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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 ? HO, .5