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Friday Jlorninjr, February U. ■' *
CAREY W STYLES j tor.
Pope Piu . IX. ) -a 7 -fails breathed
bis last on the night of the 7th.
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Corn is worth 9 > cents a bushel in
Albany, and yet marrying and its con
sequences go on just the same.
How any man can expect to escape
John Sherman’s “unshirted hell,”
without reading the Daily Constitu
tion, is more than we know.
John Sherman’B cyclone has been
playing its pranks along Whitehall
street, recently, and quite a number
of negative centrifugals have been
scooped up by positive centripetals.
Our Washington correspondent dis
closes startling facts with reference to
the habits of public men at Washing
ton. He is right, the press should
‘ call them back'’ to methods of honesty,
truth, patriotism, sobriety and virtue.
Mr. Hill is now about midway be
tween the greenbacks and bondhold
ers, and seems to be beckoning his
hard money confreres to cross over
with him. Who knows but he was a
Trojan horse in the enemy’s camp ?
Mr. Sam W. Small has received an
appointment on the staff of Commis
sioner McCormic, to the Paris Expo
sition. The General Commissioner
could not have selected a secretary
more capable, or one who could be of
more service to the Commission.
Three very significant facts: The
world’s annual gold product is great
er than the silver product; of the
world’s gold product,Great Britain and
her dependencies furnish sixty per
cent.; of the world’s silver product, the
United States furnish sixty per cent.
Democratic Lamar of Mississippi
votes with the hard money men of the
East and against his constituents.
The Radical colored Senator, Bruce,
irom the same State, votes with tho
Greenbackers and Silver men of the
South, and against the monied aris
tocracy of the East.
In justice to Senator Hill we pub
lish the telegraphic synopsis of his
speech in the Senate, on the silver
bill He is entitled to be heard by his
old constituents, and, though differing
with him as to the methods of attain
ing the same end, it is but fair that we
give his views to the readers of the
Eagle.
■ —■ -f sr :
Thw ©aip*>evill Register-wr striking
out for a narrow gauge railroad from
Harmony Grove to the capital of
Franklin. He is a bold editor who
talks about building railroads with pri
vate capital just now. But that road
is a necessity, and we hope to see ihe
project pressed with energy and with
organized purpose to build it.
Some of our exchanges save U3 a
great deal of trouble. They are print
ed so badly that we can’t read them
SDd so we just chuck them with the
waste basket. We are trying to ac
cumulate a Urge lot of that kind t
feed to the exchange fiend. La-
Grange Reporter
Shall we ship you a box-full of just
such, broilier Waterman?
Bill Chandler says Southern men
made a bargain with Hayes, that Hayes
was to be allowed the Presidency, pro
vided the troops were withdrawn from
the South. He says Major E. A
Burke, of New Orleans, has the facts
and a memorandum, and he calls for
the memorandum. Major Burke evades
a reply, by showing that William is a
considerable rascal; but his reply is
evidently an eva. ion, and Chandler
seems to have the best of the fight, so
far.—LaGrange Reporter.
Ay that ghost will not down at the
bidding of the conspirators.
“Senator Eaton represents a type of
the Democracy which was the glory of
the Republic in its palmiest days.”—
Sun.
And who can say that it would not
have been far better for the New Re
public :f all such had passed away
with that “glory “Old things have
passed away, and all things have be
come new;” but dead issues will some
times overlie the living. “Let the
dead past bury its dead.”
Senator Bayard, Democrat, of Dela
ware, spoke against the silver bill, ad
vancing the usual New 7 York newspa
per arguments. In the course of his
remarks, he made the following state
ment as the amount of coin in the
country. Mr. Bayard is a careful
speaker, and no doubt his estimate is
accurate. He said: “On the first of
February of the present year the whole
amount of gold coin and bullion in the
country was $187,000,000; the whole
amount of silver coin and bullion was
$50,000,000. The total amount of
gold and silver annually produced i
about $90,000,000—550,000,000, gold
aud $40,000,000 silver.”
A Cyclone in Augusta.
A little after one o’clock last Friday
morning, a terrible cyclone passed
through Augusta, from Southwest to
northeast. The freight depot of the
Central Railroad was unroofed, that
of the Columbia Railroad much dam
aged, a negro church demolished, also
an j Ve just finished, on the corner of
r nd Washington streets, be
iund your he R-S. Fisher, iueiow
i vacant mo mV completed destroyed.
Hon. Daniel Pittman. .
Perhaps no citizen of Georgia has :
giveji so much thought and patient
study to the subject of our national
finances, es the gentleman whose name
stands at the head of this paragraph.
As early as 1870 he saw the danger
oi the Congressional tinkering, and
predicted the evil that would inevita
bly befall the country, if the legisla
tion then already begun in the inter
est of the creditor class, should be
ersisted in; and from that period to
the present time, has devoted the best
energies of his mind to the patriotic
work of averting the calamity now sb
imminent. He has steadily, firmly and
wisely opposed the successive meas
ures of the monied power to pauperise
the masses, seize the Government and
establish aristocracy,and to-day stands
in the forefront of the battle for the
greenbacks and the dollar of the dad
dies
At the Greenback and silver meet
ing, in Atlanta, last week, Mr. Pitt
man give his views in a speech of un
questioned ability and great force.
It showed his familiarity with the sub
ject, and satisfied bis friends that he
was a noble champion of a noble
cause. We shall endeavor to print
his remarks next week.
■The Russian Bear has his paw on
prostrate Turkey, while he turns his
eye towards John Bull. Constantino
ple and the Black sea are virtually in
the possession of Russia. England ia
making quite a flurry in her dock
yards, but her policy|seems not yet de
termined. Turkey is quiescent, and
Russia is cool, while the British Lion
is lashing his tail and growling sotto
voce.
War between England and Russia
seems imminent. The former threat
ens to send her fleet through the Dar
danelles.
The following is said to be the basis
of peace:
First: The erection of Bulgaria into
a principality ; second: a war indemnity
or territory compensation; third:"inde
pendence of Roumania, Servia, aud
Montenegro, with increase of territory
for each; fourth: reforms in Bosnia
and Herzagovina; fifth: an understand
ing between the sultan and czar re
garding the Dardanelles; sixth: the
evacuation of the Danubiau fortresses
and Erzeroum. But according to the
above official information, there are
only five conditions, the evacuation of
the fortresses being pirt of the armis
tice conditions, not those of peace. The
fifth condition also provides for the
hegotlaidoi'i OI a final ; at. e 1 ;h I'-r
Odessa or Sebastopol.
HON. B. H. HILL.
A Love-token to Ills Friends and a Gor
geous R bake to his “Slanderers.”
We regret that we hav’nt room for
Mr. Hill’s entire letter to the LaGrange
Silver aud Greenback Meeting. It is
a remarkable letter in many respects,
as will be seen by the opening para
graph. The meeting passed resolu
tions differing with the Senator, but
xpressed confidence ia bis ‘ patriotism
and fidelity ’’
Here is the exordium to his letter:
Mb. Waterman : —I desire to express
my thanks to you for the simple justice
you have done me. Being an honora
ble man yourself, you have been man
ly enough to express what you con
ceive to be differences from me on the
silver question, without impeaching my
personal integrity or official fidelity.
If all editors were equally just and
truthful, the press would be much
more useful and less licentious. Some
other papers in Georgia have shown a
willingness to do me justice, and I ful
ly appreciate all such, but you livo in
a community whose people have known
me longer, and know me better than
any people on this earth, and your
manly words have found the warmest
place in my heart. Whenever the peo
pie of Troup county shall say that they
believe that I have been or can be in
fluenced by a mercenary or sordid mo
tive in the discharge of my public du
ties, or by any power other than the
force of honest convictions, I shall
bow my head and retire from public
life The fact that those who have
known me longest and best, have nev
er wavered ia their confidence in me,
and that too, in some of the most try
ing ordeals of political and personal
history, is, to me, a source of comfort
which no office or place could give.
Those who know me have never slan
dered me. Those who do not know
me often slander me with a seeming
relish equaled only by their ignorance.
Those, too, who have trusted me have
never been disappointed in the end, and
never shall be. *
‘•Myriads” to be Swept Away.
Hon. B. H. Hill wrote a letter to
Mr. "Waterman, of the LaGrange Re
porter, which was read at the silver
and greenback meeting, held by the
citizens of Troup on the sth, in which,
after explaining his position, aud urg
ing his views, as embodying the true
solution of the financial problem, uses
the following remarkable language:
“The myriads of currency quacks, that
\ are now, like swarms of flies, buzzing
| through the country, and who owe their
! origin to a decayed money condition, will
j find the financial status too healthy to
i breed them, and will pass away, we trust
f breve f."
Won’t Mr. Hill be without a constit
uency when all those in a “decayed
money condition” have passed “passed
away?”. Perhaps the Senator is right,
but the good book assures us that the
poos will remain always. They cannot
“pass away,” however much Mr. Hill
desires it.
i damaged,
Jlu laid low
Me nan and
jfTi others
• escaped
Anew locomotive, just received on
the Macon & Brunswick Railroad,
bears the name Governor A. H. Col
quitt.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
BLAINE Silt PRISES THE SENATE
WITH A TAME SPEECH-HIS
FAULTLESS CLOTHES.
V: Igginton Wins—A Maudlin Member —
A Railroad that Sends a No
torious Woman to Congress—
tt Something About Lob
by Queens.
[From our regular correspondent.]
Washington, D. C, Feb. 9. 1878.
Editor Gamesville Eagle:
The c ntertainment furnished by Con
gress this week has been rather tame,
and, in respect to Mr. Blaine’s speech,
disappointing. The galleries and the
floor of the Senate were crowded to
hear him. If he could stir up a men
agerie on the presentation of a marble
statue, what might not be expected
from him with our ancestral root of all
evil for a theme ? At precisely fifteen
minutes before the appointed time for
his ■ peech, he entered the Senate
Chamber, and all eyes were fixed upon
him. It was observed by the ladies
that he was faultlessly dressed, but
this is a rule, not an accident with Sen
ator Blaine. He seems to have im
bibed the very spirit of the advice of
Po[onius to his son: “Costly thy habit
as thy purse can buy, but not expres
sed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.” Much
to the disappointment of his audience,
he rose with a manuscript in his
hand; it was felt that that little roll of
paper would bind him to his subject,
and fetter that splendid rashness that
has been the chief characteristic of his
former efforts. Before he wa3 half
through, a large portion of his audi
ence had deserted him, and, after
speaking for a half hour, the Senator
from Maine sat down, having for al
most the first time in his life spoken
without sensation and eclat.
At the other end of the Capitol they
were discussing the Pacheco-Wiggin
ten Claim to a seat in the House, and
that question has been decided, after
a kind of 8-to-7 fashion, in favor of
claimant. For some
time the Democrats in the House
have had great difficulty in keeping
their strength in hand so as to utilize
their small majority. Some questions
they are disposed to dodge, on other
questions they are lukewarm. It is
observed that the Republican members
fill their seats in dense array and are
well in hand, ready to take advantage
of anv lack of vigilance on the part o
their opponents. During the debate
on the Pacheco-Wigginton case, and a
few minutes before the vote was taken,
I heard a reporter say: “There is Bev
cl-; v Douglas at last,and'drunk as usual.’’
Sir. Douglas is a 'Tepreoeißativa from
-‘Mother of States” and was seen
o: .; re floor, shaking hands with every
Oi'.c that he could reach, gesticulating
an '. . l iking in a state of maudlin in
toxic idou. He had been sent home
and to the hospital, but in this crisis
hi: vote was needed, and a telegram
had summoned him to the Capitol.
it is not the fashion, I know, to tell
of incidents like this. Correspondents
and the press are strange y lenient in
relation to what we call the private lives
of public men; but the life of no public
man is private, much less of a legisla-
tor. If no man liveth to himself, how
much less the representative of a large
constituency. There are a great many
things about public men that the pub
lic ought to know. When men dare to
climb and stand on eminences, they
must expect to be observed and criti
cized. There are correspondents here
who could furnish some mighty inter
esting reading, if they were not afraid
of hurting somebody. But the world
has, perhaps, not yet been educated to
that point that it can receive the na
kedness of truth; it still prefers to see
things “through a glass darkly.”
Hence we have imperfect diagnoses,
and, as a sequence, aimless blind treat
ment. I once wrote something about
our sailors spending their money in
brothels; but the editorial Aunt Nan
cy to whom it was sent was afraid to
print the word “brothels,” so he chan
ged it to “saloous,” thus making it
weak in strength, and short of truth.
Such an editor ought to drape the legs,
or, perhaps, I should say limbs, of his
writing desk, lest their bareness offend
his delicate soul.
Last week I saw the queen of the
lobby. There have been many queens
of the lobby and their reign has been
disputed by jealous aspirants of their
own ? ex; but I refer to the present
reigning queen. Her regal title is not
disputed by either House of Congress,
but in many ways privately acknowl
edged by both. She is employed by a
powerful railroad corporation, furnish
ed with an almost inexhaustible ex-
chequer, and a carriage in which she
has taken more than one member of
Congress from his seat at the Capitol
to her luxurious palace. It need not
be presunw'l that when members or
S-. nators cannot be rallied to vote on
an imminent question, they always
have pneumonia. I may state that
the policy of the reign of the above
mentioned queen is not favorable to
the Texas Pacific Railroad. There
may be seen every day an ex-queen of
the lobby,or rather, she was a princess,
for her sw.;y was never quite regal in
its absoluteness, but she was wonder
fully successful in making her own
fortune; and, having squired wealth,
she is now figbtjmrf-A- *t. /• *k
Oothold. Stn,
aU_
Western Ser2it
that, hotvw—-
Lis wife h
of his bp
his yo
SOPHISTRY AND SILVER.
SENATOR HILL’S SPEECH ON THE
DOLLAR OF THE DADDIES
The Pick-Pocket Bill of American leads
tion—lhe People to be ( ailed Bek to
Honesty and Truth—Want Silver
for Every Body, but Want to
(let it Honestly—Eloquent
Words and Syren sen
tences.
Washington, Febuary 8. —In the
Senate the Silver bill was under con
sideration. Mr. Hill of Georgia, said
that the Senate had had before it, for
the past two months, a plain business
question. It was certainly no occa
sion for rhetoric; it was a question
which eminently required exactness in
fact and clear strength in logic; yet
there was a great excitement in the
country over it, and perhaps a thous
and newspapers in this country to-day
were engaged in impressing upon the
people that one half of the members
of Congress had been bought up by
the bullion dealers, and the other half
by the bondholders. Tho question of
suspending silver coinage came up in
France a few days ago, and in less
time than jpt took to recite it, the
Senate of that nation, representing a
people notoriously excitable, dis
posed of the matter unanimously.
He (Mr. Hill) took his position with
those who sincerely and earuesly de
sired the restoration of the silver dol
lar to the currency of the country.
He believed that the silver dollar
might be recoined and remonetized,
and he concurred in much of the ar
gument of his friend from Maine, Mr.
Blaine, made yesterday, but did not
agree to his constitutional views ex
pressed in the beginning',ol|Lis remarks.
Mr. Hill then argued that although
there had always been a condition of
empanionship between silver and gold
as currency, silver and gold
keep company with each other except
upon the infiiexiblfe rule of equality in
value. He favored the remonetization
of silver because lie thought its re
monetization would be wise and prop
er in the present condition of the coun
try. He in the first place,
the people desired it, and as there
were no constitutional provisions in
the way he wouid agree to it. Ia the
second place, he thought the remone
tization of silver-would add to our lim
ited metalic currency, and again, as
silver was one qt the products of our
country, it was proper that Congress
should do all it; could to encourage its
production and increase the demand
for it; again, the negro population in
his section had a peculiar attachment
for silver rnouey. He believed the re
coinage of silver would create in them
a passion for hoarding it and make
them economize, thus improving their
condition. He thought the silver dol
lar should be remonetized but he
could not support the bill now before
senate as it came from House of Rep
resentatives. He believed it this bill
should pass unamended, it would en
rich a few individuals and give no re
lief to the financial embarresments of
the country. It would necessitate ad
ditional legation mid finally take its
place in History as thS" Tick pocket
Bill of American legislation. In the
first place, he obejected to thefre coin
age feature, and when gentlemen
told him that silver should be placed
upon the same footing as gold, as to
coinage, he replied that to do so it
must be made as valuable as gold. It
costs no more to coin a twenty dol
lar gold piece than it did a silver dol
lar, and while it might be wise to en
courage the coinage of gold, it wouid
not be wise to encourage the coinage
of silver. The next amendment
which he favored was to limit the com
ageol silver. With the present capacity
of our mints we would not coin gold if
we admitted the|uulimiled free coinage
of silver, and Congress must either ap
propriate more money to multiply the
mints or stop the coinage of gold.
He objected to the unlimited legal
tender power which it was proposed
to give to the silver dollar. He could
not consent to the coinage of a silver
dollar worth ninety cents, and stamp
ed as a dollar. To do so the Gov
ernment would be coining a falsehood,
and it would do so knowingly. It had
been argued that the depreciation in
the value of silver was caused by the
demonetization act of 1873. This he
denied. Ten nations besides the Uni
ted States demonetized silver about
the same time, and there had been a
great increase in its production. It
was this increase in the production
and decrease m the demand for it
which caused it depreciation in value.
He believed the most effective and the
permanent way to keep the silver dol
lar equal with the gold dollar was to
prescribe for the silver a function in
our currency. He would have silver
more than a subsidiary coin, but would
limit its legal tender power. The
people demanded a silver dollar but
they did not demand one which would
drive gold out of the country. He
would give silver a legal tender pow
er for all payments not exceeding one
hundred dollars. He was in favor of
some compromise, and hoped his
friends would not plant themselves
square upon the House bill and refuse
to compromise;' He cared nothing
for the bondholders of any class. He
believed legislation which was wise
for one class was wise also for all oth
er classes, and he represented no class.
He represented the people, the Gov
ernment and truth. It had been ar
gued here that the bondholder pur
chased his bonds with greenbacks
worth sixty cents on the dollar. At
the time the bondholders made the
purchase he (Mr. Hill) was on the
other side aud was doing all in his
power to make the bondholder lose
his dollar worth but sixty cents. He
believed he was right and it did not
become him now to raise a cry be
cause the bondholder made good bar
gains. During the war he was doing
what he thought to be right, but when
he surrendered to the Government
he surrend honestly, and he intended
to be just as faithful to the honor and
credit of the United states as he would
have been to the honor and credit of
the Confederate States had they suc
ceeded. It was to the interest of all
classes, and especially to the laboring
class, to maintain the credit of the
Government.
Mr. Hill then referred to the recent
Speech of Mr. Eaton, of Connecticut,
fen which the Senator said: Agrarian
and Communism would uever
COr *sa foothold in the United States,”
icn nA re p} v gaid those - were noble
r*, is#.*o/U>, of
mws of an' 17 con ~e
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the country had been passed by
frauds. The passions of the people
might be lashed into furies which no
man coul I control “Bloated
bondholder” wife familiar words in
the vocabulary of American fmati
cism, bat there was no possible excuse
which could justify the disregard of
the slemn obligations of toe Govern
ment of any kind There was bat one
patriotic course for Congress to pur
sue. Call back the people to an
honest, renewed recognition of the ob
ligations of contract; teach the present
generation, teach all generations that
fidelity to truth and law was the best
religion, the wises statesmanship and
the purest patriotism. (Applause in
the galleries.)
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
Opening of the Commissioner’s Office for
the Southern States.
[From the Constitution.]
The following announcement is one
that will interest the people of the
South. Our section is capable and
should feel deeply interested in lay
ing before the people of the world who
visit the great French exposition some
evidence of the resources and possibil
ities of our section of the American
Union
THE SOUTHERN OFFICE.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 11th, 1878.
The office of the commisioner for the
Southern States to the Paris exposi
tion of 1878 will be opened in this
city, at the State capitol, from and
after this date until further notice.
Ail communications from persons
in the Southern States desiring in
formation or to contribute to the
exhibition should be addressed to that
office, to either of the names signed
hereto.
Mr. Sam W. Small, of Atlanta, one
of the secretaries to the general
commission will be in attendance
and render prompt replies to all in
quiries.
It is the desire of the entire com
mission and the southern represen
tatives that the most complete exhi
bition of southern products be made
at this universal exposition.
Correspondence is cordially invited
upon all subjects connected with the
exposition.
Pierce M. B Young,
Commissioner from the Southern
States.
Sam W. Small, Secretary.
Why Silver Was Demonetized.
The Buffalo Agitator publishes the
report of an interview with Senator
Oglesby, who said: -“The man who
knows most about this is Jones, of
Nevada, and I think he is a fair man.
He and I went to the Senate at the
same time, and were given seats to
gether, way down in the greenhorn’s
corner. One day when there was so
much talk about Crown Point Mine
and the Comstock lod, I said, ‘Jones,
what is all this about ? Is there any
truth in it?’ Jones said, ‘Well, you
are an old miner, let re show jou
what my mines are producing.’ And
he did so for a month or two, and it
was about $1,500 a day profits. Af
terward he told me how they made
fools of themselves. An agent of the
Rothchilds mine out, and they thought
he was going to buy stock and put a
large amount of money into the busi
ness; so they took him all through
tlm mines and showed him what they
contained, and that the silver was
there in exhaustless quantities. They
toasted and treated him, and demon
strated to him for three months, and
all at once he went quietly away with
out investing a dollar. Then they saw
how they had done it. Immediately
the anti-silver agitation began, and
ended in its demonetization, no doubt
through the influence of capitalists, to
whom they had been simple enough to
show what they had.—Esaex County
Press.
VOLUME OF CURRENCY.
Contraction Since 1805 Fourteen Hundred
Millions.
In answer to a correspondent at
Millville, N J., we publish below a
statement in detail of the amount of
circulating medium outstanding Sept.
1, 1865, (exclusive of coin.) These
figures were taken from the boohs of
the Treasury Department by Hon.
Moses W. Field, and are given in
“Berkley’s Monetary System,” a valua
ble work of reference:
United States Notes, $433,160,569
Fractional Currency 26,314,752
National Bark Notes, 185,000,000
Compound interest legal tender
notes, 217,024,160
Temporary loan certificates, 107,148,713
Certificates of indebtedness, 85,093,000
Treas. 5 per ceut legal tenders,.... 22,536,991
Treas. notes ; ast due and not
presented (legal ten’rs) 1,503,020
State bank notes, 78,867,575
Three year treasury notes, 830,000,000
51,996,678,770
Add for coin, estimated 153,321,230
Total, roundly stated, $2,150,000,000.
The total circulation at the present
time is not over $750,000,000; the
contraction therefore has turned about
$1,100,000,000 of circulating medium
iuto untaxed interest bearing bonds,
of which about one-third are held
abroad, which latter feature Governor-
General George B. McClellan men
tions with especial satisfaction in his
inaugural message, using the follow
ing words. He says: “Is is our inter
est that a large proportion of our
bonds should be held abroad, in order
that the money paid for them may re
main in this country and increase the
amount of gold available for domestic
uses.” ‘ There’s wisdom.” as Capt.
Cuttle would say. Jack Bansby has
at last a rival in the Governor-Gener
al.—Essex County Press.
Tlie Poet who Died of Beautiful Snow.
“Is the editor in?” asked a long-haired youth,
As into the sanctum he strode;
“If he is, I must see him at once, forsooth,
For I wish to sell him an ode.”
Straight up to the editor's desk he strode,
Took a seat with a child-like smile,
And said to the editor, “I have an ode
Ou the beautiful—” but the bile
Of the editor rose, and he smote the bard
On his cheek a terrible’ blow,
And kicked him out into the office back yard,
To die in the beautiful snow.
Another Form of Slavery.
The following shows how hard it is
to resume the bloody shirt, and what
straws the desperate advocates of that
garment are grasping. But isn’t Bid
dle a Pennsylvania tramp ?
To the editor of the Sun: Sir—l find
the Sun outspoken, which encourages
me to ask a little space in your col
umns for the black men. The sympa
thy of President Hayes, which he ex
pressed some time ago, has led him to
give us up in the Southern States, and
slavery is being revived in consequence.
We are starved out, and made from
want to steal, and thrown into prison
for the least offense, and then from
two years and six mouths to five years
or more, we are sold out by a law,
made and sanctioned by the State, to
slave-holders, under the garb of a lease,
which is only another name for slav
ery. Look at the twenty-year system
in Georgia. We wish the world to
loak at this system, which will eventu
ally overthrow ail that has been done.
Montrose, Pa., Feb. 4.
William T. Biddle.
Increase of Whisky l ax Receipts.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has received a letter from the
Collector of St. Louis, stating as one
of the results of the breaking up of *he
whisky ring that while the tax collec
ted on spirits from six distilleries in
1874 was $1,553,516 30, the amount in
1877 from three of the same distiller
ies is $1,883,481 50. Even allowing
tor the difference of twenty cents in
the rate of tax these figures demon
strate an increase in the efficiency and
wisdom of the present system of col
lection, while they afford some idea of
the immense stealings of Babcock and
Grant’s whisky ring.
Rood for Bell.
Hon. H. P. Bell, on Saturday last,
made an earnest and eloquent argu
ment in the House, in favor of pen
sioning the soldiers of the Mexican
and Indian wars. On the same day, as
chairman of the sub-committee, Mr.
Bell reported a bill to devote the pro
ceeds of public lands to the school
funds of the States. The report was
adopted, and will doubtless become a
law.
Gov. Colquitt has appointed Mr.
Willis C. Reagan, of the firm of M. C.
& J. F Kiser A Cos., as a delegate
from Georgia to the Exporters’ Con
vention which will ba held in Wash
ington City on the 23d of this month.
Mr. Reagan was appointed at the re
quest of many of our prominent mer
chants and other citizens. He will be
a fit representative of Atlanta pluck
and energy. There will be a delega
tion to the convention from the cham
ber of commerce and probably one ap
pointed by the mayor and council.—
Constitution.
In South and Middle Georgia the
small-grain crops look remarkably
well, and a large area of wheat and oats
having been sown last fall, an exchange
predicts the land will be crowned with
fatness, and the barns stored with
plenty. At least, to this end let us
work aud hope.—Albany News.
Major Burke—-A Correction.
Major E. A. Burke, Chandler’s corre
spondent, is about tliirty-six years of age.
Ten years ago he was a laborer in a stone
yard; now he is the head of his party,
and has, or had until recently, one of the
best paying offices in Louisiana.—Ex
change.
This paragraph has run long enough.
Chandler, Mr. Burke’s correspondent, is
something more than thirty-six years old;
he has been the head of his party, and
has held some of the best paying offices
in the country. He has the faculty of
making an office pay. Aud it is highly
probable that he will be a laborer in a
stone yard before long.—Washington
Post.
Anderson, one of the Louisiana Return
ing Board has been convicted, but ap
plied for anew trial, ou the ground that
one of the jurors was a minor.
Gen. Toombs has been interviewed by
the Constitution, and is decidedly in fa
vor of the dollar of our daddies.
Mr. Hilliard has been confirmed by the
Senate, Minister to Brazil.
An interesting revival of religion is
progressing in Augusta.
Tramps in Atlanta are furnished
grub and work in the chain gang
Hon. B. IT. Hill is in Atlanta on le
gal business.
J. TANARUS, Wilson’s School.
Miss Jennie Canedler, Associate Prin
cipal.
THE SPRING TERM of my School wil
commence on
Monday, Jan. 21st,
IN THE
Basement Boom of the Presbyterian
Ohurch.
COURSE OF STUDY.
Primary Department.— Spelling, Reading,
Writing, and Intellectual Arithmetic.
Intermediate Department. —Written Arith
metic, English Grammar, English Composi
sition, Geography, and Elocution, with the
studies of the Primary Department.
High School Department. —Arithmetic,
(reviewed) Algebra, Higher Mai hematics’
Philosophy, Rhetoric, Logic, History, Latin
in connection, with'the studies of the Priinar
and Intermediate Department.
RATES OF TUITION.
Primary Department, per month $1 00
Intermediate “ “ “ 2 00
High School “ “ “ 3 00
No deduction ior absence except in cases of
protracted sickness. An incidental fee of 25
cents, to defray the actual cost of fuel, ser
vant-hire, etc., will be required of each pupil,
in advance.
I refer to any of my former patrons and
npils in town or county. For further par
culara, call at the Store of J. F. Lilly & Son
see J. T. WILSON, Principal,
janll-lui
Dropsy Cured.
I will guar antes a cure in every variety an
form of Dropsy, after examining patients.
A. J. Sharper, M. D., Gainesville.
LADIES’& MISSES
SHOES!
The Finest and Best Ever Offered for
Sale in Gainesville.
K. L. BOONE,
Corner Public Square, Opposite Gaines
ville Motel,
Announces to the Ladie.s of the city and vicin
ity that he has at last received
Those Winchester Shoes,
For Ladies and Misses,
Manufactured at Winchester, Va., from th
very best material and in the best style.
These Shoes are SOUTHERN M V DU,
and are unhesitatingly pronounced equal m
material, style and make to the best Philadel
phia custom work, and cheaper than my -u,.
ilar stock ever exhibited in this mark i. They
are perfect beauties in cut and finish, and are
made to fit the Southern lady's foot. Call
and see them.
TO 1118 CUSTOMERS
and the public generally the Christmas greet
ing is extended, with the information that he
has a large an-! carefully selected stock of
DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING,
Boots, Slioes and Notions,
Staple aud Fancy Groceries, Family
Supplies, Country-Produce, Ac.
All of which he proposes to sell at prices to
suit the times. Call and examine his goods
before pa chasing elsewhere. dec2l-2m
DRY GOODf EMPORIS
C. W. DUPRE,
Court House Square, next door to Boone Cor.
GA!iBESVILL,,
Has now on hand a complete and most care
fully selected stock of
DRY GOODS,
Boots and Shoes,
Hats and Notions,
ever opened in Gainesville, consisting oi
Ladies’ Dress Goods
in every variety.
Fringes, and other Trimmings,
Embroideries,
White Trimmings,
and Friliiugs, Ac.,
A complete stock of
Cassimeres and Jeans.
CONCORD GOODS a SPECIALTY,
Gents’ and Ladies’ UNDERWEAR.
DRE IRTS and Gents’ FURN
ISHING GOODS.
Also, good stock of WHITE and COL
ORED BLANKETS, aud thousands of
other goods, all of which are to be sold
cheaper than they have ever been sold
before.
Receiving new goods every week.
nov23-6m
J. T. HARGROVE
has returned to
HIS OLD ST A N 11,
on the north side of the public square, nd
has on hand a good stock of
Dry Moods, Notions, Moots, Shoes, Hats,
Hardware, Crockery, Tinware A Drugs
ALSO,
A No. 1 Assortment of Groceries,
and other articles too numerous to me .1: n.
He invites the citizens of Gainesville and !'ae
surrounding country to call and examine h ,
stock before purchasing e sewhere. He will
sell at bottom prices, for cash, or will tale,
country produce in exchange for goods at
cash prices. ‘ j an |3 m
—ON THE —
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIR-JL i A E ,
Commenced SUNDAY MORNING, De
cember Ist,
Double Daily Trains
now ruu over the Atlanta and Chariot! •: Ur-
Line Railway, as follows:
PAST TFtA.IN.
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 5:00 p. m.
Arrive at Gainesville 7:47 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Arrive at Gainesville 6:51 a. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 9:10 a. in
SECOND A TN.
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 6:00 a. m.
Arrive at Gainesville 8:35 a. m.
GOING WEST.
Arrive at Gainesville 9:05 p. rc
Arrive at Atlanta 11:30 p. m.
Passengers leaving Atlanta by Mail Train
at 5 p. m., will arrive in New York at 9:35 ■>.
m., second morning.
Passengers leaving Atlanta by Day Train at
6 a. m., will dine in Washington City the fol
lowing day and arrive in New York at
m., same evening.
Accommodation Train leaving hereto!
7 a. m., is discontinued.
G. J. FOREACRE, General Marian r.
W. J. HOUSTON, General Pass, and Ticket ' " •
JAMES P. HARRISON & 03.,
Atlanta, Ga.,
AL r X= Xts: o IVE ze:
At all hours, 27 and 21) Souiii Broad
Street, Atlanta, Ga.,
To receive
Orders for Printing, All Work
from the Smallest Card to
the Largest Book,
Carefully and
CHE A PLY EX EC ITT ED,
Wedding Cards of new and elegant flesh’n,
rivaling the beautiful productions of the en
graver; Bill and L-* ter Heads in the most ele
gant style; Programmes* Minute , Catalogs
Books, Railroad Tickets, and everything else
that can be printed.
B.VXIkIU ,'”V ULVAWS
ALWAYS DA lIAAU
SHEET’ MUSIC, LAW, aud other boffi r ~
bound and re-bound.