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T II E frZ .V <*- I, . Friday Jlorninjr, February U. ■' * CAREY W STYLES j tor. Pope Piu . IX. ) -a 7 -fails breathed bis last on the night of the 7th. -# -<J- 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 - * >f 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.