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naesyille Eagle Ever y~Fridav doming OFFIC — E(V)tIr in Candler Ilall BH<ling, Northwent Corner of Public Square. The Official Organ of Hall, Banks, White, Towns, \ n T and D * wson counties, and the city of OaineSTille. lias a largo general circulaMon in twelve other oounties in Northeast Georgia, and two conn ties In Western North Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION. OM Y*ah..„ s2,iio. Six Mouths SI,OO. Thumb M0urM...... 60c. XDTiJfO*, DIUTIXID BT CABBIZK OB PREPAID BT MAID. paper* are stopped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Mail sub scribers will please observe the dates on their wrappers. Tersons wishing the paper will have their orderß Iromptlj attended to by remmltiing the amount for the time desired. ADVERTISING. SIVSU WORDS MASK A LIN*. Ofttatry advertisements, per Nonpareil line, 10 osnts. Legal Official Auction and Amusement advertise ments and Special Notices, per. Nonpa reil line, 15 cents. WaMlnt notices per line, Nonpareil type 15 cents Local mottoes, per line. Brevier type, 16 eents. A discount made on advertisements coutinned for longer than one week. REMITTANCES Te* subscriptions or advertising can be made by Paot Office order, Registered Letter or Express, at our risk. All letters should bs addressd, J. E. REDWINE, Gainesville, Ga. UJKftEBAL DIRECTORY.' r —"-isimm dTrat'/oB’?. — 3 PsmrarrKMAN OnnacH—Rev. T. \ Cleveland, raster. Preaching every •Sabbath-"jornifig acd night, except the second Sabbath. Sunday School, at 0 a. lb. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock. Methodist Capses—ffieVt-W# Ifc.Wadsworth, Pas lor. Preachtfig every Sunday rtlornlng and night. unday School at 9a, m. Prayer meeting Wednes day night. Baptist Ohubch Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor, Sunday morning and night. Sunday Behoolat9 a. m Prayer meeting i’bqrsday evening at 4 o’clock. GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. J. B. Estes, President; Wm.W. Habersham, Secre tary. * YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. Gordon. President; F. M. Piekrell, Vice- President; Claud Estes, Secretary. Service in on o •f the churches every Sabbath aitornoon at three o’eioek. Service for young men ,ln the Methodist church every Tuesday evening. Cottage prayer meetings every Friday evening. FRATERNAL RECORD. Fdowebt Branch Lodge No. 79, I. 0. O. TANARUS., meets every Monday night, Joed Laseteii, N. G. B. F. Stidham, Sec. AU.EOHANY Koval Arch Chapter meets on the Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. H. 8. Bradley, Bec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P. Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.-. Fu. M.\, meets n the First a nd Third Tuesday evening in the month R. Palmour, Sec’y. W. G. Henderson ,W. M. Atr-Lix* Lodge, No. 64 ,1. O. O. F., meets •rorr Friday evening. A. B. 0. Dobskv, Sec. H. 8. Bradley, N. G. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlan ta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following Will be the schedule from date: Kail train No. 1, going oast, leaves 7:47 p. in. Mall for this train closes at 7:00 “ Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves... .8:35 a. m. No uiaM by this train. Mail train No. 1* going west, 1eave5....6:51 a. m. Mall for thiß train closes at 9:30 p. m. Mall train No. 2, going west, leaves. ...9:05 p. m. Mall for this train closes at 7.30 “ Office hours from 7 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. General delivery open on Sundays from 8 !< to 9 >i. Departure of mails from this office: Dahlouega and Gilmer county, daily 8K 8. m Bahlonega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday... Ba. m Jefferson A Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday 7 a.m Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes ville, N. 0., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m Dawsonvllle and Dawson county,, Tuesday and Saturday 8 a. m. Homer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. m Pleasant Grove, Forsyth oounty, Saturday. .1 p.m M. R. ARCHES, P.M. Atlanta and Charlotte AIK-LINK, Trains will run as follows on and after SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1878, NIGHT MAIL TUAIN. GOING EAST. Lave Atlanta 3:15 p. m. Arrive Gainesville 5:31 p. m. Leave Gainesville 5:32 p. m. Arrive Charlotte 3:03 a. in. GOING WEST. Leave Charlotte 12:0() m dnt Arrive Gainesville 9:41 a. m. Leave Gainesville 9:42 a. m. Arrive Atlanta 12:00 m. DAY PABSIO N- E tit T' N . GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta 6:00 a. m. Arrive Gainesville 8:32 a. In. Leave Gainesville 8:33 a. in. Arrive Charlotte 6:22 p. in. GOING WEST. Leave Charlotte 10:20 a. m Arrivo Grinesvi lie 8:14 p. m Leave Gainesvill e 8:15 p. in Arrive Atlanta 10:30 p. in Through Freight Train (Daily except Sunday.) GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta 9:25 a.m.- Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p.m.- Leave Gainesville 1:35 p. m.- Arrive Central 7:10 p.m, GOING WF.ST. Leave Central 1:40 a. m Arrive Gainesville 7:23 a., m. Leave Gainesville 7:22 a. in. Arrive Atlanta 11:20 p. m. Local Freight and Accommodation Train, (Daily except Sunday.) GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta 5:25 a.m. Arrive Gainesville 10:42 a. m. Leave Gainesville 11:00 a. m. Arrive Central 5:45 p. m. GOING WEST. Leave Central 4:37 a.m. Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p.m. Leave Gainesville 1:35 p. m. Arrive Atlanta 7:10 p. m. Close connection at Atlanta for all points West, and at Charlotte for all points East. G. J. Fobeacre, General Manager W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt. Northeastern Railroad of Georgia. TIIIVEZE TABLE. Taking effect Monday, November 11, 1878. l’trains 1 and 2 run daily except Sunday; 3 and 4on Wednesdays and Saturdays only. TRAIfT IVO. I. STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE. A. M. Athens 6 30 Center 655 657 Nicholson 712 717 Harmony Grove, 740 745 Maysville 805 810 Gillsville 828 830 Lola 8 55 ’Jig, AIJN .Si o.A>. STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE. A. M. Lnla 9 45 Gillsville 10 10 10 12 Maysville 10 29 10 34 Harmony Grove 10 54 11 00 Nioholson 11 20 11 23 Center 11 38 11 40 Athens 12 00 TRAIN INTO. 3. STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE. P. M. Athens i 340 Center 403 405 Nicholson 420 423 Harmony Grove 446 451 Maysville 511 515 Gillsville 533 535 Lula 6 00 TKAINNO. 4. STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE. P. M. Lola 7 45 Gillsville 810 812 Maysville 829 834 Harmony Grove 854 900 Niebolson 920 923 Center 9 38 j 940 Athens 10 00[ Trains will wait thirty minutes at Lula >(br delayed passenger trains on the Air-Liue Railroad. JAMES M. EDWARDS. Supt. The Gainesville Eagle VOL. Xill. YOUR CHOICE. TWO GBEAT OFFERS to Subscribers to the Phre nologic a J J our n al. AJND SCIENCE OF HEALTH. This publication is widely known, having been befoie the reading world forty years, and occupying a place’in literature exela siveiy its own, viz.: The study of HUMAN NATURE in all its phases, including Phre nology, Physiognomy, Ethnology, Physiol ogy, etc., together with the Science of Health, and no expense will be spared to make it the best publication for general circulation, tending always to make men better physically, mentally and morally. OUR PREMIUMS. Ist. TIIE PHRENOLOGICAL BUST. This is made of plaster of Paris, and so lettered as to t-how the exact location of each of the phrenological organs. The head is nearly life-size, and very ornament al, and until recently lias sold for $2. This w h the illustrated key which accompanies '•a®b bust, and -f h aeries of articles now be ing published orthe Journal on ‘'Brain and Mind,” will enable the reader to become a successful student of human nature. 2d. A NEW BOOK PREMIUM. THE TEMPERAMENTS; or Varieties of Physical Constitution in Man, considered in their relation to Mental Character and Practical affairs of Life. $1.50, Anew work; the only one on the subject of Tempera neuts now before the public, and treats of this important subject in a most comprehensive manner, showing its bearings on marriage, education and train ing of children, occupation, health and di sease, etc. The book contains about 250 pages, and 150 portraits and other illustra tions; is handsomely printed and bound in extra tine muslin, and cannot ba procured a, less than $1.50 retail, except when taken as a premium. TERMS.— The Journal is now pub lished at $2 a year, (hiving been reduced from $3, for 187 g,) single numbers, twenty cents. 25c. extra must be received with each subscription to pay postage on the Journal and the expense of boxing and packing the bust, which will then be sent by express;or No. 2, the small bust or the Premium Book, which will be sent by mail, post-paid. Agents wanted. Send 10 cents for speci men number and terms. S. R. Wells & Cos., Publishers, 737 Broadway, New York. Georgia, Banks County. Ordinary’s office, a. t Whereas, Geo W Savali, admin. of William Savali, deceased, makes apu-ica t'on to this court for discharge from said administratio i. This is to cite and admon ish all persons concerned to show cause, if any they can, why said Geo W Savali should not ba discharged as administrator of the estate of William Saval 1 , dec’d, at tbe May term, 2879, of said court. T. F. HILL, jaulo-3m Ordinary. Administrators’ Sale. Georgia, Towns County. - By virtue of an order from the court of Ordinary of Towns county, Ga., will be sold before the court bouse door in said county, on the first Tuesday in March next, tii3 fol lowing land, to-wit: 40 acres more or less of lot of land No. 309 70 “ “ - .. 308 130 “ • “ “ “ 298 202 “ “ “ “ < 3io All in the 18ih district and first section ot '■'■eginally Union county, now Towns. .Sold for the benefit of tbe heir's and creditors."’ Terms of the sale made known ! ou day of sale. JOSIAH CARTER, P. M. H. ENGLAND, jati3l td Administrators. Georgia, Rabun County. Whereas, William J Nioholson, adminis trator of Clarisa Nicholson, deceased, has filed in my office his petition stating that he has fully discharged all his duties as such administrator, and praving that an order be passed discharging him from his said trust as administrator: Therefore, all persons concerned are re quired to show cause, if any they have, why letters should not bo granted, discharging him from his said administration, at' the regular term of the coart of Ordinary to be held in said county on the first Monday in May next. Given under my hand and offi cii signature, this January 17, 1879. jau24-3m J. W. GREEN, Ordinary. Notice. __ All persons indebted to the estate of Bird Kerlee, late of Towns county, deceased, will please settle; and ail persons having de mands against said estate will present them in terms of tbe law. This January 8, 1879. janl7-7t R. S. KERLEE, Executor. GOOD NEWS FOB ALL ! •VI. Vl.mUo At t !•>. have just received an immense stock of HEADY-MADE CLOTHING, Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes and Hats, all of which they are selling at the Lowest Cash Prices. They still occupy their old stand, corner of Whitehall and Alabama streets, Atlanta. octlß-tf. ROBERT NORRIS. LYMAN A. REDWINE. Norris & lied wine* WHOLESALE Fancy Goods and Notions 1H North Pryor St., over Mcßride & Cos. ATLANTA. - - - GEORGIA McAFEE HOUSE, Cleveland, White County, (la. 25 Miles North of Gainesville. Mails Arrive Every Day. Scenery Unsurpassed. The subscriber takes pleasure in announc ing to the’public that he is prepared to ac commodate a limited number of summe visitors, iu good style and at reasonabl figures. His rooms are large and airy, hi halls and piazzas are spacious and comfort able. His table will be supplied withal the substantials and luxuries the country and Gainesville markets afi'ord. The Bloc lvidge mountains are in plain view of his house, while the Yonah and neighboring mountains are only from two to four miles away, and easily ascended by parties desir ing to see the grand scenery to be viewed from their summits. Parties "desiring to Secure Rooms in Advance may address me, for prices, etc., at Cleve and. may3l tf T. V. McAFEE. OFFICE CITY COUNCIL, Gainesville, Ga., Jan. 21, 1879. Notice is hereby given to merchants, ho tel and boarding house keepers, guano agents, auctioneers, real estate, sewing ma chine, and insurance agents, butchers, and all who are doing a business of any kind within the city limits for which a license is required, that if the same is not paid by Monday, the 27th inst., I will immediately issue fi. fas. for the same. All who want to save costs had better come to the office and take out their license. A. B. C. Dorses, Clerk of Council. GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 7, 1879. Mr. N. Dumont, the jue&idenfc of the late convention of northern eel tiers, at Charlotte, has issued a call for conventions of northern born residents of the south in each count} in all the Southern States, to be held on the loth of February. The object is to get the views ol all upon the subject of publishing a newspaper which shall have for its object the setting forth the soil, climate, prices, ease of making a living and sociai treatment of the individual Northern man in the Southern States. These county conventions are further ex pectea to select delegates to a State convention to be held at the capitals on the Ist of March. Politics are to he excluded and we hope these con ventions will be productive of much good. Ther"-is at lei : e golf exiled ex> Confederate who is living in clover, lion. Judah P. Benjamin, according to a London correspondent, occupies an elegant suit of law chambers and has a practice which yields him §150,- 000 annually, for which reason he would decline a judgeship, which only pays $25,000. Mr. Benjamin is represented as saying that he could easily secure a seat in the House of Commons, several constituencies hav ing given him very flattering invita tions to represent them, but he has no desire to go into Parliament for the same reason that he would de cline a judgeship—it involves too many sacrifices. Mr. Benjamin has a house in Paris and always spends his summer vacations there. The Augusta News prints a special telegram from C.,to this effect: Gov. Hampton’s condition is not as good as we could wish. In fact, his most intimate friends are alarmed at the prospects of the ne cessity of another amputation, as the bone of the leg protrudes nearly three inches from the point of am putation. The Governor is in bed, and feels gloomy over his condi tion.” We hope the case is not so bad as represented. A physician of this city who is a first-class surgeon says that the mere fact that the bone pro trudes from the Governor’s leg need not cause any alarm as ho has often seen’such cases and never knew one to result fatally. Pat;arson, the oarpet-ljag setter of South Carolina, whose term of of- 1 ties expires on the 4th of March, has threatened to make a speech when ike Butler-Corbia case comes up, in which he intends to rasp Hayes and Ms administration without fear or re morse. His previous assault on the administration was no more than a drop of sulphuric acid as compared to the ton of dynamite which he would now hurl upon it, President McMahon, of France resigned on the 30th uh., because the assembly would not come to his terms in relation to the laws for the regula tion of the army. M. Grevy, a vet eran politician and statesman, was elected in his stead, and is said to be in entire accord with the ruling pa rty, the republicans, The jury in the case of the heirs of Gen. Lee against the government for the recovery of the Arlington estates has returned a verdict for the plain tiffs, giving them the whole property in fee. This should meet the ap proval of every honest man and we rejoice that justice has been done though long delayed. The Warren Mitchell claim for cotton, taken by the military at Savannah during the war, was defeat ed in the senate by a vote of 17 ayes and 30 nays. Mr. Hill’s speech on the subject did the work. This vote will kill all other war claims before this congress. Gen. Sherman stayed two day3 in Atlanta, but that city did not “slop over” much on account of the distin guished honor. The truth is, there are a few big men in this country that Atlanta has more regard for than Win. Tecumseh. If there is a paper in the State that has not yet expressed an opinion about this Hill'. Murphy business, we hope it will hurry up and give us its views. We are dying to read a few more comments on this subject. The Teller committeeo is still in vestigating at Charleston and they are eliciting some delightful testimo ny of democratic fraud and rascality from the persecuted negroes and radicals of that State. After a long and stubborn contest the Louisiana legislature succeeded on Friday last in electing a United States Senator in the person of Mr. B. F Jonas. He succeeds Senator Eustis. The legislature of Tennessee has passed a bill repealing the charter of Memphis and remanding it to the territory of Tennessee and providing for its local government as a taxing district. Senator Ingalls, of Arkansas, has been re-elected for another ;jix years. About Pretty Women. i must confess to an extreme liking for pretty women; most men, espe cially homely men, might, I think, admit themselves possessors of a :: irniiar feeling. That pretty women, however, are universal admirers of homely men is not quite an certain; and yet it has been very genernlly observed that homely men oftenest secure pretty women as wives. I don’t pretend to understand what the philosophy of the thing may be. It is possible, however, that it comes of a dislike most men, as well as women, have for what have been called “dou bles” or repetitions of self; and, further, the universal partiality ex isting for contrasts. Avery big man always likes to see a man something smaller than himself, and an extreme ly small man forever envies him who has the muscles of a giant. May it not be, then, that homely men are sometimes chosen by women with pretensions to good looks, simply on ac count of the extreme opportunity thus secured for contrast —for r.howr ing themselves off, as it were, to the best advantage. Who ever saw even an ordinarily pretty woman leaning on the arm of an ugly man, without exclaiming mentally: “How fine she is, and what a beast of a husbaadfe” The same pretty woman, walking with a tolerably good looking man, would not be noticed. It must be for some similar reason that picture amateurs often leave the brilliant-colored paint ing of the masters hanging in old, rusty, and even crickety frames. For my own part I never enter a room containing paintings, where one sin gle picture happens to be situated as I have described, without its attract ing my immediate observation. Cer tain'it is, that a single rose, blooming amid the briers of the field, lures the eye sooner than the same rose blush ing on the velvety lawn. There have not been so very many pretty women, after all, I mean wo men of extraordinary beauty, as ones would at first imagine. Whole gen erations sometimes pass without one appearing. Some countries have not possessed one in a century; at least, not one who from her extreme beau ty, or from fortuitous circumstances, has fixed her name in history. Great beauty is as rare, indeed, as great genius; and great beauty combined with great wit, even rarer. Bat com paratively few of the beautiful women of the poets ever existed beyond the poet’s fancy; the immortal Beatrice, even, being known rather for Dante's love and for Dante’s versa than for any wonderful beauty. Byron’s ‘Maid of Athens was as much the child of his sympathy as she was the inspira tion of his pen. Her mother was a widow with whom Byron lodged. She was poor, and her two daughters interested the poet. He described them in tne plainest prose afterward, .f.ud; though they were beautiful, • here w'Ve 'druv hitch Athens. Shakspeare’s fair “Rosalind” certainly never lived in the flesh and blood, and “Sweet Margaret” was the creation of a Goethe, only after he had deserted a beauty more real. It has always been a fashion among the poets to create in their minds the beautiful forms of which nature seems so u.ggardly; and, as in fancy, they dwelt in palaces, while their bodies languished in garrets, so they lived with the houris, though married to the plainest of women. The pleas ures of their imaginings, however, were far superior to the enjoyments of those who possessed real houris, and who lived in real palaces, yet lacked in the appreciation of the good fortune which nature had be stowed on them. Still, most poets have had one. love that was real, one beauty that was supreme. It has, in deed, been asserted, and with a very great degree of enthusiasm, too, that no great poet ever existed, whose genius had not been lighted into a burning flame at the altar of some fair face. “Give me a man,” said a philosopher once, “endowed with or dinary genius, and make him mad in eve with a beautiful woman, and I will return a poet to you.” It re quires but little reflection to recall what many of the loves of the poets have been. What bright, voluptuous, yet half evanescent beings they were. Commencing away back with Horace, whose odes made a Lydia immortal— Dante and. Beatrice, Tasso and Leon ore, Alfieri and his Princess, Pe trarch and Laura, Goethe and Fred ericke. Some names that are en graven aa if in brass, some hearts in I whose warmth genius had its birth. The love stimulus has been no less j inspiring to female genius than to ; that of men. Sappho only penned verses when in love. When she could j find no mortal handsome enough to i lire her muse, she fell in with Phaon, whom Yenus had transformed from an ugly old dwarf into tbe fairest of youths; and when Sappho found her love unrequited she threw herself into the sea. Poor, sweet Angelica Kaufman, the pride of Germany, the adored of England, never painted so well as when the eyes of that hand some villain, Horne, were upon her, and the poor Elizabeth Barrett Brown mg’s genius leaped into higher life under the transforming wand of love. All women of great beauty have had their history, and the triumphs and fate of a woman of exceeding beauty are not of less interest than is the life of a man of genius. From Eve, whose beauty must have been su premo, down, beautiful women have exercised the most tremendous influ ence on the destinies of the world. Helen, for whose charms hosts bat tled and Troy fell; Cleopatra, mad dening Kings to desert empires for her love; Honoria, for whom whole hecatombs of Huns perished, that Attiia might win her hand; Eugenie, dictating the manners, dress and habits of civilized society; Carlotta, forcing a husband to assume the pur ple at the sacrifice of a people’s free dom; each and all point to the ma jesty of the power of a woman of beauty. It has sometimes been as serted that beautiful women and men of genius have come up in crowds to gether, and that there is an Augustan age of fair women in the lives of nations just as there is au Augustan age of literature. Certain it is that when England and France had the greatest poets, they had also the greatest number of women ce’ebrated lor their beauty, as was the case in the times of Henry VII f, and Eliza beth, Louis XIY, and the Consulate Scarcely a great poet, or, it might be added, a great painter, has come up on the scene, who has not brought with him at least one woman of al most supreme beauty. Of course, in judging them, allowance must be made for the distinction given these women by the geniuses who adored them. Yet the spirits of the dead fair might answer: “At our altars were their lamps lighted. We piped .to them, and they did dance.” A German writer once intimated that had Goethe never seen the face of the fair F.edericke, it is doubtful if the world had not lost him as a poet. How thankless, too, this man, this poet, whom Emerson has pronounced “The soul of his century.” How sel fish even a poet can be, to pour gall into the wine-cup thaj: cheered hiry — ’Jo coldly desert the true heart tnafc gave wings to his genius. Fair Fredericke was but a village pastor’s* daughter—her lover was a society king. It was sad, though, that he should have forsaken her. Bt she was not alone; it was a habit the great men had. Fredericke was a bsautifni, sweet, German flower, fit for a poet to crush, that Lie might be intoxicated with its perfumes. Tasso declared that, for Leonore, he could write a world of poems, and Alfieri’s genius soared highest when the fair Countess of Albany encouraged his love. Indeed, he would not write at all, if she frowned; and his constant prayer was that ha might not outlive her. Of course she was a married woman—most of the lovers of poets were married women. This seemed to be a part of the stimulant, the ne cessity,as it were, to make real poets, in the old days of France, especially. Married, unfortunate, beautiful, and a poet to adore her, this was the maximum of female glory—the. dis tinction which great beauties held dear. A Bit of History. The recent death of Mrs. Ann Ilin man Kellogg, of Far field Conn., in the 93d year of her age, recalls an unrecor ded incident of the war of Revolution Mrs. Kellogg was the daughter of Capt Elisha Hinman, of the United States navy, and her mother was the only American who remained in New Lon don when the town was destroyed the traitor, Benedict Arnold, in 1781. At that time Capt. Hinman‘s ship was hourly expected to arrive at New Lon don and it was hoped that he might come in time to save the town. Mrs Hinman was well acquainted with Arnold, as he had often dined at her house, and been a friend of her hus- Uiud. Induced by anxiety for. her is. band's safety, she remaimed after all others had fled, and watched the British from the doorway of her house. As Arnold rode up he saw and saluted her and said that if she would point out her own property it should be spared. She pointed out the houses of several of her neighbors as her own and thus saved them from destruction Arnold remained on horsback near her house nearly all day, noting the battle that was raging at Fort Griswold on the Croton side of the river, where the tall monument commemorating the event now stands. Three times were the British driven down the hill by the deadly fire till the ammunition of its defenders be came exhausted, and they were obliged to surrender. The British officer in command of the storming party was so enraged at the desperate defence of the fort that, as he entered it, lie asked: “Who commands here;/ 4 Colonel Ladyard replied:“ I did but you do now,” at the same time surrendering his sword.'The officer re ceived the sword and instantly 'plun ged it into the heart of the gallant Colonel. An American officer, stand ing beside his Colonel, snatched his own sword from its scabbard and in a. momert the cowardly Briton lay dead beside bis victim. An indiscriminate massacre of all within the fort fol io .ved, and thirty of the wounded Americans were piled into a wagon that was rolled down a steep hillside to the bottom, where it was dashed in pieces against a tree. Then hurried preparations -were made to evacuate their positions by the British, Arnold having learned of the expected arri val of Capt. Hinman. Mrs. Hin man, having witnessed these ontrages from her housetop, became so in censed against the traitor that she hurriedly descended from the roof, took a musket from a closet where it had been left the day before by an American soldier, and leveled it at Arnold as he sat on his horse in front of the house. Taking a long, steady aim, she pulled the trigger, but the piece missed fire. Hearing the snap of the lock, Arnold turned and asked her what that noise was. With great presence of mind she had dropped the gun, so that he did not see it, and she answered that it was the breaking of a chair. The energetic team of the Macon Evening Ledger can't be outdone for want of local news. "When they have none they make it. List week they published the details of a raid by the police on a notorious gambling den, and the capture of many of the first young bloods of that city. Also their subsequent arraignment before the police court where each was fined SIOO. At the end of the article it was statedfihat this was not an actual occurrence, but was published as a warning. This feat of the Ledger is equal to an advertisement of the New Yoik Weekly or Saturday Night, where they publish half a chapter of a serial story and then disappoint the reader by referring to future num bers of their periodical. Speer, Smith & Seifert should be brought up and made to ante a clean s|loo apiece. A Ringing Speech. Hon. Geo. G. Vest, the newly elec ted Senator from Missouri, made a short speech at the banquet ten dered him at Jefft-rsou City, from which we take the following on the finances. It will be perceived that they have the true ring: WHAT CENTRALIZATION MEANS. Centralization means force, as an tithetic to popular will, and must al ways be associated with monarchy and here iitary rank. State govern ment, upon the other hand, next to that of tbe family, will al ways be dear to the American naart. The one is ol foreign, the other of domestic growth, &ud while a great centralized government may dazzle for a time, like the sun, with its garish light at noonday, it is at lust in the States, and by the unpre tending bat steady light of that lamp which Jefferson fixed as a bea con for post ri'ity, that our liberties mast ba preserved, O ntr iizitinu means force, nut it does not a.-.vqs coma in Uu shape of standing armies, or the mailed hand of a military despjt. L iok around, and you will see in every portion of this vast country, with its varied products and almost unlimited resources, the blighting influence of financial centralization. Pitiless as the ocean, unheeding as the storm, cold and remorseless as death, financial centralization is to day crushing out the life of the country. The dream of Alexander Hamilton’s ambition when he led the old Federalists, has been realized in the financial system of the republi can party. Under this system New Eadgiand and Wall street own and control the Union. The republican leaders determined to crystalize their power and make it perpetual, by erecting a centralized financial des potism around which shoul rally the janizaries of the National Banks, and the pretorian cohorts of the bond holders. Every interest was subor dinated tc- the giant infamy. The bonds of the government, in terest-bearing and non-taxable, were sold at ruinous prices, and more than two thousand National Banks were permitted to deposit these oonds, with the government, draw the accruing -interest, issue bank notes to ac amount only one-tenth less than the bonds deposited, and then ioan these notes to the people for 10 per cent interest, payable in advance. The same spirit of centralization, always looking to the same end, made the five-twenty bonds payable, prin eipai and interest, in coin, when by their terms the principal was paya ble in legal-tender notes. The same spirit afterward made these bonds convertible into coin bonds so as to destroy the identity of the original issue. The same spirit, in order to make the bonds more valuable de moneiizsd Silver, and finally, struck down with the ax of resumption the energies and industries of the entire country. WHO DEMANDED RESUMPTION ? The National Banks and bondhold ers. It has come J)y operation of law, and ruin has come with it Business is paralized, values de stroyed, the country full of tramps, the cities full of thieves, while the people of the West are staring bank ruptcy squarely in the face. Honest money, shouts the bondholder ! The credit of the government must be preserved ! Yes, so says every hon est man; but to preserve the credit of the government it is not necessary to ruin and bankrupt the people. •The credit of the government and the welfare of the people should go hand in hand. The government is not the master of the people. It is their property, their creature, and its only use is to subserve their interests With the republican party the government has an existence separate and apart from the people. The greenbacks which the people were compelled to take as legal tender were refused by the gov ernment for import duties and in terest on the public debt. In other words, in accordance with the mon archical system, based upon cen tralization, there has been one mon ey for the peeple, another for the government. In 1874 the democratic party of Missouri demanded in its platform, which I had the honor of reporting from this stand, that greenbacks should be made equal to gold, by making them receivable for import duties" and interest on the public debt. In the name of the people wo demand now that the ruinous system of the republican party shall be re versed, and that instead of contrac tion and congestion, we shall have expansion and healthy enterprise. Lot the volume of currency be in creased, its value enhanced by milk ing it receivable for ail debts, public and private; the National banking system abolished; and instead of a bank circulation let there be legal tender notes issued directly by the government. “Bronco Pat,“ finding that he could not get married at Pioche. secured the services of a Mormon Bishop, by the name of Allen, who lived down in the valley, and proceeded to the Utah line some five miles distant. On arriving at the line the good Bishop proceeded to business,and married the couple When the marriage ceremony was being per formed, Pat stood on the east side of the line, in the Territory of Utah, and the blushing bride stood on the west side, in the State of Nevada while Bishop Allen straddled the line standing on both Utah and Nevada soil, and in this position the couple were united. This is probably the first couple ever united in holy bonds of matrimony with the groom standing in a Territory and bride in a State, while the old fellow who tied the knot stood in both. From the Athens Chronicle we (learn that Judge Erwin has made a I splendid start as a judge and is win ning golden opinions from all the * pe >ple. An Anti-Dead Head Conscience. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette tells the follo wing on Senator L. Q. C. Lamar “I cannot save any of my salary,“ said Senator Lamar to-day to your correspondent. “It is impossible. I never paid a cent beyond livery hire and a few little kindred items of electon expenses in my life, and I have been in politics a long time. I could save §I,OOO a year if I did certain things, but I do not think my conscience would be satisfied if I did. For instance, I pay about §3OO a year for newspapers; I like to read them,l have passes over railroads. I could travel all over the United States free, but I pay my fare. It costs me §57 for each member o? my family every time I come and go between here and home. I have telegraph passes, but I never use them. I do not think it Avould be right I can send anything I please over the express lines yet I pay my express bills. I spend my salary and never have any money. Some Senators use all these privileges of dead-heading and they say it is right. I think otherwise. But there is one thing I shall propose as soon as I get a chance. Every Senator should have a private secretary. He has more correspondence, committee work, etc., than he can do The Sena tor gets §5,000 a year, and cannot support his family in keeping with his position and employ a private secretary on that the conscience of Senator Lamar should be embalmed. The dead-heading business is carried to such extremes that it is nothing unusual to see a street car filled with congressmen about the time the House adjourns, all presenting passes to the conductor to save the paltry sum of five cents. A female was hanging out some Cloths in a yard on Green street when a boy looked over the fence and called out: “Have you seen any mad dogs go by here, just now ?,, “Mad dogs mercy!,, gasped the woman, and she threw four wet shirts on the ground in a heap, and got into the house with four bounds. The boy maintained his position. After a few minutes the woman put her head out of the door, and asked: “Have you?” “No!,, was the calm reply;“ I guess the season for them has drawn to a close. “ “You are a miserable boy! why did you alarm me so?“ she exclaimed, as she opened the door and stood on the step. “Who‘s been alarmed? I guess if I want to find a mad dog I‘vo got a right to impart' if any one ha," gone by, haven’t I? You don,t expect me togo’ngit out full sheet posters and leave ’em at houses, do you? Humph the idea that a boy can’t jist inquire about mad dogs! “ +. .jga* >. Colonel A. L. Harris, known a3 Phatty, has sold the Atlan ta Independent to Mr. Geo. W. Fech ner. The latter introduces himself in this unique style: “In assuming con trol of the Independent, I am not al together without experience in my new vocation, having always been a liberal subscriber to all the free al manacs, at the nearest drug store, and occasionally taking a paper ‘from my neighbor’s door,’ I have been in the same town with the immortal J. N., have heard Col. Susan B. lecture on the use and abuse of man, and I claim the authorship of Beautiful Snow. la days gone by I worked a self acting press ‘with my girl,’ but I had to give that up, I am married now. Certainly with such varied ex perience I am confident that I can stand it. if my readers can. F.” Sitting Bull prays the Great Fath er for permission to live. He says: “My people are cold and hungry; my women are sick, and my children are freezing. I wiil do as the Great Father wishes. I will give my guns and ponies into his hands. My ar rows are broken, and my war paint thrown to the winds.” Sitting Bull clearly gives up. He sees the inevi table, and throws down his arms. Now for a royal old slaughter—a massacree that will eclipse our late exploits with the red man. The ar my can approach without fear of dan ger. Some military reputations can easily be made. When the train conveying Gen. Sherman to the South stopped at Kettle Hollow, Montgomery county, Va., says the sidewalk man of the News, Tecumseh walked out to view the sterile aspect of the country. Seeing an old residenter standing near, the General inquired, “What do they raise in this country any how?” The aforesaid Kettle Hollow man replied: “They raise h—ll here about as quick as any place you ever saw.” The General tucked his feath ers and sought refuge in the car in stanter. Oglethorpe Echo: Mrs. liootie Dove, of the laud of hoop-poles and huckai berries, last week gave birth to trip lets. Both mother and children are doing well. This, we think, fairly entitles Madison to the next senator. P. S.—From a telegram just received from Danielsville, we learu that this enterprising lady has just given birth to Dove No. 4. Our columns will bo kept open to the latest hour for fur ther returns. “I have often pitied those poor mothers who cannot afford nurses and who are kept from church because of the baby. Suppose they do cry we don £ t mind it at home. I don‘t see why it should be so awful here. There are some fidgety people who don‘t like babies but then I think they are the ones who ought to stay at home. I hope the times is coming when it will be the fashion to bring babis to church D. L. Moody News in General. Columbus is infested with tramps. Er-ker-cher. Er-ker-cher.— Sea- Port Appeal. Governor Hampton will not go to Florida next month. The wife of Rev. J. R L. Jennings, of Crawfordville, is dead. The Signal says Dahlonega is be coming famous for her pretty young ladle 8. Dr. U. O. Robinson, of Bartow county, has moved to Atlanta to practice medicine. Mr. W. S. Fleming, of Albany, and Miss Lizzie Jones, of Baker, were married on tae 29th ult. Mr. John M. Dorsey, of Ilinesville* had forty sheep killed by a dog re cently and the dog still lives. Covington girls think it a waste of time to “look out for number one” when they go to buy a pair of shoes. Anew brand of cigars is called “The lottery ticket,” * because only one iu a thousand draws.—Hans berger. NO. 6 From all over the State the cry comes up from the farmers, “We will not be ruled by the guano mo nopoly.” Ordinary Pittman, of Fulton conn fcv, has purchased a city lot on which the new court house of that comity will bo erected. A woman named llosa Fuller tried to drown herself iu the pond of the Atlanta water works, last week. She was drunk at the time. The man who can’t catch cold now and then, and who never has pains or aches, was intended originally for a rhinoceros.— Glascock Mayes. Mr. Charles Porter, a young man, of Lee county, aad a negro boy were scnflliug when a pistol they had was accidentally discharged and the negro was killo i. Mr. Wolfe Gillespie, an okl soldier of Napoleon Bonaparte, died iu Americus last Saturday. Ho was nearly ninety-one years old and a learned linguist. Fashion demands that gloves shall be still longer, the buttons being too numerous to mention. By and by we shall have gloves and stockings all in one piece.— W. T. Anderson. No great man or woman has ever been reared*to great usefulness and lasting distinction who was unschool ed by adversity. Noble deeds are never done in the calm sunshine of summer light. Mscon is about to have a receiver appointed to fix up her municipal debt. Some of the citizens feel that they are unfairly taxed and are seek ing an injunction and the appoint ment of a receiver. One Montgomery, of Killinchev, County Down, dropped dead the oth er day; his wife fell dead on seeing him fall, and her sister expired of heart disease on receiving news of the double catastrophe. Senator Conover, of Florida, sat in the senate for four years without beiug known to any ono. For a, moment he exhibit- TANARUS" tsla painful 'it tleness to the country and wa3 sus pended.—New York Herald. Anew senator has come ont of the West, He lives in Missouvee, his name it is Vest; When hung on his Washington n • they will find That he’s one of the old-fashioned, <i >- breasted, low-necked, shad-be • ’ • i ocratic kind. —August.: > Alabama slings are dange; ■ pons and a number of calar ’ ■ reported from their use in C ■; ■> , ; and Albany. In the former < last week, a little boy had his eyt ; . out by a buckshot from one o. L hese slings. The seating capacity of the church es of the State of New York is suffi cient for 2,000,000 persons. The number of church members of all denominations is 1,300,000. The ag gregate value of churches and church property is $117,010,000. The day approaches on which the freckled boy will send to the cross eyed girl over the way a picture of a flat heart stuck through the middle with a barbed stick. He will call it a valentine, and the Btick shows how he is stuck ou the gal.— A. F. Pendleton. Brother Waterman, of the La- Grange Reporter, is having a trouble some time about getting his new presses and nis paper in running or der. However, ne will soon be all right now and we look for even a better paper than he published before the fire. Griffin is having more trouble with i her municipal debts, though it was understood that a satisfactory com promise wfts made last year and there would be no further objection to their payment. This time an injunction has been granted stopping the col lection of taxes. The North Georgia (Dalton) Citi zen has this item: It is astonishing how soon a man can get into his garments these cold mornings; but a lady—well, some of them don’t get into their’s until about nine o’clock. We wonder how Whitman knows. A man named Winant and his wife were arrested last week in Atlanta for kidnapping a girl of thirteen, named Oilie Gunnell, but when all the parties were brought into court for trial, the case was dismissed, be cause the judge said she was too old to come under the provisions of the statute on kidnapping. Mis3 Oilie was no longer a “kid.” The two following items are from the Marietta Journal: Capt. Joseph Glover hired fifty ne gro men, for a railroad firm in Ten nessee, and shipped them last Sun day evening. He is coming back this week to make another shipment. This is carrying Senator Windom’s plan into execution with a vim. It is reported that a colored school teacher, who has been reading law 1 for the last three years, will make ap plication for admitt <nce to the bar at the next term oi’ Cobb Superior Court. It is said that he has per fected himself so thoroughly that his admission will be inevitable. He will indeed be a true disciple of Black stone.