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-r / E A6IE. 4. E. BEDWINE. Friday Morning, January 28, 1880. Mr. Hayes has nominated James Russell Lowell, the well known wri ter and poet as minister to England; The Atlanta Bepublican and the so called independent papers have formed a kind of mutual admiration society. You tickle me and I’ll tickle you. True to his instincts and to his peo ple, Gen, Gordon is working actively to prevent the confirmation of scala wag cetnsus supervisors s for Geor gia. | Col. John Philips has been elected to congress from the 7th district of Missouri, by 4,000 majority. He is a staunch democrat, has been in congress before. The Rev. T. J. Simmons’s applica tion to Mr. Hayes for census super visor and his endorsement by Dr. Felton make about as rich reading and let in a bout as much light as any two documents we have seen lately. California, it seems, has the worst record of any state in the Union for unpunished murders. During the last two years sixty murders have occurred in Mendocino county, in that state, andyet only one man has beeu convicted. The governor of Virginia has sup plied the Lancaster militia with arms to arrest the oyster pirates, and it is reported that a fleet of forty vessels is organized under an admiral and en g a ged in the illicit taking of oys ters in the Rappahannock. Maine and Louisiana—Louisiana for a time had two governors and two legislatures. Maine two legisla tures and three governors, Lamson, Smith and Davis, This puts Maine one score ahead. Our Louisiana friends will excuse the comparison. Now what do you think of the Rev. Dr. Felton’s democracy ? With all his cunning and false faces and dis guises the doctor has slipped up and developed his true character. So called Independentism is bearing its legitimate fruit and it is the bitter est kind of Radical fruit too. A coin has been recently found at Copenhagan containing on one side a portrait es King David with a He brew inscription, and on the other side a harp, likewise with some words in Hebrew. Several connoisseurs who have seen this coin have ex pressed their belief that it is a real piece of money current in the time of David, and that it is apparently 8,879 years cld. —♦ 4 Don Cameron is twisting the screw very severely upon the Pennsylvania republicans, Not content with call ing the state convention for the choice of delegates to Chicago at an unusually and inconveniently early date, he has taken the task of having the delegates to the convention ap pointed by the county oommittees instead of by the usual method of district caucuses, The Richmond, Va., negroes do not like the discrimination just now be ing made in favor of their raoe by medical students in search as “sub jects,” and have organized a party in the Virginia legislature to oppose all appropriation to mcdieal colleges that discriminate in favor of persons of color for dissecting purposes, The recent robbing of the graves of colored people has led to this agita tion. The house committee on appropri ations reported on Wednesday a bill appropriating $600,000 for the pay ment of the fees of U. S. Marshals and their deputies, but no part of tne money a appropriated is to be used to pay any compensation, fees or ex penses of marshals or deputy mar shals for services rendered in con nection with registration or elections under any of the provisions of the revised statutes of the United States. i mm »• Itseems that the Cole-Brown-Wad ley combination is to be knocked higher than a kite, and the beauti ful picture of a great trunk line from St. Louis, via Nashville and Atlanta to Savannah has vanished into thin air. 001. Cole’s confidence in the stockholders of the Nashville and Chattanooga road was misplaced, and the Louisville people by buy ing up a majority of the stock in his own road broke his line. Doubtless eastern capital did the work, as there was great excitement in the New York stock exchange when the south ern combination was made known. We regret Col. Cole’s defeat and hope it may be temporary only. Sooner or later St. Louis will have au out let through a South Atlantic port. There is the most intense excitement in railroad circles and no one can tell what a day may bring forth. The Rev. Mr. Simmons, the nomi nee for cencus supervisor in his ap plication to Mr. Hayes says: “My maine object, aside from the faithful performance of the duties, in asking for the appointment is that owing to my strong Union principles and my giving or furnishing tickets to some colored voters (Hayes and Wheeler Tickets) on the day of Presidents election, for that act and many others of similar nature I have had heaped upon me abusive words and curses charging me with doing more for radical aid than any one else in this country. I would gain a considerable victory of no little worth over these corrupt secession traitors. I refer you to Dr. Felton mem. in congress trom my diet, the 7th for information as to my stand ing.” Dr. FeltoD in his letter to Mr. Hayes endorsing this application says: “He is cne of the best men in the seventh congressional district, and I am satisfied would make one of the most efficient supervisors in the state. He is independent and con servative in hie political opinions and if you appoint him you will not re gret it. He is a local Methodist preacher and of splendid character.” We have not space for the two documents in full, nor for comment, but give the extracts above to show who Mr. Simmons is, and also what Dr. Felton means by independent. S tate Banks and Currency. We are afraid that the Macon Tel egraph and Monroe Advertiser stand alone in their opposition to the es tablishment of state banks with pow er to issue currency. But then we are right. —Macon Telegraph, Our esteemed contemporaryhas cer tainly been a careless reader of the Eagle otherwise it would have known that we are not only opposed to the es tablishment of state banks with pow er to issue currency, but are likewise opposed to granting this power to to any corporation whatever, bo it state or national. Our financial plat form is short and simple. We be lieve it is the province and duty of the general government to supply the country with a sound and stable currency, sufficient in volnme for all the demands of business and that shall be of uniform value throughout its length and breadth. But as coin is wholly insufficient to meet the wants of trade and business, the lack must be suppiied by some other rep resenative of values; for be it remem bered that coin itself is nothing more than a representative of values. Un der the old system of state banks, the deficiency in the valume of the currency was supplied by granting to corporations authority to issue three dollars of bills for every dollar of coin in their vaults. This gave to to tbe corporation and undue advan tage over the citizen by making the dollar of the corporation count as three, which was often run up to five or seven for one, while the dollar of the citizen remained the same. This was class legislation of the most ob jectional character. Then again it was often the case that these bank bills would not answer the purpose of money at all, except within a small radius, beside the danger of loss to which the bill holder was con stantly exposed. For thes and many other reasons which might be pre sented, we are most decidedly op posed to the re-establishment of state banks. But tha national banking system, while avoiding some of the evils in cident to state banks, is also open to many grave objections, The law authorizes an individual or company to deposite a certain amount of United States bonds, say SIOO,OOO with the secretary of the treasury and there is issued to the company $90,000 of national bank bills. On this sum the company oommence banking. The government holds the bonds and endorses the bills of the company, or which is the same thing guarantees the bill to the holder, but at the same time pays the com pany six per cent per annum in gold. Or to put it clearer, the government or the people who constitute the government, pay the national banks six per annually on their capital stock and issues to tbe m ninety per cent of bank bills, endorses the bills—all this, that the banks may supply the country with currency. The banks are paid a bonus to do indirectly that which the government should do directly. The law makes special pets of national banks, but at the same time discriminates most unjust ly against private banks and all others dealing in currency. The national bank circulation amounts in round numbers to $360.- 000,000. For the privilege of using the currency the people are paying interest on $400,000,000 of bends deposited with the secretary of tbe treasury. Now why not issue green backs and supplant these national bank bills and thus pay off ninety per cent of this bonded debt. This would be no inflation, for it would not add one dollar to the volume of the currency but would lift part of the loadirom the shoulders of the toil ers whose sweat pays the interest on these bonds, however circuitous the route by which it is obtained. The currency which these banks supply is recognized as good, not because it is issued by this or that bank, but for the reason that the government guarantees it. It is current any where, not because the bank is sol vent, for that has nothing to do with it, but on account of tbe endorse meut. This guarantee the greenbacks has direct, and hence is the best pa per currency the country has ever known. Then why not abolish ail banks of issue and make greenback and coin certificates the only paper currency. GEORGIA NEWS. What tbe Local Editors see and bear. Montezuma wants a new railroad. Opelika is to have a cotton factory. Columbus had six funerals last week. Augusta claims a population of 30,- 000. Swainsboro had a store burgled last week. Washington is putting out shade trees. Rev. J. N. Couey, of Gwinnett coun ty, is dead. The Fnlaski cotton factory is running day and night. Covington will receive 12,600 bales of cotton this season. The Lexington jail is a failure, being fouled by sewer gas. Waynesboro is organizing a hook and ladder company. Peach trees are in bloom in many Middle Georgia coanties. Trees are budding and gardens are being planted iu Forsyth. The farmers of Newton are making preparations for large crops. Leap year parties are on the rage all over the State. Let ’em leap. Atlanta, always ahead, has come to the foro with a female burglar. Newnan’s leap year party on the night of the 17th was a success. A man named John Ferguson was found dead in Augusta, last Tuesday. The gin house of Mr. R. J. P. Dur ham, near Albany, was burned last week. Augusta rises to remark that she would like to have the State fair next year. Quitman had a fire the other night. Supposed to be the work of an incen diary. A man named George Kuegler com mitted suicide in Atlanta on Tuesday night. The store of J. J. Myhand, of West Point, was burglarized on the night of the 15th. The Dublin Gazelle announces that it will don a new gown of typo with its next issue. The people of Atlanta have com menced arranging for the next North Georgia fair. A veteran youth of Bibb oounty shot a mule the other day because the ani mal threw him. The gin house of Capt. S. G. D wen port, of Sumter, was destroyed by fire the other night. Capt. L. L. Little and Miss Nonie King, of Greensboro, were married last Thursday evening. Capt. M. R. Bell, of Milledgeville, was recently thrown from a dray break ing a leg and an arm. Hon. Jeff Barksdale, of Warren coun ty, who has been dangerously ill for some time, is improving. The Cherokee artillery, of Rome, will celebrate its twentieth anniversary on the 22nd of February. Rev. D. M. Parr, long ]a resident of West Point, died at his residence in Harris county last Tuesday. Washington, Ga., run a special train to Augusta last Tuesday night to see Joe Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle. Mr. -John A. Turpin, of Americus, killed a beef the other day, weighing six hundred and eighteen pounds. Sandersville received 5,388 bales of cotton up to the 7th inst.—soo bales more than was received during the last season. The Middle Georgia Agricultural College, at Milledgeville, opened last Monday with two hundred and nineteen students. The fine rock warehouse of L. C. Gholson, of LaGrange, was destroyed by fire last Saturday night together with eight hundred bales of eotton. One of the leading citizens of Clarks ton, DeKalb county, has been found with a bale of stolen cetton in his pos session. It has caused quite a scandal. A negro rape fiend, named Nat Smith, who has been confined in jail at Jones boro, was taken out on the night of the 16th and lynched by a party of masked men. On the 17th inst., at Wood’s mills, Lee oounty. Thomas Howard, white, and four negroes were killed by the falling of some bridge timbers which they were attempting to raise. W. E. Roberts, the white man who endeavored to get up a mob to hang the Gammon murderers last week, has been placed under a $1,500 bond to ap pear before the Superior court. The three negroes confined in the Columbus jail on the charge of being the murderers of the late Mr. Gammon are making confessions. Each one says the other two committed the crime. Lawrenceville wants a tannery, a shoe factory, a planing mill, a wagon shop, a railroad, and plenty of money. She thinks that with these and what she has now she could pull through till black berries get ripe. Henry Grady has been empowered by the Constitution to write up the railroad problem in all its deviousness. We shall have the whole thing done up now in the most ornamental rhetoric to be had at any price. A little daughter of ]£r. Amos Tread well, of Butts county, while attempting to build a fire the other day with kero, sene oil was severely burned. Her mother was also injured by trying to extinguish her daughter’s clothes. A man named Tom Norwood, former ly of Senoia, stole a wagon loaded with two bales of cotton from the streets of Newnau the other day. The theft was discovered, the thief pursued and cap tured, and wagon, mules and cotton re covered. The Rome Courier says that M. A, Smith, charged with the murder of Jasper Speuce on the 7th inst., at the election grounds in Ohulio district in that county, was arrested last Sunday by M. A. Haynie and E. J. Lemingpof that county, and is now in jail. CURRENT OPIJVIO\. One About ns Bad as the Other. Atlanta Constitution. As a last resort, the Maine fusio niffs telegraphed for Ben Butler. This is al most as bad as Blaine’s attempt at bri bery. Bayard and the Money Power. Cincinnati Enquirer. If the Bayards and the Kernans and others in the democratic party had not steadfastly favored the money power and opposed the people, the republican party to-day would not be in possession of eight states in the union. A Bad Example, Buffalo Express. Members of congress are busy specu lating in stocks, the various members having SIOO,OOO on margins. Hon. Archy Bliss, of Brooklyn, is reported to have made SIOO,OOO alone. The people who believe congress should have pow er to raise or depress prices by inflating or contracting the currency should note this condition of things and weep. A Campaign of Apologies. Washington Post. The strongest and ablest of the news papers friendly to the third term scheme is the New York Times. And that journal finds itself compelled to halt on the skirmish line of the canvass to con struct an elaborate apology for the thievish crew who disgraced President Grant and made his administration an era of unprecedented corruption. This furnishes a hint as to the character of the work that will devolve on the radioal organs if Grant gets the nomi nation. The Campaign against Moonshiners. New York Herald. By our letter from Toccoa city it will be learned that the great government raid against illicit distillers in Georgia has begun and that the plan has con siderable strategic merit. What the result may be it is impossible to pre dict, for the revenue posse is largely composed of ex-soldiers, which is exact ly the case with the midnight distillers. One thing is certain—if the trip does not result in many dead moonshiners it will have been of no avail; the distillers are good fellows, but a bullet through the head is as mild an argument as they can comprehend. Tbe Democratic Standard-Bearer. New Haven Register. The fact cannot be overlooked that the hostility of Tammany renders the nomination of Mr. Tilden a dangerous experiment. As the New York demo crats seem determined amongst them to kick over their political milk-pail, it behoves the democracy of the remain ing States to recognize the fact, and look up a presidential candidate outside of the State of New York. There is no scarcity of sound democratic presiden tial timber. All the statesmen do not live in New York. Thurman, of Ohio, Hendricks and McDonald, of Indiana, Bayard, of Delaware, Davis and Palmer, of Illinois, Hancock, of Pennsylvania, McClellan and Parker, of New Jersey, and last, best and most available of all James E. English, of Connecticut, are names which would stir the democratic heart to the very depths of enthusi asm. . Tbe Third Term Movement. Cleveland Herald, rep. It is not exactly correct to say the third term movement is subsiding. The simple truth is that the fact that the third term movement never had any real substance is becoming apparent propoi tionately to the approach of the time for action. It has never indeed had any serious hold upon the best sense of the republican party. It began in the silly tin thunder of the “Cmsarism” editorials, and from that day to its cul mination in the recent hearty welcome to the distinguished traveler it has been but au affair of noise and clatter and red lights. The audience is turning from pantomime to more *eerious mat ters now, and if the play goes on it is to emptying seats and yawning stragglers. The gifted artists behind the scenes will find this out before many days, and will fold up the properties and turn off' the lights. Despairing of the Republic. Macon Telegraph. Evil auguries for the future of the country are again becoming common, and this time from the Northern States. Many good republican brethren are sick at heait over the possibility of a good deal more Grant administration— but a good many more of them are still sicker over the mode of imposing it— by sharp practice—by mere cunning and trickery—by stealing a march on the brethren themselves and stocking tho nominating convention three months ahead of time—so as to make sure work. Is there to be no honesty, candor and fairness in politics ? Are the brethren to swindle their own party? And as for swindling the people, the scheme to change the mode of electing electors in New York to meet the case by special legislation is a sample of what they are ready to do in that line. Some laugh at such corruption and trickery, but others say such things are not to be laughed at. They are stains which most commonly find a lustration in public disorder and ruin—the blood of men and tears of women and chil dren. When parties and public men lose all scruple, all regard for law, hon or and patriotic dealing, the govern ment in their hands, becomes a scoff, and the temptation to violent methods finds nothing better than fear to re strain them. A rotten and cancerous condition of the body politic can only be cured by the knife. Nothing is worse than the low trickery, the petty, dishonest scheming which is now taking national affairs in charge with the trans parent idea of substituting a govern ment of mere force for the cheerful as sent and co-operation which alone are secured by clear, honorable and patriot ic methods. Truth and Honor. Query: What is the best family medicine in the world to regulate the bowels, purify the blood, remove costiveness and bilious ness, aid digestion and tone up tlie whole system ? Truth and honor compels us to answer, Hop Bitters, being pure, perfect and harmless. See another column. FERTILIZERS! O FARMERS, LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST! F. S. BARRETT, gwy., Offers the following Standard Brands: Bradley’s Ammoniated Dissolved Bono; Baker’s Ammoniated Bone Phosphate; Zell’s Ammoniated Bone Phosphate; Brighton’s Ammoniated Bone Super-Phos phate ; Ragsdale’s Ammoniated Dissolved Bone Phosphate. Choice will be given of these Five Cele brated Brands, and COTTON OPTION ALLOWED AT 15c. PEB POUND. DO NOT BUY TILL YOU SSE ME. F. iS. BARRETT. Aisnsr ouisr cement. I have associated with me in business Messrs. W. D. and B. H. Whel chel, under tho firm name of A. Wiielchel & Co. A. WHELCHEL. o We beg to announce that with improved facilities for the transaction of business, we shall keep in stock a full line of DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, IMS, CAPS, BIHITS AM) MS, FAR SHIERB’ SUPPLIES and G-ENE RAI. IVIEEtOIi We will Pay the Highest Price for Country Produce and Sell Hoods as Low as Anybody. Mr. W. D. Whelchel, formerly with Messrs. Boone & Rudolph, will be pleased to see and serve his friends at his new stand. Give ns a trial, and we will please you. A. WHELCHEL A CO. jan9 ly Fancy Family Grocery! L. H. JOHNSON Desires to announce that he has opened a New and Carefully Selected Stock of FANCY FAMILY GROCERIES, NEXT DOOR TO THE OLD POSTOFFICE , ■VVsbSlxixig'toxi Street, WHICH HE WILL SELL AS LOW AS ANYBODY IN THE CITY. New Jiiici Fresh Goods at Low Priees. A CHOICE STOCK of TOBACCO and CIGARS, Cheaper than any other house can offer. * Call and see me. L. H. JOHNSON. declO 3m Raitm Cap High School, WITH II Tli MIL HUE! I l!!l !? THE!, RABUN COUNTY, GA., W. A. CCBTIS, Principal. O The Fourteenth Session will Open Monday, January 19, 1880. o TUITION PER TERM 0? TWENTY WEEKS: Primary School Department, Three Grades $5 00 and 3 6 00 Intermediate School Department, Two Grades 8 00 Grammar School Department, Three Grades 9 00 High School Department, Two Grades 10 00 Music per month 2 00 Contingent fee, each student, in advance 50 Oue-third of tuition due iu advance, and balance at the end of the session. No pupil admitted for a less time than balance of session from date of entering. Regular exercises in Spelling, Writing, Declamation and Composition required of all grades, without extra charge. Board iu good families at 30 to 37 per month of four weeks. For full particulars and circulars, address W. CURTIS, iPx iiicjiioLil. dec6sm Rabun Cap, Rabun County, Ga* LaHatte’s Select School, Mai e and Female, Rev. C. B. LaHatte, President. Spring Term Opens January 10, 1880; Closes July 2—Six Months. A FULL CORPS OF COMPETENT TEACHERS HAS SEEN ENGAGED. SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. For lull particulars as to board and tuition apply to the president. (jan‘2 lm , I>e w I>rop 1 iiii ! And when you do at SING YEARWO6DS ' | You will fold your lip over 111 BIST 111 MIST mm in the city. Liquors of the best brands. The hand somest Billiard Room and the touiest estab lishment in town. Come and see me. and go away happy. S. YEAR WOOD. nov‘2B 3m DO YOU WANT A FINE PREMIUM ? 188©! 1880! O THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. Best Weekly Newspaper ha Northeast Georgia. 0 Will be Brighter and Better for the Coining Year than It has Ever Been Before. 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