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T ke Gainesville Eagle Published tvery Friday Morning o X' 1 X 1 X o XU Iputain in Candler Hall Building, Northwest Corner of Public Square. The Official Organ or Hall, Banka, White, Towns, nrrl Xl ?' Uuion a, :d Dawson counties, and the city or oalnesvlllo. Has a large general circulation in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and two counties in Western North Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION. ONlt Year ... s2,co. Six Morths SI,OO. Thee Montils ABTAROE, IttJUVEHEU BY CABBIKK OB PREPAID BY MAIL. papers are stopped at the expiration or the tie paid for without further notice. Mail sub scribera will please observe the dates on tbeir wrappers. Persona wishing the paper will have their orders iromptly attended to by remmitting the amount for the time desired. ADVERTISING. SEVER WOBDS WAJCJS A BIKE. Ordl n 'j advertisements, per Nonpareil line, 10 eents. Legal Official Auction and Amusement advertise munts and Special Notices, per Nonpa reil line, 15 cents. Readinf notices per lino. Nonpareil type 15 cents Local notices, per lino, Brevier type, 15 cents. A discount made on advertisements continued for longer than one week. REMITTANCES For subscriptions or advertising can be made by Post Office order. Registered Letter or Express, at our risk. All letters should be addressd, J. E. RED WINE, Gainesville. Ga. GKN ERAL DIRECTQKY. CITiU UCHDIREOfoRY. Pbshbttkbian Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland, Pastor. Preaching evory Sabbath—morning and night, except the second Sabbath. Su day School, at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Wodnesday evening at 4 o’clock. Methodist Ghubch—Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, Pas lor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes day night. Baptist Church Rev. W. 0. Wllkos, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at!) a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 4 o'clock. GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. 3. B. Estes, President; Win. W. Habersham, Secre tary. YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. Gordon, President; F. M. Pickrell, Vice- President; Claud Estes, Secretary. Service iu o.i c of the churches every Sabbath a ternoon at three o’clock. Service for young men In the Methodist church every Tuesday evening, cottage prayer meetings every Friday evening. FRATERNAL RECORD. Flowery Branch Lodge No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS., meets every Monday night, Joel Laseteb, N. G. B. F. Stedham, Sec. Alleohant Royal Akch Chaptjl meets on the Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. H. 8. Bbadley, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P, Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.-. F.-. M.-., meets in the First a nd Third Tuesday evening in the month R. Palmour, Soc’y. W. G. Henderson, W. M. Air-Link Lodob, No. 64,1. O. O. F., meets every Friday evening. A. B. O. Dorsey, Sec. H. S. Bradley, N. G. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Owiug to recent change of schedule on tho Atlan ta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following Will ba the schedule from date: Mall train No. 1, going east, leaves 7:47 p. m. Mail for this train closes at 7:00 “ Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves... .8:'!5 a. m. No mail by this train. Mail train No. V going west, 1eave5....6:31 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. in. to 5:30 p. m. General delivery open on Sundays from to9,q. Departure of mails from this office: Dahlonega and Gilmer county, daily BJf a. rn Dahlonega, via Walioo and Ethel, Saturday...B % a. in Jsfferson & Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday 7 a. m Clsveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes ville, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m Dawson villa and Dawson county,, Tuesday and Saturday 8 a. m. Earner, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. m Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday.. 1 p.m M. R. ARCHER, P.M. Atlanta and Charlotte AIU-L1 n ja * Trains will run as follows on and after SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1878. NIGHT M4IL '.CJL*. A I.CS . GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta 3:15 p. m Arrive Gainesville 5:31 p. in. Leave Gainesville 5:33 p. m. Arrive Charlotte 3:03 a. m. GOING WEST. Leave Charlotte 12:00 mdnt Ai-riva Gainesville 9:41 a. m. Leave Gainesville 9:42 a. m. Arrive Atlanta..... 12:00 m. jl> at* jl> ags?* til a- k ±-t r’is . GOING EAST. Leave Atlauta 6:00 a. m. Arrivo Gainesville 8:32 a. in. Leave Gaiuesvillo 8:33 a. in. Arrive Charlotte 6:22 p. m. GOING WEST. Leave Charlotte 10:20 a. m Arrive G*tnesvi lie 8:11 p. in Leave Gninesvill e 8:15 p. m Arrive Atlanta 10:30 p. m Through Freight Train. (Daily * vent. Sunday.) ’ GOING BAST. Lear* Atlanta 9:25 a.m.’ Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p. in.’ Leave Gainesville 1:35 p.m.- Arrive Central 7:10 p.m. GOING WEST. Leave Central 1:40 a. m A'rive Gainosviile 7:23 a.m. Leave Gainesville 7:22 a. m. Arrive Atlanta 11:20 p. m. Local Freight and Accommodation Train. (Daily except Sunday.) GOING EAST. Leave Atlauta 5:25 a. in. Arrive Gainesville 1 0:'2 a. m. Leave Gainesville 11:00 a, m. Arrive Central 5:15 p. m. GOING WEST. Leave Central 4:37 ft. m. Arrive Gainesville 1:2*1 p. m. Leave Gainesville 1:35 p. in. Arrive Atlanta 7:10 p. m Close connection at Atlanta for all points West, and at Charlotte for all points East. G. J. Foreacbe, General Manager W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt. Northeastern linilroatl of tieorghi. TIME Taking elieet Monday, November 11, 1678 Ttrains 1 and 2 run daily except Sunday; 3 and ion Wednesdays ud Saturdays only. THAI rv >7 0. 1. STATIONS. ARRIVE. j LEAVE. I A. M. Athens • ! 6 30 Center 6 55i 057 Nicholson 7 12 J 7 17 Harmony Grove, 740 745 Maysville SOS 810 Gillsville 828 830 Lula 8 55] ‘ ' th ,\.lrs 'iNor, ’ STATIONS. AEIiiVE. LEAVE. A. M. Lula 9 45 Gillsville 10 10 1 10 12 Maysville 10 29i 10 34 Harmonv Grove.... Id oil 11 00 Nicholson H 20j 11 23 Center 11 38i 11 40 Athens 12 00 j.. j. ' 'xil/virv x\o. ;s. STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE. P. XL Athens •• • i 9 Center 403 405 Nicholson 1 20! 4 2: Harmony Grove 4 40; 4 51 Maysville 511 -5 15 Gillsville 5 3 U 5 35 Lula. 6 °°l “ TKAiNjjK). 4. ” STATIONS. ARRIVE. I LEAVE. i P. M. Lula J, Gillsville 810 812 Maysville ° *<> ° Harmony Grove 861 900 Nicholson 9 “9 23 Genter 9 38 940 Athens 10 uo Trains will wait thirty minutes at Lula for deiaved passenger trains on tne Arr-Liue BMlrwO. JAMES M. EDWABDSL Snn The Gainesville Eagle. YOL. XIII. Gal nesville College—Circular. Having leased the Gainesville Col lege for five jears, from Jan. 1, 1879, I announce to the public that the school will be continued on the same plan as heretofore: the thorough co education of the sexes. The President feels grateful for the generous patronage he has re ceived, and desires to manifest that gratitude by redoubling his ener gies, if possible, to give still greater eatisfaclion. to those who patronize him again the ensuing year. The prospects of the institution are brightening; the success of ’ast term bas greatly encouraged its mends, and preparations are being made for a large increase during the ensuing year. Prof. J. T. Wilson, whose reputa tion as a teacher is already estab lished, will have charge of the High School Department. Mrs. Fannie Brock, one of the most “growing” Indy teachers of my acquaintance will continue in the Primary department. Tuition charged from beginning of the mouth in which the student enters to end of term, with nodeduc tion tor lost time except in case of sickness protracted over one month. RATES OF TUITION. Primary Sch< il per month SI.OO Gomuio r School 2.00 Gru -Aimer School 3.00 High School 4 00 College Classes 5.00 Music 4.00 Incidental Fee, per Term, In advance, 1.00 Tuition payable monthly, in ad vance; or one half in advance—bal ance at the end of the term Spring term opens Janu >-ry 20, nd closes July 4, 1879. C. 13. LaHatte, President. Administrator’s sals. Georgia, Fulton County. By virtue of au order of the Court of Or dinary of Laid county, passed at its Dscera ber Term, 1878, will bo sold at the Court house door in Atlanta, in said county, oa til- first Tuesday in January next, within the lawful hours of public sales, for cash, the following lands belonging to the estate of Thomas Alexander, late of said county, deceased, to-wit: A'so, one unimproved lot in the town of Gainesville, Hall county, Georgia, subdivi ded by “Johnson Survey” into lots Nos. 51, 52, 05, GO, containing four acres (city acres); bounded on the north by West llroad street, on the east by Mill street, on the south by Railroad avenue street, and on the west by au unnamed street. Also, a half interest (other half being own by Larkin Smith) in an unimproved lot west of the lot above described and bounded as foil ws: On the north by West Br ad street: c ist by unnamed street; south by Railroad avenue and by unnamed street. Also, the “Frost” tract, containing 625 acres, partly improved and embracing lands deeded by P. O Conner and Alexander Deal to George W Frost, bounded north by Deal and Het.ry Clarke; east by road run ning from Gainesville to Hopewell church; south lands of Moses Simpson, Henry Clarke and Berij. Reed, and west by lends of Mrs. Webster and Mrs. L. Morrow. Also, one hundred acres of Timber lands, bounded by tho Dividing Ridge, “Ste phens’” land, Head’s land and by Brow ning’s land; more partlculary described in plat and grant of James M. Smith, Gover nor, etc., dated April 30th, 1872. The Air- Line Railway crosses the northern portion of this lot. LANDS IN GWINNETT COUNTY. Land lot No. 2(18 iuthe 6th dirtrict of said county, containing two hundred and nine (209) acres, besides the land occupied by the right of-way of the A. & R. A-L. Rail way, which pass through said lot, and a reservation of four (4) acres on the west side of said lot to Mrs. M.| A. Mclierley. This lost is unimproved timber lands. Sold as the property of said deceased for distribution among his heirs. This Decem ber 6th, 1878. B. H. BROOMHEAD. Admiuistartor of Thos. Alexander, de ceased. Any one desiring to see the “City Lots” the “Frost Tract” will call upon A. B. 0. Dorsey, City Clerk. Admmistrafors’ Sale. Georgia, Union County. By virtue of an order of the court of Or dinary of Union county, will be sold before the court house doo; in Blairsville, said county, between the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in January next, the following property, to-wit: The northwest "half of lot of laud No 46, in the 16th district # aad first section of Union county; also, the northwest half of lot No 63, ia the 16th district of said county cont.na'og 80 ac - es, more or less, each. Lot No 64 in the 16th district of said coun ty, containing 160 acres, more or less, ou which tnere is a good corn mill. Also, the . outheast half of lot No 27, iu the 16th district, containing 80 4cres, more or less; also, the northeast half of lot No 45 in the 16th district, containing 80 acres, more or less. A portion of all the above lots of land atv in cultivation. All sold as the property of Josiah Daniel, deceased, for the benefit of his heirs and creditors. Terms: One balf iu twelve months, the remainder in two years, with note and approved security, waiving the homestead, with interest from date. Bond will be executed and delivered to the purchacor for titles. JOHN J. SELF, DAVID DANIEL nov29-td Administrators. Georgia, Rabun County. Martha F McConnell wife of Thomas N McConnell of said county has applied to me for exemption and set ing apart of a home stead cut of the real and personal property of the said T N McConnell and I will pas -i upon the same at my office in Clayton on the 22nd day of January next at 11 o’clock a in. This December 23, 1878. J. W. GREEN, dec27 30d Ordinary. Geokgjv, XT''un County. Catherine Ellar, wife of James Eliar of said county, has applied to me for exemp tion, and setting '.part a homestead of per sonalty out ol the estate of said James Ellar and I will pass upon it at 11 o’clock a m on the 31st of December 1878 at my office in Clayton. This December 10, 1878. 2d J. W. GREEN, Ordinary. ii JiS. JOHN W. WHITE, Fashionable Dressmaker. Will cut and lit garments or patterns from any figure in any Fashion Book, and will teach any lady to cut and fit by Gar ley’s Chart in three lessons, and furnish the chart, for $2.50. Takes several Fashion Books. Call and see her at the King house, octll-3in Main street, Gainesville, Ga. Dropsy Cured. I will guarantee a cure in eveiy variety and form of Dropey, after examinin'’ pa- GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1878. Mr. Bell in Congress We referred last we*k to several bills offered by Hon. H. P. Bell in the house of representatives Decem ber 3d. As they are short we give them entire. The first is a bill “to abolish certain internal-revenue offi cers” and is as follows: “Be it enact ed by the senate and house of repre sentatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, that the offices of ‘inspector of tobacco and cigars.’ ‘internal-revenua store keeper, ‘gangers,’ and ‘supervisors of internal revenue,’ ba, and the same are hereby, abolished.” The next is a bill .“to authorize the producers of tobftiw) to dispose of tha aamo with out the payment of any tax thereon,” and reads as follows “be it enacted by the senate and house of representa tives of the United States of America in congress assembled, that from and after the passage of this act the pro ducers of tobacco may sell tliß same in the leaf, hand-twist, or in any form whatever, to any consumer or pur chaser, without the payment of any tax whatever, sec. 2. That all laws in conflict with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.’’ The last is a bill “to repeal an act entitled ‘an act to provide for the re sumption of specie payments,’’ and is as follows; “Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, that an act en titled ‘an act to provide for the re sumption of specie payments,’ ap proved January fourteenth, eigh teen hundred and saventy-five, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.’’ The first three were referred to the committee of ways and moans and the last to the banking and currency committee Mr. Bell also introduced a bill for the relief of the fi nancial embarrassments of the peo ple, which is too long for insertion here but we give the main points. He proposes to issue legal tender bills to bear upon their face the words “this bill is legal tender for all dues to the United States govern ment;” this to include import duties and "principal and interest of the public debt when not other-; wis provided f Jr by law, and all: debts pubiio and private. These bills are to be issued to take up all such greenbacks,national bank notes and United States bonds as may be voluntarily surrendered by the hol ders. These bills are to be inter changeable for gold and silver provid ed there is any in the treasury over the amount required to pay the in terest on the public debt. State banks to do business with these legal tender bills are not to be hindered by the United States and no more national banks are to be chartered. Blaine’s Bloody Shirt Revival. Senator Blaine, by his recent at tempt in the senate to hoist the sanguinary garment commonly called the bloody shirt, admits, better than cou’d an open confession, that upon every federal issue essential to the peace, happiness and prosperity of the whole people, the organization, of which he is a conspicuous le der, has no hold upon the country. Re alizing, as so adroit a politician most assuredly does, that his party, shown by the late elections to be in a mi nority in thirty of the thirty-eight States of this Union, is in a most precarious situation, he endeavors to restore its prestige by renewing the issues which gave these Southern States, a foretaste of hell and made Grantism possible throughout the country. It is doutful if he succeeds in the attempt, but certain defeat awaits him if he does. It will most effect ually solidify the South. Every man therein, not altogether lost in char acter and morals, will vigorously oppose a party whose every move ment tends to centralism and despot ism, Tfie stannch democrats of the North will do their utmost as they have ever done, while thousands of voters who do not cling closely to any party organization will unite heartily with the democracy to re store peace, a real peace, to all sec tions of our country. Politically speaking we need not dread a bloody shirt campaign, but the man who attempts to inaugurate it is not only a bitter and malignant foe to us, but as much an enemy of his own State and section and should be considered beyond the pale of civ ilized warfare. Hon. Allen Fort, of Sumter, the great leader in the railroad tariff movement, has wisely held over his plans and purposes to the July ses sion. He is a young man of eminent ability, and is giving the subject a most searching investigation. His people are pushing him in the matter, but he does not believe that hasty and injudicious action would give them the desired relief. In July he will come back fully prepared to take up the matter in all its bearings. Not less than two weeks will be needed to dispose oftthe question.— Georgia’s Prosperity. It was with feelings of genuine satisfaction that we read in the New York Herald a few days ago a letter from a correspondent of that paper, who has evidently made the present prosperous condition of the South a subject of careful inves *• igation, giv ing a satisfactory and detailed ac count of the affairs in this State The writer notes the facts that the people of Georgia are better off to day than they have been since the war, for although there ie some grumbling still, both in city and country, over hard times and low prices of cotton, the truth is that a day’s labor now will purchase more of the necessaries of life than it would a few years ago iu the times of infla ted prices, and although eotton is low, a pound of it will buy more meat or calico now than has ever been the case since the staple has been grown. The correspondent attributes these complainings of hard times here al luded to, in face of the increased purchasing power of money, almost entirely to the misrepresentations of politicians, who, he says, call the laborer’s attention to the decline in his wages, but lead him away from the compensating fact that he can, with his wages purchase so much more than formerly. This may be a leading cause of grumbling. There is no doubt that many things are fre quently stated by unscrupulous poli ticians for their own advancement, while the truth, likely to tell against them, is carefully suppressed; but it i3 not, by any means, the prime cause of discontent among oar farmers and citizens generally. The trne reason is to be found in the fact that though money may have advanced even one hundred per cent, in value in the last few years, and therefore low prices now may not really mean, of them selves, less of wealth, still a vast number of people contracted debts in tho day of inflated values when cot ton was fifteen cents a pound, and to have to pay these debts dollar for dollar now, with the staple at eight cents, is where the trouble lies. It is indeed paying a fearful interest on debts, which is well calculated to keep “a man’s nose down to the grindstone” in spite of all other and favorable circumstances. It is this class of men at the South, men who are struggling with debts contracted in the time of the inflated values, that the Herald’s correspondent has heard grumbling. Let their debts be once paid, or let them be adjasted on an equitable basis, and should present prosperity continue (of which there is Jittie doubt) neither low prices nor political misrepresenta tions will cause our people to grum ble longer over hard times. The writer of the letter under con sideration, Jjowever, presnts a very truthful statement of Georgias condi tion. He says: “The merchants are without excep tion buoyant and hopeful beyond what I have known since the crazy days of inflated values. Their trade has been larger than in several years, the surplus being more than large enough to account for the early move ment of the cotton crop. The buai ness of the railroad and steamship lines lias been heavy beyond prece dent. The Central line, via Savan nah to New York, reported a surplus of $85,000 net profits over the same month of 1877, and the stock of the road has advanced in three months from 48 to 71. It is indicative of the increased briskness and confi dence that the stock and the earn ings of every road in the State of Georgia have advanced heavily and steadily within the past year. The Central has gone within that time from 33 to its present figures. With in that time four ocean steamers,cos ting together over $1,000,000, have been purchased by a Georgia compa ny from Roach’s shipyard, and are playing between Savannah and New York. The Northeastern Railroad and the Eiberton Railroad, both de veloping new sections of country, have been finished, and the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad is rapid ly approaching completion. Within about one year over $500,000 has been invested in cotton factories in the State, There has been a falling off in the total values of the tax books, bntthe percentage of decline has been only about one-third of the general decline in values. ’ The secret of the revival of busi ness and enteprise is largely attribu table to the general adoption of the diversified system of farming as op posed to the exclusive culture of cot ton. Under the old system of rais ing cotton almost entirely, cultiva ting enormous plantations, and pledging the crops in advance at high rates of interest, the amounts of money lost by the planter were enor mous. It is stated that in this way, Senator Ben Hill lost ever SIOO,OOO in three years, and other heavy plan ters did even worse. Now, however under the system of diversity, of crops, small * farms carefully cultivated, the raising of corn, meat, stock, etc., at home, together with a repeal of the lien law—by which a farmer could mortgage his crops in advance—and turning the attention to orchards, vineyards, cereals, sheep-raising and such bran ches of farm industry as have hereto fore been overlooked by our farmers, the result has been splendid, and our State is “almost entirely inde pendent of the West, which means independence of factors, of high prices, of heavy interest, ruinous dis counts and loose expenditures.” A point is made by the Herald's correspondent relative to the colored population of Georgia, which is wor thy of special mention. He says: “The negroes in most cases prove to be good tenants, and generally make their wives and children hoe and plough. In this way they man age to make good rental for the farm and a living for themselves. The negroes have shown a wonder ful capacity for sawing and acquiring land, the accession of the Demo crats to power they had noth ing. They now own over $6,000,000 worth of property, as shown by the imense amount of laud, as at its re duced price it sold for nominal fig ures. The property owned by the negroes is almost entirely land. Every properly oivning negro is a demo crat, almost without exception. There is no sort of prejudice against selling Jiandß to negroes.” To this point we specially direct the attention of Blaine, Paige and that clasß of unscrupulous politicians &ow so industriously engaged in the United States congress in manufact uring and circulating stories of bull dozings and intimidations of South ern blacks by Southern white demo crats. The publication of the above statement in the New York Herald sfteaks- volumes in refuting their sli nderous misrepresentations. similar condition of affairs is re pijrted by the Herald correspondent gratifying evidences of prosper ity,' now and hereafter. We have not spt,ce to review at further length the remarks of the writer. Suffice it to saj that he shows that the South has every encouragement to hope for a brilliant future, all that is necessary t&Yiccomplish it being for our people to be true to themselves politically and materially. Asa summing up of the whole matter we present the following extract from the concluding paragraph of the letter alluded to: “Interviews with the merenants of Atlanta, Montgomery and Savannah show no variance from the general cheerful and hopeful outlook. Mer chants in the various cities and in various kinds of business report the increase of the busi ness of this season over the cor responding season of last year from twenty to forty per cant. I do not say ofer the same month of last year, for the business is fully two weeks earlier this year than last, but the comparison is made over the same period of last year. The merchants noted almost invariably that the Northern and Eastern merchants are much more anxious to sell to the South this year than for the last two or thrpe years, and are disposed to give more liberal credit. Lass year and the year before the question was: “How much do you need?” It now is, ‘How much can you take?’ The purchases have been much hea vies than before for years, and hun dreds of merchants who had bought for the season have had to make a second trip North already to replen ish stock. There is complaint at the closeness of competition this year and the narrow margin of profit, but this is compensated by the fact that the trade is mostly cash, and there fore safe. The repeal of the bank rupt lawssnd the reduction pr blOil or {fee homestead and exemp tion laws in the Southern States have done much to restore confidence and have unlocked much money that was hoarded and let it into business circulation.’ ’ —Savannah News. Northern Lawlessness. A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., to the Chicago Tribune says a jury at Nebraska City found Henry Jackson, Henry Martin and Wm. S. Givens guilty of murder in the second de gree for killing Charles Slocum and outraging his wife. The evidence seemed to warrant a verdict of mur der in the first degree, and Judge Gaslin so stated in his sentence of penitentiary for life, which he passed on the murderers. About 2 o’clock the next morning a crowd assembled at the jail, broke in the door, over powered the jailer, seized Martin and Jackson, and taking them half a mile soatiTtJf the court house, hung them to a tree. We have had frequent occasion of late to call attention to the spirit of lawlessness which is abroad in the north and west, but this i3 by far the worst caso that has fallen under observation. Thera may be some faint shadow of an ex cuse for the mob who, in the heat of blood, hang a criminal who has just been daught in the act, and thus cheat the courts of juetice of their func- tions. But what excuse can there be for men who make themselves a supreme tribunal for the correction of errors and deliberately set to work to reverse the judgment of a court? These men had been arrested and tried; a jury had defined their crime; a judge had passed that verdict into a sentence; and still, after all these solemn formalities had been ob- a mob murdered the prison ers, oif uhe ground that tho finding of the jury was wrong. Yet, not withstanding these facts, a leading republican journal of the northwest —the Minneapolis and St. Paul Pio neer Press—commends the deed and says the murdered men were “served right.” A great deal has been said of “Southern lawlessness, ” but no such crime as this was over commit ted in the South. It is time that something should be done to put a stop to Northern lawlessness. — Ghron. <£ Con. The following colloquy took place the other day in the United States sen ate between two distinguished demo crats; Mr. Jones, of Florida: “I would ask the senator if it was not a contemporaneous construction of the constitution that the time of electing electors shall be uniform throughout the United States ? Has there ever been a different rule on the subject from the formation of the government to the present day?” Mr. Merrimon: Not with my knowledge; but it is not within my knowledge any question has ever been raised about it.” As there was no law requiring a uniforurtime for electing electors until the act of January 23d, 1845, and as before that time they had been elec ted in different States on different days, it would seem as if even grave and reverend senators can learn something of the political history of What the Recent Legislature Ac complished. We give below a full list of all the bills Y/hich passed both branches of the general assembly at its recent session in our city. There were in all thirty-three bills passed. Four teen of these originated in the senate and nineteen iu the house. Six resolutions were passed. All the bills and resolutions have been duly signed by the governor, and the work of the legislature so far is fin ished. BILLS PASSED. An act to authorize ih? j iuicipal authorities of towns and cities to compromise their bonded debt; to provide for the issue and exchange :,f now bends for outstanding bonds,’ etc. Au act to confer additional pow ers on purchasers of railroads under provisions of au act to enable pur chasers of railroads to form corpora tions and to exercise corporate pow ers, etc. Au act to prescribe the manuer of giving notice of an intention to apply for local and special legisla tion. An act to amend section 4692 of the revised code relative to the trial of joint defendants. An act to prevent any coroner from receiving from the county treasury as fees an amount per annum exceed ing $1,500. An act to authorize the issue of bonds of the State of Georgia for the redemption of certain bonds of the State falling due in the next three years, and to reduce the interest on the same. An act to authorize incorporated cities in this State to permit the in closure of alleys where owners of lots abutting consent, etc. An act to amend section 2971 of the revised code of 1873. An act to carry into effect para graph 2 of section 2d, of article 7, of the constitution of this State, in ref erence to the exemption of certain property from taxation as therein de scribed. An act to provide for the probate of foreign wills, and for appointment oiid qualification cf administrators in tais State, etc. An act to keep open, remove and prevent obstructions to the free passage of fish in the waters of all rivers and mouths of creeks in this State. An act to enforce paragraph Ist, section 9, article 7th, of the constitu tion. An act to increase and fix the amount of the bond to be given by the treasurer of the State i mafic asylum. An act to provide for holding the superior courts in certain counties and for drawing juries in certain ca ses, and for other purposes. An act to repeal section 4323 of the revised coda of 1873, and to prescribe punishment for persons convicted of murder, and for other purposes. An act to authorize the sale by common carriers of all freight un claimed and the deposit in bank of the net proceeds of sale to await the claim of owners, and for other purposes. An act to regulate the striking of juries in civil cases and in cases of misdemeanor in the Superior courts of this State. An act to change tho fiscal year so that it shall begin on the first day of October and end on the thirtieth day of September. An act to provide that the people be better supplied with the public laws of this State. An act for the establishing of branches of the State University at Cuthberi and Thomasvilie, etc. An act to allow certain liens of landlords to be foreclosed before due in certain cases. Au act to change the beginning of the terms of tho Supreme court to the second Monday in February and the first Monday in Septem ber. Au act to allow persons against whom warrants are sued out as in truders, or as tenants holding over, three days within which to file count er affidavits to such warrants, and for other purposes. Au act to amend section 4379 of the code cf 1873 in reference to burn ing out-houses by specifically includ ing gin-houses in said section, and increasing the penalty prescribed in said section. An act to require transferees of tax executions issued pror to Febru ary 20th, 1875, to have their execu tions recorded, and fixing the time when they must be placed on record, etc. An act to repeal section 1G77 of she code, and in lieu thereof to pro vide for tho granting and amending of charters for schools, academies, colleges and churches. An act to carry into effect para graph 2, section 18, article 16, of tho constitution of 1877, so as to provide for the selection of the most experi enced, intelligent and upright men to serve as grand jurors, and of intelligent' and upright men to serve as traverse jurors, and for the draw ing of juries. An act to provide for the setting apart of homesteads and exemptions of property, for the sale thereof, and therein vestment of the proceeds. An act to carry into effect article 6, section 7, paragraph 2, of the constitution of this State as to appeals in justices courts and there from. An act to carry into effect para graph 2, section 18, article 6. The appropriation act. The tax act. THE RESOLUTIONS. The following is a list of the reso lutions which passed both branches of the assembly and were approved by the governor: A resolution requesting the gov ernor to correspond with the au thorities of the State of Alabama with a view to the adjustment of a claim for treatment of certain pauper patients iu the State lunatic asylum A resolution appointing a com mittee to investigate wiki land sales. A resolution authorizing the gov ernor to inquire whether any penal ties or forfeitures have been incurred by any lessees of penitentiary con victs, and for other purposes. A resolution approving legislation by the national congress for dis tributing. the proceeds of public lands to public echo’ols in the several States. A resolution instructing the comp troller to suspend sales of wild lands and transfer executions. A resolution in regard to Governor Colquitt’s indorsement of the bonds of the Northeastern railroad compa ny. —Atlanta Constitution . The following is a tabulated state | ment of sums appropriated as salar ies to the several officers of, the State government. Governor’s salary $-1,000. Salary Secretary of State, $2,000. Salary Comptroller General, $2,- 000. Salary Treasurer, $2,000. Salary Attorney-General, $2,000. Salary State Librarian, SI,OOO. Salaries clerical \i force, secretaries and messenger of executive depart ment SO,OOO. ' Clerk Secretary of State, SI,OOO. Clerical expenses comptroller’s of fice, including insurance and wild land departments, $4,000 Clerk State Treasurer, SI,OOO. President of Senate and Speaker of House, $7 per diem, and 10 cents per mile mileage. Members of general assembly, $4 per day and 10 cents per mile mileage. Secretary of Senate, SOO per diem to pay all clerical expenses of Sen ate. Clerk of House, S7O per diem, to pay all clerical expenses of House. Door-keepers and Messengers, 6-1 per diem. Assistant Door-keepers and Gal lery-Keepers, $3 per diem. Page of Senate, $1.50 per diem. Three pages of House, $1.50 per diem. Chaplain of House, SIOO per session Keepers of closets, $1 50 per diem. Judges of Supreme court, $3,500 per annum. Future Judges of Supreme court, $3,000 per annum. Judges of Superior court whose terms do not expire until 1860, $2,500 per annum. Other Judges of Superior courts, $2,000 per annum. Solicitor-Generals, $250 per an num. Baporki'ai Supreme cu.m-6, *I,OOO per annum. Clerk Supreme court for station ery, etc., SSOO. Trustees Lunatic Asylum, S3OO Keeper penitentiary, $2,000 Academy for the Blind, $12,000. Deaf and Dumb Asylum, $15,000. State Lunatic Asylum for 1870, $49,625, in addition to overdrawn balance of $50,375. For Lunatic Asylum, 1880, SIOO,- 000. Resident physician of Lunatic Asylum, $2,500. For repairs to public buildings in Atlanta and Milledgeville, SB,- 500. For work on vault in Comptroller- General’ b office, S2OO. Payment of interest of State debt and eight per cent, bonds failing due, $803,000. Contingent fund, SIO,OOO. Printing fond, SB,OOO. Incidental expenses of assembly, SIOO, The republican party made a fatal mistake in enfranchising the negro, if by that means it expected to retain power in the Southern States pro portioned to the voting strength of the negro population. It was a very erroneous estimate of the white man; and it is a most fortunate thing for the country that its political power has been practically retained in the hands of white men. Mr. Blaine has made great mistake for himself and his party. The white men of the North will never be able to control the negro vote as against the white men of the South. The true policy of the republicans is to divide the South and not to solidify it by array ing the governing race on one side and the incapable and ignorant ne groes on the ochar. — Philadelphia. Record. * "The proposition to renominate Grant for the Presidency has re ceived a serious set back, which will serve to discourage his third term supporters. The London astrologer, Raphael, in his prophetic almanac for 1878: “The most important birth furnished ua is that of ex-President Grant. Like the other rulers given in last year’s almanac, he was born with five planets near the vernal equinox. He is spoken of for elec tion in 1880, but as the sun will not then be free from the beams of Saturn and Uranus, it is very doubt ful if he will be elected,” Bully for Saturn and Uranus! —Savannah News. ■ ♦ A singular dilemma’is reported in life insurance business. At Memphis this summer died Peter A. Tigue. So did the doctor who attended h:m. Sj did the undertaker who laid him out. So did the clergyman who officiated at his funeral. The company in which Mr. Tigue’s life was insured declines to pay the amount of the policy for want of the regular evidences of his death. Bayard Taylor, United States Min ister to the German Empire who died recently, was temporarily hur ried in receiving vault at the ceme tery of Jerusalem church, Berlin last Sunday week. His remains will be shsrtly re moved to Cedar Crofi, near Philadelphia. Mr. Taylor left very little property, his widow having very little excepting his life insurance of $10,050. A big baboon in;tho Great London circus, recognized Bill Moore, at Au gusta, after a year’s absence, at which Among Our Exchanges. The Valdosta Times is for sale or lease. .Congress meets again next Tues ; January 7th. Thomas A. Edison is only thirfcy a years of age. Bleakley, an old and well i known citizen of Augusta, died last week. The Oil city Derrick nominates Rev. Mr. Talmage for Akoond of Smut. West Broad street Savannah, is having anew pavement of Belgian blocks. The grand jury of Rockdale recom mend the abolishment of their coun ty court. Thomas Andrews, of Walton coun ty has been adjudged a lunatic and sent to the asylum. Atlanta is said to do the largest pork packing business of any city south of Louisville. - nor Nrcholla ha*/ appointed General Beauregard, adjutant-gen eral of Louisiana. Thomas E. Screven, aged 23, for merly of Savannah was lately found dead near Charleston. NO. L Anew carriage manufactory was to have been established in Thomas viile about January Ist. Mrs. Biddie Moye, an old resident of* Monroe county, died recently, in her eighty-seventh year. Charleston, S. C., has anew even ing paper called the Evening Herald. It sells for one cant a copy. “Thero she goes,” they say in St. Louis. “Who?” “Why, the young lady that wasn’t engaged to Tildea.” The Goodrich machine shops at Augusta were recently destroyed by fire. Loss $3,000/ No insur ance. The Florida State Canvassing Board make the majority for Hull, democrat, in the second district, thirteen. John W. Garrett has been elected president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for the twenty-first consecu tive year. Jack Mclver, colored, was recently murdered near Newnan. Jim Hop kins, also colored, was arrested for the offense. Kansas wants $300,000 from Con gress for property destroyed during the fresoil agitation of 1854. Anoth er southern claim! Dougherty jail was recently cleared of prisoners for the first time since the war. New recruits, however, soon began to arrive. Jackson Sellers was recently con victed in Lee county of the murder of T. H. Whitsett. The jury was out nearly thirty-six Lours. boaswe Jerrolu: “1 knew a man who could speak five and twenty languages, and he never said anything worth hearing in any of them/ Shark’s skin now serves for Pari sian purse-3, and was thought partic ularly appropriate for the inn-keep ers, Ac., during the Exposition. Gen, Joe Hooker is 61 years old, well, hearty, and possessed of a su premo aversion for his army associ ates, Gans. Grant and Sherman. The city council of Milledgevilie, taxes boarding houses which aclion compels gentlemen in search of quar ters to betake themselves to Macon. Augusta wants the United States court to hold regular sessions in that city. Which Judge would it prefer, Bond of Maryland or Rives of Vir ginia? Tho Female Orphan Asylum at Savannah was partially destroyed by fire last Monday week. Forty little children were forced to abandon their cheerful home. The negro murderer, Cooper, after being carried back to Bainbridgo jail was a clay or two after dragged from his ceil by a mob and shot to death in tho hallway. Exports of Greafc-Britain to tho United States have decreased from £37,000,000 in 1873 to little over £20,000,000 in 1877, and are still slowly deciiniug. The Chicago Times calls attention to the fact that with all their sympa thy for the negro, the northern re publicans have never sent a rep resentation of that race to congress. Archbishop Purcell, who has been head of the Roman Catholic Church in Cincinnati for many years, has written to the Pope asking to be re lieved on account of the infirmities of old age. Judge Grice dissolved the injunction, recently granted by him restraining' the newly elected mayor and aider man of Macon from qualifying, and they have entered upon the discharge of their duties. The contested elec tion case, however, is still going on. If there is an old maid in this broad land who never ha3 been hugged, but would like to be let her dress in men’s clothes and meet a Gilmer county candidate. If ho fails to embrace her, then she will have to retire to the shades of private life.— Eliijay Courier. “Get right out of this,’’.shouted an irritated merchant to a mendacious clerk, “this is the third lie I have caught you in since 10 o’clock this morning.” “Oh, well,’’ said tho new man, “don’t be too hard on me. Give a fellow time to learn the rules of the house,” — Hawkeye. It is not true that Bertha Von Hiilern has paralysis of the 1 Now, before on and say ’ e o-g ” some awfully particular folks will 3top the subscriptions, and if we say”—irnbs” the other crowd will accuse us of mock modesty. Guess we won t finish the sentence. Any how, she hasn’t got paralysis.— Boston Traveller. j-iie United Btr.i,Qs senate commit tee to investigate so-called southern outrages under the Blaine resolu tion, consists of Teller of Colorado Cameron of V isconsin, Kirkwood of lowa, Hear of Massachusetts, Mc- Mijlan of Minnesota, republicans, a f U Tj ßayar , d °. f Delaware, Wallace m Pennsylvania, Bailey of Tennes : t nd Garland of Arkansas. fUmo,