, and restored me to perfect health, which I hud not enjoyed before for ten years. Hundreds of people in the city of Boston eati vouch lor tho above facts. V i.Gi.riNi: has saved my life, and you are at liberty to make such use of this statement as pleases you best, and I beg of you to make it known that-other sulferers may iind relief with less trouble and expense than I did. It will afford me great pleasure to show tlie marks of my disease or give any further infor mation relative to my case to all who desire il 1 am, sir, very gratefully, JOHN FECK, No. 50 Sawyer street, Boston, Mass. Twenty-Seven Years Ago. li. it. Stevens, Esq.: Dear Sir—This is to cer tify that my daughter was taken sick when slio was three years old, and got so low that we were obliged to keep her on a pillow, without moving, to keep Hie little thing together. She was at tended by several physicians —the regular at lending one being old Dr. John Stevens. They all pronounced her case incurable. She hud been sick about a year, when hearing of the great Blood Remedy, \ hijetixk, I commenced giving her that, and continued it regularly till she was about seven years old, when she was pronounced perfectly cured. During her sickness three pieces of hone were taken from her right arm above tlie elbow, ono of them being very long Several small pieces were also taken from her iett leg. She is now twenty-seven years old and is enjoying good health, and lias ever since slio was seven years old, with no signs of Scrofula or any other blood disease. Her arm is a little crooked, hut she can use it almost as well as the other. Her legs are of equal length, and she is not in tlie least lame. Her case was Scrofula inherited in the blood; and I would recommend a l those having Scrofula Humor or any other blood disease, it they wislt to have a perfect cure, to try Vkgetimo, the reliable blood rem edy, which does not weaken the system like many other preparations recommended, but, on the contrary, it is nourishing and strengthening. My daughter’s case will fully testify this, for I uevor saw nor heard of a worse form of Scrofula. „ IIULDA smith, 1J Monument street, Charlestown, Mass. „■ AIKS - SARAH M. JONES, , „ .. , WSulhyaa street, Charlestown, Mass. April 10, 1870. Hie above statement shows a perfect cure of Scrofula in its worst form, when pronounced incurable, of a child four years of twenty three years ago. The lady, now twenty-seven years old, enjoying perfect health. VECKETINE is Sold by all Druggists. TUTPS_PILLS A Noted Divine says They are worth their weight in gold . READ WHAT HE SAYS: Dr. Tutt:— Dear Sir: For ten years I have been a martyr to Dyspepsia, Constipation, and Piles. Last soring your pills were recommended to me ; I used them (but with little faith). lam now a well man, have good appetite, digestion perlect, regular stools, piles gone, ami I have gained forty pounds solid flesh. They are worth their weight in gold. Rev. R. L. SIMPSON, Louisville, Ky. ittia ntl i Dr. Tutt has been en- TUTTS PILLS IFBiea in the practice of medicine thirty years, and CURE SICK HEAD- for a longtime was demon. strator of anatomy in the . - - _ Medical College of Geor- TUTTS PILLS gi^TlSha^c n^n? CURE DYSPEPSIA. tee that t hey are prepared ■■■in on scientific principles, TUTTS PILLS quackery!"' eC ir ° m lie lias snccceiled in CURE CONSTIPATION couiliininjr in them the TIITTJQ Pf| |j Q qualities of a IUI I O riLLC } nf r,p m frative,aniiafur- CURE PILES. Dying tonic. Their iirst apparent ef- TUTT’S PILLS CURE FEVER AND T’h\\Tihesystmn "s nourl AUU *'- isiieti, and by their tonic vibwia ■ution on tlie digestive or- TUTFS PILLS rcguhir and healthy IUI I O I r V :.e nations arc prodttctxf. CURE BILIOUS COLIC The rapidity with which persons take on flesh, TIITTJO Dll l O while under the influence IUI lO lILLO ol these pills, ol itself in- CUKE KIDNEY COM- ‘hculcs Uictr udaptamlitv to nourish the body, and lienee their efficacy in cur- TUTPS PILLS ingot the muscles, slug- CURE TORPID LIVER gishness of the liver, " chronic constipation, and imparting health and strength to the system. Sold everywhere. Office, 35 Mu ray Street, New York. I TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE. I ■ Gray Hair can he changed to a I I glossy black by a single application of H ■ Dr. Tutt’ s Hair Dye. It acts like magic, gj ■ and is warranted us harmless as water. ■ What is Queen's Delight? Read the Answer It is a plant that grows in the South, and is spe cially adapted to the cure of diseases oi that climate. ' NATURE’S OWN REMEDY, Entering at once into the blood, expelling all scrof ulous, syphilitic, ami rheumatic affections. Alone, it it a searching alterative, but when combined with Sarsaparilla, Yellow Dock, and other herbs, it forms Sr. Tutt's Sarsaparilla and Queen’s Delight, The most powerful blood purifier known to medical science for the cure of old ulcers, diseased joints, foul discharges from the ears and nostrils, abscesses, skin diseases, dropsy, kidney complaint, evil effects of secret practices, disordered liver and spleen. Its use strengthens the nervous system, imparts a fair com plexion, and builds up the body with HEALTHY, SOLID FLESH. As an antidote to syphilitic poison it is strongly recommended. I lundreds of cases of the worst type have been radically cured by it. Being purely veg etable its continued use will do no harm. The best time to take it is during the summer and fall; and instead of debility, headache, fever and ague, you will enjoy robust health.' Sold by all druggists. Price, si.oo. Office, 35 Murray Street, New York. /'GEORGIA, HALL COUNTY.- D. P. Casey, Executor of the last will and testament of John Casey of said county, deceased, ap plies for letters dismissory from said executor ship: Therefore all persons interested are hereby cited to file 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 Vie 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. WINBURN, Ordinary. Ordinary’s office, May 8, 1877. * mayll-3m SI'EAK NO ILL. Nay, apeak no ill—a kindly word Can never leave a sting behind, And O ! to breath each tale we’ve heard Is far beueath a noble uiind. Full oft a better seed is sown, Ey choosing thus the better plan, I'or it but little good be known, Still let us speak the best we can. Give me the heart that fain would hide— Would faiu (mothers faults efface; How can it pleasure hnman pride, To prove humanity but base? No, let us reach a higher mood, A nobler estimate of man; Be earnest in the search for good, And speak of all the best we can. Then speak no iil but lenient be, To others failings as your own; If you’re the first a fault to see, Be not the first to make it known. For life is but a passing day, No lip may tell how brief its span; Then O ! the little time we stay, Let's speak of all the best we can. [From the Augusta Constitutionalist, May 27, 1807. OUR DELEGATES. The .Atlanta Constitution is publish ing sketches of the lives of the dele gates to the Constitutional Convention. Those of the thirty-third district are briefly disposed of as follows: MARTIN GRAHAM, THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT. Martin Graham was was born in South Carolina about 1806, and mar ried Miss liiley, in Hall county in 1830. He received only a common school education, and is, in every res pect a self-made man. He was for many years a Justice of the Peace and Judge of the Inferior Court of Hall county. Ho was also the first Ordina ry in Hall county, and organized the court in 1852. He was too old for military service during the war, but gave a hearty support to the “Lost Cause,” and lost a haudsome estate by its result. He is still, however, pos sessed of a competency stnd is uuiver sally esteemed by aU who know him. Prior to the war he was an old line Whig, and acted with the American party, but is now a true and staunch Democrat. MUSES BRYAN, TIIIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT. Moses Bryan was born in York Dis trict, South Carolina, was educated in the “old field” schools of his native State, and was married to Miss Mary Buffington, of Hall county, in 1828. He was too old for military service when the war broke out, but ho con tributed liberally of his ample means towards the support of the army, and those who wore in it. He was a Jus tice of the Peace and a Judge of the Inferior Court for many years, but has never held auy other office. He is a prosperous and a successful farmer, and for forty years has been recognized as one of the best and most useful men in Hall county. Prior to the war he was a Henry Clay Whig, and a seces sionist, and is now a Democrat of the old school. DAVID A. CAMP, THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT. David Anbury Camp was born in Jackson county iu1827, within a half a mile of the house in which he now lives, and was educated at Jackson County Academy. He was first married in 1848 t.o Miss Ellen White, daughter of Hon. Robert White, of Jacksou coun ty, and ten years later to Miss Anna White, a sister of his first wife. He was a Captain in the Sixteenth Georgia Cavalry, and was severely wounded during the summer of 1863, while operating with his command in Ten nessee. He served in the army dar ing the entire war, and was noted for his gallantry and soldierly bearing. Capt. Camp has never sought nor held a civil office in his life, but this need not be taken as evidence that he is not ambitions to serve his country, his State aud his fellow-citizens, lie was: originally a Whig, but since 1850 he has been a Democrat. He was an op ponent of the secession movement, but. cheerfully followed the fortunes of his State in resisting Federal oppression. He will make a good record in the Convention. JOHN J. J. SHEPPARD, THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT John J. J. Sheppard was born in South Caroliua in 1820, and was edu cated in Anderson, S. C., and was married to Miss Gunnells, of Hart country, in this State. He served dur ing the war as a private in the Eleventh Georgia Cavalry, and made a fine record as a gallant soldier. He is an old line Whig—a Democrat since 1856, and opposed secession. Mr. Sheppard is a successful farmer, and is the largest tax-payer in Banks coun ty. He will make his influence felt in the Convention. MERCURY IN THE SYSTEM. We want to believe that story from a Peoria paper about Mr. Henry Bull, but it is hard, very hard to accept it with perfect confidence. Mr. Bull, it is alleged, was fed upon calomel and blue pills by the doctors for a number of years so that finally he became ab solutely saturated with quicksilver. The other day while he wai standing by the side of the house, the snu sud denly came out bright and warm, and Bull began gradually to ascend. He stopped at the line of th 6 sill of the second story window, and hung there suspended in so .< e, uutil a thunder storm happened to come up, which cooled the atmosphere, and Mr. Bull slowly descended. Now ho has a grad uated scale marked on the gable end of his dwelling, and whenever Mrs. Bull wants to know how warm it is she ties fiat-irons to Henry’s legs to hold him down, an l walks him around to the gable end and cuts bim loose and lets him rise to eighty or mnetv degrees; and when she gets the informa tion, she lassoes him with the clothes line and hauls him down We say we want to believe this anecdote, because it makes us happier to have perfect faith, but it is harder than believing most lies.—Max Adler. GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 13. 1877. THE ELECTORAL FRAUD. Jerry Black’s Carpet-Baggers. In the North American Review for July, Judge Jeremiah S. Black appears as the contributor of an article en titled “The Electoral Conspiracy,” which is by all odds the most complete, eloquent, and scathing exposure that has yet been made of the fraud by which Rutherford li. Hayes was foisted into the presidental chair. We regret that our space will not permit us to re print it in full, aud that we must con fine ourselves to tho most striking pas sages. After briefly adverting to the indig nation felt by honest men throughout the country at the great outrage upon the rights of the people, Judge Black proceeds to depict the condition of af fairs in the state of Louisiana previous to the presidential el ction. First, he describes the carpet-baggers: WHAT THE CARPET-BAGGER IS. The people would not have been wholly crushed, either by the soldier or the negro, if both had not been used to fasten upon them the domina tion of another class of persons whose rule was altogether unendurable. These we call carpet-baggers, not be cause the word is descriptive or eu phonious, but because they have no other name whereby they are known among the children of men. They were unprincipled adventurers, who sought their fortunes in the South by plun dering the disarmed and defenceless people; some of them were the dregs of the federal army—the meanest of the camp followers; many were fugi tives from northern justice; the best of them were those who went down after the peace, ready for any deed of shame that was safe and profitable. These, combining with a few treacherous ‘scalawags’ and some leading negroes to serve as decoys for the rest, and backed by the power of the general government, became the strongest, body of thieves that ever pillaged a people. Their moral grade was far lower, and yet they' were much more powerful, than the robber bands that infested Germany after the close of the thirty years war. They swarmed over all the states from the Potomac to the Gulf, and settled in hordes, not with intent to remain there, but merely to feed on the substance of a prostrate and defenceless people They took whatever came within their reach, in truded themselves into all private cor porations, assumed the functions of all offices, including tho courts of justice, and iu many places they 'mar. the churches.’ By force and fraud they ei ther controlled all elections or else prevented elections from being held They returned sixty if themselves to one congress, and ten or twelve of the most ignorant and venal among them were at, the same time thrust into the senate. This false representation of a people by strangers and enemies who had not even a bona fide residence among them was the bitterest of all mockeries. There was no show tf truth or honor about it. The preten ded representative was always ready to vote for any measure that would oppress and enslave his so-called con stituents; his hostility was uncon cealed, and ho lost no opportunity to do them injury. HIS DESCENT UPON LOUISIANA. The agricultural and commercial wealth of Louisiana made her a strong temptation to the carpet-baggers. Those vultures snuffed the prey from afar; and, as soon as the war was over, they swooped down upon her in flocks that darkened the air. The state was delivered into their hands by the military authorities; but the offi cers imposed some restraints upon their lawless cupidity. They hailed with delight the advent of negro suf frage, because to them it was merely a legalized method of stuffing the ballot box, and they stuffed it. Thenceforth, aud down to a very recent period, they gorged themselves without let or hindrance. The depredations they committed were frightful. They appropriated, on one pretence and another, whatever they could lay their hands on, and then pledged to themselves the credit of the state for uncounted millions more. The public securities ran down to half price, and still they put their fraudulent bonds on the market and sold them for what they would fetch. The owners of the best real estate in town or country were utterly impover ished, because the burdens upon it were heavier than the rents would dis charge. During the last ten years the city of New Orleans paid in the form of direct taxes more than the estimated value of all the property within her limits, and still has a debt of equal amount unpaid. It is not likely that other parts of the state suffered less. The extent of their spoliations can hardly be calculated, but the testimony of the carpet baggers themselves against one another, the reports of committees sent by congress to inves tigate the subject, and other iuforma tion from sources entirely authentic, make it safe to say that a general con flagration, sweeping over all the state from one end to the other, and des t.roying every building and every arti cle of personal property, would have been a visitation of mercy in compari son to the course of snch a govern ment. THE INVENTIVENESS OF SCOUNDRELISM. This may seem at first blush like gross exaggeration, because it is worse than anything that misrule ever did before. The greediest of Roman proconsuls left something to the provinces they wasted; the Norman did not strip the Saxon quite to the skin; the Puritans under Cromwell did not utterly 7 deso late Ireland. Their rapacity was con fined to the visible things which they could presently handle and nse. But the American carpet-bagger has an in vention unknown to those oldfashioned robbers, which increases his stealing power as much as the steam engine adds to the mechanical force of there natural muscles. He makes negoti able bonds of the state, signs and seals them “according to the forms of law,” sells them, converts the proceeds to his own use, and then defies justice “to go behind the returns.” By this device his felonious lingers are "made long enough to reach into the pockets of posterity; he anticipates the labor of coming ages and appropriates the fruits of it in advance; he coins the in dustry of future generations into cash, and snatches the inheritance from children whose fathers are unborn. Projecting his cheat forward by this contrivance and operating latterally at tho same time, he gathers an amount of plunder which no country in the world would have yielded to the Goth or the Vandal. THE REIGN OF ANARCHY. Security of life can never be counted on where property is not protected. IV hen the public authorities wink upon theft-the people are driven by stress of sheer necessity to defend themselves the Lest way they can, and that de fence is apt to be aggressively violent. Justice, infuriated by popular passion, often comes to its victims iu a fearful shape. Disorders, therefore, there must have been, and bloodshed and violence, and loss of life, though they are not enumerated, or clearly des cribed in the reports. It is known that bands of ‘ regulators” traversed many parts of the state, and the fact is established that seven of the store houses used as places of receiving stolen gr.ods were burnt to the ground iu outt night. The officers of the car pet bag government “cared for none of these things.” They saw the struggle between larceny and lynch law with as much indifference as Galiio looked up on the controversy between the Jewish synagogue and the Christian church at' Ephesus. This horrible condition of society was caused solely by the want of an honest government. But this is not nearly the worst of it, if carpet-baggers themselves and their special friends are worthy of any cre dence jit all. They testify to numer ous other murders, wanton, unpro voked,-and atrocious, committed with impund.y under the very eyes of their government. Gen. Sheridan says h*e collected a list of 4,000 assassinations perpetrated within three years. Sena tor Sherman and his associates of the visiting committee swell this number greatly, and add that “half, tlie state was overrun with violence.” No effort was m|do to’repress these disorders or punisiq the criminals. Nobody was hung, obody tried, nobody arrested. Tho"m rderers ran al, large; the vic tims vfft tfio awi’al of , } .boui 'fourewry day, anfTEKepbbfic "bTficers quietly assented to let “the rifle, the knife, tho pistol, and tlie rope do their horrid work” without, interruption. Are such men fit to govern a free state? “Fit to govern ! No, not to live.” HOME CONVERSATIONAL TRAINING. There is no nation more fluent in conversation than the American. The Front h are more voluble, perhaps, their language permitting greater ra pidity of pronunciation than the En glish. Our best conversationalist are not rapid talkers. One trouble with ns is, each one likes to do all tho talk ing, therefore Americans are not good listeners. But mere talking is not conversation. In almost all home cir cles there is much talking done during the day, but we fear there are few who do not reserve their brilliant conver sational powers for other assemblages than the home group. Many a father comes home tired; he has worked hard and talked a great deal, told amusing anecdotes and displayed much wit. He has come home to rest He takes out his paper and is soon oblivious to everything around him. Wife would like to tell him many of the harrassiug afflictions of the day, and would like to hear some of his int resting experien ces, but if he were a deaf mute he could not be more silent, only an oc casional grunt answering her many at tempts at conversation; and the chil dren, except the goodnight kiss, and often not even that, are not noticed. Such a home, whether the abode of wealth or otherwise, cannot be a healthy and happy one. Asa parallel, draw around the evening lamp of an other home circle. The father tells the anecdotes from the paper as he reads them; mother laughs her sweet, low laugh, and the children burst into merry ha! ha’s ! To watch them as they ask questions, and listen to the answers and patient explanations, the wonderment, interest, and thought im printed on their young faces, is a pic ture for an artist. This home educa tion is a heritage more valuable than land or money; and one beautiful re compense in life is that in making others happy we briDg happiness to ourselves. Parents who practice self denial, and endeavor, by cheerful con versation and playful wit, to enliven home life will reap a rich reward in the better thoughts and nobler actions of their children, and will experience the truest and best contentment them selves.—-Balt. American. A Lively Railroad.— A correspon dent of the Chicago Times describes a uayrow-guage railroad in the Penn sylvania mining districts as follows: “It runs around in this mountain ous country with an abandon that is truly refreshing. It skips over hills and down precipices, dodges around big stumps, straddles deep gorges on hoop-pole stilts that twist and bend beneath is tread, and threaten to send the travellers 300 feet into eternal smash every moment; hangs by one foot on the side of the mountain’s stone walls, bends around curves like a contortionist, runs on the wheels of one side, bumps the cars around like a chop sea in the English channel, was completed in January, cost $40,000, cleared itself in three months, charges $1 for the trip, and is crowded with business. GATH SKETCHES HFNBKICKS. I formed an estimate of Mr. Hen dricks after hearing his speech, which you may take for what it is worth. I have been looking at him several years, in the Senate and elsewhere: A man admirable for a neighbor, for counsellor, and for a negative associ ate; worth very little for action, for high responsibility, or to say “No.” His appearance is pleasing, but neither refined nor magnetic. He woos you like the cat, by rubbing against you pleasingly, warming your legs, and making you say: “Tom, Tom, how nice and soft you are ! But why can’t we rub sparks out of your back in the dark?” Because, Tom, you are not a cat of that kind. Large, fattish cats that stay arouud home and never scratch nor stay out all night awaken at length the singular remark from little Johnny: “Mtv, why dou’t wo have kittens, too?” The temperament of Mr. Hendricks is not adapted to great sacrifices nor great mistakes. His school-fellows and law-students all like him, yet at 110 supreme moment of their careers did they ever see embodied iu him the fatherhood aud authority, the incision and lightning, which made them quail or honor him. Bred to politics aud descended from it, he has not imitated other heirs of statesmen like DeWitt Clinton, or Frank Blair, juu., or Mr. Pendleton in advancing new positions, expressing new indignations, or carry ing through minority to heroship any especial cause. He is Hendricks, the political favorite and old bells. His easy manners and respectable habits and address and nmbsputed honesty in fiscal things have always made him a successful bureau officer and Gover nor* His "training at the Bar has made graceful and pleasing Senator, apd, although never taking the brunt of any battle, and being always fortu nate in the tactical place he appeared to be at, he has invariably sustained himself by it mixture of legal clearness and courtesy. Such a man emphati- cally belongs in the Senate. I stilPro member his remaks at the conclusion of Andrew Johnson’s trial: “I ask my brother Senators what answer will they make to the people when they ask why we selected him for a sacrifice for doing just what was always recognized its right in his pro decessors. Upon my oath I can not strike such a blow. If wo drive him from the office and give it to a member of this body it does seem to me that we will do an act of such flagrant in justice aud cruelty as to bring upon our Leads the indignant condemnation of all just men, am’l this nnimpeach meat will .stand itself impeached before ,■ •'VL?•"It-L '* That is a typical sentence from Hen dricks at a strong period of his own career. “It does seem to me,” he says. Now, a first-class spirit would have had no seeming about such a fact. The impeachment trial was a piece of grand larceny, aud a Demo cratic Senator might as well have said: “It does seem to me that I see a Tuan stealing something yonder,” as to say that such an outrageous usurpa tion seemed to be what it was. If we had nothing to think about, nothing to advance to, no issues, and only quiet times, Mr. Hendricks would make as good a President as Frank Pierce. He would be respected and liked, and would greatly enrage the opposite party by his easy way of shooting rapids aud diving under dilemmas. We would be a widowed country, married to a fine old middle-aged wid ower; no jealousy between us; no pas sion;’nothing but “Dear Columby” and “Dear Tom,” and “which is your night cap, and which mine?” and “which has the frills on it?” Is that all ? Metliinks if I was such a widow I would have a young man or perish. If he was old he should occa sionally kick me out of bed, at least to show his spirit.. THE HENDRICKS FARM ARGUMENT. This is no business of mine, and still I linger around the pleasing subject like a terrier around a dead rat. Nothing was so much applauded that Hendricks said in his Manhattan Club speech as the argument about the farm. Hayes, he said, was defending the stealing of the Presidency by his good use of the office. As well might a man say that he had improved a stolen farm, but the great point was, how did he come by it ? Such analo gies are striking, but delusive. Aside from the propriety of a candidate for President accusing the incumbent of stealing, and aside from the obvious fact that Mr. Hayes took his office by no individual usurpation, but by a glacer-like movement aud displace ment beyond any one man’s control— one vast party crowding the other aside, and shoving up its accidental head. Aside from these things we come to the meat of the exact state ment. ‘Even if the Administration that is now in power shall take Democratic principles and undertake to build prosperity upon them, it can never gain the confidence aud heart of the American people.’ Then follows the farm illustration. Now, Jacob stole bis father’s bless ing; the children of Jacob stole the land of Canaan; the Duke of Norman dy stole the Saxon Kingdom; the Duke of Richmond stole King Richard’s realm; the Prince of Orange stole his royal father’s crown; the American people stole this continent from both the Indians and their English sover eigns; and, unless I mistake, the State of Indiana was hooked under especially rough circumstances. Possession is nine points of the law, and the only moral right man has in any thing is the argument that he improved it. Back in the title of all things is the worm of force or fraud. The usurers took the bait of craft; the stain of spoil is on all dominion. We can do no more than respect the possession that is, and put the universal test upon the title: ‘What will he do with it? Gath. ‘‘HOLD THE POUT.” ! East. Monday afternoon the eleven Boblink boys surrounded and caught, an enormous, shaggy, strong-smelling, wicked-looking goat, of the masculine gender, turned him loose in Burdock’s garden, nailed up the gate, and then went home and flattened their eleven little noses against the back windows to watch for coming events. Before his goatship had spent three minutes in that garden he had man aged to make himself perfectly at home, pulled down the clothes line and de voured two lace collars, a pair of uu dersleeves and striped stocking be longing to Mrs. 8., and was busily engaged sampling one of Burdock’s shirts when the servant girl came rushing out with a basket of clothes to hang up. The saints preserve us! she ex claimed, coming to a full halt and gazing open mouthed at the goat who was calmly munching away at the shirt. Shew ! shew'! shew there ! screamed the girl, setting down her basket, taking her skirts in both hands and shaking them violently toward the in truder. The goat, who evidently considered her movements in the light of a chal lenge, suddenly dropped his wicked old head and darted at her with the force of an Erie locomotive, and just one minute later by the city hall clock that girl had tumbled a back somer sault over the clothes basket and was crawling away on her bauds and knees in search of a place to die—accom panied by the goat, who butted her on the bustle ground every third second. It is probable he would have kept ou butting her for the next two weeks if Mrs. Burdock, who had been a wit ness of the unfortunate affair, had not armed herself with the family poker and hurried to her rescue. Merciful goodnes ! Aune, do get up on your feet! slio exclaimed, aiming a murderous blow at the beast’s head, and missing it by a few of the shortest kind of inches. It was not repeated, owing to tlio goat on* his hind feet waltzing towards her and striking her in the small of tlio back hard enough to loosen her linger nails and destroy her faith in a glorious immortality. When Mrs. B. returned to conscious ness, she crawled out from behind the grindstone where she had been tossed and made for the house, stopping only once, when the goat came after her, head first into the grape arbor. Once inside the house, the door was locked, and the unfortunates sought the solitude of their own rooms, and nuo.li comfort’ as they could extract from -''!r ,-uui growling, while the goat wandered around tho garden like Satan in the book of Job, seeking what he could devour, and the eleven little Boblink boys fairly hugged them selves with pleasure over ihe perform ance. By the time Burdock got home that evening and learned all the particulars from his arnica-soaked wife, the goat had eaten nearly all the week’s wash ing, hall the grape-vine and one side out of the clothes basket. Why in thunder didn’t you put him out, and not leave him there to de stroy every thing? he demanded an grily. Because he wouldn’t go, and I wasn’t going to stay there and be killed, that’s why, answered his wife excitedly. Wouldn’t fiddlesticks! ho exclaimed making for the garden, followed by the entire family. Get out of hei’e, you thief! he shouted as he came into the garden and caught sight of the shaggy and highly perfumed visitor. The goat bit off another mouthful of the basket, and regarded him with a mischievous twinkle of the eyes. You won’t go, hey ! exclaimed Bur dock, trying to kick a hole in the ene my’s ribs. I’ll show you wheth— The sentence was left unfinished, as the goat just then dropped his head on Burdock’s shirt bosom, and before he could recover his equilibrium he had been butted seven times in seven fresh spots, and was down on his knees crawling around in a very un dignified manner, to the terror of the family and the infinite glee of the elev en young Boblinks next door. Look out he don’t hurt you! screamed Mrs. Burdock, as the goat sent him flying into a soow pile. When Burdock had got his bald head out of the snow, he was mad all over his clothes, and tried to clutch the brute by the horns, but desisted after he’d lost two front teeth, and been rolled in the mud. Don’t make a living show of your self before the neighbors, advised his wife. Come in, pa, and let him be, begged his daughter. Golly, dad, look out lie’s cornin’ again ! shouted his son, enthusias tically. Then Burdock waxed profane, and swore three story oaths iu such rapid succession that his family held their breath, and a pious old lady, who lived iu a house in the rear, shut up her windows, and sent out the cook to hunt for a policeman or a missionary. Run for it, dad ! advised his sou'a moment later, when the goat’s atten tion seemed to be turned away. Burdock sprang fo his feet and fol lowed his offsprings suggestion. He was legging it. m superb style, and the chance of his reaching the bouse seemed excellent, when the fragrant; brute suddenly clapped on more steam, ! gained rapidly, and darting between his legs, capsized him into the ash-box I His family dragged him inside, an- | other candidate for rubbing arnica,and a blessed haven of rest. The back of the house has been her metically sealed, and Burdock now proposes extending an invitation to the militia regiments of Boston to come down and practice marksman ship off the roof, promising to furnish a live goat for a target, and a silver plated nankin ring as the first prize. The goat still holds the fort. CONDITION OF THE SOUTH. We have briefly considered in former articles the question of debts, of the apathy of the people of the South to take part in governmental affairs, and of the largo class of office seekers which afflict the country. Each of these three topics would afford mate rial for more than we could write, and you can afford to publish at this time. But we sincerely hope that those sub jects of thought will not he dismissed fu m the minds of the men who form the opinions which control, church and sb to. And in this connection, how much has the clergy of a country to answer for, not only as to the state of morality, but as to the material pro gress of a people. The pastor is brought into contact with almost every family in the laud. Mis public expo sition of the moral law, of the duties to God and our fellow man, of the ob servance of the Decalogue; in fact, his duties of a public teacher is the least of the works he is called upon to dis charge. He. is consulted in matters of family government, in the education of the children, in selecting pursuits for them in manhood, oftentimes in the management of business affairs and of pecuniary investment. Tho pastor should be a man of great wisdom, of much moderation, suavity of manner, and firmness of action. Ho must be no finger-board to point the way he never travels. Wo say with just pride that the clergy of the South, of every sect in religion, are worthy men. And this, we take it, is the highest enco mium which could he paid Southern society. NO. 28 Brethren of the clergy we beg of you it any widows ask your, advice as to the business her son should pursue, tell her to select the avocation in life which adds to tho productiveness of the country. Tell her, just now we need no more lawyers and doctors, no more knights of the yard stick, no more nice young men sitting in shady places and discussing the pleasure of a trip to the next Mardi Gras. But that we do need a few strikers to the “anvil chorus,” a few more good wheel-rights, a lot of good shoem liters on first class work, a full brigado of handsome youths between the plough handles, laying furrows straight as a bee line across a forty acre field. Such men will build up the waste places and cause the old red hills of Lee to blossom like the rose. Such meu will never be cheated by defaul ting county officers, they will always know where the money goes to for it is the product of their hard-handed labor. And they will see to it that the drones do not consume the food of the works of the hive. The watch-word of the South which will insure victory are labor and econ omy. Produce more and spend less. The process is simple; it does not need a patent to protect it; it possesses no novelty. It is plain matter of fact, but it is God s truth, and it is by this way alone the South will ever go up out of the wilderness and cross the Jordan into the land of prosperity. My young friend what have you ever produced ? If you are in health you consume a barrel and a half of flour, and two hundred and forty pounds of bacon in a year. We will take no ac count ol coffee, sugar, sweetmeats and delicacies. For every mouth that eats son:.: hand w.>ri, some foot ttv*.d< the furrow of toil; what hand w'rought for you ? what weary foot trod the dusty furrow under the blazing sun heat to provide your daily bread? Was it an aged father, toiling in the field, or counting room, or workshop ? or was it an aged mother, singing the weary “Song of the Shirt,” or worrying with day-boarders, or teaching a vil lage school, while you are deepening the color of your merchaum pipe, and in gayly colored dressing gown and cap and a pair of slippers embroidered by Eliza Jane quietly awaiting for “something to turn up?” If so, my dear young men, get up and go to work. Do some honest work to pay for your victuals and clothes. It may be more romantic to read Tennyson’s Break, break, break, but you had better break stones on a turnpike at a shilling a day than to break your old mother’s heart and your old father’s back by working for any such “a broth of a boy.” It is useless to be casting about for Sambo or Ah Sin to be a laborer for you. When we laid down the musket at Appomattox we had to take up the shovel and the hoe; “Old Ned’s gone where do good old niggers go,” and you have to hoe out old Uncle Ed ward’s row. You have let it get awful grassy, too, and that’s “just what’s the matter with Hannah.” Now, “to point the moral, and adorn the tale,” for such an illustration is an ornament, I close by relating a little incident. Last week I parted with a gentle man at the cars in Opelika, who was ou bis way to Pittsburg to select ma chinery for a manufactory of agricul tural implements to be added !o the many other industries of Columbus, Georgia. A little more than twenty years ago a mechanic arrived in Columbus, with a robust constitution, a stout heart, possessing a good trade and fifty cents in money. He expended half his capi tal for supper, but was too cautious to order a bed. The next day he got work—such men always find work. Ho labored on, commanding the esteem of his associates. To-day he is one of the foremost men of this city and superin tendent of the Columbus Iron Works. —Opelika Observer. Permanent Silver Mines. —ln h s treatise on silver mines, Fuller says: ‘Wherever in any part of tne world silver mines have been worked, they are worked now, uuless from war, in vasion of Indians, etc. We know of no silver mining regions in the world that have given out. Mexican mines worked by the Aztecs before the con quest by Cortez are still worked as profitably as ever; the old Spanish mines, opened long before Hannibal’s time, are still worked with enormous profits; the. South American mines have constantly yielded their wealth for more than three hundred years, and are as productive as ever; mines in Hungary that were worked by the Ro mans before the Savior’s time, still yield abundance ore; the silver mines !of Freiburg, opened in the eleventh I century and worked continually ever ! since, yield their steady increase. So j in Norway, Sweden, and Russia, and | indeed wherever silver mines have i been opened, we belieie without ex | ception, they continue to be worked at the present day, and generally are more productive than at any time in their past history.’