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The Gainesville Eagle.
VOL. XU.
The Gainesville Eagle.
Published Every Friday Morning
CAREY W. STYLES,
Editor and Proprietor.
Terms—Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.
OFFICE
V p-4t>l r in Candler Hall Building,
Northwest Comer of Pnblie Square.
Thu Official Orn of Hall, Banka, White,
Town*, Union and Dawcon couutiee, and the city of
Gainesville. Has a large general circulation in twelve
other counties in Northeast Georgia, and two coun
ties in Western North Carolina.
Advertising Rates in Gainesville Eagle :
1 Inch - 1 Time SI.OO 1 Mo. $2.00 8 Mos. $4.00 6 Mos. $6.00
2 “ “ 2.00 “ 3.50 “ 6.00 “ 10.00
3 “ - “ 2.50 “ 5.00 “ 8.00 “ 18.00
4 “ “ 3.00 “ 6.00 lO.OO “ 16.00
i Column “ 4.50 “ 9.00 “ 17.00 “ 25.50
i “ “ 8.00 “ 15.00 “ 27.00 “ 45.00
1 “ “ 12.50 “ 25.00 “ 50.00 “ 75.00
i Column, 1 year, S4O. £ Column, 1 year, S7O. 1 Column, 1 year, $l2O
Liberal local notices without charge. Local Dodgers, 10 cents per
line. These are lowest cash rates, and will in no case be reduced. All
; bills due after first insertion, unless special contract to the contrary be made.
REVISED RATES
Fur Legul Adverlisldg in the Engle.
From, and including this date, the rates of
lepd advertising in the Eagle will be as fol
lows :
Sheriff’s sales for each levy of 1 loch (2 50
K>ch additional inch or less - - 2 60
Mortgage sales (Go days) one inch • - 6 00
Kaoh additional inch or less ... 3 00
A.dm’r’s, Ex’r's.Guard’n’s sales, 4 weeks, 1 inch 4 00
Each additional Inch .... 2 60
Notice to debtors and oreditors - - 4 00
Glut's for let’rs of adtn'n or guard’ns'p (4 wks) 400
Leave to sell real estate - - - 4 00
Let’rs of dlsm’n of adm’n or guard'n (3 mo.) 6 00
Kstray notices 4 00
Citations (unrepresented estates) - 4 00
Bale nisi in divorce cases - - - 6 00
Homestead Exemption, 2 weeks, - - 2 00
Buie Nisi to foreclose, monthly 4 mos., per in. 400
The law authorizes County Officers to col
lect advertising fees in advance, and they are
held responsible if they fail to do so.
Notices of Ordinaries calling attention of adminis
trators, executors and guardians to making their an
nual returns; and of Sheriffs In regard to provisions
sections 3649, of the Code, published eree for the
■Sheriffs and Ordinaries who patronize the Eagle.
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
JUDICIARY.
Hon. George D. Rice, Judge S. 0. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. B. M. Wluburu, Ordinary.
John L. Gaines, Sheriff.
J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff.
J. J. Mayne, Clerk Superior Court.
N. B. Clark, Tax Collector.
J. B. H. Luck, Tax Receiver.
Gldeou Harrison, Surveyor.
Bdward Lowry, Coroner.
B. 0. Young, Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. H. 8. Bradley, Mayor.
Aldermen—Dr. H. J. Long, W. B. Clements, T. A.
Panel, W. H. Henderson, W. G. Henderson, T. M.
Merck.
A. B. 0. Dorsey, Clerk.
J. B. Boone, Treasurer.
T - . N. liauie, Marshal.
Henry Perry, City Attorney.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Pkrhhytkrian Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland, Pas
tor. Preaching every Sabbath—moruiug and night,
txoept the second Sabbath. Su day School at 9a. m.
ifrayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o'clock.
Methodist Church —Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday
■ohool at 9a. in. Prayer meeting Wednesday night.
Baptist Church Rev. W. 0. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaohing Sunday morning and night. Sunday
■ohool at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Thursday evening
•t 4 o'olook.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
J. B. Estes, President.
Henry Perry, Librsrian.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President.
R. C. Maddox, Vico President.
W. B. Clements, Secretary.
Bsgnlar services every Sabbath evening at one of
the Churches. Cottage prayer meeting* every Tues
day night in “Old Town,’’ and Friday night near the
depot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowrbt Branch Lodge No. 79,1. O. O. TANARUS., meets
every Monday night, Joel Laseter, N. G.
B. F. Stedham, Sec.
Allrshany Royal Arch Chaptes meets on the Sec
ond and Fourth Tuesday evenings iu each month,
rt. 8. Bradley, Seo.’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.'. F. - . M. - ., meets
on the First and Third Tuesday evening in the month
B. Palmour, Bec’y. R. E Green, W. M.
Air-Lini Lodge, No. 64, I. O. O. F., meets every
Friday evening.
0. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G.
GAINESVILLE FOST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlanta
and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following will
be the schedule from date:
Mall train No. 1, going east, leaves 7:47 p. m.
Mall for his train closes at 7:00 “
Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves 8:35 a.m.
Ho mall by this train.
Mail train No. 1, going west, leaves 6:51 a. m.
Mail for this train closes at 9:30 p. m.
Mail train No. 2, going west, leaves 9:05 p. m.
Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “
Office hours from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p m.
General delivery open on Sundays from B>4 to 9>i-
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlonega and Gilmer county, daily B>f s. m
Dahlonega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday 8)4 a. m
Jefferson k Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes
vllle, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawson ville and Dawson county, Saturday 8 a. m
Homer, Banks county, Saturday ..I p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday 1 p. m
neasaniL a M. R. ARCHER, P.M.
NORTHEASTETN RAILROAD!
Change of Schedule.
SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE, )
Athens, Ga , Sept. 29, 1877.}
/~VN and after Monday, October Ist, 1877, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows.
All trains daily except Sunday :
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Athens 2:35 a. m.
Arrive at Lu1a..... . 4:50 “
Arrive at Atlanta, (via Air Line R. R.) 8:35 “
Leave Lula ...5:45 *■
Arrive at Athens...... - 8:15 “
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Athens - 4:00p. m
Arrive at Lula 6:30
Leave Atlanta (via Air Line R. R.) 4:00 **
Leave Lula. 7:15 “
Arrive at
Close connection wtLula with passenger trains on
Air Line Ra lroad. J. M. EDWARDS,
Superintendent.
Ejy. FRESHMAN & BROS.,
Advertising Agents,
io w. Fourth st., CINCINNATI, 0.,
Are authorized to contract for advertising in thi
frj?" Xetimatea fnrnianed free. Send for a circular
Devoted to Politics, News of the Day, The Farm Interests, Home Matters, and Choice Miscellany.
><D r TUTT’S 1
.mXPECTORANTj
Is the most genial balsam ever used by
sufferers from pulmonary diseases.
It is composed of herbal products, which
have a specific effect on the throat aisof
lungs; detaches from the air cells all ir
ritating matter; causes it to be expecto
rated, and at once checks the inflammation
which produces the cough. A single dose
relieves the most distressing paroxysm,
soothes nervousness, and enables the suf
ferer to enjoy (inlet rest at night. Being a
pleasant cordial, it tones the weak stom
ach, and is specially recommended for
children. _
What others say about
~ TutVs Expectorant .
Had Asthma Thirty Years,
Baltimore, February 3,1875.
44 1 have had Asthma thirty years, and never fouad
a niedieme that had such a happv effect.**
W. F. HOGAN, Charles Si.
A Child's Idea of Merit.
New Orleans, November 11, 1876.
“Tutt’s Expectorant is a familiar name in my house.
My wife thinks it the best medicine in the world,
and the children say it is ‘nicer than molasses
candy.*’* NOAH WOODWARD, 101 N. Poydras 81.
“Six, and all Croupy.”
“I am the mother of six children; all of them have
been croupy. Without Tutt’s Expectorant, 1 don t
think they could have survived some of the attacks.
It is a mother’s blessing.”
MARy BTEVENS, Frankfort, Ky.
A Doctor's Advice.
1 ' In my practice, 1 advise all families to keep Tutt’s
Expectorant, in sudden emergencies, for coughs
croup, diphtheria, etc.”
T. P. ELLIS, M.D., Newark, N. J.
Sold by nil druggists. Price SI.OO. Office
35 Murray Street, New York.
mWm
LI K I
“THE THEE IS KHOWH BV ITS FRUIT."
*• Tutt’sPill-! are worth their weightin gold.”
REV. I. Louisville, Ky.
** Tutt’s Pills are a "specTaT*blessing of the nine
teenth century.’’— REVALß. OSGOOD, New York.
‘ I have used Tutt’ rpnir?or torpor of the liver.
They are superior to any medicine for biliary dis
orders ever made.”
I P. CARR, AHorneyal Law, Augusts, Ga.
* I have used years in my family.
They are unequaled for costiveness and biliousness.”
F. R. WILBO£L Georgetown, Texas.
‘‘l have used Tutt’s with great benefit.”
W. W. MANN, Editor Mobil* Register.
•’We sell fifty boxeTrutt's Pills to five of all
others ’’—SAYRE & Ga.
‘"Tutt’s Pills have be tried to establish
their merits. They work like magic.”
W. H.
*’ There is no medicine so well adapted to the cure
of bilious disorders as Tutt’s Pills.”
JOS. BRUMMEL, Richmond, Virginia.
AND A THOUSAND MORE.
Sold by druggists. 95 cents a box. Office
35 Murray Street, New York.
TUTTS HAIR DYE
INDORSED.
HIGH TESTIMONY. i
FROM THE PACIFIC JOURNAL.
has heen^a^,^,T ß . ,^f T N OTew rk, B
which restores youthful beauty to the hair.
That eminent chemist has succeeded In
producing a Hair Dve which Imitates
nature to perfection. Old bachelors may
now rejoice.”
Price SI.OO. Office 35 Murray St.,
New York. Sold by all druggists.
Ayer’s Ague Cure,
For Fever and Ague, Intermittent Fever,
Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague,
Periodical or Bilious Fever, &c., and indeed
all the Directions which arise from malari
ous, marsh, or miasmatic poisons.
This is a compound remedy, prepared with
scientific skill from vegetable ingredients, which
rarely fails to cure the severest cases of Chills
and Fever and the concomitant disorders. Such
a remedy the necessities of the people in mala
rious districts demand. Its great superiority
over any other medicine yet discovered for the
cure of Intormittcnts is, that it contains no qui
nine or mineral, and those who take it are free
from danger of quinism or any injurious effects,
and are as healthy after using it as before. It
has been extensively employed during the last
thirty years in the treatment of these distressing
disorders, and so unvarying has been its success
that it has gained the reputation of being infal
lible. It can, therefore, be safely recommended
as a sure remedy and specific for the Fever and
Ague of the West, and the Chills and Fever of
the South. Itlcounteracts the miasmatic poison
in the blood, and frees the system from its influ
ence, so that lever and ague, shakes or chills,
once broken up by it, do not return until the
disease is again contracted.
The great variety of disorders which arise from
the irritation of this poison, such as Neuralgia,
Rheumatism, Gout, Headache, Blindness,
Toothache, Kurache, Catarrh, Asthma, Pal
pitation, Splenic Affections, Hysterics, Pain
in the Bowels, Colic, Paralysis, and derange
of the Stomach, all of which become intermit
tent or periodical, have no speedier remedy than
Ayer’s Aoue Cure, which cures them all alike,
and protects the system from future attacks. As
a preventive, it is of immense service in those
communities where Fever and Ague prevails, ns
it stays the development of the disease if taken
on tli q first approach of the premonitory symp
toms. Travellers and temporary residents are
thus enabled to defy these disorders, and few
will ever suffer if they avail themselves of the
protection this remedy affords.
For Liver Complaints, arising from torpidity,
it is an excellent remedy; it stimulates this organ
into healthy activity, and produces inauy remark
able cures where other medicines fail.
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Cos.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
LO H ELL, MASS.
BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
K. L. BOONE, Agent, Gainesville, Ga.
We sell EVERY i lIING fob the
GARDEN,
And offer NOW (from June 15 to August 15):
Celery Plants.
Dwarf White, by mail, for - - - SI.OO per 100
Large White Solid, per mail, for - 1.00 “ 100
Dwarf Red, “ - .1 00 “ 100
Any of the above Celery Plants, by express, for
$5.00 per 1,000.
Cabbage Plants.
Premium Flat Dutch, by mail, for SI.OO per 100
Drumhead Savoy “ “ 1.00 “ 100
Red (for pickliug] “ “ 1,00 •* 100
Any of the above Cabbage Plants, by express,
for $4.00 per 1,000.
Catsllflovvei- Plants.
Early Erfurt, by mail, for - - $1.25 per 100
Early Pans. “ “ 1.25 “ 100
Ary of the above Cauliflower Plants, by express,
for $7.50 per 1,000.
4%. Special prices for larger quantities given
on application.
Turnip Seed.
Any of the following leading sorts sent by mail
for 10c. per oz.—2sc. per i 4 ' lb—7sc. per lb.
Early White Dutch—White Strap Leaf—Red Top
Strap Leaf—Golden Ball—lmproved American
Ruta Bags.
PETER HENDERSON & CO.,
Seedsmen and Florists*
aug3-ly 35 Cortlandt Bt., N. Y.
Dropsy Cured.
I will ga arantee a care in every variety an
form of Dropsy, after examining patients.
A. J. Shaffer, M. D., Gainesville.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FEIDAY^AfOENING. FEBKUAHY 1, 1878.
The JSoul Education—Teachers—Tax-
Rain—Worm.
Editor Gainesville Eagle :
Without education either by books,
orally, or sympathetic, the man is still
above all others of the animal creation,
because he has a soul. God breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life, and
he became a living soul. Hence, man
lives on the breath of God, and there
fore, is a part of God. Education ex
pands the soul. When pleased, it is
the soul that rejoices; when troubled,
it is the soul that sorrows. In pain
the soul suffers. Work the man in
the chain gang, and his soul is enchain
ed. Hang the man up by the neck,
and you hang his soul. In the brain
and nervous system, is where the soul
lives. It travels through this rail road
at the speed of tea thousand lighten
ings, but you cannot see it. The vi
bration is like ten thousand thunders,
but you cannot hear it. Divide the
spinal marrow and the soul will never
travel past the solution of continuity.
Injure the railroad so that the soul
cannot travel and it is gone home to
God. When one man swindles anoth-
er, cheats or wrongs him, in any man
ner, it is the soul that is imposed up
on. When a man is made drunk, it is
the soul that is intoxicated. It is ed
ucation that exhalts the soul Tne
body is consumed by worms. The
worm that consumes the body is about
a half inch long, a thick, tough mag
got, will bounce, should it fall on the
floor, and requires considerable pres
sure of the boot to kill it. and is repug
nant to the sight, more so than any
other worm.
The soul lives forever. How neces
sary it is then for all to have this bles
sing of education, at least a share of it.
Wait for the heathen to smead the
gospel and it will never be heard.—
Wait for the uneducated to educate
the masses, and they will forever re
main in the dark. Christians must
spread the gospel, and the educated
must educate the world, or it will nev
er be done, and Georgia must educate
her youth. To do this she must have
a better system of public instruction
than she has.
No State can carry on a system of
education without money, and all mon
eys must coma out of the pockets of
the peip’e, :.n l it must come, in the
shape of tax, voluntarily, or involun
tarily. Bat there is a difference in a
school district’s receiving its own tax
and paying it out for its own benefit and
sending it off and letting it come back,
through a parcel of tithers, getting a
return of ten cents on the dollar. A
tax of five mills on the dollar, with the
poll tax and ether resources, will keep
schools open in every district in the
State several months in the year, if
judiciously applied and not stolen, and
pay good teachers over twenty dollars
a mouth.
No city, town or county, has the
moral right to tax the people to build
school houses, or colleges, and then so
fix it that the poor man, after paying
his tax to build the house, cannot send
his children to school on account of
high charges iu school. Neither have
they the moral right to appropriate
such free of rent to any teacher free of
charge for the benefit of themselves,
thereby taking the poor or unfortu
nate man’s tax money and giving him
no showing at all for his hard earned
tax money. I have read in the papers
that Gov. Smith took tha big wad of
money and handed it over to Athens,
instead of sharing it around. And
Gainesville must imitate Gov. Smith,
and give to the College, so called, all
the money and let the teachers of Sem
inaries or schools pay their own rent,
besides make them pay tax to furnish
the other one a school house rent free.
If the teachers of the other schools
were inferior teachers it would be a
different thing, but they are not - —
This may look all right to a man
blind in one eye, but to the teacher
it looks like riving shingles to go on
another man’s house, and keeping
yonr own family out in the rain.
THE MUD SILL OF A SYSTEM OF PUBLIC IN
STRUCTION.
A good school law.
A Superintendent of Com. Schools.
All the school appropriations to be
thrown into the State Treasury and
eubject only to the draft of the Super
intendent of Common Schools.
A school clerk.
The State laid off into school dis
tricts. Every militia district to be a
school district. Each district to be
governed by a board of six directors
elected by the people annually, and to
serve for nothing, like the old inferior
court. This board to have a President,
Secretary and Treasurer in its own
body.
These men should build their own
school houses and have the power to
call every man in the district to help.
Have plenty of light and comfortable
seats for the children, Then let the
board assess a small tax and send on
their certificate to the Superintendent,
and draw their part of the State appro
priation. Employ their own teachers,
open their own schools, and pay the
highest salaries they can afford. Then
let them go ahead visiting the schools
frequently, and they will soon find out
what else they need. This is the start
or the mud sill. Progress.
IS TIIERK A HELL 1
Rev. Dc-Titt Talmage stands by the Bible
and the Bible’s Hell.
Rev. Dr. Talmage on Sunday he
13th, preached on hell, in which ho hot
ly believes. His text was: “Thus
saith the Lord.” taken from eight
different passages and repeated eight
different times. He said it made very
little difference what De Witt Talmage.
thinks on the subject of hell, or Dean
Stanley, or Canon Farrar, or Mr.
Frothingharn thinks, for they were
never in the eternal world. He cast
aside all human authority. There is
only one being who can tell whether
hell exists, and that is God.
“I 6tart out,” he continued, “with
the assumption that the Bible is true.
If any body chooses to deny that, I
will argue with them some other Sab
bath. It being granted there is a
God, and that he is good. He gave
some revelation or guide to man.
What is that revelation ? Is it Shak
speare, or Josephus, Rollins’ history or
the Koran? If any body can poim
out a better book than the Bible I will
preach from it. It is easy to deny,
but denials never amount to any thing.
“I have no sympathy with a flippant
discussion of the subject of hell. It,
should be approached, not in a spirit
of criticism, but as a measure of pres
ent safety. We should find out what
the only authority worth anything
says about it. In Matthew is the
statement: ‘The angel shall come forth
to separate the wicked from the just,
and shall cast them into a furnace of
lire.’ What is the use of trying to ex
plain away the furnace of fire when
they are there? If th 9 statement is
wrong, it is the Almighty who has
made a mistake. Paul says: ‘The
Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be re
vealed from heaven with mighty an
gels in flames of fire, taking ven
geance on those that know not Go i’
John says: ‘They shall be tormented
with lire and brimston", and they
have their part in a lake which burn
etii with tire and brimstone, and they
shall both be cast into a .Jake of fire
and brimstone.’ Christ says: ‘De
part from me ye cursed into everlast
ing fire.’
“But it may be claimed that all
this is figurative. I am not opposed
to saying that it may be so; but if
there is not to be fire, rfigre. is_to ba
something as severe as tire—torments
unmitigated. I prefer God’s com
parison because I know God to be
right. God says: ‘Fire, and furnace.’
He may mean them literally. The
Bible says ‘tire’ sixteen times; and
says we shall be plunged into it, ex
cept on one condition. Those who
wont believe this should, at least, be
consistent enough, and pitch their
B bles into the stove or the East river
Oat of cne hundred sermons ninety
eight are on the love, mercy and
kindness of God; and if a minister
preach two on the indignation of God
he is called sulphuric. Our preaching
needs reconstruction. So recreant
are our ministers that the people
don’t know that the Bible speaks
more frequently of the wrath of God
than of His love. If God
angry He would be imbecile.
“The Bible speaks twenty-eight
times of God’s love, and sixty one
times of his wrath and indignation.
God says fifty-six times in his most
stupendous way, that there is a bell
burning now. I say it is probable
that there are some in this house to
day who will spend eternity in that
lost world. Nothing but the hand
of au insulted, outraged, indig
nant God seeks this whole audience
from sliding into it. But there is no
more need to go to it than to jump
into the Geysers of California or the
crater of Cotopaxi. Gentlemen of the
press, tell them that I say there is no
need for any one to go there.
“The Lord Jesus Christ, by one
magnificent stroke, made it posiblc
for all to be saved. He not only told us
that there was a hell but he went into
it. He put his foot into the hotest
hole of its darkest furnace. It is
cheap to be saved. It won’t cost as
much as a loaf of bread. If a man
has his choice of heaven or hell, I ask
you as common-sence men and women
if he dosn’t deserve to be lost. God
knows that I never prayed over any
sermon as I have this. Yet how pow
erless I am to make you see the truth
as you will see when the front gate
of eternity opens to your spir
its.”
An Argument for Remonetization
A correspondent of the Griffin News
thus clearly, emphatically and unan
swerably puts the case: “Barrels of
silver are now sent south by Wall
street to move the cotton crop. This
silver is bought by the Wall street op
erators at niuety-three cents in the
dollar. The cotton producer takes it
at par. The farmers sell a bale of cot
ton for fifty dollars in silver and
thinks he has got fifty dollars. But
he hasn’t got, in fact, but forty six
dollars and a half. But you say the
farmers buy gold for it at par. Don’t
you suppose the merchants that sell
to him have sense enough to set a suf
ficient per cent, on his goods to cover
the discount on the silver he receives
for them ? As matters now stand, if
all cur cotton were paid for in silver the
south would lose over fourteen mil
lions per annum. Georgia’s share
would be over two millious, or more
than enough to defray all the expenses
of the state government and the
interest on her bonded debt. Yet
Ben Hill is in favor of the money ty
rant.”
“Jane, it is eleven o’clock- Tell
that young man to please close the
door from the outside.”
THE AMERICAS HOLLAR.
Its History from 1771 to the Present
Time.
The following is the history of the
“dollar” hr this poun’ry from its estab
lishment by the Colonial Government
to the present time.
The. Congress of the Confederation
by act passed xAug. Bth, 1776, and Or
dinance passed Oct. 16, 1776, authori
zed and established as “the unit of ac
count, ’’ a silver dollar, to contain 375,-
64 grains of, pure silver, but none of
these coins,were ever made.
The "Constitution of the
States was adopted Sept. 17, 1787. On
the subject of money it provides as fol
lows; “Congress, shall have power to
coin money and regulate the value
thereof, and of foreign coin,” also that
“no State‘shiilP’coin money, emit bills
of credit, or make anything but gold
and stiver cuius u tender in payment of
debts,” thereby plainly reserving this
latter right to Congress
Now commences the history of the
Dollar under ihe present' Government:
The act of April 2, 1792 provides
for;“dollars, or units” which shall con
tain 371,25 grains of pure, or 416
grains of sun lard "silver. It al
so- declares 'that every fifteen pounds
weight of pure-silver, shall be of equal
value in ail payments with one pound
weight ot pure gold;.that the money of
account in the United States shall be
expressed in. or units” and
decimals thereof, it creates gold coins,
which are enumerated as oilows, Ea
gle*, Half eagles,,' and Quarter eagles,
the value of which it expresses in “dol
lars or units.” It does not provide for
a goid dollar.
The act of Feb. 9, 1793, declares
that all foreign coins except Spanish
milled dollars shall cease to be a legal
tender.
The act of April 10, 1806, establishes
rates at which certain foreign gold and
silver coins shah pass current as mon
ey and be a legal tender for the pay
ment of debts
The act of June 25, 1834, the
silver dollars of Mexico, Petu, Chili,
and Central America a legal tender
when weighing 415 grains each.
The act oi Jaawary. 18, 1837, pro
vides that “The standard for both gold
aud silver coins of the United States
shall hereafter be such that of one
thousand parts by weight uine hun
dred shall be of pure metal, and one
hundred of alloy, and the alloy* of sil
ver coins shall be of copper, and the
alloy of the gold coins shall be of cop
per and silver, provided that the silver
do not exceed one half the alioy.” It
tnen fixes the weight of the silver dol
lar at 412* grains. 900 fitffi, and the
snlmilrli.i.ry ailve.' einuis in proportion;
to wit. a dime 41 1 4 grains: It then
declares that all the silver coins, from
dollars to. half dimes shall be legal ten
ders of payment according to their
nominal value for any sums whatever,
after which it makes the same provis
ion respecting the gold eagle, half ea
gle, and quarter eagle, that they shall
be a legal tender for all sums.
The act of March 3, 1849, provides
for the first coinage of two new gold
coins, the Double eagle and the gold
.dollar, both to be a legal tender for ad
sums, and to be of the respective val
ua of “twenty dollars or units,” and
“one dollar or unit.” This is the first
gold dollar.
The act of March 3, 1851, created a
new silver coin to be of the legal value
of three cents, aud to. be a legal tender
for all sums of thirty cents and under.
The act of Feb. 21, 1853, red ices the
weight of the subsidiary silver coins
from the half dollars down, and limits
their legal tender function to sums not
exceeding five dollars. It also creates
anew gold coin, to be of the value of
“three dollars, or units.”
The act of Feb, 21, 1857, repeals all
former acts which, made foreign goid
or silver coin a legal tender.
The act of April 22, 1864, makes the
one cent coin a legal tender to the
amount of ten cents, and the two cent
coin for twenty cents.
The act of March 3, 1865, provides
for a three cent piece of copper and
nickel, which shall be a legal tender to
the amount of sixty cents, and limits
the legal tender function of the one
and two cent pieces to sums not ex
ceeding four cants.
The act of May 16, 1866, creates a
five cent coin of nickel and copper, and
makes it a legal tender to the amount
of one dollar
The act of March 3, 1871, provides
“that the Secretary of the Treasury is
required to redeem in lawful money,
all copper, bronze, copper-nickel, and
base metal coinage, of every kind hith
erto authorized bv law: when present
ed in sums of not less than twenty
dollars.
•The act of Feb. 12, 1873, (common
ly known as the Demonetizing act,)
provides that “the gold dollar of the
UNITED STATES OF TWENTY-FIVE AND EIGHT
TENTHS GRAINS SHALL BE THE UNIT OF VAL
UE.” It creates the trade dollars of
420 grains weight, 000 fine; and
changes the weight of the half dollar,
quarter dollar, and dime, by the use of
too French word “Gram,” making the
half dollar 124 Grams, which is said to
be about 164 grains (Troy) although
according to Webster a gram is one
twenty-fourth of an ounce, is silent
about the grain dollar, and the
half dime; aiid reduces the legal ten
der function of all silver coins of the
United States to sums not exceeding
five dollars.
The act of March 3, 1873, declares
the legal value of the English Pound
Sterling, shall be deemed equal to four
dollars, eighty six ceuts and six and
one half mills, and ail contracts made
after the first day of January 1874
based on an assumed par ot exchange
with Great Britain of fifty-four cents
and four-ninths cent to the sovereign
or pound sterling, shall be null and
void.
The act of March 3, 1875, creates a
silver coin of twenty cents, containing
five grams, and makes it a legal tender
to the amount of five dollars.
Tne act of July, 13, 1876, especially
DEMONETIZES THE TRADE DOLLAR OF 450
grains, 900 fine, in the following words,
“That the Trade dollar shall not here
after boa legal tender, and the Secre
tary of the Treasury is hereby author
ized to limit from time to time the
coinage thereof to such an amount as
be may deem sufficient to meet Ihe ex
po: t demand for the same.
This brings the question of what is
and what was a dollar down to the
present time.
WILD LANDS.
Suspension of Executions —lmportant Cor
respondence.
The following letter of Comptroller
General Bell, and the order of Govern
er Bullock, will be of some interest at
this time. Certainly our next legisla
ture will be composed of men able and
honest enough to dispose of this ques
tion properly, and we trust that our
present Executive will stay the illega
and injurious sales now progressing,
until the meeting of the General As
sembly:
COMPTROLLER OFFICE,
Atlanta, July 20, 1871.
To His Excellency, Rufus B. Bullock,
Governor, &c., Atlanta, Ga.
Sir: Notwithstanding I have twice
recommended to the Gen ral Assern
by, the repeal of the law known as
the “Wild Land Act,” and have once
recommended your Excellency to sus
pend the enforcement of it until the
Ist day of July, instant, I feel it still
to be a duty which I owe to the citi
zens of the State, again, respectfully,
to recommend your Excellency to sus
pend the issuing ef executions against
the wild lands on which taxes remain
due and unpaid, until the meeting of
the General Assembly.
For some of the reasons which
prompt me to make this recommenda
tion, I ask your consideration of the
following suggestions.
1. Many of those lands belong to
widows and orphans who are ignorant
.of their rights and duties under this
law.
2. Many honest, upright citizens who
have all their lives been accustomed to
return their lands by giving the aggre
gate number of acres without regard
to number, district, or section, now
rest in conscious security, feeling that
they have done all they should be re
quired to do. Not knowing the re
quirements of law, they feel indignant
that tbeir lands are returned as in de
fault, when they have paid the taxes
due on them.
3. Many persons own one or more
lots of land, and nothing else, an i be
cause two hundred dollars worth of
property is exempt to cetoh tax-payer,
except non-residents and defaulters,
they conclude that they are not requir
ed to return, nor pay taxes upon their
lands.
4. Tho title papers of many persons
have been lost or destroyed, and they
have forgotton the numbers, districts,
aud sectfons of their land, and cannot
give these designations, but they have
in many instances given in and paid on
the lauds.
5. I*' the sales were made as requir
ed by the act, owners have the right to
redeem them in two years, by paying
the purchase money with costs, or by
producing the satisfactory evidence of
title to the Comptroller General. This
would make the Comptroller General’s
office a tribunal in which to determine
titles to land.
The inevitable consequence would
be great trouble and confusion, since
it is not unfrequently the case, that
two, three, and in some cases, four
persons pay tax upon and claim titles
to the same lot of land; moreover, in
my opinion, the courts alone should
have the right to decide upon the gen
uineness of laud titles.
6. If these lands were brought to sale,
land speculators would form rings and
cliques to purchase them, and these
lands would pass from the hands of
the innocent and unwary to the pos
session of speculators for merely nomi
nal sums, inadequate, perhaps, to pay
the taxes; and thus the sale of these
lands would inure to the benefit of
real estate dealers, without benefiting
fhe State or materially increasing her
revenues.
It is a difficult matter to impress up
on the Receivers of tax returns the im
portance of making complete and ac
curate re'urns of the unreturned wild
lands in their respective counties.
Hence if sales were made now they
would embrace only those lands which
have been advertised, which lie in
some forty counties, while the unre
turned lands in the other counties
would remain unsold, giving the own
ers of them advantages over others
only because Receivers have not made
returns of the lands not given in, in
their respective counties.
These, together with the reasons
which I have heretofore made known
to your Excellency, and which still
exist in all their former force, are
some of the considerations which, in
my judgement, shall cause the issuing
of executions to be suspended.
Respectfully,
Madison Bell,
Comptroller General,
Executive Dep’t., State of Georgia,
Atlanta, Ga , August 9, 1871.
Iu consideration of the recommen
dation of the Honerable the Comp
ler General, and by virtue of the au
thority vested in me by section 70 of
the revised Code of Georgia, it is here
by.
Ordered, That the comptroller
General desist from the issuing of ex
ecutions against unreturned wild
lands untill the next meeting of the
General Assembly.
Rufus B. Bullock.
By the Governor:
R. H. Atkinson, Sec’t. Ex. Dep’t.
A school inspector visiting a school
said, “Now, children, who loves all
men ?” The question was hardly put
before a little four year old girl an
swered “All women.”
KILLING THE SILVER BILL.
Dark Rumors That Couie From Washing
ton.
[Washington Special to N. Y. Graphic.]
From the talk here it is evident that
the gold people think they have bribed
a sufficient number of Congressmen in
the Senate and House to kill the Silver
bill for the present. The Congress
men who have been “seen” will, of
course, be “in favor of silver,” but they
will fight over some of the minor is
sues. They will object to this or that
feature of the Bland bill, and by the
arts so well known to Congressmen and
lawyers will so befuddle and delay mat
ters as to practically give us no useful
legislation during the early part of the
year. The time may come when the
great credit interests will be willing to
have silver remonetized—when, in
short, it will again inflate prices. Af
ter the moneyed interests have secured
possession of a sufficient quantity of
staple property in the 'way of houses,
lands, railroads, manufactures aud the
like, they may see that it will be to
their advantage to bull the market and
put prices up again. But for the pres
ent they are very well satisfied at the
comfortable way in which business men
are being bankrupted and their pos
sessions turned over to them.
It is understood here that one of the
investigations to be undertaken under
the provisions of Fernando Wood’s
resolution is touching the money
spent by the Syndicate and the credit
or interest upon the press and upon
Congressmen. There is some doubt
as to whether $3,000,000 or $5,000,000
was spent to secure the passage of the
act declaring the public debt payable
in coin. The contract with the bond
holders called for lawful money —i. e.,
greenbacks—but a knavish clamor
concerning “repudiation” was raised
by the Eastern press, and the cry was
started that the nation was to be dis
honored; and under the pressure pro
duced by this action, the coin act was
passed—which was a present to the
bondholders of some $600,000,000
more than their bargain called for.
The present hullaballo about silver is
a repetition of the tactics of 1869.
Advertising.
The Evening Bulletin, of Baltimore,
published the following “true canons
of advertising:”
I. All men in business must adver
tise in some way. All men in busi
ness do advertise, somehow.
II Newspapers afford the best gen
eral medium.
111. The object of advertising is
TO-byi-pg- buyer vm’d-’-wefesr -fco -
gether—successful advertising must,
therefore, do three things.
A. Be intelligible aud explicit as to
the things on sale.
B. It must reach the class likely to
buy.
C. It must persuade them that it
will be to their advantage to come and
buy.
IY. The interest of seller, buyer
and advertising medium are mutual.
V. Sellers, buyers and newspapers
are all three equally interested in
sustaining this mutual relation.
YI. The common notion of patron
age as regards newspapers is falla
cious. As ali persons are buyers, all
sellers should be advertisers. As
nearly all persons are sellers, all buy
ers should take newspapers—in both
cases for their own sake, not the
newspaper’s sake.
VII. The profit of well conducted
newspapers is a measure of the busi
ness prosperity of a community. We
all thrive together by contributing to
the support of one another.
This is truth in a nutshell, and
needs but a line or two to make it
perfect, to-wit: Nearly every succesful
business raau in the country who has
made a large fortune in trade has
been a liberal advertiser in the news
papers.
Hard Money Men Stand Up.
A working man wants you to stand
up and answer the following interoga
tories:
1. What would one ounce of gold be
worth if gold was a “legal tender for
all debts, public and private, except
duties on imports and interest on the
public debt ?”
2. What would one ounce be worth
if gold, like silver, was not a legal ten
der at all?
3. If gold was not used as money,
would its value change like oats, pota
toes or butter.
We believe President Hayes holds
the opinion about gold, that the in
trinsic value arises from the labor ex
pended in mining it. Now, then if
an ounce of gold mined two hundred
feet below the surface is worth, say
sls,how much wouldau ounce be worth
that was picked up on the surface,
without the labor of mining?—Ohio
State Sentinel.
To pay the bonds iu the coin they
were contracted to be paid in, the
blasphemous Rev. Dewitt Talmage
calls “an insult to God.” The lecher
ous hypocrite who desecrates Plym
outh pulpit calls it “infamous dishon
esty. ” President Hayes calls it, “vir
tual repudiation.” Now when it is
known that a silver dollar will pur
chase twice as much labor and its pro
ducts as it would when the debt w; <
contracted; and that its demonetiza
tion has doubled both the value of the
bonds and the burdens of the people;
driving the latter to poverty, crime,
bankruptcy and moral degradation, it
seems as though the devil must be on
his thousand years’ furlough, and the
above mentioned moral and political
“lights” receive their inspiration from
his°Satanic majesty instead of the God
of Israel.—Pekin, 111., Legal Tender.
Country papers mention the death
of Mr. Briety. So-Briety’s dead, ia
he ?
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